Chapter Summaries

Youquan reached Chi You's essence blood, but a young man wielding a small dark sword emerged from the camp and challenged him. As their battle escalated, Youquan shattered the young man's blood dragons and prepared to counter the sword strike following them.

• Youquan defeated the remaining Blood Alliance cultivators and stood alone before Chi You's essence blood.
• The young man escaped the vicious beasts' encirclement on a blood dragon and attacked Youquan, whose blade and Earth Immortal Dharma Seals failed to stop the small dark sword.
• Youquan recalled his blade and faced the young man, recognizing that both of them were enemies competing for Chi You's essence blood.
• Youquan and the young man traded attacks as Youquan's blade fought the blood dragons and the little sword threatened him.
• The young man's blood dragons wrapped around Youquan, but he seized them and smashed them apart before preparing to strike at the little sword and its wielder.

The young man used his Blood Domain and sword techniques to withstand Youquan’s attacks in the Chi You Blood Cave. As Youquan’s Dharma Seal pressed down, the young man revealed the nine-sword Sea-Overturning Sword Formation and gathered it for his next move.

• The young man’s Blood Domain caught Youquan’s sword edge with two blood dragons while his small sword circled back to attack Youquan.
• Youquan invoked an Earth Immortal Dharma Seal that clashed with the sword light before rolling toward the young man.
• The Dharma Seal crushed down on the young man, but his Blood Domain endured the pressure as the seal grew dim.
• The young man revealed nine small swords and used the Sea-Overturning Sword Formation to batter Youquan’s Dharma Seal.
• Youquan reinforced the Dharma Seal, and the young man gathered the nine swords beneath his Blood Domain.

The young man used the Sea-Overturning Sword Formation to break Youquan’s Earth Immortal Dharma Seal and withstand its explosive energy. Youquan then targeted the young man’s Blood Domain, and their weapons clashed as Youquan launched a law-infused strike meant to break the formation.

• The young man’s Sea-Overturning Sword Formation repeatedly struck Youquan’s Dharma Seal, halting its attack and forcing Youquan to make it self-destruct.
• The young man used the formation to break through the Dharma Seal’s explosive energy and stabilize his damaged Blood Domain.
• Youquan severed his connection to the destroyed seal, took control of his blade, and sent it toward the young man’s Blood Domain.
• The young man restored his Blood Domain and sent the Sea-Overturning Sword Formation to intercept Youquan’s blade.
• The sword formation repelled the blade’s first attack, but Youquan infused it with the power of laws and sent it plunging down to break the formation.

Youquan battled the young man, whose Sea-Overturning Sword Formation trapped Youquan’s blade while blood dragons bound his Earth Immortal Dharma Seal. Youquan drew a mysterious cyan recurve bow and released an arrow into the sky, but its overwhelming power locked onto the young man, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Youquan’s blade struck the Sea-Overturning Sword Formation twice, but the formation stayed intact and counterattacked.
• The sword formation surrounded and trapped Youquan’s weakened blade, while the young man sent two blood dragons against Youquan’s Dharma Seal.
• The blood dragons bound the Dharma Seal, and Youquan realized the young man drew strength from the Blood Domain.
• Youquan empowered the Dharma Seal to pressure the young man, then drew a cyan recurve bow with an invisible string.
• Youquan released an arrow toward the sky, and its immense power locked onto the young man below.

Youquan fired a devastating arrow at the young man and turned toward the Chi You Essence Blood, while the young man used his Blood Domain to draw the arrow toward the fortified camp. The arrow broke through the camp’s defenses, leaving the young man inside as its relentless target.

• Youquan shot a giant arrow at the young man, then headed toward the Chi You Essence Blood, believing his greatest obstacle was gone.
• The young man transformed his contracting Blood Domain into a vortex, disrupted the arrow’s lock for an instant, and fled toward the fortified camp.
• The young man entered the camp’s formation as the towering figure and its soldiers attacked him with a forest of giant swords, but he navigated the formation using what he had observed earlier.
• The young man sent his blood-colored vortex back toward the arrow, but the arrow carried the vortex through the camp’s outer defenses and continued pursuing him.
• The camp’s commanders shouted orders to drive out the intruder and stabilize the formation as the arrow and vortex crashed into the camp’s outskirts.

