Chapter Summaries

Su Changqing fought the Card Lord’s True Cards, using the Seed of Creation and the Beyond the Heavens card to resist their powers. As the Card Lord unleashed his King of Order, the Thousand River Sword Lord’s true spirit revealed that the Ninth Fragment lay beneath the card hall.

• Su Changqing shattered the Annihilation Bell with the Thousand River Mountain Sword and dissolved the Heavenly Realms Illusion World with the Seed of Creation.
• The Card Lord used Eternal Exile against Su Changqing, who defended himself with Beyond the Heavens and struck back with his sword.
• The Card Lord formed the Heavenly Realms Card Formation, and Su Changqing met it with his Dual Extremes Domain of saber and sword.
• The Card Lord fused his fifty-four cards into the King of Order and struck Su Changqing, who endured the blow by burning the Seed of Creation and resonating the sword’s eight fragments.
• The Thousand River Sword Lord’s true spirit told Su Changqing that the Ninth Fragment lay beneath the card hall, under the King of Order.

Su Changqing and Pangu retrieved the ninth fragment from beneath the Card Lord’s archway while three Eternal True Lords battled over the pillar of creation. They fled toward the far end of the Death Abyss to seek the tenth fragment, where an enormous creature rose from the darkness.

• Su Changqing learned that the Card Lord had suppressed the ninth fragment and the pillar of creation beneath the ceremonial archway, and he made the King of Order resonate with the Thousand River Sword Lord’s true spirit.
• The Death True Lord and Heaven-Burning True Lord arrived, and all three True Lords clashed across the Heavenly Battlefield.
• Su Changqing used the chaos to shatter the archway and retrieve the ninth fragment, while Pangu helped break through the Card Lord’s formation.
• Su Changqing and Pangu escaped as the battlefield collapsed, leaving the three True Lords fighting over the emerging pillar of creation.
• Su Changqing sensed that the tenth fragment lay at the far end of the Death Abyss and traveled there with Pangu.
• A towering creature rose from the black mist before Su Changqing and Pangu among the bones of gods and demons.

Su Changqing recovered the Death Root’s sword fragment, then fought the World-Suppressing Ancient Emperor and Mang Wuya to claim more fragments and the Sky Swallowing Python Fang. He faced Feng Tianya at the Pillar of Creation, where the clash was still underway.

• Su Changqing awakened the Seed of Creation, defeated the Death Puppet King, and recovered the tenth fragment, completing the Thousand River Mountain Sword’s sword bone.
• Su Changqing and his companion left the Death Abyss and reached the Pillar of Creation, where three Ancient Emperors and the myriad races had gathered to claim it.
• Su Changqing defeated the World-Suppressing Ancient Emperor and reclaimed the eleventh sword fragment from his Card Weapon.
• Mang Wuya challenged Su Changqing, who cracked the Sky Swallowing Python Fang, disarmed him, and forced him to concede the Pillar of Creation.
• Feng Tianya attacked Su Changqing with a fire formation and fiery plumes, but the Seed of Creation extinguished her flames.

Su Changqing claimed the Pillar of Creation, drove back the ancient emperors, and broke through to the unstable initial Fifth Turn before setting out for the Card Lord’s palace. On the way, he slew the Soul-Devouring Ancient Emperor, then faced the Heaven-Burning True Lord, who revealed he held the twelfth fragment and attacked him.

• Su Changqing defeated Feng Tianya, cracked Ao Guang’s Emperor-Suppressing Cauldron, and repelled the Nether Abyss Ancient Emperor and Flame Soul Ancient Emperor.
• Su Changqing absorbed the Pillar of Creation and broke through to the initial Fifth Turn, though his cultivation remained unstable.
• Su Changqing and Pangu headed toward the Card Lord’s palace, where the Soul-Devouring Ancient Emperor ambushed them on the Death True Lord’s orders.
• Su Changqing used the Seed of Creation to overcome the death domain, killed the Soul-Devouring Ancient Emperor, and said the battle had strengthened his cultivation.
• The Heaven-Burning True Lord confronted Su Changqing and revealed the twelfth fragment before launching a sun-like attack at him.

