Chapter Summaries

Zhong Huan tried to seize an Immortal Sword and its treasures to win wealth and power for the Vigorous Martial Gate, but Lü Bufan stood against him and invoked the Former Sect Master's legacy. As Zhong Huan's attack engulfed Lü Bufan, the young warrior used a strange technique to send Heavy Sword Wuming flying at him, leaving Zhong Huan questioning whether Lü Bufan was a Martial Warrior or a Sword Cultivator.

• Zhong Huan revealed the Immortal Sword and proposed killing the Guardian City survivors before taking the treasure to the Sima Imperial Clan.
• Feng Hu sided with Zhong Huan, but Lü Bufan refused to join him and shielded Pan Mei and Commandant Pan from Zhong Huan's saber qi.
• Lü Bufan urged Zhong Huan to remember the Vigorous Martial Gate's martial virtue and the Former Sect Master Zhao Ping, while Feng Hu tried to protect Lü Bufan and was kicked aside.
• Zhong Huan attacked Lü Bufan, but visions of Zhao Ping and fallen Vigorous Martial Gate members made him regret the strike too late.
• Lü Bufan used Wandering the Heavens and Earth to pass through Zhong Huan's gang qi and send Heavy Sword Wuming flying toward him.
• Zhong Huan dodged the flying sword and asked whether Lü Bufan was a Martial Warrior or a Sword Cultivator.

Lü Bufan subdued the bewitched Zhong Huan, then agreed with Commandant Pan to conceal the Immortal Sword’s discovery and let the Guardian City seize Marsh Pearl Island. Meanwhile, Luo Wuya and Crouching Dragon reached a sinister cave and encountered White Ghost, who confronted them for insulting Lord White God.

• Lü Bufan used his hidden Dao and martial arts to disrupt Zhong Huan, while Pan Mei restrained him with the Dragon-Binding Rope.
• Lü Bufan and Commandant Pan revealed their affiliations and discussed whether to hand the Immortal Sword treasure to the Taihua Sect or Guardian City.
• Lü Bufan chose to let Commandant Pan secretly summon Guardian City forces before the Taihua Sect’s Void Boat arrived, and they agreed to claim demonic ghosts and evil Cultivators had wounded them.
• Pan Mei released Zhong Huan after he awoke, while Lü Bufan thanked Commandant Pan and prepared to leave the hall.
• Luo Wuya and Crouching Dragon reached a dark cave through the mirage mist and argued about finding a Mirage Pearl.
• White Ghost appeared before Luo Wuya and Crouching Dragon and rebuked them for insulting Lord White God.

White Ghost broke Bai Jing’s Mirage Realm and revealed that Lord White God’s daughter had been sealed inside a giant white mirage clam. As White Ghost began reaching into the clam to destroy her body and preserve her soul, Lü Bufan was left with the choice of whether to help Bai Jing and the transformed island children.

• Luo Wuya learned that White Ghost was the Mirage Pearls’ manifested spirit and that an Immortal had taken and refined three pearls, leaving the Mirage Realm unable to protect Bai Jing.
• White Ghost explained that Bai Jing had emerged after Lord White God’s companion died and that he had sealed her away after she harmed living beings on White Island.
• Inside the mist, Bai Jing told Lü Bufan that White Ghost planned to kill her and asked him to take her Mirage Pearl to save part of her life and the island children she had rescued.
• White Ghost shattered the Mirage Realm, revealing Bai Jing’s enormous white clam shell, and sent Crouching Dragon to wake the Martial Warriors.
• White Ghost approached the clam, crushed part of its cracked shell, and thrust his arm inside as the clam shuddered and released eerie mist.

Lü Bufan escaped White Ghost’s Mirage Realm and learned that White Ghost was closing Great Yunmeng Marsh to outsiders, while Luo Wuya helped him arrange shelter for the transformed water demons. After the Liu Immortal Sect army entered the marsh, Yuan Cheng discovered that Marsh Pearl Island’s White Jade Stone Seat could nurture Immortal Artifacts, leaving Longcheng Peak unsure whether to report it to the Elder Hall or the sect master.

