Chapter Summaries

Wang Baole and Nangong Yu completed the taisui trial, and Wang Baole prepared to break through to the True Fate Realm. Cao Youqian perfected his Extreme Dao Divine Fist in the Trial Tower and left seeking Xiao Chen, who had entered seclusion in the Great Void Secret Realm to perfect his Sword Intent.

• Crimson Taisui let Nangong Yu and Wang Baole choose taisui to take with them, then sent them out of the cave.
• Wang Baole asked Nangong Yu to stand guard while he broke through to the True Fate Realm.
• Cao Youqian used the Taiji Visualization Diagram to fuse one hundred fist techniques into the Extreme Dao Divine Fist and destroyed a bronze figure with his perfected punch.
• Cao Youqian left the Trial Tower calling himself Tyrant Fist, then set off to challenge his eldest senior brother, Xiao Chen.
• Xiao Chen and Liu Yue'er dominated the Great Void Secret Realm, and Xiao Chen entered seclusion to perfect his Sword Intent.

Cao Youqian and Song Zhaoyi followed Little White into a mine, where they discovered supreme-grade profound yin cold iron ore. Cao Youqian made Song Zhaoyi help collect it as he punched a path through the mountain, and the chapter ended with him breaking through a wall in search of profound yin cold iron essence.

• Cao Youqian cleared a collapsed tunnel and followed Song Zhaoyi and Little White into the cave to search for treasure.
• Cao Youqian found supreme-grade profound yin cold iron ore and handed Song Zhaoyi a pickaxe so she could mine it.
• Cao Youqian punched through the rock to collect ore while Song Zhaoyi knocked loose the exposed chunks.
• After three days of mining, Cao Youqian sensed they were nearing profound yin cold iron essence and unleashed the Extreme Dao Divine Fist against the stone wall.

Cao Youqian obtained the Profound Yin Cold Iron Essence and recruited Little White to lead him to more ore. Meanwhile, Chu Feng emerged from seclusion having resolved to pursue the Primordial Great Dao, then heard that factions tied to the Great Evolution Holy Land had suffered heavy losses in the secret realm.

• Cao Youqian pulled the spirit-bearing Profound Yin Cold Iron Essence from the cave wall and stored it.
• Cao Youqian promised Little White unlimited Profound Yin Cold Iron if he led him to more ore, and Little White agreed.
• Chu Feng's disciples continued to grow stronger while he cultivated in seclusion, and he decided to unite the Great Daos he knew into the Primordial Great Dao.
• Chu Feng emerged from seclusion and asked the gathered seniors about the Great Evolution Holy Land's losses.
• King Hengjiang said the Great Evolution Holy Land had lost more than forty disciples, and Chu Feng suspected Qin Qin was responsible while preparing for a possible fight after the secret realm closed.

Wang Baole recognized the White-Robed Zither Demon in Supreme Yin Valley as his third senior sister, Qin Qin, and led Dao-Seeking Academy disciples to support her. As Dugu Ming prepared to attack Qin Qin, someone condemned the Great Evolution Holy Land for having three men confront one woman.

• Wang Baole and Nangong Yu learned that the White-Robed Zither Demon had gathered Spiritual Qi at Supreme Yin Valley and defeated cultivators who provoked her.
• Wang Baole realized the White-Robed Zither Demon was Qin Qin and led his fellow disciples into the valley to support her.
• Dugu Ming, Wang Lie, and Chao Xiu arrived and argued over who should challenge Qin Qin first.
• Dugu Ming drew his sword to attack Qin Qin, but a voice mocked the Great Evolution Holy Land for sending three men against one woman.

Cao Youqian arrived with Song Zhaoyi and declared that he had come to avenge Qin Qin, whose sect the Great Evolution Holy Land had destroyed. Xiao Chen joined the Dao-Seeking Academy’s side, and both groups prepared to fight in Supreme Yin Valley.

