Chapter Summaries

Chi Jiuyu learned that Zhang Yunlu was a second-batch Ascension Envoy and watched the second batch gather at the Ascension Hall. Zhao Ruohan entered the hall, where its inspection mechanism exposed the sect’s use of avatars and left her among several dismayed Envoys.

• Chi Jiuyu asked Zhang Yunlu about her mission and learned that she would serve as a second-batch Ascension Envoy.
• Chi Jiuyu offered Zhang Yunlu basic talismans, but Zhang Yunlu said she had already prepared everything she needed.
• At night, Chi Jiuyu and Hong Qianqian watched a large crowd of mostly avatars line up for the second-batch Ascension missions.
• Zhao Ruohan watched a Supreme Dao Sect disciple shrink into a wooden figurine after entering the Ascension Hall, then entered herself.
• The hall’s inspection mechanism exposed Zhao Ruohan’s avatar and those of several other Envoys, who gathered nearby feeling betrayed by the sect.

The Supreme Dao Sect’s second batch of Ascension Envoys gathered in Ascension Hall, where Cheng Junming restored their disabled avatar puppets and urged them to focus on cultivation before introducing Li Ming, who was about to undergo Dao Integration. At the Sword Sect, Zhang Yunlu set out for her mission after exchanging reassuring messages with Bie Xuening, who remained worried about her disciple.

• The Supreme Dao Sect’s Ascension Envoys entered Ascension Hall, and several disciples mourned the avatar puppets disabled by its law-ban system.
• Cheng Junming restored the puppets and told the disciples to pursue diligent cultivation, prompting them to resolve to improve their avatars.
• Cheng Junming introduced Li Ming, an inner-sect deacon of the Myriad Arts Pavilion who was about to undergo Dao Integration.
• Zhang Yunlu read Bie Xuening’s messages of concern and advice, reassured her, and headed to Ascension Hall.
• Bie Xuening voiced concern about Zhang Yunlu’s mission, and Yuanjun reassured her that Zhang Yunlu was capable.

The second batch of Ascension Envoys began their missions, and Xiao Fan entered Mission World No. 81 while Confusion secretly followed him. Confusion explored the world and killed several local threats, then stopped before a temple where a familiar figure with a crimson longsword was waiting.

• Xu Xing explained that Confusion's disciple would join the second batch of Ascension Envoys and that Confusion would likely avoid reckless actions.
• Lin Changsheng arrived at the Sword Sect's Ascension Hall after reaching mid-stage Spirit Transformation, then bristled at rumors about his romance scam and training at the Joyous Union Sect.
• Xiao Fan prepared for his mission, received Confusion's advice to act according to his heart, and crossed into Mission World No. 81 with a ninety-day mission limit in the Great Profound Realm.
• Xiao Fan encountered fox-eared girls by a stream, could not determine whether they were human or demons, and approached them wearing a mask to ask.
• Confusion secretly entered the world, watched Xiao Fan, killed a man-eating tiger demon, its tiger-servant ghosts, and a mountain god, then encountered a crimson-sword-bearing figure outside a small temple.

Xu Xing accompanied Confusion through Thousand Sun Prefecture while Xiao Fan questioned a group of fox-eared Thousand Sun Sect disciples and set out to meet their Sect Master. After Confusion captured the Hidden Dragon, Thousand Sun Sect cultivators confronted the pair, and Confusion immobilized everyone aboard their ship as he offered them a “great fortune.”

• Confusion asked when Xu Xing had discovered him, and Xu Xing explained that he had been watching Confusion’s disciple before offering to show him around.
• A young man in purple robes found the cracked statue of the mountain god, recorded the damage, and sent the information back to the Thousand Sun Sect.
• Xiao Fan used Confusion’s Mind Disorder to question Qian Liu'er, then apologized to the fox-eared girls, gave them pills, and asked them to accompany him to the Thousand Sun Sect.
• Confusion captured the Hidden Dragon in a jar and discussed its history and conduct as Thousand Sun Sect’s guardian deity with Xu Xing.
• Zheng Yang accused Xu Xing of killing the Thousand Sun Sect’s guardian deity and ordered his men to seize him.
• Confusion revealed that he had killed the guardian deity, immobilized everyone on the ship except Xu Xing, and promised them a great fortune.

