Chapter Summaries

Mo Yun and his companions kept the Chen Family’s demon crisis quiet while Chen Sihai explained how Chen Guangyao had aided demons in capturing transforming force martial artists. After handing the case over to the Five Elements Sect, Mo Yun and his companions headed back to the sect with He Wuyi eager for their promised bonus rewards.

• He Wuyi struggled to believe Mo Yun had killed five peak third-tier demons, and Lin Qingxue urged him to keep Mo Yun’s strength secret.
• Mo Yun told Chen Sihai that the Five Elements Sect would investigate the Chen Family, then heard how Chen Guangyao had helped Black Serpent capture martial artists and imprisoned Chen Sihai.
• Chen Sihai revealed that Mo Yun had accepted his help mission before Chen Guangyao could cancel it, prompting He Wuyi to question whether Mo Yun’s involvement was really coincidence.
• The next day, Mo Yun and his companions handed the case over to Five Elements Sect disciples and boarded White Crane for the return journey.
• He Wuyi celebrated the promised bonus rewards and begged Mo Yun to take him along on future sect missions.

After earning generous rewards for the Chen Family mission, Mo Yun returned to training and received another gift from the grateful family. Several days later, he had accumulated enough black points to advance the Demon-Subduing Scripture: True Essence Chapter.

• Mo Yun and Lin Qingxue declined He Wuyi’s invitation to celebrate and returned to the sect to cultivate.
• Mo Yun planned to visit the Blade Saint at the Blade Tower and invited Lin Qingxue to come with him.
• At the Logistics Courtyard, Mo Yun and Lin Qingxue each received ten thousand merit points, and Lin Qingxue gave Mo Yun her ten Origin Crystals.
• Chen Ping’an visited Mo Yun and presented him with a hundred Origin Crystals on behalf of the Chen Family.
• After several days of training, Mo Yun reached 109 black points and prepared to test the Black-and-White Seal’s limits.

Mo Yun spent ten days in secluded cultivation and broke through to late transforming force, then used white points to improve his life and perception. He assessed his strengthened body and faster martial arts progress before checking the cost of advancing toward peak transforming force.

• Mo Yun used 108 black points to advance the Demon-Subduing Scripture: True Essence Chapter and began cultivating toward late transforming force.
• After ten days, Mo Yun condensed 360 drops of true essence, reached late transforming force, and saw his constitution and defense rise sharply.
• Mo Yun tested his strength and concluded that he could likely defeat the horned white snake with ease.
• Mo Yun spent ten white points on life, raising his life value to 49 and improving his perception and comprehension.
• Mo Yun practiced his martial arts, estimated how long they would take to advance, and checked the black-point cost of breaking through to peak transforming force.

After finishing his seclusion, Mo Yun calculated how he could gather enough black points and set out with Lin Qingxue to visit the senior Blade Saint. They arrived at the Blade Tower’s peak with Golden Spirit Fruits that Lin Qingxue had prepared, and Mo Yun learned the peak had been carved into its blade-like shape by the senior Blade Saint.

• Mo Yun discovered his improved cultivation let him absorb about ten origin crystals a day and worked out that his remaining resources could help him reach peak transforming force.
• Mo Yun ended his seclusion and invited Lin Qingxue to visit the senior Blade Saint at the Blade Tower.
• Lin Qingxue brought twelve Golden Spirit Fruits she had bought with her merit points, and she told Mo Yun they did not need to draw such clear lines between them.
• Mo Yun and Lin Qingxue traveled to the Blade Tower, where Lin Qingxue explained that the senior Blade Saint had carved the peak into its blade-like shape with one slash more than three hundred years earlier.

Mo Yun and Lin Qingxue climbed the steps to the Blade Tower, where the growing blade intent tested their bodies and minds. Mo Yun discovered his Turtle-Breathing Art could ease the effects, while Lin Qingxue showed signs of being compatible with the tower’s dangerous Blade Dao inheritance; they eventually reached the summit platform and saw the nine-story tower.

