Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan intervened when the Thousand Flames Demon Sect attacked the spirit vessel, killing one of its King Realm experts with a single sword strike. After the sect’s leader demanded that Youying be handed over, Lin Xuan answered with another Sword-Ray.

• Zhou Qi tried to question the four King Realm experts, but they attacked the spirit vessel without warning.
• Lin Xuan unleashed a Sword-Ray that scattered the attackers’ strikes and killed one of them, a King Realm seventh-level expert.
• The surviving Thousand Flames Demon Sect members realized that Lin Xuan’s strength was close to the Emperor Realm.
• Lin Xuan told the attackers to scram, but their King Realm eighth-level leader refused to leave and demanded Youying in the name of the Thousand Flames Demon Sect.
• Lin Xuan responded to the leader’s demand with an even more terrifying Sword-Ray.

Lin Xuan killed the Thousand Flames Demon Sect pursuers, recruited Youying as the Sword Pavilion’s Ninth Sword Master, and refined his seventh-grade spirit sword before entering the Void Realm. There, he unexpectedly met Chu Yuechan again, who greeted him with excitement.

• Lin Xuan killed the three Thousand Flames Demon Sect pursuers who attacked the spirit vessel and discovered that Youying was the person they had been hunting.
• Lin Xuan suppressed Youying, offered him a place in the Sword Pavilion, and accepted him as its Ninth Sword Master.
• Lin Xuan returned to seclusion and successfully refined his seventh-grade spirit sword before the spirit vessel reached the Void Realm.
• Lin Xuan entered the Void Realm and found himself beneath a pine in a forest rather than at the expected stone wasteland.
• Chu Yuechan and her male companion encountered Lin Xuan, and Chu Yuechan recognized him with delight while Lin Xuan teased her about trying to take his things again.

Lin Xuan met Chu Yuechan and rejected her invitation to travel together, while Xiang Qinghe grew jealous and warned him to stay away from her. A treasure’s appearance drew all three south, and Lin Xuan dismissed Xiang Qinghe’s threat and his brother’s Mystic Ranking status as insignificant.

• Chu Yuechan introduced herself and Xiang Qinghe to Lin Xuan, and Xiang Qinghe noticed her unusually warm manner toward him.
• Xiang Qinghe recalled that his elder brother, Xiang Qingping, ranked forty-ninth on the Mystic Ranking and believed Chu Yuechan would eventually become his sister-in-law.
• Chu Yuechan invited Lin Xuan to travel with her, but he refused because he preferred to be alone.
• A powerful spiritual fluctuation from the south signaled that a treasure had appeared, and Lin Xuan, Chu Yuechan, and Xiang Qinghe hurried toward it.
• Xiang Qinghe secretly warned Lin Xuan to stay away from Chu Yuechan and invoked Xiang Qingping’s rank, but Lin Xuan dismissed the threat.

Lin Xuan and the others found an orchard of Blood Bodhi Fruits and learned to pick them without spiritual power, since the trees’ poisonous thorns could kill even a King Realm cultivator. As they gathered fruit, Wu Chen arrived and claimed the orchard, ordering everyone to leave within ten breaths.

• Lin Xuan and the other cultivators discovered an orchard full of Blood Bodhi Fruits.
• A cultivator used spiritual power to reach for a fruit, was pierced by the thorns, and died as poison turned his body black.
• Experienced cultivators explained that Blood Bodhi Tree thorns were deadly and that spiritual power could not be used to pick the fruits.
• Lin Xuan, Chu Yuechan, and their companion carefully collected Blood Bodhi Fruits by hand.
• Wu Chen arrived, claimed the orchard, and ordered everyone to leave within ten breaths.

Lin Xuan ignored Wu Chen’s order to leave the Blood Bodhi orchard and severed Wu Chen’s arm with a single Sword Qi strike. Wu Chen fled, while Chu Yuechan and Xiang Qinghe watched Lin Xuan in shock.

• Wu Chen, ranked forty-sixth on the Mystic Ranking, ordered everyone to leave the orchard, and Chu Yuechan and the others reluctantly withdrew with the fruits they had picked.
• Lin Xuan continued collecting Blood Bodhi fruits, prompting Wu Chen to attack him.
• Lin Xuan’s Sword Qi severed Wu Chen’s arm before anyone could react.
• Wu Chen picked up his severed arm and fled without answering Lin Xuan.
• Chu Yuechan recognized how much stronger Lin Xuan had become, while Xiang Qinghe felt embarrassed about having threatened him with his elder brother’s ranking.

