Chapter Summaries

Chen Shuangbai oversaw Changming and Yao Jie beginning an artifact-refining project, then watched Feiguang temper his body against Great Thunder Mountain’s dark lightning to awaken his ancestral bloodline. After returning to the True Disciple Hall, Chen Shuangbai discovered the Dew Radiance Pool and learned its powers, dangers, and cultivation limits from True Lord Qingchen’s message.

• Chen Shuangbai put Changming in charge of refining while Yao Jie controlled the flames, then left them resources, sword talismans, and a communication talisman.
• Chen Shuangbai watched Feiguang endure dark lightning strikes above Great Thunder Mountain in an effort to awaken his Cold Moon Golden-Plumed Eagle bloodline and reach golden core.
• Chen Shuangbai used the sect master's golden token to enter the True Disciple Hall and confirmed that it was likely a blessed land or grotto-heaven.
• Chen Shuangbai offered incense in the main hall, entered the rear hall, and discovered the Dew Radiance Pool.
• Chen Shuangbai activated True Lord Qingchen's message and learned the pool's origins, benefits, dangers, and four-hour immersion limit, then examined the jade slips containing golden core-level Law Techniques.

Chen Shuangbai chose two powerful techniques and cultivated them beside the Dew Radiance Pool, while Hengzhang City endured repeated assaults from the Holy Origin Alliance. The battle continued as True Lord Qingyu faced True Lord Shendu and Fu Qianlan fought a poison-wielding Golden Core cultivator.

• Chen Shuangbai selected [Ren Water Flowing Jade Illuminating Radiance] and [Jade Trees and Jeweled Branches, Ten Thousand Layers of Splendor] from the Jade Slips.
• Chen Shuangbai cultivated both techniques beside the Dew Radiance Pool, where their power and resonance with the pool grew apparent.
• True Lord Qingyu guarded Hengzhang City as the [Azure Wave Thunder-Nurturing Earth-Covering Formation] slaughtered waves of Holy Origin Alliance forces.
• True Lord Qingyu recognized True Lord Shendu of the Celebrated Origin Sect and used his net-like Law Treasure to destroy tens of thousands of poisonous insects and gu beasts.
• Fu Qianlan fought a Golden Core enemy wielding a venomous spider and used [Origin-Sealing Water and Fire] against its webs before telling Aunt Yuan to be quiet.

Chen Fuguang helped repel the Holy Origin Alliance’s attack on Hengzhang City, while Fu Qianlan fought Xu Channiang. After the battle, Xu Zhi appeared with an invitation from True Lord Shendu for True Lord Qingchen to make a transaction.

• Fu Qianlan fought Xu Channiang as the Jade Spring Sect and its allies defended Hengzhang City.
• Chen Fuguang used his Breath-Burning Golden Flame and Yang-Surging Falling Light to kill three demonic Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• The Holy Origin Alliance withdrew, and the defenders searched for casualties and buried the dead beneath Hengzhang City’s monument to heroic spirits.
• Chen Fuguang watched the blood clouds over Ning Country and worried about the devastation there.
• Xu Zhi approached Hengzhang City and offered Fu Qianlan a Jade Slip inviting True Lord Qingchen to make a transaction with True Lord Shendu.

Chen Shuangbai ignored True Lord Shendu’s attempt to test whether True Lord Qingchen was in seclusion, while the Holy Origin Alliance faced attacks on multiple fronts. Xu Zhi later returned to Great Arrival Island and found his eldest disciple, Zhang Xian, kneeling before the Floating Light Sect’s main hall.

• Chen Shuangbai told the Mystic Sea Avatar to ignore True Lord Shendu and rely on True Lord Qingyu if he attacked.
• The Mystic Sea Avatar reported that the Heavenly Star Alliance had opened a war against Parting Hate Gate and that True Lord Jihai had sent allies to open another front at Azure Mystic Ridge.
• After the Jade Spring Sect gave no reply, True Lord Shendu ordered Xu Zhi to send a gift to the Jade Spring Dao Child.
• Xu Zhi returned to Great Arrival Island and saw Zhang Xian kneeling before the main hall, meeting his gaze with mockery.

Xu Zhi’s decision to surrender the Floating Light Sect to the Holy Origin Alliance destroyed his relationship with Zhang Xian, while Chen Shuangbai received the newly completed enchanted robe Shadow Chang'e. After refining it, Chen Shuangbai discovered its Conceal Form ability and demonstrated how silently it moved him.

