Chapter Summaries

Chu Huai Xu witnessed the Dao Ancestor trade an eighth-grade Spirit Pill for a Sword Art that turned out to be dangerous, then saw how the Dao Ancestor began exploring a method of guiding Sword Spirits with his divine sense. Chu Huai Xu borrowed swords alongside him and found that doing so increased his Sword Heart progress, ending with the Dao Ancestor borrowing a sword from the current Sword Venerable of the Sword Sect.

• The woman in purple took the black fat cat to Spring Autumn Mountain and gave the Dao Ancestor an incomplete Heaven Grade Sword Art in exchange for an eighth-grade Spirit Pill.
• The Dao Ancestor realized the Sword Art was a dangerous technique that tried to merge a cultivator’s divine sense with a Sword Spirit, but decided its ideas might help him guide a Sword Spirit.
• Chu Huai Xu saw the Dao Ancestor begin borrowing swords and suspected this was the origin of the Dao Ancestor’s Path of Borrowed Sword.
• Chu Huai Xu borrowed a Mid-grade Spirit Sword and found that his Sword Heart progress had increased, though his Sword Intent had not.
• The Dao Ancestor borrowed increasingly powerful swords from higher-realm Sword Cultivators, while Chu Huai Xu followed along, until the current Sword Venerable of the Sword Sect appeared.

Chu Huai Xu watched the Dao Ancestor borrow the Current Sword Venerable’s sword and confront the Bronze Sword, whose Malevolent Aura threatened to devour everything around it. The Dao Ancestor sealed the Bronze Sword with nine strikes and picked it up.

• The Dao Ancestor called to the Current Sword Venerable and borrowed his sword, while Chu Huai Xu was badly injured trying to wield its immense power.
• The Bronze Sword arrived, devouring the clouds, birds, and everything beneath it with its Malevolent Aura.
• The Dao Ancestor clashed with the Bronze Sword, and the shockwaves collapsed the mountain peak as the Malevolent Aura consumed the dust and rubble.
• The Dao Ancestor used successive sword strikes to contain the Bronze Sword’s Killing Aura and weaken its power.
• After nine strikes, the Bronze Sword fell like ordinary iron, and the Dao Ancestor picked it up and called it ugly.

Chu Huai Xu watched the Dao Ancestor develop [Myriad Swords Returning to the Origin] and gradually understood how the technique came about, while his Sword Heart progress reached 99%. He left the scene convinced the Dao Ancestor had gathered ten thousand swords to make them perform ordinary attacks together because he could not use Sword Arts.

• The Dao Ancestor told Chu Huai Xu he would not leave him the ugly Bronze Sword, then the scene faded away.
• Chu Huai Xu questioned whether the visions let him communicate across time with the Dao Ancestor through the Black Bead.
• At Junzi Temple, the Dao Ancestor called forth its Black Wood swords and then Spirit Swords, expanding the range of [Myriad Swords Returning to the Origin].
• As more cultivators gathered and thousands of swords assembled overhead, Chu Huai Xu's Sword Heart progress rose from 92% to 99%.
• Chu Huai Xu realized that the Dao Ancestor had created [Myriad Swords Returning to the Origin] by gathering countless swords to perform basic attacks at once, since he could not use Sword Arts.

Han Shuangjiang completed her trial in the Dao Ancestor Inheritance Secret Realm and awoke to find Chu Huai Xu still meditating. As the swords across Mountain Beyond Mountain answered Chu Huai Xu’s breakthrough, the Dao Ancestor guided him through a vision of ten thousand swords submitting to him, and Chu Huai Xu condensed the Sword Heart Myriad Swords Becoming One.

• Han Shuangjiang emerged from her illusory trial after reading three thousand sword manuals, mastering Bìluò Sùhuǒ to Major Accomplishment, and advancing her Reincarnation Sword Intent to Great Perfection.
• Han Shuangjiang noticed Chu Huai Xu’s aura turning chaotic as Partridge Sky trembled and cried out, while swords throughout Mountain Beyond Mountain reacted in unison.
• Xiang Yan calmed the Dao Sect disciples, and Jiang Zhi told the elders that even his long-sealed sword was struggling to leave its sheath because of Chu Huai Xu.
• With his Sword Heart at 99.9 percent, Chu Huai Xu heard the Dao Ancestor command him to raise the sword and was lifted into the center of a circle of more than ten thousand swords.
• The Dao Ancestor told Chu Huai Xu to feel the swords submitting to him, and Chu Huai Xu completed his Sword Heart condensation as the System named it Myriad Swords Becoming One.

