Chapter Summaries

Qing Chen shattered Wutong Old Devil’s demonic attack, forcing Wutong and Mysterious Altar True Person to unleash their strongest techniques against him. Trapped and facing a failing Demon Fire barrier, Qing Chen used the Demon Lotus Treasure-Corroding Curse to corrode Wutong’s Black Jade Ring.

• Qing Chen used his strength and Indestructible Vajra Divine Ability to destroy Wutong Old Devil’s grinding wheel spell and knock back his black jade ring.
• Wutong Old Devil, enraged by Qing Chen’s superior strength, summoned the Five-Element Annihilation Divine Needle and trapped him in a five-colored water prison.
• Mysterious Altar True Person used the Xuantan Edict Command Finger to surround Qing Chen with nine dark shadows and barbed chains, pushing his Demon Fire barrier close to collapse.
• Jueqing tried to leave the battlements to help Qing Chen, but Lin Changsheng ordered him to hold position and prepare the formation.
• Qing Chen released the Demon Lotus Treasure-Corroding Curse, dimming and destroying the five elements surrounding Wutong’s Black Jade Ring and weakening Wutong’s connection to the treasured artifact.

Qing Chen seized Wutong Old Devil’s Black Jade Ring and drove both Wutong and Mysterious Altar True Person into flight. As Mysterious Altar True Person fled, a golden Arhat appeared ahead and attacked him with the Thousand-Mile Thunderclap Fist.

• Qing Chen suppressed Wutong Old Devil’s Black Jade Ring, erased its divine sense imprint, and took the treasure for himself.
• Wutong Old Devil fled using the Five-Element Yin Demon Wolf Escape Technique while the defenders on the city wall cheered Qing Chen’s victory.
• Mysterious Altar True Person fled northeast, and Qing Chen broke free of the Xuantan Edict Command Finger’s seal after three breaths.
• Mysterious Altar True Person escaped beyond Qing Chen’s divine sense range and encountered a golden Arhat approaching through lightning-filled clouds.
• The Arhat struck Mysterious Altar True Person with the Thousand-Mile Thunderclap Fist.

Qing Chen used Thunderclap Arhat to intercept Mysterious Altar True Person and trapped him inside the White Bone Immortal-Locking Yuanchen Gourd. The gourd refined Mysterious Altar True Person to death, leaving Qing Chen victorious.

• Mysterious Altar True Person threw his damaged Yin-Yang Heavenly Halberd Treasure Talisman and fled as Qing Chen pursued him.
• Qing Chen activated his three Demon Banners and formed the Twelve Earthly Branches Mara Grand Formation.
• The banners manifested the White Bone Immortal-Locking Yuanchen Gourd, whose suction dragged Mysterious Altar True Person inside.
• Qing Chen drove the gourd’s yin-yang millstone and blade qi against Mysterious Altar True Person, suppressing his Golden Core and draining his vitality.
• Mysterious Altar True Person died inside the gourd, his spirit and body utterly annihilated.

Qing Chen returned to Xuanchi Island with Mysterious Altar True Person’s severed head and used his victory to strengthen the Demon Guards’ loyalty with praise and rewards. He left the island under their control and ordered Lin Changsheng to find promising mortals and send a Recording Jade Slip to Gao Yuliang.

• Qing Chen arrived at Xuanchi Island carrying Mysterious Altar True Person’s head, and Lin Changsheng and the Demon Guards were shocked to learn he had killed a Middle Golden Core Stage cultivator.
• Qing Chen displayed Mysterious Altar True Person’s remains and essence blood before absorbing them into the Xuanming Demon Banner.
• Qing Chen praised the Demon Guards and promised them spirit stones, medicinal pills, cultivation techniques, and time to practice the Qi and Blood Inner Core Art.
• Lin Changsheng and the Demon Guards pledged themselves to Qing Chen, while Duan Tianya celebrated their decision to follow him.
• Qing Chen told Lin Changsheng to search for mortals with spiritual roots and sturdy root bones, and to send a Recording Jade Slip to Gao Yuliang through the Communication Array.

Qing Chen refined Mysterious Altar True Person’s remains and divine soul, gaining nourishment for his cultivation and strengthening his black-gold fire lotus. He explored Xuantan’s possessions and found the Five-Dragon Carriage Treasure Talisman especially useful.

