Chapter Summaries

An Le left his allies to prepare for the campaign against Zhao, refined the fifth Mountain River Cauldron with Wen Lüshang’s help, and strengthened his cultivation on Seventh Mountain. After observing Lord of Yellow Springs’s past battle, An Le gained the River Pull Time Dao Fruit and transformed his Divine Sword Body into the Sword Ancestor Saint Body.

• An Le promised the human cultivators he would oppose the Upper Realm’s interference, then departed as Li You'an and the other former Zhao officials prepared to campaign against Zhao Tianyan.
• An Le and Zhao Xianyou sensed one another across the distance, while both recognized the coming conflict over the Ascension Land and continued strengthening themselves.
• An Le reviewed his cultivation, practiced sword techniques, and visited Sword Pool Palace and Third Mountain before Wen Lüshang yielded the Mountain River Cauldron to him.
• An Le refined the fifth Mountain River Cauldron and spent the following days drawing Time Qi while the allied army advanced toward Lin'an.
• An Le observed Lord of Yellow Springs defeating a Twelfth Realm Sacred Demon and gained the River Pull Time Dao Fruit.
• An Le bestowed his accumulated Time Qi upon the Divine Sword Body, which transformed into the Sword Ancestor Saint Body; the Ancestor Sword Spirit absorbed its sword-light and realized it might no longer be able to leave An Le’s body.

An Le transformed his Divine Sword Body into the Sword Ancestor Saint Body and formed a special bond with the Ancestor Sword Spirit, while continuing to refine the fifth Mountain River Cauldron. As the rebellion advanced toward Jiangzhou and Yuan Meng threatened Xiangyang, Liu Guan Shi rejected Great Zhao’s plan to negotiate and rallied his army to fight.

• An Le’s constitution transformed into the Sword Ancestor Saint Body, strengthening his sword arts and advancing the Vermilion Bird Sword to a Second Tier Supreme Treasure.
• The Ancestor Sword Spirit told An Le that their connection could remain, but his cultivation was too weak to wield her power, and An Le agreed to continue supplying her with true Great Dao of Time power.
• An Le strengthened his connection with the Ancestor Sword Spirit and resumed refining the fifth Mountain River Cauldron.
• Lu Yishan’s allied army reached Jiangzhou City, where Zhong Shi Ji and the Zhong Family Army prepared to face their former comrades under the watch of an Eleventh Realm Immortal Lord.
• Crown Prince Zhao Shenyan arrived at Xiangyang to negotiate with Yuan Meng, explaining that Great Zhao would cede land and pay compensation to buy time for Lin’an’s Ascension Land.
• Liu Guan Shi detained Zhao Shenyan’s delegation, donned his armor, and rallied his soldiers to resist the Yuan Meng Iron Cavalry; the army answered that they would fight.

Liu Guan Shi led Xiangyang’s troops against the Yuan Meng Iron Cavalry, but the Yuan Meng Emperor killed him and the city fell. Meanwhile, An Le refined the fifth Mountain River Cauldron and killed Duan Yukui from afar when he attacked Dali City; the chapter ended with the Yuan Meng Emperor ordering Zhao Shenyan and the peace delegation killed.

• Liu Guan Shi rejected Zhao Shenyan’s peace efforts, rallied Xiangyang’s soldiers, and led them out to fight the Yuan Meng Iron Cavalry.
• The Yuan Meng Emperor struck down Liu Guan Shi, and the Yuan Meng Iron Cavalry captured Xiangyang as Zhao Shenyan’s delegation watched.
• An Le finished refining the fifth Mountain River Cauldron and went to a Jinguan City tavern to drink wine.
• Duan Yukui attacked Dali City with a starfall technique, but An Le destroyed the falling stars with wine swords and killed him from afar.
• Zhao Shenyan tried to negotiate with the Yuan Meng Emperor after Xiangyang fell, and the Emperor ordered his forces to leave none alive.

