Chapter Summaries

Su Ye overwhelmed the fifteen Seven Stars and Eight Fiends Inheritors with an ever-strengthening rain of swords. The chapter ended with all fifteen forced to their knees as the Inner and Outer Worlds watched in stunned silence.

• The Seven Stars and Eight Fiends Inheritors vowed to suppress Su Ye and seize his sword and Dao Stone after he severed the Luck Inheritance’s connection and returned it to the Sacred Star.
• Su Ye’s sword rain clashed with the fifteen inheritors’ combined strike, then steadily drove them back as its pressure continued to grow.
• An Eight Fiends Inheritor fell to one knee, and the rest followed until fourteen were kneeling.
• Li Taiyi resisted longer than the others but was finally forced to kneel as Su Ye calmly faced all fifteen.

Su Ye severed the Inner World powerhouse’s Destroy Star Advanced Stage palm with one sword and crushed the Inner World’s attempt to intervene. After Li Taiyi escaped through the unstable Space Tunnel, Su Ye entered it to bring him back on his knees.

• More than thirty Half-Step World Lords opened an unstable Space Tunnel and sent a weakened Primordial Infinite Hand toward Blue Star.
• Su Ye used Sword Nine, God-Connecting to sever the massive palm, stunning the Inner World’s supreme powerhouses.
• Li Taiyi broke free of Timely Rain’s restraint and fled through the Space Tunnel, abandoning the other fourteen Seven Stars and Eight Fiends Inheritors.
• Su Ye entered the closing Space Tunnel and declared that he would bring Li Taiyi back on his knees.

Su Ye confronted the Inner World's supreme experts to bring Li Taiyi back, even as more than a hundred Half-Step World Lords gathered to punish him. Just as one attacked, seven ancient pillars of light rose across the Inner World, and the experts realized the All Saints' Remnant Wills had awakened.

• Su Ye pursued Li Taiyi across a grassland as the Tianquan Secret Realm's ruler appeared and condemned him.
• More than a hundred Half-Step World Lords and hundreds of Star-Destroying experts assembled, drawn by Su Ye's actions and the sword that stirred the inheritance's luck.
• Su Ye summoned the Nine Swords and challenged the gathered experts, asking what he had done wrong.
• A Half-Step World Lord attacked Su Ye with the Primordial Infinite Hand.
• Seven pillars of light erupted from the Seven Stars Grotto-Heaven, and the gathered experts realized the All Saints' Remnant Wills had awakened.

As the Inner and Outer Worlds connected and the Seven Stars, Eight Fiends, and Hundred Veins awakened, the Inner World revealed overwhelming forces to oppose Su Ye. The Time Ancestor appeared to protect him, then identified him as the Nine Extremes Sect’s Young Sect Master and the Sacred Venerable’s Disciple, startling the awakened wills.

• Seven pillars of light appeared as the boundary between the Inner and Outer Worlds dissolved, allowing spiritual energy and cultivators to cross between them.
• The Outer Sacred Palace arrived to summon everyone to welcome All Saints, while Long Hua’s five former headmasters and Lin Wudi crossed into the Inner World to stand by Su Ye.
• More than ten Half-Step World Lords attacked Su Ye, but the mark on his hand summoned the Time Ancestor and Tian Yang, whose World Lord aura erased their attacks.
• The Inner World linked its Half-Step World Lords and revealed dozens of World Lord-level reserves, while the Seven Stars, Eight Fiends, and Hundred Veins’ Remnant Wills awakened.
• The Inner World’s Half-Step World Lords demanded that the Time Ancestor surrender Su Ye’s sword, but he moved behind Su Ye and invoked Su Ye’s titles as Young Sect Master of the Nine Extremes Sect and Disciple of the Sacred Venerable.

The Seven Stars and Eight Fiends revealed their allegiance to Su Ye after Senior Brother Luo's power enveloped Blue Star and stopped the Inner World’s attack. They bowed before Su Ye and welcomed him as the Disciple of the Sacred Venerable.

