Chapter Summaries

Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable killed Jiang Xunche and joined Qin Huaian and the survivors after they defeated their pursuers. As the group prepared to leave, a powerful spatial fluctuation swept across World 13.

• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable fought Jiang Xunche and killed him with a sword through the heart.
• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable took Jiang Xunche's storage artifact and ice spear, then burned his body to a golden skeleton.
• Zhou killed the Late Golden Immortal pursuing Yu Ruoxue, and Yang Qianli used an immortal talisman to kill the last pursuer.
• Yu Ruoxue and the others thanked Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable, and Yu Ruoxue teased Qin Huaian about his strength.
• Qin Huaian urged everyone to leave before more Water Rhyme Sect cultivators arrived, but a powerful spatial fluctuation swept across World 13.

Qin Huaian and his companions traveled by Yu Ruoxue’s Flying Boat toward a distant source of violent spatial fluctuations while recovering from battle. They learned more about the powerful Water Rhyme Sect, whose disciples they had killed, and Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable urged them to keep a low profile until they grew stronger.

• Yu Ruoxue invited Qin Huaian and the others aboard her Flying Boat to investigate the spatial fluctuations, and Yang Qianli piloted it toward the source.
• Qin Huaian and the others meditated aboard the Flying Boat to restore their strength after the battle.
• Yu Ruoxue asked about Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable, and Qin Huaian introduced him as his elder brother, Huang Yue.
• Yu Ruoxue invited Qin Huaian and Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable to join the Four Seas Merchant Association, but Qin Huaian declined for himself and left Huang Yue to decide.
• Yu Ruoxue explained that the Water Rhyme Sect was one of the Luo River World’s top five sects and had vast territory and many powerful experts.
• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable told Qin Huaian not to worry about the Water Rhyme Sect and said they could avoid attention until they advanced to Primordial Unity Golden Immortals.

Qin Huaian warned the Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable that killing a Water Rhyme Sect disciple could have left a hidden tracking mark, then used his eye technique to find one on him. The group realized the mark could expose them to the Water Rhyme Sect, and Yu Ruoxue wondered whether she and the others were marked too.

• Yu Ruoxue and Qin Huaian greeted the Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable and recalled how they had helped each other before.
• The Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable and Yu Ruoxue urged Qin Huaian not to worry about the Water Rhyme Sect, and Qin Huaian resolved to stay cautious.
• Qin Huaian told the Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable that slain core disciples could leave hidden tracking marks on their killers.
• The Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable agreed to an inspection, and Qin Huaian found a tracking mark on his left calf.
• The Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable detected and bound the mark, while Yu Ruoxue realized Qin Huaian's Origin Eye surpassed hers and asked whether they might be marked as well.

Qin Huaian and his companions concealed Jiang Xunche’s tracking mark and checked that no one else carried one before continuing toward the spatial fluctuation. Su Zhiting, following Elder Jiang’s instructions, wondered why the mark had stopped moving but prioritized reaching the fluctuation, while Yu Ruoxue’s group neared it.

• Qin Huaian explained that the tracking mark was likely placed by a Grand Unity Immortal Venerable and could alert its caster if destroyed.
• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable buried the restrained tracking mark in a concealed array, and Qin Huaian checked Yang Qianli and Zhou for marks.
• Yu Ruoxue had Yang Qianli change direction and take a detour before heading back toward the spatial fluctuation.
• Su Zhiting noticed Jiang Xunche’s tracking mark had remained stationary for an hour and considered whether his killer had been killed or had changed course.
• Su Zhiting put away Elder Jiang’s jade token and continued toward the spatial fluctuation, while Yang Qianli said the group would reach it within an hour.

Qin Huaian and his companions arrived at a spatial formation in the Void Hall and learned that advancing through its rings brought rewards but could also force cultivators out of the hall. As prodigies gathered and entered the formation, Su Zhiting arrived, leaving the trial poised to begin in earnest.

• Qin Huaian and his companions found thousands of cultivators gathered around a vast, glowing formation where people vanished as they advanced.
• Yu Ruoxue reunited with her third uncle, Yu Wei, who explained that the formation rewarded cultivators for reaching its inner rings and tested comprehension rather than cultivation.
• Qin Huaian and the others read the stele, which warned that failing to endure the formation would teleport a cultivator out of the Void Hall; one participant was soon expelled after coughing blood.
• Fairy Qiyu arrived, and Gu Jun of the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land reached the second ring and earned ten Spatial Stones, prompting other cultivators to enter.
• Blood Blade and Liu Chengzhi arrived as the three great prodigies gathered, and Su Zhiting of the Water Rhyme Sect soon joined them.

Su Zhiting arrived at the mysterious formation patterns, where Liu Chengzhi explained that they seemed to be a trial connected to the Spatial Law. Su Zhiting entered alone, and Liu Chengzhi, his disciples, and Blood Blade followed into the formation.

