Chapter Summaries

Di Nüfeng killed the Xuantian Sword Sect disciples pursuing Qin Wenke, who returned to Shu Mountain with news that the sect had rebelled and massacred Shushan Disciples. Shu Mountain’s leaders argued over how to respond and agreed to question the Xuantian Sword Sect while awaiting the sect leader’s return.

• Qin Wenke lured Xuantian Sword Sect disciples into attacking him, then killed one and fled to an ancient temple while the others pursued him.
• Di Nüfeng killed the pursuing Xuantian Sword Sect disciples with a flicked water droplet, then sent Qin Wenke flying away and resumed studying.
• Qin Wenke reached Shu Mountain and reported that the Xuantian Sword Sect had rebelled and massacred its branch, killing twenty-five Shushan Disciples.
• Li Xuanxiao received the same report and wondered what had persuaded the Xuantian Sword Sect to become Shu Mountain’s enemy.
• Yuyangzi demanded an immediate attack, but Wushangzi urged restraint, and the Dragon Head Peak Master proposed questioning the Xuantian Sword Sect and surrounding it if responsible.

After Shu Mountain imposed martial law and ordered its disciples to return, Profound Sword Sect ambushed Lu Ziyin and other Silver Sword Peak disciples. Li Xuanxiao intervened to save Feng Liuli, but three Integrated Body Realm Cultivators closed in as Lin Wanqing escaped with the others.

• Wushangzi received the Sect Leader’s order to lock down Shu Mountain, destroy its documents, and summon all disciples back to the sect.
• Lu Ziyin refused two Profound Sword Sect cultivators’ invitation and was attacked by them as he tried to leave.
• Lu Ziyin warned the Shushan Disciples of the ambush and sent Lin Wanqing away with the others.
• Lin Wanqing broke through the formation and escaped while Profound Sword Sect disciples tried to stop her.
• Feng Liuli was trapped after sparing a commoner, but Li Xuanxiao emerged from underground and killed the attackers surrounding her.
• Three Integrated Body Realm Cultivators enveloped the area in their laws, and Li Xuanxiao faced them with Lin Wanqing in his hand.

Lu Ziyin and Lin Wanqing faced overwhelming Body Integration mighty figures from the Profound Sword Sect, who tried to recruit them and threatened their lives. After Feng Liuli reminded Lin Wanqing of Fanyue, Lin Wanqing found the strength to rise again.

• Lu Ziyin rejected the Profound Sword Sect’s offer and challenged two Body Integration mighty figures, but his sword strike was shattered.
• Lin Wanqing, Pei Qi, and Yun Ran attacked a Body Integration mighty figure, whose Dao Domain restrained Lin Wanqing’s sword and overwhelmed them.
• The mighty figure offered to take Lin Wanqing as a disciple, but she refused to abandon Shu Mountain.
• The mighty figure struck Lin Wanqing into an abyss and prepared to annihilate her body and soul.
• Feng Liuli urged Lin Wanqing to remember Fanyue and their promise to meet again.
• Lin Wanqing resolved not to die, recovered her sword, and rose from the abyss as the wind carried breaths into her nearly exhausted body.

Lin Wanqing survived the Body Integration Realm expert’s attack as her dormant golden Sword Intent returned and protected her, leaving the expert badly wounded. Meanwhile, Lingxu continued fighting at the Ancient Battlefield and crippled a great demon threatening a city.

• Lin Wanqing stood again and struck the Body Integration Realm expert, injuring his finger before her sword shattered and she fell unconscious.
• Feng Liuli repeated that Fanyue was waiting for Lin Wanqing, and golden Sword Intent formed a barrier around Lin Wanqing as the expert attacked.
• Lin Wanqing’s returning Sword Intent gathered around her and resisted the expert’s attacks, while its lingering power worsened his wounds.
• At the Cangzhou Ancient Battlefield, Lingxu fought for three days and three nights before a great demon entered the city and threatened its people.
• Lingxu struck the great demon’s Dao Heart, crippled it, and tore off its head.

Luo Zhi urged the Demon Kings to spare their descendants, but the siege continued until Lingxu lifted the city he had been protecting. The Demon Kings trapped Cangzhou and confronted him, and Lingxu accepted the battle while carrying the city.

