Chapter Summaries

Xu Taiping returned to the Three Sovereigns Dao Palace and agreed to rescue Xu Chengling from Su Lian in True Martial Heaven. After receiving Yun Shiliu’s information and a White True Fruit from Feng Tianxing, he was sent to confront Su Lian as the three elders’ final protective layer broke.

• Xu Taiping arrived at the Three Sovereigns Dao Palace, reunited with Feng Tianxing, and revealed that he had only three to five years of lifespan left after fighting Dragon Emperor Ao Yan.
• Xu Taiping agreed to rescue his grandnephew Xu Chengling, while Yun Shiliu warned that Su Lian was close to breaking through the elders’ defenses.
• Xu Taiping asked Yun Shiliu for a divine soul mark about Su Lian and received a White True Fruit from Feng Tianxing to restore his strength.
• Yun Shiliu used the Three Emperors Mirror to send Xu Taiping to True Martial Heaven as Su Lian shattered the final layer protecting the three elders.

Su Lian tortured the Three Sovereigns Dao Palace elders to pressure Yun Shiliu and nearly broke Xu Chengling’s Dao heart by unleashing her overwhelming power. Xu Taiping arrived to save his great-grandnephew and attacked Su Lian with his Ultimate Realm, No-Blade Form.

• Su Lian extracted soul threads from three captured elders and tortured Elder Su while Xu Chengling pleaded for her to stop.
• Xu Chengling threatened Su Lian, but her aura overwhelmed him and began to make his Dao heart collapse.
• Xu Taiping descended from a sunlike light, and Xu Chengling recognized him as his great-granduncle.
• Xu Taiping drew the Water-Cutting Blade and unleashed the Ultimate Realm, No-Blade Form at Su Lian.

As Su Lian of the Nether Palace slaughtered the Three Sovereigns Dao Palace and taunted the lower realm, Xu Taiping descended to confront her. His overwhelming blade strike crushed her attack and sent her crashing into a hill, leaving the spectators stunned by his power.

• Cultivators in a Chenglong Heaven restaurant argued over Su Lian’s humiliation of the lower realm, while Cui Tiegu and Liu Zijin discussed whether the Azure Profound Sect would have intervened and what Xu Taiping would do.
• Su Lian crushed three Three Sovereigns Dao Palace elders and challenged the lower-realm cultivators, prompting Cui Tiegu to wonder whether the Three Sovereigns Dao Palace would protect Xu Chengling or its foundations.
• Xu Taiping appeared in the Battle-Watching Projection and mocked Su Lian by calling her a mayfly rather than a blue sky.
• Xu Taiping struck Su Lian with a vast blade shadow that erased her palm attack and drove her into a hill as his blade force ravaged the surrounding land.
• Cui Tiegu and the other spectators recognized the terrifying destructive power of Xu Taiping’s blade technique.

Xu Taiping fought Su Lian, breaking through her Black Tortoise Seal with his primordial chaos clone and a divine-seal treasure before smashing her body apart. As lightning gathered around her remains, Cui Tiegu suspected that she had the legendary thunderclap body.

• Su Lian tore through Xu Taiping’s blade shadows, but Xu Taiping countered with the Ultimate Realm Burning Blade Style and forced her to defend against his dragon-shaped blade qi.
• Xu Taiping’s primordial chaos clone attacked Su Lian with the Demon Ancestor Heaven-Shaking Fist, but her Black Tortoise Seal withstood its blows.
• A golden armguard bearing five divine seal halos appeared on the clone, and its strengthened Heaven-Touching strikes cracked and shattered Su Lian’s Black Tortoise dharma aspect.
• The clone merged with six divine manifestations to form a fourteen-armed dharma aspect, then struck Su Lian repeatedly and smashed her body into pieces.
• Thunderclouds gathered above Su Lian’s remains as pillars of light and lightning outlined an enormous body, prompting Cui Tiegu to wonder if she possessed the legendary thunderclap body.

Su Lian manifested her thunderclap body and trapped Xu Taiping under a barrage of thunder, but he countered with his true dragon forbidden domain. When the power began to fail, Xu Taiping heard familiar sword cries from the mist-sealed Azure Profound Sect and called on its disciples to lend him their swords.

