Chapter Summaries

Nie Yun killed Long Xie, claimed his Quota Talismans, and spared the others who had come with him. After spending the remaining trial days drinking with Xie Tao, he returned to Qingyuan Pavilion as the first trial ended and Nine Immortals Elder prepared to announce who qualified for the Core Disciple examination.

• Nie Yun killed Long Xie with a single strike and took the twenty-five Quota Talismans from his storage container, raising his total to thirty-one and placing him first.
• Nie Yun drove off Long Xie's companions, then invited Xie Tao to drink and explained that he had spared the group to avoid attracting trouble by collecting too many talismans.
• Nie Yun and Xie Tao drank together while the other trial participants avoided Nie Yun, and ten days passed.
• The first trial ended, and Nie Yun returned to Qingyuan Pavilion's central square with the other survivors.
• Nine Immortals Elder announced that he would reveal who had qualified for the Core Disciple examination.

Nine Immortals Elder announced the martial assessment for the thirty-two candidates seeking Core Disciple positions at Guixu Sea. Nie Yun and Nie Tong drew their match locations, while Yue Zhan remained hostile toward the brothers.

• Nine Immortals Elder named the thirty-two candidates, including Nie Yun and Nie Tong, and Yue Zhan learned that Nie Yun had killed Long Xie.
• Yue Zhan threatened the brothers in the hall, but Nie Tong and Nie Yun dismissed him.
• Nine Immortals Elder explained that four candidates could earn Core Disciple positions through martial matches, while the defeated could compete for one more position through a specialty assessment.
• Nine Immortals Elder introduced four protected martial stages and required contestants to use the provided mid-grade Chaos Divine Weapons, warning that casualties would not be Guixu Sea's responsibility.
• The candidates entered their Quota Talismans' Origin Energy to draw matches, and Nie Yun received C-2 while Nie Tong received A-1.

Nie Yun and Nie Tong competed in the opening matches of the tournament, each defeating an opponent with overwhelming skill. Nie Yun left the arena after his opponent conceded, having revealed both his formidable swordsmanship and a body strong enough to crush Chaos Divine Weapons with his fists.

• Nie Zhan taunted Nie Yun after learning they might meet in the fight for the top four, and Nie Yun told him to focus on winning his own match.
• Nie Tong defeated a former Top Twenty Earth Grade Zone expert with a single sword thrust.
• Nie Yun faced a Heaven Grade Zone contestant wielding twin hammers and repeatedly exploited his flaws with precise sword strikes.
• The hammer wielder launched his trump-card attack, but Nie Yun crushed both mid-grade Chaos Divine Weapons with his bare fists.
• The hammer wielder conceded and realized Nie Yun had pierced holes in his clothes at numerous lethal points, then knelt and declared himself utterly convinced.

Nie Yun exposed Yue Zhan’s attempt to bribe him into forfeiting, and the tournament’s winners advanced through their arenas. The chapter ended with Nie Yun and Yue Zhan beginning their anticipated duel, each launching a powerful attack.

• Yue Zhan sent a lackey to offer Nie Yun a high-grade Chaos Divine Weapon in exchange for forfeiting, but Nie Yun rejected the bribe publicly.
• Yue Zhan defeated his opponent, while Nie Yun’s opponent admitted defeat as soon as he entered the arena.
• Nie Tong killed Mo Qing after Mo Qing unleashed Darkness Submergence, becoming the A arena’s finalist.
• A former No. 1 of the Heaven Grade Zone who wielded the strength of eighteen hundred Great Daos became the B arena’s finalist.
• Nie Yun and Yue Zhan faced each other on the arena; Yue Zhan attacked with his spear, and Nie Yun answered with his longsword.

Nie Yun killed Yue Zhan on the fighting platform before Elder Hao Zhen could stop him, provoking the elder to attack. Nie Yun and Nie Tong joined forces and repeatedly exposed the flaws in Hao Zhen’s techniques, leaving the powerful elder retreating.

