Chapter Summaries

Nie Yun accepted Jing Hong’s challenge and fought him on the Heaven Discussion Platform after both men restored their strength. Their opening exchanges and clashes between Confucian and Buddhist techniques ended evenly, leaving the duel unresolved.

• Nie Yun ignored Zhu Yin and the others’ warnings and accepted Jing Hong’s challenge, hoping to use the fight to improve his strength.
• Nie Yun offered Jing Hong a Saint-grade spirit medicine, but Jing Hong returned it and restored his strength with golden liquid.
• Nie Yun opened the duel with a punch, and Jing Hong met it with Crane's Beak Twig Peck; the two retreated evenly.
• Jing Hong used Gentleman's Three Precepts Palm to restrain Nie Yun, but Nie Yun broke the mental pressure with his Immortal Sound Master Talent.
• Nie Yun countered with Great Mercy Great Compassion Immovable Wisdom King Fist, and the two techniques collided as both fighters retreated evenly again.

Nie Yun exposed the source of Jing Hong’s borrowed power and struck the weakness linking it to Jing Hong’s dharmic power. Driven to his limits by the injury, Jing Hong broke through to the late Void Breaking Realm and launched a stronger attack.

• Nie Yun countered Jing Hong’s Six Virtues Divine Fist with the Maha Divine Palm and Blazing Fire Talent, shattering the attack.
• Jing Hong activated the power of the bones hidden inside his body and struck at Nie Yun with strength beyond his cultivation level.
• Nie Yun used the Divine Thief Talent to discover that Jing Hong had replaced his own bones with the skeleton of a great Confucian scholar.
• Nie Yun evaded Jing Hong’s punch and struck the connection between Jing Hong’s dharmic power and the skeleton’s force, wounding him and breaking his attack.
• Jing Hong used the pressure of the fight to break through six minor levels, reaching the late Void Breaking Realm, then attacked Nie Yun again.

During his fight with Jing Hong, Nie Yun used Origin Energy Dantian Reversal to expel the mana flooding his body, then pushed the Dantian to its limit. It advanced to pale cyan, drawing all the spiritual energy in the Outer Heaven world toward him.

• Jing Hong advanced to the late stage of the Void Breaking Realm and overwhelmed Nie Yun with a powerful palm strike.
• Nie Yun dodged and counterattacked with a fused technique, but Jing Hong injured him and trapped him in a mana cage.
• Jing Hong poured more mana into Nie Yun, whose meridians neared their breaking point as he refused to admit defeat.
• Nie Yun used Origin Energy Dantian Reversal to send the invading mana into the void, but Jing Hong doubled the influx and put him in danger again.
• Nie Yun forced the Origin Energy Dantian to spin faster until it turned pale cyan, shaking the Outer Heaven world and drawing its spiritual energy toward him.

Nie Yun’s Origin Energy Dantian advanced directly to its third form, triggering a Myriad Spirits Assembly that Xia Quan identified as a celebration of a Top Ten Special Talent. As Nie Yun examined his newly gained abilities and other Dantians, he noticed a startling change in one of them.

• Outer Heaven’s spiritual energy gathered into a vast vortex above Yun Feng, and the Grand Elders feared an unprecedented Lightning Tribulation would destroy the sect.
• Xia Quan arrived and explained that the phenomenon was a Myriad Spirits Assembly, marking the advancement of a Top Ten Special Talent rather than a tribulation.
• Nie Yun realized his Origin Energy Dantian had leapt to its third form, allowing him to absorb opponents’ leaked mana and devour attacks no more than twice his strength.
• Nie Yun understood that reversing his Origin Energy Dantian had helped trigger its advancement, and he reviewed the forms of his twenty Dantians and nineteen talents.
• While considering how to advance his remaining Dantians, Nie Yun spotted an astonishing change in one of them and staggered in shock.

