Chapter Summaries

Plot and key events

• Mo Xue rebuilds his God-Fiend Body and fights Su Changqing with the Darkness Great Halberd, pouring the power of the Three Thousand Great Daos into each strike.
• Su Changqing overwhelms him, shattering the halberd with a single punch.
• Though exhausted, Mo Xue refuses to beg for his life and meets death with pride. Instead, Su Changqing draws him into the Azure World.
• Inside it, Mo Xue sees Su Changqing’s true form: a colossal Divine Body spanning light-years, surrounded by Five-Colored Divine Thunder and immense cosmic power.
• Su Changqing welcomes him to the Changqing Realm and explains that he wants to build a power of his own. He clarifies that he did not bring Mo Xue in to recruit him, but to teach several exceptionally gifted figures.

Character developments and interactions

• Mo Xue shows the same resolve that carried him from humble origins to the rank of a leading Eternal Taishan Kingdom prodigy. Even in defeat, he refuses to compromise his pride.
• Su Changqing demonstrates overwhelming strength and reveals the scale of his ambitions. He treats Mo Xue not as a recruit, but as a potential teacher for his protégés.
• Their encounter shifts from a fierce battle to an unexpected offer of purpose, leaving Mo Xue to consider his new role.

Significant themes

• Pride and perseverance: Mo Xue’s refusal to surrender reflects the determination behind his rise.
• Power and responsibility: Su Changqing seeks to build a lasting force, not merely collect strong followers.
• Talent and potential: He believes figures such as Kunpeng, Kong Xuan, and others could reach extraordinary heights if they survive their destined trials.

Plot points and events

• Mo Xue questions whether Su Changqing is reckless to let him teach cultivation to followers far weaker than himself. A Second-Revolution God-Fiend could secretly mislead First-Revolution or even unadvanced Dao Ancestors, whose cultivation breakthroughs carry deadly risks.
• Su Changqing insists Mo Xue is bound by his word. Mo Xue may leave once his students reach the Second Revolution; if they die from a hidden trap, Su Changqing considers that their own fate.
• Su Changqing’s followers accept the challenge. They know the gulf between them and Su Changqing is immense, but refuse to abandon the chance to catch up.
• Su Changqing reflects that the Changqing Realm, now home to vast populations and approaching the size of a medium universe, may one day become a Chaos World if he survives and reaches the Six Revolutions.
• The scene then shifts beyond the Chaos World’s boundary, into a lethal void filled with remnants of destroyed worlds. Holding the Changqing Realm, Su Changqing faces a singularity where void currents and death lines intersect.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Changqing displays confidence and pragmatism: he values loyalty and opportunity, but expects his followers to accept the dangers of pursuing strength. His ambition extends to making the Changqing Realm a powerful world of its own.
• Mo Xue remains wary and confrontational, pointing out the potentially fatal consequences of his instruction. His freedom is conditional on his students’ progress.
• The followers, including Kunpeng, Kong Xuan, the Sword Ancestor, Thousand Jun Dao Ancestor, and Saint Spirit Dao Ancestor, move from concern to determination. Thousand Jun is confident in his near-breakthrough; Saint Spirit admits he must take risks rather than wait.
• Su Changqing’s followers’ shared history—witnessing his rapid rise—deepens their resolve to keep pace with him.

Significant themes

• The cost of advancement: Every realm brings extreme danger, and failure can mean permanent death.
• Ambition and personal responsibility: Su Changqing will provide an opportunity, but each follower must face the risks themselves.
• Loyalty and unequal power: His companions remain committed despite the enormous gap between their abilities.
• World-building and destiny: Su Changqing’s growth is tied to the Changqing Realm’s potential evolution into a Chaos World.

