Chapter Summaries

Hua Yunfei visited Jiang Ruoyao after she obtained the Primordial Sword Domain, then returned to the Primordial God Realm to reconnect with old friends and reunite Xi Yue with Feng Qingwu. He later visited Tian Feixue in the Second Sacred Domain, where he met the grown Dao Zai, who introduced himself as Dao Sheng.

• Jiang Ruoyao said she could enter only the first two trials of the Primordial Sword Domain until she found the Primordial Sword, then left to study the domain.
• Hua Yunfei returned to the Primordial God Realm and visited Xi Yue, Wude, the Shrimp Soldier and Crab General, Lin Haoyu, the fruit trees, and the World Spirits.
• Hua Yunfei told Xi Yue that Feng Qingwu was free of many restrictions, then opened the Path of Reincarnation and sent Xi Yue to see her master.
• Hua Yunfei visited the First Sacred Domain and watched the Sun Moon Holy Emperor, Great Emperor Yaoguang, Great Emperor Tianxing, and others from afar.
• Hua Yunfei visited Tian Feixue in the Second Sacred Domain, where the grown Dao Zai questioned him before introducing himself as Dao Sheng.

Hua Yunfei visited Tian Feixue and met her son, Dao Zai, who was also called Dao Sheng, offering to help him with cultivation problems. After Hua Yunfei left, Jue Ming Wan Xie Wheel appeared and demanded that Dao Zai become his dog, alarming Tian Feixue with his immense power.

• Hua Yunfei spoke with Dao Zai and Tian Feixue over tea, and Dao Zai cautiously asked about Hua Yunfei’s identity and cultivation.
• Hua Yunfei answered Dao Zai’s cultivation questions, then promised to help with future problems before leaving.
• Dao Zai admitted that Hua Yunfei made him want to throw a punch, and Tian Feixue worried that mother and son might someday fight Hua Yunfei.
• Jue Ming Wan Xie Wheel appeared, called Dao Zai an ideal plaything, and ordered him to become his dog.
• Tian Feixue confronted Jue Ming Wan Xie Wheel after he belittled Hua Yunfei, but he claimed that even the whole world was no match for one of his fingers.

The Jue Ming Wan Xie Wheel threatened Tian Feixue and Dao Zai until Hua Yunfei arrived and forced him to apologize. Later, the Wheel asked to train Xuan Yetian and then turned his attention to the Witch Ancestor’s palm, before Xuan Yetian secretly proposed a deal.

• Tian Feixue defended Dao Zai from the Jue Ming Wan Xie Wheel and tried to calm him as he began to lose control.
• Hua Yunfei returned, stopped the Wheel, and threatened to report his misbehavior to the Human Emperor unless he apologized.
• The Jue Ming Wan Xie Wheel apologized to Tian Feixue and Dao Zai, then fled after Hua Yunfei ordered him away.
• After Hua Yunfei reunited with Tian Feixue and Dao Zai, Dao Zai asked Tian Feixue to tell him how she first met Hua Yunfei.
• The Jue Ming Wan Xie Wheel asked Hua Yunfei to let him train Xuan Yetian, then tried to claim the Witch Ancestor’s palm instead.
• Xuan Yetian spoke to the Jue Ming Wan Xie Wheel and proposed a deal.

The Jue Ming Wan Xie Wheel and Xuan Yetian each pretended to accept the other’s offer while plotting to seize the black wooden box and gain the upper hand. Hua Yunfei saw through both schemes and accelerated his absorption of Xuan Yetian’s power, forming the Sixth Sacred Domain as Xuan Yetian realized he was in danger.

• Xuan Yetian tempted the Jue Ming Wan Xie Wheel with the promise of turning him into a Heavenly Soldier if he brought him the black wooden box.
• The Jue Ming Wan Xie Wheel pretended to agree, secretly planning to take the box and suppress both Xuan Yetian and Hua Yunfei.
• Xuan Yetian recognized the Wheel’s deception and believed his long preparations would let him break free once he regained power.
• Hua Yunfei called them fools, considered sending the Wheel back to the Human Emperor, and increased his absorption of Xuan Yetian’s power.
• Hua Yunfei used that power to form the Sixth Sacred Domain, where he considered establishing a new sect under a different name.

