Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan destroyed the Spirit Jade Sect after its sect master appealed to reason and its ancestor tried to ambush him. He left the sect in ruins, while witnesses spread news of a mysterious sword immortal who had razed it alone.

• Lin Xuan's sword strike devastated the Spirit Jade Sect, grievously injuring the sect master and killing many disciples and elders.
• The sect master accused Lin Xuan of acting without justice, but Lin Xuan dismissed his plea as hypocrisy.
• The Spirit Jade Sect's ancestor attempted to attack Lin Xuan from behind, and Lin Xuan beheaded him with one stroke.
• Terrified disciples fled as Lin Xuan killed the sect master and unleashed another sword strike that wiped out everyone remaining within the sect grounds.
• A witness used a voice transmission talisman to report that one man and one sword had destroyed the Spirit Jade Sect.

After destroying the Spirit Jade Sect, Lin Xuan reunited with his disciples in Zhencang City, where Heavenly Venerable Yunli revealed that her old sect, the Jade Balance Sword Palace, still existed. As they traveled toward it, Lin Xuan heard that the sect was under attack and stopped when its fleeing cultivator Chen Xiong was identified as one of its members.

• Lin Xuan arrived in Zhencang City and told his disciples that he had destroyed the Spirit Jade Sect.
• Heavenly Venerable Yunli revealed that the Jade Balance Sword Palace had risen to become one of the Heron Empire's seven great sects, led in her absence by Deputy Palace Master Han Yue.
• Heavenly Venerable Yunli decided to take a pill and reconstruct her body during the journey to the Jade Balance Sword Palace, and Lin Xuan agreed to help.
• Near Mystic Moon Forest, Chen Xiong fled two pursuers and begged Lin Xuan for help, but Lin Xuan initially continued on without intervening.
• The pursuers revealed that the Illusory Feather Sect and the Spirit Firmament Sect were attacking the Jade Balance Sword Palace, and Lin Xuan stopped to ask Chen Xiong if he was from that sect.

Lin Xuan saved Chen Xiong by killing the two Spirit Firmament Sect cultivators pursuing him, then learned Chen was an elder of the Jade Balance Sword Palace. After Heavenly Venerable Yunli reconstructed her body, Lin Xuan told Chen to bow before his palace master.

• The two King Realm cultivators warned Lin Xuan not to interfere in their dispute with Chen Xiong, but Lin Xuan killed them instantly with Sword Qi.
• Chen Xiong thanked Lin Xuan and offered him his possessions, but Lin Xuan asked whether he belonged to the Jade Balance Sword Palace.
• Chen Xiong identified himself as the Jade Balance Sword Palace’s second elder.
• Heavenly Venerable Yunli appeared in a reconstructed body, and Qu Youmeng announced that her master had awakened.
• Lin Xuan pointed out Heavenly Venerable Yunli and asked Chen Xiong why he was not bowing before his palace master.

Heavenly Venerable Yunli revealed herself as the Jade Balance Sword Palace’s palace master and learned that the Illusory Feather Sect and Spirit Firmament Sect threatened her sect. Lin Xuan sent Chen Xiong to the Illusory Feather Sect with a Demonic Shadow Clone, which killed its sect master and demanded an apology from both sects within seven days.

• Heavenly Venerable Yunli proved her identity to Chen Xiong with her jade token and asked him to explain the threat facing the Jade Balance Sword Palace.
• Chen Xiong explained that the Illusory Feather Sect sought a treasure and planned to ally with the Spirit Firmament Sect against the Jade Balance Sword Palace.
• Lin Xuan gave Chen Xiong black jade containing a Demonic Shadow Clone and sent him to the Illusory Feather Sect.
• The Illusory Feather Sect’s sect master attacked Chen Xiong, but Lin Xuan’s clone emerged from the shattered jade and killed the sect master with one sword strike.
• Lin Xuan’s clone ordered the Illusory Feather Sect and Spirit Firmament Sect to bring ten million Spirit Stones each to the Jade Balance Sword Palace as an apology within seven days.

