Chapter Summaries

Tang Family Fortress debated how to protect Tang Mei'er from She Jiu, the Snake King's son, while refusing to betray her despite the danger to the clan. When She Jiu arrived, Bai Ze gave Tang Mei'er a sword and told her to take it as she hurried to face him.

• Bai Ze dismissed Tang Mei'er's warnings about the Snake King and continued cultivating his Sword Law domain.
• Tang Batian and the elders rejected Tang Mei'er's offer to marry She Jiu, invoking their ancestral rule never to abandon a clan member.
• A few days later, She Jiu arrived at Tang Family Fortress aboard a flying ship, seeking Tang Mei'er for his cultivation method.
• Bai Ze told Tang Mei'er that She Jiu had arrived and handed her a longsword before she left the rear mountain.

She Jiu threatened Tang Family Fortress to force Tang Mei'er to go with him, but Bai Ze's sheathed sword killed Elder Wu and She Jiu's forces. Tang Mei'er learned that Bai Ze had given her a sword capable of erasing Demigod Realm experts, while the Snake King remained a looming threat.

• She Jiu demanded Tang Mei'er and ordered Elder Wu to kill a Tang Family member every three minutes if she did not come out.
• Tang Mei'er arrived, and Elder Wu struck Tang Batian aside as She Jiu moved to take her.
• Tang Mei'er trembled Bai Ze's sheathed sword, unleashing sword intent that killed Elder Wu and left the others stunned.
• Tang Batian ordered the elders to eliminate She Jiu's remaining followers, then asked Tang Mei'er to seek Bai Ze's help against the Snake King.
• Bai Ze reassured Tang Mei'er that they were still friends and explained that the sword held ten strands of Sword Qi capable of killing even early or middle Demigod Realm enemies.

Tang Mei'er learned that Bai Ze was a Demigod Realm expert and returned to Tang Family Fortress with a Demigod Artifact that could protect them from the Snake King. After the Snake King learned his son had been killed, he set out for Tang Family Fortress with his Saint Realm python.

• Bai Ze confirmed to Tang Mei'er that he was a Demigod Realm expert, nearly at the Divine Realm.
• Tang Mei'er returned to Tang Family Fortress and explained Bai Ze's gift, leaving Tang Batian and the others relieved and excited.
• Tang Batian pledged that Tang Family Fortress would repay Bai Ze if he ever needed their help.
• A messenger told the Snake King that his son and the others had been killed at Tang Family Fortress, and the Snake King killed the messenger.
• The Snake King mounted his Saint Realm Sky-Piercing Giant Python and headed toward Tang Family Fortress.

Tang Mei'er used Bai Ze's sword to kill the Snake King and his Sky-Piercing Giant Python, shifting the balance of power across the Southwest Region. Tang Family Fortress gained the other forces' deference and gifts, while Tang Batian used the opportunity to strengthen the fortress.

• The Southwest Region's forces learned that the Snake King had returned to avenge his son and watched Tang Family Fortress nervously.
• The Snake King demanded Tang Mei'er's longsword and threatened to wipe out Tang Family Fortress, but Tang Mei'er challenged him to take it.
• Tang Mei'er drew the sword, trapped the Snake King and the Sky-Piercing Giant Python in a sword domain, and killed them with a single slash.
• The surviving martial artists fled in terror and recognized Tang Family Fortress as the dominant force in the Southwest Region.
• Forces brought gifts to Tang Family Fortress and sought to comprehend the lingering sword intent, while Tang Batian used their visits to gather resources and develop the fortress.

Bai Ze spent three years comprehending Sword Law near Tang Family Fortress, then left to seek the opportunity needed for a breakthrough. He traveled to Town Heaven City in the Xuanming Realm, where he heard rumors of a Demigod ruin and Ancestor Mingxin nearing the Divine Human Realm.

• Bai Ze continued cultivating while Tang Mei'er trained nearby, and his sword ravine became a destination for sword cultivators as Tang Family Fortress grew stronger.
• Tang Batian broke through to the Entering Saint Realm, raising Tang Family Fortress to the ranks of first-rate forces.
• After three years, Bai Ze told Tang Mei'er that he was leaving, having comprehended ninety-nine percent of his Sword Law.
• Tang Mei'er wished Bai Ze well and said she hoped to reach the Divine Realm and meet him again in the Upper Realm; Bai Ze vanished from the mountain.
• Bai Ze traveled to Town Heaven City and overheard rumors about the Shanhai Gorge Demigod ruins and Ancestor Mingxin's possible breakthrough to the Divine Human Realm.

