Chapter Summaries

Ji Wuchang broke through to the first level of the Six Spirits Realm, received a dangerous new system mission, and learned that a Supreme Realm expert was nearby. After reuniting with Jia Yi, he reached two Heavenly Star Dynasty tokens guarded by five hostile groups and prepared to disrupt their standoff.

• Ji Wuchang endured the lightning tribulation, stabilized his breakthrough at the first level of the Six Spirits Realm, and discovered his divine soul and Thunder Dragon had grown stronger.
• The system ordered Ji Wuchang to kill ten people at the first level of the Dao Severing Realm or above within a month, with a 10,000 Fortune Point penalty for failure.
• Ji Yaoyao warned Ji Wuchang that she had sensed someone in the Supreme Realm and told him not to contact her unless it was important.
• Ji Wuchang reunited with Jia Yi and traveled to Star-Chasing Mountain, checking in along the way and gaining cultivation rewards.
• Ji Wuchang and Jia Yi found two Heavenly Star Dynasty tokens contested by five groups, including Zhou Lin and Lan Chenxuan's, Bai Qianqian's, and the Song brothers' groups.
• Ji Wuchang decided not to confront the groups directly and vanished to disrupt their standoff.

Five groups fought over two tokens until Huang Bojian, a newly advanced Dao Severing cultivator from Heavenly Dragon City, demanded them for himself. When Qin Meng and the others united against him, Huang Bojian targeted Qin Meng and launched a blood-red saber slash at her.

• A sudden sword strike triggered a chaotic battle among the five teams competing for the two tokens, while Ji Wuchang watched and waited for the barrier around them to be broken.
• Huang Bojian arrived and demanded the tokens, revealing that he had reached the Dao Severing Realm First Level.
• Qin Meng, backed by Hill Mountain City cultivators, refused to yield, and Bai Qianqian, Song Zhengming, Zhou Lin, Lan Chenxuan, and others joined her against Huang Bojian.
• Huang Bojian invoked Heavenly Dragon City to intimidate the crowd, but they agreed to drive him away before deciding who would claim the tokens.
• Huang Bojian used Whirlwind Ten Consecutive Slashes to occupy the other fighters, then appeared beside Qin Meng and struck at her with Blood Saber Slash.

Qin Meng, Bai Qianqian, Song Zhengming, and the others surrounded Huang Bojian, but an unseen attacker killed him with a lightning-fast strike. After the battle, they discovered that both tokens had disappeared.

• Qin Meng used a scale to block Huang Bojian's saber strike, then joined Song Zhengming, Bai Qianqian, Zhou Lin, and the others in attacking him.
• Huang Bojian unleashed his Hidden Acupoints and Blood Saber Slash to break out of the encirclement, forcing his attackers back.
• An unseen assailant severed Huang Bojian's legs, then beheaded him and destroyed his Primordial Spirit with a small sword.
• Bai Qianqian, Qin Meng, and the others searched for the attacker but saw no one appear.
• Someone noticed that the two tokens had vanished while everyone watched Huang Bojian die.

Ji Wuchang killed Huang Bojian, gained cultivation insights, and continued deeper into Star-Chasing Mountain. Meanwhile, six Ji Family collateral members set out to kill him, and Ji Boshang reprimanded Ji Yongming for pitying them.

• Ji Wuchang received 660 Fortune Points for killing Huang Bojian, collected his storage ring, and obtained a token qualifying him for the Hundred-City Grand Battle.
• Ji Wuchang used cultivation time to perfect the fifth step of Heart-Treading Steps and kept his remaining nine years in reserve.
• Ji Xiao, Ji Tianxiao, Ji Chengren, and three other Ji Family collateral members agreed to attack Ji Wuchang rather than submit to him, then headed toward his path.
• Ji Yongming warned Ji Boshang that the six Ji Family members wanted to kill Ji Wuchang, but Ji Boshang said the trial was part of the young patriarch's assessment and predicted they would die.
• Ji Boshang reprimanded Ji Yongming for being softhearted, explained that the six had been selected because they and their families resented the main family, and told him to return to the clan after the test and take a Mission Hall task.

