Chapter Summaries

Chu Yunfei defeated Xu Changqing with a powerful Heaven-Severing Slash and claimed his father’s Giant Que Sword, but Zhou Huanzhang and the elders accused him of cultivating an evil-path method and demanded the sword. After Sect Master Zhang Qingfeng also ordered him to surrender it, Chu Yunfei declared that he would take the sword and challenged anyone to stop him.

• Chu Yunfei overwhelmed Xu Changqing with a Heaven-Severing Slash, broke his treasured sword, and sent him tumbling from the arena.
• The martial training ground erupted as the crowd and elders reacted to Chu Yunfei’s victory, while Situ Shuang'er watched him with complicated feelings.
• Chu Yunfei took his father’s Giant Que Sword and declared that no one would take the keepsake from him.
• Zhou Huanzhang accused Chu Yunfei of cultivating an evil-path method and called for his victory to be voided and the sword surrendered.
• Zhang Qingfeng ordered Chu Yunfei to put down the sword while promising to investigate his cultivation method.
• Chu Yunfei condemned the Azure Mystic Sect and declared that he would take the Giant Que Sword, daring anyone to stop him.

After breaking with the Azure Mystic Sect over the Giant Que Sword, Chu Yunfei was struck down by Zhou Huanzhang but refused to apologize. As Zhou attacked again, Chu Yunfei plunged a silver needle between his brows, unleashing a terrifying presence.

• Chu Yunfei declared that he was leaving the Azure Mystic Sect, while Nangong Wuhen suspected the sect knew the Giant Que Sword’s origins.
• Zhou Huanzhang attacked Chu Yunfei and sent him crashing across the platform, breaking his ribs and knocking away the Giant Que Sword.
• Lin Wanyin urged Chu Yunfei to apologize, but he rose and refused to back down for the sake of his father, Chu Batian.
• Zhou Huanzhang launched a stronger second attack, and another elder restrained Lin Wanyin from intervening.
• As Zhou Huanzhang’s fist reached him, Chu Yunfei drove a silver needle between his brows, and a terrifying presence erupted from within him.

Chu Yunfei used a forbidden art to rise from the Spirit Martial Realm to the Heavenly Origin Realm and fought the elders to claim the Giant Que Sword. After Sect Master Zhang Qingfeng struck him down, Chu Yunfei refused to surrender the sword.

• Chu Yunfei activated a forbidden art that burned his soul and life, breaking through to the first level of the Heavenly Origin Realm.
• Chu Yunfei wounded Zhou Huanzhang with the Abyss-Devouring Sword and fought off the elders who surrounded him.
• Chu Yunfei struck down Chen Shouyi and wounded the seventh elder and Zhou Huanzhang, but the battle left him badly hurt and his soul cracking.
• Chu Yunfei seized the Giant Que Sword and tried to escape, but Zhang Qingfeng struck him into the arena wall and buried him beneath rubble.
• Zhang Qingfeng demanded that Chu Yunfei surrender the Giant Que Sword, but Chu Yunfei refused.

Li Qingzhou stopped Zhang Qingfeng from killing Chu Yunfei and defended his right to keep the Giant Que Sword. Chu Yunfei left the arena under Li Qingzhou’s protection, while Nangong Wuhen resolved to claim the sword.

• Li Qingzhou blocked Zhang Qingfeng’s all-out strike and stood between him and the exhausted Chu Yunfei.
• Li Qingzhou rebuked Zhang Qingfeng and the elders for ganging up on Chu Yunfei, and Zhang Qingfeng eventually withdrew.
• Li Qingzhou acknowledged that Chu Yunfei had proven himself worthy of keeping the Giant Que Sword and told him to leave safely.
• Chu Yunfei left the arena with the Giant Que Sword as Li Qingzhou watched over him.
• Nangong Wuhen left the guest seats, determined to obtain the Giant Que Sword.

