Chapter Summaries

Marquis of Knowing Fate investigated the sound track’s connection to the coming calamity and traced the Four Symbols Divine Beings’ suppressed souls across the realm within. After confirming the Nether King’s plan and collecting the divine seals, he left with the search complete while the Demon Lord wondered whether he could avert the destruction.

• Ning Chen asked the Heavenly Sound Pavilion Master to keep the sound track moving while he searched the Extreme North, where he uncovered a Black Tortoise soul bearing the Nether King's power.
• Ning Chen persuaded the Western Buddha Lord to let him break open the Seven Buddhas Heavenly Pass, revealing a Vermilion Bird soul that he restrained and marked.
• Ning Chen showed the Black Tortoise and Vermilion Bird soul-power to Water God Tian Wu, who confirmed the Nether King had killed them and explained that the Four Symbols governed the world's primal origins; Tian Wu gave Ning Chen the Azure Dragon divine seal.
• Ning Chen found the White Tiger soul beneath Desolate City's Sword Pool, marked it, and obtained all four divine seals before the sound track stopped.
• In the God Realm, the Demon Lord asked Demon Wind whether Ning Chen could succeed, and Demon Wind said he believed in him.

As the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth spread from the human realm to the Divine Realm, Ning Chen gathered Xuan Jiuyou, the Moonlit Tower Master, and Ancient Sun Venerable to activate the Four Symbols origins at heaven and earth’s extremities. The Four Symbols appeared and began suppressing the four directions, but whether they could stop the tribulation remained unknown.

• Ning Chen returned to the Purple Star Divine Realm and asked Ancient Sun Venerable to help him test a method of Tribulation Transcending.
• Ning Chen recruited the Moonlit Tower Master by offering to help him travel to the Divine Realm, then persuaded Xuan Jiuyou to leave seclusion and assist him.
• Ning Chen, Xuan Jiuyou, the Moonlit Tower Master, and Ancient Sun Venerable each took one of the Four Symbols origins and set out for an extremity of heaven and earth.
• As the four traveled through increasingly shattered space, the Divine Realm’s strongest experts joined forces to close a vast crack in the sky.
• At their destinations, the four activated the divine seals, summoning the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise to suppress the four directions.

After the Four Symbols Divine Beings repaired the collapsing starry sky, Ning Chen searched the Myriad Phenomena Star Domain for A'man and found her trapped in an ancient palace. He discovered she had died, and as grief left him unable to resist the palace's lightning, the Moon God sensed his life fading and descended into the human realm.

• Xuan Jiuyou, Ancient Sun Venerable, the Moonlit Tower Master, and Ning Chen activated the Four Symbols Divine Seal, halting the destruction of the starry sky.
• Ning Chen promised the Moonlit Tower Master that he would bring him to the Divine Realm after confirming the changes in heaven and earth had ended, then left to search for A'man.
• Ning Chen found A'man in a sealed palace on a remote Great Life Star and fought through its wind and lightning to reach her.
• Ning Chen discovered that A'man was cold and unresponsive, and his grief left him unable to defend himself from the lightning striking him.
• The Moon God sensed that Ning Chen's life force was rapidly fading and descended into the human realm using the Moon Worshipper Clan's accumulated faith.

The Moon God rescued Ning Chen from the lightning sea, but A'man could not be revived and Ning Chen lost his sight. After carrying A'man's body through the stars for a hundred years, he returned to destroy the Great Kun Sword Sect's inheritors and then set out for the Divine Realm with her coffin.

• The Moon God braved the lightning sea and rescued Ning Chen and A'man, while Little Gourd and the Moon God restored Ning Chen's body.
• Ning Chen awoke blind and learned that A'man's three souls were gone; the Moon God urged him to return to the Divine Realm, but he stayed in the mortal world.
• For a hundred years, Ning Chen carried A'man through the stars, while the Moonlit Tower Master waited for him in Golden Radiance City.
• Ning Chen returned to the lightning sea with a green coffin and destroyed the three Great Kun Sword Sect inheritors who offered him their inheritance.
• Ning Chen took up A'man's coffin and headed for the Divine Realm, while the Moonlit Tower Master told Red Luan to prepare to leave.

After the Demon Lord revealed that A'man's soul might have escaped her body, Ning Chen endured ten years of humiliation before the Water Cloud Empress to secure her help. The Great Heaven Azure Lamp confirmed A'man's soul still existed and guided Ning Chen toward it, but his passage into Lihe Heaven drew the attention of the Turtle Spirit Old Ancestor.

