Chapter Summaries

Murong Qingcheng left with the black-robed woman to train among the Human-Demon Clan, while the Primal Emperor Image warned Ye Chen about threats from outer-realm races and urged him to enter the Life and Death Realm. Ye Chen traveled to Cold Iron City to gather sword-forging materials, where he heard of the Blood Sea Fifty Bandits and sensed a powerful aura from a woman in blue.

• Murong Qingcheng departed with the black-robed woman, and the Primal Emperor Image explained that outer-realm races had destroyed the True Water Palace and warned that the Devil Race could return.
• The black-robed woman told Murong Qingcheng that the Human-Demon Clan faced hidden dangers and urged her to grow strong enough to protect it; Murong Qingcheng said she would choose the human race if forced to choose sides.
• Ye Chen stored the ink painting after the Primal Emperor Image warned him not to use it except in a life-or-death crisis and urged him to enter the Life and Death Realm.
• Ye Chen flew south to Cold Iron City, entered through its north gate, and bought materials for forging a Top-Grade Treasure Sword.
• At a restaurant, Ye Chen heard patrons discuss the Blood Sea Fifty Bandits and their attacks on merchant caravans; as he left, he sensed a powerful aura from a woman in blue who passed him.

Ye Chen joined the Full Moon Caravan for its journey to the Blood Sky Continent, where he planned to enter the Life and Death Secret Realm. He reunited with Thunder Spirit King and learned that True Spirit Continent geniuses on the Life and Death Realm Candidate List could help him in the realm.

• Ye Chen honed his mid-grade Sword-Forging Art until he forged superior mid-grade treasure swords with a hundred percent success rate and exceptional ones with nearly forty percent success.
• Ye Chen joined the Full Moon Caravan, which was hiring experts to cross the Blood Sea to the Blood Sky Continent.
• Lan Shanmei joined the caravan, followed by Thunder Spirit King, and Ye Chen reunited with Thunder Spirit King.
• The caravan departed Cold Iron City, and Ye Chen and Thunder Spirit King discussed the many Half-Step Kings traveling beyond the True Spirit Continent.
• Thunder Spirit King urged Ye Chen to enter the Life and Death Secret Realm and told him to seek out True Spirit Continent candidates there, beginning to name Luo Tiandu.

Ye Chen and Thunder Spirit King learned more about the powerful Half-Step Kings of the True Spirit Continent while traveling with the Full Moon Caravan toward Blood Sky Continent. The Blood Sea Fifty Bandits surrounded their puppet ship, and both sides launched into battle.

• Thunder Spirit King told Ye Chen that many past and present geniuses had reached the Half-Step King realm, and revealed that he had reached the third level of the Life and Death Threshold.
• The Full Moon Caravan traveled aboard a high-grade puppet ship, with Thunder Spirit King and Lan Shanmei hired to protect it.
• After Soul Force scouts tracked the ship across the Blood Sea, all fifty bandit leaders and hundreds of followers surrounded the caravan and demanded its cargo and one hundred million High-Grade Spirit Stones.
• The fat old man recognized Overlord Fish as the bandits' leader, while Lan Shanmei reminded the caravan that the Fifty Bandits left no survivors.
• Overlord Fish ordered his forces to attack, and Lan Shanmei, Thunder Spirit King, Ye Chen, and the caravan's fighters left the ship to meet them.

Ye Chen, Lan Shanmei, and the Thunder Spirit King battled the Fifty Bandits to protect the Full Moon Caravan, killing the bandits’ leaders and turning the fight in the caravan’s favor. With the enemy leaders dead and their forces demoralized, the Full Moon Caravan appeared likely to survive.

• Lan Shanmei charged into the enemy ranks and killed scores of bandits before driving Ghost Granny back.
• The Thunder Spirit King fought the tall middle-aged bandit leader while Ye Chen used twenty-seven sword shadows to wipe out a group of attackers and cut down enemies across the battlefield.
• Mie Xie attacked Ye Chen with illusions, but Ye Chen resisted them and killed him with a single sword strike.
• Lan Shanmei killed Ghost Granny, while the Thunder Spirit King transformed the tall middle-aged man’s tyrant fish form into a charred corpse with his Falling Thunder Slash.
• The surviving Fifty Bandits lost their fighting spirit after their leaders died, and the Full Moon Caravan’s morale rose.

