Chapter Summaries

Seven years after entering the Spirit Realm, Li Xuan watched his disciples rise in power as the Prodigy Competition neared its final battle. With Xu Yan advancing to the late Spirit Origin Realm and Fang Hao reshaping the Myriad Worlds Alliance, Li Xuan began considering a fifth Martial Dao and searching for another disciple.

• Fang Hao completed two Flying Ships, then left with Yue Changming for the Myriad Worlds Alliance headquarters while Su Lingxiu took Evergreen Pavilion on the road to practice medicine.
• Su Lingxiu returned the Golden-Horned Deer to Zhu Xingzheng, and Evergreen Pavilion began traveling across the Spirit Realm, treating difficult cases and damaged foundations.
• The Prodigy Competition intensified as Spirit Sect prodigies fought for ranking positions, while Tang Jinyan searched Jade Province for clues about Xu Yan and the Inner Domain martial artists.
• Over seven years, Fang Hao became the Myriad Worlds Alliance's Young Alliance Master, introduced Communication Talismans and Teleportation Arrays, and survived several assassination attempts.
• Xu Yan broke through to the late Spirit Origin Realm, while Meng Chong and Su Lingxiu reached minor mastery of the Spirit Origin Realm and Fang Hao advanced the Qimen Martial Dao.
• Li Xuan considered creating a fifth Martial Dao and finding a fifth disciple as the final battle of the Prodigy Competition drew closer.

Li Xuan studied the Taicang Book’s Dao Principles while Evergreen Pavilion treated patients at Golden Lotus Lake, where Su Lingxiu foiled an assassination attempt and seized the attacker’s deathly aura for research. In Great River Province, Xu Yan used his duel with the Blade-Wielding Elder to comprehend the Divine Aspect Realm and killed him.

• Li Xuan recognized the tenth page’s Taicang Dao Principles as the foundation of Heaven and Earth and struggled to memorize the eleventh page.
• Su Lingxiu treated an elderly assassin from Thousand Martial Hall, dissolved his deathly-aura attack, and extracted the aura after identifying his scheme.
• Xu Yan waited on a mountain in Great River Province for the Blade-Wielding Elder, whom he had deliberately lured to him.
• The Blade-Wielding Elder attacked Xu Yan with the Cold Absolute Blade and a second Divine Artifact, unleashing the power of the Heaven and Earth Laws.
• Xu Yan comprehended the martial principles of the Divine Aspect Realm during the battle and killed the Blade-Wielding Elder with a single sword strike.

Xu Yan left Great River Province for Yunshan Province while planning to search for news of Xie Lingfeng. In Tianling Province, Red Cat established the Great Demon Race and ended the chapter as a report arrived that the person who had deceived the spirit beasts had returned.

• Xu Yan left Great River Province, resolved to travel to Yunshan Province, and decided to look for Xie Lingfeng and pass him new cultivation methods.
• Red Cat summoned Tianling Province’s spirit beast overlords and declared that they would become the Great Demon Race, with Red Cat as their Great Demon King.
• Yu Xiaolong struck down a spirit beast that challenged Red Cat, while Red Cat argued that the Great Demon Method could free them from their bloodline limits.
• Snow Wolf pledged allegiance and became First Elder, and the gathered spirit beasts accepted Red Cat’s decree and worshiped the human figures he named as their Demon Ancestor, Holy Mother, and Supremes.
• Red Cat established Demon Race institutions, ordered the spirit beasts to study its wisdom booklets, and began assigning duties.
• A spirit beast reported that the person who had deceived the spirit beasts had returned.

Red Cat founded the Demon Race, captured Zhu Xingzheng, and discovered his connection to Evergreen Pavilion, while Li Xuan gained the Demon Ancestor True Body and began developing the Great Monster Martial Dao. As Su Lingxiu's group set course for Great Zhou, Xu Yan's breakthrough pushed Li Xuan into the Divine Aspect Realm, where he began to perceive Dao Principles beyond the Heaven and Earth Laws.