After Lin Xuan defeated Wu Chen, he let the other cultivators keep picking Blood Bodhi Fruits in exchange for seventy percent of their harvest. Wu Chen spread a false rumor that Lin Xuan had found a Blood Bodhi Fruit King, drawing powerful cultivators to the orchard, where Lin Xuan refused to leave before finishing the harvest.

• Lin Xuan claimed seventy percent of the Blood Bodhi Fruits the others picked, and they eagerly agreed.
• Wu Chen found that his severed sword arm could not be reattached and vowed to take revenge on Lin Xuan.
• Wu Chen spread a rumor that Lin Xuan had obtained a Blood Bodhi Fruit King, attracting cultivators eager to seize it.
• Lin Xuan estimated that the orchard contained about one hundred and eighty ripe Blood Bodhi Fruits as more cultivators gathered nearby.
• Chu Yuechan urged Lin Xuan to leave, but Lin Xuan insisted on finishing the harvest.
• Five high-level king realm cultivators confronted Lin Xuan and demanded the Fruit King while Wu Chen watched from hiding.

Lin Xuan killed the middle-aged King Realm cultivator who challenged him, then slaughtered the other cultivators who had come after him. He also killed Wu Chen as he tried to flee, leaving the orchard’s surviving onlookers stunned by his strength.

• Lin Xuan killed the middle-aged man with a single sword strike, shocking Chu Yuechan, Xiang Qinghe, and Wu Chen.
• Lin Xuan claimed that he had a Blood Bodhi Fruit King and dared the surviving King Realm cultivators to take it, but none of them dared move.
• Lin Xuan froze and killed the remaining cultivators who had come to trouble him, leaving their bodies to nourish the Blood Bodhi Trees.
• Wu Chen tried to flee, but Lin Xuan struck him with a sword of the void and killed him.

Chen Xiao joined the Sword Pavilion and, convinced of his own talent, rushed to rescue a fellow disciple surrounded by enemies. He discovered that Su Lianxin had not needed his help and had been about to defeat them herself.

• Chen Xiao accepted Sword Master Yunli’s invitation to join the Sword Pavilion and received a jade token bearing the character for “sword.”
• While exploring the Void Realm, Chen Xiao spotted a beautiful woman surrounded by Heavenly Profound Realm cultivators and decided to wait until she was in greater danger before intervening.
• Chen Xiao noticed the woman wore a jade token identical to his and realized she was a fellow Sword Pavilion disciple.
• Chen Xiao charged in, drove back the attackers with a powerful sword strike, and called the woman his senior sister.
• Su Lianxin wondered why Chen Xiao had intervened, since she had been about to defeat the attackers and investigate the Three-Leaf True Lotus’s guidance.

Chen Xiao rescued Su Lianxin and bragged about his strength and ancient Stone Clan bloodline, but she remained unimpressed. The Three-Leaf True Lotus led Su Lianxin to an ancient expert’s burial place, and she and Chen Xiao entered the valley to face its trial.

• Chen Xiao killed the enemies surrounding Su Lianxin with a single sword strike, then wondered why she showed no surprise.
• Su Lianxin recognized Chen Xiao as a Sword Pavilion disciple, and they introduced themselves.
• Chen Xiao boasted to Su Lianxin about his strength, Giant Gate Physique, and High Antiquity Stone Clan bloodline, while she listened quietly.
• The Three-Leaf True Lotus turned to ash at a valley entrance, and Su Lianxin recognized it as the burial place of an ancient expert whose trial rewarded aptitude.
• Su Lianxin flew into the valley, and Chen Xiao followed her inside; both vanished in a flash of spiritual power.

Su Lianxin arrived at a valley where Cang Xuan’s Nine-Bend Coiling Dragon Wall tested talent as the gateway to his half-step Thearch legacy. Huang Zhen activated five walls, and Chen Xiao stepped forward, confident he could surpass him and impress Su Lianxin.

• Su Lianxin entered the valley and learned that Cang Xuan’s stone walls judged aptitude, with four activated walls required to qualify for his legacy.
• The cultivators gathered there failed to activate enough walls, despite using their strongest techniques.
• Huang Zhen struck the Nine-Bend Coiling Dragon Wall with his spear and activated five walls, earning the crowd’s admiration.
• Chen Xiao told Su Lianxin that Huang Zhen ranked seventeenth on the Hidden Dragon Ranking and declared that he feared no one in talent.
• Chen Xiao went to the wall to show off his ability and prove himself to Su Lianxin.

