Chapter Summaries

Lin Lang began refining a pill from the Dragon Essence while Second Dream managed Blackwood Cliff and investigated reports from the Jianghu. Wu Wudi persuaded the Emperor of Great Ming to help find the Great Evil King, and Jiang Xiaoyu confronted the emperor about learning the Xuanwu True Skill before an intruder interrupted them.

• Lin Lang began an eighty-one-day refinement of a pill using the Dragon Essence, with Ren Yingying and Wanwan guarding him while Second Dream watched over Lin Ying and Blackwood Cliff.
• Second Dream sent Nie Feng and Bu Jingyun to investigate Ironheart Island, agreed to pursue the Blood Ruyi, and dismissed concerns about the emperor holding court less often.
• Wu Wudi offered the Emperor of Great Ming the Xuanwu True Skill in exchange for help finding the Great Evil King, which he hoped to use to break the curse on the Wu family.
• Jiang Xiaoyu learned of Wu Wudi’s presence from Shangguan Haitang and hurried to the palace, where he warned the emperor that the Xuanwu True Skill did not suit him.
• The Emperor of Great Ming explained that he wanted to live longer and help Wu Wudi find the Great Evil King, but an unidentified figure appeared and rebuked him for revealing the weapon’s name.

Jiang Xiaoyu confronted Wu Wudi over his dealings with the Emperor of Great Ming, and Wu Wudi threatened to visit Blackwood Cliff. As Lin Lang refined an Immortal Elixir, he used it to bring his Essence Blood through its fifth transformation, while Second Dream prepared the cult for Wu Wudi’s arrival.

• Jiang Xiaoyu challenged Wu Wudi for withholding part of the Xuanwu True Skill from the Emperor of Great Ming, and Wu Wudi struck him before threatening to visit Blackwood Cliff.
• Rosy light and surging Heaven and Earth Essence appeared over Blackwood Cliff as Lin Lang completed the Immortal Elixir; he diverted the excess essence while the cult members used it to cultivate and break through.
• Lin Lang divided the Immortal Elixir into eight pills and began taking them to test whether his Essence Blood could undergo a fifth transformation.
• Jiang Xiaoyu reported Wu Wudi’s threat to Second Dream, who recalled the others and prepared to defend Blackwood Cliff while Lin Lang remained in seclusion.
• Lin Lang swallowed a second pill, strengthened his Essence Blood, and stopped trying to advance his Golden Core before confirming that his Essence Blood had completed its fifth transformation.

Lin Lang declined to use more Immortal Elixirs, while Second Dream broke through and forged a sword intent that drew every sword on Blackwood Cliff to her. Wu Wudi arrived to challenge Lin Lang over his influence and the injury to Jiang Xiaoyu, but Second Dream attacked him first, and Wu Wudi prepared to fight seriously.

• Lin Lang explained that pills would do little to advance his cultivation and chose to save the remaining Immortal Elixirs for Wanwan, Ren Yingying, and Second Dream.
• Second Dream’s breakthrough unleashed a vast sword intent that summoned the swords across Blackwood Cliff, and Lin Lang recognized that she had created a distinctive sword technique.
• Second Dream emerged with her primordial spirit at the peak of its fourth transformation, and Ren Yingying and Lin Lang announced martial arts lessons for the cult members.
• Wu Wudi sensed Second Dream’s sword intent while approaching Blackwood Cliff and came to challenge Lin Lang, demanding to know why Lin Lang controlled the imperial court.
• Second Dream confronted Wu Wudi for injuring Jiang Xiaoyu and struck him with the Azure Hidden Sword, forcing him back before he formed a sword from his true qi to counterattack.

Wu Wudi challenged the people of Blackwood Cliff, lost to Wanwan, and received Lin Lang’s advice on improving his martial arts before returning to the Nine Netherworld to forge the Heavenly Dao Battle Casket. After Lin Lang sent his disciples away to pursue their own paths, Jiang Xiaoyu discovered a weak spot in space and opened a passage with his sword.

