Chapter Summaries

Ye Chen challenged the Sword Dimension and advanced through its layers, revealing that his Sword Domain had reached the second level. He entered the eleventh layer, where a thousand swordsmen with first-level Sword Domains attacked him, and the battle continued.

• Star Sword Marquis reached the ninth layer, met Ye Chen outside the Sword Dimension, and stayed to watch Ye Chen's challenge.
• Ye Chen passed the first six layers with ordinary Vibration Swordplay and defeated eighty-five opponents on the seventh layer before using his Sword Domain to finish the rest.
• Ye Chen easily passed the eighth layer and advanced through the ninth and tenth, while the observers debated how far he could go.
• Ye Chen reached the eleventh layer, startling the crowd and Star Sword Marquis, and faced a thousand swordsmen whose Sword Domains were at the first level.
• Ye Chen killed the first wave of swordsmen as they surrounded him and weakened his Sword Domain.

Ye Chen battled through the fourteenth floor of the Sword Dimension and reached the fifteenth, where his powerful soul helped him endure despite his Sword Domain remaining below the third realm. After dying on the fifteenth floor, he stayed inside the void to recover and prepare for another attempt as news of his feat spread across the Sky Sword Continent.

• Ye Chen cleared the thirteenth floor and entered the fourteenth, where he fought at full strength against swordsmen with peak first-realm Sword Domains.
• Ye Chen killed all one thousand swordsmen on the fourteenth floor, sharpening his combat skills, then advanced to the fifteenth floor.
• Ye Chen fought on the fifteenth floor and killed forty-two swordsmen before a storm of swords killed him.
• Ye Chen resolved to keep challenging the Sword Dimension until his Sword Domain reached the third realm and rested inside the void to recover.
• After a week without Ye Chen emerging, most spectators left, while news of his reaching the fifteenth floor spread across the Sky Sword Continent.

Ye Chen repeatedly challenged the fifteenth level of the Sword Dimension, pushing himself through exhaustion until his Sword Domain reached its third level and his swordsmanship attained Mind Sword Control. He cleared the fifteenth level and entered the sixteenth, then the seventeenth, leaving the waiting swordsmen stunned.

• Ye Chen increased his fifteenth-level record from forty-two swordsmen to eighty-four, then continued challenging the level every few days and gradually improved his results.
• After twenty-four days, Ye Chen sensed his Sword Domain stirring but was killed before he could break through, so he immediately challenged the Sword Dimension again despite his mental exhaustion.
• Ye Chen fought past seven hundred swordsmen and, as a dozen blades closed in, distorted their paths until they collided, completing the third level of his Sword Domain.
• With Mind Sword Control, Ye Chen killed all one thousand swordsmen on the fifteenth level and stood atop the mountain peak.
• The waiting swordsmen saw the barrier display the sixteenth level, then the seventeenth, as Ye Chen advanced.

Ye Chen cleared the seventeenth level of the Sword Dimension and briefly reached the eighteenth, where he killed three swordsmen before being overwhelmed. After leaving, he announced that he would accept disciples at the Ye Family and set out for the Blackwater Alliance to obtain resources.

• Ye Chen used Mind Sword Control to clear the seventeenth level, then was slain after killing three swordsmen on the eighteenth.
• Ye Chen left the Sword Dimension carrying inspiration from its many sword techniques and received an admiring welcome outside.
• Ye Chen told those seeking to place relatives under his tutelage to visit the Ye Family, where he would select disciples and teach others when he had time.
• News of Ye Chen's achievement and offer to accept disciples spread across the Sky Sword Continent, angering its sword dao Kings.
• Ye Chen flew toward the Blackwater Alliance, deciding that his increased True Essence consumption meant it was time for the alliance to pay.

Sky Yin King planned to use the Blackwater Alliance’s Emperor-level allies to push Demon Flower Empress out of Devouring Island’s profits and take revenge on Ye Chen. When Ye Chen arrived demanding three million True Essence Crystals each year, Sky Yin King persuaded him to wait until the next day, intending to trap him when Blackwater Ancestor returned.

