Chapter Summaries

Yang Lingtian confronted a woman from the Phoenix Maiden Sect who planned to absorb his yang energy, and he effortlessly destroyed the formations she used to trap him. He approached her after exposing his mastery of formations, while she still believed her Second Layer Integration Realm cultivation gave her the advantage.

• The woman threatened to absorb Yang Lingtian’s yang energy and revealed that her cultivation technique had helped her advance by harming hundreds of male cultivators.
• Yang Lingtian dismissed the woman’s formations as flawed and claimed he was a Ninth-tier Array Master, but she mocked his claim and activated them.
• Yang Lingtian struck the formations’ weak points and broke them one by one, leaving the woman shocked and frightened.
• Yang Lingtian told the woman she could no longer threaten him and walked toward her, while she insisted that her Second Layer Integration Realm made her stronger.

Yang Lingtian forced a Phoenix Maiden Sect cultivator to lead him to the sect and attacked its hidden minor world to confront its members over their evil arts. He defeated ancestor Feng Qingwu and began punishing her, leaving her under his control and in agony.

• Yang Lingtian revealed his Ninth Layer Integration Realm strength and threatened a Phoenix Maiden Sect woman until she led him to the sect's hidden minor world.
• Yang Lingtian bypassed the sect's barriers with Space Profound Meaning and destroyed mountain peaks, drawing out the sect's ancestor, Feng Qingwu.
• Yang Lingtian accused the Phoenix Maiden Sect of harming male cultivators through evil arts, and Feng Qingwu admitted she had absorbed the yang energy of more than a hundred Integration Realm cultivators.
• Yang Lingtian's Spiritual Power palm imprint shattered Feng Qingwu's Phoenix Dance Nine Heavens attack and forced her Protective Talisman to shield her.
• Yang Lingtian pressed his hand to Feng Qingwu's head and poured Spiritual Power into her, leaving her in agony as he declared it the price of cultivating evil arts.

Yang Lingtian forced the Phoenix Maiden Sect to abandon the Sun Absorption Art after revealing that their Mahayana Realm lord was an Alien Race member he had killed. Disguised as one of the Alien Race, he entered Death Island to investigate its hidden gathering place.

• Yang Lingtian defeated Feng Qingwu and showed the Phoenix Maiden Sect their dead Alien Race lord, revealing that the lord had taught them the evil Sun Absorption Art.
• Yang Lingtian warned the sect to stop cultivating the art, and Feng Qingwu and the others swore by the Heavenly Dao to abandon it.
• Yang Lingtian used the Chaos Bead to disguise his aura and learned from the Alien Race member's memories that Death Island concealed a gathering place.
• Yang Lingtian used the dead expert's token to pass through Death Island's barrier and enter the island.

Yang Lingtian returned to Death Island, found the stone stele that transported him into an Alien Race lair, and infiltrated it disguised as Mòtuō. After meeting Venerable Hei Yu, he learned the Alien Race planned to intensify its infiltration of Shenwu Star, but he left without attacking because the lair held too many powerful enemies.

• Yang Lingtian crossed Death Island's desolate plain and searched its forest for the entrance to a minor world.
• A rune-covered stone stele absorbed Yang Lingtian and transported him into an Alien Race lair.
• Disguised as Mòtuō, Yang Lingtian met Venerable Hei Yu and reported that his secret operations had gone smoothly.
• Venerable Hei Yu decided to report to his superiors and send more Alien Race members to infiltrate Shenwu Star.
• Yang Lingtian withdrew without attacking, judging that the lair's many powerful inhabitants would overwhelm him.
• The Alien Race's activities had increased since the Wormhole Passage seal broke, making it likely that Shenwu Star's powerhouses would soon discover them.

Divine Machine Son discovered a faint Alien Race powerhouse's aura in the void where Yang Lingtian had fought and told Old Ancestor Xuanyun of the Tianxuan Sect. They agreed to keep the discovery secret and investigate the Alien Race's presence on Shenwu Star.

