Chapter Summaries

Xu Xiaoshou severed his Dao in public, shattering every Great Dao Disk with swords of intent, then used Dao-Nurturing Seeds to form Spatial Profundity while Ye Xiaotian watched. After severing the Space Dao Disk, Xu Xiaoshou’s energy sea expanded and his breakthrough began.

• Xu Xiaoshou recognized that fame had loosened his spirit-cultivation bottleneck and chose to seize the Dao Severance Moment despite his doubts.
• Xu Xiaoshou shattered his Body, Soul, Intent, and other Great Dao Disks, including the Life Dao Disk, with successive strikes of intent.
• Xu Xiaoshou’s Second True Body asked Ye Xiaotian for a drop of blood, while Xu Xiaoshou prepared to use Dao-Nurturing Seeds to form Spatial Profundity.
• Xu Xiaoshou formed Spatial Profundity, driving Ye Xiaotian into an envious outburst before he composed himself for the Dao Transmission Mirror.
• Xu Xiaoshou shattered his Space Dao Disk, and spiritual energy surged into him as his energy sea expanded.

After Xu Xiaoshou reached Dao Severing and tested the vast reach of his spatial profundity, Qiao Qianzhi suddenly gained Saint power and fled to cultivate after a burst of enlightenment. Xu Xiaoshou secretly gave Zhong Yuanzi a jade talisman to the Apricot Realm, leaving the elemental divine envoy torn between his Dao-seeking curiosity and his allegiance to the Holy Spirit Hall.

• Xiao Qixiu and Qiao Qianzhi watched Xu Xiaoshou reach Dao Severing and debated how he had comprehended spatial profundity.
• Qiao Qianzhi became absorbed in the patterns of heaven and earth, erupted with Saint power, and fled toward Tiansang Spirit Palace to enter seclusion.
• A Saint voice told Xiao Qixiu, “Whatever heaven and earth bestow, nothing cannot be used,” before the people in Eight Palaces Town fainted again.
• Xu Xiaoshou tested his spatial profundity, sensed Eight Palaces Town from the Central Region, and learned that Ye Xiaotian had gone to investigate Qiao Qianzhi.
• Xu Xiaoshou drew Zhong Yuanzi into a hidden spatial world and gave him a jade talisman to the Apricot Realm.
• Zhong Yuanzi returned to Fang Wenxin with the talisman concealed in his palm and wondered whether he should visit the Apricot Realm.

Dao Xuanji learned that Xu Xiaoshou had defeated Bei Bei and broken through to Dao Severing, then scrambled to reach Ai Cangsheng amid the deadly battle in the Godslayer Official Ruins. Back in Yujing, Liu Fuyu challenged Xu Xiaoshou, who reminded the Holy Spirit Hall that their Gentleman's Agreement still remained.

• Xi reported that Xu Xiaoshou had defeated Bei Bei, broken Emperor Sword: Heaven's Liberation, and used sword intent to sever his Dao foundation and reach Dao Severing.
• Xi told Dao Xuanji that Shen Yi had found Ai Cangsheng, but their battle was so dangerous that Jiang Nayi could not approach; attempts to enlist Yue Gongli had also ended with Jiang Nayi losing an arm and a leg.
• Dao Xuanji ordered Jiang Nayi to seek Wei An by telling him about Ye Xiaotian's Sainthood and Xu Xiaoshou's breakthrough, while Liu Fuyu and Gu Yu stalled for time.
• Xu Xiaoshou put away Hidden Pain after regretting that it had gained little from the fame surrounding his breakthrough, while Liu Fuyu volunteered to challenge him and Gu Yu warned her to be careful.
• Liu Fuyu confronted Xu Xiaoshou, who dismissed the need to rest and reminded the Holy Spirit Hall that they still had a Gentleman's Agreement to fulfill.

