Chapter Summaries

Zhong Shan launched a surprise assault on the Eternal Youth Realm after Mud Bodhisattva altered the mountain ranges, and Hao Meili’s forces broke through its defenses. Zhong Shan reached the Eternal Youth Sacred Prison to rescue Nian Youyou, who learned he was supposedly dueling the Realm Lord in the Black Sea.

• The Female Heavenly Old of the Netherworld sensed a golden thread twitch, while the sunlit-world Heavenly Old told Yi Yan he could break the Eight Threads Net Heaven Great Array in three ways.
• Mud Bodhisattva used a white sphere of light to shift the mountain ranges around the Eternal Youth Realm and reveal a hidden mountain whose collapse signaled the assault.
• Hao Meili confronted a female elder, whose Great Luo Heavenly Stars Formation crushed the Eternal Youth Realm’s palace before she escaped inside; Zhong Shan and his allies pursued her.
• Dark Emperor killed a blue-robed man who discovered Zhong Shan’s attack and tried to warn the Realm Lord.
• Zhong Shan arrived at the Eternal Youth Sacred Prison, where he intended to rescue Nian Youyou, as she learned the Realm Lord was supposedly fighting Zhong Shan in the Black Sea.

Nian Youyou used a hidden Pupil Technique to turn the Purple-haired Man to gold, but he struck her and resumed choking her after she lost the technique. Zhong Shan appeared in the cage, rescued Nian Youyou, and faced the shocked Purple-haired Man.

• The Purple-haired Man demanded that Nian Youyou become his Dao Companion, then tried to force himself on her after she refused.
• Nian Youyou's golden pupils immobilized the Purple-haired Man and began turning him to gold, revealing that she had inherited the Pupil Technique from her mother.
• The Purple-haired Man blasted Nian Youyou with a water-filled artifact, breaking her technique and freeing himself from its effects.
• The Purple-haired Man grabbed Nian Youyou by the throat and demanded to know whether another man was in her heart.
• Zhong Shan appeared, caught Nian Youyou, and began healing her bruises as he confronted the Purple-haired Man.
• The Purple-haired Man recognized Zhong Shan and shouted in shock that he had thought Zhong Shan was fighting the Realm Lord in the Black Sea.

Zhong Shan rescued Nian Youyou from the Eternal Youth Sacred Prison and revealed that he had come to destroy the Eternal Youth Realm. He returned to the Sacred Mountain to pluck a Merit Rose for her, but Few-Faced Dao Lord attacked him as he reached the summit.

• Zhong Shan immobilized the Purple-haired Man and freed Nian Youyou from Ye Qingcheng's restriction, after which Nian Youyou turned the Purple-haired Man into a golden statue and took his prison token.
• Zhong Shan led Nian Youyou out of the Eternal Youth Sacred Prison without disturbing its formations and told her that he had come to destroy the Eternal Youth Realm.
• From a distant mountain, Nian Youyou saw zombies and the Heavenly Ghost fighting the Eternal Youth Realm, while Zhong Shan told her to wait and returned to the Sacred Mountain.
• Nian Youyou remembered Zhong Shan's promise to give her roses and realized that Few-Faced Dao Lord was guarding the Merit Rose he intended to pluck.
• Zhong Shan bypassed the Sacred Mountain's formations, plucked the Merit Rose, and dodged Few-Faced Dao Lord's saber strike as the Dao Lord attacked him with his other palm.

Zhong Shan defeated the Few-Faced Dao Lord with his overwhelming speed and rescued Nian Youyou from believing he had been crushed beneath the Revolving Sacred Mountain. After giving her the rose, he checked on the other battles and found Hao Meili confronting the Curse Demon Master with powerful plague curses.

• Zhong Shan struck the Few-Faced Dao Lord from behind, then wounded him repeatedly with the Undying Sword despite the Dao Lord’s formation.
• The Few-Faced Dao Lord used the Revolving Sacred Mountain, but Zhong Shan escaped while the collapsing mountains crushed together.
• Nian Youyou rushed toward the Sacred Mountain in despair, then found Zhong Shan alive and embraced him.
• Zhong Shan gave Nian Youyou the 2,997th rose and took her to check the other battles.
• Zhong Shan found Corpse Mister with the advantage, then saw Hao Meili using plagues against the Curse Demon Master and left with Nian Youyou for the next place.