Ji Wuchang and Jia Yi fled Jia Lingling, while Ji Xiao and his companions tracked Ji Wuchang with scent-seeking beasts. Ji Wuchang entered a barrier-hidden valley, unaware that Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall members had prepared a trap there.

• Jia Lingling revealed himself and attacked Jia Yi and Ji Wuchang, forcing them to flee through the forest.
• Jia Yi gave Ji Wuchang a jade slip, and they split up to escape; Jia Lingling chose to pursue Ji Wuchang.
• Ji Xiao and his five companions used three blood-guided insects to track Ji Wuchang, and Jia Lingling followed them.
• Ji Wuchang traveled hundreds of miles and entered a valley by cutting through its barrier.
• Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall members gathered outside the valley, recognized that Ji Wuchang had walked into their trap, and hid when another group approached.

Jucang City, Jianyang City, and the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall entered the secret realm, followed later by Ji Xiao’s group and Jia Lingling. Ji Wuchang escaped an illusion formation by using lightning to disrupt it, then found a vast medicinal field and evidence that someone had recently been there.

• Zuo Ziyue led Jucang City’s group into the secret realm after Zuo Tingyuan identified it as an ancient site filled with ferocious beasts.
• Song Yingsong led Jianyang City’s group inside and warned them to avoid conflict with Jucang City.
• The Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall group entered the valley, followed later by Ji Xiao, Ji Tianxiao, and their companions, then Jia Lingling.
• Ji Wuchang became trapped in an illusion formation that projected Xiao Fan from his memories.
• Ji Wuchang used Slash Wind and Thunder and Wind and Thunder Great Void Steps to escape the formation.
• Ji Wuchang found extensive medicinal fields and freshly turned soil, but sensed only ferocious beasts nearby.

Ji Wuchang tricked a peak fifth-tier python and stole dozens of herbs from its medicinal field. The python attacked Zuo Tingyuan at the formation’s exit, and Xiang Canghai wounded it before an unknown sword strike flew into its open mouth.

• Ji Wuchang fought the python with wind swords and the Netherworld Sword, but its scales resisted his attacks and it spat poison at him.
• Ji Wuchang used a Puppet Clone Technique to fake his death, then stole three ancient spirit herbs and harvested dozens more before escaping the python.
• The enraged python devoured herbs and charged toward the illusion formation’s exit as mist stirred and voices emerged.
• The python struck Zuo Tingyuan as he exited the formation, and Zuo Tingyuan called for help.
• Xiang Canghai attacked the python with his saber, shattered several scales, and was sent flying by its tail.
• A precise streak of sword light shot into the python’s open mouth.

Ji Wuchang concealed himself near a dangerous forest while Zuo Ziyue’s group encountered several factions following them. After recognizing members of the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall among the newcomers, Ji Wuchang’s killing intent rose, but he held back and sent his puppet clone farther ahead.

• Zuo Ziyue killed the fifth-tier giant python with a sword strike through its mouth and collected its corpse.
• Ji Wuchang sensed powerful fierce beasts and hidden danger in the forest, concealed himself, and sent a puppet clone ahead as a decoy.
• Zuo Ziyue led the Jucang City group to the forest and revealed that the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall’s five members had been following them.
• Song Yingsong’s group from Jianyang City and Song Zhengming’s group from Mianhe City appeared and offered to help face the dangers ahead.
• Ji Wuchang recognized the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall members, felt killing intent, and ordered his puppet clone to move farther away while he waited.

Ji Wuchang watched several groups enter the secret realm, then lured dozens more people there by claiming it was the cave abode of a Celestial Phenomenon Realm Ninth Level expert. After entering, they felt a crushing pressure and rushed toward the depths, convinced the claim was true.

