Chapter Summaries

Xu Xing entered seclusion while the Great Profound Realm changed under Taiping Daoist’s rule, and the mysterious You intervened when the Solar Star Lord nearly killed Taiping Daoist. Hong Sovereign visited the dying Jiang Lin and asked whether he regretted his choices.

• Xu Xing went into seclusion, while You explored the Great Profound Realm and Azure Cloud Demon Lord found a pile of Void Spirit Crystals before You appeared behind them.
• Jiang Lin entered the Capital City, defeated Heavenly Mansion, shattered the Great Unity Dynasty’s fortune, and executed its rulers and nobles.
• Taiping Daoist defeated the allied rebel kings, expanded Taiping Dao’s influence, and later crushed Daoist Xuanling in a duel before they discussed the Dao.
• The Solar Star Lord attacked Taiping Daoist with golden flames, but You’s sinister laughter forced the Golden Crow to flee after Taiping Daoist was gravely wounded.
• Hong Sovereign appeared before the dying Jiang Lin and asked whether he regretted giving up a quieter path to cultivate.

Jiang Lin received renewed strength and powerful protections from Hong Sovereign, then confronted the arrival of the Great Bright Sword Ancestor and exposed the sinister purpose of his cultivation method. Xu Xing appeared as another Sword Ancestor, granted Jiang Lin a sword scar capable of killing a Profound Penetration, and began using an Ascension Platform to threaten the world’s strongest cultivators.

• Jiang Lin admitted his fear and asked Hong Sovereign for a way to break the looming deadlock, so Hong Sovereign restored his youth, returned his 108 divine spirit forms, and gave him a bronze mirror that could kill two Profound Penetration cultivators.
• Hong Sovereign revealed that he came from the Immortal Realm, explained the realms beyond Dao Integration, and left Jiang Lin a Compressed Biscuit while warning that great changes were coming.
• After Jiang Lin purged thirty-five schemers among Taiping Dao's regional overseers, the Great Bright Sword Ancestor's Tai Ming Origin Cave Heaven descended and spread the Tai Ming Metal Refining Art throughout the world.
• Jiang Lin recognized that the art forged cultivators into sword blanks, and his bronze mirror blocked the Great Bright Sword Ancestor's attempt to impose him as a personal disciple.
• Xu Xing appeared as a Sword Ancestor, praised Jiang Lin, and granted him a sword scar capable of killing a Profound Penetration, angering the Great Bright Sword Ancestor.
• Xu Xing took out another Ascension Platform and declared that Profound Penetration was not the end of cultivation, causing every Profound Penetration, Dao Integration, and Void Return cultivator to feel a lethal edge at their brows.

Xu Xing established an Ascension Platform in the Great Profound Realm, while the Tai Ming Sword Ancestor agreed to bring his sword palace into the mortal world and spread its teachings. After returning to the Chaos Sea, Xu Xing parted from Bie Xuening and Yuanjun, then Hong Sovereign asked him a mysterious question about a line of poetry.

• Xu Xing split heaven and earth with his sword and established an Ascension Platform for qualified Void Return cultivators, whose merit evaluations appeared in their minds.
• The Tai Ming Sword Ancestor feared Jiang Lin's sword scar, agreed to spread the Tai Ming teachings through Taiping Dao territory, and changed his sect's entry requirements.
• The Lunar Star Lord reflected on Xu Xing's power and her own merit evaluation at the Taiping Dao branch altar in Swallow Phoenix Province.
• Xu Xing, Bie Xuening, Yuanjun, and Hong Sovereign watched the world from the Chaos Sea and discussed how ascension might work there.
• Bie Xuening and Yuanjun departed after Xu Xing said he remembered his past and needed a little more time to return.
• Hong Sovereign asked Xu Xing, “What is the next line after ‘It must be that the heavenly immortals were wildly drunk’?”

Xu Xing left the world where he had lingered and struggled through the Chaos Sea toward the Great Profound Realm, discovering a record of Abyss’s stay in a world associated with Shu Mountain. In the Great Profound Realm, the Sword Sect had stabilized, while Chi Jiuyu and Zhang Yunlu discussed their cultivation and injuries.

