Chapter Summaries

Chen Daoxuan rushed to Jiye Immortal City after learning that the Jiang Family held Chen Xianhe, who was near death. He rescued Chen Xianhe into his Cave Heaven Small Pagoda and confronted Jiang Taiyuan, asking how he wanted to die.

• Chen Daoxuan left Chen Daolian and Luo Li at the Qianyuan Sword Sect and demanded that its guards open the formation.
• Jiang Taiyuan gave Chen Xianhe Nascent Soul Essence and learned that Chen Xianhe could not survive the journey back to Cangzhou.
• Chen Xianhe rejoiced at news of Chen Daoxuan's victory and mocked Jiang Taiyuan for fearing the consequences of his capture.
• Chen Daoxuan repeatedly teleported across the Myriad Star Sea and arrived at Jiye Immortal City.
• Chen Daoxuan appeared in the Immortal Palace, brought Chen Xianhe into his Cave Heaven Small Pagoda, and challenged Jiang Taiyuan.

Chen Daoxuan rescued Chen Xianhe from Jiang Taiyuan and fought him after Jiang Taiyuan tried to recruit him into the family cultivators’ camp. Jiang Taiyuan trapped Chen Daoxuan in a powerful formation, while events outside the barrier hinted at a way to break the stalemate.

• Chen Daoxuan took Chen Xianhe into a Cave Heaven artifact, then struck Jiang Taiyuan, destroying the Immortal Palace and vaporizing Jiang Chenye in the shockwave.
• Jiang Taiyuan recovered from his injuries and tried to persuade Chen Daoxuan to join the family cultivators’ camp, but Chen Daoxuan refused.
• Jiang Taiyuan summoned the seventh-grade Xumi Nine Palaces Formation and attacked Chen Daoxuan with a relentless storm of spatial blades.
• Chen Daoxuan’s avatar remained outside the formation, while the Xumi Nine Palaces Formation drained the Jiang Family’s Spirit Vein.
• Jiang Taihao emerged from secluded cultivation, recognized the formation as an enemy’s, and asked Jiye Immortal City whether any Fourth Grade or higher Formation Masters were present.

Chen Daoxuan's Black-Robed Clone helped Jiang Taihao and the Formation Masters deploy a sixth-tier Spirit Sealing Formation, cutting off the Void Nine Palaces Formation's energy supply. Chen Daoxuan then overwhelmed the trapped Jiang Taiyuan with repeated attacks, leaving him unable to escape.

• Chen Daoxuan's Black-Robed Clone joined Jiang Taihao and gathered Formation Masters to arrange a way to sever the Void Nine Palaces Formation's spiritual energy supply.
• Master Qi warned that the formation required a sixth-tier Spirit Sealing Formation, so Chen Daoxuan's Black-Robed Clone produced one and led the Formation Masters in setting it up.
• Jiang Taiyuan taunted Chen Daoxuan while the Void Nine Palaces Formation's spatial blades forced him to defend.
• The Black-Robed Clone activated the Spirit Sealing Grand Formation, cutting off the Jiang Family's main Spirit Vein and weakening the Void Nine Palaces Formation.
• Chen Daoxuan struck Jiang Taiyuan with a giant golden sword and followed with relentless fused-Law attacks, trapping him against the formation light curtain.

Chen Daoxuan killed Jiang Taiyuan, forced Jiang Taihao to accept the Chen Family’s terms, and returned to the Small Pagoda Cave Heaven. There, he gave his dying Thirteenth Uncle Chen Xianhe Taiyi Divine Water and Foundation Establishment treasures, leaving Chen Xianhe poised to attempt Foundation Establishment.

• Chen Daoxuan trapped Jiang Taiyuan with the Starry Sword Dao Chart and Space Prison, then killed him with a Golden Giant Sword after the Void Nine Palaces Formation collapsed.
• Jiang Taihao attacked Chen Daoxuan, was swiftly defeated, and then agreed to end the dispute while Chen Daoxuan departed.
• Jiang Taihao hired Chen Daoxuan’s Black-Robed Clone as a guest elder, offering him generous compensation so he could help protect the Jiang Family with high-grade formations.
• Chen Daoxuan entered the Small Pagoda Cave Heaven and reunited with his nearly dying Thirteenth Uncle, Chen Xianhe.
• Chen Daoxuan gave Chen Xianhe Taiyi Divine Water, a Foundation Establishment Pill, a Blood Essence Pill, and a White Lotus of Creation, then supplied spiritual energy for Chen Xianhe to attempt Foundation Establishment.

