Chapter Summaries

Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu fought the Ye Family’s three Battle Kings, overpowering them with Sage King Laws and Lan Yu’s spear attack. A Venerable suddenly appeared and wounded Lan Yu, leaving Chu Kuangren facing a new threat.

• Ye Baifeng and the Second Master of the Ye Family attacked Chu Kuangren together, but he countered them with the Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Art and Human Mountain Seal Art.
• The three Ye Family Battle Kings unleashed their Battle King Domains and joined forces against Chu Kuangren, but he held them off even after his spiritual power was suppressed.
• Lan Yu struck the Third Master of the Ye Family with Light Judgment, gravely wounding him and breaking his domain.
• A Venerable attacked Lan Yu from afar, shattering her spear and sending her crashing to the ground, though her armor kept her alive.
• A beautiful woman in a red dress approached and revealed herself as the Venerable who had struck Lan Yu.

Chu Kuangren used the Hongmeng Purple Qi to temporarily boost his cultivation, shocking everyone who wanted it as a path to Sagehood. He reached the peak of the Battle King Realm and injured Li Ruolan with one sword strike, while his power continued to rise toward the Venerable Realm.

• Li Ruolan emerged from seclusion and attacked Chu Kuangren after seeing that he had injured her son, while White Cloud Sword Venerable kept the Seventh Ancestor occupied.
• Chu Kuangren revealed the Hongmeng Purple Qi, drawing the attention of Li Ruolan, Ye Baifeng, and the others.
• Chu Kuangren crushed and absorbed the purple qi, using it to raise his cultivation as everyone condemned him for wasting a foundation for becoming a Sage.
• Chu Kuangren's cultivation surged to the peak of the Battle King Realm, and his sword strike shattered Li Ruolan's flaming red lotus and sent her flying.
• Li Ruolan realized Chu Kuangren was close to breaking through to the Venerable Realm.

After the Hongmeng Purple Qi raised Chu Kuangren to the Venerable Realm, he destroyed White Cloud City’s city lord’s estate and killed White Cloud Sword Venerable. Red rain fell over the city, marking the Supreme Supreme’s death.

• Chu Kuangren’s breakthrough shattered the Heavenly Wilderness Heaven-Locking Formation and sent terrifying pressure across White Cloud City.
• Li Ruolan tried to protect Ye Baifeng and the others, but Chu Kuangren trapped the estate with the Nine Heavens Sword Prison and crushed her with a primordial divine mountain.
• White Cloud Sword Venerable attacked Chu Kuangren, but Chu’s Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Art overwhelmed him and left him gravely wounded.
• White Cloud Sword Venerable revealed that Chu Kuangren possessed the Yuanling Treasure Vault, then Chu’s next strike killed him and destroyed the city lord’s estate.
• Chu Kuangren’s temporary cultivation faded, and red rain fell as the cultivators realized White Cloud Sword Venerable was dead.

After killing White Cloud Sword Venerable, Chu Kuangren dealt with the surviving Ye Lei and admitted he had spent Hongmeng Purple Qi to win the battle. He left the ruined city lord's residence unchallenged, while the cultivators recognized that his name would once again spread across the world.

• Chu Kuangren ordered Lan Yu to search the ruins and kill any survivors, and she found Ye Lei begging for mercy.
• Ye Lei appealed to his friendship with Li Xingchen and denounced his own family, but Chu Kuangren killed him anyway.
• Chu Kuangren collected Heaven and Earth Rings and other spoils from the ruined city lord's residence.
• When cultivators questioned him about the Yuanling Treasure Vault, Chu Kuangren admitted he had used Hongmeng Purple Qi to raise his strength and kill White Cloud Sword Venerable.
• The cultivators were shaken by the loss of the Hongmeng Purple Qi and feared acting against Chu Kuangren and the Mystic Heaven Sect.
• Chu Kuangren left with Li Ye, and the witnesses predicted that his name would shake the world again.

After Chu Kuangren killed the White Cloud Sword Venerable and Ye Lei, news of his feat spread across the Firmament Star and sparked a dispute between major Dao traditions. The Qingyun Dynasty then announced a martial tournament for Princess Linglong to choose her husband, drawing cultivators from across the world.

