Chapter Summaries

Yun Ying parted from Yun Xi’s group and went alone to the Kunpeng Nest, where she found a mysterious gateway containing a Kun Wood Branch and intact leaf. As Mo Shang arrived and claimed the area, Yun Ying formed a lifelike carp from Sword Dao Runes near the gateway.

• Yun Ying separated from Yun Xi and the others, then headed alone toward the island reef.
• Yun Ying examined the blazing gateway and its river of spiritual essence while Bear Child taunted her.
• Cultivators spotted a radiant Kun Wood Branch with an intact leaf inside the gateway, and many rushed to seize it, only to die upon entering.
• Bear Child warned Yun Ying not to approach the gateway, but Yun Ying said she had her own way.
• Mo Shang arrived, blasted cultivators aside, and claimed the gateway area as he sought the Kun Wood.
• Yun Ying raised her hand and transformed a wisp of Sword Dao Runes into a lifelike crystal carp.

Yun Ying used runes to turn a carp into a fish dragon that passed through the gateway and retrieved the kun wood. When Mo Shang attacked to claim it, Yun Ying blocked his trident and sent him flying with a sword strike.

• Yun Ying guided a rune-formed carp through the gateway’s barrier, transforming it into a fish dragon that seized the kun wood and returned to her.
• The fish dragon dissolved into runes before Yun Ying, revealing that she had created it, while the crowd and Mo Shang rushed to claim the kun wood.
• Mo Shang charged Yun Ying with his trident, and she met his blow with the Purple Bamboo Sword.
• Yun Ying’s sword energy struck Mo Shang’s trident and sent him flying, shocking the gathered fighters.

Yun Ying defeated the Sea God's descendant and kept the Kun Wood she had obtained, while the Red-Haired Boy intervened to fight the descendant. After exploring the Kunpeng Nest without finding its inheritance, Yun Ying reunited with Yun Xi and revealed how Kun Wood had transformed her Purple Bamboo Sword.

• Yun Ying wounded the Sea God's descendant with the Purple Bamboo Sword and declared that he was no match for her.
• The Red-Haired Boy attacked the Sea God's descendant, drawing Yun Ying's attention away from their fight.
• Yun Ying returned to the Kunpeng Nest and learned that Yun Xi and the others had entered, but she chose to wait outside.
• Half a month later, Yun Xi and the others emerged without finding the Kun Peng Precious Technique or reaching the nest's central cultivation grounds.
• Yun Ying told Yun Xi that she had refined the surviving heartwood of the Kun Wood into the Purple Bamboo Sword, which had become as powerful as a sacred artifact.

Yun Xi accepted Yun Ying’s Kun Wood leaf and set out to cultivate in the Yang Extreme Cave and Mystic Ice Abyss, while Yun Ying meditated atop the Kunpeng Nest with her transformed sword. After Bear Child and a black-clad girl attacked the Sea God’s descendant, they later approached Yun Ying, intending to take her Kun Wood.

• Yun Ying gave Yun Xi the Kun Wood leaf and advised her to cultivate in the Yang Extreme Cave and Mystic Ice Abyss, then left with the Purple Bamboo Sword.
• Yun Xi chose to visit the caves with her Divine Servants, while Yin Xue and Lian'er declined and went to consult Qing Yun and the others.
• Yun Ying meditated atop the Kunpeng Nest, drawing on the transformed sword’s Kun Wood power to contemplate the Dao.
• Bear Child struck the Sea God’s descendant with the God-Striking Stone and escaped with a black-clad girl as Yun Ying watched and recognized the stone.
• Days later, Bear Child and the black-clad girl sneaked onto the nest and discussed taking Yun Ying’s Kun Wood, though the girl worried about provoking someone so powerful.

Bear Child and the Black-Clothed Girl failed to rob Yun Ying, then became notorious bandits as the North Sea Kunpeng Nest drew powerful forces. Two years later, Yun Ying had defeated every group that came after her for the kun wood and was left undisturbed near the Nest.