The young man used the encampment formation to wear down Youquan’s giant arrow, then devoured it with his bloody vortex and found himself trapped within the formation. Meanwhile, his sword formation and blood dragon destroyed Youquan’s other weapons, and he approached the Chi You Essence Blood to absorb its blood qi as danger closed in behind him.

• The young man sensed that intelligent beings commanded the encampment formation and retreated as its ranks reorganized to resist Youquan’s giant arrow.
• The formation’s beasts and towering figures weakened the giant arrow, and the young man devoured it with his bloody vortex after it exhausted its strength.
• The young man realized the formation had trapped him as its layers rapidly began merging again.
• The nine-sword formation crushed the sharp edge until it lost contact with its master and fell into the earth.
• The blood dragon destroyed another Earth Immortal Dharma Seal, and the young man sent it and the sword formation toward the sunken ground.
• A figure on the sunken ground stood atop the Chi You Essence Blood and absorbed its blood qi, gaining surging bloodline power, memories, and insights.

Youquan absorbed the Chi You Essence Blood and became vulnerable while pursuing its power, allowing the young man to kill him and claim his ancient bow, Cloud Hunter. Afterward, the young man watched the earth’s eye begin to reopen and suspected that intelligent beings were directing the military formation inside the Chi You Blood Cave.

• Youquan absorbed the blood qi around the eye of the earth, became entranced by the Chi You Essence Blood, and approached the abyss.
• The young man attacked with a sword while a blood dragon disrupted Youquan’s defenses and blocked his escape.
• Youquan recognized the distant young man, who identified himself as a disciple of Mount Emei, and the young man killed him with the sword formation and blood dragon.
• The young man recovered Youquan’s longbow, learned that its name was Cloud Hunter, and stored it away.
• The eye of the earth began to open again, and the young man concluded that intelligent beings might be controlling the encampment’s military formation.

The young man escaped detection inside the camp-fortress until upheaval from the Chi You Essence Blood gave him a chance to break out. As the army formation sealed the perimeter and trapped him at its edge, he summoned his Blood Domain and two blood dragons to confront the barrier.

• The Chi You Essence Blood shook the earth and drew the camp-fortress's searching divine senses away from the young man.
• The young man summoned his sword formation, which carved a passage through the camp-fortress, and fled in the opposite direction.
• The camp-fortress recovered from the surprise attack, and the young man used blood arrows to boost his escape while its banners repaired the disruption behind him.
• As the young man neared the perimeter, the camp-fortress's commander ordered the great formation locked down and condensed its defenses.
• The young man unleashed his Blood Domain and summoned two blood dragons as the banners blocked his escape.

Xu Long used his strengthened Blood Domain and blood dragons to disrupt Youquan’s camp-fortress army formation while trying to escape its encirclement. The formation quickly replenished its forces, and Xu Long halted the Sea-Overturning Sword Formation as the battle continued.

• Xu Long’s Blood Domain grew stronger after devouring the Cloud Hunter giant arrow, and he realized it carried power resembling a Mahayana phenomenon.
• Xu Long sent blood dragons above the camp-fortress, disrupting the flow of magic power among its banners and creating an opening.
• A blood dragon struck the rear of the formation, scattering its defenders, while the Sea-Overturning Sword Formation wheeled back toward Xu Long.
• The army formation quickly replenished its ranks and launched a torrent of short spears at the sword formation.
• Xu Long ordered the blood dragon to strike again, clearing many defenders, as the banners withdrew and the formation began restoring its forces.
• Xu Long let the banners move freely and abruptly stopped the sword formation.

The young man used his Blood Domain to empower the Sea-Overturning Sword Formation, which crushed the camp’s black torrent and gave him the initiative against the battle formation. As he drove the blood dragon through the camp, he noticed the banners changing their patterns while strange energy gathered around the distant eye in the earth.

• The young man expanded and rotated the Sea-Overturning Sword Formation, grinding the camp’s black torrent of short spears to nothing.
• The blood dragon swept through the camp, clearing an area, while the camp’s battle formation stopped pressing its attack.
• The young man seized the initiative but kept to his plan to fight quickly before the battle formation could adapt.
• Denser blood qi and an unknown substance gathered around the eye in the earth as fissures continued opening in the distance.
• The young man studied the changing banner patterns and seemed to realize something while his blood dragon grew more powerful and attacked through the camp.

