Chapter Summaries

Zhou Ling defeated Wu Dao Yuan in a fierce sword duel at his Nascent Soul ceremony, overcoming the Mysterious Origin Sword with the Sunday Immortal Sword and his Spirit Flames. He claimed the Five Lightning Sword Array and returned to the hall to continue the celebration with his family.

• Zhou Ling defended against Wu Dao Yuan's successive sword domains while learning their sword intent, then used Spirit Flames to break through and counterattack.
• Wu Dao Yuan unleashed the Mysterious Origin Sword Domain and its full-force Thunder strike, while Zhou Ling fused his Spirit Flames and sword arts to meet it.
• Zhou Ling's Golden Sun and Five Elements Greatswords shattered Wu Dao Yuan's attack, knocked him from the platform, and left the Mysterious Origin Sword's spirit dormant.
• Wu Dao Yuan handed Zhou Ling the five Purple Thunder Swords of the Five Lightning Sword Array, and the crowd celebrated Zhou Ling's victory.
• Zhou Ling led everyone back into the great hall, where his children cheered and he carried them as the celebration resumed.

Zhou Ling took office as Head of the Xuan Army Division and invited the soldiers to challenge his authority. He defeated three commanders with a devastating Divine Soul Manifestation attack, leaving them crippled and demanding to know whether anyone else would challenge him.

• Zhou Ling addressed the assembled Xuan Army soldiers and declared that the Star Brilliance Legion would follow his orders.
• Ye Hu, Xiao Yu, and Xu Yuan challenged Zhou Ling after Gu Zhantian prompted Ye Hu to test him.
• Zhou Ling agreed to fight all three commanders at once, while Gu Zhantian and others watched to see whether he would use the Sunday Immortal Sword.
• The three commanders attacked Zhou Ling with their Dharma Aspects, but Zhou Ling struck their Seas of Consciousness with his Divine Soul Manifestation.
• Zhou Ling crippled the three commanders’ divine souls and shattered their meridians, then asked the chief commanders whether anyone else wished to challenge him.

Zhou Ling crippled three commanders in a single strike, forcing Gu Zhantian to accept a challenge in front of Starbreaker Camp. Zhou Ling broke through Gu Zhantian’s lightning domain with the Sunday Immortal Sword, leaving Gu gravely injured and his meridians severed as he fought to suppress the sword qi.

• Zhou Ling crippled Ye Hu and two other commanders, prompting Gu Zhantian to confront him over his ruthless attack.
• Zhou Ling challenged Gu Zhantian, who accepted and entered the fighting platform rather than lose face before the soldiers.
• Gu Zhantian unleashed his Purple Sky Lightning Domain and Thunder Emperor Manifestation, but Zhou Ling countered with the Sunday Immortal Sword and his own golden-purple lightning.
• Zhou Ling let the clash continue as he absorbed Thunder Rules, then used five fifth-rank Spirit Flames to empower the Sunday Immortal Sword.
• Zhou Ling’s Five Elements Sword Sun destroyed Gu Zhantian’s Thunder Emperor Dragon and shattered his domain, leaving Gu badly injured with sword qi severing his meridians.

Zhou Ling took control of the Starbreaker Camp by defeating and crippling Gu Zhantian and appointing new commanders, then organized an Imperial Guard Camp. He later reviewed the legion’s missions and asked Qi Heng and Wan Yang to lead a battle camp to the Sword Qi Great Wall, but the chapter ended before either answered.

• Zhou Ling defeated Gu Zhantian in a challenge, crippled him and the other Starbreaker Camp commanders, and appointed He Zijian, Qi Jian Zhi, and Zhang Yu Hu to command positions.
• Zhou Ling announced the creation of an Imperial Guard Camp, and Xuan Army Division soldiers eagerly registered to join.
• Lu Xian An called for Zhou Ling to be questioned, but Head Meng, Head Hu, and Lin Zegong ruled that the challenge followed Xuan Army Division custom and the Law Division would not intervene.
• Five days later, Pei Qing Shuang reported that the Imperial Guard Camp had recruited 190 people, and Zhou Ling instructed Feng Lan to train them into a unified force.
• Lu Yunxi reported missions to reinforce the Sword Qi Great Wall and seize a No. 9 star domain, and Zhou Ling asked Qi Heng and Wan Yang who would lead troops to the Great Wall.

Zhou Ling led the Star Brilliance Legion to the Sword Qi Great Wall to support construction of the Star Ring and assess the danger posed by the Star Sea Foreign Race. After meeting the city’s leaders, he learned that four of the twelve planned strongholds were built, while Qi Heng and Wan Yang secretly considered ways to undermine him.

