Chapter Summaries

Chu Kuangren used the Heavenly Baleful Qi Altar to help the dying White-Robed General begin repairing his foundation, then entered closed-door cultivation to break his seal. As Heavenly Prides attained sainthood across Firmament Star, Xiao Jingchen and the Baleful Daoist Seed both challenged Chu Kuangren.

• Chu Kuangren found that the White-Robed General had seven days to live and offered the Heavenly Baleful Qi Altar as a chance to restore his damaged foundation.
• The White-Robed General endured the altar’s violent Heavenly Baleful Qi as it began rebuilding his foundation, and Chu Kuangren concealed the Mirage Tower before starting his own cultivation.
• Wang Tianteng, Zhan Hongying, the Baleful Daoist Seed, and other Heavenly Prides attained sainthood, drawing major attention across Firmament Star.
• Xiao Jingchen challenged Chu Kuangren to meet him at Sky-Pillar Mountain in three days, prompting speculation about whether he could overcome Chu Kuangren’s Heavenly Punishment Seal.
• The Baleful Daoist Seed also challenged Chu Kuangren, blaming him for stealing the altar and preventing him from forging a seventh-grade Saint foundation.

While Chu Kuangren remained missing, his enemies branded him a coward, and the Baleful Daoist Seed failed to break the Mystic Heaven Sect’s formation before resorting to killing former disciples to force him out. The Mystic Heaven Sect’s elders chose to wait for Chu Kuangren rather than risk the sect for people who no longer had ties to it.

• After Chu Kuangren missed Xiao Jingchen’s challenge, the Xuanhuang Divine Palace and other hostile Daoist Traditions spread claims that he was afraid, damaging his reputation.
• The Baleful Daoist Seed threatened to destroy the Mystic Heaven Sect and then attacked its Cloud Sea Wonder Formation, but emerged a day and a night later without breaking it.
• The Baleful Daoist Seed subdued nearby Daoist Traditions and ordered them to capture former Mystic Heaven Sect disciples, threatening to kill a thousand people for every day Chu Kuangren stayed away.
• When Chu Kuangren did not appear, the Baleful Daoist Seed killed a thousand captives on the first day and burned another thousand on the second.
• At Longevity Hall, Elder Ruyan told the elders to wait for the Sect Leader, noting that the former disciples no longer had ties to the Mystic Heaven Sect.

Murong Xuan and Nangong Huang confronted the Baleful Daoist Seed to defend the Mystic Heaven Sect's dignity, but he overwhelmed them. A thirty-thousand-mile expanse of purple qi then appeared, leading cultivators across Firmament Star to suspect Chu Kuangren had broken the Heavenly Punishment Seal.

• The Baleful Daoist Seed continued killing former Mystic Heaven Sect disciples while grudges against Chu Kuangren fueled public slander of him and his sect.
• Murong Xuan and Nangong Huang arrived to challenge the Baleful Daoist Seed, who recognized them as Hidden Dragon List talents and overpowered their combined sword attacks.
• Nangong Huang summoned the Mountain-Sea Scroll, but the Baleful Daoist Seed's Heavenly Baleful Manifestation destroyed its beast Soul Spirits and left the two Saints outmatched.
• Nangong Huang and Murong Xuan prepared Great Teleportation Talismans to escape, but a sudden celestial fluctuation interrupted the confrontation.
• Purple qi stretched thirty thousand miles across the horizon, and Saints speculated that Chu Kuangren had broken the Heavenly Punishment Seal.

Chu Kuangren completed his transformation into a being with a Supreme Saint body, foundation, and soul after absorbing the purple qi, then learned of events in the Ancient Battlefield. He arrived there as the Baleful Daoist Seed and the Saints reacted to the Supreme Saint phenomenon, and a terrifying pressure descended.

