Chapter Summaries

Hao Xi, disguised as Shen Lin, sacrificed his Demon Slaying Marquis teammates to empower the Cloud-Rolling Saber and escape Lin Sinian. After demonstrating his overwhelming strength, Hao Xi spared Lin Sinian and left.

• Hao Xi recognized that Lin Sinian had come specifically for him, while the Demon Slaying Marquis members gathered around him for protection.
• Hao Xi stabbed one teammate and used the Cloud-Rolling Saber’s blood-fueled method to drain his life, then revealed his plan to sacrifice the others.
• Hao Xi used Demon Snatching to pull the fleeing teammates back and killed them with Clouds Unfurl, absorbing their blood essence and spiritual power into his saber.
• Hao Xi unleashed a blood-red saber strike that killed several of Lin Sinian’s Primal Chaos Realm demon beasts and left Lin Sinian frozen in fear.
• Hao Xi told Lin Sinian he would spare him for now, then lowered his saber and departed.

After Hao Xi sensed the Grand Xuan Secret Realm was opening, he headed toward Qingzhou to investigate its Sky Tablet. In Qingzhou City, Daoist Jian Xuan learned that Zuo Yutang had taken their prepared items and then arrived accusing the Dao Xuan Sect of failing to pay him for a deal.

• Hao Xi sensed his Grand Xuan Token react and flew toward Qingzhou, curious about the Grand Xuan Sky Tablet.
• Yun Zhou told Daoist Jian Xuan that Zuo Yutang had refused to hand over an item, knocked him unconscious, and taken their prepared goods.
• Daoist Jian Xuan reprimanded Yun Zhou and cursed Yun Li for leaving the Dao Xuan Sect to join the Demon Suppression Division.
• A servant reported that the person Daoist Jian Xuan had sent out had found Zuo Yutang, and Daoist Jian Xuan went outside to meet them.
• Zuo Yutang accused the Dao Xuan Sect of reneging on their deal because he had handed over the goods but had not received payment.

Daoist Jian Xuan and Yun Zhou discovered that an impostor had taken the Grand Xuan Token from Zuo Yutang, while Song Qingfeng revealed the Demon Suppression Division had been monitoring them. With the Grand Xuan Secret Realm approaching and their attempt to obtain a token ruined, Yun Zhou pointed out that the rogue cultivator Leng Xiang might be another prospect.

• Daoist Jian Xuan realized that neither Yun Zhou nor Zuo Yutang had dealt with the person who took the Grand Xuan Token, and Zuo Yutang explained that the impostor had answered his easy riddle.
• Daoist Jian Xuan sent Zuo Yutang away, then confronted the concealed Song Qingfeng, who said the Demon Suppression Division was watching Dao Xuan Sect because Daoist Jian Xuan had crossed state borders without authorization.
• Song Qingfeng confirmed that Wuxiang Temple was also under surveillance, and Daoist Jian Xuan returned to the courtyard with Yun Zhou.
• Daoist Jian Xuan explained that the Demon Suppression Division had more Primal Chaos Realm powerhouses than Yun Zhou knew and that Dao Xuan Sect needed the secret realm to rise among Great Wei's top forces.
• Yun Zhou told Daoist Jian Xuan that a rogue cultivator named Leng Xiang was participating in the Grand Xuan Secret Realm, and Daoist Jian Xuan's eyes lit up.

Jian Xuan and Yun Zhou tried to seize Leng Xiang’s Grand Xuan Token, only to discover she was Hermit Xiao Xiang’s disciple and face her retaliation. Song Qingfeng brokered a settlement, and Jian Xuan left convinced Song had deliberately set him up.

• Jian Xuan and Yun Zhou confronted Leng Xiang over her Grand Xuan Token, and Leng Xiang summoned her master, Hermit Xiao Xiang.
• Hermit Xiao Xiang chased Jian Xuan and Yun Zhou across Qingzhou City until Jian Xuan ran out of strength and called for Song Qingfeng.
• Song Qingfeng intervened and persuaded Hermit Xiao Xiang not to kill anyone, proposing compensation for Leng Xiang.
• Jian Xuan offered Hermit Xiao Xiang one hundred thousand Spirit Crystals, handing over his Summoning Ring to pay her.
• Hermit Xiao Xiang took an unknown amount from the ring and passed the remainder to Song Qingfeng before leaving with him.
• Jian Xuan questioned Yun Zhou about his information and concluded that Song Qingfeng had set him up.

