Chapter Summaries

Yun Ying urged Great Elder Meng Tianzheng to provoke the Foreign Realm into acting, while its vast army gathered at the Imperial Pass and demanded Desolate and the wooden chest. When the Foreign Realm’s Imperial Clan threatened the pass, Meng Tianzheng attacked its Supreme with his golden bow, shattering the black war chariot and sending him flying.

• Yun Ying told Great Elder Meng Tianzheng she had been waiting for the Foreign Realm’s Undying Kings and wanted to force them to make their move.
• The Foreign Realm’s army reached the Imperial Pass, and its leaders assembled on the walls alongside Shi Hao and the younger cultivators.
• Jin Taijun linked the invasion to the wooden chest Desolate had brought back, while the Supremes praised Shi Hao and Great Elder Meng Tianzheng publicly recognized him.
• The Foreign Realm demanded Desolate and the wooden chest, threatening to wash the Imperial Pass in blood if they refused.
• After Foreign Realm forces invoked the Imperial Clan, Great Elder Meng Tianzheng fired his golden bow at their black war chariot, destroyed it, and wounded the Imperial Clan Supreme inside.

Grand Elder Meng Tianzheng gravely wounded a Foreign Realm Imperial Clan Supreme, but the Foreign Realm’s Undying Kings issued a threatening warning from beyond the Heavenly Abyss. As leaders in Imperial Pass argued over surrendering Shi Hao to avert war, Meng Tianzheng refused to hand over his disciple and challenged anyone who disagreed to fight him.

• Grand Elder Meng Tianzheng struck the Imperial Clan Supreme with a second golden arrow, leaving him gravely wounded despite his damaged Immortal Artifact.
• Grand Elder Meng Tianzheng warned the Supreme that he would have killed the Foreign Realm forces if the Undying King’s decree had not restrained him.
• Foreign Realm Undying Kings sent a terrifying warning from beyond the Heavenly Abyss, and their army roared their name as the Imperial Clan Supreme urged Imperial Pass to submit.
• Jin Taijun and Wang Changsheng urged Meng Tianzheng to hand Shi Hao over, while the Wei Family Supreme and Qi Family Supreme condemned the proposal and defended him.
• Grand Elder Meng Tianzheng declared that no one would surrender his disciple without first defeating him.

Yun Ying revealed her overwhelming power by annihilating the Foreign Realm’s million-strong army with a single word, then Grand Elder Meng Tianzheng and several Imperial Pass Supremes fought the surviving Foreign Realm Supremes. The chapter ended with Wang Changsheng and Jin Taijun facing the decision of whether to join the battle.

• Grand Elder Meng Tianzheng rejected calls to hand over Desolate, and Yun Ying declared that the conflict and the game of chess would end in battle.
• Yun Ying appeared above the Foreign Realm army and killed more than a million cultivators with a single word, leaving the Imperial Pass witnesses stunned by her power.
• Grand Elder Meng Tianzheng left the Imperial Pass to confront the Foreign Realm Supremes, who attacked him after Yun Ying wounded and suppressed them.
• The Wei Family Supreme, the Tuogu Family Supremes, and the Qi Family Supremes joined Grand Elder Meng Tianzheng, while elderly Supremes stayed behind to oversee the battle.
• The remaining Supremes turned their attention to Wang Changsheng and Jin Taijun.

Yun Ying confronted the Foreign Realm’s Undying Kings after they sent their dharma bodies to the border, revealing that she intended to undergo her immortal ascension tribulation and great calamity of Dao attainment in their territory. The chapter ended with the Undying Kings realizing she meant to drag them into the combined tribulations.

