Chapter Summaries

Nie Yun and Thousand Illusions escaped the Origin Heart Sect after setting several of its halls ablaze, then examined books stolen from its library. Nie Yun found the entry on Soul Summoners and learned that the talent ranked eighth, leaving him with new information about his younger brother’s condition.

• Nie Yun and Thousand Illusions set the Origin Heart Sect’s Library Pavilion and several other halls on fire, forcing Sect Master Yuan Tian and the envoy into chaos.
• The pair escaped the sect and met in Nie Yun’s cave mansion, where Thousand Illusions warned that the damaged sect might retaliate against him.
• Nie Yun told Thousand Illusions that the Mishin Sect was pursuing him for his cave mansion, and he vowed to repay the sect himself.
• Thousand Illusions handed Nie Yun the books he had stolen, and Nie Yun found a book titled Detailed Explanation of Special Talents.
• Thousand Illusions described several talent rankings and said the Sword God Sect kept a more complete record.
• Nie Yun read that Soul Summoners ranked eighth among Special Talents and could summon Soul Bodies, call fragmented soul shards, and pull souls from bodies.

Nie Yun learned that the Soul Summoner talent might restore his dead younger brother and heard about the Sword God Sect’s Soul Gathering Lamp. While questioning Thousand Illusions about his past visit to the sect, Nie Yun recognized the woman who had sent him there as Yun Xuan and suspected that Lord Hua was the vanished Mishin Sect leader Mi Hua.

• Nie Yun asked Thousand Illusions about Soul Summoners, and Thousand Illusions said the rare talent might be able to restore the dead.
• Thousand Illusions told Nie Yun about the Sword God Sect’s Soul Gathering Lamp, which could gather souls and resurrect its members.
• Thousand Illusions explained that Yun Xuan had asked him to steal Sword Dao Qi, but four Sword God Sect experts had discovered and pursued him.
• Nie Yun realized that Yun Xuan was the famed Thousand Hand Sword Yun Xuan and suspected she had deceived Thousand Illusions.
• Nie Yun connected Lord Hua to the vanished Mishin Sect leader Mi Hua and realized he might have offended the sect’s most powerful figure.

Nie Yun learned that Mi Hua and Yun Xuan were still alive and that their fates had changed since his previous life. After exchanging gifts with Thousand Illusions, he studied the Buddhist Sect’s Vajra Glazed Body manual, but its cultivation clashed with the Spirit Rhinoceros Body Refining Technique inside him.

• Nie Yun realized Mi Hua and Yun Xuan had not yet disappeared and heard Thousand Illusions explain his love for Yun Xuan and the Sword God Sect’s Sword Dao Heart.
• Thousand Illusions gave Nie Yun the Vajra Glazed Body manual, and Nie Yun returned the gift with a gourd of Creation Spirit Liquid.
• Thousand Illusions left while Nie Yun was drunk, leaving a note about their brotherly bond.
• Nie Yun read that the Vajra Glazed Body required a Wood Life Master and a soul-focused Special Talent, and wondered if a Wood Life Master could revive his younger brother.
• After three days of study, Nie Yun began cultivating the art, but its Buddhist power clashed with his Spirit Rhinoceros Body Refining Technique and left him pale.

Nie Yun cultivated the fourth level of the Diamond Body after the Nameless Art stopped it from clashing with his Spirit Rhinoceros Body Refining Technique, greatly increasing his physical strength. He set out to find his parents and entered Aurora City in disguise, where he chose a teleportation route toward them.

• The Nameless Art suppressed the conflict between Nie Yun's Buddhist and demonic cultivation arts, allowing him to cultivate the Diamond Body to its fourth level.
• Nie Yun's body grew tougher than mid-grade spirit weapons, and the two fourth-level body-refining arts began to complement one another under the Nameless Art's suppression.
• Unable to cultivate the Glazed Soul without a late Spirit-level soul, Nie Yun left Yi Qing meditating in the Purple Splendor Cave Mansion and went to seek his parents before the Mishin Sect found them.
• Nie Yun used his Disguise Master Talent and Earth Walker Master Talent to enter Aurora City, which was under strict Origin Heart Sect surveillance, and located its commercial Teleportation Array.
• Nie Yun learned that the array traveled to Tianbei City, in the direction of his parents, paid the high fee, and prepared to teleport there.

