Chapter Summaries

An Le woke after creating the River of Time Visualization Method and reaching the seventh realm of Spirit Refining, only to find himself and his companions trapped by King Zhao Xi of Jiangling, Hell Manor Yan Wangs, and six half-demons. As the attackers closed in, An Le invoked the Demon Hunting Dao Fruit, freezing the half-demons and stirring confusion in their minds.

• Su Muzhe, Wan Jieliu, and Fourth Master Lin encountered six Ninth Realm half-demons and concealed Hell Manor Judges above Jiangling Prefecture while escorting the sleeping An Le.
• King Zhao Xi of Jiangling revealed his alliance with two Hell Manor Yan Wangs and ordered them to attack An Le and his protectors.
• An Le created the River of Time Visualization Method by using Qin Lishi's Primordial Spirit in his experiments, then broke through to the seventh realm, Unfettered.
• Li Qingchuan and Wang Yansheng arrived with Swallow Returns Home and Sword Pool Palace Sword Forgers to reinforce An Le's group.
• Su Muzhe used the Old Sword Saint's tenth-realm sword light against King Zhao Xi, but his Underworld Blood Pool dispersed it.
• An Le asked Su Muzhe to hold off King Zhao Xi, then used the Demon Hunting Dao Fruit against the six half-demons, freezing them and clouding their minds.

An Le used the Demon Hunting Dao Fruit and Time Qi to restore the six half-demons’ memories, exposing King of Jiangling’s crimes, but King of Jiangling still overpowered them and threatened An Le. An Le escaped through a Space Rift to Mount Li, where he entered the stabilized ancient tomb gate by tapping it with Bamboo Sword Green Mountain.

• An Le awakened the six half-demons’ buried consciousness and memories, while his Time Qi shattered the Blood Bell imprints King of Jiangling had placed in their minds.
• The six half-demons learned of the trafficking and slaughter in Jiangling City, and one recognized the Demon Source Jade and cried out for his mother.
• King of Jiangling suppressed the awakened half-demons, revealed his black-armored army, and ordered an attack on Sword Pool Palace as An Le sent Su Muzhe and the others to retreat.
• An Le used a strike with Bamboo Sword Green Mountain to open a Space Rift and escape to Mount Li, while King of Jiangling turned his army toward Jinguan City.
• At Mount Li, An Le killed an Eighth Realm Ghost Messenger who tried to assassinate him and waited for the Dragon Vein Gate to stabilize.
• When the gate rejected An Le for lacking Eighth Realm cultivation, he tapped it with Bamboo Sword Green Mountain, dispelled its resistance, and entered the Mount Li Ancient Tomb.

An Le entered Mount Li Ancient Tomb and endured the city gate’s Heaven and Earth Will, refining the Mountain River Cauldron and advancing his body-forging cultivation. Inside the ancient city, he reached a pavilion containing Mohist treasure armor and used the River of Time to grasp it, while the tomb’s stone effigies recognized Bamboo Sword Green Mountain as the First Emperor’s sword.

• An Le and other cultivators entered the tomb, and the Imperial Stone Effigy explained the Mohist Grandmaster’s spatial passage and warned An Le that the ancient tomb might have changed over ten thousand years.
• An Le joined forces with Young Guanyin Miaoyin and the Young Celestial Master as cultivators gathered before the sealed ancient city.
• Cultivators entered the city by enduring black mist filled with Heaven and Earth Will, earning ranks and buildings according to how many steps they walked.
• An Le walked one hundred steps, refined the Mountain River Cauldron, and advanced to the perfected Sixth Realm before entering the city as a Thousand Commander.
• A stone effigy general recognized Green Mountain and mourned the First Emperor as An Le entered a two-story pavilion containing dense Heaven and Earth Will and Mohist Top-tier Treasure Armor.
• An Le used the River of Time to grasp the armor after his hand had repeatedly passed through it.

An Le partially refined the Void Armor and entered the Ancient Ancient Battlefield, where the Ying Qin Army charged against descendants of the immortal ancient families. He killed an eighth-realm Immortal Descendant and discovered that his Thousand Commander token converted the enemy’s Heaven and Earth Will into power for him.

