Chapter Summaries

Unable to open a passage back to the Reality Dimension, Zhang Yang told his anxious subordinates that returning to the Sword Immortal World would mean falling into the enemy’s trap. He insisted they defend the Dream Divine Kingdom while Mu Shaoan searched for one of the hidden plans Zhang Yang had prepared to save their home.

• Zhang Yang failed to open a passage between the Dream Dimension and the Reality Dimension, leaving his forces stranded in the Dream Divine Kingdom.
• Tao Yao reported that the surrounding area appeared to be under a scorched-earth blockade, while He Yimou warned that dwindling dreams, weak Dream Spirits, and approaching Nightmare Storms threatened the kingdom.
• Zhang Yang ordered his subordinates to stop worrying about the Sword Immortal World and focus on strengthening and defending the Dream Divine Kingdom.
• Zhang Yang explained that their enemies had anticipated their options and that leading a rescue force home would likely trigger an ambush.
• Zhang Yang privately hoped Mu Shaoan would find one of the ancient pits he had prepared, while he resolved to hold the Dream Divine Kingdom as their highest priority.

Zhang Yang discovered that Dream Dimension forces were entangled by hidden strands and learned that Li Meng had sided with the Thousand-Handed Race. He prepared to counter the threat with layered schemes, including impersonating Mu Shaoan and concealing Li Meng’s resurrected elder sister.

• Zhang Yang used his Dream Law perception to recognize that everyone was entangled by hidden strands reaching into the Dream Dimension, and realized reality’s incursions carried a dangerous cost.
• Zhang Yang contacted Li Meng and asked her to raise a hundred thousand units of Dream Law, but she refused and offered him a chance to surrender.
• Li Meng revealed she had found protection from the Thousand-Handed Race and threatened to expose everything about the Plague God Seal; Zhang Yang taunted her before their connection broke.
• Zhang Yang concluded that the Thousand-Handed Race would likely retaliate remotely and believed his assumed identity as Mu Shaoan would help him withstand such an attack.
• Zhang Yang examined a white chess piece containing Li Meng’s elder sister, whom the Time Coffin had resurrected alongside Li Meng, and recalled the six small and three large contingency schemes he had devised.

Zhang Yang asked Li Meng's Sister how to obtain Dream Law quickly, and she proposed developing a new version of Dream Law using her research. He agreed to give her five years and resources, while prioritizing a secure foothold in the Dream Dimension.

• Zhang Yang explained how his attack on Li Meng's Dream Divine Kingdom failed and why he urgently needed Dream Law.
• Li Meng's Sister warned Zhang Yang that his position was dangerous and suggested reverse-decomposing Chaos—Ancient Law of Black and White, but Zhang Yang refused to weaken his foundation.
• Li Meng's Sister offered to develop a new Dream Law within three years if Zhang Yang provided thirty thousand units of Dream Law and enough personnel.
• Zhang Yang agreed to give her five years to create Dream Law 3.0 and said he would not blame her if she failed, since her knowledge of the Dream Dimension was valuable.
• Li Meng's Sister agreed to teach Zhang Yang's people, urged him to attend the lessons, and revealed that she hoped to earn equity in his holdings through her achievements.

Number 09 scavenged soil and treasures to forge powerful leylines while hiding from the rapidly evolving Heavenly Dao. He discovered Ancient God Game had created a growing horde of sword-immortal-countering monsters, leaving him trapped between fleeing the plane and being devoured.

• Number 09 ate spiritually rich soil and refined it into an internal leyline, then gathered twelve strands of leyline Qi.
• When the Heavenly Dao began evolving, Number 09 hid underground, then exploited its accelerated self-check to gather treasures and build twelve top-grade leylines.
• After the Heavenly Dao completed three million years of evolution in an hour, Number 09 hid as a caterpillar and examined a newly created monster with twelve divine-patterned hearts and three heads.
• Number 09 saw the monster’s tumor-covered head hatch many offspring, which rapidly grew by devouring the land and everything around them.
• Number 09 fled the expanding horde and realized he needed Law Heavenly God strength to escape the plane, but feared Ancient God Game would kill him if he tried.

