Chapter Summaries

Lin Feng persuaded Mr. Hong to let him attempt to treat the Cold Poison in his body at noon the next day. That night, Lin Feng fused the Divine Farmer's Hundred Herbs Scripture with the Myriad Poisons True Scripture, gaining detoxification abilities and growing stronger before the treatment.

• Lin Feng showed Mr. Hong the Myriad Poisons Secret Tome and Myriad Poisons True Scripture, then demonstrated his Black Poison.
• Mr. Hong explained that the Cold Poison was strongest in his bone marrow and agreed to let Lin Feng try treating him at noon the next day.
• Yue'e escorted Lin Feng to his room, where he scanned and learned the manuals Mr. Hong had given him.
• Lin Feng fused the Divine Farmer's Hundred Herbs Scripture with the Myriad Poisons True Scripture, creating Divine Farmer's Myriad Poisons Scripture 5, which could mimic antidotes and detoxify poison.
• Lin Feng fused his other martial arts, raised the Yin Yang Swordplay to the seventh level, and increased his true qi to 1,024.

Lin Feng realized that the sun and moon could exist in his heart, gaining unending True Essence even under cloudy skies. He then began trying to break down Mr. Hong’s Cold Poison, but after an hour he had made no progress.

• Mr. Hong cleared the clouds with his sword qi, and Lin Feng changed his passive skill to Sun and Moon in the Heart, Unending True Essence.
• Dai Tianshou, Wu Jinlei, and Sword God Feng Wushuang each noticed Mr. Hong’s display of sword qi.
• Lin Feng demonstrated that he had perfected and integrated the martial arts Mr. Hong taught him.
• Lin Feng touched the Cold Poison on Mr. Hong’s calf with his little finger and tried to break it down using the Divine Dragon Myriad Poisons Scripture.
• The Cold Poison spread up Lin Feng’s arm as his True Qi fought it, but after an hour he had made no progress.

Lin Feng used a combination of poisons to destroy the Cold Poison in his own arm, then tried to heal Mr. Hong’s legs. He restored them briefly but could not remove the far stronger Cold Poison in Mr. Hong’s bone marrow, leaving him to consider ways to ease it instead.

• Lin Feng sent Black Poison into his arm to fight the Cold Poison, then added White Heart and other poisons when Black Poison began to lose.
• Lin Feng broke down the Cold Poison in his arm and proved he could control the frost on his body.
• Lin Feng pressed his palms to Mr. Hong’s legs and restored their color and shape, but his true qi could not penetrate the Cold Poison in the bone marrow.
• Lin Feng tried to draw out the marrow poison, but Mr. Hong kicked him away and warned that it was far stronger than the surface poison.
• Mr. Hong’s legs withered and froze again, and Lin Feng began looking for a way to ease the Cold Poison temporarily.

Lin Feng taught Mr. Hong how to use a true qi structure to counter his Cold Poison, allowing him to stand and walk again. Mr. Hong passed his A Sword Sunny Day technique to Lin Feng, then told him that his senior brothers and sisters would visit the next day.

• Lin Feng devised a way for Mr. Hong to use his own true qi to dispel the Cold Poison and taught him the structure alongside the Divine Farmer's Myriad Poisons Scripture.
• Mr. Hong mastered the structure, stood up, and found that he could walk freely and gradually wear away the Cold Poison in his bones.
• Mr. Hong demonstrated his A Sword Sunny Day technique and taught Lin Feng its forms and mental cultivation method.
• Mr. Hong asked Lin Feng and Yue'e to keep his recovery secret, then continued studying the poison scripture with Lin Feng after dinner.
• Mr. Hong told Lin Feng that several senior brothers and sisters would visit the next day and that they would likely bring him greeting gifts.

Lin Feng met several of his senior brothers and sisters, received gifts, and learned about their powerful posts at Cloud Sword Peak. After learning the Dai Family had traced its losses to him and might target him in the competition, he focused on preparing for the contest two days away.