True Monarch Linwu returned to the Qianyuan Sword Sect, prompting preparations for a major Merit Celebration Ceremony. Ye Yin urged Ye Wudao to seek Chen Daoxuan’s support, while Chen Daoxuan brought the newly Foundation Establishment Chen Xianhe home to Twin Lakes Island.

• Fei Chenxue and the Qianyuan Sword Sect’s leaders welcomed True Monarch Linwu and his battle-hardened followers back to the sect.
• The sect held a ten-day banquet for True Monarch Linwu, and its disciples and allies eagerly awaited the upcoming Battle Merit rewards.
• Ye Yin told Ye Wudao to befriend Chen Daoxuan, arguing that the Cangzhou Chen Family could help counter Fei Chenxue’s growing power.
• Ye Wudao agreed to visit Chen Daoxuan during the Merit Celebration Ceremony and thank him for recovering Zhennan Pass.
• Chen Daoxuan flew with Chen Xianhe to Twin Lakes Island, where Chen Xianhe celebrated returning home after establishing his foundation.

Chen Daoxuan returned to Twin Lakes Island with Chen Xianhe, revealed that he had killed Jiang Taiyuan, and announced the clan’s plans for the upcoming Merit Celebration Ceremony and ancestral rites. Chen Xianhe passed the patriarch’s position to Chen Daoxuan, who became the Chen Family’s Sixth Patriarch.

• Chen Family cultivators gathered at Qiming Hall, where they were astonished to see Chen Xianhe returned and successfully established in Foundation Establishment.
• Chen Daoxuan told the clan that Jiang Taiyuan was dead and that Chen Xianhe had achieved Foundation Establishment.
• Chen Daoxuan presented Yin Jiu True Person’s head, and Chen Xianhe mourned the long-awaited vengeance for his fallen elders.
• Chen Daoxuan announced that the clan would attend the Qianyuan Sword Sect’s Merit Celebration Ceremony and hold ancestral rites.
• Chen Xianhe passed the patriarch’s position to Chen Daoxuan, who formally assumed the title of Sixth Patriarch as the clan’s cultivators hailed him.

Chen Daoxuan searched Old Ancestor Jiang’s Storage Ring for clues about the Jiang Family’s hidden treasure and became convinced the family might possess a way to extract Creation Force from Spirit Stones. He found a special item among Jiang Taiyuan’s Magic Artifacts, but had not yet identified it.

• Chen Daoxuan put away the nearly collapsed Cave Heaven Small Tower and examined the mid-grade seventh grade Void Nine Palaces Formation Disk taken from Jiang Taiyuan.
• Chen Daoxuan erased Jiang Taiyuan’s soul imprint from his Storage Ring and found Blood Marrow and Indestructible True Intent, but no Creation Force.
• Chen Daoxuan suspected Jiang Taiyuan had used his Creation Force to advance the Formation Disk, then reconsidered what treasure the Xuan Qing Dao Alliance might have offered him.
• Chen Daoxuan connected the Jiang Family’s Spirit Stone shortage and lavish Blood Crystal sales to a possible method for extracting Creation Force from Spirit Stones.
• Chen Daoxuan searched Jiang Taiyuan’s many Jade Slips and Magic Artifacts and discovered a special item among a pile of low-grade artifacts.

At the Artifact Research Institute, Chen Daoxuan showed Chen Daochu a fourth-grade Great Cauldron that could extract Creation Force, though at a high Spirit Stone cost. Chen Daochu explained the World Realm’s need for Creation Force, and Chen Daoxuan ended by urging him not to neglect cultivation before they tested the cauldron.

• Chen Daoxuan showed Chen Daochu the Great Cauldron and explained that its automated extraction of Creation Force cost about ten times more Spirit Stones than precise extraction by a Nascent Soul True Lord.
• Chen Daoxuan explained that his need for Creation Force would be enormous, and Chen Daochu guessed that he planned to break through to the World Realm.
• Chen Daoxuan reviewed the cultivation and Dao realm requirements for reaching the World Realm and the Divine Soul transformation needed to advance to the Nascent Soul stage.
• Chen Daochu described how a World Realm cultivator formed and nurtured a small world, explaining why Creation Force was needed.
• Chen Daoxuan admonished Chen Daochu for letting his Artifact Research Institute duties interfere with cultivation and warned he could remove him as its head.
• Chen Daoxuan and Chen Daochu prepared to test the Great Cauldron.

