Chapter Summaries

Water Yuanzi confronted the Tianyan Dao Sect after the death of its Old Saint Master, revealing that its Dao injury had healed and overwhelming the sect’s strongest fighters. The chapter ended with a vast flood breaching the Sect Protecting Formation and submerging the entire Tianyan Dao Sect.

• The Tianyan Saint Master and two Mahayana Earth Immortals vowed to avenge the Old Saint Master and attacked Water Yuanzi together.
• Water Yuanzi swept aside all three attacks with waves of water, shocking the Tianyan Dao Sect’s leaders.
• Water Yuanzi revealed that its Dao injury had healed and that its strength was nearly back to its peak.
• Water Yuanzi unleashed Myriad Water Source Flow, flooding the Tianyan Dao Sect as its fighters and disciples tried in vain to resist.
• The Sect Protecting Formation cracked and shattered, allowing the flood to engulf the entire Tianyan Dao Sect.

Water Yuanzi and Ning Wangshu destroyed Tianyan Dao Sect and Nine Heavens Mystic Sect before Water Yuanzi confronted Wenjian Cliff. At Wenjian Cliff’s recruitment examination, he killed several disciples and effortlessly sent the sect leader’s sword flying.

• Water Yuanzi and Ning Wangshu left the ruined Tianyan Dao Sect and headed for Nine Heavens Mystic Sect.
• Water Yuanzi annihilated Nine Heavens Mystic Sect and then turned toward Wenjian Cliff in Jianzhou.
• Wenjian Cliff held its recruitment examination on Tianjian Peak as Zhou Shengfeng earned direct entry into the Inner Sect.
• Water Yuanzi’s water vapor surrounded Wenjian Cliff, and he called on its people to come out and die.
• The dignified leader attacked Water Yuanzi with a powerful sword strike, but Water Yuanzi flicked his finger and sent the Flying Sword back.

Water Yuanzi confronted Wenjian Cliff over its role in the attempt to kill him and seize his source. After rejecting the sect's offer of compensation, he demanded that every member of Wenjian Cliff be wiped out.

• Water Yuanzi overwhelmed Yan Guichen's sword art and prepared to strike him down.
• A sword beam from Tianjian Peak stopped Water Yuanzi's attack, and Wenjian Cliff's ancient master appeared to face him.
• Yan Guichen revealed that Sword Venerable Xuanri had joined the Old Saint Master of Tianyan Dao Sect and Eternal Night Tianzun in a plot to kill Water Yuanzi and seize his Yuanling Source.
• Wenjian Cliff's ancient master offered Water Yuanzi an apology and valuable compensation, but Water Yuanzi rejected the offer.
• Water Yuanzi demanded that the ancient master wipe out every last member of Wenjian Cliff.

Water Yuanzi fought Wenjian Cliff’s Old Saint Master and revealed that his Heavenly Water One Color technique could overwhelm the sect’s Mahayana cultivators. The chapter ended as Water Yuanzi’s attack bore down on Yan Guichen and two other disciples, despite the Old Saint Master’s attempt to stop it.

• Water Yuanzi rejected the Old Saint Master’s warning and fought him, with neither peak Mahayana cultivator gaining a decisive advantage.
• Yan Guichen and two early-stage Mahayana Earth Immortals joined the battle to help their master.
• Water Yuanzi unleashed Heavenly Water One Color, and its power swallowed the three cultivators’ attacks.
• Water Yuanzi pressed Heavenly Water One Color down on Yan Guichen and the others, while the Old Saint Master’s sword art failed to break through the Myriad Dao grinding disk.

Water Yuanzi crushed Yan Guichen’s two Mahayana companions and forced Feng Yijue to summon Wenjian Cliff’s hidden strength. Tianjian Peak answered with a colossal golden sword, leaving the battle poised for its attack.

• Water Yuanzi killed the two Early Stage Mahayana Earth Immortals and blasted the wounded Yan Guichen away.
• Water Yuanzi mocked Feng Yijue and vowed to destroy Wenjian Cliff, while Feng admitted he was outmatched in a prolonged fight.
• Feng Yijue invoked Wenjian Cliff’s hidden strength by drawing a talisman and sending it into Tianjian Peak.
• Tianjian Peak and the surrounding nine peaks shook as a vast array formed above them, alarming the disciples and recruitment candidates.
• A giant golden sword burst from Tianjian Peak and filled the sky with its overwhelming pressure.

Feng Yijue revealed that Wenjian Cliff possessed the genuine Immortal Sword Immortal Rainbow and believed it would kill Water Yuanzi. Water Yuanzi explained that it already knew about the sword and had not come alone, leaving Feng Yijue’s confidence in question.

