Chapter Summaries

Ling Zhantian revealed that he planned to use his adopted daughter Ling Xueyao’s spirit physique to heal his Dao injury and conceal his past crime of seizing her from a slain Vast Waves Sacred Academy envoy. Ling Changkong reluctantly accepted that he could not stop him, while Ling Zhantian also vowed to obtain a treasured pill from the Jade Firmament Sect by force if necessary.

• Ling Changkong condemned Ling Zhantian for trying to kill Chu Yunfei, but Ling Zhantian said he needed Chu Yunfei’s origin to cure his Dao injury and protect Great Qian from the Blood Baleful Intent Tower.
• Ling Zhantian ordered Ling Changkong to bring Ling Chenglie to the forbidden ground so he could use his Mysterious Yang Physique as a catalyst, then planned to target Ling Chengyuan and Ling Chengxuan.
• Ling Changkong protested when Ling Zhantian named Ling Xueyao as another target, warning that the formation could cripple her and that she had spent years trying to cure him.
• Ling Zhantian insisted on taking Ling Xueyao’s origin, explaining that the Vast Waves Sacred Academy’s envoys would arrive in half a year and expose his role in the murder of their envoy and the abduction of the infant Ling Xueyao.
• Ling Changkong gave up trying to stop Ling Zhantian and left, after which Ling Zhantian ordered him to accompany him to the Jade Firmament Sect and threatened to destroy it if it refused to surrender its seventh-grade pill.

Wen Jiao brought the dying Chu Yunfei to the Jade Firmament Sect and learned that only its sacred seventh-grade Nine-Aperture Life-Restoring Pill could save him. She resolved to seek the sect elders’ help, and a young man arrived just as she stayed by Chu Yunfei’s bedside.

• Wen Jiao cared for the unconscious Chu Yunfei aboard the spirit vessel while Uncle Yao reported that Chen Xuanhai and Han Kui had died near where Chu Yunfei was found, amid signs of Imperial Dao Dragon Qi.
• Wen Jiao reached the Jade Firmament Sect carrying Chu Yunfei and asked for Wen Buqi to come help him.
• Wen Buqi examined Chu Yunfei and said his catastrophic injuries could not be healed with ordinary pills.
• Wen Buqi explained that only the Jade Firmament Sect’s Nine-Aperture Life-Restoring Pill might save Chu Yunfei, though the sect was unlikely to use it for an outsider.
• Wen Jiao refused to give up, and Wen Buqi agreed to appeal to the sect elders for the pill.
• As Wen Jiao held Chu Yunfei’s hand and promised to save him, a young man entered and asked why she was so sad.

Zhou Heng discovered Wen Jiao grieving over the unconscious Chu Yunfei and ordered a disciple to investigate him. At the Jade Firmament Sect assembly, Wen Buqi proposed trading the Nine-Aperture Life-Restoring Pill for a century of favorable profits, revealing that Chu Yunfei needed saving before Zhou Changgeng challenged his identity.

• Zhou Heng visited Wen Jiao, saw her tending to Chu Yunfei, and left after she dismissed him.
• Outside Wen Jiao's courtyard, Zhou Heng ordered a trusted disciple to uncover Chu Yunfei's background and vowed to deal with him.
• Wen Buqi proposed that the Jade Firmament Sect accept twenty percent of the profits for a hundred years in exchange for the Nine-Aperture Life-Restoring Pill.
• Wen Buqi told the elders that the Pill Pavilion wanted the pill to save someone, then revealed that person was Chu Yunfei.
• Zhou Changgeng questioned whether the injured man in the sect was truly Chu Yunfei, Great Qian's imperial son-in-law.

Wen Buqi tried to persuade the Jade Firmament Sect to grant the Nine-Aperture Life-Restoring Pill to save Chu Yunfei, but Zhou Changgeng opposed him and demanded Wen Jiao marry Zhou Heng in exchange for his support. After Wen Buqi returned to the bamboo grove courtyard, Uncle Yao arrived with alarming news from the imperial capital.

• Wen Buqi argued that giving Chu Yunfei the pill would bring the Jade Firmament Sect wealth and favors, and Danyuanzi postponed the decision until the next day.
• Wen Buqi told Wen Jiao that her father supported the offer but warned that Zhou Changgeng could obstruct it.
• Zhou Heng learned Chu Yunfei was the wounded man Wen Jiao wanted to save and urged Zhou Changgeng to prevent his recovery.
• Wen Buqi offered Zhou Changgeng a gift and asked for his support, but Zhou Changgeng demanded Wen Jiao marry Zhou Heng; Wen Buqi refused and left in anger.
• Wen Buqi told Wen Jiao about Zhou Changgeng's threat, and Uncle Yao burst into the courtyard with urgent news from the imperial capital.

