Chapter Summaries

Ye Chen led Azure Dragon Hall forces through a series of surprise attacks, destroying four enemy groups and building the survivors’ trust in him. As the final Sky Eagle Sect group joined forces with Water Wave Sect reinforcements, Ye Chen sent the Golden Dragon War Chariot charging into a head-on clash.

• Ye Chen’s group wiped out a second Water Wave Sect force without suffering casualties, and the Azure Dragon Hall fighters praised Ye Chen while Yao Yifeng concealed his resentment.
• Ye Chen led the group to destroy two more enemy batches, including Sky Eagle Sect forces and their eagle-type demonic beasts, leaving only the two groups at the ambush circle’s center.
• Ye Chen launched a surprise assault on the Sky Eagle Sect’s central group, killing many with a black thunderball as the island broke apart under the attacks.
• The final Water Wave Sect group rushed to aid the Sky Eagle Sect survivors, bringing their combined numbers close to four hundred against Ye Chen’s force of over three hundred.
• Ye Chen deployed the Golden Dragon War Chariot as his group charged the assembled enemies, and the two sides closed in on a head-on clash.

Ye Chen’s forces battered the Water Wave Sect and Sky Eagle Sect remnants until their defenses collapsed, while the enemy suffered overwhelming losses. Meanwhile, Vice-Hall Master Xu Danian’s force was trapped by a much larger ambush, and he clung to the hope that Ye Chen might arrive with reinforcements.

• Ye Chen led the Golden Dragon War Chariot’s force in repeated attacks that killed dozens of Water Wave Sect and Sky Eagle Sect fighters while sustaining fewer than twenty casualties.
• Ye Chen told the Water Wave Sect leader that the other four enemy forces had been wiped out, and continued bombarding their True Essence barrier until it collapsed.
• Ye Chen’s force overwhelmed the weakened enemy formation, killing many and pursuing those who tried to flee.
• Vice-Hall Master Xu Danian’s force encountered a water wall and Black Octopuses, then found itself surrounded by several enemy forces.
• Xu Danian ordered his men to preserve their strength and wait for reinforcements, still hoping Ye Chen had survived and could reach them.

Xu Danian’s outnumbered force was on the verge of being annihilated when Ye Chen arrived with reinforcements and charged the enemy. Ye Chen’s Golden Dragon War Chariot broke through the Whirlwind Gate formation, while Xu Danian’s troops regained hope and kept fighting.

• The Whirlwind Gate and Black King Gate leaders surrounded Xu Danian’s force with over thirteen hundred enemies and began bombarding their True Essence barrier.
• Xu Danian’s men despaired when another enemy force appeared, while Ye Chen hurried toward them with his group and warned them to stay in formation.
• Ye Chen arrived with more than three hundred people as Xu Danian’s force had dwindled to fewer than three hundred, and the enemy split its forces to confront him.
• Xu Danian and his men rallied at Ye Chen’s arrival, while Ye Chen used Azure Lotus Sword Qi to suppress the approaching Whirlwind Gate forces.
• Ye Chen accelerated the Golden Dragon War Chariot and drove it into the enemy formation, carving a bloody passage through the ranks.

Ye Chen used the Golden Dragon War Chariot to rout Whirlwind Gate and inflict heavy losses on Black King Gate while helping Xu Danian’s Azure Dragon Hall forces survive. The two Azure Dragon Hall groups reunited, and the enemy leaders gathered their shaken survivors to prepare another attack.

• Ye Chen drove the Golden Dragon War Chariot through Whirlwind Gate’s ranks, killing hundreds as the enemy scattered in panic.
• Xu Danian led the surviving Azure Dragon Hall experts to break out, though their force was reduced to around eighty people.
• Ye Chen charged Black King Gate’s formation, causing more casualties before joining Xu Danian’s group.
• Xu Danian thanked Ye Chen for saving his life, and their combined Azure Dragon Hall force numbered around two hundred and seventy.
• The Black King Gate and Whirlwind Gate leaders joined their surviving forces and resolved to fight again, despite their men’s shattered morale.