• Xu Zhi suppressed Zhang Xian’s opposition to joining the Holy Origin Alliance, and their confrontation ended with Zhang Xian expelled from the Floating Light Sect.
• Chen Shuangbai arrived at Great Thunder Mountain, where Changming presented the completed robe Shadow Chang'e and Yao Jie explained that he had contributed three white feathers for its refinement.
• Shadow Chang'e recognized Chen Shuangbai and draped itself over him, changing to his favored pine-frost color as his Lunar Rites Golden Core began refining it.
• Chen Shuangbai used Shadow Chang'e’s Conceal Form ability to disappear and reappear behind Yao Jie without making a sound or leaving a detectable trace.

Chen Shuangbai tested Changming’s three marvels and put the jade spirit to work refining Law Treasures while hoping he would recover more Jade Spirit Clan knowledge. Six months later, the Holy Origin Alliance launched another assault on Hengzhang City with Crimson Fire Crows, leaving True Lord Qingyu facing True Lord Shendu as the defenders struggled below.

• Chen Shuangbai ordered Changming to refine the sect’s Law Treasures and made him soak in a basin of Dew Radiance Pool water.
• Over the next six months, the Holy Origin Alliance repeatedly attacked Hengzhang City while True Lord Qingyu held off True Lord Shendu.
• True Lord Qingyu suspected True Lord Shendu was nurturing a powerful poison strain, then confronted him as the latest assault began.
• Seven or eight Crimson Fire Crows appeared in the allied army, and True Lord Shendu used poisonous light to challenge True Lord Qingyu in the sky.
• The Mystic Sea Avatar’s mystic sea was shattered by the crows’ flames, while Fu Qianlan identified two Golden Core and five Foundation Establishment Crimson Fire Crows from the Crimson Fire Cave.

After the Vast Waves Alliance lost two border commanderies to the Crimson Fire Crows and their ancient lamp, Fu Qianlan and Chen Shuangbai learned more about the enemy’s bloodline and the lamp’s Bing Sun power. The chapter left Chen Shuangbai convinced that the Crimson Fire Cave’s Nascent Soul demon lord had joined the Holy Origin Alliance to avenge Demon King Junyu’s death.

• The Crimson Fire Crows and an ancient lamp defeated the Vast Waves Alliance’s forces, forcing them to surrender two border commanderies and injuring the Mystic Sea Avatar.
• Fu Qianlan asked Aunt Yuan how to defeat the Crimson Fire Crows, and Aunt Yuan explained their Golden Crow lineage and the ancient lamp’s likely Bing Sun might.
• Aunt Yuan warned Fu Qianlan that the Crimson Fire Cave’s Nascent Soul demon lord had probably been persuaded to join the mainland campaign, leaving Fu Qianlan to hope Chen Shuangbai could respond.
• Chen Shuangbai learned that the leading Crimson Fire Crow carried Purple Flame Fire Crow blood and that the lamp’s Bing Sun light had overwhelmed the Mystic Sea Avatar.
• Changming explained Bing Sun’s ancient origins and destructive power, and Chen Shuangbai concluded that the Crimson Fire Cave’s demon lord sought revenge for Demon King Junyu’s death.

Chen Shuangbai studied the sect’s [Heavenly River Soul-Cleansing Sword Scripture] and realized his sword cultivation and Golden Core lacked Yang nature to balance his Great Yin path. He left for Hengzhang City after Changming reported that the Crimson Fire Crow was causing trouble there.

• Chen Shuangbai examined [Foot-Long Silk] and pondered how to form his own Sword Intent by studying the Sword Intent left by [Sword Immortal Huanzhen].
• Chen Shuangbai retrieved the sect’s three inherited arts with the sect master’s golden token and read the [Heavenly River Soul-Cleansing Sword Scripture].
• Chen Shuangbai recognized that his Great Yin sword arts and Lunar Rites Golden Core lacked Yang nature, which could hinder his Sword Intent and future Nascent Soul attainment.
• Chen Shuangbai returned to Changming, carried him out of the pool, and told him to watch over the peak.
• Chen Shuangbai flew toward Hengzhang City to deal with the Crimson Fire Crow.

