Chapter Summaries

Gu Yu explained how her encounter with Terrifying Phoenix transformed her understanding of the Formless Sword, prompting Yun Bai to accuse her of betraying the Sword Domain. The dispute ended when Ruo Si spared Gu Yu from fighting, but the arrival of a large Huanhua Sect force brought the Seven Absolute Ridge under threat.

• Gu Yu recounted how Terrifying Phoenix returned her severed arm and gave her a spirit pill, and she said he had spared her because he was not cruel.
• Gu Yu condemned the Great Sword Dao Battle and said her enlightenment had advanced her to Bright Sword Sixth Grade, with her Formless Sword now residing in her heart.
• Yun Bai challenged Gu Yu's convictions with her lotus flying sword, but Ruo Si stopped her and accepted Gu Yu's offer of support without requiring her to fight.
• Ruo Si's communication swords revealed more than twenty thousand Huanhua Sect disciples approaching Seven Absolute Ridge, and their scouts destroyed the viewing mirrors.
• Li Chun offered to lead the Void Sky Sword Sect disciples in the first defense, while Yun Bai declared she would defeat the invading force; another urgent sword cry followed.

Ruo Si organized the Seven Absolute Ridge swordsmen to face attacks from the Huanhua Sect and Thunder Control Sect, while Kan Sheng led the Thunder Control Sect’s allied forces toward the ridge. The swordsmen withdrew from their ambushes, and Kan Sheng ordered Yu Feng to scout ahead as the two sides approached a confrontation.

• Ruo Si and Junior Sister Yunbai divided the Seven Absolute Ridge forces, with Yunbai taking the Huanhua Sect and Ruo Si leading swordsmen against the Thunder Control Sect.
• Ruo Si ordered Chen Feng to summon Ji Ye of the Bronze Bell Sect from seclusion to take command, then assigned Li Chun and Gu Yu to her force.
• Kan Sheng used his divine sense to locate Bright Sword Swordsmen beyond thirty li and sent Yu Feng with nearly three hundred disciples to attack them.
• Yu Feng returned after the swordsmen received a summons and withdrew before his force could reach them.
• Kan Sheng ordered Yu Feng to lead the three hundred disciples ten li ahead of the main force and kill any swordsmen they encountered.

Kan Sheng led the Thunder Control Sect’s forces into battle against the swordsmen of Seven Absolute Ridge, and the two armies’ opening clash quickly became a brutal melee. Li Chun killed a Thunder Control Sect cultivator, while Chunfen was killed by a thunderball that had been aimed at someone else.

• Kan Sheng learned that the Huanhua Sect had also reached the outskirts of Seven Absolute Ridge, then ordered his disciples to advance faster and prepare for battle.
• Nearly twenty thousand swordsmen emerged from Seven Absolute Ridge, and Kan Sheng ordered his forces to form up and attack.
• A hundred swordsmen combined their flying swords into a giant blade, which clashed with the cultivators’ magical artifacts and began the battle.
• Li Chun killed a Thunder Control Sect cultivator and attacked two more, while Chunfen killed one of them with a hidden sword strike.
• A cultivator detonated a magic treasure and blasted Chunfen and nearby fighters, then a Thunder Control Sect disciple’s stray thunderball struck Chunfen from behind and killed him.

Gu Yu refused to join the battle while Ruo Si confronted Kan Sheng with the White Cloud Sword and held him in a fierce clash. Two powerful divine senses swept over the battlefield, revealing that senior experts from both sides were nearby as the fighting continued.

• A Thunder Control Sect disciple was killed when a hidden sword light pierced through the dust after his lightning shattered an earthen pillar.
• Ruo Si asked Gu Yu to fight, but Gu Yu refused because she saw the fallen fighters as innocent lives caught in the war.
• Ruo Si attacked Kan Sheng with the White Cloud Sword, and their first collision sent both Golden Core fighters hurtling backward.
• Kan Sheng used his Purple Gold Hammer and lightning to counter Ruo Si’s sword lights, but she sustained a dense assault that began to weaken his defenses.
• An icy divine sense swept over the battlefield and departed, leading Kan Sheng to suspect an Illusion Sword Rank Three expert was stationed at Seven Absolute Ridge.
• A late-stage Golden Core divine sense swept over the battlefield from behind Kan Sheng and continued onward, invigorating the Thunder Control Sect, Mount Mosang, and Yongyi Gate disciples.

