Chapter Summaries

Nie Yun endured the combined power infusion as the Asura King attacked, shattering Ephemeral Old Man’s Heavenly Cycle World and nearly killing everyone. As the Asura King prepared to finish them, Nie Yun awakened with the legendary Chaos Sacred Body, though his cultivation level remained uncertain.

• The Asura King noticed Nie Yun’s power infusion and attacked, forcing Ephemeral Old Man to defend everyone with the Heavenly Cycle World.
• Tantai Lingyue, Yan Zhi, and the four vicious beasts joined the defense, but the Asura King cracked and shattered the world, freeing Sage Qiu and badly injuring the defenders.
• The Asura King prepared to kill the fallen group, while Ephemeral Old Man and Yan Zhi gave up hope of surviving.
• A thunderous transformation began within Nie Yun, and Yan Zhi recognized that he had attained the Chaos Sacred Body.
• Ephemeral Old Man confirmed Nie Yun’s legendary body as Nie Yun slowly opened his eyes.

Nie Yun awakened with Heaven-Repelling Realm strength and battled the Asura King, claiming and swallowing the Heart of the Dark Demon. The Asura King fled into a Black Wind Vortex, and Nie Yun pursued him despite his power lasting only one day and one night.

• Nie Yun attacked the Asura King and drove him back, shattering the Asura Killing Qi shield as the two blows split Huntian World.
• The Asura King tried to seize the Heart of the Dark Demon, but Nie Yun forced him to withdraw and swallowed the Heart himself.
• Nie Yun sent Ephemeral Old Man, Tantai Lingyue, Yan Zhi, and the others into the Big Dipper Star Palace, then continued fighting the Asura King.
• Ephemeral Old Man warned Nie Yun that his borrowed strength would last only one day and one night, while the Asura King struggled against Nie Yun's seemingly inexhaustible power and ability to counter his techniques.
• The Asura King fled into a Black Wind Vortex, and Nie Yun followed him inside and attacked with another punch.

Nie Yun pursued the Asura King through the Black Wind Vortex and across the Six Paths of Heaven and Earth, disregarding the destruction caused by their battle. As the Ten Great Families prepared to fight the Asura King, the two combatants crashed into Nine Heavens Palace.

• Nie Yun rejected the Asura King's offer to join forces and attacked him in the Black Wind Vortex until the Asura King fled.
• Nie Yun chased the Asura King into the Spirit Realm and continued attacking despite the destruction and casualties their fight caused.
• Nie Yun and the Asura King tore through the barriers between the realms as one fled and the other pursued.
• Tantai Moyun warned the Ten Great Families that the Asura King planned to refine the Heart of the Dark Demon and unleash another great calamity.
• The Ten Great Families vowed to fight, but Nie Yun and the Asura King suddenly crashed into Nine Heavens Palace while battling.

Nie Yun pursued the Asura King into the Buddhist Realm while holding the upper hand, astonishing the experts who had expected him to be outmatched. Shakya Buddha Ancestor and the other Buddha Ancestors watched the battle and began to see Nie Yun as humanity’s savior.

• Tantai Moyun recognized Nie Yun fighting the Asura King at Nine Heavens Palace and discovered that Nie Yun was forcing his opponent to retreat.
• Tantai Moyun and the other experts followed Nie Yun and the Asura King after they tore through space and vanished.
• Shakya Buddha Ancestor rallied the Buddha Ancestors to prepare for a decisive battle and a plan to seal the Asura King in the Buddhist Realm.
• A Buddha reported that the Asura King had arrived, and Shakya Buddha Ancestor rushed out expecting to find him fighting Ephemeral Old Man.
• Shakya Buddha Ancestor and the other Buddha Ancestors saw Nie Yun fighting the Asura King and realized Nie Yun had the upper hand.

Nie Yun fought the Asura King with power borrowed from Ephemeral Old Man and the others, but the Asura King escaped after detonating the Asura Sword and severely injuring him. Nie Yun returned the borrowed power to its owners, leaving them recovering and himself dangerously weakened.