• Feng Yijue revealed that Immortal Rainbow was a genuine Immortal Sword inherited from the Immortal Relic Era and Wenjian Cliff’s foundation.
• Wenjian Cliff’s disciples and elders celebrated, believing the Immortal Sword would ensure Water Yuanzi’s defeat.
• Water Yuanzi acknowledged Immortal Rainbow’s overwhelming Immortal Might but showed little fear.
• Water Yuanzi told Feng Yijue that it already knew about the sword and had not come alone, so Feng Yijue’s plan to kill it would fail.

Ning Wangshu appeared beside Water Yuanzi to confront Feng Yijue and Wenjian Cliff, whose elders unleashed their Immortal Sword against them. The sword strike stopped hundreds of zhang from Ning Wangshu, leaving Feng Yijue and the others stunned.

• Water Yuanzi told Feng Yijue that someone else was present and entrusted the confrontation to that hidden ally.
• Ning Wangshu appeared, mocked Wenjian Cliff’s Immortal Sword, and challenged Feng Yijue to use it against him.
• Feng Yijue activated the Immortal Sword and sent its overwhelming golden sword light toward Ning Wangshu and Water Yuanzi.
• The sword light halted hundreds of zhang from Ning Wangshu as if an invisible barrier blocked it, shocking Feng Yijue, Yan Guichen, and the elders.

Ning Wangshu effortlessly shattered the Immortal Sword’s attacks, leaving Feng Yijue and Wenjian Cliff in disbelief. After Feng Yijue’s repeated failures, he began to doubt whether the sect’s legacy was truly an Immortal Sword.

• Ning Wangshu flicked his finger and shattered the sword beam unleashed by Wenjian Cliff’s Immortal Sword.
• Feng Yijue accused Ning Wangshu of using an illusion, then sacrificed Essence Blood to drive the Immortal Sword at him directly.
• Ning Wangshu caught the Immortal Sword between two fingers and sent it flying.
• Feng Yijue drove the sword at Ning Wangshu again, but Ning Wangshu slapped it away before it could reach him.
• Feng Yijue watched the sword fly off and wondered whether Wenjian Cliff’s legacy was really an Immortal Sword.

Ning Wangshu revealed that he was the Extreme Dao Celestial Venerable, then destroyed Wenjian Cliff and the ten peaks surrounding Tianjian Peak. He claimed the Immortal Sword and noticed Water Yuanzi eyeing it.

• Ning Wangshu identified himself as the Extreme Dao Celestial Venerable after Feng Yijue asked how he had repelled Wenjian Cliff’s Immortal Sword.
• Feng Yijue asked why Ning Wangshu had returned from the Immortal Realm, but Ning Wangshu refused to explain and Feng accepted his impending death.
• Ning Wangshu killed Feng Yijue, Yan Guichen, the elders, and everyone else at Wenjian Cliff with a palm strike that razed all ten peaks.
• Ning Wangshu summoned the Immortal Sword into his hand, and Water Yuanzi watched it enviously.
• Ning Wangshu asked Water Yuanzi if it wanted the sword.

Ning Wangshu explained that Water Yuanzi could not use the Immortal Sword they had taken from Wenjian Cliff, though he let him hold it for a while. After Bei Ji Tianzun linked the sword to Wenjian Cliff’s ancient history, Han Ying asked him what the Immortal Relic Era was.

• Water Yuanzi insisted on trying the Immortal Sword, and Ning Wangshu lent it to him after explaining that he lacked the Immortal Force and techniques needed to activate it.
• Ning Wangshu and Water Yuanzi returned to Cloud Water Marsh, where Water Yuanzi kept admiring the sword.
• Bei Ji Tianzun recognized the Immortal Sword’s aura, and Ning Wangshu confirmed what it was and explained how they had obtained it at Wenjian Cliff.
• Bei Ji Tianzun said Wenjian Cliff’s Immortal Sword and Secret Technique could have endangered Water Yuanzi, and Ning Wangshu recalled that he had saved the situation.
• Bei Ji Tianzun connected Wenjian Cliff’s history to the legendary Immortal Relic Era, and Han Ying asked him to explain the era.

Bei Ji Tianzun explained the Immortal Relic Era, while Ning Wangshu rested in Water Yuanzi’s Cave Mansion and refined Immortal Force. News that three Great Holy Lands had been destroyed spread across the world, with everyone crediting Water Yuanzi and none knowing Ning Wangshu had destroyed Wenjian Cliff.

