Chapter Summaries

Wang Xuan defeated Mo Han with an overwhelming barrage of thunder-fire swords, then entered the ancient sect with his companions in search of a scripture on Dao-imperialization. The sect’s chess-piece treasures triggered a battle between teams, and Wang Xuan killed the opposing team’s strongest fighter as the mountain range descended into slaughter.

• Wang Xuan overwhelmed Mo Han with endless Thunder Fire Immortal Swords, and Flowing Light conceded the match before his Nine-Colored Lightning Fire could destroy Mo Han’s Primordial Spirit space.
• After Nian Mo and Flowing Light led their team away, Wang Xuan and his companions entered the ancient sect through its main gate to avoid its mountain-protecting formation.
• Wang Xuan picked up an Imperial Character Chess Piece, causing nearby mountains and palaces to vanish, while other teams found chess pieces that hinted at a Dao-imperialization scripture.
• As the teams’ chess pieces began to echo with a scripture, Yan Que realized they would have to seize pieces from others, and a nearby team launched a lethal attack.
• Wang Xuan supported his companions with his bow, then killed the enemy team’s strongest fighter with the Dao Slaying Sword and thirty-six sword wheels.

Wang Xuan and his allies recovered from their previous battle, then faced a powerful group from the Chongming Star Domain led by the Mutated Two-headed Man. They exiled him and fought his companions, but a paper blade arrived with a new demand to surrender the chess pieces, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Cheng Tian, Cai Wei, Wang Xuan, An Hong, Yan Que, Qi Miao, and the others healed their wounds and discussed the three Imperial Character Chess Pieces they had taken.
• The Mutated Two-headed Man approached with his Chongming Star Domain team and demanded that they hand over the chess pieces.
• Qi Miao and Yan Que helped exile the Mutated Two-headed Man inside Yan Que's Small World Gate, and the two groups began fighting.
• Wang Xuan rescued Cai Wei from a true dragon, then struck the dragon with escalating lightning until it fled after losing part of its tail.
• Cheng Tian, Yan Que, and the others gained the upper hand against the remaining opponents, but a paper blade arrived with a command to surrender the chess pieces and withdraw.
• A graceful woman entered the dojo as the commander's messenger.

Wang Xuan and the other limit-breakers fought over the Imperial Character Chess Pieces as a confrontation with the Paper Saint lineage spiraled into a wider melee. The Immortal Family Sacred Land became a fog-shrouded chessboard, and Wang Xuan slipped away alone to search for chess pieces while powerful teams began clashing in the mist.

• A Paper Figure demanded that the limit-breakers leave, but Yan Que refused and warned her about the paper cat he had received from a rescued Paper Figure.
• The Mutated Two-Headed Man fought the arriving paper woman, while the Mechanical Beast and other combatants joined the fray; Dream Dragon returned and attacked Wang Xuan, triggering a chaotic three-sided battle.
• Wang Xuan attacked the paper maidservant with a primordial spirit slash and Nine-Colored Lightning Fire, helping destroy her as the Mechanical Beast retreated and dropped two chess pieces.
• Cheng Tian killed Swordfish, and An Hong, Yan Que, and others pressed their opponents to surrender their chess pieces as the teams fought across the vanishing mountains.
• The Immortal Family Sacred Land transformed into a giant chessboard, fog obscured the fighters, and an imprint announced the arrival of the Imperial Dao Secret Canon.
• Wang Xuan entered the fog alone to search for chess pieces, while the Mutated Two-Headed Man and Luo Sheng's team clashed nearby and then retreated.

Wang Xuan hunted through the sealed chessboard battlefield, killing several opponents and taking their chess pieces before disguising himself and attacking Liuguang’s team. As Liuguang and Nian Mo joined forces against him, Luo Sheng and the Mutated Two-Headed Man also entered the battle.

• Wang Xuan crossed the foggy battlefield and killed two hunters who ambushed him, taking their chess pieces.
• Wang Xuan defeated the Son of Lightning in a clash of lightning and fire, seized his Golden Hammer, and took three more chess pieces.
• Wang Xuan disguised himself with long hair and a feathered robe, then attacked Liuguang’s team to help Yan Que settle an old score.
• Wang Xuan broke through Liuguang’s formation and killed a man wielding an Immortal Ge, while Liuguang and Nian Mo attacked his spirit and lifespan.
• Luo Sheng and the Mutated Two-Headed Man joined the fight against Wang Xuan, who prepared to face them from the sky.