• Bai Jing gave Lü Bufan a Mirage Pearl and asked him to protect the remaining Water Demon Children, but Luo Wuya pulled him out of the illusion before he could act.
• Luo Wuya and Crouching Dragon reunited with Lü Bufan on the beach as Marsh Pearl Island collapsed, and White Ghost gave them a Mirage Pearl while forbidding Two Realms Village and the Wild Spirit Land from entering the marsh.
• Lü Bufan asked Luo Wuya to help save the porpoise water demons, and Luo Wuya agreed to guide them toward shelter near White Island.
• Yuan Cheng and the Longcheng Peak disciples inspected the ruined cavern, where Yuan Cheng discovered that the White Jade Stone Seat was a vessel capable of nurturing Immortal Artifacts.
• Lü Bufan urged Yuan Cheng to contact Peak Master Qingming, but Yuan Cheng hesitated over whether the discovery warranted using the Message Talisman or reporting the seat to the Elder Hall.

Immortal Master Yuan Cheng and Longcheng Peak’s disciples tried to protect a Sword-Nurturing Platform from the Elder Hall while awaiting help from the sect. Elder Daohu arrived with three Void Boats and attacked the waters around Marsh Pearl Island, leaving Zhong Huan and Feng Hu exposed to Jingbo Peak cultivators.

• Immortal Master Yuan Cheng contacted Peak Master Qingming, who ordered him to guard the Sword-Nurturing Platform, but Yuan Cheng failed to refine it because its Sword Qi overwhelmed him.
• Lü Bufan suggested involving the Guardian City to buy time, but Elder Hall forces detected the Immortal Spiritual Power and three Void Boats raced toward Marsh Pearl Island.
• Yuan Cheng refused Elder Daohu’s order to withdraw, citing Qingming’s command and raising a Nine Palaces Sword Formation to defend the platform.
• Elder Daohu blasted the lake waters, wrecking Longcheng Peak’s Warship and throwing Zhong Huan and Feng Hu into danger.
• Yun Yue, Wunan, and another Jingbo Peak disciple attacked Zhong Huan and Feng Hu, and Wunan hurled a fireball at Zhong Huan as Yuan Cheng pleaded for them to be spared.

Lü Bufan broke through the Nine Palaces Sword Formation to protect Zhong Huan and Feng Hu as Elder Dao Hu’s forces attacked them. A mysterious sword slave arrived aboard the sect’s Immortal Sword, leaving Dao Hu’s faction poised to confront it.

• Wu Nan and Yun Yue attacked Zhong Huan and Feng Hu while Dao Hu bombarded the Nine Palaces Sword Formation and tried to force Yuan Cheng to surrender.
• Yuan Cheng refused to release the formation, and Lü Bufan used the Wandering Sword Dao to pass through it despite sustaining internal injuries.
• Yun Yue wounded Feng Hu and knocked him to the ground, but Lü Bufan arrived and struck aside a Jingbo Peak cultivator’s top-grade spirit artifact sword with Heavy Sword Wuming.
• Luo Wuya and Crouching Dragon watched the battle and discussed Lü Bufan’s role in a plan involving the sword slave, Bai Ye, and Master Peach.
• The Five-Colored Rainbow Light carrying the Immortal Sword approached the three Void Boats, and Dao Hu’s faction prepared to confront it.

Sword Slave intervened to stop Elder Dao Hu from seizing the Sword-Nurturing Platform, enforcing the sect master's claim and forcing the Elder Hall's Void Boats to withdraw. Afterward, Sword Slave recognized something unusual about Lü Bufan's heavy sword and spoke privately with Immortal Master Yuan Cheng about the Immortal Sword and the treasure.

• Sword Slave arrived with the Immortal Sword, announced the sect master's orders, and forced two of the Elder Hall's Void Boats to withdraw while Elder Dao Hu stayed aboard the third.
• Blind Mr. Mo persuaded Elder Dao Hu that attacking was too risky, warning him about Bai Ye and hidden forces behind the conflict.
• Bai Ye watched the retreat from a boat and sent his young companion to interfere with Sword Slave, disguised as a water demon and without tampering with the Sword-Nurturing Platform's refining method.
• Sword Slave landed, absorbed the Immortal Sword into his body, and questioned Lü Bufan about Heavy Sword Wuming after sensing something strange about it.
• Sword Slave entered the cavern, spoke with Immortal Master Yuan Cheng about their past connection to the Immortal Sword, and recognized the White Jade Stone Platform as a treasure.

