Chapter Summaries

Xu Xing sent elite disciples from several sects to the Three Heavens Realm without assigning them a mission, leaving them to act as they saw fit. In the Filth Realm, Supreme Dao Sect’s True Person Xiao Yu confronted its ruler, Cheng Yu, after the sect’s disciples arrived and fled in a host of clones.

• Chi Jiuyu received a green bracelet, and Xu Xing told the assembled Sword Sect cultivators they had no set mission and could kill if they chose.
• Xu Xing sent the Sword Sect group to the Three Heavens Realm and asked Du Ruoheng to monitor their progress as other sects dispatched their own cultivators.
• Xiao Yu and the Supreme Dao Sect cultivators arrived in the Filth Realm, where pure light cleansed the surrounding land of demonic beasts and Strange Spirits.
• Nearly a thousand Supreme Dao Sect figures appeared, and many fled as clones when the light faded.
• Cheng Yu introduced himself as the ruler of the Filth Realm and questioned Xiao Yu, who dismissed him as an ant.

True Person Xiao Yu overwhelmed Cheng Yu in the Filth Realm until Cheng Yu drew on the realm’s power, while Xiao Fan arrived in the Pine Cloud Dynasty and discovered that the emperor’s pills were made from infants. Xiao Fan confronted the emperor about consuming people.

• True Person Xiao Yu struck Cheng Yu down repeatedly with a lightning halberd, then summoned his golden manifestation as Cheng Yu called upon the Filth Realm’s power.
• Two Supreme Dao Sect cultivators fled the battlefield when True Person Xiao Yu opened his manifestation.
• In the Pine Cloud Dynasty, the aging emperor swallowed a blood-scented pill while asking Purple Stone Real Person how to gain an immortal’s blessing.
• Xiao Fan crashed into the emperor’s garden, and the emperor stopped his guards from attacking him.
• Xiao Fan used a divine ability to identify the pills as made from infants’ blood, brains, and hearts, then asked the emperor, “Do you eat people?”

Xiao Fan killed the old emperor and a Purple Purity Temple cultivator after discovering their plans to refine people into pills, then confronted the Golden Core being behind them. Elsewhere, Chi Jiuyu and Zhang Yunlu explored the Mortal Realm and followed a wedding procession into a mansion, where a young man and a sword-holding girl arrived.

• Xiao Fan crushed the old emperor's head and attacked the purple-robed Daoist after rejecting his defense of the Hundred Infant Pill.
• Zi Heng revealed that he was an envoy of the Purple Purity Temple, and Xiao Fan recognized the sect as one that refined people into pills.
• Xiao Fan killed the purple-robed Daoist and attacked the stone tower where Zi Heng's true body was cultivating, provoking the Golden Core cultivator.
• Chi Jiuyu and Zhang Yunlu ate noodles in Mufeng County, then followed a wedding procession into a mansion to observe the celebration.
• Chi Jiuyu explained that her arrival in the Mortal Realm was connected to her coming breakthrough to Spirit Transformation.
• A handsome young man entered the wedding courtyard with a sword-holding maiden, who glanced coldly toward Chi Jiuyu and Zhang Yunlu.

Chi Jiuyu and Zhang Yunlu intervened in a wedding after the Heir Apparent of Prince Dingnan exposed the bride as a demon and revealed his murderous schemes. Xu Xing watched events in the Three Heavens Realm while discussing Xuan’s hidden strength with the other ancestors.

• Chi Jiuyu and Zhang Yunlu followed the Sword-Holding Maiden and the Heir Apparent of Prince Dingnan into the wedding hall, where Chi Jiuyu ate poisonous fruit and mocked the Heir Apparent.
• The Heir Apparent of Prince Dingnan revealed the bride as a white python, and the groom struggled to accept what he saw.
• Chi Jiuyu recognized the Beast-Making Art and attacked the Heir Apparent with a book while Zhang Yunlu rushed forward and beheaded him.
• Chi Jiuyu restrained the Sword-Holding Maiden and revealed herself as a Nascent Soul ancestor.
• Xu Xing watched the events in the Three Heavens Realm and told the other ancestors he was confident he could kill Xuan once, though Xuan was likely hiding more power.

Xu Xing monitored the group chat and the Sword Intent Spirit Body’s world while considering Yueling’s interest in gaming. In Mufeng County, Chi Jiuyu and Zhang Yunlu resolved the wedding crisis, rescued the bride, and left the crowd with a warning not to question her innocence.

