Chapter Summaries

Wang Quan Zhenyue revealed that he had deliberately drained Wang Quan Wumu’s foundations as part of a plan to extend his life through a Human Immortal Root Vessel and a Jiang Family marriage alliance. Meanwhile, Ji Xiu traveled as Wang Quan Wumu on his Dao Child tour and arrived at the Qishan Jiang Family to meet Jiang Shu, unaware of the upheaval his visit would cause.

• Wang Quan Jing learned that Wang Quan Wumu had become the Saber Dao Walker and Dao Child, and Wang Quan Zhenyue rebuked him for suggesting they seize his son from Zhou Chongyang.
• Wang Quan Zhenyue explained that he intended to form a Sacred Embryo and use a direct-line Qishan Jiang woman with Ancestral Blood and a Human Immortal Root Vessel to gain a new body.
• Wang Quan Jing agreed to replace Wang Quan Wumu with another son in the marriage alliance and arrange a wedding to help the ancestor’s plan.
• Ji Xiu traveled in a Golden Carriage with Ye Nankai, Li Wangji, and Old Saber Handle Liang, defeating heirs of true sects and orthodox lineages as his cultivation advanced.
• After ten days, Ji Xiu arrived at the Qishan Jiang Family and sent Jiang Shu an invitation to the Dao Child Advancement Ritual Ceremony at Great Snow Mountain.
• Ji Xiu sought a private conversation with Jiang Shu and planned to build a bond with her, unaware that his visit had caused an upheaval within the Jiang Family.

Ji Xiu arrived at Qishan Jiang Family as Saber Court’s Dao Child and discovered that Jiang Shu had been sent to Wang Quan Manor after his engagement to her was canceled. When Jiang Yushu tried to substitute his daughter Jiang Lingyi, Ji Xiu refused and insisted that the marriage contract with Jiang Shu could not be changed.

• Jiang Yushu welcomed Ji Xiu and his Guardian, Old Saber Handle Liang, to Qishan, though he was surprised Ji Xiu still appeared willing to honor the marriage alliance with Jiang Shu.
• Jiang Yushu arranged a lavish banquet and introduced his daughter Jiang Lingyi as a prospective replacement for Jiang Shu.
• Ji Xiu ignored Jiang Lingyi and asked where Jiang Shu was, prompting Jiang Yushu to explain that she had been sent to Daliangping of Wang Quan Manor.
• Jiang Yushu asked whether the marriage alliance could be changed, but Ji Xiu declared that only he and Jiang Shu could personally end their signed contract.
• Ji Xiu said he would not let Jiang Shu fall into the Wang Quan Family’s bottomless pit and announced that he was leaving to handle the matter.

Ji Xiu refused Jiang Yushu’s attempt to keep him at the banquet, and Jiang Nanke challenged him to a duel to defend the Qishan Jiang Family’s dignity. Ji Xiu defeated Jiang Nanke with the newly comprehended Wind Thunder Great Tribulation and awakened the Heavenly Machine Sight trait.

• Jiang Nanke urged Ji Xiu to stay at the banquet, but Ji Xiu refused, and the Saber Court’s attendants flipped a table in protest.
• Jiang Yushu sent Jiang Nanke to escort Ji Xiu out, and Jiang Nanke challenged him to test the Saber Court Dao Child’s martial arts.
• Ji Xiu drew Wang Quan and clashed with Jiang Nanke, whose Crimson Dragon Sword Canon met Ji Xiu’s Thunder Hub Tribulation Saber.
• Ji Xiu combined wind and thunder in a powerful saber strike, defeated Jiang Nanke, and made him yield.
• Ji Xiu perfected Profound Sky Forbidden, gained the Double Pupil trait Heavenly Machine Sight, and advanced Three Tribulations of Reincarnation.

Ji Xiu defeated Jiang Nanke at Qishan and departed for Wang Quan Manor, unaware that an imperial edict had ordered the Saber Dao Ancestral Temple destroyed. The Qishan Old Ancestor decided to join five other sects in ascending Great Snow Mountain for Ji Xiu’s Dao Child ceremony, while a young woman in a blazing red bridal robe entered Wang Quan Manor.

