Chapter Summaries

Qu Shang confessed her ambition for greater authority in Zhang Yang’s world, and Zhang Yang explained that the world faced a Great Time Tribulation before he promised to divide its future assets among them. Qu Shang accepted his answer but complained that her sixth attempt to offer herself to him had failed again.

• Zhang Yang drank wine with Qu Shang after his little cousin left, and they discussed their feelings and ambitions.
• Qu Shang told Zhang Yang that she cared deeply about the world she helped build and wanted greater authority without betraying him.
• Zhang Yang explained that the River of Time would eventually subject their world to a Great Time Tribulation, which could grant them vast lifespans if they survived.
• Zhang Yang promised that after the tribulation he could give each of them a small world and a portion of the Sword Dao Law.
• Qu Shang nodded at his offer, then complained that Zhang Yang had rejected her sixth attempt to offer herself to him.

Zhang Yang explained how the Sword Immortal Grand Hall controlled and recycled sword qi, turning it into a vast reserve of High-Pressure Sword Qi while hiding cultivation from the mortal world. He revealed that the hall could also advance two more Law Heavenly Gods, but he had withheld that power until his disciples proved their responsibility to the world.

• Zhang Yang arrived at the Sword Immortal Grand Hall, whose foundations, sword arrays, and river of sword qi placed it at the center of the Sword Immortal Civilization.
• Zhang Yang described how the Hidden Sword Earth Veins and the hall collected and purified sword qi, preventing radiation and pollution while keeping sword cultivators hidden among mortals.
• Zhang Yang revealed that the hall's stored High-Pressure Sword Qi could kill roughly twelve Qu Shangs or heavily injure a Chicken Leg Ancient God, and that he held control over the hall and its reserves.
• Zhang Yang explained that he had delayed Qu Shang, Tao Yao, Zhao Baiyi, and Li Guokui's advancement until Sword Dao Law reached 4.0, despite having enough power to advance two more Law Heavenly Gods.
• Zhang Yang said that the four disciples had earned their advancement by showing responsibility when they inscribed the Plague God Seal, and that he wanted an honest, trusting relationship with his core disciples.

Zhang Yang introduced the four artifact spirits of the Sword Immortal Grand Hall, then accepted a request to marry Qu Shang and immediately assigned his disciples a dangerous mission. He planned to lead them through the Dream Dimension to destroy Plague God's Heart before the Thousand-Handed Race could reach it.

• Four artifact spirits—Sword Heart Child, Sword Intent Child, Fortune Child, and the Chaos Sword Seal child—appeared in the hall and paid respects to Zhang Yang.
• Tao Yao urged Zhang Yang to take another wife for Qu Shang, and Zhang Yang agreed to marry her on the eighth day of the next month.
• Zhang Yang showed the group a River of Time mission to enter Plague God's Saliva and destroy Plague God's Heart, warning that the Thousand-Handed Race might compete for it.
• Zhang Yang said he would lead the team and asked them to prepare for a swift strike, using information from his spy in the Xing Clan's world to locate the target.
• Zhang Yang revealed that he had also planted a spy in the Dream Dimension, proposing they use it to reach and attack Plague God's Heart.

09 Sub-Account Zhang Yang faced the destruction of the Xing Clan world as Great Droplet’s plague corrupted its people and Heavenly Dao. Just as he prepared to die fighting his fallen father-in-law, he synchronized with the main body, survived with an incomplete Plague God Seal, and set out to locate Great Droplet’s core power.

• 09 Sub-Account Zhang Yang found his plague-stricken fiancée near death and reflected that the Xing Clan world had been overwhelmed by Great Droplet’s curse.
• 09 Sub-Account Zhang Yang fought through the ruined royal capital as plague creatures emerged and the corrupted Heavenly Dao spread poison across the land.
• 09 Sub-Account Zhang Yang confronted his fallen father-in-law, a contaminated Heavenly God, and prepared to die after his hammer’s power began to fail.
• 09 Sub-Account Zhang Yang synchronized with the main body, learned its latest information, and used an incomplete Plague God Seal to wound the fallen Heavenly God and escape its enormous mouth.
• 09 Sub-Account Zhang Yang resolved to locate Great Droplet’s core power himself while reflecting on Qu Shang’s long relationship with him.

09 Sub-Account Zhang Yang returned to the Princess Palace and used a remnant Plague God Seal to heal the dying Princess. He left her recovering while pretending the effort had nearly killed him.