Plot and events

• Su Changqing enters Eternal Exile, a powerful card-bound realm that seals off heaven and earth, and sees a vision of a grand hall containing a white-robed swordsman and a young woman.
• The vision follows the swordsman’s rise: he leaves his village with the Green-Ruler Sword, becomes the Pure Yang Sword Immortal, transcends the Dao, and founds the Ten Thousand Swords Sect. Later, as a Three-Turn Transcendent Dao Ancestor, he vows to enter the wider Chaos Worlds, claim the Thousand-River Order, and return to save his people.
• He departs promising the woman he will come back. As he travels, he initially prospers but is eventually surpassed by increasingly powerful foes, including descendants of the Eternal True Lord.
• After an immeasurably long struggle, aged and broken, he returns home. The woman has died, the sect lies in ruins, and the Sword Dao has been replaced by a bodily cultivation system that consumes others’ blood and vitality.

Character development and interactions

• The swordsman transforms from a confident, extraordinary prodigy into a defeated, worn-out wanderer. His determination and ambition endure, but he fails to fulfill his promise.
• The young woman admires and loves him, yet grieves over his departure. Because he leaves without looking back, he never sees her sorrow; by the time he returns, she is gone.
• Su Changqing watches the vision with grave puzzlement, confronting the history revealed within Eternal Exile.

Significant themes

• Ambition and its cost: The swordsman pursues greatness and salvation, but his long absence costs him his home and loved ones.
• The passage of time and impermanence: Even extraordinary power cannot preserve a person, a sect, or a civilization indefinitely.
• Decline and replacement: The Sword Dao’s disappearance and the rise of a predatory cultivation system suggest a world transformed beyond recognition.
• Broken promises and regret: The swordsman’s confidence contrasts sharply with the tragic outcome of his promise to return.

Key plot points and events

• After the Ten Thousand Swords Sect’s disciples abandon swordsmanship, a young woman remains to preserve and reform its teachings. She dies before completing that work.
• Driven mad by grief, the frail old swordsman uses two broken swords to slaughter his former disciples, friends, family, and everyone else in his Chaos World.
• Sitting beside the woman’s grave, he witnesses the mountains, rivers, heavens, and stars combine into a colossal sword: the Thousand Mountains and Rivers Sword.
• Su Changqing realizes that the Thousand River Mountains scattered across different worlds are fragments of this weapon. He identifies the old swordsman as the Eternal True Lord of Thousand River Mountain.
• The sword’s Order is revealed to have three overwhelming traits: it cannot miss, can be infinitely large or small, and can cut through anything.
• Su Changqing reflects that Orders are rules governing existence, and recognizes that his Life Script can bring people from the past or future into the present.

Character developments

• The old swordsman’s grief turns him from a master into a destroyer; his devotion to the young woman and the sword’s lost tradition ends in horrific violence.
• The young woman is portrayed as the last, determined guardian of swordsmanship, dying while trying to renew its methods.
• Su Changqing shifts from astonishment at the sword’s scale to understanding its origin and recognizing the significance of his own abilities.

Significant themes

• Grief and destruction: personal loss can consume a person and devastate an entire world.
• Legacy and preservation: the young woman’s effort to keep swordsmanship alive contrasts with its collapse.
• Hidden origins and revelation: seemingly separate mountain fragments are revealed as pieces of one immense weapon.
• Rules governing reality: Orders function as fundamental principles, each shaping what is possible.

Character interactions

• The young woman’s perseverance and death profoundly affect the old swordsman, whose response is to destroy the world they inhabited.
• The old man’s actions implicate his former disciples, friends, and family, turning once-close relationships into victims of his grief.
• Su Changqing observes the old man’s history and the sword’s revelation, connecting them to the Thousand River Mountain fragments and to his own Life Script.

