Chapter Summaries

Ning Chen and the demon body sealed the power of Xuan Luo’s half-body, and Ning Chen left to search the Demon Wheel Sea for the Immortal Palace. He found the Immortal Corpse Procession and, despite its repulsive force, grabbed its chain to follow it.

• Ning Chen broke the seals on Xuan Luo’s half-body, and the old man warned him that Xuan Luo must never emerge before his soul vanished.
• The demon body rejected Xuan Luo’s offer and devoured the power from his half-body while Ning Chen used the Yellow Springs Restriction to contain it.
• After ten days, the two bodies finished sealing the demon power, and the demon body stayed behind to fuse it while Ning Chen continued searching for the Immortal Palace.
• Ning Chen encountered the Immortal Corpse Procession, watched a Dragon Corpse destroy the Underworld Soldiers, and followed the procession south.
• As his Phoenix Essence dwindled, Ning Chen endured the palanquin’s force and clung to the chain linking a Dragon Corpse to the Immortal Palanquin.

Ning Chen passed through the South Heaven Gate into a ruined realm, where he learned that cultivators from the Outer Heavens also existed. After defeating a hostile woman, he fought the powerful Ji Ruxue to a draw and left their next encounter unresolved.

• Ning Chen followed the Immortal Corpse Procession through the South Heaven Gate, entered a strange illusory realm, and watched the Immortal Palanquin vanish.
• Ning Chen tested the realm with his phoenix form and Yama, concluded it resembled the Four Extremes Realm, and set out to search for answers.
• A woman attacked Ning Chen and called him a person from within the realm; he defeated her, but she reversed her qi and exploded herself.
• Ning Chen spent days crossing the desolate realm before Ji Ruxue, a peak Half-Venerable from Lingxu, appeared and challenged him.
• Ning Chen and Ji Ruxue fought to a draw, exchanged names, and agreed to meet again in a life-and-death battle before departing in different directions.

Ning Chen captured Jiang Li after she fought two sword-wielding men and learned that the ruined world was the Immortal Domain, where outsiders sought Immortal Source. He agreed to join Jiang Li in searching for more, but demanded that she take a poison pill before he lifted the seals on her cultivation.

• Ning Chen watched Jiang Li defeat two young men with coordinated swordsmanship, though all three suffered fatal injuries in the clash.
• Ning Chen ambushed Jiang Li, sealed her remaining cultivation, and learned that she came from Lingxu and hated Ji Ruxue.
• Jiang Li explained that the Immortal Domain was a ruined realm where outsiders sought Immortal Source to cultivate beyond Great Perfection.
• Ning Chen showed Jiang Li a piece of Origin Sky Jade and learned it was Immortal Source, then negotiated a fifty-fifty share of the source in an abyss seven days away.
• Ning Chen offered Jiang Li a Hundred Flowers Pill and said he would lift her restrictions after she took it, promising the antidote when they left.

Ning Chen forced Jiang Li to lead him to Immortal Slaying Ravine, where experts from the Outer Heavens triggered the deadly Immortal Slaying Restriction while seeking the Immortal Source. Tianhengzi offered to reveal the Immortal Palace’s location if Ning Chen saved the survivors, and Ning Chen agreed on the condition that his promise was true.

• Jiang Li swallowed the Hundred Flowers Pill, and Ning Chen removed her Yellow Springs Restriction before making her lead him toward Immortal Slaying Ravine.
• After seven days of travel, Ning Chen sent Jiang Li into the ravine first and concealed himself nearby.
• Tianhengzi warned the gathered experts that the Immortal Source lay ahead and that the route promised extreme danger, but Ji Ruxue and three other powerful figures set out anyway.
• Ji Ruxue and the other three peak Half-Venerables attacked the Green Cauldron, unleashing the Four Immortal Slaying Swords and a slaughter that devastated the expedition.
• Tianhengzi asked Ning Chen to save the survivors and offered to calculate the Immortal Palace’s location; Ning Chen said he would help if the offer was true.

Ning Chen broke the Immortal Slaying Restriction after Tianhengzi located the Immortal Palace, then rescued Jiang Li and set off with her toward it. He shared the Immortal Source with her but kept the Green Cauldron, explaining that he brought her along because she might save his life if danger arose.

