Chapter Summaries

Xiao Hua and Xue Xue traveled to Misty Mountain after resolving the crisis at Myriad Thunder Valley, where Xue Xue hoped to visit her family. When Misty Mountain failed to respond to her communication talisman, they feared something had happened, and Xiao Hua began breaking its formation with lightning.

• Xiao Hua secretly helped Dui Ling establish her foundation, leaving her bewildered about what had happened.
• Xue Xue admitted she had brought Xiao Hua to Misty Mountain partly to protect him from possible trouble at Myriad Thunder Valley, though he had handled the crisis easily.
• Xiao Hua and Xue Xue agreed to wait until after the great battle to discuss his proposal and continued toward Misty Mountain.
• At Misty Mountain, Ling Zhengyi did not answer Xue Xue's communication talisman, and her growing concern led Xiao Hua to prepare to break the formation.
• Xiao Hua unleashed his Lightning Drawing Technique, sending bolts down over Misty Mountain.

Xiao Hua and Xue Xue entered Misty Mountain and found its disciples injured by a fire ape-like monster. Xiao Hua subdued the monster and the fire ape, then took the monster’s demon core, leaving Ling Zhengyi and Ling Feiyun safe but the mystery of the monster unresolved.

• Xiao Hua opened a path through Misty Mountain’s restriction with heavenly lightning, and he and Xue Xue found the disciples suffering on the stone steps.
• Xiao Hua blocked the monster’s fire attack with a Nascent Soul hand and caught its fire bead after striking it with lightning.
• Xue Xue rescued Ling Zhengyi and Ling Feiyun, while Xiao Hua beat the monster until it stopped resisting.
• Xiao Hua released the fire ape wearing the Sun Moon Crown, and the monster and fire ape recognized one another before Xiao Hua stored them both.
• Xiao Hua examined the fire bead and identified it as the monster’s demon core, then received Ling Zhengyi and Ling Feiyun’s thanks.

Xiao Hua rescued Ling Zhengyi and Ling Feiyun from a monster at Misty Mountain and brought the fire ape there so Xue Xue could remove the final soul imprint from the Sun Moon Crown. They reunited in the old palace, but Xue Xue postponed the ritual and rested beside Xiao Hua, who promised to stay with her.

• Xiao Hua denied using a Nascent Soul hand and asked Ling Zhengyi what had happened at Misty Mountain.
• Ling Zhengyi explained that a monster had appeared near the ancestral hall, injured the disciples, and captured him and Ling Feiyun before Xiao Hua arrived.
• Xiao Hua said Xue Xue had prompted their return and revealed that he had brought the fire ape to help remove the Sun Moon Crown's final soul imprint.
• Ling Zhengyi and Ling Feiyun began repairing Misty Mountain's damaged restrictions while Xiao Hua and Xue Xue went to the rear palace.
• Xiao Hua and Xue Xue spoke of building a life together in the palace, but Xue Xue said she was tired and asked to rest with her head on his lap.

Xiao Hua and Xue Xue spent a night together at Misty Mountain, where Xue Xue shared her concerns about her family and gained a new perspective on her own cultivation. After Xiao Hua studied the jade pendant’s strange method for unlocking the Sun Moon Crown, Xue Xue left him to speak with Ling Feiyun, who urged her to hold a dual cultivation ceremony and warned her about Fairy Hongxia.

• Xiao Hua promised to ask Master's Wife to propose marriage at Xun Lei Palace and to protect Misty Mountain and Ling Feiyun.
• Xue Xue fell asleep beside Xiao Hua, and she later said she had not slept so peacefully since childhood.
• Xue Xue reflected on fortune and accepted that her path differed from Xiao Hua’s before giving him her ancestral jade pendant.
• Xiao Hua studied the pendant’s secret arts and found a strange blood shadow method for breaking the Sun Moon Crown’s final restriction.
• Xue Xue left Xiao Hua to speak with Ling Feiyun, who said the mountain formation would take about four more days to repair.
• Ling Feiyun urged Xue Xue and Xiao Hua to hold a dual cultivation ceremony and warned her that Xiao Hua seemed improperly involved with Fairy Hongxia; Xue Xue defended him.

Xue Xue entrusted Ling Feiyun with a jade slip for Fairy Hongxia, then returned to the palace as Xiao Hua used the Sun Moon Crown to refine the fire ape’s blood and Xue Xue’s heart’s blood. The fire ape and thunder beast blood shadows emerged, and the Crown’s golden and silver lights erupted in a burst of thunder and lightning.