Xu Xiaoshou used the wager over Yujing City to expose the Holy Spirit Hall’s weakness and pressure Zhong Yuanzi to join First Pavilion Under Heaven. After sparing the city from a massacre, he used the Spatial Profundity Formation Diagram to move Yujing City into his Apricot Realm.

• Xu Xiaoshou insisted that his wager with Bei Bei gave him ownership of Yujing City, while Fang Wenxin offered to seek him a city-lord title under the Holy Spirit Hall.
• Xu Xiaoshou mocked Fang Wenxin’s authority and declared that the Holy Spirit Hall had lost its former power, leaving Fang unable to refute him.
• Xu Xiaoshou appealed to Zhong Yuanzi’s compassion and offered to spare Yujing City if Zhong Yuanzi joined First Pavilion Under Heaven.
• Dao Xuanji tried to stop Zhong Yuanzi from choosing, but Xu Xiaoshou threatened to massacre Yujing City if she interfered.
• Zhong Yuanzi refused to join Xu Xiaoshou but pleaded for the city, and Xu Xiaoshou agreed to spare its people while claiming control of Yujing City.
• Xu Xiaoshou collapsed much of the Xuanji Grand Formation and transported Yujing City into his Apricot Realm.

Xu Xiaoshou moved Yujing City into the Apricot Realm and left Li Fugui in charge of its residents. With the Apricot Realm Lord Seal and the Frostsky Weasel behind him, Li Fugui subdued the city’s factions and began organizing them to rebuild their new home.

• People outside Yujing City realized Xu Xiaoshou had relocated the entire city into the Apricot Realm, while its residents found themselves cut off from the Five Domains.
• Li Fugui celebrated his connection to Xu Xiaoshou, and the Second True Body appointed him Lord of the Apricot Realm with the newly condensed Lord Seal.
• The Second True Body ordered the Frostsky Weasel to follow Li Fugui and enforce his authority over anyone who defied him.
• Li Fugui used the Frostsky Weasel’s semi-Saint power and Xu Xiaoshou’s reputation to shake the Holy Spirit Hall loyalists and undermine their resolve to resist.
• Li Fugui divided Yujing City’s residents by cultivation level and rallied them to rebuild the Apricot Realm.

After moving Yujing City into the Apricot Realm, Xu Xiaoshou reassured Long Xing that he had prepared ways to escape Dao Qiongchang and used the city as leverage in his dispute with Fang Wenxin. The Seven Sword Immortals battle then began, and Xu Xiaoshou negotiated a wager with Liu Fuyu that could bind either of them to the other.

• Xu Xiaoshou told Long Xing that moving Yujing City into the Apricot Realm would not leave him vulnerable to Dao Qiongchang, and explained why he planned to keep Dao Xuanji alive.
• Fang Wenxin demanded to know where Xu Xiaoshou had moved Yujing City, and Xu Xiaoshou repeated his offer to exchange a person for the city while forbidding the Half-Saints from interfering.
• Zhong Yuanzi realized Xu Xiaoshou had secretly given him an Apricot Realm Jade Talisman, leaving him a chance to enter the Apricot Realm.
• Feng Zhongzui began the battle of the Seven Sword Immortals, and Liu Fuyu told Xu Xiaoshou she wanted him to return with her to the Sword Tower.
• Xu Xiaoshou challenged Liu Fuyu to offer a fair wager, and she offered him one day of free access to the Sword Tower if he won.
• Xu Xiaoshou proposed that whoever lost would belong to the winner.

Liu Fuyu agreed to go with Xu Xiaoshou, then began a battle with him after demonstrating her ancient sword cultivation and oppressive Divine Mind Penetration. The chapter ended as she used No-Self Swordstep, which Feng Zhongzui recognized as the lost Ancient Sword Step of Sword God Gu Louying.

