Chapter Summaries

Shen Miaoyin shielded Su Shi'er from Xi Longxuan and challenged the evidence against him, while Duo Tiangong revealed that Wang Su had helped forge her powerful sword. The chapter left Xi Longxuan and the gathered disciples stunned after Shen Miaoyin used the Phantom Star Sect’s supreme Tai Xuan Feng Yue Swordplay.

• Shen Miaoyin’s newly revealed sword overwhelmed Xi Longxuan’s Moon Rainbow Sword, and Duo Tiangong credited Wang Su with helping forge the weapon while defending his character.
• Xi Longxuan invoked his authority as sect master and demanded that Shen Miaoyin step aside, but she vowed to protect Su Shi'er unless he was proven guilty.
• When Shen Miaoyin asked for evidence, Yan Donghai cited Cheng Jingfeng’s testimony and the attacker’s use of Wang Su’s distinctive swordplay.
• Shen Miaoyin unleashed Tai Xuan Feng Yue Swordplay, stunning the crowd and prompting Xi Longxuan to demand how she had learned the sect’s supreme art.

Shen Miaoyin used her mastery of the Phantom Star Sect's sword arts to undermine the case against Wang Su and stop Xi Longxuan from detaining him. Xi Longxuan accepted her terms so the Heavenly Absolute Secret Realm could open, while privately resolving to preserve his influence.

• Shen Miaoyin performed Tai Xuan Feng Yue Swordplay, shocking Xi Longxuan with how quickly she had mastered the difficult art.
• Shen Miaoyin demonstrated the World-Shocking Three Swords and challenged Xi Longxuan's claim that the moves proved Wang Su's guilt.
• Xi Longxuan blamed Situ Zhen for mishandling the case, and Situ Zhen admitted fault while proposing that Wang Su be held for investigation.
• Shen Miaoyin insisted Wang Su enter the Heavenly Absolute Secret Realm and promised to capture him herself if he proved guilty.
• Xi Longxuan agreed to Shen Miaoyin's terms rather than risk delaying the secret realm's opening and offending the Secret Pavilion.

Shen Miaoyin demanded justice for Su Shi'er after Situ Zhen injured him, despite Xi Longxuan's attempt to settle the matter with an apology and compensation. She struck Situ Zhen with a seemingly harmless Sword Light that left him gravely injured, while declaring the matter ended.

• Shen Miaoyin asked Xi Longxuan who had injured Su Shi'er, and Xi blamed Situ Zhen while accepting responsibility and offering Purple Sun Spiritual Pills as compensation.
• Situ Zhen admitted his fault and offered to take responsibility himself, restoring Xi Longxuan and his own standing before the sect.
• Shen Miaoyin insisted on answering for Su Shi'er's injuries and sent a Sword Light toward Situ Zhen as her chosen strike.
• Situ Zhen took the apparently weak strike without visible injury, but soon vomited blood and collapsed as water and fire forces ravaged his meridians.
• Shen Miaoyin praised Situ Zhen for taking the strike, while the crowd realized she had badly wounded him.

Shen Miaoyin rescued Su Shi'er and ended Xi Longxuan’s attempt to challenge Venerable Tianhong, but Zhao Mingyuan arrived and provoked Xi Longxuan. Shen Miaoyin attacked the unseen visitor, and clouds gathered over the Phantom Star Sect’s mountain gate.

• Shen Miaoyin pulled Su Shi'er into her mist, praised his achievement in condensing a Golden Core, and prepared to leave with him and Venerable Tianhong.
• Xi Longxuan’s effort to strip Venerable Tianhong of his position came to nothing, and Shen Miaoyin’s group began to depart.
• Zhao Mingyuan mocked Xi Longxuan from afar, and the two rulers exchanged barbs about the Phantom Star Sect’s authority.
• Zhao Mingyuan’s laughter pressed painfully on the sect’s watching disciples, so Xi Longxuan activated the Mountain-Protecting Array.
• Shen Miaoyin sent a red-and-blue Sword Light toward Zhao Mingyuan, halting his laughter as thick clouds gathered above the mountain gate.