• Luo Zhi argued that the Demon Race's descendants should leave the battlefield, but the Crimson Firmament Demon King insisted on extending the siege.
• The Demon Race attacked Lingxu for five days, culminating in an assault by twelve great demons and the Crimson Firmament elite army, while Lingxu fought only with his fists and feet.
• On the sixth day, Lingxu lifted the main city from the earth veins to move it away from the coming battle, but the Demon Race attacked him again.
• The Demon Kings, including the Crimson Firmament Demon King, Old Man Desolate Bone, Luo Zhi, and Baili, gathered to confront Lingxu as Happy Old Man sealed Cangzhou with a grand formation.
• Lingxu saw Burial Soldier City above the firmament, realized the Demon Race had trapped him by cutting off his access to Central Continent's spiritual energy, and accepted their challenge while carrying the city.

Lin Wanqing awakened her invincible sword intent and briefly reached Integrated Body Realm cultivation to defeat a Body Integration Realm powerhouse, then collapsed from exhaustion. Meanwhile, Lu Ziyin fought two Body Integration Realm opponents alone and opened the Shushan Sword Formation.

• Feng Liuli reminded Lin Wanqing of her vow with Fanyue, and Lin Wanqing recovered fragments of her past-life memories and sword Dao.
• The Body Integration Realm powerhouse attacked Feng Liuli, but Li Xuanxiao’s corpse released corpse poison that dissolved the strike as Feng Liuli escaped.
• Lin Wanqing stepped in to protect Feng Liuli and unleashed a sword strike that overcame the powerhouse’s rain of sword-wielding Daoists.
• Lin Wanqing borrowed the Dao of future time to briefly reach Integrated Body Realm cultivation and cut down the powerhouse, then collapsed after exhausting herself.
• Lu Ziyin fought Yaoshan and another Body Integration Realm powerhouse, refused Yaoshan’s offer to become his disciple, and opened the Shushan Sword Formation.

Lu Ziyin fought two Integrated Body Great Talents to defend Silver Sword Peak, and Cangcheng killed him with the Great Sun Burning Immortal Array. Before dying, Lu Ziyin comprehended his Sword Dao, destroyed Cangcheng, and wounded Yaoshan; Di Nüfeng then appeared as the Sword Spirit set out to save him.

• Lu Ziyin recalled how Xue Yun had surpassed him and unleashed the Shushan Sword Formation against Yaoshan and Cangcheng.
• Lu Ziyin wounded Yaoshan, but Cangcheng burned his life's blood essence and trapped Lu Ziyin in the Great Sun Burning Immortal Array.
• As Silver Sword Peak's defenders fell, Li Xuanxiao hesitated to leave the sect and come to their aid.
• At the last moment, Lu Ziyin comprehended his Sword Dao and used a sword strike to destroy Cangcheng's body and Dao Domain while wounding Yaoshan.
• Di Nüfeng appeared before Yaoshan, and the Sword Spirit declared that it would save Lu Ziyin.

The Sword Spirit sent Lu Ziyin’s remnant soul into the three thousand small worlds while Di Nüfeng killed the Profound Sword Sect disciples and let the conflict with Shu Mountain deepen. In Cangzhou, Lingxu used his hidden flying sword to break through a siege by several Demon Kings, then looked for another sword as the city escaped.

• The Sword Spirit failed to preserve Lu Ziyin’s remnant soul in a sheath, so she infused it with her aura and sent it to reincarnate in the three thousand small worlds.
• Di Nüfeng let Yaoshan flee, then crushed the Profound Sword Sect disciples lying in ambush as the Sword Spirit led Silver Sword Peak away.
• Lingxu faced a siege by several Demon Kings in Cangzhou while his hidden flying sword broke through the Happy Old Man’s star barriers and returned to him.
• Lingxu used his flying sword to repel the Demon Kings and sent the city he had been holding out of the battlefield.
• Lingxu prepared to fight without the city burdening him, but he looked up and wondered where his next sword was.

Happy Old Man trapped two of Lingxu’s natal flying swords in a separate time loop, weakening Lingxu as he drew the six Demon Kings into his own heaven and earth to fight them. The Demon Kings resisted his attacks with their distinct abilities while Luozhi studied his methods for weaknesses.

