Chapter Summaries

Ye Zhiwei and Chi Jiuyu spared Mu Yong and the other Heavenly Spirit Sect disciples, then revealed the sect’s complete cultivation inheritance to the people of the Soul Power Fruit Domain. At the edge of a desolate Gobi, Ye Zhiwei prepared an explosive pill formation to test the incoming pursuers, but Chi Jiuyu recognized them as Senior Yuanjun and Senior Spirit Ancestor and fled.

• Ye Zhiwei chose to leave the bound Heavenly Spirit Sect disciples alive, and Chi Jiuyu agreed not to kill them as long as they stopped causing trouble.
• Chi Jiuyu and Ye Zhiwei departed the Soul Power Fruit Domain and displayed the Heavenly Spirit Sect’s complete inheritance across the sky, thrilling the crowd and moving Mu Yong.
• Ye Zhiwei built crude alchemy furnaces from vines and stone in the Gobi and linked pills into a formation while Chi Jiuyu waited nearby.
• As the safe-zone countdown ended, two pursuers appeared, and Ye Zhiwei hurled a red-hot furnace at them.
• Chi Jiuyu disappeared, then warned Ye Zhiwei that the pursuers were Senior Yuanjun and Senior Spirit Ancestor and told her to run.

Yuanjun and Ning Ruo pursued Ye Zhiwei and Chi Jiuyu after the two tried to test their pursuers, while other Founder Ancestors confronted contestants across the competition grounds. The chapter left several encounters poised to begin, with Chi Jiuyu facing Charm Ancestor and other contestants facing Tyrant Sovereign, Sword Venerable, and Xu Xing.

• Yuanjun extinguished Ye Zhiwei’s hidden true flame, then reversed her pill-furnace explosions and caught up as she fled.
• Ning Ruo let Ye Zhiwei escape while Yuanjun pursued her, and she arranged for someone else to chase Chi Jiuyu.
• Chi Jiuyu reached the edge of the safe zone, but her Life-Bound Sword turned aside and carried her to Charm Ancestor, who refused to let her go and offered to end the attack if she endured for three seconds.
• Tyrant Sovereign sent Qiu Zheng crashing into a mountainside and declared that one punch remained.
• Sword Venerable confronted Cen Qingqing and prepared to strike her with her sword.
• Xu Xing faced Yan Mu with a sword formed from Moon Shadow’s sword momentum and offered to end the attack if Yan Mu took one strike.

Yan Mu faced Xu Xing’s sword and gained insight into its profound essence before losing consciousness, while the immortals tested contestants beyond the safe zones. Chi Jiuyu woke injured, gathered spiritual treasures, and met up with Ye Zhiwei; the two headed toward the safe zone to recover.

• Yan Mu used his five-colored mystic technique against Xu Xing’s sword, glimpsed its essence, and fainted as the Pill Ancestor observed.
• Xu Xing and the Pill Ancestor noted that the Supreme Dao Sect and Divine Mechanism Artifact Refining Pavilion contestants had stayed inside the safe zones, while several contestants in other Time Branches were eliminated.
• Chi Jiuyu woke outside the safe zone, learned that the next attack would be stronger, and gathered all the spiritual treasures around her before setting out.
• Chi Jiuyu met the injured Ye Zhiwei, and the two compared their encounters before agreeing to heal together near the safe zone.
• Xu Xing and the Pill Ancestor watched the two leave, and Xu Xing told the Pill Ancestor that his junior’s younger sister was dating Hong Sovereign’s descendant online.

Xu Xing learned that Heavenly Track had distorted the Xuanxiang World and that Ning Ruo and Yuanjun had gathered the data needed to correct it after the grand competition. Outside the safe zone, Chi Jiuyu and Ye Zhiwei encountered a sword-wielding young man who recognized Chi Jiuyu as his Little Martial Uncle Ancestor.