• The King of Jiangling gathered Hell Manor forces and mobilized his army to attack Sword Pool Palace while the world’s Tenth Realm experts were inside the Mount Li Ancient Tomb.
• An Le used the Asking for the Cauldron Dao Fruit and Mountain River Cauldron to refine ten percent of the Void Armor, learning the Five Void Dispersion Palms and gaining the ability to wear the armor.
• An Le entered the Ancient Ancient Battlefield, learned that a Thousand Commander had to kill ten eighth-realm descendants of the immortal ancient families to return, and led his stone figurine soldiers into battle.
• An Le fought the descendants of the White Tiger Family and used the Void Armor, his sword, and the Mountain River Cauldron to kill an eighth-realm Immortal Descendant.
• An Le’s Thousand Commander token absorbed the dead Immortal Descendant’s Heaven and Earth Will and transformed it into power for An Le.

An Le fought through the Eighth Realm Immortal Ancient Battlefield, learned that the Upper Realm coveted the human world’s time, and received a Ten Thousand Commander Token to aid his advance. After discovering Hu Cang’s bloodline secrets and forging a new Time Dao Fruit, An Le returned to battle and killed his eighth Eighth Realm enemy, breaking through to the seventh Body Forging Realm.

• An Le and the other token holders battled the Immortal Ancient White Tiger Family descendants, while Young Guanyin broke through to the Eighth Realm of spirit refinement; they withdrew when the Great Wall’s Mohist Immortal-Slaying Crossbows stopped the pursuit.
• An Le learned that he had killed three Eighth Realm enemies and earned the top battlefield results, then used Flowing Gold Time Qi taken from Hu Cang to condense the Blood Deterrence Time Dao Fruit.
• The City Lord and the being in the stone coffin summoned An Le, told him the Mountain River Cauldron lay in the Tenth Realm battlefield, and gave him a Ten Thousand Commander Token that required ten Eighth Realm kills to activate.
• The stone coffin’s occupant revealed that the Upper Realm’s true object of desire might be the human world’s time; An Le feared his Time Dao Fruits might be connected, then resolved to grow stronger for his own survival.
• An Le repeatedly led his Stone Figurine Warriors into battle, while Hu Cang pinned down Tie Yan; after three days, An Le killed his eighth Eighth Realm enemy and broke through from peak Sixth Realm body forging.

An Le broke into the Seventh Realm, killed ten eighth-realm White Tiger Family descendants, and fought Hu Cang with the help of the Void Armor and his Blood Deterrence Dao Fruit. After killing Hu Cang, An Le pursued Hu Li and Hu Yue toward the Sand City fortress.

• An Le completed his accumulation of Innate Spiritual Qi, broke through to the Seventh Realm, and formed a Blood-Carrying Mountain.
• An Le killed two eighth-realm Immortal Descendants, then slew the final one and completed the requirement to become a Ten Thousand Commander of Ying Qin.
• Hu Cang abandoned his fight with Tie Yan and confronted An Le, while Tie Yan used the opportunity to attack other Immortal Descendants.
• An Le and Hu Cang clashed until Hu Cang used his bloodline domain to restrict An Le, but An Le activated the Blood Deterrence Dao Fruit and broke its suppression.
• An Le shattered Hu Cang's body with the Mountain River Cauldron and Void Loose Hand, then killed him with the Chiseled Gold Tiger Head Spear and Bamboo Sword Green Mountain.
• Hu Li and Hu Yue fled toward the Sand City fortress, and An Le pursued them instead of returning to the Great Wall of Ying Qin.

An Le slew Hu Cang and Hu Li, then led his assault toward the passage to the Ninth Realm as the Ying Qin Legion marched out to support him. As An Le reached the passage, veiled Daoists appeared amid the sand, surrounding him with killing intent.

