Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin agreed to face Liu Laosan’s challenge on Jian Changfeng’s behalf, while Gu Qingzhi stepped forward to fight the woman on the White Jade Platform. Jian Changfeng explained that Liu Laosan opposed him because Yun Xuan’s fall had left him in charge of the Chosen Alliance, a position many refused to accept.

• Jian Changfeng formed a massive White Jade Platform and said it could withstand attacks from eighth-level Golden Immortals.
• The woman walked onto the platform after Jian Changfeng urged her to welcome their guests.
• Zhang Wusheng and Li Xiaoyao volunteered to fight, but Gu Qingzhi pushed past them and headed for the arena.
• Jian Changfeng told Ye Lin that Liu Laosan was using the gathering to challenge his leadership of the Chosen Alliance.
• Jian Changfeng explained that Yun Xuan had once led the alliance, which controlled most of the Crimson Wasteland’s resources and authority, and that many resented Jian Changfeng inheriting the position after Yun Xuan fell.

Ye Lin discussed Jian Changfeng’s profits as Alliance Leader and sent Gu Qingzhi to face Yu'er in battle. Gu Qingzhi began playing her azure zither as Yu'er charged, leaving their fight about to begin.

• Ye Lin teased Jian Changfeng about the profits of being Alliance Leader, and Jian Changfeng replied with a bitter smile.
• The surrounding prodigies discussed Jian Changfeng and watched as the confrontation began.
• Jian Changfeng worried that Ye Lin had sent someone who could not defeat Yu'er, but Ye Lin said the battle would make their name known and stand up for Jian Changfeng.
• Yu'er summoned a saber and taunted Gu Qingzhi, who answered by summoning an azure zither and beginning to play.
• Yu'er released her fifth-layer Golden Immortal aura and charged toward Gu Qingzhi.

Yu'er fought Gu Qingzhi, but Gu Qingzhi overwhelmed her with a musical illusion realm. Yu'er tried to resist the illusion and escape as meteors and magma-filled chasms threatened her.

• Yu'er attacked Gu Qingzhi with phantom blades, but Gu Qingzhi shattered them with a soundwave from her zither.
• Yu'er recognized that Gu Qingzhi was difficult to defeat, while Gu Qingzhi dismissed her attacks as childish.
• Gu Qingzhi used her zither to draw Yu'er into an illusion realm that replaced the arena with a grassland.
• Gu Qingzhi made meteors fall and chasms split open across the illusion realm.
• Yu'er closed her eyes, circulated her Primordial Spirit, and tried to escape the illusion.

Gu Qingzhi swiftly defeated Yu'er in the arena, impressing the watching cultivators and Jian Changfeng. After Yu'er returned to her young master, he killed her for losing, leaving his plan against Jian Changfeng in ruins.

• Gu Qingzhi defeated Yu'er in a dozen or so breaths and left the arena.
• Ye Lin praised Gu Qingzhi, while Wang Xiaoyun claimed he could have won in five breaths.
• Yu'er admitted her defeat to her young master after her arms and legs regrew.
• Yu'er's young master killed her by snapping his fingers and cursed her for losing.
• Jian Changfeng expressed surprise at Gu Qingzhi's strength.

Jian Changfeng reprimanded Liu Laosan and warned him to abandon his ambitions before opening the alliance gathering’s Dao discussion. He revealed the Heavenly Sword Sect’s Enlightenment Sacred Lotus as the platform for speakers, and several attendees volunteered to go first.

• Jian Changfeng confronted Liu Laosan for stirring up trouble and threatened to drive him out of the Crimson Wasteland if he continued challenging his authority.
• Liu Laosan backed down and argued that Yu'er’s death should not disrupt the grand gathering.
• Jian Changfeng announced that attendees would take turns expounding the Dao on the lotus platform for one year each.
• The gathering’s corridor transformed into a plaza, where the Enlightenment Sacred Lotus appeared before the meditation cushions.
• Several attendees praised the lotus and volunteered to expound the Dao first.

