Chapter Summaries

Xu Taiping arrived at the Crimson Heaven Spirit Garden as Lü Daoxuan’s Great Dao Natal Magical Sword neared completion but remained sheathed. Xu Taiping stayed behind to test the sword, and Lü Daoxuan finally drew it with a strike that cleaved through a mountain peak.

• Xu Taiping rushed toward the sword light, where Zhao Qian and the Azure Profound Sect Peak Lords explained that Lü Daoxuan’s completed sword had not left its scabbard because its first strike might overwhelm the nearby restrictions.
• Zhao Qian and Meng Qingqiu explained that someone had to test the Origin of the Great Dao Immortal Sword to complete its final quenching.
• Xu Taiping asked Zhao Qian, Meng Qingqiu, and the others to retreat, then stayed a hundred zhang from the sword light and called on Lü Daoxuan to draw without worry.
• Sword Qi Gang Wind erupted around the sword light, ravaging the Crimson Heaven Spirit Garden as Lü Daoxuan prepared to draw his sword.
• Lü Daoxuan’s sword light vanished, then reappeared in a brilliant strike that cleaved through a mountain peak and shot into the sky.

After Lü Daoxuan completed his sword forging, Xu Taiping learned that the half-immortal curse brand also affected his master and offered to remove it using Primordial Chaos Pearls. Before he could take the pearls, Commander-in-Chief Huo Xuan sent an urgent message that the Vermilion Bird Army was trapped, then cut off.

• Xu Taiping tested Lü Daoxuan's newly forged sword techniques, stopping the sword shadows until Lü Daoxuan emerged from seclusion with his sword forging complete.
• Lü Daoxuan invited Xu Taiping to celebrate, but Xu Taiping noticed that Lü Daoxuan also bore a half-immortal curse brand and explained its danger and how to remove it.
• Lü Daoxuan exchanged his military merit for a thousand Primordial Chaos Pearls and gave Xu Taiping a hundred to remove the brand.
• Commander-in-Chief Huo Xuan warned Xu Taiping that the Nine Abysses' retreat was unusual and that the Vermilion Bird Army was trapped, then his message abruptly ended.

Xu Taiping learned that the Four Directions Army had been trapped by the Demon Mother’s edicts and began a deduction to find a way forward. His vision showed the White Tiger Army breaking through, but also revealed that the Four Directions Army would later suffer a devastating defeat before Yeyuan City.

• Bai Lu told Xu Taiping that the White Tiger Army was trapped behind an invisible wall, and Lin Buyan deduced that the barrier was likely an Earth Emperor-level edict from the awakened Demon Mother.
• Bai Lu announced that he would use the White Tiger Army’s Flame Emperor Origin Inheritance, the Heavenly Calamity Edict, to break the barrier, though Lin Buyan warned that the power could be used only once and might be part of the Demon Mother’s scheme.
• Xu Taiping persuaded Bai Lu and the other commanders to hold out while he used his great deductive power, then began his deduction with Lü Daoxuan’s Primordial Chaos Pearls.
• Xu Taiping saw Bai Lu lead the White Tiger Army in the form of a giant white tiger that tore through the Demon Mother’s edict, while explosions sounded from the other armies’ directions.
• Xu Taiping’s vision shifted to a future battle outside Yeyuan City, where the Four Directions Army was nearly annihilated by a three-to-four-million-strong defending army.

Xu Taiping realized Lü Daoxuan could break the Demon Mother's edict, but needed greater strength to send his sword to the battlefield in time. Ping'an linked their powers, giving Lü Daoxuan a chance to teach Xu Taiping how to draw the sword as they prepared to strike.

• Xu Taiping's deduction pointed to Lü Daoxuan as the solution, and Lü Daoxuan said his Great Dao Natal Immortal Sword might break the Demon Mother's edict.
• Lin Buyan suggested Lü Daoxuan use Xu Taiping's strength to overcome the time and power limits of the strike.
• Xu Taiping summoned Ping'an, who agreed to use his Origin Spiritual Bond Edict to share their power.
• Ping'an activated Spiritual Bond Point, linking his, Xu Taiping's, and Lü Daoxuan's minds and allowing Lü Daoxuan to control their bodies.
• Lü Daoxuan used Xu Taiping's cultivation to wield his sword and began teaching him how to draw it.

Lü Daoxuan taught Xu Taiping the Eye-Dotting Form, using his sword to awaken and order the profound thoughts within him. As Lü Daoxuan prepared to draw Heavenly Craft, the sword’s power gathered around Yanyuntai, and its true strike began.

