Chapter Summaries

Zhang Zhen assassinated Azure Dragon Sect Core Disciple Wang Hai, but the killing was blamed on Ye Mingjie and stirred turmoil between the sects. Outside Cloud Top Pavilion, Sima Lan gave Jian Fei a Golden Page, and Ye Feng received orders to report after Wang Hai's death.

• Zhang Zhen ambushed Wang Hai, defeated him, and killed him with a poisoned blade before taking his Storage Magical Artifact.
• Wang Hai's death and the Millennium Ice Toad venom led the Azure Dragon Sect and Ten Thousand Beasts Sect to suspect Ye Mingjie, destabilizing the Four Directions Continent.
• Chen Changsheng comforted Jiang Yongnian as they waited outside the Cloud Sea for the others to return.
• Sima Lan gave Jian Fei a Golden Page made from Profound Yellow Mother Metal, while Ma Ling'er held onto a Sword Nurturing Gourd she had meant to give him.
• Ye Feng learned that Wang Hai had been killed and ordered the group to rendezvous with the main force, then asked whether anyone had left the Cloud Sea.

Ye Feng’s group changed course to reunite with their sect, but a powerful ambush forced them to scatter. Chen Changsheng survived the staged attack and reunited with Nalan Fuyao, who argued that Zi Ping’s grief over the deaths of loved ones would drive him to pursue Chang Sheng and eventually challenge Chen Changsheng.

• Ye Feng checked Zhang Zhen’s and Chen Changsheng’s Heavenly Souls, then decided the group should hurry to the sect’s main force because the Azure Dragon Sect might attack.
• More than a dozen peak Heavenly Immortals and three First Grade Immortal Kings ambushed the group, so Baili Changkong urged everyone to flee.
• After the others escaped, Chen Changsheng emerged from a crater and greeted Nalan Fuyao, revealing that the attack had been staged to help Fu Yao’s understaffed forces.
• Nalan Fuyao warned Chen Changsheng that Zi Ping would pursue Chang Sheng after his loved ones died and would eventually turn against him.
• Chen Changsheng questioned whether he had truly attained Chang Sheng, while Nalan Fuyao explained that cultivators cut off their emotions to keep advancing and extend their lives.

Chen Changsheng, Fu Yao, and Zhang Zhen went to Desperate Valley to confront the Forbidden Ground, where Chen Changsheng attacked after its inhabitants rejected his offer to withdraw. The valley’s defenders recognized the Old Sword Strip and hesitated to fight.

• Chen Changsheng and Fu Yao agreed to lure Zhang Zhen to Desperate Valley and discussed how Fu Yao’s death might awaken Zi Ping.
• Chen Changsheng, Fu Yao, and Zhang Zhen arrived at Desperate Valley, and Zhang Zhen vowed to destroy it completely.
• Chen Changsheng demanded that Desperate Valley leave, but its inhabitants mocked him and demanded that he kneel.
• Chen Changsheng summoned the White-Clad Woman, who used the Old Sword Strip to shatter the Peerless Grand Array and pierce a person in the five-colored pool.
• Fu Yao pulled the pool and the pierced person out, while Desperate Valley prepared to retaliate; its inhabitants stopped when they recognized the Old Sword Strip.

Chen Changsheng used the Old Sword Strip, a captured expert, and the threat of a united Eight Desolations Nine Regions to force Desperate Valley to withdraw. He then planned to undermine Four Directions Continent, while its leaders called for a World Lord Assembly to unite their scattered forces.

• Fu Yao explained the Old Sword Strip’s power and warned Desperate Valley that Chen Changsheng could kill some of its people, but Desperate Valley refused to bow.
• Chen Changsheng slapped the captured Desperate Valley expert, declared that the Eight Desolations Nine Regions stood united, and sealed him in the Mountain and River Splendor Painting.
• Chen Changsheng threatened to make Desperate Valley the target of his next campaign, and Desperate Valley vanished from the valley.
• Chen Changsheng told Zhang Zhen that Forbidden Grounds were too powerful to defeat directly, but Desperate Valley feared the cost of fighting him; he then rejected Fu Yao’s request to return to the Heavenly Court alone.
• Desperate Valley refused to help Four Directions Continent and left, while its leaders’ opponents decided to convene a World Lord Assembly and have a World Lord bear the Mandate of Heaven.

