Chapter Summaries

Charm Ancestor examined Xu Xing's 'Dao Delusion' and discovered that she could stir it, though a flash of Red Radiance cut off her attempt to draw it onto herself. She agreed to investigate further and began testing how Xu Xing triggered it, then shared food and wine with him in a modern side hall.

• Charm Ancestor decorated a wine jar for Xu Xing to take to Senior Sister, and Xu Xing reflected on Yinxue's uncompromising approach to good and evil.
• Charm Ancestor examined the shadow over Xu Xing's heart and stirred the 'Dao Delusion' by chanting, "Ten Thousand Daos Must Respect Me."
• Charm Ancestor tried to draw the 'Dao Delusion' onto herself, but Red Radiance stopped her, and Xu Xing urged her not to risk being affected.
• Charm Ancestor said she had noticed something and agreed to verify her findings before asking Xu Xing to show her how he triggered the 'Dao Delusion.'
• Several hours later, Charm Ancestor served Xu Xing her cooking and wine in a modern side hall while he read messages in the group chat.

Charm Ancestor explained that Dao Delusion arose from Xu Xing severing his past, and Xu Xing identified it as the first sprout of Dao Source, the realm beyond True Immortal. Meanwhile, Chi Jiuyu used the Sword Ancestor Token to verify a mission report and then headed to Li Ke’s residence to meet a returning Star Domain Guardian who was another of her Martial Uncle’s disciples.

• Charm Ancestor discussed her history with the Joyous Union Sect and explained how the Spirit Net had distorted the sect’s conflict with three major sects.
• Charm Ancestor told Xu Xing that Dao Delusion arose as cultivators grew distant from the mortal world and that his severing of his past had shaped the tribulation.
• Xu Xing concluded that Dao Delusion marked the beginning of Dao Source, naming the three paths of True Immortality Dao Attainment, Dao Holding, and Dao Source.
• Charm Ancestor agreed to keep investigating Dao Delusion while Xu Xing stayed at Founder Ancestor Cave Heaven and she notified Sword Venerable.
• Chi Jiuyu submitted a mission report at the Sword Sect’s Law Enforcement Hall and used the Sword Ancestor Token to verify it, prompting the hall to arrange the rewards and follow-up.
• Chi Jiuyu left the Law Enforcement Hall and flew to Li Ke’s residence, hoping to meet the returning Star Domain Guardian who was another of her Martial Uncle’s disciples.

Chi Jiuyu visited Li Ke after returning from the Starry Sky and told her that Martial Uncle had gone to the Joyous Union Sect. Li Ke revealed that the returning Star Domain Guardian was Xu Xianning, her own senior sister, leaving Chi Jiuyu eager to meet her.

• Chi Jiuyu arrived at Li Ke's cave abode with gifts, entered using her key, and tried to peer into a sealed wooden box before Li Ke returned and stopped her.
• Li Ke asked whether Chi Jiuyu had encountered Master at the Yuling Interstellar Hotel, and Chi Jiuyu said she had met Martial Uncle while investigating Yuyao Fourth Planet.
• Chi Jiuyu told Li Ke that Martial Uncle had gone to the Joyous Union Sect, though she did not know why.
• Chi Jiuyu asked about the returning Star Domain Guardian, and Li Ke identified her as Xu Xianning, her own senior sister.

Chi Jiuyu questioned Li Ke about the wooden chest and learned that no cultivation realm would earn her permission to know what was inside. The next morning, Xu Xing toured the Joyous Union Sect, admired its scenery and displays, and spoke with Charm Ancestor about his method for resolving Dao Delusion.

• Chi Jiuyu reassured Li Ke about Xu Xianning's strength, asked about the wooden chest, and was thrown out after Li Ke refused to explain its contents.
• Chi Jiuyu returned to her cave dwelling and decided to ask her Master about the Eldest Senior Sister the next morning.
• Xu Xing toured the Joyous Union Sect's maple forest and public grounds, where he saw Charm Cultivators performing and selling Yin-nourishing and Yang-supplementing pills.
• Charm Ancestor spoke to Xu Xing through a sparrow and asked how he planned to resolve Dao Delusion.

Xu Xing discussed ways to approach Dao Delusion with Charm Ancestor, bought and recognized a fragment of Gu Feng’s saber, and wandered around the Joyous Union Sect. The chapter ended with Jiang Yujiu returning from a year of seclusion as a Nascent Soul Perfection cultivator, preparing to celebrate and resume broadcasting.