• A Chaotic Demon Sea envoy demanded that the Blackwater Alliance raise Demon Flower Empress’s annual share to six million True Essence Crystals, but Sky Yin King offered only three million.
• After the envoy left, Sky Yin King revealed that the Blackwater Alliance was joining forces with three Emperor-level Kings and planned to cut Demon Flower Empress out of Devouring Island’s profits.
• Ye Chen arrived at the Blackwater Alliance headquarters and asked to speak with its leader.
• Sky Yin King greeted Ye Chen and was stunned when Ye Chen demanded three million True Essence Crystals every year as hush money.
• Sky Yin King claimed the Alliance Leader would return by the next day and convinced Ye Chen to wait on a nearby island, planning to trap him with Blackwater Ancestor and the Alliance Leader of the Southern Shallow Sea Alliance.

Blackwater Ancestor returned to the Blackwater Alliance after advancing to Emperor-level strength, where he discussed cooperation among four great forces with Yellow Robe Old Oddity. When Ye Chen demanded compensation for the Blackwater Alliance’s past pursuit of him, negotiations collapsed over the amount and terms.

• Blackwater Ancestor returned to the island, and Sky Yin King told him that Demon Flower Empress demanded six million True Essence Crystals each year.
• Sky Yin King revealed that Ye Chen was also demanding three million True Essence Crystals annually, enraging Blackwater Ancestor.
• Yellow Robe Old Oddity offered to mediate, claiming his ties to the Water Ape Clan would make Ye Chen accept a one-time payment.
• Yellow Robe Old Oddity proposed three million True Essence Crystals once, but Ye Chen countered with fifteen million once or three million each year.
• Blackwater Ancestor and Yellow Robe Old Oddity rejected Ye Chen’s terms, and Ye Chen threatened to settle the past accounts if they refused.

Ye Chen fought Blackwater Ancestor after the Blackwater Alliance refused his demand for True Essence Crystals. He gained the upper hand with his sword techniques, but Blackwater Ancestor charged again behind layered defenses as Ye Chen revealed the third layer of his Sword Domain.

• Blackwater Ancestor attacked Ye Chen with the Heavy Water True Thunder Art, and their first clash left Ye Chen at a slight disadvantage.
• Ye Chen used Mind Sword Control to wound Blackwater Ancestor and interrupt his Profound Water Thunderclap Palm.
• Ye Chen unleashed Orbit Kill Secret Sword, sending Blackwater Ancestor flying despite his supreme-grade battle armor.
• Blackwater Ancestor formed illusory armor with his ancient martial art and charged Ye Chen with another Profound Water Thunderclap Palm.
• Ye Chen released the third layer of his Sword Domain, slowing Blackwater Ancestor more than tenfold as he approached.

Ye Chen used his third-level Sword Domain to devastate Blackwater Ancestor and then fought Yellow Robe Old Oddity, who intervened to protect him. Ye Chen wounded Yellow Robe Old Oddity with Soul Light, but the battle remained unresolved.

• Ye Chen's third-level Sword Domain slowed Blackwater Ancestor, and three Heaven's Wounding Sword strikes shattered his armor and blew apart half his body.
• Yellow Robe Old Oddity attacked Ye Chen with Golden Jade Entwining Silk Finger, but Ye Chen evaded the finger force using Space Profundity.
• Yellow Robe Old Oddity sent a Yellow Dragon Flying Hand after Ye Chen, who combined his Sword Domain with the Big Dipper Sword Art to destroy the yellow dragon.
• Yellow Robe Old Oddity blocked the remaining sword lights with his Great Luo Yellow Robe, which swallowed their attacks.
• Ye Chen struck through the robe with Soul Light, destroying Yellow Robe Old Oddity's Soul Vortex and wounding his soul.

Ye Chen defeated Yellow Robe Old Oddity and forced Blackwater Ancestor to reveal the Blackwater Alliance’s hidden True Essence Crystal treasury. After seizing its reserves, he left Blackwater Ancestor plotting with powerful allies to attack the Ye Family.