Chu Huai Xu comprehended the myriad swords within the Inheritance Secret Realm and gained an advanced version of Myriad Swords Returning to the Origin. Outside, Jiang Zhi realized Chu Huai Xu might surpass the Dao Ancestor, while Han Shuangjiang watched over him as a System prompt offered him the skill.

• Chu Huai Xu continued comprehending his newly condensed Sword Heart as countless Sword Spirits connected with him and offered their strength.
• Chu Huai Xu sensed a powerful sword at the edge of the sea of swords and suspected it was Jiang Zhi’s Heaven and Earth Sword.
• The Spirit Swords outside the Secret Realm calmed after forming an unexplained connection with Chu Huai Xu, and Jiang Zhi told the others that the swords had actively offered their strength.
• Jiang Zhi concluded that Chu Huai Xu had likely caused the anomaly and might slightly surpass the Dao Ancestor if he mastered Myriad Swords Returning to the Origin.
• Han Shuangjiang watched as Chu Huai Xu’s aura stabilized, and a System prompt offered him Myriad Swords Returning to the Origin (Advanced).

After mastering the Dao Ancestor’s inheritance, Chu Huai Xu watched the Dao Ancestor create the Aperture Opening Stage and the Aperture Opening Pill, then turn to a new insight about Sword Dao. The Dao Ancestor addressed Chu Huai Xu directly, leaving him stunned.

• Chu Huai Xu inspected his Skill Bar and found that Myriad Swords Returning to the Origin had advanced beyond its former Heavenly Grade classification.
• Chu Huai Xu reflected on his gains in the Secret Realm, including his perfected Fearless Sword Intent and a Sword Heart progress of 56%.
• Chu Huai Xu watched the Dao Ancestor realize he could add a realm before the First Realm, creating the Aperture Opening Stage and the Aperture Opening Pill.
• At Hidden Spirit Mountain, the Dao Ancestor demonstrated that wind, water, and soil could all be swords.
• The Dao Ancestor floated the Black Bead above his palm, looked at Chu Huai Xu, and asked what he thought about a person being a sword.

Chu Huai Xu cleared the Myriad Swords Returning to the Origin trial, condensed a Sword Heart after witnessing the Dao Ancestor’s technique, and reunited with Han Shuangjiang. After they emerged from the Secret Realm, he revealed the cause of the sword anomaly outside: he had condensed another Sword Heart.

• Chu Huai Xu watched the Dao Ancestor perform Myriad Swords Returning to the Origin, condensed a Sword Heart, and took the Black Bead as the Secret Realm faded.
• Chu Huai Xu awoke beside Han Shuangjiang, learned that her trial had ended earlier, and told her he had witnessed the Dao Ancestor’s sword technique.
• Chu Huai Xu and Han Shuangjiang emerged from the Secret Realm as the Stone World collapsed and recounted their experiences to the Dao Sect elders.
• The elders asked Chu Huai Xu about the anomaly that had drawn swords from across the surrounding area, and he explained that he had condensed another Sword Heart.

Chu Huai Xu revealed that he had condensed a second Sword Heart, leaving Jiang Zhi unable to explain the phenomenon. After returning to Junzi Temple, Chu Huai Xu wondered why the Dao Ancestor had accepted his two Sword Hearts so readily, then sensed that Xu Ziqing seemed like a Peerless Divine Sword.

• Chu Huai Xu displayed the distinct powers of his two Sword Hearts and astonished Jiang Zhi, Li Chunsong, and the others.
• Chu Huai Xu told Xiang Yan and the others that he hoped to comprehend Myriad Swords Returning to the Origin.
• Jiang Zhi questioned Chu Huai Xu about how he could have two Sword Hearts, and Chu Huai Xu admitted he did not know.
• Chu Huai Xu privately reasoned that his first Sword Heart came from the system while the second came from his own understanding of the Sword Dao.
• Chu Huai Xu wondered why the Dao Ancestor had not been surprised by his two Sword Hearts in the Secret Realm.
• Xu Ziqing welcomed Chu Huai Xu back and felt an unusually strong sense of awe toward his Senior Brother.