• Lingxu discovered that he could sense his two missing flying swords but could not summon them.
• Happy Old Man used the Stellar Chessboard and the Great Dao of Time to trap the swords in an isolated time loop, making each attempt to retrieve them drain Lingxu’s spiritual power.
• Lingxu expanded his own heaven and earth and separated the six Demon Kings from Cangzhou, placing each in a different battlefield.
• Luozhi used her web of fate to dissolve Lingxu’s Sword Qi and study his fighting methods.
• The Blood Feather Phoenix Clan shattered lightning with its claw, while Baili transformed Sword Qi into wisps of breeze.
• Old Man Desolate Bone activated his thunder-patterned Dharma Seal and array to withstand Lingxu’s Sword Qi as the other Demon Kings used their abilities.

As Shu Mountain came under a coordinated rebellion across Central Continent, its disciples suffered losses while its enemies assembled overwhelming forces. Gou Shengzi exposed the collapsing Blessed Land and awakened its inhabitants’ memories as powerful factions gathered beyond Central Continent.

• The Crimson Firmament Demon King recalled agreeing with Happy Old Man to help surround and kill Lingxu in exchange for two provinces, then resolved to survive the battle despite being trapped in Cangzhou with six peak Tribulation Crossing Demon Kings and other forces.
• Di Nüfeng returned to Shu Mountain after killing Profound Sword Sect attackers, while Lu Ziyin had died and Lin Wanqing, Yun Ran, and Pei Qi were severely injured.
• Reports revealed that four of the Five Great Immortal Alliances and several other factions had rebelled against Shu Mountain, while many forces remained neutral and watched.
• Gou Shengzi collapsed the hidden Blessed Land, causing its inhabitants to remember why they had come to Central Continent; fifteen Tribulation Crossing cultivators and forty Body Integration Great Powers were among them.
• Wushangzi led Shu Mountain’s seven peak masters in controlling the Shushan Sword Formation as the Western Paradise of Ultimate Bliss, Wenqu Pavilion, Ink Pool Sect, and Ascended Immortals’ Descendants gathered beyond Central Continent.

Ascension Great Emperor led an alliance of factions against Shu Mountain, and the Shushan Sword Formation struggled to withstand their successive attacks. With two peak masters dead and only five activating the formation, Silver Sword Peak suddenly raised its swords as the assault intensified.

• Ascension Great Emperor confronted Yuyangzi, while Yuyangzi and Daoist Qingshi denounced the attackers and their allies.
• The Western Sage launched a golden lotus petal at the Central Continent, forcing Wushangzi and four peak masters to activate the Shushan Sword Formation.
• The Ink Pool Sect sent chained Flying Ships dragging mountains into the formation, while the Mohists and other factions prepared further attacks.
• The formation held against mountains and successive arrow volleys, but Wushangzi recognized that the attackers were using brute force, poison, and refined-star explosions to break it.
• As Silver Sword Peak lit up, a voice called for it to raise its swords.

As the Shushan Sword Formation held against the siege, the Demon Kings sacrificed themselves and the Eastern Wasteland to raise Crimson Firmament Demon King to the Mahayana Stage. Lingxu struck him with a full-power sword that overwhelmed his transformed body, leaving him unable to resist.

• Ling Xuanxiao repaired the missing corner of the Shushan Sword Formation, and the formation withstood the ballista barrage as mechanical kites prepared to attack.
• Lingxu overpowered Wen Yuan and the Demon Kings in Cangzhou, while Luo Zhi, Happy Old Man, and Gou Shengzi nearly completed their deductions about him.
• The Eastern Wasteland demon tribes and Demon Kings sacrificed themselves, and their blood formed a pill that rebirthed Crimson Firmament Demon King.
• Crimson Firmament Demon King entered the Mahayana Stage by sacrificing the Eastern Wasteland and transformed into a nine-headed, eighteen-armed demonic form.
• Lingxu brought down his full-power sword, and Crimson Firmament Demon King found himself unable to withstand it.

Lingxu fought the Crimson Firmament Demon King with successive swords while Happy Old Man reversed time across the Eastern Wasteland Demon Domain, reviving the sacrificed Demon Kings. Old Man Desolate Bone then sacrificed himself and the revived demons to ascend to the Mahayana Stage, while Happy Old Man continued his deadly wager against heaven.

