Chapter Summaries

Ji Xiu returned to Jiangyin Prefecture after gaining a powerful saber inheritance and invited Lord Cangming to the Heavenly Saber True Sect’s advancement ceremony. As he prepared to become the saber lineage’s Dao Child, he reached out to old friends and acquaintances, while Lord Cangming secretly headed for the Water Lord’s Manor to report his marriage alliance rumors to Bai Shuo.

• Ji Xiu told Lord Cangming that his patriarch Wang Xuanyang had become guardian of a New Prefecture and invited him to the Heavenly Saber True Sect advancement ceremony.
• Lord Cangming misunderstood Ji Xiu’s marriage prospects, then decided to travel to the Water Lord’s Manor and inform Bai Shuo.
• Zhao Ding urged Zhao Jiu to use his friendship with Ji Xiu to seek a position, and Ji Xiu’s letter invited Zhao Jiu to the ceremony and offered him work in the New Prefecture.
• Cai Shoujing lamented the demands Wang Xuanyang had placed on the Great Merchants, while Cai Ling'er felt wistful about her former connection with Ji Xiu.
• Ji Xiu sent invitations to old acquaintances and benefactors, including the Northern Cang Marquis Residence, Ye Ningzhi, Old Man Huang, Yellow Medicine Master, and Zheng Jun.
• Ji Xiu arrived at Golden Turtle Island and found that it had changed greatly.

Ji Xiu arrived at the Heavenly Saber Sect’s crowded advancement ceremony preparations and saw through Zhuang Qi’s scheme to win his favor. He gave Zhuang Qi a chance to earn admission through the assessment, then joined Qin Zhuo as Wang Xuanyang asked the Saber Dao Ancestral Temple elders to judge his chief disciple.

• Ji Xiu saw wealthy candidates crowding Golden Turtle Island to seek places in the Heavenly Saber True Sect and its martial hall.
• Zhuang Qi told Ji Xiu he had narrowly avoided the destruction of the Heavenly Water Sword Sect and praised Ji Xiu’s standing, while an accomplice mocked his chances of admission.
• Locals recognized Ji Xiu as the appointed Dao Child, and Zhuang Qi’s accomplice immediately apologized for insulting him.
• Ji Xiu exposed Zhuang Qi’s staged attempt to befriend him, but offered to return his family’s apprenticeship gifts and invited him to compete fairly for admission.
• Ji Xiu and Qin Zhuo entered the Heavenly Saber grounds, while Wang Xuanyang asked the Saber Dao Ancestral Temple elders how his chief disciple had turned out.

Ji Xiu returned to the Heavenly Saber True Sect and revealed that he had begun cultivating the Wang Quan Treasure Body, giving Wang Xuanyang leverage as he tried to unite the scattered heirs of the Saber Dao Ancestral Temple. When several guests rejected his invitation, Wang Xuanyang demanded they pay Earth Treasures or Upper Third Rank Dao Pills before leaving.

• Qin Zhuo told Ji Xiu that Wang Xuanyang and Duan Chenzhou were meeting saber-bearing guests, and Ji Xiu entered the Heavenly Saber Hall at Wang Xuanyang’s invitation.
• Elder Chen recognized Ji Xiu’s signs of a treasure body, and Ji Xiu revealed enough of the Wang Quan Treasure Body to astonish the saber masters.
• Wang Xuanyang invited the guests to join the Heavenly Saber True Sect and help restore the Saber Dao Ancestral Temple’s legacy.
• Duan Heng and Luo Yuan rejected Wang Xuanyang’s invitation, and most of the other guests prepared to leave.
• Hu Mao delivered Marquis Chen’s decree establishing Heavenly Saber Prefecture and naming the Heavenly Saber True Sect its guardian.
• Wang Xuanyang demanded Earth Treasures or Upper Third Rank Dao Pills from everyone who had risen to leave.

Wang Xuanyang used the promise of rare Martial Dao Treasure Bodies and Chen Danding’s testimony to persuade Duan Heng and Luo Yuan to leave their sons in the Heavenly Saber True Sect. As the sect’s advancement ceremony approached, Ji Xiu refined the Heavenly Eye, and the Sage’s Manifestation appeared beneath an eclipse-like darkness.

