Chapter Summaries

With the Nine Provinces one defeat from losing the contest, the Palace Master tried to shame Li Yang into fighting while the Demon Savage Continent’s Moonlight Winged Dragon waited in the arena. Ning Qingfeng stepped forward, told Li Yang why she had fought Yinglong, and urged him to protect the Nine Provinces; Li Yang vowed to survive and kill every enemy.

• Su Su attacked the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox in an illusion, while the Nine Provinces’ observers watched her waste her strength and fail to land a real blow.
• After Fairy Ling Xuan’s defeat brought the Nine Provinces’ losses to ninety-nine, the Moonlight Winged Dragon entered the arena and the remaining cultivators feared certain death.
• The Qian Province Spell Cultivator and Yi Cheng refused to fight, and the Palace Master indirectly pressured Li Yang by warning that the Nine Provinces would lose their lands.
• Ning Qingfeng left the Ning Lineage’s ranks and told Li Yang that Yinglong had injured her after coveting her and threatening the man she loved.
• Li Yang refused Ning Qingfeng’s request for a drop of soul blood and promised to return alive after killing every enemy from the Demon Savage Continent.

Li Yang entered the Black Tortoise Battlefield to avenge the Nine Provinces’ fallen prodigies and confront the Taiyin Dragon. He attacked her head-on with his Qianyang Core Sword and Slaughter Sword Pellet, and the chapter ended as their clash reached its decisive moment.

• The Nine Provinces’ cultivators urged Li Yang to avenge their fallen comrades, and a Sword Cultivator gave him a supreme-grade flying sword entrusted by his dead senior brother.
• Li Yang vowed to repay the day’s blood-deep vengeance and storm the Demon Savage Continent before entering the Black Tortoise Battlefield.
• Li Yang unleashed his killing intent, drew the Qianyang Core Sword and Slaughter Sword Pellet, and challenged the Taiyin Dragon as the Demon Race prodigies mocked him.
• Li Yang used a Spatial-Shift Talisman to charge straight at the Taiyin Dragon, then tore through her destructive dragon breath with his sword lights while accepting its wounds.
• The Taiyin Dragon attacked Li Yang at close range, confident that her inherited physical strength would shatter him and his sword, as their clash continued.

Li Yang defeated the Taiyin Dragon on the Black Tortoise Battlefield, enduring a lethal strike from the Blackbone Death Sword to kill both the dragon’s body and nascent soul. Though the sword’s curse threatened his life, Li Yang refined it with the Purple Mansion Furnace Art and remained on the battlefield.

• Li Yang cut off the Taiyin Dragon’s claw and pressed his attack despite the dragon’s attempts to escape.
• The Taiyin Dragon revealed the Blackbone Death Sword and stabbed Li Yang in the dantian, but Li Yang’s Qianyang Core Sword split the dragon’s head.
• Li Yang pursued and destroyed the Taiyin Dragon’s nascent soul despite the Black Death Sword draining his vitality.
• Li Yang ignored pleas to leave the battlefield, opened his dantian, and refined the Black Death Sword with the Purple Mansion Furnace Art.

After Li Yang refined Taiyin Dragon’s Black Death Sword, Wang Dabao butchered and cooked Taiyin Dragon’s corpse in full view of the Demon Savage Continent’s prodigies. Li Yang ate the dish and taunted Yinglong, leaving the battlefield facing the wrath of the perfected Mahayana demon dragon.

• Li Yang refined the Black Death Sword into the Qianyang Core Sword, strengthening it beyond its previous peak.
• Li Yang handed Taiyin Dragon’s corpse to Wang Dabao and told him to cook it before the demon prodigies.
• Wang Dabao carefully dismantled Taiyin Dragon and explained how to prepare her body parts, enraging the watching demons.
• Wang Dabao stir-fried dragon meat and offered a slice to Li Yang, who praised its taste.
• Li Yang taunted Yinglong by calling Taiyin Dragon delicious and boasting that Yinglong would have been cooked if they had lived in the same era.

