Chapter Summaries

After Lin Wanyin tried to kill him over the broken engagement and missing Vermilion Bird Pill, Chu Yunfei used the awakened Divine Cauldron of Heavenly Mandate and Xiaoxiao Dragon’s power to survive and recover his cultivation. He blackmailed Lin Wanyin into leaving with the marriage contract, then remembered his past life and vowed to take revenge on Lin Chuhan.

• Situ Shuang'er demanded that Chu Yunfei return the marriage contract, while Lin Wanyin offered compensation because Situ Shuang'er had already used his Vermilion Bird Pill.
• Chu Yunfei demanded that Situ Shuang'er spend a night with him as compensation, and Lin Wanyin attacked him with lethal intent.
• The golden light from Chu Yunfei's dantian blocked Lin Wanyin's attack and sealed her spiritual power, and the Dragon and Phoenix Dao Yellow Scripture helped restore his cultivation.
• Chu Yunfei took the marriage contract and threatened Lin Wanyin with a recording stone, forcing her to leave the courtyard.
• Chu Yunfei learned from Xiaoxiao Dragon that her clan had been slaughtered and she had been betrayed, then recovered memories of his past life and vowed to take revenge on Lin Chuhan.

Chu Yunfei cultivated the Boundless Creation Scripture, prepared for the outer sect assessment, and mastered Triple Wave Slash. He discovered a hidden cave abode containing a spirit sword and a pill that could help him break through to Qi Condensation.

• Chu Yunfei advanced to the sixth level of Body Tempering and began cultivating the Boundless Creation Scripture with the awakened Divine Cauldron of Heavenly Mandate.
• An outer sect disciple delivered notice that Chu Yunfei had to reach Qi Condensation or face expulsion in three days, while Situ Shuang'er received the recovered marriage contract from Lin Wanyin.
• Chu Yunfei borrowed Triple Wave Slash from the Scripture Pavilion, where Zhang Xuan mocked him, then mastered the technique at a cliff.
• Chu Yunfei's sword strike shifted a boulder and revealed a cave abode with a skeleton holding a mid-tier yellow-grade spirit sword.
• Chu Yunfei took the spirit sword and found a Second-Grade Qi Condensation Pill, leaving him confident about the assessment and determined to confront those who had humiliated him.

Chu Yunfei learned that the Divine Cauldron of Heavenly Mandate could refine spiritual materials into origin spirit liquid, then left the sect to seek resources for his assessment. Ling Feng sent an assassin after him, but Chu Yunfei killed the seventh-level body-tempering attacker with one sword strike.

• Xiaoxiao Dragon explained the cauldron’s refining ability and its tenfold-time cultivation space, which required mid-grade spirit stones to operate.
• Chu Yunfei learned that dual cultivating with a daughter of heavenly mandate or killing a son of heavenly mandate could awaken the cauldron’s other functions.
• Chu Yunfei left the Azure Mystic Sect to seek resources, and a hidden disciple reported his departure to Ling Feng.
• Ling Feng ordered a masked subordinate to follow Chu Yunfei and kill him in a deserted place.
• The masked assassin attacked Chu Yunfei in the forest with the Flowing Cloud Sword Technique, but Chu Yunfei countered with Triple Wave Slash and killed him in one strike.

Chu Yunfei refined the corpse of an Azure Mystic Sect disciple with the Divine Cauldron of Heavenly Mandate, strengthening his body before heading to Qingyang City to buy medicine. At the Pill Pavilion, Yan Guining mocked him over his lack of money, and his lewd retort provoked her into releasing her Spirit Martial Realm pressure.

• Chu Yunfei discovered that the assassin was an Azure Mystic Sect disciple, looted his meager belongings, and asked Xiaoxiao Dragon whether the Divine Cauldron of Heavenly Mandate could refine the corpse.
• Chu Yunfei refined the corpse into Origin Spiritual Liquid and used it to increase his physical strength by at least thirty percent while remaining at the sixth level of body refining.
• Chu Yunfei went to the Pill Pavilion in Qingyang City and spent all ten of his spirit stones on two bottles of Blood Replenishing Powder.
• Yan Guining recognized Chu Yunfei and mocked him for being unable to afford a Spirit Gathering Pill, then blocked his way when he tried to leave.
• Chu Yunfei made a suggestive remark about Yan Guining's figure, enraging her and prompting her to unleash her Spirit Martial Realm pressure across the Pill Pavilion.

