Chapter Summaries

Li Xuan taught Xu Yan and Meng Chong the next realms of sword and blade cultivation, then continued studying the Taicang Book as his disciples and allies advanced and departed to pursue their own paths. After Xu Yan and Meng Chong set out to explore the Divine Realm, Li Xuan helped Cai Ling'er begin activating her Sea Spirit Emperor bloodline.

• Li Xuan speculated about realms beyond the Immortal Celestial Venerable Realm and taught Xu Yan and Meng Chong the Sacred Sword Realm and Sacred Blade Realm.
• Wu Tiannan, Xin Mengrou, Yue Changming, Fu Tianhai, the Great Zhou Emperor, Xie Tianheng, and others broke through to the Law Condensation Celestial Venerable Realm, while Xu Yan, Meng Chong, and Su Lingxiu advanced in the Supernatural Ability Realm.
• Du Yuying, Yun Miaomiao, Ziyun, Yue'er, and other companions departed for upper sects, while Wu Tiannan later left to search for his martial guide.
• Xu Yan departed for Tianwu Sect and Meng Chong set out for Wanlei Sect, while Fang Hao, Su Lingxiu, and Jiang Buping stayed behind to pursue their work and cultivation.
• Li Xuan recognized Cai Ling'er as the bearer of an unactivated Sea Spirit Emperor bloodline and taught her how to awaken it.

Xu Yan uncovered Sect Master Wei’s plot to admit a Nether Prison Blood Disciple into the Tieling Heavenly Cave and slew the Blood Disciple before a new invasion began. Fighting the invaders, Xu Yan gained insight into the Wisdom Sword and Dragon Subduing Palm, then destroyed the invading forces with Wisdom Sword Slaying Demons.

• Xu Yan overheard Sect Master Wei and a masked man arrange for a Blood Disciple to enter the Tieling Heavenly Cave, and planned to expose them.
• Sect Master Wei secretly brought a Blood Disciple through the Heavenly Cave and sent the guards away from its exit.
• Xu Yan struck from concealment with the Heaven Severing Sword and killed the Blood Disciple, while the returning elders exposed Sect Master Wei’s betrayal.
• Nether Prison forces invaded the Heavenly Cave, and Xu Yan fought them while two elders battled Sect Master Wei.
• Xu Yan gained new insights into his sword path and the seventh level of Dragon Subduing Palm, then used Wisdom Sword Slaying Demons to destroy the invaders.

Xu Yan and Meng Chong’s exploits spread through Qinghua Realm as Li Xuan gained breakthroughs from their cultivation. Meanwhile, Fang Hao and Su Lingxiu helped Great Yue Kingdom, Wanlei Sect, and Tianwu Sect develop communication, teleportation, and medicinal resources, leaving Qinghua Realm entering a new era.

• Xu Yan killed Sect Master Wei after defeating Netherworld Prison enemies, and Tianwu Sect ordered an investigation into traitors while warning its people not to offend him.
• Meng Chong’s battle against Blood Slaves earned him the name Heavenly God Meng Chong, while Xu Yan’s Wisdom Sword Realm and Dragon Subduing Palm advanced and Meng Chong comprehended the second layer of the Great Sun Star Indestructible Body.
• Li Xuan’s Body Cultivation Martial Dao broke through to the Void Breaking Realm, and he considered Jiang Buping’s slow progress in resolving Unchanging Qi to be a promising first step.
• Fang Hao gave the Great Yue Emperor new Communication Talismans and began arranging Teleportation Arrays, while Su Lingxiu supplied pills and asked for rare treasures to research pills that could aid breakthroughs to the Immortal Celestial Venerable Realm.
• Great Yue Kingdom, Wanlei Sect, and Tianwu Sect acquired communication, teleportation, and medicinal resources, bringing Qinghua Realm into a new era.

Five years after Qinghua Realm’s transformation, Li Xuan gained the Path of Supernatural Abilities when Wu Tiannan cultivated the Heavenly Wave Palm, while Xu Yan prepared to seek treasures in the Nine Mountain Realm to strengthen his foundation. The chapter left Xu Yan heading through the Realm Gate toward the Witch Demon Heavenly Cave.

