Chapter Summaries

Su Ye insisted on taking Lin Qijian’s seven increasingly powerful swords head-on and remained unharmed through the sixth, a near-Dao Technique. Lin Qijian then began his final, true Dao Technique, the Primordial Heart-Severing Sword, leaving Su Ye’s response unresolved.

• Qin Yanyu and Su Ling recognized that Su Ye genuinely intended to withstand all seven swords, while Lin Qingyue hoped his confidence would lead to his defeat.
• Lin Qijian agreed to concede if Su Ye endured all seven swords and struck him with the second sword, which Su Ye took without moving.
• Lin Qijian unleashed his third, fourth, and fifth swords in succession, and Su Ye withstood each one head-on.
• Lin Qijian’s sixth sword, Azure Wave, Weak Water, sent waves of Sword Qi surging at Su Ye, but Su Ye remained unharmed as three Holy Sons were eliminated elsewhere in the trial.
• Lin Qijian announced the seventh sword, the true Dao Technique Primordial Heart-Severing Sword, and Su Ye calmly said, “Please.”

Su Ye blocked Lin Qijian’s seven-sword Ultimate Sword with a simple raised blade, becoming the first to clear the Core Disciple stage. Before Lin Qijian vanished, Su Ye showed him a gentle sword swing that moved him to tears and prompted him to call Su Ye “Senior Brother.”

• Lin Qijian unleashed the Primordial Heart-Severing Sword, combining seven swords into a strike that stunned cultivators across the Heavenly Star Domain.
• Su Ye raised his sword without dodging or retreating and blocked the attack, leaving spectators unable to understand how he had done it.
• Lin Qijian conceded defeat, and the crowd realized Su Ye had become the first person to pass the Core Disciple stage.
• Su Ye asked to show Lin Qijian a sword, and Lin Qijian agreed before fading away.
• Su Ye gently swung his sword, causing Lin Qijian to weep and thank him as his Senior Brother before disappearing.

Su Ye defeated Lin Qijian with ease, and the Taiqing Hall Master's will recognized the significance of Su Ye's swordsmanship. The rankings placed Su Ye first at the Holy Son stage, leaving everyone questioning how he had advanced before the Hall Master declared that Su Ye was worthy.

• Su Ye blocked Lin Qijian's strongest attack without injury, and the Taiqing Hall Master's will recognized his Nine Extremes God-Connecting Sword.
• Cultivators and Holy Sons reacted with shock as they considered whether Su Ye might claim a second World Seal, while Lin Qingyue raged at his success.
• Tian Yang attributed Su Ye's victory to his sword path and understanding, while Sect Master Zhu accused Su Ye of being a spy or a possessed creature and vowed to investigate him.
• Mo Haoran failed to defeat his Core Disciple opponent before time ran out and was ranked third, while Gu Chensha was ranked second.
• The ranking board placed Su Ye first at the Holy Son stage, and the Taiqing Hall Master's will explained that Su Ye was worthy and more deserving.

Mo Haoran learned why Su Ye had been allowed to skip to Holy Son Pass, while Gu Chensha was overwhelmed by Zhang Yueleng, an Ancient Sect True Inheritance disciple. After Gu Chensha was defeated, the Heavenly Star Domain turned its attention to Su Ye’s Holy Son trial.

• Mo Haoshu told Mo Haoran that Su Ye had endured Lin Qijian’s seven-sword attack without injury, earning the right to skip trials.
• Taiqing Hall’s master's will sent a Dao Rhyme toward Su Ye and explained that exceptionally outstanding performers could skip trials.
• Gu Chensha faced Zhang Yueleng, who countered his Dao Techniques and cut off his arm with a mid-grade Dao Technique.
• Zhang Yueleng removed his mask and trapped Gu Chensha in the high-grade Dao Technique Three Thousand Illusory Worlds, defeating him in fewer than five moves.
• The final scene of Su Ye’s Holy Son Pass appeared, drawing the attention of Gu Chensha and the Heavenly Star Domain.

The Taiqing Hall Master's will revealed the Ancient Sect's vast numbers of Core and True Inheritance Disciples, then announced that it had only ten Holy Sons. Su Ye's next opponent appeared: Ye Dao of the Nine Extremes Sect, who claimed he was first among Holy Sons.

