Chapter Summaries

After recovering from his tribulation injuries, Lin Xuan answered an Azure Yang Sword Sect distress signal and arrived at a standoff over spirit fruits, where the Qingwei Peak Master and her disciples faced the Divine Firmament Hall. The sect disciples learned Lin Xuan was Starfall Peak’s master, but the Divine Firmament Hall’s powerful deputy hall master arrived and ordered his side to leave.

• Lin Xuan recovered while wandering the mystic realm, then refused Ye Han’s offer to travel with her group after they rescued him from robbers.
• Lin Xuan sensed an Azure Yang Sword Sect distress signal and hurried to help the Qingwei Peak Master, Ye Han, and the others defend spirit fruits from the Divine Firmament Hall.
• Ye Han and the other disciples realized Lin Xuan was Starfall Peak’s master, not a junior disciple they needed to protect.
• The Divine Firmament Hall’s King Realm Fourth Layer deputy hall master arrived, and the Qingwei Peak Master feared his strength would decide the standoff.
• The deputy hall master told his group to leave rather than attack the Azure Yang Sword Sect.

Lin Xuan forced Divine Firmament Hall to abandon the spirit fruits, then encountered Chu Yuechan at a powerful Spiritual Qi gathering and took her place without resistance. As he cultivated, two rival King Realm elders began fighting nearby, and Lin Xuan demanded that they move elsewhere.

• Lin Xuan stopped the Divine Firmament Hall cultivators from leaving with the spirit fruits, and the deputy hall master made them surrender the fruit before retreating.
• The deputy hall master explained that Lin Xuan had previously slain more than twenty King Realm cultivators with one strike, leaving his followers grateful they had escaped.
• The Qingwei Peak Master and her companions kept Lin Xuan's strength secret, while Lin Xuan continued exploring the mystic realm for treasures.
• Lin Xuan found a withered tree surrounded by cultivators and took Chu Yuechan's inner-circle place; Chu Yuechan recognized him and yielded without a fight.
• Elder Ming Gu attacked Cang He, his rival from the Yuanming Sect, and Lin Xuan told the two elders to fight somewhere else because they were disturbing his cultivation.

Lin Xuan killed Ming Gu with one sword strike, stopping the fighting around the withered tree and leaving Cang He and the other cultivators in awe. After cultivating until the tree’s Spiritual Qi was exhausted, Lin Xuan advanced to King Realm second layer, and the tree transformed into a platform for the Ancestral Tree Trial, where he stepped up first.

• Lin Xuan killed Ming Gu with a single sword strike and warned everyone not to fight near the withered tree.
• Cang He bowed to Lin Xuan and returned to his place, while Chu Yuechan and the others wondered at Lin Xuan’s strength.
• After nearly half a day of cultivation, Lin Xuan’s injuries healed and his cultivation advanced to King Realm second layer.
• The exhausted withered tree transformed into a platform and a bronze-armored wooden figure, revealing the Ancestral Tree Trial.
• As more cultivators gathered, Lin Xuan stepped onto the platform before anyone else.

Lin Xuan defeated the bronze-armored wooden puppet with one sword strike and began comprehending the sword formation diagram it gave him. After other challengers failed, Prince Jinyang and Fairy Yunyi arrived, and Prince Jinyang stepped onto the platform ready to test himself against the puppet.

• Lin Xuan shattered the bronze-armored wooden puppet with one sword strike and received a sword formation diagram to comprehend.
• Blade Demon Qin Wu challenged the puppet but was knocked off the platform in a single move, revealing how powerful it was.
• More challengers arrived and suffered the same fate as Qin Wu, while Lin Xuan continued comprehending the diagram.
• Prince Jinyang and Fairy Yunyi arrived, drawing the crowd’s attention as rumors spread about Prince Jinyang’s victories over Spirit True Empire geniuses, including Gu Yu.
• Prince Jinyang stepped onto the platform, declared that no one in his realm had been a worthy opponent, and summoned a spear.

