Chapter Summaries

Bie Xuening emerged from seclusion with a fiercer Sword Path of Slaughter, while Chi Jiuyu completed her mission in the Weapon Realm and encountered Imperial Zenith Dao Lord Sheng Qianshang. Chi Jiuyu returned to the Sword Sect, where Zhang Yunlu revealed she had earned one more Ascension Point.

• Charm Ancestor declined Bie Xuening's invitation to spar, and Bie Xuening walked down the mountain with Xu Xing as he explained what had happened during her seclusion.
• Chi Jiuyu settled her mission for 183 Ascension Points and used Senior Brother Yan's sword talisman, whose power revealed the structure of the Original Truth Realm and drew Imperial Zenith Dao Lord Sheng Qianshang to her.
• Imperial Zenith Dao Lord Sheng Qianshang recognized Chi Jiuyu as a favored one of the Lord of Boundless Slaughter and agreed to change the situation in the Weapon Realm in exchange for his life.
• Chi Jiuyu returned to the Sword Sect, where Zhang Yunlu congratulated her and said she had earned 184 Ascension Points.

After returning from her mission, Chi Jiuyu learned that Zhang Yunlu had earned one more Ascension Point than she had and reunited with Bie Xuening and Xu Xing. She settled back into the Sword Sect, arranged a gathering with friends, and discussed the Ascension missions with Zhao Ruohan while keeping her score secret.

• Chi Jiuyu learned that Zhang Yunlu had earned 184 Ascension Points, one more than her 183, and received a message from Bie Xuening inviting her to meet.
• Chi Jiuyu nearly crashed while adjusting to flying in the Great Profound Realm, then rode her Life-Bound Sword to Sword Trial Town with Zhang Yunlu.
• Chi Jiuyu and Zhang Yunlu met Xu Xing and Bie Xuening, who confirmed their scores and told them to wait for the mission progress report to learn their rankings.
• After several days of readjusting, Chi Jiuyu invited Zhao Ruohan, Ye Zhiwei, and Lin Xuanxuan to a gathering, while Yang Shuang was unavailable in seclusion.
• Chi Jiuyu video-called Zhao Ruohan about rumors surrounding Ascension, then stopped herself from revealing her score when she realized Zhao Ruohan was trying to coax it out of her.

Chi Jiuyu tended her growing Mystic Candle Fruit tree and reflected on her cave-heaven’s progress while Zhao Ruohan visited, and Xu Xing and Bie Xuening took Zhang Yunlu back to her old school in Xuanjian City. Zhang Yunlu ran into a former classmate and messaged Chi Jiuyu, who decided to join them, while Xu Xing and Bie Xuening revisited the mountain where they had first learned cultivation.

• Chi Jiuyu refused to reveal her Ascension Points to Zhao Ruohan before the mission report came out, then watered her Mystic Candle Fruit tree and observed that her cave-heaven had entered its second stage of nurturing.
• Xu Xing and Bie Xuening brought Zhang Yunlu to Xuanjian City No. 3 Middle School, then left her to visit the school on her own.
• Zhang Yunlu recognized former classmate Fang Lin outside the school, and he hurried inside after feeling intimidated by her cultivation and presence.
• Chi Jiuyu invited Zhang Yunlu to play games, learned that she was visiting her old school with Xu Xing and Bie Xuening, and said she would come join them.
• Xu Xing and Bie Xuening climbed the mountain where the Moon Shadow Secret Realm had once been and recalled the destroyed bamboo forest where they had first encountered cultivation.

Xu Xing and Bie Xuening stabilized a newborn sword-path secret realm and connected it to the Spirit Net before Chi Jiuyu caught up with Zhang Yunlu at her old school. That night, Confusion asked Xu Xing about Yuan, and after hearing about Yinling’s fading spirituality, suggested forging her a body from a world without humans.