• Su Lian summoned a thunderclap body and struck Xu Taiping with thunder spears and space-rending power, injuring him and trapping his primordial chaos clone.
• Xu Taiping used his true dragon forbidden domain to erase the thunder around him, though he realized he could sustain it only briefly.
• As Xu Taiping prepared to use the Dragon Vault Battle Armor and the Blade of Guicang, familiar wind and sword cries rose from the ruins of the Azure Profound Sect.
• Xu Taiping called out to his master, martial uncles, and fellow disciples, asking them to lend him their swords.
• Points of light appeared in the gray mist as Xu Taiping repeated his plea to borrow swords.

Xu Taiping endured Su Lian’s thunderous attacks and repeatedly called on the Azure Profound Sect for swords, while observers debated whether the sect’s people had returned. Hundreds of swords answered from the ruins, gathering around him as the battle continued.

• Liu Zijin and Cui Tiegu questioned why Xu Taiping had withdrawn his forbidden domain power when lights appeared in the Azure Profound Sect ruins.
• Feng Tianxing and Yun Shiliu were baffled by the lights as Xu Taiping repeatedly called himself a disciple of the Azure Profound Sect and asked to borrow swords.
• Su Lian struck Xu Taiping with thunder spears and tore away some of his dragon scales, but he continued calling to his martial uncles and fellow disciples.
• A light cluster burst apart, releasing an ancient sword whose cry rang throughout True Martial Heaven.
• Hundreds of light clusters exploded, and sword shadows rose from the ruins to gather around Xu Taiping.

Xu Taiping used Lü Daoxuan’s Hidden Sword Art to resist and dismantle Su Lian’s thunder attack. The spectators realized the technique could eventually achieve the sword cultivators’ long-sought goal of breaking all arts with a single sword.

• Yun Shiliu explained to Feng Tianxing that Xu Taiping’s sword cry planted sword intent in the hearts of those who witnessed it.
• Su Lian summoned four thunder-formed deities and sent them to strike Xu Taiping.
• Xu Taiping called on Rusty Lion to guide the hidden swords, which blocked the deities’ attack and broke its killing power into ancient seal script characters.
• Su Lian intensified the thunder and forced the sword shadows inward, but Xu Taiping used righteous sword light and the Sword-Disassembling Method to turn the deities and thunder into characters, then erased them.
• Yun Shiliu told Feng Tianxing that Xu Taiping’s technique could one day accomplish One Sword Breaks Ten Thousand Arts.

As Su Lian’s void-rending power shattered Xu Taiping’s summoned sword shadows, Xu Taiping hesitated to draw his Demon-Sealing Swords because he feared forgetting something precious. He recognized the sorrowful voices of the Cloud Lodge Peaks and called on them for swords, as countless immense beams of sword light rose behind him.

• Su Lian revealed hidden divine seal power and used her void-rending ability to break Xu Taiping’s sword shadows.
• Yun Shiliu asked Feng Tianxing for immortal swords, but he said it was too late and noted that Xu Taiping already possessed powerful swords of his own.
• Xu Taiping hesitated to use his Demon-Sealing Swords as he sensed a strange trembling from the gray mist and felt he might forget something precious.
• Xu Taiping remembered first seeing the Cloud Lodge Peaks with Senior Sister Linglong and Senior Brother Dugu, then heard the peaks’ mournful voices.
• Xu Taiping called for swords from all the Cloud Lodge Peaks, and seven towering sword lights followed by hundreds more surged from the mist behind him.

Xu Taiping used his mountain-sized sword shadows to dismantle Su Lian’s thunder and space-shattering powers, but she unleashed a desperate counterattack that forced him to meet a giant hand with Rusty Lion. In Dragonwhisker Town, Cui Tiegu reaffirmed his resolve to pursue his sword Dao despite Liu Zijin’s warning that Xu Taiping overshadowed all sword cultivators.

