Chapter Summaries

Reborn as Yang Ye in the Yang Family, Xu Xuan revealed an innate fire spirit body and rapidly regained his cultivation and past-life knowledge. By age fifteen, he had reached the peak of Qi Refining Fourth Level while using his expertise to strengthen the Yang Family and expand its influence.

• Yang Ye’s test revealed an innate fire spirit body, and Yang Zhenyue pledged the Yang Family’s full support for his cultivation.
• Xu Xuan recovered memories of his previous life, including his betrayal by Zhou Yongchang and the Azure Wood Sect, and learned that he was a descendant of the Great Xu Imperial Family.
• Xu Xuan advanced rapidly, reaching essence condensation in three days and meridian opening a month later, while Yang Zhenyue increased the clan’s support and assigned a guard to watch him.
• At age eight, Xu Xuan fully awakened his past-life knowledge, including cultivation techniques and the locations of his secret caches, and used his expertise to improve the Yang Family’s alchemy, artifact refining, and formations.
• Xu Xuan strengthened the Yang Family with improved resources and combat methods, helping it win conflicts and expand its territory.
• Xu Xuan reached Qi Refining at age ten and the peak of Qi Refining Fourth Level by age fifteen.

Xu Xuan killed the Bloodflame Bat King and discovered that refining fire-element demonic beasts’ essence blood could rapidly strengthen his cultivation. He secretly collected their souls to make the Fire Baleful Intent Banner, reached the seventh layer of Qi Refining, and sought permission to travel abroad to prepare for Foundation Establishment.

• Xu Xuan identified the Bloodflame Bat King’s fire poison near the Deep Valley Rift and killed it with his Pure Yang Fire.
• Xu Xuan refined the Bat King’s essence blood, discovered that the Bloodflame Mark absorbed its fire baleful intent, and gained strength.
• Xu Xuan began hunting demonic beasts alone, using their essence blood to cultivate and collecting their souls for a banner.
• Xu Xuan refined a ten-soul Fire Baleful Intent Banner and broke through to the middle Qi Refining stage.
• Three years later, Xu Xuan reached the seventh layer of Qi Refining and requested permission from the Lineage to travel abroad and prepare for Foundation Establishment.

Xu Xuan left the Yang Family to seek a path to Foundation Establishment, entering a secret treasury to obtain the Flame Sun True Explanation and resources. After years of cultivation in the Southern Wilds, he established his foundation at age twenty and turned his thoughts toward the Starfall Sea.

• Xu Xuan convinced Yang Zhenyue and the Clan Elders to let him leave Burning Flame Valley, then set out into the Southern Wilds.
• Xu Xuan opened a hidden stone chamber and took a Talisman Treasure, pills, spirit stones, and the Flame Sun True Explanation Jade Slip.
• Xu Xuan cultivated in seclusion for three years, reaching the eleventh level of Qi Refining and strengthening the Fire Baleful Banner.
• Xu Xuan moved to a secluded valley and used fire-attribute spiritual objects to break through into Foundation Establishment at age twenty.
• Xu Xuan felt the flame mark between his brows awaken and recalled Xu Qingchan's words about the Starfall Sea.

Xu Xuan returned to the Yang Family after reaching Foundation Establishment and supplied them with resources and cultivation techniques before setting out on a long journey. He began securing the Yang Family’s control of Burning Flame Valley by forcing the Zhao Household to submit and binding its members with Blood Pact Soul Seals.

• Xu Xuan returned to Burning Flame Valley, noticed ancient restrictions deep beneath the valley, and quietly went back to the Yang Family.
• Xu Xuan revealed his Foundation Establishment cultivation to the Yang Family and promised to clear obstacles before leaving on a long journey.
• Xu Xuan gave the Yang Family pills, artifacts, Spirit Stones, spells, and cultivation instructions, then declared that they would rule Burning Flame Valley.
• Xu Xuan confronted Zhao Kuishan and demanded that the Zhao Household submit or be exterminated.
• Xu Xuan overwhelmed Zhao Kuishan with Sword Qi, compelled him to surrender, and planted Blood Pact Soul Seals in the Zhao Household members.

