Chapter Summaries

Lin Baiye gathered Xiao Yun, Fu Yankui, Qin Moxuan, Tu Ao, and Lei Yue to plan an attack on a group guarding five Purple Spirit Fruits. After agreeing to bid for the fruits and divide the money equally, the six finalized their assignments and waited for nightfall.

• Lin Baiye and Xiao Yun met Fu Yankui and Qin Moxuan on a rocky reef, where Fu Yankui tested Lin Baiye with a sword strike despite his injuries.
• Lin Baiye told Fu Yankui and Qin Moxuan that he and Xiao Yun had failed to defeat a powerful Xiantian Peak expert and needed their help.
• Xiao Yun welcomed Tu Ao and Lei Yue, whom she had recruited to join the group.
• Lin Baiye revealed that their target held five Purple Spirit Fruits and proposed that the highest bidders take the fruits while the money was divided among the six.
• Lin Baiye showed the others a map of Fang Mo and the others' camp, and the group assigned their tasks before waiting for nightfall.

Lin Baiye’s plan to ambush Gu Liangyunzong collapsed when the Galactic Alliance camp gained many Xiantian Experts. Gu Liangyunzong tracked Lin Baiye to a meeting with Xiao Yun and the others, surrounded them, and fought Qin Moxuan as the others battled the attackers.

• Lin Baiye saw several groups of Xiantian Experts arrive at the Galactic Alliance camp and abandoned his plan to attack Gu Liangyunzong with only six fighters.
• Lin Baiye told Xiao Yun, Fu Yankui, and the others that Gu Liangyunzong’s camp now had more than ten Xiantian Experts.
• Xiao Yun offered to summon reinforcements in exchange for the Flood Dragon’s Gold Crystal, prompting Fu Yankui and Tu Ao to argue with her.
• Qin Moxuan sensed Gu Liangyunzong in the forest, and Xiao Yun blamed Lin Baiye for leading him to their meeting.
• Gu Liangyunzong’s ten allies surrounded the group, and Qin Moxuan blocked his sword while Xiao Yun and the others fought the encircling Xiantian Experts.

Fang Mo watched the battle between Xiantian Experts as Lin Baiye and the other fighters tried to escape the encirclement. Lin Baiye broke through and, fleeing past Fang Mo, chose to attack him just as Ye Qiuchen was knocked aside.

• Fang Mo and Ye Qiuchen watched as Luo Zhenyuan and Long Hai focused their attacks on Lin Baiye, who escaped by using the force of Luo Zhenyuan's strike.
• The female Xiantian Expert and her partner wounded Fu Yankui, who called for Qin Moxuan before they killed him.
• Xiao Yun and Tu Ao escaped the encirclement, Lei Yue was left behind, and Qin Moxuan escaped from Gu Liangyunzong.
• Lin Baiye fled toward Fang Mo, and Ye Qiuchen tried to stop him but was blasted backward by Lin Baiye's sword strike.
• Lin Baiye recognized Fang Mo and, rather than pass him by, slashed at him as Ye Qiuchen shouted for Fang Mo to move.

Fang Mo survived Lin Baiye’s attack by striking him with a Primordial Spirit sword technique, allowing Ye Qiuchen to kill the wounded Prenatal Expert. Ye Qiuchen concealed Fang Mo’s role, and the group left believing Lin Baiye’s injuries had caused his defeat.

• Fang Mo stood his ground as Lin Baiye attacked, gambling that the wounded man would not use Prenatal Sword Qi.
• Fang Mo unleashed his blade intent and the Flowing Cloud Thirteen Forms, breaking Lin Baiye’s mental barrier with a Primordial Spirit strike.
• Ye Qiuchen stabbed Lin Baiye, who blasted him back before collapsing and dying from his wounds.
• Luo Zhenyuan and Long Hai arrived, saw Lin Baiye’s corpse and the sword mark beside Fang Mo, and assumed Fang Mo had survived by luck.
• Ye Qiuchen checked Fang Mo for injuries and told Luo Zhenyuan that Lin Baiye’s wounds had flared when he used his true force.

