Chapter Summaries

Ren failed to destroy Death God’s altar and tried to kill Zeref and Black Dragon, but Death God sacrificed them to complete a world-spanning magic array. As Death God began sacrificing the world to achieve Transcendence, Ren remained confident and watched the array greedily.

• Ren realized he could not destroy the altar, so he attacked Zeref and Black Dragon instead.
• Death God used Spacetime Sacrifice to pull Zeref and Black Dragon into distorted space, while Ren severed half of Black Dragon before they were swallowed.
• Death God transformed the four continents into earth, wind, fire, and water, then turned Zeref and Black Dragon into time and space energy.
• Death God activated World Sacrifice 073, draining the world into a magic array to nourish his Transcendence.
• Aizen warned Ren that they might vanish with the world, but Ren assured him they would survive and calmly watched the array form.

Ren faced Death God’s world-sacrificing magic array, which Death God intended to use to achieve Transcendence. The Zhu Xian Formation Diagram consumed the array and returned to Ren, but Death God then tried to destroy the fragile remains of the Fairy Tail World in a suicidal attack.

• Ren admitted to Aizen that he wanted to seize the magic array and use its power to become stronger.
• Death God sent the world-sized magic array down on Ren, while Ren ordered his anxious subordinates not to interfere.
• Ren called on the Zhu Xian Formation Diagram, which emerged from his soul and restrained and consumed the magic array.
• The Zhu Xian Formation Diagram returned to Ren, and the enraged Death God charged into the surrounding void and threatened to self-destruct, detonating the ruined world.

After the Fairy Tail World perished, Ren and the survivors entered the Trash Station and traveled through a crushing Spacetime Tunnel. Ren’s body was reduced to a bead before his soul reached a new world, where the Expounding Sect’s leaders prepared to assign the remaining Divine Positions.

• Ren ordered the Trash Station to devour the dying Fairy Tail World and gathered Aizen and the other survivors inside it.
• The Spacetime Tunnel crushed Ren’s body despite the protection of the Zhu Xian Formation Diagram, leaving only a violet-gold bead carrying his soul.
• Ren’s soul emerged in the Investiture of the Gods World, where Guangchengzi announced that the Expounding Sect had defeated the Interception Sect and claimed the Destiny of heaven and earth.
• Guangchengzi and the other Expounding Sect members discussed who would receive the remaining Divine Positions.
• The four swords on the altar began to hum as though they had sensed someone dear to them.

Ren traveled from the Fairy Tail World to the Primordial World and merged with the Zhu Xian Sword, which Yuding Zhenren took away to suppress. Ren realized he had arrived just after the Investiture of the Gods and remained baffled by becoming a sword.

• The Four Zhu Xian Swords released Fiendish Qi and Sword Aura, alarming the Twelve Golden Immortals as they discussed how to handle them.
• Yuding Zhenren suggested separating the swords, and Guangchengzi gave him the Zhu Xian Sword while taking the Immortal-Trapping Sword himself.
• Yuding Zhenren left for Jade Spring Mountain with the Zhu Xian Sword, unaware that Ren had merged with it and that it glowed faintly purple.
• Ren recognized the names Guangchengzi, Yuding, the Expounding Sect, and the Interception Sect, and realized he had arrived in the Primordial World just after the Investiture of the Gods.
• Ren struggled to understand how he had become the Zhu Xian Sword as Yuding Zhenren carried him toward his abode.

Ren struggled to understand why he had merged with the Zhu Xian Sword and whether he could regain a human body. After Yuding Zhenren hung the sword in his palace to contain its Fiendish Qi, Ren appeared inside it as a soul and began questioning his connection to the sword.

• Ren decided that being taken in by Yuding Zhenren was preferable to staying with Guangchengzi, whose proximity could expose his fusion with the Zhu Xian Sword.
• Yuding Zhenren returned to his jade training ground and hung the Zhu Xian Sword on a wall, using a carved kirin to absorb its Fiendish Qi.
• Yuding Zhenren told his attendant to inspect the kirin’s eyes every nine days and alert him if they turned black.
• The attendant noticed a faint purple glow around the Zhu Xian Sword, unaware that Ren was causing it.
• Ren emerged from a purple-gold bead inside the sword, realized he had lost his body, and wondered why the sword’s inner space felt familiar and comforting.

Ren entered the Trash Station and learned that he was the reincarnated Sword Spirit of the Four Zhu Xian Swords, with Saint Tongtian having sent him through countless lives to grow stronger. The Trash Station revealed that it was an unfinished Spirit Treasure Tongtian had created and merged with Ren, then pointed to Ren’s past feats as proof of their shared origins.

