Chapter Summaries

Ye Chen searched the Grand Exchange Hall for a fist art and bought the Five Peaks Divine Fist along with a mysterious fragment called Dragon Elephant. Three days later, as he tried to leave Martial City in disguise, Yuan Zongbo and the Wolfhead Mountain Three Brothers prepared to intercept him.

• Ye Chen searched the Grand Exchange Hall for a fist art after his fight with Ghost Elder had left him without a weapon, but another martial artist bought the Three-Colored Fire Fist he considered.
• Ye Chen discovered a fragment of a fist art marked as an Earth-grade Top-tier fragment and learned from its seller that it had come from the corpse of a powerful expert on Star Domain Lake.
• Ye Chen recognized the fragment’s surviving moves as a likely high-grade Dragon Elephant fist art and bargained the gray-haired seller down to 100,000 Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Ye Chen also bought the Five Peaks Divine Fist for 210,000 Low-Grade Spirit Stones and returned to his cultivation room.
• Three days later, Yuan Zongbo spotted Ye Chen sneaking toward the city gate and rallied Mister Jin and the Wolfhead Mountain Three Brothers to stop him and take his low-grade treasure sword.

Ye Chen lured Yuan Zongbo, Mister Jin, and the Wolfhead Mountain Three Brothers into a forest, then used his swordsmanship to kill the three brothers. He took Third Brother’s Storage Spirit Ring and headed to confront Yuan Zongbo and Mister Jin, who were racing toward him unaware of what had happened.

• Ye Chen entered the forest and split an afterimage from his true body, prompting Yuan Zongbo and Mister Jin to pursue one figure while the Wolfhead Mountain Three Brothers chased the other.
• Wolfhead Mountain’s Third Brother struck Ye Chen’s afterimage with a throwing star, and the brothers realized they had been chasing a fake.
• Ye Chen ambushed Wolfhead Mountain’s Second Brother and killed him with one sword, then killed the eldest brother when he attacked.
• Third Brother fled using Ghost Shadow Step, but Ye Chen caught up and killed him with Lone Peak Annihilation, then took his Storage Spirit Ring.
• Ye Chen sensed Yuan Zongbo and Mister Jin approaching, while Mister Jin felt uneasy but continued toward him with Yuan Zongbo.

Ye Chen pursued Yuan Zongbo after killing Mister Jin, but Yuan used blood-restoring medicine and the Lesser Bloodfiend Disintegration Art to keep fighting and escape. After Yuan swallowed a Thousand-Year Blood Ganoderma and released eighty percent of the art, he transformed the forest around them into a deadly blood field as the battle reached its climax.

• Ye Chen ambushed and killed Mister Jin, then pursued Yuan Zongbo as he fled toward Martial City.
• Ye Chen used Heart-Piercing Sword and Void Piercing Finger to bring Yuan down and disrupt his escape, while Yuan used blood-colored medicine and the Lesser Bloodfiend Disintegration Art to keep running.
• Ye Chen struck Yuan with Heart-Piercing Sword and severed his left arm, forcing Yuan to abandon his flight.
• Yuan swallowed a Thousand-Year Blood Ganoderma and threatened to kill Ye Chen rather than keep fleeing.
• Yuan released eighty percent of the Lesser Bloodfiend Disintegration Art, causing the surrounding trees to collapse and the ground to turn into a blood field.

Ye Chen fought Yuan Zongbo, whose Lesser Bloodfiend Disintegration Art amplified his power but left him unable to control it. Ye Chen defeated him with a close-range strike, and the chapter ended with Yuan Zongbo’s body collapsing from the art’s backlash.

• Yuan Zongbo unleashed the Lesser Bloodfiend Disintegration Art, and Ye Chen found that his ranged attacks could not break through its blood-light defense.
• Yuan Zongbo attacked with Blood Light Break, but Ye Chen blocked it with Heaven Shattering Clouds, his newly fused sword move.
• Yuan Zongbo followed with Three Blood Eagle Swords, and Ye Chen used the clash to transform the Fire Dragon Fruit’s remaining spiritual qi into Origin Energy.
• Ye Chen charged Yuan Zongbo with True Qi afterimages and pierced his forehead with the Star Scar Sword.
• Yuan Zongbo shriveled and died as the Lesser Bloodfiend Disintegration Art’s backlash consumed his blood, while Ye Chen regretted the lost Thousand-Year Blood Ganoderma.