• Wang Changsheng and Jin Taijun left the Imperial Pass walls to fight the Foreign Realm’s Supremes, while Shi Hao and the others voiced their hopes for Yun Ying.
• Yun Ying cut off the Undying Kings’ auras with her sword and appeared in the Foreign Realm’s Border Wasteland.
• The Foreign Realm’s Undying recognized Yun Ying as the Executioner, and she gravely wounded one of them with a glance.
• An Undying King identified Yun Ying’s Immortal King-level Primordial Spirit but noted that she had not yet undergone heaven and earth’s baptism.
• Yun Ying announced that she would trigger her immortal ascension tribulation and great calamity of Dao attainment in the Foreign Realm.
• The Undying Kings realized Yun Ying intended to pull them into the combined tribulations and feared the destruction they could cause.

Yun Ying revealed her sealed true body and effortlessly shattered An Lan’s attack with her sword Dao, then announced that the Foreign Realm’s million-strong army had perished. She withdrew to the Outer Regions to begin her great calamity of Dao attainment, while the Undying Kings watched, expecting karmic hindrances to doom her.

• Yun Ying appeared in her true body, bound by 108 chains of immortal Dao order, and the Undying Kings realized she had deliberately suppressed her cultivation.
• An Lan attacked Yun Ying, but she split his enormous palm with a mysterious sword strike and destroyed one of his hands.
• Yun Ying climbed toward the Outer Regions and revealed that she had killed the Foreign Realm’s million-strong army.
• An Lan, Yu Tuo, and the other Undying Kings chose to watch Yun Ying’s impending tribulation, believing her slaughter would draw the heavenly Dao’s punishment.
• Yun Ying stood in the Outer Regions, recalled her life, and felt symbols and gateways awaken within her as her great calamity approached.

Yun Ying broke through the Immortal Dao seals and merged her immortal ascension tribulation with her great calamity of Dao attainment. After destroying ten Immortal King Realm lightning beasts with one sword strike, she faced a rising sea of nine-colored lightning while the Foreign Realm’s Undying Kings plotted to kill her.

• Yun Ying shattered every chain of Immortal Dao order and ascended beyond the ordinary Undying realm.
• Yun Ying thanked an ancient character, which flew into the thunderclouds and transformed the lightning into nine-colored lightning.
• Ten Immortal King Realm lightning beasts attacked Yun Ying, and she destroyed them all with a single sword strike.
• An Lan and the other Undying Kings resolved to attack Yun Ying when she condensed her Dao fruit, even if they had to sacrifice their Dharma bodies.
• The River of Time and Space rose around Yun Ying as a vast ocean of nine-colored lightning surged toward her.

Yun Ying survived the nine-colored lightning sea and forged her body into an Immortal Body, then faced the Ancient Heavenly Court and its six Immortal King-level guardians. She began fighting them to complete her Dao attainment, while An Lan set out to kill her in person.

• The nine-colored lightning sea destroyed Yun Ying’s body, but her Sword Soul endured and her blood and bones reformed into an Immortal Body.
• An Lan decided to travel in his true body and kill Yun Ying, while Yu Tuo and the other Undying Kings watched the tribulation.
• Yun Ying split the nine-colored lightning sea with a punch, and the Jeweled Hall of Lofty Heavens appeared amid the thunderclouds.
• Six powerful Immortal King-level figures emerged from the hall, and Yun Ying severed the arm of the one who challenged her.
• The other five heavenly generals attacked together, and Yun Ying drew the Purple Cloud Sword and clashed with their supreme Immortal Weapons.

Yun Ying endured the six heavenly generals’ assault until she understood and perfected her Sword Dao, then transformed and slew all six with one strike. The Undying Kings and their followers watched in shock as she survived the trial and displayed power that could rival an unrivaled Immortal King.

• Yun Ying fought six Immortal King-level heavenly generals while suffering severe wounds, and she calmly contemplated the nature of her Sword Dao.
• Yun Ying realized that her Sword Dao encompassed, fused, united, and could destroy all Daos, completing her understanding and breaking through.
• The six heavenly generals’ attacks struck an invisible field around Yun Ying, and she emerged healed and transformed as Yu Tuo and the other Undying Kings watched in disbelief.
• Yun Ying restored the Purple Cloud Sword, thanked the heavenly generals for helping her complete her ascension, and faced their renewed attack.
• Yun Ying unleashed one sword strike that split all six heavenly generals in two, leaving the Undying Kings and the Foreign Realm onlookers horrified.