A secret realm appeared near Town Heaven City, and Bai Ze entered it after discovering that only Saint Realm and stronger martial artists could withstand its entrance restrictions. Inside, he recognized the ruins as the former home of the Black Sword God and headed toward the ninth floor, where an immense sword intent awaited.

• A black hole appeared near Town Heaven City, drawing martial artists toward the forming secret realm.
• The entrance formation killed martial artists below the Saint Realm, while Bai Ze entered unharmed.
• Bai Ze and the other entrants found a nine-story black tower identified as the Black Sword God's former home.
• Martial artists rushed into the tower to seek its techniques and resources, and conflicts broke out among them.
• Bai Ze ignored the fighting and advanced toward the ninth floor, facing the tower's overwhelming sword intent.

Bai Ze took the Black Sword God’s divine sword from the ninth floor of the black tower and used its Sword Law to complete his own comprehension. After reaching the first layer and beginning his breakthrough to the Divine Human Realm, he faced a powerful lightning tribulation and cleaved apart its first strike.

• Bai Ze seized the black longsword as Demigod Realm experts attacked, then drove them back with a single swing of Sword Qi.
• Bai Ze killed those who tried to pursue him, left the secret realm with the divine sword, and became the subject of exaggerated rumors.
• Bai Ze spent several years in a mountain Cave Mansion comprehending the Black Sword God’s Sword Law until his own reached the first layer.
• Bai Ze’s breakthrough drew a lightning tribulation, and he split its first bolt with the black divine sword.

Bai Ze endured the Nine-Nine Lightning Tribulation, overcame its Inner Demon Tribulation by defeating a mirror version of himself, and prepared to face the final lightning strike. The last tribulation gathered power for three days and appeared strong enough to match a Divine Human Realm expert.

• Bai Ze endured increasingly powerful lightning strikes, reaching the eightieth tribulation and facing the Inner Demon Tribulation.
• Bai Ze rejected the inner demons' illusions and temptations, then fought the identical Bai Ze they manifested.
• Bai Ze changed his fighting patterns to outwit the inner demon and ultimately severed its head.
• The final lightning tribulation gathered power for three days while Bai Ze recovered.
• Bai Ze raised his strength to its peak and readied himself to receive the final strike.

Bai Ze endured the final lightning tribulation and broke through to the Early Divine Human Realm. After recovering, he realized the Lower Realm could not support further advancement beyond that realm and that he could ascend to the Upper Realm whenever he chose.

• Bai Ze faced the final tribulation as it transformed into a massive Lightning Dragon and struck it with Secret Art: Vast Sky.
• Bai Ze survived the clash with minor injuries, and his power transformed into Divine Power as the tribulation disappeared.
• Bai Ze returned to his Cave Mansion and used the Dragon Subduing Prison Suppressing Art to heal until he recovered fully.
• Bai Ze checked his system interface and saw that he had reached the Early Divine Human Realm before turning one hundred.
• Bai Ze sensed the Lower Realm's limits and recognized that he could communicate with its origin to ascend, but he chose not to leave yet.

Bai Ze continued cultivating in the Xuanming Realm, reached the Middle Divine Human Realm, and prepared to ascend to the Upper Realm. After bidding farewell to Tang Mei'er, he opened a passage through the heavens and entered it, leaving the Xuanming Realm behind.

• Bai Ze returned to Tang Family Fortress and told Tang Mei'er he had reached the Divine Human Realm and could ascend.
• Bai Ze stayed for a year, guided Tang Mei'er, and broke through to the Middle Divine Human Realm.
• Bai Ze and Tang Mei'er went to a secluded mountain valley, where they promised to meet again in the Upper Realm.
• Bai Ze summoned the power of the world's origin, opening a passage to the Upper Realm as Divine Human Realm experts across the Xuanming Realm sensed his ascension.
• Bai Ze entered the passage and vanished from the Xuanming Realm, and the passage disappeared.

After ascending to the Divine Might Realm, Bai Ze joined Myriad Sword Sect and learned about the Moon God Domain from Chen Hao. He stayed at the Purple Crystal Spirit Vein, where he saw the fate awaiting ascenders who failed to attract a sect’s interest, and began cultivating while waiting to leave with Chen Hao.

