Chapter Summaries

Qingyue used Fine Dust to destroy Xu Gong and reveal the golden nature sealed inside the sword, while Cheng Dui attacked him. As the awakened Dui Metal manifestation headed for the Heavenly Yi Forest, Qingyue and Cheng Dui renewed their struggle over the Dao.

• Qingyue combined the power of the surrounding Purple Mansion cultivators with Fine Dust to wound Xu Gong and destroy the blood-red vines controlling him.
• Qingyue struck again, flattening the palaces and towers and cutting Xu Gong’s Dharma body apart, while Cheng Dui arrived and attacked Qingyue with six flying swords.
• Xu Gong briefly regained his senses, called for the great one to bear witness, and perished as the golden nature sealed within Fine Dust began to emerge.
• Cheng Dui pinned Qingyue with his swords, but Qingyue used blue-gray radiance to hold them in place and revealed that Fine Dust contained True Lord Longjue’s golden nature.
• The golden nature manifested as a serpent-headed emperor and walked toward the Heavenly Yi Forest, while Cheng Dui and Qingyue argued over the Dui Metal inheritance.
• Qingyue invoked the Shaking Light Mystic Talisman and drew out an ancient bronze token inscribed Supreme Unity, declaring that he would eliminate a rival in the Dao on his senior brother’s behalf.

Fan Shi ordered Li Jin Xin to leave the Heavenly Yi Forest and kill two Jia Wood cultivators as the realm fled the golden-nature creature. Qingyue trapped Cheng Dui in the wasteland to draw the creature’s attack, and Cheng Dui knelt in welcome before being beheaded.

• Fan Shi ordered Wei Ke to release Li Jin Xin and send him after True Person Guang Chan and True Person Guiqing.
• Wei Ke freed Li Jin Xin with the Profound Talisman of Vigilant Solitude and Clear Mind, and he departed to hunt the two Jia Wood cultivators.
• Cheng Dui used Western Hao Kui to attack Qingyue, while the white serpent emperor shattered the Heavenly Yi Forest’s formation and pursued the retreating secret realm.
• Qingyue used the Supreme Unity Divine Edict to bind Cheng Dui to the wasteland, then the creature swallowed Qingyue’s head and remains.
• Cheng Dui knelt before the creature, proclaimed himself Shang Zixi and an inheritor of Longjue’s legacy, and was beheaded.

Li Jinxin killed Xiao Dianqing with his [Grand War Armor] divine ability and pursued Guang Chan, while Xiao Jun and Yelü Zhai Di attempted to seize Ru Su’s [Vault-Sealing God-Locking Armor]. The armor’s suppression revealed that Ru Su had never existed as a person and that the apparent spirit monster was only a hidden metal Spirit Artifact.

• Xiao Dianqing fled the battlefield, but Li Jinxin caught up with her and killed her using his geng metal abilities and [Grand War Armor].
• Li Jinxin fired a gold arrow at a distant jia wood cultivator, whose purple lightning arrow stopped it, then pursued the cultivator with his sword.
• Ru Su withdrew across the Great Cold Wasteland using [White Storehouse] and waited near the Chi River.
• Prince Lingchi, Xiao Jun, and the ancestral spirit Yelü Zhai Di confronted Ru Su to seize his [Vault-Sealing God-Locking Armor] for Xiao She.
• Xiao Jun suppressed the armor with an imperial decree, and Yelü Zhai Di discovered it had no sentience and that Ru Su had never existed.

Song Shiyi surveyed the aftermath of the disaster, then rescued the badly wounded Guang Chan after Li Jinxin nearly killed him. Li Jinxin fled toward Heli, but a qilin-headed monster wielding silver thunder confronted him on the mountain.

