Chapter Summaries

Ning Ruo accepted that Xu Xing might choose to be with multiple people, while he explained his guilt over those whose expectations he had failed. At the Sword Sect, Chi Jiuyu returned to health and discovered she had missed the chance to receive Xu Xing’s generous gifts.

• Ning Ruo told Xu Xing she would accept whatever choice he made, even if he chose to take them all, though she admitted she minded.
• Chi Jiuyu met Ye Zhiwei in the Autumn Scenery Garden and bragged about earning a Crimson Edge Medal.
• Chi Jiuyu asked when Ye Zhiwei’s sister would leave seclusion, then decided she might seek out Xiao Zhao instead.
• Zhang Yunlu received Spirit Stones and Mystic Candle Fruit from Xu Xing after welcoming him at the Sword Venerable Hall.
• Chi Jiuyu learned she had turned down the chance to welcome Xu Xing and regretted missing his gifts.

Chen Yuanlin was chosen to become the Righteous Alliance’s first ascension envoy as Yuan and the alliance’s senior cultivators prepared to advance the Ascension Plan. Xu Xing confirmed to Ming that the plan was his own, then warned that its upheaval could devastate ordinary cultivators.

• Chen Yuanlin was brought to the Supreme Council’s central tower, where the Taixuan Immortal Network registered him as its Eighth Marker and assigned him Ascension Envoy authority.
• Yuan argued that Chen Yuanlin was the most suitable candidate for the first ascension mission, while Fu Yuan objected and proposed Mu Yun instead.
• Gan Xiang ultimately backed Chen Yuanlin as the best available choice, and Yuan urged the senior cultivators to move the Ascension Plan forward.
• Three days after Xu Xing returned from the Spirit Sound Workshop, Ming visited him at the Sword Sect and asked whether the Ascension Plan came from the Sword Ancestor.
• Xu Xing confirmed that the plan was his intention and said the Righteous Alliance could accept it through Yuan, while Ming and Xu Xing acknowledged the unrest it could cause ordinary cultivators.

Ming and Xu Xing discussed Chen Yuanlin’s progress after receiving the Sword Ancestor’s guidance, while Chi Jiuyu defeated Zhao Ruohan and displayed her improved swordsmanship. Hong Sheng recognized Chi Jiuyu’s talent and reflected on how Yuan had changed the cultivation world, before asking Cheng Ding about the Extreme Sword.

• Ming told Xu Xing that Chen Yuanlin had rebuilt his foundations and become one of the clearest-sighted young cultivators in the Righteous Alliance.
• Chi Jiuyu defeated Zhao Ruohan in three moves with her Four Symbols Destruction Sword Wheel, Spirit Cloud Dao Sword, and improved Annihilation Sword.
• Chi Jiuyu reassured Zhao Ruohan, offered her a Mystic Candle Fruit, and left Shengji Cave Heaven with her.
• Hong Sheng praised Chi Jiuyu’s talent to Cheng Ding and acknowledged that Yuan had transformed the Great Profound Realm.
• Hong Sheng asked whether Chi Jiuyu might learn the Extreme Sword, and Cheng Ding explained that Sword Venerable and the Sword Ancestor had their own plans for her.

Zhao Ruohan and Chi Jiuyu discussed the changing world and the scarce ascension missions before Zhao Ruohan departed on a mission. In the Righteous Alliance, Chen Yuanlin began its first ascension mission, while Yuan organized the next stage of expanding the immortal network.

• Zhao Ruohan declined Chi Jiuyu's offer to borrow the Mystic Candle Fruit tree for now, but said she would need its yin-aspected essence later to balance her dharma power.
• Chi Jiuyu and Zhao Ruohan discussed the difficulty of obtaining ascension missions and wondered what the future would bring.
• More than a month later, Zhao Ruohan left the Great Profound Realm for an ascension mission, while Chi Jiuyu stayed in the Sword Sect to consolidate her Annihilation Sword.
• Chen Yuanlin entered the Righteous Alliance's Ascension Hall and began a mission to an unnamed Spirit Transformation Honeycomb Plane in the Second Xunyuan Realm, with a three-year mission-world limit.
• After Chen Yuanlin departed, Gu Mo defended the True Immortals' decisions, and Yuan sent Ming Yu, Ning Wanzhu, and Fu Meng to construct immortal network connection nodes.