Chu Yunfei endured Yan Guining’s pressure in the Pill Pavilion and wagered that she would kiss him if he passed the outer sect assessment in three days. He then offered the Pavilion an ancient Blood-Replenishing Pill formula, which Wen Jiao accepted after reviewing it.

• Yan Guining increased her pressure on Chu Yunfei, but the Boundless Creation Scripture absorbed some of it and let him stand firm.
• A gray-robed elder stopped Yan Guining from attacking Chu Yunfei and reminded her that the Pill Pavilion forbade fighting inside.
• Yan Guining wagered an apology if Chu Yunfei returned to the inner sect, and Chu Yunfei changed the stakes to a public kiss; she accepted.
• Chu Yunfei asked the gray-robed elder whether the Pill Pavilion bought pill formulas and claimed to have an ancient second-grade Blood-Replenishing Pill formula.
• Wen Jiao examined the formula, judged it likely to be complete and authentic, and said the Pill Pavilion would take it.

Chu Yunfei negotiated a five-year profit-sharing deal with the Pill Pavilion for his ancient grade-two Blood-Replenishing Pill formula and received an advance of one thousand low-grade spirit stones. As Wen Jiao suffered an attack from her Heavenly Yin Baleful Intent Physique, Chu Yunfei claimed he could treat her, and the gray-robed elder ordered him to leave.

• Chu Yunfei and Wen Jiao agreed that the Pill Pavilion would pay him thirty percent of net profits from pills made with his formula for five years, and they sealed the contract with soul marks.
• Chu Yunfei asked for and received a one-thousand-spirit-stone advance against his future share.
• Chu Yunfei flirted with Wen Jiao by inviting her to a meal, but she refused and he turned to leave.
• Wen Jiao's Heavenly Yin Baleful Intent erupted, covering the pavilion in frost and leaving her in severe pain.
• Chu Yunfei recognized Wen Jiao's rare physique and said he could treat it, but the gray-robed elder rebuked him and ordered him to leave.

Chu Yunfei agreed to treat Wen Jiao’s Heavenly Yin Baleful Intent after she offered him five thousand low-grade spirit stones, then began preparing to channel it from her back. Wen Jiao undressed with Chu Yunfei’s eyes supposedly closed, but the chapter ended as he secretly peeked.

• Chu Yunfei started to leave after Uncle Yao doubted his claim, but Wen Jiao stopped him and offered five thousand low-grade spirit stones for a complete cure.
• Chu Yunfei accepted the payment and required Uncle Yao to leave; Wen Jiao ordered her uncle to withdraw despite his warning.
• Chu Yunfei held Wen Jiao’s wrist and temporarily suppressed the Yin Baleful Intent, easing her pain and confirming that his method worked.
• Chu Yunfei explained that treating Wen Jiao required a quiet room and access to the Gate of Life on her back, so she led him to a private room and set up a soundproof barrier.
• Chu Yunfei told Wen Jiao to unfasten her top; after warning him not to look, she undressed while he kept his eyes shut.
• Chu Yunfei failed to resist his curiosity and secretly opened his eyes a sliver.

Chu Yunfei treated Wen Jiao by drawing out and refining some of the Yin Baleful Intent that had plagued her for years. He told her the treatment had worked but would require two more sessions, leaving Wen Jiao embarrassed at the prospect of undressing before him again.

• Chu Yunfei accidentally touched Wen Jiao in the wrong place, and she warned him to keep his hand on her dantian.
• Chu Yunfei used the Divine Cauldron of Heavenly Mandate to extract Yin Baleful Intent from Wen Jiao, easing her pain and refining the energy into Origin Spiritual Liquid.
• Wen Jiao sensed that her meridians had improved and thanked Chu Yunfei, realizing he had genuinely treated her.
• Chu Yunfei explained that he had removed only the most active Yin Baleful Intent and would need three sessions in total to cure her.
• Wen Jiao blushed as she realized she would have to endure two more treatments with Chu Yunfei.

After leaving Wen Jiao, Chu Yunfei went to the Famous Sword Pavilion to find a better weapon before the outer sect assessment. He discovered a heavy black sword blank containing sealed Sword Qi and decided to buy it, but the attendant said it was not for sale.