Xu Xuan forced the Zhao, Sun, and Li Households to submit to the Yang Family, then left Burning Flame Valley for Flowing Cloud Immortal City to seek a route to the Starfall Sea. There, he learned that Zhou Yongchang had advanced to mid-stage Purple Mansion and that the Azure Wood Sect was still searching for the Longevity Wood; Xu Xuan planned to refine the Fire Baleful Banner before departing.

• Xu Xuan planted Blood Pact Soul Seals in the Sun Household after Sun Changyuan submitted, then subdued the Li Household after injuring an elder with a cold snort.
• Xu Xuan returned to the Yang Family and gave Yang Zhenyue the talisman seals, advising him to balance kindness and authority while governing the newly united households.
• After staying with his family for half a month, Xu Xuan left Burning Flame Valley and traveled toward Flowing Cloud Immortal City to find a safe route to the Starfall Sea.
• Xu Xuan entered Flowing Cloud Immortal City disguised as a Qi Refining cultivator and spent several days gathering news about the cultivation world.
• Xu Xuan learned that Zhou Yongchang had likely reached mid-stage Purple Mansion and that the Azure Wood Sect continued searching for wood-attribute treasures, possibly the Longevity Wood.
• After studying the powers of the outer seas, Xu Xuan decided to leave Flowing Cloud Immortal City after refining the Fire Baleful Banner once more.

Xu Xuan refined the Fire Baleful Banner in a secluded valley, where three cultivators ambushed him and were killed. Heavenly Profound Sect cultivators then confronted him, and Xu Xuan sent the banner’s Crimson Flame Python soul against their attack.

• Xu Xuan left Flowing Cloud Immortal City, set up a concealment formation, and began refining demonic beast essences into the Fire Baleful Banner.
• Three cultivators ambushed Xu Xuan and demanded his banner and storage pouch, but he destroyed their Dharma Artifacts and killed them.
• Xu Xuan collected the three men’s storage pouches, then used the Origin-Devouring Secret Art to extract and condense their essences and souls.
• Lin Tiannan and two Foundation Establishment cultivators from the Heavenly Profound Sect arrived, accused Xu Xuan of refining a demonic banner, and attacked him.
• Xu Xuan unleashed the Crimson Flame Python soul from the Fire Baleful Banner to meet Lin Tiannan’s white sword Gang.

Xu Xuan revealed his Blood River True Intent while fighting Lin Tiannan and was mistaken for a disciple of the Blood River Lineage. Blood Pupil arrived, recognized the legacy Xu Xuan claimed to have received from Xue Li, and took him toward the Starfall Sea, where Chu Liuyun appeared to confront them.

• Lin Tiannan trapped Xu Xuan in a Three Talents Sword Formation, but the Twin Fiends of the Ghost Soul interrupted the fight and attacked the Heavenly Profound Sect cultivators.
• Xu Xuan joined the battle and used his spear and Fire Baleful Banner to target the cultivator forming the sword array while Lin Tiannan fought the Twin Fiends.
• Lin Tiannan unleashed Sword Intent, but Xu Xuan countered with Blood River True Intent and damaged Lin Tiannan's Life-Bound Flying Sword.
• Blood Pupil intercepted Lin Tiannan's plea for Chu Liuyun's help, recognized Xu Xuan's Blood River True Intent, and invited him to join the Blood River Lineage.
• Xu Xuan introduced himself as Yang Ye and claimed part of Xue Li's legacy, then agreed to travel with Blood Pupil toward the coast.
• Chu Liuyun appeared at the shore in a bolt of lightning, and Blood Pupil urged Yang Ye to flee overseas.

Xu Xuan fought off Chu Liuyun’s foundation establishment late stage demon dragon using a Talisman Treasure and escape talismans. He activated Wandering Spirit, Shadowless to evade the dragon’s attacks and fled across the sea, hoping to meet Blood Pupil’s true body before Chu Liuyun returned.

• Blood Pupil used Blood Escape to draw Chu Liuyun away from Xu Xuan, but Chu Liuyun pursued him after summoning a demon dragon to attack Xu Xuan.
• Xu Xuan injured the demon dragon’s tail with his golden Talisman Treasure, but the dragon survived and attacked him with icy breath.
• Xu Xuan used a Lesser Blood Escape Talisman to dodge the dragon’s breath and flee, while the dragon pursued him across the sea.
• As the demon dragon prepared another attack, Xu Xuan activated Wandering Spirit, Shadowless, making the dragon’s attacks pass through him.
• Xu Xuan combined his wandering spirit state with Blood Escape and raced toward the open sea, hoping to reach Blood Pupil’s true body.