• A puppet clone entered the secret realm, prompting the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall and the three city groups to discuss their intentions before Zuo Ziyue opened the barrier.
• Zuo Ziyue, Song Yingsong, Song Zhengming, and the others entered, followed by Pu Yongming, Pu Yongchang, and their companions.
• Jia Lingling attacked the void where he sensed someone using the Great Void Phantom Technique, then vanished when powerful presences approached.
• Ji Xiao, Ji Tianxiao, Ji Chengren, and their companions opened the barrier and entered, followed by Jia Lingling.
• Ji Wuchang emerged from hiding, drew dozens of people to the valley with a false claim about a powerful expert's cave abode, and entered behind them.
• The newcomers felt the secret realm's immense pressure, believed Ji Wuchang's claim, and hurried toward its depths.

Zuo Ziyue and the others battled the ferocious beasts inside the barrier, while Jia Lingling and the Ji family watched for Ji Wuchang. After her split soul was struck down, Zuo Ziyue unleashed Purple Moon Slash against the pangolin-like beast, and Ji Wuchang recognized the technique as part of the Purple Qi Heaven-Burning Art.

• Jia Lingling searched the battlefield for Jia Yi and Ji Wuchang but found neither, while a man from Jucang City was killed by a ferocious beast.
• Pu Yongchang and Pu Yongming considered activating measures they had prepared, then decided to wait for Ji Wuchang to appear.
• Ji Xiao, Ji Tianxiao, and Ji Chengren arrived and watched the battle after their flying ferocious beasts lost Ji Wuchang's trail.
• The fighters summoned their split souls and pushed the ferocious beasts back, but the pangolin-like beast launched scale arrows that destroyed one split soul each from Zuo Ziyue and Xiang Canghai.
• Zuo Ziyue summoned her crescent blade and struck the pangolin-like beast with Purple Moon Slash, which Ji Wuchang recognized as a technique from the Purple Qi Heaven-Burning Art.

Zuo Ziyue and Xiang Canghai killed a sixth-rank fierce beast but were wounded by its final attack. Ji Wuchang escaped an ambush by Myriad Souls Hall and erased the traces they had used to track him, while the pursuers resolved to keep hunting him.

• The dying fierce beast launched its scales at Zuo Ziyue and Xiang Canghai, shattering Xiang Canghai's shield and piercing both fighters before they survived the attack.
• Ji Wuchang dodged a black-clad Myriad Souls Hall member's chain and a Divine Soul Spike, then fled more than a hundred li using Shrinking the Ground to an Inch.
• Ji Wuchang found a faint remnant soul and an unfamiliar fragrance on himself, destroyed the remnant, changed clothes, burned his old clothes, and left.
• Three Myriad Souls Hall pursuers lost their sense of Ji Wuchang and vowed to kill him, unaware that he had removed their tracking traces.
• The chapter revealed that Myriad Souls Hall had tracked Ji Wuchang through a presence transferred from Jiang Qiye and sent the three assassins after Li Xiaoyuan prevented their elder from acting personally.

Ji Wuchang disguised himself and ambushed the people who had attacked him, killing Ji He and striking at Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall with his poisoned chain and needles. He remained hidden as another victim was caught in the chain’s grasp.

• Ji Wuchang dressed in black, armed himself with a poisoned iron chain, flying needles, and small swords, and secretly headed into the secret realm.
• Ji Wuchang spotted Ji Xiao, Ji Tianxiao, Ji Chengren, and their group, then pierced Ji He’s head with the chain and killed him.
• Ji Xiao attacked the distant void, but Ji Wuchang stayed hidden and learned that Ji He’s death had earned him 310 Fortune Points.
• Ji Wuchang killed a man beside Pu Yongchang with the chain, then fired poisoned needles at Pu Yongchang and Pu Yongming as they struck back.
• Pu Yongchang and Pu Yongming blocked the needles but were poisoned, while Ji Wuchang’s chain wrapped around another Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall member’s throat and began rotting his flesh.

Ji Wuchang killed several enemies and raised his cultivation before Jia Lingling tracked him down and sealed the valley’s void. As Jia Lingling attacked him, Ji Chengren and the Pu brothers intervened, and Jia Yi and a black-clad swordsman struck Jia Lingling down.