• Over five years, pill refinement, Artifact Refining, and Body Cultivation spread through Qinghua Realm as its martial artists grew stronger and the Netherworld Heavenly Caves came under increasing pressure.
• Li Xuan learned that Xu Yan had reached the peak of the Supernatural Ability Realm, Meng Chong and Su Lingxiu had reached its late stage, and all three of his martial paths had entered the Void Breaking Realm.
• Wu Tiannan cultivated Li Xuan’s Heavenly Wave Palm, granting Li Xuan the Path of Supernatural Abilities and enabling him to create cultivable supernatural abilities.
• Xu Yan decided to seek a special treasure to build his foundation before breaking through to the Divine Aspect Realm, and Sect Master Tianwu recommended the Ten-Thousand-Kilogram Duckweed in the Nine Mountain Realm.
• Xu Yan learned that the treasure could be found in the Witch Demon Heavenly Cave, thanked Sect Master Tianwu, and set off through the Realm Gate for the Nine Mountain Realm.

A seductive Witch Demon took control of a Heavenly Cave in Thousand Layers Mountain and learned that Xu Yan had entered the Divine Realm, then plotted to lure him there. Meanwhile, Xu Yan traveled toward Snake Peak Heavenly Cave after learning that its rare Blood Heart Fruit might help him master the Lesser Eye of the Heavenly Dao.

• A powerful Witch Demon descended into a Heavenly Cave, consumed the souls of its disciples and two Law Condensation Celestial Venerables, and learned about Xu Yan from them.
• The Witch Demon enthralled two True King Celestial Venerables and ordered them to prepare the Heavenly Cave and lure Xu Yan inside.
• Xu Yan traveled through Nine Mountain Realm toward Thousand Layers Mountain and admired its abundance of spiritual medicines.
• Xu Yan learned that Snake Peak Heavenly Cave held scarce Blood Heart Fruits that could aid comprehension, and decided to seek them to help cultivate the Lesser Eye of the Heavenly Dao.
• Martial artists outside Snake Peak Heavenly Cave discussed the Wan Family's prodigy, Wan Tianlin, and his desire to obtain a Blood Heart Fruit to comprehend a cultivation technique.

Xu Yan entered Snake Peak Heavenly Cave to gather Blood Heart Fruits and impersonated Blood Disciples to infiltrate their settlement. After killing more than a hundred Blood Disciples and collecting only a few dozen fruits, he approached a powerful squad leader and began a false explanation, leaving his disguise at risk of discovery.

• Xu Yan learned the Wan Family planned an attack in twenty days, so he headed into the Nether Prison’s territory alone to find Blood Heart Fruits.
• Xu Yan killed a patrol squad, disguised himself as Eight-Six-Seven, and entered the Blood Disciples’ settlement.
• Xu Yan killed the Blood Disciple who recognized Eight-Six-Seven’s designation, took his identity as Six-Six-Six, and began searching the stone houses for Blood Heart Fruits.
• Xu Yan killed more than a hundred Blood Disciples while gathering a little over thirty Blood Heart Fruits.
• Xu Yan approached a powerful Blood Disciple who called him Little Sixth and began speaking about the Wan Family to conceal his intentions.

Xu Yan infiltrated the Nether Prison camp disguised as the Six-Six Blood Disciple and secretly killed most of its Blood Disciples before fleeing. The Snake Peak Blood Child attacked the great city, furious over the loss of his followers, while Xu Yan warned the defenders and escaped notice.

• Xu Yan killed the Six-Six Blood Disciple in a silent ambush, stole his supplies, and disguised himself to take his place.
• Xu Yan used his new identity to enter nearby stone houses and secretly killed Blood Disciples until roughly seventy percent of the residents were gone.
• Xu Yan killed a powerful female Blood Disciple, then escaped the camp by pretending to flee from her enraged partner.
• Outside the camp, Xu Yan revealed himself, wounded and killed the gaunt Blood Disciple, and fled when the Blood Child approached.
• Xu Yan reached the great city and warned the Wan Family that the Blood Child was attacking, while the Blood Child blamed the Wan Family clan elder for the deaths of his disciples.

