Chapter Summaries

Chen Daoxuan and Fairy Chi Yao’s army reached Zhennan Pass, where they discovered the Xuan Qing Dao Alliance had reinforced its defenses with a Sixth-Grade Formation. Unable to find a way to break through quickly, Fairy Chi Yao ordered the army to camp before the pass, and Chen Daoxuan challenged the defenders at dawn.

• Chen Daoxuan and Zhou Mubai saw Yin Jiu True Person, a ninth-layer Golden Core cultivator who had led the earlier assault that captured Zhennan Pass.
• Zhou Mubai recognized that Chen Daoxuan’s strength had made the Chen Family Cangzhou’s dominant force, while Chen Daoxuan left to join Fairy Chi Yao and the other Golden Core cultivators.
• Fairy Chi Yao revealed that Zhennan Pass was protected by a Sixth-Grade Formation, which their War Immortal Boats could not break and which would take too long to wear down.
• Chen Daoxuan proposed bypassing Zhennan Pass, but Fairy Chi Yao rejected the risky plan and ordered the armies to camp less than a hundred li from the pass.
• At dawn, Chen Daoxuan appeared before Zhennan Pass with his sword and challenged the Xuan Qing Dao Alliance’s defenders to fight.

Chen Daoxuan drew out Yin Jiu True Person by defeating his subordinate, then trapped Yin Jiu in a Space Prison and revealed his Space Sword Intent had reached the Law Realm. Yin Jiu called for True Monarch Minghuang to save him, leaving the battle poised to escalate.

• A mid-stage Golden Core cultivator from the Qingwei Dao Sect challenged Chen Daoxuan and was blasted into Zhennan Pass’s defensive Formation with one sword strike.
• Chen Daoxuan’s defeat of the enemy general raised the Zhennan Army’s morale and frightened the Xuan Qing Dao Alliance forces, while Yin Jiu True Person decided Chen Daoxuan had to die.
• Yin Jiu True Person left Zhennan Pass to fight Chen Daoxuan, believing his higher cultivation would give him the advantage.
• Chen Daoxuan trapped Yin Jiu True Person in a Space Prison and revealed his Space Sword Intent had reached the Law Realm.
• Yin Jiu True Person used a Message Jade Talisman to call on True Monarch Minghuang for help.

Chen Daoxuan confronted True Monarch Minghuang, a late stage Nascent Soul cultivator, after Minghuang shattered his Space Prison and rescued Yin Jiu True Person. As Minghuang used a Dao Domain Artifact to hinder Chen Daoxuan’s Teleportation, Chen Daoxuan finally revealed the Starry Sword Dao Chart.

• True Monarch Minghuang emerged at Zhennan Pass, identified Chen Daoxuan, and demanded that he release Yin Jiu True Person.
• Minghuang shattered Chen Daoxuan’s Space Prison with a punch, freed Yin Jiu, and let him retreat into the defensive formation.
• Chen Daoxuan and Minghuang moved away from Zhennan Pass and fought through repeated pursuits, with Chen Daoxuan using Teleportation to evade Minghuang’s attacks.
• Minghuang activated the Mysterious Yellow Heaven Suppressing Pagoda, which Chen Daoxuan recognized as a Dao Domain Artifact meant to slow his Teleportation.
• Chen Daoxuan spat out the Starry Sword Dao Chart, revealing his ultimate trump card.

Fairy Chi Yao and the others watched as Chen Daoxuan revealed the Starry Sword Dao Chart and suppressed True Monarch Minghuang, whose Mysterious Yellow Heaven Suppressing Pagoda failed to protect him. Minghuang burned his Nascent Soul to break free of the pressure and charged at Chen Daoxuan, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Fairy Chi Yao kept her group back from the fight and warned the Golden Core cultivators not to flee after they saw True Monarch Minghuang summon the Mysterious Yellow Heaven Suppressing Pagoda.
• Chen Daoxuan unfurled the Starry Sword Dao Chart, and Fairy Chi Yao recognized the Pure Yang aura coming from it.
• The Starry Sword Dao Chart darkened the sky across more than two thousand three hundred li as Zhou Mubai and Chen Fusheng calmed the frightened cultivators in the camp.
• The chart suppressed True Monarch Minghuang, damaged his pagoda and armor, and began expelling and grinding away his Indestructible True Intent.
• True Monarch Minghuang used the Seven Souls Burning Soul Great Method, burned his Nascent Soul to regain movement, and charged at Chen Daoxuan.