• Nie Yun blocked Yue Zhan’s attacks and identified a weakness in his fighting style.
• Elder Hao Zhen offered to accept Yue Zhan as his disciple, while the other elders declined to teach Nie Yun and left his future to the sect master.
• Nie Yun killed Yue Zhan with a single stroke, and Hao Zhen leaped onto the platform in fury and challenged him.
• Nie Tong joined Nie Yun, and their combined sword stroke forced Hao Zhen to retreat.
• Nie Yun directed Nie Tong to strike the weaknesses in Hao Zhen’s Three Talents Sword and Three Suns Opening Fortune Hand, driving the elder back again.

Nie Yun and Nie Tong defeated Elder Hao Zhen with their coordinated swordsmanship, then discussed martial arts with him and the other Guixu Sea elders. After ten days of discussion, Nie Yun’s fused talents advanced toward a breakthrough, while Nie Tong gained greater control of the Slanting Moon Supreme Domain and Creator’s Power.

• Nie Yun and Nie Tong forced Elder Hao Zhen to retreat across the sparring platform with their combined swordsmanship.
• At the platform’s edge, Hao Zhen admitted defeat, welcomed the brothers as Guixu Sea disciples, and asked them to explain their techniques.
• Nie Yun described the brothers’ moves to Hao Zhen, and Elder Han Ling, the Nine Immortals Elder, and others joined their discussion.
• After ten days and nights of discussing martial arts, Nie Yun felt his four talents nearing fusion and a breakthrough beyond two thousand Great Daos.
• Nie Tong’s control of the Slanting Moon Supreme Domain and Creator’s Power improved, though he kept his newfound ability hidden to conceal his identity as the reborn Asura King.

After ten days of discussing the Dao, Nie Yun and Nie Tong earned the respect of the examinees and elders, and Nie Yun was selected as the top Core Disciple. Nine Immortals Elder took the five newly selected disciples toward Guixu Sea to confirm their status.

• Nie Yun's ten days of Dao discussions helped several examinees break through and left the listeners deeply impressed.
• The examinees bowed to Nie Yun and Nie Tong, and Nine Immortals Elder praised Nie Yun's understanding of the Dao.
• Nine Immortals Elder arranged Nie Yun as the first-ranked Core Disciple and Nie Tong as the second, promising Nie Yun exceptional treatment and resources.
• The remaining two slots went to an expert who had once been in the Heaven Grade Zone and to Xie Tao, who won the final special-abilities examination.
• Nine Immortals Elder instructed Elder Hao Zhen to arrange the remaining competitions, then took the five selected Core Disciples toward the nearest Teleportation Array.

Nie Yun traveled to Guixu Sea with Nine Immortals Elder and learned how its Patriarch founded the sect after spending three hundred million years lost in its star-filled ocean. The Patriarch later left to pursue Sovereignty and had not returned, leaving his fate unknown.

• Nie Yun had Nine Immortals Elder bring Little Spirit, Xu Yao, and Shi Hao along, and Little Spirit resolved to follow Nie Yun as his new master.
• After nearly a month of travel by Teleportation Array and flying vessel, Nie Yun and the others approached Guixu Sea.
• Nie Yun told Nine Immortals Elder that he had advanced beyond six hundred Great Daos and found a direction for merging his Heavenly Secret Master and Martial Dao Master talents.
• Nine Immortals Elder explained that Ashoka King created the Four Great Danger Zones and that Guixu Sea's Patriarch became lost inside its star ocean for three hundred million years.
• Nine Immortals Elder said the Patriarch advanced from Two Thousand Five Hundred to Two Thousand Nine Hundred Great Daos, founded Guixu Sea, and later departed to seek a breakthrough without returning.

Nie Yun and the others reached Guixu Sea, where Nine Immortals Elder explained its dangers and the meaning of its Ancient Chaos Language inscription. As the group began studying the three characters, Nie Yun’s three dantians reacted to them.

