Chapter Summaries

Jiang Feiling brought Li Tianming to the Sixfold Sword Comprehension Stone, where Jian Wuyi explained that the Sixfold Life-and-Death Sword lay beyond six Sword Barriers. Li Tianming touched the stone and sensed the immense sword intent within its first barrier, while the gathered experts expected little from him.

• Jiang Feiling set out for the Sixfold Sword Comprehension Stone with Li Tianming, guarded by Fang Qingli, Xuanyuan Dao, and Primordial Xuanyuan Clan experts.
• Jian Wuyi told Li Tianming that the Primordial Divine Sect had taken the stone from the Sixfold Sword Sect and explained the Sword Barriers and the Sixfold Sword God's inheritance.
• Jian Wuyi revealed that the Sixfold Life-and-Death Sword was the Yanhuang Continent's greatest sword art, but no one since the Sixfold Sword God had passed all six barriers.
• Jiang Feiling called Li Tianming into the inner ring and asked him to try to comprehend the Sword Barriers.
• Li Tianming placed his left hand on the stone, recognized its Heavenly Pattern formations, and sensed the first barrier's vast, majestic sword intent.

Li Tianming used his Heaven-Stealing Clan Dark Arm to break through the Six Paths Sword God’s sword barriers in the Sword Comprehension Stone instead of comprehending them. After he shattered all six barriers, the stone transformed into the Six Paths Sword God.

• Li Tianming used his Dark Arm to pick open the first sword barrier in a few breaths, stunning Xuanyuan Dao, Fang Qingli, and Jian Wuyi.
• Li Tianming ignored the sword arts revealed by the first two barriers and broke through the second and third barriers by force.
• Li Tianming continued through the Animal Path and Asura Path barriers, matching Yanhuang Continent’s highest record in less than half an hour.
• Li Tianming broke the sixth barrier, which contained eighteen layers of hell, and the Sword Enlightenment Stone transformed into a white-browed old man identified as the Six Paths Sword God.

Li Tianming broke the seventh sword barrier and inherited the Six Paths Life and Death Sword, while Jiang Feiling kept the secret from the Ancient Theocracy Sect’s allies. After five days of cultivation, he reached the Ninth Level of the Heavenly Saint Realm, and the Alliance Battle began.

• Jiang Feiling ordered the witnesses to keep Li Tianming’s breakthrough secret, and Xuanyuan Dao promised they would protect his inheritance.
• Li Tianming broke the seventh sword barrier and received the first move of the Six Paths Life and Death Sword from the Six Paths Sword God’s remnant.
• Li Tianming told Jiang Feiling and the others that he had obtained the sword art, and she allowed him to return to the palace to comprehend it.
• Jian Wuyi warned Li Tianming to keep the inheritance secret and focus on raising his cultivation.
• After five days of training, Li Tianming reached the Ninth Level of the Heavenly Saint Realm and worked on the sword art with Yinghuo.
• Jian Xueyi called Li Tianming outside as the Alliance Battle arrived, telling him to come be cannon fodder.

Li Tianming joined Jian Xueyi and the Sword King Alliance as they headed to the One Origin Battlefield for the alliance battle. As the gathered forces prepared to fight, he set his sights on becoming the top Alliance Leader and winning the promised rewards.

• Li Tianming met Jian Xueyi and Lin Xiaoxiao, who said she had reached the third level of cultivation.
• Jian Xueyi led more than forty thousand Sword King Alliance disciples toward the One Origin Battlefield and urged them to fight for their future.
• Lin Xiaoxiao explained that the battlefield’s nine-star Heavenly Pattern formation contained an enormous illusory arena, and Li Tianming wondered whether his Eye of Insight could see through it.
• The Sword King Alliance arrived at the crowded battlefield, where disciples, elders, and spectators from other sects had gathered.
• The Clear River Association arrived, and Li Tianming learned that its leaders, Fang Hongxuan and Fang Bihan, were twins from the Supreme Clarity Fang Clan.
• Li Tianming resolved to become the number one Alliance Leader to win the Heaven Origin Cauldron, tribulation-pattern spirit calamities, and the Eye of the Primordial Evil Demon.

Li Tianming entered the Alliance Battle with the Sword King Alliance and learned that its ranking depended on the proportion of disciples who surrendered. As the battle began, he left the alliance’s cautious formation with Lin Xiaoxiao to hunt Gu Shaoyu, commander of the Dragon Martial Alliance’s scout teams.

