Chapter Summaries

After Zhang Lingshan’s Daoist Proclamation declared his intent to suppress the Nine Provinces Continent Destiny, powerful factions and old rivals began converging on Spirit Mountain. They left Zhang Lingshan’s fate in the hands of the Ancient Sects, while Fan Zhu dreaded being forced into a confrontation.

• Jin Tingchen told Jin Zheng that Zhang Lingshan was the man who had helped him kill Fu Han, and Jin Zheng decided they would watch from afar before delivering congratulatory gifts.
• Zhang Weigang summoned the Demon Suppression Alliance and set out for Lingshan, hoping the Ancient Sects would kill Zhang Lingshan so he could reclaim the Mystic Ice Divine Spear.
• Yuwen Shuo ordered his people to kill Zhang Lingshan, while Prince Liu gathered Qing Chen, Blood Robe, Xin Ling, and his red-clothed subordinates to witness Zhang Lingshan’s death.
• Wu Fangfang led the Green Lotus Sect toward Lingshan as the Old Hag of Wu Mountain secretly urged her to seek out the Zhang Family Ancestor; the ancestor and Zhang Yanshi also hurried there.
• Yu Fulong, Ruan Chengqi, Gui Hao, Wan Yidao, and Fan Zhu traveled toward Spirit Mountain as representatives of their Ancient Sects, while Fan Zhu hoped Zhang Lingshan would already be dead when they arrived.
• Fan Zhu and Wan Yidao spotted Sword Sect cultivators racing ahead, and Wan Yidao pulled the reluctant Fan Zhu after them to see what the Sword Sect would do.

Chu Siming challenged Zhang Lingshan with the Sword Saint Ancestor’s power and drew him beyond Spirit Mountain, where a devastating Sword River engulfed him. As the Sword Seal’s attack gathered every sword within a hundred miles, Chu Siming realized it had used Zhuo Ling’er as a Sword Spirit, leaving Zhang Lingshan’s fate uncertain.

• Chu Siming wounded Tiger Peak with a single strike, but Zhang Lingshan healed Tiger Peak from within Spirit Mountain.
• Zhang Weigang and the other alliance leaders watched as Chu Siming provoked Zhang Lingshan into leaving Spirit Mountain’s boundaries.
• Chu Siming unleashed the Sword Seal, which revealed Zhuo Ling’er as its Sword Spirit and sent her charging at Zhang Lingshan.
• The Sword River engulfed Zhang Lingshan and annihilated Zhuo Ling’er’s soul fragments, while Chu Siming was blasted away and left grieving.
• Jian Tianya’s sword and countless other swords within a hundred miles flew toward the Sword Intent Storm.

Zhang Lingshan survived the Sword Saint Ancestor’s Sword Seal, killed Chu Siming, and faced the Ancient Sects’ leaders as they gathered to attack him. The chapter left him warning Wan Yidao to withdraw while promising to absorb the Pill Sect into Lingshan’s Pill Dao Peak.

• Zhang Lingshan endured the storm of swords, melted and collected the treasured blades, then killed Chu Siming and took his corpse.
• Xiang Chen of the Demon Sect challenged Zhang Lingshan and called on the other Ancient Sects to join the fight.
• Gui Hao, Yu Fulong, Ruan Chengqi, Fang Qingqing, and Wan Yidao appeared, while Zhang Lingshan told Fan Zhu to leave; Fan Zhu withdrew.
• Xiang Chen threatened to destroy the Pill Sect, and Zhang Lingshan promised to merge it into Lingshan’s Pill Dao Peak after defeating the others.
• Zhang Lingshan warned Wan Yidao that they had some friendship but said he would show no mercy if Wan Yidao refused to withdraw.

Zhang Lingshan slaughtered the Eight Ancient Sects’ fighters while testing his formidable body and powers, and Painting Saint Wu Chengxian’s intervention drove Yu Fulong from the battle. As Xiang Chen fell and Fang Qingqing neared completion of the Thousand Tribulation Strangling Grand Formation, Ruan Chengqi attacked with the Golden Eye Branch.

