Chapter Summaries

An Le was drawn from Dali to the First Saint Mountain, where he began refining its Mountain River Cauldron and discovered that Yan Tongshu had hidden a strand of Primordial Spirit inside it. Meanwhile, Upper Realm prodigies possessed the White Tiger descendants and headed toward Dali, while An Le faced danger from Yan Tongshu’s ambush.

• An Le vanished from the Star Picking Platform after touching a third Mountain River Cauldron in the Mountain and River Diagram, and Wang Yansheng and Su Muzhe searched for him.
• Lu Yishan deduced that the cauldron had transported An Le to a Sacred Mountain and urged the others to wait for his return as Yuan Meng’s army approached Dali.
• An Le arrived at the First Saint Mountain, met its Mountain Guardians Ao Lian and Bai Yu, and entered the mountain to refine its Mountain River Cauldron.
• As An Le refined the cauldron, his blood qi rose, but a hidden Primordial Spirit emerged from it and revealed itself as Yan Tongshu.
• At Qingcheng Mountain, an Upper Realm power rejected Hu Yue, Hu Tian, and the other White Tiger descendants, then sent four prodigies to possess their bodies.
• The possessed descendants reached the Tenth Realm, and the prodigy in Hu Tian’s body led the others through space toward Dali after Daoist Qingyun pointed them there.

An Le destroyed Yan Tongshu’s Evil Thought Primordial Spirit, refined the third Mountain River Cauldron, and began breaking into the Ninth Realm. As Wang Yansheng fought King of Yangdi outside Dali, four Upper Realm Immortals arrived seeking An Le and the First Emperor’s Coffin.

• Ao Lian and Bai Yu told the Sixth Mountain Lord that Yan Tongshu’s Primordial Spirit had attacked An Le, and the Sixth Mountain Lord waited for An Le to resolve it himself.
• An Le stopped holding back, used the Seven-Colored Glazed Heart Sword with the River of Time’s power, and destroyed Yan Tongshu’s Evil Thought Primordial Spirit, though the strike left his heart sword covered in cracks.
• An Le refined the third Mountain River Cauldron, manifested the second passage of the Human Dao Ancestral Scripture, and began advancing his Body Forging cultivation toward the Ninth Realm.
• The Sixth Mountain Lord, Ao Lian, and Bai Yu witnessed An Le’s breakthrough commotion as the other Mountain Lords gathered; Su Zhanxian appeared and revealed that he had entered the Tenth Realm.
• Wang Yansheng battled King of Yangdi outside Dali while Lu Yishan reinforced the capital’s defenses, then four Upper Realm Immortals appeared and King of Yangdi fled with Tu Lei.
• Hu Xuankong attacked Wang Yansheng after identifying An Le as his target, and Wang Yansheng met the blow with the Supreme Sword River.

Wang Yansheng wounded Hu Xuankong but retreated with Lu Yishan and Su Muzhe to Star Picking Platform, where Lu used the Star Gazing Diagram to hold off four Upper Realm Immortals. On First Saint Mountain, An Le recalled the Five Animals Body Tempering Technique, broke into the Ninth Realm, and set out with Su Zhanxian, Bai Yu, and Ao Lian to help; they appeared behind the defensive screen as Hu Xuankong sensed the First Emperor’s aura.

• Hu Xuankong overwhelmed Wang Yansheng with Space Dao, but Wang fused his Primordial Spirit with Supreme Sword River and injured Hu Xuankong before retreating into Dali Capital.
• Lu Yishan led Wang Yansheng and Su Muzhe to Star Picking Platform and used the Star Gazing Diagram to block Hu Xuankong’s spatial attacks, while Hu Xuankong and the other Upper Realm Immortals battered the formation.
• At First Saint Mountain, An Le calmed his troubled heart by recalling his early cultivation of the Five Animals Body Tempering Technique and inscribed the second chapter of the Human Dao Ancestral Scripture within his body.
• An Le refined the third Mountain River Cauldron, broke into the Ninth Realm, and faced a surge of Nirvana Fire and lightning before dispersing them with the Five Animals.
• Su Zhanxian joined An Le, and Bai Yu and Ao Lian chose to accompany them as they used the Mountain River Diagram to travel to Star Picking Platform.
• As Hu Xuankong and the other three Immortals gathered their killing force outside the formation, An Le and his companions appeared behind the starlight screen, and Hu Xuankong sensed the aura of First Emperor Ying Qin.