The Yuan Meng Emperor rejected Great Zhao’s peace offer, executed Crown Prince Zhao Shenyan, and marched south while ordering his troops to spare civilians. At Jiangzhou, An Le joined the allied army and declared that he would hold off all five Upper Realm Immortal Lords alone as his forces attacked the city.

• The Yuan Meng Emperor ordered Zhao Shenyan and his peace delegation killed, and Yuan Meng forces took Xiangyang without harming its citizens.
• Zhong Shi Ji faced five Immortal Lords sent by the Zhao Family Emperor to defend Jiangzhou, including the powerful Tiger Yao Immortal Lord.
• Lu Yishan deduced that five Eleventh Realm experts guarded Jiangzhou, while the allied army had only three Eleventh Realm powerhouses.
• An Le arrived at the war council, reported Xiangyang’s fall and Zhao Shenyan’s death, and revealed that Jiangzhou’s defenders included one Seven-Turn Immortal Lord.
• An Le said he would hold off all five Immortal Lords alone, then unleashed Bamboo Sword Green Mountain’s Sword Qi toward Jiangzhou City.

An Le drew the Upper Realm Immortal Lords away from Jiangzhou, giving the allied army a chance to storm the city. After Zhong Shi Ji turned against Great Zhao and Kunpeng King destroyed the city’s defensive array, Jiangzhou fell to the allied forces.

• An Le struck Jiangzhou with a powerful sword and held off Tiger Yao and the four other Immortal Lords of the Five Great Immortal Ancient Families.
• Lu Yishan ordered the allied army to attack as Wang Yansheng, Ye Longsheng, Di Zang, and Li You'an led their forces toward Jiangzhou.
• Zhong Shi Ji killed the five eunuchs supervising him and tried to help the allied army break Jiangzhou’s defensive array from within.
• Kunpeng King arrived through a Space Seal, killed the Upper Realm cultivator guarding the array, and destroyed the defensive array.
• The North Sea Dragon Lord and East Sea Dragon Lord joined Kunpeng King, routing Jiangzhou’s defenders as Ye Longsheng’s spear broke through the city gates.
• Lu Yishan entered Jiangzhou after the allied army captured the city.

An Le held off the five Immortal Lords while the allied army conquered Jiangzhou City, then defeated and killed the Immortal Lords in the void. He claimed their treasures and Origin Pearls and learned how to use the Divine Beast Formation with his Supreme Treasure Five Animals.

• Lu Yishan coordinated the allied army and Zhong Shi Ji’s forces as they captured Jiangzhou City and brought it under control.
• Lu Yishan sent the Kunpeng King and the two Dragon Lords into the void to assist An Le against the five Immortal Lords.
• An Le stopped evading Tiger Yao’s attacks after sensing Jiangzhou City had fallen, then weakened the Immortal Lords’ bloodlines and countered them with his sword.
• An Le used the Ancestor Sword to kill Tiger Yao and the other four Immortal Lords while leaving Tiger Yao’s Third Tier Supreme Treasure pagoda intact.
• An Le suppressed the five Primordial Spirits, claimed the pagoda, and used the Divine Beast Formation with his Supreme Treasure Five Animals.
• An Le burned the five Immortal Lord corpses to extract their Origin Pearls as the Kunpeng King and the two Dragon Lords arrived.

An Le returned from the Fifth Heaven after killing five Immortal Lords and distributed four of their Origin Pearls to his allies. In Lin'an, Pang Ji called the Literature Academy to fight Yuan Meng, received no answer, and chose to march alone as Zhao Xianyou watched with interest.

• An Le showed the Kunpeng King and the two Dragon Lords the five Origin Pearls left by the slain Immortal Lords, then returned with them to Jiangzhou City.
• An Le gave four Origin Pearls to Lu Yishan, Li You'an, the Old Celestial Master, and the Old Sword Saint, and explained how they could refine them while keeping their own Dao.
• An Le examined the Immortal Lords' storage rings, kept two supreme treasures for the Supreme Treasure Five Animals, and planned to let Lu Yishan distribute the rest.
• Zhu Huoxi told Pang Ji that the Literature Academy had lost its purpose and that he was leaving Lin'an to spread learning.
• Pang Ji called on the Literature Academy to join him in attacking Yuan Meng, but no one answered, so he vowed to go alone and redeem his past through battle.
• Zhao Xianyou learned that Jiangzhou had fallen and the five Immortal Lords had died, then watched Pang Ji depart and considered testing the Yuan Meng Emperor.