• Lin Qingxue explained that the Blade Saint’s slash had carved the smooth steps and that climbers had to ascend slowly to adapt to the blade intent and blade momentum.
• Mo Yun felt the tower’s pressure after several hundred steps, then used the Turtle-Breathing Art and life essence to dispel his discomfort.
• Mo Yun noticed that Lin Qingxue seemed comfortable under the blade intent, and she said the sharp sensation felt pleasant to her.
• Mo Yun suggested Lin Qingxue might have a special constitution compatible with the Blade Tower’s inheritance and warned her that pursuing it could cost her life and Dao.
• After nearly an hour of climbing, Mo Yun and Lin Qingxue reached the summit platform and saw a nine-story tower.

Mo Yun and Lin Qingxue visited the Blade Tower to see the Blade Saint, but learned he had been in seclusion for half a month. The Blade Tower’s eldest senior sister urged them to test their Blade Dao talent, and as Mo Yun prepared to leave, Lin Qingxue decided she wanted to try.

• Xu Wei trained at the foot of the Blade Tower and froze when Mo Yun arrived.
• The Blade Tower’s eldest senior sister told Mo Yun and Lin Qingxue that the Blade Saint was in seclusion and accepted their Golden Spirit Fruit.
• The eldest senior sister invited Mo Yun and Lin Qingxue to test their Blade Dao talent, while Xu Wei regained his confidence after hearing Mo Yun was not there to join the Blade Tower.
• Mo Yun declined the test and started to leave, but Lin Qingxue stayed behind and said she wanted to try.

Mo Yun resisted Liu Xiyan’s attempts to recruit him to the Blade Tower until she offered him thirty origin crystals to take the ancient-blade resonance test. Lin Qingxue quickly resonated with two blades, leaving Liu Xiyan determined to keep both junior disciples at the sect.

• Liu Xiyan urged Mo Yun to test his Blade Dao talent, but he refused and explained that his martial art let him endure the Blade Tower’s pressure.
• Lin Qingxue resonated with the first ancient blade in fewer than a hundred breaths, and Liu Xiyan celebrated her talent.
• Liu Xiyan questioned whether Mo Yun had perfected his Visualization Method, and he told her he had only recently begun cultivating it.
• Mo Yun agreed to take the test in exchange for Liu Xiyan’s thirty origin crystals, provided she honored the offer even if he resonated with no blades.
• Lin Qingxue resonated with a second ancient blade, and Liu Xiyan resolved not to let either her or Mo Yun leave.

At the Blade Tower, Lin Qingxue resonated with the Ancient Blades at an astonishing pace, alarming Mo Yun and Liu Xiyan. As Xu Wei arrived and realized someone had surpassed his talent, Lin Qingxue reached the fifth blade, leaving Liu Xiyan wondering whether she might reach the seventh.

• Liu Xiyan gave Mo Yun thirty Origin Crystals in exchange for his promise to test his Blade Dao talent, and Mo Yun accepted them.
• Lin Qingxue rapidly resonated with the third and fourth Ancient Blades, prompting Liu Xiyan to predict she could reach the sixth or even the seventh.
• Xu Wei rushed to the Testing Plaza after seeing the bursts of blade light and feared Mo Yun had surpassed him again, but learned Lin Qingxue was taking the test.
• Mo Yun asked Xu Wei if he was mute, and Xu Wei silently resented the jab.
• Lin Qingxue resonated with the fifth Ancient Blade in just two hundred and fifty breaths, and Liu Xiyan wondered if she could reach the seventh.

Mo Yun learned that Blade Tower cultivation was painful but safe for gifted cultivators unless they attempted the deadly Life-and-Death Trial, while wondering about its risks and a Blade Saint’s shorter lifespan. Lin Qingxue resonated perfectly with the sixth Ancient Blade and began awakening the seventh, leaving Liu Xiyan hopeful for the Blade Tower’s revival and Xu Wei shaken by comparison.

