Chapter Summaries

Sang Ying encountered the blind prisoner Jiang Zhuoxue, who offered to heal her damaged Dantian in exchange for the Dragon Abyss Sword. After escaping his cave, she learned from Gu Shu that Jiang Zhuoxue was the notorious Blood-Robed Devil Dragon imprisoned by the Flowing Light Sword Sect's founding patriarch.

• A vine stole Sang Ying's food, and its chained master apologized before letting her leave.
• Gu Shu arrived to save Sang Ying, but Jiang Zhuoxue recognized the Dragon Abyss Sword and saw through Sang Ying's damaged Dantian.
• Jiang Zhuoxue offered to restore Sang Ying's cultivation if she gave him the Dragon Abyss Sword, and gave her three days to decide.
• Sang Ying returned to the wooden house and communicated with Gu Shu in writing to avoid Jiang Zhuoxue overhearing them.
• Gu Shu told Sang Ying that Jiang Zhuoxue was a devil dragon imprisoned by the Flowing Light Sword Sect's founding patriarch.

Sang Ying confronted Jiang Zhuoxue in his prison and used a Shared Fate Gu to make him share her injuries, forcing him to accept her terms. Jiang Zhuoxue agreed to heal her Dantian and take her out of the valley, while warning her that he feared pain.

• Sang Ying considered killing Jiang Zhuoxue, but Gu Shu warned that he was too powerful to challenge.
• After three days, Sang Ying followed the vine into the cave and asked Jiang Zhuoxue how quickly he could heal her Dantian.
• Sang Ying pretended to approach Jiang Zhuoxue's chains, then let a vine wound her while placing the child Shared Fate Gu on his chest.
• Sang Ying explained that the Gu made Jiang Zhuoxue share her injuries and death, and demanded that he heal her Dantian and take her out of the valley.
• Jiang Zhuoxue accepted Sang Ying's conditions and warned her that he was afraid of pain.

Sect Leader Meng recognized Gu Huaiwei and drove Su Fuyun and his guards out of the Plain Robe Pavilion, exposing his critical condition to the cultivation world. While Sang Zheng and Wen Miaoshu searched unsuccessfully for Sang Ying, she continued training in the valley with Jiang Zhuoxue, and Helian Mo failed again to reach her.

• Su Fuyun brought the gravely injured Gu Huaiwei to the Plain Robe Pavilion for treatment, but Sect Leader Meng recognized them and ordered Nan Gurong to expel them and refuse all Flowing Light Sword Sect patients.
• Nan Gurong publicly revealed Gu Huaiwei's identity and injury, prompting attacks on Su Fuyun's party as they sought treatment; Su Fuyun eventually took Gu Huaiwei to Fan Nanjun's Devil Realm for refuge.
• Sang Zheng and Wen Miaoshu learned that Sang Ying had been framed by Su Fuyun, but repeated attempts to reach the bottom of the fissure failed, and they chose to keep searching for their daughter.
• Sang Ying continued practicing swordsmanship under Jiang Zhuoxue's guidance, while he asked her to free him from his chains and sensed someone trying to descend into the valley.
• Helian Mo failed for the eighth time to enter the fissure and vowed to find Sang Ying and apologize to her.

Sang Ying returned to the cave after hunting Devil Beasts and asked Jiang Zhuoxue to repair her Dantian. She agreed to cut one of his chains but refused to free him completely, and Jiang Zhuoxue accepted the arrangement.

• Sang Ying and Gu Shu retreated to the cave after Sang Ying ran low on spiritual power while fighting Devil Beasts.
• Gu Shu asked whether Sang Ying was ready to have her Dantian repaired, and Sang Ying said she wanted Jiang Zhuoxue to begin.
• Jiang Zhuoxue said he needed to be freed before he could use his spiritual power to repair Sang Ying's Dantian.
• Sang Ying used Gu Shu to break one chain binding Jiang Zhuoxue, then insisted that one broken chain should be enough.
• Jiang Zhuoxue agreed to repair Sang Ying's Dantian while warning her to keep the upper hand.

Jiang Zhuoxue sealed Sang Ying’s shattered Dantian and taught her to open a Qi Vortex in her sea of consciousness, giving her another way to cultivate. Meanwhile, Fan Nanjun’s decision to shelter Gu Huaiwei after being wounded brought rival Devil generals to his palace, demanding an explanation.

• Jiang Zhuoxue explained that Sang Ying’s Dantian could no longer store Spiritual Qi, then offered to teach her to cultivate through other Qi Vortexes.
• Jiang Zhuoxue poured the method into Sang Ying’s sea of consciousness, and she passed out from the pain before waking with a new Qi Vortex.
• Sang Ying comforted Gu Shu, thanked Jiang Zhuoxue with a bottle of ointment, and left to stabilize her new Qi Vortex.
• Jiang Zhuoxue recognized the valuable spirit medicines in the ointment as his vine spread it across his lips.
• Fan Nanjun faced a surge of visitors after righteous-path cultivators, including Immortal Venerable Yanchen, appeared in his palace.
• Devil generals seeking Fan Nanjun’s position demanded an explanation for his injury, lost cultivation, and sheltering of Gu Huaiwei.