After the forbidden technique’s backlash reduced Chu Yunfei to the ninth level of the Qi Condensation Realm, Xiaoxiao Dragon stabilized his failing soul and he fled the Cangwu mountains. Nangong Wuhen intercepted him, revealed his identity, and demanded the Giant Que Sword before preparing to kill him.

• Chu Yunfei’s cultivation regressed to the ninth level of the Qi Condensation Realm as the forbidden technique’s backlash injured his body and soul.
• Xiaoxiao Dragon used the last of her strength to stabilize Chu Yunfei’s soul, and he continued down the mountain to escape the Azure Mystic Sect.
• Xiaoxiao Dragon sensed a powerful pursuer and warned Chu Yunfei to run, but the stranger used teleportation to block his path.
• The masked pursuer demanded the Giant Que Sword, and Xiaoxiao Dragon identified him as the Heavenly Sword Sect’s Holy Son.
• Chu Yunfei recognized Nangong Wuhen, who removed his mask, threatened to kill him, and unleashed the pressure of his late-stage Heavenly Origin Realm cultivation.

Chu Yunfei fled toward the dangerous Cangwu Mountain Range after Nangong Wuhen’s attack left him badly injured. Nangong Wuhen caught up and struck him down before he could reach the mountains’ death zones.

• Nangong Wuhen blasted Chu Yunfei across the grass with a finger strike, worsening his injuries.
• Chu Yunfei tricked Nangong Wuhen with a shout about Uncle Li and escaped into the woods toward the Cangwu Mountain Range.
• Nangong Wuhen pursued Chu Yunfei and easily dispersed the second-tier talismans he used to slow him down.
• Chu Yunfei headed for a death zone in the Cangwu Mountain Range, but Nangong Wuhen struck him from behind and sent him crashing beside a boulder.

Chu Yunfei awakened the sealed power in the Abyss-Devouring Sword and badly wounded Nangong Wuhen, but the recoil sent him over Broken Remnant Cliff into its poisonous mist. The Giant Que Sword vanished with him.

• Nangong Wuhen crushed Chu Yunfei with his spiritual power and demanded the Giant Que Sword.
• Chu Yunfei seized the Abyss-Devouring Sword and poured his remaining spiritual power into it, awakening a fissure in its seal.
• The Abyss-Devouring Sword unleashed terrifying Sword Qi that shattered Nangong Wuhen’s Holy Light Shield and life-saving jade pendant, then struck him down.
• The Sword Qi’s recoil flung Chu Yunfei over Broken Remnant Cliff into the purplish-black poisonous mist, and the Giant Que Sword disappeared with him.

Nangong Wuhen left Chu Yunfei for dead after he fell into Broken Remnant Cliff, but Chu Yunfei survived the fall and used the Divine Cauldron of Heavenly Mandate to refine the poisonous mist and the poison in his body. With the poison gone, he waited to see what essence the cauldron would produce.

• Nangong Wuhen judged Chu Yunfei unlikely to survive Broken Remnant Cliff and sat down to heal his injuries.
• Chu Yunfei plunged through the poisonous mist, struck the rubble below, and suffered broken bones and severe poisoning.
• Xiaoxiao Dragon urged Chu Yunfei to summon the Divine Cauldron of Heavenly Mandate before the poison reached his sea of consciousness.
• Chu Yunfei used the Divine Cauldron of Heavenly Mandate to absorb the poisonous mist and refine the poison inside his body.
• Chu Yunfei sensed the refined mist taking shape as another substance inside the cauldron and waited for it to finish.

Chu Yunfei refined the ancient venomous python’s essence, reaching the third level of the Spirit Martial Realm, awakening a nascent Myriad Poison Tyrant Body, and restoring Xiaoxiao Dragon. He followed the python’s remains to find a sixth-grade Purple Nether Lightning Poison Lotus, but a venomous companion spirit beast appeared to guard it.