Nie Yun escaped Aurora City through a Teleportation Array after fighting off an Origin Heart Sect elder, then destroyed the array at his destination. In Tianbei City, he killed the array’s greedy Immortal Realm attendants after they attacked him, while the Mishin Sect envoy prepared a trap for his arrival.

• An Origin Heart Sect elder inspected travelers with a Truth-Distinguishing Mirror, and Nie Yun distracted him before attacking and activating the Teleportation Array.
• Nie Yun used Blazing Fire Master talent and Heaven and Earth Immeasurable to force the elder back and teleport away; the Mishin Sect envoy arrived too late and sent a warning to Tianbei City.
• Nie Yun emerged in Tianbei City and destroyed the Teleportation Array, while the envoy’s message revealed that twelve Heavenly Bridge Realm elders had been stationed there to capture him.
• When the array attendants surrounded Nie Yun over the damage, he offered them one thousand High-grade Spirit Stones as compensation, but they attacked him for his wealth.
• Nie Yun fought back with his Profound Jade Sword and killed the Immortal Realm experts who had surrounded him.

After escaping Tianbei City, Nie Yun was struck down by a Heavenly Bridge Realm expert and fled underground using his Earth Walker Master talent. The expert slaughtered hundreds of millions while searching for him, but Nie Yun raced away through the earth as the pursuit continued.

• After killing several Immortal Realm experts, Nie Yun reclaimed his thousand High-grade Spirit Stones and fled Tianbei City.
• A middle-aged Heavenly Bridge Realm expert struck Nie Yun with a sword light, seriously injuring him, then tried to capture him with a mana net.
• Nie Yun escaped underground with Earth Walking Qi, and the expert lifted and shattered a thousand-kilometer stretch of Tianbei City, killing hundreds of millions of people.
• The Heavenly Bridge Realm expert used a secret art to locate Nie Yun underground and pursued him through the earth.
• Nie Yun suspected Mi Hua had sent the expert after him and sped away, confident that his Earth Walker Master talent would let him outrun the pursuer.

Nie Yun tried to escape after Mi Hua sent twelve Heavenly Bridge Realm experts to capture him for the Purple Splendor Cave Mansion. He broke through their first encirclement with Blazing Fire, but the elders formed the Nine Luo Heaven Great Array as his soul began to crack under the strain.

• Two Heavenly Bridge Realm experts pursued Nie Yun underground, and he evaded their attacks while continuing to flee.
• Nie Yun used his Heavenly Eye Talent and discovered that twelve Heavenly Bridge Realm experts had surrounded him.
• He charged through an elder’s rocky barrier by unleashing Blazing Fire Incineration, then escaped the encirclement.
• The elders coordinated their pursuit from underground and the sky, while Nie Yun realized he could not outrun or outmaneuver them indefinitely.
• Remembering his little brother and refusing to die, Nie Yun pushed his will to survive until his soul began to crack.
• The twelve experts activated the Nine Luo Heaven Great Array, and Nie Yun raced to escape its descending boundary but remained just short of its edge.

Nie Yun broke through to the Immortal Realm while escaping the twelve Mishin Sect elders, then lured them into an ocean and poisoned them with Demon Nether Saliva. The poisoned elders attacked him together, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Nie Yun's soul reached the late-stage Spirit level and his cultivation advanced to the Immortal Realm, letting him escape the Nine Luo Heaven Great Array.
• Nie Yun decided to kill his pursuers and prepared two drops of Demon Nether Saliva, but realized he needed open water to poison all twelve elders at once.
• Nie Yun spotted an ocean ahead and, as a Soaring Water Master, changed course while making the elders think he feared entering the water.
• The twelve elders drove Nie Yun into the ocean and surrounded him, where he used Soaring Water Qi to send poisoned currents toward them.
• The elders recognized the Demon Nether Saliva and attacked Nie Yun together as the poison made them dizzy.