Chen Daoxuan and Chen Daochu tested the Great Cauldron and found it could produce six drops of Creation Force every six days, then discussed the Chen Family’s growing power and its plans to enter higher-grade artifact markets. Chen Daoxuan returned to seclusion with the cauldron and prepared to use Dao Derivation to recreate how it had been refined, opening the Storage Ring of World Origin Beads to fuel the attempt.

• Chen Daoxuan fed sixty million Spirit Stones into the Great Cauldron, which produced six drops of Creation Force over six days.
• Chen Daochu praised the cauldron’s efficiency, while Chen Daoxuan considered how Creation Force and powerful backing shaped cultivators’ fortunes.
• Chen Daoxuan learned that Chen Daochu had bought World Origin Beads from the Qianyuan Sword Sect’s Artifact Forging Hall and said the Chen Family could eventually enter the high-grade Magic Artifact market.
• Chen Daoxuan told Chen Daochu to focus on artifact research, then returned to his quiet chamber with the Great Cauldron.
• Chen Daoxuan prepared to use Dao Derivation to recreate the Great Cauldron’s refinement and opened the Storage Ring containing the World Origin Beads.

Chen Daoxuan used World Origin Beads to replenish his Comprehension Star Dust, then used Dao Derivation to witness Old Ancestor Jiang demonstrate the Azure Wood Cauldron, a Magic Artifact that automatically extracted Creation Force. He stopped the costly analysis with only part of the refining method understood and considered using his remaining Comprehension Star Dust to break through to the World Realm.

• Chen Daoxuan absorbed Chaos Qi from more than three hundred World Origin Beads and refilled his Comprehension Star Dust.
• Chen Daoxuan used Dao Derivation on the Great Cauldron and witnessed a purple-robed True Immortal, Old Ancestor Jiang, prepare to ascend from the Phoenix Fall Realm.
• Old Ancestor Jiang reassured seven Jiang Family Heavenly Venerates about the war with the True Demon Realm and showed them how to refine the Azure Wood Cauldron to extract Creation Force.
• Chen Daoxuan ended the analysis after it consumed much of his Comprehension Star Dust, having learned about seventeen required Spirit Mine materials and glimpsed the True Immortal's Artifact Forging technique.
• Chen Daoxuan assessed his remaining 1.5 units of Comprehension Star Dust and considered using them to advance his Dao realm to the World Realm.

Chen Daoxuan opened a small world in the Endless Void, named it the Xuanhuang Realm, and returned to the Phoenix Fall Realm as a World Realm cultivator. After restoring his depleted Magical Power, he appeared in the Chen Family’s Qiming Hall, where Chen Fusheng awaited his orders.

• Chen Daoxuan used the Michen Banner to record a return coordinate, entered the Endless Void, and began fusing his laws with his Dao Domain.
• After about a month, Chen Daoxuan completed the fusion, entered his new world, and named it the Xuanhuang Realm.
• Chen Daoxuan’s Magical Power nearly ran dry, so he used the Michen Banner to return to his quiet room and cultivate until he had recovered.
• Cangzhou’s returning clan heirs visited the Chen Family to pay their respects to Chen Daoxuan, while he continued consolidating his cultivation.
• Chen Daoxuan appeared in Qiming Hall, where Chen Fusheng greeted him and waited for his orders.

After emerging from seclusion, Chen Daoxuan met with Cangzhou’s clan leaders to discuss Qianyuan Sword Sect’s Merit Celebration Ceremony and pledged to secure Cangzhou’s interests and expel the Ye Family. He then asked Zhang Xuanling to accuse Ye Wudao of a capital crime at Cloud Palace, leaving Zhang to suspect Chen Daoxuan planned to join forces with the Sect Master against Ye Yin’s faction.

• Chen Daoxuan welcomed Chen Fusheng and summoned Cangzhou’s clan leaders to discuss the upcoming Merit Celebration Ceremony.
• Chen Daoxuan explained that the ceremony would divide Cloud Country’s interests and promised to fight for Cangzhou’s share and drive the Ye Family out of Cangzhou.
• Zhang Xuanling and Zhou Mubai supported expelling the Ye Family, and the other clan leaders joined them.
• After dismissing the clan leaders, Chen Daoxuan asked Zhang Xuanling to remain and challenged him to denounce Ye Wudao again at Cloud Palace.
• Chen Daoxuan told Zhang Xuanling to accuse Ye Wudao of a capital crime, prompting Zhang to suspect Chen Daoxuan intended to eliminate Ye Yin’s faction with the Sect Master.

