Chapter Summaries

Huang Sen trapped Long Batian and the others in a cage after revealing his Ancient Devil power, while Ji Wuchang told Yu Ling that an Ancient Devil might soon escape the Blood Pool. Ji Wuchang gave Yu Ling three globules of essence blood and received Fire Phoenix Essence Blood in return.

• A devil face rose from the Blood Pool and devoured people as Huang Sen awakened four Ancient Devil Stars and grew into a towering, armored giant.
• Huang Sen used Space Seal to trap Long Batian and the others in a cage, and Long Batian rallied them to fight together until help arrived.
• Ji Wuchang told Yu Ling that he had found a cracked formation beneath the Blood Pool and heard an Ancient Devil roaring.
• Yu Ling judged that a powerful Ancient Devil might have survived and decided to leave the danger to the Heavenly Star Sect.
• Ji Wuchang offered Yu Ling four globules of essence blood, and she kept three while giving him a vial containing Fire Phoenix Essence Blood.

Yu Ling used her formidable swordsmanship to break the sealed space and rescue the cultivators trapped with Huang Sen. Long Batian saw her and was captivated, a glance that changed his fate and tied him to Ji Wuchang.

• Yu Ling sensed an ancient demon expert had sealed the space inside the stele and prepared to break the barrier.
• Yu Ling revealed her greater accomplishment sword intent and formed countless rain swords into a vast sword.
• Inside the stele, Huang Sen fought off Long Batian, Jun Piaopiao, Chu Yanran, and hundreds of cultivators while devouring many of them.
• Long Batian realized the barrier could only be broken from outside as Huang Sen's attacks drove everyone toward despair.
• Yu Ling shattered the barrier with her rain swords, and Long Batian was struck by her appearance.

After escaping the Land of Heavenly Loss, Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling traveled to Lingtai Province to refine the blood essence. As Yu Ling began awakening her bloodline, a colossal phantom of the Yu Clan’s founding Great Emperor appeared, revealing to the hidden Xuan Gang that her awakening had reached an extraordinary level.

• Yu Ling and Ji Wuchang escaped the Land of Heavenly Loss while Long Batian fixated on Yu Ling and vowed to find her.
• Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling left Heavenly Star Province and reached Lingtai Province several days later.
• Yu Ling suggested they refine the blood essence on a deserted mountaintop before returning to the academy.
• Yu Ling absorbed the blood essence, and a ten-thousand-zhang phantom emerged behind her amid gathering water mist.
• Xuan Gang recognized the phantom as the Yu Clan’s founding Great Emperor and estimated that Yu Ling had awakened about eighty percent of her bloodline.

Yu Ling completed her bloodline awakening, then Ji Wuchang’s blood essence revealed a towering mark bearing the symbols of the Ji and Li Families. Yu Gang suspected Ji Wuchang was the son of a Ji Family lord who had tried to merge the two bloodlines, while the true purpose remained uncertain.

• Yu Ling emerged from the white mist with her bloodline power greatly strengthened, and Ji Wuchang congratulated her.
• Yu Ling offered to guard Ji Wuchang as he swallowed the blood essence and endured its tendrils spreading through his body.
• A mark depicting a stone mill and a golden sword appeared in Ji Wuchang’s soul sea and manifested behind him as a ten-thousand-zhang phantom.
• Yu Ling and Yu Gang were shocked by the phantom, and Yu Gang identified the millstone as the Ji Family’s bloodline symbol and the sword as the Li Family’s.
• Yu Gang conjectured that Ji Wuchang was the son of a Ji Family lord who had attempted to merge the two bloodlines, though he admitted only that lord might know the truth.

After Ji Wuchang’s blood essence awakened a mysterious mark, he returned to Yunchuan Academy and used six years of cultivation to advance his Purple Mansion Realm. The power spread through his body and the mark, leaving him at the Purple Mansion Realm seventh level.

• Yu Gang recognized the purple river in Ji Wuchang’s mark as an undeveloped bloodline power, and Yu Ling ordered him to keep the discovery secret.
• Ji Wuchang found no change in his cultivation and could no longer locate the mark after returning to his soul’s sea of consciousness.
• Ji Wuchang checked in at Yunchuan Academy and received six years of cultivation and six Fortune Points.
• Yu Ling warned Ji Wuchang to avoid the rear mountain and offered him a spare room at her home.
• Ji Wuchang used six years of cultivation to perfect the fourth layer of the purple Qi Heaven-Burning Art, and the power raised him to the Purple Mansion Realm seventh level.

Ji Wuchang broke through to the Purple Mansion Realm Seventh Level, used his system rewards, and reunited with his friends at Yunchuan Academy. He learned that Jiang Hao had been thriving under Jiang Yuanxiong’s protection, while Jiang Yuanxiong’s followers might soon come after him.

