Chapter Summaries

Chu Kuangren killed Wang Hang and defeated the Wang Family’s Great Dao Lords at the Moon-Watching Platform. After Shenyue Dao Lord suppressed the Wang Family patriarch, Chu Kuangren turned his attention to Ziying, the last one remaining.

• Wang Hang attacked Chu Kuangren with his black saber, but Chu Kuangren revealed his defensive Heavenly Dao Weapon, shattered Wang Hang’s armor, and killed him.
• The Wang Family’s Great Dao Lords arrived and attacked Chu Kuangren, but he killed one with Heaven and Earth Reversed.
• The Wang Family patriarch intervened from afar, but Shenyue Dao Lord’s Sword Shadow suppressed him in a single clash.
• Chu Kuangren used A Thought Arises to wound the Wang Family’s Great Dao Lords, then drew Kunwu and killed them one by one.
• Chu Kuangren faced the pale Ziying and said that only she remained.

Chu Kuangren killed Ziying after the Lunar Wheel Gathering, then became famous as the Poet Sword Immortal for his poem and swordsmanship. He upgraded Kunwu to a Heavenly Dao Weapon and began awakening Tang Haitang’s Immortal Physique on an icy star, where she was sealed inside ice as the formation gathered cold qi.

• Chu Kuangren killed Ziying with a strike of Sword Qi despite Ziying threatening him with Purple Star’s retaliation.
• News of Chu Kuangren’s poem and his swordsmanship spread through Shenyue Ancient City and the Purple-Gold Star System, earning him the title Poet Sword Immortal.
• Chu Kuangren infused Purple Gold Source into Kunwu, advancing it into a Heavenly Dao Weapon.
• Shenyue Dao Lord told Chu Kuangren that the materials for awakening Tang Haitang’s Immortal Physique were ready.
• Chu Kuangren, Tang Haitang, and Shenyue Dao Lord traveled to an icy star, where Dust Heaven Void Immortal activated a formation and Tang Haitang was frozen into an ice sculpture.

Chu Kuangren helped Tang Haitang awaken her Guanghan Immortal Body, then absorbed its mysteries into his Book of Physiques. While they cultivated after returning to Shenyue Ancient City, Purple Star's Second Sequence Zi Tianhen challenged Chu Kuangren.

• Chu Kuangren used Phoenix Fire and other methods to awaken Tang Haitang's Immortal Body while Dust Heaven Void Immortal shielded Ice and Snow Star from its power.
• Tang Haitang awakened the Guanghan Immortal Body and instantly advanced to the Upper Heavenly Venerable Realm.
• Chu Kuangren analyzed the Immortal Body's Dao Patterns and added the Guanghan Immortal Body to his Book of Physiques.
• Chu Kuangren and Tang Haitang returned to Shenyue Ancient City and entered closed-door cultivation.
• After Zi Tianhen lost his challenge against Purple Star's First Sequence, he challenged Chu Kuangren, stirring an uproar.

Chu Kuangren refined the Moonlight Essence, entered the Origin Realm, and comprehended a wisp of moon origin while advancing to the late-stage Great Dao Lord realm. After emerging from closed-door cultivation in Shenyue Ancient City, he learned of Zi Tianhen’s challenge, and Zi Tianhen was informed that he had appeared.

• Zi Tianhen challenged Chu Kuangren and waited outside Shenyue Ancient City, ordering his people to watch the City Lord’s Manor.
• Chu Kuangren refined the Moonlight Essence, entered the Origin Realm, and followed it to a vision of a bright moon rising over the sea.
• Chu Kuangren comprehended a wisp of moon origin and absorbed the moonlight within him, reaching the late-stage Great Dao Lord realm.
• Chu Kuangren sensed his increased strength, learned that Zi Tianhen had challenged him, and walked out of his room.
• The cultivators watching Chu Kuangren reported his emergence, and Zi Tianhen received the news.

After emerging from seclusion, Chu Kuangren ignored Zi Tianhen’s challenge and spent his days relaxing while secretly training his souls. At the Wind and Moon House, he played the zither to accompany a sword dance, leaving the gathered audience captivated.

