Chapter Summaries

Xu Xing returned from seclusion and received the Sword Sect’s records about Yuan from his disciple Jing Hai. Meanwhile, Zhang Yunlu explored the Dharma Transmission Tower and began settling into the Sword Sect’s well-equipped facilities.

• Xu Xing met Jing Hai, who reported that he had gathered the sect’s information about Yuan and sent his disciple to Mystic Sword City.
• Xu Xing told Jing Hai not to reprimand little Qingyang for failing to meet him, then went to review the records Jing Hai had collected.
• Chi Jiuyu brought Zhang Yunlu to the Dharma Transmission Tower, where Zhang Yunlu searched for the recommended cultivation books and crystal cards.
• An elderly woman directed Zhang Yunlu to additional reading, and Zhang Yunlu found a private reading room stocked with drinks and snacks.
• Zhang Yunlu noticed a warning in the reading room threatening a 100,000-contribution-point fine for relieving herself there.

Zhang Yunlu studied accounts of Foundation Establishment methods and learned how Creation Foundation Establishment arose amid a brutal era of experimentation. After she revealed that she had comprehended the Principle of Peril, the head of the Dharma Transmission Tower understood why Sword Ancestor had not taken her as a disciple.

• Zhang Yunlu read Chi Jiuyu's reflections and an elder's collected Foundation Establishment accounts, then opened The Three Grades of Foundation Establishment.
• Zhang Yunlu learned how Heaven-Forged and Creation methods gave way to varied, sometimes cruel techniques before Foundation Establishment Pills brought the era of method creation to an end.
• Zhang Yunlu wondered whether an external enemy had driven Creation Foundation Establishment cultivators to increase the number of practitioners.
• The head of the Dharma Transmission Tower asked Zhang Yunlu what principle she had comprehended, and Zhang Yunlu answered that it was the Principle of Peril, finding life in the face of death.
• The head of the Dharma Transmission Tower realized why Sword Ancestor had not taken Zhang Yunlu as a disciple, while Xu Xing sensed that Senior Sister Ji had taken an interest in her.

Xu Xing learned how Yuan’s exposure of a murderous cultivator echoed the abuses that had sparked Sword Ancestor’s Great Profound Blood Calamity, and decided to visit the Spirit Sound Workshop for more records. The next morning, Zhang Yunlu finished reading in the Dharma Transmission Tower and met Chi Jiuyu, who joked about her future as sect master.

• Xu Xing read the Sword Sect’s records about Yuan exposing a Golden Core body cultivator who had caused a famine and bought children for his cruel body-tempering method.
• Tyrant Sovereign told Xu Xing that his disciples had compiled records on Yuan and that he had dealt with sect disciples who practiced body cultivation through evil methods.
• Xu Xing recalled how Sword Ancestor’s slaughter of a Sword Sect cultivator led to the Great Profound Blood Calamity, which spread across the Central Continent before Sword Ancestor entered seclusion.
• Xu Xing thanked Tyrant Sovereign and said he intended to visit the Spirit Sound Workshop to learn more about Yuan.
• Zhang Yunlu left the Dharma Transmission Tower after reading all night, and Chi Jiuyu asked what she had learned from Little Martial Uncle Ancestor’s notes.
• Chi Jiuyu urged Zhang Yunlu to call her Future Sect Master or Captain Jiuyu, and Zhang Yunlu chose Captain Jiuyu.

Zhang Yunlu toured her new residence with Chi Jiuyu, received a Future Sect Master Alliance token, and asked how to earn contribution points. Xu Xing prepared to visit the Spirit Sound Workshop and agreed to take Chi Jiuyu with him, though Bie Xue Ning hinted the trip might take longer than he expected.