• Xu Xing and Bie Xuening entered the newborn secret realm, where Xu Xing divided chaos into heaven and earth, created light, and connected the realm to the Spirit Net.
• Bie Xuening received Chi Jiuyu’s angry messages, declined her video call, and learned that Chi Jiuyu was coming to join them.
• Chi Jiuyu found Zhang Yunlu at Xuanjian City No. 3 Middle School and learned that Zhang’s former homeroom teacher, Fang Chi, had already been expelled and later suffered a series of misfortunes.
• Confusion visited Xu Xing at Sword Ancestor Hall and offered to help him search for Yuan, but Xu Xing declined because Confusion had duties beyond the realm.
• Xu Xing told Confusion that Yuan was seeking a world to make a physical vessel for Yinling, whose spirituality was fading, and Confusion suggested refining a world without humans for that purpose.

Xu Xing explained to Confusion that his longing for home had led the Great Profound Realm to bring Yuan there, while the final battle against the Cang Race remained the greater concern. Two days later, Chi Jiuyu hosted a gathering where she served diluted wine and asked her guests about their plans.

• Xu Xing told Confusion that Yuan’s arrival was connected to the authority of the Great Profound Realm and Xu Xing’s longing for his hometown.
• Confusion encouraged Xu Xing to chat with the Big Boss Group, and Xu Xing asked whether the group could be found through a search.
• Xu Xing noticed Chi Jiuyu kneeling before Bie Xuening with a guilty expression, though he did not learn why.
• Two days later, Chi Jiuyu gathered Ye Zhiwei, Zhao Ruohan, Zhang Yunlu, and Lin Xuanxuan in her cave dwelling and served them diluted wine brewed by Senior Charm Ancestor.
• The guests discussed their plans: Zhao Ruohan and Lin Xuanxuan intended to cultivate, Ye Zhiwei planned to become Sect Master, and Zhang Yunlu planned to learn a craft after reaching Spirit Transformation.
• Chi Jiuyu promised to support Zhang Yunlu becoming Hall Master of the Sword Enforcement Hall if Zhang Yunlu supported her becoming Sect Master.

Chi Jiuyu hosted a lavish gathering, where she and Zhao Ruohan got drunk after trying to trick Ye Zhiwei with undiluted wine. Yueling subdued the drunken Chi Jiuyu and Zhao Ruohan, helped tidy the residence, and returned to Bie Xuening with a video of the chaos.

• Chi Jiuyu brought the group to a lavish meal at the Sword Sect cafeteria and secretly tried with Zhao Ruohan to get Ye Zhiwei drunk, but all three women ended up drunk.
• Zhang Yunlu summoned Yueling to handle Chi Jiuyu after the drunken Chi Jiuyu caused a disturbance inside her dark cave dwelling.
• Yueling recorded Chi Jiuyu crawling across the walls and ceiling, then subdued her and the sleeping Zhao Ruohan and placed them beside Ye Zhiwei.
• Yueling left the residence carrying bags and bundles, while Zhang Yunlu, Lin Xuanxuan, and Ye Zhiwei assumed she had helped clean up.
• Yueling returned to Bie Xuening and Xu Xing, who praised her handling of the situation and asked her to send them the video.

After waking from a week-long drinking binge, Chi Jiuyu, Zhao Ruohan, and Ye Zhiwei wondered what they had done while drunk, while Xu Xing and Bie Xuening watched a video of Chi Jiuyu’s drunken antics. Zhao Ruohan later asked Zhang Yunlu about the damage to Chi Jiuyu’s cave abode, and Zhang Yunlu realized Zhao Ruohan had mistakenly blamed herself for Chi Jiuyu’s behavior.