With Zhang Yang and the Sword Immortal main force still missing, Mu Shaoan’s preparations helped the Sword Immortal World brace for a possible invasion. He believed Zhang Yang was safe outside the world, but stayed behind to protect the headquarters while the enemy’s plans remained hidden.

• After six days without Zhang Yang’s return or contact, the Sword Immortal World’s leaders feared that he and the ten-million-strong main force had been lost or lured away.
• Li Guokui and Jiang Rong recognized that Mu Shaoan’s earlier orders to open the Sword Immortal Grand Hall and build the nine great arrays had prevented them from being caught unprepared.
• Li Guokui reported that he had completed the nine arrays, while Jiang Rong described building a million Sky Dome Arrays and preparing to evacuate civilians through a policy of fortifying the walls and clearing the fields.
• Mu Shaoan said the enemy had concealed the heavenly secrets and might include both the Ancient God 'Game' and the Dream Ancient God, but he believed Zhang Yang had enough resources to survive outside for a long time.
• Mu Shaoan decided he could not leave the Sword Immortal World because Li Guokui and Jiang Rong were not capable of guarding its headquarters without him.

Mu Shaoan warned Li Guokui and Jiang Rong to hold their defenses and endure the coming war, then uncovered clues that Zhang Yang was still active and Yang Chao was trapped in a world being devoured by a monstrous creature. The Heavenly Mechanism Hall used Yang Chao's location to reveal the hidden threat, prompting Mu Shaoan to order an urgent search for the Three-Headed Monsters' weaknesses.

• Mu Shaoan told Li Guokui and Jiang Rong not to counterattack, to preserve the Ancient Demon Heavenly Realm Defense System and the Sword Immortal Plane, and to trust that a chance for victory would come.
• Mu Shaoan's insect reacted to a curse and revealed a fragmented exchange between Zhang Yang and Ancient God Li Meng, convincing him that Zhang Yang was still alive and causing trouble.
• Table delivered Mu Shaoan a strange tree trunk, and Mu Shaoan's insect exposed Yang Chao inside it; Yang Chao begged for help and warned that a three-headed, twelve-armed monster was devouring his world.
• Mu Shaoan, Li Guokui, Jiang Rong, and the Heavenly Mechanism Hall activated the twelve Heavenly Mechanism Grand Arrays and Eyes of Heavenly Secrets to investigate the threat.
• After seeing the newly revealed intelligence, Mu Shaoan ordered an immediate change in defense strategy and summoned the Heavenly Sword Clan's hundred-crafts strategist corps to find the Three-Headed Monsters' weaknesses.

The table revealed the Table World and its four Spiritual Plant World Trees, which Zhang Yang had developed through experiments in cultivation by civilization. Concerned about the coming battle, the table decided to secretly repair damage to the Sword Immortal World without directly joining the fight.

• The table defeated Sword Heart Child, Sword Intent Child, Fortune Child, and Divine Seal Child at cards, then sent them back to their posts in the Sword Immortal Grand Hall.
• The table entered the Table World, a realm he had managed for three thousand years after Zhang Yang entrusted it to him.
• The table’s experiments produced four Six-Colored Spiritual Plant World Trees, cultivated through the faith and civilization of ghosts, demons, humans, and Golden Core Daoists.
• The chapter revealed that the tree trunk used to transfer curses to minor accounts came from the Ghost Tree.
• The table decided to avoid fighting directly and secretly repair damage to realms threatened by the coming war.

Mu Shaoan ordered the Sword Immortal World to release the Three-Headed Monsters before they could overwhelm its defenses, while the disciples feared the creatures would devastate the ground. Liang Jin revealed that the Sword Immortal Plane’s hidden earth-vein network could absorb Sword Qi radiation and potentially let them contain the invasion.

• Mu Shaoan warned that the Three-Headed Monsters could reach ten quadrillion and ordered the Ancient Demon Heavenly Realm Defense System to release them once their number reached 30 billion.
• Li Guokui reported that the nine great formations could kill only half the monsters, and Mu Shaoan refused to risk the defensive systems by modifying them or raising the release threshold.
• A second-generation disciple despaired that the landed monsters would require enormous amounts of High-Pressure Sword Qi to kill.
• Liang Jin explained that 500,000 primary Hidden Sword Earth Veins and their branches formed a dense network beneath the Sword Immortal Plane.
• Liang Jin calculated that the network could absorb Sword Qi radiation and help the defenders snipe the released monsters, astonishing Mu Shaoan, Li Guokui, and Jiang Rong.