Lü Bufan learned that a mysterious demon had brought him a method for refining the Sword-Nurturing Platform, while the sword slave recognized Lü Bufan as a dangerous Dao-Martial dual cultivator. After driving the demon away and drawing the island’s searchers toward it, Lü Bufan decided to secretly advance his cultivation and refine the Mirage Pearl so he could enter the Heaven Character Archive.

• The sword slave told Immortal Master Yuan Cheng that Lü Bufan was a Sword Cultivator whose Martial Warrior cultivation exceeded his Cultivator cultivation, and wondered whether Qingming knew more about him.
• A masked demon claiming to be a Golden-Eyed Ao Fish revealed that Lü Bufan was close to losing control of his Cultivator cultivation and offered him an ancient formula for refining the Sword-Nurturing Platform in exchange for access to it.
• Lü Bufan took the formula, tested the demon with a sword strike, and refused to help it enter the cavern; the demon escaped while cursing him.
• Lü Bufan told Zhong Huan and the Longcheng Peak disciples that a suspected water demon had fled, prompting the Taihua Sect to search the island with Void Boats and the Immortal Sword.
• Lü Bufan decided to break through to the Cultivator third realm and refine the Mirage Pearl so he could enter the Heaven Character Archive and seek a way to help Master Peach, Big Black, and his crippled masters.

Lü Bufan survived a dangerous Dao-and-martial breakthrough with help from Big Black’s bead, reaching the middle stage of the Third Realm. After reassuring Zhong Huan and demonstrating his swordsmanship, he learned from Sword Slave that Master Ming had once been connected to Two Realms Village and that the Immortal Sword had been used to destroy its Five Demons of the Sword Dao; Sword Slave suspected Lü Bufan had come to the Taihua Sect as a spy.

• Lü Bufan used the Harmonizing Method to grind his conflicting powers together until Big Black’s bead separated them, allowing spiritual power to nourish his Spiritual Platform and advance him to the middle stage of the Third Realm.
• A message from Big Black warned Lü Bufan that splitting the powers was only the first hurdle and that he still had to find his own path into the upper third realm.
• Zhong Huan revealed that the Former Sect Master Zhao Ping had first recognized Lü Bufan’s dual cultivation, and Lü Bufan told Zhong Huan that he planned to leave the Taihua Sect and sever the Vigorous Martial Gate’s ties to him.
• Lü Bufan demonstrated that Heavy Sword Wuming could fly under his control, astonishing Zhong Huan with his swordsmanship.
• Sword Slave questioned Lü Bufan about his ties to Two-World Mountain and Two Realms Village, then described how Immortal Yunxia had used an Immortal Sword and the Heart-Piercing Curse to defeat the Five Demons of the Sword Dao and slaughter their associates.
• Lü Bufan recognized that Sword Slave’s account referred to Master Ming, but he denied knowing what Sword Slave meant while his hands trembled.

Lü Bufan fought Sword Slave with Heavy Sword Wuming after Sword Slave challenged him for the Sword-Nurturing Platform, while Luo Wuya learned of Bai Ye’s plans and headed to the island. Lü Bufan was knocked unconscious, and Luo Wuya seized the struggling platform as the Taihua Sect’s Void Boats approached.

• Sword Slave challenged Lü Bufan to a duel for the Sword-Nurturing Platform, offering him status in the Taihua Sect if he won and threatening to destroy Heavy Sword Wuming if he lost.
• Luo Wuya learned from Bai Ye’s servant that Bai Ye had sent him to offer Lü Bufan the Sword-Nurturing Platform, then gave the servant a Mirage Pearl and ended the Wei Family’s association with Bai Ye.
• Luo Wuya and Crouching Dragon discussed Bai Ye’s schemes and the need to help Master Peach, and Luo Wuya decided to go to the island.
• Lü Bufan resisted Sword Slave’s attacks, but Immortal Sword Tianxiu overwhelmed Sword Slave and sent him and the sword flying from the cave.
• Luo Wuya arrived on the Sword-Nurturing Platform, took the unconscious Lü Bufan, and raised a broken sword tip toward the approaching Taihua Sect Void Boats.

