Chapter Summaries

Fu Yan discovered that the Qingyang Sect had coerced former Ironclad Guards into recruiting Slanting Moon Soldiers and refused to submit, even after Diao Xiong trapped him and Nie Yun in a powerful Formation. Nie Yun intervened when the fight began and struck Diao Xiong down with a single slap.

• Diao Xiong demanded that Fu Yan join the Qingyang Sect, and Fu Yan recognized Gao Xuan, Wang Yi, and Zhou Tao among the sect's enforcers.
• Chu Biao revealed that Fu Yan would be forced to swear a Chaos Oath or have a thought implanted in his soul, while Diao Xiong explained that the Qingyang Sect could prevent him from reporting them.
• Fu Yan urged Nie Yun to escape and alert the Slanting Moon Pavilion, but Diao Xiong activated the Azure Wave Sky-Piercing Formation and blocked their exits.
• Fu Yan refused to submit, and Nie Yun praised his resolve before Nie Tong kicked Chu Biao onto Diao Xiong's table.
• Diao Xiong ordered Gao Xuan, Wang Yi, and Zhou Tao to kill Fu Yan and Nie Yun, but Nie Yun stepped forward and slapped Diao Xiong into the tea table and floor.

Nie Yun and Nie Tong killed Diao Xiong and Chu Biao, freed Gao Xuan and the others, and broke the formation trapping them. After the Slanting Moon Pavilion made destroying the Qingyang Sect an assessment requirement, Nie Yun left with Nie Tong and Little Spirit to attack the sect.

• Nie Yun killed Diao Xiong, and Nie Tong killed Chu Biao and Clan Chief Chu.
• Nie Yun freed Gao Xuan and the others from the formation and had Fu Yan report the Qingyang Sect's crimes to the Slanting Moon Pavilion.
• Fu Yan learned that the Slanting Moon Pavilion had ordered the examinees to destroy the Qingyang Sect as part of their assessment.
• After hearing that the sect's ancestor was a Steel Armor Guard who had comprehended one thousand Great Daos, Nie Yun set off with Nie Tong and Little Spirit to attack the sect.
• Fu Yan worried about Nie Yun's decision, but Gao Xuan urged him to return to the Slanting Moon Pavilion and wait for news.

Nie Yun and Nie Tong attacked Qingyang Sect to seize its treasures, while ancestor Xie Zhen learned that the sect faced a Slanting Moon Pavilion extermination mission. Xie Zhen trapped them in a Formation and struck, but a mysterious longsword pierced his palm before the attack could land.

• Nie Yun and Nie Tong reached Desert Mountain, and Nie Yun decided to attack Qingyang Sect before the other trial participants arrived so he could claim its treasures.
• Nie Yun and Nie Tong killed the mountain-guarding disciples and charged into Qingyang Sect.
• Xie Zhen learned that Diao Xiong's Soul Jade Token had shattered and ordered the sect master to kill the contracted Steel Armor Guards and silence witnesses.
• Nie Yun and Nie Tong entered the council hall, where Xie Zhen offered them two high-grade Chaos Divine Weapons to prove Qingyang Sect innocent.
• Xie Zhen revealed that he had comprehended one thousand two hundred Great Daos and trapped Nie Yun, Nie Tong, and Little Spirit in a Formation.
• A longsword appeared and pierced Xie Zhen's palm as he attacked the trapped group.

Nie Yun defeated Xie Zhen despite the Qingyang Sect patriarch using a soul-burning pill, then pursued him as he fled. Nie Tong stayed behind to cut down the Qingyang Sect members, while Little Spirit realized the trial had revealed two extraordinary fighters.

• Xie Zhen attacked Nie Yun with the Thunder Duke Hammer, but Nie Yun's Zhi Qiu Sword split the hammer and severed Xie Zhen's fingers.
• Xie Zhen swallowed a Ruler Soul Refining Pill to burn his soul and temporarily double his strength.
• Nie Yun used the seventh form of the Moon-Pity Sword, One Sword Cuts Through, to slice off Xie Zhen's shoulder and right arm.
• Xie Zhen fled, and Nie Yun chased after him using his Sky Walker Master Talent.
• Nie Tong cut down Qingyang Sect members who tried to escape, while Little Spirit marveled at the brothers' strength.

