Chapter Summaries

News of Chu Kuangren becoming the White Lotus Sect’s Saint Son spread across the Azure Dragon Domain, prompting other Dao Traditions to prepare for his rise. On his way to Taixu Temple, Chu Kuangren sensed a Quasi-Saint-grade Spirit Medicine and arrived just as two Venerables fought over it.

• Linghai Daoist worried that Chu Kuangren’s growing power threatened Lingxu Sacred Land’s chance at the imperial throne and considered awakening a sealed sky-pride.
• Lin Batian entered a passage of multicolored flames to stake everything on contending with Chu Kuangren.
• Chu Kuangren traveled toward Taixu Temple with three Dao Protectors and refined his plan to incorporate many cultivation methods into the Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Art.
• Chu Kuangren sensed a Quasi-Saint-grade Spirit Medicine and steered the Immortal Boat toward it.
• The Thunder Falcon Venerable used Blood Thunder to injure his Taixu Temple opponent, then rushed for the Spirit Medicine.
• Chu Kuangren’s sword light forced the Thunder Falcon Venerable to dodge, and Chu Kuangren asked him to yield the Spirit Medicine.

Chu Kuangren fought Venerable Thunder Falcon over an exceptional Spirit Medicine, using his White Lotus Purification of the World Chapter to neutralize the Venerable’s blood lightning. He wounded Thunder Falcon and trapped him with the Taotie Technique.

• Venerable Thunder Falcon attacked Chu Kuangren for the Spirit Medicine, and Chu identified him as a member of the Thunder Falcon Clan.
• After recognizing Chu Kuangren, Venerable Thunder Falcon tried to flee, but Chu sealed the area with the Nine Heavens Sword Prison and challenged him to fight.
• Chu fought Thunder Falcon with three Dao Body Phenomena and his Four Supreme Foundations, matching the Venerable’s thunder attacks.
• Venerable Thunder Falcon unleashed the Blood Thunder Technique, but Chu used the White Lotus Purification of the World Chapter to dismantle the blood lightning.
• Chu struck Thunder Falcon with the Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Art, wounded him, and then used the Taotie Technique to draw him toward a black vortex.

Chu Kuangren refined Venerable Thunder Falcon with the Taotie Technique, gaining enough spiritual power to reach the peak of late-stage Void Insight. He visited Taixu Temple to discuss the Dao and met its prodigy, Wuchenzi.

• Chu Kuangren used the Taotie Technique to refine the gravely wounded Venerable Thunder Falcon and reached the peak of late-stage Void Insight.
• Chu Kuangren took the Quasi-Saint-grade treasure and accepted Ling Zheng's invitation to visit Taixu Temple with Lan Yu.
• The Taixu Temple Master welcomed Chu Kuangren and arranged for people to discuss the Dao with him the next day.
• Ling Zheng told the temple's elders that Chu Kuangren had killed Venerable Thunder Falcon, astonishing them.
• Wuchenzi arrived at Chu Kuangren's guest suite and greeted him, while Chu Kuangren examined him with the Eye of Insight.

Chu Kuangren discussed the Dao with Wuchenzi at Taixu Temple and decisively defeated him. After Wuchenzi left dejected, the master of Taixu Temple invited Chu Kuangren to discuss the Dao with him.

• Wuchenzi met Chu Kuangren and proposed that they sit and discuss the Dao.
• Wuchenzi attacked with a series of Taixu Temple techniques, but Chu Kuangren's Heavenly Dao Sword shattered them.
• Wuchenzi unleashed the Sage Law Sunlight Repels Evil, and Chu Kuangren's purple sword light tore through it and struck him.
• Chu Kuangren told Wuchenzi that his Dao and techniques were not strong enough, leaving Wuchenzi dejected despite thanking Chu Kuangren for the discussion.
• The master of Taixu Temple arrived, encouraged Wuchenzi, and invited Chu Kuangren to discuss the Dao with him.

Chu Kuangren accepted the master of Taixu Temple’s invitation to discuss the Dao, and the temple master privately admitted he had initially acted to avenge Wuchenzi. At Longtian Palace, Chu Kuangren effortlessly dispersed several Taixu Temple prodigies’ Daoist Rhymes before sitting opposite the temple master to begin their discussion.

