Chapter Summaries

Xu Xing and Xuan resumed their battle after a probing strike annihilated and restored the Great Profound Realm, while Bie Xuening guarded Chen Huan’s Dao Attainment from the Central Continent. In Mu World, Zhang Yunlu learned that Chen Huan was about to attain the Dao, and Gu entered Qingxu through an opening in its mist.

• Xu Xing’s sword strike and Xuan’s power erased the Starry Sky Frontline Battlefield and killed its inhabitants, but the two reshaped the Great Profound Realm and returned it to its previous state.
• Xu Xing confronted Xuan, who vowed to stop Chen Huan’s Dao Attainment, and You, Min, and Remorse arrived to help Xu Xing before the two supreme beings clashed again.
• Bie Xuening stayed on the Central Continent to guard Chen Huan’s breakthrough, destroyed illusory shadows of the past with her sword intent, and vanished from the Sword Venerable Hall.
• Zhang Yunlu defeated a Spirit Transformation perfected Winged One in the Immortal Sect Grand Competition and received a message that Chen Huan would soon ascend to immortality and attain the Dao.
• Gu formed a seven-colored Heavenly Will incarnation in Qingxu, opened a passage through the gray-black mist, and disappeared inside.

Gu's incarnation was trapped by the Human Race True Immortals and destroyed, while Xuan and Xu Xing continued their battle over the Cang Race's failing Heaven Pass Construction method. At Qingxu's Land of Ultimate Extinction, Gu Xin confronted the silver-haired being whose schemes had sabotaged that method and learned that the being had been declared dead.

• Gu's incarnation was lured into Hong Sovereign's false present world, struck by several True Immortals, and erased by Bie Xuening's sword.
• Yuanjun explained that karma, Confusion, and Hong Sovereign's Reality and Illusion had prevented Gu from reaching the present world, then left the next step to the others.
• Xu Xing and Xuan fought on the Starry Sky Frontline Battlefield as Xuan admitted he had tested Gu to investigate the failure of the Cang Race's Heaven Pass Construction method.
• Gu Xin reached the Land of Ultimate Extinction and found a silver-haired being bound by chains at the center of a platform.
• The silver-haired being claimed he had sabotaged Xuan's plans, but Gu Xin told him that Xuan, Heaven, and the Human Race's thirteen True Immortals had witnessed his death.

Gu visited the imprisoned He, who revealed that the Cang Race’s path to proving the Dao could be ruined by even slight influence, then returned to Qingxu, where Bie Xuening destroyed his body. As the realms witnessed Chen Huan attain the Dao and ascend, she became the Star Ancestor and Supreme of Myriad Worlds Evening Phenomena.

• Gu failed to persuade He to cooperate, and He warned that his lingering influence could doom the Cang Race’s method of proving the Dao.
• Gu left the collapsing space and emerged in Qingxu, where Bie Xuening attacked him with her sword and destroyed his divine body.
• Xu Xing and Xuan ended their confrontation at the Starry Sky Frontline Battlefield, and Xuan withdrew as Xu Xing awaited news of Chen Huan’s attempt.
• Starlight spread throughout the realms, nourishing Leng Rou and drawing the attention of cultivators across many worlds.
• A Supreme Existence witnessed Chen Huan attain the Dao and ascend, proclaiming her the Star Ancestor and Supreme of Myriad Worlds Evening Phenomena.

Xu Xing and the others prepared to investigate Gu’s remains after Bie Xuening returned from Qingxu, while Chen Huan’s ascension shook the Three Great Realms. In the Past Domain, Xuan confronted Gu about his failed trip and past actions, then used a thread of Heavenly Will to seek out Tian.

• Xu Xing learned that Bie Xuening had found Gu at the very center of Qingxu and brought back a seven-colored sphere containing fragmented information.
• Xu Xing noticed an intermittent whisper in the sphere and said he would return to Qingxu after the current matters were settled.
• Chen Huan attained the Dao, and a vast stellar manifestation appeared across the Three Great Realms and Ancient Great Profound Heaven.
• Xuan entered the Temple of Time and found Gu weakened after the Sword Venerable had struck him down in Qingxu.
• Gu explained his past choices and asked whether Xuan still suspected him, while Xuan cited Cang Bumei’s continued existence as proof that he would not die.
• Xuan took a thread from the Heavenly Will he had seized and said he would use it to find Tian and speak with him.

