Chapter Summaries

Chu Kuangren emerged to save the Sword Crown, killed three Holy City Void Immortal enforcers with perfected Thousand Lotus Sword Intent, and left Ancient Sparrow City as his reputation spread. Meanwhile, the Immortal Ancient Battlefield appeared in the Qinglan Immortal Realm, drawing powerful Daoist Traditions and cultivators toward it.

• An elderly enforcer prepared to kill the Sword Crown, who lamented that he could once have slain a thousand foes with one stroke.
• Chu Kuangren emerged from a nearby house, displaying perfected Thousand Lotus Sword Intent and shocking the Sword Crown and onlookers.
• Chu Kuangren killed the elderly Void Immortal enforcer with one sword strike, then shredded the two fleeing enforcers with purple lotuses of sword qi.
• Chu Kuangren collected the enforcers' Heaven and Earth Rings, remarked that they were poor, and left Ancient Sparrow City.
• Chu Kuangren's reputation spread across the Qinglan Immortal Realm as people discussed his strength and his ties to the Sword Crown.
• Gray mist revealed the Immortal Ancient Battlefield across a vast mountain range, prompting major Daoist Traditions and cultivators to rush toward it.

As the Immortal Ancient Battlefield emerged, powerful factions and the Twelve Kings prepared to enter it. While Chu Kuangren treated the Sword Crown and learned about the Immortal Realm’s Immortal Seed Kings, he discovered an injured Demon Race member in a cave, only for armed newcomers to surround them.

• Fire God Huang emerged from ten years of seclusion after sensing the Immortal Ancient Battlefield, while Wutong Abyss sent Phoenixes into the world and divine dragons left their island.
• Wu Wuji prepared to enter the battlefield and vowed to kill the outsider who had slain the lord of Ancient Sparrow City.
• Chu Kuangren treated the Sword Crown and learned about the Twelve Kings, the Burial Sword Sea, the divine beast clans, and outsider Dugu Yu.
• After Chu Kuangren finished treating the Sword Crown, Little Fox found a cave filled with deliberate restrictions and an injured Demon Race aura inside.
• As Chu Kuangren, Little Fox, and the Sword Crown turned to leave, several golden streaks arrived and surrounded them with killing intent.

Chu Kuangren and his companions were attacked by the Supreme Demon Court’s Golden Crow Guards, who had come to capture the Azure Luan hiding in a cave. After Chu Kuangren wiped them out, he revealed the woman’s true form, and her Azure Luan Eye showed her that his existence lay beyond the Three Thousand Worlds and Great Dao Reincarnation.

• The Golden Crow Guards found Chu Kuangren and his companions near the cave and decided to kill them to conceal their mission.
• Chu Kuangren shattered the Golden Crow Guards’ attacks and revealed that he wielded Phoenix Fire.
• The Golden Crow Guards recognized Chu Kuangren and threatened him, but he mocked them and destroyed them with A Thought Arises, Heaven and Earth Mourn.
• The Sword Crown resolved to regain his strength so he could protect Chu Kuangren from the powerful Daoist Traditions he had offended.
• Chu Kuangren called out the woman hiding in the cave and identified her as a mutant Azure Luan.
• The Azure Luan used her Azure Luan Eye on Chu Kuangren and saw nothingness in his past, present, future, and fate.

The Azure Luan revealed why the Supreme Demon Court had pursued her and offered Chu Kuangren an Immortal scripture in exchange for returning her to Wutong Mountain. Chu Kuangren kept her with him and discovered that the Azure Luan Mirror came from Kunlun Yaochi and contained the Queen Mother of the West’s Yaochi Immortal Scripture.

• The Azure Luan saw that Chu Kuangren had a destiny of utter nothingness and feared he was a taboo existence.
• Chu Kuangren threatened the Azure Luan to make her explain why the Supreme Demon Court had sent Golden Crow Guards after her.
• The Azure Luan explained that her awakened bloodline had activated the Azure Luan Mirror, helping her escape the Demon Court, and offered Chu Kuangren an Immortal scripture for taking her back to Wutong Mountain.
• Chu Kuangren took the mirror and agreed to keep Qingfeng by his side, leaving her return to Wutong Mountain to his discretion.
• As they traveled toward the Immortal Ancient Battlefield, Chu Kuangren learned from Xiao Ai that the mirror came from Kunlun Yaochi and contained the Queen Mother of the West’s Yaochi Immortal Scripture.

