Chapter Summaries

Nangong Xin and the cultivators discovered that a hidden horde of Demonic Beasts was attacking, and he hurried to check on Ye Yun. After she was poisoned, Ye Yun healed herself with a pill, leaving Nangong Xin embarrassed by his useless medicine.

• Nangong Xin urged Miaoyuan to save Ye Yun, who had held back countless Demonic Beasts, while the cultivators discussed the approaching sect reinforcements and powerful beasts in the horde.
• Nangong Xin spotted Ye Yun and ran to her as she sat on the ground with a wound on her arm.
• Nangong Xin applied healing powder from a jade bottle, but black qi rose from Ye Yun's wound and her arm began turning black.
• Ye Yun swallowed a pill that removed the poison and healed her wound, and Nangong Xin silently put his jade bottle away.

Ye Yun learned how the sealed Great Demon’s leaked aura created the Demonic Beasts. As Nascent Soul Realm Demonic Beasts confronted the five great sects over a secret realm, a sword cultivator guessed that the realm contained the Great Demon’s body.

• Ye Yun thanked Nangong Xin after recovering and asked what the creatures were.
• Nangong Xin explained that three great powers had divided and sealed a Great Demon’s body, but its leaking demonic aura transformed nearby living beings into Demonic Beasts.
• Eight strange figures appeared above the demonic aura, and Nangong Xin recognized the distant enemies as Nascent Soul Realm Demonic Beasts.
• A leading Demonic Beast told the five Nascent Soul Realm cultivators to leave the secret realm or be killed, claiming the beasts wanted something inside.
• A middle-aged sword cultivator guessed that the secret realm was a seal containing the Great Demon’s body.

The five great sects’ cultivators refused to let the Demonic Beasts reach the secret realm, where the Great Demon’s missing head was hidden, and the two sides began fighting. As Ye Yun and Nangong Xin rushed to defend the entrance, the disciples’ formation collapsed and the cultivators retreated toward the secret realm.

• The Great Demon revealed that its body was nearly reassembled and its head lay in the secret realm, then urged the five sects to leave.
• Miaoyuan and the other four cultivators refused to retreat, and the five Nascent Soul Realm cultivators clashed with the Demonic Beasts.
• The sect leaders ordered their disciples to defend the secret realm entrance until reinforcements arrived.
• Nangong Xin and Ye Yun headed to the entrance as Demonic Beasts overwhelmed the disciples’ formation.
• A young cultivator called for everyone to retreat, and the disciples fled toward the secret realm.

The remaining disciples from the five sects gathered at the secret realm entrance and brought out their hidden trump cards as the Demonic Beasts approached. After the young man used a Sword Talisman to kill a wave, more beasts surged forward, leaving the disciples preparing to fight on.

• The disciples counted only twenty-seven survivors, including Nangong Xin and Ye Yun, and agreed they had to use every trump card to hold back the Demonic Beasts.
• Nangong Xin handed over a Jade Talisman containing his master's full-force strike and said Ye Yun had no powerful trump cards.
• The young man ordered everyone to hold their ground and began counting down as the Demonic Beasts approached through the gorge.
• The Demonic Beasts poured through the pass, scraping the mountain walls and sending boulders tumbling down.
• The young man activated a Sword Talisman, killing many Demonic Beasts, but another wave immediately charged toward the disciples.

Ye Yun and more than twenty young disciples fought a seemingly endless horde of Demonic Beasts after exhausting their Jade Talismans and spiritual energy. Just as the group prepared to die, they saw Ye Yun holding back thousands of beasts alone.

• A senior disciple used Jade Talismans to burn through more than twenty waves of Demonic Beasts, exhausting his spiritual energy.
• With their trump cards gone, the disciples charged into the horde, and Ye Yun told Nangong Xin to kill more beasts instead of blaming himself.
• Ye Yun and the others fought until they were covered in the beasts’ blood and had no strength or spiritual energy left.
• Nangong Xin collapsed and confessed that he had wanted Ye Yun to become his Dao companion.
• The senior disciple closed his eyes as the beasts charged, but opened them to see Ye Yun fighting alone and keeping them away within three meters of her.

