Chapter Summaries

At the Stone Emperor’s birthday banquet, Shi Hao summoned a terrifying red-haired whirlwind that killed the Venerables from Demon Spirit Lake and Azure Sky Sacred Mountain, earning him the title Wild Heaven Heavenly Marquis. As Yun Ying warned him that power and ambition could be beyond his control, she revealed a strange vision formed from wine.

• Shi Hao entered the Military Drill Ground and challenged the Venerables from Demon Spirit Lake and Azure Sky Sacred Mountain to attack together.
• Shi Hao summoned battle souls, and a red-haired whirlwind swept up the two Venerables and made them vanish.
• The whirlwind dispersed, leaving Shi Hao alone, and the crowd realized he had killed both Venerables.
• The Stone Emperor bestowed wine and named Shi Hao the Wild Heaven Heavenly Marquis.
• Shi Hao told Huo Ling'er that the Ancient Heroic Spirit seniors of his Supreme Hall had helped him, while Yun Ying warned him that events could lie beyond his control.
• Yun Ying lifted wine into the air, formed a vision of mountains, rivers, and a sword-dancing figure, then let it shatter into crystalline petals.

After Yun Ying revealed that she had comprehended her own Dao, Shi Hao learned she was already in the late stage of the Inscription Realm. Months later, Yun Ying transformed her entire body and spirit into a divine sword, astonishing Yun Canghai with her power.

• Yun Ying asked Shi Hao about his Dao, then left the banquet while manifesting sword blossoms that contained different powers of heaven and earth.
• Little Tower praised Yun Ying for comprehending her own Dao and told Shi Hao she had reached the late stage of the Inscription Realm.
• Yun Ying returned to Heavenly God Mountain and devoted herself to cultivation for several months.
• Yun Ying's flesh, bones, organs, and spirit transformed into a divine sword, unleashing sword energy that shattered the surrounding void.
• Yun Canghai arrived and realized Yun Ying had reached the Array Formation Realm and become powerful enough to threaten even a Venerable.

Yun Ying reached the Array Formation Realm and displayed a profound understanding of Sword Dao before agreeing to watch Shi Hao and Shi Yi’s decisive battle. At the crowded Sky Battlefield, the girls’ arrival drew attention, while the leaders of Roc Sacred Mountain and Taotie Sacred Mountain tried to arrange introductions with their grandsons; Yun Canghai left the choice to Yun Ying and Yun Xi.

• Yun Canghai visited Yun Ying after her breakthrough and learned that her transformation into a sword had come from her Sword Dao attainment.
• Yun Canghai told Yun Ying that Shi Hao and Shi Yi would fight on the Sky Battlefield in the Void God Realm in two days, and she agreed to observe.
• Yun Ying and Yun Xi arrived at the crowded Void God Realm surrounded by phantom Sword Blossoms that revealed Yun Ying’s growing mastery of Sword Dao.
• Jin Luantian and the Taotie Clan chief suggested that their grandsons meet Yun Ying and Yun Xi, but Yun Canghai said the girls should decide for themselves.

Shi Hao and Shi Yi fought on the Sky Battlefield, where Shi Hao won after Shi Yi’s attack awakened the Supreme Bone within him. Gravely wounded afterward, Shi Hao faced a crowd coveting the Bronze Book Fragments awarded to him.

• Shi Yi arrived with Demon Spirit Lake, and Yun Xi wondered whether Shi Hao could defeat him.
• Shi Hao appeared through a passage of his own, and the Domain Envoy brought both young men to the Sky Battlefield.
• Shi Hao and Shi Yi fought a fierce duel, which ended when Shi Yi’s attack awakened Shi Hao’s reborn Supreme Bone and led to Shi Yi’s defeat and death.
• Demon Spirit Lake tried to interfere, but the Domain Envoy killed many of its people with a palm strike.
• Three Bronze Book Fragments fell before the gravely injured Shi Hao, drawing the crowd’s attention and leaving him vulnerable.

Jinbe arrived on the Sky Battlefield and tried to recruit Shi Hao before attacking Yun Ying with six precious techniques. Yun Ying cut them apart with her peerless sword intent, setting a record equal to the ancient gods and leaving Jinbe wary.

