Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yang spent a century spying on the Thousand-Handed Race and gathered his disciples to decipher their magical seals. After another century, they produced the True Martial Divine Seal, and He Yimou proposed adapting it into a sword-array technique.

• Zhang Yang entered the divine restriction and shared a century's worth of recorded hand seals with He Yimou, Zhao Baiyi, and the other disciples.
• The disciples and the Heavenly Dao Little Girl organized and deciphered 3,800 basic magical seals over nine days.
• Zhang Yang urged the group to focus on stealing techniques for the Heavenly Sword Clan rather than reclaiming the Azure Nether Immortal Sword.
• After a century of collective study, the group comprehended the True Martial Divine Seal, which could break spells, formations, divine abilities, and protective sword qi.
• Jiang Rong recalled how the seal had destroyed his sword array, while Tao Yao explained how difficult it would be for them to perform it directly.
• He Yimou proposed splitting the seal into parts so sword cultivators could activate it together through a sword array.

Zhang Yang revived the Butcher and nine other sword embryos and asked them to help master the True Martial Divine Seal. The Butcher claimed the Assault Breaker Camp could cooperate well enough to divide and combine the divine ability, leaving Zhang Yang hopeful they might achieve a miracle.

• Zhao Baiyi offered to research the True Martial Divine Seal with Tao Yao, and Zhang Yang agreed before reconsidering the candidates.
• Zhang Yang had Heavenly Dao Little Girl retrieve the Butcher and nine other sword embryos, then restored them to Golden Core Stage bodies.
• Zhang Yang told the ten men that their families had died and that awakening the rest of the thirteen thousand five hundred soldiers would take a long time.
• The Butcher said he and his men would follow Zhang Yang because they trusted the Crab, but would kill Zhang Yang if he ordered them to attack their own people.
• The Butcher declared that the Assault Breaker Camp could cooperate better than any other force, and Zhang Yang ordered Zhao Baiyi to lead them in mastering the True Martial Divine Seal.

Zhang Yang and the Heavenly Sword Clan worked to decipher the Thousand-Handed Race’s Six Imperial Divine Seal, seeking to adapt its framework for sword cultivators. Qu Shang connected its six powers to the Six Great Sequences, giving the group a promising direction, but Zhang Yang cautioned them to proceed carefully.

• Zhao Baiyi took the Butcher and nine others to master the True Martial Divine Seal while Zhang Yang and the others studied the Six Imperial Divine Seal.
• Tao Yao, Qu Shang, and He Yimou argued that the clan should adapt the seal’s framework rather than copy its six elemental powers.
• Qu Shang explained the concept of a framework and proposed that the Six Imperial Divine Seal reflected profound transformations of the Six Great Sequences.
• Zhang Yang described the characteristics of the Six Great Sequences, helping Qu Shang realize that the seal’s six powers represented those characteristics.
• The disciples celebrated the prospect of creating a Six Imperial Divine Sword Art, but Zhang Yang ordered them to focus on deciphering the framework and warned them against overconfidence.

Zhang Yang oversaw his disciples’ study of the Six Great Sequences and trained the Butcher and nine others to use the True Martial Divine Seal. Their successful joint casting left Zhang Yang ready to advance his plans, though he still intended to proceed cautiously.

• Qu Shang and Tao Yao entered sudden enlightenment while Li Guokui, He Yimou, and the other disciples made progress, leaving Zhang Yang feeling left behind.
• Zhang Yang defended teaching the True Martial Divine Seal to the Butcher and nine others, explaining its value for protecting and equipping large sword-cultivator forces.
• After studying the seal, the ten Butchers spent days coordinating their parts before attempting a joint cast.
• The ten Butchers formed a complete True Martial Seal, which the Boat of Death absorbed before it could erupt.
• Zhang Yang saw that all ten had survived and realized their success could let him launch his plans ahead of schedule.

After Butcher and the others survived the True Martial Divine Seal’s backlash only as Three-Leaf True Spirits, Zhang Yang learned that the Thousand-Handed Race’s curse had destroyed their bodies. He abandoned the Azure Nether Immortal Sword for now, spent decades studying the Thousand-Handed Race and strengthening the Six Imperial arts, then entered their world.

