Chapter Summaries

Su Changge used the Jade Pendant’s hidden Divine Sense to terrify Ghost Tooth Old Ancestor, who realized the young man could threaten the entire Yellow Springs Realm. The chapter left Ghost Tooth Old Ancestor beating his grandson Zang Wushen and forcing him to apologize to Su Changge.

• Ghost Tooth Old Ancestor sensed the power hidden in Su Changge’s Jade Pendant and returned it respectfully, calling Su Changge “my lord.”
• Zang Wushen accused Su Changge of using dark arts and demanded that Ghost Tooth Old Ancestor punish him.
• Ghost Tooth Old Ancestor slapped Zang Wushen and beat him repeatedly for offending Su Changge.
• Ghost Tooth Old Ancestor dragged Zang Wushen before Su Changge and forced him to kowtow and apologize.

Su Changge accepted Ghost Tooth Old Ancestor’s apology and settled the dispute with the Burial Earth Royal Clan. The Soul Enchantress arrived and tried to charm him, but he saw through her act and threatened to kill her if she did not leave.

• Ghost Tooth Old Ancestor made Zang Wushen kowtow and thank Su Changge for his magnanimity.
• Several clans offered to host Su Changge, but Ghost Tooth Old Ancestor drove them away and declared that the Burial Earth Royal Clan would handle his visit.
• The Soul Enchantress of Fallen Soul Valley arrived and eyed Su Changge’s vital essence, intending to absorb it.
• The Soul Enchantress flirted with Su Changge, then feigned innocence when he called her a lustful vixen.
• Zang Wushen recognized the Soul Enchantress’s act and recalled that she had deceived him before.
• Su Changge dismissed her performance and threatened to kill her if she did not leave.

Su Changge drove the Soul Enchantress away and traveled with Luo Yan Yu and Tang Wu'er to Nine Burials City, where the Burial Earth Royal Clan welcomed him. At Mountain Treasure Pavilion, he noticed a Music Dao Gathering banner before Gui Wuya confronted him.

• Su Changge threatened the Soul Enchantress, who fled and vowed to claim his vital essence later.
• Ghost Tooth Old Ancestor took Su Changge and the women by flying boat to Nine Burials City, then provided a nine-dragon carriage.
• Luo Yan Yu questioned Su Changge about his identity, but accepted his claim that he was Su Wei.
• Su Changge arrived at Mountain Treasure Pavilion and noticed its Music Dao Gathering banner.
• Gui Wuya mocked Su Changge, and Zang Wushen warily asked why he had left Ghost Boat Mountain.

Su Changge went to the Mountain Treasure Pavilion after learning its Music Dao Gathering might reveal a map of Nine Burials Sword Mountain’s outskirts. After the pavilion’s host refused to let him join, Xue Meiyan intervened and allowed him to participate.

• Gui Wuya mocked Su Changge and called Luo Yan Yu and Tang Wu'er his concubines, prompting Su Changge to insult him and head for the Music Dao Gathering with Zang Wushen.
• At the Mountain Treasure Pavilion, the gathered young men noticed Su Changge and his companions, while Xue Meiyan watched him from a chamber and wondered about his mysterious aura.
• Su Changge asked to join the Music Dao Gathering, but the host refused because registration had closed and rejected Ghost Tooth Old Ancestor’s appeal to the pavilion master.
• After spectators jeered at Su Changge for seeking special treatment, Xue Meiyan ordered that he be allowed to participate, and the host immediately changed his tune.

Su Changge played the ancient lyre, revealing through his music visions of his battles, ambitions, and future, leaving the Music Dao Gathering in awe. The Mountain Treasure Pavilion Master recognized the music’s resemblance to Yu Jun and resolved that he could now join his beloved in Nine Burials Sword Mountain.

