Chapter Summaries

After rescuing his family from the Nie Family’s Black Shadow Guard, Nie Yun hid them in a secluded valley so he could begin the first nirvana of the Nine Revolutions Nirvana Art without interruption.

• Nie Qiang tried to rally Feng Xiao, Yang Yan, and Chen Xing against the City Lord’s Mansion, but Feng Xiao and Yang Yan beat him for insulting Nie Yun, and Chen Xing joined in because he disliked Nie Qiang.
• Nie Yun learned that his mother and siblings had been captured only minutes earlier, so he rode with Nie Xiaotian toward the Nie Family to intercept them.
• Nie Yun spotted the carriage carrying Nie Ling, Little Feng, and Nie Tong, and Little Tiger killed its two Black Shadow Guard escorts.
• Nie Yun reunited with his mother and siblings, then turned the carriage toward the outskirts to avoid the Nie Family’s expected pursuit.
• Nie Yun brought his family to a hidden valley and entered a nearby cave to begin his first nirvana.

Nie Yun cultivated the Nine Revolutions Nirvana Technique in seclusion for ten days, triggering an immense surge of power that alarmed his family. After his cave exploded, he emerged from the dust and greeted his parents.

• Nie Yun began circulating his true qi through the Nine Revolutions Nirvana Technique and entered nirvana.
• Nie Ling worried as Nie Yun went ten days without food or drink, while Nie Xiaotian reassured her and reflected on their son's growing strength.
• Nie Xiaotian, Nie Ling, Nie Xiaofeng, and Nie Tong felt a tremendous aura erupt from Nie Yun's cave as the ground trembled.
• The aura contracted and vanished, then Nie Yun's cave exploded, filling the valley with dust and leaving his family anxious.
• Nie Yun emerged from the dust and greeted Nie Xiaotian and Nie Ling.

Nie Yun emerged from seclusion at the peak of the Gang Forming Realm and gave his father a Heart-Returning Pill to repair his damaged Sea of Qi. As his father began recovering, Nie Yun gave Nie Tong a sword technique and prepared to refine a thousand-year-old Pengxin Snow Lotus, only for Nie Xiaofeng to reveal that she could produce flames herself.

• Nie Yun showed Nie Xiaotian and Nie Ling that he had reached the peak of the Gang Forming Realm, explaining his progress as the result of long accumulation.
• Nie Yun gave Nie Xiaotian a Heart-Returning Pill, and Nie Xiaotian swallowed it and began cultivating while Nie Tong stood guard.
• Nie Yun resolved to repay Nie Tong's loyalty and taught him a Devil Race sword technique suited to someone unable to cultivate his Sea of Qi.
• Nie Ling revealed that she had kept the thousand-year-old Pengxin Snow Lotus, and Nie Yun used Pill Fire to begin refining it.
• Nie Xiaofeng reacted excitedly to Nie Yun's Pill Fire and produced brilliant flames from her own palm.

Nie Yun refined a pill that restored Nie Xiaotian’s strength and pushed him into the Qi Grandmaster Realm, while Nie Haotian tried to persuade the other family patriarchs to oppose the City Lord’s Mansion. The chapter ended with Nie Haotian claiming the dispute concerned how to advance to the Qi Grandmaster Realm.

• Nie Yun discovered that his sister could produce Crimson Flame Pill Fire and promised to send her to study alchemy.
• Nie Yun completed a pill and gave it to Nie Xiaotian, who regained his former strength and broke through to the Qi Grandmaster Realm.
• Nie Xiaotian thanked Nie Yun, and he and Nie Ling shared an emotional reunion.
• Nie Haotian asked the Feng, Chen, and Yang patriarchs to join him against the City Lord’s Mansion, but they refused to interfere.
• Nie Haotian tried again to hold their attention by claiming the matter concerned how to advance to the Qi Grandmaster Realm.