Xuan restored Heaven briefly to question him about Tai and Ye Liu’s anomaly, while Chen Huan proved the Dao as a True Immortal and reunited with her fellow cultivators. The chapter ended with Chen Huan joining Bie Xuening’s group chat after returning to the Sword Sect.

• Xuan summoned Heaven from a wisp of Heavenly Will, and Heaven admitted interfering with Ye Liu’s Dao proof but denied being responsible for the anomaly.
• Chen Huan appeared as the new True Immortal Star Ancestor and greeted Xu Xing, Yuanjun, and Charm Ancestor.
• Charm Ancestor teased the others about Xu Xing’s romantic choice, and Bie Xuening and Yuanjun dragged her away.
• Chen Huan asked Xu Xing whether he had chosen someone, then turned toward the Supreme Dao Sect before leaving for the Sword Sect.
• Hong Sovereign watched Chen Huan depart and returned to Hong Hall, while cultivators at the Immortal Sect Grand Competition learned that the Sword Sect now had three True Immortal Founder Ancestors.
• At the Sword Sect, Bie Xuening showed Chen Huan how to use a phone and added her to the Taixuan Immortal Sect group chat.

Chen Huan learned about the turmoil that had unfolded during her long seclusion and questioned Bie Xuening about Senior Brother’s purge of the demonic sects. Bie Xuening explained that Wen Ya had died after Senior Brother crippled her for allowing her son to abuse ordinary people.

• Charm Ancestor urged Spirit Ancestor to join her in fighting Sword Venerable and Yuanjun, while Chen Huan struggled to reconcile the group chat with Bie Xuening’s usual aloofness.
• Xu Xing recounted Sword Venerable’s failed search for Gu at Qingxu and shared information recovered from Gu’s essence with the Immortal Net group.
• Bie Xuening sent Chen Huan an account of the past ten thousand years, including Senior Brother’s purge of demonic sects, the rise of Yuan as the Holy Emperor, and recent clashes with Xuan and the Cang Race.
• Chen Huan learned that Wen Ya had been Senior Brother’s disciple and asked how she had been crippled.
• Bie Xuening explained that Wen Ya had allowed her son to use ordinary people as living medicine, and said Wen Ya had taken her own life after Senior Brother crippled her.

After emerging from seclusion, Chen Huan caught up on the changes in the Great Profound Realm and learned that her ascension would usher in a thousand-year age of prosperity for star-path practitioners. Meanwhile, Chi Jiuyu ranked first in a deadly competition on the dying Luting Plane and noticed the celestial phenomenon caused by Star Ancestor’s ascension.

• Chen Huan declined Charm Ancestor’s invitation to join a small chat group, then watched the group’s banter and discovered how different her fellow Daoists were from her memories.
• Bie Xuening explained that Chen Huan’s ascension was changing the Great Profound Realm’s laws and would make star-path cultivation easier for the next thousand years.
• Chen Huan named her Supreme Art the Star Dust Sword Canon.
• On the Mu World’s main timeline, Chi Jiuyu hunted down a Joyous Union Sect competitor on the doomed Luting Plane and secured first place in the competition.
• Chi Jiuyu saw the starry phenomenon beyond the Luting Plane’s cracked crystal wall and wondered whether Star Ancestor was her Martial Uncle or Senior Martial Uncle.

Chi Jiuyu escaped the collapsing Luting Plane and headed toward a distant cluster of planes, while Zhang Yunlu and Ye Qinghe revealed to Mu Chengfeng that they were outsiders undergoing training. The chapter ended with Mu Chengfeng learning that their training required them to defeat everyone else and survive.

• Chi Jiuyu dispersed into azure rays to pass through the cracked crystal wall of the Luting Plane and emerged into the Ash Extinction Turbulence.
• Chi Jiuyu observed the Luting Plane falling and shrinking in the turbulence, then flew toward a distant cluster of planes.
• In Zhengxu Hall, Mu Chengfeng asked Zhang Yunlu and Ye Qinghe where they came from and why they had arrived.
• Zhang Yunlu and Ye Qinghe both said they came from outside Mu World to undergo training.
• Zhang Yunlu explained that their training required them to defeat everyone else and survive to the end.