Pang Ji charged the Yuan Meng Iron Cavalry alone to atone for his part in the Academy of Literature’s decline, and An Le and other scholars lent him their Enduring Righteousness. Empowered by their support, Pang Ji summoned the Confucian Saint and struck at the Yuan Meng army, vowing to invite the Yuan Meng Emperor to his death.

• After Xiangyang fell and Crown Prince Zhao Shenyan died during peace negotiations, the Yuan Meng Iron Cavalry advanced south while the court and Lin'an’s scholars hesitated to resist.
• The Yuan Meng Emperor ordered his army not to plunder captured cities, explaining that slaughter would deplete the Central Land Dragon Veins that empowered his forces.
• Pang Ji stood alone before the Yuan Meng Iron Cavalry and declared that he had come to atone and attack Yuan Meng.
• Pang Ji fought the charging cavalry and Tule, then called on others to lend him three feet of Enduring Righteousness; An Le sent his battle puppet to grant the request.
• The Third Mountain Lord, Wang Banshan, Zhu Huoxi, and the Wenqu Stele joined An Le in lending Pang Ji their Enduring Righteousness.
• Pang Ji’s strength surged to the Origin Realm, and he summoned the Confucian Saint before striking at the Yuan Meng Iron Cavalry and challenging the Yuan Meng Emperor.

Pang Ji summoned a Confucian Saint through borrowed righteous energy and challenged the Yuan Meng Emperor, but the Emperor defeated the phantom in battle. Before dying, Pang Ji killed a thousand Yuan Meng soldiers with a final essay, while An Le and the Emperor exchanged threats and clashed through the Battle Puppet’s sword energy.

• Pang Ji summoned the Confucian Saint and fought the Yuan Meng Emperor, whose strength shattered the saintly phantom’s advantage.
• The Yuan Meng Emperor emerged unscathed, while Pang Ji used his final essay to kill a thousand Yuan Meng soldiers before dissipating.
• The Yuan Meng Emperor ordered his army to march against Great Zhao, then confronted An Le’s Battle Puppet and sealed the surrounding space with Dragon Vein Power.
• An Le spoke through the Battle Puppet, warning the Yuan Meng Emperor that they would fight after bringing down Ascension Land.
• The Battle Puppet unleashed the Yin Yang Sword Wheel, cut apart the Emperor’s palm, and clashed with his fist before escaping; the Emperor’s fist was left mangled.

An Le gave Hua Jiebing a Seven-Turn Origin Pearl and entrusted Lu Yishan and Li You'an with distributing his resources before the allied forces resumed their march toward Lin'an. As the Yuan Meng Emperor captured De'an and advanced south, Great Zhao’s court panicked, and two newly ascended temple leaders proposed expanding the Ascension Land to bring powerful beings from the heavens.

• The Yuan Meng Emperor examined the wound An Le’s sword had inflicted, then ordered his army to rest briefly before continuing toward Lin'an.
• An Le gave Hua Jiebing a Seven-Turn Origin Pearl in repayment for her early guidance and gave Master Lingzhu high-grade Origin Pure Qi to aid his cultivation.
• Lu Yishan and Li You'an reached Tenth Realm Third Calamity Perfected after refining their Origin Pearls, and An Le entrusted them with his resources.
• The allied forces left Jiangzhou City and resumed their campaign toward Lin'an while An Le stayed behind to guard the city and protect the Old Sword Saint and Old Celestial Master.
• The Yuan Meng Emperor’s army broke De'an Prefecture City’s defensive formation and captured the city, continuing its advance toward Lin'an.
• At Heavenly Profound Palace, True Martial Temple Master Purple Cloud Taoist and Lianhua Temple Abbot Liansheng refused to defend Jizhou and proposed pouring their temples’ fortune into the Ascension Land to summon stronger beings from the heavens.