Chen Changsheng arranged for Fu Yao to help Zhang Zhen awaken a heavenly soul so he could take a mission to kill Ye Mingjie. Meanwhile, Ma Ling'er found a technique that might repair the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect group’s damaged foundations, leaving them with a possible way forward.

• Fu Yao reported that his people had been wiped out, while Baili Changkong and Ye Feng were badly wounded and Sima Lan had nearly died.
• Chen Changsheng asked Zhang Zhen to kill Ye Mingjie, and Zhang Zhen agreed after Chen Changsheng offered to teach him how to awaken two heavenly souls.
• Chen Changsheng persuaded Fu Yao to help Zhang Zhen manifest a heavenly soul in exchange for watching Chen Changsheng teach him the method.
• Su You told the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect group that his foundation was damaged, and Gui Daoran said they lacked the treasures needed to repair everyone’s foundations.
• Ma Ling'er explained that the Mountain and River Academy’s Recultivating the Bitter Sea technique might restore their foundations and revealed that she had copied it from the Heavenly Court’s archives.

Ma Ling'er gave Xu Yao and the others a secret art to study while Jian Fei reflected on how their youthful courage had rekindled his own. Elsewhere, Fu Yao helped Zhang Zhen manifest his Heavenly Soul, then told Chen Changsheng that he and Zhang Bairen had once hesitated in the face of the New Era, unlike the fearless young people around them.

• Ma Ling'er gave Xu Yao and the others a secret art, and Jian Fei agreed to stand guard while they studied it.
• Jian Fei went to a marketplace for food, feeling that time with Xu Yao and the others had awakened his youthful spirit.
• Fu Yao used his Divine Sense Realm to help Zhang Zhen manifest a long-saber Heavenly Soul, warning that Zhang Zhen would likely need to disperse his cultivation and start over later.
• Fu Yao told Chen Changsheng that he and Zhang Bairen had feared the changes of the New Era and weighed the risks, while Chen Changsheng recalled once attacking a powerful clan without hesitation.
• Fu Yao praised Chen Changsheng for daring to challenge the Holy Ruins Forbidden Ground and said that his courage had led him to approve Xingde's marriage to Gongsun Huaiyu.

Chen Changsheng and Fu Yao reminisced about their younger courage and joked about distrusting each other. At the Black Tortoise Sect camp, Jian Fei disguised himself as Gui Daoran when Ye Hong arrived looking for him, but Ye Hong mistook Su You for Jian Fei and showed interest in him.

• Chen Changsheng and Fu Yao recalled how Chen Changsheng had once been willing to fight Zhang Bairen and Fu Yao to clear Wu Li's path, and compared their younger recklessness with their present caution.
• Chen Changsheng refused to eat the fruit Fu Yao handed him, joking that he had to guard against being poisoned.
• Ye Hong visited the Black Tortoise Sect camp and said the elders had arranged for her to marry Jian Fei, while Sima Lan would marry Su You.
• Jian Fei introduced himself to Ye Hong as Gui Daoran and claimed Jian Fei was cultivating inside, then passed Su You his Sword Box as Su You came out.
• Ye Hong mistook Su You for Jian Fei, gave him a handkerchief, and left; Su You said he would speak to Ye Feng about rejecting the marriage alliance.
• Jian Fei told Su You that Sima Lan was looking for him after he left his token in the room.

Jian Fei reassured Sima Lan that he would draw his sword to protect her despite the pain their relationship might bring, while Ye Feng warned him that the Azure Dragon Sect might target him. Elsewhere, Chen Changsheng explained how the Bitter Sea Rebuilding Method had helped create a Second Heavenly Soul, and Fu Yao considered his theory of how cultivators unlock their potential.

• Jian Fei told Sima Lan that he knew about the danger surrounding her and promised to draw his sword for her, making her smile before she left.
• Ye Feng and Baili Changkong emerged from hiding, and Jian Fei asked what they would do about their sects' demands.
• Ye Feng warned Jian Fei that talks between the Azure Dragon Sect and the Black Tortoise Sect had failed and that the Azure Dragon Sect might send people to kill him.
• Chen Changsheng explained to Fu Yao that he had used the Bitter Sea Rebuilding Method to form a Second Heavenly Soul and described his theory that a cultivator's potential emerged as an expanding vessel developed a gap.
• Fu Yao agreed that the theory could explain why powerful cultivators increased their destructive strength without making substantial breakthroughs in unlocking their potential.

