Chapter Summaries

Ye Chen faced Star Sword Marquis in a sword duel, countering his first three kills with an improvised vibrating swordplay before using Sword Domain to disrupt the Fourth Kill. The two exchanged powerful strikes, and Star Sword Marquis, badly injured, prepared to unleash the uncontrollable Fifth Kill.

• Star Sword Marquis opened with the First Kill and Second Kill, but Ye Chen blocked both with the Evil Cleaving Sword.
• Ye Chen used vibrating swordplay, inspired by Lan Shanmei's Demonic Blade Art, to break Star Sword Marquis's Third Kill.
• Star Sword Marquis launched the Fourth Kill, but Ye Chen's Sword Domain stalled him and left him with a sword scar on his cheek.
• Star Sword Marquis used Moonlight Slash against Ye Chen's Crescent Moon, and both fighters were thrown back.
• Wounded by the exchange, Star Sword Marquis announced that he would unleash the Fifth Kill, which even he could not control.

Ye Chen revealed his Sword Domain and killed Star Sword Marquis by turning aside his fifth strike, Starfall Strike. The point battles continued, with Xu Jing crushing Lan Shanmei and Snow Sword Marquis defeating Luo Tiandu as his battle intent grew.

• Star Sword Marquis unleashed Starfall Strike, but Ye Chen revealed his Sword Domain and Sword Rule, deflected the attack, and cut open Star Sword Marquis's throat.
• The spectators recognized Ye Chen's Sword Domain, and Snow Sword Marquis became eager to challenge him.
• In the twenty-fifth round, Xu Jing crushed Lan Shanmei with one blow, while Ye Chen easily defeated Chu Zhongtian.
• The twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh rounds featured several exciting duels.
• In the twenty-eighth round, Snow Sword Marquis defeated Luo Tiandu and showed no fear of Ye Chen's Sword Domain.

Ye Chen honed Vibration Swordplay against Lan Shanmei, while the twenty-eighth round ended with Xu Jing defeating Elephant Shao using Second-Tier Sacred Dragon Fist. The onlookers wondered whether Xu Jing was a dragon or a draconic being, as the competition moved on.

• Ye Chen tested Vibration Swordplay and found that its force damaged ordinary high-grade treasure swords.
• Ye Chen exchanged blows with Lan Shanmei and experienced the greater vibrational force of her Demon Slash; Lan Shanmei conceded the battle.
• Elephant Shao challenged Xu Jing and offered to lose if she became his woman, but Xu Jing rejected him and attacked with Poison Dragon Fist.
• Elephant Shao used his War Elephant Fist, secret arts, and ancestral reversion, but Xu Jing broke through his defenses with Second-Tier Sacred Dragon Fist and turned him into a cloud of blood mist.
• The spectators questioned whether Xu Jing was a dragon, and Star Sword Marquis suggested that she was a draconic race with dragon blood.

The Life and Death Hall points battle continued as Ye Chen, Snow Sword Marquis, and Star Sword Marquis faced formidable opponents. When Star Sword Marquis seemed poised to kill Snow Sword Marquis, Snow Sword Marquis revealed that he also possessed Sword Domain, leaving the spectators stunned.

• Ye Chen used Sword Domain and Vibration Swordplay to defeat Luo Tiandu.
• Snow Sword Marquis defeated Elephant Shao with Snow Dance Across the Heavens, while Star Sword Marquis killed Lan Shanmei with his fifth kill after she challenged it to understand the Path of Death.
• Star Sword Marquis defeated Elephant Shao and Luo Tiandu, while Lan Shanmei defeated Elephant Shao at the cost of grievous injuries.
• Star Sword Marquis and Snow Sword Marquis fought evenly through their earlier techniques before Star Sword Marquis unleashed the fifth kill of Seven Stars Assassination Swordplay.
• As Star Sword Marquis's sword threatened Snow Sword Marquis's life, its trajectory twisted, revealing that Snow Sword Marquis possessed Sword Domain.

Snow Sword Marquis revealed a Sword Domain and defeated Star Sword Marquis, then Xu Jing overwhelmed Star Sword Marquis with her strength and Golden Dragon power. The decisive match between Ye Chen and Snow Sword Marquis began, setting up a clash of Sword Domains.

