Chapter Summaries

Ning Chen fought Jiang Yun, Qi Wenzhu, and three Heaven Mending Pavilion Supreme Elders, killing all three elders before the two leaders retreated. After learning that an azure pearl might lead him to the life origin his true body needed, Ning Chen headed east across the Red Luan Starfield to seek a helper from a black-hearted merchant.

• Jiang Yun joined the battle, and he, Qi Wenzhu, the Heaven Mending Martial Champion, and three venerables encircled Ning Chen.
• Ning Chen wounded Qi Wenzhu, then killed the Ninth Supreme Elder after invoking Phoenix Ancestral Return.
• Ning Chen defeated Qi Wenzhu’s sea beast and killed the Seventh and Eighth Supreme Elders with the White Rainbow Sword and Taishi.
• Jiang Yun and Qi Wenzhu retreated after Ning Chen challenged them, and Ning Chen let them escape.
• Ning Chen’s demons devoured the dead elders’ remaining origin power, and one demon gave him an azure pearl that suggested a visit to Heaven Mending Pavilion.
• Ning Chen explained that he could not risk attempting Immortal Ascension yet, then flew east to seek help from a black-hearted merchant.

Ning Chen negotiated with the Moonlit Tower Master to attack the Heaven Mending Pavilion in three months, then returned to the Ink Sect and found Ayluo Zhen’s damaged soul. As Ning Chen prepared to awaken his demon body for the coming battle, the Moonlit Tower Master went to Shenji Peak and told Shenji it was time to leave the mountain.

• Ning Chen asked the Moonlit Tower Master to help him attack the Heaven Mending Pavilion, and they agreed on a three-month preparation period in exchange for the Time Restriction, the Heaven and Earth scrolls, and a promise.
• Ning Chen returned to the Ink Sect, found Ayluo Zhen’s incomplete soul on Eighth Peak, and used his power to stabilize and protect it.
• Ning Chen summoned the thousand great demons and set up Yellow Springs and the Time Restriction so they could help awaken his demon body over the next three months.
• The Moonlit Tower Master appeared at Shenji Peak and told Shenji it was time to leave the mountain.

Ning Chen restored his demonic body and joined forces with the Moonlit Tower Master, King Qi, Divine Mechanism, and Moon-Worshiping Venerable to reach Heaven Mending Pavilion’s hidden stronghold. After Ning Chen shattered its protective formation, he opened the battle with a devastating sword strike, and the Pavilion’s forces prepared to retaliate.

• Ning Chen thanked the demons who had restored his demonic body, then merged with it to strengthen himself while his original body remained unconscious.
• Ning Chen met the Moonlit Tower Master in Golden Radiance City, and they traveled toward Heaven Mending Pavilion with King Qi joining them along the way.
• Ning Chen, King Qi, and the Moonlit Tower Master reached the ancient star containing Heaven Mending Pavilion’s hidden sect, where Divine Mechanism and Moon-Worshiping Venerable joined them.
• Ning Chen studied the formation for three hours and broke it with a strike from the Grand Beginning Sword, exposing Heaven Mending Pavilion’s stronghold.
• Ning Chen launched the battle with his Ultimate Heaven sword technique, while the Moonlit Tower Master, Divine Mechanism, and King Qi declared their opposition to Heaven Mending Pavilion.
• The Heaven Mending Pavilion Master summoned the Heaven Mending Venerables as a great battle became imminent.

Ning Chen and his allies launched an assault on Heaven Mending Pavilion, with Lin Yuzhen and Shenji holding off its leaders while the Moonlit Tower Master cleared a path for Ning Chen. Deep inside the pavilion, four ancient peak experts emerged from coffins to attack Ning Chen, who met them with his twin swords and transformed.

• Ning Chen, Lin Yuzhen, Shenji, and the Moonlit Tower Master arrived above the Heaven Mending Secret Realm and challenged Heaven Mending Pavilion.
• Lin Yuzhen engaged the Pavilion Master while Shenji fought ten Supreme Elders, allowing Ning Chen and the Moonlit Tower Master to descend into the pavilion.
• The Moonlit Tower Master used Yellow Springs to defeat and wound the guards led by Qi Wenzhu and Jiang Yun, then helped Ning Chen break through the encirclement.
• Ning Chen pushed deeper into Heaven Mending Pavilion and encountered four ancient peak True Realm experts emerging from coffins.
• Ning Chen used Zhuxian alongside his other sword to form the Taiji Array Diagram and neutralize the four experts' attacks.
• Ning Chen invoked Spirit Transformation, turning his hair blood-red as the Four Symbols bolstered him.