• Zhu Linghua visited Lin Feng, gave him Grain-Avoiding Pills, and praised his vigorous qi and blood.
• Wu Jinlei arrived, ate steamed buns, and offered Lin Feng a day in the Mayi Guard's Scripture Repository.
• Ji Yunfeng and Hong Batian gave Lin Feng medicinal pills, and Lin Feng admitted killing Pale Scholar and four Dai Family members; Hong Batian warned that the Dai Family might target him in the competition.
• Mr. Hong explained the senior siblings' roles and told Lin Feng he would become Deputy Commander of the Mayi Guard after joining the Sword Sect as an inner disciple.
• Lin Feng worried that losing the Peak Master Competition could undo the school's influence at Cloud Sword Peak, then took comfort from Mr. Hong's calm and turned his attention to his own contest.

Lin Feng revealed that he had obtained the complete Innate True Skill Ten Thousand Snakes Emerge, giving Cloud Sword Peak a valuable path to strengthen its disciples. After teaching the skill to his senior brothers and sisters, he was offered a reward and began considering what to ask for.

• Mr. Hong explained how Innate martial artists refined their marrow and why mastering more Innate True Skills helped them progress.
• Lin Feng told Mr. Hong that he had obtained the complete Ten Thousand Snakes Emerge from the Dai Family, and Mr. Hong confirmed it was genuine.
• Lin Feng dictated the skill so his senior brothers and sisters could copy it down, then explained its cultivation to them.
• Mr. Hong praised Lin Feng for his contribution and offered him a reward, prompting Lin Feng to think of something useful to request.

Lin Feng collected fifteen Incomplete Innate True Skill Manuals and discovered they could raise many of his martial arts, saving them for later. Meanwhile, the Dai Family prepared to cripple two fostered sons and stack the martial contest against Lin Feng, who ended the chapter confident he would win.

• Mr. Hong ordered Lin Feng's senior brothers and sisters to collect Incomplete Innate True Skill Manuals for him before the martial contest.
• The Dai Family brought two fostered illegitimate sons to Earth Sword Peak and ordered a physician to remove their limbs for Dai Haochen and the Sixteenth Young Master.
• The Dai Family's middle-aged leader learned that seventy-seven Earth Ranking experts had been invited to oppose Lin Feng and planned to use the contest rules against him.
• Lin Feng learned thirty-one martial arts at the Mayi Guard and spent Breakthrough Points to fuse them and perfect A Sword Sunny Day.
• Lin Feng received fifteen Incomplete Innate True Skill Manuals and discovered they could raise unperfected Innate True Skills, but chose to save them for later.
• Lin Feng reviewed his martial arts and felt confident that he would handle the next day's martial contest easily.

After learning that the Dai Family had turned the martial contest into a group battle against him, Lin Feng chose to compete despite the threat of more than seventy Earth Ranking experts. He arrived at the Blood Battle Stage with Mr. Hong and a massive Cloud Sword Peak retinue, and faced over a hundred martial artists as the contest was about to begin.

• Wu Jinlei warned Mr. Hong and Lin Feng that the Dai Family had gathered more than seventy Earth Ranking experts from several sects to surround and kill Lin Feng.
• Lin Feng decided to enter the contest, and Mr. Hong urged him to show no mercy to anyone who tried to kill him.
• Mr. Hong's senior disciples gathered at the courtyard, and Mr. Hong announced that they would accompany Lin Feng to the Blood Battle Stage.
• Wu Jinlei, Hong Batian, Ji Yunfeng, and Zhu Linghua brought thousands of Mayi Guards and armored soldiers to support Lin Feng on the way to the arena.
• The Dai Family assembled more than five thousand people opposite Mr. Hong's group, filling the stands as the gongs signaled the contest's start.
• Lin Feng saw more than a hundred martial artists waiting to take the stage and resolved to let none of them escape alive.

