Chapter Summaries

Daoist Hongjun reflected on his defeat at Border Mountain and decided to unite the Dragon and Phoenix Clans against Devil Ancestor Luo Hou. As Daoist Tongtian’s sword intent reached a terrifying level, Hongjun claimed he could withstand it, and Shi Feng asked whether even Vine Dao Venerable Lin Tian could be struck down by it.

• Daoist Hongjun recalled how Lin Tian’s companions had routed the Dragon and Phoenix armies at Border Mountain, and abandoned any thought of fighting Lin Tian.
• Daoist Hongjun resolved to unite the Dragon and Phoenix Clans again and wage war against Luo Hou to establish his own dao lineage.
• Daoist Hongjun recognized that Tongtian had united ten thousand swords into a tangible sword intent capable of slaying any Primordial World creature.
• Ancestral Dragon trembled at Tongtian’s sword intent, while Shi Feng praised Tongtian’s rise from the Earth’s Embryonic Membrane to one of the Three Pure Ones.
• Hongjun told Ancestral Dragon that Tongtian’s sword could kill him but could not harm Hongjun, and Shi Feng asked whether it could also threaten Lin Tian.

Daoist Hongjun explained that Daoist Tongtian’s brewing sword strike could not target him and would instead fall on Devil Ancestor Luo Hou at Mount Sumeru. Hongjun, Ancestral Dragon, and Shi Feng seized the opportunity and began teleporting their Dragon Clan and Phoenix Clan armies toward the western battlefield.

• Daoist Hongjun told Shi Feng and Ancestral Dragon that Tongtian’s intertwined karma prevented his sword strike from striking Hongjun.
• Daoist Hongjun predicted that Tongtian’s sword would challenge Devil Ancestor Luo Hou at Mount Sumeru in a battle to the death.
• Ancestral Dragon and Shi Feng agreed to exploit the opening and prepared their armies to attack Luo Hou.
• Ancestral Dragon formed a teleportation array while Shi Feng reinforced it with seven-colored mystic fire.
• Dragon Clan and Phoenix Clan troops poured into the array as Daoist Hongjun anticipated securing his future position as the First Saint.

Luo Hou completed the Devil Race’s Teleportation Array and led his army toward the Primordial Southern Continent to attack Lin Tian, while Yang Mei and other Chaos Demon Gods sought an alliance with him. As the Devil Race set out, the Chaos Demon Gods split over how to challenge Lin Tian’s power.

• Luo Hou and Heaven-Crusher Daoist activated the Teleportation Array by sending its formation patterns and vast quantities of demonic qi into it.
• Luo Hou took the Four Zhuxian Swords and led the Devil Race’s army of tens of billions, including Heaven-Crusher Daoist, through the array to attack Lin Tian.
• Daoist Hongjun, Ancestral Dragon, and Shi Feng prepared a separate Teleportation Array to bring the Dragon Clan and Phoenix Clan armies against Luo Hou at Mount Sumeru.
• Yang Mei set out for the Western Continent with the Power Demon God, the Time Demon God, and the Earth Demon God to seek an alliance with Luo Hou.
• The Chaos Demon Gods divided into factions, and the Primordial Wild Dragon Demon God urged some of them to enter the Primordial World through the Human Race and disrupt Lin Tian’s plans.

The Chaos Demon Gods argued over how to stop Lin Tian, with the Time Demon God and Fate Demon God urging a direct attack instead of slow infiltration. The Primordial Wild Dragon deduced that Daoist Tongtian’s gathering sword strike was aimed at the Demon Gods’ True Spirits, leaving them alarmed and the Fate Demon God mocking his conclusion.

• The Chaos Demon Gods agreed that Lin Tian’s mastery of dimension made him too dangerous to confront casually, and the Primordial Wild Dragon favored undermining the Human Race from within.
• The Time Demon God and Fate Demon God rebuked the Primordial Wild Dragon and demanded a direct assault on Lin Tian through a possessed creature in the Primordial World.
• The Time Demon God took on Lin Tian’s Clear-Handsome Daoist form and asked where Daoist Tongtian’s sword strike would land.
• The Primordial Wild Dragon used the Time Demon God’s law of temporal dimensions to deduce the strike’s target, expecting it to hit Devil Ancestor Luo Hou.
• The Primordial Wild Dragon discovered that Daoist Tongtian’s sword strike was aimed at the Chaos Demon Gods’ True Spirits and cried out in shock.
• The Fate Demon God laughed at the Primordial Wild Dragon and mocked him for concluding that the strike targeted their True Spirits.

