Chapter Summaries

Lin Tianyu unexpectedly encountered the Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable, the founding patriarch of his sect, who killed two Golden Immortal pursuers. Lin Tianyu begged him to rescue Qin Huaian, and the patriarch asked whether Qin Huaian was truly his disciple.

• Lin Tianyu recognized the Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable, who appeared and killed one of the two cultivators threatening him.
• The second cultivator fled toward Dragon Pond City, but the Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable intercepted and killed him with a single sword strike.
• The Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable greeted Lin Tianyu, who confirmed he was a disciple of the Yellow Mountain Sword Sect and explained that he had been transported to the Luo River World over four hundred years earlier.
• Lin Tianyu told the Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable that Qin Huaian was being hunted by the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land, which had taken Yellow Mountain Sword Sect disciples hostage.
• Lin Tianyu begged the Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable to save Qin Huaian, and the patriarch asked whether Lin Tianyu was Qin Huaian's master.

Lin Tianyu pleaded with the Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable to save Qin Huaian, but learned that the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land had surrounded Qin’s refuge with powerful experts. The Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable said Qin was safe for now and urged Lin Tianyu to strengthen his sword cultivation before attempting a rescue.

• Lin Tianyu told the Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable that Qin Huaian was his disciple and begged him to rescue him.
• The Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable revealed that he had met Qin Huaian over a century earlier and considered him a close friend and fellow sect disciple.
• The Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable explained that at least ten Immortal Venerables at great completion guarded Qin’s location, making a rescue impossible for now.
• The Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable told Lin Tianyu that Qin had advanced to the Immortal Venerable Realm and remained safe inside an unbreakable formation.
• The Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable said the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land had captured Yellow Mountain Sword Sect disciples to use as leverage against Qin.
• The Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable invited Lin Tianyu to train with him at the Heaven Scar Sword Abyss before trying to save anyone.

Lin Tianyu followed Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable’s advice to grow stronger rather than rush to rescue Qin Huaian, and the two entered the Heaven Scar Sword Abyss so Lin Tianyu could cultivate. Two years after Qin Huaian became an Immortal Venerable, he completed the initial fusion of his Yin-Yang Laws and Immortal Essence Power and reached the first stage of Dao Fusion.

• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable persuaded Lin Tianyu that they lacked the strength to save Qin Huaian and should cultivate before seeking revenge against the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land.
• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable brought Lin Tianyu to the Heaven Scar Sword Abyss and explained its dangers, active Sword Dao laws, and his suspicion that a powerful sword art lay hidden within it.
• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable warned Lin Tianyu not to descend below one thousand li until his Sword Dao law comprehension reached the late stage of the second realm, then gave him a communication talisman.
• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable and Lin Tianyu entered the Heaven Scar Sword Abyss to cultivate.
• Two years after advancing to the Immortal Venerable realm, Qin Huaian completed the initial fusion of his Yin-Yang Laws and Immortal Essence Power and reached the first stage of Dao Fusion.

After reaching the first stage of Dao Fusion, Qin Huaian gained partial control over Grand Void Birth and Extinction and continued cultivating the laws of yin and yang. Meanwhile, cultivators in the Violet Thorn Domain confronted the prospect of the weakening passage formations, and Changfeng declared their domain the core of the Violet Thorn Great World.

• Qin Huaian realized his Immortal Essence Power now contained the laws of yin and yang and tested his new control over Grand Void Birth and Extinction.
• The Taiji Yin-Yang Fish absorbed the attack's black-and-white radiance, and Qin Huaian found he could regulate the move to expend between sixty and ninety percent of his Immortal Essence Power.
• Qin Huaian resumed cultivating and reviewed the nine stages of Dao Fusion, noting that incomplete laws made reaching the ninth stage impossible.
• True Person Daoxuan warned that one passage formation would vanish within a year and the others within thirty or forty years, while the Violet Thorn Domain could not withstand the powerful domains beyond them.
• Changfeng argued that the 360 domains, including their own, formed the Violet Thorn Great World and that the Violet Thorn Domain was its core.

