Chapter Summaries

The Demon Emperor arrived in the Marsh Kingdom to reclaim Qingqing, and the white-haired woman and Butterfly fought him and his nine retainers. Meanwhile, Ning Chen left Guigui behind to confront the Chaos Divine Demon as it broke free of the Deity Sealing Array, striking it with a Heaven and Earth Sacred Sword.

• Qingqing asked the white-haired woman to teach her martial arts, and Butterfly explained that Qingqing should cultivate the Dragon Clan's secret arts.
• The Demon Emperor arrived with nine Giant Dragons and ordered Qingqing to return with him.
• The white-haired woman attacked the Demon Emperor while Butterfly joined the fight against his nine Demon Race experts.
• Ning Chen sensed the Deity Sealing Array breaking, told Guigui to stay home, and flew toward the Chaos Divine Demon.
• The Chaos Divine Demon broke free of the seal, and Ning Chen merged three Heaven and Earth Sacred Swords into one that pierced its body.

Ning Chen fought the Chaos Divine Demon for ten days before returning to Guigui, while Butterfly sacrificed herself to help Qingqing escape from the Demon Emperor. Qingqing reached Ten-Mile Maple Forest, where Ning Chen sensed Butterfly’s aura and saw her approaching.

• Ning Chen enlarged his demonic body and battled the Chaos Divine Demon, destroying its body repeatedly while both fighters regenerated.
• After ten days and nights, Ning Chen and the Chaos Divine Demon vanished, and Ning Chen later returned to Ten-Mile Maple Forest to reunite with Guigui.
• In Marsh Country, the Demon Emperor exploited the white-haired woman's injuries and severely wounded her as nine Demon Race experts blocked Butterfly.
• Butterfly sent Qingqing away to find her master, then used Butterfly Burial Flower to attack the Demon Emperor and force back the nine Demon Race Great Sages.
• Carried by ten thousand butterflies, Qingqing crossed a ruined starfield where a colossal God or Devil's severed limbs and head were pinned to separate stars by stone swords.
• The butterflies brought Qingqing to Ten-Mile Maple Forest, where Ning Chen sensed Butterfly's aura and saw the girl arrive.

Ning Chen arrived at Heavenly Fan Peak and rescued Butterfly and Mu Chengxue from the Demon Emperor and his nine Great Sages. After defeating the sages, he took the Demon Emperor’s bloodline and gave it to Qingqing, who transformed from an Azure Flood Dragon into a dragon.

• Qingqing found Ning Chen and asked him to save Butterfly and Sister Mu, so he restored her strength and followed her with Guigui.
• The Demon Emperor located Butterfly and Mu Chengxue at Heavenly Fan Peak, where nine Demon Race Great Sages attacked them.
• Ning Chen appeared as Butterfly was wounded, reunited her with Guigui, and told her to leave the fight to him.
• Ning Chen killed the nine Great Sages with his sword intent and identified himself to the shocked Demon Emperor as the One Who Knows Fate.
• Ning Chen took the Demon Emperor’s bloodline and sent the dragon blood into Qingqing, who transformed into a dragon.

In Ze Kingdom, Qingqing transformed into a dragon as Ning Chen departed with Butterfly and the amnesiac Mu Chengxue to seek old friends. He reunited with Airan in the Buddhist world and returned his sword bones to a swordsman in the Purple Star Starfield, then faced him in a display of sword techniques.

• Qingqing underwent her dragon transformation while Ning Chen defeated the Demon Emperor and left Ze Kingdom with Butterfly and Mu Chengxue.
• As they traveled, Ning Chen recounted his past with Mu Chengxue, who said she did not currently intend to seek revenge despite losing her memories and Great Dao Bridge.
• Ning Chen reached Buddhist Mountain and greeted Airan, who had been reincarnated as a renowned Buddhist maiden, before departing with his companions.
• At the Sword Pool, Ning Chen recognized a white-clad swordsman as an old friend and returned the four sword bones he had borrowed from him.
• Ning Chen regenerated his Saint body as the swordsman’s cultivation surged, and the two displayed their sword techniques beneath the setting sun.

