Chapter Summaries

Xuan took the original intent of "Existence" from Gu so he could break free of the Taixuan Authority and learn the buried truth. In the present, Xu Xing sealed Hong Qingchen’s [Phantom Star Lord] abilities and gave her a seemingly developed World Seed.

• Gu revealed the original intent of "Existence" and explained that Xuan needed it to escape the Taixuan Authority’s restrictions and oppose the Sword Ancestor.
• Xuan released Gu, took the original intent of "Existence," and left; Sheng arrived and found Gu alone in the Hall of Time.
• After the Sword Ancestor’s victory, a life-filled rain fell over the Sword Sect, where Chi Jiuyu brought Hong Qingchen to meet Xu Xing.
• Xu Xing sealed Hong Qingchen’s [Phantom Star Lord] abilities while leaving her Phantom Star Sword untouched, then gave her a five-colored World Seed.
• Chi Jiuyu saw that Hong Qingchen’s World Seed already contained a sky, celestial bodies, mountains, and rivers, unlike the chaotic seed she had received.

Xu Xing gave Hong Qingchen a portable minor world and explained the looming danger to Chi Jiuyu, who learned the hidden history behind the coming conflict. At the Dragon-Elephant Heaven-Supporting Sect, Remorse entrusted his Martial Way inheritance to the sect, determined that it would not die with him.

• Xu Xing gave Hong Qingchen a portable minor world and urged her to keep cultivating, despite her confidence that she would not fear being sent away.
• Xu Xing gave Chi Jiuyu a storage ring, then explained the Cang Race, the Human Race’s history, the Heavenly Will, and the coming turmoil to her.
• Chi Jiuyu left Sword Ancestor Hall shaken by what she had learned and by how much Xu Xing had to bear.
• At the Dragon-Elephant Heaven-Supporting Sect, Remorse refused to join the sect but agreed to leave his Martial Way inheritance there.
• The Tyrant Sovereign promised to build a martial hall for Remorse’s legacy and began to offer him words of comfort, but fell silent.

As the Human Race prepared for its final battle with the Cang Race, Ning Ruo coordinated plans to seal the Great Profound Realm and evacuate cultivators below Void Return. After preparations spread through the Immortal Sects, Yuan arrived at the Sword Sect with Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu.

• The Pill Ancestor asked Min what he planned to do after the fighting, and Min agreed to travel with him if they survived.
• Ning Ruo told Charm Ancestor and Yuanjun that the Ascension Plan and Taixuan Immortal Network would be suspended and the Great Profound Realm sealed.
• Ning Ruo proposed using the World Derivation Method to create a Time Branch and evacuate cultivators below Void Return; Charm Ancestor said Xu could do it with the Original Intent of Reason.
• Chen Huan visited Hong Qingchen at the Supreme Dao Sect and playfully defeated Hong Sovereign's Dao companions, while You spent time with Confusion and Xiao Fan.
• After half a month, most Immortal Network functions had shut down, Ascension tasks had stopped, and uncertainty spread among the Seven Great Immortal Sects.
• Yuan arrived at the Sword Sect with Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu.

As the final battle approached, Xu Xing divided the Great Profound Realm through a Time Branch so everyone below Void Return could leave safely, and he offered Yuan the chance to oversee them. Yuan chose to stay and fight, while Xu Xing and Bie Xuening sent Chi Jiuyu away to serve as acting Sect Master; Xu Xing ended by embracing Bie Xuening and thanking her for staying by his side.

• Xu Xing opened a Time Branch that separated everyone below Void Return from the true Great Profound Realm, then asked Yuan to leave with them and oversee the group.
• Yuan refused to leave the Great Profound Realm before the final battle and asked Xu Xing to look after his parents if he died.
• Chi Jiuyu begged Xu Xing and Bie Xuening to let her stay, but they sent her to the Time Branch and appointed her acting Sect Master of the Sword Sect.
• Xu Xing told Bie Xuening that Yuan had chosen to stay, and they agreed to send Jiu Yu and Yun Lu away in case the battle went badly.
• Xu Xing embraced Bie Xuening and thanked her for staying by his side through his 273,517 years in the Great Profound Realm.

