Chapter Summaries

Qing Chen returned to the Condensed Jade Sect and ordered the surrounding archipelagos to submit or leave, setting up a major expansion of the sect. He then turned his attention toward the Shushan Sword Sect and his coming meeting with Heavenly Shu True Lord, while keeping his greater plans in mind.

• Chi Xuntian welcomed Qing Chen and explained that Xuanji True Lord had left over half a year earlier to seek a breakthrough.
• Qing Chen dismissed Chi Xuntian’s offer to resign and ordered the Heavenly Illumination, Cold Mountain, and Three Corpse Archipelagos to merge into the Condensed Jade Sect or leave within ten days.
• Chi Xuntian accepted Qing Chen’s decree and pledged to kill anyone who resisted, while Qing Chen assigned Lin Changsheng to assist him if needed.
• Qing Chen urged True Person Budong to enter seclusion and pursue a breakthrough to the Immortal Realm, and Budong agreed.
• Qing Chen looked toward the Shushan Sword Sect, anticipating a meeting with Heavenly Shu True Lord, and resolved to manage the Condensed Jade Sect as a source of support for his greater goal.

As Qing Chen’s ten-day ultimatum brought the Heavenly Illumination, Cold Mountain, and Three Corpse Archipelagos under his influence, their sects surrendered, fled, or were crushed. Qing Chen left the bloodshed behind and headed alone for Heavenly Shu Island, home of the Shushan Sword Sect.

• Zhaoshenzi offered the Illuminating Deity Sect’s supreme treasure to Qing Chen and arranged for some disciples to flee to the Star Sea Region.
• Jingxin ordered Cold Mountain Temple’s disciples to choose whether to stay or leave, sent Chanxin, Xingchi, and Dragon-Seal Vajra to Great Jin with a jade slip, then sealed his cultivation and died.
• Su Zixuan, Xu Jiuling, and Chi Xuntian arrived at Cold Mountain Temple and found its monks kneeling before the removed plaque, alongside Jingxin and two Golden Core Dharma Masters who had died.
• Hua Tieshou, Lei Bao, and Gu Jianchun used Demon Lotus Treasure Ships to suppress the Three Corpse Archipelago’s marauders, killing resisters and assigning captives to hard labor.
• Qing Chen departed the archipelagos alone and headed toward Heavenly Shu Island, the Shushan Sword Sect’s mountain gate.

Qing Chen met Heavenly Shu True Lord at Swordheart Terrace and declared the limits of his expansion and his refusal to accept the Moon Sea Region’s old rules. Heavenly Shu True Lord’s probing revealed that Qing Chen’s divine sense and mastery of rules surpassed his own.

• Sword Fool welcomed Qing Chen to Heavenly Shu Island and led him through a hidden gate to Swordheart Terrace.
• Qing Chen met Heavenly Shu True Lord and saw Ye Wushang seated quietly beside him.
• Qing Chen told Heavenly Shu True Lord that the Condensed Jade Sect would stop expanding at the Azure Sun Archipelago and that Shushan could pursue the territory west of it without interference.
• Qing Chen rejected the Upper Eight Caves’ agreement against large-scale wars and annexations, challenging the Blissful Union Tower to come to him if it objected.
• Qing Chen’s force tore open the sword gang cloud qi above Swordheart Terrace, and Heavenly Shu True Lord acknowledged that Qing Chen’s abilities surpassed his own.

Qing Chen sparred with Heavenly Shu True Lord at Swordheart Terrace and overwhelmed his strongest sword technique with demonic divine sense and a crude pseudo-domain formed from Blood Path Rules and the Magnetic Origin Rule. Heavenly Shu True Lord was driven back and defeated, leaving the gap between their abilities unmistakable.

• Tianshu welcomed Qing Chen to Swordheart Terrace and invited him to spar.
• Heavenly Shu True Lord formed a vast sword net with the Purple Frost Sword Path technique Ten Thousand Swords Congeal in the Void.
• Qing Chen used the tenth-layer Immovable Wisdom King Heart Method and First Terror · Yang Spirit · Command to disrupt Heavenly Shu True Lord's control.
• Qing Chen combined Blood Path Rules and the Magnetic Origin Rule into a three-foot pseudo-domain that broke apart the sword net.
• Heavenly Shu True Lord drew the Purplefrost Divine Sword to block Qing Chen's attack but was driven back, his sword intent and magic power disrupted.

