Chapter Summaries

After returning from the Sacred Realm, An Le learned that the Yuan Meng Emperor had broken his seal and confronted Old Sword Saint Pei Min, effortlessly overpowering him in a sword exchange. An Le gathered his allies to organize the defense of his cities, took the Mohist Grandmaster’s Stone Coffin from Mount Li, and headed north alone toward Yuan Meng Great Capital, where the Yuan Meng Emperor sensed his arrival.

• The Treasure Tree told An Le that the Yuan Meng Emperor had broken his seal ten days earlier and undergone a fearsome tribulation, so An Le gave the Treasure Tree Origin Pure Qi to help it reach the Tenth Realm.
• An Le returned to Jinguan City, reunited with Old Sword Saint Pei Min and Old Celestial Master, and stopped Pei Min’s Cheng Ying and Xiao Lian swords with ease, revealing the immense gap between their strength.
• Lu Yishan and Li You'an reported that Yuan Meng had not attacked, while the assembled experts pledged to defend Jinguan, Jiangling, Dali, and Xi Liang; An Le rewarded them with Origin Pure Qi.
• An Le entered Mount Li Ancient Tomb, found the Mohist Grandmaster’s transformation stalled by a lack of energy, stored the Stone Coffin in space, and burned the empty underground palace with Nirvana Celestial Immortal Fire.
• An Le set out alone along the northern road toward Yuan Meng Great Capital, and the Yuan Meng Emperor opened his eyes and met An Le’s gaze from inside the city.

An Le entered Yuan Meng Great Capital, where he met the Yuan Meng Emperor and learned that Great Zhao’s Ascension Technique was merging the Upper Realm with the Human World. The two agreed to attack Great Zhao together, postponing their own inevitable battle.

• An Le entered Yuan Meng Great Capital despite the Eight Tenth Realm cultivators guarding it, and his five supreme treasures overwhelmed the Five Elements Talisman Armor Generals.
• The Yuan Meng Emperor appeared and spoke with An Le in a tavern, confirming he had entered the Eleventh Realm but was recovering from injuries.
• The Yuan Meng Emperor revealed that Great Zhao’s Ascension Technique had opened a path for Upper Realm immortals to enter the Human World and gain immortality there.
• An Le and the Yuan Meng Emperor agreed to destroy Great Zhao before settling their own conflict over the Mountain River Cauldron and the Central Land Dragon Veins.
• The Yuan Meng Emperor ordered Boyan to prepare for a joint attack on Great Zhao, while An Le departed to investigate the situation there.

An Le returned to Lin'an to investigate the Ascension Technique and the Upper Realm forces behind Great Zhao, while preparing an alliance with the Yuan Meng Emperor to attack Zhao. At Lin'an’s gates, he rescued Ye Wenxi from arrest and made two Upper Realm immortals flee when they recognized him.

• An Le explained the threat posed by the Ascension Technique to Li You'an, Zhu Cheng, and the Old Celestial Master, then ordered preparations for a joint attack on Great Zhao with Yuan Meng.
• An Le traveled toward Lin'an alone, met Fairy Yun Rou and the Sixth Mountain Lord at Sixth Mountain, and learned that Upper Realm immortals had attacked Lanke Temple while Ye Longsheng and Di Zang had vanished.
• An Le disguised himself and joined the cultivators approaching Lin'an, where he sensed Ye Wenxi and recognized two Tenth Realm immortals from the White Tiger and Vermilion Bird Immortal Ancient Families watching the gates.
• The immortals ordered Ye Wenxi captured, and a Ninth Realm general attacked her; An Le intervened, defeated the general with a finger, and revealed himself.
• The White Tiger and Vermilion Bird immortals recognized An Le and fled into Lin'an.

An Le entered Lin'an with Ye Wenxi, broke through its Buddhist City Protection Array, and killed five Upper Realm elders who tried to stop him. He reached the peach grove and confronted Zhao Jiu, rejecting the immortal identity Zhao Xianyou had assumed.

