Chapter Summaries

Yu Tong recounted Yu Qingtian’s death and claimed that the Sect Master had named him as his successor. The Nine Great Elders were stunned, and Yu Lei immediately rejected the claim.

• Yu Bing and Yu Huo silenced the gathered Yu Family members and urged Yu Tong to explain Yu Qingtian’s death before they chose a new Sect Master.
• Yu Tong said Yu Qingtian had died from the sword spirit’s backlash while refining it, and that he had restrained the spirit himself.
• Yu Tong revealed that the sword spirit still belonged to Duojin Mountain’s Yu Family, then said Yu Qingtian’s final instructions concerned the next Sect Master.
• Yu Tong claimed Yu Qingtian had shouted that the Sect Master position would be entrusted to him if he escaped the sword spirit.
• Yu Lei leaped up and declared Yu Tong’s claim impossible.

Yu Tong faced challenges from Yu Bing, Yu Lei, and the other Duojin Mountain elders over his claim that Yu Qingtian had named him Sect Master and over the missing Silver Tiger. He revealed the sword spirit’s power by killing Yu Lei and Yu Bing, leaving the succession dispute unresolved but his opponents silenced.

• Yu Lei challenged Yu Tong’s account of Yu Qingtian’s instructions, while Yu Huo defended Yu Tong and opposed demands for a blood oath.
• Yu Bing demanded that Yu Tong produce the Silver Tiger and Yu Qingtian’s corpse, implying that Yu Tong had hidden the clan artifact.
• Yu Tong pointed to the sword spirit’s cocoon and sent its blue-green and crimson sword lights at Yu Lei, severing his head.
• Yu Bing attacked Yu Tong with a flying sword and used Metal Evasion to flee, prompting Yu Huo to order the exits guarded.
• Yu Tong directed the sword lights after Yu Bing, and they exposed and beheaded him as he tried to escape.

Yu Tong seized control of Duojin Mountain by killing Yu Bing and displaying his overwhelming power, then forced the elders and disciples to recognize him as sect master. As the crowd dispersed, the disciples began to imagine a prosperous future under his leadership, and Yu Tong resolved to make the most of his new strength.

• Yu Tong killed Yu Bing and revealed that he controlled the Fan Jin Great Formation, forcing the disciples and elders to kneel and greet him as sect master.
• Yu Tong explained that he had accepted the position at Yu Qingtian's deathbed request and said Yu Bing and Yu Lei had brought their deaths upon themselves.
• Yu Huo praised Yu Tong and accused Yu Bing of leaking Duojin Mountain's secrets, while the other elders accepted Yu Tong's authority.
• Yu Tong appointed Yu Ping to an elder's post, promised to help the elders form Golden Cores, and left routine clan affairs to them while ordering them to keep his takeover secret.
• The disciples left the plaza expecting Yu Tong's bloodline and ties to the Huanhua Sect to transform Duojin Mountain, while Yu Tong silently vowed to use his new strength well.

Yu Tong assigned Duojin Mountain’s elders to prepare his inauguration, return the disciples from the Sword Graveyard, and nurture promising followers. Yun Zichong recognized Yu Tong and recalled their past, ending with the revelation that Yu Tong had become a Golden Core cultivator.

• Yu Tong ordered Yu Huo to arrange his inauguration ceremony and promised the elders that they could reach Golden Core within five years.
• Yu Tong instructed Yu Huo and the other elders to return Duojin Mountain’s disciples in batches and gave Yu Ping a list of promising disciples to nurture.
• Yu Tong told Yu Huo to handle the other sects’ participants according to Yu Qingtian’s arrangements, then asked him to bring Yun Zichong.
• Yu Tong praised the disciple who had protected the secret of his position, and the disciple left after giving his name.
• Yun Zichong recognized Yu Tong and recalled how their paths had diverged as his own Flame Dragon bloodline and cultivation advanced.
• Yun Zichong remembered his master revealing that Yu Tong had become a Golden Core cultivator.

Yun Zichong learned that Yu Tong had become Duojin Mountain’s new Sect Master and thanked him for the Stone Transformation Plan’s boost to his cultivation. Yu Tong explained the plan would not be repeated for a hundred years, but revealed another cultivation method that might suit Yun Zichong because of his true bloodline.

