Chapter Summaries

Ye Qiubai endured Immortal Sword Intent body tempering and passed the first trial of the inheritance secret realm alongside Zhuang Zidong and the others. The chapter left Mu Fusheng and Ning Xi facing off before a soul-filled secret realm.

• Ye Qiubai withdrew his Sword Domain and discovered that the Immortal Sword Intent was tempering his body rather than killing him.
• Several people withdrew from the trial, but Ye Qiubai endured two hours of pain and passed, strengthening his physique and stabilizing his cultivation.
• Zhuang Zidong also passed the body-tempering trial, surprising Ye Qiubai with how well he endured it.
• Yuezheng Chi, Qiu Lu, Su Hao, and another person completed the trial, and Ye Qiubai continued onward with Zhuang Zidong.
• Mu Fusheng and Ning Xi faced each other with talisman brushes and swords drawn before a secret realm filled with the presence of souls.

Mu Fusheng exposed the soul entity possessing Ning Xi and fought back against its attempt to devour his soul. He revealed that he had prepared lightning shields coated in soul power to block the entity’s attacks.

• Mu Fusheng deduced that Ning Xi had been possessed after noticing how unnaturally he acted and answered questions.
• Mu Fusheng baited the possessed Ning Xi into attacking, then confirmed that the soul entity retained Ning Xi’s strength and had a more powerful soul.
• The soul entity revealed that it wanted to devour Mu Fusheng’s soul to recover its strength.
• The soul entity attacked Mu Fusheng with soul needles while inscribing a talisman, but Mu Fusheng’s lightning shields stopped the needles.
• Mu Fusheng revealed that he had prepared a vast number of talismans to counter soul attacks and coated his lightning shields with soul power.

Mu Fusheng used his soul-defense talismans to convince Ning Xi and the onlookers that he was a reincarnated mighty expert, then exploited Ning Xi’s suspicion to kill him. He burned Ning Xi’s body and made the four witnesses promise to keep what happened secret.

• Mu Fusheng revealed that his lightning shields were reinforced with Earth Immortal-grade soul-defense talismans, leading Ning Xi and the four onlookers to suspect he was a reincarnated mighty expert.
• Mu Fusheng offered to help Ning Xi recover his strength, and Ning Xi agreed not to target him if Mu Fusheng left him alone.
• After Mu Fusheng removed his lightning shields, Ning Xi launched a surprise soul attack, but it struck only Mu Fusheng’s afterimage.
• Mu Fusheng appeared behind Ning Xi and used a Heavenly Immortal-grade offensive talisman to destroy his body, dantian, and soul.
• Mu Fusheng burned Ning Xi’s remains and had the four witnesses promise not to reveal what they had seen.

Mu Fusheng weighed whether to silence the four who believed he was a reincarnated talisman master, while Ye Qiubai and the others entered the inheritance secret realm and discovered a deadly sword trial. After a rogue sword cultivator was drained of his Sword Intent and soul, Qiu Lu suggested the group advance together.

• Mu Fusheng decided he might have to silence the four witnesses to protect himself from future trouble.
• Ye Qiubai, Zhuang Zidong, Yuezheng Chi, Qiu Lu, Su Hao, and a rogue sword cultivator entered the secret realm and saw a palace beneath a powerful stone pillar, surrounded by thousands of swords.
• The rogue sword cultivator asked Ye Qiubai to scout ahead, but Ye Qiubai struck him back with a single blow, revealing his formidable strength.
• The rogue sword cultivator crossed the pit toward the palace, and the suspended swords followed his movements before plunging into him and pinning him to the ground.
• The swords drained the rogue sword cultivator's Sword Intent and soul until he withered into a skeleton, prompting Qiu Lu to suggest that the others proceed together.

Ye Qiubai and the others crossed the sword-filled pit together, fending off an escalating barrage as they approached the palace. When Zhuang Zidong suddenly attacked Ye Qiubai, Ye Qiubai escaped with a Heavenly Lightning Escape Talisman, confirming his suspicion that Zhuang Zidong had been possessed, then struck back from the palace entrance.

