Chapter Summaries

Liu Chengqi recovered his cultivation and returned to prominence while Chu Huai Xu prepared to enter the dangerous Origin Spirit Realm. Before he left, he and Han Shuangjiang walked together in the Maple Leaf Forest, where she gave him his first kiss.

• Liu Chengqi recovered from his Spirit Fetus injuries, reached Great Perfection of the Aperture Opening Stage, and exchanged for a Heaven Grade Cultivation Method.
• Qin Xuanxiao challenged Chu Huai Xu twice, first while using the Emperor's Divine Sense and later after breaking through to the Second Realm, but lost both times.
• Xu Ziqing returned home to see Chu Huai Xu before his departure, and the three shared dinner and drinks together.
• Chu Huai Xu and Han Shuangjiang walked hand in hand through the Maple Leaf Forest and spoke about his upcoming journey to the Origin Spirit Realm.
• Chu Huai Xu teased Han Shuangjiang and asked whether she wanted him to be happy, then kissed her.

Chu Huai Xu and Han Shuangjiang shared a passionate kiss before he left for the Origin Spirit Realm, where he had to fight within a strict time limit while keeping his cultivation at the First Realm. He departed with Jiang Zhi and Chu Yinyin, determined to return safely to Han Shuangjiang.

• Chu Huai Xu and Han Shuangjiang kissed in the forest, then spent a restless night apart in their rooms.
• The next morning, Han Shuangjiang made porridge while Jiang Zhi and Chu Yinyin arrived to escort Chu Huai Xu to the Origin Spirit Realm.
• Chu Huai Xu said goodbye to Han Shuangjiang, who watched him fly away with Jiang Zhi and Chu Yinyin.
• Jiang Zhi warned Chu Huai Xu that he had to finish the battle within half an hour and could not break through the First Realm inside the Origin Spirit Realm.
• Chu Huai Xu looked forward to gaining Experience Points in the realm and resolved to return safely to Han Shuangjiang.

Chu Huai Xu prepared to enter the Origin Spirit Realm, receiving a Spirit Seed from Lin Zixuan that strengthened him and linked their senses. At midnight, he stepped through the realm’s entrance, ready to face what awaited him.

• Qin Xuanxiao offered Chu Huai Xu the Moon Kingdom’s Imperial Pool Baptism or entry into the Imperial Mausoleum as a reward, while Jiang Zhi mocked the offer as stingy toward the Eastern Continent.
• Lin Zixuan planted a Spirit Seed using Chu Huai Xu’s Spiritual Power, Spiritual Sense Power, and vital blood, temporarily letting him share her vision and strengthening his abilities.
• Lin Zixuan explained that the Spirit Seed’s effects would be temporary and that she could sense if Chu Huai Xu died.
• Chu Huai Xu spent nearly all his remaining Experience Points while preparing for the Origin Spirit Realm.
• At midnight, Chu Huai Xu entered the vortex-shaped entrance without waiting for Jiang Zhi and the others to finish their warnings.

Chu Huai Xu entered the Origin Spirit Realm, found the Xuanhuang Origin Fragment, and confronted the hidden Kunlun cultivator guarding it. After testing the stranger and evading his concealed Flying swords, Chu Huai Xu learned that he was Ye Kongxuan, a reincarnated Nascent Soul True Monarch.

• Chu Huai Xu explored the copied landscape of the Origin Spirit Realm and noticed its dense spiritual energy rapidly increasing his Experience Points.
• Chu Huai Xu reached the central lawn and found the Xuanhuang Origin Fragment suspended in a pillar of light.
• Chu Huai Xu called out the hidden Kunlun cultivator and tested him with the Heart Sword, discovering that he possessed a Primordial Spirit.
• Chu Huai Xu attacked Ye Kongxuan and repeatedly evaded his concealed Flying swords with Flying Profound.
• Ye Kongxuan revealed his name and declared that he was a Nascent Soul True Monarch.

Chu Huai Xu fought Ye Kongxuan, a former Nascent Soul True Monarch inhabiting a Qi Refining body, and endured his sword array, spells, and illusions. After revealing his remarkable resilience and Heart Sword abilities, Chu Huai Xu seized one of Ye Kongxuan’s Four Symbols Golden Swords, breaking the array.

