Chapter Summaries

Su Jian learned from Su Zheng that the Fate Cultivation Furnace made him a possible True Lord of Alteration, while the Calamity Sword belonged to a plan shaped by ancient Nascent Souls. Meanwhile, Xuan attacked the stripped-down Time Branch with the Termination Sword just as Xu Xing was stabilizing it.

• The Fate Cultivation Furnace reacted to Su Zheng's Calamity Sword, revealing Qin Yue's fate and clarifying Su Zheng's title as Master of Calamity.
• Su Zheng explained how ancient Nascent Souls slaughtered cultivators to preserve the Dharma Weapon Realm and how the Fate Cultivation Furnace represented heaven and earth's new possibility for change.
• Su Jian questioned why Su Zheng had not killed him, and Su Zheng warned him that the person who gave him the Basic Qi Refining Formula might have sinister intentions.
• At the Xu Yan Sect, Xuan watched Su Jian confront Su Zheng while Xu Xing gathered the world's extraordinary elements into a purple orb.
• Xu Xing used Red Radiance to mend the Time Branch as it neared collapse, but Xuan unleashed the Termination Sword to erase it.

Xu Xing finished stripping extraordinary elements from the Dharma Weapon Realm’s Time Branch and adjusted its main timeline, where Su Jian’s clash with Su Zheng triggered a deadly scramble for Nascent Soul dharma weapons. Two and a half years later, Su Jian and the surviving weapon holders gathered at the Hidden Cliff Sect, where Lin Chen began a meeting about their shared predicament.

• Xu Xing used the Severance Sword to stop Xuan’s attempt to interfere, then completed the extraction and stored the lifeless Time Branch.
• Su Jian rejected Su Zheng’s suspicions about the senior who had helped him, then attacked Su Zheng when they met.
• The Calamity Sword’s revelation drove Golden Cores into a frenzied hunt for Su Zheng and Nascent Soul dharma weapons, killing three weapon holders and scattering their weapons.
• Two and a half years later, ten people, including Su Jian and the one-armed Su Zheng, gathered at the Hidden Cliff Sect.
• Lin Chen identified himself by his own name rather than as True Lord Creation and began addressing the Nascent Soul dharma weapon holders’ predicament.

Su Jian intimidated the Nascent Soul Dharma Weapon masters by killing Yinmiao Sanren, then gave the Mountain and River Mirror to Qin Yue and returned with her to Prince Cheng's Mansion. Lin Chen revealed that neither the Basic Qi Refining Formula nor Su Jian's swordsmanship had existed in ancient times, leaving their origins unexplained.

• Lin Chen explained that the Nascent Soul Dharma Weapon masters could not advance until Master of Fate Cultivation proved Yuanzhen, and another master suggested replacing Su Jian.
• Su Jian struck down Yinmiao Sanren, took the Mountain and River Mirror, and rejected Lin Chen's proposal to join forces against the others.
• Su Jian reunited with Qin Yue, gave her the Mountain and River Mirror, and said he intended to gather new-method cultivators to develop a Golden Core technique.
• Su Jian and Qin Yue returned to Prince Cheng's Mansion, where Su Jian had become the new Prince Cheng after the old emperor's succession plan fell apart.
• Lin Chen told Su Jian that True Lord Creation's memories showed that the Basic Qi Refining Formula and Su Jian's swordsmanship had never existed in ancient times.

Lin Chen tried to convince Su Jian that the Basic Qi Refining Formula came from beyond the Dharma Weapon Realm and urged her to pursue the old cultivation path until she could derive higher methods. Three months later, after learning that seven Golden Core cultivators had joined forces against Su Jian, Lin Chen met Xu Xing, whom he recognized as the realm’s pathfinder.

• Lin Chen explained that the Basic Qi Refining Formula surpassed the Dharma Weapon cultivation system and could only have come from someone outside the Dharma Weapon Realm.
• Lin Chen argued that Su Jian should reach the Nascent Soul stage through the old method before seeking new cultivation methods, and Su Jian said she would think about it.
• Lin Chen left Su Jian and set a deadline for her answer, while Su Jian privately gave herself half a year to wait for the senior who had taught her.
• Three months later, Lin Chen learned that seven Golden Core cultivators had joined forces to hunt Su Jian.
• While studying the Basic Qi Refining Formula at the Hidden Cliff Sect, Lin Chen encountered Xu Xing and respectfully greeted him.