Chen Changsheng explained how the Bitter Sea Rebuilding Method and the Heavenly Soul System could help cultivators awaken a second gift, then set out with Fu Yao to interfere in a dispute between the Azure Dragon Sect and the Black Tortoise Sect. Their plan left the new Vermillion Bird Sect realm lord facing the consequences of the conflict.

• Chen Changsheng explained that the Bitter Sea Rebuilding Method could help cultivators find a second source of potential, while success depended on their own efforts and the Heavenly Soul System.
• Chen Changsheng admitted that he had arranged for Xu Yao and the others to be beaten so they would explore how to awaken a second gift themselves.
• Chen Changsheng summoned Ox-Head and Horse Face to claim their promised service as mounts, then rode Ox-Head away while Fu Yao rode Horse Face in donkey form.
• Chen Changsheng told Fu Yao that he planned to keep the powerful figures from stopping a fight between Ye Feng's group and the Azure Dragon Sect, risking casualties and enmity.
• Chen Changsheng and Fu Yao headed off to watch the conflict and see how the new Vermillion Bird Sect realm lord would handle it, while Fu Yao whipped Horse Face to make him catch up.

Jian Fei agreed to ask Su You to help watch over Ye Feng’s sister, though he refused to take responsibility for her himself. Su You then emerged from seclusion carrying a “corpse,” leaving Ye Feng to witness the strange sight.

• Ye Feng confronted Jian Fei about his sister’s frequent trips outside and asked him to keep her safe.
• Jian Fei objected to being blamed and challenged Ye Feng’s choice to trust outsiders, while Ye Feng explained why he feared entrusting his sister to the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect.
• Ye Feng apologized for threatening Jian Fei and explained that he wanted his sister to find someone she could trust.
• Jian Fei agreed to ask Su You for help and said he would tell him the truth about Ye Feng’s sister.
• Su You emerged with a dark expression, carrying a “corpse,” and apologized to Ye Feng for the spectacle.

Su You agreed to protect Ye Hong from the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect and went to see her, where they confessed they both knew Jian Fei’s deception. Su You decided Ye Hong was the one for him, while Fu Yao and Cowherd watched and teased one another.

• Ye Feng explained that Ye Hong was in danger from the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, and Su You agreed to protect her in exchange for a Human Sentiment from Jian Fei.
• Su You visited Ye Hong, who revealed she had woven a flower wreath for him and had mistaken him for Jian Fei on purpose so she could keep seeing him.
• Su You told Ye Hong his real name, and she admitted she had already known he was not Jian Fei.
• Ye Hong said she would come see Su You again tomorrow, and Su You decided she was the one for him.
• Fu Yao and Cowherd watched the pair and exchanged teasing remarks about romance and bachelors.

Su You was ambushed while the Cowherd and the crooked merchant delayed the Black Tortoise Sect’s elders, and Ma Ling’er sent allies to aid several targets as she suspected a larger scheme. Meanwhile, Ye Mingjie held off five heavenly immortals and demanded that Tantai Mingmie face him.

• Su You shielded Ye Hong as two heavenly immortals and three earthly immortals attacked them near the Black Tortoise Sect’s camp.
• The Cowherd and the crooked merchant blocked five Black Tortoise Sect elders with a Peerless Grand Array, and the Enforcement Elder moved to test them.
• Jian Fei warned Ma Ling’er that Su You and other cultivators were under attack, prompting her to divide the group and send them to help.
• Ma Ling’er suspected multiple factions were involved and told Jiang Yongnian to remain behind because someone might target him for the Qingyang Sect’s Enlightenment Tree.
• Ye Mingjie withstood five peak heavenly immortals, wounded one, and challenged Tantai Mingmie to come face him.

Tantai Mingmie failed to cripple Ye Mingjie, who was later found dead after a hidden attacker struck him. As the Black Tortoise Sect promised to investigate, Jiang Yongnian remained captured, and Tantai Mingmie received orders to deal with the pursuers.