After the Full Moon Caravan reached the Blood Sky Continent, Ye Chen parted ways with Lan Shanmei and Thunder Spirit King and set out for the Iron Blood Domain to find the Undying Sword Sect founded by Battle King. Beastmen ambushed him outside the city to steal his commission, but Ye Chen killed them and continued on his journey.

• The Full Moon Caravan paid Ye Chen, Lan Shanmei, and Thunder Spirit King their commissions and gave them guest tokens.
• Lan Shanmei left for the Demonic Blade Sect, while Thunder Spirit King went off to seek life-and-death experiences and Ye Chen chose the Iron Blood Domain.
• Ye Chen recalled that Battle King had founded the Undying Sword Sect there and hoped it had survived the centuries.
• A group of beastmen chased Ye Chen out of the city, and their leader used his innate ability to slow him down.
• Ye Chen killed the attacking beastmen with the Tattered Blood Sword, took their Storage Spirit Rings, and flew onward.

Ye Chen traveled to the Iron Blood Domain to find the Undying Sword Sect, only to learn it had been renamed the Eternal Sky Sect and fallen to sixth grade. He reached the sect’s mountain range, where its surroundings reflected its decline, while the Zhi Mo Wen steward had recognized him from a portrait.

• Three Blood Shadows discovered that the Fifty Great Bandits had been wiped out, and Blood Bull agreed to pursue the culprit without targeting the Full Moon Merchant Guild.
• Ye Chen reached the Darksteel Mountains and found the Demon Wolf Sect in place of the Undying Sword Sect.
• In Iron Blood City, Ye Chen learned from a Zhi Mo Wen steward that the Undying Sword Sect had become the Eternal Sky Sect and was besieged on all sides.
• The steward recognized Ye Chen from a portrait after he left, and Ye Chen traveled to the Eternal Sky Sect’s mountain range.

Ye Chen arrived at the struggling Eternal Sky Sect and witnessed Gao Zhiyuan and the other disciples choose to stay rather than abandon it. He revealed himself as a member of the sect and led them uphill, promising that the sect would change from that day onward.

• Ye Chen reached the Eternal Sky Sect and watched Gao Zhiyuan prepare to leave with Li Cui and other disciples.
• Wu Changxing urged Gao Zhiyuan to stay, and Li Cui revealed the sacrifices Gao Zhiyuan had made for the sect and his broken engagement.
• Gao Zhiyuan decided to remain, and Li Cui and the other departing disciples also abandoned their plans to leave.
• Ye Chen recognized Gao Zhiyuan's talent and strengthened resolve, then appeared before the disciples as a Half-Step King.
• Ye Chen said he was a member of the Eternal Sky Sect and led the disciples toward the mountain, declaring that the sect would no longer remain as it had been.

Ye Chen reached the Eternal Sky Sect and revealed that he had inherited the Battle King's sword and teachings, proving his connection to the sect's founding patriarch. The sect mourned the Battle King's death, but the arrival of its Sword Fanatic Supreme Elder turned the gathering into a confrontation as Ye Chen caught his sword with two fingers.

• Ye Chen led Gao Zhiyuan and the other disciples to the mountaintop, where Sect Master Li Changfeng and the Eternal Sky Sect's experts awaited him.
• Li Changfeng challenged Ye Chen's presence, and Ye Chen said he could be considered a disciple of the Battle King.
• Ye Chen explained that the Battle King had probably died five hundred years earlier and showed his broken sword and knowledge of the Mandarin Duck Stone to prove his claim.
• Li Changfeng recognized the Mandarin Duck Stone as an heirloom of the Battle King's descendants and grieved that their ancestor was dead.
• The Sword Fanatic Supreme Elder suddenly attacked Ye Chen, and Ye Chen calmly reached out to catch the sword between two fingers.

Ye Chen defeated the Eternal Sky Sect's Supreme Elder without harming him, then agreed to become the sect's second Supreme Elder. Li Changfeng explained how the Undying Sword Sect had been driven from power and renamed, and the chapter ended as Ye Chen asked about the surrounding factions.