Hua Yunfei created the Sixth Sacred Domain and shaped Gai Gu into its first supreme ruler, while its growth gave Hua Yunfei new insights and strength. He confronted the imprisoned Xuan Yetian, who insisted he had a hidden move and mocked Hua Yunfei for relying on his predecessors.

• Hua Yunfei sculpted Gai Gu from the Sixth Sacred Domain's primordial rules, and Gai Gu named himself upon awakening.
• Hua Yunfei reinforced the barriers between the Sacred Domains and accelerated the Sixth Sacred Domain's development, while Gai Gu became its first Great Emperor and founded the Gai Clan.
• Hua Yunfei made ascension to immortality more difficult, and the Sixth Sacred Domain grew from a microcosm toward the scale of a Great Universe.
• Gai Gu sensed the domain's vastness and entered seclusion to pursue the Immortal Dao.
• Hua Yunfei absorbed Xuan Yetian's power and confronted him about their past connection and his escape plans.
• Xuan Yetian claimed he had a hidden move and called Hua Yunfei a coward protected by his predecessors, while Hua Yunfei vowed to protect them himself one day.

Hua Yunfei refused to abandon the Kaoshan Sect and challenged Xuan Yetian's certainty that it would fail. Their confrontation stirred forgotten memories in Xuan Yetian, revealing that he had once befriended the white-robed man and even spared him in their final battle.

• Hua Yunfei told Xuan Yetian that he would face hardship alongside the Kaoshan Sect and argued that its defeat might not benefit the Thirty-Three Heavens.
• Hua Yunfei vowed that the Kaoshan Sect would one day strike back at the Thirty-Three Heavens, and Xuan Yetian recognized a moment from his past.
• Xuan Yetian remembered meeting the white-robed man, who had praised his mastery of the Ice Great Dao and gently addressed the humiliation that shaped his path.
• Xuan Yetian tore apart the memory, then recalled his final battle with the white-robed man, when he had deliberately let his opponent escape.

Hua Wuming revealed that Xuan Yetian had deliberately staged his defeat and sealed his memories as part of a plan to protect allies and preserve the Tianluo Great World. Xuan Yetian learned that his true self had arranged everything, but he remained furious when that self reached across the distance to pat his head.

• Xuan Yetian recalled deliberately losing to let An Ran escape and realized his memories had been sealed.
• Hua Wuming told Xuan Yetian that he had sealed his own memories and that his apparent defeat and grave injuries had been part of a performance.
• Hua Wuming recounted how Xuan Yetian had secretly spared and frozen enemies, helped a wounded sect Top-tier Being escape, and left a remnant soul behind after being taken away.
• Hua Wuming explained that Xuan Yetian had arranged for Xuan Yu and Xuan Chen to be captured and suppressed to keep them safe from the conflict.
• Xuan Yetian grew angry that his true self had hidden the plan from him, and the distant man patted his head, calling it proof.

After learning that his true self had deliberately placed him with Hua Yunfei, Xuan Yetian stopped resisting and helped create a seventh, Ice Sacred Domain, deciding to become its Ice Ancestor. Five hundred years later, Hua Yunfei learned Jiang Ruoyao had entered the High-Level Heavenly Vault and arranged a borrowed identity to pursue her.

• Xuan Yetian learned the man had chosen to stand with the Thirty-Three Heavens’ enemies and was told to help Hua Yunfei instead of causing trouble.
• Xuan Yetian rejected the Jue Ming Wan Xie Wheel and Hua Yunfei, then came to terms with his connection to his true self.
• Xuan Yetian and Hua Yunfei worked together to form the seventh Sacred Domain, and Xuan Yetian declared he would become the Ice Ancestor.
• Five hundred years later, Hua Yunfei learned Jiang Ruoyao had entered the High-Level Heavenly Vault, apparently seeking the Primordial Sword.
• Hua Yunfei contacted Dao Wushuang, who offered him the identity of the missing Nalan Lingxiao and promised to provide the Nalan Family’s techniques.

