Chapter Summaries

After reaching Jade Qilin City, Ye Qiubai joined the Ai Clan and asked for help finding an artifact refiner capable of making an Ancestor Realm seagoing ship. Ai Shouxian sent Ai Zhi to guide him to a possible candidate, while privately hoping the two would grow closer.

• Ai Zhi asked Ye Qiubai why he had tolerated Ai Song's earlier treatment, and Ye Qiubai told her he had not taken it to heart.
• Ye Qiubai agreed to return to the Ai Clan with Ai Zhi so he could ask about finding a better seagoing ship.
• When the ship reached Jade Qilin City, Ai Song apologized to Ye Qiubai, and Ye Qiubai told him he preferred his former unruly attitude.
• Ai Shouxian welcomed Ye Qiubai, thanked him for saving Ai Zhi, and learned that he wanted an Ancestor Realm seagoing ship.
• Ai Shouxian said a possible ship artifact refiner lived outside the city and asked Ai Zhi to take Ye Qiubai there.
• After Ye Qiubai and Ai Zhi left, Ai Shouxian told the elders he hoped they might grow close and that the experience could help Ai Zhi mature.

Ye Qiubai sought Mo Xun’s help building a vessel capable of reaching a dangerous region deep in the Qingming Sea. Mo Xun warned him about the Divine Realm Qingming Beast there, but Ye Qiubai offered to supply whatever materials Mo Xun needed, leaving the craftsman interested in his proposal.

• Ai Zhi brought Ye Qiubai to Mo Xun’s pavilion, but Mo Xun angrily turned them away for arriving without notice.
• Ye Qiubai identified Mo Xun as a member of the Mo Clan, prompting Mo Xun to invite him inside and then dismiss him after learning they had merely met the clan.
• Ye Qiubai told Mo Xun that he needed a seagoing vessel capable of reaching a location deep in the Qingming Sea and withstanding its waves and Devil Beasts.
• Mo Xun said the journey required at least an upper-grade demigod vessel and warned that a Divine Realm Qingming Beast ruled that region.
• Ye Qiubai insisted that Mo Xun build the vessel and offered to obtain any materials he required.

Ye Qiubai persuaded Mo Xun to consider building his seagoing ship if he could gather a list of rare materials. After returning to the Ai Clan, he learned that the four circled materials were extraordinarily difficult to obtain, including some beyond what an Ancestor Realm ship required.

• Ye Qiubai agreed to gather every material Mo Xun listed, and Mo Xun agreed in principle to build the ship if he brought them.
• Outside Mo Xun's pavilion, Ye Qiubai encountered Ai Zhi arguing with Dai Heng, her intended marriage partner, and left with her when Dai Heng challenged him.
• Dai Heng visited Mo Xun after Ye Qiubai left, but Mo Xun refused to receive him because he had already met a visitor.
• Ye Qiubai showed Mo Xun's materials list to Ai Shouxian and the Ai Clan elders, who said the four circled materials would be extremely difficult to obtain.

Ye Qiubai learned that the Dai Clan possessed the primordial beginning metal he needed and agreed to meet them with Ai Shouxian. As Ai Shouxian reconsidered the marriage alliance meant to strengthen the Ai Clan, he asked Ye Qiubai for help at the Dai Clan’s main hall.

• Ai Shouxian told Ye Qiubai that the Dai Clan planned to use its primordial beginning metal to forge a weapon for Dai Heng, and promised that the Ai Clan would secure the other materials.
• Ye Qiubai cultivated for two days, drawing wisps of Sword Dao Origin from the Azure Cloud Sword into his Sword Bone and nearing the Mid-Stage Ancestor Realm.
• Ai Shouxian led Ye Qiubai and Ai Zhi toward the Dai Clan, where Ai Zhi explained that her family’s decline had led to her marriage alliance with Dai Heng.
• Ye Qiubai urged Ai Zhi to cultivate her own strength rather than rely on a marriage alliance, and Ai Shouxian asked him to guide her.
• At the Dai Clan’s main hall, the Dai Clan head pressed Ai Shouxian to announce the marriage alliance, and Ai Shouxian privately asked Ye Qiubai for help.