• Wanwan defeated Wu Wudi, while Lin Lang overwhelmed him with his aura and advised him to combine his martial arts with weapons.
• Wu Wudi explained that powerful martial artists could travel to other worlds, named several realms, and promised to search for the Great Evil King before returning to the Nine Netherworld.
• Lin Lang clarified that he had suggested the weapon idea to give Wu Wudi a stronger opponent, while Ren Yingying and Second Dream returned to seclusion and Wanwan went back to the Holy Sect.
• Lin Lang urged his five disciples to leave Blackwood Cliff and pursue their own ambitions, but they all chose to stay or keep their current positions before eventually departing together.
• Duan Lang set out to investigate the Ancient Remnants, while Jiang Xiaoyu questioned the need to find a wife and wondered about a weak spot in space.
• Jiang Xiaoyu slashed the sky with Moon in the Well, shattering space and revealing a dense surge of Sword Intent.

A powerful sword intent erupted when Jian Yue escaped from the Sword Realm after more than three hundred years, drawing sword masters from across the realm to investigate. Jian Yue challenged Jiang Xiaoyu’s master and tried to recruit Jiang Xiaoyu, while the others headed toward the vanished sword intent.

• Lin Lang sensed the mixed sword intent and sent Shi Potian to investigate, while Second Dream resolved to study it.
• Xie Xiaofeng, Yan Shisan, and Yan Nantian set out toward where the sword intent had appeared.
• Wuming let Jian Chen take the Hero Sword and go seek his own path of swordsmanship.
• Jian Yue introduced himself to Jiang Xiaoyu as the Master of the Sword Realm and explained how he had escaped after centuries within it.
• Jian Yue wounded Jiang Xiaoyu with a strand of sword qi and demonstrated several sword intents, but Jiang Xiaoyu insisted his master was stronger.
• Jian Yue demanded that Jiang Xiaoyu take him to his master so he could challenge him.

Jiang Xiaoyu brought Jian Yue, Master of the Sword Realm, to Blackwood Cliff, where Jian Yue challenged Lin Lang and tried to take Jiang Xiaoyu as his disciple. After Second Dream fought Jian Yue, Lin Lang faced him and began copying his sword intents, leaving Jian Yue shocked.

• Jiang Xiaoyu escorted Jian Yue to Blackwood Cliff, while Lin Lang learned that an unfamiliar swordsman was coming to challenge him.
• Lin Lang and Second Dream speculated that Jian Yue might have come from the Sword Realm and agreed to seek a way to visit it.
• Jian Yue declared that he would defeat Lin Lang and claim Jiang Xiaoyu as his successor, but Jiang Xiaoyu affirmed his loyalty to his master.
• Second Dream challenged Jian Yue, cut a lock of his hair, and then retreated after their exchange of sword techniques.
• Lin Lang fought Jian Yue without a weapon, dodged his attacks, and began using the same sword intents Jian Yue had just demonstrated.

Lin Lang defeated Jian Yue’s eight Profound Yin Twelve Swords without injury, then let him escape so he could face the complete set later. While Jian Yue recruited Jian Chen, Lin Lang used what he had learned to create the Sun Moon Divine Sword Art.

• Jian Yue unleashed the Profound Yin Twelve Swords, but Lin Lang countered his attacks and let a lightning strike temper his body.
• Lin Lang endured Jian Yue’s later strikes, including a blinding attack, and Jian Yue fled before using the complete set.
• Lin Lang invited the gathered swordsmen to discuss swordsmanship at Blackwood Cliff, then entered secluded cultivation while his guests prepared to train and explore the Sword Realm.
• Jian Yue encountered Jian Chen and persuaded him to become his disciple by promising to teach him peerless sword techniques and help him reach the martial arts myth realm within a month.
• Lin Lang fused ideas from the Profound Yin Twelve Swords with yin-yang principles and created the Sun Moon Divine Sword Art.

