Chapter Summaries

He Anxia's bacteria destroyed Ye Wushang's body and weakened the Myriad Poisons Gate's strange poison, allowing the Beast Taming Sect to counterattack and drive off its enemies. The Myriad Poisons Gate fled with Ye Wushang's soul captured, and the Beast Taming Sect's elders discussed how He Anxia had broken the poison while Ye Wushang pleaded for his life.

• He Anxia used bacteria and viruses to destroy Ye Wushang's body, leaving only his soul and weakening the strange poison.
• He Anxia told Chen Chen that the poison had been cured, and Chen Chen tested his claim by releasing spirit beasts that remained unharmed.
• Qu Shi Fei and Chen Chen led the Beast Taming Sect's beast tide in a counterattack, forcing Yu Suxin and the Myriad Poisons Gate to retreat.
• The Chaos Heavenly Pig seized Ye Wushang's soul during the retreat, and Yu Suxin abandoned her attempt to rescue him and fled with her followers.
• News spread that the Beast Taming Sect had defeated the Myriad Poisons Gate, while Ye Wushang asked Chen Chen whether pledging allegiance could spare his life.

After He Anxia helped resolve the Beast Taming Sect’s crisis, he left the sect and joined Moon Embracing Sect as Lin Fan’s personal disciple, where Lin Fan guided his research into microorganisms and selective breeding. The elders then planned a sect tournament, and Lin Fan excluded his own powerful disciples so the others could compete fairly.

• After the Beast Taming Sect’s crisis ended, Chen Chen celebrated He Anxia’s achievements, but He Anxia asked to leave the sect and pursue cultivation under Lin Fan; Chen Chen reluctantly approved.
• Chen Chen accompanied He Anxia to Moon Embracing Sect, where Lin Fan accepted him as a personal disciple without requiring him to sever ties with the Beast Taming Sect.
• Lin Fan explained individual differences, inherited resistance, and selective breeding to He Anxia, who became excited about the future of biological cultivation and the microscopic world.
• Lin Fan warned Yaya that advanced biologists could use spirit beasts and microorganisms inside opponents to attack in close combat, and Yaya asked him to teach her how to counter them.
• He Anxia recorded his research and secret Beast Taming Sect techniques in Moon Embracing Sect’s Scripture Repository, then received a generous personal-disciple allowance.
• The elders proposed a sect tournament, and Lin Fan scheduled it for half a month later with major scripture and technique rewards, while excluding Xiao Ling'er, Yaya, and his other personal disciples to give the rest a fair contest.

Lin Fan organized a sect tournament and invited his personal disciples and many factions to observe, while the Bright Moon Sect reluctantly sent Lu Ming and a delegation. As the tournament revealed the Moon Embracing Sect’s unexpectedly strong disciples, the Bright Moon Sect’s visitors grew uneasy, and the top hundred were being decided.

• Lin Fan announced a tournament for half a month later and offered priority to cultivate Body as Formation as the first-place prize in a voluntary match among his personal disciples; several disciples chose to attend, while others declined.
• The Moon Embracing Sect invited numerous families, sects, and holy lands to observe, prompting Lu Ming to persuade the Bright Moon Sect to send a delegation for intelligence gathering; he then led Wen Ruyan and thirty disciples to the ceremony.
• At the tournament, the Bright Moon Sect delegation discovered that the Myriad Flowers Holy Land and Black and White Academy were also represented, while Wu Xingyun opened the competition and displayed her matured Sacred Body.
• The preliminary round advanced ten thousand disciples, with only about thirty percent from Fire Virtue Peak; in the next round, Liu Xinyue, the six present mascots, and Mo Wen impressed the observers with their performances.
• Lin Fan praised Mo Wen and the other steady disciples as the sect’s future backbone, while Wen Ruyan and her companions worried that Moon Embracing Sect’s young disciples could outgrow the Bright Moon Sect.
• The third round began among one hundred Fourth Realm qualifiers, and as the top hundred were decided, the Bright Moon Sect disciples questioned whether their sect could still rival Moon Embracing Sect.

