Chapter Summaries

Chu Huai Xu killed Qin Xuanxiao in the Contest for the Champion and claimed the Xuanhuang Champion Token, leaving Moon Kingdom humiliated and the future uncertain. After completing the competition’s main quest and receiving its rewards, he wondered whether he would finally obtain a High-grade Spiritual Embryo.

• Chu Huai Xu killed Qin Xuanxiao with the National Suppressing Sword, and the ten thousand Spirit Swords sang as he claimed the champion position.
• Lin Zixuan suffered backlash and fainted, while Lin Qingci realized Qin Xuanxiao’s death had weakened the Emperor’s Divine Sense within her.
• The Moon Emperor announced Chu Huai Xu as the competition’s winner and presented him with the Xuanhuang Champion Token.
• Chu Huai Xu returned the National Suppressing Sword to the Imperial Capital Grand Array, alarming Ming Xuanji, who wondered how Qin Xuanxiao’s death would change the future.
• The Dao Sect and other Mirror Kingdom disciples cheered for Chu Huai Xu, and his system awarded him one million Experience Points, a Heaven Grade Treasure Chest, and a Spiritual Embryo Attribute point.

After the competition, Chu Huai Xu claimed Supreme Saint Water as his prize and opened a Heaven Grade Treasure Chest, obtaining the three-second Absolute Defense item. He raised his Spiritual Embryo to high grade, awakening a connection between his Heart Sword and the Power of Origin, and a mysterious sword phenomenon drew cultivators to the Monastery, where they realized the Sword Venerable was not responsible.

• Chu Huai Xu chose Supreme Saint Water as his competition prize and prepared to return to the Eastern Continent with the Four Great Sects.
• Chu Huai Xu opened his Heaven Grade Treasure Chest and obtained the Absolute Defense item, which he believed could block any power in the Xuanhuang Realm for three seconds.
• Chu Huai Xu used his Spiritual Embryo attribute point to raise his Heart Sword to a High-grade Spiritual Embryo, and it began connecting with the Power of Origin.
• A young Sword Cultivator's Destined Sword flew toward the Monastery, prompting sword cultivators and other cultivators across the imperial capital to follow the gathering swords.
• Lin Qingci, the Protector of the Nation, and the Blade Master rushed to the Monastery and saw the Sword Venerable observing the phenomenon, while the gathered cultivators concluded that he was not its source.

Chu Huai Xu’s Heart Sword drew more than ten thousand Spirit Swords, convincing onlookers that he was learning Myriad Swords Returning to the Origin even as the Sword Venerable suggested he was developing a different path. After Chu Huai Xu collapsed from exhaustion and slept for a day and night, Xiahou Yue summoned him to meet His Majesty.

• Chu Huai Xu’s Heart Sword gathered more than ten thousand Spirit Swords around the Monastery while he meditated.
• Sword Cultivators argued that Chu Huai Xu was comprehending Myriad Swords Returning to the Origin, and the rumor spread among the gathered cultivators.
• The Sword Venerable said Chu Huai Xu’s path differed from the Dao Ancestor’s technique and predicted he would surpass the Sword Venerable.
• Chu Huai Xu’s Spirit Fetus finished advancing, and he collapsed as the gathered Spirit Swords fell to the ground.
• Chu Huai Xu woke after sleeping for a day and night, and Xiahou Yue told him that His Majesty wanted to see him.

Chu Huai Xu refused the Moon Emperor’s summons, while Qin Tianyang revealed to Xiahou Yue that he wanted to use Chu Huai Xu’s power to free the Qin Family from the Ancestor Emperor’s control. After returning to the Dao Sect, Chu Huai Xu requested Supreme Saint Water and exposed a Corruption Pill during his elders’ argument over a wager.

• Chu Huai Xu declined to visit the imperial palace and gave Xiahou Yue an evasive answer about whether he had mastered Myriad Swords Returning to the Origin.
• Qin Tianyang told Xiahou Yue that the Ancestor Emperor’s remaining Divine Sense had dwindled to two wisps and declared that he was willing to risk his health to become the Moon Kingdom’s true emperor.
• Xiahou Yue warned Qin Tianyang that Chu Huai Xu’s power could irreparably damage his Sea of Consciousness, but Qin Tianyang decided to wait and have the Dao Sect send Chu Huai Xu to the palace later.
• Chu Huai Xu exchanged for Supreme Saint Water, then returned to the Dao Sect with the other disciples, where Xiang Yan granted him the requested reward and offered Han Shuangjiang and Xu Ziqing other rewards.
• Li Chunsong and Zhao Shuqi argued over whether Chu Huai Xu’s encounter with the Emperor’s Divine Sense had won their wager, and Chu Huai Xu produced a semitransparent Corruption Pill as they debated.

