Chapter Summaries

Ji Wuchang entered the hidden passage after striking Xiao Yunzong and arrived at an ancient battlefield. Behind him, Liu Jinfeng and Xiao Yunzong clashed over the passage, while Leng Qingdai refused to help Xiao Yunzong.

• Xiao Yunzong, Leng Qingdai, and Liu Jinfeng attacked the lake formation, and their strikes caused the nearby house to reveal a passage when it flooded.
• Xiao Yunzong tried to enter the passage, but Ji Wuchang struck him aside and went through it before it vanished.
• Liu Jinfeng attacked Xiao Yunzong, while Leng Qingdai left him to face the fight alone.
• Xiao Yunzong threatened to self-detonate and kill Liu Chongmo and Liu Chongnan, forcing Liu Jinfeng to halt his attack.
• Ji Wuchang arrived at an ancient battlefield strewn with the remains of the Nine Nether Lineage's Giant Clan and found that its old weapons had lost their power.

Ji Wuchang found the remains of Nian Yunzi and discovered a mysterious arrowhead that transformed into the Saint-Breaking Arrow after consuming a vast amount of spiritual power. After recovering, he continued through the secret realm, where several powerful presences approached.

• Ji Wuchang read Nian Yunzi's account of fighting the Nine Nether Lineage and stored the stone tablet and remains so he could return them to the Nian Lineage.
• Ji Wuchang uncovered a hidden box and opened it to find an apparently ordinary arrowhead.
• Ji Wuchang infused the arrowhead with spiritual power and blood, causing it to turn into red mist that entered the mysterious mark inside him.
• Ji Wuchang replenished the red arrow's immense spiritual consumption with pills and spirit stones until it stopped draining his power.
• Ji Wuchang saw the words "Saint-Breaking Arrow" carved into the arrow, recovered to his peak, and continued exploring.
• Several powerful presences appeared in the distance and rapidly approached Ji Wuchang.

Ji Wuchang watched Hong Daqi and Wengu Hongbing search a battlefield for a powerful object as more cultivators arrived, including Wen Xiuxue and Xu Zhiqiang. He planted two Supreme Weapons to provoke a clash, and the chapter ended as rival cultivators fought over them.

• Ji Wuchang hid in the void and overheard Hong Daqi and Wengu Hongbing discuss searching the secret realm for an object that could obliterate the power of Principles.
• Several groups of cultivators emerged through void passages, including Wen Xiuxue and Xu Zhiqiang, while Hong Daqi and Wengu Hongbing restrained their murderous intent and split up to search.
• Ji Wuchang placed two Supreme Weapons in a cave and secretly triggered them to fly into the air, drawing the searching cultivators toward them.
• A black-clad man attacked a rival with an iron chain, and the rival countered with an iron staff, sending the Supreme Weapons flying away.
• The black-clad man launched Divine Soul Spikes, three pitch-black knives, and his iron chain at the staff-wielding man.

Ji Wuchang ambushed Wengu Hongbing amid the battle for the Supreme Weapons and destroyed his body, but Wengu Hongbing's Primordial Spirit unleashed a terrifying sword light that pursued Ji Wuchang after he escaped.

• The staff-wielding man immobilized Zhang Hujin and smashed him into blood mist, after which Zhang Hujin reformed and charged at him.
• The battle for the Supreme Weapons kept Hong Daqi, Wengu Hongbing, and their allies occupied, while Wen Xiuxue watched a token marking her junior martial uncle.
• Ji Wuchang attacked Wengu Hongbing with the Red Flame Saber and the Demonic Dao Law-Disrupting Immobilization Art, then used flying needles and flames to destroy his body.
• Wengu Hongbing's Primordial Spirit fired a powerful streak of sword light at Ji Wuchang, who escaped using Shrinking the Target to an Inch.
• The sword light appeared behind Ji Wuchang and continued pursuing him.

Ji Wuchang killed Wengu Hongbing and wounded Zhang Hujin during the battle, then confronted Hong Daqi with a complete set of Hidden Sword Array Instruction sword arrays. Hong Daqi reacted in fear, while Zhang Hujin's Primordial Spirit fled in terror.