• Chi Jiuyu gave Zhang Yunlu a black token for their newly approved Future Sect Master Alliance team.
• Chi Jiuyu showed Zhang Yunlu her apartment in Qingfeng Residential Complex No. 47 and advised her to sell her Foundation Establishment insights for contribution points.
• Zhang Yunlu asked about other ways to earn contribution points, and Chi Jiuyu suggested climbing the virtual-realm battle rankings.
• Bie Xue Ning asked Xu Xing when he would visit the Spirit Sound Workshop, and he said he planned to meet the Spirit Ancestor soon.
• Bie Xue Ning told Xu Xing to take Chi Jiuyu with him, and Xu Xing agreed.

Zhang Yunlu entered the virtual illusion to test herself against the Sword Sect’s Qi Refining cultivators. Meanwhile, Bie Xuening released Yueling from the divine tree and assigned her to take over Moon Shadow’s duties, leaving Yueling protesting before she quickly apologized.

• Zhang Yunlu watched a Golden Core demonstration match in the virtual illusion and spent one contribution point to view it.
• Zhang Yunlu left the stands and headed to the dueling grounds to earn contribution points and test her strength.
• Bie Xuening touched the divine tree in the Sword Venerable Hall, and Yueling appeared from within its trunk.
• Xu Xing brought out Moon Shadow, and Bie Xuening told Yueling that Moon Shadow would take over her duties for a while.
• Yueling transformed into a little girl, complained that Bie Xuening was exploiting child labor, and then knelt to apologize.

Moon Shadow connected the Ancestral Sword to the Sword Sect Battle Net, and Moon Ling went to meet Bie Xuening’s disciple, Chi Jiuyu. Moon Ling pinned Chi Jiuyu down after catching her using a secret game account, and the two wondered whether Bie Xuening had heard their argument.

• Bie Xuening forgave Moon Ling, and Moon Shadow used the Ancestral Sword to connect the Sword Sect Battle Net.
• Moon Ling asked to meet Chi Jiuyu, and Bie Xuening let her go to the disciple’s residence.
• Chi Jiuyu lost a fighting game match and cursed at her opponent before Moon Ling appeared behind her.
• Chi Jiuyu challenged Moon Ling to prove she was Bie Xuening’s Life-Bound Sword and threatened to report her.
• Moon Ling pinned Chi Jiuyu down and threatened to expose her secret game account, and they worried that Bie Xuening had overheard them.

Yueling and Chi Jiuyu got acquainted while discussing Yueling’s memories of her master and Martial Uncle. In the virtual illusion, Zhang Yunlu climbed to ninth place in the Qi Refining rankings, then won her next match by default when her opponent surrendered.

• Yueling released Chi Jiuyu after she promised not to report her, and the two introduced themselves.
• Yueling explained that she had come to switch shifts maintaining the Sword Sect Battle Net and said she would not pry into private thoughts because her master had forbidden it.
• Chi Jiuyu asked Yueling about her master’s past, learning that her master had been stronger than Sword Ancestor before the Nascent Soul Realm and had reached Spirit Transformation before her.
• Zhang Yunlu reflected on the need to strengthen her foundations, noting that she still had to reach Dao Integration to uncover the truth about her parents’ deaths.
• Zhang Yunlu matched against an anonymous fifth-ranked Qi Refining opponent, who surrendered and gave her the win by default.

Chi Jiuyu received a mission from Bie Xuening to purge rebellious foreign races in the Red Blade Star System, with Zhang Yunlu assigned to kill the foreign race king and destroy the Bio-Weapon Hub. Bie Xuening promised to suppress powerful cultivators in the system and pay Chi Jiuyu’s Starship costs plus a million contribution points.

• Sword Sect forum users spread rumors that Bright Wind Squad would target Zhang Yunlu, then discovered she belonged to Little Martial Uncle Ancestor’s Future Sect Master Alliance.
• Chi Jiuyu and Yueling chatted about Bie Xuening’s past and her memories of Grandmaster before Bie Xuening appeared and reclaimed Yueling.
• Bie Xuening told Chi Jiuyu to watch over Zhang Yunlu as she reached Foundation Establishment, then take her on a mission in the Red Blade Star System.
• Bie Xuening assigned Chi Jiuyu to purge the foreign races on the Third and Seventh Planets and Zhang Yunlu to kill the foreign race king and destroy the Bio-Weapon Hub on the Fifth Planet.
• Bie Xuening gave Chi Jiuyu a command token that would suppress everyone above Foundation Establishment except Chi Jiuyu, and agreed to cover her Starship’s energy costs and provide a million contribution points.

