Chapter Summaries

Ji Wuchang began his seven-day punishment on the Lightning Punishment Platform, using its immense lightning power to cultivate Wind and Thunder Slash and strengthen his techniques. By the end, he had repeatedly formed a lightning blade covered in runes, though he had not yet unleashed the attack.

• Cang Qing told Meng Caihong that Ji Wuchang had been punished, but Meng Caihong reassured her that she already knew and told the others to focus on cultivation.
• Jia Yuanliang opened the Lightning Punishment Platform before Huang Wanqiu, Zuo Yan, and the gathered disciples, then Ji Wuchang stepped onto it and was engulfed by lightning.
• Jia Yuanliang gave Ji Wuchang a jade slip to crush if he could no longer endure the punishment, then sealed the platform and lowered it into the lightning pool.
• Ji Wuchang sat cross-legged and used the lightning to temper his nine Dao Platforms while beginning to cultivate Wind and Thunder Slash.
• Ji Wuchang repeatedly condensed and dissipated a lightning blade until it grew several times larger and became covered in lightning runes.

Ji Wuchang refined his Wind and Thunder Great Void Steps, endured six days on the Lightning Punishment Platform, and advanced to the Foundation Establishment Realm Sixth Layer. As the platform rose at the end of his trial, Zhen Yaotian prepared to offer him a chance to leave Boyun Province.

• Ji Wuchang combined the Spirit Snake Steps and Eight Trigrams Wandering Dragon Steps with the Wind and Thunder Great Void Steps, creating a faster, more unpredictable movement technique.
• Jia Yuanliang reported Ji Wuchang’s six-day endurance to Zhen Yaotian, who decided to offer him an opportunity to leave Boyun Province if he passed one final test.
• Zhen Yaotian destroyed Xiao Fan’s cracked life tablet and chose not to investigate his death.
• Ji Wuchang reached the Foundation Establishment Realm Sixth Layer, then used two lottery draws that each awarded Fortune Points.
• Ji Wuchang resumed refining lightning in his dantian, but the Lightning Punishment Platform rose and ended his trial.

Zhen Yaotian offered Ji Wuchang the Longevity Sect’s remaining recommendation to Yunchuan Academy’s selection trials, provided he reached the Foundation Establishment Realm seventh layer within half a year. Ji Wuchang accepted the challenge and left determined to claim the place that had gone to Cai Ping in his previous life.

• Zhen Yaotian praised Ji Wuchang for surviving seven days of lightning punishment and offered him a chance to compete for a place at Yunchuan Academy.
• Zhen Yaotian explained that the academy recruited through the Three-Province Arena Trials, where only the top twenty could enter, and that Boyun Province had five allocated places.
• Ji Wuchang realized the recommendation had likely belonged to Cai Ping in his previous life, who had disappeared and later returned with greatly improved cultivation.
• Zhen Yaotian set the condition that Ji Wuchang reach the Foundation Establishment Realm seventh layer within half a year or the place would go to Cai Ping.
• Ji Wuchang agreed to work for the place, kept the discussion secret, and left the main peak determined to compete.

After returning to Little Bamboo Peak, Ji Wuchang reviewed the risks surrounding the deaths of Xin Chanzi and the others and planned how to meet the four conditions for opening a purple mansion. The next day, powerful members of the Azure Sparrow Sect arrived at the Longevity Sect.

• Ji Wuchang visited Meng Caihong, who praised him without reproaching him for giving up the inheritance, then listened as Zeng Linghong complained about being assigned to teach the junior disciples.
• Ji Wuchang reviewed the deaths of Xin Chanzi, Xiong Jian'an, and the others, realizing the Azure Sparrow Sect might investigate and implicate him.
• Ji Wuchang recalled a promising figure from Yunchuan Academy as a replacement for Xiao Fan and expected Li Gubei to join the academy as well.
• Ji Wuchang considered the four requirements for opening a purple mansion, prioritizing a fire-attribute beast for soul fusion and considering Xiao Fan's purple token as the mansion's anchor.
• After resting overnight, Ji Wuchang saw several Azure Sparrow Sect members approach the Longevity Sect, led by a woman at the Soul Splitting Realm Sixth Level.

