Recaps

Zhang Yang explained how he had gained authority over the Sword Dao Half-Dimension, easing fears of a conflict with the Sword Dao Law while revealing that he had created four Heavenly Laws to restrain it. After the others left, they realized his preparations surrounding the Guardian Great Anomaly might have been far more extensive than he admitted.

• The Heavenly Dao Maiden, Mu Shaoan, and Wu County offered to take risks to protect Zhang Yang from a possible Dao Strife, but he ordered them to stop.
• Zhang Yang summoned the four Sword Immortal Grand Hall children, who each held a powerful object, and admitted he controlled roughly one-fifth to one-third of the Sword Dao Half-Dimension’s authority.
• Zhang Yang explained that he had used the Boat of Death and the Sword Dao Law 4.0 Stele to help save He Yimou, Wu County, and the others, while the Guardian Great Anomaly’s power enabled the Sword Dao Law to advance to 5.0.
• Zhang Yang revealed that he had created the Sword Forging Furnace, Sword Casting Platform, Sword Sharpening Stone, and Sword Sheath as Heavenly Laws, then urged everyone to focus on their greater enemy.
• Mu Shaoan and the others left and concluded that Zhang Yang had likely known about the Guardian Great Anomaly and prepared to seize its power long before the battle.

Zhang Yang and the Heavenly Dao Maiden prepared a hidden plane as a reserve base for the coming war against the Third Generation Insecticide. The chapter left Zhang Yang secretly continuing his preparations after the Heavenly Dao Maiden walked away.

• Zhang Yang reflected on the cost of his schemes and the agreement that made 09 Sub-Account his successor if Zhang Yang died.
• Zhang Yang told the Heavenly Dao Maiden he would honor his previous main body's legacy and promised to do his best to keep them both alive.
• The Heavenly Dao Maiden used the refracted projection of the Sword Dao Half-Dimension while Zhang Yang anchored it with twenty core authorities he had taken from the Guardian Great Strange.
• The Heavenly Dao Maiden warned that obtaining the remaining core authorities would be extremely difficult, and Zhang Yang explained that he planned to forge a new plane as a hidden logistics base.
• The Heavenly Dao Maiden left after teasing Zhang Yang about his habit of concealing plans, and Zhang Yang secretly summoned twelve more child attendants.

Zhang Yang accelerated preparations for a warning system against the Third Generation Insecticide and began secretly dividing the Sword Dao Half-Dimension into subplanes. He recruited Liang Jin to govern the first one, while the Heavenly Dao Maiden left to bring Mu Shaoan’s family together.

• The Heavenly Dao Maiden told Zhang Yang she had summoned Qu Shang to help Mu Shaoan’s family and borrowed his Boat of Death to bring them over.
• She paid Zhang Yang with a crystal containing an authority of the Sword Dao Half-Dimension, then departed as he worried that she and Qu Shang knew about his plans.
• Zhang Yang ordered Hu Chen to prioritize the Hidden Heavenly Secrets warning system, assigned it several teams and unlimited resources, and secured Hu Chen’s promise to finish it within thirty years.
• Zhang Yang summoned Liang Jin, praised his cautious approach to Sword Dao Law 5.0, and offered him the first role governing one of five secret subplanes.
• Liang Jin knelt in alarm as Zhang Yang promised to grant him the position of Sword Dao Law Heavenly God while keeping his public post at the Earth Vein Dispatch Hub.

Zhang Yang assigned Liang Jin, Pang Di, Hu Chen, Cheng Cai, and Shang Fang to lead major projects across five subsidiary planes, explaining the talents and past contributions that made them valuable to the Profound Gate. The five were set to become the organization’s next generation of leaders and providers of remaining value.

• Liang Jin accepted the position of Dao Ancestor in Heavenly No. 4 Plane and received authority over its forty-nine Great Daos.
• Pang Di became Dao Ancestor of Heavenly No. 5 Plane, took charge of the Ancient Demon Heavenly Realm Defense System, and received its forty-nine Great Daos.
• Zhang Yang assigned Hu Chen, Cheng Cai, and Shang Fang to separate subsidiary planes alongside Liang Jin and Pang Di, the five chief disciples of the Profound Gate's Gou Sect.
• Zhang Yang recalled Liang Jin’s advances in the Hidden Sword Earth Vein network, Pang Di’s expertise in defenses and inheritances, and Cheng Cai’s establishment of the secret Fortune and Merit Department.
• Zhang Yang placed Shang Fang in charge of farming in a new plane, recognizing his role in nurturing the Spiritual Plant World Tree and developing farming into a Great Dao.

Zhang Yang offered the Dog Hai Alliance four core Sword Dao authorities in exchange for guarding the bridgehead against the Third Generation Insecticide. Mu Shaoan, Li Gouhai, and Jiang Rong considered the layered defense plan as Zhang Yang explained who would hold each line.

• Mu Shaoan, Li Gouhai, and Jiang Rong formed the Dog Hai Alliance and seized half of the Wood Demons’ plane before Zhang Yang’s decree made them stop and form an alliance with the Wood Demons.
• Zhang Yang met the Dog Hai Alliance and offered the Sword Forging Furnace, Sword Casting Platform, Sword Sharpening Stone, and Sword Sheath as rewards for guarding the Sword Dao Holy Land.
• Zhang Yang explained that the open Sword Dao Holy Land would serve as the frontal fortress, supported by four guardian planes and five isolated buffer planes between it and his secure base.
• Mu Shaoan questioned Zhang Yang’s defenses against the Third Generation Insecticide’s cross-plane curses, and Zhang Yang described how purity, Plague God Seals, and Dream Law 3.0 would protect the base.
• Zhang Yang said He Yimou and Wu County would guard the Sword Dao Holy Land while the Dog Hai Alliance and Wood Demons held the main battlefield; Mu Shaoan asked whether they would be the only main force.