Xu Xuan escaped a demonic dragon with help from Blood Pupil and was brought into the company of the overseas demonic cultivators. After learning of their plans to pursue a rare lotus and seeing Blood Pupil trade for ancient remains, Xu Xuan arrived with him at Seven Killings Island, seat of the Seven Killings Dao Alliance.

• Xu Xuan’s pursuer, a demonic dragon, was badly wounded by Blood Pupil’s blood-palm attack and fled.
• Blood Pupil, Nether Soul Ancestor, and Ancestor Yinyue rescued Xu Xuan and took him aboard the Netherworld Blood Boat.
• Nether Soul Ancestor and Ancestor Yinyue discussed the coming Netherworld Sea Eye tide and the Profound Yin Spirit-Nurturing Lotus, which could aid their cultivation breakthroughs.
• Blood Pupil brought Xu Xuan to Fog-Hidden Island, where he traded with Old Devil Yin Gu for the remains of a Mountain-Moving Ape Demon.
• Blood Pupil took Xu Xuan to Seven Killings Island, headquarters of the Seven Killings Dao Alliance, and warned him that might ruled there.

Xu Xuan met True Person Xue Ku at Blood River Hall and concealed his secrets while explaining how he obtained Xue Li’s inheritance. Xue Ku accepted him into the Blood River lineage as a True Disciple named Xue Ming and bestowed a token infused with Blood River True Blood.

• Blood Pupil brought Xu Xuan to Withered Bone Peak and introduced him to True Person Xue Ku in Blood River Hall.
• Xu Xuan hid the Book of Time and his past-life memories when Xue Ku examined his soul, then claimed he had found Xue Li’s inheritance in an ancient cave abode.
• Xu Xuan said Xue Li had been killed by Xu Chen of the Azure Wood Sect and explained that he had sworn to avenge him if he reached the Purple Mansion stage.
• Blood Pupil recounted Xu Xuan’s escape from Chu Liuyun and the Demon Dragon, and Xue Ku agreed not to investigate Xu Xuan’s other secrets as long as he stayed loyal to the lineage.
• Xue Ku named Xu Xuan the Blood River lineage’s ninth True Disciple, gave him the Daoist name Xue Ming, and bestowed a token that infused him with Blood River True Blood.
• Blood Pupil led Xue Ming out of Blood River Hall to arrange his cave abode and introduce him to the sect’s rules.

Xu Xuan settled into his new cave abode as a true disciple of the Blood Baleful Sect and learned the rules of Seven Killings Island. Seeking to secure his position, he challenged Blood Shadow, and their fight began at the Demon-Fighting Arena.

• Blood Pupil showed Xu Xuan his cave abode, explained the sect hierarchy and rules, and left to plan for the Netherworld Sea Eye.
• Xu Xuan read the sect regulations and recognized that other disciples might challenge him for his true disciple status.
• Xu Xuan went to the Demon-Fighting Arena and challenged Blood Shadow, one of the sect's top ten true disciples.
• Blood Shadow dismissed Xu Xuan's claim to the true disciple seat and launched his Shadowless Kill technique with black blade rays.

Xu Xuan defeated three veteran True Disciples at the Demon-Fighting Arena, earning True Person Xue Ku’s protection and securing his place in the Blood Baleful Sect. After ten years of deepening his skills and concealing his Heart-Eroding True Intent, he received the first three volumes of the Blood River Canon from his master.

• Xu Xuan defeated Blood Shadow, Blood Charm, and Blood Peak in succession at the Demon-Fighting Arena.
• Blood Pupil reported Xu Xuan’s victories to True Person Xue Ku, who praised him and warned Purple Mansion cultivators not to intervene against him.
• Over nearly ten years, Xu Xuan consolidated his cultivation, studied diverse arts and demonic techniques, and secretly cultivated the Heart-Eroding True Intent.
• True Person Xue Ku summoned Xu Xuan and granted him the first three volumes of the Blood River Canon.

