Chapter Summaries

Ying Huaixu investigated the powerful fish, learned how Qin Erniu was developing his Overlord Physique, and created a plan to strengthen the sect’s disciples. He then proposed a resource exchange with Tai Wangshu, who agreed to the arrangement.

• Ying Huaixu discovered that eating the fish granted him experience, while a mine overseer who ate one rapidly advanced in cultivation but gained an unstable foundation.
• Qin Erniu explained that Meng Wuya had taught him the Yellow Ox Chan Scripture, which steadied his disposition and helped him unlock more of his Overlord Physique.
• Ying Huaixu decided to train the sect’s disciples without restraint so they would be better prepared for future enemies and challenges.
• After three days, Ying Huaixu video-called Tai Wangshu and proposed exchanging resources while training unaffiliated Ascenders for her to recruit.
• Tai Wangshu agreed to the plan and said she would prepare a list of resources for the exchange.

Ying Huaixu and the Star-Seizing Sect Master discussed the coming calamity, which the Star-Seizing Ancestor predicted would devastate the Hongmeng World. The Sect Master urged his Ancestor to earn merit by fighting the Outsiders, then revealed that Heaven’s coming purge would target those who hid and waited to profit from others’ sacrifices.

• Ying Huaixu contacted the Star-Seizing Sect Master, who agreed to begin a training plan and relayed the Star-Seizing Ancestor’s warning that the Hongmeng World faced a difficult calamity.
• After Ying Huaixu’s projection ended, the Star-Seizing Sect Master lowered his Ancestor from where he was hanging and asked him to divine the Outsiders’ location for the coming Divine Firmament War.
• The Star-Seizing Ancestor refused to fight the Outsiders, arguing that his injuries and lower cultivation would make it a suicide mission.
• The Star-Seizing Sect Master taunted the Star-Seizing Ancestor about his family and urged him to earn merit by fighting the Myriad Clans.
• The Star-Seizing Sect Master explained that Heaven’s purge would punish those who hid or waited to profit from others’ sacrifices, and that fighting for the Hongmeng World could earn the Star-Seizing Ancestor a place in the future.

As the Outsiders’ invasion forced Hongmeng factions to choose sides, the master of Shura Hall decided to ally with the Divine Firmament Sword Sect despite past enmity. Ying Huaixu accepted his offer after demanding an oath, then asked what Shura Hall could contribute.

• Hongmeng sects and rogue cultivators began choosing sides, with some factions joining the Divine Firmament Sword Sect and others siding with the Outsiders.
• The Feathered Immortal Sacred Land welcomed the Outsiders after its Old Ancestor judged the Divine Firmament Sword Sect could not win.
• The master of Shura Hall convinced his elders that siding with the Outsiders meant death and persuaded them to contact the Divine Firmament Sword Sect.
• Ying Huaixu received the master of Shura Hall’s friend request, accepted it, and demanded that he swear an oath before discussing cooperation.
• Ying Huaixu asked what Shura Hall could offer, and the master explained its secret realm trained assassins with killing intent and claimed its intelligence network was decent.

Ying Huaixu negotiated Shura Hall’s support and organized the many sects gathering at the Divine Firmament Sword Sect as the great battle approached. With enemies preparing and his experience-gathering plans stalled, he focused on stockpiling equipment and pills for the disciples.

• Ying Huaixu learned that Shura Hall’s intelligence on the Outsiders might be unreliable, but agreed to cooperate after Xu Yaoyang pointed out that Shura Hall’s Shadow Laws could help Ye Ningshuang.
• Ying Huaixu secured a token granting Ye Ningshuang access to Shura Hall’s Secret Realm and sent it to her.
• Ying Huaixu allowed other sects to stay at the Divine Firmament Sword Sect but postponed accepting them as allies until after the battle, expelling sects that objected.
• Ying Huaixu found that allied field bosses no longer yielded experience, his Ascender recruitment mission had lost progress, and the area outside the sect was too quiet for him to hunt enemies.
• Ying Huaixu had Tai Wangshu gather herbs and worked the Pill Peak Master to produce and distribute supplies, giving each disciple about forty or fifty Rebirth Pills.