• Snow Sword Marquis distorted Star Sword Marquis's attack with his Sword Domain and pierced his throat, winning their duel.
• The spectators learned that Sky Sword Continent's Sword Dimension helped swordsmen cultivate Sword Domains, while Star Sword Marquis resolved to pursue one himself.
• Xu Jing fought Star Sword Marquis, countered his attacks, and caught his Starfall Strike with her gloved hand before defeating him with Sacred Dragon Fist.
• Ye Chen recognized Snow Sword Marquis as a worthy Sword Domain rival and looked forward to testing his own domain against him.
• The Life and Death Stone Tablet matched Ye Chen against Snow Sword Marquis, bringing the two sword prodigies face to face.

Ye Chen fought Snow Sword Marquis without using their Sword Domains and gradually gained the upper hand with his swordsmanship. When Snow Sword Marquis unleashed Pinnacle Ice Thrust, Ye Chen countered with dual swords, forcing both of them to activate their Sword Domains and bringing the duel to a stalemate.

• Star Sword Marquis expected Snow Sword Marquis to have the advantage once their Sword Domains came into play.
• Ye Chen and Snow Sword Marquis agreed to fight without their Sword Domains, and Ye Chen pressured Snow Sword Marquis with faster, more precise swordsmanship.
• Snow Sword Marquis used Snow Dance Across the Heavens, but Ye Chen broke through the attack and forced him to retreat.
• Snow Sword Marquis unleashed Pinnacle Ice Thrust, and Ye Chen met it with his Evil Cleaving Sword while thrusting the Tattered Blood Sword toward Snow Sword Marquis's head.
• Ye Chen and Snow Sword Marquis activated their Sword Domains simultaneously, twisting each other's sword trajectories and preventing either from landing a hit.

Ye Chen and Snow Sword Marquis fought with their Sword Domains, testing their limits through simultaneous attacks and competing sword formations. Ye Chen shattered Snow Sword Marquis’s amplified soul attack with Soul Light, then struck him down while his Sword Domain was uncontrolled.

• Ye Chen and Snow Sword Marquis discovered that their Sword Domains could cancel each other out but still allowed enough attacks through to wound one another.
• Ye Chen wielded two swords to double his Spirit Heart Sword attacks, forcing Snow Sword Marquis to defend until they reached a stalemate.
• Snow Sword Marquis expanded his Sword Domain and summoned thousands of pale white swords, while Ye Chen answered with thousands of azure swords.
• Ye Chen outmaneuvered Snow Sword Marquis’s sword formations, but Snow Sword Marquis amplified his Soul Force and attacked Ye Chen with Soul Secret Sword.
• Ye Chen opened a vertical eye and used Soul Light to destroy the soul sword and strike Snow Sword Marquis’s Soul Sea, leaving him unable to control his Sword Domain.
• Ye Chen’s azure swords overwhelmed Snow Sword Marquis, turning him into a cloud of blood mist as the spectators noticed Ye Chen’s vertical eye.

Ye Chen awakened the Soul Eye and defeated Snow Sword Marquis, while Xu Jing won their fight by killing Snow Sword Marquis with her Sacred Dragon Fist. Xu Jing yielded first place to Ye Chen in the final battle, and the Life and Death Realm Candidate List rankings were finalized with Ye Chen at the top.

• The crowd recognized Ye Chen's vertical eye as the Soul Eye, and Snow Sword Marquis vowed to settle their score once they reached the Life and Death Realm.
• Xu Jing defeated Snow Sword Marquis with her Second-Tier Sacred Dragon Fist after resisting his Sword Domain and Pinnacle Ice Thrust.
• Ye Chen told Xu Jing he could not beat her, and Xu Jing shattered her own heart meridians to concede and give him the chance to earn more Life and Death Stones.
• The Life and Death Stone Tablet finalized the rankings with Ye Chen first, Xu Jing second, and Snow Sword Marquis third.
• The top ten received their rewards, with Ye Chen receiving three Life and Death Stones, Xu Jing and Snow Sword Marquis receiving two each, and the others receiving one each.

