Chapter Summaries

Yun Shu watched Little Jiu'er survive his ninth tribulation wave and break through to Spirit Transformation, then returned with him to Spirit Sword Peak. There, Yun Shu received the two sect leaders who had been waiting to meet him.

• Yun Shu considered his debt to the Myriad Sword Pavilion and resolved to grow stronger while gradually rebuilding its legacy.
• Little Jiu'er endured the ninth wave of his Lightning Tribulation and emerged transformed, having reached Spirit Transformation.
• Yun Shu gave Little Jiu'er a robe and used Instantaneous Movement to bring him to Spirit Sword Peak.
• Yun Shu asked Liu Chuan to take Little Jiu'er for new clothes and summon the waiting visitors.
• Liu Gong and Xie Tianyun greeted Yun Shu, who asked why the two Sect Masters had come to see him.

Yun Shu forced the Danxia Sect and Canglan Sect to accept the Myriad Sword Pavilion’s disciple testing, then detained their leaders when they refused to abandon their ties to the Mortal Dynasties. As the testing began, Yun Shu turned to preparing his body cultivation so he could withstand Several Calamities Together.

• Xie Tianyun offered ten million Spirit Stones and a share of Danxia Sect’s alchemy profits, while Liu Gong asked Yun Shu to spare the Mortal Dynasties from disciple testing.
• Yun Shu proposed that both sects join the Myriad Sword Pavilion, but Liu Gong and Xie Tianyun refused to give up control of their Mortal Dynasties.
• Yun Shu ordered Chen Hong to keep the two leaders at the Myriad Sword Pavilion until testing ended and warned that anyone who interfered would be killed.
• The disciple testing began across the Mortal Dynasties, with False Core Stage experts leading the teams and orders to kill members of the two immortal sects on sight.
• Yun Shu began preparing to advance his body cultivation and watched Little Jiu’er, who had grown close to Liu Chuan, Mu Qing, and Chen Hong.

Yun Shu received intelligence on the Golden Cauldron Sect’s remaining cultivators and ordered the Death Hall to eliminate them and their families. He also urged Yuan Xi to complete the mission and reach the Golden Core Stage, while Yuan Xi remained devoted solely to cultivation.

• Old Lei delivered a verified list of ten False Core Stage cultivators and two hundred Foundation Establishment cultivators to Yun Shu.
• Yun Shu ordered Yuan Xi to kill everyone on the list, collect their corpses within five days, and have another team eliminate their families.
• Yuan Xi said he expected to reach the Golden Core Stage in about half a month, and Yun Shu told him to focus on cultivation after the mission.
• Yuan Xi declined to take a Dao companion, saying he would devote himself entirely to cultivation.
• Yun Shu sent Yuan Xi away and offered to help with any questions about his cultivation.

A young cultivator was killed in an ambush by a Black-clad Man, who continued taking assassination missions despite the tragedy that followed. Yun Shu received the bodies of his enemies, absorbed their power, and planned to bury the dead while keeping their missing hearts and Golden Cores secret.

• A young man returned to his family near the former Golden Cauldron Sect and planned to seek a place in another Immortal Sect.
• A Hall of Life and Death assassin ambushed and killed the young man, then left after his mother attacked him.
• The Black-clad Man later learned that the young man's entire family had been slaughtered and continued taking missions at Death Hall.
• Yun Shu received Storage Bags filled with corpses, while Old Lei reported that the collection had gone smoothly overall.
• Yun Shu absorbed the corpses' power, gaining a Million Spirit Stones, and decided to find a place to bury the bodies.
• Yun Shu worried that the missing hearts and Golden Cores might make others mistake him for a Demonic Cultivator.

Yun Shu built up Myriad Sword Pavilion’s strength by forming a new group of Core Disciples while continuing his cultivation and keeping two rival Sect Masters in custody. The chapter ended with Yuan Xi asking Yun Shu for permission to undergo his Golden Core tribulation.