• Chu Huai Xu mocked Ye Kongxuan for claiming to be a Nascent Soul True Monarch without a Nascent Soul, provoking him to summon the Four Symbols Sword Array.
• Chu Huai Xu disrupted the array with his Heart Sword and attacked Ye Kongxuan, who used a talisman and a Substitute Puppet to evade the strike.
• Ye Kongxuan’s sword array and earth spike injured Chu Huai Xu, but Chu Huai Xu quickly recovered, prompting Ye Kongxuan to covet his body as an External Incarnation.
• Chu Huai Xu saw through Ye Kongxuan’s illusion and refused to draw the sword he appeared to be carrying.
• Chu Huai Xu used his Heart Sword to pull the flying sword from the Four Symbols White Tiger Position into his right hand, breaking Ye Kongxuan’s array.

Chu Huai Xu destroyed the Sword Spirit in Ye Kongxuan’s Four Symbols White Tiger Sword, weakening the Nascent Soul cultivator’s sword array, then unleashed [Six Severances] in a desperate close-range clash. As both men suffered grave injuries, Ye Kongxuan revealed another [Xuanhuang Origin Fragment], leaving Chu Huai Xu facing two fragments.

• Chu Huai Xu sent his Heart Sword into Ye Kongxuan’s Four Symbols White Tiger Sword, destroying its Sword Spirit and crippling the Four Symbols Sword Array.
• Chu Huai Xu fought Ye Kongxuan with the borrowed sword, enduring minor wounds as the Origin Spirit Realm enhanced his recovery.
• Ye Kongxuan activated his Four Symbols Spirit Body and pressed Chu Huai Xu in close combat, while Chu Huai Xu prepared [Six Severances].
• Chu Huai Xu used [Six Severances] despite being pierced by Ye Kongxuan’s other swords, severing Ye Kongxuan’s right arm and shoulder before knocking him into a tree.
• Ye Kongxuan, gravely wounded, took another [Xuanhuang Origin Fragment] from his storage pouch, and Chu Huai Xu realized a second fragment was present.

Chu Huai Xu faced Ye Kongxuan after Ye used a Xuanhuang Origin Fragment to weaken the suppression on his power, then fought him with the Heart Sword inside the Four Symbols White Tiger Sword. Both fighters were badly injured, and the chapter ended with Chu Huai Xu moving his sword to his left hand as Ye realized he could still strike again.

• Ye Kongxuan partially merged a Xuanhuang Origin Fragment into his brow, weakening the Origin Spirit Realm's suppression and revealing that the Kunlun Cave Heaven sought the fragments to survive its coming decline.
• Ye Kongxuan threatened Chu Huai Xu, who learned that tainting himself with Xuanhuang's Origin aura would bring the Kunlun Heavenly Dao's punishment and answered that he would kill him.
• Chu Huai Xu explained that the Heart Sword had destroyed the White Tiger Sword Spirit and that he could keep the sword outside his body only for a limited time.
• Ye Kongxuan chose the Black Tortoise Sword and attacked while Chu Huai Xu used Six Severances, worsening the damage to his already injured right arm and body.
• The two clashed repeatedly, each suffering severe injuries, while Chu Huai Xu kept pressing Ye Kongxuan without pause.
• Chu Huai Xu transferred the sword from his nearly crippled right hand to his left, making Ye Kongxuan fear that another strike was coming.

Chu Huai Xu fought Ye Kongxuan through severe injuries, using the Medicine Cauldron’s power to turn Malevolent Aura into a devouring Corruption Pill. Ye Kongxuan abandoned his body and fled as a Primordial Spirit, but Chu Huai Xu pinned him down with the Heart Sword and prepared to strike.

• Chu Huai Xu and Ye Kongxuan traded devastating attacks, and Ye Kongxuan used Mysterious Nether Blood Burning to increase his strength at the cost of his vitality.
• Chu Huai Xu took control of Ye Kongxuan’s Vermillion Bird Sword with the Heart Sword, then used Dao Gives Birth to One to repel Ye Kongxuan’s attack.
• Chu Huai Xu forced a Corruption Pill made from Malevolent Aura into Ye Kongxuan’s wound, and it began devouring his body, True Qi, and weapons.
• Ye Kongxuan abandoned his body and sent out his Primordial Spirit, while Chu Huai Xu retrieved the Corruption Pill and used the Heart Sword to pin the invisible spirit to the ground.
• Chu Huai Xu taunted Ye Kongxuan about whether a Primordial Spirit was truly immortal, then raised his palm and slammed it down.

Chu Huai Xu captured Ye Kongxuan’s Primordial Spirit and recovered the Xuanhuang Origin Fragment, then let [Dao Gives Birth to One] absorb it. As the Medicine Cauldron processed the fragment and the Corruption Pill, Chu Huai Xu discovered that the pill now contained a [Four Symbols Spiritual Root].

