Chapter Summaries

Mo Chen prepared to seek help from the Thousand Sword Pavilion, then fought his way through the rebel blockade around Hongfeng Mountain. After escaping on a captured warhorse, he continued northwest toward Buried Sword Valley.

• Chen Jin gave Mo Chen the Sword Pavilion Token, a sealed letter, maps, and passwords for reaching the Thousand Sword Pavilion, while Huo Yuci warned that the rebels might use villagers against them.
• Mo Chen slipped into the woods during the fourth night watch, but a patrol discovered him and he killed several sentries before they could sound an alarm.
• A second patrol spotted Mo Chen near the rebel camp, forcing him to fight through pursuing soldiers and escape across the tents into the forest.
• Mo Chen evaded arrows and clashed with a cavalry squad, knocking two warhorses down and disabling several riders before taking a horse and fleeing.
• Mo Chen checked the rebel camp from a cliff and rode northwest toward Buried Sword Valley.

Mo Chen rested in Maple Forest Town, where he discovered a spirit stone hidden in a boy’s family heirloom and absorbed its remaining spiritual energy. After treating the boy’s mother and giving the family his horse, Mo Chen left town for the Thousand Sword Pavilion, still recovering his strength.

• Mo Chen reached war-scarred Maple Forest Town and arranged for an inn to feed his exhausted warhorse.
• Mo Chen recognized the boy’s supposed heirloom jade as a Low-Grade Earth Spirit Stone, absorbed its remaining spiritual energy, and exchanged it for a better-looking spirit stone.
• The boy led Mo Chen to his sick mother, and Mo Chen treated her with spiritual power and pills after she returned from scattering coins to borrow years of life.
• Mo Chen gave the family Fasting Pills and the token for his horse, promising to return and cure the mother’s illness more fully.
• After restoring some dharma power and expanding his divine sense, Mo Chen left Maple Forest Town and headed toward the Thousand Sword Pavilion.

Mo Chen reached the Thousand Sword Pavilion with Chen Jin’s token and a letter asking for help against the forces surrounding Hongfeng Mountain. The pavilion master recognized Chen Jin’s token and handwriting, but the suspicious Iron Mask Elder demanded that Mo Chen prove he was Chen Jin’s direct disciple by demonstrating his sword techniques.

• Mo Chen entered the Buried Sword Valley and was stopped by guards, who recognized the Sword Pavilion Token and summoned the pavilion master and elders.
• Ling Yunzhi examined the token and confirmed its imprint belonged to his former master, Chen Jin.
• Mo Chen described the siege at Hongfeng Mountain and presented Chen Jin’s sealed letter requesting the Thousand Sword Pavilion’s aid.
• Ling Yunzhi recognized Chen Jin’s handwriting and became convinced that his master was alive.
• The Iron Mask Elder challenged Mo Chen to demonstrate Chen Jin’s sword techniques to prove he was truly Chen Jin’s direct disciple.

Mo Chen proved to the Thousand Sword Pavilion that he was Chen Jin’s disciple by demonstrating their sword arts and producing Sword Ray, persuading them to send reinforcements to Hongfeng Mountain. As the pavilion’s best disciples rode out under Elder Lie Feng, Mo Chen withdrew to recover his dharma power before joining them.

• Mo Chen demonstrated the Dripping Water Pierces Stone Sword and Startling Swan Illuminates Shadow Sword, convincing Ling Yunzhi and the elders that he had received Chen Jin’s true instruction.
• Mo Chen produced a Sword Ray, and Ling Yunzhi announced that Chen Jin was alive and besieged by rebels at Hongfeng Mountain.
• Ling Yunzhi ordered Elder Lie Feng to lead the pavilion’s strongest disciples and several elders to reinforce Hongfeng Mountain.
• Mo Chen accepted Ling Yunzhi’s offer to rest, then went to a guest room and began replenishing his dharma power.
• Elder Lie Feng led more than seventy Elite Disciples out of Buried Sword Valley toward Hongfeng Mountain.

Mo Chen restored his cultivation at the Thousand Sword Pavilion and flew to Hongfeng Mountain, where he found the surrounding land devastated and the surviving Thousand Sword Pavilion disciples fighting to protect Huo Yuci and Chen Yinshan. The chapter ended as Mo Chen reached the summit and saw the defenders’ formation on the verge of collapse.

• Mo Chen used a Spirit-Gathering Formation and spirit stones to restore his dharma power, reaching the pinnacle of qi refining.
• Mo Chen revealed his ability to fly, shocking Ling Yunzhi and the Thousand Sword Pavilion elders before he set off for Hongfeng Mountain.
• Mo Chen arrived at Hongfeng Mountain and saw the plains littered with corpses as rebel troops attacked the summit.
• Mo Chen found the Respecting Spring and Autumn Tavern destroyed and flew toward the mountaintop to search for his master and his master's wife.
• Elder Lie Feng and the surviving Thousand Sword Pavilion disciples fought desperately to protect Huo Yuci and Chen Yinshan from the rebels.
• Mo Chen reached the summit and saw the bloodied defenders nearing defeat, his fury and killing intent surging.

Chen Jin awakened Divine Sense while shielding Huo Yuci from a poisoned arrow, and Mo Chen established his Foundation Establishment Realm using nearly a hundred thousand spirit stones. Mo Chen temporarily stabilized Chen Jin with Spirit Stone Life Support, routed the rebel army, and carried the survivors toward the Thousand Sword Pavilion.

• A hidden assassin shot a poisoned arrow at Huo Yuci, and Chen Jin took the wound while protecting her.
• Overwhelmed by pain and fury, Chen Jin awakened embryonic Divine Sense and touched the threshold of Foundation Establishment, but his injuries left him near death.
• Mo Chen arrived, broke through to Foundation Establishment by drawing on nearly a hundred thousand spirit stones, and used earth spiritual energy to stabilize Chen Jin's wound.
• Mo Chen unleashed Five Elements Spells against the rebels, routed their army, and discovered that Elder Lie Feng and the other Thousand Sword Pavilion disciples had died.
• Mo Chen carried Chen Jin, Huo Yuci, and the sole surviving disciple toward the Thousand Sword Pavilion, while Chen Jin's life remained dependent on the spirit stones sustaining him.

Chen Jin died after refusing Mo Chen’s attempt to prolong his life, and the Thousand Sword Pavilion mourned him. After honoring his master’s sword legacy, Mo Chen left the story poised to protect Huo Yuci, pursue revenge, and continue his own path.

• Mo Chen brought the gravely wounded Chen Jin to the Thousand Sword Pavilion, where Elder Yao and Mo Chen briefly revived him.
• Chen Jin spoke with Ling Yunzhi, Huo Yuci, and Mo Chen, then ordered Mo Chen to stop sustaining him; Mo Chen obeyed, and Chen Jin died.
• The Thousand Sword Pavilion held Chen Jin’s funeral, where Huo Yuci revealed herself as Princess Jingwen and swore to return to the capital, purge the rebels, and avenge him.
• Mo Chen carved the pavilion’s three sword techniques into the Sword Enlightenment Grotto wall and taught their essence to Ling Yunzhi and the elders.
• Mo Chen visited Chen Jin’s grave, vowed to carry on his master’s legacy and protect Huo Yuci, then left to continue his path alone.