Wang Xuan overwhelmed Flowing Light's group on the sealed battlefield, killing many opponents and wounding the leading experts. After defeating Flowing Light and throwing her toward Yan Que, he demanded the remaining fighters hand over their chess pieces as more enemies approached.

• Wang Xuan used Sleeve Universe, thunder, and sword attacks to kill several of Flowing Light and Nian Mo's companions.
• Wang Xuan pierced Luo Sheng's palm with a punch and bloodied the Mutated Two-Headed Man while resisting his Immortal Iron Rod barehanded.
• Wang Xuan broke through Flowing Light's spiritual reincarnation technique and wounded her with a powerful punch, while his Golden Bamboo Slips countered Nian Mo's Nine Slashes of Time.
• The Paper Saint Hall woman, the Mutated Two-Headed Man, Luo Sheng, and Nian Mo joined forces against Wang Xuan, but he blew apart half of Flowing Light's body and captured her alive.
• Wang Xuan hurled Flowing Light toward Yan Que, took four chess pieces from her, and demanded that the remaining fighters surrender theirs as a Golden Horn Man and other limit-breakers arrived.

Wang Xuan used his Spiritual Heavenly Eye to locate the chess pieces and faced a coalition of limit-breakers who wanted to kill him and seize his spoils. He killed one attacker and overwhelmed the Paper Woman and several other leaders, leaving the gathered teams hunted instead of hunting.

• Wang Xuan surveyed the field and identified the chess pieces, while Yan Que, An Hong, and Qi Miao hid nearby with Liu Guang captured.
• Nian Mo, Jin Xin, Luo Sheng, Zhou Yao, the Paper Woman, and others gathered to attack Wang Xuan and divide his chess pieces.
• Wang Xuan killed one limit-breaker with a punch, then pursued the Paper Woman and shattered her talismans before she escaped as scattered papers.
• Wang Xuan struck back at the pursuing leaders, killing four Star Demons, injuring Zhou Yao, slicing off Jin Xin's horn, and turning Nian Mo's time ability against him.

Wang Xuan broke through a joint assault by Nian Mo, Luo Sheng, and the other Limit Breakers, then used the Golden Bamboo Slips and scripture fragments to slaughter his attackers. He left the battlefield pursuing the fleeing survivors, while Jin Xin and the Mutated Two-Headed Man remained in his sights.

• Nian Mo, Luo Sheng, Zhou Yao, Jin Xin, the Mutated Two-Headed Man, and the paper woman joined forces to trap Wang Xuan in a sea of Dark Light and Immortal Dao Rules.
• Wang Xuan manifested fifty-four Golden Bamboo Slips and a scripture-covered stone slab, shattered the black star sea, and destroyed Luo Sheng's gourd.
• Wang Xuan killed Luo Sheng, sealed Nian Mo and several Limit Breakers in a forest of golden steles, and wiped them out with flying scripture words.
• Jin Xin fled, but Wang Xuan shattered his Nine-story Immortal Pagoda and broke off his horn.
• Wang Xuan seized the Mutated Two-Headed Man's Immortal Iron Rod, smashed one of his heads, pierced and burned the fleeing paper woman, and struck Zhou Yao to pieces.

Wang Xuan annihilated the fighters who had joined the siege, then began negotiating with the Heavenly Grade Being Wu Tian over a Dao-imperialized scripture. Two more Heavenly Grade Beings arrived and proposed cooperation, while their companion secretly urged them to join forces against Wang Xuan.

• Wang Xuan killed Zhou Yao, the Mutated Two-Headed Man, and other Limit Breaking Beings who had fought against him, while Jin Xin tried to surrender and then self-destruct.
• A Heavenly Grade Being named Wu Tian entered the chessboard and offered to let Wang Xuan examine a skull fragment in exchange for seeing the Dao-imperialized scripture.
• Wang Xuan agreed to exchange with Wu Tian and asked him to collect the remaining chess pieces without killing anyone.
• Two more Heavenly Grade Beings arrived after a Limit Breaking prodigy told them that Wang Xuan held most of the key items.
• The prodigy secretly urged the two newcomers to join forces with Wu Tian against Wang Xuan, but Wang Xuan overheard him as the newcomers proposed cooperation.