• Ji Xiu used his Wind and Thunder Tribulation arts to defeat Jiang Nanke, then tested Heavenly Machine Sight and saw through Jiang Nanke’s foundations but not Jiang Yushu’s.
• Ji Xiu apologized to Jiang Yushu and left Qishan for Wang Quan Manor, while Jiang Lingyi protested that the family had let him go.
• Jiang Longfu arrived and judged Ji Xiu’s talent exceptional, then warned Jiang Yushu that the Saber Court might collapse.
• Jiang Longfu presented the Profound Monarch’s imperial edict ordering forces to raze the Saber Dao Ancestral Temple, and the Qishan Old Ancestor reacted to its reference to the First Generation Profound Monarch and a Human Immortal secret.
• The Qishan Old Ancestor ordered the family to join five other sects in ascending Great Snow Mountain under the pretense of congratulating Ji Xiu at his Dao Child ceremony.
• Ji Xiu approached Wang Quan Manor as a young woman in red bridal robes entered its gates.

Jiang Shu learned that her marriage to Wang Quan Ye was part of Wang Quan Zhenyue’s scheme, but the Qishan Patriarch forced her to proceed. At Wang Quan Manor, she wounded Wang Quan Ye and defied the marriage, just as Wang Quan Wumu arrived to demand answers.

• Jiang Shu recalled how the Qishan Patriarch had traded her marriage to a Wang Quan descendant for a chance to help Wang Quan Zhenyue create a Sacred Embryo using her Crimson Dragon Blood.
• Jiang Qiyun escorted Jiang Shu to Wang Quan Manor, where Wang Quan Jing and Wang Quan Ye welcomed the bridal procession.
• Jiang Shu told Wang Quan Ye that the marriage defied her wishes, then struck him with her crimson dragon sword and wounded him before the gates.
• Jiang Shu demanded that Wang Quan Zhenyue let her leave or face her challenge, while the elders recognized the rapid growth of her cultivation.
• Wang Quan Zhenyue attacked Jiang Shu with a colossal hand, but a blade from the west cut through it and split the Wang Quan Manor plaque.
• Wang Quan Wumu arrived at the manor and asked why Jiang Shu had been made to marry him, declaring that he had come to demand justice.

Ji Xiu arrived at Wang Quan Manor with Old Saber Handle Liang and challenged Ancestor Zhen Yue over the Wang Quan Clan’s treatment of him. As Jiang Shu prepared to die rather than be used for her Crimson Dragon Blood, Ji Xiu stopped her and declared that he had come to take her away.

• Ji Xiu’s arrival and Wang Quan Wumu’s challenge caused an uproar at Wang Quan Manor, and Wang Quan Jing attacked the Golden Carriage before Old Saber Handle Liang shattered his fist intent and froze him with his aura.
• Wang Quan Zhenyue emerged and exchanged barbed words with Old Saber Handle Liang, then admitted to Ji Xiu that he had treated him as a breeding vessel to complete his martial path.
• Wang Quan Zhenyue explained that he intended to use Jiang Shu’s Crimson Dragon Blood, threatening to erase her consciousness if she resisted.
• Jiang Shu began destroying herself rather than submit, but Old Saber Handle Liang blocked Wang Quan Zhenyue from intervening.
• Ji Xiu stopped Jiang Shu, drew her into his embrace, and declared that he had come to take her away and that no one could stop him.

Ji Xiu intervened to protect Jiang Shu from Wang Quan Zhenyue, prompting Old Saber Handle Liang to fight the Wang Quan patriarch. As Ji Xiu watched Liang’s saber art and comforted Jiang Shu, a mysterious saber-light struck Two Realms Mountain, and he realized the battle might be tied to the mountain’s destruction centuries earlier.

• Wang Quan Zhenyue threatened Ji Xiu, but Old Saber Handle Liang stood in his way and challenged him.
• Wang Quan Zhenyue attacked Liang with his Killing Fist, and Liang answered with the Great Luo Life and Death Profound Saber Canon.
• Ji Xiu watched the fight and gained insight that advanced his comprehension of Three Tribulations of Reincarnation.
• Ji Xiu reassured Jiang Shu that he knew what she had suffered and urged her to pursue greatness rather than become someone else’s pawn.
• A dazzling saber-light struck Two Realms Mountain, and Ji Xiu recalled that the Blade Court Master had once split the mountain, wondering if this clash began that history.