Hua Yunfei entered the Fourteenth Layer Heavenly Vault disguised as Nalan Lingxiao and passed through the Shu Family’s gate. When the Shu Family ancestor confronted him, Hua Yunfei denied that they had met before.

• Hua Yunfei followed Jiang Ruoyao through the higher heavenly vaults, while the Emperor Lord noticed his passage and worried about their safety.
• Hua Yunfei changed his appearance to resemble Nalan Lingxiao and entered the Fourteenth Layer Heavenly Vault using Dao Wushuang’s identity Token.
• A Shu Family expert reported Hua Yunfei’s arrival to the Shu Family ancestor, who suspected he was the long-missing Nalan Lingxiao.
• Hua Yunfei tried to contact Jiang Ruoyao, but she did not respond.
• The Shu Family ancestor asked whether Hua Yunfei was Nalan Lingxiao and claimed they had met before; Hua Yunfei denied it, and the ancestor acted as though he had mistaken him for someone else.

Hua Yunfei proved his identity to the Shu Family ancestor, then joined Jiang Ruoyao at the Sword Mound. They discovered the Primordial Sword had gone to the Giant God Clan, and Hua Yunfei proposed using his ties to Dao Wushuang and the Heavenly Mandate Daoist Academy to retrieve it without starting a war.

• Hua Yunfei overwhelmed the Shu Family ancestor with his Hegemon Grade power and left him convinced of his identity.
• Hua Yunfei reached the Sword Mound and found Jiang Ruoyao searching for the Primordial Sword.
• Jiang Ruoyao told Hua Yunfei that the Primordial Sword was gone from the summit and that she had traced it to the Giant God Clan.
• Jiang Ruoyao proposed destroying the Giant God Clan to reclaim the sword, but Hua Yunfei warned that doing so would expose them and invite disaster.
• Hua Yunfei suggested using his new identity as a man of Dao Wushuang and the Heavenly Mandate Daoist Academy to pressure the Giant God Clan into handing over the sword.

Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao agreed to pursue the Primordial Sword without betraying Dao Wushuang’s trust, and Jiang Ruoyao received a new identity. A letter announced Dao Wushuang’s visit to the Giant God Clan, leaving its Ancient Ancestor and clansmen preparing to receive him.

• Jiang Ruoyao questioned why Dao Wushuang was helping Hua Yunfei, and Hua Yunfei explained that he had promised not to cause trouble.
• Hua Yunfei teased Jiang Ruoyao and revealed that Dao Wushuang had arranged an identity for her to use while dealing with the Giant God Clan.
• Hua Yunfei considered taking ancient swords from the Sword Realm for his Myriad Heavens Sword Array but decided to leave them untouched.
• Hua Yunfei gave Jiang Ruoyao the identity of Yang Qinghe, a female Heavenly Prodigy of the Yang Family who had disappeared six million years ago.
• A mysterious letter entered the Giant God Clan, and its Ancient Ancestor ordered the clan to welcome a great personage arriving in three days.
• The Giant God Clan’s Ancient Ancestor told the Great Elder that the visitor was Dao Wushuang, dean of the Heavenly Mandate Daoist Academy.

The Giant God Clan's Ancient Ancestors learned that Dao Wushuang would visit in three days and feared he had discovered their secret Primordial Sword. They planned how to protect the sword and negotiate with him, while Gu Wuliang invited the God Emperor to accompany an Ancient Ancestor to the Giant God Clan.

• The Giant God Clan's Ancient Ancestor learned of Dao Wushuang's planned visit and went to the secret realm where the Primordial Sword rested.
• The Giant God Clan's Third Ancestor told the Progenitor and Second Ancestor about the visit, and they suspected Dao Wushuang knew of the sword.
• The Giant God Clan's Progenitor refused to give up the Primordial Sword and ordered the clan to contact the Ancient God Clan as a contingency.
• The Giant God Clan's Progenitor decided they could share information about the sword with the Ancient God Clan if Dao Wushuang was not seeking it.
• Gu Wuliang invited the God Emperor to accompany an Ancient Ancestor on a visit to the Giant God Clan.

Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao visited the Giant God Clan in Dao Wushuang’s stead to negotiate for the Primordial Sword, offering the clan one condition in exchange. Their talks were interrupted by the arrival of guests from the Ancient God Clan.

• The Giant God Clan prepared to welcome Dao Wushuang, but Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao arrived in his place, introducing themselves as Nalan Lingxiao and Yang Qinghe.
• The Third Ancestor of the Giant God Clan brought Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao to a pavilion after Hua Yunfei declined the banquet and asked to speak privately.
• Hua Yunfei asked for the Primordial Sword and revealed that Dao Wushuang knew the Giant God Clan’s Progenitor had suffered a severe Dao Injury obtaining it.
• Hua Yunfei offered the Giant God Clan one condition in exchange for the sword and said Dao Wushuang knew the clan wanted a new place to live.
• The Great Elder of the Giant God Clan reported that guests from the Ancient God Clan had arrived with two core members.

Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao negotiated with the Giant God Clan and the Ancient God Clan over the Primordial Sword, while Gu Cheng tried to steer the dispute toward his own clan. The God Emperor revealed that he was the personal disciple of Tuoba Ancient Ancestor, who was also the Giant God Clan's Progenitor's biological father.

• The Third Ancestor of the Giant God Clan welcomed Gu Cheng, Gu Wuliang, and the God Emperor, then brought them into the pavilion with Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao.
• Hua Yunfei said the Heavenly Mandate Daoist Academy wanted the Primordial Sword and could grant the Giant God Clan one reasonable request in exchange.
• Gu Cheng argued that the academy's offer was insufficient and suggested Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao return to consult Dao Wushuang.
• Hua Yunfei said Dao Wushuang had authorized them to represent him, and the Third Ancestor confirmed that the Primordial Sword had weakened since its past glory.
• Jiang Ruoyao grew impatient as the three parties weighed their claims to the sword, and the God Emperor stood to speak.
• Gu Wuliang identified the God Emperor as Tuoba Ancient Ancestor's personal disciple, and the Third Ancestor learned that Tuoba Ancient Ancestor was the Giant God Clan Progenitor's biological father.

The God Emperor exposed the clans’ maneuvering over the Primordial Sword, prompting the Progenitor of the Giant God Clan to state his terms to Hua Yunfei. Hua Yunfei consulted Dao Wushuang, who appeared and challenged the Progenitor’s plan to settle in the Tenth Heavenly Domain.

• The God Emperor urged the Giant God Clan and Ancient God Clan to state their terms plainly rather than risk offending Dao Wushuang and the Heavenly Mandate Daoist Academy.
• Hua Yunfei agreed to negotiate on Dao Wushuang’s behalf, and Gu Cheng invited the Giant God Clan to make its demands.
• The Progenitor of the Giant God Clan appeared and demanded land in the Tenth Heavenly Domain and an ancestral artifact in exchange for the Primordial Sword.
• Hua Yunfei, Gu Cheng, and the Third Ancestor of the Giant God Clan warned that the Xumi Sacred Cult would ostracize the Giant God Clan in the Tenth Heavenly Domain.
• Hua Yunfei contacted Dao Wushuang, who appeared and asked the Progenitor whether he feared his clan would convert to Buddhism.

Dao Wushuang negotiated the return of the Primordial Sword by promising the Giant God Clan land in the Tenth Heavenly Domain and an ancestral artifact. Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao left with the sword, and Dao Wushuang joined them as they argued over who deserved thanks.

• Dao Wushuang agreed to provide the Giant God Clan with a new home and an ancestral artifact in exchange for the Primordial Sword.
• The Progenitor of the Giant God Clan led Gu Cheng, Hua Yunfei, and Jiang Ruoyao into a secret realm and warned them about the sword’s dangerous Karma.
• The Progenitor placed the Primordial Sword in a prepared case and entrusted it to Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao.
• The Progenitor chose to prioritize his clan over seeking treatment for his Dao Injury, while Gu Cheng agreed to pass on his regards.
• Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao left with the sword and bickered about who deserved credit for retrieving it.
• Dao Wushuang joined them, claimed he had done the most to secure the sword, and laughed with Hua Yunfei as Jiang Ruoyao called their closeness disgusting.