Chu Kuangren obtained a fragment of the Yaochi Immortal Scripture and analyzed Qingfeng’s Azure Luan physique while traveling with his companions. They arrived at Tianluo City, where Lan Yu entered the city and a group of Demon Beast hunters recognized her Light Aura.

• Chu Kuangren realized the Azure Luan Mirror held a fragment of the Yaochi Immortal Scripture and decided to analyze Qingfeng’s physique so he could activate it.
• Chu Kuangren patted Little Fox’s head, then patted Qingfeng’s head as he continued analyzing her physique.
• Chu Kuangren, Little Fox, Qingfeng, and the Sword Crown reached Tianluo City, the city nearest the Immortal Ancient Battlefield.
• Lan Yu entered Tianluo City after paying the entrance fee, and a young man riding a fiery-red lion recognized her Light Aura.
• The young man vowed to make Lan Yu pay for killing his Demon Beasts.

Lan Yu was cornered in Tianluo City by the young master of Beast-Hunting Star, who planned to capture her for his collection. Chu Kuangren sensed her light aura and appeared as the young master prepared to kill her.

• Chu Kuangren and his companions gathered information at an inn about the dangers and treasures of the Immortal Ancient Battlefield.
• Lan Yu fled through Tianluo City while the young master of Beast-Hunting Star and his followers pursued her.
• The city guards sided with the young master after he revealed his status as a Prospective Divine Son of the Divine Flame Illuminati, sealing off Lan Yu's escape routes.
• Lan Yu burned her lifespan origin and fought back, but the young master overwhelmed her and prepared a killing blow.
• Chu Kuangren sensed Lan Yu's light aura, vanished from the inn, and unleashed a chilling killing intent as she smiled and called out to him.

Chu Kuangren arrived in Tianluo City and rescued Lan Yu, then slaughtered the Beast-Hunting Star young lord and the City Defense Army soldiers who had helped him. After killing a Divine Flame Illuminati Divine Son with Phoenix Fire, he faced the Tianluo City Lord and the Illuminati’s remaining Divine Sons, who urged him to stop causing trouble.

• Chu Kuangren healed Lan Yu and promised to handle the people who had injured her.
• Chu Kuangren used his Thousand Lotus Sword Intent to torture and kill the Beast-Hunting Star young lord, then slaughtered the City Defense Army soldiers who had blocked Lan Yu’s escape.
• Sword Crown, Little Fox, and Qingfeng arrived as Chu Kuangren blasted the young lord’s remains into dust.
• The Tianluo City Lord and several Divine Flame Illuminati figures confronted Chu Kuangren at the City Lord’s Manor.
• A Divine Son attacked Chu Kuangren with flames, but Chu Kuangren’s Phoenix Fire consumed the attack and burned the Divine Son to charcoal.
• The Tianluo City Lord, wary of Chu Kuangren’s power, asked him to stop causing trouble while exploring the Immortal Ancient Battlefield.

Chu Kuangren rescued Lan Yu by slaughtering the Divine Flame Illuminati’s divine sons and the Tianluo City Lord, then learned how she had burned half her lifespan to summon him. He and his companions entered the Immortal Ancient Battlefield, while the Holy City and Divine Flame Illuminati vowed to kill him.

• Chu Kuangren attacked the Divine Flame Illuminati’s divine sons and the Tianluo City Lord after finding Lan Yu in danger, killing two divine sons with his Thousand Lotus Sword Intent.
• Chu Kuangren killed thousands of City Defense Army soldiers, all the remaining divine sons, and the Tianluo City Lord before leaving Tianluo City with Lan Yu and his companions.
• Chu Kuangren treated Lan Yu and learned that she had burned at least half her lifespan to release her aura and call for his help.
• Lan Yu explained that she, Chu Hong, and Yin Honghua had been separated after escaping people from Beast-Hunting Star who tried to capture her and Chu Hong.
• Several days later, Chu Kuangren and his companions entered the Immortal Ancient Battlefield, while Wu Wuji and other Holy City and Divine Flame Illuminati members arrived in Tianluo City and vowed to kill him.

