Chapter Summaries

At the Great Xuan Garrison Manor, Luo Daocheng punished Huang Laosan for taking soldiers without permission and warned Zhang Qing to relay the order, while a young officer plotted against him. In Anning County, Ji Xiu advanced his martial arts training before the county yamen summoned him because someone had arrived from the prefectural office.

• A guard told Luo Daocheng that the medicine trade had obtained the Prefecture Magistrate’s authorization to transfer Huang Bi Jiang’s hundred soldiers to Anning County.
• Luo Daocheng ordered Huang Laosan to take fifty strokes, spend a month in the Water Prison, and return to commanding ten men, and he told Zhang Qing to pass on the punishment.
• Zhang Qing reflected on Ji Xiu’s growing reputation and his own ties to Luo Daocheng’s household.
• Young Master Chai from the Firewood Trade dismissed Zhang Qing and plotted to remove him, while discussing threats facing Ji Xiu and Duan Chenzhou.
• In Anning County, Ji Xiu continued refining the Glass Roll and mastered three layers of essence in Ye Longxiang’s Head.
• The county yamen summoned Ji Xiu and told him that someone had arrived from the prefectural office.

Huang Chan brought a hundred Jiangyin Prefecture Soldiers to arrest Ji Xiu over alleged ties to Central Yellow, but Duan Chenzhou invoked an old promise from the Garrison General and made the veteran soldiers hesitate. Before the confrontation could end, a Wild Flood Dragon Lord and several Qi Refining Experts arrived to challenge Duan Chenzhou.

• Huang Chan arrived at Ji Xiu’s residence with a hundred armored soldiers and announced that Zhao Jiu had been removed as County Magistrate and Ji Xiu was suspected of colluding with Central Yellow.
• Huang Chan recognized Ji Xiu’s exceptional martial potential but still ordered his arrest to win favor with Old Master Huang.
• Duan Chenzhou confronted Huang Chan and reminded the soldiers that General Luo Daocheng had ordered them to treat Duan and his master as they would him unless treason was proven.
• Veteran soldiers recognized Duan Chenzhou and knelt, admitting their past debts and loyalty to him.
• A Wild Flood Dragon Lord appeared at West Street Wharf and demanded that Duan Chenzhou bow his head, while four Qi Refining Experts arrived to settle old scores.

Duan Chenzhou confronted the Fishery Trade’s attempt to settle an old debt by unleashing a Wild Flood Dragon Lord and four masters, while warning Ji Xiu to stay with Fan Nansong and Bai Shuo. As Duan strode to Anning Wharf, the jiao prepared to attack, but a mysterious young lord invoked Water Lord’s Manor and ordered it to stop.

• Duan Chenzhou explained that the Fishery Trade had once tried to bind him with a thirty-year contract, and he had fought his way to independence instead.
• Duan Chenzhou told Ji Xiu to stay close to Fan Nansong and Bai Shuo, then walked toward the docks to face the Wild Flood Dragon and its allies.
• Duan Chenzhou warned Huang Chan not to harm Ji Xiu, while Fan Nansong’s ties to the Ten Thousand Methods Sect deterred Huang Mi from intervening.
• At Anning Wharf, the Fishery Trade’s representative persuaded the Wild Flood Dragon Lord that Duan Chenzhou threatened its annual offerings, and the jiao prepared to attack the county.
• A vast blade radiance appeared, and a young lord rebuked the jiao, forbidding descendants of Water Lord’s Manor from disturbing Great Xuan’s border prefectures and counties.

Bai Shuo revealed herself as Water Lord's Manor's Dragon Girl and turned Lord Cangming against the Jiangyin factions, who had come to attack Duan Chenzhou and Ji Xiu. Ji Xiu defeated the factions' young scions across archery, Dao arts, fists, and weapons as Duan Chenzhou and Cangming captured their leaders; the chapter ended with Ji Xiu standing triumphant as county officials arrived.

