Chapter Summaries

During the war in the Southern Shallow Sea, Ye Chen fought the Bloodthirsty Octopuses and cultivated his Slaughter Sword Intent. After ten months of fighting, slaughter aura transformed his Nascent Sword Soul and began forming a second ancient longsword.

• Second Master Sun welcomed the survivors and learned that Sun Xinqi, Kong Xiaoxia, and Kong Xiaolian had died; the alliance counted 8,545 dead in the first battle.
• Ye Chen and Sun Xiaojin tracked their kills during months of smaller skirmishes, with Sun Xiaojin initially far ahead.
• Over a thousand Bloodthirsty Octopuses attacked the Water Ape Clan camps, and Sun Xiaojin and Ye Chen led the counterattack.
• Ye Chen’s Slaughter Sword Intent stopped the octopuses’ severed tentacles from regenerating, and the attackers retreated after about fifteen minutes.
• After the war’s casualties exceeded fifty thousand over ten months, Ye Chen meditated as slaughter aura turned his Nascent Sword Soul crimson and began shaping another ancient longsword.

Ye Chen returned to the Flowing Cloud Sect after nearly fifteen months away, having formed a Nascent Slaughter Sword Soul alongside an ordinary Nascent Sword Soul. His return stirred the sect, and he reunited with its elders and Luo Hanshan.

• Ye Chen discovered that his slaughter attribute had formed a Nascent Slaughter Sword Soul, while a second ordinary Nascent Sword Soul remained in his Soul Sea.
• Ye Chen left the Water Ape Grotto-Heaven with Sun Xiaojin and the surviving young Water Apes, then departed for the True Spirit Continent on his Flying Bird Puppet.
• One month later, Ye Chen arrived at the Flowing Cloud Sect, whose disciples had grown proud of the sect's prosperity and his achievements.
• Xian Yunzi, Thunderclap Hermit, and Luo Xinglie recognized Ye Chen when he landed at Leisurely Cloud Peak, and news of his return spread through the sect.
• Luo Hanshan, Zhang Haoran, and Wu Zongming hurried to see Ye Chen, and Ye Chen congratulated Luo Hanshan on becoming Sect Master.

Ye Chen returned to the Flowing Cloud Sect, met old friends, and invited four young Star Extremity Realm disciples to watch the upcoming Martial Dao Tea Party from afar. After addressing the sect, he revealed overwhelming power by splitting the sky and manifesting Dragon Vein Qi, leaving the surrounding sects in awe.

• Luo Hanshan accepted the position of Sect Master, and Zhu Mei, Zhang Haoran, and Wu Zongming reunited with Ye Chen at the Flowing Cloud Sect.
• Ye Chen explained that the Martial Dao Tea Party rules barred his friends from participating, but he chose Luo Hanshan, Zhu Mei, Zhang Haoran, and Meng Chong to watch from afar.
• At Luo Hanshan's request, Ye Chen addressed the Flowing Cloud Sect disciples and spoke about his rise from a menial disciple through hard work.
• Ye Chen split the sky above Clear Wind Mountain with one sword, and Dragon Vein Qi formed a giant dragon around him as the disciples pledged to strive for strength.
• Long Biyun, Lin Qi, Xue Wuren, and people at Jade Valley sensed Ye Chen's display and reacted with awe and dismay.

Ye Chen returned to the Ye Family, reunited with his parents and siblings, and set aside old family grievances while promising to help find Ye Hai. Back at the Flowing Cloud Sect, he began selecting Heavenly Wind Kingdom experts to watch the Martial Dao Tea Party, and several sects secured places for their young Star Extremity Realm disciples.

• Ye Chen returned to Luocheng City, reunited with Ye Tianhao and Shen Yuqing, and advised Ye Xuan not to bully others.
• Ye Chen forgave Ye Batian, encouraged Ye Xuan, Ye Tang, and Ye Feng to strengthen themselves for the family, and offered to investigate Ye Hai’s whereabouts.
• News of Ye Chen’s return drew crowds to Luocheng City, where construction began on a hundred-meter golden statue of him.
• Ye Chen approved Nangong Yun, Yuan Xuemei, and another Southern Luo Sect disciple for the Martial Dao Tea Party viewing places.
• Ye Chen assessed North Snow Manor’s Su Wen, Lin Qi, and Yu Yue, saying Lin Qi would have ranked in the previous session’s lower tier.
• Ye Chen approved Liu Wuxiang, Ji Xueyan, and Zhuang Fei for the viewing places, then turned his gaze toward Ji Xueyan.