Prince Jinyang was defeated by the bronze-armored wooden man, leaving the onlookers convinced the trial might require wit rather than strength. Lin Xuan recognized his disciple Su Lianxin as she arrived, and she stunned everyone by defeating the wooden man in two sword strikes.

• Prince Jinyang fought the bronze-armored wooden man at full strength but was knocked off the platform after nearly ten exchanges.
• Great Jin cultivators comforted Prince Jinyang, and the crowd considered whether the ancestral tree trial required a method other than brute force.
• Lin Xuan spotted his disciple Su Lianxin approaching and watched as she stepped onto the platform.
• Su Lianxin struck the wooden man with her sword, sending it flying more than ten meters while she held her ground.
• Su Lianxin unleashed a second sword strike that blasted the wooden man off the platform and defeated it.

Su Lianxin defeated the bronze-armored wooden man, and Lin Xuan gained the Saint Grade Immortal-Slaying Sword Array by investing her reward. After returning from the mystic realm and reassuring Wang Yan about a killing, Lin Xuan attended the Azure Yang Sword Sect competition, where Su Lianxin’s first opponent surrendered.

• Su Lianxin defeated the bronze-armored wooden man in two strikes, accepted Lin Xuan’s correction, and gave him the illustrated volume she had won.
• Lin Xuan memorized Su Lianxin’s volume, gave her his Star Sea Sword Array Diagram, and received the Saint Grade Immortal-Slaying Sword Array in return.
• Lin Xuan and Su Lianxin left the closing mystic realm and met Wang Yan, who confessed that he had killed a cultivator from a powerful Dawn Empire faction; Lin Xuan refused to blame him.
• Lin Xuan returned to the Azure Yang Sword Sect with Su Lianxin and Wang Yan, but found Qu Youmeng still absent despite her name remaining in the system’s disciple column.
• Before the sect competition, Su Lianxin advanced to the Earth Mysterious Fifth Layer and Wang Yan reached the Earth Profound Realm; Sect Master Xuanyang then opened the competition.
• Su Lianxin drew Yang Jin as her first opponent, and Yang Jin, recognizing her strength from the mystic realm, surrendered.

Yang Jin conceded his match against Su Lianxin, while Qu Youmeng arrived at the tournament confident she could win first place. When she faced Su Lianxin, the two fought with a single strike, and Qu Youmeng was knocked out of the arena.

• Yang Jin conceded to Su Lianxin, judging that he could not defeat her and choosing to save his strength for later matches.
• Qu Youmeng arrived at the sect tournament, and Lin Xuan noticed that her cultivation remained at the fourth level of the Earth Profound Realm but her presence had grown stronger.
• Su Lianxin and Qu Youmeng drew each other for their first match and met on arena one.
• The crowd focused on the arena-five clash between Shi Hao and Jiang Lan, representing the Holy Maiden's and Holy Son's factions.
• Su Lianxin struck first, but Qu Youmeng met her head-on; Su Lianxin won with one blow, sending Qu Youmeng out of the arena.

Su Lianxin defeated Qu Youmeng in one strike, and Qu Youmeng discovered that the Azure Emperor Scripture Lin Xuan had given her was an emperor-grade cultivation method. As Jiang Lan defeated Shi Hao, the next match unexpectedly paired Li Fufeng against Lu Tianxing.

• Su Lianxin defeated Qu Youmeng with one strike and credited her rapid cultivation progress to the Azure Emperor Scripture.
• Qu Youmeng found the scripture Lin Xuan had given her and realized it was an emperor-grade method superior to the Profound Ice Instruction.
• Jiang Lan defeated Shi Hao on Arena Five, giving the Holy Son's faction a crucial victory.
• Li Fufeng resolved to defeat Lu Tianxing, while he watched her with a mocking smile.
• The elder announced that Numbers Thirteen and Seventy-Nine would fight on Arena One, revealing that Li Fufeng and Lu Tianxing had been matched.

Li Fufeng challenged Lu Tianxing for the Young Sect Master position, but he defeated her after revealing a sixth level of Green Mountain Sword Instruction. As the Holy Maiden’s supporters reeled from her loss, the Ninth Peak Master taunted Lin Xuan over his decision to side with her.