Fang Mo recovered from using the Sword of Nascent Soul while the captured Fu Yankui and Lei Yue revealed the strength of the Abyss Sea world and the Sword God Palace. The Alliance's Xiantian Experts then debated how to approach the core region, whose inheritance could determine their future.

• Gu Liangyunzong arrived, checked Fang Mo's injuries, and accepted Luo Zhenyuan's claim that Ye Qiuchen had killed Lin Baiye.
• Hua Xianling's group brought in the captured Fu Yankui and Lei Yue, while Qin Moxuan escaped.
• Fu Yankui warned that the Sword God Palace commanded many Xiantian Experts and Transcendent Realm beings, so Gu Liangyunzong knocked him unconscious and ordered the captives taken back for questioning.
• Fang Mo examined himself at camp and found that his body and Primordial Spirit had strengthened, reducing the backlash from the Sword of Nascent Soul.
• After Fu Yankui and Lei Yue revealed information about the Abyss Sea world and the Trial Ground, the Xiantian Experts discussed the core region and asked Gu Liangyunzong to decide what they should do.

Fang Mo tested his growing Primordial Spirit Power and learned that Gu Liangyunzong planned to evacuate the Transformation Force and Grandmaster martial artists once the Divine Hall opened. A burst of light and energy from the Divine Hall interrupted them, leaving the gathered Prenatal experts stunned.

• Fang Mo discovered that Dragon Flood Dragon Essence Blood had strengthened his Primordial Spirit, then blasted a bamboo cup with an invisible strike.
• Gu Liangyunzong recognized that Fang Mo’s Primordial Spirit had helped kill Lin Baiye, and Fang Mo credited his recent gains to the Dragon Flood Dragon Essence Blood.
• Gu Liangyunzong told Fang Mo that experts from other worlds, including Heavenly Human Realm experts, were entering the world and instructed him to lead the Transformation Force and Grandmasters back through the Divine Hall’s Teleportation Array.
• Fang Mo agreed to leave and accepted a Purple Spirit Fruit from Gu Liangyunzong to deliver to his maternal grandfather’s father.
• A brilliant beam erupted from the Divine Hall, sending vast energy across the area as Fang Mo, Gu Liangyunzong, and the Prenatal experts watched in shock.

The Divine Hall opened, but its entrance killed a group of Xiantian Experts who tried to enter before they were allowed. A young Tianli figure announced that only Trial Takers could enter after sunrise the next day, while Fang Mo prepared his camp to return to the base.

• Gu Liangyunzong flew toward the Divine Hall as Fang Mo told Ye Qiuchen and the others to guard the camp and announced that they would return to the base.
• Fang Mo explained that the Great Thousand Year Opening would draw experts above the Xiantian level into a deadly contest, and that his group was too weak to stay.
• The Divine Hall's doors opened, revealing a vast hall and glowing Teleportation Gates, and several Xiantian Experts rushed toward the entrance.
• A spatial fluctuation cut the intruders into pieces, killing them instantly and stopping the others from approaching.
• A White-clothed Man bearing the characters Tianli appeared and declared that only Trial Takers could enter after sunrise tomorrow, killing trespassers without mercy.
• Gu Liangyunzong and the others left the Divine Hall, while people who could not enter withdrew to wait for the next day.

After Gu Liangyunzong reported that the Divine Hall had opened, Xiantian Experts ordered everyone below the Prenatal level to leave the next day. At the Galactic Alliance base, Gu Poyue used a new exploitation order to persuade sects to send reinforcements, then directed the Alliance to rush support to the Divine Hall.

