Chapter Summaries

Li Yang and Lu Qingqiu arrived at the Sword Alliance branch in Greenwood Spirit City to register for Sword Envoy certification, where Zi Chen explained the Alliance’s ranks and offices. Li Yang passed the first test, then entered the Heart-Questioning exam, whose first question began while an illusion stripped away his independent thought.

• Zi Chen brought Li Yang and Lu Qingqiu to Greenwood Spirit City and explained Sword Envoy ranks, service points, and the Sword Alliance’s offices.
• Zi Chen registered Li Yang and Lu Qingqiu, then left with Chu Miao and the captured evil fiend for interrogation.
• Li Yang and Lu Qingqiu joined other candidates in the Sword Envoy exams, where Li Yang recognized several sword cultivators from the Heavenly Gang Demon-Suppressing Battalion.
• Li Yang passed the Past-Life Examination, while thirty candidates were eliminated for past wrongdoing.
• The candidates began the written Heart-Questioning exam under an illusion formation, and Li Yang instinctively questioned why its first scenario lacked an option about an evil fiend impersonating his master.

Li Yang earned a perfect score on the second trial, then watched the Fire-Refining Arena test candidates in a lethal illusion. After Lu Qingqiu became the standout Sword Envoy, Li Yang entered the formation while the Sword Casket bearer waited to see what made him so remarkable.

• Li Yang received full marks for answers that prioritized his righteous eldest senior sister and killed threats, stunning the staff and spectators.
• The staff member explained the Fire-Refining Arena’s impossible defense scenario, and Lin Shouzhuo died after rallying the city’s forces, earning a Sky Patrol token for his efforts.
• A rogue cultivator fled with more than a million mortals but gained no office’s approval, while a Sword Casket bearer earned two tokens after holding off the beast tide for two days.
• Lu Qingqiu rallied the city, killed the evil fiend leader before dying, and earned tokens from three offices.
• The Sword Casket bearer stayed to watch Li Yang enter the illusion formation.

After passing the Taiping Secret Realm, Li Yang became the Sword Alliance’s first Five-Office Sword Envoy and received a mission to investigate a suspicious disciple at the Moonlit Holy Land. He accepted after Li Laosan promised him several targets to kill, including the fiend Chu Miao had colluded with and an evil sect.

• In the illusion, Li Yang united Taiping County’s cultivators, defeated the beast tide, and killed the Blood Refinement Sect’s master and a Nascent Soul Demon King.
• The Greenwood Sword Chief prepared to appoint Li Yang a Four-Office Sword Envoy, but a black-robed man insisted he should receive five offices.
• Li Laosan revealed that he was a fellow transmigrator from Blue Star, welcomed Li Yang into the Heretic-Suppression Office, and gave him a Five-Office Sword Envoy token and a Heaven-Piercing Talisman.
• Li Yang accepted that he would use the talisman against outer-domain celestial demons but would not kill an upright transmigrator merely for being bound to one.
• Li Laosan assigned Li Yang to investigate a suspicious male disciple at the Moonlit Holy Land and offered him Chu Miao’s fiendish ally and an undiscovered evil sect as targets.
• Li Yang eagerly accepted the assignment after Li Laosan promised he could slaughter the evil sect.

Li Yang traveled with the Dao Alliance toward the Heaven and Earth Matchmaking Event, stopping in the Forgotten Dust Cloud Realm. After urging his fellow sword cultivators to avoid the Dual Cultivation Tower and fight evil instead, he went to sell his surplus loot and met Wang Dabao at the Longevity Mall.

• Li Yang boarded the Dao Alliance's flying boat with Xuanyuan Sword Sect cultivators, and Lu Qingqiu reminded him that the sect would support him while he was away.
• Jiang He teased Li Yang about his connection to an ancestor from the Ning Lineage, but Li Yang warned him not to speculate about someone of her stature.
• In the Forgotten Dust Cloud Realm, Li Yang condemned the Dual Cultivation Tower's exploitation and urged the sword cultivators to hunt evil fiends instead; Jiang He and several others followed his advice.
• Li Yang chose the Longevity Mall to sell his surplus loot, avoiding the Nine Cauldron Mall and Heavenly Palace Mall because of his distrust of Shen Yaoyin.
• Wang Dabao, the Longevity Mall's manager, introduced himself to Li Yang.

