Chapter Summaries

Lin Changsheng brought Zhu Feng to the Sword Sect’s sparring grounds for a duel, where Zhu Feng met Yue Zhongfeng and realized she was a Celestial Human. Meanwhile, Xu Xing sent Chi Jiuyu to invite True Lord Yi Ming and recalled that Yi Ming had survived the Blood Huo, a purge in which Xu Xing also turned against the Sword Sect.

• Lin Changsheng accepted pills from True Lord Yi Ming and agreed to spar with Zhu Feng, while Du Ruoheng and Yi Ming discussed using the fight to temper Zhu Feng.
• Lin Changsheng led Zhu Feng to the sparring grounds and explained the dangerous War-Stopping and Blood Battle arenas before choosing an ordinary arena.
• Yue Zhongfeng arrived, accused Lin Changsheng of being paid to fight Zhu Feng, and left Zhu Feng stunned when he recognized her as a Celestial Human.
• Xu Xing summoned Chi Jiuyu, told her about upcoming missions, and tasked her with inviting True Lord Yi Ming to the Sword Sect.
• Xu Xing recalled that Yi Ming had once been the Yi Ming Devil Master and that the Blood Huo had included a purge of Sword Sect disciples who kept Sword Slaves.

Xu Xing met True Lord Yi Ming, who revealed that Yuan had left contingencies to keep the Righteous Alliance from straying from its ideals and trusted Xu Xing to set things right. Elsewhere, Lin Changsheng defeated Zhu Feng in a spar, while his Life-Bound Sword returned with the correct spirit herb.

• Chi Jiuyu brought True Lord Yi Ming to Xu Xing, then left with a storage ring Xu Xing gave her.
• True Lord Yi Ming told Xu Xing that Yuan had once considered taking him as a disciple and had deliberately kept trusted seniors outside the Righteous Alliance as a safeguard.
• True Lord Yi Ming revealed that Yuan had prepared further contingencies and said Yuan trusted Xu Xing to intervene if the alliance went astray.
• Lin Changsheng beat Zhu Feng in a spar, but Zhu Feng mistook Lin’s sword intent for the Sword Sect’s secret art, Sword Bone.
• Lin Changsheng’s Life-Bound Sword returned with the spirit herbs and explained that he had bought Azure Spirit Grass instead of Clear Spirit Grass.
• Xu Xing saw True Lord Yi Ming off after learning more about Yuan’s arrangements.

Xu Xing heard Xi Li’s account of her travels and learned she remained determined to join the Sword Sect, while Ning Ruo and Charm Ancestor investigated a strange presence within the Chaos Sea. They concluded the presence was Dao Delusion and suspected that those who touched Dao Source could alter the Chaos Sea, leaving Xu Xing unaware of the anomaly.

• Xu Xing met Xi Li at the foot of the mountain, and she recounted her travels before confirming she had applied to join the Sword Sect.
• Xi Li defended the decision to alter the flow of time, and Xu Xing suggested she might someday become Sect Master.
• At the Spirit Sound Workshop, Ning Ruo explained to Charm Ancestor that the Earth Immortal Realm had developed a newborn Heavenly Will and that her research had improved the Immortal Cleansing Pool.
• Ning Ruo showed Charm Ancestor a wisp of Chaos aura containing Dao Delusion, and they agreed not to tell Xu Xing while the implications remained unclear.
• Charm Ancestor theorized that Dao Source beings reflected their state into the Chaos Sea and that their attainment of Dao Source could reshape its disorder.

Charm Ancestor and Ning Ruo examined a trace of Dao Delusion tied to changes in the Chaos Sea and decided to keep their discovery from others for now. A week later, the Sword Sect assigned new ascension missions, while Xu Xing and the other Ancestors discussed reports from the Taiyi World and whether its new Transcendent system could challenge Xuan.

• Charm Ancestor extracted a nearly imperceptible shadow from Chaos Sea aura and agreed to study it further before telling Xu Xing.
• Ning Ruo and Bie Xuening decided not to tell Yuanjun or anyone else about the possible Chaos Sea changes, and Ning Ruo gave Bie Xuening two boxes of Mystic Candle Fruit for her disciples.
• Chi Jiuyu left her Sword Qi Talismans to collect Mystic Candle Fruit from her master after Zhang Yunlu vanished to answer a message from Bie Xuening.
• The Sword Sect issued new ascension missions, which Zhou Kongming and several ranked or high-priority sword cultivators claimed; Lin Changsheng and Zhang Yunlu missed out.
• Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu sent reports from the Taiyi World through the Immortal Network, and Xu Xing and the Ancestors discussed its Transcendent system and concluded it could not undermine Xuan.

Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu left the Kongji Sacred Domain for Taiyi Continent, where they witnessed the ruin and extreme chaos left by the Kongji Holy Lord’s defeat. They erased a monstrous Transcendent and continued their search for Abyss while avoiding the Dongming Holy Lord’s attention.

• Hong Sovereign summarized the Immortal Network’s expansion limits, and the group agreed that its fourth realm domain would be Taiyi World.
• Charm Ancestor asked why Sword Venerable was absent, and Yuanjun privately resented being called someone who knew nothing.
• The Kongji Holy Lord gave Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu Kongji True Crystals and promised to contact them if she learned anything about Abyss.
• Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu arrived at the Kongji Ruins and saw the devastation and a Transcendent who devoured other creatures.
• Ming Yu erased the Transcendent, and the two left the ruins to continue their search without drawing the Dongming Holy Lord’s attention.

Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu tried to investigate why Blue Bright’s convictions were faltering, but the Dongming Holy Lord appeared and attacked them. They trapped and banished him, then fled, while he escaped by invoking Taiyi’s aid and a shadow fell over the Taiyi Domain.

• Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu discovered that Blue Bright’s convictions were wavering and decided to investigate without leaving traces.
• A dusky violet force erupted from Blue Bright, and the Dongming Holy Lord appeared, accusing the two women of being as foolish as Kongji.
• Ming Yu trapped the Dongming Holy Lord with Silent Rain, and Ning Wanzhu banished him into a separate void with Luo Heaven Cosmic Luminary Sound.
• Ning Wanzhu sent spiritual light toward Blue Bright and fled with Ming Yu, using the ability’s causal effect to obscure the city from the Dongming Holy Lord.
• The Dongming Holy Lord transformed his eyes and invoked Taiyi, dispelling the cage as a shadow covered the Taiyi Continent, Taiyi World, and Taiyi Domain.

An unseen figure restored the Taiyi World after briefly freezing it, then left Dongming Holy Lord trapped in the rain-thread cage and promised him a fortune if he survived. Meanwhile, Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu searched for Yuan amid the world’s chaos, but their reputation drew repeated challenges from transcendents, and they continued avoiding challengers as the Void Ultimate Sacred King followed them.

• An indistinct figure let the frozen Taiyi World resume, restored the damaged cage, and vanished after promising Dongming Holy Lord a stroke of fortune if he survived.
• Dongming Holy Lord regained his senses inside the cage and pondered how to escape, unaware that he could call on Taiyi World’s assistance.
• Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu searched Taiyi Continent for Yuan while settling disputes, and rumors spread that Kongji Holy Lord would return to unify the continent and fight Dongming Holy Lord.
• Three chaos-aligned Saint Ascendants challenged Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu; after the pair defeated the strongest, the other two challenged Profound Penetration across realms and died.
• Over the following month, transcendents continued challenging the pair across Taiyi Continent and the Thirty-Six High Heavens, so Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu began avoiding them.
• The Void Ultimate Sacred King followed Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu through the desert of Void Ultimate Heaven, hoping to prove her philosophy, though they refused to fight her.

Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu learned that Insight Brightness Sacred Domain held information about the outsider connected to the third supreme authority, while Void Ultimate Sacred King refused to fight them. In the Great Profound Realm, Xu Xing agreed to visit Charm Ancestor, whose invitation sparked confusion in the Big Boss Group about a serious matter known only to a few.

• Void Ultimate Sacred King followed Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu across the desert, and Ning Wanzhu tried to persuade her not to challenge them.
• Void Ultimate Sacred King told Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu that Insight Brightness Sacred Domain had the information they sought, then left without fighting.
• Xu Xing finished contemplating the path to Dao Source and agreed to visit Charm Ancestor at the Joyous Union Sect.
• Charm Ancestor told the Big Boss Group that she planned to discuss serious matters with Xu Xing, and Sword Venerable said she would go with him.
• Hong Sovereign, Tyrant Sovereign, and Pill Ancestor questioned whether Charm Ancestor had created another group, while Sword Ancestor said he had only just learned of the matter.
• Spirit Ancestor explained that Charm Ancestor knew because it was better to tell her, and Sword Venerable had learned about it by chance.