• Ren discovered he could control the Zhu Xian Sword and the other three swords, then entered the Trash Station, causing the sword’s Fiendish Qi to weaken for the boy outside.
• Ren asked whether devoured worlds could earn him another chance to receive trash, and the Trash Station said they could before revealing that Ren’s arrival in the world was not chance.
• The Trash Station explained that Saint Tongtian had fused the four swords’ weak Sword Spirits and sent the combined spirit through Reincarnation to grow stronger.
• Ren learned that he was that reincarnated Sword Spirit, whose many lives had changed his soul into a human soul without changing its essence.
• The Trash Station revealed that Tongtian had created it as an unfinished Spirit Treasure and sent it through Reincarnation to grow alongside Ren.
• The Trash Station cited Ren’s sword-related abilities across the Naruto, One Piece, Death God, Fairy Tail, and Shrouding the Heavens worlds as evidence of his origins.

Ren learned that the Immortal Swords in other worlds were avatars of the Primordial World's Four Zhu Xian Swords, and that his identity as their Sword Spirit let him control related weapons. He began trying to condense a new body from a violet-gold bead and Ye Fan's essence blood, while the Immortal Sword's growing Fiendish Qi drew a Daoist boy's attention.

• Trash Station explained that the Four Zhu Xian Swords in other worlds were physical avatars of the true swords and felt familiar to Ren because he was their Sword Spirit.
• Trash Station said Ren could not access the Immortal Sword's inheritances or power until he grew stronger, and it did not know Saint Tongtian's purpose or cultivation methods.
• Ren worried that he lacked a body and cultivation methods, and Trash Station pointed out that he could use the violet-gold bead and the drop of Ye Fan's essence blood to transform.
• Ren merged his soul into the violet-gold bead and entered the space within the Immortal Sword.
• The Immortal Sword's Fiendish Qi grew stronger, and a Daoist boy wondered whether it had gained Sentience.

Ren, merged with the Zhu Xian Sword, frightened Yuding Zhenren’s attendant to stop him touching the weapon and overheard details about the Nine-Rank Heavenly Demon Art. Yuding then agreed to teach the attendant the First Turn of the Nine-Turn Mysterious Technique, leaving Ren eager to learn it too.

• Ren sensed Yuding Zhenren’s attendant reaching for the Zhu Xian Sword and released a burst of Fiendish Qi and Sword Aura that frightened him.
• Yuding Zhenren arrived, warned the attendant not to approach the sword, and dismissed the idea that it had a Sword Spirit.
• Yuding explained that he taught the attendant the Nine-Rank Heavenly Demon Art to improve his jade body and prepare him for the Nine-Turn Mysterious Technique.
• Ren decided he wanted to obtain the Nine-Rank Heavenly Demon Art after hearing how it could refine bloodlines and improve aptitude.
• After the attendant complained about training, Yuding agreed to teach him the First Turn of the Nine-Turn Mysterious Technique, and Ren eagerly listened.

Ren secretly learned Yuding Zhenren’s explanation of the First Turn of the Nine-Turn Mysterious Technique while hiding inside the Zhu Xian Sword. He worried about gathering enough resources to cultivate it, while Yuding’s attendant focused on whether the technique would let him transform.

• Yuding Zhenren explained that he taught through conversation so disciples could develop their own understanding, then described how the First Turn tempered and rebuilt the body.
• Ren listened secretly and understood the method, while Yuding’s attendant grew frightened by its pain and demands.
• Yuding explained that Yang Jian advanced quickly because he had a strong foundation, abundant resources, and the will to endure the pain.
• Ren worried that his own resources might not suffice and considered using the Trash Station to gather more.
• The attendant asked whether the Nine-Turn Mysterious Technique would let him transform like Yang Jian, and Yuding explained that transformation was a secondary effect that came after reaching the Fourth Turn.

Yuding Zhenren explained the Thirty-Six Heavenly Transformations and Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends Transformations, then taught the attendant boy the First Turn of the Nine-Turn Mysterious Technique. Ren used it to cultivate inside the Zhu Xian Sword and began rebuilding his body as his purple-gold bead cracked open.

• Yuding Zhenren explained how the two transformation methods worked and why the Heavenly Transformations required resources he could not gather.
• Yuding Zhenren let the attendant boy choose not to cultivate, while Ren was grateful that the boy's questions had earned him a cultivation method.
• Ren began using the First Turn of the Nine-Turn Mysterious Technique to absorb Spiritual Qi and rebuild his body from the purple-gold bead.
• The Zhu Xian Sword absorbed Spiritual Qi rapidly, forming a lake in the Sword Spirit Space while Ren slowly guided the Qi into his body.
• The bead cracked, began devouring the liquefied Spiritual Qi, and erupted in a brilliant purple-gold blast.

