Chapter Summaries

Nie Tong arrived at Tian Zhan Peak and prepared to duel Shang Quan after Nie Yun shared swordsmanship insights with him. When Nine Immortals Elder proposed using Puppet Bodies to prevent deaths, Nie Yun rejected the idea, insisting the match remain a real struggle.

• Nie Yun passed Nie Tong his insights into swordsmanship, raising Nie Tong's confidence in the duel.
• As Nie Tong failed to appear by the appointed time, spectators mocked him, while Ji Xuan and Qing Mu assumed he would not come.
• Nie Tong arrived at Tian Zhan Peak and impressed the crowd with his controlled landing on the fighting platform.
• Shang Quan drew his sword, and he and Nie Tong prepared to begin their duel.
• Nine Immortals Elder suggested that they fight using Puppet Bodies, prompting the crowd to accuse Nie Tong of fearing death.
• Nie Yun rejected the proposal, arguing that a real life-and-death struggle was necessary to test their swordsmanship.

Nie Tong defeated Shang Quan in a duel, silencing doubts about his strength. As Nine Immortals Elder prepared to address the crowd, Ji Xuan challenged Nie Yun.

• Nie Tong and Shang Quan began their duel, and their rapid sword exchanges astonished the spectators and elders.
• Shang Quan unleashed the sixth move of the Death Sword, Heaven and Earth as One, whose deathly pressure overwhelmed weaker spectators until the elders sealed the arena.
• Nie Tong broke through Shang Quan's sword technique with a single strike and held his sword at Shang Quan's throat.
• Shang Quan conceded defeat, and Nie Tong credited Nie Yun's guidance for helping him win.
• Ji Xuan interrupted Nine Immortals Elder and challenged Nie Yun to a duel.

Ji Xuan publicly challenged Nie Yun, forcing him to accept by invoking their rankings as senior and junior brothers. Nie Yun accepted and mocked Ji Xuan with a rebuke and a mid-grade Chaos Divine Weapon as a meeting gift, leaving the crowd laughing and Ji Xuan furious before their match began.

• Ji Xuan announced a challenge to Nie Yun, drawing angry protests from the crowd and warnings from Nine Immortals Elder and Elder Mo Jiao.
• Ji Xuan insisted that Nie Yun was his senior brother because Lian Yue Peak ranked first, and pressed him to accept the challenge.
• Nie Yun accepted, addressing Ji Xuan as his junior brother despite Nine Immortals Elder's warning about Ji Xuan's strength.
• Nie Yun criticized Ji Xuan's temperament and predicted he might not place in the top three at the ranking tournament.
• Nie Yun offered Ji Xuan a mid-grade Chaos Divine Weapon as a meeting gift, prompting the crowd to laugh as Ji Xuan seethed.

Nie Yun used his words, gestures, and presence to influence Ji Xuan while appearing to yield, and Elder Yaoyuan revealed that their contest had already begun. Before the elders could leave, Guixu Sea shook and the Core Disciple Ranking Tournament began ahead of schedule.

• Hua Yao judged Nie Yun's provocations foolish, believing they would only intensify Ji Xuan's killing intent.
• Nie Yun gave Ji Xuan a mid-grade Chaos Divine Weapon, then repeatedly dodged his challenge while teasing him and patting his shoulder.
• Several elders criticized Nie Yun for avoiding the match, but Elder Yaoyuan stopped them and explained that Nie Yun and Ji Xuan were already contesting through words, movements, and gaze.
• Elder Yaoyuan revealed that Nie Yun had been yielding while subtly influencing Ji Xuan, who had become increasingly enraged without realizing what was happening.
• Guixu Sea shook as a colossal mountain appeared and rainbow bridges spread across the peaks, prompting Nie Yun and Ji Xuan to realize the Core Disciple Ranking Tournament had begun early.

Ranking Peak appeared ahead of schedule and drew Guixu Sea’s disciples into the Core 72 Peaks ranking tournament. Nie Yun and Nie Tong entered A Zone, where Nie Yun’s seemingly weak strike placed his seat ahead of Ji Xuan’s, leaving their rivalry poised to continue.

• Ranking Peak appeared, and Ji Xuan and the other contenders hurried to enter before the mountain closed.
• Nie Yun and Nie Tong crossed the rainbow bridge and learned they had both been assigned to A Zone.
• The Nie brothers arrived in A Zone, where Ji Xuan and the other contenders awaited the ranking assessment.
• The contenders struck the light wall, and their seats shifted into rank order, with Ji Xuan taking the lead before Nie Yun acted.
• Nie Yun lightly pressed his palm toward the wall, and his seat moved ahead of Ji Xuan’s.

