Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ding inspected the spoils from the Northern Plains Golden Core Cultivators and learned how powerful families sacrificed collateral children to improve direct-line descendants' spirit roots. He freed two sleeping girls from an iron cage, knowing their fathers had given their lives to help them escape the Shang Clan.

• Jiang Ding praised Gong Caiyu, Xia Tu, and the maidservants for subduing the demonic cultivators, while noting that they still needed more practice.
• Jiang Ding examined Golden Pagoda King's Storage Bag and learned that the Bloodline Spirit Refining Secret Art required sacrificing collateral children to enhance a direct-line child's spirit roots.
• Jiang Ding decided not to upload knowledge of the secret art, fearing that powerful families could use it to slaughter people in lesser realms.
• Jiang Ding appraised the pills and treasures in Golden Pagoda King's, Shang Chengye's, and Madam Thousand Snakes' Storage Bags, setting aside a Mid-grade Golden Core Pill for the maidservant with the most battle merits.
• Jiang Ding learned through Shang Chengye's soul that the two girls were collateral descendants whose fathers had delivered them to the Shang Clan and then killed themselves so their daughters could escape.

Jiang Ding questioned Shang Chengxuan about Shang Chengye’s death and learned that Shang Chengye’s son had been adopted by a Nascent Soul ancestor. Later, Jiang attended a class where Ouyang Hui introduced a case suspected of violating the Immortal Sect’s First Law, leaving the students to oversee the investigation.

• Jiang Ding questioned Shang Chengxuan about the Spirit Treasure Merchant Guild’s response to Shang Chengye’s death and warned him to obey the law.
• Shang Chengxuan revealed that Shang Chengye’s son had a Heavenly Fire Spirit Root and was adopted by a Nascent Soul ancestor.
• Jiang Ding sent two sleeping girls to live with the maidservants, then returned to the Mining Mountain Dormitory to cultivate.
• An Siyan told Jiang Ding and Jin Lingfeng that their class would examine Liu Shi Military Industry’s lawsuit against Tianfang Group over a suspected violation of the Immortal Sect’s First Law.
• Ouyang Hui assigned the students to oversee the investigation and ensure the suspects could not escape, then displayed a report featuring Xu Jianian confronting another young master.

Ouyang Hui ordered the Foundation Establishment Cultivators to enforce the Immortal Sect’s First Law, and Jiang Ding was chosen to command a temporary aerospace brigade. As university aerospace forces gathered, they surrounded Tianfang Group’s Floating Island to investigate Liu Shi Military Industry’s allegation of a First Law violation.

• Ouyang Hui ordered the cultivators to suppress anyone or anything threatening the Immortal Sect’s First Law.
• The formation spirit selected Jiang Ding as brigade commander, and he appointed Jin Lingfeng deputy commander and An Siyan chief of staff.
• Jiang Ding led more than two hundred Space-Air Fighters toward Tianfang Group’s Floating Island after An Siyan explained Liu Shi Military Industry’s accusation of unfair competition and a possible First Law violation.
• Liu Mei and Big Dipper University’s aerospace brigade rejoined the force, and students joked about Big Dipper University’s former prominence as a military academy.
• Aerospace Camps from several universities assembled into six brigades, eighteen regiments, and fifty-four battalions, then surrounded Tianfang Group’s Floating Island.

Jiang Ding and Immortal Sect investigators arrived at Tianfang Group’s headquarters to investigate suspected violations of the Immortal Sect’s First Law. As Xu Jianian and Liu Yan traded accusations over Tianfang’s sudden technological breakthroughs, the investigation began amid a rivalry between the two corporations.

• Jiang Ding met Director Luo Zhongfu, and the investigators entered Tianfang Floating Island to secure documents and question personnel.
• Xu Jianian recognized Jiang Ding and accused him of holding a grudge, then promised to cooperate with the investigation.
• Xu Jianian said he expected Liu Yan and Liu Shi Military Industry’s executives to be imprisoned, prompting Liu Yan to arrive and challenge him.
• Liu Yan told Jiang Ding and Luo Zhongfu that the Xu Household monopolized Tianfang’s senior and research positions and argued that its sudden breakthroughs warranted suspicion.