Luo Wuya rescued Lü Bufan from the Taihua Sect’s forces and escaped with him and Old Ox Crouching Dragon, while Bai Ye prepared for further conflict. The chapter left Lü Bufan traveling toward Two-World Mountain as pursuers approached and Bai Ye wondered what Luo Wuya was planning.

• Luo Wuya destroyed three Taihua Sect Void Boats, defeated the sword slave, and fled with Lü Bufan and the Sword-Nurturing Platform.
• Zhong Huan tried to stop Luo Wuya from taking Lü Bufan, but Luo Wuya wounded him and escaped; Immortal Master Yuan Cheng rescued him.
• Luo Wuya reunited with Old Ox Crouching Dragon on a deserted island, revealed his identity to Lü Bufan, and explained that Bai Ye and others had been using Lü Bufan as bait.
• Luo Wuya stored the Sword-Nurturing Platform in a Mustard-Seed Object and rode Old Ox Crouching Dragon away with Lü Bufan as Taihua Sect and Guardian City forces pursued them.
• Bai Ye sent the Golden-Eyed Ao Fish to Two-World Mountain to prepare for visitors and further conflict, then wondered why Luo Wuya had taken Lü Bufan.

Lü Bufan traveled by boat with Luo Wuya and Crouching Dragon, learning that Luo Wuya was Wei Wuchen’s uncle and sharing the old village head’s mask with him. After Luo Wuya demonstrated Wandering Swordsmanship and carried them swiftly upstream, Lü Bufan awoke near Wushan Gorge as Luo Wuya stood sorrowfully at the bow.

• Lü Bufan paid a toll at the river checkpoint and guided the boat upstream with Luo Wuya and Crouching Dragon aboard.
• Crouching Dragon revealed that Luo Wuya was Wei Wuchen’s uncle, Wei Wuya, and explained his injuries and his mission to protect Lü Bufan.
• Lü Bufan gave Luo Wuya the mask Wei Wuchen had left him and promised to avenge their people if he survived and grew strong.
• Luo Wuya caught a rare fire carp, which the three stewed and ate; Lü Bufan absorbed its potent energy without apparent difficulty.
• Luo Wuya demonstrated Wandering Swordsmanship, making the boat insubstantial and speeding it more than two thousand li upstream.
• Lü Bufan awoke on the third day near Wushan Gorge and saw Luo Wuya standing at the bow in sorrow.

Luo Wuya brought Lü Bufan and Crouching Dragon to the ruins of the Wei Clan’s Wushan City, where he faced the Immortal Sects and revealed that he had sealed the Sword-Nurturing Platform inside Lü Bufan. The sects prepared to attack, and Xu Yi had to decide whether to risk Lü Bufan to seize the platform.

• On the boat, Luo Wuya told Lü Bufan that Wushan Gorge was tied to the vanished Wu Clan and described the mysteries of the Wild Spirit Land and the realms beyond the Ninth Realm.
• Luo Wuya led Lü Bufan and Crouching Dragon through the forbidden zone to Wushan City, recalling its old market and showing them the ruined Wei Clan ancestral grounds.
• At the city ruins, a Vast Righteousness Sect elder and a Liu Clan cultivator confronted Luo Wuya, while Xu Yi and Immortal Maiden Gu Yue arrived with other cultivators.
• Crouching Dragon warned Lü Bufan that the gathered cultivators were powerful and told him to keep the Sword-Nurturing Platform hidden.
• Luo Wuya revealed that he had sealed the Sword-Nurturing Platform inside Lü Bufan and offered to return him to Xu Yi if the Taihua Sect stayed out of the fight.
• The Liu Clan elder challenged Xu Yi over whether the Taihua Sect would bow to a devil for the Sword-Nurturing Platform.

