Chapter Summaries

After escaping the God-Catching Net, Zhang Yang invested ten hours of his time into the Boat of Death, advancing it to the brink of its fifth stage and becoming its captain. He brought the upgraded boat to the Eight Desolations Dimension, where he planned to build a hidden base inside the corpse of an indescribable existence.

• Zhang Yang withdrew from the battlefield and used ten hours from his Stellar Imprint to upgrade the Boat of Death.
• The Boat of Death reached ninety-five percent of its fourth stage, granting Zhang Yang the position of Death Captain and stronger protections against tracking.
• Zhang Yang assessed his haul of Mechanical Zombies, Thousand-Handed people, Cosmic Law, and one thousand units of Ancient Law as the wealth for his next stage of development.
• Zhang Yang chose a secluded region in the Fourth Sequence and had the Boat of Death travel there to erase its traces.
• Zhang Yang told Heavenly Dao Maiden they were inside the corpse of an indescribable existence in the Eight Desolations Dimension, where they could remain for three thousand years.

Zhang Yang organized the Heavenly Sword Clan’s three-thousand-year development in its new minor world, assigning resources to land creation, cultivation, and weapons while preparing five core disciples to reach the Heavenly God realm. He left the Butcher and the Assault Breaker Camp with a training goal centered on repeatedly using the True Martial Divine Seal.

• Zhang Yang and the Heavenly Dao Maiden began expanding the minor world, using twelve Hidden Sword Earth Veins and vast Cosmic Law reserves to create its land and life.
• Zhang Yang assigned core disciples to study divine seals, train sword cultivators, educate younger disciples, and forge immortal swords, while reserving resources to cultivate the Five-Colored Spiritual Plant.
• Zhang Yang gave He Yimou, Zhao Baiyi, Tao Yao, Qu Shang, and Li Guokui access to ten units of Immortal Cultivation Ancient Law for a month of study, hoping they would advance to the Heavenly God realm.
• Zhang Yang explained why the five disciples’ strength would support the clan and why he felt secure in his own position in the Fourth Sequence.
• Zhang Yang ordered the Butcher to train all thirteen thousand five hundred members of the Assault Breaker Camp to Mahayana Stage and to master the True Martial Divine Seal in groups of five.

Zhang Yang studied the dangers of fusing with the Ancient Law and decided to reincarnate in three hundred years so he could pursue Ancient Godhood with a more suitable foundation. He then approached the violent chain captured by the Boat of Death, intending to use its power for his preparations.

• Zhang Yang watched He Yimou, Zhao Baiyi, Tao Yao, Qu Shang, and Li Guokui survive their attempts to fuse with one unit of Longevity—Immortal Cultivation Ancient Law, then sent them into secluded cultivation with another unit each.
• Zhang Yang told the Heavenly Dao Maiden to prepare a body for his reincarnation in three hundred years because he intended to become at least an Ancient God.
• Zhang Yang explained that the Ancient Law was poorly suited to Acquired Beings and arranged for the five cultivators to switch to the Present Law after refining five units each.
• The Heavenly Dao Maiden warned Zhang Yang that reincarnation would require him to disperse at least four-fifths of his true spirit, and he said he would find a way.
• Zhang Yang examined the enormous chain hanging from the Boat of Death and approached it as its Divine Imprisonment Seals turned into monsters that attacked him.

Zhang Yang endured the chains’ trials, obtained twenty-seven Divine Imprisonment Seals, and slept for three hundred years. After hearing how the Heavenly Sword Clan had grown during his absence, he appointed Luo Qing sect master and ordered the first-generation disciples to prepare for breakthroughs to the Heavenly God realm.

• Zhang Yang advanced through the chains’ pressure and illusions, refined his true spirit twenty-seven times, and claimed the Divine Imprisonment Seals.
• The chains resisted, but Zhang Yang subdued them with the authority of the Boat of Death and returned to his cabin, where he collapsed into a three-hundred-year sleep.
• The Heavenly Dao Maiden reported the clan’s growth, including its sword techniques, seals, disciples, immortal swords, and expanded sect grounds.
• Zhang Yang inspected the disciples’ progress and found that He Yimou and four others were attempting to break through to the Heavenly God realm while Jiang Rong and the other core disciples developed the clan.
• Zhang Yang appointed Luo Qing sect master, made the first-generation disciples Supreme Elders, and assigned the second-generation Mahayana disciples to serve as elders.