Zhong Shan reached the Main Peak as NanGong Sheng’s formation trapped Mirror Demon Master, who revealed his Crystal Clan bodies and shattered the formation’s stars. King Skeleton blocked Mirror Demon Master’s attack, but warned Zhong Shan that their enemy commanded hundreds of powerful bodies; as Zhong Shan’s group prepared to withdraw, Mirror Demon Master sealed the area beneath a golden dome.

• Zhong Shan arrived at the Main Peak with Nian Youyou and saw NanGong Sheng use the Great Luo Heavenly Stars Formation and Zhong Tian’s Dwelling Spirit Pagodas to contain Mirror Demon Master while draining the realm’s merit.
• Mirror Demon Master shattered a star made from stellar power, then used the Myriad Images Mirror Pagoda to produce 362 bodies that attacked all the formation’s main stars at once and broke the formation.
• Mirror Demon Master charged Zhong Shan, but King Skeleton appeared and destroyed the attacking body with his Bronze Throne.
• King Skeleton identified Mirror Demon Master as a member of the Crystal Clan and warned Zhong Shan that hundreds of his equally strong bodies remained, prompting Zhong Shan to order a retreat.
• Mirror Demon Master refused to let Zhong Shan’s group escape and activated the sacred mountains, which formed a golden dome that blocked their vision and divine sense.

Zhong Shan delayed the Mirror Demon Master while NanGong Sheng and the others escaped the Ten Absolute Formation, using his clones and a deception about the Crystal Clan to keep the enemy occupied. After the formation was broken, Zhong Shan sucked the Myriad Images Mirror Pagoda into a Reincarnation Tunnel, leaving the Mirror Demon Master to confront him without it.

• Zhong Shan recognized the Ten Absolute Formation from his memories and ordered NanGong Sheng to lead the others away while he stayed behind.
• The Mirror Demon Master questioned Zhong Shan about the formation, but an explosion revealed that NanGong Sheng had found its weak point and was breaking through.
• Zhong Shan used the Reincarnation Eye and his Shadow Clones to block the Mirror Demon Master’s attempts to reach the formation and the Myriad Images Mirror Pagoda.
• Zhong Shan convinced the Mirror Demon Master that he was a Crystal Clan pursuer, making the Mirror Demon Master panic and forget to control the formation until NanGong Sheng led the others out.
• Zhong Shan created a Reincarnation Tunnel beneath the Myriad Images Mirror Pagoda and sucked the pagoda inside.

Zhong Shan defeated the Mirror Demon Master by trapping him with his Shadow Clones and Reincarnation Tunnel, then helped extract the Eternal Youth Realm and discovered its remains were a ball of ownerless destiny. As Great Zheng returned to court, Emperor Xuan Sha’s identity was recognized during his wager with Blade Maniac at the Black Sea.

• Zhong Shan used his Shadow Clones to outlast the Mirror Demon Masters, then surrounded their true body and sent him into the Reincarnation Tunnel.
• NanGong Sheng confirmed that the Mirror Demon Master was dead, and Zhong Shan learned that Nian Youyou had left the Eternal Youth Realm as golden sand.
• Zhong Shan declared that the Eternal Youth Realm would be struck from the underworld’s records and ordered its Merit collected and the realm extracted.
• King Skeleton explained that such Small Worlds were formed by merging destiny into a treasure, and Zhong Shan took the extracted realm’s golden ball of ownerless destiny.
• At the Black Sea, Tian Xiao Zi and Ye Qingcheng recognized the White Robed Man as Emperor Xuan Sha while he faced Blade Maniac in the second round of the wager.

Zhong Shan’s scheme was revealed when Ye Qingcheng sensed that the Eternal Youth Realm had been destroyed while the Black Sea Duel delayed him. Emperor Xuan Sha blocked Ye Qingcheng’s attack with his newly revealed World-Flaying Golden Wheel, and their battle continued as Tian Xiao Zi learned that his forces had been infiltrated.

• Ye Qingcheng noticed the Ancestor God Beast was missing and confronted Zhong Shan, while Emperor Xuan Sha swiftly killed Blade Maniac.
• Zhong Shan declared that the Eternal Youth Realm had been erased, and Ye Qingcheng realized his realm had fallen and attacked him with the Immortal Decapitation Sword.
• Emperor Xuan Sha intercepted Ye Qingcheng’s strike with the World-Flaying Golden Wheel, and Zhong Shan collected the eleven Immortal Steles during the clash.
• Emperor Xuan Sha and Ye Qingcheng began fighting in earnest, with the World-Flaying Golden Wheel holding its own against the Immortal Decapitation Sword.
• Tian Xiao Zi ordered his subordinate to wait for his Transfer Order, then learned from Heavenly Old that the Great Zheng feng shui Master had broken her formation and Xiao Wang had betrayed her.
• Ye Qingcheng attacked again, and Emperor Xuan Sha appeared to have been waiting for the moment to counter him.