• Xu Taiping’s sword shadows turned Su Lian’s divine manifestations and space-shattering power into golden seal-script characters for annihilation.
• A cultivator in the tavern cried out that Xu Taiping had achieved one sword to break ten thousand arts, and Cui Tiegu asked Liu Zijin whom she would support if he fought Xu Taiping.
• Liu Zijin chose Xu Taiping because she owed him a life-saving debt and urged Cui Tiegu to give up the sword.
• Cui Tiegu refused to abandon his Dao and told Liu Zijin to collect his corpse if she would not help safeguard it.
• Su Lian used Liberation by Violence on herself, dispersing the characters for annihilation with a storm of thunder and spatial rifts.
• Xu Taiping grasped Rusty Lion and thrust it at the enormous hand Su Lian formed to seize him.

Xu Taiping defeated Su Lian, but her sacrifice summoned a strange hand that badly injured Xu Chengling before Xu Taiping sealed him in five-colored crystal. Heavenly Punishment destroyed Su Lian and the hand, and the chapter ended with Xu Taiping telling Yun Shiliu that Chengling was in bad shape.

• Xu Taiping unleashed his Hidden Sword Art and annihilated Su Lian’s shadow, but she sacrificed her fortune to summon her lord.
• A strange hand emerged from Su Lian and reached for Xu Chengling, so Xu Taiping used Form- and Shadow-Transposition Technique to protect him; the hand still destroyed Xu Chengling’s right eye.
• Xu Taiping used the Heaven-Replenishing Book’s power to encase Xu Chengling in five-colored crystal, which the strange hand could not crush.
• The strange hand recognized Xu Taiping as a Life-Replenisher and threatened him, but Heavenly Punishment struck it and Su Lian down.
• Yun Shiliu contacted Xu Taiping through a Jade Slip, and Xu Taiping told him that Chengling was in bad shape.

Sun Bing told Yun Shiliu that Xu Chengling had lost much of his fortune and cultivation talent, but Xu Taiping’s message restored Xu Chengling’s resolve to keep seeking a path through martial arts and other disciplines. At the Profound Elixir Palace, Xu Taiping considered earning a Purple Mansion Pill by becoming a Ziyang Sect Guest Attendant, then received word that Xiahou You had information about the Jade Pool Secret Realm.

• Sun Bing told Yun Shiliu that Xu Chengling’s injuries had cost him thirty percent of his fortune and cultivation talent, and said only killing the Nether Lord could remedy the loss.
• Xu Chengling heard Xu Taiping’s message urging him not to abandon cultivation, then asked Yun Shiliu to take him back to the Three Sovereigns Dao Palace so he could pursue martial arts or another discipline.
• Feng Tianxing suggested that Xu Taiping seek a Ziyang Sect Guest Attendant seat, since the sect rewarded attendants and elders who served it well with a Purple Mansion Pill.
• Duan Xiaoyu relayed that Xiahou You had left Xu Taiping information about the Jade Pool Secret Realm, prompting Xu Taiping to react with surprise.

Zhu Huai and the others gathered at the White Jade Tower for a banquet honoring Xu Taiping, discussing the Nether Palace’s threat and waiting for him to arrive. When Chu Xiaoxiao opened the door expecting Taiping, a stranger struck her and demanded that everyone leave the private room on behalf of the Jiang Household.

• Mu Yun welcomed Zhu Huai, Zhang Moyan, and the others to their private room at the White Jade Tower for a banquet honoring Xu Taiping.
• The group discussed Xu Chengling’s ruined cultivation prospects and worried that Taiping had made an enemy of the Nether Palace by defeating Su Lian.
• Duan Xiaoyu explained that Xiahou You and Xiahou Qingyuan had left Chenglong Heaven on urgent clan business, while Chu Xiaoxiao urged her to contact Taiping.
• Chu Xiaoxiao rushed to answer a knock, but an unseen attacker struck her and shattered her Protective Dharma Treasure.
• A domineering young woman entered and ordered everyone to surrender the private room to the Jiang Household.

At White Jade Tower, Mu Yun, Zhu Huai, and Jiang Cuicui clashed with Jiang Yan and two Jiang Household elders over a private room, while Ningchan Cave cultivators urged the elders to deal with them. Feng Tianxing and Xu Taiping arrived at the restaurant, where the house master challenged Feng Tianxing’s ranking of White Jade Brew.