• Xu Xing followed the Big Boss Group’s discussion about Xuan and the Demon Venerable, then returned his attention to the game and the distant world.
• Chi Jiuyu and Zhang Yunlu subdued the Sword-Holding Maiden, and Zhang Yunlu killed the Heir Apparent of the Prince of Dingnan.
• Chi Jiuyu freed the bride from her white-python form and departed with Zhang Yunlu and the Sword-Holding Maiden before the groom could properly thank her.
• Zhang Yunlu sent a flaming talisman that warned the crowd not to doubt Chi Jiuyu’s judgment or use the incident as a pretext to trouble the bride.

Chi Jiuyu freed the Sword-Holding Maiden from her life restriction, then agreed to separate from Zhang Yunlu and meet her in the Capital City. Meanwhile, Great Profound Heaven’s Void Return Venerables debated the Ascension Platform, and a body cultivator considered using the merit trial to have the dragon-horned young man killed.

• Chi Jiuyu used Sword Qi to destroy the Sword-Holding Maiden’s restriction and warned her not to commit evil.
• Chi Jiuyu and Zhang Yunlu decided to train separately and agreed to meet again in the Capital City after sharing one more meal.
• The chapter described turmoil across Great Profound Heaven after newcomers destroyed Purple Purity Temple and other Immortal Sects.
• Great Profound Heaven’s Void Return Venerables gathered outside the Ascension Platform and discussed its connection to the newcomers.
• The dragon-horned young man concealed an evaluation that branded him a man-eating evil dragon, while the body cultivator considered killing him to gain merit.
• Xu Xing’s Sword Intent Spirit Body watched the Venerables from a space outside reality.

Chen Yan and the other cultivators attacked the escaping dragon, but the old Daoist used his grief-inducing divine ability to weaken and capture it. Xu Xing judged that the dragon’s death still fell short of the Ascension Platform’s standard, while Zhang Yunlu reached a bustling county and Chi Jiuyu secretly followed her as her self-appointed Dao Protector.

• Chen Yan proposed that the cultivators share their Ascension Platform evaluations, then revealed his own and sealed the area as the white-robed sword cultivator and old Daoist disclosed theirs.
• The cultivators’ auras pinned down the dragon-horned youth, but he transformed into a dragon and tried to flee after the old Daoist distracted the others.
• Chen Yan struck the dragon with a powerful fist, and the old Daoist used a grief-inducing divine ability before seizing it with his Reaching Palm and Dragon Seizing.
• Xu Xing watched from the secluded valley and concluded that the dragon’s defeat by Chen Yan and the old Daoist did not quite meet the standard for ascension.
• Zhang Yunlu arrived in Qin-Pacifying County and stopped at a restaurant to try the local crab before bringing some back for her Senior Sister and elder brother.
• Chi Jiuyu followed Zhang Yunlu into the restaurant, ordered several servings of everything, and privately decided she was acting as Zhang Yunlu’s Dao Protector.

Zhang Yunlu encountered Gu Cong and his senior sister, who revealed they had not come to avenge his brother, then investigated Prince Dingnan's Manor and discovered a Cloud-Clearing Sect Golden Core cultivator there. As Floating Cloud exposed someone hiding nearby, a powerful stranger appeared, leaving Zhang Yunlu facing an uncertain confrontation.

• Zhang Yunlu refused Gu Cong's offer to buy her World Seed, and his senior sister hurriedly explained that they had no intention of avenging his elder brother.
• Gu Cong's senior sister pulled him away and warned him not to provoke Zhang Yunlu.
• Zhang Yunlu decided to investigate Prince Dingnan's Manor after noticing the unusual presence of cultivators in the Mortal Realm, and Chi Jiuyu followed her.
• At the manor, Gu Cong met his senior sister and Senior Martial Uncle Floating Cloud, a Golden Core sword immortal from the Cloud-Clearing Sect.
• Floating Cloud called out the person hiding nearby, and Zhang Yunlu realized he had seen through her concealment.
• A burly, heat-radiating man leapt down and laughed that his disguise had not been convincing enough.

A Dragon-Elephant Heaven-Supporting Sect body cultivator confronted Cloud-Clearing Sect cultivators over their abuse of Old Man Lin and defeated Floating Cloud in a fight. Meanwhile, Chi Jiuyu learned that the World Chat Channel had opened after Yang Lin failed his trial and set her trial codename.

