Chapter Summaries

Xu Yunfan studied the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Array and reforged his Star Spirit Banner to prepare for the coming conflict. After completing the banner, he turned to refining a magic treasure, aware that using the Great Yin Treasure Mirror directly could cut off his path to the Dao and draw the wrath of powerful True Monarchs.

• Xu Yunfan exchanged his merits and identity token for the complete Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Array in the Primal Beginning Sect's Scripture Repository Tower.
• Xu Yunfan studied the formation and reforged the Star Spirit Banner with the Eight Sceneries Cloud Qi and rare treasures, completing the work after forty-nine days.
• Xu Yunfan strengthened the banner's Star Lord imprints and linked it more deeply to the stars, leaving the formation inside it ready for further completion.
• Xu Yunfan postponed meeting Lu Chuan and began refining a magic treasure to strengthen his combat abilities.
• Xu Yunfan considered the Great Yin Treasure Mirror but recognized that refining its Dao Fruit core could sever his path to heaven and provoke Pudu True Monarch and Clear Source True Monarch.

Xu Yunfan spent three years refining a one-use crystal pearl that could house the Great Yin Profound Mirror Dao Fruit and let him briefly wield a Golden Core True Monarch’s power. After Lu Chuan visited and accepted that Xu Yunfan was in seclusion, Xu Yunfan remained hidden with his new trump card.

• Xu Yunfan used the Eight Sceneries of Xuan Capital Cloud Canon, his Nine Heavens scripture, and rare materials to forge a vessel for the Great Yin Profound Mirror Dao Fruit.
• Xu Yunfan concealed his cave residence and spent three years refining the vessel, exhausting his divine sense, magical power, and resources.
• Xu Yunfan completed a crystal pearl that could temporarily accommodate the Dao Fruit’s core and let him borrow a trace of Golden Core True Monarch power.
• The daoist child told Lu Chuan that Xu Yunfan could not receive visitors while stabilizing his Heaven Realm opportunity.
• Lu Chuan accepted the explanation, asked the daoist child to guard the cave residence, and said he would wait at Purple Firmament Peak.
• Xu Yunfan sensed Lu Chuan leaving and relaxed inside his cave residence.

Xu Yunfan prepared to condense his Immortal Golden Nature and sought Lu Chuan’s guidance after leaving seclusion. Meanwhile, Pudu True Monarch discovered that the Heaven Realm’s Lunar Dao Fruit had been taken and planned to investigate the Foundation Establishment cultivators involved, unaware that Xu Yunfan had it.

• Xu Yunfan decided to rest before asking Lu Chuan, a Foundation Establishment Perfection cultivator, for advice on condensing his Immortal Golden Nature.
• Pudu True Monarch searched the collapsing Heaven Realm for its missing Lunar Dao Fruit and concluded that someone had carried it away with the Heavenly Dao’s help.
• Pudu True Monarch dismissed Xu Yunfan as an unlikely culprit but vowed to investigate every Foundation Establishment cultivator who had entered or left the realm.
• Pudu True Monarch placed an invisible Buddhist seal into Fleeting Light and Shadow as a trap.
• After three years in seclusion, Xu Yunfan visited Lu Chuan on Purple Firmament Peak and apologized for his delay.
• Lu Chuan reassured Xu Yunfan that his seclusion had been proper and said his timing was perfect according to the True Monarch’s decree.

Xu Yunfan learned that the Primal Beginning Sect had intercepted coordinates to an unclaimed Boundary Heaven and that Clear Source True Monarch had selected him to investigate it. He accepted the mission as a chance to obtain innate Immortal Golden Nature and strengthen his prospects of seeking gold and attaining the Dao.

• Lu Chuan praised Xu Yunfan's refined aura and revealed that Clear Source True Monarch had named him for an important mission.
• Lu Chuan shielded their conversation and told Xu Yunfan that the Primal Beginning Sect had extracted the coordinates of a new Boundary Heaven from Ye Xuan of the Myriad Chariots Sword Sect.
• Lu Chuan said the Boundary Heaven was unclaimed but unknown, and that it might contain innate Immortal Golden Nature and an innate divine being.
• Xu Yunfan weighed the opportunity against the risks and decided the treasure could help him reach Foundation Establishment Perfection before the Eastern Wasteland ritual.

