Chapter Summaries

Xu Taiping realized he and the others were fighting the Jade Emperor inside Nangong Yu’s fifth-stage dream realm. The Jade Mother warned him that her final sacrifice would briefly weaken the Jade Emperor, giving Xu Taiping one chance to strike before the emperor awakened.

• The Demon Ancestor, Xu Taiping, and Fairy Buyan fought through the Jade Emperor’s Sanxuan Edicts, but his Heaven-Shaking Edict repeatedly repelled their attacks.
• Xu Taiping realized the battle was taking place in the fifth-stage dream realm and learned from Nangong Yu that she had opened it.
• After awakening to the truth, Xu Taiping struck the Jade Emperor with a purer blade force, but was still knocked back and caught by the Demon Ancestor.
• The Jade Mother told Xu Taiping to unleash his strongest killing power when she dispersed the last of her cultivation, because the Jade Emperor would then be at his weakest for one moment.

Xu Taiping burned his Great Dao origin with blood oath power to build a blade strike against the Jade Emperor, while the Jade Emperor dismissed him and continued absorbing the Blood Pearls’ power. Just as the Jade Emperor’s strength surged again, his Dao rhythm, aura, pressure, and heaven-severing edicts suddenly shattered.

• Xu Taiping used blood oath power to burn his Great Dao origin and slashed at the Jade Emperor, breaking through layers of Sanxuan edicts.
• The Jade Emperor formed a massive heaven-severing barrier and said Xu Taiping was unworthy of fighting him after burning his Great Dao origin.
• Xu Taiping continued accumulating blade force while Lin Buyan urged him to withdraw and warned that the Jade Emperor was digesting the Blood Pearls’ power.
• The Jade Emperor’s Dao rhythm and aura abruptly shattered, and his heaven-severing edicts broke apart.

Xu Taiping and the Demon Race destroyed the Jade Emperor’s body, but his Returning Heaven Edict revived him and the battle’s stakes rose when he began tearing apart the fifth layer of Nangong Yu’s dream realm. As the Jade Emperor prepared to integrate with the Sanxuan Realm and potentially regain his full power, Chu Lingyue told Xu Taiping to stay for something more important while the Demon Ancestor went to delay the Jade Emperor.

• Xu Taiping’s threefold blade force and the Demon Race’s punch shattered the Jade Emperor’s body, but the Returning Heaven Edict gathered his blood qi and began restoring him.
• The Jade Mother explained that the Jade Emperor could use Returning Heaven only once and said it had reduced him to thirty percent of his combat power, perhaps less.
• The Jade Emperor’s power cracked Nangong Yu’s fifth layer of the dream realm, and she warned that he could regain his former strength by integrating with the Sanxuan Realm’s Dao.
• The Demon Ancestor realized the Jade Emperor intended to use the Annihilating Heaven Edict for Dao Integration, while the Jade Mother warned he might recover to Great Perfection.
• Chu Lingyue told Xu Taiping not to leave because he had something more important to do, and the Demon Ancestor flew off to hold the Jade Emperor back.

Xu Taiping learned that Jade Mother intended him to use the earth fruit’s ninth transformation to grow an immortal seed and gain the power to challenge the Jade Emperor. As the Demon Ancestor and Lin Buyan fought the Jade Emperor, Xu Taiping faced the temptation to claim the fruit’s power for himself or preserve it for the human race.

• The Demon Ancestor burned the root of his Great Dao and attacked the Jade Emperor’s purple rosy clouds, while Jade Mother said Chu Lingyue’s plan would bring the Sword Ancestor.
• Lin Buyan joined the Demon Ancestor, using her Great Dao’s origin to sweep away the Jade Emperor’s Geng Metal sword qi and help hold back his assault.
• Nangong Yu warned that her fifth-stage dream realm would last only about the time it took to brew a cup of tea.
• Jade Mother revealed that Xu Taiping had swallowed the earth fruit so he could plant it in his Golden Mansion and grow an immortal seed, which could temporarily give him true immortal strength.
• Xu Taiping refused to pursue personal ascension at the expense of the human race, but Jade Mother warned that the fruit’s temptation would be difficult to resist.
• The Jade Emperor struck apart Lin Buyan’s hurricane and sent the Demon Ancestor falling toward the sea, but the Demon Ancestor reversed course and attacked again as Xu Taiping sent the Human Sovereign Sword to aid Lin Buyan.