• Xu Xing watched the Great Profound Realm’s repulsive force weaken after his connections to the Three Daos were severed, then set off toward home.
• Xu Xing crossed the Chaos Sea and found a jade tome recording Abyss’s activities in a Void Return-level world, including his influence on the force called Shu Mountain.
• In the Great Profound Realm, the Sword Sect and Supreme Dao Sect had restored stability after withdrawing some cultivators from the Starry Sky Frontline Battlefield.
• Chi Jiuyu complained of boredom and injuries while Zhang Yunlu recovered from a mission and reflected on her slower Golden Core cultivation.
• Chi Jiuyu kept her Principle secret from Zhang Yunlu, who said she would ask Senior Sister Li instead.

Chi Jiuyu reunited with Bie Xuening after Bie Xuening returned to the Great Profound Realm, while the sect learned that Xu Xing would arrive a few days later. Bie Xuening met Ji Yue and received a friend request from “Confusion,” as the Founder Ancestors joked in their group chat and Hong Sovereign revealed that Confusion had invited him to an exchange group.

• Chi Jiuyu gave Zhang Yunlu a new phone, then rushed to greet Bie Xuening when Zhang Yunlu spotted her by the Spirit Fish pond.
• Bie Xuening told the Sword Sect’s leaders that Xu Xing would return a few days later and answered their questions about the sect’s affairs.
• Bie Xuening visited Ji Yue, who welcomed her back and discussed how she had helped teach Bie Xuening’s disciples.
• Bie Xuening noticed a friend request from “Confusion” while the Founder Ancestors traded jokes in their group chat.
• Hong Sovereign shared a screenshot showing that Confusion had invited him to an exchange group.

Bie Xuening returned to the Sword Sect, praised Chi Jiuyu and Zhang Yunlu’s cultivation, and arranged for Zhang Yunlu to receive a Starship. In the Chaos Sea, Xu Xing repaid a multiverse world that had preserved his Dao lineages and received a token that granted its bearer the world’s favor.

• Bie Xuening visited Ji Yue, learned Yan Ming had gone into seclusion after fighting Lin Ji, and left while Ji Yue continued suppressing the backlash.
• Bie Xuening met Chi Jiuyu and Zhang Yunlu, praised their progress, and told Zhang Yunlu to choose a Starship with Chi Jiuyu.
• Bie Xuening said her Martial Uncle would return in a few days and asked her disciples to update the reaction stickers.
• Xu Xing finished reading the world’s information and continued through the Chaos Sea, seeing his Dao lineages take root across worlds.
• Xu Xing thanked the multiverse world that had preserved his Dao lineages and watered its realms with spiritual light.
• The multiverse world gave Xu Xing a token that could grant its bearer the world’s favor, and he kept it for his disciples’ future training.

While traveling through the Chaos Sea, Xu Xing realized that doubts and worries arising from his own mind formed a barrier he called Dao Delusion, which obstructed his further progress. He activated the Beast God Realm’s Ascension Platform during the Human Race’s decisive war against the Beast God Race, then left still searching for a way to overcome Dao Delusion.

• Xu Xing released his full stature in the Chaos Sea and gained clearer insight into the Great Dao, while wondering whether the Great Profound Realm’s overarching trend had guided him to sever his past.
• Xu Xing examined himself through a trace in the Beast God Realm and discovered a murky shadow of doubt surrounding his Sword Dao, which he named Dao Delusion.
• On the Beast God Realm battlefield, Xi Li overwhelmed a supreme Beast God Race mech as the Human Race fought its final decisive battle against the Beast God Race.
• Xu Xing activated the Ascension Platform he had previously left in the Beast God Realm and observed it through a Sword Intent Spirit Body.
• Xu Xing found that Dao Delusion emerged when he tried to advance his understanding, and he suppressed distracting worries about Senior Sister, Yuanjun, and Ning Ruo while wondering how to break through it.

Xu Xing returned to the Great Profound Realm after strengthening the Floating Glaze Realm, but he found that the Dao Delusion still clouded his heart. At the Sword Sect, Li Ke and Chi Jiuyu were waiting when he arrived, and Li Ke called him Master.

• Xu Xing refined chaos aura to strengthen the Floating Glaze Realm, raising it to the limit of the Void Return level before leaving it to pursue its own advancement.
• Xu Xing returned to the Great Profound Realm, where he found that its principles did not suppress his Dao Delusion.
• Xu Xing received messages from several Dao friends and an invitation from Confusion to join the group chat "Exchange Group."
• Li Ke sat near Sword Ancestor Hall, missing Master, and Chi Jiuyu brought her food made with Phoenix.
• Xu Xing appeared before Li Ke and Chi Jiuyu, and Li Ke threw aside the lunchbox and called him Master.