At the Grand Xuan Secret Realm’s opening, Dao Xuan Sect elder Jian Xuan tried to take a Grand Xuan Token from a black-clothed warrior, then realized the man was likely Yuwen Fengxian’s disciple and backed down. Still angry, Jian Xuan ordered an approaching Star Realm youth aside, and the youth answered with a saber strike.

• Song Qingfeng and other Demon Suppression Division warriors watched the factions gather for the Grand Xuan Secret Realm’s opening and noticed Dao Xuan Sect had approached a lone black-clothed man.
• Jian Xuan offered to trade for the man’s Grand Xuan Token, but the man refused and told him to scram while releasing overwhelming killing intent.
• Song Qingfeng and the other warriors recognized the man’s battlefield-forged aura and suspected he was the Myriad Battles Hall disciple trained by Yuwen Fengxian.
• Jian Xuan apologized and withdrew after realizing the man’s background, fearing retaliation from Yuwen Fengxian.
• Jian Xuan ordered an approaching Star Realm youth out of his way, but the youth drew his saber and used Cloud Scroll.

Shen Lin used a disguise to hide among the Grand Xuan Secret Realm participants while Hao Xi, posing as him, confronted Jian Xuan and met Leng Xiang. Shen Lin recognized Leng Xiang as Purple Crystal and listened as Hao Xi mistook their past meeting for a pleasant encounter.

• Hao Xi struck Jian Xuan with the Cloud-Rolling Saber, revealed himself as Shen Lin, and forced Jian Xuan to step aside.
• Song Qingfeng and the others praised Shen Lin’s rapid cultivation and accomplishments, while the disguised Shen Lin overheard them.
• Shen Lin used the Thousand Profound Transformations to conceal his identity and resolved to deal with Hao Xi after entering the Grand Xuan Secret Realm.
• Hermit Xiao Xiang introduced Leng Xiang to Hao Xi, and Shen Lin recognized her as Purple Crystal, the bandit he had met in Qiulin County.
• Purple Crystal recalled that Hao Xi had helped her search for her father’s cultivation technique, and Hao Xi said their first meeting had left a good impression on him, leaving her stunned.

Zijing grew suspicious of Haoxi, but his secret technique altered her perception so she accepted him as Shen Lin. Shen Lin traded a Grand Xuan Token to Jian Xuan for treasures, and as the Grand Xuan Secret Realm opened, Yun Zhou recognized the token as one he had seen before being knocked unconscious.

• Zijing questioned why Shen Lin called her Leng Xiang and grew suspicious of Haoxi, but Haoxi’s secret technique made her doubts vanish.
• Shen Lin watched the Great Dao ripples around Zijing and resolved to kill Haoxi and take everything that belonged to him.
• Jian Xuan cautiously approached Shen Lin, who introduced himself as the Rogue Cultivator Liu Hong and agreed to trade his Grand Xuan Token.
• Jian Xuan gave Shen Lin three thousand-year-old spirit herbs and fifty thousand Spirit Crystals, and Shen Lin handed him the token.
• The Grand Xuan Secret Realm opened, and Jian Xuan entrusted the token to Yun Zhou and ordered him to retrieve Dao Xuan Purple Qi.
• Yun Zhou recognized the token’s flying-bird pattern as the one he had seen before being knocked unconscious, and a voice confirmed his guess.

Shen Lin entered the Grand Xuan Secret Realm after revealing himself to Haoxi, then began a ten-thousand-year deduction of the Heaven Burning Sea Boiling Art. His cultivation advanced as the realm’s spiritual energy weakened, and a stone statue in a hidden ancestral hall awakened, wondering if it was time to emerge.

