Chapter Summaries

Chu Kuangren emerged after refining a Ninth-Grade Saint-Rank Treasure Pill and found Saint Cangwen attacking Saint Qingshuang over the Alchemy Grandmaster’s legacy. After Gu Jiang explained what had happened, Chu Kuangren coldly asked who had hurt him.

• Saint Cangwen struck Gu Jiang, leaving him badly injured, and demanded that Saint Qingshuang surrender the Alchemy Grandmaster’s legacy.
• A vast pill cloud appeared over Qingshuang Valley, then multiplied into nine clouds as an unprecedented Ninth-Grade Saint-Rank Treasure Pill was completed.
• Saint Cangwen attacked Saint Qingshuang again, but a purple sword light from the valley blocked his punch and forced him back.
• Chu Kuangren emerged from the valley with a woman, and Grandmaster Li recognized him as the person who had completed the Pill Scroll’s incomplete formulas.
• Gu Jiang told Chu Kuangren that Saint Cangwen had injured him and was trying to seize Saint Qingshuang’s legacy, and Chu Kuangren asked who had hurt him.

Chu Kuangren confronted Saint Cangwen over his attack on Gu Jiang and demanded that he pay for injuring a member of the Mystic Heaven Sect. Saint Cangwen fought Chu Kuangren’s Sword Formation, then severed his own arm to secure permission to leave Qingshuang Valley.

• The crowd learned that the Grandmaster who refined the ninth-grade saint-level Treasure Pill was Chu Kuangren, and he asked Saint Cangwen to answer for Gu Jiang’s injuries.
• Chu Kuangren gave three reasons for intervening: his role in Saint Qingshuang’s inheritance, his debt to her, and Saint Cangwen’s attack on someone from the Mystic Heaven Sect.
• Saint Cangwen tried to leave with Grandmaster Li, but Chu Kuangren demanded that he sever his own arm before going.
• Saint Cangwen attacked Chu Kuangren, who trapped him in a Sword Formation and wounded him with sword qi.
• Unable to escape the formation, Saint Cangwen severed his left arm, and Chu Kuangren let him leave with Grandmaster Li.

Chu Kuangren healed Gu Jiang, revealed the Saint-Level Ninth-Grade Treasure Pills he had refined, and invited Saint Qingshuang to join the Mystic Heaven Sect for protection. Back aboard the Mirage Tower, the Second Ancestor promised Chu Kuangren the sect’s unconditional support, while Chu explained why he had spared Saint Cangwen.

• Chu Kuangren healed Gu Jiang with the Spring Wind Transforming Rain Technique and showed everyone the three Saint-Level Ninth-Grade Treasure Pills he had refined.
• Chu Kuangren invited Saint Qingshuang to join the Mystic Heaven Sect, and she agreed so she could safely tend spirit medicines and study alchemy.
• Chu Kuangren, Lan Yu, Gu Jiang, Saint Qingshuang, and one of her disciples returned to the Mirage Tower, where the Second Ancestor welcomed Saint Qingshuang into the sect.
• The Second Ancestor told Chu Kuangren that the Mystic Heaven Sect would support his decisions unconditionally.
• Chu Kuangren explained that he had spared Saint Cangwen to deter the Overlord Body Sacred Clan without provoking the factions into uniting against the Mystic Heaven Sect.

Chu Kuangren returned to the Mystic Heaven Sect after restoring Murong Xuan’s Spirit Ruins with a Sage Pill and bringing Saint Qingshuang into the sect. He urged the elders to curb the sect’s growing ambition and tighten discipline, while Venerable Xuanqi unexpectedly sneezed in his cottage.