• Zi Tianhen learned Chu Kuangren had emerged and waited outside Shenyue Ancient City, intent on fighting him.
• Chu Kuangren told Shenyue Dao Lord he would ignore Zi Tianhen, while secretly training his Human Soul and Earth Soul in the Spirit Illusion Realm.
• As Chu Kuangren continued to avoid the challenge, rumors spread that he was afraid to face Zi Tianhen.
• At the Wind and Moon House, Chu Kuangren drank Boundless Wind and Moon and rewarded the dancers with spiritual marrow.
• Chu Kuangren played the zither to accompany the dancers’ sword routine, then praised them and raised a toast as the audience watched in awe.

Chu Kuangren entertained the Wind and Moon House with a masterful zither performance before Zi Tianhen confronted him over refusing a challenge. Chu Kuangren rejected Zi Tianhen as unworthy and released an overwhelming aura, leaving Shenyue Dao Lord expecting him to make his move.

• Chu Kuangren played a dazzling zither piece, named it for the Wind and Moon House, and accepted a toast from Xiaoyue and the dancers.
• Cultivators insulted Chu Kuangren for avoiding Zi Tianhen's challenge, so the Fengyue Workshop Mistress drove them out and apologized to Chu Kuangren.
• Zi Tianhen appeared as an Emperor Thought projection and demanded that Chu Kuangren accept his challenge to settle their grievances.
• Chu Kuangren declared Zi Tianhen unworthy of being his opponent and unleashed such immense pressure that Zi Tianhen's projection collapsed.
• Chu Kuangren rose into the air with a flask of Boundless Wind and Moon as his aura continued to climb, and Shenyue Dao Lord said he was finally going to act.

At the Wind and Moon House, Chu Kuangren revealed that he had advanced to the late Great Dao Lord Realm and killed Zi Tianhen with a sword attack launched from tens of millions of miles away. His victory spread the name of the Poet Sword Immortal throughout the Star System.

• Powerful cultivators sensed Chu Kuangren’s aura and realized he had advanced to the late Great Dao Lord Realm in just a few months.
• After locating Zi Tianhen on a distant planet, Chu Kuangren drank Boundless Wind and Moon, recited a poem, and unleashed a stream of Sword Qi from his mouth.
• Zi Tianhen used his Immortal Art, Star River Annihilates the World, but Chu Kuangren’s Sword Qi shattered the star river and continued toward him.
• Zi Tianhen summoned the Shenluo Tiangang Shield, but the Sword Qi broke through it, killed him, and destroyed the planet.
• Chu Kuangren dismissed Zi Tianhen as trash, while witnesses praised him as the Poet Sword Immortal and spread news of his victory across the Star System.

After declining offers from the major powers, Chu Kuangren drew Divine Enlightenment Wine, whose fragrance intoxicated cultivators across Shenyue Ancient City. He and Shenyue Dao Lord drank it and improved their understanding of the Dao, and Chu Kuangren arranged to source ingredients for making more.

• Chu Kuangren examined the Moon Origin that had helped him kill Zi Tianhen and withdrew it into his body.
• Chu Kuangren drew the God-tier prize Divine Enlightenment Wine and opened its jar, intoxicating people for hundreds of miles around the City Lord's Manor.
• Chu Kuangren tasted the wine, experienced a surge of insight, and asked Xiao Ai to analyze its ingredients.
• Chu Kuangren shared cups of Divine Enlightenment Wine with Shenyue Dao Lord, and both passed out before waking with improved understanding of the Dao.
• Chu Kuangren took the analyzed recipe to the Three Thousand Trade Company and asked Elder Li to find as many rare ingredients as possible.

The Violet Star Temple Lord resolved to kill Chu Kuangren and destroy Firmament Star, assigning the Yellow Dharma Protector to lead the destruction while Zixiao joined the hunt. As Chu Kuangren entered deep enlightenment in Shenyue Ancient City, the Yellow Dharma Protector arrived at Firmament Star and prepared to attack.

