Chapter Summaries

Ji Xiu won the Dragon Elephant Three Chiefs’ support as they defied the other Martial Saints and chose to enter the Boundary Gate to search for Xu Longxiang. Ji Xiu joined them, while events outside turned against the Dragon Elephant True Sect and left Northern Cang Marquis Xiao Pingnan alarmed by Ji Xiu’s disappearance.

• Shen Gang, Tuoba Yue, and Zheng Luo stood by Ji Xiu and rejected demands to surrender the Dragon Elephant True Sect’s foundation or abandon the Boundary Gate.
• Xu Youwei, Jiang Yue, and the other Dragon Elephant disciples declared their loyalty to the sect, and Tuoba Yue decided the Three Chiefs would investigate Central Yellow Heaven.
• Ji Xiu refused to stay behind, citing his protections and Purple Mansion, and followed the Three Chiefs into the Boundary Gate.
• Qin Shuhuo warned Gao Zheng and Ning Buyu that harming Xu Longxiang could draw the wrath of True Martial Mountain, then suggested they could exploit a crisis at the Boundary Gate.
• Several days later, Ji Xiu and the Three Chiefs entered through Earth Dragon Cave, while divine-armored troops arrived and Gao Zheng and Ning Buyu sealed the cave with a great restriction.
• Xiao Pingnan arrived in Anning County and reacted with alarm upon learning Ji Xiu had entered the Boundary Gate, while a furtive old man also made his way there.

Gao Zheng and Ning Buyu tried to seal Earth Dragon Cave with the Profound Monarch World Suppression Great Restriction, but Xiao Pingnan shattered it and led the Marquis’s troops into the Boundary Gate. Meanwhile, Wang Xuanyang knocked out the two Pseudo Martial Saints, while Ji Xiu and the Dragon Elephant chiefs were trapped at a Heaven Worship Platform as Xu Longxiang appeared poised to break through.

• Gao Zheng and Ning Buyu invoked the Great Restriction to seal Earth Dragon Cave, despite Luo Daocheng’s objections and their suspicions that Dragon Elephant True Sect might not return.
• Xiao Pingnan shattered the restriction with a spear, reclaimed military authority, and ordered his troops to charge into the Boundary Gate.
• Wang Xuanyang ambushed Gao Zheng and Ning Buyu, knocked them unconscious, and took their treasures before heading toward the Boundary Gate.
• Ji Xiu and the three Dragon Elephant chiefs reached the Heaven Worship Platform, where the Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Lord revealed that he had been told of their arrival and surrounded them with divine forces.
• As the Heaven Worship Platform trembled, Zheng Luo saw Xu Longxiang’s Life Lamp flare brighter and realized that his mentor was about to break through.

Xu Longxiang began breaking free from the Heaven Worship Platform by absorbing the power of the Vast Law Astral Thunder Holy Saint, while Xiao Pingnan's Marquis Guards arrived to turn the battle against Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Mansion. With the three chiefs protecting him, Ji Xiu seized the chance to slaughter Divine Armors and advance his Qi Refining foundation.

• Xu Longxiang awakened, began refining the astral thunder, and declared that he would destroy the Heaven Worship Platform and take Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Mansion.
• Tuoba Yue explained to Ji Xiu that Xu Longxiang was pursuing Titanhood, an existence above a Martial Saint and one step below the Human Realm Peak.
• Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Lord summoned the Vast Law Astral Thunder Holy Saint, but Xu Longxiang continued devouring the platform's power as Xiao Pingnan's Black Armor Marquis Guards entered the battlefield.
• Tuoba Yue identified the arriving army as Xiao Pingnan's personal guards, then Ji Xiu charged into the Divine Armors while the three chiefs followed as his protectors.
• Ji Xiu fought with Spirit Blade Long Day and his Jiazi Demon Subduing power, killing Divine Armors to strengthen his True Martial World Suppression Demon Subduing Profound Art.
• The Spirit Summoning Manifest Saint General recognized Ji Xiu as the young martial artist from Anning County, shocked by how much he had changed in half a year.

