Chapter Summaries

Zhang Sanxian destroyed Gu Qianjue, the Demon Cult, and Sea Immortal Island with the power of enormous eyes, then examined the surviving corpse and discovered it was a qi practitioner. Back at Golden Cicada Temple Square, his sudden disappearance alarmed the martial world, though Miao Lie insisted he had gone to stop Gu Qianjue.

• Gu Qianjue attacked Zhang Sanxian in the Heavenly Corpse from Beyond the Realm, but Zhang summoned giant eyes to test him.
• The giant eyes unleashed beams of light that vaporized Gu Qianjue, Sea Immortal Island, the Demon Cult's main altar, and everyone there, producing fifty-two Stronger Fragments.
• Zhang Sanxian caught the resilient Heavenly Corpse from Beyond the Realm before it fell into the sea pit and learned it was the corpse of a qi practitioner.
• Zhang Sanxian vanished from Golden Cicada Temple Square, leaving the gathered martial artists wondering where he had gone.
• Miao Lie rejected the suggestion that Zhang Sanxian had fled and said he must have gone to stop Gu Qianjue from spreading poison.

As the martial heroes prepared for Gu Qianjue’s possible release of corpse poison, Ba Wulie descended on Golden Cicada Temple and demanded the return of a divine object. Master Cien confronted him and threatened to retaliate across the grasslands if Ba Wulie harmed the people of the Central Plains.

• True Person Yanghe and Shen Mobai supported sending Zhang Sanxian to stop Gu Qianjue, but Li Muyun warned that he could not arrive at Sea Immortal Island in time.
• Master Cien urged the martial world to return home, gather civilians, and build fortified shelters against the impending disaster.
• The sect leaders agreed to mobilize their people and defend their territories as Ba Wulie’s overwhelming pressure struck Golden Cicada Temple.
• Ba Wulie demanded that the heroes hand over a divine object from the Sacred Mountain Ancestral Temple, threatening to slaughter and abuse people if they refused.
• Master Cien pushed back against Ba Wulie’s pressure and vowed to cross the grasslands and retaliate for every Central Plains life lost.

Master Cien confronted Ba Wulie, but Master Tianyi emerged from the shadows and killed him with a surprise strike. Master Tianyi revealed how he reached the peak of the Saint Embryo realm and unveiled his true identity as Caligula Auditore, the last member of Shenluo Kingdom's imperial family.

• Master Cien declared his resolve to stop Ba Wulie, even if it meant dying alongside him.
• Ba Wulie ordered an attack, and Master Tianyi emerged from Master Cien's shadow and pierced his heart with a transparent flexible sword.
• Master Tianyi appeared beside Ba Wulie, and the Central Plains heroes recognized him as the Heaven's Will Assassin and master of Mirage Pavilion.
• Master Tianyi explained that he had refined the Imperial Blood Wind Thunder Pill for ten years and spent another ten stabilizing his cultivation to reach the peak of the Saint Embryo realm.
• Master Tianyi rejected the Central Plains heroes' accusations and transformed his appearance, revealing that he was Caligula Auditore, the last member of Shenluo Kingdom's imperial family.

Master Tianyi and Ba Wulie confronted the Central Plains Sacred Embryos as they pursued their plan to divide the Central Plains, but learned Gu Qianjue was threatening the world. Zhang Sanxian returned to the plaza, and his interface revealed the source of Master Tianyi’s extraordinary assassination abilities.

• Master Tianyi revealed that he and Ba Wulie intended to conquer the Central Plains and restore the Shenluo Empire.
• Ba Wulie demanded the divine artifact, while True Person Yanghe warned him about Zhang Sanxian’s immense power and rapid rise.
• The Central Plains heroes explained Gu Qianjue’s plan to release ten thousand jin of Frenzied Corpse Foul Breath and destroy the world.
• Zhang Sanxian appeared in the plaza and learned that Master Cien had been gravely wounded by Master Tianyi.
• Zhang Sanxian examined Master Tianyi’s interface and traced his power to the Wind-Thunder Annihilation Invocation and Hermes Legendary Trait, gained through refining the Imperial Blood Wind Thunder Pill.

