Chapter Summaries

Gu Chan, Zhunti, and Jieyin obtained Bodhi Spiritual Light by debating the Buddhas at Thunder Drum Divine Peak. Chu Kuangren then challenged the Buddhas himself, claiming he knew Buddhist teachings.

• Gu Chan passed the Great Hero Hall’s Buddhist debate trial and received Bodhi Spiritual Light.
• Chu Kuangren arrived with Zhunti, Jieyin, and their companions, then forced his way into the Great Hero Hall after Buddhist cultivators tried to turn them away.
• Zhunti and Jieyin each debated the Buddhas and won Bodhi Spiritual Light, surprising Gu Chan.
• Chu Kuangren said he had come for the opportunities on Thunder Drum Divine Peak and stepped forward to debate the Buddhas.

Chu Kuangren debated all 108 Buddhas in the Great Hero Hall and won their recognition with his profound knowledge of Buddhist teachings. They awarded him the Bodhi Spiritual Light and the Immovable Ming King Sword Seal, which he immediately began to comprehend.

• Chu Kuangren challenged all 108 Buddhas to debate him at once, stunning Gu Chan, Zhunti, Jieyin, and the Buddhas.
• Chu Kuangren used Xiao Ai’s vast knowledge to cite Buddhist teachings and theories, leaving the Buddhas speechless and Gu Chan dumbfounded.
• The leading Buddha granted Chu Kuangren the Bodhi Spiritual Light and the Immovable Ming King Sword Seal after admitting his understanding surpassed theirs.
• Gu Chan recognized the sword seal as a legendary Buddhist ultimate cultivation technique and envied Chu Kuangren for obtaining it.
• Chu Kuangren formed a sword finger and manifested the sword seal’s power almost immediately, realizing the Creation Pool had amplified his comprehension.

Chu Kuangren gave the Bodhi Spiritual Light to Shi Ying, then used the Immovable Ming King Sword Seal to defeat foreign cultivators who had invaded the Humanistic Ancestral Land. After learning that foreign races had seized supreme humanistic treasures, he saw the immortal island containing the Ancestral Mausoleum appear, apparently resonating with his Tianli Sword.

• The Buddhas returned to their statue forms, and Chu Kuangren gave the Bodhi Spiritual Light to Shi Ying.
• Foreign cultivators attacked the Buddhist Cultivators and targeted Gu Chan and his companions, but they fled when they recognized Chu Kuangren.
• Chu Kuangren used the Immovable Ming King Sword Seal to kill the foreign cultivators, shocking the Buddhist Cultivators.
• Chu Kuangren used soul techniques and the Soul-Searching Grand Art on a surviving Heavenly God Clan cultivator, learning that several foreign races had entered the Humanistic Ancestral Land and seized supreme humanistic treasures.
• The Humanistic Ancestral Land shook as the immortal island containing the Ancestral Mausoleum emerged, and Chu Kuangren's Tianli Sword resonated with it.

The immortal island appeared in the Humanistic Ancestral Land, drawing human and outsider Monarch Seeds who sought the Human Ancestor’s inheritance and blood. At the island’s center, Chu Kuangren and the others found a sealed space linked to the Ancestral Mausoleum, while several outsiders revealed that they had entered the Ancestral Land.

• Bright Moon Wuxia, Dao Lingtian, Dugu Bubai, Chi Ying, Heavenly God Cangyu, and other Monarch Seeds headed toward the immortal island as factions pursued its opportunities.
• A black-robed figure watched the cultivators gather and planned to kill Heavenly Prides to cripple the Human Race.
• Gu Chan led the Buddhist cultivators toward the island, and Chu Kuangren followed with Yin Honghua and the others.
• Chu Kuangren and Wa Huang sensed that the island’s central rosy-lit space was connected to the Ancestral Mausoleum, and Dao Lingtian failed to break through it.
• Dugu Bupo told Dao Lingtian that all of Humanity’s Nine Treasures were needed to enter the sealed space, while Bright Moon Wuxia, Gu Chan, and other human Monarch Seeds gathered there.
• Bright Moon Wuxia exposed the hidden outsiders, including Monarch Seeds from the Dragon Clan, Heavenly God Clan, Orc Race, and Void Clan, shocking the human cultivators.