Nie Yun escaped the Mishin Sect’s twelve inner cabinet elders by hiding in the Purple Splendor Cave Mansion, then found them dead from Demon Nether Saliva and fled across the ocean. At the Mishin Sect, Mi Hua revealed that Nie Yun possessed the Tianji Sword before learning that all twelve elders had been killed, leaving him to suspect that Nie Yun’s supposed master had intervened.

• Nie Yun hid inside the Purple Splendor Cave Mansion while the twelve elders’ attacks failed to break its seals, then returned to the ocean after they fell silent.
• Nie Yun used his Heavenly Eye to confirm that all twelve elders had died, collected their corpses, and fled across the ocean using Soaring Water Qi.
• A red-browed middle-aged man found the twelve dead elders and sent a message to the Mishin Sect warning that the sect might have provoked a powerful enemy.
• Mi Hua told a subordinate that he had sent the elders after Nie Yun because Nie Yun possessed the Tianji Sword, which could help the Mishin Sect open the Big Dipper Star Mansion.
• A messenger reported that all twelve elders had been killed, and Mi Hua wondered whether a Supreme Elder of the Huayun Sect had acted.

After escaping his pursuers, Nie Yun consolidated his cultivation and accidentally advanced to the half-step Domain Realm. When Yi Qing proudly revealed her own breakthrough, she discovered that Nie Yun had surpassed her again.

• Nie Yun cultivated in a secluded valley and advanced from the early Immortal Realm to the half-step Domain Realm, raising his strength to 7,000,000 elephant-force.
• Nie Yun tried to refine a peak Heavenly Bridge Realm corpse, but lingering Demon Nether Saliva destroyed his Soul Body, so he sealed all twelve corpses.
• Yi Qing woke from cultivation having advanced from the Mana Realm to the peak Primordial Saint Realm, and went to show Nie Yun her progress.
• Yi Qing found Nie Yun sealing the corpses and learned that he had accidentally advanced to the peak Immortal Realm, leaving her stunned.

After sealing the poisoned corpses of twelve Heavenly Bridge Realm experts he had killed, Nie Yun left the Purple Splendor Cave Mansion with Yi Qing and four beasts and traveled to Shuangyu City. There, he learned that rumors had turned him into a celebrated super expert, leaving him worried that the Mishin Sect would intensify its hunt for him.

• Yi Qing discovered the corpses of twelve Heavenly Bridge Realm experts, and Nie Yun said they had hunted him before he killed them.
• Nie Yun warned Yi Qing not to touch the poisonous corpses, then left the Purple Splendor Cave Mansion with her and four beasts.
• Nie Yun used his Heavenly Eye to find a city, and the group traveled by Dragon Bone Divine Boat to Shuangyu City.
• In Shuangyu City, Nie Yun and Yi Qing overheard people praising Nie Yun and repeating rumors about his deeds against the Mishin Sect and Origin Heart Sect.
• Nie Yun realized rival sects had spread the story of the Mishin Sect's losses and feared the publicity would bring more experts after him.

Nie Yun heard rumors about his supposed heroism, then learned that disciples from five great sects were gathering to hunt a poisonous Heavenly Bridge Realm demonfolk. At Tail-Wagging Valley, he tested his skill against a mysterious swordsman who revealed himself as Gongsun Changfeng, his fellow Core Disciple and a famed rival among the eight great sects.

• Nie Yun and his companions heard wildly exaggerated rumors about Nie Yun in Shuangyu City, and Yi Qing teased him as he tried to escape the attention.
• Nie Yun overheard Qingyun Sect disciples discuss a joint demonfolk-hunting mission involving five great sects and learned that their gathering would take place at Tail-Wagging Valley.
• Nie Yun learned from a nearby youth that Tail-Wagging Valley lay east of the city, then noticed the youth's extraordinary sword aura and invited him to drink.
• Nie Yun and the youth displayed precise control over their strength and sword aura while filling their cups, drawing the tavern's attention.
• The youth identified Nie Yun as Gongsun Changfeng and praised his reputation as one of the twin prides among the eight great sects' new Core Disciples.