Fu Yan sought help from the people in Slanting Moon Pavilion to create a distraction so he could rescue Nie Yun from Qingyang Sect, but they refused out of fear. Nie Yun returned with Xie Zhen’s head and Qingyang Sect’s Sect Master’s Seal, proving he had destroyed the sect, and Fu Yan agreed to report his assessment result.

• Fu Yan offered the crowd a favor in exchange for helping him pressure Qingyang Sect, but they refused because they feared retaliation.
• Fu Yan explained to Gao Xuan that he wanted to disguise volunteers as trial participants to help rescue Nie Yun, and described Xie Zhen’s terrifying strength.
• When the crowd refused to help, Fu Yan resolved to save Nie Yun himself.
• Nie Yun returned and revealed that he had destroyed Qingyang Sect, producing Xie Zhen’s head and the Sect Master’s Seal.
• Gao Xuan confirmed that Qingyang Sect’s destruction had removed the Chaos Oaths binding him and others, while Fu Yan said he would report Nie Yun’s assessment result.
• A messenger confirmed that Qingyang Sect had been destroyed, and the people in the hall regretted missing their chance to befriend Nie Yun.

While waiting for his Slanting Moon Soldier certification, Nie Yun advanced his attempt to fuse his Soul Master Talent with his Martial Dao Master Talent, then traveled with Xu Yao, Shi Hao, and Little Spirit to Dahua City for the Guixu Sea assessment. There, Xu Yao revealed that Guixu Sea was one of the Qianxue Dynasty’s four top forces, and Nie Yun learned the dynasty was vast beyond his expectations.

• Nie Yun ignored the visitors at the Slanting Moon Pavilion and continued working toward fusing his Soul Master Talent with his Martial Dao Master Talent, finding a path that could lead to success within three months.
• Xu Yao and Shi Hao arrived after passing their assessments, and Nie Yun welcomed them as his attendants.
• After receiving their Slanting Moon Soldier badges, Nie Yun decided to take the Guixu Sea assessment and traveled with his companions to Dahua City.
• Xu Yao explained that Guixu Sea was one of the Qianxue Dynasty’s four top forces and that its ancestor had comprehended Two Thousand Seven Hundred Great Daos.
• Xu Yao described the Qianxue Dynasty as an immense territory that could take years to cross by Teleportation Array, leaving Nie Yun wondering whether other dynasties existed.

Nie Yun learned about the four major powers and their extraordinary danger zones while preparing to take the Guixu Sea examination. After catching a thief who tried to steal his Quota Talisman, Nie Yun gave one to Nie Tong, and Xu Yao and Shi Hao asked him to find them talismans too.

• Xu Yao explained how Ashoka King created four danger zones that later became the sites and namesakes of the Qianxue Dynasty’s four major powers.
• Xu Yao described the legends surrounding Guixu Sea, Ten Thousand Peaks Mountain, Ten Autumn Ridge, and Sky-Severing Cliff, and Nie Yun marveled at their strange powers.
• Nie Yun and his companions set out to find lodging while waiting for the Guixu Sea examination.
• A thief who had comprehended the Divine Thief Great Dao bumped into Nie Yun and tried to steal his Quota Talisman, but Nie Yun stole the thief’s talisman instead.
• Nie Yun gave one Quota Talisman to Nie Tong and planned for them to take the examination together.
• Xu Yao and Shi Hao asked Nie Yun to help them obtain Quota Talismans so they could take the examination too.

Nie Yun and his group reached Qingyuan Pavilion after their Quota Talismans directed them to choose residences, and he learned that the choice could affect their priority assessment. The chapter left Nie Yun facing a crowded selection square, with residence ranks tied to disciple strength and fewer rooms than examinees.

