Chapter Summaries

The nine-person battle royale became a duel between Ji Wuchang and Jiang Hao after the other competitors left the stage. Their fight began with a test of physical strength, which Ji Wuchang won, leaving Jiang Hao shocked.

• Mo Bingyuan announced that all nine finalists would battle at once, with the last three taking the top places and the match continuing until one remained.
• Ji Wuchang persuaded Zhan Feng, Dai Cong, Zuo Lun, and the others to join him against the three Lingtai Province competitors.
• Jiang Hao challenged Ji Wuchang to fight alone while the other seven settled third place, and Ji Wuchang agreed.
• Li Gubei, Cai Ping, Zhan Feng, Dai Cong, Zuo Lun, Jiang Yue Tower, and Qian Xingguang all left the stage, leaving Ji Wuchang and Jiang Hao to duel.
• Jiang Hao attacked with a physical-strength saber strike, but Ji Wuchang met it with his sword and forced Jiang Hao back three steps while retreating only one.

Ji Wuchang and Jiang Hao fought on the competition platform, trading physical blows and escalating techniques as Ji Wuchang pressed Jiang Hao with his Heart-Treading Steps and sword arts. Jiang Hao answered with the third transformation of his Heavenly Saber, and the duel remained unresolved.

• Ji Wuchang overpowered Jiang Hao in a clash of physical strength, forcing Jiang Hao to unleash his spiritual power.
• Jiang Hao attacked with the Flowing Water Saber Art, but Ji Wuchang countered with Autumn Wind Kill and retreated six steps under the pressure.
• Ji Wuchang used Heart-Treading Steps and the first three swords of Azure Sparrow Nine-Step Kill to wound Jiang Hao, who answered with the Heavenly Saber First Transformation.
• Ji Wuchang struck with the next three Azure Sparrow swords, while Jiang Hao used the Heavenly Saber Second Transformation to destroy the azure sparrow and drive saber rain at him.
• Ji Wuchang crushed the saber rain with Jade Shattering Finger, then attacked with the final three Azure Sparrow swords as Heart-Treading Steps injured Jiang Hao again.
• Jiang Hao, bleeding and filled with killing intent, began the Heavenly Saber Third Transformation.

Ji Wuchang and Jiang Hao fought fiercely on the combat platform, escalating their battle with powerful techniques and Jiang Hao’s awakened Black Tortoise Bloodline. Ji Wuchang’s final attacks badly injured Jiang Hao, and he asked whether Jiang Hao still wanted to fight.

• Jiang Hao and Ji Wuchang traded saber, sword, and fist attacks at close range before retreating from a simultaneous punch.
• Jiang Hao awakened his Black Tortoise Bloodline, gained a protective shield, and struck at Ji Wuchang with a powerful stellar slash.
• Ji Wuchang countered Jiang Hao’s attack with the Great Sun Divine Fist, but Jiang Hao’s shield gave him the advantage in their clash.
• Ji Wuchang unleashed his physical power and a blazing Great Sun Divine Fist, sending Jiang Hao into the defensive barrier and injuring him.
• Ji Wuchang used Void Kill and Wind and Thunder Transformation to strike Jiang Hao, shattering his chest armor and leaving him badly wounded.
• Ji Wuchang asked Jiang Hao whether he still wanted to fight.

Ji Wuchang defeated Jiang Hao after Jiang Hao revealed his full strength, winning the competition and earning Fortune Points from the system. He was announced as champion and awaited his mission reward.

• Jiang Hao broke through to the Purple Mansion Realm fourth level and challenged Ji Wuchang with his full strength.
• Ji Wuchang used the Hundredfold Sublimation Instant Kill Technique and Great Sun Divine Fist to crush Jiang Hao's chest and knock him unconscious.
• The Jiangchuan Saber King confirmed Jiang Hao was alive, and Jiang Guang carried him away while glaring at Ji Wuchang with murderous intent.
• The system awarded Ji Wuchang Fortune Points for defeating Jiang Hao, Jiang Chun, Qian Yibin, and Mo Feixue.
• The Jiangchuan Saber King announced Ji Wuchang as champion, and Ji Wuchang anticipated the reward for completing his system mission.