• Nie Yun kept the Asura King on the defensive and rejected his threat to summon Asuras.
• The Asura King summoned the Asura Sword and attacked Nie Yun, who was driven back after the sword exploded.
• The Asura King escaped into the void, while Nie Yun realized his borrowed strength was temporary and chose not to pursue.
• Nie Yun entered the Big Dipper Star Palace and told Ephemeral Old Man and the others that the Asura King had escaped.
• Nie Yun returned the borrowed power to Ephemeral Old Man, Yan Zhi, and the others, and collapsed toward exhaustion as they recovered.

After Nie Yun nearly died from the dangerous power transfer, Ephemeral Old Man tried to revive him by activating the Spirit Rhinoceros Body Refining Technique so he could refine the Heart of the Dark Demon. As Nie Yun’s recovery remained uncertain, Yan Zhi revealed she hoped to enter the Chaos Ocean and find a way to bring the Big Dipper Star Lord back to life.

• Tantai Lingyue saw that Nie Yun was barely breathing after the power transfer, and Ephemeral Old Man warned that he might die if his body and soul could not endure the damage.
• Yan Zhi suggested that Nie Yun might still have the unrefined Heart of the Dark Demon inside him, and Ephemeral Old Man began activating the Spirit Rhinoceros Body Refining Technique to help him refine it.
• Ephemeral Old Man triggered Nie Yun’s acupoints, causing violent demonic energy to erupt as the technique began circulating through his body.
• Yan Zhi reassured Tantai Lingyue that Nie Yun’s First Talent could help him recover, then explained that the Chaos Ocean held worlds far greater than theirs.
• Yan Zhi told Tantai Lingyue that she wanted to enter the Chaos Ocean because its great worlds might offer a way to bring the Big Dipper Star Lord back to life.

Yan Zhi explained to Tantai Lingyue that the Soul Realm and other mysteries might point to worlds beyond the Chaos World, then Nie Yun survived a dangerous breakthrough after refining the Heart of the Dark Demon. He awakened as an Immortal Lord with a Heaven-Repelling Realm physical body.

• Yan Zhi told Tantai Lingyue that the Soul Realm, the Xiao Family’s resurrections, and Nie Yun’s Origin Energy suggested mysteries beyond the Chaos World, and said the Asura King might know more about the Heaven-Repelling Realm.
• Ephemeral Old Man took Tantai Lingyue, Yan Zhi, and the four ferocious beasts out of the Big Dipper Star Palace as Nie Yun’s breakthrough began.
• Nie Yun endured a vast heavenly tribulation while refining the Heart of the Dark Demon, and the resulting shockwave sent Ephemeral Old Man and the others flying millions of kilometers.
• Nie Yun broke through to the Immortal Lord realm and dispelled the storm clouds with a punch.
• Nie Yun reunited with Tantai Lingyue and told Ephemeral Old Man that he had completely refined the Heart of the Dark Demon.
• Ephemeral Old Man realized that Nie Yun’s Spirit Rhinoceros Body Refining Technique and Vajra Glazed Body had fused, and Nie Yun confirmed that he now possessed a Heaven-Repelling Realm physical body.

Nie Yun explained how his Immortal Lord Tribulation helped fuse his conflicting techniques and lightning into a Heaven-Repelling Realm physical body, while the Asura King escaped badly injured. Back at Lian Yue Pavilion, Nie Yun learned that the Confucian Realm had joined the Asura Alliance, then agreed to meet two ancient Demon Realm Immortal Lords.

• Nie Yun revealed that his Immortal Lord Tribulation had fused his Buddhist and demonic techniques with lightning, raising his physical body to the Heaven-Repelling Realm.
• Nie Yun told Ephemeral Old Man that the Asura King and Qiu Sheng had escaped, though the Asura King was seriously injured; the group then parted to prepare and cultivate.
• Nie Yun returned to Lian Yue Pavilion with Tantai Lingyue and the four great ferocious beasts, where the people celebrated his victory over the Asura King.
• Xiao Ran informed Nie Yun that the Confucian Realm had withdrawn from the Six Paths of Heaven and Earth, joined the Asura Alliance, and closed its borders.
• Xiao Ran told Nie Yun that Jade Dragon Ancestor and Mozhenzi, two ancient Demon Realm Immortal Lords, had been waiting to see him, and Nie Yun summoned them.

