Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ding killed the Hundred Swords Sword Son despite his threats about provoking a war with the Shangqing Lingbao Sect, then attacked the remaining sword cultivators. The Xuantian Sword Son and Wolf Heaven Sword Son assembled the Four Symbols Five Elements Sword Formation and withstood Jiang Ding’s opening strike.

• The Hundred Swords Sword Son succumbed to the Eastern Extreme Demonic Sect’s Dao Destruction Poison and exploded, leaving his flying swords scattered across the ground.
• Jiang Ding dismissed the Hundred Swords Sword Son’s threats, praised the Shangqing Lingbao Sect’s friendship with the Immortal Sect, and invited the other sword cultivators to fight him one-on-one.
• A Shangqing Lingbao Sect sword cultivator asked Jiang Ding to let them leave, but Jiang Ding declared that they had died at the hands of the Xuantian Sword Son and attacked them in their name.
• The Shangqing Lingbao Sect sword cultivators joined the Xuantian Sword Son and Wolf Heaven Sword Son’s formation as Jiang Ding’s sword light struck nearly a hundred cultivators.
• The Xuantian Sword Son and Wolf Heaven Sword Son completed the Four Symbols Five Elements Sword Formation, whose Black Tortoise blocked Jiang Ding’s strike while the full formation spread across the surrounding area.

Jiang Ding fought the Eight Great Immortal Sects’ sword cultivators, who joined their Four Symbols Five Elements Sword Formation against him. After their desperate fusion attack briefly drove back his Supreme Clarity Flying Sword, Jiang Ding annihilated them all, leaving his Great Sun Heavenly Pool unobstructed.

• Jiang Ding repelled the Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, White Tiger, and Black Tortoise Spirits with his Supreme Clarity Flying Sword.
• Jiang Ding struck the Azure Dragon Spirit, destroying its head and killing ten sword cultivators who formed it.
• Jiang Ding drove back the White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise Spirits as the sword cultivators prepared to fight to the death.
• Xuantian Sword Son and the other sword cultivators burned their blood essence and mana, merging the four spirits into the Four Spirits Evil Slaying Sword.
• The Four Spirits Evil Slaying Sword forced Jiang Ding’s Supreme Clarity Flying Sword back three times before Jiang Ding’s Destructive Sword Intent annihilated the sword cultivators and their formation.

Jiang Ding looted the fallen Sword Sons’ weapons and discovered valuable Nascent Soul-stage materials, including Dao Counting Stone. He reached the source of the Sunflame River and confronted Soil-Calming Sage, who was still refining his Five-Colored Small Pagoda and began performing a ritual.

• Jiang Ding collected ninety-two flying swords and searched the defeated cultivators’ Storage Bags for valuables.
• Jiang Ding identified Cloud-Splitting Gold in Xuantian Heavenly Sword Son’s sword and Dao Counting Stone in Hundred Swords Sword Son’s Hundred Heads Sword.
• Jiang Ding decided to pursue Sunflame Crystals and visit the source of the Sunflame River, where Soil-Calming Sage was refining his Five-Colored Small Pagoda.
• Soil-Calming Sage emerged from the magma in his five-colored lizard form and angrily told Jiang Ding to leave.
• Soil-Calming Sage stayed to finish refining his treasure and began a ceremony invoking the Great Sun Sword Pavilion’s past patriarchs and the Spirit of the Great Sun.

Jiang Ding fought the resentful spirit of the Great Sun Heavenly Pool, destroying its sword puppets and repeatedly cutting apart its cloudlike form. The spirit survived by drawing on the Heavenly Pool and began growing again, leaving Jiang Ding to consider how to defeat it.

• The Great Sun Heavenly Pool’s spirit condemned Jiang Ding as an Eastern Extreme Demonic Sect intruder, and Jiang Ding mocked its resentment and challenged its claim to represent sword cultivators.
• The spirit struck with lightning and summoned sword puppets from stone, magma, clouds, and earth, but Jiang Ding destroyed them with his Blue Gold Lotus and Sword Qi.
• The spirit spread a vast net of black curses, which Jiang Ding shattered with Destructive Sword Qi before cutting the spirit’s dark clouds apart.
• The spirit declared itself immortal as long as the Heavenly Pool remained, and it regenerated by consuming Spiritual Qi while Jiang Ding silently studied it.

