Chapter Summaries

Xie Feng defended Sushang and Zhou Jin after they injured Liu Yi, showering Liu Yi with Dao Crystals and challenging the academy’s ruling as unfair. The Grand Elder canceled the disciples’ punishment, while Fang Tianxing and Liu Yi remained furious and plotted revenge.

• Fang Tianxing accused Sushang and the others of brutally attacking Liu Yi and demanded that Qi Yuan answer for it.
• Xie Feng arrived, heard the accusations, and threw two hundred thousand Dao Crystals at Liu Yi to pay for his treatment.
• Grand Elder Liang Qian proposed that Sushang and Zhou Jin reflect behind closed doors for three days, but Xie Feng rejected the punishment and questioned the academy’s rules.
• Liang Qian canceled the punishment and said he would consider Xie Feng’s argument, then dismissed the crowd.
• Liu Yi panicked about being crippled, while Fang Tianxing angrily vowed to get revenge on Xie Feng.

Xie Feng broke through to the sixth stage of the Dao God Realm while cultivating, then found Sushang waiting beside his bed and taught her sword might in a space of consciousness. The chapter ended with Sushang practicing and Xie Feng promising to find her a sacred fire.

• Xie Feng cultivated with his chaos sacred demon body and advanced from the tenth stage of the Dao Heaven Realm to the sixth stage of the Dao God Realm.
• Sushang waited for Xie Feng to finish cultivating because she did not want to sleep alone and had missed talking with him.
• Xie Feng brought Sushang into a space of consciousness and taught her about sword might, and she demonstrated fourth-grade sword might with the Radiant Sun Sword.
• Xie Feng told Sushang that her Silken Immortal Fire could no longer keep up with her cultivation and promised to look for a sacred fire.
• Sushang returned the Azure Profound Fan to Xie Feng, and he accepted it before telling her to keep practicing her sword might.

Xie Feng met with Gu Xuan, who admired his newfound bluntness, and learned that Shadow-Veiling College disciples had killed ten Wuyou College students. Gu Xuan directed him to Azure Bird Mountain to claim rare martial dao source, where the Extreme Dao Sword sensed something unusual.

• An elder summoned Xie Feng to meet Gu Xuan, who raised Fang Tianxing’s repeated complaints about him.
• Xie Feng openly criticized Fang Tianxing and threatened to shut him up if the harassment continued, earning Gu Xuan’s admiration.
• A disciple reported that Shadow-Veiling College had attacked Wuyou College disciples during training and devoured ten of their souls, prompting Gu Xuan to order the vice dean to handle the matter.
• Xie Feng asked where martial dao source was stored, and Gu Xuan sent him to the Eight-Foot Land on Azure Bird Mountain to claim three drops.
• Xie Feng searched Azure Bird Mountain for the source, and the Extreme Dao Sword told him to wait when he reached a certain spot.

Xie Feng found a hidden cave beneath Wuyou College and discovered an icebound sphere linked to the Extreme Dao Sword. As he and Changying worked to melt it, the sphere’s contents remained unknown, and Changying persuaded Xie Feng to give her the Void Heaven Spirit Eyes scroll.

• The Extreme Dao Sword sensed its lost presence beneath Wuyou College, opened a concealed passage, and led Xie Feng into a sealed, ice-filled cave.
• Xie Feng found a vast icebound sphere that the Extreme Dao Sword recognized as something it had lost, though it could not remember what it was.
• Xie Feng used the Northern Nether Illusory Emperor Flame to melt the sphere and destroyed a signal trying to escape with his Dao laws.
• Changying arrived and added the waters of Guixu to the attack, accelerating the sphere’s melting; Xie Feng noticed that her cultivation had risen to the Dao God Realm First Stage.
• Changying asked Xie Feng to teach her the Void Heaven Spirit Eyes, and he gave her the scroll.

Xie Feng killed Fang Tianxing after Fang Tianxing realized he was impersonating Qi Yuan, then encountered Vice Dean Qi Feng, who noticed his changes and offered to retrieve his Martial Dao Source. The chapter ended with Qi Feng watching Xie Feng with predatory interest and an introduction to the soul-devouring Nether Clan.

• Fang Tianxing accused Xie Feng of impersonating Qi Yuan and attacked him, but Xie Feng silenced him with pressure and burned him to nothing with Emperor Fire.
• Changying left Xie Feng to return to cultivation, and Xie Feng encountered Vice Dean Qi Feng on the way back to his residence.
• Qi Feng asked Xie Feng about recruiting disciples and praised him after learning he had trained the three disciples who crippled Liu Yi.
• Xie Feng asked where to collect his three drops of Martial Dao Source, and Qi Feng offered to bring them to his residence.
• Qi Feng watched Xie Feng leave with a predatory gaze, and the narration described the Nether Clan as ghostly evil cultivators who grew stronger by devouring souls.