• Divine Machine Son investigated the traces in the void, sensed an Alien Race powerhouse's aura, and headed to the Tianxuan Sect.
• Divine Machine Son told Old Ancestor Xuanyun about the aura, and Xuanyun agreed to inspect the site with him.
• Old Ancestor Xuanyun detected the faint Alien Race aura and questioned how a lone powerhouse could have reached Shenwu Star.
• Divine Machine Son and Old Ancestor Xuanyun decided not to announce the discovery and instead began a secret search for Alien Race traces.

Yang Lingtian, disguised as Mòtuō, accepted Venerable Hei Yu’s mission to lead Alien Race forces against Shenwu Continent. He lured them into the Nine Revolutions Sacred Tower and revealed his identity, leaving them trapped at his mercy.

• Yang Lingtian learned about the strength of the Alien Race on Death Island before Venerable Hei Yu summoned him with orders from the Saint Lord of the Outer Void.
• Venerable Hei Yu assigned Yang Lingtian a force to secretly eliminate Shenwu Star’s powers, and Yang Lingtian persuaded him to increase the number of Integration Realm and Deity Transformation Realm experts.
• Yang Lingtian led the Alien Race force out of the small world and brought them into the Nine Revolutions Sacred Tower, where they began to suspect something was wrong.
• After reaching Outer Heaven, Yang Lingtian entered the tower in his human form and revealed that Mòtuō was dead and that he had impersonated him to lure them inside.

Yang Lingtian revealed that he had used Chaos Qi to disguise his aura and trap the Alien Race powerhouses inside his Sacred Artifact. He overwhelmed them with Sword Qi and left the five Mahayana Realm survivors alive to interrogate for information about the Alien Race.

• The Alien Race powerhouses questioned Yang Lingtian about his disguise, and he revealed his identity and Ninth Layer Integration Realm cultivation.
• A First-level Mahayana Realm powerhouse claimed that their group could resist Yang Lingtian, but he dismissed their confidence.
• Yang Lingtian summoned Sword Qi within the Top-grade Sacred Artifact space and slaughtered the lower-realm powerhouses.
• The Sword Qi grievously wounded the five Mahayana Realm powerhouses, whom Yang Lingtian spared for questioning.
• Yang Lingtian demanded important information about the Alien Race and threatened the survivors if they refused.

After defeating and imprisoning five Alien Race experts, Yang Lingtian received a Ninth-grade Immortal Peach and used it to break through to the First-level Mahayana Realm. The system rewarded him with powerful techniques, leaving him eager to continue cultivating and test his new abilities.

• Yang Lingtian trapped the five injured Alien Race experts in a Confinement Array and ordered the Artifact Spirit of the Nine Revolutions Sacred Tower to torture them.
• The system rewarded Yang Lingtian for killing Alien Race experts with a Ninth-grade Immortal Peach, a Ninth-grade Spirit Elixir gift pack, and a talisman containing a Peak Mahayana Realm strike.
• Yang Lingtian entered the Chaos Space, activated ten-thousandfold time acceleration, and cultivated with the Ninth-grade Immortal Peach.
• Yang Lingtian comprehended the Chaos Profound Meaning to the First-level Mahayana Realm, then rebuilt his shattered dantian and broke through to the First-level Mahayana Realm.
• The system rewarded Yang Lingtian with the tenth level of the Chaos Dao Divine Art, the Divine Tier Martial Skill Divine Sword, and the Soul Searching Technique.

Yang Lingtian perfected the tenth level of Chaos Dao Divine Art and then devoted himself to mastering the Divine Tier martial skill Divine Sword. After more than eight months, he perfected Divine Sword and unleashed it with his Sacred Sword.

