Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yang discovered that the World Will had manipulated him into losing control of the Heaven and Earth Village Building Order, then sold its remaining authority back to him for a Golden Core-grade spirit vein. With the Sword Master about to emerge from Sword Valley, Zhang Yang rallied the Heavenly Sword Gate to suppress it and charged inside to confront it.

• Zhang Yang learned that the flying sword in Sword Valley had become a Sword Master ahead of schedule and that he risked losing one percent of his control authority if he failed to handle the crisis.
• Zhang Yang opened the Backend Modifier and found that the World Will had spent most of the Village Building Order’s assets and was offering its fifty-one percent control authority for a Golden Core-grade spirit vein.
• After Zhang Yang bought the authority back, the World Will revealed that its avatars—including Auxiliary Army Heavenly Master Qian Muyun, Li Hanqiu, and the Fire Artisan Daoist—had manipulated him to reclaim its control and withdrew into a deeper layer of the Third Sequence.
• The Sword Master began emerging from Sword Valley, so Zhang Yang ordered Guan Shan and the Heavenly Sword Gate disciples to deploy the Ninefold Mountain Sword Array and used his remaining Stars of Hope and the Profound-tier Anomaly to suppress it temporarily.
• Zhang Yang put Guan Shan in charge and charged into Sword Valley to confront the Sword Master.

Zhang Yang entered the Sword Valley and sacrificed his sword cores and body to survive the Sword Master's attack, then possessed its true body and destroyed its spirit. He took control of the Sword Master and gathered what remained of his flesh and blood.

• Zhang Yang offered four Profound-grade swords to stop the Sword Master's initial attack, then struck its violet clone with his Triple Golden Sword and Demon Language: Bewitchment.
• The Sword Master resisted the attack with its Defensive Sword Array and was bewitched for only 0.01 seconds, giving Zhang Yang a brief opening.
• Zhang Yang detonated his sword intent, erased most of his sword cores, and used his Spirit Domain to survive the Vortex Sword Array's bombardment.
• Zhang Yang rushed into the Sword Valley's central cavern and possessed the Sword Master's true body.
• Zhang Yang's ninety-nine Soul Tremors destroyed the Sword Master's spirit, and he gathered the remains of his flesh and some essence blood.

Zhang Yang rebuilt his body in the Sword Valley by purifying spirit essence and using it to form an Innate Sword Physique. He completed most of the nine sword meridians at sixfold strength, but four extra masses of spirit-essence blood mist remained unresolved.

• Zhang Yang chose the Innate Sword Physique over rebuilding an ordinary body because he lacked time to regain his former strength.
• Zhang Yang began purifying spirit essence from his soul, enduring severe pain as he produced thirteen threads.
• Zhang Yang used the spirit essence to absorb radiation sword qi, then cast his Fivefold Sword Soul and Spirit Domain into the resulting blood mist to be reborn.
• Over fifty-six days, Zhang Yang formed eight of the nine heavenly meridians at sixfold strength, leaving the Gold Meridian Sword Core unopened.
• Zhang Yang set aside four additional masses of blood mist because he could not fuse them into the balanced system of nine sword meridians.

After more than a year in seclusion, Zhang Yang emerged with the Nine Great Heavenly Meridians forged and Nascent Soul-level strength, though the Ashen Graveyard’s laws suppressed him. He gained full ownership of the Village Building Order and discovered that his world’s lack of spiritual qi prevented him from using its activated functions, leaving him to seek new sources.

• Zhang Yang forged the Nine Great Heavenly Meridians, reached the sixth layer of each, and endured the Ashen Graveyard’s pressure with his Nascent Soul-level strength.
• Zhang Yang set the Sword Valley’s 13,977 swords into a rotating formation that produced radiant sword qi.
• Zhang Yang left the Sword Valley and received complete, exclusive ownership of the Village Building Order.
• Zhang Yang inspected the Village Building Order’s functions and assets, finding that seven activated functions required spiritual qi he did not have.
• Zhang Yang noted that five core personal disciples were waiting in other cities for roads and decided he needed to expand spiritual-qi sources, such as Nie Xiaoqian’s Well.