Liang Jing and Wang Quan Zhenyue fought over Jiang Shu until Zhou Chongyang’s distant saber strike severed Two Realms Mountain and nearly killed Wang Quan Zhenyue. Jiang Hongzhen intervened to end the conflict, Ji Xiu secured Jiang Shu’s freedom and their marriage pact, and the gifts from his life as Wang Quan Wumu returned to his true self in the Real World.

• Liang Jing rejected Wang Quan Zhenyue’s offer to surrender Jiang Shu, and the two prepared to fight to the death.
• Zhou Chongyang’s saber strike split Two Realms Mountain and annihilated half of Wang Quan Zhenyue’s body.
• Jiang Hongzhen stopped Liang Jing from killing Wang Quan Zhenyue and arranged for Jiang Shu to leave with Ji Xiu under their marriage pact.
• Ji Xiu gave Jiang Shu the Wang Quan command token, and she quietly promised to return his kindness one day.
• The Primordial Dao Talisman carried Ji Xiu’s gains as Wang Quan Wumu back to his true self, who awakened two hundred years later in Cang Capital.

After mastering new Martial Saint techniques and strengthening his Daoist cultivation, Ji Xiu set his sights on defeating the Prefecture Clan, entering White Jade Capital, and restoring the Saber Court. He went to meet representatives of Great Vehicle Boundless Temple and Crimson Origin Hall, whose interest in him was tied to his past connection with Southern Bright Mountain.

• The Primordial Dao Talisman revealed Ji Xiu had mastered the Thunder Hub Tribulation Saber, Gale Wind Tribulation Saber, and their variation, Wind Thunder Great Tribulation.
• Ji Xiu resolved to vindicate the Dragon Elephant True Sect, contend for a place in White Jade Capital, and raise the Saber Court’s banner again.
• The Primordial Dao Talisman measured Ji Xiu’s Out-of-Body Daoist Merit at 577/1000 and told him he would need a Golden Core inheritance to advance into Mana Core.
• A messenger told Ji Xiu that Great Vehicle Boundless Temple and Crimson Origin Hall had sent representatives to invite him.
• Ji Xiu realized Crimson Origin Hall might be connected to the Southern Bright Mountain life he had glimpsed through Divine Talisman Fire, so he decided to meet its disciple.
• Ji Xiu entered the Marquis’s main hall, where Kinkui Dashi and Wei Zhao were waiting, and asked why they had come.

Ji Xiu turned away Great Vehicle Boundless Temple’s attempt to claim his Vajra Pestle and accepted a medicinal gift from Crimson Origin Hall, while Chen Xuanque warned him about the temple and explained the limits on his own authority. After learning that Xu Longxiang’s Dragon Elephant True Sect had gained recognition in Cang Capital, Ji Xiu asked Xiao Pingnan about Xiao Mingli’s condition.

• Kinkui Dashi invited Ji Xiu to Great Vehicle Boundless Temple and sought to frame the Vajra Pestle as a Buddhist artifact, but Wei Zhao challenged his claims and defended Ji Xiu.
• Chen Xuanque and Xiao Pingnan entered the council hall, ending the confrontation, and Wei Zhao gave Ji Xiu a Jade Cauldron Bright Light Ganoderma before departing.
• Ji Xiu declined to discuss the Vajra Pestle further with Kinkui Dashi, who left after Chen Xuanque’s warning about the Great Vehicle Boundless Bodhisattva.
• Chen Xuanque cautioned Ji Xiu against visiting Great Vehicle Boundless Temple, discussed its influence and the realm’s political troubles, and confirmed that the Dragon Elephant True Sect had been approved in Cang Capital.
• Ji Xiu asked Xiao Pingnan whether Xiao Mingli had recovered her former appearance after taking the Heavenly Material to a Pill Dao National Expert for refinement.