• Ji Wuchang killed Nie Ju and Xiong Junyi, then used two years of cultivation to advance to the Six Spirits Realm Second Level.
• Ji Wuchang spotted Jia Lingling, who could see through his Great Void Phantom Technique and used a jade slip to seal the valley’s void.
• Ji Chengren attacked Ji Wuchang, but Pu Yongchang and Pu Yongming blocked the attacks to protect Ji Wuchang’s body for their lord’s plan.
• A second black-clad swordsman ambushed Jia Lingling, while Pu Yongchang also attacked him and Jia Yi struck the top of his skull.
• The black-clad swordsman severed Jia Lingling’s head, and a lightning-wreathed palm struck his escaping Primordial Spirit.

Ji Wuchang used a puppet and Jia Yi’s attack to kill Jia Lingling, then struck again and killed Ji Hong and Ji Yuan. He escaped into the void with Jia Yi while the Ji Family failed to catch him.

• Ji Wuchang used a puppet holding the iron chain to mislead Jia Lingling and Jia Yi, then killed Jia Lingling with a lightning palm.
• Ji Wuchang and Jia Yi vanished into the void before Ji Xiao and the others could react.
• Ji Wuchang killed Ji Hong with the pitch-black chain, then repelled Ji Xiao’s rain-sword attack with the Great Sun Divine Fist.
• Ji Wuchang appeared before Ji Yuan, crippled him with Heart-Treading Steps, and killed him with Slash Wind and Thunder.
• Ji Wuchang escaped Ji Tianxiao’s sword strike, and Jia Yi wondered how his Great Void Phantom Technique had surpassed her own.

Ji Wuchang confronted Ji Chengren and the others after slaughtering their allies, while the surviving city contestants stopped competing for tokens. Ji Chengren launched his strongest Dragon-Taming Sword Art at the black-clad figure, and the chapter ended as its giant dragon plunged into his body.

• Ji Boshang crushed the remnant souls of Ji Hong, Ji Yuan, and the others Ji Wuchang had killed, while Ji Yongming recognized Ji Wuchang's ruthless nature.
• Zuo Ziyue, Xiang Canghai, Song Zhengming, and Song Yingsong claimed the four tokens, and the survivors from the cities halted their contest after witnessing Ji Wuchang's slaughter.
• Ji Chengren called out Ji Wuchang, who appeared at a distance and challenged him to come and die.
• Ji Chengren charged, and Ji Xiao, Ji Tianxiao, Pu Yongchang, and Pu Yongming followed as Ji Wuchang's hidden sword struck Ji Chengren's protective token.
• Ji Chengren and Ji Xiao and Ji Tianxiao attacked the black-clad figure, while Ji Wuchang's iron chain forced Ji Chengren to dodge.
• Ji Chengren unleashed the Dragon-Taming Sword Art, sending a giant dragon of sword light straight into the black-clad figure's body.

Ji Wuchang killed Ji Chengren, then disappeared with Jia Yi while their enemies attacked two mistaken black-clad figures. As Zuo Ziyue and the others tried to head deeper into the secret realm, an enraged peak sixth-tier Demonic Ape appeared and drove them toward the exit.

• Ji Wuchang killed Ji Chengren with a sudden sword strike and the iron chain, earning 669 Fortune Points and copying the Dragon-Taming Sword Art.
• Ji Wuchang vanished after signaling Ji Xiao and the others, and Jia Yi disappeared after forcing Ji Xiao and Ji Tianxiao back.
• Ji Xiao, Ji Tianxiao, Pu Yongchang, and Pu Yongming mistook two black-clad men for Ji Wuchang and Jia Yi and attacked them together.
• Zuo Ziyue and Xiang Canghai decided to head deeper into the secret realm, while Song Yingsong, Song Zhengming, and the others chose to leave.
• A peak sixth-tier Demonic Ape charged toward Zuo Ziyue and the others, who fled toward the secret realm's exit.

Ji Wuchang ambushed the fighters, killing Pu Yongchang and Ji Tianxiao and badly wounding Pu Yongming while concealing his connection to the Myriad Souls Hall. After Pu Yongming summoned Xiang Yunfeng for help, a peak sixth-rank Demonic Ape approached, forcing the battle toward a sudden confrontation.

