Chapter Summaries

True Person Cave Ridge provoked Lu Xiangyuan while True Lord Purple Thunder pretended to apologize, but Chen Shuangbai remained unruffled. Lu Xiangyuan endured Cave Ridge’s powerful thunder attack and prepared to strike his new defense as the duel continued.

• True Person Cave Ridge openly insulted Lu Xiangyuan, while True Lord Purple Thunder apologized to Chen Shuangbai, Jihai, and Qingchen and claimed he would discipline his disciple.
• Chen Shuangbai dismissed the provocation, and True Person Cave Ridge unleashed the Twelve Mystic Heaven Thunder Talismans at Lu Xiangyuan.
• Lu Xiangyuan protected herself with the Jade Water Azure Flower Protective Incantation, whose regenerating lotus dais withstood the thunderbolts as a jade bottle replenished it.
• Lu Xiangyuan formed an enormous emerald water bow, prompting True Person Cave Ridge to replace his thunder talismans with the Scarlet Bell Heaven-Mixing Law Incantation and challenge her to attack.

Lu Xiangyuan defeated Cave Ridge by piercing his three layers of protection, winning praise from Chen Shuangbai and leaving True Lord Purple Thunder humiliated. True Lord Xiaoyun then sent Jade-Exquisite to challenge the Jade Spring Sect, and Chen Yazhen stepped forward as Jade-Rinsing to face her.

• Lu Xiangyuan's azure arrow pierced Cave Ridge's three defenses and damaged his Dragon-Tiger Thunder-Fire Stake before True Lord Purple Thunder stopped the arrow from striking him.
• Lu Xiangyuan celebrated her victory with Chen Shuangbai and returned to her fellow disciples, while True Lord Purple Thunder summoned Cave Ridge away for treatment.
• True Lord Xiaoyun sent Jade-Exquisite of the Renewed Net Sect to seek a match with one of Chen Shuangbai's disciples.
• Chen Yazhen volunteered and introduced herself as Jade-Rinsing before facing Jade-Exquisite on the cloud platform.
• True Lord Qingchen eagerly anticipated the duel between the two female cultivators, prompting True Lord Jihai to tell him to behave properly.

Jade-Exquisite tried to sow suspicion about the White Water Chen Clan’s influence in the Jade Spring Sect, but Chen Yazhen challenged her and their duel erupted into a fierce clash. Jade-Exquisite’s hammer strike left a crater in the cloud platform, while Chen Yazhen’s whereabouts remained unclear.

• Jade-Exquisite questioned Chen Yazhen about her kinship with the Far-Reaching Luminous Sword Immortal and warned that the White Water Chen Clan might come to dominate the Jade Spring Sect.
• Chen Yazhen accused Jade-Exquisite of spreading gossip and attacked her with a sword strike, then brought out the [Mystic Pure Cinnabar Moon Mirror].
• Jade-Exquisite defended herself with a wall of small white shields as Chen Yazhen’s mystic light shattered them.
• Jade-Exquisite formed white-jade armor, summoned two jade hammers, and charged Chen Yazhen.
• Jade-Exquisite’s hammer smashed into the cloud platform, leaving a crater where Chen Yazhen had stood.

Chen Shuangbai and True Lord Xiaoyun wagered rare treasures on the duel between Chen Yazhen and Jade-Exquisite. Chen Yazhen unveiled her Mystic Frost Yin Soul Spirit-Descending Dharma Body, and the two fighters continued their fierce clash.

• Jade-Exquisite repeatedly hammered at Chen Yazhen, while Chen Yazhen dodged and weakened the blows with the Mystic Pure Cinnabar Moon Mirror.
• True Lord Xiaoyun stabilized the cloud platform and wagered a Jade Qilin Gold-Veined Fruit against half the Essence Blood of Chen Shuangbai's Feathered Serpent.
• Chen Yazhen unleashed waves of sword light, but Jade-Exquisite endured them in her white jade armor and struck back with stacked force.
• Chen Yazhen revealed her Mystic Frost Yin Soul Spirit-Descending Dharma Body and drew a pure white ice sword as the puppet behind her manifested a larger matching blade.
• Jade-Exquisite and Chen Yazhen charged into close combat, their hammer and sword blows shaking the reinforced cloud platform.

Chen Yazhen and Jade-Exquisite fought fiercely on the cloud platform, but Chen Yazhen’s Mystic Yin Annihilation Qi steadily drained and slowed her opponent. As Jade-Exquisite weakened, she invoked Chen Yazhen’s painful past to disrupt her sword assault and create an opening.

