Chapter Summaries

Ning Xi hired Ye Zhiqiu as her shield, but quickly ignored him and sought out Li Yang instead. After explaining Yan Zhaoxi’s ruthless sword Dao, she insisted on following Li Yang, who reluctantly agreed because he owed her ancestor a favor.

• Ning Xi gave Ye Zhiqiu a spirit vein to act as her shield, and he accepted while hoping to win her over.
• Ning Xi rebuffed Ye Zhiqiu and eagerly approached Li Yang to ask about Yan Zhaoxi’s potential marriage to Qin Feng.
• Li Yang dismissed Ning Xi’s question, but she explained that Yan Zhaoxi’s ruthless sword Dao would require her to enter love and then sever it.
• Ning Xi told Li Yang she wanted to follow him, citing her ancestor’s instructions and his debt to her; Li Yang reluctantly agreed.
• Li Yang suggested Ning Xi keep using Ye Zhiqiu to attract trouble, and Ning Xi reacted with displeasure at his implication that Ye Zhiqiu was frightening.

Ye Zhiqiu tried to prove himself as Ning Xi’s shield, but his wager with Sang Yan left her displeased and ended with Sang Yan calling him trash. The group was left in Kunyuan Immortal City after Ye Zhiqiu’s lifesaving treasure spared him from Sang Yan’s punch.

• Ye Zhiqiu offered Li Yang resources while putting on a tearful display, but Ning Xi criticized his fragility and Jiang Qingci and He Lu defended him.
• A fiery-haired young man named Sang Yan approached Ning Xi, and Ye Zhiqiu stepped in to claim she was not interested in him.
• Sang Yan challenged Ye Zhiqiu to take one punch, and Ye Zhiqiu accepted without asking Ning Xi, causing her conquest progress with him to fall by 30%.
• Sang Yan matched Ye Zhiqiu’s Foundation Establishment level and attacked with Solar True Fire, while Ye Zhiqiu tried to strike the weak point of his phantom Fire Mulberry Tree.
• Sang Yan detonated the phantom tree to strengthen his punch, but Ye Zhiqiu’s lifesaving treasure blocked the danger before Sang Yan pulled back and called him trash.

Li Yang traveled with the Mystic Heaven Sword Sect to Immortal Relic Province, where cultivators prepared to enter an unknown immortal cave abode that would suppress them to mortals. As the secret realm opened, Ning Xi clung to Li Yang, provoking Sang Yan and a golden dragon, and Li Yang challenged them to face him inside.

• Ling Wujie slapped Ye Zhiqiu and stopped his quarrel with Sang Yan, while Ning Xi ignored Sang Yan's advances and meditated beside Li Yang.
• The interprovince formation teleported the cultivators to Immortal Relic Province, where the Mystic Heaven Ancestor met other Sword Cultivators and proposed that their juniors get acquainted.
• Li Yang avoided Ning Xi and the gathered sword prodigies, refusing their challenges and quietly cultivating until the Xuanyuan Sword Sect arrived.
• The secret realm's opening was announced, and cultivators learned that those at spirit transformation or above could not enter and that everyone inside would be reduced to mortals.
• Ning Xi grabbed Li Yang's arm to enter the secret realm with him, and Sang Yan and a golden dragon threatened him; Li Yang vowed to slaughter them inside.

Li Yang and his companions entered the secret realm, rebuilt their cultivation, and encountered a cultivator who tried to lure them into a trap. After Li Yang killed him, the realm revealed its slaughter-based inheritance, and Ning Xi’s soul-searching uncovered that natives could also claim it by killing trial participants.

• Li Yang, Ning Xi, and Qin Feng restored their cultivation after the realm stripped it away, then set out to explore.
• A middle-aged cultivator asked them to help defend Rockhold Commandery, but Li Yang killed him after sensing his killing intent and avoided a poison trap on the corpse.
• A rule of the secret realm marked Li Yang with a number and announced that killing would grant greater power, while warning him not to become a slave to slaughter.
• Ning Xi searched the cultivator’s remnant soul, and Li Yang killed his demonic cultivator accomplices using the information she uncovered.
• Ning Xi learned that natives could inherit trial participants’ abilities by killing them, leading Li Yang to predict that more than half of the participants might die.

