Chapter Summaries

Yi Xiaofeng learned about the mortal realm’s powerful experts from Yun Muxiang and spent three years cultivating with his companions. When Zhang Zunxiang tracked them to the Chronal Monument and burst from the cave, Yi Xiaofeng prepared to face him.

• Yun Muxiang told Yi Xiaofeng that the mortal realm had many experts who had Attained the Dao and might rival the Immortal Realm.
• Han Yuan joked with Yi Xiaofeng about women before the group returned to cultivation, and Yun Muxiang continued visiting Yi Xiaofeng over the next three years.
• Suopo warned Yi Xiaofeng that more people were entering Subjugate Evil Heaven and Earth, so they went to check the Chronal Monument with Han Yuan and Lu Shuan.
• Yi Xiaofeng sensed Zhang Zunxiang’s aura near the Chronal Monument, and the group fled when it released Black Thunder.
• Zhang Zunxiang broke out of the cave and confronted Yi Xiaofeng as Yun Muxiang watched from a distant hillside.

Yi Xiaofeng watched Gan Jiang instantly kill Zhang Zunxiang, then visited Yun Muxiang before returning to his own time. He told her that Mo Xie and Gan Jiang would die after a villain provoked them into fighting, leaving Subjugate Evil Heaven and Earth a Forbidden Ground.

• Zhang Zunxiang attacked Yi Xiaofeng, but Gan Jiang intervened and pierced Zhang Zunxiang's throat with a finger.
• Gan Jiang crushed Zhang Zunxiang, destroyed his Nascent Soul and soul, and took his treasures.
• Yun Muxiang invited Yi Xiaofeng to her cave abode, where she asked about the future of the demon race and learned that five thousand years separated their times.
• Yi Xiaofeng told Yun Muxiang that Mo Xie and Gan Jiang would be provoked into fighting, resulting in Mo Xie's death, Gan Jiang's sacrifice, and the land becoming a Forbidden Ground.

Yi Xiaofeng and his companions learned that the Chronal Monument had been damaged and remained stranded in Subjugate Evil Heaven and Earth while Gan Jiang tried to repair it. After ten years of cultivation, a terrifying enemy appeared and threatened Gan Jiang, shaking the heavens and alarming Yi Xiaofeng and his companions.

• Yun Muxiang confessed her feelings to Yi Xiaofeng, and he encouraged her to keep cultivating before she later stopped visiting him.
• Yi Xiaofeng and his companions found that the Chronal Monument had disappeared beneath the rubble, then learned from Gan Jiang that it had broken into three pieces and needed repair.
• Yi Xiaofeng and his companions settled in another cave while they waited, and Yun Muxiang visited Yi Xiaofeng the next morning before leaving after he told her he preferred aloof women.
• Over ten years, Yi Xiaofeng advanced to the second level of the Nascent Soul Realm, Han Yuan reached the Nascent Soul Realm, and Lu Shuan reached the Golden Core Realm while Gan Jiang repeatedly tried to repair the Chronal Monument.
• An unknown enemy threatened to kill Gan Jiang for refusing to forge a sword, and black fissures spread across the sky as Yi Xiaofeng, Han Yuan, Lu Shuan, and Suopo felt the enemy's overwhelming aura.

Yi Xiaofeng watched Di Xin pressure Gan Jiang into forging divine swords for a campaign to conquer the Myriad Realms. After Di Xin left, Gan Jiang agreed to help repair the Chronal Monument, while Mo Xie promised to follow him even in death.

• Yi Xiaofeng sensed Di Xin arriving and hurried to Gan Jiang's palace to see what was happening.
• Di Xin demanded that Gan Jiang forge swords for his army and threatened to destroy him if he refused.
• Yi Xiaofeng urged Gan Jiang to endure for Mo Xie's sake, and Gan Jiang agreed to forge at least one hundred thousand divine swords within ten years.
• Di Xin invited Yi Xiaofeng to Chaoge, but Yi Xiaofeng refused and said he wanted to protect humanity's future.
• After Di Xin departed, Gan Jiang admitted he had changed, and Mo Xie vowed to follow him to the ends of the earth and the Yellow Springs.

Yi Xiaofeng fought Ji Fa, defeated him, and then taught him a teleportation Divine Power. Ji Fa accepted Yi Xiaofeng as his Big Brother and began cultivating the technique.