After reaching Foundation Establishment Perfection, Xu Xuan learned that breakthroughs to the Purple Mansion realm in this flawed world depended on plundering others’ Dao foundations. True Person Xue Ku taught him the Blood Refining Foundation Seizure Art and urged him to find a suitable cultivation vessel and earn sect merits for the needed aids.

• Xu Xuan became Blood Child, founded the secretive Blood Robe Sect, and used its network of missions to search for his scattered clansmen while hiding his motives behind a debauched reputation.
• Over ten years, Xu Xuan refined his true intents and reached the limit of Foundation Establishment, but he remained unable to break through to the Purple Mansion realm.
• After researching sect records, Xu Xuan concluded that Purple Mansion breakthroughs required plundering another cultivator’s Dao foundation.
• True Person Xue Ku confirmed that the Blood River True Explanation required refining other cultivators’ foundations and revealed the Blood Refining Foundation Seizure Art.
• Xu Xuan accepted the method and promised to find a suitable cultivation vessel and earn enough contribution merits to obtain aids for his breakthrough.

Xu Xuan studied the Blood Refining Foundation Seizure Art, then led a mission to destroy the Furious Flood Dragon Gang and tested the technique on its leader. He returned to Seven Killings Island with new insights, while his display of power made the sect’s disciples wary of his growing approach to the Purple Mansion.

• Xu Xuan carefully simulated the Blood Refining Foundation Seizure Art and learned how a compatible target’s Dao foundation needed to be refined.
• Xu Xuan accepted the mission to eliminate the Furious Flood Dragon Gang and took inner disciples, including his heart thralls, to Raging Waves Reef.
• Xu Xuan shattered the gang’s poison formation and mortally wounded Poison Flood Dragon with a single Sword Qi strike.
• Xu Xuan extracted and refined part of Poison Flood Dragon’s Dao foundation, found it too impure to use, and watched him die.
• Xu Xuan ordered his disciples to kill the fleeing gang members, then returned to Seven Killings Island and handed over most of the spoils.
• The sect praised Xu Xuan’s contribution, and his cultivation of the Foundation Seizure art made his fellow True Disciples more wary of him.

Xu Xuan faced Tu Gang’s provocation and learned from True Person Xue Ku how to strengthen his foundation before the Blood Refinement Secret Realm opened. He headed to the sect treasury to exchange his contribution points for resources, preparing for the coming contest and his plans against Xuanye’s lineage.

• Tu Gang confronted Xu Xuan in public, mocked the Blood River lineage, and threatened him with the upcoming Blood Refinement Secret Realm competition.
• Xu Xuan held back from a direct clash, while inwardly deciding to use the secret realm as a chance to establish his authority.
• True Person Xue Ku praised Xu Xuan’s conduct and advised him to cultivate bloodflame true intent with an earthcore fire lotus seed and greenwood longevity intent using Mu Fengchun’s Dao foundation.
• Xu Xuan resolved to prepare before targeting Mu Fengchun and to strengthen himself before the secret realm opened.
• Xu Xuan left Withered Bone Peak and hurried toward the sect treasury to spend his contribution points.

Xu Xuan learned that Shui Yunrou and her master Liu Hong had fled to the Turbulent Sea, and set out to seize Shui Yunrou’s Water-Soft Spirit Body. After tracking them to a reef hideout, he prepared an ambush while weighing the three known paths to the Purple Mansion stage.

• At a Blood Baleful Sect gathering, Xu Xuan heard that Shui Yunrou had wounded Liu Hong after he tried to seize her Water-Soft Spirit Body, and learned they had fled northwest toward the Turbulent Sea.
• Xu Xuan traveled to the Turbulent Sea, found traces of the wounded pair near a remote reef cluster, and laid concealed formations around it.
• Xu Xuan searched the reefs for several days and located the cave where Shui Yunrou and Liu Hong were hiding, while preparing to capture them.
• Xu Xuan reviewed three paths to the Purple Mansion stage: seizing an ancient clan body, plundering a present-day cultivator’s Dao foundation, or taking a Demon Race body or origin.
• Xu Xuan judged seizing a present-day cultivator’s Dao foundation the most direct and manageable path for now.

Xu Xuan killed Liu Hong and seized Shui Yunrou’s Soft Water Dao foundation, but the gains only brought him to the threshold of the Purple Mansion. He expanded his hunt across the islands and outer sea, and several years later, cultivators from both righteous and demonic paths were dying mysterious deaths.

