Chapter Summaries

Ji Wuchang faced Xiao Zhe’s challenge after the Green Mountain Sect’s ancestor appointed him to lead the sect’s upcoming encounter with the Hidden Sword Gate. As Xiao Zhe confronted him, Xie Hanfeng revealed Ji Wuchang’s identity and his agreement to help him open a spirit sea, alarming Xie Qingshuang over the severe cost.

• Xiao Zhe, newly advanced to the fifth level of the Supreme Realm, demanded that Jiang Qiye appear and challenged his right to lead the Green Mountain Sect.
• Wen Xiuxue and Xu Zhiqiang greeted Xiao Zhe, and Ji Wuchang arrived to face him.
• Xiao Zhe insisted Ji Wuchang was unqualified because of his lower cultivation and threatened to humiliate him if he did not give up the leadership role.
• Xie Hanfeng told Xie Qingshuang that Jiang Qiye was Ji Wuchang of the Ji Family and had sought the Green Spirit Instruction.
• Xie Hanfeng revealed he had promised to help Ji Wuchang open his spirit sea, and Xie Qingshuang objected because it would cost him one-third of his Power of Origin and could cripple his cultivation.

Ji Wuchang challenged Xiao Zhe for the Green Mountain Sect team leader position and defeated him with a single saber strike. As Xiao Zhe tried to rejoin his split body, Ji Wuchang immobilized him and prepared to lash him with an iron chain.

• Xie Qingshuang warned Xie Hanfeng that revealing the Green Spirit Instruction’s secret would invite attacks from powerful sects, but Xie Hanfeng said he trusted Ji Wuchang to keep it hidden.
• Ji Wuchang accepted Xiao Zhe’s challenge to fight for the team leader position, while most of the Green Mountain Sect expected Xiao Zhe to win.
• Ji Wuchang used the Heart-Treading Steps and Divine Soul Spikes before striking Xiao Zhe with the Red Flame Saber, splitting him in half.
• Xiao Zhe roared in fury and tried to merge his two halves, but Ji Wuchang immobilized him with the Demonic Dao Law-Disrupting Immobilization Art.
• Ji Wuchang raised a black iron chain and lashed it toward the frozen Xiao Zhe.

Ji Wuchang overwhelmingly defeated Xiao Zhe with soul attacks, crushing blows, and wind-and-thunder techniques until Xie Hanfeng intervened. The Green Mountain Sect witnessed Ji Wuchang’s strength, while Xiao Zhe survived but was left badly injured and frightened.

• Ji Wuchang struck Xiao Zhe with the Thousand Illusions Soul-Shattering Eye, but Xiao Zhe recovered with the Green Mountain Sect’s Green Spirit Instruction and attacked again.
• Ji Wuchang deflected Xiao Zhe’s spear shadows, then used Divine Soul Spikes and Heaven-Treading Steps to crush Xiao Zhe’s head and repeatedly destroy his body.
• Ji Wuchang unleashed Endless Wind and Thunder, engulfing Xiao Zhe as the Green Mountain Sect members watched in shock.
• Xie Hanfeng gathered the wind and thunder into a lightning sphere and hurled it away, ending Ji Wuchang’s attack before Xiao Zhe was killed.
• Xu Zhiqiang and Wen Xiuxue praised Ji Wuchang’s strength and concluded that Yang Tiexin was no match for him.

Ji Wuchang defeated Xiao Zhe and established himself as the Green Mountain Sect’s team leader for the upcoming competition against the Hidden Sword Gate. The sect departed for White Rock Valley, while Ji Wuchang remained wary of Shen Tinglan’s hostile gaze and planned to leave the Green Sword Sect after the competition.

• Ji Wuchang defeated Xiao Zhe, and the Green Mountain Sect’s ancestor intervened before Ji Wuchang could kill him.
• Ji Wuchang warned the sect’s competitors not to challenge his leadership or interfere with his orders, and Xiao Zhe thanked him for showing mercy.
• Ji Wuchang learned that the ancestor had sealed part of his essence inside him, and he repaid the favor with a ninth-grade Origin-Replenishing Pill.
• The Green Mountain Sect gathered at its great plaza, where Ji Wuchang noticed Shen Tinglan’s indifference and murderous intent.
• The ancestor led the competitors and other sect members aboard a flying boat bound for White Rock Valley, where Ji Wuchang met Qin Canglang.

