Chapter Summaries

Chen Changsheng helped Yang Feiyun begin the second transformation of the Heavenly Silk Nine Transformations, then visited Fu Yao before leaving for the outside world. After the Phoenix Empress disappeared, Zi Ping and his siblings decided to grow strong enough to follow Chen Changsheng.

• Zi Ping questioned his uncle about his father’s plans, but accepted that he would not be told and warned him not to disrupt the world.
• Chen Changsheng gave Yang Feiyun a special memory crystal and buried him in a cocoon as he began his second transformation.
• Chen Changsheng told Bai Ze he would visit the Reincarnation Land, then seek out Hua Feng and find Xu Hu a capable ally.
• Chen Changsheng asked Fu Yao to guard the Eight Desolations Nine Regions, and Fu Yao agreed while promising to kill him when he returned.
• The Phoenix Empress vanished, and Zi Ping, Chen Xiang, and Yin Qi worried about Chen Changsheng leaving alone.
• Zi Ping urged his siblings to train hard so they could follow in their father’s footsteps.

After the Phoenix Empress disappeared, Bai Ze repeatedly sought reinforcements as the Eight Desolations Nine Regions grew unsettled. Ten thousand years later, the badly wounded Chen Changsheng returned and told the Old Celestial Master that he had provoked Desperate Valley by digging up its ancestral graves.

• Over thousands of years, Bai Ze brought Wang Hao, Ye Yongxian, the Ice-Fire Immortal King, the God of Wealth, Hu Tudou, Su Wan'er, Chen Xiang, and Yin Qi away to seek help, then went to Reincarnation and sent Zi Ping out of seclusion.
• Fu Yao left Reincarnation Land to save Chen Changsheng, while the great figures' departures stirred turmoil across the Eight Desolations Nine Regions.
• After ten thousand years, Chen Changsheng crashed down from the sky, vowed revenge, and headed to Dragon Tiger Mountain.
• The Old Celestial Master recognized Chen Changsheng's token, closed Dragon Tiger Mountain's gates, and stabilized Chen Changsheng's injuries.
• Chen Changsheng asked the Old Celestial Master to help him, explaining that he and Hua Feng had left the Eight Desolations Nine Regions and that Desperate Valley had started the conflict after he dug up its ancestral graves.

Chen Changsheng told the Old Celestial Master how Desperate Valley and other factions captured and tortured him, and how he later killed a powerful Heaven's Mandate Bearer in revenge. The Old Celestial Master agreed to gather the Eight Desolations Nine Regions' Immortal Venerables for a campaign, while Chen Changsheng planned to recruit young fighters before joining them in two or three thousand years.

• Chen Changsheng explained that Desperate Valley blamed him for Wang Hao and Ye Yongxian's actions and demanded them along with half of Candle Dragon's corpse, so he refused and fought them with Bai Ze.
• Chen Changsheng said several factions captured his true body after two thousand years of fighting, but Xu Hu, the others, and Fu Yao helped rescue him.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that his avatar had desecrated his enemies' ancestral graves and that, a thousand years earlier, he had killed a peak Heaven's Mandate Bearer from another world.
• The Old Celestial Master agreed to take everyone above the Immortal Venerable Realm and leave only a few behind, with Chen Changsheng set to join them in two or three thousand years.
• Chen Changsheng decided to find talented young fighters to challenge his enemies' arrogant claims, and the Old Celestial Master said the Eight Desolations Nine Regions had several promising youths.

Chen Changsheng prepared Dragon Tiger Mountain for an approaching war and met the dying Mo Wen, who asked him to spare the Dark Bird Race and gave him records of the region’s prodigies. Mo Wen chose to die without reincarnating, while Chen Changsheng secured the Dark Bird Race’s promise to support Yin Qi when he returned.

• Chen Changsheng told the Old Celestial Master to prepare Dragon Tiger Mountain and said he would notify the Heavenly Court before planning how to destroy their enemies.
• At the Mystic Bird Clan residence, the dying Mo Wen dismissed his descendants and waited for Chen Changsheng.
• Mo Wen explained how he had predicted the coming war and asked Chen Changsheng to let the Dark Bird Race live in peace; Chen Changsheng told him the clan must help Yin Qi when he returned.
• Mo Wen gave Chen Changsheng a Jade Slip recording the region’s prodigies and the fates of the reincarnated people.
• Chen Changsheng produced a Thousand-Year Phoebe Wood Coffin for Mo Wen, who lay inside and declined to reincarnate.