Ning Chen defeated four ancient Supreme Elders and brought down the Exquisite Pagoda during the assault on the Heaven Mending Pavilion. As the allied battlefields fell silent, an ordinary-looking man in azure emerged from the pavilion’s depths and immobilized everyone, leaving Ning Chen and the others facing the sect’s final hidden power.

• Shenji, Lin Yuzhen, and the Moonlit Tower Master held back the Heaven Mending Pavilion’s forces while Ning Chen fought four ancient Supreme Elders.
• Ning Chen shattered the Two Principles Formation, summoned the Extreme Heaven Sword, and killed all four elders despite suffering injuries.
• The Exquisite Pagoda emerged and unleashed a massive waterfall, but Ning Chen’s Fire Phoenix broke through its defenses and knocked it from the sky.
• An azure-clad man emerged from the pavilion’s depths, restored its ruined halls, and silenced the battlefield with a command.
• Shenji, Lin Yuzhen, and the Moonlit Tower Master found themselves unable to move as the man altered the surrounding laws, while Ning Chen prepared to face him.

Ning Chen and his demonic body fought Qi Kuanglan with their full strength inside the Heaven Mending Secret Realm, while the battles elsewhere shifted with the arrival of Qi Xuan and Shenji’s display of a Fourth Realm technique. As the two bodies began to show signs of defeat, Ning Chen sent his demonic body into the sky to unleash Star Transformation, forcing Qi Kuanglan to meet the falling stars with all his cultivation.

• Qi Kuanglan appeared and accepted Ning Chen’s challenge to fight one-on-one to the death.
• Ning Chen fought Qi Kuanglan at full strength, but Qi Kuanglan wounded him and offered to spare him if he joined the Heaven Mending Pavilion.
• Ning Chen revealed his demonic body, and the two bodies coordinated their attacks to hold Qi Kuanglan back.
• The Moonlit Tower Master helped Lin Yuzhen, who then headed toward Ning Chen’s battlefield, but Qi Xuan returned and intercepted her.
• Shenji unleashed Spring and Autumn, One Sword: All Things Awaken, while Ning Chen and his demonic body struck Qi Kuanglan with their ultimate arts and drove him to his knees.
• As the two bodies showed signs of defeat, Ning Chen sent the demonic body into the sky to unleash Star Transformation, and Qi Kuanglan rose to withstand the falling stars.

Ning Chen fought Qi Kuanglan while Lin Yuzhen, the Moonlit Tower Master, the Moon-Worshiping Venerable, and Shenji battled Heaven Mending Pavilion’s forces. As Ning Chen withdrew to recover, the Moon-Worshiping Venerable and Shenji took over against Qi Kuanglan, while Lin Yuzhen revealed her restored appearance and pressed Qi Xuan back.

• Qi Kuanglan blocked the falling star and reincarnation tribulation, but Ning Chen pierced his protective qi with the Immortal Slaying Sword before Qi Kuanglan seized the blade and blasted him away.
• The Moon-Worshiping Venerable and Shenji intervened when Ning Chen and Qi Kuanglan prepared to unleash their Demonic Phoenix Tribulation, allowing Ning Chen to withdraw and treat his injuries.
• The Moon-Worshiping Venerable and Shenji joined forces against Qi Kuanglan, while the Moonlit Tower Master warned Ning Chen that he needed to reach the Immortal Ascension Realm before the world’s origin power ran out.
• The Moonlit Tower Master held back the Heaven Mending Venerables, and the Moon-Worshiping Venerable revealed her true appearance and joined the battle against Qi Kuanglan.
• Lin Yuzhen unleashed Phoenix Dance Heavenly Splendor, injured Qi Xuan again, and restored her original appearance as she continued attacking.

Ning Chen and his allies battled Qi Kuanglan in the Heaven Mending Secret Realm, then Ning Chen used a combined assault to cast Qi Kuanglan into the void. As Ning Chen and the others moved to finish the Pavilion's remaining defenses, a mysterious sword-bearing group arrived at the ancient star and sent Sword Slave to deliver a sword invitation.

• Shenji and Moon-Worshiping Venerable joined forces against Qi Kuanglan while Ning Chen recovered and gathered power for a decisive attack.
• Ning Chen unleashed Demonic Phoenix Tribulation, and he and Qi Kuanglan were both wounded in the collision.
• Moon-Worshiping Venerable froze the battlefield with the Sky-Stabilizing Chessboard, allowing Shenji to attack, and Ning Chen pierced Qi Kuanglan before his demon body cast them both into the void.
• Ning Chen sent Shenji and Moon-Worshiping Venerable to assist the Moonlit Tower Master and King Qi, then rushed toward the Heaven Mending Pavilion's vital grounds.
• The Moonlit Tower Master and Shenji joined forces against the Pavilion's venerables as an ancient sedan arrived beyond the ancient star and ordered Sword Slave to deliver a sword invitation.