Xin He of the Azure Sparrow Sect and Xiao Xuan of the Xiao Family confronted the Longevity Sect with accusations against Ji Wuchang. After Ji Wuchang was summoned to the main hall, Xiao Xuan recognized his extraordinary rise in cultivation, while the accusations remained unresolved.

• Xin He arrived at the Longevity Sect with a Soul Splitting Realm sixth-layer woman and demanded to see Sect Master Zhen.
• Xiao Xuan arrived soon after, and Pei Yuanqing escorted her to the main peak.
• Ji Wuchang moved his belongings into the System Space and learned that Ji Yaoyao could conceal herself from the visitors.
• Xin He accused Ji Wuchang of killing Xin Chanzi and Azure Sparrow Sect members, while Xiao Xuan investigated whether he had exterminated Xiao Fan's Xiao Family.
• Meng Caihong worried that Ji Wuchang might be responsible but resolved to protect him if he was.
• Yue Zhen brought Ji Wuchang before the hall, where Xiao Xuan noticed his rapid rise from Qi Refining Realm sixth layer to Foundation Establishment Realm sixth layer.

Ji Wuchang faced Xin He’s accusation that he had killed members of the Azure Sparrow Sect on Beast Burial Mountain and countered with evidence that they had tried to kill him for a bounty arranged by Xiao Fan. He challenged Xin He over his son’s Dao Protector, leaving the hall to judge whether Ji Wuchang could have killed someone far stronger than himself.

• Xin He confronted Ji Wuchang with killing intent, but Meng Caihong blocked his pressure and Zhen Yaotian ordered everyone not to attack.
• Ji Wuchang admitted killing rogue cultivators on Beast Burial Mountain and played a recording showing that they had accepted a bounty from Xin Chanzi to kill him.
• Xin He presented Zhang Tongniu and Zhang Tieniu’s accusations and a trace of peculiar power, demanding that Ji Wuchang compare it with his spiritual power.
• Ji Wuchang challenged the reliability of the witnesses, then agreed to the test if Xin He answered his questions first.
• Xin He admitted that Xiao Fan had commissioned Xin Chanzi to post the bounty, prompting Zhen Yaotian and the other elders to react with dismay.
• Ji Wuchang pointed out that Xin He had arranged a Dao Protector for Xin Chanzi and asked how a Foundation Establishment Realm Fourth Layer cultivator could have killed someone protected by a Purple Mansion Realm Fifth Level expert.

Ji Wuchang cleared himself of the accusation surrounding the Azure Sparrow Sect members’ deaths by showing a recording of the Tiger-Leopard Beast attacking them. He forced Xin He to compensate him for the bounty on his life, then revealed that the Azure Sparrow Sect had planted a spy in the Longevity Sect.

• Ji Wuchang presented Zhen Yaotian with a recording stone showing the Tiger-Leopard Beast killing Azure Sparrow Sect members, disproving Xin He’s accusation.
• Zhen Yaotian told Xin He to apologize to Ji Wuchang, and Xin He reluctantly admitted he had not investigated the matter properly.
• Ji Wuchang demanded compensation over Xin Chanzi’s bounty on his life and warned he would kill Azure Sparrow Sect members he encountered if the issue went unresolved.
• Xin He gave Ji Wuchang two thousand mid-grade spirit stones, and Ji Wuchang mocked him for being poor.
• Ji Wuchang told the Longevity Sect elders that the Azure Sparrow Sect had planted a spy among them.

Ji Wuchang exposed Xin He and three Azure Sparrow Sect spies within the Longevity Sect, prompting Zhen Yaotian to confront them. After Li Hua'an’s soul search implicated Xin He, a woman revealed her Soul Splitting Realm Ninth Level cultivation and stopped Zhen Yaotian’s attack.

• Ji Wuchang presented two tokens and explained that he had survived an assassination attempt, identifying Li Hua'an, Zuo Shan, and Bai Xiuye as Azure Sparrow Sect spies.
• Zhen Yaotian ordered Meng Caihong and Yin Shuyao to capture the three elders, and they brought them to the main peak's hall.
• Li Hua'an reversed his true essence and attacked Ji Wuchang, but Pei Yuanqing struck him down before Zhen Yaotian searched his soul.
• Zhen Yaotian attacked Xin He after the soul search, and Xin He begged the woman beside him to save him.
• The woman blocked Zhen Yaotian’s palm and revealed her true cultivation as Soul Splitting Realm Ninth Level.

