Chapter Summaries

Xiao Xuan revealed his hidden strength to Jinxian and brought the Incense Overseer into his faction, giving him martial arts manuals and a powerful python. The chapter ended with Xiao Yu learning that Jinxian had visited the Xuan Prince's Residence and wondering why he had sided with Xiao Xuan.

• Jinxian visited Xiao Xuan at the Xuan Prince's Residence and told him that he had met the Sixth Prince.
• Xiao Xuan displayed his overwhelming aura and ordered Jinxian to follow him, promising he would not have to guard the Imperial Mausoleum.
• Jinxian agreed to serve Xiao Xuan, who gave him cultivation insights beyond the Soaring Realm and an unnamed four-stage finger technique.
• Xiao Xuan led Shen Jingzhou into a secret chamber and gave him a massive python that could protect him from powerful enemies.
• Xiao Yu heard that Jinxian had visited Xiao Xuan and wondered why the Incense Overseer had chosen the Xuan King.

Xiao Xuan received Shen Jingzhou at the Xuan Prince’s Residence, then visited Consort Xuan at the Imperial Palace and clashed with Xiao Yu. Four years later, he cultivated in seclusion and appeared to break through to the late stage of the spirit wanderer mysterious realm.

• Xiao Chong learned that Jinxian had entered the Xuan Prince’s Residence and decided to wait as Tianqi’s situation grew more chaotic.
• Xiao Xuan told Yin Luoxia that she had reached the grand carefree realm and invited her to visit Consort Xuan with him.
• Xiao Xuan and Yin Luoxia visited Consort Xuan, where Xiao Xuan warned Xiao Yu not to forget the Xiao Clan and Northern Li’s interests.
• Xiao Xuan left gifts for Consort Xuan, paid his respects to the Mingde Emperor, and returned to his residence to pursue a cultivation breakthrough.
• Four years after Xiao Chuhe’s demotion, Xiao Xuan entered seclusion and drove his true qi through his meridians until his Guanyuan acupoint burst open and his energy stabilized.

After recovering his former peak strength, Xiao Xuan learned that Xiao Chuhe had returned to Apocalypse City and was holding a banquet at Thousand Gold Terrace. Xiao Xuan visited Xiao Chuhe, where his friends discussed whether King Xuan was hiding a dangerous side, and the brothers traded barbs about their abilities and families.

• Xiao Xuan recovered the peak strength of his previous life and left the secret chamber.
• Dongfang Yao told Xiao Xuan that Xiao Chuhe had returned to Apocalypse City and planned a banquet at Thousand Gold Terrace.
• Ling Shaohan advised White King Xiao Chong not to attend Xiao Chuhe's banquet and to discourage others from going.
• Xiao Yu angrily vowed to ensure that Xiao Chuhe's banquet had no guests.
• At Snowfall Mountain Villa, Ye Ruoyi, Xie Xuan, and Ji Xue warned Xiao Chuhe that King Xuan might be more calculating than he seemed.
• Xiao Xuan visited Xiao Chuhe, greeted the gathered guests, tested Xiao Chuhe's strength, and exchanged teasing remarks with him.

Xiao Se’s Thousand Gold Terrace banquet drew powerful officials, nobles, and merchants, while the princes’ seating arrangements exposed tensions among the imperial brothers. The chapter ended with Xiao Xuan brushing off Lei Wujie’s challenge and praising him as a perceptive fool.

• Xiao Xuan followed Xiao Chuhe to Thousand Gold Terrace, where Marquis Lan Yue and Grand Tutor Dong Zhu arrived as the first prominent guests.
• Dong Zhu spoke to Xiao Se about the meaning of his name, and Xiao Se said he understood his imperial father’s intentions.
• Officials and merchants filled the banquet, and Mu Chunfeng offered Hua Jin a rare herb garden in hopes of becoming her disciple.
• Qi Tianchen arrived with the young Daoist Zitong, followed by the White King Xiao Chong and the Red King Xiao Yu, who were seated below the main table.
• Lei Wujie challenged Xiao Xuan over taking a main-table seat, and Xiao Xuan pretended not to understand before praising Lei Wujie to Xiao Chuhe.

