Chapter Summaries

Azure Origin revealed to Three-Talisman Senior Cultivator that he was the Golden-Mask True Lord and explained that he planned to attempt spirit transformation after Heavenly Monarch Water Moon died. He traveled to the Ultimate Dao Pavilion to seek an audience with Heavenly Monarch Skycang, while the Central Province’s great powers watched and guessed at his purpose.

• Azure Origin disclosed his Golden-Mask True Lord identity to Three-Talisman Senior Cultivator and said he hoped to attempt spirit transformation after Heavenly Monarch Water Moon passed away.
• Three-Talisman Senior Cultivator explained that an old pact protected direct-lineage cultivators from other Heavenly Monarchs’ interference and gave Azure Origin a token from a Heavenly Talisman Gate patriarch for the Ultimate Dao Pavilion.
• Azure Origin left the Heavenly Talisman Gate and arrived at the Ultimate Dao Pavilion, where its Grand Cultivators recognized him and debated why he had come.
• Azure Origin announced that he wished to pay his respects to Heavenly Monarch Skycang, prompting Great Cultivator Mangyan to report his arrival and arrange a welcome.
• Grand Cultivators across the Central Province learned Azure Origin’s identity and inferred that he sought Skycang’s protection for his spirit-transformation attempt, while the Heavenly Profound Sect feared losing influence after Water Moon’s death.

Golden-Mask True Lord sought Heavenly Monarch Skycang’s protection for his future breakthrough to Spirit Transformation, but balked at swearing a binding Heart-Demon Oath. After Skycang dismissed him, the Heavenly Sword Peak Master recognized him as the destined person foretold by the Sword Lord.

• Golden-Mask True Lord met Heavenly Monarch Skycang and asked for protection during his attempt to reach Spirit Transformation.
• Heavenly Monarch Skycang demanded that Golden-Mask True Lord wait for the Ultimate Dao Pavilion’s cultivators to try first, protect the pavilion for fifteen hundred years if he succeeded, and fulfill three of its requests.
• Golden-Mask True Lord accepted the terms in principle but refused to swear a Heart-Demon Oath until he had considered its consequences, so Heavenly Monarch Skycang had Grand Cultivator Mang Yan escort him out.
• Heavenly Monarch Skycang told Grand Cultivator Mang Yan that no other Heavenly Monarch would shelter Golden-Mask True Lord and predicted he would return to accept the demands.
• Golden-Mask True Lord left the Ultimate Dao Pavilion and considered whether another Heavenly Monarch would risk supporting him.
• At Heavenly Sword Peak, the Heavenly Sword Peak Master recognized Golden-Faced True Lord, who was also True Lord Yuan Qing, as the person the Sword Lord’s decree had foretold for a hundred thousand years.

The peak master of Heavenly Sword Peak suspected that Golden-Mask True Lord might be the Fated One described in the Sword Scripture and invited him inside to confirm his abilities. After Golden-Mask True Lord admitted to mastering four fourth-tier upper-grade arts, the peak master asked whether he had reached the same level in the formation path.

• The peak master learned that True Lord Azure Origin was Golden-Mask True Lord and realized his known arts might match the Fated One’s requirements.
• Golden-Mask True Lord arrived at Heavenly Sword Peak while weighing whether to seek its Heavenly Monarch’s protection, and the peak master sent Dueling Sword to invite him in.
• Golden-Mask True Lord accepted the invitation and told the peak master he had reached fourth-tier upper-grade proficiency in divination.
• The peak master dismissed the other sword Grand Cultivators and confirmed that Golden-Mask True Lord possessed four fourth-tier upper-grade arts: alchemy, talismans, puppetry, and divination.
• The peak master asked whether Golden-Mask True Lord had also mastered upper-grade fourth-tier Formation Path techniques, startling him.

Golden Mask revealed his fourth-tier upper-grade mastery of all five arts and was recognized as the Fated One awaited by Heavenly Sword Peak. With Heavenly Monarch Extreme Sword pledging obedience, Golden Mask sought help with his Spirit Transformation breakthrough, while Heavenly Monarch Skycang remained confident he would return to the Ultimate Dao Pavilion.

