Chapter Summaries

Qu Youmeng answered His Highness Sixty-Four’s challenge in place of her senior sister, Su Lianxin. She told him that Su Lianxin was not afraid to face him, but that he was not worthy of challenging her yet.

• His Highness Sixty-Four waited on the platform while Lianxin failed to appear, and Ancient Alliance cultivators mocked the Profound Alliance for defending her.
• Qu Youmeng stepped onto the platform, and the gathered cultivators mistook her for Lianxin.
• Qu Youmeng told His Highness Sixty-Four that she was not the Lianxin he had challenged, but that Lianxin was her senior sister.
• Qu Youmeng declared that Lianxin did not fear him; he simply was not worthy of challenging her yet.

Qu Youmeng challenged His Sixty-Fourth Highness to defeat her before he could face her senior sister, Lianxin, and nearly drove him out of the arena with one sword strike. His Sixty-Fourth Highness recognized the depth of her Sword Dao and no longer underestimated her.

• Qu Youmeng told His Sixty-Fourth Highness he was not worthy of challenging Lianxin unless he could first defeat her.
• His Sixty-Fourth Highness decided to injure Qu Youmeng to force Lianxin to appear, dismissing the danger she posed.
• Qu Youmeng vanished and struck with her flexible sword, transforming its force into Sword Qi that sent His Sixty-Fourth Highness flying to the arena's edge.
• Qu Youmeng warned His Sixty-Fourth Highness that Lianxin was far stronger than she was and beyond his imagining.
• His Sixty-Fourth Highness felt the pain of Qu Youmeng's attack and recognized that her Sword Intent had penetrated to its core.

Qu Youmeng defeated Your Highness Sixty-Four in the arena and declared that he was unworthy of challenging her senior sister, Su Lianxin. As news of Qu Youmeng’s victory spread and drew attention to the mysterious Sword Pavilion, reports that Di Xi had killed another other-race royal eclipsed it.

• Qu Youmeng fought Your Highness Sixty-Four, evading his attacks and wounding him as he unleashed his full strength.
• Qu Youmeng struck Your Highness Sixty-Four with a sword attack that sent him off the arena, winning the match.
• Qu Youmeng told Your Highness Sixty-Four and the onlookers that he was unworthy of challenging her senior sister, Su Lianxin, and identified herself as Qu Youmeng of the Sword Pavilion.
• News of Qu Youmeng’s victory spread through the Profound Domain, prompting powers to wonder about the mysterious Sword Pavilion.
• News arrived that Di Xi of the Ancient Alliance had taken an other-race royal’s head to the Great Emperor Treasury and exchanged it for a Return to True Pill.

Di Xi’s killing of His Highness Fifty-Five shocked the Profound Domain, while Lin Xuan advanced deep into otherworldly territory and climbed the Heaven Ranking. As the Sword Pavilion’s standing rose, two purple-gold-horned invaders cornered Lin Xuan, who welcomed the fight.

• Di Xi returned with the head of His Highness Fifty-Five, stunning the Profound Alliance and eclipsing Qu Youmeng’s victory over His Highness Sixty-Four.
• Lin Xuan traveled through occupied lands, killing otherworldly invaders and rising from ninth to seventh on the Heaven Ranking.
• Heavenly Venerable Yunli entered the Heaven Ranking’s top ten, while Su Lianxin held first place on the Earth Ranking, giving the Sword Pavilion first place on both rankings.
• Lin Xuan reached the ruins of the former empire’s capital and continued deeper into enemy territory.
• Two purple-gold-horned otherworldly invaders spotted Lin Xuan, doubled back, and trapped him between them; Lin Xuan smiled, ready to fight.

Lin Xuan killed two other-race royals who had challenged him together, then encountered Bai Linglong, who arrived hoping to fight royals herself. Bai Linglong found both targets dead and complained that Lin Xuan had left none for her.

• Your Highness Thirty-Six and Your Highness Thirty-Seven argued over who would kill Lin Xuan, but Lin Xuan told them to attack together.
• Your Highness Thirty-Six and Your Highness Thirty-Seven lunged at Lin Xuan, then tried to flee when he revealed his overwhelming sword strength.
• Lin Xuan killed both royals with one sword strike and told them to keep Your Highness Nineteen company.
• Bai Linglong arrived, discovered the dead royals, and lamented that Lin Xuan had not left one for her to kill.

Lin Xuan left after meeting Bai Linglong, while Di Xi’s emergence and victory over His Highness Fifty-Five reignited arguments over whether she or Lianxin was stronger. The debate drew the alliances into repeated clashes, until Di Xi issued a challenge to the otherworlder prodigies.