• Duan Heng and Luo Yuan challenged Wang Xuanyang after he demanded treasures and proposed taking their sons as disciples.
• Wang Xuanyang revealed the Chongyang Jade Body and offered Duan Cheng and Luo Xin a chance to forge it.
• Chen Danding manifested from the Saber Plaque, vouched for Wang Xuanyang, declared that Wang Quan Wumu still lived, and left the Wang Quan inscription and his remnant consciousness behind.
• Duan Heng and Luo Yuan left Duan Cheng and Luo Xin in the sect, while Chen Sanjiu also asked to join; the next day, seven names were added to the inner disciple roster.
• Ji Xiu entered seclusion to refine the Heavenly Eye, and more than ten days later the seventh-month advancement ceremony began with a Sage’s Manifestation and an eclipse-like omen.

Ji Xiu advanced his origin spirit to Day Travel and refined the Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Lord’s Heavenly Eye into the Human Immortal Grand Artifact of Double Pupils. At the Heavenly Saber True Sect’s promotion ceremony, his new power revealed an omen like that of a Great House descendant, leaving the crowd wondering whether he would ascend the Young Dragon Tablet.

• Ji Xiu used the Primordial Dao Talisman to refine the Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Lord and advanced his origin spirit from Night Travel to Day Travel.
• Ji Xiu swallowed the Divine Lord’s Heavenly Eye and refined its power into his body, while the imprisoned Divine Lord hoped the process would kill him.
• After several hours, Ji Xiu awakened with Double Pupils, terrifying the Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Lord.
• Guests from the Ten Thousand Methods Sect, Flying Immortal Temple, the Jade Universe Xie Family, the Northern Cang Marquis Residence, and other groups arrived for the Heavenly Saber lineage’s promotion ceremony.
• At the ceremony, Ji Xiu opened his Double Pupils and dispelled a celestial omen, convincing the gathered guests that he possessed a Human Immortal Grand Artifact and bloodline comparable to a Great House descendant.

Ji Xiu emerged from seclusion with manifested Double Pupils and opened his second Secret Treasure as the Heavenly Saber True Sect held its founding ceremony. He reunited with Ji Wei, promised to restore Xiao Mingli’s health, and the chapter ended with Wang Xuanyang officially establishing the sect.

• Crimson Scenery Daoist witnessed the Heavenly Dog Devouring the Sun and used Six Yao Numerology to recognize Ji Xiu’s Double Pupils, then replaced his gifts with the Three Yuan Qiankun Mirror.
• Ji Xiu emerged from seclusion after opening his second Secret Treasure and met Ji Wei, who greeted him and was welcomed into the Heavenly Saber True Sect by Wang Xuanyang.
• Ji Xiu introduced Ji Wei to the sect’s members, and Xie Fuyun gave her a spirit artifact as a meeting gift.
• Ji Wei teased Xiao Mingli about being Ji Xiu’s fiancée, and Ji Xiu promised to find a Heavenly Material and help restore her health.
• Xiao Mingli told Ji Xiu not to let their marriage agreement bind him, but Ji Xiu took her hand and reaffirmed that he would find a way to cure her.
• Wang Xuanyang raised his saber and proclaimed the establishment of the Heavenly Saber True Sect.

After the ascension ceremony, Xiao Mingli rejected her father’s plan to bind her to Ji Xiu through marriage, while Ji Xiu declined Crimson Scenery Daoist’s offer to join Dipper Pivot True Mansion. Ji Xiu then asked about Jiang Jing and learned that the name belonged to the All Laws Impermanent Dao Lord from nine hundred years ago.

• Xiao Pingnan urged Xiao Mingli to secure a marriage agreement with Ji Xiu, but she refused to involve him in her conflict with the Jade Universe Xie Family.
• Xiao Mingli asked Xiao Pingnan to seek a martial secret art for Ji Xiu’s Double Pupils through Chen Xuanque’s connections in White Jade Capital.
• Crimson Scenery Daoist offered Ji Xiu a True Inheritance position at Dipper Pivot True Mansion and promised to arrange Ji Wei’s cultivation there, but Ji Xiu declined.
• Ji Xiu asked Crimson Scenery Daoist about the Mystic Talisman Sect and mentioned Jiang Jing, causing the Daoist to react with surprise.
• Crimson Scenery Daoist identified Jiang Jing as the All Laws Impermanent Dao Lord from nine hundred years earlier, leaving Ji Xiu stunned.

