Chapter Summaries

Red Plum explained the extraordinary backgrounds of Zhong Yuxiu and Jiang Sheng as they prepared to fight in the Qingqiu Illusion Realm. Zhong Yuxiu unleashed his fortune-cutting art, and Jiang Sheng answered with the Taiyi Qingping Sword and the power of the three calamities’ final tribulation.

• Red Plum told the surrounding demons that Zhong Yuxiu and Yuchen Lingyuan were future Pure Yang cultivators from prestigious sacred lands.
• In the Qingqiu Illusion Realm, Zhong Yuxiu and Jiang Sheng discussed the Autumn Rain Heavenly Garment and the reasons for their meeting.
• Jiang Sheng returned Zhong Yuxiu’s Heaven-Qilin Star Compass and invited him to strike first.
• Zhong Yuxiu summoned his treasures and unleashed the Profound Origin Fate-Cutting Method, sending a violet qilin toward Jiang Sheng.
• Jiang Sheng drew the Taiyi Qingping Sword, formed the power of the three calamities’ final tribulation, and challenged Zhong Yuxiu to last three quarters of an hour.

Jiang Sheng and Zhong Yuxiu fought a devastating battle in the Qingqiu Illusion Realm, trading attacks that shattered mountains, stars, and the firmament. Zhong Yuxiu revealed he had no intention of returning to the Nine Provinces, and their duel continued amid solar flames and violet lightning.

• Zhong Yuxiu unleashed the Fortune-Severing Qilin, but Jiang Sheng shattered it with the Jie Character Sword Art—Break Ten Thousand Laws, carving a vast scar through the Qingqiu Illusion Realm.
• Jiang Sheng and Zhong Yuxiu crossed the realm and fought at close quarters, destroying tens of millions of li of mountains and rivers as spectators watched in awe.
• Zhong Yuxiu told Jiang Sheng he had never planned to return to the Nine Provinces and asked whether his master or the Penglai Dao Sect would grieve more if they died together.
• Zhong Yuxiu used the Mountain-River Energy-Vein Method to summon the Shanhe Great Seal, then pulled down a ten-thousand-li star to crush Jiang Sheng.
• Jiang Sheng's Five-Element Yang Divine Lightning broke the Shanhe Great Seal and shattered the falling star, after which he attacked Zhong Yuxiu with Wind Rises, Water Surges.
• Zhong Yuxiu sent a red-gold attack tearing through space behind him, and solar flames and violet lightning shattered the restrictive wards across a million li.

Jiang Sheng caught and returned Zhong Yuxiu’s Blazing Sun Gold Striker, while Zhong Yuxiu revealed his full power and used the Heaven-Qilin Star Compass to attack Jiang Sheng’s fate. As their decisive techniques neared collision, a scarlet arrow suddenly targeted Jiang Sheng from behind.

• Jiang Sheng caught Zhong Yuxiu’s Blazing Sun Gold Striker with one hand and hurled it back alongside the Judicial Heavenly Monarch Seal and four Zhu-Lu-Xian-Jue swords.
• Zhong Yuxiu used his treasures to counter Jiang Sheng’s attacks, then manifested a ten-thousand-zhang true body with his life star, fortune canopy, and heavenly eye.
• Yousu Zhao declared Zhong Yuxiu the likely winner, but Yousu Xue questioned his certainty and pointed out that Zhong Yuxiu had failed to defeat Jiang Sheng before.
• Zhong Yuxiu used the Heaven-Qilin Star Compass and Profound Origin Fate-Cutting Method to drain Jiang Sheng’s fortune and probe his fate.
• Jiang Sheng anchored his fate with his life star and three flowers, then prepared the Heaven-Cutting—Severing Karma strike against Zhong Yuxiu’s Defying Fate and Reversing Destiny.
• A scarlet arrow launched by Red Fire Heavenly Origin suddenly pierced toward Jiang Sheng’s back as their attacks were about to meet.

Lin Fan exposed Chi Peng’s ambush on Jiang Sheng and killed Chi Peng’s false body in the Cloud Hall Palace, while Yousu Zhao and Jin Yu confronted Lin Fan and Kui Yue. Inside the Qingqiu Illusion Realm, Jiang Sheng emerged alive from Chi Peng’s venomous fire and challenged him.

