Chapter Summaries

After refining the Heavenly Baleful Armor, Chu Kuangren considered how to strengthen the Mystic Heaven Sect for the Great Age of Strife and sought a pill to rapidly increase spiritual power. Little Tian provided several suitable pill formulas and identified the Soul-Nourishing Grass Chu Kuangren had found.

• Chu Kuangren studied the Sorrowful Heaven Palm scroll and refined the Emperor Weapon into the Heavenly Baleful Armor.
• Chu Kuangren emerged from seclusion and decided the Mystic Heaven Sect needed to improve its disciples’ strength to contend in the Great Age of Strife.
• Chu Kuangren visited Heavenly Derivation Tower, where he revealed that its mysterious presence was Little Tian, the artifact spirit of the Heavenly Derivation Pill Canon.
• Chu Kuangren asked Little Tian for pills that could safely and quickly increase spiritual power, and Little Tian produced three suitable formulas.
• Chu Kuangren showed Little Tian the Soul-Nourishing Grass, and Little Tian identified it.

Chu Kuangren refined soul-nourishing and Spiritual Power pills, then gave the Mystic Heaven Sect’s Daoist Seeds pills, Emperor Scriptures, and treasures to help them grow. He hoped they would soon become strong enough to support the sect as Firmament Star grew more turbulent, and gave Lan Yu cultivation resources as well.

• Little Tian identified Soul-Nourishing Grass and shared the formula for the Yin-Yang Soul Pill, which Chu Kuangren refined alongside Jade Marrow Golden Cores.
• Chu Kuangren gave Nangong Huang, Murong Xuan, and the other Daoist Seeds pills and ordered them to reach the Supreme Supreme Realm within a year.
• Chu Kuangren placed the Mingxin Emperor Scripture and the Longevity Emperor Scripture in the Scripture Repository, warning the Daoist Seeds to forge their own Dao rather than copy an Emperor’s path.
• Chu Kuangren distributed treasures from the Snake God's Treasury, and Lan Yu urged the Daoist Seeds not to disappoint the young master.
• Chu Kuangren explained to Lan Yu that he wanted the Daoist Seeds to grow quickly because he expected to become a target amid Firmament Star’s turmoil, then gave her a Heaven and Earth Ring of cultivation resources.

Changguang Saint King claimed to have deduced that Chu Kuangren used the Headless Woman’s head to control where she appeared, and urged the Unknowable Places to attack the Mystic Heaven Sect. As the Mountain-Sea Tower weighed whether to join, Yuan Xian returned with news that Chu Kuangren had killed Li Ze.

• Changguang Saint King summoned leaders of the Unknowable Places and proposed eliminating Chu Kuangren by encircling the Mystic Heaven Sect.
• Changguang Saint King argued that Chu Kuangren’s opportunity on the Nameless Island was likely the Headless Woman’s head, which he had used to lure her away from Guixu.
• The Great Lord of Guixu, the Yellow Springs Manor’s Manor Master, and Yuntao Daoist agreed to join the attack, while the Mountain-Sea Tower requested three days to consider.
• The Mountain-Sea Tower’s Tower Master worried that Chu Kuangren might summon the Headless Woman and destroy everyone if they attacked his sect.
• Yuan Xian returned to the Mountain-Sea Tower and told its Tower Master that Chu Kuangren had murdered Li Ze.

Yuan Xian blamed Chu Kuangren for Li Ze’s death, while the Death Sacred Hall agreed to join a campaign against the Mystic Heaven Sect. Several Unknowable Places emerged and announced that they would destroy the sect first, leaving it surrounded by enemies across Firmament Star.

• Yuan Xian told the Mountain-Sea Tower Master that Chu Kuangren had likely killed Li Ze, prompting the Master to vow revenge.
• More than eighty percent of the Death Sacred Hall’s elders supported joining the campaign against the Mystic Heaven Sect, and the Death Hall Master agreed.
• Guixu, the Xuanhuang Divine Palace, the Death Sacred Hall, Mountain-Sea Tower, Piaomiao Heaven, and other Unknowable Places emerged across Firmament Star.
• The newly emerged Unknowable Places announced that their first target would be the Mystic Heaven Sect.
• The Linghu Family, the Overlord Body Sacred Clan, and other hostile forces offered to join the campaign, while additional factions also sought to ally with the Unknowable Places.