Chen Changsheng encountered a Netherworld procession and recognized a familiar presence in Horse Face, while Xu Yao and other young cultivators prepared to attend the Sword Cultivator Assembly. The chapter left Horse Face kneeling before Chen Changsheng after recognizing him.

• Chen Changsheng buried Mo Wen on the Dark Bird Race's Back Mountain and left a tombstone identifying the grave as the Clan Leader's.
• Xu Yao insisted on attending the Sword Cultivator Assembly, and Hu Yan told Chen Changsheng that she had set off.
• Chen Changsheng refused Hu Yan's request to help find Xu Yao a partner, and Hu Yan decided to seek her husband after more than a thousand years apart.
• A woman persuaded her Senior Brother to attend the Sword Cultivator Assembly, where she hoped to see a genius reincarnated from an Immortal King.
• Chen Changsheng encountered Netherworld Soldiers Borrowing the Way as a black-robed man tried to steal Nether Souls, and Horse Face captured the culprit.
• Horse Face recognized Chen Changsheng, who later praised the name Ox-Head and Horse Face as Horse Face knelt before him.

Chen Changsheng learned why Horse Face feared breaking the Underworld's Rules and discovered that his father-in-law, Su Tian, had died after Mao Shiba enforced those Rules. He left the captured Demon Cultivator in Horse Face's custody while ordering him to seek a decree from the Lord of the Underworld.

• Chen Changsheng asked Horse Face about the Nether Souls, then requested the Demon Cultivator the Underworld had captured.
• Horse Face hesitated to hand over the prisoner because the Underworld's Rules required him to escort the Demon Cultivator for judgment, but Chen Changsheng pressured him to comply.
• Horse Face explained that Mao Shiba had once refused to release Su Tian, Chen Changsheng's father-in-law, even when powerful figures and the Lord of the Underworld pleaded for mercy.
• Horse Face said Su Tian's allotted lifespan in the Book of Life and Death had ended, and his True Spirit had scattered after four reincarnations.
• Chen Changsheng accepted Su Tian's death, told Horse Face to ask the Lord of the Underworld for a decree, and ordered him to keep the Demon Cultivator detained for now.

Chen Changsheng took the Demon Cultivator Jian Fei under his wing and ordered him to practice swordsmanship on the journey to the Sword Qi Great Wall. As they approached the gathering of sword cultivators, Chen Changsheng’s black steed sneezed and knocked someone unconscious with its aura.

• Horse Face returned with the Lord of the Underworld’s decree, but Chen Changsheng declined to meet the Lord and let Horse Face carry him instead.
• Chen Changsheng learned that Jian Fei became a Demon Cultivator under his master and attacked the underworld soldiers because his Ten Thousand Souls Banner had run out of Nether Souls.
• Chen Changsheng insisted Jian Fei come to the Sword Qi Great Wall and promised to teach him swordsmanship, then ordered him to swing a Wooden Stick thousands of times each day.
• As countless prodigies converged on the Sword Qi Great Wall, Chen Changsheng’s black steed sneezed and its aura frightened a passing figure unconscious.

Chen Changsheng found the unconscious Ma Ling'er and helped her recover, then agreed to travel with her to the Sword Cultivator Assembly. By evening, he revealed to her that his companion Jian Fei was a Demon Cultivator, leaving her startled and skeptical.

• Chen Changsheng found Ma Ling'er unconscious, identified her as the Little God of Wealth, and checked whether she was injured.
• Jian Fei tried to drag Ma Ling'er away, but she woke and slapped him after catching him looking at her exposed clothes.
• Ma Ling'er thanked Chen Changsheng and asked him to keep the incident private, then agreed to travel with him to the Sword Qi Great Wall for the Sword Cultivator Assembly.
• Ma Ling'er explained that a powerful aura and bloodline pressure had caused her to faint while flying, so Chen Changsheng suggested they continue on foot.
• At their evening rest, Chen Changsheng told Ma Ling'er that Jian Fei was a Demon Cultivator whose master was the Number One Demon Under Heaven, and she doubted him.