• Purple qi surged into Chu Kuangren, completing his Supreme Saint Foundation and transforming his body and soul.
• Chu Kuangren’s enhanced psychic power let him survey Firmament Star, where he learned that Heavenly Prides had become Saints and that he had been challenged in the Ancient Battlefield.
• Chu Kuangren channeled the remaining purple qi into the Kunwu Sword, strengthening its Sword Soul and potential.
• Chu Kuangren recognized that the Baleful Daoist Seed would be his first target and crossed a million kilometers to the Ancient Battlefield.
• The Baleful Daoist Seed and the Saints discussed the appearance of a Supreme Saint, and a terrifying pressure descended upon the battlefield.

Chu Kuangren revealed that he had become a Supreme Saint and challenged the Baleful Daoist Seed to withstand one palm strike. His strike destroyed the Ancient Battlefield and purified its Baleful Spirits and Killing Intent, leaving everyone stunned.

• Chu Kuangren’s face appeared in the sky above the Ancient Battlefield, and he warned everyone to leave while the captured cultivators escaped.
• Chu Kuangren told the Baleful Daoist Seed that he could live if he withstood one palm strike, and the Baleful Daoist Seed summoned a Heavenly Baleful Manifestation.
• Chu Kuangren unleashed the Tathagata Rebirth Mantra, and the golden palm purified Baleful Spirits as it descended.
• The Baleful Daoist Seed and the Ancient Battlefield’s Baleful Spirits attacked the palm, but the Heavenly Baleful Manifestation collapsed and the Baleful Daoist Seed fell wounded.
• Chu Kuangren’s palm struck the Core Region, wiping out the Ancient Battlefield’s Baleful Spirits and Killing Intent and leaving a vast palm-shaped crater.

News of Chu Kuangren’s devastating strike against the Baleful Daoist Seed spread across Firmament Star as he demonstrated his newly mastered Heavenly Punishment Daoist Rhyme and Space Transport Technique. He restored the White-Robed General to full strength and brought him and Lan Yu to the Mystic Heaven Sect, where they arrived outside its space-sealing formation.

• Across Firmament Star, witnesses and rival forces reacted with fear and awe to Chu Kuangren’s palm strike that destroyed the Ancient Battlefield and killed the Baleful Daoist Seed.
• Aboard the Mirage Tower, Chu Kuangren reflected on using the Space Transport Technique to send his Tathagata Rebirth Mantra attack across a million kilometers and on the power of his Heavenly Punishment Daoist Rhyme.
• Chu Kuangren checked the White-Robed General and saw that his physique transformation had reached completion; the General awoke with formidable Killing Intent and Saint King strength.
• The White-Robed General pledged his life to Chu Kuangren, who invited him to return to the Mystic Heaven Sect and meet his descendants.
• Chu Kuangren used the Space Transport Technique to take Lan Yu and the White-Robed General a million kilometers to the area outside the Cloud Sea Wonder Formation.

Chu Kuangren returned to the Mystic Heaven Sect, ended its seclusion, and announced that he would attack five Daoist Traditions in three days. The terrified leaders sought help from powerful seniors in Netherworld Valley while Chu Kuangren remained at the sect.

• Chu Kuangren told Elder Ruyan to deactivate the Cloud Sea Wonder Formation and asked her to summon Shang Qingxue to meet the White-Robed General.
• The Mystic Heaven Sect reappeared in the world, and news of Chu Kuangren's return frightened the forces that had attacked it.
• The leaders of several Daoist Traditions gathered at the Xuanhuang Divine Palace and agreed to seek help from seniors in Netherworld Valley.
• Changqin Saint King prepared to visit Netherworld Valley as the five Daoist Traditions sent precious offerings to the Xuanhuang Divine Palace.
• The Mystic Heaven Sect announced Chu Kuangren would attack the Xuanhuang Divine Palace, Piaomiao Heaven, Yellow Springs Manor, the Death Sacred Hall, and Guixu in three days, but he stayed at the sect.

Changqin Saint King persuaded Quasi-Emperor Wuyue to help the Xuanhuang Divine Palace oppose Chu Kuangren. Wuyue entered the Mystic Heaven Sect and met Chu Kuangren, who called her a thief.

