Chapter Summaries

Jiang Sheng and Fahui debated the Dao by contesting for the center of a manifested small world, with Jiang Sheng’s azure lotus pressing against Fahui’s Buddhist pure land. When Jiang Sheng began transforming the pure land, Ye Wenshu joined Fahui against him, and the chapter ended with the two joining forces to challenge Jiang Sheng’s Dao.

• Fahui planted a bodhi seed at the center of the small world and established a Buddhist pure land that pushed Jiang Sheng’s azure lotus aside.
• Jiang Sheng unleashed wind, thunder, water, and fire through his lotus, but Fahui strengthened his defenses with wisdom light, pagodas, Sangharamas, King Mings, and Vajra warriors.
• Jiang Sheng manifested seven sword-wielding copies of himself and attacked Fahui’s pure land, while Fahui countered by sending his Buddhist forces against the sword formation.
• Jiang Sheng’s sword qi penetrated the pure land, and azure lotuses began spreading through it, replacing Buddhist light with Daoist clear qi.
• Fahui called on Ye Wenshu to intervene, and Ye Wenshu challenged Jiang Sheng on the relationship between the Immortal Dao and the Divine Path.
• Ye Wenshu and Fahui joined forces, using the mystic bird and a Buddhist demon-subduing seal to attack Jiang Sheng’s Dao.

Jiang Sheng expounded on his Taiyi path, uniting insights from the Immortal, Divine, and Buddhist traditions as his Azure Lotus absorbed the forces attacking it. Ye Wenshu and Fahui withdrew, and although Fahui conceded that Jiang Sheng had the upper hand in their discussion, Jiang Sheng called the exchange a draw and said true victory required a contest of divine abilities and spells.

• Xuanyi prepared to help Jiang Sheng withstand Ye Wenshu and Fahui's assault, but Jiang Sheng signaled that he could manage on his own.
• Jiang Sheng explained how the Immortal Dao embraced myriad paths and described Buddhahood as Taiyi Perfect Enlightenment, unsettling Fahui and prompting Ye Wenshu to compare Jiang Sheng's outlook to the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor's.
• As Jiang Sheng continued speaking, his Azure Lotus grew stronger, absorbed the divine and Buddhist power, and formed a domain that swallowed the attacking visions.
• Ye Wenshu withdrew her Heavenly Soldiers and Generals, and Fahui followed, recognizing that they could no longer suppress Jiang Sheng.
• Fahui conceded that Jiang Sheng had the upper hand, but Jiang Sheng called the exchange a draw and said victory still had to be decided through divine abilities and spells.

Jiang Sheng and the other gathered prodigies agreed to test their combat skills, and Ye Wenshu challenged Fahui first. After Fahui weathered her opening assault, Ye Wenshu gathered thunder and astral winds into a powerful sword strike, leaving the duel poised for its next exchange.

• Ye Wenshu, Fahui, Xuanyi, Kong Zhen, and Jin Qiong agreed to a restrained contest of combat techniques rather than unleashing their divine abilities.
• Ye Wenshu chose Fahui as her first opponent and attacked him with the Mysterious Feather Longsword, while Fahui summoned his monk's staff and countered with the Lingjue Guardian Staff Technique.
• Jiang Sheng and Xuanyi discussed Fahui's staff method and compared Ye Wenshu's forceful opening momentum with Jiang Sheng's habit of building momentum while weakening his opponent.
• After their prolonged exchange, Fahui told Ye Wenshu that her momentum was fading, but she drew down thunder and gathered it into her sword.
• Ye Wenshu empowered her sword with thunder and astral winds, then challenged Fahui to judge whose momentum was stronger.

Ye Wenshu and Fahui fought fiercely in Jiang Sheng’s small world until Xuanyi and Jin Qiong interrupted them and took their place. Their spar began with Jin Qiong charging at Xuanyi, leaving their contest underway.

• Ye Wenshu and Fahui exchanged more than a hundred blows, filling the small world with lightning, karmic fire, and destruction.
• Jiang Sheng watched the battle and told Xuanyi, Kong Zhen, and Jin Qiong that he could intervene if the fighters lost control.
• Jin Qiong challenged Xuanyi, and the two rose into the sky, prompting Ye Wenshu and Fahui to stop fighting and withdraw.
• Jin Qiong transformed her robes into golden armor and summoned the Flowing-Fire Brilliant-Gold Spear, while Xuanyi raised the Myriad Stars Heavenly Splendor Ruler.
• Jin Qiong charged through the void, and Xuanyi brought his ruler down in a sweep of starlight.

