Chapter Summaries

An Le entered Xi Liang Capital City disguised as a civilian and discovered that Hell Manor was using haunted wooden cabins and resentful spirits to sustain Xiliang’s blackened national fortune. As Yuan Meng and Dali’s coalition army besieged the capital and Gu Chenglin tried to summon the Underworld with the Blood Bell, An Le’s Mind Long River struck the bell down, leaving Gu Chenglin demanding to know who had intervened.

• An Le entered Xi Liang Capital City under the false name An Ping and learned that Hell Manor used the black wooden tokens and cabins to trap and refine civilians into resentful spirits.
• An Le discovered that the dead mother and daughter selling buns guarded their former home at night, while Prime Minister Bai Qi and Gu Chenglin planned to use the transformed civilians to complete their scheme.
• An Le stayed in the cabin for several days and saw the mist grow denser as the cabins refined the newly arrived civilians.
• The Yuan Meng and Dali coalition army advanced to Xi Liang Capital City, where Gu Chenglin and Prime Minister Bai Qi prepared to defend the walls and summon the Underworld.
• Gu Chenglin raised the Underworld Blood Bell to refine the civilians at once, but An Le sent a wave from his Mind Long River that knocked the bell down and severed Gu Chenglin’s connection to it.

An Le used the Second Tier Mind Long River to break Gu Chenglin’s curse on the surviving citizens and ruin his attempt to summon the Underworld. Gu Chenglin drew on Xi Liang’s Blackened National Fortune to reach the late Tenth Realm Third Calamity, but An Le confronted him and struck him down.

• Gu Chenglin repeatedly failed to reconnect with the Underworld Blood Bell as An Le’s Mind Long River disrupted his efforts.
• An Le sorted through the citizens’ fear and despair, dissolved their curses, and gained mental power that strengthened his Mind Long River.
• Outside the capital, Bai Qi fought Wang Yansheng, Ao Feng, and Zhu Cheng while Lu Yishan and Boyan commanded the allied forces.
• After the final citizen’s curse was removed, the Blackened National Fortune failed to complete its transformation, and Gu Chenglin attacked An Le’s cabin.
• Gu Chenglin broke the chains binding the Blackened National Fortune and borrowed its power to reach the late Tenth Realm Third Calamity.
• An Le faced Gu Chenglin as Bai Qi watched from the battlefield, and a dazzling sword light appeared beneath which Gu Chenglin walked peacefully to his death.

An Le killed Gu Chenglin, purified Xiliang’s blackened national fortune, and helped the city’s resentful spirits find peace. The Mind Long River advanced to its second tier as Bai Qi fled and the Battle Puppet fought to hold him back.

• An Le killed Gu Chenglin with a single sword strike, while Lu Yishan and Boyan recognized the blow and expected Xi Liang’s forces to collapse.
• Bai Qi tried to escape as Wang Yansheng, Ao Feng, and Zhu Cheng fought to restrain him, but An Le sent the Dao Fruit Battle Puppet after him.
• An Le drew the city’s resentful spirits into the Mind Long River and washed away their resentment as the spirits realized they were dead.
• Through the spirits’ memories, An Le witnessed Gu Chenglin and Bai Qi slaughter Xi Liang’s citizens during the Cold Food Festival and devour their corpses.
• An Le promised the spirits he would avenge them, and the Mind Long River advanced to its second tier as Xi Liang’s national fortune was purified.

An Le purified Xi Liang’s Blackened National Fortune, freed the civilians’ vengeful spirits, and absorbed the kingdom’s National Fortune, forming Emperor’s Pressure and securing Xi Liang Capital City with a new array. He then fulfilled his promise to the spirits by killing Evil Demon Bai Qi with a sword formed from the Mind Long River, despite Kunpeng Mountain’s attempt to intervene.

