Chapter Summaries

Xu Yan and his companions grievously wounded Blood Mad, a Small World Master, then were trapped in his Blood Prison World. Xu Yan gathered their powers and Canghai Turtle’s into a single sword, preparing to kill Blood Mad and destroy the prison.

• Canghai Turtle opened a gap in its defenses as Xu Yan, Fang Hao, Meng Chong, and Jiang Buping attacked Blood Mad with a coordinated assault.
• Blood Mad broke Fang Hao’s formations and unleashed the Blood Prison World after his body was destroyed and his soul pierced.
• Xu Yan used the Primordial Turtle Shell to protect his companions while Canghai Turtle urged them to wear Blood Mad down inside its Canghai World.
• Xu Yan gathered Meng Chong, Jiang Buping, Fang Hao, and Canghai Turtle’s powers into his sword, which threatened to shatter under the strain.
• Xu Yan declared that he would slay Blood Mad with the gathered power of the sword.

Xu Yan killed Blood Mad with a sword that combined the strength of his companions and the Canghai Turtle, while Fang Hao forged a fast Unchanging Flying Ship for their search for Hongze World. As the ship collected treasures and Xu Yan gained insights into forming a Primordial Unity World, the Canghai Turtle sensed danger near an ancient mountain formed from a dead World Master-level True Spirit.

• Xu Yan used Sword World to kill the wounded Blood Mad, and the Canghai Turtle explained that the aura left by Blood Mad’s death had returned to the Unchanging Land.
• Fang Hao forged and activated the Unchanging Flying Ship, adding speed, concealment, teleportation, and spatial-shift formations.
• The Canghai Turtle piloted the Flying Ship through a True Spirit horde, and the group escaped its World Master-level leader after testing the ship’s speed.
• Fang Hao improved the Flying Ship with formations that detected and collected treasures, while Xu Yan studied the Unchanging Land and gained initial insights into forming a Primordial Unity World.
• The Flying Ship passed an ancient mountain formed from a dead World Master-level True Spirit, and the Canghai Turtle suddenly warned the others to be careful.

Xu Yan and his companions searched the Unchanging Land for the Hongze World while escaping an attack by the Unchanging Divine Palace. After discovering Origin Water formed from Hongze’s remains, the Canghai Turtle calculated the world’s likely direction, and Xu Yan spotted a dark object ahead that might be it.

• Xu Yan and his companions fought off the Unchanging Divine Palace’s three World Masters and slew many of their followers before escaping their encirclement.
• Xu Yan laid hidden Unchanging Sword Intent across the pursuers’ path, killing most of them and forcing the survivors to retreat.
• The group searched the Unchanging Land, and the Canghai Turtle sensed Origin Water inside an ancient mountain.
• Fang Hao collected the Origin Water and Hongze’s bone fragment after the Canghai Turtle recognized them as remnants of the Hongze World Master.
• The Canghai Turtle used the mountain’s connection to Hongze to calculate the world’s direction, and the Flying Ship traveled that way for a day and a night.
• Xu Yan pointed toward an object ahead and asked whether it was the Hongze World.

Xu Yan and his companions approached the Hongze World and heard a battle between World Lord-level experts in the Unchanging Land. The fight ended with Wu Mo killing a false World Lord from the Unchanging Divine Palace before fleeing into the chaos, while Xu Yan’s group hid near the Hongze World.

• Xu Yan and his companions cautiously approached the deathly Hongze World and concealed their Flying Ship in a nearby mountain.
• A distant clash led Xu Yan to conclude that World Lord-level experts were fighting, and the group speculated about the combatants and the cause.
• After a roar and a scream suggested one fighter had fallen, Xu Yan ordered everyone to conceal themselves in case the victor returned.
• Wu Mo absorbed the essence of the dead false World Lord and declared his intent to return and challenge the Unchanging Divine Palace.
• Wu Mo fled into the boundless chaos before another World Lord could find him.

Xu Yan and his fellow disciples entered the silent Hongze World to study its structure and search for traces of how Hongze created it. As they explored separately, each began gaining insights into their martial paths, and Xu Yan approached a breakthrough into Establishment of the Dao.