• Red Cat ordered Snow Wolf to capture Zhu Xingzheng, who had been trying to deceive spirit beasts in Tianling Province.
• Snow Wolf brought Zhu Xingzheng before Red Cat, who confiscated his pills and treasures but returned his Storage Ring after breaking its mark.
• Red Cat learned that Zhu Xingzheng had connections to Evergreen Pavilion and kept him behind for a conversation as the newly founded Demon Race began organizing itself.
• Su Lingxiu chose to visit Great Zhou Province and then Yunshan Province, and Li Xuan received the Demon Ancestor True Body after Red Cat established the Demon Race and honored him as its ancestor.
• Li Xuan enriched the Great Monster Martial Dao with new techniques and divine-ability concepts while Evergreen Pavilion's Flying Ship headed for Great Zhou.
• Xu Yan comprehended the martial path of the Divine Aspect Realm, prompting Li Xuan to break through to that realm and perceive the Dao Principles beyond the Heaven and Earth Laws.

Li Xuan passed the Demon Race supernatural abilities to Red Cat while continuing to develop the Martial Dao. Xu Yan reached the Tai Miao Sect to seek Du Yuying and Yun Miaomiao, but the sect denied knowing them and attacked him after he invoked Xin Mengrou’s name.

• Li Xuan shared the Demon Race supernatural abilities with Red Cat and advised it that it could safely pass the Great Demon Method to spirit beasts.
• Xu Yan completed his understanding of the Divine Aspect Realm cultivation method while traveling toward Yunshan Province and decided to visit the Tai Miao Sect.
• A Tai Miao Sect gatekeeper mistook Xu Yan’s visit for an attempt to blockade the sect, and Xu Yan entered after the gatekeeper fled inside.
• Xu Yan defeated an elder who confronted him, then told the Tai Miao Sect disciples he had come to visit Du Yuying and Yun Miaomiao.
• The Tai Miao Sect elders denied that Du Yuying and Yun Miaomiao were disciples and claimed their jade tokens were counterfeit.
• When Xu Yan said the tokens came from Xin Mengrou, the guardian elder attacked him, and Xu Yan countered with eighteen golden dragons.

Xu Yan reached Tai Miao Sect looking for Du Yuying, Yun Miaomiao, and information about Xie Lingfeng, but Xin Mengrou’s dreamlike test gave him insight into cultivating the Wisdom Sword Realm. After breaking free of the illusion, Xu Yan challenged Xin Mengrou at the summit, where their battle began.

• The Tai Miao Sect elders attacked Xu Yan, but Ya Rong stopped the conflict and led him toward the summit after explaining that the people he sought were with her Master.
• Xu Yan encountered an illusion of Du Yuying and Yun Miaomiao, recognized that the scene was false, and used the experience to understand how to cultivate the Wisdom Sword Realm.
• Xu Yan shattered the dream and found Cui'er and Wushuang in the courtyards; Cui'er told him that Du Yuying was at the summit with Ancestor Granny.
• Xu Yan rose toward the summit on a golden dragon, challenged Xin Mengrou, and struck at the petals she sent down with her sword.
• Xin Mengrou’s petals damaged Xu Yan’s dragon and sword light, so Xu Yan turned the surrounding stones and vegetation into swords and prepared to unleash a torrent of ten thousand swords.

Xu Yan met Xin Mengrou at Tai Miao Sect, learned Xie Lingfeng had gone to Cloud Sky Azure Sea City, and shared a method for refining Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy with Du Yuying and Yun Miaomiao. In Great Zhou, Ziyun set out for Evergreen Pavilion to buy pills while a prince arranged an ambush against her, and Meng Chong approached the capital.