Wen Jiao learned that the Great Qian Imperial Family had disavowed Chu Yunfei and that the Jade Firmament Sect would not provide the Nine-Aperture Life-Restoring Pill. As she broke down beside Chu Yunfei, a mysterious female voice in her mind claimed it could save him without the pill.

• Uncle Yao told Wen Jiao that the imperial family had publicly denied Chu Yunfei was its son-in-law and that Ling Xueyao had not appeared.
• Zhou Changgeng announced that the Jade Firmament Sect refused the Pill Pavilion's request for the Nine-Aperture Life-Restoring Pill, then pressured Wen Jiao to marry Zhou Heng in exchange for his help.
• Wen Jiao rejected Zhou Heng and ordered Zhou Changgeng and his son to leave; Zhou Changgeng vowed to keep the Pill Pavilion from obtaining the pill.
• Wen Buqi and Uncle Yao left Wen Jiao alone, and she wept beside Chu Yunfei as his breathing weakened.
• A female voice spoke inside Wen Jiao's mind, telling her it had a way to save Chu Yunfei without the Nine-Aperture Life-Restoring Pill.

Wen Jiao learned that a mysterious presence inside Chu Yunfei could save his life through the Dragon and Phoenix Dao Emperor Scripture, a dual cultivation art. She agreed to use it with him, and their Yin and Yang energies began restoring his shattered meridians while he remained unconscious.

• Xiaoxiao Dragon told Wen Jiao that Chu Yunfei’s severe injuries could only be healed by drawing on her remaining extreme Yin source Qi.
• Wen Jiao received the Dragon and Phoenix Dao Emperor Scripture and realized it required dual cultivation with Chu Yunfei.
• Wen Jiao agreed to the treatment, sent Uncle Yao a warning to keep others away, and sealed the courtyard with protective formations.
• Wen Jiao undressed Chu Yunfei and began following the scripture’s circulation method while he remained unconscious.
• A true dragon and heavenly phoenix appeared as their Yin and Yang powers joined, sending vitality into Chu Yunfei’s damaged meridians.

Wen Jiao used the Dragon and Phoenix Dao Emperor Scripture to heal Chu Yunfei through two days and nights of dual cultivation, breaking through to the Divine Sea Realm Second Layer herself. Chu Yunfei woke as his spiritual pool was restored, and Wen Jiao discovered he was conscious while she was straddling him.

• Wen Jiao broke through to the Divine Sea Realm Second Layer during a night of dual cultivation and sensed Chu Yunfei's injuries beginning to heal.
• Wen Jiao continued cultivating with Chu Yunfei for two days and nights, accelerating his recovery.
• Chu Yunfei regained consciousness and used his divine sense to see Wen Jiao cultivating on top of him.
• Xiaoxiao Dragon told Chu Yunfei he had been unconscious for four days and explained how Wen Jiao brought him to the Jade Firmament Sect and what had happened there.
• Chu Yunfei accused Xiaoxiao Dragon of tricking Wen Jiao into dual cultivation, and she defended her actions by citing Wen Jiao's Heavenly Yin Baleful Intent Physique.
• Chu Yunfei's spiritual pool fully reformed, and he opened his eyes; Wen Jiao saw he was awake and cried out in shock.

Wen Jiao and Chu Yunfei become intimate as their dual cultivation heals his injuries and raises his cultivation to the peak of the ninth layer of the Heavenly Origin Realm. Meanwhile, the Blood Baleful Intent Tower’s Young Tower Master learns that Ling Zhantian has awakened and ends his cooperation with the tower, expecting his own death.

• Wen Jiao wakes beside Chu Yunfei, and he discovers that their union has healed his injuries and advanced his cultivation to the peak of the Heavenly Origin Realm’s ninth layer.
• Chu Yunfei and Wen Jiao acknowledge their feelings, and Wen Jiao begins calling him her husband.
• The blue-green-robed Young Tower Master tells the purple-masked deputy tower master that Ling Zhantian has awakened from the Soul-Devouring Nether Poison and suspects Chu Yunfei cured him.
• The Young Tower Master ends his dealings with the Blood Baleful Intent Tower and tells the deputy tower master to return without seeking him again.
• Alone in the courtyard, the Young Tower Master wonders whether Ling Zhantian will next target Eldest Imperial Brother or him.

After recovering through dual cultivation with Wen Jiao, Chu Yunfei learned that the Seven Sects Grand Competition had been moved up to ten days away. He revealed that Ling Zhantian had tried to kill him and left for the capital, where Ling Xueyao might be under house arrest.

