Chapter Summaries

Chen Changming learned that the Immortal Hall Master would attend the postponed ranking tournament and worried he might be chosen as a disciple, but learned the Immortal Hall passed its legacy through a single line. The chapter revealed the Hall Master's real purpose: recruiting a genius to help him obtain a mysterious treasure in Burial Immortal Valley, while Chen Changming prepared for the tournament and advanced his cultivation.

• Fan Feichen told Chen Changming that the ranking tournament had been extended by three months and that the Immortal Hall Master would attend in person.
• Chen Changming feared the Immortal Hall Master might take him as a disciple, but Fan Feichen explained that the Hall Master had already chosen a successor who had not yet appeared publicly.
• Chen Changming returned to his courtyard to improve his Flying Sword, while his true body prepared to strengthen the Mountain-Suppressing Sword Formula.
• The Immortal Hall Master recovered from old injuries in Burial Immortal Valley and resolved to select a tournament genius to help him obtain a mysterious silver scroll.
• After three months, Chen Changming enhanced the Mountain-Suppressing Sword Formula for the third time and began using the Cold Ice Grand Formation to temper his body and pursue the fourth layer of Spirit Transformation.

Chen Changming arrived at Jade Capital Mountain for the ranking tournament, where Bai Shenyu’s recent breakthrough sparked accusations that the delay had favored the Enlightenment Dao Sect. The tournament began with Bai Shenyu defeating the Purple Sky Sect’s prodigy, while Chen Changming watched and awaited his own matches.

• Chen Changming stopped refining his flying swords before the tournament, reflecting that he had thirty-seven mid-grade and four high-grade swords and planned to upgrade the rest later.
• Chen Changming traveled with Fan Feichen and the Mountain-Suppressing Sword Sect delegation to Jade Capital Mountain, where the sects gathered for the tournament.
• Bai Shenyu revealed that he had advanced to the fifth layer of the Spirit Transformation Realm, prompting Zheng Xiuyan to accuse Han Daoming of benefiting from the three-month delay.
• The Immortal Hall’s master arrived, approved the start of the tournament, and Han Daoming distributed tokens for the opening matches.
• Bai Shenyu drew the Purple Sky Sect’s prodigy as his opponent and defeated him with a single flying sword after the arena formation suppressed their cultivation to the same level.

Chen Changming prepared to challenge Bai Shenyu’s dominance in the ranking tournament, then faced his old enemy Ye Xuanji. Ye Xuanji summoned four powerful Demon Kings, including a White Tiger, leaving Chen Changming surprised by the legendary beast.

• Bai Shenyu defeated a Purple Sky Sect genius, and the sect masters began treating the Enlightenment Dao Sect as the likely tournament champion.
• Lei Minghong defeated a Righteous Path Sect disciple, and a Taiji Dao Palace genius beat a Red Luan Immortal Sect disciple.
• Ye Xuanji drew Chen Changming as his opponent, and Fan Feichen warned Chen Changming that Ye Xuanji might have contracted a powerful Demon King.
• Ye Xuanji summoned four level-eleven Demon Kings, including a gigantic mid-level-twelve White Tiger whose cultivation the arena formation suppressed.
• Ye Xuanji claimed the White Tiger was one of the Four Divine Beasts and said he could have taken first place in the War God Ancient Tower with it.

Chen Changming defeated Ye Xuanji and his divine White Tiger with a powerful Mountain-Suppressing Sword Formation, forcing Ye to concede. The Immortal Hall master watched Chen Shan with growing interest, suspecting he might be destined for something hidden in Burial Immortal Valley.

• He Changkong showed off Ye Xuanji’s White Tiger and mocked Chen Shan, while Fan Feichen insisted Chen Shan’s strength exceeded expectations.
• The Immortal Hall master asked Han Daoming about Chen Shan and was surprised to learn that his beast-taming talent had once surpassed Ye Xuanji’s.
• Ye Xuanji ordered the White Tiger to attack Chen Changming, who countered with 108 flying swords merged into a Mountain-Suppressing Sword Formation.
• Chen Changming’s formation wounded the White Tiger and carved up the three Demon Kings when they tried to break through.
• Ye Xuanji used a talisman to retreat and conceded; Chen Changming declared that he would claim the White Tiger someday.
• The Immortal Hall master wondered whether Chen Shan was fated to obtain the mysterious thing in Burial Immortal Valley.

Chen Changming defeated Lei Minghong in the ranking tournament with his Mountain-Suppressing Sword Formation, securing a chance to claim first place for the Mountain-Suppressing Sword Sect. The chapter left Fan Feichen asking how Chen Changming would face Bai Shenyu next.

• The Immortal Hall's master privately hoped Chen Shan would help him obtain something from Burial Immortal Valley, so he could refine Chen Shan into an avatar.
• After more than twenty rounds, Bai Shenyu, Lei Minghong, and Chen Changming remained undefeated, and the other contestants conceded when drawn against them.
• Lei Minghong challenged Chen Shan and attacked with a thunder mountain and a fire mountain, unleashing lightning and fiery swords against Chen Changming's formation.
• Chen Changming used the Mountain-Suppressing Primordial Unity Art to strengthen his sword formation, then expanded it and counterattacked until Lei Minghong conceded.
• Chen Changming said he wanted first place so the Mountain-Suppressing Sword Sect could stand at the head of the ten sects, and Fan Feichen asked how he would fight Bai Shenyu.

Chen Changming faced Bai Shenyu in the tournament’s final match and revealed that he possessed far more life-bound Flying Swords than anyone expected. Bai Shenyu answered with the Nine Shadow Sword Art, but Chen Changming summoned another thirty-six swords as their battle continued.

• Chen Changming told Fan Feichen he would defeat Bai Shenyu with the Mountain-Suppressing Sword Formula, and Fan Feichen learned he had more life-bound Flying Swords.
• Chen Changming and Bai Shenyu advanced to the final match after their intervening opponents forfeited.
• Chen Changming revealed 144 Flying Swords, shocking Bai Shenyu and the watching sect masters.
• Bai Shenyu formed eighty-one sword images with the Nine Shadow Sword Art and spread starlight across the arena.
• Chen Changming summoned another thirty-six Flying Swords, leaving Bai Shenyu stunned.

Chen Shan overwhelmed Bai Shenyu in the ranking tournament by adding more natal Flying Swords to the Mountain-Suppressing Sword Formation. After Bai Shenyu used the Ninefold Enlightenment Art to strengthen his counterattack, Chen Shan revealed another thirty-six swords and left the sect leaders astonished.

• The sect leaders and the Immortal Hall Master marveled at Chen Shan's thirty-six natal Flying Swords as Bai Shenyu prepared to fight him.
• Bai Shenyu attacked with his Nine Shadow Sword Art, but Chen Shan's one-hundred-and-eighty-sword Mountain-Suppressing Sword Formation suppressed and drove back his formation.
• Bai Shenyu used the Ninefold Enlightenment Art to raise his combat power, prompting He Changkong and other sect masters to predict Chen Shan would lose.
• As Bai Shenyu's empowered formation pushed back, Chen Shan summoned another thirty-six Flying Swords, bringing his formation to two hundred and sixteen swords and steadying it.
• Fan Feichen pointed out Chen Shan's seemingly endless Flying Swords to He Changkong, while the spectators were stunned by his power.

Chen Changming defeated Bai Shenyu, securing the Mountain-Suppressing Sword Sect’s place as Eastern Jin’s foremost sect. The Immortal Hall Master then took Chen Changming, Bai Shenyu, and Lei Minghong to Burial Immortal Valley to retrieve a silver-glowing stone, where Chen Changming proved better able to approach it than the others.

• Chen Changming overwhelmed Bai Shenyu’s sword formation, and the Immortal Hall Master declared the Mountain-Suppressing Sword Sect Eastern Jin’s foremost sect.
• The Immortal Hall Master summoned Chen Changming, Bai Shenyu, and Lei Minghong, then took them away in the Immortal Hall for a task.
• In Burial Immortal Valley, the Immortal Hall Master asked the three to approach a silver-glowing stone and bring it back if they could.
• Bai Shenyu and Lei Minghong were stopped by the stone’s repulsive force, while Chen Changming advanced deeper into the silver light.

Chen Changming recognized that the silver stone concealed a fragment of the Immortal Sealing List and pretended he could not reach it so the Immortal Hall Master would not suspect him. A Stone Man emerged from the stone with the fragment and hurled it at the Immortal Hall Master.

• Chen Changming realized the Immortal Hall Master wanted the silver stone and decided his avatar must not claim the fragment.
• Chen Changming recognized the silver glow as a fragment of the Immortal Sealing List and feigned exhaustion as he approached it.
• The Immortal Hall Master encouraged Chen Changming, while Bai Shenyu and Lei Minghong were relieved when he stopped ten zhang from the stone.
• A hoarse voice came from the silver stone, which transformed into a tall Stone Man holding the fragment.
• The Immortal Hall Master questioned the Stone Man, who laughed and hurled the fragment at him.

The Immortal Hall Master confronted a stone being from the Spirit Realm’s Undying Stone Clan, who revealed his connection to the Immortal Sealing List fragment. As the two powerful opponents began fighting in Burial Immortal Valley, Chen Changming’s clone monitored them while his true body rushed toward the valley.

• The Immortal Hall Master rescued Chen Changming, Bai Shenyu, and Lei Minghong from the flying Immortal Sealing List fragment and ordered them to flee.
• Chen Changming realized the stone man could rival the Immortal Hall Master and decided to bring his true body to Burial Immortal Valley to seek the fragment.
• Chen Changming’s clone hid on a mountain and used his divine sense to track the two combatants while his true body raced out of the Ice God Secret Realm.
• The stone man identified himself as a member of the Undying Stone Clan and explained that he had died from the fragment before rebirthing as an ordinary stone.
• The Immortal Hall Master unleashed three Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasures against the stone man, who shattered the flaming swords and black blades with his punches.

The Immortal Hall Master and the stone man fought fiercely over the Immortal Sealing List fragment while Chen Changming secretly stole it and escaped. After three hours, the stone man withdrew and discovered the fragment was gone.

• The Immortal Hall Master and the stone man clashed with their bodies and abilities, each inflicting injuries on the other.
• Chen Changming's true body arrived at Burial Immortal Valley, concealed his aura, and used his clone to monitor the battle.
• Chen Changming grabbed the Immortal Sealing List fragment, which responded to the key on his body, and escaped with it toward the Eastern Wasteland Snowfield.
• The Immortal Hall Master and the stone man continued fighting for three hours until the stone man decided neither could kill the other and retreated.
• The stone man returned to the fragment's former location, found it missing, and searched in confusion.

After the Immortal Sealing List fragment disappeared, Stone Man and the Immortal Hall Master suspected that a powerful figure from the Spirit Realm had taken it. The Immortal Hall Master rewarded Chen Changming, Lei Minghong, and Bai Shenyu with Profound Origin Spirit Marrow, but Chen Changming noticed his bottle was only half full.

• Stone Man failed to find the Immortal Sealing List fragment, and the Immortal Hall Master suspected that someone from the Spirit Realm had stolen it.
• Stone Man decided to suppress his cultivation, remain in the Human Realm, and search for other Immortal Sealing List fragments.
• The Immortal Hall Master returned to the Immortal Hall and decided to reward Chen Changming, Lei Minghong, and Bai Shenyu for their help.
• The Immortal Hall Master summoned the three and gave each a jade bottle of Profound Origin Spirit Marrow before teleporting them to Jade Capital Mountain.
• Bai Shenyu and Chen Changming showed their bottles to Han Daoming and Fan Feichen, and Chen Changming noticed that his bottle was only half full.

Chen Changming shared Profound Origin Spirit Marrow with Fan Feichen before the sect masters departed Jade Capital Mountain. He Changkong and Han Daoming then began plotting to lure Chen Shan away and attack him, focusing on Qiu Zhenyun’s approaching ascension as an opportunity.

• Chen Changming gave Fan Feichen half of his Profound Origin Spirit Marrow, and Fan Feichen accepted it gratefully.
• Fan Feichen departed Jade Capital Mountain with Chen Changming and the Mountain-Suppressing Sword Sect elders, while the Thunderfire Sect Master also left with his people.
• Bai Shenyu told Han Daoming that the Immortal Hall Master had been injured by a powerful Stone Man in Burial Immortal Valley.
• He Changkong proposed that several sects seize Chen Shan under the pretext that he was a demonic infiltrator, but Han Daoming rejected a direct attack that could destroy the Mountain-Suppressing Sword Sect.
• He Changkong suggested luring Chen Shan out alone by exploiting Qiu Zhenyun’s approaching ascension, and Han Daoming agreed that this offered an opportunity.

After Chen Shan’s victory made the Mountain-Suppressing Sword Sect the foremost of the ten great sects, rival sects plotted to kill him when Qiu Zhenyun went to ascend. Qiu Zhenyun prepared to reach the Flying Immortal Platform in ten years, while Fan Feichen ordered stronger protection for Chen Shan.

• He Changkong and Han Daoming agreed to recruit other sects and attack Chen Shan and Fan Feichen when Qiu Zhenyun ascended, while Han Daoming warned Bai Shenyu to distrust He Changkong and Ye Xuanji.
• News spread that the Mountain-Suppressing Sword Sect had taken first place, and Ye Xuanchen and the Glazed Saint Ancestor anticipated that the other righteous sects would target Chen Shan.
• Demon Spirit agreed to investigate the sects’ plans and consider how they might lure Chen Shan away, while Bi Cang focused on advancing her cultivation and investigating a spatial node.
• Qiu Zhenyun welcomed Chen Changming back and said he could reach the Flying Immortal Platform in ten years, then returned to seclusion.
• Fan Feichen warned that sects might use surprise attacks and ordered at least ten high-level Spirit Transformation elders to guard Chen Shan’s Azure Spirit Cave.

Chen Changming strengthened his defenses and prepared to improve his natal flying swords while his true body cultivated toward Spirit Transformation Realm Layer Four. As He Changkong gathered eight sects to target Chen Shan at Qiu Zhenyun’s ascension, the Glazed Saint Ancestor revealed that Chen Shan could help her ascend to the Immortal Realm; seven years later, Chen Changming’s true body broke through to the fourth layer.

• Fan Feichen arranged high-level elders to guard Azure Spirit Cave and promised that the Mountain-Suppressing Sword Sect would protect Chen Changming at the Flying Immortal Platform, potentially joining forces with the Red Luan Immortal Sect.
• Chen Changming resolved to raise all his natal flying swords to high-grade Spirit Treasures while his true body tempered itself in the Ice God Secret Realm.
• He Changkong persuaded the Thunderfire Sect and other sects to join an operation against Chen Shan at the Flying Immortal Platform, and he resolved to kill Li Zizai as well.
• Demon Spirit reported the threat to the Glazed Saint Ancestor, who ordered the Demon Heaven Clan to attend and revealed that her true body’s future ascent depended on Chen Shan.
• Seven years later, Chen Changming’s true body pierced the Cold Ice Grand Formation as he broke through to Spirit Transformation Realm Layer Four, startling Gu Tianxie and Gu Huaibei.

Chen Changming completed his breakthrough to the Fourth Layer of the Spirit Transformation Realm and reunited with Gu Huaibei, who had also reached the Spirit Transformation Realm. When a silver stone man entered the Ice God Secret Realm, Chen Changming challenged him to a fight, and their clash began.

• After seven years of cultivation in the Cold Ice Grand Formation, Chen Changming broke through to the Fourth Layer of the Spirit Transformation Realm and estimated that he could not yet kill the master of the Immortal Hall.
• Chen Changming met Gu Huaibei, learned she had broken through a month earlier, and told her his strength was comparable to an ordinary First Layer Void Refinement Realm cultivator.
• Gu Tianxie reported that an intruder had destroyed the entrance formation, so Chen Changming and Gu Tianxie went to the secret realm's entrance.
• A silver stone man entered the Ice God Secret Realm and demanded that Chen Changming and Gu Tianxie leave, but Gu Tianxie withdrew while Chen Changming confronted him.
• Chen Changming shattered the stone man's finger attack with a palm strike, then pressed him with a powerful force that the stone man dispelled using most of his strength.
• Chen Changming lunged at the stone man and swung a punch at him.

Chen Changming fought the Stone Man to a draw, let him search the Ice God Secret Realm for his clan’s lost treasure, and resumed cultivating after he left. Three years later, Chen Changming had spent ten years raising all his flying swords to the level of high-grade Spirit Treasures.

• Chen Changming and the Stone Man exchanged powerful punches and agreed to end their evenly matched sparring match.
• Chen Changming learned that the Stone Man came from the Undying Stone Clan in the Spirit Realm, then allowed him to search the Ice God Secret Realm while keeping its secrets quiet.
• After several hours of searching yielded nothing, the Stone Man said farewell and left the secret realm.
• Gu Tianxie told Chen Changming the Stone Man had departed, and Chen Changming returned to the Cold Ice Grand Formation to continue cultivating.
• Three years later in Azure Spirit Cave, Chen Changming finished raising all his flying swords to the level of high-grade Spirit Treasures.

Chen Changming accompanied the Mountain-Suppressing Sword Sect to Flying Immortal Mountain for Qiu Zhenyun’s ascension, where the Beast Taming Immortal Sect and its allies planned an attack. The Demon Heaven Clan unexpectedly arrived offering support, giving the eight righteous sects a pretext to accuse the Mountain-Suppressing Sword Sect of collusion.

• Chen Changming joined the Mountain-Suppressing Sword Sect’s journey east after learning that Qiu Zhenyun was preparing to ascend.
• Su Qingwan led the Red Luan Immortal Sect to join Fan Feichen’s forces as they traveled toward Flying Immortal Mountain.
• He Changkong and Han Daoming planned to seize control at the unguarded Flying Immortal Platform and kill Chen Shan and Li Zizai.
• At Flying Immortal Mountain, Qiu Zhenyun considered abandoning his ascension out of concern for his sect, but Fan Feichen and Chen Changming urged him to proceed.
• The Demon Heaven Clan arrived in force, and Clan Chief Demon Spirit offered to help the Mountain-Suppressing Sword Sect.
• He Changkong declared that the Demon Heaven Clan’s support gave the eight righteous sects a legitimate excuse to attack.

The eight sect masters plotted to use Chen Changming’s connection to the Demon Heaven Clan as justification for attacking the Mountain-Suppressing Sword Sect while Qiu Zhenyun prepared to ascend. Chen Changming’s true body arrived at Flying Immortal Mountain and reunited with the Glazed Saint Ancestor as Qiu Zhenyun began breaking through.

• Demon Spirit explained that the Demon Heaven Clan supported the Mountain-Suppressing Sword Sect because Chen Shan had ties to his lady, and Chen Changming acknowledged knowing her.
• He Changkong and the other sect masters agreed to demand that the Mountain-Suppressing Sword Sect hand over Chen Shan and planned to divide their forces against its allies.
• Qiu Zhenyun considered abandoning his ascension, but Fan Feichen urged him to proceed, and Qiu Zhenyun began cultivating on the Flying Immortal Platform.
• Chen Changming arrived in the Demon Heaven Clan’s camp, where the Glazed Saint Ancestor recognized him and invited him to watch Qiu Zhenyun’s breakthrough.
• The Glazed Saint Ancestor saw through Chen Changming’s concealed aura, and he revealed that he had reached the fourth layer of the Spirit Transformation Realm.

Chen Changming reunited with the Glazed Saint Ancestor and Bi Cang as the righteous sects summoned reinforcements to counter the powerful newcomers. Qiu Zhenyun broke through to the Void Refinement Realm, survived his lightning tribulation, and entered the passage to the Spirit Realm, where he encountered a small silver palace.

• Bi Cang arrived and sat beside Chen Changming, while the Glazed Saint Ancestor traded barbs with her over their closeness to him.
• He Changkong discovered that Bi Cang and the Glazed Saint Ancestor were both at the Tenth Layer of the Spirit Transformation Realm, prompting Han Daoming and the Thunderfire Sect's master to summon powerful reinforcements.
• Sima Qingyun left his secluded cultivation after Han Daoming warned him that powerful members of the Demon Heaven Clan had arrived at Flying Immortal Mountain.
• Qiu Zhenyun broke through to the Void Refinement Realm, fought off the lightning tribulation with his sword formation, and received the seven-colored light of ascension.
• Qiu Zhenyun entered the passage to the Spirit Realm, then noticed a small silver palace in his path.