• Ji Wuchang used a pitch-black iron chain to collide with Wengu Hongbing's sword light, tearing Wengu Hongbing's Primordial Spirit apart and killing him.
• Hong Daqi used a sword array to drive back the two Supreme Realm fourth level cultivators who had been fighting him.
• Zhang Hujin lost his focus after Wengu Hongbing's death, and the man with the iron staff shattered his Dharma Aspect and sent him flying.
• Ji Wuchang cut off Zhang Hujin's head and attacked him with a pitch-black flying needle that began rotting his flesh.
• Hong Daqi activated several sword arrays, but Ji Wuchang displayed eight arrays and challenged him, leaving Hong Daqi terrified and questioning how Ji knew the Hidden Sword Array Instruction.
• Zhang Hujin's Primordial Spirit escaped, screaming in terror.

Ji Wuchang defeated Hong Daqi and forced him to become a slave for a thousand years. He then ordered Hong Daqi to kill a Hidden Sword Gate cultivator and killed a Myriad Souls Hall cultivator himself.

• Ji Wuchang revealed himself as Jiang Qiye of the Green Mountain Sect and killed Zhang Hujin with a pitch-black flying needle.
• Ji Wuchang overwhelmed Hong Daqi with sword attacks, immobilized him, and forced him to beg for his life.
• Ji Wuchang agreed to spare Hong Daqi in exchange for a thousand years of service and placed a soul mark on his Primordial Spirit.
• Ji Wuchang killed a Hidden Sword Gate elder with a flying needle after the elder threatened Hong Daqi.
• Ji Wuchang ordered Hong Daqi to kill a Hidden Sword Gate cultivator, then slew the Myriad Souls Hall cultivator and sent his Primordial Spirit into the Myriad Souls Banner.

Ji Wuchang defeated a Hidden Sword Gate cultivator, reclaimed two Supreme Weapons, and uncovered a treasonous plot within the Green Mountain Sect. Wen Xiuxue crippled the two fleeing disciples implicated in the betrayal, while the revelations left her shaken over her master's role.

• Ji Wuchang used Hong Daqi's sword arrays to kill a Supreme Realm Second Layer cultivator and sent the man's Primordial Spirit into the Myriad Souls Banner.
• Ji Wuchang reclaimed the two Supreme Weapons and warned the gathered cultivators not to attack Green Mountain Sect members.
• Ji Wuchang identified Shen Xiang and Lin Guihua as suspicious, and Wen Xiuxue pursued and captured them.
• Wen Xiuxue searched Shen Xiang's and Lin Guihua's souls and discovered that the Second Elder and Fourth Elder had betrayed the Green Mountain Sect.
• Ji Wuchang ordered Wen Xiuxue to cripple the pair's cultivation, and she struck them down despite their pleas.

Ji Wuchang searched the battlefield and discovered that the stone steles marked valuable items buried beneath them. After he found a supreme Pill Furnace, the others began searching the steles too, though some unearthed worthless items.

• Ji Wuchang warned the Green Mountain Sect disciples to beware people from Second Peak and Fourth Peak after Shen Xiang and Lin Guihua died when their poison erupted.
• Ji Wuchang allowed the others to search the battlefield peacefully and began looking for treasures himself.
• Ji Wuchang found Bai Hongjing's stele, recovered his remains, and took the Azure Dragon Tyrant Leg Art scroll buried beneath it.
• Yi Zhonghai found a box, but a supreme realm fourth-level elder tried to rob him, forcing Yi Zhonghai to flee.
• Ji Wuchang found a supreme weapon Pill Furnace beneath another stele, prompting the others to realize the steles marked buried items and search them in earnest.

Ji Wuchang questioned Hong Daqi about the Myriad Souls Hall’s plans and learned they sought the Saint-Breaking Arrow to attack the Green Mountain Sect. He ordered Hong Daqi to gather the Yang Household and its allies so they could be eliminated inside the secret realm.