• Yun Shu continued deducing techniques and cultivating his body, holding back from breaking through despite tribulation clouds targeting him.
• The two sects delivered two million Spirit Stones, and an expedition returned with ten Heavenly Spiritual Roots and two people with Special Physiques.
• Yun Shu selected the promising recruits for special training, and two Heavenly Spiritual Roots were eliminated during testing, leaving twenty-seven Core Disciples.
• Yun Shu decided to keep the two Sect Masters detained a little longer and then returned to cultivation.
• Yuan Xi reached the peak of the False Core Stage and told Yun Shu he was ready to undergo his Golden Core tribulation.

Yun Shu accompanied Yuan Xi to Snow Mountain, where Yuan Xi endured his Golden Core tribulation. After a powerful man from the Li Province Imperial Dynasty tried to take Yuan Xi as a disciple, Yuan Xi refused and stayed loyal to Yun Shu.

• Yun Shu brought Yuan Xi to Snow Mountain, where Yuan Xi used his Shadow Clones to withstand the Nine-Fold Lightning Tribulation.
• An Old Man at a thatched cottage recognized Yuan Xi’s Shadow Spiritual Root and wondered about Yun Shu’s secret art.
• A middle-aged man from the Li Province Imperial Dynasty arrived and announced he was searching for talented disciples.
• The middle-aged man pressured Yun Shu and tried to seize Yuan Xi, claiming the Imperial Dynasty could offer him far greater resources.
• Yuan Xi refused the man’s offer, saying he could not leave the master who had helped him realize his talent.

Yun Shu killed a Spirit Transformation cultivator from the Great Gan Imperial Dynasty who had come for Yuan Xi, then appointed Yuan Xi to manage the Hall of Life and Death. After leaving, Yun Shu searched the man's memories and learned more about Great Gan's formidable power.

• Yun Shu protected Yuan Xi and killed the middle-aged cultivator using illusions, talismans, and a series of attacks, then captured his Primordial Spirit.
• Patriarch reassured Yun Shu that the Illusion Immortal Bead would prevent Great Gan from tracing the killing back to him.
• Yun Shu gave Yuan Xi ten million Spirit Stones and placed him in charge of the Hall of Life and Death as a disciple of Myriad Sword Pavilion.
• Yun Shu left the Snow Mountain while Yuan Xi vowed to live up to his master's expectations.
• Yun Shu searched the captive's memories and learned that the man served Great Gan, a powerful Imperial Dynasty in Li Province with Immortal Artifacts and experts who ascended to the Immortal Realm.

After defeating a Great Gan expert, Yun Shu examined his memories and belongings, learning about the wider world and gaining Spirit Stones and Cultivation Points. He considered how to strengthen himself and the sect, but the sect’s growth remained blocked by the balance of power and the Two Great Immortal Sects.

• Yun Shu learned from the man’s memories that Great Gan had a Ninth Realm National Preceptor and that even stronger forces existed elsewhere.
• Yun Shu decided to devote at least sixty percent of his resources to Body Cultivation while continuing to advance along the Immortal Path.
• Yun Shu swallowed the man’s Primordial Spirit and gained five hundred thousand Cultivation Points.
• Yun Shu searched the Storage Bag and found about thirty million Low-grade Spirit Stones, forty-five cultivation techniques, sealed items, Spirit Medicines, and Spirit Artifacts.
• Yun Shu swallowed the Spirit Medicines and Spirit Artifacts, kept the sealed items, and judged that his gains were worth about a hundred million Spirit Stones.
• Yun Shu concluded that the sect could not expand without taking territory from the Two Great Immortal Sects, which had not given him a reason to attack them.

Yun Shu completed his cultivation technique deductions and wrote down peak Fifth Tier insights for the sect’s sword arts and auxiliary professions. Patriarch reviewed the work, then gave Yun Shu detailed annotations on his Formation Array notes, leaving him with valuable knowledge to study.

