Recaps

After returning to Heavenly Wave Residence, Chu Xisheng reunited with his companions, gave Lu Luanli and Chu Yunyun treasures from Mount Buzhou, and began nourishing the Blood-Yazi Divine Saber, which helped him advance his Yazi Saber Intent. Meanwhile, Ji Qianqian remained distracted by her mission, and Purple-Browed Heavenly Lord Shui Ruge arrived at Formless Divine Mountain to challenge Chu Xisheng to a duel.

• On the way to Heavenly Wave Residence, Chu Xisheng and Ji Qianqian encountered Li Tiangong with Thousand-Leaf Immortal Maiden, and Chu Xisheng told Ji Qianqian to give Li Tiangong more work.
• At Heavenly Wave Residence, Chu Xisheng welcomed Lu Luanli, Liu Ruoxi, Zhou Liangchen, and Chu Yunyun, praised Liu Ruoxi's saber work and Zhou Liangchen's progress, and reassured Zhou Liangchen that the Iron Banner Gang would help the Linhai factions retreat from Extreme Eastern Ice City.
• Chu Xisheng gave Lu Luanli thirty-five Peacock Five-Colored Feathers and gave Chu Yunyun Primordial Blood Pool crystals to help rebuild her foundation.
• The Blood-Yazi Divine Saber arrived and drained Chu Xisheng's vital essence as he nourished it, while guiding his Yazi Saber Intent toward the Heavenly Rules and Dao Laws of Mirror Heaven, Geng Metal, and Retribution.
• At the mountain gate, Ye Zhiqiu recognized Purple-Browed Heavenly Lord Shui Ruge, who announced that he had come to challenge Chu Xisheng to a duel.

Shui Ruge arrived at Formless Divine Mountain to challenge Chu Xisheng, but Chu remained in seclusion with the Blood-Yazi Divine Saber, studying its laws and collecting saber-move cards. Seven days later, Shui Ruge still waited at the gate as rumors spread that Chu was avoiding the fight.

• Shui Ruge challenged Chu Xisheng, and Ye Zhiqiu drew her sword against him when he refused to fight her instead.
• Jian Zangfeng returned to Formless Divine Mountain and learned that Chu Xisheng had entered seclusion with the Blood-Yazi Divine Saber.
• Chu Xisheng spent Blood Essence Points to obtain Blood-Yazi Saber Lord character cards, two divine move cards, and twelve ultimate move cards while the saber drained his vital blood and qi.
• Zong Sanping returned to the mountain and learned that Shui Ruge had waited seven days for Chu, whose Yazi Saber Intent had risen to the seventeenth level.
• Shui Ruge read the new Martial Secrets Almanac, which ranked Chu fourteenth on the Azure Cloud Ranking, while Hu Kan and Hu Lai heard onlookers mock Chu for not accepting the challenge.

Wen Zhuyi assessed Extreme Eastern Ice City’s western expedition and sought a way to enter the Cloudsea Immortal Palace to extend her life. Twelve days later, Chu Xisheng emerged from meditation, learned the second stage of the Limitless Divine Slash, and prepared to face Shui Ruge.

• Changsun Ruoli told Wen Zhuyi that most Eastern Province factions had rejected her Life-and-Death Notices and were preparing to resist or flee, while the Iron Banner Gang had gone into hiding.
• Wen Zhuyi ordered Changsun Ruoli to leave the Iron Banner Gang alone for now but hire its ships and boatmen, then revealed that she wanted to enter the Cloudsea Immortal Palace in search of life-extending medicine.
• Changsun Ruoli reported that Chu Xisheng held an Immortal Palace Secret Key, and Wen Zhuyi sent a warning to Li Changsheng that the Chan Sect’s supreme one and powerful deities had taken an interest in the palace.
• After twelve days of meditation, Chu Xisheng found that the Blood-Yazi Divine Saber had drained him but that something within his heart had strengthened his bloodline; Chu Yunyun said it was connected to Pangu’s Heart.
• Chu Yunyun told Chu Xisheng that Shui Ruge had challenged him, then transmitted the second stage of the Limitless Divine Slash to him.
• Chu Xisheng mastered the new slash through dream training, integrated it into his Divine Source Formless Art, and prepared to meet the waiting challengers.