Confusion captured the Hidden Dragon Lord and forced its power into Zheng Yang as a dangerous cultivation fortune, then suggested that he and Xu Xing visit the Netherlife Dao. Meanwhile, Xiao Fan sheltered Qian Liu'er and the other fox-eared girls while secretly scouting the Thousand Sun Sect and learning how this world’s Divine Path worked.

• Confusion trapped Zheng Yang’s consciousness, criticized his impure cultivation, and passed him the Yin-Refining Yang-Harmonizing Method alongside the Hidden Dragon Lord’s power.
• The Hidden Dragon Lord’s essence began rebuilding Zheng Yang’s collapsing body, while Xu Xing doubted he could endure the pain and Confusion said the fortune could carry him toward Nascent Soul or beyond.
• Confusion proposed that he and Xu Xing attend the Netherlife Dao’s disciple selection in three days, and the two crossed the river into Thousand Sun Prefecture’s city.
• Xiao Fan offered Qian Liu’er and the other fox-eared girls roasted meat from their sect’s slain Foundation Establishment guardian demon, then told them he would visit their Sect Master the next day.
• Xiao Fan left an illusion with the fox-eared girls and secretly scouted the Thousand Sun Sect, recalling that cultivators gained divinity from gods and repaid them with Incense and Fire Prayer Power.

Xiao Fan infiltrated the Thousand Sun Sect, subdued its Sect Master, and learned that the gods had revived Immortal Dao cultivation to sustain their fading powers. He concluded that meeting the Immortal Restoration Celestial Venerable was essential to his mission, while Confusion and Xu Xing attended a banquet in a Netherlife Dao ghost city where guests boasted about eating its living residents.

• Xiao Fan used Lost Ford on the Everglow Wheel and made the Everglow Celestial Venerable's apparent body act confused, then suspected it was a clone.
• Xiao Fan entered the Thousand Sun main hall, used Mind Disorder to incapacitate Thousand Sun, and searched his soul for information.
• Xiao Fan learned that the Divine Path deities had destroyed Immortal Dao cultivation, then revived it through the restrictive Immortal Selection system; he decided he needed to meet the Immortal Restoration Celestial Venerable.
• Confusion and Xu Xing attended a banquet in Canlin City, where the city lord celebrated reclaiming his divine position.
• The demons and ghosts at the banquet praised the taste of Canlin City's living people and described eating them.

Confusion and Xu Xing exposed the Ghost City's plan to lure demons and ghosts with living humans, then destroyed the city and captured its guests. Confusion sealed them away for a thousand years of punishment before the two set off to attend Netherlife Dao's disciple recruitment.

• As the demons and ghosts grew restless waiting for their promised living fare, Confusion revealed that it would not arrive, drawing everyone's attention to himself and Xu Xing.
• A skinning ghost attacked Xu Xing and Confusion, and Xu Xing erased it with a flash of his scarlet sword.
• When a silver-armored god tried to speak, Confusion made him vanish, then announced that he and Xu Xing would clean up the banquet.
• Confusion and Xu Xing vanished as a colossal finger struck the Ghost City, destroying it and leaving its inhabitants at their mercy.
• Confusion trapped the demons, ghosts, and gods in a black sphere and condemned them to a thousand years of repeated life and death, then left with Xu Xing for Netherlife Dao's disciple recruitment.

Xu Xing and Confusion reached Netherbirth City as Confusion considered how to use his punishment-based “good fortune,” while the chapter also showed the second batch of Ascension Envoys’ worlds and Du Ruoheng’s reaction to the strange cultivation practices in his disciple’s task world. Yuanjun departed from the Sword Sect, and Xu Xing and Bie Xuening received a video from Chi Jiuyu.

• Xu Xing and Confusion climbed past the struggling participants in Netherlife Dao’s Grand Immortal Selection and reached Netherbirth City, where Confusion planned to subject its inhabitants to repeated punishment under his protection.
• The chapter described Zhang Yunlu’s and Lin Changsheng’s assignments in worlds with fading supernatural power and unusually powerful exotic beasts, respectively.
• Du Ruoheng saw that Zhou Xian’s Yin-Yang Spirit Refining Source-Seizing Technique had led Qi Star People to pursue talent harvesting, and Le Yue teased him about the Joyous Union Sect.
• Yuanjun left the Sword Sect after telling Xu Xing she would return, while he said he hoped to resolve her calamity soon.
• Xu Xing and Bie Xuening received a video from Chi Jiuyu, who said she wanted to show her cultivation progress to her master.