Xu Xing told Lin Chen that Spirit Transformation existed beyond Nascent Soul, while Lin Chen wondered whether Xu Xing had reached it. As Su Zheng and Su Jian fought amid a plot to kill them, a world-spanning proclamation established an Ascension Platform and marked the black-robed conspirator as a target for great merit.

• Lin Chen asked Xu Xing about the Basic Qi Refining Formula and learned that Spirit Transformation lay beyond Nascent Soul.
• Su Jian pursued his father, Su Zheng, into a forest while seven Golden Core cultivators pursued them both and sealed the area with an array.
• Su Zheng and Su Jian fought as True Person Xujie and Master Yanfa watched, while three hidden Nascent Soul Dharma Weapon wielders prepared to trap them with Forbidden Law Talismans.
• As Su Zheng began to falter, a cosmic proclamation announced the Ascension Platform and said that those at Nascent Soul Perfection who accumulated three thousand deeds of merit could ascend to the Immortal Realm.
• Blood-red words appeared in the black-robed conspirator’s consciousness, declaring his crimes beyond absolution and stating that killing him would earn great merit.

Xu Xing arrived as Su Jian and Su Zheng’s battle ended, and the seven Golden Cores realized they were facing a being beyond their understanding. He offered Su Jian the Calamity Sword as a gift, leaving Su Jian hesitant to accept it.

• The Ascension Platform marked Lost Heart Rogue for his evil deeds, and Lin Chen trapped him in a rune cage and declared that he would kill him for merit.
• Two masked cultivators recognized Lost Heart Rogue and left after Lin Chen told them the fight had nothing to do with them.
• Seven Golden Cores witnessed Xu Xing’s arrival and sensed his overwhelming power as Su Jian and the badly wounded Su Zheng looked toward the sky.
• Xu Xing descended, restored the ruined forest, and caused the seven Golden Cores to abandon their resistance.
• Xu Xing severed Su Zheng’s connection to the Calamity Sword and offered it to Su Jian as a gift to be reforged, while Su Jian hesitated beside his damaged Heaven-Severing Sword.

Xu Xing transformed Su Jian’s Heaven-Severing Sword with the Fate Cultivation Furnace’s Life Marrow Fluid, then let the Golden Core cultivators go and departed. Back in the Great Profound Realm, the immortals traced a faint gray mist linked to Tai’s fall, while a streak of Red Radiance disturbed the sealed Qingxu and drew a cryptic laugh.

• Xu Xing used the Fate Cultivation Furnace’s Life Marrow Fluid to repair and elevate Su Jian’s Heaven-Severing Sword, then warned him not to use it to wreak havoc.
• Su Jian accepted the transformed sword, spared True Person Xujie and the other Golden Core cultivators, and heard Xu Xing’s voice pass down a cultivation method.
• In the Great Profound Realm, Ning Ruo and the other immortals failed to trace the Dharma Weapon Realm’s Time Branch until Xu Xing detected a fleeting wisp of gray mist.
• Xu Xing concluded that Tai’s fall might have involved a hidden problem and vowed to keep investigating.
• A streak of Red Radiance entered the sealed Qingxu, where chaotic mist appeared and an unseen voice laughed, saying it had known the truth.

Gu learned that Sword Ancestor had used a world stripped of extraordinary elements to investigate Tai’s condition, then confronted Xuan about his suspicions. In the present world, Zhao Ruohan, Chi Jiuyu, and Zhang Yunlu met after Zhao mastered her innate ability, and they revealed that Chi’s popular Civilization Talisman made profanity trigger lingering sword qi.

• Xuan told Gu that Sword Ancestor had opened a Time Branch in a Chaos Sea world and drained it of extraordinary elements to trace Tai’s condition.
• Gu told Xuan to ask directly about his suspicions, and Xuan asked why Gu and Heaven looked like ordinary Cang while he and Tai did not.
• Zhao Ruohan met Zhang Yunlu outside the Inheritance Hall and said she had fully mastered Myriad Azure Primordial Wood Supreme Immortal Light.
• Chi Jiuyu emerged from the Inheritance Hall bruised after passing the supreme inheritance trial for the final version of the Star Dust Sword Canon, and she joined Zhao and Zhang for a meal.
• Zhao Ruohan discovered that Chi Jiuyu had made the viral Civilization Talisman, whose lingering sword qi erupted when its target used profanity.

Chi Jiuyu explained how she kept up with demand for her popular talismans while discussing the True Immortals’ recent silence with Zhao Ruohan. Meanwhile, Xu Xing investigated the drained Time Branch until its white sphere suddenly emitted Red Radiance and released an overwhelming hatred.