• Zhou Ling ordered the Star Brilliance Legion to depart for the Sword Qi Great Wall, and Qi Heng and Wan Yang accepted despite their concerns about losing influence.
• Zhou Ling reassured his family, instructed them to remain at Purple Cloud Mountain, and discussed Wang Zhong’s appointment as Starbreaker Camp Grand Commander.
• Three days later, Zhou Ling traveled with the legion and Wang Zhong, who warned that constructing the Star Ring would be more dangerous than defending the Great Wall.
• Aboard another warship, Qi Heng revealed that the Liu Family Head had asked him to attack Zhou Ling secretly, and Wan Yang cautiously considered the proposal.
• Zhou Ling and the legion arrived at Golden Dragon Immortal City, where City Lord Gu Qianjian welcomed them and explained that four of the Star Ring’s twelve strongholds were complete.

Zhou Ling deployed the Star Brilliance Legion to protect two unfinished Star Ring strongholds as the Star Sea Foreign Race prepared for a possible attack. At Stronghold No. 4, he reunited with Fei Qinan, helped organize its defense, and received Fei Qinan’s Sixth-Tier Engraving Inheritance.

• Old City Lord explained that the Star Sea Foreign Race was likely gathering forces to attack the Star Ring, and Zhou Ling agreed to split the Star Brilliance Legion between the two unfinished strongholds.
• Zhou Ling sent Qi Heng and Wan Yang with their camps to Stronghold No. 3 and assigned the Starbreaker Camp and Imperial Guard Camp to Stronghold No. 4, declining Qi Jian Zhi’s suggestion to deal with the commanders immediately.
• Zhou Ling arrived at Stronghold No. 4, met Fei Qinan and Commander Wu, and learned that the stronghold was half completed and would join the Twelve Sword Qi Great Formation once its Fifth-Tier Immortal Sword was forged.
• Zhou Ling arranged for the Starbreaker Camp to take over the stronghold’s defenses and told Fei Qinan that he could forge Fifth-Tier Mid-Stage Engravings with about a forty percent success rate.
• Fei Qinan gave Zhou Ling his lineage’s Sixth-Tier Engraving Inheritance, which had not been opened for several hundred years.

Zhou Ling combined Mystic Seals with inscription marks, led the Starbreaker Camp to a decisive victory, and confronted resistance from commanders at Stronghold No. 3. Wan Yang then pledged allegiance by revealing that the Liu Family and Qi Heng had tried to recruit him against Zhou Ling.

• Zhou Ling gave Fei Qinan Mystic Seals and Mystic Patterns to study, and the two exchanged Artifact Crafting insights.
• Zhou Ling prepared to modify the Five-Element Tiangang Sword inscription marks and organized patrols and scouting around the stronghold.
• Zhou Ling led the Starbreaker Camp in defeating several hundred Star Sea Foreign Race members, killing two Fifth-Tier leaders while suffering only a little over twenty casualties.
• After learning that Stronghold No. 3 had suffered heavy losses, Zhou Ling gave Qi Heng and Wan Yang demerits for holding back in battle.
• Wan Yang visited Zhou Ling, disclosed that the Liu Family and Qi Heng had urged him to join their opposition, and pledged not to act against Zhou Ling.

Zhou Ling prepared the human forces at Dinghuo Immortal City to face a major Star Sea Foreign Race assault, while the enemy leaders resolved to destroy the Star Ring and kill him. The opposing armies arrived before the newly fortified stronghold, and Zhou Ling and the city lords went to meet them.

• Wan Yang pledged allegiance to Zhou Ling, who gave him a decree authorizing him to seize Qi Heng's military command if Qi Heng resisted again.
• Gu Jing and Gu Lie learned that Zhou Ling had led the human reinforcements and ordered preparations to destroy the Star Ring and kill him.
• After completing Dinghuo Immortal City's key arrays, Zhou Ling coordinated with the city lords and arranged to confront the Star Sea Foreign Race army there.
• Zhou Ling told the commanders he would face one of the Late Fifth-Tier Star Sea Foreign Race leaders himself.
• He Zijian reported the enemy's arrival, and Zhou Ling and the city lords went to the stronghold wall to face the approaching bone ships and their thousands of troops.

Zhou Ling confronted Gu Lie, the Star Sea Foreign Race’s Late Fifth-Tier leader, whose Ancestor Bone granted him a spatial domain. Zhou Ling broke free, then used the Sunday Immortal Sword, Five Lightning Sword Array, and Golden Eye soul attack to suppress Gu Lie and attempt to prevent his escape.

• City Lord He warned Zhou Ling that Gu Lie wielded a spatial Blood Fiend Domain and the Star Sea Foreign Race’s Ancestor Bone.
• Gu Lie trapped Zhou Ling in a spatial domain, but Zhou Ling used the Five Elements Spirit Flame to break it and return outside the immortal city.
• Zhou Ling attacked Gu Lie with the Sunday Immortal Sword while the other leaders and armies fought across the battlefield.
• Gu Lie tried to wear Zhou Ling down with his Blood Fiend Domain, but Zhou Ling summoned the Five Lightning Sword Array and shattered his defenses.
• Zhou Ling launched a Golden Eye soul attack at Gu Lie, aiming to stop him from using the Ancestor Bone to escape.