• An Le’s purification restored Xi Liang’s National Fortune, released the vengeful spirits, and rallied the Dali New Army and Flying Tiger Army while unsettling the Yuan Meng forces.
• An Le’s Invincible Momentum True Dragon devoured Xi Liang’s National Fortune, stabilizing it and helping the Emperor Dao Fruit form Emperor’s Pressure.
• An Le swept away Xi Liang’s evil cultivator-powered City Protection Array and established a stronger silver-and-gold spatial array across the capital.
• An Le left the allied armies untouched and went to kill Evil Demon Bai Qi, who had been held by the Battle Puppet, to fulfill his promise to the departed spirits.
• Old Mountain Turtle delivered the Kunpeng King’s request to spare Bai Qi, but An Le rejected it and struck Bai Qi down with the Mind Long River as a sword.

An Le killed the blood fox Bai Qi, kept its Three Calamities Demon Core, and helped plan Xi Liang’s recovery as Li You'an broke through to the Tenth Realm. With Xi Liang under Li You'an’s care, An Le and his allies prepared to target Great Zhao, while An Le agreed to try reforging Li You'an’s sword Thousand Times into a supreme treasure sword.

• An Le killed Bai Qi with one sword strike and took its Demon Core, then allowed the Old Mountain Turtle to leave with a warning for the Kunpeng King.
• An Le and his allies discussed rebuilding Xi Liang and uniting Dali, Great Zhao, and Xi Liang to face Yuan Meng across the Canglang River.
• An Le gave Bai Qi’s Demon Bones to Wang Yansheng for Sword Pool Palace, while Wang Banshan planned to establish an Academy in Xi Liang.
• After five days, Li You'an broke through to the Tenth Realm, and An Le entrusted Xi Liang’s development to him as Lu Yishan returned to Dali.
• Lu Yishan and Li You'an named Great Zhao their next target, and An Le agreed to work toward the Tenth Realm so they could challenge Yuan Meng.
• Li You'an asked An Le to reforge Thousand Times into a supreme treasure sword, and An Le agreed to try despite the risk of ruining it.

An Le returned to Sword Pool Palace and began preparing to reforge Li You'an’s Thousand Times, then visited the Sacred Realm and learned that the White Tiger Family had arranged for Hu Jie to block his rise on the Immortal Prodigy Monument. An Le challenged Hu Jie and defeated the Half-step Origin cultivator with one sword, leaving the Upper Realm stunned.

• An Le agreed to reforge Li You'an’s Thousand Times at Sword Pool Palace, and Wang Yansheng warned him that the Ancestor Sword of the Upper Realm might interfere.
• An Le fused the Flowing Cloud Boots with the Divine Deer Style and the Wandering Snake Ten Thousand Bone Saber with the Demon Ape Style in the Sacred Realm.
• Shangguan Qingwan and Ge Hongtu told An Le that Hu Jie had taken a Solid Origin Pill to reach Half-step Origin and suppress An Le’s ranking on the Immortal Prodigy Monument.
• An Le challenged Hu Jie despite remaining at Ninth Realm Perfected, drawing the attention of the White Tiger Family and other Upper Realm factions.
• An Le used his Fearless Heart Dao Fruit to resist Origin pressure and cut through Hu Jie’s tiger-claw attack, defensive treasure, and phantom with one sword.

An Le climbed the Immortal Prodigy Monument to eighty-ninth place, defeating Hu Jie and Hu Xuankong and exchanging his rewards for two supreme treasures. A White Tiger Family great power attacked to capture him after sensing the Ancestor Sword’s aura, but An Le escaped into the Sacred Realm and returned to Seventh Mountain determined to reach the Tenth Realm.

• An Le killed Hu Jie’s monument avatar, then defeated successive opponents and rose to ninety-seventh place while using battles to temper his abilities.
• Hu Jie challenged An Le again under pressure from a White Tiger Family elder, lost, and was barred from advancing on the monument; the family’s elders then identified the Ancestor Sword’s aura on An Le and sent Great Elder Hu Shenkong after him.
• An Le defeated Hu Xuankong and reached eighty-ninth place, then exchanged eight reward orbs for the Purple Sky Thunder Spear and Golden Sun Black Wood Shield.
• Great Elder Hu Shenkong attacked An Le with a tiger claw to capture him, but An Le used his strongest strike and a Time Dao Fruit Sacrifice Body to escape into the Sacred Realm.
• Immortal Sword Lu confronted Hu Shenkong and revealed that he had come under the Heavenly Court Lord’s orders to recruit An Le; An Le returned to Seventh Mountain and resolved to break into the Tenth Realm.