Zhang Yang struggled to keep cultivation going amid the spiritual-qi shortage, inspected several counties, and upgraded key spiritual-qi buildings. The chapter left him investigating a Mass Burial Ground near Qingzhou that Jiang Rong suspected might be a natural spiritual-qi building.

• Zhang Yang rationed spiritual qi for the Sword Valley, arranged cultivation rotations, and refused the anomaly's offer to ease the crisis by breaking it down.
• Zhang Yang harvested five hundred mu of spiritual rice, stored it for the sect, and spent his remaining spiritual qi planting the next crop.
• Zhang Yang inspected Liangshan County, Qingzhou, Jizhou, Beipo County, and Wagang County, finding widespread shortages and giving each of five core direct disciples three hundred jin of spiritual rice.
• Zhang Yang selected six widely known spiritual-qi buildings for upgrades and added the highway between Liangshan County and Qingzhou to the construction list.
• Zhang Yang upgraded Liangshan County's Nie Xiaoqian's Well and Qingzhou's Dragon King Temple to level five, exhausting his available resources.
• Jiang Rong led Zhang Yang to a Mass Burial Ground west of Qingzhou, where Jiang Rong suspected a natural spiritual-qi building existed despite finding no proof.

Zhang Yang discovered that Qingzhou City's Mass Burial Ground could receive requests to send the dead through Transcendence Space Coordinates. After accepting a request from an Undying Demonic Venerable, he gained a large supply of Spiritual Qi but learned that each arrival increased the Ancient Law of Death in the world.

• Zhang Yang used the Village Building Order to enhance a weak request at the Mass Burial Ground and received a request to let an evil ghost pass through.
• Jiang Rong killed the arriving evil ghost, which left behind a jar of eighteen-year-old Daughter Red Wine, and Zhang Yang retained the coordinate held by Wang Erta.
• Zhang Yang found a second request and accepted the passage of an Undying Demonic Venerable in exchange for fifty measures of Spiritual Qi.
• Heaven's Punishment destroyed the arriving monster, and Zhang Yang's attempt to plunder its corpse failed, leaving him with only the sky-blue jade.
• The Village Building Order warned that the Ancient Law of Death had increased by 0.01%, so Zhang Yang ordered Jiang Rong to seal off the Mass Burial Ground.

Zhang Yang tried to counter the Ancient Law of Death by investing in infrastructure and expanding food production, hoping that flourishing life might weaken or neutralize it. He left Guobei County with two highways under construction and Nie Xiaoqian's Well upgraded to level ten, while planning a two-thousand-mu spiritual farmland project.

• Zhang Yang used the Village Building Order to begin two Magic-Suppressing Highways from Guobei County to Qingzhou and Jizhou, and two Evil-Repelling Highways connecting Qingzhou and Jizhou to nearby counties.
• Zhang Yang sent Zhu Ti, Ji Ming, Gou Dao, and Yang Yan to supervise highway construction with teams of outer disciples.
• Zhang Yang planned two thousand mu of spiritual farmland in Guobei County, but realized he lacked the materials and resources needed to build it quickly.
• Zhang Yang reserved Spiritual Qi for the farmland project and upgraded Nie Xiaoqian's Well from level five to level ten.
• Zhang Yang learned that the level-ten well could produce five hundred thousand units of Mortal-grade Spiritual Qi each day, enough to help support Guobei County, and regarded the Antivirus Hunter as his ally.

Zhang Yang staged rain and sunlight over Guobei County to give its people hope, then launched himself through the Calamity Cloud using his Sword Master-level Sword Control and a hidden strength-suppressing technique. He emerged into the Ashen Graveyard, where his world appeared as one star among countless others.

