Chapter Summaries

Ouyang entered Sword-Forging City with his companions, then followed the other cultivators into the Immortal Secret Realm. He was separated from Bai Feiyu and Chen Changsheng upon arrival and found himself beside Zhao Qiansun.

• Ouyang convinced the Sword Sect gatekeepers to admit him by using Liang Zai the Dachshund to unleash Sword Qi.
• Song Mu introduced Sword-Forging City and announced that he and Ouyang's group would compete for the Immortal's legacy; Bai Feiyu marked Song Mu's forehead with the word "death," and Chen Changsheng secretly took a strand of his hair.
• Tai'a announced that sword cultivators had to enter the Immortal Secret Realm, and Ouyang told Bai Feiyu and Chen Changsheng to stop the other entrants until Second Brother obtained the legacy.
• Ouyang, Bai Feiyu, and Chen Changsheng flew into the azure pillar and entered the secret realm.
• Ouyang found himself alone atop a large tree, where Zhao Qiansun appeared and complained about their surroundings.

Ouyang and Zhao Qiansun survived their first clash after learning they had to cooperate in a shrinking-area elimination trial. They put their fight aside and began planning together, while Chen Changsheng and Bai Feiyu watched the chaos from concealment and worried Ouyang might go too far.

• Zhao Qiansun befriended Ouyang, and the two warmly promised to support each other.
• A voice announced that the participants had to eliminate their assigned companions, prompting Ouyang and Zhao Qiansun to attack each other until the voice revealed they had to survive as a pair.
• The voice explained the trial's rules, including a shrinking activity area, a target of 5,000 survivors, and automatic advancement for those above Soul Departure.
• Ouyang realized the trial resembled a battle royale and worried about being paired with Zhao Qiansun, while battles erupted throughout the forest.
• Chen Changsheng and Bai Feiyu concealed themselves and watched the fighting as they worried Ouyang might blast through the Immortal Secret Realm.
• Ouyang and Zhao Qiansun agreed to cooperate and began discussing tactics after their clash.

Ouyang used Liang Zai to fire a massive True Qi blast at Xiao Bai’s grave, damaging the Immortal Secret Realm and prompting its unseen controller to ban True Qi and True Essence. The Sword Cultivators were forced into chaotic hand-to-hand fighting, while Ouyang wondered about the Immortals who controlled their own small worlds.

• Zhao Qiansun warned Ouyang that the powerful Sword Cultivators in the Secret Realm made reckless action dangerous, but Ouyang declared that he would stop being human.
• Ouyang poured True Qi into Liang Zai and fired a shock wave at Xiao Bai’s grave; its barrier redirected the blast, which shattered the sky before the realm repaired itself.
• Ouyang prepared to fire more blasts, but an emergency rule banned True Qi and True Essence, stripping the realm’s cultivators of their power and causing some airborne fighters to fall.
• Ouyang heard an angry voice from the sky and concluded that Immortals could change the rules of their own small worlds.
• The Sword Cultivators abandoned their ineffective swordplay and began brawling, while Zhao Qiansun stared in horror at Ouyang holding Liang Zai.

With True Essence suppressed in Xiao Bai's burial mound, Ouyang used Liang Zai to eliminate sword cultivators and clear competitors for his second junior brother. He and Zhao Qiansun were surrounded, but Liang Zai's unexpected rapid-fire attack turned the fight in their favor and spread the name Dog-Lifting War God.

• The sword cultivators gathered cautiously as the shrinking ring of light pushed everyone toward the palace, while Chen Changsheng said his puppets could handle the crowd.
• Ouyang charged into the gathering with Liang Zai, swinging and biting through sword cultivators as Zhao Qiansun protected him.
• The sword cultivators surrounded Ouyang, and Zhao Qiansun complained that Ouyang's elimination would take him out too.
• Ouyang fed true qi into Liang Zai, who fired a stream of True Qi Bullets and eliminated the attackers.
• The eliminated cultivators spread rumors of a cheating fiend, and the name Dog-Lifting War God became known across the Cultivation World.

Ouyang and Chen Changsheng disrupted the trial so badly that the organizers ended the round and brought the surviving sword cultivators to the Sword-Climbing Platform. As everyone prepared to climb toward the secret realm’s inheritance, Ouyang pretended he could see the steps, though they appeared to him as only a shabby stone slab.

• The shrinking ring of light forced the sword cultivators into a chaotic battle, where Ouyang used Liang Zai to eliminate opponents with ease.
• Chen Changsheng noticed that the trial’s paired contestants did not fit the idea of choosing one successor, and Bai Feiyu wondered if his old friend Ouyezi had created the tomb for him.
• Bai Feiyu urged Chen Changsheng to end the round, and Chen Changsheng summoned hundreds of sword-wielding puppets that eliminated many contestants.
• The voice behind the trial ended the round and teleported the survivors before the palace, instructing them to cross the Sword-Climbing Platform to qualify for the inheritance.
• Ouyang reunited with Chen Changsheng and Bai Feiyu, then claimed he could see the White Jade Steps even though he saw only a shabby stone slab.

