Chapter Summaries

Qu Chao Ci and the gathered spectators watched the Azure Profound Sect and Three Corpses Cave assemble for their sword inquiry. Zhao Qian and Lü Daoxuan revealed strength beyond expectations, while the Three Corpses Cave fielded nine formidable fighters, including two suspected patriarchs; the confrontation began with Lü Daoxuan calling on Jiu Yuanzi to draw his sword.

• Jiang Shuoxue questioned the Azure Profound Sect’s strength, and Lady Bixiao judged its seven Peak Lords among the Land of Chaos’s strongest in killing power.
• Zhao Qian and Lü Daoxuan arrived on the Sword Platform, having reached the Great Perfection of the Heaven-Connecting Realm, with Lü Daoxuan nearing the half-step Half-Immortal Realm.
• Zhao Qian and Lü Daoxuan challenged the Three Corpses Cave to a sword inquiry, displaying fighting strength that alarmed Heavenly Lord Hanjian and Lady Bixiao.
• Nine Three Corpses Cave fighters appeared, including Jiu Yuanzi and two figures suspected to be among the Three Patriarchs; the spectators noted that Lin Qinggu was absent.
• Lü Daoxuan called on Jiu Yuanzi to draw his sword.

Baili Yezhao of the Three Corpses Cave challenged the Azure Profound Sect, and Meng Qingqiu answered him with overwhelming swordsmanship. After splitting his river power and Yu Emperor dharma aspect with single strokes, she declared that killing people was easier than killing ghosts.

• Baili Yezhao revealed his formidable aura and challenged the Azure Profound Sect, prompting observers to suspect he had severed his three corpses.
• Xu Taiping reassured Qu Chao Ci that the Azure Profound Sect's sect master and peak lords could match Baili Yezhao.
• Meng Qingqiu entered the Sword Platform and displayed the aura-forging Sword-Forging Swordsmanship inheritance.
• Baili Yezhao struck Meng Qingqiu with his river power, but she split its wave with a golden sword stroke and forced him to retreat.
• Baili Yezhao summoned the Yu Emperor dharma aspect and attacked again, but Meng Qingqiu cleaved through the palm shadow and split the dharma aspect in two.
• Meng Qingqiu stood unhurt and said that killing people was easier than killing ghosts.

Meng Qingqiu repeatedly cut through Baili Yezhao’s enhanced attacks with her sword, overwhelming his defenses on the Sword Platform. The fight ended with Baili exposed before her and panicking as she prepared another strike.

• Yun Jiuyi and the other spectators recognized that Meng Qingqiu had broken Baili Yezhao’s extreme law through pure sword power.
• Baili Yezhao strengthened his aura and attacked Meng Qingqiu with enormous black-water palms, but she dodged them.
• Meng Qingqiu split a black-water palm and cut through Baili Yezhao’s spinning-water defense and thousands of water swords.
• Meng Qingqiu cleaved through Baili Yezhao’s great river power and his hundred-zhang waves, exposing him again.
• Baili Yezhao panicked as Meng Qingqiu’s sword cried out before her next strike.

Meng Qingqiu defeated Baili Yezhao in the Sword Inquiry, then conceded rather than fight Venerable Danji. When Danji attacked her, Jiang Zhi intervened and challenged the Three Corpses Cave.

• Baili Yezhao trapped Meng Qingqiu in a black coffin, but her Heavenly Thunder Sword destroyed his Dragon Gate and forced him to concede.
• Venerable Danji arrived on the Sword Platform, and Baili Yezhao thanked him before Danji kicked him off the platform.
• Meng Qingqiu declined to fight Danji, saying she was the weakest of the Seven Peak Lords and no match for him.
• Venerable Danji attacked Meng Qingqiu, but a greatsword shattered his fist shadow and sent him flying.
• Jiang Zhi landed on the greatsword, told Meng Qingqiu to rest, and challenged the Three Corpses Cave to a Sword Inquiry.