• Song Shiyi learned that Ru Su’s token had gone dark and discovered that Xiao Dianqing and Ji Qing Chan had fled south.
• Li Jinxin used [Grand War Armor] and other Geng Metal arts to break through Guang Chan’s defenses and stab him in the heart aperture.
• Guang Chan struck Li Jinxin with the [White Qilin Mountain-Guarding Pearl], and the azure wood dragon statue attacked again as Song Shiyi’s Li Fire radiance arrived.
• Li Jinxin fled before Song Shiyi could engage him, while Song Shiyi gave Guang Chan a Mystic Core and learned that True Person Guiqing had been killed.
• Li Jinxin traveled toward Heli to evade pursuit, but a qilin-headed monster emerged from the snow and challenged him with a silver thunder mace.

At Longjue Ridge, Hualei and Mei Xiao suppressed the evil creature tied to Shang Zixi’s head and swords, while discussing Yuan Jia’s fight with Li Jinxin and the Ink Qilin clan’s hopes of breaking its shackles. Meanwhile, Xu Fayan escorted Xu Ming toward Many Treasures, where they encountered the wary Ye Yanzhen and entered a grotto-heaven built around position proof.

• Hualei restrained the evil creature at Longjue Ridge while Mei Xiao used his magical treasure to dissolve it into the ridge, and Hualei sealed the hidden dui metal nature with a talisman.
• Mei Xiao explained that Tai Zhen had acted on behalf of the Eastern Sea’s Chi and to honor a debt to Azure Radiance, while Hualei said Yuan Jia was defeating Li Jinxin and asked about the Calamity-Splitting True Person’s cultivation.
• Xu Fayan and Xu Ming crossed the sea passage toward the Eastern Sea and met Ye Yanzhen, who blocked their route with jia wood radiance.
• Xu Fayan attacked Ye Yanzhen with wind and sand, introduced himself as Ominous Portent, and frightened Ye Yanzhen into retreating before revealing Xu Ming, whom he had swallowed for safety.
• Xu Fayan and Xu Ming entered the Autumn Sea and the Many Treasures Grotto-Heaven, where Xu Fayan recognized its golden mountain as position proof.

Xu Ming visited Baoqiu in the Many Treasures Grotto-Heaven to discuss Tian'ou joining the tradition and asked about reincarnation, his father, and the Profound Offering Sword Lineage. Baoqiu explained the risks, encouraged Xu Ming to cultivate [Free and Unfettered Journey], and left him with reassurance about his own path but no way to intervene in his father's dispute.

• Bond Metal welcomed Xu Fayan and Xu Ming, then sent Xu Fayan to Divine Prosperity Terrace while escorting Xu Ming to meet his master.
• Xu Ming told Baoqiu that Tian'ou wished to join Many Treasures after the upheaval, and Baoqiu warned that reincarnation as a spirit monster would erase most continuity of identity.
• Xu Ming asked about reincarnation without golden nature and whether his father could survive failing to attain the golden position, and Baoqiu said the outcome depended on how far his father pursued it.
• Baoqiu advised Xu Ming to gain experience and focus on sword intent, and he warned him to weigh the consequences of marrying Tian'ou's daughter.
• Baoqiu told Xu Ming he could cultivate [Free and Unfettered Journey] without fearing Dust-Sweeping, but said Many Treasures could not interfere in his father's dispute within the primordial beginning great dao.
• Xu Ming drank two cups of Baoqiu's painfully bitter [Bitter Sprout] tea, and Baoqiu revealed it had no special effects beyond its bitterness.

Xu Fayan met Wuge Gaoshi at a Heavenly Altar and learned secrets about Sheji, ancient rivers, and the True Lords of nurturing earth. Wuge revealed that he sought a divine core and believed Xu Fayan might attain Golden Core.