Xu Yunfan accepted the mission to investigate a new Boundary Heaven and learned he would first help ambush Ye Yuan, a Myriad Chariots Sword Sect elder tracing a missing sword cultivator. He arrived at Chaotic Wind Gorge and apologized to Zhang Qiaoluo for the three years she had spent concealing his aura.

• Xu Yunfan accepted Clear Source True Monarch’s mission to investigate the Boundary Heaven for the Primal Beginning Sect.
• Lu Chuan explained that Ye Yuan was tracing the missing sword cultivator and urged the group to kill him before he uncovered the Boundary Heaven’s coordinates.
• Xu Yunfan agreed to use his formations to seal Ye Yuan’s escape routes and met the group at Chaotic Wind Gorge three days later.
• Lu Chuan introduced Zhang Qiaoluo, who had concealed Xu Yunfan’s aura for three years, and Xu Yunfan bowed and apologized to her.

Xu Yunfan joined Lu Chuan’s group to help ambush Ye Yuan in Weeping Wind Valley, where the group planned to use his formations to trap their target. The five Foundation Establishment True Persons prepared their roles, leaving the hunt poised to begin.

• Xu Yunfan apologized to Zhang Qiaoluo and promised to help her with formations or artifact forging, easing their tension.
• Lu Chuan introduced Sun Yue, a powerful physical cultivator, and Mo Qisha, a lethal sword cultivator, to Xu Yunfan.
• Xu Yunfan assessed the strength of the group assembled to kill Ye Yuan and recognized that their lineup far surpassed ordinary cultivators of the same realm.
• Lu Chuan said Ye Yuan had entered the Weeping Wind Valley region and ordered Xu Yunfan to build a formation cage at the gorge’s narrowest point.
• Lu Chuan assigned Sun Yue and Mo Qisha to the assault, Zhang Qiaoluo to restrain Ye Yuan’s abilities, and another sword strike to prevent his escape or self-destruction.

Xu Yunfan completed a concealed sixth-grade killing formation as the group prepared for Ye Yuan’s arrival. Ye Yuan’s sword intent struck the valley, beginning the battle, and Lu Chuan countered with a Heavenly Dao edict.

• Xu Yunfan deployed the Nine Firmaments Five Thunder Yin-Yang Chaos God Overturning Baleful Formation, concealing its power and the group’s presence with a Karma Secret Technique.
• Xu Yunfan explained the formation’s three domains and its ability to trap and kill even Foundation Establishment Perfection cultivators, impressing Zhang Qiaoluo, Sun Yue, Mo Qisha, and Lu Chuan.
• Zhang Qiaoluo revived Ye Xuan, who cursed her and threatened that the Myriad Chariots Sword Sect would take revenge.
• Lu Chuan sensed Ye Yuan’s arrival, and Ye Yuan’s distant sword strike tore through the valley’s defenses and launched the battle.
• Lu Chuan invoked the Profound Clarity Imperial Decree Edict True Method and commanded the surrounding spiritual qi to return to its flow.

Ye Yuan confronted Lu Chuan and Zhang Qiaoluo at the valley entrance and used Yao Guang Splits the Sea to break both of their attacks. Lu Chuan was sent crashing into a mountainside, while Zhang Qiaoluo’s Soul Slaughter Bead was destroyed.

• Lu Chuan gathered spiritual qi into a vortex to suppress the approaching sword intent, while Zhang Qiaoluo formed a Mysterious Female Soul Slaughter Bead from Profound Nether Heavy Water.
• Ye Yuan appeared at the entrance to the valley and thrust his iron sword, unleashing Yao Guang Splits the Sea.
• Ye Yuan’s sword intent pierced the core of Lu Chuan’s Spiritual Qi Vortex and shattered its decree, causing the backlash to injure Lu Chuan and hurl him into a mountainside.
• Ye Yuan’s continuing sword qi split Zhang Qiaoluo’s Soul Slaughter Bead in two and dissolved it into green smoke.

