Chapter Summaries

Xu Xing and Yuan discussed Chi Jiuyu’s luck-assisted victory in the Immortal Sect Grand Competition after Mu Wu and Mu Chengfeng killed the other contestants. Xu Xing then told Yuan he had come to confirm a few things, leaving his questions unstated.

• Xu Xing and Ning Ruo encountered Chen Huan and Hong Sovereign, and Ning Ruo reflected on how attaining the Dao had let her stand beside Xu Xing.
• Hong Sovereign told Chen Huan what he knew about Xu Xing and Ning Ruo’s past, while keeping their secrets from others.
• Chen Huan easily faced Zhao Chengmeng, Die Yu, and Hua Xi in a match, and Hong Sovereign took them back to the Supreme Dao Sect.
• Chi Jiuyu won the Spirit Transformation division after Mu Wu and Mu Chengfeng killed every other contestant at the Zhengxu Dao Palace, prompting people to call her a luck champion.
• Xu Xing and Yuan discussed Chi Jiuyu’s strength and unusual victory, and Xu Xing said he wanted to use Yuan to confirm a few things.

Xu Xing used Yuan to test a theory about their homeland’s origins, tracing it back to the era between Tai’s descent and Xuan’s birth. Meanwhile, Zhao Ruohan and Ye Zhiwei visited Chi Jiuyu, who prepared to meet Star Ancestor and revealed that her ascension had helped her develop a new sword.

• Xu Xing explained Ning Ruo and Yuanjun’s suspicions to Yuan, who realized their homeland might have originated between Tai’s descent and Xuan’s birth.
• Xu Xing used a crimson light to send Yuan’s consciousness into darkness and trace his origins back to their source.
• Zhao Ruohan and Ye Zhiwei visited Chi Jiuyu to ask about the later forms of the Moon Mist Seven Sword Styles, but found her preparing to meet her Martial Uncle.
• Chi Jiuyu complained about winning the Spirit Transformation competition and explained that she had sold the Moon Mist Seven Sword Styles to the Sword Sect’s Dharma Transmission Tower.
• Chi Jiuyu created a translucent Star Sword and said Star Ancestor’s ascension had increased her cultivation speed and inspired a new sword.

Chen Huan discussed taking disciples with Bie Xuening before traveling to the Righteous Alliance, where Xu Xing verified that the homeland Yuan remembered could not accommodate supernatural laws. Later, Chen Huan summoned Chi Jiuyu, Zhang Yunlu, Zhao Ruohan, and Ye Zhiwei, and his gaze settled on Zhao Ruohan.

• Bie Xuening told Chen Huan that Chi Jiuyu had become her disciple by chance, and Chen Huan said he would consider taking disciples himself.
• Chen Huan learned that his Senior Brother had gone to the Righteous Alliance to investigate his suspicions.
• Xu Xing used Yuan's memories to confirm that the homeland existed after Tai appeared but before Xuan, and Yuan worried that it might have vanished when Xuan came into being.
• Xu Xing reassured Yuan that his homeland would not disappear, while Yuan declined Xu Xing's offer to preserve the memory for him.
• Chi Jiuyu, Zhang Yunlu, Zhao Ruohan, and Ye Zhiwei went to Star Ancestor Hall after Chen Huan summoned them.
• Chen Huan received the four in his training ground and fixed his gaze on Zhao Ruohan.

Chen Huan rewarded four young cultivators with Star Pole Soul Essences and confronted Zhao Ruohan about her parents’ history with her. Meanwhile, Xu Xing explained to Yuan that reaching the final struggle against the Cang Race had depended on countless people, and the chapter ended with Fumu and Xi Li discussing the ascenders, sect choices, and the Sword Sect succession.

• Chen Huan gave Chi Jiuyu, Zhang Yunlu, Zhao Ruohan, and Ye Zhiwei Star Pole Soul Essences that would strengthen their bodies and souls and aid their Star Method cultivation.
• Chen Huan asked Zhao Ruohan whether Hong had ever mentioned her, then said Zhao Ruohan’s mother had told her to stay away.
• Xu Xing told Yuan that the path to True Immortality had been built through the efforts of countless people, and Yuan thanked him for the reassurance.
• Xu Xing and the other True Immortals began selecting worlds to trace Tai’s source and determine its current state.
• Fumu told Xi Li she planned to join the Spirit Sound Workshop and later asked whether Xi Li intended to run for Sword Sect Master.
• Xi Li said Chi Jiuyu was formidable but thought Senior Brother Zhou had a better chance, leaving Fumu confused about who he was.