• Lin Xuan refused Bai Linglong’s invitation to hunt otherworlders together and left, while Bai Linglong hurried off to avoid losing to Di Xi.
• Di Xi became the first of the upper five Ten Heroes to emerge and killed His Highness Fifty-Five, rising to second on the Earth Ranking behind Lianxin.
• The Profound Alliance and Ancient Alliance argued over whether Di Xi or Lianxin was stronger, and their cultivators fought over the dispute.
• Sword Pavilion disciples dismissed the debate, noting that Su Lianxin had defeated a higher-ranked royal and that Di Xi was still formidable.
• After days of escalating arguments and petty clashes, Di Xi challenged the otherworlder prodigies.

Di Xi challenged His Highness Forty-Seven, an infamous other-race royal, and drew the attention and hopes of both human alliances. As the fight began, Forty-Seven revealed he had mastered a Divine Ability and sent lightning toward Di Xi.

• Di Xi challenged His Highness Forty-Seven, whose assassinations had killed many human prodigies and cultivators.
• Human spectators gathered at the battle platform, where Ancient Alliance cultivators praised Di Xi’s courage and Profound Alliance cultivators worried about the consequences of a loss.
• Ming Shou feared that Di Xi might lose and damage human morale, while many spectators began to regard Di Xi as the human side’s leading prodigy over the absent Lianxin.
• His Highness Forty-Seven arrived, mocked Di Xi, and attacked by summoning thunderclouds and sending bolts of lightning toward him.
• The spectators realized that His Highness Forty-Seven had mastered a Divine Ability and cried out in shock.

Di Xi and the Forty-Seventh Highness traded powerful lightning attacks before agreeing to settle their duel with one decisive move. As the Forty-Seventh Highness lunged with a lightning-fast punch, a golden light suddenly shielded Di Xi.

• The Forty-Seventh Highness unleashed a lightning Divine Ability, but Di Xi used the Di Household’s Thunder Method of Control to crush the bolts beneath a golden seal.
• The seal and lightning shattered, forcing both fighters to retreat, and the Forty-Seventh Highness proposed they use their full strength to decide the outcome in one move.
• Di Xi accepted, confident in his strength as the fifth of the Ten Elites and a member of the Di Household.
• The Forty-Seventh Highness transformed, displaying dragon-like scales and golden, lightning-wreathed horns before vanishing and striking at Di Xi with a devastating punch.
• As the Forty-Seventh Highness’s fist neared Di Xi, a clear voice cried, “Unmoving... As a Mountain!” and golden light enveloped Di Xi.

Di Xi defeated Your Highness Forty-Seven, but his sudden fame and confidence led him to underestimate the other races. On the battlefield, he challenged Your Highness Forty-Three and Your Highness Forty-Six and was badly wounded by Forty-Three’s first punch.

• Di Xi shattered Your Highness Forty-Seven’s lightning horns and defeated him with a single strike, winning the Human Race cultivators’ cheers.
• The Ancient Alliance promoted Di Xi’s victory, and his prestige rose as the other races launched an all-out assault on Human Race territory.
• Di Xi grew overconfident on the battlefield, dismissing Lianxin and other-race warriors as weak while pursuing enemies away from the cultivators following him.
• Di Xi encountered Your Highness Forty-Three and Your Highness Forty-Six, recognized the notorious pair, and prepared to fight them with his mother-and-child swords.
• Your Highness Forty-Three broke through Di Xi’s golden defense with one punch and sent him flying while spitting blood.

Di Xi was overwhelmed by Their Highnesses Forty-Three and Forty-Six and nearly died before reaching the human forces in the mountains. A mysterious woman in white killed both pursuers with one strike and vanished before he could learn her name.

• Di Xi realized that Their Highnesses Forty-Three and Forty-Six were far stronger than he expected and fled from them.
• Forty-Three and Forty-Six pursued Di Xi with Divine Abilities and repeatedly wounded him as he raced toward the mountains.
• Di Xi collapsed near the mountains, and Forty-Six prepared to kill him with his scythe.
• A woman in white appeared and killed Forty-Three and Forty-Six with a single streak of Sword Qi.
• Di Xi asked the woman for her name, but she left without answering, leaving him to wonder who she was.

Ouyang Henshui emerged from the Ancient Realm, defeated Your Highness Fifty, and believed his newly gained strength could surpass Di Xi. He encountered Your Highness Sixty-Three, unaware that the royal was Lin Xuan’s undercover clone and had awakened Imperial Blood, and dismissed him as too weak to fight.