• Zhang Yunlu watched as a Dragon-Elephant Heaven-Supporting Sect body cultivator confronted Floating Cloud and Gu Cong over Old Man Lin’s broken legs and his daughter being taken for taxes.
• The body cultivator said he had already rescued Old Man Lin’s daughter and had come to question the Prince of Southern Pacification, but Floating Cloud challenged him to a fight.
• Floating Cloud attacked with Sword Qi, but the body cultivator dodged it, struck him, and sent him flying through the pavilion railing.
• Zhang Yunlu met Lin Xuanxuan and learned that the gray bird was a seventh-generation Gray Bird Drone piloted by Nangong Ruo of the Spirit Sound Workshop.
• Chi Jiuyu’s wrist mark activated the World Chat Channel after announcing that Yang Lin of the Supreme Dao Sect had failed his trial.
• Chi Jiuyu set her codename as “Future Sect Master of Sword” after deleting two characters from her original choice.

Chi Jiuyu was angered when the Three Heavens Realm trial’s public record omitted her, while Zhang Yunlu met Lin Xuanxuan and listened as Nangong Ruo discussed Chi Jiuyu’s past. After overhearing the conversation, Chi Jiuyu locked onto an inn and vanished toward it.

• The trial record praised Xiao Yu and Xiao Fan and briefly noted the Dragon-Elephant Heaven-Supporting Sect’s destruction of Purple Purity Temple, but did not mention Chi Jiuyu.
• Trial participants filled the World Chat Channel with rapid messages until the system introduced realm-based daily chat limits and unrestricted private messages.
• Lin Xuanxuan discovered Zhang Yunlu beside the rockery, and Zhang Yunlu said she was from the Sword Sect and was at Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
• Lin Xuanxuan shared her homemade medicinal pellets with Zhang Yunlu, who offered her sword-intent Mystic Profound Grass in exchange.
• Lin Xuanxuan brought out an artifact to test the Mystic Profound Grass while Nangong Ruo asked Zhang Yunlu about Chi Jiuyu and recounted her past behavior.
• Chi Jiuyu overheard Nangong Ruo discussing her and, angered by the perceived slander, used her Divine Sense to locate an inn and vanished toward it.

In the Pine Cloud Dynasty’s Capital City, Xiao Fan recovered from his wounds when Mo Cheng and Lin Qiuxian found him and visited. Meanwhile, Xu Xing monitored the trial and planned the next stages of ascension, with Chen Yan set to be the sole person who would ascend for now.

• Xiao Fan treated the wound left by his fight with Zi Yan and hid while Purple Purity Temple’s disciples searched the Capital City.
• Mo Cheng and Lin Qiuxian arrived at Xiao Fan’s courtyard, introduced themselves, and entered after he recognized their connection to the Mystic Sword City trial.
• Mo Cheng used a Portable Capsule Shelter to seal the broken room against the rain and tried to sell Xiao Fan more capsules, but Xiao Fan declined.
• Xu Xing reviewed the World Chat Channel and noted how trial-takers including Xiao Fan, Mo Cheng, and Lin Qiuxian had found one another.
• Xu Xing recounted Yang Lin’s death during the trial and assessed the merit gained by Chen Yan, the old Daoist, the sword cultivator, and the great monk.
• Xu Xing planned to screen candidates carefully and resolved that Chen Yan alone would ascend during the early stage of the Ascension Plan.

After the Purple Purity Temple disciples were wiped out, Cheng Yu, the Demon Venerable of the Filth Realm, possessed the new emperor of the Pine Cloud Dynasty and began recovering. A vision of the Ancestor of Dao’s Beginning bestowed a cultivation scripture that showed Cheng Yu a path to ascend into Taixuan.

• The Pine Cloud Dynasty declared that the old emperor had died of illness, enthroned the eldest prince, and appointed three regents.
• The remaining Purple Purity Temple disciples in the Capital City were mysteriously wiped out, leaving the new emperor worried about the balance of power.
• Cheng Yu possessed the new emperor, assessed the powerful cultivators in the capital, and swallowed the Purple Qi left by the dead Purple Purity Temple disciples to recover.
• Cheng Yu looked up and saw the Ancestor of Dao’s Beginning manifest across the sky, then received the Dao Origin Anchor-Setting Scripture in his sea of consciousness.
• Cheng Yu learned that the scripture could help him ascend into Taixuan without first erasing his karmic sins or achieving external perfection.