• Chu Kuangren returned to the White Jade Tower, confirmed that he had killed a Supreme Being and Ye Lei, and sent the injured Lan Yu to rest before entering seclusion.
• Word spread that Chu Kuangren possessed the Yuanling Treasure Vault and had slain the White Cloud Sword Venerable, stunning Li Xingchen and shaking the Azure Dragon Domain.
• The White Lotus Sect Saintess praised Chu Kuangren, while the Qingyun Dynasty's Third Prince mocked his victory; disciples and prodigies from rival traditions joined the ensuing war of words.
• The Qingyun Dynasty announced a martial tournament to choose a husband for Princess Linglong, prompting cultivators and prodigies from across the world to head there.

Chu Kuangren emerged from cultivation after advancing to Nascent Soul Perfection, and the Seventh Ancestor thanked him for restoring his life with the Longevity Pill. After hearing about a marriage tournament for Princess Linglong in the Qingyun Dynasty, Chu Kuangren decided to go and arrived there with Lan Yu and Li Xingchen.

• Chu Kuangren advanced from Nascent Soul Early Stage to Nascent Soul Perfection after absorbing the Hongmeng Purple Qi.
• The Seventh Ancestor bowed to Chu Kuangren in gratitude for the Longevity Pill that had restored him to his peak.
• Lan Yu met Chu Kuangren after standing guard for two days, and he thanked her for watching over him.
• Li Xingchen told Chu Kuangren that killing the White Cloud Sword Venerable had stirred the outside world and described Princess Linglong's marriage tournament and Dark Nether Dao Body.
• Chu Kuangren agreed to travel to the Qingyun Dynasty to see the gathered prodigies, and three days later he, Lan Yu, and Li Xingchen reached its royal capital by immortal boat.

Chu Kuangren watched a fight between rival Saintly Dao Traditions in the Qingyun Dynasty's Royal Capital before Fang Tian of the Wuxing Sect publicly challenged him. Chu Kuangren let Lan Yu face Fang Tian, who began an attack using the Metal element of the Way of the Five Elements.

• Chu Kuangren and Li Xingchen arrived as Huayun of the Lingxu Sacred Land and Lin Batian of Ziyang Valley fought over their traditions' old feud.
• A white-clad cultivator recognized Chu Kuangren and announced himself as Fang Tian of the Wuxing Sect, challenging him before the crowd.
• Li Xingchen told Chu Kuangren that Fang Tian had reached the Void Insight realm after Gu Changge defeated him, then stepped aside.
• Lan Yu offered to fight Fang Tian, and Chu Kuangren said Fang Tian had to defeat her before he could challenge him.
• Fang Tian dismissed Lan Yu as a mere maid, and she summoned her Silver-White Armor and spread her wings.
• Fang Tian formed golden light and unleashed a sharp burst of Sword Qi using the Metal element of the Way of the Five Elements.

Lan Yu fought Fang Tian and revealed the power of her Sacred Light Body, holding off his strongest Sage Law. Princess Linglong arrived to stop the brawl, invited the prodigies to a banquet, and singled out Chu Kuangren because she found him handsome.

• Lan Yu shattered Fang Tian's attacks with the Staff of Light and her powerful techniques, leaving the surrounding cultivators astonished.
• Fang Tian unleashed the Five Elements Great Capture, but Lan Yu manifested the Sacred Light Body and countered it with a spear of light.
• Princess Linglong arrived in a carriage and ordered the cultivators to stop fighting.
• Princess Linglong invited the prodigies to a banquet at Thousand-Island Lake and specifically invited Chu Kuangren.
• Princess Linglong admitted she had expected to show Chu Kuangren no mercy but found him handsome, provoking envy among the other prodigies.

Chu Kuangren attended Princess Linglong’s banquet, where he confronted Huayun and agreed to fight Gu Changfeng. His single sword strike overwhelmed Gu Changfeng, forcing Princess Linglong to intervene and leaving the gathered prodigies shaken by Chu Kuangren’s power.