Wang Xuan killed the Luofu Star Domain expert and the two Spirit Clan experts who attacked him, then impersonated Qin Cheng to rejoin Yan Que and the others. After the chess pieces were gathered, Wang Xuan and Wu Tian began comprehending the scripture, and Wu Tian lent Wang Xuan a Dao-imperialized skull.

• The Luofu Star Domain expert and two Spirit Clan experts attacked Wang Xuan, who killed all three with the First Killing Array Diagram.
• Wang Xuan seized Zi Yu, extinguished his primordial spirit, and remade him into a Qin Cheng lookalike.
• The disguised Qin Cheng met up with Yan Que, An Hong, and the others and warned them about the deaths of Nian Mo, the Paper Maiden, and a Golden Horn Clan Limit Breaker.
• Yan Que and the others surrendered their chess pieces to Wang Xuan and Wu Tian rather than fight.
• Wang Xuan and Wu Tian gathered the chess pieces and began comprehending the scripture, while Wu Tian lent Wang Xuan a Dao-imperialized skull to study.

Wang Xuan and Wu Tian followed a ghostly light through a black world to the World Mountain, where they touched a veil and entered a strange modern world. Wang Xuan was buried to summon his missing soul while Wu Tian was held down and force-fed medicine.

• Wang Xuan and Wu Tian explored the immense seed-like islands and followed a fragrant ghostly light toward a giant black vine.
• The flower of the vine carried them through space and time to the World Mountain, where they sensed a transcendent world beyond a veil.
• Wu Tian activated the crystalline skullcap against the veil, and he and Wang Xuan crossed into the world beyond.
• Wu Tian awoke in bed as a woman called him Dalang and force-fed him medicine mixed with a crushed golden lotus.
• A man and woman identified Wang Xuan as having half his soul missing, then buried him beneath the villa’s frozen soil to summon it back.

Wang Xuan was buried in a strange world that suppressed supernatural power while two locals tried to summon his lost soul and treat him with horrifying medicine. After his other Primordial Spirit reunited with him, he emerged from the frozen earth but remained wary as the people invited him to eat and promised to talk later.

• A silver-haired man and a golden-eyed woman buried Wang Xuan and used an ancient Soul Summoning Banner to search for his lost soul.
• Wang Xuan overheard the pair discuss bizarre medicinal ingredients while a short-haired woman force-fed Wu Tian medicine and put him to sleep.
• The golden-eyed woman halted Wang Xuan's treatment when the banner indicated that his missing soul was approaching.
• Wang Xuan's Primordial Spirit crossed over from World Mountain, was drawn to the banner, and reunited with his body beneath the frozen earth.
• Wang Xuan absorbed the banner's lingering black light with the Dao Control Banner and climbed out of the ground.
• The locals invited Wang Xuan to eat and said they would talk after Wu Tian woke up, but Wang Xuan stayed cautious.

Wang Xuan and Wu Tian learned that their hosts were descendants of an ancient civilization hiding on a floating vessel in the Chaotic Space-time Sea. The survivors explained that powerful enemies still hunted them and began to make a request, offering ancient scriptures in return.

• Jin Yao, Bai Hong, and Ruo Nan told Wang Xuan that the pool and World Tree had once been relics of their ancestors’ extraordinary civilization.
• Wang Xuan and Wu Tian learned that a mysterious net had pulled them from the Chaotic Space-time Sea, and Wu Tian mistook the hosts’ sacred wine for a brew made from rotten ingredients before learning its true ingredients.
• Bai Hong and the others explained that their floating refuge was the heart of a World Tree, where altered rules suppressed outsiders and protected the survivors.
• The hosts revealed that their ancestors had been defeated in an ancient Dao Struggle, their enemies still hunted them, and their dwindling clan had only a little over two hundred members.
• Bai Hong told Wang Xuan and Wu Tian that the survivors had a request and would offer them one or two remaining scripture scrolls in return.

