Chapter Summaries

Qin Huaian used the Great Square Cauldron to survive Duan Linchuan’s attacks and continued fleeing despite his dwindling Immortal Essence Power. Duan Linchuan became obsessed with taking the cauldron and resumed his pursuit.

• Qin Huaian blocked Duan Linchuan’s Firmament Shooting Star Spear with the Great Square Cauldron, though the defense consumed about one percent of the World Tree’s leaves.
• Qin Huaian teleported away while Duan Linchuan stared in amazement at the cauldron’s powerful energy.
• Duan Linchuan decided the Great Square Cauldron could let him dominate the Violet Thorn Great World and teleported after Qin Huaian.
• After dozens more teleports, Duan Linchuan found another chance to attack, and Qin Huaian used the cauldron to block him again.
• Qin Huaian urged Duan Linchuan to stop pursuing him, but Duan Linchuan demanded the cauldron and attacked again.

Qin Huaian used the Great Square Cauldron to withstand Duan Linchuan’s attacks while fleeing, hoping to exhaust his pursuer without spending too much of the World Tree’s energy. News of Qin Huaian’s escape spread across the Parasol Tree Continent, while Chu Xi worried about him and then returned to cultivating.

• Qin Huaian evaded Duan Linchuan and used the Great Square Cauldron to block his attacks, noticing that Duan Linchuan was tiring.
• Qin Huaian weighed the cost of using the cauldron, since spending World Tree leaves weakened his cultivation benefits and Mirror Body.
• News that Qin Huaian had killed Zhao Gang and was being pursued by Duan Linchuan spread throughout the Parasol Tree Continent.
• Chu Xi asked Lingxiao Ke to help Qin Huaian, but Lingxiao Ke said they had arrived too late to catch up.
• Lingxiao Ke reassured Chu Xi that Qin Huaian was likely still safe, and Chu Xi went to cultivate by the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele.

Qin Huaian and Duan Linchuan continued their exhausting pursuit until Duan Linchuan unleashed a powerful golden dragon attack. Qin Huaian survived behind the Great Square Cauldron, then dropped its defenses to counterattack, while Duan Linchuan trusted his battle armor and thrust his spear again.

• Qin Huaian deliberately slowed during the chase to drain Duan Linchuan's Immortal Essence Power, while Duan Linchuan kept attacking in hopes of breaking through the Great Square Cauldron.
• Duan Linchuan used a powerful Metal-Attribute divine ability that formed a golden dragon and swallowed Qin Huaian and the Great Square Cauldron in its radiance.
• The Great Square Cauldron protected Qin Huaian, but its defense rapidly consumed leaves from the World Tree.
• As Duan Linchuan's attack weakened, Qin Huaian withdrew the cauldron's defenses and struck him with Grand Void Birth and Extinction, spending thirty percent of his Immortal Essence Power.
• Duan Linchuan recognized Qin Huaian's attack, donned ancient battle armor, let the sword strike him, and thrust his spear at Qin Huaian.

Duan Linchuan’s prepared armor blunted Qin Huaian’s space-crossing attack, while his own full-strength spear strike threatened the nearly depleted Qin Huaian. Just before it hit, Qin Huaian activated the dormant Bronze Fragment, which drained his strength and flew out to meet the attack.

• Duan Linchuan’s golden armor absorbed most of Qin Huaian’s annihilating Sword Qi, though the attack dissolved a large hole in it.
• Duan Linchuan unleashed a powerful spear strike at Qin Huaian, who had less than a tenth of his Immortal Essence Power remaining.
• Qin Huaian sensed the Bronze Fragment in his dantian glow and realized his Earth Vein Power could activate it.
• Qin Huaian poured his Earth Vein Power into the Bronze Fragment, which absorbed nearly all his stored energy, blood, and vitality.
• The Bronze Fragment flew from Qin Huaian and met Duan Linchuan’s spear radiance as Duan Linchuan prepared to claim Qin Huaian’s possessions.

Qin Huaian used a mysterious Bronze Fragment to split Duan Linchuan’s body and drive him into retreat, though he was too exhausted to pursue. A month later, rumors about their battle spread across the Violet Thorn Great World, and the story shifted to an old man and a young girl listening to gossip in Brocade Sun City.

• The Bronze Fragment shattered Duan Linchuan’s spear radiance, sliced through his Firmament Shooting Star Spear, and cleaved his body in two.
• Duan Linchuan burned his blood essence to recover, then fled with his broken spear using Blood Escape.
• Qin Huaian, exhausted and unable to pursue Duan Linchuan, flew away in the opposite direction with his Golden Roc Wings.
• Over the next month, news of the battle between Qin Huaian and the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land spread through the Violet Thorn Great World, spawning exaggerated rumors.
• An old man and a young girl listened to cultivators in Brocade Sun City debate whether Duan Linchuan had killed Qin Huaian and taken his opportunity.