Ji Xiu learned that Xie Jixuan had used the Jade Universe Xie Family’s influence to block Pill Dao experts from treating Xiao Mingli, and he resolved to seek help from the Crimson Origin Hall. As Ji Xiu prepared to travel there with Xiao Pingnan, Xie Wen arrived to confront him, while a True Martial Dao Child reached Cang Capital.

• Xiao Pingnan told Ji Xiu that the Jade Universe Xie Family had pressured Cang Capital’s Pill Dao National Experts into refusing to help Xiao Mingli.
• Ji Xiu recognized Xie Jixuan’s actions as retaliation and privately vowed to kill him at the Dragon Lord Banquet.
• Chen Xuanque offered to seek help from the Crimson Origin Hall, and Ji Xiu revealed that his Divine Talisman Fire Dao art was linked to its Southern Bright Departing Fire.
• Ji Xiu decided to visit the Crimson Origin Hall to ask its master to refine Xiao Mingli’s Heavenly Material, and Xiao Pingnan and Chen Xuanque agreed he could go with safeguards.
• Xie Wen arrived at the Xie Family branch residence after becoming a Young Martial Saint and ordered Xie Jixuan to take him to Ji Xiu.
• A Great Sun Golden Chariot bearing the True Martial banners arrived over Cang Capital, and its attendants announced their arrival to the Dao Child.

Ji Xiu returned from seclusion to find the Dragon Elephant Lineage newly established as a prefectural orthodoxy, then revealed his martial arts had advanced dramatically. As he and Xu Longxiang prepared to seek a Pill Dao National Expert for Xiao Mingli, Xie Jixuan arrived at the Dragon Elephant Sect with a formal visiting card.

• Marquis Chen Xuanque secured the Dragon Elephant Lineage a grand headquarters in Cang Capital, and the new Dragon Elephant Orthodox drew guests from across the prefecture.
• Xiao Pingnan explained the history of the vacant manor and remarked that Marquis Chen Xuanque had treated Ji Xiu exceptionally well.
• Ji Xiu entered the crowded Dragon Elephant Manor, where Cang Capital residents recognized him as the famous Dao Child.
• Xu Longxiang discovered that Ji Xiu had brought his Heavenly Saber True Sect peerless art to the point of entering the hall and celebrated his progress.
• Ji Xiu told Xu Longxiang that Xiao Mingli needed a Pill Dao National Expert, and Xu Longxiang prepared to accompany him to Crimson Origin Hall.
• Xie Jixuan and Clan Elder Xie Xun arrived on behalf of the Jade Universe Xie Family and presented a formal visiting card.

Xie Jixuan arrived at the Dragon Elephant Sect with Xie Wen’s Visiting Card, and Ji Xiu attacked him before Xie Wen intervened and overwhelmed Ji Xiu with Martial Saint True Intent. As Xie Wen prepared to escalate the fight, a mysterious figure shattered his Martial Dao Heavenly Phenomenon and challenged him to test his strength against Ji Xiu.

• Xie Jixuan entered the Dragon Elephant Sect and provoked Ji Xiu, who recognized Xie Wen’s signature on the Visiting Card.
• Ji Xiu drew Wang Quan and struck Xie Jixuan with the Wind Thunder Tribulation Saber, but Xie Wen arrived on a Jade Dragon Horse and blocked the attack with his horsewhip.
• Xie Wen declared that he would teach Ji Xiu a lesson, then attacked him with Martial Saint True Intent while a Xie Clan Titan held off Xu Longxiang and Xie Xun stopped Xiao Pingnan.
• Xie Wen demanded that Ji Xiu kneel and renounce his marriage pact with Xiao Mingli, while Ji Xiu resisted and mocked him for wanting another man’s wife.
• As Xie Wen prepared to unleash a Martial Dao Heavenly Phenomenon, a huge hand shattered it, and an unseen speaker challenged Xie Wen to test his strength against Ji Xiu.

