Chapter Summaries

Jifengzi died of shock after learning that Xiao Hua had crushed Luoxing Heaven’s late Void Refining cultivator and devastated the four sects. Shanghua Sect and the other Xi Kingdom sects rushed toward Xuntian City to beg forgiveness, while the Ye Family Head met sword cultivators outside the city and heard their plan had changed.

• Jifengzi read a jade slip reporting Xiao Hua’s victory and died as its news overwhelmed him.
• Yang Yu learned that Xiao Hua had killed Qi Jianghai, True Person Kuye, Fairy Poyue, and many disciples, then led Shanghua Sect forces toward Xuntian City to seek forgiveness.
• The heads of the Xunyan Sect, Seven Skill Gate, and Huanhua Sect also sent disciples toward Xuntian City, while Creation Sect forces advanced across Xi Kingdom.
• The Ye Family Head suspected Fairy Hongxia possessed an Innate Spirit Body, then left Xuntian City after receiving a message from Qin Jing.
• Qin Jing and Cheng Pi told the Ye Family Head that their previous plan had undergone sudden changes, but a fierce sword cry interrupted Cheng Pi before he could explain.

Zuo Ming arrived and agreed to support Ye Yaotian’s plan to reshape Xuntian City’s order, assigning Ling Jiju to assist the conspirators. After Zuo Ming intimidated three Heavenly Demon Sect vice sect masters, Ye Yaotian and Ling Jiju began coordinating how to handle the approaching Creation Sect.

• Zuo Ming confronted Ye Yaotian over his scheme against Xuntian City, then agreed that the city’s disorder should be corrected and sent Ling Jiju to help.
• Ye Yaotian promised benefits to the Lingfeng Sword Gate and said the Creation Sect would be disciplined as part of the plan.
• Zuo Ming sensed three Heavenly Demon Sect cultivators approaching and warned Ye Yaotian to keep their cooperation within proper limits.
• Yue Zhongkui, Yang Ji, and Yao Chengxi arrived, and Zuo Ming’s sword intent frightened them into paying their respects before he departed.
• Ye Yaotian explained Zuo Ming’s position to the three vice sect masters, who agreed to cooperate, while Ling Jiju placed his gathered disciples at the group’s disposal.

Ye Yaotian secured the Immortal Envoy’s approval for Ye Xixiang to pursue Fairy Hongxia while keeping the planned operation on track. Xuntian City then came under an unexpected siege, and Ye Gu Xing struggled to understand the alarm and the confused defenses.

• Ye Yaotian, Ling Jiju, and the sect leaders agreed on how to divide the Creation Sect and Xuntian City, with Ling Jiju placing the Lingfeng Sword Gate’s forces under Ye Yaotian’s control.
• Ye Yaotian told Yu Tong that Ye Xixiang wanted to become sword companions with Fairy Hongxia, and Yu Tong said the Immortal Envoy would allow him an opportunity during the operation.
• Yu Tong walked through Xuntian City as the Enemy Attack Bell rang, then concluded that the Creation Sect had attacked earlier than expected and hurried to join Yun Zichong.
• Meng Peng confirmed to Ye Gu Xing that Daoist cultivators had surrounded Xuntian City, but explained that he could deploy only the Xunshan Sword Gate’s patrol squads.
• Ye Gu Xing questioned the absence of the Feiyu Gate and Qushan Sect’s city-defense generals as three rune-covered artifact cultivators arrived to demand details about the attack.

Ye Gu Xing and the other defenders of Xuntian City investigated reports of Daoist cultivators approaching from every direction. He Jun returned with news that nearly two million, mostly low-level cultivators had encircled the city, leaving the three Sword Masters stunned and questioning how the threat had gone unnoticed.

• Zhuang Hong and Zhu Jing discussed their incomplete reports with Ye Gu Xing before Xue Sheng arrived and ordered He Jun to investigate.
• Meng Peng reported that Daoist cultivators had appeared in every direction around Xuntian City, prompting Xue Sheng to suspect a Dao Sword Great Battle.
• Ye Gu Xing and Zhuang Hong argued that the Daoist kingdoms had little reason to start another war and concluded that the lack of warning pointed to a deeper problem.
• Meng Peng recalled that many patrol disciples had gone missing in recent months, and Ye Gu Xing ordered him to investigate the losses.
• He Jun returned from scouting and estimated that nearly two million Daoist cultivators had surrounded Xuntian City, with the strongest in the area he surveyed at Golden Core Mid-stage.
• Ye Gu Xing, Zhuang Hong, and Xue Sheng reacted with disbelief, while Xue Sheng suggested the Xunshan Sword Gate’s missing patrol disciples might have discovered the attackers.