• Chu Kuangren accepted the master of Taixu Temple’s invitation to discuss the Dao at Longtian Palace the next day.
• The Seventh Ancestor warned Chu Kuangren that the temple master’s superior understanding might affect his Dao heart, but Chu Kuangren declared his Dao heart firm as bedrock.
• The temple master told the elders he wanted to test Chu Kuangren’s abilities, though he privately admitted he had first proposed the discussion to vent his anger on Wuchenzi’s behalf.
• Taixu Temple’s cultivators gathered at Longtian Palace, where Qingyun, Feng Xuan, Qingxin, and other prodigies challenged Chu Kuangren with their Daoist Rhymes.
• Chu Kuangren used the Heavenly Dao Sword to disperse the prodigies’ attacks, then entered Longtian Palace and sat opposite the temple master.

Chu Kuangren debated the Dao with the Taixu Temple Master, using his sword arts and White Lotus Purification to withstand the Temple Master's attacks. After refining his understanding during the clash, Chu Kuangren unleashed a stronger sword strike that shattered the Temple Master's Sage Law and won the debate.

• Chu Kuangren acknowledged the Taixu Temple Master's praise and began the Dao debate with a sword attack.
• Chu Kuangren repeatedly used the Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Art to counter the Temple Master's cloud-based Daoist arts.
• The Taixu Temple Master unleashed Sunlight Repels Evil, and Chu Kuangren used White Lotus Purification of the World Chapter to defend himself.
• As the Temple Master's Daoist rhythms threatened to overwhelm him, Chu Kuangren closed his eyes and consolidated his understanding of the techniques and recent Dao debates.
• Chu Kuangren opened his eyes and unleashed a stronger sword strike that shattered Sunlight Repels Evil and the Temple Master's manifestations.
• The Taixu Temple Master admitted defeat after Chu Kuangren asked how he had found the strike.

Chu Kuangren defeated the Taixu Temple Master in a debate on Dao, then deepened his mastery by debating Taixu elders before leaving. His growing fame stirred new rivals and inspired Mystic Heaven Sect disciples, while Venerable Xuanqi lamented that his disciple had become too accomplished to teach.

• Chu Kuangren won the debate with the Taixu Temple Master after breaking through in Daoist Law, shocking the witnesses and earning the Temple Master's respect.
• Chu Kuangren stayed at Taixu Temple for three days, debated its elders more than ten times, and further refined One Sword Breaks Ten Thousand Laws.
• Chu Kuangren left Taixu Temple as news of his victory spread across Firmament Star and astonished its orthodoxies and prodigies.
• Ao Cang joined Lingxu Sacred Land as its Daoist Seed and promised to help it remain invincible if he became an Emperor.
• Lin Batian emerged in Ziyang Valley after taming his ancestor's Sacred Flame and declared that he would not lose to Chu Kuangren.
• Mystic Heaven Sect disciples were inspired by Chu Kuangren's victory to cultivate harder, while Venerable Xuanqi lamented that he had nothing left to teach his outstanding disciple.

Chu Kuangren traveled with his Dao Protectors toward the Wanfa Sect, hoping to refine his Daoist methods, and visited the recruitment assessment in the city below its mountain. When he tried the sect’s aptitude pillar, all nine gemstones lit up, stunning the crowd.

• Chu Kuangren discussed the Dao with his three Dao Protectors and said his Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Art was close to becoming an Emperor Technique.
• Chu Kuangren chose to visit the Wanfa Sect because of its vast collection of cultivation methods.
• Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu went to the city square to watch the Wanfa Sect test candidates with its aptitude pillars.
• Su Tianyi introduced himself as a Wanfa Sect Daoist Seed and brought Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu to the front of the line.
• Chu Kuangren touched the pillar, and all nine gemstones lit up, astonishing Su Tianyi and the crowd.

Chu Kuangren’s aptitude overwhelmed the Wanfa Sect’s testing pillars, while Lan Yu demonstrated nine-star aptitude of her own. Su Tianyi led the cultivators who passed to the Wanfa Sect’s forest of steles for a three-day comprehension test, where Chu Kuangren began studying its thousands of cultivation methods and Lan Yu stayed by his side.