• Zhang Lingshan killed Gui Hao with explosive sparks, then punched Xiang Chen hundreds of miles away while Fang Qingqing began preparing a formation.
• Zhang Lingshan endured Wan Yidao’s Endless Sky Saber without lasting injury, killed him, and stored his corpse.
• Yu Fulong withdrew after Wu Chengxian revealed himself as the Painting Saint and ordered the Talisman Sect junior to leave.
• Xiang Chen returned empowered by a Demon Seed, but Zhang Lingshan drained his demonic aura, killed him, and stored his body.
• Ruan Chengqi wielded the Half-step Immortal Artifact Golden Eye Branch against Zhang Lingshan as Fang Qingqing continued forming the Thousand Tribulation Strangling Grand Formation.

Zhang Lingshan defeated the last survivors of the Eight Ancient Sects’ assault, broke Fang Qingqing’s grand formation, and secured Spirit Mountain’s position as the Number One Sect Under Heaven. He welcomed new allies and gifts while Ming Feng’er hurried back to take control of the Northern Darkness Sect.

• Zhang Lingshan killed Ruan Chengqi with the Pill King Cauldron, then used the Formation Breaking Plate to destroy Fang Qingqing’s Thousand Tribulation Strangling Grand Formation and send her soul into the Nether Palace.
• Zhang Lingshan recovered Fang Qingqing’s Array Disk, called out the Zhang Family Ancestor, and received the onlookers’ recognition as the strongest person and sect in the Nine Provinces Continent.
• Jin Tingchen congratulated Zhang Lingshan and presented gifts from the Strange Flower Sect, prompting other visitors to offer their own gifts.
• Zhang Lingshan showed Ming Feng’er Bei Suifeng’s Wind Wheel, and she fled with Ming Xiaofeng to return to the Northern Darkness Sect and take control.
• Chen Youming praised Zhang Lingshan, offered gifts and his Netherworld-opening experiences, and explained to his indignant disciples that befriending Zhang Lingshan would secure their future.

Zhang Lingshan killed Zhang Weigang and returned to Spirit Mountain as the remaining enemies fled or made plans to lie low. The Zhang Family Ancestor gave Zhang Yanshi a Soul Guiding Banner and ordered him to collect the Lion Heart Sect, forcing Zhang Yanshi to kill his own disciples to send their souls into it.

• Zhang Lingshan turned Zhang Weigang into a Yin Spirit and swallowed him after Zhang Weigang warned that powerful experts remained in the Saint Tower, Heavenly Chasm, and Flower Bridge.
• Han Ruier and the Four Elders of Qian Yuan returned to Spirit Mountain, while Prince Liu, Qing Chen, and Blood Robe decided to hide and wait for a chance to ascend.
• The Zhang Family Ancestor arranged to meet the Old Hag of Wu Mountain at the Saint Tower in three days and planned to recruit its experts to seize Spirit Mountain's fortune.
• The Zhang Family Ancestor gave Zhang Yanshi a Soul Guiding Banner and ordered him to collect the Lion Heart Sect.
• Zhang Yanshi found that the banner did not capture his disciples' souls on its own, so he killed his daughter Xuan'er and the other members of the sect to send their souls into it.

The Zhang Family Ancestor and Ji Mengxuan joined forces to seek a Fire Spirit Beast in Central Province, while the Sword Saint Ancestor also set out for it. Zhang Lingshan had already reached Purple Cloud Ridge to claim the beast for himself.