• Jinbe descended to the Sky Battlefield and offered Shi Hao a place as his battle general, hoping to obtain his Kun Peng Precious Technique and Bronze Book Fragment.
• Jinbe noticed Yun Ying and Yun Xi, declared his interest in Yun Ying, and attacked her with six linked precious techniques as she turned to leave.
• Yun Ying raised her sword fingers and shattered all six techniques, opening a vast fissure in the void.
• Record Steles across the Void God Realm announced that Yun Ying's peerless sword intent was equal to the ancient gods.
• Jinbe laughed at Yun Ying's sword intent, though he grew wary, while the spectators struggled to recover from its terrifying edge.

Yun Ying inscribed her name on the Record Stele and gave Shi Hao a Bronze Book Fragment, bringing him one fragment away from completing the set. After Yun Ying left, a displeased young man summoned Yue Chan and the gathered experts discussed Yun Ying’s extraordinary strength.

• Yun Ying inscribed the character for “Yun” on the Record Stele and received a Bronze Book Fragment.
• Yun Ying sent the fragment to Shi Hao, who realized it was his ninth, and told him not to die because he owed her a favor.
• Shi Hao teased Yun Ying about liking him, drawing a warning from Yun Xi and ridicule from the crowd.
• A young man confronted Shi Hao before calling Yue Chan to appear.
• The Demoness and a middle-aged man in white discussed how Yun Ying had transformed through her own power and might become a young supreme.

Yun Ying and Yun Xi discussed the approaching calamity and the mystery surrounding the peacock as upheaval spread through the Desolate Region. A year later, they learned Shi Hao had appeared in the Fire Kingdom and set out to find him and ask him to return the peacock.

• Yun Ying told Yun Xi that a great calamity threatened the Desolate Region and that Heavenly God Mountain's incomplete formation offered their only hope.
• Yun Xi explained her original purpose in visiting the Hundred Broken Mountains, and Yun Ying warned her not to trust the accusations against the peacock without hearing the truth from Yun Canghai.
• In the Void God Realm, the mysterious young man destroyed the Domain Envoy with an incomplete Chaos Artifact, seized divine spirit imprints, and fled when a Domain Lord descended to punish him.
• After Shi Yi's death, factions fought over his body until a mysterious Gray-Clad Woman carried it away from Demon Spirit Lake.
• A year later, Yun Xi told Yun Ying that Shi Hao had appeared in the Fire Kingdom, and the sisters left to find him and claim the peacock.

Yun Ying and Yun Xi traveled from Heavenly God Mountain to the Fire Kingdom to seek rare formation materials and attend Huo Ling'er's gathering, where they hoped to learn whether Shi Hao had appeared. They arrived at the Royal Villa and began seeking trades, but had not yet found Shi Hao or the materials they needed.

• Yun Canghai told Yun Ying and Yun Xi to bring precious medicines to the Fire Kingdom and trade for formation materials, explaining that they would learn about the peacock when they met him.
• Yun Ying and Yun Xi arrived in the Fire Kingdom after the Princess announced a banquet for powerful figures from beyond the region, and Yun Xi believed Huo Ling'er had organized it because Shi Hao might be nearby.
• Yun Ying, Yun Xi, and their companions entered the Royal Villa through its Minor Teleportation Formation, drawing attention from local cultivators and visitors from beyond the region.
• Yun Xi searched the gathering for Shi Hao, but Yun Ying said he would likely be in disguise and teased Yun Xi about her feelings for him.
• Yun Xi told the assembled Pureblood Creatures and foreign experts that Heavenly God Mountain wanted to exchange precious medicines for valuable artifact-forging materials.

Yun Ying appeared at a confrontation involving Shi Hao and the outside-region experts, recognizing him beneath his disguised appearance. Her mastery of the Sword Dao intimidated the Array Formation Realm kings and halted their pressure on him.

• Yun Xi traded for high-grade artifact-refining materials as a rune-lit arena appeared and the Nine-Headed Lion and a crow killed their outside-region opponents.
• News spread that Little Stone had arrived, and Yun Xi and Yun Ying went to the courtyard where experts confronted a young man.
• Yun Xi suspected the young man was Shi Hao, and Yun Ying recognized his origin despite his disguised appearance.
• Little Tower praised Yun Ying's attainment of returning to the unadorned truth and explained her profound dedication to the Sword Dao.
• Yun Ying asked Huo Ling'er what had happened, then called the confrontation a mere war of words, warning the kings that further attacks would make it serious.