Chu Huai Xu learned that his second Sword Heart was making Xu Ziqing feel the awe of a loyal subject, and he suspected they had both been changed by the Sword Refining Art. At the Monastery, Ming Xuanji learned of Qin Xuanxiao’s gains from the Imperial Pool and told Lin Zixuan that the prince was becoming more like the Founding Emperor.

• Chu Huai Xu told Xu Ziqing he had condensed a second Sword Heart, and Xu Ziqing congratulated him without surprise.
• Xu Ziqing described feeling like a subordinate who wished to bow and serve Chu Huai Xu, and Chu Huai Xu blamed the effect on his two Sword Hearts.
• Ming Xuanji asked Lin Zixuan about Qin Xuanxiao’s return and learned he had gained three wisps of the Emperor’s Divine Sense, advanced his Spear Intent and cultivation, and changed in appearance and bearing.
• Lin Zixuan said Chu Huai Xu was better-looking than Qin Xuanxiao, making Ming Xuanji’s smile freeze as he divined.
• Ming Xuanji told Lin Zixuan that Qin Xuanxiao was becoming more and more like the Founding Emperor.

Lin Zixuan learned that she must have Chu Huai Xu plant the Spirit Seed in her again before he enters the Imperial Pool, while Ming Xuanji pursued his plans concerning the Great Tribulation. At the pagoda, Ming Xuanji examined portraits of key figures and recognized Chu Huai Xu as a dangerous Variable.

• Ming Xuanji told Lin Zixuan to find Chu Huai Xu when he arrived in the capital and have him plant the Spirit Seed before he entered the Imperial Pool.
• Lin Zixuan left for Prince Rui's Mansion, and Ming Xuanji resolved to seek permission to enter the Imperial Mausoleum and extend his life with National Destiny.
• Ming Xuanji visited the pagoda of portraits and divined over Jiang Zhi's portrait, then kept it in its original place after realizing he had underestimated Jiang Zhi.
• Ming Xuanji adjusted three portraits on the Fifth Layer before inspecting the Sixth Layer, where Chu Huai Xu's portrait was labeled [Variable] and Qin Xuanxiao's was labeled [Vessel].

Chu Huai Xu and Han Shuangjiang trained together while the Dao Sect prepared for the East-West Continent Grand Competition. The meeting about the trip to the Moon Kingdom ended with Chu Yinyin emerging from seclusion and announcing that she would accompany her disciple.

• Chu Huai Xu and Han Shuangjiang sparred, and they taught Xu Ziqing the Earth Grade Sword Art [Bìluò Sùhuǒ].
• Chu Huai Xu went to treat Zhong Ming, whose treatment progress had reached 3%, while Han Shuangjiang went to meet Nangong Yue for cultivation guidance.
• The Dao Sect began its internal screening for the East-West Continent Grand Competition, and Jiang Zhi agreed to lead the group to the Moon Kingdom.
• Xiang Yan told the elders that the Sword Venerable planned to attend the competition because he wanted to meet Chu Huai Xu.
• Nangong Yue volunteered to accompany Jiang Zhi, but Chu Yinyin emerged from seclusion and declared that she would accompany her disciple to claim the Xuanhuang Champion.

Chu Yinyin emerged from seclusion after reaching the Fourth Heaven of the Seventh Realm, and the Dao Sect arranged its team for the East-West Continent Grand Competition. The chapter ended with Mo Qingmei telling Niu Yuanshan that they had been chosen to accompany the participants, leaving Mu Bing Jiu wondering if he was going home.

• Chu Yinyin celebrated her breakthrough and said she would accompany her disciple to the Match.
• Xiang Yan chose the leaders for the competition team, and the Dao Sect members discussed Xu Ziqing, the Dao Ancestor Sword, and Chu Huai Xu's chances.
• Li Chunsong proposed bets on Chu Huai Xu's progress in the Emperor's Pool, then bet that he would obtain the Emperor's Divine Sense.
• The Dao Sect members paid fines for privately organizing the Bet.
• Mo Qingmei told Niu Yuanshan that they had been selected to accompany the Grand Competition participants, and Mu Bing Jiu wondered if he was going home.