• Chu Kuangren gave Murong Xuan the Spirit-Replenishing Pill, and Murong Xuan later recovered as a burst of Sword Qi rose from the Mirage Tower.
• Chu Kuangren returned to the Mystic Heaven Sect aboard the Mirage Tower, where the elders mistook it for an enemy before he stored it inside his Heaven and Earth Ring.
• The Divine Phoenix, Lil Red, welcomed Chu Kuangren, and Chu Kuangren introduced Saint Qingshuang as a new member of the sect.
• Chu Kuangren heard the elders discuss the sect’s rising prestige and warned them against rash expansion, ordering stricter discipline for disciples and subordinate forces.
• Venerable Xuanqi sneezed in his cottage and wondered whether a Quasi-Saint could catch a cold.

Chu Kuangren established the Gravity Trial Ground at the Mystic Heaven Sect, giving its disciples a new way to train. The disciples’ cultivation advanced rapidly over the following year as the sect flourished under his leadership.

• Chu Kuangren drew the Gravity Domain formation and had Elder Ruyan build a palace to house it.
• Chu Kuangren demonstrated the formation’s five difficulty levels and named the palace the Gravity Trial Ground, while Elder Ruyan arranged its promotion.
• Junyi and Nangong Huang chose hell difficulty, were pinned down for two hours, and left leaning on the wall.
• Murong Xuan chose nightmare difficulty and was immediately slammed to the ground, realizing Nangong Huang had misled him.
• The sect’s disciples trained in the Gravity Trial Ground alongside the Sword Tower, and the Mystic Heaven Sect grew stronger over the next year.

Chu Kuangren decided to leave the Mystic Heaven Sect and travel to the Ancient Battlefield to gain experience, appointing Elder Ruyan to manage the sect in his absence. The ancestors agreed he needed no Dao Protector and looked forward to seeing what trouble he would stir up.

• Lan Yu woke Chu Kuangren and reminded him about the monthly meeting at Longevity Hall, where he gave Saint Qingshuang answers to her alchemy questions and spirit medicine seeds.
• At the meeting, Elder Ruyan reported that the Heavenly Feather Sect had sought help against baleful spirits near the Ancient Battlefield.
• Chu Kuangren recalled that the Ancient Battlefield was where the Saint War had taken place and announced that he would go there to gain experience.
• Chu Kuangren put Elder Ruyan in charge of the Mystic Heaven Sect while he was away, then told Lan Yu to prepare for their journey.
• The Second Ancestor and Third Ancestor decided not to send a Dao Protector, and Venerable Xuanqi joked that Chu Kuangren would stir up trouble again.

After staying inside the Mystic Heaven Sect for a year, Chu Kuangren walked out with Lan Yu and announced he wanted to go for a stroll. News of his return to the world spread across the Azure Dragon Domain, alarming sects, temples, the Qingyun Dynasty, and the demonic factions.

• Chu Kuangren appeared at the teahouses outside the Mystic Heaven Sect with Lan Yu, startling the spies who had watched the sect for a year.
• Chu Kuangren ordered the spies to withdraw, then said he was leaving the sect to go for a stroll.
• The spies notified their Daoist Traditions that Chu Kuangren had entered the world, and the news reached the Taixu Temple, Thunderclap Temple, and Qingyun Dynasty.
• The master of Taixu Temple and Wuchenzi reacted with unease, while the Thunderclap Temple abbot snapped his prayer beads and the Qingyun Ruler welcomed Chu Kuangren as his son-in-law.
• At a meeting of the Three Demonic Sects, the Corpse Refining Sect's disciples warned that Chu Kuangren had emerged, prompting the demonic experts to abandon their territory negotiations and order their followers to hide.

Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu traveled to Tuyang City on the outskirts of the Ancient Battlefield, where Chu Kuangren reunited with Qian Fugui and learned about a dispute between two adventuring teams. The chapter left Chu Kuangren deciding whether to intervene because the Heavenly Feather Team belonged to a subordinate force of the Mystic Heaven Sect.

• Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu reached the Ancient Battlefield and headed for Tuyang City to find lodging and information.
• Chu Kuangren recognized Qian Fugui at a restaurant, and Qian Fugui admitted he had come to Tuyang City hoping to meet him.
• Qian Fugui explained that he wanted to be friends with Chu Kuangren, and Chu Kuangren accepted his explanation before preparing to leave.
• Chu Kuangren and Qian Fugui noticed the Heavenly Feather Team and the Baleful Tiger Team preparing to fight over a Supreme Artifact.
• Qian Fugui told Chu Kuangren that the Heavenly Feather Team's leader was the Heavenly Feather Sect's Daoist Seed and that the sect was subordinate to the Mystic Heaven Sect.

Chu Kuangren secretly helped Leng Changkong defeat Wang Hu, then agreed to explore the Ancient Battlefield with the Heavenly Feather Team. The next day, he drew and mastered the Buddhist Emperor Technique Tathagata Rebirth Mantra before setting out to meet Leng Changkong.

• Wang Hu attacked Leng Changkong and the Heavenly Feather Team over a Supreme Artifact, but Chu Kuangren secretly empowered Leng Changkong’s sword strike and left Wang Hu badly wounded.
• Leng Changkong thanked the hidden expert, and Chu Kuangren invited him and his teammates to a private room, where he revealed his connection to the Mystic Heaven Sect.
• Chu Kuangren learned that Leng Changkong’s Dao Protector had died saving him from a high-level baleful spirit.
• Leng Changkong invited Chu Kuangren to join the Heavenly Feather Team’s planned trip into the Ancient Battlefield, and Chu Kuangren accepted.
• Chu Kuangren drew and mastered the Tathagata Rebirth Mantra, a Buddhist Emperor Technique.
• Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu went to Tuyang City’s gate to meet Leng Changkong and the others.

Chu Kuangren used his treasure-seeking ability to help Leng Changkong’s group find valuable artifacts in the Ancient Battlefield. As they rested after defeating a Baleful Spirit, a young man told them the legend of the White-Robed General, and the sky suddenly darkened.

• Leng Changkong led Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu into the Ancient Battlefield.
• Chu Kuangren found an iron armor and guided the group to several Supreme Artifacts, agreeing to divide the gains with Leng Changkong after their trip.
• A Baleful Spirit approached the group, and one of Leng Changkong’s companions quickly destroyed it.
• A young man told the group that the White-Robed General was one of the cultivation world’s Seven Great Strange Tales, describing conflicting stories about the figure’s origin.
• The sky suddenly darkened as the group listened to the legend.

After a sandstorm drove Chu Kuangren, Lan Yu, and Leng Changkong’s team into the Ancient Battlefield’s inner ring, Lan Yu killed a high-level baleful spirit with one punch. Chu Kuangren planned to explore deeper, and Leng Changkong chose to lead his team back rather than risk holding him back.

• Leng Changkong led everyone fleeing a deadly sandstorm, and they realized afterward that it had swept them into the inner ring.
• A high-level baleful spirit attacked the group, and Lan Yu destroyed it with one punch.
• Chu Kuangren sensed that the inner ring held many treasures, while Leng Changkong explained its dangers and the ten strongest baleful spirits.
• Chu Kuangren said he intended to explore the inner ring and possibly venture into the core region.
• Leng Changkong decided his team would leave Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu and return to safety.

Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu explored the Ancient Battlefield, where they drove off a would-be robber before the Cloudsoar Battle Team decided to prioritize its search for Lou Kingdom Ancient City. The team followed Shang Han, who believed an ancient sword would lead them to the city and its legendary treasure.

• Chu Kuangren gave Leng Changkong a strand of Sword Qi in his sword before he and Lan Yu continued into the Ancient Battlefield.
• Chu Kuangren collected a damaged Sage Artifact from a skeleton, and Lan Yu shattered an attack launched by a scar-faced man trying to rob them.
• The scar-faced man returned to the Cloudsoar Battle Team and urged Fourth Brother to help him seize the artifact, but warned that Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu were formidable.
• Li Xiaoyun rejected the robbery plan and told the team to continue its commission for Shang Han.
• Shang Han used a Lou Clan Ancient Sword to confirm that Lou Kingdom Ancient City lay ahead, while privately planning to claim its treasure for himself and challenge Chu Kuangren.

