Chapter Summaries

Yang Lingtian overwhelmed three Seventh Layer Integration Realm ancestors, forcing them to use forbidden techniques and raise their power to the Eighth Layer. He disguised his own aura as a secret technique and kept fighting while Ancestor Thousand Qin wondered whether to use the Saintess’s trump card to save him.

• Yang Lingtian dodged Ancestor Gu Yi’s fire attack and then suppressed the three Seventh Layer Integration Realm ancestors with his swordsmanship.
• Yang Lingtian unleashed a powerful Sword Qi dragon, which the three ancestors shattered with their combined attacks before he resumed his relentless assault.
• The three ancestors used their Lineages’ Forbidden Secret Techniques, raising their auras to the Eighth Layer Integration Realm.
• Yang Lingtian disguised his aura as a secret technique that raised him to the Seventh Layer, and the three ancestors resolved to outlast it.
• Ancestor Thousand Qin worried about Yang Lingtian’s safety and considered using the Saintess’s trump card, but chose to trust his strength.

Yang Lingtian killed three Seventh Layer Integration Realm ancestors and captured Ancestor Tianlong and two other experts after defending Water Immortal Palace. He declared that he would attack the three hidden Lineages at their strongholds, despite Thousand Qin Old Ancestor warning him against it.

• The three Seventh Layer Integration Realm ancestors unleashed their strongest attacks to cover their retreat, but Yang Lingtian broke through them with a sword net.
• Yang Lingtian killed all three ancestors and collected the Space Ring and High-grade Sacred Artifact left behind by one of them.
• Yang Lingtian bound Ancestor Tianlong and two Third Layer Integration Realm experts, then told them their helpers were dead.
• Ancestor Tianlong warned Yang Lingtian that the three hidden Lineages had many experts and a Peak Ninth Layer Integration Realm ancestor who would seek revenge.
• Yang Lingtian said he would go to the Lineages' strongholds himself and had spared Ancestor Tianlong's group to learn where they were.
• Thousand Qin Old Ancestor urged Yang Lingtian not to attack the hidden Lineages, warning that their experts, trump cards, and formations made their strongholds dangerous.

Yang Lingtian spared three hidden-family experts and announced he would visit their headquarters in three days, after learning their locations. He revealed his Ninth Layer Integration Realm cultivation to Thousand Qin Old Ancestor, left for the Shenyu Empire, and news of his challenge spread across the three great empires.

• Yang Lingtian pressured the three wounded experts to reveal their family strongholds, then said he would visit each hidden family in three days and let them go deliver the warning.
• Yang Lingtian crossed Water Immortal Palace’s defensive formations and told Thousand Qin Old Ancestor he was in the Ninth Layer Integration Realm.
• Thousand Qin Old Ancestor refused to reveal Yiyue’s whereabouts, explaining that the Saintess had forbidden it, and Yang Lingtian accepted her answer.
• Yang Lingtian left for the Shenyu Empire to visit the hidden families.
• News of Yang Lingtian’s kills and challenge spread through the three great empires, where experts debated whether he could survive attacking the hidden families.

Yang Lingtian arrived at the Tianlan Family’s hidden territory and challenged the clan, prompting its elders to prepare for battle. Ancestor Tianhen confronted him alone, and Yang Lingtian dismissed him as no match.

• Wounded Ancestor Tianlong returned to the Tianlan Family’s hidden world and warned Ancestor Tianhen that Yang Lingtian had killed Ancestor Tianming and three Seventh Layer Integration Realm experts.
• Ancestor Tianhen refused to disturb the secluded family head and gathered three other Eighth Layer Integration Realm ancestors to discuss how to respond to Yang Lingtian.
• The Tianlan Family prepared its defenses while the other two hidden families also began mobilizing.
• Yang Lingtian appeared above the Tianlan Family’s territory, disguised his aura as Seventh Layer Integration Realm, and called the family out to fight.
• Ancestor Tianhen emerged to confront Yang Lingtian, who told him that he was not enough of a challenge.

