Chapter Summaries

The Four Great Sects and their allies failed to breach the Academy’s mountain gate and camped outside overnight. The next morning, Zhao Wutian challenged the Academy’s teacher, and Long Jingyu answered with an insulting rejection.

• Li Dalu and Long Jingyu left the mountain gate to join the others at the blacksmith’s shop, while the Four Great Sects began their assault on the Academy.
• The cultivators’ weapons and attacks vanished into the Academy’s formation without reaching the gate, so the army camped outside as night fell.
• At the blacksmith’s shop, the teacher forbade the Academy from intervening, while Nangong Fei'er spoke with Nangong Zhilan about Wang Xian and his past actions.
• Bai Youyue warned Hua Mantian not to become Wang Xian’s enemy as she helped her prepare for her breakthrough.
• The next morning, Zhao Wutian, a powerful rogue cultivator from Qingzhou, challenged the Academy’s teacher, and Long Jingyu shouted that the teacher found him too ugly.

As the Academy’s enemies challenged its defenses, Li Mubai protected the Academy and exposed the hostage situation involving a girl mistaken for a demoness. Bai Wuhen’s rage and failing Dao heart left him collapsed outside the mountain gate, while the teacher warned the blacksmith against attacking Academy disciples.

• Zhao Wutian attacked the Academy’s mountain gate with a blood banner, but the grand formation’s Sword Qi struck him flying.
• Bai Wuhen tried to kill Long Jingyu, but Li Mubai’s formation stopped his attack, and Li Mubai provoked Bai Wuhen over his century of failed cultivation.
• Bai Wuhen sent a giant black eagle toward the Academy, but Li Mubai’s snowflake swords erased it and revealed an image of a young girl holding the proprietress of Hundred Flowers House hostage.
• Granny Hundred Flowers recognized the captive as an elder of Hundred Flowers Valley, while the assembled cultivators debated the girl’s identity and the situation.
• Bai Wuhen threatened to attack Academy disciples and kill the girl, but the image vanished after the girl called him an idiot, and Bai Wuhen collapsed after bleeding from his seven orifices.
• Li Mubai warned the blacksmith that harming Academy disciples would cost him another cultivation realm, then recalled the blacksmith’s earlier failed attempt to debate the Dao.

The Academy teacher crushed Bai Wuhen’s cultivation and promised that Bai Youyue’s whereabouts would be revealed the next day, leaving the gathered sects to wait uneasily. On Broken Dragon Mountain, Bai Youyue explained Wang Xian’s past and warned Hua Mantian to focus on her own growth as she and Old Yuan prepared to leave.

• The Academy teacher erased the flying eagle and crippled Bai Wuhen’s cultivation, prompting the crowd to retreat after he promised an answer about Mr. Bai tomorrow.
• Ximen Tinghua told Tang Qingyu that Bai Wuhen had lost a major cultivation stage, while the blacksmith learned from the teacher that the gathered forces wanted to stop Mr. Bai’s ascension.
• Wang Furong went to the blacksmith’s shop to ask whether she could return home before the New Year.
• Bai Youyue recounted Wang Xian’s conflict with the Heavenly Saint Sect and urged Hua Mantian to focus on cultivation rather than prove herself or fight Wang Xian.
• Bai Wuhen questioned whether the sects should fear Bai Youyue, but the gathered leaders agreed to wait for the Academy’s answer tomorrow.

Li Dalu revealed that Bai Youyue was at Broken Dragon Mountain, nearing a tribulation, and tens of thousands of cultivators rushed there. As the teacher and the headmaster recognized the danger of Bai’s plan, Yang Wanjin and Jingjing emerged from the Divine River and discovered they had arrived at Broken Dragon Mountain.

• Li Dalu killed a black-clad cultivator who attacked him, then told the gathered sects that the person they sought was on Broken Dragon Mountain and nearing a tribulation.
• Ziqin and the Academy’s others realized Bai might be ascending, while tens of thousands of cultivators hurried toward Broken Dragon Mountain.
• Old Sun and Huangfu Xuanyuan concluded that Bai meant to use her ascension tribulation to kill the Four Great Sects’ forces and clear the way for Wang Xian.
• The teacher warned that anyone going to Broken Dragon Mountain would bear the consequences, and said Bai Wuhen could still avoid disaster by returning home.
• Yang Wanjin awoke aboard the Netherworld Boat after undergoing Nirvana, and Jingjing discovered that they had arrived at Broken Dragon Mountain, her original world.