• Yu Ling sensed the power from Ji Wuchang’s breakthrough and reflected on her painful past before resuming cultivation.
• Ji Wuchang used his lottery and flash-sale chances, gaining an Appearance Enhancement Card, a Position Swap Card, and 300 Fortune Points.
• Ji Wuchang checked his status, confirmed he had reached the Purple Mansion Realm Seventh Level, and went to sleep.
• At Yunchuan Academy, Ji Wuchang reunited with Li Gubei and Cai Ping, who were shocked by his cultivation.
• Ji Wuchang spotted Jiang Hao and learned that Jiang Yuanxiong had been protecting him and had threatened to teach Ji Wuchang a lesson.

Ji Wuchang learned about the academy mission to eliminate fiends and devils in nearby villages, then drew a grade A mission to investigate the deaths in Willow River Village. After reading the report about a blood-draining willow fiend, he suspected the truth was more complicated and prepared to investigate in person.

• Cai Ping warned Ji Wuchang that Wu Yong, Wu Feng's older cousin and a seventh-level Soul Splitting Realm cultivator, might target him.
• Ji Wuchang encountered Jiang Hao, Jiang Yue Tower, and Qian Xingguang, then noticed Wu Yong, Niu Tao, and Zhang Qi among the gathered disciples.
• Li Gubei explained that the academy had organized missions to subdue fiends and devils in nearby villages, and that completing them could cover months of required assignments.
• Qi Murong announced that grade A missions were for the Soul Splitting Realm and grade B missions for the Purple Mansion Realm, with instructors leading the more dangerous teams.
• Mo Bingyuan directed Ji Wuchang to draw a grade A mission despite his Purple Mansion Realm cultivation, and Ji Wuchang received the task of eliminating the fiend in Willow River Village.
• Ji Wuchang read that villagers had burned a willow tree after women were found drained of blood beneath it, but deaths continued afterward, and he suspected the case was not as simple as the report suggested.

Ji Wuchang investigated the devastated Willow River Village and the mysteriously unharmed Zheng Family Village, seeking the source of the danger. He discovered the villagers feared a mage and then secretly visited Old Han Jiu, where a wooden statue manifested as the Grandpa Mountain God.

• Ji Wuchang checked in at Yunchuan Academy's cultivation tower, gained eight years of cultivation, and left on his mission.
• Ji Wuchang inspected Willow River Village, finding its inhabitants nearly wiped out, corpses scattered about, and traces of Yao Qi and an obscure presence.
• Ji Wuchang entered Zheng Family Village disguised as a lost scholar, but the villagers refused to shelter him because a mage had warned them against taking in strangers.
• Ji Wuchang secretly followed Old Han Jiu home and saw a tablet for the Invincible Grand Mage beside a wooden statue.
• The wooden statue rose above Old Han Jiu and radiated strange light, frightening him into begging Grandpa Mountain God for forgiveness.

Ji Wuchang investigated a suspicious mage in Zheng Family Village and discovered a fox demon exploiting the village’s men at a hidden construction site. He attacked the demon after breaking through its barrier.

• Ji Wuchang questioned Old Han Jiu while posing as the mountain god, and learned that a mage had sent nearly all the village’s able-bodied men to build a temple.
• Ji Wuchang learned the temple was on the tallest nearby mountain and gave Old Han Jiu a Qi and Blood Pill in exchange for his silence.
• Ji Wuchang climbed toward the peak, followed a rank odor, and shattered a crude barrier with his sword.
• Ji Wuchang found a fox demon with dozens of emaciated men lying around her, recognized her as the source of the odor, and sent his sword toward her head.

Ji Wuchang defeated a fox demon in Zheng Family Village and questioned her about the vanished villages. She blamed the Myriad Souls Hall, a powerful faction that was extracting souls nearby, but Ji Wuchang suspected she was hiding something and threatened her for the truth.

• Ji Wuchang struck down the fox demon as she fled, then demanded to know what had happened to Willow River Village and the other villages.
• The fox demon warned Ji Wuchang about the Myriad Souls Hall, prompting him to recall its connection to Yu Ling and a Supreme Realm expert who had attacked her.
• The fox demon said the Myriad Souls Hall had a branch in Heavenly Star Province and was collecting remnant souls and extracting villagers’ souls in Lingtai Province and Jiangchuan Province.
• The fox demon claimed the Myriad Souls Hall had spared Zheng Family Village because her bewitchment had tainted its people’s souls, and that its members had warned her to stay put.
• Ji Wuchang accused the fox demon of concealing the whole truth and threatened to torture and kill her as he readied his swords.

