Chapter Summaries

Xu Xiaoshou tried to follow the Sword Ancestor’s guiding light to rescue Xiao Wanfeng, but the Devil Ancestor’s trap nearly let the Cold Palace Saint Emperor capture his consciousness. He escaped through Yue Gongli, discovered Sui Yin within him, secured the Sui Yin Puppet, and warned Ba Zunan that time was running out.

• Ba Zunan used Spacetime Leap to pursue the guiding light but stopped when he realized his attack could damage Ghost Buddha and open the way for the three ancestors beyond the border.
• Xu Xiaoshou followed the guiding light through Xiao Wanfeng, but the Mind-Washing Pool in the Cold Palace Imperial Realm destroyed his divided consciousness.
• The Cold Palace Saint Emperor’s Frost-Shaping Hand seized the Mind-Washing Pool, and Xu Xiaoshou escaped by passing his consciousness through Yue Gongli before it could be captured.
• Before his consciousness vanished, Xu Xiaoshou glimpsed Sui Yin seated on a Blood-Bone Divine Throne within Yue Gongli.
• Xu Xiaoshou retrieved and sealed the Sui Yin Puppet, then warned Ba Zunan that they were out of time.

Ba Zunan absorbed the Sword Sea, the Famous Swords, and the power of tribulation into his Undying Sword Body as he prepared to fight Hua Changdeng. After briefly manifesting False Ancestor Transformation, he returned to the battlefield in complete control of his power, and Hua Changdeng agreed to test him.

• Ba Zunan summoned the Sword Sea’s swords back to himself and restored his Undying Sword Body, while Hua Changdeng realized the Sword Ancestor had suppressed their chance to pursue the Creation True Essence.
• Ba Zunan swallowed the Sword Sea and expanded his Sword Thought domain across ten thousand li, but Hua Changdeng said his power was still not enough.
• Ba Zunan swallowed the twenty Famous Swords, including Yuelian, and concealed their immense Sword Thought within his body as chains of the Way appeared around him.
• Ba Zunan absorbed the shattered chains of the Way and swallowed the three layers of tribulation clouds after briefly displaying the image of False Ancestor Transformation.
• Ba Zunan asked Hua Changdeng if his power was enough, and Hua Changdeng finally agreed that he was worth a try.

Hua Changdeng summoned his complete Ancestor God Divine Court, Yincao, and revealed the vast netherworld and Fengdu Gate to the Five Domains. A crowned, grotesque figure emerged from the coffin and summoned Ba Zunan for an audience, leaving the outcome of their confrontation unresolved.

• Hua Changdeng commanded Yincao, and his Ghost Ancestor Divine Court shattered the Ghost Buddha Realm battlefield and drew everyone into its spiritual realm.
• Moon Palace Slave explained that Yincao was a complete world of souls, while Matchmaker and other witnesses saw its monstrous ghosts, ten cities, and Lords of the Ten Halls.
• The Black and White Fiends opened Fengdu Gate, revealing the true Fengdu and unleashing the immense power of the Ancestor God Divine Court.
• Eight six-armed ghostly strongmen carried a coffin through the gate, and the Five Domains' cultivators feared Hua Changdeng would use Yincao to defeat Ba Zunan.
• The coffin opened to reveal a crowned, bloated monster, which issued a divine decree summoning Ba Zunan for an audience.

Ba Zunan defied Yincao’s summons, struck the Life-Reaping Judge and Granny Meng, and faced an army of ghosts empowered by Death God’s Power. As the swarm engulfed him, Gou Wuyue noticed that the black ocean beneath it seemed to contain pure Ancestral Source Power, as though Ba Zunan had shattered the Ghost Ancestor’s mark.

