Chapter Summaries

After defeating two Spirit Sea Realm attackers, Ye Chen arranged for the Ye Family to build a safer residence near the Southern Luo Sect and advanced to the peak of the early Spirit Sea Realm. He removed the Dream-Eating Wolf’s former master’s Soul Imprint, bound the wolf to himself, and took control of its Beast Taming Token.

• Ye Chen told Ye Tianhao and Shen Yuqing that the Ye Family needed a new residence near the Southern Luo Sect to avoid danger from enemies targeting him.
• Long Biyun approved the relocation, and construction began two hundred li east of the Southern Luo Sect while the Ye Family compensated Luocheng City’s casualties and handled the damage.
• Ye Chen consumed a Spirit-Pattern Fruit and advanced to the peak of the early Spirit Sea Realm.
• Ye Chen erased the black-clad man’s Soul Imprint from the Dream-Eating Wolf and branded the wolf with his own Soul Imprint.
• Ye Chen sent the injured Dream-Eating Wolf out to hunt and erased the former owner’s Soul Imprint from the Beast Taming Token, making it his own.

The Nine Nether Sect’s Second Elder ordered Nightmare to target Li Xiaoling while waiting for Black Demon, as Treasure River Island emerged in Star Domain Lake. After three powerful cultivators slaughtered most of the Spirit Sea Realm masters who arrived, news spread, and Ye Chen decided to seek the island’s treasures for his parents.

• The Second Elder told Nightmare to wait for Black Demon and assassinate Li Xiaoling, a Dragon God Palace candidate with a Water Spirit Body.
• Treasure River Island emerged in Star Domain Lake, its appearance marked by five-colored rosy light, and the fisherman, the woman in red, and the scholar prepared to break its defenses.
• The fisherman, the woman in red, and the scholar killed eight Spirit Sea Realm masters who approached, while one escaped using a Lightness Skill containing Thunder Profundity.
• The surviving master decided to spread news of the island, and word reached nearby regions, drawing more cultivators toward Star Domain Lake.
• Ye Chen learned about Treasure River Island in Martial City and left to pursue its treasures, hoping to find spirit medicine for his parents.

Ye Chen entered Treasure River Island, gathered a ten-thousand-year Tendon-Refining Flower, and then fought the Blood Flood Dragon Snake to seize its Dragon Blood Grass. A mysterious old man stole the herb and blocked Ye Chen’s escape, leaving him trapped with the enraged snake.

• Ye Chen cut through Treasure River Island’s five-colored barrier and entered despite the island’s suppression of flight, True Essence, and Soul Force.
• Ye Chen found and collected a mature Tendon-Refining Flower, then traveled onward in search of more spiritual plants.
• A Ninth-Level Blood Flood Dragon Snake killed a Spirit Sea Realm master who had approached the Dragon Blood Grass, and Ye Chen decided to take the herb by force.
• Ye Chen used the Shadow Splitter Lightness Skill to evade the snake’s venom and attacks and reach the Dragon Blood Grass.
• A mysterious old man seized the Dragon Blood Grass with a strand of crystalline light and raised a Qi wall behind Ye Chen, trapping him between the thief and the enraged snake.

Ye Chen pursued the rain-caped old man to recover the Dragon Blood Grass, and the two fought to a standstill until the old man revealed a defensive Half Supreme-Grade Treasure. Ye Chen reclaimed the grass and left, while the old man preserved his damaged Essence-Splitting Pagoda and fled.

• Ye Chen escaped the Blood Flood Dragon Snake and caught up with the rain-caped old man, demanding the Dragon Blood Grass back.
• Ye Chen and the rain-caped old man exchanged attacks, with Ye Chen eventually wounding him with the Golden Radiance Annihilation Sword.
• The rain-caped old man brought out the Essence-Splitting Pagoda, an imitation Half Supreme-Grade Treasure, and negotiated a truce from within it.
• The rain-caped old man returned the Dragon Blood Grass, and Ye Chen cautiously took it before leaving.
• The rain-caped old man explained that using the Essence-Splitting Pagoda had damaged it, then put it away and fled.