• The Violet Star Temple Lord and the four Dharma Protectors agreed to kill Chu Kuangren and destroy Firmament Star, with the Purple Star Ancestor tasked to hold off Dust Heaven Void Immortal.
• The Violet Star Temple Lord ordered the Yellow Dharma Protector to investigate Zi Wuhen’s disappearance on Firmament Star, and Zixiao volunteered to join the expedition against Chu Kuangren.
• Chu Kuangren drank more than half a jar of Divine Enlightenment Wine in his room at Shenyue Ancient City and used it to pursue higher levels of A Thought Arises and the Invincible Law.
• The Yellow Dharma Protector reached Firmament Star, vowed to destroy it, and transformed into a streak of light heading toward the planet.

A battle puppet left behind by Chu Kuangren confronted Purple Star’s Yellow Dharma Protector, who attacked Firmament Star. The puppet summoned Firmament Star’s Heavenly Dao to help defend the planet, leaving Yellow Dharma Protector shocked by Chu Kuangren’s status as its Star Lord.

• Lan Yu, Gu Linglong, Myriad Laws Dao Lord, Sword Dao Master, and the others sensed powerful Demon Qi approaching Firmament Star.
• Chu Kuangren’s Heavenly Dao Lord Battle Puppet emerged from the Emperor Palace, took his likeness, and flew to confront the threat with the Human King Seal.
• Yellow Dharma Protector attacked Firmament Star’s Hate Separation Heaven Formation, but the Human King Seal destroyed his blood-wolf strike.
• Yellow Dharma Protector recognized Chu Kuangren’s figure as a battle puppet and fought it with his true form and starlight-powered attacks.
• Chu Kuangren’s battle puppet used the Invincible Law to repel Yellow Dharma Protector’s attacks, but Yellow Dharma Protector targeted Firmament Star with many more orbs.
• Chu Kuangren summoned Firmament Star’s Heavenly Dao, and Yellow Dharma Protector realized Chu Kuangren was the planet’s Star Lord.

Chu Kuangren merged with Firmament Star's Heavenly Dao and killed the Purple Star Dharma Protector who threatened the planet. Meanwhile, Purple Star's army arrived at Shenyue Ancient City, where Shenyue Dao Lord chose to defend Chu Kuangren and the Wang Family forefather left hoping to ally with Purple Star.

• Chu Kuangren merged with Firmament Star's Heavenly Dao, blocked the blood-colored giant wolf's attacks with the Human King Seal, and killed him.
• Shenyue Dao Lord sensed tens of thousands of Purple Star warships approaching Shenyue Ancient City and raised the city's defensive formation.
• Zixiao demanded that Shenyue Dao Lord hand over Chu Kuangren, while residents and factions began leaving the city.
• The Wang Family forefather and other powerful cultivators urged Shenyue Dao Lord to surrender Chu Kuangren, but Shenyue Dao Lord refused and pledged to protect him.
• The Wang Family forefather left Shenyue Ancient City, considering an alliance with Purple Star.

Dust Heaven Void Immortal fought a withered old man on Dust Heaven Star while Purple Star attacked Shenyue Ancient City. Experts from across the Purple-Gold Star System arrived to repay Dust Heaven Void Immortal’s favors, but Zixiao ordered Purple Star’s forces to fight on, leaving the battle about to begin.

• Dust Heaven Void Immortal received Shenyue Dao Lord’s message, and a withered old man arrived in a purple-gold coffin to stop him from going to Shenyue Ancient City; the two Void Immortals began fighting.
• Shenyue Dao Lord thanked the Dao Lords who chose to defend the city, while Zixiao ordered Purple Star’s warships to bombard its defensive formation.
• The Wang Family’s forefather joined Purple Star’s army, and Shenyue Dao Lord prepared the city for battle as its barrier began to weaken.
• Yang Xiao arrived and destroyed dozens of warships, declaring that he had come alone to repay Dust Heaven Void Immortal’s favor.
• Lion Ridge Dao Lord, Cloud Sky, An Tian, and other powerful figures arrived to aid Shenyue Ancient City and protect Chu Kuangren in repayment of Dust Heaven Void Immortal’s kindness.
• Zixiao rejected Yang Xiao’s challenge and ordered Purple Star’s experts to attack, and Yang Xiao prepared to fight.