Niu Yuanshan shared a farewell meal with Mo Qingmei before preparing to leave the Dao Sect under a new identity, while Chu Huai Xu and the other Third Realm disciples gathered to depart for the Third Realm Grand Competition. Jiang Zhi arrived with Nangong Yue and Chu Yinyin and ordered the group to descend the mountain.

• Niu Yuanshan invited Mo Qingmei to dinner, and the two shared fish soup and Erlang Wine after the other deacons declined to join them.
• Mo Qingmei, slightly drunk, asked Niu Yuanshan whether he had ever had feelings for her, but he answered as Mu Bing Jiu by telling her she had drunk too much.
• Three days later, Niu Yuanshan toured the Outer Sect, bought Spirit Oranges, and went to the Training ground as the Dao Sect's participating disciples assembled.
• Chu Huai Xu arrived with Han and Xu Ziqing, and the disciples discussed his Seventh Heaven cultivation and the group's prospects in the competition.
• Jiang Zhi arrived with Nangong Yue and Chu Yinyin, then ordered the disciples to descend the mountain.

The Dao Sect and Sword Sect traveled to the Moon Kingdom’s imperial capital for the Grand Competition, while their leaders encountered powerful figures and discussed Chu Huai Xu’s importance. The chapter left Jiang Zhi and Scholar Cheng facing a revelation about who could save Zhong Ming, and Geng Tianhe receiving sword arts from the Sword Venerable.

• Chu Huai Xu traveled with Chu Yinyin, Nangong Yue, Niu Yuanshan, and Mo Qingmei as the Dao Sect descended from the mountain, while Jiang Zhi flew ahead to clear the route.
• Jiang Zhi met Scholar Cheng, who said that Ming Xuanji had used the Curse Killing Technique on Chu Huai Xu and asked to travel with the Dao Sect.
• Jiang Zhi told Scholar Cheng that his Grand-disciple Chu Huai Xu could save Zhong Ming, leaving Scholar Cheng stunned.
• The Sword Venerable gave Geng Tianhe a Profound Grade sword art and then an Earth Grade one after Situ Cheng prompted him.
• Situ Cheng and the Sword Venerable discussed the sword-singing anomaly near the Dao Sect and speculated that Chu Huai Xu had caused it.
• Geng Tianhe studied the Earth Grade sword art, Bìluò Sùhuǒ, while traveling with the Sword Sect toward the Grand Competition.

The Dao Sect reached the Spring Autumn Mountain region with Cheng Yuyan, the legendary Ninth-Realm rogue cultivator, joining them. He warned Chu Huai Xu about Prince Rui’s Heir and spoke cryptically about the Emperor’s Pool and the Emperor’s Divine Sense, leaving Chu Huai Xu wary of what Cheng knew.

• Jiang Zhi returned with Cheng Yuyan, who greeted the Dao Sect disciples and congratulated Chu Yinyin on reaching the Seventh Realm.
• Cheng Yuyan praised Chu Huai Xu’s strength and said he would have lost to him in the Third Realm Grand Competition.
• Cheng Yuyan warned Chu Huai Xu that Prince Rui’s Heir had entered the Emperor’s Pool and would benefit from the Moon Kingdom capital’s regional power during the East-West Continent Grand Competition.
• Chu Huai Xu asked about Cheng Yuyan’s choice between the Emperor’s Pool and the Imperial Mausoleum, and Cheng said he had chosen the pool but refused the Emperor’s Divine Sense.
• Cheng Yuyan spoke against accepting another person’s Divine Sense and looked pointedly at Chu Huai Xu and Niu Yuanshan, while Jiang Zhi challenged his criticism of the Moon Kingdom’s Founding Emperor.

As the group traveled toward Moon Kingdom, Chu Huai Xu learned that Ming Xuanji had used a life-draining curse to stop him from saving Zhong Ming and had targeted him because he was a [Variable]. Chu Huai Xu resolved to let Ming Xuanji keep divining him, hinting that one day the old national preceptor might die in the process.

• Cheng Yuyan told Chu Huai Xu that the Imperial Pool could offer him benefits, though he could not obtain the Emperor's Divine Sense there.
• Jiang Zhi enclosed Chu Huai Xu, Cheng Yuyan, and Nangong Yue in a Restriction and revealed that Ming Xuanji had attacked Chu Huai Xu.
• Chu Huai Xu pointed out that Ming Xuanji attacked just after he obtained the Dao Seal [South Flowing Scenery] and healed Zhong Ming, prompting Jiang Zhi to question Cheng Yuyan.
• Cheng Yuyan admitted that Ming Xuanji had spent his lifespan using the [Curse Killing Technique] to stop Chu Huai Xu and Restore order.
• Chu Huai Xu learned that divination cost Ming Xuanji dearly and said he would let the old man keep divining until it killed him.