Jade Dragon Ancestor and Mozhenzi sought the Five-Clawed Dragon Emperor, and Little Dragon learned that a Chaos Golden Token had appeared in Chaos and entered the Dao Realm. Little Dragon promised to return and unify the Demon Realm, while Nie Yun learned that the token had once helped Little Dragon break through to the Heaven-Repelling Realm.

• Jade Dragon Ancestor and Mozhenzi asked Little Dragon to return and rule the Demon Realm, and Little Dragon condemned them for failing to prevent the Golden Dragon Clan's near destruction.
• Jade Dragon Ancestor revealed that he had seen a golden token in Chaos enter the Dao Realm, and Little Dragon spared him and Mozhenzi in exchange for the news.
• Little Dragon examined Jade Dragon Ancestor's recorded account, ordered the two not to reveal the token's appearance, and promised to return after they unified the Demon Realm.
• Jade Dragon Ancestor asked how the Demon Realm should respond to the Confucian Realm's alliance with the Asura King, and Nie Yun told him to coordinate with the Spirit Realm.
• Little Dragon explained that the Chaos Golden Token had enabled him to reach the Heaven-Repelling Realm, leaving Nie Yun astonished.

Nie Yun, Little Dragon, and Tantai Lingyue traveled to the Protector Immortal Sect to find the passage into the Dao Realm and pursue the Chaos Golden Token. After the sect’s guards refused them entry and revealed that its former master had died, Tantai Lingyue suspected an Asura scheme and planned to investigate secretly that night.

• Little Dragon explained that the Chaos Golden Token could help someone break through to the Heaven-Repelling Realm, and Nie Yun agreed they should seek it to oppose the Asura King.
• Nie Yun brought Tantai Lingyue along as they set out for the Dao Realm, learning that the only passage from the Demon Realm was guarded by the Protector Immortal Sect.
• Tantai Lingyue explained that the Protector Immortal Sect, also called the Fox Immortal Sect, had guarded the passage for generations and warned Nie Yun and Little Dragon not to cause trouble.
• At the sect gate, two women told Tantai Lingyue that Sect Master Hu Zhen had died six months earlier and refused to let the group meet the new Sect Master Zi Ying.
• Nie Yun and Tantai Lingyue recognized that the two guards were not Fox Demon Race members, so Tantai Lingyue led the group away and proposed sneaking in that night in case the situation involved an Asura scheme.

Nie Yun, Tantai Lingyue, and Little Dragon went to Wangtian Pavilion in Huguang City to seek information about the Protector Immortal Sect, but a dispute over a fake battle recording exposed their identities. The Pavilion Master recognized them and bowed in respect, while the attendant who had insulted them lay beaten on the floor.

• Tantai Lingyue led Nie Yun and Little Dragon through Huguang City to Wangtian Pavilion to look for information about the Protector Immortal Sect.
• Nie Yun bought a recording advertised as his battle with the Asura King and immediately recognized it as a counterfeit.
• Little Dragon demanded a refund, but the attendant accused them of trying to avoid payment and turned the gathered crowd against them.
• The Pavilion Master arrived, listened to the attendant's accusations, then slapped him and bowed to Nie Yun, Tantai Lingyue, and Little Dragon.
• The Pavilion Master identified himself as Shen Wangtian and knelt to greet the three, recognizing them as Senior Nie Yun, Senior Tantai Lingyue, and Senior Five-Clawed Dragon Emperor.

Nie Yun learned that Elder Zi Ying had confined Protector Immortal Sect Master Hu Zhen and hurried to the Repentant Immortal Hall with Tantai Lingyue and Little Dragon. There, they saw the masked man behind the upheaval arrive with Zi Ying, who planned to refine the Sect Master Seal and open a passage.