Fan Nanjun faced accusations from the Devil Race over keeping Gu Huaiwei and Su Fuyun in his palace, then Liu Wu broke in and demanded to know where Sang Ying was. After Liu Wu escaped, a hidden subordinate revealed that Su Fuyun’s body housed a jade pendant containing a woman who called herself Young Master and ordered him to take the body to her father.

• Fan Nanjun admitted that Gu Huaiwei and Su Fuyun were righteous cultivators but claimed he had captured them, and a female devil general challenged his explanation.
• A guard reported that Liu Wu had forced his way into the Devil Palace to find Su Fuyun, and Liu Wu fought through the guards to reach her.
• Liu Wu demanded to know where Sang Ying was, and Su Fuyun revealed that Sang Ying had jumped into a fissure after the sect master accused her of colluding with devils and threatened her Golden Core.
• Liu Wu knocked Su Fuyun unconscious and escaped, while Fan Nanjun was delayed by the devil generals and failed to notice another intruder.
• A hidden subordinate revealed himself in Su Fuyun’s room and addressed the jade pendant inside her as Young Master, who ordered him to take her body to her father.

As the Flowing Light Sword Sect’s disciples regretted how they had treated Sang Ying, she secretly cultivated in the forbidden grounds and quickly advanced toward Core Formation. Jiang Zhuoxue decided to leave and collect a debt, intending to take Sang Ying with him.

• Song Jiaojiao rebuked the disciples for doubting Sang Ying and reminded them that they had once joined in condemning her.
• A fellow disciple urged the crowd to be more careful and to apologize when Sang Ying returned.
• Sang Ying stabilized her cultivation at the Foundation Establishment Late Stage and expected to reach Core Formation soon.
• Sang Ying used a modified array to remove Demonic Qi from Devil Beast meat and promised to find Gu Shu a suitable body.
• Jiang Zhuoxue ate food taken from his vine and decided to go out to collect a debt, bringing Sang Ying along.

Sang Ying prepared to leave the valley with Jiang Zhuoxue so she could undergo Core Formation, while Helian Mo broke through the miasma and was captured by Jiang Zhuoxue. Helian Mo explained that he had come to find Sang Ying, and Jiang Zhuoxue offered to let them meet the next day.

• Sang Ying asked Jiang Zhuoxue to take her out of the valley so she could undergo her lightning tribulation, and he agreed to leave the next day.
• Sang Ying returned to her cabin and carved formation plates to prepare for possible danger after leaving the valley.
• Helian Mo forced his way through the miasma in his wolf form, but Jiang Zhuoxue's vines captured him and dragged him into the cave.
• Jiang Zhuoxue recognized Helian Mo as a member of the Helian Household and learned that he had come to find Sang Ying.
• Helian Mo admitted he felt guilty about his past treatment of Sang Ying and explained that he had escaped the Demon Emperor Palace to see her.
• Jiang Zhuoxue offered to let Helian Mo meet Sang Ying the next day, and Helian Mo eagerly accepted.

Sang Ying freed Jiang Zhuoxue, who transformed into a black dragon and carried her out of the collapsing rift. He took Sang Ying, the vine, and Gu Shu through a temporary tunnel to the Immortal Spirit Realm, leaving the Flowing Light Sword Sect behind.

• Sang Ying cut Jiang Zhuoxue's chains despite his questions about black wolf Demon Beasts.
• The valley shook as Jiang Zhuoxue vanished and a giant black wolf appeared, then a black dragon burst from the ruins.
• The black dragon dispersed the miasma and carried Sang Ying, the vine, and Gu Shu away from the collapsing rift while the black wolf pursued them.
• The dragon brought Sang Ying aboveground, where the Flowing Light Sword Sect disciples recognized her and marveled that she had tamed a dragon.
• Jiang Zhuoxue carried Sang Ying through a temporary tunnel as a figure raced after them, and the tunnel closed before he could reach them.
• Sang Zheng and Wen Miaoshu watched Sang Ying disappear, while a stele at the tunnel's far end identified their destination as the Immortal Spirit Realm.

Sang Ying awoke on an island in the Immortal Spirit Realm after falling through the tunnel with Jiang Zhuoxue, Gu Shu, and the vine. With Jiang Zhuoxue unconscious and the island isolated, she prepared to form her Golden Core so she could attempt to reach land.