• Yuezheng Chi, Ye Qiubai, Zhuang Zidong, Qiu Lu, and Su Hao entered the pit in formation and advanced toward the palace beneath the stone pillar.
• When they reached the sword cultivator's remains, ten thousand swords attacked, and the five fought back with their Sword Intent while pushing onward.
• As the swords attacked more fiercely, Zhuang Zidong abandoned his sword and lunged at Ye Qiubai.
• Ye Qiubai used a Heavenly Lightning Escape Talisman to appear at the palace entrance, confirming his suspicion that Zhuang Zidong was possessed.
• Ye Qiubai stayed outside the palace and slashed at Zhuang Zidong with the Primordial Immortal Sword.

Ye Qiubai used the ten-thousand-sword trial to attack the possessed Zhuang Zidong and kill him. Yuezheng Chi, Qiu Lu, and Su Hao survived the trial as Zhuang Zidong died.

• Ye Qiubai escaped Zhuang Zidong’s attempt to possess him and attacked while the ten thousand swords restrained Zhuang Zidong.
• Qiu Lu and Su Hao urged Ye Qiubai to stop, but Ye Qiubai continued fighting as Yuezheng Chi focused on surviving the trial.
• Zhuang Zidong countered Ye Qiubai with a powerful flaming palm, but Ye Qiubai pressed on with sword strikes, lightning, and his Sword Domain.
• As the swords pinned and weakened him, Zhuang Zidong offered information, treasures, and help attaining the Immortal Sword, but Ye Qiubai refused.
• The swords drained Zhuang Zidong’s soul and body until he died, and Ye Qiubai turned toward Yuezheng Chi, Qiu Lu, and Su Hao after they passed the trial.

Ye Qiubai confronted Qiu Lu and Su Hao after they accused him of killing Zhuang Zidong, then entered the palace with the others to face the final inheritance trial. A sealed old swordsman revealed that the trial required inheritors to take up his stone sword and defeat one another.

• Qiu Lu accused Ye Qiubai of dishonorable conduct, and Su Hao threatened to report him to the Su Clan.
• Ye Qiubai dismissed Qiu Lu’s schemes and exposed his stalled Sword Dao, leaving Qiu Lu visibly angered.
• Ye Qiubai, Qiu Lu, Su Hao, and Yuezheng Chi entered the palace and found a skeleton bound beneath a stone pillar.
• The skeleton’s soul appeared and explained that the pillar prevented him from possessing anyone and that he sought an inheritor for his Sword Dao.
• The old swordsman announced the final trial: an inheritor had to take up the stone sword and defeat the others.

Ye Qiubai took up the stone sword and defeated Su Hao in the first challenge, leaving Yuezheng Chi and Qiu Lu to compete for the next turn. Yuezheng Chi approached Ye Qiubai with his guqin and prepared to fight.

• Ye Qiubai took the stone sword after the others hesitated, accepting that it would be shattered if he lost it.
• Su Hao challenged Ye Qiubai, but Ye Qiubai used his Sword Domain and Transcendent Sword Intent to disarm and wound him.
• Ye Qiubai taunted Su Hao by comparing him unfavorably with Su Muyou, and Su Hao spat blood after his Dao heart was shaken.
• Qiu Lu asked Yuezheng Chi who would challenge Ye Qiubai next, and Yuezheng Chi criticized Qiu Lu's indecision.
• Yuezheng Chi approached Ye Qiubai with his guqin and said Ye Qiubai's strength and sword were inadequate.

Ye Qiubai fought Yuezheng Chi, a sword cultivator who entered the Sword Dao through music, and learned why Heavenly Sword Peak had expelled him. As Yuezheng Chi unleashed his full strength, Ye Qiubai prepared to meet the assault with his Sword Domain, the stone sword, and two bolts of world-destroying lightning.

