Chapter Summaries

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 accepted his master's order to escort Shen Lou'er safely through the Mystic Demon Mountain Range to Myriad Phenomena City.
• Shen Lou'er asked Li Yang whether she deserved to die for killing five nominal disciples, while each privately judged the other.
• After a month on the road, Shen Lou'er used her charm and pressed against Li Yang, but he pulled away and condemned her.
• Shen Lou'er's lustful demonic nature erupted, and she begged Li Yang to take her; he slapped her off the flying sword and refused.
• Shen Lou'er unleashed her innate charm and offered him the benefits of her primal yin essence, but Li Yang drew his sword and offered her its yang-aspected hilt instead.

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 resisted Shen Lou'er's demonic influence and continued guiding her through the Mystic Demon Mountain Range toward Myriad Phenomena City.
• After they reached the city, Li Yang told Shen Lou'er he would take her to Shengxiao Residence, where an elder from a major demonic sect could take her to the Southern Region.
• Outside Shengxiao Residence, Shen Lou'er admitted that she had deliberately killed five people with elemental constitutions to develop her six desires demon body.
• Li Yang recognized Holy Maiden Su Yao when she opened the residence door, kicked Shen Lou'er inside, and shut the entrance.
• Li Yang told Shen Lou'er that one of her victims, Liu Changfu, had once cared for him, then said he had a legitimate reason to kill her and threatened to do so.

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 brought Shen Lou’er before Su Yao and accused her of slaughtering fellow disciples, but Su Yao called it an internal Mystic Heaven Sword Sect matter and declined to interfere.
• Shen Lou’er pleaded for her life, then drew her purple Spirit Sword and fought Li Yang as Su Yao watched from the corridor.
• Shen Lou’er used escape and Golden Sword Talismans, then unleashed her Six Desires Demon Body when Li Yang overwhelmed her.
• Li Yang severed Shen Lou’er’s arm and foot, then thrust his sword toward her head while Su Yao still did not intervene.
• Lu Feng’s projection burst from Shen Lou’er’s token and knocked Li Yang’s sword aside, rebuking him for trying to kill his junior sister.

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 accused Shen Lou'er of her crimes, then drew his sword against Lu Feng’s fragment of consciousness when his master ordered him to stop.
• Lu Feng recognized Li Yang’s pure sword intent and withdrew his attack, but Li Yang cut off Shen Lou'er’s head and burned her remains to ash.
• The Six Desires Demon Venerable’s projection appeared over Myriad Phenomena City, but Li Yang ignored the uproar and confronted Saintess Su Yao about her secret meeting with Gu Luoyuan.
• Gu Luoyuan embraced Saintess Su Yao and called Li Yang a psychopath who embodied the traits of a demonic cultivator.
• The Six Desires Demon Venerable watched a Recording Stone of Shen Lou’er’s death and asked the Demon Scion to help him target Li Yang’s friends and family.

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 returned to the sect and sensed the Six Desires Demon Venerable’s killing intent after news spread that Shen Lou'er had died.
• Lu Feng summoned Li Yang and accused him of breaking his promise and killing his junior sister, but Li Yang defended his actions and blamed Lu Feng for enabling her crimes.
• Li Yang stood firm against Lu Feng’s killing intent and invoked his master’s teachings, declaring that sword cultivators would sooner die than bend their principles.
• Lu Feng gave Li Yang a storage bag and threw him out of the hall, then praised his talent while cursing his defiance.
• Ling Wujie appeared, and Lu Feng revealed that he intended to use Li Yang as bait to draw in the Six Desires Demon Venerable alongside the Seven Emotions Demon Venerable.
• Lu Feng and Ling Wujie worried that Li Yang might interfere with their plans involving 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 opened Lu Feng's storage pouch and found a seven-pattern Foundation Establishment Pill, a sword talisman, and a message ordering him to investigate demons in Yongning Commandery with his third senior sister.
• Li Yang used Shen Lou'er's spirit stones to reach perfected Qi Refining and decided to head toward Yongning Commandery.
• Ning Xinyao met Li Yang outside his cave abode, and they traveled toward Yongning Commandery by teleportation array and flying boat.
• Ning Xinyao asked Li Yang whether he was the mysterious cultivator who killed Shen Lou'er, but he denied it and refused to ask about the mission's hidden benefits.
• Several days later, Li Yang sensed demonic energy and a sinister aura near Yongning Commandery, then rode his flying sword away to investigate.

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.

• A black-robed cultivator described torturing mortals to create Human Puppets while a bloody-aura woman drained a little girl of her blood.
• Li Yang arrived at Stone Gate Village and wounded Tu, who had been cultivating among the villagers' severed heads.
• Li Yang repeatedly struck the village's formation, ignoring the cultivators' threats to kill villagers they had seized as hostages.
• Ning Xinyao urged Li Yang to stop and save the villagers, but he rebuked her and continued until the formation shattered.
• The demonic cultivators threw their hostages aside and fled as Ning Xinyao began rescuing villagers.
• Li Yang chased the cultivators, cut eight Human Puppets in half, and pressed his attack against their black-robed master.