• Chu Kuangren lit all nine gems on a testing pillar, which cracked and shattered; a second pillar met the same fate, so Su Tianyi passed him without further testing.
• Lan Yu lit all nine gems on her testing pillar, which remained intact, and Su Tianyi praised her aptitude.
• Su Tianyi led Chu Kuangren, Lan Yu, and the other successful cultivators to the Wanfa Sect’s forest of steles, containing at least eight thousand cultivation methods.
• Su Tianyi announced that the cultivators had three days to comprehend a method and show results or be eliminated, then left them to begin.
• Chu Kuangren swept his Spirit Thought over the steles to study their Mystic Arts, while Lan Yu refused Qinglan Supreme Being’s offer to guard him and continued standing watch.

Chu Kuangren comprehended the arts recorded in the Ten Thousand Techniques Stele Forest at an astonishing pace, unleashing countless Dao rhythms and phenomena. Wanfa Sect elders and disciples gathered to investigate, and an elder identified him and realized he was comprehending every art in the forest.

• Cultivators in the stele forest struggled to choose which cultivation arts to study while Chu Kuangren stood with his eyes closed and Lan Yu guarded him.
• Chu Kuangren rapidly comprehended hundreds of Mystic Arts, causing diverse Dao rhythms and phenomena to appear throughout the stele forest.
• Lan Yu manifested her silver-white armor and watched over Chu Kuangren as the spectacle alarmed cultivators across the Wanfa Sect.
• Su Tianyi and several disciples hurried into the stele forest after the surge of Dao rhythm, where senior elders had also arrived.
• An elder recognized Chu Kuangren and told the gathered cultivators that he was comprehending every art in the stele forest, leaving them incredulous.

Chu Kuangren comprehended all 8,136 arts in the Wanfa Sect's Stele Forest in half a day, displaying a resonance resembling the legendary Ten Thousand Laws Return to One Dao Body. He then greeted the Wanfa Sect Leader, who welcomed him warmly.

• Su Tianyi and the Wanfa Sect cultivators doubted the elder's claim that Chu Kuangren was comprehending every art in the Stele Forest, then recognized the many Daoist resonances around him.
• As Chu Kuangren's resonances multiplied, some young cultivators lost control and tried to confront him, but the Wanfa Sect elders removed them from the Stele Forest while Lan Yu stood guard.
• The Wanfa Sect Leader arrived and watched as Chu Kuangren continued comprehending the arts.
• Chu Kuangren learned all 8,136 arts, and the Wanfa Sect cultivators saw his Daoist resonance resemble the Ten Thousand Laws Return to One Dao Body.
• Chu Kuangren resolved to incorporate his insights into the Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Art, then introduced himself to the Wanfa Sect Leader, who welcomed him.

Chu Kuangren debated Daoist Law with the Wanfa Sect Leader after comprehending all eight thousand arts in the sect’s Stele Forest. He defeated the Supreme Supreme and declared that he would soon challenge a Saint to debate the Dao.

• The Wanfa Sect Leader welcomed Chu Kuangren and led him from the Stele Forest to the sect’s palace.
• Chu Kuangren asked the Wanfa Sect Leader to debate the Dao, and the leader agreed to meet him on a platform the next day.
• Chu Kuangren and the Wanfa Sect Leader exchanged Daoist arts for a day and a night before Chu Kuangren won.
• The Wanfa Sect Leader admitted defeat and declared that Chu Kuangren had no equal below the Saints in Daoist Law.
• Chu Kuangren said he would soon seek out a Saint to debate, while the cultivators watching doubted he could overcome the gulf between Supreme Beings and Saints.

Chu Kuangren traded the Wanfa Sect a Sage King Law for one day to study its Supreme Laws and Sage Laws. As the day neared its end, he demonstrated every method in the Scripture Repository with a single sword, astonishing the sect’s leaders.

• Chu Kuangren offered the Human Mountain Seal Art in exchange for access to the Wanfa Sect’s cultivation methods, and the Wanfa Sect Master agreed to open them to him for one day.
• Chu Kuangren entered the Scripture Repository and found seventy-four Supreme Laws and four Sage Laws.
• Chu Kuangren used a Golden Dao Comprehension Card alongside Sitting in Forgetfulness and Selflessness to deepen his comprehension.
• After twenty hours, a Daoist resonance erupted from the Scripture Repository and manifested a white-robed figure resembling Chu Kuangren.
• The figure demonstrated all seventy-four methods and four Sage Laws with its sword, leaving the Wanfa Sect Master and elders in shock.

After mastering the Wanfa Sect’s techniques in two days, Chu Kuangren left with his Dao of One Sword Breaks Ten Thousand Laws greatly advanced. News of his feats shocked Firmament Star, while several rivals questioned him and the Mystic Heaven Sect, White Lotus Sect, and Qingyun Dynasty publicly defended him.

• Chu Kuangren emerged from the scripture repository after demonstrating his mastery of the Wanfa Sect’s laws, and the Wanfa Sect Master realized his Ten Thousand Laws Return to One Dao Body had advanced.
• Chu Kuangren thanked the Wanfa Sect Master and left with Lan Yu, while the sect’s disciples watched in admiration and dismay.
• Reports of Chu Kuangren comprehending eight thousand laws and mastering the Wanfa Sect’s techniques spread throughout the Azure Dragon Domain and shocked cultivators across Firmament Star.
• Ao Cang and Lin Batian publicly doubted Chu Kuangren’s achievements and argued that learning too many techniques could hinder cultivation.
• Nangong Huang, the White Lotus Sect, and Princess Linglong publicly backed Chu Kuangren, with Princess Linglong declaring that anyone who slandered her husband was an enemy of the Qingyun Dynasty.

After the Limitless Demon Sect returned and the Mountain River Sect was destroyed, Chu Kuangren traveled to Northern Ridge Dao Province for the demon-extermination operation. He learned the Saintly Dao Traditions had once exaggerated the Demon Sect’s threat to build prestige, then arrived in a town to rescue mortals from demonic cultivators.

• The Limitless Demon Sect’s return and the destruction of the Mountain River Sect prompted the major Dao Traditions to launch a demon-extermination operation, and Venerable Xuanqi sent Chu Kuangren to Northern Ridge Dao Province.
• Aboard the Immortal Boat, the Seventh Ancestor told Chu Kuangren that the Saintly Dao Traditions had made the old Demon Sect seem more powerful to gain prestige and public support.
• In Northern Ridge Dao Province, demonic cultivators and Magic Beasts terrorized mortals after the Mountain River Sect’s destruction.
• Chu Kuangren arrived in a town and killed a demonic cultivator and his Magic Beast with sword light.
• When the remaining demonic cultivators attacked, Chu Kuangren slew their Magic Beasts and used spatial power to stop them from fleeing, revealing that he was at Void Insight.

Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu saved people from demonic cultivators, then he reached a city where his disciples were resisting a much larger force and wiped out the attackers. He learned that the Saintly Dao Traditions were deliberately waiting for the demonic calamity to worsen before intervening, and asked the Seventh Ancestor whether they had done the same during the Limitless Demon Sect’s earlier rampage.

• Chu Kuangren used the Taotie Technique to kill the demonic cultivators attacking a town, then left with Lan Yu after she reported that the others were dealt with.
• Nangong Huang and Murong Xuan defended a city from demonic cultivators while lamenting that the major Dao Traditions had sent no help.
• Chu Kuangren arrived and used the Nine Heavens Sword Prison to trap the attackers, then dispersed three Peak Battle Kings’ strikes with White Lotus Purification.
• Chu Kuangren killed the three demonic leaders and slaughtered the remaining cultivators in the city.
• Nangong Huang told Chu Kuangren that the other disciples were in Mountain River City, while Murong Xuan explained that the Dao Traditions were waiting for the calamity to worsen before stepping in.
• Chu Kuangren asked the Seventh Ancestor whether the Saintly Dao Traditions had acted similarly during the Limitless Demon Sect’s rampage several thousand years earlier.

