Chapter Summaries

Zhao Xuan killed his opponent in a desperate duel, and Wen Tiancheng defeated the Saber King, driving the third prince away and winning the contest. Wenlong then confronted He Da over failing to warn the Sect that the prince had brought five thousand troops, and threatened the He Family.

• Zhao Xuan turned the duel around with a sudden burst of power and killed his opponent, though he was wounded himself.
• The Saber King challenged Wen Tiancheng, and both signed a life-and-death agreement before fighting.
• Wen Tiancheng used the Black Saber to break the Saber King's weapon and kill him.
• The third prince left in anger, and Wenlong ordered Wen Ji to bring He Da to the meeting hall and to close the city gates after the prince departed.
• Wenlong accused He Da of failing to warn the Sect about the prince's five thousand troops and asked how long it would take to wipe out the He Family.

Wenlong pursued the fluorite sulfur stolen by hired attackers, uncovered Green Mountain City’s involvement, and developed gunpowder and a hand grenade for the Huaxia Sect. After reprimanding and rewarding Zhao Xuan, he prepared to take him to Green Mountain City once his seclusion ended.

• Wenlong threatened He Da for failing to deliver the fluorite sulfur, then arranged to strengthen the Huaxia Sect’s forces and city defenses.
• When mysterious attackers stole the fluorite sulfur, Wenlong led the Action Squad Elites to a valley, defeated them, and learned that Green Mountain City’s City Lord had hired them.
• Wenlong summoned Zhao Xuan, reprimanded him for reckless conduct in a duel, and assigned him a month of seclusion while rewarding him with access to Advanced Swordsmanship.
• Wenlong used the recovered fluorite sulfur to develop gunpowder and test a hand grenade, warning Seventh Uncle to keep the technology secret.
• A Secret Agent confirmed Green Mountain City’s involvement, and Wenlong planned to go there with Zhao Xuan after his seclusion.

Wenlong seized control of Green Mountain City with the Zhang Family’s help, then returned to Huaxia City to strengthen its defenses and expand the Huaxia Sect’s influence. After entering the Secret Passage to cultivate, he heard an alarm and found Wen Wangcai waiting at the exit.

• Wenlong persuaded the Zhang Family Head to help overthrow the City Lord’s Residence in exchange for becoming Green Mountain City’s City Lord.
• Wenlong’s masked team seized the City Lord’s Residence, subdued the City Guards, and learned that the Third Prince had ordered the attack on Huaxia City’s shipment.
• Wenlong put Zhao Xuan in charge of Green Mountain City’s military forces and returned to Huaxia City with his team.
• Wenlong expanded Huaxia City’s City Guards, established a Public Security Brigade, and oversaw the capture of more than two thousand Kai family members.
• Wenlong entered the Secret Passage to cultivate, but an alarm sounded after three days of rest, and he found Wen Wangcai at the exit.

Wenlong confronted Sima Ji's invading army with the help of two Bombardiers and forced it to retreat from Brightlight City's border. He then announced that he was going to the capital to teach the emperor a lesson.

• Wen Wangcai warned Wenlong that a large army was approaching Brightlight City, and Wen Ji advised the Sect to reinforce its defenses.
• Wenlong recruited Wenzhu, Daniu, and two Bombardiers to accompany him to the enemy camp, where he planned to stop the invasion.
• Wenlong slipped into Sima Ji's command tent, subdued him, and led him outside to witness the Bombardiers' explosions.
• Wenlong threatened Sima Ji and the emperor, then disappeared; the next day, Sima Ji's troops broke camp and retreated.
• Wenlong told Wenzhu he was heading to the capital to teach the emperor a lesson, and she worried about him going alone.

Wenlong infiltrated Capital City, looted the emperor’s private Treasure Vault, and threatened the emperor into sparing the Huaxia Sect. After returning safely, he urged the Wen leaders to uphold the sect’s righteous reputation and strengthen their defenses and rules.

• Wenlong disguised himself in Capital City, gathered information about the imperial palace, and entered the palace at night.
• Wenlong found and emptied the emperor’s private Treasure Vault, then confronted the emperor in the Palace of Tranquil Longevity and threatened him over the attack on Huaxia City.
• Wenlong left Capital City, passed Sima Ji’s main force without meeting him, and returned safely to Wen Family Village.
• Sima Lai brought lavish gifts to the Huaxia Sect to apologize, and Wenlong reflected on how the strong often used apologies when they could not win by force.
• Wenlong addressed the Wen stewards and called for the Huaxia Sect to protect its reputation, strengthen city defenses, regulate the release of slaves, and expand the sect grounds.

