Chapter Summaries

Ji Wuchang reached a Green Mountain Sect gathering point and joined the recruits traveling to the sect, hoping to learn the Green Spirit Instruction and gain a second spiritual sea. After arriving with more than a hundred thousand candidates, he watched eleven powerful figures appear to address them.

• Ji Wuchang recognized that he was in Green Sword Prefecture and rested overnight while recovering from his injuries.
• At daybreak, a Green Mountain Sect flying boat arrived and carried Ji Wuchang and the other recruits away.
• The flying boat collected more groups over two days and brought tens of thousands of people to the Green Mountain Sect.
• Ji Wuchang arrived at the sect with more than a hundred thousand young candidates and waited with the crowd for nearly two hours.
• Eleven figures appeared above the square, including ten Supreme Realm experts and a Half-Step Supreme Realm woman, while Ji Wuchang noted that their leader had Supreme Realm Sixth Level cultivation.

Ji Wuchang entered the Azure Cloud Sect’s spirit-root trial and began climbing the Heaven-Ascending Ladder, choosing to aim for an inner-disciple ranking. As the crowd spread out under the ladder’s pressure, he reached around six hundredth place and spotted a girl far ahead whose spirit root appeared to be heaven rank supreme grade.

• An elder used a mirror to select everyone with spirit roots, transporting them inside while the rest were eliminated and sent back to Green Fortune City.
• The voice in the spirit mirror explained that the contestants would climb the heavenly stairway, with only the top fifteen hundred earning places in the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Ji Wuchang reflected on the Longevity Sect and decided to aim for ninety-ninth place so he could become an inner disciple without attracting too much attention.
• As Ji Wuchang climbed, he realized the ladder’s Qi tested root bones by burdening weaker contestants while allowing stronger ones to absorb more of it.
• A cheerful boy tried to greet Ji Wuchang, while a girl accompanying him chided him for approaching strangers.
• Ji Wuchang passed several hundred contestants and used his Thousand Illusion Spirit Pupil to identify the leading girl as possessing a top-tier wood-attribute spirit root, possibly heaven rank supreme grade.

Ji Wuchang climbed the heavenly stairs with little effort, concealed his strength, and secured ninety-ninth place while helping Lu Chenjian make the inner sect cutoff. The trial ended with the hundred surviving candidates transported to a new plaza, where the elders awaited them.

• Ji Wuchang passed exhausted competitors and carefully drew mist onto himself to appear as though the climb was taxing him.
• During the final hundred breaths, Ji Wuchang kept outclimbing a burly youth while Lu Chenjian and Jiang Duanyue caught up.
• Ji Wuchang told the burly youth he ranked hundredth and revealed that he himself was ninety-ninth, with Lu Chenjian and Jiang Duanyue in ninety-seventh and ninety-eighth.
• Lu Chenjian and Jiang Duanyue introduced themselves, and Ji Wuchang gave them the name Jiang Qiye.
• The trial ended, and the candidates were transported to another plaza, where the eleven figures from earlier watched the top ten contestants.

Ji Wuchang and the other new inner disciples chose which elders to follow, and he selected Shen Tinglan despite her absence. Wen Xiuxue took him and three others to the quiet Tenth Peak, where he learned that Shen Tinglan rarely accepted disciples, deepening his interest in her.

• Xie Qingshuang appeared at the inner sect square, accepted Han Yiyi as her disciple, and gave her a Supreme-Grade Spirit Weapon.
• After the other elders selected disciples, Ji Wuchang chose Shen Tinglan, while Jiang Duanyue and Lu Chenjian made their own choices.
• Wen Xiuxue took Ji Wuchang, Zhao Hanjiang, Lin Jingyue, and Chen Xirou to the Tenth Peak.
• Wen Xiuxue explained that Shen Tinglan had only three disciples before and that the ancestor had forced her to accept more.
• Ji Wuchang grew more interested in Shen Tinglan after seeing how quiet her peak was and hearing about her reluctance to take disciples.

Ji Wuchang settled into the Green Mountain Sect with Lu Chenjian and explored the area around their lodgings. While helping an old gardener named Xie water medicinal plants, he learned that Xie had a younger relative and was asked whether he would consider becoming their dao companion.

