Chapter Summaries

Nie Yun learned that the disappearance of his parents and others was linked to the Heavenly God Society and that a mysterious killer was targeting its members in Guangming City. The killer’s alias, Tiger-head Beast, and body-based sword technique convinced Nie Yun that his younger brother Nie Tong was involved, leaving him worried about the danger Nie Tong faced.

• Nie Yun intimidated the Black Cloud Leopard into serving Tie Lan loyally, then asked her about new developments.
• Tie Lan told Nie Yun that the Heavenly God Society and members of the Demon Race were connected to his family’s disappearance, and that Tu Xin had been an outer member of the society.
• Tie Lan described a series of corpses of Heavenly God Society members and powerful nobles displayed on Guangming City’s walls, which exposed the society to the public.
• Tie Lan said the unknown killer was called something like Tong Yun, rode a Supreme-level Tiger-head Beast, and had evaded capture.
• Nie Yun recognized the clues as pointing to Nie Tong after learning the killer used a thin sword with no true-energy fluctuation, relying on physical strength.

Nie Yun learned that his younger brother might have appeared in the Sacred Empire and decided to travel there with Luo Qingcheng. He returned to the Hundred Flowers Sect to find her breaking through to Qi Grandmaster, but discovered her unusual technique required her to cultivate naked.

• Nie Yun suspected that the person who killed a Supreme in the Sacred Empire was his younger brother, Nie Tong, and decided to go there with Luo Qingcheng.
• Nie Yun returned to the Hundred Flowers Sect and learned from Ya Lian that Luo Qingcheng was attempting to break through to Qi Grandmaster.
• Nie Yun entered Luo Qingcheng's room and recognized that she was cultivating the Hundred Flowers Sect's Way of Hidden Fragrance.
• Nie Yun found Luo Qingcheng naked amid the fragrant mist and turned away, struggling to suppress his reaction as she moaned.

Nie Yun helped Luo Qingcheng break through to peak Qi Grandmaster and learned that her father might be in the Sacred Empire. He gathered his companions and set off with her toward the empire.

• Nie Yun suppressed his attraction to Luo Qingcheng and helped her break through to Qi Grandmaster by supplying spiritual energy.
• Luo Qingcheng advanced to peak Qi Grandmaster, thanked Nie Yun, and agreed to travel to the Sacred Empire to find her father.
• Nie Yun told Luo Qingcheng that she must avoid fighting and said Purple Eye would carry her when needed.
• Nie Yun introduced the Wind Wolf King in human form as Xiao Feng and introduced Luo Qingcheng to the assembled companions.
• Nie Yun put Luo Qingcheng on Purple Eye, then led the group toward the Sacred Empire.

Nie Yun formed a Disguise Dantian and disguised himself and Xiao Feng as demonfolk so they could infiltrate the settlement and loot its treasury. As they followed a crowd of increasingly powerful demonfolk, they learned that an annual offering ceremony was about to begin.

• Xiao Feng and Nie Yun planned to suppress their auras and sneak into the demonfolk lair to find its treasury.
• Nie Yun used his final dantian to form a Disguise Dantian, transforming himself into a demonfolk.
• Nie Yun used Disguise Qi to disguise Xiao Feng, warning that the transformation would last only one hour and would fail if Xiao Feng used his power.
• Nie Yun and Xiao Feng descended into the settlement and followed anxious demonfolk without being questioned.
• Nie Yun realized the demonfolk were gathering for an event, and a demonfolk announced that the annual offering ceremony was about to begin.

Nie Yun and his companions chose the dangerous route through the Purple Jade Mountain Range, where demonfolk gathered, rather than detouring to Guangming City. Nie Yun and Xiao Feng entered the range alone, discovered Empress Ziqiong was absent, and prepared to plunder the demonfolk’s stronghold.

• Bai Huaxiu described the long and short routes to Guangming City, and Mu Qing urged the group to avoid the demonfolk territory of the Purple Jade Mountain Range.
• Nie Yun decided to take the shorter route, confident that he and Xiao Feng could handle the danger.
• After nearly ten days of travel, Nie Yun sent Bai Huaxiu and Mu Qing to wait while he and Xiao Feng flew into the mountain range.
• Nie Yun used his true energy to shield himself from the corrosive demonfolk aura, while Xiao Feng resisted it with his Mystic Realm mana.
• Xiao Feng sensed that Empress Ziqiong was not in the range, and Nie Yun decided to plunder the demonfolk stronghold.

Nie Yun and Xiao Feng arrived at the Purple Jade Mountain Range during its annual tribute ceremony and planned to use the gathering to infiltrate the treasure vault. The ceremony began under strict inspection by Lord Qi Huang, leaving the assembled demonfolk worried about whether their tributes would pass.