• Nine Immortals Elder told Nie Yun that no new Sovereigns had appeared and led the group through the dangerous routes of Guixu Sea.
• The group arrived at Guixu Sea after nearly a month of cautious travel, and Nine Immortals Elder described the hazards surrounding the mountain range.
• Nine Immortals Elder explained that the stone stele’s three Ancient Chaos Language characters meant “Guixu Sea” and warned that trying to write such characters could harm the soul.
• The disciples began studying the inscription for a day, and Nie Yun realized its characters might correspond to Great Daos he had comprehended.
• Three of Nie Yun’s dantians jolted and revealed strange colors as he stared at the characters.

Nie Yun wrote the three Ancient Chaos Language characters for Guixu Sea, triggering a spectacular response and earning rewards that perfected his three Great Daos and increased his spiritual power. A Core Seventy-Two Peak appeared, and the Sect Master arrived asking to meet the disciple who had written the characters.

• The Nine Immortals Elder explained that writing the Ancient Chaos Language could injure ordinary people but might bring great benefits, while Nie Tong declined to try.
• Nie Yun studied the characters, recognized them as dantians drawn with talent energy, and wrote all three using the energy of his Special Talents.
• The characters shattered space, causing Guixu Sea's bells to ring, its stars to shine, and countless immortal cranes to take flight.
• A mountain from the Core Seventy-Two Peaks appeared, and its seven-colored light perfected Nie Yun's three Great Daos and raised his spiritual power.
• The Nine Immortals Elder stared in shock at the newly moved peak, and the Sect Master arrived asking to meet the person who had written the characters.

Nie Yun learned how Guixu Sea’s seventy-two Core Disciple peaks worked after the Sect Master praised his ability to write the Ancient Chaos Language. His new peak had appeared at the very front of the others, leaving him facing the prospect of challenges from every direction.

• The Sect Master arrived, recognized Nie Yun as the writer of the Ancient Chaos Language, and praised his talent and composure.
• The Nine Immortals Elder explained that Guixu Sea had only seventy-two Core Disciple residences, which disciples contested through rankings and challenges.
• The Elder described the newcomers’ ten-thousand-year grace period and the rule that disciples who failed to reach two thousand Great Daos after a million years would leave the peaks.
• Nie Yun asked why the Sect Master had warned that his future would be difficult, and the Elder revealed that Guixu Sea had created a peak for him ahead of all seventy-two others.

Nie Yun learned that the disciples of the Core 72 Peaks possessed formidable combat power and was advised to stay at Water Cloud Pavilion until he grew stronger. He chose to move into his newly formed peak anyway and revealed that he intended to enter the ranking tournament in half a year.

• Nine Immortals Elder brought Nie Yun and the others to Guixu Palace, distributed their core disciple tokens, and explained the sect’s rules.
• Nine Immortals Elder warned Nie Yun that moving into his peak would invite challenges, then described the overwhelming strength of the disciples on the Core 72 Peaks, especially Duan Jia.
• Xie Tao urged Nie Yun to stay at Water Cloud Pavilion, but Nie Yun asked Nine Immortals Elder to take him and Nie Tong to his peak instead.
• Nie Yun reassured Nine Immortals Elder that he knew the risks and asked when the next core disciple ranking tournament would take place.
• Nine Immortals Elder said the tournament would likely happen in half a year, and Nie Yun confidently indicated that he planned to participate.

Nie Yun rejected a series of taunting invitations from Core Disciples and challenged their masters to apologize or face him before the ranking competition. When an attendant attacked, Nie Yun ordered Little Spirit to throw out every provoker, revealing Little Spirit’s overwhelming strength.