After winning the arena trial, Ji Wuchang received the Puppet Clone Technique and used a clone to draw attention away while he left Jiang He City to undergo his tribulation. The terrifying tribulation clouds gathered beyond the city, while Jiang Guang mistook Ji Wuchang’s apparent presence in town for proof that he was not the one facing them and prepared to have him killed that night.

• Xiao Xueqing told Xiao Xuan to keep observing Ji Wuchang, saying his cultivation was still too weak to help with her plans.
• Ji Wuchang received the Puppet Clone Technique, collected his reward, and learned that the admitted candidates had to assemble at Jiangchuan Saber Academy the next morning.
• Ji Wuchang created a blood puppet clone and sent it out with Tian Shuang and Cai Ping while he disguised himself and left Jiang He City.
• Ji Wuchang met Ji Yaoyao in a remote valley and released his suppressed cultivation, causing immense tribulation clouds to gather overhead.
• Mo Bingyuan, Liu Jinyang, Yang Yusheng, and Jiang Guang saw the tribulation clouds but sensed Ji Wuchang still in the city, so they doubted that the tribulation was his.
• Jiang Guang decided Ji Wuchang had to die, activated Lingtai Province’s covert agents, and planned to kill him that night.

Ji Wuchang endured an extraordinary Lightning Tribulation that forged his Purple Mansion into a mountain-like world and advanced him to the Purple Mansion Realm Second Layer. After rejoining his companions, he learned that people from Lingtai Province and the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall were watching him, leaving him wary of the coming night.

• Ji Wuchang endured two hours of lightning, using it to temper his body, strengthen his divine soul, and form a Purple Mansion resembling a world built around an immense mountain.
• Ji Wuchang emerged from the tribulation with renewed skin and reached the Purple Mansion Realm Second Layer, then left before investigators arrived.
• Ji Yaoyao said she had never heard of a cultivator opening a mountain-shaped Purple Mansion, and she helped Ji Wuchang return without revealing what had happened.
• Ji Wuchang used his puppet clone to rejoin Li Gubei, Cai Ping, and Tian Shuang without them noticing the switch.
• After Li Gubei departed, Tian Shuang warned Ji Wuchang that suspicious presences had swept over them, and Ji Yaoyao identified people from the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall nearby.

Ji Wuchang used his puppet clone to seek shelter at Jiangchuan Saber Academy while his true body stayed hidden in Jiang He City. After the academy agreed to protect him, his true body followed a watcher to a secret base of the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall.

• Ji Wuchang sent his puppet clone with Tian Shuang to Jiangchuan Saber Academy while his true body disguised himself and mingled in Jiang He City.
• Ji Wuchang told Mo Bingyuan, Liu Jinyang, and Yang Yusheng that powerful watchers had been tracking him and asked the academy to shelter him for the night.
• Mo Bingyuan agreed to protect Ji Wuchang, and Yang Yusheng left to deal with the threat.
• After the watchers withdrew, Ji Wuchang's true body followed one of them to a luxurious residence that housed a secret base of the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall.

Ji Wuchang discovered that both the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall and Lingtai Province had gathered forces in Jiang He City. At midnight, both groups converged on Jiangchuan Saber Academy and demanded that Mo Bingyuan hand over Ji Wuchang.

• Ji Yaoyao told Ji Wuchang that the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall had a fifth-level Six Spirits Realm expert, but he refused to teach her the Puppet Clone Technique and promised to teach her after she regained her body.
• Ji Wuchang scouted another residence and found a large group of experts connected to Lingtai Province, confirming its plans to target Jiangchuan Province.
• Xu Mingde led black-clad members of the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall to Jiangchuan Saber Academy and demanded Ji Wuchang, but Mo Bingyuan refused to surrender him.
• Mo Bingyuan gathered the academy’s defenders, including Mo Feixue, as Xu Mingde threatened to destroy the academy.
• Jiang Qiang arrived with Lingtai Province’s spies and declared that they also intended to take Ji Wuchang.

