Chapter Summaries

Xu Yi escaped the collapsing Gantian Forbidden Box after the Four-Colored Seal destroyed it, then captured the unconscious Old Demon Daoyi and Yan Wuji and took their Spirit Stabilizing Seeds. With the trial world's restrictions gone, Xu Yi discovered he could use his Kunlun Order to escape, while someone nearby had already done so.

• The Four-Colored Seal overpowered the Gantian Forbidden Box, causing it to explode and shatter the trial world's barrier.
• Xu Yi emerged from the Clear Space, collected Fate Wheels and merit, and searched for Old Demon Daoyi and Yan Wuji after learning the restrictions had changed.
• Xu Yi found the two unconscious cultivators and, following Huang Mei's instructions, extracted their Spirit Stabilizing Seeds while keeping them alive.
• Huang Mei concealed himself with the Four-Colored Seal as he and Xu Yi fled the explosion site, and Xu Yi joked with him about the captured Fate Wheels.
• Xu Yi sensed a nearby battle and saw someone escape by crushing a Kunlun Order, then tested a flame and discovered it could ignite grass.

After the restrictions stopped teleporting trial participants, the three factions gathered into armed forces and hunted rival participants. Xu Yi joined the Evil Court under his Suijie identity, then secretly contacted Ning Wuyou as the forces converged, leaving her delighted and her Northern Court companions curious.

• The factions announced rewards for the trial and promised to repair the failing restrictions, while Xu Yi exchanged his plundered points at a reduced rate.
• Xu Yi learned from Huang Mei that Chen Qingbei's boundary token could take them to the hidden contest for the World Tree Seed, and he set out for the barrier.
• When Xu Yi sensed the Evil Court force hunting outsiders, he transformed into Suijie and joined its ranks, concealing his identity among them.
• Xu Yi learned that the restrictions' changes had halted random teleportation, prompting the three factions to gather into large forces and hunt scattered groups.
• The Evil Court, Southern Heavenly Court, and Northern Heavenly Court forces advanced in the same direction without fighting, and Xu Yi spotted Ning Wuyou with the Northern Court.
• Xu Yi sent Ning Wuyou a private message, and she smiled while telling Brother Wang she had found something more precious than a treasure.

Ning Wuyou crushed her Kunlun Order and left the trial, while Xu Yi joined the battle over the World Tree Seed. The first seed’s Yuan Receiving Spirit became an Innate Collapse, and a second seed broke free as the first turned into an Innate Body.

• Ning Wuyou crushed her Kunlun Order and vanished, and the others privately blamed Wang Guanyuan for driving her away.
• Xu Yi arrived with the Evil Court force at the golden sapling, where three armies battled over its three fruits.
• Xu Yi stood out in the fighting and received inexplicable protection from several powerful cultivators.
• The Southern Heavenly Court force claimed the southwestern fruit, and the World Tree Seed manifested as a halo that absorbed the armies’ spiritual power.
• The seed collapsed into a point of light and exploded, blasting cultivators backward; a second World Tree Seed then broke free as the first became an Innate Body that could not be seized.

Ming Zhenkui used Witch Power to separate the final World Tree Seed, but Wang Guanyuan and Xie Xiaofo broke through his defenses and gravely wounded him. The seed flew away as cultivators from every side rushed to seize it.

• The first two World Tree Seeds collapsed, leaving the cultivators to focus on the final seed.
• Ming Zhenkui protected the last seed with the Earth Mother Extreme Yin Cover and channeled Witch Power into it until it reached True Spirit Innate.
• The seed became a chaotic-looking fruit, and the Universe Transforming Divine Rainbow Whip broke through Ming Zhenkui’s barrier.
• Wang Guanyuan and Xie Xiaofo struck Ming Zhenkui together, leaving him gravely wounded.
• The World Tree Seed shot through the air, and all the cultivators rushed after it.

Xu Nimo appeared in the Kunlun Immortal Mountain Trial World, seized the World Tree Seed, and revealed that he had weakened himself to enter. After effortlessly defeating Xie Xiaofo’s attack and holding back combined assaults from the rival courts, he left the cultivators struggling to stop him.