Ji Xiu fought the Spirit Summoning Manifest Saint General to complete his True Martial World Suppression Demon Subduing Profound Art and break through to Qi Refining Expert. With Chen Danding’s remnant empowering him through the saber plaque, Ji Xiu killed the general and formed the Jiazi Demon Subduing Qi Sea Phenomenon.

• Ji Xiu advanced across the battlefield under the protection of the Three Chiefs of Dragon Elephant while his Qi Path True Achievement neared completion.
• Ji Xiu confronted the weakened Spirit Summoning Manifest Saint General and asked the Three Chiefs not to intervene as he challenged him alone.
• Ji Xiu and the Spirit Summoning Manifest Saint General fought fiercely, and the general unleashed a secret art that raised his strength to the Sect Master level.
• Chen Danding’s remnant appeared through the glowing saber plaque and joined Ji Xiu in unleashing a saber strike that killed the Spirit Summoning Manifest Saint General.
• Ji Xiu fully cultivated the Profound Art, advanced to Qi Refining Expert, and attained the Jiazi Demon Subduing Qi Sea Phenomenon.

Ji Xiu defeated the Guardian General and broke through to become a Qi Refining Expert with a Summit Qi Sea, while his allies recognized the weight of his inherited saber plaque and his potential. As the battle ended, Xu Longxiang emerged after forging a Human Immortal Foundation and charged toward the Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Mansion, vowing to destroy it and drag it back to Great Xuan.

• Shen Gang recognized Ji Xiu’s saber plaque as a recommendation bearing the name of Chen Danding, a fallen Titan of the Saber Dao Ancestral Temple, and Tuoba Yue dismissed concerns about the old debts it might bring.
• Tuoba Yue realized Ji Xiu could resolve Xu Longxiang’s long-standing grievances with True Martial Mountain and the fallen Sun Moon Pavilion.
• Ji Xiu drew spiritual energy from heaven and earth, manifested the Jiazi Demon Subduing phenomenon, and completed his breakthrough into a Qi Refining Expert.
• The Northern Cang Marquis’s guards crushed most of the Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Temple’s forces, while Xiao Pingnan decided he would help his daughter win Ji Xiu as a husband.
• Xu Longxiang burst from the Heaven Worship Giant Platform after forging a Human Immortal Foundation and claiming the title of Titan.
• Xu Longxiang flew toward the Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Mansion, vowing to kill its Divine Lord and drag the entire Divine Manor into Great Xuan.

Xu Longxiang emerged from sixty years of seclusion as a Martial Arts Overlord and joined Xiao Pingnan in leading the North Cang Army to seize the Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Mansion. As their forces advanced, the disoriented Wang Xuanyang entered the Divine Temple, swallowed a divine thought, and attacked the Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Lord.

• Xu Longxiang emerged from the shattered Heaven Worship Giant Platform, revealed his breakthrough, and asked Xiao Pingnan to help drag the Divine Mansion into Great Xuan.
• Xu Longxiang explained that the Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Lord had seized his disciple's remains and plotted against his sect, and he vowed to guard the territory himself.
• Xiao Pingnan agreed to join Xu Longxiang, and the North Cang Army rallied behind them and marched toward the Divine Temple.
• The Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Lord mourned the destruction of his Guardian Generals and prepared to destroy Xu Longxiang's disciple's remains.
• Wang Xuanyang wandered into the temple, swallowed a divine thought, and attacked the Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Lord with his Wooden Saber.

Ji Xiu and Xiao Pingnan entered the Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Temple and discovered that Wang Xuanyang had defeated its Divine Lord and was merging the Divine Manor into Great Xuan. Wang Xuanyang revealed himself as Ji Xiu’s grandmaster, gave him the Divine Lord’s Heavenly Eye, and named him the future Manor Lord.

• Xiao Pingnan explained that a Divine Lord depended on his temple and incense offerings, then told Ji Xiu that Xiao Mingli had asked him to look after him.
• Xu Longxiang and the Three Chiefs opened the temple gates and found Wang Xuanyang amid the bodies of the Divine Lord’s followers, with the Divine Lord’s statue nearly destroyed.
• Wang Xuanyang rose and used Human Immortal Martial Path fate to strip the Divine Manor from the Divine Dao Network and merge it through the Boundary Gate into Great Xuan.
• Wang Xuanyang pointed Xu Longxiang toward his disciple’s coffin, and Tuoba Yue confirmed the remains inside, repaying Xu Longxiang’s past favor.
• Wang Xuanyang recognized Ji Xiu as his grandson and explained that Chen Danding’s saber plaque held a method that could help him break the Four Limits of the Martial Dao Treasure Body.
• Wang Xuanyang gave Ji Xiu the Divine Lord’s Heavenly Eye, said it might awaken a Human Immortal trait, and promised to make him the first Manor Lord of the Heavenly Saber lineage’s new fief.