• 09 Sub-Account Zhang Yang returned to the Princess Palace, where the Ice Witch Knights initially barred him from entering.
• Zhang Yang told the White-Bearded Grand Witcher that he could save the Princess, and the Grand Witcher let him pass.
• The Princess questioned why Zhang Yang had returned, and he said he feared he would never find another wife as beautiful as her.
• Zhang Yang carved a remnant Plague God Seal over the Princess, causing her rot and blisters to disappear as healthy flesh grew back.
• Zhang Yang used ten Soul Tremors to make himself appear pale and near death after healing the Princess.

Zhang Yang convinced the Xing Clan that his method could suppress the cursed plague, while disguising its true source and negotiating access to their Core Ancestral Vein. He prepared to use that authority to sustain a Plague God Seal long enough for his main body to destroy the Plague God's Heart.

• Zhang Yang woke from his staged unconsciousness and declared that the Xing Clan should become the Ancient Battle Witch Clan.
• The burly Princess offered Zhang Yang the clan's Core Ancestral Vein to heal his wounds and help save their people.
• The White-Bearded Grand Witcher questioned Zhang Yang about his evil-suppressing method, and Zhang Yang presented a single-horned Hate Clan skull as its source.
• The Grand Witcher and Princess asked whether Zhang Yang could stabilize the method; he claimed it required lifespan sacrifices and could cover the royal city for three hundred years with the vein's power.
• The Princess and Grand Witcher resolved to let Zhang Yang use the Core Ancestral Vein, while Zhang Yang planned to exploit its lifespan and maintain his seal until the main body killed the Plague God's Heart.

Zhang Yang watched Princess claim the Core Ancestral Vein and reach the brink of becoming an Earth Battle Witch, but her breakthrough drew out the Plague God's Saliva's core power. As the Xing Clan was annihilated, Zhang Yang completed his task of marking the core's location and left.

• White-Bearded Grand Witcher and Princess summoned the Nine-Headed Turtle, which said the Xing Clan's crisis would soon pass but could not guarantee their survival.
• White-Bearded Grand Witcher persuaded the Nine-Headed Turtle to release Emperor Xing's inheritance, and a vast, pure earth vein appeared.
• Princess absorbed the earth vein and rapidly advanced toward becoming an Earth Battle Witch, while Zhang Yang slipped away.
• The earth vein's appearance drew the Plague God's Saliva's core power from beneath the Dead City, and its black flood engulfed Princess Palace and killed the Ice Witch Knights and White-Bearded Grand Witchers.
• As Princess fought the plague, Zhang Yang marked the core power's location, completed his mission, and departed while the Xing Clan was wiped out.

Zhang Yang assembled a powerful expedition to confront the time guardian mission and led the team through the hidden world built around the World Tree. He brought them to the Dream Dimension entrance, where Dream Roots stood ready to transport them covertly to their destination.

• Zhang Yang summoned an expedition force of Sword Dao Law Heavenly Gods, Law Demigods, and Law Mahayanas, equipped with powerful seals, sword qi, and weapons.
• Zhang Yang left formidable defenses behind to protect the Sword Immortal World while the expedition departed.
• Zhang Yang explained that the World Tree housed an embedded world serving as the core Spiritual Qi hub of the Sword Immortal Civilization.
• Zhang Yang led the team into the World Tree's world, where they saw vast stores of Spiritual Qi and landscapes formed from the tree's crown.
• Zhang Yang brought the expedition to the Dream Dimension entrance, where ninety thousand Dream Roots were prepared to transport them covertly.

Zhang Yang led his disciples and concubines into the Dream Dimension to prepare for a campaign against the Plague God's Heart, using his Dream Super High-Speed Rail to reach the target. After Tao Yao's boast attracted the attention of Ancient Gods, Zhang Yang secretly revealed that he had staged the scare to keep his disciples from growing overconfident.