Jiang Sheng analyzed Xuanyi and Jin Qiong’s spar, predicting that Xuanyi’s patiently gathered momentum would overcome Jin Qiong’s relentless attacks. As Xuanyi’s decisive strike threatened Jin Qiong, Jiang Sheng intervened with a sweep of azure sword light.

• Jiang Sheng explained to Kong Zhen, Ye Wenshu, and Fahui that Jin Qiong’s repeated attempts to build momentum would leave her vulnerable to Xuanyi’s accumulated strength.
• Jin Qiong launched a powerful spear attack, but Xuanyi used the Myriad Stars Heavenly Splendor Ruler to defend himself and gather his force.
• Ye Wenshu wagered eighteen Heavenly Court Golden Flowers against Fahui’s eighteen grains of west heaven golden sand, betting Xuanyi would win within seven moves.
• Xuanyi stopped Jin Qiong’s Golden Rainbow Piercing the Sun and counterattacked with Celestial Manifestation, Stars Fall, pinning her in place.
• As Xuanyi’s star-powered strike descended toward Jin Qiong, Jiang Sheng intervened with azure sword light that separated them.

Jiang Sheng hosted a series of sparring matches at the Void Refinement Ceremony, defeating Jinqiong and exchanging blows with Kong Zhen before agreeing to face Ye Wenshu and Fahui. The guests gathered outside Azure Profound Hall to watch as the three prepared to begin their battle in the skies above the Three Realms.

• Jiang Sheng intervened in Xuanyi and Jinqiong's bout, and Xuanyi declared it decided before Jinqiong acknowledged her loss.
• Jiang Sheng invited the gathered cultivators to spar with him, and Kong Zhen challenged him with the Five-Element Sword.
• Jiang Sheng forced Kong Zhen back with a swordstroke, and Kong Zhen conceded before returning to his seat.
• Jiang Sheng invited Ye Wenshu and Fahui to fight him outside the small realm, and the three left for the skies above the Three Realms.
• Xuanyi told the guests that Jiang Sheng, Ye Wenshu, and Fahui were going to spar, prompting the guests to gather outside Azure Profound Hall.
• Ye Wenshu and Fahui readied themselves against Jiang Sheng, who unleashed his sword aura and called on them to attack.

Jiang Sheng, Fahui, and Ye Wenshu unleashed their signature techniques in a battle above Little Penglai, drawing attention across the Liuyu Sea Realm and beyond. After two hours, their clash ended with Jiang Sheng holding off both Fahui and Ye Wenshu, and he asked whether they had had their fill.

• The Sea-Pacifying Divine Lord sensed the three cultivators’ battle and watched a brilliant spectacle erupt across the Liuyu Sea Realm.
• Fahui formed his Meditative Suppression Buddhist Palm while Jiang Sheng prepared his Heaven-Cutting sword strike, and the guests recognized their techniques.
• Jiang Sheng’s sword collided with Fahui’s palm, unleashing a shock wave and storms that spread across a million li.
• Ye Wenshu joined the battle with her Sword of Lingxiao, and Jiang Sheng and Fahui briefly worked together to block her strike before all three resumed fighting.
• After two hours, the visions faded, and Jiang Sheng’s Qingping Sword held Fahui’s monk’s staff and Ye Wenshu’s Mysterious Feather Longsword at bay as he asked if they had had their fill.

After hosting a seven-day immortal feast and arranging for his disciples to manage Little Penglai, Jiang Sheng left the Three Realms for East Linghua Continent. Huaguang Immortal Monarch gave him the beacon needed to seek the Mountain Sea Realm and warned him of the dangers ahead.

• Jiang Sheng saw off the feast’s guests, including Scarlet Cloud True Lord, Yan Xiao, Fahui, Ye Wenshu, Kong Zhen, Jin Qiong, and Xuanyi, and learned that several planned secluded cultivation or Void Refinement ceremonies.
• Jiang Sheng entrusted Little Penglai to Qiu Buyu, sent Tian Ming'an to oversee its branch estate in Pingxiang World, and appointed Su Yutong as his disciple.
• Jiang Sheng departed Little Penglai through the South and Eastern Heaven Gates and traveled to East Linghua Continent to visit Huaguang Immortal Monarch.
• Huaguang Immortal Monarch gave Jiang Sheng a compass containing a beacon for locating the Mountain Sea Realm and cautioned him about the hazards of traveling through Chaos.
• Jiang Sheng left the Three Realms as a figure in the Eastern Star Palace watched him disappear into radiant rainbow light.