Ye Qiubai supported Ai Shouxian as he rejected the Dai Clan’s marriage alliance, prompting the Dai Clan to declare war and cripple the Ai Clan’s finances. With the Ai Clan preparing to harvest resources from the Qingming Sea, Ye Qiubai volunteered to join them and search for changes in the Azure Cloud Token’s presence.

• Ai Shouxian rejected the marriage alliance after Ye Qiubai agreed to support the Ai Clan, and Ai Zhi backed his decision.
• The Dai Clan’s patriarch threatened the Ai Clan and declared war after Ai Shouxian refused to submit; Ye Qiubai also failed to obtain the Primordial Beginning Metal because he would not join the Dai Clan.
• The Dai Clan and its allies cut off trade with the Ai Clan, leaving its shops deserted and its resources dwindling.
• Ai Shouxian ordered the Ai Clan to send out all three seafaring vessels to harvest resources from the Qingming Sea, and Ye Qiubai volunteered to go with them.

With the Ai Clan facing a resource crisis, Ye Qiubai joined its expedition to the Qingming Sea and confronted a Dai Clan ship that tried to seize their harvest. He destroyed the Dai Clan ship’s cannons and forced it to retreat, leaving the naval battle unresolved.

• The Ai Clan sent its ships to harvest resources in the Qingming Sea, with Ye Qiubai aboard its sole God Emperor-grade ship alongside Ai Zhi and an elder.
• After the Ai Clan gathered sea Devil Beasts, a Dai Clan ship demanded its resources and threatened to destroy its ship.
• The Ai Clan elder ordered both sides to prepare for battle, but Ye Qiubai stepped forward and activated his Sword Domain.
• The Dai Clan fired enormous fireballs, which Ye Qiubai’s eighteen swords pierced and detonated.
• Ye Qiubai’s swords cut apart the Dai Clan ship’s cannons, prompting its grand elder to order a retreat.

Ye Qiubai destroyed the Dai Clan’s ship with his sixth sword, killing its grand elder and leaving the survivors to be devoured by sea Devil Beasts. The blood drew more beasts to the Ai Clan’s ship, where Ye Qiubai began defending the crew and harvesting the creatures for resources.

• Ye Qiubai told the Ai Clan’s ship to follow the fleeing Dai Clan ship while he prepared to attack.
• Ye Qiubai unleashed the Three Origins Transforming into Purity Sword, fused its three slashes, and split the Dai Clan’s ship and grand elder in two.
• The sinking ship spilled blood into the sea, attracting sea Devil Beasts that tore apart the Dai Clan members who fell into the water.
• The Ai Clan elder ordered the crew to leave, but Ye Qiubai saw that sea Devil Beasts had already surrounded their ship.
• Six Divine Lord-level sea Devil Beasts attacked the Ai Clan’s ship, and Ye Qiubai killed them with the Geng Metal Sword Case.
• Ye Qiubai dragged the beasts’ corpses aboard and ordered the Ai Clan crew, including the elder, to dissect them.

Ai Shouxian learned that Ye Qiubai’s voyage had brought the Ai Clan a huge haul and dealt a major blow to the Dai Clan, so he killed two guest elders who planned to defect and secretly used the resources to strengthen the clan. Meanwhile, Ye Qiubai asked Mo Xun for leads on rare materials, just as Dai Heng arrived seeking an audience with him.

• Ai Zhi returned with resources from twenty-one God Emperor-level sea Devil Beasts and many other beasts, and reported that the Dai Clan’s grand elder and a God Emperor-level seagoing ship had been destroyed.
• Two Ai Clan guest elders tried to leave and exploit the news, but Ai Shouxian had them killed and made everyone swear a Heavenly Dao Oath of secrecy.
• Ai Shouxian used the resources to recruit powerful cultivators, while the Dai Clan learned of the Ai Clan’s growing strength and tried to recruit the remaining candidates.
• Dai Heng told the Dai Clan patriarch that Mo Xun had refused to meet him, and the patriarch ordered him to try again.
• Ye Qiubai asked Mo Xun for leads on three rare materials, and Dai Heng arrived at Mo Xun’s loft requesting an audience.

