Chapter Summaries

Cui Ciyou tested his Anti-Magic Field against Alice and Ghislaine, learned that their teamwork could overcome him, and decided to seek higher swordsmanship at the Sword Sanctum. He left Ranoa with the two swordswomen and activated an ancient teleportation circle toward their destination.

• Cui Ciyou reflected that the world's strongest fighters relied on physical power and swordsmanship, and that he had taken the seventh rank among the Seven Great Powers as the Nullifier.
• Cui Ciyou defeated Alice in a training bout by suppressing her battle aura and exploiting the opening in her strength.
• Ghislaine and Alice attacked Cui Ciyou together, countered his Anti-Magic Field, and forced him to endure their combined assault.
• Cui Ciyou concluded that he could defeat either swordswoman alone but would lose to them together, so he asked Ghislaine to take him and Alice to the Sword Sanctum to learn techniques beyond Sword King.
• Cui Ciyou settled matters with Roxy and Sylphy, then activated an ancient teleportation circle near Ranoa with Ghislaine and Alice beside him.

Cui Ciyou, Alice Greyrat, and Ghislaine Dedoldia arrived at the Sword Sanctum, where Alice was overwhelmed by its sword intent and Ghislaine returned to her former training ground. Cui Ciyou sought to improve his sword technique so he could gain the power to challenge fate, and the group headed toward the true sanctum across a canyon.

• Cui Ciyou, Alice Greyrat, and Ghislaine Dedoldia arrived by teleportation at the snow-covered northern edge of the Central Continent.
• Alice trembled with excitement as she sensed the Sword Sanctum's powerful sword intent, while Ghislaine reacted solemnly to returning home.
• Ghislaine told Cui Ciyou and Alice that the true sanctum lay across the canyon, and the three set off through the snow.
• Cui Ciyou reflected that he needed to improve his crude sword technique and learn what came after the Sword of Light to prepare for fighting Orsted.
• Cui Ciyou considered how the Sword Sanctum belonged to no nation because the Sword God Style's disciples and the Sword God deterred any would-be invaders.

Cui Ciyou, Ghislaine, and Alice reached the Sword Sanctum after crossing its monster-filled approach, where Cui Ciyou drove off the beasts with Pressure alone. They arrived at a town inhabited entirely by powerful swordsmen, with the Sword God Style Main Dojo at its center.

• Ghislaine explained the Sword Sanctum's importance and led Cui Ciyou and Alice toward the canyon crossing.
• A Sword-Toothed Snow Wolf and dozens of other monsters attacked the travelers in the forest.
• Cui Ciyou used Pressure to terrify the monsters and make them flee without fighting.
• The trio crossed the canyon and traveled through the snowy wilderness for several hours.
• They reached the Sword Sanctum, where Alice stared at the Sword God Style Main Dojo and Cui Ciyou recognized that he had arrived at his destination.

Alice insulted Sword God Gal Farion upon entering the Sword Sanctum, then declared that she intended to cut down Dragon God Orsted. Gal admired her ambition but challenged her to prove she could achieve it.

• Ghislaine brought Cui Ciyou and Alice before Gal Farion and the Sword God Style's disciples.
• Alice refused to show Gal respect and called him trash, provoking the gathered swordsmen.
• Gal silenced the disciples' killing intent and asked Alice who she wanted to cut down.
• Alice named Dragon God Orsted, and Gal laughed, agreeing that he was no better than trash beside Orsted.
• Gal's amusement turned serious as he asked Alice whether she could actually defeat Orsted.

Alice faced the Sword God’s test and defeated Gino in a sudden attack, earning approval from the Sword God and Ghislaine despite the other swordsmen’s outrage. The Sword God then called Nina to fight Alice, this time requiring both fighters to take their positions before the match began.

