Chapter Summaries

Chi Jiuyu and Zhang Yunlu continued hunting the Armored Horn Race across its planets, while Zhang Yunlu searched for the Bio-Weapon Hub and prepared to approach the Fifth Armored Horn Race’s Royal City. A little red bird watched Zhang Yunlu, considered helping her, and then flew off to pursue its own plan.

• Chi Jiuyu destroyed the Third Armored Horn Race gathered across the Third Planet while browsing the Sword Sect’s War Net.
• Chi Jiuyu tasted a purple fruit in the forest, then wiped out the Armored Horn Race members who ambushed her.
• Zhang Yunlu questioned phantom members of the Fifth Armored Horn Race and learned that ten thousand guards protected their Royal City, but found no information about the Bio-Weapon Hub.
• Zhang Yunlu set off toward the Royal City, leaving a talisman that burned the roadside remains.
• A little red bird recognized Zhang Yunlu’s mission and decided not to help her, then flew away to continue its own undertaking.

Xu Xing entered Speaker's High Tower and found the Holy Emperor Cyan Jade that Yuan had left behind. Below the tower, the Speaker showed a newly promoted Dao Integration cultivator a Secret Realm and explained that even Lord Blade Venerable was insignificant beside the Immortal Sects' ancestors, leaving the ancestors’ original title unrevealed.

• Xu Xing bypassed the defenses of Speaker's High Tower and entered its treasure vault.
• Xu Xing found the Holy Emperor Cyan Jade, which let its holder hear the phrase “By Bashan and Chushui, desolate lands.”
• The Speaker brought a newly promoted Dao Integration cultivator below the tower to show him Secret Realms made with the First Speaker's divine ability.
• The cultivator entered a Secret Realm and experienced the overwhelming blade light of Lord Blade Venerable.
• The Speaker said the Immortal Sects' ancestors could kill Lord Blade Venerable with a single move, then began to reveal their original title.

The Speaker explained to a newly advanced Dao Integration cultivator that the Great Profound Realm’s highest beings were True Immortals, then brought him to meet Gu Mo. Gu Mo learned that the Alliance had withdrawn most of its forces from the Starry Sky Frontline Battlefield to search for the missing First Speaker, and erupted in anger as Xu Xing sensed the disturbance and left.

• The Speaker told the middle-aged Dao Integration cultivator that cultivators sought long life, immortality, the Dao, and the realm of the immortals, and revealed that the Seven Great Immortal Sects had nine True Immortal ancestors.
• The Speaker and the cultivator met Gu Mo, who told them to call him by name and asked whether they had found Yuan, the missing First Speaker.
• The Speaker reported that they had searched the continent without finding Yuan, and Gu Mo said they should stop searching.
• Gu Mo asked about the Starry Sky Frontline Battlefield, and the middle-aged cultivator reported that most Alliance forces had withdrawn to search for Yuan.
• Gu Mo's fury shook the Secret Realm as he rebuked the Speaker for failing to recognize what mattered most.
• Xu Xing sensed Gu Mo's domineering aura in the Speaker's High Tower, inferred the cause of his anger, and vanished from the treasure room.

Xu Xing returned with Yuan’s cyan jade after sensing Gu Mo’s immense aura, while Gu Mo confronted the Speaker and then told his sister-in-law he intended to go to the Starry Sky Frontline Battlefield. The chapter ended with the woman calling softly for the Sword Ancestor as a monstrous face writhed beneath her skin.

• Xu Xing returned to the Righteous Alliance residence, where Yuanjun recognized Gu Mo’s aura and asked whether Xu Xing’s search had gone smoothly.
• Xu Xing showed Yuanjun the cyan jade he had recovered, and it revealed the password, “The desolate land of Ba and Chu.”
• The Speaker and a middle-aged Dao Integration cultivator emerged unharmed from a crystal after Gu Mo confronted them, and the Speaker ordered the cultivator to keep quiet.
• Gu Mo crossed a strange realm of purple mist and flesh to visit his sister-in-law in a hidden immortal landscape.
• Gu Mo told his sister-in-law he planned to go to the Starry Sky Frontline Battlefield, and she gave him permission to do as he wished.
• After Gu Mo left, his sister-in-law looked toward a distant place, whispered “Sword Ancestor,” and her face began to writhe beneath her skin.