• Wen Jiao and Chu Yunfei finished healing, and she discovered that her cultivation had risen to the Divine Sea Realm third level while his injuries had healed.
• Wen Buqi examined Chu Yunfei and confirmed his complete recovery after Uncle Yao and Wen Buqi entered the room.
• Uncle Yao reported that the Seven Sects Grand Competition had been brought forward to ten days from now.
• Chu Yunfei told Wen Jiao, Wen Buqi, and Uncle Yao that Ling Zhantian had attacked him after he killed Chen Xuanhai and Han Kui, but had fled wounded after Chu Yunfei struck him.
• Chu Yunfei tried to contact Ling Xueyao with her jade talisman, but received no response; Wen Jiao suspected she had been placed under house arrest.
• Chu Yunfei announced that he would go to the capital.

Chu Yunfei decided to return to the imperial capital for the Seven Sects Grand Competition, and Wen Jiao insisted on accompanying him. During a stroll on the Jade Firmament Sect’s back mountain, their growing intimacy enraged Zhou Heng, who confronted them with killing intent.

• Wen Jiao, Wen Buqi, and Uncle Yao warned Chu Yunfei that returning to the imperial capital would put him in danger, but Chu Yunfei resolved to leave the next morning and Wen Jiao chose to go with him.
• Wen Buqi and Uncle Yao left Chu Yunfei and Wen Jiao alone, and the pair went for a walk through the Jade Firmament Sect’s back mountain.
• Wen Jiao explained her history with the Jade Firmament Sect and the Heavenly Sword Sect, and Chu Yunfei reassured her about Xueyao before kissing her.
• Several Jade Firmament Sect disciples saw Chu Yunfei and Wen Jiao together and reported it to Zhou Heng.
• Furious and jealous, Zhou Heng rushed to the back mountain and confronted Chu Yunfei and Wen Jiao, demanding that Chu Yunfei let go of her hand.

Chu Yunfei killed Zhou Heng after the Jade Firmament Sect Holy Son attacked him over Wen Jiao. As the sect erupted in outrage, the late Divine Sea Realm elder Zhou Changgeng vowed to tear Chu Yunfei apart.

• Zhou Heng insulted Wen Jiao and attacked Chu Yunfei with the Azure Lotus Void-Breaking Sword.
• Chu Yunfei countered Zhou Heng's strikes, severed his limbs, and cut out his tongue.
• Wen Jiao crushed three high-grade blood-patterned jade slips to summon aid and prepare to protect Chu Yunfei.
• Chu Yunfei killed Zhou Heng by piercing his head with the Abyss-Devouring Sword.
• Zhou Changgeng unleashed his killing intent and roared that he would avenge Zhou Heng.

After Zhou Heng’s death, Zhou Changgeng arrived in a fury and attacked Chu Yunfei and Wen Jiao, prompting Wen Buqi to intervene. As the elders’ battle escalated, Wu Yong attacked Chu Yunfei, who blocked the Divine Sea Realm elder’s strike with the Abyss-Devouring Sword.

• Zhou Changgeng found Zhou Heng dead and swore to kill Chu Yunfei.
• Wen Jiao protected Chu Yunfei and warned Zhou Changgeng that the Pill Pavilion would oppose his Zhou Family.
• Zhou Changgeng attacked Chu Yunfei and Wen Jiao, but Wen Buqi arrived and stopped his first strike.
• Zhou Changgeng and Wen Buqi fought in midair, with Wen Buqi forced onto the defensive.
• Zhou Changgeng ordered Wu Yong to kill Chu Yunfei, and Wu Yong attacked him.
• Chu Yunfei blocked Wu Yong’s claw strike with the Abyss-Devouring Sword, forcing Wu Yong to flip backward.

Chu Yunfei defeated Wu Yong in four strikes after killing Zhou Heng, then confronted Jade Firmament Sect master Danyuanzi when he arrived to demand an explanation. The chapter ended with Chu Yunfei challenging Danyuanzi to say what he would do about Zhou Heng’s death.

• Chu Yunfei used the Sea-Overturning Ninefold Sword to crush Wu Yong’s saber and leave the Divine Sea Realm elder gravely wounded.
• Danyuanzi emerged from the forbidden hall and stopped the fighting.
• Zhou Changgeng accused Chu Yunfei of killing Zhou Heng and wounding Wu Yong, while Wen Jiao insisted Chu Yunfei had acted in self-defense.
• Chu Yunfei introduced himself, shocking the Jade Firmament Sect elders and disciples who recognized him as the Great Qian imperial son-in-law.
• Danyuanzi confronted Chu Yunfei over killing the sect’s Holy Son and wounding its elder, and Chu Yunfei coldly asked what Danyuanzi would do about it.