• Yun Zichong discovered that Yu Tong had reached the Golden Core realm and joined the Stone Transformation Plan through Jing Sheng and Yu Qingtian’s help.
• Yu Tong greeted Yun Zichong warmly, persuaded him to call him Senior Brother, and recalled Yun Zichong’s kindness when they first entered the Huanhua Sect.
• Yu Tong told Yun Zichong that Yu Qingtian had died controlling the great formation to protect the participants, and Yun Zichong bowed to honor his sacrifice.
• Yu Tong revealed that he had become Duojin Mountain’s Sect Master, and Yun Zichong reacted with excitement and surprise.
• Yu Tong told Yun Zichong the Stone Transformation Plan would likely not happen again for a hundred years, then offered to discuss another cultivation method suited to Yun Zichong’s true bloodline.

Yu Tong revealed the Four Spirits Blood Curse to Yun Zichong and persuaded him to join in raising their bloodlines to Saint Bloodlines. Their alliance was interrupted when news arrived that Daoist cultivators and sword cultivators were fighting inside the Sword Mound.

• Yu Tong explained the Four Sacred Beasts and revealed that a secret art from an ancestral jade pendant could purify their bloodlines.
• Yun Zichong agreed to help Yu Tong use the Four Spirits Blood Curse, and they swore an oath to cooperate.
• Yu Tong asked about Feng Ying, and Yun Zichong said he knew a Foundation Establishment disciple named Feng Yi who had recently visited him.
• A violent rumble shook the plaza, and communication talismans informed Yu Tong that Daoist cultivators had pursued retreating sword cultivators into the Sword Mound.
• Yu Tong and Yun Zichong learned that the sword cultivators were trapped in a great formation, and Yun Zichong welcomed the chance to earn merit.

Yun Zichong left the Sword Tomb while Yu Tong stabilized the Fan Jin Great Formation and planned to use the war to advance Duojin Mountain. As Lu Ruochang revealed the sword cultivators’ feigned retreat and ordered them toward the Four Directions Sword Array, Mu Ting questioned whether they should change course after encountering deadly spatial blades.

• Yun Zichong declined to join the battle, and Yu Tong remained behind to refine the Great Yin Yang sword spirit.
• Yu Tong used the True Tiger Dharma Body to stabilize the Fan Jin Great Formation and planned to kill Feng Yi before leaving the Sword Tomb.
• Lu Ruochang and Mu Ting discussed revealing the planned ambush to the sword cultivators as they heard pursuing cultivators fall into formations.
• Lu Ruochang told Tie Min to announce that the retreat was feigned and direct the sword cultivators toward the Four Directions Sword Array.
• Mu Ting and Lu Ruochang encountered a spatial blade that cut through sword light, and Mu Ting urged them to reconsider their route.

Lu Ruochang realized that the Sword Domain’s retreating forces had been trapped inside a Dao Sect spell formation in the Sword Tomb. As the swordsmen gathered to assess the ambush, suspicion over a Sword Transformation Sword Intent threatened to divide them.

• A vast spell formation illuminated the Sword Tomb, revealing the scattered swordsmen among boulders and skeletons and preventing them from using their divine senses.
• Lu Ruochang concluded that Dao Sect cultivators had ambushed the Sword Domain forces, calmed Mu Ting, and ordered scouts to investigate the formation.
• Lu Ruochang summoned the Illusion Sword swordsmen to discuss the trap.
• Xue Chong challenged Qu Jianchong over the Xuanjian Sect Sword Transformation Sword Intent, and Qu denied that it proved a senior had led them into the formation.
• Cang Yuan angrily told the swordsmen to stop arguing and unite against the enemy.

Lu Ruochang tried to rally the trapped sword cultivators and assess the Daoist formation surrounding them. After learning that it could overpower even a Fourth Grade Bright Sword swordsman, she admitted she had less than half a chance of breaking it, and Ruoling asked what she planned to do.