Purple Star and Shenyue Ancient City’s forces fought as their Heavenly Dao Lords engaged one another and Zixiao attacked the city’s defenses. After the grand formation and most of the City Lord’s Manor were destroyed, one protected room remained intact, revealing where Chu Kuangren was hiding.

• Yang Xiao volunteered to fight the Black and White Twin Stars, while Shenyue Dao Lord and the other Heavenly Dao Lords took on Purple Star’s remaining opponents.
• Shenyue Dao Lord trapped the Wang Family Ancestor in a Prison Cage Sword Qi, preventing him from reaching the City Lord’s Manor.
• Zixiao blocked a late Great Dao Lord’s attack, killed him with a single strike, and taunted Chu Kuangren for refusing to emerge.
• Zixiao’s warships shattered Shenyue Ancient City’s grand formation and bombarded the City Lord’s Manor, reducing it to ruins.
• Zixiao noticed that one room had survived the bombardment, protected by mysterious Dao patterns.

While Zixiao’s forces attacked the restrictions around the City Lord’s Manor, Chu Kuangren slept through the assault and awakened after his Emperor Qi shattered the incoming beams. He had created two Immortal Arts, A Thought Arises and the Invincible Law, and left the assembled experts stunned.

• Zixiao ordered the warships to bombard the restrictions protecting Chu Kuangren’s room, destroying most of them.
• Zixiao taunted Chu Kuangren, but the room answered with a soft snore, infuriating him.
• As the warships fired their final attack, Chu Kuangren’s Emperor Qi shattered the room’s remaining restrictions and crushed the energy beams.
• The experts found Chu Kuangren asleep on his bed as Immortal Art fluctuations and a seal of Dharma verification appeared around him.
• A second seal of Dharma verification formed, revealing that Chu Kuangren had created two Immortal Arts.
• Chu Kuangren woke and recalled using the Divine Enlightenment Wine to develop A Thought Arises and the Invincible Law into Immortal Arts.

Chu Kuangren woke to find Purple Star’s army attacking him and slaughtered their cultivators while reciting poetry. He left the surviving troops terrified as the Shenyue Dao Lord and his allies kept Purple Star’s Heavenly Dao Lords from reaching him.

• Chu Kuangren used his newly formed Immortal Art, the Heavenly Vortex, to absorb the Dao Lords’ attacks and turn them back, killing several of them.
• Chu Kuangren dressed, fastened Kunwu at his waist, and beheaded a Dao Lord who had ordered the army to engage.
• Chu Kuangren charged into the Purple Star troops, reciting poetry as he cut down cultivators without suffering a scratch.
• The Purple Star army recoiled from Chu Kuangren, who drank Boundless Wind and Moon while the watching cultivators praised the Poet Sword Immortal.
• The Purple Star Heavenly Guardian moved to attack Chu Kuangren, but the Shenyue Dao Lord, Yang Xiao, the Lord of the Moon Palace, and an unnamed old man held him and the other Heavenly Dao Lords back.

Chu Kuangren faced Purple Star’s First Sequence, Zixiao, and overwhelmed him despite Zixiao wielding two Heavenly Dao Weapons. Zixiao unleashed his strongest Immortal Art, but Chu Kuangren countered with an art powered by the Guanghan Immortal Body, startling the watching Heavenly Dao Lords.

• Zixiao confronted Chu Kuangren and equipped the Purple Star Divine Astral Armor and Purple Dragon Saber.
• Chu Kuangren shattered Zixiao’s saber attack, beat him in close combat, and kicked him into a crater, cracking his armor.
• Zixiao used Star River Annihilates the World, but Chu Kuangren’s Heaven and Earth Reversed sent him flying and made him vomit blood.
• Zixiao unleashed the Purple Star Divine Eyes, and Chu Kuangren answered with A Thought Arises, Myriad Rivers Smoke Snow Chill, using the Guanghan Immortal Body to freeze and smash the attack.
• The Heavenly Dao Lords recognized that Chu Kuangren was using an Immortal Physique to unleash an Immortal Art.