• The Pill Ancestor left Xu Xing, who watched a debt-burdened Heavenly Spirit Sect elder destroy Chi Jiuyu’s inheritance copies but leave the trapped Seedling-tier disciples alone.
• Ning Ruo told Xu Xing and Yuanjun that the Immortal Net’s feedback data was nearly complete and that they could clear the Xuanxiang World’s abnormalities after the competition.
• Chi Jiuyu dug a concealed underground shelter while Ye Zhiwei refined healing pills, and the two argued over their ages and possible allies.
• Chi Jiuyu and Ye Zhiwei sensed an approaching participant, but his sword strike collided with Chi Jiuyu’s when a voice warned her not to attack.
• The sword-wielding young man recognized Chi Jiuyu as his Little Martial Uncle Ancestor, and Chi Jiuyu claimed she had easily handled the formidable person who had chased her.

Chi Jiuyu and Ye Zhiwei recovered outside the safe zone while Qiu Zheng seized a chance to eliminate an unconscious Sword Sect contestant and claim her points. Hong Sovereign and Pill Ancestor discussed the contestant’s ambitions and the competition’s strongest sects, as the hosting rotation moved toward World Relief Valley.

• The starlit sword cultivator left after deciding not to risk confronting the injured Chi Jiuyu and Ye Zhiwei.
• Chi Jiuyu chose to trust Ye Zhiwei rather than cooperate with the Sword Sect cultivator, then took a healing pill and began learning basic alchemy from her.
• Qiu Zheng hid outside the safe zone and watched Hong Sovereign defeat a sword cultivator using the Star-Destroying Sword Formation.
• Qiu Zheng took the unconscious contestant’s spiritual items, struck her with a qi-and-blood fist, and raised his score to three points before returning to the safe zone.
• Hong Sovereign and Pill Ancestor revealed that the eliminated Sword Sect contestant had been pursuing a new Life-Bound Sword path, then compared the top participants from the leading sects.
• Pill Ancestor noted that the Immortal Sect Grand Competition would rotate hosts, with World Relief Valley due to host soon.

Pill Ancestor and Hong Sovereign discussed Ning Fu's seclusion and the possibility that the Cang Race might produce a True Immortal. At Five Senses Immortal City, Chi Jiuyu and Ye Zhiwei discovered Heavenly Secret Palace's brutal tribute trade, then encountered Zhao Ruohan, who revealed she had been injured by a Void Return cultivator and had earned no points.

• Pill Ancestor asked Hong Sovereign to arrange a replacement to deliver Ning Fu's delayed Metamorphic Condensate quota, and Hong Sovereign agreed there would be no more collections next year.
• Chi Jiuyu and Ye Zhiwei followed flying boats to Five Senses Immortal City and saw that its tributes included body parts, refined souls, and spirit products taken from cultivators.
• Chi Jiuyu caught a seemingly ordinary blade of grass that had been watching them, and it revealed itself as Zhao Ruohan using a divine ability.
• Zhao Ruohan asked Chi Jiuyu to come to her main body without Ye Zhiwei, and Chi Jiuyu went while Ye Zhiwei stayed behind to watch the city.
• As Chi Jiuyu followed Zhao Ruohan's coordinates, Zhao Ruohan said a Void Return cultivator had injured her and that she had earned no points.

Chi Jiuyu found Zhao Ruohan’s hidden cave, where they discussed Ye Zhiwei’s abilities and Zhao Ruoming’s online relationship with her. Meanwhile, Zhao Ruoming learned that Ye Zhiwei was his online girlfriend and that she was only sixteen, while the Xuanxiang Heavenly Track’s overseers discussed the shrinking contestant pool and their plans for Ascension Envoys.