Nie Yun, disguised as Yun Tong, joined Ye Jianxing on the way to Tail-Wagging Valley, where disciples of the eight great sects had gathered to hunt a Poison Master demonic fiend. After Ye Jianxing warned the gathered disciples about their powerful targets, the group faced the prospect of an imminent contest and dangerous operation.

• Ye Jianxing mistook Nie Yun for Gongsun Changfeng, but Nie Yun introduced himself as Yun Tong, and the two drank together.
• Ye Jianxing invited Nie Yun to Tail-Wagging Valley to hunt a Heavenly Bridge Realm demonic fiend, and Yi Qing insisted on accompanying Nie Yun.
• Nie Yun sent Xiao Feng, Little Tiger, and the other beasts into his Purple Splendor Cave Mansion, then used his Soaring Heaven Steps to keep pace with Ye Jianxing while bringing Yi Qing along.
• Ye Jianxing, Nie Yun, and Yi Qing arrived at Tail-Wagging Valley, where disciples from the eight great sects had gathered, including Huo Yu of the Mishin Sect.
• Ye Jianxing accepted responsibility for arriving late and warned the gathered disciples that their targets included a poisoned Heavenly Bridge Realm expert and seven Domain Realm disciples, led by Yao Chi.

Nie Yun reflected on how his rebirth had altered events surrounding Luoqu Tomb as Ye Jianxing accepted a contest to lead the demonfolk-hunting alliance. The chapter ended with Ye Jianxing and Mo Long beginning their duel on the platform.

• Huo Yu and his supporters proposed choosing an alliance leader through a martial contest, and the Jingtian Sect women backed the idea.
• Ye Jianxing agreed to accept the first challenge, and Mo Long of the Yunxiao Sect stepped onto the platform with his twin iron hooks.
• Watching Ye Jianxing, Nie Yun wondered why he had never heard of him in his previous life and suspected he had vanished during the seven great sects' siege of Lingxiao Peak.
• Nie Yun connected his rebirth and earlier interventions to the demonfolk siege of Luoshui City and the search for the treasure in Luoqu Tomb.
• Mo Long attacked with Silver Hooks, Iron Strokes, and Ye Jianxing countered with the Sky-Breaking Annihilation Supreme Great Sword Art.

Nie Yun watched Ye Jianxing defeat Mo Long and Bai Zhan, gaining insight into his sword arts as the challengers tested their strength against him. Just as Ye Jianxing offered to lead the alliance, Gongsun Changfeng arrived after Huo Yu’s scheme to exhaust him and challenged his standing as one of the Twin Peerless Prodigies.

• Nie Yun gained a deeper understanding of the sword moves Winter Plum Fragrance and Spring Returns to the Earth while observing Ye Jianxing fight Mo Long.
• Ye Jianxing defeated Mo Long with his sword but showed mercy, and Mo Long conceded.
• Bai Zhan challenged Ye Jianxing and was severely injured by his Torrential Pear Blossom Slash.
• Ye Jianxing offered to take the alliance leader position, but Huo Yu insulted the defeated challengers and called Gongsun Changfeng forward.
• Gongsun Changfeng arrived and told Ye Jianxing that his swordsmanship did not deserve to place him alongside him.

Gongsun Changfeng defeated Ye Jianxing in three moves and became alliance leader of the demonfolk campaign, then demanded sweeping control over the alliance and its treasures. When Mo Long tried to withdraw, Huo Yu and Gongsun Changfeng attacked him together and killed him.

