Vol. 23The Buried History

Chen Changan uncovered betrayals and hidden histories across several domains, destroyed the forces exploiting Humans, and freed the Carefree Immortal Source from the Power of Desire. He left the Hou Family facing the Heaven Family as their competing accounts of the past came under scrutiny.

  • Chen Changan rejected the Mei Family’s demand, uncovered the Burial Sword Convention’s purpose, and destroyed the Emperor Sword Sect before learning that the Earth Burying Sword had founded the Sword Guardian Clan by transforming Humans into swords.
  • Chen Changan defeated the Earth Burying Sword and accepted the Sword Guardian Clan leader’s challenge, while the Earth Burying Sword warned him not to reunite the Immortal Ancient Domain.
  • Chen Changan crossed into the Land of Chaotic Races, rescued Humans from the Mirror People, and suspected the Three Great Families of colluding with the hostile races.
  • Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao forced the Mirror People prince to take them to his father.
  • Chen Changan destroyed the three great races and killed the Three Great Families’ leaders after exposing their trade in Humans, then found the Sky Seal and entered the Carefree Immortal Source.
  • Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao encountered a city consumed by desire, where three Heavenly Mystery Realm figures took an interest in Mu Yunyao.
  • Chen Changan freed Le Xiaoyao and cleansed the Carefree Immortal Source of the Power of Desire before helping the Hou Family confront its enemies.
  • Chen Changan revealed that the Five Great Noble Families’ ancestors had been disciples of the Hou Family’s ancestor, challenging the Heaven Family’s account of history.
Chapters 2205–2304 Read from Ch. 2205

Arc 89The Burial Sword Convention

Chen Changan uncovered the Burial Sword Convention’s connection to the Heaven Burying Sword, destroyed the Emperor Sword Sect, and prepared to confront the Sword Guardian Clan. At the Burial Sword Abyss, the Earth Burying Sword revealed that he had founded the clan by transforming humans into swords.

  • Chen Changan rejected the Mei Family’s demand for the Profound Sword Sect’s place, then killed its attackers when Old Beggar intervened.
  • Chen Changan learned that the convention’s sects would enter Burial Sword Valleys to claim Peerless Famous Swords, and discovered that the swords contained human souls.
  • Chen Changan destroyed the first valley’s demon swords and tombs, then found Absolute Nothingness Sword guarded by puppets and took it with him.
  • Chen Changan destroyed the valley and found a fragment of Heaven Burying Sword, then learned that it had been shattered and sealed beneath the ten valleys.
  • At the Emperor Sword Sect, Chen Changan revealed the assembled Heaven Burying Sword and accused the convention of concealing its purpose, and several sects joined his side.
  • Chen Changan defeated the Emperor Sword Sect, then learned that Absolute Nothingness Sword was a Sword Guardian Clan agent and refused its offer to join.
  • Chen Changan returned to the Profound Sword Sect, guided its members for three years, and accepted the Sword Guardian Clan leader’s challenge to a duel at the Burial Sword Abyss.
  • The Earth Burying Sword revealed that he had destroyed the Heaven Burying Sword, founded the Sword Guardian Clan, and transformed its human test subjects into swords.
Chapters 2205–222925 summaries Read

Arc 90The Land of Chaotic Races

Chen Changan crossed into the Land of Chaotic Races, uncovered how three hostile races enslaved Humans, and dismantled the Mirror People Race’s hold over a group of captives. He suspected the Three Great Families were secretly connected to the races and set out with Mu Yunyao to confront the Mirror People Race’s leader.