After the Unknowable Places and several Saintly Dao Traditions united against the Mystic Heaven Sect, Chu Kuangren gained the legendary Mind Arts Practitioner talent and vowed that the sect would survive. Elder Ruyan announced that disciples could either stay and face the crisis with the sect or leave with spirit stones.

• The Unknowable Places, the Overlord Body Sacred Clan, the Linghu Family, the Heavenly King Palace, and the Overseas Thirty-Six Islands declared their intent to attack the Mystic Heaven Sect.
• Chu Kuangren claimed the Mind Arts Practitioner talent and used his Spirit Thought to move a teacup and sense much of the Mystic Heaven Sect.
• Elder Ruyan and the elders told Chu Kuangren that the Unknowable Places had emerged and that the sect's members were panicking.
• Chu Kuangren ordered that disciples who wished to leave could do so, but they would have no further ties to the Mystic Heaven Sect.
• Chu Kuangren promised that the Mystic Heaven Sect would not fall while he remained, and Elder Ruyan announced the choice to stay or leave to the gathered disciples.

The Mystic Heaven Sect’s disciples chose whether to flee or stay as the Unknowable Places prepared to destroy the sect, and a little over ten thousand remained to fight. Empress Linglong refused to risk the Qingyun Dynasty’s people by sending troops, but gave up her throne so she could go support Chu Kuangren herself.

• Elder Ruyan let the disciples decide whether to leave, and their disagreement nearly erupted into a fight before the elders calmed them.
• Nangong Huang, Murong Xuan, Junyi, and over ten thousand disciples gathered outside Longevity Hall and vowed to live and die with the Mystic Heaven Sect.
• Chu Kuangren promised the disciples that the Mystic Heaven Sect would not fall while he remained, and Elder Ruyan counted that fewer than a tenth of the sect’s original members had stayed.
• The Heavenly Feather Sect and Snowwind Sect sent support, while the White Lotus Sect Saint went to the Mystic Heaven Sect alone; other subordinate forces severed ties.
• In the Qingyun Dynasty, Empress Linglong declined to send troops after Minister Liu warned that doing so would endanger the people.
• Empress Linglong removed her crown, gave up the throne, and announced that she would go to the Mystic Heaven Sect as Chu Kuangren’s wife.

As the Mystic Heaven Sect prepared for an encirclement by several Unknowable Places and powerful Daoist Traditions, Chu Kuangren welcomed a stream of reinforcements while remaining confident. The chapter ended with Gu Linglong and the Saint backing the Qingyun Dynasty arriving at the sect.

• Chu Kuangren welcomed the Heavenly Feather Sect Master and Snowwind Sect Master, who brought reinforcements to the Mystic Heaven Sect.
• Chu Kuangren reassured the sect masters that their enemies had more reason to fear, and told Elder Ruyan that he had inspected the Mountain-Guarding Formation and should refine as many Life Creation Pills as possible.
• Shang Long arrived with Lou Yun and a few Venerable Realm cultivators, and Chu Kuangren arranged for them to meet Shang Qingxue.
• Saint Qianyue asked whether Chu Kuangren had a way to face the approaching forces, and he admitted he had some confidence but kept his solution secret.
• The Saint backing the Qingyun Dynasty arrived with Gu Linglong.

Gu Linglong abdicated as Qingyun Ruler and joined Chu Kuangren at the Mystic Heaven Sect as a million-strong allied army advanced against them. The six Unknowable Places’ Saint Kings prepared to kill Chu Kuangren and divide the sect’s treasures, confident in their plans.

• Gu Linglong told Chu Kuangren she had abdicated by choice so she could stay with him, and he welcomed her to the Mystic Heaven Sect.
• Six Unknowable Places and numerous Daoist Traditions assembled an army of up to a million cultivators and marched toward the Mystic Heaven Sect.
• The six Saint Kings discussed claiming the Divine Phoenix, the Sea God Trident, Chu Kuangren’s Emperor Techniques, and other treasures after the attack.
• Changguang Saint King reminded the others that killing Chu Kuangren was their main objective, while the Yellow Springs Manor Lord revealed he had brought a Quasi-Emperor Weapon to trap the sect.
• Changguang Saint King watched the Mystic Heaven Sect approach and acknowledged his admiration for Chu Kuangren even as he resolved to kill him.