• Ji Wuchang sat beside Hong Daqi and asked who was leading the Myriad Souls Hall; Hong Daqi identified Wengu Honghua and warned of his strength and eighth-rank flood dragon.
• Hong Daqi revealed that the Myriad Souls Hall had entered the secret realm to find the Saint-Breaking Arrow, a weapon capable of obliterating principles that could help kill the Green Mountain Sect’s ancestor.
• Hong Daqi explained that the Myriad Souls Hall planned to attack the Green Mountain Sect after the secret realm closed and that the Second Peak, Fourth Peak, and Yang Household were involved in the sect’s turmoil.
• Hong Daqi reported that twenty-seven supreme realm cultivators and more than a hundred celestial phenomenon realm cultivators had entered with the Myriad Souls Hall, while the Yang Household had recruited forces from the Green Mountain Sect’s side.
• Ji Wuchang told Hong Daqi to contact Yang Tiexin and gather their allies so they could wipe them out in the secret realm.

Hong Daqi pledged himself to Ji Wuchang and helped him plan an attack on the Myriad Souls Hall and Hidden Sword Gate, while Ji Wuchang left Wen Xiuxue with instructions before departing. The chapter ends with Xiao Zhe surrounded and badly wounded after Yang Tiexin betrayed him to the Myriad Souls Hall.

• Hong Daqi secretly contacted Yang Tiexin, then proposed helping Ji Wuchang weaken the Myriad Souls Hall and Hidden Sword Gate; Ji Wuchang promised to consider teaching him the complete Hidden Sword Array Instruction.
• Ji Wuchang led the Green Mountain Sect group out of the secret realm, where the remaining cultivators began fighting over its treasures.
• Ji Wuchang gave Wen Xiuxue a jade slip, warned her about Second Peak, Fourth Peak, and the Yang Household, then left with Hong Daqi.
• Zhang Xiangpeng, Yang Tiexin, and two other Supreme Realm experts surrounded Xiao Zhe after Yang Tiexin ambushed him and the Myriad Souls Hall killed the Green Mountain Sect disciples traveling with him.
• Xiao Zhe, gravely injured and desperate to expose the Yang Household's betrayal, hurled more than ten spirit weapons toward his attackers and ordered them to explode.

Ji Wuchang and Hong Daqi ambushed Yang Tiexin and two other Supreme Realm Fourth Level cultivators who had gathered to hunt Xiao Zhe. They killed the three and captured their Primordial Spirits, while Yang Tiexin recognized something familiar about Ji Wuchang.

• Yang Tiexin learned from Hong Daqi that he was nearby and asked him to help pursue the injured Xiao Zhe.
• Hong Daqi told Ji Wuchang that Xiao Zhe was fleeing, and Ji Wuchang ordered him to kill the Myriad Souls Hall cultivator while he handled Yang Tiexin and the other man.
• Ji Wuchang and Hong Daqi arrived at the meeting point disguised as allies, then launched a surprise attack on Yang Tiexin and the two other cultivators.
• Ji Wuchang decapitated Yang Tiexin and mortally wounded the Hidden Sword Gate cultivator, while Hong Daqi repeatedly cut down the Myriad Souls Hall cultivator.
• Hong Daqi captured the Myriad Souls Hall cultivator's Primordial Spirit, and Ji Wuchang seized Yang Tiexin's Primordial Spirit.
• Yang Tiexin's Primordial Spirit asked Ji Wuchang who he was and said he seemed familiar.

Ji Wuchang revealed that he had killed Yang Lianying, killed Yang Tiexin, and set out with Hong Daqi to find Zhang Xiangpeng. Meanwhile, Xiao Zhe and Zhang Xiangpeng fought fiercely, and their battle continued after Xiao Zhe was forced to stop his attempted escape.

• Ji Wuchang told Yang Tiexin that he had killed Yang Lianying and would kill the Yang Household members in the secret realm, then searched Yang Tiexin’s soul and sent his Primordial Spirit into the Myriad Souls Banner.
• Ji Wuchang learned that the Yang Household had contacted fifteen forces and left with Hong Daqi to target Zhang Xiangpeng.
• Xiao Zhe and Zhang Xiangpeng clashed with their Supreme Weapons, the Green Mountain Seal and Zhang Xiangpeng’s cauldron, while fighting one another.
• Xiao Zhe blocked Zhang Xiangpeng’s Divine Soul Spikes and struck him with Green Vine Ten Thousand Swords Kill, shattering his cauldron defense and injuring him.
• Xiao Zhe absorbed vitality from nearby plants and tried to flee, but Zhang Xiangpeng pursued him and stopped him with his iron chain after Xiao Zhe countered with a spear.