Ye Qiubai persuaded Mo Xun to abandon the Dai Clan’s commission and used the prospect of a truce to negotiate for the Primordial Beginning Metal. The chapter ended with Mo Xun examining the Azure Cloud Sword and reacting with fear at its power.

• Mo Xun let Dai Heng into the room after Ye Qiubai pointed out that the Dai Clan had Primordial Beginning Metal.
• Ye Qiubai asked Dai Heng for the metal, but Dai Heng refused unless Ye Qiubai joined the Dai Clan as a guest elder.
• Mo Xun agreed to return the Dai Clan’s payment, choosing the challenge of building Ye Qiubai’s seagoing ship instead.
• Ye Qiubai urged Dai Heng to tell his father that the Dai Clan should call a truce with the Ai Clan and hand over the metal in exchange for Mo Xun forging a weapon and avoiding further costs.
• After Dai Heng left, Ye Qiubai offered Mo Xun three days to study the Azure Cloud Sword, and Mo Xun trembled when he realized he could not discern its grade.

Ye Qiubai’s proposal persuaded the Dai Clan to end its conflict with the Ai Clan and pursue cooperation instead. After teaching Ai Zhi sword cultivation for five days, Ye Qiubai prepared to leave with the Azure Cloud Sword returned by Mo Xun.

• Dai Heng reported his meeting with Ye Qiubai to the Dai Clan, and the clan head and elders decided that continuing the war would cost too much and expose them to the City Lord's Manor and two supreme experts.
• The Dai Clan head sent Dai Heng to the Ai Clan with the Primordial Beginning Metal and additional resources to show goodwill and begin reconciliation.
• News spread that the Dai Clan and Ai Clan planned to cooperate in developing the Qingming Sea.
• Ai Zhi gave Ye Qiubai the Primordial Beginning Metal and reported that half of his needed materials had been gathered, then asked to study swordsmanship with him before he left.
• Ye Qiubai taught Ai Zhi sword cultivation for five days, and Mo Xun returned the Azure Cloud Sword as Ye Qiubai prepared to depart.

Ye Qiubai traveled to Dark-Bright Island to seek heavenly dipper dark-bright wood and unexpectedly reunited with Elder Yao, who helped him obtain a piece from the Azure Wood Sect. The sect’s ancestor, Lei Feng, recovered from his hidden ailment and ordered the sect to hand the wood over to Ye Qiubai.

• Mo Xun lent Ye Qiubai the Azure Cloud Sword for five days and gave him a map of places where the other three materials might be found.
• Ye Qiubai left Jade Qilin City aboard Mo Xun’s sea vessel, while Ai Zhi resolved to cultivate harder after Ai Shouxian encouraged her.
• Ye Qiubai reached Dark-Bright Island and found Elder Yao, who confirmed that the Azure Wood Sect had acquired heavenly dipper dark-bright wood.
• Elder Yao took Ye Qiubai to meet Lei Feng and gave the Azure Wood Sect ancestor medicine that cured his hidden ailment.
• Lei Feng brought Ye Qiubai to the Azure Wood Sect’s main hall and ordered the sect master to give him the heavenly dipper dark-bright wood.

Ye Qiubai obtained the Heavenly Dipper Dark-Bright Wood and entered the Azure Wood Primal Spirit Pool, where Elder Yao began a painful treatment to temper his Sword Bone. The chapter left Ye Qiubai enduring the ordeal while Lei Feng accepted Elder Yao's prediction that the Azure Wood Sect would prosper because of him.

• The Azure Wood Sect Master gave Ye Qiubai the Heavenly Dipper Dark-Bright Wood after Lei Feng urged him to cooperate with Elder Yao.
• Elder Yao asked to use the Azure Wood Primal Spirit Pool, and Lei Feng agreed despite the sect's ancestral rules.
• Elder Yao led Ye Qiubai into the pool, told him to circulate the Primordial Sword Scripture along his Sword Bone, and set wood alight around him.
• The boiling pool and burning wood caused Ye Qiubai intense pain as he endured the treatment.
• Lei Feng explained to the Azure Wood Sect Master that befriending Elder Yao was more important than clinging to the pool's rules.
• Elder Yao told Lei Feng that the Azure Wood Sect would reach unprecedented heights because of Ye Qiubai.