• Butcher and the other nine released the True Martial Divine Seal, but its backlash destroyed their bodies, leaving their Three-Leaf True Spirits intact.
• Heavenly Dao Maiden explained that the seal drained their strength and triggered the Thousand-Handed Race’s curse, while the Boat of Death absorbed most of its force.
• Zhang Yang decided to investigate the Thousand-Handed Race and guided the Boat of Death away from the Azure Nether Immortal Sword, alerting Chang Ji as it left the Divine Prohibition.
• Zhang Yang and Heavenly Dao Maiden spent decades covertly traveling through Thousand-Handed territory, gathering information and preparing plans.
• The disciples made progress on the Six Imperial Divine Sword Art and Six Imperial Divine Sword Seal, and Zhang Yang had them continue refining both.
• After another twenty years of observation, Zhang Yang entered the Thousand-Handed Race’s world with Heavenly Dao Maiden’s help.

Zhang Yang infiltrated the Thousand-Handed World in the body of a wood demon, disguising himself as native riverbank grass as he approached a settlement. He observed the Thousand-Handed People and concluded that their Heavenly Dao restricted civilization to preserve control and defend against the Mechanical Zombies.

• Zhang Yang used a storm and the Boat of Death's concealment to enter the world as a seed, then grew spiritual-energy wood nodules and developed a camouflage talent.
• Zhang Yang disguised himself as riverbank grass and traveled upstream toward a Thousand-Handed People settlement.
• Zhang Yang reached a position near the settlement and observed its ordinary residents, who had short lifespans, low productivity, and bronze tools.
• Zhang Yang recognized that the Heavenly Dao deliberately limited civilization to prevent environmental damage and challenges to its authority.
• Zhang Yang understood that the Thousand-Handed People served Heavenly God Chang Ji and that stronger civilization could make them harder to control, while Mechanical Zombies threatened the Fourth Sequence.

Zhang Yang spent decades studying the Thousand-Handed People, first deciphering their hand-sign language and then building a detailed database from more than a thousand corpses. The research improved the deciphering of the True Martial Divine Seal, but the Heavenly Dao Maiden warned that investigating higher-level Thousand-Handed People could expose them, so Zhang Yang chose to wait and consider their limited time in the world.

• Zhang Yang hid near a Thousand-Handed settlement for twenty years and mastered its people’s four levels of hand-sign communication.
• Zhang Yang entered the grave of Tong and analyzed his corpse, sending the findings to the Boat of Death for study.
• Zhang Yang spent nearly three years dissecting more than a thousand corpses across seven settlements, allowing the Heavenly Dao Maiden to create a comprehensive database.
• He Yimou, Zhao Baiyi, Tao Yao, and the others used the database to correct their deciphering of the True Martial Divine Seal, making it easier to cast and weakening its curse.
• The Heavenly Dao Maiden warned Zhang Yang that researching higher-level Thousand-Handed People could trigger the Heavenly Dao Barrier, and Zhang Yang agreed not to risk it.
• Zhang Yang decided to wait another fifty years, though the Boat of Death’s small world could last only another hundred and sixty years and the third divine seal remained only partly deciphered.

Zhang Yang used his last blood sacrifice, unknowingly triggering Mu Shaoan's rise as a Mechanical Law Heavenly God and a rebellion by the Mechanical Zombies. Their assault on Heavenly God Chang Ji's world finally created the opening Zhang Yang had waited for.

• Zhang Yang performed his final blood sacrifice, which tore a blood-red eye from his Four-Leaf True Spirit and severed his connection to Mu Shaoan.
• Zhang Yang waited ten more years, unaware that Mu Shaoan had become a Mechanical Law Heavenly God in the Fifth Sequence.
• The Mechanical Zombies rebelled, destroying smuggling routes and making travel from the Fifth Sequence back to the Fourth Sequence far more difficult.
• Mechanical Zombies overwhelmed Heavenly God Chang Ji's defenses and surged into the Thousand-Handed Race's inner world.
• The chaos created the opportunity Zhang Yang had been waiting for.

Zhang Yang and his companions endured the Immeasurable Tribulation, gathered Thousand-Handed People for their research, and cultivated amid a devastating law storm. As the storm subsided, Zhang Yang sensed that the Azure Nether Immortal Sword had been freed, but taking it could force him to face the approaching Mechanical Zombies.