• Qing Chen refined Mysterious Altar True Person’s head into a Blood Pill and swallowed it to nourish his cultivation.
• Qing Chen considered using Xuantan’s remains and Golden Core to advance further in the early Vajra Realm.
• Qing Chen devoured Mysterious Altar True Person’s divine soul, strengthening his fire lotus and extending his divine sense to forty li.
• Qing Chen searched Xuantan’s Storage Ring and found cultivation techniques, spell compendiums, and the Impermanence Sect’s talisman legacies.
• Qing Chen dismissed the Yin-Yang Heavenly Halberd Treasure Talisman because it required a century of refinement, then took interest in the Five-Dragon Carriage Treasure Talisman.

Qing Chen studied Xuantan’s treasure talismans and learned how the One-Origin Mysterious Qi Treasure Talisman could absorb a cultivator’s power at the cost of hidden dangers. After Lin Changsheng reported the island’s spoils and warned that the selected youths might seek revenge, Qing Chen rewarded him with two supreme-grade spirit artifacts.

• Qing Chen found an Impermanence Blood Pact bearing Xuantan and Wutong’s names, and suspected Xuantan had left a scheme against the demon.
• Qing Chen found the One-Origin Mysterious Qi Treasure Talisman and learned that it could absorb one cultivator’s lifetime of cultivation, but also brought foreign soul fragments, true essence, and divine sense.
• Lin Changsheng reported the island’s collected treasures and said he had selected 237 children and youths with spiritual roots and robust physiques.
• Lin Changsheng warned Qing Chen that most of the selected youths’ families and sects had been destroyed by their forces, but Qing Chen insisted he had his own reasons.
• Qing Chen praised Lin Changsheng’s service and gave him the Yin-Thunder Wings and Nine-Palaces Iron Armor.

Qing Chen secretly gathered resources and selected promising youths on Xuanchi Island while his massacre there sparked a dispute among the elders of the Shushan Sword Sect. The elders debated whether his actions had provoked powerful allies of the Cold Mountain Temple, while Xuanji True Lord listened in silence.

• Qing Chen told Lin Changsheng that the youths would not join the Demon Lotus Sect and ordered him to secretly bring more than two hundred disciples, including Lie Feng, Bu Jingyun, Duan Lang, and Lian Chengbi, into a side hall unconscious.
• Qing Chen assessed his spirit stones and the resources he had invested in the Nine-Luminaries Glazed Vidyaraja Pagoda, then secretly extracted three second-tier spirit veins from Xuanchi Island.
• On Xuanji Peak, Yuji condemned Qing Chen for killing the cultivators on Xuanchi Island and provoking Dharma Master Cold Mountain.
• Budong defended Qing Chen, arguing that Impermanence Sect and Blackwood Island operatives had infiltrated the island and deserved death.
• Tianhuo praised the strength of Xuanji True Lord and noted that Qing Chen had spared the Cold Mountain Temple branch altar, while Dan Ding urged caution because the temple was allied with the Shushan Sword Sect.
• Xuanji True Lord remained silent as the elders argued over Qing Chen's actions.

The elders debated how to address Qing Chen’s unauthorized actions on Xuanchi Island, and Grand Elder Wan Hun proposed a written warning instead of punishment. Elder Budong then revealed that Qing Chen had slain the middle Golden Core cultivator Xuantan, leaving the elders stunned.

• Wan Hun silenced the arguing elders and said the sect needed to consider whether Qing Chen’s actions benefited or harmed it.
• Wan Hun acknowledged Qing Chen’s success in eliminating the Impermanence Sect and Blackwood Island remnants, but noted his unauthorized stay on Xuanchi Island had damaged the sect’s reputation.
• Wan Hun proposed letting Qing Chen’s merit and fault cancel each other out and issuing him a written warning, and the other elders stopped arguing.
• Budong told the sect master and elders that Qing Chen had rendered another tremendous service by slaying Xuantan.
• Yuji, Wan Hun, Tianhuo, and Dan Ding reacted with disbelief because Xuantan had been a middle Golden Core cultivator.

After Qing Chen’s feat of killing Xuantan was confirmed, Xuanji True Lord rewarded him with a powerful magic treasure and broad authority in Tianshu Hall. The chapter ended with Elder Yuji and Elder Wan Hun recognizing that the sect’s balance of power had shifted.