• Mu Zixi emerged after Lei Xier’s consciousness receded, confronted Xu Xiaoshou, and objected to being filmed by Feng Zhongzui.
• Liu Fuyu agreed to Xu Xiaoshou’s proposal, then opened Hu with Hidden Sword Art and displayed her powerful sword intent.
• Cao Erzhu arrived and explained the six types of Divine Mind Penetration, prompting Feng Zhongzui and the other observers to realize he was Kui Leihan’s son.
• Liu Fuyu said she would bind her realm and fight Xu Xiaoshou with No-Sword Technique and Ghost Sword Technique, then set Hu down and challenged him to a No-Sword Technique match.
• Liu Fuyu unleashed No-Self Swordstep, vanished from Xu Xiaoshou’s perception, and astonished the ancient sword cultivators watching.

Liu Fuyu attacked Xu Xiaoshou with the ancient sword method Fifty-Four Sword-Step Slays, cutting through his defenses with increasingly numerous, traceless strikes. After enduring the assault and studying its sword principles, Xu Xiaoshou countered with a Sword Profundity Formation Diagram and the Heart Sword Technique, ending with a mysterious invocation that left the duel unresolved.

• Dao Qiongchang asked Ba Zunan about Fifty-Four Sword-Step Slays, and Ba Zunan explained that the lost sword method had once been considered unbreakable.
• Liu Fuyu struck Xu Xiaoshou with successive invisible sword attacks, bypassing his defenses and leaving him gravely wounded.
• Xu Xiaoshou tried several sword techniques and evasive methods but could not locate Liu Fuyu or stop the escalating attacks.
• As Liu Fuyu’s ninth slay pierced Xu Xiaoshou’s chest, he analyzed the sword method and decided to counter before its attacks overwhelmed him.
• Xu Xiaoshou unfolded a Sword Profundity Formation Diagram and invoked the Heart Sword Technique, then vanished as his voice recited the Nine Swords of Chaos-Way Cleaving and Other-Self Venerable Heart Technique.

Xu Xiaoshou and Liu Fuyu clashed with their Second Realm sword techniques, Prajna-Nothingness and Heaven Abandoned, until their powers weakened into a stalemate. Liu Fuyu then revealed that she had survived the clash and summoned the Gate of Hell, leaving Xu Xiaoshou facing another attack.

• Xu Xiaoshou unleashed Prajna-Nothingness, enclosing the battlefield and halting Liu Fuyu's Fifty-Four Sword-Step Slays.
• Liu Fuyu answered with Heaven Abandoned, whose daylight sun began dissolving Xu Xiaoshou, his sword, and his Sword Profundity Formation Diagram.
• Xu Xiaoshou recognized the sun as Heaven Abandoned's anchor and used Prajna-Nothingness to erode it, while Liu Fuyu weakened his formation in return.
• Mei Suren explained that Liu Fuyu's Heaven Abandoned had reached the pinnacle, while Xu Xiaoshou relied on his exceptional combat awareness to find its weakness.
• Liu Fuyu let Supreme White Sun vanish, emerged as a damaged soul, and summoned the Gate of Hell with her soul blood.

As Liu Fuyu launched the Fengdu Sword at Xu Xiaoshou, he improvised a Spirit Sword Technique based on Mountain-Sea Reliance and blocked her attack. His unprecedented technique stunned observers across the Holy Spirit Continent and Apricot Realm, while Feng Xiaose reacted with furious disbelief and Xiao Qixiu began comprehending the Dao.

• Liu Fuyu formed the Fengdu Sword from her soul power and thrust it at Xu Xiaoshou with Dao Pointing.
• Xu Xiaoshou used Unity of Heaven and Man to devise a spirit-based version of Mountain-Sea Reliance while Liu Fuyu briefly paused her attack.
• Xu Xiaoshou drew the Yanmang sword and created Spirit Sword Technique: Mountain-Sea Reliance, a vast defensive boundary woven from Sword Thoughts and Great Dao rules.
• Mei Suren, Feng Zhongzui, and other witnesses were stunned as Xu Xiaoshou's technique challenged their understanding of Ancient Sword Arts.
• Ba Zunan said Xu Xiaoshou's path could not be imitated and that he had glimpsed its boundless, bleak outline.
• Feng Xiaose raged at Xu Xiaoshou for obtaining the Spirit Sword Technique, while Xiao Qixiu entered a state of enlightenment and murmured that it could be done that way.

