Chapter Summaries

Chen Luo arrived at the Supreme Void Sword Sect, where Mu Jian Yu recognized him as Gu He's nephew and welcomed him inside. After learning that Silent Valley and Ancient Sword Sect were backing Qionghua Sect's enemies, Chen Luo offered to handle the threats, though no solution to Ancient Sword Sect had yet been found.

• Chen Luo showed Zi Tianji and Li Taixuan the Grand Void Sword, then led them toward the Supreme Void Sword Sect.
• Mu Jian Yu blocked Chen Luo's approach, recognized his Grand Void Sword, and invited him into the sect.
• Chen Luo permitted Mu Xiao Yu to continue cultivating in the Upper Realm and sent Bai Lingling out before asking Mu Jian Yu about Gu He.
• Mu Jian Yu explained that Silent Valley supported the Three Supreme Abyss Sects and Ancient Sword Sect supported the Supreme Element Sword Sect.
• Mu Jian Yu said Supreme Spirit's return had given Gu He a way to deal with Daoist Wusheng, but they had no solution for Ancient Sword Sect; Chen Luo offered to handle it.

Chen Luo challenged the Supreme Abyss Sword Sect and split its formation, sect, and surrounding mountains with one sword strike. He left the sect in ruins, sent its fleeing enemies into his Soul Banner, and found no useful cultivation feedback among the wreckage.

• Chen Luo left Mu Jian Yu with a medicinal pill and traveled to the Supreme Abyss Sword Sect to test its strength.
• Gu He and Supreme Spirit waited outside the sect, planning to break its formation after Wan Jian recovered.
• Chen Luo arrived and used the Grand Void Sword to cleave through the sect’s formation, splitting the sect and nearby mountains with a single strike.
• Jiang Ren Kuang escaped the strike with a Dao Artifact, while Cai Ji died and Feng Xie’s soul was destroyed by the sword winds.
• Chen Luo sent the Soul Banner Three Giants after Jiang Ren Kuang and swept the ruined sect with Baleful Souls, capturing Jiang Ren Kuang and Feng Xie.
• Chen Luo searched the ruins but found no useful remains from the three leaders, only scraps of their bodies and the souls of Feng Xie and Jiang Ren Kuang.

Chen Luo destroyed the Supreme Abyss Sword Sect and went to the Supreme Element Sword Sect, where he found its territory filled with black insects and evidence of an ancient slaughter. After discovering a lone black sword and no living people, he tried to leave but heard an unknown voice ask him to stay.

• Chen Luo told Gu He and the others that he would take over the Supreme Element Sword Sect, then set off for its territory.
• Using Ghost Cultivator Perspective, Chen Luo saw phantoms bound to bones and black insects, and found that the landscape restored itself after his sword strike.
• Chen Luo entered the Supreme Element Sword Sect's cave, broke through its stone door, and read a dead disciple's memories of a woman helping a black-robed man massacre the sect.
• Chen Luo found an underground chamber filled with skeletons and a black sword, then decided to leave without investigating further.
• A voice from the depths asked Chen Luo to stay as the black insects stirred and the sword trembled, but Chen Luo ran faster.

Chen Luo returned after smashing through the Yin-Yang Gate and helped stabilize the unified Qionghua Sect, then investigated the sect’s unresolved threats with Gu He and Supreme Spirit. He decided to recover the Qionghua Sect’s missing “Dao” and gave Gu He and Supreme Spirit a Sword Soul Stone to aid their recovery.

• Chen Luo used Xiang Chong’s Brain and the Elephant God Seal to punch through the Yin-Yang Gate and escape the cave.
• After returning to the Supreme Void Sword Sect, Chen Luo assigned Zi Tianji and Li Taixuan to investigate the Supreme Element Sword Sect, then entered seclusion to recover his strength.
• Six months later, Gu He told Chen Luo that Daoist Wusheng had vanished and Silent Valley had been abandoned, while Supreme Spirit reported finding only twenty-two remains in the Supreme Element Sword Sect’s cave.
• Chen Luo concluded that the cave had been concealed after his visit and learned that Gu He and Supreme Spirit had found no traces of the Ancient Sword Sect.
• Chen Luo resolved to recover the Qionghua Sect’s missing “Dao” and gave Gu He and Supreme Spirit a Sword Soul Stone.

