Chapter Summaries

Mu Chen spoke with Ye Kong about the Ancient Heavenly Palace Ruins, the Great Sun Undying Body, and the Ancient Heavenly Emperor’s divine ability, One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones. Ye Kong departed with Wen Qingxuan and Yan Ni, while Mu Chen resolved to grow stronger and become a Demon Slaying King.

• Ye Kong deduced that Mu Chen’s Bloodline Link was with Jiu You, the Nine Nether Sparrow Tribe’s Young Clan Leader, and explained how he had identified her.
• Mu Chen asked whether the Ancient Heavenly Palace Ruins held the evolution method for the Great Sun Undying Body, and Ye Kong confirmed the palace had possessed it if its Sutra Library survived.
• Ye Kong revealed that he was determined to obtain the Ancient Heavenly Emperor’s One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, a technique that created two Clones equal in strength to the user.
• Mu Chen said he would eventually go to Western Heaven Continent to see Luo Li and rescue his mother, and Ye Kong asked whether he would visit his father.
• Ye Kong left with Wen Qingxuan and Yan Ni through the spatial Teleportation Array, while Mu Chen vowed to become a Demon Slaying King and not let Ye Kong down.

After Ye Kong and the other powerful visitors left, Mandala questioned Mu Chen about his background and learned of his ties to Ye Kong and Luo Li. She gave him a new task and promised that he and Jiu You could become Kings, while the other Northern Border powers reconsidered how they would treat him.

• Mandala examined Mu Chen and asked whether he came from a powerful lineage, but Mu Chen said he was a rogue cultivator who had received Ye Kong’s guidance and resources.
• Mu Chen told Mandala about Luo Li, the Luoshen Clan, and his plan to seek the Flame Emperor’s help against the Western Heaven Battle Emperor.
• Mandala remained doubtful about Mu Chen’s background but chose not to press him and offered him a new task that could earn him and Jiu You the title of King.
• The other Earth Sovereigns recognized Ye Kong’s regard for Mu Chen and decided not to risk making an enemy of him.
• Liu Tiandao recalled his family’s past conflicts with Mu Chen and resolved to avoid leading any move against the Great Luo Heavenly Domain.

After Xu Lingyun began recovering in the Sword Domain’s core area, the Green-robed Sword Saint explained Su Changxin’s connection to Continental Power and granted Ye Kong and the others an extra year there. Ye Kong and Xiao Xiao began their own cultivation, while Xiao Xiao wondered what her father would do when Xiao Yixian’s Love Flower Gu matured.

• Ao Youdi bragged that after returning to the Dragon Tribe and absorbing Divine Dragon Essence Blood, he would become powerful enough to defeat Monk Huaizhong, who attacked him with the Eight Bitter Sword Intent.
• The Green-robed Sword Saint told Ye Kong that Su Changxin was helping Xu Lingyun recover as the Heavenly Cycle Sword absorbed Continental Power and was reconstructed.
• The Green-robed Sword Saint revealed that Su Changxin had been nourished by Continental Power before birth, giving her extraordinary talent and compatibility with it.
• The Green-robed Sword Saint granted Ye Kong and the others one additional year in the core area, and Ye Kong hurried into the Little Universe to cultivate while Xiao Xiao prepared for her own baptism.
• Xiao Xiao fell asleep inside a cocoon of light and wondered when Xiao Yixian’s Love Flower Gu would mature and how her father would respond.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yixian completed the refinement of the Love Flower Gu, which awakened powerful desire and suppressed their usual restraint. The chapter ended with Xiao Yixian embracing Xiao Yan and the two of them sealed inside a barrier of Imperial Flame.

• Xiao Yan reluctantly gave Xiao Yixian two drops of blood essence to help complete the Gu’s refinement, and Xiao Yixian contributed two drops of her own.
• The Love Flower Gu bloomed, forming lifelike figures of Xiao Yan and Xiao Yixian in their stamens and linking the pair with pink light.
• Xiao Yixian and Xiao Yan experienced memories and emotions about their time together as the Gu stirred their desire.
• Xiao Yan recognized that the flowers were Love Flower Gu and tried to dispel their effects with Imperial Flame, but the flames intensified them.
• Xiao Yixian embraced and kissed Xiao Yan, saying she would tell Cai Lin and Xun Er when she returned.
• Xiao Yan tore Xiao Yixian’s clothes and raised a barrier of Imperial Flame around the courtyard.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yixian cultivated with the Love Flower Gu for three months, and Xiao Yixian advanced to the Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign realm. After she fled their secluded courtyard, Xiao Yan found her, confessed his long-held feelings, and asked her to marry him; she left his answer-dependent proposal unresolved as he chased after her.

• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yixian cultivated inside Imperial Flame with the Love Flower Gu, and Xiao Yan awakened after half a month with his cultivation nearing Transcendence beyond Saint Grade.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yixian continued their intimate cultivation for another half month before falling into a second slumber.
• Two months later, Xiao Yixian awakened with unstable Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign power and left the courtyard, while Xiao Yan worried about how Xun Er and Cai Lin would react.
• Xiao Yan tracked Xiao Yixian down and asked her to return with him to the Endless Fire Domain for their wedding.
• Xiao Yixian teased Xiao Yan and said he would have to prove himself, then departed as he pursued her through the valley.

Ye Kong awoke from five years of cultivation in the Sword Domain and learned that Xiao Xiao was nearing the Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign realm. After Xiao Xiao and Little Cai survived their tribulations and reached Immortal Grade, Xiao Xiao greeted Ye Kong with a passionate kiss.

• Ye Kong awoke at the peak of Half-step Heavenly Sovereign and thanked the Green-robed Sword Saint for guarding the Little Universe.
• Ye Kong learned that Xiao Yan's courtyard had been sealed for months and suspected Xiao Yixian had become his third mistress.
• Xiao Xiao awakened with cultivation nearing Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign after unsealing much of her stored spiritual power.
• Xiao Xiao endured five Heavenly Sovereign Tribulations, while Little Cai devoured lightning and helped her pass safely through the ordeal.
• Little Cai survived its Super Divine Beast Thunder Tribulation with Xiao Xiao's help and reached Early Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign.
• Xiao Xiao withdrew Little Cai and kissed Ye Kong, telling him she had missed him.

Ouyang Heng broke through to become an Early Spirit grade Heavenly Sovereign while Xu Lingyun and Su Changxin remained in Continent Baptism. Ye Kong and Xiao Xiao learned that Xiao Yan was struggling to win Xiao Yixian over, so they went to intervene and caught him making a bold romantic advance.

• Ouyang Heng survived four Heavenly Sovereign Spiritual Tribulations with his Unfettered Sword God Body and became an Early Spirit grade Heavenly Sovereign.
• The Green-robed Sword Saint said Xu Lingyun would return once his soul reunited, though he could not predict when.
• Ye Kong and Xiao Xiao discussed how Xu Lingyun might repay Su Changxin and then set out to check on Xiao Yan and Xiao Yixian.
• Xiao Lin told them Xiao Yan had sealed off his courtyard and later asked him for advice on coaxing Xiao Yixian.
• Ye Kong, Xiao Xiao, and Xiao Lin entered the Imperial Flame Divine Barrier and found Xiao Yan flirting with Xiao Yixian in a secluded valley.
• Xiao Xiao and Ye Kong condemned Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yixian blushed, shoved him away, and called him a rogue.

Xiao Xiao interrupted Xiao Yan’s advances toward Xiao Yixian, while the two women shared a heartfelt conversation before Xiao Xiao asked her an intimate question. Xiao Yan then gave Ye Kong pills and spirit liquid, discussed his path to Heavenly Sovereign, and began testing him with a fight in the sky.

• Xiao Xiao intervened when Xiao Yan pursued Xiao Yixian and warned him not to bully her.
• Xiao Yixian reassured Xiao Xiao that she had grown up, then blushed when Xiao Xiao asked about intimacy and offered advice based on Xiao Yan’s words.
• Xiao Yan took Ye Kong to a hidden chamber, gave him Elixirs and one hundred billion drops of Supreme Spirit Liquid, and asked when he could reach Heavenly Sovereign.
• Ye Kong said he could attempt a breakthrough after accumulating strength for half a year or a year, and Xiao Yan offered to teach him the Buddha’s Fury Fire Lotus.
• Xiao Yan denied planning to beat Ye Kong half to death, then rose into the sky with his ruler as Ye Kong launched a powerful Vajra Fist at him.

Xiao Xiao encouraged Xiao Lin to prepare to challenge the Maha Ancient Clan, while privately planning to help Ye Kong secure the Eternal Undying Body. Xiao Yan then revealed his ultimate technique, Flame God, during his fight with Ye Kong, leaving the Sword Domain’s watching experts stunned by its power.