• The Time Ancestor said that his memories of the Nine Extremes Sect had returned and called Su Ye its Young Sect Master.
• The Inner World’s Half-Step World Lords attacked Su Ye with the Primordial Infinite Palm, but an invisible radiance destroyed the palm and suppressed the World Lord’s reserve.
• The Seven Stars and Eight Fiends awakened and forced every cultivator in the Inner World to bow beneath their pressure.
• Fifteen figures descended before Su Ye and welcomed him as the Disciple of the Sacred Venerable.

Luo Wu revealed the history behind the Sacred Star and the All Saints, showing that they had once studied under the Nine Extremes Saint Venerable. He began recounting how their search for greater power led them toward the Universe Gate, leaving the calamity that made them call themselves Sinners unexplained.

• The Seven Stars and Eight Fiends and the 108 lineage heads bowed to Su Ye, and Luo Wu arrived to tell everyone the hidden history.
• Luo Wu projected images of the past, where the Nine Extremes Saint Venerable preached to Luo Wu, Six Paths, Seven Stars, and Eight Fiends.
• Time Ancestor explained that the Nine Extremes Saint Venerable founded the Nine Saints Sect and made the Sacred Star a center for the universe’s strongest seekers of the Dao.
• The Nine Extremes Saint Venerable warned Luo Wu to guard the Universe Gate, calling it both an Opportunity Gate and a possible Cosmic Calamity Gate, then departed.
• After two hundred thousand years without the Saint Venerable’s return, Six Paths, Seven Stars, Eight Fiends, and the Hundred Veins sought access to the gate; Luo Wu first refused, then agreed.
• The present-day All Saints and inheritors watched the past in silence and called themselves Sinners as the images continued.

Su Ye witnessed the history of the Universe Gate, the Bizarre Existence, and the Star Sealing plan. The vision revealed that the Nine Extremes Sect had chosen to guard the Outer World, leaving the Inner World’s cultivators ashamed of how they had treated them.

• Luo Wu, Six Paths, Seven Stars, Eight Fiends, and the masters of the 108 Lineages opened the sealed space around the Universe Gate, and its slight opening unleashed a catastrophe across the universe.
• The Nine Extremes Saint Venerable used the Nine Swords to suppress the Gate’s effects, then shielded the gathered cultivators from an unknown being’s power of annihilation.
• The vision showed the Saint Venerable fighting the Bizarre Existence, whose attacks shattered the Sacred Star and destroyed the Nine Extremes Sect and its Thirty-Six Halls.
• The surviving supreme experts created the Star Sealing Great Array to conceal and relocate the Sacred Star, but the Bizarre Existence found them and the second Sacred War began.
• After learning the enemy would return and the Saint Venerable was likely gone, the Nine Extremes Sect’s leaders chose to guard the Outer World through an Age of Dharma Decline.
• The Inner World’s cultivators realized the Nine Extremes Sect had protected them and felt ashamed of their own arrogance toward people from the Outer World.

Luo Wu and the lingering wills revealed how the Nine Extremes Sect had fought the unknown enemy and explained the immense burden Su Ye inherited. After seeing Su Ye’s hardships, Li Taiyi crossed into the Outer World and knelt to apologize of his own accord.

• Seven Stars and Eight Fiends explained that the unknown enemy’s curse erased knowledge of the Nine Extremes, while the Sacred Star’s defenders repeatedly died in battle.
• Luo Wu revealed that the Cosmic Calamity Gate and the Nine Extremes Inheritance were the defenders’ only hopes, and that mastering the sword art required bearing the Sacred Star’s immense Karma.
• The Inner World cultivators realized they had attacked the Nine Extremes Inheritor and bowed to Su Ye, while his friends and the people of Long Hua learned about his burden.
• Luo Wu and the Time Ancestor showed Su Ye’s difficult journey and explained that his inheritance had not given him an easy path to power.
• Li Taiyi left the Inner World elders, entered the Outer World, knelt on both knees, and apologized to Su Ye and the Outer World’s people and Nine Extremes Sect descendants.

Su Ye took charge of the punishment for Li Taiyi and the other fourteen, ordering the Eastern Emperor Bell placed in Long Hua Kyoto to ring until a public trial. God King Luo Wu then brought Su Ye and the Time Ancestor to the Core Layer, where he revealed the sleeping World Lords and explained that Su Ye might have to enter the Eternal Gate to confront its danger.