• Lü Daoxuan explained that the Eye-Dotting Form awakened a sword’s spirit and brought sword intent and qi to their ultimate realm.
• Xu Taiping used the Dhyana Seal and Daoheart Emptiness to help Lü Daoxuan enter meditative emptiness as he sensed the sword within his Golden Mansion.
• Lü Daoxuan claimed the strange thoughts surfacing in his Divine Soul, and his sword qi transformed into runes that cracked the surrounding space.
• Geng Metal Qi gathered around Lü Daoxuan’s sword light, while the soldiers’ sabers and swords flew from their sheaths and pointed toward it.
• Zhao Qian told Feng Tianxing that the sword Lü Daoxuan forged was named Heavenly Craft, the most powerful and hardest to forge sword in the Taixuan Sect Inheritance.
• A dazzling sword light shot skyward from the gate tower as Lü Daoxuan drew his sword.

Lü Daoxuan unleashed Heavenly Craft, powered by Xu Taiping and Ping'an, to break the Demon Mother's Edict and open a path for the four human armies trapped in Luo Fish Province's Great Marsh. His sword shattered the barrier and carved a thousand-zhang road through the Demon Domain, leaving Zhao Qian asking Feng Tianxing how Qingxuan's sword was.

• Lü Daoxuan formed Heavenly Craft into a colossal immortal boat, and Feng Tianxing learned that Xu Taiping and Ping'an had lent their power to the strike.
• Lü Daoxuan sent Heavenly Craft from Yanyuntai toward Luo Fish Province's Great Marsh, where the four human armies were trapped behind the Demon Mother's Edict.
• Heavenly Craft pierced the Edict's intangible wall, but the barrier began repairing itself almost immediately.
• At Lü Daoxuan's command, Heavenly Craft destroyed the barrier and carved a broad road through the Demon Domain for the human armies.
• Zhao Qian asked Feng Tianxing how Qingxuan's sword was.

After freeing the Human Race Army from the Demon Mother's Edict, Lü Daoxuan sent Heavenly Craft toward Yeyuan City to challenge the Demon Mother and advance his swordsmanship. Heavenly Craft returned to Yanyuntai, but the Immortal Sword had been shattered until less than half of it remained.

• Lü Daoxuan used Heavenly Craft to destroy the Demon Mother's Edict, freeing the Human Race Army and renewing its charge toward Yeyuan City.
• Xu Taiping sensed that Lü Daoxuan's sword strike had not reached its full potential, and their exchange with Ping'an made them realize the sword needed to travel farther and strike a stronger opponent.
• Lü Daoxuan sent Heavenly Craft flying toward Yeyuan City to challenge the Demon Mother to a Sword Inquiry.
• At Yanyuntai, Feng Tianxing explained that facing the Demon Mother was necessary for Lü Daoxuan to reach the true Ultimate Realm of swordsmanship.
• A burst of light and blood appeared in the Reflected Projection, and Heavenly Craft returned to Yanyuntai shattered until less than half of the Immortal Sword remained.

Lü Daoxuan awakened his identity as the Ancient Heavenly Court’s Sword Bearer and resolved to reforge Heavenly Craft before the coming battle with the Demon Mother and the Nine Abysses. As Lü Daoxuan entered seclusion, Xu Taiping sought a way to speed up his sword forging and accepted Blade Ghost’s offer to show him the Avīci Blade Domain.

• Lü Daoxuan called to the broken Heavenly Craft Sword, regained his memories and divine power, and declared himself Sword Master Lü Kui, returning to his station.
• Lü Daoxuan told Xu Taiping that reforging Heavenly Craft could let him advance to Void Insight Eight Inches or beyond, and warned that the awakened Demon Mother and the Nine Abysses threatened their coming battle.
• Xu Taiping resolved to strengthen himself and the Demon-Slaying Army while Lü Daoxuan entered seclusion in the Crimson Heaven Spirit Garden to reforge Heavenly Craft.
• Xu Taiping realized he could not melt the Shoushan copper in his Dao Body Furnace quickly enough and asked Blade Ghost for help tempering his physique.
• Blade Ghost brought out a blood-colored sphere and invited Xu Taiping to enter his Avīci Blade Domain.

Blade Ghost brought Xu Taiping to the fifteenth level of the Infernal Blade Prison to temper his physique by having the Fire-Eyes Ghost Wardens attack him. Xu Taiping endured their blows without striking back and asked Blade Ghost to make them attack at full strength.

