Chapter Summaries

Xiao Hua fought Xue Mingcha’s Sword Transformation and was badly injured when his incomplete sword form lost their clash. As Xue Mingcha pressed her attack beneath the icy lake, Xiao Hua unleashed his hidden power and escaped with the Lightning Evasion Technique, astonishing her.

• Xue Mingcha transformed into a giant sword and overwhelmed Xiao Hua’s lightning attacks with her Sword Transformation strike.
• Xiao Hua drew on his Sword Essence to form a heart-shaped sword, but Xue Mingcha shattered it and sent him crashing into the icy lake.
• Xiao Hua drifted injured underwater and realized that his incomplete Sword Transformation could not match Xue Mingcha’s, regretting his head-on challenge.
• Xue Mingcha confined Xiao Hua beneath the water and sent another sword qi strike down at him.
• Xiao Hua drove the Dragon Transformation Art and his thunder cores to break the confinement, then used the Lightning Evasion Technique to flee as Xue Mingcha’s sword neared him.

Xiao Hua tried to escape Xue Mingcha, who pursued him for days without attacking as she waited for his strength to run out. He finally led her into a trap of Innate True Water and spirit fire, leaving her sword body under attack while he flew away.

• Xiao Hua escaped Xue Mingcha’s strike and fled using the Lightning Escape Technique, but she kept pace with him.
• Xiao Hua repeatedly changed direction and terrain over several days, while Xue Mingcha conserved her sword essence and waited for his true essence to run dry.
• Xiao Hua decided to shake off Xue Mingcha before going to meet Fairy Hongxia and plunged into another icy lake.
• Xue Mingcha followed Xiao Hua underwater, but her divine sense was blocked and entangled by strange visions, forcing her to sever it.
• Xue Mingcha broke through Xiao Hua’s Innate True Water barrier, but the water corroded her sword light and spirit fire ignited it as Xiao Hua escaped several li ahead.

Xiao Hua escaped Xue Mingcha by using Innate True Water and a strange spirit fire to distract her, then hid in an iceberg. When he resumed his search for Fairy Hongxia and the others, he misjudged his direction and flew away from them, while Fairy Hongxia remembered Xue Mingcha’s sword-sharp divine sense.

• Xue Mingcha used her secret art to escape Xiao Hua’s trap, but the spirit fire burned her sword light and proved impossible to collect.
• Xue Mingcha gathered the remaining Innate True Water, suspected Xiao Hua was behind the events at Yin Yang Spring Mountain, and flew away.
• Xiao Hua emerged from his hiding place in an iceberg, retrieved the spirit fire, and decided to avoid True Person Jinglü if possible.
• Xiao Hua misread the sun’s position and flew in the wrong direction while searching for Fairy Hongxia and the others.
• After flying for dozens of days without finding anyone, Xiao Hua began to suspect he had lost his way; Fairy Hongxia recalled the pressure of Xue Mingcha’s divine sense.

Li Zongbao urged Fairy Hongxia to stop worrying over Xiao Hua and focus on strengthening herself, but after several weeks without Xiao Hua rejoining them, the group encountered six Illusion Sword Third Rank Swordsmen. Surrounded and unable to escape, Li Zongbao and Fairy Hongxia prepared to defend the flying boat as the swordsmen moved to capture them and draw Xiao Hua out.

• Xue Mingcha pursued Fairy Hongxia, Li Zongbao, and Xiao Mao with his divine sense before withdrawing, and they realized he had followed them to cause trouble rather than seek a Divine Sword Secret Codex.
• Li Zongbao encouraged Fairy Hongxia to improve her cultivation and rely on Xiao Hua's ability to escape, and she resolved to focus on becoming strong enough to help him.
• After several dozen days without Xiao Hua catching up, an Illusion Sword Third Rank Swordsman detected the group, so Xiao Mao turned the Flowing Cloud Flying Boat back toward where they had parted from Xiao Hua.
• Five more Illusion Sword Third Rank Swordsmen joined the pursuit and surrounded the flying boat, forcing the three to flee in another direction.
• As the six swordsmen closed in, Fairy Hongxia warned Li Zongbao not to reveal the Immortal-Piercing Whip, and he put it away and took out the Two Principles Ring.
• Zuo Jian and another swordsman announced their intention to capture the three and use them to make Terrifying Phoenix appear.

