Chapter Summaries

Xu Taiping revealed his identity and explained how his Mortal Bone and trials in the Mysterious Wasteland Tower had strengthened him. He asked the elders to lend their lives as stones in his plan to draw the Primordial Lord into a game, and they agreed to stand with him.

• Xu Taiping accepted the Sword Embryo and promised the Pearl Relic House Master he would deliver it to Miss Qu if he survived.
• Xu Taiping revealed his true appearance and told the elders he was Xu Taiping of the True Martial Heaven Azure Profound Sect, not merely Zhang Wuyou.
• Cloud Crane True Lord and the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord sensed Xu Taiping's Mortal Bone and questioned how he had become so powerful.
• Xu Taiping shared his experiences in the Mysterious Wasteland Tower, restoring the elders' memories of it and lifting Wang You Wind's curse marks.
• The Azure-Eyed Evil Lord urged Xu Taiping to escape, but Xu Taiping refused to abandon the others or flee the Shangqing Realm's Heavenly Dao Calamity.
• Xu Taiping asked the elders to lend their lives as stones in his game against the Primordial Lord, and the elders agreed.

Xu Taiping and his allies prepared to let the Earth Fruit grow while they kept the Primordial Lord occupied, using a Liuguang Candle to accelerate the lotus seed’s growth. Cloud Crane True Lord, the Pearl Relic House Master, and Azure-Eyed Evil Lord attacked the Primordial Lord, with Li Daoyan joining their assault as Xu Taiping and Old Daoist Huang moved to support the plan.

• Old Daoist Huang agreed to entrust his life to Xu Taiping and give his fortune to someone if needed.
• Cloud Crane True Lord and the Pearl Relic House Master explained that they had limited time and only three chances to shatter the Primordial Lord’s black crystal head before he awakened.
• Xu Taiping revealed that his Liuguang Candle could make one day outside its light equal ten years beneath it, allowing the lotus seed to grow much faster.
• Azure-Eyed Evil Lord, Cloud Crane True Lord, and the Pearl Relic House Master attacked the Primordial Lord while Xu Taiping and Old Daoist Huang prepared to approach his true form.
• Cloud Crane True Lord’s moons smashed part of the Primordial Lord’s head, and Li Daoyan’s sword strikes cut down most of the Black Crystal Flying Spikes he unleashed in response.
• Lightning bolts emerged from the Ten Thousand Miles of Landscape Painting and formed hundreds of spears aimed at the Primordial Lord.

Xu Taiping planted the golden lotus seed and fed it soul power while Li Daoyan and the others fought the Primordial Lord. The seed took root, but a more powerful Immortal-Slaying Platform appeared and threatened the fighters.

• Xu Taiping and Old Daoist Huang rushed toward the Primordial Lord as its backlash shattered the Cloud Tower, and Xu Taiping planted the golden lotus seed in the lakebed.
• Old Daoist Huang reported that Li Daoyan had opened a Ninth Layer Sword Domain and forced the hurricane back with Sword City.
• The Primordial Lord noticed Xu Taiping and the lotus seed, so Xu Taiping urged the others to attack while he used the Flowing Light Candle and supplied the seed with soul power.
• The Po Jun Sword struck the Primordial Lord's Black Crystal head with the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord's Sword Qi and the painting's Vast Righteous Qi, but tree roots shielded what remained.
• The lotus seed took root, and Fairy Lingyue surrounded it with Vast Righteous Qi to protect it from the Primordial Lord's Demonic Qi.
• A more powerful Immortal-Slaying Platform appeared near the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord and the others, and its black-armored Divine Being swung a huge axe at them.

Xu Taiping and Old Daoist Huang watched the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord battle the Primordial Lord’s endless backlash while the Earth Fruit’s golden lotuses grew. The Primordial Lord’s true body stopped repairing its damaged head as it released its attacks, and the chapter ended with the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord’s Cloud Tower and the Immortal-Slaying Platform shattering together.