• The Heavenly Dao Maiden warned Zhang Yang that a catastrophic invasion had triggered the Immeasurable Tribulation and threatened to corrupt the Thousand-Handed People's Law Seal talent.
• Zhang Yang led fifteen demigod-level soldiers to capture more than a thousand six-armed Thousand-Handed People, hundreds of eight-armed ones, and dozens of ten-armed ones before a law storm cut him off from the Boat of Death.
• Zhang Yang and his soldiers survived the storm with the True Spirit Shield Array, then brought his fifteen core disciples to cultivate in the storm's pure Dao resonance.
• The five Destroyer Commanders upgraded their Dao-grade Battle Runes, while Jiang Rong and the other fifteen disciples advanced to the Mahayana Stage and gained Dao-level Sword Rhyme.
• Zhang Yang sensed the Azure Nether Immortal Sword summoning him after the storm destroyed its divine restriction, and hesitated over retrieving it because the Mechanical Zombies were nearing.

Zhang Yang stayed in the Thousand-Handed People’s world while Tao Yao and the other disciples returned to decipher the Chaos Divine Seal within a year. As powerful Mechanical Zombies began invading, Zhang Yang disguised his group as Mechanical Hunters and prepared to rob a base-type Mechanical Zombie for resources.

• Zhang Yang ordered Tao Yao and the fifteen disciples to return to the Boat of Death and prioritize deciphering the Chaos Divine Seal within a year.
• Zhang Yang disguised himself and the ten Forbidden Magic Knights as Unicorn Three-Inch Dings and declared the group a Mechanical Hunter squad.
• The Heavenly Dao Maiden warned Zhang Yang that the Heavenly Dao Barrier had fallen and that a powerful base-type Mechanical Zombie would arrive nearby.
• Zhang Yang chose to rob the base-type Mechanical Zombie, hoping to gather enough law energy to save the Boat of Death’s small worlds.
• Zhang Yang unleashed his Four-Leaf True Spirit and ordered it to avoid the shock wave while remaining undetectable to the Mechanical Zombies.

Zhang Yang waited for a base-type Mechanical Zombie to weaken after its impact devastated the world, then ambushed and robbed it. He escaped with its Mechanical Soul Gold and mechanical body before twelve more Mechanical Zombies arrived.

• Zhang Yang watched a base-type Mechanical Zombie crash into the world, killing its Heavenly Dao and annihilating the surrounding land.
• Zhang Yang ordered five Destroyer Commanders to attack the weakened Mechanical Zombie with fifteen Great Dao Battle Runes.
• Zhang Yang suppressed the gravely wounded machine with his Four-Leaf True Spirit and extracted its Mechanical Soul Gold.
• Zhang Yang sent the Mechanical Soul Gold and mechanical body to the Boat of Death, erased the traces, and escaped.
• Twelve battleship-type Mechanical Zombies arrived but found only a stretch of desert.

After the Mechanical Zombies overwhelmed the Thousand-Handed World, Zhang Yang was trapped beneath a God-Catching Net woven from six Ancient Laws. He discovered his Boat of Death could evade its restrictions and prepared to turn the threat into an opportunity by restoring the Heavenly Sword Clan and deploying the Divine Seals.

• Zhang Yang tried to rob more Mechanical Zombies, then learned that their invasion had destroyed the Thousand-Handed civilization and brought a second wave of fifty million attackers.
• The Heavenly Dao Maiden urged Zhang Yang to abandon the Azure Nether Immortal Sword and escape, but he chose to wait before leaving.
• A God-Catching Net descended over the entire Thousand-Handed World, trapping the Boat of Death and preventing its traversal.
• Zhang Yang used his Time Guardian authority to identify the net’s limits and planned to restore the Heavenly Sword Clan, its Hidden Sword Earth Vein, and its forces.
• The Heavenly Dao Maiden unsealed the Heavenly Sword Clan’s mountain gate as Zhang Yang prepared to use the Divine Seals against the Mechanical Zombies.

The Heavenly Sword Clan used the Mechanical Zombie’s body to power its Sword Qi factories and spiritual fields while Tao Yao prepared to upgrade the Myriad Weight Sword Array. The chapter left Tao Yao set to modify the array so it could produce five-hundredfold-compressed Sword Qi for the Six Imperial Divine Sword Art.