• Ye Chen injured Yellow Robe Old Oddity’s soul and drove him away after overpowering him with Sword Intent and Mind Sword Control.
• Ye Chen attacked Blackwater Ancestor, pursued him with Orbit Step, and used Soul Light and the Big Dipper Sword Art to force him to reveal the treasury’s location.
• Blackwater Ancestor secretly planned with Sky Yin King to recruit Golden Turtle Ancestor and other Emperor-level Kings for an attack on the Ye Family.
• Ye Chen followed Blackwater Ancestor to the underwater treasury and seized its stores of True Essence Crystals, High-Grade Spirit Stones, and Top-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Ye Chen counted at least thirty million True Essence Crystals, while Blackwater Ancestor hoped Ye Chen could not absorb them all at once.

Ye Chen plundered the Blackwater Alliance’s treasury and used its True Essence Crystals to raise his cultivation to about one thousand and eighty years. The crystals ran out before he reached his limit, and his breakthrough also strengthened his soul and advanced his Sword Control Technique.

• Ye Chen took the Blackwater Alliance’s True Essence Crystals and Spirit Stones, then escaped while Blackwater Ancestor and Sky Yin King vowed to pursue him and destroy the Ye Family.
• Blackwater Ancestor decided to recover from his soul injuries before going to Golden Turtle Island to plan against Ye Chen.
• Ye Chen returned to the Ye Family and refined more than thirty million True Essence Crystals, raising his cultivation to about one thousand and eighty years.
• Ye Chen realized that he had not reached his saturation limit and sensed the changes in heaven and earth more clearly as his cultivation passed one thousand years.
• Ye Chen’s Sword Control Technique advanced beyond firing sixty-four swords, and his soul grew stronger in quality.

Ye Chen began arranging the creation of Sword Sect Master, gaining the Flowing Cloud Sect’s and Eternal Sky Sect’s agreement to join. As he traveled to the Eternal Sky Sect, six Emperor-level Kings led by Golden Turtle Ancestor approached True Spirit Continent, intending to attack the Ye Family and seize Empress Xuan and Demon Flower Empress.

• Ye Chen discussed founding Sword Sect Master with Ye Tianhao and Shen Yuqing, who supported uniting the Ye Family, Flowing Cloud Sect, and Eternal Sky Sect.
• Luo Hanshan and the Flowing Cloud Sect elders voted, and the majority agreed to join Ye Chen’s new sect.
• Ye Chen set off for Blood Sky Continent to speak with the Eternal Sky Sect.
• Golden Turtle Ancestor led Blackwater Ancestor, Yellow-Robed Ancestor, Black Fiend Emperor, Earth Demon Emperor, and Crimsonwater Old Freak toward True Spirit Continent, declaring his intent to attack the Ye Family and take Empress Xuan and Demon Flower Empress.
• Li Changtian and the Eternal Sky Sect elders agreed to join Ye Chen’s sect.

After Void Emperor allowed Golden Turtle Ancestor and five other Kings to attack the Ye Family, Empress Xuan tried to defend it against their assault. Ye Chen sensed the danger and raced back from the Chaotic Demon Sea, vowing to kill Blackwater Ancestor and Yellow Robe Old Oddity.

• Void Emperor clashed with Golden Turtle Ancestor, then allowed him to destroy the Ye Family as long as he kept the disturbance small.
• Empress Xuan intercepted Golden Turtle Ancestor and his group at the Ye Family, while Ye Tianhao ordered the family members to activate their formations.
• Blackwater Ancestor exaggerated Ye Chen’s stolen resources and demanded compensation, and Golden Turtle Ancestor threatened to leave no one alive if the Ye Family refused.
• Golden Turtle Ancestor fought Empress Xuan while Blackwater Ancestor, Yellow Robe Old Oddity, and the other Kings attacked the Ye Family’s formation.
• Ye Chen sensed the attack through his connection to the formations and raced toward the True Spirit Continent, vowing to kill Blackwater Ancestor and Yellow Robe Old Oddity.

The five Emperor-level Kings attacked the Ye Family, but Empress Xuan and the Demon Flower Empress joined Ye Chen to confront them. Ye Chen faced the five attackers alone and unleashed the Eight Trigrams Extinction Sword Art, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Ye Tianhao activated the Fire Dragon Heaven-Burning Formation, but the five attackers quickly overcame it as Empress Xuan fought Golden Turtle Ancestor.
• Empress Xuan sealed Golden Turtle Ancestor in ice with Snow Fills the Universe, but he broke free and counterattacked.
• Ye Chen and the Demon Flower Empress arrived; the Demon Flower Empress and Empress Xuan took on Golden Turtle Ancestor while Ye Chen faced the other five Kings.
• Ye Chen struck Blackwater Ancestor with a soul attack and nearly killed him, but Yellow Robe Old Oddity intervened and weakened Ye Chen's sword strike.
• Earth Demon Emperor, Black Fiend Emperor, and Crimsonwater Old Freak attacked Ye Chen together, so he formed the Eight Trigrams Sword Formation and trapped them in its attack.