As the Jade Emperor’s assault threatened to destroy the fifth dream realm, Fairy Lingyue revealed that Xu Taiping’s Origin Beginning Clone had traveled through the River of Time to fulfill his fate and leave him the Kunwu Sword. Xu Taiping was drawn into the past, where the Ancestral Dragon addressed him as the Sword Ancestor and he encountered a young Fairy Lingyue.

• The Demon Ancestor fought the Jade Emperor to protect Xu Taiping, while Nangong Yu located Fairy Lingyue and brought her and Xu Taiping’s Origin Beginning Clone into the dream realm.
• Fairy Lingyue said she had arranged for Linglong and Xiaohei and revealed that the Origin Beginning Clone had carried the Kunwu Sword through the River of Time to fulfill his fate.
• The Origin Beginning Clone handed the Kunwu Sword to Xu Taiping, who was swept into the Ancestral Dragon’s Glazed Glass Secret Realm.
• The Ancestral Dragon addressed Xu Taiping as the Sword Ancestor of the Human Race, and Xu Taiping was transported to another time and place.
• A young woman begged the Sword Ancestor for an inheritance, and Xu Taiping recognized her as Fairy Lingyue.

Fairy Lingyue and Lady Jade Mother revealed that the Sword Ancestor was Xu Taiping from the future, while the Jade Emperor overwhelmed the defenders. Lady Jade Mother sacrificed her Origin of the Great Dao to restrain him as Nangong Yu dispelled the dream realm, leaving the Demon Ancestor and Lin Buyan facing the Jade Emperor’s renewed assault.

• Fairy Lingyue explained that the Sword Ancestor had traveled from the future and left swordsmanship traces throughout the River of Time.
• Fairy Lingyue, the Demon Ancestor, and Lin Buyan attacked the Jade Emperor but were knocked back by his Returning Heaven Edict.
• Lady Jade Mother told Nangong Yu to unravel the dream realm and sacrificed her Origin of the Great Dao to slow the Jade Emperor.
• Nangong Yu dispelled the dream realm as Fairy Lingyue struck the Jade Emperor, and the battlefield transformed into ruined palace halls.
• The Demon Ancestor and Lin Buyan met the Jade Emperor’s punch, then faced thousands of descending lights as he declared that no one could stop him.

The Jade Emperor achieved Dao Integration with the Sanxuan Realm and overwhelmed the defenders as they tried to protect Xu Taiping. Just as Zhao Linglong’s Taiyi was about to fail, Xu Taiping’s Origin Beginning Clone awakened and announced his return.

• The Demon Ancestor shielded Xu Taiping and Nangong Yu from the Jade Emperor’s attacks while Lin Buyan carried them clear of the ruins.
• Xiaohei used his Heaven-Swallowing Edict to swallow the battlefield, but the Jade Emperor soon broke through it.
• Zhao Linglong wielded Taiyi to suppress the Jade Emperor’s edicts and buy Xu Taiping time.
• The Jade Emperor completed Dao Integration with the Sanxuan Realm and began tearing apart Zhao Linglong’s sword radiance.
• As Zhao Linglong called for Xu Taiping’s return, his Origin Beginning Clone opened its eyes and shattered the Jade Emperor’s purple clouds with a sword cry.

Xu Taiping returned from the River of Time and used his Frost-Slaying Sword Intent and nine Life-Bound Flying Swords to sever the Jade Emperor's Dao integration with the Sanxuan Realm. As the Jade Emperor struck back, an ancient flying sword appeared to stop his attack, and the Demon Ancestor identified it as Taiyi.

• Xu Taiping returned in time to rescue Zhao Linglong, whose Taiyi sword radiance the Jade Emperor's Returning Heaven Edict had broken through.
• The Demon Ancestor and Lin Buyan warned that the Jade Emperor was regaining power by integrating his Dao with the Sanxuan Realm, so Xu Taiping sent nine Life-Bound Flying Swords to form a realm-spanning Sword Formation.
• The Demon Ancestor and Lin Buyan attacked the Jade Emperor while Xu Taiping's Frost-Slaying Sword Intent froze the Sanxuan Realm and helped sever the Jade Emperor's Dao integration.
• The Jade Emperor knocked the Demon Ancestor and Lin Buyan away and crushed Xu Taiping's sword light, but another flying sword stopped his attack.
• The Demon Ancestor recognized the ancient flying sword, engraved with the sun, moon, stars, mountains, rivers, plants, and trees, as the Taixuan Sect's foremost Immortal Sword, Taiyi.