Xu Xing told Bie Xuening that Ji Yue and the other injured Truth Insights had refused to leave, while Yueling secretly photographed the two embracing. Beyond the Sword Light High Wall, Xuan admitted the Cang Race was likely to lose and sought only the truth; back at the Sword Sect, Bie Xuening asked Yueling to share the photos freely.

• Yueling saw Bie Xuening and Xu Xing embracing, secretly took photos, and heard Bie Xuening say she felt the same.
• Xu Xing told Bie Xuening that Ji Yue and the other injured Truth Insights had refused to leave with them.
• Xuan told Zhen Xin that the Cang Race was likely to lose and that he wanted to learn the truth; Zhen Xin vowed to follow him regardless of his origins.
• Bie Xuening summoned Yueling, who admitted taking photos and sent them to her.
• Bie Xuening told Yueling she could share the photos with Spirit Ancestor and the others.

Chi Jiuyu, Zhao Ruohan, and Ye Zhiwei discussed the coming separation of the Time Branch and the selection of acting leaders, while Ye Zhiwei accidentally got drunk on undiluted medicinal wine. After the leaders were chosen and the Great Profound Realm grew tense over rumors about the Cang Race, Xu Xing and the others prepared to send the Time Branch out that very day.

• Chi Jiuyu and Zhao Ruohan learned they would leave the Great Profound Realm, and Chi Jiuyu realized Ye Zhiwei had been passed over as World Relief Valley’s acting Sect Master in favor of Lin Xuanxuan.
• Ye Zhiwei drank undiluted medicinal wine, passed out, and mumbled that she was the acting Sect Master; Chi Jiuyu gave her a hangover pill and covered her with a blanket.
• The Seven Great Immortal Sects and the Righteous Alliance selected Chi Jiuyu, Zhao Ruoming, Qiu Zheng, Lin Xuanxuan, and Chen Yuanlin, along with acting leaders for the other sects.
• Meng Xuan asked Xu Xing when the reckoning with the Cang Race would begin, and Xu Xing said it would not be long, especially if Xuan acted first.
• Ning Ruo, Yuanjun, and Charm Ancestor reported that preparations were complete, and the group announced that the Time Branch would leave the Great Profound Realm that day.

Ning Ruo and Xu Xing discussed the ascension cultivators’ choices as preparations continued to separate the Time Branch from the Great Profound Realm. Chi Jiuyu became the Sword Sect’s acting sect master and gathered the other acting leaders to plan how to govern the branch, but their discussion ended without agreement.

• Ning Ruo interrupted Charm Ancestor to discuss the 127 ascension cultivators, five of whom chose to return to their original worlds, and Xu Xing said the Time Branch would soon be separated and sent out.
• Chi Jiuyu received the Sect Master Deputy Token from Du Ruoheng and promised to manage the Sword Sect’s territory in the Time Branch.
• Du Ruoheng told Zhou Kongming that Chi Jiuyu was the most suitable acting sect master and learned that Xiao Ling was recovering from her failed attempt at Dao Integration.
• Chi Jiuyu met with the other acting sect masters and Chen Yuanlin to discuss how to govern the Central Continent and Four Star Regions after powerful cultivators departed.
• The acting leaders debated whether to prioritize the Central Continent or address possible unrest among the Starry Sky foreign races, leaving Chi Jiuyu increasingly troubled.

As the Time Branch began to separate from the Great Profound Realm, Chi Jiuyu and the other young cultivators prepared to manage the world without its high-ranking cultivators. Xu Xing and the others watched one world break away, while Gu questioned Sheng about their long past.

• Chi Jiuyu proposed keeping the disappearance of high-ranking cultivators quiet at first and maintaining the sects’ existing arrangements while the younger cultivators learned to manage them.
• The acting Sect Master of the Joyous Union Sect, Zhao Ruoming, Qiu Zheng, and Lin Xuanxuan raised practical concerns about streaming, cultivation benefits, and pill supplies, and Chi Jiuyu said they would address them together.
• Chi Jiuyu’s Sect Master Deputy Token announced that the Time Branch was about to separate, leaving everyone silent and apprehensive.
• Xu Xing and the others watched the tilted world break away into the Chaos Sea as red threads sealed the gap between the worlds.
• Ning Ruo told Xu Xing she would go home with him after everything was over, prompting Charm Ancestor to claim her own place beside him before the others carried her away.
• In Ancient Great Profound Heaven, Gu asked Sheng about his years of service and then asked how long Gu himself had existed.

