Chapter Summaries

Ning Chen and Bai Wangyu rescued Demonic Moon from the Emperor's Sword Sect, then discovered an unexplained seal inside her. At a banquet in the Divine Court, the Emperor's Sword Master sensed something and reached for his sword.

• Ning Chen disrupted the Emperor's Sword Array and entered it to protect the wounded Demonic Woman, Demonic Moon.
• Ning Chen fought the forty-nine Sword Immortals, and Bai Wangyu joined him; together they broke the array and defeated the swordsmen.
• Demonic Moon thanked Ning Chen and told him her family had been killed, then asked to follow him.
• Ning Chen sensed and searched for a hidden seal inside Demonic Moon but could not locate it.
• At a Divine Court banquet, the Emperor's Sword Master sensed something, set down his cup, and grasped the ancient sword at his side.

Ning Chen survived a sword strike from the Emperor's Sword Master, while the Divine Court sent Tian Chi and the Giant Spirit Divine General to capture Qing Jian in West River. The battle left Qing Jian buried beneath a hammer strike, though Tian Chi warned that the fight was not over.

• The Emperor's Sword Master sent a strike at Ning Chen, whose Immortal Severance Sword clashed with it before Bai Wangyu carried him and the Demonic Woman to safety.
• Ning Chen learned that the attacker was the Emperor's Sword Master, the foremost swordsman in the Eastern Divine Realm, and the Emperor's Sword Master descended to the lower realm after sensing Ning Chen had survived.
• A Divine General reported Qing Jian's whereabouts at West River, and the Divine Court Master ordered Tian Chi and the Giant Spirit Divine General to take the Thirty-Six Heavenly Stars and capture him.
• The Giant Spirit Divine General's first hammer strike failed to stop Qing Jian, who threw him away, then fought Tian Chi with their divine weapons.
• Tian Chi manifested his Great Divine Ability, but Qing Jian continued to gain the advantage until the Giant Spirit Divine General returned and struck him into a crater with his twin hammers.

Qing Jian fought the Divine Court’s Battle Divine Generals and the Thirty-Six Heavenly Stars until Purple Lightning Battle Divine General joined the fight and helped turn the tide against him. As the battle continued, the Emperor’s Sword Master appeared before Ning Chen and Bai Wangyu and demanded that they hand over Demonic Moon.

• Qing Jian hurled Giant Spirit Divine General into the Thirty-Six Heavenly Stars’ formation, injuring them, then fought Heaven’s Scourge Battle Divine General and resisted the Heavenly Gang Array.
• The Divine Court Master sent Purple Lightning Battle Divine General to aid Tian Chi and Giant Spirit after seeing them struggle against Qing Jian.
• Purple Lightning rescued Giant Spirit from Qing Jian’s devastating palm strike and joined Tian Chi and Giant Spirit in attacking him.
• Ning Chen recognized Qing Jian’s Mystic Heaven Art and warned that speed could be countered, but Qing Jian was wounded after Purple Lightning entered the battle.
• The Emperor’s Sword Master appeared before Ning Chen, Bai Wangyu, and Demonic Moon and asked them to hand over Demonic Moon.

Ning Chen fought the Emperor's Sword Master in a fierce battle that shifted back and forth, but Qing Jian's intervention disrupted Ning Chen's power and let the Emperor's Sword Master seize the advantage. Exhausted and facing a fatal strike, Ning Chen forcibly merged his three bodies and roared, “Again!”

• Ning Chen and the Emperor's Sword Master traded powerful sword attacks, with Ning Chen gaining an edge after wounding the Emperor's Sword Master's divine sense.
• Ning Chen used Phoenix Speed to try to break through the Emperor's Sword Master's perception, but Qing Jian's divine radiance struck him and shattered his frozen moment.
• The Emperor's Sword Master unleashed his full strength with nine golden dragons, forcing Ning Chen into a disadvantage as Ning Chen fought back with twin swords and the Two-Form Grand Array.
• Ning Chen's final sword techniques broke eight dragons and shattered the ninth, but the Emperor's Sword Master blocked his last strike and prepared to kill him.
• Ning Chen forcibly merged his human, god, and demon bodies and challenged the Emperor's Sword Master again.

Ning Chen and the Emperor's Sword Master fought a brutal duel that pushed both peerless swordsmen to their limits. After Ning Chen's Immortal Severance Sword shattered and left him nearly unable to move, he summoned a boundless sword intent, and the damaged Four Immortal Slaying Swords answered his call.