Jiang Zhi fought Venerable Danji on the Sword Platform, revealing that her Azure Profound Sect swordsmanship summoned genuine weapons through the Taixuan Sect’s Sword-Forging Swordsmanship. She countered Danji’s Pill Fire attacks and pierced his fiery cauldron with a third flying sword, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Jiang Zhi repelled Venerable Danji’s opening assault with the Azure Cauldron and Geng Tiger swords, while spectators recognized them as genuine weapons forged through the Taixuan Sect inheritance.
• Venerable Danji unleashed True Explication of Pill Fire, filling the Sword Platform with flames and poisonous vines as Jiang Zhi’s two swords blocked them.
• Venerable Danji gathered the flames into a giant Pill Fire cauldron and hurled it over Jiang Zhi.
• Jiang Zhi summoned a third flying sword carrying the aura of waters and marshes, which pierced and shattered the cauldron.

Jiang Zhi defeated Venerable Danji by unleashing eighty-one flying swords, and the Three Corpses Cave chose Luo Hong for the next Sword Inquiry. Recognizing Luo Hong as the start of the Cave’s planned attack, Xu Taiping urged Lü Daoxuan to have Sect Master Zhao Qian replace Jiang Zhi.

• Venerable Danji pressed Jiang Zhi with his pill fire, sword, and hammer, but Jiang Zhi revealed eighty-one flying swords and tore apart his body and nascent soul.
• Jiu Yuanzi restrained Luo Hong and the others from intervening, then appointed Luo Hong to fight in the next Sword Inquiry.
• Jiang Zhi reminded Jiu Yuanzi that the Three Corpses Cave had taken her junior sister Buyu years earlier.
• Xu Taiping recognized Luo Hong as the beginning of the Three Corpses Cave’s underhanded scheme and asked Lü Daoxuan to send Sect Master Zhao Qian in Jiang Zhi’s place.

After Xu Taiping warned Lü Daoxuan about Three Corpses Cave’s strength, Lü Daoxuan had Jiang Zhi concede her bout against Luo Hong and sent Zhao Qian to fight instead. Jiu Yuanzi grew wary of the Azure Profound Sect’s unexpected move, and a gray-mist figure told him to watch the next round first.

• Xu Taiping’s warning led Lü Daoxuan to suspect Luo Hong was more dangerous than expected and decide to change fighters.
• Luo Hong arrived on the Sword Platform and displayed an aura that rivaled Jiang Zhi’s, drawing the spectators’ attention.
• Lü Daoxuan told Jiang Zhi to concede, and she obeyed by withdrawing from the bout.
• Jiu Yuanzi questioned Lü Daoxuan about Jiang Zhi’s concession, while a gray-mist figure reported that nothing unusual had happened yet.
• Zhao Qian entered the Sword Platform in Jiang Zhi’s place, surprising Luo Hong and the spectators.
• Jiu Yuanzi questioned the Azure Profound Sect’s choice, and a gray-mist figure advised him to watch the round first.

Luo Hong fought Zhao Qian in the Sword Inquiry, revealing overwhelming cultivation and pressing the Azure Profound Sect master with powerful techniques. Zhao Qian endured the attacks and unveiled a Shangqing Ultimate Dao Geng Metal Sword Bone, leaving the duel at a dramatic turning point.

• Jiu Yuanzi lifted Luo Hong’s Three Corpses restrictions, and Zhao Qian stepped forward as the Azure Profound Sect’s challenger.
• Luo Hong’s aura surged to near Dao Integration Heaven-Penetrating Great Perfection, shocking the spectators.
• Luo Hong struck Zhao Qian with his Heaven-Cutting Finger, but Zhao Qian’s Geng Metal Sword Bone shattered the attack.
• Luo Hong followed with the Extreme Law Heaven-Trapping Palm, tearing Zhao Qian’s body apart and binding him to the ground.
• Zhao Qian recited an incantation, transformed into a thousand-zhang black iron skeleton, and revealed an Ultimate Dao Geng Metal Sword Bone integrated with Shangqing.

Zhao Qian manifested an Ultimate Dao Geng Metal Sword Bone, which withstood Luo Hong’s initial attack as it began to restore itself. Luo Hong then blocked the Geng Metal power and sent three corpse clones after Zhao Qian, leaving the sword bone damaged for the first time.