• Gongsun Changfeng provoked Ye Jianxing into losing control of his sword heart, then exploited its flaws to wound him with exploding bubbles.
• Gongsun Changfeng blocked Ye Jianxing's next sword strike with a talisman and defeated him with a feint followed by a palm strike that shattered his meridians.
• Ye Jianxing conceded, and Gongsun Changfeng declared himself the sole peerless prodigy before recovering his strength with a medicinal pill.
• Gongsun Changfeng demanded unconditional obedience, the disclosure and surrender of personal treasures, and control over all spoils from the campaign.
• Mo Long rejected Gongsun Changfeng's demands and tried to leave the alliance, but Huo Yu attacked him while Gongsun Changfeng struck him from behind and killed him.

Gongsun Changfeng exposed his plot to force the alliance members into submission, but Nie Yun intervened when Huo Yu threatened him and Yi Qing. Nie Yun killed Huo Yu and knocked Gongsun Changfeng down, leaving the alliance members stunned.

• Gongsun Changfeng killed Mo Long and demanded the alliance members take poisonous pills or die, while Huo Yu ordered Nie Yun and Yi Qing to comply.
• Ye Jianxing offered to submit if Gongsun Changfeng let Nie Yun and Yi Qing leave, but Gongsun Changfeng ordered Huo Yu to kill them.
• Huo Yu threatened Yi Qing, and Nie Yun slapped him down, defeated his Netherworld Ghost Claw, and crushed his head beneath his foot.
• Gongsun Changfeng attacked Nie Yun with Three Yuan Vajra Wave, but Nie Yun blocked it with a palm print and knocked him to the ground.

Nie Yun defeated Gongsun Changfeng with one palm strike, then demonstrated three powerful sword moves to help Ye Jianxing recover from his loss. After crippling Gongsun Changfeng, Nie Yun killed him, while Ye Jianxing watched in awe and fear.

• Nie Yun defeated Gongsun Changfeng with a single palm strike, shocking the onlookers and Ye Jianxing.
• Nie Yun encouraged Ye Jianxing after his defeat and demonstrated the sword move Winter Plum Fragrance.
• Nie Yun followed with Spring Returns to the Earth and Scorching Summer Sun, displaying swordsmanship that surpassed Ye Jianxing's.
• Gongsun Changfeng could not approach through Nie Yun's sword qi, and Nie Yun pierced his energy sea, crippling him.
• Nie Yun killed Gongsun Changfeng to prevent future trouble, and Ye Jianxing realized how vastly Nie Yun had surpassed him.

After killing Gongsun Changfeng, Nie Yun secured the survivors’ silence and helped Ye Jianxing recover his confidence and deepen his sword insight. Once everyone had rested, Nie Yun sent Ye Jianxing to lead them in hunting the demonic Poison Master.

• Nie Yun warned the gathered talents to keep the day’s events secret, and Bai Zhan and the others swore Heavenly Dao Oaths.
• Nie Yun encouraged Ye Jianxing to clear his mind and focus on the sword, prompting him to enter a state of enlightenment.
• After resting until midnight, Ye Jianxing emerged with his sword aura hidden and knelt before Nie Yun to thank him with three kowtows.
• Nie Yun accepted Ye Jianxing’s gratitude and recognized that he had overcome a psychological barrier.
• Nie Yun appointed Ye Jianxing Alliance Leader and told him to lead the group against the demonic Poison Master.

Nie Yun and Ye Jianxing led a group into Tail-Wagging Valley to kill the Poison King, overcoming the poisonous barrier and its defenses on the way. They reached the Poison King’s palace, where the Poison King ordered Yao Cheng to kill Ye Jianxing.

• Ye Jianxing explained that the Poison King had poisoned hundreds of cities and led the group toward his lair with poison-repelling pills.
• Nie Yun gave Yi Qing the Nine Nether Cold Pearl before the group entered the Poison Mist Barrier, where a Mushroom Toxin Tumor killed a Jingtian Sect disciple.
• Yi Qing revealed her Blazing Fire Master Talent and burned the Mushroom Toxin Tumor to ashes.
• Ye Jianxing killed the Poison King's disciples Yao Zi and Yao Lan, and Nie Yun used his Heavenly Eye Talent to guide the group past the valley's formations.
• The group reached the palace and was surrounded by demonfolk, then the Poison King appeared and ordered Yao Cheng to attack Ye Jianxing.