Zhao Mingyuan arrived at the Phantom Star Sect and demanded half the places in the approaching Heavenly Evolution Secret Realm in exchange for a Heavenly Evolution Token. His token led Xi Longxuan to accuse Shen Miaoyin and Su Shi'er of losing the sect's third token, but both showed that they still had theirs.

• Zhao Mingyuan descended before the Phantom Star Sect and praised Shen Miaoyin, who identified herself as Shen Tianyin.
• Xi Longxuan challenged Zhao Mingyuan, but Zhao argued that harming him would mean war between the Great Zhao Dynasty and the Phantom Star Sect.
• Zhao demanded half the places in the Heavenly Evolution Secret Realm and revealed that he had a Heavenly Evolution Token.
• Xi Longxuan recognized the token and suspected that Shen Miaoyin or Su Shi'er had lost the sect's third token.
• Shen Miaoyin and Su Shi'er displayed their own tokens, and Shen challenged Xi Longxuan to explain how the sect's token had disappeared.

Xi Longxuan confronted Zhao Mingyuan over sharing access to the Heavenly Evolution Secret Realm after the sect’s token went missing. He began to offer places to the Great Zhao Dynasty, but Zhao rejected his proposed limit of twenty.

• Xi Longxuan discovered Yan Donghai had lost the sect’s Heavenly Evolution Token and stripped him of his position.
• Zhao Mingyuan insisted that the Great Zhao Dynasty receive places in the secret realm and refused Xi Longxuan’s offer of five Magical Treasures.
• Xi Longxuan sought advice from Venerable Tianhong and Shen Miaoyin, but both left the decision to him.
• Zhao Mingyuan argued that the Phantom Star Sect could not safely send two hundred cultivators and proposed splitting the places between the two powers.
• Xi Longxuan offered the Great Zhao Dynasty twenty places, but Zhao Mingyuan rejected the offer as unfair and unsafe.

Shen Miaoyin negotiated a reduced share of Heavenly Evolution Secret Realm places for the Great Zhao Dynasty and proposed distributing the remaining places among the other major powers. She left to help at the secret realm, while Xi Longxuan realized she had made the arrangements without consulting him.

• Xi Longxuan and Zhao Mingyuan argued over the Great Zhao Dynasty's share of places in the Heavenly Evolution Secret Realm until Shen Miaoyin proposed thirty percent.
• Shen Miaoyin warned that the Phantom Star Sect could try to force the secret realm open, and Xi Longxuan backed her position.
• Zhao Mingyuan accepted thirty percent of the places and departed, displaying a fearsome pressure that Venerable Tianhong associated with a true dragon.
• Xi Longxuan questioned Shen Miaoyin's decision, and she warned that the Great Zhao Dynasty might cooperate with the Demon Shadow Palace.
• Shen Miaoyin proposed giving twenty percent each to the Golden Cicada Temple and the Wuji Sect, leaving the Phantom Star Sect to use no more than thirty percent of the remaining places.
• Shen Miaoyin departed with Su Shi'er and the others, and Xi Longxuan realized she had issued the arrangements without seeking his agreement.

Xi Longxuan ordered the Phantom Star Sect to notify the Golden Cicada Temple and the Wuji Sect about the Heavenly Evolution Secret Realm while secretly preparing to secure its tokens. Su Shi'er returned to White Cloud Mountain and decided he would enter the dangerous realm in a puppet body, but Feng Fei's lingering fear of leaving the mountain surfaced when he asked her to visit the trading market.

• Xi Longxuan decided to notify the Golden Cicada Temple and the Wuji Sect, then told Situ Zhen to carefully choose the secret realm candidates and protect the Heavenly Evolution Token.
• Cheng Jingfeng suspected Xi Longxuan and Situ Zhen intended to claim the tokens and resolved to plan for the secret realm trip on behalf of the Great Zhao Dynasty.
• Su Shi'er judged that his injuries made entering the Heavenly Evolution Secret Realm in person too dangerous and decided to use a puppet body.
• Su Shi'er returned to White Cloud Mountain, where Feng Fei rushed into his arms and wept with relief.
• Su Shi'er gave Feng Fei Top-grade Gathering Yuan Pills to trade for medicine, but she hesitated because leaving White Cloud Mountain frightened her.