• Zhang Yang explained that the Dream Dimension had been partly solidified and learned that a Dream Root passage to the target would be ready by the next afternoon.
• Zhang Yang revealed his Dream Super High-Speed Rail network and explained that he had spent twenty-three million units of Cosmic Law to build a route toward the Plague God's Heart.
• Zhang Yang briefed his forces on protecting their bodies, true spirits, and tracks, and gave Spirit-Stabilizing Chess Pieces to the four Law Heavenly Gods.
• Tao Yao claimed that she and the other three Law Heavenly Gods could defeat even an Ancient God in thirty seconds, so Zhang Yang warned her not to invite trouble by boasting.
• Fourteen Spirit-Stabilizing Chess Pieces cracked as Ancient Gods sensed Tao Yao's words, and Zhao Baiyi, Qu Shang, Li Guokui, and others gave her their pieces until the danger passed.
• Zhang Yang let Tao Yao believe the incident was a real warning, while privately admitting that he had caused it to humble his disciples and planned to set more traps.

Zhang Yang led his expeditionary battle group through a costly root passage to approach the Plague God's Heart and readied the Nine Peaks Immortal Ship for a concealed assault. The ship advanced toward the target while Zhang Yang stayed behind to oversee the battle.

• Zhang Yang transported nearly four hundred people through a hidden Dream Law root, reaching their destination in 26 minutes and 32 seconds at enormous cost.
• Zhang Yang ordered the 360 Law Mahayana cultivators to divide into six groups and prepare for combat while remaining 500,000 kilometers from the target.
• The Defense Group and Sword Array Group combined 180 Nine Peaks Immortal Swords into a heavily fortified combat platform and installed offensive and defensive arrays.
• The Heavenly Secrets Group set up reconnaissance formations, while the Concealment Group activated four formations to hide the battle group's presence.
• Zhang Yang refused to let the Dream Root follow, and the concealed Nine Peaks Immortal Ship moved toward the Plague God's Heart as four Law Heavenly Gods and 24 Law Demigods prepared to engage.

Aboard the Nine Peaks Immortal Ship, Zhang Yang watched his disciples work through an expeditionary challenge and realized how far the Heavenly Sword Clan had grown. He decided to cancel the plans he had made to test his old comrades, leaving the mission and the ship’s preparations ongoing.

• Zhang Yang repeatedly checked the Time Guardian mission while the Heavenly Secrets Group tested the ship’s arrays for blind spots.
• Chu Yang argued that the Heavenly Secrets Group’s testing risked exposing the ship and damaging its systems, and Hu Chen insisted the tests were necessary.
• Fan Ke proposed shutting down a third of the attacking sword arrays to free resources for the Heavenly Secrets Group, and the ship fell silent.
• Zhang Yang recognized the talent of the newer disciples and reflected that the Sword Immortal World had more vitality and potential than he had assumed.
• Zhang Yang felt guilty about frightening Tao Yao and decided to cancel his series of plans to test his old comrades.

Zhang Yang’s group reached the Plague God’s Heart in the Dream Dimension and cautiously countered its curse-like plague. After the Heart’s invasion triggered the framework’s rules, Zhang Yang warned his disciples against challenging the Six Great Sequences directly, then ordered the group to move as the Heart appeared.

• Zhang Yang found that the Plague God’s Heart had breached the boundary between reality and the Dream Dimension, and he ordered everyone to guard their minds while the Heavenly Secrets Group investigated.
• Zhang Yang refused to attack until the Heavenly Secrets Group was ready, despite Qu Shang’s warning that their caution weakened the group’s combat strength.
• Ji Ming’s careless remark triggered Heart-Growing Grass, which covered him, Gou Dao, and Zhu Ti in black hair until they focused their minds and combined their seals.
• Zhang Yang used a golden chess piece to restore the Heavenly Secrets Group’s reconnaissance, then led the twenty-four Law Demigods in breaking through the eroded dimensional barrier with World-Breaking Awls.
• The framework’s rules annihilated the Plague God’s Heart’s invading power, and Zhang Yang explained that no one should force their way through rules of the Six Great Sequences.
• The world turned murky and a heartbeat sounded within the group as Zhang Yang ordered everyone to move and the Plague God’s Heart appeared.

Zhang Yang explained how the Plague God's Heart contaminated the group through visions and material attacks, then guided them into a counterattack. The four Law Heavenly Gods and the sword array cleared the immediate danger and revealed that the Plague God's Heart was not a heart at all.