• Gu Liangyunzong and the others returned with news that the Divine Hall had opened, and the Xiantian Experts ordered everyone below the Prenatal level to leave the next morning.
• At the Galactic Alliance base, Gu Poyue asked when reinforcements would arrive, and Long Jianzhang and Zhong Yuanqiu reported that Xiantian Experts were being gathered from across the Alliance.
• Gu Poyue announced that the Military Merit System and Alliance Treasure Vault were open, then revealed the Tianli Secret Realm Exploitation Order promising territory and resources to forces that established bases.
• Nangong Yun and the other sect representatives promised to contact their sects and send Xiantian Experts to Zhiyuan Star.
• Zhong Yuanqiu reported that the advance force was slowed by impassable roads and mutant beasts, which had shot down all seven Attack Helicopters.
• Gu Poyue ordered Long Jianzhang to send arriving Xiantian Experts to support Gu Liangyunzong and the others as soon as the first thirty old military aircraft arrived.

Cheng Long’s armored convoy slaughtered a native cavalry force on the grasslands as it advanced to build a fortress, drawing the attention of a mysterious white-robed figure. After a night of bloody fighting over cards, Fang Mo’s group reached the Divine Hall with thousands of other martial artists.

• Cheng Long ordered his convoy to hurry toward its destination and sent four combat vehicles to engage a cavalry force of about a hundred natives.
• The vehicles’ autocannons and rockets killed the cavalry and several Grandmasters, and the convoy continued on its way.
• A white-robed figure examined a spent autocannon casing and vanished in the direction the convoy had traveled.
• Fang Mo’s group endured a night of fighting around the Galactic Alliance camp, where Gu Liangyunzong killed two attacking Xiantian Experts.
• Fang Mo distributed Bone Cards and Jade Cards among his allies, then led the main force toward the Divine Hall.
• Fang Mo’s group arrived at the Divine Hall before daylight, where more than ten thousand people had gathered.

Gu Poyue revealed the Thirteen Alliances’ Star Dome Plan to Zhong Yuanqiu and showed him the newly assembled Fourth Generation Mechs. When a Transcendent Realm expert approached, Gu Poyue ordered Gu Jing to test the mechs against him.

• Gu Poyue told Zhong Yuanqiu that the Thirteen Alliances had agreed on the Star Dome Plan to seize the martial worlds connected to the secret realm.
• Zhong Yuanqiu objected that the plan risked trapping and endangering their forces, but Gu Poyue insisted the Alliance had decided and ordered him to keep it secret.
• Gu Poyue and Zhong Yuanqiu went to inspect the completed Blade Warrior and Falcon Goddess Xiantian Edition Fourth Generation Mechs, which Gu Jing said were equipped with helium-3 Power Cores and weapons.
• Long Jianzhang reported that a Transcendent Realm martial artist was approaching, and the footage showed the expert looking toward the camera before the screen went static.
• Gu Poyue recognized the approaching expert as a Transcendent and told Gu Jing to test the Fourth Generation Mechs against him.

Fang Mo and his companions entered the Divine Hall and explored its exchange halls. Unable to afford the highest-level cultivation arts, Fang Mo examined the weapons before the group moved on to the pill and weapon halls.

• The Divine Hall opened, and after a long queue Fang Mo and the others entered its vast central hall.
• The group split up, and Fang Mo, Luo Jiangyan, Yue Quan, Feng Xuyang, and Ye Qiuchen went to inspect cultivation arts.
• Fang Mo found seven Heavenly Human Realm saber arts, but their prices were far beyond what he could afford.
• Fang Mo and his companions concluded that the highest-level cultivation arts were intended for Intermediate or Advanced Trial Takers, then left to inspect weapons and pills.
• Fang Mo watched a Great Grandmaster exchange a Gold Crystal for a Xiantian Grade longsword and saw its powerful Sword Qi surpass the Black Steel Blade.

Fang Mo traded his damaged Black Steel Blade for Snow Drinker and exchanged for cultivation pills before preparing to return through Teleportation Gate 223. As Ye Qiuchen left for the Advanced Trial Zone and the others lined up to go home, Wang Jinlong, Uretai, and Long Piaopiao said they had a mission and would stay behind.