• Mo Yun pressed Liu Xiyan about the dangers of the Blade Tower Inheritance, and she explained the pain of cultivation, the risks of the Life-and-Death Trial, and the Blade Tower’s decline.
• Liu Xiyan revealed that Blade Saints had shorter lifespans than Martial Saints, and Mo Yun decided to tell Lin Qingxue what he had learned.
• Lin Qingxue resonated perfectly with the sixth Ancient Blade in about three hundred and fifty breaths, stunning Liu Xiyan, Mo Yun, and Xu Wei.
• As Lin Qingxue approached the seventh Ancient Blade, Xu Wei doubted his own talent but resolved to prove himself against Mo Yun.
• The seventh Ancient Blade slowly began to glow as Lin Qingxue reached it.

Lin Qingxue discovered her Blade Dao talent was greater than the Grandmaster Ancestor’s and agreed to transfer to the Blade Tower. Mo Yun then began his own test, and the chapter left Liu Xiyan stunned as multiple Ancient Blades lit up in rapid succession.

• The seventh Ancient Blade resonated with Lin Qingxue and shone to about seventy percent, astonishing Liu Xiyan.
• Liu Xiyan begged Lin Qingxue to join the Blade Tower and promised she could become a Blade Saint with the Grandmaster Ancestor’s support.
• Lin Qingxue agreed to transfer, explaining to Mo Yun that she wanted to develop her Blade Dao as the gap between their Martial Dao abilities grew.
• Liu Xiyan remembered that Mo Yun had not yet taken the test and urged him to try the Ancient Blades.
• The first Ancient Blade lit up for Mo Yun, followed in quick succession by the second, third, and fourth.

Mo Yun’s astonishing speed in resonating with the Ancient Blades stunned Liu Xiyan and Lin Qingxue as he reached the seventh blade, matching the Blade Tower’s historic record. Just as they hoped he would attempt the eighth, he turned around and walked back, leaving them bewildered.

• Mo Yun resonated with the fifth and sixth Ancient Blades in quick succession, while Lin Qingxue reflected on his remarkable talents across multiple disciplines.
• Liu Xiyan announced that Mo Yun had begun resonating with the seventh Ancient Blade and speculated that he might reach all nine.
• Xu Wei, discouraged by Mo Yun’s talent, said he wanted to leave the Blade Tower and return to the Fire Lineage; he then discovered Liu Xiyan had also resonated with six blades and accused her of lying.
• Liu Xiyan privately admitted she had exaggerated Xu Wei’s prospects to keep him at the Blade Tower, while hoping Mo Yun and Lin Qingxue would make that unnecessary.
• The seventh Ancient Blade fully lit up, matching the Blade Tower’s greatest recorded achievement, but Mo Yun turned away before attempting the eighth.

Mo Yun finished the Ancient Blade test after resonating with seven blades, then refused Liu Xiyan’s invitation to join the Blade Tower and uncovered clues that the blades held an Origin Returning Blade Canon inheritance. As he left, the tower’s Grandmaster Ancestor called him to the top for a chat.

• Mo Yun told Liu Xiyan that he had failed to resonate with the eighth Ancient Blade, and she concluded that seven blades were humanity’s limit.
• Liu Xiyan tried to bring Mo Yun to complete the discipleship ceremony, but he declined and explained his strength and training in the Metal Lineage’s Legacy Martial Arts.
• Mo Yun realized that he deciphered the Ancient Blade inscriptions rather than resonating with them normally, and his Virtual Panel recorded the incomplete Origin Returning Blade Canon.
• Mo Yun declined to attend the Rite Hall, said goodbye to Lin Qingxue, and started down the mountain.
• The Grandmaster Ancestor called Mo Yun to the top of the tower, surprising him and Liu Xiyan.

Mo Yun met the Blade Saint, learned that Gravel Province martial artists faced unusual barriers to cultivation, and questioned whether a flaw in the Blade Tower inheritance had left the old man near death. The Blade Saint welcomed him to return to the Tower, while Mo Yun remained determined to pursue the Martial Dao first.