Xiao Ling'er and Huo Yun'er sparred privately, and Huo Yun'er proved strong enough to ask Xiao Ling'er to take her along on future missions. Wang Teng then challenged Xiao Ling'er, and their Artificial Sun Fist and Great Sun Burning Heaven clashed so violently that the sect elders had to reinforce the formation.

• Mo Wen took first place in the Moon Embracing Sect's tournament, and the sect awarded generous prizes to the top hundred.
• Xiao Ling'er gave the top ten Ninth Grade Breakthrough Pills, prompting Lu Ming to promise that he would refine pills for the Bright Moon Sect disciples as well.
• Huo Yun'er overwhelmed the spectators with her collection of treasures, then trapped Xiao Ling'er inside a bronze cauldron and fought her with flames and a copied fire lotus.
• Huo Yun'er asked Xiao Ling'er to bring her along in the future, and Xiao Ling'er agreed before privately inviting her to meet at midnight.
• Wang Teng challenged Xiao Ling'er and unleashed Artificial Sun Fist against her Great Sun Burning Heaven, forcing the elders and Liang Danxia to reinforce the formation as the two techniques shook the arena.

Xiao Ling'er and Wang Teng’s spar at the Moon Embracing Sect stunned visiting sects, while Xiao Ling'er later defeated the Sword Son in a swordsmanship match. Huo Yun’er received Xiao Ling’er’s cultivation techniques, the Bright Moon Sect reconsidered its plans against the Moon Embracing Sect, and Lu Ming began studying how to nurture Immortal Qi without destroying his body.

• Xiao Ling'er and Wang Teng escalated their spar with their strongest techniques, creating a black hole and shattering the arena formation before the First Elder of the Myriad Flowers Holy Land contained the aftershock.
• Xiao Ling'er defeated the Sword Son in a swordsmanship match, and visiting factions reassessed the Moon Embracing Sect’s strength and warned their allies not to make it an enemy.
• Xiao Ling'er invited Huo Yun'er to her room and taught her the Burning Flame Art and Buddha's Wrath Fire Lotus, while Huo Yun’er privately lamented that Xiao Ling'er had misunderstood her romantic hopes.
• Lu Ming reported the Moon Embracing Sect’s strength to Ji Haoyue, who decided the Bright Moon Sect could not safely attack it and urged his elders to wait until their sect grew stronger.
• Lu Ming refined pills for Wen Ruyan and other ranked disciples, then completed the Heavenly Master's Degree and began seeking a way to nurture Immortal Qi without exploding.

Lu Ming discovered He Qiang, a fishing-obsessed transmigrator whose Innate Saint Body of Fishing let him hook beings from other worlds, and persuaded him to cultivate and join the Moon Embracing Sect. The chapter ended with Lu Ming recognizing He Qiang as the legendary Heavenly Emperor He.

• Lu Ming searched the Bright Moon Sect’s records for a way to withstand immortal qi, found only accounts of failed attempts, and traveled the Immortal Martial Continent in search of inspiration.
• Lu Ming encountered He Qiang fishing by a lake and watched him hook an adult True Dragon from another world before it broke free.
• Lu Ming persuaded He Qiang to consider cultivation by demonstrating how easily danger could overwhelm an ordinary person and explaining how cultivation could help him fish more safely.
• He Qiang revealed that he possessed the Innate Saint Body of Fishing, and Lu Ming offered to guide him if he joined the Moon Embracing Sect.
• Lu Ming introduced himself as Lin Fan and learned the fisherman’s name was He Qiang, recognizing it as the name of the legendary Heavenly Emperor He.

Lin Fan and He Qiang entered the world He Qiang had fished up and discovered it was a vast Tomb of the Gods filled with immense graves and ancient ruins. Lin Fan realized the world might belong to a vastly more powerful realm and feared that disturbing its tombs could draw its inhabitants to the Immortal Martial Continent.

