Chapter Summaries

Xu Xing explained how the Beast God Realm’s Heavenly Will manipulated the war between the Human Race and the Beast God Clan, then gave four Human Race survivors a technique to evade the Dao Net and urged them to endure until his allies arrived. Back in the Great Profound Realm, his companions departed, while progress in the other worlds suggested an ascender would soon reach their realm.

• Xu Xing told the four survivors that the Beast God Realm’s Heavenly Will had engineered the war to seize the essence of the victorious side, then helped the Beast God attain immortality and tried to take his essence.
• Xu Xing taught the four the Law-Intercepting Heaven-Veiling Technique and said he would strike the Heavenly Will Immortal and the Dao Net before disappearing, leaving them to hold out until his fellow Daoists arrived.
• Xu Xing told the Fuguang heir that the altered flow of time meant the others would take a long time to arrive, leaving the four uncertain about the Human Race’s prospects.
• In the Homecoming Laboratory, Xu Xing recounted events in the Beast God Realm, and Confusion and Remorse departed to help there.
• Bie Xuening took Charm Ancestor away, and Yuanjun also left the Great Profound Realm.
• Xu Xing noted that cultivation was reviving in the technological world and that the first ascender from the extraordinary world would soon arrive in the Great Profound Realm.

Xu Xing sent out the second batch of Ascension Platforms and told the cultivators about it, while Bie Xuening, Yuanjun, Charm Ancestor, Remorse, and Confusion observed the platforms reaching four worlds. They judged that most eligible cultivators in the previously seized worlds failed the standards, though two cultivators from the first batch’s world might qualify.

• Xu Xing filtered the World-Deriving Instrument’s coordinates, let Moon Shadow choose four worlds, and sent Ascension Platforms to them.
• Xu Xing informed Ning Ruo and the Big Boss Group that the second batch had been sent out.
• Pill Ancestor teased Hong Sovereign about calling him “Brother Dao,” and reminded him that he was Yuanjun’s brother, prompting Xu Xing to stop chatting.
• Charm Ancestor teased Bie Xuening and Yuanjun about their time in the laboratory as the five beings traveled across the Chaos Sea.
• Confusion announced the new Ascension Platforms, and the five observed them enter four worlds.
• Bie Xuening and Yuanjun judged that the cultivators in the two previously seized worlds did not meet the Ascension Platform’s standards, but two cultivators in the first batch’s world might qualify.

Twenty days after Xu Xing left Bright Light Settlement, Xi Yun struggled to hold its divided districts together while Xi Li reached the fifth layer of Qi Refining and offered to take charge. At the Inheritor Holy Land, Xu Xing learned that the Human Race could now produce seventeen Spirit Transformation cultivators or one Void Return cultivator, and someone soon reached Spirit Transformation.

• Xi Yun tried to maintain the balance between Bright Light Settlement’s inner and outer districts as both sides grew dissatisfied and the Beast God Race’s pursuit squad approached.
• Xi Li returned after reaching the fifth layer of Qi Refining and told Xi Yun she would handle what came next.
• Fumu reported that the Law-Intercepting Heaven-Veiling Technique had given the Holy Land enough cultivators to secure seventeen Spirit Transformation positions or one Void Return position.
• Xu Xing assessed Xi Yun and Xi Li’s efforts to manage the settlement and recognized their progress despite their flaws.
• Streams of spiritual energy converged on the Pearl Palace and Shell Tower as someone reached Spirit Transformation.

After Xu Xing allowed Lingze’s inheritor to take Min Feng and approved Fuguang’s plan to spread the teachings, cultivators across the Beast God Realm began breaking through to Spirit Transformation. Meanwhile, Xi Yun and Xi Li consolidated control of Bright Light Settlement and evacuated its people before the Beast God Clan arrived, leaving a lone Human figure to face the pursuing mecha squad.

