Chapter Summaries

After killing Qin Daorong, Ji Wuchang struggled to control the terrifying cold in his body, then prepared to face the bounty hunters targeting him. He disguised himself and headed for Profound Crystal Peak, where Qu Yang and a crowd of spectators awaited him.

• Ji Wuchang endured an hour of freezing cold as the Glacial Glazed Fire absorbed it and grew stronger, then emerged from the ice unharmed.
• Ji Wuchang examined a small sword from Ji Long’s storage ring and recognized its trace of a Supreme’s presence as a potential trump card.
• Ji Wuchang learned that rumors about his ten stalks of myriad phenomena grass had made him a target, so he put together a rough disguise.
• Ji Wuchang set out for Profound Crystal Peak to confront Qu Yang, who had challenged him to avenge Qu Yi and the others.
• Over a hundred people gathered at Profound Crystal Peak to watch, while Qu Yang and his powerful Plain Maiden Sect group waited on the platform.

Ji Wuchang discovered the trap Qu Yang and the Plain Maiden Sect had set on Profound Crystal Peak, then used Shi Lihao to deliver a public challenge. When a Plain Maiden Sect member attacked the messenger, Ji Wuchang intervened from the crowd and killed him with an Azure Sparrow sword strike.

• Ji Wuchang used his Thousand Illusion Spirit Pupil to spot a formation beneath Qu Yang and saw a frightening darkness inside Qu Yang’s chest.
• Ji Wuchang noticed three unusually vigorous body cultivators among the people gathered at Profound Crystal Peak.
• Shi Lihao arrived wounded and announced that Ji Wuchang had challenged Qu Yang to meet him at Chenhe Abyss, taunting the Plain Maiden Sect and mentioning gold tokens and Qu Yi.
• A Plain Maiden Sect member attacked Shi Lihao while Qu Yang did not stop him, and Shi Lihao prepared to self-detonate rather than die helplessly.
• Ji Wuchang sent an Azure Sparrow sword strike from behind Shi Lihao, killing the attacker and destroying his Primordial Spirit.

Ji Wuchang confronted Qu Yang at Profound Crystal Peak, then stayed behind to ambush the three black-clad figures who had arranged to trap him at Chenhe Abyss. He killed two attackers and wounded the third as the survivors’ connection to the Hou family became apparent.

• Ji Wuchang rescued Shi Lihao, challenged Qu Yang to meet him at Chenhe Abyss, and vanished before Qu Yang could respond.
• The Plain Maiden Sect and other spectators left Profound Crystal Peak, while Qu Yang learned from three seventh-level Dao Severing Realm figures that Dang Huihan was waiting at Chenhe Abyss to help trap Ji Wuchang.
• After Qu Yang departed, one black-clad figure destroyed the prepared formation, but Ji Wuchang attacked the three from hiding with a millstone and Divine Soul Spikes.
• Ji Wuchang killed Hou Xinyue and Hou Shangping, while the third black-clad man escaped through a spatial passage after being struck by Ji Wuchang’s sword and hidden flying needle.
• Ji Wuchang failed to extract information from Hou Xinyue’s sealed Primordial Spirit, then vanished as the surviving attacker began cutting away his rotting body.

Ji Wuchang captured a black-clad assassin’s Primordial Spirit, but the Ice Flame Beast’s core inside him triggered another violent flare of heat and cold. Ji Boshang explained that only dual cultivation with someone of a powerful special bloodline could fully cure the affliction, while Ji Wuchang froze into an ice sculpture.

• Ji Wuchang confronted the woman, learned Hou Xinyue had revealed some information, and severed her neck when she attacked.
• Ji Wuchang captured the woman’s Primordial Spirit after noticing a bead protecting it, then fled when the poison’s heat erupted.
• Ji Boshang told Ji Zhaojin and Ji Zhiyi that Ji Wuchang had been afflicted with an Ice Flame Beast core and needed dual cultivation to alleviate it.
• Ji Wuchang’s special mark calmed the heat temporarily, but a burst of cold soon froze him into an ice sculpture and spread across the surrounding area.

