Chapter Summaries

Chu Kuangren wounded the Lord of the Void with Sword Twenty-Five, forcing the Void origin being to stake his life on a devastating attack. As the Lord unleashed Void Calamity, Chu Kuangren gathered the sword intent of Sword Cultivators past and present to wield Sword Twenty-Six.

• Chu Kuangren used Sword Twenty-Five to tear through the Lord of the Void's Void Tribulation and send him flying, severely injured.
• The Lord of the Void erupted with rage, activated secret arts, and vowed to kill Chu Kuangren even at the cost of his future strength.
• Chu Kuangren asked Bright Moon Wuxia to sustain him, and she burned hundreds of millions of years of her lifespan to pour power into the Human Ancestor's Sword.
• The Lord of the Void launched Void Calamity, a vast black vortex that devoured everything in its path and threatened everyone watching.
• Chu Kuangren drew sword intent from Great Dao Realm Sword Cultivators across Hongmeng and from ancient Sword Cultivators recorded in the Great Dao of the Sword.
• Chu Kuangren declared he would use Sword Twenty-Six against the Lord of the Void.

Chu Kuangren unleashed Sword Twenty-Six and struck the Lord of the Void with enough force to tear him from his union with the Great Dao and seemingly destroy him. The Lord survived by hiding in the void and tried to escape, but his spatial technique failed, leaving him stranded before Chu Kuangren and the others.

• Chu Kuangren used Sword Twenty-Six, channeling the wills of countless Sword Cultivators, to break through the Lord of the Void’s Spatial Barriers and gravely wound him.
• The Lord of the Void’s body exploded, but Xiao Ai warned Chu Kuangren that his life aura had not vanished.
• Chu Kuangren used the Domain of Infinity to find the Lord of the Void hiding in the void and forced him back into view.
• The wounded Lord of the Void declared that he could escape and vowed to take revenge on Chu Kuangren and the Human Race.
• King Lan and the others attacked as the Lord of the Void tried to leave, but his pillar of light disappeared without taking him with it.

Chu Kuangren and the Primordial Torch Dragon trapped and killed the Lord of the Void, though the Dragon vanished after crossing from the past. Yue Shanling joined the Pangu Sect, and the Earth Monarch sensed that the sect’s fortune had strengthened.

• The Primordial Torch Dragon sealed the Lord of the Void with time, allowing Chu Kuangren to kill him with the Human Ancestor's Sword and shatter his Origin Great Dao.
• Bright Moon Wuxia collapsed after severing her connection to the sword, having spent over ten billion years of her lifespan to help slay the Lord of the Void.
• The Primordial Torch Dragon dissipated as the heavens rejected him, leaving the unfinished work and future in Chu Kuangren and the Demon King’s hands.
• The Demon King departed for the Demon Territory and invited Chu Kuangren to visit if he wanted to learn what would happen in the future.
• Chu Kuangren offered Yue Shanling Primordial Torch Dragon blood for pill refining if he joined the Pangu Sect, and Yue Shanling accepted.
• The Earth Monarch sensed that Yue Shanling’s fortune had grown after he joined the Pangu Sect.

After Chu Kuangren killed the Lord of the Void, he shared some Dragon Blood with Bright Moon Wuxia, who returned to the Celestial Person Sacred Land with her hair turned white. The Heavenly Sage demanded that she reveal how to cultivate the Human Ancestor’s Unfettered Transformation Technique, but she refused and was sentenced to a million years in the Land of Five Decays.

• Chu Kuangren gave Bright Moon Wuxia a portion of the Dragon Blood to compensate her for helping kill the Lord of the Void.
• Chu Kuangren’s prestige among the Human Race rose, and his fortune increased as the Pangu Sect continued to prosper.
• Bright Moon Wuxia returned to the Celestial Person Sacred Land, where disciples asked about her white hair and Chu Kuangren’s victory over the Lord of the Void.
• The Celestial Person Holy Lord confronted Bright Moon Wuxia for defying the Heavenly Sage’s order to stay out of Chu Kuangren’s affairs.
• The Heavenly Sage demanded that Bright Moon Wuxia explain how to cultivate the Unfettered Transformation Technique, but she said ordinary people could not learn it.
• The Heavenly Sage sentenced Bright Moon Wuxia to a million years of secluded reflection in the Land of Five Decays, and she left without protest.