Xiao Se honored Tang Lian with a solemn funeral banquet that also made his political position clear, while Xiao Chuhe and Xiao Xuan clashed over loyalty and rule. When the Langya Army entered Tianqi, the Five Great Eunuchs presented a Dragon-Sealing Edict to depose Mingde Emperor, but Xiao Lingchen tore it up and rejected their claim to authority.

• Xiao Se and his companions wore coarse mourning clothes and held a funeral banquet for Tang Lian, which Mingde Emperor attended before leaving.
• Xiao Xuan argued with Xiao Chuhe about loyalty, righteousness, and whether those qualities made him fit to rule.
• Xiao En reported that Ye Xiaoying and Xiao Lingchen had brought the rebel central army to Apocalypse City, and Mingde Emperor ordered the palace gates opened.
• The Langya Army entered the palace, followed by the Tomb Guardian King's Army and the three former eunuch supervisors.
• Eunuch Zhuoxin declared that the Dragon-Sealing Edict named Langya King Xiao Ruofeng as the rightful ruler and called for Xiao Lingchen to take the throne.
• Xiao Lingchen tore up the Dragon-Sealing Edict and denounced the eunuchs for trying to decide the Xiao Clan's succession.

The Langya military rebellion ended after Xiao Lingchen, Lei Wujie, and Xiao Chuhe persuaded the army to withdraw, and Xiao Lingchen inherited the Langya title. As the imperial factions maneuvered over Jinyan’s list of traitors, Luo Qingyang arrived in Apocalypse City and issued a sword challenge, leaving Xiao Xuan to meet him at Thousand Gold Terrace.

• Jinwei attacked the Mingde Emperor, but Jinxian intercepted him while Lei Wujie, Xiao Lingchen, and Xiao Chuhe called on the Langya Army to withdraw.
• The Mingde Emperor overturned Xiao Ruofeng’s verdict, restored his honor, and bestowed the title of Langya King on Xiao Lingchen, who then volunteered to face Southern Jue.
• Xiao Ruojin offered Xiao Xuan the throne, but Xiao Xuan refused and promised to protect the Xiao clan’s rightful line; Jinyan became a monk and received the Dharma name Pushan.
• Luo Qingyang cleaved the Apocalypse City plaque and declared a sword challenge to Tianqi, prompting Xiao Se and the other princes to prepare for his arrival.
• Xiao Xuan met Luo Qingyang at Thousand Gold Terrace, where the Lone Sword Immortal poured him tea.

Luo Qingyang announced that he would wait seven days for swordsmen to challenge him before killing one person and taking another away. Yan Zhantian challenged him with all three Rage Sword forms and lost, while Xiao Xuan’s knowledge of Yan’s weakness led others to suspect that he had been hiding his abilities.

• Luo Qingyang told Xie Xuan that he would wait seven days for challengers, then kill one person and take another away; Xiao Xuan agreed that he could take the person if she was willing but forbade him from killing the other.
• Yan Zhantian arrived at Thousand Gold Terrace and challenged Luo Qingyang, drawing important figures from Apocalypse City to watch.
• Su Changhe and Xiao Yu discussed why Luo Qingyang had come openly, and Xiao Yu concluded that his adoptive father was helping him because of his mother.
• Yan Zhantian unleashed Rage-Drawing Sword and Rage-Slashing Sword, but Luo Qingyang blocked both without drawing Nine Songs.
• Yan Zhantian used Rage-Returning Sword, and Luo Qingyang drew Nine Songs to pierce through his sword intent and defeat him.
• Xiao Xuan identified the flaw in Yan Zhantian’s rage sword, prompting Xie Xuan and Xiao Chuhe to question whether Prince Xuan was finally revealing his hidden talents.

Peerless challenged Luo Qingyang and revealed the full power of Wushuang City's twelve flying swords, but Luo Qingyang's Jiuge Sword Dance pushed him to the brink. Peerless drew the Great Ming Vermilion Bird and nourished it with his blood, revealing the sword's other name: the Demon Sword.

• Yan Zhantian admitted that Xiao Xuan had exposed the flaw in his sword cultivation, and he resolved to enter seclusion.
• Peerless challenged Luo Qingyang to a sword duel and greeted Lei Wujie, who encouraged him.
• Peerless summoned all twelve flying swords from the Wushuang Sword Case, impressing Xie Xuan and the other onlookers.
• Luo Qingyang drew Nine Songs and used his Jiuge Sword Dance to gain the advantage over Peerless.
• Peerless halted Luo Qingyang with his twelve swords, drew the Great Ming Vermilion Bird, and cut his palm to feed it blood.
• Xie Xuan explained that the Great Ming Vermilion Bird was a blood-nourished sword, and Xiao Se identified it as the Demon Sword.