Ye Chen used the Eight Trigrams Extinction Sword Art to kill several Emperor-level Kings during the battle. After destroying Yellow Robe Old Oddity’s Great Luo Yellow Robe, Ye Chen killed him completely, while Golden Turtle Ancestor remained locked in battle with Demon Flower Empress and Empress Xuan.

• Ye Chen’s Eight Trigrams Sword Formation crushed Crimsonwater Old Freak and severely wounded Earth Demon Emperor and Black Fiend Emperor.
• Ye Chen killed Blackwater Ancestor after he burned much of his cultivation to escape, despite Golden Turtle Ancestor’s threat to destroy the Ye Family.
• Demon Flower Empress bound Golden Turtle Ancestor with demonic vines, and Empress Xuan froze him long enough for Ye Chen to pursue Yellow Robe Old Oddity.
• Ye Chen repeatedly struck Yellow Robe Old Oddity with the Eight Trigrams Extinction Sword Art and Soul Light, but Yellow Robe Old Oddity recovered from blood mist and kept fleeing.
• Yellow Robe Old Oddity detonated his Great Luo Yellow Robe to blast Ye Chen, but Ye Chen survived and attacked him again.
• Ye Chen’s final Eight Trigrams Sword Formation destroyed Yellow Robe Old Oddity’s blood mist, leaving no blood behind.

Ye Chen and his allies defeated the attackers who had besieged the Ye Family, then took control of Devouring Island and negotiated a new arrangement with its Sacred Spirit. The chapter left Ye Chen, Demon Flower Empress, and Empress Xuan prepared to establish the Mystic Flower Sword Pavilion and manage the island together.

• After killing Yellow Robe Old Oddity, Ye Chen returned to the Southern Zhuo Region and joined Demon Flower Empress and Empress Xuan in driving Golden Turtle Ancestor away.
• The Ye Family celebrated its survival, and Ye Chen thanked Demon Flower Empress and Empress Xuan before proposing that they divide control of Devouring Island.
• Ye Chen proposed making Devouring Island’s rules public and reducing the True Essence Crystals visitors had to pay, and Demon Flower Empress and Empress Xuan agreed to form an alliance with him.
• Ye Chen, Demon Flower Empress, and Empress Xuan arrived at the Blackwater Alliance and announced that Blackwater Ancestor was dead and Devouring Island now belonged to their Mystic Flower Sword Pavilion.
• The three met the Sacred Spirit on Devouring Island, explained their plan to replace the Blackwater Alliance’s exploitative system, and gained its agreement.

Ye Chen established new rules for Devouring Island and founded Mystic Flower Sword Pavilion, while several powerful figures entered the Life and Death Realm amid fears of an approaching Alien Race calamity. He completed Bonebreaker, the third form of Autumn Water Swordplay, and began studying the Fire Emperor’s Ruthless Water and Fire martial art.

• Ye Chen freed Devouring Island’s residents under new rules and established Mystic Flower Sword Pavilion on Crystal Island.
• Snow Sword Marquis entered the Life and Death Realm with seven-colored heavenly flowers and demonstrated Three-Star peak combat power to Elder Wu.
• Three more people entered the Life and Death Realm, and six had advanced within half a year, prompting Kings to seek treasures and opportunities against the feared Alien Race calamity.
• Thunder Spirit King became a Life and Death Realm King on Blood Sky Continent.
• Ye Chen completed Bonebreaker, the third form of Autumn Water Swordplay, and began transforming the Fire Emperor’s Ruthless Water and Fire into a sword art.

Ye Chen accepted an invitation to Pill King Island’s Pill King Assembly and traveled there, hoping to find spirit tree cultivation liquid to advance his Fire Pear Tree. After arriving, he began a tour of the island and learned that its Waste Pill Pool was used to make the rare liquid.