• Xu Yi was knocked unconscious by a Clear Light as Jin Song tried to carry him away, and a wave of energy swept aside nearly every cultivator.
• Xu Nimo sealed the World Tree Seed in a red jade box, and Xie Xiaofo recognized him as the legendary Number One Person in Eight Thousand Years.
• The stone Buddha deduced that Xu Nimo had reversed Yin and Yang and damaged his life wheel to enter the trial world, prompting Wang Guanyuan to challenge him.
• Xu Nimo exposed Wang Guanyuan’s sword technique and history with Liu Qingsong, then pierced Xie Xiaofo’s Golden Buddha Hand with Eight Parts of World Qi.
• The Evil Court joined forces against Xu Nimo, and the Southern Court and Northern Court launched combined attacks, but Xu Nimo held all their attacks suspended with his vortices.
• Wang Guanyuan lost confidence as Xu Nimo continued to withstand the united cultivators’ assaults.

Xu Nimo redirected the gathered spiritual attacks to break the restrictions around the Longevity Sword and forced Zheng Jincheng to agree to share its remnants. Zheng Jincheng began taking the sword, but Xu Nimo’s response made him realize he had been tricked.

• The Stone Buddha recognized Xu Nimo’s Eight Parts of World Qi as he redirected the cultivators’ spiritual attacks instead of meeting them head-on.
• Xu Nimo redirected three pillars of light into the southwest mountain, blasting apart restrictions and revealing the Longevity Sword.
• Xu Nimo exposed Zheng Jincheng, the Meteor Saint, and demanded the Longevity Sword’s remnants while offering no claim to its Sacred Fruit Position.
• Xu Nimo threatened to keep Zheng Jincheng occupied until the old monsters arrived, so Zheng Jincheng agreed to take the sword under Xu Nimo’s terms.
• Xu Nimo told Zheng Jincheng to go ahead and take the sword, and Zheng Jincheng accused him of treachery.

The sword's will broke free during the battle and chose Xu Yi, who had secretly reversed Ming Zhenkui’s attempt to possess him and was absorbing the Heavenly Shaman’s Witch Spirit. Huang Mei urged Xu Yi to control the sword’s will as the powerful cultivators turned their attention toward him.

• Zheng Jincheng’s formation was disrupted, Xu Nimo attacked the sword’s will, and the gathered factions joined the fight.
• Ming Zhenkui, gravely wounded, tried to possess Xu Yi while Jin Song guarded him.
• Xu Yi reversed the possession and began absorbing Ming Zhenkui’s Witch Spirit.
• The Longevity Sword’s will flew to Xu Yi and circled above his head.
• Huang Mei told Xu Yi the sword’s will had been drawn to his pure Witch Spirit power and urged him to control it.

Xu Yi and the other cultivators struggled over the sword mechanism until the Longevity Sword appeared and began consuming Five Elements Spirits and innate spiritual power. The chapter ended with two powerful treasures breaking free and joining the struggle for that power.

• The stone Buddha blocked an attack on Xu Yi, while Zheng Jincheng drew the sword mechanism away with a golden vortex.
• The Longevity Sword appeared, caught the sword mechanism, and absorbed a Five Elements Spirit thrown toward it.
• The cultivators sent their marked Five Elements Spirits and spiritual power into the Longevity Sword, hoping to claim the Sacred Fruit Position.
• The Longevity Sword severed the World Tree, pierced three Innate Bodies, and began devouring their innate spiritual power.
• The Universe Transforming Divine Rainbow Whip and the Earth Mother Extreme Yin Cover broke free and rushed toward the Longevity Sword to gather the innate power.

After the destruction of two Acquired Treasures shattered the Trial Council’s restrictions, Xu Yi collected the fallen cultivators’ points and followed the Longevity Sword’s aura. He found the sword in Starry Canyon, where a mysterious old man appeared behind him.

• The Longevity Sword struck the Universe Transforming Divine Rainbow Whip and the Earth Mother Extreme Yin Cover, destroying both treasures and eliminating nearly all the trial-takers as the restrictions collapsed.
• Xu Yi survived the explosion with his Source Fire shield and witch clan body, then gathered the points dropped by the dead cultivators.
• Xu Yi caught the Longevity Sword’s aura and followed it west, where he saw Meteor Saint Zheng Jincheng battle the Cloaked Man, revealed to be Zhen Lingrong.
• Xu Yi fled the battle, changed identities, distributed the points among three Kunlun Orders, and traveled to Starry Canyon.
• Xu Yi found the worn Longevity Sword in a shallow stream and examined its restored blade before an old man in hemp clothes spoke to him.