Chen Changsheng let Ma Ling'er leave after she discovered that he and Jian Fei were demon cultivators, then teased Jian Fei about falling for her. He promised Horse Face he would remove the burden of his past and revealed his plan to claim the sword beneath the Sword Qi Great Wall, leaving its dangerous origins as a looming obstacle.

• Ma Ling'er confronted Chen Changsheng over his demon-cultivator identity, then spared him and Jian Fei, left a Beast Hide Pouch with two hundred thousand Divine Sources, and departed after expressing concern for Jian Fei.
• Chen Changsheng offered Jian Fei half the money, but Jian Fei refused it, and Chen Changsheng joked that he had fallen for Ma Ling'er.
• Chen Changsheng told Horse Face that Ma Ling'er's kindness had deeply affected Jian Fei and recalled how Horse Face had once earned his favor through gratitude and service.
• Chen Changsheng promised to adjust Horse Face's position and free him from his status of atoning for past crimes, which greatly excited Horse Face.
• Chen Changsheng said he planned to take the sword beneath the Sword Qi Great Wall, and Horse Face warned that the weapon's origins were terrifying.

Chen Changsheng took Jian Fei to Heaven Gate City before heading for the Sword Qi Great Wall and bought him an extravagant set of custom clothes. He insisted that Jian Fei wear only those garments, then said there was still something left to buy.

• Chen Changsheng dismissed Jian Fei’s doubts about Miss Ma and led him toward Heaven Gate City before their trip to the Sword Qi Great Wall.
• Chen Changsheng reassured Jian Fei that his Demon Cultivator techniques would not reveal his identity among the righteous cultivators in the city.
• Chen Changsheng ordered eight seasonal outfits and a formal Bitter Sea Azure Lotus garment for Jian Fei at the Heavenly Immortal Silk Shop.
• Chen Changsheng paid two million two hundred and fifty thousand Divine Source for the clothes and tipped the shop assistant three thousand Divine Source.
• Jian Fei offered to give Chen Changsheng some of the outfits, but Chen Changsheng ordered him to wear only the new clothes and said they still had more to buy.

Chen Changsheng and Jian Fei visited a God of Wealth Lineage shop, where Chen Changsheng learned that someone within the Sword Qi Great Wall was colluding with the Wilds. He ordered the shopkeeper to keep the Heavenly Court from interfering while he handled the matter and prepared for the expedition.

• Jian Fei was astonished when Chen Changsheng treated expensive clothes as something to replace after a year.
• Chen Changsheng and Jian Fei outbid a young woman for a jade pendant, then Chen Changsheng arranged for Jian Fei to give it to her.
• The shopkeeper recognized Chen Changsheng and insisted on keeping 480,000 divine sources to cover the pendant's cost and expenses.
• The shopkeeper told Chen Changsheng that someone within the Sword Qi Great Wall was colluding with the Wilds, and that the Sword Cultivator Assembly was meant to catch them.
• Chen Changsheng ordered the shopkeeper to tell the Heavenly Court not to interfere and to prepare for the expedition, then said the enemy was unparalleled.

Chen Changsheng gave Gui Daoran a mysterious painting scroll and Gui Qianjie a note, then told Jian Fei what he would have to overcome to pursue the title of foremost in swordsmanship. The chapter left Jian Fei facing a path that included defeating legendary sword masters, including the vanished Swordsman Chen Xiang.

• Chen Changsheng warned the Shopkeeper to keep quiet about the two visitors and left the shop.
• Gui Daoran and Gui Qianjie discussed their unease about Chen Changsheng, who appeared beside them and gave Gui Daoran a painting scroll and Gui Qianjie a note.
• Chen Changsheng warned the siblings not to open the scroll casually and explained that it would return to Gui Daoran until he sincerely wanted to give it back.
• Jian Fei complained that he had lost track of the people Chen Changsheng told him to follow, and Chen Changsheng urged him to cultivate.
• Chen Changsheng told Jian Fei he could try to become foremost in swordsmanship, but would need to surpass prodigies Nangong Xing and Xu Yao, as well as the disappeared Swordsman Chen Xiang.
• Chen Changsheng described how the Sword God had surpassed all predecessors and become the universally acknowledged foremost in the Dao of the Sword.