Cheng Yu cultivated the Dao Origin Anchor-Setting Scripture as Xuan advanced a plan to place anchors across the Boundless Realms and oppose the Sword Ancestor. Meanwhile, Chi Jiuyu headed toward Great Profound Heaven while Zhang Yunlu, Lin Xuanxuan, and Nangong Ruo planned to search there for spirit herbs.

• Cheng Yu began cultivating after setting a warning formation, and purple light spread through his body from the rune in his sea of consciousness.
• Xuan explained that he was planting anchors across realms to use the Extra-Realm Human Race against the Sword Ancestor and Great Profound immortals.
• Xuan recalled that the Beast God Realm’s Cang Race had been wiped out and that he had already set an anchor there after the Human Race immortals destroyed its Heavenly Will Immortal.
• Chi Jiuyu told Zhang Yunlu that she intended to use Purple Purity Temple’s spatial passageway to visit Great Profound Heaven, then left to go there.
• Lin Xuanxuan bought one hundred Mystic Profound Grass stalks from Zhang Yunlu and proposed that the three of them search Great Profound Heaven for spirit herbs.
• Nangong Ruo said she was hiding a minor injury beneath her artifact conical hat, which she blamed on Chi Jiuyu.

Lin Xuanxuan and Nangong Ruo headed toward the Capital City, while Xu Xing observed the Great Profound Realm trial and reflected on Xuan’s plans. At the valley entrance, Lin Xingyue failed to break the golden barrier, and Qi Ling prepared to try using restriction-breaking artifacts.

• Nangong Ruo told Lin Xuanxuan that a formidable Nascent Soul Realm cultivator had injured her with the force technique Damaging Outer Form, and Zhang Yunlu suspected Senior Sister was responsible.
• Lin Xuanxuan said they would reach the Capital City the next day and suggested visiting Xiao Fan, while Nangong Ruo agreed as long as they avoided Chi Jiuyu.
• Xu Xing reviewed the scattered experiencers and the changes underway in Qin-Pacifying County, then noticed someone approaching the valley entrance.
• Lin Xingyue, Xiao Yu, and Zhou Kongming gathered at the valley to investigate Ascension, and Qi Ling arrived carrying her giant hammer.
• Lin Xingyue struck the golden curtain but was hurled backward without damaging it, so Qi Ling took out artifacts designed to break restrictions.

Qi Ling’s third-generation restriction deconstruction artifact exploded at the valley entrance, where a restriction revealed that only Three Heavens Realm cultivators had permission to enter. After Xu Xing reflected on his attachments, Chi Jiuyu arrived at Cloud Crane Tower and revealed her identity to Xiao Yunlu’s companions, leaving Nangong Ruo baffled by how much everyone admired her.

• Qi Ling’s artifact exploded while analyzing the valley’s restriction, which displayed a message denying access to cultivators from outside the Three Heavens Realm.
• Lin Xingyue mistook Zhou Kongming and Qi Ling’s affection for an affair, and they chased and beat him before leaving the valley entrance.
• Xu Xing considered his unresolved responsibilities and decided he did not need to take on more attachments for now.
• Chi Jiuyu explored the Pine Cloud Dynasty’s capital before arriving at Cloud Crane Tower to meet Xiao Yunlu and her companions.
• Chi Jiuyu introduced herself as the Sword Venerable’s eldest disciple and future Sword Sect Master, while Zhang Yunlu corrected her claim that their master had forbidden them to reveal their identities.
• Lin Xuanxuan and Zhang Yunlu openly admired Chi Jiuyu, making Nangong Ruo wonder whether she was the abnormal one for not sharing their admiration.

Cheng Yu recovered enough to sense a powerful Nascent Soul in the Capital City and decided to hide his weakness while stabilizing the court. Meanwhile, Chi Jiuyu reunited with Zhang Yunlu and Nangong Ruo, and in the Filth Realm the old Daoist reflected on his past and revealed the name of the realm beyond Void Return.

• Cheng Yu left his cultivation chamber, sensed Chi Jiuyu’s formidable Nascent Soul in the Capital City, and resolved to conceal his injuries and proceed cautiously.
• Chi Jiuyu wondered whether someone had watched her, then learned there might not be another chance to make an announcement to everyone.
• Zhang Yunlu told Nangong Ruo that she admired Chi Jiuyu for keeping her childlike heart unchanged, while Chi Jiuyu overheard and delighted in the praise.
• Chen Yan and the old Daoist discussed the old Daoist’s past, including how he had abandoned his ambitions and become like the great sects he once opposed.
• The old Daoist told Chen Yan that the realm after Void Return was called Dao Integration, then turned his attention to an ordinary pebble.