Ning Chen explored the Heaven Mending forbidden ground, spared the sentient immortal herb Little Gourd, and destroyed the Heaven Mending Pavilion’s earth vein. After the Pavilion’s defeat, a Sword Slave invited him to a Sword Pavilion discourse in one hundred days, and Ning Chen departed with his allies, knowing the Pavilion could not yet be destroyed completely.

• Ning Chen chased down a sentient immortal herb in the forbidden ground, resisted the demon body’s demand to devour it, and learned the boy’s name was Little Gourd.
• Little Gourd led Ning Chen to four medicine kings, and Ning Chen severed the earth vein and absorbed its spiritual energy into Trapping Immortal.
• A blue-clad Sword Slave invited Ning Chen to the Sword Pavilion’s discourse on the sword in one hundred days, and Ning Chen said he would consider attending.
• Ning Chen reunited with Divine Strategist, Moonlit Tower Master, Lin Yuzhen, and the others after they had defeated the Heaven Mending Pavilion experts without killing them all.
• Lin Yuzhen warned Ning Chen that seizing Little Gourd and destroying the earth vein would bring trouble, while Ning Chen acknowledged that he lacked the strength to destroy the Pavilion completely.

Ning Chen and his demonic body used four medicine kings and Little Gourd’s blood to try to awaken the unconscious original body at the Mishui Riverbank. The original body’s Transcendent Immortal Tribulation descended before she woke, and the exhausted dual bodies faced the Dragon Gate as it fell upon them.

• Ning Chen parted from Lin Yuzhen and the Moonlit Tower Master, then went to the Mishui Riverbank with his unconscious original body and Little Gourd.
• Ning Chen and his demonic body cultivated four medicine kings with the Trapping Immortal Sword and used their medicinal power to try to awaken the original body.
• Little Gourd repeatedly gave his blood to strengthen the medicine, and the Phoenix and Demonic Dual Bodies poured their power into the original body through the Two Forms Array.
• The original body’s Transcendent Immortal Tribulation began, forcing the nearly exhausted dual bodies to fight the overwhelming lightning.
• Ning Chen and his demonic body unleashed their strongest techniques, but the heavenly tribulation shattered the demonic phoenix and struck them down.
• The Dragon Gate appeared in the void and descended to suppress Ning Chen’s three bodies.

Ning Chen failed to transcend to immortalhood, and the Dragon Gate suppressed the cultivation of all three of his bodies. He reached the Moonlit Tower to meet King Qi and prepared to continue toward the Sword Pavilion debate, where a Great Omen of Disaster awaited.

• Ning Chen and his demonic body awoke after the failed tribulation, and Ning Chen explained that he had spared his original body because he could not bear to lose his last shred of conscience.
• Ning Chen absorbed his unconscious original body into the Phoenix Body and left for the Moonlit Tower with his demonic body and Little Gourd.
• At the Moonlit Tower, Lin Yuzhen and the Moonlit Tower Master discussed Ning Chen's failed tribulation and the dangers awaiting him at the Sword Pavilion debate.
• Red Luan admitted she was worried about Ning Chen, and the Moonlit Tower Master warned her that his heart could not hold another love.
• Ning Chen arrived and told Lin Yuzhen and the Moonlit Tower Master that he had failed to transcend; the Tower Master warned that each use of his power would strengthen the Dragon Gate's suppression.
• Ning Chen said he hoped to use the Sword Pavilion debate to repair Star Soul and his life-bound sword, while the Moonlit Tower Master revealed that his divination had shown a Great Omen of Disaster.

Ning Chen and Lin Yuzhen arrived at Sword Pavilion for the Boundless Sword Feast, where the Phoenix Cry Sword’s history tied Northern Qi to the Pavilion. The Third and Second Pavilion Masters disagreed over whether to reclaim the sword, leaving its fate uncertain.