Gu revealed how he created the Cang Race and tried to seize the Original Intents of Tai and Xuan, but Heaven thwarted his plan and became his calamity. After Gu sent Sheng to the Far Side of the Starry Sky, Sheng met Zhen Xin, who questioned him about Gu’s answer as another mysterious being arrived.

• Gu told Sheng to leave Ancient Great Profound Heaven and follow Xuan’s arrangements, then assured him that Xuan belonged to the Cang Race before sending him to the Far Side of the Starry Sky.
• Gu recalled that he had created Tai, manipulated Xuan’s emergence, and slaughtered beings across two eras to forge the Cang Race as offerings for his plan to claim the Original Intents.
• Gu remembered that Heaven, the will of the Great Profound Heaven, had descended as the fourth innate Dao Attainer and erased the contingencies he had planted in the Cang Race.
• Sheng arrived at a forest clearing on the Far Side of the Starry Sky, where Zhen Xin took him to discuss the war against the Human Race.
• Sheng told Zhen Xin that he had asked Gu whether Xuan was Cang, and Zhen Xin pressed him for Gu’s answer.
• A hazy, purple-eyed being appeared behind Zhen Xin and asked what Gu had said.

As the final battle with the Cang Race approached, Xuan began making arrangements while Human Race cultivators prepared weapons and organized defenses across the Great Profound Realm. The chapter ended with every cultivator above Void Return being drawn into the war, whether they wanted to fight or not.

• Xuan told Sheng and Zhen Xin that he would make arrangements for them because the coming battle would be difficult.
• Zhou Kongming received the Nine Abyss Swords forged by Dao Lord of Absolute Void and planned to fight alongside Duankong, while Qi Ling prepared to deliver artifacts to other Dao Integration cultivators.
• Li Ke gathered Xu Xing's Truth Insight disciples and assigned Jing Hai and Lin Ji to the first node in the Eastern Star Region.
• The Immortal Sects, the Righteous Alliance, rogue cultivators, and former Old Devils mobilized across the Four Star Regions in preparation for the final battle.
• Human Race cultivators above Void Return realized they could not avoid the war, since the Cang Race would target them regardless of their allegiance.

Chen Xuanqing brought the sealed sword Moon Void to the Yuling Star System, where it joined a vast defensive killing array ahead of the decisive battle. At the Sword Sect, Xu Xing and Ning Ruo reflected on the damaged Extreme Sword and her lost master, while Moon Shadow reaffirmed her devotion to Xu Xing.

• Chen Xuanqing met True Monarch Yuling and presented the sealed Moon Void.
• Chen Xuanqing opened the jade box near the system’s central star, and Moon Void awakened and entered the star to stabilize the array.
• True Monarch Yuling explained that the Yuling Star System was one node in the Void-Severing Life-Slaughtering Star Array, whose core was Extreme Sword.
• Xu Xing and Ning Ruo discussed how Extreme Sword had nearly been destroyed fighting Cang Race cultivators seven thousand years earlier and had never accepted a new master.
• Moon Shadow appeared and declared that she would never accept anyone but Xu Xing as her master.

Ning Ruo, Bie Xuening, and Yuanjun discussed the looming final battle and the Karma Network before the story shifted to the Saint Venerable’s warning against interfering with the Great Profound Realm. In the Time Branch, Chi Jiuyu worked through the night managing the Sword Sect’s affairs.

• Moon Shadow returned to Xu Xing’s palm, and Ning Ruo asked whether Charm Ancestor had visited the Sword Sect.
• Ning Ruo flirted with Xu Xing until Bie Xuening appeared with Yuanjun, and the two women exchanged barbs.
• Yuanjun told Xu Xing that the Karma Network for the Four Star Regions was nearly ready and explained that Ji Yinxue had avoided seclusion because she feared missing the final reckoning.
• The Saint Venerable recognized the Sword Ancestor’s power around the Great Profound Realm and forbade the nine transcendent true gods from coveting or interfering with the world.
• Chi Jiuyu managed a flood of Sword Sect reports and paperwork through the night, then collapsed back in her chair at dawn.