Ji Wuchang escaped the ice that had sealed him and discovered that the poison inside him had grown stronger. At Chenhe Abyss, where hundreds of Thousand-City Battle participants gathered over three gold tokens guarded by ferocious beasts, a berserk Violent Bear appeared to have someone standing on its head.

• Ji Zhiyi drove away lower-ranked cultivators who approached the frozen area, while Ji Wuchang endured the cold and used his Glacial Glazed Fire, Divine Soul Dao Platform, and Purple Qi Heaven-Burning Art to resist it.
• Ji Wuchang broke free from the ice, found his body unharmed but the three pink clouds of poison denser, and vanished from the area.
• Hundreds of participants gathered at Chenhe Abyss, where five peak sixth-tier ferocious beasts guarded three gold tokens behind a barrier; Dang Huihan and the Nine Stars Sect held the front position.
• At Qu Yang's order, a Plain Maiden Sect member called for Ji Wuchang to come out, but he did not respond, and Gan Yue and Xie Zhen mocked the challenge.
• A Violent Bear inside the barrier went berserk, and the gathered cultivators spotted what looked like someone standing on its head.

Ji Wuchang used the Great Seal of Ten Thousand Ferocities to subdue a huge black bear and rode it deeper into the trial grounds. When a masked flute player ambushed him with a soul attack, Ji Wuchang resisted and struck back, leaving their clash unresolved.

• Dang Huihan recognized Ji Wuchang inside the barrier and entered with Qu Yang, prompting nearly every cultivator at Chenhe Abyss to follow; Jia Yi then appeared and vanished into the barrier.
• Ji Wuchang revealed that he had entered using the Great Void Phantom Technique and subdued a huge black bear with the Great Seal of Ten Thousand Ferocities.
• Ji Wuchang rode the black bear toward a mountain, where he spotted a peak sixth-tier tiger and prepared to subdue it.
• A metal-masked man played a golden flute that nearly enchanted Ji Wuchang, but his Divine Soul Dao Platform devoured the music and woke him.
• Ji Wuchang struck the black bear to break the flute's influence, and its roar, joined by the tiger's, made the flute player suffer a backlash.
• Ji Wuchang attacked the retreating masked man with the Night Phantom Soul Severing Technique, but the man blocked the strike with a white jade ring.

Ji Wuchang subdued the fierce tiger and claimed another gold token, while Hou Liangyun arranged to have him killed and spread a rumor that he possessed Myriad Phenomena Grass. More than a hundred cultivators gathered to confront Ji Wuchang, who prepared to fight them.

• Ji Wuchang shattered the masked man's white jade ring, wounded him, and used the Great Seal of Ten Thousand Ferocities to subdue the fierce tiger and find a second gold token.
• Jia Yi claimed a gold token, and a Six-Armed Demonic Ape went berserk and charged toward nearby cultivators.
• The masked man, Hou Liangyun, told Hou Mengman to arrange Ji Wuchang's death and instructed Hou Mengqian to spread a rumor that he had six or seven stalks of Myriad Phenomena Grass.
• Hou Liangyun's memories revealed that he pursued Ji Wuchang because Xiao Xueqing had named him as the man she liked, claiming he had established nine Dao Platforms.
• More than a hundred cultivators gathered before Ji Wuchang, and Dang Huihan, Qu Yang, and several others demanded Myriad Phenomena Grass.
• Ji Wuchang invited everyone who wanted a stalk to step forward as his fierce tiger and black bear appeared and killing intent filled the mountain forest.

Ji Wuchang revealed that he possessed two stalks of myriad phenomena grass, drawing over a hundred greedy cultivators into a planned confrontation. As two black-clad musicians began a soul-targeting flute attack, the crowd used prepared pills to shield themselves, and the battle was about to begin.

