Chapter Summaries

Ji Xiu learned that the Nine Orifice Golden Core contained the Primordial Golden Core Dao and entrusted Ji Wei to Crimson Scenery Daoist’s care as she left for the Ten Thousand Methods Sect. Back on Golden Turtle Island, Ji Xiu advanced the Martial Saint peerless art Three Tribulations of Reincarnation, causing saber qi to surge across the island and drawing the attention of distant forces.

• Ji Xiu realized that Ji Wei and her master, the Myriad Laws True Venerable, had helped free him from Profound Heaven True Venerable’s control.
• Crimson Scenery Daoist explained that the Nine Orifice Golden Core contained the Primordial Golden Core Dao, which All Laws Impermanent Dao Lord Jiang Jing had once used to establish a Primal Chaos Golden Core and defeat Profound Heaven True Venerable.
• Ji Xiu resolved to protect his soul from being captured again and planned to study the Golden Core Dao through the Yellow Millet Dream once his spiritual essence was complete.
• Ji Xiu entrusted Ji Wei to Crimson Scenery Daoist, who promised to care for her, and watched them depart for the True Mansion.
• Ji Xiu drew the Wang Quan Saber and used the Primordial Dao Talisman to advance Three Tribulations of Reincarnation.
• Saber qi erupted across Golden Turtle Island, making sabers throughout the Heavenly Saber True Sect hum and point west as a distant warship from Western Qi Prefecture turned toward the island.

Vast Law Astral Thunder Holy Saint discovered that the Black Emperor’s aura pointed toward the Boundary Gate where Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Mansion had vanished, and secretly planned to identify the culprit for his own advancement. On Golden Turtle Island, Ji Xiu mastered the first tribulation of Three Tribulations of Reincarnation, while a Titan arrived seeking his disciple-grandson.

• At the Jade Forest Banquet, Central Yellow Grand One warned the Divine Court officials that the Black Emperor had appeared in Central Yellow Heaven and distributed fragments of the Book of Life and Death to trace him.
• Vast Law Astral Thunder Holy Saint learned that Great Xuan martial artists had dragged away Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Mansion and stolen its three centuries of accumulated incense offerings.
• The Book of Life and Death fragment reacted near the Boundary Gate, revealing the Black Emperor’s trail, and Vast Law Astral Thunder Holy Saint chose to investigate secretly through Crimson Scenery Daoist rather than report it immediately.
• Ji Xiu used the Wang Quan Saber to advance the first tribulation, Thunder Pivot, of the Martial Saint peerless art Three Tribulations of Reincarnation, stirring clouds and purple lightning over Golden Turtle Island.
• Wang Xuanyang recognized Ji Xiu’s achievement and grew more determined to open the Saber Dao Ancestral Temple ruins at Great Snow Mountain.
• A Titan crossed the Eastern Cang Sea and called for his disciple-grandson, announcing that he had gathered the resources for the Nine Dragons Nine Elephants Prison-Suppressing Profound Art breakthrough.

Ji Xiu received the Nine Dragons Nine Elephants Prison-Suppressing Profound Art from Xu Longxiang and immediately used it to undergo his first transformation, breaking through to Flawless Sect Master Level. As news of his rise spread, Ji Xiu’s name appeared on the Young Dragon Tablet in White Jade Capital, stirring the realm.

• Ji Xiu tested the Thunder Pivot saber art and cleaved the river with Wang Quan.
• Xu Longxiang returned to Golden Turtle Island with a dead flood dragon and Lord Cangming, bringing Ji Xiu resources for his physical transformation.
• Ji Xiu confronted Lord Cangming over reporting his entanglement with Xiao Mingli, then persuaded Xu Longxiang to spare him.
• Xu Longxiang gave Ji Xiu the Nine Dragons Nine Elephants Prison-Suppressing Profound Art, and Ji Xiu instantly underwent his first transformation and reached Flawless Sect Master Level.
• Ji Xiu’s name appeared on the Young Dragon Tablet, and news of his breakthrough spread across Great Xuan.