Chu Kuangren and his companions reached the Immortal Ancient Battlefield, where an expedition was gathering to attack Ghost-Crying Ridge. He met the Saber King, Huifa, and Fire God Xiao, whose fear of Chu Kuangren left him hiding the man's presence from the others.

• Chu Kuangren heard that the Saber King of the Buried Sword Sea and Huifa of Golden Mountain Temple were leading an expedition to Ghost-Crying Ridge, and went to see for himself.
• The Saber King arrived and displayed his power, but Chu Kuangren used the Omniscient Spirit to assess him and found him unimpressive.
• Huifa arrived in Buddha Light, and Xiao Ai revealed that he had reached the peak of the Heavenly Dao Lord realm and overcome his first tribulation on the Road to Immortality.
• More Immortal Seeds and Giants joined the expedition, including Fire God Xiao, whom Chu Kuangren recognized from their earlier encounter.
• Fire God Xiao sensed Chu Kuangren, remembered being defeated by him, and nervously hid his presence from Huifa; Huifa noticed Chu Kuangren and suspected he was no ordinary person.

Huifa led the group into Ghost-Crying Ridge, where they fought Resentful Spirits and found ancient treasures. When several spirits cornered a pockmarked swordswoman and the others refused to help, Chu Kuangren destroyed them with a casual attack, drawing the attention of Huifa and the Blade King.

• Huifa guided the group through the Resentful Qi surrounding Ghost-Crying Ridge, while Chu Kuangren and his companions remained protected.
• A Resentful Spirit attacked a cultivator reaching for a damaged Immortal Weapon, and the Blade King killed it with the Overbearing Blade Art.
• Huifa used a golden Buddha statue to absorb the dead spirit's Resentful Qi, and Chu Kuangren noticed something unusual about the statue.
• Fire God Xiao burned Resentful Spirits with the Bone-Eroding Poison Flame as the group fought deeper inside the ridge.
• The Blade King and Huifa left a pockmarked swordswoman to face several Resentful Spirits alone, but Chu Kuangren destroyed them with weapons formed from Spiritual Power.

Chu Kuangren saved a pockmarked woman in Ghost-Crying Ridge, then refused the Blade King's demand for a sword duel. The woman revealed she was the Zither Crown's daughter and stood up for Chu Kuangren as the Blade King prepared to attack.

• Chu Kuangren saved the pockmarked woman, who thanked him and then helped other cultivators fight resentful spirits.
• The Sword Crown recognized the Dragon's Cry Sword Art used by besieged Dragon's Cry Sword Sect cultivators and watched as they and the woman escaped the spirits.
• The Blade King demanded that Chu Kuangren draw his sword, but Chu Kuangren told him he was not worthy.
• The pockmarked woman warned the Blade King to prioritize their fight against the resentful spirits, but he threatened her and the Dragon's Cry Sword Sect cultivators.
• The woman declared that she was the Zither Crown's daughter, wiped away her pockmarks, and displayed her Jade Token from Nine Heavens Ringing Jade Manor.

After saving Xue Qinxin, the Zither Crown’s daughter, Chu Kuangren ignored the attention she drew and killed cultivators who tried to attack him. The group reached Ghost-Crying Ridge’s strongest wraith, and Huifa led the others into battle while Chu Kuangren watched.

• Xue Qinxin revealed her identity and warned Blade King not to attack Chu Kuangren, so Blade King withdrew.
• Huifa urged everyone to continue exploring Ghost-Crying Ridge, and Chu Kuangren told the Sword Crown he was saving his attention for something more interesting.
• Xue Qinxin approached Chu Kuangren, while jealous cultivators mocked him and one attacked him with a concealed weapon.
• Chu Kuangren sent the concealed weapon back to kill its wielder, then destroyed the other provocateurs with spiritual power weapons.
• A giant, spider-like wraith charged from the forest, and Huifa and the other Immortal Seeds attacked it as Chu Kuangren watched.