Mu Chengfeng and Elder Sheng assessed Zhang Yunlu and Ye Qinghe’s warning about the forces behind the Immortal Sect Grand Competition, while the competition continued and Chen Huan’s new Sword Sect residence was planned. The chapter ended with Li Ke hurrying off to organize the construction and True Immortal Ceremony.

• Mu Chengfeng kept Zhang Yunlu and Ye Qinghe in the Dao Palace under watch, then agreed with Elder Sheng that their account of the powerful beings behind the competition was probably true.
• At the competition, Leng Rou celebrated Chi Jiuyu’s first point, watched Gu Wangjun confined in the second Time Branch, and saw that Chi Jiuyu was being hunted by a Near-Saint Transcendent.
• Chen Huan approved Li Ke’s elaborate design for her new residence beside Sword Venerable Hall, despite initially asking for something more modest.
• Li Ke promised to gather artifact-refining grandmasters and have Chen Huan’s True Immortal residence completed by six the next morning, then left to handle the construction and ceremony preparations.

Xu Xing sensed a disturbance and traced it back to the Ancient Great Profound Heaven, where Xuan and Heaven confronted the threat posed by Sword Ancestor’s Dao trace. Xuan revealed that Chen Huan’s ascension in the present had just occurred in the past as well, leaving Heaven with no chance to seize a Dao Attainer’s essence.

• Xu Xing discussed Chen Huan taking on a portion of the Heavenly Will and freeing the other True Immortals from their constraints.
• Xu Xing felt an ominous tremor and sent his consciousness into the Ancient Great Profound Heaven, where he found Heaven beside Xuan.
• Xuan explained that Sword Ancestor’s Dao trace had locked the Ancient Great Profound Heaven’s uniqueness in place and that Heaven Pass Construction was their only hope.
• Heaven offered to seize a Dao Attainer’s essence, but Xuan dismissed the idea as insufficient to reach Dao Source.
• Xuan dispersed the purple qi sealing the Ancient Great Profound Heaven, revealing that the Star Ancestor had just attained the Dao in the present.
• Xuan told Heaven that Sword Ancestor’s attainment had already taken away its chance.

Xuan questioned Heaven about its attempt to seize a Dao Attainer’s essence, then destroyed it and learned from Xu Xing that Gu had emerged from Qingxu’s heart. Back at the Sword Sect, Xu Xing told Ning Ruo what had happened as construction began on Star Ancestor Hall.

• Xuan explained that Sword Ancestor’s Dao of Severance had removed Heaven’s anchors from living beings and questioned Heaven about the upheaval that had let it descend as Cang Ancestor.
• Heaven answered Xuan’s question with “Cang Ancestor?” before Xuan sealed it in purple qi and destroyed it.
• Xu Xing told Xuan that his senior sister had seen Gu emerge from the very heart of Qingxu, then departed as Xuan left Ancient Great Profound Heaven.
• Gu watched from the Temple of Time, worried that events were slipping beyond his control, and hoped Xuan would not learn the truth.
• Xu Xing told Ning Ruo that Xuan had deliberately summoned him to ask about Gu, and they agreed to wait and see whether her suspicions would grow.
• Before dawn, artifact refiners worked on Star Ancestor Hall, a new mountain hall built from the Great Profound Realm’s fortune, ley lines, moonlight, and starlight.

Ruo Qing completed the Star Ancestor Hall by forging it with the Great Profound Realm’s true meaning of Yang. Xu Xing then redirected the Human Race’s sealed Heavenly Will toward Chen Huan, leaving her struggling beneath its immense pressure.

• Ruo Qing and the master refiners finished the Star Ancestor Hall’s structure, joining it with the Central Continent’s ley lines.
• Ruo Qing drew the true meaning of Yang from its eternal plane and used it to forge the hall in a blaze of divine fire.
• Xu Xing saw the Heavenly Will flowing toward the nearly completed hall and sent Red Radiance to hasten its movement.
• Truth Insight experts sensed Xu Xing diverting the Heavenly Will from the Immortal Sects toward the Sword Sect.
• Chen Huan felt the Heavenly Will’s shackles weigh upon her and diminish the Dao and True Immortal power she could command.