Gu Mo asked his disciples and their descendants to join him at the Starry Sky Frontline Battlefield, but only Mo Buyu volunteered, so Gu Mo sent him and Liu Yingying to recover at World Relief Valley. Convinced that the Righteous Alliance had lost its resolve, Gu Mo left to seek the Sword Ancestor, while Chi Jiuyu completed an alien extermination mission and headed back to check on Xiao Yunlu.

• Gu Mo asked the gathered disciples whether they would go with him to the Starry Sky Frontline Battlefield, but Liu Yu and Liu Yang stayed silent.
• Mo Buyu volunteered to follow Gu Mo, who gave him a token for World Relief Valley and sent him there with Liu Yingying to recover.
• After Mo Buyu and Liu Yingying vanished, Gu Mo left the tower and resolved to find the Sword Ancestor because no one else in the Righteous Alliance would join him.
• Chi Jiuyu finished exterminating the alien race on the Third Planet of Red Blade Star System 47 and uploaded the mission data for verification.
• Chi Jiuyu decided to return to the Starship to check on Xiao Yunlu before heading to the Seventh Planet.

Zhang Yunlu infiltrated the Fifth Horned Clan’s Royal City to investigate the Bio-Weapon Hub and attempt an assassination, but the Hub exposed her and forced her to fight her way out. Chi Jiuyu watched her retreat from the Starship and decided to speed up her own preparations.

• Zhang Yunlu used concealment to enter the Royal City and mapped its streets with her Divine Sense.
• Zhang Yunlu found Bio-Weapon serpents inside the Royal Palace, but they detected her, prompting the Bio-Weapon Hub to reveal her location.
• Zhang Yunlu fought through the Fifth Horned Clan with the North Wind Sword Technique as the city’s forces attacked her with beams, arrows, nets, and poison gas.
• Zhang Yunlu abandoned the assassination attempt and escaped toward the edge of the Royal City.
• Chi Jiuyu watched Zhang Yunlu’s retreat aboard the Starship and decided to speed things up on her end.

Zhang Yunlu escaped the Fifth Planet’s Royal City after killing the pursuers sent after her, while a hidden Cang figure watched and planned to deliver Ancestor Xuan’s essence to the Central Holy Land. At the Sword Sect, Gu Mo sought the Sword Ancestor but was unexpectedly met by his old friend Daoist Ji Yue.

• Chi Jiuyu finished her noodles and left the Starship control room to visit the Seventh Planet.
• Zhang Yunlu killed the Fifth Horned Clan pursuers, then flew away despite her bleeding wounds.
• A hidden figure revealed plans to carry a trace of Ancestor Xuan’s essence to the Central Holy Land and left the cave to make further preparations.
• Gu Mo arrived at the Sword Sect and asked Li Qingyang to take him to meet the Sword Ancestor, but learned the Sword Ancestor was absent.
• Daoist Ji Yue appeared, recognized Gu Mo, and took him away to entertain him.

Gu Mo came to the Sword Sect to ask the Sword Ancestor to resolve the Righteous Alliance’s Heart-Severing Qi, but learned the Sword Venerable had already gone to help. Bie Xuening’s private messages revealed Yan Ming’s interest in Ji Yue, while the group chat discussed Gu Mo’s complicated family situation.