Chi Jiuyu showed off her Talisman Sword progress to Bie Xuening, then discovered that online interest in Talisman Sword courses had surged ahead of the Immortal Sect Special Recruitment. She left the chapter asking Yang Shuang about the trend while bringing her questions about the Void-Expounding Dao Talisman Book.

• Bie Xuening told Chi Jiuyu that Xu Xing was beside her, causing Chi Jiuyu to log off in embarrassment.
• Xu Xing received a message in the Big Boss Group saying that the Artifact Sovereign had found clues from the Dao Slave.
• Chi Jiuyu browsed Spirit Net videos over breakfast, promoted the Sword Sect livestream, and was surprised by the popularity of Talisman Sword courses.
• Chi Jiuyu met Yang Shuang, gave her a notebook of cultivation questions, and invited her to eat.
• Yang Shuang explained that the Immortal Sect Special Recruitment had increased demand for affordable Talisman Sword courses.

Gu Wangjun prepared for the second-round Immortal Sect Special Recruitment selection while Leng Rou advised him to consider the Supreme Dao Sect's Talisman Sword lineage. The chapter also showed Jiang Ying, another first-round winner aided by Xu Xing, preparing for the selection with a Blood Jade embedded in his body.

• Yang Shuang encouraged Chi Jiuyu to share her cultivation insights on the Spirit Net, and Chi Jiuyu agreed to try using an alternate account.
• Several days later, Gu Wangjun used the Yin-Eroding Spirit Ascension Method to stabilize his ninth-level Qi Refinement realm ahead of the second-round selection.
• Leng Rou recommended that Gu Wangjun consider joining the Supreme Dao Sect's Talisman Sword lineage, revealing that she belonged to it rather than the Sword Sect.
• Gu Wangjun learned that Leng Rou had once qualified for the Immortal Sect Grand Competition but had been eliminated quickly.
• Jiang Ying watched the second-round selection venue and reflected on the Blood Jade he had surgically embedded beneath his skin and the sword technique he had received from Xu Xing.

Deng Xuan tried to divine the fortune of the second-round selection, but the result showed an unexpected integrity assessment. Meanwhile, Gu Wangjun bought a course on the Scripture Sword Book after Leng Rou challenged its instructor, and Leng Rou was impressed by the lecture’s insights.

• Deng Xuan decided to rest for another day before beginning the painful second stage of the Harvesting and Refining Method, then used Fayan's Bewildering Calamity Compendium to divine her second-round selection.
• Deng Xuan saw the Cloud Book display the words [Integrity Assessment: It Starts with Me] instead of the prediction she expected.
• Gu Wangjun finished making talismans and watched free courses about the Talisman Sword lineage, but stopped when his trial viewing time ran out.
• Leng Rou appeared behind Gu Wangjun, criticized a lecturer’s claim that the Scripture Sword Book could be mastered in two days, and asked Gu Wangjun to buy the course.
• Gu Wangjun bought the course and struggled to follow its lecture, while Leng Rou recognized the instructor’s extraordinary insights and told him to study the Scripture Sword Book.

Gu Wangjun and Leng Rou learned that civilian jump channels across the star domain had been sealed, while Xu Xing and Lin Ji confronted the aftermath of a Cang Race attack on the Starry Sky Frontline Battlefield. The Dao Weapons had turned the attack back, though Xu Xing suspected the enemies had endured the strike.

• Gu Wangjun failed to follow a talisman-sword lecture, and Leng Rou told him he would need about a month to get started on the Scripture Sword Book.
• A notice announced that all planetary-system-level civilian jump channels across the star domain were sealed for thirty standard days, and Leng Rou suspected something had happened on the Starry Sky Frontline Battlefield.
• Lin Ji inspected a river of crystals created by Dao Weapons and thanked Xu Xing for sending them ahead of the attack.
• Xu Xing swept the crystal river from the battlefield with one gesture, and the shockwave shattered several thousand planets near the Far Side of the Starry Sky.
• Xu Xing explained that Artifact Sovereign had developed Dao Weapons using Dao Slaves, and that two Cang Race Truth Insight experts had attacked but were severely wounded.

Xu Xing and Charm Ancestor tested Xuan’s strength across the Far Side of the Starry Sky, ending their exchange without a full battle. Xuan repaired two Cang Race cultivators damaged by a Human Race Dao weapon, while Gu urged him to awaken the slumbering Heaven with the remaining Heavenly Will.