Ruo Si used a sword-transformation secret art to wound Kan Sheng and drive the allied cultivators into retreat, while Yunbai damaged Mingyue’s White Lotus Sword but then injured Fairy Hongxia. Hongxia’s Ice Phoenix Dharma Body trapped Yunbai’s sword in Innate True Water, leaving Yunbai trying to escape.

• Ruo Si transformed into a flying sword and pierced Kan Sheng despite his Purple Gold Hammer and lightning, forcing him and the Thunder Control Sect, Mosang Mountain, and Yongyi Gate cultivators to retreat.
• Ruo Si ordered over ten thousand swordsmen to pursue the retreating cultivators toward the other side of Seven Absolute Ridge.
• Mingyue used her round moon magic treasure to shatter Yunbai’s lotus-petal sword form and damage the White Lotus Sword, injuring Yunbai in the clash.
• Yunbai attacked Fairy Hongxia with the damaged White Lotus Sword, cutting her arm and slicing her ribbon magic artifact into pieces.
• Fairy Hongxia summoned her Ice Phoenix Dharma Body, which released Innate True Water that trapped the White Lotus Sword and began sealing Yunbai in.
• Yunbai desperately activated her sword essence and tried to pull the White Lotus Sword back through the Innate True Water.

Fairy Hongxia trapped Yun Bai in Innate True Water and nearly killed her, but a powerful blue-robed swordsman arrived and froze the attack with his force of confinement. Just as Yun Bai faced certain death and Lady Mingyue prepared to retreat, Xiao Hua’s thunderous arrival struck the confinement with heavenly lightning.

• Two powerful divine senses swept over Fairy Hongxia, and she recognized one as Xiao Hua’s concealed divine sense.
• Fairy Hongxia trapped Yun Bai with Innate True Water while Lady Mingyue tried and failed to control her Bright Moon magic treasure against the blue-robed swordsman’s divine sense.
• Fairy Hongxia raised another wave to kill Yun Bai, but the blue-robed swordsman transformed into a rainbow and rushed toward them.
• Fairy Hongxia’s control of the Innate True Water strengthened as Xiao Hua approached, and she sent a towering wave crashing down on Yun Bai.
• The blue-robed swordsman confined Fairy Hongxia and the Innate True Water just before the wave struck Yun Bai.
• A voice mocked the swordsman’s killing intent, and over a hundred bolts of heavenly lightning struck his confinement.

Xiao Hua arrived at the Huanhua Sect battlefield and killed Yun Bai by breaking his confinement with heavenly lightning, then faced the blue-robed Illusion Sword Rank Three swordsman. The two stood motionless as the battle shifted around them, while Ming Yue and Kan Sheng tried to identify Xiao Hua and Ruo Si learned Yun Bai had died.

• Xiao Hua's heavenly lightning shattered the confinement around Fairy Hongxia, and Yun Bai was swallowed by her Innate True Water and killed.
• Ming Yue welcomed Xiao Hua as a Thunder Control Sect senior, while Fairy Hongxia recognized him beneath his changed appearance and joined another battle group.
• Xiao Hua and the blue-robed swordsman faced one another without attacking, as Ming Yue arranged to receive Kan Sheng and the retreating Thunder Control Sect disciples.
• Kan Sheng arrived wounded, admitted he could not identify Xiao Hua, and explained that Xiao Hua's barehanded control of heavenly lightning was a rare Thunder Control Sect secret.
• Ruo Si arrived with Formless Sword Valley Rain, learned Yun Bai had been killed, and fixed an angry gaze on Ming Yue.

Xiao Hua, posing as Nameless, fought Ji Ye, a high-level Illusion Sword artifact cultivator from the Bronze Bell Sect, in a battle of physical strength. Ji Ye acknowledged Xiao Hua as a worthy rival and prepared to use his natal cultivation technique.

