Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ping traveled to Moon Star with the experts of the four great forces to search the ruins of an ancient Dao Monarch battle. After arriving, he found an oasis and was ambushed by Li Buyu and True Saint Wei Huaide, who intended to kill him.

• Shen Wuyou warned that the ancient bloody war had never truly ended and might return in this era.
• The teleportation gate opened, and Jiang Ping and the assembled experts entered the vortex to Moon Star.
• The group found an intact Altar, left Dao Marks as return markers, and the Yin-Yang Venerable used Qingling Palace's Supreme Artifact to protect them.
• Jiang Ping set off alone, found an oasis formed by a fallen Five Elements Dao Monarch's collapsed principles, and approached in hope of finding a Supreme Artifact.
• Jiang Ping's Cause and Effect Artifact warned him of an attack, and he evaded a surprise Sword Light from Li Buyu and True Saint Wei Huaide.

Jiang Ping was trapped in a causality domain by Wei Huaide and Li Buyu, but shattered their attacks with his mastery of the Ten Thousand Laws. After crushing Ji Wushuang’s Jade pendant to summon the Venerable, he chose to stay and fight, leaving Wei Huaide gravely wounded and promising to kill him.

• Wei Huaide used a peak True Saint’s ancient zither to create a causality domain that cut Jiang Ping off from the world.
• Jiang Ping crushed the Jade pendant Ji Wushuang had given him, briefly breaking the domain with the Venerable’s power, then stayed to await help rather than risk being lost.
• Wei Huaide and Li Buyu attacked together, and Li Buyu revealed that he had mastered sixty percent of Yin and Yang Order.
• Jiang Ping used the World-Anchoring Sword to evade Wei Huaide and strike Li Buyu, shattering his sword and injuring his hand.
• Wei Huaide attacked Jiang Ping from behind, but Jiang Ping remained unharmed and struck back, nearly cutting Wei Huaide in two.

Jiang Ping overwhelmed Li Buyu and Wei Huaide, while his World-Dwelling Sword clarified the emerging foundation of his Ten Thousand Laws. The chapter left Li Buyu fatally wounded after Jiang Ping pierced his chest with a Spear of Ten Thousand Laws.

• Li Buyu activated the Fuxi Bagua Formation and layered its power onto himself, but Jiang Ping broke his defenses and severed his palm with the World-Dwelling Sword.
• Wei Huaide attacked Jiang Ping with the Five Elements Order, but Jiang Ping sent him flying and nearly shattered his Dao body.
• Li Buyu unleashed his strongest transformation with the Yin-Yang scriptures, while Jiang Ping's sword revealed the growing foundation of his Ten Thousand Laws.
• Jiang Ping's gaze shattered Li Buyu's Starry Sky Body, leaving Li Buyu stunned by the gap between their strength.
• Wei Huaide tried to steady Li Buyu, but Jiang Ping attacked again and cracked Li Buyu's Origin.
• Li Buyu fused three transformations into a fourth, but Jiang Ping pierced his chest with a Spear of Ten Thousand Laws, and Li Buyu's flesh began to evaporate.

Jiang Ping survived an attack by Wei Huaide and Li Buyu, but the battle forced his Ten Thousand Laws foundation to bloom. After Cui Yue rescued him, Jiang Ping entered an oasis to search for a protective weapon and heard an ancient voice address him.

• Jiang Ping badly wounded Li Buyu and nearly killed Wei Huaide before Wei Huaide used a Cause and Effect Artifact to turn the fight.
• Wei Huaide used a peak Supreme Treasure guqin to sever Jiang Ping's connections to cause and effect, but Jiang Ping restored himself with the "Rebirth" chapter.
• Cui Yue arrived with a Dao Map, forcing Wei Huaide to flee with Li Buyu, and warned Jiang Ping to find a Supreme Artifact fragment for protection.
• Jiang Ping told Cui Yue that the attackers were old enemies and learned that the Ten Thousand Laws Seed had already formed his foundation.
• Jiang Ping entered the oasis to search for a weapon, where an ancient presence revived and called him "Little friend."

