Chapter Summaries

Nie Yun competed against Liu Yuan for the treasures, allowing Liu Yuan to land blows while carrying the heavy Profound Jade Sword. He ended the fight by shattering the martial platform with Mountain River Momentum and kicking Liu Yuan off it.

• Nie Yun agreed to a martial contest with Liu Yuan, and Liu Jifei and the crowd added their treasures to Liu Chengze's stakes.
• Liu Jifei led everyone to the martial platform, where Liu Yuan displayed his Falling Flower Chasing Wind Steps and drew the crowd's praise.
• Liu Yuan darted around Nie Yun and struck him while Nie Yun struggled to move quickly with the Profound Jade Sword on his back.
• Nie Yun drew the Profound Jade Sword and used Mountain River Momentum to smash the platform into rubble.
• Nie Yun kicked Liu Yuan off the shattered platform.

Nie Yun defeated Liu Yuan, claimed the wager, and left the City Lord’s Mansion with Tie Lan. After returning to the mercenary group branch, he said goodbye to Tie Lan and departed Jibei City with his three Demon Pets to continue his journey.

• Nie Yun shattered the martial arts platform with the Profound Jade Sword and kicked Liu Yuan off it, winning their match.
• Liu Jifei struggled to lift the sword, learned it weighed thirteen thousand four hundred and twenty-four jin, and decided not to provoke Nie Yun or the Tie Yan Mercenary Group.
• Liu Jifei handed Nie Yun the wager, and Nie Yun stored the items in his Storage Dantian.
• Liu Yuan urged his uncle to kill Nie Yun and take his treasures, but Liu Jifei ordered Liu Chengze to take him away and discipline him.
• Nie Yun returned to the mercenary group branch, told Tie Lan he was leaving Jibei City, and departed with his three Demon Pets.

After Nie Yun left Jibei City, Liu Chengze and Liu Yuan went to the rear mountain to enlist the Man in Hemp Clothes in their effort to take the Petrified Sarcoma from him. The Man in Hemp Clothes set off to find Nie Yun, leaving Liu Chengze terrified and waiting for news.

• Liu Yuan complained that Nie Yun had taken their treasures, but Liu Chengze warned him not to provoke the Tie Yan Mercenary Group.
• A servant reported that Nie Yun had left Jibei City and gone to the rear mountain, prompting Liu Chengze and Liu Yuan to seek help from the Man in Hemp Clothes.
• Liu Chengze told the Man in Hemp Clothes that Nie Yun possessed the Petrified Sarcoma and had insulted him after refusing to trade it.
• The Man in Hemp Clothes demanded Nie Yun's description and whereabouts, then vanished to pursue him.
• After the Man in Hemp Clothes left, Liu Chengze collapsed, drenched in cold sweat.

Nie Yun encountered a Man in Hemp Clothes who demanded the Petrified Sarcoma and challenged him to a fight. The two Supreme experts fought to a standstill, while Black Rock, Purple Eye, and the Wind Wolf King watched from hiding.

• Nie Yun searched for a breakthrough beyond Mountain River Momentum and considered how his treasures could help his family and his body refinement.
• The Man in Hemp Clothes confronted Nie Yun and demanded the Petrified Sarcoma, threatening to kill him if he refused.
• Nie Yun circulated his true qi, rose into the air, and revealed that he was also a Supreme expert.
• The Man in Hemp Clothes attacked, and Nie Yun answered with a punch and the Great Meteor Fist Technique as the two exchanged powerful blows.
• Black Rock, Purple Eye, and the Wind Wolf King watched as Nie Yun and the Man in Hemp Clothes fought through more than a hundred exchanges without either gaining the upper hand.

Nie Yun and the Man in Hemp Clothes exchanged self-created sword techniques in a fierce battle. After struggling against the man’s second move, Nie Yun gained an insight into the earth’s power and struck him into a distant cliff.

• The Man in Hemp Clothes and Nie Yun drew their swords and boasted about their self-created techniques and weapons.
• The Man in Hemp Clothes attacked with Falling Stars Filling the Sky, and Nie Yun met it with Mountain River Momentum; their collision devastated the area and left Nie Yun slightly injured.
• The Man in Hemp Clothes announced his second technique, Shining Heaven, and unleashed a concentrated attack that restrained Nie Yun.
• Nie Yun remembered the people he could not leave behind, glimpsed the earth, and realized its weight surpassed that of mountains and rivers.
• Nie Yun swung the Profound Jade Sword with the power of the earth and sent the Man in Hemp Clothes crashing into a distant cliff, splitting the mountain.

