Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ding watched the Mount Hua Sword Discussion and recognized the sincere but untalented sword cultivator Fang Yilong as a fellow traveler. After Fang Yilong lost to the young Immortal Sect Top Scholar Wang Tiansheng, Jiang Ding decided he was still a talent who could contribute to the sword path.

• Jiang Ding watched Fang Yilong and Wang Tiansheng duel at Qi Refining Level Seven in the Illusory Realm’s Mount Hua Sword Discussion.
• Jiang Ding considered investing in Wang Tiansheng, but learned he was a Big Dipper University freshman and Immortal Sect Top Scholar unlikely to devote himself to swordsmanship.
• Jiang Ding examined Fang Yilong’s profile and learned that the forty-three-year-old spirit farmer had practiced swordsmanship for decades despite his ordinary talent and lack of achievement.
• Wang Tiansheng’s blazing flying sword shattered Fang Yilong’s Gale flying sword and slashed him into ashes.
• Jiang Ding concluded that Fang Yilong could still contribute to the sword path and was pleased.

Jiang Ding appeared at the first Mount Hua Sword Discussion as a Sun God Crane, rewarding the winners and bringing the Sword Dao into the Immortal Sect’s public eye. After returning to Yinkong Island, he reflected on nurturing a lasting Sword Dao community before setting off with An Siyan and Jin Lingfeng to inspect a shipbuilding group and the Super Battleship Great Sun.

• Jiang Ding sent the Sun God Crane to Mount Hua after Wang Tiansheng won the first Sword Master title.
• The Sun God Crane arrived before the crowd, named Wang Tiansheng the foremost young swordsman, and awarded him a Mount Hua Sword and one hundred thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones.
• The Sun God Crane gave Fang Yilong a Silver Fish Sword and thirty thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones, then gave Liu Yu a Bronze Fish Sword and ten thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones.
• The Sun God Crane departed, and the crowd discussed the Sword Dao’s growing prominence across the Immortal Sect.
• Jiang Ding returned to Yinkong Island and considered how the Sword Seedlings could help establish a Sword Dao that did not depend on him alone.
• Jiang Ding met An Siyan and Jin Lingfeng, and the three flew to inspect the Lianyun Spaceport Ship Heavy Industry Group and the partly completed Super Battleship Great Sun.

Jiang Ding brought An Siyan and Jin Lingfeng to Lianyun Spaceport, where Yu Qianzi joined them after bargaining for a chance to see his warship. They arrived at the dock and saw the Super Battleship under construction.

• Jiang Ding flew toward Lianyun Spaceport with An Siyan and Jin Lingfeng, and asked about their preparations to form Supreme Golden Cores.
• Yu Qianzi caught up with the group and persuaded Jiang Ding to take her along by offering to revise his Third-grade Sword Escape Technique.
• Jiang Ding agreed and led Yu Qianzi, An Siyan, and Jin Lingfeng toward Lianyun Spaceport Ship Heavy Industry Group.
• The group passed through the spaceport’s powerful defenses and reached the dock where Jiang Ding’s Super Battleship was being built.
• Jiang Ding looked up at the battleship, whose keel was complete and whose deck was being installed.

Jiang Ding visited the Super Battleship Great Sun with Nan Yunqi, who explained its construction and weapons. She then discussed End of Law City, the Immortal Sect’s refuge in the spiritless depths of space, where the chapter left Jiang Ding describing how it could preserve the sect if disaster struck.

• Nan Yunqi greeted Jiang Ding and his companions and introduced the Super Battleship Great Sun, which her team was building for him.
• Nan Yunqi described the battleship’s dimensions, materials, cost, and Myriad Magnetic Thundercloud Array, which could counter attacks with a magnetic-cloud thunderstorm.
• Nan Yunqi revealed the Magnetic Cloud Star-Splitting Cannon and explained its immense destructive power, while Jiang Ding defended its name.
• Nan Yunqi suggested that Jiang Ding visit End of Law City because his Destruction Sword Dao suited it, and asked whether he knew about the city.
• Jiang Ding explained that End of Law City was a wandering refuge where the Immortal Sect could shelter citizens and preserve civilization in the spiritless cosmic starry sky.

