Chapter Summaries

Chen Changqing and Xiaoqian crossed the ruined Eastern Region, learned that Mount Shu was under attack, and directed refugees toward safety while fighting Ruin Beasts. They reached Mount Shu to find its defenses broken and its disciples dead, and Chen Changqing prepared to fight his way inside.

• Chen Changqing saw Ruin Qi draining the Eastern Region’s Spirit Veins and learned from Zhao Wuji that the Upper Realm’s invasion had struck all the great powers, with Mount Shu besieged by three Tribulation Immortals and a hundred thousand Ruin Soldiers.
• Chen Changqing sent Zhao Wuji to ask Empress Liu Ruyan to evacuate refugees east, then continued toward Mount Shu with Xiaoqian.
• Xiaoqian destroyed three Ruin Beasts threatening a village, and Chen Changqing directed the villagers to seek shelter at Mount Shu.
• Chen Changqing and Xiaoqian fought Ruin Beasts and Ruin Soldiers along the route as the rifts grew denser near Central Province.
• Chen Changqing reached Mount Shu, found its Mountain Protection Array partly destroyed and bodies covering the approach, and picked up the bloodied, broken mountain-gate plaque.
• Chen Changqing drew the Immortal Execution Sword, told Xiaoqian not to hold back, and announced his arrival to the Ruin Soldiers at the gate.

Mount Shu’s disciples fought desperately as the Mountain Protection Array weakened and shattered under the Ruin Clan’s assault. Chen Yuan stood between his disciples and a killing blow, just as a brilliant Sword Light arrived and a voice threatened anyone who harmed his master.

• Chen Yuan exhausted his strength trying to maintain Mount Shu’s array while Bai Wuya, Luo Futian, Ji Changkong, Liu Mu, and Ran Hua defended the mountain and its disciples.
• The First Ancestor, True Lord Qingxiao, and the Heavenly Origin Patriarch struggled against three Ruin Clan Tribulation Immortals while the other six elders held sky rifts across Central Province.
• After the eastern foundation broke, Jian Zhenzi rallied the frightened disciples, and Chen Yuan ordered them to form the Sword Formation and stand their ground.
• The Mountain Protection Array shattered, and the Ruin Soldiers flooded into Mount Shu as Chen Yuan shielded the disciples from the three-faced Ruin Clan attacker.
• As the attacker’s bone blades fell toward Chen Yuan, a Sword Light split the blood clouds, and an arriving voice warned that no one would touch a hair on his master’s head.

Chen Changqing returned to Mount Shu, killed a Ruin Clan Tribulation Immortal, and helped the survivors recover as Xiaoqian purified the battlefield. After learning that the Ruin Clan was seeking something in Mount Shu’s Ancestral Land, he rallied the disciples to fight and faced Lie Shan, a five-tribulation commander of the Seventh Royal Court.

• Chen Changqing killed the three-tribulation Ruin Clan Tribulation Immortal with one sword and stabilized his wounded master, Chen Yuan.
• Xiaoqian used her Merit Golden Light to destroy the Ruin Soldiers at the mountain gate and heal Mount Shu’s injured disciples.
• Chen Yuan told Chen Changqing that the Nine Provinces were under attack and that Ruin Clan forces were trying to reach Mount Shu’s Ancestral Land.
• Chen Changqing said the invasion began after he destroyed the Primordial Demon Body, but Chen Yuan rejected his guilt and reminded him he had acted to save the Nine Provinces.
• Chen Changqing rallied Mount Shu’s disciples and vowed to kill their enemy and follow the rift into the Upper Realm.
• Lie Shan, a five-tribulation Ruin Clan commander, challenged Chen Changqing, who answered that dead men did not need names.

Chen Changqing fought Lie Shan while realizing the Ruin clansman was using their clashes to damage Mount Shu’s Earth Vein and open the Sword Graveyard from within. With Ruin clansmen rushing toward the breach and Lie Shan blocking him, Chen Changqing reconstructed six equally powerful avatars to answer the threat.

• Chen Changqing used his fist and Invincible Sword World to hold off Lie Shan’s Tribulation Rings and attack him with the Immortal Execution Sword.
• Chen Changqing realized Lie Shan was redirecting the force of their clashes into the Earth Vein beneath the rear mountain.
• A blast from inside the Sword Graveyard broke open the Sealing Sword Great Formation, and two peak Third-Tribulation Ruin clansmen rushed through the breach.
• The First Ancestor urged Chen Changqing to stop the intruders, but Lie Shan sealed off his path and taunted him.
• Chen Changqing spent 500 million AFK Points to reconstruct six First-Tribulation Pure Yang Tribulation Immortal Avatars with combat power equal to his own.

