Chapter Summaries

True Monarch Divine Crow arrived in Tushan Immortal City searching for the Tushan Sword Cultivator, then destroyed Tushan Demon Palace when he failed to find him. He left the city’s surviving Golden Core cultivators alive and ordered Chu Kingdom and Yue Kingdom to surrender.

• Hei Chengwu and Hei Chengxiu argued over whether Tushan Immortal City prospered through its lord’s strength or its willingness to recruit talent, before True Monarch Divine Crow arrived with them.
• True Monarch Divine Crow’s Nascent Soul pressure silenced Tushan Immortal City, and thirty-two Golden Core cultivators submitted while more than ten wanted cultivators fled.
• True Monarch Divine Crow sent Golden Crown Black Crows to burn the fleeing Golden Core cultivators and destroy Tushan Demon Palace.
• The Youth in Green Robes chose to perish as the Demon Palace burned, but True Monarch Divine Crow could not find his aura or track him.
• True Monarch Divine Crow concluded that the Tushan Sword Cultivator was not his target, vanished, and ordered Chu Kingdom and Yue Kingdom to surrender.

Jiang Ding watched Tushan Immortal City burn and learned that True Monarch Divine Crow was an Early Nascent Soul Cultivator who had destroyed the city’s income and resources. He planned how to prevent Divine Crow from escaping, applied for a large Immortal Sect loan to buy an Infant Restraining Net, and prepared to collect some interest while the loan and his Super Battleship were still pending.

• Jiang Ding recalled how he had defeated Tushan’s demon rulers, rescued humans from being raised for slaughter, and built Tushan Immortal City into a prosperous city.
• Jiang Ding identified True Monarch Divine Crow as an Early Nascent Soul Cultivator and calculated that he would need to seal space and restrain the Nascent Soul to prevent an escape or message being sent.
• Jiang Ding found that the Immortal Sect’s Infant Restraining Net cost six hundred million Low-grade Spirit Stones, so he decided to borrow money despite having none.
• Jiang Ding applied to the Immortal Sect Central Bank for a one-billion-Low-grade-Spirit-Stone loan, including two hundred million units of fourth-grade digital currency.
• The bank approved Jiang Ding’s application through its system review but sent it for a manual review expected to take three to five years.
• Jiang Ding noted that his Super Battleship would take more than twenty years to finish and vowed to collect some interest from Divine Crow first.

Jiang Ding explored Tushan Immortal City, where the Animal Dao had replaced orderly rule with open exploitation and turned cultivators’ souls into spirit beasts. He secretly planted a dormant sword intent in Hei Chengwu and Cheng Xiu, leaving them to continue their investigation while he departed.

• Jiang Ding saw that Tushan Immortal City had become more profitable but chaotic, with demonic goods openly traded and criminals sent to labor in the mines.
• Jiang Ding entered the Animal Dao’s guarded pavilions unseen and discovered that the rare spirit beasts contained tortured cultivators’ souls.
• Hei Chengwu and Cheng Xiu discussed surrendered sects, the Lineage’s hierarchy, and the Ancestor’s order to investigate the Tushan Sword Cultivator.
• Jiang Ding entered the main hall unnoticed, planted a dormant imitation Taiyin Sword Intent in Hei Chengwu and Cheng Xiu, and said they would eventually suffer Qi Deviation and commit suicide.
• After Jiang Ding left, Hei Chengwu and Cheng Xiu resumed discussing the investigation without realizing he had been there.

Jiang Ding intercepted Mu Tianxue as she fled Chu Kingdom and subdued her, then searched her Storage Bag and found the deformed Law-Breaking Steel bullet head. Mu Tianxue pleaded for her life, offering her talents and service.

• Jiang Ding tracked Mu Tianxue after she fled Chu Kingdom, recalling her past attempts to kill him.
• Mu Tianxue escaped toward the Spiritless Desert with the Blood Transformation Hall’s accumulated wealth and reflected on her chance to pursue the Nascent Soul realm.
• Jiang Ding appeared before Mu Tianxue, and she scattered into blood threads and little figures to flee.
• Jiang Ding’s sword intent froze Mu Tianxue’s escape and pulled her back together, leaving her to greet him respectfully.
• Jiang Ding searched Mu Tianxue’s Storage Bag, found abundant treasures and the deformed Law-Breaking Steel bullet head, and kept the bag.
• Mu Tianxue pleaded with Jiang Ding to spare her, citing her aptitude, cultivation, and willingness to help him.

