Chapter Summaries

At a martial arts assembly, a colossal green blade destroyed the Eye of Heaven, the treasure left by True Lord Zhang. An extraterrestrial visitor then appeared above Hanging Sword Pavilion and forced the assembled martial artists to their knees.

• Du Mingfeng and Qiu Fangzheng arrived at Hanging Sword Pavilion and greeted Shen Mobai, True Person Yanghe, and Tie Zhenyue.
• Li Muyun and Chu Xiong arrived, their rivalry intensifying the tense atmosphere at the assembly.
• The Eye of Heaven awakened and prepared to attack a threat in the northwest.
• A gigantic ghostly green blade cut through the Eye of Heaven and erased it, horrifying everyone present.
• A tremendous pressure forced the Sacred Embryo experts and the other martial artists to their knees.
• The extraterrestrial visitor descended above the plaza and looked down at the kneeling crowd.

Dizi, a powerful warrior from beyond the stars, massacred the martial artists at the Hanging Sword Pavilion while demanding information about the Immortal Mirror. Shen Mobai, Li Muyun, and Chu Xiong knew the mirror was with Zhang Sanxian, but none revealed what they knew.

• Dizi killed Tie Zhenyue with a beam of green light after Tie challenged him.
• Dizi erased more than a thousand people and destroyed the mountains surrounding the Hanging Sword Pavilion with a torrent of green energy.
• Dizi killed True Person Yanghe after Yanghe cursed him, while Shen Mobai and Qiu Fangzheng restrained their anger.
• Dizi introduced himself as a True Essence warrior serving the Floating Slaughter Demon Venerable and projected an image of the Immortal Mirror.
• Dizi promised to make whoever found the Immortal Mirror the sole king of the world.
• Shen Mobai and Li Muyun kept silent despite knowing the mirror was with Zhang Sanxian, and Chu Xiong chose to wait.

Dizi forced Li Muyun to challenge a newly summoned demonic plant Dao soldier, promising to spare Li Muyun’s guards if he could wound it. Li Muyun could not touch the creature, which tore off his arm and began eating it.

• Some martial folk told Dizi that the master of Rain-Listening Tower might know where the hidden thing was, and Dizi decided to capture him.
• Dizi ordered Li Muyun to crawl over and lick his boots, then threatened to kill his guards if Li Muyun refused.
• Li Muyun challenged Dizi and offered to injure him in exchange for his soldiers’ lives, but Dizi instead summoned a demonic plant Dao soldier and set it against him.
• Li Muyun charged the demon soldier, which evaded his attacks and outmatched him in a battle that shattered mountains and terrain.
• The demon soldier tore off Li Muyun’s arm and gnawed on it while continuing to evade his attacks.

Dizi brutally killed Li Muyun and his Western Liang guards, while Chu Xiong revealed that Zhang Sanxian might possess three Immortal Mirrors. Dizi realized Zhang Sanxian’s disciples Du Mingfeng and Qiu Fangzheng had escaped right under his nose.

• Dizi tore off Li Muyun’s remaining arm, crushed his abdomen, and left the King of Qin to die in a crater.
• Dizi swept away Li Muyun’s guards and hundreds of martial wanderers with green energy, reducing them and nearby buildings to ash.
• Convinced Dizi was beyond the Sacred Embryo realm, Chu Xiong told him the Immortal Mirror was with Zhang Sanxian.
• Chu Xiong claimed Zhang Sanxian might possess three Immortal Mirrors, prompting Dizi to demand details and consider notifying his superiors.
• As Qiu Fangzheng cursed Chu Xiong and Dizi, Du Mingfeng and Qiu Fangzheng vanished, and Dizi realized they had escaped unnoticed.

Du Mingfeng and Qiu Fangzheng escaped the Hanging Sword Pavilion ruins and headed west to find their master, while Dizi reported three Immortal Mirrors to his superiors. Captain Bei Xuan ordered Dizi to guard the planet and wait for reinforcements, warning him not to approach the native who held an Immortal Mirror.