The Violet Thorn Domain’s sect leaders debated how to respond to the powerful outside domains, with many choosing not to unite against them. True Person Daoxuan and the three sacred lands prepared to reunite as the Violet Thorn Sacred Land, and Wu Chen proposed Changfeng as its Sacred Lord.

• Ouyang Peng, Zhou Cang, and other cultivators argued that the outside domains might not want Violet Thorn territory, while Yun Yin urged the sects to join forces to protect their lands.
• Yun Yin invited the other sects to join his group, but no one followed True Person Daoxuan and the sacred land leaders to the Purple Sky Sacred Land’s grounds.
• Zhou Cang told the remaining cultivators that none of the groups sent to other domains had returned, and said they should adapt to the outside powers when they arrived.
• Yun Yin and Wu Chen explained that only about sixty percent of their disciples would join the move to the Violet Thorn Mountains, while others wanted their sacred lands to remain independent.
• Wu Chen proposed Changfeng as Sacred Lord of the reunited Violet Thorn Sacred Land, and Yun Yin agreed.

Qin Huaian sensed a subtle change in the laws of heaven and earth while cultivating in the Limitless Secret Realm, and experts across the realm wondered whether the incomplete laws might be restored. Leng Xuanye decided to leave the secret realm to investigate, while the spatial grand formation in the Emerald Bamboo Domain began to disappear.

• Qin Huaian sensed a change in heaven and earth but continued cultivating in the Limitless Secret Realm, where Dao Fusion was easier.
• An Immortal Venerable Great Perfection cultivator near the Central Fire Sea and Senior Brother Gu sensed the change and hoped the laws would eventually be restored.
• Leng Xuanye returned to the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land's sect residence and ordered Elder Wu to prepare to investigate the change.
• Leng Xuanye decided to leave the secret realm himself, confident that he and the other Immortal Venerables could still capture Qin Huaian and use the cultivators taken from his sect against him.
• In the Emerald Bamboo Domain, the spatial grand formation rapidly melted away.

A spatial grand formation in the Emerald Bamboo Domain vanished and revealed a void passage, while a disturbance in heaven and earth hinted that the laws might be moving toward completion. Lingxiao Ke learned of the passage and reacted with alarm, but its destination remained unknown.

• Senior Brother Zhang and Wan'er discussed their assignment and plans after returning to the sect, until Zhang sensed the Emerald Bamboo Domain’s spatial grand formation dissolving.
• Zhang and Wan'er watched as the formation disappeared completely, revealing a vast void passage, and the sect disciples stationed there sent urgent reports.
• Wu Binglan asked Lingxiao Ke about a disturbance in heaven and earth, and he said the laws had taken a small step toward completion.
• Lu Xiu reported that the formation had vanished and a void passage had appeared, prompting Lingxiao Ke to demand confirmation.
• Lu Xiu confirmed the passage’s appearance but said its destination was unknown.

Lingxiao Ke led one hundred of the Heavenly Dao Sect’s most talented Immortal Venerable Great Perfection disciples toward the Emerald Bamboo Domain to investigate a newly revealed void passage believed to offer a path to Daluo Golden Immortal advancement. As sects across the Luo River World raced toward the passage, Leng Xuanye was ordered to accompany Qiu Yi to the domain.

• Lingxiao Ke told Wu Binglan to select one hundred gifted disciples and prepare the sect for his departure.
• Lingxiao Ke explained that the passage beneath the vanished spatial grand array might lead to advancement into Daluo Golden Immortal, and said he would choose fifty disciples to enter it.
• Lingxiao Ke gathered the hundred disciples into the Heavenly Dao Sect’s small world and carried it through a void passage toward the Emerald Bamboo Domain.
• News of the vanished array and newly appeared passage spread through the Luo River World, prompting countless people to head for the Emerald Bamboo Domain.
• After leaving the secret realm world of the Chaotic Sea Region, Leng Xuanye learned that Qiu Yi had been ordered to take him to the Emerald Bamboo Domain.