• Bear Child hurled the God-Striking Stone at Yun Ying, but her sword energy knocked it away and sent it back to him in pain.
• Yun Ying woke and noticed Bear Child and the Black-Clothed Girl, who fled before she could confront them.
• Bear Child admitted the kun wood was his excuse for provoking Yun Ying, while the Black-Clothed Girl guessed he wanted her attention.
• Bear Child and the Black-Clothed Girl became bandits, even robbing the Flood Dragon Venerable's spirit body, as experts gathered outside the Kunpeng Nest.
• Over two years, Yun Ying killed those who sought her kun wood and once wiped out tens of thousands of attackers with a zither melody, frightening others away.

Two years later, Yun Ying transformed her bloodline while the Kunpeng Nest neared its opening. She arrived with Yun Xi at the gathered forces, where the Sea God's descendant blocked their path.

• Yun Xi found Yun Ying awakening a mysterious mark created by her bloodline's transformation through a secret art.
• Yun Ying reassured Yun Xi that they would always be sisters, and Yun Xi styled her hair into twin ponytails.
• Yun Ying and Yun Xi headed toward the Kunpeng Nest as the Primordial Sacred Mountain's forces gathered to enter it.
• The gathered creatures feared Yun Ying's strength, and Yin Xue, Lian'er, and the Divine Servants welcomed her arrival.
• The Sea God's descendant jumped down from the War Platform and confronted Yun Ying as members of the Sea God lineage followed.

Yun Ying faced a coalition of powerful sea races determined to force her out, while the Primordial Sacred Mountain’s fighters were blocked from helping. She unleashed Instant Ice Blossom, freezing the sea and most of the coalition’s forces, then raised an Ice Sword as sword qi descended on the surviving leaders.

• The Sea God's descendant Mo Shang, the Flamefish Tribe's leader, Han Tian, and other sea powers surrounded Yun Ying and demanded she withdraw.
• Allied figures prevented the Primordial Sacred Mountain from aiding Yun Ying and threatened them with violence if they intervened.
• Yun Ying refused to retreat and invoked “My sword is like frost-Instant Ice Blossom,” freezing the sea for dozens of li and trapping the coalition’s weaker fighters in ice.
• Yun Ying formed an Ice Sword, commanded it to fall, and sent a deluge of icy sword qi toward Mo Shang and the other surviving leaders.

Yun Ying crushed the sea race’s assault and forced the gathered heroes to abandon their attempt to stop the Primordial Sacred Mountains. After rejoining her allies, she learned that Qing Yun had been killed and eaten by Bear Child, while Qing Ming appeared to be seeking revenge.

• Yun Ying destroyed the frozen battlefield and scattered the attacking forces, leaving the assembled heroes unwilling to challenge her again.
• The Sea Demon Clan Venerable ended his cooperation with Mo Shang and the others, who returned to the reef to regroup before entering the Kunpeng Nest.
• Yun Ying and Yun Xi joined the forces of the Primordial Sacred Mountains, where Yun Ying said she would pursue the Kun Peng Precious Technique but did not care whether she obtained it.
• Qing Ming greeted Yun Ying, and Yin Xue and Lian'er teased him about his admiration for her.
• Yun Ying asked where Qing Yun was, and Yun Xi told her that Bear Child had killed and eaten him after Qing Yun provoked him.
• Qing Ming had come to avenge Qing Yun and settle accounts with Bear Child.

Bear Child arrived at the rocky island and defeated an Azure Sky Sacred Mountain servant and Qing Ming, establishing his strength as the Kunpeng Nest neared its opening. After provoking Qing Ming and noticing Yun Ying, Bear Child headed toward the people of Heavenly God Mountain.

