Chapter Summaries

Ji Wuchang used the Night Phantom Soul Severing Technique to kill Li Chengpeng through his shield, then survived the group’s combined assault and continued attacking the remaining fighters. As the onlookers recoiled in fear, Zhan Shaohui tried to flee but saw a black flying needle rushing toward him.

• Fang Xiaoping retreated while Li Chengpeng and two others stepped forward, and Li Chengpeng demanded Ji Wuchang’s secret hiding technique.
• Ji Wuchang slashed Li Chengpeng with the Night Phantom Soul Severing Technique, piercing his shield and destroying his soul.
• Li Chengpeng and the others attacked together, but Ji Wuchang escaped the barrage and killed Jiang Fangjie with his chain.
• Ji Wuchang collected several storage rings as Lü Chenghao and the surviving attackers called for another group assault.
• Fang Xiaoping and the onlookers trembled at Ji Wuchang’s power, while Zhan Shaohui retreated and a black flying needle appeared before him.

Ji Wuchang killed Zhan Shaohui, Lü Chenghao, and several other attackers at the Zhang Residence, using his sword and the Myriad Souls Hall’s chains. When the survivors fled, he pursued them, and one man detonated himself in a vast explosion.

• Ji Wuchang struck Lü Chenghao while Zhan Shaohui’s shoulder rotted from the poisoned flying needle, and both men died as Ji Wuchang gained Fortune Points.
• Ji Wuchang killed two more Dao Severing Realm second-level attackers and used the chain to destroy their Primordial Spirits.
• Ji Wuchang killed Xiong Tianchen and drove the remaining attackers to flee.
• Ji Wuchang caught one of Li Chengpeng’s companions, rejected his plea invoking the Ninth Princess, and killed him.
• A fleeing man at the Dao Severing Realm fourth level began to self-detonate, and Ji Wuchang vanished before the explosion swept across the area.

Ji Wuchang hunted down Xie Bucong and the other attackers, then returned to the devastated Zhang Residence. He spared Zhang Weiyuan for half a day so the old man could settle his family’s affairs before Ji Wuchang left that night.

• People recognized Ji Wuchang and traded rumors about his deeds and his connection to the Ninth Princess.
• Ji Wuchang found Xie Bucong’s hidden Primordial Spirit and destroyed it, earning 935 Fortune Points.
• Ji Wuchang returned to the Zhang Residence with two more attackers’ heads and found Zhang Weiyuan and three children alive amid the slaughter.
• Fang Xiaoping gave Ji Wuchang a detailed map to the core region, then left with the others.
• Zhang Weiyuan thanked Ji Wuchang for saving his grandchildren and asked for time to settle the Zhang Residence’s affairs.
• Ji Wuchang agreed to give Zhang Weiyuan half a day and waited on a rooftop, planning to leave that night.

After Ji Wuchang killed many people in the Zhang Family compound, Zhang Weiyuan offered him a thousand-year-old serpent’s inner core in exchange for sparing the remaining Zhang Family members. Ji Wuchang absorbed its power, greatly strengthening his body and realizing the importance of the Postnatal Realm.

• Zhang Weiyuan paid workers to clear the Zhang Residence, dismissed most of the servants, and gathered the remaining Zhang Family members.
• Zhang Weiyuan brought Ji Wuchang a pearl he had kept for more than ten years, explaining that it contained the inner core of a serpent that had nearly transformed into a flood dragon.
• Ji Wuchang sensed the serpent’s power within the pearl and absorbed it into his body.
• The pearl crumbled to ash as Ji Wuchang’s blood and Qi grew stronger, his Golden Skin appeared, and his Jade Bones strengthened.
• Ji Wuchang realized that the Postnatal Realm tempered the body’s blood and Qi, while the people in the hall listened in fear to his thunderous heartbeat and surging blood.

Ji Wuchang rewarded Zhang Weiyuan for the bead that had strengthened his blood and Qi, giving him a cultivation method, spirit stones, and the power to become an immortal cultivator. After the Zhang Family disappeared through a secret passage and later rose to prominence, Ji Wuchang reached the true trial grounds and began observing the cultivators there.

• Ji Wuchang tested his strengthened blood and Qi, then realized Zhang Weiyuan’s Martial Dao Origin was impure and decided not to kill him.
• Ji Wuchang refused to take Zhang Chen as a disciple but offered Zhang Weiyuan a cultivation method and spirit stones to repay the Zhang Family for the bead.
• Ji Wuchang transformed Zhang Weiyuan’s martial True Qi into spiritual power, raising him to Qi Refining First Layer, and gave him a storage ring holding ten thousand low-grade spirit stones.
• Zhang Weiyuan led the Zhang Family away through a secret passage, and the family later established itself in the Heavenly Star Dynasty under Zhang Chen, who vowed to repay Ji Wuchang.
• Ji Wuchang followed Fang Xiaoping’s jade slip to the true trial grounds, sensed its corrosive force, and secretly followed groups of cultivators to learn about the area.