Li Yang defeated the Demon Race Crown Champion White Marsh despite his ability to predict the future, then challenged the remaining Demon Savage Continent prodigies to face him. The battle left both sides watching in silence as Li Yang stood ready to continue fighting alone.

• Yinglong sent the white-robed White Marsh to fight Li Yang after another Demon Race champion volunteered to hold the rear.
• White Marsh used sound-based powers and a rune-covered bow to predict Li Yang's movements and wound him with an arrow.
• Li Yang charged through White Marsh's chains and arrows, forcing him to dodge and losing one of his wings in their clash.
• White Marsh's predictions showed that every possible response to Li Yang's attacks ended in death, and his father Bai Zhao appeared to offer a secret art that would spare him as Li Yang's Beast Companion.
• Li Yang refused Bai Zhao's offer and killed White Marsh with a sword strike, then challenged the remaining Demon Savage Continent prodigies.

Li Yang faced the Demon Race prodigies again after killing Taiyin Dragon and White Marsh, while Ning Qingfeng openly staked her claim to him. After eating Wang Dabao’s pure-yang dishes, Li Yang struggled to suppress the resulting heat, and Ning Qingfeng promised to help him cool it once the remaining enemies were dead.

• Yinglong resolved that Li Yang had to die, while the Nine Provinces prodigies celebrated Li Yang’s victories over Taiyin Dragon and White Marsh.
• Ning Qingfeng flew to Li Yang and told him not to risk further injury, and Li Yang vowed to slaughter Yinglong’s descendants for the humiliation Yinglong had inflicted on her.
• The Nine Provinces cultivators speculated about Li Yang and Ning Qingfeng’s relationship as Ning Qingfeng’s actions made her claim on him clear.
• Wang Dabao sent Li Yang dishes made from White Marsh, and Li Yang ate them, triggering a surge of yang energy that made him flush and burn.
• Ning Qingfeng taught Li Yang a Calming Mind Mantra and promised to cool his fire after he killed every remaining enemy.

Li Yang killed a Suanni in the Black Tortoise Battlefield, then challenged the Mahayana-stage Yinglong, who refused to enter despite Li Yang’s taunts. Ning Qingfeng goaded the Demon Race into sending more fighters, and Yinglong finally threw another demon into the arena.

• Yinglong offered three days in the Ancestor Blood Pool to whoever killed Li Yang, and a Suanni charged into the battlefield.
• Li Yang killed the Suanni after thirty exchanges, though its Southern Bright Li Fire burned away his Treasure Robe.
• Ning Qingfeng covered Li Yang with mist and challenged the Demon Race prodigies to keep fighting instead of fleeing.
• Li Yang defended Ning Qingfeng and challenged Yinglong to a fight, but Yinglong refused to enter the battlefield.
• Yinglong grabbed a Demon Race prodigy and hurled them into the battlefield, ordering the demons to kill Li Yang even if they had to sacrifice their lives.

Li Yang won three more battles but left the final match open so the Nine Provinces could keep fighting tiebreakers and kill the remaining Demon Savage prodigies. Ning Xinyao entered the arena to take the death slot, and Yinglong ordered Xuanyou to kill her and shake Li Yang’s Dao heart.

• Li Yang defeated three more opponents, leaving only the fair-skinned youth, whose bone age exceeded ten thousand years, to represent the Demon Savage Continent.
• Li Yang walked out of the arena rather than fight the last opponent, explaining to Ning Qingfeng and Yinglong that he would not let the contest end while Demon Savage prodigies remained.
• Ning Xinyao volunteered to enter the final match, despite the risk that losing would force her to restart her arduous cultivation from scratch.
• Ning Xinyao entered the Black Tortoise Battlefield, and Yinglong ordered Xuanyou to kill her to disrupt Li Yang’s Dao heart.