• Xu Xuan entered the underwater grotto and found the wounded Shui Yunrou and her dying master, Liu Hong.
• Xu Xuan rejected Liu Hong’s offer, killed him with Blood Flame, and trapped Shui Yunrou inside the grotto.
• Xu Xuan subdued Shui Yunrou with Heart-Eroding True Intent and used Blood Refining Foundation Seizure to drain her spirit physique, killing her.
• Xu Xuan absorbed the Soft Water Power, sensed it beginning to loosen a shackle in his Dao foundation, and realized he still needed more compatible targets to reach the Purple Mansion.
• Xu Xuan broadened his hunting grounds and used Blood Shadow and assassination arts to kill renowned Foundation Establishment cultivators, leaving Blood-Colored Sword Marks and sometimes scraps of blood-red cloth.

Xu Xuan, known as Xue Ming and the Blood-Robed Devil Lord, killed Yun Hezi to absorb his flowing wind Dao foundation, then returned to the Blood Baleful Sect seeking a path to break through to Purple Mansion. As the Seven Baleful Alliance trial began, he fixed his attention on disciples of the Zhou Household.

• Xu Xuan received Patriarch Xue Ku's warning and protection after his bloody exploits drew widespread attention.
• Xu Xuan ambushed Yun Hezi at Cloud Wave Abode, killed him with the Blood Shadow Sword, and absorbed his Dao foundation before escaping a Purple Mansion cultivator.
• The Righteous Dao Alliance issued a devil-slaying decree, while Xu Xuan continued hunting and sought stronger foundations to reach Purple Mansion.
• Disciples of the Demonic Dao and righteous sects gathered on a deserted island for the Seven Baleful Alliance trial, and Tu Gang confronted a Taiyi Sword Sect disciple.
• Xu Xuan arrived among the Blood Baleful Sect disciples and locked his spiritual sense onto members of the Zhou clan in the Azure Wood Sect.

Xu Xuan slaughtered Zhou clan cultivators on the overseas battlefield and seized their Dao foundations, provoking Zhou Yongchang and drawing the attention of two Purple Mansion pursuers. After evading Daoist Xuanji and High Person Lantao once more, he left them seeking a way to force him into the open.

• Xu Xuan trapped an Azure Wood Sect cultivator in the Blood Baleful Spirit-Trapping Array, killed him, and seized his Dao foundation while fending off a Zhou clan cultivator’s Jade Ruler.
• Xu Xuan used the Phantom Shadow-Misting Array to kill the Zhou clan cultivator and seize his Dao foundation, then declared he would eventually claim Zhou Yongchang’s foundation as well.
• Zhou Yongchang learned that two Zhou clan cultivators had died and raged against Xue Ming, but his injured Dao foundation and pressure from rival Purple Mansion experts kept him from pursuing Xu Xuan.
• Xu Xuan abandoned a Dao foundation he was about to seize and vanished into a Water-Escape Concealment Array when a powerful divine sense swept over the sea.
• Daoist Xuanji and High Person Lantao arrived too late to catch Xu Xuan and discussed devising a foolproof plan to lure him out and kill him.

Daoist Xuanji and High Person Lantao tried to lure Xue Ming into a trap with a Millennium Blood Coral, but Xu Xuan survived their attack using a Blood Sea Clone and escaped with the bait. The two Purple Mansion cultivators recognized that he had become extraordinarily difficult to kill and ordered a wider hunt before he could advance further.

• Daoist Xuanji and High Person Lantao used a rare treasure to lure Xue Ming with the aura of a Millennium Blood Coral, and Xu Xuan sensed their trap.
• Xu Xuan sent a concealed Blood Sea Clone to approach the coral while keeping his true body at a distance.
• Daoist Xuanji and High Person Lantao attacked the clone, mistook it for Xu Xuan, and believed their soul-severing strike had killed him.
• Xu Xuan revealed himself with the Blood Coral and explained that his Undying Blood Sea Divine Ability let him survive through his hidden true spirit and many clones.
• Xu Xuan escaped into the sea, and Daoist Xuanji ordered the sects to increase the bounty and warned cultivators not to pursue him without Purple Mansion strength.