Xu Yan watched the Snake Peak Blood Scion and the Wan Family elder battle after his covert killing of most of the Blood Disciples, then tried to trade a Blood Heart Fruit to Wan Tianlin. Suspecting Wan Tianlin planned to take the fruit by force, Xu Yan abandoned the deal and headed toward Thousand Layers Mountain, where two attackers ambushed him.

• The Snake Peak Blood Scion accused the Wan Family elder of killing seventy percent of his Blood Disciples, and the two fought for three days and nights before the Scion retreated, both badly wounded.
• The Wan Family elder canceled the planned raid on the Netherworld Prison's camp after learning someone had already picked the Blood Heart Fruit, while Xu Yan left to arrange a trade with the Wan Family.
• Wan Tianlin met Xu Yan at Jade Bamboo Slope and offered to exchange the fruit for treasures, but he balked at Xu Yan's list and asked to receive the fruit before delivering the goods.
• Xu Yan refused to hand over the Blood Heart Fruit without a face-to-face trade and a martial oath, then decided Wan Tianlin was likely plotting to seize it.
• Xu Yan abandoned the trade and set off for Thousand Layers Mountain, but two powerful auras descended and attacked him from opposite sides.

Xu Yan killed the masked attackers who ambushed him and pursued Wan Tianlin, whose guards were also caught in the Blood Heart Fruit trap. After Xu Yan killed one of Wan Tianlin’s guards and set a Divine Essence Incarnation to await the planned trade, Wan Tianlin returned to the Wan Family, which secretly mobilized and doubled its bounty for the fruit.

• Xu Yan killed three masked attackers with his Sword Mountain River technique and concluded that Wan Tianlin had sent them to seize the Blood Heart Fruit.
• Wan Tianlin and his guards were ambushed; after Wan Tianlin wounded an attacker and one guard killed another with a secret technique, Wan Tianlin escaped while the remaining guard went after Xu Yan.
• Xu Yan killed the pursuing peak True King Celestial Venerable guard by exploiting a lull in his secret technique, then took the guard’s Storage Bag.
• Xu Yan failed to catch Wan Tianlin before he returned to the Wan Family and planned to use a Divine Essence Incarnation to wait for him at Jade Bamboo Slope in three days.
• Wan Tianlin ordered an investigation into the ambush and Xu Yan, while the Wan Family secretly mobilized and doubled its bounty for the Blood Heart Fruit.

Xu Yan traded a Blood Heart Fruit to Wan Tianlin’s guard, but masked conspirators arranged for the guard to be killed and the fruit stolen, making the Wan Family believe Xu Yan had betrayed them. As the Wan Family launched a sweeping investigation and prepared to escalate the conflict, Xu Yan vanished beyond the conspirators’ reach.

• Wan Tianlin suspected Xu Yan had engineered the upheaval in Snake Peak Heavenly Cave and sent a guard to Jade Bamboo Slope to trade for the Blood Heart Fruit.
• The Fierce Fiend Masked Man and his Heavenly Fiend Earth Shadow Organization plotted to deepen the hatred between Xu Yan and the Wan Family, hoping their conflict would spread between the Nine Mountain Realm and Qinghua Realm.
• Xu Yan exchanged a Blood Heart Fruit for treasures with Wan Tianlin’s guard, then waited for the Wan Family to act against him.
• After Xu Yan left, someone killed the guard and stole the Blood Heart Fruit; Wan Tianlin responded by ordering Xu Yan’s capture and mobilizing the Wan Family to search Great Cover Mountain.
• The Heavenly Fiend Earth Shadow Organization discovered it could not locate Xu Yan and ordered its members to search for him.

Xu Yan used Blood Heart Fruits to fully comprehend the Lesser Eye of the Heavenly Dao and Heavenly Will Calming Spirit, then cultivated the Lesser Eye to entry level while remaining hidden in Great Cover Mountain. As the Wan Family, Heavenly Fiend Earth Shadow, and a group from Witch Demon Heavenly Cave searched for him, the Wan Family issued a huge bounty and rumors about Xu Yan spread.