• Jian Xueyi led the Sword King Alliance into the illusion battlefield after Li Tianming learned how Crimson Flame Books signaled surrender and determined alliance rankings.
• Li Tianming secretly showed an elder his Human Origin Saint token, then entered the battlefield and saw the Sword King Alliance establish defenses and deploy scout teams.
• Li Tianming used the Eye of Insight to view the real battlefield and watched the Dragon Martial Alliance enter before the Alliance Battle began.
• While Jian Xueyi’s forces focused on scouting and avoiding early losses, Li Tianming took Lin Xiaoxiao and set out to attack Gu Shaoyu, commander of the Dragon Martial Alliance’s Azure Nether Hall scout teams.

Li Tianming tracked down Gu Shaoyu away from the Dragon Martial Alliance’s main force and killed him after awakening the Human Path Myriad Lives Sword. The chapter ends with the alliance learning that Li Tianming has slain Gu Shaoyu, prompting Xuanyuan Yufeng to react.

• Li Tianming used the Eye of Insight to find Gu Shaoyu and brought Lin Xiaoxiao to confront him in a snowy valley.
• Li Tianming and Gu Shaoyu destroyed their Crimson Flame Books, then Li Tianming sent Lin Xiaoxiao to fight Gu Shaoyu’s female helmsman.
• Gu Shaoyu summoned the Peerless War Pig while Li Tianming called out Yinghuo, Miaomiao, and Lanhuang to battle it.
• Li Tianming awakened the Human Path Myriad Lives Sword, severed Gu Shaoyu’s tribulation artifact, and killed him with the Eastern Emperor Sword.
• Yinghuo, Miaomiao, and Lanhuang defeated the Peerless War Pig without Li Tianming’s help, and Li Tianming left with Lin Xiaoxiao.
• A female branch master brought Gu Shaoyu’s head to the Dragon Martial Alliance and named Li Tianming as his killer, drawing a savage reaction from Xuanyuan Yufeng.

Li Tianming began using the Dragon Martial Alliance’s scouts to train in the Human Path Sword of All Beings and strengthen his Imperial Providence. By nightfall, after defeating hundreds of scouts, he encountered Gu Qingyin and Xuanyuan Xixi, who sought revenge against him.

• Xuanyuan Yuheng and Xuanyuan Muxue watched Li Tianming in the illusion battlefield and discussed his potential, the Revered Deity, and Muxue’s hopes of entering the Starry Pool.
• Li Tianming decided to spend half a month hunting Dragon Martial Alliance scouts so he could practice the Six Paths Life-and-Death Sword and build his Imperial Providence.
• Li Tianming attacked two scouts but let them surrender, then continued striking at groups while trying to reproduce the sword that had defeated Gu Shaoyu.
• By dusk, Li Tianming had defeated more than five hundred Dragon Martial Alliance disciples and killed several who refused to surrender.
• Li Tianming encountered a scouting group led by Gu Qingyin and accompanied by Xuanyuan Xixi, and Gu Qingyin threatened to kill him to avenge his sister.

Li Tianming killed Gu Qingyin and continued honing the Humanity All-Living Sword while disrupting the Dragon Martial Alliance. As the Dragon Martial Alliance crushed the Blood Oath Alliance at Wind Chime Valley, Li Tianming decided to keep hunting its scouts.

• Li Tianming killed Gu Qingyin after Gu attacked him, then Xuanyuan Xixi activated her Scarlet Flame Book and warned that Gu’s Divine Master and Xuanyuan Xixi’s second brother would seek revenge.
• Li Tianming continued practicing the Humanity All-Living Sword, using fights against opponents to improve his understanding of it.
• The Dragon Martial Alliance learned that Li Tianming had defeated many scouts and killed Gu Qingyin, but Xuanyuan Yufeng chose to target other alliances instead.
• Xuanyuan Yufeng led one hundred thousand Dragon Martial Alliance disciples into Wind Chime Valley and routed the Blood Oath Alliance, forcing thousands to surrender.
• Li Tianming watched the battle, judged that the Dragon Martial Alliance was most vulnerable while celebrating its victory, and continued hunting its scouts.

Li Tianming hunted Dragon Martial Alliance scouts across the One Yuan Battlefield, mastered the Human Path Myriad Lives Sword, and broke through to the Ancient Saint Realm. When Xuanyuan Ganggang led a force to kill him, Li Tianming instantly slew him with one sword, leaving the attackers terrified.