• Xu Xing proposed severing all thoughts except one obsession to dispel Dao Delusion, while Charm Ancestor warned him that the method could destroy his True Self.
• Xu Xing bought an antique iron shard for two hundred thousand Spirit Coins and later recognized it as a fragment of Gu Feng’s saber, which he planned to send to Meng Xuan.
• Xu Xing and Charm Ancestor discussed Dao Delusion and his unsettled thoughts, and Charm Ancestor teased him about choosing among Sword Venerable and the others before announcing she had discovered one of his secrets in the group chat.
• Xu Xing watched the group chat devolve into jokes and arguments, then continued exploring the Joyous Union Sect without joining in.
• Jiang Yujiu emerged from a year of seclusion as a Nascent Soul Perfection cultivator, credited her Blood Jade and recent opportunities, and prepared to celebrate and resume her broadcasts.

Xu Xing watched the young cultivators’ ordinary progress, then worked with the Charm Ancestor on a way to dispel Dao Delusion. At Sword Sect, Zhao Ruohan learned Chi Jiuyu had been placed in the Nascent Soul division of the upcoming Immortal Sect Grand Competition and set out to meet her, determined to avenge her brother.

• Xu Xing observed Gu Wangjun studying cultivation, sword techniques, and talisman crafting, while the other lucky cultivators continued attending school.
• Xu Xing and the Charm Ancestor discussed Xu Xianning’s return and continued developing a method to dispel Dao Delusion, which the Charm Ancestor proposed naming the Self-Severing Transcendence Method.
• Cheng Junming and Zhao Ruohan visited Sword Sect, where Du Ruoheng showed them the competitor roster for the Immortal Sect Grand Competition.
• Zhao Ruohan objected when she saw Chi Jiuyu listed in the Nascent Soul division, but Du Ruoheng defended the placement based on age and cultivation history.
• Zhao Ruohan left the hall and messaged her brother that she would meet Chi Jiuyu and avenge his previous defeat.

Chi Jiuyu met Zhao Ruohan, the Supreme Dao Sect’s Dao Heir, who challenged her over beating Zhao’s brother and discovered Chi’s rare Mystic Candle Tree. Meanwhile, Xu Xing discussed Chi’s likely competition bracket with Charm Ancestor and planned to persuade Sword Venerable to move her into the Spirit Transformation group with compensation.

• Chi Jiuyu met Zhao Ruohan, who said she intended to avenge her brother, a contestant Chi had defeated at the previous Immortal Sect Grand Competition.
• Chi Jiuyu and Zhao Ruohan introduced themselves as future sect leaders, and Zhao noticed the Mystic Candle Tree Chi had received from Spirit Ancestor.
• Zhao offered Chi four hundred thousand Spirit Coins for the tree, but Chi explained it had been a gift; Zhao then revealed that her mother was Zhao Chengmeng and her father was the Hong Sovereign.
• Chi learned Zhao was twenty-five and had reached Spirit Transformation six months earlier, while Chi had advanced at twenty-two.
• Xu Xing told Charm Ancestor that Chi was at least as promising as his former third disciple and argued she should compete in the Spirit Transformation group rather than the Nascent Soul group.
• Xu Xing planned to speak with Sword Venerable and offer Chi compensation comparable to the Nascent Soul group’s first-place reward.

Xu Xing and the Charm Ancestor discussed Chi Jiuyu’s competition division and the dangers of forming attachments while the Cang Race remained a threat. At Chi Jiuyu’s cave, Zhao Ruohan asked the Sword Ancestor to let Chi Jiuyu compete in the Spirit Transformation division, offering her the Nascent Soul division’s first-place reward as compensation.

• Xu Xing agreed that Chi Jiuyu could receive additional resources and asked the Charm Ancestor to arrange discussions among the sects.
• The Charm Ancestor teased Xu Xing about leaving descendants, but he rejected the idea because attachments could be exploited in the war against the Cang Race.
• Chi Jiuyu defeated Zhao Ruohan in a game, and Zhao Ruohan explained that her innate Qianyuan Undying Jade-Pure Mystic Light was a powerful divine ability sealed until she reached higher realms.
• Zhao Ruohan praised Chi Jiuyu’s achievements and asked whether she would enter the Spirit Transformation division, but Chi Jiuyu said her master would not agree.
• Xu Xing arrived, and Zhao Ruohan admitted she had sought revenge for Chi Jiuyu beating her brother, then asked Xu Xing to let Chi Jiuyu enter the Spirit Transformation division in exchange for the Nascent Soul division’s first-place reward.
• Chi Jiuyu immediately agreed, saying she needed to temper herself, while privately welcoming the chance to earn more rewards.

