Recaps

Xu Changxing discovered that his growing renown strengthened his connection to the simulated world, allowing him to send Xu Yuansi a sword and later intervene in battle. As Xu Changxing’s name spread, a Nascent Soul Elder of the Yin Corpse Sect came to investigate his revival, and Xu Changxing let him proceed without revealing what he knew.

• Xu Changxing sent top-grade stardust sand through the vortex, and his divine sense used it to forge a flying sword for Xu Yuansi.
• Xu Yuansi used the sword to kill a Core Formation evil cultivator, provoking several evil cultivators to target him and the Xu family.
• Four Core Formation evil cultivators attacked the Xu family, and Xu Changxing controlled the sword through his divine sense to kill three and drive the fourth away.
• Xu Changxing felt his connection to the vortex deepen and gained the ability to transmit some of his power to the other side.
• A Nascent Soul Elder of the Yin Corpse Sect visited the Xu family to investigate Xu Changxing’s revival, and Xu Changxing allowed him to investigate.

After the simulation ended, Xu Changxing chose a legendary Dao pattern as his reward and retrieved the divine sense he had sent into the simulated world. The reward’s strange rhythm resonated with the Divine Sword Phantom in his sea of consciousness, and he waited to see what would happen.

• The simulation showed Li Changge drawing the Yin Corpse Sect’s attention away from the Xu Household, whose descendants later joined the Righteous Path cultivators.
• Xu Changxing received a choice between leaving a Divine Sense Anchor in the plane and obtaining a legendary Dao pattern.
• Xu Changxing chose the legendary Dao pattern, and the system closed the vortex and expelled his wisp of divine sense.
• Xu Changxing drew the wisp back into his sea of consciousness and relived its twelve years of memories.
• A strange rhythm appeared around Xu Changxing and within his sea of consciousness, where it resonated with the Divine Sword Phantom.

After reviewing the gains from his simulation, Xu Changxing decided to earn spirit stones by challenging the wealthy Blood Shadow Sect. He attacked the sect and demanded that Li Guihe fight him, but Li Guihe hid behind the Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation.

• Xu Changxing found a Dao pattern on the strengthened Divine Sword Phantom and concluded that the special simulation had yielded less cultivation than a normal one.
• With only a little over three hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones left, Xu Changxing chose to seek wealth and fight rather than return to seclusion.
• Xu Changxing flew to the Blood Shadow Sect and called for Li Guihe to come out and meet his death.
• Xu Changxing killed a Nascent Soul Elder with purple lightning, revealing to the Blood Shadow Sect cultivators that he was a Spirit Transformation Ancestor.
• Li Guihe raised the Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation to defend the sect, and the disciples realized he did not dare face Xu Changxing directly.

Xu Changxing attacked the Blood Shadow Sect, but Li Guihe hid behind its Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation and used blood serpents to restrain his sword. Xu Changxing answered with Sword Light Division and heavenly lightning, then prepared to merge with his sword and strike the formation directly.

• Li Guihe activated the Blood Shadow Sect's Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation instead of facing Xu Changxing outside, while the sect's senior elders feared Xu's strength.
• Xu Changxing sent the Greenwood Sword and lightning against the formation, but Li Guihe summoned hundreds of blood serpents that slowed and surrounded the sword.
• Li Guihe urged Xu Changxing to withdraw, promising to overlook his attack, but Xu mocked the Blood Shadow Sect's reputation and continued fighting.
• Xu Changxing used Sword Light Division and heavenly lightning to destroy the blood serpents as Li Guihe threatened the Setting Sun Sect's disciples.
• Xu Changxing recalled the Greenwood Sword, declared that Li Guihe would have no chance to attack his disciples, and merged with his sword to slash at the formation.

Xu Changxing killed Li Guihe inside the Blood Shadow Sect’s Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation, then ordered the sect’s cultivators to assemble. He told sect master Lou Hongyi that he would spare the low-level cultivators if they cooperated, but Lou Hongyi feared the Blood Shadow Sect’s legacy was about to end.

