Chapter Summaries

Ji Chenkong began cultivating with Dao Comprehension Tea while Xiao Jiu swallowed a Saint Realm Golden-Winged Peng demon core and fell asleep as it began to evolve. Li Changsheng gave Ji Zining her Divine Son token and brought her to the Divine Mountain, where the Divine Son Hall would be her residence.

• After drinking Dao Comprehension Tea, Ji Chenkong began cultivating, hoping to break through to the Spirit Transformation Realm and comprehend fist intent.
• Hua Qianyan gave Ji Zining a refined Saint Realm Golden-Winged Peng demon core for Xiao Jiu to absorb.
• Xiao Jiu swallowed the demon core, shrank, and fell asleep as golden light activated its evolution.
• Li Changsheng gave Ji Zining her Divine Son token after she thanked him as Ancestor.
• Li Changsheng took Ji Zining to the Divine Mountain and showed her the Divine Son Hall at its summit.

Ji Zining settled into her new residence at the Ziwei Holy Land and cultivated until her sign-in reset. She obtained the Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon, the Immortal-Slaying Sword, and unlocked the System Space.

• Disciples and factions across the True Martial Dao Domain learned of Ji Zining’s extraordinary feats and accepted her appointment as the Ziwei Holy Land’s divine child.
• Li Changsheng showed Ji Zining her lavish residence, explained its powerful protections, and left her to settle in.
• Ji Zining arranged supreme-grade spirit stones on the jade plaza and cultivated until the early hours of the next day.
• Ji Zining signed in and received the Immortal-Slaying Sword, an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon, while the system unlocked the System Space.
• Ji Zining steadied herself and told the system to open the System Space.

Ji Zining kept the Immortal-Slaying Sword hidden in her system space and decided to begin practicing the sword dao. After cultivating through the night, she visited Li Changsheng, found Ji Chenkong nearing a breakthrough, and received a sword, a saint-tier sword dao divine ability, and a movement technique.

• Ji Zining inspected the Immortal-Slaying Sword in her system space and chose not to reveal it until she was strong enough to protect it.
• Ji Zining set a goal of comprehending Sword Intent and cultivated through the night, reaching the peak of the Nascent Soul Realm Eighth Layer.
• Ji Zining entered the small world and saw that Ji Chenkong was close to breaking through to the Spirit Transformation Realm while Xiao Jiu remained asleep.
• Ji Chenkong had briefly awakened the previous day, and Hua Qianyan had given him treasures and pills to help him through the heavenly tribulation.
• Ji Zining asked Li Changsheng for a longsword, a sword dao divine ability, and a movement technique, and he presented his former sword and two saint-tier techniques.

Li Changsheng gave Ji Zining the peak Saint Rank Void-Soaring Sword and a high Saint Rank sword art, Sword Slashes the Eight Desolations. As she learned the art, Ji Zining entered an epiphany and formed the embryonic stage of sword intent, then tested its first form in the peach grove.

• Li Changsheng explained that Void-Soaring was the peak Saint Rank sword he had wielded before reaching the Quasi-Emperor realm and gave it to Ji Zining.
• Ji Zining bonded with Void-Soaring using her blood and sent the sword into her dantian to be nurtured beside her Nascent Soul.
• Li Changsheng told Ji Zining to use divine sense to read the jade slip, and she absorbed the contents of Sword Slashes the Eight Desolations.
• Ji Zining entered an epiphany and formed the embryonic stage of sword intent, astonishing Li Changsheng.
• Ji Zining used the art’s first form, sending a sharp ray of sword light into the peach grove, but the grove remained unharmed.

Ji Zining received the supreme Saint Rank movement divine ability Divine Expansion Step, while Li Changsheng urged her to pursue the Great Emperor realm. Ji Chenkong broke through to the Spirit Transformation Realm and comprehended Fist Intent, and he and Ji Zining prepared to leave for his Heavenly Tribulation.

• Ji Zining comprehended Divine Expansion Step and discovered it increased her speed more than tenfold.
• Li Changsheng encouraged Ji Zining to aim for the Great Emperor realm and break the ancient curse in the True Martial Dao Domain.
• Ji Chenkong broke through to the Spirit Transformation Realm and comprehended Fist Intent after drinking Li Changsheng's Dao Comprehension Tea.
• Li Changsheng told Ji Chenkong to undergo his Spirit Transformation Realm Heavenly Tribulation.
• Ji Zining asked Li Changsheng to send her out with Ji Chenkong so she could watch the tribulation.