Ji Xiu learned that All Laws Impermanent Dao Lord Jiang Jing had ended the human-devil catastrophe nine centuries ago, and that Jiang Jing's Origin Mansion might soon emerge during the North Cang Prefecture Official Examination. As Ji Xiu left to meet a visitor connected to Old Man Huang, Crimson Scenery Daoist's divination revealed an outcome that left him stunned.

• Crimson Scenery Daoist told Ji Xiu that All Laws Impermanent Dao Lord Jiang Jing was connected to his past life as Jiang Jing and that Jiang Jing had ended a catastrophe caused by human devils.
• Crimson Scenery Daoist explained that the coming All Heavens Return to One would bring chaos and that human devils cultivated through Abyssal Ruins aura while secretly spreading disorder.
• Crimson Scenery Daoist said Ji Xiu's Prefecture Official Examination would likely involve a newly emerging Origin Mansion belonging to Jiang Jing, and Ji Xiu wondered if it could give him a chance to revisit Jiang Jing's life.
• Crimson Scenery Daoist completed his Six Yao Numerology calculation and anticipated that Ji Xiu's fortune would help him advance to True Person.
• A disciple told Ji Xiu that Zheng Jun, a disciple of the Anning County Medicine Hall and an acquaintance of Old Man Huang, had come to see him, so Ji Xiu left to meet him.
• Crimson Scenery Daoist examined the completed divination and sprang up in disbelief at what it revealed.

Zheng Jun reached the Heavenly Saber gates to ask Ji Xiu for help after the Medicine Trade seized Yellow Medicine Master. Ji Xiu set out to confront the Medicine Trade, while Crimson Scenery Daoist’s divination revealed that Ji Xiu possessed four extraordinary fate signs and convinced him to become Ji Xiu’s Dao Protector.

• Zheng Jun recalled how Yellow Medicine Master had helped Ji Xiu and explained that the Medicine Trade had taken his master because of his house-born slave status.
• Ji Xiu welcomed Zheng Jun, asked after Yellow Medicine Master, and promised to go with him to confront the Medicine Trade.
• Ji Xiu boarded a Heavenly Saber warship and headed for Jiangyin Ferry to challenge Huang Ai over Yellow Medicine Master’s seizure.
• Crimson Scenery Daoist divined Ji Xiu’s fate signs: Divine Power Saint, Human Immortal Fetus, Celestial Master Degree, and Black Emperor.
• Crimson Scenery Daoist decided that Ji Xiu was his Dao and vowed to protect him, even if the Heavenly King came.

Ji Xiu intervened when Huang Shao tried to force Yellow Medicine Master to test an unstable Buddhist spiritual balm, then used his standing to demand compensation from the Medicine Trade. The chapter ended with Ji Xiu proposing that Yellow Medicine Master replace Huang Ai as a Jiangyin Nine Elders Medicine Trade Master, while a black-scaled wyrm arrived at Water Lord’s Manor.

• Huang Shao brought Yellow Medicine Master back to the Medicine Trade and prepared to force him to test an unstable dose of Pure Lands Paradise Balm.
• Huang Ai arrived with Jiang Nian and Great Vehicle Boundless Temple masters after learning Ji Xiu had come to demand accountability.
• Ji Xiu used his Double Pupils to injure Huang Shao, then stomped him to death when Huang Shao appealed to Jiang Nian, who disclaimed any connection to him.
• Ji Xiu greeted Yellow Medicine Master as his former alchemy master and demanded that the Medicine Trade recompense him for his mistreatment.
• Ji Xiu proposed that Yellow Medicine Master take Huang Ai’s position among the Jiangyin Nine Elders, leaving Huang Ai frozen in shock.
• A black-scaled wyrm with a vertical pupil arrived at Water Lord’s Manor in the Eastern Cang Sea.

