Arc 1Chapters 1–25
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Li Yang escorted Shen Lou'er through the Mystic Demon Mountain Range while secretly deciding she deserved to die. When her lustful demonic nature erupted, he rejected her advances and offered her his sword hilt as a substitute.
Li Yang escorted Shen Lou'er to Myriad Phenomena City, intending to hand her over to a demonic sect elder, but discovered she had knowingly killed five nominal disciples. At Shengxiao Residence, he revealed that one victim had been his friend and declared he would kill Shen Lou'er to protect his Dao heart.
Li Yang fought Shen Lou’er in Su Yao’s courtyard after accusing her of murdering fellow disciples, while Su Yao refused to intervene. Just as Li Yang was about to kill Shen Lou’er, Lu Feng’s projection emerged from her token and stopped his sword.
Li Yang defied Lu Feng and killed Shen Lou'er in Myriad Phenomena City, despite the Six Desires Demon Venerable’s intervention. The Demon Venerable vowed revenge and enlisted the Demon Scion to target Li Yang’s loved ones, while Gu Luoyuan called Li Yang the true demonic cultivator.
Li Yang returned to the Mystic Heaven Sword Sect and defended his killing of Shen Lou'er when Lu Feng confronted him, insisting that a sword cultivator must uphold justice even at great cost. Lu Feng secretly planned to use Li Yang in a scheme against the Six Desires and Seven Emotions Demon Venerables, while worrying that Li Yang might disrupt the plan by crossing paths with the Ning Household Ancestor’s mortal incarnation.
Li Yang received a seven-pattern Foundation Establishment Pill, a sword talisman, and instructions to investigate demons in Yongning Commandery with his third senior sister, Ning Xinyao. After reaching perfected Qi Refining, he set out with her, and the chapter ended as he sensed demonic energy and flew off to deal with it.
Li Yang attacked the demonic cultivators terrorizing Stone Gate Village, refusing to stop even when they took villagers hostage. After the formation fell, Ning Xinyao rescued the villagers while Li Yang pursued the fleeing cultivators and struck down their Human Puppets.
Li Yang killed four Foundation Establishment evil cultivators, including the black-robed puppet-crafter, while the bloodthirsty female cultivator escaped in blood mist. Ning Xinyao arrived afterward and struggled to speak to her ninth junior brother about Shen Lou'er.
Li Yang and Ning Xinyao traveled to Yongning Commandery, where evil fiends were targeting Ning Xinyao’s Grand-Grandaunt during her reincarnation-style mortal transfiguration. After learning that the Demon Scions might disrupt her mortal incarnation’s wedding, Li Yang agreed to help protect the bride and arrived with Ning Xinyao at the Bai Household to apply as a guard.
Li Yang and Ning Xinyao attended a gathering of cultivators at the White Household, where Li Yang watched for evil demons among the guests. The White Household patriarch announced a contest using the Asura Battleboard to choose thirty guards for the wedding.
Li Yang entered the White Household’s guard-selection contest and killed a Foundation Establishment cultivator despite being only at the great perfection of Qi Refining. After rejecting Xuan Shi’s offer to make him a follower, Li Yang provoked the Demon Scion of the Heaven-Devouring Devil Palace, who vowed to kill him beyond the battlefield.
Li Yang defeated Xuan Shi by turning the Heaven-Devouring Devil Palace cultivator’s own suction against him, then earned a place among the White Household’s guards. As the selected cultivators received their guard tokens, a young woman arrived at the training grounds.
Bai Nishang, the Ning Lineage ancestor’s mortal-transfiguration incarnation, drew the attention of the cultivators guarding her upcoming wedding, while Li Yang remained unimpressed. After Ning Xinyao sensed danger around Bai Nishang’s maid, Li Yang confronted her in a silk shop, startling Ning Xinyao.
Li Yang exposed a Human Puppet in the silk shop and warned the maid about the dangers of speaking against cultivators, then advised her to leave the White Residence. The next day, Bai Nishang’s wedding began after she became a Qi Refining cultivator, while Li Yang and the Sword Alliance guarded the guests.
Li Yang killed a Heretic Cultivator during Bai Nishang’s wedding, then confronted Xuan Shi as the wedding party traveled toward Green Mountain County. When Evil Fiends attacked with a Blood Spirit Slaughtering Array, Li Yang uncovered Bai Nishang’s betrayal and led the Sword Cultivators into battle, leaving Liu Hao stunned as the fiends began to flee.
Li Yang took control of the Seven-Star Sword Formation and slaughtered the fiends, then pursued Bai Nishang and the mysterious cultivator despite Ning Xinyao telling him to stop. He found a group of cultivators fighting over the Ning Household Ancestor’s Mortalized Body in a village, where their battle had killed and injured mortals, and attacked them without further warning.
Li Yang cut through the gathered prodigies, killing the Blood River Demon Scion and his manifested master. When Gu Zang revealed that Bai Nishang had chosen him, Li Yang attacked Gu Zang, but Bai Nishang stepped in to defend him, giving Li Yang another target.
Li Yang fought Gu Zang and a coalition of prodigies who tried to protect Bai Nishang, determined to kill her despite their overwhelming numbers. After his companions escaped and his sword formation collapsed, Li Yang continued fighting alone, killed the Moonlit Holy Land cultivator with a Sword Talisman, and was left badly wounded by Golden Eyes.
Li Yang continued fighting the golden dragon despite his exhaustion, while Xiao Feng’s question about his resolve helped Ning Xinyao recognize his uncompromising principles. With Li Yang near death and his sword broken, Ning Xinyao gave him an Eight-Pattern Foundation Establishment Pill and the Blood Sea Asura Sword Art, and he began breaking through.
Li Yang rejected the Blood Sea Asura Sword Art’s demonic path, discovered his own sword Dao, and successfully established his foundation. As his newly expanded divine sense revealed approaching prodigies, a Karmic Tracking Array identified Xiao Feng as the mortalized body of the Ning Household Ancestor, and Bai Nishang ordered her to kill herself.
Xiao Feng rejected Bai Nishang and the cultivators who had exploited mortals, while Gu Zang killed Bai Nishang and captured her soul. Li Yang revealed himself and challenged the gathered cultivators to fight, and Ning Xinyao gave Xiao Feng an extraordinary sword.
Li Yang rejected Ning Xinyao’s plan to bring mortal Xiao Feng into battle, then took up the Phoenix Sword and charged the Golden Dragon. After severing one of the dragon’s claws, he faced the remaining prodigies as Gu Zang urged them to attack together.
Li Yang slaughtered the attackers with the Phoenix Sword until Gu Zang summoned the Seven Emotions Demon Venerable. As Li Yang faced the demon and the Six Desires Demon Venerable revealed himself nearby, Lu Feng sent three Mystic Heaven Sword Sect prodigies to reinforce him while he and Senior Yuan went to attack the demon venerables' true bodies.
Li Yang broke free of the Seven Emotions Demon Venerable’s illusions and killed him with a single sword strike. The Six Desires Demon Venerable then seized Xiao Feng as a hostage, but Li Yang answered his demands by attacking.
Li Yang killed Xiao Feng and the Six Desires Demon Venerable, then learned the commandery-wide crisis had been a planned operation that had drawn the Ning Household Ancestor’s mortalized body into danger. After the other cultivators fled the arrival of a terrifying power, a divine phoenix figure appeared before Li Yang and greeted him as her immortal master.