Xu Xing wondered what Ning Ruo had told Charm Ancestor and headed down from Sword Ancestor Hall, planning to learn more at the Joyous Union Sect. In the Sword Sect’s Free Trade Zone, Zhang Yunlu recognized someone as her martial uncle, leaving Lin Xuanxuan stunned.

• Xu Xing read the group chat as Spirit Ancestor kept the matter involving Sword Ancestor from him, then decided he would learn the details at the Joyous Union Sect.
• Lin Xuanxuan asked Zhang Yunlu why she had stopped taking missions, and Zhang Yunlu said she was preparing for exams and expected to graduate that year with an A rating.
• Lin Xuanxuan recalled that Senior Sister Jiuyu had graduated at Nascent Soul Perfection after earning first place in the Immortal Sect Grand Competition before graduation.
• Lin Xuanxuan told Zhang Yunlu that the major sects were considering reforms to the education system, but Zhang Yunlu stopped and looked ahead.
• Zhang Yunlu addressed someone as her martial uncle, and Lin Xuanxuan realized he might be the Sword Ancestor Founder Ancestor.

Xu Xing took a walk with Zhang Yunlu and Lin Xuanxuan, answering their cultivation questions and giving Lin Xuanxuan his alchemy insights as a reference. After he left, Lin Xuanxuan and Zhang Yunlu finished touring the Free Trade Zone and planned to share a meal.

• Lin Xuanxuan realized that Little Zhang was the Sword Ancestor Founder Ancestor and nervously greeted Xu Xing.
• Xu Xing invited Zhang Yunlu and Lin Xuanxuan to walk with him and offered to answer their cultivation questions.
• Xu Xing answered Zhang Yunlu's questions with suggestions that left her to find her own solutions.
• Xu Xing gave Lin Xuanxuan his alchemy insights and told her to use them as a reference and walk her own path.
• After Xu Xing vanished, Lin Xuanxuan thanked Zhang Yunlu for the good fortune and offered to treat her to a meal.
• Lin Xuanxuan and Zhang Yunlu finished touring the Free Trade Zone without finding any bargains.

Lin Xuanxuan planned to share the Sword Ancestor Founder Ancestor's alchemy insights with Senior Sister Ye and discuss her reluctance to become Sect Master. Meanwhile, Xu Xing and Bie Xuening arrived at the Joyous Union Sect with Yueling, where Charm Ancestor welcomed them and teased Bie Xuening in front of Ji Yinxue.

• Lin Xuanxuan checked that the alchemy insights were safe and decided to share them with Senior Sister Ye when she returned.
• Xu Xing met Bie Xuening at the Sword Venerable Hall, and they summoned Yueling to join their trip to the Joyous Union Sect.
• Bie Xuening put Yueling away after she offended her, and Xu Xing and Bie Xuening arrived at the Joyous Union Sect.
• Ji Yinxue greeted Xu Xing and Bie Xuening and led them to the Founder Ancestor Cave Heaven.
• Charm Ancestor welcomed the visitors and told Ji Yinxue that Bie Xuening was more interesting in private than her cold manner suggested.

Charm Ancestor showed Xu Xing and Bie Xuening a Chaos Sea substance resembling a variation of Dao Delusion and demonstrated its effects on tiny Golden Core figures. The substance appeared to trigger a heart demon tribulation, leaving Xu Xing to consider what he had witnessed.

• Ji Yinxue left after hearing Charm Ancestor discuss Bie Xuening, and Charm Ancestor blamed Bie Xuening for making her seem irritable rather than aloof.
• Charm Ancestor served Xu Xing and Bie Xuening wine brewed from Mystic Candle Fruit, then led them to the Joyous Union Sect's Founder Ancestor Cave Heaven to discuss her findings.
• Charm Ancestor explained that Ning Ruo had brought back a chaotic aura from the Chaos Sea and that she had extracted a component resembling Dao Delusion from it.
• Xu Xing said that learning about the substance had not affected him and that he had expected his next breakthrough to cause changes in the Chaos Sea.
• Charm Ancestor transformed maple leaves into four tiny Golden Core figures and exposed them to the substance; one figure perished while the others endured its corrosion and grew stronger.

