Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yang used the Backend Modifier to grow Earth-Walking Thorn Divine Wood Demons that killed the Spider Evil God, then restored his modifications before the demons could destroy more of the world. After the Heavenly Sword Gate won its battles, Li Hanqiu warned him that envoys and a major trial for the disciples would soon arrive.

• Zhang Yang spent Action Points to create and command three Earth-Walking Thorn Divine Wood Demons, which grew rapidly and attacked the Spider Evil God.
• Zhang Yang fled as the cavern collapsed, then restored his modifications and completed the Slaying God side quest, earning two secondary Action Points and the world's friendship.
• Zhang Yang found the mutated spiders dead, wiped out a thousand Black Spiders near Guanshan Town, and returned to the Heavenly Sword Gate.
• Li Hanqiu told Zhang Yang that the sect had won and killed four Golden Core-grade demonic cultivators from the Azure Wolf Gate, but envoys and a major trial for the disciples were likely coming.

Zhang Yang registered nine disciples for resurrection through the Sword Soul Palace and learned that the Underworld enforced an annual limit. After his friend Qian Muyun refused his invitation, Zhang Yang tried to improve the sect’s spirit vein but found the cost prohibitively high.

• Zhang Yang held a Sword Soul Palace ceremony for Wu Jun, Zhao Baiyi, Jiang Rong, and six other disciples, offering ninety Demon Cultivator heads to summon the Underworld Heavenly Masters.
• The Underworld Heavenly Masters recorded the nine disciples as resurrection candidates, explained the resurrection rules, and gave Zhang Yang jade tablets for them.
• Zhang Yang paid fifty more demon heads to ask about Qian Muyun, learned he was safe in Profound Iron City, and received Qian Muyun’s rude refusal to join the Heavenly Sword Gate.
• Zhang Yang tried to modify a spirit vein to produce more spiritual qi, but the required action points exceeded his remaining balance.
• Zhang Yang asked Li Hanqiu about spirit veins and learned that only a few major sects possessed such natural blessed lands.

Zhang Yang discovered that Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi and spirit veins did not work as he had assumed, then spoke with an ancient will that recruited him to investigate Guanshan Town’s hidden history. The ancient will warned of the approaching Great Calamity and Zhang Yang’s former employer, and the chapter ended as Zhang Yang accepted a new mission.

• Zhang Yang tested the Backend Modifier and realized that spirit vein output and Action Point costs followed a pattern he had misunderstood.
• After questioning Li Hanqiu about Immortal Stones, Zhang Yang concluded that someone was diluting spiritual energy to hinder cultivation and mass transcendence.
• Zhang Yang sensed an unexplained thought about the Great Calamity and the 808 Tribulation Cloud, used 64 Soul Tremors on himself, and accepted contact from an unknown existence.
• The ancient will identified itself as a human-aligned force in the Third Sequence and asked Zhang Yang to investigate the distorted history of Guanshan Town in exchange for two Modification Action Points.
• The ancient will revealed that Li Guanshan had once been a promising Great Dream Sword Sect disciple and warned Zhang Yang that his former employer remained a threat.
• Zhang Yang agreed to work for the ancient will and received the Shrouded in Mystery mission, with fifteen minutes to prepare and his Heavenly Sword Gate’s property protected during the mission.

Zhang Yang learned how to reach tribulation and uncovered the connection between Li Hanqiu’s suspicions and Li Guanshan’s death. When the World Will tried to send him back twelve hundred years, Zhang Yang refused and negotiated for more time and action points to reclaim the Black Earth Plains instead.

• Zhang Yang asked Li Hanqiu how sword cultivators could undergo tribulation, who had killed his master Li Chengfeng, and whom he suspected of being a spy; Li Hanqiu described the cultivation path and said all the Great Dream Sword Sect’s higher-ups were suspect.
• Zhang Yang told Li Hanqiu that his ancestor Li Guanshan had built Guanshan Town after being framed, and invited him to investigate the old persecution.
• Zhang Yang recruited his nine direct disciples for a dangerous mission and said the Heaven Heavenly Sword Gate could move; the World Will then objected to his attempt to bring them back twelve hundred years.
• The World Will revealed that it had planned for Zhang Yang to become Li Guanshan’s father and help fulfill his destiny, but Zhang Yang offered to reclaim the Black Earth Plains within a hundred years instead.
• Zhang Yang refused to time-travel and threatened to keep farming unless the entire Heaven Heavenly Sword Gate could go with him; the World Will offered three more action points and gave him ten years to reclaim the Black Earth Plains.