Jiang Ding took control of the Great Sun Heavenly Pool as its recognized Great Sun Sword Son and learned that the Sun Spirit was a remnant soul aggregate born from the previous Sword Son. He prepared to enter the Solar Abyss for the Great Sun Soul Flame, then asked Classmate An to seal himself away so nothing could interfere.

• Jiang Ding used the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword to spread his authority through the Heavenly Pool and sever the dark clouds from the remnant soul aggregate.
• Jiang Ding struck the aggregate in the Solar Abyss, but it survived by merging remnant souls into a damaged flying sword.
• Yue explained that the Heavenly Pool recognized Great Sun Flying Sword holders as Sword Sons and that the Sun Spirit had been created by the previous Sword Son.
• Jiang Ding confirmed that the Great Sun Soul Flame he needed for Core Formation lay in the Solar Abyss and set out to remove potential interference.
• Soil-Calming Sage lifted a five-story tower from the lava lake, decided it needed more tempering, and remained where he was.
• Jiang Ding reached the Sunflame River, greeted Classmate An, and asked him to seal himself away temporarily in exchange for compensation.

Jiang Ding confronted Soil-Calming Sage in the Great Sun Heavenly Pool and fought through the Five Elements Dao Child’s endlessly reviving spells. He used his Space-Air Fighter’s Electromagnetic Main Cannon to overwhelm Soil-Calming Sage, who escaped with his Five Elements Reincarnation Dao Body.

• Jiang Ding refused to let Soil-Calming Sage remain in his cultivation ground, and the two began fighting after Jiang Ding challenged his old classmate to a spar.
• Jiang Ding’s Supreme Clarity Flying Sword shattered Soil-Calming Sage’s Five Elements Wheel Shield, but the Five-Colored Small Pagoda rebuilt it through Five Elements Reincarnation Law Intent.
• Soil-Calming Sage summoned waves of Five Elements spirit beasts that revived after being destroyed, gradually draining Jiang Ding’s mana.
• Jiang Ding summoned his Space-Air Fighter and fired its Electromagnetic Main Cannon, annihilating the spirit beasts and breaking through Soil-Calming Sage’s twenty-five-layer shield.
• Jiang Ding’s flying sword dented the Five-Colored Small Pagoda and injured Soil-Calming Sage, who fled with his Five Elements Reincarnation Dao Body before Jiang Ding could pursue.

Jiang Ding sent Soil-Calming Sage away and used the Great Sun Heavenly Pool to temper the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword and his spiritual sense. After finding a Sunflame Crystal, he began learning to slash it effectively with Yue’s guidance.

• Jiang Ding let Soil-Calming Sage flee because killing him would turn the Five Elements Heavenly Sect into an enemy and his presence had first needed to be removed from the coming battle.
• Jiang Ding sent the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword into the Sunflame River, where its heat and flames tempered the sword, his spiritual sense, and his sword intent.
• The flying sword reached a Sunflame Crystal deep beneath the lava, and Jiang Ding tried to break its protective shell with a slash.
• Yue demonstrated how to optimize the Basic Sword Control Technique and explained how to adapt the slash to the flow of the magma and Electromagnetic Magic Power.
• Jiang Ding thanked Yue and continued practicing swordsmanship under her instruction.

Two years later, Jiang Ding mastered the pinnacle of Sword Light Differentiation and collected Sunflame Crystals from the Sunflame River, but Yue could not provide the Great Sun Sword Scripture. He then confronted Yu Qianzi at the Moon Creek River and discovered that she was not the Azure Wood Immortal Sect’s Dao Child.

• Jiang Ding used his nine Supreme Clarity Flying Swords to collect Sunflame Crystals, reaching the pinnacle of Sword Light Differentiation.
• Jiang Ding asked Yue for the complete Great Sun Sword Scripture, but Yue said the Great Sun Heavenly Pool held no inheritance.
• Jiang Ding left the Sunflame River and headed toward the Moon Creek River, recalling how the Taiyin Sword Sect and Great Sun Sword Pavilion had fought the Immortal Sect.
• Yu Qianzi tried to persuade Yue to transfer authority over the Great Sun Heavenly Pool, but Yue refused because Yu Qianzi had neither a Great Sun Flying Sword nor a Taiyin Flying Sword.
• Jiang Ding revealed himself after Yu Qianzi’s Moon-White Flying Sword clashed with his Supreme Clarity Flying Sword, then concluded that she was not the Azure Wood Immortal Sect’s Dao Child because her sword lacked the Divine Wood Heavenly Seed.