At White Jade Capital, Qiu Wuya nominated Ji Xiu of Jiangyin Prefecture for the Young Dragon Tablet, and the monument ranked the seventeen-year-old thirty-sixth despite his having entered the martial path less than a year earlier. A white crane departed to announce Ji Xiu’s name and bestow auspicious favor as it traveled north toward him.

• Qiu Wuya received a nomination record from Jiangyin Prefecture and learned that Ji Xiu was connected to the All Laws Impermanent Primal Palace and favored by the Jiang Family Head.
• Qiu Wuya presented Ji Xiu’s record to the Young Dragon Tablet while other capital officials doubted a youth from a remote prefecture could earn a place among the top hundred.
• The Young Dragon Tablet ranked Ji Xiu thirty-sixth after recording his age, brief cultivation history, and breakthrough to the fourth limit.
• Qing Feng flew north from White Jade Capital to announce Ji Xiu’s ranking and deliver Heaven’s auspicious favor.

King Yan’s procession entered White Mountain Black Water as the court and True Martial Mountain took notice of Ji Xiu’s rise. Qi Nanke set out to protect him, while Ji Xiu completed a powerful body-tempering session on Golden Turtle Island.

• Princess Yan proposed summoning Ji Xiu to a banquet to assess his potential as a possible ally and match for Jiang Changle.
• The Old Daoist warned Qi Nanke that inheriting the True Martial Precious Proclamation would bring a heavy burden, and Qi Nanke agreed to protect Ji Xiu as a possible successor.
• Qi Nanke departed True Martial Mountain in a Golden Chariot to patrol White Mountain Black Water and defend Ji Xiu.
• Ji Xiu bathed in Great Dragon Soup while Xu Longxiang and Wang Xuanyang infused him with true qi, advancing his Nine Dragons Nine Elephants Prison-Suppressing Profound Art to 107/900 and completing its first transformation.

Ji Xiu completed his transformation into the fifth Human Immortal threshold, Flawless throughout the body, while the Divine Weapon Altar and Wang Quan Family arrived at Golden Turtle Island to claim the Wang Quan Saber. Their representatives fought on the island until Ji Xiu intervened, demanding to know who had given them the nerve to endanger his disciples.

• Ji Xiu absorbed the final essence of the Great Dragon Soup and completed his transformation into Flawless throughout the body.
• Wang Xuanyang praised Ji Xiu’s mastery of the Nine Dragons Nine Elephants Prison-Suppressing Profound Art, while Xu Longxiang wondered if Ji Xiu could help annotate and teach it.
• A warship from Divine Weapon Altar and another from the Wang Quan Family arrived at Golden Turtle Island, each seeking the Wang Quan Saber.
• Wei Fengchun offered to bring Ji Xiu before a Divine Weapon Altar mountain master and claim the saber, while Wang Quan Qi insisted his family would reclaim its ancestral heirloom.
• Wei Fengchun and Wang Quan Qi fought, injuring Heavenly Saber disciples caught in the shockwaves.
• Ji Xiu descended with two enormous hands and confronted the fighters for disregarding his disciples’ lives.

Ji Xiu confronted Wei Fengchun and Wang Quan Qi over their claims to the Wang Quan Saber, but Wang Xuanyang drove them away with a fierce warning. Though Wang Xuanyang urged Ji Xiu to leave before the powerful factions retaliated, Ji Xiu resolved to go to North Cang with Xu Longxiang and face the coming banquet openly.

• Ji Xiu stopped Wei Fengchun and Wang Quan Qi from attacking Heavenly Saber disciples, and the two identified him as the Heavenly Saber True Sect’s Dao Child.
• Wang Quan Qi blamed Wei Fengchun for the clash, while Wei Fengchun offered medicine for the injured disciples and demanded the Wang Quan Saber in exchange for a Title Weapon and mediation with Jiangnan Sword Mountain.
• Wang Xuanyang denounced Wei Fengchun’s claims, threatened the Divine Weapon Altar, and declared the Wang Quan Saber belonged to the Saber Court.
• Wang Xuanyang sent Wei Fengchun and Wang Quan Qi fleeing, then warned Ji Xiu that the Divine Weapon Altar and Wang Quan Family might retaliate.
• Xu Longxiang insisted they should not abandon Ji Xiu’s North Cang appointment, and Ji Xiu vowed to attend the Hongmen Banquet and confront anyone who stood in their way.

