Chapter Summaries

Lin Fei watched as Wang Rulong’s forces pressured Elder Quan’s group to surrender, while Zhao Yu pleaded with him to intervene. The conflict remained unresolved as several disciples stood firm against the defectors and an unknown observer applauded their words.

• Zhao Yu learned Lu Mu was one of Chiyou’s brothers and tried to report the discovery, but Lin Fei stopped her and questioned whether the Pavilion Master knew about the upheaval.
• Lin Fei immobilized Zhao Yu and concealed them from the two elders as Wang Rulong demanded that Elder Quan’s group surrender or die.
• A white-robed disciple defected, and Elder Quan attacked him before Wang Rulong blocked the strike and mocked Elder Quan.
• Several more disciples surrendered their life souls to Wang Rulong’s Soul-Capturing Token, weakening Elder Quan’s group and provoking angry accusations from those who remained loyal.
• Senior Brother Cheng and the little junior sister rejected the defectors and affirmed their resolve to fight demons, prompting someone beside Emerald Heights Lake to applaud.

Lin Fei intervened in the battle at Immortal Heart Peak and destroyed Wang Rulong and his followers despite Wang Rulong transforming into an early Nascent Soul demon. Elder Quan and the surviving disciples thanked Lin Fei for saving their lives.

• Lin Fei introduced himself as Daoist Flying Cloud and agreed to help Elder Quan's faction against Wang Rulong.
• Wang Rulong swallowed a demonic pill, transformed, and broke through to early Nascent Soul.
• Elder Quan urged Lin Fei to flee as Wang Rulong attacked him, but Lin Fei sent Wang Rulong flying with one kick.
• Lin Fei summoned the flying swords on Immortal Heart Peak and killed Wang Rulong in an instant.
• Lin Fei's swords killed Wang Rulong's followers and the disciples who had defected.
• Elder Quan and the surviving disciples knelt and thanked Lin Fei for saving them.

Lin Fei reached Heavenly Origin Peak and exposed Pavilion Master Lu Yuanting’s collusion with demons and murder of Deputy Pavilion Master Fang Chonglou. Lu Yuanting admitted his guilt and turned hostile, while Lin Fei revealed he had only come to take a sword.

• Lin Fei borrowed the youngest junior sister’s flying sword and flew to Heavenly Origin Peak, with Elder Quan and the disciples following.
• Lin Fei met Lu Yuanting beside Fang Chonglou’s corpse, and Lu Yuanting claimed Fang Chonglou had colluded with demons.
• Elder Quan told Lu Yuanting that Wang Rulong had rebelled and that Lin Fei had saved the disciples, while Lu Yuanting pretended to condemn Wang Rulong.
• Lin Fei accused Lu Yuanting of colluding with demons and used Chaos Eye to reveal Lu Yuanting demanding that Fang Chonglou pledge allegiance to Lord Lu Mu.
• After the images exposed his crimes, Lu Yuanting turned vicious and threatened Lin Fei, who said he had come only to take a sword.

Lin Fei dismissed the Plain Shadow Sword as scrap metal and challenged Lu Yuanting, the Heavenly Origin Sword Pavilion’s thirty-seventh Pavilion Master. After Lin Fei crushed Lu Yuanting’s first attack with his bare hand, Lu Yuanting unleashed the Heavenly Origin Sword, and his sword qi engulfed the summit with Lin Fei apparently caught inside.

• Lu Yuanting accused Lin Fei of seeking the Plain Shadow Sword to release the demons beneath the Abyss of Ten Thousand Demons, but Lin Fei said the sword was scrap metal.
• Lin Fei invited Lu Yuanting to use every sword move he knew, alarming the Sword Pavilion disciples who knew Lu Yuanting had reached the Heart Sword realm.
• Lu Yuanting attacked with the Three Gives Birth Sword Art, and Lin Fei caught and crushed all three flying swords with one hand.
• Lin Fei told the others to move away, and the Sword Pavilion disciples flew back from the summit of Heavenly Origin Peak.
• Lu Yuanting drew the Heavenly Origin Sword and unleashed a vast ocean of sword qi that tore apart the summit and appeared to swallow Lin Fei.