Lin Feng warned the Mayi Guard and his allies away from the Blood Battle Stage, then faced the Dai Family’s hired fighters after they signed the Waivers of Life and Death. He killed the first attacker and charged at the rest.

• Lin Feng spotted two young peak experts from the sect master's lineage watching from a tower and warned the Mayi Guard members not to enter the stage.
• Wu Jinlei backed Lin Feng’s warning, and most Mayi Guard members withdrew; Leng Yu also abandoned her plan to challenge Lin Feng after his glare frightened her.
• Zhu Linghua urged Cloud Sword Peak’s allies to stay out of the contest, prompting more people to withdraw, while Dai Tianshou’s steward brought in family deathsworn to make up the numbers.
• The remaining fighters signed the Waivers of Life and Death and entered the stage, where Lin Feng drew the Demon Spirit Blood Drinking Sword and waited for an attack.
• A Star Pavilion martial artist fired a hidden weapon at Lin Feng, who deflected it, circled behind him, and beheaded him with one stroke.
• Lin Feng activated Soaring Cloud Riding Mist and charged at the other fighters.

Lin Feng slaughtered his opponents on the Blood Battle Stage while Hong Batian enforced the life-and-death agreement and stopped anyone from withdrawing. The other sects were left fearing they would not leave the mountain safely.

• Lin Feng used Flying Fire Meteor to evade the fighters’ attacks and killed more than thirty of them in under a minute.
• A fighter’s poisoned needles struck many martial artists, but Lin Feng dodged them, killed the poisoner, and finished off the poisoned victims.
• When A Sheng tried to leave the arena, Hong Batian declared that anyone who withdrew would have their masters and friends killed too.
• The elderly saber-wielder asked Hong Batian to let his son withdraw, but Hong Batian killed him with a sword flash.
• Zhu Linghua ordered her archers to exterminate the saber-wielder’s followers, leaving the other sects afraid to leave the mountain.

Lin Feng slaughtered his opponents on the arena, defeated the Dai Family’s suspicions and earned the first match’s reward. The Dai Family announced that the next matches offered a larger pill prize and entry into its dangerous ruins, and Lin Feng eagerly prepared to face the second round.

• Leng Yu learned that her master and Old Monster Hong had an old friendship, which had kept her from entering the arena.
• Lin Feng killed the remaining fighters, searched their bodies for supplies, and then killed the five Mayi Guards who begged him to spare them.
• Lin Feng noticed that his Equal Sword had reached the fourth level after the slaughter.
• The Dai Family steward declared Lin Feng the victor and awarded him one hundred Dragon Blood Body Refining Pills.
• The Dai Family announced five hundred Dragon Blood Body Refining Pills for the second match and entry into its ruins for the third, and Lin Feng looked forward to competing.

After winning the martial contest, Lin Feng visited the Sword Sect's Scripture Pavilion and scanned the manuals on its lower floors. Unable to enter the fifth floor, he realized he might still scan its books from the stairs and approached them.

• Lin Feng received praise from his fellow disciples after winning the martial contest, and Mr. Hong gave him a token allowing him to enter the fourth floor of the Scripture Pavilion.
• Lin Feng entered the pavilion with Zhu Linghua and Hong Batian waiting outside, then scanned the first floor's Low-tier and Low-grade Martial Arts manuals.
• Lin Feng scanned the second and third floors and learned from a guard that the Sword Sect kept most of its manuals in storage under the Sect Master's lineage.
• Lin Feng used Mr. Hong's token to enter the fourth floor and scanned its supreme arts, miscellaneous books, and volumes of Shenzhou Records.
• Lin Feng realized he could scan the fifth-floor manuals from the stairs without entering the floor, calmed himself, and approached the stairs.

Lin Feng used an elder’s token to scan the fifth floor of the Scripture Repository and obtain the Divine Sword’s eighth through sixteenth forms, then read a detailed history of Shenzhou. He looked forward to exploring the Dai Family’s ruins in two days and planned to spend points that night to strengthen himself.