• Alice calmly told Gal Farion she could endure anything, and he asked her to demonstrate her swordsmanship against Gino.
• As soon as Alice took the wooden sword, she charged Gino before he could prepare, broke his weapon, and knocked him unconscious with a second strike.
• The gathered swordsmen condemned Alice’s ambush, but Gal Farion, Ghislaine, the Sword Emperors, and the Sword Kings understood it as a lesson in staying alert.
• Gal Farion called Nina next and specified that both fighters should take their positions before the match began.
• Nina caught a wooden sword and noticed something about it that made her expression change.

Alice defeated Nina in the arena after Nina attacked with a metal-weighted wooden blade, then challenged the surrounding Sword Saints to fight next.

• Nina took the heavy wooden blade and prepared to kill Alice with the Sword of Light.
• Alice met Nina's strike head-on, breaking her own wooden sword, then punched and kicked Nina before pinning her down.
• Nina surrendered, but Alice knocked her unconscious with more than a dozen punches before the Sword Saints could stop the match.
• Alice discarded Nina's weighted blade, kicked her beside the unconscious Gino, and challenged the Sword Saints to send their next fighter.

Alice defeated Nina despite her broken sword, prompting Gal Farion to challenge her himself. After surviving his overwhelming strike, Alice was recognized as a Sword King and chosen as his student.

• Alice continued fighting Nina with her fists after her sword broke, and Nina submitted.
• Gal Farion praised Alice and challenged her, drawing the magic sword Throat Flute.
• Alice prepared to face Gal Farion, but his strike blasted her through the meeting room and into the courtyard snow.
• The swordsmen assumed Alice was dead or badly injured, but she struggled to rise from the snow.
• Gal Farion ordered Ghislaine to heal Alice, declared her a Sword King, and said he would teach her starting the next day.

Alice defeated two Sword Saints, and Sword God Gal Farion granted her Sword King rank and made her his second direct disciple. After Ghislaine took the injured Alice away, Gal noticed Cui Ciyou, whose unusual sword drew the swordsmen’s attention.

• A senior Sword King objected to Gal granting Alice Sword King rank, but Gal defended his authority and silenced him.
• Gal told Ghislaine to retrieve Alice, and Ghislaine eagerly carried her off for treatment.
• Alice’s brutal victory and promotion left the Sword Saints seething with jealousy, humiliation, and fear.
• Gal dismissed the others as boring, then noticed Cui Ciyou standing unnoticed in the room.
• The Sword Saints turned their anger toward Cui Ciyou and eyed his slender straight sword, which resembled Gal’s Elegant Dragon Sword.

Cui Ciyou faced the Sword Sanctum after Alice’s turn and declared that he had not come to study the Sword God Style. He said he had come to test his sword against Gal Farion, leaving the Sword God laughing at the challenge.

• Sword Sanctum swordsmen mocked Cui Ciyou and blamed Alice and her companions for Gino and Nina’s condition.
• Cui Ciyou stepped into the hall and introduced himself to Gal Farion as a duke from Asura.
• Cui Ciyou said he was neither Ghislaine’s student nor there to become Gal Farion’s student, and added that Alice had not come to learn swordsmanship.
• Cui Ciyou declared that he had come to test his sword, prompting the swordsmen to realize he was challenging Gal Farion.
• Gal Farion laughed at Cui Ciyou’s challenge.

Cui Ciyou provoked Gal Farion by criticizing the Sword God Style and claiming his sword lacked variation, despite having no battle aura or magic power. Gal Farion ordered the two Sword Emperors, Timothy and Raida, to fight Cui Ciyou together.

• Gal Farion approached Cui Ciyou and sensed that he had neither battle aura nor magic power, but seemed like a black hole.
• Cui Ciyou explained that battle aura was only one way to use energy and challenged Gal Farion to define the sword's pinnacle.
• Gal Farion declared that absolute speed was the ultimate sword, embodied by the Sword God Style's Sword of Light.
• Cui Ciyou criticized Gal Farion's sword as too straight and lacking variation, angering the Sword God and his disciples.
• Gal Farion told Timothy and Raida to attack Cui Ciyou together.