Ye Chen entered the Life and Death Hall Garden to improve his Water Profundity and quickly advanced from sixty to seventy percent, while other young experts also made breakthroughs. The chapter left Ye Chen continuing his search for deeper comprehension as Snow Sword Marquis further refined the fusion of water and ice.

• The Life and Death Stone Tablet announced Ye Chen as first on the Life and Death Realm Candidate List, astonishing experts across the secret realm.
• Ye Chen and Xu Jing entered the Life and Death Hall Garden, then parted to focus on comprehending its profundities.
• Ye Chen chose to study Water Profundity and raised it from sixty to seventy percent while contemplating the garden’s lake.
• Dugu Jue comprehended the Path of Death, and Lan Shanmei added Wind Essence to her saber arts.
• Ye Chen continued studying Water Profundity at a waterfall, while Snow Sword Marquis improved the fusion of Water Profundity and Ice Profundity in his Pinnacle Ice Thrust.

Ye Chen created the second form of Autumn Water Swordplay while the other geniuses tested their strength before the Life and Death Secret Realm closed. Snow Sword Marquis narrowly defeated Star Sword Marquis, and Elephant Shao challenged Ye Chen as the chapter ended.

• Ye Chen raised Water Profundity to eighty percent mastery, created the Condensing Water technique, and named his sword art Autumn Water Swordplay.
• Dugu Jue killed the Undying Devil Young Master in two strikes, then lost to Lan Shanmei's Demon Slash.
• Snow Sword Marquis fought Star Sword Marquis without Sword Domain, killed him with Pinnacle Ice Thrust, and survived with a severe wound.
• Elephant Shao announced that his Essence of Earth had reached seventy percent mastery and challenged Ye Chen to fight.

Ye Chen defeated Elephant Shao with his newly developed Condensing Water technique, then left the Life and Death Secret Realm and learned that powerful Demon Kings from the Sky Tiger and White Wolf Sects might target him. As Lan Shanmei sent a message and a white-haired old man appeared, Ye Chen remained in danger.

• Ye Chen refused to use his Sword Domain and defeated Elephant Shao by destroying his arm and piercing his throat with the Condensing Water technique.
• Snow Sword Marquis praised Ye Chen's move, and the cultivators were teleported out when the Life and Death Secret Realm closed.
• Lan Shanmei warned Ye Chen that the Sky Tiger Demon Sect would seek revenge for Tiger Shao, but Ye Chen refused to flee Blood Sky Continent.
• Lan Shanmei told Ye Chen about the formidable Demon Kings of the Sky Tiger and White Wolf Sects and offered him refuge with the Demonic Blade Sect.
• Lan Shanmei sent a message with a jade talisman, and a white-haired old man emerged through a split in the distant sky.

Giant Wolf King confronted Ye Chen over Wolf Shao’s death, but Ye Chen fought him to a standstill and wounded him with his sword techniques. As Giant Wolf King transformed and attacked again, Ye Chen used Blood Severing Ghost Finger to expose his weakness and drain his Blood and Qi.

• Giant Wolf King accused Ye Chen of killing Wolf Shao and demanded that he return to the White Wolf Sect for a hundred years of punishment, but Ye Chen refused.
• Giant Wolf King tried to capture Ye Chen with Body-Binding Palm, but Ye Chen broke free with Sword Domain and Condensing Water, forcing Giant Wolf King back.
• Giant Wolf King attacked with Hundred Wolves Treading Heaven Palm, but Ye Chen shattered the wolves with Mirror Flower Devastation and wounded him with Condensing Water.
• Giant Wolf King transformed into a giant wolf and charged Ye Chen, but Ye Chen shattered a spatial mirror around him and covered him in wounds.
• Ye Chen used Blood Severing Ghost Finger to pull Blood and Qi from Giant Wolf King, weakening his life aura and revealing the vulnerability left by his unusual rise to Demon King.

Ye Chen used the Scorpio Sword to badly wound Giant Wolf King and drive him away, stunning the gathered young powerhouses. Elsewhere, Empress Xuan faced Sky-Tiger King and secured three years before she would stop opposing him.