An Le watched the Old Celestial Master and Old Sword Saint survive the Human World Origin Heavenly Tribulation and enter the Eleventh Realm while the allied army advanced against Great Zhao from both directions. After returning to the Sacred Realm, An Le received a message from Ying Qin that revealed the location of the Mountain River Cauldron in the Upper Realm.

• Zhao Tianyan agreed to let the True Martial Temple Master and Liansheng meet the Emperor about adding their temples’ fortunes to the Ascension Land, while the Yuan Meng Army’s advance put Great Zhao under mounting pressure.
• The Old Celestial Master and Old Sword Saint underwent a fused Origin Heavenly Tribulation above Jiangzhou City, and An Le protected the city until they passed and entered the Eleventh Realm.
• Lu Yishan and Li You'an led the allied army onward as Jizhou and Anqing fell, while the Yuan Meng Army captured Lu Prefecture and continued south toward Lin'an.
• An Le returned to the Sacred Realm, learned that the war in the Primordial Void had intensified, and cultivated with high-grade Origin Pure Qi.
• Ge Hongtu gave An Le Ying Qin’s message; it reported that Ying Qin had escaped the Five Great Immortal Ancient Families’ encirclement and revealed the precise location of the Mountain River Cauldron in the Upper Realm.

An Le learned from Ying Qin that the White Tiger Family held the ninth Mountain River Cauldron in Feihu City, and agreed to help Ying Qin destroy the family when the time came. As An Le and the Yuan Meng Emperor’s armies surrounded Lin'an, the Ascension Land absorbed the fortunes of True Martial Temple and Lianhua Temple, and Zhao Tianyan welcomed powerful figures emerging from its vortex.

• Ying Qin told An Le that the White Tiger Family’s Mountain River Cauldron lay in Feihu City and asked him to help destroy the White Tiger Immortal Ancient Family; An Le agreed and kept a jade pendant to contact him.
• An Le returned to the human world, learned that the Yuan Meng Emperor had taken Yang Prefecture and allied forces had captured Jiankang, then joined the preparations to march on Lin'an.
• An Le warned his allies that the Ascension Land might send Eight-Revolution Immortal Lords to defend Lin'an, and stayed in Jiankang so he could respond quickly.
• The Yuan Meng Emperor ordered his army onward from Yang Prefecture while An Le’s allied forces marched from Jiankang, and their armies surrounded Lin'an in a driving storm.
• Daoist Qingyun saw True Martial Temple’s and Lianhua Temple’s fortunes enter the Ascension Land’s vortex and concluded that True Martial Temple would vanish from the human world.
• Zhao Tianyan saw powerful figures preparing to cross through the expanded Ascension Land vortex and declared that no one could destroy Great Zhao.

Zhao Xianyou received two Great Powers from Penglai Immortal Island, who joined Zhao Tianyan’s defense of Lin'an against An Le and the Yuan Meng Emperor. An Le refused to withdraw and agreed with the Yuan Meng Emperor to each confront one Great Power while their armies attacked the city.

• Zhao Xianyou welcomed Xu Guangzhen and Zhai Shilin after True Martial Temple and Lianhua Temple sacrificed their fortunes to let the two Great Powers descend into the Human World.
• Xu Guangzhen strengthened Lin'an’s defenses and told Zhao Tianyan that he would help defeat the besieging forces.
• The Yuan Meng Emperor and An Le’s allied forces recognized the two Great Powers on Lin'an’s walls, and Lu Yishan warned that attacking them could devastate the army.
• An Le told his commanders that they should seize the opportunity before the Ascension Land could bring down more Great Powers, and he assigned the city’s assault to them.
• An Le and the Yuan Meng Emperor agreed to each fight one Great Power, while Xu Guangzhen and Zhai Shilin prepared to meet them.