• Nie Yun revealed his identity at Wangtian Pavilion, then asked its Pavilion Master about recent events in the Protector Immortal Sect.
• The Pavilion Master reported that Elder Zi Ying had confined Hu Zhen after meeting a masked person, and gave Nie Yun a map indicating Hu Zhen was likely held in the Repentant Immortal Hall.
• Nie Yun, Tantai Lingyue, and Little Dragon decided not to wait, fearing the masked person aimed to enter the Dao Realm and claim the Chaos Golden Token.
• Nie Yun used Stealth Talent to lead Tantai Lingyue and Little Dragon into the Protector Immortal Sect and toward the Repentant Immortal Hall.
• Nie Yun and his companions saw the masked man arrive with Zi Ying, who said she would refine the Sect Master Seal and open the passage; the masked man warned her the seal would not be easy to open.

Nie Yun and his companions entered the Repentant Immortal Hall, where Sage Qiu revealed that the Asura King had anticipated their arrival and turned himself into a half-human, half-Asura being. Sage Qiu escaped into the Dao Realm after claiming Lian Yue Pavilion should already have been attacked, while Nie Yun found the teleportation array destroyed and could not follow.

• A masked Confucian Race expert and a young woman entered the palace seeking the secret method to open the passage to the Dao Realm.
• Nie Yun, Tantai Lingyue, and Little Dragon were ambushed by Sage Qiu and three peak Immortal Lord Asuras inside the Repentant Immortal Hall.
• Sage Qiu revealed that he had offered his body and soul to the Asura King, becoming a Half-Asura Body with greatly increased strength.
• Nie Yun broke through the formation and fought Sage Qiu while the three Asuras battled Little Dragon and Tantai Lingyue.
• Sage Qiu fled with the three Asuras through the passage to the Dao Realm, saying Lian Yue Pavilion should have been destroyed by then.
• Nie Yun reached the passage site but found the Teleportation Array destroyed and unusable.

Nie Yun, Tantai Lingyue, and Little Dragon continued pursuing their enemy after deciding Sage Qiu’s threat to Lian Yue Pavilion was a ploy. With Sect Master Hu Zhen’s help, they found a hidden passage beneath Protector Immortal Mountain and confirmed it led to the Dao Realm.

• Nie Yun assured Tantai Lingyue that the Asura King would not attack Lian Yue Pavilion because of Nie Tong’s conviction, and they chose to keep chasing their enemy.
• After the Teleportation Array was destroyed, Nie Yun asked Tantai Lingyue to find Sect Master Hu Zhen, who might know another route into the Dao Realm.
• Tantai Lingyue uncovered a hidden cage where Elder Zi Ying had imprisoned the wounded Sect Master Hu Zhen, and Nie Yun killed Elder Zi Ying before healing Hu Zhen.
• Hu Zhen revealed a secret passage beneath Protector Immortal Mountain and opened its entrance with her Fox Immortal Clan blood essence.
• Nie Yun, Tantai Lingyue, and Little Dragon crossed the lava and found an abyss-like realm passage, confirming that it led to the Dao Realm.

Nie Yun, Tantai Lingyue, and Little Dragon entered the sealed Dao Realm and learned that its people had been sacrificed to wound the Asura King, preserving the realm in a frozen state. While searching Xu Hua City for the Chaos Golden Token, they discovered that an inexplicable force kept them from leaving their starting point.

• Nie Yun, Tantai Lingyue, and Little Dragon entered the flourishing-looking Dao Realm and found Xu Hua City empty of people.
• Little Dragon touched a bow in a shop, and it crumbled to ash along with the other goods.
• Tantai Lingyue explained that the Lord of the Dao Realm had sacrificed all its people to wound the Asura King, sealing the realm and preserving its objects until living beings touched them.
• Tantai Lingyue reasoned that the Chaos Golden Token was most likely in Xu Hua City, where the final battle and sacrifice had taken place.
• The three flew toward the city's center, but after a long journey they found themselves back where they had started.
• Nie Yun realized that none of them had noticed the force keeping them in place and felt a chill of fear.

Nie Yun, Tantai Lingyue, and Little Dragon discovered that the spaces around Xu Hua City were fragmented and moving, trapping them in a loop. Nie Yun found a direction where his sword qi did not return and headed toward it.