Ye Yun held back the Demonic Beast army while the others recovered, gaining new insights into her spear technique but exhausting herself. After her companions took over the fight, five Golden Core Realm Demonic Beasts appeared at the exit, leaving the group facing a much greater threat.

• Ye Yun fought off the Demonic Beasts and urged the others to recover while she bought them time.
• Ye Yun used the Divine Might Eighteen Spears and gained insights in battle, repeatedly suppressing her near-breakthrough into the Golden Core Realm.
• Ye Yun exhausted her strength and collapsed against her spear as her companions rushed in to protect her.
• The recovered cultivators surrounded Ye Yun and fought back against the Demonic Beasts.
• Five Golden Core Realm Demonic Beasts appeared at the exit, and the cultivators despaired at their overwhelming power.

Five sects’ reinforcements arrived just as the besieged cultivators faced certain death, then drove the Demonic Beasts back through the canyon. The exhausted survivors followed the advancing force into the continuing battle.

• A Demonic Beast approached the trapped cultivators, while they smiled and prepared for their deaths.
• Five Flying Boats arrived, and five Nascent Soul Realm experts killed the surrounding Demonic Beasts, including the five Golden Core Demonic Beasts.
• The reinforcements divided their forces, sending Nascent Soul Realm elders to support the battle and bringing the exhausted disciples to safety.
• A wave of Demonic Beasts surged into the canyon, but the five sects’ cultivators drove them back with coordinated attacks and commands.
• The rescued group supported one another and followed the main force forward.

Ye Yun and Nangong Xin emerged from the gorge with the others and faced a waiting force of Demonic Beasts. The five sects threatened to summon the Divine Sword Sect’s inspectors, but the beasts showed no fear and summoned more allies as the confrontation escalated.

• Nangong Xin clung to Ye Yun until she threatened to chop off his arm, then he let go and followed behind her.
• Ye Yun and the group emerged onto a high platform and found countless Demonic Beasts waiting, including eight Nascent Soul Realm beasts facing twenty cultivators.
• An old man warned the Demonic Beasts that the Divine Sword Sect’s inspectors would arrive within an hour, but a beast dismissed the sect and vowed to slaughter it.
• The leading Demonic Beast called for everyone to come out and summoned its lord, and a demonic cloud appeared behind the beasts.

Fifty-three Nascent Soul Realm Demonic Beasts and a Spirit Transformation Realm king trapped the five sects’ cultivators, while the king waited for the Divine Sword Sect’s inspector and boasted of tasting his flesh. After the king sealed off the area and crushed twenty cultivators with one palm, Nangong Xin helped his injured master Miaoyuan, who told him to flee with his girlfriend.

• A Spirit Transformation Realm Demonic Beast sat among dozens of Nascent Soul Realm beasts and revealed that two other kings were on their way.
• The beasts said they planned to revive their lord and kill the Divine Sword Sect’s inspector, whom the king hoped to eat.
• A middle-aged sword cultivator tried to notify the Divine Sword Sect, but the king had sealed the area and blocked the message.
• The king pressed down with one palm, injuring the Nascent Soul Realm cultivators of the five sects and driving twenty of them into the ground.
• Nangong Xin helped Miaoyuan up, and she told him to take his girlfriend and escape.

Ye Yun used a Sword Talisman from Xiaoyao to summon his sword-bearing figure, who erased every Demonic Beast threatening the five sects. The survivors stared at Ye Yun in awe, while Nangong Xin looked at her in shock.

• Miaoyuan told Nangong Xin that she hoped he would survive, but Nangong Xin refused to leave her.
• The Demonic Beast mocked the pair and prepared to kill them, but Ye Yun asked whether it was truly so strong.
• Ye Yun activated a Sword Talisman from her Spatial Ring, summoning Xiaoyao’s figure into the sky.
• Xiaoyao swept his sword once and destroyed every Demonic Beast, then vanished as the talisman shattered.
• The survivors gaped at the vanished beasts and turned toward Ye Yun with awe, while Nangong Xin stared at her wide-eyed.