As the New Year approached, Wenlong prepared to leave home and travel to the distant Azure Dragon Continent, where he hoped to find spiritual energy and medicines for his parents. After telling his family about the ancestor in the Secret Passage, he won his father’s support, while his grieving mother wished only for his safety.

• Wenlong attended the Sect’s annual gathering, where veteran disciples greeted him as the Third Young Master and defended his record after a young disciple challenged him.
• Wenlong defeated the challenger with a gentle push, helped him up, and urged him not to look down on others.
• After celebrating the Spring Festival with his family, Wenlong stored his wealth beneath his bedroom and gathered the remaining Spirit Water to share with his parents and siblings.
• At thirteen, Wenlong copied martial arts and medical texts in the Secret Passage and prepared to leave home.
• Wenlong told his parents about the ancestor and the Azure Dragon Continent, then used his mental power to convince his skeptical father.
• Huang Jinlian wept and pleaded for Wenlong to stay safe, while his father encouraged him to leave home and pursue his ambitions.

Wenlong prepared his family and the Wen clan for his departure, sharing Spirit Water, manuals, and warnings before giving Wenzhu a secret art. While packing, he discovered a Spatial Ring hidden in a pillow containing a Black Sword and began searching his ancestor’s journal for its origins.

• Wenlong gave Spirit Water to his parents and siblings, entrusted copied manuals to Wen Tiancheng, and warned his parents about clan conflicts and ending duels to the death.
• Wenlong gave Wenzhu a Secret Art and instructed her to burn it after learning it and keep it within the Wen clan.
• Wenlong wandered through Wen Family Village with Wen Yuan and reflected on how difficult it would be to leave home.
• Wenlong entered the Hidden Chamber, stored its manuals, and found a ring concealed in a pillow.
• Wenlong used Mental Power to open the Spatial Ring, found a Black Sword inside, and consulted his ancestor’s journal to learn its origins.

Wenlong left his family to travel south toward the Sea of Death, reflecting on his ancestor’s history with the Black Sword and the improved lives of people along the road. After bandits attacked him, an escort agency rescued him, and he agreed to travel with them.

• Wenlong read his ancestor’s account of the Black Sword, gathered useful belongings, and sealed the entrance to the Secret Passage after promising to avenge his ancestor’s family.
• Wenlong spent time with his family before leaving a note for them and setting out on his journey.
• Huang Jinlian found Wenlong’s note and wept, while Wen Tiancheng accepted that their son had to leave and spread his wings.
• Wenlong traveled south, heard an old man praise the Wen family’s workshops, and encountered widespread banditry along the roads.
• A band of robbers surrounded Wenlong, but Yang Zijiang and his escort party arrived and drove them off.
• Wenlong thanked Yang Zijiang, concealed his identity, and agreed to travel with the escort agency.

Wenlong helped the escort guards defeat bandits and traveled with them to Pass Prefecture, where he hired Uncle Hei to guide him across the border into the Great Qing Kingdom. After reaching Southern Border City, Wenlong and Uncle Hei set out at night to cross into the neighboring kingdom.

• Wenlong joined the escort guards in fighting off bandits, using Goddess Scatters Flowers to incapacitate attackers and strike down their leader.
• The guards defeated the bandits with no deaths among their own, and the captain thanked Wenlong for his help.
• Wenlong agreed to travel south with the captain’s convoy, and they reached Pass Prefecture safely.
• The captain told Wenlong about guides who could help travelers cross into the Great Qing Kingdom, and Wenlong hired Uncle Hei.
• Wenlong and Uncle Hei reached Southern Border City, rested for a day, and set out on horseback at night to cross the border.

Wenlong crossed into the Great Qing Kingdom, helped a monkey-performing boy and an old craftsman, and fought off the craftsman’s abductors. When the men in black pursued him outside Willow City, he found himself struggling against their numbers.

• Wenlong spotted an ambush on the mountain trail, paid Uncle Hei in full, and slipped past the guards that night with Shadow Step.
• After reaching the Great Qing Kingdom, Wenlong bought horses, helped a boy whose monkey was being seized by thugs, and continued toward Willow City.
• In Willow City, Wenlong defeated men in black who were trying to force an old craftsman into serving their noble master, and the craftsman gave him a magnet to make a compass.
• The men in black followed Wenlong out of the city and attacked him, and he began to struggle against their overwhelming numbers.

