Chapter Summaries

Li Xian’s attacks on the Demon Race’s heartlands forced the five clans to abandon their assault on the Flame Furnace Fortress and retreat to defend their strongholds. After returning, he revealed that he had killed over a hundred Xiangliu Clan Heavenly Demons, but his warning that the threat might not be over left the Great Luo Immortal Sect bracing for what came next.

• At the Demon Race encampment, Youhai’s commanders argued over their failures and questioned whether they could break the Flame Furnace Fortress.
• Messengers reported that Li Xian was ravaging the Kunpeng and Yingyu heartlands, and the Xiangliu Clan also learned that it had suffered heavy losses.
• Huo Guang delivered Li Xian’s decree demanding that the Demon Race withdraw from the Falling Star Sea, and the Huashe, Fuzhu, Yingyu, and Kunpeng forces left the fortress.
• Youhai led the remaining Xiangliu forces away as well, while the Great Luo Immortal Sect celebrated driving off the invasion.
• After staying in the Demon Race’s heartlands for two more months, Li Xian returned to the Flame Furnace Fortress and gave Huo Guang a Storage Ring containing about two hundred Heavenly Demon bodies.
• Li Xian warned that the Xiangliu Clan might return and said he would remember Youhai’s parting threat.

After the Great Luo Immortal Sect repelled the Demon Race, Li Xian assigned the valuable Demon God Skeleton to Zhan Jiehui and set out for the Limitless Star Palace. Lingxu sensed that Li Xian’s fortune had greatly increased, and Li Xian realized the Purple Heavens Dao Palace might now be ready to acknowledge a master.

• The Great Luo Immortal Sect’s victory eased other factions’ concerns, while the Demon clans described their retreat as a strategic withdrawal and concealed their losses.
• Huo Guang and Ning Sirong calculated that the battle spoils were worth about eighty-six trillion merit points, including a Four-Turn Demon God Skeleton worth at least sixty trillion.
• Li Xian chose Zhan Jiehui, whose Heavenly Dragon True Body suited the skeleton, to receive it and grow stronger.
• Li Xian declined to pursue the Radiant Sun Immortal Sect immediately and left for the Limitless Star Palace to discuss the Way of Limitlessness with Ziyuan.
• Lingxu told Li Xian that his fortune had increased greatly, and Li Xian suspected the Purple Heavens Dao Palace could now acknowledge him as its master.

Li Xian mastered the Purple Heavens Dao Palace and discovered that its Great Dao Sound could temper his mind and soul, so he returned to the Great Luo Immortal Sect to cultivate. Meanwhile, the Nine Heavens Sacred Ground and Radiant Sun Immortal Sect planned to lure him into a trap, and Ziyuan arrived seeking a trade for access to a site that could perfect her Great Dao of Nihility.

• Li Xian refined the Purple Heavens Dao Palace, gained stronger spatial suppression and access to its Great Dao resonances, and found that its ultimate legacy remained unavailable to him.
• Li Xian used the Dao Palace's Great Dao Sound to strengthen his mind, will, and soul, then abandoned his planned visit to the Limitless Star Palace and entered seclusion.
• Di Que told Ye Yaoguang that Li Xian had killed nearly two hundred Heavenly Demons and urged the Radiant Sun Immortal Sect to eliminate him.
• Ye Yaoguang agreed to use the Nine Heavens Sacred Ground's World Chessboard and send Ye Ranjin into Great Luo Immortal Sect territory to draw Li Xian into a fight.
• After two months of training, Li Xian met Ziyuan, who asked whether the Great Luo Immortal Sect had a site for cultivating the Great Dao of Nihility and offered to trade for access.

Li Xian agreed to give Ziyuan the coordinates of the Myriad Stars Great World so she could cultivate the Great Dao of Nihility, and she promised him treasures and access to the Limitlessness World-Subduing Book. At the Limitless Star Palace, Li Xian studied the supreme treasure and gained a complete understanding of the Way of Limitlessness.

• Ziyuan offered the Limitlessness World-Subduing Book's insights, a nihility Dao Artifact, and a Void Realm Seed in exchange for the Myriad Stars Great World's coordinates, and Li Xian gave her the information.
• Ziyuan and Li Xian traveled to the Limitless Star Palace, where Acting Sect Master Caiyun welcomed them discreetly.
• Ziyuan told Li Xian that his earlier arrival had prompted her master to protect her from a Divine Firmament Sect attack by a Pure Yang True Immortal.
• Ziyuan showed Li Xian the Limitlessness World-Subduing Book and explained that Si Tianwen had once become a Limitlessness Celestial Immortal.
• Li Xian resonated with the Limitlessness World-Subduing Book and comprehended the mysteries of the Limitless Dao, the Great Dao of Nihility, and the Soul Great Dao.