• Li Tianming killed thousands of Dragon Martial Alliance scouts over several days, disrupting the alliance’s progress as Xuanyuan Yufeng increased their number to twenty thousand.
• After defeating ten thousand opponents, Li Tianming perfected the Human Path Myriad Lives Sword to minor mastery.
• Lin Xiaoxiao guarded Li Tianming while he meditated, and he broke through to the first level of the Ancient Saint Realm as Yinghuo, Miaomiao, and Lanhuang also advanced.
• Xuanyuan Ganggang, Tang Lingshan, and Wen Haocheng arrived with more than a hundred Ancient Saint Realm fighters and moved to surround Li Tianming.
• Li Tianming charged Xuanyuan Ganggang and killed him instantly with the Humanity Myriad Beings Sword, causing the rest of the force to stop and kneel in fear.

Li Tianming routed Dragon Martial Alliance forces, then Xuanyuan Yufeng chose to lead the Alliance against the Sword King Alliance while ignoring the Clear River Society. The two allied groups had gathered at Galaxy Valley, unaware that the decisive battle was approaching.

• Li Tianming defeated and scattered Dragon Martial Alliance fighters, killing Xuanyuan Ganggang and forcing Hall Masters Tang Lingshan and Wen Haocheng to surrender.
• When several thousand Dragon Martial Alliance members advanced, Li Tianming fled with Lin Xiaoxiao and said he would continue fighting until he had defeated another ten percent of them.
• Xuanyuan Yufeng heard reports of Li Tianming’s attacks but ordered his army to prepare for battle after a green signal appeared ahead.
• Dragon Martial Alliance scouts confirmed that the Sword King Alliance and Clear River Society had combined forces, and Xuanyuan Yufeng ordered his troops to attack only the Sword King Alliance.
• At Galaxy Valley, Jian Xueyi and the Clear River Society leaders discussed the Dragon Martial Alliance’s low ranking, unaware that its army was advancing toward them.

Fang Hongxuan and Fang Bihan betrayed Jian Xueyi’s alliance with Sword King Guild and trapped her between Clear River Guild and Dragon Martial Guild. Jian Xueyi rallied her disciples to defend Galaxy Valley as both enemy guilds charged in and battle began.

• A scout warned Jian Xueyi that seventy or eighty thousand Dragon Martial Guild disciples were heading for Galaxy Valley, and she ordered Sword King Guild to retreat.
• Fang Hongxuan revealed that Clear River Guild had given Dragon Martial Guild Sword King Guild’s location, while Fang Bihan explained that they had chosen to side with Xuanyuan Yufeng.
• Clear River Guild attacked from the north and Dragon Martial Guild approached from the south, leaving Sword King Guild trapped in Galaxy Valley.
• Jian Xueyi ordered Sword King Guild to tighten its formation around the river and urged her disciples to fight rather than surrender.
• Clear River Guild’s beast tamers and companion beasts entered the valley as Dragon Martial Guild charged from the south, and the battle began.

Li Tianming entered the chaotic battle at Silvermoon Valley and attacked Clear River Society’s leaders, Fang Hongxuan and Fang Bihan. After severing Fang Bihan’s hand and destroying her Scarlet Flame Book, he trapped the leaders and their fighters inside his sword barrier, leaving Fang Bihan unable to surrender.

• Li Tianming left Lin Xiaoxiao on the mountain and slipped into Clear River Society’s crowd to locate its leaders.
• He found Fang Hongxuan and Fang Bihan directing the assault at Silvermoon Valley and rushed them with the twin blades of the Eastern Emperor Sword.
• Li Tianming and his lifebound beasts attacked the siblings, and he cut off Fang Bihan’s hand and crushed the Scarlet Flame Book in her spatial ring.
• Fang Hongxuan and Fang Bihan called for reinforcements and their lifebound beasts as thousands of Clear River Society disciples surrounded Li Tianming.
• Li Tianming unleashed the Imperial Domain Sword Emperor Barrier, then used Lanhuang’s Azure Sea Prison to rush behind Fang Bihan and leave her unable to surrender.

Li Tianming fought off the Clear River Alliance’s leaders while their disciples tried to break through his Imperial Domain Sword Emperor Barrier. He captured Fang Hongxuan and Fang Bihan, then forced the alliance to halt by crushing one of Fang Hongxuan’s fingers.