• Ning Chen used Yellow Springs to study and seal the Immortal Slaying Sword Qi while Tianhengzi burned his life essence to seek the Immortal Palace’s location.
• After thirteen days, Tianhengzi located the Immortal Palace northwest of Immortal Slaying Ravine, and Ning Chen destroyed the Immortal Slaying Restriction.
• Ning Chen trapped the Outer Heavens experts in a new Yellow Springs Restriction, took the Green Cauldron, and rescued Jiang Li despite the golden-armored man’s attempt to stop him.
• Tianhengzi stepped aside when Ning Chen threatened him, then opened his bloodied eyes again as Ning Chen and Jiang Li departed.
• On the way northwest, Ning Chen gave Jiang Li half the Immortal Source, kept the Green Cauldron, and said he brought her because she might save him in the Immortal Palace.

Ning Chen and Jiang Li searched the endless void for the Immortal Palace while Tianhengzi died after guiding the Outer Heavens toward it. A year later, Mingyue and Zijing arrived in Central Province to find the Marquis of Knowing Fate, who had been missing in Demon Wheel Sea for over three years.

• Ning Chen gave Jiang Li a pill that suppressed her poison instead of curing it, then led her into the collapsed void with phoenix fire lighting their way.
• Tianhengzi helped the Outer Heavens break the Yellow Springs Restriction, revealed that the Immortal Palace lay northwest, and died in Ren Jinghong's arms.
• Ren Jinghong and Ji Ruxue entered the void, while the axe-bearing man turned back; Ning Chen and Jiang Li continued searching for months as Jiang Li's poison and resentment persisted.
• An immortal carriage carrying the Immortal Corpse Procession traveled through the depths of the void as Ning Chen and Jiang Li remained lost.
• After the Marquis of Knowing Fate had spent over three years in Demon Wheel Sea, Mingyue and Zijing traveled through Central Province to find him.

Ning Chen and Jiang Li found the Immortal Palace in the void and forced its gates open, but the entrance sealed itself behind them. Meanwhile, Hua Zhongdie fought Zhao Liusu in a devastating battle over Beiyu City, ending with their strongest techniques colliding.

• Ning Chen recognized the Immortal Corpse Procession and pursued it with Jiang Li, then explained that he sought the Immortal Palace to find a Resurrection Technique for someone he wanted to save.
• After a year and three months in the void, Ning Chen and Jiang Li reached the Immortal Palace and broke through its gate restriction together.
• The Immortal Gate closed behind Ning Chen and Jiang Li and sealed itself again, leaving Ning Chen uneasy.
• Hua Zhongdie attacked Zhao Liusu at the Zhao Family estate, and their battle destroyed the eastern wing and damaged much of the estate.
• Hua Zhongdie wounded Zhao Liusu with Butterfly Dance, Twin Rainbows, prompting Zhao Liusu to summon the power of nine Sovereigns.
• Hua Zhongdie unleashed Beauty Turns the City against Zhao Liusu's wheel of nine Sovereigns, and their collision devastated the area around Beiyu City.

Zhao Liusu and Hua Zhongdie fought a devastating battle at the pinnacle while Ning Chen and Jiang Li faced deadly mirror-image formations inside the Immortal Palace. Ning Chen defeated his mirrored bodies, but the true body appeared and gained the upper hand against him.

• Hua Zhongdie and Zhao Liusu revealed their Dragon Gate power and exchanged increasingly destructive attacks, drawing the attention of Bodhi, the Taibai Manor Lord, and Tuli Venerable.
• Tuli Venerable urged the Taibai Manor Lord to join him in killing Hua Zhongdie, but the Manor Lord chose to wait for the battle’s outcome and for others to act.
• Hua Zhongdie trapped Zhao Liusu in her Demon Domain, but Zhao Liusu summoned nine Sovereign phantoms and forced their battle back into an even contest.
• Ning Chen and Jiang Li were trapped in separate killing formations where mirror images copied their techniques and attacked without revealing openings.
• Ning Chen defeated the shifting mirror bodies by using his sword to pierce their shared weakness, but a plain-robed true body appeared and shattered his Black Tortoise Heart Armor with a palm strike.
• Ning Chen brought out the Knowing Fate Sword and fought the true body, but its stronger foundation overcame his Nine Suns Burning Heaven and left him at a disadvantage.

Ning Chen defeated the Mirror Body with an unfinished sword that shattered King Yama and left him with only one day to live. As he and Jiang Li explored the Immortal Palace, they found signs of recent visitors and opened a stone door, while Zhao Liusu was gravely wounded in a separate battle above Beiyu City.