• Huang Qianqian recognized Ji Wuchang as Peak Master Zhou’s hidden nine-Dao-Platform disciple and decided to watch rather than help him.
• Fang Xiaoping, Huang Qianqian, Jia Yi, and others gathered nearby to observe Ji Wuchang.
• Zhang Xian demanded that Ji Wuchang hand over the myriad phenomena grass, acting on orders from the fifth prince, Li Xingyi.
• Ji Wuchang revealed two stalks of myriad phenomena grass, then put them away and challenged the surrounding crowd to attack.
• At Dang Huihan’s signal, two black-clad men played their flutes, and the gathered cultivators swallowed pills that shielded their souls from the sonic attacks.

Ji Wuchang massacred the attackers who charged him, first killing three with the World-Destroying Millstone Fist and then striking down more with an iron chain and black needles. The surviving attackers retreated, while Zhang Xian, Dang Huihan, and the other powerful observers still held back.

• Ji Wuchang used the World-Destroying Millstone Fist to kill three attackers, including two at the Dao Severing Realm third level.
• Ji Zhaojin, Ji Zhiyi, and Ji Boshang reacted with disbelief to Ji Wuchang's complete mastery of the Ji Family technique.
• Ji Wuchang survived a barrage of sword light and attacked the crowd with an iron chain and pitch-black needles.
• The chain killed a Dao Severing Realm fourth-level man, while the black needles killed more than a dozen weaker attackers.
• The remaining attackers retreated and searched for Ji Wuchang as the stronger fighters continued to hold back.

Ji Wuchang slaughtered many of the Dao Severing Realm cultivators who attacked him, then faced a coordinated assault from Zhang Xian, Qu Yang, and their allies. He evaded their attacks with Wind and Thunder Great Void Steps, but Dang Huihan used Star Movement to appear above him and strike.

• Ji Wuchang's opening attack and black flying needles shocked Huang Qianqian, Fang Xiaoping, Gan Yue, Luo Xi, and the others as the attackers suffered heavy losses.
• Jia Yi recognized the poison as supreme resentful demon blood, which the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall had once supplied to the Ancient Xuan Pavilion.
• Zhang Xian urged the others to attack Ji Wuchang, and Dang Huihan agreed, donning the Starlight Armor before joining Qu Yang and more than ten other cultivators.
• Zhang Xian attacked Ji Wuchang with a slaughter spear, while Qu Yang and the others launched their own killing moves.
• Ji Wuchang used Wind and Thunder Great Void Steps to retreat a thousand zhang, but Dang Huihan used Star Movement to appear above him and slam down his palm.

Ji Wuchang fought Dang Huihan and the others, then was trapped by a black-clad man’s technique and badly wounded by their combined attack. As another barrage descended on him in the crater, those watching waited to see whether he could survive.

• Ji Wuchang exchanged powerful blows with Dang Huihan, and both fighters were forced back.
• Zhang Xian and the others attacked Ji Wuchang, but he evaded them before Dang Huihan struck at him again.
• A black-clad man used the Demonic Dao Law-Disrupting Immobilization Art to hinder Ji Wuchang’s movement, forcing him to face the attackers head-on.
• Ji Wuchang unleashed his thunder-and-fire millstone, grinding away most of the incoming attacks before Dang Huihan’s palms and a red python struck him and hurled him into a crater.
• Qu Yang, Zhang Xian, Dang Huihan, and the others attacked the crater, while Jia Yi prepared to intervene if Ji Wuchang was in danger.

Ji Wuchang survived the combined assault, killed one of the flute players, and used a Position Swap Card to escape another coordinated attack. He copied the immobilization art and Dang Huihan’s movement technique as he prepared to target the remaining black-clad cultivator.