The Mystic Heaven Sect faced an encirclement by more than a million cultivators and powerful Saints demanding that it surrender Chu Kuangren. Chu Kuangren emerged from Longevity Hall and overwhelmed the army's pressure with his Sword Dao, openly defying them.

• Saints watching from nearby predicted that the Mystic Heaven Sect and Chu Kuangren would fall to the Unknowable Places.
• An army of more than a million cultivators arrived and surrounded the Mystic Heaven Sect, whose defenders numbered only ten thousand disciples and five Saints besides Chu Kuangren.
• Saint Cangwang demanded that the Mystic Heaven Sect send Chu Kuangren out to die, but the Second Ancestor refused.
• Saint Cangwang and the other Saints unleashed their pressure, threatening to crush the Mystic Heaven Sect's disciples.
• Chu Kuangren emerged from Longevity Hall with Lan Yu and Gu Linglong, and his Sword Dao shattered the army's pressure.
• Chu Kuangren's might surpassed the million-strong army's pressure as he mocked the attackers and challenged their threat to destroy his sect.

Chu Kuangren faced a million-strong army as the Unknowable Places’ forces began attacking the Mystic Heaven Sect’s defenses. After trapping the sect beneath the Nine Profound Heavenly Fire Cover, he activated a mysterious stone stele that shrouded the sect in mist, while the Saints launched a coordinated assault on the Mystic Heaven Sword Formation.

• Chu Kuangren challenged the invading army, then summoned the Mystic Heaven Sword Formation, which shredded cultivators and blocked the attackers from approaching.
• Saint Cangwang ordered the Saints to break the formation as the six Saint Kings watched and planned to use the Overlord Body Sacred Clan and Thirty-Six Islands to test Chu Kuangren.
• Chu Kuangren told Saint Qianyue that he did not intend to rely on the sword formation alone and revealed a stone stele made of Heavenly Crystal Jade Marrow.
• The Manor Lord of Yellow Springs Manor enclosed the Mystic Heaven Sect in the Nine Profound Heavenly Fire Cover, and Chu Kuangren struck the stele, spreading mist that blocked Spirit Thought perception.
• Saint Cangwang took a pill to boost his power, while Saint Li, Heavenly King, the Sun-Moon Twin Saints, Saint Tianji, and others unleashed their strongest attacks against the Mystic Heaven Sword Formation.

After the allied army broke the Mystic Heaven Sword Formation, Chu Kuangren lured them toward the clouds and mist surrounding the Mystic Heaven Sect. The Cloud Sea Wonder Formation trapped and killed the forces sent inside, leaving Saint Cang Wang and the remaining army facing an unknown threat.

• Saint Cang Wang, the Sun and Moon Saints, and the allied Saints shattered the Mystic Heaven Sword Formation, but the clouds and mist remained untouched.
• Chu Kuangren played harmless zither music, then invited the army to enter the clouds and mist.
• Saint Cang Wang sent ten thousand cultivators and a Saint into the mist, where they were killed within moments.
• Saint Cang Wang sent thirty thousand more cultivators and three Saints into the formation, while the Image-Transmitting Stone showed them trapped in a valley.
• A massive boulder crushed the thirty thousand cultivators, and Sword Qi and a descending sword shadow killed the three surviving Saints.

Saint Zixu entered the Mystic Heaven Sect’s Cloud Sea Wonder Formation to investigate it, but its shifting attacks wounded him despite his strength as a Seven-Step Great Saint. When Changguang Saint King ordered him to return, Zixu’s Teleportation Talisman failed to work.

• The formation killed another Saint with a burst of Sword Qi, shocking the allied army and the cultivators watching outside the Mystic Heaven Sect.
• At Changguang Saint King's command, Saint Zixu entered the cloud sea and saw a terrifying dragon formed from clouds and mist above him.
• Saint Zixu avoided the dragon by traveling overland, where Earth Qi, a boulder, and a sword projection attacked him; he broke through them and continued onward.
• The formation assailed Saint Zixu with shifting storms, Sword Qi, flames, water, whirlpools, and poison, leaving him wounded as he neared the Mystic Heaven Sect's mountain gate.
• Changguang Saint King told Saint Zixu to return, but when Zixu crushed his Teleportation Talisman, his expression changed abruptly.

