Chapter Summaries

Li Yang and Ning Qingfeng shared a meal above Volcano and discussed the coming convergence, Ning Xinyao’s recovery, and the danger posed by Chu Mu. Their conversation turned intimate as Li Yang’s desire intensified, leaving him telling Ning Qingfeng that he was burning up.

• Li Yang and Ning Qingfeng ate Yinglong dishes and wine while discussing their feelings and the convergence of the Nine Provinces.
• Ning Qingfeng explained that the realms would converge within a month and that Demon Immortals had supported the Demon Race prodigies.
• Ning Qingfeng told Li Yang that Ning Xinyao had gone with Ancestor Feihua to undergo nirvana and might return at the Nascent Soul stage.
• Li Yang revealed that Chu Feng was the demonic sovereign Chu Mu and asked Ning Qingfeng to investigate Vice Holy Lord Leng Xi, whom Chu Mu had approached through dual cultivation.
• Ning Qingfeng questioned why Li Yang had told Chu Mu he had no Dao Companion, and Li Yang began burning with desire after eating Yinglong dragon meat.

After becoming intimate, Li Yang reassured Ning Qingfeng that he would wait for her if their cultivation paths diverged. They then helped Leng Xi escape Chu Feng’s control and prepared to use her as part of a plan to capture him.

• Li Yang and Ning Qingfeng became intimate, and Li Yang told her that their relationship was not based on obligation and that she should call for him if he ever went too far ahead.
• Ning Qingfeng summoned Leng Xi and revealed that Chu Feng was the reborn Chu Mu, who had cursed and enslaved her using her refined soul blood.
• Ancestor Xuanyu performed a modified nirvana for Leng Xi, removed the curse, and made a clone to keep Chu Feng from suspecting anything.
• Ning Qingfeng told Leng Xi to return without alerting Chu Feng and wait for the plan to capture him.
• Li Yang warned Leng Xi not to confuse her abuser with her hope of survival, and Leng Xi vowed to devote herself to destroying evil fiends.

Ning Qingfeng brought Li Yang and the other demon slayers to the Dao Alliance headquarters to claim treasury rewards. After Chongyang gifted Li Yang Solar True Fire, they reached the treasury, where Elder Xuanshu recognized the Black Tortoise totem on Li Yang’s wrist and condemned him for becoming a beast companion.

• Ning Qingfeng explained the history of Immortal Relic Province to Li Yang and led the group through a teleportation formation to the Dao Alliance headquarters.
• Ning Qingfeng introduced Li Yang to Chongyang, the Demon Court Lord of Xun Province, who offered to trade Solar True Fire for one of Li Yang’s treasure selections.
• Chongyang gave Ning Qingfeng a flame of Solar True Fire for Li Yang, and Li Yang accepted it after deciding it would not make him compromise his principles.
• Ning Qingfeng collected fifty-three jade talismans for the group, including thirty-four for Li Yang, based on their kills of Ancestor-Blood Rank prodigies.
• At the treasury, Elder Xuanshu saw the Black Tortoise totem on Li Yang’s wrist and criticized him for becoming another creature’s beast companion.

Xuanyou awoke long enough to meet Elder Xuanshu, and Li Yang entered the Dao Alliance Treasury to spend his jade tokens on supreme treasures. With twenty tokens remaining, he followed Ning Qingfeng to the second level to search for a Sword Dao divine ability, where a cracked sword caught his attention.

• Xuanyou woke when Elder Xuanshu scolded Li Yang, then knelt to greet his clan ancestor.
• Elder Xuanshu questioned Li Yang's thirty-four jade tokens until Ning Qingfeng relayed the alliance leader's permission and explained Li Yang's feat against thirty-three invading prodigies.
• Ning Qingfeng guided Li Yang through the first level, where he chose fourteen supreme treasures, including items for Xuanyou.
• Ning Qingfeng found no Sword Dao divine ability on the first level that suited Li Yang, so she took him to the second level to keep searching.
• Li Yang stopped in the cultivation manual section before a cracked sword and could not move on.

Li Yang comprehended a sword immortal’s Stunning Sword Strike in the Dao Alliance Treasury and chose a Six-Winged Heavenly Cicada’s shell to aid his mastery of spatial power. After returning to Youli Peak, he discovered that the treasures and resources stored in his Minor World had vanished.