• Li Guihe unleashed the Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation’s power and charged Xu Changxing, who met him with a sword strike that pierced his primordial spirit.
• As Li Guihe lunged again, the legendary dao pattern on Xu Changxing’s Divine Sword Phantom shielded his primordial spirit from the invading bloody energy, and Xu Changxing killed Li Guihe with another sword strike.
• The Blood Shadow Sect cultivators froze in fear, and heavenly thunder struck down those who tried to flee as Xu Changxing ordered everyone to assemble.
• Xu Changxing told Lou Hongyi to summon the Blood Shadow Sect’s elders and said he would not indiscriminately kill low-level cultivators if they cooperated.
• Lou Hongyi disbelieved Xu Changxing and lamented that the Blood Shadow Sect’s legacy might end in his hands.

Xu Changxing forced the Blood Shadow Sect to surrender its Storage Bags and treasures in exchange for their lives, then offered a thirty-percent share of anything else they uncovered. The sect’s cultivators eagerly plundered their own home, and the chapter ended with someone calling for help digging up an earth vein.

• Xu Changxing summoned the Blood Shadow Sect elders and demanded all their Storage Bags, promising to let them leave alive.
• Lou Hongyi’s disciples and elders surrendered their Storage Bags, while Lou Hongyi arranged for the sect’s storehouse treasures to be brought to Xu Changxing.
• Xu Changxing offered those who had surrendered their Storage Bags thirty percent of any additional treasures they found, prompting them to scour the sect and the cave abodes of departed elders.
• The Blood Shadow Sect cultivators plundered Li Guihe’s cave abode, stripped its Spirit Plants, and even dug up the soil they had grown in.
• A Core Formation elder heard someone call for help finding people who could dig up an earth vein.

After Xu Changxing destroyed the Blood Shadow Sect and slew Li Guihe inside its Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation, the sect’s survivors began looting while news of the victory spread. Shi Haoyan was stunned by Xu Changxing’s strength, and Bai Yuanju resolved to target Xu Changxing’s soul as his last chance to survive.

• A Blood Shadow Sect cultivator suggested taking the sect’s spirit stones and dismantling its breached Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation, and the survivors eagerly began plundering.
• Shi Haoyan learned that Xu Changxing had killed Li Guihe and heard how Xu had broken through the Blood Shadow Sect’s formation to do it.
• Shi Haoyan wondered what realm Xu Changxing had reached after realizing how powerful he had become.
• Bai Yuanju failed to purify his soul and decided that seizing Xu Changxing’s pure soul was his only chance to survive.
• Bai Yuanju sensed an unusual aura of heavenly lightning near the Blood Shadow Sect and wondered whether someone was undergoing a tribulation.

After Xu Changxing destroyed the Blood Shadow Sect, its cultivators and nearby sects reacted to the upheaval while Xu collected taxes and amassed a fortune from dismantling the sect. He returned to the Setting Sun Sect and began a normal simulation to see whether sufficient preparation would let him survive in the upper realm.

• A fleeing Blood Shadow Sect cultivator told Bai Yuanju that Xu Changxing had breached the sect and killed Ancestor Li, and Bai Yuanju was shocked to death.
• The Blood Shadow Sect's fall triggered celebrations among oppressed cultivators, caution among neighboring sects, and a scramble by its former members to flee or plunder the ruins.
• Xu Changxing spent five days overseeing the dismantling and collecting taxes from hundreds of cultivators, acquiring over ten million spirit stones and treasures worth more than twenty million low-grade spirit stones.
• Xu Changxing discovered that the Divine Sword Phantom had grown more solid and that a second legendary Dao pattern had begun to form.
• Xu Changxing returned to the Setting Sun Sect, deposited one million low-grade spirit stones into the system, and started a normal simulation to test his chances of surviving in the upper realm.

After losing contact with the system, Xu Changxing’s simulated self advanced through Spirit Transformation, defeated powerful cultivators and Demon Kings, and escaped the Star-Swallowing Toad’s Mirage Pouch. He learned that the Human Race in the Upper Realm lived as prey among demon races and decided to lead the surviving captives to safety.