Li Xian studied the Limitlessness cultivation paths at the Limitless Star Palace, then followed Lingxu’s signal to acquire one of its components and learned it was connected to the Nine Heavens Sacred Ground’s World Chessboard. After returning to the Great Luo Immortal Sect, he learned the Radiant Sun Immortal Sect was attacking.

• Li Xian finished studying the Limitlessness World-Subduing Book, exchanged gifts with Ziyuan, and prepared to return to his sect.
• Lingxu sensed a component near Plain Maiden Peak, so Li Xian asked Ziyuan to accompany him there and found Ye Fuyun arguing with Xiao Yueting.
• Li Xian traded Ye Fuyun a Fifth-Realm Dharma Treasure for his family’s jade pendant and gave him Sword Intent to help him cultivate.
• Caiyun identified the pendant’s patterns as those of the World Chessboard, a Nine Heavens Sacred Ground treasure that could trap even a Pure Yang True Immortal.
• Li Xian returned to the Great Luo Immortal Sect, where Ning Sirong told him that the Radiant Sun Immortal Sect was attacking.

Li Xian learned that the Radiant Sun Immortal Sect was harassing Great Luo Immortal Sect territory under the threat of Ye Ranjin, and he rushed to the border despite Huo Guang and Ning Sirong’s warnings. He found six Loose Immortals besieging a protected city and its gold mine deep within the sect’s territory.

• Ning Sirong told Li Xian that the Radiant Sun Immortal Sect had Ye Ranjin, whose Destruction Divine Flame made him an overwhelming threat to Earth Immortals.
• Huo Guang warned Ning Sirong that Ye Ranjin’s harassment could be a trap designed to draw Li Xian into a fight, and both elders urged Li Xian to keep cultivating.
• Li Xian decided that defeating Ye Ranjin could provoke the Nine Heavens Sacred Ground into sending experts with the World Chessboard, so he declared he would defend the border and left immediately.
• Huo Guang ordered the others to gather and follow Li Xian, while Ning Sirong called after him but could not catch him.
• Li Xian sensed a battle in the 3,000 Vassal States, rushed to an Immortal City, and found six Loose Immortals besieging its formation while their followers plundered the city and gold mine.

Li Xian killed six Radiant Sun Immortal Sect Loose Immortals who were plundering the Great Luo Immortal Sect’s territory, then rushed to another resource site and killed the Earth Immortal Gu Xuangguang. Ye Ranjin arrived and attacked Li Xian with the Destruction Divine Flame, but Li Xian’s Eternal Blazing Sun endured as he challenged Ye Ranjin to intensify the flames.

• Lü Qing defended the Immortal City from six Radiant Sun Immortal Sect Loose Immortals until Li Xian arrived and killed them with Absolute Immortal Sword Qi.
• Li Xian ordered Lü Qing to deal with the invaders and demanded a map of hostile Loose Immortals from Lin Jiutian through the Message Transmission Formation.
• Li Xian reached a Gui Water river resource site, destroyed the plundering warship, and killed Gu Xuangguang before Ye Ranjin could stop him.
• Ye Ranjin struck Li Xian’s mental world with the Destruction Divine Flame, nearly overwhelming his Sword Domain and Eternal Blazing Sun.
• Li Xian resisted Ye Ranjin’s attack and urged him to make the Destruction Divine Flame burn brighter.

Ye Ranjin trapped Li Xian in the World Chessboard and unleashed the Destruction Divine Flame, but Li Xian used the attack to temper and transform his Sword Domain. The flames were purified by a newly formed Eternal Blazing Sun, leaving Ye Ranjin helpless.

• Ye Ranjin activated the World Chessboard to stop Li Xian from escaping and keep him trapped in its black-and-white world.
• Lingxu recognized the World Chessboard as a component of its main body and urged Li Xian to claim it.
• Ye Ranjin amplified his Destruction Divine Flame with Immortal Burning, but Li Xian's Eternal Blazing Sun endured the assault.
• Li Xian used the flames to expose flaws in his Sword Domain and temper it, while Ye Ranjin grew furious and burned himself as fuel for stronger attacks.
• Ye Ranjin detonated the Destruction Divine Flame and nearly destroyed Li Xian's Sword Domain, but Li Xian rebuilt it and his Eternal Blazing Sun grew brighter.
• Li Xian's new Eternal Blazing Sun purified the remaining flames, leaving Ye Ranjin pale and helpless.