Zhang Sanxian analyzed Master Tianyi’s abilities and the Western Heavenly Stairway cultivation system, then mastered the man’s powers. He used Phenomenon Fiction to heal Master Cien, restoring the monk’s ruined heart and clothing.

• Zhang Sanxian identified Master Tianyi’s Wind-Thunder Annihilation Invocation and Hermes Legendary Trait through his system.
• Zhang Sanxian examined how the Heavenly Stairway system granted power through divine oaths and deeds such as battles, monster slaying, treasure hunts, and raids.
• Zhang Sanxian instantly mastered Master Tianyi’s abilities and raised them to Level 4.
• Zhang Sanxian pointed at the gravely wounded Master Cien and activated Phenomenon Fiction.
• Master Cien’s wound healed, his robe and kasaya were restored, and his crushed heart began beating again.

Zhang Sanxian revived Master Cien and revealed that he had destroyed the Demon Cult's headquarters, killed Gu Qianjue, and stopped the Frenzied Corpse Foul Breath. When Ba Wulie and Master Tianyi challenged him, Zhang Sanxian seized them both and streaked away from Golden Cicada Temple at astonishing speed.

• Zhang Sanxian restored Master Cien to full health, and Master Cien rose and praised him as a Buddha incarnate.
• Ba Wulie sensed that Zhang Sanxian had taken the divine object from the Sacred Mountain Ancestral Temple, and Zhang Sanxian calmly confirmed it was his.
• Master Cien offered to stand with Zhang Sanxian, who told him the corpse poison was dispelled, the Demon Cult's headquarters was destroyed, and Gu Qianjue was dead.
• Ba Wulie and Master Tianyi unleashed their killing intent and prepared to fight Zhang Sanxian.
• Zhang Sanxian stopped Master Cien from joining in, called his opponents insects, and grabbed Ba Wulie and Master Tianyi by their faces before shooting away with them at extreme speed.

Zhang Sanxian overwhelmed Ba Wulie and Master Tianyi, humiliating them with his superior speed and strength. As the two realized they had no chance unless they risked everything, they unleashed their most powerful attacks against him, turning the wasteland into a vast battlefield.

• Zhang Sanxian hurled Ba Wulie and Master Tianyi across a wasteland and challenged them to entertain him.
• Ba Wulie charged with the Gray Wolf God’s power while Master Tianyi attacked with countless shadow-serpent swords, but Zhang Sanxian evaded them and struck them both.
• Ba Wulie and Master Tianyi recognized that Zhang Sanxian surpassed them in speed, strength, and reaction, and chose to risk their lives.
• Ba Wulie sacrificed his Sacred Embryo to unleash Heavenly Wolf—Devours the Moon as Master Tianyi merged with shadows and trapped Zhang Sanxian in a colossal net.
• Master Tianyi invoked Supreme Grand Cross: Holy Light Grand Judgment—Heaven’s Verdict, setting the shadow-serpents ablaze with sacred fire as storms ravaged the wasteland.

Zhang Sanxian effortlessly defeated Master Tianyi and Ba Yuanlie, killing them with the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception before torturing them to death inside the Heart-Eroding Death City. He then examined the Heavenly Corpse from Beyond the Realm and upgraded his Wave Perception Method to investigate its secrets.

• Master Tianyi and Ba Yuanlie unleashed their strongest attacks, but Zhang Sanxian's Wind-Thunder Annihilation Invocation swallowed them before they could reach him.
• Zhang Sanxian used the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception to kill their attacks, leaving the exhausted Master Tianyi and Ba Yuanlie unable to fight.
• Zhang Sanxian trapped both men in the Heart-Eroding Death City, where they were tortured for three days and nights and became powerful wraiths of resentment.
• Zhang Sanxian took out the Heavenly Corpse from Beyond the Realm and decided its secrets might reveal what lay beyond the Sacred Embryo.
• Zhang Sanxian transformed the Wave Perception Method into the Mind's Eye of All Things and sent its perceptive force into the corpse.