• Xue Xue gave Ling Feiyun a jade slip for Fairy Hongxia and advised him to rely on his own resolve to overcome his cultivation bottleneck.
• Xiao Hua and Xue Xue stayed at Misty Mountain until Ling Zhengyi repaired its array, then Xue Xue returned to the palace alone.
• Xiao Hua refined a drop of the fire ape’s blood with the Divine Fire Art, drawing out a fire ape phantom before sealing the beast in his spirit beast pouch.
• Xiao Hua asked Xue Xue for a drop of her heart’s blood, and refining it produced a thunder beast phantom that embarrassed her.
• The Sun Moon Crown’s two artifacts glowed with golden and silver light, then released a thunderous roar and a brilliant bolt of lightning.

Xue Xue received a thunder beast inheritance from the Sun Moon Crown and awoke after nine days. Xiao Hua then opened a hidden entrance beneath Thunder Roar Hall, and the two descended to discover what lay below.

• Xiao Hua activated the Sun Moon Crown with the fire ape and thunder beast, causing its soul seal to shatter and a black shadow to enter Xue Xue’s brow as an inheritance.
• Xiao Hua found a bone joint from the Sun Moon Crown and told Ling Zhengyi that Xue Xue had obtained the inheritance; Ling Zhengyi celebrated and sent word to Flying Phoenix Ridge.
• Xue Xue awoke after nine days, and Xiao Hua explained that the bone joint recorded information about Thunder Roar Hall using soul sense.
• Xiao Hua and Xue Xue agreed to keep the inheritance and hall’s secrets from Ling Zhengyi because revealing them could endanger Misty Mountain.
• Xiao Hua used soul-cultivation characters to reveal a hidden entrance beneath the palace doors, then led Xue Xue down the steps.

Xiao Hua entered Thunder Roar Hall with Xue Xue, learned the Thunder Roar Technique, and found an ancient Lightning Refining Technique among the hall’s records. After studying it, he discovered that only its first half was there and suspected the rest was at Luofeng Mountain.

• Xiao Hua and Xue Xue entered Thunder Roar Hall, where Xiao Hua learned the Thunder Roar Technique from the green seal script.
• Xiao Hua and Xue Xue found nine inscribed stone walls, including one that recorded the Lightning Refining Technique, an ancient method for refining artifacts with heavenly lightning.
• Xue Xue agreed that Xiao Hua could study the inherited techniques and asked whether he could let Ling Feiyun enter the hall, but Xiao Hua explained that entering it consumed lifespan.
• After half a day, Xiao Hua summoned Xue Xue back and told her the Lightning Refining Technique was incomplete and its second half was likely at Luofeng Mountain.
• Xue Xue said Luofeng Mountain had become Misty Mountain’s territory, while Xiao Hua worried his requested leave might not last long enough.

Xiao Hua and Xue Xue discovered the passage connecting Thunder Roar Hall to Lightning Flash Palace, where Xiao Hua learned the Lightning Flash Technique and studied the Lightning Refining Technique. With his leave ending and Myriad Thunder Valley under pressure, Xue Xue urged him to take the inheritance with him before she entered her final seclusion.

• Xue Xue recalled a hidden passage in Thunder Roar Hall, and Xiao Hua opened it with green seal script.
• Xiao Hua and Xue Xue crossed the passage and found Lightning Flash Palace beneath Flying Phoenix Ridge.
• Xiao Hua learned the Lightning Flash Technique and then studied the latter half of the Lightning Refining Technique while Xue Xue watched.
• Xue Xue urged Xiao Hua to take the Lightning Refining Technique with him because Myriad Thunder Valley needed his help.
• Xue Xue told Xiao Hua she also needed to enter seclusion, and he questioned whether her earlier words at Myriad Thunder Valley had been meant to make him take leave.

Xiao Hua and Xue Xue returned from Misty Mountain to the Thunder Control Sect, where unusual reactions from the disciples signaled trouble in Myriad Thunder Valley. As Xiao Hua hurried there, the Dao Sect gathered in Tongmu City awaiting news of Xuntian City and the likely outcome of the Dao Sword Great Battle.