Wang Xian and Yang Wanjin arrived at Broken Dragon Mountain a thousand years in the past, where Wang Xian tried to save a wounded Phoenix Clan woman. Meanwhile, Zijing felt a strange flame in her chest and fell asleep, while Old Yuan faced an army at the mountain lake and killed the Joyful Union Sect’s Supreme Elder with a bamboo arrow.

• Wang Xian learned that the Netherworld Ship had carried him and Yang Wanjin through time without aging him, then saw a wounded Phoenix Clan woman crash to the ground.
• Yang Wanjin allowed Wang Xian to try to save the woman, and he made a pill from a green leaf and Weak Water and gave it to her.
• In the blacksmith shop, Zijing felt a flame flare inside her and went to sleep beneath a beast-fur blanket.
• At Broken Dragon Mountain, tens of thousands of cultivators advanced on Old Yuan, who waited by the lake while Bai Youyue and Hua Mantian watched from above.
• Bai Youyue ordered Old Yuan to strike, and his bamboo arrow pierced Meng Han’s spiritual sword and chest, fatally wounding the Joyful Union Sect’s Supreme Elder.

Wang Xian and Yang Wanjin met the dying Zijing a thousand years in the past, and Wang Xian gave her a spirit pill and jade pendant meant for her future self. As a dragon appeared above Broken Dragon Mountain, the battle erupted below, with Meng Huanxi ordering thousands of arrows fired at Old Yuan.

• Wang Xian saved the gravely wounded Zijing beside the great river and revealed that he came from a thousand years in the future.
• Yang Wanjin confirmed that the Zijing they met was the same girl Wang Xian knew at Wutong Academy, and Wang Xian gave her a jade pendant and a spirit pill with instructions for the future.
• Zijing asked whether she would marry Wang Xian's older brother and whether Wang Xian would look the same a thousand years later; Wang Xian said her future choice was hers.
• Yang Wanjin told Wang Xian that a dragon was flying overhead, and a hundred-zhang divine dragon appeared above them.
• Bai Wuhen and the Hehuan Sect's leader tried to save the mortally wounded Meng Han, but Granny Hundred Flowers said the bamboo arrow had drained his vitality.
• Meng Huanxi ordered the cultivators to kill Old Yuan, and several thousand iron arrows flew toward him.

Bai Youyue and Old Yuan prepared to face the cultivators gathering on Broken Dragon Mountain, while the demon beasts answered her call. As the Nascent Soul Realm cultivators climbed toward the cliff, Old Yuan struck down the first attacker with a single blow of divine sense.

• Old Yuan escaped a volley of arrows by soaring toward the thousand-zhang cliff, and the demon beasts across Broken Dragon Mountain roared in response to his call.
• Bai Youyue appeared above the cliff and challenged the cultivators, prompting Granny Hundred Flowers and leaders of the great sects to lead Nascent Soul Realm cultivators up the mountain.
• Nangong Fei'er, Donghuang Shuyu, and other cultivators joined the ascent, while Tang Qingyu persuaded Ximen Tinghua to go up only to watch.
• Bai Youyue gave Old Yuan his bamboo bow and half a pill, telling him to wait for her signal before taking it, as Hua Mantian waited nearby for Wang Xian.
• A middle-aged Imperial Guard attacked Old Yuan with three arrows, but Old Yuan cut them down and shattered the man's protective Divine Sea talisman with a strike of divine sense.

Old Yuan and Bai Youyue killed two Imperial City cultivators as thousands of fighters gathered on Broken Dragon Mountain. Bai Youyue recognized Wang Xian’s senior sisters among the newcomers, then learned from the teacher that Zijing had fallen in love.

• Old Yuan killed the armored middle-aged cultivator with a saber strike, and Bai Youyue’s sword and Old Yuan’s returning arrow killed an archer who attacked her.
• Granny Hundred Flowers reached Hua Mantian and confronted Bai Youyue, but Old Yuan stopped her fissure attack with his saber.
• More than a thousand cultivators arrived at the summit, while Tang Shisan and Li Mengbai warned others not to attack Bai Youyue, Wang Xian’s master.
• Bai Youyue recognized Donghuang Shuyu and Dantai Xiaoxue as Wang Xian’s senior sisters and told the teacher she thought they had been unfaithful.
• The teacher said Zijing alone could help Wang Xian fire the arrow that pierced the heavens, and Bai Youyue realized Zijing had fallen in love.

