Chapter Summaries

After the Wu Clan’s destruction, Xu Xuan learned that Wu Qinghe might be able to restore Lushwood and considered what to do with the surviving cultivator. Xu Xuan then investigated Venom-Folding’s motives and resolved to commit his full strength to the Hollow Sword Gate conflict to uncover the truth behind True Person Yaokong’s residence.

• Xu Xuan surveyed the ruined Lushwood and learned from Liu Xingfang that Wu Heyong had left nothing behind at the Wu Clan’s Spirit Mountain.
• Xu Xuan questioned Wu Qinghe, who vowed revenge on Wu Heyong and offered to help restore Lushwood using the clan’s Vast Wood inheritance.
• Wu Qinghe explained that his Heaven-Repairing Divine Broad Scripture could repair the land, and Xu Xuan ordered him to copy the method before deciding what to do with him.
• Xu Xuan and Tiantuo discussed the difficulty of cultivating Vast Wood and the lineage’s decline under Li Fire.
• Xu Xuan and Tiantuo traced Venom-Folding’s interest in the Fuyi Blood lineage and Void Sword possessions to the Heavenly Poison True Lord’s origins.
• Xu Xuan suspected True Person Yaokong had hidden himself using the Cosmic Stars lineage and decided to commit his full strength to the Hollow Sword Gate matter.

Wu Heyong spoke with Liang Xilan and the Great Shaman about his betrayal of the Wu Clan and the Heavenly Poison Dao’s plans, including retrieving the Heavenly Star Jade Tablet. At Azure Sky Peak, Xu Xuan and Wei Yan prepared to attack the formation protecting Ascending Stars, and Xu Xuan examined Wei Yan’s vicious Dharma Sword.

• Wu Heyong dismissed Liang Xilan, defended his sacrifice of the Wu Clan, and absorbed starlight through his origin poison path.
• The Great Shaman revealed that the Heavenly Poison True Lord came from beyond the heavens and ordered Wu Heyong to retrieve the Heavenly Star Jade Tablet from the Void Sword Spirit Treasury.
• Wu Heyong considered the tablet’s connection to the Heavenly Poison Dao and wondered about the situation at Green Peaks.
• Wei Yan explained the Gang Star Baleful Luminary Azure Vault Formation and proposed that he and Xu Xuan attack from underground and the sky.
• Wei Yan revealed his foundation establishment cultivation and fourth-grade myriad baleful god immortal foundation, then handed Xu Xuan his Blood Drinker sword.
• Xu Xuan blocked the blood-red thorns sprouting from the sword, while Tiantuo tasted a drop of its liquid and called it stale.

Xu Xuan prepared an assault on the Hollow Sword Gate, assigning roles to his allies and examining Wei Yan’s blood-draining Dharma Sword. Wen Guang then unveiled the enormous Five-Element Mountain, a powerful artifact Xu Xuan intended to use to break the sect’s defenses.

• Xu Xuan examined Wei Yan’s [Blood Drinker], learned how Wei Yan found it as a mine slave, and warned him not to let the sword control him.
• Xu Xuan told Wei Yan that they would attack the Void Sword in three days to kill Liang Xilan and Wu Heyong, despite no fellow disciples answering Wei Yan’s call.
• Xu Xuan assigned Liang Yong to lead Wei Yan and the Guarding the Azure Camp in a ground assault while Xu Xuan attacked from the sky, and ordered Empty-Handed to wait in the Underworld as a reserve.
• Xu Xuan visited the Forge Rectitude Artifact Chamber and learned that Wen Guang had nearly completed a massive artifact for the coming assault.
• Wen Guang revealed the [Five-Element Mountain], a five-colored treasure mountain modeled after a magical treasure in the [Profound-Enshrining Palace], and Xu Xuan recognized that it could breach the Hollow Sword Gate’s formation.

Xu Xuan inspected the newly completed [Five-Element Mountain] and learned about the rare materials and formations used to build it. He persuaded Wen Guang to bring the Forge Rectitude Chamber into the mountain and join the coming war, then explored the artifact while considering its legendary model.