Mu Shaoan realized Fatty Zhang’s enormous Hidden Sword Earth Vein network might have been a trap, then organized the Sword Immortal World’s defenses as an enemy assault began. At the Heavenly Mechanism Hall, Hu Chen detected signs of Dream Ancient God power in the attack and prepared to expose the enemy’s secrets.

• Mu Shaoan marveled at Fatty Zhang’s vast earth-vein network and suspected that his apparently empty headquarters had deliberately lured the enemy into a costly raid.
• When Sword Dao Law 4.0 warned of an attack, Mu Shaoan assigned Jiang Rong, Li Guokui, Liang Jin, and the other defenders their positions and duties across the Sword Immortal World.
• Mu Shaoan left his avatar to oversee the defense and returned his main body to the Destiny Chessboard to calculate unconventional tactics and seek contact with Fatty Zhang.
• Hu Chen ordered the Heavenly Mechanism Hall to use the Plague God Seal after the incoming black wind caused several elders to suffer blood tears.
• A Heavenly Mechanism Elder reported that the enemy’s army carried Dream Ancient God power, and Hu Chen activated his sword-seal vision to investigate the enemy’s true foundation.

Hu Chen used his divine ability to uncover the Three-Headed Monsters’ nature, but an ancient god killed him for spying. The Sword Immortal World’s defenses then smoothly repelled wave after wave of monsters, leaving Li Guokui and the others uneasy about how easy the battle seemed.

• Hu Chen dissected a Three-Headed Monster with his divine ability, and an ancient god’s power struck him down despite the defenses Mu Shaoan, Li Guokui, and Jiang Rong had prepared.
• Li Guokui confirmed Hu Chen’s true spirit had shattered, but said his discovery would let them kill the Three-Headed Monsters using only 1,200 times the High-Pressure Sword Qi.
• Mu Shaoan ordered the information shared and returned to closed-door cultivation while the Sword Immortal World prepared for the coming battle.
• Jiang Rong opened 3,600 flood channels, routing Three-Headed Monsters through the Heaven and Earth Barrier and into the sword arrays, which scattered them for the ground forces to kill.
• The defenders killed several hundred million Three-Headed Monsters in an hour with almost no losses, leaving Li Guokui and the others wondering why the battle was so easy.

Mu Shaoan watched Fatty Zhang’s defenses overwhelm the Ancient God 'Game' and inspected the Earth Vein Dispatch Hub, where Liang Jin explained the system supporting the battle. He left convinced that Liang Jin’s supposedly minor improvements were crucial to the war effort.

• Mu Shaoan concluded that the Ancient God 'Game' had lost as Fatty Zhang’s defenses and sword-qi arrays slaughtered the Three-Headed Monsters and repelled every attack.
• Mu Shaoan visited the Earth Vein Dispatch Hub and questioned Liang Jin about its arrays and how often the Dao Ancestor and Martial Uncle Table had visited.
• Liang Jin explained that he had designed a network of dispatch arrays to detect and recover sword-qi radiation, compress and purify sword qi, and return it to fighters and attack arrays.
• Mu Shaoan realized that Liang Jin’s improvements were far more significant than he had admitted and resolved to question Martial Uncle Table about his frequent visits.
• Mu Shaoan conceded defeat and vowed to change his surname if he ever teamed up with Fatty Zhang again.

Mu Shaoan understood how Zhang Yang’s World Tree, the sword immortal cultivation system, and the Hidden Sword Earth Vein made the Sword Immortal Plane wealthy and resilient. As the Ancient God "Game" continued its assault, he stayed to guard the world while its sword immortals and wood demons fought to defend it.

• Mu Shaoan traced the Sword Immortal Plane’s abundant resources and high tribulation success rate to Zhang Yang’s World Tree, efficient cultivation system, and Hidden Sword Earth Vein.
• Mu Shaoan left Liang Jin, erased what Liang Jin had told him from his mind, and resolved to remain behind and protect the base camp despite wanting to confront the Ancient God "Game."
• The Sword Immortal Plane’s defenses killed the Three-Headed Monsters emerging from the sword array, while wood demons absorbed and endured the resulting Sword Qi Storms.
• The Tribulation Transcending sword immortals sent fatigued younger disciples to meditate and took over the long-range attack formations themselves.