Shi Hao faced the Flame Python Clan, Black Cloud Clan, Fire Bull Clan, and Immortal Mountain after they came seeking revenge, but Yun Ying declined to protect him. Shi Hao killed the Fire Bull Clan king with one punch, and Qin Shoucheng brought out the Five Elements Ring to subdue him before Yun Ying revealed her own five-elements sword power.

• Qin Chao arrived with Immortal Mountain's cultivators and demanded that Elder Shoucheng kill Shi Hao, while Yun Ying left Shi Hao to face the clans himself.
• The Fire Bull Clan king attacked Shi Hao, who blew him apart with a single punch and revealed that he was a king.
• Shi Hao challenged the Flame Python Clan and Black Cloud Clan kings, then rejected Qin Shoucheng's demand to apologize and return to Immortal Mountain.
• Qin Shoucheng summoned the Five Elements Ring, sealing the courtyard and immobilizing everyone inside.
• Yun Ying raised her hand and manifested five sword-like fingers with five-elements power, astonishing Qin Shoucheng.

Yun Ying effortlessly suppressed and shattered Immortal Mountain’s Five Elements Ring, while Shi Hao killed the kings of the Flame Python Clan and the Black Cloud Clan. He then pursued the fleeing Immortal Mountain group and slaughtered them all, leaving his conflict with Immortal Mountain beyond repair.

• Yun Ying trapped Qin Shoucheng’s Five Elements Ring in her hand and shattered it, destroying the divine sense inside.
• The crowd marveled at Yun Ying’s strength, while Shi Hao reflected on how her Sword Dao differed from the technique he had learned.
• Shi Hao killed the kings of the Flame Python Clan and the Black Cloud Clan after they tried to flee.
• Shi Hao confronted the Immortal Mountain group, and Qin Shoucheng fled with Qin Chao while the others ran.
• Shi Hao pursued the Immortal Mountain group with the Kun Peng Precious Technique and killed every one of them.

Yun Xi and Yun Ying told Shi Hao that their clan needed the peacock egg, Baldy, to survive an approaching calamity, and offered to help him and his clansmen escape to the Upper Realm. Shi Hao agreed to let them speak with Baldy at his village, leaving his companions to tease him over his apparent intentions toward the two women.

• After the battle, Yun Ying reminded Shi Hao that he owed her a favor, and Yun Xi asked him to return Baldy, the peacock egg from the Hundred Broken Mountains.
• Yun Xi explained in a soundproofed formation that a great calamity threatened beings below the Venerable Realm and revealed that the Eight Regions were the lower realm beneath the Upper Realm.
• Yun Xi offered to help Shi Hao and his clansmen escape, and Shi Hao said she and Yun Ying could try to persuade Baldy themselves at his village.
• Yun Xi and Yun Ying left to trade for materials, while the others teased Shi Hao for supposedly luring them home to guard his village.
• Shi Hao shouted after the women, asking Yun Ying to answer the question he had asked her earlier in the Void God Realm.

Shi Hao joked about pursuing Yun Ying, angering Yun Xi, while the twins reunited with the Golden-Winged Roc brothers during a trade for artifact-forging materials. Yun Ying accepted Jin Yunxiao’s offer to brew tea after they returned to the sacred mountain, while Jin Yunteng remained unable to get closer to Yun Xi.

• Shi Hao hinted that he wanted to pursue Yun Ying, and Yun Xi angrily pulled her sister away from him.
• Yun Xi warned Yun Ying that Shi Hao was interested in her, but Yun Ying dismissed his teasing and agreed to listen to her sister.
• Yun Xi and Yun Ying traded with Jin Yunteng and Jin Yunxiao, who offered them rare artifact-forging materials.
• Jin Yunxiao invited Yun Ying to drink tea, and she agreed to let him invite her after they returned to the sacred mountain.
• Jin Yunteng watched his brother succeed in inviting Yun Ying while Yun Xi continued to keep her distance from him.

Shi Hao bought spirit medicines in Medicine Capital and refined them to advance his cultivation, but a supreme elder of the Divine Medicine Sect arrived to seize his golden pills. The chapter ended as Lin Kun attacked Shi Hao, reaching for both pills.