The Myriad Venom Dynasty overwhelmed the Foundation Establishment battlefield and trapped the Sword Alliance Envoys near Rockhold Commandery. Li Yang arrived with Qin Feng and charged into the battle, his sword sounding a call for a counterattack.

• A Nascent Soul cultivator of the Myriad Venom Dynasty argued that the trial participants would help his dynasty conquer the Heavenly Origin Dynasty and feed his Soul Banner.
• Trial participants and demonic cultivators converged on the Sword Alliance Envoys, whose leader warned that they would be killed if surrounded.
• A black-robed formation master sealed the sword cultivators inside a barrier, and over a hundred Myriad Venom Dynasty cultivators attacked them.
• The Myriad Venom Dynasty drove the Foundation Establishment defenders back to Rockhold Commandery, while a cultivator carrying a Soul Banner slipped through the pass.
• Li Yang cut down the Soul Banner wielder, grabbed Qin Feng, and charged toward the bloody battlefield as the defenders saw him arrive.

Li Yang fought through the Myriad Venom Dynasty’s forces and took control of the Ten Directions Sword Formation to rescue the trapped Sword Cultivators. He led them in a counterattack, but a Nascent Soul True Person ordered the entire enemy force to strike them at once.

• Li Yang charged into the pursuing army, killed more than a dozen cultivators, and then rode his sword toward the trapped Sword Cultivators.
• A Demon Cultivator recognized the danger of Li Yang entering the sword formation and shouted for the others to stop him, but the enemies continued pursuing him.
• Li Yang proved his identity with Senior Zi Chen’s Sword Alliance token, received the formation flag, and took control of the Ten Directions Sword Formation.
• Li Yang directed the Sword Cultivators to use sword talismans against the enemy’s weakest side, then led the formation through the attackers and killed more than a hundred cultivators.
• The Myriad Venom Dynasty’s Nascent Soul True Person ordered everyone to abandon the trapping formation and attack the Sword Cultivators together.

Li Yang led the Ten Directions Sword Formation to break free from the Myriad Venom Dynasty’s confinement array and devastate its forces before retreating to protect the Heavenly Origin Dynasty’s cultivators. With his spiritual power nearly exhausted, he discovered that killing intent could sustain his attacks, then flew back into battle with Ning Xi carrying him on her sword.

• Li Yang lured the Myriad Venom Dynasty’s attacks toward a weak point in the confinement array, then led the Ten Directions Sword Formation through the breach.
• Li Yang’s formation killed hundreds of Myriad Venom Dynasty cultivators, halting their pursuit and astonishing the fleeing Heavenly Origin Dynasty cultivators.
• Li Yang retreated with the formation, urged the others to protect the mortals, and charged back alone when no one volunteered to join him.
• Li Yang used the killing intent he had accumulated from the slaughter in place of his dwindling spiritual power.
• Ning Xi joined Li Yang, carried him on her flying sword, and told him she trusted he would survive.

Li Yang and Ning Xi held off the Myriad Venom Dynasty’s Foundation Establishment army while Li Yang cultivated through battle and rallied the Heavenly Origin Dynasty’s forces to counterattack. With victory on the Foundation Establishment battlefield assured, Li Yang took up Ning Qingfeng’s Phoenix Sword and prepared to challenge a Golden Core cultivator.

• Ning Xi used escape talismans to carry Li Yang through the enemy army as he killed with his sword and killing intent while cultivating.
• Li Yang’s assault pinned down the Myriad Venom Dynasty’s Foundation Establishment forces, allowing Su Hen, Qin Feng, and the Heavenly Origin Dynasty’s cultivators to join the counterattack.
• Qin Feng abandoned his obsession with his five senior sisters and took Li Yang as his role model.
• Li Yang cultivated to the seventh layer of Foundation Establishment over several days, and the Heavenly Origin Dynasty gained the advantage on the battlefield.
• Ning Xi revealed Ning Qingfeng’s Phoenix Sword, explaining that it had become eager to join Li Yang’s slaughter.
• Li Yang and Ning Xi grasped the Phoenix Sword together and turned toward the Golden Core battlefield, ready to fight a Golden Core cultivator.