• Fang Mo traded a Gold Crystal for Snow Drinker after Luo Jiangyan offered him her family's unused blade in exchange for his Black Steel Blade.
• Fang Mo and Ye Qiuchen overheard exchange attendants dismiss the weapons as practice pieces and call the Trial Takers people from a Desolate World, then left for the pill Exchange Hall.
• Fang Mo exchanged for cultivation pills but kept twelve Jade Cards before going to the Teleportation Hall with the others.
• Mingzhen told Fang Mo that Elder Gu Liang and the others had entered the Advanced Trial Zone and urged them to return quickly, and Fang Mo reminded everyone to use Teleportation Gate 223.
• Ye Qiuchen urged Fang Mo to return to Zhiyuan Star soon, then left for the Advanced Trial Zone to seek a breakthrough.
• Wang Jinlong, Uretai, and Long Piaopiao told Fang Mo they would stay behind for a mission, and Fang Mo asked what it was.

Wang Jinlong, Long Piaopiao, and Uretai entered the Intermediate Trial Zone on military orders, and Fang Mo chose to follow with his companions. They reunited inside the dangerous new base and prepared to get settled before discussing their next steps.

• Wang Jinlong, Long Piaopiao, and Uretai told Fang Mo they had received military orders to enter the Intermediate Trial Zone and left through its Teleportation Gate.
• Fang Mo decided to follow them, and Luo Jiangyan, Yue Quan, Feng Xuyang, Huang Yuyang, Mingzhen, Mu Yan, and others joined him with their remaining Jade Cards.
• Fang Mo told Luo Yuan and the others to return and report the situation to the Alliance, while the five Grandmasters sent by Gu Liangyunzong let him go.
• Long Piaopiao, Wang Jinlong, and Uretai arrived at a desolate base, where they were directed to read the rules posted on a stone wall.
• Fang Mo and his companions arrived at the base, reunited with the three soldiers, and Fang Mo proposed that they get settled before talking.

The Fourth Generation Mech, the Blade Warrior, battled a Transcendent Realm expert, proving its Particle Shield and weapons could withstand his attacks. Gu Poyue ordered Xia Jun and Ling Xue to deploy the Falcon Goddess and capture the man at any cost.

• The White-clothed Man attacked the Blade Warrior with a sword strike, and its Particle Shield blocked the blow.
• Gu Poyue received data showing the shield and Power Core could withstand further attacks and ordered Xia Jun to capture the Transcendent Realm expert alive.
• The Blade Warrior pursued the expert through the air, parrying his flying sword and trading powerful attacks with him.
• The expert struck the Blade Warrior from the sky, and Gu Poyue and the others recognized the mech’s improved capabilities and the expert’s overwhelming power.
• Gu Poyue ordered Xia Jun and Ling Xue to deploy the Falcon Goddess and capture the Transcendent Realm expert.

A Transcendent Realm cultivator attacked the Blade Warrior, but the mech and Falcon Goddess fought back with support from a Particle Cannon. They captured the gravely wounded cultivator and flew back to the base to report.

• The Transcendent cultivator fired a powerful flying sword that shattered the Blade Warrior's Particle Shield and damaged its armor, but the Inner Armor saved Xia Jun.
• The Falcon Goddess attacked the weakened cultivator, who knocked away her strike and gathered power for another assault.
• A Particle Cannon struck the Transcendent cultivator and blasted him into a mountainside, where the Falcon Goddess's follow-up attack left him gravely wounded.
• The Blade Warrior and Falcon Goddess confirmed the cultivator could no longer fight, captured him alive, and flew back to the base.

After the Alliance won its battle against a Transcendent Realm expert, Gu Poyue ordered the development and production of stronger mechs and the recruitment of more Xiantian pilots. When Zhong Yuanqiu learned Fang Mo had gone to the Intermediate Trial Zone, Gu Poyue revealed that he had ordered the expedition.

