Chapter Summaries

Fairy Ningyu asked Ye Han to help her kill Sword Twenty-Nine, a Golden Core elder of the allied Yin-Yang Sword Sect who had betrayed and nearly killed her over a treasure. She explained that he had also blamed her for their fellow cultivators’ deaths, and Ye Han was left weighing the dangerous request.

• Fairy Ningyu enveloped herself and Ye Han in restriction runes and asked for his help dealing with an enemy.
• Ye Han questioned the risks, and Fairy Ningyu reminded him of their past deception in the Darkness Forbidden Ground.
• Fairy Ningyu revealed that a close friend had betrayed her and caused the injury that once drove her to seek treasures in the Darkness Forbidden Ground.
• Fairy Ningyu identified the traitor as Sword Twenty-Nine, a Golden Core elder of the Yin-Yang Sword Sect.
• Fairy Ningyu recounted how Sword Twenty-Nine had betrayed her over a treasure, nearly killed her, and accused her of causing their fellow cultivators’ deaths.

Ye Han agreed to help Fairy Ningyu pursue Sword Twenty-Nine after learning that the swordsman had obtained chaos divine wood, a key material for Ye Han’s Life-Bound Treasure. Fairy Ningyu revealed their shared past and warned that Sword Twenty-Nine was an exceptionally talented and dangerous Sword Cultivator.

• Ye Han initially refused to help Fairy Ningyu unless she offered him something in return, and she teased him before preparing to leave.
• Ye Han stopped Fairy Ningyu and asked what treasure Sword Twenty-Nine had obtained.
• Fairy Ningyu said Sword Twenty-Nine had gained a Nascent Soul breakthrough treasure and a piece of chaos divine wood, which could help Ye Han forge his Life-Bound Treasure.
• Ye Han agreed to help Fairy Ningyu and asked her to explain Sword Twenty-Nine’s background.
• Fairy Ningyu revealed that Sword Twenty-Nine was originally named Xin Er and that the Azure Profound Sect had exchanged her and another disciple to the Yin-Yang Sword Sect for him.
• Fairy Ningyu warned Ye Han that Sword Twenty-Nine was wholly devoted to the sword and would be a formidable opponent.

Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu disguised themselves and traveled to Golden Soil to kill Sword Twenty-Nine, learning that the powerful sword cultivator had been wounded in a war with the Three Divine Sects. Though Ye Han feared they could not defeat him, Ningyu saw the injury as her chance for revenge.

• Ye Han brought White Snow along in the Five Elements Soul-Suppressing Pagoda and traveled with Fairy Ningyu toward Golden Soil in disguise.
• Fairy Ningyu told Ye Han that the Azure Profound Sect had recruited new disciples, destroyed the Wang Household, and grown stronger after Ming Jing reached the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Ye Han learned that Qin Minghui had reached the Golden Core Stage for a special reason tied to her unusual identity.
• Fairy Ningyu explained that Sword Twenty-Nine was the Yin-Yang Sword Sect's Grand Elder and Golden Soil's foremost Golden Core Stage cultivator.
• Ye Han wanted to abandon their mission after learning how formidable Sword Twenty-Nine was, but Fairy Ningyu revealed that Blackwater Old Devil had wounded him during the Three Divine Sects' war with Golden Soil.

Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu discussed how to lure and kill Sword Twenty-Nine, agreeing to gather reliable intelligence before setting a trap. At the Heavenly Valley Mountain Range, the Blackwater Three Demons breached Golden Soil’s defensive wall, but a huge sword strike surged toward their forces.

• Fairy Ningyu explained why Sword Twenty-Nine would keep the chaos divine wood and why she wanted to strike before he reached the nascent soul realm.
• Ye Han criticized Fairy Ningyu’s vague plan and proposed gathering intelligence and using his Sword Dao to bait Sword Twenty-Nine.
• The Three Divine Sects’ Super Flying Boats bombarded the Heavenly Valley wall until their massive Spirit Cannons shattered its defensive barrier.
• Red Dragon Girl ordered the Blackwater Three Demons’ forces to attack the breached wall.
• A hundred-zhang sword light erupted from the wall and hurtled toward the incoming forces.