• Chu Yunfei swallowed the dark-gold venom essence, and the Boundless Creation Scripture transformed its poison into spiritual power that restored his cultivation and raised him to the third level of the Spirit Martial Realm.
• The essence reforged Chu Yunfei’s meridians and body, awakened a nascent Myriad Poison Tyrant Body, and healed and strengthened his soul.
• Chu Yunfei used some of the soul power to restore Xiaoxiao Dragon’s remnant soul, then promised to help her reforge her body someday.
• Xiaoxiao Dragon urged Chu Yunfei to search the ancient venomous python’s remains, and he followed the skeleton to its seven-inch vital point.
• Chu Yunfei found a Purple Nether Lightning Poison Lotus, which Xiaoxiao Dragon identified as a sixth-grade spiritual herb that could advance his constitution.
• A small purple-gold snake emerged beside the lotus, and Chu Yunfei raised the Abyss-Devouring Sword as his spiritual power erupted.

Chu Yunfei survived the Purple-Gold Lightning Python’s attacks by absorbing its Purple-Gold Lightning Poison with his nascent myriad poison tyrant body, then gained the python as a servant and took the Purple Nether Lightning Poison Lotus. As the poisonous miasma vanished from Broken Remnant Cliff, Nangong Wuhen suspected Chu Yunfei had survived and summoned Uncle Mo to the Cangwu Mountain Range.

• The Purple-Gold Lightning Python attacked Chu Yunfei with its speed and Purple-Gold Lightning Poison, but his myriad poison tyrant body absorbed the poison without injury.
• Chu Yunfei released his myriad poison origin, drawing the Purple-Gold Lightning Python to him until it offered its essence blood and acknowledged him as its master.
• Chu Yunfei completed the contract, let the lightning python coil around his wrist, and took the Purple Nether Lightning Poison Lotus from the stone platform.
• Removing the sixth-grade spirit herb broke the formation’s balance, causing the poisonous miasma at Broken Remnant Cliff to dissipate.
• Nangong Wuhen saw the mist thinning, suspected Chu Yunfei had survived and obtained an opportunity, then crushed a communication talisman to summon Uncle Mo.

After awakening the Myriad Poison Tyrant Body, Chu Yunfei hunted demonic beasts in the Cangwu Mountain Range and reached the Sixth Level of the Spirit Martial Realm. As he prepared to leave, he heard a familiar woman screaming for help and raced toward her.

• Chu Yunfei refined the Purple Nether Lightning Poison Lotus and endured three hours of agony before fully awakening the Myriad Poison Tyrant Body.
• Chu Yunfei and the Purple-Gold Lightning Python killed demonic beasts for half a month, raising him to the Sixth Level of the Spirit Martial Realm; he named the python Little Purple.
• Nangong Wuhen and Mo Yuan discovered Chu Yunfei's body was missing and issued a bounty, while Nangong Wuhen threatened Zhang Qingfeng into sending more Azure Mystic Sect members into the mountains.
• As Chu Yunfei headed out of the Cangwu Mountain Range, he heard a familiar woman cry for help and charged toward the sound.

Yan Guining searched the Cangwu Mountain Range for Chu Yunfei, hoping to warn him, but she and her junior sister were ambushed by Blazing Fire Sect disciples. After her junior sister was killed and Yan Guining was badly injured, Li Kun and his men closed in on her as she called desperately for help.

• Yan Guining and her junior sister searched deeper into the mountains as sects and rogue cultivators hunted for Chu Yunfei.
• Yan Guining found and picked a fire essence ginseng, but Li Kun and four Blazing Fire Sect disciples ambushed them and demanded the herb.
• After Yan Guining surrendered the ginseng, Li Kun accused her of hiding a second one and tried to search her; when she resisted, he and his disciples threatened the women.
• Yan Guining attacked Li Kun and ordered her junior sister to flee, but Li Kun overwhelmed her while the other disciples cornered the junior sister.
• A Blazing Fire Sect disciple stabbed Yan Guining's junior sister to death, and Li Kun struck Yan Guining hard enough to leave her unable to fight.
• As Li Kun and the others advanced on her, Yan Guining cried for help and prepared to bite her tongue.