• Tantai Mingmie confronted Ye Mingjie, saying the Azure Dragon Sect would cripple him to answer for Wang Hai’s death, and the two fought.
• The old man recovered the unscrupulous merchant’s copper coins and candies, then warned that powerful outsiders had likely delayed them while trouble unfolded at the camp.
• Ye Gaofei reported Ye Mingjie’s death to Baili Xinghai, who learned that Jiang Yongnian and Ye Hong had been captured and ordered Baili Changkong to alert the Azure Dragon Sect.
• Chen Changsheng removed the Light Needles from Zhang Zhen, who explained that he had ambushed Ye Mingjie to take the Millennium Ice Toad.
• Tantai Mingmie reported that a knife wielder had wounded him and stopped him from completing his task, while a middle-aged man said Jiang Yongnian was already in their hands and ordered him to pursue the remaining followers.

Ma Ling'er sent Jian Fei ahead to stop the captors of Jiang Yongnian, while Ye Feng and Su You teleported to intercept the men holding Ye Hong. Zhang Zhen resolved the Rejuvenation Poison and received orders to head to the Central Region, and Jian Fei and Ma Ling'er joined the fight against Jiang Yongnian's captors.

• Ma Ling'er transformed into a donkey and carried Jian Fei seven hundred li ahead so he could intercept Jiang Yongnian's captors.
• Su You used a blood talisman to teleport himself and Ye Feng five hundred li ahead, and they confronted three black-clad men holding Ye Hong.
• Ye Feng took on two Immortal Venerable Realm experts while Su You faced the leader, and the black-clad man threw Ye Hong to the ground and restrained her.
• Zhang Zhen used the Millennium Ice Toad to draw out and regulate the Rejuvenation Poison, then heard Chen Changsheng order him to go to the Central Region.
• Jian Fei and Ma Ling'er arrived to help rescue Jiang Yongnian, and Jian Fei fought the three captors while Ma Ling'er formed a sword formation around them.

Xu Yao and her companions killed three Earthly Immortal experts, then Tantai Mingmie appeared and forced them to flee, leaving Xu Yao to fight him alone. Elsewhere, Su You, Ye Feng, Baili Changkong, and Sima Lan confronted Ye Xingxian, while Xu Yao lay near death until a simply dressed young man arrived.

• Ma Ling'er and Jian Fei overwhelmed the three men in black, and Xu Yao, Gui Daoran, and Jiang Yongnian joined them to kill the Earthly Immortal experts.
• Tantai Mingmie revealed himself, blocked the group’s attacks, and drove them to retreat with Jiang Yongnian.
• Xu Yao stayed behind to hold Tantai Mingmie off while Ma Ling'er, Jian Fei, and the others went to seek reinforcements.
• Su You and Ye Feng faced Ye Xingxian, a Second Grade Immortal King, and Baili Changkong and Sima Lan joined them.
• Tantai Mingmie defeated Xu Yao, battered her until she could barely remain conscious, and prepared to kill her.
• A simply dressed young man entered the battlefield as Xu Yao awaited death.

Swordsman Chen Xiang rescued Xu Yao from Tantai Mingmie and used the Sword God’s wooden sword to forge her a Sword Bone, leaving her to recover and complete her Sword Immortal Body. Elsewhere, Su You fell wounded while Ye Feng, Baili Changkong, and the others continued fighting Ye Xingxian.

• Chen Xiang appeared before Tantai Mingmie, killed Xu Yao’s attacker with Black Obsidian, then wounded Tantai Mingmie with sword qi and a fallen leaf.
• After Tantai Mingmie left, Chen Xiang revived Xu Yao and recognized her as Marshal Xu’s daughter.
• Chen Xiang discovered Xu Yao’s broken bones and unstable power, and concluded that she needed a Sword Bone to control it.
• A wooden sword arrived, and Chen Xiang used its hidden sword meaning to forge Xu Yao’s Sword Bone, causing her bones to be reshaped and her dangerous inner power to settle.
• Chen Xiang left Xu Yao to recover, while Su You collapsed injured at another battlefield as Ye Feng, Baili Changkong, and the others fought Ye Xingxian.

Su You survived a brutal battle and learned that a traitor was leaking information to the Four Directions Continent, while the sect leaders settled the youths’ assignments. The group recovered amid romantic teasing, and Ye Gaofei set out to handle the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect’s traitor himself.