• Lin Feng entered the fifth-floor doorway by pushing past the guards, scanned the remaining Divine Sword manuals, then stepped back and left after the guards denied him access.
• Lin Feng met Zhu Linghua and Hong Batian outside and explained that he had found nothing worth seeing in the Scripture Repository.
• Lin Feng read the Shenzhou Records and learned about the Dark Caverns, the Celestials, the other continents, and the human heroes whose descendants included the Sword Sect’s major families.
• Lin Feng anticipated exploring the Dai Family’s ruins after another match and considered how to use his points and Innate Void Shard to raise his strength that night.

Lin Feng encountered Huo Junxi, who revealed that Lin Feng had killed an Innate Realm Expert and tried to provoke him, but Lin Feng humiliated him in public. Back at Mr. Hong’s home, Lin Feng promised to share his perfected Yin Yang Swordplay in exchange for incomplete Innate True Skill Manuals, sending his Senior Brothers and Senior Sisters to search for them.

• Lin Feng overheard people discuss how the Dai Family might send Innate Realm Experts to challenge him.
• Huo Junxi announced that Lin Feng had defeated an Innate Realm Expert, drawing attention to Lin Feng’s strength.
• Lin Feng knocked Huo Junxi down, challenged him to fight on the Blood Battle Stage, and mocked him when he refused.
• Hong Batian identified Huo Junxi as the Huo Family’s second young master, whose Dai Family ties had helped him reach the Innate Realm.
• At Mr. Hong’s home, Lin Feng offered to teach his Senior Brothers and Senior Sisters the perfected Yin Yang Swordplay if they found incomplete Innate True Skill Manuals for him.
• Wu Jinlei and the others rushed off to find manuals, while Lin Feng returned to his room to add points.

Lin Feng used his martial arts manuals to complete and fuse several skills, including Yin Yang Five Elements Swordplay and the Supreme Sword Skill, and advanced to the Eighth Level of the Viscera Refining Realm. As he prepared for the next day's martial contest against the Dai Family, he decided to use his Incomplete Innate True Skill Manual.

• Lin Feng spent Breakthrough Points to complete 1,024 low-tier, 321 low-grade, 175 mid-grade, and 75 high-grade martial arts, gaining Life with each group.
• Lin Feng fused the martial arts into 60 ultimate arts and completed Yin Yang Five Elements Swordplay, upgrading its ultimate skill from Wind-Breaking Slash to Void-Breaking Slash.
• Lin Feng fused nine Divine Sword ultimate arts into the Supreme Sword Skill, bringing it to completion and gaining another Innate True Skill.
• Lin Feng checked his attribute panel and found that he had reached the Eighth Level of the Viscera Refining Realm and True Grade Fifth Rank, but had used up all his dried Demon Snake Meat.
• Lin Feng considered the Dai Family's likely strength in the next day's martial contest and decided to use the Incomplete Innate True Skill Manual.

Lin Feng strengthened his Undying Battle Body and showed Mr. Hong the sword art he had created, then chose to face the martial contest despite his teacher's concerns. Mr. Hong left Cloud Sword Peak alone after nightfall, dressed in black.

• Lin Feng used two Incomplete Innate True Skill Manuals to raise his Undying Battle Body to the fourth level, but could not advance it further.
• At lunch, Mr. Hong advised Lin Feng not to force himself in the contest and reassured him that a Mayi Guard inspector had gone to protect his family in Qinghe County.
• Lin Feng demonstrated his Yin Yang Five Elements Swordplay, impressing Mr. Hong with its strength and breadth.
• Mr. Hong urged Lin Feng to skip the contest, but Lin Feng said he wanted to temper himself while his teacher and senior brothers and sisters watched over him.
• Mr. Hong told Lin Feng he was relieved that Lin Feng could look after the others, then left for a walk and departed Cloud Sword Peak in black night clothes after dark.