• The Azure-Eyed Evil Lord used the Immortal Sword Po Jun to destroy the Black-Armored God’s axe and sever his head, but the Primordial Lord’s backlash continued as black mist surged forth.
• A Black-Armored Divine Maiden trapped part of the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord’s dharma aspect in a Little Black Bottle and attacked him with black flying swords.
• Cloud Crane True Lord’s Cloud Tower blocked the divine maiden’s attacks, while the Pearl Relic House Master’s True Words helped the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord pierce her with the Po Jun Sword.
• The Immortal-Slaying Platform and the Black-Armored God appeared again, imprisoning the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord’s dharma aspect for another strike.
• Xu Taiping and Old Daoist Huang realized the Primordial Lord’s true body had stopped repairing its damaged head while releasing backlash, and Old Daoist Huang said he had warned the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord to buy time for the Earth Fruit.
• The Azure-Eyed Evil Lord’s Cloud Tower and the Immortal-Slaying Platform shattered together after their forces collided.

Xu Taiping and Old Daoist Huang watched the Earth Fruit grow while the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord and his allies fought the Primordial Lord’s clones. When the first golden lotus bloomed, the Primordial Lord summoned a Bull Demon that attacked Xu Taiping, leaving him facing its saber after the Shurangama Sutra’s power failed.

• The black-armored Divine Maiden attacked the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord, but the Pearl Relic House Master returned the Immortal-Slaying Platform’s blow and forced her back.
• Xu Taiping learned that the xirang was rapidly feeding the Earth Fruit, possibly waking the Primordial Lord, and Old Daoist Huang warned the others.
• The Earth Fruit sprouted its first lotus bud, and Old Daoist Huang gave Xu Taiping a Martial Fortune Token for protection.
• The first golden lotus bloomed, and the Primordial Lord opened its eye and summoned a Bull Demon that charged at Xu Taiping and Old Daoist Huang.
• Xu Taiping used All Beings Are Equal and the Human-God Push-Back manifestation to wound the Bull Demon, but the Shurangama Sutra’s power faded and the Bull Demon’s saber descended toward him.

Azure-Eyed Evil Lord and the others fought the Bull Demon while Xu Taiping guarded the Earth Fruit’s golden lotus. The Bull Demon’s body merged into the black mist after its defeat, and Xu Taiping cut down the Black Armor Divine Maiden’s flying sword as it attacked him.

• Azure-Eyed Evil Lord used Form- and Shadow-Transposition to swap places with Old Daoist Huang and took the Bull Demon’s strike, losing an arm of his Dharma Aspect.
• Pearl Relic House Master used the Sage’s Bamboo Slips to sever one of the Bull Demon’s arms, while Xu Taiping warned the others that the demon’s bell could disable treasures.
• Black Armor Divine Being attacked Azure-Eyed Evil Lord, but Pearl Relic House Master summoned the Cloudrise Sea-Connecting Tower to shield him as he pierced the Bull Demon with Immortal Sword Po Jun and destroyed its body.
• The Bull Demon’s remains merged into the black mist, and the Black Armor Divine Maiden sent a black flying sword toward Xu Taiping while the little black bottle restrained Azure-Eyed Evil Lord.
• Xu Taiping activated All Beings Are Equal, met the flying sword with Water-Cutting, and severed it with a single stroke.

The Azure-Eyed Evil Lord and Pearl Relic House Master destroyed the Primordial Lord’s manifested backlash while Xu Taiping’s earth fruit rapidly grew golden lotuses. The sudden shattering of their Martial Fortune Tokens warned that an ill omen was about to emerge.