• Lin Fan accepted He Qiang as his Personal Disciple, but He Qiang’s attempt to retrieve his fishing rod pulled a battered rock from the lake that Lin Fan recognized as a shrunken world.
• Lin Fan warned He Qiang not to discard the rock, explained that it contained a world, and used Origin Energy and spiritual power to enter it with him.
• Lin Fan and He Qiang descended through darkness into a silent, apparently lifeless world, where Lin Fan tested his techniques and made a sun to illuminate their surroundings.
• Lin Fan and He Qiang discovered that the world was covered in enormous gravestones, grave mounds, and ancient ruins, all protected by powerful formations.
• Lin Fan concluded that the world was likely a Tomb of the Gods from a higher plane and worried that disturbing the graves could provoke powerful beings to retaliate against the Immortal Martial Continent.

Lin Fan escaped the Divine Tomb world after discovering that its runes could help him develop a method for refining immortal qi, then traveled to Nine Heavens Immortal Peak to seek immortal qi. He left the chapter climbing the mountain after killing seven Eighth Realm cultivators who ambushed him.

• Lin Fan guided He Qiang through the graveyard world, where they found no exit or damaged tombs, and He Qiang caught a carp that slapped him before returning to its world.
• Lin Fan spent half a month studying the tombstone runes and realized they could command spiritual energy, giving him a lead on refining immortal qi and a way to leave the world.
• He Qiang cultivated and fished while Lin Fan returned them to the Moon Embracing Sect’s world, then sent He Qiang back with the Scarecrow and concealed his own identity as Lu Ming.
• The Wang Family’s Earthly Immortals discovered that their ten-thousand-year treasure medicine had vanished and began a purge, while Lin Fan headed toward Nine Heavens Immortal Peak.
• Seven Eighth Realm cultivators ambushed Lu Ming with a formation, but he walked through it and killed them with his sword before continuing up the mountain.

Lu Ming refined immortal energy into three Great Dao Flowers, creating the Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown technique and greatly increasing his combat power. He then disguised himself as Fairy Chengying and infiltrated the Rain Clan, where he began assassinating its powerful members.

• Lu Ming controlled a wisp of immortal energy, endured repeated attempts to absorb and refine it, and condensed three Great Dao Flowers that strengthened his attacks.
• Lu Ming decided to test his new power by targeting the Rain Clan and chose to impersonate Fairy Chengying, one of its enemies.
• Lin Fan used soul search on a Rain Clan genius to learn the clan's layout, then slipped into its ancestral grounds without triggering its formations.
• Lin Fan used immortal energy to enhance Qin Yu's concealment techniques and infiltrated Yu Cang's cave residence.
• Lin Fan stabbed Yu Cang through the heart with a purple-lit blade, sealing him before he could call for help.

Lin Fan disguised himself as Chengying and infiltrated the Rain Clan, assassinating eleven Eighth Realm elders before being exposed and confronting its Ninth Realm Clan Head, Yu Qingchen. The Great Demon God arrived to aid him, and their attack devastated the Rain Clan; afterward, the Great Demon God defeated a Stone Clan ancestor who tried to take him back.

• Lin Fan silently assassinated eleven Rain Clan elders and Grand Elders, sealing their bodies and divine souls separately.
• Yu Qingchen gathered the Rain Clan's forces, recognized Lin Fan as Chengying, and fought him after discovering that he wielded immortal energy.
• The Great Demon God attacked the Rain Clan and confronted Yu Qingchen over the clan's crimes against his grandson.
• Lin Fan slaughtered the Rain Clan's Eighth Realm cultivators while the Great Demon God killed Yu Qingchen and destroyed the clan's territory.
• A Stone Clan ancestor tried to take the Great Demon God back, but the Great Demon God defeated him and forced him to flee.

Lin Fan learned that the Great Demon God had destroyed the Rain Clan, killed the Poisonous Woman despite the Stone Clan ancestors’ intervention, and severed ties with the Stone Clan. He used the Rain Clan’s remains to support Yaya and He Anxia, then planned to infiltrate the Bright Moon Sect and Hidden Soul Hall as Lu Ming returned to the Bright Moon Sect amid a frenzy over his pills.

