Chapter Summaries

Li Yang cleared Sword Mountain of evil swords, refined the Mock Immortal-Slaying Sword, and helped Xing Jun secure the Ten Thousand Sword Casket Sect’s inheritance. With more than fifty Sword Cultivators following him, he set out to answer another Sword Envoy’s call for help against evil fiends and monsters.

• Li Yang destroyed dozens of evil or corrupting swords on Sword Mountain, while Xing Jun gathered flying swords and collected the inheritance Sword Casket.
• Li Yang found and refined the Mock Immortal-Slaying Sword, whose sword intent attacked souls, and tested its power by destroying an evil fiend’s Nascent Soul with a glancing blow.
• Xing Jun used the Sect Master's Token to shrink Sword Mountain and store it in his Sword Casket, agreeing that Sword Dao inheritances should be shared with fellow Sword Cultivators.
• Li Yang gathered the Sword Cultivators around him and chose to postpone collecting other inheritances so they could answer a Sword Envoy’s call for aid against evil fiends and monsters.

Ning Xiwū led thirty Ning Lineage members into the Crimson Continent with Zhu Xiao, who promised to guide them to its inheritance. After fire-aspected beasts ambushed them, the Ning group escaped with Spatial-Shift Talismans, but Zhu Xiao and the beasts revealed that they had staged the attack to hunt them for their phoenix origin essence blood.

• Ning Lineage members and Zhu Xiao joined forces to explore the continent, and Zhu Xiao used his Golden Crow power to illuminate a route toward the deepest reaches.
• Ning Xiwū's grandmother divined that the route was safe, and the party traveled for an hour without incident.
• Chaos concealed the Vermilion Bird, a Bifang, a Calamity Hound, and ten other fire-aspected beasts until they launched a surprise attack.
• Ning Xiwū ordered the lineage members to retreat, and they escaped using Spatial-Shift Talismans after she urged Zhu Xiao to flee and await their son-in-law's revenge.
• Zhu Xiao and the Vermilion Bird admitted they wanted the Ning members' phoenix origin essence blood, then pursued them as Zhu Xiao used the ten great suns to track their escape.

Ning Xiwู and the Ning Lineage were ambushed by the Vermilion Bird, Bifang, and other demons after Golden Crow Zhu Xiao secretly helped them track their movements. Just as the Vermilion Bird prepared to kill Ning Xiwู, Li Yang arrived in pursuit of the wounded Dijiang, with a blood-red sun following behind him.

• Ning Xiwู realized Golden Crow Zhu Xiao was helping the demons track the Ning Lineage, then lured their pursuers away by displaying a false Family Head's Token.
• The Vermilion Bird and Bifang pursued Ning Xiwู while the other demon prodigies hunted the Ning Lineage's clanspeople, and the Vermilion Bird eventually struck Ning Xiwู down.
• The Vermilion Bird explained that someone from the Sun-Slaying Alliance had directed the demons to the Ning Lineage, then said Dijiang would prevent them from escaping.
• An hour earlier, Dijiang stole the Dijiang origin essence blood from Li Yang and repeatedly evaded him while trying to seize the Six-Winged Heavenly Cicada's shed shell.
• Li Yang comprehended the rudiments of spatial law and severed Dijiang's left wings with the Stunning Sword Strike, then Ye Xiao and the Sword Cultivators pursued the wounded beast to the Blazing Continent.
• Dijiang arrived where Ning Xiwู was cornered and called on the Vermilion Bird for help, while Ning Xiwู sensed Li Yang approaching behind Dijiang with a blood-red sun.

Li Yang and the sword cultivators rescued the hunted members of the Ning Lineage and killed Bifang, while Dijiang and the Vermilion Bird escaped deeper into the Blazing Continent. With the survivors safe, Ning Xiwู asked Li Yang to let her report someone.

• The Vermilion Bird recognized Li Yang and fled deeper into the Blazing Continent with the wounded Dijiang when he unleashed the Pseudo-Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation.
• Ning Xiwู disrupted Bifang’s escape with a Meteoric Flame Storm, then used a Spatial-Shift Talisman to evade his attack as Li Yang arrived to protect her.
• Li Yang sensed Bifang’s killing intent, led the sword cultivators to him, and killed him with the Pseudo-Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation.
• Li Yang and the sword cultivators slew the remaining fire-type demons and collected their remains, while the Calamity Hound escaped.
• The members of the Ning Lineage welcomed Li Yang’s protection, and Ning Xiwู asked him to let her report someone.