Zhou Ling killed Gu Lie and Gu Yan, turning the battle at the Sword Qi Great Wall in the humans’ favor. As the Star Sea Foreign Race armies began retreating, Gu Jing ordered his clansmen to withdraw while the Old City Lord fought to keep him from escaping.

• Zhou Ling destroyed both of Gu Lie’s clones with his Thunder Greatsword and Golden Eye’s soul attack, then collected the corpses and a bone ring.
• City Lord He announced Gu Lie’s death, bolstering the human cultivators’ morale and shaking the Star Sea Foreign Race army.
• Zhou Ling killed Gu Yan with Golden Eye’s soul sword and Soul Flame, allowing Feng Lan and the commanders to break the enemy’s blood domain and rout its soldiers.
• A Fifth-Tier Star Sea Foreign Race warrior fled from Wang Zhong after witnessing Zhou Ling’s victories, leaving the left-flank army surrounded.
• Gu Jing ordered his forces to retreat, but the Old City Lord attacked him as the other Star Sea Foreign Race armies fled under pursuit.

After the Star Sea Foreign Race army was routed, Zhou Ling organized the Sword Qi Great Wall’s defenses and examined the enormous spoils taken from Gu Lie and another Fifth-Tier enemy. With the Star Ring under construction, he began forging the remaining Sword Gang Immortal Swords to prepare for a possible Sixth-Tier attack.

• Zhou Ling rejected pursuing the fleeing Star Sea Foreign Race, reviewed the battle’s heavy losses, doubled military merit rewards, and assigned cultivators to the Star Ring’s construction.
• Zhou Ling recovered, examined the Fifth-Tier Space Ancestral Artifact, and inventoried the bone rings, discovering a vast hoard of Blood Spirit Stones, Bone Artifacts, Blood Medicine, and other treasures.
• Zhou Ling learned Bone Artifact refinement methods from Gu Lie’s memories and applied his insights to the Sword Gang Immortal Sword.
• Zhou Ling completed the fire-attribute Sword Gang Immortal Sword and estimated that all twelve swords formed into a formation could contend with a Sixth-Tier Foreign Race.
• Zhou Ling decided to accelerate forging the remaining swords, wary that Gu Lie’s death might provoke the Star Sea Foreign Race to attack again.

Zhou Ling stripped Qi Heng of his command and sent him to face the Dao Alliance Law Division for delaying battles. Half a month later, Zhou Ling completed the Twelve Immortal Gang Swords, and testing their formation helped him advance to the second step of the Five Realms of Sword Dao.

• Zhou Ling ordered Pei Qing Shuang to read the charges against Qi Heng for passive combat and delaying his camp’s arrival in two battles.
• Wan Yang testified that soldiers and commanders had reported Qi Heng, and Zhou Ling had him disarmed and taken into custody.
• Zhou Ling appointed Wang Zhong temporary Grand Commander of the Soaring Dragon Camp and continued discussions about building the Star Ring stronghold.
• Zhou Ling completed the Twelve Immortal Gang Swords and combined them into two sword rings to test their power.
• The sword formation drew hundreds of swords from across the stronghold, and Fei Qinan and Old City Lord recognized Zhou Ling’s Sword Dao advancement.
• Zhou Ling realized he had reached the second step of the Five Realms of Sword Dao and considered forging another sword set for his family grounds.

Zhou Ling completed the Star Ring defenses, secured control of the Star Brilliance Legion, and returned to Tianxia Immortal City after the Dao Alliance praised his victory over Gu Lie. He reunited with Zhou Ying'er, Zhou An, and his mother, while his family welcomed Gong Yi’s newborn son.

• Head Meng and the Dao Alliance leaders praised Zhou Ling for killing Gu Lie and thousands of Star Sea Foreign Race members, and they sent Lin Zegong and Lu Xian An to reinforce the Sword Qi Great Wall.
• Head Hu agreed that Qi Heng should face investigation and possible imprisonment for delaying the battles, while Old Ancestor Liu chose to wait for a chance to strike at Zhou Ling.
• Zhou Ling completed all twelve Star Ring strongholds and the Twelve Sword Gang Immortal Sword Formation, leaving City Lord He and Fei Qinan in charge of the defenses.
• Zhou Ling assembled the Star Brilliance Legion and led it back toward Tianxia Immortal City, hoping to spend time with his family after missing Gong Yi’s childbirth.
• Zhou Ling arrived at the Zhou Family and reunited with Zhou Ying'er, Zhou An, and his mother, who was holding Gong Yi’s newborn son.