Li Yang sold his Ancient Immortal Secret Realm treasures to the Longevity Merchant Association and sought body-tempering resources and a top-tier body-refining art. The association’s president, Wang Dafu, offered him the Nirvana Thousand-Forging Art in exchange for helping Wang Dabao find a Dao Companion at the Heaven and Earth Matchmaking event.

• Wang Dabao welcomed Li Yang to the Longevity Merchant Association and served him Otaku Happy Water and food while they discussed the treasures Li Yang wanted to sell.
• The appraisers valued Li Yang’s treasures, while Li Yang learned that Wang Dabao was a mid-stage Golden Core cultivator with little ambition and no interest in visiting Dual Cultivation Towers.
• Wang Dafu arrived, scolded Wang Dabao about marriage and descendants, and offered Li Yang the Nirvana Thousand-Forging Art after learning he wanted body-tempering resources.
• Wang Dafu asked Li Yang to help Wang Dabao find a Dao Companion at the Heaven and Earth Matchmaking event, citing Li Yang’s connection with Ning Qingfeng as proof of his romantic success.
• Wang Dafu gave Wang Dabao a Matchmaking Token and ordered him to attend the event and return with a prospective daughter-in-law.

Li Yang cultivated the Nirvana Thousand-Forging Art and then attended the Qian-Kun matchmaking gathering with Wang Dabao. After the gathering’s screening exposed and expelled an unfaithful participant, Li Yang explained that he was there on a Sword Alliance mission, and the Xuanyuan Sword Sect cultivators credited his earlier warning with helping them pass.

• Li Yang used the Nirvana Thousand-Forging Art to temper his body and learned that its nirvana mark could eventually restore him from the brink of death.
• Li Yang stopped the inn’s madam from forcing dual cultivation female cultivators on Wang Dabao, then left with him for the matchmaking gathering.
• The gray-skirted female cultivator exposed Fang Shouzheng’s visit to a Dual Cultivation Tower and expelled him from the gathering.
• The gray-skirted female cultivator questioned Li Yang about attending; Li Yang said he had no Dao companion and explained that he was on a Sword Alliance mission for Ning Qingfeng.
• The returning Xuanyuan Sword Sect cultivators thanked Li Yang for warning them, saying his advice had helped them avoid being exposed and disqualified.

Li Yang arrived in Kunyuan Immortal City for the Heaven and Earth Matchmaking event, where Qian Cultivator prodigies introduced themselves to Kun Cultivator judges. When his turn came, he gave a blunt introduction that stunned the gathered prodigies.

• Li Yang arrived in Kun Province and learned that Ning Qingfeng had fallen to the sixth level of the Mahayana stage after resurrecting mortals and creating Ning Xi.
• Hua Xiangrong opened the matchmaking event, and Li Yang pulled the insecure Wang Dabao onto the Three-Lives Platform.
• Lin Ziyin impressed the Kun Cultivator judges with his courteous speech and spell, earning an average score of 95.
• Several Qian Cultivators introduced themselves, including an Xuanyuan Sword Sect senior brother whose handsome, aloof manner earned him 90 despite his dismissive remark.
• When Li Yang was called, the Kun Cultivator prodigies watched intently, and he said his hobby was slaughter.

Li Yang and Wang Dabao introduced themselves at the Heaven and Earth Matchmaking gathering, where Li Yang’s grim hobby and Wang Dabao’s spiritual cooking earned them high scores from the Kun cultivator prodigies. After learning about Wang Dabao’s Primordial Chaos Body, they heard the rules for choosing prospective Dao companions and beginning courtship.

• Li Yang described slaying demons as his hobby and received a score of 90 from the Kun cultivator prodigies.
• Li Yang encouraged Wang Dabao to relax and show his strengths, though his gruesome description of killing demonesses unsettled Wang Dabao.
• Wang Dabao introduced himself as a cook and prepared spiritual meatballs that impressed Hua Xiangrong and the other Kun cultivator prodigies, earning him a score of 95.
• Wang Dabao explained that his Primordial Chaos Body consumed his flesh and spiritual power unless he stored enough energy, which was why he had to remain fat.
• Hua Xiangrong explained that the Qian cultivator prodigies had three months to choose a high-scoring Kun cultivator and begin courting her, after which unmatched participants would receive consolation prizes.