Li Yang and the Ning Lineage reached the Blazing Continent’s deepest chamber, where he claimed the Immortal Parasol Tree and confronted restrictions protecting the Fusang Tree. With Zhu Xiao waiting nearby to claim its inheritance, Li Yang decided to destroy the tree rather than let him have it.

• Ning Xiwู accused Zhu Xiao of helping the Demon Savage Continent’s evil monsters ambush her group, and Li Yang resolved to kill him within the Great World of Ten Thousand Immortals.
• Ning Xiwู told Li Yang that the Sun-Slaying Alliance had provoked attacks on the Ning Lineage and the Xuanyuan Sword Sect, while the Ning Lineage offered the Sword Cultivators formation support, pills, and healing.
• Li Yang and the Ning Lineage members traveled through the Blazing Continent, though Dijiang and the Vermilion Bird had likely escaped.
• Guided by the Ning Lineage’s Family Head’s Token, Li Yang passed the restrictions and took the Immortal Parasol Tree into his minor world.
• Li Yang found the Fusang Divine Tree protected by restrictions that required a Golden Crow Clan leader’s identity token, while Zhu Xiao waited nearby to claim it.
• Li Yang declared that if he could not have the Fusang Tree, he would destroy it.

Li Yang destroyed the Fusang Tree rather than let the Golden Crow Clan claim it, then pursued the Golden Crow as a battle erupted. Elsewhere, Chu Feng drove off the Blissful Devil Venerable, but an unknown swordsman arrived as the immortal prepared to escape.

• Li Yang drew the parasol tree’s restrictions into those surrounding the Fusang Tree, causing both sets of restrictions to annihilate the area and destroy the inheritance.
• Li Yang pursued the Golden Crow with the Pseudo-Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, while the Golden Crow sent ten great suns crashing down to slow him.
• The Blissful Devil Lord pursued Mu Yao and threatened to enslave her, but Su Yao and Gu Luoyuan intervened and fought him.
• Chu Feng arrived, wounded the Blissful Devil Venerable with his Demonic Halberd, and forced him to retreat after declaring he would protect Mu Yao.
• As the Blissful Devil Venerable prepared to escape, a swordsman arrived and announced that he had finally found the evil immortal.

Li Yang killed Zhu Xiao after Chongyang disavowed his son's actions and affirmed Xun Province's loyalty to the Nine Provinces. He then charged toward Blissful Devil Venerable, while Lin He and a Nine-Tailed Fox Woman arrived to protect the others and support Mu Yao.

• Zhu Xiao blamed Li Yang for his losses, but Chongyang refused to save him after Li Yang accused him of conspiring with the Demon Savage Continent against the Ning Lineage.
• Chongyang declared that Zhu Xiao had acted alone and that Xun Province would stand with the Nine Provinces, then let Li Yang kill his son.
• Li Yang spared Zhu Xiao's remains out of respect for Chongyang but planned to collect the Golden Crow's treasures, and he discovered the Fusang Tree sapling had survived.
• Li Yang aimed the Immortal Identification Sword at Blissful Devil Venerable and left the sword formation to fight him alone.
• Mu Yao refused Chu Feng's pills, while Lin He arrived and warned Chu Feng and Gu Luoyuan not to interrupt Li Yang; a Nine-Tailed Fox Woman gave Mu Yao trusted healing pills.
• Blissful Devil Venerable acknowledged Li Yang's courage for facing an immortal, despite knowing what he was.

Li Yang killed the Blissful Devil Venerable’s possessed body and annihilated his true spirit with the Immortal-Slaying Sword, earning a second-level Dao Alliance Treasury jade talisman. Afterward, he confronted Tu Shan Jiaojiao, a Nine-Tailed Fox Demon whom Lin He vouched for, but Li Yang distrusted her and demanded an explanation.

• Li Yang broke the Blissful Devil Venerable’s Yin-Yang Grinding Disks and pursued him with sword strikes, forcing him to flee in true spirit form.
• The Blissful Devil Venerable exposed Chu Feng’s role in staging a rescue, but Chu Feng abandoned him and escaped on a dilapidated black floating raft.
• Li Yang pursued the Blissful Devil Venerable into the Pseudo-Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation and destroyed his true spirit with the Immortal-Slaying Sword.
• Li Yang obtained a jade talisman for the second level of the Dao Alliance Treasury, then returned to Lin He and the others.
• Lin He introduced Tu Shan Jiaojiao as a Peace Faction Nine-Tailed Fox Demon, but Li Yang threatened to kill her unless she explained why she looked at him strangely.