Jiang Ding learned about the Chaori warship’s Magnetic Cloud Star-Splitting Cannon and the Dyson Mirror Sword-type Drone swarm from Nan Yunqi. The drone demonstration showed the swarm could focus sunlight so intensely that it created a slowly healing spatial black hole.

• Jiang Ding declined Nan Yunqi’s suggestion to travel to End of Law City, explaining that the journey was too long.
• Nan Yunqi explained how the Fourth-grade Magnetic Cloud Star-Splitting Cannon was forged and maintained, and Jiang Ding connected its seventy-two accelerators to the stages of artifact refinement.
• Nan Yunqi gave Jiang Ding an annotated maintenance manual for the heavy cannon, then introduced the Dyson Mirror Sword-type Drone swarm as the reason she had paused construction of a Nascent Soul fortress.
• Nan Yunqi demonstrated 829 drones that absorbed sunlight across dozens of kilometers, plunging the surrounding area into darkness.
• The drones focused the collected sunlight into a blinding point that melted divine senses and left a house-sized spatial black hole in the sky.

Nan Yunqi showed Jiang Ding the Sword-shaped Mirror Drones and explained how they could form powerful formations, while noting that a ship spirit would eventually make them easier to control. Jiang Ding and his companions returned to class, where Yuan resumed their discussion of the Great Sun Army Group.

• Nan Yunqi demonstrated the Sword-shaped Mirror Drones’ formations and explained that a Super Battleship ship spirit made from Jiang Ding’s Dao Counting Stone would help control them.
• Nan Yunqi described the planned Sun Sword Domain and the drones’ upgrade interfaces, then declined Yu Qianzi’s request for a lunar-system Super Battleship.
• Jiang Ding led An Siyan, Jin Lingfeng, and Yu Qianzi out of the secured facility and flew with them toward Pure Breeze University’s Cultivation Department class.
• Jiang Ding greeted his classmates before they took their seats for Dao Law Class.
• Yuan awakened and asked Jiang Ding whether their previous lesson had covered the Great Sun Army Group.

Jiang Ding discussed intent and military formations with Yuan, who revealed that the Immortal Sect’s greatest strength was its legions’ collective military souls. Yuan urged Jiang Ding to resume military formation studies and begin preparing to form a legion.

• Jiang Ding recalled telling Yuan that he had hesitated to follow True Person Gulin’s example and form a Great Sun Army Group because he feared it would distract from cultivation.
• Jiang Ding described intent as a specialized form of divine consciousness and said Immortal Sect cultivators lagged behind other sects in cultivating individual intent.
• Yuan explained that the Immortal Sect cultivated intent through military formations, where a legion’s collective will, consciousness, spiritual power, and divine souls formed a military soul.
• Yuan claimed that the Immortal Sect’s legions could defeat the Eight Great Immortal Sects’ Dao Soldier forces because their members shared a united, indomitable spirit.
• Jiang Ding understood that military formations were the Immortal Sect’s greatest strength, and Yuan told him to resume military formation studies so he could form a legion upon reaching the Nascent Soul level.

Jiang Ding spent three years cultivating and refining his flying sword while developing the Immortal Sect’s Sword Dao culture. During the cold weapons entrance exam, he spotted an unusual panda wielding a spiked greatsword.

• Jiang Ding finished Yuan Lüe’s lessons and said farewell to An Siyan and Jin Lingfeng, who were entering seclusion to prepare for their Golden Cores.
• Jiang Ding returned to Yinkong Island and cultivated beneath the Sun God Wood, balancing his training with research, teaching, and other work.
• Over three years, Jiang Ding refined nineteen Earth Fiend Restrictions on the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword and continued developing Sword Dao programs across the Immortal Sect.
• Jiang Ding watched the cold weapons entrance examination and saw that 87.9% of the sword-division examinees used swords.
• Jiang Ding noticed a Black and White Ball in one livestream, standing on a mountain with a spiked greatsword.