Luo Wuya unleashed the hidden sword formation within Sword-Sacrificing Peak, killing the Liu Clan Elder before Immortal Maiden Gu Yue ended his suffering and laid him to rest. The old ox Crouching Dragon promised the Sword-Nurturing Platform to Xu Yi and left Lü Bufan to carry on the Wei Family's Wandering Sword Dao and vengeance.

• Luo Wuya activated the black-gold sword formation concealed in Sword-Sacrificing Peak, killing the Liu Clan Elder while Xu Yi and Yellow Dragon Daoist Wayfarer escaped its attacks.
• Immortal Maiden Gu Yue stabbed Luo Wuya, and he explained that he had taken on the ill-fated bond to protect Wuchen before dying in her arms.
• Yellow Dragon Daoist Wayfarer restrained Immortal Maiden Gu Yue, and she reduced Luo Wuya's corpse to dust over Sword-Sacrificing Peak.
• Yellow Dragon Daoist Wayfarer and Xu Yi bowed to the ruins of Wushan City, honoring the Wei Family's fallen Wandering Sword Dao.
• Crouching Dragon granted the Sword-Nurturing Platform to Xu Yi and told Lü Bufan to carry the Wei Family's Wandering Sword Dao and vengeance before departing.

After the Wei Clan ruins, Xu Yi examined Lü Bufan and discovered that the Sword-Nurturing Platform was sealed inside him, then brought him under Taihua Sect’s protection. The Sect Leader ordered Sword Slave to keep Lü Bufan close and use the Immortal Sword to investigate the platform, while a hidden figure in the Immortal Grotto suspected the treasure was bait.

• Immortal Maiden Gu Yue retrieved a broken sword tip, arranged her hair as a married woman, bowed to the Wei Clan ruins, and left.
• Xu Yi examined Lü Bufan, learned about his Dao-Martial Dual Cultivation and the Sword-Nurturing Platform sealed within him, and arranged for him to return to Taihua Sect.
• The Sect Leader learned that Xu Yi could not extract the Sword-Nurturing Platform and ordered Sword Slave to keep Lü Bufan nearby and probe the treasure with the Immortal Sword.
• Sword Slave ordered a female cultivator to send twelve magic artifact flying swords into the Sword Abyss to replenish the Immortal Sword.
• Inside the Immortal Grotto Secret Realm, a gray-haired figure suspected that the Sword-Nurturing Platform was bait and vowed to drag whoever set it into danger.

Lü Bufan traveled to the Taihua Sect’s hall on Mozi Mountain, where Peak Master Qingming warned him about the Sword-Nurturing Platform and offered him a place on Longcheng Peak. Elder Mo then took Lü Bufan to the Sword Abyss, where he was told to recover and learn to control the artifact before the sect would decide what came next.

• Lü Bufan dwelled on Luo Wuya’s final battle while traveling aboard the Taihua Sect’s Floating Boat.
• Peak Master Qingming arrived, met Lü Bufan, and listened as he recounted what had happened.
• Qingming urged Lü Bufan to separate the Sword-Nurturing Platform from himself and offered to formally accept him as a Longcheng Peak inner disciple.
• Lü Bufan hinted that he needed to find something to help his elder and feared joining the sect hall would keep him from returning to Longcheng Peak.
• The Floating Boat reached Mozi Peak, where Elder Mo challenged Lü Bufan’s martial salute and brought him toward the Sword Abyss.
• Elder Mo told Lü Bufan to recover in the valley and learn to control the Sword-Nurturing Platform before the sect considered his future.

Lü Bufan refused Dao Sheng’s attempt to seize the Sword-Nurturing Platform and revealed that his martial cultivation had reached the perfected Fourth Realm. After Dao Sheng left, Sword Slave confronted Lü Bufan and demanded to know the secret behind Heavy Sword Wuming.

• Dao Sheng and two Sect Hall Disciples demanded that Lü Bufan surrender the Sword-Nurturing Platform, offering wealth and status while threatening to cripple him.
• Dao Sheng attacked Lü Bufan’s Qi Mansion and dantian, but Heavy Sword Wuming blocked his finger strike and damaged two of his fingers.
• Lü Bufan disclosed that his martial warrior Gang Qi had reached the perfected Fourth Realm, warned Dao Sheng against forcing him to maim himself, and watched Dao Sheng leave with his lackeys.
• Sword Slave told Lü Bufan that he had cut off an ear from each of two other disciples who tried to test him.
• Sword Slave demanded that Lü Bufan explain why Heavy Sword Wuming could withstand Immortal Sword slashes, threatening to force out his hidden secrets.

