Chapter Summaries

Two mysterious shadows helped Fang Yuzhu defeat the owner of the Immortal Umbrella, while Wang Xuan watched from a spaceship and pieced together a theory about the Demon Lord Yanyan’s parents. After the shadows killed the fleeing old monster, Yanyan asked whether she had a younger brother.

• The two shadows attacked the Immortal Umbrella with the Old Covenant Carrier and lightning, and Demon Lord Yanyan recognized them with tears in her eyes.
• Wang Xuan wondered whether the woman shadow was his older sister, then dismissed the idea and resumed feasting with his companions.
• Fang Yuzhu used the Sky-Veiling Bracelet to trap the Immortal Umbrella, and the shadows offered it to Yanyan to refine.
• Wang Xuan theorized that the Demon Lord Yanyan’s parents had learned the Great Spirit Coffin Technique from the Demon Emperor and used it to dwell within other people’s minds.
• The two shadows killed the fleeing owner of the Immortal Umbrella, and Yanyan asked them whether she had a younger brother.

The two mysterious shadows reunited with Demon Lord Yanyan as her parents, while she began refining the Immortal Umbrella. Wang Xuan advanced his cultivation, killed a god who infiltrated the spacecraft, and continued watching the battle as the shadows hunted the Supreme Experts who had attacked their daughter and Xu Fu.

• The two shadows silenced Old Zhang and the Nether Blood Sect Ancestor, revealed their affection for Demon Lord Yanyan, and privately spoke with her as the other powers retreated from the Immortal Umbrella.
• Fang Yuzhu subdued the Immortal Umbrella, and Demon Lord Yanyan began refining it while the Evil Dragon prepared to contact the Immortal Realm and seize the treasure.
• Xu Fu killed a god's incarnation with the Time-Space Mace, then fought off an array set by three Supreme Experts seeking to trap him and claim the weapon.
• Wang Xuan lifted the Nurturing Life Furnace after reaching the Twelve Stage Domain, activated his Inner Scenery Realm, and brought his companions inside to cultivate.
• A top god entered the spacecraft, but Wang Xuan killed him with his Primordial Spirit and briefly borrowed Xu Fu's Time-Space Mace to deter further intruders.
• The two shadows killed another attacker who had targeted Yanyan and moved against Supreme Experts they accused of sending incarnations to attack Xu Fu and Wang Xuan.

Wang Xuan cultivated several extraordinary arts in the Inner Scenery Realm, strengthening himself and helping his companions advance before confronting envoys who demanded their treasures. After Wang Xuan captured the envoys, news arrived that the progenitor of the Supernatural Palace had been gravely wounded in the immortal realm and the Ascension Banner had flown away.

• Wang Xuan’s Golden Cicada Technique resonated with the Great Dao, helping his companions improve while his own body and Primordial Spirit grew stronger, though he did not complete the final transformation.
• Wang Xuan cultivated several more extraordinary arts, including the Ant Gazing at Dragon Chapter, and emerged with a perfected twelfth-stage realm as his companions also advanced.
• Envoys from the Gouchen Imperial Palace and Supernatural Palace demanded that Wang Xuan’s group surrender the Book of Years and warned them about the dangers of their treasures.
• Wang Xuan’s furnace swallowed the envoys’ immortal divine talisman, and he seized and beat the envoys before leaving them for Xu Fu to handle.
• The progenitors of the Gouchen Imperial Palace and Supernatural Palace entered the immortal realm using traces of blood tied to the Carefree Boat and Ascension Banner, but the Supernatural Palace’s progenitor was badly wounded in an ambush and the Ascension Banner flew away.

After Zhen Chao and Gou Dun lost the Supreme Treasure, Qi Tian claimed the Ascension Banner, triggering further attacks across the immortal realm. Wang Xuan learned of Qi Tian’s growing power and decided to cultivate further in the Land of Nothingness.

• Xu Fu killed Wang Xuan’s captured prisoners, and he chose to seek Fang Yuzhu and the Demon Lord while Wang Xuan and his companions prepared to leave.
• Zhen Chao identified the ambusher as Qi Tian, and he and Gou Dun pursued the Ascension Banner with the Carefree Boat.
• The Ascension Banner entered Qi Tian’s hand, and he explained that he had spent years earning its recognition before attacking Zhen Chao and Gou Dun.
• Zhen Chao and Gou Dun fled from Qi Tian and the attackers, while Qi Tian fought off Demon Emperor Bai Ye and other challengers.
• Wang Xuan learned that Qi Tian had obtained the Ascension Banner, sent his companions home, and resolved to enter the Land of Nothingness to improve his strength.