Nie Yun and Nie Tong were seated ahead of Ji Xuan, whose anger worsened when Shang Quan also acknowledged them as senior brothers. Nie Yun then guided Shang Quan’s swordsmanship, and Shang Quan’s improved move raised his seat ahead of Ji Xuan as well.

• Nie Yun’s seat appeared ahead of Ji Xuan’s, and Nie Tong’s seat landed ahead of Ji Xuan’s too.
• Nie Tong warned Ji Xuan not to meet him in a match, while Ji Xuan urged Hua Yao and Qing Mu to fight the brothers without holding back.
• Shang Quan ignored Ji Xuan and bowed to Nie Yun and Nie Tong, thanking Nie Tong for sparing him in their earlier match.
• Nie Tong said Nie Yun had taught him swordsmanship, so Shang Quan asked Nie Yun how to improve Heaven and Earth as One.
• Nie Yun advised Shang Quan to weave a thread of life into his killing move, and Shang Quan understood and performed the revised technique.
• Shang Quan’s seat leaped ahead of Ji Xuan’s, leaving Ji Xuan so enraged that he stood up.

Ji Xuan initiated a Heaven-Seizing Battle against Nie Yun to defend his standing as Guixu Sea’s top Core Disciple, and Nie Yun accepted. Their fatal duel began with Nie Yun striking Ji Xuan before he could react.

• Ji Xuan, angered by Nie Yun’s rise in the rankings, announced that he would challenge him in a Heaven-Seizing Battle.
• Shang Quan explained that the challenge cost the challenger lifespan and forced both opponents into a fight to the death.
• Nie Yun accepted Ji Xuan’s challenge, despite the disciples’ alarm over the battle’s deadly stakes.
• Ranking Peak transported Nie Yun and Ji Xuan to the arena, where Ji Xuan lost several million years of lifespan to initiate the match.
• Ji Xuan declared that he was Guixu Sea’s true number one, but Nie Yun crossed the arena and slapped him before he could react.

Nie Yun overwhelmed Ji Xuan, deflected his ultimate attack, and seized the Returning Origin Golden Seal. Cornered, Ji Xuan broke through his suppressed Great Daos and transformed into a Golden Armored General, preparing to attack Nie Yun with his full strength.

• Ji Xuan attacked Nie Yun with the Returning Origin Golden Seal and unleashed the ultimate technique Returning Origin One Qi.
• Nie Yun used his sword to trap Ji Xuan's attack, then seized the golden seal and severed Ji Xuan's connection to it.
• When Ji Xuan charged at him, Nie Yun pressed him to the ground and reminded him of the warnings he had given on Tian Zhan Peak.
• Ji Xuan shattered his suppressed barriers and broke through six hundred Great Daos, reaching the strength of a Golden Armored General.
• Ji Xuan declared that Nie Yun would die and brought down a massive palm attack.

Nie Yun killed Ji Xuan by using the Returning Origin One Qi and Returning Origin Golden Seal against him, then secured first place in the Core 72 Peaks ranking tournament. With the tournament over, Nie Yun headed to Guixu Sea’s Library Pavilion to search for a way to revive Tantai Lingyue.

• Nie Yun copied Ji Xuan’s Returning Origin One Qi and used the refined Returning Origin Golden Seal to crush Ji Xuan to death.
• Nie Yun silenced the crowd and warned that anyone who challenged his dignity or troubled the new disciples would meet Ji Xuan’s fate.
• The seven-day ranking tournament continued, and Nie Yun’s opponents forfeited all ten of his matches.
• The final rankings placed Nie Yun first, Nie Tong second, Shang Quan third, and Hua Yao seventh.
• Nie Yun flew to Guixu Sea’s Library Pavilion to search for a way to revive Tantai Lingyue.

Nie Yun and Nie Tong went to Library Pavilion Peak to search for knowledge that could turn Tantai Lingyue from the Heavenly Dao into a human. After learning the lower levels held too many books to search in time, Nie Yun headed for the sixth level and found he could still climb beyond it.

• Nie Yun and Nie Tong showed their identity tokens to an Enforcement Disciple, who recognized their names and escorted them respectfully into Library Pavilion Peak.
• The Enforcement Disciple explained that the pavilion contained nine Small Worlds, with access to higher levels granted according to rank and strength.
• Nie Yun learned that reading even the first level’s books would take millions of years, so he asked which levels contained information about the Heavenly Dao.
• The disciple knew of no Heavenly Dao descriptions on the first five levels, so Nie Yun decided to go directly to the sixth level with Nie Tong.
• The disciple could climb only as far as the fifth level, while Nie Yun and Nie Tong reached the sixth-level entrance, where Nie Yun realized the pressure was manageable and he could continue upward.