• Gu Mo arrived at the Starry Sky Frontline Battlefield and asked Xu Xing about the Righteous Alliance and Meng Xuan.
• Charm Ancestor appeared, teased Lin Ji until he fled, and then told Xu Xing she had come to test her ideas.
• Charm Ancestor attacked Xuan across the Far Side of the Starry Sky, but Xuan broke her thread, and Xu Xing intercepted his counterattack.
• Xuan reflected that Charm Ancestor still lagged behind him and the Sword Ancestor, then used purple qi to extract Dao weapon crystals from two injured Cang Race Truth Insight cultivators.
• Gu appeared before Xuan and argued that the Sword Ancestor’s probing and the Human Race’s progress left no time to delay awakening the slumbering Heaven.

Xuan rejected awakening Heaven because its return would end the Cang Race’s chance to become Innate Ancestor Gods, while Gu and the Cang Race Truth Insights chose to preserve that chance and fight on. The chapter then recounted the Ascension Envoys’ progress before Chi Jiuyu discovered that Ye Zhiwei was Little Ye’s younger sister and began wondering whether Little Ye had misled her.

• Xuan warned Gu that Heaven’s return would target the Cang Race Truth Insights and destroy their chance to prove the Dao.
• The Cang Race Truth Insights asked Gu to fulfill their wish, and Gu agreed to fight for their remaining chance rather than awaken Heaven immediately.
• Xuan reflected that he might have achieved Dao Source if the Human Race immortals had not forced him into dormancy.
• Chen Xuanqing, Xiao Yu, Qi Ling, and the other first-batch Ascension Envoys made progress in their mission worlds, including Xiao Yu’s purification of the world’s will and Qi Ling’s world-repair efforts.
• Chi Jiuyu argued with negative reviewers of her course, then recognized Ye Zhiwei’s account and learned that Little Ye had kept her phone during special training.
• Chi Jiuyu wondered whether Little Ye had lied about her younger sister, but decided to chat about something else first.

Chi Jiuyu chatted with Ye Zhiwei about sword cultivation and Zhao Ruoming, while Xu Xing and Bie Xuening discussed Dao Weapons and Charm Ancestor’s visit to the Sword Sect. Charm Ancestor gave Bie Xuening a handmade gift, then offered to explain how she had met Sword Venerable in exchange for something.

• Chi Jiuyu learned that Ye Zhiwei planned to apply to Sword Sect and was confident in her sword cultivation, while also studying alchemy.
• Ye Zhiwei recognized Chi Jiuyu as the creator of a Talisman Sword course and explained that Zhao Ruoming had researched the branch after losing to Chi Jiuyu.
• Ye Zhiwei told Chi Jiuyu that Zhao Ruoming had cried because he broke his principle of not using his innate divine ability, not simply because he lost.
• Xu Xing explained that Dao Weapons could unleash the same power regardless of their number, and Bie Xuening accepted the explanation before Xu Xing left to arrange the third batch of Ascension Envoys.
• Charm Ancestor gave Bie Xuening carved maple leaves as a gift, then began to discuss how she and Sword Venerable had met before proposing an exchange.

Xu Xing analyzed the Original Truth token, replicated its benefits for the third batch of Ascension Envoys, and chose the Original Truth Realm as their testing ground. He surveyed the task worlds and the recovering Earth Immortal Realm, where Xi Li and Xiyun had become powerful figures and only a few Void Return cultivators remained.

• Xu Xing used the Taixuan Immortal Network to analyze the Original Truth token and replicated weakened versions of its benefits for the third batch of Ascension Envoys.
• Xu Xing reviewed the worlds Xuan had visited and the first and second batches' task worlds, confirming the network's functions had performed as expected.
• Xu Xing selected the Dao Integration-level Original Truth Realm as a testing ground for the third batch of Ascension Envoys.
• Xu Xing saw that the Earth Immortal Realm had recovered after the war between the Human Race and the Beast God Race.
• Xu Xing observed that Xi Li had reached Void Return perfection, while Xiyun had become the Earth Immortal Realm's strongest figure and its only clear hope of reaching Dao Integration.
• Xu Xing noted that Chongming and Fuguang had died in the final battle, leaving Fumu and Jingyao among the realm's remaining Void Return cultivators.

