Chapter Summaries

An Le defeated Hu Hai, destroyed his Primordial Spirit in the River of Time, and fought off a coalition of enemies as the tomb began to collapse. He led his allies through the Space Rift Tide safely, then considered using it to leave his pursuers behind.

• An Le blew apart Hu Hai's body, then destroyed Hu Hai's Primordial Spirit in the River of Time and advanced in Spirit Refinement.
• An Le wounded Hu Sang and fought a siege by the Hell Manor Yan Wangs, Immortal Descendants, and Yuan Meng Empire cultivators while his allies battled elsewhere.
• An Le revealed evidence that the Hell Manor Lord and White Tiger Immortal Lord had fallen, and announced that the tomb was collapsing after the Tenth Realm experts were sealed underground.
• As the ancient city began to break apart, the factions abandoned their battle and fled through a vast Space Rift, enduring the dangerous rift tide.
• An Le formed a Space Boat with Space Seals and carried Su Zhanxian, Madam Hua, Master Suzhu, and the others through unharmed, then considered using the rift tide to strand his enemies.

An Le used the collapsing Space Rift Tide to attack the Yuan Meng Empire and the Immortal Descendants, killing Hu Sang and escaping the ruined tomb. Back at Mount Li, he emerged in Void Armor and shocked the gathered cultivators by trading blows with Tulei, a Ninth Realm Perfected powerhouse.

• An Le sent his companions out of the Space Rift Tide, then stayed behind to settle accounts with the Yuan Meng Empire, the Immortal Descendants, and other enemies.
• An Le used the Space Burst Seal to intensify the spatial currents, badly injuring the Yuan Meng Empire cultivators and killing many Immortal Descendants, while Tulei escaped.
• Hu Sang sacrificed herself to hold An Le back, allowing Hu Tian, Hu Yue, and the surviving Immortal Descendants to flee; An Le then escaped as the Immortal Ancient Battlefield collapsed.
• An Le returned to the present world through the closing Dragon Vein Gate, where Tulei attacked him, but An Le evaded the strike and fought him to a standstill before both sides disengaged.
• The cultivators gathered outside Mount Li recognized An Le and stared in shock at his strength after seeing him clash with Tulei.

After emerging from the First Emperor’s Mausoleum, An Le learned that King of Jiangling was advancing on Jinguan City and chose to strike Jiangling Prefecture instead. He killed the Hell Manor Yan Wang guarding the city and left Jiangling Prefecture drenched in blood.

• An Le returned from Mount Li after fighting Ture and learned that the Yuan Meng Emperor and other Tenth Realm experts had been sealed inside the First Emperor’s Mausoleum.
• An Le discovered that King of Jiangling had taken dozens of cities and was joining forces with Dali Kingdom to attack Jinguan City, so he arranged for five thousand Flying Tiger Army soldiers to reinforce him.
• An Le sent the Flying Tiger Army toward Jiangling Prefecture rather than Jinguan City, intending to force King of Jiangling to abandon his assault.
• An Le reached Jiangling Prefecture and saw through its prosperous appearance to the evil and ghostly corruption beneath it.
• An Le attacked Jiangling King’s Mansion, defeated the Ninth Realm Late Stage Yan Wang guarding the city, and killed him with his long halberd.

An Le attacked Jiangling Prefecture alone, killed its Hell Manor Yan Wang and defending Ninth Realm experts, slaughtered the city guards, and freed the half-demon children imprisoned in Glass Pavilion. King Zhao Xi of Jiangling returned from the siege of Jinguan City to confront him, leaving An Le waiting for their decisive battle.

• An Le killed the Ninth Realm Late Stage Yan Wang with his Heart Sword, then faced Jiangling Prefecture’s defenders as they gathered under the city guard commander.
• An Le overcame the ten thousand soldiers’ military momentum, killed two Ninth Realm advisers and the commander, and routed the city guard army.
• An Le discovered half-demon children imprisoned in Glass Pavilion and ordered Tree Lord to kill the people responsible while the Battle Puppet escorted the children toward Jinguan City.
• At Jinguan City, Yu Jie and Sword Pool Palace’s defenders prepared to hold against King Zhao Xi of Jiangling and Dali Kingdom, whose Star Gazing Diagram threatened the Sword Bell.
• After learning that An Le had attacked Jiangling Prefecture, King Zhao Xi left forces under Elder Ding Yuan to continue the siege and traveled back with Ding Cang and a half-demon warrior.
• An Le sensed King Zhao Xi approaching and rose from the roof of Glass Pavilion to meet him in a decisive battle.