Ye Qingcheng’s Immortal Decapitation Sword was trapped by Emperor Xuan Sha’s pair of World-Flaying Golden Wheels, and Zhong Shan’s Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail swallowed it. As Emperor Xuan Sha fought the Tian Family’s allies, Tian Xiao Zi summoned something from beneath the Black Sea.

• Emperor Xuan Sha used two World-Flaying Golden Wheels to trap Ye Qingcheng’s Immortal Decapitation Sword, while the Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail seized Ye Qingcheng and forced him to let go of it.
• The Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail swallowed the Immortal Decapitation Sword despite Ye Qingcheng’s attempt to summon it back.
• Zhong Shan told Emperor Xuan Sha to kill Ye Qingcheng, but Tian Xiao Zi arrived with eight Tian Family experts to intervene.
• Zhong Shan struck Tian Xiao Zi with Nightmare, shattered his crystal shield, and sent him plunging into the Black Sea.
• Tian Xiao Zi ordered the Tian Family experts and Dao Lord Hong Jian to help Ye Qingcheng fight Emperor Xuan Sha, who faced ten opponents.
• Tian Xiao Zi used a Magic Seal on the Black Sea, making it churn and spill upward as onlookers realized something lay beneath it.

A Kunpeng emerged from the Nether Sea and attacked Zhong Shan, but the Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail grew to match it after swallowing the Immortal Decapitation Sword. Zhong Shan revealed that he had advanced to the third level of the Tian Ji Realm and faced Tian Xiao Zi as the two giant beasts clashed.

• A colossal Kunpeng rose from the Black Sea, and Yi Lan Que identified it as a juvenile divine beast before leading the Yi Family to retreat.
• Tian Xiao Zi ordered the Kunpeng to swallow Zhong Shan, but the Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail grew to thousands of li while digesting the Immortal Decapitation Sword.
• The Kunpeng stopped before the enlarged Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail, and the two beasts roared at each other as Zhong Shan stood on his beast’s head.
• Zhong Shan told Tian Xiao Zi that he had reached the third level of the Tian Ji Realm and vowed to leave him with a lesson.
• Yi Lan Que led the Yi Family farther away as the Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail’s tails shattered space and enclosed Zhong Shan, Tian Xiao Zi, and both beasts in a vast Black Hole.

An ancient powerhouse's furious roar revealed that Immortal Decapitation had been annihilated, while Zhong Shan and Emperor Xuan Sha battled the Household forces in the Dark World. Zhong Shan unleashed Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail's swordlike red tail against Kunpeng and charged Tian Xiao Zi with his strange bare hands.

• An ancient powerhouse inside the Eternal Life Realm roared that Immortal Decapitation had been annihilated, shocking Shen Qitian, Toad Lai, and Divine Crow Dao Lord.
• Ying sensed the rage from afar and ordered Li Si to investigate what had enraged the ancient powerhouse.
• At the Black Sea, onlookers watched Emperor Xuan Sha fight ten powerhouses while Zhong Shan faced Tian Xiao Zi and Kunpeng inside a black hole.
• Tian Xiao Zi summoned Kunpeng's North Sea World, surrounding Zhong Shan and Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail with a vast black sea.
• Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail's red tail transformed into a sword and pierced Kunpeng's wing as Zhong Shan leaped toward Tian Xiao Zi with glowing, rune-covered fists.

Zhong Shan revealed that he had refined the Opening Heaven Axe’s soul into his palms, naming them the Opening Heaven Palm, and overwhelmed Tian Xiao Zi’s Heaven Vein Sword. The chapter ended with Zhong Shan grabbing the sword as his battle with Tian Xiao Zi continued, while the Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail fought Kunpeng nearby.

• The Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail pierced Kunpeng’s wing, but Kunpeng shook it off and resumed fighting it.
• Zhong Shan clashed with Tian Xiao Zi, using his rune-wreathed palms to withstand and repeatedly batter the Heaven Vein Sword.
• Tian Xiao Zi recognized the runes as belonging to the Opening Heaven Axe and learned that Zhong Shan had obtained its soul.
• Zhong Shan revealed that he had refined the Opening Heaven Axe’s soul into his palms so he would not have to return it to the heavens.
• Zhong Shan named his weaponized palms the Opening Heaven Palm and struck the Heaven Vein Sword aside before seizing it with his left hand.