Ye Gu Xing, Zhuang Hong, and Xue Sheng realized that the Creation Sect’s siege of Xuntian City was likely a smokescreen for Nascent Soul Grandmasters and a plot to ignite another Dao Sword Great Battle. They fortified the city and chose He Jun to risk carrying a warning back to Huan Country.

• A blood sword message revealed that disciples of Xunyan Villa, Creation Sect’s largest branch, were besieging Xuntian City.
• Ye Gu Xing, Zhuang Hong, and Xue Sheng suspected hidden Nascent Soul Grandmasters were behind the siege and feared it would trigger another Dao Sword Great Battle.
• Ye Gu Xing ordered the city’s sword formation activated, and the three Sword Masters sent their tokens to compel the sword cultivators in Xuntian City to join the defense.
• Ye Gu Xing asked Xue Sheng to let He Jun carry a warning to Huan Country, and He Jun agreed to make the dangerous journey.
• He Jun transformed his back into wings and prepared to fly out of Xuntian City.

Zhong Haoran and the Creation Sect leaders realized Xuntian City's crude formation and unexpected response suggested a hidden force had concealed the approaching assault from both sides. As the sword cultivators launched their attack, Zhong Haoran chose to lead the Creation Sect into battle rather than reveal the truth behind the forged Sect Leader Token.

• Zhong Haoran asked Zhong Zhan whether scouts had found anything unusual, but Zhong Zhan reported no discoveries from his men or Fei Yunshu's disciples.
• Zhong Haoran warned that Xuntian City's hastily assembled formation suggested its sword cultivators had not known the Creation Sect was coming, while Zhao Ming argued the summoning order could not have remained secret.
• Cheng Jizi said Xuntian City's immediate battle formation pointed to a bloody fight, and the Creation Sect leaders fell silent as they recognized their forces could not match the sword cultivators.
• Zhong Zhan warned Zhong Haoran that the hidden force had blinded both the Creation Sect and Xuntian City, while Zhong Haoran stopped himself from confessing his role in the scheme.
• Xuntian City's sword cultivators launched their attack, and Zhong Haoran rallied the Creation Sect leaders to fight beneath the city's gates.

Ye Xixiang helped Xuntian City's leaders plan a defense after learning that He Jun had been killed while trying to escape. Given command of the North Gate, he led the Ye Family and allied Daoist cultivators toward the sword cultivators there, while arranging for Fairy Hongxia and her companions to leave amid the fighting.

• Ye Xixiang warned Xue Sheng that he could kill him, then learned from Ye Gu Xing that He Jun had been slain while carrying a message to Huan Country.
• Ye Xixiang urged the leaders to attack rather than rely only on Xuntian City's sword formation, and Zhuang Hong and Xue Sheng volunteered to defend gates.
• Ye Xixiang agreed to lead the Ye Family and four Daoist cultivator clans to the north, where sword cultivators were attacking, while Ye Gu Xing and Xue Sheng took other positions.
• Ye Gu Xing gave Ye Xixiang the City Lord's token and ordered him to guard the North Gate in place of the duty Sword Masters.
• Ye Xixiang told Fairy Hongxia that he would take her group to face the northern sword cultivators and help them escape during the battle.
• Yun Zichong arrived asking whether another Dao Sword Great Battle had begun, and Ye Xixiang directed him toward the North Gate.

Ye Xixiang gathered the Cai, Yu, Yun, and Huang families into alliances amid the crisis surrounding Xuntian City, while hiding his own motives and probing the others. Huang Mengxiang revealed her admiration for an unnamed great man, leaving Fairy Hongxia to suspect that her feelings were tied to jealousy.

• Huang Mengxiang introduced herself to Fairy Hongxia and eagerly praised her beauty, while Xiao Mao recalled his Dao companion Qin Jian.
• Ye Xixiang proposed a wider alliance, and Yun Zichong realized that Ye was testing him for clues about his hidden connections.
• Yu Tong agreed to join the Ye Family in resisting the invading sword cultivators, and he and Ye Xixiang struck palms to form an alliance.
• Yun Zichong also formed an alliance with the Ye Family, and Fairy Hongxia agreed to ally the Cai Family with Huang Mengxiang's family.
• Huang Mengxiang called Ye Xixiang only half a man worthy of her attention and hinted that she admired a man greater than anyone alive, prompting Fairy Hongxia to suspect jealousy.