Qing Chen decisively defeated Heavenly Shu True Lord in their duel, then left Shushan with Ye Wushang, who thanked him for sparing the sect and explained the significance of Qing Chen’s pseudo-domain. Qing Chen realized his ability to combine laws might resemble a technique normally available only to Spirit Transformation cultivators, and the chapter ended with Ye Wushang describing how they create domains.

• Qing Chen overwhelmed Heavenly Shu True Lord, who admitted Shushan would need its grand formation and Sword Mountain to contend with him.
• Qing Chen thanked Heavenly Shu True Lord and departed Swordheart Terrace, while Heavenly Shu True Lord sent Ye Wushang a message through voice transmission.
• Ye Wushang caught up with Qing Chen and said their duel had helped him break through a mental obstacle, so he would postpone his Nascent Soul Ceremony.
• Ye Wushang thanked Qing Chen for sparing Shushan and reaffirmed their friendship, and Qing Chen said he would always regard Shushan as a friend.
• Ye Wushang relayed Heavenly Shu True Lord’s praise for Qing Chen’s law-fusing pseudo-domain and explained that Spirit Transformation cultivators could use their laws to form domains.

Ye Wushang explained that Qing Chen had accidentally created a fragile Pseudo-Domain by fusing the Blood Path and Primordial Magnetism rules, then advised him to develop it into a Rules Killing Move. Qing Chen realized the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Soul-Shocking Art might hold further secrets and resolved to return to the Moon-Worshipping Divine Cult's Secret Realm on Immortal-Severing Island.

• Ye Wushang told Qing Chen that his fused rules had formed the beginnings of a Pseudo-Domain capable of contending with a single Rules Thread.
• Qing Chen recalled forcing the Pseudo-Domain into being under Xiao Canglan's pressure and grew more resentful of Xiao Canglan for withholding its significance.
• Ye Wushang explained Rules Killing Moves and urged Qing Chen to stabilize his fused domain and incorporate it into a technique or spell.
• Qing Chen recognized that Ye Wushang's advice revealed cultivation secrets usually reserved for powerful sects and resolved to deepen his fusion of the Blood Path and Primordial Magnetism rules.
• Qing Chen considered the potential of the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Soul-Shocking Art and decided to revisit the Moon-Worshipping Divine Cult's Secret Realm on Immortal-Severing Island.

Qing Chen thanked Ye Wushang for teaching him about fusing rules and killing moves, then hurried back to Cangming Island while considering how to develop his own domain. He found thousands of cultivators kneeling in fear and ordered them to disperse, threatening to kill their families if they remained.

• Qing Chen sincerely thanked Ye Wushang and Heavenly Shu True Lord for the guidance, and Ye Wushang asked to join Qing Chen in future battles.
• Qing Chen told Ye Wushang he had nominated him for an honorary Devil Lord position in the Demon Lotus Sect, then departed for Cangming Island.
• During his journey, Qing Chen considered fusing rules and combining the Blood River God-Slaying Spear with a domain of annihilation.
• Qing Chen arrived at Cangming Island and discovered more than ten thousand cultivators kneeling at the docks, frightened by rumors about the Blood River Old Devil.
• Qing Chen ordered the cultivators to disperse and threatened to slaughter their families if they were still kneeling after seven and a half minutes.

Qing Chen received reports that the three archipelagos had been subdued and summoned Zhaoshenzi, the Illuminating Deity Sect's Sect Master, to hear his offer. Zhaoshenzi revealed that an ancient formation on Immortal-Severing Island led to the Moon-Worshipping Divine Cult's true Main Altar, leaving Qing Chen intrigued but still weighing whether to spare the sect.

• Qing Chen ordered the fleeing cultivators at the docks to disperse, then went to Heavenly Ming Palace and summoned his subordinates for a report.
• Chi Xuntian reported that Zhaoshenzi had offered the Heavenly Serpent Magatama and the Illuminating Deity Sect's treasury in exchange for vassal status, while Cold Mountain Temple had surrendered and resistance in the Three Corpse Archipelago had been crushed.
• Qing Chen ordered the surrendered Cold Mountain Temple monks spared as rogue cultivators and sent Jia Daoyi and Xin Bairen to hunt down the monks who had fled.
• Zhaoshenzi presented the Heavenly Serpent Magatama and told Qing Chen that the Heavenly Serpent True Lord had found an ancient teleportation formation on Immortal-Severing Island leading to the Moon-Worshipping Divine Cult's true Main Altar.
• Zhaoshenzi argued that his Dharma Nascent Soul concealed his memories from soul-searching and asked Qing Chen to spare his sect; Qing Chen praised his nerve and judgment.