• Ba Zunan stopped the Judge’s deadly attack, crossed into the first city, and shot apart the Judge’s skull with a finger.
• Ba Zunan wounded Granny Meng and destroyed her divine decree before she could finish its proclamation.
• Granny Meng ordered Yincao’s ghosts to attack Ba Zunan, and the Fengdu Gate released Death God’s Power that empowered the ghost army.
• Ba Zunan shattered the ghosts rushing at him with Dao Pointing: Soul Shattering, but their vast swarm surrounded and engulfed him.
• Gou Wuyue watched the black ocean beneath Ba Zunan and suspected Ba Zunan had also shattered the Ghost Ancestor’s mark.

Ba Zunan broke free of the evil ghosts, revealed his Buddha Sword and overwhelming power, and forced Yincao’s generals to kneel. After the Death-Urging Judge empowered twenty generals with Holy Emperor battle strength, Ba Zunan faced them and offered them a choice between submission and death.

• Ba Zunan burst from the mass of evil ghosts, summoned the Buddha Sword Nuxian, and manifested a colossal golden Vajra that cleaved through a third of the ghosts.
• Ba Zunan ordered Yincao’s generals to kneel, and his sword pressure forced the Ten Palace Yama Lords, the Black and White Fiends, the Eight Strongmen, and Granny Meng down.
• The Death-Urging Judge tore up the divine decree and used the ghosts’ Death God’s Power to elevate twenty Fengdu generals to Holy Emperor battle strength.
• Moon Palace Slave explained how the Divine Court Yincao could grant its generals immense temporary power, while Yu Zhiwen feared for Grandpa Fish and heard Xu Xiaoshou promise that Hua Changdeng would die.
• Ba Zunan purified the black sea of Death God’s Power, then walked toward the twenty empowered generals and told them that those who bowed to him would live and those who offended him would die.

Ba Zunan unleashed the Mad Condor Sword’s Heaven’s Liberation, killing the Hammer Hall Yama Lord and suppressing the other Yama Lords. He revealed a nine-sword wheel, then summoned Qingfeng and sent nine world-destroying tornadoes through Yincao as the battle escalated.

• The Ten Yama Lords attacked Ba Zunan, who drew the Mad Condor Sword and evaded their blows with the Illusion Sword Technique.
• Ba Zunan unleashed Mad Condor: Heaven’s Liberation, and the Black-Gold Mad Condor tore apart the Hammer Hall Yama Lord while pinning down the other nine.
• The Black-and-White Fiends and eight coffin-bearing strongmen attacked, but Ba Zunan evaded them and revealed a sword wheel holding nine Famous Swords.
• Ba Zunan raised Qingfeng, let it fall, and transformed it into nine immense tornadoes that surged through Yincao.

Ba Zunan unleashed Qingfeng Heaven’s Liberation and annihilated Fengdu’s forces in Divine Court Yincao, then sent the resulting storms through the Gate of Fengdu. He waited for a response from beyond the gate, but none came.

• Ba Zunan’s Qingfeng Heaven’s Liberation formed nine world-destroying tornadoes, and Gou Wuyue and the Half-Saints shielded the forces behind him from their wake.
• The tornadoes tore apart the Eight Strongmen in six breaths and pressed toward the Life-Claiming Judge, whose forces raised the Ten Halls of Senluo: Spirit-Moving Ancestral Formation.
• Ba Zunan used Rainbow-Slaying Moon and Phoenix Tree Reflecting Autumn to kill the nine Hall Lords and Black and White Fiends, while the tornadoes erased the Life-Claiming Judge and Granny Meng.
• Ba Zunan sent the tornadoes carrying Death God’s Power through the Gate of Fengdu, then waited three breaths without receiving a response.

Ba Zunan used Great Unity Gives Birth to Water to split Divine Court Yincao and expose Hua Changdeng, who absorbed its power and began an Ancestor God Tribulation. As Hua Changdeng’s ascension threatened to let the three Ancestors beyond the realm enter the Holy Spirit Continent, the Demon Emperor Black Dragon and the others called on Master Shou for help.