• Chi Jiuyu declined to argue with hostile reviewers and demonstrated how she used Sword Qi to produce hundreds of talismans efficiently.
• Zhao Ruohan said she had not seen her father recently, while Chi Jiuyu noted that she could not reach her elders either.
• Xu Xing continued studying the drained Time Branch but failed to trace its source, encountering faint gray mist and strange syllables.
• The True Immortals discussed Xu Xing’s investigation, the Dharma Weapon Realm’s Dao marker, and the compensation he had arranged for that realm.
• The white sphere stopped emitting gray mist and began shining with Red Radiance as an intense hatred surged through the barrier.

Xu Xing used the drained Time Branch to touch the boundary formed by the Taixuan Authority and glimpsed Tai imprisoned in a plane between existence and nonexistence. After his strike vanished, Xu Xing shared the recording with the gathered cultivators, who began investigating why Gu might have imprisoned Tai.

• Xu Xing realized the vanished portion of his power had been excluded by a place that could not accommodate anything foreign, then used Red Radiance to touch the boundary again.
• Xu Xing perceived the Taixuan Authority as a boundary around the Great Profound Realm and saw Tai's figure in a plane between existence and nonexistence.
• Xu Xing struck at Tai, but the boundary blocked the attack and then concealed itself, leaving no sign of what lay beyond it.
• Bie Xuening and Chen Huan joined Charm Ancestor, Ning Ruo, Yuanjun, Hong Sovereign, Pill Ancestor, Tyrant Sovereign, Artifact Sovereign, and Confusion in the Sword Ancestor Hall to question Xu Xing.
• Xu Xing explained what he had seen and shared his recording in the Immortal Net; Hong Sovereign, Pill Ancestor, Tyrant Sovereign, and Chen Huan discussed Tai's imprisonment and Gu's possible motives.
• Yuanjun began reviewing what Xuan had said about Gu, Tai, and Xuan each having one chance to wield the Great Profound Realm's authority.

Xu Xing and Yuanjun speculated that Gu had used the Taixuan Authority to imprison Tai, while Xuan tested a drained Time Branch and unexpectedly encountered the Sword Ancestor's power. At the Sword Sect, Chi Jiuyu asked Bie Xuening to deliver a carved gift to her absent Martial Uncle and remarked that he seemed burdened and unable to rest.

• Yuanjun, Charm Ancestor, Xu Xing, and You discussed how Gu might have deceived Tai, used the Taixuan Authority to imprison him, and why Tai resented the Cang Race.
• Xu Xing warned that Xuan might contact Tai through the boundary, giving Tai another possible route to escape instead of relying on Xu Xing.
• Xuan used Purple Qi to investigate a drained Taiyi World Time Branch, but gray mist vanished beyond his reach and a Red Radiance carrying the Sword Ancestor's sword intent appeared.
• Xuan suppressed the Red Moon phantom and sword intent, then wondered whether an unknown force had guided the Sword Ancestor to erase his power.
• Bie Xuening examined the Red Spirit Jade Little Yellow Duck Chi Jiuyu had carved for her and agreed to deliver Chi Jiuyu's gift to her absent Martial Uncle.
• Chi Jiuyu told Bie Xuening that her Martial Uncle seemed exhausted and tightly wound, as though driven to finish something important.

Chi Jiuyu teased Bie Xuening and the distressed Yueling, then prepared for an ascension mission while discussing Civilization Talismans with Zhang Yunlu. Elsewhere, Xi Li escorted Fumu to join the Spirit Sound Workshop, and Qi Ling completed a new sphere body for Heng.

• Bie Xuening rebuffed Chi Jiuyu's questions about her martial uncle and sent her away after reminding her of last week's trouble.
• Chi Jiuyu saw Yueling's sword form and learned it remained upset because Chi Jiuyu's gaming taunts had led Yueling to destroy Bie Xuening's bed and Little Yellow Duck charms.
• Chi Jiuyu received a notice that her ascension mission would begin in two hours, then messaged Zhang Yunlu about Civilization Talisman sales and Zhang Xiu's supply.
• Xi Li accompanied the impoverished Fumu to the Spirit Sound Workshop, where Li Wanwan hoped Fumu could recover from her listless state and advance to Dao Integration.
• Qi Ling finished a golden sphere body for Heng, explaining that the Creation Instrument would aid Heng's spiritual growth until she reached Spirit Transformation.