Ye Chen harvested spirit plants in a medicine garden before Golden Needle Bees forced him to flee into a lake. He escaped the swarm and entered a treasure hall, where he encountered the old man in the rain cape and a woman who recognized his fight with the Fisherman.

• Ye Chen collected valuable spirit plants and found a medicine garden filled with rare herbs and spiritual rain.
• Golden Needle Bees swarmed the garden, killed several martial artists, and chased Ye Chen as he fled toward the entrance.
• Ye Chen used his Speed Sword Prison to block the bees’ stingers, escaped the garden, and dove into a lake to lose the pursuing swarm.
• After the Golden Needle Bees returned to the medicine garden, Ye Chen left the lake and entered a treasure hall.
• Ye Chen found the old man in the rain cape and a beautiful woman in red, who asked whether he was the one who had made the Fisherman lose face.

Ye Chen and three other martial artists searched the treasure hall’s artifact-refining chambers but found only treasure aura, then faced a Spirit Sea Realm Grandmaster who demanded their Storage Spirit Rings. The chapter ended as the Grandmaster attacked all four with flaming palm strikes.

• Ye Chen refused the old man in the straw raincoat’s offer to trade Nine-Bend Spirit Reversing Grass and Flood Dragon Grass for his Dragon Blood Grass.
• Ye Chen and the others searched the artifact-refining chambers, found no treasures, and collected the treasure aura before converging at the central metal door.
• A red-robed man from the Iron Palm Sect entered the hall, revealed himself as a powerful Grandmaster, and struck the old man, the middle-aged man, and the beautiful woman in red as they tried to leave.
• The red-robed Grandmaster demanded that the four hand over their Storage Spirit Rings, and Ye Chen rejected the middle-aged man’s suggestion that they join forces.
• The red-robed Grandmaster launched four flaming palm attacks, one at each of them.

Ye Chen and the beautiful woman in red faced a Spirit Sea Realm Grandmaster who trapped them in a Flame Prison and killed their companions after accepting their Storage Spirit Rings. They escaped through a hidden metal door, leaving the furious Grandmaster unable to break through it.

• Ye Chen and the others attacked the burly man in red, but his Flame Prison blocked their escape.
• The middle-aged man and the old man in the straw raincoat surrendered their Storage Spirit Rings, but the burly man in red trapped them and killed them.
• The burly man in red attacked Ye Chen and the beautiful woman in red with flaming spikes, badly wounding the woman and striking Ye Chen's legs.
• A hidden metal door opened when the spikes struck its mechanism, and Ye Chen carried the wounded beautiful woman in red inside.
• Ye Chen hit the switch with Sword Qi to close the door, and the burly man in red failed to break through it.

Ye Chen recovered his Origin Energy and explored the furnaces in the forging chamber, finding several powerful Superior-Grade weapons and a Half-Supreme Treasure Sword. The red-clothed man remained outside, killing a group of intruders, while the beautiful woman in red continued healing.

• Ye Chen replenished his Origin Energy as the beautiful woman in red used a Longevity Tree branch to heal her wound.
• The red-clothed man failed to open the sealed metal door, decided to wait for Ye Chen and the beautiful woman in red, and killed a group of Spirit Sea Realm masters who entered the hall.
• After recovering on the second day, Ye Chen opened the side furnaces and subdued a short saber, a spear, a golden longsword, and a pair of gauntlets.
• Ye Chen gave the beautiful woman in red the short saber, and she accepted it after choosing among the four side-furnace treasures.
• Ye Chen opened the central furnace and identified the powerful sword inside as a Half-Supreme Treasure Sword after it forced him back.