Su Shi'er used Purple Sun Spirit Pills to heal his injuries and partially restore his damaged foundation, but months of taking ordinary qi-and-blood pills caused diminishing returns. He decided to seek a stronger pill formula and clues about the Ancient Secret Scroll in the sect's Scripture Pavilion.

• Su Shi'er reassured Feng Fei and sent her to the trading market, keeping his injuries and damaged foundation from her.
• Su Shi'er refined the Purple Sun Spirit Pills into supreme-grade pills and used them to heal his back wound and recover some internal injuries.
• After consuming all ten Purple Sun Spirit Pills, Su Shi'er found his foundation nearly half a percent restored, but his recovery slowed without them.
• Su Shi'er noticed that prolonged use of ordinary qi-and-blood pills had caused drug resistance and made further treatment inefficient.
• Su Shi'er decided to search the Scripture Pavilion for a better medicinal pill formula and information about the Ancient Secret Scroll, then flew there on the Innocent Sword.

Su Shi'er searched the Phantom Star Sect's Scripture Pavilion for a way to recover from his depleted blood essence and damaged foundation. He found historical accounts of the Blood Essence Pill and planned to seek its missing ingredient at the Yemo Cloud Market.

• Su Shi'er entered the Scripture Pavilion's third floor and chose the section devoted to medicinal pills.
• Su Shi'er spent ten days and nights using his divine sense to memorize all ten thousand unrestricted volumes in the section.
• Su Shi'er learned that the Blood Essence Pill could replenish qi and blood and restore a damaged foundation.
• Su Shi'er discovered that refining a pill suitable for Golden Pill Cultivators required nine-hundred-year-old blood essence ginseng, which had vanished from the Cultivation World.
• Su Shi'er planned to search for blood essence ginseng at the next Yemo Cloud Market and continued into other sections to look for further clues.

Su Shi'er learned that the Heavenly Evolution Secret Realm expedition would include a large Sect Master's faction contingent and sought information about the realm from Tang Zhuying. She discovered that the realm was a fragment of the shattered Central Continent, leaving Su Shi'er stunned by the scale of the ancient catastrophe.

• Tang Zhuying told Su Shi'er that the secret realm's entrance had been found and repaired, and that fifty Golden Core cultivators would enter, including forty from the Sect Master's faction.
• Tang Zhuying explained that the Sect Master intended to protect his faction's Heavenly Evolution Tokens and seize another from the Great Zhao Dynasty, while Su Shi'er remained confident in sending his puppet body.
• Tang Zhuying suspected Su Shi'er was the mysterious puppet controller from Cangyue City and hoped the secret realm would confirm his identity.
• Su Shi'er asked Tang Zhuying what she had learned about the secret realm, and she said it lay in a fragment of the ancient Central Continent.
• Tang Zhuying revealed that a catastrophe several thousand years ago shattered the Central Continent, sinking most of it beneath the sea and scattering the rest into islands.
• Su Shi'er questioned how such a vast land could have been destroyed by a terrifying force.

Tang Zhuying explained that Phantom Star Sect had fled the destruction of Central Continent and that its five Nascent Soul elders sealed their cultivation and insights as an inheritance. Su Shi'er learned that the Heavenly Evolution Token grants access to that inheritance, leaving him keenly aware of its value as he prepared for the dangers of the Heavenly Evolution Secret Realm.

• Su Shi'er and Tang Zhuying discussed the dangers remaining in Central Continent’s ruins, including lingering energy and formations.
• Tang Zhuying revealed that Phantom Star Sect originated in Central Continent and that its three Heavenly Evolution Tokens were keys to the old lands.
• Tang Zhuying explained that five Peak Nascent Soul elders sacrificed themselves to help others escape and sealed their power and cultivation insights in five stone statues.
• Tang Zhuying told Su Shi'er that an elder’s inheritance could provide Golden Pill Cultivators with over a hundred years of cultivation and insights into higher realms.
• Tang Zhuying revealed that only holders of a Heavenly Evolution Token could receive the inheritance, and Su Shi'er recognized the token’s importance.