Yuan advanced the Ascension Plan by expanding the Taixuan Immortal Network across the Righteous Alliance and the Four Star Regions, while clearing up Fu Yuan’s suspicions about Fu Meng. Five years later, Xu Xing asked Xi Li to represent the Ascenders during the upcoming Immortal Sect Grand Competition, and she agreed.

• Ning Wanzhu, Ming Yu, and Fu Meng departed to establish Immortal Network connection nodes, while Yuan reassured Fu Yuan that the envoys would be protected.
• Yuan explained the Immortal Network’s Ascension Point costs and subsidies to Righteous Alliance cultivators, then told Gu Mo that Gan Xiang had secretly fueled the earlier conflict between the Righteous Alliance and the Joyous Union Sect.
• Fu Yuan confronted Yuan about Fu Meng, and Yuan realized Fu Yuan had mistaken her assignment to help with the network expansion for a personal matter.
• The Taixuan Immortal Network spread across the Four Star Regions, and the Ascension Plan’s new stage advanced until five years had passed.
• Xu Xing asked Xi Li to appear as an Ascender at the upcoming Immortal Sect Grand Competition, and she agreed to take part.

Xu Xing surveyed the three realms and saw that the Earth Immortal Realm and its cultivation sects had prospered over five years. As the Immortal Sect Grand Competition approached, Chi Jiuyu and Zhang Yunlu discussed their progress, while Ye Zhiwei and Zhao Ruoming reunited and spoke about their past.

• Xu Xing observed that the Gan Yang Dao Palace and Cold Moon Sword Palace had become leading powers in the Earth Immortal Realm, and that the third realm had joined the Immortal Network as New Origin.
• The Immortal Network group discussed the upcoming Immortal Sect Grand Competition, including Chi Jiuyu's progress and Zhang Yunlu's mastery of Slaying Sword: First Form.
• Chi Jiuyu and Zhang Yunlu sparred, and Chi Jiuyu defeated Zhang Yunlu despite her use of Slaying Sword: First Form.
• Chi Jiuyu encouraged Zhang Yunlu to value her hard work as well as luck, then rushed off to complete talismans for an order.
• Ye Zhiwei and Zhao Ruoming reunited after five years, exchanged apologies about their past, and agreed there was no need to decide their future immediately.
• Ye Zhiwei told Zhao Ruoming that he could not beat Chi Jiuyu.

Ye Zhiwei mastered the entry level of the Four Seasons Flowing Form Sword Scripture, while Chi Jiuyu defeated Zhao Ruoming in two swords and retrieved the Extreme Sword. Xu Xing and Bie Xuening used the sword-intent crystal hoping to learn more about Tai, but found nothing and decided to keep watch on Qingxu.

• Zhao Ruoming told Ye Zhiwei he intended to fight Chi Jiuyu, then left to meet her.
• Ye Zhiwei comprehended the turning of the four seasons and gained an entry-level grasp of the Four Seasons Flowing Form Sword Scripture.
• Chi Jiuyu defeated Zhao Ruoming in two swords, then collected the Extreme Sword crystal from Cheng Ding, who warned her that the art was difficult and could distract her from the Immortal Sect Grand Competition.
• Xu Xing explained that the Extreme Sword was the Sword Sect's third supreme sword art and let Chi Jiuyu decide when to learn it.
• Xu Xing and Bie Xuening revealed they had sent Chi Jiuyu to retrieve the crystal in hopes of finding information about Tai, but their search yielded nothing, so they agreed to watch Qingxu more closely.