• Chi Jiuyu reached Zhao Ruohan’s concealed cave, mistook one of her scouting puppets for fruit, and heard how a Heavenly Spirit Sect Void Return cultivator had ambushed Zhao Ruohan.
• Chi Jiuyu told Zhao Ruohan about Ye Zhiwei and her partnership with her, and Zhao Ruohan grew concerned about Ye Zhiwei’s strength and alchemy.
• Zhao Ruoming mistook Ye Zhiwei for his online girlfriend until she revealed that she knew his identity and warned him that the girl was only sixteen.
• Chi Jiuyu and Zhao Ruohan arrived, and Zhao Ruohan confirmed that Ye Zhiwei was not Zhao Ruoming’s girlfriend; Ye Zhiwei then told him her younger sister’s age, leaving him stunned.
• At the Xuanxiang Heavenly Track, Yuanjun, Xu Xing, and Ning Ruo reviewed the remaining contestants and considered selecting winners as Ascension Envoys, with Yuanjun proposing a Presence Aura as punishment for those who sabotaged their missions.

Yuanjun discussed a new halo and the Immortal Net deployment of her improved cultivation method while the Immortal Sect Grand Competition continued to throw the Xuanxiang World into chaos. Zhao Ruoming entered Five Senses Immortal City to investigate its cultivation-draining system, while Chi Jiuyu, Ye Zhiwei, and Zhao Ruohan stayed outside and revealed how badly they had fared against the Founder Ancestors.

• Yuanjun told Xu Xing she had prepared a halo to gradually counter the Supreme Dao Sect’s growing Dao of Cowardice, and Ning Ruo confirmed the improved True Method had passed Immortal Net simulations.
• Zhao Ruoming arranged to enter Five Senses Immortal City with the Paper Molting Immortal City team to investigate why cultivators lost cultivation each day, while Ye Zhiwei, Chi Jiuyu, and Zhao Ruohan chose to remain outside.
• Chi Jiuyu drove Ye Zhiwei and Zhao Ruohan to their destination on her human-powered tricycle, explaining that she had brought it into the competition because she had spare allowance.
• Chi Jiuyu accidentally revealed that she and Ye Zhiwei had encountered the Founder Ancestors, and Zhao Ruohan concluded they had lasted dozens of moves against them.
• Ye Zhiwei clarified that neither she nor Chi Jiuyu had lasted even one exchange against the Founder Ancestors, leaving Zhao Ruohan astonished at the difference between their experiences.

Chi Jiuyu explained that the founders’ overwhelming strength came from spending centuries forging a path where none existed, while Zhao Ruohan awakened the purple fruits with her divine ability. Meanwhile, Zhao Ruoming led a convoy to Five Senses Immortal City, where his power was mistaken for that of a Spirit Transformation Immortal Lord, and he noticed the arriving Jishen convoy.

• Chi Jiuyu told Zhao Ruohan and Ye Zhiwei that the founders had reached Nascent Soul Perfection after centuries of trial and error because no path lay ahead of them.
• Zhao Ruohan used Myriad Azure Primordial Wood Supreme Immortal Light to turn the purple fruits into peculiar puppets, and the three entered the cave to heal.
• Zhao Ruoming set out from Paper Molting Immortal City with the resource convoy and used a Spirit Sound III Formation Virus to infiltrate Five Senses Immortal City’s formation.
• A white-haired Nascent Soul cultivator mistook Zhao Ruoming for a Spirit Transformation Immortal Lord, offered him a storage bag, and rolled away after Zhao Ruoming told him to scram.
• Ziying escorted Zhao Ruoming toward the City Lord, and he paused when the Jishen Immortal City convoy docked nearby and spotted someone at its bow.

Zhao Ruoming arrived at Five Senses Immortal City and discovered that its leaders had already recognized him as a visitor from beyond the heavens. The City Lord offered him cooperation and a chance to reach Void Return, leaving Zhao Ruoming to wonder if the city wanted him to betray his realm.

• Zhao Ruoming recognized Yue Zhongfeng, a powerful Celestial Human cultivator from the Joyous Union Sect, at the docking area and worried he could disrupt the competition.
• Yue Zhongfeng knocked aside the Nascent Soul cultivator sent to receive him from Jishen Immortal City and left without speaking further.
• Ziying escorted Zhao Ruoming to the City Lord's Manor, where the City Lord identified him as a visitor from beyond the heavens.
• The City Lord offered to cooperate with Zhao Ruoming and suggested Void Return Immortal Venerables could help him advance.
• Zhao Ruoming asked whether the City Lord was asking him to betray his realm.