Ji Wuchang arrived with the Green Mountain Sect at White Rock Valley, where forces gathered for a deadly secret-realm competition. He learned that Yang Tiexin of the Yang Household was betrothed to Wen Xiuxue, who openly rejected him and warned she could expose the household’s deeds.

• The Green Mountain Sect’s flying boat reached White Rock Valley, where the sect’s ancestor greeted Xu Youfu of the Hundred Fists Gate and ordered the disciples to disembark.
• Ji Wuchang examined the competition’s two secret-realm entrances and assessed the strength of the forces gathered in the valley.
• Wen Xiuxue told Ji Wuchang that the powerful group led by the Yang Household’s ancestor included Yang Tiexin, a Supreme Realm fourth-level cultivator.
• Yang Tiexin approached Wen Xiuxue and called her by name, but she rejected their betrothal and accused him of trying to undermine her household.
• Wen Xiuxue threatened to expose the Yang Household’s actions, prompting Yang Tiexin to hide his anger and return to his group.

Green Mountain Sect arrived at White Rock Valley, where Xiao Zhe announced that Ji Wuchang would lead their tournament team, drawing doubts because Ji Wuchang was only at the Celestial Phenomenon Realm Seventh Level. The Hidden Sword Gate ancestor arrived with powerful fighters and challenged Green Mountain Sect to a preliminary duel, and Xiao Zhe volunteered to fight.

• Green Mountain Sect disciples gathered around Xiao Zhe and congratulated him on reaching the Supreme Realm Fifth Level.
• Xiao Zhe named Jiang Qiye, also called Ji Wuchang, as the Green Mountain Sect's leader and told everyone to follow him.
• The gathered factions questioned Ji Wuchang's authority because he was at the Celestial Phenomenon Realm Seventh Level.
• The Hidden Sword Gate ancestor arrived with five powerful figures and boasted that his sect had two Supreme Realm Fifth Level leaders.
• The Hidden Sword Gate ancestor challenged Green Mountain Sect to send a Supreme Realm Fifth Level fighter, and Xiao Zhe stepped forward to accept.

Xiao Zhe challenged Hong Daqi to gauge the Hidden Sword Gate expert’s strength, while Ji Wuchang copied and began completing the Hidden Sword Array Instruction. Their opening clash left Xiao Zhe unable to break through Hong Daqi’s defenses, and the onlookers feared he might lose the exchange.

• Xiao Zhe volunteered to fight Hong Daqi, and the Green Mountain Sect's ancestor told him to use his full strength.
• Wen Xiuxue explained the Hidden Sword Array Instruction and its connection to the Green Spirit Instruction, and Ji Wuchang copied the technique before ordering the system to complete it.
• Hong Daqi formed the Hidden Sword Array as Xiao Zhe activated the Green Spirit Instruction and attacked with plants and a giant spear.
• Xiao Zhe used the Green Mountain Seal, but Hong Daqi’s array halted its descent and sent sword lights at him.
• Xiao Zhe smashed the incoming sword lights but was blasted back, while the Green Mountain Seal returned to his hand.
• The observers in White Rock Valley judged that Xiao Zhe could not harm Hong Daqi and might soon fall behind.

Xiao Zhe unleashed his full strength against Hong Daqi, who used sword arrays to study and repel his attacks. After Xiao Zhe broke through the arrays with a spatially piercing spear technique, the Green Mountain Sect's ancestor stopped the fight, and the Hidden Sword Gate's ancestor left with a threat of a prepared surprise.

