Chapter Summaries

Xia Zhi avenged Yun Hai by freeing the miners and destroying Ice Iron Star, then captured the White Sand City Lord and forced him to serve for one hundred million years. He set out with White Sand to attack Sacred Bone City, intending to provoke Old Ancestor Ba Xiong into acting personally.

• Xia Zhi arrived on Ice Iron Star, used time laws to witness Yun Hai’s murder, freed the miners, and ordered Commander Luo Yan to eliminate Black Bone Mountain.
• Xia Zhi destroyed Ice Iron Star, awakening the powerful golden rat hidden inside it.
• The golden rat revealed himself as the White Sand City Lord, a former registered disciple of the God Emperor, and Xia Zhi sentenced him to serve for one hundred million years.
• Xia Zhi sealed White Sand and ordered him to lead the attack on Sacred Bone City despite White Sand’s warning about Bone Saint Lord and Old Ancestor Ba Xiong.
• Xia Zhi entered a Time-Space passage toward Sacred Bone City as the Imperial Guards approached under Wan Lang and Gong Cheng.

Wan Lang led Xia Zhi’s Close Guard Army to attack Sacred Bone City, but Old Ancestor Ba Xiong and Old Ancestor Jin Xiao intervened. After Jin Xiao attacked Bu Yueluo, Xia Zhi arrived and overwhelmed both Great Powers, then agreed to spare Jin Xiao and leave his punishment to Blood Blade God Emperor.

• Wan Lang’s ten thousand soldiers arrived at Sacred Bone City, where Bone Saint Lord offered Black Bone Mountain Lord as a sacrifice and raised the Nether Bone Realm’s defenses.
• Bu Yueluo ordered Wan Lang and Gong Cheng to seize Bone Saint Lord and his son, and the Close Guard Army shattered the city’s defenses with its Azure Dragon formations.
• Old Ancestor Ba Xiong stopped the assault, and Old Ancestor Jin Xiao attacked Bu Yueluo before Xia Zhi appeared and sent her back to Thunder Island.
• Xia Zhi ordered the army to capture Sacred Bone City’s inhabitants and challenged Jin Xiao, then used his Sand Realm Domain and Time-Space Destruction Dao to suppress Jin Xiao and Ba Xiong.
• Blood Blade God Emperor asked Xia Zhi to spare Jin Xiao and have him serve as a mount, and Xia Zhi agreed to await his master and Bamboo Mountain Prefecture Lord.

Xia Zhi defeated Old Ancestor Jin Xiao and captured him after his attacks overwhelmed the Golden Roc, but Bamboo Mountain Prefecture Lord intervened before he could finish him off. With the Blood Blade God Emperor’s support, Xia Zhi spared Jin Xiao on the condition that he serve as his mount, then ordered Bone Saint Lord and his son taken away.

• Commander Wan Lang led the Imperial Guards in defeating Bone Saint Lord’s forces and capturing Bone Saint Lord and his son.
• Xia Zhi’s nine world avatars joined his True Self to trap and badly wound Old Ancestor Jin Xiao in a Saber Light World.
• Bamboo Mountain Prefecture Lord arrived with a destructive lightning strike that shattered Xia Zhi’s Sand Realm Domain and interrupted the battle.
• The Blood Blade God Emperor arrived and heard Xia Zhi’s account of Old Ancestor Jin Xiao and Bone Saint Lord’s crimes.
• Xia Zhi spared Old Ancestor Jin Xiao from death but made him his mount, using a talisman supplied by the Blood Blade God Emperor to control him.
• After the Blood Blade God Emperor departed with Bamboo Mountain Prefecture Lord, Xia Zhi had Bone Saint Lord and his son taken away.

Xia Zhi secured Sacred Bone City, subdued Jin Xiao, and entered the Universe God-Demon Ranking at fifty-seventh. Back in the Xia Clan World, Dong Bo Xue Ying comprehended a First-grade True Meaning and prepared to travel to the God Realm.

• Xia Zhi ordered Wan Lang to clear Sacred Bone City and Gong Cheng to inventory its seized goods, then appointed White Sand City Lord commander of his personal guards.
• Jin Xiao submitted to Xia Zhi, who promised him and his followers freedom if they served diligently or met certain conditions.
• News of Xia Zhi defeating Jin Xiao and Ba Xiong spread across the God Realm, and the Time-Space Island Master studied the battle while wondering what Dao Xia Zhi had opened.
• Dong Bo Xue Ying comprehended the First-grade True Meaning of Extreme True Intent, and Xia Zhi congratulated him before he decided to cultivate an avatar and enter the God Realm.
• Master Yuanchu ranked Xia Zhi fifty-seventh on the Universe God-Demon Ranking, and Xia Zhi invited the Blood Blade Divine Court’s Great Powers to his Feast of Establishing the Prefecture.

