Chapter Summaries

Su Lianxin refused Su Ying’s invitation to meet Su Ditian and settled into the Su Household’s temporary lodgings with Lin Xuan. When the main lineage competition began, Su Ditian arrived before the gathered geniuses, and Su Lianxin watched him with a darkened gaze.

• Su Lianxin declined Su Ying’s invitation to meet Su Ditian, leaving the gathered disciples stunned and Su Ying dejected.
• Su Lianxin told the servant to take her and Lin Xuan to their temporary lodgings, and Su Ying agreed to her request.
• A few days later, the Su Household’s main lineage competition began at a lavish arena formed by activated formations and floating islands.
• The branch-lineage disciples learned that the Su Clan leader was an Earth Venerable and saw the strength of the three Venerables and Emperor Realm elders overseeing the competition.
• Su Ditian descended before the heavenly geniuses, and Su Lianxin watched him arrive.

Su Ditian arrived at the Su Clan’s grand Lineage competition and received the reverence of the clan, while Su Lianxin resolved to bring him down with her master’s support. The competition began, and the disciples fought across ten arenas as everyone treated first place as Su Ditian’s already.

• Su Ditian appeared at the competition and sat beside his father, the patriarch, among the clan elders.
• Su Lianxin watched Su Ditian with contempt and resolved to make him fall from his pedestal; her master encouraged her and promised to handle the rest.
• Su Ditian sensed that something unexpected might happen, then turned his attention to the competition.
• Twenty disciples started matches across the ten arenas, and fierce battles broke out.
• The crowd and elders watched two unfamiliar branch-lineage disciples fight evenly, while the clan continued to regard Su Ditian as the uncontested first-place contender.

After a hard-fought match ended on the fourth arena, Su Lianxin challenged the Su Clan’s Holy Son, Su Ditian, and ordered him to come down. Su Ditian accepted the provocation and appeared before her, ready to punish her.

• Two branch-lineage contestants fought until one defeated the other, and both received praise from Su Ditian.
• Su Lianxin entered the arena and challenged Su Ditian, stunning the spectators.
• Su Ditian recognized a resemblance between Su Lianxin and a woman he had encountered in the Void Realm.
• Su Lianxin ignored Su Ditian’s question and shouted, “Get down here!”
• Su Ditian appeared in the arena and warned Su Lianxin that he was not someone she could provoke.

Su Lianxin defeated Su Ditian with a single sword strike, humiliating the Su Clan Holy Son before the gathered disciples. She revealed that her stolen Thearch Blood had served him, leaving Su Ditian stunned by her accusation.

• Su Lianxin unleashed a sword strike that sent Su Ditian flying through several arena barriers and left him severely injured.
• The Su Clan disciples watched in disbelief as Su Ditian lost to Su Lianxin in one strike.
• Su Lianxin mocked Su Ditian as trash, and he spat blood and struggled to stand.
• Su Ditian demanded to know who Su Lianxin was and suspected a conspiracy.
• Su Lianxin asked Su Ditian whether her Su Ancestor's Thearch Blood had served him well.

Su Lianxin exposed that Su Ditian’s famed Thearch Blood had been forcibly taken from her, and the Su Clan patriarch tried to silence her and end the tournament. Lin Xuan stopped him with a single sword strike and told Xin'er to continue speaking.

• Su Lianxin revealed that Su Ditian’s Thearch Blood had been extracted from her and given to him, shocking Su Ditian, his father, and the assembled guests.
• The Su Clan patriarch suspended the tournament and ordered Supreme Elder Su Jie to escort the guests out.
• The Su Clan patriarch unleashed his Earth Venerable Realm pressure on Su Lianxin and ordered her to stop talking.
• Lin Xuan stepped in and struck at the Su Clan patriarch, destroying the floating island and forcing him back.
• Lin Xuan told Xin'er to keep talking, disregarding the patriarch’s attempt to silence her.

Su Lianxin accused the Su Clan patriarch of stealing her Emperor Blood and challenged Su Ditian to prove its origin, while the patriarch’s refusal convinced many clansmen that her charge was true. When Su Clan experts attacked Lin Xuan, he revealed overwhelming strength and drove them back with one sword strike.

• Su Lianxin recounted how the Su Clan patriarch had extracted her Emperor Blood and turned her from a prodigy into a cripple.
• Su Lianxin challenged Su Ditian to use the Blood Guidance Technique, and the patriarch’s panicked refusal made the clansmen suspect her accusation was true.
• The Su Clan elders and experts decided to suppress Lin Xuan, treating Su Ditian’s bloodline scandal as an internal matter.
• Lin Xuan revealed his formidable cultivation and met the attack of three Venerables and dozens of Emperor Realm experts with a single sword strike.
• Lin Xuan’s sword sent the Su Clan patriarch and the other attackers flying, leaving them injured and stunned.