Hengzhang City’s defenders fought the seven Crimson Fire Crows and the Celebrated Origin Sect’s poison cultivators, using the city formation and their own techniques to hold them back. Lu Ke then activated the [Four Spirits Poison Baleful Intent Formation], escalating the battle against the Mystic Sea Avatar and her allies.

• The Celebrated Origin Sect’s four Golden Core True Persons unleashed poisonous mist with their banners, forcing the Vast Waves Alliance cultivators to retreat beneath the [Azure Wave Thunder-Nurturing Earth-Covering Formation].
• The Mystic Sea Avatar merged with the formation and strengthened it to resist the poison, while asking Fu Qianlan, Yuan Sheng, and Pang Zhen to hold off the Crimson Fire Crows.
• Fu Qianlan attacked with her sword, talismans, and gourd while Yuan Sheng and Pang Zhen joined their clear and turbid water arts to weaken the crows’ demonic fire.
• Fu Qianlan and her allies suppressed two Crimson Fire Crows, but Lu Ke ordered his three fellow sect members to raise their poison banners together.
• Lu Ke and the other Celebrated Origin Sect cultivators formed the [Four Spirits Poison Baleful Intent Formation] from the banners’ four venomous spirit essences.

True Lord Qingyu and True Lord Shendu fought fiercely as the invading poison formations overwhelmed Hengzhang City's defenses. Fu Qianlan was caught in the Crimson Fire Crow's ancient lamp flame, leaving her fate uncertain.

• True Lord Shendu used the [Five Poisons Miasma Light Treasure Bottle] to pressure True Lord Qingyu, who defended himself with the [Clear and Turbid Heaven and Earth Treasure Ring].
• True Lord Shendu invited True Lord Qingyu to join the Holy Origin Alliance, but Qingyu refused and continued the duel.
• The [Four Spirits Poison Baleful Intent Formation] battered the [Azure Wave Thunder-Nurturing Earth-Covering Formation], while the Mystic Sea Avatar countered with a water-lightning dragon.
• Fu Qianlan fought the lamp-bearing Crimson Fire Crow with help from Yuan Sheng and Pang Zhen, but a moment's distraction left her exposed.
• The Crimson Fire Crow unleashed its ancient lamp's scarlet flame, burning through Fu Qianlan's green-skinned gourd and engulfing her.

Chen Shuangbai arrived to protect Fu Qianlan and faced Demon King Junli, who sought revenge for his father’s death. After cutting through Junli’s attack and wounding him with successive sword strikes, Chen Shuangbai turned toward True Person Luke after Luke’s ambush failed.

• Chen Shuangbai of the Jade Spring Sect appeared before Fu Qianlan and identified himself to the Crimson Fire Crows.
• Demon King Junli revealed that Chen Shuangbai had killed his father, Junyu, and attacked him with the Bing Sun Ancient Lamp.
• Chen Shuangbai split Junli’s enormous sphere of Bing Sun light with [Foot-Long Silk].
• Using [Hide Form], Chen Shuangbai struck Junli twice, knocking him down and badly wounding the root of his right wing.
• True Person Luke launched a poisonous attack, but it passed harmlessly through Chen Shuangbai, who warned Luke that he was eager to die.

Chen Shuangbai was trapped in True Person Luke’s Four Spirits Poison Baleful Intent Formation but used his Great Yin treasures and Azure Thunder Cloud-Piercing Shuttle to batter the formation. He brought the weakened formation to the brink of collapse and raised his sword to break it.

• True Person Luke and three Celebrated Origin Sect cultivators trapped Chen Shuangbai in the Four Spirits Poison Baleful Intent Formation, where his Hide Form ability was hindered.
• Chen Shuangbai used the Swaying Moon Sunken Cold Treasure Mirror to block and purify the formation’s poisonous light, while his Hide Form let him evade the Hundred Poisons Spirit-Slaying Sword.
• Chen Shuangbai struck the formation from within with Great Yin Illusory Radiance, wounding its cultivators and creating an opening to attack one of them before evading another poison sword.
• True Person Luke ordered the cultivators to bring out their Law Treasures, but Chen Shuangbai knocked all four poison-path treasures back with a gold-and-jade light.
• Chen Shuangbai released the Azure Thunder Cloud-Piercing Shuttle, which pierced the formation and made openings as the four poison banners cracked and their beast phantoms faltered.
• Chen Shuangbai raised his Great Yin sword and shouted “Break!” as the formation shuddered.