• Jiang Yan attacked Chu Xiaoxiao and demanded that Mu Yun’s group leave the private room, but Zhu Huai and Mu Yun stopped her flying sword and their aura sent her into a wall.
• Jiang Zhou arrived, heard Jiang Yan’s misleading account, and accused Mu Yun’s group of taking the room and hurting his granddaughter.
• Jiang Zhou’s black-haired younger brother and cultivators from Ningchan Cave arrived, and the two Jiang elders demanded that Zhu Huai and Mu Yun leave.
• Zhu Huai refused the elders’ demand, while Mu Yun tried to explain that the private room belonged to his group.
• Feng Tianxing and Xu Taiping entered White Jade Tower, where Feng Tianxing praised White Jade Brew and the middle-aged man at the counter interrupted to object to its fifth-place ranking.

Xu Taiping and Feng Tianxing reunited with Du Kang at White Jade Tower, where Du Kang offered them three jars of his father's Three-Thousand-Year White Jade Brew. As they reached the private room where Xu Taiping's friends were waiting, Duan Xiaoyu was hurled through the doorway, and Xu Taiping's aura erupted.

• Feng Tianxing recognized Du Kang, the master of White Jade Tower, and introduced him to Xu Taiping.
• Du Kang greeted Xu Taiping warmly and offered to arrange a more prestigious private room, but Xu Taiping said his friends had booked the Earth Character Bing Room.
• Du Kang agreed to bring three jars of his father's Three-Thousand-Year White Jade Brew and led Xu Taiping and Shopkeeper Lu upstairs.
• Shopkeeper Lu explained that he had reserved the room for Xu Taiping's friends, but the room's door was suddenly blasted off its hinges.
• Duan Xiaoyu flew out of the room, and Xu Taiping's aura erupted, shaking the restaurant.

Xu Taiping arrived at White Jade Tower and stopped the Jiang Clan’s black-robed Elder from hurting Duan Xiaoyu, then crushed the Elder and Jiang Hu with Mountain Spirit Power. After Zhu Huai and Mu Yun warned him about an ambush inside the side room, Xu Taiping froze the flames at its entrance and walked in.

• The Jiang Clan’s black-robed Clan Elder attacked Duan Xiaoyu, but Xu Taiping knocked him through a side room and pinned him to the floor with Mountain Spirit Power.
• Xu Taiping helped Duan Xiaoyu up, and she told him the Elder had struck her by surprise.
• The Elder accused Duan Xiaoyu and her companions of seizing the Jiang Clan’s reserved room, while Jiang Hu claimed they had attacked Jiang Clan youths first.
• Zhu Huai warned Xu Taiping that three Lower Realm disciples of Ningchan Cave had prepared a killing formation and magic artifacts inside the side room, and Mu Yun urged him not to enter rashly.
• Xu Taiping slammed Jiang Hu into the floor, extinguished the flames at the doorway with true dragon frost heaven power, and entered the side room.

Xu Taiping broke a Ningchan Cave cultivator’s Law Domain and defeated the attackers, then confronted the Jiang Household over its role in the attempted murder. Zhu Huai produced an intact Moonshadow Stone as the dispute over who reserved the side room remained unresolved.

• Xu Taiping used his Spell-Breaking Form to destroy the Ningchan Cave cultivator’s Law Domain and cut down the disciples as they fled.
• The long-faced Ningchan Cave cultivator warned Xu Taiping that Ningchan Cave would hunt him if he ascended, then he and the other disciples were destroyed by lightning punishment.
• Feng Tianxing and Du Kang accused Jiang Zhou and the Jiang Household of plotting against Xu Taiping, while Jiang Zhou denied involvement and claimed the Jiang Household had reserved the side room.
• Jiang Hu blamed Xu Taiping for the conflict and called on Jiang Yan to show her Moonshadow Stone, but she revealed that it was shattered.
• Jiang Zhou requested that the Moonshadow Stone’s Mother Stone be brought as evidence, but Zhu Huai stopped him and declared that their Moonshadow Stone was intact.

After Jiang Yan admitted that Ningchan Cave had tricked her into framing Xu Taiping’s group, White Jade Tower hosted them at a celebratory banquet. The next day, Xu Taiping learned that Yaochi Sacred Land had reappeared in Outer Heaven, then received word that Venerable Jiaye had found a way to extend his lifespan and wanted him at Jiaye Temple.