A mysterious woman from the Sword Alliance stopped the Longevity Sect from punishing Xin He, while the sect dealt harshly with its traitors. Xiao Xuan then questioned Ji Wuchang about the Xiao Family’s destruction, and he swore an oath denying that he had personally slaughtered them, leaving with a fourth-grade Spirit Nourishing Pill.

• A Soul Splitting Realm Ninth Level woman revealed her strength and persuaded Zhen Nanfeng to let Xin He leave, citing a favor she owed him and her ties to the Sword Alliance.
• Zhen Nanfeng crippled Zuo Shan and Bai Xiuye, ordered them displayed at the sect entrance, and commanded the destruction of their three lineages; Yue Zhen arranged for them to be taken away.
• Zhen Yaotian introduced Xiao Xuan, who asked Ji Wuchang whether he had destroyed the Xiao Family of Muye City.
• Ji Wuchang challenged Xiao Xuan to compensate him if his Heavenly Dao Oath drew no punishment, and she offered him a fourth-grade Spirit Nourishing Pill.
• Ji Wuchang swore that he had not personally slaughtered the Xiao Family, and the Heavenly Dao did not punish him; he kept the pill while Xiao Xuan remained uneasy.

Ji Wuchang followed Jiang He to the Law Enforcement Hall, where Yue Zhen ambushed him and revealed that he was Xiao Fan’s ancestor and had identified Ji Wuchang as Xiao Fan’s killer. Ji Wuchang survived the surprise attack and understood why Yue Zhen had favored Xiao Fan, but the two remained trapped in the hall with killing intent between them.

• Ji Wuchang swallowed the fourth-grade Spirit Nourishing Pill and learned from Ji Yaoyao about the Sword Alliance.
• Jiang He invited Ji Wuchang to the Law Enforcement Hall, claiming Yue Zhen wanted his help with the interrogation.
• Yue Zhen led Ji Wuchang into the punishment hall, where Li Hua'an, Zuo Shan, and Bai Xiuye were chained and wounded.
• Yue Zhen attacked Ji Wuchang without warning, but Ji Wuchang evaded a follow-up strike and demanded to know why he had been targeted.
• Yue Zhen revealed that his original name was Xiao Zhen, that Xiao Fan was his fifth-generation descendant, and that a mark on Xiao Fan had identified Ji Wuchang as his killer.
• Ji Wuchang realized why Yue Zhen had favored Xiao Fan and turned his killing intent toward Yue Zhen.

Ji Wuchang arranged for Tian Shuang to possess Yue Zhen, then killed three attackers who had faked being bound. Tian Shuang took Yue Zhen’s identity as Sixth Elder, while Ji Wuchang checked in at the Punishment Hall and received eight years of cultivation.

• Ji Wuchang enraged Yue Zhen by confessing to killing Xiao Fan and wiping out the Xiao Family, then sent Tian Shuang’s soul to possess him.
• Tian Shuang overwhelmed Yue Zhen’s soul while Yue Zhen’s barrier kept his screams from being heard.
• Three men revealed they had freed themselves from their chains and attacked Ji Wuchang, who killed them with Autumn Wind Kill.
• The system identified one attacker as Tian Mo and awarded Ji Wuchang 150 Fortune Points.
• Tian Shuang took control of Yue Zhen’s body, broke through to the Soul Splitting Realm fourth level, and agreed to assume Yue Zhen’s identity until Ji Wuchang left the Longevity Sect.
• Ji Wuchang accepted Tian Shuang’s request for freedom after they left the sect, then checked in at the Punishment Hall and received eight years of cultivation.

Ji Wuchang used a sixth-grade Spirit Nourishing Pill from a grand gift pack to raise his root aptitude to supreme earth grade and received the Netherworld Sword. He then learned that Zeng Linghong had been gravely wounded by a group of evil cultivators, and the name of their organization startled him.