• Li Tianming sent Yinghuo to fight the wounded Fang Bihan while Lanhuang and Miaomiao held off the two phoenixes; Miaomiao absorbed the Black Sky Thundercloud Phoenix’s lightning and blasted it from the sky.
• Li Tianming faced Fang Hongxuan and used the Myriad Tribulations Sword and Human Path Sentient Beings Sword to pierce Fang Hongxuan’s shoulder, wound his finger, and knock him down.
• Li Tianming took Fang Hongxuan’s spatial ring and Thousand Thunder Sword, then bound him with the Three Thousand Starfield.
• Fang Bihan rushed to help Fang Hongxuan, but Li Tianming and Yinghuo cornered her, and she surrendered before Li Tianming struck and bound her too.
• Li Tianming threatened Fang Hongxuan to make the Clear River Alliance disciples stop advancing, then crushed one of his remaining fingers when he refused.

Li Tianming captured Clear River Association leaders Fang Hongxuan and Fang Bihan and forced them to order their forty thousand disciples to join the Sword King Alliance against the Dragon Martial Alliance. As Clear River Association troops swept toward the enemy’s rear, Jian Xueyi learned that Li Tianming had turned the battle around.

• Li Tianming threatened Fang Hongxuan and Fang Bihan with humiliating treatment until they surrendered and agreed to order Clear River Association to withdraw from Galaxy Valley.
• Fang Hongxuan and Fang Bihan ordered their disciples first to retreat, then to join the Sword King Alliance and attack the Dragon Martial Alliance from the rear.
• The largely confused Clear River Association rallied under Fang Hongxuan and swept south toward the Dragon Martial Alliance.
• Jian Xueyi heard from Zhao Yijue that Clear River Association had withdrawn, then learned scouts attributed it to Li Tianming capturing its leaders.

Jian Xueyi learned that Li Tianming had crippled the Dragon Martial Alliance and seized control of the Clear River Alliance, then agreed to let him borrow the Sword King Alliance leader title so he could pursue first place and reach the Heavenly Origin Cauldron. As the Sword King Alliance prepared to counterattack, Fang Xing Que ordered his clan to kill Li Tianming after the Alliance Battle.

• Zhao Yijue told Jian Xueyi that Li Tianming had captured Fang Hongxuan and his sister and was leading the Clear River Alliance south to attack the Dragon Martial Alliance.
• Jian Xueyi confirmed the Clear River Alliance's advance, and Qian Feng reported that Li Tianming had also caused much of the Dragon Martial Alliance's losses by targeting its scouts and killing Gu Shaoyu and Xuanyuan Ganggang.
• Jian Xueyi rejected Zhao Yijue's plan to let the rival alliances weaken each other and ordered the Sword King Alliance to join the counterattack.
• Li Tianming arrived with Fang Hongxuan and his sister captive, asked to borrow the alliance leader title, and Jian Xueyi agreed while keeping command of the troops.
• Li Tianming left to attack the Dragon Martial Alliance leader, while Jian Xueyi took charge of the captives and the counterattack.
• Fang Xing Que watched Li Tianming's actions and ordered his clan to kill him within three days after the Alliance Battle ended.

Li Tianming's intervention turned the Alliance Battle against Xuanyuan Yufeng, as the Sword King Alliance counterattacked and the Clear River Association defected to their side. Xuanyuan Yufeng charged at Li Tianming after Li publicly challenged him to a one-on-one fight.

• Xuanyuan Muxue warned Xuanyuan Yuheng not to oppose Li Tianming, but Xuanyuan Yuheng insisted the Primeval Xuanyuan Clan should control the Primeval Divine Domain.
• Jian Binghe told Jian Wuyi that Li Tianming's sword art matched the Six Paths Sword of Life and Death, and Jian Wuyi crushed a stone pillar in shock.
• Jian Xueyi rallied the Sword King Alliance, and Qian Feng's promise of a close-fitting bellyband as a reward drove the disciples into battle.
• The Sword King Alliance counterattacked while the Clear River Association defected, breaking through the Dragon Martial Alliance's lines.
• Xuanyuan Yufeng learned that Li Tianming had defeated Fang Hongxuan and Fang Bihan and forced the Clear River Association to defect, then ordered his men to find Li.
• Li Tianming appeared before Xuanyuan Yufeng, challenged him to fight one-on-one, and Xuanyuan Yufeng charged forward after tearing apart his Crimson Flame Book.

Li Tianming fought Xuanyuan Yufeng and his three Purple-Eyed True Demon Dragons in a fierce battle on the Unity Battlefield. Li Tianming defeated Xuanyuan Yufeng with the Six Paths Life-and-Death Sword, but Xuanyuan Yufeng remained standing as he threatened revenge from the Taigu Xuanyuan Clan.