• Bai Ze appeared in the Ascension Pool, where disciples from several sects competed to recruit him.
• Bai Ze chose Myriad Sword Sect, and Chen Hao introduced himself as his senior brother and agreed to take him to the sect after his duty ended.
• Chen Hao told Bai Ze about the Divine Might Realm, the Nine Great Divine Domains, and Myriad Sword Sect’s place in the Moon God Domain.
• Chen Hao brought Bai Ze to the Purple Crystal Spirit Vein and gave him a token that allowed him to move around the area.
• Bai Ze saw tens of thousands of ascenders mining Purple Crystal Stones, many of whom had to work for ten thousand years unless they reached the Divine Spirit Realm.
• Bai Ze returned to his temporary residence and cultivated while waiting for Chen Hao.

Bai Ze cultivated the Thousand Layer Heavy Sword Art and Illusionary Dragon Shadow in his cave, greatly increasing his strength without advancing his realm. Several years later, Chen Hao arrived to take him back to the Myriad Sword Sect, where Bai Ze would officially become a disciple.

• Miners in the Purple Crystal Spirit Vein discussed Bai Ze and hoped to approach him to escape their forced labor.
• Bai Ze chose to cultivate the Thousand Layer Heavy Sword Art and Illusionary Dragon Shadow from the Dragon Subduing Prison Suppressing Art.
• Bai Ze brought both martial skills to the entry level and used his understanding of Sword Law to wield the Thousand Layer Heavy Sword Art with crushing force.
• Over the following years, Bai Ze continued cultivating and strengthened his abilities without breaking through his realm.
• Chen Hao told Bai Ze that his replacement had arrived and invited him to return to the Myriad Sword Sect to officially join as a disciple.

Bai Ze joined the Myriad Sword Sect and took the Enlightenment Bell test, where he made it ring nine times and drew the attention of the sect’s Supreme Elder. As the Supreme Elder summoned him, the jealous True Disciple Qian Feitian decided to devour him and claim his talent and strength.

• Chen Hao brought Bai Ze to the Myriad Sword Sect, where an outer sect elder said he had to pass the Enlightenment Bell test to join.
• Bai Ze touched the Enlightenment Bell, which rang seven times and attracted the attention of the sect’s elders and True Disciples.
• The bell rang an eighth and ninth time, revealing a golden dragon and astonishing the sect’s experts.
• The Supreme Elder appeared and ordered the elders to bring Bai Ze to him, while Elder Li said the other elders could no longer compete to take him as a disciple.
• Qian Feitian grew jealous of Bai Ze and resolved to devour him to gain his talent and power.

Bai Ze became Chen Tiannan’s Personal Disciple in the Myriad Sword Sect and cultivated with the Qiankun Bright Sword Pill for several years. He later discovered that a Sword Gu Worm had entered his body, but concealed that knowledge while he considered how to protect himself.

• Shangguan Daidao brought Bai Ze to meet Supreme Elder Chen Tiannan, who accepted him as a Personal Disciple and gave him the Qiankun Bright Sword Pill and the Netherworld Sword Art.
• Bai Ze received his True Disciple robes and token from Chen Hao, then returned to his residence and began refining the pill.
• After several years of cultivation, Bai Ze had advanced close to the late Divine Human Realm and increased his combat strength despite suppressing his breakthrough.
• Bai Ze saw on his system interface that a Sword Gu Worm had entered his body and suspected someone in the Myriad Sword Sect was responsible.
• Bai Ze hid that he knew about the Sword Gu Worm because he feared the unknown party's strength and chose to wait for an opportunity.

Bai Ze deduced the flaws in the Netherworld Sword Art, secretly refined it, and pretended to cultivate it while continuing to strengthen the Dragon Subduing Prison Suppressing Art. Chen Tiannan planned to seize Bai Ze’s body to escape his poison, while Bai Ze accepted the resources that would help him prepare for the coming threat.

• Bai Ze spent more than a hundred thousand Talent Points analyzing the Netherworld Sword Art and discovered its Netherworld power would damage the body and soul, possibly separating them at peak cultivation.
• Bai Ze transformed the technique to remove its flaws, began cultivating it openly, and continued secretly cultivating the Dragon Subduing Prison Suppressing Art.
• Chen Tiannan summoned Bai Ze, praised his progress, advised him to reach the peak of the Divine Human Realm before the Sword Pool opened in ten years, and gave him cultivation resources.
• After Bai Ze left, Chen Tiannan revealed that Corroding Soul-Devouring Poison was damaging his body and soul, and that he planned to seize Bai Ze’s body to survive.
• Bai Ze examined Chen Tiannan’s generous resources and realized they were meant to help him grow stronger before Chen Tiannan attempted Body Snatching.

Bai Ze used the resources provided by those who planned to take his body to strengthen his cultivation and considered building up his soul to resist them. After learning that a Divine Human Realm prodigy from the Bright Sect would come to challenge the Myriad Sword Sect, he entered the Scripture Pavilion to seek a powerful soul cultivation method.

