Chapter Summaries

Ye Chen returned to the Southern Zhuo Region, then traveled to Phoenix Cry Mountain in the Heavenly Martial Domain, where he met Yan Fengfeng, a Qingfeng and Empress Xuan’s eldest disciple. Empress Xuan assigned Yan Fengfeng to take Ye Chen and several Profound Sect disciples to the Heavenly Martial Pavilion to imprint their names.

• Empress Xuan urged Ye Chen to visit the Heavenly Martial Domain and told him to come to Phoenix Cry Mountain.
• Ye Chen promised Murong Zhisui he would find an antidote for Shadowless Poison, then returned with his companions to the Murong Family.
• Ye Chen gave Murong Qingcheng a Flying Puppet and later departed the Southern Zhuo Region for Phoenix Cry Mountain.
• Ye Chen encountered Qingfeng, who introduced herself as Yan Fengfeng and tested his speed as she led him to Profound Wonder Peak.
• Empress Xuan asked Yan Fengfeng to take Ye Chen and several Profound Sect disciples to the Heavenly Martial Pavilion to imprint their names.
• Yan Fengfeng used a Transformation pill to take human form, and Empress Xuan told them they could depart the next day.

Ye Chen traveled with Yan Fengfeng, Miao Yin, and Ling Tianhao to the Heavenly Martial Pavilion, where young Spirit Sea Realm cultivators tested their strength against virtual opponents to earn a place on the Name-Leaving Wall. The group arrived after seven days and prepared to enter the dangerous test.

• Yan Fengfeng told Ling Tianhao that Ye Chen had entered the Spirit Sea Realm at twenty-four and that his speed had reached the Grandmaster level.
• Yan Fengfeng explained the Heavenly Martial Pavilion and its Name-Leaving Wall to Ye Chen during their flight south on the Ironfeather Dark Eagle.
• After seven days of travel, the four arrived at the Heavenly Martial Pavilion, where Ling Tianhao and Miao Yin showed their fighting spirit.
• Hai Wuyai greeted Yan Fengfeng at the mountain’s foot and said he had brought his junior brothers and sisters to leave their names.
• Yan Fengfeng explained that the Name-Leaving Wall’s Spirit Screen tested challengers with increasingly numerous virtual opponents and warned that injuries to a Spiritual Thought-form could harm the true body.

Ye Chen and his companions visited the Heavenly Martial Pavilion’s Name-Leaving Wall and learned how its seven trials measured aptitude through battles against virtual Spiritual Thought-forms. After Ling Luohan and Xie Zhiqui took the test, Xie ranked twenty-second, and he fixed a challenging gaze on Ye Chen.

• Yan Fengfeng explained the Name-Leaving Wall’s rankings and how its trials tested combat skill, mental fortitude, and aptitude.
• Ye Chen reunited with Jing Aoxuan and Li Xiaoyun, and they discussed Chu Zhongtian’s difficulty breaking through because of his Gang Spirit Body.
• Ling Luohan took the test and ranked ninety-ninth, while Ye Chen reflected that Ling’s blade-focused path could hinder his future progress.
• Xie Zhiqui passed five trials before being defeated in the sixth and earned twenty-second place on the Name-Leaving Wall.
• Xie Zhiqui looked at Ye Chen with a cold, eager-for-battle expression.

At the Heavenly Martial Pavilion, Ye Chen entered the aptitude test and defeated wave after wave of virtual Spiritual Thought-forms, advancing farther than Li Xiaoyun and Jing Aoxuan. He cleared the sixth trial and entered the seventh as observers watched his name remain on the Name-Leaving Wall.

• Xie Zhiqui recalled his defeat by Ye Chen and resolved to take revenge after reaching the Spirit Sea Realm.
• Li Xiaoyun, Jing Aoxuan, Ling Tianhao, and Miao Yin took their tests, with Li Xiaoyun and Jing Aoxuan ranking one hundred and eighth and ninety-fifth.
• Ye Chen defeated the virtual swordsman in the first trial and continued through increasingly difficult trials.
• Li Xiaoyun and Jing Aoxuan faced sixteen virtual opponents in the fifth trial but failed to defeat them all.
• Ye Chen fought thirty-two virtual opponents in the sixth trial, avoided their attacks, and defeated them without being injured.
• Ye Chen entered the seventh trial, while onlookers noted that only nine names on the Name-Leaving Wall had reached it.