• Xu Xuan examined the five peaks and learned from Wen Guang that scarce spirit objects had forced him to use imperfect aspects and exhaust much of the sect's stores.
• Xu Xuan tested the Jia wood peak's lightning and learned that its [azure chiulong wood essence] had come through a trade with the Purple Gold Abbey, which had ties to Yin Thunder Mountain.
• Wen Guang explained that the [Five-Element Mountain] could serve as a powerful weapon and spiritual domain, and Xu Xuan offered him spiritual fires in exchange for helping the sect fight.
• Cheng Yan urged Xu Xuan to send Wen Guang into battle, and Xu Xuan persuaded Wen Guang to move the Forge Rectitude Chamber onto the mountain.
• Tiantuo described the Profound-Enshrining Palace's magic treasure as the model for the mountain, and Xu Xuan flew inside to explore its wonders.

Wu Heyong killed Qi Du and attacked Si Xunyao at the foot of Ascending Stars Mountain, but left Si Xunyao alive under the influence of his Gu. Wei Yan then returned to Void Sword to challenge the Liang Household faction, killing Elder Wen before an attack from the Great Red Abbey struck Liang Xilan and its Daoist arrived.

• Wu Heyong manipulated Qi Du into drawing his sword, killed him, and used Dreamlike Bubble Gu to make Si Xunyao believe the attack had been a dream.
• Wei Yan returned to Void Sword and called on his fellow disciples to help him avenge Zuo Hemo and his crippled junior brother.
• Wen Qizhang confronted Wei Yan and defended Liang Xilan, but Wei Yan exposed the blood qi being refined within Wen and killed him.
• Liang Xilan activated the great formation and attacked Wei Yan, but a silver sword strike blasted her into Heavenly Light Peak.
• A five-colored treasure mountain appeared, and a black-robed Daoist announced that the Great Red Abbey had come to lend aid.

Xu Xuan and the Five-Element Mountain attacked Ascending Stars, breaking much of Hollow Sword Gate’s formation. As Xu Xuan faced Wu Heyong, Wu revealed why he had abandoned the vast wood inheritance, while the Immortal Register showed Liu Xiaowen had reached Foundation Establishment and completed Heaven-Seeking Flame.

• Liang Xilan activated the Gang-Star Baleful Luminary Azure Vault Formation and struck Qi Du unconscious when he tried to speak.
• Xu Xuan’s Five-Element Mountain worked through its peaks to forge the Geng-Martial Fire-Forging Cone, which pierced the enemy formation and separated its heavenly gang and earth baleful forces.
• Xu Xuan ordered his Foundation Establishment cultivators to attack while Liang Xilan led disciples against Wei Yan and Liang Yong, and he confronted Wu Heyong in the sky.
• Wu Heyong told Xu Xuan that his lineage had deceived him into studying vast wood, so he escaped by faking his death and turning to origin poison.
• Wu Heyong accused Xu Xuan of making someone else bear the cost of his path, then transformed into a giant insect-like dharma body as Xu Xuan realized Liu Xiaowen was involved.
• The Immortal Register showed Liu Xiaowen’s cultivation rising to Foundation Establishment, and Heaven-Seeking Flame was completed.

Xu Xuan battled Wu Heyong in the Hollow Sword Formation, but Wu Heyong used the Combined-Poison Life-Chasing Lock to target him with poison arts. Below, Wei Yan fought Liang Xilan until Empty-Handed struck her from behind, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Tiantuo identified Wu Heyong's insect transformations as a sophisticated Poison-Viewing Assembly method combining five kinds of poisonous creatures.
• Xu Xuan formed the Three Luminaries Sword Formation, but Wu Heyong used the Dark-Bright Toad to disrupt the swords and attack him at close range.
• Xu Xuan struck Wu Heyong with Constant Light and the Altar-Nether Thunderfire Talisman Sword, then pinned him with the reassembled sword formation.
• Wu Heyong spat poisonous liquid onto Xu Xuan's feather robe and activated the Combined-Poison Life-Chasing Lock, enabling his poison arts to strike Xu Xuan across a distance.
• Liang Yong struggled to hold back the earth baleful qi while Wei Yan and Liang Xilan fought with the Voidless Sword Manual.
• Liang Xilan sent Wei Yan flying, but an eerie wind engulfed her and Empty-Handed struck her with his sword.

Liang Xilan survived a soul-destroying attack by using the Life-and-Death Gu, then consumed the sect’s Star-River Pure Essence to merge with Ascending Stars Mountain and fight back. As Xu Xuan trapped Wu Heyong with his Thunder Palace technique, Wu Heyong revealed a hidden trigger that began breaking Liang Xilan’s stellar Dharma Body and drew Wei Yan’s immortal foundation into it.