Qing Chen united the Heavenly Serpent Three Treasures and broke through the summoned serpent’s defenses to uncover a message sealed by the Heavenly Serpent True Lord. The message began revealing a choice between maintaining the Heavenly Serpent Sect and pursuing a perilous opportunity at the Moon-Worshipping Divine Cult’s Main Altar.

• Zhaoshenzi told Qing Chen that the Heavenly Serpent True Lord had warned that the Moon-Worshipping Divine Cult’s Main Altar was deadly to anyone below Nascent Soul and that the Three Treasures served as both key and guide.
• Qing Chen brought out the Eight Serpent Mirror and Eight Serpent Staff, and the three treasures fused into an orb that summoned the Three-Headed Heavenly Serpent phantom.
• Qing Chen dismissed the phantom’s power and used his Demon Seed Divine Sense to shatter its defenses and expose a hidden snake-shedding mark.
• Qing Chen accessed the Heavenly Serpent True Lord’s recorded message, which confirmed that the Three Treasures could summon a powerful Dharma Form and offered the successor a choice to manage the Heavenly Serpent Sect or hear of a greater opportunity.

Qing Chen learned from the Heavenly Serpent treasures that the Moon-Worshipping Divine Cult’s hidden lineage led beyond the Gouwu Sea to the Shiyuan Immortal Star Sea, while Immortal-Severing Island concealed a dangerous path. After granting Zhaoshenzi’s sect vassal status, Qing Chen bound him with two forbidden seals and threatened his life and sect, leaving Zhaoshenzi to confess that he had withheld something important.

• Qing Chen heard the ancient recording reveal the Moon-Worshipping Divine Cult’s origins, the distant Shiyuan Immortal Star Sea, and the danger surrounding Immortal-Severing Island.
• Qing Chen returned the Three-Headed Heavenly Serpent’s power to the three treasures and rewarded Zhaoshenzi by allowing the Illuminating Deity Sect to become a Demon Lotus Sect vassal.
• Qing Chen branded Zhaoshenzi with the Demon Lotus Soul Seal and the Blood Slave Mark, binding him to obey for two hundred years.
• Qing Chen warned that any concealment or trouble involving the treasures or Immortal-Severing Island would bring Zhaoshenzi’s death and the destruction of his sect.
• Zhaoshenzi broke down and admitted that he had withheld something from Qing Chen.

Qing Chen learned that Ancestor Heavenly Serpent had been a Holy Son of the Moon-Worshipping Divine Cult, then punished Zhaoshenzi and extended his imprisonment. He ordered Lin Changsheng to confront Mystic Yin Island over the missing cultivators and begin building a vast city for his upcoming Nascent Soul Ceremony.

• Zhaoshenzi revealed that Ancestor Heavenly Serpent had been a Holy Son, whose status had helped him explore Immortal-Severing Island.
• Qing Chen activated Zhaoshenzi’s seals, tortured him, and changed his sentence from two hundred years to three hundred years.
• Lin Changsheng reported that Jia Daoyi’s forces had nearly wiped out Cold Mountain Temple’s remnants, and that Dragon-Seal Vajra had fallen.
• Qing Chen ordered Chi Xuntian to demand an accounting from Mystic Yin Island for the disappearance of Xuanji True Lord and True Lord Jiyin, threatening to visit the island himself if it refused.
• Qing Chen commanded Lin Changsheng to build a vast city on Cangming Island, including a ten-thousand-zhang mountain and palace, as the site of his Nascent Soul Ceremony.
• Lin Changsheng accepted the order and went to find Chi Xuntian.

Chi Xuntian delivered Qing Chen’s ultimatum to Mystic Yin Island over Xuanji True Lord’s disappearance, but Daoist Tongyou held back from attacking him. Meanwhile, Lin Changsheng oversaw a massive construction project on Cangming Island.

