Chapter Summaries

Chu Yun overpowered Hun Ning and Hun Yao, then used his Space-Time Law to subdue them and persuade them to consider serving him. He brought the two suppressed cultivators to the battlefield where Gu Jiujun was fighting Hun Zhaoyi, hoping to secure the ancestor’s allegiance as well.

• Gu Jiujun’s Heavenly Evil Shattering Moon destroyed Hun Zhaoyi’s three Soul Islands, and the two Immortal Martial weapons continued battling across the dimensions.
• Chu Yun injured Hun Ning and Hun Yao with a Blood Qi Law-enhanced palm strike, but they refused to surrender.
• Chu Yun used Moment of Space-Time and Eternal Moment to halt time, suppress their power, and place six Swords of Space-Time against them.
• Chu Yun told Hun Ning and Hun Yao that Hun Wuzhen had submitted, Gu Changge had been killed, and Gu Jiujun served him.
• Hun Ning said he and Hun Yao would submit if Hun Zhaoyi agreed, and Chu Yun took them to the Immortal Martial Realm battlefield.

Chu Yun confronted Hun Zhaoyi after capturing Hun Ning and Hun Yao, then proposed a wager instead of using them as hostages. Hun Zhaoyi launched his attack, and Chu Yun activated his space-time abilities to face it.

• Gu Jiujun and Hun Zhaoyi fought evenly until Chu Yun arrived with the captured Hun Ning and Hun Yao.
• Hun Zhaoyi stopped fighting when Chu Yun revealed that he held their lives in his hands.
• Hun Zhaoyi refused to surrender under coercion, so Chu Yun offered to wager whether he could withstand one attack.
• Hun Zhaoyi accepted after Gu Jiujun promised not to interfere and retreated ten million miles away.
• Hun Zhaoyi sent his Soul Beast Seal into the Second Dimension Space, and Chu Yun used Instant of Space-Time and Eternal Moment to slow it.

Chu Yun defeated Hun Zhaoyi by entering the Second Dimension Space and gained the submission of the Ancient Soul Nest. As the allies gathered in the Evil Infant Realm to plan their next moves, Su Xi wondered why the Xuanyuan Sword caused her such pain.

• Chu Yun used Space-Time Law to pass through Hun Zhaoyi's Soul Beast Seal unharmed, leaving Hun Zhaoyi shocked at his ability to enter the Second Dimension Space.
• Hun Zhaoyi accepted defeat and pledged that he and the Ancient Soul Nest would obey Chu Yun.
• Chu Yun freed Hun Ning and Hun Yao, gave them pills, and brought the group into the Evil Infant Realm to discuss their plans.
• Nightmare Lord sensed that the battle in the Evil Infant Realm had ended, and Su Xi sent him to investigate without provoking a war.
• Su Xi took out the Xuanyuan Sword and wondered what Xuan Yuan had hidden in it and why thinking of destroying it caused her heart to ache.

Gu Yue Immortal Lord confronted Purgatory Lord and Bloodthirsty Lord, who sought to bring him to the Abyss of Darkness. He forced them to retreat by threatening to detonate a relic containing powerful fused Super Beasts, then admitted to himself that the threat would not have saved him from death.

• Purgatory Lord and Bloodthirsty Lord met Gu Yue Immortal Lord in the Myriad Monster Divine Hall and identified him as the Black Tribulation Demon Buddha's second disciple.
• Purgatory Lord questioned Gu Yue Immortal Lord about promoting the Art of Merging Relics and stockpiling fused monsters.
• Bloodthirsty Lord invited Gu Yue Immortal Lord to the Abyss of Darkness, intending to place him under the Dark Race's control.
• Gu Yue Immortal Lord refused and threatened to detonate an energy sphere containing fifteen Boundless Realm Super Beasts and eighty Great Emperor Realm Super Beasts.
• Purgatory Lord and Bloodthirsty Lord decided not to attack, warned Gu Yue Immortal Lord not to interfere with the Dark Race, and left the hall.
• Gu Yue Immortal Lord admitted that detonating the Super Beasts would have wounded the two Dark Lords but would not have prevented his own death.

Chu Yun, Gu Jiujun, and Hun Zhaoyi discussed the threat posed by the Dark Race and the possibility of stopping a Dark Monarch sent to investigate them. After learning about Su Xi’s connections and finding he lacked the Editing Points to use the most promising identity, Chu Yun opened an upgraded blind box and received a Nine Heavens Cultivation Card of the Immeasurable Realm.