• An Le beheaded Hu Cang, breaking the White Tiger Family descendants’ morale and prompting Tie Yan and other cultivators to pursue their own plans to reach the Ninth Realm.
• An Le chased Hu Li and Hu Yue to the sand city, killed Hu Li with a Void Loose Hand empowered by seven strands of Time Qi, and slaughtered White Tiger Family descendants who rushed from the city.
• The City Lord Stone Figurine activated An Le’s Ten Thousand Commander Token and sent ten thousand Stone Figurine Warriors of the Ying Qin Legion marching from the Great Wall.
• The old Immortal Elder gave Hu Yue a drop of White Tiger Immortal Blood and sent her through the passage to the Ninth Realm, then attacked An Le with a tenth-realm strike.
• General Meng Yi intercepted the old Immortal Elder, while An Le fought through the White Tiger Family defenders and headed for the Ninth Realm passage.
• An Le reached the passage, where Daoist-robed figures wearing black-veiled bamboo hats emerged from the sand and surrounded him.

An Le escaped the Eighth Realm battlefield after the Stone Coffin saved him from Upper Realm forces and taught him five Space Seals. He reached the Ninth Realm battlefield, killed a White Tiger Family Immortal Descendant, and found Madam Hua.

• The True Martial Temple Daoist Child sent seven Upper Realm White Tiger Family cultivators to kill An Le, but the Stone Coffin crushed them and took control of An Le to battle their spirits in the spatial passage.
• The Stone Coffin taught An Le the Space Seals while they pursued the intruders, and An Le comprehended five before exhaustion carried him into the Ninth Realm battlefield.
• A Dual Ninth Realm White Tiger Family Immortal Descendant attacked An Le for his Void Armor and Bamboo Sword, but An Le defeated and killed him, earning Origin Pure Qi that advanced his cultivation.
• An Le concealed his identity, stored his spoils with a Space Seal, and followed the familiar Heart Sword fluctuation through the forest.
• An Le spotted Madam Hua on the battlefield.

An Le found Hua Jiebing surrounded by White Tiger Family Immortal Descendants and prepared a Space Leap Seal to rescue her. He impersonated Hu Cang to reach her, but the treasure tree exposed his Heart Sword; An Le escaped through space with Hua Jiebing and the tree, while the tree killed three pursuers.

• An Le discovered that fifteen Ninth Realm Immortal Descendants had trapped Hua Jiebing by a blood-red cold pool and began preparing a Space Leap Seal to rescue her.
• An Le disguised himself as Hu Cang, used the Chiseled Gold Tiger Head Spear to kill an Immortal Descendant, and convinced the others of his identity with the Blood Deterrence Dao Fruit.
• An Le took the treasure tree and Hua Jiebing from the cold pool, but the tree drew on his Heart Sword and exposed him as an impostor.
• An Le fled with Hua Jiebing under his arm as the Immortal Descendants pursued them, and he entered the Space Leap Seal despite their attacks.
• The treasure tree disrupted An Le's escape, so An Le stabbed it with Bamboo Sword Green Mountain; the tree then killed three pursuing Ninth Realm Immortal Descendants, allowing An Le and Hua Jiebing to escape through the rift.

An Le and Madam Hua escaped the Immortal Descendants when the treasure tree awakened and killed their pursuers, then restored their strength and set out for Ninth Realm Ancient City. After Hu Hai vowed to kill An Le, An Le disguised himself as an Immortal Descendant and prepared to enter the city unnoticed.

• The treasure tree slaughtered all fifteen Ninth Realm Immortal Descendants pursuing An Le and Madam Hua, then followed An Le after he questioned its origins and forced it to bear two fruits that restored and strengthened their mental power.
• Madam Hua told An Le that Ninth Realm Ancient City held major inheritances and that powerful cultivators were gathering there, so they decided to travel there together.
• The old immortal elder died, and Hu Yue reported that An Le had killed Hu Cang and Hu Li, prompting Hu Hai to swear vengeance against him.
• An Le and Madam Hua left the valley by Space Leap and headed toward Ninth Realm Ancient City as Hu Hai's challenge rang across the battlefield.
• An Le sent Madam Hua ahead to reunite with her teacher, then used the treasure tree's disguise technique and his own abilities to assume Hu Lian's appearance before approaching the ancient city.