• Du Mingfeng and Qiu Fangzheng escaped underground on the Etherealized Fire Lotus Qilin and set off west to find their master.
• Dizi contacted Vice-Captain Ba Mie and reported that the planet contained three Immortal Mirrors.
• Captain Bei Xuan appeared on the communication screen, and his overwhelming aura terrified Dizi, Chu Xiong, Shen Mobai, and those around the ruins.
• Captain Bei Xuan ordered Dizi to guard the planet and avoid the native holding an Immortal Mirror until he and Ba Mie arrived.
• Dizi accepted the order, and the communication ended, though panic remained among those present.

Dizi demonstrated overwhelming power to Chu Xiong and the martial artists, then explained the hierarchy of True Essence and summoned thirty peak Sacred Embryo demonic plant Dao soldiers. He appointed Chu Xiong his subordinate and placed the soldiers under Chu Xiong’s command.

• Dizi destroyed a distant mountain with a flick of his finger, terrifying the martial artists and deepening Shen Mobai’s despair.
• Chu Xiong asked whether Dizi had surpassed the Sacred Embryo realm, and Dizi explained True Essence and compared his strength with Ba Mie and Captain Bei Xuan.
• Dizi dismissed Chu Xiong’s suggestion that their power gap could be measured by simple numbers, saying True Essence’s might increased exponentially.
• Dizi scattered dark green bean pods across the plaza, and they grew into thirty demonic plant Dao soldiers with peak Sacred Embryo auras.
• Dizi made Chu Xiong his subordinate in the world and temporarily assigned the demonic soldiers to him.

After leaving Chu Xiong to conquer the continent, Dizi flew west toward Maria's Wall, where Zhang Sanxian had become the object of widespread worship. Du Mingfeng sensed an impending disaster and hid underground with Qiu Fangzheng and the Fire Lotus Qilin just before Dizi arrived at the city at extreme speed.

• Dizi ordered Chu Xiong to conquer the continent and build him a palace and arena, then transformed into a flaming dragon and flew west.
• Seven years after Zhang Sanxian ended the demonic tide, Maria's Wall had become Holy Gor City, and its people worshipped him as a god.
• Du Mingfeng and Qiu Fangzheng arrived in Holy Gor City on the Fire Qilin and recognized the giant eye above the Gate of Hell and the statues of their master.
• Du Mingfeng sensed disaster approaching and led Qiu Fangzheng and the Fire Lotus Qilin deep underground.
• Dizi struck the atmosphere around Maria's Wall at Mach ten thousand, filling the sky with expanding plasma fireballs.

Dizi destroyed Saint Gor City and the surrounding region before discovering the hidden people beneath the earth and annihilating a vast area with true essence. Meanwhile, Zhang Sanxian’s cultivation broke toward the fifth-level domain, and he began collapsing his body’s energy and will into a singularity.

• Dizi crashed into Saint Gor City, destroying Maria's Wall and the city around the Gate of Hell.
• Dizi withstood the Eye of Heaven’s beam, then split and burned away the giant eye with a blade of true essence.
• Dizi detected hidden people below and vaporized everything across a thousand-li region.
• As seven outside years passed in a moment for Zhang Sanxian, the three Immortal Mirrors pushed his cultivation toward the fifth-level domain.
• Zhang Sanxian ignited his life essence, awakening his Battle Soul amid the destruction of his body and spirit.
• Zhang Sanxian merged his will with the Battle Soul and began compressing his energy and intent into a singularity.

Zhang Sanxian broke through into the Qi Refiner system, gaining True Yuan Power and discovering its overwhelming superiority over other systems, along with its severe limitations. As the temporal aberration ended, he raised his Qi Refiner level to the peak of Level 5.