Cultivators in the Emerald Bamboo Domain waited outside the Void Passage under orders from the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land, while local leaders considered defying its control to seize a chance at greater power. An unknown swordsman ambushed the Sacred Land’s strongest stationed expert and drove him into the passage before reinforcements arrived.

• Local Immortal Venerables discussed the Void Passage’s aura of complete laws and worried that its formation might return before Holy Lord Duan arrived.
• The bald leader urged Fellow Daoist Qi and Fellow Daoist Liang to enter the passage and resist the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land’s exploitation, but they hesitated.
• Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land cultivators guarded the passage and barred local forces from entering until their Holy Lord arrived.
• A figure teleported beside the Sacred Land’s Great Perfection Immortal Venerable and wounded him with a sword strike.
• The attacker pursued the Great Perfection Immortal Venerable, who fled into the Void Passage, as more figures approached.

Cultivators from the Emerald Bamboo Domain rushed into the Void Passage after powerful newcomers entered, hoping to reach a world of complete laws and seize opportunities. The Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land’s remaining cultivators reported the upheaval as tens of thousands crossed the passage.

• The newcomers linked their Immortal Essence Power and entered the Void Passage together while the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land cultivators fled.
• Gu Shan accused the newcomers of defying the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land, then led his followers into the passage despite being challenged.
• A middle-aged cultivator and a white-bearded elder led their sect experts into the Void Passage under the pretense of capturing thieves.
• Cultivators across the Emerald Bamboo Domain followed, including Senior Brother Guo and his junior brothers, who decided to risk leaving their sect behind.
• Tens of thousands of Primordial Unity Golden Immortal and Golden Immortal cultivators entered, while the remaining Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land cultivators reported the changes to their sect.

Protector Li and the cultivators who emerged from the Void Passage discovered that the Violet Thorn Domain had complete laws of heaven and earth. After learning where they were, they questioned local scouts about the continent’s strongest sects.

• Protector Li and his companions emerged from the Void Passage and celebrated their chance to advance to Great Luo Golden Immortal.
• Protector Li sensed three hundred and sixty visible Void Passages and concluded that they led to the Luo River World’s great domains.
• Protector Li approached the nearby Golden Immortal scouts, who sent word to an elder before answering his questions.
• The scouts told Protector Li that they were in the Violet Thorn Domain, and the young man recognized it as Qin Huaian’s homeland.
• Protector Li asked which sects were strongest, and the middle-aged scout began listing the Violet Thorn Continent’s powers.

Changfeng learned from Protector Li that Qin Huaian had risen from the Tribulation Transcendence Realm to the Immortal Venerable Realm and was being besieged by the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land. He realized Qin Huaian was his junior brother but concealed their relationship as Protector Li and his group departed.

• Changfeng greeted Protector Li and explained that the Violet Thorn Sacred Land had only scattered ancient records about other great domains.
• Protector Li told Changfeng that Qin Huaian had made a name for himself in the Luo River World and reached the Golden Immortal Realm in under a hundred years.
• Changfeng recognized Qin Huaian as his junior brother after hearing that he had passed the Immortal Venerable lightning tribulation.
• Protector Li explained that the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land was besieging Qin Huaian, who remained protected inside a formation in a secret realm.
• Protector Li and his group flew away, and a young powerhouse questioned why Protector Li had treated the Violet Thorn cultivators politely.

Protector Li and his companions entered the Violet Thorn Domain seeking a path to Great Luo Golden Immortal, while recognizing the danger posed by the domain’s emerging geniuses and rival powers. True Person Daoxuan learned Qin Huaian had reached the Immortal Venerable realm, and the sacred lands’ leaders began planning for the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land’s possible retaliation.