• Xiao Hua removed all nine stone walls from Lightning Flash Palace and took Xue Xue through the passage to Flying Phoenix Ridge before they returned to Misty Mountain.
• Xiao Hua and Xue Xue discussed the strange soul inheritance, the netherworld, and their future marriage before agreeing that Xue Xue would enter seclusion for no more than two years.
• After returning to the Thunder Control Sect, Xiao Hua noticed the rotating disciples' strange expressions and hurried toward Myriad Thunder Valley, while Xue Xue watched him leave in tears.
• Xun Shu urged Xue Xue to warn Xiao Hua about the trouble, but Xue Xue declined and entered Xun Lei Palace to seclude herself.
• Dao Sect cultivators gathered in Tongmu City's Council Hall, fearing defeat and waiting for the Gate Tower to reveal the outcome of the Dao Sword Great Battle.

Xunyunzi ordered the Dao Sect to begin its final assault on Xuntian City by activating the immense Qiankun Liangyi Seal Demon Great Formation. As the formation’s black-and-white radiance absorbed the Tianyi Green Light Sword Array’s attacks, Zuo Ming flew out to test its power.

• Xunyunzi received a communication talisman and told Xuan Jing to begin the final battle against the sword cultivators.
• Xuan Jing raised a command token, and the Qiankun Liangyi Seal Demon Great Formation emerged around Xuntian City with immense tremors and strange phenomena.
• Chong Taixu urged the sword cultivators to activate the Tianyi Green Light Sword Array and repel the Dao Sect’s formation.
• The sword array’s azure light repeatedly struck the black-and-white radiance but was absorbed without effect.
• Chong Taixu sent Zuo Ming, carrying the Taiyi Azure Light Sword, to attack the mysterious formation.
• As Zuo Ming flew beyond the sword formation, its terrifying aura began disrupting his thoughts.

Zuo Ming’s Taiyi Azure Light Sword failed to destroy the Universe Two Forms Sealing Demon Array, and he warned that its forces could tear apart even powerful swordsmen. Chong Taixu convinced the Sword Domain leaders to risk a coordinated attack when the array shifted from defense to offense, as its black and white radiance continued closing around Xuntian City.

• Zuo Ming struck the array with the Taiyi Azure Light Sword, but black mist quickly swallowed the cut and the lingering azure light.
• Qi Liandie urged an immediate attack, while Chong Taixu argued that the array would be weakest as it began to close and persuaded Cheng Minghua to gamble on victory.
• Chong Taixu hinted that powerful hidden seniors could ensure the Sword Domain’s escape, though Cheng Minghua could not sense their true strength.
• Zuo Ming returned and reported that the array contained deadly forces and that all five Green Light Swords would need to attack its eastern, western, northern, and southern sections together.
• The Sword Domain swordsmen gathered their strength as Xuan Jing and True Person Pin Xuan directed the array’s black and white radiance to close toward the center of Xuntian City.

Xunyunzi and True Person Pin Xuan believed the Qiankun Liangyi Seal Demon Great Formation would seal Xuntian City, but the sword cultivators launched their five Green Light Swords against it. As the formation repaired the damage and continued closing, it unexpectedly revealed a flaw.

• Xunyunzi and True Person Pin Xuan joined Xuan Jing and True Person Pin Xuan at the formation eyes as the black-and-white radiance began closing around Xuntian City.
• Xunyunzi and True Person Pin Xuan realized the Qiankun Liangyi Seal Demon Great Formation was a sealing method, and worried over the fate of True Person Miyou, Ganlei Zi, and Mosang Old Man's disciples.
• When gray light appeared in the sky, Chong Taixu, Zuo Ming, Cheng Minghua, Ruotian, and Qi Liandie unleashed five Green Light Swords from the Tianyi Green Light Sword Array.
• True Person Pin Xuan hurried to close the formation, and Ruotian recognized that the descending black-and-white wheel was a seal.
• Chong Taixu combined the five Green Light Swords into an enormous azure dragon that struck the gray seal, briefly cracking it before its rotation began repairing the damage.
• As the formation continued to close, discordant cracking sounds revealed an unexpected flaw in the Qiankun Liangyi Seal Demon Great Formation.

The Qiankun Liangyi Seal Demon Great Formation and the Tianyi Green Light Sword Array reached a dangerous stalemate, leaving neither side able to withdraw. Chong Taixu and Xunyunzi negotiated over the war’s outcome, but Xunyunzi balked at Chong Taixu’s proposal to decide victory in a duel.