• Xin Mengrou descended to meet Xu Yan, who saw through her illusion and compared her strength with Wu Tiannan's while boasting that his master surpassed her.
• Xu Yan learned from Ya Rong that Xie Lingfeng and his father had gone to Cloud Sky Azure Sea City, gave pills to Du Yuying, Yun Miaomiao, and Cui'er, and taught the two women how to refine Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy.
• Xin Mengrou asked where Xu Yan's master was, and Xu Yan told her he was at Evergreen Pavilion before she vanished.
• Ziyun told Xiang Qing she planned to buy cultivation pills at Evergreen Pavilion, accepted a Storage Bag of Divine Grade Spiritual Medicines, and left the capital with Steward A-Qiu.
• A prince ordered an ambush on Ziyun and A-Qiu, intending to conceal the Great Zhou Royal Family's involvement, then prepared to visit Evergreen Pavilion.
• Meng Chong strode toward Great Zhou and wondered how Ziyun was doing.

Meng Chong rescued Ziyun from an assassination and accompanied her toward Evergreen Pavilion, while Tang Jinyan interrogated the Purple Cloud Emperor and concluded that the Blood Demon might be behind Xu Yan and his fellow disciples. She headed to Thousand Martial Hall to report her suspicions and seek a powerful response against Evergreen Pavilion.

• Meng Chong heard Ziyun was under attack, killed the assassin blocking her escape, and defeated the attackers threatening Steward A-Qiu.
• Ziyun reunited with Meng Chong, explained her place in King Qing's lineage, and traveled with him toward Evergreen Pavilion.
• Xiang Qing learned Meng Chong had rescued Ziyun and ordered A-Qiu to conceal his identity from outsiders.
• Tang Jinyan threatened the Purple Cloud Emperor until he revealed that Xu Yan, Su Lingxiu, and Meng Chong were fellow disciples from the Inner Domain with a mysterious master.
• Tang Jinyan suspected the Blood Demon was their master, took the unconscious Purple Cloud Emperor, and set out for Thousand Martial Hall to report her discovery.

Li Xuan broke through into the Wisdom Sword Realm after Xu Yan comprehended its path, and a water sword awakened a young boy’s sword talent. As Xin Mengrou arrived at the Evergreen Pavilion to investigate Li Xuan and Xu Yan, she sensed powerful laws within Cai Ling’er’s divine soul.

• Su Lingxiu asked Li Xuan to condense Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy and the power of the Heaven and Earth Laws so she could practice her Heavenly Divine Furnace Alchemy Technique, then began refining pills.
• Su Lingxiu successfully refined a pill using Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy and decided Fang Hao should study whether an Array Formation could condense the Heaven and Earth Laws.
• Xu Yan’s comprehension caused Li Xuan to break through into the Wisdom Sword Realm, and Li Xuan sent a water sword to Little Star Lake, where it taught a boy named Zhen’er to slay the enemies attacking his family.
• Li Xuan refined a law pill for Cai Ling’er, then welcomed Meng Chong and Ziyun back and empowered Ziyun’s jade talisman.
• Xin Mengrou came to investigate Li Xuan and Xu Yan, recognized that Du Yuying was her descendant, and was stunned by Li Xuan’s presence and Cai Ling’er’s powerful laws.

Xin Mengrou received Law Pills and cryptic martial guidance from Li Xuan before leaving to return to the Tai Miao Sect. Meanwhile, Xiang Mingmao repeatedly tried to meet Su Lingxiu, then attacked Evergreen Pavilion after Xu Yan and Ziyun were welcomed inside, and fled when its defensive formation killed his guard.

• Li Xuan condensed Heaven and Earth Laws into Law Pills, gave Xin Mengrou two, and offered her guidance on transcending the Tai Miao Divine Art.
• Xin Mengrou thanked Li Xuan and left to contemplate his guidance, while Cai Ling'er returned to refine the Law Pills and Su Lingxiu reunited with Ziyun and the others.
• Shi Er refused Xiang Mingmao entry to Evergreen Pavilion, and the next day Meng Shushu again turned him away while selling him a Regeneration Pill.
• Xiang Mingmao returned a third day and erupted when Xu Yan entered Evergreen Pavilion and Ziyun was welcomed, accusing the pavilion of slighting the Great Zhou Royal Family.
• Su Lingxiu activated the pavilion's defensive formation, and Xiang Mingmao and his guards attacked it; the formation killed Xiang Mingmao's guard, forcing Xiang Mingmao to flee.