Ye Chen escaped notice after killing Yuan Zongbo and the others, then returned to Martial City to cultivate with their seized wealth. He advanced the Floating Luo Three Profound Secrets and learned the first style of the Five Peaks Divine Fist, though he had not yet mastered it.

• Ye Chen fled into the forest with Yuan Zongbo's Storage Spirit Ring, and Boss Hu warned his companions not to pursue him or take Yuan Zongbo's sword.
• Ye Chen recovered Mister Jin's Storage Spirit Ring, returned to Martial City in disguise, and rented a mid-tier cultivation room.
• Ye Chen counted the spoils and decided to learn the Lesser Bloodfiend Disintegration Art later, while prioritizing the Floating Luo Three Profound Secrets and the Five Peaks Divine Fist.
• On the tenth day, Ye Chen reached the second level of the Floating Luo Three Profound Secrets, raising the Shadow Splitter Lightness Skill to Earth-grade High-tier and greatly increasing his speed.
• Ye Chen learned force gathering and force release for the Five Peaks Divine Fist's first style, Five Peaks Coalescing Form, and struck a deep dent into a Training Post.
• After a month of cultivation, Ye Chen had not reached major success with the first style, but its fist force had already surpassed the Hegemon Fist.

Ye Chen traveled toward Star Domain Lake and discovered a Wang Family plot to kill a youth in black whose bloodline could let him inherit the main family’s power. After the attackers revealed the youth’s five-headed serpent mark and overpowered his protector, Ye Chen intervened with Sword Qi.

• Ye Chen struck the Training Post with the Five Peaks Divine Fist and left Martial City at great speed.
• At an inn, Uncle Zhou warned the youth in black that the Star Domain Lake Wang Family’s descendants might target him, while Elder Liu and a lean middle-aged man plotted to kill him.
• Ye Chen continued toward Star Domain Lake and passed through barren mountains, where Elder Liu’s group stopped Uncle Zhou and the youth in black on the road.
• Three reinforcements arrived, and the shriveled old man tore away the youth’s clothing to inspect the five-headed serpent mark on his torso.
• Uncle Zhou attacked after Elder Liu announced they would eliminate the pair, but the old man wounded him and reached for the youth.
• Ye Chen fired Sword Qi at the old man, forcing him to retreat and carving a vast scar into the road.

Ye Chen rescued Wang She and Uncle Zhou from Wang Family pursuers, defeating them with his fist arts and sword. After receiving a Blood Yang Flower and learning the Star Domain Lake Wang Family might cultivate more, Ye Chen agreed to escort them to Coiling Serpent Island, suspecting Wang She and his family concealed unusual secrets.

• Ye Chen pulled Wang She from the pursuers and killed the lean middle-aged man with a punch.
• Ye Chen defeated Elder Liu and the two burly men, then escaped the old man's Snake King Bind and killed him and the three fleeing survivors.
• Uncle Zhou thanked Ye Chen with a three-hundred-year Blood Yang Flower, which Ye Chen accepted.
• Uncle Zhou told Ye Chen that he and Wang She were traveling to the Wang Family on Coiling Serpent Island, and Ye Chen agreed to escort them in exchange for help finding Blood Yang Flowers.
• Wang She asked about Ye Chen's cultivation, and Ye Chen sensed a mysterious aura from the Five-Headed Serpent tattoo on Wang She.

While traveling to Coiling Serpent Island, Ye Chen protected the ship from a Three-Headed Serpent and met its owner, Wang Mei, who shared an unusual aura with Wang She. Wang Mei took the injured serpent away, while Wang She’s bloodline stirred and his Five-Headed Serpent tattoo blinked.

• Wang She told Ye Chen about his Five-Headed Serpent tattoo and his Two-Headed Serpent, Little Black, before Uncle Zhou warned him not to reveal more Wang Family secrets.
• A Three-Headed Serpent attacked the ship, and Wang She approached it peacefully, believing serpent-type Demonic Beasts would not harm him.
• Ye Chen intervened when the serpent struck Wang She, then fought it with the Star Scar Sword and drove it back across the lake.
• Wang Mei arrived and asked Ye Chen to spare the Three-Headed Serpent, which she said she had failed to keep watch over.
• Wang Mei treated the serpent’s wounds and departed, while Wang She watched her leave as his bloodline surged and his Five-Headed Serpent tattoo blinked.