• Xiao Lin watched Xiao Yan and Ye Kong fight and realized that Ye Kong’s combat awareness surpassed his own.
• Xiao Xiao reminded Xiao Lin of the old conflict with the Maha Ancient Clan, and Xiao Lin vowed to challenge Maha Tian after reaching Mid Saint Grade.
• Xiao Xiao and Ye Kong planned to confront the Maha Ancient Clan, which she expected to obstruct Ye Kong at the Eternal Gathering and deny him the Eternal Undying Body.
• Xiao Xiao offered to support Xiao Yixian, who blushed as she admitted that Xiao Yan’s cultivation sessions had rapidly improved her cultivation.
• Xiao Yan and Ye Kong separated after another clash, and Xiao Yan created his Flame God technique as Ye Kong studied its mysteries.
• Xiao Yan’s fire lotus revealed a miniature Fire Shadow, sending heat across the Sword Domain as Buddhist light and fiery clouds filled the sky.

Xu Lingyun and Su Changxin emerged from their long ordeal and faced Heavenly Sovereign tribulations, with Xu surviving an unprecedented sixth strike and reaching the Heavenly Sovereign realm. After reuniting with the Green-robed Sword Saint, Xu misunderstood his master's advice about romance and inheritance, and the group went to watch Ye Kong and Xiao Yan's battle.

• The Green-robed Sword Saint and Ouyang Heng watched as Su Changxin and Xu Lingyun emerged from the Pure World Green Lotus and faced their Heavenly Sovereign tribulations.
• Su Changxin endured five tribulations and broke through to the Heavenly Sovereign realm, while Xu Lingyun drew a sixth strike from the tribulation clouds.
• Xu Lingyun fought the pitch-black heavenly sword with his Azure Sword Profound Body and Reincarnation Sword Intent, survived, and reached the Heavenly Sovereign realm.
• Xu Lingyun bowed to the Green-robed Sword Saint, who welcomed him back and tried to guide him toward cherishing Su Changxin, but Xu mistook the advice for a call to seek successors and purge demonic cultivators.
• Ouyang Heng reminded the group that Ye Kong and Xiao Yan were fighting, and they hurried toward the battlefield.

Ye Kong tested his Myriad Buddhas Illuminate the Universe against Xiao Yan’s Flame God and watched the attack get overwhelmed before welcoming Xu Lingyun and the others back. As the group prepared to explore the Sword Domain’s floating islands, Ye Kong reminded Ouyang Heng to pay out the gambling-house bets, and Ouyang Heng fainted.

• Ye Kong unleashed Myriad Buddhas Illuminate the Universe against Xiao Yan’s one-inch Flame God Fire Shadow, but the flames cracked and swallowed his giant Swastika seal.
• The Green-robed Sword Saint, Xu Lingyun, Su Changxin, and Ouyang Heng arrived, and Xiao Yan and the Green-robed Sword Saint repaired the damaged sky.
• Ye Kong congratulated Xu Lingyun on returning after five years and teased him about thanking Su Changxin, but Xu Lingyun earnestly called her one of his closest people.
• Su Changxin went to join Xiao Xiao, while Ouyang Heng suggested that the group visit the Sword Qi Floating Islands and Ye Kong agreed to learn from their sword intent.
• Ye Kong asked Ouyang Heng when the Sword Saint Gambling House would pay out their billion-Supreme-Spirit-Liquid bets, and Ouyang Heng fainted.

Ye Kong entered the Sword Qi Archipelago, rapidly passed the trials in a Buddhist Heavenly Sovereign’s tower, and absorbed its sword intent to strengthen his Bodhi Tree. After waking from cultivation, he asked Feng Yusheng what she knew about the Divine Beast Plains.

• Xu Lingyun explained that the Sword Qi Floating Islands preserved sword intents left by Heavenly Sovereigns, and led Ye Kong to a tower containing a Buddhist sword inheritance.
• Ye Kong entered the tower and used the Merit Bowl to clear its first six trials in half an hour, then defeated the final phantom and obtained a Dragon-shaped Small Sword containing Heavenly Sovereign Sword Intent.
• Ye Kong used the Burying Buddha Tablet to subdue the sword intent and the Bodhi Tree to absorb it, strengthening the tree and deepening his cultivation.
• Xu Lingyun and Ouyang Heng left to seek their own sword inheritances after witnessing Ye Kong’s swift progress.
• Feng Yusheng visited Ye Kong after he finished cultivating, and he asked her about the Divine Beast Plains.

Ye Kong told Feng Yusheng about the ruined Divine Beast Plains and showed her the Dragon-Phoenix True Scripture, which she judged to be an exceptionally powerful Divine Ability. Feng Yusheng began cultivating its True Phoenix Spirit and prepared to help Ye Kong cultivate the Dragon-Phoenix Body.