• Wen Jiao asked Chu Yunfei what he had thought about while treating her, and he bluntly admitted that he had wanted to sleep with her, making her furious and prompting her to slam the courtyard gate in his face.
• Xiaoxiao Dragon mocked Chu Yunfei for being a coward and argued that Wen Jiao might have been testing him, but Chu Yunfei insisted she had only been trying to survive and ordered Xiaoxiao Dragon not to eavesdrop on him with women.
• Chu Yunfei headed to the Famous Sword Pavilion with six thousand low-grade spirit stones, hoping to replace his current sword before the outer sect assessment in three days.
• Chu Yunfei inspected the spirit swords on the pavilion's second floor but found none satisfactory until Xiaoxiao Dragon pointed out a dusty black sword blank with Sword Qi sealed inside.
• Chu Yunfei lifted the unusually heavy black sword, felt the Divine Cauldron of Heavenly Mandate respond to it, and told the attendant he would take it, but she said the sword was not for sale.

Chu Yunfei insisted on buying a black sword that had been dismissed as worthless, despite the Famous Sword Pavilion’s refusal and the crowd’s mockery. Pavilion Master Shen Zhu wagered that Chu Yunfei could have the sword for free if he awakened any sign of power in it, and Chu Yunfei accepted as the blade began to respond.

• The attendant told Chu Yunfei that the pavilion’s master had found the black sword in secret-realm ruins, but years of examination revealed no spiritual power or known material, so the pavilion had deemed it worthless and kept it as a memento.
• Customers on the second floor mocked Chu Yunfei for choosing the black sword, while he trusted the Divine Cauldron of Heavenly Mandate’s earlier reaction and sensed something hidden in the blade.
• Shen Zhu arrived, noticed Chu Yunfei could hold the sword’s five-hundred-and-thirty-jin weight one-handed, and ordered him to put it down and leave because the sword was not for sale.
• Chu Yunfei refused to release the sword and declared that it would be his, prompting Shen Zhu to offer it free if Chu Yunfei could make it show even a wisp of spiritual light or produce a sword cry.
• Shen Zhu warned that Chu Yunfei would have to buy three spirit swords if he failed, and Chu Yunfei accepted as the Divine Cauldron of Heavenly Mandate trembled and the black blade briefly responded.

Chu Yunfei awakened the seal on a seemingly worthless black sword, revealing its overwhelming power and shocking everyone in the Famous Sword Pavilion. He chose the Abyss-Devouring Sword as his own and asked Shen Zhu whether the result satisfied him.

• Chu Yunfei ignored the crowd’s mockery and used the Boundless Creation Scripture and Divine Cauldron of Heavenly Mandate to send spiritual power into the black sword.
• The sword awakened with dark-gold markings and unleashed an abyssal sword intent that forced the pavilion’s spirit swords to bow and sent several crashing to the floor.
• Xiaoxiao Dragon identified the sword as the Abyss-Devouring Sword, a sealed weapon reduced to a low-grade Earth-tier sword whose power could still grow.
• Chu Yunfei sensed the sword’s faint consciousness, accepted its name, and decided to make it his sword.
• Shen Zhu recognized clues from an ancient legend and stared at Chu Yunfei with awe and suspicion as the sword returned to its plain appearance.
• Chu Yunfei slung the Abyss-Devouring Sword over his shoulder and asked Shen Zhu whether he was satisfied with the result.

Chu Yunfei awakened the Abyss-Devouring Sword at the Famous Sword Pavilion, won it and a token from Shen Zhu, then bought materials to strengthen himself before the outer sect assessment. Ling Feng learned that Wang Hu had likely died and arranged for Chu Yunfei to face a powerful opponent at the assessment, while Chu Yunfei secretly climbed toward Lin Wanyin’s residence on Flowing Cloud Peak.