Ouyang watched Chen Changsheng exploit the Sword-Climbing Platform’s pressure while Bai Feiyu climbed normally, then met the mysterious master of the Immortal Small World. The master revealed that Chen Changsheng was the sole suitable successor to Li Taibai’s inheritance, but said the trials were meant to keep the sword from rusting.

• Sword Cultivators began struggling up the ninety-nine steps, while Bai Feiyu climbed steadily and Chen Changsheng used puppet bodies to bypass the platform’s pressure.
• Ouyang saw the others apparently marching in place on a slab of bluestone and was stopped by a man in a blue-green robe before he could test it himself.
• The blue-green-robed man brought Ouyang to a lake, where Ouyang recognized him as the master of the Immortal Small World.
• The man said he seemed to be Li Taibai and an old friend of Li Taibai, though he had forgotten his identity.
• Ouyang asked whether Chen Changsheng would receive the inheritance, and the man confirmed Chen Changsheng was the only suitable successor.
• The man explained that he had arranged the trials because a sword left unused for too long would rust.

Blue-Green Robe explained how he became separated from the sword that had once been his body, and Liang Zai revealed his origins as Li Taibai’s sword scabbard. Their stories uncovered how the sword and its legacy endured after Li Taibai’s death.

• Ouyang accused Blue-Green Robe of planning to use Sword Cultivators’ sword intent to hone an Immortal Sword, and threatened him to learn the truth.
• Blue-Green Robe revealed that he had been Li Taibai’s closest friend and had entered the Sword Furnace to forge the sword that helped Li Taibai reach the Immortal Realm.
• Blue-Green Robe explained that after Li Taibai died, he remained trapped as the sword’s spirit until his hatred drove his reason out of the blade, leaving the man Ouyang now saw.
• Blue-Green Robe said he had wandered Li Taibai’s Minor World for ages, built a tomb for his friend, and left Li Taibai’s sword planted inside it.
• Liang Zai revealed that he had originally been the sword’s scabbard and recalled giving Li Taibai’s notes to a youth who later returned as an old man, the sword’s former tassel.

Ouyang learned that the blue-clad man had forged Li Taibai’s sword and intended for Leng Qingsong to destroy its mad spirit and inherit the complete Immortal legacy. Ouyang rejected the man’s scheme and raised water dragons against him, but the man revealed his power by slaying them with a word.

• Ouyang pieced together the connections between the Dachshund, the Sword Sect founder, the blue-clad man, and Li Taibai’s sword.
• The blue-clad man explained that he had brought Ouyang away to keep him from disturbing Leng Qingsong’s inheritance of Li Taibai’s legacy.
• The Dachshund chose to stand beside the blue-clad man, and Ouyang asked what the man intended to do.
• Ouyang rejected the plan as a scheme against his junior brother and summoned dozens of water dragons to attack the man and the Dachshund.
• The blue-clad man said “Sever,” beheading the water dragons and turning them back into water.

Ouyang turned the man in green’s own display of power against him and beat him into submission. He revealed that he had used the time to awaken the little world itself, leaving the man in green stunned.

• The man in green demonstrated that he could awaken water dragons and instantly turn them back into water, while insisting that Immortals controlled life and death.
• Ouyang called the man in green a madman, and his Words Become Law command that Ouyang deserved to die had no effect.
• When the man in green tried to escape, he discovered he could no longer tear open space, and Ouyang attacked him.
• Ouyang beat the man in green until he was badly injured, while Dachshund watched in disbelief and regretted siding with him.
• Ouyang explained that the man in green’s long speech had given him time to try awakening the little world itself.

Ouyang seized control of the little world and subdued the man in green, who admitted he wanted to reopen the Immortal Path. As Ouyang confronted a hidden presence, a gigantic face appeared in the sky and called him “Dad!”

• Ouyang revealed that he had spread his true qi through the little world and gained control of it and the man in green.
• Ouyang questioned the man in green, who confessed that he wanted to reopen the Immortal Path and blamed Li Taibai for destroying it.
• Ouyang concluded that reopening the Immortal Path might be connected to the coming calamity and angrily struck the man in green.
• Ouyang spared the Dachshund Liang Zai and demanded that the hidden presence reveal itself.
• Heaven and earth turned upside down, and a gigantic face appeared in the sky and called Ouyang “Dad!”

