Chapter Summaries

Xue Qingluan defeated Yue Shuwang’s final attack and carried her dying Senior Sister to the North Peak fishing platform to fulfill her last wish. After Yue Shuwang died, Xue Qingluan burned her body into moonlight essence and said farewell.

• Xue Qingluan unleashed the Moonfire Method, overwhelmed Yue Shuwang’s killing move, and received help from the Jade Rabbit to recover her strength.
• Xue Qingluan caught the dying Yue Shuwang, who called her Luan'er and recalled their childhood together.
• Xue Qingluan dismissed the illusionary Lanyue Sect cultivators and had the Jade Rabbit disperse the illusion of Yue Wuxiang.
• Xue Qingluan brought Yue Shuwang to the North Peak fishing platform and arranged the chairs and fishing rods so she could see the moonlit lake.
• Yue Shuwang apologized and died, and Xue Qingluan burned her body into moonlight essence as she said farewell.

Xue Qingluan won the Dao struggle against Yue Shuwang and emerged with a transformed lunar aura, but Yue Wuxiang tried to ambush her. Chen Yang stopped the attack, subdued Yue Wuxiang, and destroyed Lanyue Sect’s protective formation.

• Xue Qingluan inherited Yue Shuwang’s lunar arts and hidden techniques after winning the Dao struggle.
• Xue Qingluan emerged from the conch-shell space, and Yue Wuxiang realized that Yue Shuwang had died.
• Yue Wuxiang launched a concealed lunar attack at Xue Qingluan, but Chen Yang dispersed it before it could hit her.
• Chen Yang pinned Yue Wuxiang with three True Word talismans and shattered Lanyue Sect’s protective formation.

Chen Yang killed True Person Qingguang and suppressed Yue Wuxiang after the Lanyue Sect leader went mad with grief and rage. With Yang Lingqing’s assurance, the Northwest Intent cultivators joined together to seal Yue Wuxiang beneath the earth, where his presence disappeared.

• Chen Yang crushed True Person Qingguang with spatial power and captured his fleeing Primordial Spirit.
• Yue Wuxiang broke into a frenzy and tried to force his way free of Chen Yang’s True Word talismans.
• Chen Yang struck Yue Wuxiang with five more talismans and suppressed him beneath Lanyue Sect’s mountain peaks.
• Chen Yang asked the Northwest Intent cultivators to help seal Yue Wuxiang, and Yang Lingqing reassured the hesitant Beast King Shrine ancestor.
• Chen Yang led more than ten Intent cultivators in casting Spatial Seal techniques until Yue Wuxiang’s howls and presence vanished.

After the Lanyue Sect was defeated and Yue Wuxiang sealed, Yang Lingqing secured the Northwest factions’ support for the Yang Clan’s leadership. She and Chen Yang celebrated the Yang Clan’s achievement and prepared to face the greater struggle ahead.

• Yang Lingqing thanked the Northwest True Intent Cultivators and offered them the Lanyue Sect’s remaining treasures as spoils.
• Yang Lingqing assigned Tiger Chasing to investigate Lanyue’s crimes and arranged for the factions to guard Yue Wuxiang until Yang Yuanhong emerged from seclusion.
• Yang Lingqing invited the Northwest factions to a council meeting in six months to assess the region and coordinate their affairs under the Yang Clan.
• The gathered cultivators pledged to stand alongside the Yang Clan, and all departed except Jia Huarai, who stayed behind to guard the seal.
• Yang Lingqing broke down in tears and asked Chen Yang whether their success was real; Chen Yang reassured her and promised to remain with the clan.
• Yang Lingqing vowed to lead the Yang Clan diligently into the coming Azure Waves Grand Struggle as dawn broke.

Three groups of cultivators waited in the Yunchu Dynasty’s northern frontier for a rumored Qi Gathering secret treasure to appear. When two young disciples from Yunqi Tower arrived with the same information, the Wen Family welcomed them as potential allies.