Jiang Ding confronted Yu Qianzi over her occupation of his cultivation grounds and demanded the Great Sun Sword Pavilion inheritance, but their argument turned into a sword fight. Yu Qianzi gained the upper hand with superior swordsmanship and unleashed Sword Qi Thunder Sound at Jiang Ding, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Jiang Ding demanded the Great Sun Sword Pavilion inheritance as compensation, while Yu Qianzi refused and argued with him over their sects and cultivation paths.
• Jiang Ding declared Yu Qianzi a thief and attacked her with the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword.
• Yu Qianzi defeated Jiang Ding in their initial exchange and mocked his swordsmanship.
• Jiang Ding split his sword into nine and formed the Magnetic Field Spirit Energy Gathering and Killing Sword Array, while Yu Qianzi answered with her own nine-sword array.
• Yu Qianzi’s moon-white sword array overwhelmed Jiang Ding’s Blue-Gold Sword Qi, and she offered to take him to the Azure Wood Immortal Sect if he surrendered.
• Yu Qianzi’s Moon-White Flying Sword reached the second realm of the Sword Dao, Sword Qi Thunder Sound, and shot toward Jiang Ding’s chest.

Jiang Ding defeated Yu Qianzi in a sword duel, but a Void Refinement Great Power intervened before he could kill her. He captured the Taiyin Sword Son and demanded Great Sun Sword Pavilion inheritances, but received only Foundation Establishment materials.

• Jiang Ding used the Space-Air Fighter and Supreme Clarity Flying Sword to break Yu Qianzi’s Nine Crescent Moons Hanging in the Sky and strike her down, but her Teleportation Talisman saved her from his first attack.
• Jiang Ding pursued Yu Qianzi and nearly killed her, but a Void Refinement Great Power’s intervention stopped him and returned her to the Great Sun Heavenly Pool.
• Jiang Ding confronted Yu Qianzi and demanded the Great Sun Sword Pavilion inheritances held by the Taiyin Sword Sect in exchange for letting her go.
• Yu Qianzi handed over a jade slip containing only Foundation Establishment inheritances, explaining that she had no higher-level materials to give him.
• Jiang Ding ordered Yu Qianzi to seal herself, reinforced the seal with Destruction Sword Qi, and stored her in his Storage Jade Pendant.

Jiang Ding tempered the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword in Moon Creek River and collected thirty Moonstream Crystals. He then left for the Solar Abyss, where the Great Sun Soul Flame needed for Core Formation awaited.

• Jiang Ding immersed the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword in Moon Creek River, where the icy sword intent refined both the sword and his magic power.
• After three months, the sword completed a cycle of tempering, and Jiang Ding sensed that his bond with it had grown even closer.
• Jiang Ding guided the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword into the depths of Moon Creek River to cut through the heavy water and retrieve Moonstream Crystals.
• Jiang Ding collected thirty Moonstream Crystals, ended the sword-refining process, and flew away from the river.
• Jiang Ding reached the Solar Abyss, a vast beam of sunlight used to temper Great Sun Sword Sons' sword intent and containing the Great Sun Soul Flame needed for Core Formation.

Jiang Ding encountered Yanling Heavenly Monarch, a remnant soul who passed on fragments of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion’s inheritance and explained his conflicting duties to the Sword Son and his old enemies. Yanling then challenged Jiang Ding to survive one final sword strike, and a crimson tide descended across the world.

• Jiang Ding found a hateful wraith aggregate in the Great Sun’s radiance, and Yanling Heavenly Monarch’s battered flying sword emerged after destroying many of its souls.
• Yanling recognized Jiang Ding as the Great Sun Sword Son and transmitted three days’ worth of incomplete Sword Pavilion Spiritual Script to him.
• Yanling revealed that only one Great Sun Sword Son could remain and shared coordinates for the previous Sword Son, who might have reached Spirit Transformation.
• Yanling explained that he had to help the Sword Son while also avenging his dead friends and relatives by killing the Eastern Extreme Demonic Sect.
• Yanling challenged Jiang Ding to withstand one last sword strike, then unleashed a crimson tide that drowned the world.