• Li Fufeng and Lu Tianxing faced off on arena number one, both at the Earth Mysterious Fifth Layer, and clashed with their nascent sword intent.
• Li Fufeng unleashed the fifth level of Green Mountain Sword Instruction, Long Sword Cascades Through the Sky, but Lu Tianxing emerged unharmed.
• Lu Tianxing revealed that he had comprehended the unwritten sixth level of Green Mountain Sword Instruction and defeated Li Fufeng with a single strike.
• Lu Tianxing’s victory crushed the Holy Maiden’s faction’s morale and strengthened the position of the Holy Son’s supporters.
• The Ninth Peak Master mocked Lin Xuan for supporting the defeated Holy Maiden and warned that he might lose his position as Peak Master.

Su Lianxin challenged Lu Tianxing in the sect tournament and defeated him with a single sword strike, stunning the Azure Yang Sword Sect. She looked to Lin Xuan for approval as the gathering reeled from the Holy Son’s unexpected loss.

• Lin Xuan ignored the Ninth Peak Master’s taunts while the tournament battles resumed.
• Lu Tianxing was drawn to fight number 129 and took the platform, confident that no opponent could challenge him.
• Su Lianxin announced herself as Lin Xuan’s personal disciple and refused to concede to Lu Tianxing.
• Lu Tianxing offered Su Lianxin a chance to join the Second Peak if she could force him back within ten moves, but she said one strike would suffice.
• Su Lianxin slashed Lu Tianxing off the platform in a single blow, then sheathed her sword and thanked him for yielding.
• Su Lianxin smiled at Lin Xuan’s approving nod as the sect’s disciples and Sect Master Xuanyang reacted in disbelief to Lu Tianxing’s defeat.

Su Lianxin defeated Lu Tianxing with a single sword strike, stunning the sect and proving Yang Jin had been wise to forfeit against her. The Ninth Peak Master was left humiliated after his earlier mockery of Lin Xuan went unanswered.

• Li Fufeng and the sect elders were shocked when Su Lianxin knocked Lu Tianxing off the platform with one strike.
• Lu Tianxing struggled with his defeat as Su Lianxin told him that being conceited was no good and left the platform.
• Chu Xiao and the Mysterious Spirit Peak disciples realized Yang Jin had forfeited because he knew Su Lianxin was too strong to beat, and they apologized to him.
• Yang Jin remained silent and coldly accepted the apologies from the disciples who had mocked him.
• The Ninth Peak Master flushed with shame when Lin Xuan ignored him despite his earlier ridicule and humiliation.

After Su Lianxin defeated Lu Tianxing, the enraged Holy Son faced Wang Yan of Starfall Peak and attacked with his strongest technique. Wang Yan drew his sword and revealed true sword intent, shocking the elders and leaving the duel poised for a clash.

• Lu Tianxing struggled to accept his defeat by Su Lianxin and suppressed his fury as the tournament continued.
• Lu Tianxing was matched against Wang Yan of Starfall Peak and blamed the peak for disrupting his plans to become Young Sect Master.
• Lu Tianxing opened the duel with the sixth form of the Green Mountain Sword Instruction, expecting to overwhelm Wang Yan.
• Wang Yan planted himself against the attack, drew his sword, and unleashed true sword intent, stunning the elders.

Wang Yan revealed that he had comprehended true Sword Intent and defeated Lu Tianxing, who later lost to Qu Youmeng and missed the finals. Starfall Peak claimed the top three tournament places, leaving former Starfall Peak disciples and the Holy Son faction reeling as Lin Xuan taunted the Ninth Peak Master about who regretted their choices.

• Wang Yan unleashed Sword Intent and defeated Lu Tianxing, sending the Holy Son out of the arena severely injured.
• Lu Tianxing drew Qu Youmeng and lost to her in two sword strikes, giving him three consecutive defeats and eliminating him from the finals.
• Disciples who had once left Starfall Peak regretted their decisions, especially Yang Hao, who admitted he was now the one regretting it.
• Sect Master Xuanyang announced Su Lianxin in first place, Qu Youmeng in second, Wang Yan in third, and Li Fufeng in fourth.
• Lin Xuan told the Ninth Peak Master that he would remain Peak Master and asked who regretted things now.