An Le fought Xu Guangzhen, a great power from Penglai Immortal Island, while Zhai Shilin battled the Yuan Meng Emperor. An Le survived Xu Guangzhen’s formations and Saint Artifact counterattack, then killed him with the Ancestor Sword of the Upper Realm and claimed his supreme treasures.

• Zhai Shilin attacked the Yuan Meng Iron Cavalry, but the Yuan Meng Emperor countered his palm with the power of the nine Central Land Dragon Veins, and the two were driven into the void to fight.
• Xu Guangzhen attacked An Le with a Third Tier Supreme Treasure saber, but An Le blocked his strike and followed him into the Seventh Heaven to continue their duel.
• Xu Guangzhen trapped An Le in a formation of illusions, but An Le identified his true body through the traces of Time Qi and wounded him with his sword and the Supreme Treasure Five Animals.
• An Le brought out the five Mountain River Cauldrons and formed the Mountain and River Diagram, whose Saint Light overwhelmed Xu Guangzhen’s formation and left him badly injured.
• Xu Guangzhen celebrated surviving the Saint Artifact attack, but An Le used the Ancestor Sword of the Upper Realm and a silver half-Origin Talisman to cut off Xu Guangzhen’s head.

An Le killed Xu Guangzhen and absorbed the energy of his Wind Origin Talisman while the armies waited for the outcome of the battles in the void. Yuan Meng Emperor fused four strands of the Central Land Dragon Veins into his body, transformed into a monstrous being, and killed Zhai Shilin; the deaths of both Upper Realm mighty experts were announced by Light Rain across the Human World.

• An Le killed Xu Guangzhen with the Ancestor Sword of the Upper Realm, seized his Wind Origin Talisman, and began absorbing its energy.
• Lu Yishan and Li You'an reassured the waiting allied forces while they worried about An Le's battle and Yuan Meng Emperor's clash with Zhai Shilin.
• Zhai Shilin battered Yuan Meng Emperor and prepared to take the Central Land Dragon Veins, but Yuan Meng Emperor began fusing their power into his body.
• Yuan Meng Emperor fused four strands of Dragon Vein Power, overwhelmed Zhai Shilin, crushed his Half Origin Talisman, and killed him.
• Light Rain appeared across the Human World, revealing that both Xu Guangzhen and Zhai Shilin had fallen and causing widespread uproar.

The Yuan Meng Emperor returned from the Void Battlefield after slaying the great power Zhai Shilin, but An Le soon emerged unscathed with Xu Guangzhen’s corpse, revealing that he had also killed a great power with far less effort. The Yuan Meng Emperor conceded that An Le’s allied army had the advantage and gave up competing for Lin'an, while An Le prepared to attack the city and its Ascension Land.

• The Yuan Meng Emperor emerged from the void holding Zhai Shilin’s corpse, and the Yuan Meng Army celebrated his victory as the Human World’s Light Rain spread across the sky.
• An Le returned unharmed and produced Xu Guangzhen’s corpse, confirming that he had slain a great power; the allied forces cheered as the Yuan Meng Army’s momentum faltered.
• The Yuan Meng Emperor acknowledged An Le’s superior momentum, ordered his army not to contend for Lin'an, and entrusted the next deployment to Left Prime Minister Boyan.
• An Le’s allied army formed up before Lin'an as the city’s defenders raised the improved defense array.
• An Le gathered military momentum and the power of his Dao and sword, then declared “Break the city!” and thrust the Bamboo Sword Green Mountain toward Lin'an.

An Le shattered Lin'an City's defensive array, then massacred the heavenly Immortal Lords and killed the True Martial Temple Master and Master Liansheng. He left the allied forces to take Lin'an and entered Peach Blossom Courtyard to confront Zhao Xianyou, while Zhao Tianyan survived outside.