Ye Chen finalized the Martial Dao Tea Party quotas while advancing his sword technique and driving away Huang Lin, a domineering Spirit Sea Realm elder who demanded six places for the Devouring Moon Sect. He left Huang Lin humbled and ordered him to apologize to the Ye Family steward.

• Ye Chen and Ji Xueyan exchanged farewells, and she resolved to pursue a future beyond the Star Extremity Realm.
• Ye Chen rejected Heavenly Wind Kingdom sects whose members had not reached the Star Extremity Realm, then fused Heavenly Thunder Severance with the ninth move of Surging Cloud Swordplay to create a Mystic Martial Art.
• Ye Chen set quota limits for visiting sects, rejecting Sixth-Rank Sects and allowing only one candidate per lower-ranked sect.
• Huang Lin wounded the Ye Family steward after refusing to wait for Ye Chen, then demanded that all six Devouring Moon Sect youths receive quotas.
• Ye Chen struck down the Devouring Moon Sect youths and pierced Huang Lin's shoulders with Lotus Heart Sword Qi, forcing him to leave and apologize to the steward.
• Ye Xuan witnessed Ye Chen drive off Huang Lin and regarded him as even more invincible.

Ye Chen explored Supreme Celestial and studied Gold Essence while Chu Zhongtian and Jing Aoxuan advanced their cultivation ahead of the Martial Dao Tea Party. Li Xiaoyun began training on Glazed Star in Celestial Peak Heaven, and Ye Chen prepared an elaborate venue for the tea party in the Profound Gravity Mountain Range.

• Ye Chen entered Supreme Celestial, learned that its manifested forms contained profundities, and began studying Gold Essence inside a floating mountain.
• Chu Zhongtian reflected on his increased strength and vowed to defeat his rivals at the Martial Dao Tea Party after further studying Mystic Martial Arts.
• Jing Aoxuan destroyed a thunderstorm with Imperial Supremacy Fist and continued seeking storms to deepen her Thunder Profundity.
• A white-haired elder brought Li Xiaoyun to Glazed Star, advised him to explore the deeper powers of his star and wind abilities, and left him to cultivate.
• Ye Chen arranged construction of a durable tea party venue in the Profound Gravity Mountain Range, funded by sects and nations of the Southern Zhuo Region.

As the Martial Dao Tea Party began in Martial City, young talents from across the regions gathered and faced a raised entry standard while awaiting Ye Chen. Ye Chen arrived just as the crowd grew impatient, his newly strengthened aura overwhelming even the other top geniuses.

• Over four months, Ye Chen repeatedly visited Supreme Celestial to comprehend Gold Essence, and the Martial Dao Tea Party drew closer as Martial City filled with young talents.
• Beast Tamer Prince Mo Xiang and the Black Swordsman arrived, followed by Thunder Princess Jing Aoxuan, Celestial Tome Prodigy Li Xiaoyun, and Astral Lingzi Chu Zhongtian, while Ye Chen remained absent.
• Lin Qi, Su Wen, Yu Yue, Liu Wuxiang, Zhuang Fei, and Ji Xueyan surveyed the gathered talents, and Lin Qi passed the Attack Power Test Pillar with a score of eighty.
• The Martial Dao Tea Party began at the manor, where more than four hundred and sixty young talents qualified under the raised score requirement and gathered in their regional tea houses.
• Ye Chen arrived after a twenty-day Gold Essence comprehension session, having raised the Golden Radiance Annihilation Sword to sixty percent mastery, and his Sword Qi scattered the gathered auras and stunned Jing Aoxuan, Li Xiaoyun, and Chu Zhongtian.

Ye Chen arrived at the Martial Dao Tea Party and displayed how much his swordsmanship had advanced when he defeated You Xin’s probing attack. The gathering continued, while Jing Aoxuan judged that she had less than a forty percent chance of beating him.