Fumu learned about Zhou Kongming and admitted she had no plans to run for Sect Master, while Xi Li worried that Fumu had lost her purpose. Chi Jiuyu showed Xu Xing her new talisman, only to learn it was too difficult to mass-produce; meanwhile, Gu visited a world in the distant past and asked Xuan to improve the gloomy weather for its inhabitants.

• Xi Li told Fumu that Zhou Kongming ranked first on the Void Return Sword Ranking, and Fumu said she intended to focus on reaching Dao Integration rather than run for Sect Master.
• Xi Li worried that Fumu's long-held mission had ended and that she no longer had a goal to pursue.
• Chi Jiuyu demonstrated her Star River Scorch-Evil Talisman to Xu Xing and asked how much she should charge for its production rights.
• Xu Xing explained that the talisman's complicated structure prevented current implements from mass-producing it and suggested she offer it to the Dharma Transmission Tower or ask her friends about upgraded tools.
• Gu visited the Moon-Howling Demon Wolf clan's former territory, where he found the Mystic Candle Fruit Tree and accepted a fruit from a young Cang.
• Gu asked Xuan to make the gloomy weather better so the inhabitants would be happier, and Xuan agreed.

After Xuan cleared the oppressive darkness from the Ancient Great Profound Heaven, he spoke with Gu about Qingxu and the Human Race True Immortals’ plans. The story then shifted to Xu Xing meeting the starving Su Jian, whose desperate situation changed when Xu offered him a way out.

• Xuan sent purple qi into the sky, dispersing the darkness and heavy clouds over the Ancient Great Profound Heaven.
• Gu told Xuan that Sword Ancestor had sealed Qingxu, preventing him from observing it, and Xuan asked whether Gu had arranged the sealing.
• Gu considered the threat posed by the Human Race True Immortals and wondered whether Sword Ancestor would act further after sealing Qingxu.
• In a snowbound courtyard, Su Jian shared part of his scarce flatbread with Xu Xing and introduced himself while trying to endure his hunger.
• Su Jian revealed that he was trapped by his half-brother’s lackeys and feared being sacrificed to an Evil Weapon, while Xu Xing recognized how dire his situation was.
• Xu Xing offered Su Jian a way out, prompting Su Jian to remember that Xu was a mighty expert whom the people at Prince Cheng’s Mansion could not perceive.

Xu Xing gave Su Jian cultivation manuals and pills while secretly using the Dharma Weapon Realm to draw supernatural elements into a lifeless time branch. Seven days later, Su Jian reached the first Qi Refining layer just as Su Cheng arrived to sacrifice him, only to collapse after inhaling the foul air from Su Jian’s breakthrough.

• Xu Xing gave Su Jian the Basic Qi Refining Formula, Qi Condensation Pills, and Inedia Pills, then vanished.
• Su Jian discovered that touching the gifts imprinted pill formulas and sword techniques in his mind, and he began studying the cultivation manual.
• Xu Xing explained that he was using the World Derivation Method to gradually draw supernatural elements from a new, lifeless branch of the Dharma Weapon Realm’s timeline.
• After seven days, Su Cheng emerged from seclusion, killed a servant, and headed for Su Jian, intending to sacrifice him with the Heaven Cutting Ruler.
• Su Jian used two Qi Condensation Pills to reach the first Qi Refining layer, and Su Cheng collapsed after entering his room and inhaling the foul air.

Su Jian survived Prince Cheng Su Zheng’s arrival and learned that the Fate Cultivation Furnace had rewarded him for changing Su Cheng’s fate. After joining the Xu Yan Sect, he tried to improve the Basic Qi Refining Formula, but the Furnace consumed a third of its Life Marrow Fluid without changing a word.

• Su Jian hid his cultivation materials, then called for help as Su Cheng weakened from inhaling his foul qi.
• Prince Cheng Su Zheng examined Su Jian, gave him the Xu Yan Sect’s Xu Yan Weapon-Incorporating Qi Refining Method, and took Su Cheng away, leaving the Jade Ruler behind.
• The Fate Cultivation Furnace reported that Su Jian had altered Su Cheng’s fate and gained Life Marrow Fluid, while Su Cheng’s future path was cut short.
• Xu Xing drained a spiritual herb in a Time Branch, noticed the world developing cracks, and repaired them with Red Radiance.
• Su Jian joined the Xu Yan Sect, learned how different his Basic Qi Refining Formula was, and concealed his unusual cultivation behind the Heaven Cutting Ruler.
• Su Jian tried to derive an improved Basic Qi Refining Formula, but the Fate Cultivation Furnace consumed a third of its Life Marrow Fluid without changing the text.