Cultivators debated whether Qin Huaian had escaped Duan Linchuan, while Lingyue and Mingze worried over his fate and monitored the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land. Su Yu arrived at the passage to the Violet Thorn Domain, hoping Qin Huaian had already left the Parasol Tree Domain.

• Cultivators surnamed Lu and Zheng argued over Qin Huaian's chances against Duan Linchuan and whether the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land's absence meant Qin Huaian had survived.
• Lingyue and Mingze discussed Qin Huaian's safety and the possibility that Duan Linchuan had injured him.
• Mingze asked Lingyue to return with him to their outpost in Brocade Sun City to compile and send their gathered information to the sect.
• Su Yu emerged from the Void Passage into the Parasol Tree Domain, concerned that Duan Linchuan might have found Qin Huaian.
• Star Pavilion disciples waiting at the passage hurried toward Su Yu.

Su Yu learned that Qin Huaian had survived his fight with Duan Linchuan and went to the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land to test Duan Linchuan's strength. When the sect’s patrol tried to keep him out, Su Yu struck its protective formation.

• Su Yu questioned a Star Pavilion elder about Qin Huaian and learned that Qin Huaian had fought Duan Linchuan a month earlier, escaped, and had not been seen since.
• The elder described Qin Huaian’s breakthrough in body-refining cultivation and his escape after killing Zhao Gang amid hundreds of Immortal Venerables.
• Su Yu ordered Star Pavilion to keep tracking Qin Huaian and Duan Linchuan, then arranged to visit the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land and assess Duan Linchuan.
• Su Yu arrived at the sect and demanded to meet Duan Linchuan, but the patrol leader claimed the Holy Lord was away and raised the protective formation to block him.
• Su Yu struck the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land’s formation, angering the patrol disciples who dared not openly challenge him.

Su Yu visited Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land to seek Duan Linchuan, but left after learning he was absent. The sacred land learned that Qin Huaian had escaped Duan Linchuan and prepared its defenses while Duan Linchuan recovered and Qin Huaian awoke elsewhere.

• Su Yu struck Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land's formation, asked for Duan Linchuan, and flew away when told nothing directly.
• Elder Pang reported Su Yu's visit to the senior cultivators, and Ge revealed Duan Linchuan's warning that Qin Huaian had escaped while badly wounded.
• Ge ordered the sacred land to strengthen its defenses and gather information on Qin Huaian across Parasol Tree Continent.
• Duan Linchuan, still recovering in an unnamed mountain range, swallowed a pill and resumed meditating.
• Qin Huaian opened his eyes deep underground and stood up, apparently satisfied.

After recovering from his battle with Duan Linchuan, Qin Huaian set out for Rainbowfall Domain to search for Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable in the Heaven Scar Sword Abyss. He reached the Void Passage without revealing his destination, hoping to protect Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable from Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land.

• Qin Huaian recovered his strength but could not reactivate the Bronze Fragment, and he estimated that the World Tree would need decades to restore its lost leaves.
• Qin Huaian decided to cultivate his Laws before attempting another breakthrough and planned to use the Ninth-Tier Immortality Inquiry Tower’s Law Space.
• Qin Huaian disguised himself and headed for Rainbowfall Domain to find Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable, while also hoping to locate his master, Lin Tianyu, and senior sister, Min Yingzhu.
• Qin Huaian used public Teleportation Arrays to avoid revealing his movements to Star Pavilion and reached the Void Passage to Rainbowfall Domain after more than ten days.
• Qin Huaian entered the Void Passage.

Qin Huaian traveled from the Parasol Tree Domain to the Rainbowfall Domain and reached Heaven Scar City to investigate the Heaven Scar Sword Abyss. He learned that its Sword Qi and Sword Dao Law had weakened over the past century, though entering its Sword Mound remained just as dangerous.

• Qin Huaian cultivated the Fire-Attribute Law while crossing the Void Passage and resolved to rely less on the Great Square Cauldron, whose energy he could not control.
• Qin Huaian spent nearly a year traveling slowly to the Rainbowfall Domain, then used five Teleportation Arrays to reach Heaven Scar City.
• Qin Huaian heard two Golden Immortal cultivators say that the Heaven Scar Sword Abyss's Sword Qi and cultivation effects had steadily weakened over the past century.
• The sword-bearing cultivator declared that he would enter the Sword Mound to seek a powerful flying sword and a Sword Dao inheritance, despite the danger.

Qin Huaian met two cultivators on their way to the Heaven Scar Sword Abyss and asked where to find its Sword Mound. Their conversation about the legendary Dugu Wentian left Qin Huaian questioning how the former had reached the Ninth Stage of Dao Fusion as an Immortal Venerable.