Ye Chen helped Azure Dragon Hall survive an ambush, and the hostile factions withdrew rather than risk a costly battle. After his forces returned with an unprecedented victory and earned immense contribution points, Ye Chen considered exchanging them for Dragon God Palace secret arts.

• The Black King Gate and Whirlwind Gate leaders ordered their forces to retreat, and Ye Chen warned the Black King Gate leader that he would fare even worse next time.
• Xu Danian thanked Ye Chen for saving his group, and Xing Meilian explained that Ye Chen’s forces had wiped out the Water Wave Sect and Sky Eagle Sect armies.
• After gathering resources on Five Metals Island, Profound Spirit Island, and Volcano Island Number Two, Ye Chen’s forces returned to Azure Dragon Hall.
• News that Ye Chen had led his forces to kill more than two thousand enemies restored Azure Dragon Hall’s morale and prompted many members to seek places in his force.
• Dragon God Palace awarded Ye Chen’s force 564,000 contribution points, distributed among its surviving members, while the families of the dead were promised support.
• Ye Chen decided not to spend his roughly 37,000 contribution points on treasures or pills and became interested in Dragon God Palace’s secret arts.

Ye Chen traveled to Dragon God Palace headquarters and tested sword flight, reaching a maximum speed of seventy-five times the speed of sound. At the Secret Pavilion, he examined Mystic Martial Arts and Heaven-grade secret arts, leaving his search for a suitable art unfinished.

• Ye Chen left Azure Dragon Hall aboard a Flying Puppet, then tested sword flight over the ocean and discovered its maximum speed was seventy-five times the speed of sound.
• Ye Chen reached Dragon God Palace four days later and asked Yan Zi to take him to the Secret Pavilion, rewarding her with Origin Refining Pills.
• Ye Chen showed his Five-Dragon Token to pass the pavilion's defenses, and Guardian Elder Tian offered to guide him inside.
• Ye Chen went to the second floor and learned how the pavilion rated Mystic Martial Arts by star quality.
• Ye Chen examined mid-tier Mystic Martial Arts and Heaven-grade low-tier secret arts, including Tiger Soul Body, Mystic Spirit Eye, and Bull Demon Mountain Shattering Art.

Ye Chen surveyed the Secret Pavilion’s powerful martial arts and secret arts, rejecting those that did not suit his sword path or current cultivation. He chose the five-star Blood Severing Ghost Finger despite the Guardian Elder’s warning that no one had ever mastered it, and left with the Jade Slip without spending contribution points.

• Ye Chen considered the Bull Demon Mountain Shattering Art but asked Guardian Elder Tian to take him to the third floor of the Secret Pavilion.
• Ye Chen examined Poison Dragon Drill, Azure Dragon Claw, and Sea Domain, then decided not to pursue another Mystic Martial Art before mastering Golden Tempest.
• Ye Chen reviewed Blood-Energy Asura, Spirit Barrier, Illusory Eye, and Way of Survival, but rejected them as unsuitable for his needs.
• Ye Chen discovered that Blood Severing Ghost Finger had a five-star rating and chose the secret art despite its extreme difficulty.
• The Guardian Elder warned Ye Chen that no one, including the Dragon King, had successfully mastered Blood Severing Ghost Finger, but Ye Chen took its Jade Slip without paying contribution points.

Ye Chen reported the Azure Dragon Hall’s ambush losses to the Dragon God Palace elders, revealing that his side had killed over two thousand enemies while losing only four disciples. After receiving a second war chariot and returning to the Azure Dragon Hall, he continued cultivating the Blood Severing Ghost Finger, whose eerie visions accompanied his growing skill.

• Ye Chen told Elder Yu that an ambush had killed more than four hundred of his people, but his forces had slain over two thousand enemies.
• Elder Yu brought Ye Chen to the Elder Hall, where the elders celebrated the victory and learned that only four Dragon God Palace disciples had died.
• Elder Yu gave Ye Chen a second war chariot, the Black Glue War Chariot, and Ye Chen returned to the Azure Dragon Hall the next day.
• Lin Canghai trained in solitude after losing his wager to Ye Chen, determined to grow strong enough to challenge him again.
• Ye Chen cultivated the Blood Severing Ghost Finger until he could drain the life from a tree, while increasingly vivid visions of departed souls appeared to him.