• After the Plague God's Heart beat five times, many Law Mahayana experts suffered severe physical symptoms, while the strongest fighters described disturbing visions.
• Zhang Yang explained that the visions were a first-phase defense that attacked cognition, and taught the group to shut down perception, cleanse contamination, and reinforce material defenses.
• Zhang Yang exposed the black liquid and hostile creatures surrounding the Nine Peaks Immortal Ship, prompting Qu Shang, Tao Yao, Zhao Baiyi, and Li Guokui to counterattack with their Law Immortal Swords.
• Fan Ke led the Sword Array group in activating four supreme sword arrays, which cleared everything within ten thousand miles of the ship in three rounds.
• Qu Shang, Tao Yao, Zhao Baiyi, and Li Guokui flew out with their swords and formed a powerful array of 32 Law Immortal Swords, allowing the group to glimpse the Plague God's Heart and realize it was not a heart.

Zhang Yang waited for Mu Shaoan and the mission target to reveal itself while his team launched the Plague God Seal toward the Plague God's Heart. Qu Shang pursued it alone despite the danger, destroyed the mucus with her own seal, and was struck down by an unknown figure.

• Zhang Yang held back from attacking the Plague God's Heart and waited for Mu Shaoan, while the Heavenly Secrets Group detected a human face and their observation arrays collapsed.
• Zhang Yang ordered Jiang Rong, Wu County, He Yimou, and the other Law Demigods to carry the Plague God Seal toward the mucus in a Flying Sword Array guarded by Qu Shang, Tao Yao, Zhao Baiyi, and Li Guokui.
• The ancient bell emerged from the mucus and stretched the distance as it retreated, while the law tide nearly destroyed the Nine Peaks Immortal Ship and forced Zhang Yang to stabilize it with the Spirit-Stabilizing Chess Piece.
• Qu Shang took the Plague God Seal and eighteen Law Immortal Swords, pursued the retreating mucus, and repeatedly detonated swords to close the distance despite its curses and the bell's time-warping effects.
• Qu Shang spent two million years of lifespan to inscribe a Plague God Seal, then used it to dissolve the mucus after it enveloped her.
• An unseen figure pointed at Qu Shang, and she lost consciousness without being able to fight back.

Li Meng captured Qu Shang’s true spirit and tried to destroy her body, but the Sword Dao Law and Mu Shaoan’s diversion helped Qu Shang escape. Zhang Yang rallied a huge force of Sword Immortals, recovered Qu Shang’s true spirit, and confronted Li Meng, while Mu Shaoan agreed to join the fight after learning she possessed a plane-world and was one of the thirteen Dream Law Heavenly Gods.

• Li Meng arrived in the Dream Dimension, seized the ancient bell and bronze coffin, captured Qu Shang’s true spirit, and cast it into the Dream Underworld.
• Sword seals and a Flying Sword Array activated remotely under Tao Yao’s control, protecting Qu Shang’s body and carrying it away as Mu Shaoan sacrificed a sub-account to distract Li Meng.
• Zhang Yang used the Dream Root to retrieve Qu Shang’s true spirit and summoned Law Demigods, Law Mahayanas, and a million Sword Immortals to pursue Li Meng.
• Qu Shang returned with her true spirit restored, accompanied by Tao Yao, Zhao Baiyi, Li Guokui, and a massive Sword Immortal force.
• Zhang Yang pressed Mu Shaoan to help kill Li Meng, and Mu Shaoan agreed after learning she had a plane-world and was one of the thirteen Dream Law Heavenly Gods.

Zhang Yang transferred command of the battle against Ancient God Li Meng to Mu Shaoan, whose tactics used the sword immortals’ speed and Sword Dao Law 4.0 to trap her. Li Meng’s ultimate attack destroyed twelve combat groups, but the True Martial Sword Seals disrupted her laws, leaving her facing further waves of attackers.

• Zhang Yang summoned Mu Shaoan to command the battle and transferred authority to him.
• Mu Shaoan used the Law Immortal Swords to coordinate more than a million sword immortals across the battlefield and position them outside Li Meng’s ultimate attack range.
• Li Meng attempted to withdraw, but Mu Shaoan’s Destiny Chess Game helped guide her into the range of twelve combat groups.
• Li Meng destroyed the twelve groups with her ultimate move, killing more than twenty thousand sword immortals.
• Twenty thousand True Martial Sword Seals dispersed part of Li Meng’s divine lights and threw her aura into chaos as more combat groups closed in.

Li Meng used her ultimate ability to reach Zhang Yang and tried to kill him, but his defenses resisted her attacks until she struck from within with Ancient Law. Mu Shaoan then trapped Li Meng in the Sky-Plundering Sword Array, where she and Zhang Yang were both destroyed.