Jiang Ding searched Mu Tianxue’s memories and confirmed she had not used the Law-Breaking Steel fragment to draw the Great Sun Sect’s attention. Despite learning that she had mostly killed enemies and possessed a powerful Blood Spirit Sacred Body, he chose to kill her, and his sword destroyed the fleeing blood avatars.

• Mu Tianxue insisted she was kind and innocent, claimed she had only killed enemies, and offered Jiang Ding a chance to search her soul.
• Jiang Ding searched Mu Tianxue’s memories and found no suspicious use of the Law-Breaking Steel fragment in the past century.
• Jiang Ding learned that Mu Tianxue’s Blood Spirit Sacred Body let her create avatars that could replace her if she died, and that she had rarely killed innocents.
• Mu Tianxue asked Jiang Ding to spare her and offered to help him, but he declared that anyone who wanted to kill him had to die.
• Mu Tianxue burned her essence blood and fled as many identical avatars, but Jiang Ding’s Azure Destruction Sword Qi destroyed them all.

Jiang Ding left the forests of Tu Kingdom and traveled through the Spiritless Desert toward the Northern Plains, deciding to kill True Monarch Divine Crow and establish a stable territory. During the journey, he continued cultivating and completed the twelfth Earth Fiend Restriction on the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword.

• Jiang Ding sealed Mu Tianxue's damaged Blood Dissolving Divine Blade and resolved to hunt down her remaining lives if necessary.
• Jiang Ding decided to travel to the Northern Plains, where he planned to kill True Monarch Divine Crow and secure a lasting territory.
• Jiang Ding crossed deep into the Spiritless Desert, calculating that his journey would take around six years because he also needed time for cultivation and sword refinement.
• Jiang Ding spent three months cultivating on a floating silver mountain, then used two months to refine the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword.
• Jiang Ding completed the sword's twelfth Earth Fiend Restriction, raising its restrictions to the mid-grade magical treasure level, and stabilized it with the Moonstream Crystal.

After five months away, Jiang Ding returned to class and reunited with Yu Qianzi, who had come to the Immortal Sect as an exchange student amid improving relations with the Azure Wood Immortal Sect. He learned that she remained at Foundation Establishment Peak and discussed what she needed to safely form her core.

• Jiang Ding decided to visit home more often and flew to True Lord Sea-Stabilizer's language class, where he discussed their years of study with An Siyan and Jin Lingfeng.
• Jiang Ding remembered the failed Nascent Soul formation of Liu Shi Military Industry's founder before noticing Yu Qianzi arrive.
• An Siyan explained that Yu Qianzi was studying at the Immortal Sect for two hundred years as part of the negotiations with the Azure Wood Immortal Sect.
• Jiang Ding discovered Yu Qianzi was still at Foundation Establishment Peak, and she blamed her delay on being kept at the Taiyin Sword Sect.
• Yu Qianzi mocked Jiang Ding's swordsmanship until his Golden Core pressure made her concede that the Space-Air Fighter was a sword sheath.
• Yu Qianzi said she needed Elder Yuan's or the Central Array Spirit Computer's guarantee that her core formation would not be disrupted, and Jiang Ding agreed there should be no problem.

Jiang Ding learned that the Azure Wood Immortal Sect had refused to share the Great Sun Sword Pavilion’s Deity Transformation inheritance, though the sects had formed a strategic partnership and secured him God Transformation Merit. After class, Yu Qianzi began forming her Golden Core, and Jiang Ding’s sword intent blocked hostile observers from interfering.