• Yun Shu learned that the sect needed more people to contribute, then returned to deducing techniques and cultivating.
• A little over a month later, Yun Shu finished refining the cultivation techniques and advanced his Body Cultivator strength to the mid-stage of the Void Returning Realm.
• Yun Shu deduced peak Fifth Tier methods for several auxiliary professions and the Nine Great Sword Intents, then asked Patriarch to review them.
• Patriarch praised Yun Shu’s Sword Intent insights but admitted he did not understand Alchemy or Artifact Refining.
• Patriarch spent the day annotating Yun Shu’s Formation Array notes and returned them with detailed explanations of how the patterns worked.

Yun Shu received the Patriarch’s assessment of his Cloud Departure Cultivation Technique and decided to keep it while simplifying its foundations for less talented cultivators. He then began enduring two God Transformation Tribulations at once on the Snow Mountain, where the Old Man watched and remarked on his deep accumulation and recklessness.

• The Patriarch told Yun Shu that the Cloud Departure Cultivation Technique was comprehensive but too demanding for ordinary Qi Condensation cultivators, and Yun Shu considered the difficulty of Liu Chuan and Yuan Xi’s progress.
• Yun Shu decided not to change the technique itself, but planned to add a Minor Five Elements foundation for cultivators who could not manage the Great Five Elements.
• Yun Shu went to the Snow Mountain to undergo tribulation, where Earth Fire, astral winds, and tribulation clouds gathered around him.
• Yun Shu endured two Immortal Path God Transformation Tribulations at once, which he judged to be within his limits but equivalent to a threefold increase in might.
• The Old Man watched the tribulation and called Yun Shu’s attempt reckless, while praising his unusually deep accumulation and talent.

Yun Shu cultivated by absorbing a massive simultaneous tribulation of thunder, earth fire, and fierce winds on Snow Mountain. As nearby cultivators speculated about his identity, he continued growing stronger under the Patriarch’s watch.

• The Old Man decided not to intervene in Yun Shu’s affairs, wary that acting could expose him to the Great Gan Dynasty, and resolved to offer only leftover resources.
• Yun Shu alternated between cultivating the Indestructible Body of Heavenly Tribulation and the Four Symbols Hegemonic Body Art, using the tribulation as nourishment.
• Several Golden Core cultivators on Snow Mountain fled the terrifying tribulation and speculated that the person enduring it was the Myriad Sword Pavilion’s ruthless Pavilion Master.
• Yun Shu sensed the hidden cultivators but ignored them, remaining seated as thunder, earth fire, and fierce winds strengthened his body and Immortal Path cultivation.
• The Patriarch marveled that Yun Shu treated the tribulation like a Spirit Gathering Array, while Yun Shu stayed immersed in cultivation.

Yun Shu completed his breakthrough to the Late Void Returning Stage during a prolonged Nine-Fold Lightning Tribulation, then caught a demonic sword sent by the Devil Ancestor. After finishing his advancement, he set out to settle accounts with the Wuji Immortal Sect and appeared at its mountain gate.

• Yun Shu endured nearly a day of tribulation, burning through Cultivation Points and Spirit Stones as he advanced to the Late Void Returning Stage.
• Yun Shu absorbed the Lightning Tribulation's power, strengthening both of his Body Cultivation Methods.
• The Devil Ancestor sent a Sixth-Rank Demonic Sword at Yun Shu during the final stage, but Yun Shu caught it and suppressed its power.
• Yun Shu recognized the Devil Ancestor's attempt to strike while he was undergoing tribulation and decided to deal with the Wuji Immortal Sect afterward.
• Yun Shu declared that it was time to settle the score with the Wuji Immortal Sect for bullying Myriad Sword Pavilion.
• Yun Shu appeared before the mountain gate of the Wuji Immortal Sect.