Peerless fought Luo Qingyang and was gravely wounded after losing to National Lament. Xiao Xuan intervened to save him, and the chapter ended as Xiao Xuan’s thirteen flying swords clashed with Luo Qingyang’s Ritual Soul.

• Xiao Yu ordered Su Changhe to kill Peerless and seize Great Ming Zhuque, but Peerless mastered the sword and nearly cut Luo Qingyang with his strike.
• Xie Xuan praised Peerless’s skill, while Yan Zhantian acknowledged that the young Wushuang City Lord had surpassed him.
• Luo Qingyang used National Lament and gravely wounded Peerless, who admitted defeat.
• Luo Qingyang prepared to kill Peerless, but Xiao Xuan controlled the flying swords and demanded that he spare him.
• Luo Qingyang attacked Xiao Xuan with Ritual Soul, and their sword techniques collided amid dark clouds, wind, and rain.

Xiao Xuan intervened in Luo Qingyang’s battle with Xiao Chuhe, revealed more of his abilities, and warned his brothers about Xiao Yu’s schemes. He left the others stunned by his claim to be both the Medicine Immortal and Poison Immortal, while Luo Qingyang departed after reuniting with Consort Xuan.

• Xiao Xuan caught Luo Qingyang’s sword before it could strike the Mingde Emperor and used Mind Reading to pull Luo Qingyang out of a qi deviation.
• Consort Xuan called to Luo Qingyang, who thanked Xiao Xuan and then left with her.
• Xiao Xuan told the others that Mo Yi had reached the Spirit Wanderer Mysterious Realm at twenty and warned Xiao Chuhe that Xiao Yu had poisoned the emperor and used the Medicine-Puppet Technique on Consort Xuan.
• Xiao Xuan offered to cure Wuxin’s Medicine-Puppet Technique and departed, leaving Xie Xuan and the others to realize he might also have been Thor and the Medicine Immortal who had helped them.

After Southern Jue’s defeat and the Mingde Emperor’s death, Xiao Chong became emperor while Xiao Xuan remained a powerful, carefree prince. Xiao Xuan shared his cultivation knowledge with the royal family and pursued immortality, while the others’ cultivation advanced over the following decades.

• Xiao Chong learned that Xiao Yu had attacked Yong'an King Manor, then Xiao Yu killed himself and Wuxin freed Consort Xuan from the drugman technique.
• Southern Jue’s leaders died mysteriously, and the kingdom returned its captured cities and ceded ten more to Northern Li, bringing Xiao Lingchen great military honors.
• After the Mingde Emperor died, Xiao Chuhe declined the throne and Xiao Chong ascended as emperor, while Xiao Xuan became Leisurely King.
• At a gathering in Leisurely King Manor, Xiao Xuan revealed that he had reached the late Divine Wandering Realm and hoped to become an immortal.
• Xiao Xuan placed his cultivation insights and techniques in the royal Scripture Depository, then spent his time cultivating and traveling with Yin Luoxia.
• Years later, Peerless reached the Divine Wandering Realm before forty, Xiao Chuhe and Wuxin entered the Mysterious Realm of Divine Wandering in their fifties, and Xiao Xuan stood at the peak of Divine Wandering with a youthful appearance.

Thirty years later, Xiao Wei returned victorious from the campaign against Southern Jue and was appointed Northern Li’s third Pillar of the State. At court, Xiao Xuan announced that he would give Xiao Wei the hereditary title of Carefree King and retire, leaving the emperor and officials protesting that he was still too young.

• Xiao Xuan doted on his granddaughter Xiao Shiyue while teasing his grandson Xiao Huai, and Xiao Wei asked whether his father was worried about his upcoming campaign against Southern Jue.
• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Wei that his strength and military skill should keep him safe, while Yin Luoxia chided Xiao Xuan for being harsh with their son.
• Thirty years later, Xiao Xuan remained near an unknown realm, while Xiao Chong had grown visibly older from governing Northern Li.
• After Xiao Wei returned victorious from Southern Jue, Xiao Chong appointed him the nation’s third Pillar of the State.
• Xiao Xuan announced that he would pass the title of Carefree King to Xiao Wei and retire, but Xiao Chong and the officials objected that he was still young.