Summary

Key plot points

• Su Changqing realizes his Life Script can bring beings from the past or future into the present—a power he had assumed all Eternal True Lords possessed.
• The scene reveals the scale of that ability: he brought the Great Serpent Demon, several Dao Ancestors, and hundreds of millions of inhabitants from a Chaos World that had long since been destroyed.
• Their world was sacrificed when the Thousand River Mountain sword was created. Because their deaths were tied to the Chaos Order, they cannot be revived through the River of Time.
• The sword’s master, grieving his lost sect and loved one, sought help from powerful beings. The Card Eternal True Lord explained that the only apparent way to fulfill his wish was for the sword’s master himself to die.
• Eternal True Lords are normally indestructible because they embody the Chaos Order, but Thousand River Mountain has extraordinary properties: it always hits, can be infinitely large or small, and cannot be blocked.

Character development and interactions

• Su Changqing begins to understand that his power is an unprecedented violation of time and Order. He suspects it could attract the attention of multiple Eternal True Lords and resolves to keep it secret.
• The sword’s master is portrayed as unable to accept the irreversible loss of his world and beloved. He turns to other great beings for a solution.
• The Card Eternal True Lord approaches him as a researcher and explains the limits imposed by the Chaos Order, while pointing to the apparent contradiction that the sword might be capable of killing an Eternal True Lord.

Significant themes

• The limits of resurrection: Some deaths cannot be undone when they are bound to the fundamental Order of reality.
• Power and secrecy: Su Changqing’s ability is so extraordinary that revealing it could make him a target.
• Paradox and fate: Bringing past or future versions of beings into the present defies the rules that normally govern time.
• Loss and impossible hope: The sword’s master’s grief drives him to seek a remedy even when the laws of the universe seem to forbid one.

Summary

Su Changqing learns that the Thousand River Mountain Sword’s master deliberately dismembered himself into 138 million pieces over countless Chaos Epochs. Since an Eternal True Lord is nearly impossible to kill, he used the sword’s sharpness and the recurring Grand Competition to wear down his own will.
Reflecting on his battles with the regenerating Two Revolutions God-Fiends, Su Changqing recognizes how difficult it is to destroy such beings completely. He suspects that defeating a God-Fiend is far easier than killing one.
The scene does not match the life script Su Changqing once read for a Thousand River Mountain fragment. That script said the Lord of Thousand Rivers split himself apart near destruction, leaving pieces that the Card Lord scattered across the Chaos Worlds; whenever the Lord threatened to awaken, the Card Lord staged a card game to stop him. Su Changqing concludes that the account he is witnessing is partly true and partly false: the “Eternal Exile” was real, but the Sword Lord’s apparent reasons and the Card Lord’s role were more complicated. He infers that the Sword Lord genuinely sought to revive his loved ones, but the Card Lord manipulated him into dismembering himself so his will could gradually be erased.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Changqing moves from observing the Sword Lord’s fate to interpreting it, drawing on his own experience fighting powerful, self-regenerating enemies.
• The Thousand River Mountain Sword’s master / Lord of Thousand Rivers is revealed as both devoted to restoring his loved ones and possibly deceived into a process that would destroy his will.
• The Card Lord emerges as a powerful, calculating figure who used the Grand Competition to delay the Lord’s return and may have misled him.
• The excerpt contains no direct conversation between these figures; their relationship is reconstructed through Su Changqing’s deductions.

Significant themes

• Immortality and the difficulty of death: overwhelming power can make even self-destruction a prolonged process.
• Truth, deception, and incomplete histories: a life script may be reliable yet still reveal only part of a larger story.
• Love and sacrifice: the Sword Lord’s desire to bring back his loved ones may have made him vulnerable to manipulation.

Key plot points and events

• In a collapsing hall at the end of a timeline, Su Changqing spots the Eternal Exile card. Though he fears taking it would draw the Card Eternal True Lord’s attention, he decides the Thousand River Mountain Sword matters more.
• Instead of keeping the card, he sends it through the Dark South Heaven Gate, a rare Chaos Exotic Treasure that can transport someone across any distance without regard to space.
• Su Changqing recalls a Life Script he saw in the past: after a perilous journey, he was captured by the Death Eternal True Lord, forced into servitude, and made First Divine General of the Death Eternal Overlord. The Lord of Death eventually united the 300 billion Chaos Worlds.
• Recognizing that the gate may lead directly to the Death Eternal True Lord, Su Changqing realizes that stepping through would put him in the Lord’s grasp. He judges this being stronger than both the Lord of Ice and the Card Lord.
• His observations also suggest that, despite the immense reach of certain Eternal True Lords, none has ever killed another.

