Chapter Summaries

Xu Xing considered the possible consequences of Dao Source existences before checking on Chi Jiuyu through the Taixuan Immortal Network. Chi Jiuyu escaped Gu Xingyun’s ambush with a fragment of the Mystic Spirit Tower, then recovered in hiding and planned her next steps with her Life-Bound Sword.

• Xu Xing recalled how Moon Shadow had once listened to his private troubles and watched Chi Jiuyu flee through the Immortal Network.
• Chi Jiuyu escaped Gu Xingyun and his injured clones after breaking part of the Mystic Spirit Tower, while Gu Xingyun became enraged and resolved to capture her.
• Chi Jiuyu hid in an underground chamber, healed her wound, and kept the tower fragment she had taken as she considered selling it for contribution points.
• Chi Jiuyu ate while asking her Life-Bound Sword to review their failed mission and discuss Gu Xingyun’s abilities and her decisions.
• Chi Jiuyu and her Life-Bound Sword agreed not to tell their Master that they preferred Martial Uncle to name the sword.

Chi Jiuyu studied Gu Xingyun’s world-transforming ritual and refined a sword technique after recovering from their battle. She left a decoy at the Profound Cloud Spirit-Splitting Tower, drawing Gu Xingyun into a devastating attack while she watched safely from afar.

• Gu Xingyun’s avatars searched the Spirit Cloud Realm for Chi Jiuyu, then took control of mortal emperors to help find her.
• Chi Jiuyu reflected on her defeat, studied Sword Dao · Gu Xingyun’s technique, and developed Spirit Cloud Dao Sword · Initial Creation.
• Chi Jiuyu saw Gu Xingyun controlling the emperor of the Mystic Spirit Dynasty but ignored him and continued toward the Profound Cloud Spirit-Splitting Tower.
• Chi Jiuyu examined the tower and deduced that Gu Xingyun’s failed transformation might have left him with a serious flaw.
• Gu Xingyun and several dozen clones attacked the figure at the tower, but it was only Chi Jiuyu’s Sword Intent Spirit Body.
• Chi Jiuyu watched from afar with snack pills as Gu Xingyun raged over being tricked.

Chi Jiuyu stole World Origin from Gu Xingyun’s avatars while evading his pursuit, leaving him unable to decipher her techniques. Faced with the threat that she would defeat them one by one, Gu Xingyun and his incarnations considered restarting the Cang Metamorphosis Ascension Ritual, despite the danger of losing control over their identities.

• Chi Jiuyu destroyed Skin · Gu Xingyun, and her Sword Intent Spirit Body stole the hexagonal crystal containing Spirit Cloud Realm World Origin before escaping.
• Chi Jiuyu identified the crystal as World Origin and resolved to take only a small amount so she would not hasten the world’s decline.
• Chi Jiuyu hunted Gu Xingyun’s lone avatars, killing thirteen and collecting 1.5 portions of World Origin while repeatedly escaping True Self · Gu Xingyun.
• True Self · Gu Xingyun and Divine Extreme · Gu Xingyun agreed that they could not capture Chi Jiuyu with their current strength.
• Divine Extreme · Gu Xingyun proposed restarting the ritual with himself and Ultimate Law · Gu Xingyun, but True Self · Gu Xingyun warned that completed soul fragments could become independent.
• Divine Extreme · Gu Xingyun proposed that True Self · Gu Xingyun merge with the incarnations and undergo the ritual early, even if the process might fail.

Gu Xingyun postponed activating the transformation ritual after deciding that more preparations were needed, while Xu Xing analyzed Xuan’s influence on countless worlds and identified why the Cang Race’s transformation ritual failed. He concluded that the transformed beings lacked the law and order needed to unify their ascension.

• Gu Xingyun recalled how his failed Cang Metamorphic Ascension ritual had left him half-human and half-ghost, then decided to begin preparations while continuing to consider whether to activate it.
• Jing Hai told Xu Xing that Dao soldiers had eased pressure on the star-region defenses and proposed extending guard rotations, leaving the final arrangements to discussions with the sects.
• Yu Ming teased Xu Xing about his female confidantes and a future Dao companion ceremony, while Jing Hai later admitted guilt over the injury that had halted her progress.
• Xu Xing met Bie Xuening and Ning Ruo at the Immortal Net’s core and compared worlds affected by Xuan, from the Three Heavens Realm to the Spirit Cloud Realm.
• Xu Xing explained that the Cang Race had been created through Gu, Tai, and Xuan’s innate authorities, then concluded that Xuan’s transformation ritual failed because it lacked law and order to unify the transformed parts.