• Chi Peng ambushed Jiang Sheng with a fire-origin arrow during his duel with Zhong Yuxiu, while Yousu Zhao and Jin Yu helped conceal Chi Peng’s attack.
• Lin Fan attacked Chi Peng in the Cloud Hall Palace, knocked Jin Yu aside, and beheaded Chi Peng’s false body.
• Lin Fan accused Yousu Zhao, and Kui Yue confronted Jin Yu as the four cave profound cultivators faced off in the hall.
• Fang Rui pointed out that events were still unfolding in the Qingqiu Illusion Realm, where Chi Peng revealed he had attacked Jiang Sheng to take revenge and destroy the duelists.
• After the azure lotuses withered in the venomous fire, Jiang Sheng walked through the flames unharmed and told Chi Peng that his fire was weaker than the three calamities of void refinement.

Jiang Sheng survived Chi Peng’s ambush and overwhelmed him with the Heaven-Cutting Sword, while the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords kept Zhong Yuxiu trapped. As Lin Fan and Kui Yue blocked Yousu Zhao and Jin Yu from intervening, Jiang Sheng killed Chi Peng with Severing Karma.

• Jiang Sheng emerged unharmed from Chi Peng’s poisoned arrow strike and raised the Taiyi Qingping Sword to retaliate.
• Jiang Sheng used Break Ten Thousand Laws to break Chi Peng’s Divine Ability and damage the Void-Shattering Flying-Kite Bow, then the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords trapped Zhong Yuxiu.
• Jiang Sheng struck Chi Peng again with Severing Time, breaking his Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown and damaging his Dao Fruit and True Spirit.
• Yousu Zhao and Jin Yu tried to enter the Qingqiu Illusion Realm to save Chi Peng, but Lin Fan and Kui Yue blocked them.
• Jiang Sheng used Severing Karma to cut Chi Peng down as the onlookers watched in disbelief.

Jiang Sheng killed Chi Peng, then challenged Zhong Yuxiu and used the three calamities of Void Refinement against him. The chapter ended with wind, yin fire, and tribulation thunder ravaging Zhong Yuxiu as the onlookers watched Jiang Sheng in awe.

• Chi Peng died, transformed into his enormous Kunpeng true form, and crashed across the Qingqiu Illusion Realm.
• Jiang Sheng sheathed his sword and challenged Zhong Yuxiu to resume their contest, then attacked with the Heavenheart Five Thunder Art.
• Zhong Yuxiu stopped Jiang Sheng’s five lightning dragons with a herd of qilin phantoms, but struggled to suppress the three calamities stirred within him while the four swords Zhu-Lu-Xian-Jue harried him.
• Jiang Sheng revealed that he had endured three complete rounds of the Void Refinement calamities in the Chaos Void Cavern and released three talismans to bring the calamities upon Zhong Yuxiu.
• Bixi Wind, yin fire, and tribulation thunder descended on Zhong Yuxiu, while the gathered guests watched Jiang Sheng command the calamities.

Jiang Sheng trapped Zhong Yuxiu inside the End-Calamity Formation Diagram and the Zhu-Lu-Xian-Jue Sword Formation after Zhong Yuxiu endured the three calamities of Void Refinement. The four swords overwhelmed Zhong Yuxiu’s treasures, and Jiang Sheng prepared to kill him and send him into reincarnation.

• Jiang Sheng summoned the three calamities of Void Refinement, but Zhong Yuxiu endured them and used the Heaven-Qilin Star Compass to stabilize his fate and Dao fruit.
• Jiang Sheng deployed the End-Calamity Formation Diagram, intensifying the calamities and obscuring the Qingqiu Illusion Realm from those outside.
• Zhong Yuxiu abandoned his attempt to suppress the calamities and drove the Fortune-Severing Qilin toward Jiang Sheng, declaring that Jiang Sheng would face the calamities too.
• The End-Calamity Formation Diagram expanded around them, and the four swords of Zhu-Lu-Xian-Jue took their positions and formed the sword formation.
• Zhong Yuxiu sent four treasures to block the swords, but repeated clashes damaged his treasures and left him unable to suppress the three calamities.
• Jiang Sheng entered the formation and told Zhong Yuxiu to go peacefully into reincarnation, then sent the four swords charging to kill him.