• Ye Chen joined the Martial Dao Tea Party and invited the attendees to spar.
• Soul-Reaping Swordsman defeated Black Swordsman after a fierce sword duel, and the gathering continued for two days.
• Lin Qi lost all three of his bouts, while the Southern Zhuo Region’s younger generation watched the powerful fighters from a nearby tower.
• You Xin challenged Ye Chen and attacked him with mental force, but he cut through her attacks with Lotus Heart Sword Qi and shattered her Unadorned Battle Armor.
• Li Xiaoyun told You Xin to admit defeat, and Ye Chen suspected she was a saintess from the Underground World.
• Jing Aoxuan told Mo Xiang she had less than a forty percent chance of defeating Ye Chen, though she had over a fifty percent chance of remaining undefeated.

After the Rakshasa Woman secured fifth place, Ye Chen prepared to begin the decisive exchanges with Li Xiaoyun, Jing Aoxuan, and Chu Zhongtian. Four powerful visitors arrived from the north, and Ye Chen met their challenge as they appeared on the arena.

• The Rakshasa Woman defeated Tuo Ba Ku, Lu Hun, and Mo Xiang to secure fifth place and become the favored host of the next Martial Dao Tea Party.
• Ye Chen announced that his exchanges with Li Xiaoyun, Jing Aoxuan, and Chu Zhongtian would begin, and Jing Aoxuan asked to fight him first.
• Ye Chen and the other three sensed four immense auras approaching from the north, disrupting the atmosphere around the estate.
• Ye Chen filled the skies above the estate with invisible Sword Qi and resisted the four auras, causing Li Xiaoyun, Jing Aoxuan, and Chu Zhongtian to recognize his overwhelming presence.
• The four visitors split the sea of clouds and appeared on the arena, led by a long-haired young man whose dark aura seemed to blot out the sun and moon.

Eastern Domain Cluster experts challenged the Southern Domain Cluster’s Martial Dao Tea Party, and Blood Hand Tang Jie defeated Li Xiaoyun in the opening match. The chapter left Ye Chen and the others facing the threat of further challenges as the Southern Domain Cluster’s confidence faltered.

• Gao Hua warned Ye Chen and his companions about Blood Hand Tang Jie, Shadowless Whip Cui Yinghao, Single Blade Ling Luohan, and Eastern Demon Xie Zhiqui, describing their fearsome reputations.
• Ye Chen confronted the visitors, and Xie Zhiqui challenged the Southern Domain Cluster’s experts to exchange blows.
• Xie Zhiqui, Cui Yinghao, and Ling Luohan went to the Snow Iron Region’s tea house, where Xie Zhiqui and Cui Yinghao berated Gao Hua and the other Snow Iron Region experts.
• Tang Jie began the challenge, and Li Xiaoyun stepped onto the martial stage to fight him.
• Li Xiaoyun used Seven-Star Traverse, but Tang Jie shattered the attack and struck him down, leaving the Southern Domain Cluster’s young experts shocked by their defeat.

Li Xiaoyun lost to Bloodhand Tang Jie, and Jing Aoxuan was defeated by Single Blade Ling Luohan before Chu Zhongtian fought him to a draw. The chapter left Ye Chen facing Cui Yinghao after Cui challenged him.

• Bloodhand Tang Jie defeated Li Xiaoyun, who returned to the teahouse injured, and Ling Luohan took his place against Jing Aoxuan.
• Ling Luohan used his saber technique to defeat Jing Aoxuan after she changed her combat rhythm.
• Chu Zhongtian attacked Ling Luohan and fought him for an hour until Xie Zhiqui declared a draw.
• Cui Yinghao challenged Ye Chen, and Ye Chen emerged from the teahouse promising to let Cui leave without a scratch if he survived one move.

Ye Chen defeated Cui Yinghao and Ling Luohan with overwhelming swordsmanship at the Martial Dao Tea Party. He stood victorious on the martial stage as Xie Zhiqui watched with growing killing intent.

• Cui Yinghao attacked Ye Chen with his Shadowless Whip Kill, filling the area with tearing Qi Force.
• Ye Chen evaded the attack and struck Cui Yinghao over a hundred times, leaving him drenched in blood and defeated.
• Ling Luohan challenged Ye Chen after Cui Yinghao fell and attacked with a lightning-fast saber strike.
• Ye Chen cut through Ling Luohan's strike and defeated him with a spiraling Sword Light.
• Ye Chen stood on the martial stage after defeating two Young Titans, while Xie Zhiqui's killing intent grew.