After Starfall Peak won the sect tournament, Lin Xuan rejected former disciples seeking to return and received gifts and rewards, which he reinvested in Su Lianxin and Wang Yan to gain powerful pills. The chapter ended with Heavenly Venerable Yunli awakening and asking Qu Youmeng whether she had won first place.

• Su Lianxin refused Yang Hao's plea to return to Starfall Peak, reminding him that he had once urged her to leave and asking whether he regretted it.
• Li Fufeng visited Lin Xuan to thank Starfall Peak and presented him with a top-grade fifth-rank Spirit Recovery Pill; Sect Master Xuanyang then delivered the tournament rewards.
• Su Lianxin offered Lin Xuan her first-place Mysterious Dragon Pill, and he gave her Li Fufeng's pill, receiving a top-grade seventh-rank Source Reformation Spirit Pill in return.
• Lin Xuan gave Wang Yan the Mysterious Dragon Pill, received a Nine Netherworlds Netherflame Pill in return, and awarded it to Wang Yan to awaken a special physique.
• Qu Youmeng lamented missing first place and entry to the Azure Sun Secret Realm until Heavenly Venerable Yunli awakened and asked whether the tournament was over and Qu Youmeng had won.

After learning that Qu Youmeng lost the sect competition to Su Lianxin because of the Azure Emperor Scripture, Heavenly Venerable Yunli was shocked to discover Lin Xuan knew she was hiding within Qu Youmeng. Yunli revealed her past and asked Lin Xuan to retrieve a secret-realm treasure that could restore her body, but Lin Xuan instead offered a pill that he said could bring her back to life.

• Qu Youmeng told Heavenly Venerable Yunli that Su Lianxin had won the competition, and Yunli learned that the Azure Emperor Scripture Lin Xuan gave Qu Youmeng was Thearch Grade.
• Qu Youmeng visited Lin Xuan, who revealed that he knew Heavenly Venerable Yunli was inside her and offered the later levels of the scripture only if she truly became his disciple with Yunli's consent.
• Heavenly Venerable Yunli emerged from Qu Youmeng and explained that she had come to the Azure Yang Sword Sect seeking a secret-realm treasure to reconstruct her body after being betrayed and killed by enemies.
• Heavenly Venerable Yunli offered to guard Lin Xuan for a hundred years if he retrieved the treasure, but Lin Xuan declined and said he had another way to restore her body.
• Lin Xuan presented a top-tier seventh-grade Source Reformation Spirit Pill, claiming it could let Heavenly Venerable Yunli return to life, and she examined its extraordinary pill patterns.

Heavenly Venerable Yunli accepted a five-hundred-year oath to protect Lin Xuan in exchange for the Source Reformation Spirit Pill, while Su Lianxin reported Nangong Yaoyue’s rise on the Hidden Dragon Ranking. An urgent summons then brought Lin Xuan and Wang Yan before the Azure Yang Sword Sect’s leaders, where they learned the Spirit Jade Sect was coming over its young sect master’s death and Lu Tianxing demanded Wang Yan be sent to beg forgiveness.

• Heavenly Venerable Yunli agreed to protect Lin Xuan for five hundred years after he offered her the Source Reformation Spirit Pill, and she left with Qu Youmeng to absorb its medicinal power.
• Su Lianxin told Lin Xuan that Nangong Yaoyue had defeated several Hidden Dragon Ranking geniuses and reached the top ten, then vowed privately to surpass her.
• Sect Master Xuanyang urgently summoned Lin Xuan and Wang Yan to the main hall, where Ancestor Xuanjian and the sect’s leaders awaited them.
• A sect member accused Wang Yan of killing the Spirit Jade Sect’s young sect master, and Lin Xuan began to explain that Wang Yan was not at fault before Ancestor Xuanjian interrupted him.
• Ancestor Xuanjian warned that the enraged Spirit Jade Sect was approaching and asked how the sect should respond.
• Lu Tianxing argued that Wang Yan should personally go to the Spirit Jade Sect to beg forgiveness rather than put the entire sect at risk.