• After a year of peace in Subjugate Evil Heaven and Earth, Ji Fa visited Yi Xiaofeng and challenged him to a sparring match.
• Yi Xiaofeng overwhelmed Ji Fa with his sword qi, Vajra Palm, and Golden Eye Space Contraction.
• When Ji Fa entered a bloodthirsty berserk state, Yi Xiaofeng ended the fight by telling him he came from another time and space.
• Yi Xiaofeng offered to teach Ji Fa his Teleportation Divine Power if Ji Fa called him Big Brother, and Ji Fa agreed.
• Over seven days, Ji Fa initially grasped the Divine Power and thanked Yi Xiaofeng for his guidance.

After Gan Jiang repaired the Chronal Monument, Yi Xiaofeng traveled back to his own time and reunited with Suopo and Lu Shuan, but Han Yuan failed to arrive. Yi Xiaofeng tried to return for him and ended up trapped in a sea of temporal currents, where a mysterious man in black warned him that the monument was rejecting him.

• Gan Jiang repaired the Chronal Monument and warned that time travel could send people to different points in time.
• Yi Xiaofeng departed for his own era after telling Yun Muxiang they could have no future together.
• Yi Xiaofeng returned safely, and the system announced that he had become the world's first player to reach the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Suopo and Lu Shuan arrived, but Han Yuan did not appear after several hours of waiting.
• Yi Xiaofeng used the Chronal Monument again to search for Han Yuan and found himself surrounded by temporal currents.
• A mysterious man in black told Yi Xiaofeng that the Chronal Monument was rejecting him and warned that forcing his return could kill him.

Yi Xiaofeng returned from the past and learned that only two days had passed in the real world, where his Nascent Soul Realm had made him the leading player. At the Investigation Team’s base, he discovered that ancient records tied Han Yuan and a Demon Race Female Venerable to Gan Jiang and Mo Xie’s deaths, leaving him stunned by his disciple’s apparent role in history.

• A man in black sent Yi Xiaofeng back to his own time, and Yi Xiaofeng told Lu Shuan and Suopo that Han Yuan’s fate was uncertain.
• Yun Muxiang told Han Yuan that Mo Xie’s curse bound her soul and asked him to help kill Gan Jiang and Mo Xie; Han Yuan agreed.
• Yi Xiaofeng logged out and found that two days had passed, then accepted Jin Xun’s invitation to visit the Heavenly Dao Stone Investigation Team.
• At the base, Yi Xiaofeng recognized the Chronal Monument and learned that an ancient account said Gan Jiang and Mo Xie had been attacked by The Sword Sage’s Disciple and the Demon Race Female Venerable.
• Jin Xun explained that The Sword Sage’s Disciple’s disciple, Immortal Lord Kong, later unified humanity, and Yi Xiaofeng realized Han Yuan was likely the Sword Sage’s Disciple.

Yi Xiaofeng told the Alliance that the Chronal Monument had trapped him in the past, where he cultivated for decades, and learned that Earth faced a crisis and would eventually merge with the game world. He left the base resolved to rely on himself, while the Alliance agreed not to disturb the Xuanyuan Stone Statue.

• Yi Xiaofeng told Jin Xun about his decades trapped in the past and his encounters with Di Xin and Li Er, then asked a researcher to translate writing on the Chronal Monument.
• The researcher translated the inscription as describing a game between two realms, a divine arrangement, and all living beings as pieces within a heavenly prison.
• Jin Xun brought Yi Xiaofeng to speak with Zhang Guozhu, who revealed that Earth faced danger from the Sun and would eventually merge with the game world.
• Zhang Guozhu asked Yi Xiaofeng to keep the Chronal Monument secret, avoid using it again, and grow as strong as possible because the Alliance could not easily cultivate powerful people.
• Jin Xun escorted Yi Xiaofeng from the base and assured him that the Alliance would not break open the Xuanyuan Stone Statue.

After returning to the villa, Yi Xiaofeng learned that Ji Yu, a descendant of the Human King, had emerged as a powerful threat. Back in Subjugate Evil Heaven and Earth, Yi Xiaofeng left with Suopo and Lu Shuan, then discovered that Han Yuan had become the legendary Venerable Han and severed the path to immortality.