Chen Luo investigated the strange Great Simplicity Cave and found the same vision recorded in twenty-two skeletons, but no clues about the Ancient Sword Sect. Suspecting the cave held a danger only he could perceive, he sent five cultivators ahead to scout it, and they hesitated at the entrance.

• Chen Luo learned that divination pointed to the Supreme Element Sword Sect and decided to examine the twenty-two skeletons found there.
• Chen Luo touched the skeletons and saw a female Sword Cultivator, a Black Robe Otherworldly Demon, and a sword-shaped phantom, but found no traces of the Ancient Sword Sect.
• Chen Luo rejected Mu Xiao Yu's suggestion that an illusion had affected him and summoned Zi Tianji and four other cultivators to investigate the cave.
• Chen Luo gave the five cultivators red pills and sent them to the cave with a Puppet resembling him, concealing his plan to use the Reverse Soul Seizing Technique on them.
• At the cave entrance, Zi Tianji ordered He Chi, the weakest cultivator, to go first, leaving He Chi stunned.

Chen Luo sent He Chi and three Soul Transformation cultivators into Great Simplicity Cave to scout, where they encountered a Green-haired Monster. After Chen Luo captured it, he confronted the Black Sword and demanded that whoever remained hidden come out.

• Zi Tianji threw He Chi into the cave, then Li Taixuan, Bao Hui, and another cultivator entered together when the Puppet ordered them to scout.
• The three cultivators found a hidden passage beside the Black Sword and used Bao Hui’s Incense Guidance technique to explore it.
• An aged face appeared in the incense fire, and a Green-haired Monster approached the cultivators from behind.
• Chen Luo intervened as the Green-haired Monster attacked, then crushed it and sealed it inside a fourth tier spirit talisman.
• Zi Tianji brought the cultivators and He Chi back to Chen Luo, who turned toward the Black Sword and demanded that its hidden occupant reveal itself.

Chen Luo questioned Ding Mao about the Ancient Sword Sect, Daoist Wusheng, and the passage beyond the Black Sword, while repeatedly attacking what turned out to be clones. Ding Mao revealed that several figures, including Wu Wei, had crossed through the passage, and Chen Luo ended the chapter still trying to catch Ding Mao’s real body.

• Chen Luo learned that Ding Mao had once belonged to the Ancient Sword Sect, but Ding Mao said its location and other secrets could not be discussed.
• Ding Mao explained that Daoist Wusheng had betrayed him more than seven hundred years earlier, reinforced the Black Sword’s seal, and taken the Qionghua Sect’s "Dao" beyond the passage.
• Chen Luo crushed Ding Mao’s apparent head after learning Daoist Wusheng had gone beyond the passage, but Ding Mao reformed elsewhere and explained that the passage led to a place where one could attain the Dao.
• Ding Mao showed Chen Luo portraits of five people who had crossed through, including Immortal Ge, Wang Chengguan, and Wu Wei, and said he had lived for around eight thousand years.
• Chen Luo struck Ding Mao again after sensing the aura of his main body, but the figure was another clone.

Chen Luo sent Zi Tianji into the unexplored passage beneath the Black Sword to investigate Ding Mao’s cave. After a long descent, Zi Tianji emerged in a strange valley, where his earth-element ability improved and he found a stele reading “Immortal Ge’s Abode.”

• Chen Luo praised the five elders for their help, then persuaded Zi Tianji to explore the passage by promising him a chance to comprehend the Sword Soul Stone.
• Zi Tianji entered the passage carrying an Octagonal Palace Lantern and found that his divine sense was heavily suppressed.
• Zi Tianji summoned a ginseng doll from the Legendary Realm, but it knew nothing about the passage, so he continued alone.
• After twelve hours of travel through the narrowing passage, Zi Tianji emerged into a warm, flower-filled valley on Chen Luo’s instructions.
• Zi Tianji felt sudden enlightenment that improved his earth-element martial moves, then crossed the valley toward a river and found a stele marked “Immortal Ge’s Abode.”

