Chapter Summaries

Xu Yue and his allies crushed the Blue-blooded Men’s ambush, with Xu Yue killing the Buren Tower Lord and helping capture the Blue-blooded Man High Priest. The battle ended with the Du Ren Qin returning to the Ruan Family after Ruan Yushu broke through to the Exterior Realm.

• The Buren Tower Lord attacked Xu Yue while four self-destructing Blue-blooded Men restrained the Tianzi Sword, but Xu Yue killed him with a single strike.
• Meng Qi saw Xu Yue’s victory, and the allied fighters swept away the remaining Blue-blooded Man elites inside the formation.
• The master of the Formless Sword Gu Lineage fled, while Xu Yue shot the transforming Blue-blooded Man High Priest with the Sun Chasing Bow and the Life-Taking Yaksha captured him.
• The Life-Taking Yaksha left the Du Ren Qin behind, and Ruan Yushu’s breakthrough caused it to fly back to the Ruan Family.
• Destiny Daoist suppressed the seawater’s retreat, preventing further damage, while most witnesses failed to realize the Buren Tower Lord had been killed.

After the attack at the Ruan Residence, Xu Yue and the others discussed the Blue-blooded Men’s infiltration and their ancestral god’s possible connection to Six Paths. Meng Qi prepared to investigate ancient secrets with Xu Yue, then learned the Earth Ranking had given him the title “Muscular True Man.”

• Wonderful Desire Bodhisattva thanked Xu Yue after he repelled the Blue-blooded Men’s attack, and the group recognized the threat posed by the escaped Dharma Body-level enemy.
• Xu Yue considered the growing threat of Golden Ao Island and the pressure his rise as Human Dao Supreme placed on Gao Lan and Northern Zhou.
• Meng Qi and Chong He discussed how the Blue-blooded Men’s ancestral god had repaired the Mysterious Water Demon-Quelling Banner and acquired the Du Ren Qin, suspecting a link to Six Paths.
• Meng Qi asked Xu Yue to join the True Martial mission so they could investigate ancient secrets, and Xu Yue agreed to provide support.
• Meng Qi saw the new Earth Ranking place him seventy-ninth and rename him the “Muscular True Man,” leaving him dissatisfied but resigned to the title.

Xu Yue and Meng Qi confronted the True Martial Malicious Thought in the True Martial Mausoleum, where Xu Yue revealed himself as the current Human Sovereign. The malicious thought tried to seize the Mysterious Water Demon-Quelling Banner, but Xu Yue stopped it and left it wondering who he was.

• Xu Yue and Meng Qi entered the disordered True Martial Mausoleum and found the True Martial Malicious Thought taking shape.
• The True Martial Malicious Thought stalled them with ancient secrets while it assessed Xu Yue's human-path aura and suspected he was an avatar of a great power.
• When the True Martial Malicious Thought asked Xu Yue who he was, Xu Yue answered that he was the current Human Sovereign.
• The True Martial Malicious Thought provoked Meng Qi with a hint about who had erased its earlier wisp of thought, then seized control of the Mysterious Water Demon-Quelling Banner.
• Xu Yue split the rising Mysterious Water with a sword strike and stepped on the True Martial Malicious Thought, which was left astonished by Xu Yue's patchwork-like realm.

Xu Yue extracted the complete Heaven Severing Seven Swords General Outline from True Martial Malicious Thought, who was erased before Meng Qi could bargain for more secrets. Meng Qi returned to Immortal Traces having crossed the second level of the Heavenly Ladder, but his growing knowledge of the Six Paths and Ananda left him more afraid of the danger ahead.

• True Martial Malicious Thought offered the Heaven Severing Seven Swords General Outline in exchange for his life, and Xu Yue demanded a demonstration.
• Xu Yue used his thoughts to extract and complete the General Outline from True Martial Malicious Thought over two hours, then left him alive for Meng Qi to question.
• The Six Paths erased True Martial Malicious Thought before Meng Qi could learn his secrets, and True Martial's phantom announced the mission rewards and the locations of three sword inheritances.
• Meng Qi concluded that the Six Paths could not be trusted and realized that Thor and Ananda were the same person, leaving him to seek hope in the Primordial Heavenly Venerate's inheritance.
• Xu Yue wondered who had helped True Martial Malicious Thought, then he and Meng Qi returned to Immortal Traces, where Daoist Chong He congratulated Meng Qi on crossing the second level of the Heavenly Ladder.