• A Lingze-lineage cultivator reached Spirit Transformation, thanked Xu Xing, and took the kneeling Min Feng away.
• Fuguang asked to spread the teachings, and Xu Xing told him to decide for himself; Fuguang then traveled across the Beast God Realm with Dao lineage inheritances.
• Over the following month, nine of seventeen Spirit Transformation slots were filled, and the number of slots later increased to nineteen as more cultivators advanced and spread the teachings.
• Xi Yun and Xi Li forced the Bright Light Settlement’s residents to surrender hidden supplies, redistributed resources, and arranged an evacuation after Xi Li defeated and killed challengers.
• By the thirty-first day after Xu Xing left, the Beast God Clan’s mecha squad found Bright Light Settlement deserted and pursued its people inland.
• After tracking the evacuees, the mecha squad spotted a lone Human man wearing gold and white, with a golden glimmer between his brows.

After Fuguang killed a Beast God Race Void Return cultivator, the Human Race faced an imminent assault, and Xu Xing prepared Chongming, Jingyao, and Fumu to join the fight. He watched the Human Race gather strength as the coming clash with the Beast God Race—and the awakening Heavenly Will Immortal—approached.

• The Beast God Race elders approved Liao's proposal to investigate the Dao Net, but Liao had already left with Ming to hunt the Human Race cultivator.
• Two Beast God Race Void Return cultivators contacted the Beast God, were corrupted by the Heavenly Will's frenzied will, and became monsters that the elders subdued at great cost.
• Xu Xing learned that Fuguang had killed a Beast God Race Void Return cultivator, exposing the Human Race and prompting three peak Void Return cultivators to lead mech battle corps against them.
• Chongming, Jingyao, and Fumu asked to leave the Inheritor Holy Land and join the Human Race's struggle, and Xu Xing gave each a crimson sword mark that could save them in mortal danger.
• Xu Xing watched Human Race cultivators and infiltrators prepare for the coming conflict, while the crimson sword on his back stirred at the immense shadow beyond the world.

Fumu infiltrated the Beast God Race by taking the identity of a commander and used her authority to disrupt Fuya Kingdom while delaying orders to hunt the Human Race. Her old acquaintance Ming arrived and confronted her about her inaction.

• Fumu and the others killed three Beast God Race Void Return pursuers, intercepted their Laws, and took command of three mecha legions.
• Fumu used the identity of a female Beast God Race commander to wreak havoc in Fuya Kingdom and stall the Beast God Elder Council’s orders.
• Fumu burned the Council’s summons and strangled a military officer who pressed her to leave Fuya Kingdom.
• Ming arrived and challenged Fumu, who dismissed the officer and told Ming to persuade the Council instead.

Fumu and other Human Race infiltrators weakened the Beast God Race from within while Xu Xing helped their people grow and spread the Law-Intercepting Heaven-Veiling Technique. After decades of conflict and devastating Sword Seal strikes, the Beast God Race was crippled, and the Heavenly Will Immortal awakened in New Calendar Year 483.

• Fumu pretended to waver when Ming urged her to act, then reflected on the vast strength of the Beast God Race and the Human Race’s dependence on Xu Xing.
• Xu Xing sent the first Human Race cultivators with complete minds and the Law-Intercepting Heaven-Veiling Technique into the world, and over the following years they infiltrated the Beast God Race’s upper ranks.
• Fuguang and the infiltrators ambushed Beast God Race Void Return cultivators, stole their techniques, and used their skins to expand the Human Race’s presence among its enemies.
• In New Calendar Year 25, Ming and Liao led a secret force of 225 Void Return cultivators against Fuguang, who unleashed Xu Xing’s Crimson Sword Seal and killed nearly a thousand cultivators across the Beast God Race.
• Fumu became Grand Elder and tried to keep the Beast God Race on the defensive, but Ming led another hunt; Jingyao used Xu Xing’s Sword Seal to kill another two thousand Void Return cultivators, leaving Ming defeated and stripped of her positions.
• In New Calendar Year 483, the Heavenly Will Immortal awakened.

After 483 years, Xu Xing left the Inheritor Holy Land and confronted the awakening Supreme Beast God. His sword chime protected Fumu and Ming from the entity’s influence, and his voice challenged the Beast God across the realm.