• Blade Ghost explained that he had combined the Infernal Blade Prison with the Yellow Springs inheritance to reopen its eighteen levels of hell.
• Blade Ghost took Xu Taiping to the fifteenth level, where Fire-Eyes plowed over heaps of corpses as punishment for evil ghosts.
• Blade Ghost told Xu Taiping to endure the Fire-Eyes' attacks without fighting back, and Xu Taiping agreed.
• Xu Taiping raised his physique to the Ultimate Dao Realm and stood still as the Fire-Eyes struck him.
• After Xu Taiping said the attacks were barely of some use, Blade Ghost ordered the Fire-Eyes to attack at full strength, and they surrounded Xu Taiping with blows.

Xu Taiping endured the seventeenth level of Blade Prison to temper his body and wrap Shoushan Copper around his bones as part of forging his sword. Three months later, the Human Race Army reached Yeyuan City, and Huo Xuan called on Xu Taiping's Demon-Slaying Army to prepare to deploy.

• After the Fire-Eyes' blows melted the Shoushan Copper in Xu Taiping's Dao Body Furnace, it began wrapping around his bones, and the ghosts could no longer injure him.
• Blade Ghost brought Xu Taiping to the seventeenth level, where Xu Taiping volunteered to be crushed by its stone mills.
• Xu Taiping discovered the mills' Yellow Springs Edict accelerated the Shoushan Copper's progress, so Blade Ghost ordered the mills to keep rolling over him despite their breaking.
• Over the following dozen days, around fifty stone mills shattered, but Blade Ghost let the punishment continue to strengthen Xu Taiping's physique.
• Three months later, Huo Xuan announced that the Human Race Army had reached Yeyuan City and told Xu Taiping to prepare the Demon-Slaying Army to deploy.

The Three Commanders-in-Chief learned that the Nine Abysses could revive its Demon Armor and Demonic Generals in Yeyuan City within five days, making a swift victory essential. Huo Xuan called Xu Taiping’s Demon-Slaying Army to join them, and two days later Xu Taiping and his 800,000 troops were speeding toward Yeyuan City aboard ten Dragon Clan Immortal Boats.

• Zhao Cangwu, Wei Ming, and Huo Xuan viewed the Demonic Army defending Yeyuan City and discussed the threat it posed.
• Bai Lu explained that the Nine Abysses had a limited number of demon seeds and could revive fallen Demon Armor and Demonic Generals near the Demon Mother in less than five days.
• The commanders agreed to surround Yeyuan City while waiting for Xu Taiping, but to attack if his army did not arrive within five days.
• Huo Xuan sent Xu Taiping an urgent message, and Xu Taiping promised that his army would arrive within the deadline.
• Two days later, Xu Taiping led 800,000 soldiers aboard ten Dragon Clan Immortal Boats toward Yeyuan City.

Xu Taiping led the Demon-Slaying Army toward Yeyuan City, but Half-Immortal Zhechen intercepted him and demanded that he stay behind in exchange for hiding the location of Xuanbei, Fengzhu, and A Meng. Xu Taiping refused to withdraw the army and faced Zhechen alone, while a sword formation trapped him and the battle for Yeyuan City continued.

• Xu Taiping told Lin Buyu that he had forged a sword embryo but had not yet completed his sword.
• Zhechen, Jade Dipper, and a masked cultivator descended on the Demon-Slaying Army's Immortal Boat, and Zhechen revealed that he knew where Xuanbei, Fengzhu, and A Meng were hiding.
• Zhechen demanded that Xu Taiping withdraw his troops, then offered to spare the hidden half-immortals if Xu Taiping stayed behind; Xu Taiping refused to withdraw the army and told Lin Buyu to continue ahead.
• At Yeyuan City, Huo Xuan and the other commanders questioned Xu Taiping's decision, while Bai Lu said Zhechen might not be able to hold him.
• A grand formation of immortal swords appeared around Xu Taiping, and Huo Xuan realized Zhechen had come prepared.

Xu Taiping was trapped and wounded by Zhechen and two other half-immortals using a powerful sword formation. As the four commanders-in-chief prepared to attack Yeyuan City, Xu Taiping provoked Zhechen into ordering the others to activate the formation together.