• Changqin Saint King endured Netherworld Valley's illusions and found the cabin where Wuyue stayed.
• Wuyue learned that Changguang had died and heard Changqin's account of Chu Kuangren becoming a Supreme Saint.
• Changqin offered Wuyue gifts and an Emperor-grade Spirit Medicine, and she agreed to make a trip on the Xuanhuang Divine Palace's behalf.
• After nearly three days, Chu Kuangren remained in the Mystic Heaven Sect as his announced attack on five Daoist Traditions approached.
• Wuyue entered the Mystic Heaven Sect undetected, and Chu Kuangren approached her and called her a thief.

Chu Kuangren rejected Wuyue Quasi-Emperor’s attempt to protect the Xuanhuang Divine Palace and the other Daoist Traditions, then destroyed her Spirit Thought avatar when she tried to flee. He began his planned attack on the five great Daoist Traditions by letting Lan Yu choose a wooden plaque, and the chapter ended as he prepared to strike the Yellow Springs Manor.

• Chu Kuangren used his Eye of Insight to identify Wuyue Quasi-Emperor as a Spirit Thought avatar of a Blood-Eyed Crow and dismissed her attempt to mediate for the Xuanhuang Divine Palace and the other Daoist Traditions.
• Wuyue Quasi-Emperor declared that she would protect the Daoist Traditions, while Chu Kuangren vowed to destroy them and overwhelmed her aura with his Sword Dao Rhythm.
• Wuyue Quasi-Emperor split her avatar into hundreds of crows to escape, but Chu Kuangren imprisoned and destroyed them with his Psychic Power.
• Wuyue Quasi-Emperor’s true body, in Netherworld Valley, vowed to fight Chu Kuangren herself, as observers’ Spirit Thoughts arrived at the Mystic Heaven Sect on the day of his attack.
• Lan Yu brought Chu Kuangren five wooden plaques and flipped over Yellow Springs Manor, which Chu Kuangren chose as his first target.
• Chu Kuangren summoned a thirty-thousand-meter Ancient Buddha with the Tathagata Rebirth Mantra and sent its palm strike into the void.

Chu Kuangren used attacks that crossed millions of miles to annihilate four supreme Daoist traditions while Lan Yu selected their names from wooden plaques. After Guixu fell to his sword, the surviving mighty cultivators were left speechless.

• Chu Kuangren struck Yellow Springs Manor with a distant palm, destroying its formation and annihilating the manor.
• Lan Yu selected the Death Sacred Hall, and Chu Kuangren’s punch shattered its protective shield and stone coffin, destroying the hall.
• Lan Yu chose Piaomiao Heaven, and Chu Kuangren’s Finger Force swept through its Secret Realm and annihilated it.
• Lan Yu selected Guixu, and Chu Kuangren sent the Kunwu Sword across the sea, destroying Deep Sea Guixu with a storm of Sword Qi.
• The mighty cultivators who witnessed the destruction of all four traditions were shaken speechless.

Chu Kuangren discovered a mysterious stone stele in the ruins of Yellow Springs Manor, then attacked the Xuanhuang Divine Palace. Quasi-Emperor Wuyue intervened, and after Chu Kuangren declared he would kill her in three moves, their first clash left her wounded while he remained unharmed.

• Chu Kuangren found a black stone stele in Yellow Springs Manor that his Space Transport Technique could not move.
• Chu Kuangren sent tens of thousands of Runes Swords against the Xuanhuang Divine Palace, shattering its Defensive Formation and devastating its grounds.
• Quasi-Emperor Wuyue arrived and destroyed the Runes Swords with a storm of Spiritual Power and Daoist Rhyme.
• Chu Kuangren appeared before Wuyue and said he would kill her in three moves; she attacked him with a streak of black light.
• Chu Kuangren countered with the Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Art, wounding Wuyue while emerging from their clash unscathed.

Chu Kuangren defeated and killed Quasi-Emperor Wuyue with his Emperor-Grade Thunder Talisman, then annihilated the remaining people of the Xuanhuang Divine Palace. He left as witnesses recognized him as the world's number one.