Dong Bo Xue Ying and the other newly ascended Xia Clan gods arrived at Thunder Island while Xia Zhi completed another stage of his cultivation and prepared his Feast of Establishing the Prefecture. The feast began with a gathering of formidable guests, including Qing Jun, the North Profound Palace Lord, and Emperor Lord Xuanmu.

• Purple Lightning brought Dong Bo Xue Ying, Hou Xiage, and Chao Qing through Thunder Island’s nine layers of thunderclouds to meet Bu Yueluo while Xia Zhi remained in seclusion.
• Xia Zhi completed the third transformation of the fourth volume of the “Sand Realm” and prepared to resume cultivation after the feast.
• The Blood Blade God Emperor declined to attend Xia Zhi’s feast but arranged for Qing Jun and the black bird he called Fifth Uncle to go in his place.
• Xia Zhi and Bu Yueluo welcomed Great Powers to the feast, including Old Ancestor Ba Xiong, Emperor Lord Xuanmu, and the North Profound Palace Lord.
• Qing Jun arrived, greeted Xia Zhi as his junior brother, and entered the hall with Fifth Uncle as the Feast of Establishing the Prefecture began.

Xia Zhi hosted a feast to establish his prefecture, where he learned about major ruins from Qing Jun and met the attending Great Powers. After the banquet, the North Profound Palace Lord and Emperor Lord Xuanmu revealed that Bu Yueluo was their younger sister, reborn after a fatal injury, and Bu Yueluo chose to leave with them to cultivate so she and Xia Zhi could be together for eternity.

• Xia Zhi discussed Pang Yi and the God Realm's great ruins with Qing Jun at the feast.
• Xia Zhi greeted Emperor Lord Gu Cang, and the banquet continued for three days as the guests gradually departed.
• The North Profound Palace Lord and Emperor Lord Xuanmu revealed that Bu Yueluo was their younger sister, Goddess Luo Xuan, who had reincarnated to survive her injuries.
• Bu Yueluo worried that Xia Zhi would reject her, but he reassured her that she was his wife and Xia Yu's mother.
• The North Profound Palace Lord and Emperor Lord Xuanmu invited Bu Yueluo to North Profound Palace, and she chose to go to improve her cultivation despite the temporary separation from Xia Zhi and Xia Yu.

At Xia Zhi’s feast, Bu Yueluo reunited with her relatives, while Dong Bo Xue Ying met his senior brother Hui Ming and received an offer of cultivation guidance from Old Ancestor Chi Huo. After Bu Yueluo left to cultivate, Xia Zhi studied a mysterious black feather and entered seclusion; eight hundred years later, Xue Ying departed to register for the Ten Thousand Flower Banquet preliminaries.

• Xia Zhi let Bu Yueluo spend time with Emperor Lord Xuanmu and the North Profound Palace Lord, then met Dong Bo Xue Ying with Hui Ming and Old Ancestor Chi Huo at the feast.
• Old Ancestor Chi Huo offered to guide Xue Ying during the eight hundred years before the Ten Thousand Flower Banquet, and Hui Ming exchanged communication imprints with his junior brother.
• Xia Zhi examined the gifts from the feast and began comprehending the time-space mysteries within the black feather given through Black Bird.
• Bu Yueluo left Thunder Island with the North Profound Palace Lord, and Xia Zhi returned to secluded cultivation, mastering the Immeasurable and Material Divine Hearts and reaching the Fourth Heaven World God realm.
• Eight hundred years later, Commander Bai Sha took Xue Ying, Yun Hai, and Purple Lightning to register for the Star Domain preliminaries in the Anhai Star Domain.

At the Ten Thousand Flower Banquet, Xia Zhi reunited with Bu Yueluo and met Pang Yi for the first time as the Divine Court’s rulers and Great Powers gathered. The banquet’s final competition began with 1,900 god-level cultivators, including Dong Bo Xue Ying, ready to compete.

• Dong Bo Xue Ying’s first-place finish in the Anhai Prefecture preliminaries drew attention from the Divine Court’s Great Powers, who considered taking him as a disciple.
• After eight hundred years of seclusion, Xia Zhi had mastered all nine First-grade Divine Hearts but remained unable to grasp the Heaven and Earth Rule, so he began completing the fourth volume of Sand Realm before heading to the banquet.
• Xia Zhi arrived at the Blood Blade Divine Court with Old Ancestor Jin Xiao and reunited with Bu Yueluo, who had become a First Heaven World God.
• Xia Zhi greeted the Three Ancestors, including Pang Yi, and learned that Pang Yi alone had passed the Destruction Legion’s captain-level test at Lake Heart Island.
• Blood Blade God Emperor opened the Ten Thousand Flower Banquet, and the final battle began among the 1,900 selected god-level cultivators.