Hun Meier persuaded the Soul Clan Chief to break off her engagement to the Son of the Void and consider forming an alliance with Chu Kuangren instead. The Son of the Void inherited the Lord of the Void’s legacy and vowed to grow stronger, while Chu Kuangren began investigating whether Kunwu’s sword spirit could be merged with the Human Ancestor’s Sword.

• Hun Meier showed the Soul Clan Chief recordings of Chu Kuangren’s overwhelming victories and explained his alliances and influence, convincing him that opposing Chu Kuangren would be dangerous.
• Hun Meier and the Soul Clan Chief went to the Void Clan and broke off her engagement, and the weakened clan accepted the humiliation rather than risk war.
• The Son of the Void learned of the broken engagement, cursed Hun Meier and Chu Kuangren, then discovered the Lord of the Void’s cultivation techniques and Origin Fragment inside him.
• The Son of the Void entered seclusion, and the Void Clan Chief pledged the clan’s resources to help him become the next Lord of the Void.
• At Pangu Sect, Chu Kuangren refined the Human Ancestor’s Sword and considered giving it a new sword spirit rather than asking Bright Moon Wuxia to return to it.
• Chu Kuangren proposed merging Kunwu’s sword spirit with the Human Ancestor’s Sword, and Xiao Ai began analyzing the chances of success.

Chu Kuangren gave Dragon Blood and Void Origin fragments to his allies, learned Yue Shanling had created a lifespan-extending Torch Dragon Blood Pill, and refined an Ancient Buddha Śarīra while traveling. He arrived in the Demon Territory, where the Succubus Grand Duke escorted him to meet the waiting Demon King.

• Chu Kuangren gave Yin Honghua, Ancestral Dragon Wasteland, and Yangmei Dragon Blood and Void Origin fragments to strengthen their powers.
• Yue Shanling announced that he had successfully developed the Torch Dragon Blood Pill, which could extend a person’s lifespan by an estimated ten billion years; Chu Kuangren took one for Bright Moon Wuxia.
• Chu Kuangren decided to visit the Celestial Person Sacred Land later to ask Bright Moon Wuxia how to strengthen the Kunwu Sword Spirit, but first headed to the Demon Territory to meet the Demon King.
• Chu Kuangren drew and refined an Ancient Buddha Śarīra, gaining Buddhist power he planned to give to Shi Ying.
• A Bull Demon tried to attack Chu Kuangren in the Demon Royal Capital, but the Succubus Grand Duke blasted him away and escorted Chu Kuangren to the Demon King.

Chu Kuangren learned from the Demon King that the Great World of Hongmeng had been shattered in the ancient Heavenly God War, which would soon resume in the final epoch. The world-destroying faction held the advantage, and the Divine Emperor, sealed by the Human Ancestor, remained alive.

• The Demon King showed Chu Kuangren memories of the Heavenly God War and its fearsome combatants, including the Divine Emperor and the Human Ancestor.
• The Demon King explained that the Primordial Gods arose in Hongmeng’s age of origin, later creating races whose growth and competition for finite resources led to war.
• The Demon King revealed her true name was Egu and that she was a Great Dao being whose power rivaled the Primordials.
• The Demon King said the ancient war had never truly ended and that the final epoch would bring the Primordials’ awakening and a new war across the heavens.
• Chu Kuangren identified the Demon King, the Primordial Torch Dragon, and the Human Ancestor as protectors of the heavens, opposed by the world-destroying faction.
• The Demon King said the world-destroying faction was stronger because the Human Ancestor had sacrificed himself to seal the still-living Divine Emperor, leaving Chu Kuangren to anticipate a difficult battle.

Chu Kuangren learned more about the coming War of the Gods and discussed the Demon King's quest for an Ultimate Dao Divine Weapon. After returning the Darkness King Token, he left the Demon Territory with a new deal pending with the Darkness Devil Lord.

• Chu Kuangren vowed to prepare for the War of the Gods, and the Demon King explained why the gods’ own creations were unlikely to join the fight against them.
• The Succubus Grand Duke announced the Darkness Devil Lord’s arrival, and he revealed that the Demon King’s sought-after weapon was likely in the Heavenly Buddha Pure Land.
• The Demon King asked Chu Kuangren to seek the weapon from the Human Race’s holy land before she resorted to taking it by force.
• Chu Kuangren refused the Demon Liquor after Xiao Ai told him it was brewed from succubi’s bodily fluids, and he drank his own wine instead.
• Before Chu Kuangren left, the Darkness Devil Lord asked about the Goddess of Light, received the Darkness King Token, and arranged a discounted future deal with him.