• The Zhang Family Ancestor captured the old men outside Saint Tower and learned that its inhabitants would not help fight Zhang Lingshan.
• Ji Mengxuan arrived and told the Zhang Family Ancestor that Zhang Lingshan had destroyed Mystic Ice Mountain and stolen her Mystic Ice Divine Spear.
• Ji Mengxuan revealed that a Fire Spirit Beast was in Central Province, and the Zhang Family Ancestor promised to help her claim Zhang Lingshan’s corpse in return for her assistance.
• The Sword Saint Ancestor left his secluded cottage after Chu Siming and Zhuo Ling'er failed to draw out Zhang Lingshan’s sword technique.
• The Sword Saint Ancestor headed to Purple Cloud Ridge, where Zhang Lingshan had already gone to claim the Fire Spirit Beast.

Zhang Lingshan confronted the Sword Saint Ancestor, but their clash was interrupted by the arrival of Zhang Tianshi and Ji Mengxuan, who sought to seize the continent’s luck. The three elders turned against Zhang Lingshan, and the chapter left them joining forces to kill him while he was trapped in the Sword Saint Ancestor’s attack.

• Zhang Lingshan met the Sword Saint Ancestor beneath the Fire Spirit Stone Mine, and the Sword Saint demanded the Spirit Light Black Underworld Twin Swords.
• Zhang Tianshi and Ji Mengxuan arrived, and the Sword Saint agreed to attack them alongside Zhang Lingshan before Zhang Tianshi persuaded him to hesitate.
• Ji Mengxuan attacked Zhang Lingshan with the Ice Element Rules, but Zhang Lingshan used his Mystic Ice Divine Art and the Heavenly Dao’s aid to turn her spear into a shield.
• Ji Mengxuan and Zhang Tianshi tried to strip away the Ice and Fire Attribute Rules, while the Sword Saint joined them after resenting the Heavenly Dao’s favor toward Zhang Lingshan.
• The Sword Saint trapped Zhang Lingshan in his Sword Intent Cage, and Zhang Tianshi warned that Zhang Lingshan possessed a Profound Gold Body.
• The Sword Saint, Ji Mengxuan, and Zhang Tianshi prepared to unleash their full strength against Zhang Lingshan, and Ji Mengxuan suddenly reacted with shock.

Zhang Lingshan survived the Sword Saint Ancestor, the Zhang Family Ancestor, and Ji Mengxuan’s attacks, then killed them and absorbed their souls. After raising his Rule of Life to Greater Accomplishment, he was swallowed by a Fire Spirit Beast.

• The Sword Saint Ancestor used Sword Qi Silk Threads to strip Zhang Lingshan’s flesh, but Zhang Lingshan contaminated the sword intent and forced the Sword Saint Ancestor to retreat and recover.
• The Zhang Family Ancestor and Ji Mengxuan poured fire- and ice-attribute rules into the Sword Intent Cage to suppress Zhang Lingshan, who endured the attack and comprehended both rules.
• Zhang Lingshan killed the Sword Saint Ancestor with the merged Spirit Light Black Underworld Twin Swords, then shattered the Zhang Family Ancestor and Ji Mengxuan and absorbed their souls.
• Zhang Yanshi told Zhang Lingshan that Old Hag of Wu Mountain planned to meet the Zhang Family Ancestor at the Saint Tower in three days, and Zhang Lingshan killed and refined him.
• Zhang Lingshan used his Energy Points to raise the Rule of Life to Greater Accomplishment, then a Fire Spirit Beast swallowed him whole.

Zhang Lingshan absorbed the Fire Spirit Beast’s Fire Rule, spared it, and took it with him to the Saint Tower, where he killed three Manifestation-descended experts. After ambushing another arrival and capturing Old Hag of Wu Mountain, he heard her proposal to cooperate after his ascension and pressed her for the number of invaders.