Yang Lingtian fought the Tianlan Family’s four Eighth Layer Integration Realm ancestors and overwhelmed them, despite their combined attack. He revealed that he had concealed his Ninth Layer Integration Realm cultivation and warned the family to stop coveting the Water Immortal Palace.

• Ancestor Tianhen attacked Yang Lingtian, but Yang Lingtian easily shattered his strike and held his own against him.
• Three other Eighth Layer Integration Realm ancestors joined the fight, but Yang Lingtian suppressed all four.
• The four ancestors used the Tianlan Combined Attack Technique, but Yang Lingtian shattered it without moving.
• Yang Lingtian used the Space-time Profound Meaning to evade their attacks and gravely wounded all four ancestors.
• Yang Lingtian revealed his Ninth Layer Integration Realm cultivation and warned the Tianlan Family to stop coveting the Water Immortal Palace.

Yang Lingtian challenged the Tianlan Family’s peak Ninth Layer Integration Realm clan leader and overwhelmed him despite the clan leader’s powerful techniques and forbidden secret technique. The battle continued with the clan leader still suppressed by Yang Lingtian.

• Yang Lingtian revealed that he knew the Tianlan Family had another Ninth Layer Integration Realm ancestor and challenged the family to bring him out.
• The Tianlan Clan Leader left his secret chamber and appeared before Yang Lingtian with dozens of Integration Realm experts and clan disciples.
• Yang Lingtian and the Tianlan Clan Leader exchanged punches, then fought fiercely in the air as the clan leader wielded a High-grade Sacred Artifact.
• The Tianlan Clan Leader unleashed a mastered Top-grade Sacred Tier Martial Skill, but Yang Lingtian matched his attacks with ease.
• Yang Lingtian struck with Heaven-Defying Slash, shattered the clan leader’s defenses, and seriously wounded him.
• The Tianlan Clan Leader activated a Forbidden Secret Technique and more than a dozen Heaven and Earth Profound Meanings, but Yang Lingtian surged in strength and continued to suppress him.

Yang Lingtian overwhelmed the Tianlan Clan Leader, forcing the Tianlan Family to retreat behind its Defensive Array. The clan leader then activated the Execution Sword Formation, whose first strike carried the might of a Mahayana Realm attack as Yang Lingtian prepared to respond.

• Yang Lingtian mocked the Tianlan Clan Leader as he suppressed him, and the clan leader chose to retreat rather than use a blood essence-burning secret technique.
• The Tianlan Clan Leader ordered his family to withdraw into the minor world, then used the Space Profound Meaning to return behind the activated Defensive Array.
• Yang Lingtian assessed the powerful array and taunted the Tianlan Family, while the clan leader warned his ancestors not to rush out and fight him.
• The Tianlan Clan Leader ordered more than a hundred Integration Realm ancestors to activate the Execution Sword Formation, using Top-grade Spirit Stones to fuel it.
• The formation condensed a sword beam with the might of a Mahayana Realm attack and launched it at Yang Lingtian, who prepared to respond cautiously.

Yang Lingtian survived repeated Mahayana-level attacks from the Tianlan Family’s Execution Sword Formation while pretending to be badly wounded, draining the clan’s Spirit Stone reserves. He then attacked their protective formation, forcing the Tianlan Clan Leader to watch its energy and resources rapidly diminish.

• Yang Lingtian feigned serious injuries after surviving the Execution Sword Formation’s first attack, hoping to lure the Tianlan Family into spending more Spirit Stones.
• The Tianlan Clan Leader ordered the formation to attack again, and Yang Lingtian survived more than a hundred Mahayana-level sword strikes as the clan spent over ten billion Top-grade Spirit Stones.
• Yang Lingtian taunted the Tianlan Clan Leader for failing to kill him and began striking the family’s protective formation with attacks comparable to First-level Mahayana Realm blows.
• The formation’s energy drained under Yang Lingtian’s assault, and the Tian Lan Clan Leader feared the clan would exhaust its remaining Spirit Stones within days.