• Two Myriad Souls Hall men struck Ji Xiao, Ji Tianxiao, Pu Yongchang, and Pu Yongming with Divine Soul Spikes and iron chains, and one tore off Pu Yongchang’s arm.
• Ji Wuchang appeared in disguise and killed Pu Yongchang, then pierced Ji Tianxiao’s brow and killed him.
• Pu Yongming recognized Ji Wuchang and crushed a jade token, summoning the Ninth-Level Dao Severing guardian Xiang Yunfeng from six hundred li away.
• Ji Wuchang attacked Pu Yongming, killed one black-clad man, and tore apart Pu Yongming’s thigh as a peak sixth-rank Demonic Ape drew near.
• A lightning blade destroyed the black-clad man’s escaping divine soul, while Ji Wuchang turned toward the approaching Demonic Ape, only a hundred zhang away.

Ji Wuchang escaped the demonic ape, then returned to kill the poisoned Pu Yongming with a flying needle and capture his soul in the Great Seal of Ten Thousand Ferocities. As the ape tore through fleeing cultivators, Ji Wuchang took Pu Yongming’s storage ring and remained determined to hunt down everyone who had tried to kill him.

• Ji Wuchang seized several storage rings and vanished as the peak sixth-rank demonic ape approached, leaving the poisoned Pu Yongming to fall to the ground.
• The Myriad Souls Hall man attacked Ji Xiao, who crushed a jade slip and teleported away; the attacker then used Ten Thousand Li Tracking to pursue him.
• The demonic ape chased the fleeing cultivators and swallowed a man from Mianhe City, while Song Zhengming continued escaping without helping him.
• Pu Yongming forced poisonous blood from his body and swore to kill Ji Wuchang, but Ji Wuchang struck him with a flying needle and trapped his soul in the Great Seal of Ten Thousand Ferocities.
• Ji Wuchang took Pu Yongming’s storage ring and resolved not to spare anyone who had tried to kill him.

After killing Pu Yongming, Ji Wuchang pursued Ji Xiao and the Myriad Souls Hall man, while Xiang Yunfeng discovered the corpses and realized the Hall was involved. Ji Xiao revealed his Ji Family identity during the fight, angering hidden Ji Boshang and Ji Yongming as Ji Wuchang watched from concealment.

• Ji Wuchang gained Fortune Points for killing Pu Yongming and disappeared to pursue Ji Xiao and the Myriad Souls Hall man.
• The peak sixth-tier demonic ape killed more people as Xiang Yunfeng arrived and assessed its strength.
• Xiang Yunfeng found Pu Yongming and other corpses, recognized signs of the Myriad Souls Hall, and burned the bodies.
• Ji Xiao fought the black-clad man, who tried to make him submit and become a battle puppet.
• Ji Xiao revealed that he belonged to the Ji Family, while Ji Wuchang and Jia Yi watched from the void.
• Ji Boshang and Ji Yongming heard Ji Xiao disclose his identity and silently condemned him for violating the Ji Family's rule.

Ji Wuchang killed Lian Heping after the Myriad Souls Hall cultivator nearly defeated Ji Xiao, then forced the terrified Ji Xiao to explain why the Ji Family had sent him. Ji Xiao begged for his life and promised to serve Ji Wuchang.

• Jia Yi offered to help Ji Wuchang fight, but he refused and said he could handle the enemies alone.
• Lian Heping attacked Ji Xiao with Divine Soul Spikes and an iron-chain dragon, driving him back despite Ji Xiao's shield and counterattack.
• Ji Wuchang appeared from the void, severed Lian Heping's legs, and killed him with the Hundredfold Sublimation Instant Kill Technique.
• Ji Xiao retreated in terror and begged Ji Wuchang to spare him, claiming the clan had sent him to test Ji Wuchang.
• Ji Wuchang agreed to consider sparing Ji Xiao and demanded that he reveal everything, threatening to search his soul if he hid anything.