• Zhang Lingshan absorbed the Fire Spirit Beast’s Fire Rule, then restored it with the Rule of Life and took it along as a puppy.
• At the Saint Tower, Zhang Lingshan killed Immortal Master Yu Yang, Xiao Yi, and Zhao Yuqing, while the Fire Spirit Beast helped attack Zhao Yuqing.
• Zhang Lingshan disguised himself as Zhang Yuming and waited for Old Hag of Wu Mountain’s gathering.
• When Old Hag of Wu Mountain arrived with a burly man, Zhang Lingshan killed the man and trapped Wu Fangfang’s body, which Old Hag of Wu Mountain had possessed.
• Old Hag of Wu Mountain proposed that she and Zhang Lingshan cooperate in the Upper Realm, and Zhang Lingshan asked how many had descended to the Lower Realm.

Zhang Lingshan killed the Old Hag of Wu Mountain and explored the Saint Tower, where its crushing pressure strengthened his body but stopped him at the Thirty-first Floor. While using the tower’s rules to deduce new techniques, he unleashed Silent Blade and attracted Evil King Di Li, who offered the Saint Tower’s secret in exchange for learning it.

• The Old Hag of Wu Mountain warned Zhang Lingshan that Tian Qing was the last of the Lower Realm’s hidden figures, and Zhang Lingshan killed her and destroyed Wu Fangfang’s Yin Spirit.
• Zhang Lingshan tested the Saint Tower from outside, found it could not be damaged, and entered its first floor.
• Zhang Lingshan climbed to the Thirtieth Floor, where its pressure repeatedly broke and strengthened his body, but he could not withstand the Thirty-first Floor.
• Zhang Lingshan called for the hidden saints, then used the Thirtieth Floor’s Power of Rules and the Gate of All Wonders to deduce stronger Cultivation Methods.
• Zhang Lingshan’s deduction triggered Silent Blade, and Evil King Di Li appeared, begged to learn the technique, and offered the Saint Tower’s secret.
• An aged voice shouted at Di Li as seven-colored sound waves surged toward his phantom.

Zhang Lingshan learned that the Saint Tower’s trapped spirits were enslaved and traded half of the Method of Silent Blade for Di Li’s account of the Method of Becoming a Saint. He remade Di Li’s body with his blood and escaped the Saint Tower with him, then asked whether the method was real.

• Di Li explained that the Saint Tower was damaged, preventing ascension, and that its spirits could not leave without temporary shells.
• Di Li exchanged a Jade Slip containing the alleged Method of Becoming a Saint for Zhang Lingshan’s incomplete Method of Silent Blade, then attacked him for withholding the rest.
• Zhang Lingshan’s blood gave Di Li a physical body, and he offered to remake the bodies of other Saint Spirits so they could leave the tower.
• The Saint Elder shook the space inside the tower and began tearing Di Li apart, but Zhang Lingshan stabilized him with drops of Divine Dew and fled with him.
• Outside the Saint Tower, Di Li rejoiced that he had survived, and Zhang Lingshan asked whether the Method of Becoming a Saint was genuine.

Zhang Lingshan tested the Saint Tower’s Method of Becoming a Saint, rescued Saint Spirits, and used Observe Subtleties to discover a path to body sanctification. After recording the Spirit Mountain Physique and advancing it to Entry Level, he gained a profound connection to the Nine Provinces Continent’s Earth Essence Qi.

• Zhang Lingshan questioned Di Li about the Method of Becoming a Saint and brought him back into the Saint Tower to try comprehending its walls with a physical body.
• Zhang Lingshan rebuilt the bodies of many Saint Spirits with his Essence Blood, and they pledged to follow him despite Saint Elder’s efforts to stop them.
• Zhang Lingshan killed a disguised intruder who tried to exploit the departing Saint Spirits, while Saint Elder threatened him and claimed the tower’s true experts were waiting outside.
• Di Li began to comprehend the tower’s walls but was attacked by Saint Elder, so Zhang Lingshan sent him outside and examined the walls with Observe Subtleties.
• Zhang Lingshan comprehended the beginnings of the Method of Becoming a Saint, recorded the Spirit Mountain Physique on his Panel, and advanced it to Entry Level using Stat Points.
• Zhang Lingshan drew in Earth Essence Qi and felt that he had merged with the Nine Provinces Continent, becoming immortal and indestructible while standing on its land.