• Shen Lin took the Grand Xuan Token, exposed himself to Haoxi, and entered the Grand Xuan Secret Realm, with Haoxi pursuing him inside.
• Purple Crystal and Yuwen Jue entered the realm, while Jian Xuan stole a token from a little girl and sent Yun Zhou through the entrance before discovering her master was the Thousand Evolution Sect’s Sect Master.
• Shen Lin appeared above a cliff, scattered Spirit Crystals around himself, and began deducing the Heaven Burning Sea Boiling Art for ten thousand years.
• Shen Lin’s cultivation reached the point where he had filled eighteen acupoints and formed a solidified spirit pill in his sixtieth acupoint.
• The deduction reduced the Grand Xuan Secret Realm’s spiritual energy by thirty percent, and a stone statue in a hidden ancestral hall opened its eyes and wondered whether it was time to emerge.

Three stone statues in the Grand Xuan Secret Realm investigated a sudden collapse in spiritual energy and found no breach. They used a hidden Spirit Crystal reserve to sustain the Grand Xuan Treasure Tree, then decided to release three more people early to advance their plan for the immortal path.

• The three stone statues sensed the secret realm’s spiritual energy rapidly declining and performed a ritual that confirmed its spatial structure was intact.
• The Third Junior Brother urged them to repair the problem, fearing the Grand Xuan Treasure Tree’s growth would suffer, but the middle stone statue stopped him from breaking the seal and risking discovery by the Candle Dragon.
• The middle stone statue recited an incantation that opened a hidden storehouse above the Grand Xuan Treasure Tree, pouring Spirit Crystals over it to supply spiritual energy to its ten fruits.
• The Second Junior Brother said the seventieth person was due, and the middle stone statue ordered three people released at once to hasten their immortal-path plan.

After thirty thousand years of deduction, Shen Lin reached the limit of the Star Realm but had not yet broken through to the Primal Chaos Realm. Learning of the Grand Xuan Sky Tablet, he set out for it, hoping the system could help him comprehend it before his remaining Demon Lifespan ran out.

• Shen Lin finished his third deduction, nearly draining the spiritual power in the Grand Xuan Secret Realm and leaving himself with only three thousand three hundred years of Demon Lifespan.
• Two unfamiliar Star Realm martial artists arrived, and Shen Lin overheard them discuss the Grand Xuan Sky Tablet and its potential to help someone break through to the Primal Chaos Realm.
• Shen Lin revealed himself and asked where the tablet was, and one of the men gave him a map to the main peak of the Grand Xuan Sect.
• Shen Lin thanked the men and left for the tablet while they discussed the powerful newcomers in the secret realm.

Shen Lin reached the Grand Xuan Sky Tablet and began studying its inscriptions while Hao Xi escaped the Valley of Ten Thousand Medicines and searched for him. Hao Xi found signs that the Grand Xuan Sect’s treasures might be connected to the Immortal Clan.

• Shen Lin arrived at the Grand Xuan Sect’s main peak, approached the Grand Xuan Sky Tablet, and began observing it.
• Hao Xi dismantled the formations in the Valley of Ten Thousand Medicines and escaped after two hours.
• Hao Xi took a pill, flew to the Grand Xuan Treasure Tree, and searched for Shen Lin among the people waiting there.
• Hao Xi used his sealed sight to see human-shaped phantoms inside three fruits and recognized them as Primordial Spirits of the Immortal Clan.
• Hao Xi looked toward the main peak and wondered whether the Grand Xuan Sect had obtained the Immortal Clan’s inheritance.

Hao Xi confronted Shen Lin at the Grand Xuan Sky Tablet, and their probing attacks revealed the gap between them to Yuwen Jue and Purple Crystal. Shen Lin blocked Hao Xi’s thunder attack with the Sacred Feather Clan’s secret Mystic Wing Thousand Kill, leaving Hao Xi furious.

• Hao Xi realized the Grand Xuan Sect had obtained the Immortal Clan’s inheritance, then flew to the Grand Xuan Sky Tablet to find Shen Lin.
• Hao Xi and Shen Lin met each other’s gaze, and Yuwen Jue sensed the danger radiating from them.
• Hao Xi attacked with lightning pillars, but Shen Lin dispersed them with Radiant Sun, sending nearby geniuses flying.
• Hao Xi unleashed Purple Thunder Roll, putting Yuwen Jue and Purple Crystal in its path as well as Shen Lin.
• Shen Lin summoned golden wings and used Mystic Wing Thousand Kill to shatter Hao Xi’s thunder blades, prompting Hao Xi to rage at him for using the Sacred Feather Clan’s secret art.