Zhang Yang brought the faction’s leaders to witness Sword Dao Holy Land forming and explained why most cultivators should not advance too quickly. He then revealed that an enduring curse-and-blood-sacrifice chain would let him sacrifice Mu Shaoan during the coming three-way attack, leaving Mu Shaoan furious and unable to break the chain.

• Zhang Yang gathered the faction’s leaders at Sword Dao Holy Land and invited them to seize the chance to comprehend Sword Dao Law.
• Li Gouhai asked to become a Sword Dao Ancient God, but Zhang Yang warned that Ancient Gods carried karma and that advancing too many cultivators would make them slaves to Sword Dao Law.
• Zhang Yang explained that only cultivators with solid foundations should advance beyond Law Mahayana, while Mu Shaoan challenged his cautious approach.
• Zhang Yang told Mu Shaoan that the Third Generation Insecticide’s deployment would trigger his blood sacrifice and revealed that Table had connected the wooden thorn to Mechanical Mu.
• Mu Shaoan learned that the curse-and-blood-sacrifice chain would persist as long as he, Zhang Yang, and the Remnant Soul of Destiny lived, and he realized he could not kill any of them.

Zhang Yang watched Sword Dao Law 5.0 form a self-aware Sword Immortal Heavenly Dao and establish the Sword Dao Holy Land, whose unexpected priorities favored purification, survival, and balance. The law then created the Sky-Reaching Sword Array, combining four powerful arrays into a system Zhang Yang recognized as stronger than an enormous army.

• Sword Dao Law 5.0 gathered the vast sword qi into Sword Qi Storms and formed a collective will called the Sword Immortal Heavenly Dao.
• A giant sword purified the sword qi void with thunderous sword rays, while powerful heartbeats signaled the new law's emphasis on survival and recovery.
• Zhang Yang questioned He Yimou and Wu County about the law's unexpected priorities, but both denied influencing it.
• Sword Rhyme evolved into the Sky-Reaching Sword Array, incorporating the Sky-Plundering Sword Array, the Limitless Profound Sword Array, Liang Jin's Hidden Sword Earth Vein, and the Ancient Demon Heavenly Realm Defense System.
• Mu Shaoan celebrated the array, while Zhang Yang realized its combined offense, defense, absorption, and coordination surpassed ten Chicken-Leg Ancient Gods and a trillion-strong army.

Zhang Yang completed the Sword Dao Holy Land and issued decrees to prepare the Sword Dao Half-Dimension for war, then fused with its core authority and transformed into the world. The Third Generation Insecticide arrived with a mechanical army, while a black line traveled backward through time from six months in the future.

• The Sky-Reaching Sword Array gathered the sword qi into ten million Law Immortal Swords, forming the Sword Dao Holy Land, and Zhang Yang assigned its guards and sword authorities.
• Zhang Yang issued decrees appointing Qu Shang, Tao Yao, Zhao Baiyi, and Guan Shan to prepare separate forces and realms, while ordering the Dream High-Speed Rail destroyed and the Boat of Death to become dormant at the Fifth Sequence.
• Zhang Yang fused with the Sword Dao Half-Dimension's core authority and transformed into the world to align its bridgehead, buffer zone, and main camp for the coming war.
• Guan Shan returned with two million sword immortals, after which the Dream High-Speed Rail self-destructed and the Dream Root fell dormant, sealing the final passage to the Sword Immortal World main camp.
• Qu Shang, Tao Yao, and Zhao Baiyi understood that they had been designated as seeds of survival for their civilization and wept.
• A black mechanical army descended on the Sword Dao Half-Dimension as the Third Generation Insecticide arrived backward from six months in the future.

Mu Shaoan and the Sword Immortal forces survived the Third Generation Insecticide’s repeated attacks, which had been launched through time, and remained sealed inside the Sword Dao Half-Dimension for a million years. After breaking free, they found the Fourth Sequence devastated and 09 Sub-Account dead, while Mu Shaoan concluded that Fatty Zhang had died too.

• Mu Shaoan realized the Third Generation Insecticide had crossed through time repeatedly, warned the commanders to hold their positions, and suspected Fatty Zhang’s traps had repeatedly thwarted the enemy.
• Mu Shaoan ordered the four Sky-Reaching Sword Arrays activated, and the Sword Immortal forces and allied planes destroyed the Mechanical Zombie Legions while the sword-qi storm’s power stayed below its dangerous limit.
• After the battle, a black curtain sealed the Sword Dao Half-Dimension, and Mu Shaoan quietly raised his cup toward the distant void while the others remained on guard.
• A million years later, Mu Shaoan and hundreds of Ancient Gods broke through the curtain and discovered that the Fourth Sequence had been devastated and 09 Sub-Account had died leaving a message for Fatty Zhang.
• Mu Shaoan declared that Fatty Zhang must be dead, but Li Gouhai and the others insisted their master could still be alive; Mu Shaoan urged them to prepare for the Fourth Generation Insecticide.