• Ye Qiubai asked Yuezheng Chi why Heavenly Sword Peak expelled him, and Yuezheng Chi explained that he had been blamed for a genius’s actions before discovering how music could connect to the Sword Dao.
• Yuezheng Chi attacked with sword intent carried by zither melodies, but Ye Qiubai used his Sword Domain and stone sword to block the four strikes.
• Su Hao watched Ye Qiubai withstand the attack, while Qiu Lu studied Yuezheng Chi’s techniques in preparation for his own fight.
• Yuezheng Chi increased his attack, turning his melodies into a vast army that charged at Ye Qiubai from the ground and sky.
• Ye Qiubai summoned countless swords within his Sword Domain, gathered an Intent of Unending Life around the stone sword, and began forming two bolts of world-destroying lightning.

Ye Qiubai defeated Yuezheng Chi by unleashing the Yin-Yang World-Destroying Lightning Art while protecting the stone sword from its destructive backlash. After Yuezheng Chi conceded, Ye Qiubai turned his attention to Qiu Lu and asked whether he would concede too.

• Ye Qiubai combined yin and yang lightning on the stone sword, using faint green light to keep the sword intact as he unleashed the technique.
• Ye Qiubai’s lightning pillar swallowed Yuezheng Chi’s army of musical soldiers and dragons, forcing Yuezheng Chi to play his strongest melody, Sword Melody, Mountains and Rivers Overturned.
• The lightning pillar and Sword Intent storm canceled each other out, but Yuezheng Chi’s ancient zither lost three strings and its backlash badly injured him.
• Ye Qiubai remained standing with the undamaged stone sword, and Yuezheng Chi admitted defeat and said he would visit Heavenly Sword Peak again to challenge him.
• Ye Qiubai turned toward Qiu Lu, who stepped back, and asked whether he would concede.

Qiu Lu feigned retreat before launching a surprise attack on Ye Qiubai, aiming to destroy his stone sword and make him fail the trial. Ye Qiubai used Yin-Yang World Annihilation Lightning to break the assault, then unleashed his Sword Domain as Qiu Lu charged again.

• Qiu Lu mocked Ye Qiubai's exhaustion but hesitated to challenge him, then pretended to abandon the inheritance and leave.
• Qiu Lu suddenly reappeared and attacked Ye Qiubai's stone sword, exploiting his exhaustion and preventing him from using his Sword Domain.
• Ye Qiubai struggled to defend the stone sword as Qiu Lu pressed his advantage, while the old man chose not to intervene.
• Ye Qiubai unleashed Yin-Yang World Annihilation Lightning, blasting Qiu Lu away and creating distance between them.
• Qiu Lu charged again, and Ye Qiubai released his Sword Domain as the essence of heaven and earth gathered on his stone sword.

Ye Qiubai used the Primordial Sword Scripture’s Demon Breaking strike to kill Qiu Lu, then returned the stone sword to its platform and collapsed from exhaustion. Su Hao recognized the gap between them, broke through to the Middle Turbid Immortal Realm, and left the palace.

• Ye Qiubai gathered the palace’s dim black light into the stone sword while enduring Qiu Lu’s attacks.
• Ye Qiubai’s Demon Breaking strike shattered Qiu Lu’s flexible sword, pierced his chest, and destroyed his body and soul.
• Ye Qiubai returned the stone sword to the platform and collapsed, while the old man recognized that he was only exhausted.
• Yuezheng Chi doubted whether he could withstand Ye Qiubai’s strike, and Su Hao realized why his family valued Ye Qiubai.
• Su Hao resolved to cultivate diligently, broke through to the Middle Turbid Immortal Realm, and left the palace.

The elder restored Ye Qiubai, examined his powerful cultivation method, unusual constitution, and stable foundation, then placed his inheritance in Ye Qiubai’s Second Dantian. Elsewhere, Pan Xie threatened seven captives as a woman named Pan Xie’s ancient warning about Avici Purgatory went unanswered.

