Chapter Summaries

Immortals, gods, and cultivators gathered at Emei’s Golden Summit to witness the duel between Xuantian Sword Master Ren Baimei and Li Xuanyuan of the Myriad Dao Academy. After the two finally arrived, they ordered everyone uninvolved to withdraw a hundred miles.

• Cultivators discussed Emei’s history and Ren Baimei’s rise as Xuantian Sword Master while waiting for the duel.
• Yuzhao and Demoness Mei’er arrived together, and Mei’er wondered what would happen if Ren Baimei lost.
• The gathered spectators debated whether Ren Baimei’s True Immortal cultivation or Li Xuanyuan’s Nine-Ceremony Xuanyuan could decide the battle.
• A ringing sword sound made weapons and dharma treasures throughout the crowd struggle to break free until two streams of sword light descended.
• Ren Baimei and Li Xuanyuan appeared facing each other atop the Golden Summit and told everyone uninvolved to withdraw a hundred miles.

Ren Baimei and Xu Yang began their sword contest on Emei Golden Summit, and their clash escalated into a life-or-death battle witnessed from a safe distance. After trading swords and Daoist techniques as equals, Ren Baimei summoned the Xuantian Seven Cultivation Swords, leaving the fight poised to intensify.

• Ren Baimei and Xu Yang cleared the spectators from Emei Mountain, and the crowd watched their battle through Flowers in the Mirror, Moon on the Water.
• Their opening exchange of Sword Qi shook Emei Golden Summit and split it with a deep ravine.
• Ren Baimei launched Azure Nether, and Xu Yang met it with a sword from his Sword Casket; the two weapons clashed evenly.
• Ren Baimei used the Doushuai True Edict to strengthen Azure Nether, while Xu Yang combined Heavenly Thunder and Earth Fire into a sword that matched it.
• Ren Baimei praised Xu Yang's sword art, then summoned seven swords: Startling Dragon, Water Cloud, Sky Roar, Yang Soul, Scarlet Su, Profound Spirit, and Azure Nether.

Ren Baimei unleashed the Xuantian Seven Cultivation Swords, but Xu Yang’s Xuanyuan Divine Blade shattered their formation and forced Ren Baimei back. Ren Baimei then brought out the Purple Green Twin Swords, and the two resumed their clash with their strongest weapons.

• Ren Baimei formed the Seven Cultivation Sword Array with the Xuantian Seven Cultivation Swords and attacked Xu Yang.
• Xu Yang’s Xuanyuan Divine Blade tore through the array, knocked the seven swords apart, and drove Ren Baimei into the sea of clouds.
• Ren Baimei halted Xuanyuan’s next strike with the Purple Green Twin Swords and identified Xuanyuan as a Merit Treasure.
• Ren Baimei recalled the Seven Cultivation Swords and challenged Xu Yang to test the might of his twin swords.
• Xu Yang sent Xuanyuan from the Sword Casket to meet the Purple Green Twin Swords, and the two weapons collided again.

Xu Yang and Ren Baimei fought to a standstill until Ren Baimei revealed the Mystic Sect divine ability One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones. The chapter ended as his three bodies began battling Xuanyuan together.

• Xu Yang's Xuanyuan sword matched Ren Baimei's Purple Green Twin Swords, astonishing the watching immortals.
• Ren Baimei recalled the twin swords and transformed into three bodies: Sword Attendant Ren Changsheng, Sword Elder Ren Wanshou, and Sword Master Ren Baimei.
• The immortals recognized Ren Baimei's transformation as One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, a rare divine ability linked to the Primordial Chaos Dao Fruit.
• Xu Yang prepared to face Ren Baimei's three bodies alone, and their battle began.

Ren Baimei deployed the Two Forms Dust Array, his killing technique refined from One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, against Xu Yang at Emei Golden Summit. Xu Yang summoned the power of swords across Heaven and Earth to unleash Xuanyuan’s ultimate strike, and Xuantian Sword Sect admitted defeat.