The Primordial Wild Dragon discovered the hidden Netherworld Blood Sea and learned that Patriarch Minghe had taken the Netherworld Demon God’s fortune and opportunities. He proposed using Daoist Tongtian’s impending sword strike as a chance to kill Lin Tian.

• The Primordial Wild Dragon divined the Netherworld Blood Sea’s location, and the Netherworld Ancestor revealed it in the void.
• The Netherworld Ancestor realized the sea had taken his fortune and opportunities, while the Time Demon God and Fate Demon God mocked him.
• The Primordial Wild Dragon wondered whether Patriarch Minghe was the creature who had fled the demon gods’ calculations, and Fate suggested they could not detect the true fugitive.
• The Primordial Wild Dragon proposed that the Slaughter Demon God and Netherworld Demon God enter the Netherworld Blood Sea to help the Netherworld Ancestor kill Daoist Tongtian, then use Tongtian’s true spirit to attack Lin Tian at All-Heaven Divine Peak.
• The Primordial Wild Dragon promised to hide outside the blood sea and assist them.

The Primordial Wild Dragon sent Youming and the Slaughter Demon God to the Netherworld Blood Sea to help Patriarch Minghe fight Daoist Tongtian. As Tongtian’s projection appeared before Minghe, the two Chaos Demon Gods arrived, leaving Minghe stunned by the unexpected allies.

• The Netherworld Ancestor agreed to go to the Netherworld Blood Sea, and the Slaughter Demon God reluctantly agreed to join him while planning to hold back.
• The Primordial Wild Dragon opened a Void Traversal formation and sent Youming and the Slaughter Demon God to help Patriarch Minghe kill Daoist Tongtian and Spirit Vine Lin Tian.
• Patriarch Minghe sensed the danger from Daoist Tongtian’s Green Duckweed Sword and raised his swords and Twelfth-Grade Karmic Fire Red Lotus above the Netherworld Blood Sea.
• Daoist Tongtian stood and directed his Green Duckweed Sword toward Patriarch Minghe, then projected himself into the Netherworld Blood Sea.
• The Netherworld Demon God and Slaughter Demon God appeared beside Patriarch Minghe, and the Netherworld Demon God drew his Netherworld River as a Heavenly River sword.
• Patriarch Minghe was nearly overcome with fright when the two unfamiliar Chaos Demon Gods appeared beside him.

Minghe refused to trust two Chaos Demon Gods who offered to help him kill Daoist Tongtian, deciding instead to face Tongtian’s sword strike. Tongtian explained why his sword had targeted Minghe, and Minghe began to speak with him before the strike fell.

• Minghe observed the Chaos Demon Gods appear beside his Karmic Fire Red Lotus and suspected they wanted to use him, so he rejected their proposed alliance.
• Minghe decided that facing Daoist Tongtian’s sword was safer than joining the demon gods, and he sent Tongtian a strand of Spirit Awareness to explain himself.
• Daoist Tongtian answered Minghe and asked him to speak plainly.
• The narration revealed that Houtu’s Forty-Nine Paths of Reincarnation had connected Minghe to the Netherworld, while her Green Duckweed Sword had directed Tongtian’s sword strike toward him.

Lin Tian brought a Red Cloud manifestation from another plane into Abbess Seven Absolutes in the Zhunti Pavilion, giving her the opportunities and fortune she had lacked. He then soothed Zhen Yuanzi’s fear of Red Cloud across the planes.

• Patriarch Minghe told Daoist Tongtian that the Green Duckweed Sword carried ties to reincarnation and the netherworld, and offered to sever those ties if Tongtian removed the two demon gods beside him.
• Lin Tian used his mastery of the origin laws to bring Red Cloud, in the form of Abbess Seven Absolutes, from another plane into Abbess Seven Absolutes in the Zhunti Pavilion.
• Red Cloud’s arrival shattered Abbess Seven Absolutes’ decrepit body before restoring her as a young woman with the Three Thousand Great Daos and supreme fortune.
• Abbess Seven Absolutes calmed herself by tapping her wooden fish, then deliberately returned to her aged appearance and praised the power of the laws in this plane.
• Lin Tian drew unconscious Zhen Yuanzi from his celebratory cloud and used the Primordial Unity Creation Illusion to soothe his fear of Red Cloud across countless planes.