• Li Guokui used his Wild Dragon-Snake Sword Intent to bring the first rain to Guobei County in three hundred years.
• Zhang Yang explained that the rain and Jiang Rong’s sunlight display were performances meant to lift people’s spirits and encourage them to thrive.
• Jiang Rong projected sunlight over Guobei County with her Rivers and Mountains Blazing Sun Sword Intent.
• After preparing for five months, Zhang Yang set out to carry out his two-thousand-mu spirit-field plan by breaking through the Calamity Cloud.
• Zhang Yang compressed his sword qi twelvefold to deceive the Calamity Cloud and burst through it with his Sword Master-level Sword Control.
• Zhang Yang found himself in the Ashen Graveyard, surrounded by countless stars, with his world reduced to one among them.

Zhang Yang left the Liaozhai Age of Dharma Decline World and searched the Ashen Graveyard for a brighter world, relying on his sword-qi reserves to survive the Ancient Law of Death. He entered a red-lit world of dense deathly power and found himself amid a vast battlefield, where he hid inside a giant’s corpse as black-armored riders carried it away.

• Zhang Yang saw that the Ancient Law of Death surrounded worlds like a vast sea and noted the Village Building Order’s warnings about leaving its range.
• He reviewed his stored spiritual qi, the four spirit seals, and his sword-control reserves before setting out from the Liaozhai Age of Dharma Decline World.
• Zhang Yang flew through the void for two months, passing hundreds of worlds and watching some fade into darkness while losing lifespan each day.
• He chose a red-lit Age of Dharma Decline World, entered it through its dense Calamity Cloud, and found a battlefield strewn with corpses beneath several suns.
• Zhang Yang hid inside the corpse of a four-eared giant when black-armored knights on monstrous birds swept across the battlefield.
• The riders hooked the giant’s corpse and carried it away, while Zhang Yang stayed hidden under a sense of imminent danger.

Zhang Yang was captured near a ruined city by two giants who claimed to be Heavenly Gods, then woke in a sunlit room among unfamiliar people. An old man identified him as a descendant of their people from five billion years in the future, and their leader demanded to know which Sequence he came from.

• Zhang Yang approached the ruined city but was blasted back by its protective shield and trapped in a talisman cage.
• Ju Bei captured Zhang Yang and brought him into the city, where Wei Ji lamented that their leader had abandoned them.
• Zhang Yang’s sword-weapon clone remained near the city and landed on a suppressed corpse whose golden blood began wrapping around the sword.
• Zhang Yang woke in a sunlit room beside a muscular leader and an old Sky Dome Human Race man.
• The old man concluded that Zhang Yang came from five billion years in the future, and the leader asked which Sequence he had come from.

Zhang Yang was forced into a blood sacrifice so Supreme Changge’s inheritance could be sent to his cousin, Mu Shaoan. The inheritance reached Mu Shaoan in the 7 Days to Die World, where it subtly affected his sword and training.

• Zhang Yang learned four languages and told the Ashleaf leader about the Ancient God who had awakened.
• The old man examined Zhang Yang’s memories and found that his cousin Mu Shaoan could inherit Supreme Changge’s power.
• The old man sacrificed himself and Zhang Yang at an altar, sending the inheritance away in a streak of bloodlight.
• The leader fought the Heavenly God Jailers while another force pulled Zhang Yang’s soul into a Sword Master-level Sword Control.
• Mu Shaoan woke from a dream in his gas-station fortress and resumed shaving a sandalwood square, unaware that Zhang Yang’s soul had entered it.

After the Ashen Graveyard collapsed, Zhang Yang returned to his sword weapon’s clone and discovered that it had become an immensely powerful immortal sword. He used his preserved blood and six remaining essence souls to rebuild his sword meridians, but the Ancient Law of Death surged into his Death Meridian.

• The Ancient Law of Death destroyed the collapsing world, and the headless corpse broke apart into red-mist limbs that escaped while its torso withered away and revealed a sword weapon.
• Zhang Yang’s soul returned to the sword weapon’s clone, where he found the blade had grown enormously and gained terrifying power.
• Zhang Yang found his preserved essence blood and used it with six remaining essence souls and sword qi to begin rebuilding his body.
• Zhang Yang reforged his Soul, Heart, and Intent Meridians to the sixth level, then formed his Spirit Meridian.
• When Zhang Yang began reforging his Life and Death Meridians, the Ancient Law of Death rushed uncontrollably into his Death Meridian Sword Shadow.