Chu Kuangren learned that Bright Moon Wuxia had been imprisoned in the Land of Five Decays for helping him fight the Lord of the Void. Furious at the Celestial Person Sacred Land’s punishment of a hero of the Human Race, he revealed himself and unleashed his power inside the sacred land.

• Chu Kuangren arrived at the Celestial Person Sacred Land and asked to see Bright Moon Wuxia, but its disciples said she was unavailable.
• A disciple nearly revealed that Bright Moon Wuxia had been locked away, and Chu Kuangren left without pressing the matter.
• Chu Kuangren disguised himself with the Unfettered Transformation Technique and secretly entered the sacred land.
• Chu Kuangren heard that Bright Moon Wuxia was enduring repeated cycles of the Five Decays in the Land of Five Decays as punishment for aiding him.
• Chu Kuangren dropped his disguise and unleashed his might, shaking the Celestial Person Sacred Land and alarming its Monarchs.

Chu Kuangren stormed the Celestial Person Sacred Land to free Bright Moon Wuxia and defeated its Monarchs, forcing Heavenly Sage to appear. As their battle began, Chu Kuangren combined several powerful techniques against Heavenly Sage’s Ultimate Dao pressure.

• Chu Kuangren demanded Bright Moon Wuxia’s release, but the Celestial Person Holy Lord refused and claimed the sacred land’s internal affairs were beyond the Supreme Court’s authority.
• Chu Kuangren attacked the Celestial Person Holy Lord and defeated him with one sword strike, then overpowered an ancient first-echelon Monarch and shattered his domain with Sword Twenty-Five.
• The Celestial Person Sacred Land’s Monarchs attacked together, but Chu Kuangren summoned multiple dharma forms and battered them into defeat.
• Heavenly Sage emerged and pressed Chu Kuangren with his Ultimate Dao aura, but Chu Kuangren refused to leave without Bright Moon Wuxia.
• Heavenly Sage destroyed Chu Kuangren’s dharma forms with a Taiji Diagram, and Chu Kuangren responded by activating the Celestial Person Art, Heaven-Devouring Art, Nine Hundred and Eighty-One Formation, and Myriad Laws Indestructible Body.

Chu Kuangren confronted Heavenly Sage at the Celestial Person Sacred Land, demanding Bright Moon Wuxia’s release and battling the Monarch with techniques copied through the Unfettered Transformation Technique. Empowered by a Śarīra, Chu Kuangren shattered Heavenly Sage’s domain, while Bright Moon Wuxia remained imprisoned in the Land of Five Decays, unaware that Chu Kuangren had come for her.

• Chu Kuangren declared that he would take Bright Moon Wuxia away and challenged anyone at the Celestial Person Sacred Land to stop him.
• In the Land of Five Decays, Bright Moon Wuxia sensed Chu Kuangren’s furious aura but could not understand why he had come.
• Chu Kuangren and Heavenly Sage exchanged attacks, and Chu Kuangren copied Heavenly Sage’s Celestial Person Drives Away the Great Sun after seeing it once.
• Heavenly Sage used Celestial Person Shatters the Stars and Moon to trap Chu Kuangren in his domain and rain down a meteor shower.
• Chu Kuangren used the Buddha Emperor’s Dragon-Elephant Great Strength, empowered by his Śarīra, to break the meteors and crack Heavenly Sage’s domain.

Chu Kuangren used an incomplete Sword Twenty-Six to cleave open the Land of Five Decays and rescue Bright Moon Wuxia. Bright Moon Wuxia realized she was beginning to fall for him, while Heavenly Sage arrived enraged and vowed to make him pay.

• Chu Kuangren summoned the Human Ancestor's Sword and unleashed an incomplete Sword Twenty-Six, frightening Heavenly Sage into dodging the strike.
• The sword strike missed Heavenly Sage but tore through the Land of Five Decays, where Bright Moon Wuxia was imprisoned.
• Chu Kuangren entered the shattered Land of Five Decays and told Bright Moon Wuxia he had come to take her away.
• Bright Moon Wuxia asked whether Chu Kuangren had attacked the Celestial Person Sacred Land for her, and he said he had come because she was his comrade-in-arms.
• Bright Moon Wuxia admitted she seemed to be falling for Chu Kuangren as Heavenly Sage arrived and threatened him.