Zhang Lingshan left the Saint Tower and went with Di Li to the Blade Sect, where he demanded compensation for the sect’s past hostility. When the Blade Sect elders resisted, Zhang Lingshan displayed the Azure Nether Sword and left them too afraid to answer him.

• Zhang Lingshan sent the freed experts to their sects to secure compensation, while Di Li invited him to the Blade Sect to seek the Nirvana Blade.
• Di Li and Zhang Lingshan reached the Blade Sect, where an elder attacked Di Li and then learned he had partly comprehended Silent Blade under Zhang Lingshan’s guidance.
• Zhang Lingshan entered the Blade Sect despite the elder’s warning, and Di Li followed while defending his Mountain Master’s authority.
• The Blade Sect elders rejected Di Li’s demand for treasures and threatened to fight Zhang Lingshan, who warned them that they were no match for him.
• Zhang Lingshan pinned an elder with the Azure Nether Sword, prompting the Blade Sect members to suspect he had killed the Sword Saint Ancestor and fall silent in fear.

Zhang Lingshan visited the Blade Sect to see the Nirvana Blade and demonstrated his Silent Blade in a trial against Dao Wannian. Dao Wannian acknowledged Zhang Lingshan’s superiority and led him to the Blade Tomb, where Zhang Lingshan prepared to face the legendary saber.

• Zhang Lingshan asked Dao Wannian to let him see the Nirvana Blade, and Dao Wannian agreed to witness his Silent Blade.
• Dao Wannian sealed the sect gate plaza with a formation and attacked Zhang Lingshan with his Endless Sky Saber.
• Zhang Lingshan’s Silent Blade devoured Dao Wannian’s saber lights, filled the formation with Blade Qi, and left Dao Wannian’s life in his hands.
• Dao Wannian withdrew the formation, praised Zhang Lingshan, and invited him to the Blade Tomb; Di Li gained insight from the encounter.
• Dao Wannian warned the Blade Sect members not to interfere as Zhang Lingshan went to subdue the Nirvana Blade.

Zhang Lingshan claimed the Nirvana Blade in the Blade Tomb and merged its Blade Qi with his Silent Blade, causing the tomb’s treasured blades to shatter. After refining the Nirvana Blade into a transformed weapon he renamed the Silent Blade, he left an inheritance for the Blade Sect and asked Dao Wannian to show him the Hundred Worlds Blade.

• Zhang Lingshan walked through the Blade Tomb and seized the Nirvana Blade barehanded, enduring its blade edge with his powerful body.
• The Nirvana Blade’s Blade Qi harmonized with Zhang Lingshan’s Silent Blade, raising it to Minor Accomplishment and unleashing a gale that shattered the treasured blades in the tomb.
• After the Blade Qi mist cleared, Zhang Lingshan was unharmed, and the Nirvana Blade had disappeared from view.
• Zhang Lingshan revealed the nearly transparent blade, said he had accepted the Nirvana Blade, and renamed it the Silent Blade.
• Zhang Lingshan left an invisible Silent Blade Light Pillar as an inheritance, and Dao Wannian and the Blade Sect disciples thanked him.
• Zhang Lingshan asked Dao Wannian to lead him to the Blade Sect’s Hundred Worlds Blade.

Zhang Lingshan entered the Hundred Worlds Blade’s temporal illusion, awakened to its Time Rule, and left the Blade Sect after learning that the Great Outbreak was approaching. Back at Spirit Mountain, he prepared for the invasion and, after discovering that his Saint Spirit subordinate had vanished at the Array Gate, set out to attack it.