Xu Yi battled Xu Nimo, who had tracked him to Starry Canyon and seized the Longevity Sword. Xu Yi’s Primordial Fire Technique repeatedly held off Xu Nimo, but Xu Nimo broke his seal and regained his Sacred Spirit Domain strength before their battle continued.

• Xu Nimo took the Longevity Sword and questioned Xu Yi about his unusual body and connection to the sword.
• Xu Yi attacked Xu Nimo with Wrath of Burning Heaven, injuring him but failing to kill him.
• Xu Nimo summoned Eight Parts of World Qi, while Xu Yi used the Ultimate Fire Technique to trap its eight spaces.
• Xu Nimo unsealed his Fate Wheel and recovered his Sacred Spirit Domain cultivation as Xu Yi prepared layers of defensive fire barriers.
• Xu Yi’s Primordial Fire Technique trapped Xu Nimo’s vortices again, and Xu Yi taunted him about his reputation.
• Xu Nimo summoned chaotic starry-sky power into a pillar of light and then turned it into Qi-shaped soldiers, while Xu Yi’s flames became a sea of fire.

Xu Yi activated the Longevity Sword during his battle with Xu Nimo, destroyed him, and deflected a devastating star-core attack. With Xu Yi gravely weakened and other powerful cultivators approaching, Huang Mei sent him into the Four-Colored Seal and fled with the seal and Xu Nimo's resources.

• Xu Yi countered Xu Nimo's galaxy attack with the Ruyi Curse and the Sui clan's Origin Fire.
• Xu Nimo activated the Star Sinking Core after Xu Yi's Spirit Calming Technique only briefly severed his connection to it.
• The Longevity Sword severed Xu Nimo's arm and flew toward Xu Yi's Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Aspect as a distant star core approached.
• Xu Yi fed sword aura and the Witch's Five Elements Spirit into the Longevity Sword, then used the Spirit Calming Technique to wield it.
• Xu Yi destroyed Xu Nimo and deflected the star-core force with the Longevity Sword, alerting powerful cultivators across the Three Thousand Realms.
• Huang Mei kicked the weakened Xu Yi through the light gate, collected Xu Nimo's fate wheel and resources, and hid in a river with the Four-Colored Seal.

Xu Yi emerged from the Four-Colored Seal after the battle and discovered that the Longevity Sword had become part of his Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Aspect. After recovering the World Tree Seed and restoring his connection to the sword, he traveled to Tiandu Peak to claim his trial reward.

• The top figures from six courts arrived at Starry Canyon, but their divinations failed to locate Xu Yi and they sensed that someone had activated the Longevity Sword as the ravaged battlefield burst into life.
• Xu Yi emerged from the Four-Colored Seal, and Huang Mei entered his Starry Sky Ring after tossing him the World Tree Seed.
• Xu Yi connected with the World Tree Seed using the Witch Spirit, then searched for the missing Longevity Sword while Huang Mei slept after swallowing part of Xu Nimo's Fate Wheel.
• Xu Yi summoned the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Aspect and found the Longevity Sword hanging at its waist, then drew out its sword aura and nourished it within himself.
• Xu Yi used the Starry Sky Boat to reach Tiandu Peak, where those who passed the trial could claim their rewards.

Xu Yi used three identities to exchange his trial points for Dao Source and Spirit Stabilizing Seeds, while evading searches for the missing Longevity Sword. Afterward, he reunited with Ning Wuyou, only for Wang Guanyuan to approach them.

• Xu Yi exchanged points as Xue Xiang in the Northern Court, then submitted to a Starry Sky Ring inspection and swore not to reveal it.
• Xu Yi exchanged points as Suijie in the Evil Court, reassured Stone Buddha, and passed another Starry Sky Ring inspection.
• Xu Yi exchanged points as himself in the Southern Heavenly Court, earning first place and enough resources to collect six Spirit Stabilizing Seeds in total.
• Xu Yi met Ning Wuyou on the training ground, and they shared an affectionate reunion.
• Wang Guanyuan arrived with a crowd, saw Xu Yi beside Ning Wuyou, and hid his anger behind a graceful demeanor.