• Yueling sent Bie Xuening a video of Chi Jiuyu drunkenly crawling over the walls and ceiling with a spiritual-energy transmission cable in her teeth.
• Xu Xing told Bie Xuening that Ning Ruo’s team had completed an Immortal Net node in the second realm and planned to prepare before searching further for Yuan.
• A week after the drinking contest, Chi Jiuyu, Zhao Ruohan, and Ye Zhiwei woke up, ate instant noodles, and discussed their hangovers and recent business ventures.
• Ye Zhiwei watered Chi Jiuyu’s Mystic Candle Fruit tree, while Zhao Ruohan worried that she had damaged the cave abode during the binge.
• Zhao Ruohan stayed at the Sword Sect and later asked Zhang Yunlu what had happened after they got drunk, offering to compensate Chi Jiuyu for the damage.
• Zhang Yunlu realized Zhao Ruohan wrongly believed she had wrecked the cave abode, when Chi Jiuyu had actually been the one crawling across the ceiling.

Chi Jiuyu and Zhao Ruohan agreed to spar the next day, while Chi Jiuyu secretly sought advice about Zhao Ruohan’s drunken behavior. At Sword Ancestor Hall, the elders discussed Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu’s risky mission to establish an Immortal Net node before Chi Jiuyu arrived to ask about something.

• Chi Jiuyu reassured Zhao Ruohan that her cave abode’s damage had nothing to do with her and invited her to spar the next day.
• Zhao Ruohan accepted, determined to fight Chi Jiuyu again after improving her cultivation and divine ability.
• Zhang Yunlu left for the outer sect as Chi Jiuyu and Zhao Ruohan headed back together.
• At Sword Ancestor Hall, Ning Ruo informed the group that Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu would travel to an unexplored realm to establish an Immortal Net node, and Spirit Ancestor said the adjusted core would help them retreat safely.
• The group exchanged teasing messages about the mission and a bloody calamity, while Xu Xing and Bie Xuening wondered what Charm Ancestor meant.
• Chi Jiuyu slipped away from Zhao Ruohan and arrived at the hall to ask Xu Xing and Bie Xuening about Zhao Ruohan’s drunken behavior.

Chi Jiuyu defeated Zhao Ruohan in their second spar with her Annihilation Sword, then Xu Xing explained the sword’s origins and gave Zhao Ruohan a spirit-plant seed. Meanwhile, Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu crossed into an unfamiliar region of the Chaos Sea, hoping to find Yuan and establish a new immortal network node.

• Chi Jiuyu watched a recording of her drunken antics, then kept her copy so she could save a clip of Zhao Ruohan eating wall dust before deleting the full video.
• Chi Jiuyu and Zhao Ruohan fought in a special space, where Zhao Ruohan’s Myriad Azure Primordial Wood Supreme Immortal Light put Chi Jiuyu at a disadvantage.
• Chi Jiuyu unleashed the Annihilation Sword’s Sever strike, overcoming Zhao Ruohan’s defenses and winning their spar.
• Xu Xing praised both cultivators, explained that the Annihilation Sword was too difficult and limited to include in the Great Void Sword Canon, and named the Sunder, Sever, and Severance swords.
• Xu Xing gave Zhao Ruohan a seed of the Crimson Radiant Sun Tree, and she asked what had happened after she got drunk a week earlier.
• Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu reached the boundary of the Second Xunyuan Realm and activated Perception Ascension to see into the unfamiliar region beyond it.

Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu entered the Second Xunyuan Realm to expand the Immortal Network and discovered a cluster of worlds surrounding a brilliant Dao Integration-level world. Ning Ruo, Xu Xing, and Bie Xuening chose not to investigate it yet, leaving the search for Yuan secondary to their other responsibilities.

• Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu crossed into the Second Xunyuan Realm, adapted to its chaotic conditions, and began surveying the region for Immortal Network nodes.
• Ning Wanzhu used power from the Immortal Network's core to send Red Radiance through the chaos and detected many worlds, including a brilliant great world at Dao Integration level.
• Ning Ruo, Xu Xing, and Bie Xuening discussed whether to investigate the newly discovered world, which Yuan might have visited.
• Xu Xing offered to send a Sword Intent Spirit Body, but Ning Ruo and Bie Xuening refused because he needed to maintain the Immortal Network and protect the Great Profound Realm.
• Ning Ruo sent their decision to Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu, and Bie Xuening reflected that finding Yuan mattered less to the group than the Immortal Network's expansion.