The Divine Firmament Sword Sect prepared for an anticipated war as Ying Huaixu distributed Revival Pills and drove the disciples to train. Meanwhile, Ten Thousand Buddha Mountain activated its blood-sacrifice formation, bringing more than three hundred Trickster God Seeds into the world as faceless humanoid creatures.

• Zhuang Mu convinced Third Martial Uncle that Ying Huaixu’s supplies showed the coming battle would be exceptionally difficult, and promised him ten days off after the preparations were finished.
• Ying Huaixu warned that the Outsiders would likely force their strongest fighters to face multiple enemies or a powerful world boss, prompting the sect’s disciples to intensify their Illusory Dream training.
• Ying Huaixu gave Huang Tianqi, He Xiuyuan, and the other strengthened fighters nearly three thousand Revival Pills each, then continued making Revival Pills and Red and Blue Pills.
• The Divine Firmament Sword Sect, the Ten Thousand Demons Sacred Land, and the Thousand Mechanisms Sect prepared for war as their formation, powered by sacrificed Demonic Beasts, finished charging.
• The great Buddha of Ten Thousand Buddha Mountain invoked Avīci Hell, and more than three hundred blood-red Trickster God Seeds descended and transformed into faceless humanoid creatures.
• The Buddha Lord of Ten Thousand Buddha Mountain looked upon the creatures and praised the Lord of the Weird Gods for the grand undertaking.

The Lord of the Weird Gods unleashed Chalk Seeds that adapted to their prey, revived after being killed, and rapidly grew stronger. The Outsiders debated the threat and watched, while the Beast God suspected the Lord of the Weird Gods had a hidden motive.

• The Chalk Seeds revived after a beast burned them, adapted to its attacks, killed it, and absorbed its life force and memories.
• The Buddha Lord of Ten Thousand Buddha Mountain judged the Chalk Seeds a world-ending calamity and worried about the Outsiders' plans for Hongmeng.
• The Lord of the Weird Gods explained that he had released the Chalk Seeds to kill Ying Huaixu or Ye Ningshuang, whom he considered too dangerous to face directly.
• The Outsiders agreed to watch the war between worlds, while the Beast God suspected the Lord of the Weird Gods had a secret purpose.

Rogue Cultivators fled toward the Divine Firmament Sword Sect as white, faceless monsters spread across the land, growing stronger by killing and copying their victims. The monsters tracked a baby's cry to a cellar where villagers were hiding beneath cow dung.

• Rogue Cultivators who encountered fleeing cultivators hurried toward the Divine Firmament Sword Sect, while experienced groups hid and warned newcomers to stay silent.
• White, faceless monsters attacked Rogue Cultivators who had not concealed themselves, revived after being killed, and adapted to their opponents' attacks.
• A monster absorbed a Rogue Cultivator, took his appearance and memories, and exposed the hiding place of the survivors, who were then chased down and absorbed.
• Villagers hid in a cellar beneath cow dung as white monsters searched the village and drained the life from nearby poultry.
• A baby began wailing inside the cellar, and the searching monsters turned toward the cow dung covering the hiding place.

Ye Ningshuang discovered that white, faceless monsters had been terrorizing a village and killing its people. After exposing and destroying a monster disguised as the village's middle-aged man, she found that the survivors appeared normal, but Ying Huaixu's map showed no markers for them.

• A crying child drew white monsters into the villagers' cellar, but they fled after another sound rang out.
• Ye Ningshuang met the survivors and heard how the monsters drained their victims and took on their appearance.
• Ye Ningshuang recognized that the middle-aged man was a monster and stabbed him with her Black Sword.
• The wounded monster fled and dissolved into blood, which Ye Ningshuang erased with Sword Qi after finding it had no soul.
• Ye Ningshuang checked the survivors with her Netherworld Eye and told Ying Huaixu about the incident, but his map showed no markers.

Ying Huaixu investigated reports of white monsters that could imitate and surpass their victims, evade control, and rapidly adapt, but the Heavenly Dao gave him no quest. He suspected Tai Wangshu could counter them and called Ye Ningshuang back to the Divine Firmament Sword Sect as she gathered followers on the road.