Li Yang joined the Moonlit Holy Land to investigate its male disciple and learned that the Jade Soul Cold Pool would open after a sect tournament. After watching Saintess Mu Yao and Vice Holy Lord Leng Xi visit the disciple’s cave abode, he finally met Chu Feng as the tournament was about to begin.

• Li Yang chose the Moonlit Holy Land despite Saintess Su Yao giving him a score of 1, while Wang Dabao chose a cultivator from the Supreme Truth Jade Radiance Palace.
• At the Moonlit Holy Land, Li Yang warned Su Yao against crossing him, then chose Vice Holy Lord Leng Xi’s peak as his residence.
• Leng Xi told Li Yang that the Jade Soul Cold Pool would open in three days and that places would be awarded through a sect tournament.
• While keeping watch with his divine sense, Li Yang saw Saintess Mu Yao enter the sole male disciple’s cave abode and later saw Leng Xi visit it as well.
• As the sect tournament approached, Leng Xi called Li Yang out of seclusion, and he met the male disciple, Chu Feng.

Li Yang investigated Chu Feng’s sudden rise while competing in the Moonlit Holy Land’s Heaven and Earth Matchmaking selection. After both advanced through the Golden Core bracket, the semifinals paired Li Yang against Chu Feng.

• Li Yang met Chu Feng and suspected that his refined but wicked air concealed something dangerous, while Chu Feng’s system warned him that a Sword Envoy of the Heretic-Suppression Office was nearby.
• At Mirror Lake Plaza, Leng Xi began the selection and explained that the Mayfly Heavenly Eye would broadcast the matches to major Immortal Cities.
• Li Yang advanced through the Golden Core free-for-all without fighting, while Chu Feng overwhelmed his opponents with the gods and devils battle body.
• Li Yang learned that Chu Feng had grown much stronger after recovering from a crippled cultivation and had coerced Feng Wangshu into dual cultivation after defeating her.
• Li Yang and Chu Feng reached the semifinals, and the next match was announced as Li Yang versus Chu Feng.

Li Yang challenged Chu Feng to a life-and-death duel, suspecting the ruthless cultivator posed a future threat, but Chu Feng refused and the two fought in the arena. After Li Yang wounded Chu Feng with the Qianyang Core Sword, Chu Feng revealed a demonic halberd and prepared to continue their battle.

• Li Yang judged Chu Feng’s character dangerous and proposed signing a Life-and-Death Pact, while Mu Yao and Leng Xi tried to intervene.
• Chu Feng refused a life-or-death fight, but Li Yang drew the Qianyang Core Sword and the two began fighting.
• Li Yang’s sword pierced Chu Feng’s defenses and severed part of his fingers, leaving a wound that resisted healing.
• Chu Feng used runes to dispel the sword intent and regenerate his injury, then declared he would claim the Jade Soul Cold Pool’s first-place allotment.
• Chu Feng summoned a Demonic Halberd inherited from a demonic path titan and challenged Li Yang to a weapon fight.

Li Yang defeated Chu Feng in a brutal sparring match, but the Moonlit Holy Land’s ancestor intervened before Li Yang could kill him. Li Yang then refused the offered reward and challenged Holy Maiden Mu Yao, leaving the next match about to begin.

• Li Yang and Chu Feng exchanged over a hundred blows, and Chu Feng realized he could not match Li Yang and tried to concede.
• Li Yang unleashed ten thousand Slaughtering Sword Lights, severed Chu Feng’s arm, and nearly struck him down before Leng Xi stopped the attack.
• The Moonlit Holy Land’s ancestor accused Chu Feng of cultivating demonic arts, but Leng Xi and Feng Wangshu defended him, and the ancestor let him remain in the holy land.
• The ancestor offered Li Yang unlimited time in the Jade Soul Cold Pool, but Li Yang refused and challenged Holy Maiden Mu Yao for humiliating him.
• The next match was announced as Li Yang versus Mu Yao.