Xu Xing visited Xiyun and revealed that he had been formed from Xi Yun’s essence and the lingering radiance of Xi’s Dao essence. He explained the choice before Xiyun: keep the [Gan Yang] lineage and risk a harder path after Dao Integration, or abandon it for another Dao lineage and risk losing his current cultivation; Xiyun was left weighing the decision.

• Xu Xing examined the Void Return cultivators in the Earth Immortal Realm and judged that Xiyun alone had a chance to reach Dao Integration despite the altered flow of time.
• Xu Xing entered Xiyun’s secluded cultivation chamber and demonstrated his overwhelming power before identifying himself as the Sword Ancestor.
• Xu Xing told Xiyun that his previous incarnation had been Xi Yun, Xi Li’s older brother, and explained how Xi Yun’s essence had fused with Xi’s lingering Dao essence to create him.
• Xu Xing explained that advancing through the [Gan Yang] lineage would make Xiyun’s future cultivation harder, while abandoning it could cost him his current height and his chance to advance.
• After Xu Xing departed, Xiyun recalled the history of founding [Gan Yang] and struggled to decide whether to give it up.

Xu Xing oversaw Xiyun’s decision to enter seclusion for Dao Integration, established an Ascension Platform in the Earth Immortal Realm, and began preparing the Original Truth Realm for the third batch of Ascension Envoys. While searching for traces of Yuan, he encountered a powerful sword that eagerly declared him its master.

• Xiyun announced that he would pursue Dao Integration and passed the Gan Yang Dao Palace leadership to Vice Palace Master Red Mirror.
• Xu Xing established an Ascension Platform in the Earth Immortal Realm, allowing qualified Void Return cultivators to ascend to the Immortal Realm.
• Xu Xing granted the Original Truth Realm 120,000 world embryos and arranged for sword-dao incarnations to prepare it for the third batch of Ascension Envoys.
• Xu Xing searched the Original Truth Realm for worlds where Yuan had stayed and observed its universes and Dao Integration cultivators.
• A hiltless, four-foot-long Dao Integration sword arrived after being drawn by Xu Xing’s sword-dao radiance and proclaimed him its master.

Xu Xing learned from Yuan’s diary that Yuan had left one world with Yinling, whose spirituality was fading after she separated from the World-Deriving Instrument, and planned to tell Ning Ruo and Ming Yu. Meanwhile, Chi Jiuyu finished her studies at the Supreme Dao Sect and prepared to return to the Sword Sect.

• Ultimate Edge sought Xu Xing as its sword master, but Moon Shadow’s crimson sword projection frightened it away.
• Yueling visited Xu Xing to play games, and Moon Shadow accompanied her from the Sword Ancestor Hall.
• Xu Xing searched the Chaos Sea and found a world where Yuan had stayed, then read his diary about Yinling’s weakening spirituality and their departure to seek a stronger world.
• Xu Xing decided to inform Ning Ruo and Ming Yu about Yuan’s whereabouts and arrange for them to meet.
• Chi Jiuyu prepared to leave the Supreme Dao Sect after passing several inheritance trials, and she said goodbye to Yang Shuang.

Chi Jiuyu traveled from the Supreme Dao Sect to the Sword Sect after showing off her talisman-sword skills, while Ming Yu returned from the Starry Sky Frontline Battlefield to hear news about Yuan. Xu Xing gathered Yuan’s closest companions and gave Ming Yu and Ning Wanzhu jade books recording Yuan’s experiences in another world.

• Chi Jiuyu left the Supreme Dao Sect on her azure-gold longsword, and Cheng Junming recognized her flashy sword light as she flew toward the teleportation array.
• Chi Jiuyu passed the array’s inspection, noticed Li Ke’s Sword Seal react to a cultivator’s gaze, and teleported to the Sword Sect.
• Li Ke welcomed Ming Yu back from the Starry Sky Frontline Battlefield and brought her to Sword Ancestor Hall after explaining that Xu Xing had summoned Yuan’s closest companions.
• Charm Ancestor explained that the group had gathered to discuss what to do next regarding Yuan and asked for their opinions.
• When Ning Wanzhu asked about Yuan’s condition, Xu Xing said he did not know exactly how Yuan was doing but had found a world where Yuan had stayed.
• Xu Xing gave Ming Yu and Ning Wanzhu jade books containing Yuan’s experiences in that world, including details about Yinling.