An Le waited in Jiangling Prefecture to confront King Zhao Xi, killed Ding Cang in one strike, and battled the King with the world’s powerful cultivators watching. After using Blood Guanyin’s final power to strengthen a spatial killing formation, An Le overwhelmed King Zhao Xi, leaving his fate at the edge of the Space Rift Tide.

• King Zhao Xi returned to Jiangling Prefecture and offered terms, but An Le refused and declared that he would kill him.
• Ding Cang challenged An Le, but An Le shattered his body with one halberd strike and destroyed the Star Gazing Diagram’s protection to kill his Primordial Spirit.
• Ding Yuan sensed Ding Cang’s death, ordered an assault on Jinguan City, and fought against the city’s ancient bell with the Star Gazing Diagram.
• King Zhao Xi attacked An Le with his Blood Bone Half-Demon, Underworld Blood Pool, and Blood Bell, while An Le used his treasures and techniques to resist.
• An Le revealed the Space Seals he had secretly planted, burned the Blood Guanyin Dao Fruit to empower his killing formation, and engulfed King Zhao Xi in a devastating Space Rift Tide.

An Le defeated and killed King Zhao Xi of Jiangling after comprehending the first chapter of the Human Dao Ancestral Scripture and breaking through to Eighth Realm Perfected. The Underworld blood pool absorbed Zhao Xi’s remnants and Blood Bell, then formed an eye that fixed an otherworldly gaze on An Le.

• An Le’s spatial killing formation destroyed King Zhao Xi of Jiangling’s body, but Zhao Xi escaped with his Primordial Spirit and possessed the Blood Bone Half-Demon.
• An Le fought Zhao Xi above Jiangling Prefecture as the blood pool drained his vital blood, and the clashes helped him comprehend the first chapter of the Human Dao Ancestral Scripture.
• The Ancestral Scripture restored An Le’s vital blood and ignited a golden flame; he used it to refine his second Mountain River Cauldron and advance to Eighth Realm Perfected.
• An Le overpowered Zhao Xi, pinned him with his halberd, and used his Ancestral Scripture flame and Seven-Colored Glazed Heart Sword to annihilate Zhao Xi’s Primordial Spirit.
• The blood pool devoured the Light Rain from Zhao Xi’s Primordial Spirit and enclosed the Blood Bell, forming an eyeball-like shape that gazed at An Le.

An Le killed King Zhao Xi of Jiangling and confronted an Underworld supreme expert, but the Sacred Teacher intervened and warned him of the coming struggle over the Human World. After An Le took control of Jiangling Prefecture, he hurried to Jinguan City, where Ding Yuan’s Star Gazing Diagram threatened to destroy the city before An Le arrived and shattered its conjured star.

• An Le destroyed King Zhao Xi of Jiangling’s body and Primordial Spirit, prompting an Underworld expert to confront him through the blood pool and Blood Bell.
• The Sacred Teacher appeared beside An Le, rebuked the Underworld expert, and explained that An Le’s Human Dao Ancestral Scripture and the coming struggle were tied to a greater future tide.
• The Sacred Teacher urged An Le to pursue the Unification of the World and warned that the Yuan Meng Emperor would break free from the First Emperor’s Mausoleum once he condensed his origin.
• An Le returned to Jiangling Prefecture, ordered Zhang Qingquan and the Flying Tiger Army to take control, and flew toward Jinguan City to reinforce its defenders.
• At Jinguan City, Dali and Jiangling forces besieged the city while Ding Yuan used the Star Gazing Diagram to summon a massive star against its defenses.
• An Le arrived above Jinguan City, stopped the falling star, and smashed it apart before charging toward Ding Yuan.