• Duan Chenzhou wounded Lord Cangming, who recognized Bai Shuo and retreated rather than fight her.
• Bai Shuo revealed her identity as Water Lord's Manor's Dragon Girl and told Cangming that Ji Xiu was her dear friend's master.
• Cangming attacked the four Jiangyin factions' ships, joining Duan Chenzhou as the factions' Qi Refining Experts fought back and their juniors fled by skiff.
• Ji Xiu intercepted the fleeing scions, shattered Li Jing's arrows, made Xu Nan faint with a divine-soul shout, and defeated Chen Chuan and Xu Ji.
• Duan Chenzhou and Cangming broke the four leaders' Qi Seas and captured them while Ji Xiu subdued the scions and raised his Sea Foraging aptitude from 52% to 58%.
• Huang Chan arrived with the Prefecture Soldiers, and County Magistrate Zhao reached the wharf with an unknown jade-crowned youth as Ji Xiu stood alone at the prow.

After Bai Shuo and Duan Chenzhou’s party defeated the factions seeking revenge, the Dragon Lord’s daughter revealed her status and secured Lord Cangming’s service to Anning County. Duan Chenzhou then urged Ji Xiu to ride the dragon to Jiangyin Prefecture and use the defeated enemies’ lives to obtain resources for his cultivation.

• Zhao Jiu dragged Cai Zhen toward the wharf, lamenting that he could not protect Ji Xiu from the allied trades, halls, and prefectural forces.
• At Anning Wharf, Zhao Jiu found Bai Shuo’s party had defeated the attackers, shattered the Qi Seas of several experts, and captured the young masters who had fled.
• Lord Cangming called Bai Shuo the Young Lord and asked her to speak for him; Bai Shuo ordered him to protect Anning County under Ji Xiu’s authority.
• Ji Xiu pledged his loyalty to Bai Shuo, and Lord Cangming offered to carry him across the Eastern Cang Sea.
• Duan Chenzhou told Ji Xiu to ride Lord Cangming to Jiangyin Prefecture and use the defeated enemies’ lives to secure resources for Ji Xiu’s Skin Refinement.

Ji Xiu and Duan Chenzhou rode Lord Cangming into Jiangyin Prefecture with captured trade magnates and their allies, intending to demand resources for Ji Xiu’s Ascended Immortal Skin. At the ferry wharf, Ji Xiu announced his arrival by shooting the Fishery Trade’s Grand Sacrifice Flag in half.

• Lord Cangming agreed to carry Ji Xiu, Duan Chenzhou, and their captives to Jiangyin Prefecture, and Duan Chenzhou seized Vice General Huang Chan despite his protests.
• Duan Chenzhou told Ji Xiu they would give the prefecture’s powerful families half an hour to provide a treasure for refining his Ascended Immortal Garment, or leave corpses behind.
• Zhao Jiu warned Cai Zhen that Ji Xiu and Duan Chenzhou could become figures like Wang Xuanyang, and Cai Zhen took his sister home to discuss their family’s old grievances.
• At dawn, Ji Xiu and Duan Chenzhou reached Jiangyin Prefecture’s ferry wharf on Lord Cangming’s head, and Duan explained the Fishery Trade’s ceremonial flag.
• Ji Xiu drew Jade Shatterer and shot the Fishery Trade’s Grand Sacrifice Flagpole cleanly in half.

Duan Chenzhou and Ji Xiu entered Jiangyin Prefecture riding a flood dragon, forcing the local trades and halls to pay an Earth Treasure for their captured leaders and descendants. After Duan received Thunderstruck Calamity Wood and declared he would leave the Heavenly Saber Sect, Ji Xiu resolved to revive the sect and raise it to True Sect status.