Chu Huai Xu discussed using the contents of Ye Kongxuan’s Corruption Pill to create an External Incarnation, while the Dao Sect celebrated his victory. In Moon Kingdom, Ming Xuanji recognized Chu Huai Xu as a major Variable and sent Lin Zixuan to find him; several days later, she arrived at Junzi Temple.

• Chu Huai Xu showed the Dao Sect elders the Emperor’s Divine Sense sealed inside a Corruption Pill and revealed that he wanted to extract the fortune and Four Symbols Spiritual Root from another pill.
• Chu Huai Xu proposed refining an External Incarnation from an Immortal Cultivation practitioner’s corpse, and Xiang Yan suggested searching the other Great Sects and the Moon Kingdom Imperial Family for the missing materials.
• Chu Huai Xu received a hero’s welcome from Dao Sect disciples for winning the Xuanhuang Champion title and killing Qin Xuanxiao.
• Lin Zixuan struggled with Qin Xuanxiao’s death and the sudden upheaval to the life she had expected to lead.
• Ming Xuanji performed divinations, realized Chu Huai Xu had accomplished something extraordinary in the Second Layer of the Origin Spirit Realm, and ordered Lin Zixuan to follow him.
• Several days later, Nangong Yue brought Lin Zixuan to meet Chu Huai Xu at Junzi Temple.

Chu Huai Xu welcomed Lin Zixuan into his household and later used a Spirit Cleansing Talisman on Zhong Ming. The talisman briefly restored clarity to the Ninth-Realm cultivator, who grabbed Chu Huai Xu by the neck.

• Lin Zixuan joined Chu Huai Xu’s household after Ming Xuanji ordered her to follow him, and Chu Huai Xu agreed to take her to the Origin Spirit Realm.
• Xu Ziqing broke through during the night, while Lin Zixuan settled into life with Han Shuangjiang and decided to stop leaving food uneaten.
• Two days later, Chu Huai Xu accompanied Li Chunsong to visit Zhong Ming and secretly used a Spirit Cleansing Talisman after treating him with South Flowing Scenery.
• The talisman raised Zhong Ming’s healing progress to 10%, briefly brought clarity to his eyes, and prompted him to break through his restraints and seize Chu Huai Xu by the neck.

Zhong Ming broke free of his restraints and attacked Chu Huai Xu, but then briefly regained clarity and transferred an unknown power into Chu Huai Xu’s Sea of Consciousness. After Zhong Ming calmed and Chu Huai Xu woke, he discovered the power had fused into a black lotus platform beneath his Heart Sword.

• Zhong Ming broke through the courtyard’s Restrictions, seized Chu Huai Xu, and struck Li Chunsong aside before pressing a hand to Chu Huai Xu’s chest and sending an unknown power into him.
• Zhong Ming regained clarity long enough to warn Jiang Zhi, Xiang Yan, and Tai Tingbai to stay back, then unleashed chaotic power as they reinforced the Restrictions.
• The black mark on Zhong Ming’s brow vanished, his condition settled, and Jiang Zhi let him sleep while Tai Tingbai confirmed he was physically unharmed.
• Jiang Zhi and the others examined the unconscious Chu Huai Xu, found no clear injury or cause, and left him to recover under Han Shuangjiang’s care.
• Chu Huai Xu woke near midnight, checked the System’s history, and learned that the unknown power had entered his Sea of Consciousness and successfully fused.
• Chu Huai Xu found that the fused power had formed a black lotus platform beneath his Heart Sword, alongside the sword and his remaining Power of Origin.

After Zhong Ming bestowed an unknown power on Chu Huai Xu, a Black Jade Lotus Platform appeared beneath his Heart Sword and greatly strengthened him, especially at night. The Dao Sect elders could not identify it, but confirmed that it had fortified his Sea of Consciousness as Chu Huai Xu prepared to enter the Origin Spirit Realm.