Ning Ruo and Xu Xing explained that Gu had erased the cognition linking the Cang Race’s transformation to Law and Order, preventing Xuan from recognizing the ritual’s flaw. After Xu Xing sent the discovery to the Far Side of the Starry Sky, Xuan learned of it and confronted Gu, who realized Xuan had already understood his motive.

• Ning Ruo explained that research into the Cang Race had revealed no trace of Tai’s authority because Gu had erased the relevant cognition from history.
• Xu Xing described how failed rituals led him to discover that Cang Race transformation required the integration of Law and Order, a fact neither Xuan nor the researchers had previously been able to perceive.
• Xu Xing ordered the discovery sent to the Far Side of the Starry Sky, where Dragon-Elephant Heaven-Supporting Sect body cultivators loudly mocked Xuan and Gu to deliver the message.
• Xuan examined Cang Race members and confirmed that they could now perceive the integration of Law and Order.
• Gu appeared before Xuan, who said he understood why Gu had erased the cognition, criticized his stupidity, and warned him to be more careful.

Chi Jiuyu used an array virus to seize control of the formations around the Mystic Spirit Tower and infiltrated it while Gu Xingyun began merging his incarnations. After discovering the tower’s deserted weapon storeroom, she took its artifacts and continued exploring.

• Powerful figures in the Mystic Spirit Dynasty built an altar outside Cloud-Piercing Prefecture to seek immortality, but Gu Xingyun’s formations kept them from reaching the Mystic Spirit Tower.
• Chi Jiuyu defeated another weak Gu Xingyun avatar and used a Supreme Type IV Array Virus to seize control of the formations surrounding the tower.
• Gu Xingyun began merging his incarnations and their perfect traits while Human Nature—Gu Xingyun watched and prepared to join the fusion.
• Chi Jiuyu used a weapon-suppressing talisman to enter the tower’s seventh floor, then gathered up the divine weapons and dharma artifacts in its unattended storeroom.
• Chi Jiuyu left the storeroom and began scouting the tower’s other floors.

Chi Jiuyu infiltrated the Mystic Spirit Tower, stole the World Origin stored on its upper floors, and confronted Gu Xingyun after he rushed to stop her. She unleashed her Dharma Aspect and the Spirit Cloud Realm’s Dao Sword as Gu Xingyun fled toward the Profound Cloud Spirit-Splitting Tower.

• Chi Jiuyu looted the Mystic Spirit Tower’s floors and found a lake of World Origin on the 106th floor.
• Chi Jiuyu used her formation virus and gourd-shaped artifact to drain the World Origin, then rushed toward the tower’s upper floors.
• Gu Xingyun sensed the theft, destroyed his dying clone, and carried his human-nature avatar toward the top of the tower.
• Chi Jiuyu struck Gu Xingyun with the Annihilation Sword, shattering the tower’s top three floors, but Gu Xingyun survived.
• Chi Jiuyu manifested an enormous Dharma Aspect as Gu Xingyun fled, then used Dao Sword: Sever against him.

Gu Xingyun fought Chi Jiuyu while trying to reach the Profound Cloud Spirit-Splitting Tower and complete his ritual. Just as he neared the tower, Chi Jiuyu’s traps forced him back, leaving him exposed to her Annihilation Sword.

• Gu Xingyun countered Chi Jiuyu’s Spirit Cloud Dao Sword with Mystic Heaven Fist, then fled toward the Profound Cloud Spirit-Splitting Tower while badly injured.
• Chi Jiuyu pursued Gu Xingyun but defended the citizens of the Mystic Spirit Dynasty from his attack, giving him time to escape.
• Gu Xingyun reached the tower with his human-nature avatar and began absorbing it, hoping the ritual would stabilize his powers and soul.
• Hidden Sword Qi Talismans ambushed Gu Xingyun near the tower, but he broke through and continued toward it.
• A planetary-grade Spiritual Energy Oscillation Bomb detonated beside Gu Xingyun and knocked him back, and Chi Jiuyu struck from behind with Annihilate Slash.