Xu Taiping used Taiyi to hold off the Jade Emperor while his allies fought the flame giants, then swallowed the immortal seed from the Earth Fruit’s ninth transformation. The seed granted him immense power but also stirred a desire to ascend beyond the Great Dao and abandon the world’s living beings.

• Xu Taiping’s Taiyi clashed with the Jade Emperor’s bell, but the Jade Emperor’s power surged and forced the sword and Xu Taiping’s defenses back.
• Xu Taiping revealed the immortal seed and asked the Demon Ancestor, Lin Buyan, Xiaohei, and Zhao Linglong to buy him time while he took it.
• The Jade Emperor tore open Xu Taiping’s barrier and sent flame giants after him, prompting Lin Buyan, Xiaohei, Zhao Linglong, Dream Master Nangong Yu, and the Demon Ancestor to join the fight.
• The Demon Ancestor gave Xu Taiping a divine soul mark containing a promise to explain his origins, and Xu Taiping put it away without examining it.
• Xu Taiping swallowed the immortal seed, which rapidly strengthened his physique, cultivation, and divine soul while stirring a desire to ascend and disregard the world’s fate.

Xu Taiping struggled against the Immortal Seed’s instinct to pursue eternal life and opened the Demon Ancestor’s divine soul mark to understand his origins. He saw the villagers who had cared for him as a newborn and heard the wish behind his name.

• Xu Taiping realized the Immortal Seed was awakening the instinct for immortality within his body and soul, but his Dhyana Seal only intensified it.
• The Jade Emperor turned his power against the Demon Ancestor and the others, and Flame Giants broke free of Lin Buyan and Zhao Linglong’s edicts.
• The Jade Emperor attacked Lin Buyan and Zhao Linglong, but the Demon Ancestor intercepted the blow with his Great Dao Life-Bound Divine Weapon.
• The Demon Ancestor told Xu Taiping to follow his instinct and ascend if learning his origins could not restrain him, prompting Xu Taiping to open the divine soul mark.
• Xu Taiping witnessed villagers nursing him as a newborn, and Sun Xiucai named him Taiping while wishing he would grow up in a peaceful world.

Xu Taiping relived the memory of the refugees who rescued him, learning how his parents sacrificed themselves to save them and how the group raised him as they fled toward Great Qian. Their hope strengthened his resolve against the immortal seed’s Heart Demon, but a magical battle erupted above them just as they reached the border.

• Xu Taiping realized the Divine Soul Mark showed his own memories and watched the refugees bury his parents, who had died drawing bandit soldiers away from the group.
• Auntie Zhao and the old scholar promised to raise Xu Taiping as their own, and he learned his parents had joined the refugees while fleeing an upheaval.
• The old scholar led more than sixty refugees through the mountains, repeatedly avoiding bandit soldiers as they traveled toward Great Qian.
• After months of travel, the refugees reached Great Qian’s border and celebrated, while Xu Taiping felt their hope strengthening his will against the Heart Demon.
• Two groups began fighting with magic in the sky above the refugees, shaking the earth and stirring violent winds and waves.

Xu Taiping relived how refugees and villagers repeatedly risked their lives to protect him because his name meant peace, then suppressed the selfish instincts awakened by his immortal seed. Regaining control of his body, he faced the Jade Emperor and declared it was time to repay those who had saved him.

• Aunt Zhao, villagers, and refugees repeatedly passed Xu Taiping to one another and died protecting him as they fled disasters across True Martial Heaven.
• A young physician shielded three-year-old Xu Taiping from marauding soldiers and begged the Demon Ancestor to care for him before he died.
• The Demon Ancestor asked why ordinary people had sacrificed themselves for Xu Taiping, and the physician explained that his name meant peace throughout the world.
• Xu Taiping realized how much the refugees had given up to keep him alive and resolved that he could not give in to selfish desires.
• Xu Taiping regained control of his body, formed a streak of Golden Sword Light, and told the Jade Emperor he would repay what he owed.

Xu Taiping fought the Jade Emperor while the Demon Ancestor, weakened from burning his Dao origin, prepared to sacrifice himself. As the battle remained unresolved, the Demon Ancestor chose to burn through his remaining life to help win peace for all under heaven.

• The Jade Emperor struck the Demon Ancestor, who erupted with power and began to shrivel as his weakened body gave out.
• Xu Taiping attacked the Jade Emperor, countering the Mystic Yellow Bell’s reflected strike with his True Dragon Frost Heaven Sealed Domain and Immortal Seed power.
• Xu Taiping’s sword radiance and the Jade Emperor’s Annihilation Edict met in a stalemate, and Xu Taiping told Zhao Linglong, Lin Buyan, Xiaoyu, and the others to recover with Xiaohei.
• Xu Taiping and the Demon Ancestor admitted they were testing each other’s limits, and Xu Taiping vowed to win the peace the villagers had been unable to obtain.
• The Demon Ancestor ignited his remaining life force, accepting that his divine soul would be destroyed if his death could bring peace to the world.

Xu Taiping and the Demon Ancestor attacked the Jade Emperor, forcing him to reveal his Ultimate Realm power, but the Demon Ancestor was destroyed. Xu Taiping’s sword intent drew strength from Shangqing’s mortal realm, and he challenged the Jade Emperor to face him in a battle against heaven and earth.

• The Demon Ancestor struck the Jade Emperor with his golden pillar while Xu Taiping broke the Mystic Yellow Bell’s confinement and attacked with Immortal Sword Taiyi.
• The Jade Emperor revealed his Ultimate Realm power, summoned a heaven-spanning dharma aspect, and destroyed the Demon Ancestor after the Demon Ancestor smashed through many of his arms.
• As the Jade Emperor’s palm nearly shattered Xu Taiping’s sword intent, poems and rhapsodies from Shangqing’s mortal realm formed golden seal-script characters and strengthened it.
• The Jade Emperor merged with the Sanxuan Realm and unleashed killing power as storms, thunder, meteors, and torrents, but Xu Taiping’s sword intent held firm.
• Xu Taiping raised Immortal Sword Taiyi and challenged the Jade Emperor on behalf of Shangqing’s unyielding mortal realm.

Xu Taiping used Taiyi to unleash sword strikes that fused the power of time, steadily draining the Sanxuan Realm’s reserves and weakening the Jade Emperor. He made Taiyi shine continuously, and the Jade Emperor sensed the world’s reserves disappearing one jiazi at a time.

• The Jade Emperor attacked Xu Taiping with the Sanxuan Realm’s storms, terrain, and edict power, but Xu Taiping’s sword intent held firm.
• Xu Taiping drew Taiyi and swept sword light across the Sanxuan Realm, annihilating the Jade Emperor’s edict power.
• Xu Taiping struck again, and the Jade Emperor realized the sword strikes had stolen decades from the world and reduced its spiritual power.
• Xu Taiping confirmed that his first two strikes had taken sixty years, then struck again and extinguished the Jade Emperor’s moon.
• The Jade Emperor tried to overwhelm Xu Taiping with the world’s remaining power, but Xu Taiping called Taiyi and made its sword light shine continuously, draining the Sanxuan Realm’s reserves by the jiazi.

Xu Taiping revealed that his time-powered sword strike had forced the Jade Emperor to abandon his integration with the Sanxuan Realm, but the Jade Emperor chose to burn his origin of the Great Dao rather than accept defeat. As both of their origins began to drain away, Xu Taiping and his allies prepared for a desperate fight.

• Xu Taiping explained that his earlier strikes had tricked the Jade Emperor into withdrawing his power from the Sanxuan Realm, allowing Taiyi to pin down and attack the Jade Emperor’s clone.
• The Jade Emperor realized the strike could destroy his clone but threatened his origin of the Great Dao, and Xu Taiping warned him that resisting would cause permanent damage.
• Xiaohei brought Zhao Linglong and the others to Xu Taiping, who explained that the Jade Emperor might retain around thirty percent of his combat power by burning his origin.
• The Jade Emperor began burning his origin to resist Taiyi’s temporal power, while the Dao rhythm around Xu Taiping also broke apart as his own origin was consumed.
• Lin Buyan proposed that everyone attack together, but Xu Taiping refused because his weakening control of Taiyi’s power could injure them.

Xu Taiping used the Immortal Sword Taiyi and his Nirvana power to wear down the Jade Emperor, while Lin Buyan and the others prepared an ambush. The Jade Emperor sacrificed most of his Origin of the Great Dao to break Taiyi’s restraint and attacked Xu Taiping, who braced for another blow.