• Yuezheng Chi and Su Hao left the palace after Ye Qiubai collapsed, while Qiu Lu was dead.
• The elder restored Ye Qiubai and discovered that his cultivation method, constitution, and foundation surpassed the elder’s expectations.
• The elder found a rudimentary Second Dantian shaped like a sword and used his remaining strength to refine it with his inheritance, causing Ye Qiubai’s presence to rise.
• Pan Xie used a small pagoda and a red banner to suppress seven people and demanded their souls.
• A woman among the seven warned Pan Xie that his actions could bring about the same fate as ancient Avici Purgatory.

Xiao Hei challenged Pan Xie to protect Su Muyou despite the suppressive power of Pan Xie's small tower. He unleashed Demon God Descent, endured Pan Xie's soul attack without harm, and drew the attention of the enormous skeleton behind Pan Xie.

• Pan Xie threatened Su Muyou and the others, claiming the small tower and Severed Soul City’s suppression would prevent them from resisting or alerting their clans.
• Xiao Hei warned Pan Xie not to touch Su Muyou, then stepped forward when Pan Xie attacked him with soul-corroding green flames.
• Su Muyou urged Xiao Hei to retreat, but he advanced through the growing suppression and told her to look after herself.
• Xiao Hei manifested black-and-red armor with five patterns and unleashed Demon God Descent, resisting the tower’s suppression as his presence surged.
• Xiao Hei let the green flames enter his sea of consciousness, where his bloodline power scattered them, and the skeleton behind Pan Xie seemed to raise its head.

Xiao Hei overcame Pan Xie's suppressive tower and soul-extracting flag, then shattered Pan Xie's blood palm with a single punch. As Xiao Hei reached the summit and launched another attack, Pan Xie escaped by using a talisman to distort space.

• Xiao Hei resisted Pan Xie's tower and flag and climbed the stairs while the earthfire failed to harm him.
• Pan Xie unleashed a sea of blood and formed a massive blood palm to kill Xiao Hei.
• Xiao Hei's punch shattered the blood palm, and Pan Xie recoiled in fear.
• Xiao Hei stepped onto the final stair, dispersed the earthfire storm with a punch, and charged at Pan Xie.
• Pan Xie used a talisman to twist space and vanish before Xiao Hei's attack landed.

After Pan Xie escaped, Xiao Hei saved Su Muyou and learned that the skeleton in the inheritance cave was Qu Sheng, patriarch of the Black Flame Devil Lion Race and one of the Eight Great Generals. Qu Sheng revealed that the rebels had destroyed his race and urged Xiao Hei to seek answers and his soul fragment in Severed Soul City's center.

• Pan Xie fled with a spatial escape talisman, ending the pressure on Su Muyou and the others, and the other five challengers left the cave.
• Su Muyou thanked Xiao Hei, who said he had helped because she was connected to his eldest senior brother, prompting a misunderstanding about her relationship with Ye Qiubai.
• Su Muyou asked to recover in the cave, and Xiao Hei agreed before noticing the skeleton watching him from the throne.
• The skeleton rose and knelt before Xiao Hei, identifying himself as Qu Sheng, patriarch of the Black Flame Devil Lion Race and one of the Eight Great Generals under Xiao Hei's command.
• Qu Sheng said three of the Eight Great Generals' forces, including his own, had been annihilated by the rebels, and told Xiao Hei that answers and one of his soul fragments awaited at Severed Soul City's center.
• Qu Sheng asked Xiao Hei to avenge the Black Flame Devil Lion Race once he regained his strength.

Pan Xie returned to the Blue Heaven and Yellow Springs Hall after escaping Xiao Hei, and he and Qiu Genyin discussed gathering souls to awaken Avici Purgatory’s ancestor and using Xiao Hei’s body for it. Meanwhile, Xiao Hei received the Earth Core Black Flame from Qu Sheng, whose power strengthened Xiao Hei’s Eternal Devil Body, and the cave’s flames finally subsided.