The four great powers planned to trap and kill Ye Chen during a resource transport, while Ye Chen uncovered Yao Yifeng’s betrayal. He exposed the mole by recovering a conversation from Yao Yifeng’s Voice Transmission Conch, leaving the conspirators’ identity unresolved.

• The four branch hall masters agreed to use force against Ye Chen, and Zhou volunteered to draw him into an ambush for a share of the rewards.
• Ye Chen, Xu Danian, and Wu Chuan received a mission to escort resources from Azure Spirit Island.
• Ye Chen secretly listened as Yao Yifeng negotiated with an unknown party to betray the mission in exchange for Half Supreme-Grade pills.
• Ye Chen confronted Yao Yifeng and summoned Wei Longtao, Xu Danian, and Wu Chuan to witness the accusation.
• Ye Chen took Yao Yifeng’s Storage Spirit Ring and used its Voice Transmission Conch to replay the conversation in reverse, stunning Yao Yifeng.

Ye Chen exposed Yao Yifeng as a spy, but Wei Longtao killed him before he could be interrogated, prompting Ye Chen to suspect the Azure Dragon Hall Master and move to take him to Dragon God Palace. Wei Longtao resisted, and their battle began above Azure Dragon Island, where Ye Chen discovered the strength of Wei Longtao’s fourth-order Spirit Body and Bull Demon Mountain Shattering Art.

• Ye Chen used a Voice Transmission Conch to confirm Yao Yifeng was a spy, but Wei Longtao killed Yao Yifeng before he could be questioned.
• Ye Chen accused Wei Longtao of silencing Yao Yifeng, while Xu Danian and Wu Chuan hesitated to intervene.
• Wei Longtao ordered Xu Danian and Wu Chuan to seize Ye Chen, but both refused because Ye Chen was a Dragon Envoy.
• Ye Chen tried to arrest Wei Longtao and fought him after Wei Longtao struck back, destroying the secret chamber.
• Xu Danian and Wu Chuan suspected Wei Longtao was involved and decided to watch the fight before helping Ye Chen if needed.
• Wei Longtao unleashed the Bull Demon Mountain Shattering Art, and Ye Chen drew the Thunder Calamity Sword to meet his close-range attack.

Ye Chen and Wei Longtao fought a fierce battle on Azure Dragon Island, with both demonstrating overwhelming strength. Ye Chen tested his newly learned Blood Severing Ghost Finger, but it only drained a small amount of Wei Longtao’s blood vitality, and the battle continued.

• Ye Chen used Golden Ripples and his Destruction Sword Intent to meet Wei Longtao’s attacks, shocking Wu Chuan, Xu Danian, and the spectators who gathered on Azure Dragon Island.
• Ye Chen and Wei Longtao exchanged powerful blows, and Wei Longtao decided to unleash his full strength with the Bull Demon Mountain Shattering Art.
• Wei Longtao revealed his immense blood vitality and attacked with Bull Demon Seizing the Flood Dragon, while Ye Chen used Dragon Bone Manifestation and Thunder Devour to counter him.
• After several dozen exchanges, Ye Chen struck Wei Longtao with the Blood Severing Ghost Finger, but Wei Longtao lost only a small amount of blood vitality and recognized that Ye Chen had barely begun to master the technique.

Ye Chen and Wei Longtao fought fiercely, with Wei Longtao's body-refining power and defense surviving Ye Chen's Golden Tempest. Unable to defeat him with his current strength, Ye Chen decided to expose his Sword Control Technique.

• Wei Longtao used the Bull Demon Mountain Shattering Art to attack Ye Chen, but Ye Chen's swordsmanship and Dragon Bone Defense Layer held him off.
• Wei Longtao unleashed the Bull Demon Mountain-Shattering Fist, and Ye Chen countered with Golden Tempest, which pierced the demon bull phantom and struck Wei Longtao's chest.
• Wei Longtao recovered from the blow with only a minor injury and declared that Ye Chen's attack could not harm him.
• Ye Chen admitted he had underestimated Wei Longtao, then said he had not yet displayed his true strength.
• After Wei Longtao dismissed him as arrogant, Ye Chen decided to reveal his Sword Control Technique.