Meng Qi and Chong He exchanged secrets and abilities, then identified Earth Immortal Lake as the likely location of the fifth form of the Heaven Severing Seven Swords. They planned to explore the Cao Family’s forbidden grounds with their companions, considering infiltration through Cao Xianzhi rather than openly confronting the family.

• Chong He explained how he had severed much of the karma tied to Lingbao Heavenly Venerate and described Immortal Traces’ efforts to help its members escape the burdens of ancient identities.
• Meng Qi shared the Heaven Severing Seven Swords’ general outline with Chong He, who taught Meng Qi and Xu Yue One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones and discussed the Zhu Xian Sword Array.
• Chong He described Yang Jian’s arrangements involving Great Qing Root, leading Meng Qi to believe the Jade Void lineage might be his best chance to escape Ananda.
• Chong He discovered that the fifth form of the Heaven Severing Seven Swords was likely inside the Cao Family’s forbidden Earth Immortal Lake in the Accompanying Capital.
• Meng Qi and Chong He considered infiltrating Earth Immortal Lake with Cao Xianzhi’s help, and planned to bring Jiang Zhiwei, Qi Zhengyan, Luo Shengyi, and Qing Ying along.

Xu Yue and his companions sought a treasure hidden in the Cao Family’s forbidden ground at Earth Immortal Lake, but Cao Xianzhi would not act against his family. When the Cao Family began searching the forbidden grounds, Xu Yue used the Heaven Severing Seven Swords to make the hidden small world answer his Sword Intent.

• Xu Yue asked Cao Xianzhi to help arrange an exchange for a treasure in the Cao Family’s forbidden ground, and Cao Xianzhi said he could only bring the request to the family head.
• Cao Xianzhi told the Cao Family head about the treasure without revealing who had informed him, and the family head ordered him into seclusion while the Cao Family searched its forbidden grounds.
• Xu Yue’s group noticed the Cao Family’s preparations, and Meng Qi asked how they would proceed.
• Xu Yue released the fifth stance of the Heaven Severing Seven Swords, causing the forbidden ground at Earth Immortal Lake to tremble as the hidden small world resonated with his Sword Intent.

Xu Yue seized the Cao Family’s Great Dao Tree, Earth Immortal Remains, and divine weapon by severing their connection to the family’s Grandmasters. The Cao Family head, realizing his strongest assets were hostage, ordered someone to invite Cao Xianzhi so they could negotiate.

• Gao Lan killed the Golden Tent’s envoy and had abandoned his ambitions, hoping only that Xu Yue would keep his promise.
• Xu Yue’s Great Dao Tree burst through the Cao Family’s forbidden-ground formation, prompting the family to deploy two Earth Immortal Remains and their divine weapon.
• Xu Yue used the Tianzi Sword and Dao Severing Sword Self to cut the Grandmasters’ connection to the Earth Immortal Remains and divine weapon.
• The Tianzi Sword swept up the Great Dao Tree, both Earth Immortal Remains, and the Cao Family’s divine weapon, leaving the Cao Family head stunned.
• The Cao Family head ordered a subordinate to invite Cao Xianzhi so the family could seek reconciliation.

Xu Yue overwhelmed the Cao Family, took its Earth Immortal Remains and divine weapon, and forced the family to place itself under Cao Xianzhi’s authority in exchange for their return. Gao Lan learned that Xu Yue had made trouble in Northern Zhou but decided not to intervene.

• Cao Xianzhi sensed the assault on the Cao Family and learned from the family head’s aide that Xu Yue had crippled its defenses.
• Cao Xianzhi identified Xu Yue to the family head, who led the family’s upper echelon to meet the Great Shang Monarch.
• Xu Yue offered to return the Cao Family’s ancestral treasures if Cao Xianzhi rose to power, while warning that he could seize the family’s treasury otherwise.
• The Cao Family accepted Xu Yue’s terms, and Xu Yue’s group gained its allegiance along with the Dao-transmitted Universe.
• Gao Lan heard that Xu Yue had come to Northern Zhou and chose to let him act freely.