Jiang Sheng traveled aboard a Chixiao Sect starship toward the outer reaches of the universe's Central Region, intending to venture into the depths of chaos. Xuyuanzi warned him about the dangers there and gave him a star chart before the ship reached the limits of Chixiao Sect's influence.

• Jiang Sheng rode a Chixiao Sect starship after traveling from Penglai through the Cangwu World.
• Jiang Sheng learned that upper-realm passengers were hunting chaos creatures and that the Chixiao Sect hired True Lords to clear its routes.
• Xuyuanzi visited Jiang Sheng and warned that chaos creatures became far more numerous in the depths of chaos.
• Xuyuanzi gave Jiang Sheng a star chart to help him navigate beyond the Chixiao Sect's sphere of influence.
• Jiang Sheng accepted the chart and thanked Xuyuanzi, who said the starship would reach the edge of Chixiao territory in ten years.

Jiang Sheng traveled deeper into the chaos, killing a star beast that attacked him and collecting its inner core. Binmou, restored and empowered by the Seven Demonic Desire Lotus, followed Jiang Sheng toward the Mountain Sea Realm while plotting to take his place.

• Jiang Sheng killed a star beast with the Qingping Sword and collected its inner core before continuing deeper into chaos.
• After Jiang Sheng left, Binmou appeared and transformed through several identities before settling on Jiang Sheng’s face.
• Binmou recalled how the Mystic Lord of Self-So Freedom and Myriad Wonders had helped him restore his true spirit with the seven demonic seeds.
• Binmou examined the Seven Demonic Desire Lotus, whose powers let him conceal his aura, transform, and split into seven.
• Binmou planned to follow Jiang Sheng to the Mountain Sea Realm and locate the Seven-Marvel Ink Lotus for the Mystic Lord, while aiming to replace Jiang Sheng.
• When a huge desolate beast approached, Binmou concealed his aura and followed Jiang Sheng’s traces into the depths of chaos.

Jiang Sheng encountered a colossal star beast in a dead starfield and killed it with his swords after it attacked him. As he collected his swords, he sensed someone watching and confronted the unseen observer.

• Jiang Sheng watched a million-mile star beast roam among dead stars and decided to leave its territory.
• The star beast noticed Jiang Sheng, shattered the star beneath him with its tail, and attacked with a beam of light.
• Jiang Sheng wounded the star beast with the Azure Duckweed Sword and scorched its tentacles with the Thunderfire Seal.
• Jiang Sheng sent the Immortal-Slaying Sword and Immortal-Slaughter Sword into the star beast's skull, then pierced its heart with the Azure Duckweed Sword.
• Jiang Sheng recalled his swords and turned toward an unseen observer, asking whether they had seen enough.

Jiang Sheng confronted Jingyangzi of Jiuzhou, who asked him to help hunt a renegade disciple in exchange for a ten-thousand-year-old chaotic violet lingzhi. Jiang Sheng accepted the offer, while Binmou watched from hiding and feared the consequences.

• Jiang Sheng used the Daoist Tradition's Thunder-Sound True Words to call out the hidden observer, and Binmou prepared to fight after realizing he had been discovered.
• Jingyangzi of Jiuzhou emerged, introduced himself, and explained that he was searching for a renegade disciple who had fled the Fatian Sect with its secret treasure.
• Jingyangzi asked Jiang Sheng to help capture the traitor, but Jiang Sheng declined and tried to leave.
• Jingyangzi transformed into lightning to block Jiang Sheng, who held the Qingping Sword to his throat and warned him not to move.
• Jingyangzi offered Jiang Sheng a ten-thousand-year-old chaotic violet lingzhi and the renegade's other treasures, and Jiang Sheng agreed to go with him.

Jiang Sheng followed the suspicious Jingyangzi through the depths of chaos, then revealed that the Fatian Sect’s history identified Jingyangzi as the traitor who destroyed its lineage. He left the apparent guide facing a question: was he truly Jingyangzi, or the Dharma-Practicing True Lord?

• Bimou secretly followed Jiang Sheng and Jingyangzi after suspecting Jiang Sheng had a reason for going with him.
• Jingyangzi led Jiang Sheng through a dead-silent starfield and described the Fatian Sect while Jiang Sheng questioned him about its history and landmarks.
• Jingyangzi showed Jiang Sheng a hidden chaotic interstice and claimed the Fatian Sect’s traitor was inside it.
• Jiang Sheng recounted how Jingyangzi betrayed the Fatian Sect, stole its Myriad Laws Bewildering Mirror, and caused its Dao lineage to end.
• Jiang Sheng asked whether the figure before him was Jingyangzi or the Dharma-Practicing True Lord.