Xie Feng reached the Corpse-Burying Sea seeking a suitable flame, but two vice deans of Shadow-Veiling College ambushed him on the way to Flame Island. Elsewhere, Jiang Fei confessed her determination to pursue Ge Ya, who heard her words while hiding from her.

• Xie Feng traveled across the Corpse-Burying Sea toward Flame Island and discovered Bai Lin and Shu Jiu tracking him.
• Bai Lin and Shu Jiu identified themselves as Shadow-Veiling College vice deans and prepared to fight Xie Feng.
• Xie Feng invoked Demon Emperor Ge Ya, but Bai Lin and Shu Jiu did not recognize the name.
• Ge Ya sneezed, noticed Jiang Fei approaching, and fled into a crevice in the starry sky.
• Jiang Fei declared that she would pursue Ge Ya, and Ge Ya heard her confession and reacted with a cold laugh.

Xie Feng defeated Bai Lin and Shu Jiu, then demanded to see Flame Island’s lord, dismissing the island’s protectors as too low in status. His token failed to impress Lin Sui, who attacked him, and an enraged blue-robed figure appeared.

• Xie Feng crushed Bai Lin and killed Shu Jiu with his supreme Sword Intent.
• Flame Island’s protectors, including Cheng Liu and Lin Sui, confronted Xie Feng after he restored the damaged land.
• Xie Feng asked to see the island lord and told the protectors their status was not enough.
• Xie Feng showed the protectors a token bearing the same symbols as their badges, but Lin Sui dismissed it and attacked him with a fire dragon.
• An enormous palm knocked Lin Sui and the fire dragon to the ground, and a powerful blue-robed figure appeared, leaving Cheng Liu alarmed.

Xie Feng revealed the Flame Emperor Token, and Ge Kuangwo recognized him as the junior brother of the Demon Emperor Chu Kuang, whom he revered. After welcoming Xie Feng to Flame Island, Ge Kuangwo hosted him, while Xie Feng noticed the island’s unusual reliance on Dao Power for healing.

• Ge Kuangwo arrived, identified Xie Feng’s token as the Flame Emperor Token, and punished Lin Sui for attacking its bearer.
• Ge Kuangwo explained that Chu Kuang had once saved Flame Island and made the token for him.
• Xie Feng said Chu Kuang was his senior brother, leaving Ge Kuangwo, Lin Sui, and the others shocked.
• Ge Kuangwo treated Xie Feng with deference and invited him onto Flame Island.
• Xie Feng observed a child’s wound being treated with Dao Power rather than medicine and considered the practice.
• Ge Kuangwo brought Xie Feng to the finest reception hall and had a lavish spread of food served.

Xie Feng visited Flame Island to find a powerful flame, and Ge Kuangwo showed him the island’s two Emperor Fires. The Northern Nether Illusory Emperor Flame within Xie Feng subdued them, and he revealed it to an astonished Ge Kuangwo.

• Ge Kuangwo enthusiastically offered Xie Feng wine and a feast, but Xie Feng declined the food and asked to discuss business.
• Xie Feng told Ge Kuangwo he had come to find a flame, and Ge Kuangwo said the Flame Emperor Token let him take anything from Flame Island.
• Ge Kuangwo led Xie Feng to a secret lava chamber and showed him a pale blue Emperor Fire and a golden yellow Emperor Fire.
• The Northern Nether Illusory Emperor Flame stirred within Xie Feng, causing both Emperor Fires to shrink back into their lotus bases.
• Xie Feng revealed a wisp of the Northern Nether Illusory Emperor Flame, and Ge Kuangwo recognized its immense power and asked its name.

Xie Feng obtained the Void Mysterious Emperor Flame for Sushang and repaid Flame Island with a large supply of pills. Back at Wuyou College, Qi Feng revealed that he was an evil cultivator and lunged at Xie Feng to make him his cultivation furnace.

• Ge Kuangwo explained the qualities of Flame Island’s two Emperor Fires, and Xie Feng chose the Void Mysterious Emperor Flame for Sushang.
• Xie Feng gave Ge Kuangwo three thousand bottles of pills, and Ge Kuangwo accepted them with gratitude.
• Xie Feng returned to Wuyou College, asked Zhou Jin to send Sushang to see him, and found Qi Feng waiting in his residence with his Martial Dao Source.
• Qi Feng admitted he was an evil cultivator and demanded to harvest Xie Feng as his cultivation furnace.
• Xie Feng noted that Qi Feng was only at the Seventh Stage of the Dao God Realm, and Qi Feng transformed and lunged at him.

