Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ning repelled the Five Swords Sect’s attack on the execution ground, wounded their archer Yang Zhenchuan, and let the surviving attackers escape. After ordering the executions to continue, he left the Five Swords Sect with a new pretext for retaliation, while Elder Xu found the injured Yang Zhenchuan.

• Jiang Ning caught Yang Zhenchuan’s arrow barehanded and threw it back, forcing the Five Swords Sect’s elders and fighters to retreat.
• Feng Ji, Xie Xiaoj iu, Zhou Xing, and their allies fought the attackers as Jiang Ning drew a hard bow and shot Yang Zhenchuan from a thousand meters away.
• Jiang Ning’s arrow tracked Yang Zhenchuan as he dodged and tore through his right arm, but Jiang Ning let him flee to create an excuse to march on the Five Swords Sect.
• The Five Swords Sect members fled the market, and Feng Ji collected tokens from the attackers’ corpses while Jiang Ning ordered the prisoners executed.
• Jiang Ning ordered the executions to continue as Elder Xu found Yang Zhenchuan, who furiously challenged him over the supposedly safe operation.

Jiang Ning traveled to the Water-Moon Sword Palace to collect the resources owed to him and prepare for his move against the Five Swords Sect. After he demonstrated his overwhelming strength to the Sword Palace elders, they accepted that Hou Yingying’s assessment of him might be right.

• Jiang Ning discovered a token belonging to Five Swords Sect true disciple Yang Hong and ordered the token and two disciples’ corpses kept for use in a few days.
• Jiang Ning left Stone Mountain County with Xiao Emei and Hou Yingying, planning to collect his reward before acting against the Five Swords Sect.
• During a break on the journey, Hou Yingying judged that Jiang Ning might have completed his second blood exchange and surpassed the former palace master, Xiao Qiushui.
• Jiang Ning arrived at the Water-Moon Sword Palace and learned from its disciples that the sect had declined under pressure from the Five Swords Sect.
• Wu Yuan challenged Jiang Ning to demonstrate his strength, and Jiang Ning subdued him with a hand on his shoulder.
• The other elders cleared the way for Jiang Ning, and Wu Yuan admitted afterward that Hou Yingying might have been right about Jiang Ning’s power.

Jiang Ning collected Water-Moon Sword Palace’s treasures and replenished the losses from his fourth blood replacement rebirth. By opening his Heavenly Eye, he discovered that the goddess statue held a hidden connection to a woman who offered him a gift before the vision shattered.

• Xiao Emei opened the secret chamber and explained that Water-Moon Sword Palace’s reserves were depleted and its holdings threatened by Five Swords Sect.
• Jiang Ning took the stored medicinal treasures, ordered Xiao Emei to settle the remaining payment within a month, and claimed half of Five Swords Sect’s holdings after he dealt with them.
• Jiang Ning refined the medicines, restored his body, and checked his source energy and Indestructible Vajra Body progress.
• Jiang Ning used Fiery Spirit Sight and his Heavenly Eye to investigate the goddess statue, revealing a vision of a woman beside a lake.
• The woman told Jiang Ning that her inheritance suited only women, then sent a droplet of water toward his brow as the vision shattered.

Jiang Ning received a gift from the moonlit goddess that transformed his Yin God and brought him closer to becoming a Yang God, then learned his Source Energy had surged. As Feng Xiaoch en arrived with five hundred elite soldiers, Jiang Ning prepared to confront the Five Swords Sect and awaited Wang Qingtan, whom he hoped could receive the goddess’s inheritance.

• Jiang Ning received the goddess’s gift, which caused golden patterns to appear on his Yin God and gave him the potential to transform into a Yang God.
• Jiang Ning saw that his Source Energy had risen to 73,215 and trained the Indestructible Vajra Body at the Water-Moon Sword Palace.
• He Chang Kong and the Five Swords Sect elders discussed Jiang Ning’s actions against the Xu and Mu families, then decided to pause their plans against the Water-Moon Sword Palace while keeping what they had already taken.
• Jiang Ning learned that Feng Xiaoch en had reached Stone Mountain County with five hundred elite soldiers and sent him a letter by Skyborne Letterbird.
• Jiang Ning decided it was time to demand an explanation from the Five Swords Sect and wondered when Wang Qingtan would arrive to test whether she could receive the goddess’s inheritance.