Ye Chen became the Southern Domain Cluster’s undisputed number one young expert after defeating Cui Yinghao and Ling Luohan, then faced Xie Zhiqui’s challenge. Xie Zhiqui’s Ten Supreme Demonic Qi Art intensified the battle, which continued as he fused the Bone Demon into his body.

• The Southern Domain Cluster hailed Ye Chen as its number one young expert after his victories over Cui Yinghao and Ling Luohan.
• Ye Chen explained that Ling Luohan’s one-blade principle and Cui Yinghao’s reliance on stealth and speed had led them onto flawed paths.
• Xie Zhiqui challenged Ye Chen, claiming that technique depended on strength, and attacked with a skull-shaped blast of fist qi.
• Xie Zhiqui summoned the Bone Demon with the Ten Supreme Demonic Qi Art, but Ye Chen’s sword techniques shattered his attacks and forced him back.
• Xie Zhiqui combined three strengths and clashed with Ye Chen’s dual-sword style, shaking the estate and damaging the surrounding mountains.
• Xie Zhiqui began forming hand seals and merged the Bone Demon’s arms into his shoulders, making his aura surge.

Ye Chen overwhelmed Xie Zhiqui by revealing the Void Piercing Finger, a powerful technique based on Space Profundity. After Xie Zhiqui launched another ultimate attack, Ye Chen struck again and pinned him beneath a giant finger as the martial platform collapsed.

• Xie Zhiqui used the Ten Supreme Demonic Qi Art to form a bone demon arm and battered Ye Chen with its overwhelming strength.
• Ye Chen shattered Xie Zhiqui's bone demon arm with the third form of the Void Piercing Finger and revealed that finger techniques were his strongest method.
• Spectators from both regions marveled at Ye Chen's strength, while Luo Hanshan and Zhu Mei reflected on his rise from the Flowing Cloud Sect.
• Xie Zhiqui recovered and attacked with the Flame Demon Divine Palm.
• Ye Chen's enormous Void Piercing Finger destroyed Xie Zhiqui's flaming palm force, crushed the martial platform, and pinned him to the ground.

Ye Chen defeated Xie Zhiqui and the other Eastern Domain Cluster Young Titans, establishing himself as the leading young expert of the Southern Domain Cluster. As the tea party ended and his growing reputation alarmed the Nine Nether Sect, its elders sent assassins to kill him.

• Ye Chen pinned Xie Zhiqui with Spatial Conception and forced him to retreat with Ling Luohan, Tang Jie, and Cui Yinghao.
• Li Xiaoyun congratulated Ye Chen, and the tea party's attendees accepted that Ye Chen had secured the younger generation's leading position.
• The Martial Dao Tea Party ended, and news of Ye Chen's victory shocked sects across the Southern Domain Cluster.
• Nine Nether Sect elders decided Ye Chen had to die before he grew stronger and ordered Ghost Cry and Ink Wolf to assassinate him.
• The leading black-robed figure sent Nightmare to follow the two assassins.

After forming the Slaughter Sword Soul, Ye Chen began breaking through to the Spirit Sea Realm and faced an unusually powerful lightning tribulation. He survived four waves as his Soul Force grew, but a fifth wave—the Lightning Dragon Palace Tribulation—appeared.

• The Slaughter Sword Soul completed its transformation, and Ye Chen’s breakthrough stirred a massive surge of Sword Intent.
• Ye Chen left his family and entered the Southern Luo Mountain Range to cross the Mortal Transcendence Barrier.
• Ye Chen resisted the first three waves of lightning tribulation, using his sword techniques to destroy the lightning attacks while his Soul Force strengthened.
• Long Biyun arrived and watched Ye Chen withstand the fourth wave, a vast army of humanoid lightning and steeds.
• After Ye Chen survived the fourth wave, the sky darkened and a massive Lightning Dragon Palace formed as the fifth wave began.

Ye Chen survived his lightning tribulation, formed a Soul Eye, and completed his breakthrough into the Spirit Sea Realm. The chapter ended with Long Biyun testing his strength and discovering that his swordsmanship could overwhelm her powerful attacks.