Yang Lingtian confronted the Gutian Family after forcing the Tianlan Family to agree to stop invading the Water Immortal Palace and apologize. He overpowered the Gutian Family’s forces, but their remaining Ninth Layer Integration Realm ancestor brought out the Seven-Colored Sacred Staff, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Yang Lingtian made the Tianlan Clan Leader agree to stop invading the Water Immortal Palace and send an Integration Realm ancestor to apologize, then left for the Gutian Family.
• Two Ninth Layer Integration Realm ancestors and fifteen Eighth Layer experts confronted Yang Lingtian, but he rejected their warning and attacked when they refused his demands.
• Yang Lingtian fought the Gutian Family’s forces alone, suppressed their attacks, and heavily wounded one of their Ninth Layer ancestors with a sword strike.
• The remaining Ninth Layer ancestor revealed the Gutian Family’s damaged Top-grade Sacred Artifact, the Seven-Colored Sacred Staff, and fired a powerful beam at Yang Lingtian.
• Yang Lingtian met the staff’s attack with his sword, and the clash filled the sky with an energy storm while draining a third of the ancestor’s Spiritual Power.

Yang Lingtian defeated the Gutian Family’s Ninth Layer Integration Realm ancestor despite his Mahayana-level World-Destroying Divine Thunder, then forced the family to promise not to target the Water Immortal Palace and to apologize. He flew to the Tiger Dragon Family, whose elders debated whether reports of his power were true while refusing to face him.

• The Gutian Family ancestor used a World-Destroying Divine Thunder, but Yang Lingtian survived its Mahayana-level strike with no serious injuries.
• Yang Lingtian stopped the fleeing ancestor with Space-time Profound Meaning, struck him down, and demanded that the Gutian Family cease attacking the Water Immortal Palace and apologize in person.
• The ancestor agreed to Yang Lingtian’s demands, and Yang Lingtian left the Gutian Family without further attacks.
• Yang Lingtian went to the Tiger Dragon Family, but no one came out to meet him.
• More than a hundred Tiger Dragon Family experts gathered inside their small world and discussed the reports of Yang Lingtian’s victories.
• Some Tiger Dragon Family experts believed Yang Lingtian was comparable to a Mahayana expert, while others dismissed the reports as exaggerated.

Yang Lingtian’s attacks shook the Tiger Dragon Family’s small world, forcing its ancestors to negotiate and agree not to target the Water Immortal Palace. News of the three hidden families’ compromises spread across the Shenwu Continent, where rumors about Yang Lingtian’s strength and the Water Immortal Palace’s origins began circulating.

• Yang Lingtian’s attacks shook the Tiger Dragon Family’s small world, and its ancestors debated whether to keep hiding or negotiate.
• The Tiger Dragon Family patriarch decided to compromise, and Yang Lingtian stopped attacking when its ancestor called out to him.
• The Tiger Dragon ancestor admitted fault and promised a declaration against attacking the Water Immortal Palace, along with gifts and an apology.
• News spread that all three hidden families had compromised, prompting rumors about Yang Lingtian’s power and the Water Immortal Palace’s past as a supreme power.

Chen Yiyue traveled incognito through the Wuling Dynasty to temper her state of mind, but Young Master Tian Hen tried to force her to go with him. She killed him and two of his lackeys, leaving the onlookers bewildered.

• Yang Lingtian watched as the three hidden families sent Integration Realm ancestors to apologize to the Water Immortal Palace, then vanished to search for Chen Yiyue.
• Chen Yiyue walked through the Wuling Dynasty's imperial capital while concealing her cultivation and appearing to be a mortal.
• Young Master Tian Hen accosted Chen Yiyue and ordered his lackeys to seize her when she ignored him.
• Chen Yiyue released her power and killed the first lackey who charged at her.
• Chen Yiyue killed a second lackey, then silently pierced Tian Hen's heart and declared she would rid the people of a scourge.
• The onlookers speculated about the unseen attacker and celebrated Tian Hen's death.

After Chen Yiyue left the Shenwu Continent for the sea, Yang Lingtian joined the guest officials assembled by the Eight Great Ancient Families. Their White-robed Envoy revealed that an enemy would emerge from the Wormhole Passage, and the passage began to open as Yang Lingtian prepared to fight.