Danyuanzi chose to spare Chu Yunfei after recognizing his extraordinary cultivation and potential, despite the Jade Firmament Sect Holy Son Zhou Heng’s death. The chapter ended with Wen Buqi warning Chu Yunfei that Zhou Changgeng would likely ambush him outside the sect, while Chu Yunfei remained confident he could survive.

• Wen Jiao declared that the Pill Pavilion would oppose the Jade Firmament Sect if anyone harmed Chu Yunfei.
• Danyuanzi discovered Chu Yunfei had reached the Heavenly Origin Realm Ninth Layer and decided to end the matter rather than risk making an enemy of him.
• Zhou Changgeng and allied elders demanded Chu Yunfei’s execution, but Danyuanzi silenced them and upheld his decision to let Chu Yunfei go.
• Zhou Changgeng collected Zhou Heng’s remains and the unconscious Wu Yong, then left while maintaining his hatred for Chu Yunfei.
• Danyuanzi apologized to Chu Yunfei, invited him to remain at the Jade Firmament Sect, and dismissed the gathered disciples and elders.
• Wen Buqi warned Chu Yunfei that Zhou Changgeng would ambush him beyond the sect gates, but Chu Yunfei said Zhou was no threat to his life.

Chu Yunfei inventoried the storage rings of Chen Xuanhai and Han Kui, then asked Xiaoxiao Dragon for a way to strengthen his divine soul. Xiaoxiao Dragon revealed that a stone stele Chu Yunfei bought at auction might contain a sealed divine soul cultivation technique, which he could only uncover after reaching the Divine Sea Realm.

• Wen Buqi left to tend to his injuries, while Wen Jiao shyly told Chu Yunfei she would prepare the spirit boat and pills for their journey to the imperial city.
• Chu Yunfei returned to his room and found millions of spirit stones, pills, herbs, ores, and other materials in Chen Xuanhai's and Han Kui's storage rings.
• Chu Yunfei reflected that his divine soul was too weak to safely sustain the Great Heaven-Burning Art and asked Xiaoxiao Dragon whether she knew a suitable cultivation technique.
• Xiaoxiao Dragon said she had found a trace of a divine soul imprint inside the nameless stone stele Chu Yunfei bought at the Pill Pavilion auction.
• Chu Yunfei tried to probe the stele but could not penetrate its seal, and Xiaoxiao Dragon told him he would be able to see inside after his spirit pool transformed into a sea.

Chu Yunfei entered the Divine Cauldron Space to master more of the Sea-Overturning Ninefold Sword before traveling to the imperial capital. Meanwhile, the Blood Baleful Intent Tower Master emerged from seclusion, revealed a plan to draw Chu Yunfei into the capital, and prepared to explain why he would not attack the emperor directly.

• Chu Yunfei used his spirit stones to enter the Divine Cauldron Space and began cultivating the sixth through ninth forms of the Sea-Overturning Ninefold Sword.
• The Blood Baleful Intent Tower Master emerged from seclusion in the Heavenly Evil Devil Sect after breaking through to the Dao Mysterious Realm Fourth Layer.
• The Blood Baleful Intent Tower Master killed a disciple and drank his blood before asking Elder Nether Baleful Intent about arrangements in the imperial capital.
• Elder Nether Baleful Intent reported that the Seven Sects Grand Competition had been moved forward, Ling Zhantian had recovered, and Chu Yunfei was no longer under their control.
• The Blood Baleful Intent Tower Master said Ling Xueyao would draw Chu Yunfei into the capital, where the sects and Ling Zhantian would seek his death.
• Elder Nether Baleful Intent asked why the Blood Baleful Intent Tower Master would not attack the imperial palace directly, and the chapter ended before he answered.

The Blood Baleful Intent Tower Master ordered bloodshed in the imperial city after revealing his clan's role in destroying the Demon Race's holy land. His investigation into Elder Nether Baleful Intent's missing memories of Chu Batian uncovered a mysterious battle and provoked a deadly warning from the Nether Ancient Imperial Clan.