• Ba Zunan drew Great Unity Gives Birth to Water and invoked Heaven’s Liberation, cleaving the Fengdu Gate and opening a breach between Divine Court Yincao and Lingyu Mountain.
• Hua Changdeng’s hidden form was revealed as Divine Court Yincao and its eighteen levels of hell collapsed, and he absorbed their power after the Ghost Ancestor’s imprint was erased.
• Black Chicken explained that Hua Changdeng aimed to become an Ancestor God without an Ancestor God Godhood, while Ba Zunan planned to use Hua Changdeng’s ascent to temper Sword Self.
• Hua Changdeng began the Ancestor God Tribulation openly, enduring its first bolts after absorbing Divine Court Yincao’s power.
• The Demon Emperor Black Dragon and the Three Ancestors of the White Lineage struggled amid the tribulation’s aftershocks as the three Ancestors beyond the realm threatened to enter through the Ghost Buddha’s passageway.
• The Demon Emperor Black Dragon and the others asked Master Shou what they should do as the balance of power collapsed.

Bei Huai threatened the Ghost Ancestor into drinking life bloodwater, then left Beming to seek Yue Gongqi and declared that he would endure as long as the Dao of Life survived. As the Medicine Ancestor approached Ghost Buddha, Elder Sang’s fragmented instructions led Divine Prison Azure Stone to send Demon Emperor Black Dragon to Kui Leihan, who began comprehending his self-created cultivation method amid gathering tribulation clouds.

• Bei Huai confronted the weakened Ghost Ancestor, exposed its plans involving Hua Changdeng and Xu Xiaoshou, and forced it to drink life bloodwater.
• Bei Huai announced that he would seek Yue Gongqi, then proclaimed that he would not perish while the Dao of Life endured.
• The Medicine Ancestor moved toward Ghost Buddha, prompting Elder Sang to awaken and give the Holy Emperors broken instructions.
• Divine Prison Azure Stone ordered Demon Emperor Black Dragon to go to Kui Leihan and listen only to it, and Resentful Buddha confirmed the order.
• Kui Leihan began cultivating with his self-created method, and tribulation clouds gathered inside and beyond the Time Realm Rift.

The Medicine Ancestor and Bei Huai unleashed destruction in the Cold Palace Imperial Realm while the Devil Ancestor and Medicine Ancestor argued over their plans. With the Cold Palace Saint Emperor turned into a puppet and the clan in danger, Yue Gonghui urged Yue Gongli to ascend to godhood and save the Cold Palace clan.

• Demon Emperor Black Dragon appeared in the northern sky as Kui Leihan began crossing an Ancestor God tribulation, alarming the Five Domains.
• The Medicine Ancestor paused before Ghost Buddha to confront the Devil Ancestor, while Bei Huai arrived in the Cold Palace Imperial Realm looking for Yue Gongli's father.
• Bei Huai attacked Yue Gongli, rejected Yue Gongli's warning about Dao Qiongchang, and began digging toward the stone hall; Dao Qiongchang appeared, denied the jade pendant's claims, and self-destructed.
• Bei Huai transformed into a pangolin and attacked the Cold Palace barrier, while the Medicine Ancestor sent branches into the realm and struck at its people.
• The Medicine Ancestor's branches and Bei Huai's attacks devastated the Cold Palace Imperial Realm, and Yue Gongli confronted Yue Gonghui about the disaster.
• Yue Gonghui revealed that the Cold Palace Saint Emperor had become a puppet and urged Yue Gongli to ascend to godhood, kill his father, and save the clan.

Yue Gongli accepted Dao Qiongchang’s route to seek a Saint Emperor Godhood as Hua Changdeng became the first Ancestral God of the Era of Spirit Refining. After surveying the Five Domains, Ancestor Hua used Intent Ghost to build a bridge to the Sorrowful Emperor Realm, where the Ghost Ancestor joined Them.