Character developments

• Su Changqing acts cautiously and resourcefully, using the Dark South Heaven Gate to dispose of the dangerous card rather than claim it.
• He reflects on his possible future as a powerful but enslaved figure—celebrated as the Changqing Great God-Fiend, yet secretly a captive.
• His knowledge of powerful beings’ Life Scripts helps him recognize and avoid a looming threat.

Significant themes

• Fate and foresight: Su Changqing’s remembered Life Script informs his choices, though it does not guarantee safety.
• Power versus freedom: His foretold status as a renowned divine general contrasts sharply with his life as the Death Eternal True Lord’s captive.
• Caution amid ambition: Valuable objects and immense power carry the risk of attracting dangerous attention.
• Limits of supremacy: Even beings who span or control vast cosmic forces appear unable—or unwilling—to kill their peers.

Character interactions

• Su Changqing has no direct encounter with the Death Eternal True Lord in the present events, but anticipates that the Dark South Heaven Gate may connect to him.
• In the future described by the Life Script, the Death Eternal True Lord captures and torments Su Changqing, then commands him as a servant and general.

Key plot points and events

• The Card Eternal True Lord had once deceived the Thousand River Sword Lord into dismembering himself, but that had not fully killed him. Only Death’s ruthlessness had completely erased the Eternal True Lord of Creation, destroying the Pillar of Creation.
• Su Changqing places the “Eternal Exile” card inside the Dark South Heaven Gate. The act triggers a sudden, unnatural silence across the Chaos World.
• A terrifying presence turns its attention toward the world. Pangu recognizes it as the gaze of an Eternal True Lord—an attention so overwhelming it can destroy entire realms.
• Death, an Eternal True Lord wielding the Chaos Order, begins crossing the Chaos Worlds toward them. His approach causes galaxies to crack and universes to tremble.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Changqing’s move appears intended to provoke a confrontation between Death and Card. He hopes the conflict will give him a chance to obtain the Order using the largest fragment of the Thousand River Mountain Sword.
• Pangu recognizes the danger from prior experience: an Eternal True Lord’s gaze once caused his body to decay, leaving him trapped in the Death Abyss until Su Changqing helped him survive.
• In the Changqing Realm, Kunpeng, Lu Ya, Qianjun, Mo Xue, and the others react with terror. Across the Chaos World, Gods, Demons, and Dao Ancestors fall silent in fear.

Significant themes

• The gulf of power: Eternal True Lords stand so far above other beings that even their attention can be catastrophic.
• Fear and cosmic scale: Death’s arrival is presented as an approaching disaster spanning countless worlds.
• Risk and ambition: Su Changqing’s attempt to exploit a clash between supreme beings may offer an opportunity, but it also invites overwhelming danger.

Su Changqing drew the Death Eternal True Lord and the Card Eternal True Lord to the ruins, where the Thousand River Mountain Sword awakened and responded to him. As the Card Eternal True Lord attacked, the Thousand River Sword Lord appeared and offered Su Changqing the sword.

• The Death Eternal True Lord and the Card Eternal True Lord turned their attention to the ruins, leaving countless beings prostrate while Su Changqing remained standing.
• Su Changqing realized his gamble had severed the fate in which he became the Death Eternal True Lord’s plaything.
• The Thousand River Mountain Sword awakened, and the Card Eternal True Lord revealed that he had spent ages trying to make it submit.
• The Card Eternal True Lord reached out to seize Su Changqing and the sword, but Su Changqing accused him of betraying the Thousand River Sword Lord and stepped toward the blade.
• Su Changqing’s Thousand River Mountain fragment merged into the sword, summoning the Thousand River Sword Lord, who told him to take it.