Qin Baisheng, Dugu Cheng, and the Yuwen Clan Master plotted to stop Ji Xiu from rising, fearing revenge for their clans’ murder of Ye Wenjiang. Ji Xiu arrived at Dragon Elephant Mountain with Xu Longxiang, where the lineage stood ready to enter North Cang and confront its old enemies.

• Qin Baisheng and Dugu Cheng discussed Marquis Chen Xuanque’s plan to rank Ji Xiu first in the Mystic Official selection and recalled their clans’ role in killing Ye Wenjiang.
• Qin Jinkui and Dugu Qi voiced their resentment toward Ji Xiu, while Dugu Cheng warned that Bai Shuo’s marriage arrangement depended on the White Dragon Lord’s decision.
• Dugu Cheng and Qin Baisheng agreed to oppose Ji Xiu’s selection and contact Divine Weapon Altar, the Wang Quan Family, and Jiangnan Sword Mountain.
• The Yuwen Clan Master announced that Zuo Longshe and a Wang Quan Family elder had arrived in North Cang to help prevent Dragon Elephant True Sect from rising.
• Ji Xiu joined Xu Longxiang and rode to Dragon Elephant Mountain, where the lineage gathered in mourning white, ready to enter North Cang and settle its old debts.

Xu Longxiang and Ji Xiu returned to the Dragon Elephant True Sect, where the disciples held Ye Wenjiang’s funeral and prepared to name Ji Xiu the new Dao Child. After hearing Xu Longxiang reveal the mystery surrounding his elder brother’s death at True Martial Mountain, Ji Xiu vowed to carry Ye Wenjiang’s coffin to North Cang and settle his debts of vengeance.

• Tuoba Yue welcomed Xu Longxiang and Ji Xiu to Dragon Elephant Mountain as the disciples gathered in mourning clothes for Ye Wenjiang’s funeral and Ji Xiu’s appointment as Dao Child.
• Zheng Luo and Shen Gang recognized that Ji Xiu had reached Flawless Sect Master Level and mastered the Nine Dragons Nine Elephants Prison-Suppressing Profound Art, and Tuoba Yue went to fetch a Dragon Tiger-level variant elephant for his next transformation.
• Xu Longxiang and Ji Xiu visited Ye Wenjiang’s tomb, where Xu Longxiang mourned his former disciple and admitted he had failed to protect him.
• Xu Longxiang told Ji Xiu that his elder brother Xu Baxian, True Martial Mountain’s former chief disciple, had gone mad and died without explanation, and that other generations of chief disciples had met similar fates.
• Ji Xiu vowed before Ye Wenjiang’s tomb to carry a coffin to North Cang and repay the debts of vengeance, while Tuoba Yue arrived with a colossal elephant and recognized him as the true Dao Child.

Red Beard Heavenly King was offered powerful backing by Divine Path Heaven and Mystic Talisman Sect in exchange for capturing Ji Xiu, while Ji Xiu arrived in North Cang with Xu Longxiang and caught King Yan’s attention. The chapter left King Yan inviting them aboard his carriage.

• Red Beard Heavenly King returned from seclusion as a Ghost Immortal True Person and learned that Hundun Water Marsh had dwindled while the Heavenly Saber True Sect had grown far stronger.
• Vast Law Astral Thunder Holy Saint urged Red Beard Heavenly King to capture the person bearing [Black Emperor] fate, promising him a path to become a Holy Saint.
• A cultivator from Mystic Talisman Sect offered Red Beard Heavenly King three thousand Dao soldiers and a chance to become a True Monarch if he killed the Heavenly Saber Dao Child and presented the Nine Orifice Golden Core.
• Ji Xiu refined the Mang Elephant’s blood and the Sumeru Immortal Fruit’s remaining power, advancing his Nine Dragons Nine Elephants Prison-Suppressing Profound Art to 301/900.
• Ji Xiu and Xu Longxiang entered North Cang beside King Yan’s royal carriage, and King Yan invited them aboard.

Ji Xiu and Xu Longxiang refused King Yan Jiang Shentong’s invitation to ride with him, despite his status and influence in White Mountain Black Water. They went to Officials Street to confront the clans tied to Ye Wenjiang’s death, while news of Ji Xiu’s refusal spread through Cang Capital.