Yun Shu attacked the Wuji Immortal Sect to demand Gu Qingtian, rejecting the acting Sect Master's offers of Spirit Stones. He began summoning a Lightning Tribulation over the sect, leaving its elders unsure whether he intended to undergo Tribulation Transcendence there or destroy them with it.

• Yun Shu killed the Wuji Immortal Sect's mountain guard and several disciples as he entered the sect.
• The Purple-Robed Elder recognized Yun Shu, opened the Mountain Protecting Array, and offered compensation to avoid a fight.
• Yun Shu demanded Gu Qingtian, refused offers of three hundred thousand and then six hundred thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones, and threatened to destroy the sect.
• The Wuji Immortal Sect's elders urged the Purple-Robed Elder to fight, while he considered the danger posed by Yun Shu's survival of Gu Qingtian's ambush.
• Yun Shu summoned dark clouds and a Lightning Tribulation over the Wuji Immortal Sect, alarming the elders.

Yun Shu faced the Wuji Immortal Sect while beginning a dangerous tribulation to force Gu Qingtian out of hiding. His Lightning Tribulation and Earth Fire broke through the sect’s Mountain Protecting Array and devastated its defenders, leaving the sect in crisis.

• The Purple-Robed Elder ordered the elders to activate the Formation Array and summon the Patriarch to fight Yun Shu.
• Yun Shu released his Demonic Path aura and began a God Transformation Tribulation, while the Patriarch told him that Gu Qingtian was in the Back Mountain.
• The Wuji Immortal Sect’s Mountain Protecting Array attacked Yun Shu, but he endured it as lightning tore a hole through the array.
• Yun Shu taunted Gu Qingtian for refusing to appear, but Gu Qingtian remained silent.
• Earth Fire erupted beneath Yun Shu, burned through the Formation Array, and swallowed several high-ranking cultivators as the disciples questioned the sect’s actions.

Yun Shu continued his tribulation assault on Wuji Immortal Sect, shrugging off its defenses as the sect's elders and disciples fought back and awaited the absent Devil Ancestor. When a third tribulation of astral wind erased a wave of attackers, Wuji Immortal Sect’s people despaired at the scale of his power.

• Wuji Immortal Sect disciples debated whether their sect’s past actions had brought on the calamity, while most remained committed to defending it.
• Yun Shu endured a second tribulation bolt as Wuji Immortal Sect activated its grand formation and poured in its Spirit Stone reserves.
• The Purple-Robed Elder called on the sect to attack Yun Shu, and even its Inner Sect Disciples joined the assault.
• An azure wind swept away the attackers, and the elders recognized it as astral wind, the third force of Yun Shu’s tribulation.
• Wuji Immortal Sect’s defenders realized Yun Shu could wield the tribulation’s power and lost hope of defeating him.

Yun Shu’s third Lightning Tribulation devastated Wuji Immortal Sect as its Sect Master and elders struggled to keep the Mountain Protecting Array standing. Just as despair took hold, the sect’s Immortal Sect Heritage surged from the Back Mountain and struck at Yun Shu, though the elders recognized it was not the Devil Ancestor.

• Wuji Immortal Sect’s Sect Master and elders poured their strength into the Mountain Protecting Array while the Patriarch remained absent.
• The third Lightning Tribulation killed more members of Wuji Immortal Sect, and the Purple-Robed Elder regretted that he could not offer Yun Shu more than six hundred thousand Spirit Stones.
• As the third tribulation formed, a golden-and-blood-red torrent of Immortal Dao Power surged from the Back Mountain into the Mountain Protecting Array and attacked Yun Shu.
• Wuji Immortal Sect’s disciples took hope from the attack, but the elders recognized the power as the sect’s Immortal Sect Heritage rather than the Devil Ancestor’s strength.

Yun Shu overwhelmed the Wuji Immortal Sect’s Mountain Protecting Array and continued slaughtering its disciples under the Heavenly Tribulation. Nearly half the sect had perished, while Yun Shu still waited for Gu Qingtian, the Devil Ancestor, to reveal himself.