After the Death Meridian Sword Core returned Zhang Yang to life, his Village Building Order transformed into the Destiny Village Building Task and fused with his immortal sword. The Fate Tide immediately assigned him a mission to pacify a disturbance in destiny by dealing with ten Age of Dharma Decline Worlds.

• Zhang Yang awakened in a new body after the Death Meridian Sword Core reached the Thirteenth Layer and his seven spirit essences merged into him.
• Zhang Yang shrank the immortal sword and flew back toward the Liaozhai Age of Dharma Decline World, where the sword pierced the Village Building Order and transformed it into the Destiny Village Building Task.
• Zhang Yang inspected the new task’s traits and discovered its luxurious inner space and the Sword of Fate’s abilities, including travel through the First to Sixth Sequences.
• The Fate Tide activated the Destiny Village Building Task and ordered Zhang Yang to destroy ten escaped Age of Dharma Decline Worlds or place an Anchor of Death in them.

Zhang Yang learned that carrying his Heavenly Sword Gate out of the Ashen Graveyard required him to pursue an Ash Boat, so he activated a branch mission to forge the Anchor of Death. He placed the Destiny Village Building Order in the Liaozhai Age of Dharma Decline World and unlocked six workshops, leaving him to prepare for a new life of collecting resources.

• Zhang Yang learned that he could transport up to one hundred people with Fate Points or the Death Black Sail, but needed an Ash Boat to carry an entire world.
• Zhang Yang activated the branch mission to forge the Anchor of Death, which required land or a world, Good and Evil Value, and resources for the Scales of Destiny and Anchor of Death.
• Zhang Yang crossed into the Liaozhai Age of Dharma Decline World and placed the Destiny Village Building Order on Dragon Head Peak.
• The Village Building Order activated the Good and Evil, Time, Space, Destiny, Hope, and Life and Death Workshops.
• Zhang Yang found that none of the workshops directly increased his strength and joked that he would become a farming expert.

Zhang Yang used his Spiritual Qi to strengthen the Heavenly Sword Gate and its Sword Valley before cultivating the Sword Intent of Heaven and Earth to unite his soul, heart, and intent. He then tested his thirteenth-level Death Meridian Sword Core and discovered something that shocked him.

• Zhang Yang sent the Heavenly Sword Gate’s disciples to cultivate, strengthened the sect’s peaks, and expanded its spiritual fields to three thousand mu.
• He entered the Sword Valley, where twenty core disciples cultivated beside the Sword Sea, and began refining the Nameless Sword Array.
• Zhang Yang spent all of the Fate Village Building Order’s remaining Heaven and Earth Dao Rhyme to complete the Sword Intent of Heaven and Earth.
• He merged his soul, heart, and intent into the Sword Intent, then used the Fate Village Building Order to pull himself safely back out.
• Zhang Yang activated his Death Meridian Sword Core on an Xuan-grade sword, which turned black, and he burst out in shock.

Zhang Yang prepared the Heavenly Sword Clan to leave the Heavenly Sword Gate and begin his plan at the salvation coordinate outside Qingzhou City. Before opening it, he used the Good and Evil Workshop to judge his disciples, leaving them assembled and ready for battle.

• Zhang Yang discovered that his Death Meridian could refine Reverse Lifespan Force from a sword artifact and produce Dust of Ash, then waited three years while cultivating at the Heavenly Sword Gate.
• Zhang Yang’s twenty core disciples reached the Nascent Soul level, and his sixty ordinary personal disciples reached the Golden Core level.
• Zhang Yang renamed the Heavenly Sword Gate the Heavenly Sword Clan and led its forces toward the Mass Burial Ground outside Qingzhou City.
• Zhang Yang activated the Good and Evil Workshop and set standards for judging evil, finding that all eighty disciples had some flaws but low scores.
• Zhang Yang ordered the disciples to form a sword array and prepare for battle, then reopened the salvation coordinate.