Chi Jiuyu killed Gu Xingyun after his human-nature clone used the Profound Cloud Spirit-Splitting Tower to begin the world’s transformation ritual. She completed her first two missions and set off to revive the Spirit Cloud Realm’s spiritual vitality, while Xu Xing watched from deep within the realm.

• As Gu Xingyun’s body disintegrated under Chi Jiuyu’s attacks, his human-nature clone offered a way to survive, and Gu Xingyun transferred his three powers to it before detonating his remaining strength.
• The new Gu Xingyun activated the Profound Cloud Spirit-Splitting Tower’s ritual to transform and ascend the world, but Chi Jiuyu pierced his forehead and destroyed him before the transformation could finish.
• The tower redirected its unfinished ritual light toward Chi Jiuyu, but she escaped and confirmed that her first two missions were complete.
• Chi Jiuyu received a new mission to revive the realm’s spiritual vitality and guide five people to the third level of Qi Refining, then flew away to begin spreading the Dao.
• Xu Xing watched Chi Jiuyu leave and observed that the weakened world will was joyful.

Chi Jiuyu restored world origin to her world and prepared an inheritance cave abode to spread her teachings. At the Sword Sect, Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu reported on their work in Taiyi World, while Bie Xuening brought Yuanjun to meet Chi Jiuyu after her return.

• Chi Jiuyu released the world origin from three gourds at Rosy Cloud Peak, reviving spiritual vitality and earning the title Spirit Cloud Heavenly Venerable.
• Chi Jiuyu planned trials for her inheritance cave abode and set out to establish her teachings.
• Ning Wanzhu reported that she and Ming Yu had established 11,623 Immortal Net connection nodes and shared their findings about Taiyi World and Abyss with Xu Xing.
• Xu Xing found no sign that Ning Wanzhu or Ming Yu had been affected by their Doubt Incarnations and suggested Confusion would interfere in Taiyi World's ascension.
• Bie Xuening took Yuanjun to the Sword Venerable Hall, where Chi Jiuyu returned and greeted them before Bie Xuening scolded her for acting childish.

Chi Jiuyu returned from her ascension mission, shared world origin with Zhang Yunlu, and let her Life-Bound Sword handle her mission report. Meanwhile, Meng Xuan arrived at the Sword Sect to test herself against its talented cultivators, beginning with Zhou Kongming.

• Chi Jiuyu argued with Bie Xuening about her age, then realized she had insulted her Master and begged for forgiveness.
• Zhang Yunlu visited Chi Jiuyu, who gave her a portion of the Spirit Cloud Realm’s world origin and showed off her diligent Life-Bound Sword.
• Yuanjun suggested that Meng Xuan test herself against the Sword Sect’s best cultivators at various realms, and Meng Xuan agreed to begin with its top Void Return cultivator.
• Xu Xing and Yuanjun accompanied Meng Xuan to the Sect Master Hall, where Du Ruoheng arranged her match with Zhou Kongming.
• Zhou Kongming saw the Founder Ancestors arrive and hurried to greet them.

Meng Xuan effortlessly defeated Zhou Kongming in a spar at the Sword Sect, then advised Xu Xing to cherish those close to him. The chapter ended with Yueling visiting Chi Jiuyu, distracted from her plans by a cabinet full of Mystic Candle Fruit wine.

• Xu Xing created a separate space for Meng Xuan and Zhou Kongming to spar, where Meng Xuan unraveled and reversed Zhou Kongming's Great Void Sword Formation.
• Meng Xuan defeated Zhou Kongming four times in half an hour, and he accepted that his loss was no shame after learning she had also visited the Supreme Dao Sect.
• Du Ruheng told Zhou Kongming that Meng Xuan was no ordinary Void Return cultivator and hinted that her identity would remain secret until Zhou Kongming reached Dao Integration and became Sect Master.
• Xu Xing invited Meng Xuan to visit Ji Yue, but she declined and advised him to cherish those before him; she then chose to visit Chi Jiuyu and Yueling instead.
• Yueling watched the blue-gold longsword massage Chi Jiuyu, then found several jars of Mystic Candle Fruit wine in a cabinet and forgot what she had meant to say.