Chi Jiuyu struggled through her new duties as Sword Sect Master while the Human Race and Cang Race prepared their formations for the coming war. Half a year passed, and as Charm Ancestor waited with Bie Xuening on the Central Continent, she wondered whether Chen Yuanlin was nearly ready to emerge from seclusion.

• Chi Jiuyu reaffirmed her ambition to become Sword Sect Master, complained about her workload in a chat group, and received another assignment just as she sat down to breakfast.
• Zhang Yunlu finished storing the latest North Wind Sword Technique crystal cards and hoped events would go smoothly while Hong Qingchen ate at the Dharma Transmission Tower.
• Over half a year, the acting leaders maintained order in the Central Continent while the Human Race and Cang Race prepared vast formations for the coming war.
• Charm Ancestor admired the Little Yellow Duck keepsakes she had given Bie Xuening, and Bie Xuening explained that she liked them because she liked him.
• Bie Xuening noted that Chen Yuanlin had been in seclusion for his final preparations and thought it was nearly time for him to return.

Jiang Lin struggled to control the powerful Taiping Dharma Form, then was pulled into a vision of his desperate past in the ruined temple. A red light broke the vision, and the Divine Path Celestial Venerable appeared with grave news but stopped when he saw Jiang Lin's glowing brow mark.

• Jiang Lin reflected on how the Taiping Dharma Form could wield Dao Integration-level power but remained difficult for him to control.
• A gloomy aura appeared between Jiang Lin's brows, and he found himself back in the ruined temple where he had first met Senior.
• A bear demon attacked, and the weakened Jiang Lin watched the little girl and boy beside him die before it struck him down.
• A blazing red light shattered the vision and restored Jiang Lin to the peaceful present.
• The Divine Path Celestial Venerable arrived with grave news, then fell silent when Jiang Lin's brow mark glowed.

Jiang Lin glimpsed the red moon and gained a deeper understanding of the Dao Source as crimson light spread through the Chaos Sea. Xu Xing faced Xuan in the Great Profound Realm, where Xuan reached Self-Severing Transcendence and challenged him before his existence faded.

• The Heavenly Venerable saw the red mark on Jiang Lin's brow, knelt in awe, and Jiang Lin glimpsed a figure inside a red moon that revealed the world's truths.
• A crimson light spread from above the Great Profound Realm through the Chaos Sea, while the newly formed Heavenly Demon Realm fell silent beneath its power.
• Xu Xing appeared before Saint Venerable, thanked him for restraining his subordinates, and said he was everywhere as he carried out the final reckoning with the Dao Ancestor.
• Xuan told Xu Xing he would fight rather than die without resisting, then used the Original Intents of Being and Mystery to reach Self-Severing Transcendence.
• Xuan questioned how Xu Xing would feel if everything shifted according to his will, and Xu Xing vanished from Xuan's domain.

Xuan attained Dao Source and refined Gu into a powerful Dao armament, while Xu Xing prepared to oppose him by exploiting the fading of Xuan’s self. The confrontation began when Xu Xing and millions of cultivators vanished, leaving the Thirteen True Immortals of Great Profound to face Gu’s crystal as it crashed through the Starry Sky Frontline Battlefield.

• Xuan attained Dao Source, saw through Gu’s mistaken belief that he was the primordial Dao, and refined Gu’s self into a Dao armament embodying past and present.
• Xu Xing told the Thirteen True Immortals of Great Profound to follow their plan and stall Xuan, whose self was fading, while warning that Gu’s armament could reach the peak of Dao Holding.
• Xu Xing revealed that he had stopped Xuan from taking the Saint Venerable and said the battle was about to begin.
• Xu Xing and more than 3.9 million Void Return cultivators, along with cultivators across the Four Star Regions, suddenly vanished.
• A seven-colored crystal bearing shadows of antiquity and the present broke through the Starry Sky Frontline Battlefield and crashed into Great Profound, making the stars fall.