Zhao Ruoming negotiated with the Five Senses Immortal City cultivators for information about the Heavenly Track and avoided a confrontation with Yue Zhongfeng. In the hidden cave, Chi Jiuyu told Zhao Ruohan and Ye Zhiwei about her helplessness after her Master disappeared, before Zhao Ruohan received news from the city.

• Zhao Ruoming learned that the Heavenly Track made cultivation depend on resources and received secret records, a promised copy of the Spirit Absorption Ritual Secrets, and a storage ring.
• Zhao Ruoming agreed to wait a month before Void Return cultivators could act, then passed Yue Zhongfeng without incident as he left the city hall.
• Yue Zhongfeng entered the side hall and unleashed a terrifying Primordial Spirit will, forcing the city lord and four Spirit Transformation cultivators to answer questions.
• In the cave, Ye Zhiwei asked Chi Jiuyu whether she had ever felt helpless, and Chi Jiuyu recalled that her Master and Martial Uncle vanished after the previous training beyond the realm.
• Zhao Ruohan interrupted Chi Jiuyu and brought up a light screen showing news from inside the city.

Chi Jiuyu, Ye Zhiwei, and Zhao Ruohan watched Zhao Ruoming’s puppet recording and planned to seize the Spirit Absorption Ritual Record, while Zhao Ruoming studied the Xuanxiang Heavenly Track Secret Record in Five Senses Immortal City. Yue Zhongfeng arrived to propose an alliance against the other contestants, but their discussion was interrupted by an attendant’s arrival and explosions shaking the city.

• Chi Jiuyu, Ye Zhiwei, and Zhao Ruohan watched Zhao Ruoming’s recording end after he encountered Yue Zhongfeng, then agreed to monitor Five Senses Immortal City and seize the Spirit Absorption Ritual Record if the chance arose.
• Zhao Ruoming studied the Xuanxiang Heavenly Track Secret Record and learned that Daoist Xuan Qi’s Heavenly Track exploited cultivators across the world to cultivate Void Return experts.
• Yue Zhongfeng visited Zhao Ruoming, proposed that they cooperate, and revealed that seven other contestants were in the city.
• A woman sent by the City Lord arrived to attend Zhao Ruoming, prompting Yue Zhongfeng to say that the contestants would make their move that night.
• Explosions erupted and Five Senses Immortal City began to shake.

Yue Zhongfeng and Zhao Ruoming searched [Five Senses Immortal City] for spiritual items as contestants gathered to attack a Void Return cultivator. They weakened and drove the guard away but failed to kill him, and the contestants then turned on one another, leaving four eliminated.

• Yue Zhongfeng recruited Zhao Ruoming to gather spiritual items, and told him the [Bliss Immortal City] lord who had held the Spirit Absorption Ritual Record was already dead.
• Yue Zhongfeng and Zhao Ruoming left the room as a body cultivator fought the city lord and other Spirit Transformation cultivators, then headed toward the ruined City Lord's Manor.
• Outside the city, Chi Jiuyu wanted to join the battle, but Zhao Ruohan urged caution; before Ye Zhiwei could explain her mask, a Void Return cultivator appeared and shattered the blood-and-qi furnace.
• The contestants, including the body cultivator, Chi Jiuyu, Zhao Ruohan, and Ye Zhiwei, attacked the Void Return guard together and weakened him, but he escaped by burning his divine-soul origin.
• The contestants began fighting among themselves after the guard fled, and four contestants were eliminated, including the strongest body cultivator.

The contestants eliminated the Dragon-Elephant Heaven-Supporting Sect body cultivator and a Sword Sect sword cultivator after the Void Return cultivator escaped, while Chi Jiuyu and Zhao Ruohan slipped away. Yue Zhongfeng and Zhao Ruoming found a hidden treasure trove and shared its spiritual treasures; Chi Jiuyu hid in a remote forest, where an announcement about the competition appeared.