Ye Chen subdued and soul-marked the Thunder Calamity Sword, then began refining Dragon Blood Grass to gain the strength needed to escape the Iron Palm Sect's flame prison. The chapter ended as he resisted the herb's dragon influence and focused on refining its power.

• Ye Chen overwhelmed the red-clad beautiful woman's dark blue sword, seized it, and gained control of it while promising not to silence her.
• Ye Chen named his golden treasure sword the Golden Sword and identified the dark blue weapon as the Thunder Calamity Sword.
• Ye Chen imprinted his soul mark on the Thunder Calamity Sword and decided that he still needed to refine Dragon Blood Grass to escape the Iron Palm Sect.
• Ye Chen swallowed the Dragon Blood Grass and began refining it, resisting its dragon's roar with his Slaughter Sword Intent.

Ye Chen refined the Dragon Blood Grass, advanced his Spirit Body, and gained Dragon Force before he and the beautiful woman in red attempted to escape the great hall. They broke through the red-clothed man's attacks and fled beyond his Soul Force's range.

• Ye Chen's Spirit Body advanced to the Second-Order, and he began refining the Dragon Blood Grass's remaining medicinal power into Dragon Force.
• Ye Chen's strength rose from around one hundred fifty thousand jin to over two hundred thousand jin, and he and the beautiful woman in red planned to escape using her Skyfire Thunderclap Pearl.
• After waiting for them, the red-clothed man attacked as Ye Chen and the beautiful woman in red emerged from the metal door and trapped them in a flaming cage.
• Ye Chen cut through two pillars of the flaming cage with his dark-blue longsword, allowing both of them to escape outside the great hall.
• The beautiful woman in red threw her Skyfire Thunderclap Pearl at the red-clothed man, and Ye Chen carried her more than a hundred li away before the man could catch them.

Ye Chen escaped Treasure River Island with the beautiful woman in red, then returned to his family’s new estate with rare treasures. He gave his parents Star Spirit Fruits and Vein-Cutting Grasses, leaving them overjoyed at the prospect of advancing their cultivation.

• The red-clad man realized Ye Chen’s inky blue longsword might be a Half-Supreme Treasure Sword and coveted it.
• Ye Chen and the beautiful woman in red escaped Treasure River Island and fought off more than twenty ambushers waiting outside.
• Ye Chen parted ways with the beautiful woman in red, who resolved to care for her slain companions’ families.
• Ye Chen returned to the Ye Family estate and reunited with Ye Tianhao, Shen Yuqing, Ye Xuan, and Ye Xiaoxiao.
• Ye Chen gave his parents five Star Spirit Fruits and six Vein-Cutting Grasses, delighting Ye Tianhao and Shen Yuqing.

Ye Chen’s parents, Ye Tianhao and Shen Yuqing, broke through to the Star Extremity Realm at Cloudmist Mountain. Murong Zhisui then visited Ye Chen to discuss his daughter Murong Qingcheng and the Human-Demon Clan’s marriage rules, leaving Ye Chen to consider his feelings for her.

• Ye Chen reflected on his improved comprehension and learned that Ye Tianhao and Shen Yuqing had both advanced to the Star Extremity Realm.
• Ye Chen congratulated his parents and told them they could use Earth Star Pills to raise their cultivation further.
• Murong Zhisui arrived near the Southern Luo Sect, met Long Biyun and Mo Feng, and asked where Ye Chen lived.
• After hearing that Murong Zhisui was waiting for him, Ye Chen went to the main hall and learned that Murong Qingcheng was well but faced matters brought forward by her Perfect Human-Demon Bloodline.
• Murong Zhisui explained that the Human-Demon Clan required marriage within the clan and asked whether Ye Chen had feelings for Murong Qingcheng.
• Ye Chen acknowledged that he cared for both Murong Qingcheng and Xu Jing but could not say which he cared for more.