Qi Nanke, the Dao Child of True Martial Mountain and Young Dragon Tablet Champion, arrived at the Dragon Elephant Sect and stopped Xie Wen from attacking Ji Xiu. He defeated Xie Wen and declared that he would protect the Dragon Elephant Son from titled martial artists, leaving Ji Xiu to learn that Qi Nanke was his senior brother.

• A mysterious voice rebuked Xie Wen for targeting the Dragon Elephant Son, while Ji Xiu and Xu Longxiang wondered who had intervened.
• Xie Wen recognized the newcomer as Qi Nanke of True Martial Mountain, whose Golden Carriage arrived at the sect gates.
• Qi Nanke challenged Xie Wen’s arrogance and crushed his Killing Dragon Fist with a single strike, leaving him injured and shaken.
• Qi Nanke landed beside Ji Xiu, introduced himself as his Senior Brother Qi, and warned titled martial artists to face him before bullying the Dragon Elephant Son.

After Qi Nanke defeated Xie Wen and protected Ji Xiu, Ji Xiu challenged Xie Wen to a future fight to the death on Jade Universe Mountain. Qi Nanke then invited Ji Xiu to True Martial Mountain as a true disciple and promised him the chance to contend for the vacant Dao Child position.

• Chen Xuanque rushed to the Dragon Elephant Sect but arrived in time to see Qi Nanke strike Xie Wen from the sky and declare himself Ji Xiu's senior brother.
• Qi Nanke greeted Xu Longxiang and Ji Xiu, while Xu Longxiang dismissed the gathered guests so they could speak privately.
• Xie Wen agreed to leave, but Ji Xiu stopped him and declared that he would ascend Jade Universe Mountain after becoming a Titled Martial Saint to settle their conflict by strength and life or death.
• Qi Nanke praised Ji Xiu's resolve and invited him to True Martial Mountain, where he could become a true disciple and later contend for the Dao Child's position.

Ji Xiu and Xu Longxiang left for the Crimson Origin Hall to seek help refining Heavenly Medicine for Xiao Mingli, after Qi Nanke’s account of True Martial Mountain’s Dao Child secret reignited Xu Longxiang’s anger over his brother’s death. Qi Nanke then set out with Zhao Baijing to punish those responsible for the Dragon Elephant Lineage’s old grievance, while Li Qianyuan learned that Ji Xiu had arrived at the Crimson Origin Hall.

• Xu Longxiang rejected Qi Nanke’s invitation for Ji Xiu to become True Martial Mountain’s Dao Child and prepared to take Ji Xiu and Xiao Pingnan to the Crimson Origin Hall for Xiao Mingli’s sake.
• Qi Nanke explained that Dao Children faced deadly risks, and Xu Longxiang angrily challenged his claim that Xu Baxian had willingly accepted his fate before leaving with Ji Xiu.
• Qi Nanke received a list of those involved in Ye Wenjiang’s death and vowed to visit their households with Zhao Baijing to exact retribution.
• Li Qianyuan studied a portrait of a former Heavenly Master and wondered whether the figure had a connection to Ji Xiu.
• Wei Zhao told Li Qianyuan that Ji Xiu had arrived at the Crimson Origin Hall.

Li Qianyuan recognized Ji Xiu as someone connected to Southern Bright Mountain’s former Heavenly Master and offered to refine Heavenly Medicine in exchange for bringing him to a hidden inheritance and petitioning for Heavenly Ordination. Ji Xiu accepted after his Primordial Dao Talisman revealed an opportunity to advance, and the chapter left him poised to receive a Heavenly Master’s edict.

• Li Qianyuan saw the Heavenly Master portrait react to Ji Xiu’s presence and concluded that Ji Xiu was connected to the divination concerning Southern Bright Mountain.
• Wei Zhao told Li Qianyuan that Ji Xiu had come with Xiao Pingnan and Xu Longxiang to seek Heavenly Medicine for Xiao Mingli, prompting Li Qianyuan to meet them.
• Li Qianyuan sensed the Heavenly Master Statue responding to Ji Xiu and offered to refine the medicine without charge if Ji Xiu helped open Zhang Chunyang’s hidden inheritance.
• Li Qianyuan revealed the portrait of Zhang Xuanye, and Ji Xiu recognized him as the figure he had encountered in his Yellow Millet Dream.
• Li Qianyuan invited Ji Xiu to petition for Heavenly Ordination, and Ji Xiu agreed after his Primordial Dao Talisman detected an opportunity to advance.