Yueling visited Chi Jiuyu, where she forgot her warning, mocked Bie Xuening, and was swiftly taken away for punishment. Later, Xu Xing told Bie Xuening and Yuanjun that he had made a new discovery about worlds influenced by Mystic Shadow, though it remained only a guess.

• Yueling drank diluted Mystic Candle Fruit wine at Chi Jiuyu’s cave abode and joked that Bie Xuening was an ill-tempered old woman, prompting Bie Xuening to whisk her away.
• Meng Xuan visited Chi Jiuyu, who guessed that Meng Xuan had either concealed her cultivation or restarted it after an accident.
• Zhou Kongming reflected on his defeat and the cultivation insights he had gained, then questioned the others in their Exchange Group about Meng Xuan.
• Bie Xuening punished Yueling in the bamboo grove while Xu Xing and Yuanjun discussed their past and Yueling’s offense.
• Xu Xing told Bie Xuening and Yuanjun that he had made a new discovery while observing worlds influenced by Mystic Shadow.

Xu Xing speculated that Xuan’s use of Cang Transformation Rituals might point to an unknown transcendent system or other Dao Attainers, though he urged caution while keeping Xuan, Gu, and the remaining Cang Race as their priority. At the Sword Sect, Meng Xuan defeated Chi Jiuyu in a spar and clarified that she and Xu Xing were only friends, leaving Chi Jiuyu surprised that she was not his confidante.

• Xu Xing explained to Yuanjun and Bie Xuening that Xuan’s Cang Transformation Rituals resembled the rituals in Taiyi World and might reflect a transcendent path developed by unknown Dao Attainers.
• Yuanjun asked whether Confusion could notice problems in Taiyi World, and Xu Xing said he might.
• Meng Xuan defeated the top-ranked sword cultivators on the Sword Sect’s Spirit Transformation, Nascent Soul, and Golden Core Sword Rankings in morning spars.
• Chi Jiuyu challenged Meng Xuan and opened with the Annihilation Sword, but Meng Xuan countered with a precise strike that turned Chi Jiuyu into gray mist before she recovered.
• Chi Jiuyu learned that Meng Xuan knew all four swords and asked what she thought of Xu Xing; Meng Xuan said they were only friends, surprising Chi Jiuyu.

Chi Jiuyu sparred with Meng Xuan, whose Severing Sword dismantled her Spirit Cloud Dao Sword, and left impressed enough to add Meng Xuan to her great seniors group. Two days later, Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu awakened in the Taiyi Realm and asked Senior Confusion to meet them.

• Chi Jiuyu attacked Meng Xuan with her Spirit Cloud Dao Sword, but Meng Xuan used the Severing Sword to dismantle it and kill her.
• After resurrecting, Chi Jiuyu praised Meng Xuan's sword, learned its name, and added her to a group with other great seniors before leaving with Xu Xing and Du Ruoheng.
• Two days later, Meng Xuan left for the Righteous Alliance to prepare for Dao Integration, while Yuanjun returned to the Supreme Dao Sect and Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu resumed building Immortal Net connection nodes.
• Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu awakened from their pale-gold crystals in the Kongji Holy City and told the Kongji Holy Lord that a senior's permission could remove their hidden dangers.
• Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu bowed toward a distant direction and asked Senior Confusion to reveal himself for a meeting.

Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu failed to meet Confusion in Kongji Holy City, then worried that Yuan might be in danger because Confusion was in Taiyi World. Confusion subdued Taiyi World's Heavenly Will and later read Sword Ancestor's message suggesting that distant Dao Attainment practitioners might have developed another extraordinary system.

• Confusion secretly watched Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu in Kongji Holy City but chose not to meet them.
• Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu told Kongji Holy Lord that they would search for the Insight Brightness Sacred Domain, and Kongji Holy Lord agreed to help locate it through the Abyss Ruins Realm.
• Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu worried that Confusion might catch Yuan, though Ning Wanzhu believed Sword Ancestor could help if needed.
• Confusion extracted Taiyi World's Heavenly Will, rebuked it for betraying one of his friends, and put it into temporary slumber.
• Confusion read Sword Ancestor's group message proposing that Dao Attainment practitioners beyond the Chaos Sea might have created a different extraordinary system, then wondered why the other members reacted so calmly.