Su Jian discovered that the Fate Cultivation Furnace had turned the Basic Qi Refining Formula into a powerful Dharma weapon without changing its text, leaving him wondering about the manual’s origins. Meanwhile, the Taixuan Immortal Network introduced Realm Patrol, and Lin Changsheng prepared to seek Sheng Qingqing while green insisted she would accept becoming his lesser wife.

• Su Jian stopped the Fate Cultivation Furnace after it consumed half his [Life Marrow Fluid], then found that it had strengthened the Basic Qi Refining Formula into a Dharma weapon without altering its contents.
• The Taixuan Immortal Network launched Realm Patrol, letting qualified Ascension Envoys visit worlds after meeting strict mission and point requirements.
• Chi Jiuyu, Zhang Yunlu, and Ye Zhiwei discussed whether they wanted to use Realm Patrol, and Zhang Yunlu said she hoped to revisit a world from an earlier mission but lacked a Realm Fixing Token.
• Yue Zhongfeng helped Lin Changsheng package pills and asked him to spar, but Lin Changsheng said he had personal matters to handle first.
• Green arrived and invited Lin Changsheng to the Yuling Star System, but Yue Zhongfeng revealed that Lin Changsheng intended to find Sheng Qingqing.
• Green said she knew about Sheng Qingqing and would accept being Lin Changsheng’s lesser wife if Sheng Qingqing objected.

Lin Changsheng activated the Realm Fixing Token and traveled to the Xuanxiang World, where he encountered the Divine Path network and Mu Yong’s distant gaze. Xu Xing observed his arrival and assessed the world’s emerging balance between the Divine Path and Immortal Dao.

• Lin Changsheng explained to Yue Zhongfeng that he was visiting the Xuanxiang World to resolve his lingering feelings, and Yue Zhongfeng later told Chang Xiao about the conversation.
• Lin Changsheng and his companion agreed he would return within three days and travel with her afterward.
• Lin Changsheng spent 100 Ascension Points to activate the Realm Fixing Token and arrived in a forest in the Xuanxiang World.
• Lin Changsheng used reconnaissance puppets and his Void-Piercing Golden Pupils to identify Light Return Mountain’s Mountain God, Ye Yong, and perceive the Chishui Divine Court network.
• Mu Yong, the Water-Ordering Emperor, met Lin Changsheng’s gaze through the Divine Path network while Xu Xing watched from the Sword Sect.
• Xu Xing judged that Xuanxiang World’s Divine Path and Immortal Dao were nearing a stable balance, then turned his attention to his risky extraction of extraordinary elements in the Third New Origin Domain.

Mu Yong strengthened his rule over the Divine Path while preserving Immortal Path cultivation in the Chishui Divine Court. Lin Changsheng reunited with Sheng Qingqing beside the Underworld River, resolved his lingering feelings, and left her wondering whether she could visit his world.

• Mu Yong used his growing divine authority to govern the Chishui Divine Court and continued supporting Immortal Path cultivation despite other Divine Courts suppressing it.
• Mu Yong sent a divine decree to the Underworld River God Temple after reviewing the Immortal Path techniques he had gathered.
• Lin Changsheng followed the Divine Path network to the temple and summoned Sheng Qingqing from her idol.
• Lin Changsheng told Sheng Qingqing he had returned because of her and that he had never forgotten her, even after learning she had deceived him.
• Lin Changsheng realized the woman in his memories had been an idealized image and said he had achieved what he came for.
• Sheng Qingqing asked Lin Changsheng whether she might ever get the chance to visit his world.

Lin Changsheng left the Xuanxiang World after learning that Sheng Qingqing was unlikely to ascend, while Mu Yong chose to keep her under watch and pursued greater power through the Divine Path. In the Great Profound Realm, Xu Xing discussed his work with Pill Ancestor, and in the Dharma Weapon Realm, Su Jian grew stronger while hiding his unusual cultivation method.

• Lin Changsheng told Sheng Qingqing that her chances of ascending to the Great Profound Realm were very low, then departed the Underworld River God Temple with a Realm Fixing Token.
• Mu Yong considered eliminating Sheng Qingqing but decided to keep her as a subordinate god and monitor her, while planning to combine the Primordial Godheads of Water, Fire, and Primordial Qi.
• Pill Ancestor visited Xu Xing at the Sword Sect, gave him medicinal wine, and asked about his effort to trace Tai; Xu Xing said Xuan would notice but could not interfere with the Dharma Weapon Realm.
• After a year in the Xu Yan Sect, Su Jian reached the third layer of Qi Refining and discovered that he could nourish Dharma Weapons as rough magical artifacts, including the Heaven Cutting Ruler.
• Su Jian left his quiet room feeling confident he could defeat a fourth-layer Qi Refining cultivator and saw a woman in black sitting beside a food box in the main hall.