• Xu Xing emerged from the flames with his crimson sword and departed the Inheritor Holy Land as the Supreme Beast God lowered its gaze over the realm.
• A figure from the jade tower and scattered people in the plaza bowed farewell to Xu Xing after he vanished.
• Fumu visited the disgraced Ming, who blamed herself for the Beast God Clan’s losses and asked about efforts to reach the Supreme Beast God.
• The Supreme Beast God’s malice overwhelmed Fumu and Ming, nearly making Fumu’s Beast God skin consume her consciousness.
• Xu Xing’s sword chime dispelled the malice and freed Fumu, then his voice challenged the Beast God to face his sword.

Xu Xing confronted the Heavenly Will Immortal in the Beast God Realm and struck it with the Sword of Severing Dao, changing the realm’s Great Dao and laws before he vanished. The five True Immortals of Taixuan saw his crimson sword light from the Chaos Sea and realized the battle had begun.

• Ming watched the sky while Fumu and other humans hiding in borrowed Beast God skins nearly succumbed to the Heavenly Will Immortal’s gaze until a sword rang out.
• Xu Xing faced the Heavenly Will Immortal above the Beast God Realm, and it demanded that he leave.
• Xu Xing slashed with the Sword of Severing Dao, pierced the Heavenly Will Immortal’s brow, and split open the Beast God Realm.
• Xu Xing’s sword light spread through the realm and changed every Dao and law; the enraged Heavenly Will Immortal roared as Xu Xing vanished.
• Yuanjun, Bie Xuening, Confusion, Remorse, and Charm Ancestor witnessed Xu Xing’s crimson sword light from the Chaos Sea and recognized that he had entered the fight.

The Heavenly Will Immortal and the Beast God struggled against each other after Xu Xing’s sword disrupted their bond and left crimson sword lights across the Beast God Realm. Fumu learned that the Dao Net would remain unavailable for a thousand years, then recruited Ming to help her lead the Beast God Elder Council and protect the Human Race.

• The Beast God tried to break free from the Heavenly Will Immortal, but relented when warned that the Beast God Race would perish without it.
• The Heavenly Will Immortal repeatedly failed to reweave the Dao Net because Xu Xing’s crimson sword lights severed the principles throughout the Beast God Realm.
• Ming told Fumu that the Human Race outsider had been defeated by the supreme Beast God Sovereign, while Fumu recalled Senior’s warning that the Dao Net would not return for a thousand years.
• Fumu invited Ming to join her efforts in the Beast God Elder Council, and Ming accepted her offer.
• Fumu embraced Ming while privately resolving to build allies and preserve the Human Race’s remaining strength.

Fumu passed the Beast God's test and used the Beast God Scale to secure her position as Grand Elder. Over the following centuries, the Human Race suffered repeated purges, but Xi Yun eventually broke through to Profound Penetration and attacked the Beast God Elder Council before a finger from beyond the heavens killed her.

• Fumu failed to restore Ming to her former posts, then kept her as an assistant and later passed the Beast God's test, receiving a scale containing two strikes beyond Void Return.
• The Heavenly Will Immortal intervened in Year 483, destroying the Dao Net and shattering the world, and later exposed and punished the Human Race's infiltration of the Beast God Race.
• The Beast God Race's purges weakened the Human Race, while Fumu secretly delivered resources that helped its Void Return cultivators grow in number.
• Min Feng inherited Lingze's legacy, reached Void Return, and killed Beast God Race cultivators before dying in Year 701.
• Xi Yun reached Void Return in Year 803, then advanced to Profound Penetration in Year 982 and killed seventy-three Void Return cultivators at the Beast God Elder Council.
• A finger came from beyond the heavens and killed Xi Yun in Year 983.

Xi Li advanced to Void Return as the Human Race’s newly ascended expert was erased from memory and the Beast God Race’s purge drove the survivors into hiding. Years later, Fumu and Ming met at Fumu’s birthday banquet, where an unseen voice condemned the Beast God Race.