Chen Huan learned that the True Immortals refined Heaven’s Will by gathering the influence of all living beings, then settled into Star Ancestor Hall to adjust to sealing it. With her taking on that duty, several True Immortals were free to travel, while Xu Xing met Ruo Qing at the Sword Sect, where she revealed her admiration for him.

• Chen Huan traced Heaven’s Will to an array gathering the actions and thoughts of people across the Great Profound Realm, and Bie Xuening explained that this collective power wore Heaven’s Will away.
• Artifact Sovereign completed Star Ancestor Hall and gave Chen Huan a gift; she moved in to adjust to the burden of sealing Heaven’s Will.
• With Chen Huan taking over the responsibility, Hong Sovereign, Tyrant Sovereign, Pill Ancestor, Artifact Sovereign, and Ning Ruo were free to leave their sects and travel.
• The Big Boss Group discussed gifts for Chen Huan and arranged visits to the Sword Sect, while Hong Sovereign and Chen Huan began a private conversation.
• Xu Xing closed the group chat and met Ruo Qing, who thanked him for his protection and privately reflected on her admiration for him.

Chen Huan reflected on facing her unresolved problems with Hong as she adjusted to becoming a True Immortal, while Xu Xing decided to investigate Qingxu. In the Qingxiao Plane, Chi Jiuyu killed a beast tied to a deadly trial and ended the chapter ranked first with three points.

• Chen Huan told Bie Xuening that she needed to face her problems with Hong and worried about her new responsibilities as a True Immortal.
• Xu Xing visited a Sword Sect plaza, then decided to return to Qingxu to investigate Gu's emergence.
• Chi Jiuyu encountered and killed a beast in the Qingxiao Plane before it could attack her.
• Chi Jiuyu recognized that two arriving cultivators had been sent as sacrifices to help the beast pass its trial, and she watched them leave.
• Chi Jiuyu's status showed her at rank one with three points and one use of Forced Random Teleportation available.

Chi Jiuyu continued exploring Qingxiao Plane and investigated Zhengxu Dao Palace, while Xu Xing and Charm Ancestor returned to Qingxu to search for the source of its disturbance. Xu Xing’s sword thrust exposed a crimson invasion reaching into the past, where Gu faced a mysterious figure demanding to know why he had emerged from Qingxu’s core.

• Chi Jiuyu failed to stabilize her new Star Sword technique and continued up the mountain, resolving to investigate Zhengxu Dao Palace cautiously.
• Xu Xing and Charm Ancestor traveled to Qingxu and found its center strangely distorted despite appearing unchanged from above.
• Charm Ancestor proposed destroying Qingxu, and Xu Xing agreed to inspect it further before discussing the plan with others.
• Xu Xing thrust his sword into the center of Qingxu, releasing crimson light and images throughout the gray-black mist.
• In the Ancient Great Profound Heaven, Gu saw the crimson power invade the past and expected the Human Race True Immortals to destroy Qingxu.
• A blurred figure with purple eyes appeared beside Gu and asked why he had emerged from the very core of Qingxu.

Xu Xing and Charm Ancestor uncovered evidence of a hidden anomaly in Qingxu and sealed its core region, while Gu revealed that his scheme had succeeded in drawing their attention there. At the Immortal Sect Grand Competition, Leng Rou watched the remaining contestants, and Chi Jiuyu waited at Zhengxu Dao Palace’s Immortal Ascension Assembly for challengers before a blue-gray-robed contestant spotted her and fled.

• Xu Xing and Charm Ancestor spread Gu’s residual essence and true-history fragments through Qingxu’s mist, triggering a brief disturbance that confirmed the core region concealed something.
• Xu Xing decided to seal Qingxu’s core region and discuss what to do next with the others; he and Charm Ancestor informed them through the Immortal Net.
• Xuan questioned Gu about reaching the present through Qingxu, then left after warning him to prevent another accident; Gu realized the True Immortals had discovered the anomaly and hoped they would seal Qingxu.
• Leng Rou reviewed the competition’s remaining contestants and watched a feed of a burly bald contestant overpowering four Zhengxu Dao Palace elders before switching to another viewpoint.
• Chi Jiuyu went to Zhengxu Dao Palace’s Immortal Ascension Assembly, planning to wait for contestants and eliminate them, but a blue-gray-robed contestant spotted her and immediately turned to leave.