  • Chen Changan defeated the Earth Burying Sword, which admitted defeat and warned him not to reunite the Immortal Ancient Domain.
  • Chen Changan, Mu Yunyao, and Da Huang crossed the Karma Dao Chain and met Bu Yao, who explained that a stranger had shattered and sealed the Immortal Ancient Domain.
  • Chen Changan investigated the Underground Abyss and learned that Humans were oppressed in the Land of Chaotic Races, while Bu Yao identified the Heart-Devouring Insect Race, Withered Corpse Race, and Mirror People Race as threats.
  • Chen Changan and his companions defeated Mirror People who had targeted them, discovered the mirrors behind their replication ability, and offered the city’s coerced Human survivors shelter in his Small World.
  • Chen Changan tracked three young Human runaways to a Mirror People settlement, reached the Dao Evolution Realm with Mu Yunyao and Da Huang, and exposed the race’s deception of its captives.
  • Chen Changan defeated the Mirror People guarding the captives, erased the brainwashed Humans’ memories rather than killing them, and sent the rescued youths toward a hidden Human settlement.
  • Chen Changan suspected the Three Great Families were colluding with the three races and arranged for the three young observers to watch them.
  • Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao forced the Mirror People Race’s prince to take them to his father.
Chapters 2230–225425 summaries Read

Arc 91The Carefree Immortal Source

Chen Changan destroyed the three great races and exposed the Three Great Families’ betrayal of the Human Race, then found the Sky Seal and crossed into the Carefree Immortal Source. There, the Power of Desire stirred the city’s inhabitants, and three fate-reading experts took an interest in Mu Yunyao.

  • Chen Changan defeated the Mirror People Race, rescued the humans held in Mirror Space, and learned that the Three Great Families had traded people to the races.
  • Chen Changan destroyed the Withered Corpse Race and the Heart-Devouring Insect Race while the Three Great Families falsely claimed credit for their defeat.
  • Fan Anping and two other young men confronted the Three Great Families, and Chen Changan intervened before the Fan Family Patriarch could kill them.
  • Chen Changan killed the Three Great Families’ followers, forced the three Family Heads to confess to sacrificing humans, and then killed the leaders.
  • Chen Changan reunited with Da Huang and discovered that a sealed being had escaped, then found the Sky Seal at the border of the Land of Chaotic Races.
  • The Sky Seal joined Chen Changan’s group, and they crossed the Karma Dao Chain into the Carefree Immortal Source, where Bu Yao explained Le Xiaoyao’s history with the Power of Desire.
  • Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao entered a city where people indulged their desires, and Mu Yunyao fought the crowd after its desire-filled realm affected her.
  • Three Heavenly Mystery Realm figures foresaw Mu Yunyao’s attack, recognized that she was not from the Carefree Immortal Source, and expressed interest in recruiting her.
Chapters 2255–227925 summaries Read

Arc 92The Hou Family’s Reckoning

Chen Changan dismantled the Carefree Pavilion’s desire-based cultivation, freed Le Xiaoyao, and crossed into the Land of Heavenly Halberd. There he defended the Hou Family and exposed the Five Great Noble Families’ buried history, leaving the Heaven Family’s account under public scrutiny.

  • Chen Changan posed as Le Xiaoyao to win over the Carefree Pavilion’s five masters, cleansed the Carefree Immortal Source of the Power of Desire, and taught the Pavilion a new cultivation method.
  • Chen Changan and his companions found Le Xiaoyao imprisoned in a secret realm, then brought him along when they left the Carefree Immortal Source.
  • After crossing the Karma Dao Chain, Chen Changan, Mu Yunyao, and Da Huang advanced to the Heavenly Mystery Realm and met descendants of the Hou Family, who asked him to honor their ancestor’s request for help.
  • Chen Changan arrived as the Meng, Tian, and Qi families attacked the Hou Family, drove off the threat, and learned that the Five Great Noble Families had helped erase the Hou Family’s role in saving the land.
  • Chen Changan arranged for news of the Five Great Noble Families’ crimes to spread, then killed Heaven Family experts who came to attack the Hou Family and led the family toward the Heaven Family’s territory.
  • Chen Changan and his allies defeated successive groups of Heaven Family fighters, while the Hou Family hung their bodies along the road as Chen Changan demanded.
  • Chen Changan confronted the Heaven Family Head, revealed that the Five Great Noble Families’ ancestors had been disciples of the Hou Family’s ancestor, and challenged the family’s version of history.
Chapters 2280–230425 summaries Read
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