Chapter Summaries

Zhang Xuanchen and his companions reached Origin Immortal City, where a local waiter told them about the Sunken Tide Ancient Continent’s leading powers and a treasure rumored to have appeared in the Dao Source Abyss. Zhang Xuanchen learned that the three major sects were searching the forbidden land, while the treasure’s nature and exact location remained unknown.

• Zhang Xuanchen concealed his group’s strength and accepted Zhao Long’s invitation to visit Water Cloud Tower in Origin Immortal City.
• Great Sage and the others ate a lavish meal, and Zhao Long and Xu Qingyi paid tens of thousands of mid-grade spirit stones before leaving.
• Zhang Xuanchen paid waiter Shui Sanshun for a map and asked about the Sunken Tide Ancient Continent’s major powers.
• Shui Sanshun named the Heavenly Water Sacred Sect, Nether Sea Hall, and Sunpeak Ancient Clan as the continent’s three dominant powers, and described the Dao Source Abyss as a northern forbidden land.
• Shui Sanshun revealed that divine light had erupted from the Dao Source Abyss half a year earlier and that the three Spirit Transformation powers and many Nascent Soul powers were searching there for a suspected treasure.

Zhang Xuanchen misdirected the factions watching him before leading his companions toward the Dao Origin Abyss. Half a year later, they reached its outer ring and watched the gathered factions as a commotion broke out at the camps.

• Zhang Xuanchen left Water Cloud Tower after explaining that the forbidden Dao Origin Abyss was too dangerous for outsiders to enter amid a struggle between three Spirit Transformation factions.
• Zhang Xuanchen and his companions stayed in Heavenly Water City overnight, then set out the next morning and let their watchers believe they were heading to the Ten Thousand Waters Basin.
• After traveling for two hours, Zhang Xuanchen and the others changed their appearances and diverted toward the Dao Origin Abyss.
• Half a year later, Zhang Xuanchen and his companions reached the Abyss's outer ring, where three Spirit Transformation factions and more than a dozen Nascent Soul factions had established camps.
• Great Sage observed that the factions would likely fight over the treasure, while Zhang Xuanchen warned that the dangers of the forbidden ground made traveling alone deadly.
• A commotion broke out at the distant camps as Zhang Xuanchen and his companions watched from behind a boulder.

After Gu Buqun returned wounded from the Inverted Waters, he revealed to the Yangyue Ancient Clan that a great treasure was likely hidden there and guarded by a fifth-grade ferocious beast. As the rival factions secretly prepared to follow the clan, Zhang Xuanchen sent his companions into the Myriad Spirit Ring and set off alone toward the treasure.

• Gu Buqun returned to the Yangyue Ancient Clan's camp with severe injuries, and Shui Yunlan and Hai Lan'er inferred that he might have found the treasure's location.
• Gu Buqun told the Yangyue elders that the treasure was likely in the Inverted Waters, where a fifth-grade ferocious beast had nearly killed him.
• Shui Yunlan ordered the Heavenly Water Sacred Sect to watch the Yangyue camp, follow its people secretly, and notify the Ancestor.
• Hai Lan'er ordered Nethersea Hall to monitor both rival factions while the three powers secretly made plans against one another.
• Zhang Xuanchen and his companions overheard the factions' conversations with Xuanjing and decided to hurry to the treasure's location.
• Zhang Xuanchen sent Luo Lingshuang, Great Sage, Little Peach, and Little Star into the Myriad Spirit Ring, then concealed himself and departed alone.

Zhang Xuanchen raced deeper into the Dao Origin Abyss with Xuanjing guiding him, enduring its deadly baleful Qi before fighting off a group of Abyss Beasts. He discovered a crystal containing a Principle fragment and asked Xuanjing whether she could purify it.

• Xuanjing guided Zhang Xuanchen through the distorted depths of the Dao Origin Abyss, where baleful Qi began tearing at his body.
• Xuanjing explained that the baleful Qi came from death, resentment, and shattered Principles, and warned that prolonged exposure could destroy Zhang Xuanchen’s body and erode his soul.
• Several Abyss Beasts attacked Zhang Xuanchen in a canyon, and he killed them with Sword Qi, his Divine Dragon Tyrant Body, and the Dragon God Fist.
• Zhang Xuanchen split open the strongest Abyss Beast and recovered a black crystal that Xuanjing identified as condensed Abyss Qi containing a trace of a Principle fragment.
• Zhang Xuanchen asked Xuanjing whether she could purify the crystal.