After returning the white-clad swordsman’s sword bones, Ning Chen and Mu Chengxue continued searching the mortal world for old friends and a senior who fought the Nether King. Meanwhile, Yan Qiye rejected the Great Yan Crown Prince’s title and left the imperial palace, breaking through in cultivation as he cast off his responsibilities.

• Ning Chen returned the white-clad swordsman’s sword bones, and the two exchanged a single strike before Ning Chen departed with Mu Chengxue, Butterfly, and Guigui.
• Ning Chen and his companions traveled for centuries in search of old friends, while he discussed the missing senior and the possibility that the Nether King might return.
• Yan Qiye stopped the decree naming him Crown Prince and asked the Great Yan Emperor to honor his promise to let him leave after the nine provinces were pacified.
• The Great Yan Emperor granted Yan Qiye permission to depart, and Yan Qiye left the imperial palace as his cultivation surged and sword light filled the skies above the city.

Yan Qiye defeated the White-robed Sword God, then claimed the Innate Sword Congealing Abyss when it emerged among the stars. Ning Chen found Yan Qiye and exchanged a world-shaking sword strike with him before leaving, while Yan Qiye remained in the starry sky.

• Yan Qiye left the Great Yan Divine Dynasty, challenged the Yan Kingdom Sword Sect, and later split the Great Moon River with a single sword strike.
• Yan Qiye climbed Sword God Mountain, defeated the White-robed Sword God in a battle that destroyed the mountain, and watched the Sword God vanish from the mortal world.
• Ning Chen and his companions sensed the emergence of an Innate Sword, and Ning Chen entered the starry region hoping to find a senior who sought famous swords.
• Yan Qiye entered the Sword Qi vortex, claimed Congealing Abyss, and drove back the sword wielders who attacked him.
• Ning Chen and Yan Qiye recognized each other as seniors and exchanged sword strikes that split the starry sky; both were wounded before Ning Chen left.

Yan Qiye subdued a spiritual Sand Sword in the desert while Ning Chen sensed his senior’s progress. The Ghost Maiden awakened in the starry sky and attacked Mu Chengxue, but her incomplete spirits and surging power triggered a Saint Tribulation that she faced by summoning eighteen hells.

• Yan Qiye fought through a desert tempest, broke his mortal sword, and used Ningyuan to seal and capture the spiritual Sand Sword.
• Ning Chen sensed Yan Qiye’s progress, then watched the Ghost Maiden emerge from the Phoenix Minor World and recognized her identity.
• The Ghost Maiden attacked Mu Chengxue, and Ning Chen intervened to protect her as the Ghost Maiden unleashed increasingly powerful Ghost Desolation techniques.
• Mu Chengxue warned that the Ghost Maiden’s Three Souls and Seven Spirits were incomplete, and Ning Chen tried to restrain her after shattering her ghostly sun.
• The Ghost Maiden’s power broke Ning Chen’s seal and triggered a Saint Tribulation, forcing Ning Chen, Butterfly, Guigui, and Mu Chengxue to flee.
• The Ghost Maiden endured the descending thunder and summoned Eighteen Rakshasa Hells to block the tribulation.

Underworld King Yama endured the Heavenly Dao Realm tribulation and told Ning Chen that divine souls rose to the Nine Heavens and that the Daoist Sect’s leaders had reincarnated. Ning Chen recovered their memories and reunited the thirty-three leaders as Senior Supreme Heaven.

• Underworld King Yama briefly regained clarity during her tribulation and told Ning Chen that divine souls could rise to the Nine Heavens, where Xia Xinyu’s soul might be.
• As her consciousness faded, Underworld King Yama told Ning Chen to use the Daoist Sect’s Heaven-Reversing Time-Defying Method to find its reincarnated leaders, then vanished within a collapsing Senluo ghost hell.
• Ning Chen used the method to locate the thirty-three leaders’ reincarnated bodies and reforged the Daoist Sect’s Grand Beginning Sword with phoenix fire.
• Ning Chen and Marquis of Knowing Fate helped the Daoist Sect’s leaders recover their memories before their lifespans ended.
• The thirty-three leaders reunited as one, and Ning Chen respectfully greeted Senior Supreme Heaven.

Ning Chen entered seclusion while the Immortal Realm neared independence and Guigui’s immense power began to awaken. As the god of the Eighth Heaven attacked, Supreme Heaven and the returning A'man stood against it.