Feng Xiaoch en led elite troops armed with Star-Chasing Ballistae to surround the Five Swords Sect under Jiang Ning's orders. After Xie Xiaojiu fought a sect elder to a standstill, Jiang Ning arrived just as the elder's sword closed in on him.

• Feng Xiaoch en split his troops to block the Five Swords Sect's northern and southern routes, then advanced toward the mountain gate with Feng Ji, Xie Xiaojiu, and Zhou Xing.
• The Five Swords Sect discovered the approaching army, rang its alarm bells, and gathered its leaders at the mountain gate.
• He Chang Kong learned that Jiang Ning had ordered the operation and tried to negotiate, but an elder confronted Xie Xiaojiu after she refused to wait quietly.
• Xie Xiaojiu fought the fifth-rank elder and held her own, though he gradually forced her backward.
• Jiang Ning rushed up the mountain and appeared between Xie Xiaojiu and the elder's incoming sword.

Jiang Ning confronted He Chang Kong at the Five Swords Sect, killing an elder who attacked him and accusing the sect of crimes under Great Xia law. After revealing evidence and his inborn supernatural phenomenon, he continued pressing He Chang Kong while both men waited for the sect’s Supreme Elder to arrive.

• Jiang Ning caught a Five Swords Sect elder’s sword between two fingers, shattered it, and killed the elder by throwing a broken sword tip through his palms and brow.
• He Chang Kong challenged Jiang Ning over the killing, but Jiang Ning argued that the elder had tried to assassinate him and deserved execution under Great Xia law.
• Xiao Emei arrived, and He Chang Kong offered to settle the conflict with Water-Moon Sword Palace before Jiang Ning revealed that he had come to demand an explanation from the sect.
• Jiang Ning destroyed the coffins holding two Five Swords Sect members and accused the sect of storming an execution ground and attempting to assassinate him.
• Jiang Ning displayed flames in his eyes, revealing an inborn supernatural phenomenon, while He Chang Kong stalled for time as he awaited the Supreme Elder.
• Jiang Ning sent several identity tokens to He Chang Kong as evidence, but He Chang Kong continued demanding proof.

Jiang Ning confronted the Five Swords Sect over Yang, a one-armed true disciple, while the sect’s Supreme Elder and He Chang Kong resisted him. The clash widened into a battle at the sect gates, and Jiang Ning met the Supreme Elder’s attack with a mysterious five-colored fist technique.

• Jiang Ning revealed Yang’s true disciple token and demanded that He Chang Kong surrender him, but He Chang Kong refused.
• The Five Swords Sect’s Supreme Elder arrived and called on He Chang Kong to defend the sect; Jiang Ning charged through the disciples and seized Yang.
• He Chang Kong attacked Jiang Ning with his Hundred-Step Flying Sword while Feng Xiaoch en ordered the crossbow squads to fire; Jiang Ning’s layered Indestructible Vajra Body repelled the sword.
• Arrows struck He Chang Kong and the Five Swords Sect disciples as the Supreme Elder rallied the elders and charged Jiang Ning.
• The Supreme Elder struck at Jiang Ning, who countered with a five-colored punch that made the elder’s movements grow sluggish.

Jiang Ning defeated the Five Swords Sect’s Supreme Elder and led the assault that shattered the sect’s resistance. After the Supreme Elder’s final effort failed, Jiang Ning warned the fleeing disciples and began disabling those who continued to escape.

• Jiang Ning overpowered the Five Swords Sect’s Supreme Elder, captured him, and announced that he was Dongling Commandery’s Sixth-Rank Inspector.
• The Supreme Elder pleaded for the disciples’ lives, but Jiang Ning declared that the Five Swords Sect had to be destroyed.
• The Supreme Elder burned his vital blood to break Jiang Ning’s suppression and ordered the disciples to flee, while He Chang Kong and the disciples also attempted to escape.
• Jiang Ning enveloped himself and the Supreme Elder in his Water-Fire Wheel as Feng Xiaoch en ordered the guards to attack the fleeing disciples.
• Jiang Ning’s chains knocked He Chang Kong unconscious, and the guards captured him; the Supreme Elder was left gravely wounded.
• Jiang Ning warned the fleeing disciples that anyone resisting arrest would be killed, then pierced the legs of several who continued to flee.

Jiang Ning’s forces defeated the Five Swords Sect’s defenders, and he killed the Grandmaster guarding its treasury with a single saber strike. After the sect fell, he divided its wealth, ordered compensation for his troops, and arranged for its valuable materials to be sent to the Water-Moon Sword Palace.