• True Lord Sea-Stabilizer told Jiang Ding that negotiations had failed to obtain the Great Sun Sword Pavilion inheritance, but the sects had established a strategic partnership and Jiang Ding would receive God Transformation Merit.
• True Lord Sea-Stabilizer taught the Nascent Soul section of the Myriad Transformation Magnetic Yuan Scripture over the following three months.
• Yu Qianzi asked Jiang Ding to protect her during Golden Core formation, and he agreed.
• Yu Qianzi began forming her Golden Core, creating a vast phenomenon that drew the attention of Immortal Sect cultivators.
• Jiang Ding released his sword intent to sever hostile gazes and divine senses, prompting even aerospace aircraft carriers to withdraw their Spirit Particle Radar Waves.

Jiang Ding and his companions watched Yu Qianqian undergo tribulation and reveal her Taiyin Dao Body as she formed a Dao Rule Golden Core. After she survived, Jiang Ding congratulated her and left, while Yu Qianzi turned her attention to Jin Lingfeng.

• An Siyan explained that the Immortal Sect had no Dao Body cultivators because it had not systematically discovered and cultivated talent in its minor realms, while Jin Lingfeng defended the Immortal Sect’s focus on resources and social stability.
• Yu Qianqian emerged beneath the Moon Rising Over the Sea phenomenon, and An Siyan revealed that the Azure Wood Immortal Sect had unsealed her early because it coveted the Great Sun Sword Pavilion’s legacies.
• Yu Qianqian passed the Inner Demon Tribulation and faced a powerful lightning bolt, while her bright moon phenomenon caused Jin Lingfeng to fall unconscious until Jiang Ding’s sword chime woke her.
• Jiang Ding dispersed the dangerous Spiritual Qi storms as Yu Qianqian’s moonlight overcame the lightning tribulation and she attained a Dao Rule Golden Core.
• Yu Qianqian thanked Jiang Ding, who congratulated her and departed; Yu Qianzi then turned toward the uneasy Jin Lingfeng.

After months of cultivation, Jiang Ding joined a military formation drill and tested his new strength against the Yin Mist Treasure Pearl. He defeated True Lord Yin Mist’s sword-intent remnant and left with new insight into Sword Qi Thunder Sound, considering seeking out the Taiyin Sword Son for more duels.

• Jiang Ding returned to cultivation after visiting his Household and traveling through the Spiritless Desert, then resumed his studies and sword training for several months.
• Jiang Ding watched Space-Air Battleships and fighters assemble for a military formation drill as Lord Lu Ling ordered six divisions to seize control beneath his domain.
• Jiang Ding entered the Yin Mist Treasure Pearl and found that True Lord Yin Mist’s sword-intent remnant no longer seemed invincible to him.
• Jiang Ding fought True Lord Yin Mist using the Basic Sword Control Technique, studied her Sword Qi Thunder Sound, and defeated her nine hundred flying swords and sword-intent remnant.
• Jiang Ding concluded that the duel had brought him closer to the second realm of swordsmanship and considered challenging the Taiyin Sword Son repeatedly.

Jiang Ding explored the sword intent sealed inside the Great Sun Sword Son’s relic and faced Chong Guangzi in a vision. Chong Guangzi easily defeated him, and Jiang Ding awoke vowing that he would settle the score once his Super Battleship was complete.

• Jiang Ding put the depleted Mist Spirit Pearl away to recover and examined a red bead containing the Great Sun Sword Son’s sword intent.
• Jiang Ding entered the bead’s vision, where he met Chong Guangzi, who recognized him as a Great Sun Sword Son and declared that he should be eliminated.
• Chong Guangzi’s flying sword shattered Jiang Ding’s sword formation and overwhelmed the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword despite their similar Golden Core cultivation.
• Chong Guangzi used Crimson Flame Slash to break Jiang Ding’s remaining swords and struck him down.
• Jiang Ding awoke as the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword supported him and angrily vowed to defeat Chong Guangzi once the Super Battleship was complete.

Jiang Ding studied Chong Guangzi’s swordsmanship and learned from Yu Qianzi that Nascent Soul sword cultivators manipulated curved space to increase their speed. He then advanced his plan to foster sword cultivators by recruiting an experienced education manager, hoping to build a broad base of students and future talent.