Liu Yan accused Tianfang Group of hiding research results and violating the Immortal Sect's First Law, but the Economic Investigation Department initially found no proof. Jiang Ding helped secure an expert review, and True Lord Shuling found repeated logical flaws in Tianfang Group's research that could become major evidence.

• Liu Yan accused Tianfang Group of using concealed research results to monopolize scientific research and asked Jiang Ding and Luo Zhongfu to judge the case.
• After more than thirty days, the Economic Investigation Department reported tax evasion and other financial violations but found no evidence of violating the Immortal Sect's First Law.
• Xu Jianian called for Liu Yan to be investigated for false accusations, while Luo Zhongfu questioned whether a Spirit Transformation cultivator had produced Tianfang Group's research results.
• Jiang Ding proposed that experts from the Immortal Sect Academy of Sciences review Tianfang Group's research materials, and Luo Zhongfu submitted a request with Jiang Ding's name at the top.
• True Lord Shuling found logical flaws in Tianfang Group's research materials on five occasions, and the Immortal Sect Academy of Sciences began verifying the conclusion.

Luo Zhongfu obtained approval to soul-search Tianfang Group’s Xu Clan members, but they launched a sudden attempt to capture Jiang Ding. The Sky Corps missiles and Jiang Ding’s sword subdued the attackers, and the surviving Xu Clan members were taken to prison.

• Luo Zhongfu presented the Immortal Sect Court’s authorization to soul-search eleven Golden Core Cultivators from Tianfang Group, while Xu Jianian urged the Xu Clan to comply for compensation.
• A Late Golden Core Cultivator and ten others suddenly attacked Jiang Ding, hoping to take him hostage and force concessions from the Central Array Spirit Computer.
• Eighteen Sky Corps fired volleys of Hunter Missiles, disrupting the attack and killing several Xu Clan Golden Core Cultivators.
• The Late Golden Core Cultivator used a demonic life-risking technique, but Jiang Ding killed him with the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword and sealed his Golden Core and soul.
• Economic Investigation Department cultivators captured two Xu Clan Golden Core Cultivators, while Jiang Ding sealed Xu Jianian’s soul and mana.
• The Sky Corps bound everyone from Tianfang Group and dragged them toward the Immortal Sect Prison.

After the Tianfang Group suspects were arrested, Jiang Ding returned to his studies and asked True Lord Sea-Stabilizer where he could learn swordsmanship. A test of their sword skills revealed that Jiang Ding could instinctively find flaws in an opponent’s moves.

• The temporary Sky Masters handed thousands of Tianfang Group suspects to the police, then dispersed after their mission ended.
• Jiang Ding and his classmates discussed the likely sentences for Xu Jianian and True Monarch Celestial Direction, whom An Siyan believed would probably avoid severe punishment.
• Jiang Ding resumed his regular studies and research, while True Lord Sea-Stabilizer lectured on the inner demon trial involved in forming a Golden Core.
• Jiang Ding asked True Lord Sea-Stabilizer where he could study swordsmanship, and the teacher tested him with a flying sword.
• Jiang Ding instinctively struck a flaw in True Lord Sea-Stabilizer’s sword move, dispelling its sword blossoms and leaving the teacher surprised by his skill.

Jiang Ding sought a swordsmanship teacher and reflected on how to support his family as time passed. After twenty-five years, he visited his dying uncle Lin Yong and promised to help Lin Yuanwang if he proved worthy of cultivation.

• True Lord Sea-Stabilizer agreed to arrange a Nascent Soul Sword Cultivator from the Five Elements Heavenly Sect to teach Jiang Ding, though the process could take at least a hundred years.
• Jiang Ding wrote a practical report on Heritage Families and clans, reconsidering how much support he should offer his nieces and nephews.
• Over twenty-five years, Jiang Ding studied and cultivated while his elderly relatives and former classmates aged.
• Jiang Ding visited his uncle Lin Yong, who was at the end of his lifespan, and promised to help Lin Yuanwang if he proved worthy of cultivation.
• Lin Yong spoke of hoping to meet Jiang Ding again through reincarnation, then died with his family beside him.