Chu Kuangren learned that some Saintly Dao Traditions were letting the demonic calamity worsen to gain prestige, merit, and fortune. In Mountain River City, he confronted prodigies who were feasting instead of protecting the people, and left one of them sprawled across the banquet table.

• The Seventh Ancestor admitted to Chu Kuangren that some cultivators from Saintly Dao Traditions cared little about mortal lives.
• At a banquet in Mountain River City, Patriarch Li urged the visiting prodigies to act, but Gu Changge, Lin Batian, and the others said they would wait for more demonic cultivators to appear and reveal the Heavenly Desolate Demon Spear.
• The Shanhe Daoist Seed confronted the prodigies for delaying while commoners suffered, and Gu Changge threatened that his protests could make them act even later.
• Chu Kuangren entered the banquet, mocked the prodigies for feasting while displaced commoners starved, and compared them to dogs dressed to look almost human.
• When a prodigy rebuked him, Chu Kuangren struck him with spiritual power and sent him crashing onto the table.

Chu Kuangren took control of Mountain River City, organized efforts to fight the demonic scourge, and opened the city to refugees. When other Heavenly Prides demanded that he send the refugees away, Chu Kuangren declared he could defeat the demons without them and killed several attackers with a glance.

• Chu Kuangren slapped a Heavenly Pride and announced that Mountain River City was under his control, backed by an order from the Qingyun Ruler placing the Qingyun Dynasty and White Lotus Sect cultivators under him.
• The Li Family Head and Shanhe Daoist Seed joined Chu Kuangren, who learned that demon cultivators were searching for the Heavenly Desolate Demon Spear, a Saint King Artifact once sealed by an ancestor of the Mountain River Sect.
• Chu Kuangren took control of Mountain River City and had local cultivation families open it to refugees fleeing the demonic scourge.
• Fang Tian, Yuan Hong, and other Heavenly Prides confronted Chu Kuangren and demanded that he send the refugees outside the city, but he refused and said he could quell the demonic scourge without them.
• Several Heavenly Prides attacked Chu Kuangren; he froze them in midair, shattered their Daoist Laws, and caused several to burst into clouds of blood.

Chu Kuangren effortlessly neutralized Lin Batian’s Seven-Colored Sacred Flame and defeated him with a single sword strike. After the crowd witnessed the vast gap between them, Ao Cang of Lingxu Sacred Land arrived, and Chu Kuangren recognized him as a sky-pride from thirty thousand years ago.

• Several Battle Kings condemned Chu Kuangren for killing their protégés, but none dared attack him.
• Lin Batian revealed the Seven-Colored Sacred Flame he had obtained and launched it at Chu Kuangren.
• Chu Kuangren used the White Lotus Purification of the World Chapter to dissolve Lin Batian’s flames, even when Lin Batian unleashed his Sage Law.
• Chu Kuangren struck Lin Batian with one slash of Sword Qi, blasting him away and leaving him badly wounded.
• Ao Cang, Lingxu Sacred Land’s New Daoist Seed, arrived, and Chu Kuangren identified him as a sky-pride from thirty thousand years ago.

Chu Kuangren defeated the ancient prodigy Ao Cang with a single sword strike and warned the awakened prodigies not to challenge him. After other orthodoxies refused to help fight the demonic cultivators, Chu Kuangren searched the Mountain River Sect ruins for the Saint King Artifact sealed there.

• Ao Cang attacked Chu Kuangren with his Sunfall law, but Chu's white lotuses dismantled the blow.
• Ao Cang declared that the Great Age of Strife belonged to ancient prodigies, then Chu Kuangren answered his attack with a sword strike that shattered his Mountain God Shield and wounded him badly.
• Chu Kuangren threatened the ancient prodigies, and Ao Cang left while the other visiting prodigies also departed.
• Several orthodoxies' prodigies decided to withhold their forces and leave Chu Kuangren to handle the demonic cultivators alone.
• Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu searched the Mountain River Sect ruins for the Saint King Artifact that its ancestor might have hidden there.
• Chu Kuangren used the Treasure-Seeking Art and discovered something in the ruins.