Ji Wuchang learned that the Myriad Souls Hall was a powerful, relentless enemy, but decided to pursue the academy mission rather than retreat. He sent a disguised puppet clone toward the Myriad Souls Hall members, planning to kill them and lure out the academy’s hidden accomplices.

• Dong'er showed Ji Wuchang her Lesser Qingqiu token and explained why the Myriad Souls Hall had spared her; he knocked her unconscious, erased her memory of him, and hung her from a tree.
• Ji Wuchang asked Ji Yaoyao about the Myriad Souls Hall, and she warned him that it rivaled her Ji Clan, used bizarre disguises, and pursued its enemies relentlessly.
• Ji Wuchang resolved to face the Myriad Souls Hall despite the many enemies he already had, and Ji Yaoyao promised to stand with him.
• Ji Wuchang disguised himself and a puppet clone, then sent the clone ahead as bait while he followed, intending to draw out the Myriad Souls Hall and the academy’s hidden accomplices.

Ji Wuchang ambushed a squad of Myriad Souls Hall disciples who had been slaughtering villages to gather remnant souls, killing all six. The squad leader’s Primordial Spirit formed a Soul Mark that followed Ji Wuchang a hundred miles and entered between his brows.

• A Myriad Souls Hall squad prepared to finish slaughtering nearby villages as part of its mission to gather ten million remnant souls.
• The squad leader sent a disciple to kill Ji Wuchang’s puppet clone, but Ji Wuchang appeared and beheaded the attacker.
• Ji Wuchang used his speed and small swords to kill two more disciples, then absorbed the leader’s divine soul attack with his Divine Soul Dao Platform.
• Ji Wuchang killed the remaining two Purple Mansion Realm disciples and beheaded the Soul Splitting Realm leader.
• The leader’s Primordial Spirit condensed a Soul Mark for ten-thousand-mile tracking, and it flew into the space between Ji Wuchang’s brows after he fled a hundred miles.

Ji Wuchang survived a Soul Mark attack from the Myriad Souls Hall, absorbed its power, and burned away the evidence of the fight. As he left, Niu Tao arrived and was mistaken for the killer by Myriad Souls Hall members, who began pursuing him; Zhang Qi also arrived.

• The Soul Mark entered Ji Wuchang's sea of divine soul consciousness, but his Divine Soul Dao Platform devoured it and released powerful divine soul energy that strengthened his Primordial Spirit.
• Ji Wuchang burned the attackers' corpses, then Ji Yaoyao discovered and crushed the last enemy's hidden phantom Primordial Spirit.
• Ji Yaoyao warned Ji Wuchang to burn the area, and he set it ablaze before leaving.
• Niu Tao arrived looking for Ji Wuchang to claim the reward Jiang Hao had offered for his head.
• Two Myriad Souls Hall members mistook Niu Tao for the killer, summoned reinforcements, and followed him as he flew toward Willow River Village.
• Zhang Qi arrived, hoping to claim a share of the reward.

Wu Yong waited near Willow River Village as Niu Tao entered it and condemned the slaughter there. After discovering the Myriad Souls Hall’s torture trophies and pure soul power in the storage rings he had taken, Ji Wuchang gave the soul power to Ji Yaoyao and buried the horrific evidence, then found Niu Tao under attack by six members of the Myriad Souls Hall.

• Wu Yong reached the hill overlooking Willow River Village and waited for a chance to hunt Ji Wuchang.
• Niu Tao walked through the devastated village and cursed the people responsible for killing its residents.
• Ji Wuchang found torture instruments, human eyes, hearts, and ears in the Myriad Souls Hall members’ storage rings, while giving the pure soul power he found to Ji Yaoyao.
• Ji Wuchang buried the boxes and erased the traces before rushing toward the sound of fighting.
• Ji Wuchang spotted six Myriad Souls Hall members attacking Niu Tao and realized Niu Tao had come looking for him.
• Niu Tao was wounded by an iron chain, fought off the attackers briefly, and fled.

Niu Tao fought the Myriad Souls Hall attackers while poisoned, killing one and maiming another before detonating himself. A seventh-level Soul Splitting Realm deacon discovered Zhang Qi and Wu Yong hiding nearby and ordered his subordinates to pursue them.

• A poisoned Niu Tao used his split soul and the Cage Sword technique to kill one black-clad attacker and sever another attacker’s arm.
• Niu Tao, gravely wounded and unable to stop the attackers, detonated himself and injured two black-clad men at the fourth level of the Soul Splitting Realm.
• A black-clad deacon at the seventh level of the Soul Splitting Realm arrived, realized two people were still hiding, and exposed Zhang Qi behind a distant tree.
• The deacon flew toward a mountain peak as Wu Yong fled, while several black-clad figures surrounded Zhang Qi and blocked his escape.

