Chapter Summaries

True Person Illusory Dream investigated the Demon Race while attacking the Gale Demon King, and Jiang Chen studied the lingering yin in his soul and a mysterious lightning-linked fragment. The fragment appeared to be part of a shattered Dao artifact, and a sharp aura suddenly rose from Lark-Grasping Mountain.

• True Person Illusory Dream wounded the Gale Demon King and pieced together clues suggesting the Thunder Roc Clan might still carry Imperial Blood.
• True Person Illusory Dream concluded that the demon kings' minds held more useful clues than those of Dao Foundation demons and planned to report her findings to the Impermanence Sect.
• Jiang Chen tempered his soul with the Kan-Li Soul Tempering Art and found that it could not fully remove the yin nature gained from devouring ghosts.
• Jiang Chen considered using stronger lightning to dissolve the yin and strengthen the Soul-Shocking Profound Sound Lightning.
• Jiang Chen opened Fox Ghost's Ghostfire Furnace and examined a lightning-linked metal fragment that he suspected came from a Dao artifact.
• A sharp aura suddenly shot up from Lark-Grasping Mountain.

Jiang Chen watched Rat Prodigy’s newly forged sword embryo awaken, absorb his divine-soul power, and acknowledge him as its master. The sword embryo’s spirituality stirred a dormant presence inside Fox Ghost’s metal fragment, which began emitting lightning and appeared to seek a merger with the sword.

• Jiang Chen sensed the sword embryo forged from Grand Derivation True Gold and Numinous Bright Gold and recognized its potential as a divine-soul treasure.
• The sword embryo absorbed Jiang Chen’s divine-soul force until it was satisfied, then flew to him and acknowledged him as its master.
• Jiang Chen discovered the sword embryo could sense ill intent and considered how its spirituality resembled that of a Dao artifact.
• The sword embryo’s aura awakened dormant spirituality in the metal fragment Jiang Chen had obtained from Fox Ghost, causing it to release lightning.
• Jiang Chen realized the fragment’s dying spirituality sought to devour the sword embryo or merge into it, and he wondered whether that would be beneficial or dangerous.

Jiang Chen fused the Thunder Seal fragment into the sword embryo, discovering its thunder mysteries and giving the transformed sword the name Purple Lightning. The sword gained greater potential, and Jiang Chen planned to strengthen it further by finding more fragments of the same origin.

• After months of studying the sword embryo and metal fragment, Jiang Chen confirmed that the fragment was a remnant of a Dao artifact.
• Rat Prodigy used the Gold-Fusing Treasure Furnace to fuse the fragment with the sword embryo while Jiang Chen harmonized their spiritualities.
• Jiang Chen merged his mind with the sword embryo and guided it to devour the fragment's weakened spirituality, completing the fusion of their materials.
• Jiang Chen received insights into the Jade Pivot Thunder-Summoning Dao Restriction and saw that the sword embryo had developed thunder script.
• Jiang Chen named the transformed sword Purple Lightning, and its sword cries called forth lightning over Lark-Grasping Mountain.
• Jiang Chen decided to seek more fragments of the same origin to help Purple Lightning evolve toward the foundation of a Dao artifact.

Jiang Chen used the Purple Lightning Sword to draw heavenly lightning and completely dissolve the Yin matter in his soul, gaining insight into transforming his soul’s Yin nature. The Gale Demon King discovered the sword, coveted its potential, and flew toward it to seize it.

• Jiang Chen spent a month tempering his Yin Spirit with heavenly lightning guided by the Purple Lightning Sword, dissolving the last trace of Yin matter from his soul.
• Jiang Chen concluded that lightning could help transform the soul’s Yin nature, though his current method only affected its surface, and resumed tempering himself.
• The disturbance awakened the injured Gale Demon King in the Great Void, and it spotted the Purple Lightning Sword amid the storm.
• The Gale Demon King recognized the sword’s extraordinary potential, decided it should be his, and sped toward it.

Jiang Chen used the Purple Lightning Sword to detect the badly wounded Gale Demon King and discovered it carried a Thunder Seal Fragment. He set a trap and unleashed the thunderstorm’s full might, leaving the Gale Demon King swallowed by lightning and sword light.

• Jiang Chen sensed the Gale Demon King's malice and recognized that the demon king was severely injured.
• Jiang Chen realized the Purple Lightning Sword could draw on the true intent of heaven and earth and sensed that the Gale Demon King carried a Thunder Seal Fragment.
• The Gale Demon King approached the thunderstorm, intending to seize Jiang Chen's exotic treasure.
• Jiang Chen summoned heavenly thunder and used Soul Suppression Immortal Light to briefly pin down the Gale Demon King.
• The Gale Demon King tried to defend himself, but Jiang Chen's sword strike and a mass of lightning overwhelmed his divine abilities.