• Jiang Ding sent Yu Qianzi footage of Chong Guangzi’s sword slash, and she explained that Nascent Soul sword cultivators used Space Patterns to make their attacks faster.
• Jiang Ding continued studying Chong Guangzi’s sword moves for several months, taking notes as he sought a breakthrough in Sword Qi Thunder Sound.
• Jin Lingfeng told Jiang Ding that a headhunter had found an experienced Qi Refining Late Stage education and training manager.
• Jiang Ding explained his plan to establish affordable Sword Dao Halls and competitions to make sword training widespread and identify talented students.
• Jiang Ding took An Siyan and Jin Lingfeng to meet the manager, and An Siyan asked whether he had chosen the education industry for his Golden Core business.
• Jiang Ding clarified that he wanted to cultivate Immortal Sect sword cultivators so they could develop the sword dao together and solve problems he could not handle alone.

Jiang Ding met with Wei Hu to discuss launching Sword Dao Hall, a swordsmanship training company, and hired him as its general manager. Wei Hu left with the promise of a possible Foundation Establishment Pill if he succeeded.

• Jin Lingfeng led Jiang Ding and An Siyan through crowded Immortal Capital to the Moonstone Group building for their meeting with Wei Hu.
• Jiang Ding reviewed Wei Hu’s résumé and asked how he would run Sword Dao Hall.
• Wei Hu said recruiting respected swordsmanship teachers was essential and proposed poaching instructors from competing training companies.
• Jiang Ding agreed to train a group of swordsmanship teachers and praised Wei Hu’s plan to make Sword Dao Hall dominate cold-weapon education.
• Jiang Ding signed Wei Hu’s contract and offered a possible Foundation Establishment Pill as a reward for handling the job well.
• Wei Hu signed the contract and vowed not to fail Jiang Ding’s trust.

Jiang Ding arranged funding and staff for Sword Dao Hall, then visited Yu Qianzi to recruit her for an aerospace combat course. Yu Qianzi agreed after negotiating a substantial reward of sword dao treasures.

• Jiang Ding appointed Wei Hu and Liu Caihua to run Sword Dao Hall and promised annual funding until it became self-sustaining.
• An Siyan questioned Jiang Ding’s hands-off approach, and Jin Lingfeng explained that Immortal Sect oversight and the promise of Foundation Establishment Pills would keep the operation in check.
• Jiang Ding entered Yu Qianzi’s spatial cave abode and waited while she finished a game match.
• Jiang Ding invited Yu Qianzi to take the aerospace combat course, but she refused because the Eastern Extreme Demonic Sect would not build her a warship.
• Jiang Ding offered Yu Qianzi Great Sun Sword Beads and Sunflame Crystals and Moonstream Crystals, and she accepted after raising the price to one hundred crystals.

After three months of cultivation, Jiang Ding reviewed the Sword Dao Hall’s progress and applied for an Illusory Realm avatar to train instructors and assist with research. The Golden Core Peak avatar arrived and proved capable of independently deducing techniques, though it struggled with Great Sun Sword Pavilion sword arts.

• Jiang Ding finished a three-month cultivation session and reviewed the Sword Dao Hall’s documents and financial report.
• Jiang Ding decided to apply for a teaching avatar because the newly hired sword instructors needed training he could not provide himself.
• The Illusory Realm approved Jiang Ding’s application for a Golden Core Peak avatar, and he paid 1.5 million Low-grade Spirit Stones for it.
• Jiang Ding activated the faceless avatar with his blood and discovered that he could share its thoughts and perceptions.
• Jiang Ding tested the avatar on Magnetic Void Flash and the Magnetic Concealment Art, finding that it could deduce them efficiently.
• Jiang Ding gave the avatar Great Sun Sword Pavilion sword arts to study, but it repeatedly stalled and made almost no progress.

Jiang Ding returned to teach a group of cold-weapons instructors, using his Golden Core abilities to examine their sword techniques and offer patient guidance. He left them practicing the basics as he corrected their flawed habits one by one.

• Jiang Ding decided to visit home, then fashioned a green Daoist robe from silver spirit iron and flew there using magnetic levitation.
• Wei Hu gathered more than sixty sword instructors and martial artists to meet Jiang Ding, while they worried whether the Golden Core senior would appear.
• Jiang Ding arrived and asked the Innate Martial Artists to demonstrate the Basic Sword Technique and the Qi Refining cultivators to show the Basic Sword Control Technique.
• Jiang Ding judged that the instructors' techniques favored flashy tricks and quick results, leaving little room for progress in the sword path.
• Jiang Ding corrected Wei Hu's thrusting form and patiently instructed Liu Ling, Guo Dongzheng, and the rest of the group.