Xu Xing returned to the Sword Sect after arranging Zhao Ruohan's participation in the Immortal Sect Grand Competition and discussing Dao Delusion with Bie Xuening. He then left for Qingxu to investigate Mystic Shadow's schemes, while Li Ming arrived at the Sword Sect seeking guidance on Dao Integration and was received by Du Ruoheng.

• Xu Xing placed Zhao Ruohan in the Spirit Transformation division, gave her a Blood Jade, and gave Chi Jiuyu a jar of spirit wine before leaving with the Sword Ancestor Token.
• Zhao Ruohan challenged Chi Jiuyu to a rematch at the Immortal Sect Grand Competition, and they added each other as friends after realizing they recognized one another from Spirit Net.
• Xu Xing told Bie Xuening what he had learned about Dao Delusion, delivered Charm Ancestor's wine gifts, and confirmed that the rumor about dual cultivation was false.
• After checking on his disciples and Senior Sister Ji, Xu Xing departed for Qingxu to choose trial worlds and purge Mystic Shadow's influence.
• Li Ming, an ascender from Floating Glaze who had reached the peak of Void Return Realm, asked the Sword Sect for an audience to seek Dao Integration guidance and join the Supreme Dao Sect.
• Du Ruoheng met Li Ming and agreed to explain the crucial points of Dao Integration while the Sword Ancestor was away.

Xu Xing searched the Chaos Sea for a world changed by Mystic Shadow and chose Xuanxiang World as a possible trial world for the Immortal Sect Grand Competition. In Xuanxiang World, Mu Yong entered the oppressive Heavenly Spirit Sect as a Seedling disciple and began to see how its leaders exploited and brutalized their disciples.

• Xu Xing found a Void Return-level world called Xuanxiang World, whose crystal wall blazed with the purple radiance marking Mystic Shadow’s influence.
• The Heavenly Spirit Sect’s outer-sect elder harvested spiritual energy from new disciples and prepared to charge them spiritual contracts for what they had absorbed.
• Mu Yong listened as a senior disciple explained that Seedling disciples owed the sect their cultivation gains and faced mutilation or death if they failed to pay.
• The senior disciple charged Mu Yong’s group another strand of spiritual power, and Mu Yong began cultivating in a bare clearing rather than pay for a hut.
• Mu Yong ate leaves to survive and watched Disciplinary Hall disciples pass with a corpse and a lantern containing tortured souls, deepening his hatred of the sect.

Mu Yong survived the Heavenly Spirit Sect’s daily spiritual-energy extraction while realizing the Heavenly Track was part of a ritual meant to transcend the world. Beyond the Xuanxiang World, Xu Xing seized it for the Immortal Sect Grand Competition and froze countless Mystic Shadow-influenced worlds, leaving their fate unresolved.

• Mu Yong ate leaves and drank from a stream, then cultivated while planning to escape his predicament and avoid relying on external cultivation.
• The Heavenly Track extracted one of Mu Yong’s eight threads of spiritual energy as the world’s cultivators paid their daily offering.
• Xuan Xing reviewed how the Heavenly Track’s ritual taxed cultivators and wondered why his master, Founder Ancestor Xuan Qi, had transformed himself into it.
• A voice spoke of the Spirit Herding Heaven Transformation Ritual, freezing the entire Xuanxiang World and everything within it.
• Xu Xing took the frozen Xuanxiang World from the Chaos Sea and chose it for the Immortal Sect Grand Competition.
• Xu Xing froze other worlds influenced by Mystic Shadow with a single finger, halting them all at once.

Xu Xing selected worlds for the Immortal Sect Grand Competition and visited Ning Ruo to test the Taixuan Immortal Network in Xuanxiang World. The test revealed its system-like Auxiliary Modules and limitations, and the chapter ended with Ning Ruo asking whether Charm Ancestor’s claims about Xu Xing were true.

• Xu Xing suspended many Mystic Shadow-affected worlds and sent Sword Intent Spirit Bodies carrying Ascension Platforms to suitable worlds for later use.
• Xu Xing arrived at the Spirit Sound Workshop and showed Ning Ruo the frozen Xuanxiang World.
• Ning Ruo connected Xuanxiang World to a test version of the Taixuan Immortal Network, which analyzed its energy level and available Auxiliary Modules.
• Ning Ruo explained that the network used True Immortal powers to install systems in worlds, but its foreign rules could provoke backlash.
• Ning Ruo asked Xu Xing whether the things Charm Ancestor had said were true, leaving him speechless.