Li Yang turned the battle for the Heavenly Origin Dynasty by killing scores of enemies and claiming first place on the Slaughter Rankings. After receiving a token and directions to the next battlefield, he set out for Heavenly Spirit Commandery with Ning Xi, Qin Feng, and a group of sword cultivators.

• Li Yang guided Ning Xi through the golden core battle, helping her kill an enemy while she became increasingly affected by fighting at his side.
• The Myriad Venom Dynasty's nascent soul True Person ordered a retreat, but the Heavenly Origin Dynasty's nascent soul True Person destroyed his body, and Li Yang slew many more fleeing cultivators.
• The cultivators discovered that Qin Feng ranked first on the Slaughter Rankings with 478,000 points, while the second-ranked name was Kill.
• At Rockhold Commandery's fortress, a nascent soul True Person thanked Li Yang, gave him a token, and directed him toward Heavenly Spirit Commandery to confront the Spirit Devouring Cult.
• Su Hen and more than thirty sword cultivators asked to travel with Li Yang, and he agreed to bring them aboard the Phoenix Sword.

Su Miao and the women she had rescued fled the Spirit Devouring Cult, but the pursuing fiends surrounded their flying boat. Ye Zhiqiu abandoned them, leaving Su Miao and the others at the Dual Cultivation Demon Scion’s mercy until a mysterious sword wielder arrived.

• Su Miao led the fleeing women toward Heavenly Spirit Commandery while the group argued over Ye Zhiqiu’s reckless actions and the deaths of two senior brothers.
• Ye Zhiqiu complained to his system about his defeat, and the system told him to complete missions before expecting combat rewards.
• The purple-haired Dual Cultivation Demon Scion intercepted the flying boat and claimed the women, prompting Su Miao to attack him with Ye Zhiqiu.
• Ye Zhiqiu activated an escape talisman and fled instead of fighting, and the Demon Scion quickly defeated Su Miao.
• As the women wept and the Demon Scion threatened them, a sharp sword whistle sounded and an icy voice warned that anyone who came to save them would be slaughtered.

Li Yang arrived to rescue Su Miao and the other women from the fiends, revealing overwhelming swordsmanship as he killed one attacker and drove the rest to flee. Su Miao told the women to check the Slaughter Ranking, declaring that her junior brother’s name was Qin Feng.

• Li Yang confronted the fiends and warned the Dual Cultivation Demon Scion that their lives were in his hands.
• Li Yang tore through the Demon Scion’s yin-yang attack and killed a seductive female cultivator who threatened him.
• Li Yang gave defensive Formation Plates to Du Tinglan, then pursued the fiends while the women and more than thirty Sword Cultivators gathered by the Flying Boat.
• The Sword Cultivators said Li Yang did not need their help, and Su Miao urged the women to open the Slaughter Ranking, saying her junior brother’s name was Qin Feng.

Li Yang rescued the women and exposed Qin Feng’s former weakness, prompting Qin Feng to make peace with his senior sisters and choose his own sword path. As the group traveled toward Heavenly Spirit Commandery, Qin Feng awakened his sword intent, while Li Yang defined a sword as nothing more than a weapon for killing.

• Li Yang returned with the Dual Cultivation Demon Scion’s head, asked Ning Xi to search his soul, and led the survivors toward Heavenly Spirit Commandery.
• Su Miao thanked Li Yang, but he rejected any special bond with the women, leaving them remorseful over how they had treated Qin Feng.
• Li Yang rebuked Qin Feng for centering his life on women, and Qin Feng vowed to follow his own sword path and define his own worth.
• Qin Feng spoke privately with Su Miao and the other four women, then emerged with perfected Geng Metal sword intent and declared they would remain senior sisters and junior brother without revolving around one another.
• Qin Feng asked Li Yang what the sword meant to him, and Li Yang answered that it was simply a weapon for killing.

In Heavenly Spirit Commandery, Governor Lan Yue and her daughter Ling Shuang struggled to protect locals from arrogant outside trial participants. When a blood-robed demon scion threatened a stall owner, someone intervened just as he was about to crush her heart.