Li Zongbao, Fairy Hongxia, and Xiao Mao were ambushed by six Illusion Sword swordsmen who sought the Terrifying Phoenix and the Divine Sword Secret Codex. After Fairy Hongxia’s Ice Phoenix Dharma Body was badly damaged, Li Zongbao used the Immortal-Piercing Whip to strike all six swordsmen, leaving them wary as the flying boat escaped between them.

• Zuo Jian shattered Li Zongbao’s Two Principles Ring and sent his sword intent toward the flying boat.
• Fairy Hongxia released her Ice Phoenix Dharma Body and Innate True Water to block Zuo Jian’s attack, but two swordsmen tore apart most of her Dharma Body.
• Fairy Hongxia released more Innate True Water from the Chaomeng Pearl, and the swordsmen weakened their attacks to claim a share.
• Li Zongbao sent six golden whip shadows at the swordsmen, and each shadow found a flaw in its target’s defenses and struck its opponent.
• Xiao Mao piloted the flying boat through the six swordsmen as they hesitated, and Zuo Jian led the pursuit.

Li Zongbao, Fairy Hongxia, and Xiao Mao remained trapped in a stalemate with six Illusion Sword Swordsmen, who eventually agreed to attack them at Jianren Peak. Meanwhile, the lost Xiao Hua found a large group of sword cultivators whose attention was directed elsewhere.

• Li Zongbao explained that the Illusion Sword Swordsmen were holding back because they coveted his Immortal-Piercing Whip, while Xiao Mao continued steering the boat and Fairy Hongxia maintained the Innate True Water barrier.
• After several days, Xiang Mufeng attacked the flying boat, and the Immortal-Piercing Whip's shadow broke through his sword shadows before he blocked it with his giant sword.
• Xiang Mufeng judged the whip to be a top-grade magic treasure with power resembling a spiritual artifact, and the six swordsmen agreed to kill the three travelers at Jianren Peak.
• Huang Ping flew ahead to intercept the boat at Jianren Peak as Zuo Jian and the others closed in, determined to settle the fight and divide the whip afterward.
• Xiao Hua wandered into a region with more water and brambles, then detected a large group of sword cultivators whose backs were turned toward him.

Xiao Hua discovered tens of thousands of soul cultivators from Million Meng Mountain battling an enormous force of sword cultivators in Huan Country. As the bloody fight reached a stalemate, a piercing bird cry startled Xiao Hua and drew his attention toward its source.

• Xiao Hua concealed himself and approached the ambushing sword cultivators, then found them facing tens of thousands of strangely armed people riding spirit beasts.
• The soul cultivators chanted as their beast horde charged, and their ghostly green aura disabled and killed many Bright Sword cultivators.
• Xiao Hua recognized the strange fighters as soul cultivators from Million Meng Mountain and watched as both sides exchanged attacks, with spirit beasts protecting their riders and dying alongside them.
• After roughly two hours, more than half of both armies had fallen, but the battle remained deadlocked.
• A piercing bird cry startled Xiao Hua and nearly broke his concealment, and he turned toward its source in shock.

Xiao Hua watched the soul cultivators defeat the sword cultivators, celebrate by dancing, and loot the battlefield before he approached the blood-soaked site. There he encountered a mysterious young woman whose strange eyes could entrance him, and the chapter ended as she searched the battlefield and called out to someone hiding.

• A new force of soul cultivators and Spirit Birds swept into the battle, routed the sword cultivators, and chased the survivors away.
• The soul cultivators danced to recover their strength, then collected corpses and belongings before scrambling over the remaining spoils.
• Xiao Hua waited for the soul cultivators to leave, then approached the battlefield and sensed the lingering blood and the wails of the dead.
• A beautiful young woman arrived on clouds, and Xiao Hua realized that her shifting, mist-like eyes could draw in his gaze before the Spirit Guiding Technique roused him.
• The girl searched the battlefield for something, found nothing, and called toward a spot where she claimed to have seen someone, while Xiao Hua remained concealed.

Xiao Hua met Jiu Xia, who said she had sought him out and urged him to go with her to Jianren Peak, claiming his beloved would die if he went to Liuyun Lake instead. Jiu Xia admitted she had guessed much of his situation, but still withheld what favor she wanted from him.

