Chapter Summaries

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.

Leng Qi and Ji Chen watched Xu Changxing's cyclone persist for more than forty days as he completed his breakthrough into the Void Refinement Realm. He then began a simulation, which showed him strengthening himself and the three martial artists before leading them away.

• Leng Qi and Ji Chen argued over whether Xu Changxing could match the strongest Demon Kings as his cyclone continued overhead.
• After more than forty days, the cyclone dispersed, and Xu Changxing emerged having fully entered the Void Refinement Realm.
• Xu Changxing began a simulation and learned that he had lost contact with the system, so he prepared to seek a human settlement.
• Xu Changxing refined the Star-Swallowing Toad's blood essence into Qi-Blood Pills, advanced his Body Tempering cultivation to the Divine Connection Realm, and awakened a powerful innate divine ability.
• Xu Changxing taught Leng Qi and the other two martial artists to conceal their qi and blood, then led them away.

After years of cultivation and spreading Qi-Blood Pills through Leng Qi and his companions, the protagonist learned that human settlements had grown strong enough to resist demons, and that the resulting merit had accelerated his rise to mid-stage void refinement. His secluded cultivation ended when a heavenly demon hunted him down; after escaping once, he burned his primordial spirit in a final attack and perished.

• The protagonist traveled through the mountains, slew demon kings, refined their blood into Qi-Blood Pills, and taught Leng Qi and his two companions how to make them.
• After Leng Qi entered the Heavenly Gang Realm and the other two became meridian birth martial artists, the protagonist left them books on primordial spirit cultivation and continued cultivating in seclusion.
• Merit qi accompanied the protagonist's cultivation and helped him break through to mid-stage void refinement, while Leng Qi and his companions spread Qi-Blood Pills across human settlements and strengthened their defenses against demons.
• The protagonist traveled through human settlements, learned that Leng Qi and his companions were revered for spreading alchemy, and then returned to seclusion to pursue late-stage void refinement.
• A heavenly demon attacked the protagonist soon after he began cultivating, and he escaped with severe injuries before it caught up with him three days later.
• The protagonist burned his primordial spirit and struck the heavenly demon with brilliant sword light, but failed to destroy all its vitality and died as his primordial spirit scattered.

After gaining mid-stage Void Refinement, Xu Changxing realized that his merit had attracted powerful demons and chose not to protect himself by endangering Leng Qi and his companions. He then advanced his Body Tempering and awakened Qi-Blood Transformation into Thunder, a formidable but costly ability that left him with limited range and endurance.

• Xu Changxing chose the mid-stage Void Refinement reward and stabilized his cultivation after receiving spiritual energy and insights from the simulation.
• He concluded that his merit had drawn the Heavenly Demon’s attention, but rejected a plan that could leave Leng Qi and his companions exposed to danger.
• Xu Changxing found that another simulation required twenty million points and decided to use the Star-Swallowing Toad’s blood essence to advance his Body Tempering first.
• Five months later, Xu Changxing broke through in Body Tempering and awakened the innate Divine Ability Qi-Blood Transformation into Thunder.
• He tested the ability by forming a thundercloud spanning a hundred li and moving through it as lightning, then discovered that it consumed energy rapidly and limited his movement to the cloud’s range.

After awakening a thundercloud escape ability, Xu Changxing taught Leng Qi and two others to conceal their qi and blood, then stabilized his strength before beginning another simulation. In the simulation, he avoided intervening in Human Race affairs, and by its fifty-ninth year he had reached late-stage void refinement while still seeking to improve his realm.

• Xu Changxing realized his thundercloud escape ability consumed enormous amounts of qi and blood, but was pleased with its potential.
• Xu Changxing taught Leng Qi and the other two the method of concealing qi and blood and forbade them from passing it on without permission.
• After stabilizing his increased qi and blood, Xu Changxing spent his remaining twenty million points to start another simulation.
• Xu Changxing traveled and cultivated while avoiding involvement in Human Race affairs, and later parted from Leng Qi and the other two after warning them to keep the method secret.
• Xu Changxing learned that Leng Qi had died defending his city and chose not to destroy the legacy Leng Qi had left behind.
• The aura-concealing method spread in the thirty-eighth year, but Xu Changxing gained little merit; by the fifty-ninth year, he had reached late-stage void refinement.

Xu Changxing's simulation ended with him avenging Li Changge by killing a Heavenly Demon before dying to another, and he chose late-stage Void Refinement cultivation as his reward. After more than half a year of seclusion, he mastered his gains and appeared before Leng Qi.

• In the simulation, Xu Changxing reached Li Changge too late to save him, then fought for three days and three nights and killed the Heavenly Demon who had slain him.
• A second Heavenly Demon arrived, and the exhausted Xu Changxing ignited his Primordial Spirit and died after one final sword strike.
• Xu Changxing chose the late-stage Void Refinement cultivation reward and absorbed the spiritual energy and insights from the simulation.
• Xu Changxing spent more than half a year in seclusion, mastering his new cultivation and concluding that he could challenge a weaker Heavenly Demon if he raised his body tempering to Spirit Connection Peak.
• Xu Changxing appeared before Leng Qi, praised his stable qi and blood and solid foundation, and said it was time to leave.