Xu Xing learned that the Taixuan Immortal Network was stable for cultivators up to Truth Insight and prepared to establish a node for the Sword Sect. After hearing that Chi Jiuyu and Zhao Ruohan had badly injured each other, he carried Zhao Ruohan to Chi Jiuyu’s cave dwelling.

• Ning Ruo explained that the Taixuan Immortal Network could provide energy up to two major stages above a user's realm, with a preset limit of Secondary Immortal Power.
• Xu Xing told the immortals that the Taixuan Immortal Network was complete and said he would arrange its details and set up a Sword Sect node.
• Sword Venerable reported that Chi Jiuyu had knocked out Hong Sovereign's daughter's front tooth, then revealed that Jiu Yu had broken her leg.
• Xu Xing found Zhao Ruohan badly bruised with a necrotic leg, but she refused treatment so she could learn from the duel.
• Xu Xing brought Zhao Ruohan to Chi Jiuyu's cave dwelling so she could exchange cultivation experiences with her.

Xu Xing returned to find Chi Jiuyu and Zhao Ruohan badly injured but already on friendly terms, then spoke with Bie Xuening about Chi Jiuyu’s future and the Xuanxiang World. The chapter ended with Xu Xing and Bie Xuening recognizing that Xuan’s influence had left most of that world’s cultivators unable to reach Dao Integration and turned them into half-Cang.

• Xu Xing found Chi Jiuyu preparing wine for herself and Zhao Ruohan, and teased Chi Jiuyu about her battered appearance.
• Chi Jiuyu told Zhao Ruohan she would keep competing with her, but Xu Xing interrupted her boast and struck her on the head.
• Zhao Ruohan asked Xu Xing to heal her injuries, but he left before she finished speaking.
• Xu Xing asked Bie Xuening when she would heal Chi Jiuyu, and Bie Xuening said she would let her learn a lesson for a few more days.
• Xu Xing showed Bie Xuening the Xuanxiang World and explained that Xuan had deeply influenced it.
• Bie Xuening and Xu Xing discussed how the Cang Transformation Ritual and Xuan’s lingering influence had left most cultivators in the world as half-Cang and unable to reach Dao Integration.

Xu Xing resolved to offer the Xuanxiang World a way to resist its gradual transformation into half-Cang beings, while Li Ming prepared to join the Supreme Dao Sect and continued learning about Dao Integration. As Li Ming left the Inheritance Hall, he showed Sect Master Cheng Junming a Five Elements divine ability he had gained from nurturing a Cave Heaven.

• Xu Xing and Bie Xuening agreed to pass down a revised Lunar Spirit Cleansing and Divine Shedding True Method and let the Human Race decide whether to cultivate it.
• Li Ming studied Dao Integration records in the Sword Sect’s Dharma Transmission Tower and decided to join the Supreme Dao Sect.
• Xu Xing reassured Li Ming that the Floating Glaze Realm’s Human Race was thriving and asked about the embryonic Cave Heaven he had been nurturing.
• Xu Xing tested the Taixuan Immortal Network in the Sword Sect and visited several Immortal Sects before preparing to notify the Supreme Dao Sect.
• Cheng Junming explained the Supreme Dao Sect’s rules to Li Ming, who showed him the Cave Heaven method and the Five Elements divine ability he had comprehended.

Li Ming arrived at the Supreme Dao Sect, where Cheng Junming began the procedures for his entry and promised him access to the sect’s collections to refine his Five Elements divine ability. Meanwhile, Xu Xing met with Hong Sovereign and Qianshuang to discuss the dangerous transformations in the Xuanxiang World and possible plans for the Immortal Sect Grand Competition.

• Cheng Junming examined Li Ming’s Five Elements divine ability and offered him the choice of submitting it to the Myriad Methods Tower or keeping it after joining the sect.
• Xu Xing brought Li Ming, Zhao Ruohan, and Chi Jiuyu to the Supreme Dao Sect, where Cheng Junming took Li Ming to complete his entry procedures.
• Zhao Ruohan agreed to show Chi Jiuyu around the sect, and the two set off together despite having fought recently.
• Xu Xing met Hong Sovereign and Qianshuang at Hong Hall and showed them the frozen Xuanxiang World.
• Hong Sovereign and Qianshuang identified the world’s spirit-plundering system and Cang transformations as threats, while Xu Xing suggested using a modified Lunar Spirit Cleansing and Divine Shedding True Method to remedy them.
• Yuanjun arrived, and Hong Sovereign proposed applying an insight from the world to the Immortal Sect Grand Competition’s trial grounds.

Hong Sovereign demonstrated how he had split the Xuanxiang World into timeline branches for trials, and Xu Xing approved the plan. Meanwhile, Zhao Ruohan showed Chi Jiuyu the Supreme Dao Sect’s advanced drones, and the two discovered Zhao Ruohan’s brother had been spending heavily on tea for an online girlfriend he had never met.