Jiang Chen killed the Gale Demon King with a lightning-charged sword strike, then erased the battlefield and disappeared. Xin Yi investigated the traces, concluded a Thunder Roc had killed the Gale Demon King, and decided to pursue the Thunder Roc Clan’s potential connection to Azure Firmament Mountain.

• Jiang Chen retrieved the Gale Demon King's ruined body and remnant soul after killing him with the momentum of heavenly lightning.
• Jiang Chen erased the remaining traces with the Purple Lightning Sword and vanished.
• Xin Yi arrived at the battlefield and used her Thousand-Mark Sword Eyes to uncover traces of heavenly thunder and confirm the Gale Demon King's death.
• Xin Yi suspected a Thunder Roc had killed the Gale Demon King over something the Demon Race had taken or sought.
• Xin Yi connected the Thunder Roc's presence to Azure Firmament Mountain and decided to pursue the opportunity.

Jiang Chen examined the Gale Demon King's belongings, fed a Dao artifact fragment to the Purple Lightning Sword, and uncovered the fragment's connection to the Thunder Roc Clan. He left Cloud Palace cultivating his divine soul, weighing the risks and potential of the Thunder Seal Fragment.

• Jiang Chen found the Gale Demon King's collection mostly common and low-value, then set aside several items and kept a metal fragment.
• Jiang Chen awakened the metal fragment with lightning, and the Purple Lightning Sword absorbed it to strengthen its foundation.
• Jiang Chen devoured the Gale Demon King's remnant soul and discovered that a prohibition concealed some of its memories.
• Jiang Chen failed to break the prohibition completely but learned that the fragment came from the Ancient Thunder Seal, the Thunder Roc Clan's former mountain-guarding treasure and an extraordinary Dao artifact.
• Jiang Chen considered the danger of the Thunder Seal Fragment and used the Soul-Devouring True Demon Art to absorb the Gale Demon King's divine soul.

Lei Qing sent a thunder pearl into the Western Region to hasten the search for the Ancient Thunder Seal's fragments after Gale's death. As demons and others pursued the fragments, True Person Illusory Dream questioned why the Impermanence Sect had ordered her not to intervene.

• Lei Qing sensed that Gale had died and decided to accelerate his plan to reassemble the Ancient Thunder Seal before the Impermanence Sect learned too much.
• Lei Qing used a secret art to send a thunder pearl into reality, where it began revealing dormant Thunder Seal Fragments to the demons.
• Xin Yi seized a fragment from the demons and decided to collect more before contacting her master.
• True Person Illusory Dream watched the demons without interfering and recalled that the Impermanence Sect had ordered her to hold her position.
• True Person Illusory Dream wondered why the sect was allowing the Thunder Roc Clan to pursue the Ancient Thunder Seal, then vanished.

The Baleful Ghost drained Dragon Earthworm Cavern and broke through to the third rank, aided by Burial-Ground True Intent. Jiang Chen recognized the ghost as a likely artificial weapon and used its new power to destroy the cavern, leaving him to investigate the source of its creation.

• The Baleful Ghost used the Yellow Sand Curse to drain Dragon Earthworm Cavern and broke through to the third rank.
• Jiang Chen observed the Baleful Ghost’s transformation and concluded that it had become a false third rank without truly grasping the root of true intent.
• Jiang Chen sensed that Burial-Ground True Intent had helped the Baleful Ghost and suspected its unknown source had created the ghost as a weapon of war.
• Jiang Chen considered using the Baleful Ghost’s aura to conceal Cloud-Grasping City from other Baleful Ghosts.
• Jiang Chen drew on the Baleful Ghost’s power to unleash Sand Sea Burial of Life, destroying Dragon Earthworm Cavern completely.

Jiang Chen used a new secret art and the Baleful Ghost to find a Thunder Seal Fragment in the Sand Sea, while the Demon Race and Xin Yi also searched for fragments. After her informants located a Demon Race squad, Xin Yi killed its members and took their fragment, then set out to seize more before the Demon Kings could react.

• Jiang Chen found a Thunder Seal Fragment deep in the Sand Sea using a secret art based on the Purple Lightning Sword’s perception.
• Jiang Chen decided to search faster, sending the Baleful Ghost through the Sand Sea to find more fragments.
• Xin Yi failed to find a genuine fragment among the ruins she searched, but received intelligence about the Demon Race’s search.
• Xin Yi used her network to locate a Demon Race collection squad and killed its six members, taking the Thunder Seal Fragment they had found.
• Xin Yi set aside her suspicions about Bai Cangzi and transformed into sword-light to hunt for more fragments before the Demon Kings could react.

Jiang Chen hunted demon squads in the Sand Sea and stole their Thunder Seal Fragments, while Xin Yi followed his traces. After repeated ambushes disrupted the collection effort, Lei Qing decided to descend in a split soul and act personally.