Li Xian defeated Ye Ranjin after surviving his Destruction Origin strike, then hunted down the Radiant Sun Immortal Sect’s invading Loose Immortals. With the invasion force withdrawn and his allies gathered, Li Xian led them toward the Radiant Sun Immortal Sect to repay its attack in blood.

• Ye Ranjin invoked the Destruction Great Dao Origin in a final attack, but Li Xian used Cosmic Light Sword Intent to stretch the distance and escape its reach.
• The Destruction Origin consumed Ye Ranjin, who left Li Xian a regretful warning to kill someone he called “him.”
• Li Xian emerged from the World Chessboard alive, killed the remaining Loose Immortals around it, and pursued the Radiant Sun Immortal Sect’s invaders across the Great Luo Immortal Sect’s territory.
• Li Xian killed dozens of invading Loose Immortals before the Radiant Sun Immortal Sect ordered its forces to withdraw.
• Gu Xingye told Li Xian that the invaders had retreated, and Li Xian confirmed Ye Ranjin’s death to the gathered allies.
• Li Xian ordered his allies to follow him as he set out to storm the Radiant Sun Immortal Sect.

The Radiant Sun Immortal Sect learned that Ye Ranjin had died and Li Xian had survived their battle, then scrambled to prepare for his retaliation. Before their reinforcements could reach Golden Crow Fort, Li Xian infiltrated it and killed its defenders, leaving the sect’s forward stronghold fallen.

• Ye Yaoguang celebrated with Sacred Lord Di Que after hearing that Li Xian had been trapped in the World Chessboard.
• Fang Yang reported that Ye Ranjin and more than a dozen elders’ life lamps had gone out, and a hidden agent confirmed that the World Chessboard had dispersed with Li Xian unharmed.
• The Radiant Sun Immortal Sect received word that Li Xian was leading a large force into its territory, prompting Ye Yaoguang to organize a defense centered on Golden Crow Fort.
• The elders sent 108 Loose Immortals toward Golden Crow Fort while ordering their core members to withdraw to safety.
• Li Xian reached Golden Crow Fort ahead of the main force, entered with help from a hidden agent, killed its sixteen Loose Immortal defenders, and captured the fort.

Li Xian captured Golden Crow Fortress and led the Great Luo Immortal Sect’s invasion of Radiant Sun Immortal Sect territory, while the Nine Heavens Sacred Ground prepared to investigate and kill him. Unable to break the Radiant Sun Immortal Sect’s headquarters defenses, he left the campaign to his allies and returned to cultivate his Sword Domain.

• Li Xian ordered Lü Qing to take charge of Golden Crow Fortress’s formations and declared that the Great Luo Immortal Sect would use the fortress as a base to seize nearby territory.
• Li Xian left Huo Guang and Tang Ming to hold Golden Crow Fortress and went after the Radiant Sun Immortal Sect’s reinforcements, while Ye Yaoguang ordered the sect’s Loose Immortals to withdraw to defended positions.
• The Nine Heavens Sacred Ground’s Fuyao ordered Huang Quan to investigate Li Xian’s abilities and arrange a killing strike with Qin Wushe and Jiang Jiehai.
• Li Xian and Bai Ze determined that the Radiant Sun Immortal Sect’s headquarters formations were too costly to attack, so Li Xian ordered the sect to blockade the stronghold and occupy its resource sites.
• Li Xian returned to the Great Luo Immortal Sect and decided to raise his Sword Domain to Perfection.

Heavenly God Wuxian ordered the God Clan to summon the Void Tide while Li Xian perfected his Sword Domain and considered how to advance toward a Sword World. After ten years in seclusion, Li Xian learned that the Nine Heavens Sacred Ground had condemned the Great Luo Immortal Sect over its occupation of Golden Crow Fortress.

• Heavenly God Wuxian told the God Clan demigods to use two treasures and a divine formation to draw down the Void Tide, centered on the sea occupied by the Demon Race.
• Li Xian completed the perfection of his Sword Domain and studied how comprehending the seventh sense might allow it to evolve into a Sword World.
• Li Xian calculated the long time required to hone his true body further and decided to visit the Dragon-Controlling Sect for records about the Xuanjun Immortal King.
• Li Xian left seclusion, and Lin Jiutian and Dao Wuya told him that the Nine Heavens Sacred Ground had demanded the Great Luo Immortal Sect withdraw from Golden Crow Fortress and compensate the Radiant Sun Immortal Sect.

Li Xian traveled to the Dragon-Controlling Sect to study how a perfected Sword Domain could evolve into a Sword World, where he discovered that the path depended on understanding the True Self. As he began studying, Lingxu awakened with a new technique that could bypass nearly any formation below the Celestial Immortal level.

