Chapter Summaries

Chu Kuangren claimed the sword soul, which transformed Kunwu into a Saint King Artifact, as masked sword cultivators surrounded the Sword-Seizing Tournament to seize it. Chu identified three of the Seven Sword Dao Heroes among the intruders, setting the stage for a confrontation.

• The sword soul flew to Chu Kuangren, and he suppressed the sword cultivators who tried to intercept it.
• The sword soul entered Kunwu, transforming it into a Saint King Artifact and giving Chu Kuangren a source of Sword Dao insight.
• Feng Xuanzi realized that someone had broken into Skyfire Valley, and masked sword cultivators surrounded the tournament demanding the sword soul.
• Chu Kuangren refused to surrender Kunwu and identified the North Sea Sword Pavilion and Iron Sword Sect behind the masked group.
• The North Sea Sword Venerable and Iron Sword Venerable revealed themselves, and Chu Kuangren exposed Sword Greed as the third of the Seven Sword Dao Heroes present.

North Sea Sword Venerable revealed his Supreme Supreme strength and fought the Seventh Ancestor while Sword Greed and Iron Sword Venerable attacked Chu Kuangren for the Sword Soul. Chu Kuangren disarmed Sword Greed and claimed Pojun, but Iron Sword Venerable then launched a devastating strike at him.

• North Sea Sword Venerable refused to retreat and challenged the Seventh Ancestor, while Sword Greed and Iron Sword Venerable moved to attack Chu Kuangren.
• Chu Kuangren intercepted the two sword cultivators himself and forced them back with a single slash.
• Chu Kuangren used the Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Art to knock Pojun from Sword Greed's grasp and take the fierce sword.
• Pojun submitted to Chu Kuangren's Nine-Orifice Exquisite Sword Heart, leaving Sword Greed enraged and unable to summon it back.
• Iron Sword Venerable warned Sword Greed to move aside and brought a gigantic sword shadow down on Chu Kuangren.

Chu Kuangren defeated the Iron Sword Venerable and killed Sword Greed after the sword cultivators recoiled from his strength. With Qinglan Supreme Being and Granny Meng blocking the Iron Sword Venerable’s escape, Chu Kuangren captured him in Taotie Space.

• Chu Kuangren’s Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Art overwhelmed the Iron Sword Venerable and left him badly wounded.
• Sword Greed urged the surrounding sword cultivators to wear Chu Kuangren down, but they remembered his slaughter of a hundred thousand demonic cultivators and refused to attack.
• Sword Greed tried to flee, but Chu Kuangren caught him, pinned him down with Po Jun, and killed him.
• The Iron Sword Venerable fled, but Qinglan Supreme Being and Granny Meng blocked his path and Qinglan Supreme Being blasted him back.
• Chu Kuangren reached the Iron Sword Venerable and absorbed him into Taotie Space.

Chu Kuangren defeated the Sword Dao attackers at the Sword-Seizing Tournament, killing three Supreme Beings and forcing the remaining sword cultivators to surrender their Heaven and Earth Rings and flee. Feng Xuanzi explained the Sword Soul’s origins and accepted that it had chosen Chu Kuangren.

• Chu Kuangren’s slaying of Sword Greed and Iron Sword Venerable shocked the crowd, while North Sea Sword Venerable lost an arm fighting the Seventh Ancestor.
• North Sea Sword Venerable declared that he would fight for the chance to become an Emperor, but Chu Kuangren crushed and killed him with a Primordial Divine Mountain.
• Chu Kuangren ordered the surviving sword cultivators to leave their Heaven and Earth Rings and go; he killed one who tried to keep his ring, and the rest surrendered their possessions and fled.
• Lan Yu asked why Chu Kuangren had let the sword cultivators go, and he said their Daoist hearts had crumbled and they would revere him as a god.
• Feng Xuanzi congratulated Chu Kuangren on obtaining the Sword Soul, explained that the North Sea Sword Pavilion and Iron Sword Sect had attacked Skyfire Valley, and described the Sword Soul’s history and its bond with the Kunwu Sword.

After obtaining the famous swords at the Sword-Seizing Tournament, Chu Kuangren decided to melt down the Heavenly Desolate Demon Spear to make a scabbard for Kunwu. As Feng Xuanzi began forging it, sword cultivators gathered in Sword-Worshipping City for the unveiling of the Hundred Swords Register.

• Chu Kuangren kept Tiangang and the other famous swords he had won, bringing his collection to seventeen.
• Feng Xuanzi announced that Sword-Worshipping City would unveil the Hundred Swords Register in three days and update it every ten years.
• Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu counted his spoils, and Chu Kuangren fed most of the spirit stones and treasures to the Divine Phoenix Egg.
• Chu Kuangren realized Kunwu needed a scabbard and asked Feng Xuanzi to forge one, but Feng Xuanzi said it required exceptional materials.
• Chu Kuangren offered the Heavenly Desolate Demon Spear as material for Kunwu's scabbard, and Feng Xuanzi began melting it down.
• Feng Huzi oversaw the Hundred Swords Register preparations as a crowd gathered in Sword-Worshipping City for its unveiling.

