Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan defeated Nangong Haolong and destroyed the Nangong Lineage, prompting Long Lin to remember the death of Nangong Aoxue as an insult. Meanwhile, Donghuang Ziyou reached Huayun Nation and vowed to crush the Netherworld and restore the world.

• Nangong Haolong used the Great Freedom Divine Art to gather the power of three lives, but Lin Xuan cut away two-thirds of his strength with two sword strikes.
• Nangong Haolong tried to flee with Nangong Aoxue, but Lin Xuan's Quasi-Immortal Sword killed them both, and Lin Xuan returned to the Jade Carriage with Xuanzhu and the others.
• A Long Lineage servant told Long Lin that Lin Xuan had killed Nangong Aoxue, whom Long Lin had intended to marry, and Long Lin vowed to remember the insult.
• Donghuang Ziyou reached the border of Huayun Nation, saw black smoke rising in the northwest, and swore to trample the Netherworld and reshape the world.

Donghuang Ziyou saved the people of several nations by burning away the ghostly aura, then traced the calamity to ghost algae contaminating the waterways and froze the Heavenly Net River and its major tributaries. Following the river to seek the source, she encountered Ghost Sect members transporting coffins for a corpse-refining assembly.

• Donghuang Ziyou transformed into a divine phoenix and scattered sparks that cured the ghosts throughout Huayun Kingdom, then repeated the feat in other nations.
• Donghuang Ziyou discovered ghost algae in the waterways and ordered Ruoying to have the armies seal rivers and groundwater.
• Donghuang Ziyou used the Ice Phoenix Sword to freeze the Heavenly Net River and its major tributaries, then set out to find the calamity’s source.
• Wu Peng, Ma Chengde, and Chang Hui split their Copper Armored Corpses and coffins as they prepared to capture more people for the corpse-refining assembly.
• Donghuang Ziyou appeared before the three Ghost Sect leaders and rebuked their confidence.

Donghuang Ziyou rescued thousands of captives and learned that three ghost sects were preparing to refine Golden Corpses using people seized from Northern Profound Heaven. She captured their agents, then followed them to the Black Wind Sect’s corpse-refining grounds, where she killed them and faced millions of gathered disciples.

• Donghuang Ziyou destroyed the Copper Armored Corpses, freed more than three thousand captives, and learned that the Ghost God Sect, Black Wind Sect, and Hundred Baleful Sect had seized 9,900 people for corpse refinement.
• Donghuang Ziyou promised the freed captives that the ghostly disturbance had been eliminated, then bound Wu Peng and the other two agents to lead her to the sects.
• Huiyuan and Zhiming met villagers who had dreamed of a female Ghost King seeking Shi Jiaming, Huiyuan’s true name, and Huiyuan recognized the Ghost King in a vision of the dream.
• Huiyuan told the villagers to return home and took Zhiming onward, saying he had roughly understood the source of the ghost algae and would resolve the calamity.
• Donghuang Ziyou followed Wu Peng and the others through the black smoke to the Black Wind Sect’s corpse-refining grounds, where millions of ghost sect disciples had gathered.
• Donghuang Ziyou refused to spare Wu Peng and the other two agents and burned them to ash with her demonic arts.

Donghuang Ziyou arrived at the ghost sects’ corpse-refining venue to rescue Northern Profound Heaven’s captured civilians, but the three sect masters attacked her. She killed their elders and Qin Bohhan, and the chapter ended as Chao Su and Jing Hai awakened eight Golden Corpses.

• Donghuang Ziyou identified herself as Empress Profound Ice and demanded the captured civilians be released.
• Chao Su, Jing Hai, and Qin Bohhan rejected her ultimatum and ordered their disciples and elders to attack.
• Donghuang Ziyou revealed her Great Saint Realm cultivation and killed a hundred Quasi-Emperor elders with the Heaven Origin Sword Art.
• Donghuang Ziyou used the Heavenly Demon Slash to split Qin Bohhan and his Heavenly Ghost Bone Shield in half.
• Chao Su and Jing Hai awakened eight Golden Corpses by spilling their vital blood essence onto the coffins.
• Donghuang Ziyou smiled as the Golden Corpses emerged, appearing to calculate a scheme.