• Su Zhiting arrived at the formation patterns, and Liu Chengzhi greeted her while she responded coolly.
• Liu Chengzhi told Su Zhiting that cultivators entering the formation experienced strange changes and that he had found more than twenty Spatial Stones.
• Su Zhiting thanked Liu Chengzhi for the information but declined to enter with him.
• Su Zhiting entered the formation patterns and became impossible to sense with divine sense.
• Liu Chengzhi led the Azure Water Sword Pavilion disciples into the formation, and Blood Blade entered as well.

Cultivators entered the newly changed formation-pattern zone, while Zhang Hu was teleported out of the Void Hall less than half a year after entering and began explaining what had happened inside. Qin Huaian stepped into the formation markings and found himself alone on a broad avenue in the Thirteenth World.

• Qiyu, Gu Jun, and other cultivators entered the formation-pattern zone, prompting many more to follow.
• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable and Qin Huaian decided to enter, and Yu Ruoxue went in despite Yang Qianli's warning; Yang Qianli and Zhou followed her.
• Zhang Hu appeared outside Meteorfall City after being teleported out of the Void Hall, drawing the attention of Wei Bingyi, Zhao Gang, and other powerful cultivators.
• Wei Bingyi allowed Zhang Hu to recount what he had seen and heard inside the Void Hall.
• Qin Huaian entered the formation markings and found that the others had vanished, leaving him before a broad avenue.

Qin Huaian entered a mysterious road where slaying Void Flying Ants granted Spatial Law dao essence, and he eagerly advanced toward the distant light. Outside, cultivators noticed that he was moving faster than the Golden Immortal prodigies and wondered what treasure he had found.

• Qin Huaian learned that traveling farther along the road before World 13 ended would bring richer rewards, but discovered that the road stretched unnaturally as he ran.
• A Void Flying Ant appeared and attacked Qin Huaian, who killed it with one sword strike and received a strand of Spatial Law dao essence.
• Qin Huaian killed two more Void Flying Ants before they could attack and received two additional strands of Spatial Law dao essence.
• Four Void Flying Ants appeared ahead as Qin Huaian continued toward the white light, unaware that the cultivators outside saw him advancing rapidly.
• The cultivators outside noticed Qin Huaian moving faster than Qiyu, Blood Blade, and Liu Chengzhi, and speculated that he had found a treasure.

Cultivators debated the dangers and rewards of the formation roads while Yu Ruoxue and Qin Huaian fought Void Flying Ants matched to their own cultivation realms. Qin Huaian defeated eight ants and realized he had reached the second stretch of the road, nearing the glow ahead.

• Cultivators watching the formation roads wondered whether the roads offered treasures beyond Spatial Stones, then hesitated again when another cultivator vanished.
• Yu Ruoxue faced four late-stage Heavenly Immortal Realm Void Flying Ants and crushed them with her meteor hammers and the Law of Strength.
• Yu Ruoxue gained a trace of law Dao insight after striking one of the ants, then attacked the last one.
• Qin Huaian defeated eight Void Flying Ants with his sword and gained traces of Spatial Law Dao essence.
• Qin Huaian noticed he was only several dozen li from the glow and had already reached the road's second stretch.

Qin Huaian entered the second layer of the formation patterns, where spatial rifts tested cultivators’ ability to sense and evade disturbances in space. He sat down to cultivate the Spatial Law Dao essence while Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable finished the first layer and celebrated his own gains.

• Qin Huaian collected ten Spatial Stones after reaching the second layer, drawing attention from cultivators outside the formation.
• A cultivator collapsed and vanished inside the formation, alarming those who had been considering entering.
• Qin Huaian dodged a spatial rift and realized that the Spatial Law Dao essence from the first layer could help cultivators sense such dangers.
• Qin Huaian sat down to cultivate rather than advance, using the World Tree’s energy to rapidly deepen his comprehension of Spatial Law.
• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable killed the final Void Flying Ant, praised the Spatial Law Dao essence, and received ten Spatial Stones.

Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable entered an enlightened state in the Void Hall’s formation patterns while Liu Chengzhi reached the third layer, prompting many cultivators to enter. Outside the hall, Su Yu and the Chaotic Sea Region’s Immortal Venerables discussed protecting the newly valuable inheritance before learning that a similar spatial grand formation had appeared elsewhere.

• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable began avoiding spatial rifts and folds as he advanced through the second layer of formation patterns in a state of enlightenment.
• Liu Chengzhi became the first cultivator to enter the third layer and received a hundred Spatial Stones, encouraging several hundred cultivators to enter the formation.
• Su Yu told the Chaotic Sea Region’s Immortal Venerables that the Void Hall had become a rare secret realm for comprehending Spatial Law and urged them to unite for its protection.
• Lu Haiyue promoted the Chaotic Immortal Alliance under Su Yu’s leadership, while Bai Wujing reacted coldly after losing their contest of strength to Su Yu.
• A messenger told Su Yu that a spatial grand formation resembling the one in the Emerald Bamboo Domain had appeared northwest of Dragon Creek Continent.

Su Yu learned that a spatial grand formation had appeared near Fuping City on Dragon Creek Continent and planned to persuade cultivators from other domains to spend their Spatial Stones deciphering it. Meanwhile, Qin Huaian resumed watching the formation trials in Void Hall as fewer than a hundred cultivators remained outside its inscriptions.

• A black-robed cultivator told Su Yu and the gathered sect leaders about the spatial grand formation near Fuping City, and Su Yu ordered the news kept secret while they prepared to gather Spatial Stones.
• Su Yu told the group that deciphering the formation would require pooling Spatial Stones, while Bai Wujing questioned whether their efforts could succeed after thousands of stones had failed to crack the formation in Emerald Bamboo Domain.
• After the others left, Lu Haiyue worried they would leak the news, and Su Yu explained that he intended to guide outside-domain cultivators into spending their Spatial Stones on the formation in the Chaotic Sea Region.
• Qin Huaian opened his eyes after two days of comprehending the second stretch of the path and saw that fewer than a hundred cultivators remained outside the formation inscriptions.
• Watching cultivators noted that around sixty people had entered the third layer but had stopped progressing, while a female cultivator defended Liu Chengzhi's ability to reach the center because he had comprehended Spatial Law.

Yu Ruoxue and Qin Huaian struggled to reach the end of the third stretch, while Liu Chengzhi discovered a stele containing spatial divine abilities. Qin Huaian also encountered a stone stele, leaving its trial unexplained.

• Yu Ruoxue ran along the third stretch for nearly a day but could not get closer to the finish line, and she continued searching for a trial or obstacle.
• Liu Chengzhi teleported repeatedly until a dragon-carved stone stele appeared, and a voice revealed it held several spatial divine abilities for him to comprehend.
• Liu Chengzhi began studying the stele's patterns despite having only a day and a half before World 13 ended.
• Qin Huaian advanced his Spatial Law to the early second realm after two days of contemplation and quickly crossed the second stretch.
• Qin Huaian could not reach the distant finish line by teleporting before his Immortal Essence Power ran low, and a stone stele appeared before him.

Qin Huaian comprehended the spatial divine ability Near Yet Far from the stone stele just before the ten-day trial ended. The Thirteenth World then expelled the cultivators who had not passed the trial, while Qin Huaian’s fate remained unresolved.

• Qin Huaian and Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable studied the stone stele’s patterns, while Liu Chengzhi also began to decipher them.
• As the deadline approached, cultivators outside the formation patterns discussed the trial’s dangers and the riches and attention awaiting those who had advanced.
• Liu Chengzhi recognized the stele’s layered patterns but ran out of time before he could comprehend a divine ability.
• Qin Huaian used the stone stele’s patterns to comprehend Near Yet Far, a spatial ability that let him attack across distance or stretch space to keep attacks away.
• The voice announced that the ten days had passed, and cultivators outside the formation patterns and on its first two layers vanished from the Thirteenth World.

Su Yu coordinated the Chaotic Immortal Alliance’s tally of the Spatial Stones and cultivators who reached the third layer of the Void Hall’s formation patterns, then prepared for the alliance to decipher the spatial grand array. Meanwhile, Qin Huaian reached the end of the road, and the trial ended.

• Cultivators continued emerging from the Void Hall, and observers estimated that several thousand remained inside, including the great sects’ genius disciples.
• Lu Haiyue told Su Yu that all cultivators except those who reached the third layer had been teleported out, with fewer than ten thousand returning and roughly a hundred reaching that layer.
• Su Yu summoned the Chaotic Sea Region’s leaders and asked them to report their Spatial Stones and the number of cultivators who reached the third layer.
• Lu Haiyue, Wei Bingyi, and other leaders reported their forces’ gains; the major sects had collected roughly 4,200 Spatial Stones, and twelve of their disciples had reached the third layer.
• Su Yu estimated that the alliance could gather more than 5,000 Spatial Stones, urged the leaders to contribute their remaining stores, and said they would begin deciphering the spatial grand array after the remaining cultivators emerged.
• Qin Huaian used Near Yet Far to reach the end of the road, and a notification announced that the trial had ended.

Qin Huaian chose the Cangwu Sword from Void Hall’s treasury after an unknown voice recommended it, then received instruction on the Spatial Law alongside the other cultivators who reached the third formation-pattern layer. The trial-takers were transported into Cosmos-Stabilizing Pillars to cultivate for a year, while observers outside Void Hall watched figures appear within the pillars.

• Qin Huaian reached the treasury and saw thirty-six magical treasures, including several supreme-grade Dao artifacts.
• An unknown person advised Qin Huaian to choose the Cangwu Sword, and Qin Huaian took it instead of a more valuable treasure.
• Qin Huaian and one hundred other trial-takers were gathered in a vast space and heard teachings on the Spatial Law.
• The notification said that cultivators not belonging to the clan could cultivate in the Cosmos-Stabilizing Pillar for one year before being teleported away.
• Qin Huaian and the other trial-takers vanished from the space, and onlookers saw figures appear inside the pillars around Void Hall.

Su Yu argued that the outer-domain sects should investigate the spatial grand formation on the Dragon Creek Continent instead of continuing to spend Spatial Stones on the stalled formation in the Emerald Bamboo Domain. Wu Binglan agreed to visit the new formation, but the meeting was interrupted by news of an anomaly in the Void Hall.

• Zhao Gang urged Su Yu and the other leaders to keep investing in the Emerald Bamboo Domain formation, warning that future Void Hall entry slots would depend on strength.
• Su Yu argued that the Dragon Creek Continent formation might be easier to decipher and that the Chaotic Immortal Alliance would not dictate how its member sects used their Spatial Stones.
• Wu Binglan supported visiting the Dragon Creek Continent formation, despite Zhao Gang's warning that the Heavenly Dao Sect's previous investment might be wasted.
• Su Yu welcomed the gathered powers to investigate the formation together, but a messenger rushed in to report an anomaly in the Void Hall.

The major forces watched 101 cultivators who had reached the third layer of the Void Hall’s formation patterns and began investigating their backgrounds. Yu Donghai and Su Yu planned to recruit promising cultivators, including people acquainted with Yu Ruoxue.

• The major forces saw 101 cultivators seated inside the pillars surrounding the Void Hall and began compiling information about them.
• Yu Donghai celebrated Yu Ruoxue’s achievement, and Wei Bingyi explained that only twenty-one of the 101 cultivators came from the Chaotic Sea Region.
• Wei Bingyi asked Yu Donghai to help recruit two cultivators acquainted with Yu Ruoxue into the Four Seas Merchant Association.
• A man in black reported to Su Yu that Huang Yue, deputy sect master of the Star Rainbow Sword Sect and an ascended cultivator, had reached the third layer.
• Su Yu ordered Star Pavilion to recruit Huang Yue and the Rogue Cultivator who had entered with him, while noting the Rogue Cultivator’s connection to Yu Ruoxue might complicate matters.

Qin Huaian met the artifact spirit of the Void Hall, who revealed the treasure’s origins as the Celestial Balance Immortal Palace and explained how Qin’s Chaos Divine Lightning Tribulation had awakened him. The spirit began answering Qin’s questions about World 13 and the palace’s trials.

• Qin Huaian met a dragon that transformed into a white-bearded old man, who identified himself as the Void Hall’s artifact spirit.
• The artifact spirit explained that the Void Hall was an innate spiritual treasure containing a damaged major thousand world.
• The artifact spirit revealed that his master, Ao Tianheng, had owned the Celestial Balance Immortal Palace before it was destroyed in an ancient war between the dragon race and an alliance led by the phoenix race.
• The artifact spirit credited Qin Huaian’s Chaos Divine Lightning Tribulation with opening a void rift that let the palace absorb chaos qi and awaken him fully.
• Qin Huaian asked whether World 13’s array inscription was the Celestial Balance Immortal Palace’s trial grounds.

The white-bearded elder explained the spatial inheritance trial and revealed the true potential of Qin Huaian’s Cangwu Sword. Before leaving the world, he gave Qin Huaian control of the trial and tenfold time acceleration, while Qin Huaian was left wondering how to reach the Primordial Ancient Continent.

• The old man told Qin Huaian that passing the third layer would grant Ao Tianheng’s teachings and a year of cultivation in a Cosmos-Stabilizing Pillar, and said the trial would end when he left.
• The old man explained that future trial participants would receive fewer rewards because he would take the Cosmos-Stabilizing Pillars with him.
• The old man revealed that the Cangwu Sword was a sword embryo forged from mysterious divine iron that could grow with its wielder, potentially reaching the level of a primordial spirit treasure with the exceedingly rare Qi of Profound Yellow.
• The old man gave Qin Huaian the spatial trial’s control formula and cast tenfold time acceleration on his Cosmos-Stabilizing Pillar as thanks for helping him awaken.
• The old man vanished, and Qin Huaian called after him to ask how to reach the Primordial Ancient Continent.