• Bei Ji Tianzun told Han Ying that immortals had once descended into the Human World and left behind immortal objects and arts during the Immortal Relic Era.
• Ning Wangshu recalled searching for relics and said his trip to Wenjian Cliff had helped him sense the Immortal Sword and confirm the old legends.
• Ning Wangshu stayed in Water Yuanzi’s Cave Mansion, refining Immortal Force while Water Yuanzi tried unsuccessfully to activate the Immortal Sword.
• News spread that the Tianyan Dao Sect, the Nine Heavens Mystic Sect, and Wenjian Cliff had been destroyed, allegedly by Water Yuanzi after they tried to kill him in Cloud Water Marsh.
• People across the world discussed Water Yuanzi’s strength and the fall of the three Great Holy Lands, unaware Ning Wangshu had destroyed Wenjian Cliff with its Immortal Sword.

Ning Wangshu parted from Water Yuanzi and traveled with Bei Ji Tianzun and Han Ying to Spirit Prefecture to investigate what happened to his Nominal Disciple, Luo Han. He arrived in Liuyun City, where Luo Han and her disciples had once lived, and began tracing her past.

• Water Yuanzi returned the Immortal Sword to Ning Wangshu and accepted that their reunion would end with another parting.
• Ning Wangshu told Water Yuanzi he planned to leave, and a few days later he departed with Bei Ji Tianzun and Han Ying.
• Ning Wangshu explained that he was going to Spirit Prefecture to investigate the mysterious attacks on Luo Han and learn whether she was alive.
• Ning Wangshu and his companions reached Spirit Prefecture and traveled to Liuyun City, where Luo Han had once lived with her disciples on Worry-forgetting Peak.

A woman in red and her two companions fought a powerful Tree Demon while carrying the Nine Yang Reincarnation Grass back to Liuyun City to save the Ye Family’s ancestor. She escaped with the medicine as Uncle Yuan and Uncle Mo stayed behind to hold off the demon.

• The woman in red attacked the Tree Demon with her flaming whip, but it scattered her fire dragon and launched a barrage of spear-like branches at her.
• The woman in red used the Crimson Great Bell to shield herself, while Uncle Yuan and Uncle Mo’s magic artifacts failed to break through the Tree Demon’s root-and-vine shield.
• Uncle Yuan and Uncle Mo urged the woman in red to take the Nine Yang Reincarnation Grass to Liuyun City and save the old family head.
• The woman in red fled with the medicine, knowing the Ye Family depended on its sole Tribulation True Monarch to survive.
• The Tree Demon pursued the woman in red, and Uncle Yuan and Uncle Mo rushed to block its branches and vines.

Ning Wangshu intervened just as a Tree Demon was about to kill the Woman in Red and her two companions. He destroyed the demon in a single strike, leaving the survivors stunned and alive.

• The Tree Demon overwhelmed the Woman in Red and her two companions, trapping them with its branches and vines.
• Ning Wangshu sensed the nearby battle, and Senior Bei Ji explained that a peak Soul Separation realm Tree Demon was attacking several people.
• The Woman in Red was briefly stunned by the demon’s soul-snatching ghost light, and its vines broke through her Crimson Great Bell’s defense.
• As the vines were about to pierce the Woman in Red, Ning Wangshu’s sword radiance swept through and erased them.
• Ning Wangshu’s strike split the Tree Demon in two, saving the Woman in Red and her companions at the last moment.

Bei Ji Tianzun killed the Tree Demon and saved Ye Hongluan, Lu Mingyuan, and Su Yunmo. Ning Wangshu accepted Ye Hongluan’s invitation to travel with her to Liuyun City and stay with the Ye Family, where he hoped to learn more about Luo Han.

• Bei Ji Tianzun slew the Tree Demon with a single sword strike, saving Ye Hongluan, Lu Mingyuan, and Su Yunmo.
• Ye Hongluan and the two men thanked Bei Ji Tianzun, who directed them to thank his young master, Ning Wangshu.
• Ye Hongluan mistook Ning Wangshu for a powerful outsider and invited him to Liuyun City and the Ye Family residence.
• Ning Wangshu accepted Ye Hongluan’s invitation, hoping to learn about Liuyun City and whether they knew anything about Luo Han.

Ning Wangshu arrived at the Ye Family estate and investigated Worry-forgetting Peak, while Ye Hongluan told Ye Canglong that she had found the Nine Yang Reincarnation Grass and brought it back to save the Ye Family's Old Ancestor. The chapter ended with Ye Canglong taking the herb to treat the Old Ancestor and Ye Hongluan going to reconnect with Ning Wangshu.