Ye Chen defeated Wei Longtao with a flying sword and brought him before the Council of Elders on suspicion of being a spy. The elders hesitated over the accusation, while Ye Chen remained unconcerned about losing their support.

• Ye Chen struck Wei Longtao with his flying Golden Sword, severely wounding him before the watching crowd.
• Ye Chen pulled the helpless Wei Longtao back, then carried him to the Teleportation Hall and ordered the Stewards to summon the elders.
• Ye Chen told the Council of Elders that Yao Yifeng had been a spy, that Wei Longtao had killed him, and why he suspected Wei Longtao as well.
• Wei Longtao challenged the elders to choose whether to believe him or Ye Chen, and several elders hesitated because the evidence was insufficient.
• Elder Yu warned Ye Chen that capturing Wei Longtao could alienate the elders, but Ye Chen replied that he valued strength over power.

Ye Chen secured the Council of Elders’ decision to investigate Wei Longtao and keep him from returning to his post while a temporary hall master was appointed. He then led Azure Dragon Hall’s resource convoy into a trap, where hidden Dragon God Palace reinforcements emerged to surround the enemy.

• The Grand Elder and most of the elders agreed to investigate Wei Longtao, keep him from leaving Dragon God Palace, and appoint a temporary Azure Dragon Hall master.
• Ye Chen returned to Azure Dragon Island and told Xu Danian and Wu Chuan that Wei Longtao would be investigated.
• Ye Chen ordered the resource convoy to follow its original plan despite the enemy knowing its route and numbers.
• Sky Eagle Sect, Water Wave Sect, Black King Gate, and Whirlwind Gate divided their forces to attack the convoy near Azure Spirit Island.
• When the hook-nosed Sky Eagle Sect leader prepared to attack Ye Chen’s eleven hundred troops, Ye Chen called out hidden reinforcements from Black Dragon Hall, Red Dragon Hall, and White Dragon Hall, led by Mo Feng, who surrounded the enemy.

Ye Chen and the Azure Dragon Hall forces ambushed and wiped out the Sky Eagle Sect army, then lured the Whirlwind Gate forces into a second encirclement. The Whirlwind Gate was annihilated, while the Black King Gate and Water Wave Sect forces had yet to arrive.

• The hook-nosed middle-aged man led the Sky Eagle Sect forces toward Ye Chen’s smaller group, but Ye Chen split his troops to block their escape and destroyed the trapped army.
• Mo Feng and the hall masters of the Black Dragon Hall and Red Dragon Hall arrived after the battle, and the allied forces prepared for the remaining enemy factions.
• He Lengji led the Whirlwind Gate forces toward Ye Chen, believing the Sky Eagle Sect had only been driven back.
• Ye Chen drew He Lengji’s forces into an ambush, where the Black Dragon Hall, Red Dragon Hall, and White Dragon Hall joined the counterattack.
• The allied forces wiped out the Whirlwind Gate army, and the Red Dragon Hall Master celebrated the victory.

Ye Chen led Dragon God Palace’s forces in a battle that devastated the combined Black King Gate and Water Wave Sect army. As the enemy fled, Ye Chen caught and killed the Water Wave Sect branch hall master and his followers with one sword strike, bringing the operation close to a complete victory.

• The Black King Gate and Water Wave Sect forces joined up, but Ye Chen’s five-thousand-strong force drove them into retreat and pursued them.
• The two sides fought for three quarters of an hour, and Dragon God Palace’s forces wore down the enemy and killed more than two thousand of them.
• The green-clad Water Wave Sect branch hall master and the black-clad Black King Gate branch hall master fled with followers, prompting the enemy army to scatter.
• Ye Chen pursued the green-clad elder while Mo Feng followed to support him, and the other hall masters chased the black-clad man.
• The green-clad elder turned with more than twenty fighters to attack Ye Chen, but Ye Chen killed them all with Golden Ripples.

Ye Chen helped Dragon God Palace win a major campaign, killed the fleeing Water Wave Sect branch hall master, and received its highest individual honor. More than a year later, as the Blood War Sea conflict settled, Murong Qingcheng joined him and reported sweeping changes among the Grandmaster Ranking's leading geniuses.