Yun Ying endured the Great Calamity of Dao Attainment, advancing her body and tempering her Sword Soul as she neared the Immortal King Realm. The Foreign Realm’s Undying Kings failed to stop her under the Heavenly Dao’s protection, and An Lan arrived but held back from attacking.

• Yun Ying survived the Immortal Ascension Tribulation and began enduring the Great Calamity of Dao Attainment, with the myriad Daos refining her body and Primordial Spirit.
• The Foreign Realm’s Undying Kings attacked Yun Ying, but the Purple Cloud Sword severed their manifested hands while Yun Ying remained focused on her baptism.
• Nine-colored lightning struck Yu Tuo and the other Undying Kings, destroying their manifestations for interfering with the Heavenly Tribulation.
• Yu Tuo and the other Undying Kings acknowledged the danger Yun Ying posed and regretted attacking her, while concluding they could not safely strike again.
• An Lan arrived at the altar, saw Yun Ying nearing Immortal King fruition, and restrained his urge to attack after Yu Tuo and the others warned him of the Heavenly Dao’s judgment.

Yun Ying completed her breakthrough into the Immortal King Realm, while An Lan stayed behind to confront her. As they faced each other in the Foreign Realm, Yun Ying asked to borrow An Lan’s head to celebrate her newly completed Great Dao.

• An Lan dismissed the warnings from Yu Tuo and the other Undying Kings, then ordered the Foreign Realm’s forces to clear the battlefield for his fight with Yun Ying.
• Yun Ying’s Sword Soul completed its baptism, and her sword cry startled ancient beings across time and reached both realms.
• At Imperial Pass, Meng Tianzheng’s side celebrated victory over the Foreign Realm’s Supremes and prepared to go see how Yun Ying was faring.
• Yun Ying attained the Immortal King fruition as the Heavenly Dao blessed her, then sensed An Lan’s killing intent and went to meet him.
• An Lan introduced himself and appraised Yun Ying, who told him she wanted to borrow his head to celebrate her completed Great Dao.

Yun Ying fought An Lan after he arrived in his true body, overwhelming the Undying King with her Sword Dao and physical strength. She left An Lan bloodied and furious in the Foreign Realm’s Border Wasteland, while eight other Undying Kings awakened.

• An Lan attacked Yun Ying with his golden spear, but she blocked it with her fingers and cut off its tip.
• An Lan repaired his spear and unleashed his full power, but Yun Ying’s sword rain shattered his spear light and wounded his hand.
• Yun Ying pressed An Lan with a palm strike, severed his spear with a hand blade, and cut into his arm when he tried to defend himself.
• Yun Ying countered An Lan’s swing, slashed his chest, and kicked him into the Foreign Realm’s Border Wasteland.
• An Lan roared in fury from the ruins, alarming his clan, while eight Undying Kings awakened in other Imperial Clans.

Yu Tuo and the other Undying Kings chose not to support An Lan after realizing Yun Ying had overwhelmed him. Yun Ying then used her Sword God Dao to destroy An Lan’s weapons and pierce his heart, before seizing him by the throat and skewering both his arms with the Purple Cloud Sword.

• Yu Tuo and the other seven Undying Kings discussed An Lan’s predicament and agreed not to intervene, wary of Yun Ying and the lingering effects of Heavenly Dao Judgment.
• An Lan healed his wounds at the frontier and reattached his severed arm, but Yun Ying soon descended to challenge him again.
• An Lan repaired his spear and attacked Yun Ying with his golden shield, spear, formations, and a black hole.
• Yun Ying revealed her supreme art, Sword God Art, and destroyed An Lan’s attacks, shield, and spear with one sword strike that pierced his chest and shattered his heart.
• Yun Ying seized An Lan by the throat through his protective field and pierced both his raised arms with the Purple Cloud Sword.