• Ying Huaixu asked Qiu Shiyi and He Xiuyuan to issue an investigation quest about the white monsters, but no quest appeared.
• Ying Huaixu learned from Tai Wangshu, the Star-Seizing Sect, and the Ten Thousand Dragons Sacred Land that they had seen no white monsters.
• The Hall Master of Shura Hall told Ying Huaixu that the monsters could copy victims' memories and abilities, adapt to attacks, cultivate rapidly, and escape control by killing themselves.
• Ying Huaixu suspected that Tai Wangshu's ability was key to countering the monsters and praised the Heavenly Dao for its apparent plan.
• Ying Huaixu told Ye Ningshuang to return, and she walked toward the Divine Firmament Sword Sect with an increasing group of followers.

Ye Ningshuang escorted a group of mortals to the edge of the Divine Firmament Sword Sect’s territory and warned them to keep away from the coming battle. Meanwhile, the Chalk Creatures rapidly evolved through successive generations, ending with the third generation reaching the Spirit Aspect realm or higher.

• Ye Ningshuang led the mortals through the night, then told them to find work and avoid the Divine Firmament Sword Sect before vanishing.
• The Chalk Creatures decided to hide, study human thinking and Daoist arts, and adapt to the corrosive power of Ye Ningshuang’s sword strike.
• The first generation reproduced the second generation, which inherited their immunities and cultivation and eventually reached the peak of the Dao Seal realm.
• The second generation schemed a Spirit Aspect cultivator to death, reached the Spirit Aspect realm, and mutated before merging into a great tree.
• The great tree bore fruit that hatched the third generation, whose members mastered the world’s spells and reached the Spirit Aspect realm or its peak with the Great Thousand Spirit Aspect.

The Chalk beings formed a kingdom under the Silver King and prepared to target Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang. Ying Huaixu learned that the monsters had infiltrated and empowered small sects, then watched a vast coalition gather outside the Divine Firmament Sword Sect as battle began.

• The third-generation Chalk beings emerged, developed emotions and sexes, and welcomed the white-haired Silver King, who declared they had enough strength to kill Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang.
• The Chalk beings built a kingdom around the mother tree, created three thousand Silver Kings, and failed to find a way to devour a Return to True cultivator.
• The Hall Master of Shura Hall told Ying Huaixu that white monsters had vanished while small sects grew suspiciously powerful and began surrounding the Divine Firmament Sword Sect.
• Ying Huaixu ordered the Sect-Protecting Grand Formation activated and contacted Tai Wangshu, who teleported to him using the Taiyin mark.
• Ye Ningshuang greeted Ying Huaixu, but his map filled with enemy markers, and he flew to the main peak as forces from the Ten Thousand Demons Sacred Land, the Buddhist faction, the Eclosion Sect, and the Thousand Mechanisms Sect arrived.
• The Sect-Protecting Grand Formation activated, the peak masters engaged the enemy, and He Xixiang emerged from the shattered void to join the battle.

The four forces launched their attack on the Divine Firmament Sword Sect, but the sect’s disciples turned the charge into a massacre and Ying Huaixu gained experience from their kills. The battle spread into clashes between the sects’ strongest fighters, where the Divine Firmament Sword Sect dominated the Spirit Manifestation Realm but struggled in the Return to True Realm.

• The four forces bombarded the Divine Firmament Sword Sect’s protective formation while Zhuang Mu countered with the Nine Divine Swords and the sects’ supreme treasures entered the battle.
• Zhuang Mu and the opposing sect masters flew off to fight, and the four forces’ disciples charged the Divine Firmament Sword Sect.
• The Divine Firmament Sword Sect’s disciples formed a sword formation that slaughtered the attackers and granted Ying Huaixu experience.
• The Divine Firmament Sword Sect’s disciples regrouped into four triangular formations and charged the four sacred lands alongside their peak masters.
• The peak masters and cultivators clashed, with the Divine Firmament Sword Sect’s Return to True experts struggling against multiple foes while its Spirit Manifestation fighters overwhelmed their opponents.

The Divine Firmament Sword Sect's disciples overwhelmed the attacking forces with their strength, Revival Pills, and self-destruction, while strange monsters infiltrated the Star-Seizing Sect and stole its disciples' identities and intelligence. The Star-Seizing Sect Master prepared to send aid, but the Star-Seizing Ancestor's parents stopped him, leaving him to protect the sect's formation and warn the Divine Firmament Sword Sect.