Wang Xuan and Wu Tian learned that Bai Hong’s group needed help gathering strange objects from sealed secret realms in exchange for medicinal wine recipes and Supreme Scriptures. After seeing a glimpse of a realm filled with extraordinary treasures, they agreed to consider the dangerous mission and asked to study the information.

• Bai Hong explained that his people’s floating pure land was decaying and that they needed strange objects to restore its treasures, arrays, and medicine gardens.
• Jin Yao and Bai Hong proposed that Wang Xuan and Wu Tian locate closed secret realms while the group used the World Tree Heart and powerful relics to break them open.
• Bai Hong’s group promised a medicinal wine recipe if the two refused, but said they would have to drink Forget Worry Wine before leaving.
• Wang Xuan and Wu Tian asked to review the records, and Bai Hong’s group gave them the recipe and showed them a secret realm through the spring pool.
• Wang Xuan and Wu Tian saw living World Tree Fragments, Golden-winged Great Peng eggs, and other treasures, and declared that they would do it.

Wang Xuan and Wu Tian traveled through the Chaotic Space-time Sea and dismantled the formations concealing their target secret realm. After Bai Hong and the others opened a breach with a World-Shaking Strike, the two prepared to enter the True Saint's resource-rich backyard.

• Bai Hong, Jin Yao, and Ruo Nan gave Wang Xuan and Wu Tian half a volume of the Ancestor's Scripture and warned them not to practice it exactly as written.
• Wang Xuan and Wu Tian rode a Flying Boat through the Chaotic Space-time Sea, where they witnessed deadly remnants and afterimages from unknown eras.
• The pair located their target secret realm and carefully dismantled its Teleportation Arrays, Heaven-Confusing Array, and other defenses while setting up stabilizing formations.
• Wang Xuan and Wu Tian sent the secret realm's coordinates to Bai Hong and the others, then withdrew to await their strike.
• A giant axe fragment and a Sky-Supporting Pillar broke into the secret realm, and Wang Xuan and Wu Tian glimpsed Phoenix Bones and a golden lotus before preparing to enter.

Wang Xuan and Wu Tian entered a breached secret realm filled with rare treasures, only to find that the runaway fishing net was gathering them faster than they could. Wang Xuan gained a page of sword scripture from a deadly trial, then hurried to help Wu Tian pursue a Void Golden Lotus before the net claimed it.

• Wang Xuan and Wu Tian entered the secret realm under the fishing net's protection after Bai Hong warned them about the lethal runes along the Realm Wall.
• The fishing net raced ahead and swept up an herb field, while Wu Tian knocked down a flying scripture and Wang Xuan captured it with Sleeve Universe.
• Wang Xuan and Wu Tian split up to gather treasures, including Lightning Apricots and a Yellow Bud Divine Tree.
• Wang Xuan studied the sword Dao at a platform and fought its straw guardian, surviving severe injuries and earning a page of scripture after damaging its wooden sword.
• Wu Tian called for Wang Xuan's help as the fishing net descended on a Void Golden Lotus, a vital ingredient for their medicinal wine.

Wang Xuan collected rare treasures in the secret realm, mastered all four pages of the straw man’s sword scripture, and teamed up with Wu Tian to seize Soul-Returning Flowers. After racing ahead in search of top-tier Divine Items, he accidentally triggered a hidden thatched hut and encountered an armed stranger who believed the secret realm had opened early.

• Wang Xuan pursued the self-moving Void Golden Lotus and Heavenly Phoenix True Bone while the black fishing net swept up fire dragons and battled a Golden-winged Great Peng puppet.
• Wang Xuan repeatedly fought the straw man, received healing and sword scripture from the platform, and learned from a dead swordsman’s lingering spirit that the straw man preserved the Sword Dao of a False Saint.
• Wang Xuan broke the straw man’s wooden sword and obtained all four pages of its scripture, freeing the skeleton’s lingering sword intent.
• Wang Xuan and Wu Tian fought through the Corpse-Raising Ground, each collected two Soul-Returning Flowers, and watched the black net seize three more.
• Wang Xuan raced ahead to find legendary Divine Items, approached a dormant thatched hut, and startled its inhabitant, who prepared to attack after discovering an intruder.

