Chapter Summaries

Heavenly Venerable Qingyan and Mingyang Heavenly Venerable agreed to help the Heavenly Emperor forge an Investiture of the Gods and planned to seize Tianyuan and Jiuzhou so Daoist Lord Kaiyuan could advance. In Tianyuan, Jiang Sheng recovered from the Jurong World battles while Bai He departed after telling him to seek out Mo Wenxin, a former child of fortune from Jiuzhou.

• Heavenly Venerable Qingyan explained that the Daoist Tradition, Divine Path, and Buddhist Sect would forge an Investiture of the Gods, binding those who lost the coming conflict to its commands.
• Heavenly Venerable Qingyan and Mingyang Heavenly Venerable urged Daoist Lord Kaiyuan to restore his strength, then secure Tianyuan and conquer Jiuzhou to gain the fortune and merit needed for his breakthrough.
• Several years later, Bai He visited Jiang Sheng at the Foothill Mountain Cloud Palace and praised his victories in the Jurong World before accepting a share of his cave-heaven spoils.
• Bai He described the Tianyuan Sacred Sect's retreat and the other Daoist sects' attacks, while Jiang Sheng remained in seclusion to recover and refine what he had gained.
• Bai He told Jiang Sheng that Mo Wenxin, a former child of fortune from Jiuzhou, might help him, then finished her tea and left.

Cultivators gathered at Foothill Mountain to witness the Six Great Upper Sects move Mist Mountain’s immortal-grade spirit vein there. When both spirit veins broke loose and threatened to ascend as dragons, a command from the summit and an immortal sword subdued them, restoring the mountain.

• A Golden Core Realm True Person told a young cultivator that Foothill Mountain had once been the foremost of the Eight Great Upper Sects before True Lord Yuchen Lingyuan destroyed it and took up residence there.
• Six True Lords brought Mist Mountain’s spirit vein to Foothill Mountain and settled it beneath the earth.
• Mist Mountain’s spirit vein turned restless after merging with Foothill Mountain’s vein, erupted from the ground, and resisted the six True Lords’ efforts to suppress it.
• Foothill Mountain’s own spirit vein rebelled and surged skyward while the True Lords were occupied with Mist Mountain’s vein.
• A quiet command from the summit sent azure and violet sword light into both spirit-vein dragons, subduing them and restoring Foothill Mountain.

Jiang Sheng warned Cloud Perch Continent’s True Lords about the rising Calamity Aura and spent sixty years recovering and studying the Celestial Fox Secret Canon. He began forging his own cultivation path, which he tentatively named Severance.

• Jiang Sheng explained that the spiritual veins had tried to transform into dragons amid the rising calamity and warned Yunzhen and the other True Lords to remain on Cloud Perch Continent and keep outsiders away.
• After the six True Lords left, Jiang Sheng concluded that Tianhe Dao Sect’s takeover of Tianyuan World would bring a bloody purge, then settled down to recover and study the Celestial Fox Secret Canon.
• Jiang Sheng spent sixty years drinking tea at Foothill Cloud Immortal Palace, then ordered the restrictions lifted across three million li around Foothill Mountain and barred strangers from entering.
• Jiang Sheng recited passages about Taiyi and the profound as he walked the palace galleries, clearing the minds of cultivators throughout the surrounding mountains and rivers.
• Jiang Sheng reread his notes on the Nine-Tailed Great Sage’s Celestial Fox Secret Canon and resolved to forge an original path beyond the old methods of calamity and tribulation, tentatively naming it Severance.

Jiang Sheng spent a century adapting the Nine-Tailed Great Sage’s cultivation insights into a nine-trial method suited to his own Dao. With that work complete, he began reforging the Qingping Sword and the Zhu-Lu-Xian-Jue swords in a furnace of heaven-and-earth energy above Foothill Mountain.