• King Yan Jiang Shentong introduced himself and invited Xu Longxiang and Ji Xiu into his carriage as he inspected White Mountain Black Water.
• Ji Xiu opened his Double Pupils, saw inside the carriage, and increased his Profound Sky Forbidden progress.
• Xu Longxiang declined King Yan’s invitation, and he and Ji Xiu left without boarding the carriage.
• King Yan discussed recruiting the local clans and building his power with Jiang Changzhi and Jiang Changle, who wondered about Ji Xiu.
• Word of Ji Xiu’s refusal spread through Cang Capital as he followed Xu Longxiang to Officials Street.
• Ji Xiu told Xu Longxiang he would pursue the people responsible for killing Ye Wenjiang, and Xu Longxiang agreed to settle old debts.

Chen Xuanque prepared to meet King Yan Jiang Shentong, but Ji Xiu and Xu Longxiang arrived in Cang Capital bearing a coffin and issued funeral notices to three great clans over a sixty-year blood feud. The furious clan masters left the royal audience to confront them, and Jiang Shentong, his children, and many others followed toward the Marquis's Manor.

• Chen Xuanque learned that Ji Xiu and Xu Longxiang had refused King Yan's invitation and smashed the plaques of three great clans before leaving funeral notices at their gates.
• Chen Xuanque saw Ji Xiu and Xu Longxiang arrive at the Marquis's Manor in mourning clothes with a coffin, realizing their visit was not about Ji Xiu's Mystic Official nomination.
• Jiang Shentong addressed the assembled clans and asked whether Chen Xuanque had arrived, while Qin Baisheng and Dugu Cheng criticized the Marquis for keeping the King waiting.
• The three clan masters received Ji Xiu's notice declaring that the families responsible for pursuing Ye Wenjiang would answer for the sixty-year grudge at the Profound Official Ceremony.
• Jiang Shentong and his children followed the departing clan masters toward the Marquis's Manor, as clan youths and other guests joined the growing confrontation.

Xu Longxiang and Ji Xiu smashed the gates of the Qin, Yuwen, and Dugu clans in Cang Capital, provoking the city’s powerful factions. As Chen Xuanque warned them of the danger, Ji Xiu’s unshakable conviction carried him through a spiritual tribulation and revealed Xu Longxiang’s plan to use the clans as stepping stones toward a martial title.

• Xu Longxiang and Ji Xiu arrived in Cang Capital and smashed the gates of the Qin, Yuwen, and Dugu clans, drawing crowds and spreading news of their old grievance.
• Zuo Longshe heard that Wang Xuanyang had spoken of the Saber Court’s return, then took the Golden Crow Great Hoop Saber and headed for the Marquis’s Manor after learning of the clash.
• At the Marquis’s Manor, Chen Xuanque urged Xu Longxiang and Ji Xiu to leave before the clans retaliated, but Ji Xiu argued that open conflict was safer than being destroyed by hidden attacks.
• Ji Xiu’s firm resolve carried him through the Origin Spirit Out of Body tribulation, strengthened his Dao heart, and brought his Daoist Merit rising.
• Xu Longxiang told Chen Xuanque that he had brought Ji Xiu to Cang Capital both to avenge his disciple and to make the clans’ humiliation a stairway toward Ji Xiu’s martial title.
• An enraged voice roared at Xu Longxiang for daring to use a great clan’s reputation as a stepping stone for Ji Xiu.

Qin Baisheng attacked Ji Xiu, prompting Xu Longxiang to fight him while the Dugu and Yuwen Clan Masters moved to support Qin Baisheng. Chen Xuanque intervened to protect Ji Xiu, and King Yan, Jiang Shentong, arrived and halted the battle temporarily to propose a truce.

