Chapter Summaries

Wang Jixuan revealed his identity and climbed the Cloud Ladder to challenge Nine Spirits Sword Venerable, hoping to become his disciple. After their swords clashed and the Moonlight Sword shattered, Nine Spirits accepted Wang Jixuan as his disciple and confronted Venerable Zhihui about hunting him.

• Black Obsidian concluded that the Dark Cult had to begin its mechanical plan ahead of schedule after Elder Hou’s defeat.
• Wang Jixuan revealed himself to Han Xiao, declined the Thousand Worlds Alliance’s protection, and climbed the Cloud Ladder toward the final tier.
• Wang Jixuan reached Nine Spirits Sword Venerable and asked both to become his disciple and to challenge him.
• Wang Jixuan and Nine Spirits Sword Venerable exchanged a strike that shattered the Moonlight Sword, and Nine Spirits stopped his blade before Wang Jixuan’s chest.
• Nine Spirits Sword Venerable accepted Wang Jixuan as his disciple, gave him a Greatsword, and placed Xiao Sang inside it as its potential spirit.
• Nine Spirits Sword Venerable turned to Venerable Zhihui and asked whether she had hunted his disciple.

Wang Jixuan became Nine Spirits Sword Venerable’s disciple after his Way of the Sword was destroyed, while Luo Tianjin warned that Wang’s tangled history made him central to a greater calamity. The chapter ended with the Dark Cult discussing the Mechanical Army and Feather God Palace discovering two Annihilation Bombs near the Fusang Divine Wood.

• Wang Jixuan accepted the destruction of his old sword path and prepared to travel with Nine Spirits Sword Venerable to the Sword God Palace dojo.
• Luo Tianjin warned Nine Spirits Sword Venerable about Wang Jixuan’s connections to the Dark Cult, Heavenly Net, Moon God Palace, and a looming calamity, then gave Wang a jade talisman that could summon Spear God Palace troops.
• Nine Spirits Sword Venerable asked Wang Jixuan about his former teachers and decided to take him to meet the Sword God Palace elders.
• Venerable Zhihui killed a Dark Cult Immortal in anger, then told the Fourth Vice Cult Master that the Mechanical Fiend had become Nine Spirits Sword Venerable’s disciple.
• The Fourth Vice Cult Master summoned Special Envoy Hei Yao to explain the Mechanical Army being developed under Heavenly Dao Tablet orders.
• Feather God Palace elders received two Annihilation Bombs that had been dug up near the Fusang Divine Wood.

Wang Jixuan joined Sword God Palace as Nine Spirits Sword Venerable’s disciple and learned about the ancient war between humanity and the demon race. After Feather God Palace’s Annihilation Bombs exploded, its master led experts toward Sword God Palace to confront the “Mechanical Fiend.”

• Peony told Wang Jixuan that Feather God Palace had seized two Annihilation Bombs, and he asked Nine Spirits Sword Venerable whether Feather God Palace was an enemy.
• The Annihilation Bombs detonated inside Feather God Palace’s main hall after its people tried to open them, and Wang Jixuan reported the explosion to Nine Spirits Sword Venerable.
• Nine Spirits Sword Venerable explained the ancient enmity between humanity and the demon race, described the Eight Great Immortal Palaces, and brought Wang Jixuan to Sword God Palace’s cultivation ground.
• Wang Jixuan told Nine Spirits Sword Venerable that he wanted to overthrow the Heavenly Dao, and Nine Spirits Sword Venerable led him to meet Sword God Palace’s elders.
• At the Thousand Worlds Alliance, Murong Zhengyi decided to take the alliance to Sword God Palace to support Wang Jixuan, but a messenger reported that the Feather God Palace Master was leading experts there to settle accounts with the Mechanical Fiend.

Wang Jixuan introduced Nine Spirits Sword Venerable to the Mechanical Civilization and warned him about Brahma, then began learning the Way of the Sword under his new master. When the Feather God Palace arrived to demand Wang Jixuan over the deaths of its Ancient King bloodline, Sword God Palace refused and called on him to face them.

• Wang Jixuan showed Nine Spirits Sword Venerable the Second Base and explained Peony’s role in the Mechanical Civilization and the threat posed by Brahma.
• Nine Spirits Sword Venerable agreed to report Brahma to the elders but warned Wang Jixuan to stay close and cultivate the Way of the Sword.
• Nine Spirits Sword Venerable taught Wang Jixuan foundational sword techniques and promised to create a Wood Attribute sword intent for them to study.
• The Feather God Palace arrived at Sword God Palace, and Huang Langyu accused Wang Jixuan of killing members of the Feather Clan’s Ancient King bloodline with dharma artifacts.
• Jian Wu and Jian San defended Wang Jixuan, rejected Huang Langyu’s demand to hand him over, and Jian Wu invited him to appear and reason with the Feather God Palace.

