Chapter Summaries

Li Yang continued fighting Mu Zangfeng, Holy Son Qianyang, and Ye Zhiqiu as the battle for the Ancient Immortal Inheritance neared its end. Though Ye Zhiqiu begged to become Li Yang’s slave, Li Yang refused and struck at him with the Phoenix Sword.

• Ning Xi used talismans and Zhu You Art to protect and heal Li Yang as he battled Mu Zangfeng and Holy Son Qianyang.
• The Heavenly Origin Dynasty’s army defeated the Nine Nether Dynasty, and hundreds of thousands of cultivators gathered outside the sealed formation to watch the final fight.
• Ye Zhiqiu returned at full strength, but Li Yang relentlessly targeted him while Zi Yuan kept Tu Nine Provinces occupied.
• The fighters exhausted their resources and suffered worsening injuries as the Phoenix Sword and Mu Zangfeng’s Ancient Bronze Sword were damaged.
• Ye Zhiqiu’s system said its permissions had been revoked, and Ye Zhiqiu begged Li Yang to spare him and accept his soul blood in exchange for becoming his slave.
• Li Yang rejected Ye Zhiqiu’s offer and brought the Phoenix Sword down on him.

Li Yang killed Ye Zhiqiu and refused to accept the All-Heavens Conquest System, condemning its coercive power and fighting its attempt to bind to him. Gravely wounded and pursued by Mu Zangfeng and Holy Son Qianyang, he challenged Mu Zangfeng’s claim to be a Sword Cultivator as the two prepared to fight.

• Li Yang killed Ye Zhiqiu, took his slaughter points, and sensed the system emerging from Ye Zhiqiu’s corpse.
• Mu Zangfeng and Holy Son Qianyang attacked Li Yang, severing his arm before Ning Xi used a Spatial-Shift Talisman to get him to safety.
• The All-Heavens Conquest System urged Li Yang to bind with it, but he rejected its power to make women his followers and declared that anyone who became an evil fiend deserved to be killed.
• Ning Xi recognized the system as an outer-domain evil fiend, and a mysterious force drove it away as Mu Zangfeng and Holy Son Qianyang caught up with the wounded Li Yang.
• Mu Zangfeng called Li Yang a foolish brute, while Li Yang accused him of being an evil fiend who used a sword as a tool and could not earn the Immortal-Slaying Sword Pellet’s recognition.

Li Yang fought Mu Zangfeng and Holy Son Qianyang to the last moments of the secret realm, sacrificing his life and cultivation potential to try to kill them. As the Slaughter Ranking rewards began descending, Qianyang awaited his third-place reward and hoped to seize Li Yang’s first-place inheritance too.

• Li Yang continued his brutal battle against Mu Zangfeng and Holy Son Qianyang while Tu Nine Provinces fought Zi Yuan, and cultivators across the realm watched.
• Li Yang ignited his life essence and cultivation aptitude, while Holy Son Qianyang’s protector restored his dantian and Mu Zangfeng transformed himself with the Immortal-Slaying Sword Pellet.
• Li Yang cut Mu Zangfeng in half, but Mu Zangfeng fused with the sword pellet and grew stronger; the secret realm’s closing moment arrived before Li Yang could finish either enemy.
• The Heavenly Dao granted enlightenment to the top ten thousand on the Slaughter Ranking, immortal herbs to the top thousand, and cultivation methods from an Ancient Immortal.
• Gu Luoyuan received an Immortal Saber, Zi Yuan received a demon source crystal, and Tu Nine Provinces received an ancient immortal bloodline that healed and empowered him.
• Holy Son Qianyang eagerly awaited his third-place reward, hoping to kill Li Yang and take the first-place Slaughter Dao inheritance.

Li Yang received the Ancient Immortal’s slaughter Dao inheritance while Mu Zangfeng and Holy Son Qianyang failed to kill him, and Tu Nine Provinces killed Zi Yuan before joining their fight. Outside the secret realm, the great figures learned the Ancient Immortal was an evil fiend and feared what might happen to the inheritance’s recipient.