• The Heavenly Sword Peak master questioned Golden Mask about his formation skills, and Golden Mask confirmed that he had reached fourth-tier upper-grade mastery.
• Heavenly Sword Peak’s grandmasters tested Golden Mask’s skills in divination, alchemy, talismans, formations, and puppetry, confirming his attainments.
• The peak master revealed the Sword Lord’s prophecy that a Nascent Soul cultivator with fourth-tier upper-grade mastery of all five arts would be Heavenly Sword Peak’s Fated One, and pledged the sect’s obedience to Golden Mask.
• Heavenly Monarch Extreme Sword arrived, verified Golden Mask’s qualifications, and declared him Heavenly Sword Peak’s true master, with authority over its forces and the Human Realm’s sword cultivators.
• Golden Mask asked for help reaching Spirit Transformation, and Extreme Sword offered access to a cave abode connected to the Heavenly Sword Origin that could weaken two of the breakthrough’s trials.
• At the Ultimate Dao Pavilion, Heavenly Monarch Skycang dismissed concerns about Golden Mask’s arrival at Heavenly Sword Peak and predicted that he would return after suffering a setback.

Azure Origin gained command of Heavenly Sword Peak by the Sword Lord’s decree, then persuaded Heavenly Monarch Extreme Sword to punish Heavenly Monarch Skycang for refusing to support his breakthrough. Extreme Sword brought Azure Origin to the Ultimate Dao Pavilion and attacked Skycang with a devastating sword strike.

• At the Heavenly Talisman Gate, Three-Talisman Senior Cultivator told Heart Talisman Senior Cultivator and Disorder Talisman Senior Cultivator that Elder Azure Origin was Golden-Mask True Lord and had gone to seek Spirit Transformation support.
• Heavenly Monarch Extreme Sword declared that Azure Origin would command Heavenly Sword Peak, and the peak’s sword cultivators accepted the Sword Lord’s decree.
• The Heavenly Talisman Gate, Great Snow Mountain, and Ultimate Dao Pavilion received the startling announcement that Azure Origin commanded Heavenly Sword Peak.
• Azure Origin told Heavenly Monarch Extreme Sword that Skycang had demanded an oath and other services in exchange for protection, and Extreme Sword agreed to punish Skycang.
• Heavenly Monarch Extreme Sword brought Azure Origin to the Ultimate Dao Pavilion, where he launched a powerful sword strike at Heavenly Monarch Skycang.

Heavenly Monarch Extreme Sword injured Heavenly Monarch Skycang and barred the Ultimate Dao Pavilion from producing a Heavenly Monarch for ten thousand years to punish it for Golden-Mask True Lord’s sake. After Azure Origin exposed Great Snow Mountain’s connection to the Demon Abyss Realm, Extreme Sword destroyed it and invited Azure Origin to study at Heavenly Sword Peak’s Book Mountain.

• Heavenly Monarch Extreme Sword broke through the Ultimate Dao Pavilion’s defenses, wounded Heavenly Monarch Skycang, and decreed that the sect could not produce a fifth-tier Heavenly Monarch for ten thousand years.
• News of Extreme Sword’s intervention spread, and Central Province’s powers concluded that Azure Origin controlled Heavenly Sword Peak and should not be offended.
• Azure Origin declined Extreme Sword’s offer to make Heavenly Monarch Water Moon die early, preserving the expected timing of his own Spirit Transformation attempt.
• Azure Origin claimed Great Snow Mountain was colluding with the Demon Abyss Realm, and Extreme Sword immediately set out to investigate.
• Extreme Sword confirmed the danger, destroyed Great Snow Mountain, and announced that its destruction had prevented the Demon Abyss Realm from opening a major route into the Human Realm.
• Extreme Sword invited Azure Origin to study Spirit Transformation insights and other records at Heavenly Sword Peak’s Book Mountain.

Azure Origin studied Book Mountain’s vast inheritances while preparing for spirit transformation, bringing Li Yan to Heavenly Sword Peak and waiting for the moment he had chosen to attempt the breakthrough. The chapter ended with him leaving Book Mountain and declaring that it was time to advance to the Spirit Transformation Period.