• Ji Ye introduced himself as a Bronze Bell Sect cultivator and challenged Nameless, while Xiao Hua realized Ji Ye was an artifact cultivator whose body was a magic treasure.
• Ji Ye’s confinement force disrupted nearby cultivators’ control of their weapons, but Xiao Hua used Thunder Control Movement to charge through it.
• Xiao Hua’s Soul Stab failed against Ji Ye, and the two collided fist to fist, with Xiao Hua recovering from the blow and attacking again.
• Xiao Hua and Ji Ye exchanged martial-arts punches and kicks for half a cup of tea, fighting evenly as onlookers watched in astonishment.
• Ji Ye praised Xiao Hua’s fighting skill and announced that he would use his natal cultivation technique, while Xiao Hua urged him to fight without restraint.

Xiao Hua clashed with Ji Ye, who transformed into the Sea-Overturning Seal, and the two agreed to continue their duel away from the battlefield. Their departure prompted both armies to halt the fighting and await the outcome; alone on a snowy plain, Xiao Hua finally revealed the As-You-Wish Staff.

• Ji Ye transformed into the Sea-Overturning Seal and used its powerful restraint to withstand Xiao Hua's lightning and drive him back.
• Ji Ye accused Xiao Hua of holding back, and Xiao Hua agreed to show his other methods away from the assembled fighters.
• Xiao Hua and Ji Ye left the battlefield, while Mingyue, Ruo Si, and Kan Sheng arranged a truce and ordered the armies to withdraw and wait.
• Xiao Hua followed Ji Ye to a remote snowy plain, checked that no one was nearby, and took out the As-You-Wish Staff.
• Ji Ye questioned Xiao Hua for bringing out another demonic artifact, and Xiao Hua promised to satisfy him with his other methods.

Xiao Hua fought Ji Ye, who had transformed into the Sea-Overturning Seal, and gained the upper hand by trapping him with the Seven Star Great Formation and Innate True Water. As the battle continued, Ji Ye shared the story of a soul cultivator named Zi Yan whom he had loved, leaving Xiao Hua wondering whether she was connected to Zi Ye.

• Xiao Hua fought the Sea-Overturning Seal with his As-You-Wish Staff, then used the seven flying swords to form the Seven Star Great Formation after the staff proved insufficient.
• Xiao Hua revealed that he was the Terrifying Phoenix and told Ji Ye his name as the formation restrained the Sea-Overturning Seal.
• Ji Ye interfered with Xiao Hua's control of the Sword Pouch, but Xiao Hua released Innate True Water, which overwhelmed the seal within the formation.
• Ji Ye praised Xiao Hua's open-mindedness and explained that he had entered artifact cultivation after failing to cultivate Daoist arts.
• Ji Ye recalled meeting the soul cultivator Zi Yan a thousand years earlier, and Xiao Hua wondered whether she was related to Zi Ye.

Xiao Hua learned that Ji Ye had fused his Primordial Spirit with the Sea-Overturning Seal and had chosen to spend his final moments fighting. After Ji Ye’s Primordial Spirit vanished, Xiao Hua subdued the seal and began refining it, vowing to honor his opponent by mastering its power.

• Ji Ye explained that he had fused with the Sea-Overturning Seal through a secret Soul Cultivator art and that his Primordial Spirit was nearing dissipation.
• Xiao Hua respected Ji Ye’s wish for a final battle and attacked the Sea-Overturning Seal with the As-You-Wish Staff while using the Innate True Water and the Seven Star Great Formation to restrain it.
• Ji Ye’s final attack broke free of Xiao Hua’s formation, but Xiao Hua trapped the fleeing Sea-Overturning Seal with the Great Hand Spirit Talisman, the Innate True Water, and the formation.
• Xiao Hua struck the restrained Sea-Overturning Seal with heavenly lightning as a tribute to Ji Ye, then discovered that Ji Ye’s soul had left no trace.
• Xiao Hua summoned Little Yellow to guard the area and began refining the Sea-Overturning Seal with the Town Cloud Seal’s method.

Xiao Hua left Seven Absolute Ridge after deciding the sword cultivators could withdraw, then worried that his Thunder Control Movement had exposed his identity. He traveled to Flowing Ice Valley to find Li Zongbao and the others, but had not located them by the chapter’s end.