• Ning Chen gathered the strength of his three bodies and met the Emperor's Sword Master's nine-dragon attacks without retreating, while Bai Wangyu refused Demonic Moon's pleas to interfere.
• Ning Chen unleashed his demonic sword, hundred suns, and Great Sword Realm, but the Emperor's Sword Master countered with his own ultimate techniques and broke through the sword realm.
• Both swordsmen suffered heavy wounds, and Ning Chen summoned the Four Immortal Slaying Swords to face the Emperor's Sword Master's strongest attack.
• The Four Symbols origin erupted, and the Emperor's Sword Master broke Ning Chen's sword formation; the Immortal Severance Sword shattered, freezing the battlefield and breaking the nine dragons.
• Ning Chen used his divine consciousness to command spiritual-energy dragons, then unleashed an all-encompassing sword intent that made everything around him a sword.
• As the Emperor's Sword Master struggled through the sword light, Ning Chen called, "Rise, swords!!" and the four damaged immortal swords shook in response.

After clashing with the Emperor's Sword Master, Ning Chen survived but his Four Immortal Slaying Swords were left nearly broken. He learned they required rare materials and entered the Divine Court with Bai Wangyu, Qing Jian, and Demonic Moon to find the Heavenly Craft, but the Divine Court Master discovered their intrusion and sent nine Battle Divine Generals after them.

• Ning Chen and the Emperor's Sword Master exchanged their ultimate attacks, and both were blasted away before the battle could produce a clear winner.
• Azure Halberd intervened, drove off three pursuing Battle Divine Generals, and helped Bai Wangyu and Demonic Moon treat Ning Chen's severe injuries.
• Azure Halberd identified Ning Chen's broken swords as the Four Immortal Slaying Swords and said they had been forged from Innate Qi and Primordial Chaos Mother Qi; Ning Chen decided to seek information in the Divine Court's Heavenly Craft.
• Ning Chen, Bai Wangyu, Qing Jian, and Demonic Moon traveled to the Divine Court and used Demonic Moon's illusion to enter the Reverence for Heaven Pavilion after killing its guards.
• The Chaos Heavenly Mirror warned the Divine Court Master of the break-in, and he ordered all nine Battle Divine Generals to capture Qing Jian or kill him if he resisted.

Ning Chen, Qing Jian, Bai Wangyu, and Demonic Moon found the record they needed in Reverence for Heaven Pavilion, but the Divine Court ambushed them as they tried to escape. Just as the Divine Court Master moved to finish them, the mysterious old man from the pavilion stepped outside, and the Divine Court Master recognized him.

• Ning Chen's group searched the third floor of Reverence for Heaven Pavilion until an unknown old man appeared and gave Qing Jian the book Heavenly Craft to examine.
• Ning Chen found and memorized the records about Innate Qi and Primordial Chaos Mother Qi, then the four left the pavilion and discovered the surrounding silence was an illusion concealing hundreds of Divine Court generals.
• The nine Battle Divine Generals attacked the four, and Ning Chen, Qing Jian, and Bai Wangyu fought back while trying to escape with Demonic Moon.
• The Divine Court Master blocked their retreat with five-colored light, and Qing Jian refused his demand to submit.
• As the Divine Court Master prepared to attack again, the old man emerged from Reverence for Heaven Pavilion, and the Divine Court Master's expression changed when he recognized him.

Heavenly Sovereign rescued Ning Chen and his companions from the Divine Court, allowing them to escape the nine Battle Divine Generals. Ning Chen set out alone for Primeval Heaven to seek Innate Qi, while Qing Jian returned to learn from Heavenly Sovereign about the Mysterious Heaven Art and the coming transformation of the world.

• Heavenly Sovereign sent everyone before the Reverence for Heaven Pavilion beyond the Western Heavenly Gate, then told the Divine Court Master to leave the young people's affairs to them.
• Ning Chen led Qing Jian, Bai Wangyu, and Demonic Moon through the Battle Divine Generals' encirclement, and Qing Jian covered their escape with his divine eye.
• Ning Chen announced that he would travel alone to Primeval Heaven in the Fifth Heaven to search for Innate Qi, leaving Demonic Moon in Bai Wangyu's care.
• Qing Jian returned to the Reverence for Heaven Pavilion, where Heavenly Sovereign advised him that change was the key to completing the Mysterious Heaven Art.
• Heavenly Sovereign reflected on the ancient catastrophe and the signs of a new era approaching, while the Immortal Corpse Procession returned to the underworld and the old gravekeeper welcomed Underworld King Yama.