• An Le drove off two Upper Realm immortals at Lin'an's gates, healed Ye Wenxi, and agreed to take her into the city to search for Ye Longsheng and Di Zang.
• An Le shattered Lin'an's Buddhist City Protection Array and crossed into the city with Ye Wenxi, leaving his Battle Puppet to protect her as she investigated.
• An Le confronted five Tenth Realm elders from the Immortal Ancient Families on Qingbo Street and killed them with a single sword strike.
• An Le ignored the Buddha Land Arhat's warning that opposing the Ascension Technique meant making an enemy of the Upper Realm, then entered the imperial city.
• An Le found Zhao Jiu beneath the peach trees, offered him Old Yellow Wine, and destroyed the jug before Zhao Xianyou could take it, declaring the wine was for Zhao Jiu, not Zhao Xianyou.

An Le fought Zhao Xianyou in Lin'an’s Ascension Land, where he learned that Zhao Xianyou was the True Martial Emperor of Penglai Immortal Island. The Heavenly Gate sealed away most of An Le’s powers, but he still had the True Great Dao of Time and prepared one final sword.

• An Le challenged Zhao Xianyou to seek justice for Zhao Jiu, and Zhao Xianyou trapped them both inside a formation over Lin'an.
• An Le and Zhao Xianyou exchanged powerful attacks as An Le refined his control and fused his real and illusory sword techniques into a Yin Yang Sword Wheel.
• Zhao Xianyou used a Heaven and Earth Talisman, then summoned the Heavenly Gate, forcing An Le to recognize him as the True Martial Emperor of Penglai Immortal Island.
• The Heavenly Gate sealed away An Le’s surrounding powers, but An Le found that he could still wield the True Great Dao of Time.
• An Le summoned the sword spirit and told Zhao Xianyou to receive his final sword.

An Le used the Ancestor Sword Spirit to wound Zhao Xianyou and force him to withdraw, then recruited Ye Longsheng and Di Zang while a mysterious black-robed man unleashed an Eleventh Realm tribulation against him. As the Heavenly Prison collapsed, An Le summoned the Literature Academy’s Wenqu Stele and the Temple of Martial Arts’ Martial Champion Stone to face the attacker.

• The Yuan Meng Emperor and Daoist Qingyun recognized that Zhao Xianyou’s use of the Heavenly Gate suggested he was the reincarnation of the True Martial Emperor, and the True Martial Temple Master celebrated the revelation.
• An Le paid the Ancestor Sword Spirit with True Great Dao of Time power, and its strike marked the Heavenly Gate before Zhao Xianyou’s momentary hesitation weakened his defense.
• An Le carried Ye Wenxi into the Heavenly Prison, where he found Ye Longsheng and Di Zang imprisoned and asked the generals to join him against Great Zhao’s Upper Realm-backed Ascension Land.
• Zhao Shenyan and his black-robed adviser sealed the Heavenly Prison and summoned an Eleventh Realm Origin Calamity to kill An Le, while the Yuan Meng Emperor dismissed the plot as doomed to fail.
• Di Zang pledged the Green Mask Army to An Le, and Ye Longsheng agreed to follow him after An Le promised to challenge the Yuan Meng Emperor.
• An Le freed the generals and summoned the Wenqu Stele and Martial Champion Stone as the black-robed man, revealed beneath the tribulation lightning, charged into the shattered Heavenly Prison.

An Le defeated Yan Tongshu’s Eleventh Realm tribulation attack with the power of time, killing him and severing the Wenqu Stele and Martial Champion Stone from Great Zhao. The Origin Pure Qi feedback then helped An Le cross the Tenth Realm Second Calamity as he sat above Lin'an’s ruined Heavenly Prison.