Chu Xisheng emerged from seclusion and accepted Shui Ruge’s challenge, then wounded him with a single saber strike despite their equalized cultivation. Shui Ruge unsealed more of his power to continue fighting, while Chu Xisheng remained confident that he could overcome him.

• Chu Ming waited outside Formless Divine Mountain and assumed Chu Xisheng was avoiding Shui Ruge’s challenge, while Hu Kan and Hu Lai prepared to report his continued absence to Heavenly Secret Hall.
• Chu Xisheng arrived at the gates and agreed to fight Shui Ruge, asking Ye Zhiqiu to witness the match as Shui Ruge restricted his cultivation with golden needles.
• When Ye Zhiqiu’s coin landed, Chu Xisheng and Shui Ruge exchanged rapid teleportation moves before drawing their weapons, and Chu Xisheng’s first strike cut Shui Ruge.
• Shui Ruge unsealed two golden needles and raised his cultivation, but Chu Xisheng struck again with One Saber, Ten Thousand Kills and forced him to unseal two more needles.
• Chu Xisheng told Shui Ruge that even Lower Fifth Grade was not enough and invited him to unseal the remaining needles, while onlookers recognized Chu Xisheng’s strength.

Chu Xisheng and Shui Ruge fought an intense sparring match, each revealing powerful techniques and exhausting the other. Shui Ruge awakened his Emperor Star talent, and the two ended the battle in a draw, acknowledging each other’s skill.

• Chu Xisheng reflected Shui Ruge’s attacks until Shui Ruge unsealed the final two golden needles and recovered his cultivation, while the crowd watched in shock.
• Shui Ruge restored his fourth-rank cultivation and attacked from a distance, but Chu Xisheng defended with his saber and outlasted him with the Blood of Eternal Ages.
• Shui Ruge unleashed a storm of star-powered sword strikes, and Chu Xisheng countered with seven consecutive Limitless Divine Slashes that forced Shui Ruge to retreat through the sky.
• Shui Ruge invoked his Northern Pole Star talent to replenish his strength, and Chu Xisheng proposed ending their spar before his Yazi Phantom Ring broke.
• Shui Ruge accepted a draw, disappointing most of the bettors, while Zong Sanping regretted his lost wagers and Jian Zangfeng profited.

Ji Qianqian learned that the Imperial Court wanted Chu Xisheng killed inside the Cloudsea Immortal Palace, while Chu Xisheng and his allies prepared to enter after the palace’s rules changed. The chapter ended with Li Changsheng assigning Jian Zangfeng to protect Chu Xisheng in the secret realm.

• Wangqi Luohou gave Ji Qianqian an artifact to maintain her cultivation seal and ordered her to reveal Chu Xisheng’s location in the Cloudsea Immortal Palace so someone else could kill him.
• Chu Xisheng and Shui Ruge ended their duel in a draw, exchanged apologies, and parted; Chu Xisheng returned to Heavenly Wave Residence, where his companions and the Hu Brothers celebrated with a banquet.
• The Hu Brothers told Chu Xisheng that Zuo Qingyun had been chosen as the White Tiger Marquis’s vessel and could inherit his cultivation through Origin-Transference Great Art.
• Li Changsheng’s message revealed that someone had altered the Cloudsea Immortal Palace’s entry rules, allowing Chu Yunyun to enter if she sealed her cultivation; she resolved to accompany Chu Xisheng.
• Li Changsheng and the sect elders planned their expedition to the Cloudsea Immortal Palace, and Li Changsheng assigned Jian Zangfeng to accompany and protect Chu Xisheng.

After Demon God Zangtian bestowed Divine Grace on Chu Xisheng, his body and bloodline grew stronger and he received a Quasi-Divine Ultimate Move. He awoke after three and a half days, faced Ji Qianqian’s request to join the Cloudsea Immortal Palace contest, and began preparing for the dangers and shifting loyalties ahead.