• Ye Chen used High-Grade Spirit Stones to reach half-step Spirit Sea and fought the descending Lightning Dragon Palace with his sword techniques until its heavenly will entered his Soul Sea.
• The tribulation’s will tempered Ye Chen’s soul, awakened a Soul Eye that briefly revealed distant regions, and then forced the eye closed as black blood seeped from his brow.
• Ye Chen consumed a chest of High-Grade Spirit Stones, melted the last of his True Essence core, and formed a True Essence Sea, officially entering the Spirit Sea Realm.
• Ye Chen released Soul Force across five hundred miles, far beyond the range he believed ordinary Spirit Sea Realm masters could reach.
• Long Biyun challenged Ye Chen and attacked with a giant hand and her Soaring Cloud Dragon Hand, but Ye Chen severed and shattered both with his sword.

After reaching the Spirit Sea Realm, Ye Chen received a rare spirit fruit from Long Biyun and returned to the Ye Family, where he spent a month rapidly improving his martial arts. He left the story still cultivating the Essence of Shadow, the next step toward transforming his movement technique into a mystic Lightness Skill.

• Ye Chen assessed his strength after sparring with Long Biyun, who said he could safely travel the continent outside encounters with Spirit Sea Realm grandmasters and gave him a Spirit Pattern Fruit.
• Long Biyun told Ye Chen that Xu Jing was thriving in Dragon God Palace, then departed after urging him to keep advancing; Ye Chen resolved to climb ever higher.
• Ye Chen returned to the Ye Family and told Ye Tianhao that he had reached the Spirit Sea Realm, delighting his parents and younger siblings.
• Over the following weeks, Ye Chen used his strengthened soul to master Thunder Profundity and Wood Profundity, improving Heavenly Thunder Severance and Endless Cycle as he trained at home.
• After a month, Ye Chen raised Golden Radiance Annihilation Sword to eighty percent mastery and his other sword moves to around sixty or seventy percent.
• Ye Chen comprehended Shadow Conception and made his Shadow Splitter Lightness Skill unpredictable, but he still needed to understand the Essence of Shadow to turn it into a mystic Lightness Skill.

Ye Chen studied the Essence of Shadow before Ghost Cry and Ink Wolf arrived in Luocheng to kill him. Their attack on the city revealed Ye Chen’s new Spirit Sea Realm strength, and the chapter left him fighting both assassins while his family fled.

• Ghost Cry and Ink Wolf traveled to Luocheng with Ink Wolf’s Dream-Eating Wolf, intending to kill Ye Chen and feed it his head.
• Ye Chen reflected on the complexity of the Essence of Shadow while drinking tea beside the Ye Family lake.
• Ghost Cry and Ink Wolf spotted Ye Chen from the city’s golden statue, and Ink Wolf’s attack shattered it, killing and injuring many people.
• Ye Chen confronted the two men and used his swordsmanship and Essence of Speed to repel Ghost Cry and Ink Wolf’s attacks.
• Ye Tianhao arrived with Ye Family experts, and Ye Chen warned them to evacuate before separating them from the attackers.
• Ye Chen struck Ghost Cry and Ink Wolf hard enough to send them flying, prompting Ghost Cry to call for them to join forces.

Ye Chen fought Ghost Cry and Ink Wolf, who tried to trap him in a dreamscape with their Dream-Eating Wolf. He broke free, killed both elders, and took the wounded wolf and their belongings, leaving him with a powerful beast he hoped to tame.

• Ghost Cry and Ink Wolf attacked Ye Chen together, but his sword strike sent them both retreating with serious injuries.
• Ye Chen wounded Ink Wolf with Speed Sword Prison and attacked Ghost Cry, whose sound wave disrupted Ye Chen long enough for Ink Wolf to release the Dream-Eating Wolf.
• The Dream-Eating Wolf trapped Ye Chen in a dreamscape filled with red wolves, but Ye Chen recognized the illusion and broke free almost instantly.
• Ye Chen killed Ghost Cry with a thrust through the throat, then used a storm of Lotus Heart Sword Qi to kill Ink Wolf as he fled.
• Ye Chen collected Ink Wolf's Storage Spirit Ring and Beast Taming Token, then decided to try to tame the soul-wounded Dream-Eating Wolf.