• Xiao Zhe unleashed his Spear Intent and attacked Hong Daqi with countless spear shadows, the Green Mountain Seal, and vines, while Hong Daqi blocked him with paired sword arrays.
• Qin Canglang warned the Green Mountain Sect's ancestor that the Hidden Sword Gate was probing Xiao Zhe's methods, but the ancestor said he had already noticed and let them continue.
• Ji Wuchang's system perfected the Hidden Sword Array Instruction, and Ji Wuchang used cultivation to raise it to full mastery before focusing on its insights.
• Xiao Zhe used Embrace Spear Kill to pierce Hong Daqi's array, blast one of his arms apart, and send him flying beyond the array's range.
• The Green Mountain Sect's ancestor recalled Xiao Zhe, then argued with the Hidden Sword Gate's ancestor, who threatened that the sect had prepared a grand gift before departing.

Ji Wuchang comprehended the Hidden Sword Array Instruction, broke through to the Celestial Phenomenon Realm eighth level, and received a mission to lead the Green Mountain Sect against the Hidden Sword Gate and Myriad Souls Hall. As the secret realm's gate of light opened, he revealed himself as the Green Mountain Sect team's leader and ordered its disciples to gather behind him.

• Ji Wuchang comprehended the Hidden Sword Array Instruction as sword intent spread around him, and he broke through to the Celestial Phenomenon Realm eighth level.
• The system gave Ji Wuchang a mission to lead the Green Mountain Sect to defeat the Hidden Sword Gate and Myriad Souls Hall, with his root bone at stake if he failed.
• The Green Mountain Sect ancestor suspected that rival forces had bought off people who were distancing themselves from the sect.
• The formation at White Rock Valley drew in spiritual power and formed a stable gate of light into the secret realm.
• Ji Wuchang ordered the Green Mountain Sect disciples to gather behind him, revealing to the other groups that he—not Xiao Zhe—was their leader.

Ji Wuchang entered the secret realm and fought off its dangerous beasts and plants as he made his way toward a distant building in the desert. He encountered two Hidden Sword Gate cultivators, and the three were confronted by a newly advanced tier-eight beast rising from the sand.

• Xie Hanfeng told Xu Youfu that Ji Wuchang was stronger than he appeared and warned that the Yang Household matter involved Elder Shen of the Green Mountain Sect.
• Ji Wuchang entered the secret realm, found himself alone beneath a blood-red moon, and used his leader token to signal the Green Mountain Sect disciples.
• Ji Wuchang killed a giant python and cut down attacking vines with the Hidden Sword Array Instruction as he crossed the forest.
• Ji Wuchang reached a desert and headed toward a distant building, while a man and woman from the Hidden Sword Gate followed him.
• Ji Wuchang and the two cultivators sensed danger beneath the sand, and a newly advanced tier-eight beast burst out, forcing the pair to retreat.

Ji Wuchang rode the Dark Night Beast through the desert after it killed an eighth-tier beast and devoured its demon core. When a vast pack of beasts surrounded him and a group of cultivators, Ji Wuchang recognized Green Mountain Sect disciple Wang Jie and charged toward the beasts to save him.

• Ji Wuchang ordered the Dark Night Beast to attack a ferocious beast, and the Dark Night Beast killed it and swallowed its demon core.
• Ji Wuchang rode the strengthened Dark Night Beast deeper into the desert and noticed that the distant building seemed to be moving farther away.
• Ji Wuchang spotted seven cultivators fleeing a pack of more than a thousand beasts, and they followed him as the Dark Night Beast raced away.
• Beasts appeared ahead as well, trapping the group, and Wang Jie of the Ninth Peak called Ji Wuchang for help and showed his Green Mountain Sect token.
• Ji Wuchang told Wang Jie to climb onto the Dark Night Beast, then charged the beasts with a pitch-black iron chain and sword light.

Ji Wuchang unleashed his sword arrays and Dharma Aspect against a vast horde of ferocious beasts, slaughtering them alongside the Dark Night Beast. The battle ended with the beasts around them dead and the desert strewn with corpses.