• The Wenqu Stele left the Literature Academy, and Zhu Huoxi decided to leave for Wang Banshan’s Academy in Xi Liang as the Martial Champion Stone broke free and headed toward the Heavenly Prison.
• Yan Tongshu drew Eleventh Realm tribulation lightning to kill An Le, using Ye Longsheng and Di Zang as bait, while the lightning scoured the Wenqu Stele and Martial Champion Stone’s connection to Great Zhao.
• An Le unleashed the True Great Dao of Time and struck Yan Tongshu with Yin Yang Virtual-Real Sword Qi, extinguishing the lightning and killing him.
• An Le received Origin Pure Qi feedback that repaired and strengthened him, advancing his body from the Tenth Realm First Calamity to the level of the Second Calamity.
• An Le crossed the Seven-Colored God Smasher Wind, strengthening his mind and soul as his aura revived above the ruins of Lin'an’s Heavenly Prison.

An Le completed his transformation in Lin'an, rescued Ye Longsheng and Di Zang, and carried the Martial Champion Stone and Wenqu Stele away from Great Zhao. He established the Martial Champion Stone in Dali City and the Wenqu Stele in Xi Liang City, while Great Zhao’s enemies and rivals faced a growing crisis.

• An Le completed his physical and mental transformation after Yan Tongshu’s death, then refrained from attacking Zhao Tianyan because Zhao Xianyou and the True Martial Emperor’s will guarded him.
• An Le left Lin'an with Ye Longsheng, Di Zang, Ye Wenxi, the Martial Champion Stone, and the Wenqu Stele, then rescued Ye Longsheng and Di Zang from the Heavenly Prison and brought them to the Canglang River.
• An Le told Ye Longsheng and Di Zang of his alliance with the Yuan Meng Emperor against Great Zhao, and Zhong Shi Ji arrived and learned that the two generals had joined An Le.
• An Le placed the Martial Champion Stone in Dali City, where it strengthened the Dali New Army and inspired body-tempering cultivators to advance.
• An Le installed the Wenqu Stele in Xi Liang City’s Academy, where Wang Banshan and the scholars welcomed it and its righteousness cleansed the city of demonic qi.
• A black-robed figure watched Xi Liang’s transformation, cursed An Le, and fled as the spreading Enduring Righteousness erased the demonic qi he left behind.

An Le tracked down and killed the fallen Xiliang Emperor Gu Baijing, while the Wenqu Stele’s arrival in Xi Liang inspired Wang Banshan to devote himself to spreading education. After An Le left, a tiny remnant of the Underworld Blood Pool remained hidden among Gu Baijing’s ashes.

• An Le placed the Wenqu Stele and Martial Kui Stone in Xi Liang, strengthening his Invincible Momentum, and urged Wang Banshan to spread literacy and education.
• Wang Banshan vowed to fulfill An Le’s wish and advanced into the Tenth Realm First Calamity, while An Le entrusted Xi Liang’s affairs to Li You'an and departed.
• An Le used Time Qi to trace Gu Baijing to a ruined Mountain God Temple, where Gu Baijing fled using an Underworld secret art.
• An Le caught Gu Baijing and overwhelmed him with his Void Five Animals Loose Hand and sword, killing him with a Yin Yang Sword Wheel.
• After An Le left, a tiny grain of bloody bone powder concealed the shrunken Underworld Blood Pool.

After defeating Gu Baijing, An Le strengthened Sword Pool Palace with his sword intent and learned that the Sacred Teacher had permitted the Ascension Land scheme as a chance to revive Human World cultivation. Chosen to suppress the Ascension Land by surpassing the True Martial Emperor’s reincarnated body, An Le vowed to take first place on the Immortal Prodigy Monument.