• Ji Wuchang opened the monthly draw’s grand gift pack and received a sixth-grade Spirit Nourishing Pill, the Netherworld Sword, and 1,000 fortune points.
• Ji Wuchang swallowed the pill, breaking through a shackle in his body and improving his divine soul; his root aptitude rose from middle earth grade to supreme earth grade.
• Ji Wuchang examined the Netherworld Sword and recognized it as a weapon well suited to his Shadow Sword Kill technique.
• Cang Qing told Ji Wuchang that Zeng Linghong was seriously injured, and Ji Wuchang hurried to his residence.
• Meng Caihong explained that Zeng Linghong had been ambushed by an organization of more than ten evil cultivators and had barely escaped with severe injuries.
• Ji Wuchang asked the organization’s name, and Meng Caihong identified it as the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall, prompting Ji Wuchang’s shock.

Ji Wuchang warned Meng Caihong that the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall was a powerful organization with Six Spirits Realm experts, prompting the Longevity Sect to investigate its presence in Boyun Province. He agreed to join the first elder's group traveling to Mountain-Breaking Town, determined to avenge his injured second senior brother.

• Ji Wuchang told Meng Caihong that he had learned of the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall from Li Gubei, who had warned him of its Six Spirits Realm experts.
• Meng Caihong reported the danger to the sect master, who postponed the sect competition and arranged an investigation at Mountain-Breaking Town.
• Ji Wuchang sent Wang Ye, Wang Ping, Meng Zhiyi, and Meng Zhiyu to cultivate while Cang Qing left to train.
• Meng Caihong told Ji Wuchang that the first elder, Sixth Elder Yue Zhen, Seventh Elder Jing Fengcheng, Huang Wanqiu, and others would join the investigation.
• Ji Wuchang accepted two fourth-grade Teleportation Talismans from Meng Caihong and agreed to set out the next morning.

Ji Wuchang investigated the unusual number of beggars in Mountain-Breaking Town and discovered that a seemingly ordinary old beggar had his cultivation sealed. Suspecting the man was connected to the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall, Ji Wuchang followed him to a dilapidated temple, where Ji Yaoyao found three people and returned with several storage rings.

• Ji Wuchang checked in at Mountain-Breaking Town's north gate and received one year of cultivation and one Fortune Point.
• Ji Wuchang entered town with Grand Elder Pei Yuanqing and Huang Wanqiu, then got permission to investigate while the others settled at the Jade Mountain Inn.
• Ji Wuchang noticed an old beggar catching scattered copper coins with uncanny precision, and Ji Yaoyao discovered three seals hiding his Purple Mansion Realm Third Layer cultivation and poisonous spiritual power.
• Ji Wuchang reported the suspicious old man to Pei Yuanqing and watched him for two hours before following him to a dilapidated temple.
• Ji Yaoyao sensed three people inside the temple, including one at the Purple Mansion Realm Ninth Layer, then returned with several storage rings.

Ji Wuchang encountered a bone altar that released a supreme resentful demon soul, which pursued him after he fled the ruined temple. His Divine Soul Dao Platform devoured the soul, strengthening him and revealing an image of a powerful man in an abyss of Demon Qi.

• Ji Wuchang entered the ruined temple and found four people with crippled cultivation beside an altar made of human bones.
• A ghostly face emerged from the altar’s tablet, pursued Ji Wuchang beyond the temple, and followed him when he used a Teleportation Talisman.
• The ghostly face entered Ji Wuchang’s consciousness, but his Divine Soul Dao Platform devoured it before it could attack his divine soul.
• Ji Yaoyao explained that the altar’s presence was a strand of a supreme resentful demon soul seeking vitality to revive its deceased Supreme Realm master.
• Ji Wuchang absorbed the remnant soul’s power, strengthened his divine soul, and saw an image of a battle-armored man with a black lotus mark lying in an abyss of Demon Qi.

Ji Wuchang gained greatly enhanced soul perception after absorbing soul power, then returned to Mountain-Breaking Town and told Pei Yuanqing about the bone altar. Pei Yuanqing destroyed the Vitality Transfer Altar, and his account of a similar altar in a secret realm revealed that its corpse had once come back to life.