Ye Chen fought through the seventh stage of the aptitude trial, facing sixty-four equally powerful yellow-robed swordsmen and drawing the attention of the watching geniuses. He remained locked in the battle as the crowd wondered whether he could surpass even Dugu Jue and Tantai Mingyue.

• Hai Wuyai and Yan Fengfeng discussed Ye Chen's aptitude and watched to see whether he could reach the seventh stage.
• Ye Chen charged into the sixty-four yellow-robed swordsmen, using speed, stealth, and his techniques to survive and kill some of them.
• The spectators learned that Ye Chen had reached the seventh stage, and Hai Wuyai acknowledged him as an important supporting character in the coming Future Genius War.
• Xie Zhiqui was stunned by Ye Chen's achievement, while Ling Luohan, Li Xiaoyun, and Jing Aoxuan recognized his exceptional strength.
• Ye Chen continued fighting for nearly half a day, struggling to kill the remaining swordsmen as Yan Fengfeng and Hai Wuyai wondered whether he could break the records of Dugu Jue and Tantai Mingyue.

Ye Chen fought through the seventh stage of the Name-Leaving Wall’s trial and defeated all the yellow-robed swordsmen despite nearing exhaustion. He awakened to find his name in purple in third place, confirming that he had cleared all seven stages alongside Dugu Jue and Tantai Mingyue.

• Ye Chen battled the yellow-robed swordsmen for hours, steadily killing them while his power dwindled.
• Hai Wuyai and Yan Fengfeng agreed that Ye Chen would be an ideal addition to their faction.
• Ye Chen defeated the last of the yellow-robed swordsmen and completed the trial.
• Ye Chen awakened as the crowd saw his purple name in third place and realized he had passed all seven stages.
• Ling Luohan told Xie Zhiqui that he could not compete with Ye Chen, but Xie Zhiqui vowed to find a chance to erase his humiliation.

After placing highly in the Heavenly Martial Pavilion test, Ye Chen befriended Hai Wuyai and encountered the powerful Duan Lengya. At the mountain’s foot, Yuwen Jie confronted Ye Chen over his nephew, and the dispute escalated when Lin Ku and Yan Fengfeng joined the standoff.

• Ye Chen recovered from the test’s strain, and Yan Fengfeng congratulated him on his ranking as Hai Wuyai introduced himself and proposed exploring forbidden lands together.
• Duan Lengya of Ice Spirit Sect met Yan Fengfeng and Hai Wuyai on the stairs, exchanged barbed remarks with Hai Wuyai, and continued toward the pavilion with his junior brothers.
• Yuwen Jie confronted Ye Chen at the foot of the mountain, accusing him of injuring Yuwen Ye and demanding an explanation.
• Hai Wuyai used his Water Profundity-infused Momentum to force Yuwen Jie back and ordered him to leave.
• Lin Ku arrived and challenged Hai Wuyai, but Yan Fengfeng stepped forward to face him; Yuwen Jie then redirected Lin Ku toward Ye Chen.

Ye Chen fought Yuwen Jie, endured his demonized attacks, and defeated him with a powerful strike. Lin Ku attacked Ye Chen in anger, but Hai Wuyai intervened and deflected the blow.

• Ye Chen resisted Lin Ku’s Blade Momentum, then accepted Yuwen Jie’s challenge to fight.
• Ye Chen drove Yuwen Jie back for miles with relentless sword attacks, forcing him to demonize his upper body and fight back with two maces.
• Yuwen Jie unleashed Demonic Light Wave, but Ye Chen blocked it with the combined force of his twin swords and thunder techniques.
• Ye Chen struck Yuwen Jie with a gigantic azure finger and sent him flying, leaving him defeated.
• Lin Ku slashed at Ye Chen in anger, but Hai Wuyai’s palm force knocked the Blade Light aside.