• The Underworld Blood Pool reconstructed Gu Baijing’s body around an Underworld being, who headed south to create a bloodland and bring the Underworld into the Human World.
• An Le examined Bamboo Sword Green Mountain, but the Ancestor Sword Spirit did not recognize its origin; afterward, the Spirit seemed to find the bamboo sword familiar.
• An Le infused his sword intent into Sword Pool Palace’s Sword Bell, transforming it and giving the palace’s cultivators a chance to strengthen their sword arts.
• Third Senior Sister told An Le that the Sacred Teacher knew of the Ascension Land and had chosen him to suppress it, using the Upper Realm’s spiritual energy to help revive Human World cultivation.
• Learning that the True Martial Emperor’s reincarnated body ranked fifth on the Immortal Prodigy Monument, An Le declared that he would claim its top rank.

An Le returned to the Immortal Prodigy Monument with Third Senior Sister protecting him and set out to claim its top rank. After defeating the challengers ranked fortieth, thirtieth, and twentieth—including an Eleventh Realm Immortal Lord—he prepared to continue toward tenth place.

• Third Senior Sister explained the Thirteenth Realm, the Upper Realm’s strongest factions, and the challenge privileges An Le could use to climb the Immortal Prodigy Monument faster.
• An Le returned to the monument with Third Senior Sister, Ge Hongtu, and Shangguan Qingwan, then challenged its top rank to activate the special challenges.
• An Le instantly defeated the Vermilion Bird Family prodigy ranked fortieth with his Void Loose Hand and five supreme treasures.
• An Le defeated a direct successor of True Martial Emperor from Penglai Immortal Island, ranked thirtieth, with his sword intent.
• An Le slew the Azure Dragon Family Immortal Lord ranked twentieth using his Yin Yang Sword Wheel and Void Loose Hand, then declared that he would continue.

An Le defeated Hu Wujiang, the White Tiger Saint Son, on the Immortal Prodigy Monument after using their battle to perfect the third Human Dao Ancestral Scripture and learn the Space Sandstorm. He entered the Sacred Realm to recover, then vowed to return and challenge the top-ranked Young Emperor Haolei.

• An Le chose a high-risk challenge on the Immortal Prodigy Monument and faced Hu Wujiang, the White Tiger Saint Son, at tenth place.
• Hu Wujiang trapped An Le in a Space Sandstorm, but An Le used the pressure to perfect the third volume of the Human Dao Ancestral Scripture and break free.
• An Le learned Hu Wujiang's Space Sandstorm technique and trapped him in turn, then unleashed a series of attacks and struck him with the Mountain and River Diagram's sacred-artifact power.
• An Le defeated Hu Wujiang and claimed tenth place, while Upper Realm cultivators argued that the sacred artifact had made the victory unfair.
• An Le took the reward orb and returned to the Sacred Realm to recover, telling Ge Hongtu and Shangguan Qingwan that he would continue his challenge against Young Emperor Haolei.

An Le recovered in the Sacred Realm, opened his Immortal Prodigy Monument rewards, and gained an incomplete Space Origin Talisman and several second-tier supreme treasures. After strengthening his cultivation and weapons, he prepared to challenge Young Emperor Haolei by drawing down the True Dragon of Invincible Momentum.

• Young Emperor Haolei discussed Hu Wujiang’s defeat with Immortal Sword Lu and welcomed the prospect of fighting An Le at equal strength.
• An Le returned to Spirit Peak, recovered from using the Mountain and River Diagram, and confirmed that he would continue challenging for the Immortal Prodigy Monument Top Rank.
• An Le opened his rewards and received an Origin Pearl, four second-tier supreme treasures, and an incomplete Space Origin Talisman.
• An Le absorbed the half Origin Talisman, advanced his understanding of the fourth volume of the Human Dao Ancestral Scripture, and upgraded the Supreme Treasure Five Animals.
• An Le told Third Senior Sister that he was ready to challenge Young Emperor Haolei and summoned the True Dragon of Invincible Momentum, which descended around Bamboo Sword Green Mountain and entered his glabella.

An Le used his accumulated Invincible Momentum to reach Eleventh Realm strength and challenged Young Emperor Haolei for the Immortal Prodigy Monument’s top rank. As the battle turned against him, An Le trapped Haolei with the Half Space Origin Talisman and poured his remaining momentum and the Power of Time into Bamboo Sword Green Mountain.