After the Great Zhou Royal Family refrained from retaliating against Evergreen Pavilion, the Spirit Sects suspected Li Xuan was a Heavenly Venerable and Thousand Martial Hall secretly plotted to find Xu Yan’s weakness in the Inner Domain. Xu Yan prepared to travel to the Azure Sea to find Xie Lingfeng and investigate its rumored divine treasures, especially the perilous Azure Sea Abyss.

• The Hall Master of Thousand Martial Hall gathered the Spirit Sect leaders and Prince Zi, who rejected his suspicion that Li Xuan was the returning Blood Demon and warned that Li Xuan was likely a Heavenly Venerable.
• The Hall Master of Thousand Martial Hall killed Purple Cloud Emperor, ordered two elders to enter the Inner Domain and seize Xu Yan’s weak point, and threatened Tang Jinyan into silence.
• Prince Zi stopped Xiang Mingmao from retaliating against Evergreen Pavilion and reported the incident to the Great Zhou Emperor, after which the royal family made no move against the pavilion.
• Li Xuan refined spirit paper inscribed with Dao Principles and gave it to Xu Yan to help him prepare for the Void Breaking Realm and future cultivation.
• Xu Yan decided to travel to Cloud Sky Azure Sea City to find Xie Lingfeng, pass on a cultivation method, and seek divine treasures before the Prodigy Competition’s final battle.
• Cai Ling'er told Xu Yan about the Azure Sea and warned him that the Azure Sea Abyss was deadly, while Xu Yan planned to investigate it with his Divine Essence Incarnation.

Xu Yan set out for the Azure Sea while Li Xuan taught Meng Chong the first two levels of the Great Sun Star Indestructible Body. The Evergreen Pavilion arrived at the Great Zhou Capital, where Prince Zi and Xiang Mingmao apologized to Su Lingxiu, while a Thousand Martial Hall elder discovered that the Gate of the Spirit Domain had disappeared.

• Cai Ling'er told Xu Yan about the Azure Sea Black Pool and gave him a Sea Spirit token and conch before he departed for the Azure Sea.
• Li Xuan taught Meng Chong the first two levels of the Great Sun Star Indestructible Body and said he would teach him the third after he comprehended the first.
• Prince Zi brought Xiang Mingmao to apologize to Su Lingxiu, who accepted their gift but refused the Great Zhou Emperor's banquet invitation.
• Ziyun led Su Lingxiu, Meng Chong, Yue'er, and Cai Ling'er to visit the Great Zhou Imperial Capital while Li Xuan explored the palace.
• Two Thousand Martial Hall elders secretly had Emperor Zheng open the Gate of the Spirit Domain, but one elder found that the gate had vanished.

The Thousand Martial Hall Master ordered the disappearance of the Gate of the Spirit Domain concealed while the sect prepared for the Prodigy Competition. Xu Yan received a sea-going Flying Ship from Fang Hao and set off for the Azure Sea, reaching Mist Province on his way to Cloud Sky Azure Sea City.

• The two Thousand Martial Hall elders confirmed that the Gate of the Spirit Domain had vanished, and Emperor Zheng secretly killed its guards to conceal the truth.
• The Thousand Martial Hall Master decided to hide the Gate's disappearance and told the elders to focus on the prodigies' decisive battle.
• Li Xuan secretly explored the Great Zhou Imperial Palace and browsed the Royal Family's Repository Pavilion while Su Lingxiu and the others toured the capital.
• Xu Yan visited Fang Hao in Chenzhou Province, and Fang Hao refined him a Sea-Escaping Ship equipped for underwater travel and navigation.
• Xu Yan departed for the Azure Sea and reached Mist Province, planning to find Xie Lingfeng and investigate the Azure Sea Black Pool and Azure Sea Abyss.