• Ning Chen and Lin Yuzhen left the Moonlit Tower as Red Luan watched them depart and the Moonlit Tower Master urged her to let go.
• Ning Chen and Lin Yuzhen traveled by Heavenly Boat to the Myriad Phenomena Star Domain and entered Sword Pavilion with their invitations.
• Lin Yuzhen told Ning Chen that Sword Pavilion’s founder had given the Phoenix Cry Sword to Northern Qi’s founding emperor, and warned that the swords at the feast could attract covetous attention.
• The Third Pavilion Master learned that Ning Chen and Lin Yuzhen had arrived and asked whether Shenji and Yue Zhinv had come.
• The Second Pavilion Master insisted that Sword Pavilion should reclaim the Phoenix Cry Sword, while the Third Pavilion Master argued that it had been given away and no longer belonged to them.

Ning Chen and Lin Yuzhen met with the Sword Pavilion’s masters, and Ning Chen asked them to repair his two broken swords. The Pavilion offered to do so if he won first place at the Boundless Sword Feast, whose three contests were explained as the meeting drew to a close.

• Ning Chen warned Lin Yuzhen to prepare for danger before their meeting with the Sword Pavilion’s three Pavilion Masters.
• Jing Wuxia examined Ning Chen’s broken Lifebound and Star Soul swords and offered to repair them if he won first place in the Sword Discussion rankings.
• Jing Wuxia asked to inspect Lin Yuzhen’s Phoenix Cry Sword, and Shui Wuyue appeared and reached for it before leaving the hall.
• Mei Wuhen emerged from seclusion, and Ning Chen and Lin Yuzhen learned she was half a step into the Fourth Realm.
• Jing Wuxia explained that the Boundless Sword Feast consisted of sword appraisal, sword discussion, and sword contest, with victory in all three determining first place.

At the Sword Pavilion’s Boundless Sword Feast, the gathered swordsmen appraised their famous blades, and Phoenix Cry was judged a heaven-grade sword while Grand Beginning was deemed supreme-grade. As the feast reached its final appraisal, an ancient sword arrived with the announcement that it was Listening to the Heavenly Palace.

• Mei Wuhen explained that the feast would select twenty swords whose owners could study the Sword Pavilion’s Sword Canon and advance to the sword debate.
• At the White Feather Sword God’s urging, Mei Wuhen added Shui Wuyue’s Sunset Glow Sword to the appraisal, and Clear Sky and Like Fire were both judged supreme-grade.
• Phoenix Cry appeared in a blaze of crimson light and was appraised by Mei Wuhen as a heaven-grade sword, while Shui Wuyue watched it intently.
• Ning Chen presented Grand Beginning, which Jing Wuxia appraised as a supreme-grade sword.
• A blue-clad swordsman challenged Ning Chen to show his immortal swords and attacked with a wine-made water sword; Ning Chen wounded him with an Invisible Sword before Mei Wuhen subdued him with her aura.
• After the remaining swords were appraised, an ancient sword flew into the hall, and Mei Wuhen identified it as Listening to the Heavenly Palace.

At Sword Pavilion, Mu Changge entered the sword appraisal and Listening to the Heavenly Palace ranked second, while Phoenix Cry Sword took first. Ning Chen and Lin Yuzhen entered the Sword Cavern to study its difficult Sword Canon, but as sunset approached, a surge of sword pressure sent Ning Chen crashing into a wall and spitting blood.

• Mu Changge arrived at the sword appraisal and presented Listening to the Heavenly Palace, which Mei Wuhen judged to be a heaven-grade sword.
• Jing Wuxia announced the rankings, placing Phoenix Cry Sword first, Listening to the Heavenly Palace second, and Grand Beginning Sword fourth, then led the top twenty experts to the Sword Cavern.
• Jing Wuxia warned Ning Chen to be careful, and Ning Chen and Lin Yuzhen discussed the tension among the Pavilion Masters before entering the cavern.
• Ning Chen began memorizing the scattered Sword Canon murals while Lin Yuzhen watched over him and helped track how many remained.
• As sunset neared, Mei Wuhen told Shui Wuyue that outsiders could not easily cultivate the Sword Canon, and Shui Wuyue said Jing Wuxia had gone to retrieve them.
• A vast sword pressure erupted inside the Sword Cavern, and Ning Chen was thrown into a stone wall, coughing up blood.

Ning Chen recovered from his injuries and demonstrated the Sword Canon he had comprehended in the Sword Cavern, drawing the Sword Pavilion’s attention to his achievement. Later, Mu Changge revealed Sword Twelve to Ning Chen, who was left contemplating the difference between his own sword and the swords of true lifelong swordsmen.