• Chi Xuntian arrived at Mystic Yin Island and invoked Qing Chen’s Divine Sense Imprint to demand an account of Xuanji True Lord’s disappearance, Jiyin’s records, and eighty million low-grade spirit stones.
• Daoist Tongyou unleashed his pressure against Chi Xuntian but ultimately let him leave, then ordered Mystic Yin Island’s defenses strengthened and went to the Blissful Union Tower.
• On Cangming Island’s eastern plain, millions of Force Martial Artists and cultivators began leveling the land and building a vast project.
• Zhaoshenzi and other cultivators uprooted and moved a thousand-foot mountain while workers and flying boats transported construction materials.
• Lin Changsheng supervised the work with a detailed formation diagram and ten Spirit Construction Masters beside him.

Lin Changsheng committed to completing the vast construction project for Qing Chen’s Nascent Soul Ceremony within five years. Meanwhile, the Blissful Union Tower planned how to appease Qing Chen, while Penglai Spirit Island’s leaders reacted angrily to his growing influence.

• Lin Changsheng promised the spirit architects abundant manpower and resources, and set a five-year deadline for the ceremony grounds.
• Daoist Tongyou told the Blissful Union Tower that Qing Chen demanded eighty million spirit stones from Mystic Yin Island.
• Guanyin Tower Master warned Yinji that Qing Chen was exceptionally formidable, but Yaoyue advised negotiating rather than confronting him.
• Yaoyue instructed Daoist Tongyou to offer forty million spirit stones and have Mystic Yin Island withdraw from the Upper Eight Cave Spirit Islands to earn Qing Chen’s favor.
• True Lord Yunmiao crushed a report about Qing Chen’s actions, while Yuan Lingzi cautioned that Qing Chen was skilled in crooked schemes.

Qing Chen secretly led a force into the Endless Storm and Thunder Sea while outsiders believed he was focused on building Jianzhou City. As his troops confronted a powerful demon beast, Great Jin moved to restrict his access to high-grade resources.

• Yuan Lingzi and True Lord Yunmiao dismissed Qing Chen’s ambitions, while spies across the Gouwu Sea speculated about his plans and the coming Nascent Soul Ceremony.
• Xiao Canglan heard reports of Qing Chen’s territorial expansion and city-building, then ordered Great Jin’s circuits to withhold exchanges of fourth-tier mid-grade and higher resources from Qing Chen and his followers.
• A year later, Jianzhou City was rising on Cangming Island as Qing Chen secretly operated elsewhere, and his true body traveled to the Endless Storm and Thunder Sea with Su Zixuan, Formation Masters, and twenty thousand elite body cultivators.
• A peak third-tier Thunder Armor Kuang Sha attacked Qing Chen’s treasure ship, and ten Vajra Realm body cultivators struck it with a combined fist attack.

Qing Chen’s forces cleared the waters around Immortal-Severing Island and began building a vast concealed formation, while Lie Feng and Bu Jingyun watched a dangerous mid-fourth-tier demon. The formation’s first core was secured, and the chapter ended as the Thunder Baleful Intent Ghost Flood Dragon began to wake.

• Lie Feng’s ten Vajra Realm body cultivators destroyed a peak third-tier Thunder Armor Kuang Sha, and Qing Chen revealed they belonged to his secret force of twenty thousand body cultivators.
• Lie Feng reported that his forces had cleared most third-tier and stronger demon beasts from the waters around Immortal-Severing Island, avoiding a fourth-tier great demon.
• Su Zixuan anchored the first formation core with Qing Chen’s help, creating a concealed formation field that spread across several thousand li.
• Qing Chen directed the group to continue building a fourth-tier formation intended to conceal and seal a fifteen-thousand-li domain around Immortal-Severing Island.
• A month later, Lie Feng and Bu Jingyun monitored a sleeping mid-fourth-tier Thunder Baleful Intent Ghost Flood Dragon, which lay coiled over an undersea spirit vein.
• Bu Jingyun noticed the ghost flood dragon was waking, and it roared beneath the storm clouds.

Qing Chen arrived as the Thunder Baleful Intent Ghost Flood Dragon attacked the floating platform and used his laws and the Blood River God-Slaying Spear to overpower it. After severing the flood dragon’s horn, he launched another strike as it fled into the sea.

• The awakened Thunder Baleful Intent Ghost Flood Dragon attacked the platform with lightning pillars, and Qing Chen intercepted them with a five-colored barrier.
• Qing Chen summoned the Blood River God-Slaying Spear and used his Blood Path Rules and Magnetic Origin Rule to absorb and deflect the flood dragon’s massive lightning sphere.
• Qing Chen burned his essence blood to empower his body and spear, then rushed through the flood dragon’s lightning attacks.
• Qing Chen shattered the flood dragon’s lightning armor and severed its horn with a direct spear thrust.
• The wounded flood dragon tried to flee, and Qing Chen burned more essence blood before slashing at it with a five-hundred-zhang streak of blood-colored Spear Radiance.