Xu Changxing traveled with Leng Qi, Ji Chen, and Wu Cai, refining his strength while effortlessly killing Great Demons. When they encountered another Demon King, Xu Changxing killed it with a single streak of Sword Light, leaving his companions stunned.

• Xu Changxing asked Leng Qi whether he and his companions wanted to continue traveling with him, and Leng Qi eagerly agreed.
• Over the next month, Xu Changxing refined his cultivation by killing Great Demons, while Leng Qi, Ji Chen, and Wu Cai ate the beasts’ meat and grew larger.
• The group sensed a Demon King nearby, and Leng Qi, Ji Chen, and Wu Cai debated whether to follow Xu Changxing as he approached it.
• Leng Qi and Wu Cai went after Xu Changxing, and Ji Chen followed after feeling the Demon King’s oppressive aura suddenly fade.
• The three companions found the dead Demon King, and Leng Qi said Xu Changxing had killed it with a single streak of Sword Light.

After learning that Xu Changxing killed the Demon King with one strike, Leng Qi, Ji Chen, and Wu Cai debated whether to ask him to save the Human Race. Xu Changxing considered Leng Qi’s resolve and reflected on the Human Race’s possible resurgence, then resolved to keep strengthening himself before challenging a Heavenly Demon.

• Ji Chen was shaken by Leng Qi’s account of Xu Changxing killing the Demon King and asked how powerful his lord was.
• Leng Qi said Xu Changxing could change the Human Race’s fate, but stopped Ji Chen from asking him to intervene, insisting the humans should rely on themselves.
• Wu Cai agreed with Leng Qi that Xu Changxing had already shown them great kindness, while Ji Chen argued that their people should not remain prey to Demon Beasts.
• Xu Changxing overheard their debate and admired Leng Qi’s insight, recalling that Leng Qi had once passed down the aura-concealment method despite an oath.
• Xu Changxing wondered whether the Human Race was beginning to rise and whether the world could support Primordial Spirit cultivation, then decided to focus on raising his realm and gathering simulation points.
• Xu Changxing vowed that he would eventually taste Heavenly Demon blood, and the Greenwood Sword’s Sword Pellet hummed in response before he told it the time had not yet come.

Xu Changxing began a special simulation in a lifetime set centuries after his simulated death, when the Setting Sun Sect was preparing for the Demon Star’s arrival. He reunited with his disciple Shen Zongyi and, while observing the simulation, entered a state resembling sudden enlightenment.

• Xu Changxing traveled with Leng Qi and his companions, killed four Demon Kings over more than a year, and raised his Body Tempering cultivation to mid-stage divine connection.
• After collecting enough Demon King Crystals for another simulation, Xu Changxing chose a special simulation to seek a breakthrough opportunity.
• Xu Changxing’s divine sense appeared in the Setting Sun Sect’s ancestral hall and reunited with Shen Zongyi, who had advanced to late spirit transformation.
• Xu Changxing told Shen Zongyi that his memories were incomplete and asked him to find treasures that could restore his Primordial Spirit cultivation.
• Xu Changxing immersed himself in his connection with his divine sense and entered a state akin to sudden enlightenment as the simulation continued.

Xu Changxing’s divine sense grew powerful in the lower realm, building the Setting Sun Sect’s prestige and developing ways to communicate with his original body across planes. As a Demon Star approached, he set out to reach it and discovered a depleted cultivation world where cultivators had once lived.

• Shen Zongyi brought Xu Changxing treasures, and Xu Changxing taught him about the Upper Realm, higher cultivation realms, and Body Tempering.
• Xu Changxing refined a Sword Pellet around the Divine Sword Phantom and repeatedly shattered the endless tribulation lightning hanging over the Setting Sun Sect.
• Xu Changxing revealed his return from the Upper Realm, lectured hundreds of cultivators, and became renowned as an immortal at the pinnacle of cultivation.
• Xu Changxing built grand formations that let his divine sense communicate with his original body, then channeled some of his original body’s power and drew the Thundercloud’s fury.
• As the Demon Star neared, Xu Changxing ignored the calamity’s threat, flew beyond the heavens, and reached the star after nearly three years.
• Xu Changxing discovered that the Demon Star was a cultivation world drained of spiritual energy where cultivators had once lived.

After his divine sense returned from a century of wandering, Xu Changxing used a Divine Sense Anchor and the Divine Sword Phantom to cross into the Legendary Plane. He confirmed he could return to his original plane and ascended to the Demon Realm, where he found the Star-Swallowing Toad alive.