Su Jian advanced to the fourth level of Qi Refining and helped Qin Yue prepare for her breakthrough, but she emerged from seclusion with a damaged Spirit Sea and was barely alive. As she apologized for wasting his two intact pills, Xu Xing waited beyond Su Jian’s perception for him to make a choice.

• Qin Yue delivered Elder Zeng’s Spirit-Nurturing Fruit to Su Jian and shared dishes from Pine Moon Pavilion with him.
• Su Jian secretly attempted to make Qi Condensation Pills, optimized several defective pills, gave two intact pills to Elder Zeng, and gave Qin Yue a defective one.
• Su Jian and Qin Yue entered seclusion to pursue the fourth and seventh levels of Qi Refining, respectively.
• Su Jian successfully reached the fourth level and hurried to Qin Yue’s chamber when he learned she had emerged from seclusion.
• Su Jian found Qin Yue near death after her breakthrough damaged her Spirit Sea, and she apologized for wasting two of his pills.
• Beyond Su Jian’s perception, Xu Xing watched him and waited for him to make his choice.

Su Jian watched Qin Yue teeter on the brink of death after her failed breakthrough, while Xu Xing waited to see whether he would share the Basic Qi Refining Formula with her. As Xu Xing’s extraction of extraordinary elements drew the attention of Xuan, Xuan attacked the Dharma Weapon Realm, seeking to annihilate it.

• Qin Yue told Su Jian again that she did not regret choosing the path of cultivation, even as her life faded.
• Xu Xing observed that Qin Yue could recover by switching to the Basic Qi Refining Formula and waited to see whether Su Jian would teach it to her.
• Su Jian and Qin Yue embraced as her vital energy steadied, and Xu Xing withdrew his gaze from them.
• Xuan sensed Xu Xing extracting extraordinary elements from the Dharma Weapon Realm, and the Saint Venerable fled when Xuan addressed him as the Dao Ancestor.
• Xuan raised his hand and unleashed a violet tide that began pulling the Dharma Weapon Realm toward annihilation.

Xu Xing blocked Xuan from destroying the Dharma Weapon Realm, then explained that he had created its Time Branch to investigate whether the Ultimate survived. After they acknowledged that they had followed different paths, they remained opposed but parted without fighting.

• Xu Xing's 129,600 streaks of Red Radiance broke Xuan's attack, and their clash shook the Chaos Sea.
• Saint Venerable watched from the far shore, recognized the Sword Ancestor, and concealed himself when Xuan seemed to notice him.
• Xuan and Xu Xing entered the Dharma Weapon Realm and sat down together in the Time Branch Xu Xing had created with the World Derivation Method.
• Xu Xing told Xuan that abnormalities around Gu's remaining essence had led him and several fellow Daoists to suspect the Ultimate had survived, and that they planned to trace its source through the Time Branch.
• Xuan asked whether Su Jian was Xu Xing's chosen person, and Xu Xing said they had merely met and that he had given Su Jian a small gift.
• Xu Xing and Xuan agreed that they walked different paths, and Xuan felt no regret for having let Xu Xing live.

Su Jian learned that Qin Yue’s fate had changed but still included a future death at the hands of the Master of Calamity, then sought the Dharma Transmission Hall as his father, Su Zheng, revealed plans involving the coming tribulation. In the Time Branch, Xuan proposed turning dharma weapon precepts into laws, and Xu Xing offered to teach the Dharma Weapon Realm the methods of the Great Profound Realm.

• Su Jian woke after spending the night with Qin Yue and read the Fate Cultivation Furnace’s report that her altered fate still ended with her death at the hands of the Master of Calamity.
• Su Jian visited the Dharma Transmission Hall, where Zeng Yun noticed the Heaven Cutting Ruler and cautioned him about his vigor.
• Su Zheng appeared before Zeng Yun, and their exchange suggested Su Zheng intended to lay hands on the tribulation, with three hundred and seventy years to carry out his plan.
• Xuan proposed stripping dharma weapons of their form and refining their precepts into laws that could support cultivation and attacks.
• Xu Xing judged Xuan’s proposal optimal and said he could teach the Dharma Weapon Realm the methods of the Great Profound Realm.

Pill Ancestor and Xu Xing discussed Xuan’s interference and the effort to trace Tai, while Pill Ancestor delivered a gift to Chen Huan and left to visit Tyrant Sovereign. Lin Changsheng returned from the Xuanxiang World, reunited with her, and promised to take her back someday, though she said she considered wherever he was to be home.