• Lu Ruochang ended the swordsmen’s debate and won their agreement to follow her lead while they waited for scouts to report on the formation.
• A flying sword message from Tie Min revealed that the formation spanned about eighty li, with ten flag gates set among mist and blood-red lanterns.
• Lu Ruochang identified the formation as resembling the Heaven and Earth Flag Gate Formation but said its ten gates made it unfamiliar and difficult to break.
• Jian Jianli argued that the swordsmen could break through by attacking in one direction, but Ruoling and Lu Ruochang warned that the formation was too powerful for a simple assault.
• Lu Ruochang reported that Tie Min had entered a flag gate, where the sword light overwhelmed him and pierced his flying sword; Ruoling explained why the Daoist cultivators needed such a powerful formation.
• Ruoling asked Lu Ruochang what she planned to do, after Lu Ruochang admitted she had less than half a chance of success.

Lu Ruochang led a combined strike against the formation’s apparent core, but the point of light proved to be a trap that injured her and the other Illusion Sword Swordsmen. She ordered the sword forces to attack all ten banner gates at once, then encountered a golden mist with Bright Sword Swordsmen waiting inside.

• Ruoling and the other swordsmen urged Lu Ruochang to strike the formation’s central point of light, and five Illusion Sword Swordsmen transformed into giant swords to attack it.
• The point of light vanished and unleashed a powerful fluctuation that shattered the five swords’ sword qi and injured Lu Ruochang and her allies.
• Lu Ruochang realized the apparent weak point was a trap and ordered the forces to attack all ten banner gates simultaneously.
• Lu Ruochang led the Xuanfeng Sword Sect disciples toward a banner gate while the other sword sects pursued their own targets.
• A golden mist appeared ahead of Lu Ruochang, and several Bright Sword Swordsmen waited inside it.

Lu Ruochang led more than ten thousand Xuanfeng Sword Sect disciples into the Golden Annihilation Array to avenge Tie Min. Inside, she found a sword grave guarded by Ji Mo and three Golden Core cultivators, who revealed that Qian Mo had planned the array during the earlier attacks on the spirit stone mines.

• Lu Ruochang learned that Tie Min had fallen inside the array and led her disciples through the golden mist toward the banner gate.
• Ji Mo challenged Lu Ruochang to enter the Golden Annihilation Array, and she led the disciples through its golden gate without encountering danger.
• Lu Ruochang discovered an immense sword grave within the array and dismissed it as an imitation of the sword cultivators’ Sword Condenses the World realm.
• Ji Ye, Ji Hong, and Zhou Qingping appeared alongside Ji Mo, taunted Lu Ruochang, and vowed to bury the Xuanfeng Sword Sect disciples in the array.
• Lu Ruochang asked when the array had been set up and who created it, and Ji Hong said it was planned by Qian Mo during the earlier attacks on the spirit stone mines.

Lu Ruochang and the Xuanfeng Sword Sect were caught in the devastating Golden Annihilation Array, whose golden light corroded sword intents and bodies alike. As the slaughter continued, Zhu Chengye prepared Mingjian Sect to enter the separate, ominous Heavenly Annihilation Formation.

• Ji Hong revealed that Qianmo’s ambush had led the cultivators into the Golden Annihilation Array, then ordered the formation to attack Lu Ruochang’s forces.
• The array unleashed a torrent of Broken Swords laced with golden light, and Lu Ruochang recognized the killing power behind Tie Min’s dying insight.
• The golden light corroded sword intents and pierced bodies, killing over a hundred Womb Sword Disciples and devastating the Xuanfeng Sword Sect ranks.
• Lu Ruochang used her Sword Transformation Secret Technique, but Ji Hong intensified the array with the spiritual power of one hundred thousand Foundation Establishment disciples.
• At the Heavenly Annihilation Formation, Zhu Chengye recognized the danger of its blue radiance and ordered the Illusion Sword disciples to stop concealing their cultivation.

Zhu Chengye led more than ten thousand Mingjian Sect disciples into Dexun and Huang Feng’s Heavenly Annihilation Formation, where the Dao Sect cultivators unleashed a starry-sky formation. The swordsmen faced a vast darkness as an approaching star caught their attention.