• Yun Ying and her companions finished trading medicines and sent their clansmen back to Heavenly God Mountain while she, Yun Xi, and Shi Hao went to Medicine Capital.
• Shi Hao asked the Nine-Headed Lion and the others to buy spirit medicines for him, and Yun Ying revealed that she had reached the late stage of the Array Formation Realm.
• After nearly a full day of purchases, Shi Hao rented a courtyard, tempered himself in a Medicine Cauldron, and advanced to the middle stage of the Array Formation Realm.
• Shi Hao refined two golden pills from the remaining medicinal potency and offered them to Yun Ying and the others, who refused them.
• Lin Kun, a supreme elder of the Divine Medicine Sect, demanded one pill as compensation and then conjured a huge earthen-yellow hand to take both pills.

Shi Hao shattered Lin Kun’s hand, but a mysterious inscription made the Divine Medicine Sect elder invulnerable, and the Gray-Clad Woman summoned Shi Hao away after recognizing the black broken sword. Yun Ying and the others waited at the hill’s foot while Lin Kun, realizing Shi Hao might return alive, begged Yun Ying to help save him.

• Shi Hao punched apart Lin Kun’s enormous hand, and Lin Kun apologized before returning with protection from a powerful written character.
• Shi Hao drew the black broken sword, which brought the Gray-Clad Woman; she summoned him to a low hill on a golden road of light.
• Yun Ying sensed that the Gray-Clad Woman had grown weary, while Lin Kun mocked Yun Ying until the others identified her as the Sword Immortal Maiden.
• Yun Ying explained to Yun Xi, Huo Ling'er, and the others that the Gray-Clad Woman’s long life had likely made her weary as they went to wait below the hill.
• Lin Kun rushed to Yun Ying and begged her to persuade Shi Hao to spare his life when he returned.

Yun Ying arranged for Lin Kun to compensate Shi Hao, who received four Strange Medicines and clues to an Imperial Butterfly. Shi Hao obtained the butterfly larva and left with Yun Ying and the others for Stone Village after provoking Yun Xi and Huo Ling'er.

• Yun Ying stopped Lin Kun from kneeling and persuaded Shi Hao to accept compensation for Lin Kun's offense.
• Lin Kun gave Shi Hao four Strange Medicines and clues to the Imperial Butterfly in exchange for sparing him.
• Yun Ying and the others found the Imperial Butterfly larva sealed in a Divine Ice Jar beneath the Gray-Clad Woman's mountain, and Shi Hao took it.
• Shi Hao tried to persuade Yun Ying and Yun Xi to help raise the larva, then angered Yun Xi and Huo Ling'er with his teasing.
• Shi Hao led Yun Ying and the others toward Stone Village.

Shi Hao brought Yun Ying and the others to Stone Village, where Yun Ying recognized a kindred spirit in the Willow Deity. After they shared a vision of their Dao and learned about each other, they parted with mutual understanding.

• Shi Hao led Yun Ying and the others to Stone Village and introduced its sacred willow as the Sacrificial Spirit.
• Shi Hao carried Huo Ling'er and Yun Xi into the village while Yun Ying stayed behind to gaze at the willow.
• Yun Ying and the Willow Deity sensed that they shared a familiar aura and sat down to meet face-to-face.
• Yun Ying and the Willow Deity exchanged Great Dao symbols, manifesting as a towering willow and an unrivaled immortal sword.
• Yun Ying revealed that she had been a man in her previous mortal life, and the Willow Deity recognized her exceptional state of mind and shared pursuit of the Dao.

Yun Ying and the Willow Deity shared a heartfelt conversation about the Dao before Yun Ying played a zither melody that moved the villagers and helped them comprehend the Great Dao. After the performance, Baldy arrived and told Yun Xi and Yun Ying to stay and become someone’s wives.

• Yun Ying and the Willow Deity praised each other’s paths and lamented that the coming calamity might keep them apart.
• Yun Ying played the Willow Deity a melody on her purple zither, and Great Dao Symbols appeared as the music resonated through the village.
• Yun Xi, Shi Hao, the Nine-Headed Lion, and the villagers listened to Yun Ying’s music and gained insights into the Dao.
• The villagers mistook Yun Ying for another woman involved with Shi Hao, prompting Huo Ling'er and Yun Xi to glare at him.
• Baldy arrived, rejected Yun Xi’s request to return to Heavenly God Mountain, and told Yun Xi and Yun Ying to stay and become someone’s wives.