Ji Wuchang followed a group from the Long Dragon Sect and learned that many forces had entered the Primordial Chaos Continent to search for Myriad Phenomena Grass. After Ji Yaoyao showed him what it looked like and confirmed its value, he decided to seek some for himself, by force if necessary.

• Ji Wuchang overheard the Long Dragon Sect cultivators discuss the Thousand-City Battle, its dangers, and the treasures guarded across the secret realm.
• Li Xiang and Zhu Shengyu discussed Luo Xi’s bounty for Ji Wuchang and revealed that the Long Dragon Sect sought Myriad Phenomena Grass to make Celestial Phenomenon Pills.
• Zhu Shengyu explained that Myriad Phenomena Grass absorbed the power of the weather and could help a sect gain a Celestial Phenomenon Realm expert.
• Ji Wuchang asked Ji Yaoyao about the herb, and she told him it was highly valuable and sent its four-leaf appearance into his soul sea of consciousness.
• Ji Wuchang memorized the herb’s appearance and resolved to obtain some, even if he had to rob other cultivators.

Ji Wuchang learned that Luo Xi had placed a bounty on him and headed toward her group, while a veiled woman warned Luo Xi to withdraw it. Luo Xi refused to back down, and the veiled woman’s confrontation with the Heavenly Leisure Sect was left poised to escalate.

• Ji Wuchang heard that Luo Xi had offered a hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones for information about him and decided to confront her.
• You Yi returned to Luo Xi with both arms severed and warned that a veiled woman had killed Liu Ping and threatened anyone who tried to kill Ji Wuchang.
• Luo Xi restored You Yi’s arms as he recounted the veiled woman’s warning and urged her to abandon the bounty.
• The veiled woman arrived and told Luo Xi to withdraw the bounty or face the slaughter of her group.
• Luo Xi, angered by the threat, unleashed a powerful presence.

The veiled woman effortlessly overpowered Luo Xi when the Heavenly Leisure Sect disciple attacked her with her strongest sword techniques. The chapter left Luo Xi badly injured and her companions shielding her from the veiled woman.

• Ji Wuchang arrived nearby, sensed the veiled woman's terrifying strength, and waited to see how she would fare against Luo Xi.
• Luo Xi attacked with her five split-soul clones using Heavenly Leisure Six Sword Kill, but the veiled woman shattered the swords with one palm strike and sent Luo Xi and her clones flying.
• The veiled woman offered to end the conflict if Luo Xi could withstand one attack, then struck again with a crystalline palm imprint.
• Luo Xi and her remaining clones countered with Six Swords Return to One, but the veiled woman's palm shattered two clones and hurled Luo Xi into a crater.
• The Heavenly Leisure Sect disciples and Hou Congliang gathered around the injured Luo Xi to protect her.

Luo Xi was defeated by a veiled woman who ordered the Heavenly Leisure Sect to withdraw its bounty on Ji Wuchang, claiming she alone could kill him. Ji Wuchang then collected the bounty from the sect and Hou Clan, but demanded additional compensation for the damage to his reputation and the trouble the bounty had caused.

• A veiled woman defeated Luo Xi and warned her to withdraw the bounty on Ji Wuchang, saying only she could kill him.
• Ji Wuchang arrived and insisted the Heavenly Leisure Sect pay the hundred thousand spirit stones before withdrawing the bounty.
• Hou Congliang gave Ji Wuchang a storage ring containing the spirit stones, and Ji Wuchang confirmed the payment.
• Ji Wuchang declared that the group still owed him for harming his reputation and attracting trouble, then demanded more money.
• Luo Xi asked what Ji Wuchang wanted, and he said they had to pay more or the matter would not end.

Ji Wuchang demanded one million low-grade spirit stones from Luo Xi and the others, who paid and withdrew rather than risk fighting him. After they left, he confronted the veiled woman who had been watching him, and their battle began.

• Ji Wuchang demanded one million low-grade spirit stones from Luo Xi's group, while Hou Congliang urged her to avoid provoking him.
• Luo Xi gave Ji Wuchang a storage ring with the spirit stones, and both the Heavenly Leisure Sect and Hou Clan members flew away.
• Ji Wuchang sensed the veiled woman nearby and called her out of hiding.
• The veiled woman appeared, and she and Ji Wuchang raised their presences as they prepared to fight.
• Ji Wuchang shouted and slashed his sword toward the veiled woman.