• Protector Li decided Autumn Cicada would avoid conflict and seek a quiet place to cultivate in the Violet Thorn Domain.
• Protector Li warned that Qin Huaian and the talented cultivator they had encountered could hinder other powers from gaining a foothold in the domain.
• Changfeng told True Person Daoxuan that Qin Huaian had reached the Immortal Venerable realm before turning five hundred.
• Changfeng warned that Qin Huaian’s conflict with the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land could bring retaliation against the Violet Thorn Sacred Land.
• Yun Yin proposed scattering and retreating from the Violet Thorn Mountains until the sacred lands became strong enough to reclaim their ancestral land.
• True Person Daoxuan urged the group to investigate the newcomers and privately told Changfeng they might need the treasure from the third floor of the Ink Trace Immortal Mansion.

Changfeng and the Violet Thorn Sacred Land learned that outsiders were entering the Violet Thorn Domain to seize its cultivation grounds, then faced an attack at their mountain gate. Changfeng vanished with teleportation to confront an Immortal Venerable Great Perfection attacker.

• A scout reported that the Violet Thorn Domain’s complete laws allowed breakthroughs to the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, drawing thousands of outsiders and more powerful factions toward the domain.
• Changfeng warned that outsiders would target the Violet Thorn Mountains, while Yang Yi vowed to fight and True Person Daoxuan urged them to consider the sect’s disciples.
• An Immortal Venerable Great Perfection expert and two others attacked the Violet Thorn Sacred Land’s protective array, and Changfeng recognized Zhou Cang among them.
• Zhou Cang demanded that the Violet Thorn Sacred Land surrender the Violet Thorn Mountains to the visiting expert.
• Changfeng teleported toward the Immortal Venerable Great Perfection expert, who raised a barrier and called for him to wait.

Changfeng swiftly killed Zhou Cang and a peak Immortal Venerable with his complete Karmic Law, then let a surviving late-stage Immortal Venerable escape. He warned the Violet Thorn Sacred Land that more outsiders could arrive and urged his senior brothers to begin their plan soon.

• Changfeng killed Zhou Cang with a single stroke.
• Changfeng trapped the peak Immortal Venerable in Karmic Prison and killed him with the Sun-Splitting Blade.
• The remaining late-stage Immortal Venerable burned his essence blood and fled, while Changfeng deliberately let him go.
• Yun Yin asked Changfeng whether the escapee would cause trouble, and Changfeng said he hoped the man would spread word and deter others.
• Changfeng warned Senior Brother Daoxuan, Senior Brother Yun Yin, and Senior Brother Wu Chen that more attackers might come and urged them to begin their plan.

Changfeng prepared Violet Thorn Sacred Land to withstand the experts expected to invade the Violet Thorn Domain by dispersing most of its disciples and sealing its mountain gate. He used the Ink Trace Immortal Mansion’s defensive formation to protect Violet Thorn Peak, leaving the sect behind a powerful barrier.

• Yun Chen reported that more than half of Violet Thorn Sacred Land’s disciples had withdrawn to islands, while about a million elite disciples remained in the Violet Thorn Mountains.
• Changfeng announced that the mountain gate would be sealed because powerful outsiders would soon arrive, and said the remaining disciples would continue cultivating around Violet Thorn Peak.
• Junior Brother Han warned that the sect’s fifth-grade protective array could not withstand a large assault, and True Person Daoxuan recalled Changfeng’s sixth-grade defensive array disk.
• Changfeng placed the Ink Trace Immortal Mansion’s core beneath Violet Thorn Peak and set its array flags around the mountain.
• Changfeng completed a ten-thousand-li defensive grand formation around Violet Thorn Peak, confident that Immortal Venerables could not break through.