Xiao Xuan and Xiao Chuhe relinquished their titles and withdrew from imperial life, while Xiao Wei later rebelled against Xiao Qi and was defeated. Years afterward, Xiao Wei met his father in secret and learned that Xiao Xuan still commanded a powerful intelligence network and expected him to rebuild his martial arts.

• Xiao Xuan gave up the Carefree King title and returned to Pastoral Residence, while Xiao Chuhe relinquished the Yong'an King title; Xiao Chong approved both decisions.
• Xiao Xuan left with Yin Luoxia and warned Xiao Wei against pursuing imperial power, leaving him to consider his ambitions in seclusion.
• Ten years later, Xiao Chong died and Xiao Qi became emperor; Xiao Wei's rebellion failed, and Xiao Qi crippled his martial arts and banished him from Apocalypse City.
• At Carefree Hall in Musang City, Xiao Wei discovered that Xiao Xuan had secretly maintained a powerful intelligence network through Jinxian.
• Xiao Wei told Xiao Xuan he had abandoned his imperial ambitions, and Xiao Xuan urged him to rebuild his martial arts before revealing he had drawn Xiao Wei into an illusion.

Xiao Xuan met and fought Mo Yi in Snow Moon City before the two reunited with Baili Dongjun and traveled to Penglai. There, Xiao Xuan explained his theories on the realms beyond Divine Wandering, ending with the path to the Primordial Spirit Realm.

• Xiao Xuan confronted Mo Yi outside Heaven Ascension Pavilion, and the two exchanged hundreds of moves before recognizing each other and praising their cultivation.
• Baili Dongjun, Sikong Changfeng, Li Hanyi, Tang Lian, Sikong Qianluo, and Luo Mingxuan arrived and learned that Mo Yi was the Peerless Ranking expert from forty years earlier.
• Mo Yi revealed that he was one hundred and three years old, and Baili Dongjun welcomed him and Xiao Xuan into Snow Moon City for a feast.
• After eating and drinking, Xiao Xuan, Baili Dongjun, and Mo Yi traveled through the air to Penglai.
• Xiao Xuan outlined his theories on cultivation beyond Divine Wandering, from condensing a Golden Core and cultivating Yin and Yang Spirits to reaching the Primordial Spirit Realm.

After a century of seclusion on Yingzhou Island, Xiao Xuan passed the Heavenly Tribulation and formed a golden particle within his dantian. He returned to the East Sea shore, where he changed his name and identity before roaming Shenzhou.

• Mo Yi took Xiao Xuan’s words to heart, saluted him, and left to seek enlightenment in seclusion.
• Baili Dongjun returned to Snow Moon City, while Xiao Xuan later left the Central Plains for Yingzhou Island after Yin Luoxia chose to stay at the Carefree Marquis Residence.
• Generations passed as the Carefree King and Yong'an King lineages grew powerful and competed with the Imperial Family for control of the realm.
• After a century of upheaval, no one had surpassed the Spirit Wanderer Mysterious Realm, and Xiao Xuan remained away from the world.
• Xiao Xuan passed the Heavenly Tribulation on Yingzhou and formed a golden particle in his dantian.
• Xiao Xuan observed the Carefree Sect from afar, returned to the East Sea shore, and set out across Shenzhou under a new name and identity.

The chapter recounts Xu Xuan’s battlefield reputation, the victory at Western Fortress that crippled him, and the return of memories from another life. Now living quietly at the Northern Liang Prince’s Residence, he studies martial arts texts in Tide-Watching Pavilion and has reached the Great Vajra Realm.

• Xu Xiao’s army defeated Ye Baikui at Western Fortress after three days and nights of fighting, winning the war to destroy Western Chu.
• Xu Xuan led troops in battle from a young age and was crippled in both legs during the fighting at Western Fortress.
• After returning to Lingzhou, Xu Xuan fainted, woke with memories of another life, and ordered Pure Serenity Courtyard built.
• Xu Xuan withdrew from military affairs and began studying the martial arts manuals kept in Tide-Watching Pavilion.
• Xu Xuan’s years of training and battlefield experience had tempered his Vajra Realm into the Great Vajra Realm.