• Zhu Chengye entered the azure banner gate with his Crimson Sun Sword Intent, and the Mingjian Sect disciples followed behind him.
• Dexun and Huang Feng revealed themselves, rejected Zhu Chengye’s challenge, and prepared to activate the formation together.
• Zhu Chengye ordered the disciples to form a battle formation as hurricanes twisted the azure sky around them.
• Zhu Chengye and the Illusion Sword swordsmen transformed into giant swords to resist the formation’s distortions.
• The formation tore away the azure sky and revealed a black starry expanse, where a Womb Sword Swordsman pointed out a glowing star drifting toward them.

Zhu Chengye led the Mingjian Sect swordsmen against the spheres unleashed by the Heavenly Annihilation Formation, while Dexun and Huang Feng discussed how the three sects’ combined spiritual power made the spheres imitate the inscrutable trajectories of the Heavenly Dao. The spheres eventually overwhelmed the sword formation, leaving many swordsmen dead and the survivors surrounded.

• Zhu Chengye recognized the danger and ordered the Mingjian Sect disciples to form a defensive sphere as points of light multiplied around them.
• Zhu Chengye met the first massive sphere with his transformed giant sword, which was badly shaken by the impact.
• Zhu Chengye explained that the spheres condensed the spiritual power of nearly a hundred thousand Taiqing Sect and Exotic Beast Sect cultivators, then led the swordsmen to resist them.
• Dexun and Huang Feng discussed the Heavenly Annihilation Formation and how the three sects’ disciples gave the spheres unpredictable trajectories resembling the Heavenly Dao.
• More than a dozen spheres surrounded the swordsmen and smashed into their ranks, killing Womb Sword Swordsmen and leaving the formation under severe pressure.

The Wind Annihilation Formation and the blood-sea formation devastated the Mingyang and Yanzhu Sword Sect forces, forcing Xue Chong and Tian Simu to transform into swords to defend their disciples. Tian Simu’s strike split the blood sea and exposed Gao Wei and Qing Zhici at its bottom, where they prepared to activate something together.

• Dozens of spheres hurtled toward Zhu Chengye and the Mingjian Sect disciples, and Zhu Chengye realized he could withstand only one more attack.
• A growing barrage of hurricanes tore through the Wind Annihilation Formation, killing many Mingyang Sword Sect disciples and severing Xue Chong’s sword formation.
• A blood tide engulfed Tian Simu and more than ten thousand Yanzhu Sword Sect swordsmen, corroding their sword light, weapons, and bodies.
• Tian Simu transformed into a giant sword, joined by Illusion Sword disciples, and led the surviving swordsmen in a strike that split the blood sea.
• Gao Wei and Qing Zhici appeared beneath the fissure and agreed to activate the formation together.

The Ten Directions All-Extinguishing Battle’s formations overwhelmed the sword cultivators, inflicting severe losses across the Blood, Fire, Earth, Sand, and Ice Annihilation Formations. The chapter ended with Cang Yuan facing Yuan Zhongyu and Liang Mingfu inside the Soul Annihilation Formation.

• Qing Zhici and Gao Wei sent blood light into the defensive radiance, but the Blood Annihilation Formation’s waves shattered Tian Simu’s sword-light defense and swept away hundreds of swordsmen.
• Ruoling struggled to hold back the Samadhi True Fire as it burned through the Fire Annihilation Formation, killing more than a hundred disciples.
• Mu Ting and other sword cultivators were battered by shifting earth and ghostly winds in Xiong Huasong’s Earth Annihilation Formation, where fissures swallowed and crushed hundreds and thousands of swordsmen.
• Jian Jianli barely resisted the sharp, corrosive yellow sand of the Sand Annihilation Formation as it threatened numerous Illusion Sword swordsmen and mutilated weaker disciples.
• Qu Jianchong’s sword light was repeatedly frozen in the Ice Annihilation Formation, where nearly a thousand disciples had already died or become trapped in ice.
• Cang Yuan stood facing Yuan Zhongyu and Liang Mingfu in the Soul Annihilation Formation, with thousands of beast cultivators gathered behind him.