An Le learned about the Eleventh Realm and the Primordial Void while steadily refining his treasures, and the Sacred Teacher’s Second Senior Brother retaliated against the White Tiger Family for Hu Shenkong’s ambush. An Le returned to Jinguan City to begin reforging Thousand Times as a supreme treasure sword.

• Ge Hongtu explained the Eleventh Realm’s Origin Venerable and Immortal Lord ranks, while Shangguan Qingwan described the Primordial Void and its three guarded passes.
• An Le gradually merged the Purple Firmament Thunder Spear and Golden Sun Black Wood Shield, strengthening his physique and refining his third Mountain River Cauldron.
• Wang Yansheng reported the swords forged from Blood Fox Demon Bone, and An Le agreed to reforge Thousand Times the next day.
• Second Senior Brother attacked the White Tiger Family’s ancestral court, killed Hu Lei and other disciples, and severed Hu Shenkong’s tiger claw before bringing it to An Le.
• An Le refined the tiger claw overnight to strengthen his Mind Long River, then went to Sword Pool Palace and sent Thousand Times into the Earth Immortal Fire.

An Le reforged Li You'an’s Thousand Times into a supreme treasure sword, drawing down the Ancestor Sword of the Upper Realm and capturing its sword spirit by offering it True Great Dao of Time power. With the threat gone, the sword’s aura helped Sword Pool Palace’s Sword Forgers improve dozens of other weapons.

• An Le began reforging Thousand Times at Sword Pool Palace as Li You'an, Lu Yishan, and other powerful figures arrived to witness the forging.
• An Le hammered Thousand Times into a quasi-supreme treasure, then plunged it into Sword Lake to temper it as the Ancestor Sword of the Upper Realm suppressed its transformation.
• The Ancestor Sword sent a deadly sword spirit down from the Ninth Heaven, but An Le used his Emperor Dao Fruit to draw it into his Dao Fruit space.
• An Le discovered the sword spirit craved True Great Dao of Time power and struck a bargain to provide one strand whenever it helped him strike; the spirit accepted and settled beside his Emperor Dao Fruit.
• With the Ancestor Sword no longer suppressing it, Thousand Times became a supreme treasure, and Wang Yansheng urged the Sword Forgers to use its aura to improve their own swords.
• The Sword Forgers hammered the Blood Fox Demon Bone sword embryos as supreme treasure aura spread through the workshop, and swords began rising above Sword Lake.

An Le completed the forging of Thousand Times as a Supreme Treasure Sword, repaid Lin Manor’s past kindness by helping it settle in Western Liang, and gave Old Madam Yu a Demon Core that carried her into the Tenth Realm. After settling this karma, he perfected his Ninth Realm body and spirit in the Sacred Realm, refused an easy breakthrough there, and returned to the human realm to challenge the Tenth Realm.

• An Le and Wang Yansheng brought together the three Supreme Treasure Swords, while the aura of Thousand Times raised many swords at Sword Lake to higher ranks.
• An Le offered Lin Manor a place in Western Liang and gave Old Madam Yu a three-pattern Demon Core; after accepting it, she refined it and entered the Tenth Realm.
• An Le refined the third Mountain River Cauldron and completed the fusion of the Golden Sun Black Wood Shield with the ferocious bear true spirit, reaching flawless Ninth Realm perfection in body and spirit.
• The Sacred Realm’s origin will offered An Le an easy path into the Tenth Realm, but he refused to break through there and returned to the human realm to attempt the breakthrough.

An Le returned to the Human World and began breaking through to the Tenth Realm, drawing the Human World Origin’s attention and a catastrophic tribulation. As factions and powerful figures gathered around Seventh Mountain, the first strike of the ninefold Nirvana Celestial Immortal Fire descended, and An Le charged to meet it.