• The Azure-Eyed Evil Lord opened his Sword Domain, stripped the Demonic Beasts of their weapons and armor, and destroyed them with thousands of flying swords.
• The Pearl Relic House Master used six Sage’s Bamboo Slips and the True Words “Not a Blade of Grass Grows” to erase the Demonic Beasts’ black fog and suppress the Primordial Lord’s backlash.
• Xu Taiping told the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord that six golden lotuses would make it difficult for the Primordial Lord to uproot the earth fruit, while twelve would let it devour the Primordial Lord’s power.
• Fairy Lingyue warned Xu Taiping that the earth fruit’s rapid growth risked attracting the Primordial Lord’s attention, and he promised to be careful.
• The earth fruit abruptly reached six blooming golden lotuses, with two more buds forming, and Xu Taiping’s and the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord’s Martial Fortune Tokens shattered.
• Old Daoist Huang warned Xu Taiping that shattered Fortune Tokens meant an ill omen must emerge into the world.

Xu Taiping and his allies prepared for the Primordial Lord’s awakening, but the statue summoned the Blazing Slave, a demoness whose fire and cloud-like powers overwhelmed their defenses. The Azure-Eyed Evil Lord countered her ability to lighten her targets with Thunderous Force and began forcing her down with his Mountain-Sinking sword intent.

• Xu Taiping drank Hidden Immortal Wine, strengthened his body, and took a defensive stance as the Primordial Lord’s statue repaired itself and rose upright.
• The Primordial Lord summoned the Blazing Slave, who released a wave of fire that burned away one story of the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord’s Cloud Tower.
• Cloud Crane True Lord directed the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord to engage the demoness and the Pearl Relic House Master to protect him with the True Words “True Gold Fears No Fire.”
• The Azure-Eyed Evil Lord struck with his Withering and Decaying sword intent, but the Blazing Slave made his Dharma Aspect float and set it ablaze.
• Cloud Crane True Lord identified the demoness’s cloud-like power, and the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord used Thunderous Force and his Mountain-Sinking technique to press her into a deep pit.

The Primordial Lord summoned Strength Slave, who overwhelmed the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord, while Blazing Slave trapped Xu Taiping in a sea of flames. With Xu Taiping in danger and his Moon Soul power nearly spent, Cloud Crane True Lord prepared to sacrifice himself by activating an ascension talisman against the Primordial Lord.

• The Primordial Lord summoned Strength Slave, whose blows battered the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord's Dharma Aspect and broke through Cloud Crane True Lord's phantom tower.
• The Pearl Relic House Master used a Sage's Bamboo Slip to strengthen the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord, who fought back against Strength Slave but could not break free of his force.
• Blazing Slave reached Xu Taiping and attacked him with flames, prompting him to open his Mountain Spirit Blade Domain.
• Blazing Slave transformed into human-shaped flames and filled Xu Taiping's Blade Domain, leaving him struggling to survive.
• Cloud Crane True Lord revealed that he planned to use his Ascending Cloud talisman to summon tribulation lightning and destroy himself, then asked the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord to send him to Xu Taiping.

Xu Taiping nearly exhausted himself resisting the Blazing Slave, but Cloud Crane True Lord intervened and revealed a powerful technique that the Pearl Relic House Master identified as Cloudrise Tower’s Cloud Ascension Talisman. The chapter left Xu Taiping stunned as he wondered whether Cloud Crane True Lord had turned himself into a talisman.

• Xu Taiping struggled to maintain his Mountain Spirit Blade Domain as the Blazing Slave’s flames pressed in, and the Hidden Immortal Wine made him increasingly drunk.
• Xu Taiping drank another flask of Hidden Immortal Wine, briefly gaining greater strength and control, but the Blazing Slave’s power still reduced his domain and burned through the Shurangama Sutra scroll.
• Xu Taiping prepared to open the Dragon Clan’s Seven Lodges Treasury, but Cloud Crane True Lord intervened and the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord used Form- and Shadow-Transposition to move Xu Taiping out of the Fire Prison.
• Cloud Crane True Lord rose above the Blazing Slave on a cloud tower, summoned a Heavenly Gate with his Cloud Ascension Talisman, and blocked her escape as lightning struck.
• The Pearl Relic House Master identified Cloud Crane True Lord’s technique as Cloudrise Tower’s Cloud Ascension Talisman, leaving Xu Taiping to ask whether Cloud Crane had turned himself into a talisman.