Ji Wuchang secretly followed Wu Yong and a man in black from the Myriad Souls Hall as they fought, then assessed his own strength while waiting for an opportunity. The man in black struck Wu Yong with a soul attack, forcing him to flee through a jade slip passage, and vanished after him.

• Ji Wuchang left to pursue Wu Yong and the man in black, intending to finish off whoever survived their fight.
• The man in black caught up with Wu Yong and attacked him, claiming he deserved death for spying on the Myriad Souls Hall.
• Wu Yong and the man in black exchanged saber, chain, and palm strikes, but Wu Yong suffered a poisoned wound and was badly injured.
• Ji Wuchang watched from concealment and judged that his speed from the Wind and Thunder Great Void Steps could let him defeat either opponent.
• The man in black pierced Wu Yong's divine soul with a Divine Soul Spike, and Wu Yong crushed a jade slip to escape through a passage.
• The man in black sneered that Wu Yong could not escape the Myriad Souls Hall and vanished after him.

Wu Yong was battered by a Myriad Souls Hall assassin and nearly killed by Divine Soul Spike, while Ji Wuchang copied the technique from hiding. After Qi Murong arrived and chased the assassin, Wu Yong was decapitated by an unseen attacker as his Primordial Spirit escaped.

• The black-robed Myriad Souls Hall man attacked Wu Yong with a chain, then struck his divine soul with Divine Soul Spike.
• Hidden nearby, Ji Wuchang copied Divine Soul Spike Upper Part and learned it contained the beginner and minor accomplishment stages.
• Wu Yong begged the black-robed man to spare him and offered to become his servant.
• Qi Murong arrived, and the black-robed man fled after sending a killing blow toward Wu Yong.
• Qi Murong pursued the assassin while Wu Yong celebrated surviving, but an unseen attacker cut off Wu Yong's head, forcing his Primordial Spirit to flee.

Ji Wuchang killed Wu Yong, returned to Yunchuan Academy, and beat Mo Feixue after she greeted him. The chapter ended with Mo Feixue tattling to Yu Ling, who defended Ji Wuchang and said he had held back.

• Ji Wuchang seized Wu Yong's Primordial Spirit, destroyed it with lightning, and burned Wu Yong's corpse after refusing his pleas for mercy.
• Ji Wuchang reflected on how his lightning power had grown stronger, unaware that a lightning origin had formed the dragon in his Purple Mansion.
• Ji Wuchang returned to Yunchuan Academy and rapped Mo Feixue on the head until she ran off crying and threatened to ask Yu Ling to punish him.
• Ji Wuchang checked in at the academy's main square, then headed to his lodgings while Jiang Hao and Wu Feng watched him uneasily.
• Mo Feixue tattled to Yu Ling, who called her injuries superficial and said Ji Wuchang had held back.

Ji Wuchang returned to Yunchuan Academy and entered Yu Ling’s courtyard, shocking Mo Feixue, while the instructors dealt with the aftermath of the Myriad Souls Hall attack. Yu Gang later wiped out the Myriad Souls Hall’s branch in Heavenly Star Province and returned seven days later to report to Yu Ling.

• Ji Wuchang returned to the academy, entered Yu Ling’s courtyard, and confirmed to Mo Feixue that he was living there with Yu Ling.
• Mo Feixue left Yu Ling’s courtyard, blamed Ji Wuchang for her troubles, and resolved to find a way to get even with him.
• Qi Murong and the other instructors returned with the crippled Zhang Qi, while Niu Tao remained missing and Jiang Hao and Wu Feng worried about their agents.
• Mo Bingyuan and more than ten instructors asked Yu Ling to resolve the threat from the Myriad Souls Hall, and she agreed.
• Yu Gang left the academy and destroyed the Myriad Souls Hall’s Heavenly Star Province branch, killing its members and a Celestial Phenomenon Realm expert who arrived afterward.
• Yu Gang returned seven days later and told Yu Ling what he had done.

The old dean completed his fusion with the ferocious beast, gaining a new life and the strength of a Dao Severing Realm expert, though he faced several risks of backlash. With the dean recovering in seclusion, Yunchuan Academy’s teachers began to hope they could restore the academy’s standing.

• The old dean struggled to control the beast as its face and body repeatedly replaced his own, while Yu Ling prepared to intervene.
• When the old dean’s face appeared, Yu Ling fed him a drop of crimson blood, and his human body gradually emerged as he gained the upper hand over the beast soul.
• Ji Wuchang asked Yu Ling about the fusion’s aftereffects, and she explained that the old dean risked backlash during full moons, breakthroughs, and prolonged battles, but could suppress the danger over time.
• The teachers realized the old dean’s new strength and the academy’s promising students could help Yunchuan Academy return to the provincial Dao discussion gatherings.
• Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling left the mountain, while the old dean remained in seclusion for a day or two.