Bai Shuo learned that Ji Xiu had risen rapidly and might marry Xiao Mingli, but she set aside her romantic feelings and focused on pursuing her own ambitions. Lord Cangming declined her offer to return to Water Lord's Manor, while Ji Xiu rewarded Yellow Medicine Master and prepared to attend Jiang Nian's banquet.

• Bai Shuo forged the Candle Dragon Dharma Body and planned to enter the trial in the Primal Palace Grotto-Heaven to seek an inheritance and advance her standing in Water Lord's Manor.
• Lord Cangming told Bai Shuo about Ji Xiu's rise and Xiao Mingli's interest in marrying him, and Bai Shuo decided not to let the news distract her from her path.
• Bai Shuo offered to vouch for Lord Cangming so he could return to Water Lord's Manor, but he chose to keep serving Ji Xiu instead.
• Ji Xiu gave Yellow Medicine Master a Cold Core Treasure Vine, a pill-making scripture, a Purple Mansion True Art, and a share of the Medicine Trade's authority and proceeds.
• Ji Xiu left Yellow Medicine Master in Zheng Jun's care and prepared to attend Jiang Nian's banquet to discuss cooperation.

Ji Xiu attended a banquet hosted by Jiang Nian, where the Great Vehicle Boundless Temple proposed selling Pure Lands Paradise Balm in Heavenly Saber Prefecture. Ji Xiu detected a trace of an ancient thought in the balm and refused to cooperate, while Jiang Nian and the temple’s Dashi secretly planned to spread the faith and restore the Great Vehicle Boundless Bodhisattva; Ji Xiu returned to Golden Turtle Island and entered the Yellow Millet Dream to advance his cultivation.

• Su Huarong led Ji Xiu to the Delicacies Trade’s top floor, where Jiang Nian welcomed him and introduced two Dashi from the Great Vehicle Formless Temple.
• Danyuan Dashi proposed that the Heavenly Saber True Sect help sell Pure Lands Paradise Balm in Heavenly Saber Prefecture in exchange for half the profits.
• Ji Xiu examined the balm with his Double Pupil, sensed an ancient thought within it, and rejected the proposed cooperation.
• After Ji Xiu left, Kinkui Dashi revealed that the balm carried the thought of the fallen Great Vehicle Boundless Bodhisattva, and Jiang Nian said they would seek other allies to prepare for the Bodhisattva’s return.
• Ji Xiu decided to tell his Grandmaster about the danger, then activated the Yellow Millet Dream to continue advancing his Human Immortal Primal Embryo.

Ji Xiu returned to Wang Quan Wumu’s dream, refined the Wang Quan Saber, and learned that Wumu’s body had only three months left unless he could break its limits. He met the young Jiang Li at the Saber Dao Ancestral Temple, where the Primordial Dao Talisman revealed her orthodox Double Pupil art, the Profound Sky Heavenly Eye.

• Ji Xiu awakened on Thousand-Ren Peak and absorbed Wang Quan Wumu’s memories as he refined the ancient saber into the Wang Quan Saber.
• The old saber wielder explained that Wumu had opened two of his Five Viscera Secret Treasures but was bound by a lifespan shackle that left him only three months.
• The old saber wielder went down the mountain to confront the Wang Quan clan lord, who had come to take Wumu away.
• Ji Xiu wondered whether the Wang Quan Saber existed in the Real World before a young Jiang Li arrived at the Blade Wall.
• Ji Xiu introduced himself to Jiang Li, who explained that she had fled north after her maternal clan’s offense left her stripped of status and accused.
• The Primordial Dao Talisman revealed Jiang Li’s Profound Sky Heavenly Eye and asked whether Ji Xiu wanted to advance it in advance.

Ji Xiu claimed the Profound Sky Heavenly Eye’s Profound Insight Forbidden Art, revealing his Double Pupils to Jiang Li and deepening her suspicions about his inheritance. At the Saber Dao Ancestral Temple, he rejected his father’s demand to return to the Wang Quan Family and refused his betrothed Jiang Shu, who remembered his blunt rejection.