Xiao Zhe and Zhang Xiangpeng fought until Hong Daqi arrived and joined forces with Xiao Zhe against him. Ji Wuchang then intervened, but Zhang Xiangpeng unleashed three deadly streaks of light at Ji Wuchang, Xiao Zhe, and Hong Daqi, leaving Ji Wuchang to defend himself with a tower.

• Xiao Zhe and Zhang Xiangpeng traded blows until Hong Daqi arrived and blocked Xiao Zhe's escape route.
• Zhang Xiangpeng and Hong Daqi attacked Xiao Zhe together, but Hong Daqi suddenly turned on Zhang Xiangpeng and severed his arm.
• Xiao Zhe pierced Zhang Xiangpeng from behind, and Ji Wuchang joined the attack, using the Mountain Embracing Seal and flames against him.
• Zhang Xiangpeng survived with the protection of a great cauldron, but Xiao Zhe's Green Mountain Seal and Hong Daqi's sword light struck him again.
• Zhang Xiangpeng unleashed three streaks of light at Ji Wuchang, Xiao Zhe, and Hong Daqi, and Ji Wuchang summoned a tower to defend himself.

Ji Wuchang killed Zhang Xiangpeng, seized his Skeleton Cauldron, and continued hunting targets with Xiao Zhe and Hong Daqi. Meanwhile, Hu Yueling’s group fortified their position as Lou Xiaojuan led Hidden Sword Gate disciples toward them.

• Ji Wuchang blocked Zhang Xiangpeng’s escape and destroyed his body with successive attacks.
• Ji Wuchang captured Zhang Xiangpeng’s Primordial Spirit in the Myriad Souls Banner and subdued the Skeleton Cauldron.
• Xiao Zhe and Hong Daqi arrived, recognized Zhang Xiangpeng’s death, and followed Ji Wuchang toward their next target.
• Hu Yueling urged Chen Yanzhao to contact Ji Wuchang, and Chen advised the group to build defenses and gather their fellow disciples.
• Lou Xiaojuan, a newly advanced Supreme Realm Fifth Level expert of the Hidden Sword Gate, received word of Hu Yueling’s group and led disciples toward them.

Lou Xiaojuan and Shen Tinglan pursued their own targets in the secret realm while Ji Wuchang sent Xiao Zhe to join the Green Mountain Sect’s gathered disciples. Ji Wuchang headed for another battlefield, unaware that Shen Tinglan was following him to devour his cultivation and Qi and Blood.

• Lou Xiaojuan resolved to kill Chen Yanzhao and destroy his Primordial Spirit to avenge the senior brother he had killed.
• Shen Tinglan’s Supreme Realm Sixth Level clone killed a Fourth Peak woman who had discovered her cultivation secret, then set out to hunt Ji Wuchang.
• Ji Wuchang had Xiao Zhe kill the Hidden Sword Gate disciples who gathered at his summons.
• Xiao Zhe told Ji Wuchang that Chen Yanzhao, Hu Yueling, and others had gathered nearly two hundred people, and Ji Wuchang sent him to join them with instructions to use a Jade Slip if they faced a powerful enemy.
• Ji Wuchang took the Green Mountain Sect leader’s token and followed Hong Daqi toward a battlefield entrance three thousand li east.
• Shen Tinglan arrived at Ji Wuchang’s former location and pursued him, intending to devour his cultivation and Qi and Blood.

Ji Wuchang and Hong Daqi entered the secret realm battlefield, where Ji Wuchang concealed his identity and searched among the gathered cultivators. The arrival of Wengu Honghua, a supreme realm sixth level expert from the Myriad Souls Hall, left Ji Wuchang wondering if he had been the one following them.

• Shen Tinglan decided she could let Ji Wuchang die in the secret realm and planned to take advantage of the Green Spirit Instruction she had helped him obtain.
• Ji Wuchang and Hong Daqi entered the crowded battlefield, then split up so Hong Daqi could check whether the Hidden Sword Gate knew of his betrayal.
• Following Ji Yaoyao's warning that someone was pursuing them, Ji Wuchang hid the token in the system space and changed his mask, clothes, and appearance.
• Ji Wuchang noticed a man pretending that a rusted longsword was his only find, but chose not to investigate him.
• A powerful presence erupted from a new vortex, and Wengu Honghua of the Myriad Souls Hall emerged with more than ten followers.
• Ji Wuchang recognized Wengu Honghua as a supreme realm sixth level expert and wondered whether he was the pursuer Ji Yaoyao had sensed.