• A vast purple-scaled finger crushed the Human Race expert’s swordlight and took away Xi’s Dao imprints, leaving only news of the expert’s death.
• Xi Li advanced to Void Return through the Dao of [Yin] and [Sword], but she could not remember the erased expert and wept in the Inheritor Holy Land.
• Heavenly Will Immortal’s erasure left the Beast God Realm with no memory of the expert’s identity, and the Beast God Race launched another purge in Year 986.
• Human Race spies helped preserve a handful of survivors, and by Year 993 the situation had returned to its earlier state.
• At Fumu’s birthday banquet, Ming offered her a new biography and suggested they go somewhere together, but a deafening roar interrupted them.
• An unseen speaker called the Beast God Race disgusting scum.

Ming and the Beast God Race were struck by a strange affliction that twisted their bodies and souls before a distant voice restored them. Outside the Beast God Realm, Bie Xuening fought off its defender and opened a fissure, and Remorse led the five Taixuan True Immortals inside.

• Ming became overwhelmed by questions as her body parts and a figure resembling her claimed their own identities.
• The guests at Ming's birthday banquet and Void Return cultivators across the Beast God Realm mutated until a distant voice restored them to normal.
• Ming and her friend saw a dark fissure widen across the sky above the Beast God Realm.
• A purple claw attacked the five Taixuan True Immortals, and Bie Xuening severed part of it with her sword.
• Bie Xuening struck the Beast God Realm and cleaved open a fissure before Yuanjun told her to stop.
• Remorse entered the Beast God Realm through the fissure, followed by the other True Immortals.

Yi and the others joined Remorse in fighting the Beast God Realm’s Heavenly Will Immortal, whose defeat was part of a plan to draw out the realm’s remaining Heavenly Will. Remorse then entered the mortal world to help its Human Race, while Yuanjun said the group would soon be able to address their plight.

• Yi, Bie Xuening, and Charm Ancestor entered the Beast God Realm, while Yuanjun collected the Heavenly Will Immortal’s purple blood with threads of karma.
• Remorse lured the Heavenly Will Immortal into hesitating, letting his silver arrow strike both the Beast God and the Heavenly Will at once.
• Bie Xuening’s sword and Remorse’s Martial Immortal palm shattered the Heavenly Will Immortal, who split into shadows and fled through the realm’s laws.
• Yi’s influence caused the silver arrow to fuse with the fleeing Heavenly Will Immortal, while the others let Them escape as bait.
• Yuanjun told Bie Xuening that they would soon draw out the remaining Heavenly Will and could first resolve the Beast God Realm Human Race’s plight.
• Remorse thanked the others and entered the mortal world, prompting Yuanjun to suggest that its suffering reminded him of his past failure to protect the Human Race.

Bie Xuening and Charm Ancestor restored the Beast God Realm’s time flow, while Yuanjun stayed outside. Remorse arrived at Fumu’s estate, revealed Fumu’s true identity, and left Ming bound so Fumu could settle their grudge herself.

• Confusion entered the reality of the Beast God Realm, leaving Bie Xuening and Charm Ancestor to handle its time flow.
• Bie Xuening and Charm Ancestor stopped and restored time to its former rate, while Yuanjun chose not to join the fighting.
• Remorse appeared at Fumu’s estate, and Fumu recognized him as Senior Remorse after he said Sword Ancestor was his Dao Brother.
• Fumu shed her disguise and revealed herself as a human woman, telling the furious Ming that she had never been Fu.
• Remorse bound Ming and allowed Fumu to settle their grudge, then disappeared after killing every Beast God Race member downstairs.

Fumu admitted that she had impersonated Fu and killed Ming, then left with Ming’s remains. In the Cangyue Empire, Confusion unleashed a monster made from 327 Void Return experts while protecting captive humans from the Beast God Race.

• Ming realized Fumu had deceived her for years and asked when she had started impersonating Fu.
• Fumu admitted she had begun impersonating Fu back in the Fuya Kingdom.
• Fumu killed Ming with crimson-gold flames, gathered the crystals left behind, and departed to scatter Ming’s ashes at sea.
• Confusion destroyed much of the Cangyue Empire’s Imperial City with a monstrous bird he had refined from 327 Beast God Race experts.
• Confusion watched over captive humans and noted that the Beast God Race had legalized human captivity again after Fu’s book encouraged the practice.