• Jiu Xia lured Xiao Hua out of hiding after he tried to leave, then introduced herself and learned his name.
• Jiu Xia said she knew Xiao Hua was looking for someone and directed him toward Jianren Peak, refusing to explain how to find Liuyun Lake.
• Jiu Xia asked Xiao Hua to take her to Jianren Peak and warned that his beloved would die if he went to Liuyun Lake instead.
• Xiao Hua questioned Jiu Xia’s certainty, and she admitted she had guessed that he was risking himself to find someone he loved.
• Jiu Xia told Xiao Hua to keep his guard up while explaining that his urgency and restraint convinced her he already had a beloved.

Xiao Hua agreed to accompany Jiu Xia to Sword Blade Peak, where she believed he might help her, instead of heading directly to Liuyun Lake to find his beloved. After Jiu Xia corrected his poor sense of direction along the way, they reached Sword Blade Peak and she told him the legend of its creation.

• Jiu Xia insisted Xiao Hua travel with her to nearby Sword Blade Peak rather than go to Liuyun Lake, and he agreed to check whether Fairy Hongxia and the others were there.
• Xiao Hua used Awakening Thunder Evasion to catch up with Jiu Xia, who found his Lightning Evasion Technique strange.
• After several days of flight, Jiu Xia explained that the sun in the Sword Domain shifted position and that Xiao Hua had been using it as an unreliable guide.
• Jiu Xia predicted that Xiao Hua would ask her to lead, then guided him toward Sword Blade Peak as they flew for two more days.
• At Sword Blade Peak, Jiu Xia told Xiao Hua that a Sword God had formed the peak from his divine sword after defeating a demon god.

Xiao Hua sensed that Fairy Hongxia, Li Zongbao, and Xiao Mao were surrounded by six Illusion Sword Rank Three swordsmen and rushed to rescue them. As thunder drew near the battered group, Xiang Mufeng abandoned his attempt to intercept Xiao Hua alone and flew back toward the Flowing Cloud Flying Boat.

• Xiao Hua detected six Illusion Sword Rank Three swordsmen nearby and sped toward them while Jiu Xia followed, convinced he could unravel the crisis.
• Li Zongbao collapsed after using the Immortal-Piercing Whip, while Fairy Hongxia and Xiao Mao struggled to keep the Flowing Cloud Flying Boat moving and escape the swordsmen.
• Li Zongbao, Fairy Hongxia, and Xiao Mao joked about Xiao Hua's contradictory habits as they faced what seemed like certain defeat.
• Xiao Mao recognized the approaching thunder as Xiao Hua's Lightning Evasion Technique, and Li Zongbao ordered the group to fly toward it while Fairy Hongxia opened a crack in the Innate True Water.
• Xiang Mufeng considered flying alone toward Xiao Hua to claim his treasures, then remembered Xiao Hua's strength and turned back toward the Flowing Cloud Flying Boat.

Xiao Hua arrived in time to stop the sword cultivators from killing Fairy Hongxia and the others, but Jiu Xia’s appearance and Xiao Hua’s cry of “Meng” left him with new questions. After the battle, Fairy Hongxia fainted, and Xiao Hua discovered that her qi, blood, and primordial qi were severely depleted.

• Xiao Hua pursued Xiang Mufeng through the thunder and killed him with the Spirit Severing Primordial Light.
• Fairy Hongxia’s Innate True Water and Xiao Mao’s magical power gave out as Wang Zhengqiang and four other sword cultivators closed in on the Flowing Cloud Flying Boat.
• Xiao Hua attacked the five with heavenly thunder and his weapons, while Jiu Xia appeared and restrained them with her voice.
• Xiao Hua killed Zuo Jian, Huang Ping, Wang Zhengqiang, Zhou Zhou, and Pu Chengfeng, then flew to Fairy Hongxia.
• Fairy Hongxia fainted as Xiao Hua turned to check on his brother, and he found that her qi and blood were depleted and her primordial qi was badly damaged.

Xiao Hua reunited with Li Zongbao, Xiao Mao, and the badly injured Fairy Hongxia, while Jiu Xia offered to restore Hongxia’s damaged dharma body and asked Xiao Hua to help with a future task. Xiao Hua treated Li Zongbao and realized Jiu Xia was carefully winning his trust, leaving their alliance and her request unresolved.