• Ling Shuang learned that a righteous outsider sword cultivator had turned the battle against the Myriad Venom Dynasty and wondered why their world had no sword cultivators.
• Lan Yue and Ling Shuang responded to trouble in the Commandery City, where a blood-robed young man had crippled a foundation establishment cultivator and threatened the stall owner.
• The blood-robed young man intimidated the injured man into claiming he had hurt himself, preventing Lan Yue from expelling the attacker.
• The stall owner refused to sell him her beast blood, so he lifted her into the air and began crushing her organs.
• An unseen speaker challenged the blood-robed young man, saying, "I've got guts too."

Li Yang arrived in Heavenly Spirit Commandery, killed the Blood-Robed Youth for terrorizing its people, and condemned Lan Yue for failing to protect them. After Ning Xi reported that everything was ready, Lan Yue sensed a bloody scene outside the city and froze.

• Li Yang stopped the Blood-Robed Youth from harming Ling Shuang and learned that the youth had been killing and threatening people in Heavenly Spirit Commandery.
• Li Yang broke through the Blood-Robed Youth's Blood Armor and pursued him despite his threats and powerful backers.
• A Crimson Demon Shadow appeared to protect the Blood-Robed Youth, but Li Yang killed him and dispersed the phantom before it could strike.
• Li Yang met Lan Yue, handed her a jade slip, and rebuked her for allowing the Blood-Robed Youth to terrorize the commandery.
• Ning Xi arrived by Sword-Flight and told Li Yang that everything had been set up, while Lan Yue sensed a bloody scene outside the city and froze.

Li Yang established himself as Qin Feng, vowed to punish cultivators who harmed mortals, and prepared to lead the Sword Cultivators against the Spirit Devouring Cult. He arrived at Wangya Village just as the cult’s array began draining the villagers’ lives.

• Li Yang threw the Blood-Robed Youth’s head onto a pile of his slain enemies and declared that he would bring order to Heavenly Spirit Commandery.
• Li Yang broke through to the Golden Core stage and saw that Kill, Tu Nine Provinces, and Gathering Harem had risen close to him on the Slaughter Ranking.
• Ning Xi gave Li Yang a modified Myriad Swords Return to the Sect Formation, while Lan Yue and Ling Shuang joined his expedition against the Spirit Devouring Cult.
• Li Yang led the Sword Cultivators out of Heavenly Spirit Commandery, with Lan Yue concealed nearby and Ling Shuang entering the formation.
• At Wangya Village, five Spirit Devouring Cult cultivators used a blood array and black insects to drain the vitality of hundreds of villagers.
• A sword cry interrupted the cultists as Li Yang’s voice warned that they would not live long enough to finish their ritual.

Li Yang led the sword cultivators in destroying the Spirit Devouring Cult, then traveled to the imperial capital after a Heaven-Patrolling Envoy summoned him on the sovereign’s behalf. He met the sovereign and discovered that she was a woman.

• Li Yang and the sword cultivators swept through the Heavenly Spirit Commandery, killing demonic fiends and evildoers before invading the Spirit Devouring Cult’s territory.
• Li Yang shattered the Spirit Devouring Formation while Lan Yue fought the Sky-Devouring Old Devil, then Li Yang and Ning Xi killed Sky-Devouring True Person as he tried to flee.
• Li Yang ordered the sword cultivators to seal the sect and leave none alive; they eradicated the Spirit Devouring Cult and displayed its severed heads outside the city.
• A Heaven-Patrolling Envoy arrived and invited Li Yang to the imperial capital to meet the Heavenly Origin Dynasty’s sovereign, promising a token of appreciation.
• Li Yang accepted the invitation, traveled to the imperial capital, and met the sovereign, who revealed that she was a woman.

Li Yang accepted the Heavenly Origin Empress’s Imperial Seal and gathered Sword Cultivators to purge evil fiends across the dynasty. As his following grew, a Golden Core woman from the Xuanyuan Sword Sect challenged him and demanded that he join her hunt for the Xuanyuan Traitor if she won.