Mo Bingyuan fought Xu Mingde after Xu demanded that Yunchuan Academy hand over Ji Wuchang, and their clash triggered an all-out battle between the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall, Lingtai Province, and Jiangchuan Saber Academy. Ji Wuchang watched from a distance, holding back because Jiang Guang had not yet appeared.

• Mo Bingyuan tried to negotiate with Xu Mingde, but Xu demanded Ji Wuchang for his lord and threatened to destroy Yunchuan Academy.
• Mo Bingyuan attacked Xu Mingde, and their saber and iron staff techniques clashed evenly.
• Mo Bingyuan used Sea of Clouds Six Saber Slashes, while Xu Mingde countered with Tyrant Spear Art; both men were driven back.
• Xu Mingde's followers attacked Jiangchuan Saber Academy, while Jiang Qiang led the people from Lingtai Province into the fight and engaged Yang Yusheng.
• Ji Wuchang watched from a thousand zhang away and stayed hidden because Jiang Guang had not appeared.

As Jiangchuan Saber Academy descended into battle, Tu Detian and Teng Wenlong prepared to kill Mo Bingyuan, while Ji Wuchang watched from the shadows. Tian Shuang defended Ji Wuchang’s courtyard from Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall attackers and Lingtai Province cultivators, keeping the room unharmed.

• Tu Detian and Teng Wenlong discussed waiting for Mo Bingyuan and Xu Mingde to weaken each other before striking, and considered dealing with the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall as well.
• Ji Wuchang watched the fighting from a rooftop and reflected on the rivalries surrounding the Three Provinces Arena Trial and his plans to visit Yunchuan Academy.
• Tian Shuang guarded Ji Wuchang’s room while two Soul Splitting Realm Sixth Level men from the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall demanded that he hand Ji Wuchang over, then attacked him.
• Tian Shuang sent out his split-soul clone, which killed one of three approaching Purple Mansion Realm Seventh Level cultivators and wounded the other two, driving them away.
• Tian Shuang returned to fighting the two Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall men, who avoided Ji Wuchang’s courtyard because they intended to abduct him rather than kill him.

Mo Bingyuan fought Xu Mingde while Ji Wuchang summoned soul-splitting realm Dao protectors to turn the battle at Jiangchuan Saber Academy. As the black-clad attackers fell, a precisely timed sword strike destroyed Mo Bingyuan’s physiognomy clone.

• Xu Mingde attacked Mo Bingyuan with all six of his spirits, and Mo Bingyuan answered with his own six as they fought over Ji Wuchang and Yunchuan Academy.
• Mo Feixue retreated under the old woman’s escort while Ji Wuchang waited for Jiang Guang and the hidden man in black to reveal themselves.
• Ji Wuchang ordered his puppet clone to launch a blue firework, summoning sixteen soul-splitting realm Dao protectors who charged the attackers.
• Ji Wuchang’s puppet clone vanished by burning itself into ashes, while the Dao protectors slew many men in black and strengthened Mo Bingyuan’s attack on Xu Mingde.
• A sword light struck Mo Bingyuan’s physiognomy clone while Xu Mingde’s spirits held his figures in place, splitting the clone in two and forcing Mo Bingyuan’s other four clones to return to his original body.

Mo Bingyuan fought the black-clad assassin who had ambushed him, then discovered that Teng Wenlong and Tu Detian were behind the destruction of the Jiangchuan Pavilion. As he battled all three enemies alongside Xu Mingde, another hidden attacker grievously wounded him.

• Mo Bingyuan killed the black-clad assassin with a powerful saber strike, though he remained badly injured.
• Teng Wenlong and Tu Detian arrived with their forces, reigniting the battle at Jiangchuan Saber Academy.
• Mo Bingyuan recognized Teng Wenlong and Tu Detian as the culprits who destroyed the Jiangchuan Pavilion and vowed to avenge its 398 victims.
• Xu Mingde, Teng Wenlong, and Tu Detian joined forces against Mo Bingyuan, but his fierce counterattacks kept them at bay.
• An unseen attacker struck Mo Bingyuan with a saber, shattering his shield and sending him flying with a deep chest wound and several broken bones.