Nie Haotian revealed that he had crippled Nie Xiaotian and Nie Tong to force Nie Xiaotian to reveal a method for advancing to Qi Master, then sought the patriarchs’ help in pressuring the City Lord’s Mansion. He offered to share the method and swore an oath, leaving the other patriarchs to decide whether to trust him.

• The patriarchs reacted eagerly when Nie Haotian claimed he knew how to obtain a method for reaching Qi Master.
• Nie Haotian revealed that Nie Xiaotian possessed the method and admitted that he had drugged him, shattered his qi sea, and arranged for a snake to petrify Nie Tong’s legs.
• Nie Haotian confessed that he had also killed Nie Xiaotian’s brothers and wanted to use Nie Yun to threaten his father.
• The patriarchs realized that Nie Haotian had targeted Nie Yun because of his father’s secret and questioned why they should risk offending the City Lord’s Mansion without a guarantee.
• Nie Haotian swore a dreadful oath that he would share the method if he obtained it, then waited for the patriarchs’ response.

Nie Yun learned that Nie Haotian had crippled Nie Xiaotian to force him to reveal the location of the Luoqu Tomb, a hidden tomb holding the secret to reaching the Qi Master Realm. After the family patriarchs agreed to target the City Lord's Mansion and the Nie branch, Nie Yun and his father prepared to confront the Nie Family.

• Yang Tiecheng agreed to Nie Haotian's plan, but Yang Yan defied his father, killed two Nie Family elders who blocked his way, and left the hall.
• Feng Tianxing and Chen Tongsheng also agreed, while Feng Xiao and Chen Xing rejected their fathers' decisions and departed.
• The patriarchs continued discussing how to pressure the City Lord's Mansion and force Nie Yun and Nie Xiaotian to reveal themselves.
• Nie Xiaotian told Nie Yun that Nie Haotian had damaged his sea of qi and harmed their branch to learn the location of the Luoqu Tomb.
• Nie Yun declared that he and Nie Xiaotian would leave to make the Nie Family pay, while the rest of the family stayed to cultivate.

Feng Xiao, Yang Yan, and Chen Xing warned Nie Yun that the Four Great Families had united against him and that Nie Qiang was forcing Luo Qingcheng to marry him as bait. Enraged, Nie Yun headed for the City Lord’s Mansion, where three peak Forming Astral Realm experts ambushed him and were immediately killed.

• Feng Xiao and Yang Yan discussed how the Four Great Families had joined forces against Nie Yun and hoped to warn him away from Luoshui City.
• Chen Xing arrived and revealed that Nie Qiang had assembled Forming Astral Realm elders to hunt Nie Yun.
• Nie Yun and Nie Xiaotian arrived on Little Tiger, and Yang Yan explained the alliance, Nie Qiang’s rise in power, and the planned wedding to Luo Qingcheng.
• After hearing that Luo Qingcheng was being forced to marry Nie Qiang, Nie Yun vowed that Nie Qiang must die and rode toward the City Lord’s Mansion.
• Three peak Forming Astral Realm experts ambushed Nie Yun, but all three soon fell dead.

Nie Yun learned that the Four Great Families had caused his branch’s ruin and stormed the City Lord’s Mansion to confront Nie Qiang. After rescuing Luo Qingcheng from immediate danger, he faced the assembled elders and began fighting them.

• Yang Yan, Feng Xiao, and Chen Xing found three peak Forming Gang Realm experts dead and realized Nie Yun had become far stronger than they could match.
• Nie Yun remembered how the Four Great Families had destroyed his branch in his previous life and rode Little Tiger toward the City Lord’s Mansion.
• Nie Qiang pressured Luo Qingcheng to accept him, then plotted to use a Thousand Desire Flower on her with Nie Liu.
• Nie Yun killed Nie Liu with one blow and arrived before Nie Qiang, while guards and elders gathered around them.
• Nie Yun saw that Luo Qingcheng was unharmed and demanded that the elders die or hand over Nie Qiang.
• The elders refused to yield, so Nie Yun attacked them.