Jiang Ping escaped the Supreme Demonic Blade and explored the Dao Monarch battlefield, collecting fragments of Supreme Artifacts. He recovered three pieces of the Birth and Destruction Sword that fused into a complete sword body, but its spirit did not answer him.

• Jiang Ping sent his Past Body toward the Supreme Demonic Blade, then fled when its blood-red Rules attacked and gravely injured him.
• The Broken Sword emerged from Jiang Ping's Storage Ring and devoured the Demonic Blade before returning without responding to him.
• Jiang Ping found the remains of the Dao Monarch of Birth and Destruction and recovered a sword-tip fragment from the Rules ocean.
• The Broken Sword departed on its own, while Jiang Ping continued exploring and collected more than ten Supreme Artifact fragments.
• Jiang Ping found that three fragments of the Birth and Destruction Sword had fused into a complete sword body, but the sword gave no response when he addressed it.

Jiang Ping encountered the Red Tasseled Spear, learned that it and other ancient artifacts remained whole and would defend the Xuanhuang World, and chose a conscious turtle shell over the artifacts that offered to accompany him. He then reached a sacred mountain, where a mysterious figure appeared and said it had finally waited for him.

• Jiang Ping fled when the Red Tasseled Spear called to him, but the spear drew him into its oasis and invited him to tea.
• The Red Tasseled Spear asked about the Xuanhuang World, revealed that it had returned there two thousand years earlier, and said other undamaged beings would defend it if danger arose.
• The Red Tasseled Spear offered Jiang Ping a choice of ancient artifacts, but the Divine Axe rejected him and the rain cape demanded an oath in exchange for its company.
• Jiang Ping chose the eager turtle shell and left the oasis while the rain cape and axe discussed his potential.
• Jiang Ping and the turtle shell reached a sacred mountain, where a mysterious figure appeared and said it had finally waited for him.

Jiang Ping survived the Thunder Dao Monarch’s attempt to possess him with help from the awakened Life-Death Sword, then followed its directions to seek its fragments. In a ruined ancient city, he discovered Senior Sister Fang Xin fighting a stronger cultivator and facing death.

• The Thunder Dao Monarch’s remnant tried to seize Jiang Ping’s body, but the Life-Death Sword intervened and exposed that the Monarch was only a Blood Robe.
• The Life-Death Sword dispelled the Blood Robe, and Jiang Ping experienced the Thunder Dao Monarch’s life before collecting his robe and sword fragment.
• The Life-Death Sword told Jiang Ping to travel east for its remaining fragments, while the Turtle Shell set out north to find its body.
• Jiang Ping reached a ruined ancient city that the Turtle Shell said had been recreated from an ancient artifact’s memories.
• Jiang Ping saw Senior Sister Fang Xin fighting another Spirit Wander cultivator, and the Turtle Shell warned that she was outmatched and about to be killed.

Jiang Ping intervened when Shi Zhou was about to kill Fang Xin, destroying Shi Zhou’s Venerable weapon and taking three artifact fragments. After learning Shi Zhou was from the Hengdao Sect and suspecting its involvement in an attempt on his life, Jiang Ping prepared to fight, but Shi Zhou fled.

• Fang Xin fought Shi Zhou in the ancient city, but he overpowered her and shattered her body with a Venerable dagger.
• The Turtle Shell destroyed Shi Zhou’s dagger and helped Jiang Ping seize three artifact fragments, including a piece of the Life-Death Sword.
• Jiang Ping learned that Shi Zhou belonged to the Hengdao Sect, while Fang Xin warned him that Shi Zhou had broken six in two paths.
• Jiang Ping and Fang Xin prepared to face Shi Zhou, but Shi Zhou recognized Jiang Ping’s apparent Supreme Artifact and fled.