Ren used the Nine-Turn Mysterious Technique to rebuild his body, but the Zhu Xian Sword’s gathered Spiritual Qi only formed his purple-gold skeleton. He used Ye Fan’s blood essence to continue shaping his body and became immersed in a fist technique contained within it, while Yuding’s attendant watched the Zhu Xian Sword glow.

• Ren consumed nearly all the Spiritual Qi gathered by the Zhu Xian Sword to form two-thirds of a purple-gold skeleton.
• Ren concluded that Spiritual Qi alone was insufficient and called for Ye Fan’s blood essence from the Zhu Xian Formation Diagram.
• The last of the Spiritual Qi completed Ren’s skeleton, and Ye Fan’s blood essence struck it and released immense energy.
• Ren absorbed the blood essence to shape his body and discovered that it contained one of Ye Fan’s fist techniques.
• Yuding’s attendant noticed the Zhu Xian Sword glowing purple-gold and gold, then heard the dragon-shaped jade pendant at his waist cry out.

Ren formed a body from the Zhu Xian Sword, then returned to the sword when Yang Jian arrived. He secretly collected the Howling Celestial Hound’s blood after wounding him, and Yang Jian entered the hall to find the injured hound and frightened Zi Yu.

• Ren formed a body, thanked Ye Fan for helping him, and vowed to gather all four swords.
• Ren searched the empty hall for resources, then hid inside the Zhu Xian Sword when he heard that Yang Jian had arrived.
• Zi Yu teased the Howling Celestial Hound and lured him toward the Zhu Xian Sword.
• Ren used the sword to slash the Howling Celestial Hound and secretly collected some of his blood in a jade bottle.
• Yang Jian entered the hall, found the bleeding Howling Celestial Hound and frightened Zi Yu, and gave the hound a pill.

After the Howling Celestial Hound was injured by the Zhu Xian Sword, Yuding Zhenren healed him and explained the power of his newly awakened Tengu bloodline. Once Ziyu Daoist Boy and the hound left, Yang Jian asked Yuding why he had the Zhu Xian Sword, while Ren secretly listened from within it.

• Yang Jian dispelled the Fiendish Qi in the Howling Celestial Hound’s wound, and the hound blamed Ziyu Daoist Boy for tricking him into touching the Zhu Xian Sword.
• Ziyu Daoist Boy explained that the sword’s Sword Aura had grown unexpectedly stronger, while Yang Jian recognized the weapon from the Investiture War.
• Yuding Zhenren arrived and told the Howling Celestial Hound that the Tengu Lineage could inherit the Sun-Swallowing Moon-Devouring ability.
• The Howling Celestial Hound revealed that he had awakened only an olfactory ability, and Yuding encouraged him and healed his injuries.
• Yuding sent Ziyu Daoist Boy and the Howling Celestial Hound out of the hall, leaving Yang Jian to ask why he had the Zhu Xian Sword.

Yuding Zhenren explained that Yang Jian could use a divine incarnation to explore the Divine Path while his true body continued cultivating. He then took Yang Jian to Kunlun to compete for lesser Divine Positions, bringing the Zhu Xian Sword and preparing the Immortal-Slaying Sword.

• Yang Jian asked Yuding Zhenren about the Investiture List, and Yuding reassured him that the Jade Emperor could not easily control the gods without the God-Striking Whip.
• Yuding suggested Yang Jian place a wisp of divine sense on the list to cultivate the Divine Path while his true body trained in the Nine-Turn Mysterious Technique.
• White Crane summoned Yuding to Kunlun to discuss the Investiture of the Gods and the allocation of lesser Divine Positions.
• Yuding decided to claim positions for Yang Jian's followers and gather Destiny for their branch, then ordered Ziyu Daoist Boy to fetch his Immortal-Slaying Sword.

Ren waited for a chance to obtain the Nine-Rank Heavenly Demon Art while trapped inside the Zhu Xian Sword on Jade Spring Mountain. He discovered Ziyu Daoist Boy was confined by a formation and began using the sword’s Fiendish Qi to interfere with the boy’s cultivation.

• Yuding Zhenren revealed the Immortal-Slaying Sword and left for Kunlun Mountain with Yang Jian, the Howling Celestial Hound, and the Seven Meishan Monsters.
• Ren realized Yuding Zhenren cultivated himself as a sword and decided to watch the lone Ziyu Daoist Boy before acting.
• Ziyu Daoist Boy complained that Yuding’s formation kept him trapped in the hall, then reluctantly began practicing the Nine-Rank Heavenly Demon Art from Yang Jian’s annotated bamboo slip.
• Ren recognized the method’s Large Seal Script and planned to obtain it, then slowly released Fiendish Qi from the Zhu Xian Sword around the cultivating Ziyu Daoist Boy.