Shen Lin and Hao Xi fought on the Grand Xuan Sect’s main peak as Hao Xi’s Dao Principle Secret Technique warped other people’s memories and perceptions. Hao Xi’s Cloud-Rolling Saber shattered just as he prepared a powerful finishing strike.

• Hao Xi angrily accused Shen Lin of using the Sacred Feather Clan’s treasure and technique, while the Dao’s power altered Yuwen Jue and Amethyst’s understanding of his words.
• Shen Lin and Hao Xi vanished and clashed in midair, drawing martial artists to the main peak.
• Hao Xi attacked with Divine Thunder Eight Slashes, but Shen Lin stopped his saber with his flame-covered hands.
• Hao Xi used Eight Extremes Thunder Collapse to blast Shen Lin away, while Shen Lin’s Golden Wings protected him.
• Hao Xi gathered blood-red power into the Cloud-Rolling Saber, but the weapon suddenly broke into dozens of pieces.

Shen Lin and Hao Xi fought fiercely above the Grand Xuan Sect, displaying power that stunned the martial artists watching from below. After their attacks collided in a massive explosion, both fighters disappeared, leaving their whereabouts unknown.

• Shen Lin shattered Hao Xi's Cloud-Rolling Saber with his Weapon Refining Hand, then teased him about its value.
• Hao Xi summoned a thunder saber and a sword, while Yuwen Jue and Zijing sensed the extraordinary quality of his spiritual power.
• Hao Xi unleashed Purple Thunder Roll, and Shen Lin answered with Blazing Sun, causing thunder and flames to clash over the Grand Xuan Sect.
• Hao Xi used Mirror Flower Water Moon to strike at Shen Lin from behind as Shen Lin sent the saber fragments at Hao Xi and blocked the sword with his wings.
• Shen Lin and Hao Xi's attacks collided in a tremendous explosion, and both fighters vanished from the battlefield.

After Shen Lin and his opponent unleashed power beyond what their Star Realm status suggested, Yuwen Jue and the others wondered where the pair had gone. In the hidden ancestral shrine, the Grand Xuan Sect’s former sect master revealed that he had trapped them inside the Grand Xuan Sky Tablet and accelerated the Grand Xuan Treasure Tree’s ripening.

• A great lineage disciple lost heart after seeing the battle, but Yuwen Jue explained that Shen Lin did not cultivate the Demon Suppression Division’s Heaven Grade technique and admitted he did not understand the pair’s power.
• Yuwen Jue sensed danger and wondered where Shen Lin and his opponent had gone, while someone behind him announced that the Grand Xuan Dao Tree’s fruit was ripening ahead of schedule.
• The central stone statue said he had thrown the two fighters into the Grand Xuan Sky Tablet and increased the Grand Xuan Treasure Tree’s spiritual power to hasten its ripening.
• The three stone statues discussed the unexplained changes in the secret realm and the threat the fighters’ battle posed to its mountain gate and structure.
• The central stone statue explained that he had comprehended more than a third of the Grand Xuan Sky Tablet and reassured his brothers that the trapped pair could not quickly surpass him.

Hao Xi and Shen Lin were drawn into a foggy space filled with runes recording Grand Xuan Sect’s inheritance. Hao Xi recognized the inheritance as belonging to the Grand Xuan Holy Land and began mastering its techniques, while Shen Lin only looked around at the runes.

• The stone statues discussed completing their final task before the Grand Xuan Treasure Tree matured and watched scenes outside through a screen of pure qi.
• Shen Lin and Hao Xi appeared together in a foggy space, and Hao Xi’s palm strike scattered the fog to reveal runes.
• Hao Xi removed the seal from his right eye and used it to understand a rune explaining the Palm Thunder technique.
• Hao Xi recognized landmarks from the Grand Xuan Holy Land and realized Grand Xuan Sect’s inheritance came from one of the immortal clan’s three great holy lands.
• Hao Xi noticed Shen Lin could see the inheritance too, but dismissed him and continued studying the runes.

Hao Xi comprehended more of the Grand Xuan Sky Tablet’s inheritance, learned that three mysterious figures had mastered far more of it, and used the Howling Moon Art to raise his cultivation to the Primal Chaos Realm. He attacked Shen Lin, but the strike failed to kill him, and Shen Lin transformed into a horned demon.