Zhou Kongming and Qi Ling prepared to use their Realm Fixing Tokens to visit other worlds, while Du Ruoheng received Liu Yu’s unusually entangled family and disciples. In the Thousand Chaos Sea, Zhang Xiu left body-tempering training determined to catch up with Xiao Yunlu, and Xiao Fan reassured his brother Xiao Ming as he offered him cultivation resources.

• Zhou Kongming decided to revisit Realm 1, and Qi Ling chose to travel to the Peaceful Realm; she gently stopped him from making an ominous suggestion about their return.
• Liu Yu introduced his disciple Mo Buyu and his disciple’s disciple Liu Yingying to Du Ruoheng, then revealed that Liu Yingying was also Liu Yang’s daughter and was dating Mo Buyu.
• Zhang Xiu emerged from the body-tempering chamber, took a medicinal pill, and exchanged messages with Old Jiang and his sister about training, food, and talismans.
• Zhang Xiu learned that Xiao Yunlu had reached early Spirit Transformation and mastered the first form of the Slaying Sword, and he resolved to train harder.
• Xiao Fan gave his older brother Xiao Ming body-tempering resources and reassured him that his difficult circumstances were an opportunity.

Xiao Fan agreed to join Chen Yuanlin on a difficult ascension mission to the Law Realm Great Universe, while the Immortal Sect prepared to intervene in the Original Truth Realm and stabilize the soaring price of Ascension Points. Yuan received the Seven Emotions Disc for a secret plan to influence greed across the Central Continent, then heard a mysterious voice confirm that a True Immortal had killed a Dao Integration Old Devil.

• Xiao Ming told Xiao Fan to rest after they discussed Xiao Fan’s demanding cultivation and his master’s treatment of him.
• Chen Yuanlin invited Xiao Fan to join a difficult mission to the Law Realm Great Universe, and Xiao Fan agreed to meet him in the Mysterious Void Sea.
• Chen Yuanlin reviewed the rising Ascension Point prices and waited for the Immortal Sect to intervene in the market frenzy.
• Shen Ning gave Yuan the Seven Emotions Disc for a secret array intended to weaken retail investors’ greed and stabilize Ascension Point prices.
• Yuan recalled a rumor about a True Immortal crushing a Dao Integration Old Devil, and an unexplained voice confirmed the story.

Yuan learned from Confusion that the crisis involving the Cang Race could worsen and that even their allies might have to die, while realizing he barely knew the Sword Ancestor beyond his public image. The Seven Emotions Desire-Refining Grand Array then broke the Ascension Point price manipulation, and fifty years passed.

• Confusion told Yuan he had killed a Dao Integration cultivator for causing trouble during a critical period and warned that the Cang Race situation could turn worse despite offering a chance to break the deadlock.
• Confusion urged Yuan not to assume he understood the Sword Ancestor, then left after warning that anyone, including himself, could die for final victory.
• Ming Yu and Ning Wanzhu arrived, and Yuan asked how they viewed the Sword Ancestor before reassuring them Confusion had not altered his mind.
• The Righteous Alliance activated the Seven Emotions Desire-Refining Grand Array, weakening ordinary investors’ greed and driving the Ascension Point price manipulators into reckless behavior.
• The Immortal Net introduced a monthly contribution-point exchange for Ascension Points, causing their price to plunge and leading Hong Sovereign to kill several protesting cultivators.
• Chi Jiuyu returned from a mission to find Ascension Points greatly devalued, and fifty years passed.

Hong Qingchen trained with Chi Jiuyu and asked to learn Yuelan’s Slaying Sword Canon, while Chi Jiuyu recommended she start with the Star Dust Sword Canon. After eating and relaxing at Chi Jiuyu’s cave abode, Hong Qingchen asked about Sword Ancestor and wondered when she could meet him.

• Hong Qingchen demonstrated her Star Sword, and Chi Jiuyu said she was ready to attempt the Star Dust Sword Canon trial but not the Slaying Sword Canon or Great Void Sword Canon.
• Chi Jiuyu suggested Hong Qingchen try the Severing Sorrow and Ending Calamity Sword Scripture and later attempt the True Sword Chapter of Dust Severance and Annihilation.
• Chi Jiuyu recalled that Hong Qingchen had been born with the overwhelming Phantom Star Lord ability, but had used a Mortal Descent Pill to seal most of its power and cultivate anew.
• Hong Qingchen ate with Chi Jiuyu, asked for spirit wine, and received juice instead because she was too young to drink alcohol.
• Hong Qingchen asked whether Chi Jiuyu had learned the Annihilation Sword from Sword Ancestor, and Chi Jiuyu told her she could visit him when he was not busy.