Wang Xuanyang and Xu Longxiang recovered Ye Wenjiang’s remains and confronted the weakened Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Lord. Ji Xiu used the Spirit Refining Scroll to trap the Divine Lord in his Purple Palace, beginning a ninety-day refinement that promised to strengthen his divine soul.

• Ji Xiu received the Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Lord’s Heavenly Eye as Northern Cang Marquis Xiao Pingnan and the Dragon Elephant True Sect chiefs marveled at Wang Xuanyang’s power.
• Xu Longxiang recognized Wang Xuanyang and recovered Ye Wenjiang’s remains, then privately resolved to teach Ji Xiu a powerful True Sect martial art so Wang Xuanyang would not win him over.
• Wang Xuanyang struck the Divine Lord’s statue and proposed taking him back to the sect to replenish Ji Xiu’s divine soul.
• Ji Xiu revealed that he possessed the Spirit Refining Scroll and could devour the Divine Lord’s remaining origin himself.
• Ji Xiu activated the Spirit Refining Scroll and pulled the Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Lord into his Great Dao Purple Palace, where his Origin Spirit suppressed him.
• The Primordial Dao Talisman began a ninety-day refinement, with the Divine Lord’s Dao practice set to advance Ji Xiu’s divine soul toward the Out-of-Body realm.

Ji Xiu absorbed the Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Lord’s soul, prompting Wang Xuanyang and Xu Longxiang to argue over which Martial Dao Treasure Body he should cultivate. Xiao Pingnan offered him a matching-rank inheritance and proposed a marriage to Xiao Mingli, while the Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Mansion descended into Anning County.

• Ji Xiu sealed the Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Lord’s soul in his Purple Mansion and learned that refining it could advance his Dao cultivation toward Origin Spirit Out of Body.
• Wang Xuanyang urged Ji Xiu to study Chen Danding’s Martial Dao Remnant Will and seek the Saber Dao Ancestral Temple’s Treasure Body inheritance.
• Xu Longxiang proposed that Ji Xiu cultivate True Martial Mountain’s Demon Subduing King Physique, and Wang Xuanyang argued that his lineage held an equally high-ranked Treasure Body.
• Xiao Pingnan offered Ji Xiu a matching-rank Treasure Body inheritance and proposed that he marry Xiao Mingli, making him the Young Marquis of the Northern Cang Marquis Residence.
• The Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Mansion passed through a Boundary Gate and descended into Anning County, shaking the Earth Dragon Cave.

The Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Mansion was pulled from Central Yellow Heaven into Great Xuan, and Xiao Pingnan and his companions returned through Earth Dragon Cave. Wang Xuanyang arranged Ji Xiu’s match with Xiao Mingli, while Ji Xiu faced the officials and Martial Saints who had previously tried to force him to submit.

• Gao Zheng and Ning Buyu discussed losing their authority and treasures, then sensed a powerful change in the land around Earth Dragon Cave.
• Qin Shuhuo arrived and led Gao Zheng and Ning Buyu to investigate as the Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Mansion became part of Great Xuan.
• Xiao Pingnan, Ji Xiu, Xu Longxiang, Wang Xuanyang, and the others returned to Great Xuan with the newly relocated Divine Mansion.
• Ji Xiu weighed the dangers tied to his connections with Jiang Li and Xiao Mingli, while Wang Xuanyang insisted on arranging Ji Xiu’s engagement to Xiao Mingli.
• Ji Xiu and Xu Longxiang returned to Anning County and encountered the Jiangyin Prefecture investigators and three Martial Saints, backed by Tuoba Yue, Xiao Pingnan, Xu Longxiang, and Wang Xuanyang.