• Xu Yang deflected Ren Baimei’s attacks with the Li Di Yan Guang Banner and fought back against the Three Pure Ones Immortal Swords with Xuanyuan.
• Ren Baimei formed the Innate Primordial Qi Taiqing Divine Talisman and transformed his three bodies into the Two Forms Dust Array, forcing the onlookers to flee.
• Xu Yang rose into the sky as swords and artifacts across Heaven and Earth answered his call and gathered into the enormous Xuanyuan Divine Sword.
• Xu Yang cleaved through the Two Forms Dust Array and split Emei Golden Summit with a single strike.
• Xuantian Sword Sect admitted defeat.

Xu Yang defeated Ren Baimei and shattered Emei with the Nine Ceremonies Three Talents Sword Array, preserving the Myriad Dao Academy’s rule by law. Three months later, Jun Qing visited Roaring Firmament Temple to request a mountain gate for the Alliance Heaven Dao, while Xu Yang began asking about the grotto-heaven True Immortals.

• Xu Yang’s sword destroyed the Two Forms Micro Dust Array and split Emei Golden Summit, leaving the Xuantian Sword Sect defeated.
• Xu Yang explained that the Nine Ceremonies Three Talents Sword Array drew power from heaven, earth, and the human heart, making him nearly invincible beneath the Earth Immortals.
• Ren Baimei sent Shen Xiao to Reflection Cliff and instructed the Red-clothed Girl to take the Imperial Mansion Heavenly Talisman Doushuai True Edict to the Myriad Dao Academy in exchange for the Demon-Slaying Immortal-Refining Sword and a sixth-rank Heavenly Craftsmanship Creation Method.
• Three months later, Jun Qing visited Xu Yang at Roaring Firmament Temple to request a mountain gate for the Alliance Heaven Dao.
• Xu Yang welcomed Jun Qing and asked her to resolve his doubts, prompting her to wonder whether he wanted to know when the grotto-heaven True Immortals would enter the world.

Xu Yang asked Jun Qing about the God War, and she explained that the ancient conflict was fought over Primordial Chaos energy connected to the Golden Immortal Dao Fruit. Jun Qing left him questioning what the Dao Fruit was and what the energy truly represented.

• Xu Yang asked Jun Qing why the ancient God War began, how it ended, and why the immortal realms and other domains were sealed away.
• Jun Qing explained that the heavens and myriad worlds shared similar religious lineages because their Three Pure Ones, Shakyamuni, and sages manifested the Great Dao.
• Jun Qing said the ancient war erupted because the major Daoist lineages and Immortal-God Emperors fought over the Golden Immortal Dao Fruit and its Primordial Chaos energy.
• Jun Qing told Xu Yang that the war ended with both sides grievously wounded, the immortal realms sealed, and the Primordial Chaos energy reportedly divided among the emperors.
• Jun Qing identified the Great Brahma True God, formed by the united Three-Phases God, as the strongest emperor and likely the greatest recipient of Primordial Chaos energy.
• Xu Yang asked what the Golden Immortal Dao Fruit and Primordial Chaos energy were, but Jun Qing had no definite answer.

Xu Yang suspected that the Mara Realm’s demonic calamity might involve the Golden Immortal Dao Fruit and prepared for the possibility that the Immortal Gods had been corrupted. He gained new cultivation methods and resolved to strengthen himself and the Myriad Dao Academy before the Immortal Realms were unsealed, then turned his attention back to the present world and other realms.

• Xu Yang and Jun Qing discussed when the demonic calamity began and considered the possibility that the Mara Realm possessed a Golden Immortal or a power beyond one.
• Jun Qing warned Yuzhao that they had to prepare for the worst, then joked about debuting with her as a master-and-disciple duo.
• Xu Yang examined the Alliance Heaven Dao Art Jun Qing had gifted him and reasoned that the Golden Immortal Dao Fruit could be a Mara Realm trap that had corrupted the Immortal Gods.
• Xu Yang began comprehending the Doushuai True Edict and Nine Heavens Profound Scripture, hoping to advance his cultivation methods before the Immortal Realms were unsealed.
• Xu Yang returned his focus to the present world and planned to expand the Myriad Dao Academy while avoiding another war in the Blue Star World.

Xu Yang awoke from a thousand-year dream with his cultivation and skills greatly strengthened, then decided to end his years of hiding and bring Myriad Dao Academy into the open. Three months later, the South Sea gathered on Cloud Dragon Island to celebrate Chi Yan’s Great Vehicle breakthrough, while guests whispered about Nine Heavens Sword Pavilion’s influence and the absence of Myriad Sword Pavilion.