• While cultivating, Chu Xisheng saw Demon God Zangtian, endured the demon god’s refining fire, and absorbed a Quasi-Divine Ultimate Move imprinted in his Primordial Spirit.
• Chu Xisheng discovered that Zangtian had raised his talent to Tier Thirteen, granted him Zangtian Tyrant Body, and advanced his Ninefold Refinement Ultimate Origin Purple-Gold Body to Level Eleven.
• After waking from three and a half days of meditation, Chu Xisheng learned the Hu Brothers had left and heard Ji Qianqian insist on joining the Cloudsea Immortal Palace contest.
• Chu Xisheng secretly used a Near Ink, Blackening Supernatural Power Card on Ji Qianqian, while she resolved to settle matters between them inside the immortal palace.
• Chu Xisheng told Chu Yunyun, Lu Luanli, and the others that he did not know what Zangtian wanted from the Cloudsea Immortal Palace, then heard Bai Xiao Zhao describe Ji Qianqian’s strange, conflicted behavior.
• Chu Xisheng received his Zhengyang Martial Academy and Iron Banner Gang subordinates, used blackening cards on them, and exchanged for two talent advancements after finding them in the Martial Dao Treasury.

Chu Xisheng prepared for the Cloudsea Immortal Palace by strengthening his martial arts and putting on powerful armor, while Chu Yunyun revealed that the God-Defying Banner could shrink to a toothpick. Elsewhere, Zhu Guangyin disguised himself and learned that Chu Xisheng had risen to the top of the Azure Cloud Overall Ranking as powerful beings gathered around the coming contest.

• Chu Xisheng reviewed his strengthened martial intents, new saber art, and Heaven-Peering ability, then equipped the Divine Rahu Inner Armor and Dao-Tribulation Mysterious Armor before the sect’s ship departed for the Cloudsea Immortal Palace.
• Chu Yunyun practiced her Suanni transformation, manifesting three nearly complete Heavenly Rules and Dao Laws before her bonded Divine Beast grew exhausted.
• Lu Luanli warned Chu Yunyun to protect the suspected God-Defying Banner, and Chu Yunyun revealed the banner spear in its shrunken toothpick form before expanding it again.
• Gu Jian met Zhu Guangyin on a reef near Tianhai Commandery, where Zhu Guangyin identified the distant Primordial Ice Wheel and disguised himself and Gu Jian with masks.
• Gu Jian told Zhu Guangyin that Chu Xisheng had reached first place on the Azure Cloud Overall Ranking and fought fourth-rank Shui Ruge to a draw; Zhu Guangyin anticipated that they might meet at the immortal palace.
• A blazing red figure descended from the Great Sun, but Zhu Guangyin dismissed it as a child of Yang God Taihao and continued reading about Chu Xisheng.

Chu Xisheng’s team departed for Cloudsea Immortal Palace aboard the Thunderclap Cosmic Shuttle, while he learned that Jian Zangfeng’s hidden strength and romantic troubles were more complicated than they appeared. After the vessels encountered the Northern Underworld Palace’s Grand Elder and a massive Whale Kun, a Third-Rank Golden Peng attacked Chu Xisheng’s shuttle, and Jian Zangfeng urged him to fight it alone.

• Chu Xisheng boarded the Thunderclap Cosmic Shuttle with Chu Yunyun, Jian Zangfeng, Zhou Liangchen, and their companions, and reassured Zhou Liangchen that the Formless Divine Sect was helping his family.
• Chu Xisheng learned that Jian Zangfeng had concealed his strength from Ye Zhiqiu, who now saw him as a scheming villain, and encouraged him to start over with her.
• The two vessels traveled east past Extreme Eastern Ice City, where Chu Xisheng saw its huge fleet of aerial warships.
• Yan Guilai warned the group that the Northern Underworld Palace lay ahead, and its Grand Elder attacked the Sun-Bathing Divine Vessel aboard a gigantic Whale Kun.
• Yan Guilai fought the white-haired Daoist with his Heaven-Measuring art and saber, while a Third-Rank Golden Peng descended on Chu Xisheng’s shuttle.
• Jian Zangfeng told Chu Xisheng to go out and kill the Golden Peng himself, leaving Chu Xisheng doubting whether his senior brother was serious.