• Ning Qingfeng unlocked the restrictions on the broken sword, allowing Li Yang to witness and comprehend the sword immortal’s Stunning Sword Strike.
• Li Yang said the technique required at least Nascent Soul cultivation, and Ning Qingfeng showed him a Six-Winged Heavenly Cicada’s shell that could help him wield spatial power.
• Xuanyou drank the Evergreen Wood Longevity Liquid, returned to sleep as a totem on Li Yang’s wrist, and urged him to visit the Black Tortoise clan.
• Ning Qingfeng escorted Li Yang back to the Moonlit Holy Land, reminded him that the realms would fully meet in twenty days, and kissed him after he hesitantly sought her affection.
• Li Yang returned to Youli Peak and found that the treasures, pills, and other resources in his Minor World had disappeared.

Li Yang discovered that the newly hatched Black Serpent had devoured his spirit stones and many resources, then bound it as a beast companion after learning about its concealment and treasure-finding abilities. He refined several treasures, mastering the Pseudo-Incomplete Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation and awakening the broken sword’s power to slay immortals, though part of its blade was missing.

• Li Yang found the Black Serpent had eaten his spirit stones, pills, and spirit veins, and Xuanyou identified it as an extinct species with a powerful bloodline.
• Li Yang bound the Black Serpent with a master-servant contract and learned it could erase its aura, camouflage itself, and locate hidden treasures.
• The Black Serpent led Li Yang to a concealed valley treasure trove inside the minor world, and Li Yang moved the serpent to his wrist as a totem.
• Li Yang refined the solar true fire into the Qianyang Core Sword but made little progress refining the Six-Winged Heavenly Cicada's shed shell.
• Li Yang mastered the Pseudo-Incomplete Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation and found that his broken sword retained an intent capable of slaying immortals, though part of its blade was missing.

Li Yang interrupted Chu Feng as he pressured Leng Xi to use her Mysterious Yin Pure Spirit Body to help him form a Nascent Soul, then struck him and drove him from Youli Peak. Leng Xi confirmed Chu Feng planned to grow stronger and was heading to the Bordering Lands, while the sect prepared to depart for the Ning Lineage.

• Li Yang abandoned his attempt to refine the Six-Winged Heavenly Cicada's shell and left the Black Tortoise Space after sensing a dispute in Leng Xi's hall.
• Chu Feng demanded that Leng Xi help him cultivate, and Mu Yao accused him of wanting to consume Leng Xi's body's essence to form his Nascent Soul.
• Li Yang confronted Chu Feng, slapped him, and dismissed his threat to report the assault to the Sword Alliance.
• Leng Xi told Li Yang that Chu Feng wanted to form his Nascent Soul so he could find a chance to kill him, and confirmed Mu Yao had no restrictions on her body.
• Li Yang told Leng Xi that the Sword Alliance was working to eliminate Chu Feng's revival methods, and learned that Chu Feng planned to go to the Bordering Lands.
• The Moonlit Holy Lord announced that the sect would depart for the Ning Lineage to witness history.

As cultivators gathered at the Ning Lineage ahead of the Joining, Xuanyuan visitors learned that Li Yang was Ning Qingfeng’s intended, while Lu Qingqiu discovered Wang Dabao was cooking there. Li Yang arrived to sample Wang Dabao’s new cake, and the chapter ended before he gave his verdict.

• Cultivators discussed the approaching Joining and watched the Xuanyuan Sword Sect enter the Ning Lineage, where they learned Ning Qingfeng’s partner was the Golden Core disciple Li Yang.
• Lu Qingqiu sampled the Ning Lineage’s osmanthus cakes, then went looking for the Spiritual Chef who had made them.
• Lu Qingqiu spotted Wang Dabao cooking and recognized him from the Heavenly Pride Battle broadcast.
• Li Yang arrived, greeted Lu Qingqiu, and went straight to see Wang Dabao, receiving a warmer welcome than she had.
• Wang Dabao offered Li Yang his Iceheart Flame Bean Cake and eagerly asked what he thought of it.