• Zhang Sanxian shattered his life limiter and cultivated True Yuan Power, becoming a true Qi Refiner.
• Zhang Sanxian realized that a Qi Refiner's power stood one major rank above other systems, while his physical strength surged to ten trillion tons.
• Zhang Sanxian considered the Qi Refiner system's short lifespan, lack of spiritual perception or divine sense, and other limitations, and decided to continue cultivating the Heart-Eroding Martial Path.
• Zhang Sanxian pushed his Qi Refiner system from early Level 5 to the end of Level 5, raising his True Essence Power reading to 99999.
• The temporal aberration surrounding Zhang Sanxian dissipated.

Zhang Sanxian returned from hell and sensed that his two Eyes Beyond the Eye had been destroyed, then rushed back to the human realm. As Dizi pursued Zhang Sanxian’s disciples amid the devastation of the Western Lands, an overwhelming force froze the entire world.

• Zhang Sanxian’s return unleashed a wave of true essence that erased the surrounding hellish creatures, and he realized the Eyes Beyond the Eye had been maliciously destroyed.
• Zhang Sanxian hurried through hell and returned to the human realm through the Gate of Hell.
• Dizi devastated the Western Lands with green true essence beams while Du Mingfeng, Qiu Fangzheng, and Fire Lotus Qilin fled underground.
• Dizi captured Du Mingfeng, Qiu Fangzheng, and Fire Lotus Qilin in green light and pulled them toward the surface.
• An immense aura descended, tore open the sky, and froze the Western Lands, the Central Plains, and the rest of the world in place.

Zhang Sanxian appeared and overwhelmed Dizi with his aura, then reunited with his disciples Du Mingfeng and Qiu Fangzheng. After learning of Dizi’s crimes and his search for the Immortal Mirrors, Zhang Sanxian demanded that he explain himself.

• Zhang Sanxian’s aura froze Chu Xiong, Dizi, and everyone else across the battlefield, stopping Dizi from attacking Du Mingfeng and Qiu Fangzheng.
• Zhang Sanxian appeared before Dizi and his disciples, then released the pressure and greeted Du Mingfeng and Qiu Fangzheng after seven years apart.
• Qiu Fangzheng and Du Mingfeng told Zhang Sanxian about Dizi’s destruction, the deaths at Hanging Sword Pavilion, and Chu Xiong’s betrayal.
• Zhang Sanxian confronted Dizi, who recognized him and asked whether he possessed three Immortal Mirrors.
• Qiu Fangzheng explained that Dizi served the extraterrestrial Floating Slaughter Demon Venerable, and Zhang Sanxian ordered Dizi to explain himself.

Zhang Sanxian revealed his overwhelming True Essence and advanced his Heart-Eroding Martial Path to the pinnacle of the Eternal Night Heart Prison realm. He opened part of the Heart Prison and made Dizi vanish inside it to test its power.

• Dizi tried to intimidate Zhang Sanxian by citing the strength of Ba Mie and Captain Bei Xuan, but Zhang Sanxian revealed his True Essence was 99,999.
• Zhang Sanxian condemned Dizi for relying on the Yazi Clan’s natural Battle Soul and True Essence instead of cultivating.
• Zhang Sanxian used a Stronger Fragment to advance his Heart-Eroding Martial Path to the pinnacle of Level 5, Evernight Heart Prison: Heaven-Defying Erosion.
• Zhang Sanxian manifested a vast, distorted labyrinth of pain and ruin, frightening Dizi, Du Mingfeng, and Qiu Fangzheng.
• Zhang Sanxian pointed at Dizi, who disappeared from reality into the Heart Prison.

After torturing Dizi for half a month, Zhang Sanxian learned about the Gen-397 Star Region, the history of its three Immortal Mirrors, and the distant Demon Immortal Fortress. He asked how Dizi had reached the planet and where his spaceship was, seeking a faster route to the Floating Slaughter Demon Venerable.