Lin Tian encouraged Daoist Tongtian to trust his own path and empowered his sword strike, which Tongtian unleashed toward the Netherworld Blood Sea. As the Netherworld Demon Gods pressed Patriarch Minghe for an alliance, they began considering retreat and joining Primordial Wild Dragon to attack the Blood Sea.

• Lin Tian perceived the karmic connection between Tongtian's Green Duckweed Sword and Patriarch Minghe, and Tongtian asked his master whether he should unleash the sword.
• Lin Tian told Tongtian to strike without hesitation and sent him the slaughter law as sword intent.
• Tongtian's past forms gathered into a bridge toward the Netherworld Blood Sea, and he shouted, "Green Duckweed Sword, shatter it for me!"
• Tongtian's sword light swept into the Netherworld Blood Sea, forcing the Netherworld Ancestor and the Slaughter Demon God to take him seriously.
• The Netherworld Demon God demanded an answer from Patriarch Minghe, while the Slaughter Demon God urged him to leave and join Primordial Wild Dragon to seal and refine the Blood Sea.

Daoist Tongtian unleashed the Green Duckweed Sword Strike, cutting through the Netherworld Blood Sea and cleaving Patriarch Minghe in two. The Primordial Wild Dragon rescued the Slaughter Demon God and the Netherworld Demon God, while Minghe remained calm despite his grievous wound.

• The Netherworld Demon God rejected the Slaughter Demon God's proposal to leave the Netherworld Blood Sea because he wanted to claim it for his own dao lineage.
• The Slaughter Demon God asked the Primordial Wild Dragon to bring him out, but the Primordial Wild Dragon ignored him.
• Daoist Tongtian's sword intent appeared in the Slaughter Demon God's and the Netherworld Demon God's seas of consciousness and struck the Netherworld Blood Sea.
• The Green Duckweed Sword Strike cleaved Patriarch Minghe and split the Netherworld Blood Sea in two.
• The Primordial Wild Dragon pulled the Slaughter Demon God and the Netherworld Demon God out of the Netherworld Blood Sea as they called for help.
• Patriarch Minghe remained composed and praised the incisiveness of Daoist Tongtian's sword strike.

Daoist Tongtian tested his sword against Patriarch Minghe, then gained a new sword spirit and reported his insight to Lin Tian. Meanwhile, Devil Ancestor Luo Hou secretly deployed a vast army around All-Heaven Divine Peak and prepared to attack the Hongmeng Fierce Birds.

• Daoist Tongtian’s sword split Patriarch Minghe and the Netherworld Blood Sea, but both healed as the Sea of Blood sustained Minghe.
• Patriarch Minghe asked Daoist Tongtian to recommend him to Lin Tian, but Tongtian told him to seek Lin Tian himself.
• Daoist Tongtian left the Netherworld Blood Sea with the Green Duckweed Sword newly awakened and bearing its own sword spirit.
• Devil Ancestor Luo Hou secretly teleported tens of billions of soldiers around All-Heaven Divine Peak and positioned the Four Zhuxian Swords to surround it.
• Heaven-Crusher Daoist led five thousand elite demons to target the Four Great Generals of the Hongmeng Fierce Birds.
• Daoist Tongtian returned to Lin Tian and declared that he had grasped the essence of primordial unity in the Sword Dao.

Tongtian established Jiejiao and vowed to teach all beings without discrimination, while Lin Tian warned him to put the Human Race’s interests first. As Lin Tian’s long-foreseen battle with Devil Ancestor Luo Hou began, Luo Hou’s army appeared at All-Heaven Divine Peak through a hidden teleportation array and deployed the Four Zhuxian Swords Formation.

• Tongtian established Jiejiao, declared that he would teach all beings without discrimination, and received Lin Tian’s approval.
• Lin Tian told Tongtian that Jiejiao must yield whenever its core interests conflicted with those of the Human Race, and Tongtian agreed.
• Lin Tian reflected that Tongtian’s principles would eventually clash with the teachings of Yuanshi and Laozi and lead to the Investiture of the Gods Calamity.
• Four streaks of Executioner Immortal Sword Light and surging demonic qi appeared at All-Heaven Divine Peak, and Lin Tian recognized that Devil Ancestor Luo Hou had arrived.
• Lin Tian’s companions were shocked to see tens of billions of devil soldiers enter through a concealed teleportation array and deploy the Four Zhuxian Swords Formation.
• The Devil Army’s challenges reached the Spirit Vine Lineage as the gathered powerhouses reacted in alarm.