Xu Yan continued toward the Azure Sea while the chapter revealed the strange crisis surrounding Quiet Snow Palace in Ice Province. Mu Qianliu escaped the alluring woman who had drained his life force, but the expanding cavern began spreading warmth across Ice Province as she sent the palace’s women after him.

• Xu Yan planned to obtain the Azure Sea divine object and build enough foundation to reach the peak of the Spirit Origin Realm before the Prodigy Competition’s final battle.
• Mu Qianliu endured another encounter with the woman who controlled the souls and bodies of Quiet Snow Palace’s women, then received a warm pebble from the cavern and left to gather restorative medicines.
• Mu Qianliu fled Ice Province before his half-month deadline, delivered a letter through a stronghold, and headed for Jade Province rather than risk returning to the Mu Family.
• The woman realized Mu Qianliu had deceived her and sent Quiet Snow Palace’s women to search for him, but they found nothing.
• The ice-and-snow palace melted as scarlet light and warm air poured from the black cavern, which expanded and began melting Ice Province’s snow.

Mu Qianliu arrived at Evergreen Pavilion hoping to see Xiang Wei, but Meng Shushu recognized him and learned that Su Wan'er had died and their daughter, Su Lingxiu, was thriving. Mu Qianliu gave Meng Shushu a pale azure token for Lingxiu and warned him to avoid Ice Province and keep their meeting secret.

• Meng Chong left the Great Zhou Imperial Capital to roam the Spirit Domain, while Ziyun stayed to explore the Great Zhou Royal Family's foundations.
• Su Lingxiu chose Yunshan Province as Evergreen Pavilion's next destination, and Xiang Wei visited the pavilion before it departed.
• Mu Qianliu joined Evergreen Pavilion's queue, hoping to see Xiang Wei, but was shocked to find Meng Shushu receiving patients.
• Meng Shushu recognized Mu Qianliu and angrily confronted him over deceiving Su Wan'er, then told him that Wan'er and the old master had died and that Su Lingxiu was safe.
• Mu Qianliu gave Meng Shushu a pale azure token for Lingxiu, warned him never to go to Ice Province, and insisted that he keep their meeting secret.

Meng Shushu gave Mu Qianliu pills and kept his identity from Su Lingxiu, while Li Xuan discovered that Mu’s Azure Token was a Sky Cave Token. After Mu Qianliu killed Tang Jinyan and Thousand Martial Hall covered up Water Star Palace’s destruction, the story shifted to Blood Saber Bandits robbing a ship in the Azure Sea as a small blue boat approached.

• Mu Qianliu refused to reveal himself to Su Lingxiu, accepted Meng Shushu’s pills, and left after giving him the Azure Token.
• Li Xuan used divine essence to reveal the token’s name and its message about entering and suppressing the Sky Cave, then planned to give it to Su Lingxiu.
• Su Lingxiu chose to take Evergreen Pavilion to Tianling Province to visit Red Cat, while Mu Qianliu watched her depart and vowed to kill Tang Jinyan.
• Mu Qianliu visited Tang Jinyan, and Water Star Palace was later found annihilated; Thousand Martial Hall executed a scapegoat and claimed the crime had been avenged.
• Blood Saber Bandits attacked a trading ship in the Azure Sea, forced its passengers to surrender their belongings, and threatened one woman with sexual assault.
• A small azure-blue boat raced toward the ship from behind.

Xu Yan fished his way across the Azure Sea and encountered Blood Saber Bandits attacking a ship. After robbing and annihilating the bandits, he continued toward the Cloud Sky Sea Region, where a woman asked whether he was the Sword King.

