Chapter Summaries

Ji Wuchang discovered that Grand Elder Pei Yuanqing was conspiring with the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall to capture him as an avatar for a Supreme Realm expert. After learning their plan and hearing that Pei would use a Soul-Shattering Pill, Ji Wuchang decided to let them try while resolving to kill Pei Yuanqing.

• Ji Wuchang identified traces of presence in the purple sphere as belonging to Huang Wanqiu, Jing Fengcheng, and Pei Yuanqing, and realized Jing had destroyed the Daoist temple's altar.
• When someone approached the Daoist temple, Ji Wuchang hid inside an empty coffin and waited as Pei Yuanqing arrived.
• Ji Wuchang overheard Pei Yuanqing tell an accomplice that the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall wanted him as an avatar for its recovering master and planned to drug him with a Soul-Shattering Pill.
• Ji Wuchang inferred that Pei Yuanqing had arranged the mission and Zeng Linghong's involvement to lure him to Mountain-Breaking Town, and questioned whether the secret-realm attack had been connected to the Azure Sparrow Sect.
• Ji Wuchang recalled that Pei Yuanqing had later been killed by Cai Ping while pursuing the sect master position, then decided to let the avatar plot proceed and kill Pei himself.

Pei Yuanqing learned that Ji Wuchang had disappeared and, suspecting the Azure Sparrow Sect had interfered with his plans, went to find them. Ji Wuchang’s scheme also awakened a powerful Zhang Family man beneath a purple sandalwood coffin, who left to seek revenge on those who had massacred his family.

• Tian Shuang told Pei Yuanqing that Ji Wuchang was missing and that Azure Sparrow Sect members, including Bu Taiyan, had arrived in Mountain-Breaking Town.
• Pei Yuanqing suspected his collaborators had brought in the Azure Sparrow Sect without trusting him, and hurried to the Shen Mountain Inn after Tian Shuang gave him its location.
• Ji Wuchang had secretly arranged for Tian Shuang to direct Pei Yuanqing toward the Azure Sparrow Sect, hoping they would fight and weaken one another.
• Ji Wuchang recognized the coffin as purple sandalwood, took it with him, and accidentally broke the seal suppressing the corpse beneath it.
• The awakened man, a Zhang Family descendant whose power fluctuated between the Six Spirits Realm First Level and the Soul Splitting Realm Ninth Level, vowed revenge and vanished from the Taoist temple.

Ji Wuchang learned the Zhang Family had been sacrificed to support the resurrected man and set plans in motion against Pei Yuanqing. After the Longevity Sect spent the day searching for Ji Wuchang, Li Zhao'en reported that Jiang Bin had likely been killed by an Azure Sparrow Sect disciple, and Pei Yuanqing led the sect to support the Sixth Elder.

• Ji Wuchang watched the Longevity Sect search for him while learning that the Zhang Family's bones had built the towers and that the surviving man had been kept alive for his blood and Qi.
• Ji Wuchang hired two men with builds like his to wear his clothes, then saw Pei Yuanqing meet a young man at Soul Splitting Realm Sixth Level.
• Ji Wuchang told Tian Shuang to disguise himself and help force Pei Yuanqing to swallow a Soul-Shattering Pill, damage his meridians and dantian, and leave him alive.
• Li Zhao'en reported that an Azure Sparrow Sect disciple had attacked him and Jiang Bin while they pursued someone resembling Ji Wuchang, and that Jiang Bin had fallen after holding the attacker back.
• Pei Yuanqing focused on Li Zhao'en's claim that the figure looked like Ji Wuchang, then led the Longevity Sect out to support the Sixth Elder.

Tian Shuang staged Jiang Bin’s murder to provoke a clash between the Longevity Sect and the Azure Sparrow Sect, then killed Xin He during the confrontation. Ji Wuchang watched the plan unfold and left with Tian Shuang to deal with the Azure Sparrow Sect disciples who had been following them.

• Tian Shuang brought Jiang Bin’s corpse to Shen Mountain Inn and accused the Azure Sparrow Sect of killing his disciple.
• Xin He attacked Tian Shuang, and Tian Shuang feigned retreat while drawing Pei Yuanqing and Bu Taiyan to the scene.
• As Xin He blocked Pei Yuanqing’s strike, Tian Shuang killed Xin He, prompting Bu Taiyan to attack Pei Yuanqing and Tian Shuang.
• Tian Shuang escaped after Bu Taiyan struck him, while Pei Yuanqing fought Bu Taiyan and Ji Wuchang watched from a nearby room.
• Ji Wuchang thanked Tian Shuang and left with him to deal with the Azure Sparrow Sect disciples who had discovered their decoy.