An Le returned to Jinguan City, broke Ding Yuan’s Star Gazing Diagram, and killed him, turning the assault into a defeat for the allied forces. With Lu Yishan’s support, Yang Kang joined An Le, the Hell Manor Kings and Duan Yun died, and the chapter ended with An Le and Lu Yishan planning to claim the Star Gazing Diagram.

• An Le arrived at Jinguan City, cleaved apart the falling stars, and used the Mountain River Cauldron to suppress the Star Gazing Diagram.
• An Le killed Ding Yuan and announced that he had also killed the King of Jiangling, causing the Jiangling army’s morale to collapse.
• Lu Yishan urged Yang Kang to pledge allegiance to An Le, and Yang Kang killed the two Kings of Hell from Hell Manor.
• Lu Yishan declared his allegiance to An Le and killed Duan Yun after An Le defeated him, prompting the Dali army to surrender to Lu Yishan.
• An Le and Lu Yishan exchanged vows to fulfill Zhao Huangting’s hopes, then agreed to keep the Star Gazing Diagram rather than return it.

After helping An Le defeat the forces attacking Jinguan City, Lu Yishan joined him in seizing the Star Gazing Diagram from the Star Picking Sect. Inside the treasure, An Le drew a tributary of the River of Time into his Heart Sword and used it to destroy Duan Tianyu’s Primordial Spirit.

• Lu Yishan explained the Star Gazing Diagram’s history and proposed that he and An Le sever the Primordial Spirits of Duan Yukui and Duan Tianyu to take control of it, and An Le agreed.
• An Le and Lu Yishan brought the Star Gazing Diagram to Sword Pool Palace while Yu Jie organized the aftermath of the battle and received An Le’s trust.
• Lu Yishan entered the diagram to confront Duan Yukui’s Primordial Spirit, while An Le faced Duan Tianyu’s powerful Primordial Spirit in the starry realm.
• An Le used nearly eighty strands of Time Qi to draw a tributary of the River of Time into his Heart Sword, transforming it into a weapon that could wield time’s power.
• An Le’s Heart Sword swept over Duan Tianyu’s Primordial Spirit and shattered it, leaving Lu Yishan astonished.

An Le and Lu Yishan seized control of the Star Gazing Diagram, while Duan Tianyu warned Dali’s ruler that An Le posed a grave threat. As Yuan Meng’s next move loomed, An Le began teaching the Melding Soldier Art to Sword Pool Palace’s gathered disciples, and his own cultivation advanced during the lesson.

• An Le used the River of Time through his Heart Sword to kill Duan Tianyu’s Primordial Spirit, and Lu Yishan destroyed Duan Yukui’s Primordial Spirit with the Seven Stars Alignment.
• An Le let Lu Yishan take the lead in controlling the Star Gazing Diagram, and Lu Yishan set it over Jinguan City to gather spiritual energy and aid cultivation.
• Duan Tianyu told Dali’s new ruler, Duan Qiankun, that the Star Gazing Diagram had been lost and An Le was dangerous, while Duan Qiankun dismissed the threat and described his planned alliance with Yuan Meng.
• Lu Yishan urged An Le to strengthen Sword Pool Palace and explained that Yuan Meng would likely attack Dali first; An Le agreed that Dali was the likely target.
• Su Muzhe summoned Sword Pool Palace’s disciples to Sword Lake, where An Le demonstrated and taught them the Melding Soldier Art.
• As An Le taught the art, Sword Qi flowers bloomed around the disciples, and his Eighth Realm Late Stage body-tempering cultivation began nearing perfection.

An Le preached the Melding Soldier Art at Sword Pool Palace, inspiring Master Wang Yansheng to sever his old cultivation method and attempt to merge his treasured iron sword into his body. After the sword shattered, Wang Yansheng reforged it in a Qi-and-blood furnace with help from An Le and the sword bell, then broke through toward the Tenth Realm.