• Su Changge learned that performers qualified by earning the Mountain Treasure Pavilion Master's approval and went up to the Music Dao Platform despite the crowd's mockery.
• Su Changge played the ancient lyre, drawing on the Immortal Man's legacy and imagining his future path toward peerlessness and the Immortal Path.
• Su Changge's music conjured a brutal battlefield and a vision of a young cultivator commanding armies, while the audience felt they were witnessing his legendary past.
• Su Changge finished playing and saw a White-Clad Figure in the void, who smiled as Su Changge said, "We will meet again."
• The Mountain Treasure Pavilion Master mistook the vision for a reminder of Yu Jun, then said he could now go to Nine Burials Sword Mountain and keep his beloved company.

Su Changge impressed the Mountain Treasure Pavilion Master with his interpretation of a carved plum blossom and bird, and learned she wanted his help entering Nine Burials Sword Mountain. She offered him the entire Mountain Treasure Pavilion if he could help her find the person she yearned for.

• Gui Wuya offered to protect Su Changge, but the Mountain Treasure Pavilion Master declared him an enemy and ordered guards to slap him ten thousand times and expel him.
• The Mountain Treasure Pavilion Master summoned Su Changge to her chamber, and he followed the host upstairs while the others waited outside.
• Su Changge noticed that the door’s plum blossom withered and its bird disappeared when it opened, then interpreted the carvings as symbols of two lovers separated by death and grief.
• The Mountain Treasure Pavilion Master confirmed Su Changge’s interpretation and said she had held the Music Dao Gathering to find someone who could help her enter the deepest reaches of Nine Burials Sword Mountain.
• The Mountain Treasure Pavilion Master told Su Changge she wanted to find the person she yearned for and offered him the entire Mountain Treasure Pavilion if he helped her.

Su Changge agreed to take the Mountain Treasure Pavilion Master into Nine Burials Sword Mountain to search for the missing person he loved, in return for the Pavilion Master accepting a mark in his sea of consciousness. After the Ghost God Hall Master sent Lan Xin to seek an ancestor’s relic, Su Changge opened a path through the mountain’s death-qi barrier, and the Pavilion Master prepared to reunite with Yu Jun.

• The Mountain Treasure Pavilion Master told Su Changge how a flying bird had saved a plum blossom, then vanished after entering Nine Burials Sword Mountain, and offered him the entire pavilion to help find him.
• Su Changge required the Mountain Treasure Pavilion Master to accept a life-controlling mark before agreeing to lead him into the mountain, and the Pavilion Master consented.
• Several days later, Su Changge set out with Tang Wu'er and the Mountain Treasure Pavilion Master after Luo Yan Yu departed and the Burial Earth Royal Clan left him a token.
• The Ghost God Hall Master sensed a purer-than-ghost-god aura and sent Faction Leader Lan Xin with the Ghost God Compass to locate the ancestor’s relic.
• At Nine Burials Sword Mountain, the Mountain Treasure Pavilion Master explained the legend of the Ghost Sword Immortal and the Nine Burials Sword Soul Melody.
• Su Changge unleashed sword qi that tore open the death-qi barrier and kept it from closing, while the Mountain Treasure Pavilion Master thought of Yu Jun and said he could finally be with him.

Su Changge destroyed a Titan Ghost Serpent in Nine Burials Sword Mountain and recovered an ancient metal fragment bearing a reference to the Heavenly Revelation Mechanism Sect. The inscription linked the fragment to the same civilization as a bronze beast from Heaven’s Secret Island, leaving Su Changge wondering how the sect’s relics had reached the Yellow Springs Realm.

• Ghosts emerged from the black mist and attacked Su Changge, followed by a Titan Ghost Serpent that the Mountain Treasure Pavilion Master feared would threaten him.
• Su Changge told the Mountain Treasure Pavilion Master to wait, then cut into the serpent with a sword and detonated the sword qi inside it, killing the beast.
• The attacking ghosts fled, and the Mountain Treasure Pavilion Master was astonished that Su Changge had slain a Supreme Saint Realm creature.
• Su Changge found a metal fragment among the serpent’s remains and asked the Mountain Treasure Pavilion Master to interpret its inscription.
• The Mountain Treasure Pavilion Master identified ancient Yellow Springs writing that appeared to mention the Heavenly Revelation Mechanism Sect, prompting Su Changge to question why its relics were in Yellow Springs.