• Xu Fayan arrived at the Heavenly Altar and recognized it as a major sacrificial site of the Tuoba clan, where Emperor Lord Tuoba Yuanye had offered sacrifices to Heaven.
• Wuge Gaoshi introduced himself as a Qiang descendant who had joined Many Treasures to escape Xiao-Liao, then recounted how his people declined after the Hong River ceased flowing.
• Xu Fayan identified the altar’s beast as Shenmi, and Wuge asked whether he knew the Divine Ability Pleading to Sheji.
• Wuge explained that True Lord Abundant Years attained Dao through flame and revealed that True Lord Qingrang had truly ascended through Sheji, with signs of his presence still manifesting.
• Wuge told Xu Fayan that he sought a divine core and believed Xu Fayan could attain Golden Core through nurturing earth’s Dao lineages.

Xu Fayan questioned Wuge Gaoshi about pursuing the Golden Rank, and Wuge urged him to follow Wei Huang’s path toward nurturing earth and dryness. Wuge gave Xu Fayan two valuable Dao Texts and gained his promise of future aid, then revealed why he had refused a Lingsa retainer seat.

• Wuge Gaoshi argued that Xu Fayan should seek the Golden Rank by following True Lord Wasteland's End and the path of dryness, while Xu Fayan said he would pursue it even if he died.
• Wuge Gaoshi gave Xu Fayan the White Qiang Divine Method, a nurturing-earth witchcraft text suited to his studies.
• Wuge Gaoshi also gave Xu Fayan the Duxuan Arcane Art, whose first page bore the immortal Gongzhi Xiaonian's name.
• Xu Fayan promised to raise Wuge Gaoshi to a divine seat if he attained the Great Dao and could do so.
• Xu Fayan asked why Wuge Gaoshi had not sought Lingsa's retainer seat, and Wuge explained that he had refused to change his surname and abandon the Wuge clan's Qiang bloodline.

Xu Fayan visited the Many Treasures lineage’s vast vault with Baoqiu and obtained precious hidden metal and taboo wood materials for his cultivation art. In return, he agreed to grow a nurturing earth spirit treasure from soil Baoqiu promised to provide.

• Baoqiu told Xu Ming to warn Tian'ou that he would need enough wealth to pawn his life for protection, then took Xu Ming to meet Xu Fayan and Wuge Gaoshi.
• Baoqiu invited Xu Fayan and Wuge Gaoshi to explore the grotto-heaven, and Xu Fayan asked to trade for hidden metal and taboo wood materials.
• Baoqiu brought Xu Fayan and Xu Ming to the Treasure-Gathering Land and had Ji Zisang lead them to the Five Gods Pavilion.
• Baoqiu gave Xu Fayan a hollow-storing treasure metal and a death-taboo treasure leaf, both numinous proofs, without requiring an immediate trade.
• Baoqiu offered Xu Fayan nurturing treasure soil in exchange for growing and delivering one complete spirit treasure within a hundred years.

Xu Ming encountered Ji Zisang’s inherited Sword Ancestor wound and risked exposing himself to its sword aura to seek insight. Though Ji Zisang stopped him after he vomited blood, Xu Ming’s Sword Dao bottleneck loosened, leaving open the possibility that he could attain sword intent during Foundation Establishment.

• Xu Fayan received ancient Nether Sheep earth from Ji Zisang, while Baoqiu asked Ji Zisang to assess Xu Ming’s cultivation.
• Ji Zisang criticized Xu Ming’s purple gold cultivation and agreed to let him experience the wound carried by the Ji bloodline.
• Baoqiu explained the Sword Ancestor’s legacy and warned Xu Ming that contact with the wound could damage his state of mind.
• Xu Ming let Ji Zisang press a hand to his forehead and deliberately lowered his clear qi defenses to comprehend the sword wound.
• Ji Zisang ended the exposure when Xu Ming grew pale and spat blood, and Baoqiu gave him a mystic core to settle his aura.
• Xu Ming thanked the seniors and felt his Sword Dao bottleneck loosen.