• Shangguan Qingwan and Ge Hongtu worried that the Human World’s depleted Origin would make An Le’s breakthrough exceptionally dangerous.
• An Le appeared on Seventh Mountain after achieving the ultimate perfection of body-tempering and spirit-refining, then ascended toward the gathering black clouds.
• Wang Yansheng, Su Muzhe, Lu Yishan, and experts across the Human World sensed An Le’s calamity and rushed or gathered to watch.
• Left Prime Minister Boyan resolved to prevent An Le’s breakthrough, while Daoist Qingyun received a will from the Upper Heavens and monks from Lianhua Temple set out from the temple.
• Zhao Tianyan bound Zhao Xianyou in five scarlet threads, enclosing him in a blood cocoon.
• The first golden bolt of Nirvana Celestial Immortal Fire descended, and An Le charged straight at the thunder dragon.

An Le endured the escalating Nirvana Celestial Immortal Fire tribulation while Lu Yishan directed allies to block attackers seeking to disrupt his breakthrough. After An Le entered the Sea of Thunder and overcame the final calamity, two Great Dao powers submitted to him and the tribulation ended, though an Upper Realm immortal lord had struck at Lu Yishan.

• An Le used the Five Spirit Animals and supreme treasures to overcome the first five golden lightning tribulations as onlookers marveled at his power.
• Lu Yishan used the Star Gazing Diagram to locate incoming enemies and sent Wang Yansheng, Li You'an, Ao Feng, Zhu Cheng, and other Tenth Realm cultivators to intercept them.
• Wang Yansheng confronted two Lianhua Temple World Honored Ones, while Li You'an blocked two White Tiger Family exiled immortals and Ao Feng faced Yuan Kui and Boyan.
• The Kunpeng King met Zhu Cheng but revealed that he had come to observe An Le's breakthrough rather than sabotage it.
• An Le suppressed successive Thunder Dragons with supreme treasures, cleaved another apart with the Overlord Halberd, and entered the Sea of Thunder as the attackers grew desperate.
• An Upper Realm immortal lord sent a jade-white arm toward Lu Yishan, who blocked it with the Star Gazing Diagram as An Le shattered the final Thunder Dragon and completed his tribulation.

An Le successfully crossed the Tenth Realm tribulation, gaining Space Dao and true Great Dao of Time power. He severed an Immortal Lord’s arm, learned that Mount Li’s seal was nearing its breaking point, and rescued Li You’an by destroying two banished immortals.

• An Le used his accumulated Invincible Momentum to defeat the golden copy of himself in the Sea of Thunder and complete his breakthrough into the Tenth Realm.
• An Le absorbed the tribulation’s energy, grasped Space Dao through his physical body, and gained control of true Great Dao of Time power through spirit refinement.
• Lu Yishan blocked an Immortal Lord’s strike from a rift near Lin'an Prefecture, and An Le appeared and severed the Immortal Lord’s arm with one sword strike.
• An Le sensed that his breakthrough had weakened the seal on Mount Li and that the Yuan Meng Emperor might soon emerge.
• An Le healed Lu Yishan with Origin Pure Qi, then traveled to Li You’an’s battlefield and destroyed the Primordial Spirits of two banished immortals from the White Tiger Family.

After An Le passed his tribulation and entered the Tenth Realm, he killed the White Tiger Family’s descending immortals and Lianhua Temple’s World-Honored Buddhas, while other enemies fled or reconsidered their plans. With the Mount Li seal weakening and the Zhao Family Emperor’s Ascension Technique causing upheaval, An Le prepared to challenge the Immortal Prodigy Monument and confront the coming threats.