Huifa revealed that he had lured the Immortal Seed Heavenly Prides to Ghost-Crying Ridge to fuel the Resentful Buddha with their blood essence. After Huifa overpowered Blade King, Blade King used his Immortal bloodline to escape through the barrier, leaving the others trapped.

• Huifa, Blade King, and the other Immortal Seed Heavenly Prides defeated Ghost-Crying Ridge's strongest Resentful Spirit, and Huifa's Buddha statue absorbed its resentful qi.
• Huifa revealed that the statue was the Resentful Buddha and trapped everyone in a barrier, admitting he had lied about purifying the resentful qi and intended to use their blood essence to activate it.
• Huifa killed several fellow monks from Golden Mountain Temple, and the Resentful Buddha absorbed their blood essence.
• Blade King attacked the Resentful Buddha, but Huifa blocked his strikes and revealed that he had passed the first of the Three Calamities and Nine Tribulations.
• Blade King activated his Immortal bloodline, tore open the barrier, and escaped as Huifa turned to the remaining Immortal Seed Heavenly Prides.

Chu Kuangren revealed himself and defeated Huifa, whose power came from the Evil Buddha Sect's legacy. The chapter ended with Huifa fleeing after Chu Kuangren chose to let him go, curious about the secrets he still concealed.

• Huifa attacked the Heavenly Pride Immortal Seeds inside the Grievance Buddha Barrier, but Chu Kuangren stepped forward and cut apart Huifa's Great Brahma Heaven Palm with the Thousand Lotus Sword Intent.
• Chu Kuangren overwhelmed Huifa with several kinds of origin power despite not having stepped onto the Road to Immortality.
• The Sword Crown recognized Huifa's blood-red Grievance Buddha Manifestation as the Evil Buddha Sect's legacy, and Huifa identified Chu Kuangren as the outsider behind recent killings.
• Chu Kuangren broke Huifa's Grievance Buddha Manifestation and separated it from the Grievance Buddha Statue.
• Huifa fled, but Chu Kuangren stopped the Sword Crown from pursuing him, saying he wanted to see what secrets Huifa revealed next.

Chu Kuangren defeated Huifa and Fire God Xiao at Ghost-Crying Ridge, then cleared the other cultivators from the area and began seclusion to refine a Divine Flame and cultivate the Yaochi Immortal Scripture. Huifa escaped and planned to find the other parts of the Resentful Buddha and recruit allies against Chu Kuangren.

• Chu Kuangren took the Resentful Buddha from Huifa and learned it was one of three fragments of the Evil Buddha Sect's Immortal weapon.
• The Sword Crown revealed himself to the Dragon's Cry Sword Sect as the wielder of the Azure Lotus Immortal Sword, while Chu Kuangren killed Fire God Xiao and absorbed the Bone-Eroding Poison Flame.
• Chu Kuangren ordered everyone to leave Ghost-Crying Ridge, and Xue Qinxin gave him a token to visit Nine Heavens Ringing Jade Manor.
• Chu Kuangren asked the Sword Crown to guard Lan Yu and the others, then entered seclusion to refine the poison flame and cultivate the Yaochi Immortal Scripture.
• Huifa resolved to find the other two Resentful Buddha fragments and seek allies among Chu Kuangren's enemies.

Chu Kuangren comprehended the Yaochi Immortal Scripture during a year of seclusion, while Lan Yu grew frustrated with her limits and sensed a summons from afar. He emerged wielding the Azure Luan Mirror and several newly comprehended origin powers, leaving Qingfeng to realize he had mastered the scripture.

• Chu Kuangren used the Azure Luan Mirror to reveal the Yaochi Immortal Scripture and spent a year comprehending it.
• Lan Yu advanced to the Great Dao Lord realm but remained dissatisfied with her strength and sensed a real summons from a distant direction.
• The Sword Crown, Qingfeng, and Little Fox discussed whether Lan Yu’s summons could lead to an opportunity, while Little Fox offered to accompany her.
• Chu Kuangren’s cave shook as powerful Emperor Qi and slaughter, life, death, and spacetime origins erupted from within.
• Chu Kuangren emerged with the Azure Luan Mirror, shocking Qingfeng, who recognized it and suspected he had comprehended the Yaochi Immortal Scripture.