• Yang Lingtian spent more than three months cultivating the tenth level of Chaos Dao Divine Art to perfection under ten-thousandfold time acceleration.
• Yang Lingtian discovered that the perfected technique refined resources faster and compressed his Spiritual Power, increasing its purity and combat power at a greater cost.
• Yang Lingtian began cultivating the Divine Tier martial skill Divine Sword in Chaos Space, struggling through repeated failures before reaching entry level.
• Yang Lingtian continued practicing Divine Sword for more than eight months and finally perfected it.
• Yang Lingtian channeled Spiritual Power into the Sacred Sword, invoked Sword's Profound Meaning, and unleashed a dazzling sword ray with perfected Divine Sword.

Yang Lingtian mastered Divine Sword and Soul Searching Technique during a year of accelerated cultivation, then used his new soul-searching ability on five imprisoned Alien Race experts. He learned valuable secrets about the Alien Race and prepared to return to Death Island under the identity of Mòtuō.

• Yang Lingtian found that Divine Sword could unleash attacks rivaling those of Eighth Layer Mahayana Realm experts, though using it consumed most of his Spiritual Power.
• With the remaining month of ten-thousandfold time acceleration, Yang Lingtian mastered Soul Searching Technique and could search the soul of an immobile target up to four minor realms above him.
• After emerging from seclusion, Yang Lingtian decided to keep his increased strength secret and use the five imprisoned First-level Mahayana Realm Alien Race experts to test his new technique.
• Yang Lingtian searched the first expert's soul, overcoming its resistance and uncovering secrets about the Alien Race's strength, weaknesses, and deployments.
• Yang Lingtian searched the other four experts' souls; all five died inside Nine Revolutions Sacred Tower without causing an outside disturbance, leaving him able to return to Death Island as Mòtuō.

Yang Lingtian used a Communication Bead to lure out an Alien Race powerhouse and infiltrate the group hiding across the Shenwu Continent. After posing as Commander Mòtuō, he followed the powerhouse to an Integration Realm superior’s cave.

• Yang Lingtian learned from the Heavenly Mystery Pavilions that unusually many forces had been destroyed across the Shenwu Continent and suspected the Alien Race was responsible.
• Yang Lingtian activated an Alien Race Communication Bead in a secluded mountain range to draw hidden Alien Race members to him.
• A Deity Transformation Realm Alien Race powerhouse arrived and told Yang Lingtian that he served Commander Xuanyu, a Third-level Mahayana Realm powerhouse.
• Yang Lingtian claimed to be Commander Mòtuō and ordered the Deity Transformation Realm powerhouse to lead him to his superior.
• The Deity Transformation Realm powerhouse brought Yang Lingtian to a cave, where Yang Lingtian sensed an Integration Realm powerhouse inside.

Yang Lingtian infiltrated the Alien Race’s hidden base and discovered Commander Xuanyu planning to attack a major force on Shenwu Continent. He learned that Xuanyu’s group intended to investigate a target before striking, and he prepared to thwart their plans.

• Yang Lingtian disguised his aura as a Mahayana Realm expert and forced a subordinate to lead him to Commander Xuanyu.
• Yang Lingtian entered the independent space where Xuanyu was hiding and secretly searched the area.
• Yang Lingtian discovered Commander Xuanyu meeting with five Mahayana Realm subordinates.
• Commander Xuanyu proposed attacking major forces with late Integration Realm cultivators to weaken Shenwu Continent ahead of an Alien Race invasion.
• Xuanyu and his subordinates agreed to identify and investigate a suitable target before acting, while Yang Lingtian listened unseen.

Yang Lingtian, disguised as Mòtuō, persuaded Commander Xuanyu to join an assault on Qingyu Pavilion after claiming its two Mahayana Realm ancestors were badly injured and away from the sect. Commander Xuanyu agreed to the attack, leaving their forces poised to launch a major battle.