• Ji Wuchang's soul perception expanded to a hundred li, nearing that of a Purple Mansion Realm Seventh Level cultivator.
• Ji Wuchang returned to Mountain-Breaking Town and told Pei Yuanqing about the altar, keeping the Supreme Resentful Demon Soul secret.
• Ji Wuchang and Pei Yuanqing found that the four people near the altar had become desiccated corpses.
• Pei Yuanqing placed a Spirit Weapon sword on the altar, led Ji Wuchang away, and detonated it, destroying the altar.
• Pei Yuanqing explained that the altar transferred vitality and recounted how a similar altar in a secret realm had revived a corpse.

Ji Wuchang and Pei Yuanqing watched a ghost-masked man retrieve a plaque from the ruined temple, then Pei Yuanqing pursued him while Ji Wuchang was ambushed by the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall. Ji Wuchang killed six attackers in succession, leaving the remaining Foundation Establishment cultivators terrified.

• Pei Yuanqing told Ji Wuchang how a skeleton at a similar altar had devoured people and grown flesh from their deaths.
• A ghost-masked man arrived at the ruined temple, retrieved the altar’s plaque, and flew away after threatening the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall.
• Pei Yuanqing left to follow the ghost-masked man, while more than ten ghost-masked figures surrounded Ji Wuchang.
• A Purple Mansion Realm Third Level attacker recognized Ji Wuchang and declared that the group would kill him.
• Ji Wuchang used his Netherworld Sword, Wind and Thunder Fist, and swift movements to kill six attackers in succession.
• The four surviving Foundation Establishment cultivators retreated together, shaken by Ji Wuchang’s strength.

Ji Wuchang battled a Purple Mansion Realm opponent whose demonic techniques and strange shield countered his sword attacks. He overcame the man’s defenses with lightning and amplified speed, then cut through his throat with a lightning saber.

• The Purple Mansion Realm Third Level man swallowed Ji Wuchang’s Netherlight Slash with a black shield and used a secret art to raise his cultivation to the Purple Mansion Realm Eighth Level.
• Ji Wuchang killed two Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators, while the last one fled in fear.
• The man attacked Ji Wuchang with demonic techniques, and Ji Yaoyao told him to use his Wind and Thunder Fist against the demonic palm.
• Ji Wuchang used his divine soul to identify the real attacker among seven figures, then activated Heart-Treading Steps to dispel the phantoms.
• Ji Wuchang activated a twentyfold amplification, severed the man’s arm and shield, then killed him with a lightning saber.

Ji Wuchang and his companions survived coordinated attacks in Mountain-Breaking Town, but a token found among the attackers’ possessions suggested the conspiracy went beyond the Azure Sparrow Sect. The Longevity Sect regrouped at the inn, unsure who they could trust.

• Ji Wuchang killed the masked attackers pursuing him, collected their storage rings, and noticed that their disfigured faces were alike; he kept two masks with different markings.
• Huang Wanqiu told Ji Wuchang that she and Elder Yue had discovered a bone altar before ghost-masked attackers ambushed them, and that she later escaped with Li Zhao'en and Jiang Bin.
• Ji Wuchang found a token marked “one nine nine” in the Purple Mansion Realm attacker’s storage ring and suspected that the Azure Sparrow Sect might be only a pawn in a larger plot targeting him.
• Ji Wuchang returned to the inn with Huang Wanqiu, Li Zhao'en, and Jiang Bin, where they found Zuo Yan, Cai Ping, and the injured Jing Fengcheng; Yue Zhen and Pei Yuanqing soon joined them, and they realized the whole group had been attacked.

Ji Wuchang suspected the Longevity Sect’s grand elder was hiding the truth and secretly left the inn to investigate the Daoist temple tied to the Supreme Resentful Demon Soul. There, he used Purple Qi Source Tracing to gather three lingering presences and identified one as Huang Wanqiu’s.

• Ji Yaoyao told Ji Wuchang that the grand elder showed no signs of having fought anyone, deepening his suspicions about the Longevity Sect.
• Ji Wuchang decided to leave unnoticed and observe what the others did; before departing, he secretly gave instructions to Yue Zhen.
• Ji Wuchang disguised himself as an old man and silently crossed Mountain-Breaking Town to the Daoist temple.
• After testing the temple gate with a thrown stone, Ji Wuchang entered and found a toppled white-bone altar but no signs of a fight.
• Ji Wuchang cast Purple Qi Source Tracing, gathered three traces of presence, and recognized one as Huang Wanqiu’s by its sword intent and familiar scent.