Donghuang Ziyou seized control of eight Golden Corpses, used them to destroy the ghost sects, and killed the Great Saint Realm King of Ten Thousand Ghosts, Komodo. After sending the rescued civilians away, she continued searching for the source of the ghost algae, while Huiyuan and Zhiming discovered the ruins of Jinghua Temple.

• Donghuang Ziyou burned the Ghost Kings inside eight Golden Corpses with Nirvana Fire and controlled them using the Demonic Heart Seal.
• Donghuang Ziyou ordered the Golden Corpses to attack the ghost sect disciples, then destroyed Komodo with her Nine Revolutions Divine Phoenix Body and killed Chao Su and Jing Hai.
• The Golden Corpses annihilated the ghost sect disciples, and Donghuang Ziyou sent the rescued civilians away before continuing her search for the ghost algae's source.
• Huiyuan used a Buddhist seal to locate ghostly qi in a remote mountain range and led Zhiming to a ruined temple.
• Zhiming uncovered the name Jinghua Temple on a stone stele.

Huiyuan entered Jinghua Temple and revealed to Princess Rulanruo that he was Shijiaming, the lover she had sought for more than sixty thousand years. When Rulanruo attacked him, Donghuang Ziyou arrived and killed her for spreading ghost algae across ten kingdoms.

• Huiyuan identified Jinghua Temple and warned Zhiming that its powerful ghost could bewitch him, then entered the temple alone.
• Huiyuan confronted Rulanruo in the Mahavira Hall and revealed that he was Shijiaming, whose death had driven her to become a vengeful ghost.
• Rulanruo attacked Huiyuan over their broken vow, and he endured her Soul-Extracting Art while chanting Buddhist scriptures.
• Donghuang Ziyou entered the hall, froze Rulanruo with the Ice Phoenix Sword, and learned that she had spread ghost algae to find Shijiaming.
• Donghuang Ziyou condemned Rulanruo for bringing ghostly chaos to ten kingdoms and killed her with the Soul Slaughter Technique.

Donghuang Ziyou explained why Huiyuan had nearly fallen into demonic obstruction, then set out to search for more ghost algae and purify the water sources. In the Crystal Palace, Lin Xuan helped his daughters dress identically to fool Tong Shuzhu and received Ancient God Realm cultivation as a reward.

• Donghuang Ziyou told Huiyuan that he had nearly fallen into demonic obstruction because he still saw Ru Lanruo as the innocent woman from his memories, then departed to search for ghost algae.
• Huiyuan told Zhiming that the woman in purple was Empress Profound Ice and praised her wisdom.
• Xuanzhu and her sisters asked Lin Xuan to make them look identical so they could test whether Tong Shuzhu could still tell them apart.
• Lin Xuan dressed the four girls in matching dresses and hairstyles, and they celebrated their identical appearances.
• The system rewarded Lin Xuan with Ancient God Realm cultivation, which he claimed.

After extracting his cultivation, Lin Xuan reached the Ancient God Realm and enjoyed a playful family visit from Tong Shuzhu and his daughters. Donghuang Ziyou arrived at the Crystal Palace as the seven-day agreement’s deadline came due, eager to see Lin Xuan’s performance.

• Lin Xuan absorbed a surge of spiritual energy, developed one thousand and eighty acupoints, and discovered he could see and control the power of laws.
• The four daughters dressed identically tried to fool Tong Shuzhu, who recognized Xuanyou after the Heavenly Dog Beast exposed her.
• Tong Shuzhu realized the girls had been testing her, and they helped her arrange the heavenly purple orchids.
• The daughters returned to Lin Xuan and recounted the prank, while he listened and laughed with them.
• Donghuang Ziyou entered the Crystal Palace on the final day of her seven-day agreement with Lin Xuan, curious about his performance.

Lin Xuan won his calligraphy wager with Donghuang Ziyou, who was impressed that he had improved so much in seven days. He used his victory to ask her not to make wagers in front of their daughters, leaving Donghuang Ziyou surprised that this was all he wanted.