• Yang Lingtian arrived before Commander Xuanyu and claimed he wanted their armies to cooperate, agreeing to split the credit equally.
• Yang Lingtian proposed annihilating Qingyu Pavilion, but Commander Xuanyu and his subordinates warned that attacking the powerful sect would be dangerous.
• Yang Lingtian revealed that Qingyu Pavilion's two Mahayana Realm ancestors were seriously injured and recuperating on an island.
• Commander Xuanyu accepted the plan to destroy Qingyu Pavilion while its ancestors were away, then hunt them down.

Yang Lingtian persuaded Commander Xuanyu to join the attack on Qingyu Pavilion, then secretly prepared a trap with concealment and confinement arrays. They arrived at Qingyu Pavilion’s base, where Yang Lingtian activated the arrays and Commander Xuanyu prepared to break into its minor world.

• Yang Lingtian proposed a large force to destroy Qingyu Pavilion, and Commander Xuanyu decided to personally lead the attack.
• Yang Lingtian agreed to send three Mahayana Realm experts and secretly set up concealment and confinement arrays around Qingyu Pavilion.
• Commander Xuanyu gathered half his army, and Yang Lingtian told him the troops were in his Sacred Artifact space while his Mahayana Realm allies waited near Qingyu Pavilion.
• Yang Lingtian and Commander Xuanyu traveled to Qingyu Pavilion’s base, where Yang Lingtian activated the arrays without the others noticing.
• Commander Xuanyu sensed the entrance to Qingyu Pavilion’s minor world and proposed breaking through its defenses to attack.

Commander Xuanyu attacked Qingyu Pavilion’s small-world defenses and revealed his intent to destroy the sect and seize its resources. Yang Lingtian exposed the attackers as members of the Alien Race, leaving Qingyu Pavilion’s elders alarmed and facing a powerful enemy without their ancestors.

• Commander Xuanyu struck Qingyu Pavilion’s entrance, but its overlapping arrays repaired the cracks and held.
• Five peak Integration Realm Supreme Elders confronted Commander Xuanyu, who revealed his Third-level Mahayana Realm aura and demanded their surrender.
• The elders offered compensation, but Commander Xuanyu rejected it and declared that he would annihilate Qingyu Pavilion.
• Yang Lingtian urged Commander Xuanyu to break the arrays so the Alien Race army could invade and plunder the sect.
• Qingyu Pavilion’s elders realized the attackers were members of the Alien Race and wondered how they had reached Shenwu Star.

Commander Xuanyu’s attacks nearly broke Qingyu Pavilion’s protective formation, but Venerable Tianyu emerged from seclusion as a newly advanced Mahayana Realm expert and reinforced it. He warned that the formation could hold long enough for help to arrive, while Commander Xuanyu threatened to have six Mahayana Realm experts attack together.

• Commander Xuanyu struck Qingyu Pavilion’s protective formation repeatedly, and the defenders reinforced it at the cost of their strength.
• Commander Xuanyu used a High-grade Sacred Artifact to launch a powerful attack that cracked the formation and injured Qingyu Pavilion’s experts.
• Venerable Tianyu emerged from seclusion as a First-level Mahayana Realm expert and poured his Spiritual Power into the formation, helping it recover.
• Yang Lingtian identified Venerable Tianyu as a guest cultivator, and Venerable Tianyu vowed to protect Qingyu Pavilion.
• Venerable Tianyu said the formation could buy time for other Mahayana Realm experts to arrive, but Commander Xuanyu replied that six Mahayana Realm experts could attack together.

Yang Lingtian tricked Commander Xuanyu into releasing his army, then revealed his power and attacked the Alien Race forces gathered outside Qingyu Pavilion. He wiped out every soldier below the Mahayana Realm and sent a sword flash after the fleeing Commander Xuanyu.