• Ning Chen unleashed the one and only sword, defeated the plain-robed figure, and suffered fatal backlash as King Yama broke.
• Ning Chen absorbed the broken King Yama into the phoenix shadow, then left the killing realm with Jiang Li and found a dried Immortal Transformation Pool.
• Ning Chen and Jiang Li followed recent bloodstains through the Immortal Palace, where Ning Chen's injuries worsened and his meridians burst.
• Ning Chen opened a previously used stone door, revealing a sight that shook him and Jiang Li.
• Above Beiyu City, Zhao Liusu used nine divine swords to block the demonic butterfly's attack, but the blade light shattered her defense and sent her crashing to the ground.

The demon butterfly destroyed the Zhao Family’s Great Sun Divine Bow before three Human Sovereigns confronted her, while the purple-clad girl stirred in the ruins. In the Immortal Palace, Ning Chen and Jiang Li witnessed the Nether King create the Five Domains, then faced the Immortal Slaying Sword; Ning Chen sealed it, but found Jiang Li near death when he opened her coffin.

• The demon butterfly destroyed the Great Sun Divine Bow, and the Taibai Manor Lord, a beautiful woman, and Tu Li appeared to confront her as the purple-clad girl opened her eyes.
• Ning Chen and Jiang Li discovered three Azure Coffins and witnessed the Nether King defeat mortal experts, create the Five Domains, and seal them off from the Outer Heavens.
• Ning Chen opened the far-right coffin, releasing the Immortal Slaying Sword, which injured both him and Jiang Li and sealed the stone hall.
• Ning Chen used the Azure Coffin to survive the sword’s attacks, then seized the Immortal Slaying Sword, damaged it with the Green Cauldron, and sealed it in a coffin.
• Ning Chen opened Jiang Li’s coffin and found her nearly lifeless, with her black hair turned white.

Ning Chen and Jiang Li explored deeper into the Immortal Palace as Ning Chen searched for a way to revive the dead. After finding and rescuing the gravely weakened Shaking Light King, Ji Yaoguang, Ning Chen asked him who had sealed him there.

• Jiang Li emerged from the Azure Coffin while Ning Chen examined the strange coffins and used a phoenix phantom to take the coffin sealing the Immortal Slaying Sword.
• Ning Chen and Jiang Li reached a bronze wall that Ning Chen could not break, then turned back and followed fresh bloodstains through the Immortal Palace.
• Ning Chen discovered Ji Yaoguang imprisoned in a stone pillar above a vast blood pool and broke the pillar open to free him.
• Ning Chen spent Phoenix Blood and Phoenix Essence to restore Ji Yaoguang, who eventually woke and thanked him.
• Ning Chen asked Ji Yaoguang who had sealed him inside the Immortal Palace.

Ning Chen learned that the red-veiled woman seen by the Shaking Light King resembled the sleeping woman in his Ice Coffin, then discovered a view of the Outer Heavens with Jiang Li. Meanwhile, Demon Butterfly fought three Supreme Ones as demonic qi erupted from Demon Wheel Sea, where Bodhi confronted the Demonic Body of Slaughter and Xuan Luo’s seals weakened.

• The Shaking Light King identified the red-veiled woman as resembling a Corpse God, and Ning Chen showed him the woman in the Ice Coffin before the Shaking Light King fainted.
• Ning Chen and Jiang Li saw the Outer Heavens at the end of the blood pool, identified Lingxu among the stars, and left without finding a way out.
• Demonic qi erupted from Demon Wheel Sea, and Demon Butterfly fought Tuli Venerable, the Taibai Manor Lord, and Ji Qiuyu as they tried to stop her.
• Bodhi left Golden Buddha Temple, entered Demon Wheel Sea, and pushed past Dragon Burial’s power to reach the stone palace.
• Bodhi battled the Demonic Body of Slaughter, while Xuan Luo absorbed the battle’s aftermath and struck at his weakening seals.

The Demonic Body fought Bodhi Venerable to a standstill before using a deception to pierce him and infect him with resentful power and demonic energy. Elsewhere, Hua Zhongdie’s battle drew the attention of powerful figures, while Xiyao Master allowed Qing Ling to leave the mountain.