Ye Yuan shattered Lu Chuan and Zhang Qiaoluo’s attacks, but Xu Yunfan unleashed a prepared formation as Sun Yue and Mo Qisha launched coordinated attacks. The chapter ended with the lightning, baleful qi, and two killers closing in on Ye Yuan.

• Ye Yuan broke Lu Chuan’s pure-qi edict and destroyed Zhang Qiaoluo’s Soul Slaughter Bead with one sword strike.
• Xu Yunfan activated the Nine Heavens Five Thunder Yin-Yang Chaos God Overturning Baleful Formation, trapping Ye Yuan in heavenly lightning, earth-vein baleful qi, and soul-assailing Mind Thunder.
• Sun Yue attacked Ye Yuan’s right ribs with a devastating punch as Ye Yuan’s strength was between peaks.
• Mo Qisha emerged from Ye Yuan’s shadow and thrust his Shadow Seven Absolute Sword at him in a silent assassination attempt.

Ye Yuan killed Mo Qisha and Sun Yue with his fierce sword intent, then shattered Xu Yunfan’s grand formation with a single strike. As the formation collapsed, Zhang Qiaoluo and Lu Chuan fled, leaving Xu Yunfan to face Ye Yuan alone.

• Sun Yue and Mo Qisha launched a coordinated attack on Ye Yuan, who answered with a sword strike that severed Sun Yue’s arm and shattered Mo Qisha’s Shadow Seven Absolute Sword, forcing Mo Qisha’s true spirit to flee.
• Sun Yue unleashed his Heaven and Earth Perish Together technique, but Ye Yuan pierced his crown and stopped the self-destruction before it could erupt.
• Xu Yunfan’s Nine Heavens Five Thunder Yin-Yang Chaos-God Overwhelming Fiend Formation unleashed its final thunderbolts, and Ye Yuan broke the formation with a sword strike.
• Xu Yunfan saw that Zhang Qiaoluo and Lu Chuan had fled during the formation’s collapse.
• Ye Yuan fixed his gaze on Xu Yunfan, who circulated the Threefold Karma Secret Technique and detonated the formation’s remaining power.

Xu Yunfan fled the collapsing gorge with Ye Xuan as Ye Yuan pursued them across the East Sea. After evading Ye Yuan’s first strike, Xu Yunfan finally unleashed his full strength and met the sword cultivator’s attack head-on.

• Xu Yunfan seized Ye Xuan and escaped the gorge, while Ye Yuan pursued them using his sword-soul perception of the Ye Family bloodline.
• Ye Xuan revealed that her bloodline let Ye Yuan track her, and Xu Yunfan decided to keep her as a hostage and as bait tied to the Boundary Heaven.
• Xu Yunfan led Ye Yuan into the East Sea, where he dodged Ye Yuan’s Yao Guang Splits the Sea strike and summoned the True Martial Sword.
• Xu Yunfan unleashed Thunderstrike: Shatter the Firmament, and his purple lightning dragon collided with Ye Yuan’s white-gold sword rainbow, blasting a vast crater into the sea.

Xu Yunfan trapped Ye Yuan in the peak seventh-rank Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Array and set its Star Lords against him. Ye Yuan fought back with his sword intent, but the array overwhelmed him and left him injured.

• Ye Yuan and Xu Yunfan exchanged blows, and Xu Yunfan waited for Ye Yuan’s sword momentum to peak before unfurling the Zhou Tian Star Spirit Banner.
• The banner summoned the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Array, severed Ye Yuan’s connection to the Northern Dipper’s Blazing Light star, and revealed its Star Lords, including Sun Wukong, Yang Jian, Nezha, Ye Kai, and Fei Lun.
• Sun Wukong, Yang Jian, and Nezha attacked Ye Yuan in succession while Xu Yunfan sustained the formation and explained that Ye Xuan’s bloodline had helped lure Ye Yuan into the trap.
• Ye Yuan summoned a thousand-zhang sword dragon, but Zimo True Person bound it with black chains as Fei Lun and Ye Kai struck at him.
• Ye Yuan unleashed his unyielding sword intent and drove back the Star Lords, but the array’s Star Power crushed much of his sword aura and injured him.