• True Person Budong confirmed that Qing Chen had killed the stronger Xuantan, stunning the elders and silencing Elder Yuji’s objections.
• Xuanji True Lord declared that Qing Chen had removed a threat to the sect and granted him the Pojun Battle Halberd.
• Xuanji True Lord appointed Qing Chen Tianshu Hall Hall Vice Lord and ordered Elder Yuji to focus on secluded cultivation.
• Xuanji True Lord authorized Qing Chen to mobilize most sect forces and act first before reporting in matters that did not directly confront Nascent Soul-level powers.
• Elder Wan Hun and Elder Yuji exchanged a knowing glance as they realized Qing Chen’s new authority had altered the sect’s power structure.

Xuanji True Lord defended his decision to give Qing Chen broad authority, arguing that the sect needed bold action and that his own strength could protect it from major threats. He sent True Person Budong to deliver Qing Chen’s appointment and order him to hold his Golden Core Ceremony on Earth Pass Island, where Budong asked to stay and guard him.

• Elder Yuji objected to Qing Chen’s promotion and authority, but Xuanji True Lord silenced him by asserting his position as sect master.
• Grand Elder Wan Hun warned that Qing Chen’s conflicts with Cold Mountain Temple and the Snake Spirit Thieves could provoke retaliation and drag the Shushan Sword Sect into the dispute.
• Xuanji True Lord revealed that his new Dharma Body had greatly increased his strength and declared that the sect should take risks to revive itself rather than hide its light.
• Xuanji True Lord ordered True Person Budong to deliver Qing Chen’s Pojun Battle Halberd and appointment documents, and to tell him to hold his Golden Core Ceremony on Earth Pass Island within three to five years.
• True Person Budong warned that Earth Pass Island was dangerous and asked permission to stay there with Qing Chen after delivering the appointment.

Four years after Qing Chen’s rise, Duan Tianya and Yuwen Bujing led a hunt against the remaining Impermanence Sect forces in the Cold Mountain Archipelago. Ji Cangming and Leng Jingfei’s dwindling followers faced near destruction, while Qing Chen remained in seclusion and Xu Jiuling oversaw the campaign.

• Duan Tianya attacked Ji Cangming with the Seven Forms of the Illusory Sword-Light-Splitting, while Yuwen Bujing fought an Impermanence Sect cultivator.
• Yuwen Bujing activated the Suspended Skull Fifth Transformation, trapping more than a hundred Impermanence Sect remnants in a blood-colored cage.
• Ji Cangming and Leng Jingfei had stayed in the Azure Wave Archipelago to search for Ji Bochang and save their disciples, but the Impermanence Sect and Blackwood Island remnants were hunted down over the next four years.
• Blackwood Island’s remaining disciples were wiped out a year earlier, ending the island’s four-thousand-year lineage.
• Xu Jiuling directed the hunts and purges according to Qing Chen’s orders while Qing Chen remained in seclusion.

Leng Jingfei and Ji Cangming were cornered by Demon Lotus Sect and Condensed Jade Sect forces while trying to flee Earth Pass Island. As Leng Jingfei fought to hold them off, thirteen Impermanence Sect disciples began sacrificing themselves to open a path for her escape.

• Leng Jingfei and Ji Cangming were surrounded by Demon Lotus Sect members and Condensed Jade Sect forces as they tried to leave Earth Pass Island.
• Leng Jingfei unleashed the Iceedge Sword’s Frost and Wind Across the Fields, forcing Yuwen Bujing back and weakening the battle formation.
• Zhang Er joined the fight and, with Baili Tingfeng and the inspector disciples, helped contain Leng Jingfei beneath a restricting formation.
• Thirteen Impermanence Sect disciples activated the Impermanence Body-Burning Disintegration Curse and prepared to detonate themselves and their spirit artifacts for Leng Jingfei’s escape.

Impermanence Sect disciples sacrificed themselves to break the Blood-Colored Cage and weaken the Condensed Jade Sect's Restricting Formation, giving their surviving comrades a chance to escape. Li Meng died creating an opening for Leng Jingfei, while the remaining disciples launched a desperate talisman assault on the barrier.

