Chapter Summaries

Sikong Jing defeated Fu Lun and the Golden Bright Emperor’s remaining subordinates aboard the Divine Cosmos Ship, then interrogated Fu Lun about crossing the Burial Emperor Battlefield. Fu Lun realized Sikong Jing was from the Vast Cosmos Great World and asked why he was there.

• Fu Lun prepared his torture instruments and boasted that his nine-hundred-spring cultivation made him far stronger than Sikong Jing.
• Sikong Jing cut through Fu Lun’s true energy with one strike of Absolute Sword Sword Qi and immobilized everyone aboard the ship.
• Sikong Jing pierced Fu Lun’s dantian and took up the Hundred Blade Remnant, frightening Fu Lun into offering to talk.
• Sikong Jing asked Fu Lun how he had crossed the Burial Emperor Battlefield to reach the Vast Cosmos Great World.
• After answering Sikong Jing’s questions, Fu Lun realized Sikong Jing was from Vast Cosmos and asked why he had come.

Sikong Jing learned how the Primordial Cosmos Great World had begun sending forces into the Vast Cosmos Great World using the Nine Heavens Sword Dao. After killing Fu Lun and the other intruders, he concluded that at least five groups had already entered the Vast Cosmos.

• Sikong Jing pieced together Fu Lun's account of the Ten Absolutes' infiltration and the Primordial Cosmos Great World's discovery that the Nine Heavens Sword Dao could repel Yin Spirit Evil Qi.
• Fu Lun explained that major Primordial Cosmos forces had independently forged Nine Heavens treasures to send their people through the Burial Emperor Battlefield.
• Fu Lun said the Seven Decree Sect had sent two groups and that at least three other groups had entered, while Great Emperors could not cross the battlefield.
• Sikong Jing killed Fu Lun and every other Primordial Cosmos person aboard the Divine Cosmos Ship.
• Fu Lun warned that more powerhouses would cross over and the Vast Cosmos would be destroyed before his spirit shadow exploded.

Sikong Jing entered Longfir Tomb and revealed to Longfir Emperor that Golden Bright Emperor’s forces came from the Primordial Cosmos Great World, provoking the tomb’s defenses. Mingzhu then falsely exposed Sikong Jing as an invader too, and Longfir Emperor turned his fury on him.

• Sikong Jing decided to eliminate Golden Bright Emperor and entered Longfir Tomb through a breach in its formation.
• Golden Bright Emperor sent a War Puppet after Sikong Jing, but Sikong Jing destroyed its consciousness with Nine Heavens Sword Qi and a Fire Evil Spirit.
• Sikong Jing told Longfir Emperor that Golden Bright Emperor’s forces had come from the Primordial Cosmos Great World, causing Longfir Emperor to unleash the tomb’s formations against them.
• Golden Bright Emperor explained the situation to Mingzhu, who tried to accuse Sikong Jing of also being from the Primordial Cosmos Great World; Golden Bright Emperor slapped and rebuked him.
• Mingzhu’s accusation prompted Longfir Emperor’s thought-spirit projection to appear at the tomb’s edge and attack Sikong Jing as an alleged invader.

Sikong Jing convinced Longfir Emperor that he was a native of the Vast Cosmos and showed him the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall, prompting Longfir Emperor to use his tomb’s fir forest to nourish the Spirit Root Divine Willow. As Golden Bright Emperor broke through the tomb’s defenses, Longfir Emperor prepared to sacrifice his remaining strength and sent Liu Duoye out, lamenting that he could not pass on his inheritance.

• Sikong Jing displayed Sword Clan power, Divine Dragon meridian power, and the Vast Cosmos vitality he had gained from the Spirit Root Divine Willow to prove his origins to Longfir Emperor.
• Sikong Jing showed Longfir Emperor the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall and explained the Spirit Root Divine Willow’s condition.
• Longfir Emperor brought Sikong Jing and the Sacred Wall to the center of his tomb and planted it, drawing vitality from the giant fir forest to nourish the Willow.
• Golden Bright Emperor’s attacks weakened Longfir Emperor’s defenses, and Longfir Emperor told Sikong Jing to escape with the Spirit Root Divine Willow when the tomb fell.
• Longfir Emperor sent Liu Duoye out of the Sacred Wall Gate and regretted that he could not give her his inheritance before the tomb was destroyed.

Sikong Jing sought a way to stop Golden Bright Emperor from destroying Longfir Tomb and interrupting Liu Duoye’s inheritance. After studying the Nine Heavens Emperor’s sword trace, he proposed trapping Golden Bright Emperor and his forces inside it with the Fire Evil Spirits.