Wang Jixuan defended himself against Huang Langyu’s accusations, then joined the Sword God Palace in an Immortal Palace Death Match against the Feather God Palace. After the Sword God Palace took seven of the first eight rounds, Wang Jixuan faced Yu Ling and prepared to fight with his ingenious devices rather than a sword.

• Wang Jixuan accused the Feather God Palace of stealing and destroying his treasure, and Huang Langyu challenged the Sword God Palace to an Immortal Palace Death Match.
• Jian Wu accepted a nine-round match with equal-realm fighters, and Bai Ning won the first round by defeating Yu Qifeng.
• The Sword God Palace won five of the next seven rounds and drew one, putting it ahead by seven matches.
• Jian Wu offered to concede the ninth round, but Wang Jixuan insisted on fighting Yu Ling, the Feather God Palace’s leading young genius.
• Wang Jixuan announced that he would not use a sword, then released Ingenious Puppets and mushroom bombs before hiding among the clouds.

Wang Jixuan used time-based control, Mechs, lasers, and nuclear bombs to defeat Yu Ling in the life-and-death duel, forcing Feather God Palace to concede. As Feather God Palace put a bounty on him, the Thousand Worlds Alliance unexpectedly offered a reward for protecting him, and an arriving elder called him “Senior.”

• Wang Jixuan restrained Yu Ling with the laws of time while eating barbecue and having his Mechs prepare weapons around him.
• Wang Jixuan ordered lasers to drain Yu Ling’s divine power, then detonated 360 nuclear bombs around him.
• The blast destroyed Yu Ling’s body, leaving his primordial spirit and a bloodstained golden arrow; Wang Jixuan took the arrow and gave it to Jian Wu.
• Huang Langyu conceded the duel, and Wang Jixuan released Yu Ling’s primordial spirit to him.
• Huang Langyu announced a bounty on Wang Jixuan, then the Thousand Worlds Alliance offered a reward to anyone who protected him.
• An excited elder from the arriving Thousand Worlds Alliance forces reached Wang Jixuan and called him “Senior.”

Wang Jixuan reunited with Murong Zhengyi and the elders of the Thousand Worlds Alliance, then learned that the Dark Cult had begun massacring entire cities across the Lower Realm. The gathering ended with Sword Nine promising to help the Alliance, while the threat below remained unresolved.

• Murong Zhengyi recognized Wang Jixuan, wept over the six hundred thousand years he had spent protecting their people, and reunited with the elders of the Thousand Worlds Alliance.
• Sword Nine explained to Jian Wu that Wang Jixuan had rescued the Alliance’s ancestors from the Xu Realm and brought them into the Immortal Realm.
• Jian Wu hosted the Alliance at Sword God Palace, where Little Hua Ting sang and the factions reaffirmed their friendly ties.
• Murong Zhengyi reported that the Dark Cult had slaughtered more than seven hundred Xu Realms and one hundred and five True Realms, including civilians, while Heavenly Net obstructed resistance.
• Jian Wu and Sword Nine agreed that Sword God Palace would discuss responding to the massacres, and Sword Nine promised to help the Thousand Worlds Alliance if it faced trouble.
• After the banquet lasted through the day and night, Wang Jixuan woke with a hangover to find three hundred beautiful women kneeling before him.

Wang Jixuan learned that Amina had mutated and was sealed in a cocoon, then approved Peony’s plan to use Earth and its technology to help the Thousand Worlds Alliance fight the Dark Cult. At the Dark Cult headquarters, Venerable Zhihui learned of the alliance between the Sword God Palace and Thousand Worlds Alliance and recognized Wang Jixuan as the man she had once tried to kill.

• Peony told Wang Jixuan that the Thousand Worlds Alliance had sent him three hundred concubines and six thousand immortal soldiers, and she delivered Bai Gu’s warning that Brahma had made him a primary target and that Amina was sealed in a cocoon.
• Wang Jixuan ordered the concubines trained as operators and maidservants, then agreed to Peony’s proposal to coordinate Earth’s forces and develop ships able to travel through the Immortal Spirit Path.
• Peony began sending the plan to Earth, while Wang Jixuan studied Sword Nine’s basic sword techniques and Sword Nine planned a suitable cultivation path for him.
• At the Dark Cult headquarters, a maidservant told Venerable Zhihui that the Sword God Palace had defeated the Feather God Palace and that the Thousand Worlds Alliance had called Wang Jixuan their benefactor.
• Venerable Zhihui recalled how she had been reborn, followed the Heavenly Dao’s instructions, and once believed she had killed the man who had taken her life.
• After receiving the Fourth Cult Master’s summons, Venerable Zhihui recognized Wang Jixuan in her memories, smashed her bronze mirror, and prepared to leave for the Feather God Palace.