The prodigies gathered to take turns expounding their Dao, and Ye Lin gained valuable insights from their teachings. After thirty years, they finished and urged Jian Changfeng to share the true intent of his sword Dao.

• Jian Changfeng invited the prodigies to expound their Dao one at a time, and they sat on the prayer mats to listen.
• A young man began by teaching about the path of cultivation, and the prodigies listened as others took turns expounding their Dao.
• Ye Lin learned from the prodigies’ teachings, especially from three Heavenly Sword Sect disciples who spoke about the Great Dao of the sword.
• After thirty years, Ye Lin opened his eyes as the expounding ended, and Jian Changfeng asked whether anyone else wished to speak.
• The prodigies told Jian Changfeng that it was his turn to share the true intent of his sword Dao.

Jian Changfeng taught the gathered heavenly geniuses about the Sword Dao for a year, impressing them with his profound insights. After ending his discourse, he invited Ye Lin to take the Lotus Platform and share his teachings.

• Jian Changfeng accepted the crowd’s invitation and began expounding on the Sword Dao from the Lotus Platform.
• Jian Changfeng’s Sword Dao laws and visions immersed the heavenly geniuses, and Ye Lin set aside his restlessness to study them.
• After a year, Jian Changfeng stopped speaking and declined the geniuses’ requests to continue.
• Jian Changfeng invited Ye Lin, whom he called Fellow Daoist Blood Slaughter, to share his teachings, drawing expectant looks from the crowd.

Ye Lin accepted Jian Changfeng’s invitation to lecture from the Dao-Enlightenment Lotus Platform and began teaching the gathered cultivators about laws. He explained how laws relate to the Great Dao, but had not yet finished his lecture when the chapter ended.

• Ye Lin accepted Jian Changfeng’s invitation to sit on the Dao-Enlightenment Lotus Platform and share his Dao.
• Ye Lin discovered that the platform drew the true meanings of laws close and began considering how useful it would be to possess it.
• Ye Lin announced that he would speak about laws, exciting the gathered cultivators and worrying Jian Changfeng, who thought he was revealing too much.
• Ye Lin explained that the myriad laws derived from the Great Dao and that fully comprehending laws could let a cultivator touch the true Great Dao.

Ye Lin’s sermon on the laws helped a prodigy break through, but it was interrupted when a demonic infiltrator revealed himself among the listeners. The chapter ended as he unleashed a black box that engulfed several nearby prodigies in demonic qi.

• Ye Lin’s sermon filled the venue with celestial phenomena as the prodigies listened.
• A prodigy broke through to the sixth level of the Golden Immortal realm and bowed to Ye Lin before sitting back down.
• Ye Lin sensed trouble and looked toward the horizon, while Wang Xiaoyun and Jian Changfeng detected demonic qi.
• A prodigy in the crowd revealed his allegiance to demons and monsters and released demonic qi from his body.
• The young man pulled out a black box and unleashed demonic qi that swallowed several nearby prodigies.

Demon-monsters launched a large-scale invasion of the Heavenward Sword Sect after spies sabotaged its Sect Protection Array. Jian Changfeng learned that Golden Immortal defenders were struggling to hold them off, leaving the sect under attack from within and without.

• Prodigies confronted a young man whose demonic energy spread through the gathering, while demonic dragons appeared in the sky.
• Jian Changfeng ordered the Heavenward Sword Sect disciples to activate the Sect Protection Array, but they reported that the young man had destroyed it.
• The young man was consumed by demonic energy as demonic dragons attacked the sect and its buildings were blasted apart.
• A prodigy urged the others to fight, and several prodigies flew up to battle the demonic dragons.
• Jian Changfeng contacted the sect with a Jade Talisman and learned that demon-monster spies had sabotaged the array and Golden Immortal defenders were close to being overwhelmed.

Jian Changfeng mobilized the Heavenly Sword Sect and called for aid as demons and monsters invaded, while Ye Lin seized the Lotus Platform amid the chaos. Mo Cang ordered the attackers to capture the sect within a day, and the battle began.