• Li Meng offered to surrender the ancient bronze coffin, but Mu Shaoan recognized her hidden plan and transferred battlefield command to Zhang Yang.
• Li Meng used Chasing the Wind and Seizing Shadows to appear before Zhang Yang and attacked him with three divine abilities, which failed against his golden coffin-like defense.
• Li Meng sent her Heavenly Dao Demonic Spirit into Zhang Yang, but it died inside him, and she continued attacking until she discovered that his Ancient Law of Black and White could save him.
• Li Meng used Ancient Law to attack Zhang Yang from within, flattening his head and scattering his Blunted True Spirit Particles.
• Mu Shaoan activated the Sky-Plundering Sword Array, trapping Li Meng as Zhang Yang sent his particles into the Law Immortal Swords and destroyed his body.
• The sword array shredded Li Meng in three seconds and destroyed a fifth of Zhang Yang's hidden particles before it stopped.

After the battle left Zhang Yang’s Sword Immortal World badly weakened, Mu Shaoan and Zhang Yang joked and haggled over the ancient bronze coffin and their losses. Zhang Yang revealed his Apprentice Time Guardian status, and a new quest unexpectedly directed him to recruit Mu Shaoan, leaving Mu Shaoan delighted at the opportunity.

• Mu Shaoan mocked Zhang Yang for the battle’s heavy costs, while Zhang Yang insisted the victory had been worth it.
• Mu Shaoan asked Qu Shang to help recover her lost lifespan and pressed Zhang Yang for a share of the coffin’s contents.
• Zhang Yang explained that the coffin held a quest item, and Mu Shaoan agreed to guard Zhang Yang’s world for a thousand years in exchange for hearing about the quest.
• Zhang Yang told Mu Shaoan and Qu Shang how he became an Apprentice Time Guardian.
• Zhang Yang’s guardian status issued a quest to recruit Mu Shaoan by giving him half of the Stellar Imprint, promising a reduced future attendance requirement and a chance at formal assessment.
• Mu Shaoan celebrated his apparent foresight, while Zhang Yang resigned himself to his cousin’s likely enthusiasm for quests.

Zhang Yang captured Li Meng by exploiting a rebirth artifact hidden in the ancient bronze coffin, then reflected on the elaborate scheme that had led to her capture. He handed Li Meng to the Dream Root and left the coffin behind as the Thousand-Handed Race’s hidden experts arrived.

• Zhang Yang revealed that his Stellar Imprint’s numbers had reset after he guided Mu Shaoan, making his Time Guardian mission a profitable gain.
• Zhang Yang opened the ancient bronze coffin and found Li Meng, who had been reborn there with her memories but only the cultivation she had at age five hundred.
• Zhang Yang offered Li Meng a chance to live, then sent her to the Dream Dimension under the Dream Root’s supervision.
• Zhang Yang recalled how clues about the Ancient Witch Clan, Plague God's Saliva, and the Thousand-Handed Race’s divine seal inspired his plan to capture an ancient god at the moment of death and rebirth.
• Zhang Yang explained that he had prepared plans targeting Ancient God 'Game', Li Meng, and the Thousand-Handed Race’s hidden supreme expert, with retreat as a fallback.
• When the Thousand-Handed Race’s hidden supreme experts finally arrived, Zhang Yang threw out the Time Coffin and departed.

The Thousand-Handed Race investigated the ruined plane but could not safely enter it, while Mu Shaoan concealed the Sword Immortal World and took charge of its defenses. He used the opportunity to secure a thousand years of authority and planned to rebuild the Chaos Antivirus Hunter Headquarters in the Fourth Sequence.

• Two Ancient Gods of the Thousand-Handed Race examined the ruined plane and concluded that entering it could drag them into the Fifth Sequence.
• The Ancient Gods found that the Time Coffin mission had failed and suspected someone had used it to reincarnate shortly before the battle.
• The Thousand-Handed Race decided to return and seek answers from Li Meng about the Rift Void divine ability, the Suppress! Plague! Divine! Seal!, and the Sword Immortals.
• Mu Shaoan coordinated a silent camouflage operation in the Sword Immortal World and took responsibility for its defenses against retaliation.
• Mu Shaoan celebrated receiving a thousand years of authority from Zhang Yang and planned to use half his resources to rebuild the Chaos Antivirus Hunter Headquarters in the Fourth Sequence.