• Xu Taiping sent Lin Buyan, Zhao Linglong, Xiaohei, and Xiaoyu to set up an ambush with Thunder Sound Banners as Taiyi’s sword strike weakened.
• Xu Taiping used the Blade of Guicang to unleash Nirvana and restore his strength, then continued using Taiyi to consume the Jade Emperor’s Origin of the Great Dao.
• The Jade Emperor burned more than half his Dao Essence Power, then sacrificed at least seventy percent of his Origin of the Great Dao to restore his combat power and summon the Mystic Yellow Bell.
• The Jade Emperor hurled the Mystic Yellow Bell at Taiyi, breaking its sword intent and injuring Xu Taiping’s mind and spirit.
• Xu Taiping collided with the Jade Emperor using his Ultimate Dao true dragon divine being body, reducing the Jade Emperor’s killing power as the Jade Emperor summoned a palm strike carrying the Annihilation Edict.

Xu Taiping struggled to evade the Jade Emperor’s attacks as both their powers waned, then summoned Ni Zhao through the Time-Borrowing Method. The chapter ended with Xu Taiping and Ni Zhao preparing to join forces against the Jade Emperor’s renewed assault.

• Xu Taiping used the Heavenly Sound Bell and Frost Heaven Sealed Domain Edict to escape the Jade Emperor’s attack, then fired arrows with his Shentu Bow to shatter the Jade Emperor’s falling edicts.
• The Jade Emperor pursued Xu Taiping through spatial vortices, but Xu Taiping repeatedly escaped with his Form- and Shadow-Transposition Edict.
• Xu Taiping realized his combat power was declining faster than the Jade Emperor’s and used the Time-Borrowing Method to summon Ni Zhao, but no future Thirteenth Seat appeared.
• Ni Zhao slowed the battlefield with his River of Time Edict, joined Xu Taiping, and agreed to form an array with him.
• The Jade Emperor broke Ni Zhao’s time edict and launched another full-strength attack, so Xu Taiping cast the Frost Heaven Sealed Domain around them.

Xu Taiping and Ni Zhao used the Thirteen Seats’ Time Reflection Divine Ability to gather reflected bodies and prepare the Thunder Sound Five-Direction Earth-Splitting Formation against the Jade Emperor. After Xu Taiping’s defenses failed, the formation trapped the Jade Emperor in a gigantic grinding disc, and the chapter ended as the group set it in motion.

• Xu Taiping told Ni Zhao that their opponent was the Jade Emperor of the former Ancient Heavenly Court and explained that they had to wear down his power.
• Ni Zhao summoned three reflected versions of himself, while Xu Taiping summoned three of his past selves and warned them not to call forth his Mortal Bone Body.
• Xu Taiping’s Frost Heaven Sealed Domain began to fail, and his Blade of Guicang cracked as he used a Heaven-Prisoning Edict to restrain the Jade Emperor.
• Xu Taiping ordered everyone, including Lin Buyan, Zhao Linglong, and Ni Zhao, to activate the Thunder Sound Five-Direction Earth-Splitting Formation.
• Thirteen lightning pillars converged around the Jade Emperor, forming a giant grinding disc that Xu Taiping and the others set into motion.

Xu Taiping and his allies used the Thunder Sound Grand Formation to wear down the Jade Emperor, but the Jade Emperor turned the Mystic Yellow Bell’s power against them. Xu Taiping withdrew the formation after their losses mounted, and the Jade Emperor attacked the fleeing group.

• Xu Taiping fed Dao essence into the Thunder Sound Banner as the formation’s grinding disc crushed the Jade Emperor’s void vortexes and reduced his power, while Xu Taiping’s own cultivation also fell.
• The Jade Emperor burned his origin of the Great Dao to unleash the Heaven-Severing Edict, so Xu Taiping ordered his Origin Beginning Clone to pour primordial chaos power into the formation.
• The empowered formation weakened the Jade Emperor to Void Insight Nine Inches, but the Jade Emperor spent a tenth of his origin to crack the grinding disc and brought out the Mystic Yellow Bell.
• The Mystic Yellow Bell redirected the grinding disc’s killing power onto the banner holders, badly injuring Lin Buyan, Ni Zhao, and Xu Taiping’s reflected projection bodies and destroying clones.
• After the Jade Emperor fell to Void Insight Eight Inches, Xu Taiping withdrew the formation, and Xiaohei carried Lin Buyan, Zhao Linglong, and Nangong Yu away from the Jade Emperor’s attack.
• The Jade Emperor pursued them and opened a void vortex above Xiaohei’s head.