Murong Zhisui asked Ye Chen to help prevent Murong Qingcheng from being forced to marry Yuwen Ye, explaining that the Yuwen Family dominated the Human-Demon Clan and exploited its branch families. Ye Chen agreed and traveled with Murong Zhisui to the Murong Family, where they arrived after three days.

• Murong Zhisui told Ye Chen that Murong Qingcheng’s Perfect Human-Demon Bloodline had led the Yuwen Family to move her wedding to Yuwen Ye up by three months.
• Murong Zhisui revealed that the Yuwen Family forced talented and high-bloodline women from branch families to marry into its main line, and asked Ye Chen to take Qingcheng away.
• Ye Chen agreed to help, judging that his relationship with Qingcheng and the Dragon King’s backing made the risk worthwhile.
• Ye Chen introduced Murong Zhisui to his parents, then departed with him after his parents approved of the visit.
• Ye Chen and Murong Zhisui reached the Murong Family’s mountain stronghold on the third day, and Murong Zhisui began explaining why the Human-Demon Clan faced hostility.

Ye Chen returned with Murong Zhisui to the Murong Family and learned that the Yuwen Family had taken Murong Qingcheng and her mother away. As Murong Zhisui confronted the Grand Elder and sought support for challenging the marriage, Ye Chen agreed to prove himself against Murong Wu in the martial arena.

• Murong Zhisui learned that the Yuwen Family's Third and Fifth Elders had taken Murong Qingcheng and her mother three days earlier with Murong Wang's approval.
• Murong Zhisui accused Murong Wang of arranging the marriage to benefit his own son's plans, while Murong Wang warned Ye Chen not to challenge the Yuwen Family.
• Murong Zhisui introduced Ye Chen to the Murong Family elders, who questioned whether he had the strength to oppose the marriage.
• Murong Wu offered to support Ye Chen if he could withstand fifty moves without defeat, and Ye Chen accepted.
• The elders gathered around the Murong Family's martial arena to watch Ye Chen face Murong Wu.

Ye Chen battled Murong Wu, countering his water-element attacks with swift swordsmanship and advanced True Essence control. When Ye Chen’s strongest sword strike forced Murong Wu to demonize his right arm to block it, the elders realized Ye Chen had pushed him to a critical point.

• Murong Wu opened with Raging Tide Fist and Surging Wave Kick, but Ye Chen deflected both attacks with quick sword strikes.
• Murong Wu expanded his Water Seal Technique and pressured Ye Chen with binding streams of True Essence water.
• Ye Chen formed a protective sphere with True Essence Threading, cut through the water streams, and struck Murong Wu hard enough to send him flying.
• Ye Chen unleashed Golden Radiance Annihilation Sword as Murong Wu’s defenses faltered.
• Murong Wu demonized his right arm and blocked Ye Chen’s sword strike, though the impact drove him back more than ten meters.
• Murong Zhisui and the elders watched in shock and noticed that the will behind Ye Chen’s sword strike had grown stronger.

After Ye Chen defeated Murong Wu, Murong Zhisui recognized his extraordinary swordsmanship and explained the powers and dangers of Human-Demon demonization. Ye Chen agreed to go to the Yuwen Family to bring back Murong Qingcheng, while Murong Zhisui resolved to support him.

• Ye Chen defeated Murong Wu, and the elders accepted that he was strong enough to go to the Yuwen Family.
• Murong Wu warned Ye Chen to beware of Yuwen Hao, Yuwen Jie, and Yuwen Ye as he went to retrieve Murong Qingcheng.
• Ye Chen told Murong Zhisui that his Sword Soul was at the fourth-stage peak and that he could defeat Murong Wu within ten moves.
• Murong Zhisui concluded that Ye Chen had the potential to become a great figure and decided that the Murong Family should support him.
• Murong Zhisui demonstrated his ability to demonize and freely restore both arms, then explained that overusing demonization could erode the body and soul and destroy one's reason.