Chen Changsheng began training Jian Fei in swordsmanship by making him practice with an ordinary wooden stick, while explaining the stick’s history and the Sword God’s past. As they traveled toward the Sword Qi Great Wall, a fight broke out ahead, and Chen Changsheng hurried to watch.

• Chen Changsheng told Jian Fei to grind a wooden stick away with air before he could learn swordsmanship, and Jian Fei accepted the challenge.
• Chen Changsheng had Jian Fei practice Basic Sword Art while walking and then running, correcting his form and footwork.
• Chen Changsheng told Horse Face that Jian Fei had talent in a previous life and that the wooden stick had once belonged to the Sword God.
• Chen Changsheng recounted how the Sword God and the Demon Emperor fought over stolen apples, with the Sword God using Jian Fei’s wooden stick.
• Chen Changsheng heard a commotion ahead and urged Horse Face to hurry so they could watch the fight.

Chen Changsheng kept the Sword Qi Great Wall’s forces away while Ma Ling’er and Xu Yao fought off an assassination attempt. He captured two immortal venerables and discovered that the attackers had infiltrated the region through the Underworld, then warned that they had crossed a line by targeting the younger generation with enemies far above their level.

• Chen Changsheng ordered Horse Face to prevent anyone from the Sword Qi Great Wall from interfering, then watched the battlefield alongside Jian Fei.
• Gao Ke demanded that Ma Ling’er spare his failing sect, but she refused, and he and his allies surrounded her and Xu Yao.
• Xu Yao revealed her swordsmanship, cut off Gao Ke’s hand, and identified herself as Xu Yao before the attackers renewed their assault.
• Chen Changsheng restrained a heavenly immortal and an earthly immortal, killed the earthly immortal by mistake, and refused the survivor’s offer to reveal agents’ names.
• Chen Changsheng deduced that the attackers had entered through the Underworld and condemned them for sending people more than two major realms above the younger generation.

Chen Changsheng secretly lifted the suppression on the battlefield, allowing Xu Yao to unleash her Sword Immortal Body and defeat the remaining attackers. Ma Hu recognized that the Heavenly Court’s intervention came from someone powerful and helped keep him away; the chapter ended as Xu Yao, Ma Ling'er, and Jian Fei faced one another.

• Chen Changsheng killed a Heavenly Immortal Realm expert, then predicted that Xu Yao and Ma Ling'er would win their battle.
• Ma Hu realized the black-mist figure was acting on orders from the person who had mobilized the Heavenly Court, and he thanked the figure while pretending to attack.
• Xu Yao and Ma Ling'er continued fighting Gao Ke and the remaining Divine Realm experts, but Ma Ling'er was badly injured and Xu Yao prepared to borrow a sword.
• Jian Fei arrived with the Ten Thousand Souls Banner as nether souls rose from the corpses.
• Chen Changsheng snapped his fingers to remove the battlefield's suppression, and Xu Yao's Sword Immortal Body awakened as Jian Fei's wooden stick flew into her hand.
• Xu Yao's slash killed Gao Ke and the other attacker, leaving her, Ma Ling'er, and Jian Fei staring at one another.

Jian Fei met Xu Yao and Ma Ling'er again after helping them defeat their enemies, and Xu Yao promised to be his friend despite his demonic cultivation. Chen Changsheng then dealt with Ma Hu and Horse Face at the Sword Qi Great Wall, where he reflected on the major powers and praised Ma Hu’s daughter.

• Xu Yao recognized Jian Fei’s Nine Yin Soul Devouring Great Art and explained that the Underworld would not pursue him as long as he did not kill innocents.
• Xu Yao praised Jian Fei for using demonic methods to act righteously and promised to be his friend.
• Chen Changsheng arrived, and Xu Yao questioned him about his name and whether they should report the deaths to the Heavenly Court.
• A Golden Armor Man sent Jian Fei, Xu Yao, and Ma Ling'er to the Sword Qi Great Wall, while Chen Changsheng and the fine horse stayed behind.
• Ma Hu knelt before Chen Changsheng, who scolded him for failing to guard the Sword Qi Great Wall but then forgave him.
• Chen Changsheng said the Heavenly Court, Underworld, and major powers had done well, and praised the God of Wealth Lineage and Ma Hu’s daughter.