Ning Chen and Little Gourd searched Primeval Heaven for Innate Qi, then descended into a chaotic fissure where Ning Chen began reforging the Four Immortal Slaying Swords. He tried to fuse his three chaotic powers to create Chaos Qi, but the powers resisted, leaving him badly injured as he forced them together.

• Ning Chen endured Primeval Heaven’s deadly cold while searching for Innate Qi, and Little Gourd emerged unharmed and began absorbing the world’s spiritual energy.
• Little Gourd found a fissure leaking Innate Qi, and Ning Chen brought him down into the chaos below.
• Ning Chen repeatedly split open the chaotic world with the Immortal Slaying Sword until he and Little Gourd reached the source of the Innate Qi.
• Ning Chen summoned the Four Immortal Slaying Swords and began reforging them, but found that the required Primordial Chaos Mother Qi was missing.
• Ning Chen manifested his human, phoenix, and demon bodies and used a Heaven and Earth Cage of sword intent to force their three chaotic powers to merge.
• After the powers violently wounded him and nearly shattered the cage, Ning Chen’s three bodies entered the opposing auras and he tried to fuse them by force.

Ning Chen spent a century reforging the Four Immortal Slaying Swords while events across the realms moved toward open conflict. Mu Chengxue returned to the Heavenly Realm, Qing Jian faced a Divine Court army, and the Devil Realm invaded Sumeru Buddha Mountain as Cihang watched from afar.

• Ning Chen fused his three bodies and chaos origins, then used phoenix fire, Chaos Qi, and Innate Qi to begin reforging the Four Immortal Slaying Swords; after nearly a century, the swords had regained some of their divinity.
• Mu Chengxue returned to the Fifth Realm as the Supreme One, drew a heavenly tribulation, and split the clouds with the Supreme Divine Sword; the Water Cloud Empress set out east after sensing her power.
• The Underworld King Yama left the underworld after waiting a hundred years for someone who never returned, while Qing Jian defeated five Battle Divine Generals and the Divine Court approved a campaign against him.
• Three days later, a hundred thousand Divine Court troops descended, and Qing Jian charged toward them with his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade.
• The Devil Realm invaded Sumeru Buddha Mountain, where the Devil Realm's Venerable confronted Western Buddha and Yaofeng led the assault.
• Cihang Bodhisattva saw the dark clouds spreading above Buddha Mountain while performing good deeds to atone for her sins.

The Lord of the Demon Realm took Buddha Mountain after the Western Buddha sacrificed himself to spare the Buddhist Realm, then sent Yaofeng to retrieve a young man from the Eastern Divine Realm. As Cihang Bodhisattva and Yaofeng fought, chaos spread across the realms while Ning Chen continued forging the four immortal swords, and a vast rift swallowed several Great Life Stars.

• The Western Buddha burned away his body and died to protect the Buddhist Realm, and the Lord of the Demon Realm shattered his relic and ordered the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas seized.
• Yaofeng killed a resisting Buddha, subdued the others, and received the Demon Lord's order to bring a young man from the Eastern Divine Realm.
• Cihang Bodhisattva encountered Yaofeng on the wilderness, and the two fought with forbidden Buddhist and demonic techniques until both were wounded without a clear victor.
• Conflicts spread across the Divine Realm and the human world as Ning Chen spent four hundred years forging the four immortal swords in the Fifth Heaven's chaotic world.
• A vast rift opened across the human world's starry sky and swallowed several Great Life Stars, while the old man in the Divine Court's Reverence for Heaven Pavilion sensed the approaching calamity.

After five hundred years forging the Four Immortal Slaying Swords, Ning Chen returned to a war-torn Eastern Divine Realm and reunited with Bai Wangyu and Demonic Moon. He learned the region was close to being engulfed by further war, while events across the Divine Realm and mortal world had shifted during his absence.