• Li Zongbao told Xiao Hua that Fairy Hongxia’s dharma body had been nearly destroyed, and Jiu Xia said she could restore it if Xiao Hua later helped her.
• Jiu Xia examined Fairy Hongxia and warned that Li Zongbao’s meridians and dantian were severely damaged while Xiao Mao had exhausted his true essence.
• Xiao Hua gave Xiao Mao pills, then examined Li Zongbao and offered him a Sky Mending Pill to treat his injuries.
• Li Zongbao was startled that Xiao Hua could refine Sky Mending Pills, while Jiu Xia’s appearance left both Li Zongbao and Xiao Mao dazed.
• Xiao Hua suspected Jiu Xia was deliberately bestowing favors to secure his help, and Li Zongbao asked what pills Xiao Hua had given Xiao Mao.

Xiao Hua and Li Zongbao discussed the pills Xiao Hua had refined and the danger of his growing reputation exposing his secrets. Jiu Xia then explained three possible ways to heal Fairy Hongxia, with the best option depending on Xiao Hua’s ability to refine a Grade 1 spirit pill.

• Xiao Mao identified the pills Xiao Hua had given him as the kind Li Zongbao had shared with Golden Core cultivators during the Sword Tomb battle.
• Li Zongbao recognized Xiao Hua’s Yuxu Pill and warned that Xiao Hua’s fame would soon spread across Xiaoyu Continent, but Xiao Hua refused to reveal his secrets.
• Li Zongbao swallowed the Sky Mending Pill and began regulating his breath, while Xiao Hua told Xiao Mao to collect the belongings of the six Illusory Swords.
• Jiu Xia told Xiao Hua that Fairy Hongxia’s shattered bloodline and damaged vitality could be treated with an inferior method, a middle strategy, or an upper strategy.
• Jiu Xia explained that a Grade 1 spirit pill used with her secret art could help Fairy Hongxia’s dharma body break then stand and achieve great success, and Xiao Hua asked whether the pill he was about to refine could serve that purpose.

Jiu Xia examined Xiao Hua’s pills, discovered that his Wutuodan contained unusual Star Power, and used one to help Fairy Hongxia recover. After the group reached a secluded valley, Xiao Hua gave Jiu Xia his Duotian Star Array, and she handed him a detailed Flying Shadow Pill formula and materials list.

• Jiu Xia identified Xiao Hua’s pills as Grade 1 spirit pills and found that his Wutuodan contained Star Power capable of causing mutations.
• Jiu Xia gave Fairy Hongxia a Wutuodan, and Xiao Hua watched her continue to recover while the group waited aboard the flying boat.
• Xiao Mao found a secluded valley, and Xiao Hua set up the Duotian Star Array there.
• Jiu Xia recognized the array, and Xiao Hua gave it to her as thanks for saving Fairy Hongxia.
• Jiu Xia gave Xiao Hua a jade slip containing the Flying Shadow Pill formula and a detailed list of materials for pills from Grade 1 through Grade 6.

Xiao Hua studied Jiu Xia’s Flying Shadow Pill formula, prepared materials for six grades, and set out to refine a pill for the unconscious Fairy Hongxia. As he began preparing a cave, he suddenly realized that he had revealed an extraordinary number of secrets to Jiu Xia and wondered whether his trust in her was truly his own.

• Jiu Xia gave Xiao Hua the detailed Flying Shadow Pill formula and warned him not to pass it on, then offered him her collected materials.
• Xiao Hua shared the Duotian Star Array method with Jiu Xia, Li Zongbao, and Xiao Mao, and discovered that each grade of the Flying Shadow Pill required specially refined spirit blood.
• Xiao Hua and Jiu Xia studied the formula and herbs together, after which Xiao Hua sorted out six sets of ingredients and discussed how many pills he could refine with the spirit blood.
• Xiao Hua chose to find a cave and attempt the first-grade Flying Shadow Pill for Fairy Hongxia, who remained unconscious to aid her Dharma Body’s recovery.
• As Xiao Hua brought out puppets to enlarge the cave, he realized how many techniques and secrets he had revealed to Jiu Xia and questioned why he trusted her so readily.