• As the Kunpeng Nest's cracks grew brighter, Yun Xi defended Yun Ying's right to ignore Qing Ming, and the group waited for the nest to open.
• Bear Child emerged from the seabed, and Qing Ming and an Azure Sky Sacred Mountain servant confronted him over Qing Yun's death.
• Bear Child badly wounded the servant with his Kun Peng Precious Technique, then defeated Qing Ming and severed one of his wings before rescuers intervened.
• Bear Child learned that the sea-race group had lost people, then eyed Yun Ying and remarked that she was harder to catch than Yun Xi.
• Bear Child taunted the injured Qing Ming, who turned away rather than respond, and then walked toward the people of Heavenly God Mountain.

Yun Ying led the rush into the opened Kunpeng Nest and reached its deepest altar, where she found a rune-covered golden bone. The broken Heavenly Desolation gave no response as she approached, and the chapter ended with Yun Ying facing the bone on the central platform.

• Bear Child approached the Heavenly God Mountain group, teased Yun Xi, and asked Yun Ying about her hairstyle and bare feet.
• The Kunpeng Nest opened, and Yun Ying entered the Dao Arena ahead of the other cultivators.
• Yun Ying plunged into the golden divine sea and hurried through the Kun Peng Cave Abode while others fought over its treasures.
• Yun Ying reached the Ancient Altar, recognized Kun Peng's broken weapon Heavenly Desolation, and respectfully sought the ancient master's approval.
• Yun Ying climbed the altar without obstruction and found a golden, black-striped bone covered in runes on its central stone platform.

Yun Ying comprehended the incomplete legacy on Kun Peng's Original Talisman Bone while the other experts rushed to stop her and seize the treasures on the altar. She learned that the complete Kun Peng Precious Technique was hidden elsewhere as part of the trial, then left the talisman bone behind.

• Kun Peng's Original Talisman Bone manifested a vision, and Yun Ying held off its overwhelming pressure before reaching for it.
• Yun Ying broke through the bone's golden barrier and absorbed its runes as the Primordial Sacred Mountain experts and other cultivators arrived at the altar.
• The assembled experts tried to rush Yun Ying, but Heavenly Desolation and the other weapons on the altar blasted many of them apart.
• Yun Ying discovered that the talisman bone held less than a third of the legacy and that the complete Kun Peng Precious Technique had to be found elsewhere.
• Yun Ying withdrew her hand and walked away from Kun Peng's talisman bone.

Yun Ying finished comprehending the remaining portion of Kun Peng's incomplete inheritance and promised the Heavenly Desolation that she would protect its master's future inheritor when needed. She left the rune bone behind for the assembled cultivators, who immediately fought over it, while Qing Ming and others continued pressing her about the complete technique.

• The Heavenly Desolation praised Yun Ying and asked her to protect whoever inherited Kun Peng's legacy, and Yun Ying promised to help when necessary.
• Yun Ying told the cultivators that less than a third of Kun Peng's inheritance remained and invited them to examine the rune bone themselves.
• Yun Ying urged everyone to lay down their weapons and share the incomplete technique, then left the rune bone behind and walked away.
• The cultivators rushed to seize Kun Peng's rune bone, and a battle broke out over it.
• Yun Ying told Yun Xi and the Divine Servants of Heavenly God Mountain that she had already mastered the remaining inheritance and warned them about Kun Peng's karmic burden.
• Qing Ming and other sacred-mountain experts questioned Yun Ying about whether the complete Kun Peng Precious Technique remained.

Yun Ying gave up pursuing the complete Kun Peng Precious Technique and shared the runes she had learned with Heavenly God Mountain, while warning her servants that the other factions would fail to unite their talisman fragments. After the factions divided the Kun Peng Talisman Bone, Yun Xi finished memorizing Yun Ying’s runes and asked why she had abandoned the complete technique.