Chen Daoxuan used the Starry Sword Dao Chart to defeat and kill True Monarch Minghuang, then learned that the Qingwei Dao Sect’s Taiyi Divine Water was the treasure tied to his appointment with the Hall Master of Zhenhai Hall. He returned to Fairy Chi Yao and confirmed his victory.

• Chen Daoxuan trapped True Monarch Minghuang with Space Barriers and used the Starry Sword Dao Chart to destroy his armor and body.
• True Monarch Minghuang swore an oath to serve Chen Daoxuan and offered to spy on the Qingwei Dao Sect, but Chen Daoxuan killed his exposed Nascent Soul.
• Chen Daoxuan learned from True Monarch Minghuang that the Qingwei Dao Sect possessed Taiyi Divine Water, then realized it was the treasure connected to his one-year appointment with the Hall Master of Zhenhai Hall.
• Fairy Chi Yao and the others waited beyond the battle’s range, and Fairy Chi Yao believed Chen Daoxuan would win.
• Chen Daoxuan returned through a rift in space, and Fairy Chi Yao asked whether he had won; he confirmed that he had completed his mission.

After Chen Daoxuan defeated True Monarch Minghuang, the Zhennan Army retook Zhennan Pass in a decisive battle. The victory left the army in control of the city, while Yin Jiu True Person escaped and the commanders prepared to count captives and spoils.

• Chen Daoxuan returned to the Zhennan Army camp, where the cultivators celebrated his victory over True Monarch Minghuang and gathered to plan the recapture of Zhennan Pass.
• Fairy Chi Yao gave Chen Daoxuan Ten Thousand Year Spirit Milk, and he restored his Magical Power before leading the next day's assault.
• Chen Daoxuan and the Zhennan Army attacked Zhennan Pass, discovered its defensive formation was weakened, and shattered it with a coordinated strike.
• Chen Daoxuan used his Flying Sword to eliminate key Xuan Qing Dao Alliance fighters as the Zhennan Army routed the defenders and captured Zhennan Immortal City.
• Chen Daoxuan learned that Yin Jiu True Person had fled during his fight with True Monarch Minghuang, and Fairy Chi Yao killed the captured Yu Shuyuan.
• Chen Daoxuan left Fairy Chi Yao to organize the captives, spoils, and report to the sect as the victors celebrated their gains.

After Zhennan Immortal City fell, Chen Daoxuan examined True Monarch Minghuang’s Storage Ring and discovered several treasures that could strengthen him. He left with a Mysterious Yellow Heaven Suppressing Pagoda, a Nascent Soul Nurturing Pill, and sixty-seven drops of Creation Force.

• Fairy Chi Yao announced that thirty percent of Zhennan Immortal City’s spoils would go to the sect and the rest to the soldiers, while Chen Daoxuan excused himself to inspect True Monarch Minghuang’s Storage Ring.
• Chen Daoxuan wiped away the Storage Ring’s fading divine soul imprint and found it held over a billion Spirit Stones, several Magic Artifacts, and shelves of pills.
• Chen Daoxuan found the Mysterious Yellow Heaven Suppressing Pagoda and set it aside, noting its earth attribute suited Chen Fusheng’s Thick Earth Sword Intent.
• Chen Daoxuan searched the jade bottles and found a Core Formation Pill and a Nascent Soul Nurturing Pill, but no fifth-grade Spirit Pills.
• Chen Daoxuan discovered sixty-seven drops of Creation Force and concluded that the pagoda and Creation Force could help increase his strength.

In Zhennan Immortal City, Chen Daoxuan used his enhanced comprehension to transform Silk Rain Sword Intent into Water Element Sword Intent, then advanced it to Water Element Law with Creation Force. He fused Water Element Law and Space Law through the Two Forms Sword Formation, creating a dangerously unstable sword before ending the experiment.

• After Zhennan Immortal City fell, Chen Daoxuan meditated in the Immortal Palace while his Comprehension Star boosted his comprehension beyond a hundredfold.
• Chen Daoxuan transformed Silk Rain Sword Intent into Water Element Sword Intent, drawing on his observations of Ju Fu’s Water Element Law.
• Chen Daoxuan used Creation Force to advance Water Element Sword Intent into Water Element Law, strengthening Flying Snow Sword and the Starry Sword Dao Chart.
• Chen Daoxuan summoned Space Law and Water Element Law through his two lifebound swords and fused them with the Two Forms Sword Formation.
• The fusion tore apart even the reinforced space around Chen Daoxuan, so he ended the formation and watched the two laws separate.

After learning that the Qianyuan Sword Sect had launched an all-out offensive in Cloud Country and that True Monarch Chijiao had fallen, Chen Daoxuan realized the war threatened both the sect and his family. He left Zhennan Pass alone to gather intelligence and support the sect’s desperate campaign.