Chen Huan and Hong Sovereign finished their fierce battle, while Xu Xing glimpsed them leaving together in an intimate embrace. At the Immortal Sect Grand Competition, Charm Ancestor sensed Jiu Yu had entered a Heart Demon Trial, as Mu Chengfeng’s admiration for Chi Jiuyu’s sword art curdled into jealousy.

• Chen Huan and Hong Sovereign fought in a separate plane, then emerged as Hong Sovereign held a bashful Chen Huan.
• Xu Xing and Ning Ruo watched the plane collapse, and Xu Xing led Ning Ruo around the Sword Sect while hiding what he had seen.
• Charm Ancestor, Yuanjun, and Bie Xuening discussed Bie Xuening’s bamboo rack and Jiu Yu before Charm Ancestor sensed a Heart Demon Trial at the competition venue.
• Mu Chengfeng studied the Annihilation Sword Chi Jiuyu had given him and recognized its potential to bridge cultivation and ritual systems.
• Mu Chengfeng imagined bringing hope of reconciliation between cultivators and Transcendents, then grew jealous that Chi Jiuyu had created the sword instead of him.

Mu Chengfeng’s jealousy of Chi Jiuyu’s talent gave birth to the first heart demon, which nearly corrupted him before Charm Ancestor captured it with the Immortal Net. Xu Xing and the others traced the demon’s origin to his Dao Delusion and decided to study it as the Chaos Sea’s changes continued.

• Mu Chengfeng’s jealousy over Chi Jiuyu’s sword talent awakened an inner demon, but Elder Sheng’s arrival jolted him back to awareness, leaving him unable to remember what had happened.
• The heart demon secretly tried to seize Mu Chengfeng’s body, but an Immortal Net thread bound it and severed its connection to him.
• Charm Ancestor and Bie Xuening discussed the captured demon, and Yuanjun explained that Xu Xing’s Dao Delusion and Mu World’s presence in the Great Profound Realm had caused its birth.
• Ning Ruo deduced that Mu Chengfeng had been affected first because he was Mu World’s strongest cultivator and Chi Jiuyu’s talent had exposed a flaw in his mind.
• Xu Xing said he would keep and study the heart demon, and Yuanjun produced the Pale Soul Shadow-Illuminating Calamity-Crossing True Art.

Yuanjun gave Xu Xing a True Art to protect against the changing heart-demon tribulation, and the first heart demon briefly transformed after sensing Dao Delusion before Xu Xing reversed the changes. Chen Huan decided to stay at the Sword Sect and asked Hong Sovereign to have a child; meanwhile, the competition continued as Qiu Zheng gained the upper hand against a powerful Divine Mechanism Construct.

• Yuanjun created the , and Xu Xing sent the captured heart demon to Fellow Daoist Confusion for study.
• The heart demon sensed Dao Delusion and began transforming, but Xu Xing used red light to restore its original form.
• Chen Huan told Hong Sovereign she would remain at the Sword Sect, then asked him to have a child, and he agreed.
• Chi Jiuyu eliminated the Immortal Sect Grand Competition contestants in the Qingxiao Plane except Zhao Ruoming, reaching eight points and taking first place in the Spirit Transformation division.
• Qiu Zheng fought a Four-Union Divine Mechanism Construct in the Red Scar Plane and gained the advantage.

Qiu Zheng defeated the Four-Union Divine Mechanism Construct and took first place in the Immortal Sect Grand Competition rankings, while Chi Jiuyu avoided the dangerous Zhengxu Plane and left the Annihilation Sword in its pill storehouse. Xu Xing and Ning Ruo discussed the contestants’ chances before meeting Hong Sovereign and Chen Huan.

• Qiu Zheng used the Heaven-Supporting Hand to destroy the Four-Union Divine Mechanism Construct, stunning Ji Yun with his power.
• Qiu Zheng rose to first place with 11 points, installed the Time Balance, and considered Chi Jiuyu his main rival.
• Chi Jiuyu ate pills in the Zhengxu Dao Palace storehouse, left compensation and the Annihilation Sword behind, then slipped away to seek points on another plane.
• Xu Xing and Ning Ruo discussed Chi Jiuyu’s confidence in sharing the Annihilation Sword and weighed her chances against Qiu Zheng.
• Hong Sovereign and Chen Huan approached Xu Xing and Ning Ruo, and the four stopped face-to-face without speaking.