Shang Han vowed to defeat Chu Kuangren, while Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu discovered the vanished Lou City and looted its royal treasury. The chapter left them searching the palace for a Quasi-Emperor Weapon.

• Shang Han remembered his past defeats by Chu Kuangren and vowed to beat him after obtaining something in the Lou Kingdom.
• Chu Kuangren followed his Treasure-Seeking Art with Lan Yu and discovered Lou City hidden among the sand dunes.
• Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu entered the ruined city and found the Lou Kingdom's royal treasury.
• Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu spent over an hour collecting the treasury's Sage Artifacts, Supreme Artifacts, and other treasures.
• Chu Kuangren carved his name into a treasury pillar, then told Lan Yu that a Quasi-Emperor Weapon lay elsewhere in the palace.

Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu learned that An Kingdom’s million Baleful Spirits had destroyed both kingdoms and remained sealed beneath Lou Kingdom’s palace, so they left the Heaven-Suppressing Halberd untouched. Shang Han and the Cloudsoar Battle Team then found the ancient city, but Baleful Spirits attacked as Shang Han opened its barrier.

• Lou Kingdom’s ruler’s recording revealed that An Kingdom had sacrificed a million soldiers to create Baleful Spirits, and that he had sealed them beneath the palace using the Heaven-Suppressing Halberd and a Spirit-Locking Grand Formation.
• Chu Kuangren recognized that the million Baleful Spirits could endanger nearby people, so he and Lan Yu left the halberd and departed with Lou Kingdom’s treasure.
• Shang Han used the Lou Clan Ancient Sword to locate Lou Kingdom’s hidden ancient city and began opening its barrier.
• Blade Baleful Intent and a horde of Baleful Spirits attacked Shang Han’s group, and Li Xiaoyun and the Cloudsoar Battle Team fought to hold them off.
• Shang Han opened a crack in the barrier, revealing Lou Kingdom’s ancient city as the battle continued.

After enduring heavy losses to reach Lou City, Li Xiaoyun and the Cloudsoar Battle Team discovered Chu Kuangren had already taken the Lou Kingdom’s treasures. They found the Heaven-Suppressing Halberd and learned it was sealing a million Baleful Spirits, but Shang Han seized it anyway, causing the palace and city to shake as the seal began to break.

• Shang Han and the others entered Lou City after escaping the Baleful Spirits, then counted their heavy casualties.
• Li Xiaoyun and the team searched the palace treasury but found it empty, except for Chu Kuangren’s inscription and its terrifying Sword Dao Rhythm.
• Shang Han erupted in rage upon learning Chu Kuangren had beaten him to the Lou Kingdom’s treasure.
• The team found the Lou Kingdom’s ruler and the Heaven-Suppressing Halberd in the main hall, and a recording warned that a million Baleful Spirits were sealed beneath the palace.
• Shang Han ignored the warning and pulled the Heaven-Suppressing Halberd free, causing the palace and Lou City to quake as the golden Runes shattered.
• Li Xiaoyun and the others fled the palace as the seal began to break.

Shang Han took the Heaven-Suppressing Halberd and escaped as the palace collapsed, unleashing an ancient baleful spirit army that surged toward Tuyang City. As Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu reached the Ancient Battlefield’s core region, Chu Kuangren glimpsed the White-Robed General and then recognized the army rising behind them.

• Shang Han seized the Heaven-Suppressing Halberd and fled the collapsing palace while Li Xiaoyun and the others escaped Loucheng.
• The baleful spirit army burst from beneath the palace, killed members of Li Xiaoyun’s team, and headed toward Tuyang City.
• Cultivators fled Tuyang City, while Qian Fugui prepared to leave his restaurant and the Heavenly Feather Sect rallied to resist the army.
• Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu reached the core region, where Chu Kuangren briefly saw the White-Robed General.
• Chu Kuangren spotted the baleful spirit army rising from Loucheng and recognized it as the An Kingdom’s army.

Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu reached Lou Kingdom Ancient City after the Baleful Spirits had left, where the Cloudsoar Battle Team attacked them. After Chu Kuangren overwhelmed the team and learned Shang Han had released the spirits, he headed for Tuyang City.

• Li Xiaoyun and the survivors escaped the Baleful Spirits and blamed Shang Han for breaking the seal with a quasi-Emperor Weapon.
• The scar-faced man attacked Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu, but Chu Kuangren killed him with one strike.
• Chu Kuangren unleashed his Sword Dao Rhythm, pinning the Cloudsoar Battle Team down, and Li Xiaoyun recognized him.
• Li Xiaoyun told Chu Kuangren that Shang Han had released the Baleful Spirits while searching for Lou Kingdom Ancient City.
• Lan Yu reminded Chu Kuangren that Shang Han had lost to him at the Qingyun Dynasty's royal palace four years earlier.
• Chu Kuangren left with Lan Yu for Tuyang City, delaying their exploration of the Core Region.

The Heavenly Feather Sect and Buddhist Disciple Wuye prepared to defend Tuyang City from a devastating army of Baleful Spirits. Wuye found the Baleful Spirits Commander with his Heavenly Eye, and the Heavenly Feather Sect Master launched an arrow at it.

• People fled Tuyang City as the Baleful Spirits army swept toward it, while the Heavenly Feather Sect headed there to protect the millions living beyond the city.
• Leng Changkong and the Heavenly Feather Team refused to abandon the fight and joined the sect cultivators at the city walls.
• Wuye arrived to help defend Tuyang City, and the defenders agreed that killing the army's commander might break its formation.
• Wuye used the Heavenly Eye to locate a black-armored Baleful Spirits Commander surrounded by other spirits.
• The Heavenly Feather Sect Master drew his golden bow and fired an arrow toward the commander.

Leng Changkong used the strand of Sword Qi Chu Kuangren had left in his sword to destroy the baleful spirit commander and scatter its army. After learning that the mysterious fellow Daoist was Chu Kuangren, the defenders of Tuyang City were left stunned.

• The baleful spirit commander caught and crushed the Heavenly Feather Sect Master's arrow, while other attacks failed to break through the spirits protecting it.
• Leng Changkong activated the Sword Qi Chu Kuangren had placed in his sword, unleashing a purple strike that destroyed the commander and shattered countless baleful spirits.
• The sword broke apart after releasing the Sword Qi, and Leng Changkong told the Heavenly Feather Sect Master that a fellow Daoist surnamed Chu had given it to him.
• Wu Ye asked whether a silver-haired woman surnamed Lan had accompanied Chu, and Leng Changkong confirmed it.
• Wu Ye and the Heavenly Feather Sect Master identified the mysterious fellow Daoist as Chu Kuangren, shocking Leng Changkong and the others.

The Heavenly Feather Sect and returning cultivators fought to defend Tuyang City from a million Baleful Spirits, suffering heavy casualties. Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu arrived, and Chu Kuangren’s single slash destroyed tens of thousands of spirits, turning the desperate battle around.

• The Heavenly Feather Sect’s leader learned Chu Kuangren was exploring the Ancient Battlefield and feared he could not reach Tuyang City in time.
• The Heavenly Feather Sect and Wu Ye battled the million Baleful Spirits while cultivators inspired by their resolve returned to fight, but the defenders suffered mounting losses.
• As Leng Changkong and the Heavenly Feather Team faced defeat, Chu Kuangren’s sword landed and destroyed the spirits around them.
• Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu arrived and began killing the Baleful Spirits with their Sword Dao and Light Daoist Rhyme.
• Chu Kuangren swung Kunwu once and annihilated tens of thousands of Baleful Spirits, stunning the defenders.