• Yi Xiaofeng returned to the villa, heard Qin Qinxue report Ji Yu's arrival and threat to Heaven Sect, and worried about Han Yuan's fate over the past five thousand years.
• Yi Xiaofeng told Lu Shuan and Suopo that The Sword Sage's Disciple had plotted against Gan Jiang and Mo Xie and later taken Immortal Lord Kong as a disciple, suggesting Han Yuan might have lived through five thousand years.
• Yi Xiaofeng and Suopo left the ruins with Lu Shuan, who carved a message beside the Chronal Monument; after they departed, a figure formed from black qi appeared there.
• Yi Xiaofeng found Zhou Chengtian at the Heavenly Dao Jade Wall and asked about Han Yuan, while Suopo stopped Lu Shuan from approaching because of their karmic ties.
• Zhou Chengtian revealed that Venerable Han had last appeared centuries earlier, severed the path to immortality with one sword strike, and made Zhou Chengtian take the blame.

Yi Xiaofeng learned that his disciple Han Yuan had become the legendary Sword Venerable, escaped Zhou Chengtian’s domain with the Heaven Sect disciples, and continued toward All Under Heaven Mountain. On the way, he killed a Ghost King Palace cultivator who had captured players, then invited them to join the World Under Heaven Swordsman.

• Yi Xiaofeng questioned Zhou Chengtian about Han Yuan, but Zhou Chengtian threatened to kill him for being Venerable Han and then opened a rift so he could leave.
• Yi Xiaofeng, Lu Shuan, and Suopo escaped through the rift, and Yi Xiaofeng called for the Heaven Sect disciples to follow him out.
• Yi Xiaofeng resolved to establish the Sword Venerable’s name amid the turmoil in Chaos God Province and fulfill Bai Hongxiao’s task of unifying it.
• Yi Xiaofeng found a blood-robed Ghost King Palace cultivator holding players captive and stopped him from attacking a female player.
• Yi Xiaofeng killed the demonic cultivator with one sword, and Suopo captured his fleeing Nascent Soul.
• Yi Xiaofeng told the rescued players to join the World Under Heaven Swordsman at All Under Heaven Mountain before departing.

After returning to All Under Heaven Mountain, Yi Xiaofeng told the elders that he and his companions had traveled five thousand years into the past and asked them to prepare for the coming conflict. As players flocked to World Under Heaven Swordsman, he set out with Kong Nian to subdue nearby forces while the Heaven Sect faced war with the Ghost King Palace.

• Yi Xiaofeng told the elders about traveling five thousand years into the past and gave Nan Qin Honored One a Bodhi Tree branch to refine into lifespan-extending pills.
• Yi Xiaofeng asked about the Sword Demon and ordered everyone to strengthen their defenses before announcing his plan to unify Chaos God Province.
• A video of Yi Xiaofeng defeating a Nascent Soul demonic cultivator went viral, inspiring players in Chaos God Province to join World Under Heaven Swordsman.
• Yi Xiaofeng accepted the arriving players and accumulated Heavenly Dao Points as his Luck Value surpassed ten million.
• Yi Xiaofeng left All Under Heaven Mountain to subdue nearby forces, and Kong Nian followed him.
• The Ghost King Palace went to war with the Heaven Sect while the Nine Nether Sect and other factions watched from the sidelines.

Yi Xiaofeng challenged Green Water Sect and recruited it into World Under Heaven Swordsman, then rapidly added more subordinate forces. As Hu Lie proposed an alliance on his father’s behalf, he asked Yi Xiaofeng to crush a rival faction expanding into Heaven Sect’s territory.

• Yi Xiaofeng defeated the Green Water Sect Master with the World Under Heaven Astonishing God Sword and persuaded Green Water Sect to submit, with Kong Nian’s aura helping convince the sect master.
• Yi Xiaofeng challenged one faction each day, defeating the strongest member of each and recruiting nine subordinate forces within seven days.
• Hu Lie visited Yi Xiaofeng and revealed that his father wanted independence from Heaven Sect and hoped to form an alliance with him.
• Hu Lie said his father wanted Yi Xiaofeng to crush a rival faction that was aggressively recruiting Heaven Sect’s subordinate forces.