Ouyang enlightened the Minor World, whose newborn consciousness called him Dad, then watched the man in blue dissolve after his schemes failed. Liang Zai revealed that the man in blue had created him, and suggested endless loneliness had driven the man insane.

• The newborn Minor World consciousness called Ouyang Dad, while the man in blue blamed him for transforming the world.
• The man in blue began to lose control whenever he thought of Li Taibai, and Ouyang repeatedly slapped him back to clarity.
• The man in blue started dissolving, and Ouyang tried to keep him alive by claiming he knew where Li Taibai was, but the man vanished after saying he and Ouyang would meet again.
• Ouyang questioned Liang Zai about the man in blue, and Liang Zai said the man had created him and had likely been driven insane by endless loneliness.

Ouyang realized the Immortal Secret Realm was a scheme, then escaped through the sky and arrived at a vision of two Immortals recruiting Ou Yezi. He remained trapped as a phantom among them, unable to use most of his power.

• Ouyang suspected a long-lived madman had designed the Immortal Secret Realm as a scheme to become an Immortal, and trusted his son and Hu Yun to have planned for it.
• Ouyang used Liang Zai to shatter space, rode a pillar of water through the opening, and entered an unfamiliar plaza filled with phantoms.
• Ouyang discovered he was also a phantom, Liang Zai was missing, and his True Qi had dwindled as he approached two old men playing Go.
• The old men discussed assimilating a sword Immortal by making someone his scabbard, then summoned Ou Yezi and asked him to become a pawn.
• Ou Yezi eagerly agreed, while Ouyang concluded that the Immortals were ordinary beneath their robes after spotting embroidered little animals.

Ouyang watched a recording of Li Taibai’s past life and learned how Ou Yezi betrayed him on behalf of the Immortals, preventing him from becoming the Sword Immortal. After the vision ended, Ouyang started a side-story minigame to become Li Taibai’s closest friend.

• Ouyang watched the Immortals order Ou Yezi to find the Sword Immortal and become his scabbard or break his sword.
• Ou Yezi secretly planned to restrain Li Taibai’s growth and kill him for the Immortals, then spent years acting as his devoted companion.
• Li Taibai resolved to challenge the Immortals and create a world free of their rule.
• Ou Yezi used a scabbard to take Li Taibai’s sword, then sacrificed himself to curse Li Taibai’s Immaculate Sword Heart.
• Ouyang saw Li Taibai die before he could challenge the Immortals, then accepted the system’s minigame to become Li Taibai’s closest friend.

Ouyang traveled back in time into Ou Yezi’s body and altered the making of the Sword Scabbard and Sword Tassel to match the history he remembered. He then encountered Li Taibai and claimed they had been fellow disciples hundreds of years earlier.

• Ouyang arrived beneath the boulder where two Immortals questioned Ou Yezi, and he agreed to become their pawn.
• After the Immortals left, Ouyang used their authority to take charge of the sword-forging clan and changed his name to Ouyezi.
• At the furnace, Ouyang ordered the Sword Scabbard remade as a crooked Dachshund design and had the leftover materials turned into a Sword Tassel.
• The clansmen came to regard Ou Yezi and Ouyezi as two distinct personalities, and Ouyang’s arrangements shaped the items to match the future.
• Ouyang awoke before a white-clad Sword Cultivator, recognized him as Li Taibai, and told him they had been fellow disciples hundreds of years ago.

Li Taibai had grown listless after reaching the limits of swordsmanship, but Ouyang returned and urged him to explore the world and reclaim a Sword Cultivator’s presence. Ouyang began coaching him in showing off, leaving Li Taibai with a boastful declaration and an instruction to read it aloud while standing in a tree.

• Li Taibai missed Ouyang’s familiar warmth when Ouyang’s other personality, Ou Yezi, treated him with fearful reverence.
• Ouyang flicked Li Taibai on the forehead, and Li Taibai welcomed his return as Ouyezi.
• Li Taibai told Ouyang that he had reached the limits of the sword Dao and felt lonely in his invincibility.
• Ouyang pulled Li Taibai from his idle routine and said they should go out and see the world.
• Ouyang told Li Taibai to keep a diary of ways to show off, then wrote a boastful declaration for him to read aloud.
• Ouyang instructed Li Taibai to stand in a tree while reading the declaration, claiming that a Sword Cultivator who did not stand in trees could not be called one.

Ouyang strengthened the bond between Li Taibai and Ou Yezi and left their future to the choices they would make after he disappeared. As Ouyang's consciousness faded, he promised Li Taibai that he would be his Eldest Senior Brother in the next life.