• The Demon Lord examined A'man's body and told Ning Chen that her Three Souls may have left her body to escape danger, then directed him to seek help from the Water Cloud Empress.
• Ning Chen knelt in the rain outside the Water Cloud Imperial Palace for ten years until the Empress admitted him.
• The Water Cloud Empress accepted Ning Chen's promise to surrender his life in a thousand years and used the Great Heaven Azure Lamp to summon A'man's soul, but the soul did not return.
• The Empress gave Ning Chen the Azure Lamp, explaining that its flame would guide him to A'man and that her soul would perish if it went out.
• Ning Chen followed the lamp toward A'man, broke through the barrier into Lihe Heaven, and attracted the attention of the Turtle Spirit Old Ancestor, who coveted the Phoenix's blood.

Ning Chen fought the Turtle Spirit Old Ancestor in the Hundred Thousand Mountains as he tried to continue toward A'man's divine soul. After discovering the limits of the old ancestor's Eight Gates of Heavenly Mystery, Ning Chen wounded him, but the Turtle Spirit Old Ancestor regained the advantage and remained difficult to defeat.

• The Turtle Spirit Old Ancestor awakened in the Hundred Thousand Mountains, summoned his power despite the lightning tribulation, and blocked Ning Chen's path as he flew beyond Lihe Heaven.
• Ning Chen fought the Turtle Spirit Old Ancestor with the Immortal Severance Sword, and their attacks devastated the mountain range without either gaining a clear advantage.
• The Turtle Spirit Old Ancestor unleashed the Eight Gates of Heavenly Mystery, striking Ning Chen with lightning and using the gates to evade his attacks.
• Ning Chen sealed seven gates with sword energy and wounded the Turtle Spirit Old Ancestor at the remaining gate, then deduced that the old ancestor could not reenter a gate after leaving it.
• The Turtle Spirit Old Ancestor counterattacked and drove Ning Chen back, while Ning Chen used the Heavenly Tome of Creation to attack him with earth-shaking sword torrents.
• The Turtle Spirit Old Ancestor blocked Ning Chen's sword assault with Black Tortoise's Protection and evaded another attack by entering a gate, leaving Ning Chen facing the eight gates.

Ning Chen killed Turtle Spirit Old Ancestor and hurried toward the Third Heaven to save A'man, but a floating island suppressed his cultivation and sealed his divine sense. Blind and badly injured, he reached Tianji City with help from local girls and a boy, who led him to Tongwu Hall.

• Ning Chen used his twin immortal swords to sever both of Turtle Spirit Old Ancestor's arms, killed him, and had the magic body devour his remains.
• Ning Chen followed the fading Great Heaven Azure Lamp toward the Third Heaven, but his phoenix fire vanished above a floating island and he crashed to the ground.
• Ning Chen discovered that the island had sealed his divine sense and suppressed his cultivation, leaving him blind and unable to use his powers.
• Bailing and three tea-picking girls guided Ning Chen out of the mountains toward Tianji City after he asked for help finding martial artists.
• Ning Chen entered Tianji City, where passersby mocked and shoved him, and a boy who defended him was beaten.
• The boy led Ning Chen to Tongwu Hall, the largest martial arts hall in Tianji City.

Ning Chen defeated Tongwu Hall’s strongest fighters, gave the blue-clad youth Phoenix Blood, and traveled with Yao Ji to Cloud Heaven City. There, the Palace Lord revealed that the Godless Realm was a land of exile and directed Ning Chen toward Godless Theory, the one person who might know how to leave.

• Ning Chen easily defeated two challengers and then Yu Hong at Tongwu Hall, prompting the chief manager to mistake him for an immortal from the Heavenly Domain.
• Ning Chen learned that Cloud Heaven City might have immortals, gave his blood to the blue-clad youth to help him cultivate, and agreed to let Yao Ji guide him.
• After traveling for more than half a month, Ning Chen and Yao Ji reached Cloud Heaven City, where the Palace Lord invited Ning Chen to Star Plucking Tower.
• Ning Chen asked how he could leave the Godless Realm, and the Palace Lord explained that it was a land of exile where cultivation and divine sense were suppressed.
• The Palace Lord told Ning Chen that even Godless Theory had been unable to escape, then gave him an ancient parchment scroll and asked him to deliver a question if they met.