• A ghostly Dharma Sword struck Liang Xilan’s soul, but the Life-and-Death Gu restored her while killing three Qi Refining disciples on Jiali Mountain.
• Liang Xilan swallowed the sect’s Star-River Pure Essence and drew magical power from disciples through the Life-and-Death Gu, forming a vast stellar Dharma Body linked to Ascending Stars Mountain.
• Liang Xilan’s star river clashed with Wen Guang’s Five-Element Mountain, and their battle destroyed Huilong Mountain.
• Xu Xuan used [Tribulation Command] to bind Wu Heyong, strip away his artifacts and cultivation, and prepare to destroy his life and immortal foundation.
• Wu Heyong shouted, "When heavenly stars meet baleful intent, Ascending Stars reveals the mansion!" and Liang Xilan’s Dharma Body began to crumble as the formation pulled Wei Yan’s immortal foundation into it.

Xu Xuan entered True Person Yaokong’s residence in the Great Void as Wu Heyong and a poison-wreathed Dharma Body were drawn toward the Radiant Sky Abode. On the way, Wen Guang revealed the ancient history of Fengxuan and the origins of Constant Light and Star River, while Tiantuo warned Xu Xuan against being caught up in Fengxuan’s destiny.

• Liang Xilan’s Star-Bright Emptiness Body shattered, and the surviving starlight formed a heavenly road from Ascending Stars Mountain into the Great Void.
• Wu Heyong reassembled himself as a swarm of poisonous insects and was drawn toward the heavenly road with Star River, while True Person Wanjin sent Xu Xuan after him.
• Xu Xuan let Wen Guang shelter inside Constant Light and entered the Great Void, where Wen Guang explained the swords’ origins and recounted Fengxuan’s ancient history.
• Tiantuo warned Xu Xuan that Fengxuan’s rise could entangle him in a dangerous destiny as they approached True Person Yaokong’s residence.
• Xu Xuan entered the residence and glimpsed a battle between a Golden Scale spiritual sword and a five-colored poison Dharma Body; Tiantuo identified the opponent as a mid-stage Origin Poison Purple Mansion cultivator in a newly born body.

Wu Heyong entered the core of Yaokong True Person’s abode, where Kongliao seized Star River and killed him with a single sword strike. Xu Xuan reached the inner halls, killed Liang Xilan as she attacked Wei Yan, and sensed a cold presence watching him.

• Wu Heyong followed Star River through the shifting abode and found Kongliao waiting beyond seven moon gates.
• Kongliao took Star River and cut Wu Heyong apart, but a talisman carried Wu Heyong back through the gates and restored his body.
• Outside the Great Void, Wanjin and Venom-Folding argued over the Heavenly Star Jade Tablet while their forces raced toward the abode’s core.
• Xu Xuan heard fighting and found Liang Xilan attacking Wei Yan, so he killed Liang Xilan with Cinnabar Thunder.
• Wei Yan thanked Xu Xuan, who sensed a cold presence watching him from the hall.

Xu Xuan and Wei Yan explored True Person Yaokong’s abode, found its central star-chart artifact already beyond their reach, and divided the remaining blue-jade tables. The formation then revealed the seemingly dead Daoist Kongliao holding [Star River], and its terrifying power began to stir.

• Xu Xuan and Wei Yan entered Heaven's Gate Hall and found that Wu Heyong had passed through before them, while [Star River] resonated somewhere ahead.
• Wen Guang identified the remains of [falling star fire essence] beneath the eaves, and Xu Xuan gave some to Wei Yan while promising to look after the Void Sword’s affairs.
• Wen Guang explained that the [Celestial Star Chart of Spiritual Canons] was the abode’s core artifact and that the remaining [Divine Majesty Light] had already been taken.
• Xu Xuan and Wei Yan collected the twelve blue-jade tables before leaving the hall and seeing three portals appear.
• Tiantuo sensed a strange, apparently lifeless Void Sword cultivator beyond the moon-shaped portal, and Xu Xuan recognized him as Daoist Kongliao holding [Star River].
• Daoist Kongliao turned his lifeless gaze toward Xu Xuan, causing the Purple Mansion formation to surge with terrifying majesty.

Xu Xuan and Wei Yan entered the Celestial Star Pavilion, where Wei Yan recovered the complete Voidless Sword Scripture and Xu Xuan found a Purple Mansion chapter of the Heavenly Fire Eternal Radiance Scripture. After sensing that the scripture might be connected to a scheme involving Liu Xiaowen, Xu Xuan left Wei Yan to copy Dao scriptures and followed Constant Light deeper into the abode.

• Xu Xuan and Wei Yan fled the awakening Purple Mansion formation and reached the Celestial Star Pavilion with Wen Guang.
• Wei Yan resonated with the pavilion and absorbed the fifth-grade Voidless Sword Scripture into his Consciousness Sea.
• Wen Guang explained the sect’s scattered inheritances, and Xu Xuan considered how to establish a stronger cultivation lineage.
• Xu Xuan drew out the Sun-Mirror Fire-Bearing Divine Scroll, a Purple Mansion chapter concerning the Heaven-Seeking Flame, and worried that its appearance implicated Liu Xiaowen in a scheme.
• Tiantuo warned that someone from the Dust-Sweeping Sect was watching Xu Xuan, who left Wei Yan copying scriptures and followed Constant Light deeper into the abode.

Wanjin guarded the Radiant Sky Abode as Lingjing questioned him about Xu Xuan and the [Calamity-Splitting] lineage. After Lingjing departed, Wanjin drove Venom-Folding back from the abode with [Golden Scale].

• Lingjing arrived in the Great Void, and Wanjin confronted him over his presence near the Spirit Treasury.
• Lingjing used his Divine Ability to suppress the Great Shaman’s five-colored Poison Light and fix the surrounding Great Void in place.
• Lingjing told Wanjin that Xu Xuan had inherited [Calamity-Splitting], a lineage connected to the Thunder Palace’s [Tribulation Law] and the Northern Sea’s [Upper Successive Union].
• Lingjing asked whether Xu Xuan had shown unusual signs at birth, especially in his soul, then left to visit a friend on Dingji Mountain.
• Venom-Folding approached again after Lingjing departed, and Wanjin slashed at him with [Golden Scale], warning that he was unworthy of claiming the [Heavenly Star Jade Tablet].

Xu Xuan explored the abode, discovering the Shu Kingdom’s Celestial Balance Tower and learning about the kingdom’s emperors and mysterious history. Constant Light then halted before a region where time seemed to flow differently, leaving Xu Xuan to investigate the distant Dao Platform and its star-engraved Jade Gui.

• Xu Xuan found the Celestial Balance Tower, whose war-drum-like sound disrupted his blood and magical power, and Tiantuo warned him not to provoke it.
• Wen Guang told Xu Xuan that Shu lasted eight hundred years and described its three emperors, including Emperor Jing’s friendship with True Lord Mysterious Pivot and their deaths.
• Xu Xuan suspected the Shu Kingdom’s troubles began during Emperor Jing’s reign and wondered what had happened to the founding emperor and his Wu Earth fruit position.
• Constant Light stopped before an indistinguishable stretch of gray mist, and Xu Xuan sent a Silver-Thunder Skybird into it.
• The Silver-Thunder Skybird’s spell structure rapidly wore away, and Tiantuo suspected the mist contained a different flow of time as it revealed a distant Dao Platform and a revolving Jade Gui.

Xu Xuan entered the Heavenly Star Jade Tablet’s Past-Fading Light to escape Kongliao’s attack and endured an unknown stretch of time before reaching the Dao Platform. He took the tablet, returned to normal, and continued toward Constant Light’s spiritual essence after burning away the golden thread influencing him.

• Xu Xuan learned from Wen Guang that the Heavenly Star Jade Tablet accelerated time within its Past-Fading Light but could not preserve gains or memories after someone left it.
• Kongliao’s corpse awakened the Purple Mansion formation and attacked Xu Xuan, forcing him into the tablet’s light while Tiantuo fell silent and Wen Guang became an image on the sword.
• Xu Xuan traveled through the light for an unknown duration, aged greatly, and reached the Dao Platform as memories of countless years appeared in his consciousness.
• Xu Xuan resisted the tablet’s influence, took it from the Dao Platform, and returned to normal as Kongliao and Star River disappeared.
• Xu Xuan recognized that True Person Wanjin’s golden thread was urging him to retreat, then burned it away and advanced toward Constant Light’s spiritual essence.

Wanjin watched the spiritual omens of Constant Light and Golden Scale clash while Xu Xuan traveled deeper into the Great Void to seek the separated Spirit Sword essences. After questioning Wen Guang about the swords, Xu Xuan learned from Tiantuo that the fire spirit might be concealing his true origins.

• Wanjin saw the eternal bright light rite and Venus Traversing the Heavens intertwine, then rode lightning onward while keeping watch on the situation in the abode.
• Xu Xuan followed the star chart toward the Northern Dipper and discussed Constant Light's spiritual omen and the Spirit Swords with Tiantuo.
• Xu Xuan summoned Wen Guang and asked why Constant Light and Star River had been separated, but Wen Guang said he did not know.
• Tiantuo told Xu Xuan that Wen Guang's pure Bing Fire nature did not match his claimed origin and concluded that Wen Guang might be lying.