Lin Xuan overwhelmed the Su Clan and faced its ancestor, whose strength exceeded the rumors. After learning that the patriarch had stolen Su Lianxin’s Su Ancestor’s Thearch Blood for Su Ditian, the ancestor extracted the blood from Su Ditian.

• Lin Xuan defeated the Su Clan’s patriarch and elders, leaving the clansmen stunned.
• The patriarch called for the clan-protecting array and summoned the Su Clan ancestor, whose presence revealed that he had reached the heavenly venerable realm.
• The Su Clan ancestor asked Lin Xuan why he had attacked, and Lin Xuan told him to question the patriarch.
• Lin Xuan explained that the patriarch had secretly taken Su Lianxin’s Su Ancestor’s Thearch Blood and given it to Su Ditian, while erasing Su Lianxin’s memories.
• The ancestor recognized the patriarch’s guilt, then pulled Su Ditian close and extracted the golden blood from his body.

The Su Clan ancestor returned Su Lianxin’s Emperor Blood and offered to restore her place in the clan, but she rejected his offer and left with Lin Xuan. After they departed, the ancestor rebuked Su Qiji and revealed that a hidden Heavenly Venerable Perfection or stronger presence had prevented him from fighting, while he wondered whether Su Ditian could still recover.

• The Su Clan ancestor extracted the Emperor Blood from Su Ditian and returned it to Su Lianxin, apologizing for the clan’s wrongdoing.
• The Su Clan ancestor offered to make Su Lianxin the clan’s sole Holy Maiden and repay what she had lost, but she refused and said her bond with the Su Clan had ended.
• Lin Xuan left with Su Lianxin, who bowed briefly to the Su Clan ancestor before following her master without looking back.
• Su Qiji urged the Su Clan ancestor to stop them, but the ancestor rebuked him for sacrificing Su Lianxin’s potential and warned that his actions had endangered the clan.
• The Su Clan ancestor revealed that a concealed presence at least as powerful as Heavenly Venerable Perfection had been watching, and that the Su Clan might have been annihilated if a fight had begun.
• Seeing Su Ditian barely alive, the Su Clan ancestor wondered whether he was truly beyond recovery.

The Su Clan patriarch brought Su Ditian and the Su Clan chief to the hidden ancestral grounds and revealed an Emperor Bone left by Ancestor Su. He gave the bone to Su Ditian, hoping to help the Su Clan preserve its fading bloodline, while lamenting that Su Lianxin had become estranged from the household.

• The Su Clan patriarch decided to take Su Ditian and the Su Clan chief to the ancestral grounds, warning that the Su Household needed another Thearch Realm expert to preserve its bloodline.
• Su Ditian followed the patriarch to the forbidden grounds, where the patriarch slowly undid a concealed, high-tier formation.
• The Su Clan patriarch revealed a golden heart bone left by Ancestor Su and explained that it was an Emperor Bone refined for his descendants.
• The patriarch said the bone required Emperor Blood and reflected that it would have suited Su Lianxin best if she had stayed with the Su Household.
• The Su Clan patriarch gave the Emperor Bone to Su Ditian, and Su Ditian and the Su Clan chief thanked him excitedly before he returned to seclusion.

After fusing with the Emperor Blood, Su Lianxin joined the fight against the invading races in the eastern Profound Domain and honed her swordsmanship on the battlefield. She pursued His Highness Sixty-Five, but two overconfident Mystic Ranking geniuses intervened, and he struck one of them down.

• Su Lianxin fused smoothly with the Emperor Blood and returned to the Sword Pavilion with a flawless state of mind.
• As the eastern Profound Domain came under attack, Su Lianxin led Sword Pavilion disciples out to fight while the Profound Alliance sent reinforcements.
• Su Lianxin spent days killing invaders, sharpening her Sword Intent and seeking to climb the Earth Ranking and earn the Great Emperor Treasury’s rewards.
• Su Lianxin encountered His Highness Sixty-Five, who had disguised his royal horn, and severed his arm with one sword stroke.
• His Highness Sixty-Five fled from Su Lianxin and ran into two Mystic Ranking saber geniuses, one of whom blocked his escape to help her.
• Enraged at being cornered, His Highness Sixty-Five punched the blocking genius and sent him flying with blood pouring from his mouth.

Su Lianxin killed a disguised otherkin royal and earned a place on the Earth Ranking, while Lin Xuan, Heavenly Venerable Yunli, and Wu Liang secured prominent Heaven Ranking positions for the Sword Pavilion. The sudden rankings spread the Sword Pavilion’s name throughout the Profound Domain, and Nangong Yaoyue was stunned when she saw who had displaced her master from ninth place.