Xu Xuan concealed his formidable cultivation while living quietly with his family in Pure Serenity Courtyard, and Xu Xiao accepted that Xu Fengnian would become Northern Liang’s heir. Three years later, Xu Xuan prepared to travel with Xu Zhihu and Xu Weibear, reassuring Li Yishan that his crippled legs had not diminished his martial arts.

• Xu Xuan welcomed Xu Zhihu, Xu Weibear, Xu Fengnian, and Xu Longxiang, and urged his sisters to keep practicing the cultivation methods he had taught them.
• Xu Xiao asked Xu Xuan to become Northern Liang’s heir, but Xu Xuan refused and suggested Xu Fengnian instead.
• Xu Xuan continued guiding his younger siblings, teaching Xu Longxiang the Seven Injuries Fist and Xu Fengnian the Xuan Yuan Inner Skill.
• Three years passed, and Xu Fengnian’s reputation as a wastrel spread across Northern Liang and the Liyang Dynasty.
• While playing chess with Li Yishan, Xu Xuan explained that he planned to take Xu Zhihu and Xu Weibear traveling so they could gain experience.
• Xu Xuan reassured Li Yishan that although his legs were crippled, his martial arts remained intact.

Xiao Xuan revealed that he had reached the Celestial Phenomenon realm and left Northern Liang with his younger sisters to visit Wudang. There, he met Wang Chonglou and Hong Xixiang, whose divination could not read him.

• Xiao Xuan told Li Yishan he would travel with one or two attendants, then left to inform Xu Xiao of his plans to take his sisters without soldiers.
• Thunder and purple lightning filled the sky at the Prince's Residence, and Xu Xiao realized Xiao Xuan had reached the Celestial Phenomenon realm; he allowed them to leave after warning Xiao Xuan to protect his sisters.
• Xiao Xuan, Xu Zhihu, and Xu Weibear arrived at Wudang Mountain, where Wang Chonglou welcomed them and guided them around the mountain.
• Xiao Xuan saw Hong Xixiang riding a green ox, and Wang Chonglou introduced him as his junior brother.
• Hong Xixiang tried to divine Xiao Xuan but stopped after sensing danger and asked why he could not read him; Xiao Xuan said his skills were not refined enough.

Xiao Xuan guided Xu Zhihu and Xu Weibear across the realm for ten years, then brought them to honor the graves of Ye Baikui's family before they neared home. The chapter ends as bandits surround a young beggar and an old man near Lingzhou.

• Wang Chonglou welcomed Xiao Xuan and the princesses to Wudang, where Xiao Xuan discussed the Dao with him and gifted the Five Thunder Heavenly Heart Formula.
• After half a year, Xiao Xuan led Xu Zhihu and Xu Weibear away from Wudang, then traveled with them throughout the Liyang Dynasty for ten years.
• During their travels, Xu Weibear reached the Mysterious Realm and became renowned for her Go, while Xu Zhihu reached the Second Rank and Xiao Xuan cultivated three paths to the great First Rank realm.
• At the Western Fortress battlefield, Xiao Xuan brought the sisters to pay respects at the nameless graves of Ye Baikui's family, and Xu Weibear thanked him through tears.
• As the siblings neared Lingzhou, bandits surrounded a ruined temple and threatened a young beggar and a lecherous old man.

Xu Fengnian used a clever disguise to escape the Western Chu remnants who were hunting for him, while Xu Xuan and his sisters fought off the bandits who then attacked their party. After Xu Xuan killed the surviving bandits, he told Xu Fengnian that he would have to inherit Northern Liang because Xu Xuan could no longer lead it.

• The bandit leader, a former Great Chu halberdier, hunted young men along the route in hopes of finding Xu Fengnian and avenging Western Chu.
• Xu Fengnian recognized the bandits as Western Chu remnants and, with Old Huang, pretended to be a fellow Chu refugee until the leader welcomed them and shared food.
• The bandits surrounded Xiao Xuan's carriage, and Xu Weibear and Xu Zhihu defeated them while Xu Xuan confronted their leader.
• Xu Xuan killed the bandits with a storm of sand after they vowed to keep pursuing the Xu Family.
• Xu Fengnian reunited with Xu Xuan and his sisters, and Xu Xuan told him he would have to inherit Northern Liang because Xu Xuan's condition prevented him from leading it.