• Xu Yan swallowed Blood Heart Fruits and fully comprehended the Lesser Eye of the Heavenly Dao and the supreme supernatural ability Heavenly Will Calming Spirit.
• Xu Yan hid in a cave and cultivated the Lesser Eye of the Heavenly Dao, gaining a powerful eye between his brows and the ability to see through arrays.
• The Wan Family, Heavenly Fiend Earth Shadow, and martial artists from Witch Demon Heavenly Cave searched Great Cover Mountain but could not find Xu Yan.
• Xu Yan began cultivating Heavenly Will Calming Spirit and planned to use it against Wan Tianlin and the Wan Family.
• The Wan Family issued a generous bounty for information leading to Xu Yan's capture, and rumors about why he was wanted spread through Great Cover Mountain.

After completing Heavenly Will Calming Spirit, Xu Yan used it to control Shen Kui, an Earth Shadow infiltrator, and ordered him to assassinate the person who had sent him after Xu Yan. Shen Kui attacked the Fierce Fiend Masked Man at a hidden stronghold, leaving him gravely wounded before Shen Kui died; Xu Yan continued toward a Wan Family city to carry out his plans against Wan Tianlin.

• The Fierce Fiend Masked Man, Wan Tianlin, and another faction searched Great Cover Mountain for the missing Xu Yan, while Xu Yan finished cultivating Heavenly Will Calming Spirit in seclusion.
• Xu Yan left seclusion and headed toward a Wan Family city, intending to learn more about Wan Tianlin and use a controlled target to strike back at the family.
• Shen Kui, an Earth Shadow infiltrator ordered to find and assassinate Xu Yan, spotted him and prepared an ambush.
• Xu Yan evaded Shen Kui, subdued him with Heavenly Will Calming Spirit and the Lesser Eye of the Heavenly Dao, and ordered him to kill the person who had sent him to assassinate Xu Yan.
• Shen Kui went to a hidden stronghold and stabbed the Fierce Fiend Masked Man, grievously wounding him before the stronghold commander defeated Shen Kui and Shen Kui died.

Xu Yan lured Wan Tianlin into a confrontation, but their battle was interrupted by True King Celestials from Thousand Layers Mountain who claimed they had come to protect him. Xu Yan recognized that they had been bewitched and suspected the Bewitching Witch was targeting him.

• After Shen Kui died, the wounded Fierce Fiend Masked Man summoned the base commander, who attacked and killed him to make himself appear innocent.
• Xu Yan learned the Wan Family had placed a bounty on him, then used the Blood Heart Fruit to lure Wan Tianlin into a fight.
• Wan Tianlin arrived with two powerful Wan Family elders, but Xu Yan easily suppressed his attacks and blocked an elder with the Yin Yang Undying Sword.
• True King Celestials from Thousand Layers Mountain intervened and urged Xu Yan to leave with them, claiming they had been ordered to protect him.
• Xu Yan used the Lesser Eye of the Heavenly Dao to discover the True King Celestials had been bewitched and suspected the Bewitching Witch was behind their actions.

Xu Yan and Wan Tianlin uncovered a plot that had manipulated them into conflict, then reconciled and agreed to cooperate against the hidden force. After Wan Tianlin gathered Xu Yan’s requested treasures, Xu Yan learned the Bewitching Witch was in Thousand Layers Mountain and reconsidered whether to go there.

• Xu Yan rejected the Bewitching Witch’s controlled True King Celestial Venerables’ help, revealed his identity to Wan Tianlin, and demonstrated his strength with a golden dragon.
• Wan Tianlin explained the assassination attempt and discovered that Xu Yan had given the Blood Heart Fruit to his dead guard, revealing that someone had engineered their conflict.
• Xu Yan and the Wan Family attacked the controlled True Kings; one self-destructed under the Bewitching Witch’s power, while three escaped.
• Wan Tianlin apologized, promised to gather Xu Yan’s requested treasures, accepted a Blood Heart Fruit, and received a Communication Talisman from Xu Yan.
• The Wan Family withdrew its bounty and searched for the conspirators, while the Heavenly Fiend Earth Shadow Organization launched an internal investigation after its operation failed.
• Wan Tianlin later delivered the gathered treasures at Stone Peak, and Xu Yan concluded that the Bewitching Witch was in Thousand Layers Mountain, leaving his plans to visit undecided.