• Ouyang Henshui killed Your Highness Fifty and ignored the Profound Alliance cultivators he had rescued as he flew off seeking a stronger opponent.
• The Profound Alliance cultivators recognized Ouyang Henshui as an Ancient Alliance prodigy and lamented how the Ancient Realm’s fighters overshadowed their own.
• Ouyang Henshui recalled receiving his clan’s inheritance, grew confident he could defeat Di Xi, and imagined proving his strength against powerful other-race royals.
• Ouyang Henshui met an other-race royal and asked his rank; the royal identified himself as Your Highness Sixty-Three.
• The narration revealed that Your Highness Sixty-Three was Lin Xuan’s undercover clone, had awakened Imperial Blood, and was a contender to become the next King.
• Disappointed by the royal’s low rank, Ouyang Henshui decided Your Highness Sixty-Three was too weak to be worth fighting.

Ouyang Henshui challenged Your Highness Sixty-Three, unaware that the seemingly low-ranked royal possessed overwhelming strength. After defeating Ouyang and sparing his life, Your Highness Sixty-Three noticed someone approaching.

• Ouyang Henshui prepared to leave Your Highness Sixty-Three and pursue two powerful presences after receiving a plea for help from the Ancient Alliance.
• Your Highness Sixty-Three demanded that Ouyang stay, and Ouyang attacked him with his twin sabers.
• Your Highness Sixty-Three blocked Ouyang's strike with one finger and blasted him backward, severely injuring his arms and chest.
• Ouyang mistook Your Highness Sixty-Three for a higher-ranked royal, but Your Highness Sixty-Three returned his sabers and let him go.
• Your Highness Sixty-Three watched Ouyang flee, then noticed a figure rapidly approaching.

Chen Xiao, newly confident after defeating Your Highness Fifty-Six, challenged Your Highness Sixty-Three on the battlefield. Sixty-Three sent Chen Xiao flying with a single punch, leaving him to wonder whether he had been too weak all along.

• Chen Xiao reflected on how the Sword Pavilion's exceptional disciples had made him doubt himself, though he had recently regained confidence by defeating Your Highness Fifty-Six.
• Chen Xiao encountered Your Highness Sixty-Three and boasted that he would defeat him to earn enough military merits for the Earth Ranking.
• Your Highness Sixty-Three told Chen Xiao to take one move from him before making such claims, then struck with a punch.
• Chen Xiao met the punch with his greatsword but was sent flying and suffered pain in his internal organs.
• Chen Xiao stared at Your Highness Sixty-Three in shock and wondered whether he was simply too weak.

Chen Xiao was badly defeated by Your Highness Sixty-Three, whose speed and strength far exceeded what his rank suggested, and escaped with his life. He returned to Yunyi and the others, unaware that Lin Xuan had secretly arranged the encounter to humble him.

• Your Highness Sixty-Three outpaced Chen Xiao, struck him hard, and mocked him for underestimating his opponent.
• As Your Highness Sixty-Three continued attacking, Chen Xiao escaped while his opponent seemed to let him go, then treated his injuries with medicinal pills.
• Chen Xiao returned to Yunyi and the others badly battered and admitted that Your Highness Sixty-Three had nearly killed him.
• Wang Yan questioned how Chen Xiao could lose to a royal ranked sixty-third after defeating Your Highness Fifty-Six, while Yunyi teased him and soothed him with her zither.
• Chen Xiao insisted that Your Highness Sixty-Three had seen through his methods, not knowing that Lin Xuan was inside the royal's shell and had deliberately arranged the fight.

Yunyi and Qu Youmeng learned that Chen Xiao had been defeated by the Sixty-Third Highness, and Qu Youmeng went to confront him. Lin Xuan, disguised as the Sixty-Third Highness, recognized her as she arrived and challenged him over her junior brother’s injury.

• Yunyi doubted Chen Xiao’s account and offered to defeat the Sixty-Third Highness herself.
• Qu Youmeng suspected Chen Xiao had told the truth and decided to investigate personally.
• Lin Xuan defeated a human prodigy but left him alive, reflecting that ordinary Profound Domain cultivators were no match for his borrowed body.
• Qu Youmeng found Lin Xuan on the battlefield, pointed her sword at him, and asked whether he had injured her junior brother.

Lin Xuan, disguised as His Highness Sixty-Three, was forced to flee when his disciple Qu Youmeng attacked him, unwilling to reveal his identity or use his true strength. He led her into a trap, where the other-race royals Forty-Four and Fifty-Three appeared with the same mysterious silver-white skin as his awakened imperial blood.