Jiang Ding lost repeatedly to Yu Qianzi in sword duels, while learning more about the Great Sun Sword Son’s overwhelming strength through the Great Sun Sword Bead. After five years of travel across the desert, he reached the edge of an immense grassland.

• Jiang Ding planned a long-term swordsmanship program and gave Wei Hu ideas for promoting the Sword Dao.
• Jiang Ding challenged Yu Qianzi repeatedly over two months and lost all ten duels.
• Yu Qianzi entered the Great Sun Sword Bead and was severely wounded by Chong Guangzi, discovering that he was far stronger than her lineage’s records suggested.
• Jiang Ding explained how the Great Sun Sword Pavilion had grown into a realm-dominating power, then avoided sparring further and trained with An Siyan and Jin Lingfeng.
• Jiang Ding traveled through the desert for five more years before reaching a vast green grassland.

Jiang Ding entered the Northern Plains, concealed himself, and investigated the Bone Knife Tribe while searching for Beast Spirit City, where he expected to find True Monarch Divine Crow. He learned the direction of the Black Clan Khanate and set off to locate Black Clan cultivators.

• Jiang Ding crossed into the Northern Plains and found its spiritual qi welcoming after the Spiritless Desert.
• Jiang Ding secretly watched a poor shepherd boy work and investigated the surrounding nomadic settlements.
• Jiang Ding copied the shepherd boy’s memories and learned that the Bone Knife Tribe was ruled by the hereditary Black Clan.
• Jiang Ding concluded that the region belonged to the Six Paths Sect’s Animal Dao and planned to find Beast Spirit City, where True Monarch Divine Crow might be cultivating.
• Jiang Ding searched the Bone Knife Tribe for more information, learned the direction of the Black Clan Khanate, and flew toward it in concealment.

Jiang Ding traveled through the Northern Plains, observing the war’s devastation and locating Beast Spirit Immortal City. He decided to wait nearby until True Monarch Divine Crow left the city, then kill him.

• Jiang Ding found Black Mountain Holy City and discovered that its lower Grade 2 spirit vein supported several Foundation Establishment Cultivators who remained despite the war.
• Jiang Ding searched the souls of three Black Clan collateral-branch members and learned that the war had lasted nearly two hundred years, with Great Sun Sect infiltrations and frequent deaths among the city’s defenders.
• Jiang Ding traveled through increasingly dense Spiritual Qi and watched the Northern Plains’ chaos give way to Black Clan-controlled areas where production and order persisted.
• Jiang Ding reached the vicinity of Beast Spirit Immortal City and recognized the danger of its Fourth-grade Spirit Vein, defensive formations, and True Monarch Divine Crow.
• Jiang Ding chose to wait near the city, planning to use the Super Battleship to monitor the area and kill True Monarch Divine Crow when he left.

Jiang Ding took over the Wei Family under Daoist Tian Kuang’s identity and learned that the Great Sun Sect had fractured after defeating the Righteous and Demonic Alliance. The Northern Plains now faced a three-way standoff among the Righteous and Demonic Alliance, the Great Sun Sect, and the Great Sun Sword Sect.

• Jiang Ding considered using the Wei Family as a cover and traveled to its territory to see whether Daoist Tian Kuang’s arrangements remained useful.
• Wei Qingqing rejected Aunt Xiu’s suggestion that she become Hei Pang’s concubine and killed the old woman after she urged the match.
• Jiang Ding appeared in Wei Jian’s likeness, froze Wei Qingqing with spatial power, and used a Bewildering Spirit Talisman to alter her memories.
• Wei Qingqing accepted Jiang Ding as her father and agreed to keep his return secret while he took control of the family’s affairs.
• Jiang Ding learned from Wei Qingqing’s memories that the Righteous and Demonic Alliance had lost, the Great Sun Sect had collapsed into civil war, and the Great Sun Sword Sect had emerged as a third power.