Nie Yun entered the sixth level’s book treasury with Nie Tong and learned from Hua Yao that powerful writings could become dangerous Book Demons. Realizing he could save time by questioning them instead of searching every book, he rushed deeper into the treasury, and Hua Yao followed.

• Nie Tong reached his limit, so Nie Yun entered the sixth level with him to search for information about reviving Tantai Lingyue.
• Nie Yun and Nie Tong found a vast independent world made entirely of books and split up to search.
• Nie Yun met Hua Yao, who warned him that Book Demons in the depths could kill disciples and that their power increased farther into the treasury.
• Nie Yun sent Hua Yao’s warning to Nie Tong, then decided to capture a Book Demon and question it rather than search the world book by book.
• Nie Yun sped toward the depths, and Hua Yao hesitated before following him.

Nie Yun explored the orderly book society beyond the sixth-level library’s first hundred million kilometers, then used a Dominator Talisman Seal to travel toward the Sacred Word Kingdom’s capital. He arrived at Sacred Word City while Hua Yao, alarmed by his power, chose to stop following him.

• Nie Yun discovered that books beyond the library’s first hundred million kilometers formed villages, towns, and cities with their own society and economy.
• Nie Yun disguised himself as a book, learned that the region was the Sacred Word Kingdom, and bought a route to its imperial capital using stolen ink fragrance.
• Nie Yun burned a Dominator Talisman Seal to travel rapidly, astonishing Hua Yao, who decided not to interfere or reveal what she had seen.
• Nie Yun emerged before the city gate bearing the name Sacred Word City.

Nie Yun reached the imperial palace in Sacred Word City and confronted its emperor, a powerful Book Demon created from a book written by a Dominator. After exposing the emperor’s ambush and overcoming its Dominator-level spiritual attack with the Heavenly Profound Hall, Nie Yun seized it in his hand.

• Nie Yun crushed the book guards who tried to stop him from entering Sacred Word City.
• The emperor trapped Nie Yun in a cage of word-threads and revealed that it was a book left behind by a Dominator expert.
• Nie Yun recognized the emperor’s delay as a scheme to let its formations trap him, then crushed the Book Demons controlling the threads.
• The emperor attacked with the Three Thousand Great Daos and Dominator-level spiritual power, but Nie Yun blocked its will with the Heavenly Profound Hall.
• Nie Yun used his full strength to catch the emperor and crush it in his palm.

Nie Yun questioned the old book about how to revive Tantai Lingyue, who had become the Heavenly Dao. He learned that reversing time might restore her, but the method depended on her origin and the world's connection to the Chaos Ocean.

• Nie Yun captured the old book and demanded to know whether someone who became a Small World's Heavenly Dao could be revived.
• The old book explained that a person who had comprehended the Heavenly Dao could be restored by stripping away that comprehension, but a Heavenly Dao reincarnation would require time reversal and could only be revived as her younger self without her memories.
• Nie Yun asked whether giving the Heavenly Dao consciousness and a physical form could bring Ling Yue back, and the old book warned that such a transformation would make revival impossible.
• The old book said Nie Yun could reverse time in a Small World with the power of his burned Dominator Talisman Seal, but warned that a world connected to the Chaos Ocean's core could not be altered by Dominator experts.
• The old book described dead worlds, ordinary worlds, and core worlds, explaining that altering a core world's time would trigger backlash from the Chaos Ocean and require a King-Sealing Expert.

After learning how Tantai Lingyue could be revived, Nie Yun decided to send a clone back to the Six Paths of Heaven and Earth while keeping his true plans hidden from Guixu Sea. He arranged for Hua Yao to leave the sect on a mission with one of his clones, and she departed by flying boat.

• Nie Yun questioned the old book about reversing time, then spared it after it answered honestly and left to find Nie Tong.
• Nie Yun told Nie Tong he would send a clone to the Six Paths of Heaven and Earth to revive Tantai Lingyue, while Nie Tong stayed behind to avoid drawing danger to their homeland.
• Nie Yun asked Hua Yao to accept a mission outside Guixu Sea and secretly placed one of his equal-strength selves in her pocket.
• Hua Yao accepted a mission at Task Peak and set out from Guixu Sea in her flying boat.

Nie Yun returned to the Six Paths of Heaven and Earth with clues for reviving Tantai Lingyue and found Luo Qingcheng and Xiao Ran training to break through. He used a mysterious aura to help Xiao Ran reach the Sky-Repelling Mirror Realm, then prepared to help Luo Qingcheng.