• Feng Yusheng explained that the Divine Beast Plains had been destroyed in the ancient war, and that its Three Beast Venerables had vanished after fighting the Outer Domain Evil Tribe.
• Ye Kong said he was interested in the Divine Beast Plains because they were once part of the Divine Beast Continent, while concealing the supreme cultivation ground he hoped to find there.
• Ye Kong gave Feng Yusheng the Dragon-Phoenix True Scripture, and she recognized it as a rare Divine Ability capable of cultivating True Dragon and True Phoenix Spirits that could eventually become physical clones.
• Feng Yusheng decided to cultivate the True Phoenix Spirit, using her own blood to form it, and then offered to help Ye Kong cultivate the Dragon-Phoenix Body.
• Feng Yusheng produced True Dragon Qi and a flaming brush to prepare for the process, leaving Ye Kong nervous as he agreed to let her help.

After fleeing Feng Yusheng, Ye Kong met with the Four Great Vajras and sent them to explore the Divine Beast Plains, where he hoped they might find a way to revive the Three Beast Venerates. He sent letters to the relevant clans and planned to pursue his own breakthrough to Heavenly Sovereign in the Blood Sea.

• Ye Kong escaped Feng Yusheng and summoned the Four Great Vajras, praising their progress to High Earth Sovereign.
• Ye Kong told the Four Apes to suppress their cultivation and visit the Divine Beast Plains when it opened, giving Lu Hou a Golden Spirit Stone for emergencies.
• Ye Kong explained that he wanted them to search for the fallen Three Beast Venerates and discussed the uncertain possibility of reviving them.
• Ye Kong promised to contact the Phoenix, Nine-Colored Peacock, Kunpeng, and Heaven-Reaching Ape Tribes about the Three Beast Venerates.
• Ye Kong wrote letters to Lu Shengjun and the Great Ape King of Heaven, and Lu Hou hurried back to the clan with them.
• Ye Kong reflected on the passing twenty years and planned to attempt a Heavenly Sovereign breakthrough in the Divine Beast Plains’ Blood Sea.

Ye Kong agreed to pause his progress through the Sword Domain and refine the hundred-odd sword intents he had gathered, then demonstrated a powerful sword formation he had created. After learning that Ye Kong intended to give the technique to the Sword Domain, the Green-robed Sword Saint named him an honorary Grand Elder and invited him to take as many sword intents as he wished.

• The Green-robed Sword Saint stopped Ye Kong from entering another Sword Island, citing the strain his cultivation and gambling winnings had placed on the Sword Domain.
• Ye Kong agreed to settle down, refine his sword intents, and break through to the Heavenly Sovereign realm before venturing deeper into Sword Isle.
• Ye Kong gave blunt, practical answers about swords and sword intent, then revealed a Bodhi Tree containing more than a hundred sword intents he had forcibly shattered and absorbed.
• Ye Kong formed a five-direction sword formation from the sword intents, and the Green-robed Sword Saint praised its potential while pointing out flaws.
• Ye Kong said he had meant to offer the Sword Domain a Peerless Divine Ability comparable to the Azure Immortal Sword, so the Green-robed Sword Saint declared him an honorary Grand Elder and let him challenge as many Sword Qi Floating Islands as he wished.

Ye Kong continued his intense cultivation while Mu Chen reached Half-step Seventh-grade Venerate and prepared to help Jiu You find Undying Bird Essence Blood in the Divine Beast Plains. After learning how powerful Ye Kong was among the Beast Tribes, Mu Chen refused to rely on his reputation and chose to prove himself on his own.

• Ye Kong balanced sword study, Dragon-Phoenix Body cultivation, and weekly sparring as a month passed.
• Mu Chen emerged from seclusion at Half-step Seventh-grade Venerate, and Mandala gave him five Spiritual Array diagrams to help him prepare for the Divine Beast Plains.
• Mandala warned Mu Chen that powerful Spirit Beast and Super Divine Beast geniuses would enter the Divine Beast Plains, and that he should avoid provoking them before reaching Seventh-grade Venerate.
• Mandala explained Ye Kong's influence in the Phoenix Tribe and his deeds in the Burial Spirit Ruins, saying his reputation could help Mu Chen with the Nine Nether Sparrow Tribe.
• Mu Chen refused to use Ye Kong's connections, and Mandala agreed to accompany him to the Nine Nether Sparrow Tribe in half a month.