• Xu Changxing’s simulated self realized he had lost contact with the system, stabilized his state of mind, and resolved to advance through his own strength.
• He reached middle Spirit Transformation, challenged righteous cultivators and stormed three evil sects, becoming the most renowned Spirit Transformation cultivator in the world.
• After reaching late Spirit Transformation, he slew the Corpse Ancestor and later cleaved open the world’s fetters to enter the Upper Realm.
• He fought the Star-Swallowing Toad, escaped its Mirage Pouch with a Primordial Spirit sword strike, and killed it.
• He found twenty-odd people the Star-Swallowing Toad had kept as food and learned that the Human Race was widely hunted by Demon Kings.
• He decided to take the survivors with him and flee the area.

Xu Changxing reviewed a simulation in which he developed a method to conceal human blood and vital energy, helping a city grow before dying while defending it from three Demon Kings. He chose to experience the simulated life firsthand to see the upper realm and the cultivation method he had created.

• Xu Changxing read how he spent decades developing and teaching a spell art that concealed blood and vital energy, allowing hundreds of warriors to hide their auras.
• The city’s population and number of warriors grew, and Xu Changxing left behind a legacy of Primordial Spirit cultivation before killing a Demon King that attacked the city.
• Three Demon Kings attacked the city in retaliation, and Xu Changxing died after fighting them for a day and night until his Primordial Spirit was exhausted.
• Xu Changxing considered the simulation rewards and chose to experience the simulated life from a first-person perspective.
• The viewing experience began, and Xu Changxing found it so realistic that his Primordial Spirit detected no flaws.

After gaining new sword insights and beginning qi-and-blood cultivation, Xu Changxing’s latest simulation ended in a fatal ambush, prompting him to use demon king blood to advance his physical cultivation. He refined Qi-Blood Pills and reached the Blood Fusion Stage.

• Xu Changxing spent two months digesting his gains, strengthened his sword intent, and confirmed that qi-and-blood cultivation did not conflict with primordial spirit cultivation.
• In a new simulation, Xu Changxing rescued humans from a city, left behind cultivation legacies, and searched five more cities for a way to advance beyond Spirit Transformation.
• A Demon King ambushed Xu Changxing while he recovered from severe injuries, and he died after igniting his primordial spirit to unleash a final sword strike.
• Xu Changxing chose ten liters of demon king blood as his simulation reward and spent two months developing a Demon King-level Qi-Blood Pill.
• Xu Changxing used the pills to advance from late body refining to the Aperture Opening Stage, then refined more pills and reached the Blood Fusion Stage.

Xu Changxing advanced his body cultivation to the heavenly gang realm while using simulations and demon king blood to refine Qi-Blood Pills. He collected the proceeds from his previous sale and brought Liu Chenyu three full Storage Rings of more seized treasures to sell.

• Xu Changxing chose ten liters of demon king blood from a simulation and refined it into Qi-Blood Pills, reaching meridian birth peak before later advancing to heavenly gang.
• Xu Changxing ran more simulations, choosing the Sword Spirit's lingering will and simulation footage before demon king blood appeared as a reward again.
• Xu Changxing considered the rising cost of Qi-Blood Pills when Liu Chenyu contacted him to say the previous batch of treasures had sold for three million spirit stones.
• Xu Changxing collected his share from Jiang Duolu, then visited Liu Chenyu, who explained that the Blood Shadow Sect's rebuilding needs had driven up the sale prices.
• Xu Changxing gave Liu Chenyu three Storage Rings full of treasures to sell, and Liu Chenyu realized they were likely seized from the Blood Shadow Sect.

Xu Changxing demonstrated his body-cultivation method to Liu Chenyu and convinced him to study it alongside his existing cultivation. The chapter left Liu Chenyu eager to begin but astonished at how many spirit stones the Qi-Blood Pills would consume.

• Xu Changxing offered to teach Liu Chenyu a body-cultivation method and demonstrated its power by flying and punching through the clouds.
• Liu Chenyu was stunned by Xu Changxing's strength, and Xu Changxing described the method's realms and potential benefits.
• Liu Chenyu agreed to cultivate the body, and Xu Changxing inscribed the Body Tempering method onto a Jade Slip.
• Xu Changxing gave Liu Chenyu Qi-Blood Pills and an improved pill formula, which Liu Chenyu realized would make body cultivation extremely expensive.