• Chu Kuangren endured Quasi-Emperor Wuyue's attack and wounded her with his second sword strike, resisting her Blood Crow's Delusion.
• Chu Kuangren summoned an Emperor-Grade Thunder Talisman infused with Heavenly Punishment Daoist Rhyme and destroyed Quasi-Emperor Wuyue despite an elder's plea to stop.
• Chu Kuangren challenged the unseen elder to reveal his location so he could slay him, but the elder withdrew after warning him about his violence.
• Chu Kuangren killed Changqin Saint King and everyone else remaining in the Xuanhuang Divine Palace.
• Witnesses reflected that five top Daoist Traditions had fallen in one night and hailed Chu Kuangren as the world's number one.

After taking the Yellow Springs Stele from Zhan Hongying, Chu Kuangren returned to Mystic Heaven Sect and learned that Shang Qingxue had gone missing. Unable to find her with his Spirit Thought, he prepared to visit Desolate Origin Palace, where she was last known to be.

• Zhan Hongying found the Yellow Springs Stele in Yellow Springs Manor’s ruins, but Chu Kuangren claimed it as his spoils and refused to return it until he had studied it.
• Zhan Hongying explained that the stele was the Yellow Springs Formation Core, which helped seal the passage to the Demon Realm, and warned that the Demon Realm could invade again soon.
• Chu Kuangren took the stele to Mystic Heaven Sect, where Elder Ruyan and the White-Robed General told him Shang Qingxue had stopped responding to them.
• Chu Kuangren searched Firmament Star with his Spirit Thought but found no trace of Shang Qingxue.
• Elder Ruyan said Shang Qingxue was last contacted in Nebula Dao Province, and Chu Kuangren decided to visit Desolate Origin Palace, the place Liu Yiqing came from.

The Desolate Origin Palace's Palace Lord learned that Zhang Xuan had imprisoned a Mystic Heaven Sect disciple and feared Chu Kuangren's retaliation. When Chu Kuangren arrived, he asked the palace to help find his missing disciple, leaving the Palace Lord and Zhang Xuan terrified.

• The Palace Lord berated Zhang Xuan for capturing a Mystic Heaven Sect disciple and warned that he might sacrifice his grandson to appease Chu Kuangren.
• Zhang Xuan said he had kept the woman locked in the Secluded Pavilion and had not harmed her.
• Liu Yiqing returned with two guests, and Zhang Xuan mocked him for treating them with such deference.
• The Palace Lord recognized Chu Kuangren as one of Liu Yiqing's guests and reacted in shock.
• Chu Kuangren asked the Desolate Origin Palace to help find his missing disciple, and the hall fell silent.

Chu Kuangren found Shang Qingxue imprisoned in the Desolate Origin Palace, where Zhang Xuan had abused and starved her, and she killed Zhang Xuan after being rescued. Chu Kuangren forced the palace to pay compensation and a ransom, then set out with his companions as a new opportunity appeared and the White-Robed General asked to join the Mystic Heaven Sect.

• Chu Kuangren confronted the Desolate Origin Palace Master and Zhang Xuan, who revealed that Shang Qingxue was being held in the Secluded Pavilion.
• Chu Kuangren and the White-Robed General found Shang Qingxue, who lowered her sword and wept when she recognized Chu Kuangren.
• Shang Qingxue told Chu Kuangren that Zhang Xuan had poisoned and imprisoned her for two months, leaving her without food or water as she resisted him.
• Chu Kuangren ordered Shang Qingxue to deal with Zhang Xuan, and she killed him before fainting from exhaustion; the White-Robed General caught her and thought she resembled Ayu.
• Chu Kuangren demanded ransom for Liu Yiqing and compensation for Shang Qingxue, and the Desolate Origin Palace paid a vast sum of resources.
• After Chu Kuangren and the others left, a pillar of light appeared, and the White-Robed General asked to join the Mystic Heaven Sect.

Chu Kuangren and the White-Robed General arrived at a volcano nourished by a powerful fire-attribute earth vein, where Heavenly Prides gathered to seize the treasures its eruption produced. As the contest began, Chu Kuangren remained still and watched the others compete.