Su Changge and his companions discovered that the corpses inside Nine Burials Sword Mountain belonged to the Heavenly Revelation Mechanism Sect and encountered a mechanical Reincarnation Other Shore Flower that had become a hostile woman. As tens of thousands of corpses rose to attack them, Gui Wuya followed in hopes of taking their opportunities, while Branch Master Lan Xin secretly tracked the group.

• Fallen Soul Woman persuaded Gui Wuya to pursue Su Changge, and Gui Wuya vowed to avenge his public humiliation.
• Su Changge’s group entered Nine Burials Sword Mountain, fought vicious ghosts, and found a valley filled with corpses wearing Heavenly Revelation Mechanism Sect clothing.
• A bronze Reincarnation Other Shore Flower bloomed and formed a red-clad woman who accused the sect of creating her and ordered the corpses to kill the intruders.
• Gui Wuya urged his companions to follow Su Changge and seize the Ghost Sword Immortal’s Nine Burials Sword Box or the Nine Burials Sword Soul Melody.
• Branch Master Lan Xin followed the group with the Ghost God Compass and considered whether to kill the people from Ghost Boat Mountain and Fallen Soul Valley.

Su Changge destroyed the Undead Army and fought the Red-Clad Woman, who escaped after revealing strange mechanical gears in her eyes. He and his companions reached the stone gate leading into Nine Burials Sword Mountain, while Gui Wuya and the others plotted an ambush from the shadows.

• Su Changge wiped out the Undead Army with a sword strike and a punch, then attacked the Red-Clad Woman with his Dragon Elephant Overlord Fist.
• The Red-Clad Woman blocked Su Changge's punch with a shield of Other Shore Flower petals, escaped amid a burst of divine light, and warned that humans would pay for their mistakes.
• Su Changge noticed mechanical gears and a symbol in the Red-Clad Woman's pupils, then told the Mountain Treasure Pavilion Master that he had sensed old acquaintances from the Yellow Springs Realm hiding nearby.
• Gui Wuya and the Fallen Soul Woman watched Su Changge's battle from behind a boulder, and Gui Wuya resolved to ambush him and deliver a fatal blow.
• Su Changge and his companions reached an enormous stone gate that required a particular ancient melody to open, and the Mountain Treasure Pavilion Master grew emotional at the thought of the person beyond it.

Su Changge played the ancient melody to open the enormous stone gate, unleashing a horde of vengeful ghosts that he destroyed with his zither music. With the gate fully open and the ghosts gone, he noticed Gui Wuya, Lan Xin, and the others hiding nearby and invited them to meet him.

• Su Changge used the melody he had learned from the Mountain Treasure Pavilion Master to awaken the stone gate and summon an Ancient Zither.
• Vengeful ghosts emerged and attacked Su Changge, but he shattered them with powerful Zither Soundstorms.
• The stone gate opened wider, releasing an even more terrifying horde of ghosts, while Gui Wuya and his companions watched in fear and planned to ambush Su Changge amid the chaos.
• Su Changge’s music annihilated the ghosts and suppressed the onlookers until the gate stood fully open and the area fell quiet.
• Su Changge stopped playing, spotted the people hiding in the shadows, and invited them to come out so he could play for them.

Su Changge killed Gui Wuya, the Fallen Soul Woman, and their followers after they tried to ambush him in the Yellow Springs Realm. Branch Master Lan Xin secretly sent signals from the corpses to stir their factions against Su Changge over the Ghost God relic.

• Su Changge detected Gui Wuya and his followers hiding nearby, then killed the weaker experts with attacks formed from musical notes.
• Gui Wuya attacked Su Changge with his sword, but Su Changge decapitated him and killed the remaining followers.
• Su Changge killed the Fallen Soul Woman despite her appeal to her status as a successor of Fallen Soul Valley.
• The Mountain Treasure Pavilion Master left with Su Changge, shaken by how easily he had defeated the renowned prodigies.
• Branch Master Lan Xin emerged after they had gone and used the corpses to send signals toward their sects, blaming Su Changge’s possession of the Ghost God relic.