• Jade-Exquisite enlarged her hammers and struck Chen Yazhen’s Spirit-Descending Dharma Body, but Chen Yazhen answered with the Three Yin Sundering Net Divine Light.
• Chen Yazhen summoned six deathly white icicles and unleashed her Mystic Yin Annihilation Qi, while Jade-Exquisite summoned a giant white jade lion and charged.
• The two women traded powerful blows, but the icy mist slowed Jade-Exquisite and rapidly depleted her strength and Law Power.
• Jade-Exquisite told Chen Yazhen that her clansmen had regarded her as a monster for her silver eyes and that her parents had abandoned her.
• Chen Yazhen’s sword assault faltered, giving Jade-Exquisite a moment to recover and ready her lion-headed hammers.

Chen Yazhen defeated Jade-Exquisite with a devastating Mystic Yin sword strike, while Chen Shuangbai prevented True Lord Xiaoyun from interfering and received her apology. After the ceremony and a private exchange of Nascent Soul demon-lord essence blood, Chen Shuangbai, True Lord Qingchen, and True Lord Jihai discussed their next obligations, and Chen Shuangbai said he had important matters of his own.

• Chen Yazhen unleashed a powerful Mystic Yin strike that shattered Jade-Exquisite's defenses and sent her crashing into the Shattered Star River.
• Chen Shuangbai's Sword Intent restrained True Lord Xiaoyun, who apologized and gave him the Azure-Scaled Gold-Grain Fruit before taking away her injured disciple.
• After the ceremony, Chen Shuangbai exchanged Nascent Soul demon-lord Essence Blood with Yuan Jun Sword Lord and Liu Xinghe, then discussed sword Dao with them for more than half a month.
• True Lord Qingchen said he planned to pursue Hentian, while True Lord Jihai returned to Calming Waves City to oversee the aftermath of the Holy Origin Alliance's destruction.
• Chen Shuangbai told True Lord Qingchen and True Lord Jihai that he had important matters to attend to as well.

Chen Shuangbai enlisted Great Shaman Wugu to turn Yan Nanlai’s sealed divine sense into a Soul-Chasing Incantation Crow that could track its source. After leaving the Dark Crow Tribe with Feiguang, Chen Shuangbai headed to Ning Country to visit Fu Qianlan before pursuing the traitor.

• Chen Shuangbai offered Great Shaman Wugu precious pills to secure the Dark Crow Tribe’s help in locating Yan Nanlai’s true body.
• Great Shaman Wugu invoked the ancestral spirit and refined the sealed divine sense into a Soul-Chasing Incantation Crow, warning that Yan Nanlai was powerful enough to notice the ritual.
• Heiming Gu Du supported Great Shaman Wugu and watched Chen Shuangbai, who sensed something unusual about the young tribesman.
• Chen Shuangbai gave the Soul-Chasing Incantation Crow to Feiguang and chose to visit Qianlan before tracking the traitor.
• Chen Shuangbai and Feiguang traveled through the void to Ning Country, where Fu Qianlan was overseeing the Vast Waves Alliance’s rebuilding efforts.

Chen Shuangbai visited Fu Qianlan at Mirror Lake, where they discussed their old friend He Qi and Fu Qianlan’s efforts to rebuild Ning Country. After promising to make Yan Nanlai answer for Senior Sister A Heng’s ruined Dao Path, Chen Shuangbai departed and learned that Fu Qianlan was accompanied by a powerful soul.

• Chen Shuangbai arrived at Fu Qianlan’s fortress over Mirror Lake with Feiguang and reunited with her.
• Fu Qianlan explained that she had taken charge of Ning Country to temper herself and prepare for Nascent Soul.
• Fu Qianlan told Chen Shuangbai that He Qi had married, raised a family, and remained at the middle stage of Foundation Establishment.
• Chen Shuangbai and Fu Qianlan accepted that He Qi had followed a different path, then Chen Shuangbai promised to bring Yan Nanlai before Senior Sister A Heng to admit his wrongs.
• After Chen Shuangbai left with Feiguang, Haoming Boy revealed that Fu Qianlan’s companion Aunt Yuan was a Nascent Soul-level soul and did not seem harmful to her.

Chen Shuangbai pursued Yan Nanlai through a series of hidden realms with the Soul-Chasing Incantation Crow, while Yan Nanlai repeatedly sensed the pursuit and fled. The trail led into the deadly Buried Wind Ocean, and Chen Shuangbai decided to follow it inside.