Chen Daoxuan secured Zhang Xuanling’s support and brought the Cangzhou Fleet to the Qianyuan Sword Sect, where Fei Chenxue prepared to reclaim the sect’s authority from Ye Yin’s faction. Fei Chenxue had reached the World Realm, and as Fairy Chi Yao guided Chen Daoxuan to meet her, he wondered why she had summoned him.

• Zhang Xuanling agreed to follow Chen Daoxuan, who planned to work with Fei Chenxue to remove Ye Yin’s faction and open trade between prefectures.
• The Cangzhou Fleet departed Twin Lakes Island and reached the Qianyuan Sword Sect a month later.
• Fei Chenxue told Qin Zhan she intended to reclaim the sect’s authority after the war in Cloud Country ended, and revealed that she had entered the World Realm.
• Fei Chenxue and Qin Zhan discussed Chen Daoxuan’s extraordinary talent and the Phoenix Fall Realm’s decline as the True Demon Realm devoured it.
• Fairy Chi Yao met Chen Daoxuan at the sect and escorted him to Fei Chenxue, but said she did not know why her master had summoned him.

Chen Daoxuan and Fei Chenxue discussed the balance of power in Myriad Star Sea and agreed to work together against Qianyuan Sword Sect’s internal opposition. Fei Chenxue proposed a marriage alliance between Chen Daoxuan and her disciple Chi Yao, leaving him privately wondering whether marrying Fei Chenxue herself would be more reliable.

• Chi Yao introduced Chen Daoxuan to Fei Chenxue, who sent her disciple away so they could speak privately.
• Fei Chenxue and Chen Daoxuan recognized each other’s cultivation and discussed how the Cultivation Families had become entangled with Qianyuan Sword Sect.
• Fei Chenxue proposed using the Merit Celebration Ceremony to eliminate the sect’s internal opposition, and Chen Daoxuan agreed to support her.
• Chen Daoxuan asked how the Chen Family and Qianyuan Sword Sect would coexist after their alliance, and Fei Chenxue reminded him that both sects were small compared with the wider realms.
• Fei Chenxue suggested a political marriage between Chen Daoxuan and Chi Yao, and Chen Daoxuan realized he had initially mistaken her proposal as being about herself.

Chen Daoxuan left Fei Chenxue’s Cave Heaven and entered the Qianyuan Sword Sect’s temporary residence for the Cangzhou cultivators. There, he found Ye Wudao confronting the Chen family and appeared to hear the important matter Ye Wudao claimed concerned the family’s future.

• Fei Chenxue told Chen Daoxuan she had gathered evidence of Ye Yin’s crimes and asked him to follow her signal at the Merit Celebration Ceremony; she later told Fairy Chi Yao that Chen Daoxuan would consider the marriage alliance.
• Fairy Chi Yao admitted her feelings for Chen Daoxuan, and Fei Chenxue warned her not to let those feelings hinder her cultivation.
• A Qianyuan Sword Sect disciple guided Chen Daoxuan to the Cave Heaven where the Cangzhou cultivators were staying and gave him a passage token.
• Chen Daoxuan sensed Luo Li in the Cave Heaven and found Ye Wudao blocking the entrance to the Chen family’s residence, demanding to see him.
• Luo Li and Chen Daolian refused to help Ye Wudao, but Chen Daoxuan appeared and asked why he had come; Ye Wudao addressed him as Senior Chen.

Chen Daoxuan rejected Ye Wudao’s attempt to recruit him and injured Ye Wudao and his companions, while learning that Ye Yin’s faction had secured powerful allies. Ye Yin’s allies prepared to act against Chen Daoxuan, but Jiang Chengye’s main goal was to reclaim the Jiang Family’s Azure Wood Cauldron.

• Ye Wudao tried to reconcile with Chen Daoxuan and recruit him to Ye Yin’s faction, but Chen Daoxuan struck him and his companions, forcing them to retreat.
• Luo Li worried that Ye Wudao had a powerful backer, and Chen Daoxuan explained that his avatar in the Jiang Family had learned of the faction’s plans.
• Ye Wudao reported to Ye Yin, Yi Tianqi, Jiang Taihao, and Jiang Chengye that Chen Daoxuan had refused to cooperate.
• Jiang Chengye dismissed the factional dispute and said he had come to recover the Jiang Family’s ancestral Azure Wood Cauldron.
• Ye Yin and Yi Tianqi explained their alliance against Fei Chenxue’s policies, winning Jiang Chengye’s approval.