• A True Inheritance Disciple asked how many Core and True Inheritance Disciples the Ancient Sect had, and the Taiqing Hall Master's will answered that it had 108,000 Core Disciples and 3,600 True Inheritance Disciples.
• The crowd realized that thousands of the Ancient Sect's True Inheritance Disciples might surpass Gu Chensha, whose talent was renowned across the Heavenly Star Domain.
• The Taiqing Hall Master's will said that the Ancient Sect had only ten Holy Sons, leaving everyone to wonder whether Su Ye could face one of them.
• Ye Dao appeared before Su Ye, introduced himself as Holy Son of the Nine Extremes Sect with Dao name Wu Han, and declared, "Though unworthy, I am first among Holy Sons."

Su Ye faced Ye Dao, the Ancient Sect’s foremost Holy Son, and overwhelmed him with the Nine Swords after Ye Dao revealed his wish to see the technique. Su Ye then showed Ye Dao the deeper path behind the swords and shared a final cup of wine with him as his Dao Rhyme faded.

• Ye Dao offered Su Ye wine and explained that, despite mastering myriad laws, he had never learned the Nine Swords and only wanted to witness them.
• Ye Dao unleashed his Myriad Laws sword net, but Su Ye’s Timely Rain shattered it, and Su Ye’s subsequent swords broke Ye Dao’s attacks and defenses.
• Grievously wounded, Ye Dao realized Su Ye had shown him all Nine Swords and admitted that Su Ye had never needed to take him seriously.
• Su Ye revealed Nine Swords Merged as One and explained that the Nine Swords were seeds for his path of Nine Swords as Mirror, reflecting the true self.
• Su Ye’s True Self Sword transformed into a cup of wine, which Ye Dao accepted and drank before his Dao Rhyme dispersed, saying he had no regrets.

Su Ye claimed first place in the second test and received the second World Seal. As the third test of character and vision began, Su Ling appeared in tenth place, and the first scene of his past started to unfold.

• Su Ye returned to the Shattered Hidden Platform as the ranking board fixed him in first place for the combat test.
• The Taiqing Hall Master's will awarded Su Ye the second World Seal, while the other disciples reacted to his victory.
• The Taiqing Hall Master's will explained that the third test would manifest each participant's path and experiences while shielding Karma.
• All three thousand True Inheritance Disciples stepped forward to participate, and spectators speculated that the test would favor experienced Holy Sons.
• Fate and Karma Laws revealed Su Ling in tenth place, and he recognized that his past was about to be shown.

Su Ling’s Cause-and-Effect Path revealed his rise from a Star Dust Level planet, his broken engagement, and his rivalry with the cousin who surpassed him. The onlookers mistook the cousin’s success for a late-awakening gift, while Su Ling’s path continued to show the Dragon-Shaped Mark unlocking his potential.

• Su Ling was revealed as a top-ten contender, and his Cause-and-Effect Path showed his origins in the Su Family on a Star Dust Level planet.
• Su Ling’s grandfather gave him the Dragon-Shaped Mark, while Su Ling reflected on how his father had resented the family’s decision to give it to him.
• Eighteen years later, a young woman demanded to marry Su Ling and break her engagement to his cousin, but the cousin ended the engagement himself and severed ties with the Su Family.
• Su Ling joined the Shenyun Special Training Camp and prospered, while his cousin rose to fame by defeating powerful opponents and eclipsing him.
• The disciples watching Su Ling’s path assumed his cousin had awakened a top-tier gift, but Su Ling privately dismissed their guesses.
• At one of the Five Great Academies, the Dragon-Shaped Mark drew Su Ling into accepting its power, and the disciples believed it would let him crush his cousin.

The arena replayed Su Ling’s past, revealing his struggle against the Dragon Monarch, his sacrifice and Nirvana rebirth, and his choice to help the cousin he had resented. Accepting his past brought him to Star Fusion Perfection as the audience recognized his tenth-place ranking, before ninth place was announced.