The Devil Race sealed All-Heaven Divine Peak with the Four Zhuxian Swords, cutting Lin Tian and his companions off from the outside world and threatening to crush the space around them. As the companions faced the danger, Fuxi secretly considered betraying Lin Tian to Luo Hou.

• The Little Beast Emperor questioned how Luo Hou’s army had crossed the Southern Continent Border Mountain, while Houtu asked Lin Tian to investigate whether the Hongmeng Fierce Birds had been defeated.
• Lin Tian tried to open spacetime and reach the Hongmeng Fierce Birds, but a Zhuxian sword light struck his hand and revealed that the formation sealed his senses within a million miles.
• Lin Tian told his companions he could no longer discern what had happened beyond the sword formation, and the Spirit Vine Lineage companions grew fearful.
• Fuxi secretly planned to turn against Lin Tian if the Four Zhuxian Swords struck, hoping to capture him and win favor from Luo Hou; he expected Nuwa to join him.

Fuxi considered betraying Lin Tian to Luo Hou, while Lin Tian studied the Four Zhuxian Swords’ weakness and began spreading a network of vines across All-Heaven Divine Peak. The vines reached Fuxi and Nuwa as Nuwa spoke to her brother through their shared consciousness.

• Fuxi weighed turning against Lin Tian and offering him to Luo Hou, who had trapped All-Heaven Divine Peak inside the Four Zhuxian Swords formation.
• Lin Tian recognized that Luo Hou and the Devil Army could enter the formation’s independent space only while contacting those inside, and that Luo Hou had stopped communicating to seal off their escape.
• Jiubao and Zhen Yuanzi considered asking Red Cloud, Abbess Seven Absolutes, to break the formation, but Lin Tian told them he had another way.
• Lin Tian sat cross-legged and sent strands of vine from his celebratory cloud across All-Heaven Divine Peak, weaving them into a network of hexagons.
• As the vines reached Fuxi and Nuwa, Fuxi hesitated over whether to destroy them or let them bind him, and Nuwa spoke into his sea of consciousness.

Nuwa warned Fuxi not to betray Vine Dao Venerable Lin Tian when Devil Ancestor Luo Hou trapped them in the Four Zhuxian Swords Formation. Fuxi backed down, while Lin Tian’s vine structure protected the others, though it began to wither under the formation’s sword light.

• Nuwa sensed Fuxi might switch sides and urged him to remain loyal to Lin Tian.
• Fuxi argued that they needed to act because the Four Zhuxian Swords Formation threatened their lives, but Nuwa insisted Lin Tian could overcome it.
• Nuwa threatened to end her bond with Fuxi if he tried to play both camps for advantage.
• Fuxi denied intending to betray Lin Tian and said he feared they would perish in the formation.
• Lin Tian shielded the Six Ancestors of the Human Race with a stable structure of Dao-union spirit vines, but the formation’s sword light began turning the vines to ash.

Devil Ancestor Luo Hou worried that Lin Tian’s lack of resistance concealed a countermeasure, while Great Immortal Yang Mei explained why the Executioner Immortal Sword Formation had failed to affect him. Yang Mei proposed that the four Chaos Demon Gods wield the formation’s swords themselves, leaving Luo Hou eager to try the plan.

• The Executioner Immortal Sword Light began wearing down Lin Tian’s Dao-Union Spirit Vine as Luo Hou watched the formation encircle the All-Heaven Divine Peak.
• Luo Hou wondered why Lin Tian had allowed the Devil Race to complete the formation and expand its forces across the Primordial Southern Continent.
• Luo Hou observed that Lin Tian still controlled the Three Thousand Great Daos and remained unaffected by the formation, then mocked Yang Mei for failing to notice.
• Yang Mei replied that Luo Hou’s four avatars were wielding the swords, which prevented the formation from affecting Lin Tian.
• Yang Mei proposed that he and the other three Chaos Demon Gods each wield a sword, and Luo Hou welcomed the plan with delighted surprise.

Devil Ancestor Luo Hou negotiated with Great Immortal Yang Mei and three other Chaos Demon Gods over wielding the Four Zhuxian Swords against Lin Tian, but refused to hand them full control of the formation. He then asked Yang Mei to provide Chaos creatures as sacrifices, leaving the other gods furious and the negotiations tense.