Nie Yun created Earthly Momentum after surviving the Man in Hemp Clothes' powerful attack, then flew to Jibei City to deal with Liu Chengze. The Man in Hemp Clothes returned injured and admitted Nie Yun had beaten him, leaving Liu Chengze and Liu Yuan terrified and fleeing.

• Nie Yun used Earthly Momentum to withstand the Man in Hemp Clothes' Shining Heaven and force him to retreat, then consolidated the new technique until morning.
• Nie Yun decided to kill Liu Chengze before pursuing the Ning King and flew toward Jibei City.
• Liu Chengze and Liu Yuan celebrated, believing the Man in Hemp Clothes had killed Nie Yun and would give them his treasures.
• The Man in Hemp Clothes returned injured, drove Liu Chengze away, and vowed to surpass Nie Yun after praising his sword art.
• Liu Chengze and Liu Yuan realized they had targeted a Supreme expert and fled toward Jibei City to hide.

Nie Yun followed Liu Chengze and his son Liu Yuan into a hidden underground chamber beneath the alchemy room, where they prepared to flee and steal their most valuable possessions. He discovered their trove of pills and herbs, then learned that Liu Chengze had preserved medicinal Essence Qi that could extend a person’s life.

• Nie Yun overheard Liu Chengze tell Liu Yuan they would abandon Liu Yuan’s mother and sister as decoys before escaping through a secret passage.
• Liu Chengze moved the pill furnace aside to reveal the passage, and Nie Yun secretly followed the father and son underground.
• Liu Yuan found shelves filled with hundreds of varieties of pills and precious herbs, while Liu Chengze selected a handful of medicines for their escape.
• Liu Chengze opened a second hidden chamber and showed Liu Yuan a golden gourd containing Essence Qi, which he said could add at least five years to a person’s lifespan.

Nie Yun killed Liu Chengze and Liu Yuan, seized their treasures, and used Essence Qi to strengthen his body. After gaining resistance to demonic possession and poison, he tried to open the black orb from the Luoqu Tomb.

• Nie Yun took the gourd of Essence Qi and killed Liu Chengze and Liu Yuan when they begged for mercy.
• Nie Yun collected the medicinal pills, herbs, gold, silver, jewels, and banknotes from the hidden chamber.
• Nie Yun absorbed the Essence Qi and strengthened his muscles and internal organs, though the third layer of the Spirit Rhinoceros Body Refining Technique did not reach major completion.
• Nie Yun realized the elemental essence in his body could repel demonic qi, prevent demon spirits from possessing him, and make him immune to poison.
• Nie Yun poured his true qi and physical strength into the black orb from the Luoqu Tomb, causing it to glow and respond.

After leaving the Liu Estate’s hidden passage, Nie Yun headed toward the Ning King and crossed paths with a mercenary party near Two Realms Mountain. The mercenaries later discovered that the youth and his three beasts had apparently wiped out every demonfolk stronghold there.

• Nie Yun failed to awaken the pearl, left the secret chamber, and found Black Rock and the other beasts before setting out toward the Ning King.
• A party of mercenaries entered the outskirts of Two Realms Mountain to search for a Purple Yan Fruit that could save their employer’s daughter.
• The mercenaries met Nie Yun leaving the mountain with three demonic beasts, and he said its demonfolk were all dead that day.
• After Nie Yun vanished into the fog, the mercenaries pressed on and found the mountain’s summit cut flat, its buildings ruined, and its demonfolk dead.

After slaughtering the demonfolk on Two Realms Mountain and killing Ning King, Nie Yun collected immense wealth and thirty-two spirit stones. With his cultivation stabilized at the Supreme level, he headed home to Luoshui City to reunite with his family.

• Nie Yun followed his senses to Two Realms Mountain, where Ning King had regained consciousness and sent demonfolk to surround him.
• Nie Yun and his three Demon Pets killed Ning King, two Supreme-level demonfolk, and every other demonfolk on the mountain.
• Nie Yun seized demon cores, vast riches, weapons, and thirty-two spirit stones from the demonfolk.
• Nie Yun reflected on his family’s progress and looked forward to seeing his father, younger brother, sister, and mother again.
• Nie Yun flew toward Luoshui City with his three Demon Pets.

Nie Yun returned to Luoshui City and discovered that the Nie Family had been attacked and his relatives had vanished. He found Yang Yan and Feng Xiao trapped by a group of powerful men in black, who also intended to capture them.

