Chapter Summaries

After the world’s level rose, Tai Wangshu discovered that the Heavenly Dao had empowered native cultivators and excluded outsiders, while rewarding those who fought the Myriad Clans with merit. She ordered the Taiyin Sacred Land to support the Divine Firmament Sword Sect, then simulated what might have happened if Ying Huaixu had not existed.

• Tai Wangshu and Old Ten sensed their strength and understanding of Daoist arts improve as the world changed, and Old Ten rapidly recovered to the ninth level of Spirit Aspect.
• Tai Wangshu learned that the Taiyin Sacred Land’s spirit herbs had gained medicinal potency and that cultivators who practiced this world’s techniques were growing stronger.
• Tai Wangshu investigated those who sensed no change and found they had adopted outside cultivation techniques or received favors from outsiders, leaving them excluded by the Heavenly Dao.
• At Tai Wangshu’s request, the Taiyin Saint Lord killed an excluded elder and discovered a trace of merit within herself, confirming the Heavenly Dao rewarded those who opposed the Myriad Clans.
• Tai Wangshu ordered the Taiyin Sacred Land to support the Divine Firmament Sword Sect if it faced trouble, but kept her conclusions from Ying Huaixu.
• Tai Wangshu simulated a world without Ying Huaixu and saw Ye Ningshuang survive the Star Sea Secret Realm, eventually rule a new era beneath an apparently empty Heavenly Dao.

Ying Huaixu learned that outsiders could not become locals simply by adopting the world's cultivation techniques, then received a hidden quest to rescue the Taiyin Old Ancestor from attackers in outer space. He and Tai Wangshu prepared to travel using spatial coordinates, but Tai Wangshu paused to contemplate the Dao while Ying Huaixu took Old Ten shopping.

• Ying Huaixu asked Tai Wangshu whether outsiders could become locals by abandoning their cultivation methods, and she said the Heavenly Dao could still distinguish them.
• Tai Wangshu requested Ying Huaixu's help after the Taiyin Old Ancestor, who had secretly killed outsiders, was discovered and surrounded.
• Ying Huaixu accepted the hidden rescue quest and found that its destination was in outer space, while Tai Wangshu proposed using the Old Ancestor's spatial coordinates and a Reverse Teleportation Technique.
• Ying Huaixu, Tai Wangshu, and Old Ten agreed to travel through a Nether Capital Merchant Guild teleportation array, but Tai Wangshu first went into seclusion to contemplate the Dao.
• Ying Huaixu took Old Ten shopping with his vast wealth, and she compared him favorably with the Divine Firmament disciple she had once manipulated.

Ying Huaixu’s marks exposed the Outsiders’ agents and turned their plan to burden the Divine Firmament Sword Sect with karmic retribution into a source of merit for the sect. The Outsiders abandoned their original objective and planned a major attack to kill Ying Huaixu, even if it risked awakening the Hongmeng Heavenly Dao.

• The Outsiders realized Ying Huaixu had marked their planted agents, ruining their plan and making those agents valuable targets for the Divine Firmament Sword Sect.
• The Beast God and Ancient Buddha confirmed that the Heavenly Dao had not awakened and that Ying Huaixu alone had disrupted the Outsiders’ schemes.
• The Mile-High Heaven Powerhouse recalled how Ying Huaixu had killed the Azure Fox Lady, dismantled the Star-Devouring Clan’s plan, and strengthened the Divine Firmament Sword Sect’s alliances.
• The Beast God blamed Ying Huaixu’s rise on the massacre of his family and defended the Azure Fox Lady’s failed attempt to kill him.
• The Lord of the Weird Gods changed the Outsiders’ objective to killing Ying Huaixu and asked the others to hold off the Divine Firmament Sword Sect’s cultivators.
• The Ancient God warned that a large-scale attack might awaken the Hongmeng Heavenly Dao, but the Lord of the Weird Gods accepted that risk.

The Outsider powerhouses debated how to stop Ying Huaixu without provoking the sleeping Heavenly Dao, then discovered Taiyin Old Ancestor was killing their agents in the Small Worlds. A Six-Color King pursued Taiyin Old Ancestor, but abruptly fled after crossing paths with Ying Huaixu, leaving Taiyin Old Ancestor stunned by Ying Huaixu’s reputation.