Ye Chen reached major completion in the first move of the Five Peaks Divine Fist and accompanied Wang She to Coiling Serpent Island, where Wang She sought to inherit the main branch’s bloodline power. After Wang Ping ordered Fourth Granduncle to kill Ye Chen, Ye Chen fought back and pursued the old man into the street, leaving their clash underway.

• Ye Chen completed the first move of the Five Peaks Divine Fist and learned that he could now cultivate its next moves.
• Ye Chen and Wang She arrived at Coiling Serpent Island, where Wang She and Uncle Zhou went to meet the main branch while Ye Chen stayed nearby.
• Wang Ping learned that two Five-Headed Serpent bloodlines would take the forbidden-ground slots and ordered Fourth Granduncle to kill Wang She and Ye Chen.
• Fourth Granduncle ambushed Ye Chen in his restaurant room, but Ye Chen broke through his attacks and blasted him through a wall into the street.
• Ye Chen chased Fourth Granduncle and launched a punch at him as Wang Family patrollers gathered around them.

Ye Chen fought the Wang Family’s defenders on Coiling Serpent Island and killed the Fourth Master and four martial artists despite their attempts to stall for reinforcements. The Wang Family’s Third Grand Aunt arrived with a Three-Headed Serpent phantom and threatened to capture him, leaving Ye Chen facing a powerful new opponent.

• Three Late Primal Origin Realm martial artists joined the Wang Family’s Fourth Master, but Ye Chen wounded them with Five Peaks Coalescing Form.
• Ye Chen killed three of the four men in succession, ignoring their pleas and the onlookers’ warnings about the Wang Family’s experts.
• Ye Chen broke through the short, thin old man’s defenses and killed him just as the Wang Family’s Third Grand Aunt arrived.
• The Wang Family’s Third Grand Aunt summoned a Three-Headed Serpent phantom and demanded that Ye Chen surrender or face her capture.

Ye Chen fought Wang Fang, whose Three-Headed Serpent phantom made her exceptionally difficult to defeat, and wounded her twice after fusing the twelfth move into Lone Peak Annihilation. When Wang Heng arrived with a stronger Four-Headed Serpent phantom, Ye Chen withdrew and later prepared to use the Sword-Shaped Grass and Battle King's Sword to advance his Sword Intent.

• Ye Chen refused Wang Fang's defensive treasure, then fought off her rapid palm strikes with his sword techniques.
• Ye Chen fused the twelfth move into Lone Peak Annihilation and pierced Wang Fang's shoulder twice, but the Three-Headed Serpent phantom repeatedly blocked his attacks.
• Wang Fang unleashed Black Snake Shadow-Chasing Wave, and Ye Chen escaped its serpent-shaped Qi Force using Shadow Burst.
• Wang Heng arrived with a Four-Headed Serpent phantom, and Ye Chen retreated before the Wang Family Patriarch could engage him.
• On an uninhabited island in Star Domain Lake, Ye Chen took out the Sword-Shaped Grass and Battle King's Sword to cultivate his Sword Intent.

Wang Heng punished Wang Fang and ordered the family to find Ye Chen without acting rashly, while Ye Chen used the Battle King's Sword to study Sword Intent on the Uninhabited Island. As Wang Heng and Wang Fang approached the island, Ye Chen broke through to seventy percent Sword Intent.

• Wang Heng learned that Fourth Brother had died after trying to kill Ye Chen, ordered Wang Ping’s arm cut off, and confined Wang Fang for a year.
• Wang Heng sent elders to locate Ye Chen and ordered them to report back rather than confront him on their own.
• Ye Chen studied the Sword Intent left by the Battle King's Sword on a rock wall and realized his Sword Intent had reached sixty percent.
• Ye Chen used a second Sword-Shaped Grass to carve another sword scar and continued comprehending its Sword Intent through the night.
• Wang Heng and Wang Fang followed the powerful Sword Intent to the Uninhabited Island, where Ye Chen announced that he had reached seventy percent Sword Intent.

Ye Chen broke through to seventy-percent Sword Intent, greatly increasing his power and frightening Wang Heng and Wang Fang into retreat. After returning to the inn, he received three Blood Yang Flowers from Uncle Zhou and decided to visit the Wang Family to seek older ones.