• Dao Wuya and Lin Jiutian debated the Nine Heavens Sacred Ground’s intentions, while Li Xian announced he would make a journey and left the Great Luo Immortal Sect.
• Li Xian crossed the Endless Sea and Abyssal Sea, reached the Western Continent, and flew toward the Dragon-Controlling Sect.
• Bai Yufei welcomed Li Xian and agreed to let him consult the sect’s texts, while Zhong Jun asked to test his perfected Sword Domain after Li Xian finished studying.
• Bai Yufei showed Li Xian the sect’s Assembly Ground and library, where Li Xian learned that understanding the True Self and existence was essential to evolving a Sword Domain into a Sword World.
• Lingxu awakened and told Li Xian that it had gained the Yin-Yang Traversal technique, which let it pass through almost any formation below the Celestial Immortal level.

Li Xian agreed to spar with the Dragon-Controlling Sect’s ranked immortals before returning to the Eastern Continent, while planning to use Lingxu to raid the Radiant Sun Immortal Sect and other sects for their treasures. His perfected Sword Domain overwhelmed Suyu in their first match, leaving her falling toward the Beast God Platform with her mental world nearly destroyed.

• Lingxu offered to guide Li Xian through the major sects’ formations to steal their treasures, and Li Xian chose the Radiant Sun Immortal Sect’s Nine Suns Divine Fire as their first target.
• Li Xian left the Dragon-Controlling Sect’s library, declined Zhong Jun’s invitation to stay, and agreed to spar before departing.
• Zhong Jun brought Li Xian to the Beast God Platform, where Suyu and the sect’s elders gathered to watch.
• Suyu summoned a purple spirit marten to defend against Li Xian’s perfected Sword Domain, but the Eternal Blazing Sun burned away its phantom and shattered most of her mental world.
• Suyu lost control of her flight and plunged toward the Beast God Platform as Li Xian watched in alarm.

Li Xian defeated Zhong Jun in a spar, then traveled to the Radiant Sun Immortal Sect and used Lingxu to bypass its defenses. He stole the Nine Suns Divine Fire and escaped, leaving the sect's strongholds and formations in disarray.

• Li Xian overwhelmed Suyu during their spar, then defeated Zhong Jun's Pupil Art until Zhong Jun conceded.
• Zhong Jun and Bai Yufei discussed Li Xian's strength and the Nine Heavens Sacred Ground's possible response, including the prospect of a True Immortal who could unite three paths.
• Li Xian reached the Radiant Sun Immortal Sect alone, where Huang Quan ordered Ye Yaoguang to send cultivators out to test him.
• Lingxu disrupted the sect's formations, allowing Li Xian to traverse directly into its headquarters despite its void-sealing defenses.
• Li Xian froze the guards protecting the Nine Suns Divine Fire and stored the treasure in the Purple Heavens Dao Palace.
• Li Xian used the Myriad Heavens Sword Escape to flee the Radiant Sun Immortal Sect with the Nine Suns Divine Fire.

Li Xian stole the Radiant Sun Immortal Sect’s Nine Suns Divine Fire, crippling its formations and provoking Huang Quan to mobilize forces against the Great Luo Immortal Sect. After escaping the sect’s defenses and reaching the Golden Crow Fortress, Li Xian called for a decisive battle and revealed what he had taken.

• Ye Yaoguang failed to stop Li Xian from escaping with the Nine Suns Divine Fire, and Huang Quan ordered forces to prepare for war against the Great Luo Immortal Sect.
• Huang Quan called on the Formless Devil Sect and the Demon Race to join the offensive, resolving to destroy the Great Luo Immortal Sect and kill Li Xian.
• Li Xian tested his strength against a Golden War Chariot, damaging it but finding it too costly to fight the Radiant Sun Immortal Sect’s full force near its headquarters.
• Li Xian escaped beyond the Radiant Sun Immortal Sect’s reach and flew to the Golden Crow Fortress.
• Li Xian ordered at least four hundred Great Luo Immortal Sect Loose Immortals to assemble for a decisive battle and revealed that he had taken the Nine Suns Divine Fire.

Li Xian stole the Radiant Sun Immortal Sect’s Nine Suns Divine Fire and began using it to temper his true body, while the Great Luo Immortal Sect prepared for an alliance-backed counterattack. As the Nine Heavens Sacred Ground’s warship Flowing Cloud approached the Eastern Continent, Li Xian appeared aboard it and unleashed the Purple Heavens Dao Palace.