Confusion dealt with the Beast God Race in the Cangyue Empire while Bie Xuening and the Charm Ancestor entered Xu Xing’s hidden Inheritor Holy Land. They approached Xi Li, whose lost sight began to return as she sensed them.

• Remorse gave Confusion 6,716,217 people to handle and told him the realm’s Human Race would deal with the remaining Beast God Race.
• Confusion destroyed the enormous seven-headed bird, whose gore became dark-red birds that transformed Beast God Race members they encountered into monsters.
• Bie Xuening and the Charm Ancestor traveled to find Xu Xing’s hidden Inheritor Holy Land, and Bie Xuening revealed she had created Little Yellow Duck Sword Qi after the Charm Ancestor stole her painting.
• The Charm Ancestor explained that she took over the Joyous Union Sect after the Great Profound Blood Calamity because its members had already been reformed and founding a new sect would be a hassle.
• Bie Xuening led the Charm Ancestor into the hidden Inheritor Holy Land, where they found Xi Li seated on a Dao Platform with two fingers missing.
• Xi Li sensed Bie Xuening and the Charm Ancestor approaching, and images began to appear in her long-blind eyes.

Xi Li’s vision, injuries, and severed fingers healed when Bie Xuening and Charm Ancestor arrived, and she thanked them before postponing her lecture. Meanwhile, Yuanjun used a thread of cause and effect to erase one-fifth of the Beast God Race across the Beast God Realm, provoking an enraged roar.

• Xi Li recovered her sight, soul, and severed fingers as Bie Xuening and Charm Ancestor arrived at the plaza.
• Xi Li thanked the two seniors and learned that Bie Xuening was the junior fellow disciple of the Sword Venerable.
• Xi Li postponed her lecture and led Bie Xuening and Charm Ancestor to her pavilion.
• The Cloud-Covering Kingdom’s king worried about the calamities striking the seven great kingdoms and the silence of the Beast God Elder Council.
• Yuanjun sent a thread of cause and effect into the Cloud-Covering Kingdom, erasing its king and subjects and tracing their connections across the Beast God Race.
• Yuanjun flicked the thread and erased one-fifth of the Beast God Race, after which an enraged roar crashed down.

The Beast God attacked Yuanjun but was driven back by a punch from the Charm Ancestor and a sword strike from Bie Xuening. In the Great Profound Realm, Xu Xing considered how the world seized from the Starry Sky could serve as a training ground for his disciples.

• The Beast God struck at Yuanjun, but the Charm Ancestor blocked its claw and Bie Xuening wounded it with her sword, forcing it to retreat.
• Yuanjun observed that the Beast God and the Heavenly Will were growing further apart, though she believed the Beast God Realm would soon be settled.
• The Charm Ancestor sent Xi Li, Fumu, Jingyao, Chongming, and Fuguang away after telling them to reflect on what they had witnessed.
• Xu Xing studied the seized world's three layers and recalled how the Demon Venerable had lost control of the Mortal Realm after attempting to destroy the Ascension Platform.
• Xu Xing decided that the Great Profound Heaven, Filth Realm, and Mortal Realm could serve as training grounds for his disciples.

Xu Xing considered using other worlds as trials for sect disciples and chatted with Yu about Chi Jiuyu’s absence. In the Beast God Realm, the Beast God rejected Heavenly Will’s offer to merge and burned his essence to break free with a powerful swordlight.

• Xu Xing considered sending outstanding disciples to other worlds to temper them and evaluate their abilities.
• Yu asked Xu Xing about Chi Jiuyu, and he told her Chi Jiuyu had gone out and would return soon.
• Xu Xing wondered whether Jiu Yu might be selected for future trials, though he worried about the trouble she might cause.
• Heavenly Will urged the Beast God to yield his essence, claiming it could help them survive the five outsiders and prolong the Beast God Race’s survival.
• The Beast God refused to merge with Heavenly Will and burned his essence to unleash a crimson swordlight and break free.