• Ye Chen reached seventy-percent Sword Intent, completed the fusion of two sword techniques, and gained a trace of Undying Intent.
• Wang Heng and Wang Fang saw Ye Chen's sword strike and fled; Ye Chen chose not to pursue them because destroying the Wang Family could harm Wang She.
• Wang Heng ordered the Wang Family not to disturb Ye Chen after learning he had returned to the inn.
• Ye Chen reassured the frightened inn staff and waited for news about the Blood Yang Flower.
• Uncle Zhou brought Ye Chen three Blood Yang Flowers, and Ye Chen decided to visit the Wang Family to obtain thousand-year flowers.

Ye Chen settled his dispute with the Wang Family by collecting Blood Yang Flowers, including a hidden three-thousand-year specimen, and gave Wang Heng a treasure blade in return. As a golden flame crossed the sky, Wang Heng identified the Fire Spirit Prince and reminded Ye Chen that the Hidden Dragon Rankings competition was about to begin; Ye Chen said he would participate.

• Ye Chen confronted Wang Heng over his sister's attempt to kill him, and Wang Heng admitted the Wang Family could not protect her and offered compensation.
• Wang Heng led Ye Chen to the Wang Family flower garden, where Ye Chen collected three thousand-year Blood Yang Flowers and twenty-six Blood Yang Flowers over eight hundred years old.
• Ye Chen sensed unusual energy beneath the flower bed and uncovered a three-thousand-year Blood Yang Flower; he gave Wang Heng a Low-Grade Treasure Blade and a piece of rootstock in exchange for it.
• Wang Heng gave Ye Chen nutrient solution for preserving the rare flower and warned him that the Hidden Dragon Rankings competition was near.
• Wang Heng identified a golden figure in the sky as the Fire Spirit Prince, and Ye Chen declared that he would participate in the competition.

Ye Chen secluded himself on Coiling Serpent Island and broke through to the eleventh level of the Grand Dark Art, advancing to the Late Primal Origin Realm and beginning to refine a drop of True Essence. He then resumed practicing his sword moves, focusing on the unfinished potential of Lone Peak Annihilation and Heaven Shattering Clouds.

• Ye Chen chose a remote riverside on Coiling Serpent Island as a secluded cultivation spot, and his aura and Sword Intent drove away martial artists who approached within ten li.
• After more than ten days of deductions and cultivation, Ye Chen completed the Grand Dark Art’s True Qi pathway map and reached its eleventh level.
• The breakthrough also opened Ye Chen’s cultivation bottleneck, advancing him to the Late Primal Origin Realm.
• Ye Chen sensed an inky-blue drop of liquid True Qi slowly refining into True Essence and recognized it as a powerful, replenishing trump card.
• After eating grilled fish, Ye Chen drove away the watching demonic beasts and began practicing his sword moves, judging the Heart-Piercing Sword’s limits and continuing to develop Lone Peak Annihilation and Heaven Shattering Clouds.

Ye Chen perfected Lone Peak Annihilation by discovering how to blend its intent with the natural movement of mountains and water, then set out to comprehend Heaven Shattering Clouds. In the Heavenly Wind Kingdom, Flowing Cloud Sect gathered its Primal Origin Realm disciples to discuss the upcoming Hidden Dragon Rankings competition.

• Ye Chen studied mountains and waters around Coiling Serpent Island and Star Domain Lake to refine Lone Peak Annihilation's intent.
• Ye Chen used the perfected intent to pass the three martial artists and a level-six demonic beast unnoticed, leaving them shocked and terrified.
• Ye Chen declared Lone Peak Annihilation completely perfected and flew toward the clouds to comprehend Heaven Shattering Clouds.
• Luo Xinglie gathered Ye Chen, Xu Jing, Luo Hanshan, and Zhu Mei in Flowing Cloud Sect's main hall, noting that all four had reached the early Primal Origin Realm.
• Luo Xinglie gathered the disciples because the Southern Zhuo Region's triennial Hidden Dragon Rankings competition was approaching.

Luo Xinglie prepared Xu Jing, Luo Hanshan, and Zhu Mei for the Hidden Dragon Rankings competition, while the Flowing Cloud Sect elders discussed Ye Chen’s chances of joining them. Training high above the clouds, Ye Chen used lightning to complete the fusion of the fourth move of Surging Cloud Swordplay.