• Ning Chen declined to accompany Supreme Heaven, entered seclusion, and left Mu Chengxue to protect Guigui and Butterfly.
• Mu Chengxue traveled with Guigui and Butterfly for thousands of years as Guigui’s power grew, while the Immortal Realm’s laws developed toward breaking free.
• Butterfly left Mu Chengxue and Guigui to seek a breakthrough in martial cultivation.
• Guigui’s power awakened and sent Mu Chengxue flying, prompting the god of the Eighth Heaven to descend toward the human world.
• Supreme Heaven confronted the god with the thirty-three Daoist Sect leaders fused behind him, but his first sword clash left him slightly behind.
• A'man returned after ten thousand years and joined the fight against the god.

A'man and Supreme Heaven fought the God of Time beyond the Eighth Heaven while Fan Lingyue and the saints struggled to complete the Immortal Domain. In the human realm, Mu Chengxue and then Supreme Heaven sacrificed themselves to seal Guigui's power, as Ning Chen sensed a sudden pain during his seclusion.

• Supreme Heaven confronted the God of Time, and A'man joined him to hold off the god with their swords.
• Fan Lingyue led the saints in empowering the Immortal Domain as it neared completion, while the Four Symbols appeared.
• Guigui's Holy Embryo awakened, and Mu Chengxue restored her Bridge of Great Dao and began sealing his power at the cost of her life.
• The God of Time struck at Mu Chengxue, but she continued sealing Guigui and declared that she would keep her promise.
• A'man and Supreme Heaven unleashed their final forbidden sword techniques against the god, and the resulting clash destroyed the world beyond the Eighth Heaven.
• Ning Chen awoke with pain in his chest as Supreme Heaven tried to seal Guigui with his blood; the god struck him, and his blood-soaked Bridge of Great Dao shattered.

Mu Chengxue sacrificed herself to delay the god while Fan Lingyue brought the Immortal Domain and the human Saints into battle. Ning Chen ended Yin Feihua’s attempt to seize Guigui, but the god reached the Holy Embryo and absorbed it, revealing twelve divine wings.

• Mu Chengxue sent Guigui into the Minor World for Zhiming, then merged with the Divine Demon Muster Platform to hold the god back as Fan Lingyue brought the Immortal Domain to the human realm.
• Fan Lingyue and the human Saints attacked the god, and the legendary swordsman of Great Xia joined them as a battle erupted across the starry sky.
• Yin Feihua entered the Minor World to take the Holy Embryo, but Ning Chen left seclusion early and killed him before he could escape with it.
• As Ning Chen reached for Guigui, the god appeared and endured the King's Sword, then swallowed the Holy Embryo and revealed twelve divine wings.

After devouring the Holy Embryo, the god rose beyond the Saint Realm and overwhelmed the human realm’s defenders. As the King and Ning Chen continued fighting, the god summoned two black vortices and the King unleashed a new realm of swordsmanship.

• The god emerged with twelve divine wings and shattered Moonlit Tower Master’s attack, prompting her to detonate her Dao Bridge before she died.
• The god killed Mu Qianshang and blasted Ning Chen away, while Nu Chang sacrificed herself in a demonic sun attack that failed to injure him.
• Consort Luo left Ziyi and hurried toward the human realm as the god continued slaughtering its defenders.
• Underworld King Yama arrived with hundreds of millions of Underworld Soldiers, then joined Ming Ming in charging into the god’s divine flames; both sacrificed themselves in the resulting blast.
• The Great Xia legend and Ning Chen attacked together, but the god repelled them and then swept away the King’s sword strikes.
• The King unleashed the Immortal Sword Prelude’s Chapter of Earth and Chapter of Man as two black vortices opened in the starry sky.

The King sacrificed himself to wound the god, but the Holy Embryo let the god recover, forcing Fan Lingyue and the other defenders to protect humanity’s last hope. As the god overwhelmed them, Fan Lingyue’s final message to Know Fate revealed that the Holy Embryo was his only weakness and that saving humanity would require a terrible choice.