• An Le cut through Lin'an City's City Protection Array with Bamboo Sword Green Mountain, exposing the city to the allied army.
• The Immortal Lords in Lin'an hesitated to oppose An Le, but he killed a Five-Turn Immortal Lord and slaughtered the others when they attacked together.
• An Le beheaded the True Martial Temple Master and Master Liansheng, then claimed their storage rings and discovered the Heaven Questioning Mirror and Demon Subduing Pestle.
• An Le entrusted Lin'an's capture to Lu Yishan and went to Peach Blossom Courtyard, where Zhao Tianyan cowered outside its gates.
• Zhao Xianyou invited An Le into the courtyard, and the gates shut behind them as Zhao Tianyan remained alive outside.

An Le confronted Zhao Xianyou in the Peach Blossom Separate Courtyard, where they debated whether the human world should be sacrificed to extend the heavens’ existence. Zhao Xianyou unleashed the power of the Destruction Origin Talisman, and An Le answered by sacrificing the Space Origin Talisman and striking back with his sword.

• Zhao Tianyan fled the Peach Blossom Separate Courtyard for Heavenly Profound Hall, hoping Zhao Xianyou would defeat An Le and preserve his own chance to survive.
• The allied forces waited atop Lin'an’s walls as Lu Yishan, Li You'an, and the others discussed whether to retreat or fight if An Le lost; Li You'an declared that Zhao Tianyan had to die.
• An Le and Zhao Xianyou shared immortal brew before entering the Eighth Heaven of space to battle on a ruined continent.
• Zhao Xianyou explained that the Ascension Land served the heavens’ plan for survival, while An Le refused to accept the human world’s sacrifice as unfair.
• Zhao Xianyou attacked An Le with the power of the Half Origin Talisman of Destruction, and An Le offered up the Space Origin Talisman to empower his sword strike, cleaving the destructive finger apart.

An Le fought Zhao Xianyou in the Eighth Heaven Void, but Zhao Xianyou’s Destruction Origin Talisman and sacred artifact left An Le with no clear path to victory. An Le began forcibly breaking into the Eleventh Realm, then revealed a Half Time Origin Talisman as Zhao Xianyou moved to stop him.

• An Le used the Space Origin Talisman and his sword arts to battle Zhao Xianyou, while experts from the three passes watched from afar.
• First Master and Third Master warned the observers not to interfere, and Third Master threatened to settle the battle for Kunlun Peak early if An Le died.
• An Le lured Zhao Xianyou into a brief opening with the Supreme Treasure Five Animals and struck with his Yin Yang Sword Wheel, but Zhao Xianyou blocked it with the Green Copper Innate Eight Trigrams Mirror.
• After An Le exhausted the Space Origin Talisman, he used the pressure of the battle to spread the fifth chapter of the Human Dao Ancestral Scripture across his body and began breaking into the Eleventh Realm.
• Zhao Xianyou rushed to stop An Le, but An Le revealed a Half Time Origin Talisman, shocking him.

An Le shattered half of his Time Origin Talisman to absorb its power and break through to the Eleventh Realm, then fought Zhao Xianyou with his physical strength, treasures, and the Ancestor Sword of the Upper Realm. He revealed that he still possessed the other half of the Time Origin Talisman and used its power to suppress Zhao Xianyou before striking with the River Pull.

• Zhao Xianyou recognized An Le's Time Origin Talisman and was stunned when An Le crushed half of it to fuel his breakthrough.
• An Le absorbed the released energy, entered the Origin Realm, and exchanged a physical blow with Zhao Xianyou that showed his strength could rival Zhao Xianyou's.
• An Le and Zhao Xianyou matched their Saint Artifacts and supreme treasures, while An Le's Ancestor Sword of the Upper Realm broke through the Limit aura Zhao Xianyou summoned.
• An Le revealed the remaining half of his Time Origin Talisman, which suppressed Zhao Xianyou's Half Destruction Origin Talisman.
• An Le used the remaining Time Origin Talisman power to unleash River Pull and drown Zhao Xianyou.