Zhao Ruohan returned to the Supreme Dao Sect with a Crimson Radiant Sun Tree seed and Chi Jiuyu’s gift for Yang Shuang, then learned more about the rare tree and the Annihilation Sword. Months later, Chi Jiuyu visited the injured Zhang Yunlu and discovered that her master had originally prepared Zhang’s wheelchair for her.

• Zhao Ruohan left the Sword Sect with Chi Jiuyu’s jade box for Yang Shuang and the Crimson Radiant Sun Tree seed given to her by Sword Ancestor.
• Hong Qianqian accepted the gift for Yang Shuang, heard that Chi Jiuyu had defeated Zhao Ruohan with the Annihilation Sword, and explained that Zhao’s seed was one of only three remaining.
• Over the following months, Gao Wuwang became the first of the original Ascension Envoys to sense an opportunity for Dao Integration, while Lin Changsheng advanced to middle-stage Spirit Transformation and Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu established fifty-seven Immortal Net nodes.
• Chi Jiuyu visited Zhang Yunlu, who had returned from a mission with broken legs, and urged her to stop fighting so desperately.
• Zhang Yunlu told Chi Jiuyu that her master had said the wheelchair was originally prepared for Chi Jiuyu, leaving Chi Jiuyu startled.

Zhang Yunlu and Chi Jiuyu saw the new Ascension mission posted, while Xu Xing, Bie Xuening, and Yuanjun discussed the growing mission effort and their progress toward resolving their calamities. Yuanjun later visited Chi Jiuyu, and qualified Sword Sect cultivators began accepting missions, including Lin Qiuxian.

• Zhang Yunlu told Chi Jiuyu that her injuries would heal in a little over a week, and Chi Jiuyu predicted that an Ascension mission would soon be posted.
• Five days later, Chi Jiuyu brought Zhang Yunlu to the mission reception Cave Heaven, where they saw a Spirit Transformation Ascension mission with exceptionally strict qualifications.
• Chi Jiuyu explained that she could not accept the mission because her third-batch Ascension Envoy status gave her no permission.
• Yuanjun met Xu Xing and Bie Xuening at Heart-Reflecting Lake, discussed their expected progress over the next thousand years, and thanked Xu Xing for giving Zhao Ruohan the Crimson Radiant Sun Tree seed.
• Yuanjun later visited Chi Jiuyu to try the Annihilation Sword, and qualified Sword Sect cultivators accepted Ascension missions, including Lin Qiuxian's Golden Core-level mission.

Ye Zhiwei and Zhao Ruoming met at the Sword Sect to clear up their misunderstanding, while Chi Jiuyu and others watched through the Grand Origin World-Viewing Mirror. Meanwhile, Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu returned from setting up Immortal Net nodes and were offered a risky way to investigate a world that might hold clues about Yuan.

• Ye Zhiwei encountered Zhao Ruoming near the Sword Enforcement Hall, and he apologized for making her wait before they agreed to talk privately.
• Chi Jiuyu used the Grand Origin World-Viewing Mirror to spy on the pair while Zhao Ruohan and Ye Zhiwei watched, and the group learned Zhao Ruohan had not told Zhao Ruoming the full story.
• Xu Xing and the others discussed the mirror and learned that Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu had established nine Immortal Net connection nodes in an unfamiliar realm.
• Ning Ruo told Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu not to approach the world they had discovered, then revealed that Confusion could help them investigate it through Doubt Incarnations.
• Xu Xing put away Confusion’s wisp and gave Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu time to rest and decide whether to accept the offer.

Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu formed Doubt Incarnations and returned to the unfamiliar realm to investigate Yuan’s traces. The incarnations reached the world cluster and discovered the immense Taiyi World, a Profound Penetration realm nearing transformation.