Nie Yun slaughtered the elders and followers who had sided with Nie Qiang, then confronted and killed Nie Qiang after rejecting his pleas for mercy. The chapter ended with Nie Yun stopping Nie Qiang from self-destructing by snapping his neck.

• Nie Yun killed Feng Longqian and the elders who tried to attack him, using his strengthened body to shatter their weapons and heads.
• The remaining fighters panicked and tried to flee, but Nie Yun and Little Tiger pursued and killed them.
• Nie Qiang vomited at the sight of the slaughter, then attacked Nie Yun with Three Waves of the Yangtze River.
• Nie Yun broke through Nie Qiang's defense and grabbed his throat, dismissing his pleas based on their kinship and his promises to do anything.
• Nie Qiang tried to detonate his sea of qi, but Nie Yun snapped his neck before he could self-destruct.

Nie Yun and Nie Xiaotian confronted the Four Great Families after Nie Yun sent Nie Qiang’s head to the Nie Family Council Hall. The chapter ended with Nie Yun revealing that Nie Haotian’s guards had already been killed, leaving the family heads facing him directly.

• Nie Haotian proposed luring Nie Yun into a trap by announcing Nie Qiang and Luo Qingcheng’s marriage, with desecrating Nie Tian’s grave as a last resort.
• A guard delivered a gift box to Nie Haotian, who opened it and found Nie Qiang’s head inside.
• Nie Yun, Nie Xiaotian, Feng Xiao, Yang Yan, and Chen Xing entered the hall, and Feng Tianlong and Chen Tongsheng called for their sons to leave them.
• Chen Xing stood by Nie Yun, who told him he would let him take Chen Tongsheng’s position as family head.
• Nie Haotian ordered his men to seize Nie Yun, but Nie Yun revealed that his loyal subordinates had all been killed as their corpses were thrown into the hall.

Nie Xiaotian revealed himself as a Qi Grandmaster and killed Nie Haotian with one slap after the three allied clan heads turned against him. As Nie Yun prepared to punish the clan heads, the supposedly dead Nie Haotian rose again and drained the life from them.

• Nie Haotian discovered the bodies of his son and clan members, then challenged Nie Yun and Nie Xiaotian.
• Nie Xiaotian revealed his Qi Grandmaster aura, shocking Nie Haotian and the three allied clan heads.
• Feng Tianxing, Chen Tongsheng, and Yang Tiecheng pretended to join Nie Haotian, then attacked and captured him for Nie Xiaotian.
• Nie Xiaotian killed Nie Haotian with a slap, while Nie Yun decided to spare the three clan heads because their allies pleaded for them.
• Nie Yun sensed danger and retreated with Nie Xiaotian and Feng Xiao's group as the supposedly dead Nie Haotian rose and drained the three clan heads' strength, killing them.

Nie Yun recognized that a demon spirit had possessed Nie Haotian and led the others in driving it from the body. The demon spirit escaped, warning that the Demon Race of Two Realms Mountain would attack Luoshui City in one month.

• Nie Yun identified the resurrection of Nie Haotian as Demon Spirit Possession and warned that the demon spirit was nearing the Qi Master Realm.
• Nie Yun attacked the possessed Nie Haotian with Eight Trigrams Cloud Palm, and Nie Xiaotian, Yang Yan, Chen Xing, and Feng Xiao joined the fight.
• Nie Yun used the Blood Character Great Golden Curse to force the demon spirit out of Nie Haotian's body.
• The demon spirit escaped and threatened to make Luoshui City hell when the Demon Race of Two Realms Mountain descended in one month.
• Nie Yun recovered from the curse's exhaustion and worried that Luoshui City's calamity was only a month away.