An Le and his allies abandoned the Star Picking Platform’s defenses to fight the four Upper Realm Immortals, while Lu Yishan attempted to break through to the Tenth Realm. In the void, An Le used five strands of Time Qi with the bamboo sword to sever Hu Xuankong’s leg, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Hu Xuankong spotted three Mountain River Cauldrons inside the Star Picking Platform and ordered the four Immortals to attack its formation, but Su Zhanxian reinforced Lu Yishan and helped the defense hold.
• An Le returned to the Star Picking Platform, learned how badly Wang Yansheng and Lu Yishan had been injured, and chose to confront Hu Xuankong while Su Zhanxian, Wang Yansheng, Su Muzhe, Ao Lian, and Bai Yu engaged the other Immortals.
• An Le and Hu Xuankong entered the void, where Hu Xuankong suppressed An Le’s attacks despite the Void Armor and Mountain River Cauldrons.
• Lu Yishan watched his allies fight and drew on the Star Gazing Diagram as he tried to take the final step into the Tenth Realm.
• An Le gathered five strands of Time Qi, drew the bamboo sword from the treasure tree, and slashed through Hu Xuankong’s descending leg.

An Le exhausted his Time Qi while fighting Hu Xuankong, who pursued him to the Canglang River. As Lu Yishan entered the Tenth Realm and joined the other defenders in defeating Hu Xuankong’s companions, An Le used a Dao Fruit to seize Hu Xuankong and plunge with him into the river, where a great evil awaited.

• An Le used Time Qi to sever Hu Xuankong’s leg and arm, but Hu Xuankong evaded further attacks until An Le’s Time Qi ran out.
• Hu Xuankong chased An Le across the land while Wang Yansheng fought Hu Huangshi and Su Zhanxian, Su Muzhe, Ao Lian, and Bai Yu battled the other Upper Realm cultivators.
• Lu Yishan drew on the Star Gazing Diagram and the skeleton’s legacy to enter the Tenth Realm with the Star Dao.
• Lu Yishan and the defenders defeated Hu Huangyin and Hu Huangsha, exposing their Primordial Spirits to the mortal world’s Heavenly Dao and erasing them; Wang Yansheng and Lu Yishan then helped corner Hu Huangshi.
• Hu Xuankong attacked An Le with his projected supreme treasure, a silver spear, and pursued him to the Canglang River as human-world generals arrived to help.
• An Le activated his Time Dao Fruit Blood Deterrence, seized Hu Xuankong’s spear, and dragged him into the Canglang River, whose waters swallowed them both.

An Le dragged Hu Xuankong into the Canglang River, where a colossal Sacred Demon’s remains drained Hu Xuankong’s power and forced him to flee as a Primordial Spirit. An Le killed Hu Xuankong with his Heart Sword, but the Sacred Demon’s spirit then pulled An Le into its skull.

• Li You'an and the Peerless Military Generals waited at the Canglang River as its waters grew restless, while Lu Yishan, Wang Yansheng, and Su Zhanxian arrived to search for An Le.
• An Le and Hu Xuankong fought beneath the river until their battle exposed a gigantic leg bone, which Hu Xuankong recognized as belonging to a Sacred Demon.
• The Sacred Demon’s skeletal claw seized An Le and Hu Xuankong, then drew them toward its skull as its remaining spirit began consuming Hu Xuankong’s Dao power.
• An Le resisted the skull’s suction with Bamboo Sword Green Mountain and extracted a wisp of Purple Time Qi from the Sacred Demon’s spirit.
• Hu Xuankong exploded his body to escape the skull, but An Le struck his fleeing Primordial Spirit with the Heart Sword and killed him.
• The Sacred Demon’s spirit recognized An Le as the Sacred Teacher’s disciple, overcame Bamboo Sword Green Mountain, and pulled An Le into its skull.