Ning Xinyao unleashed her life and nine-turn Dao foundation in a final sword strike against the Dark Tortoise, breaching his seemingly invincible defenses. She died after carving a mark in his shell, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Xuanyou revealed his enormous Dark Tortoise form and withdrew into his shell, intending to outlast Ning Xinyao.
• Ning Xinyao struck the Dark Tortoise with the nine-layered Rebirth Sword Song, but his time-wreathed shell dispersed the attack and hurled her away.
• Ning Xinyao burned her life origin, cultivation, physique, and nine layers of Dao foundation to perform Nine Turns Returning as One.
• Ning Xinyao’s final sword cleaved the Dark Tortoise’s river of time and left a shallow sword mark in his shell.
• Ning Xinyao began to dissolve after the strike, and the Dark Tortoise swallowed her before she could finish speaking.

After Ning Xinyao died, Li Yang entered the Black Tortoise Battlefield and killed the Azure Thunder True Dragon, then challenged Yinglong to fight. Yinglong refused and sent another offspring into the battlefield.

• Li Yang charged into the Black Tortoise Battlefield after Ning Xinyao's death and drew the Qianyang Core Sword to face Yinglong.
• Yinglong ignored pleas to spare his remaining prodigies and threw the Azure Thunder True Dragon into the battlefield.
• The Azure Thunder True Dragon burned his life origin and fought Li Yang with tribulation thunder, but Li Yang decapitated him and destroyed his demon nascent soul.
• Li Yang condemned the Azure Thunder True Dragon's belief in the strong devouring the weak, then challenged Yinglong to answer for Ning Xinyao's death.
• Yinglong refused to fight Li Yang and sent his second offspring into the battlefield.

After killing the Seven Sons of Yinglong, Li Yang endured a series of suicidal attacks from the Demon Race prodigies and defeated the Blood Qilin, who had fused with an Immortal Dao Sin Dragon Bone. The explosion left Li Yang near death, and Xuanyou entered the battlefield as the Demon Savage Continent’s final fighter.

• Li Yang killed all Seven Sons of Yinglong, while the remaining Demon Race prodigies refused to fight until a Demon Race Supreme promised to petition for their resurrection if the continent won.
• The Demon Race prodigies charged Li Yang with suicidal attacks, detonating themselves in attempts to leave him gravely wounded.
• The Blood Qilin unleashed its blood energy and fused with an Immortal Dao Sin Dragon Bone, losing control and attacking Li Yang before the fifteen-minute interval ended.
• Li Yang defeated the Blood Qilin, which separated from the bone and detonated itself with it; Li Yang survived the blast using Ning Xi’s defensive talisman and his sword.
• Yinglong sent Xuanyou into the battlefield to face the badly injured Li Yang, who declared that he would end the demons’ ambitions with his sword.

Li Yang recovered through his nirvana mark and wounded Black Tortoise, but Black Tortoise called on the battlefield’s power to make himself nearly invulnerable. As Li Yang refused to make peace, Black Tortoise returned Ning Xinyao in a sphere of vital essence.

• Xuanyou proposed peace to Li Yang, who rejected his offer and prepared to fight.
• Li Yang activated his nirvana mark, restoring his body and strength enough to challenge Black Tortoise.
• Li Yang combined the Qianyang Core Sword with the Slaughter Sword Core’s charged strike and carved a deep scar into Black Tortoise’s shell.
• Black Tortoise resonated with the Black Tortoise Battlefield and summoned its ancient power to strengthen his defenses, alarming the Nine Provinces camp.
• Li Yang threatened Black Tortoise and the Demon Savage Continent, refused to make peace, and sensed powerful Sword Envoys arriving at the Ancient Immortal Ning Lineage.
• Black Tortoise opened his mouth and released Ning Xinyao inside a sphere of vital essence.

Li Yang learned that Xuanyou had sought peace, but the Nine Provinces' powerful leaders had used the prodigy battle to prepare for war against the Demon Savage Continent. Xuanyou surrendered his soul blood to Li Yang, and the Sword Alliance's Sword Chief arrived to confront Yinglong and the Demon Immortal Supremes.