Xu Changxing simulated a life in which he and Li Changge ascended together, fought Demon Kings, and died at the hands of a Heavenly Demon. He chose ten drops of Demon King blood essence as his reward to advance his body-refining cultivation.

• Xu Changxing gave Liu Chenyu the materials needed to refine Blood and Qi Pills, then returned to his cave abode and deposited another million low-grade spirit stones into the system.
• In the simulation, Xu Changxing hesitated to ascend because he feared the upper realm, but Li Changge helped him restore his resolve and break through the fetters of heaven and earth.
• Xu Changxing and Li Changge ascended together, battled the Star-Swallowing Toad, and traveled through more than a dozen cities while spreading primordial spirit cultivation.
• Xu Changxing advanced his body-refining cultivation to Demon King peak, but a Heavenly Demon defeated and killed him and Li Changge.
• Xu Changxing chose ten drops of Demon King blood essence from the simulation rewards.

Xu Changxing advanced his body-refining cultivation and used his remaining spirit stones for several simulations, gaining late Spirit Transformation cultivation before pushing both his primordial spirit and body to the limits of the world. He emerged from seclusion with fewer than a million spirit stones and power that stirred wind and thunder with every movement.

• Xu Changxing refined Demon King blood essence into Qi-Blood Pills, reached the middle Inner Landscape Realm, and found that sensing with his blood and vitality enhanced his perception.
• Xu Changxing discovered that the simulation cost had doubled, spent two million spirit stones to simulate again, and chose Demon King blood essence after a Heavenly Demon killed him and Li Changge in the Upper Realm.
• Xu Changxing used his remaining spirit stones for two more simulations and chose late Spirit Transformation cultivation as the reward from his final one.
• Xu Changxing stabilized his late Spirit Transformation realm, refined eighteen drops of Demon King blood essence into pills, and raised his body-refining cultivation to the world's limits.
• Xu Changxing left seclusion with both cultivations at their limits and noticed that his movements provoked a wind-and-thunder response from the world.

Xu Changxing destroyed the Burning Moon Sect and accepted a large payment from the Yin-Yang Sect in exchange for annual tribute. Realizing the remaining evil sects might hide if he gave them time, he headed for the Worship Fire Sect.

• Xu Changxing killed the Burning Moon Sect’s Spirit Transformation Ancestor, shattered its protective formation, and forced its disciples to demolish the sect before taking its treasures.
• Xu Changxing visited the Yin-Yang Sect, where Sun Yulan presented him with six million spirit stones and pledged the sect’s cooperation.
• Xu Changxing demanded two million low-grade spirit stones from the Yin-Yang Sect each year, and Sun Yulan ordered her disciples to raise the first payment.
• Sun Yulan told her disciples she expected Xu Changxing to hit a cultivation bottleneck, while secretly hoping he would break through instead.
• Xu Changxing realized the other evil sects might go into hiding and flew toward the Worship Fire Sect.

After his tour of the evil sects yielded few spirit stones, Xu Changxing returned to the Setting Sun Sect and remembered the system’s Continuing the Legend mode. He began a new special simulation in a parallel world where the Yin Corpse Sect threatened the Artifact Soul Sect, and he realized his past prestige might help him again.

• Xu Changxing found that most major evil sects had gone underground, while two slow-moving sects still paid him spirit stones.
• His actions shook the cultivation world, raised his prestige to an unprecedented height, and condensed a second Dao pattern on his Divine Sword Phantom.
• Xu Changxing recalled that the legendary Dao pattern came from Continuing the Legend mode and started another simulation after depositing four million low-grade spirit stones.
• His divine sense arrived in the Setting Sun Sect’s great hall in a parallel world and overheard disciples discussing the Yin Corpse Sect’s attack on the Artifact Soul Sect.
• Xu Changxing recognized the world as one from a past simulation, where the Corpse Ancestor had rebuilt the Yin Corpse Sect after Xu Changxing and Li Changge ascended.
• Xu Changxing realized that his name still carried great prestige in this world, though he soon sensed that using it might not be straightforward.