Qing Chen killed the Thunder Baleful Intent Ghost Flood Dragon, captured and refined its soul, and used it to strengthen the Five-Dragon Carriage Treasure Talisman. He ordered Lie Feng, Bu Jingyun, and the others to continue clearing powerful demon beasts from the waters around Immortal-Severing Island.

• Qing Chen severed the Ghost Flood Dragon in two with a Blood Path Rules attack and collected its corpse in the Nine-Luminaries Glazed Vidyaraja Pagoda.
• Qing Chen extracted the flood dragon’s soul and suppressed it with Demon Seed Divine Sense.
• Qing Chen replaced two weaker souls in the Five-Dragon Carriage Treasure Talisman with the captured mid-fourth-tier soul and an early-fourth-tier flood dragon soul.
• The upgraded talisman gained five linked flood dragon phantoms and enough speed to rival a first-rate high-grade flying magic treasure.
• Qing Chen ordered Lie Feng, Bu Jingyun, and the others to remove third-tier and stronger demon beasts within a hundred thousand li while leaving weaker beasts alone.

Qing Chen returned to Cangming Island and made the Guanyin Tower Master and Daoist Tongyou wait before hearing Mystic Yin Island’s plea over its unpaid debt. He accepted a reduced payment after Guanyin intervened, leaving the island with three days to deliver its treasury and Jiyin’s records.

• Qing Chen left Su Zixuan and twenty thousand troops to secure the waters near Immortal-Severing Island, then traveled to Cangming Island.
• Lin Changsheng informed Qing Chen that the Guanyin Tower Master and Daoist Tongyou had waited all day to see him, but Qing Chen told them to keep waiting.
• Qing Chen arrived at the Welcome Immortals Pavilion, where his presence terrified Daoist Tongyou into kneeling.
• Daoist Tongyou explained that Mystic Yin Island could not pay the demanded eighty million spirit stones and offered forty million plus Jiyin’s notes, sea charts, and jade slips.
• The Guanyin Tower Master asked Qing Chen to show mercy, and he gave Mystic Yin Island three days to deliver the forty million spirit stones and Jiyin’s records.

Qing Chen learned that Xiao Canglan had blocked his access to high-grade resources in Great Jin, and the Guanyin Tower Master offered to help him through her personal channels. After they cultivated together, Qing Chen warned her to keep the Blissful Union Tower publicly distant from him, leaving his plans and trust in the sect uncertain.

• The Guanyin Tower Master told Qing Chen that Xiao Canglan had obstructed the Blissful Union Tower and other channels from buying high-grade spirit items for him in Great Jin.
• She offered to connect Qing Chen with her personal channels there, and he agreed before asking her to help with her sluggish cultivation.
• Qing Chen and the Guanyin Tower Master practiced their yin-yang cultivation technique together, circulating their magic power and strengthening their Nascent Souls.
• Afterward, the Guanyin Tower Master asked why Qing Chen remained in the Gouwu Sea, and he said he had his own plans.
• Qing Chen advised her to keep the Blissful Union Tower publicly distant from him because Xiao Canglan, Penglai Spirit Island, and the Vajra Zen Sect could not be trusted.

Qing Chen considered how dual cultivation with powerful female cultivators could advance his cultivation, then entrusted Ye Wushang with guarding his sect while he entered seclusion. Two years later, Qing Chen returned to Immortal-Severing Island and inspected the completed concealment formation surrounding its waters.

• After the Guanyin Tower Master left, Qing Chen reflected on his strength and considered pursuing dual cultivation with her sisters, Yinji and Yaoyue, to improve his cultivation.
• Six months later, Qing Chen asked Ye Wushang to guard him while he entered seclusion and gave him the title of Heaven-Slaying Sword Lord.
• Qing Chen activated the restrictions and entered seclusion, while Ye Wushang stayed behind to cultivate the Azure Firmament Sword Path.
• Another six months later, Su Zixuan reported that she had linked ten formation cores to complete the Heaven-Hiding Flood Dragon-Locking Formation around Immortal-Severing Island.
• Qing Chen praised Su Zixuan and received the formation cores, which allowed authorized people to pass through the concealed waters and could briefly trap a Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator.