Chapter Summaries

After Huaxia absorbed the Demon and Celestial Human Worlds’ world cores, Yang Chen helped the Progenitor of All Demons begin restoring the Demon World within Huaxia. He then removed the Human Emperor’s seals from the collapsing Celestial Human World, freeing the Blood Venerable and Immortal Venerable.

• Huaxia’s world core returned to its place after absorbing the Demon and Celestial Human Worlds’ cores, and the Buddhist Venerable’s corpse and Dao of Bewitchment merged into Huaxia’s World Dao.
• The Progenitor of All Demons mourned his lost world until Yang Chen told him the Demon World’s core was now part of Huaxia.
• Yang Chen restored the East Sea Grotto, awakening faint demonic qi and new life, and the Progenitor of All Demons entered to protect it.
• Yang Chen found the collapsing Celestial Human World and removed the Human Emperor’s seals from the sea of blood and palace halls.
• The Blood Venerable and Immortal Venerable saw Yang Chen after their seals vanished.

Yang Chen restored the Celestial Human World by merging its core with Huaxia’s and spared Immortal Venerable and Blood Venerable on the condition that they train its experts for one hundred years. In the Human Emperor World, the Imperial Preceptor explained why the Immortal World was targeting Huaxia and revealed that a rejected heir to the Human Emperor’s inheritance might be behind the threats facing Yang Chen’s master.

• Yang Chen restored the collapsing Celestial Human World and offered Immortal Venerable and Blood Venerable their lives if they nurtured its experts for one hundred years.
• Blood Venerable and Immortal Venerable accepted Yang Chen’s terms, and Yang Chen revived the Celestial Humans before returning to the Human Emperor World.
• Yang Chen told the Imperial Preceptor that he had reconstructed the Demon World and the Celestial Human World and intended to use the latter to strengthen Huaxia.
• The Imperial Preceptor explained that the Human Emperor had redirected Huaxia’s ascension summons to a barren star, hiding the world from the Immortal World.
• The Imperial Preceptor revealed that a rejected successor to the Human Emperor’s inheritance had reached the Immortal World and might be conspiring against Huaxia and Yang Chen’s master.

Yang Chen learned about the Immortal World and prepared to leave Huaxia to help his master, whose troubles stemmed from a traitor. After entrusting Huaxia to its experts, he found the ascension gate and stepped through into the Immortal Realm.

• The Imperial Preceptor told Yang Chen that the Immortal World had five continents, described East Continent's major factions, and revealed that Yang Chen's master had walked into the Immortal World instead of ascending normally.
• The Imperial Preceptor gave Yang Chen a jade slip containing the ascension location, and Yang Chen left the Human Emperor World.
• Yang Chen told Huaxia's experts he was going to rescue his master and proposed using the Celestial Human World as a trial ground for Huaxia's cultivators.
• Yang Chen reassured the experts that his imprint could handle the Celestial Humans' Loose Immortals and urged them to pursue True Immortality before departing.
• Yang Chen followed the jade slip to an ancient altar on a desolate star, activated the stone stele, and entered the gate to the Immortal Realm.

Yang Chen arrived in the Immortal Realm with nearly a hundred other ascenders and learned that they were being assessed by factions from East Continent. A True Immortal began testing them with the pressure of his Great Dao, and Yang Chen remained unaffected as the quarter-hour trial began.

• Yang Chen emerged into a plaza where powerful figures from many worlds gathered before faction representatives.
• Yang Chen recalled the Imperial Preceptor’s advice that ascenders had to prove their worth to gain invitations into major sects.
• A black-armored True Immortal announced that the ascenders would be judged by their ability to endure his Great Dao pressure.
• The True Immortal released a thirty-li river of the Great Dao, crushing several ascenders while Yang Chen and a few others stood firm.
• The True Immortal declared that only those who endured his pressure for a quarter-hour could join a faction, while the rest would become Rogue Cultivators.

Yang Chen endured a True Immortal’s escalating Great Dao pressure and revealed his Sword Heart, drawing the attention of powerful sects seeking to recruit him. The Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect claimed him first, but the Soul-Falling Sect challenged that claim, leaving their representatives in a standoff.

• The True Immortal intensified the pressure on Yang Chen, who remained standing calmly despite the attack.
• The True Immortal sent a savage-beast phantom at Yang Chen, and Yang Chen destroyed it with Sword Qi and Sword Heart.
• The experts in the viewing stands recognized Yang Chen’s Sword Heart and argued over which faction should recruit him.
• A representative of the Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect declared that Yang Chen belonged to their sect, silencing the other experts.
• A representative of the Soul-Falling Sect also claimed an interest in Yang Chen, and the two factions’ leaders confronted each other.

Yang Chen passed the first trial and drew the attention of sect leaders because he had comprehended Sword Heart. The second trial began with the Time Wheel, which tested whether the ascenders were under one hundred years old.

• Heaven Sword Master and Soul-Severing Old Ghost argued over whether Yang Chen should join their sects, while other factions watched.
• The True Immortal examiner ended his pressure test after recognizing Yang Chen's Sword Heart, and Yang Chen calmly withdrew his Sword Qi.
• After a quarter of an hour, only twenty or thirty of the nearly one hundred ascenders remained standing, and the examiner announced they had passed the first trial.
• The examiner introduced the Time Wheel and explained that only ascenders under one hundred years old could pass the second trial.
• Chen Hao stepped onto the Time Wheel, revealed that he was sixty-two, and attracted competing offers from Yanhuang Mountain and Heaven Fiend Mountain.

Yang Chen watched the ascenders undergo the Time Wheel’s age test, which revealed promising candidates Zuo Fan and Zi Xiao. When the wheel showed Yang Chen was only twenty-one, Heaven Sword Master declared that the Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect would claim him.

• A young man aged 101 was disqualified, and several other ascenders produced unimpressive results.
• Zuo Fan was revealed to be forty and at the tenth step of Ascending Heaven, prompting Heaven One Sect, Heavenly God Sect, and Soul-Severing Old Ghost to compete for him.
• Zi Xiao was revealed to be thirty-five and at the tenth step of Ascending Heaven, and the Saintess Sect claimed her.
• Yang Chen stepped onto the Time Wheel as the assembled experts watched with curiosity.
• The Time Wheel revealed Yang Chen was twenty-one, and Heaven Sword Master declared that the Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect would take him.

After Yang Chen stunned the plaza with his age, cultivation, and Sword Heart, several major sects competed for him. The second round ended, and the third began with a test of Great Dao perception, which Chen Hao volunteered to take first.

• Heaven Sword Master, Soul-Severing Old Ghost, and a Heavenly Immortal from Dragon Ancestor Hall each claimed interest in Yang Chen.
• Yang Chen completed the Time Wheel test, revealing that he was twenty-one and at the peak of the Ten Steps to Heaven realm with Sword Heart.
• The True Immortal expert secretly sent his boss a message urging him to come before Yang Chen was recruited by another force.
• After the second round, twenty ascenders remained, and the True Immortal expert introduced a Dao Stone to test their Great Dao perception.
• Chen Hao stepped forward to take the Dao Stone test, and the True Immortal expert reacted with disdain.

Chen Hao and the other ascenders were tested for Great Dao perception, and Zuo Fan’s score of eighty-eight drew the attention of the strongest sects. Heaven One Sect and Heavenly God Sect both claimed they would recruit him, leaving the two sides on the verge of a fight.

• Chen Hao tested the Great Dao Stone and scored sixty, prompting several True Immortals to argue over recruiting him.
• Several other ascenders scored just above fifty, leaving Chen Hao pleased that his result remained the highest so far.
• Zuo Fan sensed the Great Dao’s power through the stone and displayed a ripple of Great Dao energy.
• Zuo Fan received a score of eighty-eight, startling the True Immortals and attracting the attention of the Heavenly Immortals.
• Heaven One Sect and Heavenly God Sect both declared their intention to recruit Zuo Fan, and their representatives confronted each other.

Yang Chen, the final ascender to be tested, discovered that the Dao Stone let his Black Hole Pearl absorb the Devour, Flame, and Thunder Daos. His Dao perception reached 100, leaving the gathered experts stunned and eager to learn his potential.

• The Heaven One Sect expert grew angry at Zuo Fan, but the Dragon Ancestor Hall expert stopped the dispute and considered recruiting him.
• Zuo Fan scored 88 in Dao perception, revealing his strong potential, while Chen Hao realized the gulf between them.
• Zi Xiao scored 90, drawing praise from the Saintess Sect expert and interest from the gathered observers.
• Yang Chen entered the Dao Stone’s vision and watched his Black Hole Pearl absorb the Devour Dao, then the Flame and Thunder Daos.
• Yang Chen’s Dao progress reached five, and the Dao Stone displayed a final score of 100.

Yang Chen revealed a Dao perception of one hundred, shocking the powerful figures gathered at the Ascension Platform. Sects across the Eastern Continent mobilized their strongest experts to recruit him, while Yang Chen remained at the platform.