Chi Jiuyu sought advice about whether to study the Extreme Sword before the Immortal Sect Grand Competition, and Hong Qianqian revealed its creator was their Third Senior Brother, Sword Lord Ji. That night, the sword-intent crystal drew Chi Jiuyu into a vision of Sword Lord Ji demonstrating the strike with which he attested his Sword Dao.

• Chi Jiuyu weighed whether learning the Extreme Sword would risk her condition before the Immortal Sect Grand Competition and decided to ask someone knowledgeable.
• Chi Jiuyu video-called Hong Qianqian, who explained that the Extreme Sword was created by their Third Senior Brother, Sword Lord Ji, after he reached Truth Insight.
• Hong Qianqian said Sword Lord Ji had been the first Truth Insight Sword Master of the Sword Sect and that only peerless sword prodigies could begin to comprehend his exceptionally difficult strike.
• Chi Jiuyu settled into meditation that night, but the sword-intent crystal opened its jade box and drew her consciousness into a void.
• Chi Jiuyu called out to her Third Senior Brother, but Sword Lord Ji declared that he would attest his Sword Dao, then appeared in a primordial landscape and unleashed a dazzling sword strike.

Chi Jiuyu witnessed Sword Lord Ji's creation of the Extreme Sword and began comprehending its variations, while Xu Xing arranged for Chen Yuanlin to spar with a friend’s disciple. On the morning of the Sword Sect’s Immortal Sect qualification selection match, Chi Jiuyu revealed that she had created four more swords, prompting Zhao Ruohan and Ye Zhiwei to challenge her with their own hidden techniques.

• Chi Jiuyu awakened from a vision of Sword Lord Ji creating the Extreme Sword, then used the floating sword-intent crystal to trace his lifelong path and discover variations of the strike.
• Xu Xing discussed Chi Jiuyu’s talent with Bie Xuening, who predicted that Chi Jiuyu would use the Extreme Sword as a foundation for creating her own sword.
• Yuan visited Chen Yuanlin and asked him to spar with a friend’s disciple, whom Chen learned was a few years younger, in early Spirit Transformation, and not Chi Jiuyu.
• Zhang Yunlu, Zhao Ruohan, Ye Zhiwei, and Lin Xuanxuan arrived at Chi Jiuyu’s cave before the selection match and found her asleep and disheveled.
• At breakfast, Chi Jiuyu claimed she had mastered the Moon Mist Seven Sword Styles, and Zhang Yunlu revealed that the art included four swords she had created in recent years.
• Zhao Ruohan and Ye Zhiwei challenged Chi Jiuyu to bouts, offering to test their own newly developed techniques against her four new swords.

The Sword Sect’s selection trials drew powerful cultivators and the attention of the sect leaders, while Gu Wangjun assessed the formidable competitors ahead of his own qualifiers. At the Sword Ancestor Hall, Xu Xing and Confusion discussed Zhang Yunlu’s progress and Yuan’s decision to spare the imprisoned Truth Insight.

• Chi Jiuyu arrived at the selection grounds, and Yue Zhongfeng and Chang Xiao judged her sword intent and strength to be on their level; Lin Changsheng said her rapid progress was expected for the Little Martial Uncle Ancestor.
• Green brought Lin Changsheng the pills she had made, while the assembled Void Return cultivators teased Zhou Kongming about Chi Jiuyu possibly surpassing him as a candidate for Sect Master.
• Gu Wangjun and Leng Rou watched the Golden Core contestants and discussed whether he could qualify for the Supreme Dao Sect’s Immortal Sect Grand Competition.
• Xu Xing and Confusion praised Zhang Yunlu’s progress, and Confusion noted that Xiao Fan had recently lost to Chen Yuanlin.
• Xu Xing told Confusion that the captured Truth Insight remained imprisoned in Obscure Prison, and Yuan explained that he had chosen to forgive her because she posed no current threat and could help guard against the Supreme Existence beyond the Chaos Sea.