Chi Jiuyu reflected on her cultivation and learned that Qi Ling had failed her Dao Integration attempt, while Bie Xuening and Charm Ancestor discussed the news and Xu Xing’s long retreat. After fifty years of wearing down the Taixuan Authority’s boundary, Xu Xing heard it crack and sensed an immense hatred and a powerful gaze descend upon the Great Profound Realm.

• Chi Jiuyu reached Spirit Transformation Perfection and first place on Sword Sect’s Spirit Transformation Sword Rankings, then discussed Xiao Qingchen’s upcoming birthday with Xiao Zhao.
• Xiao Zhao told Chi Jiuyu that Qi Ling had failed Dao Integration, leaving only Zhou Kongming and Chen Xuanqing successful among the seven most outstanding cultivators.
• Charm Ancestor told Bie Xuening that Qi Ling had failed and that the Sword Sect cultivator who had planned to become her Dao companion had gone to the Divine Mechanism Artifact Refining Pavilion.
• Xu Xing continued to wear down the boundary with Red Radiance while Tai used the power Xu Xing had sent through it, and Xu Xing observed Tai bound to a carved platform.
• Xu Xing heard the boundary crack, and an overwhelming hatred spread throughout the Great Profound Realm as a powerful gaze descended from the Far Side of the Starry Sky.

Xu Xing defeated Tai after breaking him out of the boundary between existence and nonexistence, and Tai revealed what he knew about Gu, Tian, and Xu Xing’s past. As Tai died, he gave Xu Xing the Original Intent of reason, and Xu Xing vanished toward the Starry Sky.

• Xu Xing’s sword strike damaged the Boundary, allowing Tai to break his chains and begin returning to the present world.
• A hand from the mist seized Tai and dragged him out of the cage, while Xu Xing questioned him about the past.
• Tai said Gu had used the Taixuan Authority in an attempt to kill Xu Xing, and that Gu’s actions had also turned the Great Profound Realm’s Heavenly Will into Tian, Cang’s Ancestor.
• Xu Xing pierced Tai’s heart, and Tai speculated that Gu had made Cang’s Race exist through an upheaval in the Great Profound Realm.
• Tai died without resisting and left Xu Xing the Original Intent of reason, which merged into him.
• Xu Xing sensed the change in his Dao, looked toward the Starry Sky, and vanished from the Sword Ancestor Hall.

Xu Xing revealed that Tai had willingly given him the Original Intent of reason, then used his new power to erase Heaven and sever the Cang Race’s heavenly favor. He left Xuan facing the choice of fighting Xu Xing and the twelve True Immortals or returning to learn the truth.

• Xuan confronted the Human Race True Immortals at the Starry Sky Frontline Battlefield, and Xu Xing arrived with the Red Moon and announced that Tai was dead and had given him the Original Intent of reason.
• Xu Xing revealed that Gu had altered Xuan and Great Ancestor’s identities, allowing Heaven to escape the Heavenly Dao’s restrictions.
• Xu Xing found Heaven in the Land of Eternal Sleep and erased it with the Original Intent of order and law, despite Heaven offering to serve him.
• Xu Xing struck at the Cang Race’s heavenly favor, and Xuan’s Mystic Heaven Fist failed to stop the blow from severing it.
• Xu Xing offered to continue fighting with the twelve True Immortals at his side, but urged Xuan to return and learn the truth.

Xu Xing spared the Cang Race for now, sealed off the Starry Sky Frontline, and returned to the Sword Sect as the final reckoning was delayed. Ancestor Xuan confronted Gu in the Hall of Time and threatened to kill him unless he answered for what he had hidden.

• Xu Xing and the other True Immortals held back from attacking the Cang Race, while Xu Xing swept away the Star Domain Guardians and sealed the Starry Sky Frontline with crimson light.
• Xu Xing told Chen Huan she no longer needed to guard the Sword Sect, chose to keep the remaining Heavenly Will sealed, and asked to see her daughter, Xiao Qingchen.
• Ancestor Xuan arrived at the Hall of Time and ordered the Truth Insight Cang Race guard aside before confronting Gu.
• Gu denied knowing anything about Sword Ancestor's claims, and Ancestor Xuan seized him by the throat and demanded a definite answer.
• Ancestor Xuan filled the hall with Purple Qi and killing intent, trapping the guards outside as Gu realized Xuan might already be insane.