Chu Xisheng fought off Northern Underworld Palace attackers with Jian Zangfeng’s help, killing Golden Roc Arrow Zhu Yuan and his life-bound Golden Peng before Yan Guilai drove the remaining enemies away. The group resumed its journey, and the Cloudsea Immortal Palace appeared ahead.

• Chu Xisheng left the Thunderclap Cosmic Shuttle to confront the Golden Peng while Jian Zangfeng summoned the Heavenly Equal Sword and used the Heaven-Pacifying Sword to strengthen him.
• Chu Xisheng reflected the Golden Peng’s attacks, then used Execute Heaven, Destroy Earth to kill it and later struck down its master, Zhu Yuan.
• Grand Elder Divine Kun covered the battlefield in darkness and withdrew with the Northern Underworld Palace fighters, while Yan Guilai and the others regrouped.
• Yan Guilai praised Chu Xisheng’s saber skills and urged the group to leave before more enemies arrived; he covered their retreat aboard the Sun-Bathing Divine Vessel.
• Chu Xisheng thanked Jian Zangfeng for his aid, while Chu Yunyun and Ji Qianqian sensed that Jian Zangfeng concealed substantial strength.
• Jian Zangfeng announced that they were nearing their destination, and the Cloudsea Immortal Palace came into view above the sea of clouds.

Chu Xisheng and the others reached the Cloudsea Immortal Palace’s stone platform, where powerful factions and hidden experts gathered under restrictive laws. As rivalries and suspicions mounted, City-Toppling Sword, Wen Zhuyi, arrived and struck at the palace with a freezing sword attack.

• Chu Xisheng and Lu Luanli identified the illusory palace’s protections as a combination of Dreamlike Illusions, Upright and Shadowless, Golden Rules and Jade Laws, and Heaven’s Wrath and Earth’s Annihilation.
• The Formless Divine Sect group landed on the spirit-stone platform, and Lu Luanli feared that her father, Lu Chen, was nearby; Chu Yunyun suspected an unremarkable masked-looking man might be him.
• Yan Guilai warned the group to preserve their lives, while Grand Elder Divine Kun condemned his disciples’ past underestimation of Chu Xisheng and cautioned them against provoking Yan Guilai.
• Bai Xiao Zhao arrived with Madam Hanguang and the Li Mountain group, and Zhang Longtu insulted the Demon Race holy lands, provoking their anger.
• Little Black Tortoise stared at a masked man, but refused to explain why; then a vast freeze swept across the area as Wen Zhuyi appeared and slashed toward the illusory palace.

Wen Zhuyi tried to break into the Cloudsea Immortal Palace but stopped when its Cloudsea Sword Puppets resisted her ice arts, then joined the waiting contenders. Divine Ao Rogue Person’s altered rules transported Chu Xisheng’s party into a hall containing two powerful spell arts, leaving them to consider whether to learn them.

• Wen Zhuyi froze the Cloudsea Immortal Palace’s defenses until twenty-four Cloudsea Sword Puppets combined their formations to stop her, and she withdrew to the stone platform.
• Wen Zhuyi recognized Chu Xisheng, while Chu Yunyun warned him to stay close to her and revealed that Wen Zhuyi was injured and had little lifespan remaining.
• Lu Luanli sensed that her father, Lu Chen, was nearby as the contenders waited on the stone platform.
• Divine Ao Rogue Person announced altered entry requirements, and his spiritual power transported Chu Xisheng, Chu Yunyun, Jian Zangfeng, Ji Qianqian, Lu Luanli, Zhou Liangchen, and Little Black Tortoise into a hall.
• Ji Qianqian read that the hall’s stele contained the spell arts Words Become Prophecy and Heavenly Punishment Thunderstorm, and Chu Yunyun considered learning them.