• Nie Yun declined to promise that he would help Shi Hao and the other attendant pursue admission to Guixu Sea, and then explored Dahua City with his group.
• Nie Yun and Nie Tong received messages on their Quota Talismans instructing them to choose residences at Qingyuan Pavilion.
• Xu Yao explained that Qingyuan Pavilion's five residence grades likely served as a test, and Shi Hao guided the group there.
• An enforcer told Nie Yun that attendants had to wait outside while examinees chose a residence grade that could not later be changed.
• Nie Yun gave the enforcer treasures for information, and learned that the grades corresponded to disciple ranks and required strengths from Seven Hundred to One Thousand Five Hundred Great Daos.
• The enforcer revealed that Qingyuan Pavilion had only five thousand rooms for the ten thousand Quota Talisman holders, including just thirty Heaven Grade residences.

Nie Yun chose to enter the Earth Grade Zone while Nie Tong went to the Beast Grade Zone, and Nie Yun secretly protected his brother with a Dominator Talisman Seal. After learning how room challenges and the puppet assessment worked, Nie Yun headed to the assessment room.

• Nie Yun chose the Earth Grade Zone, while Nie Tong chose the Beast Grade Zone.
• Nie Yun gave Nie Tong a Dominator Talisman Seal to protect him from opponents below Dominator strength.
• An enforcer escorted Nie Yun through Qingyuan Pavilion to the Earth Grade Zone and explained that he needed to defeat a puppet to challenge rooms No. 91 through No. 100.
• The enforcer explained how occupants could advance by winning room challenges, and how the Top Ten could challenge the Heaven Grade Zone.
• The enforcer told Nie Yun that room occupants' strengths and battle recordings were available for a fee, and Nie Yun entered the Puppet Assessment room.

Nie Yun entered the Earth Grade Zone examination and defeated a powerful puppet with an incomprehensible sword move, then challenged and beat Bei Xu in a direct clash of fists. The observers realized he had hidden his strength as he moved on to challenge Hei Ling.

• Nie Yun faced a puppet with the strength of 1,300 Great Daos and felled it with a single mysterious sword strike.
• Two Guixu Sea elders watched the recording and were shocked that Nie Yun, who seemed to be at the early stage of the Heaven-Slaying Realm, had defeated the puppet.
• Nie Yun challenged Bei Xu, a fighter with 1,350 Great Daos and the Mad Dragon Bloodline, and met his punch with his own fist.
• Bei Xu collapsed with blood pouring from his nose and mouth, and Nie Yun took his courtyard plaque.
• The elders recognized that Nie Yun had hidden his strength, then saw him challenge Hei Ling of Room 81.

Xie Ziyu arrived to challenge Bei Xu, but discovered that Nie Yun had already defeated him and was rapidly climbing the Earth Grade Zone rankings. As Nie Yun continued winning, Xie Ziyu watched in disbelief as his name flickered again, leaving his next challenge unknown.

• Xie Ziyu went to challenge Bei Xu in Room No. 91 and saw that Nie Yun had taken Bei Xu’s place on the Heaven-Connecting Stele.
• Xie Ziyu assumed Nie Yun had been challenged while injured, but the stele showed that Nie Yun had defeated Hei Ling and risen to rank eighty-one.
• Nie Yun challenged again and defeated Lin Chao, who had held rank seventy-one, leaving Xie Ziyu stunned by how quickly he was climbing.
• Nie Yun’s name flickered once more, and Xie Ziyu wondered who he would challenge next.

Nie Tong, known as One Sword Seal Throat, swept through the lower zones and defeated a heavily armored challenger in the Earth Grade Zone with one precise sword strike. After Nie Yun appeared, Nie Tong greeted him as his brother, leaving the crowd stunned.