• Chu Huai Xu found a Black Jade Lotus Platform in his Sea of Consciousness, but his Information Scan could not identify it and the Lost Fruition quest remained unchanged.
• Chu Huai Xu tested his strength at night and discovered that his sword qi was thirty percent stronger; he defeated Han Shuangjiang and then Han Shuangjiang, Xu Ziqing, and Lin Zixuan together in a spar.
• Chu Huai Xu found that cultivating with the Dao Canon also yielded thirty percent more Experience Points, while the boost fell to ten percent after dawn.
• Jiang Zhi and the Dao Sect higher-ups examined Chu Huai Xu but could not identify the platform; they found that it had made his Sea of Consciousness more stable and harder to invade.
• As the days passed, the day to set out for the Origin Spirit Realm arrived.

Chu Huai Xu prepared for the Second Layer of the Origin Spirit Realm in the Moon Kingdom by crafting and strengthening Corruption Pills and learning several techniques. The night before he set out, he reassured Han Shuangjiang and spent the night with her.

• Chu Huai Xu prepared two new Corruption Pills, strengthened them with Malevolent Aura from the Bronze Sword, and learned talisman arts, pupil techniques, and arrays from his masters.
• At dinner, Lin Zixuan asked Chu Huai Xu to plant another Spirit Seed in her, and he agreed.
• Chu Huai Xu reviewed his Origin Spirit Realm mission and considered how losing could let the Kunlun Cave Heaven create invasion passages into the Xuanhuang Realm.
• Han Shuangjiang visited Chu Huai Xu because she was worried about his dangerous trial, and he promised he would return safely.
• Chu Huai Xu kissed Han Shuangjiang and persuaded her to stay with him that night, while they stopped short of consummating their relationship because of her Profound Yin Physique.

The narrator visited a hospital and learned from an MRI that the issue was minor, though the department director suspected psychosomatic symptoms. The director prescribed medication and advised the narrator to rest, relax, and adjust their sleep schedule.

• The narrator visited a hospital and saw a specialist.
• The narrator underwent an MRI, which showed a minor issue.
• The department director suspected the narrator might have psychosomatic symptoms.
• The department director prescribed medication and advised the narrator to rest, relax, and adjust their sleep schedule.

Chu Huai Xu entered the Second Layer of the Origin Spirit Realm under the protection of powerful cultivators, while the Black Moon Cult Leader and a Kunlun Cave Heaven master prepared for the danger awaiting him. The chapter left Chu Huai Xu facing a surging black sea inside the realm, realizing that it did not match the outside world.

• Sword Venerable, Tian Luo, Pei Songji, and Jiang Zhi escorted Chu Huai Xu and three other young people toward the Origin Spirit Realm entrance.
• Li Chunsong proposed that the Dao Sect elders bet on how many Xuanhuang Origin Fragments Chu Huai Xu would bring back.
• The Black Moon Cult Leader learned from the Primordial Spirit that Chu Huai Xu might face an entire Small world rather than a cultivator.
• Xiahou Yue and Zhuge Boyue met the group at the entrance, and Chu Huai Xu entered the Second Layer as soon as it opened.
• A white-haired youth raised a Small world from the black sea and merged it with the entrance before sending a female cultivator into the vortex.
• Chu Huai Xu entered the Second Layer and saw black seawater surging toward him, unlike anything in the outside world.

Inside the Origin Spirit Realm’s Second Layer, Chu Huai Xu fought Wen Shiyu, a Foundation Establishment cultivator sent from Kunlun Cave Heaven. After his Heart Sword seized control of her Destined Sword, Wen Shiyu brought out a Xuanhuang Origin Fragment as the battle escalated.

• Chu Huai Xu explored the Second Layer’s dead forest and black sea, then met Wen Shiyu on a treetop.
• Wen Shiyu assessed Chu Huai Xu as a powerful Cultivation Cauldron, and he attacked her with Fingertip Thunder and his body-refining strength.
• Chu Huai Xu struck Wen Shiyu down and used Fingertip Sword Qi, while she defended herself with a pale-blue talisman.
• Chu Huai Xu’s Heart Sword severed Wen Shiyu’s connection to her Destined Sword and drew the weapon to his side.
• Chu Huai Xu urged Wen Shiyu to use her Xuanhuang Origin Fragment, and she summoned one into her left palm.

Chu Huai Xu fought Wen Shiyu after she embedded an Xuanhuang Origin Fragment and unleashed powerful spells, including a seductive Joyful Bodhisattva dharma form. When Wen Shiyu bound him with the Immortal Binding Rope and flung him into the black sea, the Black Jade Lotus Platform in his Sea of Consciousness stirred to life.