Wang Jixuan officially joined the Sword God Palace, began intensive sword training, and arranged for the palace and the Thousand Worlds Alliance to receive Small Annihilation Bombs. As half of Bai Gu’s six-month deadline passed, Peony reported that Ye Zi had been captured, and Jian Wu summoned Wang Jixuan to the main hall over an urgent matter related to him.

• Jian Wu confirmed that the Sword God Palace would support Sword Nine in teaching Wang Jixuan and agreed to arm the palace after seeing an Annihilation Bomb demonstrated.
• Wang Jixuan completed his apprenticeship ceremony, became a Third Generation Disciple, and received an ancient Sword Embryo.
• Over the next three months, Wang Jixuan studied the Way of the Sword while Peony supplied Small Annihilation Bombs and Little Hua Ting made friends among the disciples.
• Peony reported that her fleet had resolved the Blade Beast Problem, secured Earth Civilization’s support, reorganized over three hundred Spiritual Practitioners with San Jie Lang Lang Zi, and captured Ye Zi.
• Wang Jixuan ordered Ye Zi’s execution, then Jian Wu urgently summoned him to the main hall about a matter related to him.

Wang Jixuan learned that Red Snake had left clues pointing to an Ancient Battlefield in the desert and joined Sword God Palace’s expedition to find her. As the team set out for the Earth Realm, he prepared to support the sword cultivators with his mechanical forces.

• Wang Jixuan arrived at the hall with Peony, where Jian Wu showed them a jade talisman whose sketches suggested Red Snake was alive in an Ancient Battlefield.
• Peony used her Patrolling Satellites to identify a desert site where hostile forces were clearing sand, revealing the likely location of the emerging ruin.
• Jian Wu explained that Spear God Palace had invited Sword God Palace to investigate the Ancient Battlefield, and Wang Jixuan asked to join because his companion might be buried there.
• Jian Wu approved Wang Jixuan’s participation and ordered the sword cultivators to aid Spear God Palace; Sword Nine equipped him with the Greatsword and placed restrictions on Xiao Sang for his protection.
• Lu Xuande led the expedition southwest on a cloud platform while Wang Jixuan monitored his Mechanical Army and showed the other disciples his high-performance mechs.

Wang Jixuan prepared to investigate the Ancient Battlefield in Duan Yun Desert while Peony tracked Red Snake and planned for the possibility that she was trapped inside. On Earth, San Jie Lang Lang Zi wrestled with an order to kill Ye Zi, and the chapter ended when Lu Xuande delivered Wang Jixuan a message from Venerable Zhihui.

• Wang Jixuan watched the Sword God Palace disciples test their mechs while Peony reported that hundreds of thousands of cultivators had gathered around Duan Yun Desert and Red Snake might be inside its Ancient Battlefield.
• San Jie Lang Lang Zi considered Wang Zheng's order to kill Ye Zi and admitted to Shen Qionglin that guilt was his real reason for hesitating; Shen Qionglin agreed to accompany him to the City in the Clouds.
• Cultivators flocked to Duan Yun Desert after discovering treasures on strange skeletons, while reports of lethal blood fiend energy and an ancient battlefield's return drew the Spear God Palace and Sword God Palace there.
• Wang Jixuan urged the Sword God Palace disciples to proceed cautiously and support the Spear God Palace, explaining that he would search for and rescue his companion himself.
• Lu Xuande caught a jade talisman sent from beyond the heavens and told Wang Jixuan it bore Venerable Zhihui's signature.

Wang Jixuan refused Zhihui’s invitation to negotiate and confronted her publicly, accusing the Dark Cult of persecuting him and serving a parasitic Heavenly Dao. Zhihui left without attacking, while new discoveries on Earth delayed Ye Zi’s execution and prompted Professor Shen to investigate.