Wang Xuan entered the meteorite passage to investigate a creature that had haunted the Land of Nothingness. After a fierce chase through the Red Mist, he captured the powerful monster alive with the God Slaying Banner.

• Wang Xuan cultivated beside the Silver Pool for about two years before setting out to pierce the meteorite passage.
• Wang Xuan learned from the Book of Years that a vicious ghost had been haunting the area, then entered the passage to investigate.
• Wang Xuan encountered the pale creature, fought it, and used the Nurturing Life Furnace to drive it off when it vanished into the meteorite wall.
• Wang Xuan discovered that damaging the demonic flower could destabilize the Land of Nothingness, so he stopped attacking it and pursued the creature instead.
• Wang Xuan chased the badly burned creature deeper into the passage and captured it alive with the God Slaying Banner.

Wang Xuan captured a ghostly creature in the meteorite passage and discovered it was a severed part of his own temperament, which he refined and absorbed to strengthen himself. He continued cultivating in the sea of Red Substance, mastered the Golden Cicada Technique, and left off preparing to test the transformation from the Ant Gazing at Dragon Chapter.

• Wang Xuan captured a pale, smoke-like creature in the God Slaying Banner and learned it was a part of his own emotions rather than an avatar or a fierce ghost.
• Wang Xuan returned to the present world, refined the creature with the Nurturing Life Furnace, and absorbed it, gaining a substantial increase in strength.
• Wang Xuan re-entered the meteorite passage with the Nurturing Life Furnace and traveled into a vast ocean of Red Substance, where he endured years of cultivation.
• Wang Xuan circulated several scriptures inside the furnace for decades, transformed through thirteen cicada cries, and mastered the Golden Cicada Technique.
• Wang Xuan continued toward the end of the Misty Sea and planned to test the transformation from completing the Ant Gazing at Dragon Chapter.

Wang Xuan cultivated four extraordinary arts with the Nurturing Life Furnace, undergoing profound changes in his body, spirit, and Inner Scenery Realm. As he and his companions headed home, he discovered Supreme Experts—and a trace of the Evil Dragon—waiting near the wormhole.

• Wang Xuan transformed while cultivating four extraordinary arts, and the Nurturing Life Furnace revived the outer portions of his body and primordial spirit instead of letting them fall away.
• Wang Xuan resonated with the Nurturing Life Furnace’s ancient characters and began to understand its scripture for nurturing medicines, artifacts, the spirit, and the body.
• Wang Xuan told Zhao Qinghan and Wu Yin about their families’ departure into deep space, and they discussed New Star and his plans after the Mythical Tide Recedes.
• Wang Xuan entered the Inner Scenery Realm with the Nurturing Life Furnace and sensed that the realm was condensing into a new core space within his body and spirit.
• Qing Mu warned that a warship was guarding the wormhole, and Wang Xuan sensed Supreme Experts aboard it as well as traces of the Evil Dragon’s aura.

Wang Xuan and Mechanical Xiao Xiong fought off a colossal warship sent to capture him, then Wang Xuan entered its wreckage and was trapped in a formation intended to hold him for Qi Tian. He broke the formation with the Nurturing Life Furnace and captured the three gods who had arranged the ambush.

• Mechanical Xiao Xiong ignored Qing Mu’s warning and fired first, damaging the giant warship even as its weapons crippled her spacecraft.
• Wang Xuan entered the ruined warship in the Nurturing Life Furnace and confronted the three supreme experts, who told him Qi Tian would be his opponent.
• Six Inner Scenery Treasures linked together to trap Wang Xuan, and the woman contacted Qi Tian to tell him they had found their target.
• Wang Xuan used the Nurturing Life Furnace to break the formation and collect its six treasures, frightening the three gods into fleeing.
• Wang Xuan unleashed the Golden Cicada Technique’s true-form wonder and wounded all three gods, capturing them alive.

Wang Xuan defeated three gods and learned that Qi Tian would soon arrive, then confronted the Evil Dragon inside his Inner Scenery Realm. Qi Tian demanded Wang Xuan’s body and spiritual foundation, and their fight began when Wang Xuan refused.