• Wen Shiyu embedded half of the Xuanhuang Origin Fragment in her brow, weakening the realm’s suppression and boosting her power.
• Wen Shiyu summoned eighty-one spears and a Joyful Bodhisattva dharma form, whose palm attacks Chu Huai Xu blocked.
• Chu Huai Xu used his Corruption Pill to devour the dharma form and its attacks, leaving Wen Shiyu injured and furious.
• Wen Shiyu bound Chu Huai Xu with the Immortal Binding Rope and sent him flying toward the black sea.
• Chu Huai Xu noticed the Black Jade Lotus Platform reacting as the System warned him that an unknown region lay ahead, then the rope flung him into the sea and the platform seemed to come alive.

Chu Huai Xu discovered that the Black Jade Lotus Platform let his thoughts alter the Kunlun Cave Heaven’s laws within a limited area. After he freed himself from Wen Shiyu’s Immortal Binding Rope, he swam toward her as she searched for him.

• Chu Huai Xu sank through the Black sea while bound, and found that he could breathe and that the Black Jade Lotus Platform strengthened him further in the Kunlun Cave Heaven.
• Chu Huai Xu realized Wen Shiyu could not locate him and suspected that his thoughts were changing the world around him.
• Chu Huai Xu tried to wish Wen Shiyu dead, but she remained unharmed; when he wished the Immortal Binding Rope useless, it broke free and Wen Shiyu spat blood.
• Chu Huai Xu stored the ownerless rope and discovered that he could turn a nearby fish to dust but could not affect one farther away.
• Wen Shiyu entered the sea searching for Chu Huai Xu, found him, and heard him say that he was the one looking for her.

Chu Huai Xu overwhelmed Wen Shiyu in the Kunlun Cave Heaven small world and used the Black Jade Lotus Platform’s power to turn the sky dark, prompting her to identify him as a Spirit Transformation Immortal Venerable. Elsewhere, two indifferent men playing Go reacted in shock when darkness fell across Kunlun Cave Heaven.

• Wen Shiyu attacked Chu Huai Xu with eighty-one Extreme Yin Profound Ice spikes, but they crumbled before reaching him.
• Chu Huai Xu rushed Wen Shiyu and punched her out of the sea, severely injuring her despite her defensive treasures and techniques.
• Chu Huai Xu closed his eyes and turned the small world dark, then felt his strength increase threefold under the night’s influence.
• Wen Shiyu trembled with fear and asked whether Chu Huai Xu was a Spirit Transformation Immortal Venerable.
• The white-haired youth and black-haired old man stopped their Go game and looked up after the sky over Kunlun Cave Heaven turned dark.

Chu Huai Xu’s Daytime Black Sky darkened the entire Kunlun Cave Heaven, revealing the power of the Night Venerable’s Nascent Soul Fruit Status. True Monarch Lingxiao told True Monarch Chi Xi that an outsider had slain the Night Venerable a thousand years earlier and taken the fruit status to the Xuanhuang Realm.

• Chu Huai Xu’s created Daytime Black Sky spread beyond the small black sea and plunged the Kunlun Cave Heaven into darkness.
• True Monarch Lingxiao and True Monarch Chi Xi saw the sun vanish and recognized the Great Yin Eternal Night Authority.
• True Monarch Lingxiao explained that an outsider had slain the Night Venerable, causing the Kunlun Cave Heaven’s Heavenly Dao to collapse and preventing new Nascent Soul cultivators from arising.
• True Monarch Chi Xi asked whether someone had now claimed the Night Venerable’s fruit status, and True Monarch Lingxiao confirmed that the authority had appeared again.
• True Monarch Lingxiao revealed that the fruit status was not in the Kunlun Cave Heaven because the outsider had taken it back to the Xuanhuang Realm.

True Monarch Lingxiao explained to True Monarch Chi Xi that the Night Venerable’s Fruit Status had been taken to the Xuanhuang Realm, leaving Kunlun Cave Heaven’s Heavenly Dao collapsed and its Immortal Venerables afraid to invade. Meanwhile, Chu Huai Xu subdued Wen Shiyu and learned that his power matched the Night Venerable’s, leaving him questioning how the Fruit Status reached him and who had killed its former bearer.