• Xu Yan, Meng Chong, Fang Hao, and Jiang Buping left the Canghai Turtle on watch and cautiously entered the desolate Hongze World.
• Xu Yan suspected that the lingering deathly aura came from Lord of the Unchanging Divine Palace, while he and his fellow disciples discussed the world's silence and decided to explore it.
• The four disciples split up to study the world, and Xu Yan walked across it while blending his sword intent with its mountains and rivers.
• Xu Yan derived rudimentary laws of the heavens and earth, began entering Establishment of the Dao, and formed a small world of sword intent around himself.
• Meng Chong's steps and controlled muscle tremors began resonating with the land, deepening his understanding of his bodily world.
• Fang Hao studied the world's terrain and veins to refine his Qimen World, while Jiang Buping merged his soul with the land to seek a soul that could endure even if the heavens and earth died.

While Xu Yan and three others continued exploring Hongze World, Canghai Turtle waited outside and a group from the Unchanging Divine Palace searched for the dead world. Inside a mountain, Xue Ji seized control of half of Blood Demon's body and soul, forcing them to negotiate as Blood Demon revealed the Jade Court's existence.

• Canghai Turtle waited outside Hongze World, fought down his fear, and wondered why Xu Yan and the others had not returned.
• Three gray-robed members of the Unchanging Divine Palace rode a True Spirit through the Unchanging Land to search for Hongze World and the Taicang travelers.
• Blood Demon realized that Xue Ji had taken control of half his body and soul, then tried to force him out by burning his divine soul.
• Xue Ji endured the soul-burning and told Blood Demon that the Dao Ancestor's power protected him.
• Blood Demon suggested the Jade Court might be behind Xue Ji's power, and Xue Ji learned of the mysterious force while probing Blood Demon for information.
• Xue Ji and Blood Demon agreed to talk after Blood Demon accepted that he could not drive Xue Ji out or prevent him from sharing control.

Xu Yan broke through to the Dao Establishment Realm in Hongze World and comprehended the method of primordial chaos, while his junior brothers also advanced. After receiving word that the Unchanging Divine Palace was approaching, he left to meet the enemy, unaware that a mysterious Jade Person had emerged from a cavern and hidden itself inside a mountain.

• Xu Yan established his Dao in Hongze World, merged his Dao with the silent world, and comprehended the Primordial Chaos Great Dao and the Sword of Death.
• The Canghai Turtle noticed flashes of change in Hongze World, then sensed an approaching True Spirit and warned Xu Yan and the others.
• Xu Yan discovered a deep cavern in Hongze World, received the warning about an approaching enemy, and left to meet up with Meng Chong, Fang Hao, and Jiang Buping.
• Xu Yan learned that all three junior brothers had broken through, then explained the Dao Establishment Realm and the method of primordial chaos as they returned to the Canghai Turtle.
• After the group departed, a Jade Person emerged from the cavern, crossed the silent world, and concealed itself inside a mountain.

Xu Yan and his companions confronted three World Lords from the Unchanging Divine Palace, and Xu Yan killed two while the others trained against the third. The final World Lord remained gravely threatened as Meng Chong, Fang Hao, and Jiang Buping layered their divine abilities in a combined attack.

• Xu Yan revealed that he had broken through and decided to meet the approaching World Lords directly, assigning one opponent to himself and another to his junior brothers and the Canghai Turtle.
• Xu Yan killed the first World Lord with his Sword of Death, then trapped a second in his Sword World to temper his sword dao.
• Meng Chong, Fang Hao, and Jiang Buping fought the third World Lord with the Canghai Turtle's support, while Xu Yan and his opponent battled for three days.
• Xu Yan killed his second opponent with a sword concealing True Dragon's Wrath, then urged his junior brothers to layer divine abilities within one another.
• The final World Lord escaped the trio's encirclement, but Xu Yan forced him back; Meng Chong, Fang Hao, and Jiang Buping then gravely wounded him with layered divine abilities.