• Wang Xuan revealed that he had surpassed the Twelfth Stage, learned Qi Tian would arrive within half a day, and killed the three gods with the golden cicada.
• Mechanical Xiao Xiong repaired the Silver Spaceship while Wang Xuan sent Zhao Qinghan, Wu Yin, Chen Yongjie, and the others away from the coming fight.
• Qi Tian arrived and tried to draw Wang Xuan into his Inner Scenery Realm, where Wang Xuan entered physically after seeing Qi Tian do the same.
• Qi Tian showed Wang Xuan his flourishing but damaged Inner Scenery Realm and demanded Wang Xuan’s body and innate foundation in exchange for sparing his life.
• Wang Xuan refused Qi Tian’s demand, shattered the sword-bearing woman’s attack with the cicada’s ripples, and faced Qi Tian as a Great Dao Dragon appeared before him.

Wang Xuan refused Qi Tian’s offer to surrender his Inner Scenery Realm and reserves, and the two began a fierce battle inside it. After breaking Qi Tian’s techniques and clashing with his Peerless Exotic Treasures, Wang Xuan faced Qi Tian’s dragon-shaped power as the Inner Scenery Realm began to crack.

• Qi Tian urged Wang Xuan to give up his Inner Scenery Realm and reserves in exchange for promises of protection and future glory, but Wang Xuan rejected his offer and condemned his uncertain plan.
• Qi Tian trapped Wang Xuan with a prison of order and sent a sword-wielding woman to kill him, but Wang Xuan broke free and shattered her attacks.
• The woman unleashed the Myriad Swords Collection, but Wang Xuan’s Great Dao Dragon blocked the swords and broke the array.
• Qi Tian attacked Wang Xuan with weapons nurtured in his eyes, a golden longsword and silver immortal sword, while Wang Xuan fought back with the God Slaying Banner.
• Qi Tian and Wang Xuan exchanged their true-form attacks, a kunpeng and cicada, which shattered against each other without either gaining the advantage.
• Qi Tian’s dragon-shaped radiance collided with Wang Xuan’s Great Dao Dragon as cracks spread through the Inner Scenery Realm.

Wang Xuan fought Qi Tian in a brutal battle, learning to use the True Form Diagrams as combat techniques and forcing the powerful incarnation onto the defensive. When Qi Tian brought out an imprint of the Ascension Banner, Wang Xuan used the Nurturing Life Furnace to catch and kill him, leaving the story with Qi Tian’s incarnation destroyed.

• Wang Xuan and Qi Tian fought through the Inner Scenery Realm, suffering severe wounds as they traded sword, banner, and supernatural attacks.
• Qi Tian opened three Higher Mental Worlds to crush Wang Xuan, but Wang Xuan shattered them and learned how to pry open the Mental World.
• Wang Xuan realized the True Form Diagrams could be used in battle, then used the first two diagrams to overwhelm Qi Tian and grievously wound him.
• Qi Tian summoned an imprint of the Ascension Banner to capture Wang Xuan, but Wang Xuan brought out the Nurturing Life Furnace and pursued him as he fled.
• Wang Xuan caught Qi Tian with the furnace, destroyed the Ascension Banner imprint, and killed Qi Tian’s incarnation as his Primordial Spirit burned to ashes.

Wang Xuan killed Qi Tian’s avatar, concealed his role, and recovered as his Inner Scenery Realm began to decay. When Qi Tian traveled to the Immortal Land, Wang Xuan headed for Old Earth to bring out the Sword Immortal’s true body.

• Wang Xuan erased Qi Tian’s two followers, hid the Nurturing Life Furnace, and took the surviving golden saber and silver immortal sword.
• Wang Xuan told Mechanical Xiao to spread false accounts crediting the Shadow couple or Fang Yuzhu with killing Qi Tian’s avatar, while warning their allies of the truth.
• Qi Tian learned his avatar had died and began destroying one of three moons with the Ascension Banner as rumors blamed the Shadow couple or Fang Yuzhu.
• Wang Xuan healed from his wounds, discovered that his Inner Scenery Realm had begun to decay, and sensed that his cultivation was nearing a tribulation.
• Qi Tian entered the gods’ Great Barrier from the Immortal Land with the Ascension Banner, so Wang Xuan took the Silver Spaceship to Old Earth to bring out the Sword Immortal.

Wang Xuan returned to Old Earth, learned the extraordinary world was nearing its end, and went to bring the Sword Immortal back from the immortal realm. He reunited with her true body and received a mysterious gourd, while his own cultivation approached completion without the expected transformation.