Xu Yue’s group entered the Journey to the West World together to stop demons from taking the Heavenly Court fragment and rescuing the sealed Great Sages. At South Heaven Gate, they captured demon scouts and learned the local Demon Kings were only Grandmaster-level, but they remained wary of stronger enemies from the Real World.

• Zhao Heng’s cultivation advanced as he oversaw government affairs, while Jiang Zhiwei crossed the First Heavenly Ladder and Meng Qi strengthened his Grandmaster-level abilities.
• Xu Yue lent Meng Qi the Overlord Saber after arranging for Meng Qi to aid Su Nu Dao if it faced trouble.
• Xu Yue, Meng Qi, Jiang Zhiwei, Qi Zhengyan, Qing Ying, Zhao Heng, Ruan Yushu, and Luo Shengyi prepared for a Journey to the West mission to protect the Heavenly Court fragment and prevent demons from freeing the sealed Great Sages.
• The team arrived together at South Heaven Gate, where Heavenly Court rules prevented them from flying.
• Meng Qi interrogated two captured demon scouts and learned that local Demon Kings were scouting for treasures, while the team suspected Tai Li and other Real World demons could pose a greater threat.
• Xu Yue told the group to avoid confronting the native demons for now so they would not alert anything within South Heaven Gate.

Xu Yue’s group explored the South Heaven Gate fragment and discovered that its frozen Heavenly Soldiers could briefly revive before crumbling to ash. At the Heavenly River, they confirmed it was made of real stars and reached a frozen military camp, where Xu Yue noticed Marshal Tian Peng was missing.

• Xu Yue examined a frozen Heavenly Soldier, revived it, and suppressed it before it turned to ash.
• Xu Yue declared that the fallen Heavenly Court would come under his authority, while he and Meng Qi left hair clones to watch for demons entering the South Heaven Gate.
• Meng Qi and Xu Yue sent hair clones into the Heavenly River, where the gravity of a star quickly reduced them to ash.
• Xu Yue led the group to a nearby military camp, where they found frozen Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals, including Dharma Body-level figures.
• Luo Shengyi suggested using the camp to ambush Dharma Body demon kings, and Xu Yue noted that Marshal Tian Peng was absent.
• Ruan Yushu wore Marshal Tian Peng’s mask, while Meng Qi speculated that Tian Peng had sensed danger and fled.

The group entered the Heavenly River and found Marshal Tian Peng’s scorched corpse, whose lingering fortune Xu Yue redirected to Ruan Yushu. As Meng Qi and Xu Yue traced the clues to Thor and suspected he was Ananda, a Dharma Body-level demonic presence approached, and they prepared to disrupt the demons’ rescue attempt.

• The group looted the Heavenly River passage and entered the river through a hidden pool Xu Yue had found.
• Meng Qi and Ruan Yushu spotted Marshal Tian Peng’s scorched corpse, and Xu Yue caught its lingering fortune and stuffed it into Ruan Yushu.
• Xu Yue and Meng Qi recognized a familiar aura and concluded that Thor was Ananda and had likely helped orchestrate the Demon Lord’s campaign against Heaven.
• The group sensed a Dharma Body-level aura sweeping across the Heavenly River, which Meng Qi suspected belonged to Tai Li.
• Xu Yue warned that the demons might bring several powerful forces, while Meng Qi proposed disguising themselves as demons to sabotage their rescue mission.
• Meng Qi told the others to stay hidden with the secret treasures while he and Xu Yue prepared to act.

Tai Li and Little Fox led the demon forces through a fragment of the Heavenly Court to rescue the Great Sages, recruiting General Tiger and the Peng Demon King along the way. At Five-Finger Mountain, Xu Yue and Meng Qi revealed themselves and ambushed the demon leaders, with Xu Yue sealing them away.