• The Charm Ancestor traded three jars of wine with Ning Ruo for three hundred Mystic Candle Fruits and stayed at the Spirit Sound Workshop.
• Xu Xing told Confusion that Yuanjun and Bie Xuening were still considering his proposal, and Confusion insisted that he sought Yuan only as a friend.
• Ning Ruo and Yuanjun adjusted the Immortal Net and other projects while Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu recovered and prepared to investigate beyond the planned range.
• Xu Xing used a wisp of doubt-light to create Doubt Incarnations for Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu, then sent them through the Taixuan Immortal Network into the unfamiliar realm.
• Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu crossed into the realm more easily than before, and their Doubt Incarnations reached a dazzling cluster of worlds dominated by the colossal Taiyi World.

Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu entered the Taiyi World after using a Truth Insight jade tablet to overcome its rejection, while Confusion reported Taiyi’s unusual authority-based cultivation system to Xu Xing. The chapter left Xu Xing considering how Taiyi’s system could let it transform into a Truth Insight Great Realm.

• Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu observed how Taiyi unified surrounding worlds with World Light and brought order to the Chaos Sea.
• Taiyi’s rejection force drove the two intruders toward the realm’s edge, so Ming Yu used a Truth Insight jade tablet to freeze the domain and let them enter Taiyi’s interior.
• The three strange worlds orbiting Taiyi absorbed the remaining Truth Insight power after Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu passed through its radiance layer.
• Confusion visited Xu Xing and described Taiyi’s domain, where worlds embodied authority and determined who could follow the extraordinary path.
• Confusion explained that Taiyi’s cultivators could gain a powerful world’s recognition through a ritual and rise directly to Void Return, prompting Xu Xing to consider Taiyi’s path toward becoming a Truth Insight Great Realm.

Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu entered Taiyi World and met the Kongji Holy Lord, whose absolute goodness and commitment to world peace concealed a willingness to fight for her ideals. They learned that Taiyi World's chosen authorities gain power through unwavering conviction, while Ning Wanzhu searched for Yuan and Yinling.

• Xu Xing told Confusion that Taiyi World's plan to transform by spreading its cultivation system would fail against Xuan's transcendent order, and said the Taixuan Immortal Network could expand without endangering his position in the Great Profound Realm.
• Confusion left the Sword Ancestor Hall, while Xu Xing suspected he had concealed something about Taiyi World but decided not to pursue it yet.
• Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu used Ning Wanyin's trump card to enter Taiyi World, passing through its seventy-two Lower Heavens and thirty-six Higher Heavens before arriving at the Kongji Sacred Domain.
• The Kongji Holy Lord welcomed Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu, said she had not seen Yuan or Yinling, and invited them into the city; Ning Wanzhu sensed that the Holy Lord embodied ultimate goodness and warned Ming Yu to be careful.
• The Kongji Holy Lord explained that Taiyi World's transcendent authorities favored those with unwavering convictions, and said she sought world peace but would fight the Dongming Holy Lord to pursue it.

Ming Yu and Ning Wanzhu learned that the Kongji Holy Lord wanted them to contend with the Dongming Holy Lord for Taiyi World’s third supreme authority, offering to help them find the outsider who made Yuan’s unfinished puppet. In the Great Profound Realm, Chen Shang visited Xu Xing, who gave him a jade book containing clues about the First Speaker’s whereabouts.

• The Kongji Holy Lord led Ming Yu and Ning Wanzhu into a tower where she was repairing the souls of those harmed in her battle with the Dongming Holy Lord.
• The Kongji Holy Lord explained that the Dongming Holy Lord sought the third supreme authority, which had appeared five years earlier, and that she had lost while protecting the one hundred and eight heavens.
• Ming Yu and Ning Wanzhu recognized an unfinished puppet among the outsiders’ artifacts as Yuan’s work, likely made as a physical foundation for Yinling, and the Kongji Holy Lord returned it to them.
• The Kongji Holy Lord asked Ming Yu and Ning Wanzhu to contend with the Dongming Holy Lord for the third supreme authority, promising to help them find the outsider who made the puppet.
• Chen Shang visited Xu Xing after resigning as Speaker of the Righteous Alliance and asked about the First Speaker’s whereabouts.
• Xu Xing gave Chen Shang a jade book describing a world where the First Speaker had stayed.