Zhang Yang established an Ascension system to reward disciples for cultivation, service, merit, and responsibility, then watched Qu Shang and four other leaders ascend after their lectures. He later strengthened the world with Ancient Law of Longevity, and the Heavenly Dao Maiden planned to build additional worlds for the living and the dead.

• Zhang Yang approved the Heavenly Dao Maiden’s proposal for an Ascension system, defining its assessments and nine reward levels, and the laws spread throughout the world.
• After thirty years of recovery, Zhang Yang’s True Spirit advanced in purity through the twenty-seven Divine Imprisonment Seals, and he visited the flourishing world under his command.
• Zhang Yang listened as Zhao Baiyi, Tao Yao, and Qu Shang taught at the Heavenly Sword Clan, inspiring thousands of disciples to break through.
• The Heavenly Dao Maiden awarded Qu Shang Ninth-Level Ascension and Tao Yao, Zhao Baiyi, He Yimou, and Li Guokui Eighth-Level Ascension; the five prepared to attempt the Heavenly God realm.
• Zhang Yang gave ten units of Ancient Law of Longevity to the Five-Colored Spiritual Fruit, which the world converted into ten million units of Cosmic Law.
• The Heavenly Dao Maiden used the resources to improve the world and proposed building a second-layer world and a lower world for the dead, and Zhang Yang agreed.

After centuries of cultivation, Zhang Yang opened the ascension path for ten first-generation disciples and warned them that the world could support only a few Heavenly Gods. He urged the fifteen foremost sword cultivators to focus on perfecting Sword Dao into a Law, leaving their breakthrough competition for later.

• Over five hundred years, the Heavenly Sword Clan’s Mahayana Stage ranks swelled, and the Heavenly Dao Maiden named He Yimou, Zhao Baiyi, Tao Yao, Qu Shang, and Li Guokui the Five Sages.
• Zhang Yang funded the expansion of the Hidden Sword Earth Vein and delayed opening the ascension path while his disciples continued strengthening their foundations.
• After mastering the twenty-seven-character divine restriction, Zhang Yang opened the ascension path and sent Jiang Rong, Wu County, Li Si, and seven others to the Boat of Death.
• Zhang Yang warned the fifteen assembled disciples that too many Heavenly Gods would draw attacks, destabilize their region, and force their civilization into exile.
• Zhang Yang asked the fifteen leading sword cultivators to set aside personal breakthroughs and perfect Sword Dao into a Law by the end of the third thousand year.

Zhang Yang’s core disciples committed to developing the Sword Dao Law and organized research teams to study its different aspects. As thousands of sword cultivators joined the effort and Zhang Yang supplied vast resources, the law advanced rapidly, while the Heavenly Dao Maiden strengthened the Heavenly Sword Clan’s control over its world.

• Qu Shang, Tao Yao, Jiang Rong, Wu County, and the other core disciples agreed to devote themselves to perfecting the Sword Dao Law, even if it meant sacrificing their own chances to become Heavenly Gods.
• Qu Shang divided the Sword Dao Law seed into seven research fields, and the disciples formed teams and received permission from Zhang Yang to recruit cultivators from below.
• The teams competed to recruit the first-generation core disciples, then brought nearly ten thousand Mahayana Stage sword cultivators aboard the Boat of Death within three days.
• Zhang Yang spent one hundred units of Ancient Law on research resources, while the Heavenly Dao Maiden exchanged them for Cosmic Law and prepared three hundred more Hidden Sword Earth Veins.
• The research teams rapidly expanded the Sword Dao Law seed, and Zhang Yang anticipated that their work could eventually produce powerful Law Heavenly Gods tied to the Heavenly Sword Clan.

Zhang Yang risked his True Spirit to uncover the secrets of the chain beneath the Boat of Death, then awoke five hundred years later in a body the Heavenly Dao Maiden had prepared to approach Innate Being status. He chose Longevity—Immortal Cultivation Ancient Law and fused with one unit almost instantly.

• Zhang Yang touched the chain beneath the Boat of Death and used his time digits to survive as its force crushed and absorbed his True Spirit, memorizing the chain’s secrets before escaping at the cost of an hour.
• The Heavenly Dao Maiden sent Zhang Yang to reincarnate while he slept, and he awoke five hundred years later as a fourth-generation Heavenly Sword Clan disciple named Zhang Yang.
• The Heavenly Dao Maiden explained that she had secretly tempered and protected his body until it became a Pseudo-Innate Being, though it would be polluted without her protection.
• Zhang Yang chose Longevity—Immortal Cultivation Ancient Law despite having only fifty units remaining.
• Zhang Yang connected his body to five Hidden Sword Earth Veins and fused with one unit of Ancient Law in a second.