• Tai Li, Little Fox, and their companions crossed the Heavenly River and encountered the local demons General Tiger and the Peng Demon King.
• The local demon kings submitted to Tai Li after he displayed the Demon Saint Spear, then told the newcomers about the South Heaven Gate, Spirit Mountain, and the imprisoned Great Sages.
• Tai Li ordered the local demons to gather their subordinates and lead the group onward, while Xu Yue and Meng Qi disguised themselves as two little demons among them.
• At Five-Finger Mountain, the demons saw the Golden Cudgel and learned from the Peng Demon King that the Great Sage Equal to Heaven had saved the other Great Sages.
• Meng Qi attacked Little Fox with the Overlord's Peerless Saber as Xu Yue struck the two demon kings with his sword and Buddha's Palm, imprisoning them and casting them through a weakened barrier.

Xu Yue and Meng Qi ambushed and sent the two Demon Kings away, then captured Little Fox and the Demon Saint Spear. They fled with the demons in pursuit, while the Demon Kings remained trapped away from the South Heaven Gate.

• Xu Yue and Meng Qi struck the two Demon Kings by surprise, while local pseudo-Demon Kings attacked them and Xu Yue killed the attackers.
• The five Half-step Dharma Body demons fled, leaving Little Fox to resist Meng Qi with the Demon Saint Spear.
• Xu Yue and Meng Qi suppressed the Demon Saint Spear, captured Little Fox, and escaped with both of them.
• Meng Qi fled after Xu Yue as the demons regained their courage and pursued them toward the South Heaven Gate.

Xu Yue and Meng Qi fled through the South Heaven Gate while suppressing Little Fox and the Demon Saint Spear, then used awakened Heavenly Soldiers and hidden allies to turn the Demon Kings’ pursuit against them. They escaped through a waterway after striking Tai Li and leaving the Demon Kings surrounded.

• Xu Yue used a devastating kick to wound the pursuing Great Demons, but Tai Li and another Demon King arrived and forced him and Meng Qi to flee.
• The Demon Kings chased Xu Yue and Meng Qi into the military camp, where Tai Li demanded they release the Demon Saint Spear and Qingqiu.
• Xu Yue and Meng Qi transformed into Heavenly Soldiers and awakened four Heavenly Generals and more than twenty Heavenly Soldiers to attack the Demon Kings.
• Tai Li rushed at Xu Yue and Meng Qi, but their hidden companions used three secret treasures to restrain him while Xu Yue struck him with the Tianzi Sword.
• Xu Yue and Meng Qi suppressed the escaped Little Fox, gathered their companions, and fled through the waterway as the Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals engaged the Demon Kings.

Xu Yue used the Great Dao Tree to consume the Heavenly Court fragment, then escaped with Meng Qi and the others in a Heavenly River Chariot as Tai Li and Niu Niu pursued them. After the mission ended, Six Paths announced a secret-treasure-free Death Mission, and the group learned that the demon race had gained new opportunities and two demons were nearing the Dharma Body realm.

• Xu Yue activated the Great Dao Tree to devour the Heavenly Court fragment while the group fled toward a Heavenly River Chariot.
• Xu Yue led the group aboard the chariot, and the revived Heavenly Horses carried them away from the pursuing Tai Li and Niu Niu.
• The chariot brought the group to Gao Village, where Meng Qi found the Dao De Jing and began to understand how he might break free of Ananda’s influence.
• Six Paths confirmed the mission’s completion and warned the group that a Death Mission banning secret treasures would begin in one year.
• After returning to the Divine Capital, Meng Qi focused on consolidating his gains, while a Six Doors report revealed that the demon race had returned to the mountains with new inheritances and divine weapons.
• Kong Wen told Meng Qi that two demons behind Tai Li and the others appeared close to breaking through to the Dharma Body realm.

The Demon Saint and other Heavenly Wills allowed the demon race and Golden Ao Island to gain ground as Great Shang grew toward unifying the realm. After Qi Zhengyan revealed he was the Demon Lord’s inheritor and found common purpose with Xu Yue and Meng Qi, news of Nine Heavens ruins drew crowds to the Divine Capital, where Gu Xiaosang arrived openly.

• The Demon Saint tested how far He could intervene for the demon race, while two demon quasi-Dharmakaya figures neared their breakthroughs and Golden Ao Island began making moves.
• Qi Zhengyan told Meng Qi and Xu Yue that he was the Demon Lord’s inheritor, and Meng Qi accepted him while Qi explained that he had found his own Dao.
• Xu Yue’s methods and Qi Zhengyan’s goals eased their former conflict, and news of the Nine Heavens ruins began circulating through the Divine Capital.
• The Great Shang authorities introduced controls around the ruins, leaving the city calm despite an influx of martial world wanderers competing for mundane jobs.
• Gu Xiaosang arrived in the Divine Capital openly, while Xu Yue knew of her presence and prepared to take over some of her duties and enter the upper Nine Heavens again.