Xu Xing returned to his sect and spoke with Bie Xuening about the Dao Delusion affecting him, while Chi Jiuyu was thrown down the mountain after interrupting the reunion. Xu Xing planned to visit the Spirit Sound Workshop with Chi Jiuyu, then travel to the other side of the starry sky to investigate the vanished Cang Race and Xuan.

• Li Ke embraced Xu Xing as his disciples gathered around him, and Chi Jiuyu was sent tumbling to the foot of the mountain after announcing his return.
• Chi Jiuyu hurried to the Sword Venerable Hall to find Bie Xuening, then discovered her speaking privately with Xu Xing in a bamboo house.
• Xu Xing told Bie Xuening that Dao Delusion arose when he considered advancing further, and Chi Jiuyu overheard their conversation before they noticed her.
• Bie Xuening told Chi Jiuyu to accompany Xu Xing to the Spirit Sound Workshop, where he would deliver the Divine Path Information Container to Ning Ruo and discuss Dao Delusion.
• Xu Xing told Bie Xuening he planned to visit the other side of the starry sky to investigate the missing Cang Race and Xuan, then asked about Confusion's Exchange Group.

Xu Xing joined the cultivators’ group chats, explained the Dao Delusion he had encountered, and planned to visit the Spirit Sound Workshop before exploring the Far Side of the Starry Sky. He then told Chi Jiuyu that he had found Zhang Yunlu’s parents’ remains and asked her to help tell Zhang Yunlu.

• Xu Xing joined the Exchange Group, while Bie Xuening refused to join and had him relay her answer to the group.
• Xu Xing described Dao Delusion to the fellow Daoists, who compared it to an inner demon and suggested it might be a tribulation born from the Dao itself.
• Xu Xing agreed to visit Charm Ancestor for her assessment later, but said he first needed to visit the Spirit Sound Workshop and the Far Side of the Starry Sky.
• Charm Ancestor sent Xu Xing a series of photographs for his opinions, and Bie Xuening reacted with displeasure.
• Xu Xing took Chi Jiuyu to the Spirit Sound Workshop and told her he had found Zhang Yunlu’s parents’ remains in Qingxu.
• Chi Jiuyu agreed to tell Zhang Yunlu about her parents, after Xu Xing explained that Bie Xuening had already been informed.

Xu Xing and Ning Ruo began designing the first version of the Immortal Net using the Divine Path Information Container, while Chi Jiuyu sought Ning Wanzhu’s advice on telling Xiao Yunlu that her parents had died. The Immortal Net’s framework was established around True Immortal power, with safeguards planned for ascension missions.

• Chi Jiuyu asked Ning Wanzhu how to comfort her junior sister after learning that her parents had died, and Ning Wanzhu offered to help her think it through.
• Xu Xing visited Ning Ruo and let her examine his Dao Delusion, but stopped her from drawing any of it into her own mind.
• Xu Xing blurted out that Ning Ruo’s smile was prettier, then explained that his Dao Delusion could cause uncontrolled thoughts and planned to seek help from the Charm Ancestor.
• Ning Ruo took the Divine Path Information Container to the Mountain Body Laboratory, where she and Xu Xing began building the Immortal Net framework.
• Xu Xing and Ning Ruo chose immortal power as the Immortal Net’s foundation and planned Secondary Immortal Power safeguards for Ascension Envoys entering Truth Insight Level one worlds.

Xu Xing gave Ning Wanzhu a jade book recording Yuan’s time in another world and answered her questions about Homecoming and Yuan’s promise to return. Back at the Sword Sect, Bie Xuening told Zhang Yunlu that Xu Xing had found her parents’ remains and asked her to summon her elder brother.

• Ning Ruo and Xu Xing discussed focusing on the Ascension Guidance Immortal Net, and Ning Ruo gave Xu Xing gifts for Bie Xuening and her disciples.
• Xu Xing gave Ning Wanzhu a jade book about Yuan’s time in another world and told her he had considered Homecoming but that the time was not right.
• Ning Wanzhu confirmed that Yuan had said he would return, and Xu Xing left with Chi Jiuyu.
• Chi Jiuyu delivered Ning Ruo’s gifts to Bie Xuening and Zhang Yunlu at the Sword Sect.
• Bie Xuening told Zhang Yunlu that Xu Xing had found her parents’ remains in Qingxu and asked her to summon her elder brother.