• Ji Wuchang used his Hidden Sword Array Instruction to attack the horde while his nine sword arrays shielded him from the eighth-tier beasts.
• Ji Wuchang summoned an 888-zhang Dharma Aspect and struck the beasts with a massive sword, killing at least a thousand and carving a vast ravine through the desert.
• Wang Jie and a group fleeing the horde witnessed Ji Wuchang's devastating slash and were stunned by his strength.
• Ji Wuchang gathered demon cores and fed them to the Dark Night Beast, whose aura surged before it charged into the horde.
• Ji Wuchang and the Dark Night Beast continued killing the beasts until the survivors fled or burrowed into the desert, leaving no living beasts nearby.

Ji Wuchang and Wang Jie encountered Yang Jiyang’s group, who revealed that Shen Tinglan and two Green Mountain Sect elders had betrayed the sect and joined the Myriad Souls Hall. Ji Wuchang attacked the group after hearing the news, and the chapter ended as his palm clashed with Yang Jiyang’s.

• Ji Wuchang and Wang Jie continued through the desert and were stopped by Yang Jiyang and seven other cultivators.
• Yang Jiyang revealed that his group had joined the Myriad Souls Hall and that the Hall planned to attack Green Mountain Sect disciples inside the secret realm.
• Yang Jiyang said Shen Tinglan had allied with the Myriad Souls Hall and that the sect’s second and fourth elders had leaked information, including the Green Spirit Instruction.
• Ji Wuchang asked who else had joined the Myriad Souls Hall, then attacked the four Celestial Phenomenon Realm cultivators with his iron chain.
• Ji Wuchang struck Yang Jiyang with his palm as the four cultivators’ heads exploded.

Ji Wuchang killed Yang Jiyang and the remaining Dao Severing Realm cultivators, then learned that the Myriad Souls Hall had sent powerful killers into the secret realm. After meeting three wounded disciples, he set out to rescue their master, Hu Yueling, who was trapped by black-clad enemies.

• Ji Wuchang revealed that he was Jiang Qiye, killed Yang Jiyang, searched his soul, and crushed the four Primordial Spirits on his iron chain.
• Wang Jie killed the last Dao Severing Realm cultivator, and Ji Wuchang collected the enemies' storage rings before they continued onward.
• Ji Wuchang encountered the wounded Li Tiantian, Wang Hua, and Lan Jianming from the Third Peak.
• Lan Jianming explained that Hu Yueling had been trapped in a valley after using a formation disk to hold off the black-clad men.
• Ji Wuchang ordered the three disciples to lead him to Hu Yueling, and they set out toward the valley.

Lan Jianming explained how the Third Peak’s group was hunted, and Wang Jie revealed that the Second and Fourth Peaks had betrayed the Green Mountain Sect. Ji Wuchang rushed ahead to rescue the others, while Hu Yueling confronted Fourth Elder Yan Yujie, who offered to spare her if she became a thousand-year slave.

• Lan Jianming told Ji Wuchang that his group had been chased by people in black and suspected a traitor had revealed their whereabouts.
• Wang Jie told Lan Jianming, Li Tiantian, and Wang Hua that the Second Peak and Fourth Peak had betrayed the Green Mountain Sect, and they blamed Yan Le for leaking their location.
• Ji Wuchang set aside the accusations and hurried ahead to rescue the scattered survivors, leaving the others to follow.
• In a valley, Hu Yueling sheltered more than a dozen survivors behind a barrier while five people in black surrounded them.
• Fourth Elder Yan Yujie revealed her identity to Hu Yueling and offered to spare her if she served as Yan Yujie's slave for a thousand years.
• Hu Yueling challenged Yan Yujie to explain why she had betrayed the Green Mountain Sect.

Hu Yueling fought Yan Yujie and four Hidden Sword Gate enforcers after Yan Yujie revealed she was a spy, but her barrier fell and her Mountain Embracing Seal could not defeat them. Ji Wuchang killed Yan Yujie with a saber and poisoned her as she tried to recover, leaving her pleading for her life and warning him about the Hidden Sword Gate.