Chu Xisheng passed on learning Divine Ao Rogue Person’s spells, drank a secret medicine, and broke through to Fifth Grade, while Chu Yunyun studied the spells and Ji Qianqian secretly received a signal. After a dream revealed a familiar figure in a mysterious hall, Chu Xisheng strengthened his talents and began advancing his Ninefold Refinement Ultimate Origin Purple-Gold Body.

• Chu Xisheng chose not to learn Divine Ao Rogue Person’s spells, while Lu Luanli and Chu Yunyun estimated how long they would need to master them.
• Chu Xisheng drank the Formless Divine Sect’s secret medicine, whose power broke through the seals and curses in his blood marrow as he advanced.
• Chu Yunyun examined the spells and saw ways to improve them, while Ji Qianqian noticed a signal from the triangular flag hidden in her sleeve.
• A masked group outside Cloudsea Immortal Palace discussed waiting for the right moment to attack Chu Xisheng and worried about Ji Qianqian’s reliability.
• In his dream, Chu Xisheng forced his way farther into the great hall and recognized the figure seated inside before being transported back outside.
• After waking at Fifth Grade, Chu Xisheng raised his Rahu Bloodline to Eighth Rank and began upgrading his Ninefold Refinement Ultimate Origin Purple-Gold Body.

Lu Luanli completed her two innate Spell Arts, and Chu Xisheng’s group left their sealed hall to find a deadly contest awaiting them in Cloudsea Immortal Palace. As more powerful teams gathered beneath the Obelisk, Chu Xisheng prepared for a battle likely to hinge on concealment, clouds, and illusions.

• Lu Luanli completed Words Become Prophecy and Heavenly Punishment Thunderstorm, received her reward, and joined Chu Xisheng’s group as they left the hall.
• Changsun Bingquan and Wen Zhuyi emerged into the plaza, where they learned that only six of the ten teams could survive the coming contest and proceed farther into the immortal palace.
• Chu Xisheng’s group arrived and found teams led by Wu Zhishang, Mu Mingqiu, Great Black Heaven Ri Jialuo, and others already gathered beneath the Obelisk.
• Wen Zhuyi warned Chu Xisheng to withdraw if his group lacked the strength, while Mu Mingqiu and Wu Zhishang regarded his team as a target.
• Divine Kun and Hu Xinmei arrived, and Jian Zangfeng told Chu Xisheng that the battle’s masters of concealment and illusion might give them a chance to survive.

Chu Xisheng and his companions endured five days in the Cloudsea Immortal Palace before the second trial began, as the gathered factions prepared to fight for survival. Chu Yunyun revealed overwhelming strength by striking down Grand Elder Divine Kun, who recognized her as the Overlord Martial King.

• Chu Yunyun and Lu Luanli cooked medicinal soups for Chu Xisheng, who drank both while the waiting factions watched.
• White Bone General Gu Yuanchen arrived with the final team, and Chu Xisheng recognized him as one of Demon God Zangtian’s targets.
• The gathered teams activated the obelisk, and Divine Ao Rogue Person announced a one-day fortune trial that would end when only six teams remained.
• The Golden Rules and Jade Laws restrictions lifted, mist engulfed the plaza, and rival leaders attacked one another while Chu Yunyun, Jian Zangfeng, and Ji Qianqian revealed their weapons.
• Chu Yunyun pierced Grand Elder Divine Kun with her Banner Spear and God-Defying Fire, and he recognized her as the Overlord Martial King.

Jian Zangfeng used the Heaven-Pacifying Sword to empower his allies and distort distance as they fought the Northern Underworld Palace forces and other enemies in the mist. Chu Xisheng, Ji Qianqian, and Lu Luanli defeated several opponents, while Chu Yunyun ambushed Meili and Hu Xinmei sensed that she was next in danger.