• Su Lianxin killed the sixty-fifth prince, whose purple-gold horn revealed him as an otherkin royal, after he delayed her pursuit.
• The green-robed young man learned Su Lianxin belonged to the Sword Pavilion and resumed fighting after taking healing pills.
• Su Lianxin appeared at eighty-fourth on the Earth Ranking, while Chongming, Lin Xuan, and Yunli ranked third, ninth, and eighteenth on the Heaven Ranking.
• The Profound Domain’s cultivators speculated about the unfamiliar Sword Pavilion and whether it had a Heavenly Venerable.
• Nangong Yaoyue noticed that Fairy Chiyao had fallen from ninth to tenth on the Heaven Ranking and stared in shock at the person who took her place.

Nangong Yaoyue dismissed the possibility that the Sword Pavilion’s Lin Xuan was her former master, while Lin Xuan’s battlefield held steady amid bad news from elsewhere. The secluded Thearch lineages emerged to resist the invasion but formed their own Ancient Alliance, and a young man with a folding fan condemned Profound Alliance cultivators for insulting them.

• Nangong Yaoyue heard the name Lin Xuan and decided the Sword Pavilion’s Venerable-ranked swordsman could not be her former master, who had been a wounded Tribulation Realm cultivator.
• Lin Xuan maintained the upper hand on his battlefield as reports of defeats elsewhere troubled the Profound Domain alliance.
• News spread that the secluded Thearch lineages had emerged from the Ancient Realm and formed the Ancient Alliance rather than joining the Profound Alliance.
• Profound Alliance cultivators discussed the Thearch lineages in a camp until a blue-robed Rogue Cultivator told them the lineages considered them unworthy of cooperation.
• A young man with a folding fan overheard the cultivators and scornfully called them lowly and contemptible for insulting the Thearch lineages.

A young man from the Ancient Alliance mocked the Profound Alliance and pointed to the War Merit rankings as proof of his faction’s strength. He challenged the gathered cultivators to a wager, leaving them facing an escalating confrontation.

• The folding-fan young man called the Profound Alliance cultivators trash and claimed the Ancient Alliance had saved the Profound Domain from the other races.
• A Profound Alliance cultivator argued back, but the folding-fan young man told everyone to check the War Merit Heaven Ranking and Earth Ranking.
• The cultivators saw Ancient Alliance members rapidly filling the rankings, including nine of the Earth Ranking’s top ten, while Kan Liuhuo had fallen out of the top ten.
• The cultivators took comfort in Lianxin of the Sword Pavilion holding first place on the Earth Ranking after killing the Sixty-Fifth Highness and other foreign-race fighters.
• The folding-fan young man predicted the Ancient Alliance would soon claim all ten Earth Ranking spots and first place on the Heaven Ranking, then proposed a wager.

Fairy Cold Moon challenged an arrogant Ancient Alliance youth to wager ten million Spirit Stones that Su Lianxin would keep first place on the Earth Ranking. The youth accepted, while the white-haired old man warned that the Ancient Alliance’s strongest heirs had yet to emerge.

• The folding-fan youth wagered one million Spirit Stones that an Ancient Alliance cultivator would replace first-ranked Lianxin within a month, but the crowd stayed silent.
• Fairy Cold Moon arrived from the battlefield, saw that Su Lianxin held first place, and raised the wager to ten million Spirit Stones.
• The folding-fan youth accepted, convinced that Bai Linglong and other Ancient Alliance heirs would soon surpass the Profound Domain cultivators.
• Fairy Cold Moon mocked the youth for ranking below Lianxin, and he grew angry as the crowd held back out of fear of the white-haired old man.
• The white-haired old man told Fairy Cold Moon to wait until the Ancient Alliance’s leading heirs emerged, naming Bai Linglong, Ouyang Henshui, and Tian Shenyue.

News that Lianxin had killed the other races' Sixty-Fifth Highness spread through the Profound Domain, raising human morale and giving Profound Alliance cultivators a reason to taunt the Ancient Alliance. Two days later, the Sixty-Fourth Highness challenged Lianxin to fight.

• Word spread that Lianxin had risen to first place on the Earth Ranking by killing the Sixty-Fifth Highness, shocking the Profound Domain.
• Profound Alliance cultivators celebrated Lianxin's victory, which lifted battlefield morale and eased their fear of the other races' royals.
• In the Seven Treasures Teahouse safe zone, Profound Alliance cultivators mocked the Ancient Alliance for never having killed a royal, and the two sides argued.
• An Ancient Alliance genius insisted that their geniuses could kill a royal if given the chance, while a Profound Alliance cultivator challenged them to prove it.
• Two days later, the Sixty-Fourth Highness issued Lianxin a written challenge after learning of the Sixty-Fifth Highness's death.

