Chapter Summaries

The Evil Sword Ancestor led the Blood Sea Hall to Broken Sword Pass and demanded the Dongli Dynasty’s surrender, while Emperor Dongli was revealed to be absent. As the defenders faced an overwhelming enemy, Lu Changsheng synthesized a Mystic-Grade supreme treasure, the Jinghua Bell.

• The Evil Sword Ancestor arrived at Broken Sword Pass with the Blood Sea Hall and used his pressure to shake the pass and frighten its 800,000 defenders.
• Saint Zou eased the Evil Sword Ancestor’s oppression with Righteous Qi, while the First Prince tried to reassure the defenders that Emperor Dongli would arrive.
• The Evil Sword Ancestor revealed that Emperor Dongli’s messenger had been captured and claimed his blood pill power made him stronger than Emperor Dongli.
• The Evil Sword Ancestor struck the First Prince with a Demon Sword, severing one of his arms and deepening the defenders’ despair.
• Lu Changsheng spent 200 supreme treasure fragments to synthesize the Mystic-Grade supreme treasure Jinghua Bell.

Patriarch Evil Sword overwhelmed the eldest prince and Saint Zou at Broken Sword Pass, until Saint Zou unleashed the Divine Stele Suppress Evil Text. The divine stele smashed Patriarch Evil Sword into the earth, while Lu Changsheng’s formation shielded parts of the pass from the devastation.

• Patriarch Evil Sword pressed the eldest prince with repeated Demon Sword attacks, and Saint Zou stepped in to protect him.
• Saint Zou blocked Patriarch Evil Sword’s attacks with a golden barrier, but his Saint King Sword Intent could not fully withstand the Severed Thoughts Evil Sword.
• The Dongli Emperor sensed the immense power gathering to the south and flew toward Broken Sword Pass.
• Saint Zou unfurled the Divine Stele Suppress Evil Text and formed a towering stele of Righteous Qi, then drove it down against Patriarch Evil Sword’s Nine Underworlds Sword Formation.
• Lu Changsheng sent out one hundred and eight Talismans to protect Broken Sword Pass as the divine stele crushed Patriarch Evil Sword and the surrounding land collapsed.

Saint Zou’s Divine Stele Suppress Evil Text failed to contain the Evil Sword Ancestor, who broke free by briefly advancing to the Sixth Grade. Lu Changsheng stepped in and matched the weakened Seventh-Grade swordsman in a fierce duel, then brought out a bronze bell.

• Saint Zou used the Divine Stele Suppress Evil Text and, with Righteous Qi from the Eastern Sea Academy disciples, forced the golden stele down onto the Evil Sword Ancestor.
• The Evil Sword Ancestor invoked the No-Self Great Method to break the stele, briefly reach the Sixth Grade, and then fall back to the Seventh Grade after paying a heavy price.
• Lu Changsheng recognized the Evil Sword Ancestor’s weakened state as the Demon threatened Saint Zou and Yao Huang’s son.
• Lu Changsheng rejected the First Prince’s warning, teleported forward, and clashed swords with the Evil Sword Ancestor using the Nine Taichu Forms.
• Lu Changsheng produced a bronze bell and rang it, sending an invisible ripple outward.

Patriarch Evil Sword overcame Lu Changsheng, slaughtered the defenders at Broken Sword Pass, and captured the eldest prince. After refining a Supreme Blood Pill, he broke through to Sixth-Grade Great Expert and prepared to take revenge on Emperor Dongli, Yao Huang.

• Lu Changsheng used the Jinghua Bell's mental attack, but Patriarch Evil Sword blocked it with the Demon-Warding Banner and countered with the Selfless Demon Sword.
• Patriarch Evil Sword broke Lu Changsheng's One Sword Across the Ages and killed him, then killed Lin Qingzhi, Lu Qinglian, Daoist Tuquan, and Lu Changsheng's other disciples.
• Patriarch Evil Sword's forces massacred the Xiuzhenzhe at Broken Sword Pass, while Patriarch Evil Sword killed Saint Zou and captured the eldest prince in a Demon Banner.
• Patriarch Evil Sword refined the survivors into Blood Pills and swallowed a Supreme Blood Pill, gaining insight that let him attempt a breakthrough.
• After three days of seclusion, Patriarch Evil Sword emerged as a Sixth-Grade Great Expert and vowed to make Emperor Dongli, Yao Huang, suffer.