Ning Chen fought Godless Theory after discovering that her cultivation method stole power from others and that she wanted to use him to escape the Godless Realm. He defeated her, but she insisted that reaching the Heaven Realm would still take him at least a thousand years.

• Godless Theory explained that people born in the Godless Realm could not leave, then offered Ning Chen a choice between serving her plan or dying.
• Godless Theory drained the cultivation of ten immortals, and Ning Chen refused to submit and fought her with only his sword.
• Ning Chen pressed Godless Theory through a fierce battle, enduring her techniques and gradually gaining the advantage despite his lost cultivation, sealed divine sense, and blindness.
• Ning Chen and Godless Theory unleashed their strongest techniques, and their clash left Godless Theory defeated.
• Ning Chen spared Godless Theory and demanded to leave the Godless Realm, but she said reaching the Heaven Realm would take at least a thousand years.

After defeating Godless Theory, Ning Chen prepared to escape the Godless Realm with her help and promised Yao Ji a chance to rise above the rest. At Heavenly Pillar Peak, they began ascending through the realm’s ninety-thousand-li sky; Godless Theory exhausted herself and destroyed her immortal scroll to carry Ning Chen to eighty thousand li, leaving him to force their way through the final stretch.

• Ning Chen told Godless Theory he needed her help to leave, and she agreed on the condition that she could leave with him.
• Ning Chen gave Yao Ji Phoenix Blood and, with Godless Theory’s help, had a cultivation method bestowed upon her before saying goodbye.
• Ning Chen and Godless Theory traveled to Heavenly Pillar Peak, where he explained that the Qihuang Secret Art could help them escape if they reached eighty thousand li.
• Godless Theory carried Ning Chen upward, using her divine essence and immortal scroll to overcome the laws of heaven and earth.
• Godless Theory destroyed her immortal scroll to propel them to eighty thousand li, then fell as Ning Chen caught her and continued upward with nine dragons.
• Ning Chen drove through the final ten thousand li as the dragons were destroyed one by one, with one thousand li remaining before they could leave the Godless Realm.

Ning Chen escaped the Godless Realm, entered Boundless Heaven, and fought past Dugu Jian as he hurried to find A'man's fading soul. He located her in Black Forest, where a massive nine-headed beast began attacking as Ning Chen raced to reach her.

• Ning Chen crossed the Heavenly Curtain with Godless Theory, parted from him on a lonely meteor, and continued toward Boundless Heaven to save A'man.
• Ning Chen broke into Boundless Heaven, avoided a challenge from Azure Universe Heavenly Venerate, and severed Dugu Jian's arm when Dugu Jian attacked him.
• Ning Chen reached the Boundless Divine Dynasty and used the Great Heaven Azure Lamp to find A'man's soul in Black Forest.
• Ning Chen ignored the Boundless Great Emperor's warning and entered Black Forest, where a gigantic nine-headed beast rose and unleashed black flames near A'man.
• Ning Chen sensed the beast's attack, transformed into a phoenix, and sped toward A'man.

Ning Chen defeated the four ancient fiends in the Black Forest, subdued the Nine-tailed Black Fox, and hurried back to the Northern Divine Realm with A'man's soul. The Water Cloud Empress reunited A'man's soul and body, but A'man remained unconscious and might not awaken for a hundred or a thousand years, while Azure Universe Heavenly Venerate arrived and met the Empress.

• Ning Chen overcame the nine-headed qilin, Nine-tailed Black Fox, black tiger, and black bird after losing his sight, hearing, and divine sense, then bound the wounded fox and gave it to Little Gourd.
• Ning Chen left the Black Forest and told Azure Universe Heavenly Venerate that the Divine Realm held a sword master called the Emperor's Sword Master; Azure Universe Heavenly Venerate followed him there.
• Ning Chen reached the Northern Divine Realm and gave A'man's soul, held in the Azure Coffin, to the Water Cloud Empress, who began reuniting it with her body.
• Ning Chen used his twin swords to shield the Water Cloud Empress from heavenly punishment as she fused A'man's soul and body, but A'man did not awaken.
• The Water Cloud Empress sealed A'man inside the Azure Coffin and told Ning Chen that A'man might awaken in a hundred or a thousand years; Ning Chen promised to protect her body.
• Azure Universe Heavenly Venerate met Ning Chen and the Water Cloud Empress after the revival attempt ended.