Zhang Sanxian examined a giant corpse and gained insight into reaching beyond the Saint Embryo, while Luo Xiao and Luo Canglan plotted to enslave the Central Plains martial world for the Auditore Family. After Zhang returned to Golden Cicada Temple, he announced that Ba Wulie and Master Tianyi were dead, leaving the gathered martial artists stunned by his power and apparent youth.

• Zhang Sanxian used Mind's Eye perception to study the giant corpse, and his Grand Void Sword Soul absorbed its secrets for fifteen minutes.
• Luo Xiao and Luo Canglan discussed their family’s plans to conquer the Central Plains and use the Holy Covenant Cups to enslave its Saint Embryo experts.
• Luo Xiao and Luo Canglan saw a flash of lightning near Golden Cicada Temple and guessed that Master Tianyi or the Imperial Preceptor had caused it.
• The martial artists at Golden Cicada Temple waited anxiously after Zhang Sanxian took Ba Wulie and Master Tianyi away.
• Zhang Sanxian returned to the plaza and said that Ba Wulie and Master Tianyi had been killed without leaving whole corpses.
• The gathered martial artists celebrated Zhang Sanxian’s victory, then realized he appeared to be only a little over twenty.

After Zhang Sanxian defeated the martial world’s greatest powers, Luo Xiao and Luo Canglan arrived at Golden Cicada Temple expecting victory, only to learn that their fathers had been killed. Zhang Sanxian brought the terrified pair before him, leaving their fate in his hands.

• A flying warship bearing the Divine Strategy Army’s insignia landed at Golden Cicada Temple, and Luo Xiao and Luo Canglan emerged with several dozen soldiers.
• Luo Xiao demanded to know where Master Tianyi and the Northern Di State Preceptor were, and Zhang Sanxian told him that his father was dead.
• When Luo Xiao ordered his soldiers to seize Zhang Sanxian, the soldiers and warship vanished without a trace.
• Shen Mobai revealed that Zhang Sanxian had killed Master Tianyi and Ba Wulie, leaving Luo Xiao and Luo Canglan in shock and terror.
• Zhang Sanxian transported Luo Xiao and Luo Canglan in front of him, and the pair sensed that he could destroy them with ease.

After defeating three martial-world magnates, Zhang Sanxian hunted down the remnants of the Northern Di army, the Divine Strategy Army, the Mirage Pavilion, and the Di tribes, earning widespread fame as the strongest under heaven. He returned to Sword-Washing Island, where he leisurely drank with Lian Shanyu.

• Luo Xiao and Luo Canglan begged Zhang Sanxian for mercy, but he swallowed them into Heart-Eroding Demon City, where they were tortured and killed.
• Zhang Sanxian refused the factions' offers of titles and positions, then swept through Northern Di forces, Divine Strategy Army strongholds, and Mirage Pavilion dens, killing tens of thousands.
• Zhang Sanxian crossed into Di territory and used Eyes Beyond the Eye to massacre tribes across the grasslands, killing more than a million and driving survivors north.
• Zhang Sanxian returned to the Central Plains after the remaining Di fled, while reports of his victories spread and the Great Yi Dynasty's edicts offering him high offices went unanswered.
• Zhang Sanxian reached Sword-Washing Island in Mist-Hidden Lake and drank with Lian Shanyu at Tide-Watching Villa.

Zhang Sanxian explained how Battle Souls and the shattering of the Sacred Embryo opened the path to cultivation in a world without spiritual qi. As young martial wanderers searched for Tide-Watching Villa, he noticed a gifted youth among them.