• The White-Robed General accompanied Chu Kuangren to the opportunity, and Chu Kuangren drew the legendary Sealing Sword Formation on the way.
• At the volcano, Desolate Origin Palace Lord explained that a high-grade fire-attribute earth vein had accumulated enough energy to erupt and release treasures.
• Chu Kuangren recognized Xiao Jingchen among the top-ranked Heavenly Prides and chose to leave him alive, while Xiao Jingchen feared provoking him.
• Wang Tianteng, Zhan Hongying's Hell Demon Wolf Pipi, and Hu Meiren used their abilities to claim treasures as lava erupted from the volcano.
• Chu Kuangren and the White-Robed General stayed in midair without moving while the other cultivators fought over the treasures.

Chu Kuangren seized the volcano’s best treasures with his spatial technique while the other cultivators fought over what he ignored. When an Emperor-grade Earth Core Flame appeared, Xiao Hong arrived, drawn by its fire aura.

• Chu Kuangren used his spatial technique to take the earthfire crystals and later Quasi-Emperor-grade treasures before the other cultivators could reach them.
• A Saint complained that Chu Kuangren was taking all the good treasures, but the others disowned him and he retreated.
• A golden light with Emperor-grade energy appeared in the lava, and Chu Kuangren’s Spirit Thought burned away when it approached.
• The cultivators suspected the golden light was an Emperor-grade Earth Core Flame, and several Heavenly Prides prepared to compete for it.
• Xiao Hong arrived as a Divine Phoenix, explaining that the powerful fire aura would help her, while the Heavenly Prides marveled at her and envied Chu Kuangren.

Divine Phoenix Xiao Hong swallowed the Emperor Flame and faced a nine-colored heavenly tribulation to become a Saint. After surviving the first eight bolts, she insisted to Chu Kuangren that she could withstand the final one herself.

• Chu Kuangren let Divine Phoenix Xiao Hong claim the Emperor Flame, and she swallowed it in the volcanic crater.
• The Emperor Flame triggered a nine-colored heavenly tribulation as Xiao Hong flew out of the crater to face it.
• Xiao Hong blocked the first seven lightning bolts, using her strengthened golden flames against the seventh.
• The eighth bolt injured Xiao Hong and scattered her feathers and blood, while Chu Kuangren prepared to intervene if she faltered.
• Xiao Hong told Chu Kuangren she could face the final bolt herself.

The Divine Phoenix survived the nine-colored tribulation by entering nirvana, though everyone believed she had died. When Quasi-Emperor Baili Yin tried to seize her body, Chu Kuangren fought him off and pursued him as he fled.

• The Divine Phoenix endured the ninth tribulation bolt, then severed her life force as part of her nirvana rebirth, which Chu Kuangren confirmed with the Eye of Insight.
• Quasi-Emperor Baili Yin appeared and tried to take the Divine Phoenix's body, but Chu Kuangren blocked his attack and identified him.
• Baili Yin offered treasures in exchange for the Divine Phoenix, but Chu Kuangren refused and attacked him with the Kunwu Sword.
• Chu Kuangren's sword strikes, empowered by heavenly punishment Daoist rhyme, suppressed Baili Yin and wounded his palm.
• Baili Yin fled when he realized he was outmatched, and Chu Kuangren summoned the Space Condensing Character Talisman to stop him.

Chu Kuangren pursued Baili Yin to Netherworld Valley after the Quasi-Emperor escaped his attack as a spirit body. Meanwhile, the Divine Phoenix completed her nirvana and joined Chu Kuangren, who arrived at the valley and discovered it concealed numerous Quasi-Emperors.

• Chu Kuangren slowed Baili Yin with a Space Condensing Character Talisman and attacked him with sword energy infused with Heavenly Punishment Daoist Rhyme.
• Baili Yin self-destructed to escape Chu Kuangren's confinement, leaving behind a spirit body that fled toward Netherworld Valley.
• The Divine Phoenix revived through nirvana, grew stronger, and received the homage of birds across Firmament Star.
• Chu Kuangren tracked Baili Yin's spirit body and transported himself and the Divine Phoenix to Netherworld Valley.
• The Netherworld Valley Master and the valley's Quasi-Emperors sensed Chu Kuangren's arrival, while Chu Kuangren discovered powerful beings hidden behind restrictive barriers.