Ye Xixiang led the families and Xuntian City sword cultivators outside the North Gate, where he claimed they would form a Ye Family sword formation to fight the besieging enemy. As the formation was arranged around a mountain peak, Yun Zichong and Yu Tong recognized it as the site of their Four Spirits Blood Curse, which they had prepared to lure Fairy Hongxia into their scheme.

• Fairy Hongxia and Huang Mengxiang led their disciples toward Xuntian City's North Gate, followed by Ye Xixiang, Yun Zichong, and Yu Tong.
• Using the Sword Master Token, Ye Xixiang took command of the North Gate sword cultivators and led several thousand of them outside the city.
• After Yun Zichong warned him, Ye Xixiang stopped near a ring of mountains and persuaded the sword cultivators to prepare for battle with a secret Ye Family formation.
• Ye Xixiang explained the formation's two layers and assigned the family heads to lead groups of Xuntian City sword cultivators in its inner formation.
• Yu Tong asked where the formation's foundation would be, and Ye Xixiang pointed to the mountain peak where Yun Zichong and Yu Tong had placed the Four Spirits Blood Curse.
• Yun Zichong and Yu Tong recognized that Ye Xixiang's chosen formation site would help draw Fairy Hongxia into their scheme to sanctify their bloodlines.

Yun Zichong and Yu Tong prepared to activate the Four Spirits Blood Curse near Xuntian City while Ye Xixiang organized the city’s sword cultivators for an approaching battle. Ye Xixiang’s last-minute shift of their array disrupted the curse’s original placement, but Yu Tong adjusted its range and kept it functioning.

• Yun Zichong recalled the sword array from the Great Sword Dao Battle and found a suitable location for the Four Spirits Blood Curse near Xuntian City's North Gate.
• Ye Xixiang assigned the sword cultivators and clan disciples to their formations as enemy cultivators approached Xuntian City.
• Xiao Mao asked Ye Xixiang to let him join the Cai Family's array to protect Fairy Hongxia, and Ye Xixiang agreed.
• Ye Xixiang ordered the array moved to another mountain peak so its sword intent could connect with the surrounding defenses, angering Yun Zichong and Yu Tong.
• Yu Tong and Yun Zichong exchanged disciples, then Yu Tong altered the curse's range by switching the Silver Tiger and Flame Dragon positions, allowing its power to persist.

Yun Zichong and Yu Tong plotted to exploit the Four Spirits Blood Curse while Fairy Hongxia and the others were caught off guard by the Creation Sect disciples’ reaction to her. At Xuntian City, Zhong Haoran’s alliance leaders faced the sword formations’ overwhelming strength, and Zhao Ming urged them to learn and grow through battle.

• Yu Tong told Yun Zichong to activate the Four Spirits Blood Curse and claim forty percent of its bloodline power, and Yun agreed.
• Creation Sect disciples recognized Fairy Hongxia and hurried to report her to their Sect Leader, leaving her, Xiao Mao, and Huang Mengxiang bewildered.
• Zhong Haoran asked the Golden Core sect leaders for their views as they watched Xuntian City’s sword formations and lost confidence in their plans.
• Wang Jiancheng and Xu Zhonglin argued over their earlier proposals until Zhao Ming rebuked them for turning against their allies.
• Zhao Ming called the Creation Immortal Alliance’s disciples a rabble compared with the sword cultivators and urged the alliance to learn from its enemies and grow through battle.

Zhong Haoran led the Creation Sect disciples in an assault on Xuntian City after they mistook Fairy Hongxia for Xiao Hua’s Dao companion and believed she was being forced to marry Ye Xixiang. Ye Xixiang proposed to Hongxia, but as she began to accept, a vast burst of firelight shattered the sword formation surrounding her.

• Zhong Haoran ordered the Creation Sect disciples to attack Xuntian City and launched a signal that sent azure swords into the sky.
• Fairy Hongxia learned that the Creation Sect had come to stop her supposed engagement to Ye Xixiang, while Huang Mengxiang teased her about Xiao Hua.
• Ye Xixiang raised Hongxia into the air with the sword formation and crossed a magpie bridge to propose marriage before the gathered disciples.
• Ye Xixiang’s words and changing face made Hongxia see Xiao Hua, and she began to accept his proposal.
• A mass of firelight erupted beneath Hongxia and instantly dissolved the sword light enclosing her.