Yuan learned that Confusion had designed a more elaborate script for him in the Taiyi World, while Ji Yinxue’s fate remained unresolved. At the Sword Sect’s Immortal Sect Grand Competition, Zhang Yunlu entered the qualifiers and defeated Li Fengping in two strikes, while Chi Jiuyu also displayed her strength.

• Yuan blamed the Taiyi World's Heavenly Will for betraying him and learned that the World Purifying Dao Lord had gone to deal with it.
• Confusion revealed that he had designed a more complete script for Yuan in the Taiyi World, but Yuan refused to experience it again.
• At the selection grounds, Ye Zhiwei told Chi Jiuyu and Zhang Yunlu that she had entered the Four Seasons Flowing Form Sword Scripture and reached Nascent Soul Perfection.
• The qualifiers began, and Zhang Yunlu entered her assigned Secret Realm venue as contestant number 19.
• Zhang Yunlu recognized Li Fengping as her first opponent and defeated him with her Four Symbols Destruction Sword Wheel in two strikes.
• Chen Yuanlin watched Chi Jiuyu win with one sword strike and learned that Xiao Fan and Zhang Yunlu had attended Xuanjian City No. 3 Middle School together.

Xiao Fan watched the tournament and recalled the brutal trials his master had put him through, while Chi Jiuyu defeated Ye Rou in three sword strikes. As Zhang Yunlu fought on, Xu Xing and Bie Xuening discussed her progress and the news that Chen Huan’s secluded cultivation was nearing its outcome.

• Xiao Fan watched Zhang Yunlu’s performance and remembered enduring three years of relentless demonic-beast trials arranged by his master.
• Chen Yuanlin told Xiao Fan that Zhang Yunlu might have worked as hard as he had, then reflected on his own cultivation rivalry with Chi Jiuyu.
• Chi Jiuyu received a bye and then defeated Ye Rou in three sword strikes, while Ye Zhiwei, Lin Xuanxuan, and Zhao Ruohan watched from the stands.
• Zhang Yunlu struggled against a Star Dust World-Extinguishing True Sword Chapter cultivator despite using her self-created Slaying Sword: First Form.
• Xu Xing and Bie Xuening discussed Zhang Yunlu and Chi Jiuyu’s progress, then noted that Chen Huan’s ten-thousand-year seclusion was nearing its decisive moment.

Xu Xing recalled how Chen Huan’s younger sister’s betrayal led to her erasure and the rift between Chen Huan and Hong Sovereign, while hoping Chen Huan would succeed at the Immortal Pass. In the present, Chi Jiuyu won the Spirit Transformation selection tournament and left with Zhang Yunlu and Ye Zhiwei, declaring she would take first place in the coming competition.

• Xu Xing and Bie Xuening discussed Chen Huan’s attempt at the Immortal Pass and the painful history between Chen Huan and Hong Sovereign.
• Xu Xing recalled how Chen Huan’s younger sister secretly helped Tai’s allies attack Hong Sovereign, prompting Heaven to erase her and leaving Chen Huan and Hong Sovereign estranged.
• At Ancient Great Profound Heaven, Xuan warned a Truth Insight Heavenly General against dwelling on the Sword Ancestor’s scar, then told Gu not to attempt another trip to Qingxu yet.
• Chi Jiuyu took first place in the Spirit Transformation selection tournament, while Zhang Yunlu ranked fourteenth and Ye Zhiwei placed third.
• Chi Jiuyu met Zhang Yunlu, Ye Zhiwei, Zhao Ruohan, and Lin Xuanxuan after the tournament, dropped her aloof act to eat ice cream, and declared that she would take first place.

Chi Jiuyu prepared for the Immortal Sect Grand Competition while Xu Xing created branching timelines of Mu World for its trial. The night before the Supreme Dao Sect’s selection matches, Chi Jiuyu met Yuanjun, who hinted at her travels away from the sect.