Su Changqing claimed the Thousand River Mountain Sword and escaped the Card Eternal True Lord’s attack with Pangu. The sword’s remnant spirit warned him that it would buy him only three thousand years, and Su Changqing vowed to overturn the game.

• The Thousand River Mountain Sword broke free of the Card Lord’s seal, entered Su Changqing, and acknowledged him as its master.
• The Death Eternal True Lord recognized Su Changqing, sensed the Pillar of Creation on him, and closed the Dark South Heaven Gate.
• The Card Eternal True Lord attacked Su Changqing with Card Order, but Pangu emerged from the Death Abyss and struck at the phantom cards with his axe.
• Su Changqing drew the sword and cut open a fissure through the Card Order, then took Pangu into the Death Abyss to escape.
• The sword’s old man told Su Changqing that the weapon could extend his life by three thousand years, and Su Changqing declared that he would flip the table.

Su Changqing entered the Card Lord’s Thousand River House with Pangu and challenged the Card Eternal True Lord to a game. When the first round unleashed a Death Abyss beast tide, Su Changqing wounded a World-Devouring Beast with the Thousand River Mountain Sword, surprising the Card Lord.

• Su Changqing and Pangu entered the Death Abyss and reached Thousand River House, where Su Changqing proved his stake by revealing the Thousand River Mountain Sword.
• The Card Lord appeared and began the first round, betting that Su Changqing would not live past midnight as a beast tide surged from the black mist.
• Pangu cut down the charging beasts and one of their Fierce Beast Kings while Su Changqing warned that a greater threat was approaching.
• A World-Devouring Beast emerged, swallowed the remaining beasts, and attacked, drawn to the Thousand River Mountain Sword.
• Su Changqing struck the World-Devouring Beast with a sword technique and cleaved through half its skeletal body, astonishing the Card Lord.

Su Changqing survived the Blood River and won the third round against the Card Lord, revealing his breakthrough to Fourth Turn and learning the location of the Dark South Heaven Gate and Sword Heart. When the Card Lord tried to force him into becoming a Card Bearer, Su Changqing shattered all fifty-four cards and escaped with Pangu, leaving the Card Lord to promise another game at the Thousand River Mountain Grand Competition.

• Su Changqing entered the Blood River, defeated its Bone Giant, destroyed its bones and remnant souls, and emerged alive to win the second round.
• The Card Lord challenged Su Changqing to take his palm strike, and the impact helped Su Changqing break through to Fourth Turn and form a Sword Domain.
• Su Changqing used his Sword Domain to defeat the Card Lord's challenge and won the third round, learning that the Dark South Heaven Gate and Sword Heart lay beneath the true card at the source of the Thousand River Mountain Grand Competition.
• The Card Lord demanded that Su Changqing stay and become his Card Bearer, then used all fifty-four cards to seal the Death Abyss.
• Pangu attacked the card barrier and urged Su Changqing to flee, but Su Changqing shattered all fifty-four cards with Sword Slashes Chaos and escaped the seal.
• The Card Lord let Su Changqing leave and vowed to face him at the Thousand River Mountain Grand Competition.

Su Changqing and Pangu headed toward the origin of the Thousand River Mountain Grand Competition to find the Sword Heart, while the Card Lord spread word of their destination. As they entered the dangerous depths of chaos, Yinxu, a Divine General serving the Death True Lord, appeared to kill Su Changqing.

• Su Changqing and Pangu escaped the Death Abyss after restoring two more fragments to the Thousand River Mountain Sword, bringing its total to four.
• The Card Lord ordered his followers to announce that Su Changqing was seeking the Pillar of Creation, drawing the attention of the Death True Lord and others coveting the sword.
• Su Changqing explained that the Sword Heart lay beneath the Chaos Wasteland at the center of the myriad worlds, where the Thousand River Mountain Grand Competition began.
• Su Changqing and Pangu followed the sword's resonance through deadly void currents and discovered that the Card Lord had sealed the path to the Sword Heart.
• Yinxu, the Seventh Divine General under the Death True Lord, emerged from the Death Abyss and declared that he had come to take Su Changqing's life.