Chu Kuangren arrived at the Ancestral Mausoleum and killed Golden Behemoth with one sword strike. Kongchunyuan offered to help open the mausoleum with three of Humanity’s Nine Treasures, and Dugu Bupo, Gu Chan, Lu Wuhen, Dao Lingtian, and others agreed to cooperate with the outsiders, prompting Chu Kuangren to accuse them of joining forces because they feared him.

• Kongchunyuan and other outsiders appeared outside the Ancestral Mausoleum and proposed cooperation with the Monarch Seeds.
• Chu Kuangren arrived, rebuked Golden Behemoth, and killed him with a single sword strike.
• Kongchunyuan presented the Star River Seal, while Red Dragon Chiying and Heavenly God Cangyu revealed the Origin-Burning Spear and Heaven-Piercing Bow, claiming the treasures were needed to open the mausoleum.
• Chu Kuangren said he could kill the outsiders and reclaim the treasures, but Kongchunyuan argued that cooperation would be faster.
• Dugu Bupo, Gu Chan, Lu Wuhen, Dao Lingtian, and other Monarch Seeds agreed to cooperate with the outsiders.
• Chu Kuangren mocked them for joining forces with outsiders because they were afraid of him.

Chu Kuangren exposed the alliance between the Monarch Seeds and outsiders, then used the Heart of Myriad Artifacts and Domain of Infinity to seize Humanity's Nine Treasures. As Kongchunyuan rushed into the opened Ancestral Mausoleum, the others were left behind with their treasures in Chu Kuangren's control.

• Lu Wuhen denied that the Monarch Seeds had joined with outsiders to oppose Chu Kuangren, while Chu Kuangren challenged them to show their strength.
• Kongchunyuan and the others brought out eight of Humanity's Nine Treasures, and Chu Kuangren revealed that Luohou had the missing Heavenly Demon Cauldron.
• The nine treasures combined their power and opened a rift to the Ancestral Mausoleum.
• Chu Kuangren used the Heart of Myriad Artifacts to wrest control of the nine treasures, then unleashed Domain of Infinity to disrupt the others and draw the treasures to himself.
• Kongchunyuan broke through the spatial blockade and rushed into the Ancestral Mausoleum.

Chu Kuangren combined the power of Humanity’s Nine Treasures and revealed the Crystal Long Sword, the Human Ancestor’s Sword and the origin of all swords. As others entered the Ancestral Mausoleum to seek the Human Ancestor Inheritance, Bright Moon Wuxia revealed that she had helped bring about the sword’s appearance.

• Kongchunyuan and the other cultivators entered the Ancestral Mausoleum, while Dao Lingtian and Gu Chan threatened Chu Kuangren and Bright Moon Wuxia let him keep the Moon God Wheel.
• Chu Kuangren sensed a power linking the nine treasures, warned Wa Huang and the others to keep back, then used the Heart of Myriad Artifacts to gather that power within himself.
• The nine treasures exploded, their power forming a Crystal Long Sword that stirred Sword Intent throughout the Great World of Hongmeng.
• King Lan suspected that an Origin Object tied to the Origin of the Sword had appeared, while Dugu Bupo and the other cultivators continued toward the Purple Coffin to pursue the Human Ancestor Inheritance.
• Bright Moon Wuxia recognized the sword as the Sword Ancestor and revealed that she had let Chu Kuangren seize the treasures to bring it forth.
• Chu Kuangren recognized the Crystal Long Sword from murals of the Human Ancestor and realized it was the first sword in all the heavens.

Chu Kuangren discovered that Humanity's Nine Treasures had once been fragments of the First Sword of the Heavens and claimed the sword before exploring the Ancestral Mausoleum. At the purple coffin believed to belong to the Human Ancestor, rival cultivators failed to break its restrictions and joined forces to attack.