• Holy Son Qianyang received an Immortal Beast egg, while Mu Zangfeng received the Slaughtering Scripture and resolved to master its sword and slaughter Daos.
• Li Yang entered a blood-purple pillar of light to receive his inheritance, preventing Mu Zangfeng and Holy Son Qianyang from attacking him.
• Tu Nine Provinces defeated Zi Yuan after her ancestor refused to save her, killed her, and rushed to help Li Yang.
• The Ancient Immortal’s manifestation granted Li Yang a slaughter Dao seed that could form a Slaughter Sword Pellet and eventually a slaughter sword domain.
• Great figures outside the secret realm learned from Devil Ancestor that the Ancient Immortal had fallen to the demonic path and was an evil fiend.

Li Yang rejected the blood-haired elder’s demonic slaughter inheritance and fought Mu Zangfeng, who killed him after claiming the seed. Ning Xi sacrificed herself to revive Li Yang, who rose renewed and charged Mu Zangfeng, vowing to avenge her.

• Li Yang refused the blood-haired elder’s inheritance and attacked him, while Tu Nine Provinces also rejected the seed and struck the elder.
• Mu Zangfeng accepted the slaughter Dao seed, gained overwhelming power, and killed Li Yang as Tu Nine Provinces fought Holy Son Qianyang.
• Ning Xi used the phoenix nirvana totem and sacrificed her life to revive Li Yang, causing those present to forget her.
• Li Yang returned with renewed strength, a reforged Phoenix Sword, and the Ancient Immortal’s slaughter sword intent merged with his own.
• Li Yang vowed to live for Ning Xi and charged Mu Zangfeng, his tears turning red with killing intent.

Li Yang defeated Mu Zangfeng by wielding the Ancient Immortal’s slaughter sword intent, then gained the Immortal-Slaying Sword Pellet’s recognition. Mu Zangfeng surrendered his body to the will inside his slaughter Dao seed, and the new foe confronted Li Yang.

• Li Yang’s transformed killing intent overwhelmed Mu Zangfeng’s attacks and shattered the Immortal-Slaying Sword Pellet.
• Li Yang declared that Mu Zangfeng had abandoned the Sword Dao and pressed his attack until the sword pellet broke apart.
• The Golden-Red Sword Pellet left Mu Zangfeng, recognized Li Yang, and let him refine and wield it.
• Furious at the betrayal, Mu Zangfeng gave his body to the will within his slaughter Dao seed.
• The possessing will transformed Mu Zangfeng and blocked the Immortal-Slaying Sword Pellet’s sword light with a blood-red attack.

Li Yang killed Holy Son Qianyang and Xing Luozhi after using the Pink Pearl to disrupt Qianyang, then unexpectedly absorbed the qianyang emperor body. With his power surging, he turned toward Mu Zangfeng and the Ancient Immortal.

• Mu Zangfeng used Shrinking Land to an Inch to evade Li Yang's attacks, while Li Yang admitted he could not catch him.
• Li Yang used a Spatial-Shift Talisman and the Dual Cultivation Pearl to ambush Holy Son Qianyang, whose mind and strength were impaired by its pink mist.
• Tu Nine Provinces joined Li Yang in attacking the Ancient Immortal's landing point, forcing him to halt his approach and abandon Holy Son Qianyang.
• Xing Luozhi shielded Holy Son Qianyang with her formations, but Li Yang's Phoenix Sword broke through and killed them both.
• A blazing power from Holy Son Qianyang's body entered Li Yang, granting him the qianyang emperor body and prompting him to challenge the Ancient Immortal.

Li Yang used the Qianyang Emperor Body to trap and kill the Ancient Immortal possessing Mu Zangfeng, then gained the Innate Sword Embryo. As the cultivators celebrated his victory, powerful hands intervened and ended the secret realm early.