• Chi Jiuyu dismissed concern about Qiu Zheng and insisted she would win first place in the Grand Competition.
• Xu Xing divided Mu World into two stable time branches to test the contestants’ adaptability and considered using the World Derivation Method on the Great Profound Realm.
• Chi Jiuyu watched selections at World Relief Valley and the Dragon-Elephant Heaven-Supporting Sect, but fled Qiu Zheng’s match after enduring the body cultivators’ thunderous taunts.
• Chi Jiuyu visited Hong Qianqian and Zhao Ruohan before the Supreme Dao Sect’s selection matches, and Hong Qianqian returned a sword intent crystal for her to study.
• Yuanjun joined Chi Jiuyu, Hong Qianqian, and Zhao Ruohan, then remarked that she had heard Chi Jiuyu was traveling and rarely returned to the sect.

Yuanjun returned to the Supreme Dao Sect amid concern that Chen Huan’s Immortal-Knocking Pass was nearing its end, while Chi Jiuyu watched the sect’s qualifiers. At Sword Ancestor Hall, Xu Xing revealed that Ji Yinxue had completed her work in Taiyi World and would return the next day with questions for him.

• Yuanjun asked Chi Jiuyu about her progress with the Extreme Sword and warned that Chen Huan’s Immortal-Knocking Pass would reach its limit within two years.
• Chi Jiuyu and Lin Xuanxuan watched the Supreme Dao Sect qualifiers, where Zhao Ruoming took first place and Zhao Ruohan took second.
• Chi Jiuyu fell asleep during the long qualifiers and woke after they ended, unimpressed by the contestants’ cautious performances.
• Charm Ancestor arrived at Sword Ancestor Hall, and Xu Xing told Bie Xuening that Ji Yinxue had found Dao Extremity in Taiyi World but now had doubts to discuss.
• Xu Xing said Ji Yinxue would return the following day, and Bie Xuening asked when she would arrive.

Ji Yinxue returned from Taiyi World after helping spread a less extreme fusion of rituals and cultivation, and Xu Xing prepared to answer her questions about cultivation. While she was traveling back, Charm Ancestor teased Chi Jiuyu into comparing her with the women close to Xu Xing, and Bie Xuening punished Chi Jiuyu for criticizing her; Ji Yinxue arrived at Sword Ancestor Hall having comprehended Dao Extremity.

• Xu Xing decided to ask Yuan for help answering Ji Yinxue's questions if his own explanation failed.
• Kongji Holy Lord saw Ji Yinxue off from the Third New Origin Domain after Ji Yinxue explained the new fusion of rituals and cultivation she had developed for Taiyi World.
• Charm Ancestor asked Chi Jiuyu which woman suited Xu Xing best, and Chi Jiuyu praised Spirit Ancestor before criticizing Bie Xuening's temper.
• Bie Xuening tied Chi Jiuyu up and hung her in a bamboo grove as punishment, while Charm Ancestor returned to Sword Ancestor Hall.
• Ji Yinxue arrived at Sword Ancestor Hall and greeted Xu Xing, Bie Xuening, and her master after comprehending Dao Extremity.

Ji Yinxue told Xu Xing how she abandoned her plan to erase Taiyi World's evil nature and instead changed its rules, then returned to the Great Profound Realm to prepare for seclusion after the Immortal Sect Grand Competition. More than half a month later, Chi Jiuyu tried to join Li Ke and the others on their trip to the competition, revealing her curiosity about Xi Li, a potential rival for the Sword Sect leadership.

• Ji Yinxue explained that Kongji Holy Lord stopped her from refining away the evil nature of every living being in Taiyi World, after which she remade Heavenly Will and changed the world's rules.
• Ji Yinxue left with Charm Ancestor and planned to look around the Great Profound Realm before entering seclusion after the Immortal Sect Grand Competition.
• Zhang Yunlu found Chi Jiuyu tied to a bamboo rack and sleeping in the bamboo grove, then photographed her before Yueling called out and woke her.
• More than half a month later, Xi Li prepared to travel to the Supreme Dao Sect ahead of the Immortal Sect Grand Competition, and Chi Jiuyu asked Li Ke to let her come along.
• Li Ke guessed that Chi Jiuyu wanted to meet Xi Li because Xi Li hoped to become the Sword Sect's Sect Master, but Chi Jiuyu insisted she was only curious.