Li Yang learned that the Moonlit Holy Land’s Upper Realm lineage had turned to the Demonic Path and set out with the others for its occupied inheritance site. Meanwhile, demonic cultivators gathered at Extreme Yin Mountain to help the Devil Venerable break the final seal, unaware that new arrivals might disrupt the attempt.

• Li Yang questioned Tu Shan Jiaojiao, then judged Saintess Su Yao and Gu Luoyuan by their lack of killing intent after Mu Yao defended them.
• Mu Yao explained that the Moonlit Holy Land’s ancestor had switched to the Demonic Path, leaving its inheritance occupied by demonic cultivators, and Li Yang led the group toward the site.
• Demonic cultivators on Extreme Yin Mountain discussed the Devil Venerable’s effort to break the Moonlit Holy Land’s inheritance seal and the treasures they hoped to claim.
• An ugly female demonic cultivator joined the formation and began channeling demon essence, but two more cultivators arrived before the seal was broken.
• A demonic cultivator ordered the Nascent Soul newcomer to stand at the back and the Golden Core newcomer to move to the front.

Feng Wangshu attacked Demon Venerable Thousandfold to stop him from breaking the Moonlit Holy Land's legacy seal, but he transferred his will into another body and left her gravely wounded. As the seal neared collapse, he threatened her and urged a demonic cultivator to assault her despite the Taiyin Demon Rabbit's warning.

• Feng Wangshu revealed her identity and used the Mirror Flower, Water Moon Talisman to strike Demon Venerable Thousandfold, destroying his possessed body but suffering catastrophic injuries.
• Demon Venerable Thousandfold transferred his will into a young demonic cultivator, resumed breaking the legacy seal, and declared that the male demonic cultivators could take Feng Wangshu.
• The Taiyin Demon Rabbit identified Demon Venerable Thousandfold and warned that harming Feng Wangshu would make an enemy of the Moonlit Holy Land.
• Demon Venerable Thousandfold rejected the Taiyin Demon Rabbit's warning and ordered a Golden Core male demonic cultivator to proceed, threatening to devour his soul if he hesitated.

Li Yang and Lin He rescued Feng Wangshu from Demon Venerable Thousandfold and the Demon Cultivators, then revealed a trap surrounding Taiyin Mountain. Li Yang prepared to claim Demon Venerable Thousandfold’s head as the remaining enemies faced the formation.

• The Taiyin Demon Rabbit offered to copy the inheritance, but Feng Wangshu urged her ancestor to destroy it rather than let Demon Cultivators obtain it.
• A Golden Core Demon Cultivator tried to assault Feng Wangshu, but Li Yang revealed himself and killed him with a sword strike.
• Lin He attacked the Demon Cultivators, killing several and cutting down Demon Venerable Thousandfold, while Li Yang rescued Feng Wangshu into his minor world.
• Demon Cultivators grew greedy for Li Yang’s treasures and attacked, so over a hundred Sword Cultivators emerged and deployed the Pseudo-Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation.
• The formation killed more than thirty Demon Cultivators, while the Ning Lineage formation masters raised a binding formation around Taiyin Mountain.
• Li Yang pointed the Immortal Identification Sword at Demon Venerable Thousandfold and declared that he would take the Old Devil’s head.

Li Yang used his fearsome reputation and the Pseudo-Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation to punish demonic cultivators in the Moonlit Holy Land inheritance ground. After sparing those who had not attacked him, he demanded their inheritance spoils or permission to search their souls, then threatened a cultivator who objected.

• Li Yang mocked the evil immortal and announced he would kill demonic cultivators who had lined up to defile Feng Wangshu.
• A demonic cultivator tried to rally his sect against Li Yang, but his disciples attacked him and their ancestor phantom killed him to avoid association.
• Li Yang killed the cultivators who had targeted Feng Wangshu and those who had attacked him, while sparing the others.
• Demon Venerable Thousandfold urged the demonic cultivators to join him in breaking the formation, but they refused to risk provoking Li Yang.
• Li Yang offered the remaining cultivators a choice between surrendering their inheritance spoils and undergoing a soul search.
• When a demonic cultivator cited Dao Alliance rules about private property, Li Yang warned him to stop talking or face his anger.