Lin Lang taught Jiang Xiaoyu a new set of sword techniques while his disciples pursued their own paths of cultivation. Xiao Sanxiao headed for the Central Plains with the Secret Tui Bei Scroll, and Cheng Shifei found the Great Evil King, whose evil intent drove him mad and drew Lin Lang and Wu Wudi toward the crisis.

• Lin Lang demonstrated eight yin-and-yang sword techniques to Jiang Xiaoyu, while Nie Feng, Bu Jingyun, Duan Lang, and Shi Potian resolved to develop their own martial arts or seek training.
• Xiao Sanxiao interpreted a sun-and-moon divination as a warning about Lin Lang and set out for the Central Plains with the Secret Tui Bei Scroll.
• Hua Wuque met Cheng Shifei, and the two entered Heartless Manor, where Cheng Shifei broke the Bitterhearted Buddha statue and found the Great Evil King.
• The Great Evil King's evil intent overcame Cheng Shifei, who attacked Hua Wuque and fled as Hua Wuque pursued him and alerted the Sun Moon Holy Cult.
• After learning Cheng Shifei had become a martial arts myth in two days, Lin Lang set out to find him, while Wu Wudi prepared to confront the Great Evil King and break his family's curse.

Cheng Shifei succumbed to the Great Evil King’s evil intent, and Lin Lang stopped him before Hua Wuque could be killed. Lin Lang defeated Wu Wudi in a duel but offered a way to break the Wu Family’s Bloodline Curse; before he could explain, a powerful aura appeared near the severed mountain.

• Cheng Shifei attacked Hua Wuque with the Great Evil King, and both fighters began succumbing to its evil intent.
• Lin Lang intervened, knocked Cheng Shifei unconscious, and helped Hua Wuque master and control the evil intent before sending him to Blackwood Cliff to train his primordial spirit.
• Lin Lang suppressed the Great Evil King’s primordial spirit fragments and learned the Evil King Ten Calamities, including how its moves could be fused.
• Wu Wudi challenged Lin Lang with the Heavenly Dao Battle Casket, but Lin Lang defeated him with a fused eleventh variation of the Evil King Ten Calamities.
• Wu Wudi wept over his inability to break the Wu Family’s Bloodline Curse, and Lin Lang said he might have a way to resolve it.
• A scorching, savage aura rose from the mountain Lin Lang and Wu Wudi had severed, drawing Lin Lang’s attention before he could explain his method.

Lin Lang absorbed the earth fire, helped Wu Wudi find a way to break the Wu Family’s Bloodline Curse, and harvested an Earth Fire Golden Lotus for Lan Fenghuang. Lan Fenghuang used its seeds to reach the Land Immortal realm, and Lin Lang promised to help her Essence Blood transform faster.

• Lin Lang absorbed the magma’s energy, found an Earth Fire Golden Lotus, and forced it to mature into seeds while Wu Wudi agreed to destroy the Great Evil King to weaken the Bloodline Curse.
• Lin Lang sent Wu Wudi into secluded cultivation and woke Cheng Shifei, warning him to control the Evil Intent and report to the emperor that the Great Evil King was in Lin Lang’s hands.
• Lin Lang brought the Earth Fire Lotus Seeds to Lan Fenghuang, who consumed them to temper her Primordial Spirit despite the danger.
• Lan Fenghuang’s Primordial Spirit completed four transformations and her True Qi completed three, making her a Land Immortal, while her Essence Blood remained at one transformation.
• Lin Lang told Lan Fenghuang he had a way to make her Essence Blood transform faster.

Lin Lang helped Lan Fenghuang and Xiao Zhao advance their cultivation, brought Xiao Zhao to Manduo Manor, and prepared his companions for a trip to the Sword Realm. He ended the chapter in seclusion after developing a flame technique that could burn essence, qi, and spirit.