Lin Fei survived Lu Yuanting’s strongest sword technique and exposed his plan to use the Heavenly Origin Seven Stars Formation to escape and claim the Plain Shadow Sword. When the formation was completed and summoned Lu Yuanting, he fled, but Lin Fei prepared to crush his hopes himself.

• Lu Yuanting believed his Raging Sea Wild Surge Sword had killed Lin Fei, but Lin Fei emerged unharmed and called him weak.
• Lin Fei deduced that Lu Yuanting had sent others to form the Heavenly Origin Seven Stars Formation at the Demon-Locking Pagoda above the Abyss of Ten Thousand Demons.
• Elder Quan urged the others to stop the formation, while Lu Yuanting panicked after Lin Fei exposed his plans.
• Lin Fei refused to kill Lu Yuanting immediately and mocked him for having no right to an opinion.
• The Seven Stars Formation was completed and summoned Lu Yuanting to his position, so he vanished and vowed to claim the Plain Shadow Sword and kill Lin Fei.
• Lin Fei dismissed Lu Yuanting’s hope and said he would crush it himself.

Lu Yuanting completed the Heavenly Origin Seven Stars Formation at the Abyss of Ten Thousand Demons, and the Sword Pavilion disciples failed to break through its barrier. As the seven stars poured their power into the formation, Lin Fei arrived calmly, eating vermilion fruit and leaving everyone stunned.

• Lu Yuanting completed the Heavenly Origin Seven Stars Formation, sending a beam of divine light into the heavens.
• Elder Quan rallied the Sword Pavilion disciples to attack the formation, but their combined sword arts could not affect its barrier.
• The Big Dipper shone brightly, and seven beams of spiritual light descended into the formation, empowering the people on the platform.
• Lin Fei appeared in the air, casually eating vermilion fruit, and explained that he had stopped to pick and taste some on the way.

Lin Fei destroyed the Heavenly Origin Seven Stars Formation with a single palm strike, but Lu Yuanting seized the Plain Shadow Divine Sword and believed he had gained the upper hand. The sword instead trembled in fear and tried to fly to Lin Fei, leaving Lu Yuanting facing an unexpected reversal.

• Lu Yuanting mocked Lin Fei and challenged him to break the Heavenly Origin Seven Stars Formation.
• Lin Fei shattered the formation and its floating platform with one casual palm, severely injuring Lu Yuanting and the people on it.
• The Demon-Locking Pagoda transformed into the Plain Shadow Divine Sword, and Lu Yuanting grabbed it, drawing its power and Demonic Qi into himself.
• Lu Yuanting rejoiced at gaining the sword and prepared to attack Lin Fei, but Plain Shadow trembled and tried to escape his grasp to submit to Lin Fei.

Lu Yuanting used Guangchengzi's sealing talisman to regain control of the Plain Shadow Divine Sword and unleashed the Heavenly Origin Mystic Spirit Art against Lin Fei. Though the attack appeared to annihilate Lin Fei, his voice revealed that he was unharmed and Lu Yuanting had been fooled by an illusion.

• The Plain Shadow Divine Sword broke free of Lu Yuanting and bowed to Lin Fei, leaving everyone stunned.
• Lin Fei dismissed the sword as scrap metal, and Wan Zhicheng reminded Lu Yuanting about Guangchengzi's sealing talisman.
• Lu Yuanting used the talisman to reclaim the Plain Shadow Divine Sword and gathered heaven and earth's spiritual energy for an attack.
• Lu Yuanting struck Lin Fei with the Heavenly Origin Mystic Spirit Art, and Lin Fei vanished in the explosion.
• Lu Yuanting celebrated Lin Fei's apparent death until Lin Fei's voice declared that the attack had only hit an illusion.