• Gu Poyue warned the command hall not to underestimate their enemies, while Academician Qian and Gu Jing outlined upgrades and production plans for the Fourth Generation Mechs.
• Gu Poyue ordered Zhong Yuanqiu to recruit more Xiantian Experts as Mech Warriors, though Zhong Yuanqiu feared the Tianli Sect and powers beyond the True Man Realm.
• Jiang Zhong reported that the trial prodigies had returned, and Zhong Yuanqiu discovered Fang Mo was missing from the quarantine zone.
• Jiang Zhong explained that Wang Jinlong and Long Piaopiao had orders to locate the Intermediate Trial Zone, and Fang Mo had followed with several others.
• Zhong Yuanqiu accused Long Jianzhang of sending them, but Gu Poyue declared that he had given the order.

Gu Poyue defended his decision to send Fang Mo into the Intermediate Trial Zone, while Zhong Yuanqiu worried about the danger and the Alliance’s losses. Unable to contact the base after arriving in an unfamiliar place, Fang Mo led his group to buy supplies and prepare to hunt exotic beasts.

• Zhong Yuanqiu accused Long Jianzhang of using Long Piaopiao as bait, but Gu Poyue admitted he had ordered the plan to get Fang Mo into the Intermediate Trial Zone.
• Jiang Zhong reported that Fang Mo entered with Luo Jiangyan, Yue Quan, Feng Xuyang, Mingzhen, Xuan Chenzi, Mu Yan, and Huang Yuyang, and that their group helped other Alliances survive.
• Xia Jun and Ling Xue returned to the base, and Gu Poyue went to meet the Transcendent Expert.
• Zhong Yuanqiu learned that Fang Mo's group could no longer be reached through their Wristwatches and said they would have to rely on themselves.
• Fang Mo led his group through the base, where they learned that supplies and lodging required payment, then told them to gather resources and hunt exotic beasts.
• Fang Mo distributed Jade Cards so the group could buy supplies, and they gathered at the base entrance to head into the wilderness.

Fang Mo led his group into the wilderness, chose Giant Wolf Valley as their hunting ground, and demonstrated the power of his new Snow Drinker Blade. The group struggled against a pack of giant wolves while Fang Mo killed their late Heaven Grade wolf king in one move.

• Fang Mo showed the group a map he had secretly copied onto his Wristwatch and explained its danger-zone ratings.
• Fang Mo chose Giant Wolf Valley and ordered the group to hunt there before entering the central region.
• Fang Mo used Wind Control Blade Light to kill several giant wolves with his Snow Drinker Blade.
• Fang Mo's three teams fought the remaining wolves in a triangular formation but struggled against their strength and defenses.
• A late Heaven Grade wolf king emerged, and Fang Mo killed it with one move.

Fang Mo’s group hunted giant wolves in Giant Wolf Valley and sheltered in a cave for the night while discussing the secret realm’s dangers. As a pack pursued several fleeing trial participants toward them, Fang Mo learned the strangers intended to use his group as shields.

• Fang Mo’s group killed giant wolves, collected their hides and other materials, and hunted more than thirty wolves during the day.
• Fang Mo and the others found a cave, blocked its entrance, and discussed the powerful creatures, Tianli Sect, and the Alliance’s possible conflict in the secret realm.
• Fang Mo meditated overnight while the group rested, then sensed people approaching with giant wolves chasing them.
• Fang Mo warned everyone to prepare for battle as the fleeing group neared their cave.
• One pursuer admitted that they had deliberately led the wolf pack toward Fang Mo’s group, hoping to use them as shields.

Fang Mo killed the Wolf King and its leading wolves, freeing his companions from the pack’s assault. He then confronted the five men who had lured the wolves toward the cave and killed them with a single blade strike.

• Fang Mo left his companions to defend the cave while he hunted giant wolves in the forest.
• Feng Xuyang and the others fought off repeated waves of wolves as the five men who had exposed their hiding place watched from nearby.
• Fang Mo killed the Wolf King and its other leaders, causing the pack to scatter.
• The five men tried to leave, but Fang Mo stopped them and accused them of luring the wolves to the cave.
• The five men attacked Fang Mo, and he shattered their attacks and killed all five with one fast blade strike.