The Ten Thousand Flower Banquet’s Divine Court battle ended with Dong Bo Xue Ying attracting several Great Powers’ attention. At Xia Zhi’s urging, the Blood Blade God Emperor offered Xue Ying the status of Inner Disciple, and Xue Ying accepted, becoming Xia Zhi’s junior brother.

• The Divine Court battle began, and Xia Zhi watched Dong Bo Xue Ying fight impressively in the illusory world.
• Emperor Lord Gu Cang offered Xue Ying a token, while Xia Zhi asked the Blood Blade God Emperor to consider taking Xue Ying as a disciple.
• The Blood Blade God Emperor discussed the five great ruins with Xia Zhi, warned him away from the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel, and recommended the Destruction Grotto-Heaven in Lake Heart Island.
• As the battle neared its end, Yue Jun ambushed and killed Xue Ying after Xue Ying had drawn the attention of many opponents.
• The Blood Blade God Emperor sent Xue Ying a blood-red token offering him Inner Disciple status, and Xue Ying accepted with joy at becoming Xia Zhi’s junior brother.

Dong Bo Xue Ying received guidance and two Locking World Tower Tokens from Blood Blade God Emperor, while Xia Zhi prepared for an expedition to Lake Heart Island with Old Ancestor Jin Xiao. They reached the silver-white waters surrounding the island and began navigating toward its center.

• Gong Feng took Dong Bo Xue Ying to meet Blood Blade God Emperor, who gave him extensive guidance on the World Divine Heart and Chaos Divine Heart and two Locking World Tower Tokens.
• Blood Blade God Emperor warned Xia Zhi about the dangers of Lake Heart Island and told him how to seek guest status there.
• After spending three years with Bu Yueluo, Xia Zhi traveled toward Lake Heart Island with Old Ancestor Jin Xiao, who recounted how Di Yi Xingyu had taken the final section of the Heart Sword Diagram.
• Xia Zhi and Old Ancestor Jin Xiao arrived at the enormous silver-white sphere of water surrounding Lake Heart Island.
• Xia Zhi used his Sand God Power to sense nearly one hundred million li through the water and guided Old Ancestor Jin Xiao around an approaching undercurrent.

Xia Zhi entered Lake Heart Island with Nine Yang Palace Lord’s expedition and fought a powerful War Puppet before the group found a True God Artifact. Lord of Moxo Kingdom fled with the sword, and his desperate gamble made Xia Zhi realize his own heart of seeking the Dao had grown too cautious as he faced the final step toward the Heaven and Earth Realm.

• After reaching Lake Heart Island during its Ice Period, Xia Zhi and Old Ancestor Jin Xiao encountered Nine Yang Palace Lord and his five companions, who joined Xia Zhi in exploring an unfamiliar cavern.
• Withered Tree Old Mother’s avatars scouted the branching passages, and the group followed a route where the frozen War Puppets had not awakened.
• King Zeno attacked a four-armed War Puppet, which proved immensely strong, but Nine Yang Palace Lord and the others overwhelmed and destroyed it with their combined attacks.
• Lord of Moxo Kingdom discovered a dead Venerable’s True God Artifact sword, took it, and fled deeper into Lake Heart Island despite Nine Yang Palace Lord’s threats.
• Watching Lord of Moxo Kingdom risk everything for a chance to transcend, Xia Zhi recognized that his own careful plans had weakened his resolve to seek the Dao and stake everything on reaching the next realm.

Xia Zhi reached the Bloodfire Gate on Lake Heart Island and passed its screening trial by revealing that he had opened his own Dao. He entered the gate’s twisted passage, leaving Old Ancestor Jin Xiao and the Blood Blade God Emperor unable to sense his karma.

• The Nine Yang Palace Lord and the others split up to pursue Lord of Moxo Kingdom, then fled when War Puppets targeted them; Xia Zhi buried the ancient corpse and retrieved a cloth from its hand.
• Xia Zhi fought through the black-armored War Puppets and reached the Bloodfire Gate, where the Armored Warriors explained its screening trial.
• Xia Zhi defeated Liu Dao by transferring him beyond the crimson boundary, earning guest status at Lake Heart Island and a blood-colored token marked with the character for “Mo.”
• Xia Zhi chose to challenge the Bloodfire Gate, and the tall, slender woman opened it and led him into its twisted passage.
• The passage twisted Xia Zhi apart and expelled Old Ancestor Jin Xiao from his inner world; unable to sense Xia Zhi’s karma, Old Ancestor Jin Xiao reported the situation to the Blood Blade God Emperor.