• Chu Huai Xu used the Golden Bowl to trap Ye Kongxuan’s weakened Primordial Spirit and extracted the [Xuanhuang Origin Fragment] from the possessed body.
• [Dao Gives Birth to One] urgently craved the fragment, and Chu Huai Xu decided to let it absorb the fragment despite his original plans to save one for Han Shuangjiang.
• The Medicine Cauldron absorbed the fragment’s Power of Origin while continuing to refine Malevolent Aura into [Corruption Pills].
• Chu Huai Xu examined the Corruption Pill and used [Information Scan] to identify a four-colored light inside it as the [Four Symbols Spiritual Root].

Chu Huai Xu cultivated in the Origin Spirit Realm and returned at the deadline with an Xuanhuang Origin Fragment, despite his grave injuries. His safe return gave the anxious cultivators hope that he had completed his task, while Ye Kongxuan’s Soul lamp remained lit in Kunlun Cave Heaven.

• Chu Huai Xu discovered a complete Four Symbols Spiritual Root inside the Corruption Pill and began cultivating with the Dao Canon in the Origin Spirit Realm.
• Chu Yinyin, Jiang Zhi, Mei Chuxue, and the others worried as the time limit approached, while Lin Zixuan said Chu Huai Xu’s Spirit Seed suggested he was alive.
• Xiang Yan, Li Chunsong, Han Shuangjiang, and Xu Ziqing watched Chu Huai Xu’s Life Token and hoped he would return safely.
• In Kunlun Cave Heaven, a gray-haired youth and a Black-haired elder waited beside Ye Kongxuan’s Soul lamp; after the Vortex opened without Ye Kongxuan emerging, the youth said he had lost and the two departed.
• Chu Huai Xu emerged from the Vortex covered in blood, carrying a shriveled corpse and an Xuanhuang Origin Fragment, and told the gathered cultivators he had not failed them.

Chu Huai Xu emerged from the Origin Spirit Realm carrying Ye Kongxuan’s sealed Soul Seed and revealed that he had defeated a Nascent Soul cultivator despite weakened suppression. The sect elders recognized the danger inside the realm and granted Chu Huai Xu the East Continent Token, while Jiang Zhi prepared to take him back to heal.

• Situ Cheng, Mei Chuxue, and Teng Lingyi cautiously questioned whether Chu Huai Xu had returned safely or brought a Primordial Spirit with him.
• Jiang Zhi gave Chu Huai Xu a Healing Spirit Pill, and Chu Huai Xu confirmed that he had fulfilled his mission.
• Chu Huai Xu revealed Ye Kongxuan’s Soul Seed sealed in a Golden Bowl, stunning the elders with proof that he had defeated a Nascent Soul cultivator.
• Chu Huai Xu said Ye Kongxuan had weakened the Origin Spirit Realm’s suppression and used Mysterious Nether Blood Burning, but he withheld details of how he resisted the possession.
• Jiang Zhi stopped the elders from pressing Chu Huai Xu for more information and insisted on taking him back to heal.
• Situ Cheng, Teng Lingyi, and Mei Chuxue each offered Chu Huai Xu an East Continent Token on behalf of their sects.

Chu Huai Xu learned the value of the East Continent Token and the history behind Cheng Yuyan and the rogue cultivator organization Astray. As Jiang Zhi escorted him toward the Dao Sect, six members of Astray appeared and challenged Jiang Zhi, who agreed to fight without using a sword.

• Chu Yinyin explained that the East Continent Token honored its bearer and allowed them to ask the Four Great Sects and the Mirror Kingdom Royal Family for one moral request.
• Jiang Zhi carried Chu Huai Xu toward the Dao Sect and revealed that Cheng Yuyan had reached the early Ninth Realm after becoming an Xuanhuang Champion and refining an Origin Fragment.
• Jiang Zhi told Chu Huai Xu that the major powers had traditionally controlled access to later Origin Spirit Realm layers and their Origin Fragments.
• Jiang Zhi explained that high-level rogue cultivators had formed Astray under Cheng Yanqiu to challenge the six powers’ control of Origin Fragments.
• Six members of Astray appeared in the sea of clouds and challenged Jiang Zhi, who accepted and said he would fight without using a sword.

Jiang Zhi faced six Astray cultivators who challenged the Six Major Powers for a place in discussions about the Origin Spirit Realm, while Chu Yinyin explained that their apparent attempt to seize Chu Huai Xu’s Xuanhuang Origin Fragment was meant to teach them a lesson. The fight began with Jiang Zhi using killing moves, but the six gained an apparent advantage by making him grip one of them by the throat.