• Gu Mo asked Ji Yue why she had grown frail, and she explained that breaching the Immortal Pass was difficult.
• Gu Mo told Ji Yue that Heart-Severing Qi had afflicted the Righteous Alliance and might conceal a deeper scheme.
• Yan Ming arrived and reported that the Sword Venerable had already set out with Senior Yuanjun to deal with the crisis.
• Bie Xuening told Xu Xing that Yan Ming had long been plotting to win Ji Yue, prompting Xu Xing to threaten to deal with his disciple later.
• The Big Boss Group discussed the tangled relationships in Gu Mo’s family, and Charm Ancestor tried to tease the Sword Venerable with pictures.

Xu Xing and Yuanjun discussed delaying their response until they understood Gu Mo’s intentions, while the Supreme Council Speaker sought guidance from a near-immortal senior about Blade Venerable’s departure and Sword Ancestor’s possible arrival. The senior’s plans for ascension remained at risk.

• Sword Ancestor asked Spirit Ancestor for help, and Spirit Ancestor said he had recalled a disciple who had once been close to Yuan.
• Xu Xing and Yuanjun agreed to wait before acting against Gu Mo because his goal was unclear.
• Xu Xing noticed Jiang Yujiu downstairs at the Drunken Immortal tavern, looking troubled and dressed unlike her usual self.
• The Supreme Council Speaker entered the sinister Secret Realm and reached the pavilion of a senior nearing immortality.
• The Speaker warned the senior that Blade Venerable had left and might bring Sword Ancestor to the Sword Sect, potentially affecting the senior’s ascension.

Gu told the slender figure that she had already failed to break through the Immortal Pass and was surviving in a space sustained by the Righteous Alliance's fighting spirit, while Zhang Yunlu prepared a final assault on the Fifth Horned Clan's Royal City. The clan king retreated behind his throne as Zhang Yunlu attacked again.

• The Speaker was expelled from the deepest part of the Secret Realm after the slender figure said the Sword Ancestor's arrival made no difference.
• Gu confronted the slender figure, explained that she had failed at the Immortal-Knocking Pass, and urged her to borrow his Dao because of the Sword Ancestor's power.
• The slender figure recognized that Gu was using her, but admitted to herself that she had long since failed her breakthrough and was weakening inside the space formed from the Righteous Alliance's fighting spirit.
• Zhang Yunlu recovered from her wounds in a mountain cave and set out to attack the Royal City, where fewer than a tenth of the Fifth Horned Clan remained.
• The Fifth Horned Clan king heard that Zhang Yunlu had attacked again and withdrew behind the throne to wait for reinforcements.

Zhang Yunlu tracked the Fifth Horned Clan king to his hidden chamber and killed him, but the Bio-Weapon Hub escaped toward the horizon. Red-haired Cang realized the artifact was returning to him and prepared to face Zhang Yunlu, calling their coming encounter a tribulation.

• Zhang Yunlu searched the Royal Palace after the Bio-Weapon Hub failed to appear, then broke through the roof and found a passage beneath the throne.
• Zhang Yunlu entered the hidden chamber, fought past the Bio-Weapon serpents, and confronted the king of the Fifth Horned Clan.
• The king poured his strength into the Bio-Weapon Hub as Zhang Yunlu pierced his skull, and the artifact shot away before she could stop it.
• Red-haired Cang sensed the Bio-Weapon Hub returning to him and anticipated Zhang Yunlu's arrival, refusing to enlist the local clans against her.

Huang Qi, a Cang Race Heavenly General, revealed himself to Zhang Yunlu and attacked her while explaining how he had turned the planet’s races against the Human Race. He intended to draw down the Demon Immortal Confusion so Ancestor Xuan could seize some of his essence.

• Huang Qi used the Bio-Weapon Hub to drain the life from the surrounding land and creatures.
• Zhang Yunlu arrived and confronted Huang Qi, who identified himself as the seventh Heavenly General under Ancestor Xuan.
• Huang Qi’s fire dragon struck Zhang Yunlu and sent her crashing into the withered ground.
• Huang Qi overwhelmed Zhang Yunlu with heavenly flames as she struggled to defend herself.
• Huang Qi explained that the Bio-Weapon Hub had used Confusion’s ability to turn the planet’s fear and greed into hatred for the Human Race.
• Huang Qi continued invoking Confusion’s name, hoping to lure him down so Ancestor Xuan could seize his essence.