• An Le preached the Melding Soldier Art, raising his body-forging cultivation to Eighth Realm Perfected and inspiring Wang Yansheng to attempt a breakthrough.
• Wang Yansheng severed his Ancient Scripture of the Tyrant Hammer cultivation method and used his iron sword to destroy the old Qi-and-blood formation, but the sword shattered as he began melding it.
• Wang Yansheng turned his Qi and blood into a furnace and plunged his Primordial Spirit inside to reforge the broken sword, while An Le supported him with spatial boxing techniques and stabilized the furnace with two Mountain River Cauldrons.
• As Wang Yansheng’s Primordial Spirit neared exhaustion, An Le urged him to trust him, and Wang Yansheng committed his Primordial Spirit fully to the furnace.
• An Le struck the sword bell, sending its waves into the furnace to complete the reforging; Wang Yansheng merged the sword embryo into his arm and began breaking through to the Tenth Realm.

An Le helped Wang Yansheng reforge his broken sword and discover a new path of cultivation, allowing Wang to forge the supreme treasure sword Long River and break through to the Tenth Realm. As Wang recovered, sword-qi shackles appeared to suppress Long River, traced to a mysterious sword hanging beyond shattered space.

• An Le’s Melding Soldier Art helped Wang Yansheng fuse his Primordial Spirit into his sword and transform his cultivation as he challenged the Tenth Realm.
• Lu Yishan used the Star Gazing Diagram to conceal Wang Yansheng’s breakthrough from powerful observers gathered outside Jinguan City.
• Wang Yansheng faced the Nirvana Fire calamity and used his body as a hammer to forge his sword, while An Le gained insights from the forging and refined his physique with Great Dao Time Qi.
• An Le sent Wang Yansheng a strand of Time Qi carrying the River of Time, which helped Wang forge the supreme treasure sword Long River and break the Nirvana Fire calamity.
• Wang Yansheng reached the Tenth Realm, but sword-qi shackles appeared around Long River, and An Le, Lu Yishan, and Wang traced them to a mysterious sword beyond shattered space.

Wang Yansheng broke through to the Tenth Realm and forged the Supreme Sword River, but a mysterious ancestral sword from the Heavens tried to suppress it before the Sacred Teacher intervened. An Le learned that the Emperor Dao Fruit had captured a fragment of the sword’s true spirit, making him a target as a great change approached, and received a token granting future entry to the Sacred Realm.

• A sword in the depths of space suppressed Wang Yansheng and the newly formed Supreme Sword River, while An Le and Lu Yishan helped shield them with their treasures.
• The sword turned its attack on An Le after his Emperor Dao Fruit absorbed a fragment of its true spirit, but the Sacred Teacher appeared and stopped the strike, allowing Wang Yansheng’s breakthrough to succeed.
• Lu Yishan planned to make rival factions believe Wang Yansheng had failed so they would attack Sword Pool Palace, while An Le left for the Seventh Mountain.
• The Sacred Teacher told An Le that the sword was an ancestral artifact whose rules had restrained the Human World and warned that the sword’s missing fragment could draw powerful beings from the Heavens.
• The Sacred Teacher urged An Le to unite the Human World’s fortune, gave him a Sacred Realm Token, and warned that the Heavens might pursue Ying Qin for taking the Immortal Lord Origin and becoming a Han Ba Body.

An Le returned to Jinguan City, where Sword Pool Palace had grown stronger through the Melding Soldier Art, and tested his Eighth Realm combat strength against the newly advanced Tenth Realm Wang Yansheng. As Dali and Yuan Meng prepared to attack Jinguan City, Daoist Qingfeng set out to seize Bamboo Sword Green Mountain, while Lu Yishan waited for the enemy to take the bait.

• An Le stabilized his cultivation on Seventh Mountain, then used his spatial Movement Seal to return to Jinguan City.
• Dali Monarch Duan Qiankun and Wo Xuan allied to attack Sword Pool Palace, committing troops and Ninth Realm experts after learning that Wang Yansheng had failed to break through.
• Daoist Qingyun learned that the True Martial Temple Master wanted Bamboo Sword Green Mountain destroyed and sent Daoist Qingfeng to retrieve it from An Le.
• An Le discovered that the Melding Soldier Art had strengthened Sword Pool Palace's disciples and helped produce three new Ninth Realm cultivators.
• An Le and Wang Yansheng clashed above Sword Lake, and An Le showed he could contend with a newly advanced Tenth Realm expert.
• Lu Yishan told An Le that the enemy had taken the bait as Dali's cavalry pressed toward Jinguan City and Daoist Qingfeng rode toward the Seventh Mountain.