• Nie Yun and Little Dragon tested their flights and found that they returned to their starting point despite appearing to travel away.
• Nie Yun tore open space with Thunderous Kyushu, but the three still emerged in the same place.
• Tantai Lingyue proposed that separate moving spaces were layered together, and Little Dragon suggested they had been formed by the battle between the Lord of the Dao Realm and the Asura King.
• Nie Yun realized that attacks returning to them marked dead ends, while attacks that did not return indicated passages to other spaces.
• Nie Yun sent sword qi in every direction, found one direction where it did not return, and moved toward it.

Nie Yun fought the Vengeful Soul inhabiting the Three Pure Ones statues after it attacked Tantai Lingyue, and used lightning and fire to burn away its resentment. The Vengeful Soul began merging the three statues into one, leaving Nie Yun facing a stronger enemy.

• Tantai Lingyue knelt to pay her respects to the Three Pure Ones statues, which opened their eyes and attacked her.
• Nie Yun identified the attackers as Vengeful Souls and held them off while Little Dragon led Tantai Lingyue onward.
• The Vengeful Soul struck Nie Yun with a powerful soul attack, but he countered with lightning and absorbed power from several dozen Lightning Stones.
• Nie Yun unleashed Thunderous Kyushu and discovered that the three statues were controlled by one Vengeful Soul.
• Nie Yun combined his Lightning Master and Blazing Fire Master Talents to attack the Lord of Upper Purity statue and burn the soul’s resentment.
• The three statues cried out and began merging into one.

Nie Yun defeated the resentment inhabiting the Three Pure Ones statues and obtained the Lord of the Dao Realm’s One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones technique. After studying it but deciding he could not yet endure its long recovery period, he identified how to spot displaced spaces and set off after Tantai Lingyue and Little Dragon.

• The three statues merged into a powerful figure and struck Nie Yun, but he shattered it with a blow.
• A gray resentment escaped from the broken statue, and Nie Yun burned it to ashes with Lightning and Blazing Fire powers.
• A golden speck entered Nie Yun’s mind and revealed the One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones cultivation method, which he recognized as a secret hidden in the statues by the Lord of the Dao Realm.
• Nie Yun studied the technique but decided to delay cultivating it because dividing his soul would leave him weakened for too long.
• Nie Yun noticed that the battle had damaged only one isolated area, deduced that intact and ruined areas marked displaced-space boundaries, and headed after Tantai Lingyue and Little Dragon.

Nie Yun, Tantai Lingyue, and Little Dragon reached the altar in Xu Hua City, where Sage Qiu and his group had opened a path onto a mysterious suspension bridge. Crossing it plunged Nie Yun into a vision of his previous life, ending as Nie Tong arrived to help him fight the demonfolk.

• Nie Yun offered Tantai Lingyue the secret art One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, but she refused and urged him to cultivate it himself.
• The three traveled through Xu Hua City and reached its central altar after sensing Sage Qiu and his group had arrived first.
• Tantai Lingyue explained that the altar had once been the Lord of the Dao Realm's traveling palace and warned that it held dangerous vengeful spirits and Formations.
• Nie Yun followed the passage Sage Qiu had opened and stepped onto a suspension bridge with Tantai Lingyue and Little Dragon.
• The bridge showed Nie Yun the past scene of his father dying during the demonfolk attack on Luoshui City, and he watched his younger self fight the attackers.
• As Nie Yun's younger self was about to fall, Nie Tong appeared and began cutting down the demonfolk.

Nie Yun relived memories of Nie Tong sacrificing himself to save him, then witnessed the Asura King kill Tantai Lingyue and Little Dragon before Nie Yun killed his brother and himself. He next saw two youths joyfully practicing swordsmanship together and wondered if the scene showed his next life.

• Nie Tong carried the wounded Nie Yun through the demonfolk, killing their pursuers before collapsing and dying in his brother’s arms.
• Nie Yun watched a memory of the Asura King, who killed Tantai Lingyue and Little Dragon after Nie Yun refused to let him go.
• Nie Yun struck Nie Tong through the heart, learning that his brother’s death would also destroy the Asura King and fulfill Nie Tong’s wish to be free.
• Overwhelmed by guilt and grief, Nie Yun drove a spike through his own heart while the observing Nie Yun could not intervene.
• Nie Yun entered a new scene where two youths practiced swordsmanship together, and he wondered whether it showed his next life.