• Yuwen Bujing tried to stop the Impermanence Sect disciples, but thirteen of them detonated themselves and shattered the Blood-Colored Cage.
• The freed Impermanence Sect disciples regrouped as Leng Jingfei fought Zhang Er and heard Li Meng urge her to live on.
• Li Meng swallowed the Impermanence Treasure Mirror jade slip and detonated himself beside the Restricting Formation, hoping to open a path for Leng Jingfei.
• Zhang Er forced Leng Jingfei back, and the fragment of Li Meng's storage bag disappeared before she could catch it.
• The remaining Impermanence Sect disciples hurled their Formation-Breaking Talismans at the damaged formation node as their scar-faced leader urged them to use everything they had.

Impermanence Sect disciples sacrificed themselves and unleashed Formation-Breaking Talismans to shatter the Restricting Formation while Leng Jingfei held off their pursuers. Thirty-nine cultivators escaped across the coral reefs, leaving Leng Jingfei alone to block the Demon Lotus Sect and Condensed Jade Sect.

• Impermanence Sect disciples bombarded the blood-colored wall of mist with Formation-Breaking Talismans, while some detonated themselves and their talismans to weaken it.
• Leng Jingfei fought Zhang Er and the Inspector disciples, killing several and forcing them back with her relentless sword attacks.
• Baili Tingfeng secretly created a brief pause in the Restricting Formation, and the talisman bombardment opened a wide crack in its barrier.
• Ji Cangming detonated a mid-grade spirit artifact and escaped through the breach as Duan Tianya tried to stop him.
• More than twenty wounded Impermanence Sect cultivators detonated their talismans and Dharma Artifacts to cover the escape of thirty-nine disciples.
• Leng Jingfei stood alone against the pursuing Demon Lotus Sect and Condensed Jade Sect cultivators, preventing them from following the escapees.

Leng Jingfei broke through to the pseudo-core realm and turned the tide against the forces encircling the Impermanence Sect. Half a month later, Xu Jiuling heard the costly battle report as Qing Chen’s trusted followers gathered at the Condensed Jade Sect Base on Earth Pass Island, where Qing Chen’s reforms and promotions had strengthened their influence.

• Leng Jingfei crystallized her magic power during the battle and drove back the Condensed Jade Sect and Demon Lotus Sect forces, killing whenever she attacked Zhang Er.
• The inspection disciple reported to Xu Jiuling that the Impermanence Sect remnants escaped the encirclement after detonating themselves, while Leng Jingfei’s breakthrough inflicted heavy casualties on both attacking sects and severely injured Zhang Er.
• Xu Jiuling listened as the inspection disciple recounted how the Demon Lotus Sect’s sixth-revolution battle formation had finally forced Leng Jingfei back.
• Gu Jianchun, Miao Long, Gao Yuliang, Li Feiyu, and other Foundation Establishment cultivators gathered as Qing Chen’s core followers, while several of his trusted subordinates held important posts across Tianshu Hall and its islands.
• Qing Chen had restructured Tianshu Hall and its subordinate forces with Xuanji True Lord’s support, promoting his trusted followers while he remained in seclusion.

The chapter described the Condensed Jade Sect’s three halls, nine divisions, and growing strength under Qing Chen’s leadership. It ended with the outcomes of several cultivators’ attempts to break through to the Golden Core realm and Qing Chen assigning surviving elders to the Attendant Hall.

• Qing Chen’s reorganization divided the Condensed Jade Sect into three halls and nine divisions overseeing its islands and affairs.
• Ten Thousand Souls True Person, Qing Chen, and Yuji True Person held leadership positions in the Elder Hall, Tianshu Hall, and True Disciple Hall, while the divisions were assigned to various senior cultivators.
• Xin Bairen broke through to the Golden Core realm during his seclusion on Heavenly Jade Island, though the modest tribulation suggested limited potential.
• Sun Wudi failed his breakthrough and suffered severe damage, while Daoist Wine survived the Heart Demon Tribulation and later recovered.
• Two Foundation Establishment Peak cultivators attempted breakthroughs: one died after his Golden Core Embryo shattered, while the other failed at the Core Condensation Pass and survived with diminished cultivation.
• Qing Chen appointed Daoist Wine and other surviving cultivators to the Attendant Hall.