• Dao Qiongchang gave Yue Gongli a jade pendant and directed him to the Four Symbols Secret Realm to seek the Saint Emperor Qilin’s Godhood.
• Yue Gongli crushed the pendant and traveled to the Holy Spirit Continent as Hua Changdeng completed the Ancestral God Law-Extinguishing Tribulation and became Ancestor Hua.
• The Five Domains witnessed Hua Changdeng’s ascension and received the blessing of Their rain; Yue Gongli offered congratulations before entering the Four Symbols Secret Realm to pursue a Godhood.
• Ancestor Hua surveyed the Five Domains and the Saint Emperor Secret Realms, seeing the Ancestors, the Ghost Ancestor, and other powerful figures.
• Ancestor Hua sent Intent Ghost across time and space to form the Bridge of the Other Shore between the Holy Spirit Continent and the Sorrowful Emperor Realm.
• The Ghost Ancestor laughed and stepped onto the bridge as Ancestors and other powerful figures watched.

Ghost Ancestor willingly merged with Hua Changdeng, who sealed the Holy Spirit Continent behind the River of Forgetfulness and began Dao Fusion. Ba Zunan’s attack failed to stop Him, leaving him stranded as Cao Yihan and Xu Xiaoshou offered help.

• Sui Yin held back from intervening as Bei Huai and the Great World Locust Tree turned to confront Hua Changdeng and Ghost Ancestor.
• Xu Xiaoshou realized Ghost Ancestor might use the Death God’s Scythe to revive after the merger, while Ba Zunan feared Hua Changdeng would overwhelm him.
• Ba Zunan entered False Ancestor Transformation and attacked Hua Changdeng, but Hua Changdeng blocked his Unified Extreme Sword with Ghost Hunter.
• Hua Changdeng sealed the Holy Spirit Continent with the River of Forgetfulness, cutting off Cao Yihan’s Ancestral Origin Emperor Tribulation.
• Hua Changdeng swallowed Ghost Ancestor, and their wills began merging in Dao Fusion.
• Ba Zunan failed to break through the River of Forgetfulness, then declined Cao Yihan’s and Xu Xiaoshou’s offers of help.

Ba Zunan used the Ancestral God Law-Extinguishing Tribulation and the Illusion Sword Technique to enter the Dao through dreams, interrupting Hua Changdeng’s merger with Ghost Ancestor. His Great Dream of a Thousand Autumns opened the Mysterious Gate and summoned figures from the history of the sword path, including Gu Louying and Feng Wuhen.

• Hua Changdeng continued merging with Ghost Ancestor while Ba Zunan began using the tribulation he had previously swallowed.
• Ba Zunan entered the River of Forgetfulness and unleashed a Dream Sword that dragged cultivators across the Five Domains, including Hua Changdeng, into a shared dream.
• Ba Zunan revealed the third realm of the Illusion Sword Technique, Great Dream of a Thousand Autumns, and used it to break into Hua Changdeng’s Dao merger.
• The dream summoned the Sword God Gu Louying and Divine Sword Feng Wuhen, who challenged Gu Louying to a match.
• More renowned swordsmen appeared through the Famous Swords, including Hua Weiyang, Luo Xian, Bai Riju, and Cheng Xue, while Yousi recognized the figure as Xiao Hei.

Ba Zunan unleashed Great Dream of a Thousand Autumns, summoning ancient sword cultivators whose Heaven’s Liberation overwhelmed Hua Changdeng and threatened his unstable Dao fusion. Hua Changdeng countered by striking across time and summoning reinforcements, leaving Ba Zunan gravely wounded as a Saint Emperor Kunpeng Cry rang from the River of Forgetfulness.

• Ba Zunan summoned renowned sword cultivators and legendary swords from across history, including Luo Xian, Gu Yu, and Rao Yaoyao with Star-Moon Songstress.
• Ba Zunan’s Great Dream of a Thousand Autumns made the assembled ancient sword cultivators unleash countless Heaven’s Liberations against Hua Changdeng, splitting his power and destabilizing his Dao fusion.
• Hua Changdeng recovered from the Death God’s brief expulsion, summoned Spirit Ghost, and slashed across time to wound Ba Zunan before the dream sword could begin.
• Ba Zunan lost part of his soul and suffered severe injuries while Great Dream of a Thousand Autumns and Hua Changdeng’s time-cutting strike continued on intertwined timelines.
• Hua Changdeng summoned Fengdu’s will and used the Soul-Controlling Arcane Art, Kunpeng Sacrifice, as a Saint Emperor Kunpeng Cry sounded from the River of Forgetfulness.