• Nie Yun and Xiao Feng followed demonfolk to a palace where demonfolk from across the Qi Sea Continent had gathered for the annual tribute ceremony.
• Xiao Feng explained that regional demonfolk submitted tribute to the Purple Jade Mountain Range in exchange for territory and benefits, and Nie Yun proposed using the ceremony to enter the treasure vault.
• Demon Official argued with two other demonfolk about their tributes and revealed that he had obtained Primordial Spirit Liquid to offer Lord Qi Huang.
• A gray-robed demonfolk warned that Empress Ziqiong was absent and Lord Qi Huang would inspect the tributes, then the palace gates opened.
• A golden-armored demonfolk ordered the regional leaders to submit their tributes for inspection and warned that those who failed would face the blazing sun punishment.

Nie Yun watched the golden-armored guards inspect demons bringing annual tribute, and saw them punish those who failed and kill Yao Feng when he tried to renounce the Purple Jade Mountain Range. After the crowd submitted, a guard stopped Nie Yun and Xiao Feng for looking unfamiliar.

• A Withered Bone Tribe demon passed inspection and entered the hall, while an Iron Arm Tribe demon failed and was hung on the sunlit punishment platform.
• Yao Tian offered a Mid-grade Spirit Stone as annual tribute, and the guards accepted it along with the Demon Official's Primordial Spirit Liquid.
• Yao Yan declared that he renounced the Purple Jade Mountain Range, but the leading golden-armored man killed him with a single golden strike.
• The leading guard threatened the crowd, and the demons continued submitting their annual tributes.
• A golden-armored man stopped Nie Yun and Xiao Feng and questioned why they looked unfamiliar.

Nie Yun and Xiao Feng entered the Purple Jade Mountain Range's Annual Tribute Ceremony after bribing the guards with healing pills. There, Qi Huang tested the gathered demonfolk by making them fight for cultivation pills, while Nie Yun and Xiao Feng quietly took pills without eating them.

• Nie Yun gave the golden-armored guards a gourd of Hundred Spirit Golden Crow Pills, and they let him and Xiao Feng pass.
• Nie Yun identified the hall's Spirit Void Illusory Array and sensed that Qi Huang possessed a Qi Sea Great Perfection soul.
• Qi Huang welcomed the tribute-paying demonfolk and suspended dark-red cultivation pills above them.
• A demon was struck down when he grabbed a pill, but a middle-aged demon blocked its force with eighteen sets of hand seals, swallowed the pill, and gained a dramatic boost in power.
• Nie Yun and Xiao Feng each took a pill and pretended to swallow it, then hid it in their clothes.

After Nie Yun and the other pill-seizers followed Qi Huang to the Purple Jade Mountain Range’s treasure vault, Qi Huang coerced them into capturing people in the Sacred Empire by revealing the pills were poison. Nie Yun recognized his parents, sister, younger brother, and City Lord Luo among the targets, then Qi Huang suddenly attacked him.

• Nie Yun and the surviving demon cultivators followed Qi Huang into the Purple Jade Mountain Range’s treasure vault, where Qi Huang offered each of them a treasure for capturing people in the Sacred Empire.
• Qi Huang explained that he was using outsiders to avoid violating the agreement between the Purple Jade Mountain Range and the Sacred Empire, and threatened the demon cultivators with death if they refused.
• Qi Huang revealed that the pills they had taken were poison that would destroy their Qi Seas within a year without an antidote, forcing them to accept the mission.
• Qi Huang sent the targets’ appearances and soul auras into the demon cultivators’ minds, and Nie Yun recognized his parents, sister, younger brother, and City Lord Luo.
• Qi Huang suddenly formed a massive palm imprint and attacked Nie Yun.

Nie Yun learned that his parents and others were connected to a secret mission, then disguised himself and Xiao Feng to infiltrate Qi Huang’s treasure vault. The vault doors closed behind them as Nie Yun prepared to seize its contents.

• Qi Huang ordered Nie Yun and the other demonfolk to search the Sacred Empire for certain people, while Nie Yun concealed his connection to them and accepted a Demon Race token.
• Nie Yun told Xiao Feng they would leave with the group and return to the treasure vault later, choosing to exploit tensions between the Demon Race and the Sacred Empire rather than attack Qi Huang.
• When other demonfolk proposed working together, Nie Yun and Xiao Feng departed, changed their appearances, and secretly returned to the Purple Jade Mountain Range.
• Nie Yun disguised himself as Qi Huang and Xiao Feng as Qi Huang’s golden-armored attendant, then used his spiritual pressure to make the vault guards open the doors.
• Nie Yun ordered the guards to stand watch and shut himself and Xiao Feng inside the treasure vault, where he reached for the treasures.