• Su Ye ordered the Eastern Emperor Bell placed in Long Hua Kyoto, where its ringing would trigger a public trial of the fifteen.
• Li Taiyi and the other fourteen accepted the judgment and agreed to bear responsibility for their identities.
• God King Luo Wu left the Sacred Star's affairs to Tian Yang, Long Hua's leaders, and the other rulers before taking Su Ye and the Time Ancestor away.
• Luo Wu showed Su Ye and the Time Ancestor more than one hundred coffins holding World Lords who had sealed themselves away and powered the Sacred Star Formation.
• Luo Wu explained that Xiao Yuan had entered the ajar Eternal Gate to halt its dangerous pull, and that Su Ye might need to enter because only the Power of the Nine Extremes or Six Paths could resist it.

Su Ye learned that the Cosmic Calamity Gate had revealed an image of a world resembling Sacred Star, raising the possibility that Earth lay beyond it. After testing the gate and finding that the Manifestation Talisman helped his Nine Extremes Sword Qi endure inside, he planned to seek the Nine Extremes Master and the talisman’s missing pieces in the Central World Sea before entering the gate.

• Luo Wu told Su Ye that the Cosmic Calamity Gate had released an image of an azure planet resembling Sacred Star, which might be another world.
• Su Ye tested the gate with the Nine Extremes God-Connecting Sword and sensed that his Manifestation Talisman helped his Sword Qi resist being erased for a little longer.
• Su Ye told Luo Wu that he had seen a manifestation of the Nine Extremes Master in the Suiyin Secret Realm, and Luo Wu concluded that his Master was still alive.
• Su Ye planned to travel to the Central World Sea to seek the Nine Extremes Master, find the Manifestation Talisman’s missing portions, and strengthen his sword technique before entering the gate.
• Luo Wu gave Su Ye Savage Blood linked to the Sacred Star Formation, which could conceal him from Karma divination, return him to Sacred Star, and unleash peak techniques from Luo Wu, Six Paths, Seven Stars, and Eight Fiends.
• Luo Wu revealed that Xiao Yuan had left something for Su Ye, and Su Ye stared at it in surprise.

After receiving urgent news, Su Ye left to confront the Blood Phoenix Clan. The clan mistook his arrival for a sign that he would return to his roots, but he instead demanded to know where his teacher, Zhou Wujing, was.

• The Time Ancestor received news that made Su Ye's expression turn cold, and Su Ye left with him after Senior Brother Luo offered to watch over the sect.
• Li Qianhuang told the Blood Phoenix Clan leaders that Su Ye was wavering and asked for a few more days, though they doubted her claim.
• Su Ye appeared in the Blood Phoenix Clan's Secret Land, and the clan leaders assumed he had come to acknowledge his bloodline.
• Li Yuan greeted Su Ye, but Su Ye ignored him and asked Li Qianhuang where his teacher, Zhou Wujing, was.

Su Ye confronted the Blood Phoenix Clan and demanded the return of his teacher, Zhou Wujing. He learned that a Qin Clan envoy had taken Zhou Wujing and was holding him hostage to demand Su Ye and the Longevity Medicine at the Azure Wave Star Domain.

• Su Ye rejected Li Qianhuang’s attempt to claim a mother-son bond and demanded that she bring Zhou Wujing to him.
• Li Yuan challenged Su Ye, but Su Ye struck him down with a single burst of Sword Qi.
• A Blood Phoenix Clan member revealed a recording stone showing that Li Ya had taken the unconscious Zhou Wujing to a Qin Clan envoy.
• The Qin Clan envoy threatened Zhou Wujing’s safety unless Su Ye brought the Longevity Medicine and came alone to the Qin Clan in the Azure Wave Star Domain.
• Su Ye left without responding, while Li Yuan stripped Li Qianhuang of her position and cultivation for nearly bringing disaster upon the Blood Phoenix Clan.