Ji Xiu accepted Li Qianyuan’s invitation to receive the Southern Bright Dao Talisman, which transformed the Primordial Dao Talisman and granted him new authority and a path toward Fire-element Divine Powers. As signs across True Dharma Heaven heralded a possible new Heavenly Master, the chapter left Ji Xiu unaware that his inheritance had awakened the realm.

• Ji Xiu agreed to Li Qianyuan’s proposal, and Li swore an oath before leading him into Crimson Origin Hall’s rear hall.
• Li Qianyuan explained how Heavenly Master Xuan Ye had once led Southern Bright Mountain and bestowed Dao Talismans on spirits, including the White Dragon Lord of the Eastern Cang Sea.
• Li Qianyuan showed Ji Xiu the Southern Bright Departing Fire Pure Yang Dao Talisman left by Zhang Chunyang and explained that it could ordain him into the Fire-element lineage.
• Ji Xiu touched the Dao Talisman, replenishing the Yellow Millet Dream and gaining the Heavenly Master’s partial Deprivation authority and the Southern Bright Departing Fire Divine Power.
• Li Qianyuan saw the hall’s spiritual murals bow toward Ji Xiu, while Heavenly Officials across True Dharma Heaven sensed that the vacant Heavenly Master position might soon be filled from Southern Bright Mountain.

The Heavenly Master's Edict chose a new master in Great Xuan Heaven, prompting True Dharma Heaven's Heavenly Officials and Zhang Chunyang to race to claim the fated person. Ji Xiu learned that Li Qianyuan could refine medicine to cure Xiao Mingli, and was invited to watch.

• True Dharma Heaven's Heavenly Officials jointly petitioned the Heavenly Dao and discovered that the new Heavenly Master's Fate lay in Great Xuan Heaven, then hurried to send their lineages after the person.
• Zhang Chunyang learned that the fated person was in Great Xuan Heaven and suspected Zhang Xuanye had arranged the selection; he planned to bring the person to Southern Bright Mountain and send him to Water Lord's Manor to open the Sea-Calming Needle's estate.
• Ji Xiu awoke in Great Xuan, unaware of the turmoil in True Dharma Heaven, while Li Qianyuan treated him with greater solemnity.
• Li Qianyuan identified Xiao Mingli's illness as the [Wood Element] divine ability [All Things Decay] and said the [Sumeru Immortal Fruit] could counter it.
• Li Qianyuan invited Ji Xiu to watch as he prepared to refine the Heavenly Medicine [Spring Before Illness] to restore Xiao Mingli to her peak.

Li Qianyuan revealed that Ji Xiu was the sole candidate to trigger the Heavenly Master's Edict and told him of a Heavenly Master's legacy hidden in the Water Lord's Manor. As Li Qianyuan began refining medicine for Xiao Mingli, the True Martial Dao Child started killing the clans named on his list, sending the Qin Clan into panic.

• Ji Xiu pressed Li Qianyuan for the origins of the power that had ruined Xiao Mingli's cultivation, and Li Qianyuan identified Jianmu Palace as its likely source and warned him not to act rashly.
• Li Qianyuan explained that the Heavenly Master's Edict had marked Ji Xiu as its sole candidate and revealed that the Water Lord's Manor concealed a Sea-Calming Needle and a legacy of Heavenly Master Xuan Ye.
• Ji Xiu showed Li Qianyuan his Dragon Lord Banquet invitation, and Li Qianyuan promised to refine Heavenly Medicine for Ji Xiu and the Northern Cang Marquis within seven days.
• The Qin, Dugu, and Yuwen clan leaders debated whether to continue opposing Ji Xiu, but a messenger reported that the True Martial Dao Child had killed Qin Chang'an and was heading for the Dugu and Yuwen clans.
• Qin Baisheng abandoned thoughts of revenge and rushed to seek King Yan's intervention, fearing the True Martial Dao Child would destroy the clans on his list.