Jiang Sheng trapped Zhong Yuxiu in the End-Calamity Formation, leaving him on the brink of death, while Yousu Zhao tried to stop the fight to protect Qingqiu from the consequences. Lin Fan challenged Zhao and revealed himself as Penglai's Lingzhao, but Yousu Lian allowed the battle to continue, secretly welcoming the deaths as a blood sacrifice to strengthen Qingqiu's fortune.

• Jiang Sheng's four swords pressed Zhong Yuxiu inside the End-Calamity Formation, and calamity signs gathered around Zhong Yuxiu as he struggled to survive.
• Yousu Zhao grew alarmed over Zhong Yuxiu's impending death and asked Yousu Lian to stop the fight, fearing the Qiankun Dao Sect's retaliation.
• Lin Fan accused Yousu Zhao of hypocrisy and challenged him, then insulted Qingqiu when Zhao rebuked him.
• Lingyin identified Lin Fan as Lingzhao of Penglai, making Yousu Zhao fear that Penglai might intervene in Qingqiu's affairs.
• Yousu Lian dismissed the dispute and ordered the juniors to continue fighting, while privately viewing Scarlet Peng's death as useful to Qingqiu's blood sacrifice.

Jiang Sheng defeated Zhong Yuxiu despite Jin Yu’s interference, and Zhong Yuxiu died in the Qingqiu Illusion Realm. Jiang Sheng then turned his sword on Jin Yu, leaving his fate unresolved.

• Jin Yu rushed into the Qingqiu Illusion Realm and attacked Jiang Sheng with the Blazing Fire Heavenly Gold Halberd, while Kui Yue followed and struck Jin Yu with the Mountain-Shaking Baleful Thunder Whip.
• Jin Yu’s halberd collided with Jiang Sheng’s sword light, but Jiang Sheng emerged unharmed with Zhong Yuxiu defeated behind him.
• Zhong Yuxiu’s life star shattered, and Jiang Sheng recovered the Xuanyuan Diamond Bracelet as the spectators realized the Qiankun Dao Sect’s Dao scion was dead.
• Jiang Sheng charged at Jin Yu despite Kui Yue offering to take his place, and Jin Yu pleaded that Jiang Sheng could not kill him.
• Jiang Sheng answered Jin Yu with the Taiyi Qingping Sword and challenged him by asking how he compared to Chi Peng and Qiyuan.

Jiang Sheng killed Jin Yu after Kui Yue wounded him, leaving Dahuang World’s third Cave Profound prodigy dead at Qingqiu’s banquet. In the Qingqiu Illusion Realm, Jiang Sheng sensed an unusual disturbance in Jin Yu’s blood sea and realized it was connected to Qingqiu.

• Kui Yue struck Jin Yu with the Mountain-Shaking Baleful Thunder Whip, and Jiang Sheng followed with a powerful sword strike that tore open Jin Yu’s chest.
• Jiang Sheng pursued Jin Yu and killed him with the Three Calamities Destruction Sword Intent while Kui Yue watched.
• The demons in the Cloud Hall Palace mourned Jin Yu and Chi Peng, while True Lord Guiyuan mocked Jin Yu’s failed ambush and plea for mercy.
• Yousu Lian sensed that the deaths of Chi Peng, Qiyuan, and Jin Yu had transferred their fortunes to Qingqiu’s pillar of fortune.
• Jiang Sheng noticed Jin Yu’s blood sea bubbling after his corpse had gone cold, examined it with his Truth-Seeing Golden Pupils, and identified Qingqiu as the source of the disturbance.

Jiang Sheng discovered that Qingqiu had drained the vital essence from the fallen demons and Zhong Yuxiu, then realized Yousu Lian’s scheme was connected to the hastily arranged banquet and the guests’ assigned positions. With the Qingqiu Illusion Realm sealed and Jiang Sheng and Kui Yue trapped inside, Jiang Sheng prepared to fight their way out and confront Yousu Lian.