After defeating the Unchanging Divine Palace experts, Xu Yan sent Meng Chong, Jiang Buping, and Canghai Turtle to bring the silent Hongze World back to the Great Wasteland while he continued exploring the Unchanging Land. With Fang Hao’s specially built Flying Ship, they successfully began towing the world through the Unchanging Land, drawing the attention of nearby true spirits.

• Xu Yan and his companions decided that Meng Chong, Jiang Buping, and Canghai Turtle would tow Hongze World to the Great Wasteland while Xu Yan continued his journey with Fang Hao.
• Xu Yan, Meng Chong, and Jiang Buping investigated a deep hole in Hongze World with clones, found nothing inside, and returned to gather materials for the Flying Ship.
• Fang Hao completed the Flying Ship and installed chains and formations to secure them to Hongze World.
• A pair of stone-like eyes watched the Flying Ship from the mountain where the mysterious Jade Person hid, then disappeared without intervening.
• Fang Hao started the Flying Ship, and its chains pulled Hongze World into motion through the Unchanging Land.
• The moving world smashed mountains formed from dead true spirits, while startled true spirits fled and cried out.

Fang Hao’s Flying Ship dragged the world toward the Great Wilderness while Xu Yan set off to explore the Unchanging Land. At the Unchanging Divine Palace, the Divine Lord gathered his World Masters and assigned preparations for the coming epoch, leaving Ming Prison shocked by how much he still did not know about the Unchanging Land.

• Fang Hao reassured Canghai Turtle that his Flying Ship could withstand a World Master as it pulled the world through the primordial chaos.
• Xu Yan left the Flying Ship, scouted the surrounding region, killed a concealed World Master-level true spirit, and continued into the Unchanging Land.
• Dou Ning challenged Ming Prison’s place among the gathered protectors, while Ye Ji returned and asked about Mu Xiao.
• The Unchanging Divine Lord summoned the gathered powerhouses and ordered them to focus on the Jade Court and Taicang’s world qi as the next epoch approached.
• The Unchanging Divine Lord warned that the Witch Demon was being hunted and that three ancient true spirits also posed a threat.

Nether Prison learned that Unchanging Divine Lord measured eras by streaks of light and assigned him to stop Jade Court from reaching Taicang World. Meanwhile, Xu Yan cultivated in Unchanging Land, where the fleeing Jade Person discovered his world and stepped inside.

• Unchanging Divine Lord explained that each streak of light marked a new epoch and ordered Nether Prison to guard a location against Jade Court.
• Nether Prison learned that Jade Court members were entirely white like jade, accepted the mission, and decided to contact Blood Fiend for information.
• Xu Yan traveled through Unchanging Land for three years, strengthening his Dao by studying powerful True Spirits and spreading his world across an ancient mountain.
• Two pursuers searching for Jade Court shattered mountains, while Jade Person hid in a stone and escaped after they passed.
• Jade Person found Xu Yan's faintly glowing world, tested it with a stone, and stepped inside.

Xu Yan investigated a jade-like woman who entered his manifested world and discovered that she wielded a strange power of purification. When two pursuers from the Unchanging Divine Palace attacked her, Xu Yan revealed himself and trapped them in his sword intent.

• Xu Yan watched the woman enter his world and found that neither his Lesser Eye of the Heavenly Dao nor the Dao of Heaven and Earth could discern her origins.
• Xu Yan sent a golden True Dragon and a Jade Snow True Dragon to fight the woman, revealing her powerful jade-white radiance and ability to dissolve foreign power.
• Two people from the Unchanging Divine Palace entered the world and attacked the woman, who gradually fell into a disadvantage.
• Xu Yan revealed himself and declared that he would send the two pursuers to their deaths.
• Xu Yan made the world vanish, leaving the two people from the Unchanging Divine Palace surrounded by fierce sword intent.

Xu Yan killed two Unchanging Divine Palace experts, then agreed to escort Mingyu in exchange for a mature section of Qingling Jade Bamboo. As Nether Prison investigated the bamboo’s aura, Xu Yan traveled with Mingyu and broke through to the minor achievement stage of the Dao Establishment Realm.