Hua Changdeng used his Kunpeng yin-soul puppet to destroy Ba Zunan’s physical body, but Ba Zunan had deliberately abandoned it and gathered his soul and intent within Great Dream of a Thousand Autumns. There, he began a final sword attack that drew on ancient sword cultivators across the ages, unleashing the third realm of the Myriad Sword Technique.

• Hua Changdeng commanded Kunpeng to unleash Kunpeng Kill, which crushed Ba Zunan’s body and scattered his Undying Sword Body.
• Moon Palace Slave and Yu Zhiwen believed Ba Zunan had died, but Black Chicken sensed the fight was not over.
• Within Great Dream of a Thousand Autumns, Hua Changdeng realized Ba Zunan had voluntarily sacrificed his body to reclaim his soul and intent.
• Ba Zunan began chanting a sword poem and advanced on Hua Changdeng, who hesitated and summoned Fengdu and the Three Swords of the Sword Ghost to defend himself.
• Ba Zunan gathered the power of ancient sword cultivators into a killing formation and unleashed the Myriad Sword Technique’s third realm, World-Toppling Sword Bone.

Ba Zunan used the World-Toppling Sword Bone to open a second Mysterious Gate and overwhelm Hua Changdeng, breaking apart his defenses and interrupting his merger with the Dao. The chapter ended with Ba Zunan standing victorious in Lingyu, his sword hand bloodied and trembling, as the Five Domains witnessed his supremacy.

• Ba Zunan opened the Mysterious Gate of the Myriad Sword Technique, astonishing the Five Domains and showing ancient sword cultivators the World-Toppling Sword Bone.
• Gou Wuyue and other sword cultivators recognized that Ba Zunan’s mastery and foundations surpassed those of his peers, while Hua Changdeng’s Dao heart began to crack.
• Ba Zunan summoned the power and names of ancient sword cultivators and launched the World-Toppling Sword Bone at Hua Changdeng.
• The sword bone shattered Fengdu, the Hundred Ghost Altar, the River of Forgetfulness, and the Bridge of the Other Shore before striking Hua Changdeng.
• The World-Toppling Sword Bone drove Hua Changdeng into the Northern Region and forcibly separated him from the Death God, interrupting his merger with the Dao.
• Ba Zunan remained standing in Lingyu with a bloodied, trembling hand as the Five Domains fell silent before his victory.

Ba Zunan’s World-Toppling Sword Bone crippled Hua Changdeng, but the effort shattered the Great Dream of a Thousand Autumns and left Ba Zunan’s soul and intent at risk of disappearing. As Xu Xiaoshou considered ways to save him, Hua Changdeng returned to the fight by invoking a desperate reincarnation art, and Xu realized he might use the reprieve to seize Ba Zunan’s sword and prolong his own life.

• Ba Zunan’s World-Toppling Sword Bone pierced Hua Changdeng and Ghost Ancestor, devastating Hua Changdeng’s body, soul, and intent.
• Hua Changdeng’s fractured self drove him into a violent frenzy, while his soul-power caused the Great Dream of a Thousand Autumns and the sword bone to collapse.
• Ba Zunan nearly vanished when the dream disintegrated, and Moon Palace Slave proposed using the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant and the Ancestor Trees to give him a new vessel.
• Xu Xiaoshou rejected sacrificing the Ancestor Trees after learning the process could kill the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant and would take too long.
• Hua Changdeng summoned the three Sword Ghosts and used the Ghost Ancestor’s Reincarnation art to borrow a brief return to strength.
• Xu Xiaoshou realized Hua Changdeng could use that temporary power to abandon his current path, seize Ba Zunan’s Sword Self, and seek a way to extend his life.