Chen Xiao tested his talent against the Nine-Bend Coiling Dragon Walls and activated seven, astonishing everyone and humiliating Huang Zhen. He proudly sought Su Lianxin’s praise, but she ignored him and stepped forward to test her own talent.

• Huang Zhen admired his own achievement after activating five Nine-Bend Coiling Dragon Walls and watched Chen Xiao approach.
• Chen Xiao first struck the walls with his sword, activating two, then punched them and activated five, matching Huang Zhen.
• The presiding phantom recognized Chen Xiao’s Giant Que and Stone Clan Bloodline of High Antiquity, but wondered whether he could activate only five walls.
• Chen Xiao unleashed his bloodline and struck again, activating all seven walls and leaving Huang Zhen and the gathered crowd stunned.
• Chen Xiao flew to Su Lianxin, hoping she would praise him, but she ignored him and drew her sword to test the walls herself.

Su Lianxin activated all nine stone walls of the Nine-Bend Coiling Dragon Wall, revealing talent that could make her a future Great Emperor, while Chen Xiao realized how far she surpassed him. After a mysterious light entered Su Lianxin’s forehead and the phantom vanished, Chen Xiao respectfully declared that she would be first in the Sword Pavilion and he second.

• Su Lianxin struck the Nine-Bend Coiling Dragon Wall with her sword, causing all nine stone walls to shine with golden light.
• The onlookers and Huang Zhen were stunned by Su Lianxin’s extraordinary aptitude, while the phantom praised her as worthy of the opportunity he had left behind.
• A flowing light gathered from the nine dragon walls entered Su Lianxin’s forehead, and the phantom dissipated unseen by everyone else.
• Chen Xiao recognized that Su Lianxin’s talent and strength far surpassed his own and felt ashamed of his earlier pride and attempts to impress her.
• Chen Xiao approached Su Lianxin and declared that she would be first in the Sword Pavilion and he would be second, while Su Lianxin silently questioned his claim to second place.

Youying, the Sword Pavilion’s Ninth Sword Master, was hunted down in the Void Realm by the Thousand Flames Demon Sect’s grand elder, who wanted revenge for his grandson and answers about four missing protectors. Cornered and nearly out of strength, Youying invoked the Sword Pavilion as his last hope, but his pursuers laughed and prepared to kill him.

• Youying fled across the secret realm while the Thousand Flames Demon Sect’s Emperor Realm grand elder and two cultivators pursued him.
• The grand elder cornered Youying and demanded to know what happened to the sect’s four protectors, threatening to search his soul after killing him.
• Youying recalled that he had killed the grand elder’s grandson and several disciples during a fight over a Wood Spirit Heart, prompting the prolonged hunt.
• Youying remembered his jade token and declared that he was the Sword Pavilion’s Ninth Sword Master, warning that its pavilion master would kill anyone who harmed him.
• The Thousand Flames Demon Sect’s cultivators mocked Youying’s claim and announced that he was certain to die.

Youying told the Thousand Flames Demon Sect that the Sword Pavilion’s Pavilion Master had killed its four protectors, but the sect mocked him and moved to execute him. Heavenly Venerable Yunli intervened, confirmed the Sword Pavilion was real, and killed the grand elder and every other sect member with a shower of arrows, leaving Youying stunned by his sect’s power.

• Youying revealed that the Sword Pavilion’s Pavilion Master had killed the Thousand Flames Demon Sect’s four protectors and warned that the Pavilion Master would avenge him.
• The Thousand Flames Demon Sect’s grand elder dismissed Youying’s story, seized and crushed his sword token, and prepared to kill him.
• Heavenly Venerable Yunli arrived and told the grand elder that she could prove Youying’s words were true.
• Heavenly Venerable Yunli identified herself as the Sword Pavilion’s First Sword Master and attacked the Thousand Flames Demon Sect with a rain of arrows.
• The arrows killed the grand elder and all the other sect members, leaving Youying amazed by Heavenly Venerable Yunli’s strength and the Sword Pavilion’s power.

Demon Emperor Chongming, a nearly vanished divine soul imprisoned in the Void Realm, relied on challengers at his arena for resources and hoped someone could fulfill the condition for his release. Lin Xuan and Lan Yingying arrived as the prodigies gathered to watch, leaving the arena’s next challenge unresolved.