Wenlong crossed into Great Ming and joined a merchant caravan while traveling south, but the group was ambushed by bandits he had encountered before. He severed the bandit leader’s elder brother’s hand, and the man fled while threatening revenge from the Myriad Crowds Sect.

• Wenlong defeated another bandit gang on the road to Qingzhou and severed the hands of its leader and other attackers.
• In Qingzhou, Wenlong paid Uncle Wang to guide him across the border, entered Great Ming, and continued south.
• Wenlong rested, then joined a merchant caravan to travel with companions and learn about the south.
• The caravan was surrounded by robbers led by the bandit chief whose hand Wenlong had previously severed.
• Wenlong defeated the chief’s elder brother and cut off his saber hand, prompting him to flee and threaten the Myriad Crowds Sect.

Wenlong encountered the Myriad Crowds Sect in Hang City after its members were misled into seeking revenge for an injured disciple. His clash with Ruan Wu escalated when Ruan Qianqian joined the fight, and Ruan Wu prepared to fight alongside her as she began to lose.

• Wenlong learned that the Myriad Crowds Sect was based in Great Song and continued south toward Hang City.
• Ruan Wu and Ruan Qianqian were told a misleading account of how a sect disciple had lost an arm, and they set out to find Wenlong.
• Ruan Wu confronted Wenlong outside Hang City, and Wenlong disarmed his junior brother before dueling Ruan Wu.
• When Wenlong turned to stop his frightened horse, Ruan Wu cut his arm, then apologized and asked again about the injured disciple.
• Ruan Qianqian intervened when Wenlong began overpowering Ruan Wu, but Wenlong drove her onto the defensive.
• Ruan Wu joined the fight to help Ruan Qianqian as she neared defeat.

Wenlong repeatedly fought Ruan Qianqian as she used their duels to improve her swordsmanship, then escaped her attempt to trap him as a sparring partner. Near the Great Yuan border, he stole a Myriad Crowds Sect token from a follower and continued toward the border city.

• Ruan Qianqian blamed Ruan Wu for joining her fight with Wenlong and asked him to investigate why Wenlong had called her a bandit.
• Ruan Qianqian challenged Wenlong again on the road, and her improved swordsmanship forced him to fight seriously before she fled.
• Ruan Qianqian kept appearing every few days to spar with Wenlong and steadily improved her swordsmanship.
• Ruan Qianqian surrounded Wenlong in a mountain forest and demanded that he become her sparring partner, but Ruan Wu apologized and Wenlong rode away.
• Wenlong ambushed his follower in an alley, took the man's Myriad Crowds Sect token, and continued toward the Great Yuan border.

Wenlong traveled through Great Yuan and into the Great Song Kingdom while evading the masked woman, Ruan Qianqian. After their duel and her eventual introduction, he agreed to visit her parents at the Myriad Crowds Sect, though he remained concerned about delaying his journey.

• Wenlong learned the route south through Great Yuan and wondered at the familiar names of the kingdoms before continuing toward Great Song.
• The masked woman pursued Wenlong and tried to have him stopped at the Great Song border, but a female general cleared him to enter.
• Wenlong drove robbers from a town and declined an old man's invitation to join the righteous army.
• The masked woman confronted Wenlong in a mountain valley, where he knocked off her veil and saw her face before a strange wind swept her away.
• Wenlong later met the woman again, learned that she was Ruan Qianqian, and agreed to visit her parents at the Myriad Crowds Sect.

Wenlong visited the Myriad Crowds Sect, where the sect leader mistakenly arranged for him to marry Ruan Qianqian, then left to seek an opportunity for immortality. Ruan Qianqian secretly followed him south and watched as he rescued a young woman and escorted her into town.

• Wenlong told Ruan Qianqian he intended to travel south, and she said she wanted to adventure with him.
• The Myriad Crowds Sect's leader offered Wenlong a position and promised him Ruan Qianqian's hand in marriage, misunderstanding their relationship.
• Wenlong left the sect, and Ruan Qianqian vowed to join him before sneaking away the next night.
• Wenlong rescued a young woman from bandits in a mountain forest, and she insisted on accompanying him to repay him.
• Ruan Qianqian secretly followed Wenlong, watched him escort the young woman into town without asking for anything, and admired his character.