Li Yang used his Sword Chief and Moonlit Holy Land tokens to force the demonic cultivators to surrender their resources as they left the formation. He exposed Demon Venerable Thousandfold's possession of a Golden Core cultivator and cornered the evil immortal, who then feinted toward the formation wall to attack Li Yang.

• Li Yang displayed his Sword Chief's Token and Moonlit Holy Land Saint Lord Token, establishing his authority to hunt demons and protect the inheritance.
• Li Yang made the demonic cultivators pass through his sword formation and surrender resources, sending them out safely after taking the treasures they had obtained in the inheritance grounds.
• Li Yang killed a Golden Core cultivator and revealed that Demon Venerable Thousandfold had possessed the man's body.
• Li Yang summoned Xuanyou, whose Black Tortoise bloodline shielded the area from Demon Venerable Thousandfold's possession art.
• Demon Venerable Thousandfold feinted at the Hundred-Mile Binding Formation wall, then turned to attack Li Yang after he appeared behind him with a Spatial-Shift Talisman.

Li Yang used the Immortal-Slaying Sword and the Pseudo-Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation to wear down and kill Demon Venerable Thousandfold after the evil immortal repeatedly escaped. He then brought Feng Wangshu to Bright Moon, where he ordered Ning Xiw to restrain the Taiyin Demon Rabbit before the gathered Moonlit Holy Land disciples approached their inheritance.

• Li Yang exposed the Immortal-Slaying Sword and drove Demon Venerable Thousandfold from his possessed body, but the old devil escaped with the Immortal Spirit Escape Art.
• Demon Venerable Thousandfold pleaded with the Taiyin Demon Rabbit to let him into Bright Moon, while Li Yang pursued him and warned the rabbit not to collude with an evil fiend.
• Lin He brought the Pseudo-Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation to Li Yang, and Xuanyou blasted Demon Venerable Thousandfold away when he tried to become the formation's spirit.
• Demon Venerable Thousandfold merged with the binding formation, but the sword formation broke it apart and killed him in three strikes.
• Li Yang rescued Feng Wangshu and handed her to Mu Yao, then approached Bright Moon with the Moonlit Holy Land disciples.
• Li Yang told Ning Xiw to set up another binding formation around the Taiyin Demon Rabbit in case it attacked someone.

Li Yang retrieved the Moonlit Holy Land inheritance and learned that the Xuanyuan Sword Sect was under attack by the Sun-Slaying Alliance and the Demon Savage Continent’s War Faction. Wang Dabao pleaded for him to hurry to the inheritance grounds, where Li Xiao, Chu Feng, and several powerful old monsters were attacking.

• Li Yang fought the Taiyin Demon Rabbit until it admitted it was a savage Magic Beast, then left the Moonlit Holy Land’s demonic arts for Ancestor Emei to decide what to do with.
• Li Yang took Bright Moon into his Minor World and prepared to secure the Xuanyuan Sword Sect’s inheritance before returning to fight demons.
• Li Yang sensed a flood of pleas for help through the Sect Master's Token and ordered the Sword Cultivators to follow him to the Xuanyuan Sword Sect.
• Li Yang gave looted resources to the Ning Lineage, the Moonlit Holy Land, and the Sword Cultivators as Ye Xiao raced through the void on the Void-Piercing Sword.
• Wang Dabao sent Li Yang a plea saying the Sun-Slaying Alliance and the Demon Savage Continent’s War Faction were attacking the Xuanyuan Sword Sect, with Li Xiao, Chu Feng, and several old monsters able to unravel the Inheritance Restrictive Seal.

Qin Feng and Su Miao were hunted through Ten Thousand Sword Mountain by the Sun-Slaying Alliance and demon cultivators. After sacrificing his sword pellet and throwing Su Miao toward safety, Qin Feng faced his pursuers alone and charged at a dangerous Geng Metal Sword Pellet.

• Two disguised cultivators entered the Xuanyuan Sword Sect's inheritance grounds and discussed luring Li Yang into a trap.
• Qin Feng carried the wounded Su Miao while five enemies pursued them through Ten Thousand Sword Mountain.
• Su Miao broke free to hold off the pursuers, and Qin Feng swallowed a Forbidden Pill to fight beside her.
• After Su Miao was gravely wounded, Qin Feng detonated his Geng Metal Sword Pellet, carried her uphill, and tried to seize a dormant Geng Metal Sword Pellet, losing four fingers.
• Surrounded and weakened as the Forbidden Pill wore off, Qin Feng spun Su Miao toward another mountaintop, then charged headfirst at the dangerous Geng Metal Sword Pellet.