Chu Kuangren mastered new origin powers from the Yaochi Immortal Scripture and the Time-Space Treasure Mirror, then set out to investigate an opportunity Lan Yu sensed. Meanwhile, Huifa, Wu Wuji, and Fire God Huang headed for ancient ruins, where Gu Liufang found a scroll about life in the distant past.

• Chu Kuangren comprehended life, slaughter, death, and spacetime origin powers and gained control of the Azure Luan Mirror, but promised Qingfeng he would still escort her to Wutong Mountain.
• Lan Yu told Chu Kuangren about an opportunity she sensed, and he agreed to investigate it with her companions.
• Huifa activated two resentful Buddhas after killing Immortal Seed Heavenly Prides, then met Wu Wuji and Fire God Huang and joined them in seeking ancient Daoist tradition ruins.
• Huifa, Wu Wuji, and Fire God Huang discussed their plans to confront Chu Kuangren and traveled toward the ruins.
• At the ruins, Gu Liufang of the Hundred Schools Academy defeated cultivators who tried to seize his ancient scroll and discovered it recorded customs and ways of life from the distant past.

Chu Kuangren explored ancient Daoist ruins with Lan Yu and met Gu Liufang, where they uncovered fragments about the Eastern Emperor and Haotian Immortal Courts. He then intervened when the Blade King nearly killed the outsider Immortal Seed King Gu Wuqing, whose sword art resembled the Phantom Nether Seven Emotions Melody.

• Chu Kuangren used Xiao Ai to analyze the ruins and followed Lan Yu's mysterious summons into the ancient Daoist Tradition.
• Chu Kuangren and Gu Liufang gathered damaged library pages and learned that the Eastern Emperor and Haotian Immortal Courts had fought at Mount Buzhou.
• Chu Kuangren recognized Gu Liufang as an Immortal Seed King from the Hundred Schools Academy, and they exchanged information about the ancient Immortal Realm.
• Chu Kuangren saw the Blade King fighting outsider Immortal Seed King Gu Wuqing and recognized Gu Wuqing's sword art as the Phantom Nether Seven Emotions Melody.
• The Blade King struck down Gu Wuqing and prepared to kill him, but Chu Kuangren appeared and shattered the saber shadow with a punch.

Chu Kuangren saved Gu Wuqing by defeating the Blade King with one strike, then learned that the Ancient Immortal had died and the Gu Family had been destroyed. The cultivators discovered a dead Featherfolk Immortal protected by a powerful force field, and Wutong Mountain’s Phoenix Son and Phoenix Maiden arrived as they tried to reach her.

• Chu Kuangren shielded Gu Wuqing from the Blade King and defeated the Blade King with a single sword strike.
• Chu Kuangren healed Gu Wuqing and revealed that the Ancient Immortal had taught him Phantom Nether Seven Emotions Melody.
• Gu Wuqing told Chu Kuangren that the Ancient Immortal had died years earlier and the Gu Family had been destroyed.
• A pillar of light led the cultivators to a Featherfolk woman whose body remained protected by the power of her Immortal Consciousness.
• The cultivators failed to break the force field around the woman, and Wutong Mountain’s Phoenix Son and Phoenix Maiden arrived.

Lan Yu received the inheritance inside the Featherfolk woman's cocoon, and Chu Kuangren protected her from cultivators who tried to seize it. Feng Shangyun challenged Chu Kuangren, whose Phoenix Fire proved stronger, before Qingfeng revealed that she was Wutong Mountain's Young Clan Leader.

• Lan Yu entered the Immortal Force Field and received the inheritance from the cocoon of light.
• After the cocoon vanished, cultivators attacked Lan Yu, but Chu Kuangren killed one and warned the crowd not to touch her.
• Feng Shangyun challenged Chu Kuangren, who countered his Phoenix Fire with an even stronger flame.
• Qingfeng stopped Feng Shangyun and Huang Yinghong from attacking Chu Kuangren, and Huang Yinghong recognized her as Wutong Mountain's Young Clan Leader.
• Qingfeng apologized to Chu Kuangren for hiding her identity and told the Phoenixes that he was her friend.