Baoqiu reported Tian'ou’s requests to Kuying, who considered the political risks of accepting Xu Fayan and advised Many Treasures to remain cautious in the coming conflicts. After returning to White Cang, Xu Fayan studied the White Qiang Divine Method and used it to expand his Inner Scenery into a kingdom that strengthened his Red-Fighting Centipede; he then turned to the Duxuan Arcane Art.

• Baoqiu told Kuying that Tian'ou wished to join Many Treasures, and Kuying agreed to seek approval while warning that the Dao could not offer Xu Fayan strong backing for nurturing earth.
• Kuying and Baoqiu discussed the struggle between Peaceful Mountain and the Si Bai Dao, the Wuge clan’s support for nurturing earth, and the dangers posed by Chi and Mystic Secrets.
• Xu Ming left White Cang with Empty-Handed to report their journey to his father, while Xu Fayan cautioned him not to rely entirely on Many Treasures or the Jiang clan.
• Xu Fayan read the White Qiang Divine Method and expanded his Inner Scenery into a kingdom capable of housing spirit deities.
• Xu Fayan made the Red-Fighting Centipede’s origin poison divine ability his own, then began reading the Duxuan Arcane Art.

After the western battle, Song Yuanxian ordered Peaceful Mountain to prove that the Dui True Lord was dead or face destruction. Liu Xiaowen reviewed the casualties and set out for Great Mystery Mountain to reclaim it from Autumn Clarity Gate.

• Tian'ou ordered Song Shiyi and King Zhaoshan to hold Houji Liang and form a grand array, then dismissed Song Shiyi's suggestion to enlist Lü Zhao.
• Song Shiyi summoned Song Yuanxian, who ordered Qingjing to seek the golden position and prove the Dui True Lord had fallen, threatening to destroy Peaceful Mountain if he refused.
• Liu Xiaowen learned that Yuan Sui had been captured, Ru Su's fate was unknown, and Guang Chan was gravely wounded.
• Liu Xiaowen decided to visit Tip-Feng Mountain and reclaim Great Mystery Mountain from Autumn Clarity Gate.
• Liu Xiaowen traveled toward Shu, intending to offer Autumn Clarity Gate benefits to relocate before resorting to force.

Liu Xiaowen went to Great Mystery Mountain to reclaim the Great Scarlet lineage’s ancestral land from the weakened Autumn Clarity Dao lineage. When True Person Cloud Crane of Mount Huayin intervened and claimed his lineage would oversee the handover, Liu Xiaowen prepared to fight him.

• Wen Guang told Liu Xiaowen that Autumn Clarity was in disarray and that True Person Staying Rain was away in seclusion.
• Liu Xiaowen brought Wen Guang to Great Mystery Mountain and demanded that Autumn Clarity surrender its ancestral land.
• Xiao Dianmo agreed that Great Mystery Mountain belonged to Great Scarlet but asked for three days to prepare to leave.
• Liu Xiaowen discovered that Xiao Dianmo hoped to take Autumn Clarity’s Leaf-Blinding Formation and ordered the clan to leave before nightfall.
• True Person Cloud Crane arrived, accused Liu Xiaowen of bullying Autumn Clarity, and declared that Mount Huayin would oversee the handover.
• Liu Xiaowen rejected Cloud Crane’s demand, raised his Black-Iron Coiling Dragon Long Mace, and vowed to teach him a lesson.

Liu Xiaowen defeated Du Shaosi despite the Huayin True Person’s Xin Metal treasures, then ordered Xiao Dianmo and the Xiao Clan to leave Great Mystery Mountain. Afterward, Liu Xiaowen sensed that Bing Fire had stirred a savage influence within him, though clear qi dissolved it.