Xu Xing discussed Chen Huan’s coming emergence from seclusion with Hong Sovereign and agreed to stop Xuan if he tried to interfere. Meanwhile, Xuan enlisted Gu to disrupt Chen Huan’s attempt to attain the Dao and investigate Qingxu, while a mysterious voice warned Gu that his secret was nearing exposure.

• Li Ke handled the Miscellaneous Affairs Hall’s expenses while Chi Jiuyu left to attend the Immortal Sect Grand Competition.
• Xu Xing showed Hong Sovereign Mu World’s stable Time Branches and admitted he was considering deriving a Time Branch from the Great Profound Realm.
• Xu Xing asked Hong Sovereign about Chen Huan, and they agreed Xu Xing would stop Xuan if he intervened when she emerged from seclusion.
• Xu Xing met Qianshuang and Yuanjun near Frost Hong Island and confirmed that Xuan and Gu also knew about Chen Huan.
• Xuan gave Gu Heavenly Will and told him to try to interrupt Chen Huan’s attainment of the Dao while Gu’s true body investigated Qingxu.
• A mysterious voice warned Gu to hurry because his secret was at risk, and Gu suppressed the thread of Heavenly Will in his palm.

Xi Li and Chi Jiuyu discussed their ambitions and cultivation before the Immortal Sect Grand Competition, while Zhou Kongming, Lin Xingyue, and Gao Wuwang observed Mu World. As Chen Huan neared the end of her seclusion, the ancestors discussed preparations and Hong Sovereign’s complicated past with her younger sister.

• Xi Li told Chi Jiuyu she wanted to become Sword Sect Master to seek answers by viewing the world from different positions, and Chi Jiuyu admitted she could not yet explain her own ambition.
• Xi Li explained that she cultivated the [Sword], [Yin], and [Slaughter] lineages and that her white hair came from cultivating too impatiently; the two added each other as friends and labeled each other “Rival.”
• Zhou Kongming, Lin Xingyue, and Gao Wuwang examined Mu World before the competition, discussed its powerful Void Return cultivators and the conflict between its cultivation system and the Ritual Transcendence System, and doubted they would be able to intervene.
• Xiao Yu continued preparing Mu World while the others talked, and Xu Xing observed that the celestial signs showed two things had collided.
• The ancestors discussed Chen Huan’s imminent emergence from seclusion and agreed to maintain normal precautions for the competition rather than postpone it.
• Tyrant Sovereign and Pill Ancestor pressed Hong Sovereign about his plans and his history with Chen Huan’s younger sister, who had loved him, died after conspiring against him, and left him with lingering guilt.

The Immortal Sect Grand Competition began as contestants entered Mu World, while the sect masters watched signs of a True Immortal’s breakthrough in the heavens. As Universe Sword Master Chen Huan began proving the Dao, Xu Xing attacked a mysterious existence across the starry sky.

• The sect masters observed the stars shining at noon and suspected that Senior Universe Sword Master was nearing a breakthrough.
• The contestants received final instructions, and Cheng Junming began the Immortal Sect Grand Competition’s countdown as Xi Li watched the broadcast.
• Gu Wangjun appeared inside the Holy Palace of Mu Wu Divine Kingdom, learned he had landed deep in enemy territory, and faced Mu Wu.
• Xu Xing and a mysterious existence on the Far Side of the Starry Sky watched the heavens as Chen Huan began ascending to immortality and attaining the Dao.
• Xu Xing struck at the mysterious existence, and Xuan met his crimson sword attack with a clenched fist.