• Cao Youqian revealed that Qin Qin was his junior sister and called the Dao-Seeking Academy disciples to face the Great Evolution Holy Land.
• Cao Youqian demanded that the Great Evolution Holy Land surrender its storage treasures and beg Qin Qin for mercy, but Chao Xiu refused.
• Xiao Chen arrived and declared that he could represent the Dao-Seeking Academy, prompting the onlookers to clear Supreme Yin Valley.
• Cao Youqian sent Song Zhaoyi to safety as the leaders chose their opponents: Chao Xiu faced Xiao Chen, Wang Lie faced Cao Youqian, and Dugu Ming challenged Qin Qin.
• Cao Youqian provoked Wang Lie and the black tiger, while Qin Qin accepted Dugu Ming’s duel and prepared her zither as both sides drew their weapons.

Xiao Chen and Cao Youqian overwhelmed Chao Xiu and Wang Lie in battle, while Qin Qin used her zither and World Destruction to turn Dugu Ming against the Great Evolution Holy Land’s disciples. The Great Evolution fighters were left defeated or fleeing as Dugu Ming attacked his own side.

• Xiao Chen shattered Chao Xiu’s Nine Mysteries Pagoda with sword rain, then pierced his sacred-grade armor with Sword Qi.
• Cao Youqian smashed Black Venerable’s claws and killed the black tiger with his Extreme Dao Divine Fist, while Wang Lie fled.
• Qin Qin unleashed World Destruction against Dugu Ming, then used her zither music to disorient him.
• Dugu Ming descended into the Great Evolution Holy Land’s crowd and began killing its disciples, ignoring their pleas.

Xiao Chen defeated Chao Xiu while Dugu Ming slaughtered the Great Evolution Holy Land disciples under Qin Qin's influence, leaving the Dao-Seeking Academy victorious in Great Void Valley. At the encampment, Diwu Qingyun learned of the Great Evolution Holy Land's losses and vowed to investigate and retaliate personally.

• Xiao Chen defeated Chao Xiu and revealed that Dugu Ming had been distracted by Qin Qin's mind-confusing technique.
• Dugu Ming killed Great Evolution Holy Land disciples until Qin Qin struck him down with a taiji diagram.
• The Dao-Seeking Academy disciples finished the battle and collected spoils while leaving the three geniuses' storage rings untouched.
• Cao Youqian introduced Song Zhaoyi to Xiao Chen as his good little sister.
• The Great Evolution Holy Land's elders discovered that more than fifty soul lamps had gone out, and Diwu Qingyun ordered them to keep quiet while he handled the matter.

Lei Aojie learned that the Dao-Seeking Academy had defeated the Great Evolution Holy Land’s disciples, while the Great Void Secret Realm closed and Xiao Chen’s group returned safely. Chu Feng and King Hengjiang backed the disciples after hearing what they had done, just as an enraged elder from the Great Evolution Holy Land arrived to confront them.

• Lei Aojie heard from Wang Lie that Xiao Chen had perfected Sword Intent and Cao Youqian had perfected Fist Intent, then chose to hide with the survivors until the secret realm closed.
• King Hengjiang led the others to receive the returning disciples, and Xiao Chen brought the Dao-Seeking Academy group out safely.
• Cao Youqian introduced Song Zhaoyi to Chu Feng as his good little sister, and she went back to her sect’s seniors.
• Xiao Chen told Chu Feng that the group had killed nearly all the Great Evolution Holy Land’s cultivators, and Chu Feng took his disciples to inform King Hengjiang.
• King Hengjiang praised Xiao Chen and promised to protect the disciples, but an angry voice from the sky demanded that the Dao-Seeking Academy come out.

Chu Feng faced down Diwu Qingyun after the Great Evolution Holy Land threatened the Dao-Seeking Academy over Qin Qin’s survival. As Diwu Qingyun trapped the camp in a sword formation, Chu Feng walked into its center.