Chen Xiong left the Illusory Feather Sect unharmed after Lin Xuan's black jade deterred its remaining King Realm cultivators. At the Spirit Firmament Sect, Elder Zhou's recording of Lin Xuan killing the Illusory Feather Sect's master silenced the furious elders and led the sect master to decide to apologize with ten million Spirit Stones.

• Lin Xuan's demonic shadow turned back into black jade, and Chen Xiong departed the Illusory Feather Sect without anyone daring to stop him.
• Elder Zhou left the Illusory Feather Sect, while its deputy sect master faced the burden of paying ten million Spirit Stones after the sect master's death.
• Elder Zhou returned to the Spirit Firmament Sect and told its sect master that Elder Han had died and Lin Xuan had demanded ten million Spirit Stones and an apology.
• The Spirit Firmament Sect's sect master watched Elder Zhou's recording stone and ordered ten million Spirit Stones prepared so he could personally apologize at the Jade Balance Sword Palace.
• The recording showed Lin Xuan killing the Illusory Feather Sect's master with a single sword strike, leaving the Spirit Firmament Sect's elders in stunned silence.

The Spirit Firmament Sect learned that a powerful clone had killed the Illusory Feather Sect’s master and prepared to apologize to the Jade Balance Sword Palace. In the Tangqing Empire, the Azure Yang Sword Sect learned the Spirit Jade Sect had been destroyed, while Lu Tianxing focused on the Seven Kingdoms Grand Competition and vowed to kill Lin Xuan’s disciples if he met them again.

• Elder Zhou identified the black-robed swordsman who killed the Illusory Feather Sect’s master as a clone summoned with a strange stone, and the Spirit Firmament Sect prepared ten million Spirit Stones to apologize to the Jade Balance Sword Palace.
• An intelligence disciple told Ancestor Xuanjian and Sect Master Xuanyang that the Spirit Jade Sect had been destroyed and its ancestor and senior members were dead.
• Ancestor Xuanjian reflected that allowing Lin Xuan and his disciples to leave had been the right choice, and Sect Master Xuanyang sighed with relief that they had survived.
• Lu Tianxing heard of the Spirit Jade Sect’s destruction, dismissed Lin Xuan and his disciples as unworthy of concern, and promised himself he would kill them if they crossed paths again.
• The Peak Master of Heavenly Sword Peak urged Lu Tianxing to refine the Dragon Soul Pills’ medicinal potency for the Seven Kingdoms Grand Competition, and Lu Tianxing confidently resolved to place in the top hundred.

Fairy Cold Moon failed to persuade Clear Breeze Valley to aid the Jade Balance Sword Palace, then learned that the Spirit Firmament Sect had joined the Illusory Feather Sect against them. The enemy forces arrived at the sect’s gate, where the Spirit Firmament Sect’s master unexpectedly bowed and presented two storage rings.

• Fairy Cold Moon offered Clear Breeze Valley’s master treasures and pills in exchange for help, but Valley Master Yang refused and returned a precious treasure to repay his personal debt.
• Fairy Cold Moon returned to the Jade Balance Sword Palace and told its elders that Clear Breeze Valley would not intervene.
• The elders revealed that the Jade Balance Sword Palace’s informant had identified the Spirit Firmament Sect, not Thundercloud Pavilion, as the Illusory Feather Sect’s ally, and they had lost contact with Chen Xiong.
• Fairy Cold Moon sensed more than ten King Realm cultivators approaching, and the elders activated the sect-protecting formation and rushed to the mountain gate.
• Three King Realm cultivators from the Illusory Feather Sect and ten from the Spirit Firmament Sect arrived, but the Spirit Firmament Sect’s master bowed to Fairy Cold Moon and offered two storage rings.

The Spirit Firmament Sect and the Illusory Feather Sect apologized to the Jade Balance Sword Palace and paid twenty million Spirit Stones after learning it was connected to a powerful senior. Chen Xiong returned and revealed that he had met the palace master, just as several unfamiliar presences arrived outside the main hall.