• Zhao Cangwu, Wei Ming, and Huo Xuan discussed how Zhechen's interference had endangered Xu Taiping's arrival and the Human Race Army's prospects.
• The Demonic Army battered the Human Race Army's shield formation for hours, forcing the four commanders-in-chief to send in reserves and consider attacking Yeyuan City.
• Zhechen and two other half-immortals used the sword formation to wound Xu Taiping and bind him with strands of edict power.
• Zhechen explained that he considered both the Orthodox Path Cultivation World and the Nine Abysses necessary to keep each other in check.
• Xu Taiping called Zhechen and his allies beasts, prompting Zhechen to order Jade Dipper and Qingzhou to command the swords together and activate the formation.

Xu Taiping revealed his sword-forged ultimate Dao true dragon divine being body, broke the Half-Immortals’ formation, and incapacitated Zhechen, Jade Dipper, and Qingzhou. Though Crow Heavenly Venerable threatened to withhold help against the Demon Mother if Xu Taiping killed Zhechen, Xu Taiping declared that help was no longer needed and unleashed Southern Bright Li Fire on Zhechen.

• Zhechen, Jade Dipper, and Qingzhou intensified their sword formation against Xu Taiping, but he emerged unscathed and expanded his true dragon divine being body until his aura shattered the formation.
• Zhechen, Jade Dipper, and Qingzhou attacked Xu Taiping with edict powers, but Xu froze them with time power and erased the location of Heavenly Lord Xuanbei and the others from Zhechen’s memory.
• Xu Taiping grievously injured Jade Dipper and Qingzhou, then prepared to kill Zhechen, declaring that those not of their kind must have different hearts.
• Crow Heavenly Venerable threatened not to help Xu Taiping fight the Demon Mother if he killed Zhechen, while Wei Ming, Huo Xuan, and Zhao Cangwu worried that they needed Crow’s power.
• After Huo Xuan warned him that Crow’s help would be indispensable, Xu Taiping said they no longer needed it and poured Southern Bright Li Fire into Zhechen.

Xu Taiping killed Heretical Half-Immortal Zhechen and forced Crow Heavenly Venerable to defer their dispute until after the fight against the Demon Mother. As Yeyuan City's armies launched a fierce counterattack, the Human Race commanders formed a killing formation, but Demonic General Xie Bao moved to close the breach they had opened.

• Xu Taiping burned away Heretical Half-Immortal Zhechen, and Feng Tianxing claimed Zhechen's Half-Immortal Seat.
• Xu Taiping gave Crow Heavenly Venerable one last chance to withdraw, and Crow agreed to settle their accounts after the Demon Mother was slain.
• Yeyuan City's defending army broke through the surrounding formations and attacked the Human Race armies with a taotie battle-intent phantom led by Demonic General Zhaoma.
• Huo Xuan, Bai Lu, Zhao Cangwu, and Wei Ming ordered most of the Human Race Army into the Heaven-Splitting Battle Formation and unleashed golden spears that shattered the taotie phantom.
• The Vermilion Bird Army opened a breach in Zhaoma's formation, but Demonic General Xie Bao sent a Kui Ox phantom charging in to close it.

Bai Lu joined the White Tiger Army’s formation and killed the demonic general Xie Bao, lifting the Human Race Army’s battle intent and turning the fight at Yeyuan City. A powerful demonic cultivator named Lin Qinggu then pinned Bai Lu with a blood-colored sword and demanded that Xu Taiping come fight him.

• Bai Lu joined the White Tiger Army’s formation, doubling its battle intent and driving back Xie Bao’s Kui Ox Army.
• Bai Lu fought Xie Bao with the White Tiger Army’s formation charge and killed him, though Xie Bao’s attack left Bai Lu gravely wounded.
• Bai Lu ordered the White Tiger Army to wipe out the Kui Ox Army, inspiring the other human armies to surge forward with renewed battle intent.
• Lin Qinggu descended and pinned Bai Lu to the ground with a blood-colored sword formed from demonic soldiers’ battle intent.
• Huo Xuan and Zhao Cangwu tried to reach Bai Lu, but Lin Qinggu’s sword qi drove the advancing troops back.
• Lin Qinggu threatened to kill Bai Lu unless Xu Taiping appeared to fight him.

Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu joined the Human Race Army’s battle formation and revealed that they could freely mobilize its Battle Intent. Lin Buyu confronted Lin Qinggu while Xu Taiping’s allies fought to rescue Bai Lu, and the chapter ended as Lin Qinggu summoned a Demon God’s phantom image.