Chen Luo and Zi Tianji explored Immortal Ge’s courtyard, where Chen Luo found the Green-haired Monster’s body and a painting that revealed a figure claiming Dao Integration Realm power. The figure said Daoist Wusheng was inside a painting, while Zi Tianji waited anxiously outside.

• Chen Luo made a memory-bearing clone from Zi Tianji, compared the courtyard with the Centipede Spirit’s painting, and examined the cracked stele.
• Chen Luo and Zi Tianji crossed the Bamboo Bridge and searched Immortal Ge’s preaching courtyard, where they found the Green-haired Monster’s physical body in a bamboo cage.
• Chen Luo broke through the inner room’s restriction and found a skeleton, then recognized that the original fourth painting matched the Centipede Spirit’s scroll.
• Chen Luo threatened the figure in the painting with a brush, pulled him out, and learned that the painting was a medium and Daoist Wusheng was inside it.
• The figure claimed the power came from above Void Refinement Realm and agreed when Chen Luo identified it as Dao Integration Realm; Zi Tianji called to Chen Luo from outside.

Chen Luo’s puppet learned that Dao Integration could be pursued by Borrowing from the Ancient, a method Daoist in the Painting offered him and Daoist Wusheng had already attempted. After weighing the risks, Chen Luo decided to try the opportunity and summoned others to join him.

• Chen Luo questioned Daoist in the Painting about Dao Integration, and the old man explained that Immortal Ge and Wang Chengguan had broken through by Borrowing from the Ancient.
• Daoist in the Painting drew a Formation Pattern that could let Chen Luo return to the past and attain the Dao, then fled into a painting when Chen Luo tried to probe his identity.
• Chen Luo and Zi Tianji encountered rising fog by the river and saw Ning Chenye’s wife at an inn called The Past; Chen Luo suspected she carried the Spring and Autumn Gu.
• Chen Luo’s puppet returned and passed its memories to him, including doubts about the method and the woman’s aura; Chen Luo’s brains assessed the method and found it safe enough to try.
• Chen Luo awoke in his true body and sent message paper cranes calling others to join him in the opportunity.

Chen Luo gathered allies from the Demon Race, Underworld Ferry, and Ink Mountain at the Supreme Element Sword Sect cave to test the Method of Borrowing from the Ancient. As the formation was prepared, he reassured the suspicious guests with claims about past breakthroughs and revealed that Valley Master Wusheng was attempting the same method.

• Venerable Black Bird received Chen Luo's urgent message and showed Chen Luo's image to the other Peerless Old Demons; Ice Blue Old Demon volunteered to handle the matter and set out for the Human Race with Silverfang King and others.
• Chen Luo's message paper cranes reached forces across the Immortal Cultivation World, while Gu He and Supreme Spirit agreed to remain at Qionghua Sect as Chen Luo and Mu Jian Yu took charge of reclaiming the Dao.
• Ten days later, Chen Luo gathered Silverfang King, Le Qingzhu, Xue Daohai, and their groups at the Supreme Element Sword Sect cave, where Chi Shang reported that the formation was ready.
• Chen Luo installed and adjusted the Formation Pattern for the Method of Borrowing from the Ancient as Le Qingzhu urged him to begin the test.
• Xue Daohai privately offered his rivals as test subjects, while Silverfang King warned Chen Luo that Profound Ice Ancestor had awakened and brought them there.
• Chen Luo claimed that the method had helped more than twenty seniors reach Dao Integration, then revealed that Valley Master Wusheng was using it to attempt the same breakthrough.

Chen Luo repeatedly activated the 'Borrowing from the Ancient Method' formation, sacrificing cultivators while refining its patterns until he believed he had corrected its flaws. The chapter ended as Zi Tianji and the three faction leaders entered the formation together, and its light finally enveloped them in a way unlike the failed attempts.

• Chen Luo activated the formation with representatives from Underworld Ferry, the Demon Race, and Ink Mountain, and all three were burned to powder.
• Chen Luo pressured Ding Mao into persuading the faction leaders that the first deaths were successful, then arranged for another group, including a Foundation Building Cultivator from Qionghua Sect, to enter.
• Chen Luo and the formation master in the External Brain adjusted the formation through seven waves of failed attempts until Chen Luo deduced a new Formation Pattern.
• When the faction leaders questioned whether the method was real, Chen Luo sent Zi Tianji into the formation and then joined him with Xue Daohai, Silverfang King, and Le Qingzhu.
• The formation activated again, and unlike before, a Water Screen of light spread over the four people standing on it.