• Longfir Emperor began passing his inheritance to Liu Duoye as Golden Bright Emperor’s forces fought their way toward the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall.
• Sikong Jing revealed his Nine Heavens Sword Qi and asked whether the Fire Evil Spirits he had gathered could defeat Golden Bright Emperor, but Longfir Emperor said there were too few to overcome his hundreds of thousands of troops.
• Sikong Jing asked Longfir Emperor to take him to the Nine Heavens Emperor’s sword trace, where Longfir Emperor recounted her visit and explained that her sword strike had helped preserve his consciousness.
• Sikong Jing concluded that the sword trace carried Longfir Emperor’s power and may have protected the tomb while offering insight to those experimenting with demons.
• Sikong Jing proposed luring Golden Bright Emperor and his forces into the Nine Heavens Emperor’s Sword Qi cave, then releasing the Fire Evil Spirits inside.

Sikong Jing and Longfir Emperor trapped Golden Bright Emperor and his hundreds of thousands of followers inside the Nine Heavens Sword Qi cavern with formations and evil spirits. Golden Bright Emperor realized they were trapped, but dismissed Mingzhu’s suspicion that Absolute Sword’s sect was responsible.

• Sikong Jing proposed surrounding the Nine Heavens One Sword with Nine Heavens Sword Qi formations and evil spirits to delay Golden Bright Emperor while Longfir Emperor passed on his inheritance.
• Longfir Emperor agreed to the plan, and Sikong Jing began building the formations as Longfir Emperor offered Golden Bright Emperor a chance to observe the Nine Heavens Emperor’s sword strike.
• Longfir Emperor led Golden Bright Emperor and his followers into the Nine Heavens Sword Qi cavern, where Golden Bright Emperor ordered them to study the sword strike and planned to remove it afterward.
• After a quarter-hour, Fire Evil Spirits, other mutated creatures, and Yin Spirit Evil Qi appeared around the cavern, and Golden Bright Emperor failed to break through the surrounding formation.
• Mingzhu suspected Absolute Sword’s sect had set the trap, but Golden Bright Emperor rejected the idea because his barrier had detected no intruders.

Sikong Jing kept Golden Bright Emperor and his forces trapped in the Nine Heavens Sword Qi Cave while collecting more Fire Evil Spirits, but Tian Wuan, Shan Qiansu, and Xue Lin struggled through their tribulations. He returned to find Longfir Emperor’s spirit fading and prepared to strengthen the blockade around Golden Bright Emperor.

• Longfir Emperor taunted Golden Bright Emperor by claiming Sikong Jing was dead, then persuaded his trapped forces to keep cultivating rather than risk a deadly breakout.
• Sikong Jing left Longfir Emperor to watch Many-Leaf Patriarch and the Spirit Root Divine Willow, then went to gather more Fire Evil Spirits and check on Tian Wuan, Shan Qiansu, and Xue Lin.
• Sikong Jing found Tian Wuan undergoing a second tribulation while Shan Qiansu and Xue Lin were still facing their first, and realized they could not help him yet.
• Sikong Jing gathered more Fire Evil Spirits and returned to Longfir Tomb twelve days later, where Liu Duoye had reached the Divine Martial Stage and Longfir Emperor’s spirit shadow had grown faint.
• Sikong Jing proposed using the doubled supply of Fire Evil Spirits to strengthen the blockade and possibly destroy Golden Bright Emperor and his forces inside the Nine Heavens Sword Qi Cave.

Golden Bright Emperor led his forces out of the Nine Heavens Sword Qi Cave, only to be driven back by a fresh surge of Fire Evil Spirits and lose a third of his subordinates. Sikong Jing and Longfir Emperor chose to abandon the attempt to kill him for now, and Sikong Jing asked Longfir Emperor to explain how the war between the Origin Universe and the Vast Universe began.

• After twelve days of observing Nine Heavens One Sword, Golden Bright Emperor led hundreds of thousands of troops out of the sword qi cave and attacked the surrounding Fire Evil Spirits.
• A crack opened in the Nine Heavens Sword Qi Formation, allowing another torrent of Fire Evil Spirits to attack Golden Bright Emperor's forces.
• Longfir Emperor claimed he had broken a treasure belonging to the dead Absolute Sword brat and sent the creatures inside it as reinforcements.
• Golden Bright Emperor retreated into the sword qi cave, but Fire Evil Spirits killed a third of his subordinates on the way.
• Sikong Jing and Longfir Emperor decided against another trip to gather more Fire Evil Spirits, and Longfir Emperor said they needed the Spirit Root Divine Willow to revive.
• Sikong Jing asked Longfir Emperor how the war between the Origin Universe and the Vast Universe had begun.