Xu Changxing’s divine-sense wisp returned to the Setting Sun Sect and, after learning of the Yin Corpse Sect’s threat, helped the sect prepare a Sword Tomb as a hidden defense. By year six, the Sword Tomb had grown powerful, while Xu Changxing’s disciples Li Jiuzhou and Kong Yun’an made rapid progress.

• Xu Changxing’s wisp visited Shi Haoyan, Liu Chenyu, and Chen Xingyan, revealed that he had ascended, and explained that his divine sense could remain for only forty-eight years.
• Xu Changxing learned that the Yin Corpse Sect threatened the Setting Sun Sect and decided to conceal his return while building a Sword Tomb.
• Xu Changxing took Li Jiuzhou and Kong Yun’an as personal disciples and instructed them to strengthen their foundations before advancing.
• Shi Haoyan, Liu Chenyu, and Chen Xingyan gathered rare materials and broken swords, helping Xu Changxing establish the Sword Tomb in the rear mountains.
• Xu Changxing merged with the Sword Tomb and connected it to the sect’s earth vein, while Liu Chenyu and the disciples collected more broken swords to increase its power.
• By year six, Li Jiuzhou had formed a first-rank Golden Core, and Kong Yun’an had reached meridian birth peak.

After the simulation showed Xu Changxing’s divine sense slaying the Corpse Ancestor, Xu gained insight into a path for breaking through the Spirit Transformation Realm. He entered sudden enlightenment, and two months later, immense thunderclouds gathered over his cave abode, leaving Shi Haoyan wondering what he was doing.

• In the simulation, Li Jiuzhou slew a Nascent Soul Ancestor and earned the title of Young Sword God.
• The Corpse Ancestor attacked the Setting Sun Sect, but Xu Changxing’s divine sense and hundred thousand Broken Swords destroyed his yin corpses and killed him.
• Xu Changxing chose the insight from his divine sense’s final instant and perceived a path to breaking through the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• Xu Changxing sat down to cultivate and fell into sudden enlightenment as his Spirit Transformation aura faded.
• Thunderclouds spread above Xu Changxing’s cave abode, and Shi Haoyan and his young Dao Attendant debated whether Xu was about to break through again.

Xu Changxing reached Spirit Transformation Peak and stopped a vast tribulation from descending, then asked Shi Haoyan to invite the Righteous Path’s Spirit Transformation cultivators to a ceremony two years later. As Li Changge began his Immortal Tribulation, he endured eight bolts, though the last two left him badly battered.

• Shi Haoyan and other cultivators watched as thunderclouds gathered over Xu Changxing’s cave, but Xu dispersed them before the tribulation began.
• Xu Changxing told Shi Haoyan that he had reached Spirit Transformation Peak, the limit of the world, and asked him to invite the Righteous Path’s Spirit Transformation cultivators to a ceremony in two years.
• A surge of sword intent announced that Li Changge was condensing his primordial spirit, and new thunderclouds gathered over the Setting Sun Sect.
• Li Changge weathered the first six bolts of his Immortal Tribulation unscathed, but the seventh disrupted his aura and the eighth left charred marks across his body.

Li Changge survived the Immortal Tribulation and learned from Xu Changxing that a realm beyond Spirit Transformation awaited, while Xu Changxing warned him about the Upper Realm's dangers. Far away, the Corpse Ancestor and Wen Yan reacted in terror as Xu Changxing's sword light approached.

• Li Changge endured the final tribulation lightning and completed his breakthrough to Spirit Transformation.
• Xu Changxing told Li Changge he could soon sever the fetters of the world and revealed that Void Refinement lay beyond Spirit Transformation.
• Xu Changxing promised to leave a legacy in the sect after stabilizing his realm, then flew away on the Greenwood Sword.
• Wen Yan told the Corpse Ancestor that Li Changge had become the Setting Sun Sect's second supreme Spirit Transformation cultivator.
• The Corpse Ancestor said he would hide until the Setting Sun Sect's Sword Gods died, but he and Wen Yan trembled when Xu Changxing's sword light appeared on the horizon.