• The Wuji Immortal Sect’s hidden powerhouse poured his life and power into the Mountain Protecting Array, but Yun Shu stopped its attack without moving.
• Yun Shu recognized the attacker as a demigod-level powerhouse and considered the costs of killing the sect’s disciples himself rather than relying on the Heavenly Tribulation.
• Yun Shu decided to finish off the people trapped inside the Mountain Protecting Array before seeking out Gu Qingtian.
• Yun Shu drew down thunder, Earth Fire, and fierce winds, killing disciples and absorbing two Nascent Souls.
• Nearly half the Wuji Immortal Sect had perished, and the survivors struggled to escape the continuing Heavenly Tribulation.

Yun Shu continued his assault on the Wuji Immortal Sect while enduring the Nine-Fold Lightning Tribulation, killing many disciples and destroying the sect’s escape routes. As his sixth tribulation arrived, a powerful demonic aura rose from the Back Mountain, raising the disciples’ hopes that Gu Qingtian would confront him.

• Yun Shu rushed toward groups of Wuji Immortal Sect disciples as the fourth Lightning Tribulation struck, killing those gathered on several mountain peaks.
• The Sect Master ordered the Mountain Protecting Array’s exits opened and its teleportation runes activated so the disciples could escape, but Yun Shu destroyed the array and the runes with the fifth tribulation.
• Yun Shu used Earth Fire and the tribulation’s power to kill more disciples and elders while Gu Qingtian remained absent.
• A powerful surge of demonic energy erupted from the Back Mountain as the sixth Heavenly Tribulation appeared, and the disciples hoped their Patriarch would defeat Yun Shu.
• Yun Shu continued killing and collected several Nascent Souls while considering Gu Qingtian’s Nascent Soul Stage Triple Layer cultivation and Dao injury.

Yun Shu continued destroying the Wuji Immortal Sect, killing its Purple-Robed Elder and most of its remaining powerful cultivators while letting some ordinary disciples escape. When the Devil Ancestor finally emerged from the Back Mountain and saw the sect in ruins, Yun Shu faced him without fear.

• Yun Shu rejected the Purple-Robed Elder’s plea to spare the disciples and said the Wuji Immortal Sect had brought its destruction upon itself.
• The Purple-Robed Elder charged Yun Shu in a desperate last attack, but Yun Shu killed him and captured his Nascent Soul.
• Yun Shu decided that the Wuji Immortal Sect had to be wiped out because it had plotted to destroy the Myriad Sword Pavilion.
• Yun Shu killed several elders and used the Illusion Immortal Bead to capture their Nascent Souls as the Devil Ancestor warned him from the Back Mountain.
• The Devil Ancestor emerged and saw the destroyed Mountain Protecting Array, ruined buildings, broken leylines, and surviving disciples amid the devastation.

Yun Shu confronted Gu Qingtian at the Wuji Immortal Sect after defeating its Nascent Soul cultivators. Gu Qingtian sacrificed thousands of disciples to power the Wuji Demonic Array, and Yun Shu began summoning his own forces as their battle escalated.

• Yun Shu mocked Gu Qingtian and confronted him over the Wuji Immortal Sect’s repeated attacks on the Myriad Sword Pavilion.
• Gu Qingtian revealed that he had forcibly refined a Demonic Marking, raising his unstable cultivation to the Early Void Returning Stage.
• Gu Qingtian retreated as Yun Shu attacked, and the remaining Wuji Immortal Sect members burst apart as their blood activated a formation.
• Gu Qingtian used the Wuji Demonic Array, powered by the disciples’ blood and flesh, to raise his strength toward the Mid Void Returning Stage.
• Yun Shu judged that Gu Qingtian’s formation could not overpower him and unleashed an endless sea of Earth Fire and powerful blue winds.