• Xu Yan began fishing from his Sea-Escaping Ship, eventually hooking a powerful sea beast and letting it tow him toward the Cloud Sky Sea Region.
• The sea beast leaped near a ship occupied by Blood Saber Bandits and captive martial artists, giving the captives a chance to flee.
• Xu Yan pulled the sea beast away from the bandits’ attacks, then refused to surrender his boat and demanded the bandits’ Storage Bags instead.
• Xu Yan killed the Blood Saber leader with one sword strike and took the bandits’ Storage Bags, but they attempted a surprise attack as he prepared to leave.
• Xu Yan destroyed the remaining Blood Saber Bandits and resumed his journey with the sea beast towing his boat.
• A woman from the ship called after Xu Yan and excitedly asked if he was the Sword King.

Xu Yan learned that Xie Tianheng had become the Azure Sea’s Sword King while Xie Lingfeng had fallen from prodigy status. In Cloud Sky City, Xie Tianheng planned to take his son to the Eighteen Provinces for a chance to resume his cultivation, just as Xu Yan arrived at the City Lord’s Mansion.

• Xu Yan learned that the Sword King was Xie Tianheng and that Xie Lingfeng had been mocked as a fallen prodigy.
• A Martial Artist recounted how Xie Tianheng had defeated an early-stage Spirit Refining Heavenly Human while still at the Greater Heavenly Human level.
• Fu Yun complained that Xie Lingfeng had stopped advancing because he lacked the next Great Wilderness Martial Dao technique, and Xie Tianheng promised to seek it in the Eighteen Provinces.
• Fu Yun told Xie Tianheng about Xu Yan, Meng Chong, and the Pill Doctor Fairy, and Xie Tianheng decided to take Xie Lingfeng to the Eighteen Provinces.
• A steward told Fu Yun and Xie Tianheng that Xu Yan had arrived at the City Lord’s Mansion and claimed to be Xie Lingfeng’s former acquaintance.

Xu Yan arrived in Cloud Sky City to reunite with Xie Lingfeng and immediately clashed with the city’s arrogant prodigies and officials. After overpowering the Great Commander, Xu Yan became the focus of Cloud Sky Azure Sea City, where rumors spread that he had come to challenge its prodigies.

• Xie Lingfeng learned Xu Yan had arrived and rushed to greet him outside the City Lord’s Manor.
• Xu Yan slapped a prodigy who mocked Xie Lingfeng, then returned outside when the crowd demanded justice.
• Xu Yan dismissed Cloud Sky City’s rules and defeated the Great Commander by blocking his access to the power of the Heaven and Earth Laws.
• Xu Yan revealed himself as Sword God Xu Yan and entered the City Lord’s Manor with Xie Lingfeng.
• News of Xu Yan’s arrival spread through Cloud Sky Azure Sea City, stirring its prodigies and prompting some to seek a fight.

Xu Yan guided Xie Lingfeng into the Spirit Origin Realm, then set out to explore the Azure Sea after teaching him higher-level cultivation methods. Before Xu Yan could leave Cloud Sky Azure Sea City, Li Shao and Hai Bo'er challenged him, and he decisively overwhelmed both Azure Sea prodigies.

• Xu Yan spent half a month guiding Xie Lingfeng in cultivation and swordsmanship, while Fu Tianhai beat his son-in-law Xie Tianheng for questioning his decisions.
• Xie Lingfeng broke through to the Spirit Origin Realm, completed his martial foundation, gained a spirit bone, and received instruction in the Supernatural Ability Realm and Divine Aspect Realm methods.
• Li Shao and Hai Bo'er challenged Xu Yan, but he required them to defeat the Great Commander first; they fought over who would go first, then later both defeated him.
• Xu Yan prepared to leave Cloud Sky Azure Sea City to search for a divine object, but Li Shao and Hai Bo'er arrived to challenge him, prompting a battle over the sea.
• Li Shao attacked alone and was trapped in Xu Yan's sword formation, while Xu Yan's golden dragon technique drove Hai Bo'er from the sea and stopped her from drawing on its power.
• Fu Tianhai declared Xu Yan unrivaled among Spirit Realm prodigies, then discussed the approaching Divine Bridge with the Sea Spirit patriarch.