• The Black Tortoise restored his human form and used his life essence to keep Ning Xinyao alive, while Xuanyou explained that she had chosen to resist despite his offer of a way to survive.
• Li Yang realized Xuanyou had not intended to harm him, but told him the Dao Alliance planned to use the deaths of the prodigies to incite war.
• Li Yang offered Xuanyou a chance to live if he surrendered his soul blood before the Nine Provinces' forces arrived.
• Xuanyou gave Li Yang a drop of soul blood, and the Black Tortoise Battlefield's protection over him disappeared.
• Yinglong tried to flee, but a mighty sword severed one of his wings and forced him back.
• The Sword Alliance's Sword Chief arrived atop a colossal sword and accused Yinglong of scheming against the Nine Provinces with a false roster of contestants.

The Sword Chief arrived to confront the Demon Savage Continent’s delegation, but after Li Yang won the contest of prodigies, the Nine Provinces chose to honor the original agreement rather than declare war. The Sword Chief insisted Yinglong must die, and Li Yang offered to kill him himself.

• The Sword Chief sealed the Ning Lineage with the Sword Alliance’s formation as three Demon Immortal Supremes prepared to fight.
• A golden Communication Jade Slip arrived, and the Sword Chief learned that Li Yang had defeated the Demon Savage Continent’s prodigies.
• The Sword Chief let the three Demon Immortal Supremes leave and said the Demon Savage Continent had lost its claim to the hundred-thousand-li territory.
• The Demon Immortal Supremes protested when the Sword Chief refused to release Yinglong, arguing that killing their delegation’s leader would destroy any chance of peace.
• Li Yang called out from the Black Tortoise Battlefield and asked to kill Yinglong because he had hurt and insulted someone Li Yang cared about.

Li Yang challenged Yinglong to a deathmatch to avenge Ning Qingfeng, and the young Sword Chief arranged for them to fight in the Black Tortoise Battlefield. Yinglong entered the arena, where Li Yang prepared to make him pay for injuring someone he cared about.

• Li Yang challenged Yinglong to a third fight to the death, and Ning Qingfeng and the White Phoenix Ancestor recognized his devotion to her.
• The young Sword Chief warned Li Yang about Yinglong’s strength, then agreed to let Li Yang fight him while the Demon Immortals promised not to use the result to provoke conflict.
• Yinglong entered the Black Tortoise Battlefield and tried to seize it and take Li Yang hostage, but the young Sword Chief sealed the arena off from the outside.
• Xuanyou offered to take Li Yang to the Nine Provinces camp to have Ning Qingfeng treated, but Li Yang drew the Qianyang Core Sword and prepared to fight Yinglong.

Li Yang used Xuanyou and the Black Tortoise Battlefield’s protection to fight Yinglong Chen Geng at a decisive advantage. As Chen Geng was badly wounded, the young Sword Chief challenged the Demon Immortals, and dozens of Sword Dao Figures arrived at the Ning Lineage.

• Li Yang bound Xuanyou to him with a master-servant contract, and the battlefield equalized their cultivation with Yinglong’s at the peak of the Spirit Transformation realm.
• Xuanyou summoned the ancient Black Tortoise will to protect Li Yang, who refused Yinglong’s demand for a fair duel.
• The young Sword Chief and Ning Qingfeng watched as Li Yang attacked Chen Geng, while the White Phoenix Ancestor urged Ning Qingfeng to have a child with Li Yang.
• Li Yang charged Chen Geng with his sword, cut off his tail, and warned him he would meet the same fate as his children.
• The young Sword Chief threatened the three Demon Immortals when the Nine-Tailed Female Demon Immortal protested Li Yang’s unfair advantage.
• Dozens of Sword Dao Figures descended upon the Ning Lineage, and one declared Chen Geng the last Yinglong.

More than twenty Human Immortal Realm sword immortals revealed that they had exterminated the Yinglong Clan, forcing the Demon Immortals to flee while Li Yang continued defeating Chen Geng. Chen Geng summoned the Ink Qilin, whose voice identified him as a true immortal from the Upper Realm.