• Wen Xiuxue gave Ji Wuchang, Lu Chenjian, and the other new disciples Grain Avoidance Pills and said she would show them around and teach them a cultivation method the next day.
• Ji Wuchang noticed Lu Chenjian cultivating diligently, then explored the sect while concealing his weakened cultivation.
• Ji Wuchang found an old man watering medicinal plants and helped him finish the work with water stored in a bucket that contained a space of its own.
• The old man said his surname was Xie and that he had come to the Green Mountain Sect as a teenager, though he had forgotten how many years ago.
• Elder Xie asked Ji Wuchang whether he would consider his younger relative as a dao companion and praised the sect’s dual cultivation methods.

Ji Wuchang questioned Elder Xie about the Tenth Peak and the Green Mountain Sect, then earned sign-in rewards and began settling into his new life. Wen Xiuxue took him and the other new disciples to collect their sect tokens and assigned them their first duties, while waiting disciples watched them with mockery.

• Ji Wuchang asked Elder Xie about the Tenth Peak and Shen, but Elder Xie gave him little information and persuaded him to help in the herb garden.
• Ji Wuchang watered the herb garden, then signed in at the Tenth Peak that night and received twenty years of cultivation and twenty Fortune Points; the next morning, he gained another ten years of cultivation.
• Wen Xiuxue took Ji Wuchang, Lu Chenjian, Lin Jingyue, and Chen Xirou by sword to collect their sect tokens and see important locations.
• Wen Xiuxue assigned Ji Wuchang to help Elder Xie tend herbs, Lin Jingyue and Chen Xirou to sort medicinal herbs, and Lu Chenjian to complete a task at the Eighth Peak.
• Wen Xiuxue brought the group to an unidentified building, where the gathered disciples looked at them with cold sneers and mocking smiles.

Wen Xiuxue brought Ji Wuchang and the other three new disciples to register at the building, where she revealed a brutal side by beating two Supreme Realm First Level men who mocked the Tenth Peak. The group entered and met two Supreme Realm Fifth Level elders, who welcomed the Tenth Peak’s new recruits and began engraving their tokens.

• Two Supreme Realm First Level men mocked Wen Xiuxue and the Tenth Peak, prompting laughter and resentment from the crowd.
• Wen Xiuxue swiftly beat both men, then told Ji Wuchang, Lu Chenjian, Lin Jingyue, and Chen Xirou to answer insults with force and trust the Tenth Peak to protect them.
• The two injured men healed and backed down when Wen Xiuxue warned them with a glance.
• Wen Xiuxue led Ji Wuchang and the other three through the cleared path into the building.
• Two Supreme Realm Fifth Level elders greeted Wen Xiuxue, welcomed the new recruits, and began engraving their names on four tokens.

Wen Xiuxue showed Ji Wuchang and the others around the sect before Ji Wuchang cooked a meal that brought Elder Xie and the others to the Tenth Peak. After everyone ate, Elder Xie took Ji Wuchang to the herb fields.

• Wen Xiuxue led the four newcomers around the Mission Hall, Library Pavilion, and Cultivation Tower, explaining how they could use the facilities and earn points.
• News spread among the new disciples that Wen Xiuxue had knocked down two Supreme Realm experts, while Jiang Duanyue regretted choosing the crowded Fourth Peak.
• Ji Wuchang caught two White Feather Chickens and prepared soup, roast chicken, chicken blood, and giblets with Lu Chenjian's help.
• Elder Xie, Wen Xiuxue, Lin Jingyue, and Chen Xirou followed the cooking's fragrance to the courtyard and joined the meal.
• After the others praised Ji Wuchang's cooking and Wen Xiuxue's group departed, Elder Xie took Ji Wuchang to the herb fields.

As Illusory Sea City recovered from its devastating war with the sea demons, Ji Wuchang remained hidden at Green Mountain Sect’s Tenth Peak, weighing whether to stay in pursuit of the Green Spirit Instruction. Wen Xiuxue then asked him to go to Green Fortune City to check on her shipment.