Zhang Xuanchen ventured into the deadly heart of the Dao Origin Abyss, where Xuanjing protected him from the abyss Qi and Shuoxing gathered ruined artifacts to repair the Starry Tower. He claimed a rare Soul-Devouring Nether Lotus after defeating a Netherworld Blood Tiger, while Nethersea Hall scouts misidentified the distant battle and suspected the Yangyue Ancient Clan had reached the treasure.

• Zhang Xuanchen entered the middle region of the Dao Origin Abyss, and Xuanjing’s mirror light shielded him from its corrosive abyss Qi.
• Shuoxing collected a damaged saber and said the battlefield’s ruined treasures could help restore the Starry Tower.
• Xuanjing detected a mature fifth-grade treasure, and Zhang Xuanchen found the Soul-Devouring Nether Lotus in a black swamp.
• A Netherworld Blood Tiger attacked Zhang Xuanchen, but he shattered its claw with his sword and made it flee.
• Zhang Xuanchen collected the Soul-Devouring Nether Lotus and continued deeper into the forbidden land.
• Li Chen and the Nethersea Hall scouts sensed the distant battle, mistook its presence for Yangyue Ancient Clan cultivators, and hurried back to report it.

Li Chen’s report led Nethersea Hall and the Heavenly Water Sacred Sect to confront Gu Buqun, accusing the Yangyue Ancient Clan of finding the supreme treasure. When a white-haired elder proposed investigating the battle traces instead, Gu Buqun agreed to lead them, inwardly cursing Zhang Xuanchen.

• Li Chen told Hai Lan’er that a powerful battle had taken place in the Dao Origin Abyss’s middle region, convincing her that the Yangyue Ancient Clan had found the supreme treasure.
• Hai Lan’er led Nethersea Hall to surround the Yangyue Ancient Clan’s encampment and demanded that Gu Buqun reveal the treasure’s location.
• Gu Buqun denied that his clan had entered the forbidden ground, while Li Chen and Hai Lan’er accused him of hiding the truth.
• Shui Yunlan arrived with the Heavenly Water Sacred Sect and joined the pressure on Gu Buqun, who angrily insisted that his clan had not found the treasure.
• A white-haired elder suggested investigating the battle traces, and Hai Lan’er and Shui Yunlan threatened to fight unless Gu Buqun accompanied them.
• Gu Buqun agreed to go with them and cursed Zhang Xuanchen, who sneezed twice while traveling elsewhere.

Zhang Xuanchen traveled through the forbidden land’s deadly core region in search of the Ten Thousand Waters Dao Source Lotus, guided by Xuanjing. He was cornered by two early Fifth-grade Demon Beasts, who mistook him for humans that had previously stolen their treasures.

• Zhang Xuanchen worried that his son might meet Long Zhan Tian while he hurried toward the core region to secure the Ten Thousand Waters Dao Source Lotus.
• Xuanjing warned Zhang Xuanchen about unstable spatial rifts and guided him around collapsing space for six hours.
• Xuanjing detected two early Fifth-grade Demon Beasts ahead, and Zhang Xuanchen prepared to fight when they blocked his path.
• A Bone-Spiked Abyss Bear and a Rift-Splitting Nether Peng emerged and trapped Zhang Xuanchen between them.
• The Bone-Spiked Abyss Bear accused Zhang Xuanchen of being one of the humans who had stolen their Fourth Stage spiritual treasures, and the Nether Peng urged it to kill him.

Zhang Xuanchen fought the Bone-Spiked Abyss Bear and Rift-Splitting Nether Peng, two fifth-grade demon beasts guarding their king’s territory. He wounded the Nether Peng and endured their combined assault before unleashing his Dragon Emperor Battle Skill, leaving both beasts’ bloodlines suppressed and their resolve shaken.

• The Bone-Spiked Abyss Bear and Rift-Splitting Nether Peng attacked Zhang Xuanchen with a bone mountain and a storm of feather blades.
• Zhang Xuanchen activated his Divine Dragon Tyrant Body, then used his sword and Grand Void Feather Escape Technique to fend off the attacks and shatter the bone mountain.
• Zhang Xuanchen appeared before the Rift-Splitting Nether Peng and struck it with Dragon Emperor Heaven-Shaking Fist, rupturing one of its wings.
• The Bone-Spiked Abyss Bear charged Zhang Xuanchen with bone spears and a barrage of punches while the injured Nether Peng added a storm of spatial feather blades.
• Zhang Xuanchen unleashed Dragon Emperor Descends into the World, driving back the Abyss Qi and suppressing both beasts with his blood-gold dragon shadow.