• Jiang Ning covertly aided his men as they fought the Five Swords Sect disciples who stayed behind to cover the retreat, and the battle ended with three of his men dead and nine severely wounded.
• Jiang Ning went to the Five Swords Sect treasury, identified its guardian as Yellow River Old Ghost, and killed him with one strike of the Awakening-of-Insects Saber Technique.
• Jiang Ning ordered Xie Xiaoj iu to seal the treasury and took the wounded Five Swords Sect Supreme Elder with him rather than leave him in others’ custody.
• Xie Xiaoj iu reported that the Five Swords Sect’s assets were worth about twenty-five to thirty thousand taels of gold, with over three thousand one hundred taels of gold and two hundred thirty thousand taels of silver in cash.
• Jiang Ning ordered ten taels of gold for each person who fought, one hundred taels of gold in compensation for each death, two hundred thousand taels of silver for Feng Xiaoch en, and twenty percent of the proceeds for the imperial treasury.
• Jiang Ning ordered the Five Swords Sect’s heavenly treasures and earthly materials transported to the Water-Moon Sword Palace, where he planned to stay for several days.

Jiang Ning waited at Water-Moon Sword Palace for Wang Qingtan, whose Phoenix Heavenly Maiden memories were awakening, and brought her to seek the inheritance within the Moon Palace Goddess statue. The goddess rejected Wang Qingtan as a candidate, leaving Jiang Ning to find someone else who could accept the inheritance.

• Jiang Ning's Source Energy exceeded one hundred thousand, and Xiao Emei brought him ten Crimsonflame Blood Crystals as payment toward Water-Moon Sword Palace's debt.
• Wang Qingtan arrived at Water-Moon Sword Palace, teased Jiang Ning, and revealed that her condition was worsening as she questioned whether she would remain herself after awakening the Phoenix Heavenly Maiden's memories.
• Jiang Ning tested Wang Qingtan's identity with a humiliating nighttime experiment and concluded that she was still herself.
• Jiang Ning brought Wang Qingtan before the Moon Palace Goddess statue and opened his Heavenly Eye to reach the moonlit lakeside vision.
• The woman by the lake told Jiang Ning that Wang Qingtan could not accept her inheritance because she carried a familiar aura.

Jiang Ning received Lin Qingyi’s news about a coming secret realm at Yang Lake and a letter from Princess Little Seventeen, then left the Water-Moon Sword Palace for Dongling City. In the wilderness, he spent 50,000 source energy to begin breaking the Indestructible Vajra Body’s limit.

• A woman surnamed Lin delivered Jiang Ning letters from Lin Qingyi and Princess Little Seventeen; Lin Qingyi’s letter reported that an unexplored secret realm might open above Yang Lake in mid-to-late August.
• Jiang Ning wrote a reply for Lin Qingyi and decided to leave for Dongling City, where Shangguan Guyun’s arrival threatened the safety of the imprisoned Five Swords Sect members.
• Jiang Ning told the Water-Moon Sword Palace patrol captain to continue paying tribute, then departed by boat while Xiao Emei lamented that he had left without saying goodbye.
• In a mountain forest, Jiang Ning finished training the Indestructible Vajra Body to 30,000 points and spent 50,000 source energy to break through.

Shangguan Guyun gathered Water-Blue Fairy Aunt, Spirit Serpent Gentleman, and Xiao Hongyuan to plan Jiang Ning’s assassination, while Jiang Ning completed a transformation that granted him the Six-Foot Golden Body. Confident in his strengthened foundation, Jiang Ning decided to complete his fifth blood replacement before returning to Dongling City.

• Shangguan Guyun told Water-Blue Fairy Aunt, Spirit Serpent Gentleman, and Xiao Hongyuan that Jiang Ning had to die, and Water-Blue Fairy Aunt agreed to join their attack.
• Jiang Ning completed his third limit break, turning his skin membranes golden and gaining the Six-Foot Golden Body trait.
• Jiang Ning manifested the Six-Foot Golden Body and tested its power by uprooting a tree, racing through the forest, and splitting a mountainside with one punch.
• Jiang Ning saw that he had spent much of his Source Energy but was satisfied with his gains and the strength of his body.
• Jiang Ning decided to complete his fifth blood replacement before setting out for Dongling City.