After An Le killed Hu Xuankong, a Saint Demon Spirit trapped him in its skull at the bottom of the Canglang River. An Le gained two new Time Dao Fruits and began refining the Great Dao of Time, while the Saint Demon Spirit regained its clarity and proposed a deal.

• Experts on both banks of the Canglang River mistook the continuing Light Rain for proof that An Le had survived Hu Xuankong, then grew concerned when An Le did not emerge.
• Daoist Qingyun learned that Hu Xuankong and the other Upper Realm Immortal Prodigies had died, while King of Yangdi and Boyan discussed joining forces with Lianhua Temple, True Martial Temple, and the Four Seas Dragon Clan against An Le's growing power.
• Trapped inside the Saint Demon's skull, An Le used Hu Xuankong's Flowing Gold Time Qi to obtain the Transcendence Dao Fruit and the Saint Demon Spirit's Purple Time Qi to obtain the Dao Drink Dao Fruit.
• An Le used the Dao Drink Dao Fruit to draw Great Dao of Time power from the River of Time and began refining it into the foundations of an immortal platform.
• After ten days, the Saint Demon Spirit regained enough clarity to speak, explained that it respected Bamboo Sword Green Mountain and the Sacred Teacher, and asked An Le to make a deal.

An Le accepted the Saint Demon Spirit’s offer to refine a section of its leg bone, then discovered the essence was a trap meant to let the spirit enter his body and seize his Great Dao of Time. An Le used the River of Time to destroy the spirit and began extracting the remaining energy from the Saint Demon Corpse.

• The Saint Demon Spirit offered An Le a section of its bone in exchange for a strand of Great Dao power and taught him a method for extracting flesh essence.
• An Le refined one leg-bone section into a pearl, then consumed its essence and raised his qi and blood from Ninth Realm Middle Stage to Late Stage.
• The Saint Demon Spirit revealed that it had used the essence to enter An Le’s body and tried to devour his Great Dao of Time.
• An Le baited the spirit with an unrefined tributary of the River of Time, which swept the Saint Demon Spirit away and erased it.
• An Le emerged from the skull space and began refining the remaining Saint Demon bones before their energy could dissipate.

After emerging from the Canglang River, An Le distributed physical essence crystals and learned that the world’s factions were preparing for conflict. He fought off Yuan Meng’s Five Elements Talisman Armor Generals and repelled a strike from Lianhua Temple, then set out for Ganye Temple to address his failing Heart Sword as the enemy discovered its weakness.

• An Le emerged from the Canglang River after refining ten physical essence crystals from the Saint Demon Corpse, and Li You'an and other commanders confirmed he had survived.
• Li You'an told An Le about Yuan Meng’s attacks and alliances, while An Le gave him two crystals and instructed the Flying Tiger Army to guard the frontier.
• An Le encountered the Five Elements Talisman Armor Generals, defeated their combined Tenth Realm form, and struck back at a Buddha palm summoned by Pudu World Honored One.
• Lu Yishan and Wang Yansheng arrived, and An Le gave Lu Yishan the remaining seven crystals before agreeing to travel with Wang Yansheng to Ganye Temple despite Lu Yishan’s omen of great misfortune.
• Pudu World Honored One told Boyan that An Le’s Heart Sword had developed a problem.

An Le went to Ganye Temple on Mount Emei to find a way to repair his cracked Heart Sword, and accepted the Six-Eared Macaque’s wager to walk a thousand steps through Heart Refining Cave. He completed the challenge quickly, sounding the thousand-step bell chime and beginning to mend his Heart Sword, while Pudu World Honored One’s attempt to disrupt him failed.

• Pudu World Honored One told Boyan that An Le’s Heart Sword was damaged and predicted he would seek help at Ganye Temple, prompting Boyan to plan against him.
• An Le and Wang Yansheng arrived at Mount Emei, where the mountain’s spiritual calm steadied An Le’s Heart Sword and they met Hua Jiebing, Master Suzhu, Xuanzhu, and the Six-Eared Macaque.
• Master Xuanzhu confirmed that An Le’s Heart Sword was badly cracked and said it could be reshaped only in Heart Refining Cave’s Heart Fire Pool; the Six-Eared Macaque agreed to let An Le enter if he walked a thousand steps.
• An Le entered Heart Refining Cave and resisted its visions as he walked through the trials, while Pudu World Honored One debated Buddhist doctrine with Master Xuanzhu and then challenged the Six-Eared Macaque to disrupt the cave.
• An Le completed a thousand steps and rang the cave’s bell chime, as the gathered monks realized he had succeeded and the Time Qi within him began seeping into his cracked Heart Sword.