Xie Feng killed Qi Feng, gave Sushang the Void Mysterious Emperor Flame, and absorbed Qi Feng’s Martial Dao Source. He advanced from the sixth to the seventh stage of the Dao God Realm.

• Xie Feng trapped Qi Feng in a domain, beheaded him with Cherished Wine Cup, and burned his remains to nothing with Emperor Fire.
• Sushang came to Xie Feng’s courtyard, and he gave her the Void Mysterious Emperor Flame to refine.
• Sushang accepted the Emperor Fire and kissed Xie Feng’s cheek before running away.
• Xie Feng examined Qi Feng’s three drops of Martial Dao Source and absorbed their power without finding any tampering.
• Xie Feng advanced to the seventh stage of the Dao God Realm, and the Extreme Dao Sword said the source was power it had shed, like hair or fingernails.

Shadow King confronted Wuyou College over Qi Yuan killing two Shadow-Veiling College vice deans and demanded that Qi Yuan be handed over. Gu Xuan refused and declared war, prompting Shadow King to summon the Nether Clan’s elite army.

• Xie Feng heard that Shadow-Veiling College had attacked Wuyou College and went to a high cliff to watch the confrontation.
• Shadow King accused Qi Yuan of killing Bai Lin and Shu Jiu in the Corpse-Burying Sea, and he showed their extinguished soul plaques as proof of their deaths.
• Gu Xuan and Liang Qian rejected Shadow King's accusation and defended Qi Yuan, while Shadow King admitted his vice deans had died pursuing him.
• Shadow King demanded that Wuyou College hand Qi Yuan over for execution, but Gu Xuan refused and said the colleges would go to war.
• Shadow King summoned an immense Nether Clan army that filled the sky and shook the land.

Xie Feng revealed his identity to Wuyou College and fought the Shadow King as Shadow-Veiling College and the Nether Clan attacked. He blasted the Shadow King away with the Northern Nether Illusory Emperor Flame while the Extreme Dao Sword sensed a summons from the frozen sphere.

• Xie Feng appeared beside Gu Xuan and revealed that he was not Qi Yuan but Xie Feng.
• The Shadow King accused Xie Feng of killing Bai Lin and Shu Jiu, then ordered the Nether Clan army and Shadow-Veiling College to attack Wuyou College.
• Gu Xuan ordered Wuyou College to fight, while Liang Qian led the charge and other elders organized the disciples' evacuation.
• The Extreme Dao Sword sensed a familiar summons from the sphere of ice in the hidden space and said a memory was forming.
• Xie Feng warned the Shadow King to leave, then struck him with a palm of Northern Nether Illusory Emperor Flame, shattering his sword and engulfing him in fire.

Xie Feng awakened the Extreme Dao Sword’s restored edge and used its silver dragon to destroy the Shadow King, the Nether Clan’s army, and Shadow-Veiling College’s forces. After the victory, Gu Xuan thanked him and offered him the position of vice dean at Wuyou College.

• The Extreme Dao Sword recalled the edge it had left in the Dao Realm and summoned a vast silver dragon of Sword Qi that submitted to Xie Feng.
• Xie Feng sent the silver dragon through the Shadow King, annihilating him so completely that he could not reform.
• The silver dragon swept through the Nether Clan’s elites and Shadow-Veiling College’s elders, wiping them out while Wuyou College suffered little damage.
• The Extreme Dao Sword returned to Xie Feng’s cuff, having recovered its edge, and Xie Feng recognized that its revealed power could attract covetous attention.
• Gu Xuan thanked Xie Feng for saving Wuyou College, then privately acknowledged his claim to the Sword Qi and offered him the vice dean position.

Xie Feng negotiated compensation with Gu Xuan for the Extreme Dao Sword Qi and received the Extreme Dao Sword Art instead of Dao Crystals. After Gu Xuan warned him about the Nether Clan, Xie Feng agreed to represent the Dust Clan in its coming duel, and they prepared to return to the imperial city.

• Xie Feng demanded interest for the forty thousand years the Extreme Dao Sword Qi had sheltered Wuyou College, and Gu Xuan offered him the Extreme Dao Sword Art in exchange.
• Gu Xuan warned Xie Feng that the Nether Clan would retaliate for the deaths of its elites, but Xie Feng said his senior brother was the Demon Emperor, Chu Kuang.
• Gu Xuan believed Xie Feng was Chu Kuang’s junior brother and asked him to help the Dust Clan win its duel against the Nether Clan.
• Xie Feng agreed to help after asking what the Dust Clan could offer, and Gu Xuan said they would return to the imperial city to meet the clan leader.