Zhang Xuanchen defeated the Bone-Spiked Abyss Bear and Rift-Splitting Nether Peng’s attacks, then persuaded the wounded demons that their king was exploiting them. The two demons chose to retreat, leaving Zhang Xuanchen to continue toward the treasure and its guardian.

• The Bone-Spiked Abyss Bear unleashed Bone Demon World-Destroyer, but Zhang Xuanchen’s Nine Dragons Life-Slaying Sword wounded it and shattered its bone armor.
• The Rift-Splitting Nether Peng used Void Burial, but Zhang Xuanchen’s Ninefold Space-Folding redirected the spatial rifts and wounded the Peng.
• Zhang Xuanchen summoned the Blood-Golden Dragon Emperor’s phantom and urged the two demons to retreat rather than die for their king.
• The Rift-Splitting Nether Peng admitted that its king had promised them two Lotus Leaves, and Zhang Xuanchen challenged the king’s motives and questioned whether it would help them.
• The Rift-Splitting Nether Peng and Bone-Spiked Abyss Bear decided to retreat, though the bear insisted they were leaving because Zhang Xuanchen’s words made sense, not because they feared him.

Zhang Xuanchen reached the Dao Origin Abyss Core Zone and found a Ten Thousand Waters Dao Source Lotus guarded by a late fifth-grade Ancient Abyss Ao. He broke the beast’s alarm array and confronted it, preparing to use his treasures to seize the lotus.

• Zhang Xuanchen traveled deeper into the Dao Origin Abyss and discovered a water-attribute array protecting a treasure-filled Core Zone.
• Xuanjing identified the treasure as a mid ninth stage Ten Thousand Waters Dao Source Lotus that could help Little Peach produce peaches capable of giving the Zhang Family special constitutions.
• Xuanjing warned that a late fifth-grade Ancient Abyss Ao guarded the lotus, and Shuoxing suggested using the Silent King Remnant Banner and Starry Tower against it.
• Zhang Xuanchen unleashed his strength and shattered the array with Nine Dragon Swords-Dragon Splits the Firmament, awakening the Ancient Abyss Ao.
• The Ancient Abyss Ao rose from the pond and demanded to know why Zhang Xuanchen possessed pure Dragon Clan blood; Zhang Xuanchen answered dismissively.

Zhang Xuanchen fought the Ancient Abyss Ao over the lotus, but the demon’s overwhelming strength broke through his attacks and defenses. Trapped beneath its endless waters, Zhang Xuanchen continued to resist and taunt it, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Zhang Xuanchen demanded that the Ancient Abyss Ao hand over the lotus and acknowledge him as its master, but it refused and attacked.
• Zhang Xuanchen used the Starry Tower and Nine Dragon Swords to withstand the Ancient Abyss Ao’s first two attacks, though he was injured and driven into a cliff.
• Zhang Xuanchen struck at the Ancient Abyss Ao with the Meteor Sword, but its armor deflected the blow, and its tail attack shattered many of his scales.
• Zhang Xuanchen used the Starry Tower’s Star River Seals the Sky, but the Ancient Abyss Ao summoned its Black Tortoise Sea-Suppressing Armor and shattered the sealing formation.
• The Ancient Abyss Ao trapped Zhang Xuanchen in torrents of water, while Zhang Xuanchen fought back with Dragon Emperor Shakes the Sky and taunted it to kill him.

Zhang Xuanchen endured the Ancient Abyss Ao’s attacks while the factions outside the core region debated joining forces to claim the supreme treasure. As the beast unleashed its Devour Heaven and Earth attack, Zhang Xuanchen revealed the Silent King Remnant Banner and began sealing the battlefield.

• The Ancient Abyss Ao pressed a massive water mountain down on Zhang Xuanchen, who used the Starry Tower to resist it.
• Shui Yunlan accused Gu Buqun of failing to secure the supreme treasure, and Gu Buqun and the Yangyue Ancient Clan’s Ancestor traded angry retorts.
• Shui Cang proposed that the Heavenly Water Sacred Sect, Yangyue Ancient Clan, and Nethersea Hall cooperate against the guardian beast and the outsider, and their forces headed for the core region.
• The Ancient Abyss Ao used Devour Heaven and Earth to draw Zhang Xuanchen toward its maw, but Zhang Xuanchen held back with the Starry Tower.
• Zhang Xuanchen revealed and threw the Silent King Remnant Banner, whose gray-black domain spread across hundreds of li and disrupted the Ancient Abyss Ao’s power.