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 killed the Puppet-Crafting Evil Cultivator and burned his remains after taking his resources.
• The black-robed figure and the bloodthirsty female cultivator tried to escape, but Li Yang killed the burly man who had been caught between them.
• The black-robed figure sent out her human puppets and Soul Banner, but Li Yang destroyed the ghosts and cut down two Foundation Establishment puppets.
• The black-robed figure and the bloodthirsty female cultivator attempted to flee together; Li Yang wounded the black-robed figure, while the other woman vanished into blood mist.
• Li Yang killed the black-robed figure after she begged for her life and revealed that Demon Scion Gu Zang planned to intervene in the Ning family matter.
• Ning Xinyao arrived and began to ask about Shen Lou'er, but Li Yang told her that she talked too much.

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 repeatedly killed evil fiends on the journey and learned that Ning Xinyao’s Grand-Grandaunt was undergoing mortal transfiguration in Yongning Commandery.
• Li Yang rejected Ning Xinyao’s request to build a connection with her Grand-Grandaunt and tried to leave, but Ning Xinyao persuaded him that stopping the evil fiends served his own goal.
• Li Yang and Ning Xinyao reached Yongning Commandery and learned the Demon Scions might try to disrupt the Grand-Grandaunt’s mortal incarnation’s marriage.
• Ning Xinyao took Li Yang to the Bai Household, where they found a notice seeking cultivators to guard the young lady’s wedding procession.

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 and Ning Xinyao arrived at the White Household and met six Sword Alliance emissaries, including a sword cultivator Li Yang already knew.
• Li Yang observed the gathered cultivators and singled out a devil cultivator, a suspicious rogue cultivator, and a horned figure with a powerful demonic beast aura.
• The Heaven-Devouring Devil Palace's Demon Scion absorbed the purple qi in the sky, and Li Yang decided the man was a devil cultivator rather than an evil demon.
• The White Household patriarch increased the number of wedding guards from fifteen to thirty and introduced the Asura Battleboard as the contest for selecting them.
• The patriarch explained that contestants would fight inside the board's battlefield realm until only thirty remained, with anyone fatally injured expelled.

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.

• The head of the White Household advised Li Yang to sit out the dangerous contest, but Li Yang insisted on participating and entered the Asura Battleboard with his Spirit Sword.
• A fourth-level Foundation Establishment spell cultivator attacked Li Yang, who split his Thunderclap Shout with a sword strike and killed him.
• As the battlefield melee dwindled, three Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivators planned to target Li Yang, but Xuan Shi drove them off and approached Li Yang.
• Xuan Shi offered to suppress his cultivation and fight Li Yang, demanding that Li Yang become his follower if he lost, but Li Yang slashed his arm and refused.
• Li Yang insulted Xuan Shi and devil cultivators, prompting Xuan Shi to declare that he would kill Li Yang both in the battlefield and beyond it.

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.

• Ning Xinyao tried to stop Xuan Shi from fighting Li Yang, but female cultivators blocked her way.
• Li Yang and Xuan Shi clashed, with Xuan Shi devouring Li Yang’s spiritual energy and killing intent as they fought.
• Li Yang fed his killing intent through his Spirit Sword into Xuan Shi’s dantian, then cut through Xuan Shi’s head and defeated him.
• The remaining cultivators watched Li Yang with fear and respect, and he secured a place among the final thirty guards.
• Xuan Shi bought a guard token from a female cultivator, while the head of the White Household turned a blind eye.
• A beautiful young woman entered through the western gate, drawing everyone’s attention.

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.

• The White Household head introduced thirty cultivators as guards for Bai Nishang’s wedding, and the cultivators eagerly tried to win her favor with gifts.
• Li Yang criticized the cultivators’ attention to Bai Nishang, while Ning Xinyao explained that her grand-grandaunt was experiencing mortal life through the incarnation.
• A cultivator in feathered robes gave Bai Nishang a poem and became the first guard invited into her chambers.
• Li Yang and Ning Xinyao learned that the Qiu Household’s third young lady was also marrying the next day, and that the ancestor’s incarnation would face a tribulation then.
• Ning Xinyao sensed something suspicious about Bai Nishang’s maid, prompting Li Yang to follow the maid into a silk shop and shout at her.
• Ning Xinyao worried that Li Yang had frightened her grand-grandaunt.

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 sensed killing intent from the silk-shop owner, cut him down, and found a concealed restriction on the red undergarments he was about to give the maid.
• When the maid accused him of withholding his suspicions, Li Yang slapped her to stun her and warned her that defying ruthless cultivators could get her killed.
• Li Yang advised the maid to leave the White Residence, but she refused because it had treated her better than the alternatives available to her.
• Li Yang later chatted with the maid while cultivators pursued Bai Nishang more eagerly after she became a first-level Qi Refining cultivator.
• The following day, Li Yang, Su Hen, and the other Sword Alliance cultivators screened wedding guests, and Bai Nishang prepared for her wedding and farewelled her parents without shedding tears.