• The contestants used coordinated attacks to eliminate the body cultivator and then the sword cultivator, while local cultivators watched in bewilderment.
• Ye Zhiwei discovered that Chi Jiuyu and Zhao Ruohan had disappeared after fleeing the fight.
• Yue Zhongfeng and Zhao Ruoming reached a secret storage chamber beneath the City Lord's Manor and found human-derived materials and a hidden spiritual realm.
• Yue Zhongfeng and Zhao Ruoming agreed to divide the spiritual treasures, with Yue Zhongfeng taking seven parts and Zhao Ruoming three.
• Chi Jiuyu hid in a remote forest, roasted a strange bird, and checked her sixth-place ranking with one point.
• A translucent screen announced that the competition would reveal the remaining contestants, rankings, and point totals.

Chi Jiuyu studied the Spirit Transformation rankings, recovered from her injuries, and set out to seek more points as the competition intensified. Meanwhile, Xuan Xing and other Void Return cultivators debated the extraterrestrial contestants and their world, while Mu Yong was assigned to investigate a dangerous Miao City.

• Chi Jiuyu saw that 63 Spirit Transformation contestants remained, noted Lin Changsheng led the rankings with six points, and found Zhao Ruohan, Ye Zhiwei, and Zhao Ruoming still had none.
• Chi Jiuyu wondered whether contestants had been killed by the world's cultivators, then recovered from her injuries and flew toward the prosperous regions to hunt for points.
• The Divine Mechanism Artifact Refining Pavilion participants began searching for World Relief Valley contestants, while Zhao Ruoming sent the Paper Molting Immortal City team away and left Five Senses Immortal City.
• Xuan Xing and the other Void Return cultivators examined a device taken from a Joyous Union Sect contestant and discussed the possibility that the extraterrestrial contestants' world could help them advance beyond Void Return.
• Xuan Xing stopped a Heavenly Secret Palace cultivator from refining his injured junior brother and restored the junior brother's body and strength.
• Mu Yong received a compulsory mission to investigate Miao City and was told he had to complete it before applying to become a one-Leaf disciple.

Mu Yong’s suspicion that the Spirit Transformation unrest was serious deepened when Cheng Miao’s clique disappeared in a supernatural mist and the Disciplinary Hall summoned him. Meanwhile, Lin Changsheng encountered Tyrant Sovereign outside the safe zone, the Founder Ancestors gathered to watch the competition, and Chi Jiuyu fought Yan Mu at the abandoned Sword-Nurturing Sea.

• Mu Yong refused to back down when Cheng Miao confronted him, and a black-green mist carried Cheng Miao and his clique away before the Disciplinary Hall called Mu Yong in.
• Lin Changsheng defeated a body cultivator to reach seven points, then left the safe zone and ran into Tyrant Sovereign, who gave him a brutal beating without injuring his insides.
• Xu Xing, Yuanjun, and Ning Ruo watched the contestants as Bie Xuening, Charm Ancestor, Tyrant Sovereign, Hong Sovereign, Pill Ancestor, and other immortals gathered above the Xuanxiang World.
• Chi Jiuyu rejected Yan Mu’s proposal to cooperate and attacked him with a powerful sword technique.
• Yan Mu countered Chi Jiuyu’s attack with his five-colored fist seal, and an observer recognized his innate divine ability as Brother Dog’s.

Yan Mu and Chi Jiuyu fought fiercely, and Chi Jiuyu prepared to use a new sword technique as both drew on insights from opposing ancestors. Meanwhile, Zhao Ruoming searched the ruined Bliss Immortal City for the Spirit Absorption Ritual Record and found a hidden treasure beneath the City Lord’s Manor.