• Xiao Hua collected the Sea-Overturning Seal and returned to the battlefield at Seven Absolute Ridge, where he told Kan Sheng to follow the group’s decision about letting the sword cultivators leave.
• Xiao Hua dismissed questions about Ji Ye, and Gu Yu declared she would withdraw from the war and stop taking lives unless forced to defend herself.
• Xiao Hua departed using Thunder Control Movement, while Fairy Hongxia watched Gu Yu with suspicion and the Thunder Control Sect and Huanhua Sect secured victory at Seven Absolute Ridge.
• Xiao Hua flew toward Flowing Ice Valley and worried that Kan Sheng or Qian Mo might discover his identity from his use of Thunder Control Movement.
• After more than ten days, Xiao Hua reached Flowing Ice Valley and searched for Li Zongbao and the others, but found no trace of them.

Xiao Hua rescued Qingfeng Valley cultivators from Bright Sword Swordsmen, then followed their directions into the Flowing Ice Valley battlefield to find Li Zongbao. After locating the vast underground caves, he detected the communication token’s signal and found more than ten thousand cultivators fighting nearby.

• Xiao Hua followed signs of battle upriver, found Bright Sword Swordsmen attacking Qingfeng Valley cultivators, and killed one swordsman before forcing the others to retreat.
• Xiao Hua asked the rescued Qingfeng Valley disciples for directions to the Flowing Ice Valley battlefield, and Senior Brother Liu told him where to go.
• Xiao Hua entered the river passage beneath Flowing Ice Valley and flew through corpse-strewn karst caves toward the spirit stone mine vein.
• Xiao Hua’s communication token reacted, so he followed its signal into a pitch-black cave and found a vast cavern where more than ten thousand cultivators were fighting.

Xiao Hua reached Li Zongbao and Xiao Mao in Flowing Ice Valley, where Li Zongbao’s exhaustion and doubts about his ability to face the battlefield alone had weighed on him. After reuniting, Xiao Hua led the two toward the cave entrance, using his power to disable swordsmen so they could strike them down.

• Xiao Mao killed a middle-aged Bright Sword swordsman who had nearly overwhelmed Li Zongbao, then hid while Li Zongbao recovered with pills.
• Li Zongbao reflected on the limits of his strength, his failed expectations about fighting alone, and how Xiao Mao’s ambushes had helped him survive.
• Xiao Hua arrived, and Xiao Mao emerged from hiding; Xiao Hua incapacitated a Third Grade Bright Sword swordsman so Xiao Mao could kill him.
• Xiao Hua told Li Zongbao and Xiao Mao to fly ahead of him and kill the swordsmen they encountered as they headed toward the cave entrance.
• Xiao Hua stunned a Fourth Grade Bright Sword swordsman, and Li Zongbao killed him while rescuing a Joyful Sect disciple.

Xiao Hua, Li Zongbao, and Xiao Mao fought through the swordsmen in the cave, using powerful talismans and their varied techniques to overwhelm their opponents. As more Bright Sword Swordsmen closed in, Xiao Hua disrupted their attack and moved to aid Xiao Mao.

• Xiao Hua wounded a Bright Sword Sixth Grade swordsman with his Leaf Sun Fan, while Xiao Mao finished him and took his storage bag and flying sword.
• Xiao Hua unleashed enormous fireball talismans that blasted several charging swordsmen, leaving them gravely wounded for Li Zongbao, Xiao Mao, and Xiao Hua to finish off.
• Nearly ten Bright Sword Swordsmen surrounded the trio, but Xiao Hua's Soul Capturing Bell brought down two and made the rest hesitate.
• Xiao Hua used Sleeve Universe to seize one opponent's flying sword, then stored it as the swordsman fled; he trapped another swordsman in flames with the Leaf Sun Fan.
• Xiao Hua flew to Xiao Mao's aid and smashed Xiao Mao's opponent's natal small sword with the As-You-Wish Staff, then killed him with another blow.

Xiao Hua, Xiao Mao, and Li Zongbao led a growing force of cultivators into the Flowing Ice Valley battle, while many others chose to leave. The trio’s coordinated attacks made them a feared team, and they continued fighting as the battle intensified.

• Xiao Hua and Xiao Mao killed their opponents, then joined Li Zongbao in clearing the swordsmen blocking their way to the karst cave.
• At the cave entrance, Li Zongbao urged the Joyful Sect disciples to follow him into battle, and Xiao Mao rallied the others to fight.
• Nearly eighty cultivators charged after Li Zongbao, while roughly twenty others left, claiming they would return to Xuntian City and report to the Council Hall.
• Xiao Hua secretly used soul thorns to weaken swordsmen as the trio and their followers advanced, drawing more cultivators into their growing force.
• Li Zongbao, Xiao Hua, and Xiao Mao combined the Immortal-Piercing Whip, Leaf Sun Fan, and Universe Ring to break apart a massive sword-radiance attack.