• Nie Yun stopped challenging after reaching room fifty-one and later became known across the Earth Grade Zone for defeating challengers effortlessly.
• Nie Tong rose from the Beast Grade Zone to first place in the Human Grade Area in fifteen days, earning the nickname One Sword Seal Throat.
• Nie Tong entered the Earth Grade Zone and accepted a challenge from the armored occupant of room ninety-five.
• Nie Tong killed the armored challenger with one strike that pierced the armor's gap and severed its connecting threads.
• Nie Yun arrived, and Nie Tong leaped from the arena to greet him, saying, "Brother, I'm here!"

Nie Yun reunited with Nie Tong in the Earth Grade Zone and learned that his younger brother had awakened a power to control space-time through his sword. After the brothers sparred and discussed their strength, their Quota Talismans signaled that Qingyuan Pavilion’s true assessment was about to begin.

• Nie Tong called Nie Yun his older brother, shocking the Earth Grade Zone after Nie Tong defeated the expert from Room 95.
• In Room 51, Nie Tong told Nie Yun that his swordsmanship let him control the space-time around his blade, and Nie Yun identified the ability as Creator's Power.
• Nie Tong attacked Nie Yun with his sword, but Nie Yun stopped every strike with two fingers and explained that his control of Creator's Power was still weak.
• Nie Tong asked about Nie Yun's strength, and Nie Yun said he was around the level of an expert with One Thousand Four Hundred Great Daos, not One Thousand Five Hundred.
• Nie Yun and Nie Tong's Quota Talismans lit up, signaling that the true assessment was about to begin.

Nie Yun and Nie Tong arrived at the Guixu Sea assessment gathering, where they drew the attention of Yue Zhan, a powerful Heaven Grade Zone expert, and his disciple Mo Chen. After Yue Zhan secretly restrained Nie Yun and Mo Chen tried to slap him, Nie Yun broke free and killed Mo Chen with a kick.

• Nie Yun and Nie Tong went to Qingyuan Pavilion’s central square as the Guixu Sea assessment began.
• The crowd recognized Nie Tong, while Nie Yun noticed Yue Zhan among the nine formidable Heaven Grade Zone participants.
• Nie Tong recognized Mo Chen, the thief who had tried to steal Nie Yun’s Quota Talisman, standing beside Yue Zhan.
• Mo Chen accused Nie Yun of stealing his Quota Talisman, and Yue Zhan ordered him to slap Nie Yun fifty times.
• Yue Zhan secretly immobilized Nie Yun, but Nie Yun used his Soul Master talent to break the restraint.
• Mo Chen swung at Nie Yun, who kicked him in the head and killed him.

Nie Yun killed Mo Chen in front of Yue Zhan, but the Guixu Sea assessment managers arrived before Yue Zhan could retaliate. The Nine Immortals Elder assigned the candidates to sixteen regions and explained the first assessment, leaving them ready to compete for Quota Talismans under strict rules.

• Nie Yun killed Mo Chen, provoking Yue Zhan, who prepared to attack before the assessment managers appeared and forced him to hold back.
• The Nine Immortals Elder introduced himself, warned the candidates to obey the Guixu Sea’s rules, and ordered them to imprint their names and origins on their Quota Talismans.
• Sixteen Heaven-Connecting Steles appeared, and Nie Yun found himself ranked around seventh or eighth on the seventh stele while Nie Tong ranked around twelfth on the last one.
• The Nine Immortals Elder explained that the first assessment would take place in sixteen regions where candidates had to seize Quota Talismans from one another.
• The Nine Immortals Elder forbade weapons, talismans, and storing Quota Talismans in spatial containers, and warned that candidates who broke the rules would be eliminated or killed.

Nine Immortals Elder explained the weapon-free assessment rules and announced how rankings would determine access to disciple assessments. As the contestants prepared to enter their regions, Long Xie targeted Nie Yun and offered ten Quota Talismans to anyone who helped find him.