• Bai Ze advanced his cultivation to the late Divine Human Realm using about one-fifth of the resources, then decided that strengthening his soul was essential to thwart the planned body snatching.
• After consolidating his cultivation, Bai Ze met Inner Disciple Qian Cai, who warned him that the Bright Sect would soon send Heavenly Pride List disciples, including a Divine Human Realm competitor.
• Bai Ze suspected the Bright Sect had come to test the Myriad Sword Sect after hearing that a disciple had made the Enlightenment Bell ring nine times, and he expected to be challenged as a True Disciple.
• Bai Ze went to the Scripture Pavilion and used his True Disciple status and the Supreme Elder's token to enter its second level in search of a powerful soul cultivation method.

Bai Ze chose the Myriad Laws Return to One Art, the Cloud Ascending Heaven Step, and the Seven Emotions Sword Art from the Scripture Pavilion. Several months later, the Myriad Sword Sect received challengers from the Bright Sect, including a strikingly arrogant Divine Human Realm woman.

• Bai Ze examined several divine-soul cultivation arts and rejected the Myriad Split Soul Art and the difficult Soul Breaking World Destroying Technique.
• Bai Ze chose the Myriad Laws Return to One Art and went to the second floor to select martial skills and divine abilities.
• Bai Ze selected the Cloud Ascending Heaven Step and the Seven Emotions Sword Art, whose seven forms drew power from the cultivator's emotions.
• Bai Ze returned to his residence with his chosen arts and spent several months cultivating.
• Bright Sect Elder Tang Zhou led challengers to the Myriad Sword Sect, including a beautiful, cold, and arrogant woman at the Divine Human Realm.

Myriad Sword Sect and Bright Sect began their sparring challenge, and Wan Peng defeated several Bright Sect disciples before drawing with Lin Tian. The two sects’ contest remained unresolved as the chapter ended.

• Wei Santian narrowly defeated a top Myriad Sword Sect Inner Disciple in the opening match.
• Wan Peng entered the arena and defeated Wei Santian with a single heavy-sword strike.
• Wan Peng continued to defeat Bright Sect challengers, prompting Elder Wan to warn that Lin Tian would be a more difficult opponent.
• Wan Peng unleashed his Tyrant Dragon Divine Body as Lin Tian revealed his Heaven-Piercing Divine Body, and the two fought fiercely.
• After more than a hundred exchanges, Wan Peng and Lin Tian ended their match in a draw.

Lin Tian defeated Wu Ming in a clash between the two sects, prompting the Myriad Sword Sect’s Sword Son, Lin Xuan, to challenge him. Lin Xuan gained the upper hand with his Gentle Breeze Fine Rain Sword and revealed the Law of Rain, leaving the duel’s outcome unresolved.

• Lin Tian, ranked six hundred and seventy-second on the Heavenly Pride List, fought Wu Ming and gradually overwhelmed him with his Solar Divine Body and Solar Divine Fist.
• Lin Tian shattered Wu Ming’s Nine Nether dragon and defeated him, while the Myriad Sword Sect’s disciples fell silent.
• Lin Xuan stepped forward as the Myriad Sword Sect’s Sword Son and accepted Lin Tian’s challenge.
• Lin Xuan opened with the Gentle Breeze Fine Rain Sword, and the two fighters unleashed their divine powers and comprehended laws.
• Lin Xuan suppressed Lin Tian with his half-step Divine Monarch strength as the rain became countless razor-sharp strands of Sword Qi through the Law of Rain.

Lin Xuan defeated Lin Tian and climbed the Heavenly Pride List, after which Tang Zhou challenged the Myriad Sword Sect’s Bai Ze to spar against Liu Yun. Bai Ze accepted for the offered Thunderstone, and their fight escalated when Liu Yun unleashed a frost dragon that rushed toward him.

• Lin Xuan overwhelmed Lin Tian with Hurricane and Rainstorm, winning their battle and rising to the six hundred seventy-second position on the Heavenly Pride List.
• Bai Ze saw the Heavenly Pride List appear and remarked that the Moon Divine Emperor likely watched battles across the domain.
• Tang Zhou proposed a spar between Bai Ze and Liu Yun, and Liu Yun offered him a Thunderstone to secure his agreement.
• Liu Yun covered the arena in ice and used the sculptures to launch surprise attacks, but Bai Ze shattered them with a sword storm.
• Liu Yun summoned an enormous frost dragon with her Ice Dragon Sword Art, unleashing power that exceeded the Divine Human Realm.