An Le walked all nine thousand steps through Ganye Temple’s Heart Refining Cave, reached the Heart Fire Pool, and gained the Nirvana Sutra as his Heart Sword began to mend. While Yuan Meng’s allies attacked Ganye Temple to stop him, An Le struck down Dragon Girl Yuan Ling with a great halberd, leaving the battle raging around the cave.

• An Le passed two thousand, three thousand, and then six thousand steps, using the bell waves to strengthen his spiritual power and repair his Heart Sword as Ganye Temple’s cultivators shared in the cleansing.
• At seven thousand steps, An Le saw the Heart Fire Pool; at eight thousand, he captured a spiritual scripture that formed the Nirvana Sutra, and at nine thousand he reached the pool.
• Left Prime Minister Boyan brought Ao Feng, Zhu Cheng, and Yuan Ling to Mount Emei to disrupt An Le’s restoration, while King of Yangdi and Pudu World Honored One joined the assault.
• The Old Macaque fought Pudu and King of Yangdi as Ganye Temple’s masters and Wang Yansheng engaged the dragon beings, while Lu Yishan confronted Boyan.
• Yuan Ling overcame Master Suzhu and attacked Young Guanyin and Hua Jiebing, but a battered bamboo sword stopped her dragon-serpent strikes.
• An Le hurled a great halberd from the Heart Refining Cave, pierced Yuan Ling’s crimson dragon body, and pinned her to a perilous peak.

An Le shattered his repaired Heart Sword and forged a seven-colored Mind Long River in the Heart Fire Pool, advancing to the Dual Ninth Realm. He emerged to find Mount Emei under attack, slew Dragon Girl Yuan Ling, subdued Old Dragon Ao Feng, and turned his attention to King of Yangdi.

• An Le absorbed the Heart Fire Pool’s spiritual power, shattered his Heart Sword, and forged a Mind Long River using the River of Time as its template.
• An Le advanced to the Ninth Realm in spirit refinement and emerged from the Heart Refining Cave as the attackers battled his allies.
• An Le used the Overlord Halberd and Mind Long River to defeat and kill Dragon Girl Yuan Ling, while the Six-Eared Macaque pressed Pudu World Honored One and King of Yangdi.
• An Le blocked Old Dragon Ao Feng’s escape, suppressed his bloodline, and forced him to submit under Master Xuanzhu’s watch.
• Wang Yansheng continued fighting Zhu Cheng as An Le directed his Mind Long River at King of Yangdi and declared, “Sever!”

An Le used the Mind Long River and the Mountain River Cauldrons to turn the battle against King of Yangdi, then joined it with the true River of Time for a decisive sword strike. The blow passed through King of Yangdi’s saber and body, leaving his fate at the chapter’s end.

• An Le’s Mind Long River wounded King of Yangdi’s Primordial Spirit, but King of Yangdi protected himself with Dragon Vein Power.
• Pudu World Honored One used a Sarira to hold off the Six-Eared Macaque while King of Yangdi fought An Le.
• An Le and King of Yangdi traded powerful attacks, and An Le grew more adept at wielding his newly advanced spirit refinement.
• King of Yangdi merged Dragon Vein Power into himself, but An Le summoned three Mountain River Cauldrons that suppressed the power and reversed the fight.
• An Le joined the true River of Time with his Mind Long River, which withstood the strain and surged with new power.
• An Le’s time-infused sword passed through King of Yangdi’s Black-Backed Great Saber and body, sending a pillar of blood into the sky.

An Le killed King Yangdi, helped the Six-Eared Macaque defeat Pudu World Honored One, and made two surrendered dragon clan elders into Dao slaves with the Glass Lamp. King Yangdi’s death shook Yuan Meng’s national fortune and enraged the trapped Yuan Meng Emperor; after stabilizing his Mind Long River at Ganye Temple, An Le examined the Sacred Realm Token.