Ye Han disguised himself as a Yin-Yang Sword Sect sword expert and intervened when the Three Divine Sects attacked Golden Soil, taking on seven Golden Core Stage cultivators alone. As the battle spread across the city wall, Red Dragon Girl suspected he was Ye Han and resolved to kill him.

• The Blackwater Three Demons blocked a powerful sword strike with their coordinated treasures and wondered whether Sword Twenty-Nine had arrived.
• Ye Han appeared on Golden Soil’s city wall and ordered the defenders to flee before charging at the seven Golden Core Stage cultivators.
• Red Dragon Girl, Baleful Heavenly Venerable, Sound Demon, and four other cultivators attacked Ye Han, who fought them with the Great Geng Sword Art and the Soul-Slaying Sword.
• The Three Divine Sects stormed the city wall, starting a chaotic melee as some Golden Soil cultivators escaped.
• Red Dragon Girl recognized traces of Ye Han in the newcomer’s aura and swordsmanship, then decided to kill him regardless of his identity.

Ye Han fought off Red Dragon Girl, the Blackwater Three Demons, and four other Golden Core Stage cultivators before escaping with a sword technique. Red Dragon Girl suspected the mysterious sword cultivator was Ye Han and led the others toward Golden Soil's city wall while planning to report him to her Master.

• Red Dragon Girl and the Blackwater Three Demons joined four Golden Core Stage cultivators in attacking Ye Han, briefly sealing his spell power and surrounding him with their treasures and divine abilities.
• Ye Han broke the restriction with the Great Geng Sword Art and blocked the Blackwater Three Demons' coordinated attack.
• Ye Han fought his way through the seven cultivators' attacks, escaped their encirclement, and fled thousands of zhang with a sword escape technique.
• Sound Demon asked whether the mysterious sword cultivator was Sword Twenty-Nine, but Baleful Heavenly Venerable and other cultivators ruled it out.
• Red Dragon Girl recognized Ye Han's familiar sword intent, ordered the others to attack Golden Soil, and decided to report him to her Master.

Ye Han’s clash with Red Dragon Girl disrupted the plan to make him known as a sword cultivator in Golden Soil and draw out Sword Twenty-Nine. He told Fairy Ningyu that Red Dragon Girl might have recognized him but probably would not reveal his identity, and she asked why he was so sure.

• Red Dragon Girl led the Three Divine Sects’ attack on Golden Soil and charged toward the city wall after encountering Ye Han.
• Ye Han escaped to a mountain peak using the Sword Escape Art and considered how to avoid revealing his identity through well-known abilities and treasures.
• Fairy Ningyu arrived and asked Ye Han whether his intervention in the war had gone smoothly.
• Ye Han told Fairy Ningyu they would have to change their plan because Red Dragon Girl of the Blackwater Three Demons had probably recognized him.
• Fairy Ningyu recalled Ye Han’s earlier defeat of Red Dragon Girl’s forces and asked why he believed she would keep his identity secret.

Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu discussed how to use the Three Divine Sects against Red Dragon Girl and set off to pursue them. Fairy Ningyu revealed that Sword Twenty-Nine had killed her twin sister, the other disciple exchanged for him from the Yin-Yang Sword Sect.

• Ye Han explained that Red Dragon Girl was keeping his identity secret because she wanted his treasures, and warned that she might interfere with their plan.
• Fairy Ningyu proposed killing Red Dragon Girl, but Ye Han instead planned to disguise himself as Sword Twenty-Nine and turn the Three Divine Sects against him.
• Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu flew after the Three Divine Sects, intending to find an opening and seize treasures if necessary.
• Ye Han teased Fairy Ningyu that she would be his after he helped her get revenge, and she replied that everything was his if he succeeded.
• Ye Han asked who the other disciple exchanged for Sword Twenty-Nine had been, and Fairy Ningyu said she was her twin sister, whom Sword Twenty-Nine had killed.

Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu found Golden Soil devastated after the Three Divine Sects breached its defenses, then rescued two surviving female cultivators from a cave. Ye Han urged them to spread a fabricated story that the Three Divine Sects had invaded Golden Soil to seize a treasure ground occupied by the Yin-Yang Sword Sect.

• Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu flew over Golden Soil's ruined defensive line and found no living cultivators outside the walls.
• Fairy Ningyu sensed danger, rushed into a cave, and killed Three Divine Sects cultivators who had captured Golden Soil women and used the Yin-Absorbing Yang-Replenishing Method on them.
• Fairy Ningyu carried two injured survivors from the cave, while Ye Han asked whether they wanted revenge against the Three Divine Sects.
• The two women said they hated the Three Divine Sects, and Ye Han proposed that they spread trouble rather than return to fight.
• Ye Han instructed the women to tell other regions that the Three Divine Sects had attacked Golden Soil to seize a treasure ground occupied by the Yin-Yang Sword Sect.

Ye Han recruited two Golden Soil women to spread rumors about the Three Divine Sects and used the scheme to draw Sword Twenty-Nine out. Meanwhile, Red Dragon Girl revealed that the Three Divine Sects planned to enlist the Black God Sea Demon Emperor to flood Heaven-Splitting Gorge, leaving her allies questioning how they could secure the demons’ cooperation.

• Ye Han gave two women Spirit Artifacts and healing pills, then sent them to publicize the Three Divine Sects’ motives and deeds across Golden Soil.
• Ye Han told Fairy Ningyu that spreading rumors would bring cultivators to Golden Soil and force Sword Twenty-Nine to seek them out; he had secretly claimed to the women that he was Sword Twenty-Nine.
• Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu spotted activity nearby and flew toward it.
• Red Dragon Girl praised the Three Sects’ victory at Heavenly Valley Mountain and described Golden Soil’s defenses at Heaven-Splitting Gorge and the Gray Mist Mountain Range.
• Red Dragon Girl revealed that the Three Sects’ patriarch had gone to negotiate with the Black God Sea Demon King, hoping to unleash the lake’s waters and demon beasts against Heaven-Splitting Gorge.
• Sound Demon and the other cultivators questioned how Blackwater Old Devil could persuade the Demon Emperor to cooperate.

Red Dragon Girl told the Three Divine Sects’ Golden Core elders that their campaign involved the Ascension Immortal Palace and ordered them to stay together near Heaven-Splitting Gorge. After learning that thirty-one Foundation Establishment disciples had died, she suspected Ye Han was responsible and heard that damaging rumors about the Golden Soil campaign were spreading.

• Red Dragon Girl said the Ascension Immortal Palace was one reason the three sects had united and urged the elders to cooperate.
• A Green Mountain Sect elder asked whether the sword cultivator they had fought was Sword Twenty-Nine, and Red Dragon Girl said he almost certainly was.
• Red Dragon Girl ordered the elders to surround Heaven-Splitting Gorge together and kill Sword Twenty-Nine if he appeared, noting that the patriarch would also pursue him.
• A disciple reported that thirty-one Foundation Establishment disciples had died after the battle, and Red Dragon Girl suspected Ye Han had secretly killed them.
• Red Dragon Girl forbade disciples from acting alone, then learned that unfavorable rumors about the Golden Soil campaign were circulating.

Red Dragon Girl learned that rumors about the Three Divine Sects, a coming Fortuitous Opportunity Site, and Sword Twenty-Nine had made Golden Soil’s situation increasingly complicated. She contacted her Master after revealing that Ye Han had appeared, and the chapter ended with Sound Demon asking whether Ye Han was really Sword Twenty-Nine.

• A disciple reported that news from Heavenly Billows had spread and the sect wanted an explanation, while the Golden Core Cultivators worried about rumors of their actions and defeat by Sword Twenty-Nine.
• Red Dragon Girl suspected Ye Han had spread the stories to draw other powers into Golden Soil, but reassured the others that the Zhuge Family would protect them.
• Red Dragon Girl entered her secret chamber, where her Master contacted her through demon aura after she struggled to suppress her killing aura.
• Red Dragon Girl told her Master that Ye Han had appeared in Golden Soil and injured her, and her Master hurriedly announced he would come from Blackwater Pool.
• After the Master vanished, Red Dragon Girl collapsed in fear and blamed Ye Han for her humiliation, while Baleful Heavenly Venerable and Sound Demon discussed her condition on the Flying Boat.
• Sound Demon asked Baleful Heavenly Venerable whether Ye Han was truly Sword Twenty-Nine and whether he was as powerful as rumored.