• Chen Shuangbai activated the Soul-Chasing Incantation Crow, which tracked Yan Nanlai to an abandoned otherworldly space.
• Yan Nanlai sensed that someone was divining his whereabouts, concealed his Qi signature, and escaped before Chen Shuangbai arrived.
• Haoming Boy explained that Yan Nanlai had detected the pursuit and interfered with his Qi signature, while Feiguang wondered whether the fugitive was a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator.
• The Soul-Chasing Incantation Crow repeatedly rediscovered Yan Nanlai's trail as Chen Shuangbai pursued him through several otherworldly spaces and false trails.
• The crow tracked Yan Nanlai to the Buried Wind Ocean, where its deadly winds and baleful forces stopped it at the edge.
• Haoming Boy protected the group and the crow with violet-gold radiance, and Chen Shuangbai decided to enter the Buried Wind Ocean.

Chen Shuangbai and his companions crossed the Buried Wind Ocean under his sword formation’s protection and encountered a shadow left by Yan Nanlai. Yan Nanlai taunted him and threatened to leave him trapped in the ocean as Chen Shuangbai attacked.

• Haoming Boy protected Chen Shuangbai and Feiguang from the Buried Wind Ocean’s storms until Chen Shuangbai took over and used Great Yin Illusory Radiance and a sword formation to clear their path.
• Chen Shuangbai led the group deeper into the ocean, but the storms intensified and a burst of lightning forced him out of Conceal Form and Hide Traces.
• Haoming Boy summoned a Purple-Gold Heavenly Gate to shield them from the lightning as Chen Shuangbai recognized Yan Nanlai’s shadow.
• Yan Nanlai mocked Chen Shuangbai and said he would leave him to die in the Buried Wind Ocean, then Chen Shuangbai sent a massive sword strike toward the shadow.
• Yan Nanlai’s shadow remained standing and accused Chen Shuangbai of striking his martial uncle ruthlessly.

Chen Shuangbai faced Yan Nanlai’s shadow as it turned the Buried Wind Ocean’s storms against him and Haoming Boy. The Nether Sparrow Demon Lord arrived with three heads, joined Yan Nanlai’s attack, and unleashed black fire at the Purple-Gold Heavenly Gate.

• Chen Shuangbai repeatedly destroyed Yan Nanlai’s shadow, but the shadow revived and reversed the storms, drawing lightning toward him and Haoming Boy.
• A cloud whale fell from the void, and the three-headed Nether Sparrow Demon Lord burst from its belly after devouring it.
• Haoming Boy recognized the Nether Sparrow Demon Lord’s Ghost Chariot bloodline and realized it had regained strength by consuming other beasts.
• The Nether Sparrow Demon Lord explained that it had agreed to attack Chen Shuangbai because his death would weaken human cultivators.
• The Nether Sparrow Demon Lord dismissed Yan Nanlai’s shadow as no threat and blasted Chen Shuangbai and Haoming Boy with black fire.

Chen Shuangbai faced the Nether Sparrow Demon Lord and Shadow inside the Demon Lord’s corrosive five-colored domain, but revealed that he had prepared for the fight. Zhu Ling arrived with the Great Mound Nine-Yi Sword, followed by powerful reinforcements who shattered the domain and confronted the two enemies.

• The Nether Sparrow Demon Lord used its five-colored radiance and black fire to erode Chen Shuangbai’s heavenly gate and trap him inside its domain.
• Chen Shuangbai drew the Great Mound Nine-Yi Sword, startling the Nether Sparrow Demon Lord and Shadow, who recognized the weapon.
• Zhu Ling emerged from a purple doorway and took the sword from Chen Shuangbai, cracking the five-colored domain with its power.
• Chen Shuangbai revealed that he had anticipated the danger and had brought allies rather than confronting the enemies alone.
• The Azure Cloud Sword Lord and two elderly sword-bearing Daoists descended, while True Lord Qingchen arrived in five-colored watery light and pinned Shadow in place.

True Lord Qingchen captured Yan Nanlai’s shadow and used it to locate his true body, then went alone to confront him while Chen Shuangbai turned to aid the Sword Alliance. The Sword Alliance’s formation and Zhu Ling Sword Immortal kept Nether Sparrow trapped, with the [Great Mound Nine-Yi Sword] proving especially effective against the Demon Lord.

• True Lord Qingchen pinned Yan Nanlai’s shadow with five-colored light and the [Scarlet Yang Pure Truth Mountain-Suppressing Ruyi], then used his five-colored water wheel to draw a path toward Yan Nanlai’s true body.
• Yan Nanlai spoke through the path and attacked it with blue-violet light, but True Lord Qingchen stabilized it and told Chen Shuangbai to help the Sword Alliance.
• True Lord Qingchen stepped onto the path to face Yan Nanlai alone, while Chen Shuangbai sent him a message using the crow bone carving and went to the other battlefield.
• Azure Cloud Sword Lord and two Sword Alliance True Lords formed the Heavenly Light Sword Formation around Nether Sparrow and Zhu Ling Sword Immortal.
• Zhu Ling Sword Immortal wielded the [Great Mound Nine-Yi Sword] to drive Nether Sparrow back as the formation sealed the battlefield and cut off its escape.