• Azure Origin explored Book Mountain’s legacies and learned that only Legendary Grand Cultivators whose divine souls exceeded their limits could preserve a sliver of self during the spirit transformation tribulation of annihilation.
• Azure Origin brought Li Yan from the Eastern Wasteland to Heavenly Sword Peak, studied records on breakthroughs and the Upper Realm, and suspected the Sword Scripture compelled the Peak Lord and Heavenly Monarch to obey him.
• Azure Origin visited the Three-Talisman Senior Cultivator, while Li Yan advanced to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage and studied musical inheritances from Book Mountain.
• Azure Origin failed to draw a fifth-tier talisman and decided to attempt spirit transformation ninety years after Heavenly Monarch Water Moon’s death, while Heavenly Monarch Extreme Sword secretly suppressed other Grand Cultivators’ breakthrough attempts.
• Azure Origin continued studying Book Mountain and, at the time True Lord Purple-Eyes had advanced in the Fifth Simulation, left to begin his own attempt at spirit transformation.

Zhou Qing used Li Yan’s primordial yin qi and entered Heavenly Sword Peak’s origin cave abode to attempt Spirit Transformation at the moment he believed most favorable. As he began his breakthrough, the Demon Abyss Realm learned of it and arranged to sabotage his nirvana tribulation with a Heavenly Demon Stone.

• Zhou Qing judged his chances of reaching Spirit Transformation to be high but remained wary of the unpredictable nirvana tribulation.
• Zhou Qing obtained Li Yan’s first strand of primordial yin qi, then accepted Heavenly Monarch Extreme Sword’s help entering Heavenly Sword Peak’s origin cave abode.
• Zhou Qing settled into the origin cave abode and began his Spirit Transformation breakthrough.
• In the Deep Sea, the Azure-Faced Figure and the Void Whale Lord learned that Zhou Qing was attempting Spirit Transformation and recognized that his success could ruin the Demon Abyss Realm’s plans.
• The Azure-Faced Figure received a Heavenly Demon Stone and explained that it would attract an extraterrestrial heavenly demon to interfere with Zhou Qing’s nirvana tribulation.

True Lord Azure Origin began his Spirit Transformation breakthrough, formed a primordial spirit, and entered the nirvana tribulation. An Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon copied his abilities but could not match his simulation-awarded talents, and Azure Origin battered it toward defeat.

• True Lord Azure Origin began his breakthrough at Heavenly Sword Peak, drawing a vast Spirit Transformation phenomenon that drew the attention of Heavenly Monarch Extreme Sword and other powerful figures.
• After more than ten days, True Lord Azure Origin refined Li Yan’s primordial yin qi and transformed his nascent soul spirit body into a primordial spirit, passing the first hurdle of Spirit Transformation.
• True Lord Azure Origin entered the nirvana tribulation and tore through its illusions until he encountered an Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon that had copied his appearance and abilities.
• The Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon challenged True Lord Azure Origin to defeat it within a hundred breaths, but its replicated attacks proved far weaker than his.
• True Lord Azure Origin used his talents to suppress the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon and repeatedly struck it until it was close to collapse; the demon shrieked, “Why is it you again?!”

You defeated the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon during your nirvana tribulation, gaining a permanent enhancement to your divine soul source, then endured the five-elemental thunder tribulation. The chapter left you having reached the Spirit Transformation Period as a Heavenly Monarch.

• You blasted apart the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon and absorbed its demon thought, strengthening your innate divine soul source.
• The Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon’s true body fled the Human Realm after sensing its failure, while Heavenly Monarch Extreme Sword and Heavenly Monarch Skycang watched your tribulation with opposing expectations.
• The Golden-Body Buddha realized you had overcome the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon, and the Tribulation-Demon Eye dispersed as the five-elemental thunder tribulation began.
• The Azure-Faced Figure and Void Whale Lord learned that you had survived the demon’s interference, and the Azure-Faced Figure sent the Heavenly Demon Stone through a spatial rift.
• You left the source cave abode and endured the five-elemental heavenly thunder, using your body-cultivation abilities and the Five-Elemental Thunder Stone to withstand its metal thunder.
• You survived the final thunderbolt, and the Great Dao’s resonance marked your ascension to the Spirit Transformation Period.