• Nie Yun left Hua Yao after they traveled through Guixu Sea and quickly crossed the Chaos Ocean back to the Six Paths of Heaven and Earth.
• Nie Yun found Luo Qingcheng and Xiao Ran battling at the boundary with Chaos while their relatives watched.
• Nie Yun told Luo Qingcheng and the others that he had found clues to reviving Tantai Lingyue and had returned to test them.
• Nie Yun pointed at Xiao Ran and sent a peculiar aura into him, breaking the barrier that had kept Xiao Ran from advancing.
• Xiao Ran transformed and reached the Sky-Repelling Mirror Realm, astonished that Nie Yun had helped him break through so easily.

Nie Yun prepared to revive Tantai Lingyue by reversing the time of the Six Paths of Heaven and Earth, despite fearing she might no longer remember him. After Luo Qingcheng encouraged him, he began the reversal and encountered powerful backlash from the world.

• Nie Yun helped Luo Qingcheng and Xiao Ran break through to the Sky-Repelling Mirror Realm, then gave his family and friends medicinal pills and cultivation manuals.
• At Xiao Ran's suggestion, Nie Yun created a higher-level Small World from Spatial Cage Zones and settled his family and friends there to cultivate.
• Nie Yun prepared to reverse time across the Six Paths of Heaven and Earth to revive Tantai Lingyue, while Luo Qingcheng asked why he seemed uncertain.
• Nie Yun told Luo Qingcheng that Tantai Lingyue might return without knowing him, and Luo Qingcheng urged him to trust that their love could begin again.
• Nie Yun used the Dominator Talisman Seal to reverse space and time across the Six Paths of Heaven and Earth, but the world inflicted powerful backlash on him.

Nie Yun failed to reverse time in the Six Paths of Heaven and Earth and discovered that its golden origin and unusual history concealed a mystery. He and Luo Qingcheng found a strange black hole in the Huntian World, and Nie Yun prepared to enter it with her.

• Nie Yun's attempt to reverse time in the Six Paths of Heaven and Earth triggered severe backlash, and he saw that its origin was golden.
• Nie Yun suspected the Six Paths of Heaven and Earth was extraordinary after considering its golden origin, the Asura King's attacks, and its people's ability to fuse talents.
• Luo Qingcheng told Nie Yun that an unusual aura from the Huntian World had helped her and Xiao Ran reach the half-step Sky-Repelling Mirror Realm.
• Nie Yun followed Luo Qingcheng to the Huntian World and traced the aura to a black hole that resisted his attack.
• Nie Yun sensed that the black hole's aura resembled the Slanting Moon Supreme Domain and might come from a passage to a great world.
• Nie Yun agreed to enter the black hole with Luo Qingcheng after she insisted on accompanying him.

Nie Yun and Luo Qingcheng entered a time-flow zone and arrived in the death-filled ruins of the Golden Flame Sect, where Luo Qingcheng’s touch caused its ancient gravestones to crumble. They explored the vast, long-abandoned sect and stopped before a palace and a headless statue that Luo Qingcheng recognized as resembling Nie Tong.

• Nie Yun protected Luo Qingcheng as they passed through the vortex into a chaotic time-flow zone.
• When the deathly aura overwhelmed Luo Qingcheng, Nie Yun gave her a Dominator Talisman Seal that strengthened her and shielded her from it.
• Nie Yun identified their destination as the Golden Flame Sect, and Luo Qingcheng understood the inscriptions on its gravestones.
• Luo Qingcheng touched a gravestone, triggering the ancient tablets across the cemetery to crumble into dust.
• Nie Yun and Luo Qingcheng explored the enormous ruins and judged the Golden Flame Sect to have once rivaled the Guixu Sea.
• Luo Qingcheng spotted a headless statue outside a palace and recognized its figure as resembling Nie Tong.

Nie Yun recognized the headless statue as the Asura King and suspected that Nie Tong might be the King himself, while he and Luo Qingcheng explored the ancient Golden Flame Sect. They discovered that the sect had possessed immense power, but the chapter ended when a peak Chaos Divine Weapon throne crumbled at Luo Qingcheng’s touch.

• Nie Yun recognized the statue as the Asura King and wondered why his world lay near the Six Paths of Heaven and Earth.
• Nie Yun suspected that the Asura King had survived by hiding within Nie Tong, and considered that the two might have always been one person.
• Nie Yun and Luo Qingcheng entered the palace to search for traces of the Asura King.
• Nie Yun studied the corridor murals and found that their civilization differed from both the Six Paths of Heaven and Earth and the Slanting Moon Supreme Domain.
• Nie Yun and Luo Qingcheng found eighteen thrones that were peak Chaos Divine Weapons, but the throne Luo Qingcheng touched instantly shattered.