At the trial’s end, Ning Wuyou rejected Wang Guanyuan’s offer to join Shangqing Temple and publicly chose Xu Yi as her Dao companion. When Fan Jin and Kong Xiaoyi tried to contain the political fallout, Xu Yi offered to resign as Palace Master of the Starry Sky Prefecture rather than make the matter a dispute between the courts.

• Wang Guanyuan praised Ning Wuyou’s trial results and offered to help her enter Shangqing Temple, but she politely refused.
• Fan Jin backed Wang Guanyuan’s offer and suggested that Xu Yi and another cultivator could join Shangqing’s outer sect so Ning Wuyou would have company.
• Xu Yi privately urged Ning Wuyou to accept the benefits, but Ning Wuyou took his hand and announced she would leave her post as Northern Court Female Saint to become his Dao companion.
• Ning Wuyou removed and discarded her credentials as Female Saint, shocking the crowd and causing Wang Guanyuan to spit blood.
• Fan Jin accused Xu Yi of deceiving Ning Wuyou and called on Kong Xiaoyi to intervene; Kong Xiaoyi urged Xu Yi to keep the relationship private and avoid entangling the two courts.
• Ning Wuyou insisted she had resigned, and Xu Yi offered to step down as Palace Master of the Starry Sky Prefecture to prevent the affair from damaging the sacred grounds’ dignity.

Xu Yi burned Wang Guanyuan after Wang tried to stop him from leaving with Ning Wuyou, then returned to the Starry Sky Ancient Path and learned that Wang’s powerful Shangqing Temple connections could threaten it. He went to the Triangular Forbidden Zone as Wang swore revenge.

• Xie Xiaofo revealed that Xu Yi had earned the highest trial score and invited him to join the Ancestor Buddha Court.
• When Wang Guanyuan blocked Xu Yi and demanded that he leave Ning Wuyou behind, Xu Yi unleashed the Primordial Fire Technique and left Wang charred and barely alive.
• Xu Yi took Ning Wuyou away aboard the Starry Sky Boat, then asked Hong Tianming to protect Yi Bingwei, Yu Zixuan, and Yan Zi.
• Ning Wuyou went into seclusion on Starry Sky Island, and Xu Yi traveled to the Triangular Forbidden Zone to meet Xiong Bei Ming and the others.
• Xiong Bei Ming warned Xu Yi that Wang Guanyuan’s granduncle, Wang Qinghe, was a Shangqing Temple Supreme Elder and that Wang could call on formidable power to retaliate.

Xu Yi broke through to the Gold Domain in the Triangular Forbidden Zone, triggering a strange yin-yang phenomenon that matched a prophecy. After learning Ning Wuyou had left, he tried to leave, but Xiong Bei Ming urged him to wait three years, and Xu Yi refused to ignore the danger he sensed.

• Xu Yi asked Xiong Bei Ming for advice about Wang Guanyuan’s powerful great-uncle, and Xiong Bei Ming urged him to strengthen himself.
• With Xiong Bei Ming guarding him, Xu Yi used Profound Yellow Essence Qi and Dao Source to break through to the Full Domain Realm and then the Gold Domain.
• Xu Yi implanted a sixth Spirit Stabilizing Seed, joining his two golden domain roots into a circle and triggering a dangerous yin-yang realm phenomenon before pulling them apart.
• Huang Mei warned Xu Yi that Xiong Bei Ming had received troubling news, and Xu Yi asked whether something had happened to Ning Wuyou.
• Ning Wuque and Gold Corpse Old Cao said Ning Wuyou had left suddenly after telling them not to disturb Xu Yi, while Ning Wuque reported that the Fortune Divine Envoy had predicted Xu Yi’s phenomenon.
• Xiong Bei Ming blocked Xu Yi from leaving and asked him to wait three years, but Xu Yi said he had to act despite the danger.