• Jiang Sheng studied the Celestial Fox Secret Canon, drawing on the Nine-Tailed Great Sage’s records of Pure Yang and cultivation while rejecting methods unsuited to his human body.
• Jiang Sheng spent a hundred years developing a method based on nine apertures, nine palaces, and nine trials, which he believed could become his own Dao.
• Jiang Sheng resolved to reforge his bonded treasures after battles with Qiyuan, Chi Peng, and Jin Yu revealed that his sword and Divine Abilities lacked speed and sharpness.
• Jiang Sheng summoned the Zhu-Xian Sword, Lu-Xian Sword, Jue-Xian Sword, and Xian-Xian Sword to join the Qingping Sword, then drew on the Foothill Mountain and Mist Mountain spirit veins.
• Jiang Sheng formed a vast furnace above Foothill Mountain and began tempering all five swords with heavenly lightning, fire, and the power of yin-yang creation and tribulation annihilation.

Jiang Sheng spent more than two hundred years reforging the Qingping Sword and the four swords of Zhu-Lu-Xian-Jue, then rewarded the six sects and began preparing for further cultivation. His seclusion was interrupted by Underworld Lord Shaobai, who invited him to explore a secret realm and hinted that its destination concerned the Divine Path beyond Panfeng World.

• Jiang Sheng used the essences of broken treasures and many rare materials to temper his five swords for more than two hundred years, greatly improving their power.
• Jiang Sheng dismissed the tribulation and restored the spiritual resonance of Foothill Mountain, then rewarded the six sects' elders and ordered them to replenish the mountain's spiritual veins with spirit stones.
• Jiang Sheng reviewed treasures and insights he had taken from Qiyuan, planned to cultivate in seclusion until Daoist Lord Kaiyuan returned, and received a visit from Underworld Lord Shaobai.
• Underworld Lord Shaobai praised Jiang Sheng's deeds in Jurong World and invited him to join an expedition to a treasure-filled secret realm.
• Jiang Sheng questioned Shaobai about remaining in Tianyuan World after Daoist Lord Kaiyuan's return and declined the expedition, but Shaobai asked whether he knew of a Divine Path beyond Panfeng World.

Underworld Lord Shaobai told Jiang Sheng that Panfeng World had defeated Buzhou World ten thousand years earlier, seized its fortune, and destroyed its Divine Court. He invited Jiang Sheng to explore the attendant-god abodes of four fallen divine masters, leaving Jiang Sheng to consider the opportunity.

• Underworld Lord Shaobai explained that seven Great Thousand Worlds followed the Divine Path and named Panfeng and Buzhou as its strongest worlds.
• He revealed that Panfeng and Buzhou had each once possessed seven divine masters and established a Divine Court.
• Underworld Lord Shaobai said Panfeng defeated Buzhou ten thousand years ago, taking its fortune and resources as Panfeng's Heavenly Emperor rose to rule the Three Realms.
• He explained that the divine masters controlling water, fire, wind, and thunder had perished, leaving Buzhou's Divine Court in ruins.
• Underworld Lord Shaobai proposed that he and Jiang Sheng explore the four fallen divine masters' attendant-god abodes.

Jiang Sheng rejected Underworld Lord Shaobai’s invitation to search Buzhou World and spent more than a century refining the Nine Passes Method before an old friend sought his help. Kong Zhen reported that Jin Qiong was missing in Buzhou World, and Xuanyi arrived with word that Xuan Xin was trapped there too.

• Jiang Sheng declined Underworld Lord Shaobai’s proposal to explore Buzhou World, citing the danger and his supposed injuries, then sealed Cloud Palace to cultivate.
• Jiang Sheng recorded his understanding of the Nine Passes Method and spent more than a hundred years refining his body, spirit, Dao Fruit, and True Spirit.
• After reaching a bottleneck, Jiang Sheng paused his cultivation to paint and carve talismans before welcoming Kong Zhen from Shanhe World.
• Kong Zhen told Jiang Sheng that Jin Qiong had gone alone to Buzhou World seeking the legacy of a fallen Divine Lord, and that her life lamp had grown dim.
• Xuanyi arrived and told Jiang Sheng that Xuan Xin was trapped in Buzhou World and needed help, making Jiang Sheng realize that several friends’ troubles led to the same world.