• Jian Zangfeng raised his allies’ abilities and used Worlds Apart at Arm's Reach to manipulate the distance between them and their enemies.
• Chu Xisheng killed Xi Lizhi with Limitless Divine Slash after Jian Zangfeng’s power-up left Xi unable to close the distance or escape the saber strike.
• Ji Qianqian killed two Northern Underworld Palace fighters and searched the mist for Grand Elder Divine Kun, whose aura had disappeared.
• Lu Luanli and the Suanni killed Cao Zhongyan’s two companions, and an unseen attacker beheaded Cao Zhongyan as he prepared to unleash a storm of poisoned needles.
• Chu Yunyun speared Meili through the head during her battle with Hu Xinmei, prompting Hu Xinmei to retreat and demand that Great Black Heaven dispel the fog.

Chu Xisheng confronted White-Bone General Gu Yuanchen in the mist and fought him with the aid of Jian Zangfeng’s sword arts and his own enhanced abilities. The battle left Gu Yuanchen wounded and exhausted, while Chu Xisheng remained standing and Gu Yuanchen demanded to know why he had been targeted.

• Hu Xinmei reported that Meili and Divine Kun had been killed with one spear thrust, while Ri Jialuo remained unable to disperse the mist as an azure saber light pursued him.
• Wen Zhuyi defeated Mu Mingqiu’s shell and suspected that Chu Yunyun might be the hidden expert who had killed Meili and Divine Kun.
• Chu Xisheng found Gu Yuanchen fighting Wu Zhishang and attacked, severing Gu Yuanchen’s left hand before his sword qi and Innate Great Sun Divine Light blasted him into a chain wall.
• Wu Zhishang retreated to watch as Chu Xisheng and Gu Yuanchen continued fighting, and he concluded that the Formless Divine Sect’s team held several dangerous experts.
• Gu Yuanchen used Vast Vajra to close the distance and attacked Chu Xisheng relentlessly, but Chu Xisheng reflected some of his blows and endured the rest with his rapid healing and strengthened body.
• Gu Yuanchen’s Blood Essence Heavenly Explosion shattered Chu Xisheng’s sabers, but Chu Xisheng landed unharmed, and Gu Yuanchen asked why he had singled him out for a fight to the death.

Chu Xisheng battled Gu Yuanchen, exposing the White Bone General’s role in the Northern Cang Plains massacre and destroying his White Bone Yuanchen with a precise saber technique. After Chu Xisheng revealed his Yazi bloodline, he killed Gu Yuanchen, who recognized him as the Formless Divine Sect’s Blood-Yazi Saint Inheritor.

• Chu Xisheng recovered from Gu Yuanchen’s devastating punch, restored his Golden Wind Jade Dew Saber, and used Wen Zhuyi’s Ice Mirrors to track Gu Yuanchen through the fog.
• Chu Xisheng accused Gu Yuanchen of sacrificing thirty-seven thousand soldiers on the Northern Cang Plains to gain power, and Gu Yuanchen defended the massacre as fate.
• With Jian Zangfeng slowing Gu Yuanchen and the Nine Luminaries Divine Wheel Sword wearing him down, Chu Xisheng landed a series of attacks, but Gu Yuanchen summoned his White Bone Yuanchen puppet.
• Chu Xisheng revealed his Yazi bloodline and used Returning Light, Reflecting Illumination to exploit the puppet’s instability and shatter it.
• Gu Yuanchen recognized Chu Xisheng as the Blood-Yazi Saint Inheritor, but Chu Xisheng beheaded him and the Nine Luminaries Divine Wheel Sword shredded his body.

After killing Gu Yuanchen, Chu Xisheng revealed his Yazi Bloodline, gained the favor of several gods, and learned that Zangtian wanted him to obtain the Two Books of Precepts and Laws. The survivors entered the next trial, while Ri Jialuo discovered that no one could leave the Cloudsea Immortal Palace early to warn their allies.