After the heirs of Ghost Boat Mountain and Fallen Soul Valley were killed, Luo Yan Yu decided to seek out Su Wei and offer her help. Meanwhile, the Mountain Treasure Pavilion Master reunited with Yu Jun’s remains, gave Su Changge his pavilion token and a bronze compass, and played a final song as he vanished into a snowy vision of their memories.

• Ghost Boat Mountain and Fallen Soul Valley learned their heirs had been killed and sent people to search for the culprit, while rumors linked the deaths to someone close to the Burial Earth Royal Clan.
• Luo Yan Yu heard that the dead heirs had offended Su Wei and decided to find him and earn his favor by helping him.
• Beyond the stone gate, the Mountain Treasure Pavilion Master recognized Yu Jun’s skeleton and mourned over the unfinished message beside it.
• The Mountain Treasure Pavilion Master gave Su Changge the Mountain Treasure Pavilion Master Token and the bronze compass, then stayed behind with Yu Jun’s remains.
• The Mountain Treasure Pavilion Master played Yu Jun’s ancient flute, saw him in a snowy vision, and disappeared beneath the snow as Su Changge continued onward.

Su Changge reached the sword graveyard at the center of Nine Burials Sword Mountain and discovered Lan Xin had been following him for the Ghost God Eye. He attacked her, and the chapter ended as she tried to defend against his Dragon Qi-infused Sky Breaking Overlord Fist.

• Su Changge and Tang Wu'er reached the central region of Nine Burials Sword Mountain, where countless ancient swords filled the mountains.
• Su Changge asked the system how to complete his mission, and it told him to throw the Ghost God Eye into an ancient well.
• Su Changge drew out the Ghost God Eye, sensed Lan Xin's presence, and attacked her with sword Qi.
• Lan Xin demanded that Su Changge return the Ghost God Eye and revealed her peak Supreme Saint Realm strength as a Branch Master of Ghost God Hall.
• Su Changge countered Lan Xin's Ghost God Hand with a massive golden palm, then appeared behind her and launched his Sky Breaking Overlord Fist infused with Dragon Qi.

Su Changge killed Lan Xin after suppressing her Nether Eye, while Tang Wu'er purified the Ghost Qi around them. The Ghost God Hall dispatched forces to Nine Burials Sword Mountain, where Lan Xin's shattered Ghost God Compass revealed a bronze coffin.

• Lan Xin unleashed her Nether Eye and Ghost God techniques, but Su Changge's awakened Saintly Body scattered her Vengeful Ghosts and evaporated the Ghost Qi.
• Tang Wu'er purified the Ghost Qi Lan Xin tried to gather, and Su Changge killed Lan Xin with a streak of sword qi.
• The Ghost God Hall Master learned that Lan Xin had died and ordered Jiu Yuan, Bai Chi, An Shang, and Tian Yu to lead thirty thousand Ghost Grief Army troops to Nine Burials Sword Mountain.
• Lan Xin's shattered Ghost God Compass released Ghost Qi that collapsed a black mountain in the Sword Burial Ground, revealing a bronze coffin that Su Changge recognized.

Su Changge and Tang Wu'er opened the Bronze Coffin and awakened the Sword-Bearing Old Man, who sought to seize Su Changge's body. Su Changge fought back, cutting apart the old man's Ancient Sword Storm, and the clash remained unresolved.

• The Bronze Coffin opened, and the Sword-Bearing Old Man emerged after countless ages.
• The Sword-Bearing Old Man sensed Su Changge's powerful qi and blood and declared that he would make him his new body.
• Su Changge attacked with a blazing sword strike and Heaven Flipping Palm, but the Sword-Bearing Old Man remained unharmed.
• The Sword-Bearing Old Man summoned the ancient swords buried in the Sword Burial Ground and sent them against Su Changge.
• Su Changge drew the Azure Heaven Sword and cut through the Ancient Sword Storm with a flowing sword strike.
• Su Changge appeared before the Sword-Bearing Old Man and unleashed another strike that tore apart the remaining sword storm.