• The Outsider powerhouses decided Ying Huaixu was a greater threat than Ye Ningshuang and agreed to target him while keeping He Xixiang and Lü Qingyi occupied.
• The powerhouses assigned the Lord of Mile-High Heaven to contribute more forces, but learned they had lost contact with their agents in the Small Worlds.
• The powerhouses discovered Taiyin Old Ancestor had returned and was slaughtering their people, so they ordered someone to surround and kill him.
• Taiyin Old Ancestor continued killing Outsiders for merit until a red-haired, three-eyed Six-Color King appeared and attacked him.
• Taiyin Old Ancestor escaped through the Small Worlds, called for Tai Wangshu’s help, and eventually crossed paths with Ying Huaixu.
• The Six-Color King immediately turned and fled from Ying Huaixu, leaving both Ying Huaixu and Taiyin Old Ancestor bewildered.

After Taiyin Old Ancestor revealed that everyone in the Small World was an Outsider, Ying Huaixu froze them all and shattered the world. He then followed the map to attack more enemy camps for experience, leaving hidden Small Worlds and even some Great Worlds destroyed.

• Ying Huaixu tested his power in the Small World and discovered that his spiritual energy and sword strikes could devastate it.
• Taiyin Old Ancestor asked Ying Huaixu to call him big brother and revealed that Outsiders had wiped out the Small Worlds’ native populations.
• The Outsiders exposed themselves and fled, so Ying Huaixu drew Frost Annihilation-Moonlight and froze them, earning experience while Taiyin Old Ancestor gained merit.
• Ying Huaixu shattered the Small World with a strike, and Tai Wangshu explained to Taiyin Old Ancestor that Ying Huaixu had already destroyed a Great World before.
• Ying Huaixu opened the map and led Taiyin Old Ancestor and Tai Wangshu to attack marked enemy camps, destroying hidden Small Worlds and silencing some Great Worlds.
• Ying Huaixu had Tai Wangshu collect the Great Worlds that remained intact so he could study them.

Ying Huaixu sorted the loot from conquered worlds, demonstrated his automatic Artifact Refining, and showed Tai Wangshu how Gold Essence could improve a Flying Sword. The group discovered that Old Ten and the Taiyin Old Ancestor had known each other for a long time, leaving Ying Huaixu and Tai Wangshu watching their reunion with curiosity.

• Ying Huaixu paused his campaign to sort the loot, dismantling the inferior treasures into essences and dividing the spoils into four shares.
• Tai Wangshu recognized the essences as Gold Essence and demonstrated Artifact Refining, prompting Ying Huaixu to produce a batch of Flying Swords automatically.
• Ying Huaixu taught Tai Wangshu Artifact Refining and demonstrated how Gold Essence upgraded a Flying Sword, leading Tai Wangshu to offer to buy them for the Taiyin Sacred Land.
• Old Ten demanded that the Taiyin Sacred Land exchange Taiyin Dew for the swords, and the Taiyin Old Ancestor realized Old Ten was the Blood Sis she had once known.
• Old Ten recognized the Taiyin Old Ancestor as the silly girl from their past and teased her while Ying Huaixu and Tai Wangshu watched.

Ying Huaixu’s attempt to send Old Ten after Outsiders failed because they had fled and were sealing their hidden entrance. The Outsider leaders then proposed killing Ye Ningshuang and Ying Huaixu’s other allies to stop his growing influence.

• Ying Huaixu and Tai Wangshu completed a deal for flying swords and Taiyin dew, which Old Ten said would balance the Divine Firmament Sword Sect’s temperament.
• Ying Huaixu gave Old Ten a map of worlds with Outsiders to hunt, but she quickly returned because every red dot had disappeared.
• Ying Huaixu searched the mapped worlds with Tai Wangshu and the Taiyin Old Ancestor, finding only empty worlds as the Outsiders fled and took everything.
• The Outsiders hurried to seal their hidden entrance so Ying Huaixu could not find it and bring He Xixiang through.
• The Lord of the Weird Gods urged the Outsider leaders to strike Ying Huaixu’s allies first, suggesting they kill Ye Ningshuang.

The powerful figures planned to send two Six-Color Kings against Ye Ningshuang, while she prepared her companions for battle in a shattered world. She trapped Black Cat in an inheritance and remade her shadow into Shadow Slave, leaving both bound to serve her.