Xu Yi learned that Auspicious Duck had foretold the Myriad World Thunder Roar and Yin-Yang Realm Separation and left him a choice between staying for three years or taking an Immortal Mechanism Ball. After discovering Ning Wuyou was to be married to Wang Guanyuan, Xu Yi chose to go after her, then used the ball to awaken the Ice Fire Rabbit.

• Xiong Bei Ming told Xu Yi that Auspicious Duck had instructed him to ask whether Xu Yi would stay at the phenomenon site for three years and to give him the Immortal Mechanism Ball if he refused.
• Xu Yi contacted Hong Tianming and learned that Ning Wuyou's Immortal Matrimony Ceremony with Wang Guanyuan would take place seven days later at the Northern Court Jade Palace.
• Xiong Bei Ming gave Xu Yi the Immortal Mechanism Ball and said he understood Xu Yi's choice to protect the woman he loved; Ning Wuque and Gold Corpse Old Cao prepared to fight alongside them.
• Xu Yi deciphered Xiong Bei Ming's cryptic clue with Huang Mei's help and brought the Ice Fire Rabbit near the Immortal Mechanism Ball.
• The ball entered the Ice Fire Rabbit and awakened it, but Xu Yi easily extinguished its flames and frost, leaving the rabbit astonished at how much weaker it was than him.

Xu Yi reunited with Auspicious Duck Shaoguang, who revealed that he had helped Xu Yi’s old flames rise and warned that Zimo’s fate was unclear. Auspicious Duck used his last wisp of pure intent to bid farewell before a thunderous force erased him, leaving Xu Yi to face the path ahead.

• The Ice Fire Rabbit’s frost and flames formed a black-and-white beam that expanded the Immortal Mechanism Ball’s image, and the exhausted rabbit collapsed.
• Auspicious Duck Shaoguang stepped through the image and told Xu Yi that he had guided the fortunes of Xu Yi’s old flames.
• Auspicious Duck said Zimo’s destiny had dimmed and that he could not determine where she was.
• Auspicious Duck revealed that his death tribulation had arrived and that only his final wisp of pure intent remained to say goodbye to Xu Yi.
• Auspicious Duck urged Xu Yi to walk his chosen path and praised the Ice Fire Rabbit’s power before thunder erased him.
• Xu Yi summoned three men with the Ruyi Pearl and told them what had happened.

Xu Yi prepared for a likely confrontation with the Shangqing Temple by gathering all the Profound Yellow Fiend into the Triangular Forbidden Zone and entrusting its defense to Xiong Bei Ming and the others. Before setting out, he freed Huang Mei from his master-recognition restriction, but Huang Mei chose to stay with him.

• Xiong Bei Ming devised a plan to summon Tower Masters in batches and secretly direct their collected Profound Yellow Fiend into the Triangular Forbidden Zone.
• Xu Yi and the others completed the collection over four days, and Xu Yi left Xiong Bei Ming, Ning Wuque, and their companion to guard the fiend.
• Xu Yi summoned the King Titan Dragon Python, revealed that Big Yellow could speak, and asked it to protect his brothers.
• Xu Yi removed Huang Mei's master-recognition restriction and told him he was heading toward near-certain death without him.
• Huang Mei returned to Xu Yi's Starry Sky Ring, insisting he would help keep Xu Yi alive because he had come to regard the ring as home.

Xu Yi disguised himself as Xue Xiang and entered Qiyu Palace to witness Ning Wuyou’s ceremony with Wang Guanyuan. The ceremony began with Ning Wuyou appearing vacant as she walked beside Wang Guanyuan.

• Xu Yi returned to the Great Desolate World, and Kong Xiaoyi told him the Heavenly Court would let him seek justice at the ceremony.
• Xu Yi suspected Kong Xiaoyi wanted to provoke conflict with the Northern Heavenly Court and hurried to Qiyu Palace.
• Disguised as Xue Xiang, Xu Yi used a gift to persuade Jiang Qin to bring him into Qiyu Palace.
• Xu Yi saw powerful delegations from Shangqing Temple, Taiqing Pavilion, Ancestor Buddha Court, the Southern Heavenly Court, and the Evil Court gather for the ceremony.
• Northern Court Holy Monarch Shishui arrived with Wang Guanyuan and Ning Wuyou, then announced their Daoist bond as Xu Yi watched Ning Wuyou’s vacant expression.