• Chu Xisheng killed Gu Yuanchen, strengthening his divine seals and raising his Blood Essence Points as the white jade square fell silent.
• Hu Xinmei proposed ending the battle, but Wen Zhuyi froze four fighters and the Divine Ao Rogue Person opened the way to the next trial.
• The survivors saw two golden books above the palace's central tower, identified as the Divine Law and the Divine Precept, and Chu Xisheng received Zangtian's instructions to pursue them and kill his enemies' favored followers.
• Jian Zangfeng explained that Gu Yuanchen's damaged Heaven and Earth Bracelet could not be opened, while Chu Xisheng's cracked Blood-Yazi Illusion Ring no longer needed to conceal Little Flathead.
• Lu Luanli suspected that the disguised yellow-faced Rogue Cultivator was her father, Lu Chen, and Chu Yunyun sensed that she and Wen Zhuyi might soon fight.
• Ri Jialuo ordered Peng Jing to leave and warn their lord, but Peng Jing found that the palace's rules had postponed all departures indefinitely.

Chu Xisheng and the others faced a deadly chasm marked by the White Emperor's Son's Sword Intent, but Wen Zhuyi created an ice bridge that let their group cross safely. When Ri Jialuo sent Gongsun Zhou onto the bridge, he began freezing, leaving the others stranded and raising questions about why Wen Zhuyi had helped Chu Xisheng's group.

• Divine Ao Rogue Person explained that the chasm was a seven-hundred-li sword scar filled with dangerous Sword Intent, Law and Command, and word spirits, and warned that only certain abilities could cross it.
• Hu Xinmei proposed that she and Chu Xisheng's group join forces, but Chu Xisheng refused because he did not trust her.
• Wen Zhuyi formed a Frozen Ice Path across the chasm and led the Ice City disciples safely into the mist.
• Jian Zangfeng tested the bridge, and Chu Xisheng's group followed him across without being struck by the Sword Intent.
• Ri Jialuo ordered Gongsun Zhou to test the bridge, but Gongsun Zhou began freezing on contact and Ri Jialuo pulled him back.

Chu Xisheng’s group crossed the Earth Abyss with Chu Yunyun and Lu Luanli’s spell arts and received Divine Ao Rogue Person’s rewards. Ji Qianqian stayed behind, summoned masked allies who planned to kill Chu Xisheng, while Qingxu Zi sought information about her from Wangqi Luohou.

• Chu Yunyun and Lu Luanli used the Two Books of Precepts and Laws to create a protected golden bridge, allowing Chu Xisheng’s group to cross the thunderstorm and reach the northern shore.
• Divine Ao Rogue Person’s rewards arrived, including Superlight Boots for Chu Xisheng, equipment for his companions, and Emperor’s Flowing Essence for Little Black Tortoise.
• Ji Qianqian’s hidden flag began vibrating, so she stayed behind while Chu Xisheng and the others continued toward the next trial.
• After the other groups passed, Ji Qianqian planted the flag and summoned masked figures, who said they had to kill Chu Xisheng within two quarters of an hour.
• In Youzhou’s State City, Qingxu Zi met Wangqi Luohou and asked him for everything he knew about Ji Qianqian.

Wangqi Luohou explained to Qingxu Zi that Ji Qianqian’s feelings for Chu Xisheng had changed her loyalties, while revealing that Chu Xisheng already possessed the Yazi Bloodline and warning of an Imperial Court trap involving a Heaven and Earth Root. At the Cloudsea Immortal Palace, Ji Qianqian broke the attackers’ concealment spell and began cutting down the seven criminals sent to kill Chu Xisheng, leaving three fleeing survivors in her sights.

• Wangqi Luohou showed Qingxu Zi Ji Qianqian’s reports and argued that she had begun putting Chu Xisheng before the Imperial Court; he also warned that the court might bait the Formless Divine Sect with a Heaven and Earth Root.
• Qingxu Zi revealed that Chu Xisheng already possessed the Yazi Bloodline and had no need for a Heaven and Earth Root to transform it.
• At the Cloudsea Immortal Palace, Ji Qianqian confronted seven wanted criminals who admitted that Xiao Hongchen and Eunuch Mu had recruited them to kill Chu Xisheng on the emperor’s orders.
• Ji Qianqian used Words Become Prophecy to dispel the Deceive Heaven and Befuddle Earth Art, exposing the group to the palace’s sword puppets and restrictions.
• Ji Qianqian resisted the seven attackers and killed Extreme Wind Leg Qi Jun, Yama Saber Ming Sanwen, and Ghost Hand Shen Qi, along with another black-clad man.
• The three surviving attackers scattered, and Ji Qianqian unfolded a great bow and aimed at one of them.

