Chapter Summaries

Beiming Xiu emerged from Guixu to confront Chu Kuangren, wielding the Scale Tribe’s Golden Halberd and nearly destroying him with a powerful attack. Chu Kuangren rapidly regenerated and faced Beiming Xiu again, leaving the battle unresolved.

• The Scale King summoned Beiming Xiu, a peak seven-step Great Saint and former Scale King, from Guixu to defeat Chu Kuangren.
• Beiming Xiu recognized the Sea King Halberd in Chu Kuangren’s possession and attacked him with the Golden Halberd.
• Beiming Xiu unleashed the ninth form of the Sea-Flipping Halberd Art, crushing most of Chu Kuangren’s body despite the Water-Repelling Pearl.
• Chu Kuangren regenerated his body in moments, astonishing the Scale Tribe and Beiming Xiu.
• Chu Kuangren activated his combat techniques and clashed swords with Beiming Xiu before being blasted back and splitting into sword qi clones.

Chu Kuangren fought Beiming Xiu while his sword qi clones slaughtered the Scale Tribe, but Beiming Xiu nearly sealed him in the ocean depths. The Headless Woman appeared, killed Beiming Xiu, and drained the life from the surrounding Scale Tribe, leaving the sea a realm of death.

• Chu Kuangren sent sword qi clones to slaughter the Scale Tribe and vowed to avenge the people they had killed.
• Chu Kuangren and Beiming Xiu clashed, and Beiming Xiu bound him with currents and began sealing him in a seabed fissure.
• A spatial rift opened, disrupting Beiming Xiu's seal; Chu Kuangren broke free and fled into the ocean depths.
• The Headless Woman emerged from the rift, and Beiming Xiu fled toward the Gate of Guixu.
• The Headless Woman killed Beiming Xiu, crushed Beiming Fang, Beiming Huan, and the Scale King, then absorbed the vital essence of countless Scale Tribe members.

Chu Kuangren escaped the Headless Woman, then searched the Scale Tribe’s ruined palace and discovered that its three Quasi-Emperor Weapons were fragments of the Emperor Weapon Sea God Trident. After he returned to the surface, witnesses saw him emerge from the sea and realized he had survived the massacre.

• The Headless Woman destroyed the Scale Tribe’s palace, entered the Gate of Guixu, and left the surrounding sea strewn with corpses.
• Chu Kuangren returned to the ruins, collected treasures, and found records revealing that the Sea God Trident had been split into the Heaven-Suppressing Halberd, the Sea King Trident, and the Golden Halberd.
• Chu Kuangren realized the three weapons could reunite into an offensive Emperor Weapon, but left the palace without combining them.
• Saints gathered at the surface and saw corpses covering the sea, feared Chu Kuangren had died, and then watched him burst out of the water.

After massacring the Scale Tribe, Chu Kuangren returned to the Snowwind Sect and promised aid in rebuilding. As World Walkers from the Unknowable Places began entering the world, their masters warned them that Chu Kuangren was a formidable opponent.

• Chu Kuangren emerged from the sea, claimed sole responsibility for avenging the Mystic Heaven Sect, and warned the watching Saints not to challenge him.
• The Saints found desiccated corpses among the dead and suspected the Headless Woman had fought alongside Chu Kuangren, making them even more wary of him.
• Chu Kuangren returned to the Snowwind Sect, where he promised support with its rebuilding and said the Scale Tribe would not dare invade again.
• News spread that Chu Kuangren had killed nearly a hundred million members of the Scale Tribe, while young Heavenly Prides known as World Walkers began appearing across Firmament Star.
• Ye Xin received a warning that Chu Kuangren was his greatest potential enemy, while Wu Dao and a sword-wielding young man were also told to be cautious of him.

While Chu Kuangren remained in seclusion, World Walkers from the Unknowable Places began defeating renowned Heavenly Prides across Firmament Star. Ye Xin arrived at the Mystic Heaven Sect to challenge Chu Kuangren, and Guo Shan soon appeared with the same purpose.