Chu Yunfei rescued Yan Guining from Li Kun and the Blazing Fire Sect disciples, killing all five attackers. Yan Guining recognized him and tried to warn him that pursuers had come to capture him, but she collapsed before she could finish.

• Chu Yunfei heard Yan Guining scream and rushed toward the valley, recognizing her voice.
• Chu Yunfei hurled the Abyss-Devouring Sword into the valley, severing Li Kun’s arm and killing another Blazing Fire Sect disciple.
• Chu Yunfei retrieved his sword and killed the three remaining Blazing Fire Sect disciples despite their pleas for mercy.
• Chu Yunfei crushed Li Kun’s remaining arm and killed him after Li Kun threatened him with the Blazing Fire Sect and revealed that the Heavenly Sword Sect and Azure Mystic Sect were hunting him.
• Chu Yunfei asked Yan Guining whether she had come to hunt him, and she tried to warn him before coughing up black blood and collapsing.

Chu Yunfei saved Yan Guining from the fire poison that was about to reach her heart meridians, then treated her injuries in a concealed cave. Yan Guining woke to find her clothes torn and accused him of taking advantage of her, while Chu Yunfei defended himself and remarked that he had seen her before.

• Yan Guining collapsed after warning Chu Yunfei to run, and he caught her and discovered that fire poison was threatening her life.
• Chu Yunfei carried Yan Guining into a cave, tore open her robes to reach the poisoned wound, and used his Myriad Poison Tyrant Body to extract the fire poison.
• Chu Yunfei absorbed the poison as nourishment, then gave Yan Guining a drop of healing spirit liquid to repair her injuries.
• Yan Guining woke, saw her exposed chest, and tried to slap Chu Yunfei, but he caught her wrist.
• Yan Guining realized her injuries and poison had been healed but accused Chu Yunfei of taking advantage of her, and he denied doing it on purpose before saying he had seen her before.

Yan Guining warned Chu Yunfei that the Azure Mystic Sect and other forces were hunting him for Nangong Wuhen’s bounty, but Chu Yunfei refused to flee. As the Frenzied Saber Sect searched nearby, Yan Guining hid them in silence, and Chu Yunfei startled her by licking her palm.

• Yan Guining told Chu Yunfei that Nangong Wuhen had placed a bounty on him and that Mo Yuan and forces across the Cangwu Mountain Range were pursuing him.
• Chu Yunfei rejected Yan Guining’s warning to escape and declared that he would face his hunters instead.
• Chu Yunfei teased Yan Guining by suggesting she had fallen for him, and she angrily denied it.
• Members of the Frenzied Saber Sect approached the cave while searching for Chu Yunfei, so Yan Guining covered his mouth to keep him quiet.
• After the pursuers left, Chu Yunfei licked Yan Guining’s palm, leaving her stunned.

Yan Guining's anger at Chu Yunfei's lewd prank brought the Frenzied Saber Sect to their hiding place, where Chu Yunfei slaughtered the attackers. After the leader summoned the nearby sect master, a Heavenly Origin Realm expert, Chu Yunfei killed him and calmly searched his corpse, leaving Yan Guining shocked and worried about the threat approaching.

• Yan Guining attacked Chu Yunfei for licking her palm, but he dodged her weak strikes until they heard people approaching the cave.
• More than a dozen Frenzied Saber Sect martial artists entered, recognized Chu Yunfei, and tried to capture him for the rewards on his head.
• Yan Guining stepped in front of Chu Yunfei to protect him, but he moved her behind him and faced the attackers.
• Chu Yunfei used the Abyss-Devouring Sword to kill the Frenzied Saber Sect disciples and their leader, revealing that he was at the sixth level of the Spirit Martial Realm.
• The leader crushed a jade talisman to summon the nearby sect master, a Heavenly Origin Realm expert, but Chu Yunfei killed him and began searching his corpse instead of fleeing.