• Xu Yang reviewed the gains of his dream journey and resolved to advance to Great Vehicle and settle old grievances.
• Xu Yang summoned his ten great disciples and assigned them tasks as he prepared to unite the South Sea heterodox sects and challenge the Northern Region’s Immortal Sects.
• Xu Yang reasoned that the Earth Immortal Realm’s Tongtian Secret Realm was not yet open and that he lacked time to develop Divine Martial World, so he chose to build power in the real world.
• Three months later, cultivators from across the South Sea attended a banquet on Cloud Dragon Island honoring Chi Yan’s Great Vehicle breakthrough.
• Guests discussed the lavish congratulatory gifts, Nine Heavens Sword Pavilion’s pressure on South Sea Sect, and Myriad Sword Pavilion’s departure.

Ancestor Chi Yan imposed the Ten Alliance Iron Laws on South Sea cultivators and demanded their help hunting Li Xuanyuan, but Li Xuanyuan arrived at the banquet and killed him with one sword. Li Xuanyuan seized control of the South Sea, and Xiao Teng led the Nine Heavens Sword Pavilion toward him to avenge his wife and son.

• Ancestor Chi Yan gathered South Sea cultivators, established the Ten Alliance Iron Laws, and ordered them to help Chi Yan Island search for Li Xuanyuan.
• Li Xuanyuan descended onto Cloud Dragon Island and killed Chi Yan with a single sword, overcoming the Crimson Flame Burning Heaven Array.
• Li Xuanyuan’s forces captured Chi Yan Island’s cultivators, and Li Xuanyuan declared himself supreme over the South Sea Cultivation World.
• Several days later, Xiao Teng arrived with the Nine Heavens Sword Pavilion and prepared to confront Li Xuanyuan, despite his elder brother’s warning about Li Xuanyuan’s strength.

Xu Yang ambushed Xiao Teng and two other Great Vehicle cultivators from the Nine Heavens Sword Pavilion as they approached the South Sea, then overwhelmed and pursued them. He killed the Xiao Family elders and finally beheaded Xiao Teng, fulfilling his promise to offer Xiao Teng’s head at Li Cangwu’s grave.

• Xiao Teng arrived at Cloud Dragon Island with two other Great Vehicle cultivators, intent on eliminating Li Xuanyuan and protecting the Xiao Family’s standing.
• Xu Yang attacked the colossal ship, wounded the Xiao Family Third Elder, and fought all three Xiao Family cultivators at once.
• The Xiao Family elders fled, but Xu Yang caught them with his Five-Colored Divine Light and engulfed the Third Elder and the Great Elder.
• Xiao Teng escaped to the Central Plains, where Xu Yang intercepted him and recalled his promise to take Xiao Teng’s head for Li Cangwu.
• Xu Yang struck Xiao Teng down and beheaded him.

Li Xuanyuan used his South Sea array to repel Nine Heavens Sword Pavilion and its allies, killing a Tribulation Immortal’s external incarnation and trapping or injuring many Mahayana cultivators. The South Sea heterodox cultivators hailed him as their first true immortal and called for him to lead them.

• Several months after Xiao Teng’s death, Northern Region cultivators gathered outside the South Sea and discovered Li Xuanyuan had prepared a seventh-rank absolute array.
• Li Xuanyuan challenged Nine Heavens Sword Pavilion to enter the array, and a black-robed elder charged inside while allied sects attacked from outside.
• Li Xuanyuan’s Five-Colored Divine Light destroyed the elder’s external incarnation, and Gong Junxin’s sword struck the array before the formation shattered his immortal sword.
• Li Xuanyuan expanded the array and trapped the assembled cultivators, while patriarchs opened escape routes through which only about half the Mahayana cultivators fled.
• The South Sea heterodox cultivators watched the Northern Region forces retreat and declared Li Xuanyuan their true immortal and leader.

Xu Yang assessed the gains from his South Sea victory while Meng Fanyin learned how his rise had weakened the orthodox sects amid growing demonic threats. The chapter ended as the Heavenly Demon Dao’s Yama Lord led an attack on Polo City, where a white-robed nun confronted him.