Ji Zining brought her father, Ji Chenkong, to the Ziwei Holy Land so he could undergo the Five-Nine Heavenly Tribulation and advance to the Spirit Transformation Realm. Ji Chenkong faced the first bolt as the watching disciples confirmed his tribulation appeared normal.

• Li Changsheng sent Ji Zining and Ji Chenkong from his small world to a square in the Ziwei Holy Land.
• The disciples recognized Ji Zining as their newly appointed Divine Son and left the square at her request.
• Ji Zining moved away from Ji Chenkong while the tribulation clouds spread across several thousand miles.
• Ji Chenkong charged at the first bolt of purple tribulation lightning and met it head-on.
• The watching disciples were relieved when Ji Chenkong's tribulation seemed normal.

Ji Chenkong survived his Spirit Transformation Realm tribulation by wielding Fist Intent, while Ji Zining welcomed a chance to test her strength against Ziwei Holy Land disciples. Ma Yan stepped forward to challenge her, and she prepared to face him with both hands behind her back.

• Ji Chenkong shattered the tribulation lightning with Fist Intent and completed his breakthrough to the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• Ji Zining congratulated Ji Chenkong, who credited her with giving him the chance to drink Dao Comprehension Tea and break through.
• Ziwei Holy Land inner sect disciples arrived and asked Ji Zining to spar with them.
• Ji Zining accepted their challenge and invited them to attack her together or one at a time.
• Ma Yan, a third-level Spirit Transformation Realm body cultivator, stepped forward, and Ji Zining put both hands behind her back as he prepared to attack.

Ji Zining defeated Ma Yan with a controlled blast of Sword Intent, then challenged the Ziwei Holy Land’s inner disciples to attack her together. As the battle began, she effortlessly outmaneuvered a Spirit Transformation Realm Fifth Stage disciple and stopped him by cutting a lock of his hair.

• Ma Yan charged Ji Zining with a powerful punch, but she exhaled a sharp blast imbued with Sword Intent.
• Ji Zining weakened the blast at the last moment to match Ma Yan’s defensive limit, leaving him unharmed and awed by her control.
• Ma Yan bowed and apologized, and Ji Zining invited the remaining inner disciples to attack her together.
• The inner disciples surrounded Ji Zining, who opened the fight with a sword-light slash that their attacks eventually canceled out.
• Ji Zining used the Divine Expansion Step to appear before an exhausted Spirit Transformation Realm Fifth Stage disciple and cut a lock of hair from his head.

Ji Zining used her speed and Sword Qi to defeat the Spirit Transformation Realm disciples who had surrounded her, then unleashed her new Saint Rank High Grade divine ability, Sword Slashes the Eight Desolations. The sword light overwhelmed the remaining disciples, and the chapter ended with the onlookers fearing she had accidentally killed them.

• Ji Zining warned and defeated Spirit Transformation Realm cultivators with her speed and Sword Qi, forcing them to retreat from the battlefield.
• Disciples watching from above recognized that Ji Zining was testing her strength and were shocked that she could trouble even Saint Manifestation Realm experts without using divine abilities.
• After defeating another Spirit Transformation Realm Seventh Stage disciple, Ji Zining announced that she would use one final move and asked the remaining disciples to withstand it.
• Ji Zining drew the Void-Soaring Sword and unleashed her newly learned Saint Rank High Grade divine ability, Sword Slashes the Eight Desolations.
• The remaining disciples' combined attacks failed to stop the sword light, which locked onto them and swept past as the square fell silent.

Ji Zining revealed her precise control by stopping her sword strike before it could injure the inner disciples, then met the Ziwei Holy Land disciples as their Divine Son. At the Divine Son Hall, Ji Chenkong decided to return to Flowing Moon City after Xiao Jiu woke, and Ji Zining gave him supreme-grade spirit stones for his cultivation.

• Ji Zining dispersed Sword Slashes the Eight Desolations before it harmed the inner disciples, who thanked her for showing mercy.
• The Ziwei Holy Land disciples descended to the square and greeted Ji Zining as their Divine Son.
• Ji Zining left for the Divine Mountain with Ji Chenkong and showed him the Divine Son Hall.
• Ji Chenkong said he would return to Flowing Moon City after Xiao Jiu woke to rejoin Ji Zining's mother and attend to the dynasty.
• Ji Zining filled the jade square with supreme-grade spirit stones and offered them to Ji Chenkong for his cultivation.