• The Divine Firmament Sword Sect's disciples fought without fear, revived through Revival Pills, and self-destructed, rapidly thinning the four Sacred Lands' forces.
• The Eclosion Sect's leading figure urged patience, while the Star-Seizing Sect, Taiyin Sacred Land, and Ten Thousand Dragons Sacred Land watched the battle in shock.
• The Star-Seizing Sect Master saw monsters absorb disciples' life force, imitate them, and learn how to bypass the Sect-Protecting Grand Formation, so the Star-Seizing Sect Madam told him to change the formation and stop attacking.
• The Star-Seizing Sect Madam suspected the monsters were targeting Return to True Realm cultivators to raise their own cultivation, and the Star-Seizing Sect Master decided to reinforce the Divine Firmament Sword Sect.
• The Star-Seizing Ancestor's parents arrived and sealed him in place, while the Star-Seizing Sect Matriarch warned the Star-Seizing Sect Master not to attack and told him to keep the Sect-Protecting Grand Formation stable and pass the intelligence to the Divine Firmament Sword Sect.

Ying Huaixu learned that ancient ancestors were helping monsters capture Return to True cultivators, but Tai Wangshu assured him she could handle them on the Divine Firmament Battlefield. As the Divine Firmament Sword Sect's forces overwhelmed their opponents and He Xixiang battered three titans, Ying Huaixu ordered the disciples to retreat and called Ningshuang into the fray.

• Zhuang Mu passed Ying Huaixu news that ancient ancestors from several sects were blocking reinforcements and helping monsters capture Return to True cultivators.
• Tai Wangshu told Ying Huaixu that monsters reaching Return to True would not matter on the Divine Firmament Battlefield, and he told her to wait for his signal.
• Ying Huaixu advanced to Spirit Aspect Third Layer while the Divine Firmament Sword Sect's disciples drove the opposing sects' lower-ranked forces toward defeat.
• He Xixiang shattered the bodies of the Myriad Demons Sacred Lord, the Thousand Mechanisms Sect's titan, and the Buddha Lord of Ten Thousand Buddha Mountain, then damaged their Emperor Weapons with her bare strength.
• The three titans saw their forces losing on the battlefield and heard the Outsiders say their reinforcements had entered the fray.
• Ying Huaixu ordered all disciples to retreat and told Ningshuang that they were entering the fray.

Ying Huaixu and the Divine Firmament Sword Sect’s strongest fighters confronted elite Chalk Seeds that adapted to their attacks, then rapidly wiped out the first-generation enemies. The other sects watched in fear as the battle continued, aware that Xu Yaoyang and Tai Wangshu had yet to reveal their power.

• Ying Huaixu ordered the Divine Firmament Sword Sect disciples to retreat before he and the others engaged the elite monsters.
• Ying Huaixu’s frost attacks and Ye Ningshuang’s purple mist killed large numbers of Chalk Seeds, and Ye Ningshuang warned that the survivors could learn their attacks and become immune to them.
• Huang Tianqi used space to kill enemies without revealing information about his own attacks, while Xu Yaoyang and Tai Wangshu stayed hidden and Chen Zhiyuan gathered information.
• Qiu Shiyi crushed the monsters with Weak Water, He Xiuyuan attacked with flaming sword qi, and Qin Erniu’s Savage Bull Roar burst apart the Chalk Seeds.
• The group cleared the first-generation Chalk Seeds, leaving the other sects horrified by their strength and fearing they would not return alive.

Ying Huaixu and his allies faced waves of World Bosses in the Divine Firmament Battlefield while the Outsiders and their allies watched from above. Ying Huaixu fought through increasingly powerful waves, and Tai Wangshu realized his latest attack pierced enemies immune to Frost Annihilation because he had thrown the swords with brute force.