Su Shi'er changed his plans for the Heavenly Evolution Secret Realm after Tang Zhuying explained the importance of the Heavenly Evolution Tokens. When he showed her a character from an Ancient Secret Scroll, Tang Zhuying recognized it as a cipher from the Xuanji Sect and revealed she had been its last disciple.

• Tang Zhuying explained that the Heavenly Evolution Tokens were tied to the inheritance in the Heavenly Evolution Secret Realm and that all three had gathered at the Phantom Star Sect.
• Su Shi'er abandoned his plan to send only his puppet body into the realm and decided to go himself to pursue the inheritance.
• Tang Zhuying offered to help Su Shi'er find information, and he showed her a character from the Ancient Secret Scroll.
• Tang Zhuying recognized the character as an ancient Xuanji Sect cipher and brought Su Shi'er to a private room.
• Tang Zhuying revealed that she had been the last disciple of the Xuanji Sect before it was destroyed a thousand years earlier.
• Su Shi'er asked Tang Zhuying to decipher the scroll, which he believed recorded a legendary spell.

Su Shi'er accepted Tang Zhuying’s offer to decipher the Ancient Secret Scroll in exchange for a copy, and took the Great Brahma Sacred Palm from her. As Tang Zhuying studied the scroll, Su Shi'er examined the palm technique and saw a vision that revealed its overwhelming power.

• Tang Zhuying offered to decipher the Ancient Secret Scroll and requested permission to copy it so she could someday rebuild the Xuanji Sect.
• Tang Zhuying gave Su Shi'er a Jade Eye Slip containing the Great Brahma Sacred Palm, explaining that it could help strengthen his damaged foundation.
• Su Shi'er accepted the technique and handed Tang Zhuying the Ancient Secret Scroll.
• Tang Zhuying used her true essence to reveal the scroll’s characters and began deciphering them in silence.
• Su Shi'er studied the Great Brahma Sacred Palm and witnessed a Buddhist vision that made him realize its power surpassed his expectations.

Su Shi'er learned the key to cultivating the Great Brahma Holy Palm when a Buddhist Bead revealed the technique’s seals and True Yuan circulation route. After Tang Zhuying finished deciphering the Ancient Secret Scroll, she gave Su Shi'er the translated contents and scroll, but he told her to keep the scroll because only the Xuanji Sect's cultivation method could decipher it.

• Su Shi'er realized the Great Brahma Holy Palm could rival the Heavenly Sword Art and that the Cultivation World held techniques beyond what he knew.
• A Buddhist Bead emerged from Su Shi'er's storage ring and sent Buddha Essence into his Sea of Consciousness, restoring the Great Brahma Holy Palm's cultivation details.
• Su Shi'er inspected the Buddhist Bead, put it away, and waited seven days and seven nights while Tang Zhuying deciphered the Ancient Secret Scroll.
• Tang Zhuying released a terrifying aura after deciphering the scroll, then said she was merely overexerted and needed a few days of rest.
• Tang Zhuying gave Su Shi'er the deciphered contents and the Ancient Secret Scroll, but Su Shi'er accepted only the Jade Slip and told her to keep the scroll.

Su Shi'er gave Tang Zhuying the Ancient Secret Scroll and learned the Mountain Moving Art, a legendary spell for storing or moving mountains. He realized his damaged foundation and limited True Yuan prevented him from using its full power, while the sect prepared for the Heavenly Evolution Secret Realm.

• Su Shi'er decided to let Tang Zhuying keep the Ancient Secret Scroll and reflected on the value of forming connections in the Cultivation World.
• Tang Zhuying accepted the scroll, said she needed to prepare for the Heavenly Evolution Secret Realm, and left to pursue her goal of rebuilding the Xuanji Sect.
• Su Shi'er received a sect message stating that fifty people would enter the secret realm, including forty from the Sect Master's faction.
• Su Shi'er returned to his cave residence and studied the jade slip Tang Zhuying had given him.
• Su Shi'er learned that the Mountain Moving Art could refine a mountain as a weapon or move nearby mountains, but his damaged foundation and limited True Yuan restricted its use.