Nie Yun’s Origin Energy Dantian advanced, multiplying his combat strength while leaving his cultivation unchanged. He defeated Jing Hong by swallowing and returning Jing Hong’s attack, and Jing Hong conceded.

• Nie Yun discovered that his useless Main Dantian had also reached its third form, then realized the dark clouds were the Great Dao’s congratulations for his Origin Energy Dantian advancing.
• Jing Hong questioned whether Nie Yun had broken through, then resumed their fight confident that his own advance to the late stage of the Void Breaking Realm gave him the advantage.
• The disciples and Grand Elders watched the duel resume, speculating that Yun Feng might possess the Martial Dao Master talent and become Huayun Sect’s rightful Sect Master.
• Jing Hong attacked with the Six Arts Divine Palm, but Nie Yun’s palm vortex swallowed the six mana figures and sent the attack back at him unchanged.
• Nie Yun stopped his fist just before Jing Hong’s face, and Jing Hong admitted defeat and conceded wholeheartedly.

Yun Feng defeated Jing Hong in one move, won the Void Breaking Potential Ranking championship, and gained special treatment from the Huayun Sect. After Jing Hong joined the Fengyun Alliance and became a Grand Elder, Elder Wu Xun offered to empower Yun Feng so he could break through to the Void Breaking Realm.

• Yun Feng defeated Jing Hong with one move, and the disciples and elders marveled at his strength.
• Jing Hong announced that he was joining the Fengyun Alliance, and Yun Feng welcomed him.
• Jing Hong and Liu Ji passed their Lightning Tribulations, after which Elder Wu Xun declared Yun Feng the champion and began the remaining competition.
• Elder Wu Xun congratulated Jing Hong and Liu Ji on becoming Grand Elders and granted Yun Feng access to Huayun Palace and earth-grade techniques.
• Elder Wu Xun offered to empower Yun Feng and help him break through to the Void Breaking Realm.

Nie Yun gained permission to enter Huayun Sect's Stele Forest during the next Space-Time Tide and went with Jing Hong and Liu Ji to explore the Treasury Pavilion. After his companions split up, he searched for an aura that might make the Nameless Art circulate.

• Nie Yun asked to visit the Stele Forest, and Xia Quan agreed that he could enter when the Space-Time Tide arrived within a month.
• Xia Quan sent Nie Yun, Jing Hong, and Liu Ji to the Treasury Pavilion with Elder Wu Xun to find cultivation arts and martial skills.
• Nie Yun persuaded Elder Wu Xun to let the three of them explore the Treasury Pavilion freely for three days.
• Nie Yun reminded Jing Hong that he remained a Fengyun Alliance member after becoming a Grand Elder, while Liu Ji joked that he regretted not joining earlier.
• Nie Yun parted from Jing Hong and Liu Ji and searched the Treasury Pavilion for an aura that could make the Nameless Art circulate.

Nie Yun searched the Huayun Sect treasure vault for items that could activate the Nameless Art, sharing martial-skill insights with Xiao Feng and the other beasts along the way. He found a powerful Azure Dragon Halberd and recognized its savage will as belonging to the Mad Daoist’s Mad Dragon Azure Halberd.

• Nie Yun used the Heavenly Eye and Divine Thief talents to search the treasure vault for valuable items and special auras.
• Nie Yun purified the thoughts within a river of martial skills and sent the resulting experience to Xiao Feng and the other beasts.
• Nie Yun crossed the regions of martial skills and cultivation arts, then searched the weapons and ores area without finding anything that stirred the Nameless Art.
• Nie Yun spotted a dazzling beam of treasure light in a blank space and flew toward its source.
• Nie Yun found the Azure Dragon Halberd and recognized its murderous will as that of the Mad Daoist’s Mad Dragon Azure Halberd.

Nie Yun claimed Mad Daoist’s Mad Dragon Azure Halberd and uncovered the Immortal Martial Sect’s Three Yuan Vajra Wave cultivation method sealed inside it. After easily mastering the technique as a Defense Master, he felt his Defense Dantian transform into pale cyan.