Zhang Yang learned how spiritual qi was diluted and spent five action points to create a Golden Core-grade spiritual vein for his sect. He welcomed five itinerant Fire Artisan Daoists, whose Beacon Tower demonstration revealed a way to build a rapid travel network, and asked whether they could make Profound-grade Sword Control Artifacts.

• The World Will explained where spiritual qi went, how its grades diluted, and that Zhang Yang's daily unit was Nascent Soul-grade.
• Zhang Yang used five action points to modify a spiritual vein so it produced one hundred units of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi each day.
• A disciple reported that Qian Muyun's old friends had arrived, but Zhang Yang found five Fire Artisan Daoists waiting outside the mountain gate.
• The five Daoists demonstrated their craft by assembling a Beacon Tower, and Li Hanqiu explained how it enabled rapid travel for Sword Cultivators.
• Zhang Yang agreed to the Daoists' wages and asked whether they could build Profound-grade Sword Control Artifacts; the old man demanded Profound Gold.

Zhang Yang arranged for five Fire Artisan Daoists to forge thirty-two high-grade Profound Grade Sword Manipulations, while Li Hanqiu urged him to make a Gold Manipulation Sword instead. Zhang Yang persuaded Li Hanqiu to set aside his revenge and help prepare for the Heavenly Sword Gate’s mission to reclaim the Black Earth Plains within ten years, then oversaw the start of the forging.

• Li Hanqiu confirmed that a high-grade Profound Grade Sword Manipulation required ten jin of Profound Gold and warned Zhang Yang about the dangers of flying beyond protected regions.
• Zhang Yang ordered thirty-six swords at the highest specifications, stunning the Fire Artisan Daoists and Li Hanqiu; he then arranged lodging for the artisans at Woodcutter's Peak.
• Li Hanqiu asked Zhang Yang to postpone the order and forge him a Gold Manipulation Sword, which could substitute for the difficult Gold Meridian Sword Core.
• Zhang Yang urged Li Hanqiu to stop pursuing the Sword Demon path, revealed that the Great Dream Sword Sect would fall to the Demon Race, and said they had to reclaim the Black Earth Plains within ten years.
• Li Hanqiu accepted the offer of a Profound Grade Sword Manipulation and a possible Gold Manipulation Sword, agreeing to serve again as Sword-Wielding Elder.
• The five Fire Artisan Daoists opened the furnace and began forging the swords as Zhang Yang and the others watched.

Zhang Yang commissioned the Fire Artisan Daoists to forge swords and Beacon Towers using Profound Gold from a slain Ghost Duke. He then made a vast additional order as part of a plan to cultivate an immense field of sword qi, hoping to create a way to survive his tribulation.

• Huo Shijiu warned Zhang Yang that the Demon Race could seek revenge over the Ghost Duke and urged him to repair it instead of forging a sword from its Profound Gold, but Zhang Yang refused.
• Huo Lu and the other Fire Artisan Daoists merged into flames to create a towering forging furnace, and Huo Shijiu said the sword would be finished in three days.
• Zhang Yang ordered twelve Beacon Towers and, in exchange for more Profound Gold, a thousand Profound Grade swords and ten thousand Mortal Grade Swords, which Huo Shijiu agreed to forge within six months.
• Zhang Yang planned to bury one hundred thousand Profound Grade swords and feed them spiritual energy so they would absorb sword qi, creating an opportunity to survive his tribulation.

Zhang Yang supplied the disciples in Sword Human Valley with spiritual energy while they cultivated to bond with thirty-six new Profound-grade swords, then secluded himself to study the sword-intent illusions in Dissolution Palace. He emerged with a new Mountain River Sword Intent and a breakthrough in sword cultivation, and hurried back to Sword Human Valley to choose a sword before time ran out.

• Huo Shijiu delivered thirty-six sword cocoons and explained that one might contain the batch’s Sword Emperor, so Zhang Yang sent them to Sword Human Valley for tempering.
• Zhang Yang secretly opened his spirit vein and supplied spiritual energy to the disciples; Li Si cultivated Natal Spiritual Qi fastest, followed by Qu Shang.
• Zhang Yang entered the sword-intent illusions in Dissolution Palace, assessed Tao Yao’s Mortal World Sword Intent, and studied Guan Shan’s Vastness Sword Intent and the four branches of Mountain River Sword Intent.
• Zhang Yang spent 100 units of Dao Rhyme to break free from his meditation and formed a new Mountain River Sword Intent, advancing his Intent Meridian Sword Core to the fifth stage.
• After realizing he had spent twenty-five days in seclusion, Zhang Yang rushed to Sword Human Valley to seek a Profound-grade sword.