Ning Chen brought Azure Universe Heavenly Venerate to the Eastern Divine Realm, where the Heavenly Venerate challenged the Emperor's Sword Master to a duel. After the Emperor's Sword Master defeated him, he seized Bai Wangyu and Demonic Moon and fled, with Ning Chen pursuing him.

• Ning Chen introduced Azure Universe Heavenly Venerate to Bai Wangyu and Demonic Moon at the Dragon King Temple, and learned that Qing Jian had departed after waking.
• Azure Universe Heavenly Venerate challenged the Emperor's Sword Master, who accepted a duel at Heavenly Mirror Lake three days later.
• Ning Chen, Bai Wangyu, and Demonic Moon watched as the two swordsmen fought fiercely above the lake and ascended into the ninth heaven.
• The Emperor's Sword Master emerged victorious, leaving Azure Universe Heavenly Venerate badly wounded as Ning Chen caught him.
• The Emperor's Sword Master restrained Bai Wangyu and Demonic Moon and fled, and Ning Chen immediately pursued him.

The Emperor's Sword Master sacrificed Demonic Moon, Bai Wangyu, and the White-robed Sword Immortals to ascend into the Heavenly Realm, then nearly killed Ning Chen. After A'man shielded Ning Chen, he entered the Divine Domain and fought back with the Immortal Severance Sword; their battle continued as his Phoenix Speed began to surpass time and space.

• Ning Chen pursued the Emperor's Sword Master to the Emperor's Sword Sect and broke through the array of three thousand White-robed Sword Immortals.
• The Emperor's Sword Master revealed that he had planted a Sword Seal in Demonic Moon and consumed her and Bai Wangyu to complete his ascent into the Heavenly Realm.
• The Emperor's Sword Master overwhelmed Ning Chen, broke his swords, and left him gravely wounded before A'man emerged from the Azure Coffin to shield him.
• Ning Chen protected A'man, summoned the nine black foxes to guard her, and manifested the Immortal Severance Sword as he entered the Divine Domain.
• Ning Chen and the Emperor's Sword Master fought across the Eastern Divine Realm, and Ning Chen's Phoenix Speed began to slow time around them.

Ning Chen battled the Emperor's Sword Master, whose Kunwu Divine Sword could sever the laws of the Divine Realm, and used the Four Immortal Slaying Swords and multiple bodies to overcome the weapon’s advantage. The chapter ended with Zhuxian piercing the Emperor's Sword Master's chest, while Yaofeng continued east after the Demon Venerable confronted Cihang Bodhisattva.

• The Emperor's Sword Master revealed Kunwu, the Divine Realm’s Foremost Sword, and used it to break Ning Chen’s attacks and laws of time and space.
• The Moon God warned Ning Chen about Kunwu, and the Emperor's Sword Master sent a sword strike toward her; Rising Sun God protected her and blocked it.
• Ning Chen fought back with Immortal Severance’s blood-red threads and the Immortal Slaying Sword, forcing the Emperor's Sword Master into a close contest of sword techniques.
• Yaofeng raced toward the east, but Cihang Bodhisattva intercepted her; the Demon Venerable arrived and told Yaofeng to continue onward.
• As Ning Chen began to weaken in the Divine Domain, he split into three bodies and launched a final attack with Zhuxian, Juexian, and Kunwu held at bay.
• Ning Chen’s demon body drove Zhuxian through the Emperor's Sword Master's chest.

Ning Chen pursued the gravely wounded Emperor's Sword Master into the Central Heaven Realm, where the Purple Lightning Battle Divine General joined the hunt. Ning Chen killed the Emperor's Sword Master and took Kunwu, then turned back to try to save the wounded Purple Lightning.

• Ning Chen chased the fleeing Emperor's Sword Master into the Central Heaven Realm and searched the primordial mountains for him.
• The Purple Lightning Battle Divine General reached the mountains and attacked the Emperor's Sword Master, but he used her strike as an opening to wound her severely with Kunwu.
• Ning Chen appeared behind the Emperor's Sword Master, cut his throat with Immortal Slaying, seized his divine soul, and devoured him.
• Ning Chen took Kunwu and began to leave, but stopped when the wounded Purple Lightning begged him to save her.
• Ning Chen tried to heal Purple Lightning, but her damaged divine armor blocked his true essence, so he tore the armor away and ordered her not to move.