• Lian Shanyu praised Qiu Fangzheng’s unusual strength and martial potential while speaking with Zhang Sanxian.
• Lian Shanyu described how Sword-Washing Island had become a destination for aspiring disciples, though Zhang Sanxian’s maze array kept visitors from reaching Tide-Watching Villa.
• Zhang Sanxian watched the confused visitors outside and noticed a fourteen- or fifteen-year-old youth with cultivation talent among them.
• Zhang Sanxian’s study of the Heavenly Corpse revealed that Battle Soul, rather than a spirit root, was the key to entering cultivation.
• Zhang Sanxian determined that cultivators had to ignite their Battle Soul by using perfected life essence and fierce battle intent to shatter the Sacred Embryo and gather true essence.

Zhang Sanxian discovered that the ragged youth wandering through his illusion array possessed a Battle Soul and level 2 Innate Great Fortune, and decided to take him as his disciple. After the mist parted, the youth recognized Zhang Sanxian as the benefactor who had saved him in Green Ox Town.

• Zhang Sanxian learned that the youth in the illusion array possessed a Battle Soul and Great Fortune, and resolved to take him as his disciple.
• The ragged youth endured the contempt of wealthy martial artists as he followed them through the mist, determined to reach Zhang Sanxian.
• The youth recalled how he had crossed provinces seeking Zhang Sanxian after the events in Green Ox Town.
• The mist parted and revealed the path to Zhang Sanxian's residence, prompting the young martial artists to rush inside.
• The youth recognized Zhang Sanxian, fell to his knees in tears, and Zhang Sanxian remembered him as the youth from Green Ox Town.

Zhang Sanxian took Du Mingfeng as his eldest disciple and spent five years teaching him and Qiu Fangzheng while the Great Yi Dynasty collapsed and Song Prefecture remained sheltered from war. During that time, Zhang Sanxian raised a powerful Qilin, uncovered the secrets of a spacecraft-like flying sword, and learned that Lian Shanyu was a magical treasure person.

• Zhang Sanxian sent away the kneeling young rich boys and accepted Du Mingfeng as his eldest disciple, naming Qiu Fangzheng as his junior martial brother.
• Five years passed as Zhang Sanxian trained Du Mingfeng and Qiu Fangzheng, while the Great Yi Dynasty fell and rival powers carved up the realm, leaving Song Prefecture untouched by war.
• Du Mingfeng reached the initial stage of the Saint Embryo realm, developed Hidden Presence, Concealed Form, and advanced his extraordinary luck to Level 4, while Qiu Fangzheng entered the Return to Truth realm.
• Zhang Sanxian's Earthfire Lotus Heart Seed produced a crimson Qilin at the peak Saint Fetus level, and he discovered that Shen Mobai's flying sword was a spacecraft fueled by true essence.
• Zhang Sanxian met Lian Shanyu's true body and learned that Lian Shanyu was a magical treasure person fused with the Exquisite Chessboard, which might have been able to create others like him.

Zhang Sanxian left Sword-Washing Island to seek the third Immortal Mirror in Shenluo, after entrusting his disciples and old friend with guarding the island. He crossed more than a hundred thousand li and arrived in the western land of Shenluo.

• Zhang Sanxian told Du Mingfeng and Qiu Fangzheng he was leaving for Shenluo, and they asked to accompany him.
• Zhang Sanxian advised his disciples to cultivate and guard the island, then manifested a giant Eye Beyond the Eye to protect Sword-Washing Island.
• Zhang Sanxian departed at immense speed as Du Mingfeng, Qiu Fangzheng, and Lian Shanyu watched him go.
• Zhang Sanxian flew west across deserts, mountains, swamps, city-states, dangerous wilderness, and other perilous lands.
• Zhang Sanxian reached Shenluo, where he saw unfamiliar stone architecture and people with pale skin, golden hair, and blue eyes.

Zhang Sanxian arrived in the western lands, killed a black dragon that attacked Count Otto, and asked about the Immortal Mirror. Count Otto directed him toward the kingdoms near Maria's Wall, so Zhang Sanxian flew west to investigate.