• Ji Xiu advanced his claim to the Profound Insight Forbidden Art, and Jiang Li recognized his Double Pupils and the Jiang Xuan Imperial Clan’s secret art.
• Jiang Yunya arrived with the Body Refining Hall Master, who explained Ji Xiu’s Human Immortal Primal Embryo and summoned him to meet his senior brother.
• Wang Quan Jing urged Zhou Chongyang to return Ji Xiu to the Wang Quan Family, but Zhou Chongyang left the choice to Ji Xiu.
• Ji Xiu declared that he would remain at the Saber Dao Ancestral Temple and leave his family’s past behind.
• Jiang Shu asked about her marriage pact with Ji Xiu, and he refused her, saying that he did not like her.

Ji Xiu urged Zhou Chongyang to shelter the hunted Jiang Li, and Zhou agreed to protect her from the Profound Monarch’s decree. Jiang Li swore a blood pact with Ji Xiu, leaving Jiang Shu jealous and convinced he favored Jiang Li.

• Wang Quan Jing challenged Ji Xiu for rejecting the Wang Quan family, but Old Saber Boss revealed suspicions that Wang Quan Zhenyue planned to seize Wang Quan Wumu’s body and declared Wumu the Saber Court’s rightful lineage.
• Old Saber Boss threatened Wang Quan Zhenyue with his perfected Titan Dharmakaya, and Wang Quan Jing left without pressing the matter further.
• Jiang Shu suspected her family intended her marriage to serve Wang Quan Zhenyue’s body-seizing scheme, then felt grateful that Ji Xiu had rejected the engagement.
• Jiang Wuya asked Zhou Chongyang to shelter Jiang Li, whom the Profound Monarch had ordered killed, and Zhou asked Ji Xiu for his opinion.
• Ji Xiu recommended protecting Jiang Li, and Zhou Chongyang agreed to shelter her while asking her to remember Ji Xiu’s goodwill if she later took the throne.
• Jiang Li swore a blood pact with Ji Xiu, while Jiang Shu grew jealous and believed he had rejected her because he favored Jiang Li.

While cultivating as Wang Quan Wumu in the Yellow Millet Dream, Ji Xiu advanced his saber art and eye technique before entering the Saber Dao Ancestral Temple’s promotion trial. He defeated the leading disciples, earned a true disciple position, and was invited to test himself in the Ancestral Hall.

• Ji Xiu cultivated the Great Five Decays Sky Saber and Profound Sky Forbidden for more than half a month, with Jiang Li helping him train his Double Pupils.
• Zhou Chongyang invited Ji Xiu to compete for promotion from the Five Courtyards and entry into the inner chambers.
• Ji Xiu challenged all five finalists and defeated Ye Nankai, Li Wangji, Chen Danding, and the other contenders with his saber arts and Profound Sky Forbidden.
• Ji Xiu offered to preserve his treasure-body imprint and saber art for the sect, prompting Zhou Chongyang to grant him a true disciple position.
• The old saber wielder proposed that Ji Xiu enter the Ancestral Hall and attempt the Ancestor Corridor to seek Grandmaster Ren Chunqiu’s favor.

Ji Xiu defeated the Saber Dao Five Courtyards, became a Saber Dao True Disciple, and received the ancestors’ recognition as the eighth Treasure Body founder before a butterfly returned him to the real world. Nearly two hundred years later, a woman at the Qishan Jiang Family reacted to news of a disturbance at the Divine Weapon Altar.

• Ji Xiu overwhelmed Chen Danding, Li Wangji, Ye Nankai, and Chen Sanjiu, then received the title of Saber Dao True Disciple from Zhou Chongyang.
• The Ancestor Hall Master brought Ji Xiu and the newly promoted inner disciples to the Ancestor Corridor and explained the ancestors’ inheritances.
• Ji Xiu focused on Ren Chunqiu’s statue, and all seven ancestor statues trembled and produced an eighth statue in Ji Xiu’s likeness.
• The Primordial Dao Talisman used the statues’ blessing to open Ji Xiu’s spleen and lung treasures, while the Wang Quan Treasure Body was recorded among the Saber Dao Ancestral Temple’s Eight Divisions Treasure Bodies.
• A transparent yellow butterfly returned Ji Xiu to the real world, where he heard Ren Chunqiu’s words about the departed eventually returning.
• Nearly two hundred years later, a woman at the Qishan Jiang Family heard of a disturbance at the Divine Weapon Altar and rose as purple qi illuminated the sky.