• Qin Huaian approached the white-robed cultivator and the sword-bearing cultivator Wu, then asked about the Sword Mound in the Heaven Scar Sword Abyss.
• The white-robed cultivator explained that the Heaven Scar Sword Abyss was a renowned place to cultivate the Sword Dao and lamented its decline since Dugu Wentian vanished.
• Wu praised Dugu Wentian as the greatest sword cultivator in the Violet Thorn Great World and claimed his Sword Dao had reached the Ninth Stage of Dao Fusion.
• Wu compared Dugu Wentian favorably to Qin Huaian, unaware that Qin Huaian was standing beside him.
• Qin Huaian asked how Dugu Wentian had reached the Ninth Stage of Dao Fusion when even the most talented Immortal Venerables could usually reach only the Seventh.

Qin Huaian learned about the mysterious, perilous Sword Mound and the requirements for entering it as he traveled with two cultivators to Heaven Scar Sword Abyss. He reached the abyss, where its violent Sword Qi shredded his probing Divine Sense.

• Wu recounted the legend that Dugu Wentian had reached the Ninth Stage of Dao Fusion and suppressed the Violet Thorn Great World.
• The white-robed cultivator explained that the Sword Mound offered flying swords and Sword Dao inheritances, but required Sword Dao comprehension far beyond a cultivator’s realm and carried a high risk of death.
• The white-robed cultivator revealed that Wu met the minimum requirements to enter the Sword Mound after cultivating in Heaven Scar Sword Abyss for over ten thousand years.
• The cultivators left Heaven Scar Immortal City and saw Heaven Scar Sword Abyss, a vast canyon beneath a surge of Sword Qi.
• Qin Huaian sent his Divine Sense into the abyss, where its Sword Qi tore it apart, and the white-robed cultivator warned him not to probe the abyss.

Qin Huaian descended into the Heaven Scar Sword Abyss to strengthen his Sword Dao Law, using the Cangwu Sword and the World Tree’s energy to comprehend it. After he passed three thousand miles deep and unleashed Yin-Yang Rotation, the surrounding Sword Qi abruptly turned toward him.

• A white-robed cultivator explained that the Heaven Scar Sword Abyss’s Sword Qi had weakened by at least thirty percent and that talented sword cultivators could be teleported into the Sword Mound.
• Qin Huaian thanked the two cultivators, entered the abyss, and sent a message to Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable.
• Qin Huaian descended through the upper layers, dissolving Sword Qi with his own Sword Dao Law to draw out law auras.
• More than two thousand miles down, Qin Huaian wielded the Cangwu Sword while the World Tree’s energy rapidly improved his Sword Dao Law comprehension.
• After Qin Huaian passed three thousand miles and unleashed Yin-Yang Rotation, the surrounding Sword Qi changed direction and rushed toward him.

Qin Huaian triggered the Sword Qi in the Heaven Scar Sword Abyss and fled its depths under the Great Square Cauldron’s protection. He escaped the abyss as the pursuing Sword Qi lost its target, but nearby cultivators recognized him.

• Qin Huaian used Yin-Yang Rotation, causing the Sword Qi around him to converge and pursue him.
• Qin Huaian flew upward with his Golden Roc Wings, then used the Great Square Cauldron to withstand the Sword Qi barrage.
• Sword cultivators sensed the Sword Qi streaming in one direction, and the White-Clothed Cultivator headed toward it, suspecting a treasure had appeared.
• Qin Huaian escaped the Heaven Scar Sword Abyss, whereupon the Sword Qi struck an invisible boundary and became chaotic before dissipating.
• A cultivator recognized Qin Huaian and called out his name.

Qin Huaian escaped the Heaven Scar Sword Abyss, but a Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land elder recognized him and exposed his identity to the cultivators nearby. Qin Huaian dropped his disguise and greeted two cultivators who had entered the abyss with him, one of whom realized he had recently insulted Qin Huaian while praising Dugu Wentian.

• Qin Huaian escaped the Heaven Scar Sword Abyss and put away the Great Square Cauldron as a Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land elder called out his name.
• The elder ordered his companions into the Heaven Scar Sword Abyss to escape Qin Huaian, and Qin Huaian let them go without pursuing them.
• Cultivators nearby concluded that Qin Huaian had been identified by the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land and began greeting him after he removed his disguise.
• Qin Huaian recognized two cultivators who had entered the abyss with him and greeted them, while the sword-bearing cultivator remembered insulting Qin Huaian during a conversation about Dugu Wentian.

Qin Huaian asked cultivators at the Heaven Scar Sword Abyss to pass a message to any scattered disciples of the Yellow Mountain Sword Sect, directing them to the Violet Thorn Sacred Land. After leaving, he suspected the abyss had attacked in response to his Grand Void Dual Polarity Sword Canon and avoided returning to it.