• Yun Jiuyi explained that an Ultimate Dao Geng Metal Sword Bone could embody the Shangqing Geng Metal Edict, and Jiang Fu judged that Zhao Qian had only recently reached that realm.
• Luo Hong struck Zhao Qian with his Corpse-Slaying Saber, but the sword bone remained unscathed and knocked Luo Hong back.
• Zhao Qian’s Immortal Carp flew from his spine as Geng Metal power from the Shaking Light Ruins and Ziwei Star Domain gathered to restore his body.
• Luo Hong used his Immortal-Fixing Mirror to block the gathering Geng Metal power, then struck Zhao Qian with Heaven-Trapping Palm and corpse-feeding power.
• Luo Hong released three clones made from his severed corpses, and their attacks damaged Zhao Qian’s Geng Metal Sword Bone for the first time.

Zhao Qian tested his ultimate Dao Geng Metal Sword Bone against Luo Hong, whose Three Corpses clones were destroyed by a single sword strike. Luo Hong unlocked his half-immortal power, but Zhao Qian answered with his ultimate technique and pierced through Luo Hong’s Dharma Aspect.

• Luo Hong’s Three Corpses clones repeatedly attacked Zhao Qian, who used their blows to test his Geng Metal Sword Bone body.
• Zhao Qian summoned Immortal Carp and unleashed a Geng Metal sword strike that annihilated all three clones.
• Luo Hong’s aura surged after his Three Corpses Seal was released, allowing him to wield half-immortal combat strength.
• Luo Hong attacked Zhao Qian with his half-immortal edict, and Zhao Qian transformed into a fire dragon sword image.
• Zhao Qian used Ultimate Dao: Fire Dragon Swallows the Sun to pierce and shatter Luo Hong’s Dharma Aspect, then declared, “This is Qingxuan’s sword!”

Zhao Qian defeated Luo Hong in the sword inquiry, but the Azure Profound Sect realized the Three Corpses Cave’s remaining cultivators might hide similar threats. Xu Taiping suspected a half-immortal was still waiting to act and wondered whose identity they would use.

• Luo Hong used Heaven-Trapping Palm, but Zhao Qian drew Immortal Carp and unleashed thunder and fire sword shadows that tore Luo Hong’s body apart.
• Luo Hong struck back with his Corpse-Slaying Saber, but Zhao Qian appeared behind him and cleaved him in two.
• Jiu Yuanzi warned Luo Hong that continued resistance could scatter his soul, so Luo Hong conceded the round.
• Lady Bixiao and Heavenly Lord Hanjian cautioned that other Three Corpses Cave cultivators might wield the same unusual power as Luo Hong.
• Jiang Shuoxue deduced that both sects had secretly used heavenly-secrets deduction, and Xu Taiping told Qu Chao Ci that the revelation would not change much.
• Xu Taiping wondered whose identity the hidden half-immortal would use to intervene.

Xu Taiping realized Three Corpses Cave was using Pengzhi Ancestor to ambush Zhao Qian, but Zhao Qian conceded before the fight began. Lü Daoxuan then challenged Pengzhi Ancestor himself, surprising the gathered cultivators.

• Fuyao Venerable and Venerable Xuanque challenged Zhao Qian and quickly lost.
• Pengzhi Ancestor entered the Sword Inquiry, and Xu Taiping deduced that he had prepared a killing move for Zhao Qian.
• Jiu Yuanzi and Pengjiao Ancestor planned to use Pengzhi Ancestor to kill Zhao Qian and clear the way for the Immortal-Subduing Grand Formation.
• Zhao Qian conceded before Pengzhi Ancestor could attack.
• Lü Daoxuan challenged Pengzhi Ancestor, prompting an uproar among the gathered cultivators.

Lü Daoxuan took the field against Pengzhi Ancestor, whose storm-form attack was shattered by a single devastating sword strike. The spectators were left stunned by Lü Daoxuan’s power as the battle’s outcome remained unresolved.

• Jiang Shuoxue, Xiao Huang, Yun Jiuyi, and Jiang Fu speculated that Lü Daoxuan’s sudden appearance meant the Azure Profound Sect had foreseen Pengzhi Ancestor’s strength.
• Heavenly Lord Hanjian and Lady Bixiao worried that Lü Daoxuan would be too depleted to face the Three Corpses Cave’s remaining fighters, while Qu Ningshuang suggested Xu Taiping or Dugu Qingxiao might have reached the Shaking Light Ruins.
• Qu Chao Ci voiced her suspicion that the Three Corpses Cave had hidden tricks, and Xu Taiping reassured her that Lü Daoxuan’s sword was exceptionally sharp.
• Pengzhi Ancestor transformed into a vast storm phantom and challenged Lü Daoxuan to draw his sword.
• Lü Daoxuan unleashed a golden sword strike that split Pengzhi Ancestor’s storm phantom, then cut it into countless pieces and blew it apart.
• Yun Jiuyi admitted that Lü Daoxuan’s sword strike put other sword cultivators to shame.