Lin Fei crushed Lu Yuanting’s resistance and dealt with the demons emerging from the Abyss of Ten Thousand Demons. The ancient demon Lu Mu rose from the abyss, but Lin Fei instantly killed him with a single palm.

• Lin Fei revealed that Lu Yuanting had been striking an illusion, and Lu Yuanting’s Dao heart shattered before he fell into the Abyss of Ten Thousand Demons with the Plain Shadow Divine Sword.
• Elder Quan warned that the demons were about to emerge, while Lin Fei dismissed the threat as minor and erased the surviving members of Lu Yuanting’s faction who begged for mercy.
• Demonic Qi surged from the abyss, but Lin Fei made it vanish and swept away a sword strike that followed.
• Lu Mu emerged from the abyss carrying the Plain Shadow Sword and announced that he was one of Chiyou’s eighty-one brothers.
• Lin Fei interrupted Lu Mu with a palm strike that exploded him into bloody mist.

Lin Fei intimidated the demons emerging from the Abyss of Ten Thousand Demons, then used the Immortal-Slaying Sword to seal them away. He left after a powerful demon promised that Demon Lord Qiye would eventually lead an attack on the human world.

• Lin Fei killed Lu Mu with a slap, frightening the Chiyou demons into retreating into the abyss.
• Lin Fei descended into the Abyss of Ten Thousand Demons and destroyed demons with his divine radiance.
• Lin Fei drew the Immortal-Slaying Sword, dispelled its blood-red seals, and revealed powerful demons beyond the barrier.
• Lin Fei sealed the abyss again as the demons warned that Demon Lord Qiye would lead them against the human world.
• Lin Fei returned to Elder Quan and kicked away the Plain Shadow Divine Sword when it flew to his feet.

Lin Fei sent the Heavenly Origin Sword Pavilion to rebuild at Nine Immortals Mountain after revealing his ties to Guangchengzi and Yuanshi, then left after reassuring them about the Plain Shadow Sword. The chapter ended with Lin Xinyu searching the northwestern desert for Qiongchan’s Earthly Destruction Sword, unaware that a stellar phenomenon had stirred the undead.

• Lin Fei returned the Plain Shadow Divine Sword to its sealed form and warned the Heavenly Origin Sword Pavilion that it could not defend the sword or its current home.
• Lin Fei directed the sect to relocate to Nine Immortals Mountain, revealing that he had known Guangchengzi and had stayed at Jade Void Palace with Yuanshi.
• Lin Fei identified himself as the Celestial Venerable of Ten Thousand Sages, the Chaos Emperor Lord, and Heavenly Emperor Lin, prompting the sect to bow before him.
• Lin Fei explained that he had sealed the Abyss of Ten Thousand Demons and that Guangchengzi had intended the swords to go to whoever was fated to obtain them.
• Lin Xinyu traveled through the northwestern desert to find Qiongchan’s Earthly Destruction Sword, while Wangliang claimed Heavenly Punishment could easily kill him if he had become a spirit corpse.

Lin Xinyu and Wangliang witnessed a Hanba begin emerging in the desert and fled, while Zhang Yun welcomed the prospect of recruiting it for the Celestial Master's Mansion. Back at Flying Cloud Mountain Villa, Lin Fei found Ji Yaoguang and kissed her in the bathroom, where she showed both nervousness and anticipation.

• The Big Dipper brightened, and a desert valley began absorbing the starlight as a Hanba's drought aura withered the surrounding land.
• Lin Xinyu escaped the desert using Shift Form and Swap Shadow, and Wangliang told her the jiangshi would remain there for seven days as it transformed.
• Wangliang blamed the Heavenly Origin Sword Pavilion's Heavenly Origin Seven Stars Formation and urged Lin Xinyu to leave before Daoist sects arrived.
• Zhang Yun calculated that a Hanba had emerged and celebrated the possibility of bringing it under the Celestial Master's Mansion's control.
• Lin Fei returned to Flying Cloud Mountain Villa, found Ji Yaoguang showering, and kissed her after she hurriedly got dressed.