Yi Xiaofeng learned more about the Heaven Sect’s turmoil, then chose a Scripted Task about the Four Mixed Monkeys, who were terrorizing the Black Sea. He decided to investigate and eliminate the demons, leaving Kong Nian worried about the rising Demon Qi.

• Hu Lie told Yi Xiaofeng that Lin Kuangsheng was expanding his faction and that the Heaven Sect’s Sect Master remained in seclusion while the Vice Sect Master held power.
• Hu Lie gave Yi Xiaofeng a map showing Lin Kuangsheng’s location, and Yi Xiaofeng continued cultivating as the World Under Heaven Swordsman grew.
• Yi Xiaofeng chose the Four Mixed Monkeys Scripted Task, which tasked him with challenging the four demons and rescuing people in the Black Sea.
• Lonely Sword told Yi Xiaofeng that the Four Mixed Monkeys commanded a hundred thousand demons, were capturing people, and had defeated factions that tried to stop them.
• Yi Xiaofeng said he would investigate the demons and told Kong Nian to protect the World Under Heaven Swordsman while he was away.
• Kong Nian warned Yi Xiaofeng not to act recklessly because Demon Qi in Chaos God Province had surpassed the Human Race’s Luck.

Yi Xiaofeng learned that the Four Mixed Monkeys were slaughtering people around the Black Sea and decided to join the task, despite the danger. He arrived at the Black Sea and met Chang Si, who had come alone to fight the demons.

• Kong Nian reminded Yi Xiaofeng that the immortals and gods had belonged to the demon race, leaving him uncertain about the human race’s prospects.
• After the Four Mixed Monkeys task became a Luck Task, Yi Xiaofeng left World Under Heaven Swordsman and bought information about the Black Sea’s location.
• Yi Xiaofeng saw online images of the Four Mixed Monkeys’ brutality and publicly announced that he would join the task.
• Two days later, Yi Xiaofeng reached the Black Sea and saw mangled corpses floating in its waters.
• Chang Si introduced himself as a core disciple of the Mystic Saber Gate and said he had come alone because he could not tolerate the demons’ slaughter.

Yi Xiaofeng sent the Spirit Devouring Scorpion to scout Black Sea Isolated Island and discovered Long Armed Ape Monkey, one of the Four Mixed Monkeys. After the demon attacked him and a series of roars drove him to flee, Yi Xiaofeng prepared to return to fight, but a familiar voice identified the Four Mixed Monkeys as ancient demons.

• Yi Xiaofeng refused Chang Si’s offer to attack the demons together, and Chang Si flew toward the far end of the Black Sea alone.
• Yi Xiaofeng sent the Spirit Devouring Scorpion to scout Black Sea Isolated Island, where it saw the enormous Long Armed Ape Monkey.
• Long Armed Ape Monkey spotted the Spirit Devouring Scorpion, pursued it into the sea, and swallowed it.
• Long Armed Ape Monkey charged Yi Xiaofeng, who dodged its attacks and counterattacked with sword qi.
• After hearing three more roars, Yi Xiaofeng teleported over a thousand li away, then decided to return and fight as a familiar voice called the Four Mixed Monkeys ancient demons.

Yi Xiaofeng reunited with Bai Hongxiao, who explained Venerable Han’s history and the Four Mixed Monkeys’ ties to the Great Demon Saint. After Bai Hongxiao guided Yi Xiaofeng in the World Under Heaven Sword, a terrifying roar woke him at night.

• Bai Hongxiao arrived and recognized that Yi Xiaofeng had reached the Nascent Soul Realm and aged through Chronal law.
• Bai Hongxiao explained that Venerable Han had destroyed the Divine Dynasty and that Han Yuan was the same person, while describing how Venerable Han could protect Yi Xiaofeng from enemies traveling through time.
• Bai Hongxiao revealed that the Great Demon Saint had trained the Four Mixed Monkeys and sent them to the Chaos God Province to muddy the waters.
• Bai Hongxiao encouraged Yi Xiaofeng to face the Four Mixed Monkeys and taught him about the World Under Heaven Sword as Yi Xiaofeng restored his spiritual power.
• A terrifying roar woke Yi Xiaofeng after night had fallen, while Bai Hongxiao remained beside him.