• The Qingwei Dao Sect Master learned that True Monarch Chijiao had been killed by True Monarch Linwu and the Qianyuan Sword Sect’s Shadow Hall Master, then suspected the Taiyi Divine Water’s existence had been exposed.
• After news arrived that Zhennan Pass had fallen and True Monarch Minghuang had died, the Qingwei Dao Sect Master sent Nascent Soul True Lords to reinforce Cloud Country and ordered an investigation into the Qianyuan Sword Sect.
• Fairy Chi Yao told Chen Daoxuan that the Qianyuan Sword Sect had launched an all-out attack and captured Chijiao Immortal City, prompting him to fear for the Chen Family’s safety if the sect fell.
• Chen Daoxuan proposed entering enemy territory alone to gather intelligence, despite Fairy Chi Yao and the other commanders urging caution.
• Fairy Chi Yao offered to accompany Chen Daoxuan, but he declined and vanished from the hall using spatial transmission.

Chen Daoxuan infiltrated Xuan Qing Dao Alliance territory in disguise and began searching for a wealthy Nascent Soul cultivator to target. He used his Black-Robed Clone to stage a fight near the Shen Family and arranged for the family to take a Storage Ring, leaving his next move poised to draw them into his plan.

• Chen Daoxuan surveyed Juxue Pass, then entered enemy territory with his aura, face, and body altered to resemble a mid-Foundation Establishment cultivator.
• Chen Daoxuan chose True Monarch Jinyuan, a wealthy Nascent Soul Middle Stage logistics overseer, as his first target and planned to learn how to approach him.
• Chen Daoxuan's Black-Robed Clone killed a Golden Core cultivator while demanding a Nascent Soul Pill, then burned the corpse and left a Storage Ring for others to find.
• Shen Guibai found the Storage Ring, but Shen Mao Qing noticed and took it from him, deciding the Shen Family should present it to the Jin Family.
• Chen Mao Qing sealed his cave mansion and revealed an unconscious duplicate of himself on a Jade Bed; Chen Daoxuan's Black-Robed Clone returned to his Dantian with the Flying Snow Sword.

Chen Daoxuan infiltrated the Shen Family’s visit to the Jin Family Old Ancestor’s birthday banquet, hoping to reach the powerful family under cover of a supposed treasure presentation. The Jin Family Old Ancestor recognized him as the cultivator behind the Golden Core’s death and confronted him in private.

• The Shen Family arranged to present a treasure to the Jin Family Old Ancestor at his month-long birthday banquet, hoping to gain the Jin Family’s protection and influence.
• Chen Daoxuan considered how to assassinate True Monarch Jinyuan, ruling out a frontal attack on Jinyuan Immortal City because its Sixth Grade Formation and nearby Nascent Soul cultivators made it too dangerous.
• The Shen Family traveled to Jinyuan Immortal City and entered the Jin Family Estate after presenting their banquet invitation.
• Chen Daoxuan sent his Black-Robed Clone away as a Purple Mansion cultivator while he remained with the Shen Family party, then persuaded a Jin Family Purple Mansion cultivator to bring him to the Old Ancestor.
• The Jin Family Old Ancestor privately dismissed his attendant and identified Chen Daoxuan, who denied knowing what he meant.

Chen Daoxuan exposed his identity to Jin Chenying, who revealed that his grandfather, True Monarch Jinyuan, had bound him with a Blood Slave Contract to prepare him as a body-possession vessel. After learning that four Nascent Soul True Lords guarded Jinyuan Immortal City, Chen Daoxuan revised his plan and prepared to raid Jinyuan’s Dao Arena with Jin Chenying.

• The Jin Family Old Ancestor explained how he had recognized Chen Daoxuan and revealed that the other Nascent Soul cultivators in the city belonged to the Qingwei Dao Sect.
• Jin Chenying showed Chen Daoxuan the Blood Slave Contract on his chest and confessed that he wanted to kill his grandfather, True Monarch Jinyuan.
• Jin Chenying told Chen Daoxuan that four Nascent Soul True Lords were in Jinyuan Immortal City, making a direct ambush too dangerous.
• Chen Daoxuan asked where True Monarch Jinyuan kept his treasures, and Jin Chenying identified the Crimson Flame Immortal Mansion as his Dao Arena.
• Chen Daoxuan placed the Flying Snow Sword, manifested from his Water Element Law, in Jin Chenying’s Dantian and set out with him for the Crimson Flame Immortal Mansion.