Xu Longxiang returned from the Divine Manor as a Titan, while Wang Xuanyang revealed that he had conquered and brought the manor into Great Xuan. As Xu Longxiang moved to punish Gao Zheng and Ning Buyu for targeting the Dragon Elephant True Sect, Marquis Lord Chen Xuanque intervened, and Ji Xiu recognized him as the mysterious man from the Jiangyin Black Market.

• The Dragon Elephant disciples rejoiced when Xu Longxiang, the Three Chiefs, and Ji Xiu emerged safely from the Divine Manor, and Qin Shuhuo recognized that Xu Longxiang had become a Titan.
• Gao Zheng and Ning Buyu apologized to Xu Longxiang, but Wang Xuanyang revealed that he had conquered the Divine Manor and rebuked them for crediting someone else.
• Gao Ye angrily threatened the Prefecture Academy talents who mocked him as the Danshan Gao Clan's patriarch bowed to the Dragon Elephant True Sect.
• Xu Longxiang struck Gao Zheng and Ning Buyu, accused them of conspiring with God Spawn against the Dragon Elephant Three Chiefs, and prepared to finish them off.
• Qin Shuhuo presented the Marquis's command token, summoning Chen Xuanque, who called for Xu Longxiang to wait.
• Ji Xiu recognized Chen Xuanque as the mysterious man who had once bowed his head beneath Jiang Li in the Jiangyin Black Market, and Chen Xuanque noticed Ji Xiu.

Northern Cang Marquis Xiao Pingnan reported that Wang Xuanyang and Xu Longxiang had earned the most merit in conquering the Divine Manor, while Gao Zheng and Ning Buyu had colluded with its Divine Lord. Chen Xuanque overruled Qin Baisheng’s attempt to limit Wang Xuanyang’s reward, promoted Heavenly Saber Sect to a True Sect, and invited Ji Xiu to accompany him to White Jade Capital.

• Xiao Pingnan presented the gathered dignitaries with his account of the conquest and called for Gao Zheng and Ning Buyu to be punished while Wang Xuanyang and Xu Longxiang were rewarded.
• Qin Baisheng argued that Gao Zheng and Ning Buyu should be investigated later and urged Wang Xuanyang to return home rather than oversee the new prefecture.
• Chen Xuanque rejected Qin Baisheng’s proposal and declared that Wang Xuanyang would name the new prefecture and that Heavenly Saber Sect would be promoted to a True Sect.
• Chen Xuanque praised Ji Xiu’s Purple Palace and qi path, then invited him to visit White Jade Capital when Chen entered the Cabinet.

Ji Xiu refused Marquis Chen Xuanque’s offer to take him to White Jade Capital unless it came from Jiang Li, earning the Marquis’s admiration and a promise to celebrate his future examination success. After the command token vanished, Xu Longxiang killed Gao Zheng and Ning Buyu, then led the Dragon Elephant disciples to raid the clans and sect tied to them.

• Chen Xuanque offered to bring Ji Xiu to White Jade Capital, but Ji Xiu refused unless the invitation came from Jiang Li, whose past help he felt bound to repay.
• Chen Xuanque praised Ji Xiu’s spirit, wrote him a Marquis’s Inscription, and promised to send it to Jiangyin if Ji Xiu won first place in the Prefecture Official examinations.
• After the command token disappeared, Xu Longxiang stopped Gao Zheng and Ning Buyu as they tried to flee and beat them into submission.
• Qin Shuhuo declined to interfere and left for North Cang, acknowledging the Heavenly Saber School and Heavenly Saber True Sect’s claim to the New Prefecture.
• Xu Longxiang killed Gao Zheng and Ning Buyu, then ordered the Dragon Elephant disciples to raid their clan and sect for three days.
• Wang Xuanyang urged Ji Xiu to return and study the secret treasure left by his master, and Ji Xiu agreed to go see what it could teach him.

Chen Xuanque defended the Heavenly Saber True Sect’s authority over the newly established prefecture, while Ji Xiu dealt with the aftermath of the Danshan Gao Clan and Heavenly Water Sword Sect’s destruction. Ji Xiu then met Chen Danding’s remnant, who offered him a choice between swiftly pursuing Martial Saint status and forging an Unparalleled Foundation.