An Le and Lu Yishan drew Dali, the Star Picking Sect, and Yuan Meng into an attack on Jinguan City, where they revealed their strength and began crushing the invading forces. As Wang Yansheng entered the battle, he struck down the three enemy Ninth Realm Perfected experts and turned the siege into a massacre.

• Lu Yishan warned An Le that Dali, the Star Picking Sect, Yuan Meng, and possibly Great Zhao were moving against Jinguan City, and he speculated that an approaching upheaval might involve the Upper Realm changing the flow of time.
• Gao He led fifty thousand Dali elite troops alongside Star Picking Sect and Yuan Meng experts to besiege Jinguan City, while Duan Tianyu challenged Lu Yishan for control of the Star Gazing Diagram.
• Lu Yishan entered the Star Gazing Diagram to fight Duan Tianyu, and the clash triggered battles around Jinguan City as Su Muzhe revealed Ninth Realm Perfected cultivation and An Le killed several Star Picking Sect experts.
• Gao He held off Su Muzhe and Yu Jie while Wo Xuan attacked An Le, but An Le split Wo Xuan’s First-Rank Extreme axe with the Overlord Halberd.
• Lu Yishan defeated Duan Tianyu and expanded the Star Gazing Diagram to trap the invaders and their army.
• Wang Yansheng descended from above Sword Lake, pressed the invading Ninth Realm experts to the ground, and wounded Wo Xuan, Gao He, and Duan Tianyu with a single sword strike.

Wang Yansheng reached the Tenth Realm and helped An Le and Lu Yishan destroy the Dali Kingdom’s invading army, leaving An Le determined to strike at the Dali Capital with a decapitation plan. Before they could set it in motion, Daoist Qingyun of True Martial Temple arrived and demanded Bamboo Sword Green Mountain.

• Wang Yansheng killed Duan Tianyu, while Lu Yishan used the Star Gazing Diagram to trap the enemy forces and Gao He and Wo Xuan tried to break through.
• Gao He fought Wang Yansheng as An Le stopped Wo Xuan, and the Treasure Tree, Su Muzhe, and Sword Pool Palace’s forces routed the Dali army.
• Wang Yansheng killed Gao He, and An Le and Wang Yansheng joined forces to kill Wo Xuan; the battle ended with more than forty thousand Dali soldiers dead and fewer than eight thousand surrendering.
• An Le appointed Yang Kang to oversee the surrendered troops and proposed a counterattack on the Dali Capital using the Void Armor’s Space Seal to bypass its defenses and kill the monarch.
• Daoist Qingyun arrived from True Martial Temple and ordered An Le to hand over Bamboo Sword Green Mountain, prompting An Le to defy him.

An Le, Wang Yansheng, and Lu Yishan joined forces to fight Daoist Qingyun, who had come from True Martial Temple to seize An Le and Bamboo Sword Green Mountain. After An Le sacrificed his body and returned, he used the true River of Time to cut down Daoist Qingyun’s Tenth Realm Primordial Spirit, leaving the battle’s outcome in Jinguan City’s favor.

• Daoist Qingyun demanded that An Le hand over Bamboo Sword Green Mountain, and Wang Yansheng rose to challenge him as Jinguan City’s soldiers and experts prepared to fight.
• Wang Yansheng battled Daoist Qingyun’s nine peachwood swords while An Le advanced to Spirit Refinement Eighth Realm Perfected and Lu Yishan joined the fight with the Star Gazing Diagram.
• Lu Yishan and An Le used their supreme treasures to restrain Daoist Qingyun, allowing Wang Yansheng to close in and land devastating blows.
• Daoist Qingyun bypassed the others and reached for An Le, who trapped him between two Mountain River Cauldrons and detonated his body in a Dao Fruit Sacrifice Body.
• An Le regenerated while Wang Yansheng battered Daoist Qingyun’s ruined body, and An Le then used his Heart Sword wrapped in the true River of Time to cut down Daoist Qingyun’s Primordial Spirit.