Cui Ciyou faced Sword Emperor Timothy Breeze and Sword Emperor Raida at the Sword Sanctum after Gal Farion ordered them to attack together. He used his Anti-Magic Field to evade Timothy's assault and catch Raida's sword between two fingers, declaring that a Sword Emperor was nothing special.

• Timothy Breeze argued that he could handle Cui Ciyou alone, but Gal Farion ordered Timothy and Raida to attack together.
• Timothy unleashed the Sword God Style's Sword of Light while Raida vanished with Dark Step and struck from Cui Ciyou's blind spot.
• Cui Ciyou activated his Anti-Magic Field and stepped through Timothy's barrage after his Battle Aura vanished.
• Raida redirected her Sword of Light toward Cui Ciyou's back, but he used a small Anti-Magic Field and caught her blade between two fingers.
• Cui Ciyou told the Sword Emperors that a Sword Emperor was nothing special.

Cui Ciyou defeated Sword Emperors Raida and Timothy with a single sword strike, revealing unfamiliar techniques that stunned the Sword Sanctum. Sword God Gal Farion recognized him as a worthy opponent, and Timothy revealed that Cui Ciyou held a seat among the Seven Great Powers.

• Cui Ciyou stopped Raida’s sword with his fingers and nullified her battle aura.
• Cui Ciyou drew his sword and broke Raida’s and Timothy’s swords in one strike without using battle aura.
• Cui Ciyou explained that he had used concentrated mental power and sword energy to pierce their weapons.
• Gal Farion became excited by Cui Ciyou’s abilities, called him his opponent, and demanded his name.
• Timothy recognized Cui Ciyou as the Nullifier and told Gal Farion that he held the lowest seat among the Seven Great Powers.

Cui Ciyou revealed that he was the Nullifier, the Last Seat of the Seven Great Powers, after defeating Sword Emperors Timothy Breeze and Raida. He left the Sword God eager to continue fighting after effortlessly deflecting Gal Farion’s lethal strike.

• Timothy Breeze identified Cui Ciyou as the Nullifier and the Last Seat of the Seven Great Powers, stunning the Sword Sanctum swordsmen.
• Cui Ciyou agreed with Gal Farion that North God III depended on the Dragon King Sword, and Gal Farion challenged him to a fight.
• Gal Farion launched God's One Slash at Cui Ciyou, who deflected the attack with a light upward flick of his sword.
• Gal Farion’s redirected strike destroyed a statue and half the Meeting Room, but Cui Ciyou stood unharmed.
• Cui Ciyou told Gal Farion that he commanded his sword rather than merely swinging it, and Gal Farion eagerly called for them to continue.

Cui Ciyou and Gal Farion fought outside the Sword Sanctum, testing their swordsmanship and abilities against each other. The duel left the onlookers stunned as the clearing was battered, while neither fighter had yet used his full strength.

• Cui Ciyou persuaded Gal Farion to move their fight to an open clearing, easing the Sword Sanctum’s concerns about the damage.
• Gal Farion opened with a Sword of Light, but Cui Ciyou used Mental Power Perception and his Anti-Magic Field to blunt the attack and narrowly avoid the blade.
• Cui Ciyou struck the spine of Gal Farion’s sword with concentrated mental power, marking it and learning how much of Gal Farion’s speed depended on battle aura.
• Gal Farion compressed battle aura into a swift thrust, and Cui Ciyou dodged while releasing his Anti-Magic Field in bursts to disrupt it.
• The two continued clashing across the clearing, leaving Timothy, Raida, and the other spectators to realize Cui Ciyou had not fought them seriously.

Cui Ciyou tested his strength against Gal Farion and secured the Sword God's promise to help fight the Dragon God. After six months of training at the Sword Sanctum, Cui Ciyou, Alice, and Ghislaine left for the Northern Territory to find Nanahoshi Shizuka and face Orsted.