• Donghuang Ziyou saw Xuanzhu and the other girls dressed alike, and they explained that Lin Xuan had dressed them that way.
• Lin Xuan reminded Donghuang Ziyou of their calligraphy wager and wrote ten characters with the aid of the Perfect Dad Tutorial.
• Donghuang Ziyou and the girls praised Lin Xuan's calligraphy, and Donghuang Ziyou conceded that she had lost.
• Donghuang Ziyou thought Lin Xuan was about to take liberties with her, but he asked her not to make wagers in front of the children.
• Donghuang Ziyou agreed, then felt baffled and disappointed that Lin Xuan had asked for nothing else.

Donghuang Ziyou brought Lin Xuan and their daughters to Tang Dingtai’s banquet in Cave Origin Heaven, where Lin Xuan offered a concise solution to tensions between the realms’ laws and customs. The celebration was interrupted when Tang Yingying arrived injured with her infant and revealed that Qin Zhuoyu had tried to kill the child, whom he called a monster.

• Donghuang Ziyou invited Lin Xuan and their daughters to Tang Dingtai’s banquet, and the family traveled to Sky Duke Manor.
• Minister Zhao Si asked how to handle conflicts between Northern Profound Heaven’s rites and laws and Cave Origin Heaven’s customs, and Lin Xuan advised them to seek common ground while reserving differences.
• Tang Dingtai and Tang Yi noticed Tang Yingying and her husband had not arrived, so Tang Yi sent people to the Qin family to find them.
• Tang Yingying arrived covered in blood with her infant and told Tang Dingtai and Tang Yi that Qin Zhuoyu had called the child a monster and tried to kill it.
• Tang Yingying said she had jumped off the island to save her child and had been injured in the fall.

Tang Yingying revealed that Qin Zhuoyu had tried to kill their newborn daughter, prompting Tang Dingtai to ask Donghuang Ziyou for justice against the Qin family. Donghuang Ziyou revealed the infant’s rare Heavenly Fire Spirit Rabbit Body, and the group set out for Ancient Whale Island to confront the Qin family.

• Tang Yingying showed Tang Dingtai and Tang Yi the infant’s unusual face and explained that Qin Zhuoyu had tried to kill her because she had borne him three daughters and Tang Yi had a son.
• Tang Dingtai declared the Qin family an enemy and vowed to seek Donghuang Ziyou’s help, while Tang Yingying urged him to protect her two other children.
• Donghuang Ziyou said she already intended to curb the Qin family’s control over Cave Origin Heaven and accepted Tang Dingtai’s plea for justice.
• Xuanzhu and her sisters reassured Tang Yingying that the infant was not frightening, and Donghuang Ziyou identified her as possessing the rare Heavenly Fire Spirit Rabbit Body.
• Donghuang Ziyou awakened the infant’s powerful aura with a touch, astonishing Tang Yingying and her family.
• After the banquet, Tang Dingtai, Tang Yi, and Tang Yingying led Lin Xuan and Donghuang Ziyou toward Ancient Whale Island.

Donghuang Ziyou brought Lin Xuan and their daughters to Ancient Whale Island, where she shattered the Ancient Whale Sect’s Heavenly Gate after its guards made them wait for permission. On the island, Qin Zhuoyu and Qin Qitian discussed Tang Yingying’s departure and the Empress’s growing power before the gate’s destruction announced her arrival.

• Lin Xuan and Donghuang Ziyou promised their daughters they could build them a Whale Island, and the family shared affectionate kisses aboard the Jade Carriage.
• Mingzhe refused to open the Heavenly Gate without the Sect Master’s instructions, so Donghuang Ziyou destroyed it with one strike of her purple demonic sword.
• Qin Zhuoyu blasted his crying daughters away and threatened to lock them up, while Qin Qitian criticized them and discussed Tang Yingying’s departure.
• Qin Qitian warned Qin Zhuoyu that Empress Profound Ice had taken control of Cave Origin Heaven, but Qin Zhuoyu dismissed the threat because of the Ancient Whale Sect’s local connections.
• The island shook as Qin Qitian and Qin Zhuoyu saw that the Heavenly Gate had vanished and realized Empress Profound Ice had arrived.