Ye Yuan unleashed the Pure White Forbidden Domain, revealing the depth of his unyielding sword Dao and striking at Xu Yunfan with a sword light that pierced through the formation’s defenses. The chapter ended as Ye Yuan’s attack advanced toward Xu Yunfan, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Xu Yunfan kept Ye Yuan suppressed with the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Array and braced as Ye Yuan’s aura gathered.
• Ye Yuan recalled how he had nurtured his sword, Hui Gang, and declared Xu Yunfan worthy of dying beneath it.
• Ye Yuan manifested the Pure White Forbidden Domain · Hui Gang Shore, displaying a Dao comprehension close to the Golden Core threshold.
• Ye Yuan burned his Dao foundation and will to unleash a white-gold sword line that tore through the array’s star radiance.
• The sword line broke through the Mounting Heaven Sword Seat’s astral qi, the demon’s baleful aura chains, and Ye Kai’s soul-body sword light.

Xu Yunfan faced Ye Yuan’s near-unstoppable sword strike and, at the brink of death, unleashed his rage to form a Wrathful Kill Sword Intent. His desperate counterstrike met Ye Yuan’s platinum sword line, leaving both wills locked in a devastating clash.

• Ye Yuan’s platinum sword line pierced through the formation’s defenses and appeared inches from Xu Yunfan’s brow.
• Xu Yunfan opened his Martial Dao Heavenly Eye and drove his body into a berserk state by drawing on his fury.
• Xu Yunfan used the Heaven and Earth Intercourse Yin-Yang Union True Scripture to ignite his rage and awaken the Wrathful Kill Sword Intent.
• Xu Yunfan poured his mana into the True Martial Sword and slashed upward, sending a scarlet and purple-gold sword aura against Ye Yuan’s strike.
• The two sword intents collided; Xu Yunfan’s sword aura resisted, but the impact split his palms and cracked his body as he bled from his mouth and nose.

Xu Yunfan defeated Ye Yuan’s sword intent, but Ye Yuan deduced that Xu Yunfan had severed an incarnation through the Eight Sceneries of Xuan Capital Cloud Canon and linked it to Han Shi’s Wrathful Kill Sword Intent. Xu Yunfan abandoned his pretense and attacked Ye Yuan with the Star Spirit Banner, while readying Lunar Immortal Golden Nature to match his strength.

• Xu Yunfan’s Wrathful Kill Sword Intent shattered Ye Yuan’s sword intent and cracked the True Martial Sword, shocking Ye Yuan.
• Ye Yuan recognized the Wrathful Kill Sword Intent as resembling Han Shi’s and questioned Xu Yunfan about the Eight Sceneries of Xuan Capital Cloud Canon.
• Ye Yuan deduced that Xu Yunfan had created an incarnation bearing the source imprint and dark emotions of his main body, and challenged him to deny it.
• Xu Yunfan realized Ye Yuan had seen through him and resolved to kill the Myriad Chariots Sword Sect elder rather than flee.
• Xu Yunfan unfurled the Star Spirit Banner and unleashed the Myriad Stars Array’s Kui Water Yin Thunder at Ye Yuan while preparing to use Lunar Immortal Golden Nature.

Xu Yunfan refined the Empress of Heaven’s Great Yin Immortal Golden Nature to reach temporary Foundation Establishment Perfection and unleashed the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Array against Ye Yuan. As Ye Yuan answered with a desperate sword manifestation, Xu Yunfan summoned the Star Lords to help suppress and kill him.

• Xu Yunfan refined the Great Yin Immortal Golden Nature through his Great Yin Profound Mirror Dao Fruit, boosting his power to Foundation Establishment Perfection.
• Xu Yunfan empowered the Zhou Tian Star Spirit Banner with Eight Sceneries Cloud Qi and commanded its Banner Spirits to take their positions in the array.
• Xu Yunfan attacked Ye Yuan with a torrent of starlight and Kui Water Yin Thunder, while Ye Yuan considered retreating and resolved to fight his way out.
• Ye Yuan burned his Dao foundation and will to unleash the Pure White Forbidden Domain, then struck Xu Yunfan with a near-instant, all-out sword attack.
• Xu Yunfan opened his Martial Dao Heavenly Eye, accelerated the array, and summoned Yang Jian, Nezha, Wukong, Ye Kai, Fei Lun, Sun Yue, Wang Qi, and the other Star Lords to suppress Ye Yuan.