Jiang Ning completed his fifth blood change, replenished his depleted body with Crimsonflame Blood Crystals, and then advanced Water Mastery to its ninth limit break. He gained Water Source Affinity and tested its enhanced effects in a secluded pool.

• Jiang Ning completed his fifth blood change, replacing all thirty-six teeth as his body renewed itself.
• Jiang Ning consumed more than twenty Crimsonflame Blood Crystals to restore his energy and raised his source energy total above eighty thousand.
• Jiang Ning rested overnight, then used five thousand source energy points to advance Water Mastery to its ninth limit break.
• Jiang Ning discovered that Water Spirit Affinity had transformed into Water Source Affinity, which let him devour a water source's vitality and greatly enhanced his senses and recovery in water.
• Jiang Ning traveled to a secluded pool, entered the water, and sensed every part of it, including the fish, shrimp, and crabs below.

Jiang Ning absorbed life force from a pool, then advanced Water Affinity and gained the ability to command wind, rain, thunder, and lightning. He next broke through Wind-Thunder Steps, comprehended the conception of wind, and discovered his movement speed could surpass sound.

• Jiang Ning absorbed the pool’s life force, killing the fish and shrimp, then stopped when he realized the pool was becoming dead water and the recovery he gained was meager.
• Jiang Ning practiced the Inner Elixir Life-Nourishing Technique and gained 87 experience before spending 10,000 source energy to break Water Affinity through its tenth limit.
• Jiang Ning gained the Wind, Rain, Thunder, and Lightning trait and demonstrated that he could summon lightning from a clear sky and create a powerful whirlwind.
• Jiang Ning decided to improve Wind-Thunder Steps to pursue the conception of wind and spent 5,000 source energy on its sixth limit break.
• Jiang Ning comprehended the conception of wind, raced across the landscape, and found that his movement speed had increased by about twenty percent and could exceed sound.

Jiang Ning advanced his Wind-Thunder Steps while traveling toward Dongling City and helped Qing'er at Ten-Li Pavilion, unknowingly accelerating the growth of her spirit body with his divine blood. Shangguan Guyun and his allies set out to ambush Jiang Ning outside the city, while Jiang Ning recognized that he had been targeted and continued toward them without fear.

• Jiang Ning gained the Wind Whisperer trait and continued accumulating Wind-Thunder Steps experience as he traveled toward Dongling City.
• At Ten-Li Pavilion, Jiang Ning bought Qing'er food and gave her broken silver after learning she had survived the calamity of war.
• Jiang Ning infused a cup of tea with his blood, and Qing'er drank it; her hidden consciousness recognized that the divine blood had accelerated her spirit body's growth.
• Qing'er revealed that she had pretended to be ill to protect herself, and Jiang Ning praised her cleverness before leaving with Shrinking Earth to Inches.
• Shangguan Guyun, Spirit Serpent Gentleman, Xiao Hongyuan, and Water-Blue Fairy Aunt agreed to kill Jiang Ning outside Dongling City and set out to intercept him.
• Jiang Ning noticed hostile watchers and carrier pigeons at Ten-Li Pavilion, realized someone had targeted him, and calmly continued toward the city.

Jiang Ning waited in the forest for four veteran grandmasters who had come to kill him after he destroyed the Five Swords Sect. When they attacked together, his perfected Indestructible Vajra Body withstood their blows, and the chapter ended as Shangguan Guyun prepared their final all-out assault.

• Jiang Ning sensed Shangguan Guyun, Xiao Hongyuan, Spirit Serpent Gentleman, and Water-Blue Fairy Aunt approaching and chose to face them in the forest.
• The four grandmasters recognized that Jiang Ning had detected them, then advanced rather than retreating.
• Jiang Ning identified Water-Blue Fairy Aunt as the masked fighter he had defeated with one punch when she attacked Zhao Yulong.
• Xiao Hongyuan opened the fight with a powerful saber strike, but Jiang Ning's golden body left him unharmed.
• Shangguan Guyun, Spirit Serpent Gentleman, Xiao Hongyuan, and Water-Blue Fairy Aunt attacked Jiang Ning together, while he stood firm behind his layered defenses.
• Shangguan Guyun realized the four would have to flee if their combined final assault failed, and he urged them to give it everything.