Xu Changxing used a Sword Pellet to kill the Corpse Ancestor from tens of thousands of miles away, then prepared for his eventual ascension by tempering his body and leaving inheritances at the Setting Sun Sect. The invited Spirit Transformation cultivators began arriving, and Xu Changxing flew to Shi Haoyan's cave abode.

• Xu Changxing's Sword Light pierced the Corpse Ancestor's corpse qi and scales, killing him from afar as Wen Yan fled in terror.
• Xu Changxing recalled the Sword Pellet and explained that he had locked onto the Corpse Ancestor using the aura he had previously marked, though the Corpse Ancestor was still weakened.
• Xu Changxing planned to gather twenty million points before ascending and began tempering his body with heavenly thunder.
• After exhausting his Qi-Blood Pills, Xu Changxing chose to save the ten million points required for another simulation and continued tempering his body until it reached its limit.
• Xu Changxing left inheritances and breakthrough insights for Li Changge and Liu Chenyu as Spirit Transformation cultivators arrived at the Setting Sun Sect.
• Xu Changxing sensed the visiting cultivators and flew to Shi Haoyan's cave abode, pleased at the prospect of receiving congratulatory gifts.

Xu Changxing prepared to ascend, giving Shi Haoyan spirit stones and leaving the Setting Sun Sect two cultivation legacies. Before witnesses from many sects, he revealed the path to Void Refinement and cleaved the thunderclouds as he ascended, leaving the Spirit Transformation cultivators with new insights.

• Xu Changxing met Shi Haoyan, received thirteen million low-grade spirit stones, and gave him a Jade Slip of his cultivation insights.
• Xu Changxing told Shi Haoyan he had left sword and body cultivation legacies in his cave abode, then set his ascension for three days later.
• Xu Changxing spoke with Li Changge and Liu Chenyu before leaving his cave abode on the morning of his ascension.
• Xu Changxing told the gathered Spirit Transformation cultivators that Void Refinement lay above Spirit Transformation and explained its basics, warning them to comprehend the path before ascending.
• Xu Changxing cleaved the thunderclouds with a gesture and ascended, prompting several Spirit Transformation cultivators to enter epiphanies.

Xu Changxing ascended to the Upper Realm, where he swiftly killed the Star-Swallowing Toad and discovered its Demon King Crystal unlocked a new system exchange mode. The Setting Sun Sect was meanwhile recognized as the greatest sect under heaven, and Xu Changxing gained a new way to obtain simulation Badges by hunting Demon Kings.

• Spirit Transformation cultivators praised Xu Changxing for sharing the Void Refinement method and pledged their support to the Setting Sun Sect.
• The Spirit Transformation Ancestors honored the Setting Sun Sect as the greatest sect under heaven and Xu Changxing as the greatest Sword God of all time.
• Xu Changxing arrived in the Demon Realm and killed the Star-Swallowing Toad with a single Sword Light.
• Xu Changxing extracted the Star-Swallowing Toad's blood essence, organs, and meat, then retrieved its Demon King Crystal.
• The system announced that Demon King Crystals could be exchanged for Badges, which Xu Changxing could use to fund simulations.

Xu Changxing slew the Star-Swallowing Toad and freed the captives it had held. He stayed in the mountain hollow to prepare for his Void Refinement breakthrough, while Leng Qi and two others chose to remain with him.

• Xu Changxing entered the mountain hollow and told the captives that he had slain the Star-Swallowing Toad, prompting them to celebrate and mourn their ordeal.
• Leng Qi thanked Xu Changxing and vowed to follow him, and Xu Changxing allowed him to stay while telling him to let the other captives leave if they wished.
• Xu Changxing studied the local spiritual energy and confirmed after two days that it matched what he had sensed in his simulations.
• Most of the Barbarian Tribe chose to leave for a Human Race settlement, while Leng Qi and two martial artists remained; Xu Changxing gave them Qi-Blood Pills to cultivate.
• Xu Changxing gathered spiritual energy from hundreds of li around him, forming a vast vortex as he prepared to break through.