Yun Ying defeated An Lan, pinned his Primordial Spirit, and began refining it after revealing an overwhelming aura through the Robe of Heaven. She collected An Lan’s treasures for the Celestial Clan while his Primordial Spirit remained trapped in the Purple Cloud Sword.

• Yun Ying drove An Lan into the ground, battered him, and pierced his Primordial Spirit with the Purple Cloud Sword.
• Yun Ying rejected An Lan’s plea for mercy, cut off his head, and told him that he had never faced her full strength.
• Yun Ying revealed the Robe of Heaven and an aura resembling the Heavenly Dao, then cleaved An Lan’s Primordial Spirit apart.
• Yun Ying imprisoned An Lan’s Primordial Spirit in the Purple Cloud Sword and let the sword refine it.
• Yun Ying collected An Lan’s rare immortal materials and other treasures for the Celestial Clan.

Yun Ying learned secrets about the Foreign Realm’s Origin Ancient Artifact, then defeated An Lan and brought his head to the Heavenly Abyss. She revealed to the arriving group that she had become an Immortal King and left them confident that she could guard the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.

• As An Lan’s Primordial Spirit was refined, Yun Ying learned that the Foreign Realm and the Burial Ground each originated from an Origin Ancient Artifact, and that the Foreign Realm sought a key hidden in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
• Yun Ying sealed An Lan’s body for study, kept his head, and vowed to kill Yu Tuo and the seven other Undying Kings who had attacked her.
• Yun Ying met Meng Tianzheng, Shi Hao, Little Rabbit, and the others at the Heavenly Abyss, where they recognized An Lan’s head and sensed her Immortal King aura.
• Yun Ying forged a great stellar spear and impaled An Lan’s head on it as a warning to the Foreign Realm.
• Yun Ying confirmed that she had become an Immortal King, and the group celebrated her breakthrough.
• Yun Ying told Meng Tianzheng that the Foreign Realm’s fear of the Heavenly Abyss would keep its Undying Kings from attacking rashly.

After Yun Ying killed An Lan, she stayed at the Heavenly Abyss to guard against a Foreign Realm counterattack while Shi Hao set out to temper himself. A month later, An Lan’s body was fully refined and his death caused a blood rain across both realms, leaving the Imperial Pass hopeful under Yun Ying’s protection.

• Yun Ying told the elders she would remain at the Heavenly Abyss and watch the Foreign Realm, while privately intending to settle her karma with Yu Tuo and the other seven Undying Kings.
• Cao Yusheng asked who Yun Ying had killed, and she revealed it was An Lan; the Heavenly Horned Ant thanked her for avenging his father.
• Shi Hao chose to train in the Divine Medicine Mountain Range, and Yun Ying promised to take him to the ancient city he had been investigating when the time was right.
• Little Purple reunited with Yun Ying, who reflected on the ancient character’s return to Heaven and began considering the domain beyond Immortal Kings.
• Yun Ying refined An Lan’s body for a month, after which his death brought blood rain across the universe and the people of the Imperial Pass celebrated their enemy’s fall.

After An Lan fell to Yun Ying, the Foreign Realm learned that she had become an Immortal King and slaughtered its million-strong army, stirring anger and division. Meanwhile, Yun Ying found a strand of darkness origin that her Sword God Dao could not sever and resolved to investigate the Origin Ancient Artifact in the Foreign Realm.

• The Foreign Realm recognized the signs of an Undying King's fall and learned that An Lan had died, leaving Yu Tuo grief-stricken and reluctant to explain what happened.
• The An Lan Clan's Quasi-Undying King visited Yu Tuo, then news spread that Yun Ying had killed An Lan and annihilated the million-strong army.
• The Foreign Realm's beings condemned Yu Tuo and the An Lan Clan for their losses, and Yu Tuo silenced them while the realm's unity deteriorated.
• Yun Ying refined An Lan's body into a blood pill and uncovered a strand of darkness origin that resisted her Sword God Dao.
• Yun Ying concluded that the darkness origin might come from beyond the world and planned to seize the Foreign Realm's Origin Ancient Artifact to investigate its connection to emperors.