Hai Wuyai and Lin Ku fought, but Duan Lengya intervened and froze Hai Wuyai before Yan Fengfeng stopped him. As Duan Lengya and Lin Ku prepared to attack Ye Chen and his allies, Bai Wuxue appeared and ordered everyone to stop fighting.

• Hai Wuyai and Lin Ku exchanged powerful attacks, each insisting the other had not won.
• Duan Lengya ambushed Hai Wuyai with his Ice Profundity and froze him, while Yan Fengfeng countered with her fire force and freed Hai Wuyai.
• Duan Lengya demanded that Ye Chen answer for injuring Yuwen Jie, and Ye Chen stepped forward as Yan Fengfeng defended him.
• Lin Ku and Duan Lengya prepared to fight Ye Chen, Hai Wuyai, Yan Fengfeng, and their allies, while their junior brothers joined the opposing side.
• Bai Wuxue appeared atop a distant mountain and ordered the gathered fighters to stop because they were on Heavenly Martial Pavilion territory.

Bai Wuxue drove Duan Lengya, Lin Ku, and their allies away from Ye Chen, then learned that Ye Chen had left a purple name on the Name-Leaving Wall alongside Dugu Jue and Tantai Mingyue. Far away, Yin Demon Sect escaped the Underground World and set out to find Ye Chen for revenge and the Undying Body secret art.

• Bai Wuxue confronted Duan Lengya and Lin Ku, forcing them to withdraw with the wounded Yuwen Jie.
• Bai Wuxue learned Ye Chen was the one with a purple name on the Name-Leaving Wall, then left; Yan Fengfeng and Hai Wuyai praised his character and strength.
• Duan Lengya told Lin Ku and Yuwen Jie that Ye Chen had passed all seven trials and matched Dugu Jue and Tantai Mingyue in aptitude, while Lin Ku dismissed the threat and Duan Lengya vowed to surpass the Five Great Prodigies.
• Ye Chen and his companions departed the devastated battlefield, and Yan Fengfeng invited Li Xiaoyun and Jing Aoxuan to visit the Profound Sect.
• Yin Demon Sect burst free from the Underground World aboard the Undying Altar after three years of imprisonment and swore to take revenge on Ye Chen and seize the Undying Body secret art.
• Yin Demon Sect flew off in search of Ye Chen and killed two passing Star Extremity Realm martial artists to vent his rage.

After leaving the Profound Sect, Ye Chen went to Zhi Mo Wen in Eastern Emperor City to buy information about Shadow Grass and Rootless Flower, two ingredients needed for an antidote to the Shadowless Poison. He learned both herbs could be found in a dangerous underground fissure, while Gu Ping took an interest in him and the Gu Family secretly marked his robe with powder.

• Ye Chen parted from Li Xiaoyun and Jing Aoxuan and headed to Eastern Emperor City to seek information about antidote ingredients.
• At Zhi Mo Wen, Gu Ping asked about Shadow Demons and went up to the sixth floor after the cold steward, Miss Nightingale, rejected his invitation to dine.
• Ye Chen forced his way past Gu Ping's followers, and Miss Nightingale expelled the Gu Family group from the pavilion for causing a disturbance.
• Ye Chen paid ninety thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones for information: Shadow Grass and Rootless Flower had both been reported in an underground fissure northwest of Eastern Emperor City, where dangerous Shadow Demons appeared.
• Ye Chen encountered Gu Ping as they left the sixth floor; after Ye Chen departed, one of Gu Ping's followers secretly attached colorless, shadowless powder to his robe. A black-robed figure entered Zhi Mo Wen in Thunder Capital.

Ye Chen found the underground rift hidden by black qi and entered it, where he discovered Fiendstone and followed the sound of water. He reached a cavern where a spirit was possessing a young man and offered to help as the young woman warned him to flee.

• Ye Chen used his Soul Eye to locate the underground rift and learned that black qi had hidden it from his Soul Force.
• Gu Ping lost the trail of Ye Chen but continued toward the same underground rift, hoping to find him there.
• Ye Chen entered the rift, collected Fiendstone, and followed the sound of water to an underground river.
• After killing a strange snake with lightning, Ye Chen found a young man being possessed by a blurry spirit while a young woman tried to save him.
• Ye Chen placed his hand on the young man's shoulder and said he might be able to handle the possession.