• Chu Yunfei made the Abyss-Devouring Sword command the spirit swords at the Famous Sword Pavilion, and Shen Zhu gave him the sword and offered him a Guest Elder Attendant position.
• Chu Yunfei declined Shen Zhu’s offer but accepted a token granting him access to the Famous Sword Pavilion’s services, then left while Ling Feng’s subordinate followed him and sent a report.
• Ling Feng learned that Chu Yunfei was alive and that Wang Hu had not returned, concluded Wang Hu was dead, and arranged with Senior Brother Zhao to pair Chu Yunfei with a strong opponent at the outer sect assessment.
• Chu Yunfei spent half his spirit stones on body-tempering materials and explained to Xiaoxiao Dragon that he planned to refine them into Origin Essence Liquid with the Divine Cauldron of Heavenly Mandate.
• After returning to the Azure Mystic Sect, Chu Yunfei avoided the patrols and secretly climbed Flowing Cloud Peak toward Lin Wanyin’s residence.

Chu Yunfei secretly entered Flowing Cloud Residence to confront Lin Wanyin about an assassination attempt and used her secrets to force her to comply with him. Afterward, he and Lin Wanyin gained cultivation benefits, Chu Yunfei reached the seventh level of body tempering, and he prepared to continue cultivating with a Spirit Gathering Pill.

• Chu Yunfei slipped into Flowing Cloud Residence and accused Lin Wanyin of sending a disciple to kill him, but she denied it and suspected Ling Feng had arranged the attack.
• Chu Yunfei threatened to expose the recording stone and reveal that Situ Shuang'er was not Lin Wanyin's biological daughter unless Lin Wanyin obeyed him.
• Lin Wanyin yielded to Chu Yunfei's demands, and they cultivated together for two hours.
• Lin Wanyin discovered that her bottleneck had loosened and her spiritual power and soul had grown stronger, while Chu Yunfei broke through to the seventh level of body tempering.
• Chu Yunfei swallowed a Spirit Gathering Pill and told Lin Wanyin he wanted to continue cultivating.

Lin Wanyin and Chu Yunfei continued cultivating together while Situ Shuang'er came to her door and said she wanted Chu Yunfei driven from the Azure Mystic Sect. Lin Wanyin begged Chu Yunfei to keep their secret, but Situ Shuang'er returned and heard sounds from her mother's room, leaving her to realize something was happening.

• Situ Shuang'er visited Lin Wanyin's room and complained that she could not bear seeing Chu Yunfei in the Azure Mystic Sect.
• Chu Yunfei deliberately made Lin Wanyin let out a sound, but she told Situ Shuang'er that she had only coughed.
• Lin Wanyin urged Situ Shuang'er not to provoke Chu Yunfei, then begged him not to let her daughter discover he was in her room.
• Chu Yunfei warned Lin Wanyin to keep Situ Shuang'er in check and resumed cultivating with her.
• Situ Shuang'er returned to the courtyard, hid beneath an old locust tree, and heard sounds from Lin Wanyin's room.

Chu Yunfei advanced to the Eighth Level of Body Tempering after spending the night with Lin Wanyin, then dominated the second group of the outer sect assessment. He won easily, while Ling Feng arranged for a pill to be given to his next opponent so Chu Yunfei could be killed in the arena.

• Situ Shuang'er overheard sounds from Lin Wanyin's bedchamber, assumed her mother had been with Chu Yunfei, and spent the night feeling guilty and embarrassed.
• Chu Yunfei left Lin Wanyin's bedchamber at dawn after advancing to the Eighth Level of Body Tempering; Lin Wanyin noticed her own cultivation had improved and cursed him.
• After two days of training, Chu Yunfei arrived at the Azure Mystic Sect's outer sect assessment, where disciples mocked him and Situ Shuang'er avoided his gaze.
• The elders announced a survival battle in which only one disciple from each group of twenty could advance; Chu Yunfei entered the second group.
• Chu Yunfei defeated all nineteen opponents in fewer than ten breaths, revealing his Eighth Level of Body Tempering cultivation and advancing from the group.
• Ling Feng ordered his subordinate to tell Senior Brother Zhao to keep their plans in place and give a pill to Chu Yunfei's next opponent; Chu Yunfei left the arena smiling at Situ Shuang'er.

Chu Yunfei defeated Wu Kou with one punch in the second round of the Azure Mystic Sect assessment, despite Wu Kou taking a Blood Burst Pill to boost his strength. He advanced toward the inner sect as Ling Feng, Yan Guining, and Situ Shuang'er reacted to the display.