• Several attendants insulted Nie Yun and Nie Tong, then presented invitations from their Core Disciple masters to lure Nie Yun into humiliating gatherings.
• Nie Tong defended his brother, and Nine Immortals Elder stepped in to warn the attendants to leave the sacred ground.
• Nie Yun told the attendants to have their masters personally apologize three days before the ranking competition or face his challenge, warning that his opponents would die.
• An attendant challenged Nie Yun, but Nie Yun ordered Little Spirit to throw out the challengers and kill anyone who came within a hundred li without permission.
• Little Spirit effortlessly flung the challenging attendant and the other provokers away, shocking Nine Immortals Elder with his power.

Nie Yun established Lian Yue Peak with Little Spirit’s help and entered seclusion to strengthen himself, while news of his defiance spread through Guixu Sea. At Ming Sect Peak, Senior Brother Bai Yu’s faction urged him to punish Nie Yun, and Bai Yu silenced them with his imposing aura.

• Little Spirit revealed his strength by defeating the troublemakers, and Nie Yun named the mountain Lian Yue Peak as Xie Tao, Wei Shu, and the others chose to stay.
• Nine Immortals Elder departed, and Little Spirit created a magnificent palace on the summit with a sweep of his hand.
• Nie Yun ordered Little Spirit to guard Lian Yue Peak, then entered a protected formation to cultivate and fuse his Special Talents.
• Rumors of Nie Yun’s arrogance spread through Guixu Sea, where disciples expected the Core 72 Peaks to retaliate against him.
• At Ming Sect Peak, several Core Disciples complained to Senior Brother Bai Yu and demanded that he uphold their standing by teaching Nie Yun a lesson.
• Senior Brother Bai Yu darkened his expression and silenced the hall with his aura.

Senior Brother Bai Yu and the Core Disciples plotted to punish Nie Yun by arranging an Inner Disciple challenge, but a mysterious swordsman stormed their hall and killed Bai Yu and two others with ease. The youth revealed himself as Nie Tong and invited anyone seeking revenge to find him at Lian Yue Peak.

• Senior Brother Bai Yu told Xu Yue to use an Inner Disciple to challenge Nie Yun, since Core Disciples could not challenge newly arrived disciples within ten thousand years.
• Nie Tong entered Bai Yu's hall and killed the attendant who tried to stop him.
• A Core Disciple attacked Nie Tong, but Nie Tong killed him with a swift sword strike that pierced his throat.
• Bai Yu attacked Nie Tong with his battle saber, but Nie Tong dispelled the strike and stabbed Bai Yu through the throat.
• Nie Tong left the hall and told the survivors to seek him at Lian Yue Peak, declaring, "My name is Nie Tong!"

After emerging from seclusion, Nie Yun learned that Nie Tong had killed Bai Yu and Luo Chen, drawing attention across Guixu Sea. Shang Quan, ranked fifth among the Core 72 Peaks, visited to challenge Nie Tong in hopes of refining his sword technique, leaving Nie Yun to consider the request.

• Nie Yun emerged from nearly half a year of cultivation after fusing four top-ten Talents and learned that Shang Quan had sent a visiting card for him and Nie Tong.
• Nie Tong admitted he had killed the Core Disciple leading a group that planned to deal with Nie Yun, and Nie Yun dismissed the killing as trivial.
• Little Spirit explained that Shang Quan ranked fifth, had defeated a Golden Armored General with 2,600 Great Daos, and had a sword technique praised by the sect master.
• Shang Quan arrived and presented Nie Tong with a challenge letter, asking to arrange a sword fight so he could gain insights and perfect his technique.
• Nie Yun was stunned and frowned at Shang Quan’s request for a match.

Nie Tong accepted Shang Quan’s challenge to a duel at Tian Zhan Peak in three days, despite Nie Yun’s concern that he was not yet a match for the renowned swordsman. As news spread through Guixu Sea, Nine Immortals Elder worried that Nie Tong’s limited Sword Dao mastery put him in grave danger.