• Luo Xinglie told Xu Jing, Luo Hanshan, and Zhu Mei that they would represent the Flowing Cloud Sect at the Hidden Dragon Rankings competition and explained the three Dragon Gate Trials.
• The Grand Elder warned Luo Hanshan and Zhu Mei that their recent advances left them with insufficient cultivation experience, while Luo Xinglie and the elders debated Ye Chen’s progress and expected him to attend.
• Ye Chen spent three days and nights above the sea of clouds trying to fuse the fourth move of Surging Cloud Swordplay, but could not find the insight he needed.
• Lightning Origin Energy descended into the clouds, helping Ye Chen grasp how lightning revealed the clouds’ explosive force.
• Ye Chen drew the lightning and clouds into his sword strike, scattering the sea of clouds and successfully fusing the fourth move.

Ye Chen continued toward Hidden Dragon Ancient City for the Hidden Dragon Rankings tournament and encountered the powerful Tuo Ba Ku, while Murong Qingcheng advanced her cultivation with a Sky Demon Flower petal. Ye Chen left Tuo Ba Ku behind, and Murong Qingcheng set out for the Soaring Demon Sect to secure a flying demonic beast for the journey.

• Ye Chen departed Coiling Serpent Island and traveled north through the Black Dragon Empire toward Hidden Dragon Ancient City.
• Tuo Ba Ku left his village to enter the Hidden Dragon Rankings tournament, shrugging off a Twin-Headed Ice Demon Bear and revealing his extraordinary physical strength.
• Tuo Ba Ku challenged Ye Chen, but Ye Chen repeatedly struck him by confusing his sense of space and ended the spar with a trace of Sword Intent.
• Tuo Ba Ku asked to travel with Ye Chen, but Ye Chen refused and continued on alone.
• Murong Qingcheng reached the tenth layer of the Demonic Sky Art after cultivating with a petal from the Sky Demon Flower, and her cultivation advanced to the Late Primal Origin Realm.
• Murong Qingcheng left the Ten Thousand Mountains for the Soaring Demon Sect to choose a peak level-six flying demonic beast and reach the tournament in time.

As the Hidden Dragon Rankings competition approached, powerful sects prepared their young geniuses to contend for rankings and fortune. Several leading contenders declared their ambitions, while Suspended Mountain’s Sikong Sheng remained the reigning first-place favorite.

• The Soaring Demon Sect Master urged Mo Yan and Murong Qingcheng to win top-ten places, and learned Qingcheng had advanced her Demonic Sky Art to the tenth level.
• The Fire Spirit Prince vowed to claim first place after finishing second in the previous competition.
• The Emotionless Sect Master counseled Dao Xuan on his tenth-level Emotionless Formula and sixty-percent Emotionless Sword Intent.
• The Sunset Cloud Gate Sect Master tasked nineteen-year-old Qian Yun with securing a top-ten position because the previous competition’s sixth-place disciple was now over twenty-four.
• Suspended Mountain’s Azure King descendant Sikong Sheng promised his great-uncle that he would take first place again before pursuing the True Spirit Continent.
• Heavenfall Sect’s Yun'er secretly prepared to challenge Sikong Sheng after reaching the eleventh level of the Heavenfall Art, while Ice Severing Sect’s Bing Ling vowed to contend for first place.

Ye Chen entered the Dragon Suppression Ancient Land and learned of its deadly mysteries before heading toward Hidden Dragon Ancient City for the Hidden Dragon Rankings competition. As the Flowing Cloud Sect and the region’s strongest young martial artists gathered outside the city, Sikong Sheng arrived with an aura greater than Lin Yun’s.

• Ye Chen crossed into the Dragon Suppression Ancient Land, heard stories of its dragon veins and the kings it had killed, and hurried toward Hidden Dragon Ancient City.
• Luo Hanshan, Zhu Mei, Xu Jing, and Luo Xinglie arrived outside the city with the Flowing Cloud Sect and prepared for the competition.
• As more sects arrived, Luo Hanshan and Zhu Mei saw that prominent young competitors Wei Renjie, Qi Shaofeng, and Leng Wuqing had grown formidable.
• The seven great Sixth-Rank Sects arrived, and their chief disciples sized one another up as Mo Yan observed that Lin Yun’s aura had become five times stronger.
• Sikong Sheng arrived at the gathering, his commanding aura surpassing Lin Yun’s.