• Qin Baisheng recognized Ji Xiu’s rapid advancement and emerging Martial Saint True Intent, then launched a surprise attack to kill him.
• Xu Longxiang blocked Qin Baisheng’s strike, and their clash shook the Marquis’s Manor as the Dugu and Yuwen Clan Masters joined the fight.
• Guanhai Arhat examined Ji Xiu’s Vajra Pestle while Li Qianyuan sensed a Divine Talisman Fire Dao Seed within Ji Xiu’s Great Dao Purple Palace.
• Chen Xuanque used the Marquis Seal to confront the Dugu and Yuwen Clan Masters and defend Ji Xiu, forcing them to hesitate.
• King Yan, Jiang Shentong, arrived and used his authority and spring-thunder voice to separate Xu Longxiang and Qin Baisheng, then urged them to settle their enmity over a banquet.

Ji Xiu confronted King Yan Jiang Shentong over the fate of his master’s master and vowed to seek justice by becoming North Cang’s first Mystic Official and challenging White Jade Capital. As the clan heirs accepted his challenge, the White Crane announced that Ji Xiu had taken the thirty-sixth seat on the Young Dragon Tablet.

• King Yan Jiang Shentong halted the conflict between Qin Baisheng and Xu Longxiang and urged the factions to make peace.
• Ji Xiu stepped forward and asked Jiang Shentong whether his master’s master deserved to die for serving the Son of Heaven.
• Ji Xiu vowed to contend for first Mystic Official in North Cang, enter White Jade Capital, and seek justice for Longxiang; Dugu Qi accepted his challenge for the Profound Official Ceremony seven days later.
• An Auspicious Sign appeared over Cang Capital, and the White Crane announced Ji Xiu as the thirty-sixth name on the Young Dragon Tablet.

Ji Xiu was named the thirty-sixth seat on the Young Dragon Tablet, earning the Auspicious Sign Immortal Crane’s blessing and a chance to unlock his fate. After refining the crane feather, he began transforming, and Jiang Shentong, Xu Longxiang, and Chen Xuanque recognized his fate as the Upper Three Fate called the Dragon Snake Descendant.

• The White Crane announced Ji Xiu of Jiangyin as the thirty-sixth nominee to the Young Dragon Tablet, stunning Dugu Qi and the provincial clan heirs who had mocked his ambitions.
• Xu Longxiang celebrated Ji Xiu’s achievement and explained how Great Xuan’s fortune could unlock the fate of a Young Dragon Tablet nominee.
• King Yan Jiang Shentong dismissed the gathered clans, while Qing Feng the Immortal Crane presented Ji Xiu with an Auspicious Mysterious Crane Immortal Feather.
• Ji Xiu’s Primordial Dao Talisman revealed that refining the feather could restore Yellow Millet Dream’s spiritual impetus and unlock Dream Entry.
• Ji Xiu refined the feather, releasing dragon and flood-dragon roars as his body transformed, and Jiang Shentong, Xu Longxiang, and Chen Xuanque identified his fate as the Dragon Snake Descendant.

After receiving Great Xuan destiny, Ji Xiu awakens the Upper Three Fate of Dragon Snake Descendant and undergoes a major physical breakthrough. King Yan, Jiang Shentong, invites him to his daughter Jiang Changle’s upcoming Flower Banquet, while Ji Xiu chooses to use the Yellow Millet Dream to cultivate the Three Tribulations of Reincarnation.

• Jiang Changzhi realizes Ji Xiu’s Dragon Snake Descendant fate is exceptionally rare, and Jiang Shentong considers him as a potential husband for Jiang Changle.
• Ji Xiu’s fate infusion strengthens his spirit and body, advancing his Nine Dragons Nine Elephants Prison-Suppressing Profound Art to Four Transformations and granting him four Dragon Elephant Strengths.
• The Yellow Millet Dream Dao Talisman becomes ready for another dream entry, and Ji Xiu chooses to cultivate Wang Quan Wumu’s Three Tribulations of Reincarnation rather than the Nine Orifice Golden Core.
• Jiang Shentong announces a Flower Banquet for Jiang Changle after the Profound Official Ceremony and invites Ji Xiu to compete for a splendid future.
• Jiang Changle feels newly interested in Ji Xiu, while Qing Feng senses a trace of Son of Heaven bearing in Ji Xiu’s fate but dismisses the possibility.