Ancestor Evil Sword believed he had defeated Emperor Dongli and avenged his old grudge, but Lu Changsheng revealed that the battle had been an illusion created by the Jinghua Bell. With Emperor Dongli facing Ancestor Evil Sword for real, Lu Changsheng left the two to settle their feud.

• Ancestor Evil Sword used his imagined breakthrough in power to defeat Emperor Dongli, damage his Dao Seal, and imprison him and the First Prince in the Demon Banner.
• Ancestor Evil Sword imagined that avenging his grudge had dispelled his heart demon and would soon make him powerful enough to rival the Blood Sea Hall Master or Devil Master.
• Emperor Dongli appeared unharmed, and Ancestor Evil Sword discovered that the Demon Banner was empty while everyone he thought dead remained alive.
• Lu Changsheng explained that the Jinghua Bell had trapped Ancestor Evil Sword in an illusion from the moment he heard it.
• Enraged by the humiliation, Ancestor Evil Sword attacked Emperor Dongli with Human-Sword Unity, but Emperor Dongli formed a Sword Domain and a golden mountain of swords.
• Lu Changsheng judged that Emperor Dongli could handle Ancestor Evil Sword and chose not to interfere.

Emperor Dongli killed Patriarch Evil Sword and thanked Lu Changsheng for helping save the Dongli Dynasty. Lu Changsheng accepted an invitation to visit the Eastern Sea Academy, whose location was said to guard an ancient tomb beneath the sea.

• Emperor Dongli defeated Patriarch Evil Sword and killed him with the Thirteen Swords of the Fire Python.
• The Dongli Dynasty's imperial guard and Xiuzhenzhe pursued the fleeing Blood Sea Hall demons.
• Emperor Dongli thanked Lu Changsheng and gave him a bag of powerful Medicinal Pills, which Lu Changsheng accepted.
• Saint Zou warned that the Blood Sea Hall threatened the Three Realms, and Emperor Dongli resolved to move the Dongli Dynasty's people to the Taisu Holy Land.
• Saint Zou invited Lu Changsheng to the Eastern Sea Academy, and Lu Changsheng agreed to visit with his disciples.
• Nangong Ji described Palace Master Yan Ruxue's reputation as they traveled toward Eastern Sea Island, where an ancient tomb was said to lie beneath the sea.

Lu Changsheng arrived at the Eastern Sea Academy and reunited with Yuexi, who had also reached the Immortality Realm. Their gathering revealed that the Profound Maiden Palace and the Academy were connected to an undersea mausoleum, and the Palace Master agreed to meet Lu Changsheng in three days.

• Saint Zeng welcomed Yuexi and the Profound Maiden Palace disciples to the Eastern Sea Academy as Saint Zou returned with Lu Changsheng.
• Lu Changsheng and Yuexi recognized each other and discovered that both had advanced to the Immortality Realm.
• At a welcoming feast, Saint Zeng explained that Saints Zheng and Duanmu were resisting the Blood Sea Hall in Ancient Xu State and Guzhu State.
• Yuexi asked about unusual activity beneath the Academy, and Lu Changsheng guessed that she had come to help guard an undersea mausoleum; Yuexi and the Confucian scholars confirmed his suspicion.
• The Palace Master learned that Lu Changsheng had come and ordered that he and his disciples be brought to Wencheng Hall in three days.

While staying at the Eastern Sea Academy, Lu Changsheng distributed Emperor Dongli’s Netherworld pills among his disciples and received rare pills through his disciple-teaching system. After strengthening his soul with a Nine-Turn Soul-Casting Pill, he took his disciples to meet Yan Ruxue at Wencheng Hall.

• Emperor Dongli remembered that he had forgotten to explain how to use the Netherworld pills he had given Lu Changsheng, and planned to visit the Eastern Sea Academy after relocating his people.
• Lu Changsheng gave Xu Jing and Yun Qianyue Netherworld Power Pills, receiving a Spirit-Communicating Pill after one of his gifts to Yun Qianyue.
• Lu Changsheng gave Xu Jing the Three Corpse Pill and its antidote, then bestowed Soul-Fixing Pills upon Yun Qianyue and received a Nine-Turn Soul-Casting Pill.
• Lu Changsheng refined the Nine-Turn Soul-Casting Pill over three days, strengthening his soul and resistance to Netherworld Realm techniques.
• Lu Changsheng brought his disciples to Wencheng Hall to meet Yan Ruxue and encouraged Mo Huazhi to seek the palace master’s guidance.