• Xu Yang considered exchanging his captured Mahayana cultivators for resources and using the South Sea to strengthen the Academy.
• A woman in white explained to Meng Fanyin that demons and devils were preparing a major assault and that the orthodox sects were stretched across the eastern and western fronts.
• The woman recounted Li Xuanyuan’s defeat of the Six Sects in the South Sea and said their envoys were seeking peace to recover their captives.
• Meng Fanyin grew distracted while hearing about Li Xuanyuan and the power of True Immortals and the demons’ foundational treasures.
• Heaven and Earth shook as the Heavenly Demon Dao’s Yama Lord led a force against Polo City, and a white-robed nun went out to face him.

The Jing Nian Nunnery Abbess fought Yama Lord to defend Polo City until Joyful Venerable revealed himself as a traitor and broke the city’s formation. A mysterious swordsman arrived and drove Yama Lord’s forces into retreat, but Joyful Venerable and Yama Lord were caught in a vast array as Yama Lord returned to counterattack.

• The Jing Nian Nunnery Abbess used the Lotus Heart Sword Platform and Polo Grand Formation to hold off Yama Lord’s demonic assault.
• Joyful Venerable emerged inside Polo City, broke the formation, and trapped the Abbess; she surrendered herself and the Lotus Heart Sword Platform to spare the city’s people.
• Meng Fanyin tried to help her master, but Joyful Venerable seized the Manjushri Wisdom Sword, while Yama Lord threatened the nuns.
• A young swordsman appeared and slaughtered many demons with a sudden burst of sword energy, then wounded Yama Lord so badly that he fled and the demonic forces scattered.
• Joyful Venerable tried to retreat, but Yama Lord returned and warned him that a seventh-rank array had trapped them; Joyful Venerable saw four killing arrays surrounding the area.

Xu Yang rescued Jing Nian Nunnery from Yama Lord and Joyful Venerable, then reunited with Meng Fanyin and settled her past-life connection with the Sword Nun. He brought Meng Fanyin back to White Jade Capital and planned to build his strength for future campaigns while preparing to enter the Tongtian Secret Realm.

• Xu Yang used the Four-Gate Death Formation and Five-Colored Divine Light to defeat Yama and Joyful Venerable, then swept away the remaining demonic forces.
• Xu Yang brought Meng Fanyin before the Sword Nun and revealed the Manjushri Wisdom in her brow; Meng Fanyin returned the Manjushri Wisdom Sword, but the Sword Nun let her keep it as a thread of Incense Friendship.
• Meng Fanyin left Jing Nian Nunnery with Xu Yang, and the Sword Nun watched them depart while reflecting on Xu Yang's power and the karma between them.
• At Kirin Palace, Xu Yang told Meng Fanyin how he had resolved her situation and explained that the White Jade Capital could contend with newly ascended Calamity Immortals.
• Xu Yang decided to consolidate his strength in the South Sea and prepare for the Tongtian Secret Realm, then invited Meng Fanyin to cultivate the Great Law of Yin Yang Harmony with him.

After three hundred years of demonic devastation, the Huiming Realm’s last refuge faced a final assault when its protective array failed. Heavenly forces from Myriad Dao Academy arrived, rescued the besieged cultivators, and exposed Huiming Sect Master Zhou Yunming’s collusion with the demons.

• Cultivators at Huiming Mountain despaired as a demonic tide attacked and the Huiming Grand Array failed to activate.
• Myriad Dao Academy’s White Jade Immortal City, patrol warships, Heavenly Soldiers, and Divine Generals descended and devastated the demons.
• The demons turned toward Huiming Mountain, where the Grand Array activated briefly before Great Heavenly Divine Thunder shattered it.
• The Great Heavenly Inspector Spirit Official accused Zhou Yunming of colluding with demons and declared that the Dao Master had ordered his arrest.
• Fengming defeated an eagle-faced Demon Realm god’s external incarnation with the Li Di Yan Guang Banner, then killed Zhou Yunming as he tried to flee.

The Myriad Dao Academy took control of the Huiming Realm after purging its demons, while the survivors began to face rebuilding under the Academy’s rule. Months later, Zhou Yunming was executed on the Immortal Execution Platform, and the capture of the Calamity Realm Demon Monk Xing Chi showed how the Myriad Dao Venerable Lord had shifted the balance of power across the Earth Immortal Realm.