• An Le ignited his Invincible Momentum, crossed into Eleventh Realm strength, and left the Sacred Realm to challenge Young Emperor Haolei.
• Lu Yishan and Old Dragon Ao Feng sensed blood in the rain and suspected trouble in the South Sea, while the Yuan Meng Emperor linked the crisis to the Netherworld and Gu Baijing’s death.
• An Le challenged the top-ranked Young Emperor Haolei, and the two clashed with their bodies, weapons, and powerful techniques.
• An Le broke through to the Tenth Realm Third Calamity during the fight, but Haolei’s Thunder Saint Body overwhelmed his Yin Yang Sword Wheel.
• An Le rejected using a sacred artifact, trapped Haolei with Half Space Origin Talisman, and poured his fading Invincible Momentum and Time Origin into Bamboo Sword Green Mountain.

An Le used Bamboo Sword Green Mountain and his accumulated Time Dao power to defeat Young Emperor Haolei, taking the Immortal Prodigy Monument Top Rank as a Tenth Realm cultivator. After accepting Haolei’s challenge to settle things again at Kunlun Peak, An Le returned to Spirit Peak to open his unprecedented reward.

• An Le unleashed a devastating sword strike with Bamboo Sword Green Mountain, and Young Emperor Haolei broke through to the third transformation of his Thunder Saint Body to resist.
• An Le followed with the Yin Yang Sword Wheel, overwhelming Haolei’s lightning spears until Haolei accepted defeat and promised to meet him again at Kunlun Peak.
• An Le’s victory moved him to the top of the Immortal Prodigy Monument, setting an unprecedented record for a Tenth Realm cultivator from the Human World.
• Young Emperor Haolei told Immortal Sword Lu that he had lost fairly and revealed that the battle had brought him closer to completing his Black Lightning Transformation.
• An Le accepted Haolei’s challenge to compete at the Demon Slaying Assembly, then returned to Spirit Peak with the monument’s greatest reward.

After defeating Young Emperor Haolei, An Le received two pure Origin Talismans and laid foundations for mastering the powers of time and years. He secured Third Senior Sister’s promise to help retrieve a Mountain River Cauldron from the White Tiger Family, then returned to the human world and saw a blood-soaked scene reflected in a raindrop.

• An Le’s victory over Young Emperor Haolei was confirmed when several top-ten immortal prodigies challenged him and were defeated, with family experts intervening to save them.
• An Le asked Third Senior Sister to help him retrieve the Mountain River Cauldron held by the White Tiger Family, and she agreed and gave him a jade pendant to summon her.
• An Le opened the Immortal Prodigy Monument’s reward and received two pure Origin Talismans; he placed them in the Mind Long River and River of Time, forming the foundations of the years and time powers.
• Third Senior Sister protected An Le while the Sacred Realm Origin seemed poised to interfere, then departed after promising to help him claim the cauldron.
• An Le returned to the human world and saw an ocean filled with dragonkin corpses reflected in a raindrop.

An Le discovered that Gu Baijing, whom he had slain, had been another Son of the Underworld, and he went to the South Sea to investigate the slaughter of its dragonkind. He stopped a blood-red tide from destroying Nanjiang City, then witnessed a vast Underworld Blood Pool emerging from the sea.

• An Le visited Dali City, saw a youth persistently practicing the Five Animals Body Tempering Technique, and used the Martial Champion Stone to give him an opportunity.
• An Le told Lu Yishan that both his Body Tempering and soul-refining cultivation had reached the Tenth Realm Third Calamity, and Lu Yishan reported that the campaign against Great Zhao would begin in three days.
• An Le learned that Gu Baijing had been another Son of the Underworld and agreed to investigate the South Sea slaughter with Ao Feng and Zhu Cheng.
• At Nanjiang City, An Le saved the defending general and the city from a blood-red tide, killing a Tenth Realm evil ghost and calming the waves.
• An Le confronted the source of the massacre as a huge Underworld Blood Pool began emerging from the blood-red sea.