Cloud Crane True Lord used the Cloud Ascension Talisman to kill Blazing Slave with tribulation lightning, while Xu Taiping confirmed that nine Earth Fruit golden lotuses had bloomed. Strength Slave then reversed time after the Three-Sword Diagram shattered him, and the chapter ended with Xu Taiping realizing Strength Slave had selectively kept the diagram erased.

• Cloud Crane True Lord’s Cloud Ascension Talisman drew tribulation lightning that blasted Blazing Slave to ashes, and he asked Xu Taiping to record his victory before vanishing.
• Xu Taiping told Azure-Eyed Evil Lord that eleven golden lotuses had grown and nine had bloomed, allowing the fighters to stop holding back.
• Azure-Eyed Evil Lord’s Immortal Sword Po Jun could not harm Strength Slave, whose body had become the Primordial Lord’s origin black crystal.
• At Old Daoist Huang’s urging, the Pearl Relic House Master used the Three-Sword Diagram, and its sword shadows shattered Strength Slave’s body.
• Strength Slave reversed time across the battlefield, but the Three-Sword Diagram did not return, leading Xu Taiping to realize Strength Slave could control what the reversal restored.

Xu Taiping and the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord fought the resurrected Blazing Slave and the Strength Slave after the Primordial Lord reversed time, restoring the battle and undoing Cloud Crane True Lord’s sacrifice. When Po Jun shattered during the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord’s all-out attack, Xu Taiping revealed Kunwu and passed it to him, leaving the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord empowered to continue the fight.

• The Strength Slave reversed time, resurrected the Blazing Slave, and restored the Earth Fruit to five blooming golden lotuses while erasing Cloud Crane True Lord’s phantom.
• The Azure-Eyed Evil Lord fought the Blazing Slave with Po Jun, while Xu Taiping realized the Primordial Lord had triggered the endgame because the sword was close to breaking.
• The Strength Slave overwhelmed Xu Taiping under All Beings Are Equal, and the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord and Pearl Relic House Master prepared to send Xu Taiping’s divine soul out of Golden Court Grotto-Heaven.
• Xu Taiping drank Hidden Immortal Wine and asked the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord to trust him, then arranged for their positions to be exchanged so the elder could strike the Strength Slave at full strength.
• The Azure-Eyed Evil Lord’s attack badly wounded the Strength Slave but shattered Po Jun, leaving him without a sword as the Strength Slave counterattacked.
• Xu Taiping sent Kunwu to the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord and revealed that Fairy Zhu Songyu had entrusted him to pass it on, prompting the elder to unleash a terrifying aura.

Li Daoyan wielded the reforged Kunwu Sword against Strength Slave, pouring his Sword Qi into it and using the Pearl Relic House Master's True Words to interrupt Strength Slave's time reversal. Strength Slave's fragments continued to threaten a reversal, and Li Daoyan's Sword Domain struck the fragments while also knocking Blazing Slave away from Xu Taiping.

• Li Daoyan recognized the Kunwu Sword's swordsmith marks, regretted missing the journey to Outer Heaven, and split Strength Slave's body with a slash.
• Li Daoyan poured nearly all his Sword Qi into the Kunwu Sword as Strength Slave began to reverse time.
• The Pearl Relic House Master invoked the True Words “No law, no heaven,” temporarily suppressing Strength Slave's technique while Li Daoyan struck him again.
• The Kunwu Sword blasted the Primordial Lord's black crystal body into fragments, but eyes appeared on the fragments and time-reversal fluctuations returned.
• Li Daoyan opened his Sword Domain and sent tens of thousands of flying swords at the fragments, then redirected swords to knock Blazing Slave away from Xu Taiping.
• Strength Slave's time-reversal fluctuations spread again as Xu Taiping tried to recover.