• Duan Chenzhou shot down the Fishery Trade's Grand Sacrifice Flags and arrived at Eighth Grade Ferry with Ji Xiu and several bound captives, including Chen Chuhe and other trade and hall leaders.
• Duan Chenzhou gave the trades and halls half an hour to deliver an Earth Treasure or he would kill their captives, and Gu Qi hurried to contact them.
• At the Northern Cang Marquis's residence, Xiao Mingli discussed Ji Xiu's character and learned that he had entered Jiangyin Prefecture to collect a debt.
• Gu Qi delivered Thunderstruck Calamity Wood on behalf of the trades and halls, and Duan Chenzhou accepted it while saying he would erase his name from the Heavenly Saber Sect's roster.
• Duan Chenzhou released the captives and gave the Thunderstruck Calamity Wood to Ji Xiu, who resolved to revive the Heavenly Saber Sect and make it a True Sect.

Ji Xiu and Duan Chenzhou headed to the Heavenly Saber Sect, where Duan revealed that its inheritance came from the Ten Directional Heavenly Pillars’ Saber Dao Ancestral Temple. Before arriving, Ji Xiu swallowed the Thunderstruck Calamity Wood and completed the Glass Roll’s Jade Skin stage, ready to enter the Ancestral Hall.

• Ji Xiu examined the Thunderstruck Calamity Wood and considered how earth treasures could help him overcome the hurdles of cultivation.
• Duan Chenzhou told Ji Xiu that Full Moon Sky Saber came from the legacy of Wang Xuanyang, whose inheritance originated in the Saber Dao Ancestral Temple.
• Duan Chenzhou revealed that the Saber Dao Ancestral Temple was one of the Ten Directional Heavenly Pillars, and Ji Xiu eagerly asked about the sect’s remaining inheritance.
• Duan Chenzhou took Ji Xiu toward the Heavenly Saber Sect and said he would introduce him to Qin Zhuo and Sect Master Chen He so he could enter the Ancestral Hall.
• Ji Xiu swallowed the Thunderstruck Calamity Wood, shed his toenails and teeth, and advanced the Glass Roll to 1000/1000 as he reached the sect’s island.

Ji Xiu completed the Jade Skin stage of the Ascended Immortal Garment and returned with Duan Chenzhou to the declining Heavenly Saber Sect. At the ancestral hall, he glimpsed the plaque bearing the Five Decays Sky Saber and seemed to comprehend its aura, astonishing Chen He, Duan Chenzhou, and Qin Zhuo.

• Ji Xiu used the power of Thunderstruck Calamity Wood to finish cultivating Glazed Jade Skin, and the Primordial Dao Talisman showed the volume complete.
• Yin Hong and Li Songxi approached the shore, feared the flood dragon might threaten their sect, and recognized Duan Chenzhou and his prodigious disciple.
• Duan Chenzhou and Ji Xiu met Sect Master Chen He, who confirmed Ji Xiu had completed the Tortoise Snake Great Pillar's four volumes and invited them to the ancestral hall.
• Chen He explained the history of the plaque established by his father, Chen Danding, and Ji Xiu read its inscription, Five Decays Sky Saber.
• The Primordial Dao Talisman identified the plaque as Martial Saint peerless art but denied advance payment because Ji Xiu lacked the prerequisite Great Five Decays Sky Saber.
• Chen He noticed Ji Xiu had seemingly comprehended the plaque's aura, and Duan Chenzhou and Qin Zhuo turned their attention to him.

Ji Xiu awakened the remnant of Chen Danding’s Great Five Decays Sky Saber in the Heavenly Saber Sect’s Ancestral Hall and advanced to the third realm of saber arts. Chen He entrusted him with the saber plaque and prepared him for the Jiangyin Prefecture Academy, while Duan Chenzhou left under the new identity of Heavenly Killing Star to settle old scores.

• Chen He explained that the plaque contained Chen Danding’s Martial Saint peerless art, while Duan Chenzhou warned Ji Xiu about the dangers and burdens tied to the inheritance.
• Ji Xiu gazed at the Ancestral Hall’s saber-marked stone stele, triggered the First Decay of the Great Five Decays Sky Saber, and endured its tribulation fire as he comprehended the art.
• Duan Chenzhou adopted the black-market identity Heavenly Killing Star and planned to eliminate those who had schemed against him, while Chen He decided the saber plaque should pass to Ji Xiu.
• After a day and a night, Ji Xiu awakened with his saber intent advanced to the third realm and learned that he had made progress toward mastering Tribulation Fire Burning Clothes.
• Chen He gave Ji Xiu Duan Chenzhou’s embroidered pouch, passed him the saber plaque, and explained that it could qualify Ji Xiu to found a sect and nominate his lineage as the Orthodox Saber Dao.
• Chen He sent Ji Xiu toward the prefecture, where he would seek admission to the Jiangyin Prefecture Academy with a qualification arranged by Duan Chenzhou.