Xu Xuan entered the Fengxuan hall, discovered ancient dao inheritances and the Sunrise Pearl, and restored Constant Light to Purple Mansion grade. He killed Wu Heyong with the newly empowered sword, while Kongliao appeared to regain some clarity.

• Xu Xuan entered the Fengxuan hall and absorbed profund mystery dao essence, which transformed into three streams of ancient spiritual qi.
• Xu Xuan examined the hall's dao paintings, paid respects to True Lord Constant Light, and found the Sunrise Pearl, the essence needed to restore Constant Light.
• Kongliao's formation forced Xu Xuan out of the hall, where Wu Heyong demanded the Heavenly Star Jade Tablet and threatened to fight him.
• Xu Xuan joined the Sunrise Pearl with Constant Light, raising the sword to Purple Mansion grade and driving back the starlight.
• Xu Xuan used Constant Light to kill Wu Heyong, and Kongliao turned to him with a trace of clarity in his eyes.

Xu Xuan met Yaokong True Person within the Celestial Star Chart of Spiritual Canons and learned why the ancient True Lord had left the world. Yaokong sent Star River and Constant Light toward the Northern Dipper, then Xu Xuan returned to the collapsing estate, where a young man in golden robes awaited him.

• Constant Light awakened, and Star River absorbed its essence as the Celestial Star Chart of Spiritual Canons sealed the estate.
• Daoist Kongliao brought Xu Xuan into the star chart and revealed that the Northern Dipper's Right Assistant was called Tianpeng.
• Kongliao transformed into Yaokong True Person, who explained that the True Lord had abandoned his golden rank to search the Cosmic Light River for the first palace master of the Profound-Enshrining Palace.
• Yaokong told Xu Xuan to pursue Purple Mansion, warned him about the Lü Family and Qing clan, and said Wen Guang's origins were extraordinary.
• Yaokong took Star River and Constant Light into the Northern Dipper, and Xu Xuan fell back into the estate as its formation collapsed.
• Xu Xuan emerged from the collapsing estate and found a smiling young man in golden robes waiting for him.

Xu Xuan surrendered the Heavenly Star Jade Tablet to Wanjin, who drove off Venom-Folding and rewarded him with a Spirit Pill and Five Poisons Armor. Wanjin revealed that Qi Wen would return as Void Sword’s Sect Leader, leaving Xu Xuan wary of the immortal sects and Wei Yan shaken.

• Wanjin confirmed the spirit swords had fled, took the Heavenly Star Jade Tablet from Xu Xuan, and used a golden decree to drive off Venom-Folding.
• Wanjin gave Xu Xuan the Star-Rushing Heavenly Star Pill and refined Five Poisons Armor, awakening the Seal Script Five Poisons Joined as One within Xu Xuan.
• Wanjin told Xu Xuan that Qi Wen would become Void Sword’s Sect Leader and assured him that his disciple would return safely.
• Xu Xuan returned to Ascending Stars Mountain and told Wei Yan that Qi Wen was coming back.
• Wei Yan left to pay respects at his master’s grave, while Xu Xuan wondered whether his master had faced similar trials.

Wanjin returned the Heavenly Star Jade Tablet and Golden Scale to his master, Yue Lingxu, who reprimanded him for how he had dealt with Xu Xuan and warned that his protection would soon end. Yue Lingxu left to seek the golden position and placed Wanjin in charge of Renqing Peak, while Wanjin began planning how to secure his future.

• Wanjin reported that he had recovered the Heavenly Star Jade Tablet with Xu Xuan’s help and returned the tablet and Golden Scale to Yue Lingxu.
• Yue Lingxu used Cave of Illuminating Truth to make Wanjin confront his careless treatment of Xu Xuan and urged him to build a connection with the young cultivator.
• Yue Lingxu revealed that his lifespan was nearing its end, told Wanjin to lead Renqing Peak, and returned Golden Scale to him before leaving for Gengshi Heaven and secluded cultivation.
• Wanjin considered his worsening position without his master’s protection and planned to address his feud with the An clan and improve relations with Mei Tianya.
• Wanjin resolved to investigate the altar thunder opportunity in Great Li and considered Xu Xuan as a potential ally against Dust-Sweeping.