Li Ya and a Qin Clan envoy planned to use Zhou Wujing as bait to lure Su Ye to his death, but Su Ye decided to head to the Central World Sea regardless. Time Ancestor explained that Su Ye would need World Source Guides and an up-to-date Boundary Sea map, and Su Ye guessed the map might be found in the Moon-Treading Star Domain through the Ning Family.

• Li Ya and the Qin Clan envoy held Zhou Wujing captive and planned to use him to lure Su Ye into a trap.
• Su Ye returned from Blood Phoenix Star and told Time Ancestor that Zhou Wujing had been taken as leverage.
• Time Ancestor explained that crossing the Star Domains required World Source Guides, which grew weaker with distance.
• Time Ancestor said Su Ye also needed a current Boundary Sea map and mentioned a nearby Star Domain whose Ning Family had ties to the Nine Saints Sect.
• Su Ye guessed that the Star Domain was the Moon-Treading Star Domain and that the Ning Family might have the map.

Su Ye planned to travel to the Central World Sea with Gu Chensha, stopping at the Ning Family in the Moon-Treading Star Domain to obtain a Boundary Sea map. Meanwhile, the Ning Family’s grand sword-testing event reached its ninth day, with Ning Jian awaiting a challenge from Zhang Qianlei.

• The Time Ancestor told Su Ye about the Ning Family’s strength and gave him a mark to use when requesting a Boundary Sea map.
• Su Ye resolved to travel to the Central World Sea to save Zhou Wujing, pursue the Nine Extremes Master and the Manifestation Talisman, and investigate the Cosmic Calamity Gate.
• Gu Chensha asked to accompany Su Ye so he could reach the Central Gu Family, and Su Ye agreed despite warning him about the dangers.
• Su Ye and Gu Chensha set out for the Moon-Treading Star Domain, where Ning Jian had defeated every challenger during the first eight days of his arena event.
• Rumors spread that Zhang Qianlei had emerged from seclusion after making a breakthrough and would challenge Ning Jian on the ninth day.
• All eight Half-Step World Lords of the Ning Family gathered in the main hall, where the Ning Family Head asked Ning Jian how he felt.

Ning Jian’s arena challenge drew Tan Canghai, the Tan Family’s Young Clan Head from the Blazing Star Domain, into a duel between two prodigies seeking to temper themselves and reach the Chaos Star Initial Stage. As the two prepared to fight, a young man carrying a huge gourd observed that both were pursuing Ultimate Ascension.

• The Ning Family elders hoped Ning Jian would win the arena challenge, break through to the Chaos Star Initial Stage, and help Ning Huaxin gain insight into the Great Freedom Heart-Guided Sword.
• A clansman reported that an unknown Star Shattering Perfection challenger had arrived, and Ning Jian went to meet him.
• Tan Canghai introduced himself as the Tan Family’s Young Clan Head and said he had defeated challengers in three Star Domains before coming to the Moon-Treading Star Domain.
• Ning Jian asked whether Tan Canghai had visited the Heavenly Star Domain, and Tan Canghai said he planned to go there later.
• Ning Jian and Tan Canghai drew close to beginning their duel as a gourd-carrying young man watched and remarked that both sought Ultimate Ascension and a breakthrough.

Ning Jian defeated Tan Canghai with a Composite Dao Technique, then used his growing Invincible Momentum to challenge Zhang Qianlei and break through toward the Chaos Star Initial Stage. As Ning Jian began advancing, a calm voice beside Gu Chensha told him to interrupt.

• Tan Canghai unleashed his Low-grade Dao Technique, but Ning Jian countered with a Composite Dao Technique and won the duel.
• Tan Canghai’s Invincible Heart broke, causing his cultivation to fall from Star Shattering Perfection to the Star Shattering High Stage.
• Ning Jian challenged Zhang Qianlei, who retreated under Ning Jian’s pressure and did not accept the fight.
• Ning Jian declared himself invincible among his peers and shattered his bottleneck as he began breaking through to the Chaos Star Initial Stage.
• A calm voice beside Gu Chensha told him to go interrupt Ning Jian.

Su Ye sent Gu Chensha to interrupt Ning Jian’s breakthrough, then stepped in when the Ning Family Head attacked Gu Chensha. Su Ye blocked the head’s sword and struck Ning Jian, forcibly disrupting his breakthrough momentum.