• Giant Wolf King’s Azure Iron Claw injured Ye Chen, but Ye Chen used his Sword Domain and Mirror Flower Devastation to keep fighting.
• Ye Chen drew the Scorpio Sword and pierced Giant Wolf King’s defenses with Condensing Water, forcing the wounded Demon King to flee.
• The spectators praised Ye Chen’s victory, while Linghu Yi reconsidered making an enemy of him and Lan Shanmei spoke with him as he replenished his True Essence.
• Empress Xuan met Sky-Tiger King and told him she would not stop him three years later; Sky-Tiger King rejected the idea that Ye Chen could reach the Life and Death Realm by then.
• Sky-Tiger King returned and announced he would enter seclusion for three years.

After returning from the Life and Death Secret Realm as its top-ranked candidate and defeating the Giant Wolf King, Ye Chen consolidated his cultivation and forged swords until he formed a fifth-level Immortality Sword Soul. The Blood Shadows decided to keep watching him while they worked to unseal their leaders, and Ye Chen’s cultivation reached the peak of the third level of the Life and Death Threshold.

• Lan Shanmei left Ye Chen in the Desolate Wilds Mountain Range, and he returned to the Eternal Sky Sect, where he announced that he had placed first in the Life and Death Secret Realm.
• Ye Chen spent seven days consolidating his third-level Life and Death Threshold cultivation, then resolved to forge high-grade treasure swords.
• News spread that Ye Chen had taken first place on the Life and Death Realm Candidate List and defeated the Giant Wolf King, shocking the continents.
• Three Blood Shadows identified Ye Chen as a threat but ordered Demon Horn to observe him without acting while they focused on unsealing Lord Curse, Lord Fear, and the others.
• After forging swords for a month, Ye Chen formed a fifth-level Immortality Sword Soul, which resonated with his fifth-level Destruction Sword Soul and brought his cultivation to the peak of the third level of the Life and Death Threshold.

Ye Chen achieved Limb Regeneration, replenished his True Essence, forged the superior high-grade treasure sword Hundred Lifetimes, and began comprehending the Path of Death. As he made progress toward entering the Life and Death Realm, the Blackwater Alliance secretly prepared to kill him before he advanced.

• Ye Chen merged True Essence into his bones and reached the initial stage of Limb Regeneration, then refined fifty thousand True Essence Crystals until his reserves tripled.
• Ye Chen completed the sword Hundred Lifetimes, whose powerful Undying Sword Intent let it sever another high-grade treasure sword.
• Ye Chen focused on the Path of Undying and began sensing the Path of Death through the Condensing Water Sword Technique.
• At the Blackwater Alliance headquarters, the black-clothed leader ordered Wang Taiyi to take two Kings to the Blood Sky Continent and kill Ye Chen secretly before he entered the Life and Death Realm.
• Ye Chen landed a Condensing Water strike that extinguished a tree's vitality, confirming that he had grasped a trace of the Path of Death, and he grew confident he could seriously injure the Giant Wolf King without the Scorpio Sword.

Ye Chen used Death Qi Iron to study the Path of Death while Sky Yin King hired Poison Fire King and Blood Hand King to assassinate him for his sword and wealth. As the two attackers approached, Ye Chen sensed their King-level Soul Force but continued practicing, unaware of who was targeting him.

• Ye Chen took out Death Qi Iron and tried to deepen his understanding of the Path of Death, but found his death qi was not yet concentrated enough.
• Sky Yin King recruited Poison Fire King, offering him two Blazing Star Crystals and a share of Ye Chen's True Essence Crystals and treasure.
• Sky Yin King chose Blood Hand King as another assassin, and Wang Taiyi accompanied the pair toward the Eternal Sky Sect.
• Ye Chen sensed two strands of King-level Soul Force scanning him and concealed his awareness while continuing to practice ordinary sword techniques.
• Ye Chen suspected someone wanted the Scorpio Sword, but remembered that an Emperor-level King's decree forbade large-scale invasions of the Eternal Sky Sect.