Xia Zhi began the Bloodfire Gate’s Path of Seeking Dao, overcoming its Spiritual Might and Heart Tempering Tribulations through pain and temptation. Just as he reached the next platform, the Three Life Tribulation trapped him in dreams of alternate lives, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Xia Zhi entered the Bloodfire Gate’s first trial and learned that only two of twelve True Gods had ever reached the summit.
• Xia Zhi affirmed his determination to pursue cultivation and climbed the stairs, enduring the Spiritual Might Tribulation and rejecting a seductive woman’s attempt to make him rest.
• Xia Zhi resisted escalating soul pain and visions of comfort, wealth, and affection, insisting that cultivation was necessary for true freedom.
• Xia Zhi reached a platform but relaxed too soon and fell into the Three Life Tribulation, dreaming that he lived ordinary lives on Earth and in the Great Xia World.
• Ancestor Mo judged that Xia Zhi might fail the trial and told the tall, thin woman to give him a True God Artifact if he survived being teleported out.

After passing the Path of Seeking Dao, Xia Zhi joined the Lake Heart Island lineage and chose the Sword Master’s Heart Sword legacy. He began a ten-thousand-year trial to master it, having just advanced to True God and comprehended the complete Heaven and Earth Rule.

• After enduring countless illusory lives, Xia Zhi broke through the Three Life Tribulation and reached the Path of Seeking Dao’s summit, but collapsed from exhaustion and slept for three years.
• Ancestor Mo explained the consequences of joining Lake Heart Island, and Xia Zhi agreed to continue the trials and join its lineage.
• Qi Ya told Xia Zhi about the Five Ancestors and led him to the Hall of Inheritance, where he could choose among six sword legacies.
• While sensing the Heart Sword legacy, Xia Zhi fused his nine First-grade Divine Hearts, comprehended the complete Heaven and Earth Rule, and advanced to True God.
• Xia Zhi chose the Sword Master’s Heart Sword and began its ten-thousand-year trial, while his avatar headed to Thunder Island to use the Thunder Suppressing Tower’s cultivation cave.

Xia Zhi mastered the first step of the Heart Sword inheritance inside the Bloodfire Gate, while the Blood Blade God Emperor learned of his progress and decided to accept Dong Bo Xue Ying as a Direct Disciple. The chapter left Dong Bo Xue Ying summoned by his master and Yu Jingqiu troubled by her father’s predicament and unsure whether to tell her husband.

• Xia Zhi repeatedly practiced using Heart Power until he left a mark on the Calamity Annihilation Stone Essence sword and began advancing through the Heart Sword inheritance.
• The Blood Blade God Emperor learned that Xia Zhi had passed the Path of Seeking Dao and ordered that no one disturb his secluded cultivation for ten thousand years.
• The Blood Blade God Emperor decided to accept Dong Bo Xue Ying as a Direct Disciple after hearing that he had reached the Second Heaven World God realm.
• Gong Feng summoned Dong Bo Xue Ying to meet the Blood Blade God Emperor, leaving Yu Jingqiu behind as she worried about her hunted father and whether Xue Ying would be able to help.

Blood Blade God Emperor accepted Dong Bo Xue Ying as his Direct Disciple and offered him an ultimate art if he could kill a prisoner. After Yu Jingqiu revealed that her father, Lord of Moxo Kingdom, was trapped in Lake Heart Island and hunted over a True God Artifact, Dong Bo Xue Ying arranged protection for the Moxo Empire and resolved to grow strong enough to save his family.

• Blood Blade God Emperor praised Dong Bo Xue Ying's cultivation, made him his Direct Disciple, and set killing a hidden prisoner as the test for receiving an ultimate art.
• Blood Blade God Emperor took Dong Bo Xue Ying's blood to forge him a spear, then sent him to a new residence stocked with cultivation treasures.
• Yu Jingqiu told Dong Bo Xue Ying about her past life as the Star Sword Profound Maiden and revealed that Lord of Moxo Kingdom was trapped in Lake Heart Island while five powerful figures pursued him over a True God Artifact.
• Dong Bo Xue Ying contacted Old Ancestor Chi Huo, who agreed to help protect the Moxo Empire and Yu Jingqiu's sisters.
• Dong Bo Xue Ying urged Yu Jingqiu to restore her cultivation and vowed to complete his master's trial and gain the strength to save Lord of Moxo Kingdom.