• An Le destroyed the two White Tiger Family exiled immortals’ Primordial Spirits with Nirvana Celestial Immortal Fire, which burned them in the heavens until Hu Shenkong extinguished it and vowed that An Le had declared war on the family.
• An Le healed Li You'an, then defeated Daoist Qingyun’s attack and forced him to flee to True Martial Temple, where Qingyun activated the mountain-protecting grand formation.
• An Le killed the two Lianhua Temple World-Honored Buddhas who had restrained Wang Yansheng, and a monk in Buddha Land Spirit Mountain recognized An Le after his will failed to save them.
• As An Le’s breakthrough prompted enemies to retreat, he accepted a brief spar with the Kunpeng King, sensed that the king had reached the Eleventh Realm, and promised to deal with the South Sea Dragonkin for joining Boyan.
• Back at Seventh Mountain, An Le learned that the Zhao Family Emperor had used the Ascension Technique, refined a fourth Mountain River Cauldron with Su Zhanxian’s permission, and decided to challenge the Immortal Prodigy Monument.

After entering the Tenth Realm, An Le dominated the Immortal Prodigy Monument before returning to the Human World to strengthen his allies as the crisis at Mount Li and the strange changes in Lin'an drew near. The chapter ended with First Emperor Ying Qin’s Han Ba Body nearing the completion of its transformation.

• An Le absorbed the Sacred Realm’s spiritual energy after breaking through to the Tenth Realm in the Human World, then learned from Shangguan Qingwan and Ge Hongtu about Kunlun Peak and the Demon Slaying Assembly.
• An Le challenged the Immortal Prodigy Monument, defeated opponents with single halberd strikes, and climbed to sixty-seventh place while Immortal Sword Lu predicted he could reach the top twenty.
• An Le opened reward orbs in the Sacred Realm, collected Origin Pure Qi and a supreme treasure shield, and worked out how to strengthen the Supreme Treasure Five Animals by refining treasures.
• An Le returned to the Human World and distributed Origin Pure Qi to Su Muzhe, Lu Yishan, Li You'an, Master Wang, and Old Madam Yu as Mount Li’s seal neared breaking.
• An Le traveled through Jinguan City, Dali City, and Xi Liang City, then turned toward Lin'an to visit Zhao Xianyou before the Bamboo Sword Green Mountain brought him back to Seventh Mountain.
• An Le sensed that First Emperor Ying Qin’s Han Ba Body was finally about to complete its transformation.

An Le carried Bamboo Sword Green Mountain, containing First Emperor Ying Qin, from the human world through the Sacred Realm and into the Upper Realm so Ying Qin could attempt the Twelfth Realm breakthrough there. As the Five Great Immortal Ancient Families moved to stop him, Ying Qin emerged as a Han Ba, triggered the calamity early, and attacked his enemies rather than waiting to undergo it.

• An Le found that First Emperor Ying Qin’s transformation into a Han Ba was drawing a terrifying Twelfth Realm calamity that the Human World Origin could not bear.
• The Imperial Stone Effigy told An Le to enter the Sacred Realm and go to the Upper Realm, so An Le carried Bamboo Sword Green Mountain through the Sacred Realm barrier.
• An Le’s arrival in the Upper Realm drew the attention of powerful factions, and the Five Great Immortal Ancient Families gathered to prevent Ying Qin’s breakthrough.
• Ying Qin emerged from the coffin as a Han Ba and charged the gathered experts while the Twelfth Realm calamity gathered overhead.
• Ying Qin triggered the calamity early, endured a bolt with his body, and split a White Tiger Family expert with the Bronze Coffin Lid.

Han Ba Ying Qin triggered his Immortal King tribulation early to slaughter the Five Great Immortal Ancient Families, then faced the final lightning strike on the verge of death. An Le used the Ancestor Sword Spirit to cut the strike’s power by more than half, leaving Ying Qin a chance to survive and forcing the White Tiger Family’s Immortal King to choose whether to intervene.