Chen Shuangbai shattered the Celebrated Origin Sect’s formation and killed its three Golden Core True Persons as they fled. True Person Luke revived his power and faced him again, just as Demon King Junli arrived with the [Bing Sun Divine Lamp].

• Chen Shuangbai broke the Four Spirits Poison Baleful Intent Formation, leaving the Celebrated Origin Sect’s three Golden Core True Persons badly wounded.
• Chen Shuangbai pursued the fleeing cultivators and slew all three with his Great Yin treasured sword, annihilating their souls.
• True Person Luke swallowed a pitch-black pill to restore his Law Power, then turned to face Chen Shuangbai with his poison banners and [Hundred Poisons Spirit-Slaying Sword].
• Demon King Junli arrived and attacked Chen Shuangbai with the [Bing Sun Divine Lamp], while Fu Qianlan and the Mystic Sea Avatar intercepted the other Crimson Fire Crows.
• Demon King Junli declared that he would show Chen Shuangbai the ancient treasure’s true might.

Chen Shuangbai fought Demon King Junli and True Person Luke inside the Bing Sun Divine Lamp’s domain, using Great Yin treasures and a deadly sword technique to threaten them both. After Luke urged Junli to cooperate, the two enemies prepared to join forces against Chen Shuangbai.

• Junli used the Bing Sun Divine Lamp to suppress Chen Shuangbai’s concealment and rain purple demon fire upon him.
• Chen Shuangbai’s Great Yin Sword Essence struck at True Person Luke, who sacrificed his left arm to escape and move closer to Junli.
• Junli unleashed Bing Sun Divine Light at Chen Shuangbai, who countered with the Swaying Moon Sunken Cold Treasure Mirror and a blue treasure banner.
• Chen Shuangbai multiplied into thousands of illusory figures, which Junli attacked with purple demon fire.
• True Person Luke warned Junli that Chen Shuangbai could kill them both and urged him to use every means available.
• Junli agreed to consider joining forces with Luke and asked what they should do.

True Person Luke and Demon King Junli used a Spirit-Severing Talisman and their attacks to try to kill Chen Shuangbai, but his [Paired Instruments] ability let him deceive Junli and strike back. Junli fell, and the corpse of a Crimson Fire Crow created a fire vein where it landed.

• True Person Luke showed Demon King Junli a Spirit-Severing Talisman that could briefly sever Chen Shuangbai’s connection to his Law Treasures, and Junli agreed to create an opening.
• Junli used the [Bing Sun Divine Lamp] while True Person Luke and the Three-Eyed Azure Chi attacked, and the Spirit-Severing Talisman cut Chen Shuangbai off from several treasures.
• True Person Luke restrained Chen Shuangbai as Junli sent a powerful pillar of Bing Sun Divine Light at him, apparently destroying his dharma body.
• Chen Shuangbai appeared behind Junli using the [Paired Instruments] ability of the [Shadow Chang'e] feathered robe and struck him with [Jade Trees and Jewel Branches, Myriad Layers of Splendor].
• Junli fell beneath Chen Shuangbai’s Great Yin Swordsmanship, and a Crimson Fire Crow’s corpse landed in the mountains, burning for three days and three nights and forming a fire vein.

Chen Shuangbai killed True Person Luke and the other Celebrated Origin Sect Golden Cores while the Nascent Soul Demon Lord escaped with the [Bing Sun Divine Lamp]. With Hengzhang City's crisis resolved, Chen Shuangbai secured Demon King Junli's corpse and reflected on the cost of the battle.

• True Lord Shendu tried to rescue True Person Luke, but Chen Shuangbai overcame the poisonous light and struck him down with [Foot-Long Silk].
• True Person Luke detonated his body in a final attack, but Chen Shuangbai escaped unharmed because he had used a [Ceremonial Body].
• [Foot-Long Silk]'s primal spirit transformed into a jade rabbit after Chen Shuangbai slew several Golden Cores, and the four Celebrated Origin Sect Golden Cores who fought in the battle were dead.
• Fu Qianlan and the Mystic Sea Avatar slew the Foundation Establishment Crimson Fire Crows, while the Early Golden Core Stage Crimson Fire Crow fled with the [Bing Sun Divine Lamp].
• Chen Shuangbai stored Demon King Junli's corpse in the [Swaying Moon Sunken Cold Treasure Mirror] after deciding the [Life-Accepting Gourd] could not contain it.