Su Changge’s battle with the Sword-Bearing Old Man awakened the old swordsman’s memories and restored his identity as the Ghost Sword Immortal’s disciple. Before their fight could conclude, a spear-wielding man and a black-robed archer ambushed Su Changge, leaving him surrounded by new threats.

• Su Changge struck the Sword-Bearing Old Man into a mountain, and the wound on the old man’s neck stirred memories of the Ghost Sword Immortal and his death.
• The Sword-Bearing Old Man remembered that he was the Ghost Sword Immortal’s Sword-Holding Disciple, summoned his ancient sword, and clashed with Su Changge.
• Su Changge’s sword attacks overwhelmed the Sword-Bearing Old Man and sent him flying.
• Su Changge rescued Tang Wu'er and struck at a dark corner, where a man with a pitch-black spear emerged and mentioned Lan Xin’s death.
• The spear-wielding man attacked Su Changge with a ground spike, while a black-robed woman drew her bow and threatened him with an arrow.

Su Changge and Tang Wu'er were surrounded by Ghost God Hall’s forces, but the Sword-Bearing Old Man and Su Changge struck back. Su Changge’s decisive sword attack wounded Jiu Yuan as the battle continued.

• An Shang ambushed Su Changge, but his attack failed to pierce Su Changge’s skin, and Su Changge counterattacked while Tang Wu'er summoned the Blood Demon Dragon.
• Jiu Yuan, Bai Chi, Tian Yu, and An Shang revealed themselves as Ghost God Hall Branch Masters and ordered their army to capture Su Changge.
• The Sword-Bearing Old Man challenged Ghost God Hall and used the swords embedded in the mountain to kill large numbers of the Ghost Grief Army.
• Su Changge killed An Shang as An Shang moved to attack the Sword-Bearing Old Man.
• Jiu Yuan attacked Su Changge, who countered with a decisive sword stroke that opened a bloody wound in Jiu Yuan’s chest.

Su Changge faced Jiu Yuan and the Ghost Grief Army in the Sword Burial Ground, defeating their combined attacks with two sword strikes. Jiu Yuan fell, Bai Chi and Tian Yu were wounded, and the Ghost Grief Army was annihilated.

• Jiu Yuan charged Su Changge after recovering, while Bai Chi and Tian Yu led the remaining Ghost Grief Army into an attack.
• The Ghost Grief Army formed the Profound Nether Candle Dragon Formation, but Su Changge summoned the Bronze Ancient Swords and crushed the formation and its soldiers with Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin.
• Jiu Yuan, Bai Chi, and Tian Yu launched further attacks, while Tang Wu'er tried to send the Blood Demon Dragon to help Su Changge.
• Su Changge used Sword Opens the Heavens to sever Jiu Yuan's spear and devastate his body, while Bai Chi and Tian Yu fell wounded.
• Su Changge's sword light cut down the remaining Ghost Grief Army, leaving no soldiers standing around him.

Su Changge defeated the Ghost God Hall’s Branch Masters inside Nine Burials Sword Mountain as powerful forces gathered outside to capture him. As the Sword-Bearing Old Man warned that escaping the siege would be a difficult second trial, Su Changge took out the Ghost God Eye and dismissed comparisons to the Ghost Sword Immortal.

• Su Changge snapped his fingers and killed Bai Chi and Tian Yu with sword qi already inside their bodies.
• Su Changge asked the Sword-Bearing Old Man for another fight, but the old man said he would wait until Su Changge survived a second round.
• Heart-Extinguishing Old Ancestor and Soul Heaven Old Ancestor surrounded Nine Burials Sword Mountain with their forces and demanded that Su Wei surrender.
• Gu Feng arrived and offered to protect Su Wei, claiming Ghost Boat Mountain and Fallen Soul Valley could not harm him.
• The Sword-Bearing Old Man warned Su Changge that the siege would be a bitter battle and recalled how difficult it would have been even for the young Ghost Sword Immortal.
• Su Changge took out the Ghost God Eye and said the Ghost Sword Immortal’s limits had nothing to do with him.