• The Supreme Elder attacked Ye Chen, who disarmed and knocked him back until Li Changfeng calmed him by reminding him that Ye Chen was a friend.
• Li Changfeng welcomed Ye Chen to the Eternal Sky Sect, and Ye Chen agreed to serve as its second Supreme Elder despite remaining committed to his family and sect on the True Spirit Continent.
• Ye Chen asked why the Undying Sword Sect had been renamed and diminished, and Li Changfeng recounted how enemies attacked after rumors spread that the ancestor had died.
• Li Changfeng said an Emperor-level King had stopped the sect's extermination on condition that it change its name, but the Eternal Sky Sect still faced suppression and dwindled to several thousand members.
• Ye Chen asked which factions surrounded the Eternal Sky Sect, and Li Changfeng began listing nearby Sixth-Rank groups.

Ye Chen learned how Eternal Sky Sect had been cornered by three powerful neighboring factions and began restoring its resources after becoming its Supreme Elder. He advanced to the high-level Half-Step King realm, leaving the sect shaken by the Sword Qi released during his breakthrough.

• Li Changfeng explained that Limitless Sky Sect, the Great Earth Bear Clan, and Vulture Valley had cut Eternal Sky Sect off from resources and made relocation too dangerous.
• Li Changfeng announced Ye Chen as Eternal Sky Sect’s new Supreme Elder, and Ye Chen gave him one million High-Grade Spirit Stones to distribute among the disciples.
• Ye Chen used Soul Force to hear disciples discuss how Rock Bear King had struck Elder Lu on the head, leaving him muddleheaded.
• Ye Chen improved his sword-forging skill and felt his cultivation bottleneck begin to loosen.
• Ye Chen broke through to the high-level Half-Step King realm, releasing a pillar of Sword Qi that astonished Eternal Sky Sect.

Ye Chen strengthened his Sword Domain, advanced his Gold Essence profundity, and helped Gao Zhiyuan cultivate with True Essence Crystals. The chapter ended as Yun Xiaoshui and Mo Xiaotang confronted Gao Zhiyuan at the Eternal Sky Sect, while Linghu Yi watched.

• After the sect elders congratulated Ye Chen on his breakthrough, he gave Gao Zhiyuan ten True Essence Crystals to speed up his cultivation.
• Ye Chen tested his expanded Sword Domain, whose azure swords carried the force of Late Spirit Sea Realm Peak attacks.
• Ye Chen perfected his mid-grade Sword-Forging Art, then raised his Gold Essence profundity to ninety percent and increased the power of Crescent Moon.
• Ye Chen sensed three visitors at the Eternal Sky Sect: Yun Xiaoshui, Linghu Yi, and Mo Xiaotang, Gao Zhiyuan's former fiancée.
• Mo Xiaotang questioned Gao Zhiyuan's decision to remain with the Eternal Sky Sect, while Yun Xiaoshui mocked him and prepared to prove his superiority.

Mo Xiaotang revealed that she had arranged Yun Xiaoshui’s challenge to push Gao Zhiyuan to leave the Eternal Sky Sect and grow stronger, but she stopped Yun from crippling him. Yun Xiaoshui learned she had never loved him, while Mo Xiaotang confessed her feelings to Gao Zhiyuan.

• Li Changfeng and the inner sect Grand Elder decided not to interfere as Gao Zhiyuan faced Yun Xiaoshui.
• Gao Zhiyuan accepted Yun Xiaoshui’s challenge, and the two began fighting in the plaza.
• Yun Xiaoshui gained the upper hand and battered Gao Zhiyuan, who blocked a potentially crippling blow with his strongest sword technique.
• Mo Xiaotang threw Iron Pear Blossom darts to stop Yun Xiaoshui from attacking Gao Zhiyuan again.
• Linghu Yi exposed Mo Xiaotang’s deception, and she admitted that she had used Yun Xiaoshui to provoke Gao Zhiyuan into seeking greater strength.
• Mo Xiaotang confessed that she loved Gao Zhiyuan and explained that she had intervened because she could not bear to see him crippled.

Gao Zhiyuan broke through to the Late Spirit Sea Realm and fought Yun Xiaoshui, while Mo Xiaotang and then Linghu Yi tried to intervene. After Gao Zhiyuan struck Yun Xiaoshui down, Linghu Yi demanded that the unseen person atop the Council Hall reveal himself.