• Mei Wuhen arrived at the Sword Cavern, greeted Ning Chen and Lin Yuzhen, and sent Jing Wuxia to escort them out.
• Ning Chen healed in the courtyard, then demonstrated the Sword Canon for Lin Yuzhen and explained that memorizing its murals had let him understand its techniques, though the effort had injured him.
• Mei Wuhen suspected Ning Chen had comprehended the Sword Canon, while Shui Wuyue dismissed the danger to him and insisted the canon must not be leaked; Jing Wuxia warned her against provoking Ning Chen and his allies.
• Mu Changge visited Ning Chen and demonstrated Sword Eleven and Sword Twelve, explaining how his swordsmanship had advanced after Sword Eleven was defeated by a swordsman from the Divine Continent.
• Ning Chen thanked Mu Changge and reflected that, unlike the legendary swordsmen, his own sword was no longer pure.

At the Boundless Sword Feast’s sword discussion, Ning Chen demonstrated the Heavenly Palace Sword Art and earned a place among the top ten. He and the other qualifiers entered the Sword Domain to cultivate for half a day, where the laws surged around them.

• Lin Yuzhen presented the Northern Qi Imperial Family’s Rivers and Mountains Rain and Wind Sword, which Mei Wuhen judged a Heaven-grade sword art.
• Mu Changge and Ning Chen each demonstrated the Heavenly Palace Sword Art, and both were ranked as superior swords.
• Ning Chen, Mu Changge, Lin Yuzhen, and Shui Wuyue judged the Heavenly Feather Sword God’s sword art to be Heaven-grade, and the other swordsmen agreed.
• Jing Wuxia announced the rankings, placing Lin Yuzhen’s sword, the Sword Canon, and the Heavenly Feather Sword God’s art jointly first, with Ning Chen and Mu Changge’s Heavenly Palace Sword Art fourth and fifth.
• Shui Wuyue led the nine qualifiers into the Sword Domain, where Ning Chen and Lin Yuzhen separated to cultivate as the gates closed behind them.

Shui Wuyue confronted Lin Yuzhen in the Chaos Sword Domain to reclaim Phoenix Cry, and their battle left both women wounded. Ning Chen arrived as the Sword Domain’s laws formed a Dragon Gate above him, while Mei Wuhen blocked Jing Wuhen from entering.

• Shui Wuyue challenged Lin Yuzhen for Phoenix Cry, and their divine swords clashed across the Chaos Sword Domain.
• Shui Wuyue wounded Lin Yuzhen with Dark Moon Heavenly Sun, but Lin Yuzhen changed her technique and later wounded Shui Wuyue in return.
• Mei Wuhen watched the battle through a Heavenly Curtain and blocked Jing Wuhen from reopening the Sword Domain.
• Ning Chen sensed the battle’s disturbance and hurried toward Lin Yuzhen and Shui Wuyue.
• Ning Chen reached the battlefield and struck Sunset Glow with Taishi, as the Sword Domain’s laws formed a Dragon Gate that descended to suppress him.

Ning Chen and his demonic body damaged the Dragon Gate tribulation with a Sword Canon technique, though Shui Wuyue warned that it would recover and called his breakthrough a calamity. After leaving the Sword Domain, Ning Chen prepared for the next day’s sword contest and said his odds against the First Pavilion Master depended on the rules.

• Ning Chen and his demonic body used Dark Moon Heavenly Sun to crack the Dragon Gate, destroying thirty percent of it before the tribulation vanished.
• Lin Yuzhen supported the wounded Ning Chen, while Shui Wuyue warned that the Dragon Gate could recover and then left without fighting over Phoenix Cry Sword.
• Shui Wuyue told Jing Wuxia that three people inside the Sword Domain could threaten her, including Ning Chen and Lin Yuzhen.
• After the Sword Domain gates opened, Mu Changge urged Ning Chen to keep trying to destroy the Dragon Gate and warned him that the First Pavilion Master was dangerous.
• Ning Chen told Lin Yuzhen he had a fifty-percent chance in a spar against the First Pavilion Master and a certain victory in a fight to the death.

The Boundless Sword Feast’s final round began, and Shui Wuyue and Lin Yuzhen won their opening matches. Ning Chen faced the Zhurong Family’s red-clad descendant as both drew their swords, leaving their duel just beginning.

• Mei Wuhen explained the lots and match rules, and the contestants drew numbers for the first round.
• Shui Wuyue defeated the blue-robed Venerable Yu with one sword strike, advancing to the next round.
• Lin Yuzhen defeated Sang Huai after a fierce exchange, though she was wounded; Ning Chen helped treat her injury.
• The White Feather Sword God and Mu Changge each defeated their opponents within a hundred moves.
• Ning Chen and the red-clad woman of the Zhurong Family entered the arena and revealed Taishi and the Like Fire Divine Sword as their battle began.