Li Yang defeated and humiliated Mu Yao Holy Maiden, prompting the Moonlit Holy Land’s ancestor to strip her of her title before Li Yang entered the Jade Soul Cold Pool to cultivate. As the Qianyang Emperor Body drew Moonlit Holy Land cultivators toward him, Chu Feng claimed that Mu Yao and Feng Wangshu were his women, and Li Yang dismissed them as filthy bitches.

• Li Yang swiftly defeated Mu Yao Holy Maiden, shattered her bonded treasure, and slapped her in front of the watching crowd.
• The Moonlit Holy Land’s ancestor stripped Mu Yao of her holy maiden token and declared that Li Yang had won fairly.
• Li Yang and the other competitors entered the Jade Soul Cold Pool, where he used its moonlight essence to temper his body.
• Li Yang’s Qianyang Emperor Body drew the Moonlit Holy Land’s female cultivators toward him, and Feng Wangshu advanced to perfected Golden Core while cultivating nearby.
• After most cultivators were transported out, Chu Feng told Li Yang that Mu Yao and Feng Wangshu were his women, and Li Yang said he was not interested in filthy bitches.

Li Yang confronted Chu Feng over his possessive treatment of Mu Yao and Feng Wangshu, then questioned Feng Wangshu about Chu Feng’s past. Feng Wangshu’s grandmother divined that Chu Feng’s body had been possessed and identified him as the former Demon Venerable Chu Mu.

• Li Yang emerged from the ice cocoon and condemned Chu Feng for treating Mu Yao and Feng Wangshu as possessions, prompting both women to reconsider their submission.
• Chu Feng argued that following him offered the women a better future, but his allotted time ended and he was teleported away with Mu Yao.
• Feng Wangshu admitted she had defended Chu Feng despite his abusing her, and Li Yang asked her to explain his history and possible secrets.
• Feng Wangshu told Li Yang that Chu Feng had changed after she crippled him, later defeated her under their Life-and-Death Pact, and took her chastity; she also recalled hearing him demand Leng Xi’s mysterious yin pure spirit body.
• Before Feng Wangshu could tell Li Yang more, her grandmother summoned them to her peak, where Li Yang disclosed the Sword Alliance’s task to investigate whether Chu Feng had undergone body possession.
• Feng Wangshu’s grandmother used a bronze mirror to divine Chu Feng’s origins and revealed that his body had been possessed by Chu Mu, a demon who had stood at the height of his power a hundred years earlier.

Li Yang learned that Chu Feng was the Demon Venerable Chu Mu reborn in another body, and the old woman planned to investigate his means of resurrection before striking. When a Barbarian Demon Domain approached the Nine Provinces, the Moonlit Holy Lord sent the Holy Land’s prodigies to the Ning Lineage to prepare for negotiations.

• The old woman told Li Yang that her divination revealed Chu Feng’s identity as Chu Mu and asked him to keep Chu Feng settled while she notified the Evil-Slaying Office and investigated his fallback measures.
• The old woman comforted Feng Wangshu, who worried that she had no right to like someone after Chu Mu’s past abuse.
• After returning from the Jade Soul Cold Pool, Li Yang watched Chu Feng face refusals from Mu Yao and Leng Xi, then let Chu Feng into his Cave Abode.
• Chu Feng threatened to send a Recording Stone claiming Li Yang had a lover to the Ning Lineage, but Li Yang dismissed the threat and showed him out.
• The Moonlit Holy Lord announced that a Barbarian Demon Domain was approaching Kun Province and ordered the Holy Land’s prodigies to depart for the Ning Lineage to challenge the newcomers’ arrogance before negotiations.

The Ning Lineage faced the approaching Demon Savage Continent as Ning Qingfeng confronted a powerful Yinglong who demanded that she become his mate. After Ning Qingfeng’s depleted cultivation left her losing the battle, the Yinglong reached to seize her.

• The Ning Lineage considered the threat of war as the Demon Savage Continent drew near its territory.
• A Primordial Yinglong arrived with demon prodigies and proposed a marriage alliance with Ning Qingfeng, threatening to kill the person she loved when she refused.
• The Yinglong boasted about killing former mates and claiming their partners, provoking Ning Qingfeng to attack him outside the clan-protecting formation.
• The Ning Lineage’s three Human Immortal ancestors emerged, and one explained that Ning Qingfeng had weakened herself by resurrecting mortals and creating Ning Xi.
• Ning Qingfeng unleashed the Heaven-Burning Sea-Boiling Nirvana Flame Domain, but the ninth-level Mahayana Yinglong tore through it and reached for her.