Jiang Sheng exposed Jingyangzi’s use of True Lord Xingfa’s shell and learned that the wounded Jingyangzi hid within a distorted Chaos rift with two Mahayana treasures. Jiang Sheng entered the rift to hunt him, while Jingyangzi sent two reanimated bodies after him.

• Jiang Sheng awakened the remnant of True Lord Xingfa’s True Spirit and destroyed the shell, freeing Xingfa while leaving Jingyangzi’s twisted thought behind.
• Jingyangzi revealed his immense Mahayana aura and declared that he was the combined identity of several Fatian Sect True Lords.
• Jiang Sheng deduced that Jingyangzi was gravely injured and relied on the Myriad Laws Bewildering Mirror and Fatian Thousand-Lustre Pearl, then entered the Chaos vortex to find him.
• Jiang Sheng used his Truth-Seeing Golden Pupils and Sword Aura beacons to navigate the distorted passage, astonishing Jingyangzi.
• Jingyangzi placed wandering star-beast souls into two former True Lord shells and ordered them to eliminate Jiang Sheng.

Jingyangzi recalled how his betrayal of the Fatian Sect had left him with a fatal wound and trapped him in a desperate struggle to survive. After realizing Jiang Sheng was approaching through the Myriad Laws Bewildering Mirror, Jingyangzi welcomed the chance to devour him or be cut down.

• Jingyangzi remembered stealing the Fatian Sect's treasures after murdering his master and described how Fatian Xiangyu Immortal Monarch's Five Manifestations Separation Technique had kept his wound from healing.
• Jingyangzi recalled surviving for millennia by luring cultivators to their deaths and consuming their vital energy, souls, and true spirits.
• Jingyangzi decided Jiang Sheng's powerful vital energy and soul could sustain him for at least another thousand years.
• Jingyangzi gloated over the dead Fatian elders and Daoist Jingxiang, claiming he had won and would consume Penglai Lingyuan to reach Mahayana.
• Jingyangzi saw Jiang Sheng racing through the passage in the Myriad Laws Bewildering Mirror and heard him declare that he would come to cut Jingyangzi down.
• Jingyangzi accepted Jiang Sheng's challenge and said he would wait to see whether Jiang Sheng killed him or he devoured Jiang Sheng.

Jiang Sheng reached Jingyangzi in the chaotic passage and confronted the traitorous Fusion realm cultivator. After revealing his swordsmanship and summoning four more immortal swords, Jiang Sheng prepared to unleash his Three Calamities and Five Tribulations against him.

• Jingyangzi rewound the Myriad Laws Bewildering Mirror and watched Jiang Sheng swiftly slay the two puppets sent to ambush him.
• Jiang Sheng arrived before Jingyangzi, identified him as the disciple who murdered his master, and heard Jingyangzi boast about killing Xiang Qi and consuming his victims.
• Jingyangzi tried to summon more puppets, but Jiang Sheng's Azure Duckweed Sword forced him to dodge a strike imbued with the Three Calamities Final Tribulation.
• Jiang Sheng condemned Jingyangzi for falling into demonhood and attacked before the injured Fusion realm cultivator could reveal his full strength.
• Jingyangzi used Xiang Xi's hollowed body to block Jiang Sheng's sword, but Jiang Sheng explained why the shell lacked a true Fusion realm cultivator's power.
• Jiang Sheng summoned the Sky Azure, Indigo Violet, Crimson, and Dark Profundity swords, then declared that he would demonstrate his methods of calamity and extinction to Jingyangzi.

Jiang Sheng turned True Lord Xiangxi and True Lord Yangjue’s projections against Jingyangzi, then struck him with the Heaven-Cutting sword techniques. After Jingyangzi merged his two Mahayana Immortal Treasures and began forcing his cultivation toward Mahayana, Jiang Sheng severed his connection to the disordered spacetime and sent four immortal swords to slay him.