Yi Xiaofeng attacked Long Armed Ape Monkey at the Black Sea but failed to kill it, and Bai Hongxiao taught him about the new Human Dao sword he had created. As cultivators flew toward Black Sea Isolated Island, Yi Xiaofeng urged his master to teach him the technique for fighting the Four Mixed Monkeys.

• Bai Hongxiao told Yi Xiaofeng that the Great Demon Saint might fear Xuanyuan God and warned him that he was still far weaker than the young prodigy.
• Yi Xiaofeng flew to the Black Sea and attacked Long Armed Ape Monkey while it appeared to be asleep, but the beast roared and stirred up enormous waves.
• Yi Xiaofeng and Bai Hongxiao returned to a blood-red beach, where Bai Hongxiao praised Yi Xiaofeng for injuring Long Armed Ape Monkey with his sword qi.
• Seventeen cultivators flew toward Black Sea Isolated Island, and Bai Hongxiao warned Yi Xiaofeng that Six Eared Macaque was cunning and could overhear conversations across the Three Realms.
• Bai Hongxiao revealed that he had created Human Dao, a sword technique tempered with Killing Intent to destroy demons, and Yi Xiaofeng urged him to teach it.

Bai Hongxiao warned Yi Xiaofeng that mastering the Way of Man required extreme Killing Intent, but Yi Xiaofeng chose to face his deepest fear and learn it. In a vision of an apocalyptic Earth, Yi Xiaofeng found himself trapped beside his dead girlfriend and was challenged to draw the Unable Sword, ending as he resolved to fight back.

• Bai Hongxiao explained that awakening Yi Xiaofeng's Killing Intent would be agonizing and could lead him down the demonic path.
• Yi Xiaofeng insisted on learning the Way of Man because he wanted to defeat the Four Mixed Monkeys, and Bai Hongxiao sent him into his World of Fear.
• Yi Xiaofeng experienced an ordinary university life interrupted by meteors that devastated the city and left him pinned beneath rubble beside his dead girlfriend.
• A black-clad man told Yi Xiaofeng that he had caused the apocalypse and challenged him to draw Demon Sword Wu Fa or accept defeat.
• Yi Xiaofeng resisted the urge to give up as the Unable Sword hummed before him, and he resolved to draw it.

Yi Xiaofeng overcame Bai Hongxiao’s dream by refusing to accept an ordinary life and recovered his memories, clarifying that his Human Path was driven by arrogance rather than Killing Intent. Meanwhile, Venerable Han tried to recruit Kong Nian, but she refused and chose to follow Yi Xiaofeng.

• Buried beneath the ruins in Bai Hongxiao’s dream, Yi Xiaofeng tore his arm free and gripped the Unable Sword as Venerable Han and Kong Nian watched.
• At the Black Sea shore, Bai Hongxiao realized Yi Xiaofeng feared becoming content with being ordinary, and Yi Xiaofeng awakened with his memories restored.
• Bai Hongxiao explained that Yi Xiaofeng’s Human Path was rooted in his deep-seated arrogance and asked whether he could learn it.
• At All Under Heaven Mountain, Venerable Han offered Kong Nian power and influence if she helped unite the human race.
• Kong Nian refused Venerable Han’s offer and said she wanted to follow Yi Xiaofeng; Venerable Han revealed that the Immortal Realm had created another version of her centuries earlier.

Yi Xiaofeng mastered the World Under Heaven Sword Human Dao and rushed to Black Sea Isolated Island to face the Long Armed Ape Monkey. He arrived as Feng Juelun and Di Yuan lay badly wounded before two powerful monkey demons.

• Yellow Demon Immortal urged Bai Hongxiao to apologize to Imperial Gate for sparing Yang Jue, but Bai Hongxiao refused and declared his resolve to challenge injustice.
• Feng Juelun and Di Yuan joined Yellow Demon Immortal and set out to eliminate the Four Mixed Monkeys while Bai Hongxiao stayed behind with Yi Xiaofeng.
• Yi Xiaofeng comprehended the World Under Heaven Sword Human Dao, and Bai Hongxiao sent him to help Feng Juelun and Di Yuan.
• Yi Xiaofeng reached Black Sea Isolated Island and found Feng Juelun and Di Yuan gravely injured, facing two towering monkey demons with iron staffs.