Ji Wuchang borrowed Yaoyao’s power and posed as a fearsome master after Jiang Guang wounded Mo Bingyuan. He killed Jiang Guang and pursued Xu Mingde, ending as a massive millstone descended toward him.

• A black-clad man gravely wounded Mo Bingyuan, then Ji Wuchang appeared with his cultivation raised to the Six Spirits Realm Eighth Level.
• Ji Wuchang claimed to be the master of the disciple Jiang Guang had targeted, then killed Jiang Guang and crushed his Primordial Spirit.
• Xu Mingde ordered the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall to withdraw and fled using six figures.
• Ji Wuchang used Heart-Treading Steps and Autumn Wind Kill against Xu Mingde, but Xu Mingde blocked the sword attack with his black folding fan.
• Ji Wuchang invoked Grinding Yin and Yang, summoning a gigantic millstone that descended toward Xu Mingde.

Ji Wuchang killed Xu Mingde with Grinding Yin and Yang, unlocked the System Shop, and slaughtered the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall. Mo Bingyuan confronted Teng Wenlong and Tu Detian over Jiangchuan Pavilion and broke through to the Six Spirits Realm fourth level, preparing to avenge its people.

• Xu Mingde's pitch-black whirlwinds were swallowed by Ji Wuchang's millstone, which ground Xu Mingde and his divine soul to pieces.
• After receiving 330 Fortune Points for killing Xu Mingde, Ji Wuchang spent 10,000 Fortune Points to unlock the System Shop and received a flash-sale opportunity.
• Ji Wuchang charged into the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall and killed its members, including Xu Hai and Zhang He.
• Teng Wenlong and Tu Detian tried to retreat, but Mo Bingyuan blocked them and accused them of destroying Jiangchuan Pavilion.
• Ji Wuchang revealed that Teng Wenlong came from the Nine Swords Sect and Tu Detian from the Gold Worship Cult, then agreed to let Mo Bingyuan face them himself.
• Mo Bingyuan broke through from the Six Spirits Realm third level to the fourth level as he prepared to avenge Jiangchuan Pavilion.

Ji Wuchang helped Mo Bingyuan’s side by slaughtering the Lingtai Province cultivators, then quietly returned to Tian Shuang and explored the newly unlocked System Shop. He bought a Position Swap Card but found the shop’s only other item was a costly, luck-dependent summoning card.

• Mo Bingyuan fought Tu Detian and Teng Wenlong while Liu Jinyang, Yang Yusheng, and the Jiangchuan Saber Academy members battled the Gold Worship Cult and Nine Swords Sect.
• Ji Wuchang killed a Six Spirits Realm Second Level cultivator and several Soul Splitting Realm cultivators with his Great Sun Divine Fist, then continued slaughtering people from Lingtai Province.
• Jiang Hao lost consciousness after his Dao heart was damaged, and the system awarded Ji Wuchang 400 Fortune Points.
• Ji Wuchang saw that Mo Bingyuan had gained the upper hand, left the battle, and later reappeared beside Tian Shuang, exhausted.
• Ji Wuchang bought a Position Swap Card for 1 Fortune Point and discovered that the System Shop offered a Supreme Summoning Card for 1,000 Fortune Points.

Mo Bingyuan defeated Tu Detian after Teng Wenlong fled, while Ji Wuchang secretly kept the valuable spoils he had collected. After counting his gains, Ji Wuchang prepared to leave for Yunchuan Academy and said goodbye to Tian Shuang, who returned to the Backing Mountain Sect.

• Mo Bingyuan killed Tu Detian after Teng Wenlong abandoned him and fled, then summoned his blood-red saber and chased after Teng Wenlong.
• Ji Wuchang took Tu Detian’s storage ring, but Mo Feixue demanded it from him, so he handed her a ring he had already emptied and kept the real spoils.
• Ji Wuchang returned to the inn with Tian Shuang and sorted through dozens of storage rings, finding abundant spirit stones, weapons, and the Vajra Sword Art.
• Ji Wuchang checked his system panel and found that he had 2,927 Fortune Points and had unlocked the System Shop and obtained a Position Swap Card.
• Ji Wuchang told Tian Shuang he would leave for Yunchuan Academy the next day and gave him the Vajra Sword Art before Tian Shuang returned to the Backing Mountain Sect.