• Nie Yun gained the Mad Dragon Azure Halberd’s recognition and discovered a seal hidden in its shaft.
• Nie Yun broke the seal and found the complete cultivation method for the Three Yuan Vajra Wave.
• Nie Yun realized the technique transformed a Defense Master’s secret patterns into offensive power and was tailor-made for someone with his talent.
• Nie Yun cultivated the Three Yuan Vajra Wave, forming powerful spheres of astral qi and overcoming his weakness in long-range combat.
• As Nie Yun prepared to detonate a sphere, his Defense Dantian trembled and transformed into pale cyan.

Nie Yun left the Huayun Sect’s treasure pavilion after learning that Yun Xuan had returned, then hurried to the Sword God Sect. There he discovered that Yun Xuan had enlisted Chaotic Sky Traces, and he broke through the sect’s defenses to confront her.

• Nie Yun’s Defense Master talent advanced to its third form after he copied the secret patterns, and he stored the Mad Dragon Azure Halberd before continuing his search for a treasure to advance the Nameless Art.
• After three days of searching without success, Nie Yun received a message that Yun Xuan had arrived and returned to the Sword God Sect.
• Nie Yun reached the Sword God Sect and presented the Sect Master’s Seal to four supposed disciples guarding the Qiongtian Zixiao Grand Array.
• Nie Yun spotted the impostors’ attempt to send a secret message, killed all four, and recognized the purple marks identifying them as people from Chaotic Sky Traces.
• Angered that Yun Xuan had colluded with Chaotic Sky Traces, Nie Yun burned the bodies, tore through the array, and flew toward the Sword God Hall.

Yun Xuan returned to Sword God Sect with powerful allies and accused the four Supreme Elders of fabricating charges and installing Nie Yun as Huayun Sect’s puppet. The disciples began to doubt the elders as they failed to produce evidence, and Yun Xuan appealed to the visiting Supreme Elders to vindicate her.

• Yun Xuan confronted the four Supreme Elders and denied desecrating Ancestor Feng Ge or using demonfolk methods to refine Sword God's Sword.
• Yun Xuan claimed Nie Yun’s appointment served Huayun Sect and questioned why he had not appeared before the disciples.
• The disciples began to waver as Yun Xuan and the visiting Supreme Elders challenged the legitimacy of Nie Yun’s appointment and demanded evidence.
• Mi Xue and the other visiting Supreme Elders criticized the red-robed elder and pressed the four elders to produce the Drought Demon and Sword God's Sword.
• Yun Xuan accused the four elders of trying to kill her and asked the visiting Supreme Elders to restore her innocence.

Yun Xuan turned the Sword God Sect disciples against the four Supreme Elders, then defeated and poisoned them when they challenged her. As she threatened to kill Nie Yun if he appeared, he arrived with a massive palm strike aimed at her.

• Yun Xuan accused the four Supreme Elders of colluding with the Huayun Sect and sentenced them to death, offering forgiveness to disciples who submitted to her.
• Elder Red attacked Yun Xuan, but she evaded his sword, poisoned him with Thousand Heart Cold Poison, and forced him and the other three Supreme Elders to kneel.
• Ye Jianxing charged at Yun Xuan, but she shattered his attack and knocked him down.
• Yun Xuan demanded that Elder Red make Nie Yun bring her the Tianquan Sword, threatening to ruin his reputation and deny him entry to the Sacrifice Ground.
• Elder Yellow warned Yun Xuan that Nie Yun would return, and Yun Xuan vowed to kill him if he came.
• Nie Yun's voice rang across the sect as an enormous palm print tore through the air and descended toward Yun Xuan.

Nie Yun returned to the Sword God Sect and used its grand formation to overwhelm Yun Xuan and the other eight experts with one palm. He rejected the Eight Great Sects Alliance’s demand that he surrender his Sect Master position and seal, warning its representatives to stop interfering.