• Luo Hou deployed the Four Zhuxian Swords around the All-Heaven Divine Peak, trapping the area while Lin Tian remained unaffected by the formation.
• Great Immortal Yang Mei offered for himself, the Power Demon God, the Earth Demon God, and the Time Demon God to wield the swords against Lin Tian.
• Luo Hou insisted that the Executioner Immortal Sword could not fall into another Primordial World creature’s hands, angering Yang Mei and the other Chaos Demon Gods.
• Yang Mei agreed to remain beside the formation as its guardian, despite his displeasure.
• Luo Hou said the formation required sacrifices and asked Yang Mei whether Chaos creatures could be used instead of Devil Race disciples.
• The Power Demon God cursed Luo Hou, while the Earth Demon God and Time Demon God glared at him; Luo Hou remained calm.

Devil Ancestor Luo Hou and Great Immortal Yang Mei reached a tacit agreement to cooperate, with the Chaos Demon Gods claiming a major share of the Primordial World's future resources. Luo Hou then joined the Chaos Demon Gods to unleash the Four Zhuxian Swords, shattering Vine Dao Venerable Lin Tian’s defenses and threatening to annihilate the Spirit Vine Lineage.

• Great Immortal Yang Mei demanded the First Saint position and six strands of Hongmeng Purple Qi for the Chaos Demon Gods in exchange for their help.
• Luo Hou challenged whether the Chaos Demon Gods could gain Heavenly Dao merit and Xuanhuang Qi, then agreed to give them sixty percent of the nine strands if they succeeded.
• Luo Hou manifested four aspects holding the Four Zhuxian Swords around All-Heaven Divine Peak.
• Luo Hou and the Power Demon God, Time Demon God, and Earth Demon God took their positions and activated the sword formation together.
• The Four Zhuxian Swords shattered Lin Tian’s hexagonal Dao-union spirit vine formation, leaving him and the Spirit Vine Lineage at risk of destruction.

Lin Tian and his allies faced the greatly empowered Executioner Immortal Sword Formation, and Jiubao and Zhen Yuanzi urged him to seek help from Red Cloud, Abbess Seven Absolutes. Lin Tian explained that Red Cloud’s strength in their world was comparable to the other powerful figures beside him, then remained calm as he considered how to break the formation.

• Nuwa, Tongtian, Li Er, and the Six Ancestors of the Human Race asked Lin Tian how they could withstand the Executioner Immortal Sword Formation after it destroyed his Dao-union souls.
• Jiubao and Zhen Yuanzi suggested that Lin Tian call upon Red Cloud, Abbess Seven Absolutes, to help break the formation.
• Jiubao explained that she had sensed a karmic connection between the crisis and Red Cloud, while Zhen Yuanzi believed Red Cloud was the only other person capable of resolving it.
• Lin Tian identified gathering four Saints recognized by the Primordial Heavenly Dao as the way to break the formation from within.
• Lin Tian sensed four sword wielders outside the formation and told Jiubao and Zhen Yuanzi that Red Cloud’s power in their world was comparable to that of his other companions.

The Little Beast Emperor and Ghost Chariot revealed their immense forms and volunteered to confront the Four Zhuxian Swords, while Houtu and Tongtian also stepped forward to defend Lin Tian and the Spirit Vine Lineage. Daoist Tongtian declared his willingness to face the formation’s sword intent, leaving the Spirit Vine School’s loyal followers poised for battle atop All-Heaven Divine Peak.

• Lin Tian told the Little Beast Emperor that completing his World-Destroying Great Millstone could let him reach the Great Dao and surpass Red Cloud, Abbess Seven Absolutes.
• The Little Beast Emperor transformed into his hundred-thousand-foot World-Annihilating Thunder Beast form and vowed to shatter the Four Zhuxian Swords formation.
• Ghost Chariot enlarged himself and unleashed his silence-origin art, filling All-Heaven Divine Peak and its surroundings with absolute silence.
• Houtu stepped forward as the Reincarnation Disk gathered the laws and orders of All-Heaven Divine Peak into its Forty-Nine Paths of Reincarnation.
• Daoist Tongtian recognized that the Four Zhuxian Swords had severed the Spirit Vine School’s followers from the Primordial World’s Great Dao and origin laws, then stood behind Houtu to challenge the formation.
• Tongtian told Lin Tian he was willing to give his life and true spirit to receive the sword intent and sword light of the Four Zhuxian Swords.