• The Great Spirit Official of Doutian declared that Zhou Yunming had colluded with demons and announced that the Huiming Realm would pass from Huiming Mountain to the Myriad Dao Academy.
• The Academy’s Dao followers cleared the demons and began purifying the realm, while the surviving cultivators debated the Academy’s authority and the Spirit Island youth Xiaoyao watched White Jade Immortal City depart.
• Several months later, White Jade Immortal City left the Huiming Realm, leaving behind a newly built Academy and a devastated realm to rebuild.
• At the Immortal Execution Platform, law enforcement cultivators executed Zhou Yunming, killing both his body and Primordial Spirit.
• The Law Enforcement Spirit Official brought the defiant Demon Monk Xing Chi to the platform and recited his crimes, including his ambush of a Myriad Dao Academy Patrol Warship.
• The gathered cultivators recognized Xing Chi as a Five Tribulations Calamity Realm Venerable and attributed his capture to the Myriad Dao Venerable Lord.

Xing Chi was executed on the Immortal Execution Platform after its lightning suppressed his Buddha-Demon cultivation, prompting cultivators to suspect that the Myriad Dao Venerable Lord had advanced toward the Calamity Realm. Months later, the Jade Emperor faced ministers demanding that the Myriad Dao Academy lose its authority, but he suspended court after seeing a vision of Calamity Clouds over the Southern Continent Realm.

• The Immortal Execution Platform’s lightning weakened Xing Chi’s Three Lights and Five Wheel Vein Sources, allowing the guillotine to kill him.
• Cultivators concluded that the Myriad Dao Venerable Lord had developed methods capable of restraining Calamity Realm experts and feared the Academy’s growing power.
• At the Heavenly Court’s grand assembly, Grandmaster Huiming and other ministers accused the Myriad Dao Academy of seizing the Huiming Realm and demanded the return of its authority to patrol the heavens.
• The Star of Longevity Palace Master defended the Academy’s actions, while the Jade Emperor struggled to answer the ministers’ demands because the Academy’s authority came from an alliance.
• After an attendant delivered a message, the Jade Emperor suspended court and went to Empress Yu, who showed him an ancient mirror depicting Calamity Clouds over the Southern Continent Realm.

Xu Yang survived the Immortal Realm calamity and entered the Calamity Realm, then announced a Pill Origin Convention at Wuzhuang Temple. The gathering drew powerful guests and old rivals, including the South Sea Dragon race and the Underworld, as a Buddha appeared overhead.

• Xu Yang passed the heavenly calamity and achieved the Dao Body Immortal Embryo, becoming a Calamity Realm Immortal.
• Xu Yang ordered Qingfeng Mingyue to invite the world to a Pill Origin Convention, and the Jade Emperor decided to send the Yaochi Palace Master to congratulate him.
• Three months later, powerful lineages and sects gathered at Wuzhuang Temple, bringing lavish gifts for Xu Yang.
• Ao Qin led the South Sea Dragon race to congratulate Xu Yang, and True Person Ziyang welcomed them despite their past conflict with him.
• King Taishan arrived on behalf of the Underworld and was welcomed by Sword Lord Chun Jun, while guests discussed the Book of Life and Death.
• A Buddha appeared above Longevity Mountain as the gathering looked toward the heavens.

Great Compassion Bodhisattva and the Yaochi Palace Master arrived at Wuzhuang Temple with lavish gifts to congratulate Zhenyuan on entering tribulation, stirring speculation about the Buddhist Sect’s intentions and the Heavenly Court’s support. As the Pill Origin Gathering began, the guests feasted and awaited Zhenyuan’s appearance and the unveiling of his latest pills.

• Cultivators at Wuzhuang Temple recalled the Buddhist Sect’s old conflict with Zhenyuan and suspected Great Compassion’s precious gifts might conceal an ulterior purpose.
• Great Compassion Bodhisattva arrived and presented Pure Vase Jade Dew and Pure Bitter Bamboo as congratulatory gifts.
• The Yaochi Palace Master arrived on behalf of the Heavenly Court and presented peaches and other lavish gifts.
• Guests took their seats, drank Jade Dew, and discussed the banquet’s delicacies and Zhenyuan’s Grass Returning Pills while awaiting the gathering’s main event.