• True Monarch Lingxiao told True Monarch Chi Xi that a powerful figure from the Xuanhuang Realm had killed the Night Venerable and taken his Fruit Status, and that Kunlun’s Immortal Venerables had spent a thousand years probing for the figure’s contingency plan.
• True Monarch Lingxiao said the Night Venerable had entered Kunlun at the end of his life and likely died after completing his task, while the Fruit Status might now have been absorbed by someone in the Xuanhuang Realm.
• Chu Huai Xu fought Wen Shiyu without relying on the Black Jade Lotus Platform, then used its power to compel her to answer his questions.
• Wen Shiyu identified Chu Huai Xu’s power as that of a Spirit Transformation Immortal Venerable and said it matched the Night Venerable’s Fruit Status, which had been taken from Kunlun a thousand years earlier.
• Chu Huai Xu connected the Fruit Status to the Fifth Martial Ancestor and Zhong Ming, suspected Ming Xuanji knew more, and asked Wen Shiyu whether the person who killed the Night Venerable had been a Daoist priest.

Chu Huai Xu identified the Dao Ancestor as the one who had crossed into Kunlun Cave Heaven and seized a fruition, then bound Wen Shiyu’s Primordial Spirit and dragged her out of the Small world. As he prepared to kill her, he realized the Black Moon Cult’s Lost Fruition quest referred to a different fruition and demanded to know whether the Xuanhuang Realm contained more than one.

• Chu Huai Xu questioned Wen Shiyu and confirmed that the Daoist who took the fruition had worn a Black Bead but carried no Magic Artifact.
• Chu Huai Xu used the Black Jade Lotus Platform to form a master-servant connection with Wen Shiyu’s Primordial Spirit and dragged her from the Small world into the Second Layer of the Origin Spirit Realm.
• Wen Shiyu regained consciousness as the connection weakened, and Chu Huai Xu seized the Xuanhuang Origin Fragment from her forehead.
• As Chu Huai Xu prepared to kill Wen Shiyu and use the [External Incarnation], he realized the Lost Fruition quest pointed to a different fruition than the one he possessed.
• Chu Huai Xu asked Wen Shiyu whether there was more than one fruition in the Xuanhuang Realm.

Chu Huai Xu learned that a lost Fruition remained in the Xuanhuang Realm and that the Kunlun cultivators called the Dao Ancestor the Realm Lord. He left the Origin Spirit Realm with two Origin Fragments and Wen Shiyu’s captured Primordial Spirit, surprising the waiting cultivators.

• Chu Huai Xu forced Wen Shiyu to reveal that a Spirit Transformation Immortal Venerable had descended into the Xuanhuang Realm and never returned, and learned that the Realm Lord was the Dao Ancestor.
• Chu Huai Xu made Wen Shiyu abandon her body, wounded her Primordial Spirit with the Heart Sword, and stored it in Jiang Zhi’s Golden Bowl.
• Outside the Origin Spirit Realm, Han Shuangjiang, Xu Ziqing, Jiang Zhi, and the others worried as Lin Zixuan’s connection to Chu Huai Xu repeatedly vanished and returned.
• Chu Huai Xu emerged with two Xuanhuang Origin Fragments and Wen Shiyu’s corpse, then reassured Han Shuangjiang after she hurried to him.
• When Tian Luo asked whether Chu Huai Xu had destroyed Wen Shiyu’s Primordial Spirit, Chu Huai Xu revealed that he had captured it alive.

Chu Huai Xu stunned the gathered cultivators by capturing a Nascent Soul Primordial Spirit and revealing that he had made it acknowledge him as its master. Jiang Zhi shielded him from Xiahou Yue’s questions and led the group back to the Dao Sect, where Xiang Yan and the others came out to welcome them.

• The cultivation leaders crowded around Chu Huai Xu’s Golden Bowl to inspect the captured Primordial Spirit, and the Confucian scholar agreed to reward him with another East Continent Token.
• Chu Huai Xu revealed that the Primordial Spirit had acknowledged him as its master and manifested an ancient master-servant contract for everyone to see.
• Xiahou Yue demanded to know how Chu Huai Xu had done it, but Jiang Zhi defended his Grand-disciple and refused to disclose the secret.
• Jiang Zhi ordered everyone to return to the Dao Sect, and the other leaders followed to escort Chu Huai Xu and the Origin Fragment.
• As they arrived above Junzi Temple, Xiang Yan and the others came out to welcome them and saw two Origin Fragments floating in Chu Huai Xu’s hands.