Ji Xiu returned to Anning with the Saber Plaque and found Nine Scales Attendant confronting him over his ties to Bai Shuo and Water Lord's Manor. The plaque repelled her attack, and Xiao Mingli's envoy arrived to declare Ji Xiu under the protection of the Northern Cang World Daughter.

• Ji Xiu rode Lord Cangming back to Anning, carrying the Saber Plaque and resolving to train before seeking a place in the prefecture academy.
• Lord Cangming sensed a powerful aquatic Aura at Ji Xiu's residence, then spotted a Northern Cang Marquis Warship arriving at Anning Wharf.
• Ji Xiu entered his residence and found Nine Scales Attendant accusing him of exploiting Bai Shuo and preparing to seize him for Water Lord's Manor.
• Nine Scales Attendant attacked Ji Xiu, but the Saber Plaque released titled saber Qi that cut her hand and forced her back.
• Bai Shuo rebuked Nine Scales Attendant for targeting Ji Xiu, while Jiang Li recognized the Saber Dao Ancestral Temple's legacy in the plaque.
• An envoy bearing Xiao Mingli's personal decree announced that the Northern Cang World Daughter had sent her to thank Ji Xiu and warned that anyone who harmed him would make an enemy of Xiao Mingli.

Ji Xiu learned that Shi Popo had come on behalf of the Northern Cang Marquis Residence’s World Daughter, Xiao Mingli, to recruit him as a retainer. After hearing that his Searching Mountains and Expelling Seas ability could help Xiao Mingli find rare treasures in the Eastern Cang Sea, he accepted the Marquis Residence’s offer and its support for his cultivation.

• Shi Popo invoked the Northern Cang Marquis Residence’s authority, and Nine Scales Attendant backed down after Bai Shuo ordered her to leave and accept punishment.
• Shi Popo revealed that she had once fought Buddhist soldiers and immortal armor alongside the Northern Cang Marquis, impressing Ji Xiu and alarming Fan Nansong.
• Ji Xiu realized Huang Xuan had likely used the Jade Marrow Cold Lotus to secure his future with the Marquis Residence.
• Shi Popo identified Ji Xiu as the fortunate person who had comprehended the Searching Mountains and Expelling Seas divine ability and explained that Xiao Mingli needed his help finding rare spirit fish and treasures.
• Shi Popo offered Ji Xiu a place as a Marquis Residence retainer, protection from interference in his Prefecture Academy examination, and help overcoming Earthly Treasure bottlenecks.
• Ji Xiu accepted Shi Popo’s North Cang token and agreed to meet Xiao Mingli after entering the prefecture.

After Bai Shuo left, Ji Xiu accepted her Azure Blood Dragon Core Jade and promised to answer her call, while he and Ji Wei discussed their plans to enter Jiangyin Prefecture. A month of intense training passed, and Ji Xiu mastered Ye Longxiang's Head as spring arrived.

• Shi Popo accepted Ji Xiu's agreement to enter Jiangyin Prefecture after the New Year and returned to report to Xiao Mingli.
• Bai Shuo gave Ji Xiu an Azure Blood Dragon Core Jade, and he promised to come whenever she needed him.
• Ji Wei asked whether she should go to Jiangyin Prefecture, and Ji Xiu encouraged her to seek greater opportunities.
• Jiang Li said she would accompany Ji Xiu to Jiangyin Prefecture and offer him opportunities connected to her past.
• Ji Xiu endured Tribulation Fire Burning Clothes while training for more than a month, then mastered Ye Longxiang's Head as spring arrived.