• Lin Lang offered Lan Fenghuang a path to strengthen her bloodline and study fire techniques, then warned her against repeating her dangerous cultivation method.
• Lin Lang visited Xiao Zhao on Spirit Snake Island, explained that she needed to disperse her power, and brought her to Manduo Manor to train with Wang Yuyan.
• Wang Yuyan absorbed Xiao Zhao's true qi and the essence in the Evil Emperor's Relic, then transformed her true qi and reached the Martial Arts Myth Realm.
• Lin Lang helped Xiao Zhao recover, reach the heavenly realm peak, and later become a martial arts myth after consuming a Blood Bodhi fruit.
• Lin Lang arranged to take his companions to the Sword Realm, while Wanwan offered to stay behind and guard his son before Lin Lang said he had another solution.
• Lin Lang entered seclusion and developed a flame technique capable of burning essence, qi, and spirit, which he believed could harm even land immortals.

Lin Lang used true fire to purify Ren Yingying’s essence, qi, and spirit, then continued tempering his own primordial spirit as he prepared to pursue the fifth transformation. Meanwhile, Yin Zhong plotted to seize the Tong Clan’s treasures, and Xiao Sanxiao sought help investigating a coming catastrophe before sensing a surge of demonic intent at Blackwood Cliff.

• Lin Lang explained that his true fire could purify essence, qi, and spirit, then used it to temper Ren Yingying for three days and three nights until her powers neared the peak of the third transformation.
• Ren Yingying took a Dragon Essence Immortal Elixir and entered the secret chamber to attempt a breakthrough to the Land Immortal realm, while Lin Lang used true fire to further purify his primordial spirit.
• Yin Zhong learned that the Tong Clan members he sought had been located and resolved to capture them, obtain their treasure, and become the only god in the world.
• Xiao Sanxiao met Wuming, identified him as Di Shitian’s descendant, and asked him to investigate whether the Sun Moon Holy Cult was connected to the Thousand-Year Catastrophe.
• Xiao Sanxiao hurried to Blackwood Cliff and sensed a world-shaking surge of demonic intent, fearing that Lin Lang had succumbed to the evil intent of the Great Evil King.

Lin Lang challenged Xiao Sanxiao to consider that his estranged sons might be behind the Thousand-Year Catastrophe, then left his young son in Xiao Sanxiao’s care. After Wanwan broke through, Lin Lang and his companions entered the Sword Realm, where the story left them exploring a newly opened gateway.

• Xiao Sanxiao confronted Lin Lang over a divination linking the Thousand-Year Catastrophe to the Sun Moon Holy Cult, but Lin Lang suggested Xiao Sanxiao’s neglected sons might be responsible and offered to investigate.
• Mud Bodhisattva confirmed that Lin Lang had known details about Xiao Sanxiao that seemed impossible to learn, causing Xiao Sanxiao to reconsider Lin Lang’s claims.
• Lin Lang showed Xiao Sanxiao his son Lin Ying’s improved divine beast bloodline, then left Lin Ying in Xiao Sanxiao’s care before departing with his companions.
• Wanwan told Lin Lang that she had completed her Primordial Spirit’s fifth transformation after tempering herself with demonic flame and consuming a Dragon Essence Immortal Elixir.
• At the lakeside, Ren Yingying met Lan Fenghuang and the other women traveling with Lin Lang, then joined them as Lin Lang opened a passage to the Sword Realm.
• Lin Lang led the group through the passage, which began to heal behind them.

Lin Lang and his companions explored the timeless Sword Realm, where Second Dream absorbed countless sword intents and advanced her primordial spirit to its fifth transformation, becoming master of the Sword Dao. Lin Lang discovered a sword-shaped dharma form and headed with Second Dream toward the Sword Pool, while figures outside the realm sensed its power and waited for the party’s return.