• The Tian family investigated Young Master Tian Hen’s mysterious death, suspected an invisible attack, and decided not to pursue the matter without clues.
• Chen Yiyue traveled across the Shenwu Continent, then left for the distant seas.
• The Eight Great Ancient Families transported Yang Lingtian and thousands of other recruited cultivators to a mountain forest.
• The White-robed Envoy announced that the Wormhole Passage would bring a world-threatening enemy and assigned Yang Lingtian to the Mahayana Realm main force.
• As the sky darkened and space distorted, the White-robed Envoy warned everyone to prepare for the passage to open.

The white-robed elder told the assembled cultivators that they had been gathered to seal the Wormhole Passage, concealing that the array would sacrifice them. When the Blood Sacrifice Grand Array began draining their blood and qi, Yang Lingtian escaped into the Chaos Space inside the Chaos Bead.

• The white-robed elder described the ancient battle and the threat of the Wormhole Passage, persuading the gathered experts that they needed to help seal it.
• When experts questioned why the Eight Great Ancient Families had recruited outsiders, the white-robed elder refused to reveal their secrets.
• The cultivators were assigned to distant Array Cores, each surrounded by a Confinement Array, while Yang Lingtian examined the setup.
• Qingyun Shangren ordered everyone to inject Spiritual Power into the Array Cores, and the grand array began drawing out their blood and qi.
• Yang Lingtian recognized the Blood Sacrifice Grand Array, severed his connection to it, and hid in the Chaos Space within the Chaos Bead.

Yang Lingtian hid inside the Chaos Bead after disappearing from his Array Core, while Qingyun Shangren replaced him and completed the Blood Sacrifice Grand Array. The array’s power was used to seal the Wormhole Passage, leaving Yang Lingtian trapped inside the Confinement Array.

• Qingyun Shangren discovered Yang Lingtian had vanished from his Array Core and sent the white-robed old man to capture a replacement cultivator.
• The white-robed old man brought back a First Layer Integration Realm cultivator, allowing the Blood Sacrifice Grand Array to resume.
• Yang Lingtian watched from the Chaos Bead as the array drained more than ten thousand cultivators, who realized too late that they were being sacrificed.
• Qingyun Shangren carried the accumulated qi and blood to the Wormhole Passage, where the Ninth Layer Mahayana Realm ancestors of the Eight Great Ancient Families helped suppress it.
• Qingyun Shangren arranged and activated the sealing formation, which merged with the blood energy and sealed the Wormhole Passage.

Annihilation Star Lord mastered a God-tier Martial Skill and led hundreds of Ninth Layer Mahayana Realm experts to attack the strengthened Wormhole Passage seal. His strike nearly shattered the seal on Shenwu Continent, where Qingyun Shangren and the Eight Great Ancient Families' ancestors rushed to reinforce it.

• Qingyun Shangren and the Eight Great Ancient Families' ancestors strengthened the Wormhole Passage seal, while Old Ancestor Tianhe lamented the cultivators sacrificed to create the Blood Sacrifice Grand Array.
• A Ninth Layer Mahayana Realm member of the Alien Race sensed the stronger seal and trusted that Annihilation Star Lord would break it.
• Annihilation Star Lord emerged from seclusion after mastering his God-tier Martial Skill and summoned hundreds of Ninth Layer Mahayana Realm experts to attack the seal together.
• Annihilation Star Lord struck the Wormhole Passage with his sacred sword, sending a powerful Sword Qi through it toward Shenwu Continent.
• The Sword Qi cracked and drained the seal, so Qingyun Shangren and the ancestors of the Eight Great Ancient Families poured their power into it to stabilize it.
• Annihilation Star Lord sensed the chaotic currents in the passage and declared that it was time to proceed.

Annihilation Star Lord and millions of experts shattered the seal on the Wormhole Passage, unleashing a devastating energy storm across Shenwu Star. With the passage too unstable for powerful cultivators to cross, both worlds prepared for the coming conflict while Yang Lingtian investigated from the crowd.