Disguised as Hu Lian, An Le entered the Ninth Realm Ancient City and followed the Green Mountain Ancient Scripture’s pull to the Mohist manor. As cultivators struggled to cross its Space Dao barriers, An Le effortlessly cleared the way and walked inside.

• An Le disguised himself as Hu Lian, reached the ancient city, and joined Hu Kui’s group while Immortal Descendants condemned An Le for killing Hu Cang.
• Hu Hai challenged An Le to prove his allegiance, so An Le killed a Hell Manor Judge; Hu Hai accepted the proof and dismissed his suspicions.
• An Le entered the city with the Immortal Descendants, where the Imperial Stone Effigy warned him that the Ninth Realm Ancient City had changed after its Stone Figurine Warriors’ true spirits were erased.
• An Le followed the Green Mountain Ancient Scripture’s summons to the Mohist manor, where cultivators discovered that Space Dao seals guarded the entrance.
• After the Sixth Mountain Lord advanced through several barriers and Hu Kui failed, An Le formed five seals and opened the passage, then walked into the manor unimpeded.

An Le entered the Mohist residence disguised as Hu Lian, mastered the Nine Space Seals, and discovered that the withered Mohist grandmaster was connected to the Stone Coffin. After using Purple Time Qi to observe the grandmaster’s past and gain the Sacrifice Body Dao Fruit, An Le emerged from the collapsing residence as his disguise was exposed to the Immortal Descendants.

• An Le passed through the Mohist residence’s Space Rift trial, astonishing Hu Kui, Hu Hai, and the other observers, while cultivators outside searched Ninth Realm Ancient City for other treasures.
• An Le studied the Space Rifts, drew forth the Space Dao’s Heaven and Earth Will, and advanced his mind refinement to Seventh Realm Perfection.
• An Le found a living, withered figure in the Mohist residence, learned that the final half of the Green Mountain Ancient Scripture lay in the Tenth Realm underground palace, and heard the old man offer to teach him the Nine Space Seals.
• An Le extracted Purple Time Qi from the old man and used it to observe the past, discovering that the old man was the Stone Coffin’s Primordial Spirit and gaining the Sacrifice Body Dao Fruit.
• An Le used the time scene to comprehend the final four Space Seals and formed all Nine Space Seals, causing the Mohist residence to collapse into spatial turbulence.
• Hu Yue recognized An Le beneath his disguise, Hu Kui realized Hu Lian had been An Le, and Hu Hai swore to kill him as An Le opened his eyes within the turbulence.

The Mohist Old Monster used An Le’s body to enter the Tenth Realm Immortal Ancient Battlefield, where An Le studied the latter half of the Green Mountain Ancient Scripture on the First Emperor’s coffin. As the other Tenth Realm experts rushed for the spirit platform, Bamboo Sword Green Mountain appeared and stunned Yuan Meng Emperor.

• The Mohist Old Monster took control of An Le’s body, drove Hu Hai away with spatial power, and used a Movement Seal to enter the Tenth Realm Immortal Ancient Battlefield.
• In the Eighth Realm, Meng Yi used his remaining true spirit to open an escape passage for Tie Yan, Young Guanyin, the Young Celestial Master, and other survivors, then faded away.
• The Mohist Old Monster brought An Le to the underground palace, passed its defenses, and entered the chamber containing the First Emperor’s Bronze Coffin and the latter half of the ancient scripture.
• Yuan Meng Emperor and the other Tenth Realm experts challenged the armored stranger, but the true dragon recognized the Mohist Old Monster and let him cross the silver chains to the spirit platform.
• An Le studied the coffin’s scriptures as golden characters appeared across his body, while the treasure tree absorbed their Dao essence.
• Bamboo Sword Green Mountain emerged from a spatial rift and struck the bronze spirit altar, leaving Yuan Meng Emperor staring at it in disbelief.

An Le endured the First Emperor’s ancient scripture burning into his body and broke through to the Eighth Realm in both Body Forging and Spirit Refinement, drawing on the Heaven and Earth Will and glimpsing the Time Dao. As he gathered the complete scripture, the coffin opened and the ninth Dragon Vein burst out, while the Yuan Meng Emperor advanced to claim the scripture.