Mu Chen joined the Nine Nether Sparrow Tribe's team as Ye Kong and Feng Yusheng discussed the risks of reviving the Three Beast Venerables. Lu Shengjun arrived to seek Flame Emperor's body-reconstructing elixirs, and Ye Kong left with him while Feng Yusheng watched in silence.

• Mu Chen earned Tian Huang's recognition, joined the Nine Nether Sparrow Tribe's four-man team, and met Mo Feng and Mo Ling before entering the Divine Beast Plains with them.
• Ye Kong and Feng Yusheng sent the Four Great Vajras into the Divine Beast Plains and discussed the political and resource risks of reviving the Undying Bird Beast Venerate.
• Ye Kong resolved to pursue the Divine Beast Blood Sea's benefits despite Feng Yusheng's reservations about the risks of reviving the Three Beast Venerables.
• Lu Shengjun arrived in the Sword Domain and told Ye Kong that the Heaven-Reaching Ape Tribe intended to seek its ancestor and buy Flame Emperor's body-reconstructing elixirs.
• Ye Kong left with Lu Shengjun to find Flame Emperor, while Feng Yusheng remained behind watching him depart.

Xiao Yan accepted Lu Shengjun’s request to refine an elixir for an injured Late Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign, though he doubted his chances of success. Ye Kong and Xiao Xiao agreed on a wager tied to their approaching Five-Year Pact, then arranged to seek a blessed land together.

• Lu Shengjun gave Xiao Yan an ancient pill formula, three sets of ingredients, and treasured payment in exchange for an elixir to heal an important senior of the Heaven-Reaching Ape Tribe.
• Xiao Yan admitted he was unsure he could refine such a powerful elixir, while Xiao Yixian encouraged him and Ye Kong led Lu Shengjun away, confident in his father-in-law’s skill.
• Lu Shengjun praised Ye Kong’s rapid cultivation before departing, and Ye Kong caught Xiao Xiao when she tried to ambush him.
• Ye Kong reminded Xiao Xiao that their Five-Year Pact was approaching and proposed that she help him cultivate if she lost; Xiao Xiao agreed after he secretly explained his meaning.
• Ye Kong invited Xiao Xiao to join him in searching for a blessed land, and she accepted when she learned Xiao Yan would probably go too.

Ye Kong helped Wen Qingxuan evolve her Great Sun Undying Body into an Immortal Golden Body so she could prepare to break through to Earth Sovereign. Wen Qingxuan confessed how long she had loved him, and Ye Kong took her to find a place to face her Spiritual Tribulation.

• Wen Qingxuan asked Ye Kong to act as her Guardian for her Earth Sovereign breakthrough, and Ye Kong judged her Great Sun Undying Body inadequate.
• Ye Kong gave Wen Qingxuan a Great Sun Undying Body Stone Carving, telling her its evolution would hurt and she would owe two thousand Demon Slaying Points.
• Wen Qingxuan endured the altar's baptism, and her Great Sun Undying Body evolved into an Immortal Golden Body.
• Wen Qingxuan teased Ye Kong about their past and used his old agreement with her to pressure him into helping with her baptism.
• Wen Qingxuan told Ye Kong how she had fallen for him and regretted suppressing her true nature; Ye Kong took her to find a suitable place to break through.
• After Ye Kong and Wen Qingxuan left, a woman in red appeared and sighed that another girl had pursued him.

Ye Kong used the Thunder Emperor Sky-Severing Saber and his own spiritual energy to cleanse and reconstruct Wen Qingxuan’s body, then fell asleep after half a month of work. He woke to find Feng Yusheng and Xiao Xiao glaring at each other over their feelings for him, and tried to avoid getting involved.

• Ye Kong warned Wen Qingxuan about the pain of the cleansing and used the Thunder Emperor Sky-Severing Saber to strike her with lightning while her Dragon-Phoenix Body restored her.
• Ye Kong added his spiritual energy and the Bodhi Tree’s sword leaves to temper Wen Qingxuan’s body and Venerate Sea.
• After half a month, Ye Kong saw Wen Qingxuan’s condition stabilize, set up bedding in midair, and fell asleep.
• Feng Yusheng arrived, checked on Ye Kong, and confronted Xiao Xiao, who blocked her from approaching Wen Qingxuan.
• Feng Yusheng and Xiao Xiao argued over which of them had acted improperly toward Ye Kong and whose feelings came first.
• Ye Kong woke to find the two women glaring at each other, then pretended to go back to sleep rather than face them.