• Zhang Sanxian repeatedly tortured Dizi in the Heart Prison until Dizi revealed everything he knew.
• Dizi explained that Elysium planets were rare, that most warriors had souls lasting about a thousand years, and that reaching six-digit true essence could extend that lifespan to ten thousand years.
• Dizi revealed that Celestial Rampart Palace had once found three Immortal Mirrors before a surviving Qi Refining cultivator fled with them to the Gen-397 Star Region.
• Zhang Sanxian suspected the fugitive was the Qi Refining earth-corpse treasured by the demon cult, but he could not determine how the cultivator had died or how the mirrors had been scattered.
• Dizi said the Floating Slaughter Demon Venerable was 1.8 million light-years away, with the Dark Butterfly wormhole about two hundred light-years from Zhang Sanxian.
• Zhang Sanxian asked how Dizi had reached the planet and where his spaceship was.

Zhang Sanxian returned to the Hanging Sword Pavilion after killing Dizi and destroying the Demonic Plant Soldiers. As Chu Xiong asked for a swift death, Captain Bei Xuan arrived on a blazing flying sword, and Zhang Sanxian welcomed the newcomer.

• Zhang Sanxian learned that Dizi's Class C flying sword could travel ten thousand times the speed of light, claimed it, and vaporized Dizi.
• Zhang Sanxian used Stronger Fragments to raise several abilities to Level 5, then flew back to the Central Plains with Du Mingfeng, Qiu Fangzheng, and the Lotusfire Qilin.
• Zhang Sanxian returned to the Hanging Sword Pavilion plaza, where Shen Mobai greeted him and the martial artists recovered from his earlier aura.
• Zhang Sanxian erased all thirty Demonic Plant Soldiers with a glance, leaving Chu Xiong to submit and ask for a quick death.
• Captain Bei Xuan approached the plaza on a gigantic flaming flying sword, and Zhang Sanxian said the one delivering the sword had arrived.

Zhang Sanxian unleashed the Eternal Night Heart Prison, plunging a planet and its surrounding void into supernatural darkness and drawing Ba Mie and Bei Xuan into its first layer. After Bei Xuan killed Ba Mie, he challenged Zhang Sanxian to a fight, and Zhang Sanxian invited him to attack.

• Zhang Sanxian activated the Eternal Night Heart Prison, swallowing the planet and nearby void in a dark domain that terrified its inhabitants.
• Ba Mie and Bei Xuan appeared in the Dead Silence Wasteland, the prison's first layer, and realized they had been brought into an artificial space.
• Ba Mie recognized Zhang Sanxian's overwhelming power and begged him for his name, while Bei Xuan dismissed Ba Mie as spineless.
• Bei Xuan blasted Ba Mie to death and turned to face Zhang Sanxian.
• Bei Xuan challenged Zhang Sanxian to fight, and Zhang Sanxian accepted, inviting him to entertain him.

Bei Xuan fought Zhang Sanxian across the Heart Prison realms, but Zhang Sanxian overwhelmed him with a vast gap in power. After Zhang Sanxian invited Bei Xuan to use his transformation, Bei Xuan transformed into Yazi and launched a stronger assault.

• Bei Xuan charged Zhang Sanxian, but Zhang Sanxian's True Yuan barrier stopped his punch and hurled him across the wasteland.
• Bei Xuan fired his Ultimate Extinction Flash Cannon, but Zhang Sanxian remained unharmed and crushed Bei Xuan with a single finger.
• Zhang Sanxian flung Bei Xuan into the third layer of the Heart Prison, where Bei Xuan lay gravely injured.
• Zhang Sanxian told Bei Xuan to use his transformation skill, provoking Bei Xuan to transform into Yazi with a true essence power value of around 58000.
• Bei Xuan attacked Zhang Sanxian again with a furious barrage that shook the Heart Prison planes.