Zhong Shan defeated Tian Xiao Zi and left him gravely crippled while the Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail and Kunpeng fought for four hours. The chapter ended with Tian Xiao Zi ordering the Tian Family to retreat as Zhong Shan remained unseen.

• Zhong Shan seized the Heaven Vein Sword and struck Tian Xiao Zi with an Opening Heaven Palm, but Tian Xiao Zi’s Heart Protecting Mirror shielded him from the worst of the blow.
• Tian Xiao Zi drew the Heaven Vein Sword into his body, and Zhong Shan broke his leg while declaring that he would leave him with a lasting memory rather than kill him.
• Yi Lan Que told the Yi Family Ancestor that Great Zheng spanned both realms and predicted that the southern netherworld would become Great Zheng territory.
• After four hours, the bloodied Kunpeng emerged from the Black Hole with Tian Xiao Zi lying crippled atop its head.
• Female Heavenly Old found Tian Xiao Zi, who ordered the Tian Family to gather and return home.

Zhong Shan and Emperor Xuan Sha won the Black Sea battle, while Ye Qingcheng escaped using a mysterious talisman. As Great Zheng attracted new talent, Tian Xiao Zi recovered in the Netherworld Tian Family and learned that Xiao Wang had defected and Ru Yan had been taken.

• Tian Xiao Zi ordered the battered Tian Household experts to retreat, while Zhong Shan emerged victorious and Emperor Xuan Sha killed Dao Lord Hong Jian.
• Ye Qingcheng’s yellow talisman shattered, released its energy into him, and transported him away before Emperor Xuan Sha could strike.
• Zhong Shan announced that Great Zheng would hold an open Imperial Examination in three years, and the battle’s fame drew talented people toward the dynasty.
• At Quiet Wave Pool, Tian Xiao Zi awoke after a year of recovery and concealed his belief that the Opening Heaven Axe belonged to him.
• Female Heavenly Old told Tian Xiao Zi that Xiao Wang had defected to Great Zheng with thirty-five strategic cities and that Ru Yan had been replaced and taken.
• Tian Xiao Zi ordered the Heaven Vein Emperor Dynasty to recall its southern forces and secure its central region.

Zhong Shan expanded Great Zheng’s power while Ye Qingcheng returned to the Eternal Life Realm and received a new sword. As Great Zheng’s actions drew attention from the Eternal Life Realm and Great Qin, Ying chose to watch from the sidelines.

• Zhong Shan appointed Xiao Wang as the Tenth Legion Commander and ordered Yan Chongzhi to arrange Chang Capital’s Imperial Examination, while Great Zheng’s armies swept across the southern Netherworld.
• Ye Qingcheng emerged in the Eternal Life Realm, confessed his role in the Eternal Youth Realm’s destruction, and was forgiven by the Divine Crow Dao Lord, who lent him the Immortal Slaughtering Sword.
• The Divine Crow Dao Lord discussed Zhong Shan’s attacks on the Eternal Life Realm with Ye Qingcheng and noted that Great Zheng’s presence at the High Heaven Court remained uncertain.
• Zhong Shan thanked Huan Ji for creating illusions at the High Heaven Court, then escorted Gu Qian You to the Hundred Lifetimes Cave Heaven and reassured her about the Ancestor God Beast.
• Li Si briefed Ying and the Great Qin court on Zhong Shan’s victories in the Netherworld, and Ying ordered Great Qin to watch from the sidelines.

Zhong Shan learned that Shen Qitian had challenged Sword Pride to a public duel at Plum Mountain and received Sword Pride’s invitation to meet there a day earlier. He arrived at the mountain and found Sword Pride waiting in a state of profound stillness, while Shen Qitian’s allies prepared their own plans for the duel.

• Liu Wushuang told Zhong Shan that Shen Qitian had challenged Sword Pride to a duel at Plum Mountain, and Zhong Shan suspected the Eternal Life Realm was involved.
• Sword Red delivered Sword Pride’s invitation for Zhong Shan to meet him at Plum Mountain on the fourteenth day of the first month, and Zhong Shan agreed to attend.
• Ying ordered Li Si to observe Sword Pride’s strength, while Kong Lietian, Divine Crow Dao Lord, and Ye Qingcheng discussed their plans for the duel and the attack on Netherworld Heaven.
• Experts gathered at Plum Mountain as its many varieties of plum blossoms bloomed together under the snow.
• Zhong Shan and Liu Wushuang reached Snow Plum Pavilion, where Zhong Shan sensed the formidable power of Sword Pride’s stillness.