After the five special Hidden Sword Earth Veins withdrew, Zhang Yang discovered the power of his half-step demigod body and learned how much the Heavenly Sword Clan had advanced. When his sealed true spirit revived, it revealed dangerous information that could materialize through thought, so Zhang Yang fled to the Boat of Death and resolved not to examine it.

• Zhang Yang demonstrated how his Six Imperial Divine Sword Art could form a temporary world, while Heavenly Dao Maiden explained the limits of his Immortal Cultivation Ancient Law of immortality.
• Heavenly Dao Maiden told Zhang Yang that the Heavenly Sword Clan had perfected the Sword Dao Law to two peaks, with many cultivators qualified to become Sword Dao Law Heavenly Gods.
• Zhang Yang sent Heavenly Dao Maiden away and secluded himself to revive his sealed true spirit.
• After the true spirit was unsealed, Zhang Yang returned to the Boat of Death and activated the Captain's Seal when he realized that thoughts about its information could materialize.
• Zhang Yang suspected that a prisoner from the ancient chains lurked within his true spirit and forbade himself from thinking about, reading, or examining the information.

Zhang Yang became trapped in a Dream Universe where each stray thought created another version of himself, then used their combined Soul Tremor to break free. He woke up less than half a day later, energetic but with his body still vulnerable.

• Zhang Yang found himself dreaming amid gray mist and transformed into a flower stamen surrounded by copies of himself.
• Zhang Yang realized that each thought manifested another Zhang Yang, causing the copies to multiply toward an overwhelming collapse of his true spirit.
• An unknown big shot tried to bargain with Zhang Yang and threatened to keep multiplying the copies inside its Dream Universe.
• Zhang Yang and all his copies unleashed Soul Tremor together, blasting open the Dream Universe and knocking Zhang Yang unconscious.
• Zhang Yang woke up less than half a day later, refreshed because his true spirit was immune to Soul Tremor.

After nine hundred years of collective work, the Heavenly Sword Clan completed Sword Dao Law 3.0, which fused with Zhang Yang’s world and produced nine divine swords and the Sword Dao Stele. Qu Shang and eleven other contributors became Law Demigods, and their strength triggered the world’s impending exile from the Land of Exile.

• The Heavenly Sword Clan’s disciples completed Sword Dao Law 3.0, and thirty-six thousand strands of Sword Rhyme descended as the law merged with the world.
• The Sword Dao Law created nine divine swords that became academies and a central Sword Dao Stele that bore the law’s power itself.
• Zhang Yang let Qu Shang, Tao Yao, and the other contributors descend to receive their rewards, and the law recognized twelve people with Sword Rhyme staircases.
• The Sword Dao Stele gave Qu Shang and the other eleven Law Demigod power, while seventy-two more disciples received the strength of Law Mahayana.
• Zhang Yang and the Heavenly Dao Maiden discovered that the twelve Law Demigods had sharply shortened the world’s exile buffer, so Zhang Yang named them the Twelve Sword Gods Protectors and titled the seventy-two others the Seventy-Two Sword Immortals of the Protectors.

Zhang Yang gathered the Heavenly Sword Clan’s forces to prepare for their world’s exile from the Eight Desolations: Land of Exile in two months. He learned how their defenses and armies could withstand an uncertain enemy, but the destination and dangers remained unknown.

• Zhang Yang told the clan’s assembled forces that a calamity would arrive when their world was exiled, while concealing the full truth from those outside the meeting hall.
• Zhang Yang explained that the world could not board the Ferrying-World Boat after fusing with the Sword Dao Law and that they would have to prepare for random exile.
• The Heavenly Dao Maiden reported the world’s population, spiritual reserves, and nine-layer barrier, then warned that the barrier alone could not withstand a true invasion.
• The Heavenly Dao Maiden identified high-end combat, field warfare, and defenses against trickery as the three keys to survival.
• Wu County described the clan’s field forces, thousands of Sword Arrays, mobility and stored Sword Qi, and three Divine Seal formations.
• The Heavenly Dao Maiden explained how the nine divine-sword mountains could teleport troops and unleash a devastating Sword Qi Storm if the barrier fell, leaving Zhang Yang and the others uncertain about the enemies awaiting them.