• Nie Yun entered Luoshui City with his three Demon Pets, and the crowd reacted fearfully when they recognized him.
• Nie Yun reached the deserted Nie Family estate and defeated two masked attackers who ambushed him at the gate.
• Yang Yan and Feng Xiao searched the discussion hall after learning that men in black had attacked the Nie Family and that Nie Xiaotian and the others had disappeared.
• Seven or eight men in black emerged in the hall and used their Qi Grandmaster power to force Yang Yan and Feng Xiao to their knees.
• The leader in black declared that Yang Yan and Feng Xiao would stay there, then overwhelmed them before they could resist.

A group of black-clad Qi Grandmasters cornered Yang Yan and Feng Xiao and demanded to know what they had taken from the Luoqu Tomb and where Nie Yun was. As Yang Yan faced death rather than betray Nie Yun, Nie Yun arrived at the hall.

• The black-clad leader forced Yang Yan and Feng Xiao to their knees and threatened their families unless they revealed the Luoqu Tomb's treasures.
• Yang Yan and Feng Xiao broke free and attacked, but the peak Qi Grandmaster subdued them with ease.
• The black-clad leader crushed Yang Yan's arms and demanded Nie Yun's whereabouts, but Yang Yan insisted he did not know.
• The leader pinned Yang Yan beneath his foot until Yang Yan believed he was about to die and thought of how he had failed Nie Yun.
• The hall doors burst inward, and Nie Yun entered, announcing that the men had no need to question Yang Yan because he was there.

Nie Yun confronted the masked men who had captured his family and demanded the treasure from the Luoqu Tomb. He overwhelmed their fighters, but their leader began to self-destruct, threatening to take Nie Yun’s parents and family with him.

• Yang Yan and Feng Xiao urged Nie Yun to flee as eight masked men surrounded him and demanded the Luoqu Tomb treasure.
• The leader revealed that Nie Yun’s family was alive but had been taken away, and threatened their lives using the men’s soul lamps.
• Nie Yun struck the leader with five qi swords, knocked him down, and shattered his meridians and qi sea.
• The remaining seven men used a Combined Attack Formation, but Nie Yun broke their assault with Mountain River Momentum and knocked them unconscious.
• Nie Yun severed the leader’s limbs and demanded to know where his family was, but the leader refused and began swelling to self-destruct.

Nie Yun crippled a captured black-clad man and tortured his companions until one revealed that Nie Yun’s parents had been taken toward Shenfeng City. Before the captive could name the faction, an Assassin Master attacked Nie Yun, but Black Rock knocked the assassin down as he tried to escape.

• Nie Yun shattered the black-clad man’s dantians and threatened him, but the man refused to reveal his faction.
• Nie Yun tortured the captured Qi Master Realm experts, severing their features and limbs until one agreed to talk.
• The captive said Nie Yun’s parents and the others had been escorted toward Shenfeng City on flying demonic beasts.
• As the captive began to name the faction, an Assassin Master attacked Nie Yun from behind with a sudden sword strike.
• Nie Yun deflected the attack and had Black Rock knock the fleeing Assassin Master out of the air.

Nie Yun discovered that an assassination master had poisoned the captured Qi Grandmasters to silence them, leaving only their leader alive. After healing Yang Yan and Feng Xiao, he learned that his family and City Lord Luo Zhanhao had vanished, and suspected the kidnappers were searching for the Tianji Sword.

• Nie Yun stopped Black Rock from killing the assassination master, but found that the man had taken poison and died before Nie Yun could sense his Assassination Qi.
• Nie Yun found the other captured Qi Grandmasters dead from poison, leaving only the black-clad group leader alive.
• Nie Yun used Healing Qi to restore Yang Yan and Feng Xiao, then asked what had happened to the Nie Family.
• Yang Yan told Nie Yun that the Nie Family had vanished overnight, while Feng Xiao said the City Lord's Mansion had been emptied and Luo Zhanhao had disappeared three days earlier.
• Feng Xiao revealed that Luo Qingcheng had returned to the Hundred Flowers Sect, and Nie Yun suspected the kidnappers had targeted his family after failing to find the Tianji Sword at the City Lord's Mansion.

Nie Yun prepared Yang Yan and Feng Xiao to guard Luoshui City before setting out for Shenfeng City to find his captured parents and companions. He revealed that he had reached the Supreme level and summoned three Supreme-level demon beasts, leaving his friends astonished by his strength.