• Pill Ancestor learned that extracting the extraordinary elements would take about half a month, though tracing Tai through the medium would likely be difficult.
• Pill Ancestor visited Chen Huan and gave her a pill intended for the child she and Hong Sovereign planned to have, then left the Sword Sect to visit Tyrant Sovereign.
• Lin Changsheng returned to the Sword Sect, where she had waited nearly three days and greeted him with an embrace.
• Lin Changsheng told her he would no longer cling to the Xuanxiang World, and she eagerly suggested they begin dual cultivation before accepting his explanation to wait.
• Lin Changsheng promised to take her back to her original world, but she said she did not want to return and that wherever he was was her home.
• Lin Changsheng arranged gifts from the Xuanxiang World on the coffee table and recalled the Primordial Qi deity who had lost his divine throne after committing evil deeds.

Lin Changsheng brought a drop of Xuanxiang World origin home and learned who was researching how to refine it into pills, while Chi Jiuyu sought Li Ke’s advice about Xi Li and the Earth Immortal Realm. Thirteen days later, the Great Profound Realm’s True Immortals watched Xuan follow Xu Xing, and Bie Xuening questioned whether Xuan belonged to the Cang Race.

• Lin Changsheng examined the drop of Xuanxiang World origin he had traded from Mu Yong and contacted Old Chang, who referred him to Gao Wuwang of World Relief Valley.
• Lin Changsheng returned to tidying his souvenirs when the person at home arrived with a clay pot and asked about the gifts.
• Chi Jiuyu treated Li Ke to fruit and wine, then admitted she wanted information about the Earth Immortal Realm and Xi Li before exploring with a Realm Fixing Token.
• Thirteen days later, the Great Profound Realm’s True Immortals gathered at Sword Ancestor Hall to watch Xuan continue following Xu Xing near the Dharma Weapon Realm.
• Bie Xuening suggested Xuan might not be from the Cang Race because he did not look like one, and Charm Ancestor countered by asking whether Tai Buye looked like the Cang Race either.

Xuan and Xu Xing discussed Bie Xuening’s guess that Xuan and Tai might not have been of the Cang Race. Meanwhile, Su Jian and Qin Yue’s effort to spread cultivation without Dharma Weapons transformed the Dharma Weapon Realm, and the chapter ended with them reunited in hiding after Su Jian reached Foundation Establishment Perfection.

• Xu Xing told Xuan that Heavenly Will’s Cang-like appearance raised doubts about whether Xuan and Tai had been Cang’s Ancestor, though Xuan said it proved nothing.
• Su Jian and Qin Yue reached the ninth level of Qi Refining but could not advance without a Foundation Establishment method, while Zeng Yun discovered Su Jian could cultivate without a Dharma Weapon.
• Su Jian and Qin Yue escaped pursuit by burning all of Su Jian’s Life Marrow Fluid, and cultivators across the Dharma Weapon Realm began hunting them for the Basic Qi Refining Formula.
• After a year of fleeing, Su Jian distributed the Basic Qi Refining Formula throughout the realm, sparking widespread conflict between new-method and old-method cultivators.
• New-method cultivators, including Su Jian and Qin Yue under changed identities, devised a crude Foundation Establishment method without Dharma Weapons, gradually weakening the old-method purges.
• Qin Yue visited Su Jian in a sealed room in the Great Xu Dynasty’s capital, where he had reached Foundation Establishment Perfection.

After nearly five years in hiding, Su Jian and Qin Yue discussed the mysterious senior who had given Su Jian his cultivation techniques and decided to keep waiting before returning to the cultivation world. Su Zheng, Su Jian’s father, appeared as a Golden Core cultivator and revealed that he knew about the Fate Cultivation Furnace, declaring himself the Master of Calamity.

• Su Jian and Qin Yue reflected on their years of hardship, Su Jian’s Foundation Establishment Perfection, and their failure to uncover the identity of the senior who taught him.
• Su Jian and Qin Yue agreed to remain hidden until Qin Yue could use the Myriad Transformation Sword Technique to contend with Golden Core cultivators.
• Su Jian sensed an intruder and confronted Su Zheng, who had become a Golden Core cultivator after thirty years apart.
• Su Zheng asked Su Jian to accompany him to the rear courtyard, where he admitted he had once been wrong about the Basic Qi Refining Formula.
• Su Zheng revealed that he had come because of Su Jian’s Fate Cultivation Furnace, then called himself the Master of Calamity and proclaimed that he would attain Yuanzhen.