After Eight Desolations: Land of Exile randomly ejected Zhang Yang’s world, Zhang Yang’s forces invaded the neighboring world to secure a foothold. They broke through its Heavenly Dao Barrier and began devouring it before the enemy’s remaining Heavenly Gods could respond.

• The exile ended after three days of catastrophic changes, and Zhang Yang’s forces found a neighboring world pressing against their Heavenly Dao Barrier.
• The Heavenly Dao Maiden reported that the neighboring world had twelve barrier layers, and Zhang Yang ordered the third plan into action.
• The Butcher’s True Martial Assault Breaker Camp fired seven waves of True Martial Divine Seals, blasting holes through all seven remaining layers of the enemy barrier.
• Qu Shang, Tao Yao, and the other Law Demigods charged through the breach and killed an ordinary Heavenly God, while Zhang Yang’s assault formations poured into the enemy world.
• The Heavenly Dao Maiden pressed Zhang Yang’s world forward to devour the enemy’s barrier as the six remaining Heavenly Gods hurried toward the invasion.

Zhang Yang's forces held the breach in the Heavenly Dao Barrier against a furious Law Heavenly God, while their sword cultivators' Chaos Divine Seals kept the enemy from sealing it. Zhang Yang ordered the Heavenly Dao Maiden to spend their reserves accelerating the merger of the two worlds, strengthening their Law Demigods and giving their side a decisive advantage.

• A distant Law Heavenly God unleashed law storms that killed everyone in the affected area except the enemy Heavenly Gods and Zhang Yang's twelve Law Demigods, while the Mahayana sword cultivators escaped without casualties.
• The Law Heavenly God's avatar attacked the breach, but waves of Chaos Divine Seals kept it sealed until Qu Shang and seven other Law Demigods intercepted the true body.
• Zhang Yang relied on Qu Shang's group to withstand the enemy and ordered the Heavenly Dao Maiden to devour the opposing barrier's power, despite the risks of committing their resources.
• The Heavenly Dao Maiden spent nearly all the Hidden Sword Earth Veins and the Sword Dao Celestial Vein to accelerate the barrier's fusion and support the twelve Law Demigods.
• The two worlds began merging, giving Zhang Yang's side overwhelming support from the Sword Dao Law and bringing the worlds together as one.

Zhang Yang’s forces seized a continent and used advanced sword formations to devastate an opposing army, but Heavenly Dao Maiden was nearly assimilated by the enemy’s civilization assets. Zhang Yang intervened with Soul Tremors, though the chapter ended with her connection suddenly cut off.

• Heavenly Dao Maiden’s Hidden Sword Earth Veins seized and sealed a continent while Wood Demon legions invaded the opposing world.
• Zhang Yang’s forces established defensive formations and launched High-Pressure Sword Qi shells, killing or wounding more than half of several million demigod soldiers.
• Three opposing Heavenly Gods retreated and began preparing a defensive line, forcing Zhang Yang’s side to consolidate its territory.
• Heavenly Dao Maiden told Zhang Yang that the opposing Heavenly Dao had lured her into absorbing civilization assets and that she was close to being assimilated.
• Zhang Yang unleashed forty Soul Tremors through his Dao Ancestor connection, then discovered that Heavenly Dao Maiden had been disconnected.

After the Heavenly Dao Maiden went offline, Zhang Yang took over battlefield coordination and devoured the enemy's Heavenly Dao Barrier, forcing the Law Heavenly God and opposing forces to retreat. The Heavenly Dao Maiden returned and resumed control as the enemy requested peace negotiations, despite Zhang Yang expecting the war to resume.

• When the Heavenly Dao Maiden became unavailable, Zhang Yang assumed control of the Heavenly Dao and supplied the front-line troops with battlefield intelligence while preparing defenses.
• Zhang Yang monitored Qu Shang and the other eleven Law Demigods and continued devouring the opposing Heavenly Dao Barrier.
• Zhang Yang's assault forced the enemy's Law Heavenly God to withdraw, and the opposing Heavenly Dao retreated after Zhang Yang struck it with thirty Soul Tremors.
• Zhang Yang ordered a general withdrawal to strengthen defenses as both sides paused fighting and he deciphered the enemy's warning.
• The Heavenly Dao Maiden returned and took back control, then told Zhang Yang that the opposing Heavenly Dao had requested peace negotiations.

After learning that his civilization had been randomly exiled into a Civilization Arena, Zhang Yang assessed his resources and ordered stronger defenses before agreeing to negotiate with the opposing Heavenly Dao. He prepared to hear what the other side would offer, while planning to make his civilization ready for future invasions.