• Nie Tong persuaded Nie Yun to accept Shang Quan’s challenge, and Shang Quan set the duel for Tian Zhan Peak three days later.
• Little Spirit warned that Tian Zhan Peak would draw attention from all of Guixu Sea, but Nie Yun approved the venue.
• Zhang Hao saw the duel recorded on the Guixu Heavenly Tablet and spread the news to disciples and elders across Guixu Sea.
• Nine Immortals Elder told Elder Mo Jiao that Shang Quan had mastered far more of the Sword Dao than Nie Tong and feared Nie Tong would suffer a serious disadvantage.

The Nine Immortals Elder and Elder Mo Jiao worried that Nie Tong’s duel with Shang Quan could cost Guixu Sea a rare genius, so they decided to oversee the contest and keep it from turning deadly. Meanwhile, Ji Xuan planned to challenge Nie Yun, setting up another confrontation as the ranking tournament approached.

• The Nine Immortals Elder told Elder Mo Jiao that Nie Tong had grown from struggling against a puppet with five hundred Great Daos to killing Bai Yu in less than a year.
• The Nine Immortals Elder and Elder Mo Jiao feared Shang Quan’s Death Sword could harm Nie Tong, but they could not cancel the duel announced across Guixu Sea.
• Elder Mo Jiao proposed that the elders witness the duel and ensure it ended at the first touch, and the Nine Immortals Elder agreed to notify the other nine great elders.
• Hua Yao and Qing Mu visited Ji Xuan to discuss Shang Quan’s challenge to Nie Tong and the upcoming ranking tournament.
• Ji Xuan dismissed Bai Yu’s strength and announced that he would challenge Nie Yun to test an ancient martial skill he had just completed.

Nie Yun watched Nie Tong demonstrate his swordsmanship and realized that the limits on Nie Tong’s control of space-time might come from Chaos granting authority rather than true creation. The insight sent Nie Yun into enlightenment, while the crowd gathered at Tian Zhan Peak for Nie Tong and Shang Quan’s match grew enormous, leaving Xiao Jingxue uncertain that Shang Quan would win.

• Nie Tong demonstrated his swordsmanship, and Nie Yun saw that his control over Creator's Power had grown strong enough to explain his victory over Bai Yu.
• Nie Tong told Nie Yun that his growing control over space-time felt like authority granted by someone else, unlike Nie Yun’s power within his Storage World.
• Nie Yun connected Nie Tong’s restraint to King-Sealing Experts receiving authority from Chaos, then entered enlightenment inside a ring of seven-colored light that repelled Nie Tong.
• Xiao Jingxue arrived at Tian Zhan Peak expecting Shang Quan to easily defeat Nie Tong, but a Nie Tong fan corrected her about the challenge and described Nie Tong’s victory over Bai Yu.
• The fan told Xiao Jingxue that all ten elders and Ji Xuan would attend the match, making her doubt her certainty and silently hope that Shang Quan would win.

The crowd and the ten elders gathered at Tian Zhan Peak for Nie Tong’s match against Shang Quan, but Nie Tong did not arrive on time because Nie Yun was in seclusion. Nine Immortals Elder found Nie Yun wrapped in seven-colored light and unable to detect him with spiritual perception; when the light vanished, Nie Yun said they would head to the arena at once.

• The ten elders and the top five disciples arrived at Tian Zhan Peak, where Shang Quan entered the arena and Xiao Jingxue cheered for him.
• As Nie Tong failed to appear by noon, the crowd and several elders doubted he would come, so Nine Immortals Elder flew to Lian Yue Peak to find him.
• Little Spirit explained that Nie Yun was in seclusion and Nie Tong was keeping watch, and she led Nine Immortals Elder to the courtyard.
• Nie Tong told Nine Immortals Elder that he was waiting for Nie Yun to emerge before going to the match.
• Nine Immortals Elder saw Nie Yun surrounded by seven-colored light but could not sense his presence with spiritual perception.
• The light disappeared, Nie Yun approached Nine Immortals Elder, and he said he and Nie Tong would go to Tian Zhan Peak at once.