• The Lord of the Weird Gods ordered the Three-Eyed God Clan's Six-Color King and Guiche to test Ye Ningshuang's strength.
• Ye Ningshuang told Black Cat that treasure hunting was no longer enough and threw her into the Netherworld Cat's Inheritance Blood to force her to learn to fight.
• Ye Ningshuang used her soul power to reconstruct her shadow as her twin, raising her to the peak of the Spirit Aspect realm.
• Ye Ningshuang named the twin Shadow Slave and bound her with Netherworld Twin Life, transferring Ye Ningshuang's injuries to her.
• Shadow Slave tried to rebel but found she could not use her cultivation, and Ye Ningshuang warned her that she was only a tool.

Ye Ningshuang devoured the Netherworld laws, reached the fifth layer of Spirit Aspect, and forced Shadow Slave to accept her control. Following the Black Sword to a strange building, she answered its question and met a phantom who offered her opportunities, leaving them to talk.

• Ye Ningshuang absorbed the realm's Netherworld laws, raising her cultivation to the fifth layer of Spirit Aspect while Shadow Slave suffered the backlash.
• Ye Ningshuang revealed that her soul imprint was recorded in the Netherworld Sea and that Shadow Slave would remain bound to her even after reincarnation.
• Ye Ningshuang confronted Shadow Slave about her plans to possess her, and Shadow Slave yielded and agreed to behave.
• Ye Ningshuang followed the Black Sword to an unusual building and answered that a villain's child should use a form of address appropriate to the villain's sex.
• A phantom praised Ye Ningshuang for answering correctly and offered her the opportunities ahead in exchange for a conversation.
• Ye Ningshuang questioned the phantom about his storybooks and whether he had asked Lü Qingyi his questions, leaving him speechless.

Ye Ningshuang rejected the lingering phantom’s whetstone and explained that the Hongmeng World’s future depended on Brother Ying. When Guiche and the Six-Color King of the Three-Eyed God Clan emerged to attack her, she overwhelmed them with her three-thousand-zhang Spirit Aspect.

• Ye Ningshuang told the phantom that a sovereign was defined by protecting the people and governing effectively, not by gender or storybook romance.
• The phantom gave Ye Ningshuang a whetstone, but she threw it aside and showed him that she could unseal her sword without it.
• Ye Ningshuang took a ring containing Dao Stones and said Brother Ying would determine the Hongmeng World’s future.
• The phantom forcibly solidified again, insisting on seeing who Brother Ying was, while Shadow Slave watched in bewilderment.
• Ye Ningshuang challenged the hidden Guiche and the Six-Color King of the Three-Eyed God Clan, who manifested their Spirit Aspects and attacked together.
• Ye Ningshuang’s Spirit Aspect swept its sword at them, sending both through the ruined world and into the sky above the Hongmeng World.

Ye Ningshuang defeated two Six-Color Kings and then killed a Seven-Color King, absorbing their soul power and abilities. The Outsiders’ powerhouses were left alarmed by her strength as she went to find Ying Huaixu.

• Ye Ningshuang killed Guiche and the Three-Eyed God Clan member, then used their soul power to strengthen the Grand Ancestor’s remnant consciousness.
• A Seven-Color King attacked Ye Ningshuang with threads that immobilized her, but she escaped using the Three-Eyed God Clan’s Eye of Heaven and the Star-Devouring Clan’s secret arts.
• Ye Ningshuang trapped the Seven-Color King in Purple Miasma and killed him with her Lord of the Netherworld Spirit Aspect.
• Ye Ningshuang gained the Seven-Color King’s Soul Silkworm Threads ability and turned nearby meteorites into shadow servants.
• Ye Ningshuang went to find Ying Huaixu while the Outsiders’ powerhouses worried over the deaths and her newly revealed strength.

The Outsider titans feared Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang’s growing influence and debated how to regain control of Hongmeng World. They decided to assault the Divine Firmament Sword Sect and slaughter native cultivators, then ordered a search for whoever had exterminated the Ying Family.

• The titans feared Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang would grow powerful enough to lead Hongmeng World in a counterattack.
• The titans observed that factions connected to Ying Huaixu, including the Star-Seizing Sect, the Taiyin Sacred Land, and the Ten Thousand Dragons Sacred Land, were rapidly growing stronger.
• The Lord of the Weird Gods proposed attacking the Divine Firmament Sword Sect and killing native cultivators to weaken Hongmeng World's fortune.
• The Lord of the Weird Gods revealed that the Trickster God Seed had been planted and would erupt when the battle began.
• The titans planned to use the Descent Array and Blood Sacrifice Array with Demonic Beasts, then ordered people to find whoever had exterminated the Ying Family.