• The Wen Family and two sects searched the mountain forest for half a month without finding the secret treasure.
• The groups agreed to wait ten more days, with Wen Family cultivators continuing to patrol.
• On the sixth day, Wen Family patrols encountered a young man and woman who introduced themselves as disciples of Yunqi Tower under Chuyun Pavilion.
• The Wen Family leader decided the two newcomers could strengthen their group and explained that the family had joined forces with two sects to seek the treasure.

Yuan Ning and Yuan Zhao joined Wen Youcai’s party as the hidden treasury began to open, while secretly investigating two demonic cultivators. The siblings identified Xia Ming as one infiltrator, and Yang Yuanling revealed that Wen Youcai was the second.

• Wen Youcai welcomed Yuan Ning and Yuan Zhao into his group, and they met the leaders of the other parties, Du Nanshan and Xia Ming.
• Yang Yuanzhao sparred with Xia Ming and lost, bringing the travelers closer together.
• More cultivators arrived, and Wen Youcai’s group occupied the valley where the hidden treasury entrance began to form.
• Yuan Ning and Yuan Zhao secretly absorbed Heaven and Earth True Essence while discussing their investigation of the demonic cultivators.
• Yang Yuanzhao explained that he had identified Xia Ming as a demonic cultivator who replaced the original Xia Ming, and Yang Yuanling said Wen Youcai was the second infiltrator.

Yang Yuanzhao read the investigation reports and learned how the demonic cultivator Xia Ming recruited Wen Youcai and manipulated him into the hidden treasury expedition. As the group explored the swampy treasury, the disguised Xia Ming secretly targeted Yang Yuanzhao and Yang Yuanling for their abundant blood vitality.

• Yang Yuanling urged Yang Yuanzhao to study the secret letter, and he discovered that Wen Youcai had joined the demonic cultivator Xia Ming after arranging the deaths of two rivals in his family.
• Yang Yuanzhao realized that Wen Youcai and Xia Ming planned to use the expedition to leave their factions' supervision and contact Du Nanshan.
• The next day, Wen Youcai led the Wen Family into the hidden treasury, followed by Crimson Fire Temple and then Mountain Shaking Sect with Yang Yuanzhao and Yang Yuanling.
• Yang Yuanzhao helped the Crimson Fire Temple cultivators maintain fire and light as the group searched the damp swamp for buried treasure pits.
• After ten days, Xia Ming had found both treasure pits, and she secretly resolved to kill Yang Yuanzhao and Yang Yuanling along with their companions.

At the frigid pool at the hidden trove’s core, Xia Ming tried to manipulate the cultivators into entering the water, while Yang Yuanzhao and Yang Yuanling recognized that she was conspiring with Wen Youcai. Xia Ming then volunteered to dive into the pool with two Crimson Fire Temple disciples, and another disciple offered to join her.

• The party reached the blue-black frigid pool and sensed spiritual energy rising from its depths, suggesting a treasure lay below.
• Xia Ming’s attempt to influence the cultivators’ minds failed, and Yang Yuanzhao noticed her and Wen Youcai’s impatience when Yuan Ning stopped Yu Yan from entering the water.
• Yang Yuanling warned the group about the cold poison and vile water mentioned in Wen Youcai’s letter, making the cultivators reconsider the dangers of the pool.
• Xia Ming volunteered to investigate the pool, and Wen Youcai agreed that she should take two companions with her.
• Xia Ming selected Yu Yan to accompany her, then another disciple offered to join the dive.

Xia Ming lured Yang Yuanzhao into descending into the cold pool, intending to separate the siblings and kill him. After the group fought through the evil water and reached the cavern below, Yu Yan collapsed, leaving Xia Ming ready to act without interference.

• Xia Ming persuaded Yang Yuanzhao to join her underwater, while Yang Yuanling gave him three talismans and stayed behind with Wen Youcai.
• Xia Ming, Yang Yuanzhao, and Yu Yan descended into the cold pool and were battered by powerful undercurrents in the evil-water region.
• Xia Ming told Yang Yuanzhao to use his offensive talisman to help them force a path downward, and they reached a cavern at the pool's bottom.
• Yang Yuanzhao used his Poison Dispelling Talisman to ease Yu Yan's cold poison, and Yu Yan soon lost consciousness.
• Xia Ming turned cold and sinister after the Five Thunders Talisman had been spent and outside help could no longer reach them.