• Han Ba Ying Qin endured the tribulation lightning and killed mighty figures from the White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and other Immortal Ancient Families while trying to lure an Immortal King into the tribulation.
• The surviving mighty figures joined forces against Ying Qin, but he killed them as the tribulation grew more intense; meanwhile, An Le challenged the Immortal Prodigy Monument and climbed to fifty-fifth place.
• The final tribulation wave struck Ying Qin, who was battered and believed he could not survive, while Immortal Kings across the Upper Realm watched without intervening.
• An Le asked the Ancestor Sword Spirit to weaken the final tribulation strike and gave it ten wisps of True Great Dao of Time power in exchange.
• The Ancestor Sword Spirit’s sword light absorbed the strike’s sword intent and cut its power by more than half, allowing Ying Qin to charge into the weakened lightning and leaving the White Tiger Family’s Immortal King uncertain whether to interfere.

An Le used the Ancestor Sword Spirit to weaken Han Ba Ying Qin’s tribulation, and Ying Qin survived to become an Immortal King before the Five Great Immortal Ancient Families moved to kill him. As Ying Qin fought them and entrusted Bamboo Sword Green Mountain to An Le, An Le turned to the Immortal Prodigy Monument and defeated its rank-fifty-five challenger.

• The Ancestor Sword Spirit drained half the Ancestor Sword’s power from Ying Qin’s final tribulation bolt, while Second Master noticed the sword light return to An Le.
• The White Tiger Immortal King chose not to interfere, and Ying Qin endured the weakened tribulation, transformed into an Immortal King, and received the Earth Fire Origin Talisman.
• The Five Great Immortal Ancient Families’ Immortal Kings attacked Ying Qin; he borrowed Bamboo Sword Green Mountain, clashed with the White Tiger Immortal King’s sacred artifact, and then left the sword with An Le.
• Ying Qin fought the five Immortal Kings in the depths of space as Second Master and other powerful cultivators followed to watch.
• An Le realized Ying Qin had severed his bond with Bamboo Sword Green Mountain and entrusted it to him, then defeated the Immortal Prodigy Monument’s rank-fifty-five Half-step Origin challenger with Ying Qin’s sword technique.

An Le climbed into the Immortal Prodigy Monument’s top fifty and received a Great Dao Infusion, while Ying Qin escaped the Five Great Immortal Ancient Families’ attack. When the Immortal Kings tried to seize An Le and his Bamboo Breaking Sword, he used four Mountain River Cauldrons to block them and returned safely to the Sacred Realm.

• An Le defeated successive Immortal Prodigy Monument opponents, including the Thirteenth Prince of Ancestor Dragon Sea, and entered the top fifty.
• An Le opened his reward and received a Great Dao Infusion that raised his cultivation to Late Stage Tenth Realm First Calamity.
• Second Master returned from the Immortal King battle and revealed that Ying Qin had escaped the five Immortal Kings, though the White Tiger Family Immortal King claimed Ying Qin’s power had been badly damaged.
• The White Tiger Family Immortal King and the other Immortal Kings tried to detain An Le and take his Bamboo Breaking Sword, while Second Master, Ge Hongtu, and Shangguan Qingwan attempted to protect him.
• An Le used his Void Armor and four Mountain River Cauldrons, infused with the True Great Dao of Time, to break the Immortal Kings’ restraints and enter the Sacred Realm.

An Le escaped the Azure Dragon and White Tiger Immortal Kings, while the Sacred Teacher’s Third Master arrived and captured them. After returning to the human world, An Le learned that twenty-seven days had passed and the Yuan Meng Emperor had broken his seal.

• An Le escaped into the Sacred Realm using the power of the Mountain River Cauldrons, leaving the Azure Dragon and White Tiger Immortal Kings unable to pursue him.
• The Sacred Teacher sent Third Master to intervene; she defeated and captured the Azure Dragon and White Tiger Immortal Kings while Second Master mocked them.
• An Le returned to Spirit Peak, reflected on his gains, and received First Emperor Ying Qin’s warning to prove his Dao in the human world rather than follow his path.
• An Le opened some Immortal Prodigy Monument reward orbs, then realized that time passed differently in the Upper Realm and hurried back to the human world.
• An Le learned from the treasure tree that twenty-seven days had passed and that the Yuan Meng Emperor had broken his seal.