The Beast God and other powerhouses grew suspicious that the Lord of the Weird Gods’ plans kept helping the Hongmeng World, though he insisted his latest scheme would succeed. Ying Huaixu gained experience while repairing Tai Wangshu’s Dao scars, then got separated from her and encountered Lady Nether Capital, whose purple Adventure Quest offered a mysterious Spirit Leaf.

• The Beast God decided to send an avatar to observe whether the Lord of the Weird Gods’ plan against the Hongmeng World would succeed, while the Mile-High Heaven Powerhouse also wondered whether the Lord of the Weird Gods was secretly aiding Ying Huaixu.
• The Lord of the Weird Gods rejected the suspicion that he was a traitor and vowed that his new plan would succeed.
• Ying Huaixu used his system to remove Tai Wangshu’s Dao scars and gained 100 million experience, but she stopped him from continuing and left without taking him along.
• Ying Huaixu used Lü Qingyi’s Shrinking Earth to an Inch, became lost, and was pursued by Lady Nether Capital after supposedly peeking at her bathing.
• Ying Huaixu stopped when he saw Lady Nether Capital’s purple Adventure Quest, which asked him to help with her lingzhi cultivation in exchange for a mysterious Spirit Leaf.

Ying Huaixu agreed to plant Lady Nether Capital’s garden in exchange for forgiving He Xixiang’s debt and a promised reward, bringing Tai Wangshu and Taiyin Old Ancestor along. His farming earned him immense experience and made the plants grow, but the garden produced the same strange fruits He Xixiang had recently given him.

• Lady Nether Capital recognized Ying Huaixu and demanded repayment for He Xixiang’s borrowed goods, then offered to forgive the debt if he planted her garden.
• Ying Huaixu accepted the task and brought Tai Wangshu and Taiyin Old Ancestor to Lady Nether Capital’s extravagant residence.
• Lady Nether Capital gave the three tools and seeds, warning that they would have to stay with her if they failed to grow the flowers.
• Tai Wangshu struggled to dig the hard soil, while Ying Huaixu effortlessly made planting holes and gained billions of experience points.
• Ying Huaixu directed Tai Wangshu to water the seeds precisely, and the plants rapidly grew bright red fruits.
• Ying Huaixu recognized the fruits as the same ones He Xixiang had recently given him.

Lady Nether Capital rewarded Ying Huaixu and his companions after they helped grow the Lingzhi, then sent them back to the depths of space. Ying Huaixu left with a fortune in Spirit Leaves but could not obtain the other treasures in her Treasury.

• Lady Nether Capital ate the Red Fruits, shed the poisonous black smoke, and thanked Ying Huaixu for helping her grow the Lingzhi.
• Lady Nether Capital opened her Treasury, where Ying Huaixu took one trillion Spirit Leaves, Tai Wangshu took Sun Crystals, and Taiyin Old Ancestor took the Moon Wheel Blade.
• Ying Huaixu tried to persuade Lady Nether Capital to give him more treasures, but she refused and joked that he could only earn them by producing a true Human Race child.
• Lady Nether Capital explained that a true Human Race child was born with an innate Dao body, then returned Ying Huaixu and the others to the depths of space.
• Tai Wangshu asked Ying Huaixu whether he had really seen Lady Nether Capital bathing, and he denied it.

Ying Huaixu returned to the Divine Firmament Sword Sect and learned that changes in the Hongmeng World had driven Demonic Beasts to seek refuge there while Ascenders poured into the major worlds. Lü Qingyi assigned him to receive and nurture Ascenders as part of a plan to strengthen Hongmeng against the Outsiders, and he set off for Ascension City.

• Ying Huaixu and Tai Wangshu returned to the Hongmeng World, where Tai Wangshu sensed that its laws and spiritual energy had grown stronger and left to cultivate.
• Ying Huaixu searched for Demonic Beasts to fight, then learned from Zhuang Mu that many had vanished or died while the survivors had gathered at the Divine Firmament Sword Sect and sought refuge.
• Zhuang Mu told Ying Huaixu that Ascenders were arriving in large numbers and that Lü Qingyi wanted him to help Tong Xinran receive and nurture them.
• Ying Huaixu accepted a quest to receive one hundred thousand Ascenders and headed for Ascension City.
• Lü Qingyi explained to Zhuang Mu that Ascenders could quickly replace Hongmeng's losses, and that making Ying Huaixu their first point of contact would help secure their loyalty.