After Auntie’s death, Jiang Ding supported Lin Yuanwang and Lin Wanqiu as they faced grief and the passage of time. Lin Wanqiu began her attempt at Foundation Establishment while the family waited outside the cultivation room, where spiritual energy started to stir.

• Jiang Ding encouraged the grieving Lin Yuanwang to stay occupied, pursue cultivation, and consider starting a family.
• Lin Wanqiu told Jiang Ding that her old friends and younger brother had all died, then said she planned to attempt Foundation Establishment the next day.
• Lin Wanqiu described her grown children’s lives, and Jiang Ding offered to provide her hardworking younger daughter with a Top-grade Foundation Establishment Pill and some cultivation resources.
• The family gathered outside the cultivation room in Banyan City Library to await Lin Wanqiu’s Foundation Establishment attempt.
• Jiang Yuan quieted Little Bear and Little Yun as spiritual energy began fluctuating around the cultivation room.

Lin Wanqiu successfully established her Foundation, rejuvenating her and easing Jiang Ding’s fear of losing another elder. Returning to Rongcheng, Jiang Ding honored his deceased teacher Guo Kui with Zhang Dingjun and reflected on the teachers who had been passing away one after another.

• Jiang Ding used the Central Array Spirit Computer to arrange a way to preserve Lin Wanqiu’s soul if her Foundation Establishment failed, then waited for her breakthrough.
• Lin Wanqiu succeeded in establishing her Foundation, and her rejuvenated appearance astonished Jiang Yuan, Lin Yuanwang, and the children.
• After confirming Lin Yuanwang had recovered enough to work and cultivate, Jiang Ding instructed Jiang Yuan and left home for school.
• Jiang Ding visited Rongcheng Public Cemetery and placed chrysanthemums at Guo Kui’s grave, recalling his former teacher.
• Jiang Ding met Zhang Dingjun, and the two paid their respects to Guo Kui, Wang Lan, and their departed colleagues before Jiang Ding flew away.

Jiang Ding continued developing Tushan Immortal City while studying toward graduation and preparing to build a Super Battleship. True Lord Sea-Stabilizer began revealing the history behind the Great Sun Sword Pavilion and Taiyin Sword Sect, saying the Pavilion had once been called the Sun Moon Sword Pavilion.

• Jiang Ding reflected on his studies at Pure Breeze University and began planning his master's thesis on the Dyson Solar Mirror Sword-type Drone.
• Jiang Ding taught the Maid Squad infiltration and concealment, while Chun Jian led a sword-soldier squad and other maids advanced in cultivation.
• Jiang Ding surveyed Tushan Immortal City, whose population, commerce, tax revenue, and safety had grown amid the Northern Plains War.
• Jiang Ding calculated that he possessed 1.339 billion Low-grade Spirit Stones and considered trading a Black Tortoise Heavenly Palace Magic Treasure Embryo for Fourth-grade Natural Treasures.
• Jiang Ding studied the Golden Core Realm Myriad Transformation Magnetic Yuan Scripture and arrays, then asked True Lord Sea-Stabilizer about the Great Sun Sword Pavilion and Taiyin Sword Sect.
• True Lord Sea-Stabilizer revealed that more than three hundred thousand years earlier, the Great Sun Sword Pavilion had been called the Sun Moon Sword Pavilion.

True Lord Sea-Stabilizer explained the history of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion and warned Jiang Ding to weigh the Immortal Sect’s interests when dealing with the Eight Great Immortal Sects. After decades of cultivation and study, Jiang Ding reached Foundation Establishment Peak.

• True Lord Sea-Stabilizer told Jiang Ding how the Nine Great Immortal Sects destroyed the realm’s original civilization and how their later civil war led to the Sun Moon Sword Pavilion’s rise and fall.
• True Lord Sea-Stabilizer recounted the Great Sun Sword Pavilion’s purge of the Moon Vein and the Eight Great Immortal Sects’ betrayal of the Immortal Sect, then advised Jiang Ding not to provoke sects unnecessarily.
• Jiang Ding agreed to consider the Immortal Sect’s greater situation and returned to cultivation beneath the Blue Gold Great Tree.
• Ten years later, Jiang Yuan reached Foundation Establishment, her younger twin daughter became a Qi Refinement cultivator, and her elder twin son began a family; Jiang Ding chose not to meet them.
• Lin Yuanwang married a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, while Jiang Ding, An Siyan, and Jin Lingfeng graduated from their master’s programs and entered doctoral study at Pure Breeze University.
• After another twenty-two years of cultivation, Jiang Ding’s magic power became complete and he reached Foundation Establishment Peak.