• Lingxu gathered all Sword Qi and struck the Crimson Firmament Demon King twice, cutting his bloodline and wounding his primordial spirit despite the demon king's defenses.
• Happy Old Man reversed the River of Time, restoring the sacrificed Demon Race members and reviving Old Man Desolate Bone, Luozhi, Toad, and Baili.
• Old Man Desolate Bone tore apart his own flesh and used renewed sacrifices to ascend from the peak of the Tribulation Transcendence Stage to the Mahayana Stage.
• Happy Old Man advanced along the Great Path of Time, burned his lifespan and spirits, and declared that he would wager his life to defeat heaven by half a move.

Happy Old Man’s Time Reversal helped five demons reach the Mahayana realm, and they attacked Lingxu with the power of Cangzhou’s laws. As their battle devastated Cangzhou, Wenyuan and Burial Soldier City arrived to block Lingxu’s path, leaving him facing the five demons and the city lord.

• Happy Old Man used Time Reversal as Luozhi, Old Man Desolate Bone, the Toad, and the Blood Feather Phoenix Clan advanced to the Mahayana realm.
• The five demons encircled Lingxu, fused with the authority of heaven and earth, and wounded him with chains of law, but Lingxu shattered the chains and fought back.
• The Blood Feather Phoenix Clan transformed into a black true dragon, and the five demons unleashed attacks that devastated Cangzhou.
• Lingxu cleaved through Cangzhou with a sword strike, then continued fighting the five demon kings as their battle destroyed cities and killed countless people.
• Wenyuan arrived with Burial Soldier City and stood between Lingxu and the five pursuers.

Burial Soldier City and the demons trapped Lingxu under the city’s suppression, while the Star Palace and Ink Pool Sect brought down a moon against Shu Mountain. Yuyangzi destroyed half the moon at the cost of his life, but the other half struck the Shushan Sword Formation.

• Wen Yuan awakened Burial Soldier City, whose battlefield killing intent suppressed Lingxu and encircled him with eight ancient weapon souls as the demons joined the attack.
• At Shu Mountain, the Star Palace Lord and Ink Pool Sect Master combined their forces to drag the bright moon toward the mountain.
• The moon’s chill froze the Star Palace cultivators and shattered the Star Palace Lord’s Natal Artifact, costing him most of his cultivation and more than half his troops.
• Wushangzi raised the Shushan Sword Formation, but its flying swords froze as they approached the falling moon.
• Yuyangzi confronted the moon, detonated his Natal Sword and Great Dao, and destroyed half of it before the remaining half crashed into the Shushan Sword Formation.

Gou Shengzi and a host of powerful enemies attacked Shu Mountain as the blood-corpse-covered mountains carried the power of Outer Realm Demons toward the Shushan Sword Formation. The formation cracked under the combined assault, while Di Nüfeng noticed Li Xuanxiao was missing.

• Gou Shengzi arrived at Shu Mountain with fifteen Tribulation Crossing Great Powers and more than forty Body Integration Realm cultivators, then taunted Daoist Qingshi about his attack.
• Gou Shengzi sent connected mountains covered in blood corpses toward Shu Mountain while forces from Beyond Heaven battered the Shushan Sword Formation.
• Qingshi fought Six Paths of Sentience and other opponents, discovered the mountains were tied to the Western Teachings and Outer Realm Demons, and tried to stop them.
• Gou Shengzi revealed that Qingshi had been deceived by a clone, and Qingshi was trapped in an illusion of Inner Demons as the blood mountains struck the formation.
• The Shushan Sword Formation cracked under the combined attacks, prompting the Ink Pool Sect Master to order a full assault while onlookers debated rushing in to loot Shu Mountain.
• Di Nüfeng looked toward Shu Mountain and wondered where Li Xuanxiao was.

The Shushan Sword Formation fell, and a coalition of outside powers invaded Shu Mountain, forcing its disciples to fight across the mountain. As the battle spread, Su Wan and Wang Yushu confronted major enemies while Yao Chong’s force became trapped in Silver Sword Peak’s deadly formations.