As the battle against Bai Youyue’s forces approached, Wang Duoyu revealed himself as an Eastern Phoenix Clan traitor seeking Wang Xian’s Heavenly Book and Divine Sword. Old Yuan confronted him, and their first exchange ended with both men still standing as Wang Duoyu launched a second strike.

• Bai Youyue ordered Old Yuan to kill the brocade-clad newcomer and recognized him as Wang Duoyu, the Eastern Phoenix Clan traitor Wang Xian had been hunting.
• Bai Youyue warned Donghuang Shuyu and Donghuang Mingyuan about Wang Duoyu, then declared that killing him would earn Old Yuan Wang Xian’s gratitude.
• Wang Duoyu announced that he would kill Old Yuan to seize the Heavenly Book, while Donghuang Shuyu revealed that her scripture came from her Master.
• Old Yuan threatened the gathered cultivators and stepped forward to face Wang Duoyu, who answered that he would kill him.
• Wang Duoyu struck first with a powerful sword slash, but Old Yuan parried it; Wang Duoyu immediately launched a second attack with both hands on his sword.

Old Yuan defeated Wang Duoyu, who escaped with a scroll, and the scene shifted a thousand years into the past as Wang Xian, Yang Wanjin, and Ziqin arrived at a battlefield between the dragon race, phoenix race, and southern border barbarians. Wang Xian recognized the coming conflict and saw the barbarian beastmen warriors on the battlefield.

• Old Yuan struck Wang Duoyu down with a powerful saber blow after surviving his sword assault.
• Wang Duoyu used a scroll to escape Old Yuan, and Bai Youyue said Wang Xian could deal with him later.
• A thousand years earlier, Yang Wanjin brought Wang Xian and Ziqin to the battlefield, where they took on new appearances.
• Wang Xian told Ziqin that the barbarians had deceived her people and that a Kunlun traitor was involved, but Ziqin chose only to observe.
• Wang Xian saw the dragon race defending its trench against the phoenixes, barbarians, and waves of vengeful souls.
• Yang Wanjin identified the enormous figures behind the spirits as barbarian beastmen warriors.

Wang Xian experienced the brutal battle from a thousand years ago, where he fought a barbarian beastman before being overwhelmed and returning to the River of Time. Zijing realized Wang Xian had saved her in the past, while Mister and Bai Youyue discussed the revelation and Wang Xian’s journey through time.

• Yang Wanjin sent Wang Xian and Zijing onto the battlefield, where a charging beastman attacked Wang Xian.
• Wang Xian struck the beastman with the Sword of Great Surplus and burned away attacking vengeful spirits with talismans, but the beastman blew a hole in the trench before more warriors overwhelmed Wang Xian.
• Wang Xian woke beside Yang Wanjin at the river, and she explained that the battle had happened a thousand years earlier and that Zijing would have to choose her own path.
• Zijing woke in the blacksmith's shop, realized Wang Xian had saved her a thousand years earlier, and privately kept the jade pendant and jade bottle he had given her.
• Zijing told Mister about Wang Xian's journey into the past, and Mister asked Bai Youyue to comfort her after explaining what had happened.
• Mister told Bai Youyue that Wang Xian was on Broken Dragon Mountain a thousand years in the past, and she was stunned by the revelation.

Zijin told Bai Youyue that Wang Xian had taken her back a thousand years to Dragon-Breaking Mountain and given her a path to find a sword-forging master in the Ninth Heaven. On Dragon-Breaking Mountain, Bai Youyue activated a concealed killing formation against Shangguan Hao and six Spirit Transformation cultivators, leaving Old Yuan poised to strike.