Hua Yunfei and Dao Wushuang teased Jiang Ruoyao until their talk of food persuaded her to join them for a meal. As they ate, the two friends discussed their coming final battle, while Jiang Ruoyao joked that she could kill one of them for the other.

• Hua Yunfei and Dao Wushuang teased Jiang Ruoyao about her feelings until she threatened them with the Blood-colored Killing Sword.
• Hua Yunfei and Dao Wushuang lured Jiang Ruoyao into joining them by planning a feast and describing starch sausages.
• The three cooked and ate together, and Hua Yunfei and Dao Wushuang recalled that the scene seemed familiar.
• Hua Yunfei and Dao Wushuang discussed their final battle and agreed to face each other seriously despite their friendship.
• Jiang Ruoyao offered to kill one of them, and Dao Wushuang asked her not to use the Primordial Sword he had helped her retrieve against him.

Dao Wushuang reunited with An Ning, who arrived at the High-Level Heavenly Vault and met Hua Yunfei, Jiang Ruoyao, and Duanmu Qingyue. An Ning asked Dao Wushuang to help her obtain the Primordial Sword, while Hua Yunfei suggested Duanmu Qingyue might be her mother and he her father, provoking her anger.

• Dao Wushuang told Hua Yunfei that Qiu'er would consider his feelings, and warned Hua Yunfei not to regret treating her only as a younger sister.
• Hua Yunfei and Dao Wushuang brought Duanmu Qingyue back to meet Jiang Ruoyao, then An Ning arrived to see her senior brother after five hundred years.
• An Ning and Duanmu Qingyue noticed that they looked alike and felt an inexplicable closeness, while Jiang Ruoyao watched them suspiciously.
• An Ning told Dao Wushuang that her master had located the Primordial Sword with the Giant God Clan in the Fourteenth Layer Heavenly Vault and asked him to help her become its Sword Holder.
• Hua Yunfei asked An Ning whether Duanmu Qingyue could be her mother and he her father, and An Ning sprang up angrily.

Hua Yunfei told An Ning he believed he was her father and explained why he thought she was born to him and Duanmu Qingyue. An Ning was left shaken and silent, unable to dismiss his evidence or her suspicions about her master’s role.

• An Ning angrily rejected Hua Yunfei’s claim, but Dao Wushuang calmed her and persuaded her to hear him out.
• Hua Yunfei explained that An Ning could have parents despite being called a Primeval Body born of heaven and earth.
• Hua Yunfei revealed his true appearance, and An Ning realized she resembled both him and Duanmu Qingyue.
• An Ning recalled her master’s temperament and extraordinary training, and began to suspect that he had concealed her origins and sealed her bloodline.
• Hua Yunfei explained that he had blurted out the claim because of his long-held feelings as a father, leaving An Ning stunned and silent.

An Ning rejected Hua Yunfei and Duanmu Qingyue’s claim that they were her parents and fled, unable to accept that her master might have deceived her. At the Dao Sea, she reflected on the hardship of reaching the Overlord realm and recognized that every cultivator struggled toward the other shore.

• Hua Yunfei and Duanmu Qingyue tried to comfort An Ning and told her they wanted to uncover the truth without pressuring her.
• An Ning insisted she trusted her master, questioned where her supposed parents had been during her lonely training, and vanished.
• Hua Yunfei stopped Duanmu Qingyue from chasing An Ning, while Dao Wushuang urged them to give her time; Jiang Ruoyao accused him of already knowing the truth.
• Hua Yunfei and Duanmu Qingyue suspected that An Ning’s master had given her name to her.
• An Ning went to the Dao Sea and watched cultivators from many clans risk their lives to seek a breakthrough.
• An Ning recalled her own difficult path to the Overlord realm and realized that all living beings struggled to cross to the other shore.