Yun Ying tempered her Sword God Dao with Darkness Origin and developed an imperishable aura before taking Shi Hao to the Primordial Imperial City. Shi Hao entered the city to meet his clansmen, while Yun Ying stood at the continent’s edge and looked toward the Foreign Realm.

• Yun Ying used the wisp of Darkness Origin to strengthen her Sword God Dao, whose imperishable aura began transforming her flesh and spirit.
• After a year, Shi Hao reached the Escape One Realm and came to see Yun Ying, who brought him above the Heavenly Abyss to the Primordial Imperial City.
• Shi Hao recognized the city guarded by the Seven Kings of the Border Wasteland, and Yun Ying explained that its fused supreme expert was near death and that she could not save him.
• Inside the barrier, Shi Hao’s bloodline inheritance mark appeared, and Yun Ying said the city would answer many of his questions.
• An old man on the walls challenged Yun Ying and Shi Hao, then learned that Yun Ying had slain An Lan and let Shi Hao enter after an examination.
• Yun Ying left Shi Hao with the people of the Primordial Imperial City and watched the Foreign Realm from the continent’s edge.

Yun Ying accepted Shi Xiaoqin as her disciple, offered to teach Shi Hao her Sword Dao, and prepared to enter the Foreign Realm to settle old karma. After a year of peace, she set out toward the Foreign Realm as her Sword God Dao reached minor mastery.

• Yun Ying met Shi Hao and several hundred children from the Primordial Imperial City, and agreed to teach the bold Shi Xiaoqin her Sword Dao.
• Yun Ying placed a wisp of sword qi in Shi Xiaoqin to nourish her body and explained that their bond began when the girl called her Immortal Sister.
• Yun Ying offered to teach Shi Hao her method, then sent him and the children back toward the Imperial Pass.
• A year passed without battles between the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths and the Foreign Realm after Yun Ying killed An Lan.
• Yun Ying reached minor mastery in the Sword God Dao and decided to enter the Foreign Realm to settle old karma.

Yun Ying entered the Foreign Realm in disguise, explored its Great Dao, and struck a bargain with the World Tree to receive world origin power in exchange for promising to protect it in the future. After revealing her identity and warning that she still intended to kill those bound to her by karma, she began cultivating in the World Tree’s hidden heart-space.

• Yun Ying crossed the Foreign Realm’s world barrier and traveled through its lands in the guise of a Heavenly God, studying its Great Dao for half a year.
• Yun Ying ascended the World Tree, where its will recognized her as a visitor from the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths and asked her to make a bargain.
• The World Tree offered Yun Ying world origin power in exchange for her promise to protect it, and Yun Ying agreed while making clear that she would still kill her karmic enemies.
• Yun Ying revealed her true identity and told the World Tree that she was an Immortal King under forty.
• The World Tree transported Yun Ying into its heart-space, where she began absorbing world origin power and comprehending the Foreign Realm’s Great Dao.

After six months of cultivation in the World Tree's heartwood, Yun Ying became an Immortal King Giant and promised the World Tree aid in the future. She left to hunt eight Undying Kings connected to her, with the World Tree agreeing to obscure their awareness of danger as she chose her first target.

• Yun Ying's Dao attainment surged, and the World Tree recognized that she had achieved the terrifying path of Body as Seed.
• After another three months, Yun Ying awoke with an inscrutable aura and gave the World Tree a seal it could use to contact her.
• Yun Ying asked about darkness origin, and the World Tree warned her about the Origin Ancient Artifact and pointed to the Realm Sea and polluted regions as possible sources.
• Yun Ying asked the World Tree to locate Yu Tuo and seven other Undying Kings, and it revealed their whereabouts along with those of other powerful figures.
• The World Tree agreed to obscure heaven's secrets while Yun Ying hunted, and Yun Ying left after telling it not to intervene.
• Little Purple advised Yun Ying to begin with a relatively weak target in a remote place, and Yun Ying agreed to choose among the eight connected to her.