• The arena watched the Flood Dragon tempt Su Ling with power and planetary rule, then saw Su Ling resist its scheme and warn Su Ye before immolating himself.
• Su Ling’s divine soul manifested the incomplete Blood Phoenix bloodline’s Nirvana power, revealing how he had returned from death.
• During the scene of his cousin being hunted, Su Ling helped him escape, and the audience believed the cousin had destroyed his Star Marrow and lost his cultivation path.
• At the Ten Great Sects, Su Ling accepted every choice in his past, gained insight, and advanced from High-level Star Fusion to Star Fusion Perfection.
• The audience praised Su Ling’s tenth-place ranking and speculated about the higher-ranked contestants before the name of ninth place appeared across the star domain.

The Karma ranking revealed Li Qiankun in ninth place and showed how he endured torture as a boy, resisted betrayal, and later rose to become a True Inheritance of the Nine Saints Sect. As the crowd awaited the eighth name, Li Ya and Li Qianhuang feared that Su Ye’s identity would be exposed and began considering how to deal with him.

• Li Ya recognized the unnamed figure in the Karma ranking as Su Ye, while Li Qianhuang feared the scandal of him being her illegitimate son and the damage it could do to her ambitions.
• Li Ya proposed killing Su Ye, Su Ling, and Lin Qingyue when they emerged, but Li Qianhuang warned that Su Ye’s two World Seals and standing in the Nine Saints Sect made that difficult.
• Li Qianhuang formed a plan involving the Nine Saints Sect and contacted Sect Master Zhu, who also suspected Su Ye’s rise depended on outside support and looked for a way to attack him.
• The ranking revealed Li Qiankun in ninth place at Star Fusion Perfection, and the crowd learned that he had resisted torture by two traitorous families and helped destroy them after drawing on a Half-Step World Lord’s will.
• Li Qiankun accepted his past and gained clarity of mind, touching the bottleneck of Shatter Star as the crowd waited for the eighth name.

Xu Tianji's Karma revealed that he sacrificed his cultivation and eyesight to save a starving girl, while the next-ranked legends’ turbulent histories unfolded. As the crowd awaited the top three, Ye Xingli hinted that Su Ye’s story would be even more astonishing.

• Xu Tianji’s Karma showed how he abandoned the final turn of his Nine Hearts Fate-Peering Art to save a starving girl, suffering backlash that nearly crippled his aptitude.
• After recovering, Xu Tianji blinded himself as self-punishment, regretting that he had failed to save the girl’s mother.
• The Karma scenes revealed Dongfang Shengyao’s struggle between Buddha and demon, Zhang Xuan’s sacrifice to seal a demon den, Ning Meier’s escape from being used as a cauldron, and Sword Nine Blade’s division of his soul to pursue the Non-Killing Sword.
• The crowd marveled at the hardships behind the ranked figures and awaited the top three, while Lin Qingyue dreaded seeing someone she disliked.
• Song Qiaoxin praised the legends, and Ye Xingli hinted that the stories ahead, including Su Ye’s, would astonish her even more.

The third test ranked Gu Chensha third and revealed the brutal soul trial that forged his comprehension and ambition. As the chapter ended, the second-place name appeared, leaving everyone waiting to learn whether Su Ye had surpassed the Holy Sons and Holy Maidens.

• The cultivators assumed the remaining top three would be Holy Sons or Holy Maidens and dismissed Su Ye's chances of ranking highly.
• The rankings placed Gu Chensha third, stunning him because he had expected to earn World Seals.
• The test revealed that fifteen-year-old Gu Chensha split his mind into a hundred parts, devoured the ninety-nine defeated fragments, and then absorbed Innate Chaos Demon Blood to master Life Passing.
• Gu Chensha made a Great Vow to become a World Lord and wondered who had ranked above him.
• Lin Qingyue and Qin Yanyu anxiously watched as the second-place name appeared.

The Heavenly Star Domain watched Mo Haoran’s Cause-and-Effect Path and learned that he had risked everything to save his mother, earning second place behind Su Ye. As the first-place scene began, the disciples of the Nine Extremes Sect sacrificed their fading Dao Rhyme to appear and see Su Ye.