Nie Yun and Xiao Feng emptied the Purple Jade Mountain Range treasury, where Nie Yun discovered a Soul Devouring Mirror and broke through to Qi Sea Great Completion while resisting it. As they prepared to leave, they heard a Secret Realm expert outside, and Xiao Feng wondered whether Empress Ziqiong had returned.

• Nie Yun and Xiao Feng gathered nearly all the treasury's treasures and stored them in Nie Yun's Storage Dantian.
• Nie Yun found an ancient mirror whose secret patterns devoured Soul Force and identified it as the Demon Race's Soul Devouring Mirror.
• Nie Yun resisted the mirror's attack, circulated mental power according to the Nameless Art, and broke through to Qi Sea Great Completion.
• Nie Yun decided the mirror's secret patterns might strengthen his Blood Pupil Master's Soul Attack and stored the mirror in his Storage Dantian.
• As Nie Yun and Xiao Feng approached the treasury door, they heard a stern voice outside, and Xiao Feng warned that a Secret Realm expert might be Empress Ziqiong.

Nie Yun and Xiao Feng hid in the Purple Jade Mountain Range treasury as Empress Ziqiong arrived and discovered it had been emptied. After escaping her attack, Nie Yun left Empress Ziqiong convinced that Yao Qi and Huang Chen were responsible, and she attacked Qi Huang when he arrived.

• Nie Yun sensed Empress Ziqiong outside the treasury and hid on the roof with Xiao Feng.
• Empress Ziqiong entered the empty treasury, blamed Yao Qi for the theft, and found Nie Yun and Xiao Feng hiding above her.
• Nie Yun struck Empress Ziqiong's magic-power attack but was wounded and fled with the Wind Wolf King.
• Nie Yun summoned the Ancient Demon Saint Corpse to break Empress Ziqiong's confinement, then escaped with the Wind Wolf King.
• Empress Ziqiong suspected Huang Chen had colluded in the theft and vowed to kill him before Qi Huang arrived.
• Empress Ziqiong attacked Qi Huang with her magic power and smashed him into the mountain wall.

Nie Yun escaped the Purple Jade Mountain Range while Empress Ziqiong and Qi Huang fought, then stopped in a secluded valley to help Luo Qingcheng advance. The chapter ended as he sent divided particles of Primordial Spirit Liquid into her body.

• Empress Ziqiong attacked Qi Huang, and he countered with a Secret Realm talisman, escalating their battle into a deadly clash.
• Nie Yun left the Purple Jade Mountain Range and led Bai Huaxiu and the others toward Guangming City while its defenses were weakened.
• After flying for several days, Nie Yun brought the group to a secluded valley to rest for the night.
• Nie Yun gave Luo Qingcheng Primordial Spirit Liquid to help her break through to the Supreme realm, while Bai Huaxiu prepared to monitor her condition.
• Nie Yun divided a drop of Primordial Spirit Liquid into 723 particles and sent them into Luo Qingcheng's body.

Bai Huaxiu helped Luo Qingcheng break through to Supreme, and Nie Yun shared pills that strengthened the group before they reached Guangming City. Bai Huaxiu revealed that she had once fled the Qianqing Sect to escape a marriage arranged with the Sacred Empire’s emperor, leaving Nie Yun questioning why she wanted Luo Qingcheng to marry Zhao Xingpu.

• Bai Huaxiu guided Luo Qingcheng through a breakthrough to Supreme Peak using Primordial Spirit Liquid and her true qi.
• Nie Yun gave Bai Huaxiu and the others spirit medicines and treasures from the Purple Jade Mountain Range, which they refined overnight.
• Nie Yun went outside the cave and silently vowed to destroy anyone who had harmed his family.
• Bai Huaxiu told Nie Yun that she grew up in Guangming City as a disciple of the Qianqing Sect and had fled after her master arranged her marriage to the Sacred Empire’s emperor.
• Nie Yun asked Bai Huaxiu why she wanted Luo Qingcheng to marry Zhao Xingpu after having been forced into a marriage herself.

After Bai Huaxiu explained why she had let Luo Qingcheng face her own marriage choices, Nie Yun led his companions to Guangming City for the Seven Empires Assembly. At the city gate, a captain challenged Nie Yun’s identity and ordered his group seized when he could not produce an Assembly Jade Slip.

• Bai Huaxiu told Nie Yun she wanted Luo Qingcheng to pursue her own happiness rather than rely on others to arrange it.
• The group rested overnight, and Nie Yun gave Xiao Feng pills that greatly improved his combat strength.
• Nie Yun led the strengthened group toward Guangming City, where Luo Qingcheng continued consolidating her Supreme-level cultivation.
• At the city gate, Bai Huaxiu identified Nie Yun as the Emperor of the Nie Clan Empire, and Ye Xingkong let the group enter.
• A captain demanded Nie Yun’s Assembly Jade Slip, then ordered his men to seize the group when Nie Yun had none.