Lord of Moxo Kingdom reassured Yu Jingqiu while fleeing through Lake Heart Island, and Dong Bo Xue Ying trained until he killed the imprisoned Great Demon God and received the supreme secret art Tai Hao from Blood Blade God Emperor. Meanwhile, Xia Zhi steadied his mind after reaching a bottleneck in Heart Sword and turned to cultivating Sand Realm as Ancestor Mo watched him.

• Lord of Moxo Kingdom told Yu Jingqiu that he would keep fighting his pursuers and had already hidden the True God Artifact for her to retrieve.
• Dong Bo Xue Ying spent years improving his spear technique before returning to the prison to fight the Great Demon God.
• Dong Bo Xue Ying used his True Self and nine World Avatars to overwhelm the sealed Great Demon God and wear down his life force until he died.
• A tower emerged beside the Great Demon God's corpse, and Dong Bo Xue Ying grasped its white sphere and began cultivating the Tai Hao supreme secret art.
• Blood Blade God Emperor praised Dong Bo Xue Ying for completing the test and said Xia Zhi still needed tempering through the Bloodfire Gate.
• Xia Zhi calmed his restless mind, set aside Heart Sword, and turned to studying Sand Realm while Ancestor Mo observed him unseen.

After more than eight thousand years of cultivation inside the Bloodfire Gate, Xia Zhi opened the Way of Sand and mastered the Heart Realm, allowing his Heart World to cover the God Realm, Abyss, and Material Worlds. He used Heart Sword to kill the Witch God and Great Demon God Darhou through their karmic connections, then followed Ancestor Mo toward the Master of Lake Heart Island’s inheritance.

• Xia Zhi completed the first transformation of the sixth volume of Sand Realm and opened the Way of Sand, then combined Heart Sword, Darkness Kingdom, and illusions to develop his Heart World.
• Xia Zhi mastered the Dao of Heart Realm, and Ancestor Mo recognized that Xia Zhi had opened three Daos.
• Xia Zhi expanded his Heart World across Lake Heart Island and much of the God Realm, Abyss, and Material Worlds, observing cultivators and detecting karmic ties to the Witch God and Great Demon God Darhou.
• Xia Zhi sent Heart Sword attacks along the karmic threads and killed both the Witch God and Darhou’s True Self and avatar.
• Ancestor Mo told Xia Zhi to acknowledge the Master of Lake Heart Island as his master, then took him through a spatial gateway.

Xia Zhi entered the Eternal Divine Palace, completed the ceremony to become a Direct Disciple of the Sword Master, and agreed to join the Destruction Legion. Meng Yi led him toward the Destruction Grotto-Heaven to collect a weapon and study ultimate arts.

• Ancestor Mo showed Xia Zhi the Eternal Divine Palace and explained its Sword Realm, treasures, and former inhabitants.
• Xia Zhi met Meng Yi, a Direct Disciple who had failed to transcend, and heard his warning against becoming obsessed with power.
• Ancestor Mo led Xia Zhi through the apprenticeship ceremony, where Xia Zhi paid respects to the Sword Master and the senior expert in the portraits.
• Xia Zhi received a cyan token and robes and learned that he could freely read the Myriad Scrolls Pavilion's secret manuals.
• Xia Zhi agreed to join the Destruction Legion as a captain, and Meng Yi took him to the Destruction Grotto-Heaven to collect a weapon and learn ultimate arts.

The Blood Blade God Emperor learned that Xia Zhi had used a karmic attack to kill Great Demon God Darhou and planned to send him to deal with the Mother Ancestor Cult’s intruders. In the Destruction Grotto-Heaven, Xia Zhi chose the True God Artifact Po Jun, learned of the Destruction Legion’s ultimate technique, and offered to rescue Venerable Huo Cheng, Master Yuanchu’s imprisoned disciple.

• The Blood Blade God Emperor told the Abyss Progenitor that Xia Zhi, not he, had killed Darhou through karma, and agreed to send Xia Zhi to confront the Mother Ancestor Cult’s Venerable-level protectors after he returned.
• Meng Yi showed Xia Zhi the remaining True God Artifacts, and Xia Zhi chose the Slaughter Dao long saber and named it Po Jun.
• Meng Yi led Xia Zhi and the Destruction Legion past Huo Cheng’s prison, where Xia Zhi recognized him as Master Yuanchu’s disciple and promised to take his avatar out when he left.
• Xia Zhi told Huo Cheng he would rescue him, and Huo Cheng contacted Master Yuanchu, who said Xia Zhi was thoughtful and that Huo Cheng would repay the karmic debt himself.