• Nine Immortals Elder defended the ban on weapons and talismans, set a two-month time limit, and explained how Quota Talismans would determine the contestants’ rankings.
• Nie Tong assured Nie Yun that his Life Sword realm let him fight without a sword, while Nie Yun recognized Yue Zhan’s subordinate as Long Xie, who had comprehended 1,540 Great Daos.
• Nie Tong warned Long Xie against staying close to Yue Zhan, and Long Xie threatened to torture the brothers once they entered the assessment zone.
• Nie Yun dismissed Long Xie’s threats and headed for his Heaven-Connecting Stele, prompting Long Xie to offer ten Quota Talismans to anyone who captured Nie Yun or reported his location.

Nie Yun entered the two-month assessment determined to hide and fuse his Soul Master and Martial Dao Master talents before Long Xie or the other contestants could catch him. After evading a powerful pursuer, he concealed himself, leaving his trackers unable to sense him.

• Long Xie distributed jade talismans so his followers could alert him to Nie Yun's location.
• Nie Yun entered the trial grounds first and discovered that the strong spatial laws prevented flight and limited soul perception.
• A fast Chaos Divine Beast from the Earth Grade Zone pursued Nie Yun and struck at him with lightning.
• Nie Yun used Earth Walker Talent to escape underground, but the pursuer followed with the Great Dao of Earth Walking.
• Nie Yun unleashed Blazing Fire Master Talent to turn the ground into magma, then changed direction and vanished with Concealment Master Talent.

Little Spirit, Shi Hao, and Xu Yao watched the Heaven-Connecting Steles for news of Nie Yun and Nie Tong as their trial rankings shifted. After learning that Nie Yun was hiding from a powerful Bronze Armor General, they feared for his life, but his last-place name suddenly began to move.

• Little Spirit, Shi Hao, and Xu Yao found Nie Yun and Nie Tong on the Heaven-Connecting Steles, initially ranked eighth and tenth in their residence rankings.
• The steles changed to show trial rankings, and Nie Tong climbed while Nie Yun's name stayed still and then steadily fell.
• After fifty days, Shi Hao learned that Nie Yun had angered a Bronze Armor General and had hidden in the trial grounds to avoid being found.
• Little Spirit, Shi Hao, and Xu Yao gave up hope of a high ranking and worried that Nie Yun might not survive.
• Nie Yun's name trembled and began moving up from last place on the Heaven-Connecting Stele.

Guixu Sea elders selected candidates for Core Disciple competition and mocked Elder Han Ling for recommending the last-ranked Nie Yun. The Heaven-Connecting Stele suddenly showed Nie Yun in first place after Long Xie's glow vanished, leaving the elders stunned.

• Nine Immortals Elder asked the elders to choose promising candidates, and they named top-ranked figures including Yue Zhan, Long Xie, and Nie Tong.
• Elder Han Ling recommended Nie Yun, saying that he and Elder Qu Zhou could not understand Nie Yun's powerful swordsmanship despite his poor ranking.
• The elders laughed at Han Ling's recommendation because Nie Yun was in last place and appeared to have obtained no Quota Talismans.
• Nie Yun's quota count began moving, but the violet-robed elder dismissed his small rise as too late to matter.
• The Heaven-Connecting Stele trembled, and Nie Yun shot to first place as Long Xie's glow vanished, stunning the elders.

After fusing the Soul Master, Martial Dao Master, and Origin Energy Master Talents, Nie Yun’s strength rose to the level of an expert with One Thousand Five Hundred Great Daos. He killed two men who tried to capture him for Long Xie, used their jade talisman to summon Long Xie, and waited as Long Xie and his people arrived.

• Nie Yun emerged after fifty days of cultivation, having fused three talents and greatly increased his strength.
• Dong Xu and another man confronted Nie Yun and demanded that he surrender to Long Xie, but Nie Yun killed them both.
• Nie Yun took the Quota Talismans and crushed the jade talisman Long Xie had given out to summon him.
• Xie Tao arrived and warned Nie Yun that Long Xie was coming with several powerful people, but Nie Yun chose to stay and wait.
• Long Xie and several others arrived while Nie Yun was drinking with Xie Tao.