Xu Xing searched Xuan’s route to the Central Continent for traps, then crossed to the Far Side of the Starry Sky to confront him. He uncovered a hidden Daoist ground where Cang Race Heavenly Generals waited, and attacked them as one called for the fighting to end.

• Xu Xing slashed along the route Xuan had taken to the Central Continent but found no abnormalities.
• Xu Xing met You and Min at the Starry Sky Frontline Battlefield, where You said the Cang Race had vanished and Xuan seemed to have recovered.
• Xu Xing crossed to the Far Side of the Starry Sky and found no Cang Race members, though he sensed a powerful concealed aura.
• Xu Xing unleashed Red Radiance across the starfields and cut through a hidden boundary, revealing a vast Daoist ground filled with Cang Race Heavenly Generals.
• Xu Xing attacked the gathered Heavenly Generals, and a voice urged him to end the conflict as purple qi formed a giant hand to seize his sword light.

Xu Xing confronted the recovered Xuan at the Far Side of the Starry Sky and killed three Cang Race Heavenly Generals before withdrawing. Xuan chose not to retaliate, but the Sword Ancestor’s changed state left him feeling urgency as Xu Xing returned to the Starry Sky Frontline Battlefield to seek a way past Dao Delusion.

• Xu Xing clashed with Xuan, who protected the Cang Race and argued that neither side was ready for a decisive battle.
• Xu Xing’s crimson sword light silently killed Liu Yu and two other Cang Race Heavenly Generals despite Xuan’s protection.
• Xu Xing departed after telling Xuan that he had attacked because Xuan had struck his disciple first, and Xuan concealed the Purple Qi Dao Field while worrying about the Sword Ancestor’s advancement.
• Xu Xing returned to the Starry Sky Frontline Battlefield and told You and Min that Xuan had recovered and that he had killed three Cang Race Heavenly Generals.
• Xu Xing explained that he had gained insight but faced Dao Delusion, then planned to search the starry sky for a way through it and later resume arranging the ascension matters.

Xu Xing visited his second disciple, Xu Xianning, on the Starry Sky Frontline Battlefield and learned that she was nearing the Immortal-Knocking Pass. At the Sword Sect, Zhang Xiu reunited with Zhang Yunlu and asked her to take him to their parents’ graves.

• Xu Xing watched Xu Xianning train and stopped her heavy greatsword with one hand.
• Xu Xianning told Xu Xing that the Immortal-Knocking Pass was close and that she planned to return to the sect in a month.
• Chi Jiuyu and Zhang Yunlu waited at the Sword Sect’s teleportation array for Zhang Xiu and Jiang Hong.
• Zhang Xiu greeted Zhang Yunlu and asked her to take him to their parents’ graves.
• Zhang Yunlu flew toward the Sword Sect Cemetery with Zhang Xiu, while Jiang Hong and Chi Jiuyu followed.

Zhang Xiu and Zhang Yunlu visited their parents’ grave, while Xu Xing checked on Xu Xianning and traveled to meet Remorse. Xu Xing witnessed how Remorse’s martial Dao Foundation protected Human Race cultivators across the Great Profound Realm and starry sky, then departed as Remorse continued his vigil.

• Zhang Xiu, Zhang Yunlu, and Jiang Hong entered the Sword Sect cemetery to pay respects to the siblings’ parents, while Chi Jiuyu waited outside and planned a trip for Zhang Yunlu.
• Zhang Xiu was overwhelmed by memories at the tombstone, while Zhang Yunlu struggled to recall her parents and began to glimpse vague memories.
• Bie Xuening watched the cemetery from the Sword Sect and wondered about events on the Far Side of the Starry Sky.
• Xu Xing left Xu Xianning at the Starry Sky Fortress, left protective Sword Qi behind, and set out to visit Remorse.
• Xu Xing found Remorse on a remote asteroid and saw that Remorse’s martial principles marked Human Race cultivators at Foundation Establishment to prevent possession by other races.
• Xu Xing erased several lurking foreign auras around cultivators establishing their foundations, acknowledged Remorse’s years of effort, and departed.

Xu Xing remained in the starry sky to seek inspiration for breaking through Dao Delusion and reflected on how Yuan had guided the Great Profound Realm’s development by intervening at crucial moments. At the Sword Sect, Chi Jiuyu saw Zhang Xiu off over a Phoenix feast and revealed that Zhang Yunlu had received a Starship as a gift.