• Yun Xiaoshui threatened to cripple Gao Zhiyuan, and Linghu Yi shielded him from the Eternal Sky Sect elders by claiming the fight was a friendly spar.
• Ye Chen told Li Changfeng that Gao Zhiyuan was about to break through, and Gao Zhiyuan reached the Late Spirit Sea Realm as his state of mind cleared.
• Yun Xiaoshui attacked Gao Zhiyuan before his breakthrough could settle, but Mo Xiaotang stepped in and was injured protecting him.
• Gao Zhiyuan fought back with his sword, breaking Yun Xiaoshui's thunder attacks before being badly injured by the Darklight Thunder Dragon Fist.
• Linghu Yi secretly disrupted Gao Zhiyuan and tried to stop his final strike, but Ye Chen's Sword Qi blocked Linghu Yi's finger force.
• Gao Zhiyuan's sword sent Yun Xiaoshui flying, and Linghu Yi shouted at the hidden figure on the Council Hall to come down.

Ye Chen intervened when Linghu Yi challenged the Eternal Sky Sect and fought the Limitless Sky Sect genius in the sky above the sect. He forced Linghu Yi back but had not defeated him, leaving the sect’s fate dependent on their battle.

• Ye Chen arrived at the plaza and declared that he would not let the three Great Sects humiliate the Eternal Sky Sect.
• Elder Lu sensed Linghu Yi’s Limitless Sky Sect aura and attacked, but Linghu Yi shattered his Sword Qi and sent him flying.
• Ye Chen drew the Evil Cleaving Sword and clashed with Linghu Yi, using his Destruction Sword Intent and Crescent Moon sword move to pressure him.
• Ye Chen and Linghu Yi moved several miles into the sky to continue fighting without endangering the Eternal Sky Sect’s main peak.
• Linghu Yi prepared to fight with his pseudo-top-grade gauntlets as the Eternal Sky Sect disciples watched, while Li Changfeng sent Gao Zhiyuan away to rest.

Ye Chen overwhelmed Linghu Yi in their battle, piercing his armor and wounding him even after Linghu Yi activated the Limitless Sky Demonic Body. After Ye Chen broke Linghu Yi’s strongest attack with Crescent Moon, he returned to the Eternal Sky Sect’s main peak plaza and wondered how the geniuses of the True Spirit Continent had grown.

• Linghu Yi unleashed Demon Wind Skycry, but Ye Chen cut through it with Crescent Moon and struck him with the Spirit Heart Sword, piercing his armor and drawing blood.
• Ye Chen’s Spirit Heart Sword repeatedly pierced Linghu Yi’s armor and body, leaving him badly wounded despite his attempts to evade.
• Linghu Yi activated the Limitless Sky Demonic Body, increasing his speed and power, then attacked Ye Chen with Demon Wind Skycry.
• Ye Chen imbued Crescent Moon with Destruction Sword Intent and broke through Linghu Yi’s defense, leaving him severely wounded and in need of months to recover.
• Ye Chen returned to the Eternal Sky Sect’s main peak plaza and thought about the potential and strength of Dugu Jue, Tantai Mingyue, and Chu Zhongtian.

After defeating Linghu Yi, Ye Chen strengthened the Eternal Sky Sect’s morale and continued refining his sword arts. With the Life and Death Secret Realm opening in two months, he asked Gao Zhiyuan about the Blood Sky Continent’s leading young geniuses and learned about the Eight Demon Youths.

• Mo Xiaotang returned to the Limitless Sky Sect with the wounded Linghu Yi and Yun Xiaoshui, sending word that she intended to leave and join the Eternal Sky Sect.
• Linghu Yi told Linghu Hou that Ye Chen was at least as strong as Tiger Shao, then resolved to recover and enter long-term seclusion before the Life and Death Secret Realm opened.
• Gao Zhiyuan visited Ye Chen after recovering from his injuries, and Ye Chen asked him to describe the Blood Sky Continent’s younger generation.
• Gao Zhiyuan named the Eight Demon Youths and the Four Fiends as the continent’s most prominent young powers, then described the Eight Demon Youths and their rankings, bloodlines, and rivalries.
• Gao Zhiyuan said that only Elephant Shao and Snake Shao among the Eight Demon Youths seemed worth Ye Chen’s attention.

Ye Chen learned about the Four Fiends, gave Gao Zhiyuan a Half-Supreme Treasure Sword, and improved his Spirit Heart Sword while preparing for the Life and Death Secret Realm. After the Eternal Sky Sect discovered a Spirit Vein at Mud Dragon Mountain, the three major forces moved to seize it, leaving the sect facing six Half-Step Kings.