Chen Ling, the Dust Clan’s patriarch, tested Xie Feng’s strength and learned he could counter her without using the Extreme Dao Sword. She gave him unrestricted access to the clan’s cultivation towers and resources to prepare for his duel with Xuan Mao in one month.

• Gu Xuan introduced Xie Feng to Chen Ling, who could not see through his strength and asked to speak with him privately.
• Chen Ling suddenly attacked Xie Feng to test him, but he stopped her fingers with his northern nether illusory emperor flame.
• Chen Ling escalated with a sword formed from her power, and Xie Feng countered with a fire dragon; their clash devastated the surrounding hundred li before Chen Ling restored it.
• Chen Ling told Xie Feng that his opponent was Xuan Mao, the Nether Clan’s holy maiden, who might have reached the Dao Venerable Realm.
• Xie Feng pointed out that he was only at the seventh stage of the Dao God Realm and asked for help cultivating, so Chen Ling granted him access to every cultivation tower and resource before the duel in one month.

Xie Feng discovered the Literary Dao and spent the night studying its cultivation methods, while Sushang merged two powerful flames and advanced rapidly. At the inner court, Mu Lin found Zhou Jin and reacted to his pure Heavenly Dog bloodline.

• Xie Feng entered the gold tower’s library, found a Literary Dao scroll, and took several related cultivation methods back to his room.
• Xie Feng read through the night, resolving to cultivate the Literary Dao using the writings and poetry of his former world.
• Sushang merged the Void Mysterious Emperor Flame with the Silken Immortal Fire and rose from the seventh stage of the Dao Emptiness Realm to the seventh stage of the Dao God Realm.
• Mu Lin approached Zhou Jin while he cultivated and identified his Heavenly Dog bloodline as completely pure.
• Mu Lin released his own, thinner Heavenly Dog bloodline power before Zhou Jin.

Mu Lin told Zhou Jin that he carried the Heavenly Dog Clan’s imperial bloodline and could awaken it by enduring a severe beating. Zhou Jin asked Changying and Sushang to attack him, and after their combined assault, he felt that the bloodline was beginning to stir.

• Mu Lin explained how King Nu and King Xiao had driven him from Dawn Forest, then revealed that Zhou Jin carried an unawakened trace of the Dog Emperor’s bloodline.
• Mu Lin said Zhou Jin could awaken the bloodline by being beaten severely, and Zhou Jin decided to try it.
• Zhou Jin asked Changying to hit him, but her punch caused no noticeable change.
• Sushang attacked Zhou Jin with her Primordial White Tiger strength and Void Mysterious Emperor Flame, leaving him badly injured without awakening his bloodline.
• Zhou Jin told Changying and Sushang to attack together, and their combined palm strike and Emperor Fire swallowed him in a storm of power.

Zhou Jin awakened his supreme imperial bloodline, drawing the attention of King Nu and King Xiao, while Xie Feng entered the Literary Dao and demonstrated his immense power at the Dust Clan’s martial training ground. The chapter left Xie Feng’s young audience crushed beneath his Dao God Realm pressure.

• Zhou Jin’s apparent destruction triggered his rebirth as a hundred-foot Heavenly Dog with an imperial bloodline, raising his cultivation to the tenth stage of the Dao God Realm.
• Mu Lin sensed Zhou Jin’s imperial presence, while Nu Fengtao and Jiangxiao recognized it and hurried toward its source.
• Xie Feng opened five hundred literary meridians in one night, reaching the Literary Student realm without learning any Literary Dao skills.
• Gu Xuan invited Xie Feng to observe the young cultivators sparring and asked him to offer them guidance.
• Xie Feng released Dao God Realm pressure across the martial training ground, overwhelming the young cultivators and forcing many to their knees.

Xie Feng faced the Nether Clan’s Holy Maiden, Xuan Mao, when she came to the Dust Clan to challenge him. After they clashed with palms and swords, Xuan Mao destroyed much of the training grounds, and Xie Feng demanded that she pay for the damage.

• Xie Feng’s pressure helped several youths break through, and Gu Xuan identified him to the gathered clanspeople as the man invited to deal with the Nether Clan.
• Xuan Mao arrived at the training grounds and demanded to see Xie Feng, then challenged him to fight.
• Xie Feng refused at first, but he and Xuan Mao exchanged palm strikes and found that neither had the advantage.
• Xuan Mao drew the holy sword Netherworld, and her sword clashed with Xie Feng’s Cherished Wine Cup Sword, wrecking the training grounds.
• Xuan Mao prepared to leave, but Xie Feng stopped her and demanded that she pay for the destruction; she refused and insisted that strength decided what was right.