• Mo Yun met the aged Blade Saint, who said that perfect resonance with seven Ancient Blades made Mo Yun equal to the Tower Master and urged him to join the Blade Tower.
• Mo Yun declined for now, explaining that he wanted to focus on martial cultivation and would reconsider after learning more about the inheritance.
• The Blade Saint recognized Mo Yun as a fellow martial artist from Gravel Province because their divine souls were different, and explained that Gravel Province natives struggled to reach Core Condensation and Primordial Unity.
• The Blade Saint recalled that an invisible barrier had blocked his own cultivation at peak transforming force, before his Blade Dao talent led him to the Blade Tower and a shortened life.
• Mo Yun asked why Gravel Province was different, and the Blade Saint said he did not know whether the cause was a flaw in the Great Dao or interference by powerful beings in the Primordial Era.
• Mo Yun asked whether the Blade Tower inheritance had caused the Blade Saint's condition.

Mo Yun learned that the Blade Tower Inheritance granted immense power but shortened its practitioners’ lives, and that the Blade Saint had survived nearly four centuries through the Turtle-Breathing Art. After the Blade Saint gave Mo Yun a new Blade Talisman by sacrificing his remaining Primordial Spirit Light, Mo Yun left the Blade Tower vowing to resolve the inheritance’s flaw.

• The Blade Saint explained that the Blade Tower Inheritance damaged the soul and reduced a blade cultivator’s lifespan to about three hundred years, but said he had no regrets about his path.
• The Blade Saint revealed that he had perfected the Turtle-Breathing Art to extend his life, and Mo Yun recognized the art as one he had also cultivated.
• The Blade Saint recalled obtaining the Turtle-Breathing Art from a small sect in Gravel Province and leaving it a Blade Dao inheritance, which Mo Yun suspected was the Chaos Blade Sect.
• Mo Yun explained why he had come, and the Blade Saint recognized that his earlier Blade Talisman had brought Mo Yun to the tower.
• The Blade Saint drew out his remaining Primordial Spirit Light and infused it into a jade pendant, giving Mo Yun a new Blade Talisman at the cost of much of his remaining lifespan.
• The Blade Saint sent Mo Yun from the tower, and Mo Yun vowed to resolve the flaw in the Blade Tower Inheritance.

Mo Yun received a powerful Blade Talisman, took a pill-refining mission, and advanced his Pill Dao to the third grade while continuing to seek a cure for the Blade Tower Inheritance’s flaw. After raising his Life value to 50, he headed to collect his origin crystal allowance, where an unfamiliar woman approached him.

• Mo Yun obtained a newly condensed Blade Talisman that he believed might be powerful enough to threaten a weaker Martial Saint, then left the Blade Tower determined to resolve its inheritance flaw for Lin Qingxue’s sake.
• Mo Yun found no Demon-Slaying missions and accepted a ten-day pill-refining assistance mission at the Pill Dao Institute for three thousand merit points.
• During the following days, Mo Yun helped refine pills, advanced his Pill Dao to the third grade, and taught Lin Qingxue the Turtle-Breathing Art to help extend her lifespan.
• Mo Yun spent a newly condensed white point on Life, raising his Life value to 50.
• The next morning, Mo Yun went to collect his origin crystal allowance, but a beautiful woman in a white dress stopped him and asked if he was Mo Yun.

Mo Yun received origin crystals from Bai Zhi on Lin Qingxue’s behalf, then perfected the True Essence Chapter and began transforming his true essence. The breakthrough produced forty white points, and Mo Yun considered using them to understand the inscriptions on the nine Ancient Blades.

• Bai Zhi introduced herself as the Blade Tower’s master, gave Mo Yun origin crystals from Lin Qingxue, and urged him to visit the Blade Tower.
• Mo Yun collected another hundred origin crystals from the Logistics Courtyard and spent the following days cultivating, completing an Alchemy Assistance task, and reading in the Library.
• After saving 360 black points, Mo Yun used them to perfect the True Essence Chapter.
• Mo Yun circulated the perfected art, causing his 360 drops of true essence to split and evolve toward a sea of true essence.
• Mo Yun saw that the breakthrough had produced forty white points and prepared to test the Black-and-White Seal’s limits.