• The Black Phoenix's lingering consciousness tried to seize Ning Chen's body, but Ning Chen destroyed its soul with the Enlighten Me Dao Sword and used its power to fuel the sword forging.
• Ning Chen nourished the nearly complete Four Immortal Slaying Swords with his blood while turmoil spread across the Divine Realm and cracks appeared throughout the mortal world's starfields.
• Xia Ziyi survived a ten-day lightning tribulation and became the mortal world's first Heaven Realm expert, then left the Origin Crystal Pagoda with Consort Luo.
• Underworld King Yama's Immortal Corpse Procession reached the Rising Sun Divine Palace, but the Moon God recognized her connection to Marquis of Knowing Fate and let her pass.
• Ning Chen and his three forms, the Heavenly Book, and the Green Cauldron suppressed the rampaging Four Immortal Slaying Swords, which he sealed inside the Green Cauldron.
• Ning Chen returned to the Eastern Divine Realm, reunited with Bai Wangyu and Demonic Moon, and learned that war had devastated the region and threatened to spread further.

Qing Jian recruited Ning Chen and Bai Wangyu to storm the Divine Court, offering them his Dao insights in exchange for help. Joined by Demon Wind and Demonic Moon, they fought through the Divine Court’s defenses and faced the Divine Court Master as the chapter ended.

• Qing Jian asked Ning Chen and Bai Wangyu to help him attack the Divine Court, and they agreed after Bai Wangyu was provoked into joining.
• Qing Jian revealed that the Divine Court Master had ordered his parents’ deaths, and the group planned to strike Cloud Firmament Palace in three days.
• Demon Wind met Demonic Moon, claimed her as his younger sister, and joined the expedition alongside her.
• The five attacked the Western Heavenly Gate, defeated its guards, and pressed toward Cloud Firmament Palace as the Divine Court mobilized its forces.
• Ning Chen, Qing Jian, Demon Wind, Bai Wangyu, and Demonic Moon fought the Divine Court’s generals and army, breaking through with powerful attacks.
• The Divine Court Master appeared in five-colored light and confronted Qing Jian and the others.

Ning Chen and his allies fought through the Divine Court toward Cloud Firmament Palace, where the Divine Consort blocked their advance while the Divine Court Master healed in a blood pool. The Divine Court Master emerged at full strength and ordered the Divine Consort to withdraw so he could face them himself.

• Qing Jian fought the Divine Court Master's incarnation and wounded it with Thunderclap Slash, while Ning Chen, Demon Wind, and Bai Wangyu battled the Divine Court's forces.
• Demon Wind unleashed his demonic mirage and black gale, devastating the army and severely wounding several Battle Divine Generals.
• Ning Chen's group fought their way toward Cloud Firmament Palace, where Qing Jian sensed the Divine Court Master's True Body inside.
• The Divine Consort appeared, healed the Divine Court's soldiers with divine light, and blocked Ning Chen and Demon Wind using the Ultimate Purity Method.
• The Divine Court Master healed within the blood pool, emerged from Cloud Firmament Palace, and told the Divine Consort he would handle the battle himself.

Ning Chen, Qing Jian, and Yaofeng battled the overwhelmingly powerful Divine Court Master at the Cloud Firmament Palace and briefly trapped him with a coordinated attack. The Divine Court Master revealed mastery of two Heavenly Daos, while Qing Jian used the Mysterious Heaven Forbidden Style to shield his allies, leaving the fighters amid the destruction of half the Divine Court.

• The Divine Court Master confronted Yaofeng, Qing Jian, and Ning Chen, and their combined attacks failed to break his defense.
• Ning Chen fought the Divine Court Master with both swords, but the Divine Court Master repeatedly repelled him without moving from his position.
• Ning Chen used the Heavenly Tome to unleash his Extreme Cold Physique, while Qing Jian held the Divine Court Master in place and Yaofeng struck him with the Asura God-Slaying Slash.
• The Divine Court Master evaded Yaofeng's killing blow and revealed his control over the Way of Lightning and the Way of Profound Water.
• Qing Jian protected Ning Chen and Yaofeng with the Mysterious Heaven Forbidden Style, and the clash of their powers devastated half of the Divine Court.

Ning Chen escaped the Divine Court’s destruction only to be captured by the Empress and imprisoned in the Water Cloud Imperial Palace, while his allies sought help from the Demon Venerable and Rising Sun Divine Palace. Six years later, Rising Sun God arrived at the rebuilt Divine Court to demand someone from the Divine Court Master.