• Wang Xuan and his companions returned to Old Earth, where Chen Yongjie reunited with Guan Lin and Qin Cheng revealed he planned to marry in three months.
• Wang Xuan learned his parents had gone traveling and might be on New Star, then promised Qin Cheng he would return for the wedding despite his urgent plans.
• Wang Xuan reached the Desolate Mountain and found the miniature Sword Immortal, warning her that the Great Barrier could collapse sooner than expected.
• After waiting two days, Wang Xuan entered the immortal realm to guide the Sword Immortal's true body back and found her waiting near a town.
• The Sword Immortal gave Wang Xuan a violet gourd wrapped in chaotic energy, which she had obtained on Mount Buzhou in the Higher Mental World.

Wang Xuan and Jiang Qingyao toured the dying Immortal Realm, then raided Qi Tian’s cave residence for treasures and food before fleeing toward the Darkness Zone. They encountered the Ancient Madman’s overwhelming sword aura, and Jiang Qingyao began to explain his ancient origins.

• Jiang Qingyao gave Wang Xuan a Purple Gourd, and he gave her the Time-Severing Sword, which she fused with her own sword to nurture it.
• Wang Xuan and Jiang Qingyao traveled through the Immortal Realm, witnessing its threatened inhabitants and Jiang Qingyao’s attempts to help people escape.
• Jiang Qingyao defeated the Demon Ancestor’s eldest disciple, the First Demon Saint, and spared his life.
• Wang Xuan persuaded Jiang Qingyao to raid Qi Tian’s cave residence, and they looted its treasures, scriptures, weapons, and food using the Purple Gourd.
• Wang Xuan and Jiang Qingyao fled after sensing the Ancient Madman’s terrifying sword aura, and Jiang Qingyao started to reveal his origins.

Wang Xuan and Jiang Qingyao discussed Shang Yi’s possible schemes and decided to warn their allies, then Jiang Qingyao took Wang Xuan to raid the Demon Lord’s cave abode. They arrived while the Demon Lord was away, knocked out Little White Tiger, and began looting the residence.

• Jiang Qingyao recounted Shang Yi’s history with the Number One Person, and Wang Xuan suspected that Shang Yi might be secretly gathering Supreme Treasures.
• Wang Xuan and Jiang Qingyao agreed to warn Fang Yuzhu, Old Zhang, and the others to guard against Shang Yi.
• Jiang Qingyao revealed that she had once used Shang Yi’s reputation as protection and said she wanted revenge for the Demon Lord’s theft of her sect’s sword canon.
• Jiang Qingyao and Wang Xuan traveled to the Demon Lord’s cave abode, intending to rob it while its owner was away.
• Jiang Qingyao struck the newly Quasi-Peerless Little White Tiger unconscious, then ordered Wang Xuan to help empty the Demon Lord’s home.

Jiang Qingyao and Wang Xuan looted the Demon Lord’s Pure Land, then went looking for the Demon Ancestor’s blood pool but fled when they discovered he was there. The chapter ended with Jiang Qingyao taking Wang Xuan to seek out the Ancient Madman’s sword techniques.

• Jiang Qingyao and Wang Xuan stripped the Demon Lord’s Pure Land of its medicine fields, texts, clothes, and weapons, leaving the White Tiger Girl to wake among the empty grounds.
• Jiang Qingyao chose the Demon Ancestor’s home as their next target because he had once wanted his eldest son to marry her, and she took Wang Xuan across the Great Barrier corresponding to New Star.
• Wang Xuan and Jiang Qingyao spotted Qi Liandao guarding the Demon Race’s sacred mountain, then discovered the Demon Ancestor Qi Yi cultivating in his blood pool.
• Jiang Qingyao sensed danger and fled with Wang Xuan, escaping Qi Yi’s attack as he searched unsuccessfully for them.
• Jiang Qingyao praised Wang Xuan’s Spiritual Heavenly Eye and proposed using it to view the sword arts carved at the Ancient Madman’s Sword Cliff.
• Jiang Qingyao took Wang Xuan toward the Great Barrier corresponding to Old Earth to seek the Ancient Madman’s sword techniques.

Wang Xuan and Jiang Qingyao secretly read the madman's sword scriptures on Qixia Plateau while he explored the Highest Grade Mental World. After he sensed them and attacked across worlds, they escaped through Teleportation Arrays, with Wang Xuan carrying the badly injured Jiang Qingyao back toward the Real World.