• Jiang Sheng used his Truth-Seeing Golden Pupils to see that Qingqiu’s method was drawing vital essence from Jin Yu’s corpse through the mountain range.
• Jiang Sheng and Kui Yue found Zhong Yuxiu’s corpse drained of its blood, vital essence, and Immortal Source.
• Yousu Lian sealed the Qingqiu Illusion Realm and told the guests that damaged formations had caused the closure.
• Jiang Sheng collected Zhong Yuxiu’s, Jin Yu’s, and Scarlet Peng’s corpses so Qingqiu could not use them.
• Jiang Sheng told Kui Yue he had understood Qingqiu’s purpose and vowed to fight their way out before confronting Yousu Lian.

Jiang Sheng and Kui Yue escaped the Qingqiu Illusion Realm while Lin Fan confronted Yousu Lian over Qingqiu’s connection to the Autumn Rain Heavenly Garment. Yousu Lian dismissed Lin Fan as unqualified, but Jiang Sheng arrived and challenged him directly.

• Yousu Lian projected his eyes into the Qingqiu Illusion Realm, but Jiang Sheng cleaved them apart and joined forces with Kui Yue to find a way out.
• Lingyin discovered that Qingqiu’s array blocked messages, while Lin Fan secretly contacted Jiang Sheng and agreed to question Yousu Lian about the Autumn Rain Heavenly Garment.
• Lin Fan confronted Yousu Zhao and Yousu Lian, accusing Qingqiu of ties to the Autumn Rain Heavenly Garment and asking whether it meant to kill Jiang Sheng and Kui Yue.
• Yousu Lian demanded evidence, invoked his superior status, and declared Lin Fan unworthy of questioning him.
• Jiang Sheng and Kui Yue broke through the Qingqiu Illusion Realm’s seal and battered Qingqiu’s sacrificial array with sword qi and thunder.
• Jiang Sheng confronted Yousu Lian, asking whether he was qualified to question him.

Jiang Sheng used the Heavenly Venerable’s No-Taboo Talisman to challenge Qingqiu’s Yousu Lian and demand an audience with the Bewitching Mind Illusory Wheel Nine-Tailed Great Sage. After the Great Sage appeared to destroy Jiang Sheng’s attack, Jiang Sheng revealed that the figure was only a projection.

• Jiang Sheng and Kui Yue escaped the Qingqiu Illusion Realm, and Jiang Sheng challenged Yousu Lian to face him before the gathered guests.
• Yousu Lian emerged from the Cloud Hall Palace, but Jiang Sheng demanded that Eastern Splendor Sovereign and the Great Sage Bewitching Mind Illusory Wheel meet with him instead.
• Yousu Lian attacked Jiang Sheng, Kui Yue, and the guests across Moon-Drawing Mountain, while the otherworldly cultivators began fighting Qingqiu’s Yousu Clan.
• Jiang Sheng used the No-Taboo Talisman to dispel Yousu Lian’s attack and publicly questioned whether the Nine-Tailed Great Sage was actually in Qingqiu.
• Jiang Sheng called for the Great Sage, then struck First Hill with his sword when no answer came.
• The Great Sage’s figure appeared and destroyed Jiang Sheng’s sword with a glance, but the No-Taboo Talisman shielded him, and Jiang Sheng identified the figure as a projection.

Jiang Sheng exposed Qingqiu’s scheme and revealed that the Nine-Tailed Great Sage was absent, triggering chaos and a battle in the Cloud Hall Palace that left Yousu Zhen and Yousu Mu dead. As Qingqiu’s forces turned on Jiang Sheng and the others, the Shanhe Daoist Sect and allied Daoist sects arrived with overwhelming forces, and the chapter ended as they welcomed Daoist Lord Taiyi Yuzhen Azure Nether Chenming Juehua to the mortal realm.