The old Daoist revealed his connection to the supreme Great Profound Realm to Chen Yan, then caught Zhao Yueqing spying in disguise. Zhao Yueqing escaped and changed into a woman before heading for the Mortal Realm, while Xu Xing watched from the Ascension Holy Land and considered what might happen next.

• The old Daoist told Chen Yan that he had once reached the supreme Great Profound Realm with Cheng Yu, the Demon Venerable, and explained that Great Profound Heaven was named in admiration of it.
• The old Daoist caught Zhao Yueqing, who had disguised himself as a pebble, and made him reveal his Spirit Transformation Perfection cultivation.
• Zhao Yueqing claimed he had been comprehending a divine ability and begged to be spared after overhearing the old Daoist's conversation with Chen Yan.
• After the old Daoist and Chen Yan left, Zhao Yueqing transformed into a woman using the Celestial Human Transformation Method and flew toward the Mortal Realm.
• Xu Xing observed the events from the Ascension Holy Land and reflected on Chen Yan, Jiu Yu, and Zhao Yueqing's next moves.

Chi Jiuyu and her companions entered the spatial passage at Purple Purity Temple to travel to Great Profound Heaven, while Cheng Yu stayed behind in the Capital City to recover. Zhao Yueqing arrived in the Mortal Realm and, after hearing Chi Jiuyu describe the city as boring, decided to wait out the training there.

• Chi Jiuyu's group met Xiao Fan, Lin Qiuxian, and Mo Cheng outside Purple Purity Temple as both parties prepared to travel to Great Profound Heaven.
• Mo Cheng recalled that he had once tricked Chi Jiuyu into buying his unsold magical artifacts through blind boxes and an alt account.
• Chi Jiuyu destroyed the statue of Zi Xuan, crushed its purple-jade eyes, and led the others toward Great Profound Heaven.
• Cheng Yu discovered that Chi Jiuyu and her companions had left the Capital City, then began cultivating to heal his injuries.
• Zhao Yueqing asked for information about the Capital City in the world channel, and Chi Jiuyu's reply that it was boring convinced her to stay there until training ended.

Chi Jiuyu brought Zhang Yunlu, Xiao Fan, and the others into Great Profound Heaven, where she drove off a crowd of cultivators and captured a Nascent Soul. Meanwhile, Li Ming continued learning about the Great Profound Realm and spoke with Xu Xing, who hinted that Li Ming was not yet ready to understand the strange event he had experienced.

• Chi Jiuyu and her companions emerged from the receiving array at the ruins of Purple Purity Temple and found themselves surrounded by more than a hundred cultivators.
• Chi Jiuyu convinced a Spirit Transformation cultivator to leave, then killed a Nascent Soul cultivator's body with one sword and captured his Nascent Soul, forcing the rest to flee.
• Chi Jiuyu praised her own display of strength, while Lin Qiuxian, Xiao Fan, and Mo Cheng thanked her and left; Zhang Yunlu chose to travel separately to temper herself.
• Chi Jiuyu remained by the pool with the captured Nascent Soul and wondered whether she should eliminate the threat at its roots.
• Li Ming studied the Great Profound Realm while working as a teacher, then asked Xu Xing about the mysterious event he had experienced in Mystic Sword City.
• Xu Xing told Li Ming that he was not yet ready to understand the event, and Li Ming reflected on the significance of Xu Xing's title as Sword Ancestor.

Li Ming received two cultivation techniques from Xu Xing, while Xu Xing prepared to leave Homecoming Laboratory and reflected on Yuan. Far away, Xuan reached the damaged Beast God Realm after instructing Cang Race Heavenly Generals on Heaven Pass Construction.

• Xu Xing gave Li Ming the Great Void World-Deriving Observation Method and True Self Bright Source Dharma Manifestation, then left as Li Ming bought tea and studied the techniques.
• Joyous Union Sect authorities arrested six cultivators who had abducted seven Charm Cultivators at Qingxu, and Void Return Charm Cultivators later gathered at the cliffs.
• Xu Xing removed the World-Deriving Instrument from Homecoming Laboratory and found the final page of Notes on Realm Exploration, which read, "I'm going home."
• Xuan instructed Cang Race Heavenly Generals in Heaven Pass Construction and told them to avoid the frontline battlefield.
• Xuan examined a World Seed, witnessed a sword light that shook his incarnation, then entered the damaged Beast God Realm.