• Hong Sovereign used World Derivation to create two timeline branches of the Xuanxiang World for trials, and Xu Xing agreed to the plan.
• Yuanjun said she would help complete the method, while Hong Qianqian joked about becoming Xu Xing’s final disciple and asked Yuanjun when she would become his Dao companion.
• Zhao Ruohan showed Chi Jiuyu a ninth-generation carrier-based drone and offered to sell her some at the internal price, but Chi Jiuyu decided to wait until she replaced her Starship.
• Zhao Ruohan told Chi Jiuyu that her brother was dating a female cultivator from World Relief Valley and had not met her in person during their year and a half of chatting.
• Chi Jiuyu learned that Zhao Ruohan’s brother had spent enough on tea from the woman’s grandfather to buy several drones, and suspected he had been fooled.

Chi Jiuyu and Zhao Ruohan were caught gossiping about Xu Xing and Yuanjun after Xu Xing and Yuanjun came to meet them. The group ended with Yuanjun asking Chi Jiuyu whether she or Spirit Ancestor was prettier.

• Chi Jiuyu and Zhao Ruohan talked about Hong Sovereign’s hands-off parenting while browsing the Supreme Dao Sect’s launch event, and Chi Jiuyu bought Azure Sky Spirit Liquid for her Mystic Candle Fruit trees.
• Reporters secretly tried to record Chi Jiuyu and Zhao Ruohan, but the two were unconcerned about being filmed and speculated that fabricated headlines could bring the Sword Sect compensation.
• At Hong Hall, Xu Xing took his leave, and Yuanjun accompanied him; Hong Sovereign’s Dao companions wondered why Yuanjun seemed more open with Xu Xing.
• As Xu Xing and Yuanjun descended through the Supreme Dao Sect, they passed cultivators selling gathered heaven-and-earth qi, many of whom used incarnations to follow the Dao of Cowardice.
• Xu Xing and Yuanjun found Chi Jiuyu and Zhao Ruohan, who had been discussing Yuanjun’s affection for Sword Ancestor and praising the women’s beauty and cooking.
• Chi Jiuyu nervously greeted Yuanjun, then resumed teasing her; Yuanjun asked whether Chi Jiuyu thought she or Spirit Ancestor was prettier.

Chi Jiuyu spent time with Yuanjun and Zhao Ruohan, then received a mysterious gift from Yuanjun before returning to Bie Xuening for advice. The Immortal Sect Grand Competition qualifiers concluded, and the Star Domain Guardian position changed hands.

• Chi Jiuyu praised the Spirit Ancestor over Yuanjun, then walked with Yuanjun, Xu Xing, and Zhao Ruohan while refusing to gossip about her master.
• Chi Jiuyu and Zhao Ruohan discussed the upcoming competition and the purpose of its cultivation-suppression rules while eating roasted corn.
• Yuanjun gave Chi Jiuyu a note bearing the words “calamity” and “blessing,” and Xu Xing warned that it could be dangerous.
• Bie Xuening questioned Chi Jiuyu, tested her Dharma Aspect, and explained the risks of using the calamity and blessing slips.
• The Seven Great Immortal Sects completed their qualifiers and finalized their candidates for the Immortal Sect Grand Competition.
• The Sword Lord of the Final Calamity returned to the Sword Sect, and a Truth Insight cultivator from Spirit Sound Workshop took over his Star Domain Guardian post.

Xu Xing and Bie Xuening discussed the search for a third ascender, the returning Xu Xianning, and the Taixuan Immortal Network before the Immortal Sect Grand Competition approached. As Li Ke and the others waited for Xu Xianning, a terrifying blood-red presence descended from the sky.

• Xu Xing told Bie Xuening that several possible ascenders still needed careful examination because Xuan had been laying plans across nearby realms.
• Bie Xuening said Xu Xianning would soon return and explained that Li Ke was overseeing the Miscellaneous Affairs Hall, while Xu Xing discussed Chi Jiuyu and the Taixuan Immortal Network with her.
• The sect masters settled on using an entire world as the Immortal Sect Grand Competition venue, and the contestants' lists and betting pools appeared on the Spirit Net.
• Li Ke waited with the Miscellaneous Affairs Hall staff as Chi Jiuyu showed Zhang Yunlu her special golden-winged profile and recommended contestants to bet on.
• A blood-red aura swept over the waiting group, suppressing everyone except Li Ke, before a flaming figure tore through the sky toward them.