Ji Wuchang and his companions arrived at Yunchuan Academy, where the new students learned that they would have to overcome senior students to choose their teachers. Mo Bingyuan brought Ji Wuchang, Jiang Hao, and Li Gubei directly to the tower, where the academy’s teachers assessed them.

• Mo Bingyuan returned with Teng Wenlong’s head, and people in Jiang He City credited Ji Wuchang with having a powerful, ruthless master.
• Mo Feixue threatened to have her sworn older sister, Yunchuan Academy’s top genius, punish Ji Wuchang for teasing her.
• After three days aboard the flying boat, Ji Wuchang and the others arrived at Yunchuan Academy and saw its tower and the powerful students gathered below.
• Mo Bingyuan announced that the new students would have to pass the senior students’ trial to choose their teachers, with priority based on arrival order except for Ji Wuchang, Jiang Hao, and Li Gubei.
• Mo Bingyuan carried Ji Wuchang, Jiang Hao, and Li Gubei to the tower, where the teachers examined their cultivation levels and expressed approval.

At Yunchuan Academy, Jiang Hao chose Chen Hou as his instructor, while Ji Wuchang chose the absent old headmaster. As Cai Ping and the other newcomers struggled to reach the group, Ji Wuchang checked in outside the cultivation tower and received six years of cultivation and six Fortune Points.

• Mo Bingyuan revealed that he had recently broken through to the Six Spirits Realm Fourth Level, then let Ji Wuchang and Jiang Hao choose their instructors.
• Jiang Hao selected Chen Hou, a powerful saber cultivator, and Chen Hou accepted him as his disciple.
• Ji Wuchang asked about the empty chair and chose the old headmaster, so Mo Bingyuan agreed to take him to meet the headmaster later.
• Cai Ping and the other newcomers were repeatedly driven back by academy instructors as part of the academy's tradition for testing new students.
• Ji Wuchang checked in outside the cultivation tower and received six years of cultivation and six Fortune Points.

Ji Wuchang perfected the third step of Heart-Treading Steps before Mo Bingyuan led him to meet the academy’s old dean. After entering the rear mountain and choosing the old dean as his teacher, Ji Wuchang discovered his room was a cultivation chamber with spiritual power ten times denser than outside.

• Ji Wuchang used six years of cultivation to reach great perfection in the third step of Heart-Treading Steps.
• Mo Bingyuan warned Ji Wuchang that the old dean might not be what he expected and led him through the rear mountain barrier.
• Ji Wuchang cautiously crossed a heavily damaged area but found no ferocious beast before reaching the old dean’s huts.
• The old dean asked whether Ji Wuchang had chosen him willingly, and Ji Wuchang said he had.
• The old dean gave Ji Wuchang an unoccupied room, where Ji Wuchang found a spirit-gathering formation and began cultivating.

Ji Wuchang was chased by a huge fierce beast that grew to fifth-tier strength under the moonlight, forcing him to fight without the dean’s help. He wounded it by attacking its exposed belly, and it fled, leaving him safe for the moment.

• Ji Wuchang left his room at night and found a towering, scaled fierce beast waiting nearby.
• Ji Wuchang ran from the beast with Wind and Thunder Great Void Steps and then Spirit Snake Steps, but the dean did not appear to help.
• As the moon emerged, the beast grew larger and revealed the pressure of a fifth-tier fierce beast.
• Ji Wuchang attacked the beast’s eyes with his sword techniques, but its skull and claws resisted his strikes.
• Ji Wuchang sent six small swords into the beast’s exposed belly, causing it to howl and roll across the ground.
• The beast stood up and fled into the distance, and Ji Wuchang breathed a sigh of relief.