Table struggled under the curse binding him to Cousin Mu and secretly longed to escape, but he continued commanding the Wood Demon Legions for the Heavenly Sword Clan. He assured Liang Jin that the legions would protect the Hidden Sword Earth Vein as the battle against the Three-Headed Monsters continued.

• Table dreamed of his past encounter with Cousin Mu and remembered that killing him was supposedly the way to break his fate, though he feared the fatty who controlled him.
• Table arrived at the Earth Vein Dispatch Hub and hid his rage and despair from Liang Jin.
• Liang Jin praised Table for directing 1,500 Wood Demon Legions to shield the Hidden Sword Earth Vein and consume the Three-Headed Monster corpses.
• Table realized the wood demons could not rebel because their ancestors, four Spiritual Plant World Trees, were growing inside his realm.
• Table promised Liang Jin that the Hidden Sword Earth Vein would remain safe as long as any wood demon survived.

After the Sword Immortal Civilization annihilated the Three-Headed Monsters, Mu Shaoan organized the defenses and resources while Zhang Yang remained missing. Liang Jin upheld Zhang Yang’s safeguards for the Hidden Sword Earth Vein, and the chapter revealed that Zhang Yang had also established the Azurewood Realm to develop a new path for sword immortals.

• The Sword Immortal Civilization destroyed all 864 billion Three-Headed Monsters, though the Ancient Gods’ influence remained and Dao Ancestor Zhang Yang was still absent.
• Mu Shaoan ordered repairs to the Ancient Demon Heavenly Realm Defense System and put the world’s resources, including the monsters’ remains, under wartime supervision.
• Mu Shaoan, Li Guokui, and Jiang Rong considered using the spoils to develop their own sub-planes, but Liang Jin explained that Zhang Yang had mandated a five-hundred-year handover for the Hidden Sword Earth Vein and retained his oversight.
• Mu Shaoan abandoned plans to take over the Hidden Sword Earth Vein and promised Liang Jin the Earth Vein Hall would receive the people and resources it needed.
• Liang Jin used a duplicate to remain at the Earth Vein Dispatch Hub while his true body appeared in the Azurewood Realm, where Zhang Yang had gathered mortals and selected disciples to pursue a new path integrating multiple ancient legacies.

Liang Jin entered Azurewood Royal City and reflected on the Mystic Sect’s origins, organization, and influence. The chapter left him walking through the city as a senior Mystic Sect Elder, with the sect’s two major factions and their roles in the defensive war laid out.

• Liang Jin entered Azurewood Royal City and walked among its streets like an ordinary mortal to avoid drawing attention from senior figures.
• The chapter explained that the Mystic Sect consisted of Heavenly Sword Clan disciples who sealed their memories and lived as mortals before returning to the sect.
• The Mystic Sect grew from 1,060 disciples appointed by the Dao Ancestor and expanded through disciples’ descendants and carefully selected reserves.
• Liang Jin was identified as the Mystic Sect’s thirty-ninth-ranked disciple and one of its ten Elders, leading the Earth Vein Dispatch Faction.
• Pang Di led the other major faction, which maintained the Ancient Demon Heavenly Realm Defense System while Jiang Rong issued its public commands.

Liang Jin reported the Wood Demon Legion’s role in the defense and presented his insights into parallel processing to the Dao Ancestor, seeking approval for the Hidden Sword Earth Vein 3.0 project. A divine-image avatar used Sword Dao Laws 4.0 to develop Liang Jin’s work, leaving him with a major advance and a likely path to becoming a low-level Law Heavenly God.

• Liang Jin visited the Three Divine Temples in Azurewood Royal City and reported the recent battle to the Dao Ancestor.
• Liang Jin proposed beginning the Hidden Sword Earth Vein 3.0 project and submitted his parallel-processing insights for the Dao Ancestor’s approval.
• The Dao Ancestor examined Liang Jin’s insights and evolved them with Sword Dao Laws 4.0 into a scroll of parallel-processing possibilities.
• Liang Jin studied the scroll for nine days and nights before fainting, and the scroll carried him away.
• A divine-image avatar took the scroll and realized it had mastered and further developed Liang Jin’s Law of Parallel Processing.
• The avatar concluded that Liang Jin’s discovery could earn him a low-level Law Heavenly God position.