• Chu Kuangren realized the First Sword of the Heavens had been shattered into Humanity's Nine Treasures, then absorbed the restored sword into his body.
• Chu Kuangren and his companions entered the Ancestral Mausoleum, where Xiao Ai began recording the histories of the human forebears buried there.
• Wa Huang pointed out an enormous purple coffin that they suspected belonged to the Human Ancestor.
• Kongchunyuan and the other cultivators tried to break the coffin's restrictions, but their attacks failed.
• Dugu Bupo, Dao Lingtian, Lu Wuhen, and others arrived, and Kongchunyuan persuaded the gathered cultivators to launch a combined attack on the coffin.

The Human Ancestor's Blood escaped Kongchunyuan and chose Chu Kuangren, who declared that Heaven's Will was with him. Dao Lingtian, Kongchunyuan, and other human and foreign cultivators surrounded Chu Kuangren and demanded the blood, leaving a fight on the verge of breaking out.

• The Monarch Seeds of humanity and the other races shattered the coffin's restriction and revealed a drop of the Human Ancestor's Blood inside.
• Kongchunyuan teleported to seize the blood, but Chu Kuangren sealed the surrounding space, and the blood flew into Chu Kuangren's body of its own accord.
• Dao Lingtian, Dugu Bupo, Kongchunyuan, and others surrounded Chu Kuangren and demanded the Human Ancestor's Blood.
• Chu Kuangren refused to surrender it, saying it had chosen him and declaring that Heaven's Will was with him.
• Kongchunyuan called for the groups to join forces against Chu Kuangren, while Chu Kuangren mocked the human Monarch Seeds for cooperating with the other races.

Chu Kuangren endured the Monarch Seeds’ combined attack to protect the Human Race forebears’ coffins, then confronted Lu Wuhen for disparaging them. He left the others stunned by his choice as he pressed down on Lu Wuhen with overwhelming Spatial Power.

• Dugu Bupo attacked Chu Kuangren with Sword Twenty-Three, but Chu Kuangren’s matching strike forced him to use Sword Dao Gods and Devils to block it.
• Kongchunyuan, Chi Ying, Heavenly God Cangyu, Dao Lingtian, Gu Chan, and Lu Wuhen joined forces against Chu Kuangren while Bright Moon Wuxia held back.
• Chu Kuangren put Yin Honghua and the others in his personal universe, then used the Domain of Infinity to contain the combined attack and endure its force instead of counterattacking.
• Chu Kuangren emerged unharmed and moved the surrounding coffins out of danger, explaining that he had protected the Human Race forebears from harm.
• Lu Wuhen called Chu Kuangren hypocritical for protecting the dead, and Chu Kuangren appeared before him and struck with immense Spatial Power.

Chu Kuangren overwhelmed the Monarch Seeds who attacked him, killing Lu Wuhen and defeating several powerful opponents with his spatial mastery, Great Dao, and Buddhist sword techniques. Dugu Bupo then unleashed his own Sword Twenty-Four against him.

• Chu Kuangren crushed Lu Wuhen with a spatial palm and burned his body and blood to ashes with Torch Dragon Fire.
• Kongchunyuan and Chi Ying attacked Chu Kuangren, but his spatial barrier stopped their blows, and Torch Dragon Fire charred Chi Ying's claw.
• Dao Lingtian and Kongchunyuan combined their attacks to break Chu Kuangren's barrier, but Chu Kuangren's Three Thousand Great Worlds punch shattered their powers and drove them back.
• Heavenly God Cangyu and Gu Chan attacked together, but Chu Kuangren's Immovable Ming King Sword Seal defeated them and left them vomiting blood.
• Dugu Bupo raised his sword intent and unleashed his own Sword Twenty-Four at Chu Kuangren.

Chu Kuangren survived Dugu Bupo’s Sword Twenty-Four with Vajra Defense, then countered with his own Sword Twenty-Four and forced Dugu Bupo to reveal the Thirty-Six Demonic Swords. The other Monarch Seeds unleashed their trump cards and attacked together, but Chu Kuangren drove them back and activated the Heaven-Devouring Art.

• Chu Kuangren used Vajra Defense to withstand Dugu Bupo’s Sword Twenty-Four without injury.
• Chu Kuangren countered with his own Sword Twenty-Four, forcing Dugu Bupo to summon the Thirty-Six Demonic Swords.
• Dugu Bupo called on the others to reveal their trump cards, and the Monarch Seeds unleashed their strongest techniques.
• Bright Moon Wuxia refused to join the attack, unwilling to risk her reputation by teaming up with foreign races against a human in the Ancestral Mausoleum.
• Dao Lingtian and the Monarch Seeds attacked Chu Kuangren together, but he surged forward with his Great Dao power and forced them back.
• Chu Kuangren unleashed the Heaven-Devouring Art.