Nie Yun worried that powerful Demon Race forces would soon threaten Luoshui City and urged the Four Great Families to unite while he went to meet City Lord Luo Zhanhao. At the City Lord's Mansion, Luo Zhanhao discussed special dantians and asked Nie Yun why Luo Qingcheng had been hunted by the demons.

• Nie Yun concluded that the Demon Race's powerful bloodlines could command a vast army, so he urged the Four Great Families to prepare and told Nie Xiaotian to take control of the Nie Family.
• Nie Yun rode Little Tiger to the City Lord's Mansion to hear Luo Zhanhao's information about the Demon Race.
• Luo Qingcheng asked Luo Zhanhao how Nie Yun had advanced so quickly, and Luo Zhanhao called him a dragon among men.
• Luo Zhanhao recognized Nie Yun's Beast Taming Dantian and described other special dantians, including Healing, Skyward, Storage, and Defense Dantians.
• Luo Zhanhao told Nie Yun that the Four Great Families' patriarchs also knew about special dantians, then asked why Luo Qingcheng had been hunted by the Demon Race.

Luo Zhanhao revealed that Luo Qingcheng’s perfect ancestral bloodline could open Luoqu Tomb, whose location had been lost, and explained that he feared a new Demon Race invasion. Nie Yun said his father had already become a Qi Grandmaster and claimed he knew someone who could find the tomb, leaving Luo Zhanhao stunned.

• Luo Zhanhao explained that his ancestor Luoqu had hidden treasures and a great secret in a sealed tomb, which Luo Qingcheng could open with her matching bloodline.
• Luo Zhanhao said the Demon Race had learned of Luo Qingcheng’s bloodline and that he feared they would invade Luoshui City again.
• Luo Zhanhao admitted he had hoped Nie Yun would take Luo Qingcheng away and care for her if he died.
• Nie Yun told Luo Zhanhao that Nie Xiaotian had become a Qi Grandmaster and promised to teach Luo Zhanhao a breakthrough method.
• Nie Yun said someone knew where Luoqu Tomb was and could find it.

Nie Yun told Luo Zhanhao that Luoqu Tomb held a method for fighting the Demon Race, but revealed that the Four Great Families' patriarchs had been killed and a demon spirit had possessed Nie Haotian. After sharing the Qi Master Realm breakthrough method, Nie Yun left to ask his father for Luoqu Tomb's location.

• Nie Yun explained that his father had obtained the Qi Master Realm breakthrough method from Luoqu Tomb, and Luo Zhanhao resolved to unite the Four Great Families against the Demon Race.
• Nie Yun revealed that Nie Haotian, Feng Tianxing, Chen Tongsheng, and Yang Tiecheng were dead, then recounted how a demon spirit had possessed Nie Haotian.
• Luo Zhanhao realized the Demon Race might be watching Luoqu Tomb, and questioned how Nie Yun had learned a secret method to harm the possessed Nie Haotian.
• Nie Yun explained that his master had taught him the secret method, while Luo Zhanhao again spoke of entrusting Luo Qingcheng to him and Nie Yun recalled someone from his past life.
• Nie Yun taught Luo Zhanhao the method for breaking through to the Qi Master Realm, then left on Little Tiger to ask Nie Xiaotian for Luoqu Tomb's exact location.

Nie Yun discovered that the Crimson Tail Devil Snake venom had petrified Nie Tong’s legs and set out to capture an Azure Nightmare Centipede for an antidote. While waiting in the back mountain, he encountered two young Weapon Armor Realm men, including the Tracking Master Luo Yu, who spotted Little Tiger.

• Nie Yun returned to the Nie Family and heard the guards celebrating his rise, then shared a warm moment with his family.
• Nie Xiaotian showed Nie Yun the family’s secret chamber and the Crimson Tail Devil Snakes that Nie Haotian had used to poison Nie Tong.
• Nie Yun realized he could refine a Crimson Tail Fossil Pill to cure Nie Tong and went to the back mountain to find an Azure Nightmare Centipede.
• Nie Yun used two dead roosters as bait in a damp valley and waited for the centipede to arrive.
• Luo Yu and Luo Chen approached, and Luo Yu spotted Little Tiger and exclaimed that they had found a prize.