Lü Daoxuan demonstrated overwhelming sword mastery against Pengzhi Ancestor, breaking his spells and resisting his half-immortal-strength attacks. When Pengzhi summoned the Eastern Emperor Bell and shattered Lü’s sword barrier, Lü revealed sixteen Origin Law Divine Weapons, leaving Jiang Fu stunned.

• Pengzhi Ancestor trapped Lü Daoxuan in true fire and rocks with Great Dao Edict power, but Lü cut through the attack and destroyed Pengzhi’s Three Corpses clones.
• Pengzhi manifested his true body with half-immortal combat strength and struck Lü with a palm that Lü blocked using a crescent-shaped sword shadow.
• Lü warned Pengzhi to use his hidden methods, prompting Pengzhi to summon the Eastern Emperor Bell, which shattered Lü’s sword shadow.
• Lü unleashed waves of ancient sword intent and revealed sixteen Origin Law Divine Weapons forged on the Spirit Bone Stele, astonishing Jiang Fu.

Lü Daoxuan revealed sixteen ancestral swords and used them to destroy Pengzhi Ancestor and his Eastern Emperor Bell phantom image in an instant. As the Three Corpses Cave hesitated to send its next challenger, Jiang Fu declared that Lü Daoxuan was certain to obtain the Sword Ancestor's inheritance.

• Jiang Fu identified Lü Daoxuan's sixteen forged swords as ancestral swords with power equivalent to mighty edicts, while Heavenly Lord Hanjian steadied Qu Ningshuang's wavering Dao heart.
• Pengzhi Ancestor attacked Lü Daoxuan again with the Eastern Emperor Bell phantom image, but Tai'a pierced it and the other fifteen ancestral swords tore it apart, destroying Pengzhi Ancestor's true-body phantom, Nascent Soul, and divine soul.
• Lü Daoxuan put away his swords, apologized to Jiu Yuanzi for failing to rein in his sword intent, and demanded the Three Corpses Cave send its next challenger.
• Jiu Yuanzi called for a pause and discussed the situation with Pengjiao as the spectators speculated that the Azure Profound Sect had gained the Taixuan Sect's complete inheritance.
• Jiang Fu said Lü Daoxuan's gathering of all sixteen ancestral swords made obtaining the Sword Ancestor's inheritance certain.

Jiu Yuanzi and Ancestor Pengjiao plotted to use Xu San’s defeat to summon the Half-Immortal behind the Three Corpses Cave and sacrifice everyone in the Shaking Light Ruins. As Xu San fought Lü Daoxuan, Xu Taiping warned Qu Chao Ci to have Heavenly Lord Hanjian and Jiang Fu set up their strongest restrictions, and she began relaying the warning.

• Jiu Yuanzi and Ancestor Pengjiao revealed their plan to summon a Half-Immortal through the spell seal on Xu San and activate the Immortal-Subduing Grand Formation to sacrifice the spectators.
• Jiu Yuanzi sent Xu San onto the Sword Platform, where Xu San unleashed his Three Corpses Clone against Lü Daoxuan.
• The spectators dismissed Xu San’s chances, while Jiu Yuanzi and Ancestor Pengjiao discussed sacrificing him to gain the Sword Ancestor’s legacy.
• Xu Taiping warned Qu Chao Ci to tell Heavenly Lord Hanjian and Jiang Fu to set up their strongest restrictions when Xu San released the power of the Three Corpses.
• Qu Chao Ci secretly began transmitting Xu Taiping’s warning to Heavenly Lord Hanjian.

After Xu San's Three Corpses clones were slain, Three Corpses Cave summoned the Half-Immortal Ancestor backing them, who unleashed blood-qi tendrils at the spectators. Jiang Fu and Heavenly Lord Hanjian protected their Immortal Boats with barriers after Xu Taiping warned them of danger, and Jiang Shuoxue learned they had acted on his message.