Saint Zixu's Teleportation Talisman failed inside the Cloud Sea Wonder Formation, and the formation's cloud dragon killed him with a roar and a claw. Chu Kuangren then addressed the besieging army, mocking them and demanding spirit stones and Emperor Weapons as compensation.

• Saint Zixu discovered that the formation had sealed off space, preventing his Teleportation Talisman from working.
• Saint Zixu attacked the cloud dragon with Heavenly Wind Saint Fist, but its roar shattered his attack and severely wounded him.
• The cloud dragon tapped Saint Zixu with its claw and killed him, leaving the million-strong army and the gathered Saints terrified.
• Changguang Saint King swore to kill Chu Kuangren, while Yuntao Daoist urged him to stay calm.
• Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu came out beyond the Mystic Heaven Sect's gates, and Chu Kuangren offered to forgive the attackers in exchange for tens of billions of spirit stones and several Emperor Weapons.

The Saint Kings ordered their forces into the Cloud Sea Wonder Formation, despite knowing many would serve as cannon fodder. Chu Kuangren revealed that the formation could change at will, leaving Saint Cangwang and the others trapped in newly activated dangers.

• Chu Kuangren taunted the assembled forces and thanked Yuntao Daoist for the jade marrow he had traded to him.
• The Saint Kings questioned Yuntao Daoist, who explained his jade marrow deal with Chu Kuangren and resented the price he had accepted.
• Changguang Saint King ordered the allied cultivators into the formation as cannon fodder, and Saint Cangwang and the others reluctantly obeyed.
• The Immortal Boats entered the Cloud Sea Wonder Formation, where fiery meteors suddenly struck them despite Saint Zixu's earlier scouting.
• Chu Kuangren used the formation's stele to alter its shifting formations and watched Saint Cangwang's forces struggle against them.

The invading army suffered heavy losses in the Cloud Sea Wonder Formation before the Mountain-Sea Tower Lord used the Mountain-Sea Scroll to destroy Chu Kuangren's Sword Qi Clones. The Divine Phoenix then subdued the scroll's beasts with its presence, prompting the Mountain-Sea Tower Lord to resolve to seize its soul.

• The Sun-Moon Twin Saints and the Thunder Falcon Clan countered meteor and lightning attacks, but the formation's continuing transformations killed or wounded over half the invading army.
• Chu Kuangren's Sword Qi Clones confronted the army before it had covered a third of the distance to the Mystic Heaven Sect.
• The Mountain-Sea Tower Lord unleashed strange beasts' origin souls from the Mountain-Sea Scroll and destroyed the Sword Qi Clones.
• The Divine Phoenix rose from the Mystic Heaven Sect and forced the strange beasts' origin souls to kneel with its divine beast might.
• The Mountain-Sea Tower Lord resolved to seize the Divine Phoenix's soul as it flew toward the invaders.

Xiao Hong and the Cloud Dragon battled the invading army while Chu Kuangren remotely controlled the Four Seasons Sword Formation. After the First Ruins Lord dispersed the Cloud Dragon and sent an ocean of water toward the Mystic Heaven Sect, Chu Kuangren stopped it at the gates and sent it surging back at the army.

• Xiao Hong burned the invading beasts’ primordial souls as the Four Seasons Sword Formation trapped the Saint Kings and the Cloud Dragon attacked the cultivators’ Immortal Boats.
• The Mountain-Sea Tower Master, Yellow Springs Manor Master, and Death Hall Master used their Emperor Techniques to break the Sword Formation, and Chu Kuangren recognized that remote control by mind power was less effective than using spiritual power.
• Chu Kuangren called Xiao Hong back, while the Cloud Dragon fought off the Mountain-Sea Tower Master, Yellow Springs Manor Master, and Death Hall Master.
• The First Ruins Lord used a blue pearl’s ocean power to disperse the Cloud Dragon and flood the land toward the Mystic Heaven Sect.
• At the Mystic Heaven Sect’s gates, Chu Kuangren stopped the water and sent it roaring back toward the invading army as a massive tsunami.