• Yun Xuan used Three Thousand Overlapping Strength to resist Nie Yun’s palm seal, but the seal drove her into the ground.
• Mi Xue and the other experts joined Yun Xuan, yet the Sword God Sect’s grand formation empowered Nie Yun’s attack and knocked all nine down.
• Nie Yun descended before the shocked Sword God Sect disciples, who learned that he had used the grand formation rather than overwhelming personal strength.
• Mi Xue and representatives from two other sects invoked the Eight Great Sects Alliance to declare Nie Yun removed as Sect Master and demand the Sect Master’s Seal.
• Nie Yun refused to let the alliance decide the Sword God Sect’s internal affairs and warned its representatives to keep quiet or leave.

Nie Yun lost control of the Sword God Sect’s protective array after Yun Xuan and the other sects’ Supreme Elders severed his connection to it. When Mi Xue taunted him and dared him to strike, Nie Yun killed him, bringing the confrontation with the six great sects to a deadly point.

• Nie Yun confronted the Supreme Elders of the six great sects, but they used an unknown method to cut off his control of the Sword God Sect’s arrays.
• Nie Yun realized Yun Xuan had likely prepared the countermeasure, while Mi Xue and the other Supreme Elders demanded that he surrender the Sect Master’s Seal.
• Yun Xuan declared she intended to torment Nie Yun for the humiliation he had inflicted on her, and Mi Xue stood between them, daring Nie Yun to attack.
• Red, Yellow, Blue, and Black warned Nie Yun that killing a representative of the six great sects could provoke a disastrous war.
• Mi Xue continued to taunt Nie Yun, who bound him with immense force and smashed his head with a punch.

Nie Yun killed Mi Xue and fought Yun Xuan and two Chaotic Sky Traces experts, using his sword arts and Origin Energy Master Talent to turn Yun Xuan’s strongest attack against her. Yun Xuan escaped his finishing strike with Phoenix Wings, but Nie Yun revealed seven-colored wings of his own.

• Nie Yun killed Mi Xue, and Yun Xuan urged the onlookers to join forces against him.
• Nie Yun attacked Yun Xuan, broke her sword, and drove back two peak Void Breaking Realm experts from the Chaotic Sky Traces.
• Nie Yun used the Origin Energy Master Talent to devour Yun Xuan’s Sky-Breaking Annihilation Supreme Great Sword Art and send it back at her.
• Yun Xuan’s illusion trick failed against Nie Yun, so she used Phoenix Wings to evade his follow-up strike.
• Yun Xuan claimed her Phoenix Wings made her impossible to catch, and Nie Yun revealed a pair of seven-colored wings of his own.

Nie Yun used Phoenix Wings and the Great Mercy Great Compassion Immovable Wisdom King Fist to wound Yun Xuan, then broke the Qiongtian Zixiao Grand Array’s restraints and defeated two peak Void Breaking Realm experts. Yun Xuan escaped when the elders fully activated the array, and after Nie Yun subdued the elders and their allies, his Immortal Sound Dantian advanced to its third form.

• Nie Yun appeared before Yun Xuan with Phoenix Wings and struck her with the Vajra Wrathful Gaze, wounding her as she fled toward the elders.
• The five Supreme Elders activated the Qiongtian Zixiao Grand Array’s Locking Character Formation, but Nie Yun used his Innate Dragon Body to break free and knock down the two Chaotic Sky Traces experts.
• Yun Xuan fled beyond the Sword God Sect’s protective array, while the fully activated formation trapped Nie Yun and stopped his pursuit.
• Nie Yun ignored warnings from Red Robe and the five elders, then used Immortal Sound to knock them and the two fallen experts unconscious.
• Nie Yun stored all seven unconscious men in a flying spirit weapon, and his Immortal Sound Dantian advanced to its third form.