Chu Yunfei collected the corpses and belongings of his enemies before confronting Pang Tai, the Frenzied Saber Sect master, who arrived seeking revenge. After their clash revealed Chu Yunfei’s extraordinary strength, Pang Tai offered to spare him in exchange for his secret, but Chu Yunfei mocked him and provoked another attack.

• Chu Yunfei looted the Frenzied Saber Sect disciples’ storage rings and collected their corpses, then retrieved the Blazing Fire Sect corpses outside the cave.
• Yan Guining urged Chu Yunfei to flee because Pang Tai, a Heavenly Origin Realm expert, was nearby, but Pang Tai arrived at the cave entrance before they could leave.
• Chu Yunfei charged Pang Tai with the Abyss-Devouring Sword and traded blows with him, enduring dozens of attacks before Pang Tai’s heavy strike sent him staggering back with blood at his mouth.
• Pang Tai realized Chu Yunfei’s strength was extraordinary and offered to spare him if he revealed his secret.
• Chu Yunfei refused Pang Tai’s offer, insulted him, and demanded that he kneel and kowtow.

Chu Yunfei used Little Purple’s venom to interrupt the Frenzied Saber Sect master’s attack, then killed him and took his belongings. After disposing of the corpse, Chu Yunfei began preparing to break through while Yan Guining stood guard.

• The Frenzied Saber Sect master unleashed a powerful strike at Chu Yunfei, but Little Purple bit his wrist and paralyzed his arm with lightning venom.
• Chu Yunfei took advantage of the Frenzied Saber Sect master’s weakened state and beheaded him with the Abyss-Devouring Sword.
• Yan Guining watched in shock as Chu Yunfei defeated a second-level Heavenly Origin Realm expert.
• Chu Yunfei took the Frenzied Saber Sect master’s storage ring and found spirit stones, herbs, pills, and the Gale Art cultivation technique.
• Chu Yunfei absorbed the corpse into the Divine Cauldron of Heavenly Mandate, then asked Yan Guining to stand guard while he prepared to break through.

Chu Yunfei refined the Frenzied Saber Sect master's corpse and other resources with the Divine Cauldron of Heavenly Mandate, breaking through to the eighth level of the Spirit Martial Realm. He ignored Yan Guining's warnings and set out to hunt the forces seeking the bounty, while she followed after him.

• Chu Yunfei used the Divine Cauldron of Heavenly Mandate to refine corpses, spirit stones, and herbs into a drop of divine liquid.
• Chu Yunfei absorbed the divine liquid and broke through two levels, reaching the eighth level of the Spirit Martial Realm.
• Yan Guining watched Chu Yunfei's breakthrough and marveled at how powerful he had become.
• Yan Guining urged Chu Yunfei to leave before search parties arrived and warned him that Elder Mo Yuan could appear.
• Chu Yunfei said he would hunt those pursuing the bounty and descended from the cave, telling Yan Guining to return to the Azure Mystic Sect.
• Yan Guining worried about Chu Yunfei and hurried after him despite calling him reckless.

Chu Yunfei and Yan Guining traveled openly through the outskirts of the Cangwu Mountain Range, where bounty hunters repeatedly attacked them and Chu Yunfei slaughtered them while collecting their valuables and refining their corpses. After the disappearances drew the major forces’ attention, a furious voice from the Blazing Fire Sect confronted Chu Yunfei and accused him of killing its disciples.

• A one-eyed rogue cultivator recognized Chu Yunfei from the bounty portrait and led his group in an attack, but Chu Yunfei killed them all and refined their corpses in the Divine Cauldron of Heavenly Mandate.
• Chu Yunfei and Yan Guining continued through the forest, where Chu Yunfei swiftly defeated successive groups of bounty hunters and searched their bodies for valuables.
• Yan Guining watched the repeated slaughter and wondered whether Chu Yunfei or his pursuers were truly the prey.
• The major forces overseeing the outskirts noticed that many searchers had mysteriously disappeared.
• After Chu Yunfei disposed of another group of five rogue cultivators, a Blazing Fire Sect voice erupted from the forest and accused him of killing its missing disciples.