Gu Xiaosang enlisted Meng Qi to protect Bai Chong and help draw Han Guang into the Divine Capital, revealing that the Luo Cult had a new Dharmakaya. When attackers moved against Bai Chong, Meng Qi burst into the ambush to stop them.

• Gu Xiaosang told Meng Qi that she had released information about the Nine Heavens to lure Han Guang and asked him to protect Bai Chong, who carried half the map.
• Gu Xiaosang revealed that the Luo Cult's Lamp Lighter Divine Envoy had attained the Dharmakaya, and Meng Qi agreed to guard Bai Chong.
• A Free Heaven Demon and allied Grandmasters from Buren Tower, Myth, and Asura Temple attacked Bai Chong as he left his lodging.
• Meng Qi smashed through a wall and charged into the ambush, declaring that he had been waiting for the attackers.

Meng Qi and Gu Xiaosang escaped Han Guang’s attack and entered Myth’s base, heading for the upper level of the Nine Heavens. Han Guang and Mong Nan followed, unaware that Xu Yue had also arrived.

• Meng Qi killed Free Heaven Demon and battered the other attackers with his bare hands, forcing Han Guang to intervene.
• Meng Qi used the Overlord’s Peerless Saber to break free of Han Guang’s illusion and struck him while the Shendu Grand Array attacked.
• Gu Xiaosang rescued the wounded Meng Qi and led him through a limestone cave to Myth’s base using the Thunder Mark.
• Han Guang returned to Myth’s base, met Great Asura Mong Nan, and followed Gu Xiaosang and Meng Qi toward the upper level of the Nine Heavens.
• Xu Yue arrived at the entrance to Myth’s base and looked toward the Nine Heavens.

Meng Qi and Gu Xiaosang bound Eastern Emperor Taiyi’s wicked blood-colored Flat Peach and continued toward the Three Lives Hall. Xu Yue entered the Nine Heavens’ upper levels, concealed his presence, and temporarily restored the Flat Peach Garden’s vitality.

• Gu Xiaosang used memories arranged by the Golden Emperor to help Meng Qi bind the blood-colored Flat Peach with the Thunder Mark.
• Han Guang and Mong Nan entered the Flat Peach Garden, found a dead Heavenly General, and proceeded cautiously despite the danger.
• Xu Yue arrived at the garden and studied the Nine Heavens as a source of Dharma Principles and a vast store of information.
• Xu Yue sealed the upper levels against outside observation, tore through the Void, and brought his true body inside.
• Xu Yue erased the traces of his arrival and merged into his Other Self shadow, while his aura briefly drove the garden’s misfortune away.

Xu Yue entered the Nine Heavens and became its sole manifestation of Heavenly Will as Gu Xiaosang and Meng Qi headed for the Department of Thunder, pursued by Han Guang and Mong Nan. The chapter ended with the Great Shang Monarch appearing at Heaven's Punishment Gate, where the gathered Dharma Bodies questioned whether Chong He and the others were nearby.

• Gu Xiaosang and Meng Qi felt the pressure in the Nine Heavens ease as the Golden Emperor, the Demon Buddha, Ananda, and the Heavenly Emperor lost their ability to observe the area clearly.
• Xu Yue became the sole manifestation of Heavenly Will in the Nine Heavens while Han Guang and Mong Nan pursued Gu Xiaosang and Meng Qi to Heaven's Punishment Gate.
• The former Lamp Lighter Divine Envoy, now the Luo Cult's new Dharma King, intercepted Han Guang and Mong Nan, and the three Dharma Bodies began to fight.
• Xu Yue appeared beside the Banished Immortal Pool and assessed the power of Heaven's Punishment Gate, lamenting that the Heaven Punishing Axe had weakened it.
• Han Guang asked where Chong He and the others were, while Mong Nan questioned how much power the Zhu Xian Sword Array could wield in the Nine Heavens.