Li Daoyan used the Kunwu Sword’s Thunderflame to slay Strength Slave and Blazing Slave, then learned from the sword’s memories that his former Heavenly Sword Sect companions had continued to trust and believe in him. Grief-stricken, he turned toward the Primordial Lord’s black-crystal statue and prepared to answer their faith.

• Li Daoyan sent the Kunwu Sword and tens of thousands of Thunderflame-wreathed Sword Shadows into Strength Slave’s black crystals, destroying them and ending Strength Slave’s Time-Reversal Technique.
• Blazing Slave fell toward the Earth Fruit lotus, but Li Daoyan switched places with Xu Taiping and pierced her with the Kunwu Sword, burning her to ashes.
• The Kunwu Sword released memories showing Zhu Songyu, Heavenly Sword Sect disciples, and Qi Songyang still trusted Li Daoyan and hoped he would wield the reforged sword.
• Li Daoyan wept as he realized they had never stopped believing in him, then pointed his sword at the Primordial Lord’s black-crystal statue and said it was time to give them an answer.

Li Daoyan ignored Xu Taiping’s warning and used the Kunwu Sword to destroy the Primordial Lord’s True Body, while Fairy Lingyue revealed that the sword had awakened its Heaven Gazing ability. The Primordial Lord’s body burned to ashes, but Xu Taiping was left fearing that its destruction would trigger a hidden danger.

• Xu Taiping warned Li Daoyan and the Pearl Relic House Master to wait because nine golden lotuses had bloomed, but Li Daoyan struck the Primordial Lord’s Black Crystal statue anyway.
• Li Daoyan told Xu Taiping that the Kunwu Sword held another Divine Ability besides Thunderflame and continued attacking the Primordial Lord’s True Form.
• The Pearl Relic House Master joined Li Daoyan’s assault as the Earth Fruit’s golden lotuses continued to bloom.
• Fairy Lingyue explained that the ancient Kunwu Sword could use Heaven Gazing to peer into the past and future, and Xu Taiping suspected Li Daoyan had seen danger ahead.
• Li Daoyan used Sword-Opening City to shatter the Primordial Lord’s remaining body into fragments, which Thunderflame burned to ashes, while Xu Taiping felt intense fear.

Li Daoyan revealed that the Primordial Lord had manipulated generations of Human Race cultivators into destroying its True Body to evade Heavenly Tribulation and complete a ritual. After the Primordial Lord possessed him, Li Daoyan and Kong Pearl Relic suppressed its power while Li explained why he had chosen to slay it.

• Black Crystal scales spread over Li Daoyan as the Primordial Lord possessed him, and Li told Xu Taiping that the Golden Court Inner Grotto-Heaven had been a deception.
• Kong Pearl Relic entered the Spirit Pearl in Li Daoyan’s chest and used Vast Righteous Qi and True Words to slow the spreading scales.
• Kong Pearl Relic gathered power from the Ten Thousand Miles of Landscape Painting and wrote the characters “body” and “death,” halting and suppressing the Primordial Lord’s possession.
• Li Daoyan drove the Kunwu Sword into his chest and explained that the Primordial Lord had lured cultivators to complete a ritual that deceived the Heavenly Dao and let it escape Heavenly Tribulation.
• Li Daoyan revealed that the Primordial Lord had planted possession in its True Body so that whoever slew it would become its next body.
• When Xu Taiping asked why Li Daoyan had slain the True Body despite knowing the danger, Li asked whether he would rather let the Primordial Lord take the Earth Fruit as its True Body.

Li Daoyan revealed that the Primordial Lord’s possession would open the passage between Ten Abysses and the Shangqing Realm, and explained that he had chosen the future in which Xu Taiping was most likely to survive. As the Primordial Lord’s power overwhelmed the Pearl Relic House Master’s suppression, Li Daoyan prepared to create a fair arena for Xu Taiping to fight the Primordial Lord, and the words “Body Death, Dao Dissipation” appeared.