09 Sub-Account drifted through the void after fleeing the Heavenly Mechanism Hall’s pursuit, then used the Thousand-Eyed Pupil to find a ruined plane where he hoped to hide and recover. He entered the plane and discovered that living creatures remained, making him wary of a possible trap or other danger.

• 09 Sub-Account remembered how the evil eye had pursued him and blamed Zhang Yang’s Curse Transfer Divine Ability for his losses of cultivation.
• 09 Sub-Account used the Thousand-Eyed Pupil to see the Sword Immortal Plane’s radiation wheel and the Ancient God barriers locking it down.
• 09 Sub-Account spotted more than thirty other Plane Radiation Wheels and chose a failing white-lit plane as his destination.
• 09 Sub-Account traveled for ten days before entering the nearly defenseless ruined plane.
• 09 Sub-Account sensed that living creatures remained, covered himself with a piece of the rotten Heaven and Earth Barrier, and left Ancient Witch Clan marker anchors while watching for danger.

09 Sub-Account explored a ruined plane and decided it might hold immense resources while being too fragile to contain the Ancient God “Game’s” power. After concealing his strength with Eternal Petrification, he spent a month fishing from the plane’s edge for the remnant spirit of its dead heavenly way.

• 09 Sub-Account assessed the ruined plane’s fragile state and used Eternal Petrification to conceal his power as he entered.
• 09 Sub-Account reasoned that the plane could become a wealthy universe after descending to the Fifth Sequence and resolved to profit from it.
• 09 Sub-Account used Stone into Gold to create fishing rods and search for the heavenly way’s remnant spirit without entering the plane.
• 09 Sub-Account spent a month fishing from different spots along the plane’s edge, lowering nearly one million rods.

09 Sub-Account spent months fishing in a ruined plane, collected countless remnant spirits, and rescued a dying heavenly-law remnant spirit while concealing the power pursuing it. His observations revealed that the Sword Immortal World faced a massive assault, and Mu Shaoan confronted him for intelligence from beyond the blockade.

• 09 Sub-Account turned remnant spirits into nearly a hundred thousand spirit stones while fishing for a heavenly-law remnant spirit.
• 09 Sub-Account caught the plane's last heavenly-law remnant spirit, sealed the vicious power wounding it, and secretly returned that dangerous power to the plane.
• 09 Sub-Account used the Thousand-Eyed Pupil to discover that the Ancient God "Game" and more than a hundred Celestial Gods of the Thousand-Handed Race were blockading the Sword Immortal World.
• 09 Sub-Account realized that the Thousand-Handed Race had joined the attack after the Ancient God "Game" revealed the Sword Immortal World's possession of the Plague God Seal.
• Mu Shaoan stabbed 09 Sub-Account and demanded intelligence from beyond the blockade, and 09 Sub-Account identified himself as Mu Shaoan's cousin and agreed to tell him everything.

Mu Shaoan negotiated with Zhang Yang’s abandoned side account, Yang Yang Yang, and learned that a huge force had surrounded the Sword Immortal World. He answered Yang Yang Yang’s question about the ancient branches of humanity, including the long-lost curse branch, then put away the communication device and worried over the threat outside.

• Mu Shaoan demanded to know Yang Yang Yang’s location and situation, but Yang Yang Yang rejected his threats and insisted he was independent of Zhang Yang.
• Yang Yang Yang revealed that at least a hundred Heavenly Gods, including Law Heavenly Gods, surrounded the Sword Immortal World, while the Ancient God “Game” had gained reinforcements and was building a blockade.
• Mu Shaoan promised not to stab Yang Yang Yang again and offered to use his Apprentice Time Guardian access to answer a question in the River of Time.
• Yang Yang Yang asked about the branches of the Ancient Human Race before the Second-Generation Insecticide, and Mu Shaoan listed several, including the Golden Core Path, Primordial, mechanical, Sword Immortal, divine faith, magic-element, and curse branches.
• Mu Shaoan explained that the curse branch had likely perished long ago, then put away the tree trunk and worried about the gods surrounding the Sword Immortal World.