Ye Chen drove a sinister figure out of Zuo Qiu and parted ways with Zuo Qiu and Li Qingxiang, then continued deeper into the underground fissure. Meanwhile, Yin Demon Sect tracked Ye Chen to the fissure, and Gu Ping pursued Shadow Demons, unaware that a vast swarm was already closing in on Ye Chen.

• Ye Chen struck the blurry figure with his Slaughter Sword Intent, forcing it out of Zuo Qiu and saving him.
• Li Qingxiang thanked Ye Chen, and Zuo Qiu and Li Qingxiang left the cave while Ye Chen continued exploring.
• Yin Demon Sect learned Ye Chen was in an underground fissure northwest of Eastern Emperor City after paying Zhi Mo Wen for his location.
• Gu Ping and his followers entered the fissure to hunt Shadow Demons, intending to turn them into Shadowless Puppets and use Ye Chen's possible injuries to their advantage.
• A voice in the depths revealed the Shadow Demons were formed from its Demonic Thought and sent countless figures toward the river.
• Ye Chen followed the river deeper into the fissure as the Shadow Demons rushed toward him, bringing them on course to meet within half an hour.

Ye Chen fought off an army of Shadow Demons with his Slaughter and Destruction Sword Intents and continued downstream to search for the Rootless Flower and Shadow Grass. Meanwhile, the Shadow Demons overwhelmed Gu Ping and his companions, and their leader possessed Gu Ping, planning to use his body to reach the outside world and then seize Ye Chen.

• Gu Ping used the Human Dao Puppet Technique to refine an injured Shadow Demon into a Shadowless Puppet, while a hidden being revealed that it had let the process succeed.
• Ye Chen's Slaughter Sword Intent repelled the attacking Shadow Demons, and his Destruction Sword Intent annihilated many of them before the rest fled upstream.
• Ye Chen reasoned that his Sword Intent gave him an advantage over the Shadow Demons and continued downstream to search for the Rootless Flower and Shadow Grass.
• More than ten Shadow Demons attacked Gu Ping's group, and although Gu Ping used his Puppet Orb to pull them away from his subordinates, their leader shattered the orb.
• The Shadow Demons possessed the Gu Family experts and their leader took over Gu Ping's body, then ordered the group downstream while declaring its intent to seize Ye Chen next.

Ye Chen battled the Black Octopus and the possessed Gu Family experts while a hidden Demonic Thought tried to claim him as an incarnation. Just as the strongest Demonic Thought possessed his weakened body, the Dragon King's phantom appeared and wiped out the attackers with a seventh-level will.

• Ye Chen captured a Rootless Flower from the lake and defeated the Black Octopus that ambushed him.
• Gu Ping led possessed Gu Family experts and hidden Demonic Thoughts in an attack on Ye Chen.
• Ye Chen wounded Gu Ping with his twin swords, then pierced his throat with the Thunder Calamity Sword while Gu Ping's possessing figure escaped.
• The remaining Gu Family experts used Sacrificial Explosion, leaving Ye Chen badly wounded and weakening his soul.
• The strongest Demonic Thought entered Ye Chen's body, but the Dragon King's phantom appeared and scattered the Demonic Thoughts with a seventh-level will.

Ye Chen found the Shadow Grass and tried to escape the underground fissure while the Dragon King's will held back the Shadow Demons. When the Dragon King's phantom shattered and a main Demonic Thought began seizing Ye Chen's body, Ye Chen's second Sword Soul transformed and unleashed a complete Destruction Sword Intent that cut the invader apart.

• The Dragon King's seventh-tier will killed hundreds of Demonic Thoughts and wounded the being deep underground, which vowed to seize Ye Chen's body in revenge.
• Ye Chen recovered from the Sacrificial Explosion's shockwaves, searched the fissure, and found the invisible Shadow Grass in a narrow cavern.
• The being sent Demonic Thought Drills after Ye Chen, but the Dragon King's phantom defended him as he fled toward the surface.
• A main Demonic Thought shattered the Dragon King's phantom and pursued Ye Chen, whose Slaughter Sword Intent and Destruction Sword Intent initially failed to stop it.
• As the main Demonic Thought began erasing Ye Chen's consciousness, his second Sword Soul turned black and released a complete Destruction Sword Intent that slashed the invader apart.