• The Great Demon God confronted the Poisonous Woman at the Stone Clan, overcame Shi Qi, and killed her after the ancestors refused to let him harm Shi Qi.
• The Great Demon God slaughtered the Rain Clan survivors at the Stone Clan, severed his branch’s ties with the clan, and told Lin Fan he intended for Shi Hao to settle his feud with Shi Qi.
• Lin Fan gave Yaya the Rain Clan cultivators’ corpses and gave He Anxia their sealed divine souls as resources for cultivation and research.
• Gou Sheng outlined an elaborate plan for eliminating every connection to an enemy, prompting Lin Fan to rethink his own approach to dealing with the Bright Moon Sect.
• Lin Fan decided to infiltrate the Bright Moon Sect through his candidacy for sect master and sent Wu Xingyun to investigate the Hidden Soul Hall and identify Protector Li.
• Lu Ming returned to the Bright Moon Sect, where disciples and elders eagerly fawned over him for the pills he could provide.

Lu Ming used his Batch Alchemy Method to supply Bright Moon Sect disciples with high-quality pills, winning their fervent admiration and accelerating their cultivation. As the sect’s leaders prepared to make him its next Sect Master, Lu Ming continued secretly cultivating support among the disciples, while Tang Wu pursued an ancient ruin and its inheritance.

• Lu Ming proposed using batch-refined pills to strengthen the sect’s ordinary disciples and backbone, then began producing pills and paying for any shortage of medicinal herbs himself.
• Bright Moon Sect distributed high-grade pills to its disciples, who made rapid cultivation gains and became devoted to Lu Ming; Wen Ruyan received warm Ninth Grade pills and resolved to protect him from overwork.
• Ji Haoyue and the elders praised Lu Ming’s contribution, granted him access to the sect’s techniques and resources, and dismissed concerns that the disciples’ loyalty to him might undermine the sect.
• Ji Haoyue secretly decided Lu Ming should succeed him as Sect Master, while the elders agreed to keep the plan from Lu Ming and one elder told his own disciple to abandon the contest.
• Tang Wu sneezed on a small island, then resolved to explore an ancient ruin and obtain its inheritance so he could change his fortunes and kill his enemies.

Upper-middle-ranking Bright Moon Sect disciples challenged lower-ranking disciples to undermine their access to Lu Ming’s pills, prompting Lu Ming to rebuke both groups and explain the sect’s alchemy plan. The Inner Sect disciples realized their jealousy had nearly damaged the sect’s unity and long-term plans.

• Upper-middle-ranking disciples plotted to suppress their cultivation and defeat lower-ranking disciples in staged same-realm duels so the sect would redirect pills to them.
• After most lower-ranking disciples lost, Su Lie led a group to Lu Ming’s cave abode to apologize and ask him to stop spending pills on them.
• Lu Ming scolded the disciples for giving up, affirmed that their pills would continue, and urged them to work harder; Su Lie and the others left determined to cultivate.
• Lu Ming visited the Inner Sect with Wen Ruyan and condemned the disciples for scheming against their fellow disciples, then explained that his current batch alchemy could only produce fifth-tier pills and that he planned to serve them later.
• The Inner Sect disciples understood that their jealousy had threatened the sect’s unity and long-term plan, and they lowered their heads in shame.

Lu Ming defused the Bright Moon Sect’s Inner and Outer Sect conflict by sending the Inner Sect disciples into a year of cultivation, earning their gratitude and strengthening his standing as the future Sect Master. Wen Ruyan became his Dao attendant, while Three Leaves set out with the Sword Son and Jiang Ni to seek Sword Dao masters; they reached Deng Tai'a’s peach blossom forest and learned they had arrived at a difficult time.