Chu Kuangren revealed his Immortal Physique and used Nine Dragons Divine Transformation and Heavenly Dao Power to overpower and kill the Wang Family patriarch. He then turned on Zixiao and the Purple Star forces, destroying their warships and slaughtering their cultivators.

• Chu Kuangren shattered Zixiao's Divine Astral Armor with his ice-attribute Immortal Physique, then drove back the Wang Family patriarch with Phoenix Fire.
• Chu Kuangren used Nine Dragons Divine Transformation and Heavenly Dao Power to approach a Heavenly Dao Lord's strength and wounded the Wang Family patriarch with the Venerable Emperor Sword Art.
• Chu Kuangren unleashed Heaven and Earth Reversed and blasted the Wang Family patriarch into a cloud of blood.
• Chu Kuangren turned toward the immobilized Zixiao as Zi Feng ordered the warships to fire, then redirected their energy beams and destroyed the fleet.
• Chu Kuangren summoned countless weapons with A Thought Arises, Myriad Blades Forge Weapon Calamity, killing Purple Star cultivators and striking the Purple Star Sequence.

Chu Kuangren fought the Violet Star Temple Lord’s powerful clone after devastating Purple Star’s forces in Shenyue Ancient City. He killed the clone and renewed his threat to destroy Purple Star, while the real Violet Star Temple Lord vowed revenge.

• Chu Kuangren attacked Zixiao, but the Violet Star Temple Lord’s clone emerged to protect him.
• Chu Kuangren challenged Purple Star, promising to destroy its civilization, and fought the clone with powerful sword techniques and Immortal Arts.
• The Violet Star Temple Lord’s clone unleashed Purple Star Divine Eyes, but Chu Kuangren stopped time with a Supernatural Power.
• Chu Kuangren struck down the clone, and the real Violet Star Temple Lord awoke on Purple Star and swore to kill him.

Chu Kuangren routed Purple Star’s forces at Shenyue Ancient City, surviving Black Star’s self-detonation and killing thousands of fleeing cultivators. He vowed to make Purple Star pay, but said he would wait until the time was right before confronting the civilization.

• Chu Kuangren killed the Violet Star Temple Lord’s clone and Zixiao, then slew White Star with the Venerable Emperor Sword Art.
• Black Star used Fallen Star Explosion in an attempt to kill Chu Kuangren, but Chu Kuangren survived with only minor injuries that healed immediately.
• Chu Kuangren sent Sword Qi Clones after the fleeing Purple Star cultivators, and the slaughter continued for a day, leaving fewer than one-tenth alive.
• Chu Kuangren returned to the late Great Dao Lord realm and assured Shenyue Dao Lord that he would help rebuild Shenyue Ancient City and make Purple Star pay.
• Chu Kuangren said he would not attack Purple Star until the time was right, thanked Yang Xiao and the others for their help, and watched them depart.

After surviving the battle in Shenyue Ancient City, Chu Kuangren collected the ingredients for Divine Enlightenment Wine and enjoyed a brief visit to the Wind and Moon House. He then left the city, while Tang Haitang resolved to work hard to stand beside him.

• The Purple Star Civilization issued a kill order offering ten billion units of spiritual marrow, two Heavenly Dao Weapons, an Immortal Art, and a Guest Elder position for Chu Kuangren's death.
• Chu Kuangren visited the Three Thousand Trade Company, collected the ingredients for Divine Enlightenment Wine from Elder Li, and paid the remaining balance.
• The Fengyue Workshop Mistress invited Chu Kuangren into the Wind and Moon House, where Xiaoyue and the others welcomed him and he listened to music.
• Chu Kuangren said goodbye to Tang Haitang and the Shenyue Dao Lord before leaving Shenyue Ancient City.
• The Shenyue Dao Lord urged Tang Haitang to work hard if she wanted to stand beside Chu Kuangren, and she agreed.