• Gu Jiujun and Hun Zhaoyi explained the strength of Su Xi and the other Dark Monarchs, along with the differences between the Immortal Martial Realm, Half-step Immortal King, and Immortal King Realm.
• Chu Yun proposed capturing or exiling an investigating Dark Monarch to delay the Dark Omen, while Hun Zhaoyi warned that Su Xi would retaliate and overpower them.
• Chu Yun asked the system about backgrounds related to Su Xi and learned of her ties to Xuan Yuan, the Xuanyuan Sword’s artifact spirit, and a deceased Dark Race sage once equal in influence to Su Xi.
• Chu Yun considered editing the deceased sage’s identity but found he had too few Editing Points, so he spent 10 million on an upgraded blind box.
• The system awarded Chu Yun a Nine Heavens Cultivation Card of the Immeasurable Realm.

Chu Yun drew a Ninth Heaven of the Immeasurable Realm cultivation card and instantly advanced, gaining an Immortal Source and strength that surpassed Gu Jiujun and Hun Zhaoyi. The three decided to wait two days to see whether the Dark Race would send someone to the Evil Infant Realm, while the Great Xia Dynasty continued consolidating its power.

• After Chu Yun refused to make preparations against the Dark Lord, immortal radiance erupted from him and his cultivation rose from the First Heaven to the Ninth Heaven of the Immeasurable Realm.
• Gu Jiujun discovered that Chu Yun had formed an Immortal Source, and Chu Yun estimated he could match an Immortal Martial Realm Grand Completion expert without using his trump cards.
• Gu Jiujun called Chu Yun the only hope, while Hun Zhaoyi said the Chu Emperor made the Dark Race seem less terrifying.
• Chu Yun proposed waiting two days for the Dark Race to arrive, and the three considered whether the Shadow Empress could foresee the future.
• Under Meng Ruoxue's arrangements, the Great Xia Dynasty settled on the former Demon Island, while Afuya and the Sky Demoness led forces to settle old debts and Meng Ruoxue, Yang Bu, Wan Lei, and Qian Sha stayed to guard the dynasty.

Xuanyuan Tianchen recovered his Sword Heart and broke through to the early Immortal Martial Realm. Third Gentleman sent him to the Evil Infant Realm to confront Su Xi and persuade her to unseal the Xuanyuan Sword’s Spirit.

• Third Gentleman and Curse discussed Su Xi’s plans and the role Xuanyuan Tianchen might play in stopping her.
• Xuanyuan Tianchen emerged from seclusion with his Sword Heart restored and his cultivation advanced to the early Immortal Martial Realm.
• Xuanyuan Tianchen told Third Gentleman he needed to retrieve the Xuanyuan Sword, which Su Xi held with its Spirit sealed.
• Third Gentleman directed Xuanyuan Tianchen to the Evil Infant Realm, where he was to persuade Su Xi to unseal the Sword’s Spirit.
• Xuanyuan Tianchen set off for the Evil Infant Realm, while Third Gentleman studied a lone black chess piece surrounded by white ones.

The Nightmare Lord confronted Gu Jiujun and Hun Zhaoyi, who refused to side with the Dark Race, and easily overpowered Gu Jiujun in a brief clash. Chu Yun protected the Evil Infant Realm with his mysterious Immortal Power and challenged the Nightmare Lord to test him next.

• The Nightmare Lord arrived outside the Evil Infant Realm and met Chu Yun, Gu Jiujun, and Hun Zhaoyi.
• Gu Jiujun and Hun Zhaoyi identified themselves, then rejected the Nightmare Lord’s offer of friendship and declared they would oppose the Dark Race’s assimilation of the Origin World.
• The Nightmare Lord attacked Gu Jiujun, and his Nightmare Immortal Cloud overwhelmed Gu Jiujun’s Evil Infant Meteor.
• Chu Yun used a Spacetime Immortal Power Imprint to shield the Evil Infant Realm from the clash’s aftermath, shocking the Nightmare Lord with the Immortal Power in his Boundless Realm body.
• Gu Jiujun introduced Chu Yun as the Seventh Gentleman of the Thatched Cottage and the master of the Evil Infant Realm, and Chu Yun offered to exchange a move with the Nightmare Lord.