Chu Kuangren used the Heaven-Devouring Art and his Domain of Infinity to overpower the Monarch Seeds despite being unable to unleash Monarch-level strength in the Ancestral Land. He killed Dugu Bupo with self-destructing demonic swords, devastated the others, and began beating Gu Chan to death.

• Chu Kuangren absorbed the surrounding spiritual energy, then used spatial techniques and the Immoveable Ming King Sword Seal to shatter Dugu Bupo's sword formation and seize the Thirty-Six Demonic Swords.
• Chu Kuangren made the demonic swords self-destruct to block the Monarch Seeds' attacks and sent three of them after Dugu Bupo, whose escape was restrained by the Domain of Infinity.
• The three swords exploded and killed Dugu Bupo, while further self-destructions killed or wounded many of the other Monarch Seeds.
• Gu Chan confronted Chu Kuangren, who struck him with a punch that cracked his arm and continued punching until Gu Chan's golden body split and blood flowed.

Chu Kuangren defeated Gu Chan and Chi Ying, then overwhelmed the other Monarch Seeds with the Domain of Infinity. After restoring his strength with the Heaven-Devouring Art, he turned his attention to the fleeing Heavenly God Cangyu.

• Gu Chan unleashed Buddha's Wrath Flame Lotus in a desperate attempt to take Chu Kuangren down, but Chu Kuangren split the lotus and killed him with the Immovable Ming King Sword Seal.
• Chu Kuangren blocked Kongchunyuan's attack and focused on Chi Ying, resisting Dao Lingtian's and Heavenly God Cangyu's attacks with his Spatial Barrier.
• Chu Kuangren cut Chi Ying apart with Sword, Twenty-Four, then burned him alive with Torch Dragon Fire.
• Chu Kuangren crushed more Monarch Seeds within the Domain of Infinity, while Kongchunyuan admitted he could not break the spatial domain.
• Chu Kuangren used the Heaven-Devouring Art to absorb the fallen Monarch Seeds' bodies and Great Dao fragments, restoring his strength, and Heavenly God Cangyu fled.

Chu Kuangren killed Heavenly God Cangyu and drove away Kongchunyuan and Dao Lingtian after defeating the invading cultivators. He discovered a bronze altar, then tested Bright Moon Wuxia, whose mysterious powers revealed that a clash between the top-ranked Divine Son and Goddess might be imminent.

• Chu Kuangren trapped Heavenly God Cangyu in the Domain of Infinity and crushed him with spatial power.
• Kongchunyuan escaped using a spatial talisman, and Dao Lingtian fled with his own life-saving method.
• A bronze altar covered in ancient runes appeared, and Chu Kuangren eliminated the remaining outsiders.
• Chu Kuangren questioned Bright Moon Wuxia about the Human Ancestor's Blood and sensed a connection between her and the Sword Ancestor.
• Bright Moon Wuxia blocked Chu Kuangren's attacks and survived his Immovable Ming King Sword Seal by merging with heaven and earth.

Chu Kuangren tested Bright Moon Wuxia’s hidden Sword Dao in a fierce battle within the Ancestral Mausoleum, where she revealed power rivaling his own. He ended the clash before either could fight at full strength, leaving Bright Moon Wuxia’s newly stirred battle intent unsatisfied.

• Chu Kuangren recognized that Bright Moon Wuxia’s Celestial Person Art concealed a powerful Sword Dao and challenged her with Kunwu.
• Chu Kuangren and Bright Moon Wuxia exchanged over a hundred moves, with her Celestial Person Art drawing on the surrounding world to meet his attacks.
• Bright Moon Wuxia unleashed Yin and Yang Shatter Sun and Moon, and Chu Kuangren countered with Sword Twenty-Four, driving them both back and knocking away her veil.
• Bright Moon Wuxia revealed her sword qi, and Chu Kuangren confirmed that the Sword Dao was her true strength.
• Chu Kuangren sheathed Kunwu and stopped the battle to avoid disturbing the resting predecessors, frustrating Bright Moon Wuxia.