• Mo Haoran’s projected past revealed that his mother died giving birth to him after carrying the Chaos Demon Blood for a hundred years.
• Mo Haoran slaughtered living beings to strengthen himself, then agreed to suppress his demonic nature and pursue the World Lord realm to save his mother.
• Mo Haoran devoured the Chaos Great Demon’s soul with the Great Freedom Spirit-Swallowing Technique, risking a future backlash if he failed to advance in time.
• The crowd learned why Mo Haoran ranked second and wondered who had taken first place, while Li Ya, Qian Huang, Sect Master Zhu, and Tian Yang reacted to the approaching result.
• The Taiqing Hall Master let the Nine Extremes Sect’s fading Dao Rhyme figures choose to appear, and the sky announced Su Ye as first place.
• Lin Qijian waved toward Su Ye as the Dao Rhyme figures faded and said that they had come to see their senior brother.

Su Ye ranked first in the character and bearing test, completing a clean sweep of all three tests as the Nine Extremes Sect disciples honored him. The scene then shifted to Azure Planet, where infant Lin Qijian had his Source Blood drained and his innate gift stripped away.

• Su Ye bowed to the Dao Rhymes of the Nine Extremes Sect disciples, who returned his salute with their supreme Gu Li.
• The ranking revealed Su Ye in first place, stunning the gathered disciples, Holy Sons, and cultivators across the Heavenly Star Domain.
• Su Ling, Ye Xingli, Song Qiaoxin, and others reacted to Su Ye's achievement, while Lin Qingyue struggled under the memories in the scenes.
• Tianying Sparrow Lord challenged Sect Master Zhu to watch Su Ye's story, leaving Sect Master Zhu troubled by the possibility that his accusations were wrong.
• Lin Qijian congratulated Su Ye and hoped he had not suffered too much; Su Ye dismissed his hardships as a few bumps along the road.
• The scene shifted to Azure Planet, where infant Lin Qijian's Source Blood was drained and his innate gift was stripped away.

Su Ye’s past was revealed, showing that his birth mother and blood relatives had taken his Source Blood and Divine Eye before he was abandoned and raised by an ordinary family. The scene reached his promise to enter the Martial Arts Class, leaving the Heavenly Star Domain stunned by how far he had risen in just over three years.

• The scene revealed that Su Ye’s birth mother and clansmen had extracted his Source Blood and Divine Eye when he was very young, shocking the Heavenly Star Domain and bringing Qin Yanyu to tears.
• The scene showed that a Monster Tide had separated Su Ye from his family, his mother had betrayed him, and he had lived with an ordinary family for eighteen years while his father and grandfather vanished.
• The Deep Cloud Su Family’s steward brought Su Ye back, but an arrogant youth and Lin Qingyue rejected him and pressed him to leave; Su Ye severed ties with the family.
• Su Ye’s foster parents gave him Bone Tempering Pills bought with their savings, and he promised them he would enter the Martial Arts Class.
• The cultivators realized Su Ye had gone from having no cultivation at eighteen to taking first place in all three tests at twenty-one, and they wondered what he had endured to reach that point.

A Karmic Path vision showed how Su Ye overcame early struggles, kept his promises, protected others, and gradually developed his sword technique. The onlookers were left waiting to learn what happened after he was stranded in the Six Cities Secret Realm and how his swordsmanship grew so powerful.

• The visions showed Su Ye setting school records despite slow cultivation, leaving Ye Xingli, Su Ling, and Lin Qingyue with complicated memories of their past with him.
• Su Ye cured Xu Yong with Vast Sea Sword Intent and stood against Qin Song to protect the Dongyong Army, earning Xu Yong's offer of the Nine Extremes Yin-Yang Breathing Technique.
• When Po Jun trapped the Four School Grand Competition, Su Ye refused her offer, shielded Ye Xingli, and killed the demon with Yin Yang, Severance at the cost of nearly dying.
• In the Six Cities Secret Realm, Su Ye stayed behind to fight demons and destroy their altar, while Ye Xingli and Su Ling remembered how he had saved them.
• The vision revealed Su Ye practicing an initially first-grade Star Dust sword technique that onlookers recognized as the foundation of his present swordsmanship, leaving them eager to learn how he escaped and developed it.

The vision revealed Su Ye’s arduous rise, from training in the Mystic Realm to defeating Kyoto’s strongest Prodigy by forging a true Tenth Extreme Bone. As the Heavenly Star Domain reeled from his feats, Su Ye began a new path in the Blood Nourishing realm by seeking his True Self within.