• The Spirit Firmament Sect and the Illusory Feather Sect offered Fairy Cold Moon twenty million Spirit Stones and apologized for offending the Jade Balance Sword Palace.
• Chen Xiong returned and told Fairy Cold Moon to accept the compensation, assuring the elders that the sect’s crisis was over.
• Fairy Cold Moon accepted the Spirit Stones, and the leaders of both sects departed with their elders.
• Chen Xiong explained that Senior Lin and the palace master had saved him from two King Realm pursuers during his journey to Cangnan.
• Chen Xiong described the palace master to the elders, and Fairy Cold Moon realized the woman was the long-missing master.
• Several unfamiliar presences arrived outside the main hall, prompting the Jade Balance Sword Palace elders to demand to know who was there.

Heavenly Venerable Yunli returned to the Jade Balance Sword Palace with Lin Xuan, announced that she had joined his Sword Pavilion, and arranged for three of his disciples to take the palace’s competition places. The unfamiliar selections angered several disciples, while Fairy Cold Moon remained confident they would win both the Seven Kingdoms Grand Competition and the coming contest with the Jade Pivotal Star Sword Palace.

• Heavenly Venerable Yunli introduced Lin Xuan as the Pavilion Master and appointed Han Yue as Palace Master, then asked for three competition places for Lin Xuan’s disciples, which Fairy Cold Moon readily granted.
• Several days later, Chen Xiong announced the ten disciples chosen to represent the Jade Balance Sword Palace, including the unfamiliar Su Lianxin, Wang Yan, and Qu Youmeng instead of Xuan Mo and two other expected contenders.
• Xuan Mo and the other displaced disciples demanded an explanation from Chen Xiong, who told them the selections had been made by the Palace Master.
• Chu Jianchen questioned Fairy Cold Moon about the selections, citing the wager with the Jade Pivotal Star Sword Palace, but she refused to change her decision.
• Fairy Cold Moon privately recalled that her rival had used outside help before and resolved to answer in kind with Lin Xuan’s disciples.

Lin Xuan accepted an invitation to attend the Immortal Ascension Ceremony at Silver Heron Sacred Mountain, hoping to find more talented disciples. Meanwhile, Yunyi entered the Heron Empire determined to find Lin Xuan and ask him to become her master.

• Su Lianxin, Wang Yan, and Qu Youmeng endured hostile looks from Jade Balance Sword Palace followers who thought they had taken places from Xuan Mo and the other prodigies.
• Fairy Cold Moon told Lin Xuan about the Immortal Ascension Ceremony, where the Heron Empire’s seven great sects recruited disciples.
• Lin Xuan accepted the Jade Balance Sword Palace token and agreed to travel to Silver Heron Sacred Mountain with Chen Xiong.
• Yunyi arrived at the Heron Empire, having changed her plans after learning that Lin Xuan had gone to the Jade Balance Sword Palace.
• Yunyi resolved to seek Lin Xuan as her master despite her clan’s opposition and headed for the Immortal Ascension Ceremony.

At the Silver Heron Sacred Mountain recruitment ceremony, Lin Xuan discovered that Xi Huan’s purple talent was concealed by his destroyed spirit body and offered to take him as a disciple. Elder Feng of the Azure Luan Pavilion then tried to lure Xi Huan away with a core disciple position, prompting Lin Xuan to confront her.

• The testing elder explained that the Jade Void Sword Sect’s founder was the only person in Heron Empire history known to have lit eight pillars, while candidates continued taking the test.
• Yun Chengzhi lit five pillars and accepted the Spirit Taming Sect’s offer to become a true disciple.
• Lin Xuan scanned Xi Huan and learned that his Clear Wind Spirit Body had been destroyed in childhood, explaining why the spirit stele showed no pillars; he then asked Xi Huan to take him as his master.
• As Xi Huan prepared to accept Lin Xuan, Elder Feng offered him a core disciple position in the Azure Luan Pavilion, seemingly to antagonize the Jade Balance Sword Palace.
• Lin Xuan glared at Elder Feng and asked, “You want to die?”

Lin Xuan threatened Elder Feng after she mocked the Jade Balance Sword Palace, but Elder Li stopped them from fighting at the Immortal Ascension Ceremony. Xi Huan chose the Azure Luan Pavilion, and a candidate who lit seven pillars of light received no recruitment offers.