Nie Yun freed Elder Red Robe and the other elders from the poison, ordered a purge of Yun Xuan’s followers, and pursued Yun Xuan into the Space-Time Turbulence. As he caught up, Yun Xuan revealed her hidden backup plan by summoning two spatial passages.

• Nie Yun used his Poison Master Talent to remove the Thousand Heart Cold Poison from Elder Red Robe and the other elders.
• Nie Yun ordered Elder Red Robe and the other elders to kill the sect members who had sided with Yun Xuan, and they began a massacre.
• Nie Yun chased Yun Xuan into the Space-Time Turbulence and used bursts of Three Yuan Vajra Wave to accelerate and close the distance.
• Yun Xuan changed direction and stopped at a chosen location, declaring that she would make it Nie Yun’s grave.
• Yun Xuan shattered two jade tablets and opened two spatial passages, revealing that she had arranged an ambush by two peak Dantian Acupoint Realm experts.

Yun Xuan revealed that her Netherworld Phoenix bloodline had awakened after Nie Yun and Ancestor Xu Yun crippled her, and she ordered two peak Dantian Acupoint Realm demonfolk to kill him. Little Dragon killed both demonfolk with one claw, leaving Yun Xuan to burn her bloodline and summon a seven-colored phoenix as the confrontation continued.

• Yun Xuan summoned two peak Dantian Acupoint Realm demonfolk and ordered them to kill Nie Yun.
• Nie Yun asked why Yun Xuan's strength had once been weak, and she explained that her bloodline awakened after he crippled her and Ancestor Xu Yun destroyed her Sea of Qi.
• The two demonfolk attacked Nie Yun, but he called on Little Dragon, which revealed itself as a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon and killed them with one claw.
• Nie Yun ordered Little Dragon to kill Yun Xuan, who burned her Netherworld Phoenix bloodline and summoned a seven-colored phoenix.

Nie Yun and Little Dragon were swept into a Space-Time Tide after their clash with Yun Xuan, while Mi Hua learned that Nie Yun had killed Mi Xue and captured the other Supreme Elders. Mi Hua prepared to join the arriving sect leaders in an attack, but first decided to head for the Linglong Immortal Sect and Sword God Sect.

• Little Dragon and Yun Xuan's attacks formed a black hole, and both were left gravely weakened as Nie Yun prepared to kill Yun Xuan.
• A Space-Time Tide erupted, forcing Nie Yun to abandon his attack and flee with Little Dragon.
• Little Dragon shielded Nie Yun with its body before falling into a deep sleep, and the tide knocked them both unconscious.
• Mi Lin told Mi Hua that Yun Xuan had failed, Mi Xue was dead, and the other Supreme Elders had been captured by Nie Yun.
• Mi Hua vowed revenge, ordered the plan to attack the Huayun Sect to continue, and said he would first visit the Linglong Immortal Sect and Sword God Sect.
• Mi Jing rushed into the Mishin Sect hall and asked Mi Hua to take her with him.

Mi Jing persuaded Mi Hua to take her along on a dangerous expedition, while the seven great sects gathered at the Sword God Sect to demand its support in attacking the Huayun Sect. Ancestor Xu Yun directed the Sword God Sect to join the alliance without signing its oath, and Mi Hua ordered it to send its elite members.

• Mi Jing persuaded Mi Hua to let her accompany him, and he gave her protective armor and ten strands of Heavenly Movement Qi.
• The red-robed elder reviewed the Sword God Sect's consolidation and worried that Sect Master Nie Yun had been missing for seven days.
• Mi Hua led the allied army of seven great sects to the Sword God Sect and demanded that it join their campaign against the Huayun Sect.
• Ancestor Xu Yun told the red-robed elder to agree to the alliance but say the absent Nie Yun's Sect Master's Seal was unavailable.
• The red-robed elder warned that the Supreme Elders of five allied sects were with Nie Yun, and Mi Hua allowed the Sword God Sect to skip signing the oath but required it to send its elite members.