• Ancestor Canyang announced that the Nine Provinces' sword immortals had wiped out the Yinglong Clan, and Ancestor Rising Sun threatened the Demon Savage Continent with further destruction.
• The young Sword Chief explained that the Nine Provinces knew about the demons' plan to seize the territory and declared that the Nine Provinces had won.
• The three Demon Immortals fled after the young Sword Chief released the sword formation, leaving Chen Geng imprisoned with Li Yang.
• Li Yang continued wounding Chen Geng, who summoned a black Ink Qilin sculpture and begged his lord to kill Li Yang.
• The Ink Qilin came to life, released a supreme aura, and spoke as a true immortal from the Upper Realm.

Li Yang killed Yinglong in the Black Tortoise Battlefield after the ink-black qilin abandoned the dragon, securing victory for the Nine Provinces. Ning Qingfeng claimed the battlefield treasure, announced the victory, and prepared to honor the fallen and reward the survivors.

• Li Yang mocked Yinglong for begging the ink-black qilin for help, while Ancestor Rising Sun warned the qilin against harming him.
• The ink-black qilin disowned Yinglong and exploded, sending the dragon flying without threatening Li Yang.
• Li Yang used a Spatial-Shift Talisman and the empowered Qianyang Core Sword to split Yinglong's head and kill him.
• Li Yang brought Xuanyou out of the Black Tortoise Battlefield, and Ning Qingfeng collected the treasure.
• Ning Qingfeng proclaimed the Nine Provinces' victory, praised Li Yang and the fallen, and promised compensation for their families.
• Ancestor Rising Sun, the White Phoenix Ancestor, and the young Sword Chief departed, while the remaining Kun Province leaders and prodigies entered the Ning Lineage.

Li Yang rejected Xuanyou’s offer to become his Beast Companion until Xuanyou revealed the Black Tortoise’s innate space and time-manipulation abilities. Li Yang agreed to keep him in his Minor World Magic Treasure, where Xuanyou would remain unless summoned.

• Xuanyou complained that the Nine Provinces had overwhelmed the Demon Savage Continent, and Li Yang explained that the Nine Provinces had been stronger and the Yinglong had crossed the Dao Alliance’s bottom line.
• Li Yang offered to return Xuanyou’s soul blood and said he would protect him until his clansmen arrived, but Xuanyou refused to leave and argued that becoming Li Yang’s Beast Companion was a fortuitous opportunity.
• Xuanyou revealed his Black Tortoise innate space, where Li Yang could recover among powerful spirit herbs, and marked him with a totem that let him enter and leave.
• Xuanyou demonstrated that time passed ten times faster inside his space, convincing Li Yang to keep him on the condition that he stay in the Minor World Magic Treasure unless summoned.
• Xuanyou entered the Black Tortoise Totem, and Li Yang imagined using the space to recover quickly during battles.

At the victory banquet, Li Yang struck Saintess Su Yao for directing killing intent at him and drew the admiration of the Sword Cultivators. After the banquet, Ning Qingfeng took him to her cultivation retreat, where the Ning Lineage watched them leave hand in hand.

• Li Yang sensed Saintess Su Yao's killing intent, slapped her into a mountain, and warned her not to target him again.
• Mu Yao confronted Chu Feng about his past abuse and rejected becoming his Dao Companion, while Chu Feng threatened to claim her and Feng Wangshu by force.
• Wang Dabao presented Li Yang with spiritual cuisine made from Chen Geng's corpse, and Li Yang stored it as a gift for Ning Qingfeng.
• Palace Master Yin offered disciples to encourage ties with Li Yang, but Ning Qingfeng challenged her motives and the two exchanged barbed remarks.
• Ning Qingfeng invited Li Yang to stay with the Ning Lineage and led him to her cultivation retreat while they held hands; an elder joked that their lineage head would soon be born.