Zhang Yang contained Sword Valley’s sword qi, received quests to train sword formations and develop the valley, and discovered a sentient sword advancing toward Sword Master. He chose to let it grow for the benefits of Azure Nether Sword Mist, then tried to borrow Li Hanqiu’s Sword Flight weapon so he could resume his plans.

• Zhang Yang placed Profound Grade and Mortal Grade swords around Sword Human Valley to stop its sword qi from spreading into nearby mountains.
• The Village Building Order issued quests for Sword Flight formations, Attack Sword Formations, and organizing Sword Valley, while Zhang Yang assessed his disciples’ Sword Cores and Heavenly Meridians.
• Li Hanqiu told Zhang Yang that the final Profound Sword Flight weapon had gathered other swords into an innate formation deep in Sword Valley and was developing sentience.
• The Village-Building quest warned that the sword could become a Sword Master and break free, but Zhang Yang chose to let it grow toward that rank for the Azure Nether Sword Mist it would create.
• Zhang Yang asked Li Hanqiu to lend him his Sword Flight weapon, but Li Hanqiu ran away.

Zhang Yang mastered Sword Flight with Li Hanqiu’s borrowed Summer Wind Sword and prepared to lead his disciples toward the Black Earth Plains. He planned to use his five tickets during Sleepless Night to cross into another True Realm and investigate how to reclaim the region.

• Zhang Yang controlled the Summer Wind Sword with Azure Nether Sword Mist, forming Sword Shadow Armor and flying at high speed above Falling Axe Peak.
• Zhang Yang examined the sword’s capabilities and learned that Sword Manipulation offered great speed, defense, range, and low consumption.
• Zhang Yang ordered his disciples to prepare for a Sword Flight expedition to the Black Earth Plains.
• Li Hanqiu warned Zhang Yang that Sleepless Night was still two days away and that traveling far from the mountain gate could leave them unable to respond to danger.
• Zhang Yang explained that he intended to use his tickets to cross into another True Realm during Sleepless Night and investigate the Black Earth Plains.

Zhang Yang led thirty-four disciples on a conspicuous flight across the Northern Region to mislead the Demon Race, then launched a covert assault on Black Mountain City. After breaking through the city’s first illusions, the Great Dream Sword Sect squad confronted a second layer of the Profound-tier Anomaly.

• A Nascent Soul cultivator in Profound Iron City and Heavenly Origin Sect disciples mistook the crimson Sword Flight formation for a major move by the Great Dream Sword Sect.
• Zhang Yang used the Immortal Cultivation Village Building Order’s map to plan a deceptive circuit intended to draw the Demon Race’s attention away from his real target.
• After resting, Zhang Yang ordered the disciples to fly in a concealed formation toward Black Mountain City and impersonate the Great Dream Sword Sect while raiding it.
• Zhang Yang’s shadow scout found a Profound-tier Anomaly guarding the city, and Zhang Yang ordered the disciples to dismiss their flying swords and attack with the Ninefold Mountain Sword Array.
• The sword array shattered the city’s false appearance, revealing a blood-filled illusory city, and Zhang Yang ordered the Rushing Stream Sword Array to break through it.

Zhang Yang’s sword array broke the illusion around Black Mountain City, but a mysterious power attacked his disciples before Black Mountain Lord returned. A quest urged Zhang Yang to investigate and eliminate the unknown entity, and he advanced to confront a mud monster.

• Wu Jun, Zhao Baiyi, Tao Yao, and Jiang Rong coordinated three transformations of Rushing Stream Sword Array and destroyed the second layer of the strange illusionary realm.
• Black Mountain City appeared, and Prince Kun accused the Great Dream Sword Sect of breaking their agreement and starting a war.
• Zhang Yang ordered the sword array to attack, but an unknown entity created regenerating mud monsters that killed several disciples.
• The World Will gave Zhang Yang a three-hour quest to eliminate the unknown power and advised him to eat first out of respect.
• Zhang Yang ordered Wu Jun and the others to retreat, then charged at a mud monster.