Li Yang joined the Xuanyuan Sword Sect’s meeting, where Lu Jun explained the coming contest for opportunities in the collapsing boundary between the Nine Provinces and the Demon Savage Continent. The chapter ended with Lu Jun entrusting Li Yang with the sect master’s token and authority over all Xuanyuan sword cultivators.

• Li Yang and Lu Qingqiu shared Wang Dabao’s spiritual cuisine before their elders summoned them to the Xuanyuan Sword Sect’s gathering.
• Lu Feng praised Li Yang’s rise to Golden Core, while Yun Qingxuan rebuked Lu Feng for neglecting his duties.
• Lu Jun revealed that the Dao Alliance had disclosed a future convergence between the Nine Provinces and the Demon Savage Continent, and made everyone swear to keep the information secret.
• Lu Jun outlined the grotto heaven, innate sword vein, and other opportunities the Xuanyuan Sword Sect planned to pursue as the two domains collided.
• Lu Jun explained that seniors in the Upper Realm would send blessings and inheritances to their lineages, while Demon Race seniors would do the same for their own.
• Lu Jun gave Li Yang the Xuanyuan Sword Sect master’s identity token and ordered all Xuanyuan sword cultivators to obey him.

Li Yang declined to lead the Xuanyuan Sword Sect but accepted a Dijiang origin blood essence opportunity and the Ning Lineage’s leadership token and protections. The Sword Chief then assigned him to hunt wicked immortals hiding in the Great World of Ten Thousand Immortals, a mission Li Yang eagerly accepted.

• Li Yang refused the Xuanyuan Sword Sect’s sect master token, but accepted guidance to seek Dijiang origin blood essence.
• Ning Qingfeng asked Li Yang to lead the Ning Lineage’s people and safeguard their ancestral blessings, and gave him the Nirvana Seal and a Ten-Pattern Nascent Soul Condensation Pill.
• The Sword Chief assigned Li Yang to hunt fugitives from the Upper Realm who were hiding in the Great World of Ten Thousand Immortals.
• Li Yang eagerly accepted the mission, and the Sword Chief promised him a treasury treasure for each wicked immortal he killed and gave him authority over the Sword Envoys.

As the lineages traveled toward the Demon Savage Continent, Ancestor Canyang explained how sword cultivators could develop a sword domain. Li Yang gained insight from the lesson and Ancestor Canyang’s demonstration, but his lukewarm response prompted the ancestor to challenge him to explain his own understanding.

• The Xuanyuan Sword Sect and other lineages set out as the Demon Savage Continent’s approach threw the Nine Provinces’ natural laws into disorder.
• Ancestor Canyang asked Li Yang about his relationship with Ning Qingfeng and explained that the ancestors hoped the pair would form a marriage alliance and have children; Li Yang refused to let them dictate their plans.
• Ancestor Canyang taught Li Yang that forming a sword domain required a clear sword heart, powerful sword momentum, and a strong enough soul.
• Ancestor Xuanyuan teased Canyang about previously forbidding a Nascent Soul cultivator from attempting to form a domain before Spirit Transformation.
• Li Yang questioned Canyang and experienced his Canyang Sword Domain, then called it “not bad.”
• Canyang, displeased by Li Yang’s response, demanded that he explain the insights behind it.

Li Yang impressed Ancestor Canyang by identifying three flaws in his sword domain, then joined the gathered cultivators at the border of the Demon Savage Continent as the realms prepared to join. With the upheaval imminent, Ancestor Canyang offered to guard Li Yang while he studied the unstable space.

• Li Yang pointed out three weaknesses in Ancestor Canyang's Canyang Sword Domain, leaving the ancestor deep in thought.
• Li Yang observed the Demon Savage Continent through the realm membrane and heard that the joining and its ensuing battle would begin in three days.
• Sword cultivators gathered around Li Yang, while Qin Feng revealed that he had consummated his relationships with all four senior sisters.
• Ancestor Canyang explained how the joining would make space visible and unstable, then offered to guard Li Yang as he comprehended it.

Li Yang provoked Li Xiao, who sought revenge for Zi Yuan, until Ning Qingfeng arrived and punished him for threatening her. Ning Qingfeng then revealed that Li Xiao was the last known bearer of Chu Mu’s Dao Heart Demon Seed, and that Chu Mu’s resurrection plan might involve an Outer-Domain Celestial Demon.