• An Le’s Bamboo Sword Green Mountain revealed his identity to the Tenth Realm cultivators, who recognized that he had reached the spirit platform ahead of them.
• An Le endured the ancient scripture branding his flesh as the old monster warned that his cultivation might not be strong enough to bear the complete text.
• The Hell Manor Lord and Yuan Meng Emperor fought through the silver-chain mechanisms, and the Yuan Meng Emperor killed the ancient dragon guarding the spirit platform.
• The Yuan Meng Emperor reached the platform and sensed the ninth Dragon Vein inside the coffin, while An Le used his Dao Fruits and sword intent to break through to the Eighth Realm in both cultivation paths.
• An Le drew the remaining scripture characters onto his body and completed the ancient scripture, prompting the Yuan Meng Emperor to move toward him.
• The Bronze Coffin lid exploded open, and the ninth Dragon Vein shot into the air like a true dragon.

An Le carried the complete ancient scripture and became the target of the Hell Manor Lord while Yuan Meng Emperor fought for the ninth Dragon Vein and the other experts clashed around them. When the Mountain River Cauldron emerged, An Le chose to sacrifice his body to unleash its power against the Hell Manor Lord, leaving the battle engulfed in a golden explosion.

• Yuan Meng Emperor split his attention between An Le’s ancient scripture and the ninth Dragon Vein, then fought the White Tiger Family Immortal Descendants and killed one of them.
• An Le stabilized his Primordial Spirit by imprinting the complete ancient scripture upon his soul, while the Hell Manor Lord advanced and destroyed An Le’s Battle Puppet.
• The Hell Manor Lord trapped An Le inside a blood river as Yuan Meng Emperor and the old monster were held back, and allies and enemies fought across the spiritual platform.
• The Mountain River Cauldron flew from the Bronze Coffin, and An Le decided to refine it to strengthen his body enough to bear the scripture.
• An Le activated the Time Dao Fruit Sacrifice Body, exploded his body, and engulfed the Hell Manor Lord in a blazing eruption of scripture and energy.

An Le detonated his body to escape Hell Manor Lord’s blockade, then reconstructed it and refined a second Mountain River Cauldron from the First Emperor’s Coffin. As Hell Manor Lord attacked him again, a hand reached out from the Bronze Coffin and crushed his Primordial Spirit.

• An Le’s self-destruction unleashed ancient scripture characters that shattered Hell Manor Lord’s Soul Spirit Armor and badly damaged his body.
• An Le’s Primordial Spirit passed through a mysterious realm before the Sacrifice Body Time Dao Fruit pulled it back, allowing him to reconstruct his body beside the coffin and second Mountain River Cauldron.
• An Le refined the second Mountain River Cauldron into his spine, advanced to the middle stage of the Eighth Realm, and began bearing the ancient scriptures’ power.
• A Stone Coffin emerged from space and clashed with the Mohist Old Monster while the Yuan Meng Emperor reunited his Primordial Spirit and body and killed the Immortal Descendant.
• Hell Manor Lord attacked An Le while he refined the cauldron, but the Treasure Tree intervened and An Le summoned the stone figurine within Bamboo Sword Green Mountain.
• A hand reached out from the Bronze Coffin and crushed Hell Manor Lord’s Primordial Spirit.

An Le survived Hell Manor Lord’s attack when the First Emperor’s arm emerged from the Bronze Coffin, destroyed Hell Manor Lord, and seized the Netherworld Palace. The corpse began transforming into a Han Ba, and the Imperial Stone Effigy revealed that An Le must help slay a sealed White Tiger Immortal Lord and take its Immortal Lord Origin to complete the First Emperor’s plan.