Lü Bufan descended into the Sword Abyss with Sword Slave, where Sword Slave and the Taihua Sect leader Duchen questioned his ties to the Wild Spirit Land and his control of Heavy Sword Wuming. Meanwhile, Xuanjing checked the Liu Clan’s ambitions in the Great Yunmeng Marsh, and the chapter ended with Lü Bufan negotiating openly with Duchen about his agreement with Bai Ye.

• Sword Slave took Lü Bufan into the Sword Abyss and asked whether he was a spy from the Wild Spirit Land.
• Xu Yi surrendered thirty percent of the Taihua Sect’s gains to Guardian City, while Liu Changpu ordered the Liu Clan to stop expanding and thanked Xuanjing for her mercy.
• Xuanjing welcomed Liu Xian'er and Liu Die'er into her service after explaining how she had punished the Liu Clan for enabling Yunxia’s abuse of them.
• Sword Slave asked Lü Bufan how he resisted Heavy Sword Wuming’s backlash, then Duchen took control of Sword Slave’s body and questioned Lü Bufan himself.
• Lü Bufan told Duchen that he had an agreement with Bai Ye to enter the Taihua Sect, and Duchen asked whether he wanted help for his master or help escaping Bai Ye’s threats.

Lü Bufan stayed in Sword Abyss Valley after Sect Leader Duchen failed to make the Immortal Sword Tianxiu accept the Sword-Nurturing Platform, and he began cultivating the Wei Family’s Wandering Sword Dao. When the Sword Slave challenged him to a weapon-only duel, Lü Bufan faced Tianxiu with Heavy Sword Wuming as Taihua Sect Hall elders gathered to watch.

• Sect Leader Duchen told Lü Bufan to stay in Sword Abyss Valley and revealed that separating the Sword-Nurturing Platform before the Sixth Realm would damage it.
• Lü Bufan cultivated the Wandering Sword Dao while the Sword Slave remained unconscious, then told the awakened Sword Slave that he had stayed to watch over him.
• The Sword Slave recognized the Wandering Sword Dao and challenged Lü Bufan to trade Heavy Sword Wuming for the Immortal Sword Tianxiu, but Lü Bufan refused.
• The Sword Slave agreed to a weapon-only duel, and Lü Bufan summoned Heavy Sword Wuming to face Tianxiu.
• Six female cultivators carrying artifacts arrived outside Sword Abyss as the clash between the swords shook the valley and made their weapons tremble.
• Elder Mo and other Taihua Sect Hall elders learned that Lü Bufan’s Ferocious Weapon was drawing power from the Sword-Nurturing Platform, then went to investigate.

Lü Bufan became the Taihua Immortal Sect’s Mountain-Guarding Attendant after he learned to use the Sword-Nurturing Platform to nourish the Immortal Sword. While grilling fish, he grew closer to Sword Slave, learned secrets about Nether Weapons, and later received a Sword Cultivation method from Elder Mo, who warned that the Immortal Sword’s power would leave Sword Slave neither alive nor dead.

• Lü Bufan used the Sword-Nurturing Platform to nourish the Immortal Sword, ending Sword Slave’s need to devour Magic Artifacts and flying swords.
• Elder Mo and Daoist Wayfarer Ziyuan appointed Lü Bufan Mountain-Guarding Attendant and told Sword Slave to protect him.
• Lü Bufan stayed in his small cave residence and shared grilled fish and wine with Sword Slave, who revealed that Ferocious Weapons were Nether Weapons from the Netherworld and that his surname was Lu.
• Lü Bufan wondered where the Heaven Character Archive was hidden and suspected the Sect Leader’s secluded cave residence might be connected to it.
• Elder Mo gave Lü Bufan a Sword Cultivation method and warned that the Immortal Sword would leave Sword Slave neither alive nor dead.
• Sword Slave meditated deep in the Sword Abyss and showed a trace of venom and hatred.