• Lin Xuan threatened Elder Feng, and Chen Xiong clashed presences with her when she retaliated.
• Elder Li intervened and ordered Lin Xuan and Elder Feng to stand down until the ceremony ended.
• Elder Feng invited Xi Huan to join the Azure Luan Pavilion, and Xi Huan accepted despite his hesitation.
• The ceremony continued, but Lin Xuan saw no further candidates with destiny above green.
• An unnamed candidate lit seven pillars at the testing spirit stele, yet none of the sect elders offered to recruit them.

Lin Xuan defied the Scarlet Ghost King's threat and accepted the gifted but shunned Qin Feng as his fourth disciple. As the Immortal Ascension Ceremony continued, a beautiful woman carrying an ancient zither arrived at the square.

• Chen Xiong warned Lin Xuan that the Scarlet Ghost King had forbidden anyone from taking Qin Feng as a disciple and explained the danger of opposing him.
• Lin Xuan asked Qin Feng to become his disciple despite the warning, stunning the crowd and the elders.
• Qin Feng accepted Lin Xuan's offer, and Lin Xuan declared him his fourth disciple.
• Elder Feng hid her malice behind her folding fan and expected the Scarlet Ghost King to deal with Lin Xuan.
• A woman carrying an ancient zither arrived at the square and said she had made it in time.

Yunyi arrived at the Immortal Ascension Ceremony, displayed unprecedented talent, and asked Lin Xuan to accept her as his disciple. Lin Xuan agreed, then left the ceremony while a shadow quietly pursued Elder Feng’s departing group.

• Yunyi lit all ten pillars of the testing spirit stele, stunning the crowd and prompting the sect elders to compete to recruit her.
• Yunyi rejected the elders’ offers and asked Lin Xuan to accept her as his disciple, despite Elder Feng’s objections.
• Lin Xuan accepted Yunyi as his fifth disciple, and she paid her respects to him.
• The ceremony ended without Lin Xuan finding a third suitable disciple, while Chen Xiong worried about the danger Lin Xuan faced from the Scarlet Ghost King.
• Elder Feng left with her recruits and Xi Huan, and Lin Xuan sent a pitch-black shadow after their group.

On the way back to the sect, Lin Xuan reassured Qin Feng that he would handle the Scarlet Ghost King, while Yunyi casually offered to have someone kill him. Chen Xiong and Qin Feng doubted their confidence, and Lin Xuan left them wondering who Yunyi really was.

• Qin Feng urged Lin Xuan to reconsider taking him as a disciple because the Scarlet Ghost King would retaliate.
• Chen Xiong explained the Scarlet Ghost King's atrocities and King Realm fifth level perfection strength to Yunyi.
• Yunyi offered to send someone to kill the Scarlet Ghost King, startling Chen Xiong and Qin Feng.
• Lin Xuan declined Yunyi's offer and said he would kill the Scarlet Ghost King himself if he came.
• Lin Xuan asked whether Chen Xiong and Qin Feng thought Yunyi was joking, then said they would understand if they knew who she was.

Yunyi joined Lin Xuan as his disciple, and Qin Feng asked to bring his younger sister Qin Lan to the Jade Balance Sword Palace before returning. Meanwhile, a black-robed attacker ambushed the Azure Luan Pavilion’s spirit boat and mortally wounded Elder Feng, whose attacker revealed his face.

• Chen Xiong and Qin Feng learned that Yunyi was the Spirit True Empire’s foremost prodigy and had become Lin Xuan’s disciple.
• Qin Feng told Lin Xuan about Qin Lan’s mistreatment after his rejection of the Scarlet Ghost King and asked to settle her situation before returning to the sect.
• Lin Xuan agreed that Qin Feng could bring Qin Lan to the Jade Balance Sword Palace, and Qin Feng gratefully accepted.
• Xi Huan traveled with Elder Feng aboard the Azure Luan Pavilion’s spirit boat and sensed her disdain toward him.
• A black-robed man broke through the spirit boat’s defensive formation, seized Elder Feng, and hurled her into a mountain hollow.
• The attacker pierced Elder Feng’s heart with a Sword-Ray and revealed his face, leaving her stunned with recognition.