• Qu Chao Ci told Heavenly Lord Hanjian that Xu Taiping had asked him and Jiang Fu to deploy their strongest restrictions when Xu San's Three Corpses were slain.
• Heavenly Lord Hanjian divined that the people aboard their boats faced a great calamity and sent a warning to Jiang Fu.
• Lü Daoxuan destroyed Xu San's last Three Corpses clone, causing Xu San's true body to erupt with power.
• Jiang Fu and Heavenly Lord Hanjian raised overlapping five-colored barriers around their Immortal Boats as a Half-Immortal Ancestor possessed Xu San.
• The possessed Xu San sent blood-qi tendrils toward the spectators, but the barriers kept Jiang Shuoxue and the others safe.
• Jiang Fu told Jiang Shuoxue that Xu Taiping had warned Heavenly Lord Hanjian to deploy restrictions in advance.

Xu Taiping arrived at the Sword Platform in his thousand-zhang Divine Being Body as Half-Immortal Jade Dipper unleashed the Five Thunder Art against Lü Daoxuan. The chapter ended with Yun Jiuyi realizing Xu Taiping may have blocked the attack with his body alone.

• Jiang Fu and Yun Jiuyi learned that Three Corpses Cave had sealed the Shaking Light Ruins with the Immortal-Subduing Formation to sacrifice the trapped cultivators.
• Half-Immortal Jade Dipper possessed Xu San and attacked Lü Daoxuan, while Three Corpses Cave's cultivators surrounded Zhao Qian and the others.
• Qu Chao Ci revealed that Xu Taiping had secretly been beside the Immortal Boats and had just gone to help Lü Daoxuan.
• Jade Dipper unleashed the Five Thunder Art, and the observers feared Lü Daoxuan had been killed when the attack swallowed the Sword Platform.
• Xu Taiping appeared in his thousand-zhang Divine Being Body, and Yun Jiuyi realized he might have blocked the Five Thunder Art with his body alone.

Xu Taiping fought Half-Immortal Jade Dipper on the Sword Platform, initially using his Ultimate Dao true dragon divine being body to withstand Jade Dipper’s attacks. Jade Dipper revealed his Three-Inch Void Insight cultivation and unleashed a devastating thunder technique as Jiang Fu’s group waited for Ancestor Guanxuan to arrive.

• Jiu Yuanzi learned from Ancestor Pengjiao that Xu Taiping’s arrival might mean his combat strength exceeded Jade Dipper’s, while Jade Dipper ordered them to keep powering the Immortal-Subduing Formation.
• Xu Taiping endured the thunder striking the Sword Platform, then told Lü Daoxuan and Zhao Qian’s group to retreat and punched Jade Dipper back, shattering his iron gate.
• Jade Dipper solidified his flaming dharma body, struck Xu Taiping with a mace, and revealed his Three-Inch Void Insight cultivation.
• Jiang Fu told Yun Jiuyi and Jiang Shuoxue that he had summoned Ancestor Guanxuan, while Jade Dipper battered Xu Taiping with his twin maces.
• Jade Dipper invoked his Ultimate Dao Thunder Technique, merging the five layers of thunderclouds and sending a massive destructive bolt toward Xu Taiping.

Xu Taiping endured Half-Immortal Jade Dipper’s repeated Heavenly Execution attacks and appeared to be on the verge of defeat, but he suddenly seized and pinned Jade Dipper with sword light. He revealed that his cultivation was higher than Jade Dipper’s and displayed four-inch void insight.

• Xu Taiping repeatedly recovered from Jade Dipper’s Heavenly Execution and charged back at him, while the onlookers worried that his strength was running out.
• Jade Dipper continued striking Xu Taiping as the Immortal-Subduing Grand Formation trapped Lü Daoxuan and the others.
• After Jade Dipper’s final mace blow turned him to charcoal, Xu Taiping grabbed him by the neck and revealed his uninjured body.
• Xu Taiping pierced Jade Dipper with sword light, pinned him to the Sword Platform, and declared that he had won and would take Jade Dipper’s inheritances.
• Xu Taiping revealed that his cultivation was higher than Jade Dipper’s, and Yun Jiuyi recognized his four-inch void insight.