• Nie Yun failed to identify the attackers and ordered Yang Yan to keep their black-clad leader alive while torturing him for information.
• Nie Yun gave Yang Yan and Feng Xiao pills, demon cores, manuals, weapons, and ten million taels to strengthen and defend Luoshui City.
• Nie Yun announced that he was leaving for Shenfeng City, and Yang Yan and Feng Xiao warned him that the journey could be dangerous.
• Nie Yun revealed that he was already a Supreme, stunning Yang Yan and Feng Xiao.
• Nie Yun summoned Black Rock, Wind Wolf King, and Purple Eye, and revealed that all three were Supreme-level demon beasts.

Nie Yun arrived in Shenfeng City with his three Supreme-level demon beasts and planned to reveal the Tianji Sword to pressure its holders into releasing his father and the others. After entering the imperial capital, he overheard news of Zhao Xingpu’s upcoming marriage to a talented young woman from the Hundred Flowers Sect.

• Yang Yan and Feng Xiao saw that Nie Yun commanded three Supreme-level demon beasts and realized his strength could shake the Shenfeng Empire.
• Nie Yun planned to make a high-profile entrance in Shenfeng City, announce that the Tianji Sword was his, and use that leverage to find his father and the others.
• Nie Yun told Little Wolf, Black Rock, and Purple Eye to conceal their strength until the right moment, then rode the Wind Wolf King toward Shenfeng City.
• At the city gate, a soldier recognized Nie Yun’s demon beasts as powerful and waived his entry fee.
• Nie Yun heard people discussing Zhao Xingpu’s wedding in three days and his bride-to-be, a seventeen-year-old Weapon Armor Realm cultivator from the Hundred Flowers Sect.

Nie Yun learned that Luo Qingcheng was to marry Zhao Xingpu in three days and suspected she was being forced, possibly because of her father's capture. He went to the Hundred Flowers Sect to speak with her directly, leaving his three demon beasts at the foot of the mountain.

• Nie Yun overheard that a young woman from a small place was marrying Zhao Xingpu and suspected she was Luo Qingcheng.
• Nie Yun confirmed with mercenaries Jiang Xuan and Du Jin that the bride was Luo Qingcheng of Luoshui City, though they could not say whether she had agreed willingly.
• Nie Yun decided to find Luo Qingcheng and ask about the marriage, wondering whether it was connected to her captured father and his own missing relatives.
• Jiang Xuan and Du Jin told Nie Yun that Tie Lan had returned with a peak Qi Grandmaster Demon Pet and invited him to join the Tie Yan Mercenary Group.
• Nie Yun flew to Hundred Flowers Mountain, told his three demon beasts to wait for his signal, and climbed toward the Hundred Flowers Sect.

Luo Qingcheng was confined to the Hundred Flowers Sect courtyard by a Zhao Family guard while she faced a forced marriage to Zhao Xingpu. When Nie Yun arrived to visit her, she refused to see him to protect him, but the guard ordered that he be let in.

• Luo Qingcheng confided in Ya Lian that she felt trapped by her marriage arrangement with Zhao Xingpu and remembered the youth who had once saved her.
• A Zhao Family elder blocked Luo Qingcheng and Ya Lian from leaving the courtyard, then struck Ya Lian and threatened them with his strength as a peak Qi Grandmaster.
• Luo Qingcheng protested that the courtyard belonged to the Hundred Flowers Sect, but the elder dismissed her objections and asserted the Zhao Family's power.
• A reception disciple reported that Nie Yun, a friend from Luoshui City, had come to see Luo Qingcheng, and she refused to meet him for fear the Zhao Family would kill him.
• The Zhao Family elder overruled Luo Qingcheng and told the disciple to let Nie Yun in, saying he wanted to see what the young man was plotting.

Nie Yun visited Luo Qingcheng, but Zhao Yan tried to keep him away and then attacked him. Nie Yun effortlessly struck Zhao Yan into a wall, leaving the confrontation's outcome unresolved.

• Luo Qingcheng begged Zhao Yan to let Nie Yun leave, but Zhao Yan ordered a disciple to bring him in.
• Nie Yun greeted Luo Qingcheng and ignored Zhao Yan until he learned Zhao Yan was a peak Qi Grandmaster of the Zhao Family.
• Nie Yun mocked Zhao Yan as brain-dead, and Zhao Yan threatened to kill him despite Luo Qingcheng's pleas for him to apologize.
• Zhao Yan attacked Nie Yun with a fire-dragon punch, but Nie Yun swatted him with one palm and sent him flying into a wall.