• Jian Changfeng ordered the sect’s Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal disciples to fight and sent requests for help to nearby factions.
• Jian Changfeng charged into the sky to confront the invading demons and monsters.
• Ye Lin stored the Lotus Platform beneath him in his Spatial Ring while others focused on the invasion.
• Zhang Wusheng and Li Xiaoyao attacked the demons and monsters as Ye Lin surveyed their forces.
• Mo Cang warned the Great Demon about the sect’s powerful elders, then ordered his forces to take the Heavenly Sword Sect within a day.

Mo Cang led tens of thousands of demons and monsters in an assault on the Heavenly Sword Sect, where Jian Changfeng confronted him and tried to hold the invaders back. Mo Cang attacked Jian Changfeng, and the two began clashing as the invasion continued.

• Jian Changfeng unleashed Vast Sun Descends, vaporizing charging demons and sending several Golden Immortal-level demons flying.
• Jian Changfeng confronted Mo Cang and demanded to know why he had broken the realms’ long-standing peace.
• Mo Cang said he had come to make trouble and ordered two subordinates to stop Jian Changfeng’s three sword-bearing companions.
• Mo Cang charged Jian Changfeng while the demons and monsters surged toward the Heavenly Sword Sect.
• Jian Changfeng met Mo Cang’s claw strike with Vast Sun Descends.

Ye Lin denied taking the Heavenly Sword Sect’s Enlightenment Sacred Lotus after its Sect Master confronted him. The Sect Master offered to let him keep the treasure if he helped resolve the sect’s crisis, but threatened to seize him if he refused.

• The Heavenly Sword Sect’s Sect Master appeared before Ye Lin and demanded that he return the Enlightenment Sacred Lotus.
• Ye Lin denied taking the lotus, while San Zang and the others realized he had secretly taken it.
• Ye Lin resolved to keep the lotus despite the Sect Master’s accusation.
• The Sect Master offered Ye Lin the lotus in exchange for helping the Heavenly Sword Sect through its crisis.
• The Sect Master warned Ye Lin that he would seize him if he refused, and his fly-whisk began radiating power.

Ye Lin accepted the old man's offer to help defend the Heavenly Sword Sect in exchange for the Enlightenment Sacred Lotus and rallied the others to fight alongside him. He began attacking the fiends and demons, drawing the attention of one of their powerful figures.

• Ye Lin refused the old man's request at first, but agreed after the old man promised he could keep the Enlightenment Sacred Lotus whether he succeeded or failed.
• Ye Lin proposed sharing the Enlightenment Sacred Lotus among the group after the battle, and they agreed to join the fight.
• Ye Lin and the others flew toward the fiends and demons surrounding the Heavenly Sword Sect.
• Ye Lin used Nine Luminaries Across the Sky to blast countless fiends and demons into bloody mist.
• A powerful fiend or demon noticed Ye Lin and asked whether he was a Heavenly Sword Sect disciple.

Ye Lin fought a powerful demon and used Heavenly Punishment to break through the demon's defenses. As the demon struggled against the lightning Sword Qi, Ye Lin closed in on him.

• Ye Lin rejected the demon's offer to spare his life and attacked with Thunder Break.
• The demon sent his two flying wheels at Ye Lin, who blocked them with Thunder Shield.
• Ye Lin invoked Heavenly Punishment, summoning purple heavenly lightning that frightened the demon.
• The demon used Starlight Nine Kills, Instant Slash, while Ye Lin unleashed his lightning attack and evaded the flying wheels.
• Ye Lin shattered the demon's Starry Sky diagram and moved in close as the demon kept defending against Heavenly Punishment.

Ye Lin used the Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Sword Art’s Eye of Heavenly Punishment to kill Mo Wang, but the attack drained his immortal fortune power and strained his Primordial Spirit. Blood Demon Child then attacked the weakened Ye Lin, who retreated as the fight continued.