• Chu Kuangren suspected Princess Linglong was setting him up, but Li Xingchen brought him and Lan Yu to her banquet at Thousand-Island Lake.
• Princess Linglong welcomed Chu Kuangren warmly, and he said Lan Yu was prettier, delighting Lan Yu and irritating the other prodigies.
• Huayun insinuated that Chu Kuangren had relied on Hongmeng Purple Qi to kill the White Cloud Sword Venerable, so Chu Kuangren challenged him to see how many strikes it would take to kill him.
• Gu Changfeng arrived and challenged Chu Kuangren, who accepted and met his Dragon-Killing Fist with a sword strike that shattered the attack and raced toward him.
• Princess Linglong blocked Chu Kuangren’s sword strike before it hit Gu Changfeng, while Fang Tian, Huayun, and the other prodigies were left stunned by Chu Kuangren’s strength.

After Chu Kuangren exposed Princess Linglong’s attempt to test him, she revealed that she wanted him to help her escape an arranged marriage to the Shang Clan Young Emperor. Chu Kuangren refused her offer and left, while Princess Linglong remained unwilling to give up.

• Chu Kuangren claimed that Gu Changfeng could not withstand his sword strike and said even Gu Changge might not survive half of it.
• Princess Linglong sent the other banquet guests away, then asked Chu Kuangren whether he had intended to kill Gu Changfeng; Chu Kuangren accused her of setting him up to test him.
• Princess Linglong explained that her imperial father had promised her to the Shang Clan Young Emperor, who wanted her Dark Nether Dao Body’s Mysterious Nether Essence for cultivation.
• Princess Linglong asked Chu Kuangren to defeat the other contestants and the Shang Clan Young Emperor so he could become her prince consort in name only.
• Chu Kuangren rejected her proposal and her offer of the Mysterious Nether Essence, then left with Lan Yu.

After the Bright Moon Secret Realm reappeared above the North Sea, Chu Kuangren and the other prodigies traveled there, forcing the marriage tournament to be postponed. The Saintly Dao Traditions sealed off the site and prepared to send their disciples into the realm, while Chu Kuangren greeted Elder Ruyan.

• Li Xingchen asked Chu Kuangren about his meeting with Princess Linglong, and Chu Kuangren said they had only discussed cultivation.
• News spread that the Bright Moon Secret Realm, the former residence of the Bright Moon Saint, had appeared above the North Sea, so Li Xingchen urged Chu Kuangren to go there.
• Chu Kuangren brought Lan Yu to the North Sea, and the marriage tournament was postponed as the gathered prodigies headed to the secret realm.
• Supreme Beings and elders from the Saintly Dao Traditions discussed the realm's restrictions and sealed off the area until their disciples arrived.
• Chu Kuangren and Li Xingchen saw Princess Linglong, Gu Changge, and White Lotus Saintess Bai Wanqing among the gathered prodigies.
• Chu Kuangren flew with Lan Yu to Elder Ruyan and greeted her, and she welcomed him.

Chu Kuangren arrived at the Bright Moon Secret Realm and drew the attention of the gathered factions, including the Yaksha Clan’s Xue Lingzi and the Thunder Falcon Clan’s Young Emperor, Lei Ao. Lei Ao challenged Chu Kuangren, who insulted him and provoked the Thunder Falcon experts into threatening him.

• Nangong Huang, Murong Xuan, Elder Ruyan, and the other Black Heaven Daoists greeted Chu Kuangren, while the assembled Venerables admired him and Gu Changge renewed his resolve to seize the secret realm’s opportunities and defeat him.
• Nightblood Supreme Being arrived with Xue Lingzi, and Chu Kuangren used the Eye of Insight to identify Xue Lingzi’s Blood Spirit Dao Body.
• The Thunder Falcon Clan arrived with Lei Ao, one of Firmament Star’s eight outstanding prodigies, and the crowd wondered whether he could match Chu Kuangren.
• Lei Ao demanded that Chu Kuangren step forward, dismissed his Young Emperor reputation, and threatened him with a challenge.
• Chu Kuangren called Lei Ao a feathered beast and threatened to roast him, prompting the Thunder Falcon Clan experts to unleash their oppressive might against him.