Sikong Jing and Liu Duoye departed Longfir Tomb aboard Golden Bright Emperor’s seized Divine Cosmos Ship after Longfir Emperor revived the Spirit Root Divine Willow and entrusted them with his remains and treasures. Longfir Emperor stayed behind to attack Golden Bright Emperor, and his tomb collapsed after leaving the enemy badly wounded.

• After three days, the Spirit Root Divine Willow had revived, and Sikong Jing and Liu Duoye bowed farewell to Longfir Emperor.
• Liu Duoye promised Longfir Emperor she would restore the Spirit Race, and Longfir Emperor seized Golden Bright Emperor’s Divine Cosmos Ship, replaced its ship spirit, and gave it to Sikong Jing.
• Sikong Jing and Liu Duoye left with Longfir Emperor’s remains and treasures while Longfir Emperor stayed behind to attack Golden Bright Emperor and his forces.
• Aboard the ship, Liu Duoye asked whether the Vast Cosmos and Primordial Cosmos truly had to fight, and Sikong Jing said each side faced destruction if the other survived.
• Longfir Tomb collapsed after Longfir Emperor’s assault severely wounded Golden Bright Emperor and reduced his forces to fewer than ten thousand; Longfir Emperor then dispersed completely.
• Sikong Jing accelerated toward the Spirit Seal Realm, planning to collect Fire Evil Spirits and other resources along the way.

Golden Bright Emperor survived the destruction of Longfir Tomb but lost his Divine Cosmos Ship and Nine Heavens Spirit Passage Shield, leaving him stranded with fewer than ten thousand subordinates and vowing revenge on the unknown sect of the Absolute Sword brat. A year later, Sikong Jing reached the area near the Sword Extinction Giant Tomb, but Gan Wumie could not find it.

• Golden Bright Emperor blamed Mingzhu for provoking Longfir Emperor, struck him, and vowed to hunt down the Absolute Sword brat's sect.
• The Fire Evil Spirits drifted away, but the Nine Heavens Spirit Passage Shield split apart, preventing Golden Bright Emperor's group from returning to the Primordial Cosmos soon.
• One month later, Sikong Jing and Gan Wumie inspected a giant tomb and found its formation shattered and its Nine Heavens Emperor sword strike dug out.
• Sikong Jing continued toward the Spirit Seal Realm, hoping the Primordial Cosmos factions' search for giant tombs would delay their arrival.
• After another year of travel, Gan Wumie reported that he had searched for ten days but still could not locate the nearby Sword Extinction Giant Tomb.

Sikong Jing reached the Ten-Spring Quasi-Emperor realm while searching for Sword Extinction Giant Tomb, but he learned that the tomb had disappeared. He discovered that Teng Bahun had been inside it, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Sikong Jing broke through to the Ten-Spring Quasi-Emperor realm and inspected the powers in his two dantians.
• Sikong Jing and Gan Wumie continued searching for Sword Extinction Giant Tomb and worried it might have been destroyed.
• Sikong Jing hid with Gan Wumie when several variant humans approached.
• A member of Purple Dust Pavilion said Sword Extinction Giant Tomb had disappeared and asked what had happened to Martial Uncle Bahun.
• Sikong Jing realized Teng Bahun had remained in Sword Extinction Giant Tomb and rebuilt Purple Dust Pavilion, but the tomb was now gone.

Sikong Jing learned that the Sword Extinction Giant Tomb had vanished and that people from the Primordial Cosmos Great World might have taken it. While investigating the Heaven-Soaring Giant Continent, he sensed his Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow there.

• Sikong Jing questioned several variant humans and learned that the Sword Extinction Giant Tomb had disappeared within the past two months.
• Sikong Jing concluded that people from the Primordial Cosmos Great World might have used a spatial treasure to move the tomb, and he learned that the Five Heavenly Emperors had hunted Teng Bahun for the Sword Extinction Totem.
• Sikong Jing checked Teng Bahun's life lamp, confirmed that he was still alive, and decided to investigate the Heaven-Soaring Giant Continent before searching other small worlds.
• Gan Wumie asked why the Primordial Cosmos and Vast Cosmos fought, and Sikong Jing said even Longfir Emperor had not known the Burial Emperor Battlefield's origins.
• Sikong Jing arrived at the Heaven-Soaring Giant Continent and summoned information from demon beasts across the land and sea.
• Sikong Jing sensed that his Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow was on the Heaven-Soaring Giant Continent.