Jiang Sheng investigated the mysterious Buzhou World after learning that Jinqiong and Xuan Xin were trapped there, and his divination could reveal neither fortune nor misfortune. After gathering Shaobai Nether Lord, Kong Zhen, and Xuanyi, he prepared to set out to rescue them.

• Jiang Sheng agreed to investigate Buzhou World with Kong Zhen and Xuanyi, and asked them to find out whether others from Shanhe World had gone there.
• Jiang Sheng divined with an Exquisite Tortoise Shell, but the omen said that creation's chaos veiled heaven's secrets.
• Jiang Sheng traveled to Lingluo Sea and visited Shaobai Nether Lord, who explained that Azure Flood Dragon had led him to false leads before revealing information about Buzhou World.
• Jiang Sheng invited Shaobai Nether Lord to join the rescue, and Shaobai agreed to help in exchange for assistance if they found something useful to him.
• Kong Zhen and Xuanyi reported that only Jinqiong and Xuan Xin from Shanhe World had entered Buzhou World, so Jiang Sheng and the others agreed to depart at once.

Jin Qiong struggled through the fire domain where the Three Fairy Sisters had trapped and wounded her, while they hunted her across the scorched realm. The sisters discussed using Xuan Xin to draw her out and suspected a conspiracy behind the rush of powerful figures to Buzhou World, warning that even True Lord Lingyuan might not escape.

• Jin Qiong recalled her past defeats by Jiang Sheng and Fahui and regretted coming to Buzhou World in search of a chance to restore her reputation.
• One of the Three Fairy Sisters taunted Jin Qiong as she fled through Divine Sovereign Zhurong’s fire domain, and Jin Qiong concealed her traces while searching for a place to recover.
• The Three Fairy Sisters Meijiang, Lanzhen, and Taoyuan agreed that Jin Qiong was weakened enough for their pursuit to wear her down.
• Lanzhen proposed using Xuan Xin to lure Jin Qiong out but warned that he was a True Disciple of the Qinghua Dao Sect, which the sisters did not want to provoke.
• Lanzhen suspected a conspiracy behind the news of Buzhou World and predicted that the Three Realms’ prodigies, including True Lord Lingyuan, might be unable to leave once they arrived.

Lanzhen deduced that the Buzhou World’s unprotected treasures had drawn dangerous factions, and Jin Qiong chose to face the Three Beauties rather than risk Xuan Xin dying to save her. Elsewhere, the Heng Ha Brothers trapped Xuan Xin in the Raging Wind Domain until a powerful swordsman intervened.

• Lanzhen explained to Taoyuan that the Buzhou World’s factions risked being caught in the coming conflict between East Heaven of the Three Realms and the Jiuzhou World, and Meijiang spotted Jin Qiong’s location.
• Jin Qiong learned that Xuan Xin had come to rescue her, swallowed a Three Divine Pill, and prepared to fight the Three Beauties before the medicine’s three-quarter-hour limit expired.
• Lanzhen, Meijiang, and Taoyuan attacked Jin Qiong, and their battle shook the Scorching Fire Domain as the flames spread into neighboring domains.
• Xuan Xin recounted being pursued by Crown Prince Youhua before the Heng Ha Brothers, Buguai and Buqi, trapped him in the Raging Wind Domain and attacked him.
• The Heng Ha Brothers threatened to strike down even Xuanyi and Penglai Lingyuan, but a majestic Sword Qi forced them back as an unseen speaker challenged their claim.

Xuanyi, Shaobai, Kong Zhen, and Jiang Sheng rescued Xuan Xin from the Heng Ha Brothers and followed him toward Jinqiong. They arrived in the Turbid Fire Domain just as Jinqiong’s attackers fled, and Jiang Sheng realized she had taken the Three Divine Pills.