Donghuang Ziyou and Lin Xuan arrived at the Ancient Whale Sect, where Qin Qitian discovered that the child he had abandoned possessed a rare divine physique. When Qin Qitian resisted Donghuang Ziyou’s demands, her overwhelming sword strike forced him to submit and made the sect pledge to guard Cave Origin Heaven’s western seas.

• Qin Qitian and Qin Zhuoyu welcomed Donghuang Ziyou, Lin Xuan, and the Tang family to Whale Island after learning the Emperor Consort had come too.
• Qin Zhuoyu and Qin Qitian saw purple Innate Spirit Fire around Tang Yingying’s infant, and Tang Dingtai revealed that she had the Heavenly Fire Spirit Rabbit Physique.
• Donghuang Ziyou told Qin Qitian that the Ancient Whale Sect’s agreements with Cave Origin Heaven were void and demanded a concrete promise to stop exploiting its resources.
• Qin Qitian refused to make a binding promise and gathered his power, so Donghuang Ziyou sent a demonic sword across Ancient Whale Island to demonstrate her strength.
• Qin Qitian begged for mercy, and Donghuang Ziyou ordered the Ancient Whale Sect to submit to Cave Origin Heaven and protect its western seas; Qin Qitian agreed.

Donghuang Ziyou secured the Ancient Whale Sect’s submission and resolved the Qin and Tang families’ dispute by letting Qin Zhuoyu’s daughters choose whom to live with. After the family left Ancient Whale Island, Donghuang Ziyou noticed Lin Xuan’s physique while helping him carry their sleeping daughters.

• Qin Qitian handed Donghuang Ziyou the Ancient Whale Sect’s grand seal, submitting the sect to Cave Origin Heaven.
• Donghuang Ziyou heard the Tang family’s grievances, and Lin Xuan suggested letting Qin Zhuoyu’s two daughters choose whether to stay with their father or go with their mother.
• Qing'er and Yu'er chose Tang Yingying, so Donghuang Ziyou accepted their decision and the Tang family prepared to take all three children.
• Xuanzhu and the other daughters praised Lin Xuan and Donghuang Ziyou before the family departed Ancient Whale Island in the Mystic Ice Jade Carriage.
• On the late-night journey, Donghuang Ziyou helped Lin Xuan carry their sleeping daughters and privately admired his physique.

Lin Xuan took his four daughters to the Ancient Beast Mountain Range so they could train after advancing in the Sword Dao. There, the girls overwhelmed a powerful wolf demon in front of two sword sects, leaving the onlookers amazed.

• Lin Xuan tested Xuanzhu, Xuanxi, Xuanhan, and Xuanyou in the Mystic Technique Puppet Array, and all four defeated its puppets and reached the Realm of Technique.
• Xuanzhu urged her sisters to keep training, so Lin Xuan took them to the Ancient Beast Mountain Range in Immeasurable Heaven.
• Wu Chang of the Cloud Sword Sect and Zhong Jing of the Wind Sword Sect recognized Lin Xuan and joined the group to observe the princesses' training.
• A seventh-rank Howling Moon Heavenly Wolf blocked their path, and Wu Chang and Zhong Jing let the four princesses fight it first.
• Xuanzhu and her sisters unleashed a barrage of sword moves and sent the stronger wolf demon flying, astonishing the two sects' disciples.

Lin Xuan and his daughters stopped to eat barbecue, where Xuanyou sent the Nine-Headed Heavenly Python after a Flame Mystic Tiger. Meanwhile, Gu Chengjiu fled through the Ancient Beast Mountain Range with Xia Li but was cornered by Yan Yunjun and hundreds of Venerable Realm experts seeking the rest of her Supreme Bone.

• Lin Xuan praised his daughters and prepared barbecue for them after the two sects' followers took their leave.
• A sixth-rank Flame Mystic Tiger approached, so Xuanyou sent the Nine-Headed Heavenly Python to chase it away while the family waited for lunch.
• Gu Chengjiu carried Xia Li deeper into the Ancient Beast Mountain Range as they fled Yan Yunjun's pursuit.
• Yan Yunjun revealed that the Yan imperial clan had taken half of Xia Li's Supreme Bone and intended to extract the rest for the Great Qian ruler and the Starmoon Sacred Lord.
• More than three hundred Venerable Realm experts charged at Gu Chengjiu, who summoned a Heaven-Slaying Saber and vowed to protect Xia Li.