• Li Yang studied the Six-Winged Heavenly Cicada's husk while Ancestor Canyang guarded him, but found the treasure difficult to refine.
• Gu Luoyuan and Li Xiao confronted Li Yang, and Li Yang taunted Li Xiao by describing Zi Yuan's death at Tu Nine Provinces' hands.
• Ning Qingfeng arrived and slapped Li Xiao after he threatened to kill her, while Ancestor Canyang stopped Old Demon Wushe from intervening.
• Li Xiao fled after learning Ning Qingfeng was Li Yang's beloved, and promised to kill Li Yang inside the Great World of Ten Thousand Immortals.
• Ning Qingfeng told Li Yang that Li Xiao was the only remaining known host of Chu Mu's Dao Heart Demon Seed, but Devil Ancestor Mountain refused to cooperate.
• Ning Qingfeng said Wuyazi suspected Chu Mu's resurrection plan involved more than body possession, and Li Yang asked if it concerned an Outer-Domain Celestial Demon.

Li Yang rejected Jiang Xingzhou and Shen Yaoyin because of their past ties to the Nine Nether Dynasty and their shifting loyalties, then turned to Wang Dabao to discuss a possible partnership. He also planned to kill Chu Mu and Li Xiao when the opportunity arose.

• Ning Qingfeng warned Li Yang that Devil Ancestor Mountain was too powerful for the Dao Alliance to confront directly and advised him to gather sword cultivators for the Pseudo-Incomplete Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation.
• Li Yang decided he would kill Chu Mu and Li Xiao, while Shen Yaoyin and Jiang Xingzhou arrived to speak with him.
• Li Yang accused Jiang Xingzhou of joining the Nine Nether Dynasty's camp and threatened to kill him if he got the chance, forcing Jiang Xingzhou to leave.
• Li Yang refused Shen Yaoyin's offer of cooperation, saying he would only discuss business with the Longevity Merchant Association.
• Wang Dabao denied that his association sold Soul Banners, and Li Yang asked what cooperation Wang's father wanted to discuss.

As the Nine Provinces and Demon Savage Continent began joining, Li Yang survived an assassination attempt and the Sword Alliance vowed to hunt down those responsible. On the Demon Savage Continent, conspirators prepared a second attempt using poison delivered through a Peace Faction prodigy.

• Wang Dabao paid Li Yang a deposit for first consideration in buying any Upper Realm inheritances Li Yang seized, then said he would enter the Great World of Ten Thousand Immortals to grow stronger.
• As the two continents joined, Li Yang witnessed the destruction and new opportunities at their boundary while Ancestor Canyang urged him to comprehend space.
• Li Yang sensed killing intent and escaped with Ancestor Canyang just before a distant curse obliterated the space where he had stood.
• Ancestor Rising Sun, the young Sword Chief, and Sword Immortals from several sects pursued the attacker, but the Human Immortal killed himself to conceal his origins.
• The young Sword Chief promised Li Yang protection and an investigation, while Ning Qingfeng confirmed he was unharmed.
• On the Demon Savage Continent, conspirators discussed Yin Zhe's failed assassination and revealed a plan to poison Li Yang through an unsuspecting Peace Faction prodigy.

Li Yang entered the Great World of Ten Thousand Immortals, where cultivators competed for ancient legacies and Upper Realm energy. He arrived alone, found a demon cultivator slaughtering rivals for a Golden Jade Slip, and confronted him just as the killer feared his identity.

• After four days of studying space, Li Yang joined the Nascent Soul cultivators entering the Great World of Ten Thousand Immortals, while Spirit Transformation cultivators who tried to sneak in were annihilated by the laws of the void.
• Feng Wangshu gave Li Yang the Moonlit Holy Land’s Holy Lord token and asked him to accept half the blessing from its forebears in return for helping Ancestor Emei.
• Li Yang and Wang Dabao were pulled into the Great World, but they became separated after arriving in its vast landscape filled with Upper Realm energy.
• Jiaojiao entered the Great World intending to charm Li Yang, following the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox’s plan to approach him through seemingly unintentional goodwill.
• Li Yang detected a battle and found a demon cultivator Crown Champion killing rivals for a Golden Jade Slip and collecting their souls in a banner.
• Li Yang asked the demon cultivator if he still wanted his millionth kill, and the killer turned deathly pale with fear.