Baleful Heavenly Venerable and Sound Demon speculated that the swordsman who had fought Baleful Heavenly Venerable might have been an injured Sword Twenty-Nine. At the Yin-Yang Sword Sect, Sword Twenty-Nine learned of rumors about a mysterious swordsman holding off seven Golden Core cultivators and told Junior Sister Ning that the Three Divine Sects’ attack was likely connected to the legendary Ascension Immortal Palace.

• Baleful Heavenly Venerable told Sound Demon that Sword Twenty-Nine’s swordsmanship was made for killing and recalled that Sword Twenty-Nine had nearly killed him.
• Sound Demon suggested that the swordsman who appeared that day might have been an injured Sword Twenty-Nine, and Baleful Heavenly Venerable agreed that it was possible.
• Junior Sister Ning told Sword Twenty-Nine that the Three Divine Sects had broken through the first defensive line and that rumors credited him with holding off seven Golden Core cultivators.
• Sword Twenty-Nine denied going down the mountain and questioned whether the reported swordsman was a trap or an expert from another sect.
• Junior Sister Ning told Sword Twenty-Nine rumors linked the Three Divine Sects’ attack and Blackwater Old Devil’s assault to a treasure land, and Sword Twenty-Nine instead connected the attack to the Ascension Immortal Palace.
• Sword Twenty-Nine vowed to settle his score with Blackwater Old Devil and asked Junior Sister Ning whether she had heard news of the Ascension Immortal Palace in the past hundred years.

Sword Twenty-Nine told Junior Sister Ning that the Ascension Immortal Palace was expected to emerge a century after its phantom appeared and that its location might be connected to Golden Soil. Meanwhile, Ye Han continued impersonating Sword Twenty-Nine and prepared to disrupt the stalemated war between the sects.

• Sword Twenty-Nine explained that the Heavenly Calculation Sect's Spirit Immortal Venerable had died from heavenly backlash after predicting the Ascension Immortal Palace's emergence and mentioning Golden Soil.
• Sword Twenty-Nine warned that the Patriarch's proposed war of attrition was dangerous, asked Junior Sister Ning to investigate whoever was impersonating him, and learned that the Qing Xuan Sect had declined the Patriarch's invitation.
• Sword Twenty-Nine resolved to deal with Blackwater Old Devil before turning against others he suspected, then resumed cultivating.
• Ye Han practiced Yin-Yang Sword Sect techniques to strengthen his disguise and considered ways to overcome Sword Twenty-Nine's swordsmanship as the war remained stalled.
• Fairy Ningyu reported that the Three Divine Sects had made no move and few cultivators had entered Golden Soil, so Ye Han proposed stirring up trouble to provoke both sides.

Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu spotted the Three Divine Sects fortifying a mountain, and Ye Han devised a plan to harass the Red Dragon Girl’s forces. As he approached, he discovered a hidden alarm treasure and attacked it openly instead of attempting a sneak attack.

• Fairy Ningyu and Ye Han watched the Three Divine Sects build a fortified base on a sheared-off mountain, and Ye Han guessed the Red Dragon Girl was guarding against another major loss.
• Ye Han told Fairy Ningyu his plan to harass the sects, then teased her before leaving to approach their base in concealment.
• Ye Han used the Mind-Clearing Art to reveal faint ripples from a hidden treasure that could detect intruders.
• Ye Han sent a powerful icy Sword-Ray at the treasure’s ripples, choosing an outright assault over a sneak attack.

Ye Han attacked the Three Divine Sects’ unfinished city wall, destroying much of it and killing several disciples before Red Dragon Girl and the other Golden Core cultivators confronted him. Red Dragon Girl’s Life-Bound Treasure clashed evenly with Ye Han’s Taiji Yin-Yang Sword Intent, and the Three Divine Sects’ cultivators surrounded him.