Zhu Ling Sword Immortal and Chen Shuangbai joined forces against the Nether Sparrow Demon Lord after Zhu Ling severed one of its heads and the two sword cultivators revealed their Sword Intents. The demon regained Nascent Soul Late Stage power and launched a concentrated blast as their combined sword light met it, leaving the battlefield in a moment of silence.

• Zhu Ling Sword Immortal cut off the Nether Sparrow Demon Lord's left head with the Great Mound Nine-Yi Sword, and his Sword Intent prevented it from growing back.
• Zhu Ling invited Chen Shuangbai to join the Sword Alliance in slaying the fiend, and Chen agreed before descending into the formation.
• Zhu Ling and Chen Shuangbai manifested their distinct Sword Intents and targeted the Nether Sparrow Demon Lord.
• The Nether Sparrow Demon Lord expended its essence, returned to Nascent Soul Late Stage, and battered the sword formation with its renewed power.
• Haoming Boy's Heavenly Gate Spirit Treasure empowered Chen Shuangbai, while the sword formation strengthened Zhu Ling and the other Sword Alliance cultivators.
• Zhu Ling and Chen Shuangbai combined their Sword Intents into a two-colored sword light as the Nether Sparrow Demon Lord fired a compressed blast, and the collision darkened heaven and earth.

The Arrayed Mystery Sect’s Nascent Soul cultivators learned that the Sword Alliance and its allies had slain the Nether Sparrow Demon Lord, frustrating the sect’s hopes of exploiting the turmoil. Jixuan argued that the Sword Alliance had weakened itself and suggested the Heavenly Star Mystic Sect might share their concerns, leaving the Arrayed Mystery Sect an opportunity to act.

• True Lord Linyuan told Jixuan that the Sword Alliance had slain the Nether Sparrow Demon Lord with help from Chen Shuangbai, whom it planned to honor with a book and stele.
• Jixuan and Linyuan lamented that the Sword Alliance, the Heavenly Star Mystic Sect, and the Vast Waves Alliance had stabilized instead of weakening one another.
• True Lord Jinxuan returned after True Lord Baishi told him there was no need to search the void for Nether Sparrow, and True Lord Purple Thunder joined the gathering.
• Jixuan suggested that the two Sword Alliance elders who fought Nether Sparrow would soon die in meditation, diminishing the alliance’s strength.
• Jixuan observed that the Sword Alliance’s debt to Chen Shuangbai could deepen its ties with the Vast Waves Alliance and argued that the Heavenly Star Mystic Sect might also fear their growing power.

After Nether Sparrow Demon Lord’s death, Chen Shuangbai studied the three tail feathers left behind and learned they held true spirit demon marks. He considered giving them to Feiguang, but asked Vast Sea Elder whether their powers would conflict with Feiguang’s bloodline.

• The Sword Alliance thanked Chen Shuangbai for killing Nether Sparrow Demon Lord, while rumors spread that it planned to ally with the Vast Waves Alliance.
• Chen Shuangbai reflected on how fighting Nether Sparrow Demon Lord had deepened his understanding of the Dao of the Moon Comet.
• Yuan Jun Sword Lord delivered Chen Shuangbai three of Nether Sparrow Demon Lord’s tail feathers as a token of thanks.
• Vast Sea Elder identified the feathers as true spirit demon marks inherited from the Ghost Chariot and Primordial Peacock bloodlines.
• Vast Sea Elder suggested that Chen Shuangbai could have a similar-blooded spirit beast absorb the feathers, prompting Chen Shuangbai to summon Feiguang.
• Chen Shuangbai asked Vast Sea Elder whether absorbing the feathers would endanger Feiguang because their elemental attributes differed.

Chen Shuangbai left Feiguang and the Nether Sparrow Demon Lord’s three tail feathers with the Vast Sea Elder so he could refine their True Spirit Demon Marks. Back at Jade Spring Sect, Chen Shuangbai struggled with sect administration while Zhanlu handled paperwork, and the chapter ended with him arranging a gift for Chen Tianjun’s Foundation Establishment attempt.