Su Shi'er struggled to control the Southern Bright Leaving Fire while tempering several treasures in the Heaven and Earth Furnace ahead of the Heavenly Evolution Secret Realm. With fewer than seven days until it opened, he still had no solution when the furnace’s azure light suddenly dispersed.

• Su Shi'er set aside cultivating the Mountain Moving Art and used the Heaven and Earth Furnace to temper the Innocent Sword, the Azure Cloud Robe, the Fire Cloud Gourd, and several Spiritual Artifacts.
• Su Shi'er chose not to temper the Candle Dragon Bow because its power remained uncertain and its former owner might come looking for it.
• Su Shi'er divided the Southern Bright Leaving Fire into two flames, but struggled to keep them under control and considered asking Shen Miaoyin for help.
• Su Shi'er rejected refining the flames into his body, recalling the danger and lasting harm he had suffered when refining the Cloud Yang Spirit Fire.
• With fewer than seven days until the Heavenly Evolution Secret Realm opened, Su Shi'er had found no way to control the fire when the Heaven and Earth Furnace's azure light dispersed.

After refining his treasures in the Heaven and Earth Furnace, Su Shi'er discovered that the Innocent Sword had advanced to a second-grade Magical Treasure. He tried to store the fused Southern Bright Leaving Fire in the Fire Cloud Gourd, but the flame resisted its pull.

• Su Shi'er found that only five Spiritual Artifacts had been damaged and retrieved his treasures from the Heaven and Earth Furnace.
• Su Shi'er saw that the Azure Cloud Robe and Fire Cloud Gourd had grown stronger, while the Innocent Sword had advanced to a second-grade Magical Treasure.
• Su Shi'er returned the Innocent Sword to his dantian and put on the Azure Cloud Robe.
• Su Shi'er fused the two clusters of Southern Bright Leaving Fire, whose intense heat damaged the cultivation chamber and threatened his body.
• Su Shi'er activated the Fire Cloud Gourd to absorb the fused flame, but the Southern Bright Leaving Fire resisted its suction.

Su Shi'er absorbed the Southern Bright Leaving Fire into the Fire Cloud Gourd, which survived and appeared to advance into a Magical Treasure. With five days left before the inheritance contest, he prepared to travel to Yunheng Mountain, where cultivators gathered as the area was closed off.

• Su Shi'er used the Fire Cloud Gourd to capture the Southern Bright Leaving Fire, which burned fiercely inside it.
• The Fire Cloud Gourd endured the flames and gave off an aura unique to a Magical Treasure, bolstering Su Shi'er's confidence in competing for the Heavenly Evolution Token inheritance.
• Su Shi'er reminded himself not to underestimate others, then activated the secret chamber's formation and began his final preparations before leaving in five days.
• Yunheng Mountain served as a busy hub of markets and travel for cultivators across Muyun Prefecture.
• At dawn, cultivators were barred from Yunheng Mountain, and hundreds of thousands gathered outside as streaks of escaping light passed overhead.

Golden Core cultivators gathered at Yunheng Mountain before entering the Heavenly Evolution Secret Realm, where Shen Miaoyin gave Su Shi'er a Jade Eye Slip and invited him to seek the inheritance with her. Su Shi'er weighed the dangers of joining her or traveling alone as Cheng Jingfeng and Situ Zhen watched him, then Situ Zhen rose and looked into the distance.

• Fifty Golden Core cultivators from Phantom Star Sect assembled at Yunheng Mountain as hundreds of thousands of cultivators watched and speculated about the secret realm expedition.
• Su Shi'er reflected on how his determination and past struggles had lifted him from the bottom of the cultivation world.
• Shen Miaoyin sent Su Shi'er a Jade Eye Slip containing Array Dao insights and secret realm information, and invited him to enter with her to seek the Heavenly Evolution Token inheritance.
• Su Shi'er recognized Cheng Jingfeng and Situ Zhen's hostile attention and worried that traveling with Shen Miaoyin or alone would both make him a target.
• Situ Zhen rose into the air and turned toward the distance before Su Shi'er could decide how to respond.