• Jiang Sheng declared that the Nine-Tailed Great Sage was only a projection and accused Yousu Lian of sacrificing visiting prodigies’ vital blood and fortune to strengthen Qingqiu.
• Crested Ibis struck Yousu Zhen, while Ying Zhen and Lu Jiu subdued Yousu Mu; Yousu Zhen and Yousu Mu were killed, and Yousu Yue and Yousu Xue surrendered.
• Yousu Zhao escaped as Yousu Lian mobilized Qingqiu’s forces against the outsiders, while Jiang Sheng and Kui Yue faced Qingqiu elders and Crested Ibis unleashed the Southern Ming Separation Fire.
• Lin Fan announced that Shanhe Daoist Sect reinforcements had arrived, and the Upper Three Realms experts of the Shanhe, Penglai, Qinghua, and Tianhe Dao Sects appeared above Qingqiu.
• The allied sects’ Heavenly Net enclosed Qingqiu as Daoist True Lords surrounded it, and the other powers of Jurong World chose not to intervene.
• The heavenly stars and Azure Nether great sun welcomed Daoist Lord Taiyi Yuzhen Azure Nether Chenming Juehua to the mortal realm.

Daoist Lord Chenming Juehua arrived in Qingqiu and declared the heavenly fox clan guilty of four crimes against the Shanhe Daoist Sect. He used his authority over fate to strip Qingqiu’s foxes of their cultivation and intelligence, leaving them as ordinary beasts.

• Kui Zhen recognized that the Shanhe Daoist Sect had sent Daoist Lord Chenming Juehua, an Origin Lord, to Jurong World.
• Daoist Lord Juehua descended into Qingqiu, and the assembled immortals, demons, and sacred-land prodigies bowed to him.
• Daoist Lord Juehua condemned Qingqiu for four crimes and told Yousu Lian that Tushan’s ancestor had been invited to Yaochi by Daoist Lord Golden Mother.
• Daoist Lord Juehua declared that Qingqiu’s heavenly fox clan would cease to exist and stripped Yousu Lian of his cultivation until he became a fox at the early Qi Refining Realm.
• The foxes throughout Qingqiu lost their cultivation and intelligence, and Crested Ibis and the others watched the transformed foxes in horror.

Daoist Lord Juehua destroyed Qingqiu’s power, then rewarded Jiang Sheng and Lin Fan for thwarting Yousu Lian’s plans. The chapter ended with the three sects dismantling Qingqiu and news that Daoist Lord Kaiyuan might soon break free of his enemies.

• Daoist Lord Juehua stripped the hundreds of millions of Qingqiu foxes of their cultivation and bloodline, reducing them to ordinary beasts.
• Daoist Lord Juehua praised Jiang Sheng and Lin Fan and gave each a Void Refinement Cave Heaven, five thousand years of Qingqiu Illusion Realm produce, and access to the Celestial Fox Secret Canon in First Hill.
• True Lord Yuming explained that Yousu Lian had tried to restore the Nine-Tailed Great Sage’s strength by sacrificing young cultivators, and said Daoist Lord Kaiyuan was close to emerging from his predicament.
• Daoist Lord Juehua swept Qingqiu’s foxes away, while the three sects’ forces took stock of the secret realms and dealt with the remaining spirits.
• The chapter’s closing account stated that Qingqiu had been destroyed after secretly colluding with the Qiankun Dao Sect.

As the Eastern Heaven Daoist Sect swept through Qingqiu, Kui Yue asked Jiang Sheng and Lin Fan to plead for Yousu Yue and Yousu Xue. Daoist Lord Juehua spared them but assigned them to serve in Yaochi and the Moon Palace, then revealed that the sect was preparing for war with Jiuzhou World.

• Kui Yue and Lingyin visited Jiang Sheng and Lin Fan aboard their Dharma Boat, and Kui Yue asked them to plead for Yousu Yue.
• Jiang Sheng and Lin Fan brought Kui Yue and Lingyin before Daoist Lord Juehua and asked him to spare Yousu Yue and Yousu Xue.
• Daoist Lord Juehua spared Yousu Yue and Yousu Xue, assigning one as an edict-bearing Diaochan in Yaochi and the other as a lamp-tending Chang'e in the Moon Palace.
• Daoist Lord Juehua told Jiang Sheng and Lin Fan that Kui Yue must join the Eastern Heaven Daoist Sect's coming war with Jiuzhou World.
• Daoist Lord Juehua revealed that Daoist Brother Kaiyuan had emerged and predicted that the Eastern Heaven Daoist Sect would gain another Dao-Ruling True Yang.