Chen Changsheng warned Ma Hu that the Sword Qi Great Wall’s upper ranks had likely been infiltrated by a Barbaric Wilderness prodigy, then took charge of its affairs to investigate. Back at the wall, Xu Yao began showing Chen Changsheng and the others around, but a group of people blocked their way.

• Chen Changsheng told Ma Hu that the Sword Qi Great Wall’s purpose was to control the Barbaric Wilderness and preserve it as a place for young cultivators to train.
• Chen Changsheng suspected the Barbaric Wilderness had infiltrated part of the wall’s upper ranks and was acting under the direction of a talented prodigy.
• Chen Changsheng ordered Ma Hu to prepare for battle and said he would take over the wall’s affairs and investigate the hidden enemy.
• Chen Changsheng returned to Xu Yao, Jian Fei, and Ma Ling'er, then asked Xu Yao to show the group around the Sword Qi Great Wall.
• Xu Yao led the group through the wall until a group of people blocked their path, prompting her to hide guiltily behind Ma Ling'er.

Xu Yao’s debts and lack of a weapon came to light, and Chen Changsheng asked her about the sword she had pawned and her ambition as a swordswoman. After Xu Yao said she would rather be herself than become the White-Haired Sword God, Chen Changsheng offered to lend her a different sword.

• Ma Ling'er paid Xu Yao’s 3.8 million divine-source debt and explained that Xu Yao had spent her wealth on wine, leaving her owing Ma Ling'er 12 million.
• Xu Yao tried to borrow Jian Fei’s wooden stick so she could hunt Great Demons for money, but Chen Changsheng offered to lend it only if she answered three questions.
• Ma Ling'er revealed that Xu Yao had pawned her Stars Sword to the Nangong Noble Clan and could reclaim it only by defeating Nangong Xing.
• Xu Yao said she lacked confidence against Nangong Xing without her sword and declared that she wanted to be herself, not the White-Haired Sword God.
• Chen Changsheng praised Xu Yao and led her to borrow a different sword, while Ma Ling'er questioned Jian Fei about Chen Changsheng’s identity.

Chen Changsheng retrieved three famous swords hidden in the Sword Qi Great Wall and gave one each to Jian Fei, Xu Yao, and Ma Ling'er. After reading Yang Feiyun’s letter, he went to seek someone he had been searching for across two thousand years.

• Chen Changsheng guided Xu Yao and the others through the Sword Qi Great Wall, then opened a hidden compartment in its wall and retrieved three swords and a wine jar.
• Chen Changsheng gave Dragon's Roar to Jian Fei and warned him not to draw it before the Wooden Stick disappeared.
• Chen Changsheng gave Black Obsidian to Xu Yao and Seven Wonders to Ma Ling'er, explaining the swords’ histories and how Seven Wonders had left the God of Wealth’s possession.
• Jian Fei said the swords’ former owner felt strangely familiar to him, but Chen Changsheng refused to reveal the owner’s identity before vanishing.
• Chen Changsheng read Yang Feiyun’s letter hidden in the wine jar, learned that Yang Feiyun had arranged for the swords to be found, and called him clever.
• Chen Changsheng looked toward someone he had sought for two thousand years and urged them to give him an answer after his third visit.

Chen Changsheng persuaded the Old Sword Strip's Sword Spirit to lend him its power for the coming battle, and set off for the Sword Qi Great Wall with the sword. Meanwhile, Xu Yao and Ma Ling'er failed to uncover any record of Chen Changsheng's past.

• Chen Changsheng visited the Old Sword Strip and explained that he needed its edge for an approaching battle.
• The Sword Spirit agreed to strike three times, but Chen Changsheng refused to use the strike owed to Chen Shisan; the Sword Spirit lent him that strike anyway.
• Chen Changsheng picked up the Old Sword Strip, fashioned a branch into a hilt, and walked toward the Sword Qi Great Wall while chatting about Chen Xiang.
• Xu Yao and Ma Ling'er secretly investigated Chen Changsheng's identity through the Great Wall's archives and its elders.
• Ma Ling'er reported that everyone she had questioned, including her relatives and other prominent figures, had never heard of Chen Changsheng.