• The Vast Sea Elder promised to refine the True Spirit Demon Marks in the three tail feathers and asked Chen Shuangbai to leave Feiguang and the feathers in the Grotto-Heaven for up to a month.
• Feiguang knelt before Chen Shuangbai and expressed gratitude, and Chen Shuangbai departed after giving it instructions.
• Chen Shuangbai returned to the Jade Spring Sect and learned that True Lord Qingchen was still pursuing Yan Nanlai, while sect affairs piled up during True Person Yuchuan’s seclusion.
• Zhanlu complained that Chen Shuangbai and Shenyang were distracting her while she reviewed Jade Slips, and Chen Shuangbai agreed to stop interfering.
• Chen Fuguang reported that Chen Tianjun was about to enter seclusion for Foundation Establishment, and Chen Shuangbai ordered someone to deliver him a set of Foundation Establishment ritual implements.

Chen Zonglin revealed to Chen Shuangbai that the Chen Clan’s ancestors came from an overseas ancient Dao sanctuary and entrusted him with a cracked jade goblet tied to its origins. Chen Shuangbai began examining the artifact as Chen Zonglin explained that only a Nascent Soul descendant could use it to seek the sanctuary’s source.

• Chen Yazhen told Chen Shuangbai that Chen Zonglin wanted to trade a secret of the Chen Clan for cultivation resources, and Chen Shuangbai summoned him.
• Chen Shuangbai spoke with Chen Fuguang about his progress learning Martial Dao Divine Abilities from Shenyang.
• Chen Zonglin arrived at the Jade Soul Palace and confirmed that he wanted to exchange a Chen Clan secret for resources.
• Chen Zonglin presented Chen Shuangbai with a cracked jade goblet bearing ancient runes, which glowed when Chen Shuangbai infused it with Divine Ability.
• Chen Zonglin explained that the Chen Clan’s ancestor had served as keeper of an overseas ancient Dao sanctuary’s repositories before its fall, then fled to the Xu Kingdom and later moved the clan to the Jing Kingdom.
• Chen Zonglin said the jade goblet was a token from the sanctuary and that a descendant had to reach Nascent Soul to seek the origins of their bloodline.

Chen Shuangbai and his companions investigated the jade goblet’s hidden power and speculated that the Chen Clan’s ancestor had escaped a catastrophe involving beings beyond Spirit Transformation. At Azure Firmament Heaven, Vast Sea Elder explained that Feiguang had only about a fifty-fifty chance of breaking his bloodline shackles while refining True Spirit Demon Marks, leaving Chen Shuangbai to hope for the spirit beast’s resolve.

• Chen Shuangbai tested the jade goblet with Chen Fuguang and Chen Yazhen, but it showed no power once removed from his hand.
• Chen Fuguang and Chen Yazhen conjectured that their ancestor had been a Nascent Soul Cultivator, and the group wondered whether a force beyond Spirit Transformation had caused the sanctuary’s destruction.
• Shenyang, Chen Fuguang, Chen Yazhen, and Zhanlu left, while Chen Shuangbai remained to study the jade goblet.
• At Azure Firmament Heaven, Vast Sea Elder showed Chen Shuangbai how an array used three tail feathers to help the sleeping Feiguang refine True Spirit Demon Marks.
• Vast Sea Elder estimated Feiguang had a fifty-fifty chance of breaking through his original bloodline, explaining that success depended chiefly on Feiguang’s own will.

Chen Shuangbai learned that the Flood Dragon Clan was rapidly taking control of the outer sea, while the Net Chan Dao launched invasions in the Yuan and Zhao Kingdoms. As the Profound Firmament Sect appealed to the Vast Billows Alliance for aid, Chen Shuangbai and its leaders saw a chance to secure the sect’s submission.

• Gao Yi told Chen Shuangbai that the Flood Dragon Clan had captured Feiyu Cave and Green Mud Cave and was poised to take the outer sea.
• Gao Yi explained that Tower Lord Yunlai’s presence protected the eight great immortal markets, while Chen Shuangbai considered the threat posed by the Flood Dragon Clan’s two Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivators.
• The Renewed Net Sect and Compassionate Chan Way formed the Net Chan Dao, gathered tens of thousands of cultivators, and attacked the Yuan Kingdom and the Profound Firmament Sect’s territory in the Zhao Kingdom.
• Chen Shuangbai learned from a Sword Alliance message that Lifeless City and the Blood Sea Dao had joined the Net Chan Dao and were leading the invasion of the Profound Firmament Sect.
• True Lord Jihai told Chen Shuangbai that True Lord Xuanyuan had requested reinforcements, and Chen Shuangbai agreed the alliance should help in exchange for gaining leverage over the Profound Firmament Sect.