• The Demonic Body and Bodhi Venerable fought fiercely in the golden Buddhist realm, with Bodhi’s greater cultivation offset by Zhiming’s combat experience.
• Hua Zhongdie held off three Human Sovereigns in Central Province, prompting Purple Heaven Palace and Demon Buddha to agree to join forces against her.
• Xiyao Master told Qing Ling to leave the mountain with her senior sister, while Venerable Lady and Nu Chang discussed protecting Hua Zhongdie.
• The Demonic Body unleashed Heaven Weeps, weakening Bodhi with killing karma and forcing him to defend against the resentful power.
• The Demonic Body claimed he had killed Sword Bodhi, distracting Bodhi long enough to stab him and pour demonic energy and resentful power into his body.
• Bodhi struck the Demonic Body away and departed through the Dragon Gate to suppress the corruption, while the Demonic Body warned that Bodhi might return as Ghost Bodhi.

Hua Zhongdie escaped a battle against Ji Qiuyu, the Taibai Manor Lord, and Tuli Venerable, while the Venerable Lady learned that Ning Chen had less than ten years of life remaining. In the Immortal Palace, Ning Chen and Jiang Li found the legendary Immortal Peach Tree, but its power seemed impossible to use without Yao Pool water and nine thousand years.

• Hua Zhongdie wounded Tuli Venerable and drove back Ji Qiuyu and the Taibai Manor Lord with her final attack, then escaped through the Dragon Gate despite her injuries and poison.
• The Venerable Lady learned from Nu Chang that Ning Chen had less than ten years of lifespan and ordered her to seek a way to extend it or seal his body beneath Changling.
• The Venerable Lady departed for the Divine Continent to deal with Hua Zhongdie, while Bai Lingling learned that Qing Ling had come to find family but was not ready to meet him.
• Ning Chen and Jiang Li traveled through the Immortal Palace as the Hundred Flowers Pill poison increasingly harmed Jiang Li, and they eventually discovered Yao Pool and the Immortal Peach Tree.
• Jiang Li realized that the tree could not restore the woman Ning Chen sought without Yao Pool water and nine thousand years for its fruit to mature.

Ning Chen and Jiang Li escaped the collapsing Minor World with the Immortal Peach Divine Tree and followed the Immortal Corpse Procession through the Immortal Domain, where Ning Chen witnessed an immortal. After reaching the Outer Heavens, Ning Chen gave Jiang Li the antidote and continued after the procession, leaving her with the name Bai Yujing.

• Ning Chen took the Immortal Peach Divine Tree from the collapsing Minor World and chose to continue deeper into the Immortal Palace.
• Nu Chang met Prince Yan at Changsun's tomb and warned him that Hua Zhongdie was gravely injured and in danger while Ning Chen remained trapped in the Demon Wheel Sea.
• Ning Chen and Jiang Li encountered the Immortal Corpse Procession and followed it through successive worlds.
• Ning Chen saw a reflection of an immortal in the collapsing Immortal Domain before he and Jiang Li emerged into the Outer Heavens.
• Ning Chen gave Jiang Li the antidote, then pursued the Immortal Palanquin and told her his name was Bai Yujing.

Venerable Lady and Nu Chang worried that Marquis of Knowing Fate was dying after sacrificing his cultivation, while Ning Chen pursued the Immortal Corpse Procession and discovered the Ghost Maiden inside. In Central Province, Prince Yan of Great Xia challenged the sects for targeting Marquis of Knowing Fate and killed Tuli Venerable in three moves.

• Venerable Lady returned to Changling and discussed with Nu Chang how to save the unconscious Marquis of Knowing Fate, whose vitality was fading rapidly.
• The Immortal Corpse Procession stopped at a barren star, where Ning Chen saw the Ghost Maiden emerge from the palanquin.
• Prince Yan of Great Xia arrived in Central Province to seek justice for Marquis of Knowing Fate and broke through the formation protecting the Ancient Tuli Realm.
• Prince Yan challenged Tuli Venerable to survive three moves or face his suicide, then wounded him with the Azure Sword and severed his arm.
• Prince Yan killed Tuli Venerable with his third sword strike and departed with his swords.

Bodhi suppressed Ghost Bodhi for the moment as Central Province prepared for a duel between the Taibai Manor Lord and Prince Yan, while Venerable Radiance sent the Discipline Pavilion Lord to address Buddhism Mountain’s past failure. In the Outer Heavens, Ning Chen encountered a life-less Ghost Maiden and then killed Greedy Wolf, whose dying call for his brother brought a new threat into view.