• Ji Jiang and two other Supreme Realm Ninth Level experts battled the Nine Nether Lineage in the north, while Illusory Sea City’s forces destroyed more than a dozen sea-demon islands and killed millions of demons.
• The war reshaped Illusory Sea City, and several people, including Chen Shaobo and Xiao Xueguang, searched for Ji Wuchang before leaving without finding him.
• Ji Wuchang recovered at Green Mountain Sect’s Tenth Peak and decided to stay for another month before considering whether to leave.
• Lu Chenjian, Lin Jingyue, and Chen Xirou advanced in cultivation after eating demon beasts, while Wen Xiuxue made the two women focus on strengthening their foundations.
• Wen Xiuxue asked Ji Wuchang to visit the White Jade Trading Company in Green Fortune City and ask the shopkeeper to hold her shipment until she could collect it.

Ji Wuchang accepted Wen Xiuxue’s errand to Green Fortune City, then left the Green Mountain Sect to find a place to break through. Elder Xie and Wen Xiuxue secretly followed him and watched him overpower a black bear before he settled outside its cave with Spirit Stones.

• Ji Wuchang agreed to visit the White Jade Trading Company and left the Green Mountain Sect.
• Elder Xie told Wen Xiuxue that Ji Wuchang was likely far stronger than he appeared and suspected he had come for the Green Spirit Instruction.
• After traveling away from the sect, Ji Wuchang used his movement techniques to cover a great distance and found a cave guarded by an eighth-rank black bear.
• Ji Wuchang defeated the black bear with a barrage of punches, then entered its cave and brought its two cubs outside.
• Ji Wuchang sat at the cave entrance and produced countless Spirit Stones as Elder Xie and Wen Xiuxue watched from the clouds.

Ji Wuchang broke through to the Celestial Phenomenon Realm Seventh Level and traveled to Green Fortune City to deliver Wen Xiuxue’s message to the White Jade Trading Company. He left carrying a box of six powerful small swords after the shopkeeper revealed them before the gathered crowd.

• Ji Wuchang broke through to the Celestial Phenomenon Realm Seventh Level, left Spirit Stones in the black bear’s cave, and departed for Celebration Cloud City.
• Wen Xiuxue marveled at Ji Wuchang’s strength, while Xie Hanfeng considered how to keep him in Green Mountain Sect and investigate his background.
• Ji Wuchang reached Green Fortune City and delivered Wen Xiuxue’s Jade Slip to the White Jade Trading Company’s shopkeeper.
• The shopkeeper opened a box containing six supreme-grade spirit weapons and announced that the swords belonged to Green Mountain Sect’s eldest senior sister.
• Ji Wuchang accepted the box and left the trading company.

Ji Wuchang flaunted his wealth and used his apparent weakness to draw greedy pursuers while keeping them from attacking in Green Fortune City. Feng Yanzhong offered to escort him away, planning to use a Teleportation Talisman to steal his belongings.

• Ji Wuchang left the White Jade Trading Company as people began following him, then greeted Green Mountain Sect cultivators to deter attacks inside the city.
• Elder Xie explained to Wen Xiuxue that Ji Wuchang was attracting more pursuers so he could deal with them outside Green Fortune City.
• Ji Wuchang bought three Supreme-Grade Spirit Weapons at another trading company, prompting more cultivators to follow him.
• Feng Yanzhong approached Ji Wuchang and pretended to warn him about flaunting his wealth while probing how many Spirit Stones he still had.
• Ji Wuchang claimed his Eldest Senior Sister would protect him, making the greedy onlookers even more eager to strike.
• Feng Yanzhong offered to escort Ji Wuchang back to the sect and planned to use a Teleportation Talisman to take him away from the other pursuers.

Ji Wuchang lured Feng Yanzhong away from Green Fortune City and killed him when Feng tried to murder him for his supposed treasure. He then waited for the pursuing cultivators and began slaughtering the Supreme Realm experts, while more enemies were still approaching.