• Qin Huaian thanked two cultivators for guiding him and told the gathered cultivators he had come to explore the Heaven Scar Sword Abyss and search for Yellow Mountain Sword Sect disciples.
• Qin Huaian asked the cultivators to tell any Yellow Mountain Sword Sect disciples to reunite at the Violet Thorn Sacred Land and use his name.
• The cultivators agreed to spread Qin Huaian's message, and he thanked them before leaving the Heaven Scar Sword Abyss.
• Qin Huaian reasoned that the abyss's Sword Qi had reacted to his use of Yin-Yang Rotation and might be targeting the Grand Void Dual Polarity Sword Canon.
• News of Qin Huaian's reappearance spread throughout the Violet Thorn Great World.

After Qin Huaian emerged from Heaven Scar Sword Abyss, leaders across the Violet Thorn Great World speculated about his clash with Duan Linchuan and the secret behind the Abyss’s upheaval. Qin Huaian left Rainbowfall Domain for Violet Thorn Domain without finding Changfeng or Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable, while curious cultivators flocked toward the region.

• Su Yu and Commander Wang discussed Qin Huaian’s survival and speculated that Duan Linchuan might have been injured, while noting the danger of the Daluo Golden Immortal tribulation.
• Qin Tianzong learned that Heaven Scar Sword Abyss had erupted in Sword Qi a month after Qin Huaian entered and ordered his people not to provoke him.
• Qin Tianzong recalled the major opportunities Qin Huaian had gained in other Secret Realm Worlds and worried that he had acquired another powerful treasure in Heaven Scar Sword Abyss.
• Cultivators from across the Violet Thorn Great World began traveling to Rainbowfall Domain to investigate the disturbance, especially sword cultivators.
• Half a month later, Qin Huaian appeared at the Void Passage from Rainbowfall Domain to Violet Thorn Domain, having failed to find Changfeng or Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable.

Qin Huaian returned to the Violet Thorn Domain while considering how to strengthen himself after his battle with Duan Linchuan. As he traveled, the Violet Thorn Sacred Land learned of his arrival and prepared for his return.

• Qin Huaian entered the Void Passage in his true appearance, confident that few cultivators would challenge him after his battle with Duan Linchuan.
• Qin Huaian decided to focus on improving his Laws rather than continue body cultivation, choosing to prioritize his Yin-Yang Laws and the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower’s Laws Secret Realm.
• Qin Huaian cultivated the Fire-Attribute Law in his Seed Space aboard a flying boat as he traveled toward the Violet Thorn Domain.
• A disciple reported to Daoxuan and Wu Chen that Qin Huaian had entered the Void Passage returning to the Violet Thorn Continent.
• Daoxuan confirmed the news with the disciple, who said multiple sources had verified Qin Huaian’s return.

After Qin Huaian returned safely to the Violet Thorn Continent, the Violet Thorn Sacred Land celebrated and began strengthening its disciples. Duan Linchuan learned that Qin Huaian had entered the continent but chose to wait until his junior brother could help him confront Qin Huaian and seize his treasures.

• True Person Daoxuan and the Violet Thorn Sacred Land’s disciples celebrated Qin Huaian’s safe return and renewed their hopes of restoring the sacred land’s former glory.
• True Person Daoxuan ordered more cultivation resources for promising disciples and sent Wu Chen to welcome Qin Huaian at the Void Passage Plaza.
• A cultivator informed Duan Linchuan that Qin Huaian had entered the Void Passage leading to the Violet Thorn Continent.
• Duan Linchuan warned his Fifth Brother not to attack Qin Huaian until they understood the power of his two treasures, and planned to join forces after his brother reached the Daluo Golden Immortal Realm.
• Duan Linchuan examined the Firmament Shooting Star Spear, the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land’s inherited Acquired Spirit Treasure, which Qin Huaian had broken and which he could not repair.

Two Immortal Venerables brought Chu Yang, a prodigious Late Mahayana Realm cultivator, from Emerald Bamboo Domain to Violet Thorn Domain to seek the rumored inheritance of the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower. They decided to travel directly to the tower, while Qin Huaian’s expected arrival remained uncertain.

• Cultivators crowded Violet Thorn Domain’s Void Passage Plaza, drawn by rumors that the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower could choose an heir.
• Chu Yang arrived from Emerald Bamboo Domain with First Uncle and Second Uncle, both Early-stage Immortal Venerables.
• First Uncle and Second Uncle discussed the tower’s rumored Innate Spirit Treasure inheritance and whether Chu Yang had a chance to qualify.
• Chu Yang asked whether they would head straight to the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower, and the gray-robed Second Uncle said they would take the Teleportation Array there.