Chen Daoxuan entered True Monarch Jinyuan’s Crimson Flame Immortal Mansion with Jin Chenying to search for the treasure chamber and gather Creation Force. After breaking its Fifth-Grade Formation without alerting anyone, he found a vast hoard of Magic Artifacts and began searching for the Creation Force he needed to strengthen his Laws before confronting four Nascent Soul True Lords.

• Chen Daoxuan and Jin Chenying entered the Crimson Flame Immortal Mansion, where Jin Chenying explained his favored but precarious position under True Monarch Jinyuan.
• Jin Chenying identified a palace hall as True Monarch Jinyuan’s likely treasure chamber, but neither he nor Chen Daoxuan knew how to enter it quietly.
• Chen Daoxuan used his Comprehension Stars to find a flaw in the Fifth-Grade defensive Formation, while Jin Chenying left to keep the mansion’s servants away.
• Chen Daoxuan dissolved the Formation through the palace plaque and entered the treasure chamber.
• Chen Daoxuan collected thirteen Fifth-Grade Magic Artifacts, including two Top-Quality Flying Swords, and several hundred Tier 4 Magic Artifacts.
• Chen Daoxuan began searching the hoard for Creation Force to raise his Water Element Law and Space Law before facing four Nascent Soul True Lords.

Chen Daoxuan found that True Monarch Jinyuan’s visible treasure chamber lacked the treasures he needed, but Ziling revealed a hidden Cave Heaven containing Indestructible True Intent and Creation Force. After learning that Jinyuan planned to use Ziling to aid his cultivation after possessing Jin Chenying, Chen Daoxuan began working with her to escape Jinyuan’s control.

• Chen Daoxuan searched True Monarch Jinyuan’s Treasure Palace and found no Creation Force, Indestructible True Intent, or pills that aided cultivation breakthroughs.
• Ziling confronted Chen Daoxuan, and he concluded that she wanted to escape True Monarch Jinyuan’s control and had access to his real treasure trove.
• Ziling revealed that she possessed the Nine Yin Profound Yin Physique and that True Monarch Jinyuan planned to seize Jin Chenying’s body and use her to advance his cultivation.
• Ziling disclosed a hidden Cave Heaven behind an ornamental vase, and Chen Daoxuan followed her inside.
• Chen Daoxuan found seventeen chests of Indestructible True Intent and three bottles of Creation Force, while Ziling explained that the treasures could help an early Nascent Soul cultivator cultivate an Indestructible True Body.

Chen Daoxuan used the Creation Force to advance the Shadow-Bearing Sword, but the sword’s power shattered True Monarch Jinyuan’s treasure Cave Heaven. As True Monarch Jinyuan confronted Jin Chenying and Ziling, the Flying Snow Sword suddenly ambushed him and sent him crashing through the palace.

• Chen Daoxuan poured all three hundred drops of Creation Force into the Shadow-Bearing Sword, triggering its advancement and destabilizing the Cave Heaven.
• Chen Daoxuan escaped with the Shadow-Bearing Sword and the remaining chests of Indestructible True Intent just before the Cave Heaven collapsed.
• True Monarch Jinyuan appeared before Jin Chenying and Ziling and accused them of betraying him.
• Jin Chenying revealed True Monarch Jinyuan’s Blood Slave Contract, while Ziling accused him of killing her parents and exploiting female cultivators.
• True Monarch Jinyuan used Tenfold Mountainous Might to pin Jin Chenying down and crush him to his knees.
• The Flying Snow Sword burst from Jin Chenying’s Dantian sea of Qi, struck True Monarch Jinyuan through his Spirit Armor, and sent him smashing through the palace.

Chen Daoxuan faced Palace Mistress Youyue and three other Nascent Soul cultivators after they arrived to defend Jinyuan Immortal City. He sent Jin Chenying and Ziling into his Cave Heaven artifact, then attacked Youyue, whose overwhelming strength left the battle unresolved.

• Three Nascent Soul cultivators rushed to the Crimson Flame Immortal Mansion as Chen Daoxuan emerged from the Treasure Palace.
• True Monarch Jinyuan and the other two cultivators arrived, and Jinyuan addressed Palace Mistress Youyue as their leader.
• Palace Mistress Youyue offered to spare Chen Daoxuan if he surrendered, but he taunted her about True Monarch Minghuang’s death and refused.
• The three mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivators used Dao Domain Artifacts to stabilize the airspace, while Chen Daoxuan sent Jin Chenying and Ziling into his Small Tower Cave Heaven.
• Chen Daoxuan attacked Palace Mistress Youyue with the Flying Snow Sword, but she repelled it with a finger and revealed her high-stage Fire Law.