Jiang Ding defeated Yanling Heavenly Monarch’s remnant soul after a fierce battle in the Great Sun Heavenly Pool. With the pool now under his control, he claimed a Great Sun Soul Flame and confirmed that forming his core was assured.

• Jiang Ding used the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword and the Electromagnetic Main Cannon to resist Yanling Heavenly Monarch’s Sword World and flaming sword river.
• Jiang Ding’s law-destroying sword attack weakened the Sword World, and Yanling Heavenly Monarch’s remnant soul exhausted its strength and turned to ash.
• Jiang Ding examined Yanling Heavenly Monarch’s broken flying sword and discovered it was only a Second-grade Flying Sword.
• The Great Sun Heavenly Pool came fully under Jiang Ding’s control after the remnant souls were destroyed.
• The pool’s female voice told Jiang Ding that Soil-Calming Sage and Yu Qianzi had taken two Great Sun Soul Flames, then gave him the last one.
• Jiang Ding touched the Great Sun Soul Flame and felt his divine soul gain threads of indestructibility, assuring him that he could form his core.

Jiang Ding searched the Great Sun Heavenly Pool for a Shadow Demon Abyss assassin and killed him when he launched an ambush. He learned the Pool could be relocated only if its seals were opened and he gained enough power to control it, then remained to temper himself until the Pool closed.

• Jiang Ding used the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword to illuminate the Great Sun Heavenly Pool and searched its rivers and grounds for the missing Shadow Demon Abyss sword cultivator.
• Jiang Ding realized the assassin was hiding within the heavenly light and drew him out with a Destructive Sword Intent searchlight.
• The Shadow Demon Abyss cultivator ambushed Jiang Ding, who killed him with the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword and blocked a hidden needle attack.
• Jiang Ding asked Yue whether he could take the Great Sun Heavenly Pool with him and learned that its seals and his insufficient cultivation prevented it.
• Jiang Ding left the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword in the sky to temper itself and continued cultivating until the Pool closed and its cultivators vanished.

After returning from the Great Sun Heavenly Pool, Jiang Ding prepared to form his core and handed over the secret techniques he had obtained for review. He confronted Immortal Sect officials who criticized his actions against rival sects, then left the Taiyin Sword Son with True Lord Sea-Stabilizer while True Lord Boming agreed to pursue the Great Sun Sword Pavilion inheritance.

• Jiang Ding returned through the Super Teleportation Array, shared Yanling Heavenly Monarch's fragmented cultivation secret techniques, and agreed to give Zhang Junsheng half a month to review them.
• Jiang Ding declined auxiliary core-forming resources and headed off to rest, but True Lord Sea-Stabilizer and True Lord Boming stopped him to discuss his kidnapping of Yu Qianzi.
• Jiang Ding revealed the sleeping Taiyin Sword Son and asked True Lord Boming to obtain the Great Sun Sword Pavilion inheritance from the Azure Wood Immortal Sect.
• Jin Xiuyan accused Jiang Ding of endangering the Immortal Sect's grand strategy, and Jiang Ding challenged him to say whether he would surrender to neutral enemies on the battlefield.
• Jiang Ding said he had fulfilled his duty by sparing Soil-Calming Sage and argued that diplomacy had to rest on strength; True Lord Boming acknowledged his point and vanished.

Jiang Ding learned why True Lord Boming resented the trouble his actions had caused the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, while True Lord Sea-Stabilizer explained the Immortal Sect’s laws and interests as the limits on political conflict. Fifteen days later, Jiang Ding prepared to form his core in the mining district dormitory, and the ceremony began as cultivators gathered to watch.

• True Lord Sea-Stabilizer told Jiang Ding that True Lord Boming was angry because Jiang Ding’s actions would burden the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and could hinder Boming’s accumulation of God Transformation Merit.
• True Lord Sea-Stabilizer warned Jiang Ding that cultivators’ struggles over interests had to remain within the Immortal Sect’s laws and overall interests, and Jiang Ding acknowledged the lesson.
• Fifteen days later, Jiang Ding studied the revised Core Formation secret art Zhang Junsheng had sent him and prepared to use it beneath the Blue Gold Great Tree.
• True Lord Sea-Stabilizer assured Jin Lingfeng and An Siyan that the dormitory was a suitable place for Jiang Ding to form his core, while Lord Lu Ling and a golden-crowned cultivator discussed Jiang Ding’s prospects.
• Spiritual Qi churned and gathered as dragon cries and roars filled the air, signaling that Jiang Ding’s Core Formation had begun.