• Yun Ying told the gathered factions that the final trial would reveal the complete Kun Peng Precious Technique, then left with Yun Xi and the people from Heavenly God Mountain.
• On the reef, Yun Ying demonstrated the Kun Peng runes so Heavenly God Mountain could study them, and Yun Xi and the servants gained what insight they could.
• Yun Ying told the Divine Servants to report to her grandfather and prepare, warning that the factions inside would not obtain the complete technique; she refused an escort, saying no one there could harm her.
• The factions fought for several days and divided the cracked Kun Peng Talisman Bone into fragments, with each of the six major factions taking one.
• After several days, Yun Xi memorized all the runes and asked Yun Ying why she had given up on obtaining the complete Kun Peng Precious Technique.

Yun Ying and Yun Xi left the Kun Peng restricted zone as Venerables fought over the scattered pieces of the Kun Peng Talisman Bone, while Yun Canghai prepared to protect his granddaughters. Aboard the treasure ship, Yun Ying began breaking through to the Inscription Realm, and a mysterious purple-gold radiance appeared on her back.

• Yun Ying and Yun Xi left the underground cavern after groups carrying pieces of the Kun Peng Talisman Bone fled past them.
• Venerables fought above the North Sea over the talisman pieces, and Yun Canghai’s servants escorted Yun Ying and Yun Xi out of the restricted zone.
• Yun Canghai learned that Yun Ying had obtained nearly a third of the Kun Peng inheritance and brought out a Heavenly God artifact armguard to protect her and Yun Xi.
• Yun Ying boarded the treasure ship and began her breakthrough after leaving the restricted zone.
• Yun Ying’s divine power and sword aura surged as runes transformed her body, and a purple-gold radiance appeared on her back.

Yun Ying awakened and began evolving the Celestial Clan’s bloodline mark before successfully breaking through to the middle stage of the Inscription Realm. The battle for the Kun Peng Talisman Bone ended with heavy losses and the Primordial Sacred Mountains claiming the greatest gains, while Yun Ying returned to Heavenly God Mountain.

• A heavenly mark appeared on Yun Ying’s back and forced everyone nearby to their knees, and Yun Xi warned the servants to keep the Celestial Clan’s bloodline power secret.
• After two days, Yun Ying completed her breakthrough, leaping to the middle stage of the Inscription Realm, and learned that Venerables had fallen in the battle outside.
• Qing Ming, Yin Xue, and the others returned with heavy casualties, and Yin Xue told Yun Xi that Lian'er had died in the Venerables’ clash.
• The sacred mountain alliance withdrew from the North Sea, and the Golden-Winged Roc bought the Kun Peng Talisman Bone from the other sacred mountains in exchange for heavenly treasures.
• Yun Ying returned to Heavenly God Mountain as news spread across the Desolate Region that the Primordial Sacred Mountains had won the largest share of the Kun Peng Precious Technique.

Yun Ying and Yun Xi discussed marriage proposals and whether Bear Child had survived the Demon Transformation Cave, then Yun Ying played the zither for her sister. The chapter ended with Yun Ying meditating beside Heavenly God Mountain’s Sacred Medicine, the Soul-Attracting Lotus.

• People praised Yun Ying’s power in the North Sea and spread rumors that Bear Child had died in the Demon Transformation Cave.
• Yun Xi visited Yun Ying and complained that several families had come to propose marriage.
• Yun Ying said she was unlikely to fall for anyone, while Yun Xi denied having feelings for Bear Child despite believing he had survived.
• Yun Ying played the Purple Bamboo Zither for Yun Xi, filling the forest with pear blossoms and a life-renewing atmosphere.
• Yun Ying sat meditating beside the Soul-Attracting Lotus in Heavenly God Mountain’s innermost grounds.

Yun Ying completed her sword soul refinement and traveled with Yun Xi and other sacred-mountain youths to the Stone Kingdom Imperial Capital for the Stone Emperor’s birthday banquet. There, she heard about Shi Hao’s upheavals in the capital but remained detached, saying she could not judge his experiences.