• Ye Lin slashed Mo Wang with the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and summoned the Eye of Heavenly Punishment.
• Ye Lin used Divine Punishment to destroy Mo Wang’s Primordial Spirit and kill him instantly.
• Ye Lin explained that the ultimate sword move had drained his power and strained his Primordial Spirit, despite his fifth-layer Golden Immortal cultivation.
• Blood Demon Child charged at Ye Lin to avenge Mo Wang, and Ye Lin retreated while doubting the demon could kill him in his weakened state.

Ye Lin stopped evading Blood Demon Child and overwhelmed him with the Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Sword Art. As Blood Demon Child lay in a crater, Ye Lin began summoning his Nine Luminaries Across the Sky, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Blood Demon Child charged Ye Lin with a fist packed with demonic qi, but Ye Lin shattered it with Thunder Break.
• With his power of immortal fortune mostly recovered, Ye Lin attacked Blood Demon Child with Heavenly Punishment and repeated strikes of thunder sword qi.
• Ye Lin used Thunder Descends Upon the World to drive Blood Demon Child into the ground and leave his body close to collapse.
• Blood Demon Child cried out in disbelief that someone from the Third Region could defeat him.
• Ye Lin began summoning nine blazing suns with Nine Luminaries Across the Sky, rapidly consuming his power of immortal fortune.

Ye Lin killed Blood Demon Child with the Three-Legged Golden Crow and the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword. As the battle continued, Heaven Sword Sect disciples were being overwhelmed, and the gathering’s prodigies fled.

• Ye Lin combined the nine great suns into a Three-Legged Golden Crow phantom, terrifying the demons nearby.
• Blood Demon Child panicked and tried to flee, but Ye Lin sent the Golden Crow after him and blasted him with Purgatory Ice Flame.
• Ye Lin drove the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword into Blood Demon Child, and the sword drained his blood before his body burned to ashes.
• Ye Lin watched as the fight continued and Heaven Sword Sect disciples dwindled while the demons grew more numerous.
• The prodigies who had attended the gathering fled after realizing the demons vastly outnumbered the Heaven Sword Sect.

As demon-monsters overwhelmed the battlefield, Ye Lin doubted the mission could be completed and the young cultivators considered fleeing to save themselves. Mo Cang told Jian Changfeng how Yun Xuan’s arrogance had left the Heavenly Sword Sect and Crimson Wasteland exposed, and the chapter left Yun Xuan’s death as a consequence of his fatal flaw.

• Ye Lin watched the demon-monsters multiply and doubted he could survive the battle.
• The young cultivators weighed escaping rather than risking their lives for the Heavenly Sword Sect or Crimson Wasteland.
• Mo Cang told the bloodied Jian Changfeng that Yun Xuan had once defeated him by half a move.
• Mo Cang explained that Yun Xuan had known of the Demon King's plan but trusted his own strength to keep the Heavenly Sword Sect safe.
• Mo Cang laughed at Yun Xuan's death, while Jian Changfeng reflected that Yun Xuan's extreme arrogance had been his fatal weakness.

Mo Cang demanded that Jian Changfeng surrender the Heavenly Sword Sect’s Soul-Suppressing Stone, claiming the Demon-Monster Realm had collected eleven others and planned to break the seal between the realms. Jian Changfeng refused to believe him, and Mo Cang ordered him out of the way, saying he would take the stone from the Sect Master himself.

• Mo Cang offered to withdraw his troops if Jian Changfeng handed over the Soul-Suppressing Stone.
• Jian Changfeng realized Mo Cang’s target was the seal between the Demon-Monster Realm and the Earth God Realm, and questioned his claim that eleven stones had already been gathered.
• Mo Cang warned that the Demon-Monster Realm would attack again and that the Heavenly Sword Sect might have to suppress the passage itself.
• Jian Changfeng refused to surrender the stone and told Mo Cang to obtain it from the Sect Master.
• Mo Cang told Jian Changfeng to get out of his way, claiming he could take the Soul-Suppressing Stone from the Sect Master.