Ji Wuchang fought the veiled woman, who proved stronger than he expected, and unleashed several lethal techniques against her. After their clash sent her plummeting, he used the system to copy her World-Destroying Millstone Fist.

• Ji Wuchang tested the veiled woman with Void Kill, but she dodged and countered with sword energy that shattered a mountain peak.
• The veiled woman disarmed Ji Wuchang and sent him crashing into the ground with a powerful punch.
• Ji Wuchang appeared above her and used Night Phantom Soul Severing Technique, cracking her soul-protecting golden bead.
• Ji Wuchang struck with Heart-Treading Steps and Heaven-Treading Steps while the woman countered with World-Destroying Millstone Fist.
• Ji Wuchang's stomp collided with the woman's punch, sending him backward and her plummeting.
• Ji Wuchang told the system to copy her fist technique, and the system successfully copied World-Destroying Millstone Fist.

Ji Wuchang and Ji Zhiyi fought fiercely, each revealing increasingly dangerous abilities. After killing six onlookers who refused to leave, they turned on each other again, and Ji Wuchang launched his Sixth Sword of Fission at Ji Zhiyi.

• Ji Wuchang attacked the veiled woman with poisoned flying needles, but she evaded them and reappeared at a distance.
• Ji Boshang and Ji Zhaojin watched the fight from the sky and discussed Ji Wuchang and Ji Zhiyi.
• Ji Zhiyi broke her seal and raised her cultivation to Dao Severing Realm Second Level.
• When six Dao Severing Realm cultivators arrived to watch, Ji Zhiyi warned them away, and she and Ji Wuchang attacked them together.
• Ji Wuchang killed Yuan Nianjun and Lai Anqi, while Ji Zhiyi killed the other four onlookers.
• Ji Wuchang attacked Ji Zhiyi with the Sixth Sword of Fission, splitting his sword light into thirty-two streaks.

Ji Wuchang and Ji Zhiyi exchanged powerful techniques in a fierce battle, with Ji Wuchang copying her Dragon Mountain Seal and tricking her with a puppet clone. After landing a surprise blow, he escaped the reach of her furious sword assault, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Ji Wuchang and Ji Zhiyi traded millstone techniques, and their collision sent them both flying backward.
• Ji Zhiyi used the Dragon Mountain Seal, but Ji Wuchang vanished with the Great Void Phantom Technique and copied the seal after it struck a mountain.
• Ji Wuchang trapped Ji Zhiyi in Thunder Purgatory, but she cut through the lightning cage with her Supreme Weapon longsword.
• Ji Zhiyi slashed apart Ji Wuchang, only to realize she had struck his puppet clone and take his blazing-sun punch to the back.
• Ji Zhiyi unleashed more than ten sword slashes, and Ji Wuchang retreated ten thousand zhang beyond their range.

Ji Wuchang fought Ji Zhiyi after her secret art prevented him from escaping, unleashing a sealed Supreme Weapon and a barrage of powerful techniques. Injured but still determined to win, he launched a killing strike with his sword and a Divine Soul Spike.

• Ji Zhiyi used Following Like a Shadow to pursue Ji Wuchang whenever he tried to retreat.
• Ji Wuchang drew Zhou Haotian's mother-and-child sword, broke its seal, and attacked Ji Zhiyi with blood-red azure sparrows and other sword and lightning techniques.
• Ji Wuchang and Ji Zhiyi exchanged more than a hundred attacks, devastating the surrounding landscape as distant onlookers watched.
• Ji Wuchang struck with Azure Dragon Tyrant Leg Art, and the collision shattered Ji Zhiyi's veil and sent both fighters flying; Ji Zhiyi then pierced his left shoulder with sword light.
• Ji Wuchang charged at Ji Zhiyi with Hundredfold Sublimation Instant Kill Technique, swinging his Supreme Weapon at her throat as a merged Divine Soul Spike shot toward her brow.

Ji Wuchang and Ji Zhiyi fought until Ji Zhaojin intervened, then he escaped and recovered in a secluded cave. After breaking through and checking in, Ji Wuchang sensed several groups of cultivators nearby and recognized two familiar figures in trouble.

• Ji Wuchang and Ji Zhiyi exchanged lethal attacks until Ji Zhaojin separated them with a Supreme's power.
• Ji Zhaojin comforted Ji Zhiyi and praised Ji Wuchang's combat strength as they left the battlefield.
• Ji Wuchang escaped, learned from Ji Yaoyao that a Supreme had intervened, and healed his wounds in a secluded cave.
• Ji Wuchang replenished his spiritual power, broke through to the Six Spirits Realm Seventh Level, and gained a year of cultivation from a check-in.
• Ji Wuchang sensed several wary groups of cultivators nearby, recognized two familiar figures among them, and hurried toward them.