• Xu Yan annihilated two World Master-level experts from the Unchanging Divine Palace and learned that the woman was named Mingyu.
• Xu Yan agreed to escort Mingyu in exchange for a section of mature Qingling Jade Bamboo, which he recognized as originating from the main plant.
• Nether Prison received a report that someone from the Jade Court carried the bamboo’s aura and wondered whether Qingyu had survived the ancient battle.
• Xu Yan traveled with Mingyu aboard a Flying Ship, discussed martial arts with her, and realized her difficulty understanding unfamiliar complex things caused her thoughts to stall.
• Xu Yan used the Qingling Jade Bamboo while refining his martial path and broke through to the minor achievement stage of the Dao Establishment Realm.

Xu Yan traded explanations of Array Formations with Mingyu to learn her laws, but his questions about her Primordial Spirit left her mind stuck despite the Qingling Jade Bamboo’s help. When Ming Prison, a Blood Prison Protector and former World Lord, demanded Mingyu, Xu Yan refused and escaped his first attack, only to find himself surrounded by converging blood lights.

• Xu Yan and Mingyu exchanged Array Formation diagrams for depictions of Mingyu’s laws, and Xu Yan discovered her drawings seemed incomplete.
• When Xu Yan asked Mingyu to depict the laws in her Primordial Spirit, she became deeply confused and stopped responding even as the Qingling Jade Bamboo tried to restore her.
• Ming Prison arrived, recognized the Qingling Jade Bamboo as Qingyu’s original bamboo body, and demanded that Xu Yan leave Mingyu behind.
• Xu Yan identified himself as the Sword God of the Great Wilderness and refused Ming Prison’s demand.
• Ming Prison attacked with a blood-colored purgatory, but Xu Yan slipped through the unfinished seal and evaded a web of bloody threads.
• Ming Prison surrounded Xu Yan with blood lights that closed every gap, leaving Xu Yan trapped within the encirclement.

Xu Yan escaped Nether Prison’s attacks and persuaded him to exchange intelligence about the Great Wasteland and the Unchanging Divine Palace. Nether Prison revealed why he had joined the palace and began recounting the war against it, leaving Xu Yan with more questions about Taicang’s defeat.

• Xu Yan used Absolute Heaven Sword to break Nether Prison’s blood-colored barrier, then fled with Mingyu using One Thought No Trace while Nether Prison pursued him.
• Xu Yan revealed that he had cultivated for less than a hundred years and proposed exchanging information; Nether Prison stopped pursuing him and agreed.
• Xu Yan told Nether Prison that Taicang had become the Great Wasteland, which had no World Master but possessed the Heavenly Dao, and that the Witch Demon World had merged into it as the Yin Realm.
• Nether Prison told Xu Yan that the Unchanging Divine Palace wandered through the Unchanging Land and was slowly approaching the Great Wasteland, but had not yet decided when to attack.
• Nether Prison explained that the Unchanging Divine Lord had extracted his World Qi as the price of accepting him, and that Taicang had once suppressed him to resolve a flaw in his Blood Demon Dao.
• Nether Prison denied betraying Taicang and began explaining how the Unchanging Divine Palace’s numerous false World Masters helped decide the devastating war.

Xu Yan and Nether Prison discussed the old battle against the Unchanging Divine Palace, the coming epoch, and Nether Prison’s history with Blood Demon. Nether Prison revealed that the Jade Court was a powerful faction, leaving Xu Yan newly curious about Mingyu’s origins and the forces gathering around the Taicang World.

• Nether Prison recounted how Taicang and the others fought the Unchanging Divine Lord, who defeated them and left Taicang dead while Hongze was devoured.
• Xu Yan told Nether Prison that the Great Wasteland had a Heavenly Dao and reincarnation, and Nether Prison explained that the Unchanging Divine Lord had preserved the Taicang World for the coming epoch.
• Nether Prison revealed that his younger brother was Blood Demon, who had saved him before becoming an elder of the Unchanging Divine Palace.
• Nether Prison warned Xu Yan that the Jade Court could be as dangerous as the Unchanging Divine Palace and might seek to devour worlds.
• Xu Yan learned that Mingyu came from the Jade Court, and Nether Prison said he had been ordered to prevent its experts from reaching the Taicang World.