• Yan Mu and Chi Jiuyu’s divine abilities transformed the abandoned Sword-Nurturing Sea, and Surging Waves Sword Palace disciples summoned Kunlan, who was killed by the fighters’ stray power.
• Chi Jiuyu pressed her advantage over Yan Mu, but Yan Mu revealed a crimson sword technique learned from a trace left by Senior Sword Ancestor.
• Chi Jiuyu recognized Yan Mu’s crimson sword as Martial Uncle’s and prepared her newly comprehended Nameless First Sword.
• Observers watched as Chi Jiuyu and Yan Mu, each drawing insight from an opposing ancestor, faced off with their swords.
• Zhao Ruoming searched the abandoned City Lord’s Manor in Bliss Immortal City for the Spirit Absorption Ritual Record and followed his innate ability to a hidden treasure underground.

Zhao Ruoming discovered Lin Changsheng beneath the Bliss Immortal City City Lord's Manor, paid him spiritual items to escape, and Lin kept his lead in the competition. After defeating Yan Mu, Chi Jiuyu found that her Life-Bound Sword had begun speaking and tried to teach it to call her Master.

• Zhao Ruoming descended into the manor's seventh underground level and found a hidden chamber behind a concealed wall.
• Lin Changsheng revealed himself, stopped Zhao Ruoming's Great Teleportation Talisman with his sword, and demanded spiritual items worth two hundred thousand Spirit Coins to let him go.
• Zhao Ruoming surrendered spiritual items Yue Zhongfeng had given him, then escaped when Lin released his spatial seal.
• Lin put away the payment, confirmed he remained first with seven points, and returned to his formation to recover before the remaining rounds.
• Chi Jiuyu defeated Yan Mu and saw that she had six points and sixth place, then resolved to seek harder training after the competition.
• Chi Jiuyu's Life-Bound Sword spoke in a childish voice, and she tried to teach it to call her Master.

Chi Jiuyu escaped to recover after defeating Dog Brother, while the immortals debated returning Xuanxiang World to the Chaos Sea and contestants continued eliminating one another. The chapter ended with Mu Yong witnessing a steel giant chasing a crimson meteor, as its pilot taunted the fleeing Senior Brother Qiu.

• Chi Jiuyu reconciled with her obedient Life-Bound Sword, left the sea, and sought a place to heal with her spoils.
• Kun Yuan pretended to mourn Junior Brother Kunlan, then hurried back to claim his inheritance and consider selling Kunlan's wife and daughter.
• Xu Xing and the other immortals decided Xuanxiang World should be returned to the Chaos Sea after its problems were resolved.
• Immortal Sect Grand Competition contestants continued ambushing and eliminating one another, alarming Xuanxiang World's Void Return cultivators with the scale and strength of the outsiders.
• Mu Yong watched a crimson meteor flee from an enormous steel giant, whose pilot and companion mocked Senior Brother Qiu as they pursued him.

After the sudden clash in Miao City, Mu Yong resumed his mission while Qiu Zheng continued fleeing the Divine Mechanism Artifact Refining Pavilion’s construct, and Zhao Ruoming hid from its devastating attack. In the competition’s other branches, Sheng Wu was eliminated, while Zhang Yunlu and Lin Xuanxuan recovered together and discussed their progress.

• Mu Yong admitted he did not know what had appeared in Miao City and urged the Miao-class disciples to finish their mission and return to the sect.
• Qiu Zheng kept evading the Divine Mechanism Artifact Refining Pavilion’s pursuit as its construct carved through a mountain range with a massive psionic sword strike.
• Zhao Ruoming emerged from hiding after the attack, activated his stealth unit when his scouts detected someone, and recognized the newcomer as a contestant from World Relief Valley.
• Nearly forty contestants helped Sheng Wu destroy the Blood Vajra Temple, but Xuan Xing and five other Void Return cultivators defeated Sheng Wu and eliminated more than ten contestants.
• Zhang Yunlu and Lin Xuanxuan rested in an underground chamber, discussed Chi Jiuyu’s points, and Lin Xuanxuan asked why Zhang Yunlu kept her cracked Ice Crystal Longsword.