• Ye Hongluan brought Ning Wangshu, Bei Ji Tianzun, and Han Ying to the Ye Family estate, then sent Lu Mingyuan to escort them to a guest courtyard.
• Ning Wangshu used his immortal sense to discover that Worry-forgetting Peak had become the Five Spirits Sect, which was home to two Tribulation True Monarchs.
• Ye Hongluan showed Ye Canglong the Nine Yang Reincarnation Grass and explained that she, Lu Mingyuan, and Yun Mo had found it in Hundred Demons Stream.
• Ye Hongluan told Ye Canglong that Ning Wangshu had killed a peak Divine Separation Realm Tree Demon and saved her, and she shared her suspicions about his extraordinary background.
• Ye Canglong praised Ye Hongluan for bringing Ning Wangshu to the estate and advised her to befriend him sincerely without pressing him about his origins.
• Ye Canglong took the Nine Yang Reincarnation Grass to the Old Ancestor, while Ye Hongluan went to see Ning Wangshu and ask whether the Ye Family could help with his personal business.

Ning Wangshu investigated Luo Han’s disappearance in Liuyun City but found no clues, so he considered using her surviving disciples to lure out the person behind it. After several fruitless days, Ye Hongluan returned with new information.

• Ye Hongluan told Ning Wangshu that Luo Han, the Hanli True Monarch, had vanished more than two hundred years earlier with her disciples and followers, and that no one knew why.
• Ning Wangshu decided to search the souls of Liuyun City’s Tribulation True Monarchs for information about Luo Han.
• Ning Wangshu secretly searched every Tribulation True Monarch’s soul, including the Ye Family ancestor, but found nothing about Luo Han’s disappearance.
• Ning Wangshu considered bringing Luo Shuqing and Luo Ying to Liuyun City and using their return to lure out the person hunting Luo Han’s followers.
• After several days without finding clues, Ning Wangshu prepared to go to Xuzhou, but Ye Hongluan suddenly came to see him.

Ning Wangshu agreed to attend Ye Hongluan’s gathering of the Immortal Dao at Wanren Peak. There, he heard cultivators discuss a Northern Domain rumor that a Half-Immortal had defeated and sealed the three lords of Tianjue Hall, and recognized it as news of events he already knew.

• Ye Hongluan invited Ning Wangshu to Cheng Junyue’s gathering of the Immortal Dao, and Ning Wangshu agreed to go with her.
• The next morning, Ye Hongluan led Ning Wangshu, Bei Ji Tianzun, and Han Ying to Wanren Peak outside Liuyun City.
• At the gathering, cultivators discussed the destruction of the Three Great Holy Lands and a rumor about a Half-Immortal in the Northern Domain.
• A cultivator surnamed Li explained that the three lords of Tianjue Hall had been defeated and sealed by someone even stronger, after that person slew the Heavenly Demon Clan’s Demon Emperor.
• The other cultivators doubted the rumor, while Ning Wangshu recognized that it described events from several months earlier.

At an Immortal Dao gathering, Ning Wangshu’s ambiguous remarks led Han Ying and Bei Ji Tianzun to suspect that a rumor about a Half-Immortal was true and connected to him. Lu Qingci provoked Ye Hongluan, and the two began fighting as Ning Wangshu watched.

• Han Ying and Ye Hongluan asked Ning Wangshu whether the nearby rumor about a Half-Immortal was true, and he answered ambiguously.
• Bei Ji Tianzun and Han Ying inferred that the rumor referred to Ning Wangshu, who had killed Demon Emperor Lei Li and suppressed Tianjue Hall’s three venerables.
• The crowd admired several arriving young talents, then praised Lu Qingci’s family for its ties to the Third Prince of the Heavenly Wasteland Divine Dynasty.
• Lu Qingci mocked Ye Hongluan, and Ye Hongluan challenged her to fight.
• Lu Qingci attacked Ye Hongluan with a shuttle-shaped Magic Artifact, but Ye Hongluan knocked it away and counterattacked with a flaming whip; Lu Qingci drew her Flying Sword to parry.

Ye Hongluan clashed with Lu Qingci at the Immortal Dao gathering, and Cheng Junyue sided with Lu Qingci after she refused to let the dispute go. Ye Hongluan and Ning Wangshu prepared to leave Wanren Peak, but Lu Qingci stopped them.

• Lu Qingci’s companions threatened Ye Hongluan and the Ye Family, while Ye Hongluan challenged them to attack together.
• Cheng Junyue arrived and asked what had happened, but Lu Qingci’s companions accused Ye Hongluan of attacking her.
• Ye Hongluan said Lu Qingci had provoked her and struck first, leaving Cheng Junyue unsure how to handle the dispute.
• Lu Qingci rejected Cheng Junyue’s request to drop the matter and demanded that either Ye Hongluan or she leave the gathering.
• Cheng Junyue asked Ye Hongluan to leave Wanren Peak, and she set off with Ning Wangshu.
• Lu Qingci stopped Ye Hongluan and Ning Wangshu before they could leave.