Xuan forged Gu into a Dao armament, unleashing True Immortal phantoms that devastated the Great Profound Realm while Xuan and Xu Xing confronted each other across separate layers of reality. As Ji advanced on the Extreme Sword and the Human Race struggled against the Cang Race, Sword Lord Ji returned through the sword and array, ready to face him.

• Xuan's Dao armament summoned True Immortal phantoms whose powers shattered stars and continents as they fought the Great Profound True Immortals.
• Xuan and Xu Xing discussed the Dao Source, the loss of self, and whether the past could return, while their conflict remained unresolved.
• Ji crossed the Starry Sky Frontline Battlefield, brushed aside Gu Mo, and pressed toward the cracked Extreme Sword as Cang Race fighters gained the advantage.
• The Extreme Sword's cracks healed as the Four Star Regions' spiritual-energy runes shone, and Sword Lord Ji appeared holding the sword.
• Sword Lord Ji forced back the Cang Race Truth Insights and declared that, though dead, he could still defeat Ji.

The humans and Cang Race fought a devastating war across the star domains as Sword Lord Ji and Ji clashed at the frontline. In the Central Continent, Lin Xingyue intercepted three Cang Race cultivators emerging from the past and found them weaker than expected.

• Sword Lord Ji unleashed Extreme Sword against Ji, who answered with Nine Ji! Return to Ruins! as the surrounding battlefield erupted into a clash of forces.
• Zhou Kongming fought a red-haired Cang Race warrior, but Du Changfeng ambushed him; Autumn Moon killed Du Changfeng and destroyed his Dao Soldier Strange Beast before flying toward the Far Side of the Starry Sky.
• Chen Xuanqing, True Monarch Purple Universe, Liu Yang, and Liu Yu fell amid battles across the star domains, while True Lord Evil-Repelling and Fumu killed Cang Race cultivators.
• Ning Wanzhu, Ming Yu, and Yuan suffered repeated, severe injuries as high-level cultivators from both sides died across the Four Star Regions and the Far Side of the Starry Sky.
• Lin Xingyue attacked three Cang Race cultivators emerging from the abandoned Ancient Great Profound Heaven, killed two with a punch, and drove back the third.

Xiao Yu trapped the Cang Race member Yong Li in a layered killing formation and left him facing a lightning attack as he went to help the other Void Returns. Across the three Great Profound Realms, most battles remained deadlocked, while the Human Race held the advantage in Central Continent despite the Cang Race’s strongest fighters still waiting on the Far Side of the Starry Sky.

• Xiao Yu killed three Cang Race members, then faced Yong Li, who attacked while boasting that Human Race flesh was a delicacy.
• Xiao Yu trapped Yong Li in a thirty-six-layer killing formation, resisted his attempt to break it, and threw a lightning sphere into the formation before leaving to support the other Void Returns.
• Xu Xing and Xuan continued to stalemate each other in the first Great Profound Realm as Xuan’s self-collapse accelerated.
• The thirteen True Immortals remained locked in a stalemate with the Dao Holding Soldier Gu had become in the second Great Profound Realm.
• The chapter described the third Great Profound Realm as the decisive battlefield and noted that the Human Race held the upper hand in Central Continent, though the Cang Race’s strongest fighters remained on the Far Side of the Starry Sky.

Charm Ancestor and the other True Immortals repeatedly destroyed the Dao Holding Soldier, while Xuan’s omnipotence restored it and rapidly consumed his self. In the First Great Profound Realm, Xuan declared that transcendence would vanish for a thousand years after his death, then attacked Xu Xing as Saint Venerable heard his decree.

• Tyrant Sovereign baited the Dao Holding Soldier into a brief solidified state, allowing the other twelve True Immortals to destroy it again.
• Charm Ancestor explained that each use of Xuan’s omnipotence hastened the death of his self, so their attacks were not futile.
• Xu Xing confronted Xuan, whose self was fading as he used his power to return the past to the past.
• Xuan decreed that transcendence would vanish and the Myriad Worlds would enter the Age of Dharma’s End until transcendence emerged anew a thousand years later.
• Xuan attacked Xu Xing with the Mystic Heaven Fist, and Xu Xing raised his sword to meet it.
• Saint Venerable heard Xuan’s decree from the Chaos Sea and froze.