• True Person Pin Xuan warned that the Immortal Music Sect’s formation could not balance the Ascension Gate’s yin energy, so Xunyunzi and True Person Liukong used their power to stabilize the seal.
• Chong Taixu, Xunyunzi, and the other cultivators and swordsmen remained locked in place, with the five Green Light Swords and the sealing formation in delicate balance.
• Chong Taixu and Xunyunzi revealed powerful spirit phantoms and discussed their cultivation, the war, and the prospect of reinforcements reaching Xuntian City.
• Chong Taixu and Xunyunzi explained their respective formations and the five Green Light Swords, then acknowledged that neither side could safely dismantle its formation first.
• Chong Taixu proposed that they withdraw their formations and settle the war with a duel, but Xunyunzi refused to risk making the Dao Sword Great Battle depend on his uncertain chance of victory.

Xunyunzi and Chong Taixu negotiated a gambling duel to decide the Dao Sword Great Battle while their formations remained locked in place. They agreed to three matches between Huan Kingdom swordsmen and cultivators from Xi Kingdom, Lian Kingdom, and Meng Kingdom, with the first match set to begin in half an hour.

• Chong Taixu revealed that the innate Green Light Sword could destroy both the bodies and Nascent Souls of Dao Sect cultivators, but Xunyunzi refused to be provoked into fighting him.
• Xunyunzi offered a gambling duel to protect the captives from the Thunder Control Sect and Mosang Mountain, and Chong Taixu agreed only if they were released after the Universe Two Forms Sealing Demon Array was withdrawn.
• Xunyunzi proposed nine matches between Sword Transformation second grade swordsmen and mid-Nascent Soul cultivators, but Chong Taixu rejected the number and agreed only that third-grade swordsmen and late Nascent Soul cultivators would not participate.
• Chong Taixu insisted on three matches, with one sect each from Xi Kingdom, Lian Kingdom, and Meng Kingdom facing three Huan Kingdom swordsmen, and Xunyunzi accepted.
• Xunyunzi and Chong Taixu clashed their enormous palms in the sky, then agreed to send contestants for the first match in half an hour.

Xunyunzi and Zhu Chenghe arranged the Dao Sect’s contestants for the wagered battle, expecting True Person Yuqing to face a Sword Transformation swordsman. The Sword Domain instead sent the artifact cultivator True Person Tengjiao, and the chapter ended with Xunyunzi challenging whether Tengjiao qualified as a swordsman under their agreement.

• Xunyunzi ordered Zhu Chenghe to prepare the Dao Sect’s contestants and chose True Person Yuqing for the first round.
• Zhu Chenghe told Xunyunzi that Yuqing, Yun Mengzi, and Heping were the available mid-Nascent Soul cultivators, and explained why Yuqing was assigned to fight first.
• True Person Yuqing met a golden figure outside Xuntian City, and Chong Taixu identified the fighter as True Person Tengjiao.
• True Person Tengjiao revealed that he was an artifact cultivator from Meng Kingdom who had joined the Sword Domain after Dao Sect cultivators hunted him.
• Xunyunzi recognized that Yuqing might rely on a Taiqing Sect spirit artifact to avoid defeat, while Yuqing tried to persuade Tengjiao to return to the Dao Sect.
• Xunyunzi accepted Tengjiao’s Sword Transformation second-grade cultivation but questioned whether an artifact cultivator counted as a swordsman under the wager’s rules.

True Person Tengjiao cut through True Person Yuqing’s Heaven-Binding Lock, but True Person Yuqing removed the Taiqing Solidifying God Talisman and advanced to the late Nascent Soul stage. He then used his immense pressure and the damaged lock to restrain True Person Tengjiao, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Chong Taixu argued that True Person Tengjiao qualified for the wagered battle, and Xunyunzi accepted the loophole in the Sword Cultivators’ terms.
• True Person Yuqing unleashed the Heaven-Binding Lock, but True Person Tengjiao transformed into the Soaring Flood Dragon Scissors and severed Yuqing’s Nascent Soul hand and the artifact.
• Xunyunzi realized True Person Yuqing had been defeated, but Yuqing removed the Taiqing Solidifying God Talisman and advanced from the mid-Nascent Soul stage to the late Nascent Soul stage.
• Xunyunzi declared the advancement legal under the wager and expected Yuqing to win, but another golden flash followed.
• True Person Yuqing used his new pressure and the Heaven-Binding Lock’s radiance to pin and wrap around the Soaring Flood Dragon Scissors.