Zhang Yang captured the mud monsters beneath Black Mountain City and met the World Will, which sent him back to Earth before asking him to establish an Immortal Cultivation Sect in a Fourth Sequence Projection World. He returned to a home where his family and cousin Mu Shaojun were alive, but the chapter ended with news that his cousin Shao'an had died in a car accident.

• Zhang Yang captured 408 mud monsters, then descended into the earth and found hundreds of thousands of sealed Demon Race corpses in the Sea of Strangeness.
• The World Will revealed that it had changed Zhang Yang's Village Building Order and asked him to establish an Immortal Cultivation Sect in a Fourth Sequence Projection World.
• The World Will offered Zhang Yang ten advanced Wish Stars, his sect, a trading artifact, and daily Nascent Soul-level Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, then sent him to Earth with a golden boat ticket.
• Zhang Yang reunited with his parents and discovered that his cousin Mu Shaojun was alive and had recently married.
• Zhang Yang's mother received a call saying his cousin Shao'an had died after a car accident.

After rejecting Chaos Base’s choices, Zhang Yang escaped Earth and used a boat ticket to begin a new village-building mission. He arrived on a black ship in the Dark Sea, where an ancient god awakened and the ship was destroyed.

• Zhang Yang learned from cleaner K-902 and Mu Shaoan that he had been unconscious for fifteen years after the Super Village Building System hijacked him, and he was offered three choices.
• Zhang Yang rejected the choices, overpowered the cleaner, and vanished from the rooftop.
• Zhang Yang received a message that he had retrieved his original bloodline genetic code, then used a boat ticket to leave.
• Chaos Base agents arrived and suspected Zhang Yang had broken free and gone to the Third Sequence.
• Zhang Yang found himself aboard a black ship with hundreds of people and creatures as a colossal shadow pursued them across the Dark Sea.
• The shadow capsized and shattered the ship, and Zhang Yang received a warning that the ancient god Ancient Ash, Long Wind of the Firmament, Ruins of Time, Master of Thunderous Fury and Death was about to awaken.

After falling into the Dark Sea, Zhang Yang arrived in the Tomb of Ashes and learned how the Myriad Heavens and Worlds, Ancient Laws, and six sequences worked. His mission was to establish an Immortal Cultivation Sect in an Age of Dharma Decline World and ascend, but powers above Golden Core were rejected there, leaving him unsure how to proceed.

• Zhang Yang fell from the shattered black ship into the Dark Sea, but surfaced beneath a starry sky after its pull suddenly vanished.
• The Village Building Order identified the place as the Tomb of Ashes and explained the ten Ancient Laws, six sequences, and the struggle between Old Coins and the Anti-Virus Hunter Organization.
• Zhang Yang learned that his mission was to establish an Immortal Cultivation Sect in an Age of Dharma Decline Immortal Cultivation World and use tribulation and ascension to connect with the Immortal Cultivation True Realm.
• Zhang Yang worried that Mu Shaoan was in the Fifth Sequence, wished him luck, and spotted his mission’s target world among the stars.
• Zhang Yang realized that the Ancient Law of Death rejected powers above Golden Core and wondered how he could undergo tribulation and ascend.

Zhang Yang entered a dying Age of Dharma Decline World and traveled through its hostile wilderness, searching for something that could help him complete his village-building mission. He reached a comparatively livable region and learned that Guobei County was nearby, where a Ghost-Catching Heavenly Master questioned his origins.

• Zhang Yang entered the undefended world, sensed its deathly aura and chaotic life system, and decided to conserve his Natal Spiritual Qi while searching for a way to undergo tribulation and ascend.
• Zhang Yang walked through the barren landscape and crushed a Human Monster that had attacked him in the form of grass.
• Zhang Yang encountered three human-shaped evil ghosts posing as bandits and killed them with a kicked stone.
• Zhang Yang found a brighter region with signs of human life and asked a wary traveler for directions.
• The traveler identified himself as the Ghost-Catching Heavenly Master of Guobei County and told Zhang Yang the county was fifty li away, leaving Zhang Yang wondering whether it was the Guobei County he knew.

Zhang Yang encountered Li Guoxiang in a world devastated by the Age of Dharma Decline and learned that Guobei County was nearing collapse. After the Heaven and Earth Village Building mission began, Zhang Yang offered wheat in exchange for Li Guoxiang’s help reaching the county, where he planned to find children with immortal affinity.