The young man used his Blood Domain and blood dragons to break through the camp-pass army formation’s banner-lined perimeter, while the formation sprang a trap to try to stop him. He escaped with help from the Sea-Overturning Sword Formation, leaving the fallen banners and disrupted formation behind.

• The young man recognized that his bloodline and power had grown stronger and sent a blood dragon to attack the apparently weak ring of banners at the camp-pass’s edge.
• The blood dragon’s first strike failed to damage the banners, so the young man gathered its strength for a second attack.
• The blood dragon pierced the banner ring, triggering a planned counterattack as the army formation closed around the young man like crab pincers.
• The young man unleashed the Sea-Overturning Sword Formation, which destroyed the attacking creatures and bought him time to drive through the perimeter.
• The young man’s blood-dragon dart knocked the banners down and broke the blockade, disrupting the army formation as he escaped.

The young man realized the camp formation was drawing in the blood qi released from the earth’s crust, while the Chi You Essence Blood emerged as a bead and awakened the formation. The blood cloud carrying the bead broke free of its confinement and moved toward the camp formation.

• The young man escaped the encirclement and watched blood qi pour from fissures in the sunken ground into the camp formation.
• Five intelligent beings reported that the formation had been restored as the blood qi repaired its damage and revived its towering figures.
• The blood cloud enveloped the earth’s crust, drew out a pure blood bead, and carried its energy into the camp formation.
• The bead struggled against the earth’s confinement as its accumulated energy fueled the formation and weakened the seal.
• The blood cloud rose into the sky with the Chi You Essence Blood and drifted toward the camp formation.

The young man used the blood dragon to attack the encampment formation and draw out its hidden leader while the Chi You Essence Blood drifted toward the formation. The blood dragon battled the demon-god figure, and the essence blood was about to merge with the tornado above the encampment.

• The blood cloud carrying the Chi You Essence Blood drifted toward the encampment, where the formation gathered the surrounding blood energy into a vast tornado.
• The young man sent the blood dragon back to attack the formation and summoned another blood dragon from his Blood Domain to help him seize the essence blood.
• The blood dragon struck at the formation's banners, disrupting the flow of Magic Power and forcing an intelligent creature to reveal itself.
• The revealed demon-god figure fought the blood dragon, but the dragon used its tail and the demon's own weapon to land a heavy blow.
• The blood cloud approached the center of the tornado, which opened a path for it as it prepared to pour its energy into the formation.

The young man used his sword formation to seize the blood cloud containing the Chi You Essence Blood, but the army formation’s hidden demon god figures revealed themselves and trapped him. As the figures began drawing the blood-colored tornado toward the imprisoned formation, the young man’s attempt to escape and claim the essence blood was left in jeopardy.

• The young man halted the blood cloud with a nine-sword formation and tried to carry it away from the army formation.
• A blood dragon shattered the army formation’s spiritual-sense net, but a demon god figure blocked the route and attacked it with a bronze broadsword.
• The young man tried to flee with the sword formation, but three more demon god figures trapped it beneath crossed broadswords.
• The young man realized the army formation’s intelligent beings had watched and prepared for him while he fought Youquan and the Blood Alliance cultivators.
• The demon god figures pressed the sword formation toward the camp fortifications and moved the blood-colored tornado toward it, leaving the young man unable to attack without losing control of the blood cloud.

Xu Long’s True Dragon Clone broke free of the demon god figures’ restraint and reclaimed the initiative by trusting his Sea-Overturning Sword Formation over the Chi You Essence Blood. After the blood bead revived the camp-fortress battle formation, its awakened forces charged him, and he prepared to face them alone.

• The demon god figures used their bronze broadswords and the blood-colored tornado to trap the young man between defending his sword formation and surrendering control of the blood cloud.
• The young man unleashed the Sea-Overturning Sword Formation, broke the broadswords’ confinement, and regained his resolve to fight rather than depend on the essence blood.
• The blood bead entered the camp-fortress through the tornado, merged with its battle formation, and awakened its dormant beings, who welcomed their War Lord.
• Two blood dragons joined the young man as the revived camp-fortress raised its power and the young man commanded his allies to prepare for battle.
• The camp-fortress sent its gathered forces surging toward the young man, who stood his ground alone with his battle intent rising.