Ye Chen survived the Demonic Thought’s possession attempt by awakening the Destruction Sword Soul and escaped the underground fissure. The Destruction King arrived seeking Gu Ping’s killer, but after an ancient sealed being injured him, he concluded Gu Ping had died in a sealed place and abandoned the search.

• Ye Chen’s Slaughter Sword Intent and Destruction Sword Intent destroyed the Demonic Thought that had tried to possess him.
• The sealed being cursed Ye Chen and his other enemies, then fell back into slumber.
• Ye Chen emerged from the fissure, recognized the Destruction Sword Soul’s power, and fled the area.
• The Destruction King reached the fissure, found Gu Ping and the other Gu Family experts dead, and searched for their killer.
• The Destruction King sensed an aberrant presence underground and was injured by its peak seventh-grade demonic will.
• The Destruction King decided Gu Ping had encountered a sealed monster and gave up searching for the killer.

Ye Chen settled in a mountain range to cultivate, then climbed into the Supreme Celestial to pursue Thunder Profundity. After a powerful thunder spirit nearly killed him, he perfected Heavenly Thunder Severance and absorbed the spirit into his strike.

• Ye Chen chose a scenic mountain site, where his Dream-Eating Wolf drove off a mutated Strange Fish before roaming the nearby mountains.
• Ye Chen studied his Soul Sea and observed the Destruction Sword Soul drawing in the Slaughter Sword Soul’s aura, then went to the Supreme Celestial to comprehend Thunder Profundity.
• Yin Demon Sect arrived too late at the Underground World and vowed to obtain the Undying Body secret art as a path toward the Life and Death Realm.
• Ye Chen found the Thunder Profundity near the Supreme Celestial’s lower reaches too weak and flew higher into the thunderstorm.
• A powerful thunder spirit attacked Ye Chen, and a devastating lightning strike gave him a sudden breakthrough in Thunder Profundity.
• Ye Chen perfected Heavenly Thunder Severance and struck the thunder spirit, absorbing its body into his lightning attack.

Ye Chen used Slaughter Sword Intent to subdue a Thunder Spirit, then gave the Dream-Eating Wolf the Nine-Bend Spirit Reversing Grass, healing and strengthening its dream power. After the Dream-Eating Wolf killed a group of Spirit Sea Realm attackers, Ye Chen received a gathering signal from Yan Fengfeng’s tablet.

• Ye Chen restrained the Thunder Spirit with Slaughter Sword Intent and left it alive.
• Ye Chen fed the Nine-Bend Spirit Reversing Grass to the Dream-Eating Wolf, fully healing its soul and strengthening its ability to trap enemies in dreams.
• A group led by the Black Wind Gang leader demanded that Ye Chen sell them the Dream-Eating Wolf, and Ye Chen ordered it to attack.
• The Dream-Eating Wolf trapped the gang members in a dream while Ye Chen killed their leader, and the remaining attackers died within the dream.
• Ye Chen noticed that the gathering mark on the tablet Yan Fengfeng had given him was pointing northwest and had lit up.

Ye Chen joined Yan Fengfeng, Ling Tianhao, Hai Wuyai, and Guan Qin for an expedition to the Barren Ancient Land. The group prepared to leave for the dangerous domain, where Barren Qi could hinder their True Essence and erode their minds.

• Ye Chen set out on his Flying Puppet after receiving Yan Fengfeng’s summons, hoping the expedition might yield materials for an antidote to Shadowless Poison.
• Yan Fengfeng explained the dangers of the Barren Ancient Land to Ling Tianhao and said the group would leave after waiting for Ye Chen.
• Hai Wuyai arrived with Guan Qin, and he and Yan Fengfeng discussed Ye Chen’s strength and the need for another capable member.
• The group waited until the third day, when Ye Chen finally arrived at night and apologized for keeping them waiting.
• Yan Fengfeng told Ye Chen they were heading to the Barren Ancient Land, and Ye Chen recalled how its Barren Qi restricted martial artists and threatened their minds.