After Ye Yun’s power saved everyone from the Demonic Beasts, the cultivators decided to seal the secret realm and report the danger. As Ye Yun and Nangong Xin discussed her mysterious master, an arrogant young man appeared and demanded to meet the Five Great Sects.

• Nangong Xin asked Ye Yun what had destroyed the Demonic Beasts, and Ye Yun said it was a method her master had left to save her life.
• Nangong Xin felt unworthy of Ye Yun after learning how powerful her master seemed, while Miaoyuan refused to explain the incident to an old man.
• The cultivators gathered on the high platform and agreed to seal the secret realm and report its dangers to the Patrol Envoy.
• Nangong Xin asked how powerful Ye Yun’s master was, and Ye Yun said she had never seen Xiaoyao act except to kill his enemies.
• A young man appeared in the sky with a terrifying aura and demanded that the people from the Five Great Sects come out to meet him.

Divine Sword Sect Inspector Lone Eagle questioned Li Yuan about the vanished Demonic Beast army and doubted his account of a mysterious sword cultivator destroying it. Two peak Spirit Transformation Demonic Beasts arrived, searching for their missing forces and considering whether they had entered the secret realm.

• Lone Eagle asked Li Yuan where the Demonic Beasts were after finding only corpses near the secret realm's exit.
• Li Yuan described a mysterious sword cultivator wiping out the army with one strike but concealed Ye Yun's name.
• Lone Eagle dismissed Li Yuan's account as absurd, then realized two peak Spirit Transformation Demonic Beasts were approaching.
• The two Demonic Beasts found the battlefield empty and wondered where Third Brother and their army had gone.
• One Demonic Beast suggested Third Brother might have led the army into the secret realm to find their lord's sealed head.

Mo Er and Mo Yi found Lone Eagle at the battlefield and mistook him for Mo San’s killer. Mo Er attacked him for revenge, and Mo Yi joined the fight, forcing Li Yuan to order the disciples to retreat.

• Mo Yi and Mo Er arrived at the battlefield and saw Lone Eagle, a Divine Sword Sect Inspector, among the Spirit Transformation experts.
• Mo Er demanded to know where Mo San was and accused Lone Eagle of killing his third brother.
• Mo Er attacked Lone Eagle with his saber, cursing him with every strike as Lone Eagle defended himself.
• Mo Yi realized Mo Er had rushed into the fight, then drew his demonic saber and joined the battle.
• Li Yuan ordered the disciples to retreat before the battle’s aftershocks killed them.

Lone Eagle defeated two Demonic Beasts but was badly injured, then went to inspect the secret realm containing the sealed Great Demon's head. He found that the entrance blocked him, leaving the secret realm's restriction unexplained.

• Mo Yi attacked Lone Eagle, and the battle in the sky continued for half an hour.
• Lone Eagle killed both Demonic Beasts, though he lost his left arm and suffered many blade wounds.
• Lone Eagle told the five sect masters to take him to the secret realm so he could retrieve the Great Demon's head for the Divine Sword Sect.
• Blade Maniac explained that only Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators could enter the secret realm.
• Lone Eagle reached toward the open gate, but an unseen barrier stopped his hand.

Lone Eagle ordered Foundation Establishment Realm disciples to retrieve the Great Demon's head and gave Blade Maniac five Jade Talismans to protect them from its demonic qi. Ye Yun and Nangong Xin volunteered, but Lone Eagle became interested in Ye Yun's spear and began examining it.

• Lone Eagle gave Blade Maniac five Jade Talismans containing his aura and warned that they would last only one hour.
• Blade Maniac asked for volunteers, and Ye Yun stepped forward to enter the area around the Great Demon's head.
• Nangong Xin volunteered to accompany Ye Yun, determined to go wherever she went.
• Lone Eagle noticed Ye Yun's spear and asked to inspect it, so Ye Yun handed it over with a warning to look only briefly.
• Lone Eagle stroked the fiery-red spear and quietly sent his spiritual energy into it.

Ye Yun’s spear revealed a powerful weapon spirit, and Lone Eagle tried to claim it after learning it was at least Heaven Grade. When Ye Yun named her master’s friend as Daoist Xiaoyao, Lone Eagle’s attempted attack backfired and left him coughing blood.