Xu Yan went into hiding to build his foundation, while Bewitching Witch lured him with a Seven Marvelous Divine Flower and the Heavenly Fiend Earth Shadow Organization plotted to ignite war between realms. Tian Shiqi tried to recruit the Wind Spirit Tiger to his cause, and Meng Chong was ambushed by four peak True King Celestial Venerables in the Nine Mountain Realm.

• Xu Yan concealed himself on Great Cover Mountain and began accumulating his foundation for a breakthrough to the Divine Aspect Realm.
• Bewitching Witch ordered her followers to tell Xu Yan about the Seven Marvelous Divine Flower in hopes of drawing him to Thousand Layers Mountain.
• Seven-Leaf Heavenly Fiend ordered attacks on Xu Yan and Meng Chong and planned to infiltrate Qinghua Realm to provoke conflict.
• Tian Shiqi urged the Wind Spirit Tiger to join his effort to bring about the unification of Heaven and Earth, and the tiger agreed to consider it.
• Meng Chong decided to seek Senior Disciple Brother and exchange insights about the Lesser Eye of the Heavenly Dao.
• Four masked peak True King Celestial Venerables attacked Meng Chong, who recognized that they had specifically targeted him.

Meng Chong escaped an ambush by the Heavenly Fiend Earth Shadow Organization after being injured by Five-Leaf Heavenly Fiend. On Spirit Venerable Mountain, Red Cat flattered Wind Spirit Tiger into naming him the second king and placing him in charge of the spirit beasts, leaving the Spirit Venerable Sect Master dumbfounded.

• Four peak True King Celestial Venerables attacked Meng Chong, but he endured their strikes with Boundless Divine Waves and wounded one attacker.
• Five-Leaf Heavenly Fiend pierced Meng Chong's defenses with a slender blade, so Meng Chong blasted the attackers back and fled; the organization ordered its members to keep hunting him.
• Red Cat, Yu Xiaolong, and Xiao Ha entered Spirit Venerable Mountain, where Red Cat won the spirit beasts' trust and approached Wind Spirit Tiger with gifts and flattery.
• Red Cat dressed Wind Spirit Tiger in a gold chain, seated him on a throne, and arranged a grand procession that convinced Wind Spirit Tiger to appoint Red Cat second king and put him in charge of the spirit beasts.
• The Spirit Venerable Sect Master visited Wind Spirit Tiger and was scolded about etiquette, then told to treat Red Cat as Wind Spirit Tiger's equal; he left suspecting Red Cat had caused the tiger's transformation.

Li Xuan received Xu Yan’s breakthroughs and transformations as feedback, reaching great completion in the Void Breaking Realm and gaining the Mountain River Sacred Body. He also discovered spies embedded in his disciples’ academies and ordered Feng Yan to capture them, leaving the Great Yue Emperor and sect representatives alarmed.

• Meng Chong changed his appearance, entered a Heavenly Grotto, and faced repeated attacks from True King Celestial Venerables, killing several attackers despite ambushes and poison.
• Xu Yan comprehended the Lesser Eye of the Heavenly Dao and Heavenly Will Calming Spirit, and Li Xuan received great-completion feedback for both abilities.
• Xu Yan broke through to the Divine Aspect Realm and transformed into the Mountain River Sacred Body, granting Li Xuan the Innate Mountain River Sacred Body and great completion in the Void Breaking Realm.
• Li Xuan used the Lesser Eye of the Heavenly Dao to identify several concealed spies in Qimen Academy and the Alchemy and Medicine Academy.
• Li Xuan instructed Shi Er to tell Feng Yan to capture the spies, and Feng Yan handed one over to the Great Yue Emperor for investigation.
• The Great Yue Emperor, Cheng Zhan, and the Tianwu Sect representative changed expression when Feng Yan said he had acted on Senior’s instruction.