• Zijin told Bai Youyue that Wang Xian had taken her to Dragon-Breaking Mountain a thousand years in the past and given her a token to find her master in the Ninth Heaven.
• Bai Youyue advised Zijin not to bind herself to the young master out of gratitude, and Zijin promised to visit her again.
• Bai Youyue and Old Yuan faced Bai Wuhen and his forces atop Dragon-Breaking Mountain.
• Shangguan Hao called six Spirit Transformation cultivators to join him, and the seven formed a Seven-Star Formation to attack Old Yuan.
• Bai Youyue activated a hidden killing formation that toppled or repelled six attackers while Old Yuan waited for Shangguan Hao.
• Bai Youyue ordered Old Yuan to kill the last attacker, and he brought his saber down through the snow.

Old Yuan used the hidden Seven-Star Killing Formation to slaughter seven Heavenly Saint Sect cultivators who had attacked Bai and Old Yuan on Duanlong Mountain. After Bai Yijun collected the bodies, Dongfang Xuan Yi prepared to face Bai Youyue, but someone behind him stepped forward to take the fight.

• Old Yuan countered the seven attackers’ formation with the formation concealed beneath the snow, killing all seven and destroying their Divine Souls.
• Huangfu Xuanyuan and Old Sun recognized that Old Yuan had turned the attackers’ own formation against them, while Bai Wuhen collapsed from shock.
• Bai Yijun stopped the Heavenly Saint Sect elders from charging, then collected the fallen cultivators’ bodies as Old Yuan withdrew and Bai Youyue stepped forward.
• Dongfang Xuan Yi waited for Bai Yijun to leave before agreeing to fight Bai Youyue himself.
• As Dongfang Xuan Yi stepped forward, an unseen speaker told him to wait and volunteered to fight instead.

At Severing Dragon Mountain, Bai Youyue challenged the gathered cultivators over their past injustices against Wang Xian, while they feared his return and debated whether to intervene. Yan Ruobing began his attack, and dozens of cultivators joined in with a volley of arrows, leaving Bai Youyue facing a combined assault.

• Dongfang Xiaoxue warned the crowd that Wang Xian might return to avenge Bai Youyue, and Dongfang Xuanyi said indebted disciples could stay out of that fight.
• Dongfang Xiaoxue publicly vowed to repay her life to Wang Xian if he sought revenge, while Bai Youyue said he would judge right and wrong for himself.
• Tang Shisan, Meng Xiaolou, and Ximen Tinghua discussed Wang Xian's strength as Yan Ruobing prepared to fight Bai Youyue.
• Bai Youyue reminded Yan Ruobing of Wang Xian's past rescues and condemned the gathered cultivators for lecturing her about righteousness.
• Mister told the blacksmith that Bai Youyue would ascend before nightfall, and Old Man Sun described her tribulation as a lesson for the trapped heroes.
• Yan Ruobing swung his sword at Bai Youyue as dozens of cultivators from different sects fired arrows toward her.

Bai Youyue turned the attackers’ arrow volleys against them, using the Immortal Longevity Scripture’s Devouring stage to drain the lives of many cultivators and people below Broken Dragon Mountain. Yan Ruobing launched another powerful sword strike, but Bai Youyue easily shattered it, leaving Yan Ruobing shaken.

• Yan Ruobing and the other cultivators attacked Bai Youyue with a sword strike and several volleys of iron arrows, but the arrows passed through her and Old Yuan stopped those aimed at him.
• Bai Youyue swept the arrows back toward their owners, imbuing them with devouring power that killed the archers and sent more arrows toward cultivators below the mountain.
• The returning arrows struck cultivators by the lake, and the black mist drained the victims’ vitality until they died as dried corpses.
• Tang Shisan mocked the attackers for targeting Bai Youyue instead of fighting at the Southern Border, and Bai Youyue challenged Granny Hundred Flowers and Meng Huanxi to face her together.
• Yan Ruobing attacked with another powerful sword strike, but Bai Youyue calmly shattered it, deepening Yan Ruobing’s fear.

Bai Youyue defeated Yan Ruobing with power gathered from the cultivators she had devoured, while the gentleman warned her that her time was short. Yan Ruobing prepared to attack again with nine Enforcement Hall elders, and Bai Youyue stood ready to face all ten alone.