Chen Changqing and his Avatars crushed the Ruin Clan army attacking Mount Shu and killed its Five Tribulations commander, Lie Shan. Lie Shan’s token exposed Xuanming as a Ruin Clan infiltrator, and Xuanming broke the Sword Graveyard’s seal, allowing the Ruin Clan Mother Empress’s severed limb to swallow the eighth Heaven-Stepping Token.

• Chen Changqing summoned six Avatars armed with Immortal Artifacts, and they intercepted and killed Lie Shan’s two Three Tribulations deputy commanders near the Sword Graveyard.
• Chen Changqing played the Immortal-Burying Zither while Xiaoqian’s golden light supported its attack, destroying more than half the Ruin Soldiers surrounding Mount Shu.
• Chen Changqing strengthened his cultivation and hammer technique, smashed Lie Shan’s five Tribulation Rings and defenses, and killed him with the Immortal Execution Sword.
• Chen Changqing found Xuanming’s identity token among Lie Shan’s remains and realized Xuanming had likely colluded with the Ruin Clan.
• Xuanming, revealed as a Ruin Clan-parasitized infiltrator, wounded the Heavenly Origin Patriarch and shattered the seal at the Sword Graveyard’s lowest level.
• The Ruin Clan Mother Empress’s severed limb swallowed the eighth Heaven-Stepping Token as Chen Changqing and his Avatars rushed to stop Xuanming.

Chen Changqing used the Grand Void Illuminating Spirit Mirror to find the Mother Empress's core inside the fake Xuanming Patriarch, then froze time and space to rescue Heavenly Origin Patriarch. His six Avatars pierced the core with spears, pinning the enemy before Mount Shu's ancestral tablets, and Chen Changqing reached into the wound to retrieve the eighth Heaven-Stepping Token.

• The fake Xuanming Patriarch swallowed the Mother Empress's severed limb, reached the peak of Six Tribulations, and began turning Mount Shu's hundred thousand ancestral swords into Ruin Soldiers.
• Heavenly Origin Patriarch tried to stop him, but the fake Xuanming Patriarch pierced his shoulder and held him hostage as Chen Changqing arrived with his six Avatars.
• Chen Changqing shattered the Heavenly Origin Token to summon a starlight Faxiang, which blocked the fake Xuanming Patriarch's bone blade long enough for Chen Changqing and his Avatars to surround the altar.
• Chen Changqing used the Grand Void Illuminating Spirit Mirror to locate the Mother Empress's core beneath the fake Xuanming Patriarch's left ribs, then froze time and space with the Fragment of the Creation Jade Disk.
• Chen Changqing rescued Heavenly Origin Patriarch and had his six Avatars spear the core, pinning the fake Xuanming Patriarch before the ancestral tablets.
• Chen Changqing thrust his hand into the fake Xuanming Patriarch's wound to retrieve the eighth Heaven-Stepping Token.

Chen Changqing killed the fake Xuanming Patriarch and recovered the eighth Heaven-Stepping Token, then cleansed and subdued Mount Shu’s hundred thousand Ancient Swords to seal the sky over Central Province. He accepted the position of Sect Master and ordered Mount Shu to prepare to attack the Ruin Clan, while the final token remained undiscovered.

• Chen Changqing tore the eighth Heaven-Stepping Token and the Mother Empress’s severed limb from the fake Xuanming Patriarch, killed him, and devoured the limb’s Ruin Clan essence.
• The Void-Transformation Great Formation continued to run wild, so Chen Changqing used Pure Yang blood to cleanse the hundred thousand Ancient Swords of Ruin Qi and brought them under his control.
• Chen Changqing sent the Ancient Swords skyward to seal the cracks over Central Province and destroy Ruin Beasts reaching through them.
• Daoist Chen Yuan passed the Sect Master’s Sword Seal to Chen Changqing, who accepted the position before Mount Shu’s disciples and ancestors.
• Chen Changqing announced that Mount Shu would remove its mountain-sealing formation and attack the Ruin Clan once the disciples had recovered.