• Cui Ciyou fought Gal Farion to a draw, then asked him to help cut down the Dragon God, and Gal Farion agreed.
• Cui Ciyou trained with Sword Emperors Timothy and Raida while Alice and Ghislaine underwent Gal Farion's harsh training.
• Over six months, Cui Ciyou refined his Anti-Magic Field and learned higher-ranked Sword God Style techniques as Alice grew stronger.
• Cui Ciyou and Alice agreed to shoulder his burden together once she became stronger.
• Cui Ciyou, Alice, and Ghislaine left the Sword Sanctum for the Northern Territory to find Nanahoshi Shizuka and see the Dragon God.

Cui Ciyou brought a group of powerful allies to meet Dragon God Orsted and proposed working together against the Human God. Orsted rejected the offer and challenged Cui Ciyou to prove he was worth talking to, leaving the two sides on the verge of battle.

• Cui Ciyou returned to Sharia, arranged a meeting with Orsted through Nanahoshi Shizuka, and gathered Gal Farion, Ghislaine, Alice, and Rujierd as reinforcements.
• Cui Ciyou and his companions reached the abandoned village ruins and found Orsted waiting there.
• Orsted asked Cui Ciyou why he still sought his life despite becoming a noble, defeating the North God, and marrying three wives.
• Cui Ciyou denied that they were Human God's Apostles and said they wanted to discuss dealing with the Human God.
• Orsted attacked with Voice Magic, but Cui Ciyou neutralized it with his Anti-Magic Field.
• Orsted demanded that Cui Ciyou prove he was worth talking to, and Cui Ciyou drew his sword as their allies prepared to fight.

Cui Ciyou and his allies formed up to face Dragon God Orsted, but their first coordinated attack failed to harm him. Cui Ciyou then deployed Magic Nullification, creating an opening in Orsted’s battle aura as the Sword God prepared to strike.

• Gal Farion drew a magic sword, and Alice, Ghislaine, Cui Ciyou, and Rujierd joined him in formation against Orsted.
• Orsted questioned Eris about her connection to Cui Ciyou and concluded that the Human God’s influence was growing.
• Orsted struck Gal Farion, then deflected Ghislaine’s and Alice’s attacks and evaded Rujierd’s spear.
• Cui Ciyou activated Magic Nullification, breaking the flow of Orsted’s battle aura, and Gal Farion called out as he launched the Sword of Light.

Sword God Gal Farion used his secret art, Light Reversal, to sever Dragon God Orsted’s hand, then Cui Ciyou, Alice, Ghislaine, and Rujierd worked together to defeat him. Orsted lay unconscious, and Cui Ciyou reflected on how difficult he had been to bring down.

• Sword God Gal Farion revealed that he had spent twenty years developing Light Reversal to counter Orsted’s Sword of Light.
• Gal Farion severed Orsted’s right hand and knocked away his sword, but Orsted counterattacked with his left palm and badly injured him.
• Cui Ciyou activated Magic Nullification while Alice, Ghislaine, and Rujierd attacked Orsted for three hours.
• Rujierd used Insight to find an opening and pierce Orsted’s left side, allowing Cui Ciyou to strike beneath Orsted’s right collarbone and disable him.
• Orsted fell unconscious, and Cui Ciyou noted that Gal Farion’s strike and the group’s combined efforts had made the victory possible.

Cui Ciyou brought the captured Dragon God Orsted to his mansion and proposed sharing information and resources because they both wanted the Human God dead. Orsted listened and asked how much Cui Ciyou knew about their enemy.

• Cui Ciyou returned to the mansion with Orsted bound in ropes and chains, along with the Sword God, Alice, Ghislaine, and Rujierd.
• Sylphy and Roxy welcomed the group, and Sylphy was surprised that Cui Ciyou had captured the Dragon God after setting out to negotiate.
• Orsted woke, assessed his restraints and the people in the room, then asked Cui Ciyou why he had not killed him.
• Cui Ciyou addressed Orsted by his real name and proposed sharing information and resources, revealing that he also wanted to kill the Human God.
• Orsted showed a mix of hope, hatred, and confusion, then asked how much Cui Ciyou knew about the Human God.