Yang Yuanzhao killed Xia Ming after she ambushed him underwater, while Yang Yuanling and the other cultivators waited for their group to emerge. Once the siblings had completed their task and prepared to return to the holy land, Yang Lingqing ordered them to assist Huai'an in destroying the Azure Flame Heretic Cult.

• Xia Ming attacked Yang Yuanzhao, but his golden-flame arms overwhelmed her, and he killed her after she refused to hand over the list.
• Yang Yuanzhao informed Yang Yuanling that the threat below had been dealt with, and she and Wen Youcai dove into the pool to search for him.
• Du Nanshan and the other cultivators waited a day until Yu Yan surfaced clutching a dark-blue ice crystal; no one else emerged before they left the hidden treasure.
• Yang Yuanling and Yang Yuanzhao appeared outside the hidden treasure and confirmed they had completed their training task and earned three merits together.
• Yang Lingqing ordered Yang Yuanling and Yang Yuanzhao to go to Broken Blade Valley and help Huai'an exterminate the Azure Flame Heretic Cult.

The chapter recounted how Bai Di’s Demon Children infiltrated the Central Region and used assassinations to sow fear and vendettas among the Righteous Path. After the first operation killed eighteen promising cultivators, the surviving Demon Child’s attempt to assassinate Nangong Jinghe failed, forcing him to flee back to the Demon Soil.

• Yuan Ning and Yuan Zhao accepted the Patriarch's Order and headed to a southeastern town to meet local Demon Extermination Squad cultivators.
• After Zhuang Xuanji departed, Bai Di avoided open war and sent Demon Children to infiltrate the Central Region and destabilize the Righteous Path.
• Seven Demon Children attacked Crown Prince Yingtian Xiao Huai and Long Zhu, but the Righteous Path had been warned, and six of the attackers died or were captured.
• One Demon Child used the distraction to kill eighteen Spiritual Connection True Persons, including four from the Fuyao Sect, and severely wounded Liu Yanqing before vanishing.
• The assassinations sparked fear and vendetta killings across the Central Region until top sects intervened to contain the panic.
• The surviving Demon Child targeted Nangong Jinghe, but a Righteous Path True Intent Cultivator nearly captured him, so he used his last escape method to return to the Demon Soil.

Bai Di shifted from risky assassinations to a broad infiltration of the Righteous Path, forcing Central Region forces to intervene in the borderlands. The Southwest was stabilized through a ruthless purge, while the Northeast and Northwest used stronger regional leadership to resist the demonic scheme.

• After the Demon Child’s failed attempt on Nangong Jinghe, Bai Di activated his death warriors and sent them into Righteous Path territory alongside long-planted hidden operatives.
• Demonic infiltration pushed the Southwest toward disorder, prompting the Central Region to send True Intent Cultivators and reducing the forces available at home.
• Central Region cultivators suppressed suspects brutally, killing and injuring many innocent cultivators and mortals while temporarily stabilizing the Southwest.
• The Profound Ice Palace’s unified authority and strong regional cohesion made the Northeast difficult for demonic cultivators to infiltrate openly.
• With support from the Donglai Sect and the Tiger Chasing Dynasty, the Yang Clan organized a Demon Extermination Squad that used Chen Yang’s special existence to track and secretly purge demonic cultivators in the Northwest.

As the Molten Fire Sect threatened to overturn the balance in Broken Blade Valley, the Yan Family waited anxiously for help from the Chen Clan. Chen Huai'an arrived at the Yan Family Assembly Hall, revealing an aura stronger than the Yan Family Old Ancestor's.