Su Changqing and Pangu fought their way through the chaos toward the Card Lord's palace, where Su Changqing claimed the twelfth fragment of the Thousand River Mountain Sword and defeated the Heaven-Burning True Lord. After Pangu held off the palace's Card Puppets, Su Changqing entered and faced the Ten Thousand Blades Saber Lord's trial for the saber's final fragment.

• Su Changqing killed the Soul-Devouring Ancient Emperor, then warned the Death True Lord that he would cut down any divine generals sent after him.
• Su Changqing broke the Heaven-Burning True Lord's fire domain, destroyed his fire seed, and recovered the twelfth sword fragment before driving him away.
• Su Changqing and Pangu reached the Card Lord's palace, where Su Changqing destroyed the Card Puppets by striking their sources while Pangu held off the remaining ones.
• Su Changqing entered the palace and met the Ten Thousand Blades Saber Lord, who tested whether he could withstand ten thousand waves of saber intent.

Su Changqing completed Blade and Sword Fusion and traveled with Pangu to the deepest reaches of the Death Abyss to reclaim the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Fragments from the Death True Lord. As the Death True Lord’s sword severed Su Changqing’s karma, Su Changqing awakened a resonance with the Death Sword, causing the fragments to struggle in their master’s grasp.

• Su Changqing endured the Ten Thousand Blades Saber Lord’s third strike, received the saber, and fused its intent with his sword intent.
• Pangu joined Su Changqing at the Blade Mound, and the two set out for the Death Abyss after Su Changqing sensed the fragments there.
• The Death True Lord attacked Su Changqing with the Death Sword, wounding him and using death order to sever his karma.
• Pangu battled the Death True Lord’s death puppets and a White Bone Giant Puppet while Su Changqing faced the Death True Lord.
• Su Changqing recognized that the Death Sword still answered to its true master, and his sword heart resonance made the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Fragments struggle.

Su Changqing defeated Death True Lord, reclaimed the final two fragments of the Thousand River Mountain Sword, and learned that the sword was close to being reforged. He then confronted Card Lord at the Archway Ruins to collect the Sword Lord’s debt, and their battle began.

• Su Changqing fused his saber and sword to break Death True Lord’s Death Sword, reclaiming the Thirteenth Fragment and the Fourteenth Fragment.
• Su Changqing shattered Death True Lord’s death cage and wounded him, forcing Death True Lord to retreat into chaos.
• Su Changqing reunited all fourteen fragments of the Thousand River Mountain Sword and said that only its final tempering remained.
• Su Changqing and Pangu arrived at the Archway Ruins, where Card Lord was waiting to settle his debt to the Sword Lord.
• Card Lord attacked Su Changqing with a Card Formation, while Pangu charged into the fight and was surrounded by four Card Puppets.

Su Changqing broke the Card Lord’s Origin Card, freed the Thousand River Sword Lord’s true spirit, and gathered the fifteenth fragment, perfecting his sword heart. As Su Changqing and Pangu pursued the Ten Thousand Blades Saber Lord’s missing blade segment, the defeated Card Lord escaped with that segment and vowed revenge.

• Pangu destroyed the Card Lord’s puppets while Su Changqing faced the Card Lord’s Origin Card, Ten Thousand Swords Paying Homage.
• Su Changqing turned the Origin Card’s sword shadows against the Card Lord and shattered the card, freeing the Thousand River Sword Lord’s true spirit.
• The Thousand River Sword Lord gave Su Changqing the fifteenth fragment, completing the fragments’ return and perfecting Su Changqing’s sword heart.
• The Card Lord’s path was severed, and he fled as Su Changqing drove away figures trying to seize cards from the ruins.
• The Death True Lord and Heaven-Burning True Lord took notice of Su Changqing’s perfected sword heart, while Su Changqing and Pangu set out to find the third segment of the Ten Thousand Blades Saber Lord’s blade.
• The Card Lord escaped with the blade segment hidden in a broken card and vowed to restore his Card Dao and take revenge on Su Changqing.