Hua Xiaohua entered the College Entrance Examination’s Cold Weapon Examination and revealed her extraordinary durability and Molten Thorn Sword Embryo. After Jiang Ding assessed the young examinees’ swordsmanship, Xiaohua defeated a wind-spell specialist and advanced through the latter half of the examination.

• Hua Xiaohua stood still as the Girl with a Bun’s Silver-white Twin Swords struck her neck, and the blades shattered against her fur.
• Hua Xiaohua killed the Girl with a Bun with her Molten Thorn Sword, while Jiang Ding recognized that she had forged and refined a Molten Thorn Sword Embryo.
• Jiang Ding evaluated the examinees’ swordsmanship and recorded their skill as data for his sword path cultivation plan.
• Feng Qingyu bombarded Hua Xiaohua with wind spells until he gave up, but Hua Xiaohua insisted on fighting.
• Hua Xiaohua curled into a spiked ball, pursued Feng Qingyu through his flying shadows, and struck his true body down.

Jiang Ding watched Hua Xiaohua win the cold weapons examination, reflected on the Sword Dao Hall’s growth, and spent years cultivating and refining his flying sword. After the sword became a High-grade Magic Treasure, he noticed the Luoxu token’s signal and went to see An Siyan and Jin Lingfeng before their Golden Core tribulations.

• Hua Xiaohua won the cold weapons division, becoming the Immortal Sect’s first panda Top Scholar.
• Jiang Ding reviewed the Sword Dao Hall’s cultivators and their incomplete Sword Dao techniques, then returned to cultivation.
• Nine years later, Jiang Ding completed the refinement that made the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword a High-grade Magic Treasure.
• The Luoxu token signaled that the Nine Heavens Fragment would approach the Northern Plains in about a year, and Jiang Ding suspected the Luoxu Sect ruins might hold clues to an immortal art.
• Jiang Ding flew to visit An Siyan and Jin Lingfeng, who were about to undergo their Golden Core tribulations.

Jiang Ding visited the Golden Core tribulation site, where Jin Lingfeng and An Siyan were preparing to form their cores. Jin Lingfeng’s tribulation began with an immense spiritual-qi vortex and a phenomenon indicating a Supreme Golden Core, then the first lightning bolt struck.

• Jiang Ding felt a spiritual prompting in the magnetosphere about combining electromagnetic sword Dao and Sun Sword Dao, and recorded the research direction for after he reached Nascent Soul.
• Jiang Ding greeted True Monarch Moon Spirit, who asked when he would marry her daughter, and he replied that he was too young and focused on his Dao Path.
• Jiang Ding inspected An Siyan’s protective formation and reassured her younger sister, An Sinuo, that An Siyan had a high chance of forming a Golden Core.
• Jin Lingfeng began forming her Golden Core as spiritual qi gathered into a vortex and her tribulation clouds expanded beyond ninety kilometers, indicating a Supreme Golden Core Phenomenon.
• A thick bolt of lightning struck Jin Lingfeng on the Golden Core Platform.

Jiang Ding waited as Jin Lingfeng and An Siyan survived their tribulations and formed Golden Cores, then respectfully congratulated them. After they shared their cultivation insights with younger cultivators, Jiang Ding returned with them while Yu Qianzi reconsidered the Eastern Extreme Demonic Sect’s potential.

• Jiang Ding confirmed that the Silver-Haired Girl survived her tribulation and discussed swordsmanship and cultivation with Yu Qianzi while they waited.
• Jiang Ding watched An Siyan endure her tribulation and recover, while Yu Qianzi questioned why the two cultivators had risked so much to strengthen their foundations.
• After three months, Jin Lingfeng flew to Jiang Ding and Yu Qianzi, and Jiang Ding respectfully greeted her as Ancestor Jin after she stabilized her early Golden Core.
• An Siyan arrived after forming a Supreme Golden Core, and Jiang Ding respectfully greeted her as Ancestor An and sincerely asked her to look after him.
• Jin Lingfeng and An Siyan explained Golden Core cultivation to Foundation Establishment Cultivators, prompting Yu Qianzi to consider the Eastern Extreme Demonic Sect’s future potential.
• Jiang Ding returned with Jin Lingfeng and An Siyan after their lecture, privately resolving that he would use his full strength against Yu Qianzi if they ever became enemies.