• Jingyangzi summoned projections of True Lord Xiangxi and True Lord Yangjue, who trapped Jiang Sheng’s Zhu-Xian Sword and attacked him with their sect’s Divine Abilities.
• Jiang Sheng realized the projections retained some consciousness and deliberately showed them the hollowed-out bodies of the two True Lords, prompting them to leave him openings and eventually empower his sword.
• Jiang Sheng used Heaven-Cutting and Severing Time to pierce Jingyangzi, then struck again with Break Ten Thousand Laws, worsening Jingyangzi’s injuries.
• Jiang Sheng cast out the Green Lotus Array Diagram, explaining that it could briefly sever Jingyangzi’s connection to the disordered spacetime.
• Jingyangzi merged the Myriad Laws Bewildering Mirror and Fatian Thousand-Lustre Pearl to force his cultivation toward Mahayana, but the treasures began draining him.
• Jiang Sheng’s four immortal swords and Green Lotus Array Diagram sealed off the spacetime, and the swords swept toward Jingyangzi with killing intent.

Jiang Sheng defeated the dying Jingyangzi and learned that Fatian Xiangyu Immortal Monarch’s Five Manifestations Separation Technique had doomed him years earlier. After studying the scripture left by the Pearl Light Mirror, Jiang Sheng discovered that Fatian Xiangyu’s remnant soul still existed and promised to restore the Fatian Sect’s lineage.

• Jingyangzi admitted defeat as the Five Manifestations Separation Technique and his other wounds left him unable to resist Jiang Sheng.
• Jiang Sheng explained that Jingyangzi had died through Fatian Xiangyu Immortal Monarch’s earlier attack and the sacrifices of True Lord Xiangxi and True Lord Yangjue.
• Jingyangzi rotted away, and the Myriad Laws Bewildering Mirror and Fatian Thousand-Lustre Pearl showed Jiang Sheng how Jingyangzi had betrayed and killed the Fatian Sect’s True Lords.
• The Pearl Light Mirror revealed Fatian Xiangyu Immortal Monarch’s Five Manifestations Essential-Separation Scripture, and Jiang Sheng recorded the art.
• Jiang Sheng reasoned that Fatian Xiangyu’s remnant soul survived, thanked him, and promised to reestablish the Fatian Sect in the Jiuzhou World.
• Fatian Xiangyu’s voice acknowledged Jiang Sheng’s insight and lamented that the Fatian Sect had never gained such a prodigy.

Jiang Sheng learned of the Fatian Sect’s downfall and revealed that he had come to help Jueyun Xingfa at Liuxiao Xuyuan’s request. Fatian Xiangyu Immortal Monarch offered to protect him from Binmou, while Daoist Lord Chixiao and Daoist Lord Xuanming discussed aiding Xiang Yu and confronting the Jiuzhou World.

• Fatian Xiangyu Immortal Monarch emerged from his treasures as a remnant soul and questioned why Jiang Sheng had entered the dangerous Chaos gap.
• Jiang Sheng showed the Chixiao Sect’s Upper Origin Eight-Star Chart and explained that Liuxiao Xuyuan had asked him to help Jueyun Xingfa enter reincarnation.
• Fatian Xiangyu Immortal Monarch mourned the Fatian Sect’s destruction, then used the Myriad Laws Bewildering Mirror to reveal Binmou waiting outside.
• Jiang Sheng identified Binmou as his mortal enemy, and Fatian Xiangyu Immortal Monarch offered the Myriad Laws Bewildering Mirror and Fatian Thousand-Lustre Pearl to protect him.
• At Cangwu Mountain, Daoist Lord Chixiao told Daoist Lord Xuanming that he would help Xiang Yu and urged him to remind Dejing about moving against the Jiuzhou World.

Jiang Sheng searched the Chaos Void for the Mountain Sea World while Xiangyu Immortal Monarch kept him company and spoke about the Chaos and the Mahayana Realm. When a hidden desolate beast trapped them, Xiangyu tried to drive it away with his Mahayana Immortal Treasures, but discovered it was not merely an Integration Realm beast.

• Jiang Sheng searched the Chaos Void for the Mountain Sea World after failing to locate Binmou.
• Xiangyu Immortal Monarch discussed the origins of the Chaos and recalled choosing the attainable Mahayana Realm over the uncertain Pure Yang Dao Fruit.
• Xiangyu warned Jiang Sheng of a hidden desolate beast, and Jiang Sheng fled hundreds of millions of miles before realizing it had blocked his escape.
• Jiang Sheng and Xiangyu identified the threat as a highly intelligent desolate beast concealed in the Chaos Void.
• Xiangyu released the Pearl Light Mirror's radiance to make the beast retreat, then urgently warned Jiang Sheng that it was not an Integration Realm desolate beast and told him to run.