• An Le’s Mind Long River sword killed King Yangdi, who died admiring An Le’s skill as an armament forger.
• An Le’s golden dragon of Invincible Momentum devoured King Yangdi’s Dragon Vein intent, and An Le joined the Six-Eared Macaque in defeating Pudu World Honored One, whom the Six-Eared Macaque killed despite Lianhua Temple’s intervention.
• Wang Yansheng overwhelmed Zhu Cheng of the North Sea, and Zhu Cheng surrendered alongside Ao Feng of the West Sea; both dragons offered their true spirits to An Le’s Glass Lamp and became his Dao slaves.
• Lu Yishan learned of King Yangdi’s death and let Left Prime Minister Boyan withdraw; Yuan Meng’s national fortune then weakened, and the trapped Yuan Meng Emperor vowed to avenge King Yangdi.
• An Le practiced and stabilized his Mind Long River on Mount Emei, then took out the Sacred Realm Token to study it.

After entering the Sacred Realm, An Le learned that it offered exceptional cultivation opportunities but that breaking through to the Eleventh Realm there would sever him from the Human World and bar the path to the Twelfth Realm. He began traveling between the Sacred Realm and the mortal world to cultivate and gather Time Qi, and the chapter ended as he prepared to transform his Ancient Prodigy Dao Fruit.

• An Le activated the Sacred Realm Token, and the Sacred Teacher's imprint explained the Sacred Realm's benefits and the consequences of breaking through there.
• An Le entered the Sacred Realm, where Daoist Qingyun, Su Zhanxian, and Lu Yishan sensed his disappearance from the mortal world.
• Ge Hongtu and Shangguan Qingwan welcomed An Le and explained that he could return to the mortal world with his Sacred Realm Token and compete for rewards from the Immortal Prodigy Monument.
• Shangguan Qingwan showed An Le the Immortal Prodigy Monument and guided him to a mountain where he could cultivate.
• An Le returned to the mortal world, visited Ganye Temple, and traveled to Seventh Mountain before resuming cultivation in the Sacred Realm.
• An Le spent a month traveling between the Sacred Realm and the mortal world, gathering Time Qi until he had enough to transform the Ancient Prodigy Dao Fruit.

An Le transformed his Ancient Prodigy Dao Fruit into Dao Ancestor's Bearing, greatly improving his aptitude, and then went to the Immortal Prodigy Monument in the Upper Realm. The monument ranked him one hundredth despite his Ninth Realm Late Stage cultivation and summoned five reward orbs, which An Le began opening.

• An Le learned from the tavern proprietress that Lin'an City had grown unstable under Crown Prince Zhao Shenyan's rule, then returned to Seventh Mountain and transformed his Ancient Prodigy Dao Fruit into Dao Ancestor's Bearing.
• An Le practiced and drew in Great Dao power, while the narration described the shifting balance among Dali, Yuan Meng, Great Zhao, and Western Liang after King of Yangdi's death.
• An Le visited the Sacred Realm, shared Old Yellow Wine with Ge Hongtu and Shangguan Qingwan, and decided to leave his name on the Immortal Prodigy Monument.
• An Le rejected Shangguan Qingwan's suggestion to change his identity and touched the monument, which ranked him one hundredth despite his Ninth Realm Late Stage cultivation.
• Immortal Lord Hu Zhao questioned An Le's ranking, but Ge Hongtu defended him, and five reward orbs appeared from the monument.
• An Le tapped one of the five seven-colored reward orbs and began opening it.

An Le claimed five rewards after entering the Immortal Prodigy Monument’s top hundred, then defeated Que Liuhen’s challenge while keeping his power of the Great Dao of Time hidden. He returned to the human world with the Vermilion Bird Sword and prepared to refine the Pure Great Dao Power as Lu Yishan planned the next campaign.