• Li Yang filled the Nine Nether Imperial Capital with sword light, shattering space inside the trapping formation and preventing the Ancient Immortal from using Shrinking Land to an Inch.
• The Ancient Immortal tried to bargain with Li Yang, but Li Yang rejected him and struck through the Void-Slaying Realm’s defenses.
• The Ancient Immortal raised a blood wall from Mu Zangfeng’s body, but Li Yang broke through and destroyed Mu Zangfeng completely.
• Li Yang gained the Innate Sword Embryo, while Tu Nine Provinces, Su Hen, Qin Feng, and the other cultivators praised his victory.
• A pair of hands intervened after sensing power capable of threatening a Body Integration Cultivator and brought the secret realm to an early end.

After leaving the Void-Slaying Realm, Li Yang faced the fury of powerful figures but gained the protection of major sword sects and rapidly rebuilt his cultivation. As his clear sword heart manifested as a guardian sword heart, Ning Qingfeng appeared and was revealed to be the one who had sacrificed herself to revive him.

• Li Yang broke through the sixth-rank formation with a strike, escaped the Void-Slaying Realm with Tu Nine Provinces, and sensed the killing intent of countless enemies outside.
• Powerful sword cultivators from several major sects claimed Li Yang as their own and warned others not to harm him as the Nine Provinces absorbed the Void-Slaying Realm.
• After his cultivation fell to the second layer of Foundation Establishment, Li Yang used spirit stones and his insights to rise to Foundation Establishment great perfection in a quarter of an hour.
• Li Yang formed a guardian sword heart, astounding the sword cultivators who could not reconcile its protective nature with the many lives he had killed.
• Ning Qingfeng appeared as a gilded phoenix, and the onlookers realized she—not Ning Xi—had sacrificed herself to revive Li Yang.

Ning Qingfeng defended Li Yang’s sword dao as the Dao Alliance Leader and Sword Chief intervened to prevent anyone from taking revenge for the Ancient Immortal Secret Realm. The Heavenly Origin Empress chose to move her dynasty into Qian Province under the Xuanyuan Sword Sect, while Ning Qingfeng invited her to join the Female Cultivators Alliance.

• Ning Qingfeng arrived at the Void-Slaying Realm and argued that Li Yang’s sword dao upheld an absolute, fair order rather than serving slaughter.
• The grand elder of the Great Sun Vast Heaven Holy Land condemned Li Yang, and Ning Qingfeng rejected his accusations.
• The Dao Alliance Leader warned that anyone implicated in Li Yang’s unexpected death would be held accountable, while the Sword Chief threatened to exterminate entire sects that defied the alliance’s rules.
• The Dao Alliance Leader arranged for the Void-Slaying Realm to merge into the Nine Provinces and offered the Heavenly Origin Dynasty a choice of location.
• The Heavenly Origin Empress asked to settle in Qian Province and attach her dynasty to the Xuanyuan Sword Sect.
• Ning Qingfeng gave the Heavenly Origin Empress a Bracelet and invited her to join the Female Cultivators Alliance for protection from forced marriage alliances.

After the Ancient Immortal Secret Realm closed, Li Yang accepted the Xuanyuan Sword Sect’s invitation to train at its main sect while grieving Ning Xi’s sacrifice. Surrounded by women trying to get close to him, his sword heart advanced, and he found himself face-to-face with Ning Qingfeng.

• The Immortal-Slaying Sword Pellet severed its bond with Li Yang and returned to the Xuanyuan Sword Sect, which invited him to cultivate at its main sect.
• Lu Feng rebuffed attempts by the Green Lotus Sword Sect to arrange a match between Li Yang and Yan Zhaoxi, but the Xuanyuan Sword Sect elder encouraged the young cultivators to meet.
• Yan Zhaoxi told Li Yang that she had planned to approach him as part of her Ruthless Dao cultivation, and Lu Qingqiu objected when other female Sword Cultivators gathered around him.
• Li Yang recalled his love for Ning Xi and affirmed that emotion and benevolence belonged in his Sword Dao.
• Li Yang’s sword heart advanced, the women around him vanished, and Ning Qingfeng appeared before him as he asked whether she had grieved for him.

Li Yang learned that Ning Xi had been Ning Qingfeng all along and accepted her apology while keeping an emotional distance between them. Ning Qingfeng departed after urging him to live well and contact her if he found someone he loved, while Li Yang resolved to speak of their future only when he could stand as her equal.