• The Heavenly Dao Maiden revealed that the opposing civilization had also been randomly exiled from the Eight Desolations: Land of Exile, prompting Zhang Yang to review the rules he had purchased.
• A remnant consciousness sealed within the Death Chain mocked Zhang Yang for entering the Civilization Arena, and Zhang Yang silenced it with a Soul Tremor.
• Zhang Yang asked the Heavenly Dao Maiden to calculate their gains, and she reported that their assets had doubled and explained the defensive and civilizational benefits of expanding the Heavenly Dao Barrier.
• Zhang Yang ordered the Heavenly Dao Barrier increased to twenty-four layers, spending most of the battle’s spoils on outer defenses.
• Zhang Yang reviewed new resources and upgrades, including additional Heavenly Meridians, expanded legions, a tenth divine sword, and plans to nurture more Mahayana sword cultivators.
• Zhang Yang agreed to begin peace negotiations and wondered what bargaining chip the opposing side would offer.

Zhang Yang negotiated the sale of the True Martial Divine Seal to the Xing Clan for eighteen million units of Cosmic Law, while preparing for possible conspiracies. After sixteen successful payments, the Xing Clan's reinforcements arrived and raised a war warning.

• The Xing Clan offered Cosmic Law and intelligence to buy the True Martial Divine Seal, and Zhang Yang negotiated the price up to eighteen million units.
• Zhang Yang refused to send a disciple or accept the Xing Clan's representative, and the sides agreed to exchange the seal's data in eighteen installments.
• Zhang Yang consulted Qu Shang, who urged caution and said the twelve fighters had a strong chance of killing the enemy Law Heavenly God.
• The Xing Clan paid for sixteen installments of genuine True Martial Divine Seal data within three days.
• The Heavenly Dao Maiden warned Zhang Yang that a force of Xing Clan reinforcements had arrived.

Zhang Yang prepared for the Xing Clan’s sudden, overwhelming assault, ordering defenses and planning to cripple Nine Punishments while conserving his trump cards. As attacks probed the Heavenly Dao Barrier, he authorized Qiao Mu to sortie and discovered the unruly sword cultivator could conceal himself in an almost imperceptible wisp of sword-light.

• The Xing Clan’s reinforcements arrived and launched an all-out attack, prompting blood-red warnings of Heavenly Gods, war constructs, Ancient Law, and possible Ancient God intervention.
• Zhang Yang agreed to spend five hundred units of Ancient Law on an interception network and ordered Qu Shang to heavily injure Nine Punishments, while warning that the enemy might be baiting out their trump cards.
• Zhang Yang ordered the Butcher’s True Martial Assault Breaker Camp to stand by inside the Boat of Death as his forces readied their layered Heavenly Dao Barrier and Chaos Divine Interdictions.
• Enemy attacks damaged the outer layers of the Heavenly Dao Barrier, and Zhang Yang granted Qiao Mu permission to attack freely while prioritizing his safety.
• Zhang Yang reviewed Qiao Mu’s record as a talented but unruly sword cultivator who had killed one hundred eighty-seven enemy demigods alone in the previous battle.
• Qiao Mu vanished into a tiny, faint wisp of sword-light, surprising Zhang Yang with his stealth technique.

Zhang Yang learned that Qiao Mu had secretly grown powerful enough to be considered for the thirteenth Sword Dao Law Demigod, then traced Qiao Mu’s life and discovered a link to his cousin Mu Shaoan. He concluded that Mu Shaoan had reached the Fourth Sequence and died there, leaving a remnant soul that reincarnated as Qiao Mu.

• Zhang Yang questioned the Heavenly Dao Maiden about Qiao Mu passing through the Heavenly Dao Barriers, and she explained that Qiao Mu’s concealment let him evade interception while he hunted Xing Clan soldiers.
• The Heavenly Dao Maiden revealed Qiao Mu’s extraordinary cultivation across five paths and said he might qualify as the thirteenth Sword Dao Law Demigod.
• Zhang Yang used Dao Ancestor Authority to replay Qiao Mu’s life and found no evidence that he was a transmigrator or reincarnated mighty figure.
• Zhang Yang discovered that Qiao Mu’s parents were George and Mary, people he had brought from the Pendor World, and traced Qiao Mu’s origins to a piece of Mu Shaoan’s rib bone.
• Zhang Yang recognized the rib bone and concluded that Mu Shaoan had died in the Fourth Sequence, with his remnant soul reincarnating as Qiao Mu.