Jiang Ping defeated Shi Zhou despite the latter's confidence in his strength, revealing that Jiang had broken through six on both paths. After killing Shi Zhou, Jiang was left wondering about the hidden truth behind the coming bloody war.

• Shi Zhou fled from Jiang Ping but was wounded when Jiang caught up and ambushed him.
• The Turtle Shell refused to intervene, and Fang Xin was knocked aside when she tried to help Jiang.
• Jiang and Shi Zhou clashed, and Jiang's Sword of Ten Thousand Laws shattered Shi Zhou's weapon and overwhelmed his Order sword.
• Shi Zhou unleashed his physical strength, but Jiang's punch broke his arm, and Shi Zhou realized Jiang had broken through six on both paths.
• Jiang pursued and battered Shi Zhou, refused his plea for mercy, and killed him after reminding him that he had tried to kill Fang Xin.
• The Turtle Shell suggested Shi Zhou might have betrayed their side in the coming war, prompting Jiang to wonder about the truth behind the conflict.

Jiang Ping killed Shi Zhou, restored the Life-Death Sword, and continued north with Turtle Shell. After sensing an alien race’s intact Supreme Artifact and divining the fate of Xuanhuang, Turtle Shell warned that the world faced a great calamity.

• Jiang Ping confirmed Shi Zhou was dead, erased the traces of the fight, and secured Fang Xin’s promise not to reveal what happened.
• Jiang Ping retrieved a buried weapon fragment, allowing the Life-Death Sword to restore its body and begin recovering.
• Jiang Ping flew north with Turtle Shell and saw True Saints fighting over a great hammer, which Turtle Shell identified as an alien race’s dao weapon.
• Turtle Shell concealed the area and performed a divination for Xuanhuang, cracking further as it revealed that Xuanhuang faced a great calamity.

Jiang Ping learned that the Dao Hammer might threaten Xuanhuang and stopped a maddened True Saint from attacking him. At the ruins of the Creation God Sect, he was seized by a mysterious force and made one of eighteen sword disciples guarding the mountain, tasked with testing promising climbers.

• The Turtle Shell warned Jiang Ping that the Dao Hammer’s appearance could signal danger to Xuanhuang, though its divination described only one possible future.
• A Qingling True Saint attacked Jiang Ping for his flesh and blood, but Jiang Ping struck him down and spared him after the Turtle Shell explained that the hammer had polluted the True Saints’ minds.
• Jiang Ping warned the Qingling True Saint not to return to the battle, then left as Cui Yue arrived to help.
• Jiang Ping reached the ruined Creation God Sect with the Turtle Shell, which suspected that one of its lost pieces lay within a surviving Supreme Treasure.
• A mysterious force grabbed Jiang Ping and declared him unfit to enter its eyes, then appointed him Sword Six, one of the eighteen sword disciples guarding the mountain.
• The Turtle Shell explained that the sword disciples were part of an old Creation God Sect tradition for testing promising heavenly prodigies.

Jiang Ping learned that the climbers could win a likely Dao-Carrying Artifact, while he remained bound as a mountain guardian. At the mountain’s foot, the gathered geniuses saw several supreme True Saints arrive, including the famed Zhang Daowei, and realized he was the overwhelming favorite.

• Jiang Ping surveyed the sword attendants and learned from Turtle Shell that the mountain-climbing trial would end in a few days and could reward its winner with a complete Supreme Artifact.
• Turtle Shell told Jiang Ping the top reward might be a Dao-Carrying Ancestor artifact, but warned that Jiang Ping had little chance of winning it as a guardian.
• Xiao Ran, Tang Sheng, Fang Xin, Li Buyu, and other young geniuses gathered at the mountain’s foot and learned that the prize might be a Dao-Carrying Artifact.
• A supreme True Saint appeared and boasted that he would speed-run the mountain, then a second supreme True Saint arrived.
• Zhang Daowei of Five Thunder Hall appeared, leaving the gathered geniuses stunned by his reputation and near-Dao-Monarch strength.