Ye Qiubai endured Ashen Fire and the Azure Wood Primal Spirit Pool’s power to cleanse and complete his Sword Bone, then spent seven days comprehending Ashen Fire and advanced to the mid-stage Ancestor Realm. Elder Yao disappeared after leaving a note urging him to rely more on his master, and Ye Qiubai asked the Azure Wood Sect Master about two ingredients he needed.

• Ye Qiubai withstood Ashen Fire as the Azure Cloud Sword Master's consciousness emerged and questioned Elder Yao about him.
• Elder Yao told the Azure Cloud Sword Master that Ye Qiubai would resolve his own future troubles, and the consciousness dissipated.
• Ye Qiubai entered the Celestial Person State for seven days, then wielded Ashen Fire with his Cloud Azure Sword and showed Elder Yao his progress.
• Elder Yao gave Ye Qiubai fiery-red medicinal broth, which Ye Qiubai absorbed over a day as his cultivation advanced to the mid-stage Ancestor Realm.
• Ye Qiubai found Elder Yao's note telling him to follow his path and rely more on his master, then asked the Azure Wood Sect Master about Divine Mystic Fire Soul and Core of the Heavenly Spirit Heart.

Ye Qiubai learned how to reach the Divine Mystic Fire Soul and traveled to Divine Mystic Island, where he sought to join the Black Fire Branch. The branch arranged three trials to test him, and Ye Qiubai agreed to face them.

• Lei Feng told Ye Qiubai that the Divine Mystic Fire Soul grew atop the Divine Mystic Fire Tree on Divine Mystic Island, and that the island's nine rival factions controlled access to it.
• Ye Qiubai revealed his mastery of the Flame Origin, thanked Lei Feng and the Azure Wood Sect Master, and left after Lei Feng asked him for a token.
• Two days later, Ye Qiubai arrived on Divine Mystic Island and saw the fire-poisonous landscape and the enormous Divine Mystic Fire Tree surrounded by nine volcanoes.
• Ye Qiubai went to the nearest volcano and told Huo Shuyun, leader of the Black Fire Branch's cultivators, that he wanted to join the branch.
• Huo Shuyun returned with a powerful man, who warned Ye Qiubai that joining required three dangerous trials; Ye Qiubai accepted.

Ye Qiubai passed the Black Fire Branch’s first test, but his spar with Commander Ren revealed that his Sword Dao far surpassed the other sword cultivator’s. The chapter ended with Ren wounded and Ye Qiubai lamenting that he had warned them not to pair him with a sword cultivator.

• Huo Shuyun and Commander Wei brought Ye Qiubai to the Black Profound Volcano to test whether he belonged to the Divine Mystic Fire Sect.
• Ye Qiubai released the Primordial Sword Scripture and a wisp of flame, and Commander Wei declared that he had passed the first test when the lava showed no reaction.
• Commander Wei arranged for Ye Qiubai to spar with Commander Ren, the Black Fire Branch’s strongest sword cultivator.
• Commander Ren attacked with his Divine Fire Sword Dao, but Ye Qiubai formed a Sword Domain that suppressed Ren’s Sword Dao and revealed his Power of Origin.
• Ye Qiubai’s slash and Sword Qi blades broke through Ren’s flaming defense, wounded him, and drove him back.

Ye Qiubai passed the Divine Mystic Fire Sect’s final test by entering the magma without a pill and absorbing its deadly fire poison as nourishment. Commander Wei found him unharmed after hours and told him he had passed.

• Ye Qiubai overwhelmed Commander Ren in a sword duel, and Commander Ren conceded, acknowledging Ye Qiubai’s superior Sword Dao.
• Commander Wei explained that the final test was to endure the crater’s fire poison using only the Law of Fire.
• Ye Qiubai leaped into the magma before taking a Divine Fire Pill, where the fire poison merged into his body and nourished him.
• After Ye Qiubai remained below for hours without emerging, Commander Ren jumped into the magma to look for him.
• Commander Wei found Ye Qiubai calmly cultivating in the magma, and Ye Qiubai asked if he had stayed long enough.
• Commander Wei told Ye Qiubai that he had passed the test.