True Person Tengjiao defeated True Person Yuqing, giving the Sword Domain the first wagered battle. Chong Taixu and Xunyunzi prepared for the second round, but Xunyunzi revealed that the Dao Sect would send the Three Elders of Fire Fierce Mountain together, exploiting a loophole in their agreement.

• True Person Yuqing tried to crush the Heaven-Binding Lock, but True Person Tengjiao escaped it and severed Yuqing's left arm with the Soaring Flood Dragon Scissors.
• True Person Yuqing fled through the Qiankun Liangyi Seal Demon Great Formation, and Xunyunzi let him out as True Person Tengjiao emerged unharmed.
• Chong Taixu declared the first battle a Sword Domain victory, while Xunyunzi challenged them to produce another artifact cultivator for the second round.
• Chong Taixu introduced Fallen Flower Fairy, an Illusion Sword First Grade artifact cultivator, as the Sword Domain's next fighter.
• Xunyunzi sent Huo Zheshhan, Huo Yanshui, and Huo Paikong together, arguing that the agreement allowed each sect to send one representative and that the three were a single sect's entry.
• Chong Taixu accused Xunyunzi of exploiting the agreement, but Xunyunzi defended his tactics as necessary to win.

Fallen Flower Fairy defeated the Three Elders of Fire Fierce Mountain with her strange green light, leaving their Nascent Souls trapped and at her mercy. Xunyunzi realized Chong Taixu had outmaneuvered him and begged for the Nascent Souls to be spared, but Chong Taixu claimed he could not command Fallen Flower Fairy.

• Chong Taixu respectfully entrusted the fight to Fallen Flower Fairy and returned to the Green Light Sword Pillar.
• Xunyunzi sent the Three Elders of Fire Fierce Mountain to attack Fallen Flower Fairy with their combined technique and natal Fire Essence.
• Fallen Flower Fairy swallowed the Fire Essence, then used green light to extinguish the elders’ flames and destroy their physical bodies.
• The Three Elders of Fire Fierce Mountain tried to teleport their Nascent Souls away, but Fallen Flower Fairy’s green light trapped them and another green haze descended upon them.
• Xunyunzi called on Chong Taixu to make Fallen Flower Fairy release the Nascent Souls, but Chong Taixu said he could not command her.

Fallen Flower Fairy destroyed the Three Elders of Fire Fierce Mountain and broke the Dao Sect’s formation, deciding the Dao Sword Great Battle in the sword cultivators’ favor before departing with True Person Tengjiao. In Tongmu City, True Person Du'e and Shanshengzi discovered they were both hunting Nameless and began discussing a joint plan to capture him.

• Fallen Flower Fairy’s azure vortex reversed the Qiankun Liangyi Seal Demon Great Formation, and she broke it despite Xunyunzi’s protests.
• Chong Taixu declared the Dao Sect defeated, while Xunyunzi vanished and Fallen Flower Fairy and True Person Tengjiao left for Huan Country.
• Chong Taixu and the other recovered cultivators bowed as the Dao Sect’s formation collapsed and the sword cultivators’ formation remained intact.
• True Person Du'e confronted Shanshengzi, who revealed that he was also searching for Nameless on behalf of another party.
• True Person Du'e and Shanshengzi agreed that Nameless’s strength and secrets made him difficult to capture, and Shanshengzi urged them to join forces.

Xiao Hua returned to Myriad Thunder Valley and learned that the sect had been pressuring its disciples while he was away. After Zhuo urged him to keep watch rather than escalate matters, Xiang Zhili revealed that hundreds of Foundation Establishment elders had challenged him.

• True Person Du'e and Shanshengzi agreed to wait near Xiao Hua's sect and attack him when he left its protection.
• Xiao Hua returned to Myriad Thunder Valley, where Gen Lei Palace disciples were patrolling and reporting his arrival.
• Zhang Juan and Fan Yuming told Xiao Hua that Foundation Establishment elders had gathered outside the valley, sent challenge letters, and nearly forced their way in.
• Zhuo told Xiao Hua that Xiangyang, Qinglian, Hongshen, and Qi Meng had been summoned to Zhen Thunder Palace and advised him to stand watch over the valley.
• Xiao Hua said he wanted to face those challenging him, and Xiang Zhili produced several hundred jade slips bearing challenges from Foundation Establishment elders.