The Yuan Meng Emperor ordered his army to march south as An Le confronted the Underworld’s invasion in the South Sea and forces across the Human World began attacking Great Zhao. With the Lord of Yellow Springs opening the Tongyou Land, An Le gained aid from the Dragon Lords and Kunpeng King, then struck down two Underworld Lords with his Yin Yang Sword Wheel.

• The Yuan Meng Emperor identified the South Sea massacre as the Underworld’s work and ordered the Yuan Meng Iron Cavalry to march south.
• An Le praised Cao Jiabao for defending Nanjiang City, then confronted the Underworld Blood Pool and burned its controlled dragon corpses to ash.
• Lu Yishan led Dali’s combined army against Great Zhao, while Li You'an and Wang Banshan led Xi Liang’s forces and Sword Pool Palace dispatched its disciples.
• The Lord of Yellow Springs revealed that the Underworld Blood Pool was the Eye of Yellow Springs and declared that the Tongyou Land would spread across half the Human World.
• Zhu Kuang, Ao Guang, and the Kunpeng King arrived to help An Le, and the Underworld Lords attacked them and An Le.
• An Le used his sword and Mind Long River to manifest a colossal sword wheel, splitting two Third Rotation Underworld Lords and driving them back into the blood pool.

An Le defeated the Underworld Lords who had emerged through Tongyou Land and fought the Lord of Yellow Springs, using tribulation lightning and his treasures to weaken him. He then unleashed a sword strike from the Ancestor Sword of the Upper Realm, cleaving the Lord of Yellow Springs, the Blood Pool, and Tongyou Land apart.

• An Le slew the two Third Rotation Underworld Lords who had challenged him, then killed three more Underworld Lords as they tried to flee through Tongyou Land.
• The Lord of Yellow Springs summoned a Bone Dragon formed from the souls and bones of the South Sea Dragonkin, but An Le resisted its attacks and drew down Dark Night God Slaying Thunder.
• An Le destroyed the weakened Bone Dragon and fought the Lord of Yellow Springs with his Five Animals and supreme treasures, then trapped him in a Space Sandstorm.
• An Le used the Mountain and River Diagram to shield his attack from the Human World Origin and enlisted the Ancestor Sword of the Upper Realm to strike.
• The Ancestor Sword split the Underworld Blood Pool, the Lord of Yellow Springs, the sea of blood, and Tongyou Land.

An Le destroyed the Lord of Yellow Springs's avatar and sealed Tongyou Land, then gained the allegiance of the North Sea and East Sea Dragon Clans. As the campaign against Zhao began, Zhao Xianyou secured a way to summon Upper Realm reinforcements, and An Le set out to refine the fifth Mountain River Cauldron before the coming battle.

• An Le split the Underworld Blood Pool and Tongyou Land with the Ancestor Sword of the Upper Realm, killing the Lord of Yellow Springs's avatar, then sealed Tongyou Land's entrance with a Space Seal and Time Qi.
• East Sea Dragon Lord Ao Guang and North Sea Dragon Lord Zhu Kuang pledged their clans' allegiance to An Le, and their fortunes gathered into his Invincible Momentum.
• A messenger reported that the Yuan Meng Iron Cavalry had marched south, while Zhao Tianyan begged Zhao Xianyou for help; Zhao Xianyou gave him a token to summon Upper Realm reinforcements but refused his request to enter the Upper Realm.
• The armies of Dali and Xiliang captured their first city on the march toward Lin'an, and An Le joined them with the Kunpeng King and the two Dragon Lords as allies.
• An Le said Zhao Xianyou had entered the Eleventh Realm and decided to refine the fifth Mountain River Cauldron to strengthen himself before attacking the Ascension Land.