Jiang Ning revealed the Six-Foot Golden Body and killed Shangguan Guyun, Spirit Serpent Gentleman, Xiao Hongyuan, and Water-Blue Fairy Aunt after they ambushed him. He recovered the fallen grandmasters’ weapons and buried Xiao Hongyuan, whose breakthrough in battle had come too late to save him.

• Jiang Ning’s golden defenses withstood the four grandmasters’ attacks, and Shangguan Guyun recognized his Six-Foot Golden Body as the four tried to flee.
• Jiang Ning killed Shangguan Guyun with one blow and struck down Spirit Serpent Gentleman as Xiao Hongyuan fled.
• Xiao Hongyuan turned to fight, broke through in his saber intent, and earned Jiang Ning’s praise before Jiang Ning killed him.
• Jiang Ning chased down Water-Blue Fairy Aunt and killed her with a single strike that scattered her body into a blood mist.
• Jiang Ning retrieved Shangguan Guyun’s three-foot sword and Spirit Serpent Gentleman’s flexible sword, then took Xiao Hongyuan’s weapon and buried him.

After defeating four grandmasters, Jiang Ning returned safely to his household, studied the Five Swords Sect’s martial manuals, and discovered the power of the Burnblood Secret Art. He learned that a drop of his blood essence strengthened Linglong, then prepared to act against Divine Sword Manor before it could move its resources.

• Jiang Ning returned to Dongling City, reunited with Jiang Li and Liu Wanwan, and learned that nothing serious had happened at home.
• Jiang Ning read the martial manuals collected from the Five Swords Sect and tried the Burnblood Secret Art, condensing a luminous drop of blood essence.
• Jiang Ning fed the blood essence to Linglong, who gained five years of cultivation after swallowing it.
• Linglong and Old Softshell reported that a grandmaster had watched the house while Jiang Ning was away, and Jiang Ning summoned Lü Yi to call several allies to his residence.
• Jiang Ning decided to set out that day and destroy Divine Sword Manor before it could transfer its resources.

Jiang Ning prepared to move against Divine Sword Manor and the Sky-Pervading Sect after revealing that he had killed Shangguan Guyun and three other Grandmasters. Zhao Yulong offered the Inspection Office’s support, and he and Bai Luoyu left discussing how Jiang Ning might already be approaching the ranks of top-tier Grandmasters.

• Jiang Ning ordered Zhou Xing, Xie Xiaoj iu, and Feng Jiเก to gather their teams and head to Sunset Valley near Divine Sword Manor.
• Zhao Yulong and Bai Luoyu arrived, and Jiang Ning confirmed that he had killed Shangguan Guyun, Water-Blue Fairy Aunt, the Spirit Serpent Gentleman, and Xiao Hongyuan.
• Jiang Ning agreed with Zhao Yulong to split the spoils from attacks on Divine Sword Manor and the Sky-Pervading Sect, giving the Inspection Office twenty percent.
• Jiang Ning gave Zhou Xing, Xie Xiaoj iu, and Feng Jiเก jade bottles of medicine before they departed.
• After leaving, Zhao Yulong told Bai Luoyu that Jiang Ning’s strength was likely close to that of a top-tier Grandmaster and explained the ranks beyond ordinary Grandmasters.

Jiang Ning cultivated Wind-Thunder Steps while preparing to destroy Divine Sword Manor and Sky-Pervading Sect and face the dangers surrounding the Yang Lake Secret Grotto-Heaven. After Zhao Yulong and Bai Luoyu worried that his plans would expose him to the Heaven-Answering Alliance, Jiang Ning completed the art’s sixth limit break and began a breakthrough.

• Jiang Ning gave Xie Xiaoj iu a drop of essence blood and told her to digest it before he tested her strength.
• Jiang Ning considered the strength of Nan Zhiwei, Immortal Crossing Sect, and the Heaven-Answering Alliance, but decided to keep targeting Divine Sword Manor and Sky-Pervading Sect and to enter the Yang Lake Secret Grotto-Heaven.
• Jiang Ning trained Wind-Thunder Steps in the Dongling Mountain Range and refined the essence of the sun while Zhao Yulong and Bai Luoyu led their people toward Sunset Valley.
• Bai Luoyu told Zhao Yulong that Jiang Ning planned to go to Yang Lake, and Zhao Yulong warned that the Heaven-Answering Alliance could exploit his absence inside the secret grotto-heaven.
• Jiang Ning completed Wind-Thunder Steps’ sixth limit break, spent 10,000 source energy, and began absorbing the insights of a breakthrough.