Chu Kuangren entered the Bright Moon Secret Realm, where spatial forces separated him from his companions and he discovered a desolate realm filled with death Qi and Black Death Beasts. He joined Princess Linglong after learning about the death Qi, and they found the Bright Moon Saint’s saber embedded in a mountain.

• Chu Kuangren and Lei Ao exchanged threats before the prodigies entered the Bright Moon Secret Realm.
• A spatial force separated Chu Kuangren from Lan Yu, Nangong Huang, and the others, and he explored the desolate realm alone.
• Chu Kuangren killed a Black Death Beast that was attacking Qingyun Dynasty imperial guards.
• Princess Linglong explained that the beast and the realm’s gray mist carried ancient death Qi.
• Chu Kuangren and Princess Linglong agreed to explore together, then spotted the Bright Moon Saint’s personal saber.

Chu Kuangren and Princess Linglong found the Bright Moon Saber, but Lei Ao attacked before they could leave with it. Chu Kuangren took the saber and overpowered Lei Ao, who unleashed his Black Thunder Wings; the chapter ended with Chu Kuangren unharmed and striking back.

• Chu Kuangren and Princess Linglong spotted the Bright Moon Saber and rushed to claim it.
• Lei Ao ambushed them with lightning, but Chu Kuangren shattered the attack and took the saber into his Heaven and Earth Ring.
• Lei Ao revealed his Thunderous Force phenomenon, while Chu Kuangren used two sword phenomena to overpower it.
• Chu Kuangren cut through Lei Ao's Silverlight Thunder and Blackwater Yin-Devouring Thunder, then sent him crashing into a mountain with one sword strike.
• Lei Ao unleashed his Sage Law, Black Thunder Wings, and struck Chu Kuangren with a barrage of lightning.
• Lei Ao claimed the black lightning had invaded Chu Kuangren's body, but Chu Kuangren said he felt nothing and slashed at him with undiminished power.

Chu Kuangren entered the corrosive gray mist to find Lan Yu and rescued Princess Linglong from mutated Black Death Beasts. He used Three Yin Pure King Dust to destroy the beasts, then demanded that Princess Linglong reveal what she knew about the mist.

• Lei Ao's lightning damaged Chu Kuangren, but the Undying Body healed him as a wave of gray mist swept over the battlefield.
• Tentacles dragged several sky-prides into the mist, and Chu Kuangren freed Nangong Huang and the others after learning Lan Yu had been taken inside.
• Chu Kuangren entered the mist alone, endured its corrosive force, and found a barrier blocking his spiritual senses.
• Chu Kuangren found Princess Linglong surrounded by Black Death Beasts and initially left her to keep searching for Lan Yu.
• After Princess Linglong said she knew what the mist was, Chu Kuangren killed the beasts with Three Yin Pure King Dust and demanded that she explain its secrets.

Chu Kuangren traced the gray mist to Blacklight Saint, who had been feeding on prodigies to weaken his seal. Chu Kuangren attacked him but could not break through the sealed Saint’s defenses.

• Princess Linglong explained that the gray mist was a death-qi domain, and Chu Kuangren suspected Blacklight Saint had created it.
• Chu Kuangren refused to save the gravely injured Huayun and watched as the mist corroded him completely.
• A streak of blood-colored light emerged from Huayun’s remains, and Chu Kuangren followed it to an altar deep in the mist.
• Chu Kuangren and Princess Linglong found Blacklight Saint chained to the altar, where he absorbed the blood-colored light and praised the taste of a prodigy.
• Chu Kuangren identified Blacklight Saint’s Taotie Art and attacked, but the Saint blocked his strikes with a barrier of Saintly Daoist Rhyme.

Chu Kuangren learned that Blacklight Saint had lured cultivators into the Bright Moon Secret Realm to feed on them and break free of his seal. With Princess Linglong’s Mysterious Nether Essence, Chu Kuangren quickly condensed a supreme ninth-grade Purple Mansion, leaving Blacklight Saint alarmed but still confident in his power.