• Diwu Qingyun arrived with Great Evolution Holy Land disciples and demanded a fight, while King Hengjiang tried to calm him.
• Diwu Qingyun challenged the Dao-Seeking Academy’s elders, but Chu Feng stepped forward and declared he would defend his disciple Qin Qin.
• Chu Feng told Qin Qin he would slay a Half-Saint for her, provoking Diwu Qingyun to unleash a nine-sword formation infused with nine portions of the True Essence of the Great Dao.
• While the onlookers feared for the Dao-Seeking Academy, Chu Feng walked into the center of Diwu Qingyun’s sword formation.

Chu Feng revealed that he was a Half-Saint, defeated Diwu Qingyun, and killed him with a sword strike before sparing the Great Evolution Holy Land cultivators. After returning to the Dao-Seeking Academy, he was summoned to explain his strength to the elders.

• Chu Feng revealed his Half-Saint cultivation and dispersed Diwu Qingyun’s sword formation with the Taiji Fist Art.
• Diwu Qingyun fled, but Chu Feng summoned ten thousand swords and killed him with Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Origin.
• Chu Feng spared the Great Evolution Holy Land cultivators and told them to send a Half-Saint to challenge him if they wanted to settle the matter.
• Chu Feng collected Diwu Qingyun’s nine holy swords and returned to the Dao-Seeking Academy, where Cao Youqian and the students praised him.
• King Hengjiang brought Chu Feng to the main tent, where the Mountain-Moving Marquis demanded an explanation for what had happened.

After Chu Feng became a Half-Saint, King Hengjiang helped explain his rise by recalling the academy’s old praise of him as a potential Great Emperor and Literary Saint reincarnated. Chu Feng returned to his disciples, learned their plans, and the Dao-Seeking Academy erupted with news of his breakthrough as the academy head looked forward to his future.

• King Hengjiang explained that the academy head and Chief Kong had long praised Chu Feng’s talents, and later revealed they had privately believed him to be the Literary Saint reincarnated.
• Chu Feng met with his disciples, said he had gathered just over twenty portions of the True Essence of the Great Dao, and heard Xiao Chen, Cao Youqian, Qin Qin, and Wang Baole share their plans.
• Xiao Chen and Cao Youqian offered to accompany Wang Baole to visit the Wang Clan, and Wang Baole gladly accepted.
• The forces departed the Great Void Secret Realm, and news of Chu Feng becoming a Half-Saint stirred the Dao-Seeking Academy.
• The Carefree Sword King decided to enter seclusion to pursue the Half-Saint realm, while the academy head celebrated Chu Feng’s potential to become another Great Emperor.

Chu Feng returned to the Miscellaneous Dao Institute and hosted visiting elders, who helped him look for disciples suited to brewing wine. He then guided Xu Caichen toward practicing the six arts and studying the Analects of Swinging, leaving Xu determined to become a gentleman.

• Xu Caichen welcomed Chu Feng and his fellow disciples back, then arranged a visit from elders seeking to pay Chu Feng their respects.
• Chu Feng hosted the elders at a banquet, shared Elder Bai's hundred-year-old monkey wine, and agreed to seek a wine-brewing disciple.
• Xu Caichen brought Chu Feng his questions, and Chu Feng wrote the character for “righteous,” which Xu struggled to look at.
• Chu Feng told Xu to study the Analects of Swinging and practice martial skills, explaining that Xu's rigid book learning had kept him from gaining Righteous Qi of Heaven and Earth.
• Xu questioned why he was not a gentleman, and Chu Feng challenged him to learn all six arts; Xu then asked for the Analects of Swinging.

Chu Feng completed a painting of Saint Kong that sent a surge of literary Dao light through the Dao-Seeking Academy, prompting its nine chiefs to enter seclusion and pursue breakthroughs. He gave Xu Caichen the Analects of Swinging and the painting, leaving his disciples stunned by his unconventional teachings.