Jiang Shu learned that the Wang Quan Saber had appeared at Sunken Mountain and set out to investigate, hoping to find a trace of Wang Quan Wumu and bring him back. Meanwhile, Ji Xiu opened his fourth treasure and reached Purple Palace Feathering Away after refining Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Lord, leaving Wang Xuanyang and Xu Longxiang astonished.

• Jiang Shu confirmed that the Wang Quan Saber was at Sunken Mountain and decided to retrieve it and search for Wang Quan Wumu's aura.
• Ji Xiu awakened two more treasures, bringing his total to four and bringing him close to a Martial Dao Treasure Body.
• Ji Xiu completely refined Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Lord, advancing his Daoist Merit to Feathering Away and sending his Soul Incarnation beyond his body.
• Wang Xuanyang arrived and was shocked by Ji Xiu's Purple Palace Perfection and four opened treasures.
• Xu Longxiang arrived to pass Ji Xiu the Dragon Elephant True Sect's Martial Dao Treasure Body inheritance, then realized Ji Xiu had already advanced too far to need it.

After Ji Xiu broke through the Four Treasures and achieved Ascension Daoist Merit, he told Wang Xuanyang and Xu Longxiang about the Qishan Jiang Family’s dealings with Great Vehicle Boundless Temple. Their discussion connected the scheme to the possible revival of the Great Vehicle Boundless Bodhisattva and to the Saber Dao Ancestral Temple’s past, leaving Ji Xiu stunned by a fabricated-sounding account of Wang Quan Wumu and Jiang Shu.

• Ji Xiu’s divine soul flew above Golden Turtle Island after his breakthrough, and Wang Xuanyang and Xu Longxiang arrived to find him.
• Ji Xiu returned to his Purple Palace, recalled what he had learned about the Qishan Jiang Family and Great Vehicle Boundless Temple, and decided to inform the two Title-holders.
• Ji Xiu told Wang Xuanyang and Xu Longxiang about Jiang Nian, the Pure Lands Paradise Balm, and the lingering thought he had sensed within it.
• Xu Longxiang explained that the balm might help revive the Great Vehicle Boundless Bodhisattva and warned that the effort could draw the attention of Crimson Origin Hall and bring danger.
• Xu Longxiang linked the Qishan Jiang Family’s experiments to Wang Quan Wumu and Jiang Shu, and Wang Xuanyang repeated a story that Jiang Shu had once been Wang Quan Wumu’s betrothed.
• Ji Xiu was shocked by the account and wondered how the supposed history of Wang Quan Wumu and Jiang Shu could be unknown to him, its alleged subject.

An ancient Origin Mansion of the All Laws Impermanent Dao Lord appeared in the Eastern Cang Sea, drawing Great Xuan's powerful factions and a True Venerable from the Mystic Talisman Sect. The palace repelled the intruder and revealed a Dao Lord with Ji Xiu's former face, confirming his connection to the All Laws Impermanent Dao Lord.

• Xiao Pingnan and Hu Mao spotted the Origin Mansion on Jiangyin Prefecture's Guardian Map, and Xiao Pingnan set out to find a Heavenly Material inside it.
• A Boundary Gate to Crimson Firmament opened, and Xiao Pingnan explained that the Mystic Talisman Sect had prepared to reach the ancient site.
• A powerful Yin-Yang Daoist crossed worlds using a Green Jade Ruyi and attacked the Origin Mansion, unleashing tsunamis that Xu Longxiang, Wang Xuanyang, Xiao Pingnan, and other experts resisted.
• The Origin Mansion manifested a towering Dao Lord, calmed the waves, seized the Green Jade Ruyi, and struck the Yin-Yang Daoist with a command to kill intruders who had already achieved Daoist Merit.
• Ji Xiu saw that the Dao Lord's face matched his own from when he was Jiang Jing.