Lin Fei and Ji Yaoguang spent the night together while the maids teased Chunhua downstairs. The next morning, Jiang Qingyue of the Heavenly Demon Divine Palace arrived with Wang Ping to pay respects to Lin Fei, who recognized Jiang Qingyue’s innate supreme yin physique.

• Lin Fei carried Ji Yaoguang from the bathroom to the bedroom, while the maids heard them and teased Chunhua about never having been with a man.
• Chunhua challenged the maids to name someone with a boyfriend, leaving them all awkwardly silent before they resumed their Ludo game.
• The following morning, the maids teased Ji Yaoguang about their sleepless night, and Lin Fei asked whether Yinglong had gone to teach Chen Longxiang.
• Jiang Qingyue and Wang Ping arrived at Flying Cloud Mountain Villa, and Jiang Qingyue announced that he had come to pay respects to Lin Fei.
• Lin Fei dispelled the villa’s barrier and received Jiang Qingyue and Wang Ping, then recognized Jiang Qingyue’s innate supreme yin physique.

Jiang Qingyue, the Heavenly Demon Divine Palace’s sixth disciple, visited Lin Fei and revealed that he was a powerful man despite his youthful, feminine appearance. After claiming he had a precious first-meeting gift, he presented Lin Fei with a cotton candy machine.

• Jiang Qingyue insisted he was male, then sent Wang Ping flying with a single punch after Wang Ping criticized his women’s clothes.
• Jiang Qingyue told Lin Fei he had come to see the legendary Grandmaster and said he believed Lin Fei would not kill him because Lin Fei was only at Early Nascent Soul.
• Lin Fei asked Jiang Qingyue to leave, but Jiang Qingyue insisted he had an extremely precious magical treasure to give him.
• Jiang Qingyue retrieved a cotton candy machine from his spatial necklace, surprising everyone.

Jiang Qingyue visited Lin Fei, bringing him a cotton candy machine as a gift and asking for guidance. Lin Fei agreed to spar with him, then realized the Heavenly Demon Divine Palace was secretly watching its members and Jiang Qingyue had come without knowing he was being used as a pawn.

• Jiang Qingyue explained that he had traded a gold bar for a cotton candy machine and insisted Lin Fei accept it as a gift.
• Lin Fei accepted the machine for Ji Yaoguang’s sake, and Jiang Qingyue called her “Grandmother-Master.”
• Jiang Qingyue asked Lin Fei for guidance, and Lin Fei agreed to fight him after Ji Yaoguang pleaded on his behalf.
• Lin Fei asked whether the Heavenly Demon Divine Palace had sent Jiang Qingyue to test him, but Jiang Qingyue said he had come on his own.
• Lin Fei recognized that Jiang Qingyue was an unwitting pawn and suspected someone within the Heavenly Demon Divine Palace was secretly watching its members.

Jiang Qingyue effortlessly subdued Yinglong after she challenged him, revealing the overwhelming strength of his Supreme Yin Physique. When Yun Guang arrived to threaten Lin Fei, Jiang Qingyue mocked him as a nameless nobody, and Lin Fei praised his conversational skill.

• Yinglong rushed to defend Lin Fei, but he told her to stand down as Jiang Qingyue warned that she could not beat him.
• Yinglong attacked Jiang Qingyue, who struck her dragon head into a mountain and pinned her down, prompting her to recognize his Heavenly Demon Divine Art and Supreme Yin Physique.
• Lin Fei ordered Jiang Qingyue to release Yinglong, then Yun Guang arrived and threatened Lin Fei in Lady Yunhua's absence.
• Jiang Qingyue asked whether Yun Guang was important, then called him a nameless nobody after hearing he was an elder of Yunhua Palace.
• Lin Fei praised Jiang Qingyue as a conversational genius.

Yun Guang attacked Lin Fei and Jiang Qingyue, but fled when he learned Jiang Qingyue was the Sixth Young Master of the Heavenly Demon Divine Palace. Jiang Qingyue killed Yun Guang, then set off to retrieve the Plain Shadow Sword after Lin Fei explained it could be taken from the Abyss of Ten Thousand Demons; Lin Fei stopped him to ask where the Heavenly Demon Divine Palace was.