• Lin Qinggu used the Nine Abysses Demonic Army’s Battle Intent to repel the Black Tortoise Army and strike at Bai Lu, while Huo Xuan and Zhao Cangwu recognized him as a Wandering General.
• Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu arrived as reinforcements, and Huo Xuan admitted them into the Human Race Army’s formation.
• Xu Taiping demonstrated that he could freely gather the army’s Battle Intent and revealed that Lin Buyu could do the same.
• Lin Buyu attacked Lin Qinggu, driving him back with a sword strike powered by the Battle Intent she had gathered.
• Huo Xuan explained that the Listening Wind Bracelet let its two wearers share power, and Zhao Cangwu inferred that Lin Buyu and Xu Taiping were beloved.
• Lin Qinggu drew on the Battle Intent of the million suits of Demon Armor and formed a Demon God’s phantom image before him.

Lin Buyu used the Water God’s inherited power to defeat Lin Qinggu and rescue Bai Lu, while Xu Taiping fought Demonic General Zhaoma. The chapter ended with ten dragon boats appearing over Xu Taiping as he faced being surrounded in the Demonic Army.

• Lin Buyu refused Xu Taiping’s offer of battle intent and revealed that she could command the Human Race Army’s battle intent herself.
• Lin Buyu broke Lin Qinggu’s Demon God phantom image with her Heavenly Thunder Edicts, but Lin Qinggu countered with a Heavenly Flame Edict designed to defeat her.
• Lin Buyu summoned her Divine Maiden Dharma Aspect and unleashed the Water God’s Breath, overwhelming Lin Qinggu until Demonic General Zhaoma intervened with his Taotie phantom image.
• Xu Taiping struck Zhaoma’s army with a thousand-armed divine-being phantom image, while Lin Buyu pierced Lin Qinggu and destroyed his body; Lin Qinggu’s demon seed escaped toward Yeyuan City.
• Lin Buyu swept away the demon-armored soldiers around Bai Lu and returned to the Human Race Army, while Xu Taiping stayed behind to cover the retreat.
• As Zhaoma threatened to trap Xu Taiping inside the Demonic Army, ten dragon boats appeared overhead, and Xu Taiping declared that he would not retreat.

Xu Taiping used the Demon-Slaying Army’s battle intent to defeat Demonic General Zhaoma’s taotie attack and reorganize his forces. After Huo Xuan identified six powerful defenders of Yeyuan City, Xu Taiping ordered five armies to disrupt the demonic formation before the generals could unite.

• Demonic General Zhaoma merged with the taotie phantom and swallowed Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu’s battle intent, then prepared a destructive attack.
• Xu Taiping shielded Lin Buyu and gathered the Demon-Slaying Army’s battle intent to smash Zhaoma’s attack and stagger the demonic formation.
• Bai Lu thanked Xu Taiping for his help, while Huo Xuan and Zhao Cangwu recognized the strength of the Demon-Slaying Army.
• Huo Xuan identified Suiche, Xudu, Dujiao, Laoxiu, Zuoxing, and Xiama as six powerful Yeyuan City defenders who must not be allowed to join forces.
• Xu Taiping used the Lotus Eye to assess the six generals and ordered five armies to attack separately, throwing the Nine Abysses Demonic Army into disarray.

Xu Taiping’s Demon-Slaying Army broke through the Nine Abysses Demonic Army’s defenses at Yeyuan City, but the Demon Mother sent reinforcements and Blood Demon Eyes that turned the battle around. As the other Human Race armies struggled to hold their ground, Xu Taiping summoned the fallen Demon-Slaying Army battle generals and led his troops into a decisive attack.

• Xu Taiping ordered the Zhenwu, Red Blade, Yuheng, and Ziyang armies to split the demonic forces and attack their generals, then used the Thunder Sound Five-Direction Earth-Splitting Formation to annihilate thousands of demonic soldiers.
• Huo Xuan and the other commanders ordered their armies to charge, and the Human Race forces divided the defending demonic formations as they advanced toward Yeyuan City.
• The Demon Mother sent nearly a million demonic soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Demonic Generals, while Blood Demon Eyes restored the demonic formations and trapped the Human Race armies in a counterattack.
• Bai Lu’s White Tiger Army struggled against the reinforced enemy, while Xu Taiping’s Demon-Slaying Army stood firm against two million demonic troops and their six generals.
• Xu Taiping raised the Human Sovereign Sword, summoned nearly three hundred thousand fallen Demon-Slaying Army battle generals, and ordered his army to leave no enemy alive.