• Yan Yujie revealed that she was a Hidden Sword Gate spy and tried to persuade Hu Yueling to become her slave, but Hu Yueling refused.
• Yan Yujie ordered four black-clad fighters to break Hu Yueling's barrier, and they shattered it as the people inside fled.
• Hu Yueling used the Mountain Embracing Seal against Yan Yujie and the four fighters, but their combined attack cracked the seal and wounded her.
• Hu Yueling prepared to attack Yan Yujie, but Ji Wuchang suddenly cut Yan Yujie in two with the Red Flame Saber.
• Ji Wuchang struck Yan Yujie's body with two flying needles, causing it to rot as she tried to reunite her halves, and she warned him that the Hidden Sword Gate would retaliate.

Ji Wuchang and Hu Yueling fought four men in black, killing them while Ji Wuchang learned that the Myriad Souls Hall had sent a powerful leader into the secret realm. The battle ended with the leader still looming as a threat and Ji Wuchang wary of revealing his hidden treasures.

• Yan Yujie recognized Ji Wuchang’s strength, but he killed her with a saber strike before she could react.
• Hu Yueling greeted Ji Wuchang, who told her to hold off the Supreme Realm fourth level enemy while he attacked the other three men in black.
• Ji Wuchang killed the three Supreme Realm third level men in black and captured their Primordial Spirits.
• Ji Wuchang searched one Primordial Spirit and learned that the Myriad Souls Hall’s leader had entered the secret realm after suppressing his Supreme Realm sixth level cultivation, which he was now restoring.
• Ji Wuchang struck Hu Yueling’s opponent with the World-Destroying King Yu’s Heavenly Eye, allowing Hu Yueling to decapitate him, and Ji Wuchang captured his Primordial Spirit with an iron chain.

Ji Wuchang rescued Hu Yueling, warned the Green Mountain Sect disciples about their enemies, and mastered the Mountain Embracing Seal while considering how to face a Supreme Realm Sixth Level opponent. Hu Yueling then warned him that his team leader’s token could expose his location to those who had betrayed the sect.

• Ji Wuchang killed the three black-clad cultivators, seized one of their Primordial Spirits, and reunited with Hu Yueling and her disciples.
• Ji Wuchang told Hu Yueling to warn Green Mountain Sect disciples about the Second and Fourth Peaks, the Yang Household, and the Hidden Sword Gate’s five Supreme Realm Fifth Level experts.
• Ji Wuchang checked in and used the reward to cultivate the Mountain Embracing Seal to complete mastery.
• After Hu Yueling passed on his warnings, she pointed out that the team leader’s token could be sensed by Green Mountain Sect members and had become a liability amid the betrayals.

Ji Wuchang warned Hu Yueling about the tracking token, then entered a hidden space behind a barrier where a wooden house and lake attacked him. The chapter ended when two Supreme Realm Second Layer cultivators arrived through a void passage.

• Ji Wuchang gave Hu Yueling a Jade Slip and left her in charge of gathering the Green Mountain Sect disciples, refusing to hand over his tracking token.
• Ji Wuchang slaughtered a group from the Hidden Sword Gate, collected their Primordial Spirits and storage rings, and passed through a nearby barrier.
• Ji Wuchang entered a beautiful hidden world and found a wooden house beside a lake.
• Runes on the house and sword light formed from the lake water attacked Ji Wuchang, who evaded them with spatial power.
• A male and female cultivator emerged from a void passage, and the man declared that their map had led them to a secret realm.

Xiao Yunzong and Leng Qingdai fought the lake’s formation but could not reach the passage beneath it. Liu Jinfeng arrived with his two juniors and agreed to help only if Xiao Yunzong and Leng Qingdai joined him, threatening to reveal the entrance if they refused.

• Xiao Yunzong and Leng Qingdai investigated signs of a visitor, then battled water swords unleashed by the lake’s formation.
• The formation’s giant water sword shattered into ice blades, damaging their Dharma Aspects and sending them flying.
• Xiao Yunzong told Leng Qingdai that the barrier beneath the lake was intact, but the two of them could not withstand the formation’s attacks alone.
• Liu Jinfeng arrived with Liu Chongmo and Liu Chongnan, and Xiao Yunzong explained that the secret realm’s entrance lay beneath the lake.
• Liu Jinfeng demanded that Xiao Yunzong and Leng Qingdai help him break through the formation with his juniors, threatening to expose the entrance if they refused.