Xu Xing and Bie Xuening discussed Chi Jiuyu’s trial and Xu Xing’s plan to investigate Yuan through the Righteous Alliance. Chi Jiuyu visited Zhang Yunlu, learned she had won first place in the Qi Refining Combat Ranking, and discovered Xu Changming was offering compensation to address online rumors.

• Chi Jiuyu left the inner sect, and Xu Xing and Bie Xuening discussed holding her trial on a planet inhabited by an entire race.
• Xu Xing said he planned to visit the Righteous Alliance quietly to investigate Yuan, and Bie Xuening put Yueling away.
• Chi Jiuyu arrived at Zhang Yunlu’s home, where Zhang Yunlu said she had defeated Xu Changming to claim first place in the Qi Refining Combat Ranking.
• Zhang Yunlu gave Chi Jiuyu three Mystic Profound Grass plants, which Chi Jiuyu ate and found mildly improved her mind and Divine Sense.
• Xu Changming messaged Zhang Yunlu to deny targeting her and offered thirty thousand contribution points for a public statement.
• Chi Jiuyu checked the Sword Sect forum, took Zhang Yunlu’s phone, and told Xu Changming that she was Chi Jiuyu.

Chi Jiuyu confronted Bright Wind Squad over Zhang Yunlu’s online harassment and arranged to buy two Yuling Interstellar Hotel invitations. She then accompanied Zhang Yunlu to the Sword Sect’s Foundation Establishment center, where Zhang entered a cultivation room to begin establishing her Creation Dao Foundation.

• Chi Jiuyu reminded Bright Wind Squad of its past theft of her mission and challenged the squad over its treatment of Zhang Yunlu.
• Xu Changming negotiated with Chi Jiuyu, agreeing to provide two Yuling Interstellar Hotel invitations in exchange for Zhang Yunlu’s statement.
• Chi Jiuyu told Zhang Yunlu that they would both be going to the Starry Sky, but left the details unexplained.
• Chi Jiuyu accompanied Zhang Yunlu to the Sword Sect’s Foundation Establishment center, where Zhang received spirit liquid and a spirit-power-concentrating capsule.
• A Nascent Soul Realm deacon greeted Zhang Yunlu and led her to a cultivation chamber to begin establishing her Creation Dao Foundation.

Zhang Yunlu completed Creation Dao Foundation Establishment and received a mysterious protective rune on her Dao Platform. Xu Xing and Bie Xuening then left the Sword Venerable Hall and took a walk through the Sword Sect’s outer sect.

• Zhang Yunlu used the Spirit Energy Chamber and spirit-energy concentrate capsule to build her Dao Platform.
• Zhang Yunlu invoked the Principle of Peril, solidified her Dao Platform into a Taiji pattern, and transformed her spirit energy into Foundation Establishment True Essence.
• A distant supreme being watched Zhang Yunlu’s Foundation Establishment and placed a protective rune on her Dao Platform to guard her from possession by foreign races.
• Xu Xing and Bie Xuening observed Zhang Yunlu’s breakthrough, then received a brief greeting from a vast will emerging from seclusion.
• Xu Xing and Bie Xuening went to the Sword Sect’s outer sect for a walk, and Bie Xuening said Jiu Yu had bought her ordinary clothes.

Xu Xing and Bie Xuening strolled through the Sword Sect’s tourist town, sharing snacks and reflecting on how much the world had improved. Yueling returned to ask Bie Xuening for Spirit Coins, then hurried off again to buy a sword tassel.