• The Heavenly Origin Empress gave Li Yang the Golden Phoenix Imperial Seal, granting him the dynasty’s fortune and freedom to act, while refusing to withdraw the offer when her ministers objected.
• Li Yang refused to become sovereign, used the seal to locate evil fiends, and announced a campaign to enforce Heaven’s law and defend the righteous path.
• The Heavenly Origin Empress told her ministers that the natives faced destruction when the Secret Realm closed and that relying on outside Trial Takers was their chance to survive.
• Over two days, Li Yang attracted more than three hundred Sword Cultivators, while Trial Takers speculated about his strength and his possible conflict with the Xuanyuan Traitor.
• A Golden Core woman from the Xuanyuan Sword Sect arrived and challenged Li Yang, saying that if she defeated him, he and his followers would join her in killing the Xuanyuan Traitor.

Li Yang fought Lu Qingqiu, a Crown Champion of the Xuanyuan Sword Sect, after she challenged his authority and urged him to prioritize killing a traitor. He defeated her, but she warned that the traitor had already killed a senior brother stronger than her and was certainly stronger than Li Yang.

• Su Hen and Li Yang's followers rejected Lu Qingqiu's demand to lead them, so she challenged Li Yang and set terms for the fight.
• Li Yang recognized Lu Qingqiu as a nascent soul realm Sword Cultivator with a sword spirit, and they began a direct contest of swordsmanship.
• Lu Qingqiu's superior body tempering and treasures gave her advantages, but Ning Xi firmly predicted that Li Yang would win.
• After several hundred exchanges, Li Yang endured Lu Qingqiu's soul attack and defeated her, holding his sword to her brow.
• Lu Qingqiu accepted Li Yang's greater strength but warned that a traitor had killed a senior brother stronger than her and would be stronger than Li Yang.

Li Yang led the sword cultivators against demonic forces after preparing to grow stronger, while the Heavenly Origin Empress rallied her dynasty for war. In the Nine Nether Dynasty, Mu Zangfeng allied with Holy Son Qianyang and learned that a foretold lamp-bearer might kill him, but he vowed to kill Li Yang first.

• Li Yang persuaded Lu Qingqiu to abandon an immediate pursuit of the traitor, and she joined his sword cultivators.
• Ning Xi gave Li Yang a modified Myriad Swords Return to the Sect Formation that tempered his body and soul as he fought, despite Lu Qingqiu's warning that it could kill him.
• Li Yang led nearly a thousand sword cultivators to sweep the Heavenly Origin Dynasty clear of evil fiends and attack demonic forces.
• The Heavenly Origin Empress ordered her court to mobilize against Ten Thousand Poisons and vowed to silence anyone who opposed her plan to unify the Void-Slaying Realm.
• Mu Zangfeng joined Holy Son Qianyang's camp, warning that Li Yang's campaign threatened their plans and promising to eliminate the Xuanyuan sword cultivators.
• Mu Zangfeng's sword pellets overwhelmed a Golden-Red Sword Pellet that warned him a lamp beyond prediction would bring about his death, and Mu Zangfeng vowed to kill Li Yang.

Li Yang led the Heavenly Gang Demon-Suppressing Battalion toward a shattered minor world to claim a mutated Immortal-Era treasure, hoping it would help him face Mu Zangfeng and the Qianyang Holy Son. The chapter ended when a blade of grass inside the world killed a prodigy and shattered a star, revealing that the dangerous place lay beyond the secret realm trial’s bounds.

• Li Yang built the Heavenly Origin Dynasty’s forces into a major faction and became the first trial taker to reach Nascent Soul, but escaped after fighting nearly a hundred Nine Nether Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Li Yang learned that an ancient Slaughter Dao treasure had mutated into a formless being of baleful energy and resolved to claim it as a weapon against Mu Zangfeng.
• Li Yang sought allies and strength, while his battalion attacked Nine Nether cultivators who crossed their path on the way to the treasure.
• Li Yang led three thousand sword cultivators to the shattered minor world, where a prodigy entered through an opening and was cut in two by an inconspicuous blade of grass.
• The blade’s slash continued beyond the opening and shattered a star, leading an experienced cultivator to conclude that the minor world lay outside the secret realm trial.