Lu Changsheng and Yuexi met Yan Ruxue at the Eastern Sea Academy as its experts discussed the threat of the Blood Sea Hall and Evil Extremity Sect. Saint Duanmu revealed that the Evil Extremity Sect’s vice sect master might be an exiled expert from the Heavenly Court, leaving the Profound Maiden Palace alarmed.

• Lu Changsheng and his disciples arrived at Wencheng Hall, where he and Yuexi waited among the Eastern Sea Academy’s honored guests.
• Yan Ruxue appeared and asked when Sword Maiden Qiongxiao would arrive, while warning that the Blood Sea Hall and Evil Extremity Sect might target Eastern Sea Island and its tomb treasure.
• Saint Duanmu and Saint Zheng arrived, and Saint Duanmu reported that he had destroyed an Evil Extremity Sect branch and learned its vice sect master planned to use the calamity to advance further.
• Saint Duanmu described the Evil Extremity Sect’s ranks and said its vice sect master might be a former Heavenly Court exile from the Eight Divine Palaces.

Yuexi and the others investigated a disturbance that opened a fissure beneath Eastern Sea Academy, revealing the tomb guarded beneath the sea. After finding a small, healing breach in its barrier, Lu Changsheng learned that the tomb belonged to the Azure King, one of the nine Human Kings.

• Yuexi worried that Qiongxiao Sword Maiden had missed her arrival and suspected something had delayed her.
• A massive disturbance split the plaza, and Saint Zheng hurried into the fissure to inspect the tomb's barrier.
• Yan Ruxue, Yuexi, and Lu Changsheng led their companions through the Extremely Cold Heavy Water to the barrier surrounding the tomb.
• Saint Zheng found a small crack in the barrier, and Saint Zeng asked Yan Ruxue to help open it so they could search the tomb.
• Yuexi told Lu Changsheng that the tomb belonged to the Azure King, one of the nine Human Kings who served the Black Emperor.

Yan Ruxue opened the Azure King's Tomb after explaining its history and the Azure King's connection to the Merak Sword Maiden. The group discovered the Evil Extremity Sect had tricked them into opening the tomb, and the Corpse-Controlling Old Ghoul appeared with more than a hundred Demons.

• Yuexi told Lu Changsheng that the Azure King and the Merak Sword Maiden had been buried with Law Treasures corrupted by Evil Qi, and Yan Ruxue used an ancient scroll to open the tomb.
• Yan Ruxue led Lu Changsheng and the others through the tomb, fearing the Demon Sects had stolen the corpses and Law Treasures.
• Yan Ruxue warned Saint Zheng that two mighty-expert-level puppet guards stood before the main hall, while the group noticed no sign that the guards had been disturbed.
• Yan Ruxue and Yuexi realized the Evil Extremity Sect had damaged the barrier to lure them into opening the tomb, and demonic Qi surged through the entrance behind them.
• The Corpse-Controlling Old Ghoul revealed himself with more than a hundred Demons, and Saint Zou recognized him as a grave robber wanted by three Holy Lands.

Lu Changsheng exposed Saint Zheng as the traitor who had helped the Corpse-Controlling Old Ghost enter the Azure King's tomb, then killed him. The Corpse-Controlling Old Ghost summoned the remnant souls of two powerful experts into their corpses, leaving Lu Changsheng and the others facing two formidable puppets.

• The Corpse-Controlling Old Ghost revealed his plan to turn the Azure King and Merak Sword Maiden into puppets, then ordered an attack on Yan Ruxue.
• Lu Changsheng stopped Saint Zheng from attacking Yan Ruxue and explained how he had deduced that Saint Zheng had helped the Evil Extremity Sect.
• Saint Zheng admitted that resentment over being passed over for Palace Master and a desire for greater cultivation had led him to betray the Eastern Sea Academy.
• Lu Changsheng killed Saint Zheng with the Alioth Thunder Sword, while Yan Ruxue and Saint Zou mourned his betrayal.
• The Corpse-Controlling Old Ghost brought out the Ten-Thousand Souls Banner and summoned the remnant souls of the Sun Radiance True Lord and Frivolous Sword Saint into their corpses.
• Lu Changsheng explained that the souls could help the two puppets use their former Divine Abilities, and Lin Qingzhi realized they might wield seventy or eighty percent of their former strength.

The Corpse-Controlling Old Ghoul sent the Frivolous Sword Saint and Sun Radiance True Lord to fight Lu Changsheng’s group while he tried to reach the main hall. The tomb’s guardian statues stopped him, but he revealed another powerful puppet: the War-Heaven Martial Venerable.