• An Le opened five reward spheres, obtaining superior and middle-grade Origin Pure Qi, the Vermilion Bird Sword, a Medicine King, and a river of Pure Great Dao Power; he refused Que Ling’s offers to buy the sword and Medicine King.
• Que Liuhen challenged An Le for the hundredth rank, but the Immortal Prodigy Monument’s battle image showed An Le defeating him with his captured abilities while concealing the River of Time and the Great Dao of Time.
• An Le declined to challenge anyone else, returned to the human world, and visited Wang Yansheng at Sword Pool Palace to demonstrate the Vermilion Bird Sword against the Supreme Sword River.
• An Le met Lu Yishan and Wang Yansheng, learned that Lu Yishan was preparing to target Western Liang, and heard that the Yuan Meng Emperor’s emergence from Mount Li Ancient Tomb remained the greater threat.
• An Le returned to Seventh Mountain, warmed Old Yellow Wine, and summoned the river of Pure Great Dao Power above the courtyard in preparation for cultivation.

An Le transformed a pure Great Dao River into a vast reserve of Great Dao of Time Power and fused the Vermilion Bird Sword with his Sword Crane True Intent, reaching Ninth Realm Perfected in body refinement. He entered the Sacred Realm to challenge the Immortal Prodigy Monument, defeated two immortal prodigies in succession, and prepared to continue climbing the rankings.

• An Le stained the pure Great Dao River with Great Dao of Time Power, creating a vast reserve that he stored in the Dao Drink Dao Fruit.
• An Le fused the Vermilion Bird Sword with his Sword Crane True Intent through the Melding Soldier Art and broke through to Ninth Realm Perfected in body refinement.
• An Le discussed refining a Realm-Breaking Pill with Shangguan Qingwan, who offered to help obtain the ingredients and arrange for a pill immortal to refine it.
• Lu Yishan arrived at Yuan Meng Great Capital with Ao Feng and Zhu Cheng and entered the city alone to discuss cooperation with Left Prime Minister Boyan.
• An Le challenged Long Chuan at the Immortal Prodigy Monument, overwhelmed him with his supreme treasures and techniques, and won a tenfold increase in Great Dao comprehension.
• An Le immediately challenged a Heavenly Court Sword Immortal and used his stored Great Dao of Time Power to defeat her.

An Le defeated three higher-ranked Immortal Prodigies, traded his Upper Realm rewards for treasures, and returned to the mortal world to temper his Mind Long River through its people’s hope. After speaking with Lu Yishan in Dali Capital, An Le’s Dao Fruit stirred and his Mind Long River began to rise.

• An Le used the Great Dao of Time to defeat the ninety-eighth- and ninety-seventh-ranked Immortal Prodigies, climbing to ninety-seventh place and startling the Upper Realm cultivators.
• Lu Hao learned of his swift defeat, and Immortal Sword Lu identified An Le’s mysterious power as likely connected to the Great Dao of Time.
• An Le opened and traded his rewards for a pure Great Dao River and two supreme treasures before returning to the Sacred Realm.
• An Le returned to the mortal world, considered how to retrieve the lost Mountain River Cauldron, and asked First Emperor Ying Qin how to perfect his Mind Long River; Ying Qin advised him to seek the mortal world.
• An Le disguised himself and walked through Dali Capital, witnessing hopeful citizens enlist and celebrate the execution of corrupt nobles.
• Lu Yishan joined An Le and explained that the people smiled because they now had hope; An Le’s Dao Fruit trembled, and his Mind Long River rose.

An Le completed Ninth Realm Spirit Refinement while walking among ordinary people, then crossed into Xiliang to continue tempering his mind. As Lu Yishan led the assembled armies to invade the demon kingdom, An Le entered its capital among frightened, displaced commoners.

• After gaining insight into his Mind Long River, An Le discussed the planned campaign against Xiliang with Lu Yishan and stressed that soldiers’ families must receive proper compensation.
• In Jiangling Prefecture, An Le witnessed nobles exploiting commoners in his name, summoned the local commanders, and ordered Yang Kang to govern the city and remove its corrupt clans.
• Yang Kang and Zhang Qingquan uprooted the noble clans, and the rescued shopkeeper and his granddaughter rejoiced as An Le continued his journey through the mortal world.
• An Le’s Mind Long River reached First Tier completion, bringing his Ninth Realm Spirit Refinement to perfection, but he chose to keep refining his mind and crossed the Canglang River into Xiliang.
• Lu Yishan assembled the human armies and marched against Xiliang, while An Le entered its capital with a stream of terrified commoners.