• Nangong Huang told the Mystic Heaven Sect's Daoist Seeds that Cang Tian had been killed in three moves by a World Walker, prompting them to discuss the threat and their own cultivation.
• Lan Yu trained intensely, failed to defeat the Sword Qi Clone on the Sword Tower's forty-eighth floor, and continued her regimen at the Gravity Trial Ground and Ling Tian Dao Palace.
• Lan Yu learned that a World Walker had arrived at Longevity Hall and went there to observe Ye Xin, whom disciples said had defeated three Young Emperors with one move each.
• Ye Xin asked to meet Chu Kuangren and said he would wait at the Mystic Heaven Sect until Chu Kuangren emerged, explaining that he had come to seek instruction.
• Guo Shan arrived at the Mystic Heaven Sect's mountain gates and openly declared that he wanted to challenge Chu Kuangren.

Four World Walkers gathered at the Mystic Heaven Sect and, while waiting for Chu Kuangren to emerge from seclusion, Guo Shan and Zhan Long began a destructive battle. Their Saint-level fighting power damaged the sect and injured Nangong Huang, until the Kunwu Sword flew from Ling Tian Dao Palace and forced them to stop.

• Ye Xin, Feng Yaorao, Zhan Long, and Guo Shan discussed Chu Kuangren and agreed to test their strength against one another while he remained in seclusion.
• Guo Shan and Zhan Long fought at the Mystic Heaven Sect, unleashing powerful attacks that damaged the grounds and nearby residences.
• Nangong Huang urged the two World Walkers to stop or move their battle elsewhere, but they refused and continued fighting.
• The collision of Guo Shan's Mountains and Rivers Seal and Zhan Long's War-Heaven Tyrant Fist sent Nangong Huang flying and made him cough up blood.
• The Kunwu Sword flew from Ling Tian Dao Palace and released a terrifying Sword Dao Rhythm, causing Guo Shan and Zhan Long to stop fighting.

Chu Kuangren’s Kunwu Sword stopped the World Walkers from fighting and returned to him, while he continued refining three Quasi-Emperor Weapons into the Sea God Trident. After two more days, Chu Kuangren emerged from seclusion as the waiting World Walkers sensed his return.

• Kunwu Sword struck Zhan Long with a strand of Sword Qi, sending him flying and forcing the World Walkers to stop fighting.
• Ye Xin urged Zhan Long to hold back, and Kunwu Sword withdrew after the group refrained from attacking.
• Nangong Huang and the other Daoist Seeds recognized how far their strength lagged behind the World Walkers and resolved to train harder.
• Chu Kuangren praised Kunwu Sword and continued refining the Heaven-Suppressing Halberd, Sea King Trident, and Golden Halberd into the Sea God Trident.
• After two days, Chu Kuangren left his room, and Lan Yu, Xiao Bing, Ye Xin, and the other World Walkers noticed he had emerged from seclusion.

Chu Kuangren faced the four World Walkers who had come to challenge him and urged them to attack together. After effortlessly overpowering and throwing Zhan Long beyond the Mystic Heaven Sect, he defeated him with a single punch, leaving Ye Xin, Feng Yaorao, and Guo Shan to face him.

• Zhan Long, Ye Xin, Feng Yaorao, and Guo Shan arrived at Ling Tian Dao Palace to challenge Chu Kuangren.
• Chu Kuangren protected Lan Yu and Xiao Bing, then suggested that all four World Walkers attack him together.
• Zhan Long charged Chu Kuangren, who knocked him back, seized him, and threw him into a mountain outside the Mystic Heaven Sect.
• Zhan Long attacked with War-Heaven Tyrant Fist, Violent Burst, but Chu Kuangren countered with his Heavenly Baleful Indestructible Body and drove him into a deep crater.
• Chu Kuangren beckoned Ye Xin, Feng Yaorao, and Guo Shan to attack him together.