Chu Kuangren reflected the Great Ruins Master of Guixu’s ocean attack, disrupted his Sea-Calming Pearl, and let the battered army reach Mystic Heaven Sect’s gates. He then emerged alone to face the surviving force, claiming he should be able to stop them.

• Chu Kuangren reflected the Great Ruins Master of Guixu’s ocean power with the Sea God Trident, but the Great Ruins Master used the Sea-Calming Pearl to halt and absorb the tsunami.
• Chu Kuangren struck the Great Ruins Master with sword qi, breaking his control of the pearl and sending the remaining water power crashing into the army.
• The Great Ruins Master, Yellow Springs Manor Lord, and Changguang Saint King argued before Changguang Saint King ordered the army onward.
• The Saint Kings helped the surviving cultivators overcome the remaining formations, and the army reached Mystic Heaven Sect’s gates after suffering further heavy losses.
• Chu Kuangren walked out alone with an ancient sword, mocked the bedraggled army, and said he thought he could stop them.

Chu Kuangren battled the vast force gathered at the Mystic Heaven Sect, using his sword and zither to overcome their countermeasures and formation. After the Mountain-Sea Tower Master joined the fight as a Saint King, Chu Kuangren challenged him directly.

• Chu Kuangren faced the Saints and cultivators who had assembled against him, cutting through their combined attacks with the Kunwu Sword and his zither music.
• A Thunder Falcon Clan Saint used magnetic lodestone to restrain Kunwu, but Chu Kuangren shattered it and killed the Saint.
• Chu Kuangren's escalating zither music destroyed the Sound-Absorbing Stone and killed the Saint who controlled it, while his sword and music swept through the attackers.
• Four Great Saints formed the Mystic Yellow One Qi Formation and attacked Chu Kuangren, who countered them with the final piece of the Gods and Devils Eight Tones, snapping the strings of Lingering Echo.
• Chu Kuangren unleashed his sword heart and Dao Body phenomena, then split apart the Mountain-Sea Tower Master's palm strike.
• The Mountain-Sea Tower Master emerged from the Immortal Boat, and Chu Kuangren challenged him to fight.

Chu Kuangren battled the Master of Mountain-Sea Tower, who summoned four fiend origin souls from the Mountain-Sea Scroll. Chu Kuangren revealed the Emperor Weapon Heavenly Baleful Armor and began fighting the Four Fiends with its killing intent overwhelming theirs.

• Chu Kuangren admitted that he had killed Li Ze and showed the Master of Mountain-Sea Tower Li Ze's Origin Soul Seed.
• The Master of Mountain-Sea Tower attacked with palm techniques that manifested Taotie and Qiongqi, while Chu Kuangren countered with Emperor Techniques.
• Chu Kuangren's Sorrowful Heaven Palm and Heart-Severing Finger briefly disrupted the Master of Mountain-Sea Tower, but his Saint King's body endured the attack.
• The Master of Mountain-Sea Tower opened the Mountain-Sea Scroll and released its four fiend origin souls: Qiongqi, Hundun, Taotie, and Taowu.
• Chu Kuangren donned the Emperor Weapon Heavenly Baleful Armor and attacked the Four Fiends, suppressing their killing intent.

Chu Kuangren used the Heavenly Baleful Armor to destroy the Four Fiends, then faced six Saint Kings while wielding two Emperor Weapons. The Saint Kings exploited his limited ability to sustain their power, and both sides prepared to fight while aware of each other’s weaknesses.

• Chu Kuangren summoned the Heavenly Baleful Manifestation and shattered the Four Fiends’ Soul Spirits, absorbing their scattered soul energy.
• Chu Kuangren attacked the Mountain-Sea Tower Master, who called five Saint Kings to join him, bringing the total number opposing Chu Kuangren to six.
• Chu Kuangren revealed the Sea God Trident alongside the Heavenly Baleful Armor and met attacks from three Saint Kings with the trident’s power.
• The Great Ruins Master used the Sea-Calming Pearl to briefly restrain the Sea God Trident, allowing three Emperor Techniques to strike Chu Kuangren and send him crashing through mountains.
• Chu Kuangren emerged with little injury and blasted the Great Ruins Master with his trident, while the Saint Kings resolved to wear him down until he could no longer wield his Emperor Weapons.