Gan Yue and Xie Zhen’s group was driven into a three-way standoff after Bu Yixian destroyed a myriad phenomena grass and died fighting the Nine Stars Sect. Ji Wuchang appeared to help them, but Yu Xiancheng challenged him, leaving a confrontation about to begin.

• Dang Haoming exposed Bu Yixian’s myriad phenomena grass to the Nine Stars Sect, whose forces demanded the herb and killed several of Bu Yixian’s companions.
• Bu Yixian destroyed the herb and detonated himself, killing a Dao Severing Realm Third Level cultivator; the Startled Swan Gang and Seized Blade Sect then joined the pursuit of the survivors.
• Gan Yue and Xie Zhen refused to abandon their four remaining companions and hoped the three factions would keep one another in check.
• Gan Yue and Xie Zhen recognized Ji Wuchang at a campfire, and Gan Yue told him how Bu Yixian had died.
• Ji Wuchang told the pursuing teams to leave, prompting Yu Xiancheng of the Startled Swan Gang to draw his saber and challenge him.

Ji Wuchang killed Yu Xiancheng and slaughtered the ten members of the Startled Swan Gang after Yu provoked him. He then confronted the Seized Blade Sect and Nine Stars Sect, demanding spirit stones in exchange for their lives.

• Ji Wuchang killed Yu Xiancheng with a swift sword strike, while Ji Zhiyi decided to awaken her Qilin bloodline after realizing she needed more strength.
• Ji Wuchang collected Yu Xiancheng’s storage ring, then killed the remaining nine members of the Startled Swan Gang using his sword, Divine Soul Spikes, and flying needles.
• Ji Wuchang collected the gang members’ storage rings as Gan Yue, Xie Zhen, and the nearby sect members watched in shock and fear.
• Ji Wuchang told the Seized Blade Sect and Nine Stars Sect that they had committed an unforgivable crime by pursuing his friends and demanded a hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones from each person as the price of their lives.

Ji Wuchang demanded spirit stones from the Nine Stars Sect after the Startled Swan Gang massacre, then attacked when they refused to submit. He slaughtered several members, and the survivors offered to hand over the spirit stones.

• Lu Wenqing offered to withdraw, but Ji Wuchang demanded a hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones or their lives.
• Dang Haoming threatened Ji Wuchang, who beheaded him and crushed his Primordial Spirit.
• Ji Wuchang killed Lu Wenqing with one sword strike.
• Ji Wuchang killed another Nine Stars Sect member and attacked the remaining group with Divine Soul Spikes and an iron chain.
• The surviving Nine Stars Sect members begged to hand over the spirit stones.

Ji Wuchang slaughtered the Nine Stars Sect disciples and forced the Seized Blade Sect to buy their lives, leaving Fu Zihan’s group terrified and sworn to silence. Back with Gan Yue and the others, Ji Wuchang exchanged Fortune Points for a Reincarnation Dream Experience Card and reflected on why he had killed his enemies.

• Ji Wuchang killed four of the fleeing Nine Stars Sect disciples, maimed the last survivor, and sent him back with a warning for the sect.
• Ji Wuchang demanded two hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones per person from the Seized Blade Sect, and Fu Zihan paid to spare the group.
• Fu Zihan forbade his companions from spreading word of the encounter until they had left the training grounds.
• Ji Wuchang rejoined Gan Yue, Xie Zhen, and the others, whose awe of him had turned to dread.
• Ji Wuchang saw that his Fortune Points had risen to 72,897 and spent ten thousand on a Reincarnation Dream Experience Card.
• Xie Zhen thanked Ji Wuchang for saving them, while Ji Wuchang considered his need to vent after fighting Ji Zhiyi and to gain Fortune Points.

Ji Wuchang joined Gan Yue and Xie Zhen to search a mist-shrouded valley for Myriad Phenomena Grass. They reached a platform overlooking a ravine that Ji Wuchang recognized as having been cleaved open, leaving them to wonder who had done it.

• Ji Wuchang agreed to accompany Gan Yue and Xie Zhen to search for the Myriad Phenomena Grass Bu Yixian had found.
• Ji Yongxing discovered Ji Wuchang's trail and contacted Ji Long, who told him to wait until their group and Senior Brother Yunshu arrived before attacking.
• Ji Wuchang and the others entered the poisonous mist, where he killed hidden snakes and warned them that the corrosive air contained poisonous spiritual power.
• Ji Wuchang sensed lightning and fierce winds beyond the valley and led the group toward its exit.
• Ji Wuchang and the others reached a platform above a vast ravine, and Ji Wuchang said its unnaturally straight sides showed that it had been cleaved open.