• Wang Jixuan and Feng Zheng discussed Brahma and decided to answer the Dark Cult’s invitation without leaving the Sword God Palace’s protection.
• Lu Xuande sent Wang Jixuan’s reply to the Dark Cult and received two Small Annihilation Bombs from him.
• Zhihui arrived to seek peace with Wang Jixuan, but he questioned her about a meeting six hundred thousand years earlier and accused her of being revived by the Heavenly Dao.
• Zhihui raised her hand against Wang Jixuan, then stopped when the Sword God Palace’s experts threatened her; she left after he refused to accept her offer of peace.
• Peony told Wang Jixuan that Earth’s team had found new evidence, postponing Ye Zi’s execution for a few days while Professor Shen intervened.
• Feng Zheng invited Wang Jixuan to play chess as the group waited for the Spear God Palace and news of Red Snake.

Shen Qionglin and Lang Lang Zi investigated Ye Zi’s fragmented memories and tried to reopen them by recreating her first meeting with Lang Lang Zi. The attempt revealed that an entity called Brahma had contaminated her twice, leaving Lang Lang Zi and Shen Qionglin shaken.

• Shen Qionglin learned from Lang Lang Zi’s memories that Ye Zi had passed through three distinct stages, beginning as Jiruo Posa, a loyal follower of Black Obsidian.
• Lang Lang Zi admitted that he had manipulated Posa Number One, later used Posa Number Two in his schemes, and helped create his Third Life through reincarnation.
• Shen Qionglin proposed using psychological suggestion to return Ye Zi to the state she had been in when she first met Lang Lang Zi.
• Lang Lang Zi recreated their first meeting, and Ye Zi’s memories opened as she recognized him and cried out about Ye Zi.
• Black Wings and a pair of eyes surrounded by wormlike creatures appeared as Ye Zi’s soul collapsed, and Shen Qionglin identified the contaminating entity as Brahma.

Wang Jixuan learned that Brahma may have used Ye Zi to watch or interfere with him, while Luo Tianjin sought his help exposing the threat posed by the Dark Cult and Heavenly Net. At the Spear God Palace camp near the Ancient Battlefield, Blood Mist appeared, and Wang Jixuan and Peony began searching for Red Snake’s trail.

• While playing Go with Peony’s assistance, Wang Jixuan learned that Ye Zi had a Brahma mark and that her remnant soul was in a vessel for storing souls.
• Wang Jixuan considered Brahma’s possible plans and told Peony to remind their allies to stay safe when the messaging machine cooled down.
• Luo Tianjin arrived with the Spear God Palace group, then told Wang Jixuan that the Dark Cult and Heavenly Net were linked and asked how to expose their threat to the Heavenly Dao.
• Wang Jixuan agreed to discuss the matter with Peony, and Luo Tianjin took the Sword God Palace disciples to the Spear God Palace’s fortified camp.
• Blood Mist rose over the dunes, so Wang Jixuan returned Peony to the Second Base and searched for Red Snake’s trail with his Immortal Sense.

Wang Jixuan arranged for Spear God Palace soldiers and Mechs to map Duan Yun Desert for the entrance to the unstable Ancient Battlefield Small World. Peony found possible weak points in the Cosmic Barrier and suspected the skeletons held the key, leaving Wang Jixuan to ask Feng Zheng for the bones he had collected.

• Peony concluded that the Blood Mist came from an unstable Mustard Seed Universe containing an Ancient Battlefield, while investigators found only moving skeletons and no visible entrance.
• Wang Jixuan asked Luo Tianjin for three thousand immortal soldiers to help deploy detectors, and Luo Tianjin lent them to him.
• Wang Jixuan sent Mechs and spherical detectors across Duan Yun Desert, then traded Spear God Palace three hundred Mechs and armor for mining materials.
• The soldiers installed the detectors and returned with stories of their conversations with the Mechs, prompting Wang Jixuan to consider whether the machines counted as life forms.
• Peony mapped the Small World, warned that forcibly opening its weak points could make it collapse, and asked Wang Jixuan to retrieve the skeletons Feng Zheng had pocketed.

Peony discovered that souls attached to the white bones could enter the Ancient Battlefield’s Small World when the bones transformed into Blood Mist, and Wang Jixuan prepared to test the method with his Dragon Python Strange Soul. As he waited for the Blood Mist to return, Venerable Zhihui and his allies gathered to discuss whether their plan would draw Wang Jixuan into the Ancient Battlefield.

• Wang Jixuan had Immortal Scarabs collect more than 136,000 white bones from the desert after Peony warned that the battlefield would not merge with the Main World for centuries.
• Peony’s experiments showed that energy simulating baleful aura turned the white bones into Blood Mist, and she deduced that an attached soul could enter the Small World with them.
• Wang Jixuan sent his Dragon Python Strange Soul to possess a skeleton made from white bones and said he would report the method to Patriarch Luo if the test succeeded.
• Wang Jixuan’s group waited for the Blood Mist while Venerable Zhihui, the Fourth Cult Master of the Dark Cult, Black Obsidian, Huang Langyu, and the Golden-haired Lion Demon met in a Stone Hall.
• Huang Langyu asked whether their plan would make Wang Jixuan enter the Ancient Battlefield ahead of time.