• The Molten Fire Sect's young genius mastered the Azure Flame Fire Technique and began influencing others in the sect, alarming the Yan Family and Seeking Dao Sect.
• Yan Family Patriarch Yan Bin worried that the Molten Fire Sect would soon gain the upper hand and that the selfish Seeking Dao Sect master might ally with it against the Yan Family.
• Yan Bin explained to Yan Wenyuan that the family might have to fight or abandon Broken Blade Valley if outside help did not arrive.
• The Yan Family Old Ancestor greeted a young Daoist boy in green turtle-patterned robes, whom Yan Bin and Yan Wenyuan had not noticed entering the hall.
• The boy introduced himself as Chen Huai'an of the Chen Clan, and the Yan Family members sensed that his aura surpassed their Old Ancestor's.

Chen Huai'an and the two Chen Clan juniors arrived at Broken Blade Valley, where Yan Meng described the Molten Fire Sect leader’s dangerous Azure Flame Method. Chen Huai'an then set out for the Molten Fire Sect with Yang Yuanling and Yang Yuanzhao, who learned that Chen Yang’s Spirit Pearl count had doubled and that Chen Huai'an had received two of them.

• Yan Meng sensed Chen Huai'an’s unfathomable strength, welcomed him as a senior, and explained how the Molten Fire Sect leader’s Azure Flame could damage both body and spirit.
• Chen Ning and Chen Zhao arrived, and Chen Huai'an said they had come to spar with a formidable young cultivator.
• Chen Huai'an declined Yan Meng’s offer to accompany him and left with Yang Yuanling and Yang Yuanzhao for the Molten Fire Sect.
• Yang Yuanzhao reunited with Chen Huai'an and remarked that his cultivation had outpaced the family’s other cultivators.
• Chen Huai'an explained that Chen Yang’s Spirit Pearls had doubled from five to ten after his breakthrough, and that all ten had found owners, including two that entered Chen Huai'an.

Chen Yang discovered that Chen Huai'an possessed extraordinary physical and spiritual gifts, rooted in his birth and memories of Meng Xiaoxiao. As Chen Huai'an and his companions approached the Seeking Dao Sect to confront demonic cultivators, they suspected its patriarch was concealing his true intentions.

• Chen Huai'an absorbed two Spirit Pearls, and Chen Yang found that one settled in his azure dragon body while the other chose his unusually resilient heart and soul.
• Chen Huai'an revealed that he remembered Meng Xiaoxiao's calls from before his birth and had accepted her final wish for him to live safely and peacefully.
• Chen Yang realized that Chen Huai'an had made peace with his past and possessed exceptional fortune and cultivation talent.
• Yang Yuanling, Chen Huai'an, and Yang Yuanzhao approached the Seeking Dao Sect and discussed suspicions that the Molten Fire Sect's conspicuous Azure Flame Method cultivator was baiting the Demon Extermination Squad.
• Chen Huai'an argued that the Seeking Dao Sect's patriarch was suspicious because he had not sought help or cooperated with the Yan Clan despite the Molten Fire Sect's growing threat.

Chen Huai'an infiltrated the Seeking Dao Sect to investigate its leader’s suspected scheme involving the Molten Fire Sect. The leader saw through his disguise and revealed overwhelming cultivation, setting the two against each other.

• Yang Yuanzhao deduced that the Seeking Dao Sect Leader had secretly arranged for the Molten Fire Sect to cultivate demonic methods and evade suspicion from the Demon Extermination Squad.
• Chen Huai'an sent Yang Yuanling and Yang Yuanzhao to hide outside the Daoist temple with Divine Concealment Talismans, then entered alone.
• Chen Huai'an claimed the Chen Clan had come to aid the Yan Clan and demanded to question the Seeking Dao Sect Leader about the Molten Fire Sect.
• The Seeking Dao Sect Leader explained that he had refused to join the Yan Clan because he wanted peace in his final years, but Chen Huai'an challenged his reasoning.
• The Seeking Dao Sect Leader realized Chen Huai'an was not merely a Chen Clan cultivator and accused him of coming alone too confidently.
• The Seeking Dao Sect Leader unleashed his cultivation, reaching Essence Condensation Perfection.

Chen Huai'an fought the Seeking Dao Sect Leader, whose Five Elements Rotation Art clashed with Chen Huai'an’s killing talisman and brought down the stone hall. The battle’s aftermath threatened the disciples below, but thick roots rose from the earth and caught the falling boulders.