Nie Yun and his companions reached Dilin Courtyard in Guangming City, where the Fifth Prince tried to bar them from lodging there because Nie Yun lacked the Sacred Empire’s investiture. Nie Yun ignored the prince’s threats and advanced, prompting the Fifth Prince to attack him.

• Mu Xia showed the captain Butterfly Villa’s jade token, and he let the group enter Guangming City.
• Nie Yun and his companions crossed the prosperous city and arrived at Dilin Courtyard, where guards tried to stop them.
• The Fifth Prince recognized Nie Yun and ordered the guards to drive away the ruler of the Nie Clan Empire and his companions.
• Bai Huaxiu protested, but Nie Yun stepped forward and dismissed the Fifth Prince’s threats before telling the group to enter.
• The Fifth Prince ordered Du Shang to form an array and kill them, but Nie Yun appeared in front of him, and the prince unleashed Emperor Fire Burning Heaven.

Nie Yun defeated the Fifth Prince and crippled him in front of the First Prince, who attacked to avenge his brother. The First Prince concealed a sword strike behind his fist and palm feints, leaving Nie Yun facing a sudden killing move.

• Nie Yun easily caught the Fifth Prince and lifted him by the throat, shocking the guards at Dilin Courtyard.
• The First Prince threatened Nie Yun and demanded that he release the Fifth Prince.
• Nie Yun severed the Fifth Prince’s arms and legs and shattered his sea of qi before throwing him aside.
• The First Prince declared that Nie Yun would die and attacked him with Raging Waves Fist.
• Nie Yun seized and broke through the First Prince’s fist force, then evaded his palm strike.
• The First Prince drew a bloodstained longsword and stabbed toward Nie Yun’s throat.

Nie Yun easily survived the First Prince’s Sleeve Sword and subdued him, then followed Elder Bi to meet the Sacred Empire’s emperor and the other nations’ emperors. Bai Huaxiu warned him that the invitation might be a trap, but Nie Yun proceeded confidently.

• The First Prince struck Nie Yun’s neck with his Sleeve Sword, but Nie Yun’s body repelled the Emperor Grade weapon without a mark.
• Nie Yun shattered the sword, seized the First Prince, and threw him aside when Elder Bi arrived and asked him to show mercy.
• The First Prince urged Elder Bi to kill Nie Yun, but Elder Bi struck him and announced the emperor’s order exiling him to herd sheep on Vulture Mountain.
• Elder Bi invited Nie Yun to Jade Flower Hall to meet the Sacred Empire’s emperor and the emperors of five other nations.
• Bai Huaxiu warned Nie Yun that the gathering might be dangerous, but Nie Yun accepted the invitation and followed Elder Bi with his companions.

Nie Yun attended a banquet at the Sacred Empire, where the other empires’ rulers looked down on him and challenged his strength. He crushed Emperor Xuan Cheng, Xuan Lian, and the Shenyu Empire’s experts with one finger, leaving them sprawled on the floor.

• Elder Bi led Nie Yun and his companions to a jade palace, where the Sacred Empire’s emperor welcomed them to a banquet.
• The Sacred Empire’s emperor introduced Nie Yun to the rulers of the other great empires, who treated him with contempt because the Shenfeng Empire was remote and weak.
• Emperor Xuan Cheng challenged Nie Yun to demonstrate his strength, and Xuan Lian insulted Nie Yun and demanded that he spar.
• Emperor Sui Tian mocked Nie Yun as well, so Nie Yun extended one finger and shattered the true energy of the Shenyu Empire’s group.
• Nie Yun’s single-finger strike pressed Emperor Xuan Cheng, Xuan Lian, and the Shenyu Empire’s experts to the ground and tore their clothes.

Nie Yun demonstrated overwhelming strength at the gathering of the seven empires, killing a Heaven Ranking expert with a wine cup. After Emperor Long Xi challenged him with a famed swordsman, the story left the duel about to begin.

• Emperor Ling Tian, Emperor Long Xi, and Emperor Yuan Feng reacted to Nie Yun's defeat of the Shenyu Empire and tested whether he would accept a challenge.
• Nie Yun dismissed Yuan Feng's request and killed a Shenyue Empire youth with a flying wine cup after the youth attacked with the Iron Dragon Secret Palm.
• Yuan Feng recoiled in fear, while Emperor Long Xi challenged Nie Yun to face a subordinate skilled in swordsmanship.
• Sword Emperor Luo Qingshou stepped forward, and the gathered rulers recognized him as the former Heaven Ranking champion renowned for the Azure Faced Gale Sword.