• Annihilation Star Lord and the experts behind him attacked the seal until it broke, devastating the surrounding land and destroying the Confinement Array near Yang Lingtian.
• The Four Great Sacred Halls prepared for an invasion, while Palace Mistress Tianyue chose not to intervene unless the danger threatened the Extreme Ice Divine Palace or Goddess's cultivation.
• Qingyun Shangren and the ancestors of the Eight Great Ancient Families survived the storm but could not restore the seal, and Old Ancestor Tianhe worried that they could only await an invasion.
• Annihilation Star Lord explained that unstable space and turbulence prevented powerful cultivators from crossing the passage, then ordered his forces to return and prepare for battle.
• The Eight Great Families spread news of the broken seal, drawing investigators to the passage, where Yang Lingtian concealed himself and judged that only cultivators below the Integration Realm could cross safely for now.

Yang Lingtian returned to the Spirit Demon Realm to tell Saint Heaven Sovereign that the Wormhole Passage seal had broken and to offer a way to free him from the curse restriction. He revealed a talisman capable of a Ninth Layer Mahayana Realm strike, leaving Saint Heaven Sovereign shocked but still awaiting proof.

• Yang Lingtian left the unstable Wormhole Passage and returned to the Spirit Demon Realm, using Rainbow Phoenix Saintess’s token to take the Sky Phoenix Clan’s Teleportation Array to Huitian City.
• Yang Lingtian flew to the Spirit Demon Clan’s Imperial City, where Saint Heaven Sovereign noticed his breakthrough to the Ninth Layer Integration Realm and invited him to the palace.
• Yang Lingtian told Saint Heaven Sovereign that the Wormhole Passage seal had broken and that powerful members of the extraterrestrial Alien Race could arrive once its space stabilized.
• Yang Lingtian said he could break the Spirit Demon Realm’s curse restriction, but Saint Heaven Sovereign doubted that he could deliver the required Ninth Layer Mahayana Realm strike.
• Yang Lingtian took out his one-use talisman, claiming it could unleash a Ninth Layer Mahayana Realm strike, and Saint Heaven Sovereign was shocked.

Yang Lingtian revealed that he would use a talisman capable of unleashing a Ninth Layer Mahayana Realm strike to break the curse restriction over the Spirit Demon Realm. The Hall Masters opposed him and urged Saint Heaven Sovereign to capture him, but Saint Heaven Sovereign defended their agreement and explained that Yang Lingtian had come to help his clan.

• Yang Lingtian showed Saint Heaven Sovereign the talisman and confirmed that he intended to use it to break the restriction.
• Saint Heaven Sovereign summoned the Twelve Hall Masters, who reacted warily to Yang Lingtian’s arrival.
• Hall Master Ming Yan and the Second Hall Master urged Saint Heaven Sovereign to capture Yang Lingtian and seize the divine beast for the clan’s sacrificial ceremony.
• Saint Heaven Sovereign said Yang Lingtian had reached the Ninth Layer Integration Realm, though the Hall Masters doubted it and suspected he was disguising his aura.
• Saint Heaven Sovereign reaffirmed that he would honor his agreement with Yang Lingtian and revealed that the talisman might break the curse restriction.

Yang Lingtian used a powerful talisman to break the Spirit Demon Clan’s ancient cursed restriction, then left for Shenwu Star’s South Pole to seek Palace Mistress Tianyue through his connection to Nora. He entered a deadly ice fog, believing the Extreme Ice Divine Palace might lie within it.

• Yang Lingtian activated his talisman and shattered the cursed restriction over the Spirit Demon Realm.
• Saint Heaven Sovereign and the twelve palace masters celebrated their freedom, and Saint Heaven Sovereign offered Yang Lingtian access to the clan’s treasure vault and Imperial Spirit Garden.
• Yang Lingtian declined the rewards and left, while Saint Heaven Sovereign returned to seclusion to pursue a breakthrough to the Mahayana Realm.
• Yang Lingtian considered asking Palace Mistress Tianyue to help defend Shenwu Star from the Alien Race, using his connection to Nora, and headed for the South Pole.
• Yang Lingtian crossed the lethal ice fields and entered a vast fog of Profound Ice Qi, suspecting the Extreme Ice Divine Palace was hidden beyond it.