• The Seeking Dao Sect Leader revealed his hidden cultivation and knocked out the two Seeking Dao Sect Core Formation Cultivators before attacking Chen Huai'an.
• Chen Huai'an blocked the Sect Leader’s spike spells with a turtle-shell spirit treasure and countered with water spells that disrupted his control.
• The Sect Leader restored his strength and began building power with the Five Elements Rotation Art, absorbing Chen Huai'an’s water attacks.
• Chen Huai'an activated a Void Severing killing talisman, and the talisman collided with the Sect Leader’s Five Elements wheel, collapsing the stone hall.
• Falling boulders endangered the Seeking Dao Sect disciples below, but thick roots burst from the ground and caught them.

Yang Yuanling and Yang Yuanzhao trapped the Seeking Dao Sect disciples while Chen Huai'an fought the old Daoist, who transformed into the hidden Old Devil. Chen Huai'an revealed that he had lured the Old Devil out, then withstood his powerful blood-shadow attack without moving.

• Yang Yuanling ordered the survivors to flee, while Yang Yuanzhao used a fire wall to keep the Seeking Dao Sect disciples trapped inside the Daoist temple.
• The old Daoist overwhelmed Chen Huai'an with the Five Elements Wheel, but Chen Huai'an used a substitute escape technique and struck him from behind.
• Chen Huai'an restrained the old Daoist and demanded that he reveal his accomplices, but a demonic aura took control of the man's body.
• The Old Devil revived the old Daoist's severed body, reached Early-Spiritual Connection Realm, and seized Chen Huai'an, intending to take his body.
• Chen Huai'an revealed that he had lured the Old Devil out, then remained unharmed after the Old Devil unleashed a blood-shadow killing technique.

Chen Huai'an killed Old Devil after stopping his escape and absorbing the remnants of his Primordial Spirit. He then joined Yang Yuanzhao and Yang Yuanling on the way to the Molten Fire Sect, where they discovered Azure Flame might be refining the sect’s cultivators.

• Old Devil severed an arm and fled, but Chen Huai'an trapped him in a gale and rainstorm while manifesting as an azure dragon.
• Chen Huai'an crushed Old Devil's body, and Old Devil's Primordial Spirit detonated inside him; Chen Huai'an absorbed its remaining soul force with the Spirit Pearl.
• Chen Huai'an returned to the Daoist temple, where Yang Yuanzhao and Yang Yuanling reported that they had killed the two remaining demonic cultivators.
• The three set out for the Molten Fire Sect, and Yang Yuanzhao observed that Azure Flame seemed to be refining people rather than being cultivated by them.
• Yang Yuanzhao proposed that Old Devil had planned to sacrifice the Molten Fire Sect or subdue Azure Flame after it consumed the sect; the three decided to look for survivors.

Yang Yuanzhao, Chen Huai'an, and Yang Yuanling worked together to draw the Azure Flame away from the Molten Fire Sect's injured cultivators and replace it with golden fire. Yang Yuanzhao trapped the Azure Flame Fire Spirit and forced it to abandon its host, leaving the spirit drawn toward Yang Yuanling's deadwood.

• Chen Huai'an summoned rain to suppress the Azure Flame while Yang Yuanling used buried deadwood to draw its flames away from the Molten Fire Sect.
• Yang Yuanzhao planted golden flame sparks in the Azure Flame spreading across the deadwood, allowing them to grow and challenge the fire spirit.
• The Azure Flame Fire Spirit attacked Yang Yuanzhao, but his two golden flame arms fought it while Chen Huai'an's rain and Yang Yuanling's wood art weakened it.
• Yang Yuanzhao entered the fire and found the Azure Flame Fire Spirit parasitizing a badly burned Molten Fire Sect cultivator who begged him to end his suffering.
• Chen Huai'an lent Yang Yuanzhao the bearing of a true dragon, and Yang Yuanzhao used a Golden Swimming Dragon to entangle the spirit.
• Unable to break free, the Azure Flame Fire Spirit abandoned its host and followed the Azure Flame onto Yang Yuanling's deadwood.