• A sword strike from Ling Yuan wounded the Heng Ha Brothers, and Xuanyi drove them off with a furious attack before they escaped using their combined crimson and dark qi.
• Xuan Xin told the group that Crown Prince Youhua and the Heng Ha Brothers had delayed him, and Shaobai warned that their worlds might have allied with Jiuzhou World.
• Xuan Xin sensed Jinqiong ahead and explained that she was in a fire domain formed from one of Divine Lord Zhurong’s subordinate gods.
• Jinqiong fought Meijiang, Lanzhen, and Taoyuan in the Turbid Fire Domain, then revealed her Golden-Winged Roc form as the three maidens fled from approaching reinforcements.
• Jiang Sheng, Xuanyi, Xuan Xin, Kong Zhen, and Shaobai reached Jinqiong, and Jiang Sheng asked whether she had swallowed the Three Divine Pills.

Jin Qiong recovered after Xuanyi gave her a Three Profound Upper Clarity Elixir, while Jiang Sheng declared that they would find and kill the hidden ally of their enemies. The chapter ended with the Three Fairy Sisters learning that Lingyuan had appeared in the Raging Wind Domain and seeing the wounds his sword had inflicted on the Heng Ha Brothers.

• Jin Qiong told Kong Zhen and Xuan Xin that the Three Fairy Sisters had ambushed and pursued her after she took the Three Divine Pills.
• Xuanyi gave Jin Qiong and Xuan Xin Three Profound Upper Clarity Elixirs, then offered another to Underworld Lord Shaobai to secure his aid.
• Jiang Sheng suspected someone from Jiuzhou World was hiding in Buzhou World and vowed to find and kill him and his collaborators.
• Jin Qiong and Xuan Xin began recovering while Xuanyi and Kong Zhen prepared their supplies for the fighting ahead.
• Crown Prince Youhua met with the Heng Ha Brothers in a pure land at the edge of Bad Wind World, where the Three Fairy Sisters arrived.
• Meijiang learned that the Heng Ha Brothers had encountered Lingyuan in the Raging Wind Domain and saw the wounds his sword had inflicted on them.

Crown Prince Youhua explained how Lingyuan gravely wounded the Heng Ha Brothers in a single breath and warned the three sisters against underestimating him. He then persuaded Lanzhen to rally the allied cultivators for another attempt to trap Lingyuan and his companions, claiming their preparations gave them a strong chance of victory.

• Crown Prince Youhua told Meijiang, Lanzhen, and Taoyuan that Lingyuan had wounded the Heng Ha Brothers alongside Xuanyi, Kong Zhen, and Shaobai while they pursued Xuan Xin.
• Youhua described how Lingyuan's sword struck in one breath, damaging the brothers' bodies and souls and leaving calamity aura that he had to suppress.
• Youhua reminded the three sisters that Lingyuan had killed True Lord Qiyuan and warned them that joining forces with him would not guarantee victory.
• Taoyuan questioned why they were fighting the Shanhe Daoist Sect if they could not defeat Lingyuan, and Youhua argued that the sect's rising power had united its enemies.
• Youhua asked Lanzhen to invite their fellow Xuanmen cultivators to test Lingyuan's group, and she agreed.
• Youhua revealed that seven Great Thousand Worlds and twelve Cave Profound True Lords had assembled and declared that Lingyuan ought to fall.

Jiang Sheng’s group planned to strike back against their enemies in the Buzhou World, but suspicions about their route and Jin Qiong’s sudden poisoning led Jiang Sheng to uncover a deception. In the Dead Sea Domain, he attacked the figure posing as Xuan Xin, and a voice asked how he had discovered it.