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 killed a mortal Heretic Cultivator in the wedding procession, angering the White Household patriarch, but refused to apologize.
• After the wedding party departed on Liu Hao’s flying boat, Li Yang challenged Xuan Shi to fight but Xuan Shi declined.
• An ambush triggered a Blood Spirit Slaughtering Array, and Bai Nishang joined the mysterious feather-crowned cultivator who had prepared it with the attackers.
• Li Yang ordered the cultivators to evacuate the mortals and formed the Seven-Star Sword Formation with Su Hen and the other Sword Cultivators to fight more than thirty Evil Fiends.
• The array destroyed Liu Hao’s flying boat, but the Evil Fiends began fleeing as Liu Hao wondered why they were retreating.

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 took control of the Seven-Star Sword Formation from Su Hen and led the Sword Envoys in a close-range assault that killed or scattered nearly twenty fiends.
• Li Yang pursued Bai Nishang and the mysterious male cultivator, while Ning Xinyao stayed behind to evacuate mortals and took Xiao Feng as her maid.
• Su Hen asked Li Yang about his sword maneuvering, and Li Yang revealed he had never been taught the technique despite already grasping its essence.
• After half a day of pursuit, Li Yang found cultivators battling over the Mortalized Body in a village, with a Demon Scion absorbing mortals’ blood essence.
• Li Yang ignored Su Hen’s warning to leave the village and drove the Seven-Star Sword Formation into the cultivators, vowing to kill them if they stayed.

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 attacked the prodigies without distinguishing friend from foe, killed an Ancient Immortal Lineage disciple, and destroyed the disciple’s Golden Core father projection with Su Hen and the other sword cultivators’ help.
• Li Yang entered the Blood River Demon Scion’s blood mist, tracked him despite the obscured battlefield, and killed him after Thunder Talismans disrupted his Blood Escape.
• Li Yang destroyed the old devil who appeared from the blood river, leaving the surviving prodigies too wary to continue fighting one another.
• Gu Zang revealed Bai Nishang in wedding robes and claimed she had chosen him, while warning that interfering could ruin the Ning Household Ancestor’s mortal transfiguration and provoke a Mahayana cultivator.
• Bai Nishang declared her love for Gu Zang and said she was willing to become an evil fiend’s wife, then blocked Li Yang’s attack; Li Yang smiled and said he no longer needed a reason to kill her.

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 charged Bai Nishang, but Gu Zang pulled her into his Five-Element Small World and rallied the other prodigies against him.
• Gu Zang played his Demon Flute, but its melody intensified Li Yang’s killing intent, and Li Yang struck at Bai Nishang’s hiding place while evading the attackers.
• Li Yang and his companions fought back against more than ten prodigies, killing several, until Bai Nishang promised each attacker a favor and renewed their assault.
• Gu Zang shattered the Seven-Star Sword Formation, and Su Hen escaped with the surviving Sword Cultivators while Li Yang stayed behind.
• Golden Eyes revealed his dragon form and clashed with Li Yang, while Li Yang used Lu Feng’s Sword Talisman to kill the Moonlit Holy Land cultivator’s sneak attack.
• Golden Eyes struck Li Yang from behind, tearing his inner armor and leaving bloody gashes across his body.

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.

• Ning Xinyao healed Li Yang, but he rose again to fight the golden dragon while Xiao Feng urged him to stop.
• Xiao Feng asked why Li Yang persisted when success seemed impossible, and Ning Xinyao described him as a sword that would rather break than bend.
• Xiao Feng asked whether she could cultivate and follow Li Yang, as a faint Phoenix appeared in her eyes.
• The golden dragon smashed Li Yang into a mountain and broke his Spirit Sword, while Gu Zang and Bai Nishang looked forward to his death.
• Ning Xinyao sheltered Li Yang beneath a pill furnace, gave him Life Nectar and an Eight-Pattern Foundation Establishment Pill, and prepared a Spirit-Gathering Array and spirit stones.
• Li Yang swallowed the pill, began breaking through, and started comprehending Ning Xinyao’s Blood Sea Asura Sword Art.

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.

• Li Yang realized the Blood Sea Asura Sword Art was not his Dao and formed the nascent shape of a sword heart.
• Li Yang combined spiritual energy, killing intent, and sword intent to establish his foundation, destroying the vengeful phantoms within his dantian.
• Li Yang’s divine sense extended four li and detected four prodigies approaching the pill furnace.
• The prodigies confronted Gu Zang about Bai Nishang, and one used a Karmic Tracking Array to search for the Ning Household Ancestor’s mortalized body.
• The array’s arrow pointed to Xiao Feng, and Bai Nishang ordered Xiao Feng to kill herself.