• Hao Xi comprehended one-tenth of the Grand Xuan Sky Tablet’s inheritance and realized he could influence the Grand Xuan Secret Realm.
• Hao Xi saw three cyan streaks that had comprehended far more of the inheritance than he had and suspected the realm held danger.
• Hao Xi used the Howling Moon Art to draw in moonlight and raise his cultivation from the Star Realm to the Primal Chaos Realm.
• Hao Xi struck Shen Lin in the forehead with a bolt of lightning, but Shen Lin survived with only a blackened patch of skin.
• Shen Lin swelled, turned pitch-black, and transformed into a muscular horned demon.

Haoxi used the Sharp Gold Finger Sword and other Grand Xuan Holy Land techniques to wound Shen Lin, believing he had secured victory. Shen Lin then revealed that he had learned the same sword technique, while a crimson pillar on the Grand Xuan Sky Tablet surged above Haoxi’s and nearly matched the tallest azure pillar.

• Haoxi realized Shen Lin had cultivated the Heavenly Demon Body and attacked him with the newly learned Sharp Gold Finger Sword.
• Shen Lin blocked Haoxi’s sword with his golden wing, which the strike notched, then dodged as Haoxi used a spatially twisting thrust to pierce his shoulder.
• Haoxi combined lightning, One Color of Sunset Glow, and Mirror Flower Water Moon to attack Shen Lin from behind, but Shen Lin sensed him and took a deep cut to his arm while counterattacking.
• Haoxi taunted Shen Lin and expected to win, but Shen Lin praised his sword and formed an identical golden sword phantom.
• A crimson pillar appeared on the phantom of the Grand Xuan Sky Tablet, rising above Haoxi’s pillar and nearly reaching the tallest azure one.

Daoist Tongxu and his junior brothers tried to reclaim the Grand Xuan Sky Tablet, but Shen Lin mastered its entire inheritance and took control of the secret realm. As Tongxu attacked him, Shen Lin brought Haoxi back inside to face the three elders.

• Daoist Tongxu absorbed his junior brothers’ comprehension and regained control of the Grand Xuan Secret Realm, then entered the Grand Xuan Sky Tablet with them to stop Shen Lin and Haoxi’s battle.
• Daoist Tongxu discovered that Shen Lin and Haoxi could see the flow of Dao Principles, and Haoxi escaped using the Thousand Evolution Compass.
• Shen Lin used the system to master every rune in the Grand Xuan Sky Tablet, gaining the Grand Xuan Dao Scripture and complete control of the realm.
• Daoist Tongxu attacked Shen Lin in a rage, but Shen Lin slowed time within the tablet and summoned Haoxi back from outside the secret realm.
• Shen Lin opened an entrance beneath himself and Haoxi, pulling them inside as the three stone elders prepared to attack.

The Grand Xuan Sect’s three elders emerged from the Grand Xuan Secret Realm and were caught in an apparent ascension, while observers learned that the continent was an orchard where Spirit Nurturing Realm cultivators were harvested. Meanwhile, Xie Tianchou exposed and defeated Lin Sinian, and Shen Lin faced Haoxi to settle their dispute.

• Shen Lin used the Grand Xuan Sky Tablet to bring Daoist Tongxu and the other two Grand Xuan Sect elders outside, where their stone shells cracked and the Third Elder’s aura erupted.
• White-Eyed Old Daoist identified the sun and moon appearing together as a sign of ascension, and the three elders’ bodies were pulled toward a black vortex despite their resistance.
• Prime Minister Zhang and Yuwen Fengxian discussed the elders’ fate and the Immortal Path Plan, while the Demon Emperor questioned Xie Tianchou about failing to find Lin Sinian.
• Lin Sinian offered to help Xie Tianchou become Demon Emperor, but Xie Tianchou suspected his motives, seized him, and exposed him as a liquid jellyfish before leaving for the disturbance.
• The three Grand Xuan Sect elders were swallowed by the enormous serpent and placed in a special space as the continent’s orchard secret was revealed.
• Shen Lin faced Haoxi and said it was time to settle things between them.