• The black bear and fierce tiger awakened and rampaged through the cultivators, killing several as the flute players tried to control them.
• Ji Wuchang emerged from the crater, bound and killed Hou Yingsong with the Immortal-Binding Rope and a sword strike, then quickly healed his wounds.
• Zhang Xian, Qu Yang, Dang Huihan, and the others attacked Ji Wuchang again while a black-clad cultivator used the Demonic Dao Law-Disrupting Immobilization Art to restrain him.
• Ji Wuchang crushed a Position Swap Card, exchanging places with the immobilizing cultivator and leaving the attacks aimed at himself to strike the old man instead.
• Ji Wuchang asked the system to copy the immobilization art and Dang Huihan’s movement technique, Star Movement, and the system completed both copies.

Ji Wuchang killed Zhang Xian after using a position-swapping technique to evade an attack, then turned on Dang Huihan’s group and began hunting them. He left the Plain Maiden Sect and Nine Stars Sect forces in chaos after killing five more people in rapid succession.

• Ji Wuchang appeared where the man in black had stood, then killed him and seized Zhang Xian’s Primordial Spirit.
• Ji Wuchang searched Zhang Xian’s soul, learned of Li Xingyi’s involvement, and destroyed Zhang Xian’s soul.
• Ji Wuchang ordered the black bear and fierce tiger to attack the flute-playing man in black, then declared he would hunt Dang Huihan’s group.
• Ji Wuchang killed three Nine Stars Sect disciples with a sword strike and a black chain that pierced their Primordial Spirits.
• Ji Wuchang killed two Plain Maiden Sect members with a millstone attack, bringing his successive kills to five.

Ji Wuchang fought Dang Huihan and the Nine Stars Sect attackers, killing several of them with powerful techniques. Dang Huihan survived their clash but was wounded and frightened as the remaining attackers fled.

• Dang Huihan and Qu Yang attacked Ji Wuchang, who trapped Dang Huihan in a lightning cage and killed Qu Yang with the White Snow Sword.
• Ji Wuchang bound and killed a Dao Severing Realm Fifth Level attacker before Dang Huihan broke free.
• Ji Wuchang used Grinding Yin and Yang against Dang Huihan, knocking him back and cracking his Starlight Armor.
• Ji Wuchang killed two more Dao Severing Realm Fifth Level men with his iron chain as the other attackers retreated.
• Ji Wuchang burned a Dao Severing Realm Sixth Level man with the Glacial Glazed Fire, then recalled the flame into his body.

Ji Wuchang fought off the attackers, but his poison flared up and left him close to death. Ji Zhiyi arrived and the two spent three days inside a cocoon of Yin and Yang energy, emerging with their cultivation greatly increased.

• The black bear and White Tiger killed the black-clad woman, while Dang Huihan escaped with four Nine Stars Sect members using a jade slip.
• Ji Wuchang killed Ma Jingzhe as the remaining attackers fled, but the poison inside him erupted into scorching flames.
• Ji Wuchang retreated beneath a distant waterfall, where Ji Zhiyi found him as he struggled to endure the poison.
• A barrier concealed Ji Wuchang and Ji Zhiyi as Yin and Yang energy formed a cocoon around them for three days.
• Ji Zhiyi emerged at the Dao Severing Realm Ninth Level, and Ji Wuchang reached the Dao Severing Realm First Level.

Ji Zhiyi rescued Ji Wuchang, gave him a jade slip revealing his ties to the powerful Ji Family, and returned to the clan to awaken her Qilin Bloodline. Ji Wuchang resolved to grow strong enough to return for her and studied how to cultivate in the Dao Severing Realm.

• Ji Zhiyi gave Ji Wuchang a jade slip containing the truth about his identity and said she would wait for him at the Ji Family.
• Ji Zhiyi told Ji Zhaojin she would return to the clan to fully awaken her Qilin Bloodline, then left through a passage with her.
• Ji Wuchang learned that he was the Ji Family patriarch's son and wondered why the clan had left his damaged meridians untreated in his previous life.
• Ji Wuchang saw that his aptitude had risen to heaven rank middle grade and vowed to kill Dang Huihan and the black-clad people who had targeted him.
• Ji Wuchang read Zhou Haotian's jade slip and learned that opening nine hidden acupoints in the Dao Severing Realm prepared the body for the Celestial Phenomenon Realm.