Wengu Honghua confronted Hong Daqi about his missing younger brother, Wengu Hongbing, then led the Myriad Souls Hall in demanding weapons and techniques from everyone on the battlefield. When one cultivator resisted, he sealed a Supreme Realm Fourth Level attacker in place as the defender detonated his weapons.

• Hong Daqi blamed Xiao Zhe and the Green Mountain Sect for Wengu Hongbing’s disappearance, and Wengu Honghua revealed that Jiang Qiye was leading the Green Mountain Sect expedition.
• Hong Daqi assessed Wengu Honghua’s powerful group as they arrived and silenced the battlefield.
• A Supreme Realm Fourth Level man from the Myriad Souls Hall demanded weapons or techniques from everyone, threatening to kill those who refused.
• The crowd protested the demand, and the Myriad Souls Hall man attacked a Supreme Realm Second Layer cultivator.
• The defender burned his essence blood and prepared to fight, but the attacker became pinned in the void as the defender’s Spirit Weapons and Supreme Weapon exploded.

Ji Wuchang secretly poisoned a Myriad Souls Hall cultivator, prompting Wengu Honghua to threaten the surrounding crowd until Shen Tinglan appeared. Wengu Honghua mistook her for his younger brother’s killer and attacked her with soul spikes and iron chains.

• Ji Wuchang used a hidden soul division avatar to poison a Myriad Souls Hall supreme realm fourth level cultivator, who died despite Wengu Honghua’s antidote.
• Wengu Honghua demanded that the attacker reveal himself and threatened to kill everyone in a targeted area if they did not come forward.
• As Wengu Honghua counted down, Shen Tinglan emerged from the void and drew the crowd’s attention.
• Wengu Honghua accused Shen Tinglan of killing his younger brother and trapped her with iron chains while sending Divine Soul Spikes at her.

Shen Tinglan confronted Wengu Honghua in the secret realm, while Ji Wuchang escaped and waited for their fight to weaken them both. Outside, the Myriad Souls Hall and Hidden Sword Gate forced the remaining people to surrender supreme-grade spirit weapons, as Wengu Honghua began gaining the upper hand.

• Shen Tinglan broke free of Wengu Honghua's iron-chain cage and clashed with him in a battle that shattered space and sent Gang Qi sweeping across the battlefield.
• Ji Wuchang recognized Shen Tinglan as a clone that had come for him, then fled the battlefield and chose not to attack while she and Wengu Honghua were fighting.
• Hong Daqi and the Myriad Souls Hall stopped those who remained inside the secret realm and demanded their supreme-grade spirit weapons before allowing them to leave.
• The Myriad Souls Hall killed two people who protested, prompting the others to surrender their weapons and escape through the gate of light.
• Wengu Honghua unleashed his full strength against Shen Tinglan, convinced she had killed his younger brother, and gradually gained the upper hand.

Wengu Honghua and his flood dragon Bajie repeatedly overwhelmed Shen Tinglan, who fled and recovered while Ji Wuchang waited for a chance to intervene. After he diverted Shen Tinglan into Wengu Honghua’s pursuit, she split into six fleeing figures, and Ji Wuchang identified her main body and struck it with his immobilizing art and World-Destroying King Yu’s Heavenly Eye.

• Wengu Honghua and his flood dragon attacked Shen Tinglan, eventually forcing her to flee the battlefield after she severed the dragon’s head and suffered grievous injuries.
• Wengu Honghua treated the wounded dragon and pursued Shen Tinglan, while Hong Daqi also left to follow them and Ji Wuchang remained concealed nearby.
• Ji Wuchang redirected Shen Tinglan into Wengu Honghua’s path, and Wengu Honghua and the flood dragon overwhelmed her again.
• Shen Tinglan restored her body, used the Green Spirit Instruction to draw in vitality, and split into five Soul Division clones that fled with her.
• Wengu Honghua sent five figures after Shen Tinglan, while Ji Wuchang located her main body and used his immobilizing art and Heavenly Eye against her.
• Shen Tinglan broke free of the immobilization and raised her palm to meet Ji Wuchang’s incoming purple-gold light.