Wang Xuan and Wu Tian left the True Saint's Backyard with rare treasures, but the secret realm's destruction revealed a terrifying youth summoned from the Time Vortex. The youth shattered the realm in a single strike, leaving Wang Xuan and the others stunned by the power behind the cleanup.

• Wang Xuan used the First Killing Array to destroy the secret realm's teleportation array while the Dao Control Banner severed traces that could lead a True Saint back to him.
• Wang Xuan collected phoenix medicines, bones, and marrow crystals before trading with Wu Tian for half a True Dragon Bone and half a Void Golden Lotus.
• Wang Xuan and Wu Tian followed the fishing net out of the secret realm as the damaged giant axe and flute music stirred the Time Sea.
• Bai Hong urged Wang Xuan and Wu Tian to hurry back to the Wooden Boat, where they saw a bloodied youth emerge from a Space-time Vortex.
• The youth roared and shattered the secret realm with one strike, apparently erasing the remaining evidence.

Wang Xuan and Wu Tian celebrated their gains in the Floating Boat Pure Land, then returned to World Mountain and discovered Heavenly Grade enemies waiting for them. Wu Tian revealed fearsome power by killing all four attackers, and the pair left with their identities still concealed.

• Wang Xuan and Wu Tian learned that the bloodied youth summoned by the Bone Flute was a mysterious Supreme Being connected to the Iron Axe, then celebrated with Bai Hong and the others and received valuable scriptures and medicinal formulas.
• Jin Yao invited Wang Xuan and Wu Tian to stay in the Floating Boat Pure Land, but they declined and agreed to consider cooperating again in the future.
• Wang Xuan and Wu Tian woke on World Mountain, where Wang Xuan discovered that his borrowed body, "Qin Cheng," had been badly injured and sensed four Heavenly Grade enemies nearby.
• Wu Tian killed the Time Cult woman and three other attackers with the pristine white skullcap after one of them recognized him as the Nine Nether Black Crow.
• Wang Xuan repaired "Qin Cheng's" body, and he and Wu Tian left World Mountain, surprised that only two incense sticks had passed during their journey through the Chaotic Space-time Sea.

Wang Xuan and Wu Tian fought their way out of the chessboard battlefield after Heavenly Grade beings entered and tried to hunt Wang Xuan, leaving the intruders dead and their relatives searching for missing uncles. As Wang Xuan and his companions watched the common masters battle at the Altar of Heaven, a creature that had undergone Dao-imperialization escaped into the Real World, prompting an alarm at Pingtian Academy.

• Wu Tian and Wang Xuan joined forces to attack the Heavenly Grade beings blocking the exit, and Wang Xuan used the First Killing Array and Sleeve Universe to kill several of them.
• Wang Xuan returned to Yan Que and the others while the body he had borrowed exploded, and Wu Tian fought his way out alone.
• The Heavenly Grade beings who had entered failed to return, and their relatives searched for their missing uncles as Yan Que and his companions left the blood-soaked battlefield.
• Wang Xuan and the others returned to Pingtian Academy as the common masters fought at the Altar of Heaven and activated a forbidden item.
• A creature with Dao-imperialized textures broke through the Altar of Heaven and the Highest Mental World into the Real World, and an alarm sounded at Pingtian Academy.

A creature from an ancient era broke into the present world and threatened the starry sky, but Pingtian Star Domain’s ruler, Gong Yan, used the Rule Scale to suppress it. After revealing his strength, Gong Yan drove the Abyssal Mothership from the domain, leaving the gathered observers stunned.

• A gigantic ancient creature emerged from the void, drained nearby stars and supernatural factors, and killed a Star Lord with a single attack.
• The Abyssal Mothership arrived, and Gong Yan stepped out of the Highest Mental World to confront it and the creature.
• Gong Yan revealed himself as Pingtian Star Domain’s common ruler and used the forbidden Rule Scale to turn the ancient creature into a painting.
• The Abyssal Mothership’s leader challenged Gong Yan, who used the painting to destroy dozens of warships and damage the fleet.
• The Abyssal Mothership shattered the starry sky and withdrew from Pingtian Star Domain.