Mr. Hong secretly reunited with Leng Youruo, assured her he would make things right for her and their daughter, and spent the night with her. Meanwhile, Lin Feng taught his senior brothers and sisters the Yin Yang Five Elements Swordplay, and they waited for Mr. Hong to return before heading to the Blood Battle Stage.

• Mr. Hong followed Plum Blossom Marks to an inn in Myriad Sword City, where Leng Youruo pulled him into her room.
• Leng Youruo learned that Mr. Hong could walk again and reproached him for staying away from her and their daughter.
• Mr. Hong promised to clear the Sword Sect’s corruption and hold a grand wedding with Leng Youruo, while warning that his Peak Master Competition would be dangerous.
• At Mr. Hong’s residence, Zhu Linghua, Wu Jinlei, Hong Batian, and Ji Yunfeng gave Lin Feng the incomplete Innate True Skill manuals they had gathered.
• Lin Feng dictated the Yin Yang Five Elements Swordplay, answered his seniors’ questions, and led them in sword practice through the night.
• At daylight, Zhu Linghua ended the practice so the group could rest before Mr. Hong returned and they went to the Blood Battle Stage.

Lin Feng faced a rigged competition against two Innate Realm Experts, while Mr. Hong warned him that the Dai and Huo Families intended to kill him. When Lin Feng was called to the Blood Battle Stage, he walked toward the arena despite the danger.

• Mr. Hong returned late to his group, claiming he had spent the night composing poetry, and led them to the Blood Battle Stage.
• The Dai Family announced a scoring competition in which contestants sparred with Second Young Master Huo and a mid-stage Innate Expert from the Dai Family's Ten Shadow Guards.
• Mr. Hong warned Lin Feng that the two opponents planned to attack him with lethal force, while Zhu Linghua and Wu Jinlei urged him not to compete.
• Second Young Master Huo and the Dai Family's Shadow Guard prepared to kill Lin Feng if he took the stage, and the Sword Sect disciples watched and wagered on whether he would dare.
• When the chief steward called Lin Feng to the arena, Lin Feng walked toward the stage as the crowd watched.

Lin Feng entered the arena and unleashed a twin-sword strike charged with vastly more true qi than he could normally produce. The dazzling attack blinded the spectators, and the two Innate Realm Experts facing him remained motionless as everyone’s vision returned.

• Lin Feng ignored Yue'e and his other companions’ attempts to stop him and headed for the arena, while Leng Youruo prepared for a possible fight.
• Lin Feng tore up the Waiver of Life and Death after the Dai Family steward said he did not need to sign it, then secretly charged both swords with true qi.
• Lin Feng stepped onto the arena and drew both swords, unleashing a red-and-blue slash before immediately sheathing them again.
• The sword light temporarily blinded the crowd, and a grandmaster-level elder praised Lin Feng’s true qi and sword technique.
• When the spectators recovered their sight, the two Innate Realm Experts still stood motionless with delighted expressions.

Lin Feng defeated Second Young Master Huo and a Shadow Guard with his newly comprehended Void Breaking Slash, then accepted the Dai Family’s reward. He insisted on entering the Dai Family’s ruins the next day, intending to use his spatial ability to destroy the family’s foundations.

• Lin Feng’s Charged Sky-Breaking Slash reduced Second Young Master Huo and the Shadow Guard to ash, leaving the Blood Battle Stage stunned.
• The Dai and Huo Family Patriarchs held back from attacking Lin Feng, while Mr. Hong praised his victory and his fellow disciples discussed his Void Breaking Slash.
• The Dai Family steward gave Lin Feng five hundred Dragon Blood Body Refining Pills and announced that the contest would continue tomorrow.
• Mr. Hong’s group prepared to return and review records about the ruins before Lin Feng’s next match.
• Lin Feng resolved to use his spatial ability to strip the Dai Family’s ruins and destroy the family’s foundations.