• The traitors and Outsiders watched Ying Huaixu's group, with the Lord of the Weird Gods insisting that Within the White Chalk would not fail.
• Ying Huaixu told his companions that they had become World Bosses, just as waves of enemies began charging at them.
• Ying Huaixu unleashed his Dharma Aspect and used Frost Annihilation to destroy the first waves of bosses.
• Three hundred bosses formed a binding formation and attacked Ying Huaixu, but he broke free and kept fighting as his health recovered.
• Ying Huaixu's swords pierced bosses that had become immune to Frost Annihilation, and Tai Wangshu realized he had used the blades as javelins with brute force.

Ye Ningshuang, Ying Huaixu, and the others fought overwhelming waves of Third-Generation Chalk whose strength and defenses grew as they were attacked. As the group began to falter, Xu Yaoyang arrived with Pure Yang Power that weakened the enemies.

• Ye Ningshuang gained further immunities by devouring the Silver King's soul, but discovered that physical attacks still harmed her and warned the others that the bosses kept growing stronger.
• Ying Huaixu realized the group had killed only a tenth of the bosses and ordered anyone with a second form to attack before the remaining enemies became more powerful.
• Ye Ningshuang summoned Fengdu City and used Netherworld Divine Ability and Life Severance to destroy many bosses, while Qiu Shiyi, He Xiuyuan, and Qin Erniu unleashed their own powerful forms and attacks.
• The Third-Generation Chalk adapted to the group's attacks, healed from wounds, and overwhelmed the fighters as all remaining bosses joined the battle.
• Xu Yaoyang entered the fight beneath a Great Sun, and his Pure Yang Power made the charging Third-Generation Chalk howl and shrivel.

Xu Yaoyang’s pure yang power devastated the White Chalk Third Generation while Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang supported him. As the Silver Kings retreated, the battlefield changed and transported them to a vast stage in a starry sky.

• Xu Yaoyang manifested his spirit aspect and blazing sun, burning the White Chalk Third Generation to ash with his pure yang energy.
• Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang supported Xu Yaoyang by weakening the remaining bosses and applying Sword Marks that let his attacks pierce their defenses.
• Ying Huaixu fed Xu Yaoyang Spirit Spring Liquid from a baby bottle, restoring his spiritual energy and strengthening his attacks.
• Ye Ningshuang cut off White Chalk’s immunity sharing, while the Silver Kings formed eight-colored halos and retreated from the battle.
• Ying Huaixu and the others were transported to a vast stage beneath a starry sky.

Ying Huaixu and his companions found themselves trapped on a starry arena as raid bosses, facing an incoming assault by world bosses. Tai Wangshu promised to rescue them if they were overwhelmed, then sent Xu Yaoyang into the arena as well, where He Xiuyuan worried he would die.

• Ying Huaixu recognized the arena as the Heart-Questioning Valley raid instance and saw Ye Ningshuang and the others trapped on separate platforms.
• Ying Huaixu explained that they had become raid bosses and warned the group about the difficulty of the coming battle.
• Huang Tianqi and Qiu Shiyi promised to help Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang for as long as they could, while Ying Huaixu apologized for the situation.
• Tai Wangshu told the group she was watching and would rescue them if they could no longer fight.
• Xu Yaoyang complained that he had not been chosen as a boss, so Tai Wangshu sent him to the arena with He Xiuyuan.
• Xu Yaoyang claimed he was invincible, but He Xiuyuan told him to stay behind him because he feared Xu Yaoyang would die.

Xu Yaoyang, He Xiuyuan, and the others faced swarms of increasingly powerful, magic-immune monsters in separate arenas, while their attacks and kills strengthened foes across every battlefield. As Revival Pills dwindled and the monsters began reviving without granting experience, Ying Huaixu called for Tai Wangshu.

• He Xiuyuan and Xu Yaoyang tried attacking the monsters, but their reflected strikes and overwhelming close-combat strength left both badly beaten.
• Qin Erniu was battered despite his Overlord Sacred Body, while Huang Tianqi used spatial abilities to kill monsters quickly before they became immune.
• Qiu Shiyi cut down waves of enemies with compressed Weak Water swords, then charged into them after his attacks began to fail and was quickly overwhelmed.
• Ye Ningshuang and Ying Huaixu fought monsters that reflected their abilities and grew stronger as enemies died across the battlefields.
• Ying Huaixu saw that the monsters could reform after being killed and that his allies' Revival Pills were running low, so he called out to Wangshu.