• Qin Baisheng, the Yuwen Clan, and the Dugu Clan challenged Chen Xuanque’s decision to let Wang Xuanyang’s Heavenly Saber True Sect govern the new prefecture, but Chen Xuanque proposed that top candidates in the coming Prefecture Official Examination be sent there as officials.
• Chen Xuanque reflected that the upcoming examination would be merged across states because of the Boundary Gate in the Eastern Cang Sea and Water Lord’s Manor’s plans, and that first place could earn Ji Xiu a nomination on the Young Dragon Tablet.
• Ji Xiu returned to Ji Residence, where Old Yao told him that Xu Longxiang had killed Gao Zheng and Ning Buyu, then led the Dragon Elephant True Sect in wiping out their factions and confiscating their holdings.
• After learning that the two factions had seized businesses and property in Anning County, Ji Xiu summoned the affected owners and promised that the Heavenly Saber True Sect would give them justice if their claims were legitimate.
• Ji Xiu entered to study Chen Danding’s saber inscription and encountered the Martial Dao Remnant Will, who offered to help him condense Martial Saint True Intent or let him temper his five viscera and forge an Unparalleled Foundation.

Ji Xiu met Chen Danding’s remnant thought within the Saber Plaque and learned about the Saber Dao Ancestral Temple’s legendary figures, Zhou Chongyang and Wang Quan Wumu. Chen Danding offered Ji Xiu a choice of inheritances, and Ji Xiu’s response to the Wang Quan Treasure Body revealed a startling connection to an Innate Dao Body.

• Chen Danding explained that he was a remnant thought and that Ji Xiu alone qualified to receive the Saber Plaque’s inheritance.
• Chen Danding recounted how Zhou Chongyang became the Saber Dao Ancestral Temple’s peerless Blade Court Master and ranked first among the Human Realm Peaks.
• Chen Danding offered Ji Xiu the choice of inheriting his Martial Saint Remnant or pursuing the Wang Quan Treasure Body.
• Chen Danding revealed that Wang Quan Wumu had an Innate Dao Body and created the Great Five Decays Sky Saber and Reincarnation Heavenly Art.
• Ji Xiu detected Divine Essence within the Wang Quan Treasure Body and began comprehending it, leaving Chen Danding stunned by what he recognized as the Human Immortal Primal Embryo.

Ji Xiu used the Primordial Dao Talisman to advance the Wang Quan Treasure Body into the Human Immortal Primal Embryo and entered a Yellow Millet Dream as Wang Quan Wumu. The dream brought him to the Saber Dao Ancestral Temple, where Zhou Chongyang offered to accept him as a disciple on his master's behalf, while the advancement revealed the five treasures he needed to forge to overcome his failing body.

• Ji Xiu learned that the Wang Quan Treasure Body could be advanced into the Innate Dao Body known as the Human Immortal Primal Embryo.
• Ji Xiu used Yellow Millet Dream to enter the past and discover that he had become Wang Quan Wumu, an ailing youth from the Wang Quan Family in Western Qi.
• The man beside Ji Xiu named him Wang Quan Wumu and brought him to the Saber Dao Ancestral Temple, where he intended to accept him as a disciple on his master's behalf.
• Zhou Chongyang stepped toward the temple, and its countless sabers rang as its disciples hailed him as the Saber Master.
• The Primordial Dao Talisman confirmed the advancement and revealed that Wang Quan Wumu needed five Five Elements Rare Treasures to forge his Five Viscera Secret Treasures and save his failing body.

Ji Xiu awakened the power of his Human Immortal Primal Embryo and instinctively drew in the Saber Dao Ancestral Temple’s dangerous Thousand-Peak Absolute Blade Qi to forge his Heart Treasure. As the temple’s masters watched, Zhou Chongyang revealed Ji Xiu’s Innate Dao Body and accepted him as his junior brother on behalf of his own master; Ji Xiu’s breakthrough then stirred the thirty-six ancient sabers on the peak.