True Lord Azure Origin survived the Nirvana Tribulation and entered the Spirit Transformation Period, becoming a Heavenly Monarch whose power reshaped the balance among the Human Realm’s factions. While rival forces reconsidered their plans, Azure Origin explored his new abilities and speculated about the forces behind the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon’s interference.

• True Lord Azure Origin entered the Spirit Transformation Period, and Heavenly Monarch Extreme Sword recognized that he had defeated the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon through his own strength.
• Three-Talisman Senior Cultivator warned the Heavenly Talisman Gate not to misuse its connection to Azure Origin, while Heavenly Monarch Skycang realized the Ultimate Dao Pavilion had lost its last hope of producing another Heavenly Monarch.
• The golden-bodied Buddha anticipated Azure Origin’s rule over the Central Province, and the Azure-Faced Figure postponed the Demon Abyss Realm’s invasion until Heavenly Monarch Extreme Sword was gone.
• Azure Origin tested his new primordial spirit and found his divine sense reached a hundred thousand li, then considered his expanded lifespan and the Human Realm’s limit on Heavenly Monarchs.
• Azure Origin suspected the Demon Abyss Realm had drawn the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon to disrupt his breakthrough and concluded that his strength already matched a middle-stage Spirit Transformation Heavenly Monarch.
• Azure Origin realized True Dragon Transformation could now amplify his power without the brief time limit he had faced as a Nascent Soul cultivator.

After reaching Spirit Transformation, Zhou Qing emerged as a Heavenly Monarch and warned Heavenly Monarch Extreme Sword that the Demon Abyss Realm might be infiltrating the Human Realm. His divination pointed to a serious problem in the Deep Sea, where he suspected the Void Whale Lord had defected.

• Zhou Qing assessed his new Spirit Transformation strength and planned to stabilize his cultivation before attempting fifth-tier body refinement.
• Outside the simulation, Zhou Qing celebrated his breakthrough, reflected on his long path to Spirit Transformation, and decided not to rush an attempt to ascend to the Spirit Realm.
• Zhou Qing emerged from seclusion at Heavenly Sword Peak, where the sword cultivators and Heavenly Monarch Extreme Sword congratulated him.
• Zhou Qing told Heavenly Monarch Extreme Sword that the Demon Abyss Realm might have lured an extraterrestrial heavenly demon to his nirvana tribulation and asked about Great Snow Mountain's spatial rift.
• Heavenly Monarch Extreme Sword said the rift had not been fully sealed, and Zhou Qing used divination to confirm that something had gone wrong in the Deep Sea.
• Zhou Qing suspected the Void Whale Lord had defected to the Demon Abyss Realm, and Heavenly Monarch Extreme Sword trusted his warning.

After entering the Spirit Transformation Period, Azure Origin arranged with Heavenly Monarch Extreme Sword and Maitreya Heavenly Monarch to surround and kill the suspected-compromised Void Whale Lord once he had mastered his new power. He prepared for a grand Spirit Transformation Ceremony and, ten years after his breakthrough, challenged Heavenly Monarch Extreme Sword to a sparring match to test his strength.

• Azure Origin stopped Heavenly Monarch Extreme Sword from rushing to attack the Void Whale Lord and arranged to coordinate with Maitreya Heavenly Monarch before a joint assault.
• Azure Origin agreed to hold his Spirit Transformation Ceremony in twenty years, gave Blood Roc a true dragon bloodline beast king core, and spent a day and night with Li Yan.
• Azure Origin consumed three fifth-tier life-extending items and spent ten years mastering the Spirit Transformation secret arts Mountain-Sea Domain and Mountain-Sea Severance.
• Heavenly Monarch Extreme Sword reported that Maitreya Heavenly Monarch had agreed to cooperate, and Azure Origin invited him to spar in a secret realm within Heavenly Sword Peak.

Azure Origin sparred with Heavenly Monarch Extreme Sword and demonstrated combat strength comparable to a middle Spirit Transformation Heavenly Monarch, even against the Heavenly Sword Origin. After confirming their chances against the Void Whale Lord, Azure Origin proposed recruiting Heavenly Monarch Qingtian for the hunt.