Qing Chen tested the Pojun Battle Halberd against the Mysterious Turtle Sea-Suppressing Formation and found that it let him bring his abilities together with extraordinary force. After more than four years of seclusion, his body had advanced beyond minor achievement in the Early Vajra Realm, and his Golden Core cultivation had reached minor achievement in the Early Golden Core Realm.

• Qing Chen activated the Brahma Demon-Refining Art and struck the Mysterious Turtle Sea-Suppressing Formation with the Pojun Battle Halberd, shattering its Mysterious Turtle Phantom before pulling back to spare the formation.
• Qing Chen praised the halberd’s close-combat power and compared its practical use with the resource-intensive Three Demon Banners.
• Qing Chen recalled using the Three Demon Banners to kill Mysterious Altar True Person, an effort that consumed nearly half his stored materials and over seventy thousand spirit stones.
• Qing Chen used Mysterious Altar True Person’s remains and Golden Core, along with Chiling Pills, to support his cultivation, while Xue Qingxia refined Chiling Pills from his gathered herbs.
• Qing Chen completed more than four years of arduous cultivation, advancing his body beyond minor achievement in the Early Vajra Realm and reaching minor achievement in the Early Golden Core Realm.

Qing Chen recalled how the Sect Master had promoted him to Tianshu Hall Hall Vice Lord to make him a lone cultivator who would bear the enmity of outside powers and the sect’s elders. After accepting the role as a challenge, the story shifted to Leng Jingfei, Ji Cangming, and the surviving Impermanence Sect disciples fleeing across the sea.

• Qing Chen assessed his strength and wondered whom the Pojun Battle Halberd would be used against.
• Qing Chen recalled how True Person Budong had delivered the Sect Master's decree promoting him to Tianshu Hall Hall Vice Lord and granting him the Pojun Battle Halberd.
• Budong warned Qing Chen that the Sect Master intended to place him at the center of conflict and explained that the role would isolate him from outside powers and established sect elders.
• Budong revealed that he had once detected the Sect Master secretly bringing a young person back to Xuanji Peak.
• Qing Chen resolved to serve as the Sect Master's whetstone and see whether the blade or whetstone would break first.
• Leng Jingfei and Ji Cangming led thirty-nine surviving Impermanence Sect disciples across the sea at sunset.

Leng Jingfei and the surviving Impermanence Sect disciples fled the Condensed Jade Sect’s pursuit, aided by Baili Tingfeng’s secret betrayal of his own sect. Ji Cangming proposed that they seek refuge in Shushan territory by crossing the Azure Sun Archipelago and entering the Shushan Sword Sect’s Sword Tomb Assembly.

• Leng Jingfei led thirty-nine battered survivors through more than a month of flight while fending off pursuers and pirates.
• The chapter revealed that Baili Tingfeng had warned Leng Jingfei and her companions about the Condensed Jade Sect’s trap and secretly weakened its restricting formation.
• Leng Jingfei and Ji Cangming had captured Baili Tingfeng after Xuantan’s attack, bound him with a controlling spell, and recorded his confession as proof of his collusion.
• Leng Jingfei asked Ji Cangming how the survivors could escape their predicament, and he advised them to leave the Azure Wave, Three Corpse, and Cold Mountain Archipelagos.
• Ji Cangming suggested crossing the Azure Sun Archipelago to reach Shushan territory and urged Leng Jingfei to try the Shushan Sword Sect’s ten-year Sword Tomb Assembly.

Leng Jingfei learned that the Shushan Sword Sect’s Sword Tomb Assembly could offer her a chance to join and chose to go there. Qing Chen emerged from seclusion after advancing his demonic cultivation, and he reflected that the progress had taken four years and three months.

• Ji Cangming told Leng Jingfei about the Sword Tomb Assembly and urged her to seek admission to the Shushan Sword Sect.
• Leng Jingfei recalled Li Meng’s earlier hint about the sect’s unusual sword-based disciple selection and decided to go to Shushan.
• Qing Chen’s secluded chamber burst open as he emerged surrounded by a powerful sea-of-blood manifestation.
• Qing Chen reflected on the cruel principles of the No-Sentient-Beings Aspect and the cultivators and mortals he had refined.
• Qing Chen sensed his strengthened true essence and noted that his cultivation had finished half a year earlier than expected.