• Xu Changxing absorbed his divine sense’s century of loneliness and chose to leave a Divine Sense Anchor in the simulated plane.
• Xu Changxing sent a wisp of divine sense through the vortex and used the Divine Sword Phantom’s legendary Dao pattern to open a path between the planes.
• Xu Changxing crossed the passage and arrived in the Legendary Plane, where legendary power strengthened his primordial spirit.
• Xu Changxing sensed the coordinates of his original plane and confirmed he could open a passage back to it.
• Xu Changxing broke through the sky and ascended to the Demon Realm.
• The Star-Swallowing Toad appeared before Xu Changxing alive, despite having been slain in another plane.

Xu Changxing slaughtered Demon Kings in a parallel plane, escaped a Heavenly Demon, and returned home to refine Qi-Blood Pills and strengthen himself. After more than two years, he began another special simulation and found himself in the Demon Realm after a past life in which he and Li Changge had fallen.

• Xu Changxing killed the Star-Swallowing Toad, gave Leng Qi and the others Demon King meat and cultivation methods, then left the plane.
• Xu Changxing slew six more Demon Kings before a Heavenly Demon appeared, and he escaped through the passage between worlds.
• Xu Changxing returned to his own plane with sixty million system points and spent more than two years refining Qi-Blood Pills and training.
• Leng Qi broke through to the Heavenly Gang Realm while Xu Changxing advanced toward late-stage Divine Connection.
• Xu Changxing began a special simulation and found statues of himself and Li Changge in the Demon Realm, where humans said the two had fallen fighting a Heavenly Demon.

Xu Changxing tried to strengthen the Human Race by guiding Chi Hu and spreading the Primordial Spirit cultivation method. By Year 3, Qi-Blood Pills and Xu Changxing’s reputation had spread across the settlements, and the Wu Race began to regard him as a god.

• Xu Changxing learned that Chi Hu was the only youth in his settlement to cultivate a sense of qi, then appeared to guide him and established a Spirit Gathering Formation.
• Xu Changxing taught Chi Hu to refine Qi-Blood Pills, which helped him gain standing despite his weaker combat strength.
• Chi Hu announced that Xu Changxing had taught him the pill-refining method, and warriors soon came to obtain the pills.
• Tribal elders assigned warriors to protect Chi Hu after people began calling him a future sage of the Human Race.
• Xu Changxing sensed a resonance with divine statues and used it to travel between settlements, guiding dozens of young people over the next two years.
• Qi-Blood Pills and stories about Xu Changxing spread among the Human Race, while many members of the Wu Race came to regard him as the world’s one true god.

Xu Changxing helped the Human Race recover by spreading cultivation and improving Qi-Blood Pills, while Chi Hu advanced to Spirit Transformation and the humans began fighting back against the Demon Race. A Heavenly Demon found Xu Changxing’s wisp of Primordial Spirit, but Xu Changxing sent an illusory Divine Sword carrying an unknown message before destroying the wisp, ending the simulation.

• Xu Changxing used a Divine Sense Amplification Formation to send purified Wood Attribute spiritual energy to three promising Qi Refiners, and Chi Hu later became the first Core Formation cultivator.
• Chi Hu formed a Nascent Soul, traveled to human settlements to spread the Primordial Spirit cultivation method, and eventually advanced to Spirit Transformation.
• The Human Race defeated two of three Demon Kings, prompting dozens of Demon Kings to prepare an all-out campaign against the humans.
• Xu Changxing released an improved Qi-Blood Pill that warriors could refine, helping human forces recover during the war.
• A Heavenly Demon found Xu Changxing, who burned his Primordial Spirit wisp and sent an illusory Divine Sword through the void before the simulation ended.

Xu Changxing returned to the parallel plane and found his statue destroyed, but many others still standing. He realized little time had passed since his divine sense was destroyed and heard a bloodied martial artist cry that Heaven might wipe out the Human Race.

• Xu Changxing chose to leave a Divine Sense Anchor in the parallel plane and sent a wisp of divine sense through the vortex.
• He arrived above the ruins of a settlement and saw that his statue had been crushed and blood stained the ground.
• Xu Changxing absorbed the dense legendary power his guidance had earned and formed a legendary Dao pattern on his Primordial Spirit.
• Resonance with his statues revealed dozens still standing, and Xu Changxing realized time in the plane had passed far more slowly than he had assumed.
• A bloodied middle-aged martial artist cried out that Heaven might intend to wipe out the Human Race.

Xu Changxing discovered a Human Race city fighting the Demon Race and flew there to aid its defenders. He killed two Demon Kings with the Greenwood Sword, driving the remaining three to flee, and the Human Race warriors recognized him as Changxing Sword Saint.

• Xu Changxing sensed a statue lit by Human Race warriors and flew to the battlefield where they fought the Demon Race.
• Xu Changxing saw Human Race warriors fighting desperately despite being outnumbered and sent the Greenwood Sword to attack.
• The Greenwood Sword instantly killed one Demon King, then pursued the red-haired Demon King through his time-slowing divine ability and killed him as well.
• The remaining three Demon Kings fled, and the Human Race Divine Connection Realm warriors recognized Xu Changxing as Changxing Sword Saint.