• Lu Ming gave the Inner Sect disciples a year of secluded cultivation as punishment, prompting them to repent and resolve to improve.
• Su Lie relayed Lu Ming’s support to the Outer Sect disciples, who vowed to cultivate diligently, while Ji Haoyue reprimanded Elder Chen and entrusted Lu Ming with future sect affairs.
• Wen Ruyan asked Ji Haoyue to let her become Lu Ming’s Dao attendant, and Ji Haoyue agreed; she moved into Lu Ming’s cave residence the next day.
• Three Leaves left the Spirit Sword Sect with the Sword Son and Jiang Ni to seek sword masters, and they chose the Two Directions Immortal Dynasty as their first stop.
• Qin Yu helped them locate Deng Tai'a and Li Chungang, who had encountered trouble involving the Great Desolate Sword Palace.
• Three Leaves and its companions met Deng Tai'a in his peach blossom forest, where he warned that they had come at the wrong time.

Sword Son defeated the Great Desolate Sword Palace disciple Luo Yuan with Sword Twenty-Three, but the palace disciples refused to honor their bargain and demanded another fight for Deng Tai'a. Three Leaves volunteered to face them, leaving the confrontation poised to continue.

• The Great Desolate Sword Palace disciples pressured Deng Tai'a to join them and threatened to destroy his peach blossom grove if he left.
• Sword Son offered to fight Luo Yuan in Deng Tai'a's place, and Deng Tai'a accepted the stakes that he would go with the Sword Palace if Sword Son lost.
• Sword Son and Luo Yuan exchanged sword arts until Sword Son unleashed Sacred Spirit Sword Technique, Sword Twenty-Three, freezing the battlefield and shattering Luo Yuan's heart and part of his divine soul.
• The Sword Palace disciples reneged on their bargain, but after the group swore Heavenly Dao Oaths, they agreed to leave if one of them lost another same-realm fight.
• Three Leaves volunteered to fight Xin Wuji's group after becoming interested in Sword Son's Sword Twenty-Three.

Three Leaves defeated Xin Wuji with a restrained sword strike, then traveled with Deng Tai'a and the others to meet Li Chungang and spar with two generations of sword masters. After Three Leaves and Deng Tai'a fought to a draw, Li Chungang demonstrated Sword Opens Heavenly Gate, leaving Xu Fenglai to watch and Three Leaves poised to learn from the legendary technique.

• Deng Tai'a let Three Leaves face Xin Wuji, and Three Leaves broke Xin Wuji's attack and cut his neck without killing him.
• Xin Wuji admitted defeat and left with the other Great Desolate Sword Palace disciples, warning them that Three Leaves had reminded him of their Holy Son.
• The Sword Son and Deng Tai'a joined Three Leaves on their way to Li Chungang, where Xu Fenglai had been forced to fight Great Desolate Sword Palace disciples and won two matches before surrendering the third.
• Three Leaves and Deng Tai'a exchanged sword intent and sword techniques, ending their spar without a victor as Three Leaves gained experience from Deng Tai'a's swordsmanship.
• Li Chungang agreed to spar with Three Leaves and demonstrated Sword Opens Heavenly Gate while Xu Fenglai watched.

Li Fan uncovered that the Great Desolate Sword Palace was gathering Ninth Realm Sword Cultivators under pressure from a force above the Upper Realm, possibly to send them into danger as cannon fodder. The chapter ended with the Supreme Third Elder naming the destination as the Sword Qi Great Wall.

• Three Leaves endured Li Chungang's Sword Opens Heavenly Gate, then sparred with the Martial Emperor until it entered enlightenment; the Martial Emperor left, promising to fight it again when it matured.
• Lin Fan learned from Qin Yu that the Great Desolate Sword Palace was troubling Rogue Cultivator Ninth Realm Sword Cultivators, and Sister Wu's mirror revealed that the palace was gathering them in large numbers.
• Lin Fan watched a Great Desolate Sword Palace meeting and learned that twenty Ninth Realm Sword Cultivators had joined as outer sect deacons, while elders planned to recruit at least ten more to satisfy those above them.
• Lin Fan and Sister Wu concluded that the Great Desolate Sword Palace's plan likely involved the Upper Realm, and that the gathered Sword Cultivators faced a dangerous fate.
• The Supreme Third Elder confronted the gathered Ninth Realm Sword Cultivators and claimed they were being offered a great opportunity, then identified it as the Sword Qi Great Wall.