Zhang Sanxian defeated Bei Xuan and killed him with his Super Saiyan Transformation, then explored the space inside Bei Xuan’s sword. A star map revealed references to multiple galaxies, leaving Zhang Sanxian wondering how vast the world was.

• The trembling sky and darkness frightened the people of the Central Plains, while Qiu Fangzheng and Du Mingfeng explained that Zhang Sanxian’s domain protected them as he fought Bei Xuan.
• Zhang Sanxian overwhelmed Bei Xuan, battered him through the Eternal Night Heart Prison, and drove him into outer space with a punch.
• Zhang Sanxian transformed into a Super Saiyan and raised his true essence power to 360000, overwhelming Bei Xuan until he vanished into particles.
• Zhang Sanxian received five Stronger Fragments, retrieved Bei Xuan’s flying sword, and entered the space within it.
• Zhang Sanxian examined the sword’s star map, found a location identified as part of the North Galaxy, and wondered whether the world contained more than one galaxy.

Zhang Sanxian tested the flying sword’s faster-than-light speed, then lifted Eternal Night Heart Prison and restored the world. Back at Hanging Sword Pavilion, he confirmed the Outer Realm Devils were defeated and crippled Chu Xiong’s cultivation instead of granting him a quick death.

• Zhang Sanxian tested the flying sword and found it could travel at two million times the speed of light, though he could outrun it in Super Saiyan 3.
• Zhang Sanxian withdrew Eternal Night Heart Prison, restoring sunlight and the sky across the planet.
• Zhang Sanxian returned to Hanging Sword Pavilion and told Shen Mobai, Du Mingfeng, Qiu Fangzheng, and the others that he had slain every Outer Realm Devil.
• The martial heroes condemned Chu Xiong for aiding the Outer Realm Devils after his subordinates were killed.
• Zhang Sanxian rejected Chu Xiong’s request for a swift death and drained his cultivation, leaving him withered and broken.

After Zhang Sanxian’s return ended the crisis and his fame spread throughout the world, he told his disciples he planned to travel into the stars to confront the Floating Slaughter Demon Venerable. He left Du Mingfeng and Qiu Fangzheng with the promise that he would teach them cultivation before he departed.

• Chu Xiong broke down after Zhang Sanxian crippled him, and Shen Mobai agreed that the punishment was worse than death.
• News of Zhang Sanxian’s victory spread across the world, earning him grand titles and making the factions cautious.
• Zhang Sanxian told Du Mingfeng and Qiu Fangzheng that he would leave for the sea of stars to seek the Floating Slaughter Demon Venerable at Demon Immortal Fortress.
• Zhang Sanxian explained the fortress’s immense distance and the vastness of the worlds beyond the heavens, astonishing his disciples and Lian Shanyu.
• Zhang Sanxian warned that his journey might last centuries, then promised to guide Du Mingfeng and Qiu Fangzheng onto the path of cultivation beyond the Sacred Embryo.

Zhang Sanxian guided Du Mingfeng, Qiu Fangzheng, and Lian Shanyu into Cultivation, then created an art that could extend their soul-lives. He left Sword-Washing Island, while the three chose their own paths to protect the island, explore the heavens, and end the wars.

• Zhang Sanxian explained that entering Cultivation required reaching the Sacred Embryo realm’s limit and surviving a nearly impossible breakthrough, then promised to help the three men succeed through Phenomenon Fiction.
• After half a year of guidance, Zhang Sanxian helped Du Mingfeng, Qiu Fangzheng, and Lian Shanyu break through and become qi cultivators.
• Zhang Sanxian created the Great Void Spirit-Nurturing Art, which could cultivate a second soul and extend a person’s soul-life, and passed it on to the three men.
• Zhang Sanxian departed Sword-Washing Island by merging into his flying sword and soaring into the sky.
• Lian Shanyu set out to explore the planets, Du Mingfeng stayed to guard the island, and Qiu Fangzheng vowed to unite the world and end its wars.