• Jiang Chen used the Baleful Ghost to ambush a Scorpion Demon Clan squad and take its Thunder Seal Fragment, then continued hunting demon squads for more fragments.
• Xin Yi emerged in the Sand Sea, discovered traces of another fragment collector, and pursued Jiang Chen.
• The demon clans noticed the repeated ambushes and informed Lei Qing that their squads were being targeted.
• Lei Qing concluded that the attacker’s speed suggested unusual methods and informants among the local demons, whose loyalty he doubted.
• Lei Qing used the Split-Soul Technique and a precious treasure to send an illusory Thunder Peng into the Western Region, intending to act before leaving after a single strike.

Jiang Chen captured and transformed six more Baleful Ghosts, linking them to his original puppet and strengthening his search network. After suspecting the Baleful Ghosts came from a powerful artifact, he realized someone had likely noticed his third-rank puppet.

• Jiang Chen followed a distress signal, swallowed the wounded Baleful Ghost, and found that the Demon Race search party pursuing it had no Thunder Seal fragments.
• Over the next month, Jiang Chen hunted and suppressed six Baleful Ghosts while searching for Thunder Seal fragments and tempering the Purple Lightning Sword.
• Jiang Chen used the Star Puppet Seal to transform the six Baleful Ghosts, connecting all seven and reducing their urge to kill.
• Jiang Chen suspected the Baleful Ghosts originated from a powerful artifact, possibly a Dao artifact, while Xin Yi tracked him and Lei Qing stirred Thunder Seal fragments to draw out the hidden pursuer.
• The Purple Lightning Sword warned Jiang Chen that someone had noticed the third-rank Baleful Ghost.

Jiang Chen learned that Xin Yi and Lei Qing were pursuing the third-rank Baleful Ghost carrying Thunder Seal fragments, but decided to keep pursuing the fragments while concealing his own traces. The Baleful Ghost caught up with the Demon Race squad as Xin Yi and Lei Qing closed in behind it.

• A Demon Race squad found two Thunder Seal fragments emerging from a newly formed lake and carried them away.
• Xin Yi followed the squad’s tracks, while Jiang Chen used another Baleful Ghost to observe her and weigh whether to pursue the fragments.
• Lei Qing seized and destroyed Jiang Chen’s Baleful Ghost puppet, then headed after Xin Yi.
• Jiang Chen chose to continue the pursuit, avoid using his true body, and conceal his traces with Purple Lightning Sword.
• The third-rank Baleful Ghost caught up with the Demon Race squad as Xin Yi and Lei Qing rapidly approached.

Xin Yi battled a third-tier Baleful Ghost after it slaughtered a Demon Race squad, using her Many-Legged Sword Domain to shatter its body and scatter its soul. She found no Thunder Seal fragments among the squad’s storage bags, then sensed a deadly pressure as thunder erupted around her.

• The third-tier Baleful Ghost trapped the Demon Race squad in wind and sand, stole their storage bags, and killed several members with a torrent from the Sand Sea.
• Xin Yi emerged from hiding and attacked the Baleful Ghost with her Many-Legged Sword Domain, cutting apart its sand body.
• The Baleful Ghost’s soul fled underground, but Xin Yi struck the Sand Sea with sword light and scattered it, though the creature escaped rather than truly dying.
• Xin Yi searched the storage bags for Thunder Seal fragments but found none and suspected the Baleful Ghost had sent them away.
• Thunder exploded and an invisible pressure surrounded Xin Yi, making her sense that her life was in danger.

Lei Qing sealed the Great Void and attacked Xin Yi with the Heaven-Bombarding Thunder Curse, forcing her to use Gu Lingxiao’s stored Dao-artifact resonance to survive. Xin Yi escaped with her treasure body destroyed and her soul gravely wounded, while Lei Qing withdrew to continue searching for the Thunder Seal Fragment.

• Lei Qing appeared as a powerful Thunder Roc and sealed the Great Void, trapping Xin Yi in the Sand Sea.
• Lei Qing recognized Xin Yi as an Impermanence Sect cultivator and unleashed the Heaven-Bombarding Thunder Curse.
• Xin Yi shattered the jade bottle Gu Lingxiao had given her, summoning a precious banner whose lingering Dao resonance formed an illusory sea to shield her.
• Lei Qing struck the sky like a drum and strengthened his thunder curse until it broke the illusory sea and began melting Xin Yi’s Sword Centipede Treasure Body.
• The banner carried Xin Yi’s battered soul beyond the lightning’s reach, and Lei Qing, nearly exhausted, let her escape.
• Lei Qing noticed the Thunder Seal Fragment had disappeared, then left the vast pit in the Sand Sea to continue his search.