• Lin Lang explained that the Sword Realm had incomplete laws and no passage of time, then urged the group to study its swords and gather ownerless weapons for their allies.
• The companions split up to explore and comprehend sword intents, while Lin Lang guarded Second Dream as she began absorbing the intents around her.
• Lin Lang formed a sword-shaped dharma form from his primordial spirit and realized that the Sword Realm’s many sword intents could help him fuse Martial Dao true intents.
• Second Dream absorbed the swords’ intents, created her own supreme Sword Dao, and advanced her primordial spirit to its fifth transformation as countless swords submitted to her.
• Second Dream demonstrated her perfected Flying Sword Technique, and Lin Lang told her he had gained enough insight to advance his own primordial spirit after leaving; they flew toward the Sword Pool.
• Wuming sensed his sword intent being suppressed, Jian Yue felt the Sword Realm’s aura slipping away, and Xie Xiaofeng and the others decided to wait for Lin Lang’s return before entering.

Lin Lang absorbed the Sword Pool’s evil intent and forged a supreme Demon Sword, causing his Primordial Spirit to reach its fifth transformation and shaking the Sword Realm. Afterward, Jian Yue, Xie Xiaofeng, Yan Shisan, and Xiao Sanxiao sensed the disturbance, while Lin Lang began considering how to unite his essence, qi, and spirit in a new way.

• Second Dream absorbed sword intent from the Sword Pool while Lin Lang studied its evil intent and planned to forge a Demon Sword stronger than the Profound Yin Twelve Swords.
• Lin Lang manifested demonic intent, formed the Demon Sword, and absorbed sword intent from across the Sword Realm as the realm trembled.
• The Demon Sword returned to Lin Lang and triggered his Primordial Spirit’s fifth transformation, bringing his essence, qi, and spirit to the fifth transformation.
• Lin Lang considered merging his Primordial Spirit and essence blood with his Golden Core, while Ren Yingying and Second Dream resolved to keep advancing their own martial paths.
• Jian Chen lost the Profound Yin sword intent he was about to comprehend, and Jian Yue suspected that someone had taken it from the Sword Realm.
• Xie Xiaofeng, Yan Shisan, and Xiao Sanxiao sensed a tremendous demonic pressure and suspected Lin Lang was responsible for the disturbance.

After returning from the Sword Realm, Lin Lang dismissed worries that his demonic intent had corrupted him, while Demon Kui escaped into the human realm to seek a divine weapon. Jian Chen joined Jian Yue and helped kill Wuming, prompting Lin Lang to suspect Jian Yue and prepare to deal with him.

• Lin Lang returned from the Sword Realm with his companions, and they parted ways to train and attend to their sects.
• Xiao Sanxiao confronted Lin Lang about his powerful demonic intent, but Lin Lang demonstrated his control over it and pointed him toward Jian Yue.
• Demon Kui escaped the Sword Realm, learned about the Peerless Good Sword, and resolved to forge a demonic sword using a top swordsman's primordial spirit and blood.
• Second Dream returned to the Sword Sect and invited Wuming to visit the Sword Realm, but Wuming went searching for Jian Chen instead.
• Wuming found Jian Chen learning the Profound Yin Twelve Swords from Jian Yue, and Jian Chen refused to return with his master before attacking him.
• Jian Yue exploited the demonic intent in Wuming's wounds and killed him; after learning of the death, Lin Lang ordered his people to locate Jian Yue.

Lin Lang defeated Jian Yue and Jian Chen, absorbed Jian Yue’s essence and the heavenly retribution’s poison, lightning, and inner-demon energy, and shattered the clouds trying to drive him away. At Divine Sword Manor, Xie Xiaofeng and Yan Shisan sensed his sword intent before a mysterious visitor asked Xie Xiaofeng whether he wanted to become Number One Under Heaven.

• Lin Lang confronted Jian Yue and Jian Chen, rebuked Jian Chen for betraying Wuming, and declared he would clean house for the Sword Sect.
• Lin Lang suppressed Jian Yue’s power, killed Jian Chen, drained Jian Yue’s essence, qi, and spirit, and took the Hero Sword to return to the Sword Sect.
• Lin Lang endured heavenly retribution, absorbed its poison and inner-demon energy, and grew stronger from the lightning before breaking the dark clouds and sealing the Spatial Rift.
• At Divine Sword Manor, Xie Xiaofeng and Yan Shisan sensed a terrifying sword intent from the north and discussed visiting the Sword Realm.
• A mysterious visitor arrived at Divine Sword Manor and asked Xie Xiaofeng whether he wanted to become Number One Under Heaven.