• Pan Xie arrived at the mountain hollow in a sorry state and told Qiu Genyin that Xiao Hei had grown stronger and obtained an inheritance.
• Qiu Genyin told Pan Xie to obtain an inheritance so he could enter Severed Soul City’s center, while Pan Xie proposed trapping Xiao Hei in a death zone and using his body for Avici Purgatory’s ancestor.
• Qu Sheng gave Xiao Hei the Earth Core Black Flame and asked him to reclaim the Devil Domain and avenge the Black Flame Devil Lion clan.
• Xiao Hei endured the flame’s pain as his Eternal Devil Body absorbed its power and grew stronger.
• Su Muyou reached her limit resisting the cave’s flames, then the fire and magma suddenly calmed and the barrier disappeared, revealing Xiao Hei while the skeleton remained lifeless on its throne.

Ye Qiubai received the inheritance palace elder’s help to complete his second dantian and learned it could aid his rebirth if his soul survived. As he headed toward central Severed Soul City, he found cultivators drained of their souls, while the diviner from the Dark Domain arrived to meet Lu Changsheng at the former Cottage site.

• Ye Qiubai woke in the inheritance palace at the late stage of the Blood Transformation Realm, and the elder explained that he had filled Ye Qiubai’s second dantian with his remaining strength.
• The elder told Ye Qiubai that cultivating his Sword Dao-based second dantian could eventually grant him greater Spiritual Qi reserves and help him rebuild his body if a remnant of his soul survived.
• After the elder’s soul dissipated, Ye Qiubai bowed, took a token engraved with the character for “soul,” and left the palace.
• As Ye Qiubai traveled toward central Severed Soul City, he found corpses along the route, including a Spirit Immortal Palace disciple, with their souls drained dry.
• Members of Avici Purgatory absorbed soul forms in the outer city and extracted the souls of cultivators while gathering inheritances and tokens.
• In the Wilderness Realm, the Dark Domain diviner arrived at the former Cottage site, where Lu Changsheng asked why he wanted to meet.

Lu Changsheng learned from Dong Yi that the seal holding back the Evil and Demon Realms was close to breaking and that the Mortal Realm’s fate was closely bound to him. After returning to the Changsheng Realm, he discussed the danger with Willow Tree, and a feather wreathed in Nirvana Fire appeared between them.

• Dong Yi told Lu Changsheng that he knew Lu Changsheng had entered the Immortal Realm and explained that the seal would break in ten days, leaving the Mortal Realm unable to resist the Evil and Demon Realms.
• Dong Yi revealed that his divination with Lu Changsheng’s All-Heavens Divination Grand Array showed the Mortal Realm’s fate was closely bound to Lu Changsheng, and he asked Lu Changsheng for help.
• Lu Changsheng said he would act if the threat endangered him, then left Dong Yi and returned to the Changsheng Realm.
• Willow Tree told Lu Changsheng that his path would not end with this danger and that worse karma awaited him later.
• A feather burning with Nirvana Fire appeared between Lu Changsheng and Willow Tree.

Lu Changsheng received Little Bird's distress signal and hurried to the ruined Dragon-Phoenix battlefield. He found her gravely wounded and cornered by four powerful cultivators seeking her Phoenix bloodline, just as they prepared to attack.

• Lu Changsheng recognized Little Bird's presence in a burning feather and left the Changsheng Realm to answer her plea for help.
• Lu Changsheng reached the fallen beasts' battlefield and followed Little Bird's presence through its lightning and nirvana fire.
• Lu Changsheng discovered four cultivators searching for Little Bird and learned they had wounded her while trying to seize her bloodline.
• After searching for a day, the four cultivators found Little Bird hiding in a cave, badly wounded and unable to flee.
• The four cultivators demanded that Little Bird come with them, and she prepared to resist as they threatened to show no mercy.