• Zhang Sanxian followed a black dragon to White Stone Castle, where a mercenary presented its hide to Count Otto as proof of a bounty.
• The black dragon attacked Count Otto, and Zhang Sanxian killed it with a streak of white light before the count was mauled to death.
• Zhang Sanxian descended before the castle’s people and asked whether they knew the whereabouts of the Immortal Mirror.
• Count Otto said powerful figures in the Silver Hand Kingdom, Fierce Lion Kingdom, or Grim Raven Kingdom might know, and that they lived near Maria's Wall.
• Zhang Sanxian heard about the demonic tide of hell and flew west toward Maria's Wall.

Zhang Sanxian halted the battle at Maria's Wall and forced the human Legends to answer questions about the Immortal Mirror. They began recounting how the Shenluo Empire collapsed under its last sovereign, Balelio Auditore.

• Human and demon armies fought across the breaches in Maria's Wall as four human Legends battled four Demonic Beast generals.
• Zhang Sanxian appeared above the battlefield, and his command of “Quiet” froze every living being in place.
• Zhang Sanxian descended and used spatial-temporal transference to bring the four human Legends before him.
• Zhang Sanxian showed the human Legends the Immortal Mirror's image and asked whether they recognized it or knew its location.
• The human Legends described Shenluo's decline and explained that its last sovereign, Balelio Auditore, delivered the final blow to the empire.

Zhang Sanxian learned that Baleolue had taken the Immortal Mirror into hell, then erased the demon army around Maria's Wall with a wave of Sword Qi. The fragments he collected let him draw a Dual-Property Bestowal Voucher, whose powers he began to learn.

• The four human legends told Zhang Sanxian that the Immortal Mirror was set in Baleolue's crown, which he had taken into hell.
• Zhang Sanxian swept two fingers across the demon tide and annihilated the army around Maria's Wall in a single breath.
• The human coalition stood stunned as Zhang Sanxian collected enough Stronger Fragments for another draw.
• Zhang Sanxian used the grand compass draw and obtained a Dual-Property Bestowal Voucher.
• Zhang Sanxian learned the voucher could bestow Permanence and Omnipresence on an evolution system not obtained through system draws.

Zhang Sanxian entered Hell to find the lost Crown of Balieolüe, slaughtered Demonic Beasts for a month, and collected more than 13,574 Stronger Fragments. He touched the Immortal Mirror and vanished into the river of time, while seven years later a gigantic flying sword descended toward the Central Plains.

• Zhang Sanxian decided to leave the Dual-Nature Attribute Grant Voucher unused until he returned to the main world, then entered the Gate of Hell and left an eye behind to keep it from being closed.
• Zhang Sanxian learned that Hell’s wicked energy could corrupt his projection within half a year, and Phenomenon Fiction revealed the route to the lost Crown of Balieolüe and Immortal Mirror.
• Zhang Sanxian spent a month slaughtering Demonic Beasts across Hell and amassed 13,574 Stronger Fragments.
• Zhang Sanxian found the skeleton bearing the Immortal Mirror, touched the mirror, and vanished into the river of time.
• Seven years after Zhang Sanxian disappeared, a gigantic flying sword descended from beyond the heavens toward the Central Plains.

A hostile green-haired man descended from the heavens, killed a hunter, and scanned the planet before flying away to explore it. Seven years later, the Martial Arts Assembly filled Song Prefecture, where people praised Zhang Sanxian’s absent disciples and the Eye Beyond the Eye that still protected the region.

• A strange flying sword crashed into a valley in Yan Province, and a green-haired man emerged from it.
• The man called the hunter weak, caught his arrow, and hurled it back at such speed that it vaporized the hunter and destroyed much of a distant mountain.
• He shrank the giant sword into a tiny one, scanned the planet, and flew off after finding no worthy True Essence warriors.
• Seven years later, crowds gathered at Hanging Sword Pavilion for the Martial Arts Assembly while rumors spread about the realm’s rival kings and Zhang Sanxian’s disciples.
• Shen Mobai, True Person Yanghe, and Tie Zhenyue discussed Zhang Sanxian’s disappearance and praised Du Mingfeng and Qiu Fangzheng.
• The three looked toward the Eye Beyond the Eye, which had guarded the region’s peace for seven years.