• Li Daoyan told Xu Taiping that the Primordial Lord’s possession would defeat the Myriad Gods Formation and open the passage between Ten Abysses and the Shangqing Realm.
• Li Daoyan explained that the Kunwu Sword’s Heaven Gazing power had shown him countless possible futures, and he had chosen the one most likely to let Xu Taiping survive.
• The Primordial Lord’s black crystal scales spread across Li Daoyan despite the Pearl Relic House Master’s righteous qi, and the third True Word, “Dao,” stopped their growth without removing them.
• Li Daoyan said he and the Pearl Relic House Master would build an arena where Xu Taiping could fight the Primordial Lord fairly at the same cultivation realm.
• Li Daoyan drew the Kunwu Sword from his chest, unleashed a surge of righteous qi, and revealed the four characters “Body Death, Dao Dissipation.”

Li Daoyan crippled his own cultivation to make the Primordial Lord’s possession fair, then passed the Kunwu Sword to Xu Taiping and urged him to keep rising. As the Primordial Lord awakened, Kong Pearl Relic gave Xu Taiping a final set of True Words at the cost of his painting and black hair.

• Li Daoyan used the Body Dies, Dao Vanishes True Words to ensure the Primordial Lord would inherit a useless body and be limited by the Heavenly Dao Laws.
• Li Daoyan shattered his Qi Mansion and Dantian, explaining that Zhu Songyu had chosen Xu Taiping to wield the Kunwu Sword and urging him to climb higher.
• Li Daoyan kicked the Kunwu Sword to Xu Taiping, whose mind received several Divine Soul Marks from it before Li Daoyan's screams stopped.
• The Primordial Lord awakened in Li Daoyan's body, and Kong Pearl Relic restrained Xu Taiping and wrote the True Words, "As the demon rises a foot, the Dao rises ten."
• Kong Pearl Relic's Ten Thousand Miles of Landscape Painting shattered and his hair turned silver; he asked Xu Taiping to remember his name if he ascended to heaven.

The Primordial Lord released the Origin Demon Seed Powers Whale Suck and Blood Cooling, threatening the Earth Fruit and weakening everyone in the realm. Kong Pearl Relic used his Literary Heart and the True Words “My Heart Is Bright” to hold back the black fog, but the fog broke through, leaving Xu Taiping in darkness.

• The Primordial Lord’s possession of Li Daoyan’s body spread black fog that devoured the realm’s Spiritual Power and slowed the circulation of Qi and Blood.
• The Pearl Relic House Master explained the powers Whale Suck and Blood Cooling and said the Confucian True Words could suppress them.
• Kong Pearl Relic tore out his Literary Heart and used “My Heart Is Bright” to form a wall of Vast Righteous Qi against the black fog.
• Old Daoist Huang stopped Xu Taiping from following Kong Pearl Relic and urged him to turn his helplessness into motivation for cultivation.
• The black fog broke through Kong Pearl Relic’s wall and plunged the realm into darkness, while Xu Taiping gripped his saber and took out another jar of wine.

The Pearl Relic House Master illuminated the dark world with his Literary Heart, weakening the Primordial Lord’s power while Old Daoist Huang warned Xu Taiping about the coming fight. Old Daoist Huang sacrificed himself to place a Misfortune Token on the Primordial Lord, and Xu Taiping prepared to face him after drinking Hidden Immortal Wine.

• The Pearl Relic House Master used his Literary Heart to light the darkness and neutralize most of the two Origin Demon Seed Powers.
• Old Daoist Huang gave Xu Taiping the Fortune Tokens and warned him that the battle had to end within half an incense stick.
• Old Daoist Huang charged the Primordial Lord and used his Misfortune Token, One Misstep Loses the Whole Game, before dissipating.
• Xu Taiping bowed to Old Daoist Huang and drank the Hidden Immortal Wine.
• The Primordial Lord asked Xu Taiping for wine, and Xu Taiping tossed him a gourd, saying it was what he owed Senior Li Daoyan.