• Zhang Yang asked Li Guoxiang about Lanruo Temple, Nie Xiaoqian, and Yan Chixia, and learned that they had lived a thousand years earlier.
• Zhang Yang claimed to be Yan Chixia’s senior fellow disciple and offered to take Li Guoxiang as his attendant, but Li Guoxiang refused because he would not abandon his duty as a Ghost-Catching Heavenly Master.
• Li Guoxiang explained that Guobei County had too few defenders to move its people safely and that the county lacked enough seeds for planting.
• The Heaven and Earth Village Building Order assigned Zhang Yang missions to preserve humanity, extend the world’s lifespan, establish an immortal cultivation sect, and survive a tribulation within five hundred years.
• Zhang Yang offered Li Guoxiang a sack of wheat in exchange for taking him to Guobei County, and Li Guoxiang asked to become his attendant after seeing Zhang Yang produce it from thin air.
• Zhang Yang arrived in Guobei County, where 1,237 people remained, and Li Guozhi asked him to save them.

Zhang Yang examined Guobei County’s ruined landscape, uncovered the ancient protections sustaining it, and learned the truth behind Nie Xiaoqian’s well. He began rebuilding the settlement by placing a spirit vein, spiritual fields, and Sword Valley, then summoned five disciples to help.

• Zhang Yang explained that he intended to save the world, inspected Guobei County’s devastation, and discovered that Li Xiuyuan’s arrangements had helped the county survive.
• Zhang Yang told Li Guozhi that a virgin’s blood was needed to maintain the Spirit Eye, then found a well that still supplied water.
• Zhang Yang used the Heaven and Earth Village Building Order to learn that Nie Xiaoqian, Ning Caichen, Black Mountain Old Demon, Yan Chixia, and Mother-in-law Mu had created the well through faith, forming a karmic connection in the process.
• Zhang Yang chose a Golden Core-grade spirit vein, five hundred mu of spiritual fields, and Sword Valley as his three free summons, placing them around Guobei County.
• Zhang Yang spent ten action points to summon Wu County, Jiang Rong, Zhao Baiyi, Tao Yao, and Li Guokui, then prepared to begin farming.

Zhang Yang used the Heaven and Earth Village Building Order to survey Spiritual Qi and manage the endangered Liaozhai World, then upgraded Guobei County’s Spiritual Qi infrastructure. He left the other territories in the hands of his disciples and planned to strengthen Nie Xiaoqian's Well while avoiding attention from powerful outsiders.

• Zhang Yang used the Spiritual Qi perspective and operating interface to inspect Guobei County and the wider Liaozhai World, whose remaining population was 103291 and declining.
• Zhang Yang ordered Jiang Rong, Wu Jun, Zhao Baiyi, Tao Yao, and Li Guokui to carry territory seals to Qingzhou, Jizhou, Liangshan County, Beipo County, and Wagang County.
• Zhang Yang examined Guobei County’s Spiritual Qi Architecture and spent Foundation Establishment-grade Spiritual Qi upgrading its Spiritual Qi Depression, Nie Xiaoqian's Well, Yan Chixia's Mountain, and Li Xiuyuan's Gate to level five.
• Zhang Yang decided to prioritize Nie Xiaoqian's Well because it could produce 10,000 units of Mortal-grade Spiritual Qi daily, while noting that its high level could attract covetous eyes.
• Zhang Yang considered building good relations with the Antivirus Hunters fighting in the Fifth Sequence.

Zhang Yang managed Guobei County, began connecting it to neighboring regions with highways, and recruited Heavenly Sword Gate disciples to protect the routes and assist with construction. He left the new network underway and returned to Sword Valley to cultivate.

• Zhang Yang extended the lifespans of nearly every surviving person in Guobei County and restored the ability to reproduce to selected young men and women.
• After Liangshan County lowered its County Magistrate Seal, Zhang Yang chose to build an Evil-Repelling Highway connecting it to Guobei County, but evil ghosts repeatedly disrupted construction.
• Zhang Yang summoned twenty white-named outer disciples to patrol the highway and ordered them to destroy any evil ghosts they encountered.
• Jiang Rong and the others arrived at Qingzhou, Jizhou, Wagang County, and Beipo County to prepare the regions for connection to the Village Building Order system.
• Zhang Yang recruited one hundred more white-named outer disciples and sent them to assist the highway work in Liangshan County, Qingzhou, Jizhou, Beipo County, and Wagang County.
• After planning future routes between the regions, Zhang Yang entered Sword Valley to cultivate.