Ye Xixiang exposed his schemes against Xiao Mao and Fairy Hongxia, including the Ye family’s use of Qin Jian, then unleashed a Snow Tapir to fight Huo Hong. The two powerful creatures battled outside Xuntian City as Ye Xixiang told Fairy Hongxia that his family’s true foundations were far greater than she knew.

• Huo Hong broke Ye Xixiang’s sword illusion, and Xiao Mao and Fairy Hongxia confronted him for plotting against them.
• Ye Xixiang revealed that Luoxing Heaven had known Xiao Mao was coming and planned to use him while scheming to take control of the Thunder Control Sect.
• Xiao Mao insisted Ye Xixiang would not harm Fairy Hongxia, and Ye Xixiang revealed that Qin Jian was actually Ye Jian, a Ye family disciple placed near Xiao Mao.
• Ye Xixiang released a Snow Tapir from his Sword Pouch, and it began battling Huo Hong with ice and snow against her flames.
• As Huo Hong and the Snow Tapir fought to a standstill, Ye Xixiang told Fairy Hongxia that the Ye family’s foundations exceeded what she imagined.

Ye Xixiang attacked Fairy Hongxia and Xiao Mao, but the Four Spirits Blood Curse suddenly activated and dragged them and many others toward four vast abysses. The curse began drawing in True Spirit Dharma Bodies and Creation Sect disciples, while Ye Xixiang realized Yu Tong and Yun Zichong had set the trap.

• Fairy Hongxia refused Ye Xixiang's demand, and Xiao Mao and Fairy Hongxia fought to protect themselves from his attacks.
• Ye Xixiang's spirit artifact destroyed Xiao Mao's blood shadow, leaving Xiao Mao gravely injured, while Fairy Hongxia summoned her Ice Phoenix Dharma Body to confront Ye Xixiang.
• Four explosions opened four enormous abysses, and a blood-red vortex pulled Fairy Hongxia and her Ice Phoenix down.
• Ye Xixiang recognized the Four Spirits Blood Curse and saw that Yu Tong and Yun Zichong had arranged it using the True Spirit Dharma Bodies of the families' disciples.
• The other three vortices swallowed Huang Mengxiang, Yun Xiaoying, Yu Xisong, their Dharma Bodies, and numerous nearby disciples as blood threads spread through the air.

Yu Tong and Yun Zichong’s Four Spirits Blood Curse slaughtered sword cultivators and Creation Sect disciples while Ye Xixiang abandoned his attempt to save Fairy Hongxia and escaped with the Ye family disciples. Elsewhere, wounded Zhong Haoran questioned whether his choices and the deaths they caused had been worth it.

• Yu Tong refused to release Fairy Hongxia, and Ye Xixiang ultimately declined to risk his life to rescue her.
• Yun Zichong opened a narrow gap in the blood array, allowing Ye Xixiang and the Ye family disciples to escape.
• Yu Tong and Yun Zichong celebrated their plan to obtain Saint Bloodlines as the blood curse continued grinding up its victims.
• Zhong Haoran killed a swordsman who ambushed him, then pulled the sword from his wound amid the chaotic battle south of Xuntian City.
• Zhong Haoran looked over the battlefield’s dead and questioned whether his choices had been worth the cost in lives.

The Creation Sect’s assault on Xuntian City turned into a trap when sword cultivator reinforcements arrived and encircled them. Zhong Haoran ordered a retreat, while Zhong Zhan refused to leave and prepared to die fighting for the Creation Sect.

• Zhong Haoran saw Wu Cheng flee and then spotted sword cultivators closing in behind the Creation Sect, confirming his fear that they had fallen into a trap.
• Sword cultivator reinforcements poured out of Xuntian City as more forces encircled the Creation Sect, throwing its disciples into chaos.
• Zhong Zhan urged the Creation Sect to attack Xuntian City, but Fei Yunshu argued that retreat was their only way to escape the pincer attack.
• Zhong Haoran used a crimson flying sword to signal a retreat, and the Creation Sect disciples began withdrawing toward Xuntian City’s southern side.
• Zhong Zhan denied issuing the Sect Leader Token, then refused to retreat and told Zhong Haoran to leave while he stayed to honor True Person Xiao.

Zhong Zhan, Fei Yunshu, and Zhong Haoran prepared to die defending the Creation Sect, but True Person Xiao and his allies arrived as the Four Spirits Blood Curse devastated the battlefield. Ye Xixiang then tried to break into the curse to save Fairy Hongxia, revealing a Golden Mace spirit artifact and shocking Yu Tong.