Ning Chen saved the gravely wounded Purple Lightning and brought her back to the Eastern Divine Realm, only to discover that the Divine Court had captured the black fox and demanded the Kunwu Divine Sword in exchange. He set out for the Divine Court with Purple Lightning, who offered to help him rescue the captives without alerting its master.

• Ning Chen removed the Kunwu sword intent from Purple Lightning's wound, healed her external injury, and rested while she recovered beside him.
• Ning Chen carried Purple Lightning toward the Eastern Divine Realm, then hurried back to the Emperor's Sword Sect to check on A'man and the black fox.
• Ning Chen found the black fox's severed tail beneath Emperor's Peak, and the Divine Court Master demanded that he trade the Kunwu Divine Sword for the woman and the fox.
• Ning Chen suppressed his injuries and prepared to confront the Divine Court, but Purple Lightning offered to guide him and help rescue the captives.
• Ning Chen accepted Purple Lightning's help and flew with her toward the Divine Court, where the Divine Court Master resolved to obtain Kunwu at any cost.

Ning Chen broke into the Divine Court’s Heavenly Prison and rescued A'man, then accepted the Divine Court Master’s offer to leave in exchange for Kunwu. The Divine Court Master betrayed him, and Ning Chen fought his way through the army with Kunwu as the Divine Court Master unleashed his power.

• Ning Chen cut his way into the Heavenly Prison and shattered the Celestial Venerable-level cage with the Kunwu Divine Sword, freeing the Black Fox and reuniting with A'man.
• Ning Chen handed Kunwu to Purple Lightning and left the Divine Court with A'man and the Black Fox, but the Divine Court Master ordered the troops to attack and seize Purple Lightning.
• Purple Lightning fought the Divine Court Master, disarmed him, and sent Kunwu flying to Ning Chen before the Divine Court Master struck him down.
• Ning Chen caught the wounded Purple Lightning, used Little Gourd to preserve his life, and fought through the surrounding Heavenly Soldiers and Generals with the Black Fox following.
• Ning Chen drove Kunwu into the ground, unleashing sword pressure that shattered the encirclement, injured the six Battle Divine Generals, and nearly wiped out tens of thousands of troops.
• The Divine Court Master saw Kunwu’s power and launched his own attack, darkening the sky above the Divine Court.

Ning Chen battled the Divine Court Master, escalating his power with the Divine Domain and the Soaring Swan Art until their clashes tore open the Eastern Divine Realm. When a Heaven Realm tribulation began, the Moon God warned Ning Chen that ascending through power could ruin his chance to prove his Dao through the sword, but after suppressing his breakthrough, Ning Chen was struck and surrounded by strange radiance.

• Ning Chen fought the Divine Court Master with the Kunwu Divine Sword, then switched to the Nine Nether Secret Art and Soaring Swan Art when the sword could not pierce his opponent's body.
• Ning Chen entered the Divine Domain and countered the Divine Court Master's Dragon Qi with increasingly powerful attacks, while the two fighters' clashes split the heavens and damaged the Divine Realm.
• Both fighters regenerated their shattered right arms and resumed their battle, widening the cracks in heaven and earth until a heavenly tribulation descended around Ning Chen.
• The Rising Sun God warned the Moon God that Ning Chen might take the wrong path to the Heaven Realm, and the Moon God urged Ning Chen to stop the tribulation.
• Ning Chen suppressed his breakthrough, but the Divine Court Master struck him before he could recover his strength, and strange radiance rose around him despite his not undergoing the tribulation.

Ning Chen fought the Divine Court Master across the Divine Court, destroying the ancient stronghold and gravely wounding the Divine Consort. The Divine Court Master ended the battle and departed with her, while Ning Chen acknowledged that he had not defeated him.

• Ning Chen suppressed his breakthrough into the Heavenly Venerable realm and fought the Divine Court Master as a half-step Heavenly Venerable, matching his strength and entering the Divine Domain.
• Ning Chen drove the Divine Court Master into the Divine Court, where the Master used lightning to injure him and the Divine Consort attacked from behind.
• Ning Chen evaded the Divine Consort's strike and pierced her with Kunwu, prompting the enraged Divine Court Master to rescue her.
• Tian Chi and the five other Battle Divine Generals tried to stop Ning Chen, but Kunwu destroyed their Minor Worlds and sent them flying.
• Ning Chen used the Scroll of Earth and Kunwu to destroy the Divine Court, and the Divine Court Master chose to leave with the dying Divine Consort rather than continue fighting.