Chen Luo successfully tested the Ancient Borrowing Formation and entered the Immeasurable Realm with the Profound Ice Ancestor and the others. There, he found Ding Mao and attacked him, leaving the passage shaking as Ding Mao warned him about the place.

• Chen Luo completed the Ancient Borrowing Formation test, and Ding Mao's attempt to calculate his origins caused Ding Mao's head to explode.
• The Profound Ice Ancestor, the Old Corpse at the Yellow River Ferry, and Mo Yuanjun gave Chen Luo gifts or promised favors before departing.
• The next day, Chen Luo and four others activated a newly prepared Ancient Borrowing Formation and entered the Immeasurable Realm.
• Chen Luo explored a stone passage where a strange force prevented his Divine Sense from extending, then found Ding Mao sitting motionless.
• Ding Mao revealed that the body before Chen Luo was his main body and proposed a deal, but Chen Luo struck him with the Savage Elephant Seal.
• The passage began shaking as Ding Mao warned Chen Luo that he had gone mad and hurried back to his original position.

Chen Luo survived the Age Beast’s passage through the tunnel and followed Ding Mao’s instructions to escape the Method of Borrowing from the Ancient. At the route’s end, Chen Luo’s soul and body separated, and he found a giant tree bearing vermilion fruit.

• Chen Luo concealed his aura as the Age Beast swept through the passage, and he avoided attacking the weakened Ding Mao when warned that spiritual power could draw the fiend back.
• Ding Mao asked Chen Luo to save his master and gave him information about the Upper Nine Sects as advance payment, revealing that the world they inhabited was called the Boundless World.
• Chen Luo used Immortal Emperor Changqing’s perspective and the formation experts in his External Brain to navigate the tunnel’s dangers and reach its end.
• Chen Luo’s soul left his body through the Method of Borrowing from the Ancient, but the Reverse Soul Seizing Technique let his body keep moving as the two went in separate directions.
• Chen Luo reached a circular chamber with a towering fruit tree and inhaled its vapor, restoring the aura the Age Beast had taken.

Chen Luo escaped the Good and Evil Tree and discovered a river that washed away lifespans, but while he was collecting its water, the Age Beast struck him and sent him into the mist. He woke weakened and disoriented, with the gourd gone and the Age Beast’s whereabouts unclear.

• Chen Luo sent Gu insects, Puppets, and Baleful Souls to gather the Good and Evil Tree’s fruit, but the tree awakened and devoured them.
• Chen Luo used the hammer under Immortal Venerable Haori’s control to break through a wall and escape into a river that washed away his lifespan.
• Guided by Second Brother, the Corpse Dissolution Immortal, Chen Luo crossed the river to a large stone, losing nearly three hundred years of lifespan.
• Chen Luo used the Grotto-heaven Gourd and Artifact Spirit Little One to collect the river water, draining the river into the gourd.
• The Age Beast struck Chen Luo with its tail and tried to seize the gourd, but the gourd’s protective light repelled it and carried the gourd into the mist.
• Chen Luo woke in the mist feeling heavy and weakened, with his vision blurred and his access to Special Energy and spiritual energy diminished.

Chen Luo awoke in a ruined Inner Demon Temple on a desolate world where spiritual power behaved abnormally, then explored the shifting wasteland and searched for a way to reunite with Mu Jian Yu and the others. Over three days, the suns multiplied and the landscape changed from desert to grassland to ocean, while a local demon repeatedly transformed and lost its memory.

• Chen Luo found himself in a withered body inside the ruins of the Inner Demon Temple and discovered a remnant carrying True Person Wuwei’s aura.
• Chen Luo recovered the Grotto-heaven Gourd, learned that Little One had stored a third of a small river inside it, and used a Tortoise Shell to determine that northwest was the right direction.
• Chen Luo killed a Sand Snake, then found a Sand Rat Spirit and learned that strange demons lay to the west and could be reached on a rainy day.
• On the second day, the suns increased to four and the desert became grassland as the Sand Rat Spirit transformed into a Large Green-skinned Lizard without remembering his former shape.
• On the third day, five suns appeared, the land became an ocean, and the Large Green-skinned Lizard transformed into a Multi-colored Toad that could no longer speak.