• Ye Chen tested his unfinished Ruthless Water and Fire technique and resolved to help the True Spirit Continent escape the Alien Race’s blockade of the Death Road.
• Mu He visited on behalf of Pill King Island and invited Ye Chen to its Pill King Assembly, which Ye Chen agreed to attend.
• Seven days later, Ye Chen traveled to Pill King Island and entered through its barrier after identifying himself to the reception martial artists.
• Chang Kui showed Ye Chen the Waste Pill Pool and explained that its concentrated pill energy was used to refine spirit tree cultivation liquid.
• Ye Chen asked whether the assembly would offer top-grade cultivation liquid, hoping to accelerate his Fire Pear Tree’s growth.

Kings gathered at Pill King Plaza for the Pill King Assembly, where Ye Chen arrived with Empress Xuan and Demon Flower Empress. Golden Turtle Ancestor and War Heaven Elephant Emperor traded taunts before the sinister-looking Silent Extinction Demon Emperor appeared, leaving Ye Chen and the two women wary of his dense evil qi.

• Kings arrived at Pill King Plaza, including Yue Huang, Sky Rending Spear Emperor, and Golden Turtle Ancestor, while they discussed Golden Turtle Ancestor’s failed attack on Ye Chen.
• Ye Chen arrived with Empress Xuan and Demon Flower Empress, drawing the Kings’ attention and an ugly glare from Golden Turtle Ancestor.
• War Heaven Elephant Emperor taunted Golden Turtle Ancestor, who mocked him over the Silent Extinction Demon Sect’s broken formation and challenged him to meet after the assembly.
• Golden Turtle Ancestor and War Heaven Elephant Emperor exchanged threats over their past conflict and promised to settle things later.
• Silent Extinction Demon Emperor arrived looking recovered but surrounded by dense evil qi, which Ye Chen, Empress Xuan, and Demon Flower Empress noticed.

Silent Extinction Demon Emperor revealed that he had mastered the Forsaken Heaven Evil Art and clashed with Golden Turtle Ancestor before Spirit Pill King intervened. The Pill King Assembly began, Ye Chen bought a cultivation pill, and Spirit Pill King introduced a Spirit Body-enhancing pill that drew the attention of Emperor-level Kings.

• Silent Extinction Demon Emperor credited Ye Chen for helping him master the Forsaken Heaven Evil Art, then wounded Golden Turtle Ancestor with the first form of the Forsaken Heaven Claw during their clash.
• Spirit Pill King stopped Golden Turtle Ancestor and Silent Extinction Demon Emperor from fighting and welcomed Ye Chen before opening the Pill King Assembly.
• Spirit Pill King auctioned a Top-Grade Origin-Increasing Pill, and Ye Chen won it with a bid of 1.7 million Top-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Gale King bought the Battle King Pill for two million Top-Grade Spirit Stones after Spirit Pill King described its effects.
• Spirit Pill King presented the Threefold Body-Refining Pill, an Ancient Era pill that could enhance the Spirit Body, and Emperor-level Kings grew eager to bid.

Void Emperor won the Threefold Body-Refining Pill for thirteen million Top-Grade Spirit Stones, and Demon Flower Empress secured the Nine-Bend Spirit Reversing Pill for twenty million with support from Ye Chen and Empress Xuan. The auction then opened bidding on a year's supply of Top-Grade Spirit Tree Cultivation Fluid, which caught Ye Chen's attention because it could accelerate his Fire Pear Tree's growth.

• Yue Huang and several Emperor-level Kings bid on the Threefold Body-Refining Pill before Void Emperor entered at ten million and drove the price to thirteen million.
• Spirit Pill King introduced the Nine-Bend Spirit Reversing Pill, explaining that it could strengthen souls and improve comprehension.
• Demon Flower Empress asked Ye Chen and Empress Xuan for support, then won the Nine-Bend Spirit Reversing Pill for twenty million Top-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Spirit Pill King presented a year's supply of Top-Grade Spirit Tree Cultivation Fluid, and Ye Chen recognized its value for growing his Fire Pear Tree.
• Spirit Pill King announced the fluid's starting price of ten million Top-Grade Spirit Stones and opened the bidding.