Jiang Ding prepared his avatar to enter the Luoxu Sect, using the Karma Eradication Talisman to hide it from powerful divination. After recovering from the talisman’s activation, he left the Wei family to find Han Lin and investigate the Luoxu Sect’s immortal technique.

• Jiang Ding reviewed the Northern Plains’ uneasy peace and noted that the Wei family faced minor troubles while its Copper Stone supply was running low.
• Jiang Ding examined the Luoxu token, saw that it was activating more rapidly, and planned to enter the Luoxu Sect’s mountain gate in three months.
• Jiang Ding used his God Transformation Merit to obtain a sixth-rank Karma Eradication Talisman containing Law-Breaking Immortal Gold.
• Jiang Ding activated the talisman through a month of complicated hand seals and merged it into Jin-92’s heart, concealing the avatar from divination.
• Jiang Ding recovered in seclusion for more than a month, then left the Wei family to find Han Lin and pursue traces of the Luoxu Sect’s immortal technique.

Jiang Ding entered Beast Spirit Immortal City and learned that the Divine Crow Royal Army was recruiting for the coming Royal Court War. After considering the Northern Plains Families’ karmic protections and the war’s dangers, he rejected the idea of participating and headed to the Spirit Treasure Merchant Guild to buy Copper Stone.

• Jiang Ding entered Beast Spirit Immortal City and saw that its Wanted List and bustling, foul-smelling streets had changed little since his last visit.
• A recruiter announced that the Divine Crow Royal Army was enlisting cultivators and promising rewards, prompting Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment cultivators to volunteer.
• Jiang Ding recalled that the Royal Court War offered access to the Royal Court Blessed Land but was governed by the karmic power of the Northern Plains Families’ ancestor.
• Golden Core cultivators discussed the devastation the Great Sun Sect had inflicted on the Twenty-Eight Families and doubted that outsiders could obtain Nascent Soul opportunities.
• Jiang Ding dismissed the Royal Court Struggle as unworthy of him and went to the Spirit Treasure Merchant Guild to purchase Copper Stone.

Jiang Ding bought ten million jin of Copper Stone from Shang Sanwu at a hundred times the previous price and obtained intelligence about the Northern Plains. The news revealed that the Great Sun Law Son and Blazing Sun Sword Son had broken the Royal Court Blood Curse and entered the Royal Court War under the protection of dragon qi.

• Jiang Ding entered the Spirit Treasure Merchant Guild, where Shang Sanwu recognized him and led him to a private room.
• Jiang Ding asked to buy ten million jin of Copper Stone, and Shang Sanwu demanded one hundred and fifty million Low-grade Spirit Stones, a hundredfold increase over the former price.
• Jiang Ding paid for the Copper Stone and requested intelligence about major recent events in the Northern Plains.
• Shang Sanwu delivered the Copper Stone and a jade slip, which reported that the Royal Court Blood Curse had been broken.
• Jiang Ding learned that the Great Sun Law Son and Blazing Sun Sword Son had raised armies, declared themselves kings, and gained the Royal Court Dragon Qi's protection.

Jiang Ding read reports about threats to the Royal Court Blessed Land and the Blazing Sun Sword Son’s battle, then traveled with Han Lin toward the Luoxu Sect. The Luoxu token activated and transported them, leaving their journey’s dangers ahead.

• Jiang Ding learned that the Great Sun Law Sect and Great Sun Sword Sect planned to destroy the Royal Court Blessed Land, and that the Blazing Sun Sword Son had fought the Holy Son of Six Paths Sect.
• Jiang Ding left the Spirit Treasure Merchant Guild after Shang Sanwu politely welcomed him back.
• Jiang Ding met the concealed Han Lin and gave him a jade sword marked with Destructive Sword Intent so he could track him during their journey.
• Jiang Ding and Han Lin waited in hiding for more than three months as the Luoxu token’s light grew stronger.
• Jiang Ding and Han Lin exchanged farewells as the token activated and transported them away.