• The elder expelled eight disciples after the first round and announced that the five winners of the second round would enter the inner sect.
• Chu Yunfei drew lot seven against Wu Kou, who accepted a Blood Burst Pill from Ling Feng's confidant to strengthen himself.
• Wu Kou took the pill and attacked Chu Yunfei with Iron-Shattering Fist, but Chu Yunfei shattered his arm and knocked him unconscious with one punch.
• The crowd recognized Chu Yunfei's overwhelming strength, while Yan Guining reconsidered her wager and Situ Shuang'er tried to dismiss what she had witnessed.
• Ling Feng seethed over Wu Kou's defeat, and the referee declared Chu Yunfei the winner of lot number seven.

Chu Yunfei challenged the four other qualifiers at once and defeated them with one perfected Triple Wave Slash, winning first place in the outer sect assessment. He then approached Yan Guining to settle their wager.

• After the second round, Chu Yunfei challenged the four other qualifiers together and staked his inner sect place on the result.
• Li Hu, Wang Jingshan, and the other two qualifiers surrounded Chu Yunfei and attacked as one.
• Chu Yunfei used Triple Wave Slash to knock all four opponents from the platform in a single strike.
• The white-haired elder declared Chu Yunfei first place, and the elders recognized his Triple Wave Slash as perfected despite his having learned it only days earlier.
• Chu Yunfei walked up to Yan Guining and reminded her that their wager was due to be settled.

After taking first place in the outer sect assessment, Chu Yunfei collected his inner sect token and made Yan Guining honor their bet by kissing his cheek. Situ Shuang'er visited his courtyard to insist their dissolved engagement meant nothing had changed, but Chu Yunfei teased her about being jealous and sent her away flustered.

• Chu Yunfei reminded Yan Guining that she had lost their bet, and she kissed his cheek in front of the gathered disciples before quickly leaving.
• Situ Shuang'er watched Yan Guining kiss Chu Yunfei, felt irritated, and left the stands in a hurry.
• Chu Yunfei collected his inner sect token and two sets of robes from the Affairs Hall after confirming his first-place finish.
• Outer sect disciples respectfully greeted Chu Yunfei as he returned to his old residence on the rear mountain.
• Situ Shuang'er waited in Chu Yunfei's courtyard and warned him not to think his return to the inner sect would change their dissolved engagement.
• Chu Yunfei suggested Situ Shuang'er was jealous of Yan Guining's kiss, then teased her until she left in anger.

Chu Yunfei reached the ninth stage of Body Tempering by refining demon cores and spirit herbs, then performed Wen Jiao’s second treatment at the Pill Pavilion. Wen Jiao gave him an earth-grade sword technique, and their relationship was left unsettled as only one treatment remained.

• Chu Yunfei used the Divine Cauldron of Heavenly Mandate to refine more than twenty demon cores and spirit herbs into origin essence, which he swallowed to break through to the ninth stage of Body Tempering.
• Chu Yunfei went to the Pill Pavilion for Wen Jiao’s second treatment and drew out more than half of the Yin Baleful Intent in her body.
• Wen Jiao saw Chu Yunfei’s exhaustion after the treatment and gave him the low-tier earth-grade sword technique Heaven-Severing Slash.
• Chu Yunfei told Wen Jiao that one more treatment would completely clear the Yin Baleful Intent, and she watched him leave with an unexplained emptiness.

Chu Yunfei trained the Heaven-Severing Slash in the Cangwu Mountain Range, reaching major mastery before using sixteen first-tier beast cores to perfect his Body Tempering cultivation and enter the First Layer of Qi Condensation. He then slew a Mid-stage Qi Condensation Red-Horned Flood Dragon Lizard and resolved to hunt only second-tier beasts.

• Chu Yunfei practiced the Heaven-Severing Slash and killed first-tier demonic beasts while honing his swordsmanship, reaching major mastery by the second morning.
• Chu Yunfei refined sixteen first-tier beast cores with the Divine Cauldron of Heavenly Mandate, perfected his Body Tempering Ninth Stage, and advanced to the First Layer of Qi Condensation.
• Chu Yunfei tracked a Red-Horned Flood Dragon Lizard and discovered that it was a second-tier beast with strength equivalent to a Mid-stage Qi Condensation cultivator.
• Chu Yunfei dodged the lizard's attacks, found the weak point beneath its belly, and killed it with a Heaven-Severing Slash despite suffering a shoulder wound.
• Chu Yunfei extracted the lizard's demonic core and decided to hunt only second-tier beasts from then on.