• Li Xian revealed that he had taken the Nine Suns Divine Fire, and the Great Luo Immortal Sect’s leaders prepared to repel the Radiant Sun Immortal Sect’s retaliation.
• Li Xian discovered that the Nine Suns Divine Fire could supply the Purple Heavens Dao Palace with energy and used it to strengthen his true body.
• Ning Sirong reported that the Formless Devil Sect and the Nine Heavens Sacred Ground were joining the conflict, and Li Xian ordered her to track their forces.
• Fengqing Divine Son learned that the Nine Heavens Sacred Ground was rallying powers against Li Xian, while the Heavenly Sha Devil Lord chose to send the Great Luo Immortal Sect information about the Formless Devil Sect.
• Qian Jizi, Qin Wushe, and Jiang Jiehai traveled aboard the Flowing Cloud toward the Eastern Continent, and the Heavenly Sha Devil Lord’s burly disciple warned the Great Luo Immortal Sect of the Formless Devil Sect’s movements.
• Li Xian attacked the Flowing Cloud alone, forced his way aboard, and brought forth the Purple Heavens Dao Palace as Qin Wushe prepared to draw his sword.

Li Xian ambushed the Flowing Cloud warship, but Qin Wushe and Jiang Jiehai countered with powerful attacks and prepared to surround him. Li Xian unleashed a blazing sun that warped time and space, killed Jiang Jiehai, and severed the karmic link Qin Wushe relied on to target him.

• Li Xian struck the Flowing Cloud warship with a Sword Qi Storm, tearing open its hull and killing five of its crew.
• Qin Wushe used a void-path Quasi-Immortal Artifact to land a karmically guided destructive strike that badly wounded Li Xian, while Jiang Jiehai suppressed Li Xian's Void Collapse with Order Power.
• Qin Wushe and Jiang Jiehai rallied the surviving Loose Immortals and prepared to seal Li Xian inside their combined domains.
• Li Xian summoned a Brilliant Great Sun that distorted space-time and disrupted Jiang Jiehai's attempt to contain him.
• Li Xian caught Jiang Jiehai despite his retreat and shattered his Upper Origin Grotto-Heaven with the Void-Slaying Sword.
• Qin Wushe charged a powerful strike at Li Xian, but Li Xian disappeared and severed the karma connecting them.

Li Xian killed Qin Wushe, Jiang Jiehai, Holy Lord Qianji, and the Nine Heavens Sacred Ground’s other elites aboard the Flowing Cloud. When the Formless Devil Sect and the gathered demon clans learned of the massacre, they abandoned the planned assault on the Great Luo Immortal Sect and scattered.

• Qin Wushe resisted Li Xian’s perfected Sword Domain with the Kindling Art, but his heart demon stopped his spiritual breakthrough, and Li Xian killed him with the Void-Slaying Sword.
• Li Xian used the World Chessboard and his perfected Sword Domain to kill Holy Lord Qianji, then slaughtered the Flowing Cloud’s remaining defenders and recovered the damaged warship.
• The Formless Devil Lord learned that Qin Wushe, Jiang Jiehai, Holy Lord Qianji, and the rest of the Nine Heavens Sacred Ground’s force had been wiped out by Li Xian.
• The Devil Sects’ Loose Immortals made excuses and dispersed, while the demon clans also withdrew from the planned campaign.
• The Formless Devil Lord decided the Formless Devil Sect would stay hidden and leave the fight against the Great Luo Immortal Sect to the Radiant Sun Immortal Sect.

Li Xian returned to Golden Crow Fortress after destroying the Nine Heavens Sacred Ground’s elite force, scattering the Devil Cultivators and Heavenly Demons, and capturing their True Immortal-class warship. With the Radiant Sun Immortal Sect approaching, he left again to confront its advancing forces, while his followers declared him invincible.

• Wu Changkong learned that the Devil Cultivators and Heavenly Demons had withdrawn from Flame Furnace Fortress and that the Nine Heavens Sacred Ground’s elite, including Qin Wushe, Jiang Jiehai, and Holy Lord Qianji, had been wiped out.
• Xie Cangyun reported that Li Xian had captured a True Immortal-class warship, and Wu Changkong led eighteen others to meet him and bring the Flowing Cloud back for repairs.
• Li Xian handed the Flowing Cloud to Wu Changkong and the others, then left for Golden Crow Fortress as the elders praised his victory.
• At Golden Crow Fortress, Li Xian learned that nearly four hundred Loose Immortals of the Radiant Sun Immortal Sect were advancing and would arrive in two or three days.
• Li Xian departed to meet the approaching enemy, while Huo Guang, Ning Sirong, Bai Ze, and Gu Xingye reaffirmed their faith in his power.