The Azure Yang Sword Sect debated whether to hand Wang Yan over to the Spirit Jade Sect, and most leaders chose to abandon him. Lin Xuan ended the dispute by declaring that he and Wang Yan were leaving the sect.

• Lu Tianxing and his supporters argued that the sect should hand Wang Yan over to appease the Spirit Jade Sect.
• Li Fufeng defended Wang Yan and urged the sect to fight, but several leaders condemned her and refused to stand with her.
• Ancestor Xuanjian called for those who supported handing over Wang Yan to step forward, and most Peak Masters joined Lu Tianxing.
• Li Fufeng grew bitterly disappointed as she watched members of her own camp support abandoning Wang Yan.
• Lin Xuan declared that he and his disciple were leaving the Azure Yang Sword Sect and severing their ties with it.

Lin Xuan and Wang Yan left the Azure Yang Sword Sect after the sect refused to stand by them, and Li Fufeng chose to leave with them. Ancestor Xuanjian dismissed their departures and rewarded Lu Tianxing with two Dragon Soul Pills.

• Lin Xuan stopped Wang Yan from apologizing and left the Azure Yang Sword Sect with him, while Ancestor Xuanjian let them go and called them doomed to die.
• Li Fufeng thanked the sect leaders who had protected her, rejected their attempts to persuade her, and followed Lin Xuan and Wang Yan out of the sect.
• Ancestor Xuanjian asked whether anyone else wanted to leave, but the remaining members stayed; the Qingwei Peak Master silently mourned Li Fufeng's departure.
• Lu Tianxing celebrated the departures, expecting to become junior sect master, while Sect Master Xuanyang lamented losing Wang Yan's talent.
• Ancestor Xuanjian showed the sect treasures he had obtained in the Heaven-Burning Mystic Realm and gave Lu Tianxing two seventh-grade Dragon Soul Pills.

Ancestor Xuanjian gave Lu Tianxing two Dragon Soul Pills and tasked him with placing in the top hundred of the Seven Kingdoms Grand Competition. Lin Xuan left the Azure Yang Sword Sect, formed plans to establish the Sword Pavilion, and arrived alone at the Spirit Jade Sect to declare that he would destroy it.

• Ancestor Xuanjian gave Lu Tianxing two seventh-grade Dragon Soul Pills and demanded that he place in the top hundred of the Seven Kingdoms Grand Competition.
• Lin Xuan told Su Lianxin, Qu Youmeng, and Wang Yan that he was leaving the Azure Yang Sword Sect and set them the goal of claiming the competition's top three places.
• Heavenly Venerable Yunli suggested that Lin Xuan's disciples go to the Heron Empire, where she had once founded a faction, while Lin Xuan planned to establish the Sword Pavilion.
• Lin Xuan sent his disciples toward the Heron Empire and went to the Dawn Empire to confront the Spirit Jade Sect over Wang Yan's grievance.
• Lin Xuan appeared above the Spirit Jade Sect, ordered its ordinary disciples to leave within one incense stick, and vowed to raze the sect.

Lin Xuan arrived at the Spirit Jade Sect to avenge its plan to seize his disciple Wang Yan, and shattered the sect-protecting formation with one sword strike. After revealing who Wang Yan’s master was, Lin Xuan attacked the sect master, leaving the Spirit Jade Sect’s fate uncertain.

• The Spirit Jade Sect’s elders confronted Lin Xuan as he stood outside their gate.
• Lin Xuan struck the sect-protecting formation with his fourth-level Sword Intent and shattered it in a single blow.
• The Spirit Jade Sect’s sect master arrived and asked Lin Xuan why he was humiliating the sect.
• Lin Xuan revealed that Wang Yan was his disciple and accused the Spirit Jade Sect of planning to seize him.
• The sect master tried to call the situation a misunderstanding, but Lin Xuan cut him off and launched another sword strike.