• Yang Chen's Dao Stone shattered after displaying a Dao perception of one hundred, and the True Immortal and gathered Heavenly Immortals realized his potential to become an Immortal King.
• Heaven Sword Master sent word to his sect that Yang Chen was a twenty-one-year-old Heaven-Ascending peak powerhouse with a Sword Heart and a Dao perception of one hundred.
• The Saintess Sect's Heavenly Immortal regretted that Yang Chen was not a woman, while Chen Hao, Zi Xiao, and Zuo Fan reacted to his talent; Zuo Fan decided to treat him as someone to surpass.
• A white-haired elder of the Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect raced toward the Ascension Platform after receiving Heaven Sword Master's message.
• Powerful experts from sects across the Eastern Continent, including Dragon Ancestor Hall, set out for the Ascension Platform to claim Yang Chen.

Yang Chen’s exceptional results drew recruitment offers from several of the Eastern Continent’s most powerful sects, with Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect promising a year of instruction from its Immortal King. As Dragon Ancestor Hall threatened Heaven Sword Master over Yang Chen’s choice, an unknown voice challenged it from the void.

• The True Immortal announced Yang Chen’s top-tier results, then invited the sects to choose among the Ascenders.
• Heaven Sword Master offered to recruit Yang Chen into Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect, and Soul-Severing Old Ghost and experts from Heaven One Sect and Heavenly God Sect also put forward their sects.
• Dragon Ancestor Hall offered Yang Chen personal instruction from a Golden Immortal, but Yang Chen disliked its expert’s superior attitude.
• Heaven Sword Master promised that his sect’s Immortal King would teach Yang Chen for a year, and the other three sects made the same offer.
• The Dragon Ancestor Hall expert threatened Heaven Sword Master, and a cold voice from the void declared that Dragon Ancestor Hall could be provoked.

Immortal Sword True Lord arrived at the Ascension Platform and challenged several Golden Immortals who wanted Yang Chen to join their sects. When Tuoba Tian threatened Yang Chen on behalf of Dragon Ancestor Hall, Yang Chen confronted him directly.

• Immortal Sword True Lord appeared and rebuked the Dragon Ancestor Hall Heavenly Immortal for acting arrogantly.
• Three Golden Immortals from the Soul-Falling Sect, Heaven One Sect, and Heavenly God Sect arrived and invited Yang Chen to join them.
• Immortal Sword True Lord demonstrated his strength, forcing the Soul-Falling Sect expert to back down before he still tried to recruit Yang Chen.
• Tuoba Tian arrived and declared that Dragon Ancestor Hall was determined to have Yang Chen, prompting Immortal Sword True Lord to threaten him with his sword.
• Immortal Sword True Lord urged Yang Chen to join the Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect, while Tuoba Tian warned him to consider the consequences of refusing.
• Yang Chen looked at Tuoba Tian and asked whether he was threatening him.

Yang Chen endured Tuoba Tian’s assault and refused Dragon Ancestor Hall’s demand that he join them. He chose the Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect, leaving Tuoba Tian and the other Golden Immortals to face his decision.

• Tuoba Tian crushed Yang Chen to his knees with his pressure, then attacked him while Immortal Sword True Lord tried to intervene.
• Yang Chen blocked Tuoba Tian’s palm with his sword arts and True Immortal-level body, but was knocked into a crater and badly injured.
• Yang Chen emerged alive and provoked Tuoba Tian, who stopped only when Immortal Sword True Lord threatened to fight him again.
• Tuoba Tian offered to overlook the conflict if Yang Chen joined Dragon Ancestor Hall, while Immortal Sword True Lord urged him to join the Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect.
• Yang Chen announced that he chose the Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect.

Yang Chen joined Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect, while Zuo Fan chose Heaven One Sect and Tuoba Tian’s Dragon Ancestor Hall failed to recruit either of them. Immortal Sword True Lord brought Yang Chen to the sect and explained that Golden Immortals had noticed Yang Chen’s grasp of the Dao; they arrived at the Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect’s mountain home.

• Tuoba Tian threatened Yang Chen after he chose Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect, but Immortal Sword True Lord protected him.
• Zuo Fan rejected Dragon Ancestor Hall and joined Heaven One Sect; Zi Xiao chose Saintess Sect, and Chen Hao joined Soul-Falling Sect.
• Immortal Sword True Lord carried Yang Chen away and told him that Golden Immortals had seen the Dao power layered over his Sword Qi.
• Yang Chen asked why Tuoba Tian had not tried harder to kill him, and Immortal Sword True Lord said Dragon Ancestor Hall did not fear him and could not act against him while he was present.
• Immortal Sword True Lord and Yang Chen arrived at the Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect, whose peaks were filled with immortal qi and Sword Qi.