Ji Qianqian defeated the seven men who had trapped her, reunited with Chu Xisheng, and received the Divine Sorrow bloodline talent from him. The group reached the Wind God Tower, where they learned that its trial forced teams to fight over passage tokens, and Chu Xisheng entered with Yan Guilai’s team despite the danger.

• Ji Qianqian waited for the Heavenly Dipper Art to fade, then flew north and found Chu Xisheng and his companions waiting for her.
• Chu Xisheng redeemed a Divine Sorrow Talent Card for Ji Qianqian, and she awakened the bloodline talent without difficulty.
• Chu Xisheng’s group reached the Wind God Tower and learned that teams needed both a yin token and a yang token to leave, making the trial potentially fatal.
• Yan Guilai arrived with Zong Sanping’s group and warned Chu Xisheng that the tower was dangerous, but Chu Xisheng chose to enter.
• Hu Xinmei and Ri Jialuo also decided to enter the tower, while Wu Zhishang watched Ri Jialuo with cold suspicion.

Chu Xisheng used his enhanced comprehension to identify Trace of Wind as the guiding move for the Wind God Tower’s saber techniques and explained it to those around him, accepting payment from Hu Xinmei and Ri Jialuo to share more of his insights. The chapter ended when Cang Haishi killed Wu Guangming with Wind’s Wound, recognized Chu Xisheng’s Yazi Bloodline, and Yan Guilai redirected Cang Haishi’s Sword Intent away from him.

• Ri Jialuo and Hu Xinmei moved their groups near the Formless Divine Sect, while Fang Buyuan and Zhou Liangchen arranged their watch shifts.
• Chu Xisheng bought thirteenth-rank Supreme Communication with the Divine, then recognized Trace of Wind as the guiding framework for the tower’s nine saber moves and demonstrated it to his fellow disciples.
• Chu Xisheng shared more of his understanding with Wen Zhuyi and Madam Hanguang, and accepted Emperor’s Flowing Essence and a magic artifact from Hu Xinmei and Ri Jialuo in exchange for explaining the technique to them.
• Zong Sanping and Ren Xiaowo thanked Chu Xisheng for clarifying Trace of Wind, while Chu Yunyun reconsidered her suspicions about his motives toward Wen Zhuyi.
• Cang Haishi killed the injured Wu Guangming with Wind’s Wound and took his yin passage token.
• Cang Haishi recognized Chu Xisheng’s Yazi Bloodline, drawing hostile attention from the tower’s occupants, and Yan Guilai severed and redirected Cang Haishi’s Sword Intent.

Yan Guilai fought Sword Qi Cang Haishi after Cang Haishi challenged the Formless Divine Sect, but their duel ended when hidden attackers intervened. Wen Zhuyi froze Cang Haishi with two strikes, and after mastering Wind's Wound, Chu Xisheng reached the second floor and found the next move, Wind Form.

• Yan Guilai and Sword Qi Cang Haishi exchanged thousands of blows, with Yan Guilai using the Heaven-Measuring Sword, Heaven-Pacifying Sword, and Heaven-Slaying Sword to counter Cang Haishi's Divine Intent Like the Heart Sword.
• When black needles targeted Yan Guilai, Cang Haishi knocked them aside and ended their duel, then acknowledged Chu Xisheng's developing Yazi Saber.
• Wen Zhuyi defeated Cang Haishi in two sword strikes and proceeded to the second floor, leaving him trapped inside a block of ice by his Immovable Divine Seal.
• Chu Xisheng mastered Wind's Wound, helped Bai Xiao Zhao learn it, and followed Yan Guilai and the Formless Divine Sect to the second floor.
• Ri Jialuo avoided the powerful masters waiting upstairs, then ascended after Yan Guilai's group; Chu Xisheng examined the more complex Wind Form on the second floor.