• Yun Ying endured the Great Dao symbols branding her sword soul until it gained a purple, metallic form, and her injuries healed as her aura settled into harmony with heaven and earth.
• Yun Xi told Yun Ying that Heavenly God Mountain had been invited to the Stone Emperor’s birthday banquet, and Yun Ying agreed to accompany her.
• Yun Ying, Yun Xi, Yin Xue, and other young people from the sacred mountains traveled by war chariot to the Stone Kingdom Imperial Capital, where an imperial-clan member welcomed them.
• Yun Ying and her companions heard that the Great Demon God had defeated the Martial King and Rain King, while Bear Child was revealed to be Shi Hao, the Great Demon God’s grandson whose Supreme Bone had been stolen.
• Yin Xue told Yun Ying about the recent events, and Yun Ying said she had no particular opinion of Bear Child because she could not truly understand what he had experienced.

Yun Ying attended the Stone Emperor’s birthday banquet with Yun Xi and Yin Xue, drawing awe from the gathered cultivators with her beauty and mysterious state of unity between heaven and man. While she waited alone at the banquet, Shi Hao arrived and greeted her, leaving onlookers stunned by their familiarity and her smile.

• Yin Xue teased Yun Ying about the attention she would attract at the Stone Emperor’s birthday banquet, but Yun Ying showed little reaction.
• Yun Ying and the other guests from the Primordial Sacred Mountain entered the imperial palace, where cultivators noticed that she seemed to remain in the state of unity between heaven and man.
• At the Central Heavenly Palace, Yun Ying’s presence captivated the banquet guests, while Yun Xi and Yin Xue went to greet acquaintances and left her by a jade table.
• Shi Hao arrived with a winged gray wolf cub on his shoulder, greeted Yun Ying familiarly, and sat beside her.
• Yun Ying recognized him as Shi Hao, and her smile left him and nearby onlookers momentarily overwhelmed.

Shi Hao reunited with Yun Ying at the banquet and learned that her cultivation and bloodline had advanced remarkably. Yun Ying defended him from the Primordial Sacred Mountain youths, and the chapter ended with Shi Hao eating noisily beside Yun Ying and Yun Xi at the birthday banquet.

• The Wolf Pup jumped into Yun Ying's arms, and Shi Hao asked about her cultivation, sensing that she had reached the king marquis level and gained an aura of unity with heaven.
• Little Tower told Shi Hao that Yun Ying's bloodline had undergone ancestral reversion and teased him about marrying her, but Shi Hao dismissed the idea.
• Youths from the Primordial Sacred Mountain confronted Shi Hao for sitting with Yun Ying, but she ordered them to stop and drove them away despite Venerable Qingtian's command.
• The birthday banquet began, and Yun Xi and the others returned to find Shi Hao at Yun Ying's table.
• Shi Hao helped himself to the food, while Yun Xi scolded him for eating noisily and embarrassing everyone at the table.

At the Stone Emperor’s birthday banquet, Shi Hao defeated a golden spider from Demon Spirit Lake and roasted its legs, provoking the spider’s Venerable. The Stone Emperor intervened and ordered any fight to take place at the Military Drill Ground.

• Shi Hao ate through most of the banquet’s food, and Huo Ling’er noticed that the little wolf cub carried a woman’s fragrance.
• A Golden-Haired Youth from Demon Spirit Lake accused Shi Hao of imprisoning his younger clansman, a Primordial Demon Spider, and challenged him.
• Shi Hao mocked the Golden-Haired Youth and followed him to the Martial Arts Arena to fight.
• Shi Hao subdued the golden spider despite his lower cultivation, then roasted its legs before the gathered guests.
• The Venerable of Demon Spirit Lake attacked Shi Hao, but the arena’s formation blocked the strike.
• Shi Hao asked the Stone Emperor for permission to fight the Venerable, and the Stone Emperor ordered them to settle the dispute at the Military Drill Ground.