Xu Xing learned that his path toward Dao Source was causing the Chaos Sea to develop a tangible Heart Demon Tribulation that would endanger cultivators below Dao Integration. He decided to guide the worlds beyond toward ways to withstand it, while recognizing that further changes might emerge before he attained Dao Source.

• Charm Ancestor explained that Xu Xing’s acceptance of Dao Delusion had caused a Heart Demon Tribulation to arise across the Chaos Sea.
• She warned that the tribulation would eventually threaten cultivators below Dao Integration as they advanced through major realms, though surviving it could bring benefits.
• Xu Xing considered that choosing the Self-Severing Transcendence Method might cause different calamities, but said he would continue his current path.
• Back in the room, Xu Xing proposed guiding cultivators in distant worlds to understand and prepare for the Heart Demon Tribulation.

Xu Xing explained the changes in the Chaos Sea and shared his insights about the Dao Source step while Charm Ancestor and Bie Xuening went to spar. As the True Immortals discussed his explanation, Yuanjun learned why Charm Ancestor had said she knew nothing, while Meng Xuan prepared to challenge the Sword Sect’s top Void Return cultivators.

• Xu Xing told Charm Ancestor that he would share his insights about the Dao Source step as a reference for the other True Immortals.
• Charm Ancestor invited Bie Xuening to test their skills, and the two women left to spar outside her Cave Heaven.
• Xu Xing stayed behind and followed the group chat as Hong Sovereign and the others speculated about the spar before Sword Ancestor began explaining the Chaos Sea changes connected to Xu Xing.
• Yuanjun and Meng Xuan left a city in Sword Province after Meng Xuan defeated the Supreme Dao Sect’s top ten Void Return cultivators and prepared to challenge the Sword Sect’s ranking.
• Yuanjun read Xu Xing’s explanation in the group chat and understood what Charm Ancestor had meant when she said Yuanjun knew nothing.

Yuanjun and Meng Xuan discussed the changes caused by touching the Dao Source, while Xu Xing recounted recent events to the group at the Joyous Union Sect. The chapter ended with Xu Xing explaining that Chi Jiuyu had been sent to a world where a cultivator’s Cang Transformation Ritual had failed at its final stage.

• Yuanjun told Meng Xuan that the changes each person triggered upon touching the Dao Source were different, and Meng Xuan planned to advance after visiting the Sword Sect.
• Bie Xuening and the Charm Ancestor returned from their duel without a clear victor, and Xu Xing judged that neither had won.
• The Charm Ancestor invited Yueling to try her Mystic Candle Fruit wine, and Yueling drank while defending her choice to call Bie Xuening “my lord.”
• Xu Xing said Chi Jiuyu had gone on a mission to a world where a cultivator had completed the Cang Transformation Ritual’s preparations but failed at the final moment.

Charm Ancestor learned that none of 3,721 Cang Transformation Rituals had succeeded outside the Great Profound Realm, while transformed defectors still differed from pure-blooded Cang Race members. In Ancient Great Profound Heaven, Xuan captured the failed Dao Slave Yang Feng and offered it to Gu, who chose to send it to the frontline battlefield as a Dao weapon.

• Xu Xing told Charm Ancestor that he had assigned Chi Jiuyu’s ascension mission to a ruined world where its last ritual initiator could serve as a trial opponent.
• Xu Xing revealed that all 3,721 Cang Transformation Rituals had failed and that transformed defectors remained fundamentally different from the Cang Race.
• Charm Ancestor asked whether the defectors had become identical to the Cang Race, and Xu Xing said they had not.
• Gu watched Sword Ancestor’s sword scar in Ancient Great Profound Heaven while waiting for Sword Ancestor’s defenses to weaken.
• After Yang Feng’s Heaven Pass Construction failed, Xuan split Ancient Great Profound Heaven with Purple Qi and seized the resulting Dao Slave.
• Gu refused to keep Yang Feng’s Dao Slave and asked Xuan to refine it into a Dao weapon for the frontline battlefield.

Gu recalled how his past choices helped shape the conflict between the Cang and Human races, then returned to the Temple of Time. In Task World 119, Chi Jiuyu climbed Spirit Cloud Mountain on an ascension mission and confronted Gu Xingyun after he detected her reconnaissance spell.