Chu Kuangren defeated the World Walkers in their specialties, overpowering Guo Shan’s Earth Qi, Ye Xin’s swordsmanship, and Feng Yaorao’s music before clashing with Zhan Long. The four World Walkers unleashed their strongest attacks together, leaving the outcome of their combined assault unresolved.

• Chu Kuangren shattered Guo Shan’s Mountains and Rivers Seal with an even greater surge of Earth Qi.
• Chu Kuangren broke Ye Xin’s galactic sword attack with a sword ray formed by his fingers and drove him back, injuring his palm.
• Feng Yaorao’s flower-petal guqin attack failed to reach Chu Kuangren, whose Gods and Devils Eight Tones suppressed her music.
• Zhan Long returned in black armor and collided with Chu Kuangren’s Wrathful God Fist, but the impact drove him backward despite his armor.
• Ye Xin, Guo Shan, and Feng Yaorao unleashed their strongest attacks together against Chu Kuangren.

Chu Kuangren defeated four World Walkers and returned to the Mystic Heaven Sect before traveling with Lan Yu to the Qingyun Dynasty for Princess Linglong’s enthronement. The chapter ended with the Qingyun imperial family welcoming them ahead of the ceremony.

• Chu Kuangren used Heaven and Earth Double Resonance to defeat the four World Walkers, severely wounding Ye Xin, Feng Yaorao, and Guo Shan and forcing Zhan Long to admit defeat.
• Zhan Long and Guo Shan compensated the Mystic Heaven Sect for the damage they had caused, and the World Walkers reflected on Chu Kuangren’s strength after he departed.
• News of Chu Kuangren’s victory spread, frustrating the Unknowable Places, while the Mystic Heaven Sect held a victory banquet for him.
• Chu Kuangren learned from the Qingyun Ruler that Princess Linglong was preparing to ascend the throne and accepted her invitation to the ceremony.
• Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu arrived at the Qingyun royal palace, where the Qingyun Ruler and Princess Linglong welcomed them and hosted a banquet.

On the eve of Princess Linglong's coronation, Chu Kuangren watched Gu Changge behave amicably despite losing his claim to the throne, then joined Linglong for a private celebration. After spending the night together, Linglong woke beside Chu Kuangren as her coronation preparations began.

• Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu watched Gu Changge politely dismiss two princes who had speculated about his feelings over losing the throne.
• Chu Kuangren dismissed the question of whether Gu Changge had truly changed and returned to his palace with Lan Yu.
• A maid summoned Chu Kuangren to Linglong's bedchamber, where he praised her coronation robes and shared wine with her.
• Linglong told Chu Kuangren about her ambitions and asked whether he had feelings for her, and he carried her to bed.
• Linglong woke beside Chu Kuangren before her coronation and blushed as she recalled their night together.

Gu Linglong completed her enthronement as Qingyun’s Female Emperor, but the Nine Infants Pearl was stolen and its guardian killed. Chu Kuangren set out to pursue Gu Changge, who had taken the pearl to win entry into Mountain-Sea Tower.

• Gu Linglong received the ruler’s seal and was formally enthroned as the Qingyun Female Emperor.
• Linglong and the Qingyun Ruler learned that the Nine Infants Pearl had vanished and its guardian, Elder Liu, had been killed.
• A Qingyun Saint reported that Gu Changge stole the pearl and escaped, while Chu Kuangren and Linglong suspected a connection to the Nine-Headed Tribe.
• Chu Kuangren offered to visit the Nine-Headed Tribe and left the following day to find Gu Changge.
• At the Nine-Headed Tribe, Gu Changge thanked Fellow Daoist Li for promising him entry into Mountain-Sea Tower and a chance to become a Daoist Seed.

Chu Kuangren confronted the Nine-Headed Tribe over Gu Changge and the Nine Infants Pearl. The chief revealed that they had gone to the Black Marsh to help the tribe’s young lord revive Nine Infants.

• Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu traveled toward the Nine-Headed Tribe as Chu Kuangren learned more about the ferocious beast Nine Infants.
• The Nine-Headed Tribe’s chief and elders celebrated their plans to invade the Qingyun Dynasty with help from Gu Changge and the Nine Infants Pearl.
• Chu Kuangren arrived at the tribe and demanded that the chief hand over Gu Changge and the Nine Infants Pearl.
• When the chief’s Saint challenged him, Chu Kuangren struck the Saint down and threatened the tribe with his Sword Dao Rhythm.
• The chief admitted that Gu Changge and the Nine Infants Pearl had gone to the Black Marsh to help the young lord revive the Nine Infants Sacred Lord.
• The chief explained that a World Walker with the Nine-Headed Tribe’s bloodline had become their young lord and had bought Gu Changge’s help in stealing the pearl.

Li Ze revived Nine Infants by merging the Nine Infants Pearl with his corpse, then used Mountain-Sea Tower’s Shanhai Pass technique to force the ancient beast to submit. Nine Infants ate Gu Changge and set his sights on the Nine-Headed Tribe to regain his strength, with Li Ze allowing the slaughter.

• Li Ze and Gu Changge entered Black Marsh, where Li Ze explained that the Qingyun Dynasty’s founding emperor had extracted Nine Infants’ Saint Spirit and that the beast’s bloodline had given rise to the Nine-Headed Tribe.
• Li Ze merged the Nine Infants Pearl into Nine Infants’ corpse and revived the ancient ferocious beast.
• Nine Infants attacked Gu Changge, but Li Ze used Shanhai Pass, which he had planted in Nine Infants’ Saint Spirit, to inflict pain and force him to submit.
• Nine Infants demanded permission to eat Gu Changge, and Li Ze agreed; Nine Infants gravely wounded Gu Changge and swallowed him.
• Nine Infants planned to devour members of the Nine-Headed Tribe to restore his strength, and Li Ze accepted their deaths as useful to his plans.

Nine Infants revived and devoured the Nine-Headed Tribe, while Li Ze revealed he had used his people to restore the Sacred Lord’s strength. Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu confronted Li Ze and Nine Infants, and Chu Kuangren suggested taking their lives instead.

• Nine Infants revived and began eating the kneeling members of the Nine-Headed Tribe, whose Chief was swallowed when he tried to question him.
• The Nine-Headed Tribe’s Saint attacked Nine Infants but failed to do more than wound his scales.
• Li Ze refused to stop Nine Infants and admitted he had abandoned the tribe for his own grand undertaking, then struck down their Saint, whom Nine Infants swallowed.
• Nine Infants devoured most of the tribe as Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu stepped forward to confront him and Li Ze.
• Li Ze told Chu Kuangren that Nine Infants had eaten Gu Changge, and Chu Kuangren replied that he would take their lives instead.

Chu Kuangren fought Li Ze and Nine Infants, using sword qi clones to overwhelm the ancient beast. Nine Infants unleashed his water-and-fire Daoist rhyme, destroying the clones as Li Ze believed Chu Kuangren could not kill him.

• Chu Kuangren rejected Li Ze's threat and shattered Li Ze's Thunderbird attack before blocking Nine Infants' water spike with a Divine Mountain.
• Nine Infants attacked with countless water spikes, but Chu Kuangren used the Lingering Echo guqin to break them and strike one of Nine Infants' heads with sound waves.
• Chu Kuangren sent Lan Yu away, then wounded one of Nine Infants' eyes with the Kunwu Sword and dodged his water-and-fire attacks.
• Chu Kuangren summoned hundreds upon thousands of sword qi clones, which surrounded and covered Nine Infants with bloody cuts.
• Nine Infants erupted with water-and-fire Daoist rhyme, bursting the sword qi clones and dropping their swords as Li Ze judged the wounds superficial.

Chu Kuangren trapped Nine Infants in the Four Seasons Sword Formation and began cutting down the ancient beast while Lan Yu fought Li Ze and his Mountain-Sea Origin Soul, Kun. As Chu Kuangren attacked Nine Infants’ soul with the Soul-Hooking Cord, Nine Infants screamed that his Saint Spirit was leaving him again.