Chi Jiuyu destroyed the Seventh Armored Horn Race’s Royal City and killed its king, while Xu Xing activated the Cyan Jade and summoned a fragment of Yuan’s soul. Yuan was startled to see Yuanjun when he appeared.

• Huang Qi slowed her attacks on Zhang Yunlu, planning to wait until Zhang Yunlu exhausted her true essence before striking.
• Chi Jiuyu cleaved apart the Seventh Armored Horn Race’s Royal City and destroyed most of the city and its people.
• Chi Jiuyu confronted the Seventh Armored Horn Race’s king, sentenced his race to extermination, and killed him.
• Xu Xing and Yuanjun recited lines from poems left behind by Yuan until the Cyan Jade revealed Yuan’s soul fragment.
• Yuan opened his eyes, saw Yuanjun behind Xu Xing, and exclaimed in shock.

Xu Xing met Yuan, a fellow countryman whose lingering soul had been left behind to share his method for returning home and ask about the Great Profound Realm. Yuan learned that Xu Xing had helped refine the cultivation system, explained the origins of its highest realms, and had recently struck the Gu Ancestor with his sword.

• Yuan's soul began dissipating after triggering a defensive mechanism, but Xu Xing stopped the process and restored it.
• Yuan realized Xu Xing was a fellow countryman and was stunned when Yuanjun treated Xu Xing as a Dao Brother before leaving.
• Yuan explained that he had left behind the soul wisp to meet a fellow countryman, share his return-home method, and ask about ancient history.
• Xu Xing said he had helped refine the Human Race's cultivation system and explained that the realms after Dao Integration corresponded to the Cang Race's Three Near-Ancestor Realms.
• Yuan recognized the Gu Ancestor as the being who had pursued him, and Xu Xing said he had recently cut the Gu Ancestor with his sword.

Xu Xing told Yuan how the Human Race’s first cultivators emerged from the Cang Race’s hunting grounds and confessed that he had once wanted to return home. Before his wisp of divine soul could dissipate, Xu Xing implied that Yuan might be able to tell Wanzhu his apology in person.

• Yuan said he did not know whether he had truly returned home after leaving the Great Profound Realm, and asked whether Xu Xing wanted to go home.
• Xu Xing recounted how the Cang Race treated humans as prey and how escaped humans became the Great Profound Realm’s first cultivators, including the master who later saved him.
• Xu Xing admitted he had once wanted to abandon the struggle and return home, while Yuan argued that Xu Xing’s choice to stay mattered more than his earlier thoughts.
• Yuan told Xu Xing about belongings and world coordinates he had left in Qingxu, and asked him to tell Wanzhu that he was sorry.
• Xu Xing said Yuan should tell Wanzhu himself, and Yuan realized something as his explanation that his soul was about to dissipate trailed off.

Yuan agreed to return in a restored soul body after Xu Xing urged him to face Wanzhu and deal with trouble in the Righteous Alliance. He appeared at the amusement park beneath the First Speaker’s statue, where Liu Yu recognized him just after the Alliance had voted to stop searching for him.

• Xu Xing persuaded Yuan to visit Wanzhu, warning that the Spirit Ancestor could find him even outside the Great Profound Realm.
• Xu Xing used the Cyan Jade to restore Yuan’s soul, and Yuan learned he could wield Dao Integration power for a year or two.
• Xu Xing told Yuan that the Righteous Alliance was in trouble and that Yuan should return to resolve the Heart-Severing Qi calamity.
• Xu Xing and Yuanjun visited the amusement park, where Xu Xing made cotton candy gifts for the Sword Venerable and Yuanjun.
• Yuan appeared beneath the First Speaker’s statue, admitted he was the Saint Emperor, and drew a crowd of astonished onlookers.
• Liu Yu arrived and recognized Yuan as the First Speaker, questioning whether the man before him was truly Yuan.