Chen Shuangbai met True Lord Qingyu after the battle, then arranged for two alchemists to refine a pill from Demon King Junli’s corpse. The chapter ended when Ding Chengyu reported that an envoy from the Sword Alliance had arrived to see him.

• Chen Shuangbai checked on True Lord Qingyu, who said his injuries from True Lord Shendu were minor and warned Chen Shuangbai that Shendu might target him.
• True Lord Qingyu examined Chen Shuangbai’s sword spirit, [Foot-Long Silk], and encouraged him to pursue the path of the sword immortal.
• Chen Shuangbai brought Demon King Junli’s corpse to Gongye Chun and Yi Chongyue and gave them the [Sun Yi Golden Core Pill] formula to study and refine.
• Chen Shuangbai left the alchemists to cultivate while they investigated the ingredients needed for the pill.
• Ding Chengyu informed Chen Shuangbai that an envoy from the Sword Alliance had arrived and requested an audience.

Sword Alliance envoys Nangu Yaohua and Lu Qingchuan warned Chen Shuangbai that a masked attacker was targeting gifted sword cultivators to steal their sword insights. After learning the attacks might be linked to the nuo-mask incident, Chen Shuangbai and Lu Qingchuan agreed to settle their meeting with a single sword strike.

• Nangu Yaohua and Lu Qingchuan visited Chen Shuangbai to warn him that an unknown assailant had attacked Sword Alliance talents and stolen their swords and sword insights.
• Chen Shuangbai showed them a nuo mask and asked whether the attacker’s followers had worn similar masks, and Nangu Yaohua confirmed they had.
• Nangu Yaohua reminded herself to be cautious, while she and Chen Shuangbai considered whether the attacks were connected.
• Lu Qingchuan’s battle intent rose as he asked to spar with Chen Shuangbai, and Nangu Yaohua recognized his familiar urge to challenge talented swordsmen.
• Chen Shuangbai proposed deciding the outcome with a single strike, and Nangu Yaohua agreed to witness their duel.

Chen Shuangbai defeated Lu Qingchuan in a sword spar and learned that the Sword Alliance had given him the honorific Far-Reaching Luminous Sword. After discussing the Alliance’s war and the Jade Spring Sect’s affairs, he was asked to rescue Heiming Gu Du from the Black River Water Manor.

• Lu Qingchuan attacked Chen Shuangbai with the Azure Yang Sword Lineage, but Chen Shuangbai concealed and absorbed his Sword Essence with a move shaped by Supreme Yin Concealment.
• Lu Qingchuan accepted his defeat and praised Chen Shuangbai, while Nangu Yaohua explained that the Sword Alliance had named him the Far-Reaching Luminous Sword.
• Chen Shuangbai discussed relations between the alliances and learned that the Sword Alliance was fighting the Blood Sea Dao and Lifeless City in the West Kingdom.
• Ding Chengyu reflected on the stolen Azure Yi Mystic Cauldron and approved Chen Shuangbai’s request to purchase third-tier spirit resources from the Jade Wave Immortal Market.
• Heiming Xuanzhao reported that Heiming Gu Du had gone missing in the Black River Water Manor’s territory and begged Chen Shuangbai to secure his release.

Chen Shuangbai sent a flying letter asking the Black River Water Manor to return Heiming Gu Du, while the Black Jade Flood Dragon King decided to claim the young shaman for his daughter. The chapter ended with adviser Bai Wujiu warning the king that provoking the Vast Waves Alliance could cost more than the dispute was worth.

• Chen Shuangbai agreed to inquire about Heiming Gu Du and decided to send an envoy with a flying letter to the Black River Water Manor.
• Wu Yue delivered the Jade Spring Sect’s request and gifts to the Black Jade Flood Dragon King, who ordered him to deny that Heiming Gu Du was there.
• After learning Heiming Gu Du’s identity, the Black Jade Flood Dragon King claimed his sixteenth daughter had chosen him and said they would arrange a wedding.
• Bai Wujiu cautioned the Black Jade Flood Dragon King that opposing the Vast Waves Alliance could bring unnecessary losses.