• Chu Kuangren activated the Four Seasons Sword Formation, trapping Nine Infants and severing one of his heads with a massive sword silhouette.
• Li Ze summoned his Mountain-Sea Origin Soul, Kun, and sent it after Chu Kuangren to stop him from killing Nine Infants.
• Lan Yu intercepted Kun and took on Li Ze, burning Kun with her purifying Light Daoist Rhyme.
• Chu Kuangren continued attacking Nine Infants until three of his nine heads had been severed.
• Chu Kuangren sent the Soul-Hooking Cord through the Sword Formation, piercing Nine Infants and making him cry out that his Saint Spirit was leaving him again.

Chu Kuangren captured Nine Infants’ Saint Spirit, killing Li Ze and obtaining a Mountain-Sea Origin Soul Seed. Mountain-Sea Tower learned of Li Ze’s death and sent Yuan Xian to investigate, warning him about Chu Kuangren.

• Chu Kuangren used the Soul-Hooking Cord to pull Nine Infants’ Saint Spirit from his body, and the remaining runes refined it back into the Nine Infants Pearl.
• Li Ze drove the Mountain-Sea Origin Soul Kun into Lan Yu and tried to flee, but Chu Kuangren hooked the origin soul and prevented its return.
• Chu Kuangren defeated Li Ze’s Qiongqi attack with the Demon-Subduing Great Hand Seal and killed him.
• The Mountain-Sea Origin Soul Kun became an Origin Soul Seed when Li Ze died, and Chu Kuangren took it and disposed of the corpses.
• Mountain-Sea Tower discovered Li Ze’s death, and Yuan Xian volunteered to investigate as its new World Walker.
• Mountain-Sea Tower’s master warned Yuan Xian to be careful around Chu Kuangren and avoid provoking him if possible.

After returning the Nine Infants Pearl to Linglong and reporting Gu Changge’s death, Chu Kuangren visited the White Lotus Sect while traveling back toward the Mystic Heaven Sect. He discovered that the people of Great Moon Country revered him as a hero and that the White Lotus Sect had made him an object of faith; the chapter ended as Saint Qianyue recalled her fear of the Headless Woman.

• Chu Kuangren returned to the Qingyun Dynasty, gave Linglong the Nine Infants Pearl, and told her and the Qingyun Ruler that Gu Changge had died.
• After several days, Chu Kuangren left and stopped in Great Moon Country to visit the White Lotus Sect, where he saw a statue of himself beside one of the White Lotus Saint King.
• The people recognized Chu Kuangren and knelt to greet him, while the White Lotus Saintess welcomed him and explained that his actions against the Hell Three-Headed Hound had made him a revered hero and object of faith across the Southern Countries.
• Chu Kuangren met Qinglan Supreme Being, then joined Saint Qianyue and the White Lotus Sect Leader in the main hall to catch up.
• Saint Qianyue described her lingering fear of the Headless Woman, reminding Chu Kuangren that he had the woman’s head stored in his Heaven and Earth Ring.

Chu Kuangren obtained the Heaven and Earth Furnace Body, then confronted several visitors demanding corpses at the White Lotus Sect. He exposed King Yama and fought Yellow Springs Manor’s World Walker, whose identity surprised Saint Qianyue and the overseas elder.

• Chu Kuangren drew and absorbed the divine-tier Heaven and Earth Furnace Body, which could refine various energies into Spiritual Power.
• A hook-nosed elder from overseas demanded Saint Heifeng’s corpse from Saint Qianyue, who denied having it.
• A young man in black demanded the Hell Three-Headed Hound’s corpse and threatened the White Lotus Sect, but Chu Kuangren entered and challenged the visitors.
• Chu Kuangren identified the cloaked elder as King Yama of the Netherworld and attacked him with a golden Buddha hand.
• The young man in black blocked Chu Kuangren’s strike and retreated with King Yama, prompting Chu Kuangren to reveal that he was Yellow Springs Manor’s World Walker.