Sikong Jing learned that the Abyss Mad Demon Giant Beast had seen the Divine Cosmos Ship three years earlier near the far side of the Boundless Sea, raising questions about the Seven Decree Sect’s first arrival. The beast warned that he could not remain because people on the Heaven-Soaring Giant Continent were coming to capture him.

• Sikong Jing sensed that his Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow had briefly appeared and vanished, then continued searching beast reports for clues.
• Sikong Jing summoned the Abyss Mad Demon Giant Beast and asked about its report of a terrifying divine ship.
• The beast said it had seen a ship matching the Divine Cosmos Ship three years earlier in the Void Rift World, bearing seven decree-token symbols.
• Sikong Jing inferred that the first Seven Decree Sect members had reached the Spirit Seal Realm and wondered what they had done there.
• Someone on the Heaven-Soaring Giant Continent called for the beast to be captured, and the beast told Sikong Jing it had to leave.

Sikong Jing used a captured centipede beast to draw faction leaders out and investigate the vanished Sword Extinction Giant Tomb and missing Teng Bahun while concealing his identity. Elsewhere, Ling Wangjiao led Divine Lord Stage forces from Heaven-Soaring Palace in capturing Purple Dust Pavilion, intending to use its members to force Teng Bahun to reveal whether he knew the Nine Heavens Sword Dao.

• Sikong Jing made the centipede beast his mount, lowered his aura, altered his appearance, and planned to question the factions about the Origin Universe ship and recent abnormalities.
• Ling Wangjiao and his powerful group emerged from the void-rift entrance at Purple Dust Pavilion's manor and swiftly subdued its members.
• Ling Wangjiao identified himself as a member of Heaven-Soaring Palace and claimed the estate as the family's former territory.
• Ling Wangjiao recognized the pavilion master as a former Azure Wind General and demanded that Purple Dust Pavilion accompany his forces to find Teng Bahun.
• Ling Wangjiao revealed his Divine Lord Stage power and said he wanted to trade the pavilion members' lives for Teng Bahun's knowledge of the Nine Heavens Sword Dao.
• Heaven-Soaring Palace seized Purple Dust Pavilion's core members and carried them away.

Ling Yuyue was targeted by Ling Wangjiao’s jealous maidservants after he recognized her Nine Heavens Sword Dao talent. As Sister Li prepared to kill her, a mysterious voice revealed that Sister Li had reached the Extreme Prison Stage, a realm forgotten by the Spirit Seal Realm.

• Ling Yuyue recalled how Heaven-Soaring Palace had punished her family and offered her a chance to escape by cultivating the Nine Heavens Sword Dao.
• After Ling Wangjiao made Ling Yuyue one of his maidservants and brought her back to Boundless Sea, his other maidservants resented her new standing.
• The maidservants challenged Ling Yuyue to a fight to the death, and the bystanders falsely claimed that she had proposed it.
• Sister Li advanced on Ling Yuyue and revealed that she was in the Extreme Prison Stage.
• A hoarse, demonic voice beside Ling Yuyue explained that the Extreme Prison Stage was a realm forgotten by the Spirit Seal Realm.

Ling Yuyue accepted the demonic shadow’s offer to control her body and unleashed the Nine Heavens Sword Dao against Sister Li and the surrounding maids. When a squad led by a Divine Dao Stage expert arrived, the shadow returned control to her, leaving Ling Yuyue to face them alone.

• Sister Li slapped Ling Yuyue down and threatened to kill her while the surrounding servants jeered.
• Ling Yuyue grasped her sword and opened her Spirit Platform consciousness sea, allowing the demonic shadow to enter and take control of her body.
• The demonic shadow seized Sister Li’s hand, twisted it apart, and killed her with a sword strike.
• Ling Yuyue’s sword intent cut down the veteran maids and servants who had encouraged Sister Li, despite Ling Yuyue’s pleas for the shadow to stop.
• A squad led by a Divine Dao Stage expert surrounded Ling Yuyue, and the demonic shadow withdrew control, telling her to warn them that killing her could bring consequences for her Nine Heavens Sword Dao.