After increasing his life value to 90, Mo Yun found his martial arts and cultivation advancing rapidly and prepared to visit the Blade Tower. He encountered Chu Qian near his residence, then bought Golden Spirit Fruits and headed to the tower the next morning.

• Mo Yun raised his life value from 50 to 90, practiced his martial arts, and estimated that several techniques would soon break through.
• Mo Yun worried about the cultivation barrier to core condensation but decided it should not stop him.
• Mo Yun encountered Chu Qian, who had moved into Lin Qingxue’s former courtyard, and ignored her; Chu Qian decided to keep her distance from him.
• Mo Yun went to the Dining Hall, where outer sect disciples recognized him as a Top A-Grade entrant but misremembered his name as “Mo-something Fish.”
• The next morning, Mo Yun exchanged merit points for twenty-two Golden Spirit Fruits and hurried toward the Blade Tower.

Mo Yun visited the Blade Tower, gave Liu Xiyan and Lin Qingxue Golden Spirit Fruits, and learned how the tower preserved its disciples’ consciousness through their blades. After studying the eighth Ancient Blade, he discovered that the first seven parts of the Origin Returning Blade Canon lacked its fundamental method, and the chapter ended as the eighth blade blazed with light.

• Mo Yun gave Liu Xiyan a Golden Spirit Fruit, and she explained how the Blade Tower’s blades preserved the consciousness of past disciples and strengthened its field domain.
• Mo Yun found Lin Qingxue beneath the second Ancient Blade and gave her twenty Golden Spirit Fruits for her cultivation.
• Mo Yun went to study the eighth Ancient Blade and received a complex inheritance inscription that revealed the first seven Ancient Blades lacked the Origin Returning Blade Canon’s fundamental method.
• The eighth Ancient Blade trembled and erupted in silvery-white light, startling Lin Qingxue.

Mo Yun perfectly resonated with the eighth Ancient Blade, astonishing the Blade Tower’s disciples and elders, but he could not yet resonate with the ninth. Bai Zhi urged him to switch to the Blade Tower lineage, just as the tower’s secluded elder also called for him to join.

• Lin Qingxue and Liu Xiyan witnessed the eighth Ancient Blade light up and realized Mo Yun had perfectly resonated with it.
• Bai Zhi arrived, confirmed Mo Yun’s achievement, and celebrated that he had broken every Blade Tower record.
• Mo Yun tried to resonate with the ninth Ancient Blade but failed, deciding he needed more Life Value before trying again.
• Lin Qingxue, Liu Xiyan, and Bai Zhi confronted Mo Yun, and he denied hiding his abilities.
• Bai Zhi urged Mo Yun to join the Blade Tower and threatened to cleave Xiao Changfeng in two if he refused to let Mo Yun switch lineages.
• An aged voice from the tower called on Mo Yun to stop practicing martial arts and join the Blade Tower lineage.

Mo Yun cultivated in seclusion and broke through the Body-Guarding Art, Black Tiger Leap, and White Tiger Slaughter, then spent white points to raise his life value above one hundred. After two more days of training, he sensed that his cultivation had broken through, leaving him poised for a new stage.

• Mo Yun refused the Blade Tower's invitations and spent several days alternating between martial arts practice, Pill Dao study, and visits to the Library.
• The Body-Guarding Art reached pure mastery, improving Mo Yun's defenses and granting him a damage-reflection effect.
• Black Tiger Leap reached pure mastery, allowing Mo Yun to flash roughly three hundred feet into the air.
• White Tiger Slaughter reached minor accomplishment, and Mo Yun's Virtual Panel showed his cultivation at late transforming force and sixteen new white points.
• Mo Yun used all sixteen white points to raise his life value to 106 and decided to visit the Blade Tower after his cultivation advanced.
• After two more days of training, Mo Yun sensed that his cultivation had broken through.