Black Obsidian and the other leaders watched Wang Jixuan’s Strange Soul Puppet enter the Ancient Battlefield and realized Peony had bypassed their ambush. Inside the Small World, Wang Jixuan became partly trapped in the puppet, searched for Red Snake, and heard a mysterious voice ask whether he was a descendant of the Fu Family.

• Black Obsidian explained that Peony could enter the Ancient Battlefield, and the leaders watched Feng Zheng’s puppet absorb the Blood Mist and disappear into the Small World.
• Wang Jixuan explored the shattered land in his Strange Soul Puppet, encountered countless spirit imprints, and felt a terrifying presence from the blood-red moon.
• Wang Jixuan discovered that part of his consciousness could not leave the Small World, but he decided to search for Red Snake while Peony monitored his true body.
• Wang Jixuan used the phrases Red Snake might recognize and searched a third of the Ancient Battlefield without finding her.
• A chaotic aura surrounded Wang Jixuan, and a hoarse female voice asked whether Fu Jian was a descendant of her Fu Family.

Wang Jixuan encountered Amei, a powerful spirit bound to a strange hand, and persuaded her to help search for his elder sister, Red Snake. As they traveled together, Amei revealed the ancient battle that had killed her, then led Wang Jixuan toward another strange presence.

• Wang Jixuan heard a voice near the dried-up Great Marsh and followed it to a grave mound containing Amei's jade skull.
• Amei asked Wang Jixuan to help her die, but he instead offered to keep her company and help her find companions.
• Amei emerged as a Strange Hand and agreed to help Wang Jixuan search for his elder sister.
• Amei recounted how humans had been lured into an ambush by the Dragon-Phoenix Clan and the Beast Clan, where she had died.
• Wang Jixuan told Amei about Red Snake's battle against the demonic beasts, and Amei praised her as a Righteous Person.
• Amei took control of Wang Jixuan's cloud and sped northwest toward a shimmering pool containing something like Water Grass.

Wang Jixuan learned that Zhihui and other Golden Immortals had laid a trap in the Ancient Battlefield, but Strange Head Aliang could not locate Red Snake. Strange Hand Amei led him toward the Evil Spirit born from the Afterimage of the Taiyin Star, which might reveal Red Snake’s whereabouts, while Huang Langyu and others entered the ruined world.

• Strange Hand Amei summoned Strange Head Aliang, who confirmed that a Grand Beginning Golden Immortal had hidden the location of a strange woman but could not find her.
• Aliang showed Wang Jixuan an image of Zhihui and other Golden Immortals setting up formations, and Wang Jixuan concluded they had arranged the Ancient Battlefield trap to target him and Red Snake.
• Wang Jixuan consulted Peony and tried to use the Great Dao of Time to locate Red Snake, but received no response.
• Aliang offered to help punish the Golden Immortals, and Wang Jixuan promised to find companions for Amei in return for help locating his sister.
• Amei led Wang Jixuan toward the Evil Spirit of the Afterimage of the Taiyin Star, while Huang Langyu and several others slowly squeezed through a passage into the ruined world.

Wang Jixuan entered the Lunar Star projection and met Layman Luoshan, who had saved Red Snake and asked him to help restore life to the dying land. After Wang Jixuan admitted he could not yet answer whether he could save the Immortal Realm if the Heavenly Dao collapsed, Luoshan offered to eliminate the enemies pursuing him in exchange for his help.

• Cang Ze led Huang Langyu’s group of Golden Immortals and selected Heavenly Immortals toward Wang Jixuan’s Strange Soul Puppet, while privately considering how he might exploit Black Obsidian’s Core Circuit.
• Wang Jixuan and Strange Hand passed through the red curtain into a sheltered immortal island, where they met the powerful Layman Luoshan and discovered Red Snake trapped on a spiderweb.
• Layman Luoshan confirmed that she had saved Red Snake from Golden Immortals sent by the Heavenly Dao, then asked Wang Jixuan to help restore life to the dying land.
• Layman Luoshan asked whether Wang Jixuan could save such a land if the Heavenly Dao collapsed, and Wang Jixuan admitted he could not yet know.
• Layman Luoshan offered to eliminate the approaching enemies in exchange for Wang Jixuan’s help, and Wang Jixuan accepted the deal and asked to enter and leave the place freely with a Storage Magic Treasure.