• As Su You began awakening his Second Heavenly Soul, Chen Changsheng warned him that revealing his Confucian methods could expose his identity and told him to help uncover a traitor passing information to the Four Directions Continent.
• Su You pretended to faint, while the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect and Black Tortoise Sect leaders praised the youths and assigned Xu Yao and Su You to the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect and the others to the Black Tortoise Sect.
• Baili Xinghai offered to help deal with Ye Xingxian, but Ye Gaofei refused and said he would handle the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect traitor himself.
• After Baili Changhai defeated eighteen Azure Dragon Sect prodigies, the Central Region’s Quasi World Master ordered the Azure Dragon and Black Tortoise Sects to come to the Central Region, easing pressure on Xu Yao and the others.
• Ye Hong visited the recovering Su You, Ye Feng brought wine to Xu Yao, and Sima Lan told Jian Fei about the assignments while teasing him over Ma Ling'er.

Cowherd revealed that he had brought Xu Yao and the others to the Four Directions Continent as bait to expose its defenses and obtain its core assets, and he agreed to send Zi Ping and the others to Desolate Heaven Emperor Wu Li for their trial instead. He also planned to help one of Xu Yao’s group bear the continent’s Mandate of Heaven; the chapter ended with Chen Xiang returning to the Heavenly Court encampment and Zi Ping asking whether he had seen Dad.

• Cowherd told the profiteer that he had deliberately exposed Xu Yao and the others’ identities so the Four Directions Continent would reveal its flaws while trying to capture them.
• Cowherd said he was willing to use Zi Ping and his brothers as bait if necessary, arguing that they had to face a deadly trial to grow.
• The profiteer persuaded Cowherd to keep Zi Ping and the others out of the bait plan and send them to Desolate Heaven Emperor Wu Li instead, and Cowherd agreed.
• Cowherd revealed that he wanted one of Xu Yao’s group to bear the Mandate of Heaven of the Four Directions Continent and asked the profiteer for help.
• Chen Xiang returned to the Heavenly Court encampment exhausted, and Zi Ping asked whether he had seen Dad.

Zi Ping tried to keep the Heavenly Court’s factions from undermining their preparations for war, while Chen Xiang agreed to travel to the Four Directions Continent but refused to manage the court. The chapter ended with the leaders delaying intervention as the old and new factions argued, while Hu Tudou complained that Chen Xiang and the others still had no romantic prospects.

• Zi Ping suggested Chen Xiang go to the Four Directions Continent to help their father, and Chen Xiang agreed to go but refused to take charge of the Heavenly Court.
• Zi Ping arrived at the Heavenly Court Palace, where Xu Hu’s old guard and Yang Jian’s new faction were arguing over a local assault plan.
• Zi Ping explained to Yin Qi that neither faction would accept the other’s authority, then asked Yin Qi to bring Marshal Xu and the others out while he calmed the hall.
• In the back courtyard, Qian Ya, Kong Xuan, Yang Jian, and Xu Hu played mahjong while Qian Ya said no one could yet unite the court behind them.
• Xu Hu declined Yang Jian’s suggestion that he take charge, saying the court needed to move beyond rule by a single long-standing faction.
• Hu Tudou complained that Chen Xiang and the others were over ten thousand years old but still refused to seek partners, leaving Yin Qi reluctant to approach her.

Yin Qi was pressured by Hu Tudou to find a wife, while Gongsun Huaiyu appeared at the Heavenly Court and took command of its middle route army. After the generals left, Gongsun Huaiyu reunited with her son Zi Ping and thanked Hu Tudou and Su Wan'er for raising him.

• Hu Tudou scolded Yin Qi for remaining unmarried, and Yin Qi apologized before Su Wan'er seated him at the mahjong table.
• Xu Hu, Kong Xuan, and the others sensed the Tiger Guard's distinctive aura and prepared to leave.
• Gongsun Huaiyu entered the Heavenly Court hall, disciplined the arguing generals, and accepted command of the Middle Route Army.
• Kong Xuan assigned Yang Jian to the Right Route Army and Xu Hu to the Left Route Army.
• Gongsun Huaiyu removed her mask and reunited with Zi Ping, explaining that she had returned to steady the Heavenly Court and intimidate the Four Directions Continent.
• Gongsun Huaiyu thanked Hu Tudou and Su Wan'er for raising Zi Ping.