• The arm from the Bronze Coffin crushed Hell Manor Lord’s Primordial Spirit, freeing An Le from the blood-colored chains.
• An Le attacked Hell Manor Lord’s ruined body, fought him with Void Loose Hand and Red Heart Mountains and Rivers, and the coffin’s sword strike ultimately beheaded Hell Manor Lord.
• An Le cut off the Netherworld Palace’s attempt to invade his spiritual space, sealed the treasure in a Space Rift, and returned to the coffin as the other experts watched.
• The True Martial Temple Master sent a lightning-wreathed peachwood sword at the corpse, but the First Emperor’s arm seized and destroyed it, revealing the corpse’s Han Ba transformation.
• The Imperial Stone Effigy explained that the First Emperor had prepared his corpse to live again and told An Le to slay the sealed White Tiger Immortal Lord and seize its Immortal Lord Origin.

An Le learned that the Imperial Stone Effigy intended to use the slain Immortal Lord’s origin to complete the Han Ba transformation, then send An Le out of the battlefield with the Bronze Coffin. When Immortal Lord Hu Po awakened and attacked him, An Le wielded the Sacred Teacher’s Future Sword Qi and pierced Hu Po’s heart.

• The Imperial Stone Effigy explained origin energy and told An Le that he would need to escape Mount Li Mausoleum after the Bronze Coffin was taken into Bamboo Sword Green Mountain.
• As the Han Ba transformation began, the Yuan Meng Emperor pursued the ninth Dragon Vein Power while the True Martial Temple Master summoned an Immortal Lord through the Daoist Son as a vessel.
• Immortal Lord Hu Po awakened in the Daoist Son’s body, recognized An Le, and demanded that he kill himself; An Le refused and provoked him to attack.
• Hu Po struck at An Le, but Bamboo Sword Green Mountain and the rising Han Ba corpse forced him to fight on two fronts.
• The Imperial Stone Effigy urged An Le to use the Sacred Teacher’s Future Sword Qi, and An Le pierced Immortal Lord Hu Po through the heart.

An Le and Ying Qin Emperor’s allies killed Immortal Lord Hu Po and exposed his Immortal Lord Origin, but the origin’s White Tiger pressure initially stopped An Le from cutting it. An Le overcame the pressure and split the origin, while Bamboo Sword Green Mountain absorbed nearly one-third of its Origin Pure Qi, provoking the watching Tenth Realm experts.

• An Le pierced Immortal Lord Hu Po with the Sacred Teacher’s Future Sword Qi, and Ying Qin Emperor’s true spirit used the Han Ba Body to attack him.
• Half-demon Meng Tian revealed himself, pledged himself to Ying Qin Emperor, and joined the Han Ba Body in battling Immortal Lord Hu Po.
• Meng Yi emerged from the Stone Coffin with the Ying Qin Army’s true spirits, and the combined assault destroyed Immortal Lord Hu Po and his Primordial Spirit.
• An Le used Bamboo Sword Green Mountain to split Immortal Lord Hu Po’s Origin after confronting the White Tiger’s pressure, and the sword absorbed nearly one-third of its Origin Pure Qi.
• The Yuan Meng Emperor and other Tenth Realm experts grew enraged as Bamboo Sword Green Mountain consumed the origin’s power.

An Le used the scattered Immortal Lord Origin to trap the Tenth-Realm cultivators in the underground palace and escaped to the Ninth Realm Ancient City. There, he fought Hu Hai and overwhelmed him with his newly strengthened body, leaving Hu Hai beaten apart.

• The Tenth-Realm cultivators rushed to seize the Immortal Lord Origin, and the Imperial Stone Effigy scattered it so they would fight over the released Origin Pure Qi.
• The Imperial Stone Effigy gave strands of Origin Pure Qi to Meng Tian and the mysterious Stone Coffin, then An Le used an Origin Lock to seal the underground palace and escaped with the Mohist Old Monster’s Space Seals.
• An Le returned to the Ninth Realm Ancient City, where Hu Hai waited to kill him and An Le’s allies were confined under guard.
• An Le met Hu Hai’s attack with Void Loose Hand and matched his halberd strike, surprising the gathered spectators.
• An Le unleashed his strengthened body, Mountain River Cauldrons, and Time Qi against Hu Hai, smashed through his defense, and blew his body apart.