Xiao Hua grew suspicious of Jiu Xia’s influence over him while refining the Flying Shadow Pill for her and trying to understand why Fairy Hongxia had not awakened. He successfully refined the Swift Sparrow blood into a phantom and began forcing it into the pill liquid.

• Xiao Hua reconsidered how Jiu Xia had gained his trust and wondered whether she had manipulated him into revealing his abilities and refining the Flying Shadow Pill.
• When Jiu Xia asked to watch him refine pills, Xiao Hua refused, and she left him to work while she watched over Fairy Hongxia.
• Xiao Hua refined the herbs for the Flying Shadow Pill and used his spare attention to begin remaking talismans for the Duotian Star Array as jade talismans.
• Xiao Hua worried that Fairy Hongxia had not awakened after taking the Wutuodan and wondered whether Jiu Xia was keeping her asleep until the pill was finished.
• After nine days of refining the Swift Sparrow blood, Xiao Hua bound its struggling phantom with soul threads and dragged it into the pill furnace.
• Xiao Hua used pill-merging hand seals to confine the Swift Sparrow phantom within the pill liquid.

Xiao Hua refined a superior Grade 1 Flying Shadow Pill for Fairy Hongxia, but Jiu Xia found it lacked the star power of his Wutuodan. As Xiao Hua began a second batch and meditated, he drew down extraterritorial star power, revealing a power that gave Jiu Xia hope for her own difficult goal.

• After forty-nine days, Xiao Hua completed the Flying Shadow Pill, and a Swift Sparrow phantom flew from the furnace before he caught it.
• Jiu Xia judged the pill to be a superior Grade 1 spirit pill but said it lacked the star power of the Wutuodan.
• Jiu Xia explained that Fairy Hongxia was dormant and healing, and Xiao Hua decided to try refining a Grade 2 pill rather than awaken her immediately.
• After resting half a day, Xiao Hua began a second batch of Flying Shadow Pills and paused his talisman work to meditate.
• Jiu Xia sensed pure star power pouring into Xiao Hua and secretly saw a pillar of starlight descend outside his cave, but she did not investigate.

Xiao Hua successfully refined a Grade 2 Flying Shadow Pill containing star power, and Jiu Xia urged him to attempt a Grade 3 pill for Fairy Hongxia’s recovery. After Jiu Xia awakened Hongxia and taught her a secret art, the women quickly became friendly, while Xiao Hua recognized that Hongxia was also considering Jiu Xia as a potential ally.

• Xiao Hua completed a Grade 2 Flying Shadow Pill using snow swallow spirit blood, and Jiu Xia confirmed that it contained star power.
• Jiu Xia persuaded Xiao Hua to try refining a Grade 3 Flying Shadow Pill, offering the Grade 2 pill as a fallback for Hongxia’s treatment.
• Jiu Xia awakened Fairy Hongxia and introduced herself, prompting Xiao Hua to explain Jiu Xia’s abilities and help.
• Jiu Xia and Hongxia quickly grew friendly as Jiu Xia praised her and prepared to teach her the secret art for repairing her Dharma Body.
• Hongxia urged Xiao Hua to continue refining pills, and Xiao Hua realized she was cultivating Jiu Xia’s friendship as a useful alliance.

Xiao Hua struggled to refine a Grade 3 Flying Shadow Pill for Fairy Hongxia, while Hongxia and Jiu Xia became sworn sisters outside the cave. After more than nine days, Xiao Hua emerged with the pill and Jiu Xia called him “Brother-in-law.”

• Fairy Hongxia and Jiu Xia agreed to become sworn sisters and planned to have Heaven and Earth witness their bond.
• Xiao Hua struggled to control the Cold Goose projection during the pill fusion and used his own essence blood to continue the refinement.
• Fairy Hongxia and Jiu Xia waited outside as the Cold Goose cried, and the pill furnace eventually fell silent.
• More than nine days later, a pillar of golden light rose from the cave, and Xiao Hua emerged with a jade casket containing the Grade 3 Flying Shadow Pill.
• Xiao Hua gave the pill to Fairy Hongxia, explained that he wanted to help restore her, and was startled when Jiu Xia called him “Brother-in-law.”