The Supreme Third Elder of the Great Desolate Sword Palace persuaded Fu Hongxue and other Ninth Realm Sword Cultivators to travel to the Immortal Realm’s Sword Qi Great Wall, where they were immediately possessed by ancient remnant souls. Ding Jinlong revealed that the Great Wall was close to collapse and that the possession was meant to restore fallen predecessors’ strength, leaving the newcomers’ fate in the hands of the souls.

• The Supreme Third Elder described the Sword Qi Great Wall as a holy land and promised that the lower-realm Sword Cultivators would receive guidance before joining the war, persuading Fu Hongxue and many others to go.
• Lin Fan learned that the Great Desolate Sword Palace had opened an Immortal Gate, while Three Leaves saw a vision of battles at the Sword Qi Great Wall and warned everyone not to go.
• The Supreme Third Elder brought thirty-five Ninth Realm Sword Cultivators through the Immortal Gate to the Sword Qi Great Wall, where they were overwhelmed by its Sword Dao and thanked the watching Sword Immortals.
• Ancient remnant souls rushed from the Great Wall and seized the bodies of nearly all the newcomers, including the Great Desolate Sword Palace’s own Ninth Realm cultivators.
• Fu Hongxue questioned Ding Jinlong as she lost control, and he explained that the Great Wall was near collapse and the possession would restore the predecessors’ Combat Power.

Ding Jinlong mourned the corruption of the Sword Qi Great Wall, while Lu Ming worked to secure control of the Bright Moon Sect and won the Second Elder’s loyalty after defeating him with Sword Twenty-Three. The chapter ended as powerful enemies arrived at the Bright Moon Sect and demanded that its members come out to die.

• Ding Jinlong questioned what had become of the Sword Qi Great Wall’s Sword Cultivators, then left in despair as Lin Fan set aside the matter and focused on Ji Haoyue’s departure.
• Lu Ming planned to win over the Bright Moon Sect’s elders, while Lin Fan sent Fan Jianqiang and Yaya to feed intelligence about the sect to its hostile factions.
• The Blazing Sun Divine Palace, Star Sea Alliance, and Shadow Demon Palace each mobilized against the Bright Moon Sect after receiving the information.
• Lu Ming visited the Second Elder at Repentance Cliff and argued that the sect should avoid needless sacrifices; they agreed to settle their disagreement with a fight.
• Lu Ming defeated the peak Eighth Realm Second Elder with Sword Twenty-Three, and the Second Elder accepted Lu Ming’s leadership and left Repentance Cliff with him and Wen Ruyan.
• After the three descended, a challenge echoed across the Bright Moon Sect as powerful enemies called its people out to face them.

Lu Ming confronted Yan Lie and the Blazing Sun Divine Palace after they challenged the Bright Moon Sect, then used Sword Twenty-Three to overwhelm them and drive them into retreat. The elders and disciples embraced Lu Ming as their new sect master, and the Star Sea Alliance fled after he spotted them watching.

• Second Elder brought Lu Ming to the council hall, where the elders argued over how to answer Yan Lie’s challenge and doubted Second Elder’s claim that Lu Ming could match him.
• Lu Ming left the sect formation to face Yan Lie, whose flaming sword attack filled the sky with the Blazing Sun Flame.
• Lu Ming used Sword Twenty-Three to immobilize Yan Lie and nearly pierce his sea of consciousness, forcing the Blazing Sun Divine Palace to retreat after losing four elders and suffering many injuries.
• The Bright Moon Sect’s elders declared Lu Ming their sect master, and the disciples cheered him after the victorious group returned.
• Lu Ming spotted the hidden Star Sea Alliance, whose alliance master ordered the group to flee rather than risk fighting him.