• Du Shaosi challenged Liu Xiaowen and used his Immaculate Body, Jade Token, and Mercury Sea to resist him.
• Liu Xiaowen burned through Du Shaosi’s defenses with Eternal Bright Profound Flame and struck him repeatedly, overwhelming his healing and escape techniques.
• Liu Xiaowen’s Divine Radiance Tower and Longflame Radiance Treasure Bag helped him land further attacks before he sent Du Shaosi flying through several mountains.
• Du Shaosi escaped underground using Water Transformation, and Liu Xiaowen returned to Great Mystery Mountain without pursuing him.
• Liu Xiaowen ordered Xiao Dianmo to leave with the Xiao Clan within one day, and Xiao Dianmo accepted his mercy.
• Liu Xiaowen sensed Bing Fire stirring a savage aura within him, but clear qi dissolved it.

Liu Xiaowen restored Supreme Mystery Mountain’s bing fire and learned how metal proportions shaped the Sun-Mirror and the path of the Keeper of Proportions. At Huayin, Yu Sui sent his injured son Du Shaosi to the front lines while privately fearing the corruption within him.

• Liu Xiaowen removed the Leaf-Blinding Formation and burned away the later buildings on Upper Yang Peak, restoring its ancient bing fire radiance.
• Wen Guang explained Supreme Mystery Mountain’s Heavenly Fire Gathering ritual and described how the Keeper of Proportions combined geng and dui metals to make victory gold.
• Liu Xiaowen connected the Keeper of Proportions’ metal transmutation to the Sun-Mirror and considered why ultimate fire lacked radiance.
• Du Shaosi arrived at Frost-Bloom Palace injured and asked Yu Sui to uphold justice against True Person Bingxiao.
• Yu Sui treated Du Shaosi’s wounds, ordered him to retrieve a lesser yin treasure, and sent him to the northern front to seek revenge on the Calamity-Splitting Sword Immortal.
• After Du Shaosi left, Yu Sui admitted that Desire-Light Liquid Transformation had ruined him and worried that the infant Shao Fu might suffer the same fate.

On Wolf Mountain, Bai Jun drained the blood of a captive Wenyáo and lectured Qu Ling on Gen Earth's cultivation. He ordered his department to advance without him while he remained behind to cultivate Fate Command Sovereign, still intent on claiming a Fruit Position.

• Qu Ling collected the Wenyáo's blood for Bai Jun, cutting its wound open when the flow was too slow.
• Bai Jun explained how Gen Earth could counter Nurturing Earth through movement and stillness, then criticized Qu Ling's cultivation and described Gen's Reverent Stillness.
• Bai Jun ordered Qu Ling to spread word that he would remain on Wolf Mountain to cultivate Fate Command Sovereign rather than accompany the advance.
• Bai Jun reflected on his ambition to claim a Fruit Position and on his advantage in cultivation speed.
• Bai Jun continued tormenting the Wenyáo and lamented that the Vermilion Boar and Grave Sheep in the north might not survive until he could reach them.

Xu Xuan reviewed the Profound Offering Sword Lineage and the looming conflict with Huayin before joining the gathered True Persons to plan an assault on Divine Proclamation Ridge. Prince Mount Li arrived with overseas allies and announced that the Song Clan would deploy a supreme fire-virtue treasure, leaving Xu Xuan wary that the war could draw in Venerable Heavenly Lotus Light.

• Xu Xuan considered letting Xu Ming study [Free and Unfettered Journey] and wondered whether the Sword Ancestor’s Dao lineage still existed, while Tiantuo said its primordial sword Dao was too dangerous to cultivate.
• Xu Xuan decided to leave Huayin’s conflict with his Sect to Xiao Wen for the time being, then Liu Xingfang arrived to report that Great True Person Northern Yin had summoned Xu Xuan to discuss the coming battle.
• Xu Xuan recognized that Liu Xingfang had mastered [Primordial Unity Thunderfire] and advised him to prepare [Primordial Sequence] after perfecting [Heaven-Commanding Tribulation].
• Northern Yin reported that Demon Fang had covered Divine Proclamation Ridge with a pure land and ascended the lotus throne, prompting True Person Chan Wei to question how they could face the Second Seats.
• Prince Mount Li introduced two overseas True Persons and declared that the Song Clan would use a supreme treasure of fire virtue to lead the assault on the Demon-Binding Pure Land.
• Xu Xuan sensed a threat from Prince Mount Li’s hidden reserves and worried that Venerable Heavenly Lotus Light might enter the war.