• Jiang Yan confessed that Ningchan Cave had deceived her into falsely accusing Xu Taiping’s group, and Jiang Hu slapped her for endangering the Jiang Household.
• Xu Taiping realized Ningchan Cave had arranged the confrontation and ambush, while Feng Tianxing encouraged him to face future threats as they came.
• Du Kang apologized and invited Xu Taiping’s group to a banquet, where they drank White Jade Brew and Duan Xiaoyu gave Xu Taiping a Jade Slip from Xiahou You.
• Duan Xiaoyu drunkenly told Xu Taiping she was glad his cultivation had not changed his nature, prompting him to reflect on remaining himself as he grew stronger.
• Xu Taiping read Xiahou You’s Jade Slip and decided he might need to reach the Land of Chaos soon to pursue opportunities at the newly reappeared Yaochi Sacred Land.
• Dongfang Yuejian told Xu Taiping that Venerable Jiaye had returned from his soul journey, found a way to extend Xu Taiping’s lifespan, and summoned him to Jiaye Temple.

Xu Taiping learned that the Jade Pool Secret Realm had reappeared and that the fruits he needed to extend his lifespan might be found in the Yaochi Sacred Land, so he prepared to ascend early despite the dangers. Feng Tianxing offered to seek help from the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage’s disciple, while Xu Taiping went to Jiaye Temple to hear Venerable Jiaye’s information.

• Feng Tianxing urged Xu Taiping to stay at Cloudrise Manor and warned that ascending early could expose him to enemies in the Upper Realm.
• Xu Taiping told Feng Tianxing that the Jade Pool Secret Realm had reappeared and that the Azure Void Fruit and Red Sun Fruit might be in the Yaochi Sacred Land.
• Feng Tianxing warned that powerful heavenly soldiers and divine generals guarded the sacred land’s treasures and offered to seek protection from the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage’s disciple.
• Xu Taiping told Feng Tianxing that Venerable Jiaye had found information about the Yaochi Sacred Land, then left to visit Jiaye Temple.
• Dongfang Yuejian greeted Xu Taiping at Jiaye Temple, and Venerable Jiaye invited him into the main hall.

Xu Taiping learned that Abbot Jiaye had mapped the Yaochi Sacred Land and located the life-extending fruits, but that the realm was exceptionally dangerous. Abbot Jiaye revealed the Three Thousand Lotus Mirror, which could let Xu Taiping explore a replica of the sacred land, and Xu Taiping asked how much merit it would cost to use.

• Abbot Jiaye told Xu Taiping that his soul journey had revealed Azure Void Fruit and Red Sun Fruit in the Yaochi Sacred Land, along with a detailed map and guard schedules.
• Abbot Jiaye warned Xu Taiping that the sacred land contained powerful beings, divine intent, and traces of a Heavenly Dao Edict, making it more dangerous than any Lower Realm secret realm.
• Xu Taiping decided to enter the Yaochi Sacred Land because his other lead, the Ziyang Sect, would take years to yield a lifespan-extending pill.
• Abbot Jiaye created a lotus world in the Three Thousand Lotus Mirror using his divine soul mark, reproducing what he had seen in the sacred land.
• Abbot Jiaye explained that using the mirror required substantial merit, and Xu Taiping asked how much merit he had and how long he could explore the lotus world.

Xu Taiping learned that the Spirit Mirror’s lotus gave him thirty-six chances to explore a dangerous minor world resembling the Yaochi Sacred Land, then drew the Taoguang Jue from the Treasure-Gathering Basin. Eager to prepare for the Upper Realm, he chose to enter the minor world immediately.

• Abbot Jiaye explained that Xu Taiping’s three thousand merit had opened the lotus fully and that its thirty-six petals represented his entries into the minor world.
• Abbot Jiaye warned Xu Taiping that dying in the minor world would use up an entry, and exhausting all thirty-six would destroy the lotus and the world within it.
• Xu Taiping used his remaining merit to draw a treasure from the Treasure-Gathering Basin, and a koi transformed into a jade jue engraved with “Taoguang.”
• Dongfang Yuejian identified the jade jue as Ge Xuan’s Taoguang Jue, which could increase its bearer’s combat strength after they suppressed their power in battle.
• Xu Taiping declined to rest and told Abbot Jiaye that he would enter the lotus minor world at once.