After Ji Xiu’s strange phenomena revealed his exceptional fate, the Prefecture Clans plotted to suppress him in the upcoming Mystic Officials contest. Great Vehicle Boundless Bodhisattva awakened and set his sights on Ji Xiu and the Vajra Saha Treasure Pestle, while Li Qianyuan suspected Ji Xiu might be connected to the Last Heavenly Master; the chapter ended as Ji Xiu prepared to enter Wang Quan Wumu’s dream again.

• Qin Baisheng and Dugu Cheng recognized Ji Xiu as a rare Dragon Snake Descendant and planned to use a wheel battle and clan scions to defeat him in seven days.
• At Great Vehicle Boundless Temple, Kinkui Dashi and Danyuan Dashi reported the Vajra Pestle’s appearance, and Guanhai Arhat rewarded them for their service.
• Great Vehicle Boundless Bodhisattva awakened, identified the Vajra Saha Treasure Pestle, and ordered Guanhai Arhat to bring Ji Xiu to the temple so he could assess him as a potential Physical Body Hut.
• Li Qianyuan told Wei Zhao that a divination suggested the Last Heavenly Master remained in Great Xuan and ordered him to court Ji Xiu and bring him beneath the Heavenly Master Statue.
• Ji Xiu received a prompt to use the Wang Quan Saber to refine Three Tribulations of Reincarnation and enter Wang Quan Wumu’s dream.

Ji Xiu, appearing as Wang Quan Wumu in the Yellow Millet Dream, created an eighth Ancestor Statue in the Saber Dao Ancestral Temple and completed his Three Tribulations of Reincarnation with Zhou Chongyang’s help. The statue bestowed the Ancestral Temple’s accumulated destiny upon him, producing two Heaven’s Fate phenomena that marked him as a Son of Destiny and made him the likely Saber Dao Walker.

• Wang Quan Wumu’s arrival in the Ancestor Corridor caused an eighth Ancestor Statue to form, bearing his likeness and the imprint of his Three Tribulations of Reincarnation.
• Chen Danding recognized the imprint as a titled Peerless Art, and Zhou Chongyang arrived to inspect his junior brother’s achievement.
• Zhou Chongyang gathered saber qi from the seven existing Ancestor Statues and infused it into Wang Quan Wumu, suppressing the qi as it threatened to rampage through his body.
• Wang Quan Wumu used the seven ancestral saber qis and Zhou Chongyang’s divine sense to deepen his understanding and complete the Three Tribulations of Reincarnation.
• The completed eighth statue bestowed the Saber Dao Ancestral Temple’s accumulated destiny upon Wang Quan Wumu, triggering the phenomena Ancestor Bows Head and Great Sun Patrols the Heavens.
• Jiang Wuya and Jiang Li witnessed the signs, and Jiang Wuya suspected the newly revealed Son of Destiny would become the Saber Dao Walker.

Ji Xiu, living as Wang Quan Wumu in the Yellow Millet Dream, was named the Saber Dao Temple’s Chief Disciple and Dao Child by Zhou Chongyang, who ordered him to tour White Mountain Black Water. After training and choosing targets for his journey, Ji Xiu set out from Great Snow Mountain in the Golden Carriage.

• The Saber Dao Temple’s giants agreed that Wang Quan Wumu’s gifts and achievements made him the leading candidate for Chief Disciple, and Zhou Chongyang formally bestowed the title of Dao Child who walks the world.
• Zhou Chongyang ordered Chen Changlu and the other Hall Masters to register Wang Quan Wumu’s title, prepare his ceremony, establish his Dao Child Hall, and assemble attendants and armored guards.
• Ye Nankai and Li Wangji accepted appointments as Wang Quan Wumu’s left and right true inheritors after witnessing his manifested lineage and Heavenly Mandate.
• Ji Xiu advanced his Three Tribulations of Reincarnation and Nine Dragons Nine Elephants Prison-Suppressing Profound Art, then asked Zhou Chongyang how to uphold the Dao Child’s prestige.
• Zhou Chongyang told Ji Xiu to advance his cultivation, spread his renown, strengthen the Daoist Lineage, and suppress his generation during the Grand Tour.
• Ji Xiu resolved to aid Jiang Shu and confront the Wang Quan Family’s ancestors, then departed Great Snow Mountain in the Golden Carriage.