Ye Chen ambushed Poison Fire King and Blood Hand King with Mirror Flower Devastation, then used his swordsmanship and Soul Light to target Blood Hand King. He killed Blood Hand King with Condensing Water, but Poison Fire King's Venomfire Explosion struck him as the fight continued.

• Poison Fire King and Blood Hand King emerged from spatial concealment to attack Ye Chen, but Ye Chen struck first with Mirror Flower Devastation and wounded them both.
• Ye Chen opened his silver vertical eye and attacked Blood Hand King with Condensing Water, shattering his arms, but Blood Hand King resisted the Path of Death.
• Ye Chen expanded his Sword Domain and sent thousands of azure treasure swords at the two kings while Blood Hand King's arms and wounds regenerated.
• Ye Chen struck Blood Hand King with Soul Light, dazing him, then charged in and thrust Condensing Water into his brow.
• Poison Fire King unleashed Venomfire Explosion, but Ye Chen's sword attack exploded Blood Hand King's head and killed him before Poison Fire King's flames struck Ye Chen.

Ye Chen fought the Poison Fire King after surviving his Venomfire Explosion, then drove him into the void with a spatial attack. Ye Chen was left badly weakened, with fire poison consuming his True Essence, as the Poison Fire King escaped and vowed revenge.

• The Eternal Sky Sect felt the battle between Ye Chen and the Poison Fire King, and Li Changfeng recovered Ye Chen's sword sheath after it was blasted back to the sect.
• Ye Chen survived Venomfire Explosion with Undying Sword Intent, but the flames burned off his limbs before his swords struck back and forced the Poison Fire King to regenerate his own limbs.
• Ye Chen regrew his limbs, used a Fruit of Life to replenish his vitality, and countered the Poison Fire King's fire attacks while fighting with both swords.
• Ye Chen used Mirror Flower Devastation and Condensing Water together, forcing the Poison Fire King to retreat and disrupting his attacks.
• The Poison Fire King tried to flee through space, but Ye Chen froze him in a spatial barrier and shattered the part of his body outside the void.
• The Poison Fire King escaped into the void and threatened revenge, while Ye Chen spat out fire poison and realized his True Essence was nearly exhausted.

After recovering from his fight with the Poison Fire King, Ye Chen discovered that the fire poison in his body was steadily turning his True Essence and vitality into more poison. The Primal Emperor Image identified it as Astral Starfire Poison from a Stellar Poisonfire Diamond and warned that Ye Chen would have to clear it slowly himself.

• Ye Chen recovered his True Essence, told Li Changfeng the attacker likely had no connection to the Eternal Sky Sect, and went into seclusion to heal.
• Ye Chen searched the Blood Hand King's Storage Spirit Ring and gained spirit stones, valuable forging materials, True Essence Crystals, a Fire Pear Tree, and Soul Stones.
• Ye Chen found that the fire poison had spread through his cells and was slowly converting his True Essence into poison, so he used ice-attribute spirit herbs and an Ice Crystal Stone to suppress it.
• Ye Chen summoned the Primal Emperor Image with the High Mountain Vista Painting and asked him to identify the fire poison.
• The Primal Emperor Image recognized Astral Starfire Poison from a Stellar Poisonfire Diamond and said he could not safely remove it, leaving Ye Chen to clear it gradually.

Ye Chen learned four ways to remove the mutated Astral Starfire Poison and received the Poison Transformation Art from the Primal Emperor Image. After hearing about the coming war against another world, he began cultivating the art to suppress the poison himself.

• The Primal Emperor Image explained that Ye Chen could purge the poison by raising his Spirit Body, reaching the Life and Death Realm, advancing his Destruction Sword Intent, or seeking help from a suitable Top-tier King.
• The Primal Emperor Image taught Ye Chen the high-grade heaven-class Poison Transformation Art, which could help him suppress and eventually refine the poison.
• The Primal Emperor Image warned Ye Chen that he would need to reach at least the Primal Emperor's realm to help preserve the True Spirit Continent, and urged him to survive and eliminate threats.
• The Primal Emperor Image returned to the High Mountain Vista Painting, and Ye Chen resolved to continue growing stronger.
• Ye Chen studied the Poison Transformation Art's stages and began cultivating it on the stone platform.