Ji Xiu broke through to Outer Force and discovered a way to advance the Ascended Immortal Garment by combining its training with the Great Five Decays Sky Saber. As he prepared to enter Jiangyin Prefecture for the Prefecture Examination, Qin Zhuo arrived with news that Duan Chenzhou had fallen.

• Ji Xiu mastered Ye Longxiang's Head, awakened Supreme Pure Aura, and reached the Outer Force stage.
• Ji Xiu began prepaying the Ascended Immortal Garment's Cloud Net Scroll and found that practicing it alongside Tribulation Fire Burning Clothes advanced both arts.
• Ji Xiu resolved to travel to Jiangyin Prefecture and compete in the Prefecture Examination.
• Qin Zhuo arrived at the Ji Residence wearing mourning cloth and told Ji Xiu that Martial Uncle Duan had fallen.
• Ji Xiu erupted with Outer Force, causing the Ji Residence's temperature to surge.

Ji Xiu learned that Duan Chenzhou had been killed after a fierce struggle with Jiangyin Prefecture’s trades, sects, and black-market forces. Despite Duan’s warning to endure and establish himself first, Ji Xiu chose to enter the Prefecture, seeking powerful backing so he could face his master’s enemies.

• Qin Zhuo arrived in mourning and told Ji Xiu that Duan Chenzhou had returned to Jiangyin Prefecture, raised the Heavenly Saber Martial Hall’s plaque, and challenged several powerful local factions.
• Qin Zhuo recounted how Duan was targeted by the Fishery and Medicine Trades, the Huantian Bandits, the Central Yellow Sinners, and the Heavenly Killing Star, and had died after being driven into the Eastern Cang Sea.
• Ji Xiu mourned Duan and decided to travel to Jiangyin Prefecture for the funeral, while Qin Zhuo urged him to avoid provoking its entrenched powers.
• Ji Xiu read Duan’s note advising him to find Gu Baichuan, enter the Prefecture Academy, and avoid conflict until he became a Qi Refining Expert, then destroyed it.
• Jiang Li explained the authority held by Great Xuan’s enfeoffed Marquises, and Ji Xiu resolved to strengthen his position by attracting the favor of the Northern Cang Marquis Residence or its World Daughter.
• Ji Xiu left Ji Wei with Fan Nansong, went to the docks, and rode Lord Cangming toward Jiangyin Prefecture, determined to confront its powers.

Ji Xiu set out for Jiangyin Prefecture with Jiang Li and Qin Zhuo, learning that Jiang Li was a powerful True Person who could help investigate his master's death. Along the way, Ji Xiu captured a Mystic Scale Dragon Carp, fought the Huantian Bandits, and arrived at the prefecture ferry, where the Fishery Trade’s talisman exposed the fish in his quiver.

• Jiang Li insisted on joining Ji Xiu and offered to help him contact the black market to investigate Master Duan’s death.
• Jiang Li subdued Lord Cangming with a trace of mana, and the dragon realized she was a True Person before carrying Ji Xiu, Jiang Li, and Qin Zhuo toward Jiangyin.
• Ji Xiu caught a Mystic Scale Dragon Carp and advanced his Riding Waves endowment after the fish mistook him for one of its own kind.
• Ji Xiu and Lord Cangming defeated the Huantian Bandits on the Wumeng River after the bandits confronted Ji Xiu over the fish.
• Ji Xiu reached Jiangyin Prefecture with Jiang Li and Qin Zhuo, but Gu Qi’s Spirit Detection Talisman exposed the spirit fish in Ji Xiu’s quiver.

Ji Xiu arrived in Jiangyin Prefecture and clashed with the Fishery Trade after its guards tried to seize his Spiritual Entity. Protected by Lord Cangming and backed by General Luo Daocheng, he left for the Garrison Camp after cutting down the guard foreman’s martial foundation and shooting down the ferry’s festive ribbons in mourning for Duan Chenzhou.