Chu Kuangren discovered that the Bronze Sacrificial Altar and Sword Ancestor could let him refine the Immortal Island, and he began the process inside the Ancestral Mausoleum. While the other cultivators explored the island, Xue Huo of the Curse Clan revealed that he had cursed the Human Race and declared himself their greatest terror.

• Chu Kuangren inserted the Sword Ancestor into the altar and learned that refining it would make him the Island Master.
• As Chu Kuangren began refining the altar, the Ancestral Mausoleum transported everyone else outside and then closed.
• A black-robed cultivator watched the displaced cultivators and resolved to claim a prize from the Immortal Island.
• Human cultivators across the island grew sick and weak, and they realized that a curse rather than poison was causing their symptoms.
• Xue Huo appeared before the weakened cultivators, claimed responsibility for the curse, and announced that he would become the Human Race's greatest terror.

Xue Huo used a curse to weaken and age the humans on Immortal Island, while Bright Moon Wuxia tried and failed to locate his hidden true form. Chu Kuangren arrived from the Ancestral Mausoleum and destroyed Xue Huo’s avatar, leaving the curse and its victims’ fate unresolved.

• Bright Moon Wuxia attacked Xue Huo, but his body dispersed into black mist and reformed because he was using an avatar.
• Xue Huo revealed that the Curse Clan had sought the Human Ancestor’s Blood to curse the entire Human Race, then accelerated the curse against the humans on Immortal Island.
• The humans began suffering the Five Decays of the Celestial Person as Bright Moon Wuxia used her powerful spiritual perception to search for Xue Huo’s true form.
• Bright Moon Wuxia could not find Xue Huo, who declared that no human on Immortal Island would survive.
• Chu Kuangren emerged from the Ancestral Mausoleum and sliced through Xue Huo’s avatar with a strand of Sword Qi.
• Xue Huo threatened Chu Kuangren, and Chu Kuangren said Xue Huo would not live to see the future.

Chu Kuangren found Xue Huo’s hidden true form and broke through the cave’s restrictions after Xue Huo’s curses failed to harm him. Xue Huo was left crippled by the backlash, and Chu Kuangren claimed the Curse Heavenly Seal, bringing his collection of the Nine Great Heavenly Seals to three.

• Chu Kuangren used his control of the Immortal Island to locate Xue Huo’s hidden cave, and Xue Huo’s avatar attacked him as he arrived.
• Chu Kuangren repelled Xue Huo’s attacks and purified the Cursed Blood Art with the Human Ancestor’s Blood in his body.
• Xue Huo used the Fate-Breaking Arrow Scripture against Chu Kuangren’s fate chart, but the curse failed and its backlash severely injured Xue Huo.
• Chu Kuangren broke the cave’s restrictions and found Xue Huo suffering in a blood pool.
• Chu Kuangren recognized and seized the Curse Heavenly Seal, giving him three of the Nine Great Heavenly Seals.

Chu Kuangren captured Xue Huo and studied the Curse Heavenly Seal while the humans on Immortal Island remained under a deadly curse. After one day, he identified the curse’s source and used a sword technique to break it on Bright Moon Wuxia, leaving Xue Huo stunned.

• Xue Huo attacked Chu Kuangren to reclaim the Curse Heavenly Seal, but Chu Kuangren easily defeated him and pinned him to the wall with the Curse-Breaking Sword.
• Xue Huo claimed killing him would not end the curse and urged Chu Kuangren to beg him for help, but Chu Kuangren sewed his mouth shut and began comprehending the seal.
• Bright Moon Wuxia destroyed Xue Huo’s avatar outside the cave, worsening his injuries, then entered and watched over Chu Kuangren as he studied.
• The next day, Chu Kuangren realized that Xue Huo had cursed the humans on Immortal Island with the Heaven and Earth Great Curse and the Cursed Blood Art.
• Chu Kuangren used a sword technique containing pure Buddha Light to shatter the curse mark on Bright Moon Wuxia, astonishing Xue Huo.