Gu Chengjiu fell while defending Xia Li from Lord Yanyun, but Lin Xuan arrived with his daughters and the Nine-Headed Heavenly Python. After Lord Yanyun attacked the python and apologized, Lin Xuan took his Demon-Beating Whip and struck him.

• Gu Chengjiu fought off Lord Yanyun’s forces to protect Xia Li, but Lord Yanyun wounded him and ordered his men to finish them.
• A dead Blazing Mystic Tiger arrived, and then the Nine-Headed Heavenly Python appeared; Lord Yanyun attacked it with his Demon-Beating Whip, but a golden light blocked the whip’s baleful force.
• Xuanyou arrived with Lin Xuan, Xuanzhu, and the other girls, and Xuanzhu reassured the Nine-Headed Heavenly Python after it was hit.
• Lord Yanyun recognized Lin Xuan as the Emperor Consort of the Northern Profound Heaven and apologized for attacking his pet.
• Lin Xuan took the Demon-Beating Whip from Lord Yanyun and lashed him, sending him flying a thousand zhang and apparently breaking his bones.

Lin Xuan crippled Lord Yanyun, then used a spirit-tree branch to restore Xia Li’s ability to walk. As Xuanzhu and the others brought Xia Li and Gu Chengjiu to Great Qian’s palace to reclaim her other Supreme Bone, Yan Tian transplanted a piece of it into himself and gained immense power.

• Lin Xuan punished Lord Yanyun for attacking Xuanyou’s pet, and Lord Yanyun’s Venerable Realm companions fled.
• Gu Chengjiu explained that Xia Li had been left with white hair and a broken spine after her father was framed and half her Supreme Bone was taken.
• Lin Xuan fashioned a branch into a spinal support and used it to restore Xia Li’s ability to stand and walk.
• Xuanzhu and the other girls led Lin Xuan, Gu Chengjiu, and Xia Li toward the Great Qian imperial palace to demand Xia Li’s remaining Supreme Bone.
• Yan Tian transplanted part of Xia Li’s Supreme Bone into his own spine, gained great power and the ability to wield tribulation lightning, and felt the palace shake as someone arrived.

Xia Zhanyun invaded the Great Qian Imperial Palace to avenge the Xia family and reclaim Xia Li’s Supreme Bone, but Star Moon True Person intervened and crippled him. Lin Xuan then arrived with Xia Li and sent Star Moon True Person flying, leaving the palace stunned.

• Xia Zhanyun announced himself as the Xia family’s founding patriarch and killed most of the Imperial Guards with one saber strike.
• Yan Tian fought Xia Zhanyun, but Xia Zhanyun punched through him and tore out his spine to recover Xia Li’s Supreme Bone.
• Star Moon True Person struck Xia Zhanyun down and moved to seize the Supreme Bone.
• Lin Xuan arrived with Xuanzhu and her sisters, Gu Chengjiu, and Xia Li, then sent Star Moon True Person flying with a wave of mystic power.
• Gu Chengjiu introduced Lin Xuan as the Emperor Consort of the Northern Profound Heaven, stunning everyone in the palace.

Lin Xuan restored Xia Li’s Supreme Bone, awakening her seven peak talents and saving the Xia family from its crisis. After Lin Xuan left, Xia Li prepared to take revenge on Yan Tian for killing her father.

• Xia Zhanyun and the Great Gan Kingdom’s people recognized Lin Xuan as the Emperor Consort, and True Person Xingyue submitted to him.
• Lin Xuan replaced the branch in Xia Li’s body with her Supreme Bone, restoring her mobility and awakening her seven talents.
• True Person Xingyue departed without helping Yan Tian, while Lin Xuan left with Xuanzhu and the other princesses.
• Xia Zhanyun offered Xia Li his cultivation, but she refused and chose to cultivate on her own.
• Xia Li confronted Yan Tian and drove a golden dagger toward his throat as he begged for mercy.