Xu Xiaoshou turned Liu Fuyu’s Fengdu Sword against her with his improvised Spirit Sword Technique, Hungry Ghost Path, and Mo Sword Technique, nearly defeating her before Mei Suren intervened. Liu Fuyu conceded the match and accepted their agreement, while Mei Suren’s fan revealed the words “Crimes deserve their punishment.”

• Xu Xiaoshou used Spirit Sword Technique Mountain-Sea Reliance and the Hungry Ghost Path to repel Liu Fuyu’s Fengdu Sword and drain its power.
• Xu Xiaoshou reversed the Fengdu Sword’s attack, seized control of it, and transformed its soul energy into a Mo Sword.
• Liu Fuyu summoned Guard and used Unsheathed Sword, but Xu Xiaoshou absorbed the clash and unleashed a Fengdu Sword strike at her.
• Mei Suren intervened with the Ten Kings of Hell to stop Xu Xiaoshou’s attack before it shattered Liu Fuyu’s soul body.
• Liu Fuyu thanked Mei Suren, read the words on his fan, and conceded the battle, agreeing that she belonged to Xu Xiaoshou.

After defeating Liu Fuyu, Xu Xiaoshou publicly entered enlightenment and began investing his accumulated Passive Value into the Sword Dao Disk. The disk started at only 18%, leaving him stunned as the chapter ended.

• Xu Xiaoshou defeated Liu Fuyu with Reverse Sword-Flight, acknowledged her skill, and invited her to join First Pavilion Under Heaven.
• Xu Xiaoshou admitted Liu Fuyu had shown restraint and conceded that she surpassed him in Ancient Sword Arts.
• Feng Tingchen tried to leave, but Gu Yu called him back while Mei Suren mocked Gu Yu and disrupted his challenge.
• Xu Xiaoshou asked Feng Tingchen to broadcast his gains, then closed his eyes and entered enlightenment as new Dao Patterns appeared.
• Xu Xiaoshou used his recovered Passive Value to add points to the Sword Dao Disk, but was shocked when it began at only 18%.

Xu Xiaoshou used Dao-Nurturing Seeds to raise his Sword Dao Disk to 80%, gaining profound insights while the ancient sword cultivators watched. He nearly lost himself to Dao-transcendence, but a sharp cry from his mind jolted him awake, leaving him stunned by how much Passive Value he had spent.

• Xu Xiaoshou reasoned that the Sword Dao Disk encompassed the Nine Great Profundities and required far more resources than Sword Mastery to advance.
• Xu Xiaoshou planted Dao-Nurturing Seeds until his Sword Dao Disk began progressing, then spent millions of Passive Value as its progress climbed.
• Liu Fuyu, Gu Yu, and the other ancient sword cultivators watched Xu Xiaoshou comprehend an array of sword arts at an astonishing rate.
• Xu Xiaoshou's Sword Dao Disk reached 80%, and his insights deepened until he drifted toward Dao-transcendence and began to vanish in the formation's light.
• Dao Qiongchang and Gou Wuyue discussed the danger of Xu Xiaoshou being assimilated, while Mei Suren struggled to awaken him.
• A terrified cat's cry jolted Xu Xiaoshou back to himself, and he discovered that his Passive Value had fallen to 15,753,222.

After Xu Xiaoshou’s Sword Dao breakthrough, Gu Yu chose to challenge him with Plum Rain, staking the swords’ names and his own place on the Seven Sword Immortal path. Gu Yu began his first of three promised strikes with the Eight-Gate Grain-Sowing Sword, trapping Xu Xiaoshou in a shifting celestial phenomenon formation.