Chen Daoxuan promised Luo Li that he would take her to travel across Xianyun Continent after the Merit Celebration Ceremony, and the two went together to the Qianyuan Sword Sect's ceremony. As the celebration began, Chen Daoxuan reflected on the history of the conflict between Phoenix Fall Realm and the True Demon Realm and the realms’ inevitable decline.

• Chen Daoxuan promised Luo Li he would take her to see Xianyun Continent, and she reminded him that he had often left her behind before.
• Chen Daoxuan vowed to take Luo Li with him wherever he went, while Luo Li said she did not want to become a burden and would wait for him.
• Chen Daolian arrived to tell Chen Daoxuan that the Merit Celebration Ceremony had begun and that Sect Master Fei was ready for him.
• Chen Daoxuan and Luo Li went to the ceremony as cultivators from across Myriad Star Sea gathered at the Qianyuan Sword Sect's Cloud Palace.
• Chen Daoxuan considered how the True Demon Realm was slowly consuming Phoenix Fall Realm and why the True Immortal grade World Demons had little reason to begin an all-out war.

At the Merit Celebration Ceremony, Wu Kui challenged Chen Daoxuan’s place beside Fei Chenxue by questioning how the Taiyi Divine Water had been handled. Chen ignored the dispute and made a wager with Jiang Chengye over the Azure Wood Cauldron, ending the chapter as Jiang moved to strike Wu Kui and Ye Yin intervened.

• Chen Daoxuan accepted Fei Chenxue’s invitation to sit with the Myriad Star Sea’s influential figures at the ceremony.
• Wu Kui argued that Chen’s merits had been offset by the Taiyi Divine Water and questioned whether he deserved a seat beside Fei Chenxue.
• Chen identified Jiang Chengye as a Jiang Family descendant and learned that Jiang had come for the Azure Wood Cauldron.
• Chen and Jiang wagered the Azure Wood Cauldron and information about the Myriad Star Sea Inheritance on an exchange of blows, with Chen agreeing to withstand three moves.
• Jiang Chengye called Wu Kui a noisy clown and struck at him, but Ye Yin rushed forward with an ancient shield to protect him.

Jiang Chengye stopped his attack on Ye Yin and exposed the weakness of Ye Yin and Wu Kui. Fei Chenxue gave Chen Daoxuan one hundred million Waste Beads, and he secluded himself during the Merit Celebration Ceremony to turn them into Chaos Qi and vastly expand his Comprehension Stars.

• Jiang Chengye revealed his World Realm strength, halted his strike before Ye Yin’s shield, and scolded Ye Yin for relying on schemes instead of strength.
• Chen Daoxuan returned to Fei Chenxue and admitted he was not confident of defeating Jiang Chengye, then asked her for one hundred million World Origin Beads.
• Fei Chenxue clarified that Chen Daoxuan wanted Waste Beads and arranged for Hu Yan Chi to provide them.
• Chen Daoxuan erected a Space Prison and entered seclusion, while Fei Chenxue guarded it from outside.
• Chen Daoxuan shattered the Waste Beads and absorbed their Chaos Qi, expanding his Comprehension Stars until they held more than ten thousand standard units of Comprehension Star Dust.

Chen Daoxuan used his Comprehension Star Dust to quickly comprehend metal, wood, and earth laws, preparing to reach the Yin Yang Realm before his wager battle with Jiang Chengye. After replenishing his Comprehension Star Dust with Chaos Qi, he connected to the Xuanhuang Realm to begin transforming the Five Elements into Yin and Yang.

• Ye Yin asked Yi Tianqi how they could break the deadlock, and Yi Tianqi told him to wait.
• Chen Daoxuan decided to raise his Dao realm to World Realm Layer Two within a month before fighting Jiang Chengye.
• Chen Daoxuan studied thousands of metal, wood, and earth sword arts and rapidly comprehended the three corresponding Sword Intents and laws.
• Chen Daoxuan replenished his Comprehension Star Dust by absorbing Chaos Qi from the World Origin Bead.
• Chen Daoxuan connected to the Xuanhuang Realm so he could transform the Five Elements into Yin and Yang.