• Wang Xuan and Jiang Qingyao returned to Qixia Plateau after the madman left, and watched the World-Crossing Sword fly toward the Highest Grade Mental World.
• Jiang Qingyao led Wang Xuan to the meteorite mountains where the madman had carved his sword scriptures, and the two shared their perceptions to memorize the runes.
• Jiang Qingyao and Wang Xuan endured the scriptures' deadly sword intent until they finished the final passage and the last Sword Cliff transformed into a stone sword.
• The madman sensed the intrusion and pursued them with his Killing Intent, injuring both as they fled through Teleportation Arrays.
• Wang Xuan used the Nurturing Life Furnace to conceal their traces, placed the nearly unconscious Jiang Qingyao in the Purple Gourd, and plunged through the vortex toward the Real World.

Wang Xuan returned to Old Earth with the injured Jiang Qingyao, reunited her with her shrunken self, and helped both recover while he studied the First Sword Scripture. With the two Sword Immortals choosing to remain separate for now, he took them to An City to meet his friends and experience the modern world.

• Wang Xuan returned from the Immortal Realm with Jiang Qingyao, who reunited with Little Thing on the mountain where she had once ascended.
• Wang Xuan gathered heavenly medicine for Jiang Qingyao, warned Chen Yongjie and Qing Mu to alert Old Zhang and Fang Yuzhu's avatar about Shang Yi, and studied the First Sword Scripture.
• Jiang Qingyao used the sword intent that had wounded her to deepen her understanding of the First Sword Scripture, while she and Little Thing decided not to merge during the coming upheavals.
• Wang Xuan accepted Zhao Qinghan's invitation to meet at Golden Years Restaurant in An City and brought Jiang Qingyao and Little Thing along.
• Jiang Qingyao remembered visiting a city with her master, and Wang Xuan bought candied hawthorn for both Sword Immortals.

Wang Xuan took Jiang Qingyao and the miniature Jiang Qingyao around An City to buy phones and clothes, where they encountered Qi Liandao and later met Wang Xuan’s friends at Golden Years Restaurant. The chapter ended as Zhao Qinghan and Wu Yin saw the two Sword Immortals, with their reactions left unrevealed.

• Wang Xuan helped Jiang Qingyao and the miniature Jiang Qingyao get Lotus Brand Phones, and the miniature Jiang Qingyao quickly mastered hers.
• Jiang Qingyao and the miniature Jiang Qingyao posed for photos, and Wang Xuan took a group picture with them.
• Qi Liandao approached Jiang Qingyao to introduce himself, but the miniature Jiang Qingyao kicked him into a ginkgo tree before he recognized the Sword Immortal and fled.
• Wang Xuan took the two Sword Immortals shopping, and the miniature Jiang Qingyao sent a voice message to the Beyond the Deep Space group chat that sparked speculation among his friends.
• At Golden Years Restaurant, the miniature Jiang Qingyao punched Qin Cheng into a wall after he called the Sword Immortals Wang Xuan’s family.
• Qing Mu, Chen Yongjie, and Liu Huaian recognized Jiang Qingyao, while Zhao Qinghan and Wu Yin came outside and looked at the two Sword Immortals.

Wang Xuan brought Jiang Qingyao and the Little Thing to a reunion with Zhao Qinghan, Wu Yin, and his friends, where Jiang Qingyao introduced them to the youth-preserving Ascension Return Origin Scripture. The gathering turned into a feast of immortal wine and delicacies, ending with a tipsy Zhao Qinghan asking Wang Xuan about his relationship with Jiang Qingyao.

• Wang Xuan introduced Jiang Qingyao and the Little Thing to Zhao Qinghan, Wu Yin, and the others outside Golden Years Restaurant.
• Jiang Qingyao explained that the Ascension Return Origin Scripture had made her younger, and Zhao Qinghan, Wu Yin, Guan Lin, and the Little Fox Immortal eagerly sought to learn it.
• Wang Xuan brought out immortal wine and rare delicacies from his Purple Gourd, and Jiang Qingyao roasted the food with transcendent true fire.
• The group ate and drank until many of them were tipsy, while Wu Yin and the Little Fox Immortal danced and Liu Huaian practiced boxing.
• Zhao Qinghan clinked glasses with Wang Xuan, then asked him what his relationship was with Jiang Qingyao.