Xu Long realized that the Chi You Essence Blood controlled the encampment formation, then sent his blood dragon against its countless formation beings. After two devastating strikes, the dragon weakened, but its roar made the advancing ranks falter.

• Xu Long concluded that the blood bead had given life to the formation and that the encampment was the body carrying the Chi You Essence Blood.
• Xu Long's blood dragon charged the black tide and tore a gap through the formation beings.
• The blood dragon struck again as a vast Red Armillary Sash, crushing and scattering a section of the encampment.
• The demon-god figure ordered the rear ranks forward, believing the blood dragon had exhausted its strength.
• The blood dragon stood battered as the formation beings closed in, then roared and made them falter under its bloodline suppression.

The young man used blood dragons and his sword formation to break through the fortified camp’s army formations and target the demon god figures controlling them. As the sword formation carved toward the rear, elite troops confronted it while two walls closed in on the young man.

• A demon god figure suppressed the blood dragon’s roar, then rallied the army formation beings and ordered them to consolidate their ranks.
• The young man sent his sword formation through the consolidated wall, opening a breach while the demon god figure quickly reorganized the army formation into two advancing walls.
• The young man sent the sword formation toward the demon god figures in the rear instead of recalling it to protect him.
• The sword formation cut through the fortified camp’s army formation, leaving a path of blood qi and toppled banners as it advanced toward the rear.
• A demon god figure deployed elite army formation beings to confront the sword formation while the two walls closed around the young man.

The young man endured the demon god figure’s crushing walls while his sword formation broke through the encampment and forced the enemy to recall its scattered energy. After the blood dragon destroyed the short-spear torrent, the young man faced the five demon god figures with the battle now directly between them.

• The military formation’s bronze-and-iron walls pressed the young man into the ground as his sword formation struck the elite troops and carved a passage through the encampment.
• The sword formation trapped the demon god figure, forcing it to command its scattered energy to return and leaving the military formation’s living beings vulnerable.
• The young man shattered the walls, escaped, and advanced through the passage toward the demon god figure.
• The blood dragon transformed into a mountain-like drum, absorbed the torrent of short spears, and crushed it within its coils.
• The young man and the blood dragon approached the five demon god figures, who drew power from the blood bead behind them.

Xu Long and the blood dragon fought the five demonic god figures guarding the Nine Li camp after the army formation’s power surged. The dragon trapped all five in its ribbon-like body, giving Xu Long an opening as his sword formation plunged toward them.

• The Nine Li camp raised torches and beat war drums, empowering the demonic god figures and filling them with renewed killing intent.
• Xu Long reflected on his failed search for the Chi You Essence Blood and wondered why one figure had pointed toward the Yellow Emperor Seal before the blood dragon attacked.
• The blood dragon fought the five figures, dodging their bronze swords and using its changing size to gain an advantage.
• The four other figures intervened before the blood dragon could crush one of them, forcing it to retreat and face their encirclement.
• The blood dragon transformed into a ribbon and wrapped all five figures, and Xu Long sent his sword formation plunging toward them.

The young man’s Sea-Overturning Sword Formation failed to seriously harm the five figures, who broke free of the blood dragon’s restraint and charged him. He used the Blood Domain to bring another blood dragon into the fight, but one figure prepared to counter its attack.

• The five figures joined their magic power and bent their bronze broadswords against the Sea-Overturning Sword Formation, then broke the blood dragon’s restraint and forced the formation to retreat.
• The blood bead at the camp checkpoint jolted and released energy that strengthened the figures, who turned on the young man and advanced through the battle formation.
• A figure swung its bronze broadsword at the young man, but a dragon claw emerged from the Blood Domain and blocked the strike.
• The young man recalled the wounded blood dragon and sent a restored one after the figure, using the broadsword’s momentum to carry its attack.
• The figure drew back its broadsword and tightened its grip as the blood dragon followed close behind.