Demon Kui refused Xie Xiaofeng and Yan Shisan’s offer to join them, prompting Lin Lang to identify him as a natural-born sword soul and search for him. After Mud Bodhisattva divined that Demon Kui was in Nihon, Lin Lang headed there, where Demon Kui confronted Xiao Aoshi over his plan to forge the divine weapon Heartless.

• Demon Kui fought Yan Shisan at Divine Sword Manor, then offered Xie Xiaofeng and Yan Shisan sword techniques and a divine sword, but they rejected him and he left for overseas.
• At the Sword Sect, Lin Lang told Second Dream to safeguard the Hero Sword and sensed a powerful sword intent; after hearing Xie Xiaofeng’s account, he identified the visitor as Demon Kui and planned a group trip to the Sword Realm.
• Lin Lang asked Mud Bodhisattva to divine Demon Kui’s location, and Mud Bodhisattva determined that he was in Nihon and warned that a demonic god was rising there.
• In Nihon, Xiao Aoshi ordered his trading firm to begin forging Heartless and decided to obtain a Land Immortal’s blood to hone it.
• Demon Kui offered to help Xiao Aoshi defeat his enemies in exchange for a future Demon Domain, but Xiao Aoshi demanded Demon Kui’s sword and ordered him to submit.
• Demon Kui challenged Xiao Aoshi, declaring that even as a Land Immortal, Xiao Aoshi was among the weakest.

Lin Lang reached Nihon, strengthened Yagyu Piaoxu, and tracked down Big Boss, whom he confronted over his plans and his feud with Xiao Sanxiao. After defeating Big Boss and capturing Demon Kui, Lin Lang faced a sudden attack from a newcomer whom Big Boss desperately tried to stop.

• Lin Lang arrived in Nihon and visited Yagyu Piaoxu, helping her improve her strength before she asked to leave her position as queen and travel with him.
• Yagyu Piaoxu told Lin Lang about a rapidly expanding trading company led by someone called Big Boss, and Lin Lang went to investigate.
• Lin Lang confronted Big Boss, identified him as Xiao Aoshi, and urged him to abandon his plans against Xiao Sanxiao and dissolve the trading company.
• Big Boss attacked Lin Lang with the Peerless Demon Sword, but Lin Lang broke the weapon, sealed Demon Kui inside the Sun and Moon Sword, and stopped Big Boss from escaping.
• A dark figure suddenly arrived and struck Lin Lang with a powerful blow as Big Boss shouted for the attacker to stop.

Lin Lang defeated and captured Xiao Jingtian and Xiao Aoshi after they plotted a catastrophe in Nihon, then reunited them with their father, Xiao Sanxiao. Xiao Sanxiao crippled his sons’ martial arts and took them away, while Lin Lang reflected on what he had learned from their techniques.

• Xiao Jingtian attacked Lin Lang, who defeated him and Xiao Aoshi despite the Great Demon God's night-enhanced Four Wonders of the World and Demon God Body.
• Lin Lang captured both brothers, rebuked them for their plans and their resentment toward Xiao Sanxiao, and knocked them unconscious.
• Xiao Sanxiao arrived in Nihon searching for his sons and learned that someone had captured them.
• Lin Lang revealed that he had captured Xiao Jingtian and Xiao Aoshi, and Xiao Sanxiao woke them and demanded they admit their mistakes.
• Xiao Jingtian and Xiao Aoshi insulted their father, so Xiao Sanxiao shattered their meridians and took them away to keep them in check for a hundred years.
• Lin Lang considered how Myriad Dao Senluo, Huntian Sijue, and Demon God Body could inform his own Martial Dao.