Ming Shou, a Ten Heroes prodigy of the Ancient Realm, decided to answer the Sixty-Fourth Highness’s challenge and take first place on the Earth Ranking. As the royal taunted the crowd over Su Lianxin’s absence, a white-robed figure stepped onto the battlefield.

• Ming Shou left the Seven Treasures Teahouse to answer the challenge, hoping to defeat the Sixty-Fourth Highness and claim first place on the Earth Ranking.
• News of Ming Shou’s decision spread, exciting the Ancient Alliance and drawing attention from the Profound Alliance and the other race.
• The Sixty-Fourth Highness waited in the abandoned arena while powerful observers from both sides watched over the battle.
• Su Lianxin failed to appear by the agreed time, and the Sixty-Fourth Highness mocked the human cultivators for her absence.
• An Ancient Alliance cultivator claimed Su Lianxin had killed the Sixty-Fifth Highness by chance, and a white-robed figure stepped out from the crowd onto the battlefield.

Ming Shou arrived to face the Sixty-Fourth Highness after Lianxin failed to appear, and the two exchanged dismissive words before Ming Shou launched a powerful saber strike. The Sixty-Fourth Highness calmly raised one finger to block it, leaving the strike’s outcome unresolved.

• Ming Shou arrived at the platform, and the Ancient Alliance cultivators celebrated his appearance while the Profound Alliance crowd feared Lianxin would not accept the challenge.
• Ming Shou offered to fight the Sixty-Fourth Highness, who questioned whether he was qualified to be his opponent.
• The Sixty-Fourth Highness openly dismissed Ming Shou, and Ming Shou responded by attacking with a powerful crescent-shaped saber strike.
• The Sixty-Fourth Highness remained calm and raised one finger to block Ming Shou’s incoming strike.

His Highness Sixty-Four defeated Ming Shou, a member of the Ten Heroes of the Ancient Realm, in two moves and mocked the Ancient Alliance’s assumptions about the other-race royals. The Ancient Alliance cultivators reconsidered both their own strength and Lianxin’s achievement in killing His Highness Sixty-Five.

• Ming Shou’s slash struck His Highness Sixty-Four’s fingertip, but Sixty-Four stopped it without moving.
• His Highness Sixty-Four punched Ming Shou’s saber aside, sending Ming Shou flying and leaving him badly injured.
• His Highness Sixty-Four mocked Ming Shou and the Ancient Alliance for assuming that the other-race royals were weak.
• The Ancient Alliance cultivators recognized that Ming Shou had been defeated in two moves and reconsidered their view of the other-race royals.
• The cultivators began to question how strong Lianxin must be, since she had killed His Highness Sixty-Five.

After the Sixty-Fourth Prince waited in vain for Lianxin to accept his challenge, he mocked her and stirred doubts about how she had killed the Sixty-Fifth Prince. Rumors spread across the Profound Domain, while two cultivators who had witnessed Su Lianxin’s victory remained certain she was powerful; the green-robed young man believed she had her reasons for staying away.

• The Sixty-Fourth Prince waited until nightfall for Lianxin, then called her absence disappointing and claimed she had used underhanded means to kill the Sixty-Fifth Prince.
• The Ancient Alliance cultivators were shaken when Ming Shou, one of their Ten Heroes, suffered a crushing defeat, then questioned how Lianxin could have killed an other-race royal.
• The Ancient Alliance spread doubts about Lianxin’s ranking and her silence, leaving the Profound Alliance unable to defend her.
• Two Mystic Ranking prodigies who had witnessed Su Lianxin kill the Sixty-Fifth Prince listened to the rumors while recovering at a tavern.
• The green-robed young man dismissed the accusations and believed Su Lianxin had reasons for not appearing, confident she would have beaten the Sixty-Fourth Prince.

After emerging from seclusion, Su Lianxin learned that rumors and the Sixty-Fourth Highness’s repeated challenges had spread while she was away. Though she wished to focus on cultivation, she agreed to let Qu Youmeng handle the matter to protect the Sword Pavilion.

• Su Lianxin emerged from seclusion and found Chen Xiao furious about people accusing her of using underhanded means to kill the Sixty-Fifth Highness and refusing the Sixty-Fourth Highness’s challenge out of fear.
• Su Lianxin told Chen Xiao not to let rumors or challenges distract him from cultivation.
• Chen Xiao explained that the Sixty-Fourth Highness had challenged Su Lianxin again and threatened to keep doing so until she lost face among humans.
• Qu Youmeng offered to fight the Sixty-Fourth Highness so Su Lianxin could remain focused on her cultivation.
• Su Lianxin accepted Qu Youmeng’s offer after realizing the rumors could harm the Sword Pavilion.