• Saint Zheng’s former allies divided their forces, with Lu Changsheng and Saint Zou facing the Frivolous Sword Saint, while Saint Zheng and Saint Zeng fought the Sun Radiance True Lord.
• The Corpse-Controlling Old Ghoul led the Evil Extremity Sect toward the main hall, and Yuexi and the Profound Maiden Palace experts intercepted them.
• Yuexi used the Divine Firmament Sword Instruction to kill more than a dozen Evil Extremity Sect Demons, but the Corpse-Controlling Old Ghoul continued toward the hall.
• Two guardian statues at the entrance came to life and struck the Corpse-Controlling Old Ghoul with Great Expert-level Sword Qi.
• The Corpse-Controlling Old Ghoul emerged unharmed with a puppet identified as the War-Heaven Martial Venerable, a former fifth-grade Great Expert of the Martial God Palace.

The Corpse-Controlling Old Ghoul unleashed War-Heaven Martial Venerable while Lu Changsheng and his allies struggled to stop the Frivolous Sword Saint. The Frivolous Sword Saint secretly taught Lu Changsheng his swordsmanship and revealed its flaw, leaving Lu Changsheng poised to strike.

• The Corpse-Controlling Old Ghoul sent War-Heaven Martial Venerable to attack the statues guarding the Azure King's Tomb, and they drew on the tomb's Formation to fight back.
• Lu Changsheng and Saint Zou attacked the Frivolous Sword Saint, but he repelled their sword techniques and injured them both.
• Lu Changsheng's disciples joined the fight, while Lu Changsheng used the Jinghua Bell to attack the Frivolous Sword Saint's remnant soul.
• The Corpse-Controlling Old Ghoul flooded the Frivolous Sword Saint's body with vengeful souls, strengthening him and letting him resist the Jinghua Bell.
• The Frivolous Sword Saint secretly gave Lu Changsheng his sword instruction and explained its flaw, revealing that the remnant souls were not fully under the Old Ghoul's control.
• Lu Changsheng used the Jinghua Bell to occupy the souls within the Frivolous Sword Saint and aimed his Sword Qi at the blind spot of the Saint's Qi Sea.

After the Frivolous Sword Saint passed down Reckless Juejian, Lu Changsheng and his allies fought to stop Corpse-Controlling Old Ghoul from breaking the Azure King's Tomb's defenses. With the guardian formation destroyed and the tomb about to fall, Lu Changsheng had Xu Jing swallow the Spirit-Communicating Pill in hopes of summoning an ancient expert's soul.

• The Frivolous Sword Saint disappeared after passing down Reckless Juejian, and Lu Changsheng and Saint Zou turned to stop the attackers at the tomb entrance.
• Saint Zou and Lu Changsheng's group attacked Corpse-Controlling Old Ghoul while his puppets overwhelmed them, but the old ghoul empowered War-Heaven Martial Venerable with vengeful souls.
• War-Heaven Martial Venerable destroyed both sword immortal statues, breaking the Azure King's Tomb's guardian formation.
• With Corpse-Controlling Old Ghoul poised to claim the Azure King's and Merak Sword Maiden's corpses, Lu Changsheng told Xu Jing to use the Spirit-Communicating Pill if they could not summon an ancient expert's soul.
• Xu Jing swallowed the Spirit-Communicating Pill without hesitation.

Xu Jing was possessed by the remnant soul of Gu Lingxu and used his sword art to destroy the Corpse-Controlling Old Ghoul’s strongest puppet and mortal body. After Lu Changsheng killed the ghoul’s escaping soul and the defenders defeated the remaining Demons, Yan Ruxue proposed sending the Azure King’s Tomb into the Void.

• The Corpse-Controlling Old Ghoul broke through the Azure King’s Tomb’s final formation and prepared to claim the Azure King and the Merak Sword Maiden’s corpses.
• A Spirit-Communicating Pill summoned Gu Lingxu’s remnant soul into Xu Jing, whose sword strike shattered the War-Heaven Martial Venerable and severed the Corpse-Controlling Old Ghoul’s body.
• The Corpse-Controlling Old Ghoul escaped into a puppet, but Lu Changsheng used the Jinghua Bell to scatter his soul.
• The Eastern Sea Academy, the Profound Maiden Palace, and Lu Changsheng’s disciples killed the fleeing Demons, while Yun Qianyue supported the exhausted Xu Jing.
• Yan Ruxue warned that the damaged tomb could not withstand another attack and said the Eastern Sea Academy would send the Azure King’s Tomb into the Void.