Su Changqing defeated Yinxu, but his fight revealed an aura the True Lords were watching for. As the powerful factions gathered to stop him from reaching the source of the Thousand River Mountain Grand Competition, Su Changqing broke Xuancang’s Ice World and continued to defy their demands.

• Yinxu attacked Su Changqing with Divine Chains of Order and the Death Domain Eye, but Su Changqing’s Beyond the Heavens Card let him resist its deathly light.
• Su Changqing shattered Yinxu’s eye and killed him with two sword strikes, while Pangu praised his swordsmanship.
• Su Changqing said Yinxu had been sent by the Death True Lord to scout for the Dark South Heaven Gate’s aura, which his sword strike had exposed.
• Gazes from the card order, the Death Abyss, the Tide Listening Pavilion, the Jade Palace, the Three-Eyed God Race, and the Eternal Taishan Kingdom descended upon them.
• Xuancang, the First Divine General under the Ice True Lord, demanded that Su Changqing halt, but Su Changqing cleaved apart his Ice World with one slash.

Su Changqing and Pangu escaped the Death True Lord, reached the Sword Heart, and broke the Card Lord’s trap. Su Changqing claimed the Sword Heart and eight sword fragments, then headed for the Pillar of Creation as the Heaven-Burning True Lord appeared to confront him.

• Su Changqing destroyed Xuancang’s glaciers, but the Death True Lord killed Xuancang and pursued Su Changqing and Pangu toward the Sword Heart.
• Su Changqing and Pangu reached the Sword Heart, where the Card Lord trapped them inside the “All Heavens in a Thought” card; Su Changqing shattered the card and fused with the Sword Heart.
• The Sword Heart restored three fragments to the Thousand River Mountain Sword, bringing the total to seven, and Su Changqing warned that other fragment holders would come after him.
• Chixiao, a divine general under the Heaven-Burning True Lord, attacked for the Sword Heart, but his fragment flew to Su Changqing; Pangu killed Chixiao after Su Changqing wounded him.
• Su Changqing and Pangu set out for the Pillar of Creation while powerful forces, including the Death True Lord, watched; the Heaven-Burning True Lord then appeared to confront Su Changqing over Chixiao’s death and fragment.

Su Changqing defeated the Heaven-Burning True Lord’s avatar, discovered the blade order’s origin, and passed the Ten Thousand Blades Saber Lord’s trial to unite sword and saber intent. As Bone Venerable and another Heaven-Burning True Lord avatar attacked, Su Changqing faced the renewed Fire Domain with his new power.

• Su Changqing destroyed the Heaven-Burning True Lord’s avatar, then continued with Pangu into the deepest part of the sword sea.
• Su Changqing met the Ten Thousand Blades Saber Lord, who revealed that the Card Lord had deceived him and the Thousand River Sword Lord and that the blade had been split into three pieces.
• Su Changqing endured the Ten Thousand Blades Heart-Killing Array and received the saber, merging its intent with his sword intent to gain Peerless Blade and Sword.
• The Ten Thousand Blades Saber Lord revealed that one blade piece was with the Card Lord and another lay at the bottom of the Death Abyss, whereupon Bone Venerable arrived to kill Su Changqing.
• Su Changqing broke Bone Venerable’s bone chains with his united sword and saber, but the Heaven-Burning True Lord’s avatar attacked with fire and demanded his surrender.

Su Changqing defeated Bone Venerable and Ice Nightmare, then entered the ancient well and claimed the Seed of Creation. The Card Lord trapped him inside a formation of fifty-four cards, and Su Changqing prepared to attack with his ultimate blade-and-sword technique.