Cang Yuan exposed Yuan Zhongyu and Liang Mingfu’s inability to properly control the Soul Annihilation Formation, then rejected Yuan Zhongyu’s offer to join Kunlun Sect and attacked in his giant ape form. The chapter ended as Liang Mingfu urged Yuan Zhongyu to activate the Life and Death Soul Gate against the advancing beast cultivators.

• Cang Yuan recognized the formation as a flawed soul cultivator formation, and Yuan Zhongyu and Liang Mingfu realized they could not operate it properly.
• Yuan Zhongyu tried to persuade Cang Yuan to join Kunlun Sect, but Cang Yuan mocked the sect and challenged its claims about ancient history and the Immortal Realm.
• Cang Yuan declared that he cultivated to slaughter Daoist cultivators, then transformed into a giant ape as the other beast cultivators revealed their beast forms.
• Cang Yuan blasted Yuan Zhongyu and Liang Mingfu with a foul gale that shattered Yuan Zhongyu’s barrier and covered him in saliva.
• The giant ape charged through the formation toward Yuan Zhongyu and Liang Mingfu, and Liang Mingfu called for Yuan Zhongyu to bring forth the Life and Death Soul Gate.

Yuan Zhongyu and Liang Mingfu activated the Life and Death Gate against Cang Yuan and the attacking beast and avian cultivators. Although Cang Yuan forced his way through the gate and threatened the two cultivators, its power finally drove him back, and the gate pursued the fleeing enemy forces.

• Yuan Zhongyu and Liang Mingfu combined their spiritual power to open the Life and Death Gate, whose gray radiance spread across the formation.
• Avian cultivators rushed into the gate and fell from the sky, while Cang Yuan charged at it and struck its transparent surface.
• Liang Mingfu reinforced the gate as Cang Yuan entered it, but Cang Yuan tore at its radiance and continued toward Yuan Zhongyu and Liang Mingfu.
• The Life and Death Gate slowed Cang Yuan until he retreated, while more beast cultivators fell after entering it.
• Yuan Zhongyu and Liang Mingfu sent the enlarged gate after the fleeing beast and avian cultivators, scattering their forces as the gate struck them down.

Cang Yuan and the surviving beast and bird cultivators fled the advancing Life and Death Gate, while Yuan Zhongyu and Liang Mingfu struggled to control the unfamiliar Soul Annihilation Formation. Cang Yuan found the formation’s banner gate, exposing a flaw that could let the sword cultivators escape.

• A bird cultivator discovered that a soul artifact could briefly protect him from the gray radiance, but it failed as he ventured deeper and he fell to his death.
• The Life and Death Gate halted when the formation’s power became unstable, and Cang Yuan realized the Dao Sect cultivators did not fully understand how to operate it.
• Yuan Zhongyu and Liang Mingfu restored the gate’s movement and slowly drove it after the fleeing cultivators, while Cang Yuan retreated instead of attacking.
• Cang Yuan spotted the banner gate’s black-and-white radiance and led the surviving beast and bird cultivators toward it.
• Cang Yuan struck the banner gate, prompting Liang Mingfu and Yuan Zhongyu to recognize that the Soul Annihilation Formation had a flaw that could allow the sword cultivators to escape.

The sword cultivators discovered that the banner gate entrances were flaws in the Ten Directions Annihilation Great Formation and began escaping through them. In the Earth Annihilation Formation, Jian Jianli sacrificed himself to save Flowing Sword Sect disciples, while the Wind Annihilation Formation continued to devastate the trapped cultivators.

• The giant ape tore open a passage through the formation at the banner gate, allowing the avian and beast cultivators to escape, but the damage sent tremors through the entire formation.
• Xiong Huasong saw Mu Ting lead the surviving sword cultivators out of the Earth Annihilation Formation through its revealed banner gate, then restored the formation and vowed they would not escape.
• Jian Jianli found the banner gate in the yellow-sand formation but turned back rather than abandon the Flowing Sword Sect disciples trapped behind him.
• Jian Jianli destroyed himself, using his sword qi to restrain the yellow sand and winds so thousands of Flowing Sword Sect sword cultivators could flee.
• In the Wind Annihilation Formation, hurricanes and wind blades killed thousands of sword cultivators and reduced the protective radiance around Xue Chong and the other Illusion Swords.