• Xu Xiaoshou revealed his new Sword Dao strength, and Gu Yu decided to face him despite recognizing the gap between them.
• Gu Yu and Xu Xiaoshou shared the stories of Plum Rain and Hidden Pain, then declared that their swords would battle for fame.
• Gu Yu wagered that Xu Xiaoshou must withdraw from Yujing City for a month if he could not withstand three swords, while promising to support him if he succeeded.
• Feng Zhongzui explained Gu Yu’s sword arts and Celestial Phenomenon Aspect as Gu Yu prepared his opening move.
• Gu Yu summoned the Eight-Gate Grain-Sowing Sword and enclosed Xu Xiaoshou in its shifting formation, declaring that the sword would fix life and summon chaos.

Xu Xiaoshou endured Gu Yu’s Eight-Gate Grain-Sowing Sword, then rapidly comprehended and copied its techniques, turning Gu Yu’s own sword arts against him. The chapter ended with Gu Yu’s arms severed by Xu Xiaoshou’s hidden strike, Celestial Phenomenon: Hundun.

• Gu Yu used Spring Birth and Summer Growth to unleash the Eight-Gate Grain-Sowing Sword’s life force, but Xu Xiaoshou remained composed and taunted him.
• Xu Xiaoshou used Temporal Sequence: Reversal to disrupt Gu Yu’s attack, then replicated the Eight-Gate Grain-Sowing Sword and trapped him in its array.
• Xu Xiaoshou turned the sword’s life force against Gu Yu, who countered with Autumn Harvest and Winter Storage before unleashing Yin-Yang Annihilation.
• Xu Xiaoshou caught Gu Yu’s attack, added Sword Thought, and used a copied Yin-Yang Thoughtbreaker to force Gu Yu to summon Celestial Phenomenon: Hundun.
• Xu Xiaoshou appeared behind Gu Yu and named his sword West Wind Withers Snow, revealing that he had also drawn out Celestial Phenomenon: Hundun.
• Gu Yu’s clothes burst apart as Xu Xiaoshou’s hidden strike severed both of his arms along with his sword.

Xu Xiaoshou overwhelmed Gu Yu with West Wind Withers Snow, then comprehended oppressive Divine Mind Penetration during their duel. Gu Yu recovered and revealed a complex combination of sword arts, culminating in the Unified Extreme Sword.

• Xu Xiaoshou used West Wind Withers Snow to sever both of Gu Yu’s arms, then let Gu Yu heal while taunting him.
• Xu Xiaoshou awakened oppressive Divine Mind Penetration, and Gu Yu sensed the new power before shifting to his second sword.
• Gu Yu invoked Plum Rain · Heaven’s Liberation and used Emotion Sword Art · Emotionless Sword · Flying Cloud Reliance to seal the battlefield in drifting clouds.
• Gu Yu followed with Illusion Sword Technique’s Second World, surrounding Xu Xiaoshou with a misty landscape and nine towering illusory swords.
• Xu Xiaoshou pressed Gu Yu to stop reciting and finish his technique, and Gu Yu declared, “Three realms return to one, Unified Extreme Sword!”

Xu Xiaoshou countered Gu Yu’s fused sword technique by evolving the Myriad Sword Technique, exploiting time through the Illusion Sword Technique, and trapping Gu Yu in a Second World that questioned his motives. The chapter left Gu Yu overwhelmed by the possibility that he had abandoned his true Dao for a Half-Saint Godhood.