Immortal Sword True Lord brought Yang Chen to the Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect and introduced him to the sect’s disciples. Yang Chen entered the great hall, where the nine peak masters and sect master awaited him, and his gaze clashed with the central figure’s.

• Immortal Sword True Lord described the Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect’s nine Golden Immortal peak masters, Immortal King sect master, and strength against the Dragon Ancestor Hall.
• True Immortal disciples welcomed Immortal Sword True Lord and met Yang Chen, while Ye Chen explained that the Dragon Ancestor Hall routinely harassed new disciples.
• Ye Chen told Immortal Sword True Lord that the peak masters and sect master were waiting, and Immortal Sword True Lord reluctantly took Yang Chen to meet them.
• Yang Chen entered the great hall and saw nine powerful figures, including the sect master at the center.
• Yang Chen and the central figure met eyes, and their gazes clashed with an explosive force.

Yang Chen underwent a detailed test of his Great Dao perception before the Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect’s leaders, and the Great Dao Crystal revealed potential beyond the Immortal King level. While the experts watched the crystal change color, Yang Chen secretly absorbed additional Great Daos, and the test continued.

• Chen Xin healed Yang Chen and introduced himself as the Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect’s Immortal King Sect Master.
• The Peak Masters argued over which peak Yang Chen should join, and Chen Xin said Yang Chen would choose after a further test.
• Chen Xin used a Great Dao Crystal to measure Yang Chen’s perception, and its light shifted from orange to yellow and then green.
• Yang Chen’s Black Hole Pearl pulled the Water Great Dao and the Frost Great Dao from the Great Dao River, raising his Great Dao Progress to 7/100.
• The Great Dao Crystal’s glow changed from green to cyan, indicating potential beyond the Immortal King level.

Yang Chen’s Great Dao potential reached blue, marking him as a candidate to become an Immortal Emperor, while the Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect decided to conceal his true potential. Inside the Dao Crystal, Yang Chen continued absorbing Daos and reached a progress of 10/100.

• The Great Dao Crystal revealed Yang Chen’s azure potential, and Chen Xin said his own perception had once fallen just short of azure.
• Elder Mo and the Peak Master of Prison Sword Peak vowed to protect Yang Chen and keep information about him secret.
• The crystal shifted to blue, and the gathered Golden Immortals recognized that Yang Chen had the potential to become an Immortal Emperor.
• Chen Xin persuaded the Golden Immortals to tell outsiders that Yang Chen had only Immortal King potential, and they agreed to keep his true potential secret.
• Unaware of the revelations, Yang Chen absorbed the Gale Dao and Venom Dao, then pulled in the Explosive Dao and reached Dao Progress (10/100).

After reaching ten-percent perception of the Great Dao, Yang Chen gained power that could rival newly entered True Immortals. The Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect’s experts concealed the full extent of his talent and began discussing which Sword Peak he should join, with Chen Xin recommending Hidden Sword Peak.

• Yang Chen’s Great Dao perception reached ten percent, and the Black Hole Pearl gave him power strong enough to kill the Buddhist Venerable without the Power of All Beings.
• Chen Xin calmed the Golden Immortal experts who were eager to recruit Yang Chen and told him the Great Dao Stone had revealed only Immortal King aptitude.
• Chen Xin introduced the Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect’s nine Sword Peaks and explained that each cultivated a different path.
• Yang Chen released his Sword Heart, and Chen Xin judged that its slaughtering power suited Prison Sword Peak or Immortal Sword Peak.
• Chen Xin said he had a better destination for Yang Chen: Hidden Sword Peak, where he served as peak master.

Yang Chen learned that Hidden Sword Peak had been abolished because its cultivation technique, which surpassed Heaven Grade, caused many disciples to suffer qi deviation. Chen Xin argued that Yang Chen’s extraordinary talent might let him master it, and the chapter ended with the Sword-Washing Peak Master leaving the choice of peak to Yang Chen.

• Chen Xin proposed that Yang Chen join Hidden Sword Peak, prompting the Golden Immortal peak masters to protest that it was outside the nine great peaks and forbidden from recruiting disciples.
• Chen Xin explained that Hidden Sword Peak had once been the sect’s tenth peak and was abolished after its dangerously difficult technique caused many disciples to suffer qi deviation.
• Immortal Sword True Lord and the Sword-Washing Peak Master warned Yang Chen that even exceptionally talented disciples had failed to cultivate the technique and some had died.
• Chen Xin privately told the Sword-Washing Peak Master that Yang Chen’s Immortal Emperor potential could let him master the technique and perhaps reach beyond the Immortal King realm.
• The Sword-Washing Peak Master yielded and told Yang Chen to choose between the nine great peaks and Hidden Sword Peak.