• Gu Chensha appeared in the arena at Su Ye’s request and challenged Ning Jian, claiming he could defeat him in three moves.
• Ning Jian steadied his resolve and declared that he would not fear Gu Chensha once they fought at the same level.
• The Ning Family Head attacked Gu Chensha to protect Ning Jian’s breakthrough, but Su Ye appeared and erased the attack with one finger.
• Su Ye blocked the Ning Family Head’s sword with Lightning Flicker, then used Sword One, Timely Rain against Ning Jian.
• Su Ye forcibly severed Ning Jian’s breakthrough momentum with the falling rain.

Su Ye challenged Ning Jian at the Ning Family arena, forcing him to confront the defeat he had suffered before and the danger of pursuing invincibility through external momentum. Ning Jian conceded, then transformed his conviction into an Invincible Sword Heart and broke through to Chaos Star Initial Stage, leaving the crowd stunned and thanking Su Ye for the enlightenment.

• Su Ye announced that he was twenty-two, from the Nine Saints Sect of the Heavenly Star Domain, and had come to issue a challenge, but the Ning Family Head and others dismissed his age and strength as impossible.
• Ning Jian recognized Su Ye and struggled with anger and confusion as Su Ye's sword rain suppressed him.
• After Gu Chensha asked whether this was the path Ning Jian wished to walk, Ning Jian surrendered and fell from Star Shattering Perfection to Star Shattering High Stage.
• Ning Jian declared that being defeated in this life did not mean he would lose for his entire life, and his Invincible Sword Heart carried him through a breakthrough to Chaos Star Initial Stage.
• Gu Chensha explained that Su Ye had intervened to keep Ning Jian from risking his sword to inner demons, and Ning Jian bowed to Su Ye and thanked him for his enlightenment.

Su Ye’s arrival stunned the Moon-Treading Star Domain when reports spread of his extraordinary feats and Star-Destroying Combat Strength at twenty-two. At the Ning Family, he obtained a Boundary Sea Map, freed Ning Jian from their Sword Slave Contract, and learned that Ning Jian had found information about Su Ye’s father and grandfather.

• Su Ye’s Star-Destroying Combat Strength shocked the Ning Family and the crowd at Ning Jian’s Star Domain Arena.
• Intelligence reports about Su Ye’s feats in the Suiyin Secret Realm and at the Nine Saints Sect spread through the Moon-Treading Star Domain, stunning its cultivators and affecting Tan Canghai and Zhang Qianlei.
• Ning Jian told the Ning Family’s experts that he was Su Ye’s sword slave, and the Ning Family Head thanked Su Ye for saving him and helping an ancestor depart in peace.
• The Ning Family Head gave Su Ye a Boundary Sea Map that covered the route to the Seven Core Star Domains of the Central World Sea.
• Su Ye broke Ning Jian’s Sword Slave Contract so it would not hinder his path toward an Invincible Heart.
• Ning Jian told Su Ye that he had found information about Su Ye’s father, Su Kuangtian, and grandfather, Su Wuying.

Su Ye learned that Su Kuangtian and Su Wuying might be in the Skysoar Star Domain and decided to travel to the Central World Sea for answers. Ning Jian chose to go with him, while news of the Supreme Academy’s special admission route gave Su Ye a possible lead to pursue in the True Dragon Class.

• Ning Jian told Su Ye that Su Kuangtian had recently become the disciple of the strongest figure in the Skysoar Star Domain, and that Su Wuying might be there too.
• Su Ye resolved to visit the Seven Core Star Domains in the Central World Sea to search for answers about his family and other mysteries.
• Ning Jian asked to accompany Su Ye, rejecting his family’s advice to wait for a Star Domain Envoy and pursue special admission to the Supreme Academy instead.
• Ning Jian explained that special admission required defeating an internally admitted student and described the Academy’s age-based classes and their rewards.
• Ning Jian revealed that special admission to the True Dragon Class might grant entry to an unopened fragment Mystic Realm, and Su Ye connected this clue to the Nine Extremes Sect and set his sights on the True Dragon Class.