Jia Yi killed Dang Huihan after tracking him for two days, then hunted down the remaining Nine Stars Sect members near the final golden tokens. As she left, a man offered her cultivation resources in exchange for staying by his side.

• Gan Yue and Xie Zhen decided not to risk fighting for the three golden tokens guarded by five peak sixth-rank gray wolves.
• Jia Yi arrived carrying Dang Huihan's head, shocking the crowd and revealing that she had killed the Nine Stars Sect prodigy.
• Jia Yi called for the remaining Nine Stars Sect members to step forward, then killed four of them with the Great Void Phantom Technique and Ghost Sword Art.
• Jia Yi took the last victim's storage ring and walked away after eliminating the remaining Nine Stars Sect members.
• A man accompanied by more than a dozen people offered Jia Yi cultivation resources if she would stay by his side.

Hou Liangyun tried to recruit Jia Yi, but she refused, and his men trapped her until Ji Wuchang arrived. Ji Wuchang confronted Hou Liangyun over his earlier attacks, and Hou Liangyun ordered his clan to kill him.

• Hou Liangyun offered Jia Yi a place at his side and promised to help her reach the Celestial Phenomenon Realm fifth level or higher, but she refused.
• Hou Liangyun sent three Dao Severing Realm seventh level cultivators to block Jia Yi, while an eighth-level cultivator struck her as she tried to escape through the void.
• Ji Wuchang appeared and declared that he had come to settle the debt for Hou Liangyun's two attacks against him.
• Hou Liangyun ordered his clan to kill Ji Wuchang, and the three seventh-level cultivators charged at him.

After breaking through to the Dao Severing Realm, Ji Wuchang killed two Dao Severing Realm Seventh Level cultivators and faced a coordinated assault from the Hou Clan. He resisted their blood-disrupting technique and flute attack, copied the technique, and vanished as the enemies closed in.

• Ji Wuchang used Divine Soul Spikes and pitch-black chains to kill Hou Xiayun and Hou Yunbei, then collected their storage rings.
• Jia Yi withdrew while Hou Congliang tried to flee, and Hou Liangyun ordered everyone to attack Ji Wuchang.
• Hou Liangyun played his flute as a Dao Severing Realm Eighth Level cultivator used the Hou Clan's Demonic Dao Blood-Disrupting Three Bows Technique against Ji Wuchang.
• Ji Wuchang's Divine Soul Dao Platform blocked the flute, and purple Qi from a mysterious mark calmed his blood.
• Ji Wuchang copied the Demonic Dao Blood-Disrupting Three Bows Technique with the system and vanished as the Hou Clan members approached.

Ji Wuchang deceived the Hou Clan with a puppet clone, then ambushed and killed two of its members. As Hou Liangyun’s group panicked, Ji Wuchang poisoned Hou Mengqian and launched a killing strike against their remaining Dao Severing Realm eighth-level cultivator.

• The Hou Clan’s immobilization art froze Ji Wuchang’s puppet clone, and they believed their sword strike had killed him.
• Ji Wuchang attacked from hiding, killing Hou Tonghui and Hou Mengman before threatening Hou Liangyun.
• Ji Wuchang appeared and disappeared as he cut down another Hou Clan member, driving the survivors to gather around Hou Liangyun.
• A poisoned flying needle struck Hou Mengqian, and she died as Supreme Resentful Demon Blood rotted her body and Primordial Spirit.
• Ji Wuchang attacked the remaining Dao Severing Realm eighth-level cultivator with Divine Soul Spikes and the Night Phantom Soul Severing Technique.