• Yun Guang unleashed his Sword Domain against Lin Fei, Jiang Qingyue, and Yinglong, but their defenses left him unable to harm them.
• Wang Ping identified Jiang Qingyue as the Sixth Young Master of the Heavenly Demon Divine Palace, prompting Yun Guang to apologize and flee.
• Jiang Qingyue pursued Yun Guang with the Seven Steps of the Heavenly Demon and killed him, then took the contents of his spatial ring.
• Jiang Qingyue complained that his skirt was dirty and refused to continue fighting the Celestial Venerable of Ten Thousand Sages.
• Lin Fei told Jiang Qingyue that the Plain Shadow Sword could be retrieved from the Abyss of Ten Thousand Demons, and Jiang Qingyue eagerly prepared to leave.
• Lin Fei stopped Jiang Qingyue and asked where the Heavenly Demon Divine Palace was.

Jiang Qingyue failed to find his way home, and Lin Fei sent him away with Wang Ping. When they reached the Abyss of Ten Thousand Demons, they discovered the Demon-Locking Pagoda was gone and the Sword Demon might still be alive, before Xiayue arrived with a gift for Jiang Qingyue.

• Jiang Qingyue admitted he did not know how to return home and begged Lin Fei to take him in, but Lin Fei rejected him and Wang Ping led him away to retrieve the Plain Shadow Sword.
• Lin Fei noticed the feeling of being watched had vanished, while Xiayue and the other women joked about dressing Jiang Qingyue in women's outfits.
• Jiang Qingyue and Wang Ping found the Heavenly Origin Sword Pavilion deserted and discovered the Demon-Locking Pagoda had disappeared from the Abyss of Ten Thousand Demons.
• Jiang Qingyue sensed the Sword Demon's aura and realized the Sword Demon might still be alive, while Wang Ping vowed to find him another suitable weapon.
• Jiang Qingyue accidentally slapped Wang Ping into a rock, and Xiayue arrived with Yinglong and told Jiang Qingyue she had things to give him.

Jiang Qingyue let Xiayue persuade him to go shopping for modern clothes, while Duan Canghai seized the Plain Shadow Divine Sword and forced it into submission. Duan Canghai then revealed that he could control the sword qi hidden in Hong Xiaowei’s broken swords, leaving Hong Xiaowei in agony and terror.

• Jiang Qingyue accepted Xiayue’s offer to guide him and buy him new clothes, then hurried off with her and Wang Ping on Yinglong’s back.
• Duan Canghai took the Plain Shadow Divine Sword from the Sword Tomb, but the sword resisted him and tried to reach someone else.
• Duan Canghai bound Plain Shadow with black chains of light and suppressed its consciousness.
• Hong Xiaowei realized Duan Canghai’s remnant soul was far more powerful than he had believed.
• Duan Canghai revealed that his sword qi lay dormant in Hong Xiaowei’s broken swords and used it to make Hong Xiaowei collapse in pain.

Hong Xiaowei sacrificed himself to stop Duan Canghai from possessing his body and threatening Su Caiwei, but Duan Canghai began reassembling him. Meanwhile, Lin Fei lamented the lack of worthy opponents and planned to find the weapons and power left by four Immortal Emperors.

• Hong Xiaowei told Duan Canghai he feared Su Caiwei would die trying to stop him, then destroyed his own body to prevent the possession.
• Duan Canghai used Hong Xiaowei’s incomplete Demonic Sword Physique to piece his body back together and declared he would claim Plain Shadow and become unstoppable.
• Lin Fei told Ji Yaoguang that the mortal cultivation world had disappointed him because nobody had challenged him over the Immortal-Slaying Sword.
• Lin Fei said he needed to find the supreme weapons and power the four Immortal Emperors had left in the mortal world, then vowed to settle old scores with them.