• Demon Emperor Chongming reflected on his imprisonment and the requirement that someone defeat the projection of the existence who had suppressed him at the same cultivation realm.
• Demon Emperor Chongming used an arena and the promise of a thearch-grade cultivation method to attract challengers, collecting their resources when they lost.
• A succession of cultivators entered the arena, but none could withstand even one move from Demon Emperor Chongming.
• Lin Xuan arrived after hearing rumors of an emperor-level inheritance and found the arena surrounded by onlookers.
• Lan Yingying, ranked thirty-sixth on the Mystic Ranking, arrived and drew the crowd’s attention as she eyed the arena’s young guardian.

Lan Yingying challenged the arena guardian Demon Emperor Chongming and was defeated in one move. Lin Xuan discovered the guardian was actually the weakened Demon Emperor Wu Liang and entered the arena, where Wu Liang acknowledged that he was not bad.

• Lan Yingying challenged Demon Emperor Chongming, but he knocked her out of the arena with a single strike.
• Lan Yingying accepted her defeat and concluded that the inheritance was beyond her reach.
• Lin Xuan used his system to learn that the supposed inheritance spirit was Wu Liang, a remnant soul and former Demon Emperor of the Thearch Realm.
• Lin Xuan considered recruiting Wu Liang as the Sword Pavilion's Deputy Pavilion Master and stepped into the arena.
• Wu Liang studied Lin Xuan and told him, "You're not bad," surprising the crowd and Lan Yingying.

Lin Xuan faced Wu Liang, a Demon Thearch whose strength had defeated every challenger in the trial. He beat Wu Liang with one sword strike, leaving Wu Liang wondering whether Lin Xuan was the person who could free him.

• Lan Yingying and the other spectators judged Lin Xuan arrogant after he told Wu Liang, "You're not bad yourself."
• Wu Liang invited Lin Xuan to fight and said the strongest previous challenger had endured six moves.
• Lin Xuan answered that he needed only one move to defeat Wu Liang.
• Lin Xuan struck with his sword, cleaving apart Wu Liang's Chongming Bird phantom and blasting him to the platform's edge.
• Wu Liang realized Lin Xuan had defeated him in one move and wondered whether he was the person who could free him.

Lin Xuan defeated Wu Liang, who revealed that he was Demon Emperor Chongming, a prisoner hoping to escape. Wu Liang swore to serve as deputy pavilion master of the Sword Pavilion if Lin Xuan rescued him, then showed him the shadow of the man who had suppressed him.

• Lin Xuan defeated Wu Liang with one sword strike, astonishing Lan Yingying and the spectators.
• Wu Liang revealed his identity as Demon Emperor Chongming and explained that he could escape if Lin Xuan defeated the man who had suppressed him at the same cultivation realm.
• Lin Xuan offered to rescue Wu Liang in exchange for his service as deputy pavilion master of the Sword Pavilion, and Wu Liang agreed.
• Wu Liang swore a binding soul oath to serve Lin Xuan without betrayal if rescued.
• Wu Liang revealed the shadow manifestation of his suppressor and recalled that the man had defeated him in one move despite having a lower cultivation realm.

Lin Xuan defeated Gong Yang’s phantom with a single serious sword strike, freeing Wu Liang from the prison that had bound him for years. Wu Liang regained his freedom and pledged himself to the Sword Pavilion.

• Lin Xuan scanned Gong Yang and learned that the phantom was a Thearch Realm genius with the Ascension Holy Physique.
• Lin Xuan tested Gong Yang with a palm strike, and Gong Yang was forced to retreat four steps while Lin Xuan took only one.
• Lin Xuan drew his sword and erased Gong Yang’s phantom with one strike.
• Wu Liang stepped beyond the three-foot boundary for the first time and realized his restraints had vanished.
• Wu Liang thanked Lin Xuan for freeing him and pledged to devote himself to the Sword Pavilion.

Su Lianxin and Chen Xiao met Qu Youmeng, who had defeated several Tribulation Realm experts despite her Heavenly Profound cultivation. The three traveled together through the Void Realm and reached a fortuitous site, where Su Lianxin recognized Su Ditian by the familiar presence of her bloodline.

• Su Lianxin sensed a familiar presence ahead, and she and Chen Xiao found Qu Youmeng fighting several Tribulation Realm experts.
• Qu Youmeng killed her opponents, then approached Su Lianxin and Chen Xiao with her killing intent still apparent.
• Su Lianxin introduced Chen Xiao to Qu Youmeng as her junior brother and Qu Youmeng welcomed him to the Sword Pavilion.
• The three joined forces to explore the Void Realm, but found that another group had already reached a site of fortuitous opportunity.
• Su Lianxin recognized the group's leader as Su Ditian and fixed him with a cold, murderous gaze.