The Demon Savage Continent’s delegation, led by the arrogant Yinglong Chen Geng, demanded a hundred thousand li of Kun Province as a buffer zone and proposed a deadly battle of prodigies to decide the matter. With Ning Qingfeng gravely wounded, the Supreme Truth Jade Radiance Palace’s Palace Master took charge as the two sides prepared for the contest.

• Ning Qingfeng’s injury prompted Kun Province’s supreme experts to arrive and stand together against the Yinglong, while he boasted that he could defeat the human Mahayana experts.
• The Yinglong insulted the Nine Provinces, threatened its people, and demanded a hundred thousand li of territory, claiming the Demon Savage Continent was stronger and that the weak were meat for the strong.
• The Palace Master of the Supreme Truth Jade Radiance Palace recognized that the visitors intended to settle the territorial dispute through a battle of prodigies, and she accepted the challenge.
• The Yinglong insisted that the contest be fought to the death without outside intervention, then summoned a Black Tortoise shell that expanded into a vast battlefield concealing the workings of heaven.

Li Yang arrived at the Ning Lineage and saw Ning Qingfeng gravely wounded, filling him with suppressed fury as the Nine Provinces prepared to face the Demon Savage Continent’s prodigies. After Yinglong laid out the deadly rules and territorial stakes of the contest, his dragon offspring entered the Black Tortoise Battlefield to issue the first challenge.

• Li Yang and the Moonlit Holy Land’s Crown Champions arrived at the Ning Lineage, where Li Yang saw Ning Qingfeng’s grave injuries and contained his killing intent.
• Yinglong insulted the Nine Provinces’ prodigies while demon champions threatened to kill and mutilate their human opponents.
• The Palace Master of the Supreme Truth Jade Radiance Palace announced a reward from the Dao Alliance treasury for each victory and accepted the demons’ choice of rules.
• Yinglong established that each demon champion would fight in turn, cultivation would be equalized, and the losing side would cede a hundred thousand li of territory after the specified deaths.
• An ashen-blue dragon entered the Black Tortoise Battlefield and called for the first Nine Provinces champion to fight.

The Azure Thunder True Dragon challenged the Nine Provinces’ champions and killed Hai Mo before fighting a Lunar Kun Cultivator to the death. Her sacrifice wounded the dragon and left the Nine Provinces’ prodigies determined to avenge her.

• The leaders selected thirty Nascent Soul and seventy Golden Core champions using the Heavenly Prodigy Rankings, leaving Li Yang out of the roster.
• Hai Mo entered the Black Tortoise Battlefield and fought the Azure Thunder True Dragon, which killed him with its innate tribulation-transformation art and ate his corpse.
• A Lunar Kun Cultivator used Lunar Blackwater and a puppet to battle the dragon, but its lightning drum helped it break free and defeat her.
• The Lunar Kun Cultivator detonated an explosive pearl inside the dragon’s mouth, wounding its essence and forcing it to stop fighting.
• The Nine Provinces’ prodigies mourned Fairy Huayin and vowed to avenge her and defend their homeland.

The Nine Provinces suffered heavy losses as Demon Race prodigies defeated one opponent after another. Watching the fighters and deciding to help in his own way, Wang Dabao gave Su Su his resources and pledged to cook the fallen demons for Li Yang.

• Xiangliu killed a Violet Star Heavenfire Sect Crown Champion, won three battles, then died to a Holy Son of the Great Sun Vast Heaven Holy Land, who was later killed by a White Tiger.
• A Xuanyuan Sword Sect Nascent Soul Sword Cultivator traveling with Li Yang killed the White Tiger, but his injuries left him unable to fight again.
• As the Demon Race accumulated victories, the Nine Provinces' prodigies hesitated to take the field, and the Supreme Truth Jade Radiance Palace's Palace Master sent Su Su to fight a Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox.
• Wang Dabao gave Su Su his storage ring of resources and escape tools, then admitted to Li Yang that he wanted to contribute despite his weakness.
• Wang Dabao offered to help Li Yang, who asked him to cook the Demon Race prodigies when the time came.