Jiang Ding began forming his Golden Core beneath a vast spiritual storm, while True Lord Sea-Stabilizer and the gathered cultivators watched. His sword-type Golden Core Phenomenon appeared, and he condensed the first nine-aperture Golden Core within his dantian.

• True Lord Sea-Stabilizer explained how cultivators compressed their magic power to form a Golden Core and urged the students to pursue a High-grade or Supreme Golden Core.
• Jiang Ding’s spiritual qi vortex and dark clouds expanded over several months, spreading across Pure Breeze University Floating Island and nearby cities.
• A blue-gold sword-type Golden Core Phenomenon appeared above the mining district dormitories, causing flying swords across the region to sing in unison.
• Jiang Ding drew the surging Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth into his dantian and used the Spirit Imprint of the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword as his Golden Core’s core.
• Jiang Ding condensed layers of golden solid matter and formation patterns around the sword imprint, forming a brilliant, nine-aperture Golden Core.

During Jiang Ding’s Inner Demon Tribulation, the dead accused him of cruelty and injustice, testing his Dao heart. He rejected most of their accusations, admitted a flaw in his treatment of the Li Yun Sect, and challenged the inner demon to continue probing him.

• Jiang Ding faced a slain bandit who blamed him for the deaths of the bandit’s mother and infant, but Jiang Ding argued that the bandit’s crimes and the realm’s disorder were to blame and killed him again.
• Jiang Ding beheaded Long Shi, who accused him of cutting off his arm unfairly, and dismissed the claim that Immortal Sect Law applied to him.
• Jiang Ding cut down the burned residents of the Fierce Tiger Stronghold and other dead opponents who returned to accuse him of wrongdoing.
• Qian Tongyi challenged Jiang Ding over the destruction of the Li Yun Sect, and Jiang Ding admitted that the event revealed a flaw in his Dao heart before killing him.
• Jiang Ding told the inner demon that he would cooperate with its attacks to examine his Dao heart, leaving the unseen voice silent.

Jiang Ding defeated the inner demon and formed a supreme-grade sword-path Golden Core by merging his Nine-Aperture Golden Core with the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword. After surviving a furious heavenly punishment triggered by stealing its lightning, he emerged with greatly increased power and a sword domain that could cut through Nascent Soul domains.

• Jiang Ding rejected the inner demon's impersonation of his maternal grandparents, traced it through his memories, and destroyed it with the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword.
• Jiang Ding survived the initial heavenly tribulation, then held its clouds in place and drew their lightning into his Nine-Aperture Golden Core.
• Jiang Ding merged the Great Sun Soul Flame into his Golden Core, absorbed the tribulation lightning, and fused the core into the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword.
• Jiang Ding's mana, soul, and Sword Intent advanced, and he gained a miniature sword domain capable of cutting apart a Nascent Soul domain.
• Jiang Ding faced a stronger Nascent Soul-level lightning punishment, broke its destruction domain, and defeated the lightning with the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword.
• The tribulation clouds dispersed, and the watching cultivators lowered their heads toward Jiang Ding.

After surviving his heavenly tribulation, Jiang Ding reached the Golden Core Early Stage and celebrated with his teachers and classmates. He left with instructions to stabilize his cultivation and help advance Great Sun Sword Pavilion technology, while the Immortal Sect’s lack of resources remained a serious obstacle.

• Jiang Ding examined his new Golden Core cultivation and judged that he might withstand a fight with an ordinary Nascent Soul Early Stage Cultivator, though he would struggle to stop one from escaping.
• Wu Mengsha celebrated earning a Nascent Soul Spirit Item for her dissertation, while other Great Sun Ruins students rejoiced over their research rewards.
• Jiang Ding thanked his teachers and classmates for helping him form his core, and they congratulated him on reaching the Golden Core Early Stage.
• True Lord Sea-Stabilizer advised Jiang Ding to convert to the Golden Core version of the Myriad Transformation Magnetic Yuan Scripture, while Lord Lu Ling warned him to temper his sword intent under supervision.
• Zhang Junsheng urged Jiang Ding to accelerate Great Sun Sword Pavilion technology development and seek help from a Spirit Transformation Cultivator for their demanding work.