• The vision showed Su Ye enduring hardship in the Mystic Realm, practicing the Nine Swords and Tempering his Bones until he found the exit.
• Su Ye returned and challenged Kyoto’s strongest Prodigy, fighting him before the nation and taking one step back after their first exchange.
• Su Ye used the Heaven and Earth Imprint to forge a true Tenth Extreme Bone, then struck and forced Kyoto’s strongest Prodigy to retreat.
• Su Ye and Kyoto’s strongest Prodigy agreed to share wine after their Battle of Two Kings, while Su Ling reflected on how much more desperate the fight had been than he understood at the time.
• The vision showed Su Ye dismissing the belief that he could not catch up with the strongest Heavenly Chosen and declaring that he would carve a path if none existed.
• Su Ye described his Blood Nourishing method as Seeking the True Self Within, naming its principle Heart Without Restraint and its result the Sword Without Limit.

The cultivators watched Su Ye’s memories and learned how he forged the True Self Path, endured repeated battles, and ultimately destroyed his Star Marrow to survive the Great Demon Sea. The chapter ended with everyone wondering how Su Ye could have found a way forward after becoming Heaven Abandoned.

• The cultivators realized Su Ye had made his True Self his mental image and bound the Nine Swords to his identity, while Tianying Sparrow Lord used the revelation to shame Sect Master Zhu for accusing him of possession.
• Zhou Wujing warned Su Ye that seeking his True Self required sealing away his memories, and Su Ye accepted, took the name Su Qiu, and later awakened his True Self to slay a great Demon Beast.
• The visions showed Su Ye defending Long Hua’s honor, defeating powerful enemies, protecting teammates, and advancing through the Hundred Meridians Inheritance by using Nine Swords as a mirror for Myriad Laws.
• Su Ye traveled to the Great Demon Sea to find his grandfather and Ye Xingli, ensured they escaped, then fought the pursuing forces and destroyed his own Star Marrow to unleash the Ultimate Sword.
• The cultivators, including Gu Chensha, Mo Haoran, Qin Yanyu, and Lin Qijian, were shaken by Su Ye’s fate, while Ye Xingli wept and everyone wondered how he had recovered from despair.

Su Ye revealed how he recovered after destroying his Star Marrow: he used the Starry Nine Swords and True Self as Mirror to force an Intent God Star into being without relying on Heaven and Earth. The Heavenly Star Domain watched in shock as he survived the seemingly impossible gamble and forged his own path.

• An elderly cultivator explained that destroying Star Marrow made Su Ye a Person Abandoned by Heaven, and his juniors asked how he had recovered.
• The broadcast showed Long Hua crowning Su Ye King Who Opens Martial Arts, while cultivators across the Heavenly Star Domain debated his future.
• Su Ye declared that he walked the True Self Path and did not need to borrow Star Marrow from Heaven and Earth.
• Su Ye summoned the Starry Nine Swords and used True Self as Mirror to seize star power and force an Intent God Star to form.
• Su Ye rejected Heaven and Earth's Star Marrow and successfully formed an Intent God Star, leaving the watching cultivators stunned.

The scene revealed Su Ye enduring the Blue Star crystalization crisis and taking the planet’s corruption into himself to save its people, leaving the gathered disciples and cultivators shaken by his choice. After the scene faded, the Taiqing Hall’s master asked whether anyone objected to the rankings, and no one answered.

• The gathered cultivators learned that Su Ye had survived repeated hardships and possessed an Intent God Star, while Lin Qingyue bitterly regretted failing to recognize his talent.
• The scene shifted to Blue Star’s crystalization crisis, as a fleet waited to attack after receiving the planet’s coordinates.
• Su Ye calmly told everyone to leave the crisis to him and used Sword Eight: Spirit Devouring to absorb the crystalization of the entire planet into his body.
• Su Ye turned into Blue Crystal and flew into the Star Domain, drawing the danger away from Blue Star as Ye Xingli, Su Ling, Song Qiaoxin, and others watched.
• The scene faded, and the Taiqing Hall’s master asked whether anyone objected to the rankings; the disciples and the Heavenly Star Domain remained silent.