• The Blood Baleful Intent Tower Master explained that Ling Zhantian, the Crimson Flame Berserk Lion, and the Nine Dragons Heaven-Locking Grand Formation made a direct assault on the imperial city too costly.
• Elder Nether Baleful Intent reported control over the Mysterious Serpent Clan and the Barbarian Ox Clan, while the Qingqiu Fox Clan sought clues to the ruined Demon Race holy land.
• The Blood Baleful Intent Tower Master claimed that his clan had killed Yao Ji ten thousand years earlier and ordered Elder Nether Baleful Intent to incite bloodshed between the Great Qian Imperial Dynasty and the seven sects.
• Elder Nether Baleful Intent revealed that Chu Batian's name triggered soul pain and suggested that memories of their past connection had been erased.
• The Blood Baleful Intent Tower Master forcibly searched Elder Nether Baleful Intent's memories and witnessed a golden figure battling an enormous ancient chain in a dark ravine.
• A mysterious voice accused the Blood Baleful Intent Tower Master of prying into the Nether Ancient Imperial Clan's secrets and commanded him to die.

The Blood Baleful Intent Tower master survived a mysterious soul attack by using a Death-Substitution Sacred Statue, then wondered whether Chu Batian and Chu Yunfei were tied to the terrifying events hidden in Elder Nether Baleful Intent’s erased memories. Meanwhile, Chu Yunfei perfected the Sea-Overturning Ninefold Sword and set out with Wen Jiao, Wen Buqi, and Uncle Yao for the imperial capital, aware that Zhou Changgeng’s people were watching.

• A phantom chain nearly annihilated the tower master, who escaped death by sacrificing a Death-Substitution Sacred Statue, while Elder Nether Baleful Intent was blasted unconscious.
• After reviving Elder Nether Baleful Intent, the tower master learned he could not recall his meeting in Demon Abyss Valley and suspected Chu Batian was connected to the mysterious golden figure.
• Inside the Divine Cauldron of Heavenly Mandate, Chu Yunfei perfected all nine strikes of the Sea-Overturning Ninefold Sword and considered the risks of fighting several Divine Sea Realm Ninth Level experts.
• Chu Yunfei met Wen Jiao, Wen Buqi, and Uncle Yao in the courtyard, where Wen Buqi said he planned to return to the main pavilion in the imperial capital.
• Wen Jiao summoned her flying boat, and Chu Yunfei noticed concealed killing intent in a nearby forest before boarding and urging Zhou Changgeng to act quickly.

Chu Yunfei confronted Zhou Changgeng, who ambushed the Pill Pavilion flying boat with two Divine Sea Realm Sixth Layer elders. As Wen Buqi, Wen Jiao, and Uncle Yao engaged the other attackers, Chu Yunfei’s Sea-Overturning Ninefold Sword shattered Zhou Changgeng’s weapon and sent him flying, and Chu Yunfei pressed the attack.

• Zhou Changgeng intercepted the flying boat with two elders and threatened to kill everyone aboard to avenge his son and the Zhou family.
• Wen Buqi, Wen Jiao, and Uncle Yao engaged the two Divine Sea Realm Sixth Layer elders while Chu Yunfei faced Zhou Changgeng alone.
• Chu Yunfei dodged Zhou Changgeng’s Nine Nether Soul-Destroying Ruler and saw Wen Jiao and Uncle Yao hold their opponent at bay with her Heavenly Yin Baleful Intent Qi.
• Chu Yunfei struck with five layers of the Sea-Overturning Ninefold Sword, cracked Zhou Changgeng’s ruler, and wounded him with the backlash.
• Chu Yunfei unleashed the sixth fold of the Sea-Overturning Ninefold Sword against Zhou Changgeng.

Chu Yunfei killed Zhou Changgeng and two other Divine Sea Realm elders after Zhou revealed his ties to the Blood Baleful Intent Tower and unleashed the Devil-Suppressing Hand. Back aboard the spirit boat, Chu Yunfei refined the three corpses in the Divine Cauldron of Heavenly Mandate and prepared to break through to the Divine Sea Realm.

• Zhou Changgeng swallowed a forbidden pill, rose to the Divine Sea Realm Eighth Level, and used the Devil-Suppressing Hand against Chu Yunfei.
• Chu Yunfei identified Zhou Changgeng's demonic art and exposed his allegiance to the Blood Baleful Intent Tower; Zhou admitted it and attacked.
• Chu Yunfei unleashed the seventh layer of his sword technique, destroyed the Devil-Suppressing Hand, and killed Zhou Changgeng.
• Chu Yunfei pursued and killed the two fleeing elders, then collected their storage rings and corpses as Wen Buqi, Wen Jiao, and Uncle Yao watched.
• Chu Yunfei warned Wen Buqi that the Blood Baleful Intent Tower had infiltrated the Jade Firmament Sect and urged the group to return to the imperial capital.
• Chu Yunfei entered seclusion aboard the spirit boat and refined the three elders' remains in the Divine Cauldron of Heavenly Mandate, preparing to break through to the Divine Sea Realm.