• Ji Xiu’s Human Immortal Primal Embryo awakened, and its immense blood and qi strained against the restraints Zhou Chongyang had placed on it.
• Under the crushing pressure, Ji Xiu instinctively absorbed the Thousand-Peak Absolute Blade Qi and began tempering the Heart Treasure among his Five Viscera Secret Treasures.
• Zhou Chongyang and the Seven Halls Five Courtyards masters saw Ji Xiu’s unusual cultivation, and several proposed taking him as a disciple.
• Zhou Chongyang declared that Ji Xiu possessed an Innate Dao Body and accepted Wang Quan Wumu as his junior brother on behalf of the previous Blade Court Master.
• Ji Xiu’s heart ignited with true fire and saber intent, causing the thirty-six personal sabers on the mountaintop to stir and several to fly toward him.

In the Yellow Millet Dream, Ji Xiu drew five Title God Sabers, broke open his Heart Treasure, and unconsciously created the Great Five Decays Sky Saber. He returned to Chen Danding with a new Heart Treasure and the saber Wang Quan, leaving his mentor stunned by his progress toward the Human Immortal Primal Embryo.

• Five Title God Sabers flew from Thousand-Peak Absolute Cliff and circled Ji Xiu as he cultivated at the Saber Dao Ancestral Temple.
• Ji Xiu used the sabers’ manifestations and his Innate Dao Body to break open his Heart Treasure and create the first form of the Great Five Decays Sky Saber.
• Ji Xiu named the ancient saber Wang Quan and learned that his body could not survive past sixteen, while Zhou Chongyang promised to recognize his saber art as an orthodox inheritance if he perfected it.
• The Primordial Dao Talisman recorded Ji Xiu’s first Heart Treasure, and the Yellow Millet Dream began to fade before he could hear a secret about First Ancestor Ren Chunqiu.
• Ji Xiu awoke before Chen Danding, who saw the Heart Treasure and Wang Quan phantom within him and realized Ji Xiu had deduced the Human Immortal Primal Embryo.

Ji Xiu learned that the martial body he had begun forging might be Ancestor Wang Quan’s Human Immortal Primal Embryo, and Chen Danding urged him to conceal it and someday reunite the scattered Saber Court. Ji Xiu accepted the ambition of rebuilding the Saber Court, then prepared to return to Golden Turtle Island as the Heavenly Saber lineage approached its advancement to a True Sect.

• Chen Danding questioned Ji Xiu about what he had comprehended from the Wang Quan Treasure Body, and Ji Xiu described a vision of five inner treasuries and a divine saber that opened his Heart Treasure.
• Chen Danding warned Ji Xiu to claim he was cultivating the Wang Quan Treasure Body and said his true path might be the Human Immortal Primal Embryo.
• Chen Danding recounted the Saber Court’s collapse and urged Ji Xiu to unite its scattered branches and become its true ruler.
• Ji Xiu embraced the goal of rebuilding the Saber Court, while remembering that he first needed to pass the Prefectural Examination.
• Chen Danding left his Martial Saint True Intent to Ji Xiu, and the Primordial Dao Talisman recorded the first of five Heart Treasures and a one-month wait before Yellow Millet Dream could be used again.
• The next day, Ji Xiu prepared to travel to Golden Turtle Island as the Heavenly Saber lineage neared its advancement to a True Sect.

At Sunken Mountain, the Divine Weapon Altar’s ancient saber awakened and revealed itself as the Wang Quan Saber, while Ji Xiu received its saber intent in the Eastern Cang Sea. The infusion perfected his Heavenly Saber Second Form and brought him closer to opening the Human Immortal Primal Embryo’s second hidden treasury.

• Zuo Longshe rushed to suppress the awakening ancient saber, but its heat badly burned his palm.
• The saber revealed the characters “Wang Quan,” broke its chains, and shed its rust as Zuo Longshe recognized it as Wang Quan Wumu’s saber.
• Zuo Longshe ordered his disciples to summon the Titans and altar masters to stop the Wang Quan Saber from leaving Sunken Mountain.
• Ji Xiu rode Lord Cangming across the Eastern Cang Sea and prepared to catch a spirit fish for Xiao Mingli.
• A golden beam struck Ji Xiu and infused him with Wang Quan Saber Intent, completing his Great Five Decays Sky Saber comprehension and perfecting his Heavenly Saber Second Form.