Chu Yun defeated the careless Nightmare Lord in a one-on-one exchange, then sealed the battlefield and joined Gu Jiujun and Hun Zhaoyi in confronting him. The Nightmare Lord unleashed his Nightmare Great Serpents, beginning the fight to stop his escape and prevent the Dark Lords from gathering to activate the Dark Omen.

• The Nightmare Lord mocked Chu Yun’s challenge and attacked him with a world dreamscape seal.
• Chu Yun revealed his Immortal Source, restrained the seal with Eternal Moment, and shattered it using the Sky Devouring Demon Pearl.
• Chu Yun pierced the Nightmare Lord with three space-time swords, injuring him and forcing him to retreat.
• Chu Yun trapped the Nightmare Lord inside a Blood Demon Immortal Array and said he would exile him to prevent the Dark Lords from activating the Dark Omen.
• Gu Jiujun and Hun Zhaoyi prepared to fight alongside Chu Yun as the Nightmare Lord summoned over a thousand Nightmare Great Serpents.

Chu Yun, Gu Jiujun, and Hun Zhaoyi defeated and exiled the Nightmare Lord after he burned his soul and unleashed his strongest abilities. The Nightmare Lord broke the Blood Demon Seal before vanishing, leaving Chu Yun to prepare for Shadow Empress Su Xi’s arrival.

• Chu Yun, Gu Jiujun, and Hun Zhaoyi destroyed the Nightmare Lord’s serpents and surrounded him, but he burned his soul and shattered their attacks.
• Chu Yun combined the Sky Devouring Demon Pearl, his Space-Time Sword Array, Demon God's Heavenly Calculation, and the Human Emperor Banner to injure the Nightmare Lord.
• The Nightmare Lord unleashed his Nightmare Mad Dragon, but Chu Yun resisted its pull while Gu Jiujun and Hun Zhaoyi struck the Nightmare Lord from behind.
• Chu Yun bound the Nightmare Lord and knocked him into a River of Time, then used the Gate of Space-Time and Sky Devouring Demon Pearl to exile him.
• Before falling into the River of Time, the Nightmare Lord shattered the Blood Demon Seal, allowing Su Xi to sense what had happened.
• Chu Yun collected the Evil Infant Realm and waited for Su Xi, prepared to use the talisman containing a strand of Master's power if necessary.

Su Xi learned that Nightmare had been exiled a thousand years into the future and set out to confront the Immortal Martial Realm experts responsible. Meanwhile, Yan Yu Great Emperor Ren Pingsheng learned he could awaken his ancestor, the Gu Ancestor, in the deadly Gu You Death Realm, and departed after Mu Qianli promised to accept him if he returned alive.

• Su Xi sensed Nightmare Lord's disappearance, discovered he had been exiled a thousand years into the future, and ordered the Bloodthirsty Lord and Purgatory Lord to build a Temporal-Spatial Altar while she went to the Evil Infant Realm.
• Third Gentleman congratulated Yan Yu Great Emperor Ren Pingsheng on entering the Immeasurable Realm and revealed that his ancestor, the Gu Ancestor, had survived as a sleeping Immortal Gu in the Gu You Death Realm.
• Third Gentleman warned Ren Pingsheng that the Gu You Death Realm was deadly and gave him a route map through the Starry Sea of Secrets.
• Ren Pingsheng insisted on going to awaken the Gu Ancestor and gain strength against the Origin Tribulation, while Mu Qianli agreed to watch over the Misty Rain Pavilion.
• Mu Qianli told Ren Pingsheng to return alive and promised she would accept him; Ren Pingsheng departed for the Gu You Death Realm.

Chu Yun, Gu Jiujun, and Hun Zhaoyi waited outside the Evil Infant Realm for Su Xi, joined by Xuanyuan Tianchen, who had been sent to help stop her with a mysterious sentence. Su Xi arrived and confronted them about exiling Nightmare, while Chu Yun warned her that sacrificing the Dark Race to reach the Immortal King Realm would fail.

• Xuanyuan Tianchen appeared and told Chu Yun, Gu Jiujun, and Hun Zhaoyi that Third Senior Brother had sent him to help hold back Su Xi, armed only with a sentence.
• Xuanyuan Tianchen refused to reveal the sentence, and the four waited together for Su Xi.
• Su Xi arrived amid shadow storms and recognized that Chu Yun was at the Immeasurable Realm despite possessing an Immortal Source.
• Su Xi asked whether the four had exiled Nightmare, doubting they had the strength to do so.
• Chu Yun said they had exiled Nightmare to stop the Dark Omen and warned Su Xi that sacrificing her kin to break through to the Immortal King Realm would not work.