• Chu Huai Xu questioned why the Six Major Powers allowed Astray to challenge him for his Xuanhuang Origin Fragment, and Chu Yinyin explained that the rogue cultivators wanted recognition rather than to keep the fragment.
• Chu Yinyin told Chu Huai Xu that Jiang Zhi had spent years nurturing his Heaven and Earth Sword and had not drawn it since forcibly falling in realm.
• Astray’s leader, Li Meishan, said the six wanted to handle Chu Huai Xu’s Origin Fragment so the major powers would acknowledge rogue cultivators’ right to discuss the Origin Spirit Realm.
• Jiang Zhi challenged the six for bringing so few people, and Li Meishan explained that most Astray members stayed away because Jiang Zhi was guarding Chu Huai Xu.
• The six Astray cultivators spread out with their Destined Magic Treasures, and Chu Yinyin carried Chu Huai Xu away from the fight’s aftermath.
• The clash scattered the clouds across a hundred miles, and the six appeared to gain an advantage when Jiang Zhi seized one attacker by the throat.

Jiang Zhi fought six powerful Astray path cultivators while Chu Huai Xu watched with Chu Yinyin, unable to follow most of the battle. After Jiang Zhi drove them back, Li Meishan credited his strength to the Xuanhuang Origin Fragment, but Jiang Zhi revealed that he had not used the Power of Origin.

• Jiang Zhi sealed an Eighth Realm Sword Cultivator with [Lock Qi Seal] and held him by the throat as the other five attacked.
• Chu Yinyin explained Jiang Zhi's sorcery to Chu Huai Xu, who could not see the fast-moving fight.
• Jiang Zhi sent Li Meishan and a dark-skinned woman flying, then intercepted a gray-robed cultivator who tried to seize the [Origin Fragment].
• Jiang Zhi asked whether Chu Huai Xu understood [Lock Qi Seal], but Chu Huai Xu could not explain what he had seen.
• Li Meishan praised the Xuanhuang Origin Fragment's power, and Jiang Zhi replied that he had not used the Power of Origin.

Jiang Zhi defeated six Astray cultivators and made them surrender Profound Grade Sorcery before demonstrating his Killing Life Domain. He left with Chu Huai Xu and Chu Yinyin, then explained why the Xuanhuang Origin Fragment mattered and noted that Chu Huai Xu had obtained two pieces.

• Li Meishan and the other Astray cultivators realized Jiang Zhi had defeated them without using the Power of Origin, but Jiang Zhi refused to let them leave without each offering Chu Huai Xu a Profound Grade Sorcery.
• Jiang Zhi freed Zheng Yuankang, accepted his sword technique for Chu Huai Xu, and challenged all six cultivators to withstand one strand of Sword Qi.
• Jiang Zhi unleashed his Killing Life Domain and struck the six cultivators, forcing them back and injuring Li Meishan; Chu Huai Xu glimpsed how the Domain exposed their weaknesses.
• The six cultivators scattered respectfully as Jiang Zhi flew away with Chu Huai Xu and Chu Yinyin, warning them to keep their distance from Astray.
• Jiang Zhi explained that his cultivation had been deliberately suppressed and that his strength remained close to his former Ninth Realm level, then pointed out that Chu Huai Xu had obtained two Xuanhuang Origin Fragments.

Chu Huai Xu returned to the Dao Sect with two Xuanhuang Origin Fragments and a captured Nascent Soul cultivator, prompting Cheng Yuyan to warn that the next Origin Spirit Realm expedition might offer rogue cultivators a chance to compete. The Dao Sect honored Chu Huai Xu’s achievements by granting him the East Continent Token.

• Jiang Zhi sensed that Chu Huai Xu possessed two powers of the same origin, and Chu Huai Xu explained that the Sword Sheath had absorbed one Origin Fragment.
• Cheng Yuyan told Li Meishan and the other rogue cultivators that changes in the Origin Spirit Realm might let the strongest cultivators of the Xuanhuang Realm compete for entry.
• Jiang Zhi brought Chu Huai Xu and Chu Yinyin to the Dao Sect, where Chu Huai Xu recounted his battle and revealed that he had captured a Nascent Soul cultivator alive.
• Chu Huai Xu explained that the Sword Sheath had absorbed the fragment taken from Ye Kongxuan, and Xiang Yan warned him to report any unusual changes.
• Xiang Yan granted Chu Huai Xu the East Continent Token in recognition of his service to the Eastern Continent.