• Daoist Changsheng and Daoist Busi revealed that they themselves would act against the Heterodox Sect’s schemes and warned Fairy Lanzhen to tell Crown Prince Youhua not to test his allies.
• Underworld Lord Shaobai questioned the accuracy of Xuan Xin’s map and warned that surviving Buzhou deities might be luring outsiders into a trap.
• Jiang Sheng and the others agreed to leave the divine death domains and prepare an ambush, then traveled from the Scorching Fire Domain through the Raging Wind Domain toward the Rotten Water Domain.
• Jin Qiong suddenly weakened from an unexplained poison, so Xuanyi, Kong Zhen, and Underworld Lord Shaobai stayed behind while Jiang Sheng went ahead with Xuan Xin.
• Jiang Sheng confronted the figure posing as Xuan Xin in the Dead Sea Domain and attacked with his sword, drawing a voice that asked how he had discovered the deception.

Jiang Sheng exposed the disguised Xuan Xin and fought the two Xuanhu World cultivators, Changsheng and Busi, who revealed themselves as late-stage Void Refinement experts. He shattered their Yin-Yang Millstone and gravely wounded them before they escaped, then realized someone else was also present in Buzhou World.

• Jiang Sheng sensed the trap, broke the yin-yang currents with the Qingping Sword, and cut the disguised Xuan Xin in half.
• Changsheng joined Xuan Xin, and the two revealed their identities as Xuanhu World cultivators bearing Xuanmen Dao Fruits.
• Jiang Sheng challenged Changsheng and Busi, then shattered their Yin-Yang Millstone with his Heaven-Cutting stroke.
• Jiang Sheng struck again, shattered their Dao Wheels, and sent both men plunging into the Dead Sea, badly wounded.
• A dark gleam rescued Changsheng and Busi before the deathly water could consume them, and Jiang Sheng concluded that another person was present.

Jiang Sheng exposed and defeated Changsheng and Busi of Daoyi Palace, who had impersonated Xuan Xin and poisoned Jin Qiong to undermine the Shanhe Daoist Sect. At a hidden refuge in Buzhou World, Crown Prince Youhua and the allied True Disciples learned how badly Jiang Sheng had wounded them and agreed they needed to join forces.

• Underworld Lord Shaobai identified the disguised Xuan Xin as Busi of Daoyi Palace and connected his plot to Jin Qiong’s poisoning.
• Jiang Sheng collected Changsheng and Busi’s blood essence and returned with Underworld Lord Shaobai to the Rotten Water Domain, where Xuanyi treated Jin Qiong and explained the Face-Peeling Life-Substitution Art.
• Xuanyi said Busi had used Xuan Xin’s face and fate to deceive the Shanhe True Disciples, but could not yet fully replace him, and Jiang Sheng proposed using the attackers’ blood essence to locate them and exchange them for Xuan Xin.
• At the hidden refuge in the ruins of Jumang’s divine hall, Crown Prince Youhua asked why Changsheng and Busi were absent and learned their plan had failed.
• Crown Prince Youhua saw Changsheng and Busi grievously wounded by Jiang Sheng’s sword, and Zhenhuo urged the allied factions to join forces against him.

Crown Prince Youhua’s allies tried to heal Changsheng and Busi with Grand Unity Five-Spirit Pills, but the two discovered they had been cursed with sympathetic sorcery. At the same time, Xuanyi used the Nail-Head Seven-Arrows Book against them and threatened to kill them unless they returned Xuan Xin.

• Crown Prince Youhua learned that Changsheng and Busi had acted independently and worried that Xuan Xin’s death would force a deadly confrontation with Xuanyi and the others.
• Fairy Xiaogong refined two Grand Unity Five-Spirit Pills, which Changsheng and Busi took to heal their bodies and souls.
• Two days later, Changsheng and Busi’s condition suddenly worsened, and Changsheng identified sympathetic sorcery as the cause.
• Xuanyi completed the seventh day of the Nail-Head Seven-Arrows Book ritual and shot bone arrows into effigies made to resemble Changsheng and Busi.
• Xuanyi demanded that Changsheng and Busi return Xuan Xin or face death, while Jiang Sheng vowed to stop anyone who came after them.