The Great Yue Emperor exposed Shadowland spies, while Xu Yan broke through to the Divine Aspect Realm and set out for Thousand Layers Mountain. After learning of a Seven Marvelous Divine Flower in the Witch Demon Heavenly Cave, Xu Yan ambushed the two True King Celestial Venerables who had tried to lure him there and prepared to meet the Bewitching Witch.

• The Shadowland spies killed themselves to erase evidence, and Cheng Zhan and the Tianwu Sect's person in charge returned to investigate their sect.
• Li Xuan guided Su Lingxiu and Fang Hao in cultivating the Lesser Eye of the Heavenly Dao while he worked on martial techniques and the Extreme Soul Martial Dao.
• Meng Chong avoided another ambush, decided not to enter a Heavenly Cave, and headed toward Great Cover Mountain to look for his senior disciple brother.
• Xu Yan broke through to the Divine Aspect Realm, considered how to strengthen his soul techniques, and decided to investigate the Bewitching Witch at Thousand Layers Mountain.
• Two True King Celestial Venerables tried to lure Xu Yan into the Witch Demon Heavenly Cave by secretly discussing its Seven Marvelous Divine Flower, and Xu Yan followed them after hearing the news.
• Xu Yan trapped the two True Kings with his Mountain River Sword Intent and used Heavenly Will Calming Spirit on one, while the other tried to break free.

Xu Yan entered the Witch Demon Heavenly Cave, seized the Seven Marvelous Divine Flower, and let Bewitching Witch capture him as part of his plan to turn her soul-devouring ability against her. Bewitching Witch swallowed the false soul Xu Yan had prepared, infused with Xun Feng Sword Intent, and was startled by its overwhelming, spicy flavor.

• Xu Yan controlled Bewitching Witch’s True King Celestial Venerables and learned that the Seven Marvelous Divine Flower was real and that Bewitching Witch could not reach Immortal Celestial Venerable strength.
• Xu Yan secretly fused Xun Feng Sword Intent into the controlled True King Celestial Venerables’ Primordial Spirits and prepared False Soul Pills to disguise his sword intent as a soul.
• Bewitching Witch waited for Xu Yan at the Witch Demon Heavenly Cave, and Xu Yan entered in disguise and quickly took the Seven Marvelous Divine Flower.
• Bewitching Witch trapped Xu Yan and ordered a True King Celestial Venerable to spread word of his capture, then devoured the Primordial Spirits of the remaining True King Celestial Venerables.
• Xu Yan resisted Bewitching Witch’s bewitchment and let her draw in the false soul made from a False Soul Pill and Xun Feng Sword Intent.
• Bewitching Witch wondered why Xu Yan’s soul tasted so spicy.

Xu Yan tricked Bewitching Witch into devouring a soul infused with Xun Feng Sword Intent, then destroyed her avatar and claimed she had swallowed his Sword Dao Soul. After learning that Meng Chong was being hunted, Xu Yan returned to Great Cover Mountain, drew out two masked assassins, and confronted them with his strengthened power.

• Xu Yan let Bewitching Witch absorb his sword-intent-infused False Soul Pill, then used the sword intent and the swallowed souls of several True King Celestial Venerables to tear apart her avatar from within.
• Xu Yan destroyed Bewitching Witch's attempts to descend into the Heavenly Grotto and convinced her that she had swallowed his Sword Dao Soul.
• Xu Yan left the Heavenly Grotto with the Seven Marvelous Divine Flower and learned that someone had been searching for him while Meng Chong was being hunted by an unknown force.
• Xu Yan returned to Great Cover Mountain, contacted Wan Tianlin, and revealed his whereabouts to lure out the force behind the attacks.
• Two masked peak True King Celestial Venerable assassins attacked Xu Yan, and he countered by summoning his divine manifestation and the Heaven and Earth Laws.