Ling Yuyue was captured after the Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow used her sword to unleash the Nine Heavens Sword Dao, then revealed itself as part of Sikong Jing and began teaching her the sword art. Meanwhile, Sikong Jing remained disguised atop the centipede beast as powerful pursuers surrounded him and questioned his identity.

• Ling Yuyue threatened her pursuers with Young Master Wangjiao’s authority, so the squad subdued her and recorded her battle rather than killing her.
• Ling Yuyue questioned the demonic shadow in her sword, and it revealed that it was Sikong Jing’s Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow with confused memories of its main body.
• The Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow decided to help Ling Yuyue pass an examination by teaching her the first seven levels of the Nine Heavens Dark Demon Sword.
• A crowd of powerful experts surrounded Sikong Jing, who remained disguised atop the centipede beast.
• Sikong Jing asked a flame-wreathed middle-aged man whether he had once served the Flame Prison Heavenly Emperor.

Sikong Jing learned that the Boundless Sea’s surviving factions had become variant humans and were searching for Teng Bahun, then sensed Ling Wangjiao’s Divine Lord Stage power and Nine Heavens Sword Qi near Purple Dust Pavilion. He headed there and found Ling Wangjiao traveling toward Sword Extinction Giant Tomb, where Ling Wangjiao lamented that the Nine Heavens Emperor’s essence blood was gone.

• Sikong Jing explained that the Five Heavenly Emperors had ordered their subordinates to capture Teng Bahun, plunging the other half of Boundless Sea into chaos and leaving powerful variant humans in control.
• Boundless Sea experts threatened Sikong Jing and demanded that he leave, but he sensed Ling Wangjiao and the captured Purple Dust Pavilion people through his spiritual shadow.
• Sikong Jing and his giant centipede beast vanished toward Purple Dust Pavilion, while their departing gale knocked the attacking experts into the ground.
• The Boundless Sea experts assumed Sikong Jing could not exceed the Extreme Heaven Stage and pursued him, secretly ordering their troops to assemble.
• Ling Wangjiao traveled toward Sword Extinction Giant Tomb aboard a miniature Divine Cosmos Ship and cultivated the Nine Heavens Sword Dao.
• Ling Wangjiao told a Heaven-Soaring Palace expert that the Nine Heavens Emperor’s essence blood was gone and that the portion once kept in Heaven-Soaring Palace had been destroyed in experiments.

Ling Wangjiao and Heaven-Soaring Palace sought to seize the Nine Heavens Sword Dao from Teng Bahun before the Primordial Cosmos lords returned. Sikong Jing confronted their ship and realized the outsiders had already reached Heaven-Soaring Palace, giving him a chance to learn what had happened in the Spirit Seal Realm.

• Ling Wangjiao learned that the Vast Sea branch's Nine Heavens blood essence had been absorbed by someone who left for the Vast Cosmos Great World, and he planned to obtain Teng Bahun's sword inheritance before the lords returned.
• Heaven-Soaring Palace's experts spotted Sikong Jing and his centipede beast and ordered their ship to ram them, intending to capture the youth and destroy his mount.
• Sikong Jing and the beast vanished like an illusion, then Sikong Jing appeared on the ship's deck and asked whether the group came from Heaven-Soaring Palace.
• Sikong Jing recognized the Heaven-Soaring bloodline and questioned how its people had learned the Nine Heavens Sword Dao, realizing the Primordial Cosmos experts had reached the palace.

Sikong Jing confronted Ling Wangjiao and Heaven-Soaring Palace while disguised as a Seven Decree Sect disciple, then learned that Purple Dust Pavilion had been seized to find Ba Hun and the complete Nine Heavens Sword Dao. He revealed that Sword Extinction Giant Tomb had disappeared and prepared to take Purple Dust Pavilion with him.

• Sikong Jing claimed to belong to the Seven Decree Sect, making Ling Wangjiao and the Heaven-Soaring Palace experts realize he was provoking them.
• Sikong Jing called Purple Dust Pavilion his friends and asked why Heaven-Soaring Palace had taken them prisoner.
• A Heaven-Soaring Palace Divine Lord attacked Sikong Jing with a Heaven-Soaring Sword Dao domain, but Sikong Jing erased it with a casual wave.
• Lao Tian revealed that Heaven-Soaring Palace wanted to take Purple Dust Pavilion to Sword Extinction Giant Tomb and find Ba Hun, who might possess the complete Nine Heavens Sword Dao.
• Sikong Jing told Ling Wangjiao that Sword Extinction Giant Tomb had disappeared, then declared that he would take Purple Dust Pavilion with him.