Daoist Lord Kaiyuan discovered that the Tianyuan Sacred Sect and its allies had lured him into a collapsed void to kill him, where six Pure Yang cultivators surrounded him. He attacked the Nine-Tailed Great Sage first and left him struggling beneath the weight of Kaiyuan’s heavenly river as the battle began.

• Daoist Lord Kaiyuan revealed his Pure Yang power inside the collapsed void and called out Tianyu, Tianxuan, Tianxing, and the other conspirators.
• Tianxuan unleashed a severed branch of the River of Time, but Kaiyuan’s Tianhe World-Sealing Ruler halted its tide.
• The Nine-Tailed Great Sage, Canglang Ancestor, and Dao Lord Kunhe emerged, joining Tianyu, Tianxuan, and Tianxing to surround Kaiyuan.
• Kaiyuan learned that Qiantian was absent and rejected Kunhe’s claim that he had come to see Kaiyuan off.
• Kaiyuan struck the Nine-Tailed Great Sage with his Heaven-Piercing Kaiyuan Seal and unleashed Heavenly River Surges · World-Covering.
• The Nine-Tailed Great Sage struggled to repel Kaiyuan’s attacks while Canglang Ancestor refused to intervene.

Daoist Lord Kaiyuan faced six Pure Yang cultivators and summoned the River of Time, forcing them into a perilous battle upon its waters. After Qingqiu fell and the Nine-Tailed Great Sage’s fortune collapsed, Kaiyuan killed him, leaving the other cultivators still trapped in the river.

• The Nine-Tailed Great Sage, Tianyu, Tianxuan, Tianxing, and Dao Lord Kunhe attacked Daoist Lord Kaiyuan together while the Canglang Ancestor watched.
• Kaiyuan cleaved open the Chaos Void with the Tianhe World-Sealing Ruler and drew the River of Time around himself and his enemies.
• Kaiyuan fought the Nine-Tailed Great Sage relentlessly on the river for more than ten years, while the other Pure Yang cultivators joined the battle.
• Kaiyuan severed the Nine-Tailed Great Sage’s fate, and Qingqiu’s mountain gates fell, its Dao lineage was destroyed, and its blood descendants were exterminated.
• Kaiyuan struck the Nine-Tailed Great Sage with the Heaven-Piercing Kaiyuan Seal, then used the Tianhe World-Sealing Ruler to unleash a wave that swept over him.
• The Nine-Tailed Great Sage’s corpse rose from the River of Time, confirming his death.

Daoist Lord Kaiyuan returned from the River of Time after killing the Nine-Tailed Great Sage and rejoining his allies, while the Tushan Primordial Lord remained detained by Daoist Lord Golden Mother. At a gathering in the Three Realms, the Shanhe Daoist Sect’s leaders began discussing how to unite the worlds, and Mingyang Heavenly Venerable introduced the Investiture of the Gods as a possible plan.

• The Nine-Tailed Great Sage fell in the River of Time, and the Tushan Primordial Lord sensed her death while playing chess with Daoist Lord Golden Mother, who insisted she remain for another thousand years.
• Daoist Lord Kaiyuan emerged from the River of Time carrying the Nine-Tailed Great Sage’s fox pelt, and the Canglang Ancestor departed without having joined the battle.
• Daoist Lords Dejing, Miaoyan, and Yueheng returned with Daoist Lord Kaiyuan to the Three Realms after confirming that Junior Brother Xuanjian had been brought back safely.
• Several months later, Pure Yang Dao Lords and the two Dao-Ruling True Yang gathered at Xuming Heavenly Palace to discuss Jiuzhou World and the unification of All Heavens and Myriad Worlds.
• Mingyang Heavenly Venerable told the gathered Dao Lords that His Majesty had proposed an idea and asked whether they had heard of the Investiture of the Gods.