Chu Huai Xu entered secluded cultivation at Junzi Temple to refine the Xuanhuang Origin Fragment and prepare for the danger expected in the Origin Spirit Realm. As the fragment flooded his body with spiritual energy and experience, he began leveling up despite the pain, determined to stop suppressing his realm.

• The elders decided Chu Huai Xu should refine the Xuanhuang Origin Fragment promptly, and he asked to exchange for the second volume of the Dao Canon first.
• Jiang Zhi arranged for Chu Huai Xu to cultivate at Junzi Temple, while Li Chunsong rushed to retrieve the Dao Canon and opened a betting pool on Chu Huai Xu's breakthroughs.
• Before leaving, Chu Huai Xu lent Han Shuangjiang six Profound Grade Sorceries and told her to wait for him at home.
• At Junzi Temple, Chu Huai Xu spent his quest reward Attribute Point on Physique and used his Experience Points to prepare to advance.
• Chu Huai Xu refined the Xuanhuang Origin Fragment, swallowed the required medicinal ingredients, and began cultivating the second volume of the Dao Canon as his body filled with spiritual energy.
• Chu Huai Xu leveled up three times to Level 22, endured the repeated pain of his body splitting and healing, and decided to keep advancing rather than suppress his realm.

Chu Huai Xu refined the Xuanhuang Origin Fragment while cultivating the Dao Canon, enduring severe pain as he rapidly broke through realms. When the [Dao Gives Birth to One] cauldron sent him more spiritual power, his breakthroughs continued, leaving the Dao Sect elders wondering whether to fetch the Dao Canon’s third volume.

• Li Chunsong proposed betting on Chu Huai Xu’s breakthroughs, and the Dao Sect elders placed bets after paying their fines to Lu Pan.
• Chu Huai Xu cultivated the Dao Canon’s second volume, which painfully tempered his organs and meridians as he advanced into the Second Realm.
• The Dao Sect elders watched Chu Huai Xu break through five Minor realms and thought his progress had stopped.
• The [Dao Gives Birth to One] cauldron sent spiritual power from the Xuanhuang Origin Fragment into Chu Huai Xu, intensifying his injuries and forcing him to keep leveling up.
• Chu Huai Xu vomited blood and struck himself to relieve the congestion, then advanced to the Second Realm, Sixth Heaven as Chu Yinyin wondered whether to retrieve the Dao Canon’s third volume.

Chu Huai Xu refined the Xuanhuang Origin Fragment by falling into his Heart Lake, where memories and people from his life appeared as strange Anomalies. After forty-five days, he realized the lake had become the fragment’s mirror and saw himself reflected as a sword.

• Chu Yinyin feared Chu Huai Xu would keep breaking through, so Xiang Yan arranged for Li Chunsong to fetch the materials needed for the Dao Canon’s third volume, but Chu Huai Xu stopped at the Seventh Heaven of the Second Realm.
• Chu Huai Xu began refining the Power of Origin and fell into his Heart Lake, where a warm breeze reminded him of his mother and brought back memories of her protecting him.
• Chu Huai Xu experienced memories of people who had left his life, while the warm breeze vanished and a cold frost covered the lake, giving him a sense of where he belonged.
• Jiang Zhi checked on Chu Huai Xu throughout the forty-five days he remained in the Training Room, while Chu Huai Xu saw people close to him appear as Anomalies, including Xu Ziqing as a frog and Li Chunsong as a fly.
• Chu Huai Xu wondered why he had not seen himself, recognized the lake as the mirror-like Xuanhuang Origin Fragment, and saw a sword reflected in it.

After refining the Power of Origin, Chu Huai Xu discovered that it reduced his Experience Point costs for leveling and learning most sorceries, though not for [Myriad Swords Returning to the Origin]. He opened the Heaven Grade Treasure Chest and found a [Body Refining Divine Ability], revealing another benefit of the [Dao Canon]'s Internal and External Cultivation.

• Chu Huai Xu refined the Power of Origin, which flowed through his body and gathered around the Heart Sword in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Chu Huai Xu found that the Power of Origin reduced Experience Point costs for character levels and [Sorcery], but did not lower the cost of [Myriad Swords Returning to the Origin].
• Chu Huai Xu adapted to his increased strength after reaching the Seventh Heaven of the Second Realm and realized fifty days had passed.
• Chu Huai Xu inspected [Dao Gives Birth to One] and found it had produced a Corruption Pill containing the [Four Symbols Spiritual Root] while continuing to refine the Power of Origin.
• Chu Huai Xu opened the Heaven Grade Treasure Chest and discovered a [Body Refining Divine Ability].