After Chu Kuangren rescued Bright Moon Wuxia from the Land of Five Decays, she left the Celestial Person Sacred Land and joined the Pangu Sect. She then explained a dangerous way to rapidly strengthen Kunwu’s Sword Spirit so it could merge with the Human Ancestor’s Sword.

• Bright Moon Wuxia rejected Heavenly Sage’s order to stand down and asked to join Chu Kuangren’s Pangu Sect.
• Heavenly Sage did not dare stop Chu Kuangren and Bright Moon Wuxia from leaving because Chu held the complete Human Ancestor’s Sword.
• Bright Moon Wuxia bid farewell to the Celestial Person Sacred Land’s disciples, while the Celestial Person Holy Lord regretted driving her away.
• Chu Kuangren gave Bright Moon Wuxia a Torch Dragon Blood Pill to replenish her lost lifespan, and she teased him about pledging herself to him.
• Chu Kuangren asked Bright Moon Wuxia how to strengthen Kunwu’s Sword Spirit so it could merge with the Human Ancestor’s Sword.
• Bright Moon Wuxia proposed tempering Kunwu’s Sword Spirit in the Sword Dao Eye within the Great Dao of the Sword, warning that its Sword Intent could tear the spirit apart.

Chu Kuangren returned to the Pangu Sect with Bright Moon Wuxia and found the Soul Clan Chief and Hun Meier seeking a marriage alliance with him. He firmly rejected Hun Meier, and the Soul Clan Chief began arguing that he could take another wife before Chu ordered him to be silent.

• Chu Kuangren and Bright Moon Wuxia returned to the Pangu Sect as rumors spread that Hun Meier had broken her engagement because she admired Chu Kuangren.
• Chu Hong told Chu Kuangren that Gu Linglong wanted to see him, while Lan Yu assured Bright Moon Wuxia that Chu Kuangren and Gu Linglong shared a deep bond.
• Hun Meier asked Gu Linglong about Chu Kuangren's preferences and presented fine wine and treasured swords on behalf of the Soul Clan.
• Chu Kuangren entered the main hall and learned that the Soul Clan Chief had come to propose a marriage alliance between Hun Meier and Chu Kuangren.
• Chu Kuangren refused the proposal because he already had a wife, but the Soul Clan Chief argued that a man could have multiple wives until Chu ordered him to be silent.

Chu Kuangren rejected the Soul Clan Chief’s marriage proposal and questioned whether the Soul Clan could be trusted, while affirming his devotion to Gu Linglong. Hun Meier chose to remain at the Pangu Sect to help secure an alliance, and the chapter ended with her discovering Chu Kuangren and Gu Linglong together behind the great hall’s restrictions.

• Chu Kuangren rebuked the Soul Clan Chief for suggesting he take another wife and declared that he would have only Gu Linglong.
• The Soul Clan Chief apologized, but Chu Kuangren questioned the Soul Clan’s trustworthiness because it had broken its alliance with the Void Clan.
• Hun Meier offered to join or stay at the Pangu Sect, and Chu Kuangren welcomed her as the Soul Clan Chief agreed to discuss cooperation.
• Hun Meier told her father she believed tying the Soul Clan to Chu Kuangren was the right choice, then remained at the Pangu Sect as the Soul Clan Chief departed.
• Chu Kuangren reassured Gu Linglong that his devotion was sincere, and the two went into the great hall together.
• Hun Meier returned to the hall, found Chu Kuangren’s restrictions blocking entry, heard sounds from inside, and ran away blushing.

Chu Kuangren entered the Eye of the Sword Dao to help Kunwu grow stronger, then traveled to the Heavenly Buddha Pure Land to retrieve the Demon King's weapon. There, he found the Pagoda had collapsed and rescued Guanyin from the escaped villain Butcher Li.

• Chu Kuangren and Bright Moon Wuxia found the Eye of the Sword Dao and sent Kunwu into its vortex to be tempered by the Sword Dao's origin.
• Bright Moon Wuxia lent Kunwu a strand of sword intent to protect it, and Chu Kuangren returned to prepare for his visit to the Heavenly Buddha Pure Land.
• Chu Kuangren arrived in the Pure Land and learned that the Pagoda had collapsed, freeing the Four Fiends and other imprisoned villains.
• Butcher Li attacked a temple and slaughtered Buddhist followers, while Guanyin tried to stop him with water from her Mutton-Fat White Jade Bottle.
• Chu Kuangren killed Butcher Li with a strand of sword qi and greeted Guanyin.