Ji Wuchang killed the Azure Sparrow Sect disciples and joined Tian Shuang to watch Bu Taiyan battle Pei Yuanqing above the Shen Mountain Inn. Bu Taiyan’s split soul attacked the Longevity Sect, and after Cai Ping used Zhen Yaotian’s jade slip, Huang Wanqiu unleashed a sword strike against the split soul.

• Ji Wuchang swiftly killed the Azure Sparrow Sect disciples, including their Purple Mansion Realm leader, and collected their storage rings.
• Ji Wuchang told Tian Shuang that the real spectacle was about to begin, and they went to watch Bu Taiyan and Pei Yuanqing fight.
• Bu Taiyan released his split soul, which struck at Jing Fengcheng and the others; their combined attack injured them but dispelled its first palm.
• Cai Ping crushed Zhen Yaotian’s jade slip, and Zhen Yaotian’s phantom split the next palm before disappearing after attacking Bu Taiyan’s split soul.
• Huang Wanqiu used the sword power sealed by Pei Yuanqing in her short sword to strike Bu Taiyan’s split soul, then collapsed from the effort.

Bu Taiyan battled Pei Yuanqing with the Azure Sparrow Sect’s escalating nine-strike sword technique while Ji Wuchang watched from a distance. Ji copied the technique and chose to redirect future check-in cultivation toward practicing combat techniques, leaving his cultivation to improve through his own efforts for six months.

• Bu Taiyan’s split soul shattered, and he continued attacking Pei Yuanqing in the sky.
• Bu Taiyan unleashed successive strikes of Azure Sparrow Nine-Step Kill, while Pei Yuanqing countered and summoned hundreds of swords with Spirit Sword Art, Hundred Swords Pay Homage.
• Bu Taiyan combined his fifth, sixth, and seventh strikes into an enormous azure sparrow that swallowed the swords.
• Tian Shuang praised the technique’s potential with complementary footwork, and Ji Wuchang realized he could pair it with Heart-Treading Steps.
• Ji Wuchang spent 500 Fortune Points to copy Azure Sparrow Nine-Step Kill, then changed his future check-in cultivation to be used for practicing techniques instead of generally increasing his cultivation.

Bu Taiyan nearly killed Pei Yuanqing, but Zhang Yuguo intervened before Zhang Tianhe confronted him over the massacre of the Zhang Family. While the two fought, Ji Wuchang and Tian Shuang captured Pei Yuanqing and fed him the Soul-Shattering Pill.

• Bu Taiyan wounded Pei Yuanqing with his eighth sword and struck at him with his ninth, but Pei Yuanqing summoned Zhang Yuguo using a jade slip.
• Zhang Yuguo shattered Bu Taiyan's sword attack with one finger, forcing Bu Taiyan to flee, but Zhang Tianhe arrived and stopped Zhang Yuguo from pursuing him.
• Zhang Tianhe accused Zhang Yuguo of slaughtering the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall and the Zhang Family of Mountain-Breaking Town, and the two began fighting.
• Ji Wuchang and Tian Shuang found Pei Yuanqing near the crater, beat him unconscious, sealed his spiritual power, and took his storage ring.
• Tian Shuang found the Soul-Shattering Pill in Pei Yuanqing's storage ring and fed it to him at Ji Wuchang's direction.

After crippling Pei Yuanqing, Ji Wuchang and Tian Shuang fled before his companions arrived, then pursued Bu Taiyan. Tian Shuang and the already-injured Bu Taiyan fought fiercely, with Bu Taiyan using a Blood Explosion Pill and secret technique to turn the tide temporarily.

• Ji Wuchang took Pei Yuanqing’s valuables, and Tian Shuang damaged Pei Yuanqing’s meridians and dantian before they fled as Huang Wanqiu and Jing Fengcheng arrived.
• Huang Wanqiu and Jing Fengcheng found Pei Yuanqing gravely injured, and Jing Fengcheng carried him away while Huang Wanqiu’s hatred for the Azure Sparrow Sect deepened.
• Ji Wuchang and Tian Shuang confronted Bu Taiyan, and Tian Shuang attacked him with the Backing Mountain Saber.
• Bu Taiyan’s Azure Sparrow Nine-Step Kill failed to overcome Tian Shuang, who wounded him while his earlier injuries flared up.
• Bu Taiyan took a Blood Explosion Pill and used the Blood Burning Technique to strengthen himself, then fought Tian Shuang in a fierce exchange of sword and saber strikes.