Xu Xiaoshou learned from Ghost Ancestor that Death God's Scythe could place Ghost Ancestor and Hua Changdeng into Reincarnation, potentially preventing Medicine Ancestor from taking their powers. As Hua Changdeng charged Ba Zunan in a final, desperate attack, Ba Zunan told Xu Xiaoshou to throw the scythe when the moment came and revealed that he was about to leave.

• Ghost Ancestor told Xu Xiaoshou that Medicine Ancestor wanted to seize Ghost Ancestor, Hua Changdeng, and Bei Huai to complete the Path of One Returning to Zero, and asked him to let Death God's Scythe activate Reincarnation.
• Xu Xiaoshou weighed Ghost Ancestor's request and warned Ba Zunan that Medicine Ancestor might exploit the scythe's power.
• Ba Zunan told Xu Xiaoshou to throw Death God's Scythe, then joked that Xu Xiaoshou was still there to handle the danger.
• Hua Changdeng returned in a frenzied state, fell back to the Holy Emperor realm, and charged Ba Zunan while using the Three Swords of the Sword Ghost and preparing to open the Mysterious Gate.
• Ba Zunan told Xu Xiaoshou that he was about to leave, that he would clear as many obstacles as he could, and that Xu Xiaoshou would have to handle the hardest remaining challenges.

Bei Huai attacked Ghost Buddha at the Gui Zhe Ruins, but Kui Leihan’s masked power smashed his body apart and drove off his spirit. After the battle, mysterious swords marked “Slaughter” and “Baleful Intent” appeared in the Western Region and at the Saint Mystery Gate, where they entered the crystal tied to the Holy Ancestor’s source.

• Hua Changdeng’s sword strike reached Lingyu Mountain as Bei Huai appeared and subdued the Three Ancestors of the White Lineage while pursuing Ghost Buddha.
• Bei Huai seized Ghost Buddha at the Gui Zhe Ruins, bit into his skull, and began absorbing his life energy as Cao Yihan and Cao Erzhu intervened.
• Bei Huai killed Cao Erzhu and tried to flee with Ghost Buddha, but Kui Leihan formed a grayish-purple mask from the God-Punishing Execution Tribulation and struck Bei Huai with the Heaven-Shattering Hammer.
• Kui Leihan blasted Bei Huai apart and nearly tracked down his spirit, while the Ancestral God Law-Extinguishing Tribulation gathered again beyond the realm.
• A sword marked “Slaughter” fell into an ancient forest in the Western Region, and a sword marked “Baleful Intent” landed at the Saint Mystery Gate and released black smoke into the crystal watched by Purple Pet and White Dragon.

At Lingyu Mountain, Hua Changdeng killed Ba Zunan’s body, spirit, and remnant intent, then completed his Dao and returned to the Ancestor God realm. The chapter ended with Ba Zunan’s Sword Self appearing inside Hua Changdeng’s sealed Rootless Ghost Domain, where Hua Changdeng had him at a grave disadvantage.

• Ghost Buddha’s injury from Bei Huai’s bite shattered the barrier sealing the Five Domains, exposing the hidden space-time nodes to the three Ancestor Gods.
• Hua Changdeng pierced Ba Zunan’s spiritual body with Ghost Hunter, then used his Three-Heaven Mind’s Eye to reveal Ba Zunan’s unharmed remnant Sword Thoughts.
• Ba Zunan’s remnant intent taunted Hua Changdeng, who hesitated before finally unleashing Heart Sword Technique—Prajna-Nothingness and destroying it.
• Hua Changdeng reassembled the Three Swords of the Sword Ghost, united his sword techniques, and used Ghost Hunter—Heaven’s Liberation to complete his Dao and regain the Ancestor God realm.
• Ba Zunan’s Sword Self appeared, but Hua Changdeng’s Rootless Ghost Domain sealed the Five Domains and left Ba Zunan trapped before him.