• Xuanyuan Yufeng attacked Li Tianming with the Dragon King Spear and revealed his Black Obsidian Dragonman transformation and three Purple-Eyed True Demon Dragons.
• Li Tianming and his lifebound beasts battled Xuanyuan Yufeng and the dragons, using Azure Sea Prison, the Three Thousand Starfields, and their abilities to hold them back.
• Xuanyuan Yufeng tried to pierce Li Tianming's saint palace, but Li Tianming's towers blocked the fatal strikes, and the Supreme Unity Tower smashed Xuanyuan Yufeng's head.
• Xuanyuan Yufeng continued attacking, while Li Tianming and Miaomiao wounded him and Lanhuang endured his spear strikes.
• Li Tianming used the Six Paths Life-and-Death Sword to knock aside Xuanyuan Yufeng's spear and pierce his chest, defeating him.
• Xuanyuan Yufeng threatened that the Taigu Xuanyuan Clan would take revenge, then remained standing on the battlefield as his head drooped.

Li Tianming killed Xuanyuan Yufeng and defeated his three Purple-Eyed True Demon Dragons, shaking the battlefield and causing the Dragon Martial Alliance to collapse. As enemies plotted against him, the Sword King Alliance rose to first place, and the chapter ended with Li Tianming waiting for the ranking battle to conclude.

• Li Tianming killed Xuanyuan Yufeng, then fought the three Purple-Eyed True Demon Dragons until he and his lifebound beasts defeated them at great cost.
• Jian Xueyi and Lin Xiaoxiao watched the aftermath, while Xuanyuan Muxue vowed to treat Li Tianming as an enemy and Xuanyuan Yuheng welcomed the outcome.
• Fang Xingque ordered Fang Xingying to wait at the alliance battle exit and kill Li Tianming as soon as the battle ended.
• Jian Wuyi questioned Jian Binghe about the Six Paths Life-and-Death Sword and then killed him.
• The Dragon Martial Alliance disintegrated after losing Xuanyuan Yufeng, and Li Tianming led the Sword King Alliance up the rankings to first place before reclaiming Galaxy Valley and waiting for the battle to end.

Li Tianming won the Human Origin Sect Alliance Battle and advanced to the Earth Origin Sect, then reunited with Jiang Feiling at the Six Paths Sword Palace. Jiang Feiling arranged three third-grade Heaven-Earth Tribulation Sources for his lifebound beasts, and Li Tianming encountered Xuanyuan Yuheng and an unfamiliar woman as he left.

• Jian Binghe announced that the Sword King Alliance ranked first and named Li Tianming its alliance leader, granting him advancement to the Earth Origin Sect and access to the Heaven Origin Cauldron.
• Li Tianming met Jian Wuyi, then went to the Six Paths Sword Palace, where he waited for Jiang Feiling and studied the Six Paths Life-Death Sword.
• Jiang Feiling arrived with Xuanyuan Dao and Fang Qingli, and she arranged for Li Tianming to receive three third-grade Heaven-Earth Tribulation Sources for his lifebound beasts.
• After three days of studying the sword beside Jiang Feiling, Li Tianming left the palace and came face-to-face with Xuanyuan Yuheng and a beautiful, unfamiliar woman.

Li Tianming met Xuanyuan Muxue, then survived an assassination attempt by Fang Xingying because Jian Wuyi had been secretly guarding him. After Fang Xing Que learned the attempt had failed, he ordered Fang Xingying tortured, leaving him bleeding in the snow and mourning his parents.

• Xuanyuan Muxue introduced herself to Li Tianming, and he suspected her cold handshake signaled danger rather than romance.
• Li Tianming explained to Yinghuo that he acted boldly to draw danger toward himself and protect Jiang Feiling, then headed for the Earth Origin Sect.
• Fang Xingying attacked Li Tianming, but Jian Wuyi appeared, exposed the assassin as a member of the Supreme Purity Fang Clan, and let him go after he named Fang Xing Que as the instigator.
• Jian Wuyi told Li Tianming he would keep him safe, but Li Tianming sensed the sect master had other intentions and concluded that strength was his only sure protection.
• Fang Xingying returned to Fang Xing Que and said Jian Wuyi had stopped him, but Fang Xing Que disbelieved him and ordered the others to pull out all his teeth.
• Fang Xingying lay bleeding in the snow, blaming his bloodline for his parents' deaths and fearing the cruel world.