Chu Huai Xu and his companions crossed into the Moon Kingdom, while the Moon Emperor prepared Qin Xuanxiao for the East-West Continent Grand Competition and revealed the secret behind the Emperor’s Divine Sense. The chapter ended with the Moon Emperor discussing whether Qin Xuanxiao or Chu Huai Xu should inherit something, as he regarded his grandson like a treasured vessel.

• Chu Huai Xu reflected that his presence had already changed the original plot and remained wary of Cheng Yuyan as the Giant Eagle carried the group into the Moon Kingdom.
• Qin Xuanxiao met with the Moon Emperor, who urged him to win the upcoming East-West Continent Grand Competition and claim the Origin Fragment.
• Qin Xuanxiao revealed that the Emperor’s Divine Sense had improved his cultivation through dreams and could communicate with him.
• The Moon Emperor told Qin Xuanxiao that fusing the Divine Sense with the Power of Origin could help him set foot on the path to heaven.
• After Qin Xuanxiao left, the Moon Emperor spoke to an unseen presence about choosing between Qin Xuanxiao and Chu Huai Xu, calling attention to Qin Xuanxiao’s resemblance to the Old Ancestor.

Chu Huai Xu received the Grand Competition quest rewards and used a successful fusion to advance [Six Severances] toward Great Perfection. After the Dao Sect party reached the Moon Kingdom’s imperial capital, Old National Preceptor Ming Xuanji appeared and said he had been waiting for Jiang Zhi.

• Chu Huai Xu received the Grand Competition quest and claimed the first-stage rewards, gaining 1.2 million Experience Points, two Yellow Grade treasure chests, and six Yellow Grade Technique Upgrade Tickets.
• Chu Huai Xu fused his upgrade tickets, opened the chests, and used an Earth Grade Sorcery Upgrade Voucher to improve [Six Severances] from Major Accomplishment.
• The giant eagle carrying the Dao Sect party passed inspections on the way into the Moon Kingdom and at the imperial capital.
• Jiang Zhi recognized the gray-robed Ming Xuanji, the Moon Kingdom’s Old National Preceptor, who said he had been waiting for him for a long time.

Chu Huai Xu spent 960,000 Experience Points upgrading his Sword Heart, while the Sword Sect’s delegation arrived at the Imperial Capital. The Sword Venerable sensed something in the direction of Chu Huai Xu’s residence.

• Chu Huai Xu calculated the steep Experience Point costs of advancing his Sword Heart and decided to use 960,000 points to upgrade it.
• Geng Tianhe studied [Bìluò Sùhuǒ] under Situ Cheng, whose detailed teaching and praise helped him improve his Sword Intent.
• The Sword Sect’s ten Giant Eagles reached the Imperial Capital, and the Moon Kingdom’s Great Cultivators let them pass after inspecting them.
• The middle-aged scholar recognized a Wine House where he had once dined with Situ Cheng, then sensed something near Chu Huai Xu’s residence and reacted with surprise.

Chu Huai Xu broke through in his sword heart, awakening an ability that guided spirit swords across the monastery and made them submit to him. The Sword Venerable recognized the potential of his power and called him the future Lord of All Spirit Swords.

• Chu Huai Xu’s breakthrough caused Han Shuangjiang’s [Partridge Sky] and the Dao Sect disciples’ destined swords to tremble and sing.
• Chu Huai Xu expanded his sword heart’s influence to Spring Autumn Mountain and Luotian Valley, whose swords tried to leave their masters.
• Mei Chuxue asked Jiang Zhi whether Chu Huai Xu had caused the anomaly, but Jiang Zhi dismissed it as a Dao Sect disciple’s breakthrough.
• The Sword Venerable told Situ Cheng that Chu Huai Xu was breaking through in his sword heart and that a restriction hid his aura.
• A ripple spread from Chu Huai Xu’s residence, calming the swords as they submitted to him.
• The Sword Venerable said Chu Huai Xu might become the Lord of All Spirit Swords.