• The King used the Bridge of Great Dao as his sword and pierced the god, but the god absorbed the escaping Holy Embryo and recovered.
• The King’s soul dispersed after telling Ning Chen to surpass him, and Fan Lingyue sent Ning Chen away aboard the Immortal Realm.
• Fan Lingyue resisted the god by revealing that she could counter the Time Law because she should not exist, while Scroll of Moon and Butterfly joined the fight.
• The god broke free of their restraints and unleashed an attack that collapsed the starry sky.
• Fan Lingyue’s final voice told Know Fate that the Holy Embryo was the god’s only weakness and that saving humanity required making a choice.

Ning Chen overcame his fear of losing everyone and prepared for the final battle, while the human world's remaining fighters confronted the gods. After Qing Ling died and the Immortal Realm was consumed by destructive baleful intent, Ning Chen completed his Sword Dao and abandoned his humanity; the Nether King then returned to join him against the god.

• Sword Two urged Ning Chen to stop fearing destruction and loss, and Ning Chen resolved to fight without restraint after Qing Ling encouraged him.
• Mu Qianshang and Luo Xingchen flew out to meet the approaching gods, and Yin'er left to help while Qing Ling stayed behind.
• Ning Chen awakened the Four Immortal Slaying Swords, and their baleful intent spread through the Immortal Realm as the battle outside raged.
• The god returned to find the Immortal Realm lifeless, Qing Ling dead, and Ning Chen transformed into a demon who completed the destructive Sword Dao.
• The Nether King reappeared and joined Ning Chen, while the Ten Scrolls of Heavenly Tome merged into the Immortal Realm to fix reincarnation before the final battle.

Ning Chen and the Nether King joined forces to defeat the god, using the Immortal Slaying Sword Array and the Nether King's Apocalyptic Fury. Ning Chen sacrificed his life to bind the god inside the Immortal Realm, and after the Nether King's final strike, Ning Chen emerged as a fading remnant divine soul.

• Ning Chen and the god fought amid the River of Time until Xia Ziyi joined the battle as the Nether King and wounded the god with Apocalyptic Fury.
• Ning Chen rearranged the ten scrolls of the Heavenly Tome into the Immortal Slaying Sword Array and pierced the god, destroying the Holy Embryo.
• The Nether King attacked the grievously wounded god, while Ning Chen seized him and drove him into the Immortal Realm, where the god could no longer reverse time.
• Ning Chen used his life fire to restrain the god before the Immortal Palace and told the Nether King to strike.
• The Nether King's full-force blow devastated the Immortal Realm and swallowed Ning Chen and the god, but Ning Chen emerged from the dust as a fading remnant divine soul and looked up at the stars.

The Man of Destiny, Ning Chen, completed his final promise by restoring Xin Yu’s soul and sending her to the human world before dissolving into the Nine Heavens. A golden age followed, and the story ended with Guigui asking when his father would return.

• The Nether King slaughtered Saints across the Minor Worlds, while the Creator God returned to godhood and fell into eternal slumber as the Eighth Heaven collapsed.
• Ning Chen reached the Nine Heavens with Xin Yu’s Ice Coffin, reunited her soul with her body, erased her memories, and sent the coffin to the human world.
• Ning Chen’s soul dispersed into the Nine Heavens, whose life-giving rain restored the human world and drew mournful farewells from Little Gourd and the Moon Worshipper Clan.
• A century later, gifted children emerged across the human world, and a small white flower bloomed on Changsun Tomb as if awaiting someone.
• A thousand years passed as new generations of geniuses ascended, and Aunt Qing told Guigui that his father would return soon.

After quelling a rebellion, Xia Yan encountered Mu Bai, the Sword God of the Desolate City, and fought him in the wilderness. Their duel ended when Xia Yan’s sword shattered, leaving both men’s ultimate techniques unresolved.

• The Xia Emperor summoned Marquis Qinghe to discuss the succession and a possible marriage alliance with the Changsun family.
• Xia Yan rode toward the imperial city and recognized Mu Bai approaching with the little girl Chengxue.
• Mu Bai drew the Great Yin Azure Sparrow Sword, and Xia Yan summoned a longsword from his horse.
• Mu Bai and Xia Yan clashed in a fierce duel, using One Sword, Myriad Calamities and Sword Cry, Soaring Swan.
• Xia Yan’s longsword shattered before their ultimate moves could meet, so Mu Bai changed course and walked away with Chengxue.