Lin Xuan killed Elder Feng without remorse, while the Azure Luan Pavilion’s Pavilion Master confronted the Jade Balance Sword Palace over the elder’s disappearance. The Pavilion Master threatened the sect, but Lin Xuan revealed that he was responsible and challenged her to do something about it.

• Lin Xuan’s clone killed Elder Feng and left her body behind without concern for the consequences.
• Fairy Cold Moon assigned the returning disciples and elders to Lin Xuan’s Sword Pavilion and discussed the Seven Kingdoms Grand Competition with him.
• The Pavilion Master of the Azure Luan Pavilion arrived at the Jade Balance Sword Palace and accused it of possibly being involved in Elder Feng’s disappearance.
• The Pavilion Master threatened the gathered elders with her King Realm Fourth Layer Perfection pressure, while Heavenly Venerable Yunli remained in seclusion.
• Lin Xuan admitted that he had killed Elder Feng and challenged the Pavilion Master to retaliate.

Lin Xuan drove the Azure Luan Pavilion Master away with his overwhelming Sword Intent, then entered seclusion and broke through to King Realm Fifth Layer before the Seven Kingdoms Grand Competition. While his disciples traveled to the Dawn Empire, tensions with the Jade Balance Sword Palace representatives erupted when someone challenged Qu Youmeng.

• Lin Xuan overpowered the Azure Luan Pavilion Master with his Sword Intent and ordered her to leave after she admitted nothing further about her elder's death.
• Lin Xuan entered seclusion, inspiring the Jade Balance Sword Palace elders and Fairy Cold Moon to cultivate; over two months he reached King Realm Fifth Layer Perfection.
• Lin Xuan's disciples advanced in cultivation, and Qu Youmeng and Yunyi comprehended Sword Intent while Yunyi learned she ranked behind several of her fellow disciples.
• Heavenly Venerable Yunli met Lin Xuan as the Seven Kingdoms Grand Competition approached, then stayed with him while Fairy Cold Moon led the participants toward the Dawn Empire's imperial capital.
• On the spirit vessel, Chu Jianchen and the other Jade Balance Sword Palace disciples continued to isolate Su Lianxin's group, until an antagonistic disciple pointed a sword at Qu Youmeng and demanded a fight to see why she had replaced Xuan Mo.

Qu Youmeng refused to fight an angry disciple, while Lin Xuan tested his newly increased strength against Heavenly Venerable Yunli and then set out with her for the Seven Kingdoms Grand Competition. On a spirit boat bound for the same competition, Lu Tianxing confidently aimed to rank among the top contenders.

• Qu Youmeng dismissed a disciple's challenge and left, unimpressed by his attempts to provoke her.
• Lin Xuan suddenly tested his sword against Heavenly Venerable Yunli, whose defense was pushed back by his strike.
• Lin Xuan assessed that he could fight an Emperor Realm expert and could defeat one with the Immortal-Slaying Sword Array.
• Lin Xuan and Heavenly Venerable Yunli rushed toward the Dawn Empire's imperial capital for the Seven Kingdoms Grand Competition.
• Lu Tianxing, strengthened by Dragon Soul Pills and the Azure Yang Sword Sect's support, declared that he aimed higher than the top hundred.

As the Seven Kingdoms Grand Competition approached, Fairy Cold Moon challenged the palace master of the Jade Pivotal Star Sword Palace to a wager, raising it from ten million to fifty million Spirit Stones. The rival palace master accepted, while Fairy Cold Moon remained confident that her side would win.

• Lu Tianxing vowed to achieve a high ranking in the Seven Kingdoms Grand Competition, and Sect Master Xuanyang praised his ambition.
• Lin Xuan and Heavenly Venerable Yunli arrived in Dawn Imperial City and met Fairy Cold Moon, Chen Xiong, and the others at the Clouds Come Inn.
• The palace master of the Jade Pivotal Star Sword Palace proposed a ten-million-Spirit-Stone wager based on which sect's disciple ranked higher in the competition.
• Fairy Cold Moon declared ten million too little and challenged her rival to wager fifty million Spirit Stones; the rival palace master accepted.
• Chu Jianchen objected that he was not certain he could defeat the rival who had beaten him the previous year, but Fairy Cold Moon told him to prepare and said she had confidence in the wager.