Jiang Chen assessed the destruction caused by a powerful lightning divine ability and left to handle other matters, while Xin Yi survived the attack and recovered in the earth veins. Xin Yi suspected Bai Cangzi had manipulated events over the Thunder Seal Fragments, kept the four fragments she had retrieved, and began suppressing her injuries.

• Jiang Chen examined the vast crater and inferred that the lightning attack might have come from the Thunder Roc Clan, then vanished in a flash of Purple Lightning.
• Xin Yi escaped the Great Void with the treasure banner’s last power, entered the earth veins, and slowly recovered from her grievous wounds.
• Xin Yi concluded that Lei Qing was likely a powerful Thunder Roc with an extraordinary bloodline and wondered whether the fragment’s appearance had been a trap.
• Xin Yi suspected Bai Cangzi had controlled the Baleful Ghost and resolved to investigate him after recovering.
• Xin Yi revealed that she had saved four Thunder Seal Fragments, then used a secret art to suppress the lightning power injuring her soul.

Jiang Chen tracked down Xin Yi and attacked her with heavenly thunder while she was gravely weakened. He destroyed her sword domain and divine soul, leaving Xin Yi dead and her last thoughts with Gu Lingxiao.

• Jiang Chen found Xin Yi beneath a vast sand dune and summoned heavenly thunder with the Purple Lightning Sword.
• Xin Yi tried to evade Jiang Chen’s lightning, but he trapped her in a net of thunder.
• Xin Yi manifested her Purple Mansion’s inner landscape as a sword domain to protect her divine soul.
• Jiang Chen spotted flaws in Xin Yi’s damaged Purple Mansion and cleaved apart her sword domain with a thunderous sword strike.
• Xin Yi recognized Jiang Chen as a Thunder Roc and unleashed her final Golden Sword attack, but Jiang Chen shattered it and destroyed her divine soul.
• Xin Yi recalled her devotion to Gu Lingxiao before her consciousness faded, and she died.

After Xin Yi True Person was killed by Lei Qing of the Thunder Peng Clan, Gu Lingxiao learned of her death and decided to seek an explanation if he went to Azure Firmament Mountain. The Impermanence Sect received True Lord Xuan Qiong’s order to watch the Western Region without acting rashly as Azure Firmament Mountain neared its emergence.

• Gu Lingxiao sensed Xin Yi True Person’s death and used the River-Overturning Banner to view fragments of her battle with Lei Qing.
• Gu Lingxiao considered the risks and rewards of visiting Azure Firmament Mountain, and resolved to pursue the Thunder Peng Clan’s killer if the opportunity arose.
• Gu Lingxiao sent a message through the River-Overturning Banner, then returned his attention to tempering his Gui-Water Sea-Overturning Treasure Body.
• Impermanence Sect’s divine intents discussed Xin Yi’s death and whether to investigate the Western Region.
• True Lord Xuan Qiong decreed that the sect should monitor the Western Region and avoid rash action because Azure Firmament Mountain was about to emerge.

Jiang Chen reforged the Purple Lightning Sword with six Thunder Seal Fragments and devoured Xin Yi’s remnant soul to eliminate the danger of her secrets being exposed. From her memories, he gained insight into several Impermanence Sect techniques and began absorbing the true intent of the Ninefold Ascension to Sainthood Method.

• Jiang Chen had Rat Prodigy use the Gold-Fusing Treasure Furnace to refine six Thunder Seal Fragments into the Purple Lightning Sword, preventing Thunder Peng from tracing them.
• Jiang Chen devoured and refined Xin Yi’s remnant soul, uncovering her memories and cultivated methods.
• Jiang Chen examined Xin Yi’s Ninefold Ascension to Sainthood Method, Golden Centipede Void-Traveling Sword Formula, and incomplete Great White Slaughter-Form Sword Chapter.
• Jiang Chen devoured the true intent of the Ninefold Ascension to Sainthood Method and experienced its transformations.

Lei Qing reforged most of the Ancient Thunder Seal from its scattered fragments, but discovered that one corner was missing. Yun Wuya of the Impermanence Sect then confronted him with the Ten Directions Fire Prison, and Lei Qing fought back using the reforged seal.

• Lei Qing gathered the Thunder Seal Fragments and used a secret art to summon fragments scattered throughout the world.
• Lei Qing used the fragments and the Thunder Roc Clan's core Dao essence to reforge the Ancient Thunder Seal.
• Lei Qing discovered that a corner of the seal was missing and could no longer sense the fragments that had not returned.
• Yun Wuya entered the secret realm using the Formless Sumeru Realm, and Lei Qing recognized him as the Impermanence Sect's sect master.
• Yun Wuya transformed the clouds into the Ten Directions Fire Prison, and Lei Qing used the Ancient Thunder Seal to break the sea of flames, setting off a clash of lightning and fire.