• Bie Xuening let Yueling leave to explore after Xu Xing encouraged her.
• Xu Xing and Bie Xuening visited the lakeside town and stopped at a stall selling sweet rice wine dumplings and fried lotus petals.
• Bie Xuening asked whether Yuan was like Xu Xing, and Xu Xing confirmed that Yuan was someone like him, though he did not know if they came from the same place.
• Bie Xuening said things were much better now than they had been before.
• Yueling returned to ask Bie Xuening for Spirit Coins to buy a sword tassel, and Bie Xuening gave her a storage ring with a warning not to cause trouble.

Xu Xing and Bie Xuening visited the Cauldron Pavilion’s Free Trade Zone, where a disciple poisoned himself by licking a pill. Bie Xuening cured him, but the deputy pavilion master licked the same pill and collapsed, leaving the onlookers stunned.

• Xu Xing and Bie Xuening reached the Cauldron Pavilion and admired its spirit fields before entering the Free Trade Zone.
• Xu Xing and Bie Xuening saw a Cauldron Pavilion disciple convulsing after licking a genuine poison pill from an outsider’s stall.
• Bie Xuening suppressed the poison with a pinpoint of spiritual light and saved the disciple.
• The deputy pavilion master appeared, took the pill, and licked it to investigate its effects.
• The deputy pavilion master turned purple and collapsed, and Bie Xuening exchanged a stunned look with Xu Xing.

After Zhang Yunlu advanced to Foundation Establishment, she rose to third place on the Foundation Establishment Ranking. She received a mission assigned by the Sword Venerable to travel into space, while Chi Jiuyu was assigned a related objective.

• Xu Xing and his companion left the Free Trade Zone after the poisoned Cauldron Pavilion deputy pavilion master was carried away for treatment.
• Zhang Yunlu appeared in third place on the Foundation Establishment Ranking after advancing.
• Zhang Yunlu left the Spirit Energy Chamber and received advice from the Miscellaneous Affairs Hall outer-sect deacon.
• Zhang Yunlu received a team mission from the Sword Venerable to kill an alien king and destroy its Bio-Weapon Hub, while Chi Jiuyu was assigned to clear aliens from two planets.
• Zhang Yunlu stared at the mission and realized she was being sent into space.

Chi Jiuyu led Zhang Yunlu through preparations for their assigned task while Zhang Yunlu learned to fly on her sword. At the Sword Sect's Cauldron Pavilion, Xu Xing appeared as Yuanjun and greeted Bie Xuening.

• Chi Jiuyu explained that the task's enemies would be suppressed to Zhang Yunlu's level and led her away to eat and prepare.
• Zhang Yunlu saw that she ranked third, and Chi Jiuyu described the first-place cultivator's planet being devastated by Bio-Weapons.
• Chi Jiuyu taught Zhang Yunlu to fly on her Ice Crystal Longsword and said she could improve it with a sword-nurturing method.
• A device checked Chi Jiuyu's Sword Flying License and verified her credentials after Zhang Yunlu nearly lost her balance.
• Xu Xing appeared at the foot of the mountain with a Dao banner and told Bie Xuening she had come to congratulate her on emerging from seclusion.

Yuanjun visited Xu Xing after his seclusion, joined him and Bie Xuening on a planned trip, and recounted the Abyss’s influence on ordinary people. Xu Xing planned to visit the Spirit Sound Workshop with a junior disciple, while Chi Jiuyu helped Zhang Yunlu complete her first sword flight.

• Yuanjun visited Xu Xing and explained that she had traveled the Central Continent while he was in seclusion.
• Yuanjun described how ordinary people gradually began cultivating through the Abyss’s widely shared methods and recounted how she had helped the Abyss deal with Confusion.
• Yuanjun gave Xu Xing a specially made black trench coat and revealed that she had sent the Abyss and a Spirit Sound Workshop junior to find Ink Qilin Flowers.
• Xu Xing said he planned to visit the Spirit Sound Workshop with a junior disciple once she returned from her mission.
• Chi Jiuyu coached Zhang Yunlu through her first sword flight, and the two landed safely at the Sword Sect cafeteria.