Zhang Xuanchen sealed the Ancient Abyss Ao’s Spiritual Qi and bound it with the Starry Tower, then hurried to collect the Ten Thousand Waters Dao Source Lotus. Little Peach began forming a Life Link with the lotus, while the imprisoned Ancient Abyss Ao recognized something startling about her.

• Zhang Xuanchen used the Silent King Remnant Banner to seal the Ancient Abyss Ao’s Spiritual Qi and suppress half its Demon Power.
• Zhang Xuanchen and Shuoxing used the Starry Tower’s Stellar Power to bind the Ancient Abyss Ao in a prison of starlight.
• Zhang Xuanchen reached the Ten Thousand Waters Dao Source Lotus and asked Xuanjing how to collect it without damaging its foundation.
• Xuanjing advised Zhang Xuanchen to have Little Peach form a Life Link with the lotus and bring its surrounding sourcewater into the Myriad Spirit Ring.
• Little Peach approached the lotus, offered it her life essence, and began linking their roots after it accepted her.
• The imprisoned Ancient Abyss Ao stared at the peach tree phantom behind Little Peach in disbelief.

After the Ancient Abyss Ao recognized Little Peach as an immortal-grade Myriad Manifestations Returning Origin Peach Tree, Zhang Xuanchen prepared to kill it, but it offered to submit. Zhang Xuanchen arranged for it to acknowledge Luo Lingshuang as its master, and the chapter ended as the Ancient Abyss Ao was told to offer its natal soul seal.

• The Ancient Abyss Ao recognized Little Peach's true form, prompting Zhang Xuanchen to unleash the Three Lives Borrowing Strength Great Technique and strengthen his Divine Dragon Tyrant Body.
• Facing Zhang Xuanchen's increased power while weakened and trapped, the Ancient Abyss Ao begged to submit and explained its inherited memory of an immortal tree.
• Zhang Xuanchen verified the Ancient Abyss Ao's sincerity with the Three Lives Samsara Mirror and decided Luo Lingshuang should become its master.
• Zhang Xuanchen summoned Luo Lingshuang and offered the Ancient Abyss Ao a chance to cultivate beside the Ten Thousand Waters Dao Source Lotus and potentially receive a Ninth Stage Innate Sourcewater Peach.
• The Ancient Abyss Ao agreed to serve Luo Lingshuang, and Zhang Xuanchen instructed Xuanjing and Shuoxing to guard against interference while it offered its natal soul seal.

Luo Lingshuang bound the Ancient Abyss Ao with its soul seal, while Little Peach successfully joined with the Ten Thousand Waters Dao Source Lotus. With their mission on the Sunken Tide Ancient Continent complete and nearby factions likely alerted, Zhang Xuanchen prepared to leave with the new members.

• The Ancient Abyss Ao surrendered its soul seal, and Luo Lingshuang bound it with Xuanjing's guidance.
• Zhang Xuanchen weakened after releasing the Three Lives Borrowing Strength Great Technique, and Luo Lingshuang gave him a healing spirit medicine.
• Little Peach formed a spiritual bond with the Ten Thousand Waters Dao Source Lotus, which shrank and flew into her palm.
• Zhang Xuanchen said the group would collect nearby spirit medicines and leave for the Central Land Immortal Continent before the three great Spirit Transformation factions arrived.
• The Ancient Abyss Ao transformed into a man, and Zhang Xuanchen and Luo Lingshuang welcomed him into the group while promising the soul seal would not bind him forever.

Zhang Xuanchen and his companions stripped Clear Pond of its treasures and left the Sunken Tide Ancient Continent. A month later, the three major factions arrived to find the pond empty, and Shui Cang blamed Gu Buqun before Yangyue Venerable defended him and led the Yangyue Ancient Clan away.

• Abyss Ao showed Zhang Xuanchen where more water marrow ganoderma and water spirit crystals were hidden.
• Zhang Xuanchen's group collected the treasures around Clear Pond and departed with Luo Lingshuang, Little Peach, and Abyss Ao inside the Myriad Spirit Ring.
• A month later, Shui Cang, Yangyue Venerable, and Haiyou Venerable reached Clear Pond after losing nine Nascent Soul cultivators along the way.
• The three factions discovered that someone had dug up every treasure at Clear Pond, and Shui Cang erupted in fury.
• Shui Cang accused Gu Buqun of hiding the treasure's location, but Yangyue Venerable shielded Gu Buqun and challenged Shui Cang to find the thief.
• Yangyue Venerable led the Yangyue Ancient Clan away from Clear Pond.