Su Xi confronted Chu Yun and his allies about the Dark Race’s only remaining path, but Xuanyuan Tianchen offered her the Xuanyuan Sword’s Spirit as a gift from Xuanyuan. When the spirit, Linglong, awakened, Su Xi recognized her own bloodline and the token she had once shared with Xuanyuan, and told Linglong they were family.

• Su Xi explained that her clan had no choice but to seek the Dark Omen because the Immortal Heaven Divine Stone had disappeared.
• Xuanyuan Tianchen revealed his Xuanyuan bloodline and told Su Xi that Xuanyuan had left her a final gift: the Xuanyuan Sword’s Spirit.
• Su Xi removed Xuanyuan Tianhuan’s seal from the sword, and Linglong appeared and joyfully reunited with Xuanyuan Tianchen.
• Su Xi recognized her bloodline in Linglong and the bell around her ankle as the token she had exchanged with Xuanyuan.
• Su Xi told Linglong they had been family from the beginning, leaving Linglong confused as she asked whether they were family.

Su Xi learned from Xuan Yuan’s hidden message that parasites born after the Origin Tribulation had manipulated him and were lurking in the Origin World. Chu Yun proposed an alliance to expose them, and Su Xi considered his offer while reuniting with her daughter Linglong.

• Su Xi recognized Linglong’s ankle bell as the one she had made for Xuan Yuan and uncovered his recorded message within it.
• Xuan Yuan revealed that Linglong was Su Xi’s daughter and warned that powerful parasites had deceived him and could disguise themselves as loved ones.
• Chu Yun urged Su Xi to join forces with him to find and confront the parasites instead of unleashing the Dark Omen.
• Su Xi accepted that she was Linglong’s mother, but Linglong chose to remain with her master, Xuanyuan Tianchen, while visiting Su Xi.
• Su Xi questioned whether Chu Yun had the standing to form an alliance, citing Nightmare’s exile, and Chu Yun offered to help bring Nightmare back if she agreed to cooperate.

Chu Yun persuaded Su Xi to visit the Grass Hall and consult his Third Senior Brother, the Chess Immortal, before deciding whether to launch the Dark Omen. As they headed there, the Stone Clan Ancestor learned they had reached a settlement and ordered his clan to stay neutral while awaiting the President’s instructions; at the Grass Hall, Third Gentleman and Curse continued their chess game.

• Chu Yun told Su Xi that his Third Senior Brother, Third Gentleman of the Thatched Cottage, could identify those hiding in the shadows, and Xuanyuan Tianchen supported his claim.
• Su Xi agreed to go to the Grass Hall and promised to hold back the Dark Omen while they joined forces against the hidden enemies.
• Chu Yun opened the Void Gate, Su Xi returned the Xuanyuan Sword to Xuanyuan Tianchen, and the group left the Evil Infant Realm for the Grass Hall.
• The Stone Clan Ancestor sensed Chu Yun and the others heading to the Grass Hall and concluded that Su Xi had reached a settlement with them.
• The Stone Clan Ancestor ordered Shi Yan and Shi Jin to remain uninvolved and said he would report Su Xi’s actions to the Vice President.
• At the Grass Hall, Curse gave up after losing ten chess games to Third Gentleman, then asked what had happened to the person Third Gentleman had chosen.

Chu Yun brought Su Xi and the others to Grass Hall, where Third Gentleman revealed that the mysterious Three Phases Society had caused Xuan Yuan’s actions and death. He explained that the society arose from remnants of the first Primordial Calamity, and Chu Yun realized its members might wield Corrosive Power.

• Curse and Third Gentleman discussed a sword-wielding former Tianming chosen one and anticipated Chu Yun’s arrival at Grass Hall.
• Mu Qianli met Chu Yun, Su Xi, Gu Jiujun, and Hun Zhaoyi, and was shocked to discover Chu Yun had reached the Ninth Heaven of the Immeasurable Realm.
• Su Xi demanded an explanation from Third Gentleman and threatened to act against Chu Yun and the others if he failed to provide one.
• Third Gentleman revealed that an expert from the Three Phases Society had influenced Xuan Yuan and that the society was responsible for his death.
• Third Gentleman explained that the Three Phases Society formed from remnants of the first Primordial Calamity, and Chu Yun identified that calamity’s power as Corrosive Power.