Xiao Hua shattered the Void Sky Sword Sect’s combined flying-sword attack, turning the battle in the cultivators’ favor, then reunited with Xiao Mao and Li Zongbao. After the sword cultivators fled, Li Zongbao led them toward the battle involving Martial Uncle Zhuo Hui.

• Xiao Hua, Xiao Mao, and Li Zongbao confronted the Void Sky Sword Sect’s combined flying-sword strike, and Xiao Hua smashed most of it with his As-You-Wish Staff.
• The Joyful Sect and Taibai Sect disciples rallied and drove the sword cultivators into a retreat through the cavern.
• Xiao Hua regrouped with Xiao Mao and Li Zongbao, gave them pills, and insisted that Li Zongbao take credit for the strike.
• Li Zongbao led Xiao Hua and Xiao Mao toward Martial Uncle Zhuo Hui, despite Xiao Hua warning that his spiritual power was exhausted.

Xiao Hua, Li Zongbao, and Xiao Mao followed a trail through the karst caves and found Li Feiyu of the Changbai Sect dueling the sword cultivator Qin Muming. The two men’s flying swords clashed, and Qin Muming began to overpower Li Feiyu as Xiao Hua watched.

• Li Zongbao led Xiao Hua and Xiao Mao through the caves by intuition, then hurried toward a rumbling disturbance.
• The three entered a cavern where powerful currents of spiritual energy converged around Li Feiyu and Qin Muming.
• Li Zongbao identified Li Feiyu as an upright Changbai Sect cultivator, but Xiao Hua dismissed the warning because of his enmity with the sect.
• Li Feiyu and Qin Muming formed their flying swords and attacked one another, revealing the difference between Changbai Sect and sword cultivator techniques.
• Qin Muming’s sword recovered from Li Feiyu’s strike, trapped his blade, and damaged it; Li Feiyu then forced a strand of sword radiance toward Qin Muming, who shattered it with another sword strike.

Qin Muming wounded Li Feiyu with a sword tempered by Innate Heavy Water, while Xiao Hua and his companions hurried onward to rescue Zhuo Hui. They joined the battle against a powerful giant, and Xiao Hua’s staff met the giant’s wolf-toothed club as Li Zongbao and Xiao Mao attacked.

• Qin Muming shattered Li Feiyu’s shield and stabbed a fissure into his life-bound flying sword with a blade infused with Innate Heavy Water.
• Qin Muming pursued Li Feiyu through the cavern but ignored Xiao Hua, Li Zongbao, and Xiao Mao as they passed.
• Li Zongbao led Xiao Hua and Xiao Mao toward Zhuo Hui, and Xiao Hua reassured Xiao Mao about their chances against Qin Jian.
• Xiao Hua, Li Zongbao, and Xiao Mao found Zhuo Hui struggling against a Giant Wolf and a huge giant wielding a wolf-toothed club.
• Xiao Hua blocked the giant’s club with the As-You-Wish Staff, while Li Zongbao and Xiao Mao struck with the Immortal-Piercing Whip and Universe Ring.

Xiao Hua and Li Zongbao drove the giant away, then Xiao Hua used his Innate True Water to trap the Giant Wolf and help Zhuo Hui attack it. The Giant Wolf blocked the water with its Fangtian Huaji, but several drops slipped inside its defense.

• Li Zongbao and Xiao Mao struck the giant, and Li Zongbao used the Immortal-Piercing Whip to leave a faint bloody mark on its back.
• Zhuo Hui calmed Li Zongbao, who then helped Xiao Hua batter the giant until it fled deeper into the cavern.
• The Giant Wolf hurled its Fangtian Huaji at Zhuo Hui and sent wind blades toward Li Zongbao and Xiao Mao, but Xiao Hua stopped the blades with Innate True Water.
• Xiao Hua divided the Innate True Water to isolate the Giant Wolf and Zhuo Hui, and Zhuo Hui attacked while the Giant Wolf defended itself.
• The Giant Wolf cut through a thread of Innate True Water, but several drops fell inside its defensive perimeter.