Qin Feng inherited the Geng Metal Sword Pellet, recovered his cultivation, and defeated four of his five enemies before Chu Feng arrived and overwhelmed him. Su Miao revealed that she had survived and gained a Sword Dao legacy, then escaped with Qin Feng while they hoped to reach Li Yang.

• The Geng Metal Sword Pellet protected Qin Feng from his attackers, acknowledged him, and restored his cultivation through its legacy and Immortal Essence.
• Qin Feng used the Sword Pellet to kill three late-stage Golden Core enemies and then slew another who begged for mercy.
• After more than a hundred exchanges, Qin Feng cut down the female Nascent Soul Demon Cultivator, but Chu Feng captured and consumed her Nascent Soul.
• Chu Feng defeated Qin Feng in three exchanges and threatened to kill him before sending him to Li Yang.
• Su Miao emerged from the Sword Mountain with a Nascent Soul Fourth Layer cultivation and a blue-steel sword, then fled with Qin Feng to seek Li Yang.

Lu Qingqiu and Wang Dabao answered a call for help, only to be trapped by a White-Haired Demon Venerable who used sword puppets and a powerful formation against them. Just as the formation’s sword qi threatened to overwhelm them, Li Yang broke through from outside.

• Lu Qingqiu rode on Wang Dabao’s shoulders as they searched Ten Thousand Sword Mountain for Sword Envoys requesting aid.
• Lu Qingqiu and Wang Dabao joined a fight to rescue two Sword Envoys, but the two sword cultivators betrayed them and revealed themselves as puppets.
• A White-Haired Demon Venerable trapped Lu Qingqiu and Wang Dabao in a fifth-grade formation and sent sword qi from the surrounding mountains against them.
• Wang Dabao used his defensive treasures to hold off the attacks and called for Li Yang’s help as the treasures were depleted.
• Li Yang pierced the formation’s wall with a scarlet sword and announced that he had found the third old devil.

Li Yang reached Wang Dabao and Lu Qingqiu, rescued them from the white-haired Devil Venerable’s formation, and helped Lu Qingqiu inherit five swords and form a Nascent Soul. As she reached the sixth level of Nascent Soul, Li Yang warned that the Devil Venerable was about to escape.

• Li Yang received Wang Dabao’s desperate messages, raised his cultivation to Golden Core great perfection, and hurried to his location while other sword cultivators went to aid those hunted by the Sun-Slaying Alliance and the Demon Savage Continent.
• Li Yang broke through the fifth-grade sword formation and found Wang Dabao and Lu Qingqiu facing the white-haired Devil Venerable, who attacked him with sword qi from five sword mountains.
• Li Yang used the Black Tortoise to block the attack, subdued a broken fire-attribute sword, and urged Lu Qingqiu to refine it and receive its empowerment.
• When one sword’s empowerment proved insufficient for Nascent Soul formation, Li Yang subdued four more broken swords of different elements and brought them to Lu Qingqiu.
• The five swords revealed the Five-Element Sword Venerable’s inheritance and empowered Lu Qingqiu to form a nine-inch Nascent Soul and reach the sixth level of Nascent Soul.
• Li Yang cut off Lu Qingqiu’s thanks and warned that the white-haired Devil Venerable was about to escape.

Li Yang and Lu Qingqiu pursued the White-Haired Demon Venerable through Ten Thousand Sword Mountain, but Chu Feng swallowed the demon’s immortal spirit and challenged Li Yang. Li Yang chose to retreat and rally the Sword Cultivators, aiming to strengthen them before confronting the invading forces.

• The White-Haired Demon Venerable fled as Li Yang and Lu Qingqiu chased him, while their attacks and pursuit wore down his body and immortal spirit.
• Qin Feng and Su Miao cut down the White-Haired Demon Venerable, but he escaped with a Substitute Puppet and appeared beside Chu Feng.
• Chu Feng captured the White-Haired Demon Venerable and swallowed his immortal spirit with the Great Annihilation Heaven-Swallowing Forbidden Canon.
• Chu Feng recalled his Demonic Halberd and challenged Li Yang, while Qin Feng, Su Miao, and Lu Qingqiu sensed the danger he posed.
• Li Yang retreated and issued a Sword Order calling Sword Cultivators to gather so he could help them obtain suitable swords and Sword Pellets and raise their strength.