• Yang Lingtian told Commander Xuanyu that he had come alone, then persuaded him to release his army and promised not to take Qingyu Pavilion's resources.
• Commander Xuanyu summoned tens of thousands of Alien Race soldiers as Qingyu Pavilion's Supreme Elder ordered the disciples and elders to reinforce the protective formation.
• Yang Lingtian entered the void and unleashed countless streams of Sword Qi against the Alien Race army instead of attacking the formation.
• The Alien Race forces struggled to defend themselves while Qingyu Pavilion's experts watched in confusion, and all the Alien Race cultivators below the Mahayana Realm were killed within a dozen breaths.
• Yang Lingtian sent a dazzling sword flash toward the fleeing Commander Xuanyu.

Yang Lingtian defeated the Alien Race forces attacking Qingyu Pavilion, revealed his true identity to Commander Xuanyu, and killed him after extracting his memories. He gave Qingyu Pavilion evidence of the Alien Race threat and left, prompting news to spread across Shenwu Continent as cultivators began investigating Death Island.

• Yang Lingtian's sword beam crushed Commander Xuanyu's defense, killed two First-level Mahayana Realm powerhouses, and gravely wounded Xuanyu.
• Yang Lingtian revealed that he was not Mòtuō, then used the Soul Searching Technique on Commander Xuanyu and caused his Divine Soul to collapse.
• Venerable Tianyu and Qingyu Pavilion's powerhouses emerged, thanked Yang Lingtian, and accepted his Jade Slip and instructions to report the Alien Race threat without naming him.
• Yang Lingtian withdrew his arrays and vanished, while news spread that an Alien Race army had attacked Qingyu Pavilion and that Death Island was an Alien Race gathering place.
• Cultivators arrived at Death Island to investigate, but even great Integration Realm experts could not disturb the barrier around it.

The Eight Great Ancient Families decided to investigate reports that powerful members of the Alien Race were gathered on Death Island, while the exposed Alien Race forces grew cautious. After learning that an Eighth Layer Mahayana Realm powerhouse might be hidden there, Yang Lingtian went to find the Sky-Piercing Divine Sword so he could gain the strength to confront Death Island, and entered the snowy space where it was sealed.

• The Eight Great Ancient Families’ ancestors discussed the Alien Race threat and agreed to send people to watch Death Island, with plans to investigate it themselves if no evidence appeared within a month.
• The Alien Race forces on Shenwu Continent became more restrained, and their commanders suspected that a Mahayana Realm powerhouse had leaked Death Island’s secrets.
• Yang Lingtian learned from Commander Xuanyu’s memories that an Eighth Layer Mahayana Realm powerhouse might be hidden on Death Island, so he decided he was not yet strong enough to attack it.
• Yang Lingtian went to the Mercenary Guild plaza, entered the small world containing the Sky-Piercing Divine Sword, and used the Chaos Bead’s Chaos Qi to draw out the sword’s Artifact Spirit.
• Yang Lingtian entered the mist and arrived in a vast, snow-white space where the Sky-Piercing Divine Sword had been sealed.

Yang Lingtian used the Chaos Bead’s Chaos Law to break the Sky-Piercing Divine Sword’s seal, and the sword spirit acknowledged him as its master. He then headed to Death Island, deciding to enter openly so the gathered experts could confirm that Alien Race members were inside.

• The Sky-Piercing Divine Sword’s Artifact Spirit reminded Yang Lingtian of their agreement and said the Chaos Bead was needed to break the seal.
• Yang Lingtian summoned the Chaos Bead and released Chaos Law, which gradually weakened the seal on the sword.
• The seal shattered in a violent burst of energy, freeing the Sky-Piercing Divine Sword, whose Artifact Spirit thanked Yang Lingtian and acknowledged him as its master.
• The sword spirit warned Yang Lingtian that his cultivation was too low to use the sword safely, so he stored it in his Primordial Spirit space.
• Yang Lingtian left the small world and went to Death Island, where many powerful experts were gathered outside.
• Yang Lingtian decided to enter Death Island in full view of the watchers so they could confirm that Alien Race members were inside.