• Ning Chen used forty-nine wooden swords, the Enlighten Me Dao-Slaying Art, and Immortal Severance to create an opening, but the Divine Court Master struck him down as he fled.
• The Empress took unconscious Ning Chen from the crater before Heaven's Scourge Battle Divine General could capture him and imprisoned him in the Water Cloud Imperial Palace.
• Ning Chen endured the icy water prison without letting Little Gourd treat his injuries, and the Empress secretly replenished his strength when he neared death.
• After Qing Jian remained unconscious for three years, Yaofeng returned to Buddha Mountain while Bai Wangyu sought help from the Rising Sun Divine Palace; the Demon Venerable and Rising Sun God agreed to intervene.
• The Divine Court Master healed in the blood pool as the Divine Court was rebuilt, and six years later Rising Sun God arrived and demanded someone.

Rising Sun God attacked the Divine Court to find Ning Chen, while the clash between him and the Divine Court Master shook the realms. Ning Chen escaped the Water Cloud Empress’s prison and fought her until the Emperor's Sword Master arrived and wounded her.

• Rising Sun God demanded Ning Chen from the Divine Court Master, and the two emperors began a battle that shook the Divine Realm.
• Ning Chen awoke beneath Water Cloud Imperial Palace and used Little Gourd’s spiritual blood to heal his injuries.
• Ning Chen broke the chains with his sword intent, collapsed the water prison, and escaped as the Empress arrived too late to stop him.
• Ning Chen fought the Empress with Immortal Severance Sword and forced her onto the defensive before she trapped him in Ice Hell.
• The Emperor's Sword Master pierced the Empress with a golden sword light and joined the battle, prompting her to unleash a frost hell across the Northern Realm.

Ning Chen and the Emperor's Sword Master joined forces against the Water Cloud Empress, who returned from death and trapped them in a cage of ice. Ning Chen escaped by smashing through the cage with the Green Cauldron, leaving the Emperor's Sword Master behind as he fled north.

• The Emperor's Sword Master wounded the Water Cloud Empress and joined Ning Chen in battle, while the Rising Sun God and Bai Wangyu headed north after sensing Ning Chen's aura.
• Ning Chen and the Emperor's Sword Master attacked the Water Cloud Empress together, but she revived after Ning Chen pierced her heart and sealed them inside a cage of ice.
• Ning Chen used the Green Cauldron to damage the ice pillars while the Emperor's Sword Master held off the Empress, then broke through the cage and escaped.
• The Emperor's Sword Master dodged the Empress's attack, which shattered the damaged cage, and Ning Chen fled as he vowed to return after reaching the Heavenly Realm.

Ning Chen escaped the Empress and traveled with Demon Wind to Buddha Mountain, where the Demon Lord explained that the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth had begun. The Demon Lord asked Ning Chen to return to the mortal world and investigate how the Underworld King Pure Land had survived the last tribulation, and Ning Chen agreed as they waited for someone who could help cross realms.

• Ning Chen fled the Empress with the Emperor's Sword Master pursuing him, while the Rising Sun God searched for him across the Northern Divine Realm.
• Demon Wind arrived and took Ning Chen to Buddha Mountain, where demons had replaced the Buddhas and the Buddhist Realm remained peaceful.
• The Demon Lord taught the demons that the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth had begun and urged them to cultivate toward the Heaven realm.
• The Demon Lord privately asked Ning Chen to go to the Underworld King Pure Land and seek a way to survive the tribulation, and Ning Chen agreed.
• Ning Chen and the Demon Lord discussed the blurred distinction between demons and Buddhas as they waited for someone who could help them cross from the Divine Realm to the mortal world.

Ning Chen returned to the human world by breaking through the realm barrier, hoping to find a way to survive the coming Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth. After recovering, he visited the Heavenly Sound Pavilion to investigate why the inner realm had escaped the ancient tribulation, but the Pavilion Master's explanation did not convince him.

• The Demon Venerable and Rising Sun God agreed to open the barrier between the Divine Realm and the human world so Ning Chen could seek a way to transcend the tribulation.
• The Demon Venerable and Rising Sun God shattered the barrier briefly, and Ning Chen transformed into a sword to pierce through before it could fully repair.
• Ning Chen fell onto an uninhabited star in the Purple Star Starfield, spent three days recovering, and then headed into the inner realm.
• Ning Chen traveled to the Northern Polar Region and visited the Heavenly Sound Pavilion, where its Pavilion Master received him.
• Ning Chen asked why the inner realm had escaped the ancient Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth, and he rejected the Pavilion Master's suggestion that it was simply because the Underworld King had created the world.