Li Yang killed the demon cultivator Crown Champion, destroyed his Soul Banner, and hurried to answer a Sword Envoy's call for aid. At Sword Mountain, he arrived as Demon Savage Continent prodigies attacked the Sword Cultivators guarding the inheritance site.

• Li Yang used crimson sword lights to trap the demon cultivator Crown Champion, then killed him with the Qianyang Core Sword.
• Li Yang destroyed the Soul Banner and freed its resentful souls with his sword intent, then examined the sealed golden jade slip.
• Li Yang sensed a Sword Envoy requesting aid and flew toward the signal on his Vertical Sword.
• At Sword Mountain, a group of Sword Cultivators confronted eight Demon Savage prodigies led by an Azure Phoenix.
• The Azure Phoenix revealed that the demons had come to kill the Sword Cultivators in revenge for Li Yang killing its younger sister, and both sides began fighting.

Xing Jun fought the Azure Phoenix and its Demon Savage Continent allies at Sword Mountain, but their superior strength left the Sword Cultivators near defeat. When Li Yang’s approach sent Demon Cultivators fleeing, the chapter ended as his scarlet sword light appeared and the Sword Cultivators rallied.

• Xing Jun refused to join the Sword Formation and trapped the Azure Phoenix in a hidden killing formation, but its soul attack and devastating wind-and-flame techniques overwhelmed him.
• The thirteen Sword Cultivators struggled against the seven demons until three Sword Envoys arrived; one fled, one was mauled, and the third became locked in battle with a powerful demon.
• As more visitors reached Sword Mountain, the Azure Phoenix declared that its forces were targeting only Sword Cultivators, and most newcomers stayed out of the fight.
• Demon Cultivators fled after hearing Li Yang was coming, while the Azure Phoenix continued to wound Xing Jun and the demon forces grew to twelve, killing two Sword Cultivators.
• Li Yang’s scarlet sword light appeared, and the embattled Sword Cultivators cheered as they recognized their leader’s arrival.

Li Yang joined the battered sword cultivators at Sword Mountain and used the Pseudo-Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation to slaughter the Demon Savage Continent’s attackers. He killed the Azure Phoenix as well, leaving Xing Jun furious that Li Yang had taken his battle achievement.

• Li Yang refused the damaged formation flag and activated the Pseudo-Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, which the remaining eleven sword cultivators entered and empowered.
• Xing Jun swallowed a Forbidden Pill to strengthen himself as he fought the Azure Phoenix.
• Li Yang used the formation and Vertical Sword to kill the Demon Race prodigies, including a Saint Blood demon and a late-stage Nascent Soul great demon.
• Li Yang and the sword cultivators wiped out every Demon Savage Continent attacker except the Azure Phoenix, while Xing Jun continued fighting it inside his formation.
• Li Yang charged into Xing Jun’s formation, beheaded the Azure Phoenix, and destroyed its demon nascent soul.
• Xing Jun confronted Li Yang for taking his battle achievement, and Li Yang slapped him.

Li Yang rebuked Xing Jun for his recklessness and punished cultivators who had abandoned their fellow sword cultivators. When those cultivators attacked him over the treasures on Sword Mountain, its flying swords rallied to Li Yang, and he trapped the attackers at the exit to slaughter them.

• Li Yang confronted Xing Jun over the deaths of two sword cultivators, gave him the Sword Chief's token, and led the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation into Sword Mountain.
• Li Yang blacklisted the cultivators who had refused to help their compatriots and warned everyone to leave Sword Mountain or face him as competitors.
• When cultivators attacked Li Yang for his treasures, his slaughter sword intent drew more than half the mountain's flying swords into the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation.
• Li Yang's sword formation killed powerful attackers, and he waited at the stone gate while more Sword Envoys arrived to block the exit.
• The Kun cultivator who had dismissed Li Yang's warning begged for mercy, but the sword cultivators told him he had only realized his mistake because he was about to die.