At Divine Proclamation Ridge, Song Mingli revealed a broken Dharma Treasure that summoned Lord Ashen Death, who annihilated Demon Fang and the Demon-Binding Pure Land. Xu Xuan realized the Li Emperor was striking directly at the Rebirth Dharma Dao’s supreme power, while Northern Yin True Person said the True Lords were the First Cause.

• Demon Fang activated the Dark Heaven Wrathfire Grand Formation as the Li Army approached, but Song Mingli came forward alone to challenge him.
• Song Mingli drew a broken sword, and a blood-colored star appeared as Yang Puto, Evil Land, and the other True Persons fled.
• Song Mingli sent the sword into the star, and Lord Ashen Death emerged, clad in Bloodfire armor and carrying the blade.
• Ashen Death’s sword stroke burned away Demon Fang, the Demon-Binding Pure Land, its Bodhis and Diamonds, and Divine Proclamation Ridge.
• Xu Xuan connected the attack to the Song Clan’s earlier probing in the west and wondered what had changed, while Northern Yin True Person declared the outcome settled and called the True Lords the First Cause.

After Li Fire devastated the Rebirth Pure Lands, Tian Tanban ordered his followers to prepare for the coming conflict, while Great Lotus Vow sacrificed himself to carry a sacred Relic against the Bloodfire. In the One-Mind Dharma Realm, Great World Sea explained the Amitabha Aspect’s origins to Gu Huaixu and promised him a chance to attain nurturing earth through Buddhism.

• Tian Tanban declared that Rebirth had lost the present battle but learned that Li Fire’s divine status was incomplete, then sent disciples to seek aid and preserve the lineage.
• Great Lotus Vow swallowed the golden Relic, sacrificed his Golden Body, and departed on the Mount Sumeru Throne toward the Bloodfire near the Female Yin River.
• Gu Huaixu returned to the One-Mind Dharma Realm, where Great World Sea received him and explained the distinction between Immortal Beasts, Divine Beings, and dao deities.
• Great World Sea revealed that the Amitabha Aspect was the collective creation of living beings and the future World-Honored One.
• Great World Sea told Gu Huaixu that present Buddhism could give him a chance to attain the Golden Rank and become a Buddha of nurturing earth after Divine Vastness’s affairs were settled.

Ashen Death destroyed Great Lotus Vow and shattered White Lotus Mountain’s Dharma Realm before vanishing, leaving the Path of Rebirth exposed to an assault by Song Mingli’s forces. As the battle against Tian Tanban began, Xiao Huaimi learned that Heavenly Lotus Light was about to fall, and wondered what realm the Southern Emperor had reached.

• Ashen Death killed Great Lotus Vow, absorbed the Greater Yang Sunflame, and shattered the Dharma Realm protecting White Lotus Mountain before disappearing with [Burning Abandonment].
• Xu Xuan assessed the devastation and the deadly Ten Suns’ Heavenly Patrol calamity as Song Mingli led the True Persons and Purple Mansion cultivators into the ruined Rebirth Dharma Realm.
• Zhang Yu demanded that Tian Tanban release the mortals joined to the Amitabha Sacred Aspect, but Tian Tanban refused, and the two prepared to fight.
• Gao Wand u, Jianshi, Wu Chu, and Xu Xuan joined the assault on Tian Tanban as Song Mingli declared that Rebirth would be destroyed.
• At Edict Spirit Mountain, Xiao Jun told Xiao Huaimi that the Treasure Tower Pure Land had left for the West Kang Plains, and Xiao Huaimi sensed that Heavenly Lotus Light was about to fall.