• Zhong Zhan and Fei Yunshu refused Zhong Haoran’s pleas to retreat and charged the sword cultivators, while Zhong Haoran began transforming into a sword.
• Thunder and lightning heralded the arrival of a figure Zhong Zhan recognized as True Person Xiao, followed by Feng Wu, Yuan Ya, Xiang Zhili, Wu Qing, and Cui Yingying.
• Yun Zichong opened the Four Spirits Blood Curse, and Ye Xixiang and the Ye Family disciples escaped as the formation devoured Creation Sect disciples.
• Ye Xixiang ordered the Ye Family disciples to withdraw, then turned back after seeing a crimson sword signal and tried to pierce the curse to rescue Fairy Hongxia.
• Ye Xixiang used his essence blood to reveal a Golden Mace spirit artifact, leaving Yu Tong stunned that he could wield a Dao cultivator’s spirit artifact.

Ye Xixiang disrupted the Four Spirits Blood Curse, but his actions completed Yu Tong’s hidden formation and revealed his plan to create a Four Spirits Sacred Body. As the spirit crystals emerged and the other cultivators were drawn into the vortices, Yu Tong was seized by the final vortex, and he claimed Immortal Envoy Wen was both far away and right before Ye Yaotian.

• Ye Xixiang smashed the curse’s confinement and the mountain peak supporting it, causing the Four Spirits Blood Curse to fall and its vortices to recoil.
• Yu Tong summoned dragon, phoenix, tiger, and Vermilion Bird phantoms, drawing out crystals containing Fairy Hongxia and Huang Mengxiang with their Dharma Bodies.
• The drought demon and Xiao Mao were pulled into a vortex, while Yu Tong revealed that Yun Zichong’s bloodline and formation had been used for a plan begun a thousand years earlier.
• Yun Zichong was dragged into a vortex, and a crystal containing the Flame Dragon Dharma Body emerged with Yun Xiaoying’s body already destroyed.
• Ye Xixiang recognized the Four Spirits Sacred Body, and Yu Tong said Immortal Envoy Wen was both far away and before Ye Yaotian before the final vortex seized him.

Xiao Hua arrived as Immortal Envoy Wen attempted to open a mysterious passage with the Four Spirits Blood Curse, and he killed Wen before the ritual could be completed. With Fairy Hongxia still trapped in a crystal and three lives at stake, Xiao Hua considered how to break the formation.

• Immortal Envoy Wen condemned Ye Yaotian as the four crystals combined their bloodline powers and opened a tiny point of light in the void.
• A vast divine sense shattered the Four Spirits Blood Curse, and Xiao Hua arrived, startling Wen and Ye Yaotian.
• Xiao Hua used Spirit Severing Primordial Light to expose Wen in the void and kill him, while Huang Tong swallowed Wen's tiger-shaped silver light.
• Huang Tong explained that he had brought Cai Zhuoxia, Li Zongbao, and Ye Yin to Xuntian City after hearing the Creation Sect was heading there.
• Cai Zhuoxia asked whether Fairy Hongxia was safe, and Xiao Hua said he knew how to break the formation but had to consider the three lives involved.

Xiao Hua killed Ye Yaotian after uncovering his plot against Cai Zhuoxia, while Yuan Ya and the others rescued Zhong Haoran, Zhong Zhan, and Fei Yunshu during the battle. The rescued disciples reunited with Creation Sect allies, and Xiang Zhili began explaining the sect as they prepared to join the fighting.

• Xiao Hua condemned Ye Yaotian for plotting against Cai Zhuoxia and killed him, destroying both his body and Primordial Spirit before taking his Sword Pouch and examining the Four Spirits Blood Curse.
• Feng Wu arrived with Yuan Ya and the others, and Yuan Ya slaughtered the sword cultivators threatening Zhong Haoran, Zhong Zhan, and Fei Yunshu before bringing the three to safety.
• Xiang Zhili revealed that he was True Person Xiao's godson, while Wu Qing and Cui Yingying treated the rescued disciples and Cui Yingying's pill began restoring Zhong Zhan's severed arm.
• Xiang Zhili refused to let Cui Yingying save Wu Cheng after Zhong Zhan identified him as the cultivator who had led the escape, and Fei Yunshu explained that Wu Cheng had fled before the surrounding sword cultivators appeared.
• Wu Qing urged the group to move toward the ongoing battle, and Xiang Zhili asked Cui Yingying to explain the Creation Sect to Zhong Haoran and the others.