• Ji Wuchang pretended to be a gullible Tenth Peak disciple carrying valuable spirit weapons and spirit stones, and Feng Yanzhong eagerly led him away from the city.
• Feng Yanzhong used a talisman to take Ji Wuchang two thousand li away, then tried to kill him and seize his possessions.
• Ji Wuchang revealed his Celestial Phenomenon Realm Seventh Level cultivation, crushed Feng Yanzhong’s neck, destroyed his body, and took his storage ring.
• Six Supreme Realm cultivators arrived, mocked Ji Wuchang, and demanded his storage ring; Ji Wuchang killed one with Blood Wave and attacked the others with Divine Soul Spikes and an iron chain.
• Ji Wuchang summoned a Three-Legged Golden Crow to consume the body split by Blood Wave as he continued fighting the remaining cultivators.

Ji Wuchang slaughtered the Supreme Realm and Celestial Phenomenon Realm cultivators sent to test him, then confronted Elder Xie and admitted he had come seeking the Green Spirit Instruction. Xie Hanfeng revealed his identity as the Green Mountain Sect’s ancestor and threatened Ji Wuchang after learning his purpose.

• Ji Wuchang killed the six Supreme Realm cultivators and collected their storage rings.
• He met the nearly thirty Celestial Phenomenon Realm cultivators and killed them all before flying toward the Green Mountain Sect.
• Wen Xiuxue and Elder Xie watched Ji Wuchang’s fight, and Elder Xie was impressed by his strength and ruthlessness.
• Ji Wuchang stopped on a hilltop and called for Elder Xie and Wen Xiuxue to reveal themselves.
• Elder Xie identified himself as Xie Hanfeng, the Green Mountain Sect’s ancestor, and asked why Ji Wuchang had infiltrated the sect.
• Ji Wuchang said he had come for the Green Spirit Instruction, and Xie Hanfeng unleashed his presence and threatened him.

Ji Wuchang revealed his identity to Xie Hanfeng and learned that the Green Spirit Instruction needed a special, undisclosed item to help open a spiritual sea. Xie Hanfeng offered him the instruction and help in exchange for three conditions; Ji Wuchang accepted the first and heard the second, leaving the third unstated.

• Ji Wuchang resisted Xie Hanfeng’s pressure and told him to state his conditions.
• At Xie Hanfeng’s request, Ji Wuchang removed his human-skin mask, revealed his identity, and showed a token that proved his connection to the Ji Family.
• Xie Hanfeng explained that the Green Spirit Instruction alone could not open a spiritual sea and required a special thing used in conjunction with it.
• Xie Hanfeng offered to give Ji Wuchang the Green Spirit Instruction and help him open a spiritual sea if he met three conditions.
• Ji Wuchang agreed to join the Green Mountain Sect secretly as Xie Hanfeng’s disciple.
• Xie Hanfeng required Ji Wuchang to fight for the Green Mountain Sect in its competition with the Hidden Sword Gate and other Green Sword Prefecture sects one month later.

Ji Wuchang agreed to help the Green Mountain Sect in a future crisis and was formally taken as Xie Hanfeng’s disciple. Xie Hanfeng gave him the Green Spirit Instruction and explained that mastering it was the first step toward opening a spirit sea.

• Ji Wuchang agreed to leave a contact Jade Slip with Xie Hanfeng and promised to aid the Green Mountain Sect if it faced a life-or-death crisis, then asked how to open a spirit sea.
• Xie Hanfeng brought Ji Wuchang and Wen Xiuxue back to the Tenth Peak and told Ji Wuchang to keep using the name Jiang Qiye and conceal his Ji Family identity.
• Xie Hanfeng summoned Xie Qingshuang and the elders, declared Jiang Qiye his personal disciple, and appointed him to lead the Green Mountain Sect team at the competition in one month.
• Xie Hanfeng gave Ji Wuchang the Green Spirit Instruction and explained that cultivating it to great perfection was the first step to opening a spirit sea.
• Ji Wuchang returned to his courtyard with the scroll, and Lu Chenjian, Lin Jingyue, and Chen Xirou soon came back.

Ji Wuchang learned how the Green Sword Prefecture competition began and why the Green Mountain Sect faced the Hidden Sword Gate and the Myriad Souls Hall. As Wen Xiuxue went to warn the patriarch about possible objections to Ji Wuchang leading the team, he began cultivating the Green Spirit Instruction and quickly reached its fourth level.