Jiang Ding resisted breaking through to Golden Core before his flying sword could transform with him, then studied the Great Sun Golden Core Secret Art developed by his major. After calculating his chances of success, he prepared to travel to the Great Sun Heavenly Pool.

• Jiang Ding sensed he could form a Supreme Golden Core immediately, but decided to wait so the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword could transform alongside him.
• Jiang Ding met Zhang Junsheng, Wu Mengsha, and the Great Sun Ruins Salvage Excavation scholars, who gave him the completed Great Sun Golden Core Secret Art.
• Jiang Ding studied the secret art, which used heavenly tribulation to temper and merge the forming Golden Core into his Natal Flying Sword.
• After a month of calculations, Jiang Ding estimated a sixty percent chance of success without Great Sun Soul Flame and a 99.9 percent chance with it.
• Jiang Ding told Zhang Junsheng he needed to visit the Great Sun Heavenly Pool, and Zhang Junsheng directed him to the Teleportation Array.

Jiang Ding’s Supreme Clarity Flying Sword awakened the formations in the Great Sun Heavenly Pool, completed its Perfect Magnetism tempering, and revealed that Jiang Ding was the Great Sun Sword Son. The sword light marked some cultivators with sword intent, provoking their anger as others recognized the old Great Sun legacy.

• Jiang Ding entered the Great Sun Heavenly Pool, where the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword awakened the ancient formations and rose into a formation core.
• The sword’s tempering accelerated, and it achieved Perfect Magnetism after more than a hundred years of refinement.
• Jiang Ding concealed the sword in the formation core and heard faint voices arguing about the Sword Son and the Eastern Extreme Demonic Sect.
• Soil-Calming Sage complained that Jiang Ding’s status as Great Sun Sword Son could make the Heavenly Sect Covenant useless.
• Yu Qianzi destroyed a strand of blue-gold Sword Qi that tried to mark her, while other cultivators from the Black Tortoise Heavenly Palace and Myriad Beast Immortal Sect received Great Sun Marks.
• Angry cultivators confronted the Great Sun Sword Son, and three powerful streams of sword intent immobilized the surrounding souls.

Jiang Ding explored the Great Sun Heavenly Pool and tested the Sunflame River, while Zhou Tian refused a plan to join Black Tortoise Heavenly Palace in killing him. The chapter ended as Jiang Ding confronted five Black Tortoise Heavenly Palace sword cultivators and asked them to kill themselves for him to observe.

• Jiang Ding inspected the Great Sun Heavenly Pool, judged its treasures valuable, and decided to search the Sunflame River for Soil-Calming Sage.
• Jiang Ding tested the Sunflame River with the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword and concluded that its flames burned away impurities through a violent forging process.
• Xiahou Gang told Zhou Tian that Xuantian Sword Son wanted the Five Elements Heavenly Sect to join Black Tortoise Heavenly Palace in killing Jiang Ding, but Zhou Tian refused.
• Zhou Tian drove Xiahou Gang away with his Five Elements Rotation sword intent, and Xiahou Gang's group flew toward Xuantian Sword Son.
• Jiang Ding appeared before five Black Tortoise Heavenly Palace sword cultivators and asked them to kill themselves so he could watch.

Jiang Ding fought Xiahou Gang and the sword cultivators accompanying him, overwhelming their attacks while learning about orthodox swordsmanship. He killed Xiahou Gang and left the battlefield victorious, having gained insight into flying sword techniques.

• Xiahou Gang and the Black Tortoise Heavenly Palace cultivators formed a Five Elements Sword Array and attacked Jiang Ding, but Jiang Ding killed four of them with a single sword strike.
• Jiang Ding fought Xiahou Gang, whose Scripture-grade technique and strength challenged him, and learned that his flying sword lacked basic swordsmanship.
• Xiahou Gang split his flame flying sword into seven blades and used the Thirteen Swords of Phoenix Blood Burning Soul, but Jiang Ding's Azure Flying Sword withstood the techniques.
• Jiang Ding studied Xiahou Gang's sword moves and formulas, then pierced Xiahou Gang's brow and destroyed his body and soul.