• Ning Qingfeng apologized for deceiving Li Yang by experiencing the cultivation world beside him as Ning Xi.
• Li Yang said he was grateful for his love for Ning Xi and vowed to protect lovers as he pursued the Dao.
• Ning Qingfeng asked about Li Yang's own happiness, but he said he had made peace with being alone and would keep Ning Xi as his white moonlight.
• Li Yang returned the Phoenix Sword, and Ning Qingfeng took his hand once more before leaving as Phoenix True Fire.
• Ning Qingfeng told Li Yang to live well and send word if he met a Kun Cultivator he loved, while Li Yang resolved to speak with her again when he could call her a Fellow Daoist.

Li Yang joined the Xuanyuan Sword Sect, where the grand elder placed his Soul Lamp in the sect’s Fate Soul Hall and welcomed him as one of their own. Just as Li Yang remembered the women connected to Mu Zangfeng, powerful figures arrived demanding that he release their daughters and disciples.

• Li Yang arrived in Qian Province and parted ways with Tu Nine Provinces, who set out to become a powerful protector of the Heavenly Origin Dynasty.
• The grand elder explained that Xuanyuan Sword Sect valued Li Yang’s Sword Dao and promised to stand by him when he was in the right.
• The grand elder brought Li Yang’s Soul Lamp from the Mystic Heaven Sword Sect and placed it in the Xuanyuan Sword Sect’s Fate Soul Hall.
• Li Yang noticed Ancestor Xuanyuan’s brilliant Soul Lamp, then was left free to explore the sect and refine his newly acquired treasures.
• Li Yang remembered Mu Zangfeng’s harem, and several imposing figures appeared to demand answers about the women he had abducted.

After Yun Qingxuan returned Li Yang to the Xuanyuan Sword Sect, he settled on Qingxuan Peak and began preparing to form a sword core. He resolved to combine his gift for slaughter, qianyang emperor body, innate sword embryo, and baleful source into an unprecedented core.

• Yun Qingxuan negotiated resources from the powerful figures seeking the return of the women held in Holy Son Qianyang's minor world, then released the women and killed six whose elders had not come for them.
• Yun Qingxuan introduced herself as Lu Feng's master and Li Yang's grandmaster, and took him to his cave abode on Qingxuan Peak.
• Yun Qingxuan told Li Yang that the Sword Pellet Mini-World would soon open and advised him to seek a suitable Sword Pellet there.
• Li Yang activated the cave abode's array and began preparing for core formation, considering how his unique gifts and baleful source could shape his sword core.

Li Yang studied Mu Zangfeng’s Purple Mansion Furnace Art and used it to forge an unprecedented path to the Golden Core stage, creating a blood sword from his own body and the origins of his Qianyang Emperor Body and Innate Sword Embryo. Just as he prepared to test his second sword core, Lu Qingqiu warned him that Chu Miao and other prodigies had come to kill him and reclaim the Emperor Body.

• Li Yang took the Purple Mansion Furnace Art from Mu Zangfeng’s storage ring, mastered it, and decided to condense sword cores.
• Ning Qingfeng sent Li Yang an Illuminating Great Sun Golden Core Formation Pill, which he accepted before beginning core formation.
• Li Yang ground the origins of his Qianyang Emperor Body and Innate Sword Embryo into his flesh and forged a blood-colored sword core in his dantian.
• Li Yang pulled the blood sword from his dantian, tested its cutting power, snapped it in two, and restored it by swallowing it and circulating his cultivation art.
• Lu Qingqiu warned Li Yang that Chu Miao and prodigies from Qian Province had come seeking his life and the return of the Qianyang Emperor Body.

Li Yang arrived at Number One Immortal City to face Chu Miao and the other prodigies seeking revenge for Holy Son Qianyang. He accepted Chu Miao’s proposal for a group fight, leaving the opponents to prepare to challenge him in the arena.