After Ye Qiubai passed the Black Fire Branch’s assessment, its commanders brought him to the Black Fire General, who offered him a guest elder position despite warning him that the branch was the weakest and surrounded by rivals. Ye Qiubai chose to stay, and Commander Wei arranged for him to live in his cave abode and join a mission near the Divine Mystic Fire Tree in three days.

• Ye Qiubai returned safely from the fire-poison assessment, and Commander Wei realized his Law of Fire was far stronger than his own and Commander Ren’s.
• Commander Ren proposed taking Ye Qiubai to the Black Fire General to secure him a guest elder position and access to the Divine Mystic Fire Tree.
• The Black Fire General explained that the Black Fire Branch was the weakest of the nine branches and invited Ye Qiubai to join another branch instead.
• Ye Qiubai declined the offer to leave and accepted the guest elder position in the Black Fire Branch.
• Commander Wei offered Ye Qiubai his own cave abode and told him he could join Commander Ren on a mission near the Divine Mystic Fire Tree in three days.

Ye Qiubai and Commander Ren led Black Fire Branch disciples to gather Divine Fire Stones near the Divine Mystic Fire Tree, where two rival branches ambushed them. Ye Qiubai took on Commander Yang and the opposing disciples while Commander Ren fought Commander Lin.

• Commander Ren explained that the Black Fire Branch needed Divine Fire Stones and warned Ye Qiubai that rival branches would fight to weaken one another before the climb in ten days.
• Ye Qiubai, Commander Ren, Huo Shuyun, and nine other disciples traveled toward the Divine Mystic Fire Tree to collect the stones.
• Ye Qiubai sensed groups approaching from the northeast and southwest, and Commander Ren identified their leaders as Commander Yang of the Azure Fire Branch and Commander Lin of the Xuan Fire Branch.
• Ye Qiubai told Commander Ren to fight Commander Lin while he handled Commander Yang and the opposing disciples.
• Commander Ren charged Commander Lin, and Ye Qiubai drew the Cloud Azure Sword to face Commander Yang.

Ye Qiubai fought Commander Yang and survived his flame attacks, then unleashed a vast array of swords that incapacitated the Azure Fire Branch and its ally. After Huo Shuyun’s group left with the Divine Fire Stone, Commander Yang tried to recruit Ye Qiubai, who answered by attacking again with the Geng Metal Sword Case.

• Ye Qiubai attacked Commander Yang with the Cloud Azure Sword, but Commander Yang’s body became a flame clone before he struck back and caught the sword.
• Commander Yang twisted Ye Qiubai’s sword and slammed him into the ground in a whirlwind of azure fire, filling the area with lava and fire poison.
• Thousands of swords formed from Sword Dao Law and surrounded the two branches’ disciples as Commander Yang tried to intervene.
• Ye Qiubai blocked Commander Yang, then sent the swords into the disciples, pinning them down and shattering their bones.
• Ye Qiubai told Huo Shuyun to take the Divine Fire Stone, and she left with the Black Fire Branch group.
• Commander Yang offered Ye Qiubai a place in the Azure Fire Branch, but Ye Qiubai opened the Geng Metal Sword Case and sent its swords at him.

Ye Qiubai fought Commander Yang and was engulfed by the azure flames of Yang’s fire-poison eruption, but he later appeared alive before the exhausted commander. Meanwhile, the Black Fire Branch prepared to stake everything on its upcoming climb up the Divine Mystic Fire Tree.

• Ye Qiubai used his Sword Domain and Cloud Azure Sword to wound Commander Yang while Commander Ren kept Commander Lin from intervening.
• Commander Yang unleashed his fire-poison secret art, and Commander Ren warned Ye Qiubai that the eruption could overwhelm even a Late-Stage Ancestor Realm fighter.
• Ye Qiubai covered himself in Ashen Fire as Commander Yang’s blazing azure flames engulfed him, while Commander Ren and Commander Lin fled the eruption.
• Huo Shuyun led the others toward the Black Fire Branch with the divine fire stone, and the Black Fire General vowed that the branch would risk everything in the coming climb.
• After the flames dissipated, Commander Yang found Ye Qiubai standing alive before him.