Xu Yunfan killed Ye Yuan with a fusion of his martial blood and qi, the Hundred Desires Secret Art, and Han Shi’s sword intent, then captured Ye Yuan’s soul in the Star Spirit Banner. As he held Ye Xuan, Qingyuan True Monarch appeared and revealed that he knew Xu Yunfan possessed the Great Yin Profound Mirror Dao Fruit.

• Xu Yunfan’s Wrathful Kill Sword Intent shattered Ye Yuan’s sword intent, and the Star Lords of the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Array finished the attack, killing Ye Yuan.
• Xu Yunfan imprisoned Ye Yuan’s fading soul in the Star Spirit Banner and gained Dao cultivation points from the kill.
• Xu Yunfan withdrew the Star Spirit Banner, retrieved the captive Ye Xuan, and prepared to question her about the intelligence she held.
• Qingyuan True Monarch appeared before Xu Yunfan and identified the Great Yin Profound Mirror Dao Fruit as an object in his possession.

Xu Yunfan faced Clear Source True Monarch, who demanded the Lunar Dao Fruit and threatened to kill him if he refused. Xu Yunfan rejected the offer and exposed Clear Source True Monarch’s secret actions in the East Sea, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Clear Source True Monarch confronted Xu Yunfan and demanded the Lunar Dao Fruit, offering the World-Sealing Startling Thunder Marrow in exchange.
• Xu Yunfan resisted Clear Source True Monarch’s pressure and questioned whether the reward could rival the Dao Fruit.
• Clear Source True Monarch threatened to destroy Xu Yunfan’s body and soul if he refused to hand over the Dao Fruit.
• Xu Yunfan judged that Clear Source True Monarch intended to silence him and noticed the tangled karmic currents above the eastern sea.
• Xu Yunfan accused Clear Source True Monarch of acting behind Pudu True Monarch’s back and stirring up the Heavenly Secrets of the East Sea.

Xu Yunfan used Pure Yang Ancestor Lu Chunyang’s Sword One: Illusion Breaker to break Clear Source True Monarch’s attempt to kill him and shatter his protective pure qi barrier. Wary of Xu Yunfan’s remaining sword intents and the chance of attracting other True Monarchs, Clear Source True Monarch withdrew, but a white jade hand appeared behind Xu Yunfan as he caught his breath.

• Clear Source True Monarch dropped his pretense and threatened to send Xu Yunfan into reincarnation before guiding him back to cultivation in another life.
• Xu Yunfan unleashed Sword One: Illusion Breaker, severing Clear Source True Monarch’s killing technique and cutting through his Clear Source Immortal Palace domain.
• Clear Source True Monarch blocked the sword intent with his cavern heaven, but it dissipated after destroying his protective pure qi barrier and leaving lingering sword intent behind.
• Clear Source True Monarch hesitated over Xu Yunfan’s two remaining sword intents and the risk of drawing others’ attention, then vowed to remember what happened and vanished.
• Xu Yunfan nearly fell from the air from exhaustion, but a white jade hand appeared behind his head and pressed toward him.

Xu Yunfan survived Clear Source True Monarch’s sneak attack with the Calamity Annihilation sword intent, then unleashed the Pure Yang Ancestor’s final sword intent against him. Clear Source True Monarch blocked most of the blow but suffered severe injuries as his grotto-heaven began to falter.

• Clear Source True Monarch’s white jade palm attacked Xu Yunfan from behind, but Xu Yunfan’s Calamity Annihilation sword intent destroyed it and severed Clear Source True Monarch’s wrist.
• Xu Yunfan confronted the furious Clear Source True Monarch and revealed that he had prepared layers of formations against a sneak attack.
• Xu Yunfan activated Lu Chunyang’s No Return sword intent, forcing Clear Source True Monarch to summon his grotto-heaven and Clear Source Immortal Palace to defend himself.
• The sword intent clashed with Clear Source True Monarch’s Immortal Palace Pure Qi, struck his grotto-heaven, and made him vomit pale golden blood as his aura fell sharply.