Ye Chen agreed to travel with Murong Zhisui to the Yuwen Family, learning about Human-Demon powers and the dangers posed by Yuwen Ye. As the Murong party set out for the Ancient Orchid Domain, Yuwen Family spies reported their plans, and a purple-robed man vowed to deal with Ye Chen and Murong Zhisui.

• Murong Zhisui explained how partial demonization increased local and overall strength, and warned Ye Chen that Yuwen Ye had a Perfect Human-Demon Bloodline and a powerful innate ability.
• Murong Zhisui and Ye Chen agreed to depart for the Yuwen Family in three days, while Gray Hawk and Iron Dragon discussed Ye Chen’s arrival and sent a report to their family.
• Three days later, Murong Zhisui, Ye Chen, Murong Wang, Murong Wu, and ten Murong experts rode Red-Eyed Fierce Birds toward the Ancient Orchid Domain.
• A purple-robed Yuwen Family man received Gray Hawk’s message and vowed to make Ye Chen suffer and remove Murong Zhisui as Patriarch.

Ye Chen discovered how to temper his Nascent Sword Soul with Soul Force and completed his second Sword Soul during the journey to the Ancient Orchid Domain. Meanwhile, the Yuwen Family prepared to pressure Murong Qingcheng into marriage and considered poisoning her mother, as Ye Chen’s group drew closer.

• The Yuwen Family's Grand Elder ordered Murong Qingcheng and Su Ruhui confined under watch and told an agent to arrange for Yuwen Ye to court Qingcheng.
• The Grand Elder approved secretly administering Shadowless Poison to Su Ruhui to make Qingcheng more compliant.
• Murong Qingcheng told Su Ruhui that Ye Chen would come because she trusted him, and vowed she would rather die than marry Yuwen Ye.
• Murong Zhisui's remarks about essence prompted Ye Chen to use Soul Force to hammer and strengthen his Nascent Sword Soul.
• Seven days later, as the group entered the Eastern Domain Cluster, Ye Chen's Nascent Sword Soul fully condensed into his second Sword Soul.

Ye Chen formed a third Nascent Sword Soul and traveled with Murong Zhisui and Murong Wu to Gu Feng City, where they planned their approach to the Yuwen Family. The chapter ended with Ye Chen discovering Murong Wang secretly flying toward the family.

• Ye Chen observed his new Nascent Sword Soul and noticed that his first two Sword Souls had begun to resonate.
• Murong Zhisui decided to take the group to Gu Feng City before approaching the Yuwen Family, fearing they would be imprisoned.
• Yuwen Ye defeated Gao Yunfeng with his Water-Slaying Fist and learned that his fiancée and her friend Ye Chen were coming to the Ancient Orchid Domain.
• Ye Chen and the others arrived in Gu Feng City and settled at an inn.
• Ye Chen used his Soul Force to spot Murong Wang leaving the city and heading west toward the Yuwen Family.

Ye Chen followed Murong Wang to the Yuwen Family and overheard Yuwen Jin ordering him to drug Murong Zhisui and Ye Chen with Three Tribulations Powder. After Murong Wang left, Ye Chen pursued him and attacked, leaving their fight underway.

• Ye Chen secretly followed Murong Wang to the Yuwen Family and learned that Murong Wang intended to side with the Yuwen Family for personal gain.
• Yuwen Jin ordered Murong Wang to use Three Tribulations Powder to incapacitate Murong Zhisui and Ye Chen, while Yuwen Ye planned to use Ye Chen to win over Murong Qingcheng.
• Ye Chen overheard the plot from more than a hundred li away and resolved to kill the Yuwen Family conspirators if he got the chance.
• Murong Wang left the Yuwen Family without securing a promise of Devil Race Martial Arts, and Ye Chen followed him through the night.
• Ye Chen caught up with Murong Wang, accused him of courting death, and attacked with the Golden Sword; Murong Wang met his Sword Qi with a blade.