Palace Mistress Youyue attacked Chen Daoxuan with her Illusory Spirit True Fire, but he fused the Space Law and Water Element Law to defeat it. After he refused to join the Xuan Qing Dao Alliance, she unleashed a stronger fusion of Fire and Metal Laws, leaving Jinyuan Immortal City in chaos as the battle continued.

• Palace Mistress Youyue launched her Illusory Spirit True Fire, and Chen Daoxuan used the Shadow-Bearing Sword before fusing the Space Law and Water Element Law to destroy the flames.
• True Monarch Jinyuan tried to catch the scattered flames with a fifth-rank Magic Artifact, which was badly damaged before Palace Mistress Youyue recalled her fire and rebuked him.
• Palace Mistress Youyue offered Chen Daoxuan a place in the Xuan Qing Dao Alliance, but he refused because their conflict over the Taiyi Divine Water could not be resolved.
• Palace Mistress Youyue fused her Metal Element Law with her Fire Law and summoned a Golden Fire Phoenix, whose power plunged Jinyuan Immortal City into chaos.

Chen Daoxuan fought Palace Mistress Youyue to a destructive draw, then escaped with the Michen Banner before she could capture him. While he hid inside Space Prison to recover, Youyue searched for him, and Chen Daoxuan brought Jin Chenying and Ziling out of his Small Tower.

• Palace Mistress Youyue’s Fire Phoenix and Chen Daoxuan’s Space Annihilation Immortal Sword collided, destroying Jinyuan Immortal City and injuring the three Nascent Soul True Lords who had protected it.
• Chen Daoxuan realized that his lower cultivation had weakened his attack, and Palace Mistress Youyue prepared to strike again with Illusory Spirit True Fire.
• Chen Daoxuan used the Michen Banner to escape, and a Qingwei Dao Sect Nascent Soul True Lord tracked his lingering aura southeast with the Myriad Miles Tracking Art.
• After Chen Daoxuan concealed himself with Space Prison, Palace Mistress Youyue ordered her companions to search the area, while he sheltered and began recovering from his injuries.
• Chen Daoxuan took Jin Chenying and Ziling out of his Small Tower, and both witnessed the strength of the man who had destroyed Jinyuan Immortal City.

Chen Daoxuan took Ziling in and used repeated spatial transmissions to escape Palace Mistress Youyue’s pursuit. After learning about Ziling’s past and the Source Blood Divine Seal that let True Monarch Jinyuan track her, Chen Daoxuan found Yin Jiu True Person hiding on a Fifth-Order Spirit Vein, where Yin Jiu was drinking with two rogue Golden Core cultivators.

• Chen Daoxuan ended his cooperation with Jin Chenying and let him leave, but agreed to take Ziling in on the condition that they would discuss later.
• Chen Daoxuan recovered his Magical Power, then repeatedly teleported with Ziling until they had shaken off Palace Mistress Youyue’s pursuit.
• Ziling explained that her family had kept her captive because of her Nine Yin Profound Yin Physique and that True Monarch Jinyuan had killed her parents and placed the Source Blood Divine Seal on her.
• Chen Daoxuan detected a Fifth-Order Spirit Vein occupied by Yin Jiu True Person and two rogue Golden Core cultivators.
• At Twin Saints Peak, one of the rogue Golden Core cultivators complained that the Xuan Qing Dao Alliance had put out a warrant for Yin Jiu after he fled the battle against the Myriad Star Sea cultivators.

Yin Jiu True Person agreed to help two Twin Saints Peak cultivators rob a supply convoy and flee the Xuan Qing Dao Alliance, but Chen Daoxuan arrived and killed the two cultivators. Meanwhile, the Qingwei Dao Sect's Sect Master ordered a scheme against Chen Daoxuan, and Chen began questioning Yin Jiu about his flight from Zhennan Pass.

• Yin Jiu True Person agreed to join the Twin Saints Peak cultivators in robbing supplies and leaving the Xuan Qing Dao Alliance.
• Chen Daoxuan and Ziling arrived at Twin Saints Peak's Immortal Palace, where Chen immobilized the dancing maidservants with Soul Stabilizing Divine Light.
• The two Twin Saints Peak cultivators recognized Ziling's Nine Yin Profound Yin Physique and attacked Chen Daoxuan, who killed them with two sword strikes.
• Yin Jiu True Person begged Chen Daoxuan to spare him, and Chen asked how he had known True Monarch Minghuang would lose at Zhennan Pass.
• Elder Yun told the Qingwei Dao Sect's Sect Master that Chen Daoxuan had destroyed Jinyuan Immortal City, and the Sect Master ordered Elder He to pressure the Jiang Family into acting against Chen.