• Gu Yu fused Plum Rain’s Heaven’s Liberation with three Second Realms to create the Unified Extreme Sword, while Flying Cloud Reliance and the Second World restricted Xu Xiaoshou’s options.
• Xu Xiaoshou used Sword Thought and momentum to form Wrath of the Great Silver God, whose silver wings struck against the descending Unified Extreme Sword.
• Xu Xiaoshou realized Gu Yu’s Second World was reversing his state and siphoning his power into the Unified Extreme Sword, then used the Illusion Sword Technique’s Spacetime Leap to return to the sword’s initial descent.
• Xu Xiaoshou cast his own Second World over Gu Yu’s three-realm technique and confronted him with a vision of the secluded life he had abandoned and the Half-Saint Godhood he had pursued.
• Xu Xiaoshou challenged Gu Yu’s belief that the Great Dao lay only in Holy Firmament Hall and Half-Saint Godhood, and Gu Yu was left shaken as the Second World collapsed around him.

Xu Xiaoshou defeated Gu Yu by exposing the old swordsman’s inner conflict, but Gu Yu insisted on completing his promised three swords. After Xu Xiaoshou conceded, Gu Yu renewed his Heaven’s Liberation and summoned seven Second Realms to unleash the Mysterious Gate.

• Gu Yu’s Unified Extreme Sword collapsed when Xu Xiaoshou’s Second World and words drove him into qi deviation, and Xu Xiaoshou suppressed the demonic energy to restore his clarity.
• Gu Yu struggled to stand and insisted on delivering three swords, while Mei Suren warned him that he could not defeat Xu Xiaoshou.
• Gu Yu revealed that his third sword was aimed at himself and the people of the world, prompting Xu Xiaoshou to recognize the danger and concede.
• Gu Yu declared that he had lost his way and could not return, then renewed Plum Rain’s Heaven’s Liberation as Mei Suren left the battlefield.
• Gu Yu manifested seven Second Realms and called out, “Sword, open! Mysterious Gate!”

Gu Yu forced open the Mysterious Gate with the Unparalleled Sword and struck Xu Xiaoshou, but the encounter left both men drained and Gu Yu unable to retain what he had glimpsed. As the plum rain stopped, Gu Yu died in Mei Suren’s arms after reciting a line of poetry.

• Feng Zhongzui and the spectators realized Gu Yu had invoked the Unparalleled Sword despite his incomplete sword arts, and Ba Zunan admired his courage.
• Gu Yu opened the Mysterious Gate, and the sight moved Xu Xiaoshou and the sword cultivators watching across the Five Domains.
• Gu Yu fixed his gaze on Xu Xiaoshou and unleashed a sword that pierced the Limit Giant, while the Dao Transmission Mirror went black and the spectators missed the attack.
• The mirror returned to show Gu Yu gravely weakened, and Xu Xiaoshou found his energy exhausted and his memories of the sword unclear.
• Mei Suren held Gu Yu as he claimed to have remembered the Mysterious Gate, then Gu Yu recited a poem before realizing he had retained nothing.
• Gu Yu said the plum rain had stopped and died in Mei Suren’s arms.

At Holy Firmament Hall, Dao Xuanji struggled to find reliable allies and ordered the Puxuan Jiang Clan erased, but Jiang Nayi returned from the Ran Ming Ruins before the order could proceed. Ai Cangsheng then emerged with overwhelming Evil Sin pressure, and demanded that Dao Qiongchang come see him before anyone discussed anything else.

• Dao Xuanji questioned Xi about Gu Yu and asked Fish Elder for insight, but Fish Elder declared that he would agree with whatever she proposed.
• Dao Xuanji ordered the Puxuan Jiang Clan of the Northern Region struck from existence after learning Jiang Nayi remained in the Ran Ming Ruins.
• Jiang Nayi returned in Fish Elder's lap, bragged about Ai Cangsheng and Shen Yi, and asked where Ai Cangsheng had entered the ruins.
• The Nine-Sacrifice Osmanthus Spirit Body pointed out Ai Cangsheng's entrance, and Jiang Nayi rushed to welcome him back.
• Ai Cangsheng arrived in his wheelchair, and his black-red Evil Sin pressure battered the people and wrecked Holy Firmament Hall before he reined it in.
• Ai Cangsheng asked where Dao Qiongchang was and told the others to have him come see him before discussing anything else.