• The Heavenly Dao Maiden used twelve Hidden Sword Earth Veins to extract pure Immortal-Demonic Law from the mechanical body and supply Spiritual Qi to the Heavenly Sword Clan.
• Sword-Hiding Valley diverted two-thirds of the Spiritual Qi through four Sword Arrays, producing sealed Sword Qi for frontline cultivators, while the rest was sent to Nie Xiaoqian's Well to cultivate spiritual plants.
• Tao Yao arrived and told the Heavenly Dao Maiden that Zhang Yang had ordered the Myriad Weight Sword Array’s compression limit raised to five hundredfold.
• Tao Yao explained that three-hundredfold Spirit Seals consumed too much energy for the Six Imperial Divine Sword Art, and that five-hundredfold compression was needed.
• The Heavenly Dao Maiden warned that the array was designed for a maximum of three hundred and fiftyfold compression, but Tao Yao insisted she could modify it and suspend its operations for half a day.

Tao Yao prepared to risk her life upgrading the Myriad Weight Sword Array to create powerful compressed sword qi as the Boat of Death’s crew readied for a battle against the God-Catching Net. Zhang Yang decided to spend Cosmic Law resources creating Thousand-Handed People to hide their identities and unleash a thousand True Martial Divine Seals.

• Tao Yao told the Heavenly Dao Maiden she had a seventy percent chance of surviving her attempt to create eight-hundredfold Compressed Sword Qi, then transformed into sword shadows to begin.
• The Boat of Death’s researchers advanced their work on the Chaos and True Martial Divine Seals, while Butcher and five hundred Assault Breaker Camp soldiers trained to use the fourth version of the True Martial Divine Seal.
• Zhang Yang’s team concluded that a hundred True Martial Divine Seals would not be enough to break the God-Catching Net and planned to follow them with attacks from the Boat of Death.
• Zhang Yang proposed creating Thousand-Handed People to release the seals and draw the Mechanical Zombies’ attention away from his group.
• The team agreed to set aside two hundred thousand units of Cosmic Law to cultivate enough Thousand-Handed People to release a thousand True Martial Divine Seals.

Zhang Yang investigated the Thousand-Handed People’s unexpectedly resilient resistance and ordered the formation of an intelligence group to assess the war and possible hidden schemes. The group recommended a more cautious plan, but Zhang Yang still faced a shortage of resources and a deadline to attack within two years.

• Zhang Yang expanded reconnaissance after learning that the Thousand-Handed People still had at least a third of their population and continued resisting the Mechanical Zombies.
• Heavenly Dao Maiden proposed that Chang Ji’s flight and the survivors’ strength might conceal a larger scheme, so Zhang Yang assigned her and Li Guokui, Ji Ming, Gou Dao, Zhu Ti, and Li Si to gather intelligence.
• Heavenly Dao Maiden’s avatar organized their findings, and the group became the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion.
• After a month of analysis, the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion predicted the resistance would last at least five years and warned that both sides might have prepared for war long in advance, with stronger forces and hidden allies involved.
• Zhang Yang agreed to plan more cautiously but said they needed to attack within two years because resources were running low.
• Heavenly Dao Maiden advised Zhang Yang to advance to the Five-Leaf True Spirit when the Five-Leaf Spiritual Plant matured, so they could conceal their actions while plundering ten million units of Cosmic Law.

Sixteen months after the Mechanical Zombie invasion, Tao Yao’s eight-hundredfold Sword Qi array gave Zhang Yang a way to temper immortal swords, strengthen Gold Meridian Sword Cores, and inscribe Sword Rhyme divine runes. Zhang Yang used it to forge an immortal sword from a colossal mechanical body and named it the Three Thoughts Sword.

• Tao Yao successfully created a Myriad Weight Sword Array that compressed Sword Qi eight hundredfold, and Zhang Yang scolded her before taking its control talisman to make corrections.
• Zhang Yang entered the array and explained how its High-Pressure Sword Qi could temper immortal swords, reduce the resources needed to upgrade Gold Meridian Sword Cores, and enable Sword Rhyme divine runes.
• Zhang Yang ordered five Destroyer Commanders to bring over a colossal mechanical body and used the array’s spirit seal to refine it into a small pool of blue material.
• Zhang Yang sent his Four-Leaf True Spirit into the blue pool and shaped its countless Sword Qi into an immortal sword.
• Zhang Yang jokingly named the sword Watermelon Knife, then gave it the name Three Thoughts Sword.