Xu Yan learned from Netherworld Prison about the Jade Court, the approaching new Era, and the survival of Witch Demon before continuing to escort Mingyu. He began exchanging lessons about the divine soul for information about the Jade Court, leaving Mingyu frustrated by how difficult the lessons were.

• Xu Yan asked Netherworld Prison about Qingyu and the Jade Court, and Netherworld Prison admitted he did not know whether Qingyu was alive or why her remains were there.
• Netherworld Prison said he would avoid actions against the Great Wilderness, asked Xu Yan to spare Netherworld and Prison, and gave him a map and notes in exchange for Xu Yan's promise to show mercy.
• Netherworld Prison warned Xu Yan about the Unchanging Divine Lord and revealed that Witch Demon had survived, though he was badly injured and being hunted.
• Xu Yan continued toward the Jade Court with Mingyu, who remained shut down before beginning to recover.
• Xu Yan proposed exchanging knowledge with Mingyu and taught her about divine souls in return for information about the Jade Court.
• Mingyu explained that the Jade Court wandered through the Unchanging Land and that she was not strong by its standards, then grew dejected when she struggled to remember Xu Yan's lessons.

Xu Yan learned more about the Jade Court from Mingyu as they traveled there, including that its Third Master had sent her to observe the Great Wasteland. Mingyu welcomed Xu Yan into the Jade Court, where he met her attendant Xiao Jie.

• Xu Yan traded explanations about souls for information from Mingyu about the Jade Court, its Three Masters, and the Jade People.
• Mingyu recalled seeing purple light at the start of an Epoch and said the Third Master had sent her to look at the World from afar.
• Xu Yan told Mingyu that the World was now called the Great Wasteland and promised to host her there; she invited him to visit the Jade Court.
• Mingyu brought Xu Yan through the Jade Court gates after the guards, Jade Big and Jade Two, accepted him as her friend.
• Xu Yan observed the Jade Court and its unusual Jade People as Mingyu led him to her courtyard, where he met her attendant Xiao Jie.

Xu Yan discovered that the Jade Court’s people were Jade Puppets whose unusual laws could strengthen the Primordial Turtle Shell’s incomplete laws. As he investigated their thoughts and origins, he wondered whether the Jade Court’s creator had reached the Primordial Unity Realm or even walked the Dao.

• Mingyu welcomed Xu Yan with jade delicacies, which he secretly stored in the Primordial Turtle Shell and found could restore its damaged laws.
• Xu Yan asked to meet the Jade Court’s three masters and showed Mingyu the Qingling Jade Bamboo, prompting her to search for where it grew.
• While teaching Xiao Jie Array Formation, Xu Yan used the Lesser Eye of the Heavenly Dao to discover that her body and thoughts operated according to special laws.
• Xu Yan concluded that Xiao Jie and the other Jade Court residents were Jade Puppets, then suspected Mingyu was a puppet capable of cultivation.
• Xu Yan speculated that the Jade Court’s creator possessed power comparable to or beyond the Creation Realm and might even have walked the Dao.

Xu Yan explored the Jade Court while teaching Mingyu chess and soul-related knowledge, and investigated the Qingling Jade Bamboo, where Qingyu’s consciousness seemed absent. After two years, Mingyu had grown more intelligent, and Xu Yan began to suspect that the Jade Court had allowed him to help her improve.

• Xu Yan taught Xiao Jie and then Mingyu to play chess, discovering that Mingyu learned unfamiliar ideas more readily and became fascinated with the game.
• Mingyu led Xu Yan to the Qingling Jade Bamboo, where he sensed its immense vitality but found no sign of Qingyu’s consciousness and chose not to risk awakening her.
• Xu Yan cultivated near the bamboo, studied the Jade People and their laws, and became familiar with much of the Jade Court while approaching the peak of the Dao Establishment Realm.
• Xu Yan taught Mingyu about the soul, and she repeatedly became mentally stuck as her intelligence and thought processes gradually grew closer to those of an ordinary person.
• After two years in the Jade Court, Xu Yan suspected the Three Masters had allowed him to help Mingyu develop, so he offered to teach her cultivation, and she eagerly agreed.