An Le killed Daoist Qingfeng in Jinguan City, and the fall of the Tenth Realm expert empowered Sword Pool Palace while leaving An Le’s Heart Sword badly cracked. After recovering and learning Yuan Meng planned to invade Dali Kingdom, An Le set out with Wang Yansheng, Lu Yishan, and Su Muzhe to begin a decapitation operation against Dali’s capital.

• An Le used his Heart Sword, aided by Wang Yansheng and Lu Yishan, to kill Daoist Qingfeng and scatter his Primordial Spirit as nourishing Light Rain.
• Cultivators in Jinguan City absorbed the fallen expert’s power and broke through, while An Le’s body recovered through Dao Fruit feedback but his Heart Sword’s cracks remained unrepaired.
• Daoist Qingyun learned of Qingfeng’s death and decided to enlist Hu Tian and Hu Yue to contact the White Tiger Immortal Ancient Family over the threat posed by Ying Qin’s planned transformation into a Han Ba.
• King of Yangdi and Boyan resolved to invade Dali Kingdom, while Boyan anticipated that Lu Yishan would try to counter their move.
• After half a day of recovery, An Le disclosed the danger to his Heart Sword and agreed with Lu Yishan to avoid using his costly trump card.
• An Le, Wang Yansheng, Lu Yishan, and Su Muzhe departed Jinguan City using the Supreme Sword River to launch the decapitation operation against Dali’s capital.

An Le led a decapitation strike against the Dali Capital, using Space Dao to bypass its city-defense array and defeat Dali’s forces alongside Wang Yansheng, Lu Yishan, and Su Muzhe. Dali’s officials and experts surrendered to Lu Yishan, Duan Qiankun lost the support of the kingdom’s fortune, and Wang Yansheng struck him down.

• Wang Yansheng carried An Le, Lu Yishan, and Su Muzhe toward the Dali Capital, where Lu Yishan explained that the human world had shrunk over the past ten thousand years.
• After hearing that a single enemy had arrived, Duan Qiankun dismissed the threat, while An Le used Space Leap to bypass the capital’s defense array and enter the city.
• An Le defeated the city commander and killed dozens of City Guards as Dali and Star Picking Sect experts gathered to confront him.
• Duan Qiankun and eleven Ninth Realm experts attacked An Le, but Wang Yansheng, Lu Yishan, and Su Muzhe arrived through the spatial rift and turned the battle against them.
• Lu Yishan offered Dali’s remaining experts and officials a chance to submit; they surrendered, causing the kingdom’s fortune supporting Duan Qiankun to collapse.
• Wang Yansheng struck Duan Qiankun down, and the fallen monarch lamented that Dali had collapsed.

An Le conquered Dali Capital, devoured Dali’s national fortune with his Invincible Momentum, and left Lu Yishan to consolidate control as Yuan Meng’s army advanced. While the King of Yangdi hurried toward the capital, An Le discovered a phantom third Mountain River Cauldron and grasped it as though it were real.

• An Le, Lu Yishan, Wang Yansheng, and their allies took Dali Capital with little resistance, and An Le declared that he intended to reclaim the Central Plains and unite the world.
• An Le used the two Mountain River Cauldrons and his Invincible Momentum to suppress and devour Dali’s national fortune, while Lu Yishan killed nobles who challenged An Le and the nobles who remained submitted.
• Lu Yishan ordered Wang Yansheng to execute Duan Qiankun, then took An Le to the Star Picking Platform to enter seclusion as Yang Kang and the Sword Pool Palace disciples prepared to assume control of the capital.
• Daoist Qingyun opened the Gate of Heaven at True Martial Temple, revealing an Eleventh Realm Immortal Lord to Hu Tian, Hu Yue, and the gathered disciples.
• King of Yangdi learned that Dali had fallen and its fortune was gathering again, then flew toward the capital with Tulei to confront An Le.
• An Le used Dali’s fortune to reveal a Mountain and River Diagram containing a hazy third Mountain River Cauldron, which he grasped as if it were real.