Zhang Yang accepted an exorcism request for a virus-infected Abomination Demon Spawn, killed it, and discovered that the Plague Serpent it carried had become a trait of the Fate Village Building Order. After he learned his first request had underpaid him, he tried to accept a more valuable Virus King contract, but it had expired; in the Fifth Sequence, Angie’s borrowed body disintegrated.

• Zhang Yang summoned the Abomination Demon Spawn requested by Demon Emperor Jingzhang and had Wu County’s group kill it, then finished it with death aura when it resurrected.
• Zhang Yang found that the Fate Village Building Order had gained the incurable Plague Serpent trait and used the Good and Evil Workshop to define viruses and their collaborators as evil.
• Zhang Yang reviewed the other exorcism requests and found a lucrative Virus King-level Sky Giant Eagle request from Angie in the Fifth Sequence.
• The Good and Evil Workshop assessed the first exorcism as valid but underpaid, recommending a price increase of 500 units of Golden Core-grade Spiritual Qi.
• Zhang Yang reached for Angie’s expired request, while Angie watched a muscular man eat stones beside the dead Sky Giant Eagle before her borrowed body began disintegrating.

Zhang Yang used a Destiny Fragment to uncover Mirror Chapter Demon Emperor’s history and learned that a task had directed him toward an ancient virus world called Plague Serpent. He refused to go, choosing to keep strengthening his own position instead.

• Zhang Yang connected Mirror Chapter Demon Emperor’s salvation requests and Demon Emperor Chengping’s viral corruption to a looming threat against the Immortal Cultivation True Realm.
• Zhang Yang decided to avoid confronting his old employer and instead planned to expand his spirit fields and strengthen the Heavenly Sword Clan.
• Zhang Yang used the Scales of Destiny and obtained a Destiny Fragment depicting Mirror Chapter Demon Emperor’s rise from an Azure Wolf village chief to a powerful ruler.
• Zhang Yang examined the fragment’s mysterious symbols, and the Fate Village Building Order identified Plague Serpent as the target world of an ancient virus.
• Zhang Yang learned he could ignore the task and firmly refused to go to Plague Serpent.

After a plague corrupted Nie Xiaoqian's Well, Zhang Yang set out to find and destroy the Plague Serpent's eggs, but the Immortal Sword sent him to Earth. There he met Li Cang, who identified him as a wanted former virus agent, and Zhang Yang asked for help investigating dangers tied to A Chinese Ghost Story.

• Zhang Yang discovered that the Plague Serpent had contaminated Nie Xiaoqian's Well, destroying farmland and killing dozens of people, so he sealed the well.
• Zhang Yang made three Anchors of Death and accepted a revised mission to find and destroy three Plague Serpent eggs.
• The Immortal Sword transported Zhang Yang to Earth, where he woke in a luxurious room and found his five swords nearby.
• Li Cang told Zhang Yang that the Earth government and Ninth War Zone wanted him as the last unaccounted-for agent of a T-90-model Village Building Virus.
• Zhang Yang revealed that he had stolen something from his former employer and asked Li Cang for information about threats distorting the story of A Chinese Ghost Story.

Zhang Yang learned why traversing between sequences left him unconscious and received intelligence about the Plague Serpent’s infection of the Liaozhai worlds. Li Cang explained Earth’s predicament and proposed that Zhang Yang cooperate with the Antivirus Hunters, ending by offering to recommend him to a superior.

• The Fate Village Building Order explained that sequence traversal could be made safer by increasing Zhang Yang’s strength, forging an Ash Boat, or choosing his destination himself.
• Li Cang gave Zhang Yang three intelligence records about infected Liaozhai worlds, and the Fate Village Building Order detected traces of an unknown Primeval Village Building Order and the Plague Serpent.
• Li Cang explained that Human Civilization was trapped in the Fifth Sequence and relied on village chiefs to travel across sequences and fight viruses.
• Zhang Yang learned that the Plague Serpent was likely hiding in the Third or Fourth Sequence and infecting Liaozhai through projections of divine faith, beyond the Antivirus Hunters’ ability to eradicate.
• When Zhang Yang asked Li Cang to assess his strength, Li Cang said he could not compare it but offered to recommend Zhang Yang to his superior.