Tang Sheng discussed his prospects with the Divine Axe while the gathered prodigies prepared to climb the Divine Mountain. Zhang Daowei raced through the first sixteen stages before slowing at the seventeenth.

• The Divine Axe told Tang Sheng that his chance of reaching the Dao Ancestor Realm was close to Zhang Daowei’s and urged him to earn a strong trial ranking.
• A road to the Divine Mountain appeared, and the prodigies debated who should climb first.
• Zhang Daowei stepped forward and began the trial, clearing the first six stages almost instantly.
• Zhang Daowei continued through the stages, passing the seventeenth after lingering there for half a quarter of an hour.
• Shen Wuyou explained why Venerables were rare, and the crowd learned that Zhang Daowei had passed the seventeenth stage.

Jiang Ping reflected on Zhang Daowei’s strength and rejected Turtle Shell’s offer to abandon the Ten Thousand Laws Dao Monarch path. After Zhang Daowei became the trial’s first and final clearer, the other prodigies began climbing, and Fang Xin unexpectedly passed the sixth trial.

• Jiang Ping learned from Turtle Shell that Zhang Daowei was close to becoming a Dao Monarch and refused to discard his Ten Thousand Laws foundation for a faster path.
• The crowd praised Zhang Daowei after he defeated Sword Seventeen and was announced as the trial’s first and last clearer.
• Several supreme True Saints climbed afterward but failed to pass beyond the fourteenth through sixteenth trials.
• A strong Spirit Wander climber and then Li Li both failed at Sword Six, leaving the other prodigies wary of the trial.
• Fang Xin passed five trials, then surprised everyone by clearing Sword Six.

Fang Xin and Xiao Ran encountered Jiang Ping at the sixth stage, where he let Fang Xin pass but challenged Xiao Ran, then deliberately spared him. Both Qingling talents advanced, while Jiang Ping discussed his reasons for helping them and his plans to recover the Supreme Artifact’s fragments.

• Jiang Ping let Fang Xin pass the sixth stage without a fight, and she hurried onward.
• Jiang Ping explained to Turtle Shell that he was helping Qingling talents in return for the help Qingling Palace had given him.
• After Fang Xin passed the seventh stage, challengers accused the sword disciples of favoritism, and Xiao Ran climbed the mountain.
• Jiang Ping let Xiao Ran pass the sixth stage, but Xiao Ran insisted they fight; Jiang Ping effortlessly stopped his lightning and thunder attack and spared him.
• Xiao Ran accepted Jiang Ping’s mercy and continued up the mountain, while Jiang Ping promised Turtle Shell he would seek the Supreme Artifact’s fragments when he grew stronger.

Tang Sheng climbed Divine Mountain to challenge Sword Six and vent his anger at Qingling Palace’s Sword Disciples. He brutally defeated Sword Five, but Sword Six greeted him with a slap before he could finish speaking.

• Fang Xin stopped at the ninth trial, while Xiao Ran passed eleven trials before falling at the twelfth.
• The Plain-clothed Youth confirmed that Sword Twelve was a difficult point, and other geniuses who had broken six in one Order struggled at Sword Six or Sword Nine.
• Tang Sheng ignored Divine Axe’s warning and climbed the mountain, boasting that he could pass the first eleven trials.
• Tang Sheng defeated Sword Five, humiliated him by claiming he lacked the potential to become a Dao Monarch, and shattered his body before it was restored.
• Tang Sheng reached Sword Six, but Sword Six slapped him across the face before he could finish speaking.

Jiang Ping overwhelmed Tang Sheng in the Sword Fighting Arena, battering him despite Tang Sheng’s attempts to defend himself and escape. The chapter ended with Tang Sheng’s bloodied head flying out of the arena, shocking the prodigies watching below.