• Chu Feng finished painting Saint Kong lifting a city gate, and the portrait released a towering burst of literary Dao light that drew attention across the academy.
• The Profound Fire Pill King decided to enter seclusion to break through to Half-Saint, while the dean welcomed the prospect of the nine chiefs advancing and planned to rely on Chu Feng if trouble came.
• Chu Feng emerged after seven days and nights, asked Xu Caichen about his body training, and gave him a booklet containing the Analects of Swinging.
• Chu Feng's disciples read annotations that interpreted the Analects as instructions for fighting groups of opponents, and Cao Youqian questioned whether the interpretation was correct.
• Xu Caichen opened Chu Feng's portrait of Saint Kong, whose image contained the True Essence of the Great Dao, then knelt to thank Chu Feng for the technique.

Xiao Chen and his fellow disciples traveled to the Cangyun Wang Clan for Old Master Wang’s eight-hundredth birthday banquet, while the Sima family head learned of their arrival and prepared to attend. At the Wang residence, Madam Wang learned that Wang Baole had returned with friends and ordered the steward to find them a place to stay.

• Xiao Chen collected his disciples’ Sword Jades and, the next day, left the Dao-Seeking Academy with Cao Youqian, Liu Yue'er, Wang Baole, and Nangong Yu, escorted by the Mountain-Moving Marquis.
• Xiao Chen’s group reached Luo City, bought Gale Steeds, and rode toward the Cangyun Wang Clan.
• The Sima family head learned that Xiao Chen and Wang Baole were headed to the Wang Clan and decided to bring a generous birthday gift, expecting a spectacle at the banquet.
• Wang Chongyi dismissed Madam Wang’s concerns about Wang Yulin and returned to preparing for the ancestor’s birthday celebration.
• Madam Wang learned that Wang Baole had arrived with friends and ordered the steward to find them lodging until the banquet.

Wang Baole returned to the Wang Clan with his senior brothers and sisters to see Wang Yulin and attend the patriarch’s birthday banquet, where he planned to break off his engagement. After realizing he wanted to marry Wang Yufei, he let Xiao Chen and Cao Youqian take charge of making the matter public.

• Wang Baole refused the old steward’s offer of guest rooms and settled with his companions in his neglected former courtyard.
• Wang Baole learned the patriarch would not receive visitors before his birthday banquet and agreed to wait.
• Wang Yufei visited Wang Baole, learned he had joined Dao-Seeking Academy, and heard he planned to break off his engagement with Wang Yulin.
• After Wang Yufei left, Cao Youqian prompted Wang Baole to admit he had feelings for her, and Wang Baole said he would ask for her hand after ending his engagement.
• Xiao Chen and Cao Youqian told Wang Baole to prepare a birthday gift and leave the rest to them.

At the Wang Clan patriarch’s birthday banquet, Sima Yin arrived and recognized Xiao Chen and the Dao-Seeking Academy’s companions, while Wang Baole confronted Wang Kaixuan. The patriarch’s arrival interrupted the quarrel, leaving Wang Chongyi confused by Sima Yin’s warning and Wang Kaixuan vowing revenge.

• Sima Yin attended the Wang Clan patriarch’s birthday banquet and spotted Xiao Chen and Cao Youqian, sensing Xiao Chen’s powerful Dao protector nearby.
• Wang Kaixuan mocked Wang Baole and Wang Yufei, prompting Wang Baole to warn him to leave.
• Wang Kaixuan challenged Wang Baole to hit him, and Wang Baole slapped him, silencing the Wang Clan disciples with his killing intent.
• Wang Chongyi offered to throw Wang Baole out, but Sima Yin warned him not to mistake a treasure for grass and said he could not afford to provoke the consequences.
• The patriarch’s arrival halted the confrontation, and Wang Baole turned to look at the old man emerging from the rear hall.

At Wang Jinchuan’s birthday banquet, Sima Yin’s lavish gift and the Wang descendants’ offerings drew the guests’ attention. Wang Kaixuan tried to embarrass Wang Baole by revealing his swollen face and challenging him to present his gift, and the chapter ended as Wang Baole opened a box whose brilliant light dazzled the hall.