With his Cosmic Law reserves exhausted and the Boat of Death’s annual sacrifice approaching, Zhang Yang went alone to rob a Mechanical Zombie. He defeated a powerful target and escaped with the spoils, leaving the stolen resources in hand but the danger of the God-Catching Net and other Mechanical Zombies still looming.

• Zhang Yang set out alone on the Three Thoughts Sword, intending to find a valuable target before the Boat of Death collected its sacrifice.
• Zhang Yang traveled through the trap-filled desert beneath the God-Catching Net and encountered a mountain-sized demigod Mechanical Zombie.
• Zhang Yang attacked from a distance with the Mountain and River Sun and Moon Demon-Slaying Stele, but the Mechanical Zombie’s Mechanical Soul Gold overwhelmed his hammers.
• Zhang Yang unleashed his Four-Leaf True Spirit’s suppression, disabling the Mechanical Zombie and causing nearly a million Mechanical Soul Gold particles to fall inert.
• The Three Thoughts Immortal Sword pierced the Mechanical Zombie with millions of sword shadows, and Zhang Yang and the sword fled with their spoils.

After escaping the Mechanical Zombies, Zhang Yang learned that his thoughts could draw the attention of powerful beings and entered the Dream Dimension with the Dream Guardians. His Soul Tremor accidentally exposed a nearby Mechanical Zombie army, leaving the Dream Castle in danger.

• Zhang Yang and Guy hid in a crack after escaping a Mechanical Zombie attack, while Zhang Yang realized the enemy could imitate the pressure of a Four-Leaf True Spirit.
• The Dream Spirit Captain warned Zhang Yang that certain thoughts could trigger hidden communication engines and that powerful beings could draw his consciousness into a dream.
• Zhang Yang entered the Dream Dimension and learned that it shared the laws and dangers of the Reality Dimension.
• Zhang Yang released a Soul Tremor into the mist, destroying half the Dream Castle and injuring many Dream Guardians.
• The Soul Tremor cleared the mist and revealed a Mechanical Zombie army about five hundred kilometers away from the Dream Castle.

Zhang Yang accepted a Time Guardian mission to repair a five-minute Time Reversal caused by the mechanical zombies. He destroyed his time-reversed body to complete the mission, gained thirty seconds, and returned to the Boat of Death.

• A Stellar Imprint issued Zhang Yang a mission to repair the Time Reversal in the Thousand-Handed world, and he accepted it.
• Zhang Yang realized the mechanical zombies had reversed time at the site where he had killed one, while his true spirit remained safe in the Dream Dimension.
• Zhang Yang used a threefold Soul Tremor to silence the mechanical zombies, then left the Dream Dimension and located his body five minutes in the past.
• Zhang Yang destroyed his body with sword qi, raising the mission progress to 100 percent.
• The Stellar Imprint awarded Zhang Yang thirty seconds, and he teleported back to the Boat of Death.

Zhang Yang and the Boat of Death were caught beneath the Mechanical Zombies’ God-Catching Net, which devastated the Thousand-Handed World. As Heavenly God Chang Ji and fifteen Heavenly Gods fought back, the Death Chain gathered valuable resources and Ancient Laws before Zhang Yang escaped.

• Zhang Yang learned that three Heavenly God-level Mechanical Zombie fortresses had entered the battlefield, then tried to flee as their God-Catching Net descended.
• The God-Catching Net tore through the Thousand-Handed World and endangered the Boat of Death, while its Death Chain began catching Mechanical Zombies, a mineral deposit, and living natives.
• Heavenly God Chang Ji used the Chaos Divine Seal to resist the net, but the pressure badly damaged the Boat of Death and injured Zhang Yang’s disciples.
• Zhang Yang’s Death Chain caught several Ancient Laws, and he held off on repairing the boat as the Thousand-Handed People gathered scattered laws with divine-seal chains.
• Fifteen Heavenly Gods joined forces to destroy the God-Catching Net, and Zhang Yang waited as the Death Chain collected nearly one thousand units of Ancient Laws.
• Zhang Yang activated the Boat of Death and escaped without leaving a trace.