• Ye Chen left Mo Feng to take charge and flew to assist the Red Dragon Hall and Black Dragon Hall masters, then killed the escaping old man in green with a sword strike.
• Dragon God Palace wiped out the Black King Gate and Water Wave Sect forces, and Ye Chen and the other victors received rewards and medals.
• Murong Qingcheng used her newly created Darkness Profundity Martial Art, Dark Devour, to consume an enemy leader and retrieve his Storage Spirit Ring and Superior-Grade Treasure.
• After more than a year of victories, Ye Chen considered resigning from his vice-hall master position as the Blood War Sea conflict stabilized.
• Murong Qingcheng told Ye Chen that Dugu Jue ranked second, Tantai Mingyue third, and several other geniuses had risen in the Grandmaster Ranking; Dugu Jue had also defeated Annihilation Blade Sovereign.

After resigning from Dragon God Palace, Ye Chen returned to the Ye Family and rested with Murong Qingcheng, then noticed his True Essence had surged and prepared to pursue the next stage of his cultivation. In the Southern Domain Cluster, Chu Zhongtian celebrated his rise on the Grandmaster Ranking but still regarded Ye Chen as the greatest obstacle.

• Ye Chen resigned as Vice Hall Master of Azure Dragon Hall and returned with Murong Qingcheng to Southern Luo Sect, where Long Biyun thanked him for turning the tide in the Blood War Sea.
• Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng returned to the Ye Family, spent a week resting together, and shared their first night as a couple.
• Ye Chen sensed that his True Essence had grown enough to bring him close to the Late Spirit Sea Realm, reviewed his Martial Arts, and planned to advance the Sword Control Technique to its third level.
• Chu Zhongtian drank with the Golden Sand Region geniuses, who praised his top-twenty Grandmaster Ranking position and his growing prominence.
• Chu Zhongtian said that Ye Chen remained the one rival he could not dismiss, despite the other formidable geniuses he had encountered.

Ye Chen perfected the use of multiple True Essence flying swords before traveling with Murong Qingcheng to Lotus City at Yan Fengfeng’s invitation. There, he reunited with old companions and heard a West Sea swordsman boast that Lu Shaoyou had fallen to fewer than ten of his swords.

• Ye Chen tested three naturally divided True Essence flying swords on a damaged Superior-Grade shield and judged each to have about one-third of the original sword’s power.
• Yan Fengfeng invited Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng to the Heavenly Martial Domain, and they traveled there by Flying Puppet.
• Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng arrived in Lotus City and joined Yan Fengfeng, Hai Wuyai, and disciples from the Profound Sect and Heavensea Gate at White Cloud Restaurant.
• The restaurant’s guests discussed Ye Chen’s return, his first-place Grandmaster Ranking, and the rise of Dugu Jue, Tantai Mingyue, and Bai Wuxue.
• A young man from the West Sea claimed that Lu Shaoyou had failed to withstand ten of his swords, provoking the gathered geniuses.

Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng encountered Liu Wujian, the West Sea Sword Sect Master, and his companions at a tavern, where a clash revealed the strength of both Murong Qingcheng and Ye Chen. Liu Wujian departed after challenging the True Spirit Continent’s geniuses to meet him at Nine Dragon Lake on September eighteenth.

• Nalan mocked Ye Chen’s Sword Sect Master title, and Murong Qingcheng challenged her after she questioned Nalan’s relationship with Liu Wujian.
• Nalan attacked Murong Qingcheng with a True Essence whip and crimson python, but Murong Qingcheng broke through her defenses and nearly struck her with the Sky Demon Finger.
• Liu Wujian intercepted Murong Qingcheng’s attack and sent Sword Qi toward Ye Chen, who sliced it apart before Liu Wujian stopped Ye Chen’s counterattack.
• Liu Wujian acknowledged Ye Chen as a potential opponent and said he had come on behalf of his master to challenge the Heaven Sword Sect.
• Liu Wujian announced from the stairway that he would meet the True Spirit Continent’s geniuses at Nine Dragon Lake on September eighteenth.