• Chu Kuangren’s attacks failed to harm Blacklight Saint, who revealed his plan to consume the secret realm’s prodigies and regain his strength.
• Chu Kuangren left the sealed ground with Princess Linglong and entered a cave to cultivate using treasures from the Yuanling Treasure Vault.
• Princess Linglong offered her Mysterious Nether Essence to help Chu Kuangren break through quickly, and they joined their powers.
• Chu Kuangren condensed a ninth-grade Purple Mansion, producing a magnificent manifestation that Blacklight Saint sensed from within his seal.
• Blacklight Saint recognized Chu Kuangren as the likely source of the supreme foundation and worried that his plan had gained an unforeseen variable.

Chu Kuangren formed a ninth-grade Violet Palace, advanced to the late stage of Void Insight, and went to kill Blacklight Saint. He shattered Blacklight Saint’s death-qi barrier and used the Bright Moon Saber to strike him down, but Blacklight Saint’s Saint Spirit escaped.

• Sky-prides across the secret realm saw a ninth-grade Violet Palace appear in the gray mist, and many suspected Chu Kuangren had formed it.
• The Mysterious Nether Essence let Chu Kuangren and Princess Linglong enter enlightenment, refine their techniques, and rapidly advance their cultivation.
• Chu Kuangren told Princess Linglong to wait while he went to slay a Saint, then confronted Blacklight Saint at the altar.
• Chu Kuangren’s Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Art broke Blacklight Saint’s death-qi barrier, but Blacklight Saint’s Saint Body endured the strike.
• Chu Kuangren threw the Bright Moon Saber and pinned Blacklight Saint with a divine mountain, allowing Bright Moon Saint’s image to sever Blacklight Saint’s head.
• Blacklight Saint’s Saint Spirit fled from his corpse.

Chu Kuangren and Bright Moon Saint joined forces to kill Blacklight Saint, triggering the signs of a Saint’s fall and collapsing the Gray Mist Domain. After Bright Moon Saint’s remnant spirit vanished, Chu Kuangren reunited with Lan Yu and gave Princess Linglong the Bright Moon Saber and Blacklight Saint’s head as her share.

• Chu Kuangren trapped Blacklight Saint’s escaping spirit in the Nine Heavens Sword Prison and destroyed it, causing the Gray Mist Domain to collapse.
• The red rain and cries of beasts revealed that a Saint had fallen, while the people inside the secret realm saw Bright Moon Saint beside Chu Kuangren.
• Bright Moon Saint explained that his remnant spirit had waited in the Bright Moon Saber to kill Blacklight Saint, thanked Chu Kuangren, and allowed him to claim the corpse.
• Bright Moon Saint’s remnant spirit dissipated, and Chu Kuangren stored Blacklight Saint’s corpse before reuniting with Lan Yu.
• Princess Linglong claimed the Bright Moon Saber and Blacklight Saint’s head as her share, leaving Chu Kuangren wondering whether he had paid for sex.

Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu set out to find Nangong Huang and the others while a group of prodigies discovered the Bright Moon Saint's corpse and fought over it. The restriction was broken, and the chapter left Lei Ao battling five prodigies as they vied for the corpse.

• Chu Kuangren gave Lan Yu a vague answer about his ties with the princess, and they set off to find Nangong Huang and the others.
• Lei Ao persuaded the gathered prodigies to help break the restriction around the Bright Moon Saint's corpse, with each agreeing to compete for it afterward.
• Lei Ao, the White Lotus Saintess, the White Lotus Saint Son, Gu Changge, Yuan Hong, and the other prodigies attacked together and shattered the restriction.
• Nangong Huang, Murong Xuan, and the other Mystic Heaven Sect Daoists rushed for the corpse, but Lei Ao knocked them back and tried to seize it.
• The White Lotus Saintess, the White Lotus Saint Son, Gu Changge, Yuan Hong, and Nangong Huang attacked Lei Ao together, and he fought them off without giving them the advantage.