Jiang Ding confronted Zhou Tian and the Five Elements Heavenly Sect cultivators for entering the Great Sun Heavenly Pool without permission, forcing them to offer compensation. Instead of demanding spirit stones, he asked Zhou Tian to teach him Basic Sword Technique, and realized how much he had overlooked in his swordsmanship.

• Jiang Ding considered killing Zhou Tian but greeted him after the Five Elements Heavenly Sect cultivators respectfully introduced themselves.
• Jiang Ding argued that the uninvited cultivators owed him compensation, then used his Destructive Sword Intent to overwhelm Zhou Tian’s Five Elements Sword Intent.
• Zhou Tian stopped his juniors from fighting and showed Jiang Ding their meager spirit stones and sword-tempering materials.
• Jiang Ding asked Zhou Tian to teach him Basic Sword Technique, and Zhou Tian explained its sword moves and methods for improving a flying sword’s speed and power.
• Jiang Ding listened closely and recognized that generations of sword cultivators had refined Basic Sword Technique into an achievement he had neglected to study.

Jiang Ding honed his flying sword in a lava river until the assassin Ying Erjiu attacked him. Jiang Ding killed Ying Erjiu despite the assassin’s powerful escape technique, leaving him determined to find Shadow Demon Abyss himself.

• Jiang Ding learned from Zhou Tian and improved his Basic Sword Control Technique before leaving him.
• Jiang Ding tempered the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword in the lava river, using its sword Dao flames to find and strengthen weak points in the blade.
• After three months, Ying Erjiu crept toward Jiang Ding and attacked with an invisible sword light.
• Jiang Ding pierced Ying Erjiu’s heart with the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword, disrupting his Thousand Transformations Shadow Division Escape.
• Ying Erjiu pleaded to reveal Shadow Demon Abyss’s location, but Jiang Ding rejected the offer and destroyed the assassin’s remaining shadow bodies.

Jiang Ding discovered that a hidden Thousand-Eye Orb had exposed his location and learned how to evade its detection. He set out to hunt the Shadow Demon Abyss, while three Sword Sons and their allies prepared for his arrival; the chapter ended as Jiang Ding appeared before them.

• Jiang Ding searched the area after an assassination attempt and found a disguised black eyeball that had tracked his movements.
• Jiang Ding studied the orb’s faint divine-sense fluctuation and adapted his concealment technique to evade it.
• Jiang Ding decided to hunt the Shadow Demon Abyss and the other Sword Sons he had marked with his Sword Intent.
• Xuantian Sword Son, Wolf Heaven Sword Son, and Hundred Swords Sword Son gathered with nearly a hundred sword cultivators and planned to face Jiang Ding together.
• Jiang Ding appeared in the sky before the assembled Sword Sons and unleashed his Destructive Sword Intent.

Jiang Ding confronted the Shangqing Lingbao Sect’s Hundred Swords Sword Son and the sword cultivators of three Immortal Sects, who tried to kill him over his existence and its threat of renewed realm wars. He left the Hundred Swords Sword Son dying and faced the other attackers from beyond their swords’ effective range.

• Xuantian Sword Son and the other cultivators welcomed Jiang Ding’s arrival as a chance to kill him and compete for the Dao Child position.
• Jiang Ding offered the neutral Hundred Swords Sword Son a chance to leave, but the Sword Son blamed him for the deaths that would follow another realm war and demanded that he kill himself.
• Jiang Ding’s sword pierced the Hundred Swords Sword Son through his protective treasures, and the Sword Son formed the Shangqing Demon Punishing Array to suppress it.
• The three sects’ sword cultivators attacked Jiang Ding, but their flying swords stopped when they reached the limit of their control range, while Jiang Ding’s Supreme Clarity Flying Sword remained beside him.
• The Hundred Swords Sword Son began to disintegrate under Jiang Ding’s sword intent and begged him for mercy, promising never to interfere again.