Chen Luo discovered that rain revealed a way into the desert and exposed the black dots as chained Third Tier Baleful Souls. After meeting two Ancient Sword Sect disciples aboard their flying vessel, he sent Master Lin Feng to collect the souls while the Zhang Brothers began their Sand Snake mission.

• Chen Luo sent gu insects across the desert and received an image of a flying vessel from one of them on the fifth day.
• Chen Luo flew to the vessel, passed through its Light Barrier, and encountered the Foundation Establishment cultivators Zhang Shi and Zhang Chen.
• Zhang Shi explained that the brothers were Ancient Sword Sect Outer Disciples collecting Sand Snake gallbladders for a sect task.
• Rain began, washing away the desert's nameless aura and revealing chained Third Tier Baleful Souls that Chen Luo sent Master Lin Feng to collect.
• Chen Luo allowed the Zhang Brothers to proceed, and Zhang Chen flew down to hunt Sand Snakes while Zhang Shi stayed aboard the vessel.

Chen Luo escaped the Immortal Fallen Land after severing the chain that bound him, then questioned the Zhang Brothers about the Ancient Sword Sect and the world beyond the desert. Finding the surrounding spiritual energy unexpectedly thin, he began examining a lifelike Puppet aboard the flying vessel.

• Zhang Chen lured Sand Snakes out of the desert and collected their galls while Chen Luo watched.
• The flying vessel was trapped at the desert’s edge by an iron chain attached to Chen Luo, so Chen Luo cut the chain and freed it.
• Chen Luo asked the Zhang Brothers about the Immortal Fallen Land, and Zhang Chen told him a Wang Family senior had vanished while searching for an Immortal’s grave.
• Chen Luo gave the brothers a Supreme-grade Spirit Stone, then gathered Heaven and Earth Vital Qi and wondered why the Upper Nine Sects remained in a region with such thin spiritual energy.
• Chen Luo dragged a lifelike cleaning Puppet into his cabin, removed the back of its skull, and began examining it.

Chen Luo studied the Sword Domain’s dangers and the Zhang Brothers’ troubles while repairing a puppet aboard the flying vessel. The vessel reached Bluestone City, where he began to investigate a world that seemed strangely unlike the Immortal Cultivation World he knew.

• Zhang Shi delivered Yingluo Stone, and Chen Luo repaired a cleaning puppet using Spiritual Tendrils.
• Chen Luo questioned Zhang Chen about Mirage Beasts and learned about the annual Yin Soul Night, when Yin Souls return from the Underworld.
• Chen Luo offered to help the Zhang Brothers and heard how their dispute involved someone backed by a Golden Core Lineage.
• Chen Luo learned that cultivators in the region earned Spirit Stones through missions and seemed unfamiliar with the Qi Gathering Technique.
• The flying vessel docked at Bluestone City, and the Zhang Brothers led Chen Luo off to return their Identity Tokens.

Chen Luo settled in Qingyan City with the Zhang Brothers, altered his temporary identity token, and rented a courtyard. There, True Lord Zhiji recognized him as Headmaster, revealing that he had spent three years struggling to survive in this world.

• Chen Luo entered Qingyan City with the Zhang Brothers and secretly rewrote the restrictions in his temporary identity token to extend its use.
• Zhang Shi gave Chen Luo ten of the twelve High-grade Spirit Stones they earned, and Chen Luo had the brothers rent him a courtyard.
• At the rental pavilion, Elder Qu told the Zhang Brothers to leave their dispute with Huang Xie alone, while Chen Luo ignored Elder Qu's probing and read nearby books.
• The Zhang Brothers rented a courtyard from Wang An in the East District and led Chen Luo there.
• True Lord Zhiji emerged from the opposite courtyard, recognized Chen Luo as Headmaster, and revealed that he had endured three years of pursuit before gaining a foothold in Qingyan City.