• Lone Eagle recognized the spear’s weapon spirit as evidence that it was at least Heaven Grade and coveted it.
• Lone Eagle asked where Ye Yun had obtained the spear and prepared to seize it if she could not explain its origin.
• Ye Yun said her master gave her the spear, making Lone Eagle hesitate over the possibility that her master was someone powerful.
• Lone Eagle began gathering spiritual energy when Ye Yun said she did not know her master’s name, while Miaoyuan and the nearby Nascent Soul Realm experts prepared to protect Ye Yun.
• Ye Yun revealed that her master’s friend had called her master Daoist Xiaoyao, and Lone Eagle’s forced reversal of his cultivation technique injured him and made him spit blood.

Lone Eagle recognized that Ye Yun’s master was Daoist Xiaoyao, the formidable sword cultivator who had humiliated the Divine Sword Sect three years earlier. Nangong Xin realized Ye Yun had told the truth about her powerful master and sank into self-doubt, while also feeling a sense of relief.

• Lone Eagle recalled how Daoist Xiaoyao had taken the Divine Sword Sect’s Mysterious Yellow Flower and left an indelible mark of humiliation on the sect.
• Lone Eagle asked Ye Yun what weapon her master used, and Ye Yun said he was a sword cultivator.
• Lone Eagle returned Ye Yun’s spear with an ingratiating smile after realizing her master was Daoist Xiaoyao.
• The five Nascent Soul Realm cultivators watching recognized that Lone Eagle was trying to curry favor with Ye Yun’s master.
• Nangong Xin accepted that Ye Yun had told the truth about her master and questioned whether he was worthy of her.

Nangong Xin regained his resolve to pursue Ye Yun after Miaoyuan encouraged him. Ye Yun and four others entered the secret realm to seek the Great Demon’s head, while Lone Eagle warned Blade Maniac that Ye Yun’s master was powerful enough to defeat the entire Divine Sword Sect with one slap.

• Miaoyuan urged Nangong Xin not to give up on pursuing Ye Yun, and he resolved to continue.
• Blade Maniac instructed Nangong Xin, Ye Yun, Heavenly Blade, Shangguan Yuncai, and Lu Feng to enter the secret realm and prioritize their safety.
• Lone Eagle asked Ye Yun to stay behind, but she refused and entered the secret realm with the other four.
• After the five entered, Lone Eagle told Blade Maniac that Ye Yun’s master could defeat the entire Divine Sword Sect with a single slap.

Heavenly Blade led Ye Yun, Nangong Xin, Shangguan Yuncai, and another disciple upstream through the secret realm to find the sealed land containing the Great Demon's head. Their journey brought them to the edge of a barren wasteland, and the chapter ended as they faced the strange landscape.

• Lone Eagle's claim about the Divine Sword Sect left the surrounding disciples and elders stunned.
• Heavenly Blade led the group upstream, reasoning that reaching the river's source would help them survey the secret realm and locate the Great Demon's sealed land.
• When Shangguan Yuncai asked why they did not fly, Heavenly Blade warned that the complete absence of living creatures made flying too dangerous.
• Ye Yun and Nangong Xin hurried after Heavenly Blade as the five sped toward the mountaintop.
• Heavenly Blade halted the group before a barren wasteland of withered trees, cracked earth, and crows, sharply contrasting with the lush jungle behind them.

Heavenly Blade split the group to search the forest and the Demonic Beasts’ territory for the Great Demon’s head and a possible treasure. Ye Yun chased a shadow that had been following her and ran into danger, while Nangong Xin pursued her.

• Heavenly Blade ordered Shangguan Caiyun and himself to search the left, Ye Yun and Nangong Xin to explore the right, and Lu Feng to look for a treasure in the forest.
• Heavenly Blade and Shangguan Caiyun headed left while Ye Yun and Nangong Xin moved along the forest’s right edge toward the Demonic Beasts.
• Nangong Xin said he felt something following them, so Ye Yun hid in the bushes while he continued walking.
• A black shadow flashed behind Nangong Xin, and Ye Yun sprang from the forest to chase it.
• Nangong Xin followed Ye Yun’s tracks and found that she had already encountered danger.