• Ye Han pierced the Warning Treasure’s ripples and struck the unfinished city wall with a freezing Sword-Ray, killing several disciples and destroying nearly half the structure.
• Red Dragon Girl and the other Golden Core cultivators recognized Ye Han as Sword Twenty-Nine and rushed to attack him.
• Ye Han swept around his pursuers and unleashed blue-and-red Sword-Rays, further demolishing the wall and killing more disciples.
• Red Dragon Girl ordered the others to form a formation, then used her Instantaneous Movement Divine Ability and Life-Bound Treasure to attack Ye Han with a Bloodlight Blade Aura.
• Ye Han met Red Dragon Girl’s attack with Taiji Yin-Yang Sword Intent, and their powers collided in a draw.
• Sound Demon and the other Golden Core cultivators formed a ring around Ye Han as Sound Demon challenged him to escape.

Ye Han fought Sound Demon, Red Dragon Girl, Baleful Heavenly Venerable, and the other golden core cultivators who tried to stop his attack. After killing Baleful Heavenly Venerable and holding off their combined assault, he faced their unleashed trump cards as they vowed not to let him escape alive.

• Sound Demon and five other golden core cultivators surrounded Ye Han while the Three Divine Sects' disciples formed defensive formations below.
• Ye Han attacked Baleful Heavenly Venerable with Sword Escape Art and cut through his shield, seemingly killing him with one strike.
• Ye Han blocked Baleful Heavenly Venerable's battle axe and the other cultivators' combined treasures, though the assault drove him back.
• Baleful Heavenly Venerable reappeared at a distance, wounded and spitting blood after his treasure was destroyed.
• Red Dragon Girl ordered everyone to attack together, and the cultivators brought out their strongest treasures and divine abilities as Ye Han watched with a mocking smile.

Ye Han escaped the attacks of Red Dragon Girl and the other Golden Core cultivators by using a convincing double, then led them into pursuit. He secretly contacted Red Dragon Girl and proposed that they work together.

• Red Dragon Girl and six other Golden Core cultivators struck down what they believed was Ye Han, only to realize it was a fake.
• Ye Han reappeared a thousand zhang away, taunted the cultivators, and flew off as Sword Twenty-Nine.
• Red Dragon Girl recognized Ye Han but kept that knowledge from the others, suspecting he had another scheme.
• Red Dragon Girl and the other cultivators pursued Ye Han, while she grew wary of his intentions.
• Ye Han sent Red Dragon Girl a voice transmission and asked her to work with him.

Ye Han evaded Red Dragon Girl and the other Three Divine Sects cultivators while trying to persuade her that he had come to Golden Soil to target Sword Twenty-Nine, not her. He revealed that he had drawn the Golden Core cultivators away from their flying boat and disciples, leaving Red Dragon Girl alarmed about what might happen to them.

• Red Dragon Girl rejected Ye Han's offer to work together and unleashed a barrage of Bloodlight Blade Aura, though she remained wary of attacking him directly.
• Ye Han dodged her attacks and reminded her that he could have killed her people earlier but had chosen not to.
• Red Dragon Girl questioned Ye Han's real purpose and used her Fingernail Treasure to intimidate him as Sound Demon and the other Golden Core cultivators joined the assault.
• Ye Han evaded the group with his yin-yang sword intent and claimed he had come to deal with Sword Twenty-Nine, whom he had impersonated.
• Ye Han told Red Dragon Girl that he had lured the Golden Core cultivators away and asked whether the disciples and flying boat they left behind would be safe, shocking her.

Ye Han tricked Red Dragon Girl and the others into returning to their position and wasting their Teleportation Talismans. After escaping, he was confronted by a Yin-Yang Sword Sect cultivator over impersonating its grand elder.

• Ye Han made Red Dragon Girl and the others believe their position was under attack, so they abandoned their pursuit and rushed back.
• Ye Han vanished after promising Red Dragon Girl he would contact her, while she ordered the others to use their Teleportation Talismans.
• Red Dragon Girl and the others returned to find that a Golden Core Stage cultivator had only launched talismans and fled, realizing Ye Han had tricked them into wasting their talismans.
• Ye Han flew over a mountain peak, where a Yin-Yang Sword Sect cultivator confronted him and demanded an explanation for impersonating the sect’s grand elder.