Jiang Sheng and Underworld Lord Shaobai prepared for battle in the Rotten Water Domain as nine Cave Profound true disciples arrived to stop Xuanyi’s curse ritual. The fighting began, while Crown Prince Youhua and Jin Yang waited for Penglai Lingyuan to enter the fray.

• Jiang Sheng told Underworld Lord Shaobai that both sides would have to fight once they dealt with the hostages and that the conflict would come to a head within three to five days.
• Daoist Jin Yang gathered the allied true disciples, promised rewards for their help, and led them toward the Rotten Water Domain while Fairy Xiaogong stayed behind to guard Changsheng and Busi.
• Nine Cave Profound and Void Refinement cultivators arrived at the Shanhe Dharma Boat, and Jin Yang demanded that Xuanyi dismantle the ritual platform.
• Jin Yang attacked with great sun golden flame, but Kong Zhen met it with Five-Element Shimmering Divine Radiance as the other cultivators joined battle.
• Jin Qiong intercepted the Three Fairy Sisters, while the Heng Ha Brothers clashed with Underworld Lord Shaobai and Daoists Zhenshui and Zhenhuo.
• Crown Prince Youhua and Jin Yang held back as Youhua recognized the Daoist watching from the sword pavilion as Penglai Lingyuan.

Jiang Sheng destroyed the Rotten Water Domain, slew the awakened Pure Water Heavenly God with one sword, and revealed that the Shanhe Daoist Sect had divined the enemy’s hidden location. As the allied cultivators attacked him and tried to pursue his companions, Jiang Sheng raised the Green Lotus Array Diagram and summoned four immortal swords.

• Jin Yang and Youhua sent a Golden Crow and a Netherworld flood dragon toward the Dharma Boat, forcing Jiang Sheng to draw his sword and shatter the Rotten Water Domain.
• The Pure Water Heavenly God awakened from the ruined domain, but Jiang Sheng killed him with a single Severing Karma strike.
• Jiang Sheng confronted the nine opposing cultivators while Kong Zhen guarded Xuanyi and Jin Qiong and Underworld Lord Shaobai went after Changsheng and Busi at their hidden location.
• Jiang Sheng stopped Zhenshui, Zhenhuo, and the Heng Ha Brothers from pursuing his companions with four immortal swords.
• Jin Yang, Youhua, and the Three Fairy Sisters attacked Jiang Sheng together, while Jin Yang ordered the others to kill Xuanyi and Kong Zhen.
• Jiang Sheng summoned the Green Lotus Array Diagram and declared that the others would first face his sword array.

Jiang Sheng trapped Jin Yang, Youhua, and their allies in the Green Lotus Array Diagram combined with the Zhu-Lu-Xian-Jue swords, turning the battle in his favor. The Heng Ha Brothers tried to escape but were struck down, and the chapter ended with Jiang Sheng revealing two treasures once wielded by the Heavenly Fortune Qiyuan True Lord.

• Jiang Sheng activated the Green Lotus Array Diagram and the four Zhu-Lu-Xian-Jue swords, forming a killing formation that trapped the nine opponents in calamity and chaos.
• Jin Yang, Youhua, the Three Fairy Sisters, the Water and Fire Daoists, and the Heng Ha Brothers attacked the formation together, but their divine abilities were shattered by its swords.
• Youhua urged the group to fight Jiang Sheng, while the Heng Ha Brothers pretended to attack him and instead tried to blast open the void and flee.
• Jiang Sheng struck Buguai with the Blazing Sun Gold Striker and Buqi with the Xuanyuan Diamond Bracelet, while Youhua and the Three Fairy Sisters failed to overwhelm him with summoned mountains.
• Youhua, Jin Yang, and the Three Fairy Sisters recognized the Blazing Sun Gold Striker and Xuanyuan Diamond Bracelet as treasures of the Heavenly Fortune Qiyuan True Lord.