• Ji Wuchang asked Wen Xiuxue to explain the Green Sword Prefecture competition while Lu Chenjian, Lin Jingyue, and Chen Xirou trained with heavy iron rings.
• Wen Xiuxue explained that the Green Mountain Sect and Hidden Sword Gate were founded by former martial brothers who became enemies, and that their rivalry grew into a contest involving the prefecture's factions.
• Wen Xiuxue told Ji Wuchang that the Hidden Sword Gate had gained help from the Myriad Souls Hall and defeated the Green Mountain Sect several times, causing heavy losses for its allies.
• Ji Wuchang warned Wen Xiuxue that he might kill anyone who challenged his appointment as team leader, so she went to alert the patriarch.
• Ji Wuchang studied the Green Spirit Instruction, mastered its first level, and advanced to the fourth level after half a day, greatly strengthening his Qi and Blood.

Ji Wuchang met Tenth Peak senior disciples Xu Zhiqiang and Yang Lianying, then revealed his superior strength after Yang Lianying tried to strike him. He left Yang Lianying badly beaten and warned that he would have killed her if she did not belong to the Tenth Peak.

• Ji Wuchang saw Xu Zhiqiang and Yang Lianying arrive at the Tenth Peak and recognized them as the disciples who had been away tempering themselves.
• Xu Zhiqiang introduced himself and Yang Lianying to Lu Chenjian, Lin Jingyue, and Chen Xirou, then gave each of them a low-grade spirit weapon.
• Ji Wuchang ordered Xu Zhiqiang and Yang Lianying to pay their respects to their martial uncle, prompting Yang Lianying to accuse him of impersonation and try to slap him.
• Xu Zhiqiang stopped Yang Lianying's first attack, but she struck him back when he tried to block her second attempt.
• Ji Wuchang vanished as Yang Lianying swung at him, then struck her repeatedly, knocking out most of her teeth and warning her against bullying the weak.

Ji Wuchang nearly killed Yang Lianying after she attacked him, but Xie Hanfeng intervened before her Primordial Spirit was destroyed. After Xu Zhiqiang explained what had happened, Shen Tinglan asked Xie Hanfeng to spare Yang Lianying and ended their master-disciple relationship.

• Yang Lianying summoned her Dharma Aspect and Supreme Weapon, then attacked Ji Wuchang with a barrage of sword light.
• Ji Wuchang used Heaven-Treading Steps and Demonic Dao Law-Disrupting Immobilization Art to crush Yang Lianying’s body and Dharma Aspect, but Xie Hanfeng saved half of her Primordial Spirit.
• Shen Tinglan and Xie Hanfeng arrived, and Xie Hanfeng summoned Ji Wuchang while demanding that Xu Zhiqiang explain the incident.
• Xu Zhiqiang recounted what had happened, and Xie Hanfeng blamed Shen Tinglan for keeping Yang Lianying as her disciple.
• Shen Tinglan asked Xie Hanfeng to spare Yang Lianying and declared that she would no longer consider her a disciple.

Wen Xiuxue emerged from seclusion as a Supreme Realm expert and asked Ji Wuchang to kill Yang Tiexin, her unwanted betrothed. Ji Wuchang agreed, while growing wary of the tensions within Green Mountain Sect.

• After Yang Lianying was defeated, Xu Zhiqiang accepted her remaining Primordial Spirit and acknowledged Ji Wuchang as his youngest martial uncle.
• Wen Xiuxue emerged from half a month of seclusion, endured a Lightning Tribulation, and broke through to the Supreme Realm First Level.
• Wen Xiuxue warned Ji Wuchang that Yang Tiexin, a Supreme Realm Fourth Level poison user, would likely lead the Yang Household's delegation at the grand competition.
• Wen Xiuxue revealed that her family had arranged her betrothal to Yang Tiexin and asked Ji Wuchang to eliminate him; Ji Wuchang agreed.
• After Wen Xiuxue left, Ji Wuchang suspected Shen Tinglan had known about her betrothal and reflected that Green Mountain Sect was not as harmonious as it seemed.