Jiang Ding entered Luoxu Sect’s mountain-gate secret realm, assessed its damaged but functioning aerial-restriction formation, and headed toward Disciple Peak to search for traces of immortal arts. He passed a clash between Golden Core Cultivators and then watched Blazing Sun Sword Son attack the Holy Son of Six Paths Sect Yin Dao.

• Jiang Ding analyzed the small secret realm and confirmed that its aerial-restriction formation was still working, though damaged.
• Jiang Ding used Han Lin’s rough map to choose Disciple Peak as his destination and concealed himself as he flew there.
• Jiang Ding detected dozens of Golden Core Cultivators nearby, including Blood Bone Demon Ling Xu fighting a Late Golden Core Cultivator from the Hei clan.
• Blazing Sun Sword Son pursued the Holy Son of Six Paths Sect Yin Dao, causing nearby Golden Core Cultivators to flee.
• Blazing Sun Sword Son struck Yin Dao with blazing Sun Sword Qi, burning the surrounding forest and leaving Yin Dao battered.

Jiang Ding watched the Blazing Sun Sword Son fight Yin Dao, Holy Son of Six Paths Sect, and suspected the sword’s golden flames were connected to the Great Sun Sword Pavilion’s inheritance. He then reached Disciple Peak, where he confronted a group of Golden Core Cultivators preparing to loot it.

• Lie Shan, the Blazing Sun Sword Son, attacked Yin Dao with six flaming golden lions, forcing him to defend himself with the Six Paths of Reincarnation Banner.
• Lie Shan’s attack battered Yin Dao’s reincarnation domain, and Yin Dao fled as the two continued their pursuit.
• Jiang Ding watched them leave and recognized that Lie Shan’s golden flames might be connected to Chong Guangzi and the Great Sun Sword Pavilion’s inheritance.
• Jiang Ding flew unseen to Disciple Peak, where more than thirty Golden Core Cultivators were preparing to enter and loot the mountain.
• Jiang Ding revealed himself as the Tushan Sword Cultivator and declared Disciple Peak his, asking whether anyone objected.

Jiang Ding killed most of the Golden Core Cultivators attacking Disciple Peak, then learned their leader served Blood Cloud and was forming the Blood King Army with help from an unknown force. He killed the surviving goateed general after the man dismissed the dead cultivators as expendable Grass Cultivators.

• More than thirty Golden Core Cultivators attacked Jiang Ding after he refused to give his name, and the goateed old man organized them into a stronger formation.
• Jiang Ding unleashed a silver sword strike that destroyed their spells and magical treasures and killed nearly all of them, though the goateed old man survived.
• The old man recognized Jiang Ding as the Tushan Sword Cultivator and revealed that he was the Ram Horn General, an eleventh general under Blood Cloud tasked with establishing the Blood King Army.
• The Ram Horn General said an unknown force had supplied their formation and urged Jiang Ding to cooperate with Blood Cloud against divisions in the Northern Plains.
• After the old man called the slain Golden Core Cultivators expendable Grass Cultivators, Jiang Ding pierced his glabella with a flying sword and killed him.

Jiang Ding carefully explored Luoxu Sect’s Disciple Peak, preserving fragile relics and uncovering records about the sect’s history and its revered Patriarch Shuoyang. He found an immense collection of educational texts and a statue that suggested Shuoyang resembled the Six Paths Sect’s Heavenly Human.

• Jiang Ding cleared lingering traces around the ruined Disciple Peak and sealed the collapsing cottages to preserve their contents.
• He restored more than fifty fragile jade slips and read the diaries and letters of Luoxu Sect disciples from ten thousand years earlier.
• Jiang Ding learned from the relics that Luoxu Sect had become one of the Northern Plains’ greatest powers after Patriarch Shuoyang emerged.
• He collected more than thirty thousand first-rank texts from the Elementary Learning Palace for the Immortal Sect Library.
• Jiang Ding examined a statue of Patriarch Shuoyang and noticed that its appearance resembled both Yin Dao and the Heavenly Human described in the Six Paths Sect’s canon.