• Xu Xing observed the bustling Bright Bestowal No. 31 Star System and a Golden Core starry-sky merchant, then realized that Yuan had changed the Great Profound Realm by giving it crucial pushes.
• Xu Xing recalled refusing to raise starry-sky teleportation fees and merchant taxes, and said anyone who objected could bring their reasoning to him.
• Chi Jiuyu hosted Zhang Xiu and Zhang Yunlu at the Sword Sect’s dining hall, where they ate Phoenix and discussed changes to the dining hall.
• Zhang Yunlu told Chi Jiuyu she had accepted a mission to recover a planet and retrieve cultivation records of cultivators under twenty-five.
• Chi Jiuyu confirmed that Zhang Yunlu’s Starship was fully equipped and revealed to Zhang Xiu that her master had gifted it to Zhang Yunlu for reaching Golden Core.

Zhang Xiu learned that Zhang Yunlu had acquired a starship and heard that the upcoming Immortal Sect Grand Competition would be unusual. As Zhang Yunlu and Chi Jiuyu activated and named her Ship Spirit Xiao Ning, Chi Jiuyu discovered that her master had once planned to replace her own starship with a medium-sized one; meanwhile, Xu Xing searched the Yuling Interstellar Hotel for the two disciples.

• Zhang Xiu struggled with envy over Zhang Yunlu's new starship and considered seeking work guarding an inhabited planet in the Starry Sky.
• Chi Jiuyu told Zhang Xiu that the upcoming Immortal Sect Grand Competition would be unusual and urged him to try to participate.
• Zhang Yunlu received notice that her Ship Spirit was activated, and she and Chi Jiuyu went to the Sword Sect's Starship Comprehensive Service Area.
• Zhang Yunlu named her Ship Spirit Xiao Ning, and the two entered the starship's main control room.
• Zhang Yunlu revealed that her master had planned to replace Chi Jiuyu's starship with a medium-sized one, prompting Chi Jiuyu to cry out in dismay.
• Xu Xing admired the Yuling Star-Refining Art at the Yuling Interstellar Hotel and prepared to find Jiuyu and Yun Lu before returning.

Xu Xing and the fellow Daoists settled on finding a world beyond the realm as the Immortal Sect Grand Competition’s trial ground, while Ning Ruo worked on the Taixuan Immortal Network. Meanwhile, Chi Jiuyu and Zhang Yunlu prepared to travel to Yuling Interstellar Hotel, where they hoped to carry out their mission and possibly meet Martial Uncle.

• Xu Xing discussed the Immortal Sect Grand Competition with Ning Ruo, who said she would finish adjusting and testing the Taixuan Immortal Network.
• Xu Xing asked the Big Boss Group about the competition venue, and the fellow Daoists agreed to use a world beyond the realm as a trial ground, with Tyrant Sovereign suggesting one influenced by Mystic Shadow.
• Chi Jiuyu and Zhang Yunlu ate noodles at the Sword Sect’s Starry Sky Warp Array waiting hall, and Chi Jiuyu revealed that their master had agreed to let her trade for a medium-sized Starship.
• Zhang Yunlu set the Starship’s destination as Yuling Interstellar Hotel, and Chi Jiuyu said Martial Uncle could find them if he wanted to.

Chi Jiuyu and Zhang Yunlu warped to the Yuling Interstellar Hotel, where Zhang Yunlu was captivated by the starry displays and Chi Jiuyu revealed her knowledge of advanced Spirit-Calming Arrays. A young man took an interest in them, but his butler warned him not to provoke them and explained that they were hiding from a Sword Sect envoy investigating his past trouble.

• Chi Jiuyu and Zhang Yunlu tested the Starship’s Warp Engine as they traveled toward the Yuling Star System, and Zhang Yunlu asked whether the star system’s inhabitants had all come from the Central Continent.
• The Starship arrived at the Yuling Interstellar Hotel, where Chi Jiuyu and Zhang Yunlu presented their invitations and were escorted to Hall Wu-47.
• Chi Jiuyu recognized the hotel’s Spirit-Calming Array and told Zhang Yunlu that World Relief Valley had already developed newer generations of the array and was preparing matching pills.
• Zhang Yunlu admired the starry spirit-jade displays inside the hall, and the young man watched her with interest.
• Uncle Ming warned the young man not to provoke Chi Jiuyu or Zhang Yunlu and explained that they were hiding at the hotel while a Sword Sect envoy investigated the cultivators’ records.