Chu Kuangren accompanied Guanyin through the Heavenly Buddha Pure Land, where escaped Stupa Tower villains were wreaking havoc. After discovering a blood-colored statue linked to Papiyas, he used Bodhi Samadhi to make a villain repent, and continued toward the Pure Land with his request still unresolved.

• Guanyin thanked Chu Kuangren for saving her, and he asked her to guide him into the Heavenly Buddha Pure Land.
• Guanyin described the escaped villains’ attacks and explained that the Pure Land’s cultivators still tried to capture and redeem them.
• Chu Kuangren and Guanyin stopped a villain who was slaughtering monks and absorbing their blood into a statue.
• Chu Kuangren recognized the statue as an image of Papiyas and used Soul-Searching Grand Art to learn that Papiyas had grown much stronger.
• Chu Kuangren used Bodhi Samadhi on the villain, who repented after seeing the people he had killed.
• Guanyin wondered how Chu Kuangren had transformed the villain, and Chu Kuangren offered to teach her Bodhi Samadhi.

Guanyin overcame a moment of doubt and continued with Chu Kuangren toward Heavenly Buddha Vulture Peak, where Blood Pagoda and the escaped villains had launched an attack. As the injured Buddha Emperor fought Blood Pagoda by drawing on the Bodhi Sacred Qi, a young novice monk prepared to release the Power of the Desire Buddha beneath the sacred tree.

• A monk killed the repentant villain after Chu Kuangren and Guanyin left, and Guanyin reaffirmed her resolve to save all living beings.
• Chu Kuangren and Guanyin sensed the killing intent surrounding Heavenly Buddha Vulture Peak and found Blood Pagoda, the other Four Fiends, and numerous escaped villains attacking it.
• The Buddha Emperor arrived to defend Vulture Peak and confronted Blood Pagoda, who accused him of imprisonment and ordered the villains to attack.
• Blood Pagoda and the injured Buddha Emperor clashed, and the Buddha Emperor drew Bodhi Sacred Qi from the great bodhi tree to strengthen himself.
• A young novice monk approached the bodhi tree and revealed that he planned to release the Power of the Desire Buddha beneath it.

Chu Kuangren arrived at Heavenly Buddha Vulture Peak and turned the battle against the evildoers, overpowering Blood Pagoda and purifying many attackers. He killed Wood Daoist with a single palm strike as Blood Pagoda and the remaining Three Fiends faced him.

• The Buddha Emperor prepared to risk his life to defeat Blood Pagoda while evildoers ravaged Heavenly Buddha Vulture Peak.
• Chu Kuangren appeared and offered the evildoers a choice between leaving the Pure Land and atoning for their sins.
• Blood Pagoda attacked Chu Kuangren, who split his sea of blood with Sword Twenty-Five and struck him down.
• Chu Kuangren released golden lotus petals that calmed the evildoers and made them repent.
• The Three Fiends urged Blood Pagoda to retreat, but Chu Kuangren declared they had no chance left and killed Wood Daoist with a palm strike.

Chu Kuangren used Blood Pagoda’s own technique to overwhelm the Four Fiends, while Papiyas awakened the power of Desire Buddha beneath the Bodhi Sacred Tree and revealed the truth of Buddhism’s origins. The chapter ended with Papiyas exposing Buddha’s past to the shocked cultivators of the Heavenly Buddha Pure Land.

• Chu Kuangren trapped Blood Pagoda, the Red-Clothed Woman, and Minotaur Venerable in his Domain of Infinity and attacked them with the Sea of Blood Dark Nether Art.
• The Red-Clothed Woman was dragged into the sea of blood and devoured by rakshasas, while Blood Pagoda and Minotaur Venerable struggled to resist.
• Evil qi burst from beneath the Bodhi Sacred Tree, and the Buddha Emperor rushed to confront the young novice monk absorbing it.
• The novice monk knocked the wounded Buddha Emperor away, transformed into Papiyas, and unleashed Desire Buddha’s power across the Heavenly Buddha Pure Land.
• Papiyas showed the Buddhist cultivators how Buddha had cast off his desires, creating Desire Buddha, then suppressed him beneath the Bodhi Sacred Tree and established Buddhism to guard it.