• Li Taibai recited Ouyang's boastful lines across Chaoge City, and the words stirred his immaculate sword heart with hope of surpassing the Sword Dao's limits.
• Ouyang reflected on how his actions had changed Ou Yezi's relationship with Li Taibai and given him reason to doubt his devotion to the Immortals.
• Ouyang told Li Taibai that he and Ou Yezi were both parts of the same person, then urged Li Taibai to become Ou Yezi's true friend.
• Li Taibai begged Ouyang not to leave his body, but Ouyang's consciousness faded after leaving him with the choice to trust Ou Yezi.
• Ouyang promised Li Taibai that he would be his Eldest Senior Brother in the next life.

Ouyang witnessed Li Taibai battle the Immortals at the end of the Elder Ancient Era and sacrifice himself to hold up heaven and earth. He realized the system had sent him back to correct Li Taibai’s fate, then found Li Taibai’s Immaculate Sword Heart and spoke of waiting for his junior brothers in the future.

• Ouyang watched Li Taibai face the Immortals and countless eyes of heavenly punishment.
• Li Taibai used his Thirty-Six Flying Swords to destroy the eyes as the Immortals made the sky collapse.
• Li Taibai sacrificed himself to support heaven and earth, then tossed his sword tassel toward the Mortal World.
• Ouyang realized he had been sent to the Elder Ancient Era to correct the timeline and suspected Lin Feng was outside it.
• Ouyang kicked Li Taibai’s sword scabbard, which revealed the Immaculate Sword Heart, and said he would wait for his junior brothers in the future.

Ouyang returned from his fifty-year experience with Li Taibai and reached the top of the Sword-Climbing Platform in a single step. As Ouyang cornered Zhao Qiansun with Chen Changsheng's help, the palace doors burst open and a Sword Demon attacked a fleeing cultivator.

• Ouyang returned to the Sword-Climbing Platform and stepped onto its summit in one stride, astonishing Bai Feiyu and Chen Changsheng.
• Ouyang spotted Zhao Qiansun recovering on the plaza and grabbed him when he tried to leave, hoping to use him to complete his system mission.
• Chen Changsheng trapped Zhao Qiansun with a Spirit-Scattering Formation and summoned six Nascent Soul puppets after Zhao Qiansun noticed his attempt to take a strand of hair.
• The palace doors exploded open, and a fleeing Sword Cultivator shouted that the Sword Demon had appeared.
• Blood-red Sword Qi pierced the fleeing cultivator and dragged him back into the palace.

Ouyang, Bai Feiyu, and Chen Changsheng entered the palace and found Leng Qingsong possessed by a blood-red shadow after he had killed the Sword Cultivators inside. Bai Feiyu guarded the sealed entrance while Ouyang prepared to confront Leng Qingsong, leaving the story poised for a fight.

• Ouyang, Bai Feiyu, and Chen Changsheng rushed into the palace and found Leng Qingsong surrounded by the corpses of Sword Cultivators, wielding a blood-red sword in a demonic frenzy.
• Bai Feiyu saw a familiar blood-red shadow controlling Leng Qingsong, and Chen Changsheng sealed the palace entrance with Yellow Talismans to hide the scene from the Sword Cultivators outside.
• Ouyang ordered Chen Changsheng to reinforce the barrier and sent Bai Feiyu to guard the entrance.
• Bai Feiyu disarmed the weaker Sword Cultivators with his command and warned everyone that advancing would risk death, stopping their attack on the barrier.
• Chen Changsheng offered to test Leng Qingsong, but Ouyang said he would handle disciplining their possessed second senior brother himself.

Ouyang confronted the Sword Spirit controlling Leng Qingsong and used Liang Zai and his True Qi to restrain and subdue him. Inside Leng Qingsong’s Dantian, the Green Lotus began absorbing the sea of blood after Ouyang’s True Qi reached it, giving Leng Qingsong hope that his brother could save him.

• Ouyang recorded Leng Qingsong’s crazed state, then challenged Ou Yezi as the Sword Spirit attacked him with blood-red Sword Qi.
• Ouyang blocked Leng Qingsong’s sword with Liang Zai, threw Leng Qingsong to the ground, and struck him repeatedly to weaken the Sword Spirit’s control.
• Liang Zai clamped onto the blood-red longsword and struggled to keep it from escaping.
• Within Leng Qingsong’s Dantian, his Nascent Soul’s Green Lotus absorbed sword intent from those the Sword Spirit had killed, strengthening itself and Leng Qingsong’s Life-Bound Sword.
• Leng Qingsong lost all awareness of the outside world and feared the Sword Spirit would harm Ouyang, then his panic allowed the sea of blood to overwhelm the Green Lotus.
• Ouyang’s familiar True Qi entered Leng Qingsong’s Dantian, restored the Green Lotus, and caused it to sprout a stalk and leaf as it began absorbing the sea of blood.