• Su Changqing used Peerless Blade and Sword to destroy Bone Venerable, and Pangu struck down Ice Nightmare as he fled.
• Su Changqing and Pangu set out for the Death Abyss, but the Death True Lord confronted them and demanded Su Changqing surrender his supreme treasures.
• Su Changqing shattered the True Card and found the Pillar of Creation inside the ancient well.
• The Card Lord revealed that he had lured Su Changqing into retrieving the Pillar of Creation, then sealed the well with fifty-four card phantoms.
• Su Changqing transformed the Pillar of Creation into the Seed of Creation and merged it with his Sword Heart and Blade Heart.
• Su Changqing raised his sword and blade to unleash Twin Peerless Arts Return to Origin against the card formation.

Su Changqing and Pangu fought their way through the Death Abyss to retrieve the second segment of the Ten Thousand Blades Saber, defeating its gatekeeper and two of the Death True Lord’s Divine Generals. At the hall where the saber waited, the Death True Lord revealed that the entire Death Abyss was his true body.

• Su Changqing and Pangu entered the Death Abyss to seek the second saber segment, and Pangu attacked the World-Devouring Nether Serpent guarding their path.
• Su Changqing defeated the Nether Serpent with his Thousand River Mountain Sword, then killed Burial Heaven, the Third Divine General, using his saber and sword.
• Su Changqing used the Seed of Creation to dissolve the Ten Thousand Souls Tide, then killed the Ghost Emperor, the Fourth Divine General.
• Su Changqing and Pangu reached a black hall in a sea of bones, where the second saber segment hung bound by Death Chains.
• The Death True Lord told Su Changqing that the Death Abyss was his true body.

Su Changqing broke through the Death True Lord’s death orders and puppets with Peerless Blade and Sword and the Seed of Creation, then reclaimed the Creation True Lord’s remains. The Death True Lord admitted defeat for now but warned Su Changqing that death would come for him.

• Su Changqing used Ten Thousand Blades Saber-First Form to break the death seal and retrieve the second section of the saber, then cut open the Death Abyss to confront the Death True Lord.
• Su Changqing and Pangu faced the Death True Lord, and Su Changqing split his death order and countered the River of the Dead with the Seed of Creation.
• Su Changqing destroyed the Death True Lord’s dead wood and shattered his death cage with Peerless Blade and Sword-Final Form.
• Su Changqing used the Seed of Creation to dissolve billions of death puppets and free the Creation True Lord’s remains from the black coffin.
• The Creation True Lord’s remains entered the Seed of Creation, and the Death True Lord admitted defeat while warning Su Changqing that death would still arrive.

Su Changqing and Pangu escaped the Death Abyss and defeated the Heaven-Burning True Lord’s attacks, then headed toward the Thousand River Mountain Grand Competition. At the Life-and-Death Match, Su Changqing began a wager against the Card Lord, but the Card Lord’s Annihilation Echo threatened the battlefield as the chapter ended.

• Su Changqing explained that the Death True Lord had withdrawn rather than risk fighting him, and he and Pangu left the Death Abyss to seek the final saber section from the Card Lord.
• The Heaven-Burning True Lord confronted Su Changqing and Pangu, but Su Changqing broke his fire domain and split his fire seed with Peerless Blade and Sword, forcing him to retreat.
• Su Changqing told Pangu that the True Lords were waiting for the Thousand River Mountain Grand Competition, where all fifty-four cards would appear and their conflicts would be decided.
• The Card Lord opened the Life-and-Death Match and agreed to wager the Ten Thousand Blades Card and competition prizes against Su Changqing’s life, sword, and saber; Su Changqing also demanded what lay beneath the archway if he won.
• Su Changqing cut apart the Card Lord’s Death Abyss Silk Bind with the Ten Thousand Blades saber, but the Card Lord then played Annihilation Echo, whose toll froze the battlefield and injured weaker spectators.