Ren emerged from the Zhu Xian Sword after Ziyu Daoist Boy collapsed from absorbing Fiendish Qi, then studied the Nine-Rank Heavenly Demon Art and examined the Yellow Dragon Jade Pendant. He disabled the pendant’s protective dragon with the Zhu Xian Sword and took the now-darkened pendant.

• Ziyu Daoist Boy absorbed Fiendish Qi while cultivating, spat blood, and fell unconscious.
• Ren emerged from the Zhu Xian Sword and picked up the bamboo slip recording the Nine-Rank Heavenly Demon Art.
• Ren studied the art’s three stages, which used Lunar Essence and Solar Essence to strengthen the body and fuse Yin and Yang.
• Ren recognized Ziyu Daoist Boy’s pendant as the Yellow Dragon Jade Pendant, made by Huanglong Zhenren.
• Ren struck toward the pendant with the Zhu Xian Sword, and its Nine-Clawed Yellow Dragon appeared to protect Ziyu Daoist Boy.
• Ren released Fiendish Qi and Sword Aura, dispelled the dragon, and caught the darkened pendant.

Ren stole Zi Yu’s Yellow Dragon Jade Pendant and staged Yuding’s hall as a crime scene to conceal his involvement. After he sent the Zhu Xian Sword into the hall’s formation and left it against the wall, Yuding sensed something was wrong.

• Ren took control of the Yellow Dragon Jade Pendant and discovered it could store items and convert Spiritual Qi into Dragon Qi.
• Ren took Yuding’s meditation cushion and damaged the hall with the Zhu Xian Sword and Six Paths Reincarnation Fist.
• Ren scattered blood around the hall to mislead Yuding about Zi Yu’s disappearance and cultivation deviation.
• Ren sent the Zhu Xian Sword’s Sword Aura into the hall’s Formation Array, gathered the fiendish energy, and left the sword against the wall.
• Yuding looked grim as he rode toward the hall, and Yang Jian asked what was wrong.

Yuding Zhenren learned that Jade Spring Mountain had been attacked and sent Yang Jian to investigate, while setting out himself with killing intent. Yang Jian found the injured but living Zi Yu in a wrecked hall, yet neither he nor the Howling Celestial Hound could identify the attackers, and the Zhu Xian Sword remained untouched.

• Yuding Zhenren learned that the Formation Array had been struck and that the Dragon Qi in Zi Yu's jade pendant was gone, then sent Yang Jian to Jade Spring Mountain.
• Yuding Zhenren flew toward Kunlun Mountain, and Huanglong Zhenren followed, pleased that Yuding was finally showing his strength.
• Yang Jian hurried toward Jade Spring Mountain with the Howling Celestial Hound and the Seven Meishan Monsters, who smelled Zi Yu's blood along the way.
• Yang Jian ordered the Seven Meishan Monsters to surround Jade Spring Mountain, then entered the mountain and found Zi Yu unconscious in a ruined hall.
• Yang Jian and the Howling Celestial Hound found the Zhu Xian Sword untouched but could not determine who had attacked, so Yang Jian prepared to wake Zi Yu while the hound searched the mountain.

Ren used the Trash Station to travel backward through a Spacetime Tunnel in search of cultivation resources, arriving in a desolate ancient land where an ancient hall burst open and its treasures flew out. A young child collected several treasures that landed on a nearby hill.

• Ren watched Yang Jian investigate the Zhu Xian Sword, then left the Sword Spirit Space to train.
• Ren decided to cross the Spacetime Tunnel into another world and gather resources for cultivation.
• The Trash Station warned Ren that his connection to the Investiture of the Gods World would weaken and that returning would expose him to tunnel pressure.
• Ren entered the vortex and tempered his body with Spiritual Qi as he traveled through the tunnel.
• Ren emerged above a desolate ancient land as attackers broke open an ancient hall, releasing treasures that killed many people.
• A young child on a nearby hill smiled and picked up several treasures that landed there.

Ren arrived in the Shrouding the Heavens World and intervened when Duan De tried to seize treasures from Ye Fan. After Duan De recognized Ren’s Double Pupils, Ren revealed that his physique was, in a sense, the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body.

• Duan De took a treasure from a young child and prepared to claim another approaching treasure.
• Ren burst from the streak of light and punched Duan De into a mountain before appearing naked and quickly dressing in a Daoist robe.
• Duan De returned to confront Ren but fell silent after seeing Ren’s Double Pupils.
• Ren asked whether Duan De was Duan De and learned from the youth that he was Ye Fan.
• Ren’s presence stirred familiarity and boiling bloodline within Ye Fan, and Ren said his physique was also the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body in a certain sense.