• Gu remembered how he and Yang Feng had manipulated Hong Sovereign’s ties, underestimated the Sword Ancestor, and later opposed the Human Race’s rise.
• Gu regretted his past decisions and returned to the Temple of Time, reflecting on the races that had betrayed the Human Race.
• Chi Jiuyu climbed Spirit Cloud Mountain while concealing her reconnaissance puppets and reviewing her mission to defeat the mastermind.
• Gu Xingyun appeared, praised Chi Jiuyu’s Cleansing Art, and asked her to explain how she had perfected it.
• Chi Jiuyu insulted Gu Xingyun and drew her sword, striking at her side instead of attacking him directly.

Chi Jiuyu exposed and attacked the formations concealing Spirit Cloud Mountain, earning the weakened world’s favor as she fought Gu Xingyun. While she pressed her assault on the Mystic Spirit Tower, Gu Xingyun inspected a promising template human and discovered its heart came from his former junior sister.

• Chi Jiuyu detected that Gu Xingyun was a projection, struck the grand formation’s weak point, and released some of the spiritual essence sealed within Spirit Cloud Mountain.
• Chi Jiuyu received 10% World Favor, then attacked Gu Xingyun’s projection and stomped Spirit Cloud Mountain, revealing the golden pagoda beneath it.
• Chi Jiuyu summoned the Four Symbols Destruction sword wheel and sent it crashing toward the Mystic Spirit Tower.
• Inside the tower, Original Body · Gu Xingyun discussed the attack with Human Nature · Gu Xingyun and Black-Robed · Gu Xingyun, then went to inspect a template that exceeded expectations.
• Original Body · Gu Xingyun extracted a seven-colored heart from a template human and recognized it as the product of his junior sister’s bloodline.
• The tower shook as Chi Jiuyu’s attack broke through, and Original Body · Gu Xingyun hurried back toward the battle.

Chi Jiuyu fought the powerful Gu Xingyun clones emerging from the Mystic Spirit Tower, while the Prefectural Lord of Cloud-Piercing Prefecture feared the return of an ancient catastrophe. Xu Xing and Bie Xuening left the Joyous Union Sect with gifts from Charm Ancestor.

• Chi Jiuyu killed Sword Dao · Gu Xingyun with a sudden burst of sword lights after he challenged her.
• Eye · Gu Xingyun emerged and summoned more Gu Xingyun clones, whose perfect traits began merging into a single body.
• Chi Jiuyu unleashed the Four Symbols Destruction Sword Wheel and activated thirteen miniature formations around the Mystic Spirit Tower as Ultimate Law · Gu Xingyun and Ultimate Body · Gu Xingyun appeared.
• The Prefectural Lord of Cloud-Piercing Prefecture watched the battle from the city walls and recalled his ancestors’ records of the ancient Age of Immortals and the Great Devil’s failed ritual.
• Xu Xing and Bie Xuening prepared to leave the Joyous Union Sect, and Charm Ancestor gave them Mystic Candle Fruit wine for their disciples.

Xu Xing returned to the Sword Sect after visiting the Joyous Union Sect and reflected on how his choice of Dao Delusion could reshape the Chaos Sea upon his attainment of Dao Source. Meanwhile, Jiang Yuqi gave Jiang Yujiu a jade pendant and urged her to learn about Saint Emperor Abyss for herself before entering seclusion to integrate the Dao.

• Bie Xuening accepted the Mystic Candle Fruit wine, and she, Xu Xing, and Yueling prepared to leave the Joyous Union Sect with the Charm Ancestor and Ji Yinxue seeing them off.
• Ji Yinxue asked to seek Bie Xuening's guidance, but the Charm Ancestor and Xu Xing put off her questions until a later visit to the Sword Sect.
• Xu Xing noticed Zhong Jiajia wearing a Blood Jade he had gifted her, then spotted another Blood Jade recipient whose cultivation had advanced well.
• Jiang Yuqi rebuked Jiang Yujiu about her appearance, gave her a broken-corner purple jade pendant, and told her to learn about Saint Emperor Abyss on her own before asking to inspect her cultivation.
• At the Sword Sect, Xu Xing studied a reenactment of the Heart Demon Tribulation and deduced that Dao Delusion could create Heart Demon worlds across the Chaos Sea when he attained Dao Source, while the Self-Severing Transcendence Method would bring a different transformation.