• Gao Zhiyuan told Ye Chen about the Four Fiends, the Life and Death Realm Candidate List, and the powerful figures Elephant Shao, the Undying Devil Young Master, Iron Mad Lord, Lan Shanmei, and Linghu Yi.
• Ye Chen gave Gao Zhiyuan a Half-Supreme Treasure Sword, and over the following half month Ye Chen raised his Essence of Speed to sixty percent.
• Lan Shanmei demonstrated her Demonic Blade Art by defeating a disciple and then eight disciples without using True Essence or willpower.
• Elder Lu and another Eternal Sky Sect member discovered a high-grade mid-tier Spirit Vein beneath Mud Dragon Mountain, and Li Changfeng ordered the sect to excavate it quickly.
• The Great Earth Bear Clan, Vulture Valley, and Limitless Sky Sect arrived to claim the Spirit Vein, and the Great Earth Bear Clan leader killed Elder Lin.
• Elder Lu attacked the Great Earth Bear Clan leader but was stopped by a Half-Step King, while Linghu Hou declared that no one could save the Eternal Sky Sect from the six Half-Step Kings.

Ye Chen arrived at Mud Dragon Mountain and challenged the three great sects over the Spirit Vein, quickly wounding the Great Earth Bear Clan’s two Half-Step Kings. The six Half-Step Kings trapped him and launched a combined attack, but Ye Chen’s sword began twisting their seals and attacks as the chapter ended.

• Lu Youming attacked the Savage Bear King but was beaten back, and Ye Chen sensed the battle and hurried to Mud Dragon Mountain.
• Ye Chen killed a Great Earth Bear Clan minor leader and wounded the Savage Bear King with a single sword-finger strike.
• The Spirit Bear King trapped Ye Chen with Earth Prison and attacked with Mountain-Flipping Seal, but Ye Chen broke through and wounded him too.
• The Savage Bear King, Spirit Bear King, Flying Eagle King, Gray Hawk King, Linghu Hou, and the Limitless Sky Sect’s Supreme Elder surrounded Ye Chen and attacked together.
• Linghu Hou and the Spirit Bear King sealed Ye Chen while the others struck; Ye Chen swept the Evil Cleaving Sword, twisting the earth prison and Linghu Hou’s black energy core.

Ye Chen used Space Profundity and overwhelming sword techniques to defeat six Half-Step Kings sent by the three great sects at Mud Dragon Mountain. He spared them to avoid provoking the Iron Hoof Demon Sect, then left as the Eternal Sky Sect celebrated his victory.

• Ye Chen broke the six Half-Step Kings’ attacks with Space Profundity, then swiftly wounded Spirit Bear King, Savage Bear King, and the Limitless Sky Sect’s Supreme Elder.
• Ye Chen drained a third of Linghu Hou’s blood vitality with Blood Severing Ghost Finger and used his Tattered Blood Sword to sever Flying Eagle King’s wing and defeat Gray Hawk King.
• Ye Chen left all six Half-Step Kings alive because he did not want to provoke the Iron Hoof Demon Sect, and the forces of the three great sects fled Mud Dragon Mountain.
• The Eternal Sky Sect celebrated Ye Chen’s victory, while Li Changfeng and Gao Zhiyuan reflected on his extraordinary talent.
• Ye Chen told Li Changfeng he was returning and departed as a streak of Sword Light.

Ye Chen’s victory over the three Iron Blood Domain factions spread his name, while the Eternal Sky Sect prospered from its Spirit Vein. More than a month later, the Life and Death Gate appeared, drawing powerful young Half-Step Kings to the True Spirit Continent, where rivalries flared as they gathered for the secret realm.

• A report of Ye Chen defeating the Half-Step Kings of three factions reached the Iron Hoof Demon Sect, and its bull-headed leader asked whether Ye Chen had used a sword and come from the Sky Sword Continent.
• The Eternal Sky Sect faced no further challenges and gained Spirit Stones from the mid-grade Spirit Vein beneath Mud Dragon Mountain.
• The Life and Death Gate appeared above the Desolate Wilds Mountain Range, and Half-Step Kings from across the continents gathered at its entrance.
• Liu Wujian and Jiang Tian arrived after fighting on their way, while Yan Fengfeng, Sha Ruoqing, and Tantai Mingyue joined the gathering.
• Chu Zhongtian struck Jiang Tian and fought him until Dugu Jue’s blade forced them apart; they then stopped without settling their rivalry.
• Luo Tiandu and six other older Half-Step Kings arrived, and the gathered youths discussed their generation’s place in the history of the Life and Death Secret Realm.