• Sang Ying opened her Storage Bag, and Gu Shu and the vine emerged after the group had fallen into the sea.
• The vine led Sang Ying to Jiang Zhuoxue, who lay unconscious in a small, wounded black form with his scales, horn pieces, and claws missing.
• Sang Ying recognized the small world as the Immortal Spirit Realm and realized her Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivation left her at a disadvantage there.
• Sang Ying searched the barren island, cleared away dangerous Demon Beasts, and prepared a cave for the group to stay in.
• Sang Ying decided to undergo her Golden Core Lightning Tribulation on the island, then risk flying away to search for land.

Sang Ying endured the Golden Core tribulation on the island and formed a ten-marked Golden Core before recovering in the heavenly rain. Meanwhile, Fan Nanjun learned that Su Fuyun had vanished from the Devil Palace, unaware she had already been taken to the Immortal Spirit Realm.

• Gu Shu and the vine watched as Sang Ying faced forty-nine lightning bolts, with the final strike nearly overwhelming her.
• Sang Ying formed a Golden Core bearing ten markings and collapsed, but Gu Shu and the vine caught her.
• Heavenly rain healed Sang Ying's wounds and improved Jiang Zhuoxue's condition, and Sang Ying gathered seafood to celebrate her breakthrough.
• Fan Nanjun questioned a maid about Su Fuyun's disappearance and went to confront He Lianyi after hearing how the search had been delayed.
• Su Fuyun had already been secretly taken to the Immortal Spirit Realm to use her power to bewitch people's hearts.

After Sang Ying formed her core, Jiang Zhuoxue woke and arranged for a ship to take them from the island to the Immortal Spirit Realm, where Sang Ying learned about its major sects. Meanwhile, Sang Ying’s name climbed to fifteenth on the Heaven’s Chosen Ranking, drawing attention from powerful groups across several small worlds.

• Sang Ying laid down rules for Gu Shu and the vine before they left the island, and Jiang Zhuoxue woke, asked where she was taking them, then revealed that he wanted to reclaim things from old acquaintances.
• Jiang Zhuoxue told Sang Ying that a ship would arrive the next day, and he asked her to conceal his identity from its crew.
• Sang Ying boarded the ship and met Jiang Haisheng, who explained the Immortal Spirit Realm’s three prefectures, major sects, and inter-sect competition.
• Cultivators watching the Heaven’s Chosen Ranking saw Sang Ying rise from one hundredth place to fifteenth, and her name attracted the notice of powerful groups in several small worlds.

Sang Ying arrived in Golden Sea City, where Jiang Haisheng helped her find lodging before returning home. After settling in with Jiang Zhuoxue and naming the vine Green Vine, Sang Ying planned to buy a new spirit sword, but Jiang Zhuoxue insisted he could forge one for her.

• Jiang Haisheng brought Sang Ying ashore in Golden Sea City and explained that sea-beast materials were widely used to craft artifacts and pills.
• Jiang Haisheng found Sang Ying a place to stay and urged her to come back to the Jiang Household, but she refused and sent him home with a sixth-tier sea beast's bones as payment for passage.
• Jiang Haisheng left Sang Ying an atlas of the Immortal Spirit Realm's powers before departing, and Sang Ying secured the courtyard with formations.
• Jiang Zhuoxue complained that Sang Ying had paid Jiang Haisheng with beast bones, while Sang Ying planted the vine in the courtyard and named it Green Vine.
• Sang Ying told Jiang Zhuoxue she needed to buy a spirit sword, and he offered to forge one, but she doubted he could do it in his little snake form.

Sang Ying went to All Under Heaven Pavilion to buy a spirit sword, where the supposedly temperamental swords all flocked to her. The pavilion’s sword king chose her too, attaching itself to her belt as the shopkeeper and a customer stared in disbelief.

• Sang Ying sold her sea beast materials in Golden Sea City and replenished her Storage Bag.
• Jiang Zhuoxue directed Sang Ying to All Under Heaven Pavilion to look for a spirit sword.
• At the pavilion, the shopkeeper explained that its swords chose their owners and boasted that no one could force them to go along.
• When Sang Ying entered the third floor, the spirit swords awoke and crowded around her.
• The sword king flew to Sang Ying and wedged itself into her belt, silencing the other swords.

Sang Ying accepted Floating River after it chose her, and the All Under Heaven Pavilion’s shopkeeper invited her to an upcoming auction. Jiang Zhuoxue showed unusual interest in the event and offered her his Spirit Stones, while the shopkeeper told his master about Sang Ying and Floating River.

• The shopkeeper explained that Floating River was the All Under Heaven Pavilion’s Sword King, but it returned to Sang Ying when she tried to give it back.
• The shopkeeper confirmed that Floating River belonged to Sang Ying and invited her to the pavilion’s auction in Golden Sea City.
• Jiang Zhuoxue asked Sang Ying to take him to the auction and gave her his Storage Bag of Spirit Stones to use there.
• The shopkeeper reported to his master that Floating River had chosen Sang Ying, and his master ordered him to watch over her and help if she encountered trouble.