• Wang Jinchuan welcomed the birthday guests, and Sima Yin presented the Wang Clan with a low-grade spirit artifact, the Five Elements Treasure Tree.
• Wang Hanyan offered Wang Jinchuan a nearly thousand-year-old blood ginseng, and other direct-line descendants presented their gifts.
• Wang Kaixuan presented an authentic painting by Gu Kang, then claimed Wang Baole had slapped him and drew attention to his swollen face.
• Wang Kaixuan challenged Wang Baole to show his birthday gift, prompting the assembled guests and Wang Clan members to watch him.
• Wang Baole opened a box from his storage ring, releasing a burst of spiritual light that dazzled everyone in the hall.

Wang Baole presented the Wang Clan Ancestor with a thousand-year-old Azure Fruit, and Xiao Chen confirmed that Baole had brought it from the Great Void Secret Realm. Baole revealed that he was a Half-Saint's disciple, and Xiao Chen and Cao Youqian offered astonishing gifts before announcing they had another important matter to discuss.

• Wang Baole offered the Wang Clan Ancestor an Azure Fruit, while Wang Kaixuan and Wang Chongyi accused him of stealing it or lying about how he obtained it.
• Xiao Chen arrived and vouched for Wang Baole, saying he had obtained the fruit in the Great Void Secret Realm, while a marquis-level expert's presence stunned the guests.
• Wang Baole told the Wang Clan Ancestor that his master was a Half-Saint, shocking the hall and leaving Wang Chongyi, Wang Yulin, and Madam Wang alarmed.
• Cao Youqian presented the Ancestor with a Life-Force Creation Pill, and Xiao Chen gave him the Wandering Sword King's inheritance.
• Xiao Chen said the gifts were not the only reason he and his junior brothers had come, and that they had an important matter to explain.

Wang Baole dissolved his engagement to Wang Yulin and asked to marry Wang Yufei, securing the Wang Clan’s alliance with him. As he prepared to leave with Wang Yufei and Nangong Yu, the patriarch ordered the relatives who had mistreated him to kneel and apologize.

• Wang Baole announced he was ending his engagement to Wang Yulin, and the patriarch agreed to dissolve the contract.
• Xiao Chen clarified that Wang Baole was not severing ties with the Wang Clan, and Wang Baole asked for Wang Yufei’s hand in marriage.
• The patriarch approved the match, and the Wang Clan celebrated as guests congratulated him on gaining Wang Baole as a son-in-law.
• After the feast, Wang Baole thanked Xiao Chen and Cao Youqian for their help, and they dismissed the value of their gifts as modest.
• After several days, Cao Youqian left for the Cloud Mist Sect, while Xiao Chen and Liu Yue'er traveled east and Wang Baole prepared to set out with Wang Yufei and Nangong Yu.
• Before Wang Baole departed, the patriarch ordered Madam Wang, Wang Yulin, Wang Kaixuan, and the others to kneel and apologize or face expulsion from the Wang Clan.

Wang Baole spared the Wang Clan members who had offended him, then Elder Bai brought the wine-loving Nie Xiuyuan to Chu Feng’s Miscellaneous Dao Institute to serve as its brewer. Nie Xiuyuan met Chu Feng and greeted him, beginning his new post.

• Wang Baole spared the kneeling Wang Clan members but warned them not to offend him or Yufei again, then left the clan residence.
• Elder Bai summoned Nie Xiuyuan and offered to take him somewhere he could brew wine freely.
• Elder Bai brought Nie Xiuyuan to the empty Miaomiao Mountain and explained that Chu Feng needed a brewer for the Miscellaneous Dao Institute.
• Elder Bai and Nie Xiuyuan met Qin Qin at Chu Feng’s residence, and she let them inside.
• Elder Bai introduced Nie Xiuyuan as Dao-Seeking Academy’s master brewer, and Nie Xiuyuan greeted Chu Feng.