• Chu Miao and a group of prodigies demanded that Li Yang face them, while Xuanyuan Sword Sect disciples offered to fight in his place.
• Li Yang arrived, scolded the disciples for trying to take his kills, and flew onto an arena to challenge the gathered prodigies.
• The prodigies hesitated to fight Li Yang after hearing he had killed Mu Zangfeng, Holy Son Qianyang, and another Crown Champion.
• Chu Miao proposed equalizing cultivation and allowing up to ten opponents to fight Li Yang at once, with fallen fighters replaceable.
• Li Yang accepted the challenge and declared that he was eager to fight them.

Li Yang accepted a death match against ten Crown Champions, surprising both his enemies and the Xuanyuan Sword Sect cultivators who expected him to wield a sword. After revealing he had destroyed the qianyang emperor body and innate sword embryo, Li Yang tore the Qianyang Core Sword from his dantian as the battle began.

• Li Yang signed the Life-and-Death Pact and agreed to fight Chu Miao and nine other Crown Champions at once.
• The ten challengers entered the arena, while spectators speculated about Li Yang's sword and hidden abilities.
• Li Yang explained that he had returned the Phoenix Sword and the Immortal-Slaying Sword Pellet and had not refined a Sword Pellet.
• Chu Miao discovered that Li Yang no longer possessed the qianyang emperor body or innate sword embryo, and he accused her of seeking those physiques and being connected to evil fiends.
• Chu Miao attacked with a formation of more than ten thousand weapons, but Li Yang pulled his sword core from his dantian and revealed the Qianyang Core Sword.

Li Yang used the Qianyang Core Sword to shatter Chu Miao’s Weapon Grand Formation and battle ten Crown Champions at once. He killed four while pretending to near defeat, drawing more enemies into the fight as Chu Miao realized his injuries were a trap.

• Chu Miao unleashed her Weapon Grand Formation, but Li Yang refused to dodge and split its secret treasure sword with the Qianyang Core Sword.
• Li Yang fought off the ten Crown Champions with precise swordplay, while Xuanyuan Sword Sect elders and Ancestor Canyang watched and praised his unusual sword core and sword heart.
• Li Yang cut through a Demon Scion’s Ancient Cauldron and killed him, then continued fighting despite accumulating visible injuries.
• Li Yang killed four Crown Champions while concealing how healthy he remained and baiting the watching enemies to join the battle.
• Chu Miao recognized that Li Yang was feigning weakness to lure more opponents into the fight.

Li Yang appeared to be at the end of his strength, but revealed a Slaughter Sword Pellet and turned the fight around. He killed every Crown Champion except Chu Miao, who begged for mercy as he prepared to strike.

• Li Yang killed another Demon Race Crown Champion while Chu Miao and the remaining fighters battered him, leaving him severely wounded.
• Chu Miao launched a soul attack, but Li Yang revealed that he cultivated both inner and outer sword paths and wielded a Slaughter Sword Pellet.
• Li Yang killed the three remaining Crown Champions and cornered Chu Miao, who offered to become his slave in exchange for her life.
• As Li Yang prepared to kill Chu Miao, someone called out, "Spare her beneath your sword!"

Li Yang spared Chu Miao only to use her as leverage to capture the evil fiend who had conspired with her, and the Sword Alliance took custody of both. Li Yang and Lu Qingqiu headed to the Sword Alliance for Sword Envoy certification as the Xuanyuan Sword Sect prepared for a possible war in Kun Province.

• Ancestor Canyang cut down the divine sense protecting Chu Miao, but Li Yang spared her after she offered information about an evil fiend.
• Li Yang handed Chu Miao's soul blood to Yun Qingxuan and demanded that the evil fiend be brought to him within three days.
• A Ten Thousand Thoughts Immortal Sect elder captured the evil fiend, who admitted that he had directed Chu Miao to target Li Yang and taught her a secret art to steal aptitude.
• Ancestor Canyang ordered the Sword Alliance envoy to take Chu Miao and the evil fiend into custody, while Yun Qingxuan sent Li Yang and Lu Qingqiu to seek Sword Envoy certification.
• The Xuanyuan ancestors discussed an unstable region near Kun Province and the likely coming war with a demon continent, and Ancestor Canyang agreed to keep watching over Li Yang.