• Jiang Ping slapped Tang Sheng and sent him flying, revealing his mastery of six breakthroughs in both Samsara and Void and the intent of the Ten Thousand Laws.
• Ancient Axe urged Tang Sheng to admit defeat, and Tang Sheng began to accept that Jiang Ping’s path was doomed to fail.
• Jiang Ping interrupted Tang Sheng’s surrender and struck him again, forcing him to dodge by turning into light rain.
• Jiang Ping attacked relentlessly with Sword Qi, tearing through Tang Sheng’s Daoist Order and leaving him covered in wounds.
• Tang Sheng begged Ancient Axe for help, but it refused to interfere in a contest between peers.
• The prodigies watching below heard Tang Sheng’s cries and saw his bloodied head fly out of the arena.

Jiang Ping was revealed as the overpowered Sword Six who had beaten Tang Sheng and was moved to the Sword Twelve position. After the Divine Mountain trial ended, the gathered prodigies learned his identity and feared the consequences of angering him.

• The prodigies discovered Tang Sheng battered and feared that Qingling Palace’s Wang Ping had served as Sword Six.
• The God Sect’s artifact moved Jiang Ping from Sword Six to Sword Twelve because his strength exceeded the trial’s standard, and Turtle Shell explained that Zhang Daowei had been speaking through the artifact.
• Jiang Ping asked Turtle Shell to conceal his qi mechanism and learned that his Sword of Time reminded Turtle Shell of someone from the past.
• The remaining prodigies climbed the mountain, but none passed more than ten trials before the assessment ended.
• At the palace gathering, the prodigies learned that Jiang Pingping had been Sword Six, and his rivals were warned not to provoke him.

Zhang Daowei began distributing the mountain-climbing trial rewards, but Fang Xin and Xiao Ran demanded recognition for the absent mountain guardians and challenged claims that they had cheated. The dispute exposed Qingling Palace’s troubled past and escalated into a standoff between its supporters and Jade Palace Prefecture and Hengdao Sect.

• Zhang Daowei appeared at the banquet and announced that the trial rewards would be handed out by ranking, with each person choosing one Supreme Artifact.
• Fang Xin objected that the mountain guardians were absent, and Xiao Ran argued that they deserved rewards for their contributions.
• Tang Sheng and Shen Wuyou accused Jiang Pingping of unfairly influencing the trial, while Qingling’s third True Disciple challenged the complaints and questioned Zhang Daowei’s own progress through the passes.
• Xiao Ran revealed that Qingling Palace’s founding patriarch had once reached the Ancestral Realm, but others said its main lineage and ancestral artifact had been lost after a devastating attack.
• Xiao Ran taunted Tang Sheng about being beaten by a Qingling guest elder, prompting a Jade Palace Prefecture True Saint to attack him with Dao Light.
• Qingling’s True Saint confronted Jade Palace Prefecture, Hengdao Sect joined its side, and the hall reached the brink of a fight.

Zhang Daowei told the gathered prodigies that Outsiders could bring a clash between civilizations within decades, putting Xuanhuang in grave danger. After Jiang Ping was finally allowed into the bronze hall, Turtle Shell urged him to change cultivation paths, but he refused and examined the leftover rewards.

• Zhang Daowei stopped the prodigies from challenging the Ancestral Artifact's decision and explained that the Mountain Guardians could not join the gathering.
• Zhang Daowei revealed that Outsiders might attack within decades and that the coming conflict could pit two civilizations against each other.
• Jiang Ping complained that the Mountain Climbers were feasting while he remained confined, and Turtle Shell divined that Xuanhuang faced great calamity.
• Jiang Ping refused Turtle Shell's advice to abandon his path and cultivate anew, then waited until the restriction lifted.
• Zhang Daowei offered the eighteen Mountain Guardians leftover gifts, and Turtle Shell told Jiang Ping to choose a piece of cloth.