Nie Yun followed Luo Yu and Luo Chen as they pursued Little Tiger to the valley where he had found and melted the Fish Intestine Short Sword. The two recovered the remains of their Uncle Luo Yan and planned to track down his killer, while Nie Yun tried to leave—until Little Tiger’s parents roared from the valley.

• Nie Yun ordered Little Tiger to flee, but Luo Yu marked it with his Tracking Dantian and pursued it with Luo Chen.
• Nie Yun followed them to Little Tiger’s old den, where Luo Yu and Luo Chen searched for the Fish Intestine Short Sword.
• Luo Yu and Luo Chen found Uncle Luo Yan’s skeleton at the bottom of the pond and recovered the sword’s hilt.
• Luo Yu and Luo Chen decided to find the person who killed Luo Yan and obtain his backpack and news of the Seven Swords.
• Nie Yun prepared to leave, but Little Tiger’s parents roared from within the valley, revealing that they had encountered Luo Yu and Luo Chen.

Nie Yun rushed to save Little Tiger and its parents from Luo Yu and Luo Chen, who had attacked the three Tiger-head Beasts. Unable to face both powerful fighters directly, he used the Nameless Art to project the aura of a Supreme expert and confronted them as a hidden senior.

• Nie Yun heard Little Tiger roar, realized it had gone to see its parents, and hurried toward the cave with his face covered.
• Luo Yu attacked the male Tiger-head Beast with the Marquis Clan high-grade martial skill Thunderous Fire, breaking its front paws but taking injuries himself.
• Luo Chen overwhelmed Little Tiger while the female Tiger-head Beast shielded her son and suffered heavy wounds.
• Nie Yun saw the three Tiger-head Beasts injured and realized he could not fight Luo Yu and Luo Chen together.
• Nie Yun circulated the Nameless Art from hiding, filling the cave with the aura of a Supreme expert and stopping the fight.
• Luo Chen and Luo Yu pleaded for forgiveness, and Nie Yun's disguised voice accused them of harming his Demon Pet.

Nie Yun used a bluff and his memories of Luo Tianxiang to drive away Luo Chen and Luo Yu after they injured the Tiger-head Beasts. Once they left, Nie Yun discovered that the beasts’ injuries were fatal.

• Luo Chen and Luo Yu offered money, pills, and treasures to the unseen expert, then invoked their grandfather Luo Tianxiang’s name.
• The aged voice recognized Luo Tianxiang and mentioned his lingering leg ailment, convincing the two descendants that the expert knew their ancestor.
• The voice spared Luo Chen and Luo Yu, and they fled toward Luoshui City, planning to find a family to extort and tell Luo Tianxiang what had happened.
• Nie Yun revealed that he had used his spiritual power and memories from his previous life to impersonate a powerful expert and frighten the pair away.
• Little Tiger calmed its parents, but Nie Yun saw that both Tiger-head Beasts had shattered bones and organs and could not be saved.

After Luo Chen and Luo Yu grievously wounded the Tiger-head Beasts, the parents gave all their essence blood to Little Tiger and died. Nie Yun awoke from unconsciousness with his cultivation advanced to the Weapon Armor Realm, then saw something about Little Tiger that shocked him.

• Nie Yun promised the dying male Tiger-head Beast that he would care for Little Tiger.
• The male and female Tiger-head Beasts gave their essence blood to Little Tiger, then collapsed and died as Little Tiger fell asleep.
• Nie Yun also lost consciousness, then awoke and realized he had advanced to the initial stage of the Weapon Armor Realm.
• Nie Yun concluded that his new strength would let him defeat Luo Chen and Luo Yu, even if they fought together.
• Nie Yun looked toward Little Tiger and was shocked by what he saw.