Ji Zining gave Ji Chenkong five million supreme-grade spirit stones for the Flowing Moon Dynasty, then took him to the peach blossom forest small world to wait for Xiao Jiu to awaken. Li Changsheng said Xiao Jiu was about to wake up.

• Ji Zining told Ji Chenkong that a Ziwei Holy Land ancestor had given her the spirit stones to persuade her to attend the recruitment ceremony.
• Ji Chenkong accepted the five million supreme-grade spirit stones after Ji Zining assured him she had plenty left for cultivation.
• Ji Chenkong asked Ji Zining to take him to the small world so he could wait for Xiao Jiu to wake up.
• Ji Zining used her Divine Son token to open a spatial passage, and she and Ji Chenkong entered the peach blossom forest small world.
• Li Changsheng praised Ji Chenkong for transcending his tribulation without magical treasures and said Xiao Jiu was about to wake up.

Ji Zining learned that prodigies from the other major factions would arrive at Ziwei Holy Land to spar with her, and she confidently accepted the challenge. While waiting for Xiao Jiu to wake, she cultivated and broke through to the Ninth Level of the Nascent Soul Realm.

• Li Changsheng told Ji Zining and Ji Chenkong that Xiao Jiu would likely wake in four or five hours, and allowed them to wait in the peach blossom grove.
• Li Changsheng revealed that other factions had sent prodigies to Ziwei Holy Land to spar with Ji Zining after she received the blessing of half the True Martial Dao Domain's fortune.
• Ji Zining agreed to face the visiting prodigies and vowed to defeat them, especially those from the Heavenly Sound Buddhist Temple, the Wuji Divine Sect, and the Great Emperor Wang Lineage.
• Ji Chenkong cultivated to stabilize his recent breakthrough while Ji Zining used the Seven Orifices Exquisite Immortal Art to improve her cultivation.
• After three hours of cultivation, Ji Zining broke through to the Ninth Level of the Nascent Soul Realm.

Ji Zining saw Ji Chenkong and Xiao Jiu off as they returned to the Flowing Moon Dynasty, then resumed cultivating at the Ziwei Holy Land. After reaching the peak of the Nascent Soul Realm Ninth Layer, she signed in and obtained the Divine Rank Upper Grade divine soul technique, the Primordial Spirit Refining Art.

• Xiao Jiu woke and grew to thirty zhang, reaching the peak of the Golden Core Realm after consuming the Saint Realm demonic core.
• Li Changsheng sent Ji Zining, Ji Chenkong, and Xiao Jiu out of the Divine Mountain, and Ji Chenkong prepared to return home with Xiao Jiu.
• Ji Chenkong urged Ji Zining to be careful when the faction prodigies challenged her and asked her to visit her parents when she could.
• Ji Chenkong and Xiao Jiu departed for the Flowing Moon Dynasty, and Ji Zining returned to the Divine Mountain to cultivate.
• Ji Zining reached the peak of the Nascent Soul Realm Ninth Layer, signed in, and received the Primordial Spirit Refining Art.

Ji Zining learned the Primordial Spirit Refining Art, condensed a divine soul, and nearly broke through to the Spirit Transformation Realm. When envoys and geniuses arrived to challenge her, she set off to receive them at the council hall.

• Ji Zining absorbed the Primordial Spirit Refining Art, which formed her divine soul and let her cultivate it independently.
• Ji Zining used several thousand supreme-grade spirit stones to cultivate and attempt a breakthrough to the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• The Ziwei Holy Land's disciples anticipated the visiting factions' geniuses challenging Ji Zining, recalling her victory over dozens of Spirit Transformation Realm disciples.
• Ji Zining stopped cultivating just short of her breakthrough after Li Changsheng told her the envoys would arrive soon.
• Ji Zining asked Li Changsheng to open a spatial passage, then arrived at the council hall and greeted Hua Qianyan.

Hua Qianyan told Ji Zining to defend Ziwei Holy Land’s authority when the visiting factions arrived, and she prepared to face their heavenly geniuses. The envoys began gathering at the assembly hall, where a golden-robed young man stared at Ji Zining and ignored his senior’s order to apologize.