Chi Jiuyu took Zhang Yunlu to the Starry Sky Simulation Trial Ground before leaving to refuel her Starship, while Yuanjun gave Zhang Yunlu a concealment technique and discussed Yuan's disappearance with Xu Xing. Zhang Yunlu entered the trial ground to begin her training with the newly received Purple Qi Concealment and Spirit-Hiding Method.

• Chi Jiuyu feasted with Zhang Yunlu, then left to refuel and upgrade her Starship while Zhang Yunlu headed for the Starry Sky Simulation Trial Ground.
• Xu Xing, Yuanjun, and Bie Xuening watched Zhang Yunlu leave, and Yuanjun sent her a concealment technique suited to her Purple Enclosure Qi Observation Method.
• Yuanjun told Xu Xing that Spirit Ancestor's disciple had searched for Yuan after he vanished and had refused Yuanjun's offer of help to avoid causing him trouble.
• Zhang Yunlu paid 1,200 contribution points for two hours at the Starry Sky Simulation Trial Ground and entered its simulation area.
• Zhang Yunlu recited the Purple Qi Concealment and Spirit-Hiding Method as she examined the trial ground.

Zhang Yunlu tested the Starry Sky Simulation Trial Ground and discovered that the starry sky’s abundant spiritual energy greatly amplified her abilities compared with the Central Continent. Meanwhile, Chi Jiuyu used her master’s authorization to lavishly upgrade a Starship, then clashed with a fellow disciple who threatened to report her.

• Zhang Yunlu entered a simulated forest on a planet in the Red Blade Star System and tested her sword against its environment.
• Zhang Yunlu’s sword strike gathered vast spiritual energy, devastated the forest, and revealed how much more easily she could fight and fly in the starry sky.
• Chi Jiuyu ordered expensive upgrades for her Starship and charged them to the Sword Venerable’s account.
• A young man in sunglasses threatened to report Chi Jiuyu’s spending after her mission, so she threatened to reveal his crush on Martial Uncle Ji.
• The young man tried to make Chi Jiuyu forget the secret, but backed down when he remembered her master would punish him.

Chi Jiuyu regretted accepting only 300,000 contribution points after learning Li Ke had extorted more than 30 million from Senior Brother. As Chi Jiuyu and Zhang Yunlu set out through the Starry Sky Warp Array, Xu Xing departed with Yuanjun for the Righteous Alliance, leaving Bie Xuening behind at the Sword Sect.

• Chi Jiuyu demanded 300,000 contribution points from the young man in sunglasses, who agreed and revealed that Li Ke had once taken over 30 million from him.
• Several days later, Zhang Yunlu and Chi Jiuyu waited at the Sword Sect's Starry Sky Warp Array before boarding for their mission.
• Zhang Yunlu reminded Chi Jiuyu that losing an opportunity was fate, and Chi Jiuyu rallied herself and led them out to board.
• Bie Xuening saw Xu Xing off as he left with Yuanjun for the Righteous Alliance before visiting the Spirit Sound Workshop.
• Xu Xing hoped Chi Jiuyu's group would finish their mission and return before he came back.

Xu Xing and Yuanjun left for the Righteous Alliance while Bie Xuening reflected on the changes to the starship and the group chat. At the Sword Sect, Chi Jiuyu prepared her starship with Zhang Yunlu, and the Starry Sky Warp Array activated, sending the ships away.

• Xu Xing departed with Yuanjun after bidding farewell to Bie Xuening, who realized that Chi Jiuyu had modified her starship and deceived her.
• Messages from Xu Xing stirred the previously silent mutual aid and elder care group, where the members teased one another and Artifact Sovereign was left ignored.
• Chi Jiuyu showed Zhang Yunlu around her starship and set its destination to the Red Blade Star System; the Ship Spirit received transit approval from Li Ke.
• Chi Jiuyu reassured herself that her master's talisman token gave her an advantage, then took Zhang Yunlu to see the ship's living quarters and cultivation area.
• Dao Integration Realm cultivators gathered to oversee the array, and its leader ordered the Starry Sky Warp Array activated.
• Starlight filled the starships, which vanished as a pillar of light shot into the sky.