Chen Shang learned that Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu had joined the Taixuan Immortal Network’s expansion to search for Yuan and asked to take part after they returned. In the Taiyi World, Ming Yu and Ning Wanzhu failed to divine Yuan’s location, then agreed to help the Kongji Holy Lord contend for the Third Supreme Authority while they adapted to the world’s rules.

• Xu Xing told Chen Shang that Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu had volunteered to help expand the Taixuan Immortal Network after learning there was news of Yuan beyond their world.
• Chen Shang asked Xu Xing to let him join the expansion effort when Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu returned.
• Ming Yu used the Rain Listening Prophecy Scripture to try to locate Yuan through a half-finished puppet, but the divination connection snapped and the attempt failed.
• Ning Wanzhu suggested divining Yinling instead, and she and Ming Yu offered to help the Kongji Holy Lord contend for the Third Supreme Authority as they studied the Taiyi World’s rules.
• The Kongji Holy Lord withdrew her power to contend with the Dongming Holy Lord, while Ning Wanzhu maintained and repaired the connection beyond the world; the blizzard over the Kongji Sacred Domain cleared.
• The Kongji Holy Lord asked about the two women’s cultivation levels, and Ning Wanzhu said they were high-level cultivators, as was the Holy Lord by their standards.

Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu helped Kongji Holy Lord challenge Dongming Holy Lord for the Third Supreme Authority. Ning Wanzhu’s divine ability broke Dongming’s manifestation, allowing Kongji Holy Lord to claim Abyss Ruins, though Dongming had already seized part of its authority.

• Ning Wanzhu explained cultivation and realms to Kongji Holy Lord, who expressed interest in visiting the Great Profound Realm.
• Ming Yu examined the sealed Eerie Branch and confirmed it had no connection to Yuan.
• Kongji Holy Lord manifested her power and clashed with Dongming Holy Lord over the pale-blue world, shaking authorities throughout Taiyi World.
• Ning Wanzhu unleashed Mystic Sound Nine Luminaries Demon-Purging Immortal Light, helping Kongji Holy Lord shatter Dongming Holy Lord’s manifestation.
• Kongji Holy Lord marked the pale-blue world as Abyss Ruins, while Dongming Holy Lord’s mark revealed that he had already seized part of its Third Supreme Authority.

Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu discovered that the Abyss Ruins bore traces of Abyss and watched Kongji Holy Lord gain part of its authority, allowing him to use a power resembling One Thought, Myriad Worlds. In the Great Profound Realm, Lin Changsheng escorted True Lord Yi Ming to the Sword Sect and agreed to spar with Yi Ming’s disciple, Zhu Feng, after receiving an incentive from Du Ruoheng and a gift of pills.

• Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu sensed Abyss’s aura in the Abyss Ruins and considered whether Abyss had influenced the realm’s formation.
• Kongji Holy Lord took part of the Abyss Ruins authority from Dongming Holy Lord, who claimed to know more about the person Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu sought and called that person chosen.
• Kongji Holy Lord used his new authority to draw the surroundings into a black tower, demonstrating power that resembled Abyss’s One Thought, Myriad Worlds.
• Lin Changsheng escorted True Lord Yi Ming and Zhu Feng to the Sword Sect, where Yi Ming sought cooperation with the sect against [Pure Moon].
• Zhu Feng challenged Lin Changsheng to a spar, and Lin Changsheng accepted after Du Ruoheng offered him materials and Yi Ming gave him a bottle of pills.