• Qu Youmeng attacked His Highness Sixty-Three after he injured Chen Xiao, and he dodged her strikes while admiring how much her swordsmanship had improved.
• Qu Youmeng unleashed Deliverance from Calamity, a powerful sword move Lin Xuan had taught her, and he blocked it by activating his imperial blood.
• Lin Xuan decided not to reveal his identity and fled, so Qu Youmeng chased him for half a day, convinced he was dangerous to the human race.
• Lin Xuan led Qu Youmeng deeper into other-race territory, where she was ambushed by two more powerful beings.
• Forty-Four and Fifty-Three mocked Sixty-Three and revealed themselves as other-race royals, while Qu Youmeng noticed their silver-white skin matched the transformation of Sixty-Three's arms.

Qu Youmeng fought two imperial-blood royals and was defeated, but His Highness Sixty-Three secretly killed them to save her. His familiar swordsmanship left her suspecting he might be connected to her master and the Sword Pavilion, and she entered seclusion determined to grow stronger.

• Qu Youmeng battled His Highness Forty-Four and His Highness Fifty-Three, but their powerful defenses and attacks overwhelmed her.
• After Qu Youmeng was grievously wounded, His Highness Sixty-Three killed both royals with a familiar sword strike and told her to leave.
• Qu Youmeng returned to the Sword Pavilion and told her junior brothers and sisters that she had lost and been spared, while concealing His Highness Sixty-Three's sword strike.
• Qu Youmeng dismissed her suspicion that His Highness Sixty-Three might be her junior brother, then entered seclusion to cultivate and prepare to face him again.

Fairy Cold Moon confronted Tuoba Hong at the Seven Treasures Teahouse to collect the ten million Spirit Stones he had wagered, but he offered only three million and tried to leave. When his guard challenged her, a giant golden arrow blocked their way as a woman warned them not to take another step.

• Fairy Cold Moon found Tuoba Hong at the Seven Treasures Teahouse and demanded the ten million Spirit Stones he had wagered a month earlier.
• Tuoba Hong hesitated to pay, then claimed he lacked the full amount and handed her a Storage Bag with three million Spirit Stones.
• Fairy Cold Moon rejected the partial payment and threatened to keep Tuoba Hong from leaving until he paid the full ten million.
• Tuoba Hong's old guard challenged Fairy Cold Moon and prepared to leave with him.
• A giant golden arrow struck the ground in their path, and a woman's voice warned them that one more step would mean death.

Heavenly Venerable Yunli forced Tuoba Hong to pay ten million Spirit Stones to Fairy Cold Moon before leaving. Meanwhile, Lin Xuan followed Wu Liang’s trail into the former Great Yu Empire and found Bai Linglong facing two other-race royals, just as she attacked them to prove herself.

• Heavenly Venerable Yunli appeared and gave Tuoba Hong the choice of paying ten million Spirit Stones or dying.
• Tuoba Hong handed over the remaining seven million Spirit Stones, and Fairy Cold Moon thanked Heavenly Venerable Yunli before leaving with the payment.
• The old man withdrew with Tuoba Hong, accepting their defeat after realizing the Profound Alliance had a Heavenly Venerable.
• Lin Xuan entered the former territory of the Great Yu Empire to investigate Wu Liang’s report of a High Antiquity treasure and traces of the Holy Spirit race.
• Lin Xuan sensed a powerful presence and found Bai Linglong confronting two royals of the other races.
• Bai Linglong unleashed her Lineage’s Divine Ability at the two royals, hoping to defeat them before Lin Xuan could claim the battle merits.

Lin Xuan saved Bai Linglong from two powerful otherworldly royals, and she realized he could help the Bai Household overcome its troubles. She tried to recruit him by offering the lineage’s resources and revealing rumors about a supreme treasure and a Thearch Realm expert near the Great Yu Empire’s imperial mausoleum.

• Two otherworldly royals defeated Bai Linglong and tore off her wings.
• Lin Xuan stepped in and killed both royals with a single attack of Sword Qi.
• Bai Linglong realized Lin Xuan had saved her twice and considered recruiting him to strengthen the Bai Household.
• Bai Linglong apologized and thanked Lin Xuan, then asked him to join the Bai Household and offered its Thearch Technique.
• Lin Xuan showed no interest and continued walking, so Bai Linglong offered supreme treasures and disclosed that the lineage had found traces of one near the Great Yu Empire’s imperial mausoleum, where a Thearch Realm expert had reportedly appeared.