• Gou Shengzi declared Shu Mountain’s destruction and promised the invaders a place in the new era.
• Daoist Qingshi attacked the invading forces, but their disciples poured from the Flying Ships and overwhelmed Shu Mountain’s defenses.
• Shushan Disciples fought back against the organized assault, while Su Wan appeared on the battlefield and Wang Yushu faced the Buddhist Saint and five Tribulation Crossing Great Powers.
• Yao Chong led Star Palace and Burial Soldier City cultivators into Silver Sword Peak, where layered formations attacked them with miasma, sound, poison, Gu Worms, and shrinking space.
• Yao Chong pointed out the formation core, and the Burial Soldier City cultivator rushed toward it but screamed as soon as he entered the formation camp.

Yao Chong and the invading forces fought their way into Shu Mountain as its defenders struggled against overwhelming numbers. With Tongtian Peak destroyed and major defenders wounded or killed, the siege left Shu Mountain on the brink of collapse.

• Yao Chong escaped Silver Sword Peak's formation, attacked a thatched hut, and was stabbed by Li Xuanxiao before falling into another formation.
• Sweeping Grandfather confronted the Ascension Great Emperor near the Demon Suppressing Pagoda while Shu Mountain's six Tribulation Crossing Great Powers fought to keep enemies away.
• More than sixty enemy Tribulation Crossing Great Powers and vast numbers of lower-stage cultivators besieged Shu Mountain as Li Xuanxiao fought off attackers on Silver Sword Peak and waited for his master.
• Gou Shengzi pierced Daoist Qingshi with a golden spear, seized him, and merged their Dao after Qingshi had fought off several powerful opponents.
• The Ascension Great Emperor battered Sweeping Grandfather and caught Deputy Sect Leader Wushangzi's sword with an unseen force.
• A saint from Western Paradise of Ultimate Bliss and the Ink Pool Sect Master destroyed Tongtian Peak, prompting the invading cultivators to charge into Shu Mountain.

As forces swarmed Shu Mountain after Tongtian Peak fell, its defenders struggled against the invading armies and the Ascension Great Emperor. A Buddhist-dragged coffin reached the battlefield, its seals broke, and the Demon Suppressing Pagoda was blasted apart.

• Tongtian Peak fell, and Gou Shengzi's attempt to merge with the Dao was disrupted by Qingshi, forcing him to withdraw.
• Wushangzi and Wang Yushu fought the Ascension Great Emperor while Zhao Lu refused to abandon her duties as ruler of Great Sui.
• The Southern Border Gu King disrupted the Shu Mountain sword formations, leaving the disciples exposed as attackers swarmed the Demon Suppressing Pagoda.
• Shangguan Suiyun sensed the upheaval from inside the Demon Suppressing Pagoda and worried about his younger sister.
• The Buddhist Sage brought the coffin to Shu Mountain, where its inscriptions faded, the Outer Realm Demon Corpse opened its thousand eyes, and its chains snapped.
• Wang Yushu tried to stop the coffin, but its chaotic aura wounded her; then the Demon Suppressing Pagoda roared and was blasted apart.

The Demon Suppressing Pagoda collapsed, unleashing imprisoned demons that overwhelmed Shu Mountain as its defenders retreated toward the Sword Tomb. The Ascension Great Emperor tracked down and battered Li Xuanxiao, but Lingxu appeared above him as the battle in Cangzhou fell silent.

• The Demon Suppressing Pagoda shattered, releasing ancient demons and monsters that attacked Shu Mountain and slaughtered its disciples.
• The Ascension Great Emperor blasted Wushangzi away while the Crimson Flood Dragon, a Soul-Reaping Bell wielder, and other demons devastated Shu Mountain’s defenders and treasures.
• A voice ordered the surviving Shushan Disciples to retreat to the Sword Tomb, and Wushangzi relayed the command before the Ascension Great Emperor struck him down.
• Gou Shengzi began absorbing Shu Mountain’s spiritual vein as the disciples fled toward the Sword Tomb, while Li Xuanxiao’s transmission stones and clone were destroyed and he was badly injured.
• Wang Yushu attacked the Ascension Great Emperor while Wushangzi clung to his leg, but Lingxu suddenly appeared above them, horribly wounded.
• In Cangzhou, only half of Burial Soldier City remained, and the battlefield had gone silent.