Zhang Xuanchen and his companions sailed across the Endless Sea after escaping the forbidden land with a trove of treasures. Abyss Ao joined their group, marked the Wavebreaker with his presence to deter threats, and entered the Myriad Spirit Ring to cultivate as they continued toward the Central Land Immortal Continent.

• Yangyue Venerable led the Yangyue Ancient Clan out of the forbidden zone, while Shui Cang failed to persuade Haiyou Venerable to join forces against them.
• Aboard the Wavebreaker, Zhang Xuanchen joked with Luo Lingshuang about the damage they had left behind as their companions sorted through the treasures from the forbidden land.
• Great Sage welcomed Abyss Ao to the Zhang Family and encouraged him to believe he could eventually transform into a true Black Tortoise.
• Zhang Xuanchen asked Abyss Ao to leave his presence on the Wavebreaker to deter Yao Kings and evil spirits, then cultivate in the Myriad Spirit Ring.
• Abyss Ao released an ancient pressure that drove off distant probing divine senses, agreed to spar with Great Sage after he advanced, and entered the Myriad Spirit Ring.

After six years in the Heaven-Burying Sword Emperor’s inheritance trials, Zhang Xuance faced the eternal sword debt, carrying the resentment and karma of the Emperor’s million years of slaughter. He chose to bear the debt to protect the Zhang Clan and the myriad Daos, and met the final tribulation with his heaven-burying sword intent.

• Abyss Ao entered the Ten Thousand Waters Dao Source Lotus lake inside the Myriad Spirit Ring to cultivate, while the Wavebreaker continued its voyage with fewer troubles.
• Zhang Xuance passed the Thousand Swords Bury the Dao and Illusory Sword Realm trials, comprehending heaven-burying sword intent and the Sword Silence in One Thought divine ability.
• During the eternal sword debt trial, blood-colored lightning battered Zhang Xuance as vengeful souls accused him of bearing the Heaven-Burying Sword Emperor’s slaughter karma.
• Zhang Xuance recognized the resentment as the hatred of the Devil Race and declared that he would take the inheritance to grow stronger and protect the Zhang Family.
• Remembering his clan’s sacrifices, Zhang Xuance resolved that the sword Dao was for standing before others and cutting down their enemies.
• Zhang Xuance summoned his heaven-burying sword intent and vowed to bear the Emperor’s debt with his life as the eternal resentment tribulation descended.

Zhang Xuance endured the resentment of a million Devil Creatures, earned the Heaven-Burying Sword Emperor’s inheritance, and received the Heaven-Burying Sword. He then learned that his elder clan brother may have been taken into the sealed ground by a Devil Race Sword Emperor, but he was forbidden to attempt a rescue until he reached the Mahayana stage.

• Zhang Xuance cut down the million resentful souls and transformed his sword bone, Dao heart, Golden Core, and soul.
• The Heaven-Burying Sword Emperor’s remnant will praised Zhang Xuance and passed on the Heaven-Slaying Emperor Sword Instruction and the outline of the Heaven-Burying Great Dao.
• The remnant will gave Zhang Xuance the damaged Heaven-Burying Sword and told him it held further cultivation and craft inheritances.
• Zhang Xuance pledged to slay devils and defend the Dao, then asked where his elder clan brother was.
• The remnant will discovered that a sealed Devil Race Sword Emperor may have drawn Zhang Xuance’s elder clan brother into the sealed ground.
• Zhang Xuance demanded a way to rescue his brother, but the remnant will ordered him to grow stronger and wait until he reached the Mahayana stage.

Zhang Xuance learned that Zhang Xuntong had almost no chance of surviving the Devil Race Sword Emperor’s corruption, then left the inheritance hall with the Heaven-Burying Sword Emperor’s inheritance. Outside, twenty-seven Golden Core cultivators ambushed him for the inheritance, and Zhang Xuance drew his sword to fight them.

• Zhang Xuance remembered his past with Zhang Xuntong and asked the Heaven-Burying Sword Emperor about his chances of survival.
• The Heaven-Burying Sword Emperor said Zhang Xuntong’s survival was almost impossible, then warned Zhang Xuance to stabilize his foundation before breaking through to Nascent Soul.
• Zhang Xuance left the inheritance hall and emerged from the Cloud Line at Bare Rock Sword Ridge.
• Twenty-seven Golden Core cultivators revealed their ambush, trapped Zhang Xuance in a formation, and attacked him to seize the inheritance.
• Zhang Xuance unleashed his Heaven-Burying Sword Intent, cut apart the incoming attacks, and drew the Heaven-Burying Sword.