• The Fishery Trade’s Guard Team confronted Ji Xiu at the ferry landing and tried to take his Spiritual Entity, while Gu Qi recognized him as Duan Chenzhou’s disciple.
• Ji Xiu revealed Supreme Pure Aura and struck the foreman with the Great Five Decays Sky Saber, destroying his martial foundation as Lord Cangming stopped Gu Qi from intervening.
• Ji Xiu asked Qin Zhuo to deliver the Mystic Scale Dragon Carp to the Northern Cang Marquis Residence and asked Jiang Li to call on her connections in Jiangyin Prefecture.
• Zhang Qing arrived with soldiers and announced General Luo Daocheng’s order to bring Ji Xiu to the Garrison Camp, promising that no one on the dock could take him by force.
• Ji Xiu departed aboard the warship after shooting down every red ribbon at the ferry landing in mourning for Duan Chenzhou.

Chen Jing and Huang Ai moved to have Ji Xiu confined and investigated over his connection to a Divine Calamity, while the Pure Lands’ agent drew Huang Ai into their scheme. At Jiangyin’s Military Command Camp, Luo Daocheng met Ji Xiu and publicly asked him to become his disciple.

• Chen Jing ordered Chen Chuan to recruit Huang Ai and petition the Prefectural Lord to have Ji Xiu detained and investigated.
• Huang Ai agreed to join the petition, then raged over the loss of his family and demanded more Pure Lands Forget Worry Balm from Little Formless Temple.
• After leaving the Huang residence, the attendant revealed himself as a Pure Lands agent and said Huang Ai had taken the bait.
• Ji Xiu arrived at the Military Command Camp with Zhang Qing and saw the formidable Prefecture Soldiers.
• Luo Daocheng praised Ji Xiu’s abilities and publicly asked him to become his disciple.

Luo Daocheng offered to take Ji Xiu as his disciple, then explained the political dangers surrounding the Heavenly Saber Sect and urged him to abandon its burdens. Ji Xiu refused and declared three goals: enter the prefectural academy, defend his master's legacy, and eventually shoulder his grandmaster's inheritance.

• Luo Daocheng publicly offered to take Ji Xiu as his disciple, but Ji Xiu refused to leave his sect before attending Duan Chenzhou's funeral.
• Luo Daocheng revealed that the Heavenly Saber Sect's claims in Jiangyin and Wang Xuanyang's past had drawn it into conflict with the Dragon Elephant True Sect's struggle over its vacant Dao Child position.
• Luo Daocheng warned Ji Xiu that attending the funeral and claiming the sect's inheritance would make him an enemy of powerful forces, but Ji Xiu declined the general's offer again.
• Ji Xiu said he would enter the prefectural academy to earn Fame and Rank, defend the Heavenly Saber Sect's plaque and position, and inherit its legacy once he became a master.
• Luo Daocheng saw Ji Xiu's resolve and recognized in him the beginnings of a potential saint among martial artists.

Cai Ling'er, Ye Ningzhi, and Zhao Jiu defied warnings from their elders and set out to support Ji Xiu, who arrived at the Heavenly Saber Sect for Duan Chenzhou's funeral. Ji Xiu challenged the gathered opponents by declaring that his master's debts belonged to him, while a masked onlooker protested that he had never taught him such a rule.

• Cai Shoujing warned Cai Ling'er that the Fishing and Medicine Trades were trying to arrest Ji Xiu for colluding with God Spawn, but she left to seek help from her master.
• Ye Ningzhi told Grandma Ye that she would attend Duan Chenzhou's funeral, and Grandma Ye reluctantly let her go despite the risk of offending the Startling Goose Sword Sect.
• Zhao Jiu defied his father Zhao Ding and headed to support Ji Xiu after learning that the Northern Garrison Envoys and other forces had gathered against him.
• Ji Xiu arrived at the Heavenly Saber Sect on Golden Turtle Island aboard Zhang Qing's military warship, carrying the sect's saber plaque and wearing funeral white.
• At Duan Chenzhou's funeral, Ji Xiu bowed before the coffin and declared that a master's debts were borne by his disciple, drawing the crowd's attention and angering a masked figure.