After Saint Zheng’s betrayal and the Evil Extremity Sect’s threat to the Azure King’s Tomb, Yan Ruxue planned to send the tomb into the Void, and Lu Changsheng agreed to help. While the Eastern Sea Academy prepared the array, Lu Changsheng obtained Water Qilin Blood and completed his collection of all five kinds of Qilin Blood for body tempering.

• Yan Ruxue and the others emerged from the Azure King’s Tomb, and Saint Duanmu learned that Saint Zheng had betrayed the academy and allied with the Demon Sect.
• Yan Ruxue proposed activating the Void Grand Array to hide the tomb from the Evil Extremity Sect, and Lu Changsheng and Yuexi agreed to help.
• Lu Changsheng asked Yan Ruxue to guide Mo Huazhi in cultivation, and she agreed.
• While the academy prepared the array, Lu Changsheng used the waiting time to plan his cultivation of the Fourth Layer of the Invincible Divine Art and gather Qilin Blood.
• After repeated failed rewards, Lu Changsheng received Water Qilin Blood by rewarding Mo Huazhi with her eighty-eighth Ice Crystal Water Lotus, completing his collection of all five kinds.

Lu Changsheng used five types of Qilin Blood to master the fourth layer of the Invincible Divine Art, greatly strengthening his body. The Eastern Sea Academy then activated the Void Grand Formation to send the Azure King's Tomb into the Void and keep its treasures from the Demon Realm.

• Lu Changsheng absorbed the five kinds of Qilin Blood for forty-nine days, while Lin Qingzhi reassured the Eastern Sea Academy and Yuexi resolved to grow stronger.
• Lu Changsheng emerged having mastered the fourth layer of the Invincible Divine Art and demonstrated his strength by punching a vast rift through the sea.
• Yan Ruxue judged that the Eastern Sea Academy had gathered enough resources to activate the Void Grand Formation and revealed a Formation Diagram drawn by Daoist Jiuyuan.
• Saint Zou explained that Daoist Jiuyuan had left the formation to protect the Azure King's body and treasures from the Demon Realm.
• Lu Changsheng, his disciples, Yuexi, and the Profound Maiden Palace disciples joined Yan Ruxue and the academy's Great Confucian Scholars in powering the Void Grand Formation until it fully activated.

Lu Changsheng, Yan Ruxue, and the others sent the Azure King's Tomb into the Void while the Eastern Sea Academy prepared to face an approaching Evil Extremity Sect powerhouse. They escaped through the wormhole just before the Void Grand Array collapsed, leaving their fate in the dangerous Void uncertain.

• The Void Grand Array opened a wormhole, and the Azure King's Tomb emerged from beneath Eastern Sea Island as the island and academy grounds collapsed.
• Lu Changsheng and the others sensed a powerful Evil Extremity Sect force approaching, and Yuexi feared that something had happened to Sword Maiden Qiongxiao.
• Yan Ruxue and the Eastern Sea Academy Saints resolved to finish moving the tomb into the Void, while Yan urged Lu Changsheng and Yuexi to flee.
• Lu Changsheng proposed a plan, and the group continued powering the array until the Azure King's Tomb entered the Void completely.
• Lu Changsheng led his disciples into the wormhole, while Yan Ruxue and Yuexi used their treasures to shelter the academy's and palace's weaker members before following.
• The Void Grand Array collapsed after the group escaped, and the spatial passage closed.

Lu Changsheng and his companions escaped into the Void aboard the Azure King's Tomb and searched for a way back to the Immortal Realm. While collecting rare materials from a huge meteorite swarm, Lu Changsheng obtained a mysterious nine-colored meteorite identified as a Three Thousand Small Worlds Fragment.

• The black-clad man arrived too late to stop Yan Ruxue, Lu Changsheng, and the others from escaping into the Void, then destroyed Eastern Sea Island in anger.
• Lu Changsheng guided the survivors aboard the Void Boat and traveled through the Void for over a year, collecting meteorites and earning Primordial Cold Iron through a disciple-bestowal reward.
• The group encountered a vast meteorite swarm and intercepted rare materials, including Ordovician Inkstone and Taiyuan Flame Iron.
• Lu Changsheng struggled to pull a tiny nine-colored meteorite from the swarm and discovered that it was a Three Thousand Small Worlds Fragment.