Zhang Tianhe defeated Zhang Yuguo, then used the nail in his head to destroy the demonic hand of an ancient ancestor who had tried to seize him. Ji Wuchang and Tian Shuang killed Bu Taiyan, while the enraged ancestor set out from his distant abyss to take revenge.

• Zhang Tianhe drove the nail in his Baihui acupoint outward, reached the Six Spirits Realm First Level, and overwhelmed Zhang Yuguo.
• Zhang Yuguo summoned a demonic jar lid, escaped Zhang Tianhe's first attacks, and crushed a black jade token before Zhang Tianhe blasted him into a blood mist.
• A demonic vortex swallowed Zhang Yuguo's blood, while Tian Shuang defeated Bu Taiyan and Ji Wuchang revealed his identity, killed Bu Taiyan, and gained 200 Fortune Points.
• Ji Wuchang took Bu Taiyan's storage ring and checked his system panel as a terrifying presence swept across Mountain-Breaking Town.
• A demonic hand seized Zhang Tianhe, but Zhang Tianhe removed the nail from his head and destroyed the hand with six saber strikes.
• The ancestor in the distant abyss sensed his plan had been ruined, formed an illusory figure, and vanished through a passage in the void.

A Supreme Resentful Demon Soul possessed Zhang Tianhe and pursued Ji Wuchang, Ji Yaoyao, and Tian Shuang. Ji Wuchang shattered Zhen Miaoqing’s jade token, summoning a golden sword that destroyed the demon’s manifestation and struck its distant body, though the enemy survived and vowed revenge.

• A Supreme Resentful Demon Soul entered Zhang Tianhe, boosting his power to the Celestial Phenomenon Realm and taking control of his body.
• Ji Wuchang and Tian Shuang fled, but Zhang Tianhe froze them with his power until Ji Yaoyao broke the restraint and carried them away.
• Ji Yaoyao said Ji Wuchang could not withstand her full power and that she could not safely fight the demon, so Ji Wuchang revealed Zhen Miaoqing’s jade token.
• Ji Wuchang crushed the token, summoning a golden sword whose power erased Zhang Tianhe’s body, soul fragment, and resentment.
• The golden sword passed through a spatial passage and struck the enemy’s enormous body in a distant valley, leaving a bloody hole before the valley collapsed around him and he vowed revenge.

After surviving the Mountain-Breaking Town crisis, Ji Wuchang returned to the Longevity Sect and concealed the full truth from most of the sect. Meng Caihong learned about Pei Yuanqing’s treachery, then told Ji Wuchang that the sect planned to destroy the Azure Sparrow Sect and that he would go with her.

• Ji Wuchang’s sealed Supreme power struck the enemy, and he returned to the Longevity Sect with Tian Shuang’s group three days later.
• Ji Wuchang and Tian Shuang claimed the Sixth Elder had rescued him, while Pei Yuanqing returned gravely wounded and continued to lose cultivation.
• Ji Wuchang checked in at the Punishment Hall and used four years of cultivation to advance Azure Sparrow Nine-Step Kill to major accomplishment.
• Ji Wuchang visited Zeng Linghong, then told Meng Caihong the truth about Mountain-Breaking Town and admitted he had spread the news to expose a mole.
• Meng Caihong told Ji Wuchang that the ancestor and sect master had decided to destroy the Azure Sparrow Sect, and that he would leave with her the next day.

Ji Wuchang considered how to strengthen himself before the Supreme Realm enemy awakened, then joined the Longevity Sect's expedition against the Azure Sparrow Sect. The flying boat met the Great Saber Pavilion, revealing that the two sects had allied to destroy their rival.

• Ji Wuchang learned from Ji Yaoyao that he had a century before the Supreme Realm expert could retaliate, and planned to find a fifth-tier or stronger ferocious beast soul to help him break through to the Purple Mansion Realm.
• Ji Wuchang checked in at the Longevity Sect's main peak and used the reward to cultivate the second step of Heart-Treading Steps to perfection.
• Ji Wuchang saw Ancestor Zhen Nanfeng, Sect Master Zhen Yaotian, and rogue cultivator Zhou Xiaoguang join the expedition as the Longevity Sect boarded its flying boat.
• The Longevity Sect's flying boat met several hundred people from the Great Saber Pavilion, revealing that the two sects had joined forces to destroy the Azure Sparrow Sect.