Lü Qingyi confirmed that Ying Huaixu would be safe while the Heavenly Dao borrowed her creation power to fund its bold plan. Ying Huaixu advanced to Spirit Aspect Second Layer on his way to Ascension City and wondered whether Lady Nether Capital’s abundant treasures were being saved for him.

• Zhuang Mu asked where Ye Ningshuang was, and Lü Qingyi said she was keeping something in reserve.
• Lü Qingyi heard the Heavenly Dao negotiate over a child’s price, then lend it creation power after it promised to repay her double if its plan succeeded.
• Lü Qingyi assured Zhuang Mu that Ying Huaixu would be all right, and Zhuang Mu returned to his Sect Master paperwork.
• Ying Huaixu advanced to Spirit Aspect Second Layer and noticed that future spirit stone costs would be deducted from the Divine Firmament Sword Sect.
• Ying Huaixu examined his 10,000 Spirit Leaves and wondered who had supplied them, suspecting that the Heavenly Dao might be directing Lady Nether Capital to save treasures for him.

Ying Huaixu maxed out his Lord of the Way Sword Spirit Aspect, then reorganized Ascension City’s recruitment process so Ascenders could freely choose whether to join the Divine Firmament Sword Sect. His mission progress rose as sincere recruits signed up, leaving him puzzled about the demand to recruit a hundred thousand Ascenders.

• Ying Huaixu spent 270 billion Spirit Leaves upgrading his Lord of the Way Sword to tier nine, gaining powerful sword passives and enduring intense pain as he absorbed sword laws.
• Ying Huaixu ate He Xixiang’s fruit, which eased his pain and reduced the experience required for his Magic Power passive, then went to Ascension City.
• Ying Huaixu found Tong Xinran overwhelmed by registering Ascenders and helped her record names, but after a day their twenty thousand registrations counted as only one thousand toward his mission.
• Ying Huaixu established the Divine Firmament Administration Office and made joining the sect voluntary, with prospective disciples first mining and being informed of the risks and rewards.
• Ying Huaixu explained his approach to Tong Xinran, and the workload eased as Ascenders chose freely; his mission progress rose as genuine recruits joined.
• Ying Huaixu realized the mission counted only people who truly wanted to join and wondered why he had been tasked with recruiting a hundred thousand Ascenders.

Ying Huaixu prepared for the coming Sect Defense Battle and learned how other sects were handling Ascenders. Tai Wangshu arranged for the Taiyin Sacred Land’s Ascension City to move into Divine Firmament territory, while Xu Yaoyang was banished after rebelling against the Great Sun Saint Lord.

• Ying Huaixu asked Ye Ningshuang and the others whether they could fight a World Boss alone, then urged them to hide their strength and catch their enemies off guard.
• Other sects controlled, recruited, or rejected their Ascenders in different ways, while the Star-Seizing Sect Master copied Ying Huaixu’s approach.
• Tai Wangshu explained that the Taiyin Sacred Land would give its Ascension City to the Divine Firmament Sword Sect and seek closer cooperation.
• The Taiyin Old Ancestor told the Taiyin Saint Lord to avoid fighting in the coming battle and retreat behind the Sect-Protecting Grand Formation if attacked.
• The Great Sun Saint Lord banished Xu Yaoyang to a barren area in Divine Firmament territory for raising troops in rebellion.

Xu Yaoyang visited Ying Huaixu, bringing two Ice Laws Fragments and news that Heart-Questioning Valley remained quiet. Ying Huaixu then discovered that the Divine Firmament Sword Sect’s mine had begun producing endless Supreme Spirit Stones because of a mysterious pond, leaving him to wonder if he had been given free rein to develop the sect.

• Xu Yaoyang escaped his banishment and flew to Ying Huaixu, giving him two Ice Laws Fragments from the Great Sun Secret Realm.
• Xu Yaoyang told Ying Huaixu that nothing unusual had happened at Heart-Questioning Valley or elsewhere in Dream Continent.
• Ying Huaixu went to the mine after seeing that his recruitment quest had reached only thirty thousand people.
• The mine steward showed Ying Huaixu a pond whose changes had made the vein produce abundant Supreme Spirit Stones.
• Ying Huaixu found that the pond held powerful spirit spring water and fish, and wondered whether he could develop the Divine Firmament Sword Sect without holding back.