• Hua Qianyan urged Ji Zining to stay composed and suppress anyone who disrespected her, promising that he and the patriarch would support her.
• Ji Zining accepted the seat of honor and said she was ready to see how strong the visiting geniuses were.
• Representatives from many major factions announced their arrival at Ziwei Holy Land, drawing the disciples’ eager attention.
• A middle-aged man in a golden robe entered the assembly hall with a tall young man and greeted Hua Qianyan and Ji Zining.
• The young man stared at Ji Zining, prompting Hua Qianyan to challenge him and his senior to order him to apologize; the young man remained silent as the other visitors watched.

Ji Zining used Sword Intent to destroy the eyes of a Wuji Divine Sect youth who stared at her, then confronted Ji Yan when he accused her of cruelty. Ji Yan tried to leave with his nephew, but Ji Zining blocked them and demanded that they settle the matter before leaving.

• Ji Zining identified Ji Yan as a Wuji Divine Sect elder and ordered him and his faction to leave the Ziwei Holy Land, singling out the tall young man for his impolite behavior.
• When the tall young man met Ji Zining's gaze, her Sword Intent injured him and destroyed both his eyes.
• Ji Yan examined his nephew's ruined eyes, accused Ji Zining of being vicious, and threatened to report the incident to his sect master and patriarch.
• Ji Zining confronted Ji Yan, defended her actions, and challenged him to do something about them.
• Ji Yan held back from attacking because powerful presences had him in their sights, then tried to leave with his nephew.
• Ji Zining stopped them and warned that neither would leave until they settled the offense and the damage to the council hall.

Ji Zining confronted Ji Yan and his injured disciple in the Ziwei Holy Land council hall, with Hua Qianyan’s overwhelming pressure forcing Ji Yan to his knees. She then challenged every faction’s envoy and prodigy to fight her, leaving Ji Yan and the disciple facing death if they failed to defeat her.

• Ji Zining threatened not to let Ji Yan and his disciple leave without an explanation for the disciple’s offense.
• Hua Qianyan released his Peak Saint King Realm pressure, forcing Ji Yan to kneel before Ji Zining.
• Ji Zining offered Ji Yan a chance to leave without an explanation and invited the envoys and prodigies outside to enter.
• Ji Zining announced that she would accept challenges from everyone, with older experts required to suppress their cultivation to her level.
• Ji Zining warned Ji Yan and his disciple that both would die if they could not defeat her.

Ji Zining accepted challenges from the visiting factions and faced their disciples in the plaza. She left the crowd stunned by defeating Li Chuan, a seventh-stage Spirit Transformation Realm cultivator, with a single breath infused with Sword Intent.

• Ji Zining told the envoys she would accept every challenge, and Hua Qianyan decided to watch after hearing her confidence.
• Ji Zining led the challengers to the plaza and told Ji Yan that he would be the last to fight her.
• Li Chuan of the Heavenly God Ancient Sect challenged Ji Zining and attacked with his supreme-grade king-rank saber, Army Breaker.
• Ji Zining destroyed Li Chuan's saber light with a breath of stale Qi and left him motionless and covered in blood.

Ji Zining defeated Li Chuan with a breath of Sword Intent, then challenged the gathered prodigies to attack her together. The envoys agreed to let them fight, risking the prodigies’ Dao hearts if they lost.

• Ji Zining defeated Li Chuan, a Heavenly God Ancient Sect disciple, without moving from her place.
• Ji Yan realized Ji Zining could defeat his nephew and feared they would not leave the Ziwei Holy Land alive.
• The Ziwei Holy Land disciples cheered as Ji Zining taunted the other prodigies, who fell silent and retreated.
• Ji Zining invited the more than thirty prodigies to attack her together, and their envoys gave them permission.

Ji Zining faced a circle of prodigies in the Ziwei Holy Land and used Hua Qianyan’s warning that they could die to unsettle them. She drew the ancestor’s Void-Soaring Sword and struck all of them at once, shattering their attacks and leaving their Dao hearts cracked as the sword beam swept over them.

• Ji Zining asked Hua Qianyan whether she could kill the prodigies, and he said they had to accept the risk because they had agreed to battle.
• Hua Qianyan prevented the visiting envoys from interfering, while Ji Zining’s warning made the prodigies wary and afraid of dying.
• Ji Zining summoned the Void-Soaring Sword, surprising Hua Qianyan, who recognized it as the ancestor’s personal sword.
• When the prodigies hesitated to attack first, Ji Zining swung the sword and sent a sweeping beam toward them all.
• The prodigies’ combined attacks failed to stop the beam, their Dao hearts cracked, and the sword beam swept across their bodies.