Confusion received Xu Xing’s warning to watch Yuan and stay cautious, while Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu questioned the Void Ultimate Sacred King about outsiders with help from Kongji Holy Lord. The chapter ended with a mysterious being trapping Dongming Holy Lord and declaring that it would play a game with him to balance the odds around Yuan.

• Confusion read Xu Xing’s warning, chose to protect Yuan’s privacy, and left the park to arrange a new trial for Xiao Fan.
• Xu Xing saw Chi Jiuyu, Zhang Yunlu, Zhao Ruohan, Lin Xuanxuan, and Nangong Ruo shopping in the Sword Sect’s Free Trade Zone for a celebratory banquet.
• Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu confronted the Void Ultimate Sacred King, who refused to answer until Kongji Holy Lord appeared and instructed her to cooperate.
• The Void Ultimate Sacred King answered their questions about outsiders and directed Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu toward the Insight Brightness Sacred Domain.
• A bizarre being held Dongming Holy Lord captive, announced a game to balance the strength of both sides around Yuan, and promised him good fortune if he survived.

Confusion stripped Dongming Holy Lord of his Child of the World status and revealed that Taiyi World had chosen many candidates before him, leaving him shaken and with his memories clouded. Ming Yu and Ning Wanzhu found the Insight Brightness Sacred Domain, where Dongming confronted them and offered information about Yuan in exchange for their help against Void Ultimate.

• Confusion removed Dongming Holy Lord's Child of the World status and told him that Taiyi World had chosen many other candidates, shattering his certainty that he alone bore destiny.
• Ming Yu and Ning Wanzhu searched the Whale Song Expanse and found the Insight Brightness Sacred Domain with suspicious ease, suspecting Confusion had guided them.
• Ming Yu and Ning Wanzhu entered the Sacred Domain and found traces of Yuan near the treasure vault as Dongming sealed the domain against them.
• Dongming offered to tell Ming Yu and Ning Wanzhu what Yuan had experienced if they helped him kill Void Ultimate, but Ning Wanzhu refused and said they could learn the truth by killing Dongming.

Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu fought the Dongming Holy Lord in the Insight Brightness Sacred Domain, and Ning Wanzhu used one of Ning Wanyin’s jade tablet charges to wound him. After Taiyi World absorbed most of the Truth Insight power, the two women entered the Insight Brightness Holy Hall to search for what Yuan had left behind.

• Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu attacked the Dongming Holy Lord, but his Sacred Manifestation met their combined assault.
• Ning Wanzhu spent one of the jade tablet’s three charges, releasing Truth Insight power that Taiyi World’s ritual absorbed and weakened.
• The Dongming Holy Lord switched places with his Sacred Manifestation to escape the remaining Truth Insight power, then fled the domain wounded.
• Confusion explained that Taiyi World had lured Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu inside to harvest their Truth Insight power, and recalled a Truth Insight-level being arriving about twenty-one years earlier.
• Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu reached the Insight Brightness Holy Hall, where a bone dragon opened the doors and lit their way.

Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu found Yuan’s notebook in the Insight Brightness Holy Hall’s treasure vault and learned that he had come to the Taiyi World to help Yinling and resist a great enemy. After handing the emptied vault to Kongji Holy Lord, they were left with clues about Yuan’s past but no explanation of what happened to him afterward.

• Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu followed Yuan’s trace through the Insight Brightness Holy Hall and found his notebook in the hidden treasure vault.
• The two contacted Kongji Holy Lord and left the vault’s remaining treasures for her to handle, taking a few items and packing away the bone dragon.
• At Kongji Sacred Domain, Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu read Yuan’s notebook, which described his agreement with the Taiyi World to create a physical foundation for Yinling and help repel a great enemy.
• Kongji Holy Lord joined them and heard how Yuan had tried to change the Taiyi World so the weak would not be bullied for their weakness.
• Ning Wanzhu and Kongji Holy Lord recalled that many people had doubted Yuan, though he eventually proved remarkable; the notebook still did not reveal what happened after Yinling’s foundation began taking shape.