• Dao Wannian led Zhang Lingshan to the Hundred Worlds Blade, and Zhang Lingshan leaped into the starry sky to investigate it.
• Dao Wannian fell into a temporal illusion involving his deceased elder Old Lu, while Zhang Lingshan awakened from visions of his past life and learned that the Time Rule required vast Energy Points to cultivate.
• Dao Chengzi reported that the Heaven and Earth Rules were weakening and the Great Outbreak was imminent, so Zhang Lingshan left the Blade Sect for Spirit Mountain.
• Dao Wannian decided the Blade Sect should seal its mountain, while Zhang Lingshan put Di Li in charge of training Spirit Mountain’s Blade Path disciples.
• Zhang Lingshan discovered that the Saint Spirit he had sent to the Array Gate had disappeared, then summoned Zhuo Yu, Han Ruier, Feng Zhengfeng, and the Four Elders of Qian Yuan to attack the Array Gate.

Zhang Lingshan led the group to Qian Yuan Dao, where Feng Zhengfeng was rejected by the Dao Master Token. After mastering the Qian Yuan Dao Cultivation Method and demonstrating a powerful way to break formations, Zhang Lingshan gained the Token’s recognition and became Qian Yuan Dao’s Dao Master.

• Feng Zhengfeng led Zhang Lingshan and the others to Qian Yuan Dao and used the Dao Master Token to reveal its hidden gate.
• The Dao Master Token struck Feng Zhengfeng and drained his strength, so Zhang Lingshan saved him with Divine Dew and Cloud Life Essence.
• Zhang Lingshan raised the Qian Yuan Dao Cultivation Method to Perfection and used its new ability to break the Four Elders of Qian Yuan's formation and Han Ruier's Void Trap Array.
• Zhuo Yu explained the Formation Dao and offered Zhang Lingshan his recorded insights, while the Dao Master Token flew to Zhang Lingshan and delivered the Myriad Formation Records into his mind.
• The Four Elders of Qian Yuan recognized Zhang Lingshan as Qian Yuan Dao's Dao Master, and Feng Zhengfeng accepted that the inheritance had passed to him.

Zhang Lingshan cleared the poison from Qian Yuan Dao, mastered the Myriad Formation Records, and attacked the Array Gate. After his killing formation wiped out its defenders, Sect Master Fang Zhengfeng prepared to fight him.

• Zhang Lingshan absorbed the poison throughout Qian Yuan Dao, gaining 30 quadrillion Energy Points, while Feng Zhengfeng, the Four Elders of Qian Yuan, Zhuo Yu, and Han Ruier explored the ruins.
• Zhang Lingshan studied the Myriad Formation Records, then left for the Array Gate, confident he could overcome its formations.
• Zhang Lingshan broke through the Array Gate’s vermilion doors and demanded that Fang Zhengfeng surrender, compensate him, and submit.
• Zhang Lingshan used Flame Blade Qi to form a killing formation that slaughtered the Array Gate disciples, and the White-Browed Elder’s attempt to disrupt it only strengthened it.
• Fang Zhengfeng conceded Zhang Lingshan’s skill but demanded that he step down; Zhang Lingshan refused, and Fang Zhengfeng ordered the survivors to attack.

Zhang Lingshan exposed and killed Tian Qing and the Array Gate, then looted the sect and used his Immortal Methods to retrieve the Xuantian Formation Plate. He left with 103 jing Energy Points and Fang Zhengfeng’s Thousand Tribulation Soul Sealing Banner.

• Zhang Lingshan seized Tian Qing’s stone statue before it could attack, revealed his identity, and absorbed his manifested consciousness for 22 jing Energy Points.
• Fang Zhengfeng pleaded for Zhang Lingshan to spare the Array Gate members, but Zhang Lingshan killed them with the Divine Consciousness Silent Blade and refined their souls, raising his Energy Points to 103 jing.
• Zhang Lingshan looted the Array Gate and used the Dao Light Immortal Method to send the Xuantian Formation Plate into his Pouch Space.
• Zhang Lingshan found the Thousand Tribulation Soul Sealing Banner, Fang Zhengfeng’s Half-step Immortal Artifact.