Yuan appeared before the Righteous Alliance’s leaders and claimed to be the long-missing First Speaker, then used overwhelming power to summon them to the Supreme Council chamber. With power lent by Xu Xing, he pierced the barrier around the Secret Realm and made contact with the slender figure inside, who recognized him as Yuan.

• Yuan told Liu Yu that he would convene the Supreme Council and transported him to a hall where Alliance leaders recognized his resemblance to the First Speaker.
• Chen Yuanlin challenged Yuan to prove his identity, but Yuan said he was Yuan and had nothing to prove.
• The current Speaker asked Yuan what he intended to do, and Yuan summoned everyone present who had reached Dao Integration or higher to the Speaker’s High Tower.
• Yuan said he would invite the Alliance’s current councilors and senior members, then pierced the barrier around the Secret Realm using power lent by Xu Xing.
• Yuan perceived the slender figure inside the Secret Realm, and she opened her eyes and called out his name in surprise.

Yuan glimpsed Gu's true form and was exposed to Gu's attempt to inspect his past, but a sword wound interrupted the attack. He then gathered powerful cultivators at the Speaker's High Tower and began a meeting, where Gu Mo questioned his return.

• Yuan saw Gu's seven-colored divine form, and Gu used a halo to reveal scenes from Yuan's past until a sword wound interrupted the attack.
• Yuan invited the slender figure in the Secret Realm to a conference, and she agreed after strange visions of the Saber Ancestor and a sword-wielding figure passed through her mind.
• Yuan assembled 121 people at the Speaker's High Tower, including 120 cultivators at or above the Dao Integration Realm.
• Gu Mo asked Yuan why he had returned, and the founder of the Myriad Dharma Dao Sect rebuked Gu Mo for having stopped the search.
• Yuan explained that he had told Gu Mo not to look for him, and the two men fell silent.

Yuan returned to the Righteous Alliance, whose members wondered what his return would mean, while Xu Xing and Yuanjun watched events unfold and shared a Ferris wheel ride. Meanwhile, Zhang Yunlu used the river and her Ice Crystal Longsword to launch a desperate attack on Huang Qi.

• Yuan greeted the Righteous Alliance, whose members worried about his judgment and the changes his return might bring.
• Chen Yuanlin watched Yuan with envy and vowed to surpass him one day.
• Xu Xing and Yuanjun discussed restoring the Alliance's fighting spirit and investigating the anomaly, then took a photo together on the Ferris wheel.
• Yuanjun posted a sunset photo to the group, prompting teasing exchanges among Tyrant Sovereign, Sword Venerable, and Charm Ancestor.
• Huang Qi pursued Zhang Yunlu and wore down her true essence as she fled through the forest.
• Zhang Yunlu reached a river, froze its rising water into a massive ice sword, and charged at Huang Qi behind it.

Zhang Yunlu fought Huang Qi while he waited for a particular moment, and Chi Jiuyu completed the alien purge on the Seventh Planet and headed for the Starship. In the Supreme Council Undersea City, the Abyss’s return drew a huge crowd, while Jiang Yujiu watched without being allowed to seek attention.

• Zhang Yunlu attacked Huang Qi with ice and swordlight, but he transformed his weapon into a giant axe and repeatedly knocked her back as she recovered and charged again.
• Chi Jiuyu photographed the ruined Royal City, reported the Seventh Planet’s alien purge complete, and left for the Starship to check on Xiao Yunlu.
• News of the Abyss’s return drew a vast crowd to his former residence in the Supreme Council Undersea City.
• Jiang Yuqi told Jiang Yujiu not to exploit the gathering for attention, and Jiang Yujiu switched off her phone as alerts began pouring in.