• Bodhi Venerable used the power of the Demon Suppressing Pagoda to suppress Ghost Bodhi, though a streak of black remained in his hair.
• Tianji City identified the swordsman as Prince Yan of Great Xia, and the Taibai Manor Lord challenged him to a life-and-death battle at Heavenly Moon Peak; Prince Yan accepted.
• Venerable Radiance ordered the Discipline Pavilion Lord to go to Central Province and resolve the grievance, then decreed that Heavenly Buddha Mountain’s members face the wall in repentance for ten years.
• Ning Chen found the Ghost Maiden on a desolate star, but she blasted him aside and disappeared before he could stop her.
• At Greedy Wolf Palace, Greedy Wolf attacked Ning Chen and used an ancient mirror to restrain him, but Ning Chen sealed the mirror and defeated him with his Nirvana sword.
• Greedy Wolf died after calling for his brother to avenge him, and a pair of cold eyes opened somewhere unknown.

Ning Chen learned about Tianfu Star and headed toward a newly emerged divine treasury, where strange flames and a powerful presence appeared. Meanwhile, Prince Yan was ambushed on his journey to Heavenly Moon Peak, defeated the three sects’ killing formation, and continued on after the surviving Sovereigns fled.

• Ning Chen found an ancient book in Greedy Wolf Palace and learned that he had arrived on Tianfu Star, then set out to find answers and seek help for Shaking Light King.
• Ning Chen reached Youzhou Ancient City and learned that a divine treasury had emerged four hundred miles to the north.
• Martial artists gathered as the treasury rose amid earth-shaking tremors and deadly earthfire, while Hua Fengyun and the violet-robed Zixiao watched from nearby.
• A red-clad figure approached the treasury’s shadow amid the magma, believing his luck had finally turned.
• Prince Yan was ambushed by nine Half-Venerables and three Human Sovereigns from Central Province’s three sects on his way to Heavenly Moon Peak.
• Prince Yan used his four swords to destroy the attackers’ formation and kill all nine Half-Venerables, forcing Ji Qiuyu, Li Xiaoran, and Bu Chunqiu to retreat before he resumed his journey.

The Vermilion Bird escaped several powerful pursuers, including Ning Chen, after an unknown archer intervened, while Ning Chen returned to Youzhou City unaware that Seven Kill Palace was hunting him. At Heavenly Moon Peak, the legendary swordsman arrived to face the Taibai Manor Lord.

• The Vermilion Bird broke free of Zixiao and Hua Fengyun when an unseen archer knocked aside Zixiao's sword and blocked the pursuers.
• Ning Chen fought the Vermilion Bird, wounded it, and collected its heart's blood before it escaped using a secret art.
• Martial artists in Youzhou City discussed the Vermilion Bird's escape and Seven Kill Palace's hunt for the man who killed Greedy Wolf.
• Ning Chen returned to Youzhou City without learning about the hunt, and remained willing to fight Seven Kill Palace's prodigy when they met.
• The Taibai Manor Lord awaited the legendary swordsman at Heavenly Moon Peak as gathered experts debated who would win.
• The legendary swordsman arrived at Returning Swan Heavenly Moon Peak to face the Taibai Manor Lord.

Prince Yan of Great Xia overwhelmingly defeated the Taibai Manor Lord on Heavenly Moon Peak, revealing a gulf between his swordsmanship and the strongest Human Sovereigns. He spared the defeated Sovereign and left, lamenting that Mu Bai had left his sword lonely.

• Prince Yan of Great Xia opened the battle with the Taibai Manor Lord and quickly gained the advantage with his Azure-Crimson Twin Swords.
• Prince Yan's Flying Swan sword technique wounded the Taibai Manor Lord and prevented him from launching his moves, while Venerable Lady and Nu Chang watched in shock.
• Venerable Lady explained that Prince Yan could not prove his sword because no one in the human world could match him, and Nu Chang called his position lonely at the summit.
• Prince Yan briefly retreated to let the Taibai Manor Lord unleash his strongest art, then used One Sword Forbidden Martial, Lawless World to shatter the Dao Sword and defeat him.
• Prince Yan spared the Taibai Manor Lord, put away his sword rack, and left while lamenting that Mu Bai had left his sword lonely for a lifetime.