• Bai Youyue tore apart Yan Ruobing’s first sword strike, and Old Yuan effortlessly smoothed the resulting slash in the ice.
• Bai Youyue used the power she had gathered from more than a hundred cultivators to shatter Yan Ruobing’s sword and pierce his chest, but he treated his wound and refused to retreat.
• Tang Shisan, Tang Qingyu, Long Qingmei, Donghuang Shuyu, and the other cultivators watched Bai Youyue’s display and reflected on Wang Xian’s strength and deeds.
• The gentleman told Bai Youyue to follow their plan, and she asked whether she could see her disciple from a thousand years ago before ascending; he said it was possible only if they both wished to meet at the same moment.
• Bai Youyue asked the gentleman to watch over Ziqing, then refused to let Old Yuan join her against Yan Ruobing’s challenge.
• Yan Ruobing took a new sword and joined nine late-stage Spirit Transformation elders in a ten-person sword formation, while Bai Youyue declared that she would face them alone.

Bai Youyue used a bamboo bow to shatter the Kunlun Sword Sect’s Nine Palaces Death Formation, killing its nine elders and severing Yan Ruobing’s sword arm. As Yan Ruobing vowed to fight her, a hand reached through a tear in the void and seized him.

• Bai Youyue declared that no Spirit Transformation cultivators might remain on Broken Dragon Mountain after the battle, while Hua Mantian and the onlookers reacted in shock.
• Yan Ruobing ordered the nine Kunlun Sword Sect elders into the Nine Palaces Death Formation and led them in an attack on Bai Youyue.
• Bai Youyue planted her spirit sword in the ice, drew her bamboo bow, and fired an arrow that scattered the formation’s Sword Qi.
• The arrow’s light blinded the formation and killed the nine elders, while it pierced Yan Ruobing’s sword arm and left him bloodied.
• Yan Ruobing threatened to fight Bai Youyue, but a hand emerged from a tear in the void and seized him.

Bai Youyue fought Dongfang Xuanyi on Dragon-Severing Mountain, turning aside his attacks and forcing him back despite the cultivators surrounding her. She then unleashed a hidden storm of sword Qi in the falling snow, leaving Dongfang Xuanyi facing an attack whose reach the crowd could not see.

• Dongfang Xuanyi ambushed Bai Youyue, but she intercepted his strike and shattered his spatial barrier with her Questioning Heaven strike.
• Dongfang Xuanyi used a Heaven-Shaking Thunderbolt and charged again, but Bai Youyue dodged his sword and struck his chest with a phantom fist.
• Bai Youyue drew her sword and sent Old Yuan and Hua Mantian away from the fighting as she prepared to face the surrounding cultivators.
• Bai Youyue unleashed hundreds of hidden sword Qi currents in the snowstorm toward Dongfang Xuanyi.
• Dongfang Xuanyi roared for Bai Youyue to fight as Nangong Zhilan watched the falling snow, wondering how he would dodge if the snowflakes became swords.

Bai Youyue used the wind and snow to wound Dongfang Xuanyi, then shot bamboo arrows to pin several sect leaders and elders as they attacked. Old Yuan and Hua Mantian began breaking through, triggering tribulation thunder that locked onto the three of them and the cultivators gathered on Broken Dragon Mountain.

• Dongfang Xuanyi attacked Bai Youyue, but she evaded his blows and used hidden Sword Qi in the wind and snow to break his sword and tear through his defenses.
• Dongfang Xuanyi called on the gathered cultivators to attack Bai Youyue, and elders and fighters from the major sects charged forward.
• Bai Youyue fired all six of her remaining bamboo arrows, pinning Dongfang Xuanyi and several leaders and elders in place.
• Old Yuan and Hua Mantian began breaking through, and tribulation thunder locked onto them, Bai Youyue, and the gathered cultivators.
• Bai Youyue drank grape wine and took half a spirit pill before telling the trapped cultivators to face the tribulation with her.

Wang Xian and Yang Wanjin went to Broken Dragon Mountain, where Wang Xian witnessed a vision of an ancient battlefield and the Divine Sword’s era. As a bone demon attacked the divine dragon clan, a middle-aged cultivator summoned a Kunpeng to face it.

• Wang Xian told Yang Wanjin he wanted to see the Coiling Dragon Divine Sword, and they flew to the summit when the mountain stirred.
• Wang Xian saw the battlefield’s destruction and a mysterious young man appear, then lost his memories and relived fragments of the ancient war.
• A beastman warrior summoned a giant demon from scattered bones, which attacked the cyan-robed Daoist and the others.
• The middle-aged man stepped forward and unleashed Kunpeng’s Shocking Transformation against the descending bone demon.