• Azure Origin used Mountain Sea Domain to suppress Heavenly Monarch Extreme Sword, who broke free with a Sword Scripture killing move and questioned Azure Origin’s extraordinary power.
• Azure Origin unleashed thousands of Mountain Sea Slashes, and Heavenly Monarch Extreme Sword answered with Heavenly Sword Strike; their attacks ended in a draw after Extreme Sword drew on some of the Heavenly Sword Origin.
• Azure Origin concluded that his normal combat strength approached the peak of middle Spirit Transformation and learned that excessive use of the Heavenly Sword Origin cost Heavenly Monarch Extreme Sword lifespan.
• Azure Origin asked about hunting the Void Whale Lord with Heavenly Monarch Mituo, and Heavenly Monarch Extreme Sword estimated their chances at eighty percent.
• Azure Origin proposed recruiting Heavenly Monarch Qingtian in exchange for reducing the Supreme Dao Pavilion’s punishment by a thousand years, and Heavenly Monarch Extreme Sword agreed to contact him.
• After returning to his cultivation dojo, Azure Origin reflected that reaching the fifth tier in body refinement would further increase his combat strength.

After delaying his fifth-tier body breakthrough, Azure Origin cultivated, mastered fifth-tier alchemy, and held a grand Spirit Transformation Ceremony at Heavenly Sword Peak. The ceremony concealed the four human Heavenly Monarchs’ gathering, allowing them to spring a trap on the Void Whale Lord in the Deep Sea.

• Azure Origin postponed his fifth-tier body breakthrough so the Void Whale Lord would not detect it and so he could study how to draw in an Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon.
• Azure Origin found that Human Realm suppression made Spirit Transformation cultivation painfully slow, then continued studying the Divine Origin Transcending Void Great Art and refining his crafts.
• Azure Origin refined a fifth-tier Spirit Refining Pill and became a Fifth-Tier Alchemy Celestial Master, while his Talisman Path approached the fifth tier.
• Azure Origin held his Spirit Transformation Ceremony at Heavenly Sword Peak, where Three-Talisman Senior Cultivator and representatives of the Great Cosmos Immortal Dynasty attended.
• The Void Whale Lord sensed the four human Heavenly Monarchs at Heavenly Sword Peak and assumed the grand array concealed their auras, but Heavenly Monarch Extreme Sword, Heavenly Monarch Skycang, Maitreya Heavenly Monarch, and Azure Origin appeared around it and began their ambush.

You and three Human Race Heavenly Monarchs killed the Void Whale Lord after draining its Kunpeng bloodline power, then discovered a rapidly expanding spatial rift and subdued the blue-faced, fanged figure opening it. As you and the others tried to seal the rift, a mysterious sigh rippled through the Human Realm.

• You and the other Heavenly Monarchs trapped the Void Whale Lord with the Mountain Sea Domain and concealed their gathering until its Kunpeng bloodline power ran low.
• Heavenly Monarch Extreme Sword split the Void Whale Lord in two, and you captured its escaping fifth-tier demon core.
• You, Heavenly Monarch Extreme Sword, and the Maitreya Heavenly Monarch found a vast island and a spatial rift expanding across it.
• You struck down and sealed the blue-faced, fanged figure as he tried to widen the rift.
• You, Heavenly Monarch Extreme Sword, and the Maitreya Heavenly Monarch joined forces to seal the rift, but a mysterious sigh sounded across the Human Realm.

The chapter followed your efforts to seal the Demon Abyss Realm’s spatial rift and prepare the Human Realm for its eventual breach, while you advanced your cultivation over the next thousand years. After Li Yan and Dachun died attempting breakthroughs, the Human Realm awakened new reserves and produced more Heavenly Monarchs, and you emerged from seclusion a thousand years after the Void Whale Lord’s defeat.