Third Gentleman explained the Three Phases Society’s role in pursuing the Origin Tribulation and revealed the power of its leaders. Su Xi challenged him over how he knew so much, and their confrontation ended with Third Gentleman warning that he could kill anyone on his chessboard with a thought.

• Third Gentleman told Gu Jiujun and the others that the Three Phases Society sought the Origin Tribulation’s descent and had exploited the conflict between Xuan Yuan and the Empress.
• Third Gentleman revealed that the Three Phases Society’s shifting headquarters was in the Starry Sea of Secrets and that its President was an Immortal King, while five other leaders were at the Immortal Martial Realm level.
• Su Xi questioned why the President hid despite his strength, and Third Gentleman said that even an Immortal King could not claim invincibility in the Origin World.
• Su Xi suspected that Third Gentleman belonged to the Three Phases Society because he knew its secrets, but he denied the accusation and refused to prove himself.
• Su Xi threatened to turn the Grass Hall upside down, and Third Gentleman warned that he could kill any chess piece on his board with a thought.
• Xuanyuan Tianchen stepped forward to protect Third Gentleman, and Su Xi suddenly looked at Third Gentleman in shock.

Third Gentleman severed Su Xi's causality from the Primordial Realm to punish her for her conduct, then restored it and sent Chu Yun and the Empress to retrieve the Nightmare Lord. He also dispatched Xuanyuan Tianchen to a Star Realm tied to his Progenitor and revealed that Mu Qianli held a sealed power awaiting her control.

• Third Gentleman severed Su Xi's causality, leaving her unable to affect anything in the Primordial Realm, then restored it after she apologized and the Shadow Empress asked for mercy.
• Third Gentleman gave Chu Yun a target for finding the Nightmare Lord and told him to visit the Stone Clan afterward for clues about the Three Phases Society; Chu Yun, Su Xi, Hun Zhaoyi, and Gu Jiujun left the Thatched Cottage.
• Mu Qianli offered to cook for the guests, but Chu Yun hurried everyone away before she could prepare a meal.
• Third Gentleman told Xuanyuan Tianchen that the Xuanyuan Sword could help resist the Origin Tribulation, then gave him a route to a Star Realm once visited by the Xuanyuan Progenitor and ruled by his teacher.
• After Xuanyuan Tianchen departed, Third Gentleman told the Curse that Mu Qianli's sealed power would surpass any opportunity once she fully controlled it.

Chu Yun and Su Xi brought the Nightmare Lord back from his thousand-year exile and explained that they were now working together against the Three Phases Society. As they set off for the Stone Clan, A Niu broke through to the Great Emperor Realm, but Chu Yun caught him and brought him along.

• Chu Yun and Su Xi opened a passage through the River of Time and called the Nightmare Lord back from exile.
• The Nightmare Lord crossed the reception bridge and learned from Su Xi that they planned to eradicate the Three Phases Society without unleashing the Dark Omen.
• Chu Yun announced that the group would travel to the Stone Clan.
• A Niu broke through to the Great Emperor Realm aboard the flying spirit ship and tried to sneak away for food.
• Chu Yun caught A Niu and tossed him through a void gate, and Su Xi and the others followed toward the Stone Clan.

Chu Yun confronted Stone Clan Chief Shi Yan and Grand Elder Shi Jin about what the clan was hiding, then captured them and brought them before Su Xi. Su Xi defeated and suppressed the Stone Clan Ancestor, leaving Shi Yan and Shi Jin horrified as they saw his injuries.

• Shi Yan and Shi Jin learned that the Three Phases Society ordered the Stone Clan to conceal its activities and leave Su Xi’s affairs alone.
• Shi Yan and Shi Jin received word that Chu Yun’s group, including Su Xi, had arrived at the Stone Clan, and the Ancestor told them to meet the visitors calmly.
• Chu Yun demanded that Shi Yan reveal what he had concealed, but Shi Yan denied knowing anything, so Chu Yun bound Shi Yan, Shi Jin, and the Stone Clan’s Second Elder with Immortal Power.
• Su Xi entered the secret realm and fought the Stone Clan Ancestor for about half an hour, defeating and suppressing him without injury.
• Chu Yun’s group entered the secret realm, where Shi Yan and Shi Jin saw their wounded Ancestor bound in midair and cried out in terror.