Wenlong and Ruan Qianqian traveled together into the Great Tang Kingdom, where Wenlong helped the poor, won a poetry contest, and spent the reward on beggars. Their New Year celebration ended in a fight with Li San's thugs, whom they defeated.

• Wenlong bought grain and seeds for drought-stricken villagers and repaired their houses before driving off robbers who attacked them.
• Ruan Qianqian revealed herself to Wenlong, and the two crossed into the Great Tang Kingdom together.
• On Chang'an Street, Wenlong wrote two celebrated poems, signing Ruan Qianqian's name, then gave the ten-gold reward to beggars.
• Wenlong promised to teach Ruan Qianqian his Wen family martial arts, warning her not to pass on the ancestral inheritance.
• Li San threatened Wenlong and Ruan Qianqian at a restaurant, but the pair fought his thugs and sent them fleeing.

Wenlong and Ruan Qianqian traveled through the Great Han Kingdom and entered the Great Qin Empire, where they learned that the Sea of Death lay farther south. They continued toward it and began gathering fuel oil and animal hides to prepare a hot-air balloon for the crossing.

• Wenlong bribed a Great Han border officer to let him and Ruan Qianqian into the kingdom, then learned from an inn's serving boy that the Great Qin Kingdom lay south.
• Black-clad attackers ambushed Wenlong and Ruan Qianqian in a mountain forest, but a mysterious swordsman drove them off and warned them to be careful.
• At the Great Han border, Wenlong and Ruan Qianqian helped the soldiers repel another attack by black-clad figures, and the general let them pass.
• Wenlong led Ruan Qianqian into the Great Qin Empire by avoiding its border guards, and an inn's serving boy told them the Sea of Death lay to the south.
• Wenlong and Ruan Qianqian set out for the Sea of Death and began buying fuel oil and hunting beasts for hides to build a hot-air balloon.

Wenlong continued toward the Sea of Death to build a hot-air balloon, but Ruan Qianqian’s grandfather took her away after warning that no one who entered the sea had returned. Wenlong settled near the shore to seek hides for the balloon and entered a mountain where a monster confronted him.

• A mysterious man seized Ruan Qianqian, and Wenlong attacked him with his Black Sword until she revealed that the man was her grandfather.
• Ruan Qianqian’s grandfather warned Wenlong that the Sea of Death was deadly and took her home, while she promised to wait for Wenlong to return.
• Wenlong continued to the Sea of Death, rented a hut in a nearby fishing village, and learned that hunters east of the sea sold animal hides.
• Wenlong reached the hunters’ village and learned that a monster had injured people and made hunting difficult.
• Wenlong entered the mountain to find hides, and an enormous foul-smelling monster burst from the trees as he prepared to fight.

Wenlong built a hot-air balloon and set out across the sea, where he survived a storm and an attack by a giant sea beast before a spatial vortex pulled him away. He woke on an unfamiliar shore without his balloon and, unable to find signs of people, decided to build a shelter.

• Wenlong recruited the village chief and fishermen to build a hot-air balloon, then tested and improved it over several days.
• Wenlong launched the balloon in autumn, survived a sudden gale, and escaped a giant sea beast by climbing higher.
• Wenlong traveled above the sea for an unknown length of time until a spatial vortex dragged him and separated him from the balloon.
• Wenlong regained consciousness on an unfamiliar beach and found that the balloon had vanished.
• Wenlong searched the coast for signs of people, found none, and decided to build a simple shelter.

Wenlong survived alone in the wilderness until he found a village, where Elder Wang and the villagers saved him. As he recovered, he learned about the Azure Dragon Continent, the clan’s isolated life, and its lost cultivation legacies.

• Wenlong built a shelter, avoided a brown bear, and traveled on after finding no signs of people.
• After days of searching, Wenlong spotted smoke from a village but collapsed from thirst before reaching it.
• Elder Wang found Wenlong, carried him into the village, and arranged water and porridge for him.
• After recovering, Wenlong shared swordsmanship insights with the villagers and learned they hunted in the mountains because fishing had claimed many lives.
• Elder Wang told Wenlong about the remote Azure Dragon Continent, the clan’s lost immortal cultivation legacies, and their lack of a capable young leader.