The Longevity Sect and Great Saber Pavilion attacked the Azure Sparrow Sect, while Ji Wuchang fought his way to its main peak to check in and then entered its treasure pavilion. Ji Yaoyao found soul nourishing wood inside and asked Ji Wuchang to bring it to her.

• Zhen Nanfeng, Zhao Zhen, and Zhou Xiaoguang arrived with their forces and began destroying the Azure Sparrow Sect.
• Zhen Yaotian and Zhao Sandao led the Longevity Sect and Great Saber Pavilion disciples in an assault that engulfed the sect in battle.
• Ji Wuchang and Tian Shuang fought through the Azure Sparrow Sect to its main peak, where Ji Wuchang checked in and used his reward to cultivate Slash Wind and Thunder and Jade Shattering Finger.
• Ji Wuchang and Tian Shuang went to the treasure pavilion, and Ji Yaoyao broke its protective barrier when Tian Shuang could not.
• Ji Yaoyao located soul nourishing wood in a black box on the third floor, and Ji Wuchang retrieved it and gave it to her.

After the Azure Sparrow Sect fell, Ji Wuchang traveled around Boyun Province while searching for a powerful beast soul to prepare for the Purple Mansion Realm. He finally obtained an eighth-tier Three-Legged Golden Crow Beast Soul and decided to return to the sect before absorbing it.

• Ji Wuchang found nothing in the Azure Sparrow Sect's treasure pavilion and saw Qing Yuhe and Qing Hongzi dead as the sect's disciples fled.
• After the Longevity Sect and Great Saber Pavilion left, Ji Wuchang checked in at the Azure Sparrow Sect's main peak and used two years of cultivation to bring Wheel of Blazing Flames to minor mastery.
• Over two months, Ji Wuchang traveled through Boyun Province, perfected three combat techniques, and reached the Foundation Establishment Realm seventh layer, but failed to find a suitable beast soul.
• Ji Wuchang used three prize draws and received fortune points and an eighth-tier Three-Legged Golden Crow Beast Soul.
• Ji Yaoyao questioned Ji Wuchang about the beast soul, and he joked that he had won it in a prize draw before she vanished into the ring.
• Ji Wuchang decided to wait until the Foundation Establishment Realm ninth layer to absorb the beast soul and remembered that the sect's disciple ranking tournament had ended.

Ji Wuchang learned that the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall planned to attack the Longevity Sect and demand his surrender, while a Sword Alliance expert also threatened the sect. He hurried home and found the Longevity Sect had strengthened its defenses and prepared for the danger.

• Ji Wuchang heard that the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall was targeting the Longevity Sect and suspected its actions were meant to draw him out.
• Xiao Xuan warned Ji Wuchang that the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall was preparing to attack with a Soul Splitting Realm Ninth Level expert, and that a Sword Alliance member from the Azure Sparrow Sect might also be returning to Boyun Province.
• Ji Wuchang refused to leave with Xiao Xuan and rushed toward the Longevity Sect using the Wind and Thunder Great Void Steps.
• Ji Wuchang reached the Longevity Sect ten days later and learned that Fourth Elder Yin Shuyao had advanced to the Soul Splitting Realm.
• Ji Wuchang told Meng Caihong about the threats, and she reassured him that the ancestor and the others had already made preparations.

After mastering Silent Extinction Netherlight Slash in Wind Thunder Valley, Ji Wuchang learned that he and Cai Ping would represent the Longevity Sect at Yunchuan Academy’s selection and Three Provinces Arena Trial. Before their departure, Meng Caihong offered him a fifth-rank azure swallow beast soul, but Ji Wuchang revealed he had already prepared one and agreed to spend his remaining days at the sect guiding the younger disciples.

• Ji Wuchang completed ten days of check-ins in Wind Thunder Valley and mastered Silent Extinction Netherlight Slash.
• Cai Ping brought Ji Wuchang to Zhen Yaotian, who assigned him and Cai Ping the Longevity Sect’s two Yunchuan Academy slots and told them to leave for Jiang He City in three days.
• Zhen Yaotian said the sixth elder would accompany them and named Jin Enting and Li Junxia among the other candidates for the Three Provinces Arena Trial.
• Ji Wuchang told Meng Caihong about the journey, and she gave him a fifth-rank azure swallow beast soul to help him open his Purple Mansion.
• Ji Wuchang returned the beast soul, explaining that he had already prepared one, and agreed to guide the younger disciples before departing.

The Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall and Sword Alliance attacked the Longevity Sect and demanded that it surrender Huang Wanqiu, Zuo Yan, Ji Wuchang, and Cai Ping. As both sides prepared to fight, Ji Wuchang recognized the supreme resentful demon blood the enemy intended to use against the sect’s defensive formation and warned Zhen Nanfeng.

• Ji Wuchang saw a flying boat and six Soul Splitting Realm experts arrive as the Longevity Sect’s enemy-warning bell rang.
• The Sword Alliance woman attacked the defensive barrier, while the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall’s old man demanded four people, including Ji Wuchang, in exchange for withdrawing.
• Zhen Nanfeng refused to surrender anyone and ordered the Longevity Sect disciples to assemble for battle.
• Meng Caihong sent the other Little Bamboo Peak disciples to shelter in Wind Thunder Valley and brought Ji Wuchang and Linghong to join the fight.
• The indifferent old man brought out a drop of supreme resentful demon blood, and Ji Wuchang warned Zhen Nanfeng not to let it touch the defensive formation.

Supreme resentful demon blood destroyed the Longevity Sect’s defensive formation and threw the attackers’ flying boat into chaos, after which Zhen Nanfeng and the sect’s defenders launched a fierce battle. Ji Wuchang killed several opponents, including the Purple Mansion Realm Second Layer Hei Tie, while the fighting spread across the sect and intensified.

• Zhen Nanfeng used a Spirit Weapon shield and a porcelain bottle to try to stop the supreme resentful demon blood, but sword light shattered the bottle and a Crimson Fox swallowed the blood before rotting into a deadly rain.
• The blood rain killed people aboard the attackers’ flying boat and destroyed the Longevity Sect’s defensive formation, while Ji Wuchang’s warning kept the sect’s leaders from being struck directly.
• Zhen Nanfeng, Zhen Yaotian, Meng Caihong, and the other leaders engaged the attackers, while Ji Wuchang and Tian Shuang joined the battle and Jia Yuanliang led the Longevity Sect’s disciples into the sky.
• Ji Wuchang killed two attackers at the Foundation Establishment Realm, then defeated Hei Tie, a Purple Mansion Realm Second Layer fighter, and received 150 Fortune Points.
• Battles spread throughout the Longevity Sect as Zhen Nanfeng was pressured by two Soul Splitting Realm Ninth Layer opponents, Zhen Yaotian held the upper hand against his foes, and the fighting reached a white-hot intensity.

The Longevity Sect fought off an assault by the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall as Zhen Yaotian and Ji Wuchang turned the tide against their attackers. Ji Wuchang continued helping allies across the battlefield and ended the chapter killing a Purple Mansion Realm Fourth Layer opponent.

• Huang Wanqiu fought through her wounds while the Longevity Sect disciples charged the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall.
• The cold-faced old man sent Zhen Nanfeng crashing into the ground, but Zhen Nanfeng rose and attacked again alongside his split soul.
• Zhen Yaotian used the Longevity Sword Art, Ten Thousand Swords Kill, to destroy an enemy’s body, and Ji Wuchang captured the fleeing Primordial Spirit for Ji Yaoyao.
• Ji Wuchang rescued Chen Boyu and Duan Junsheng, then killed the attacker who had sent Zuo Yan flying.
• Ji Wuchang wounded a Purple Mansion Realm Fourth Layer old man with Dark Moon Kill and killed him with the second step of Heart-Treading Steps.

The Flowing Cloud Sect arrived to join the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall in attacking the Longevity Sect, but Zhen Nanfeng revealed a powerful statue from the ancestral grounds. The statue shattered Qing Liu’s attack and badly wounded her, leaving the battle’s balance uncertain.

• As the Longevity Sect began gaining ground against the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall, Li Xiangya and Li Pei arrived with over a hundred Flowing Cloud Sect disciples.
• Li Xiangya joined Wu Ming and Qing Liu in calling for the Longevity Sect’s destruction, while Ji Wuchang recognized Zhou Jinyi among the newcomers.
• Qing Liu, Wu Ming, and Li Xiangya charged at Zhen Nanfeng, and he summoned a towering statue that shattered Qing Liu’s sword strike.
• The statue struck Qing Liu with its stone hammers, pulverizing her left shoulder and hand and sending her flying backward.