Hai Tingzhou and Fang Chi learned that Sang Ying had risen to fifteenth on the Heaven's Chosen Ranking, inspiring Fang Chi to train harder. Sang Ying prepared for a mysterious auction and entered its venue with Jiang Zhuoxue and her two swords.

• Hai Tingzhou found Sang Ying ranked fifteenth on the Heaven's Chosen Ranking and showed the roster to City Lord Hai.
• Fang Chi saw Sang Ying's name on the roster and left to practice her saber so she could catch up to her.
• Sang Ying accepted Jiang Zhuoxue's Storage Bag and asked about the auction's powerful hosts, the Jimo Household.
• Sang Ying soothed Green Vine and set out with Jiang Zhuoxue, Gu Shu, and Floating River.
• Sang Ying presented her invitation at the unremarkable shop, received a jade token, and entered through the door to be shown to her private room.

Sang Ying attended the All Under Heaven Pavilion auction and watched its first two finale items draw fierce bidding. The third finale item appeared, but its identity remained unknown.

• Sang Ying entered the auction house, received a catalog from Xiao Lan, and took a private room on the third floor.
• Jimo Huan opened the auction with a Thousand-Year Ice Lotus, which sold for a high price after Sang Ying declined to bid.
• Sang Ying watched dozens of treasures sell and saw Jimo Huan have two fighting cultivators removed from the auction.
• Jimo Huan presented a ninth-grade Spirit Explosion Pill, and Jiang Zhuoxue warned Sang Ying it could cause Qi Deviation despite raising cultivation by one minor stage.
• A cultivator swallowed a demonstration pill and advanced from Nascent Soul Middle Stage to Nascent Soul Late Stage; the auctioned pill sold for ten thousand Spirit Crystals.
• The Ten-Thousand-Year Lifespan Fruit sold after intense bidding, and the third finale item appeared.

At the auction, Sang Ying learned that the gilded invitation offered access to a feast where a dragon would be slain, recalling Jiang Zhuoxue’s own brutal past. She won the invitation for eighty thousand Spirit Crystals, leaving her expecting a dangerous pursuit.

• Jimo Huan announced that the Gong Household was auctioning an invitation to its dragon-slaying feast, where a flood dragon with a Dragon Pearl would be hunted.
• Jiang Zhuoxue revealed that he had once been the young dragon hunted and stripped of his treasures, and Sang Ying asked whether he had enough Spirit Stones to bid.
• Sang Ying entered the bidding and raised her offer past Cui Shu, an elder of the Imperial Ultimate Sect who offered her three favors to yield the invitation.
• Sang Ying bid eighty thousand Spirit Crystals and won the invitation, then realized she could no longer safely remain in her courtyard.

Sang Ying escaped the auction through a concealed entrance, disguised herself with Jiang Zhuoxue’s help, and used the Floating River Sword and a fabricated noble identity to scare off Cui Shu’s men. She then apologized to the All Under Heaven Pavilion for invoking the Jimo Household’s name, while two watchers noticed her connection to the pavilion and went to report it.

• Sang Ying paid Xiao Lan, learned the Storage Bag held millions of Spirit Crystals, and escaped the auction through a concealed side entrance.
• Sang Ying changed her appearance and clothes, and Jiang Zhuoxue concealed her transformation at the cost of weakening himself.
• Two Imperial Ultimate Sect cultivators tried to bring Sang Ying to Cui Shu, but she invoked Jimo Huan and threatened them with her family’s power, prompting them to retreat.
• Sang Ying visited the All Under Heaven Pavilion and gave its shopkeeper a jade box as an apology for borrowing the Jimo Household’s name.
• Two people watched the shopkeeper respectfully see Sang Ying off and hurried away to report what they had seen.

Sang Ying learned why the Gong Household planned to hold its dragon-slaying event in Yao Zhou and agreed to travel there with Jiang Zhuoxue. Meanwhile, Cui Shu suspected she was connected to the Jimo Household, while the All Under Heaven Pavilion’s master accepted her Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Lotus and identified her as the Jimo Household’s eldest young lady.

• Jiang Zhuoxue explained that the Gong Household chose Yao Zhou for the dragon-slaying event because the Mara Gate would not interfere, and Sang Ying suggested they travel there early.
• After Sang Ying escorted Jiang Zhuoxue to his room, he remembered her kindness and wished he could keep her with him forever.
• Cui Shu heard that Sang Ying carried the Floating River Sword and was respected by the All Under Heaven Pavilion, then ordered his attendants to keep watching her.
• The shopkeeper told his master that Sang Ying had sent a thank-you gift, and they discovered it was a Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Lotus.
• The master accepted the Ice Lotus and said Sang Ying was the Jimo Household’s eldest young lady.