Changfeng left Violet Thorn Sacred Land to strengthen himself and seek a chance to rescue Qin Huaian, while the sealed sacred land faced the arrival of outer-domain cultivators. Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land then approached the Violet Thorn Mountains, intending to seize the sacred land and make it its new base.

• Daoxuan told Changfeng that the sacred land’s resources could sustain its million cultivators for thousands of years, and Changfeng decided to leave the mountains to temper himself and prepare to reach the Daluo Golden Immortal realm.
• Changfeng told Fairy Lingyue and Daoxuan that he planned to rescue Qin Huaian from Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land, handed Daoxuan the protective formation’s control incantation, and departed.
• Outer-domain cultivators arrived at the Violet Thorn Mountains and failed to break through Violet Thorn Sacred Land’s protective formation, so they occupied other nearby mountains instead.
• Zhao Gang led Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land’s elites toward the Violet Thorn Mountains and declared that they would destroy Violet Thorn Sacred Land and claim its grounds as their base.
• Leng Xuanye told Zhao Gang about the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower, and Zhao Gang said they would visit it after taking the sacred land.

Duan Linchuan’s Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land failed to break the Violet Thorn Sacred Land’s powerful defensive array and planned to claim the surrounding Violet Thorn Mountains instead. When the Heavenly Dao Sect and Water Rhyme Sect moved to occupy other parts of the mountains, he ordered his forces to secure the south and west.

• Several hundred Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land experts attacked the Violet Thorn Sacred Land’s array for an hour, but Huang Yunting could find no weakness and Duan Linchuan ordered the attacks stopped.
• Qiu Yi raised the possibility that the Violet Thorn Domain had once been the center of the Violet Thorn Great World, while Zhao Gang dismissed the claim as propaganda and Duan Linchuan focused on taking its resources.
• Duan Linchuan ordered the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land to occupy the rest of the Violet Thorn Mountains and make them its base.
• A messenger reported that the Heavenly Dao Sect was heading for the mountains’ eastern side and the Water Rhyme Sect had arrived in the north.
• Duan Linchuan, unwilling to start a war with the other factions, ordered Elder Zhao to secure the southern and western parts of the Violet Thorn Mountains.

Duan Linchuan’s forces claimed the southern Violet Thorn Mountains, while the Blood Moon Cult held the west and other major sects settled across the region. Unable to enter the guarded void passage, Changfeng left to cultivate, but soon noticed someone approaching him.

• Duan Linchuan occupied the southern Violet Thorn Mountains and drove out the smaller sects.
• Zhao Gang reported that the Blood Moon Cult Master had claimed the western mountains, so Duan Linchuan ordered his people to settle in the south.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect, Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land, Blood Moon Cult, and Water Rhyme Sect occupied the east, south, west, and north of the mountains, while cultivators continued entering the Violet Thorn Domain.
• Changfeng disguised himself and watched the guarded void passage, but found no chance to enter without risking a siege.
• Changfeng left to cultivate until he could reach Immortal Venerable Great Perfection, then noticed someone approaching him.

Changfeng joined Zeng You and three other Immortal Venerables to break a Concealment Array that might hide a Secret Realm. They reached the array and began attacking its five nodes, with Zeng You assigning their positions.

• Zeng You invited Changfeng, who used the false name Qin Wushuang, to help break a Concealment Array and agreed to divide any gains by contribution.
• Changfeng met Zeng You, Hao De, Tang Ranqing, and Lu Beiwang, then traveled with them aboard Zeng You's flying boat.
• After five or six days, the group reached a mountain valley where Zeng You revealed the array's faint fluctuations.
• Zeng You proposed taking forty percent of any treasure, with Tang Ranqing and Changfeng receiving twenty percent each and Hao De and Lu Beiwang receiving ten percent each.
• Tang Ranqing and Changfeng agreed that treasure found inside should be divided later if breaking the array did not directly yield it.
• The group prepared their weapons, and Zeng You began directing them to attack the array's five nodes.