• You, Heavenly Monarch Extreme Sword, and Maitreya Heavenly Monarch sealed the expanding spatial rift, learning it would likely open in one or two thousand years, then divided the Void Whale Lord’s corpse and planned defensive lines across the Human Realm.
• You searched the Void Whale Lord’s memories and discovered that a Heavenly Demon Stone could attract Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demons, though it had been sent back to the Demon Abyss Realm.
• You refined the Void Whale Lord’s essence blood to gain Void Whale Transformation, reached fifth-tier body refinement, and later advanced your talisman mastery to the fifth tier.
• Heavenly Monarch Skycang died after visiting you to seek forgiveness, and you allowed the Ultimate Dao Pavilion to produce a Heavenly Monarch after five thousand years.
• Li Yan failed her Spirit Transformation breakthrough and died; Dachun later failed his fifth-tier breakthrough and died as well.
• You released the Void Whale Lord’s consciousness into reincarnation and erased its main consciousness, while the Human Realm awakened hidden reserves and produced additional Heavenly Monarchs; a thousand years after the battle, you ended your seclusion.

After a thousand years, you remained in early Spirit Transformation but grew stronger through fifth-tier body cultivation and awakened Blood-Drop Rebirth. As the Demon Abyss Realm’s invasion loomed, you set out to complete the Human Realm’s deep-sea defenses.

• You reflected on your slow cultivation and found that your fifth-tier body cultivation had awakened Blood-Drop Rebirth, which combined with Vital Blood to make you exceptionally hard to kill.
• You weighed ascending to the upper realm, resisting the Demon Abyss Realm, or joining it, and judged resistance the safest path for now.
• You drew a fifth-tier talisman using the hide of a fifth-tier Void Whale.
• True Lord Thousand Faces, True Lord Dark Talisman, and True Lord White Forest asked you to establish fifth-tier formation eyes for the sixty-nine deep-sea defensive lines.
• You agreed to oversee the defenses and used spatial shifts to arrive at the deep sea.

Zhou Qing completed the Sixty-Nine-Layer Defense Array and advanced to the fifth-tier late stage before the Demon Abyss Realm breached the spatial rift and launched its invasion. As the Human Realm’s six Heavenly Monarchs struggled against a vast host of Devil Lords, Zhou Qing began destroying them with overwhelming force.

• Zhou Qing completed more than three hundred formation nodes, integrating the Sixty-Nine-Layer Defense Array, and later advanced to the fifth-tier late stage.
• Zhou Qing announced that only Nascent Soul Grand Cultivators at the pinnacle of the late stage could attempt Spirit Transformation, and Heavenly Monarch Southern Cloud became the Human Realm’s sixth Heavenly Monarch.
• The spatial rift opened, and a Demon Abyss Banner began assimilating the Human Realm while the Demon Venerable sent its devils through.
• The six Heavenly Monarchs fought alongside the defense array, but numerous fifth-tier Devil Lords overwhelmed their position and forced them to consider retreating.
• Zhou Qing told the other Heavenly Monarchs to hold their opponents, then entered the battle and destroyed Devil Lords with successive punches, including a middle-stage Devil Lord.

Heavenly Monarch Azure Origin turned the Deep Sea battle against the Demon Abyss Realm, killing most of the invading fifth-tier Devil Lords and driving the survivors back. After returning to Heavenly Sword Peak to study Devil Lord blood essence and refine corpse materials, he received a visit from White Demon, an envoy seeking to negotiate on behalf of the Purgatory Demon Venerable.

• Maitreya Heavenly Monarch trapped a fleeing fifth-tier Devil Lord, and Heavenly Monarch Azure Origin killed him with a single punch before extracting and sealing his divine soul.
• Heavenly Monarch Azure Origin and the other Human Realm Heavenly Lords killed the fleeing Devil Lords and repelled the invasion, while only one early fifth-tier Devil Lord escaped to report back to the Demon Venerable.
• The White-Haired Devil and the Void Refinement Demon Venerable decided to try to recruit Heavenly Monarch Azure Origin rather than immediately deploy late fifth-tier Devil Lords.
• Heavenly Monarch Azure Origin claimed the middle fifth-tier Devil Lord corpses and half of the early fifth-tier corpses, then returned to Heavenly Sword Peak and refined a Devil Lord's blood essence to transform into an early fifth-tier Devil Lord for a month.
• White Demon, an avatar sent by the Purgatory Demon Venerable, reached Heavenly Sword Peak and presented a Black Token to request an audience with Heavenly Monarch Azure Origin.
• Heavenly Monarch Azure Origin recognized White Demon's true nature and allowed him in, and White Demon introduced himself as a subordinate of the Purgatory Demon Venerable.