Zhong Shan met Sword Pride at Plum Mountain, where they discussed past battles, the heroes of the age, and Sword Pride’s plan to ascend with the Netherworld Heaven disciples. Sword Pride gave Zhong Shan a handwritten method for refining the Taiji Diagram, and the chapter ended as the Plum Mountain Duel began.

• Sword Pride told Zhong Shan that he had lost a spiritual battle against Ying thirty years earlier and had since strengthened his sword path.
• Sword Pride and Zhong Shan praised each other as heroes of the age and promised to fight in the Great Chiliocosm World.
• Sword Pride revealed that he would ascend with the Netherworld Heaven disciples after reaching Mortal Great Perfection on the fifteenth day of the first month.
• Sword Pride gave Zhong Shan a handwritten method for refining the Taiji Diagram, which Zhong Shan accepted in gratitude for Sword Red’s return to life.
• Divine Crow Dao Lord, Ye Qingcheng, Shen Qitian, and Toad Lai arrived as the Plum Mountain Duel began.

Sword Pride faced the hostile Divine Crow Dao Lord, Ye Qingcheng, Shen Qitian, and Toad Lai, but let his daughter Sword Red challenge Shen Qitian. Sword Red’s swordsmanship shocked the spectators and forced Shen Qitian to dodge as their battle continued.

• Divine Crow Dao Lord, Ye Qingcheng, Shen Qitian, and Toad Lai arrived outside Meishan and fixed their attention on Zhong Shan and Sword Pride.
• Sword Pride refused Zhong Shan’s offer of help and said he would only watch as the confrontation began.
• Sword Pride summoned Sword Red, who confronted Shen Qitian and challenged him to a duel.
• Sword Red’s first strike expanded into immense sword qi, destroyed the mountain beneath the four powerhouses, and forced Shen Qitian to dodge.
• Sword Red continued attacking Shen Qitian with sword qi that expanded a hundred thousandfold and surrounded her with a protective web of blades.

Sword Pride defeated Shen Qitian and Ye Qingcheng, but Divine Crow Dao Lord saved Shen Qitian before Sword Pride could kill him. Divine Crow Dao Lord, Ye Qingcheng, and Toad Lai then joined forces against Sword Pride, while Li Si suddenly appeared beside Zhong Shan.

• Sword Red battled Shen Qitian, and Sword Pride unleashed the Heavenly Momentum Sword before taking her place in the fight.
• Sword Pride attacked Shen Qitian while Ye Qingcheng intervened with the Immortal Slaughtering Sword, and the two sword cultivators clashed alongside Shen Qitian inside a Black Hole.
• Sword Pride emerged largely unharmed after defeating Shen Qitian and overpowering Ye Qingcheng, then severed Shen Qitian's Purple-Gold Dragon-Patterned Staff with a seven-colored sword aura.
• Divine Crow Dao Lord used the Slaying Immortal Flying Knife to save Shen Qitian, and he called on everyone to attack Sword Pride together.
• Ye Qingcheng, Toad Lai, and Divine Crow Dao Lord charged Sword Pride, beginning another fierce battle as Li Si suddenly appeared in Zhong Shan's valley.

Li Si visited Zhong Shan and promised Great Zheng a congratulatory gift as Sword Pride fought Divine Crow Dao Lord and the other experts. Under the full moon, Sword Pride reached Mortal Great Perfection, and Li Si seized Ye Qingcheng’s Immortal Slaughtering Sword and sent it toward Zhong Shan.

• Li Si confirmed that Great Zheng was preparing to advance into a Heavenly Dynasty and promised a congratulatory gift on Great Qin’s behalf.
• Sword Pride battled Divine Crow Dao Lord, Ye Qingcheng, Shen Qitian, and Toad Lai as the fight lasted until nightfall.
• When the full moon rose, Sword Pride absorbed its moonlight and broke through to Mortal Great Perfection.
• Sword Pride’s sword qi blasted Shen Qitian apart, but Shen Qitian’s remaining soul revealed that he was Sun Shen and vowed revenge.
• Li Si struck Ye Qingcheng and sent the Immortal Slaughtering Sword flying toward Zhong Shan while Sword Pride clashed with Divine Crow Dao Lord’s Slaying Immortal Flying Knife.