The Hundred Swords Register ranked Chu Kuangren’s Kunwu Sword first, and Feng Xuanzi delivered a perfectly fitted scabbard for it. News then spread that Whitebrow Saint would preach the Dao in seven days, prompting Chu Kuangren to set out for the opportunity.

• The Feng Family unveiled the Hundred Swords Register, naming Chu Kuangren and Kunwu its top entry, while Murong Feng and Venerable Xuanqi took second and third.
• Sword cultivators questioned Chu Kuangren’s first-place ranking, but a Feng Family disciple explained that Kunwu was the only known famed sword fused with a Sword Soul.
• Chu Kuangren saw that only Qianming Sword Venerable among the Seven Sword Dao Heroes ranked in the top thirty, and he remained unconcerned by the controversy over his own placement.
• Feng Xuanzi gave Chu Kuangren Kunwu’s white scabbard, which perfectly contained the sword’s growing sharp aura.
• Whitebrow Saint announced that he would preach the Dao in seven days, and Feng Xuanzi told Chu Kuangren that the Saint periodically taught and blessed cultivators.
• Chu Kuangren decided to seek Whitebrow Saint’s guidance, and cultivators across the world hurried toward the Saint’s Dao grounds.

Chu Kuangren drew the Rock-Solid Dao Heart attribute and learned about Whitebrow Saint before arriving at Whitebrow Mountain for the Saint’s preaching. There, Lei Mingtian injured Wuchenzi with one punch and insulted the assembled Young Emperors, leaving them furious but unable to challenge his strength.

• Chu Kuangren drew the legendary Rock-Solid Dao Heart attribute, which made a cultivator’s Dao heart impossible to shake.
• The Seventh Ancestor told Chu Kuangren that Whitebrow Saint preached regularly and had accumulated considerable merit.
• Cultivators and several Young Emperors, including Ao Cang, Gu Changge, Yuan Hong, and Lin Batian, gathered at Whitebrow Mountain to hear the Saint preach.
• Lei Mingtian and Xue Lingzi confronted each other, but Wuchenzi urged them to restrain themselves because they were at a Saint’s residence.
• Lei Mingtian attacked Wuchenzi and blasted him back dozens of meters, then mocked the other Young Emperors and claimed their Xuanhuang Emperor Qi was wasted on them.

Chu Kuangren arrived at Whitebrow Mountain and quickly confronted Lei Mingtian, who demanded that he pay for killing a Thunder Falcon Clan Young Emperor. Chu Kuangren overwhelmed Lei Mingtian without drawing his sword, leaving him crushed beneath a Primordial Divine Mountain.

• Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu arrived at Whitebrow Mountain, where the gathered cultivators welcomed Chu Kuangren and the Young Emperors watched him warily.
• Lei Mingtian accused Chu Kuangren of killing a Thunder Falcon Clan Young Emperor and demanded compensation.
• Chu Kuangren insulted Lei Mingtian and the Thunder Falcon Clan, prompting Lei Mingtian to attack him at lightning speed.
• Chu Kuangren evaded Lei Mingtian and defeated him in their rapid exchange, knocking him into a crater.
• Lei Mingtian unleashed a pillar of lightning, but Chu Kuangren shattered it and summoned a Primordial Divine Mountain that crushed him against the ground.

Chu Kuangren defeated Lei Mingtian and followed a little Daoist boy into Whitebrow Mountain, where the Saint’s Thousand Mountains Formation tested the gathered cultivators. Fewer than five thousand reached the Saint’s palace, while the boy offered Chu Kuangren help through the formation.

• Chu Kuangren grievously wounded Lei Mingtian in a few moves, leaving Lei Mingtian’s Dao Protector wary of him.
• A little Daoist boy arrived to escort the cultivators to his teacher, the Saint, and the group followed him into Whitebrow Mountain.
• The cultivators entered the Thousand Mountains Formation, whose increasing pressure drained their spiritual power and halted the weakest among them.
• The little Daoist boy chased a Phoenix-Tail Butterfly, which landed on Chu Kuangren’s finger, and then offered to let him hold his hand to bypass the formation’s effects.
• The boy led the group onward, and fewer than five thousand cultivators crossed the formation and reached the Saint’s palace.

Chu Kuangren and the other cultivators faced the Heart Ladder, a dangerous trial of their Dao hearts, before entering the Saint's palace. Lan Yu completed the ladder, and Chu Kuangren followed, passing every illusion without slowing and arriving beside her.

• The young Daoist boy explained that the Heart Ladder could trap those with weak Dao hearts and showed the cultivators the bones of those who had died on it.
• Lan Yu climbed the ladder and reached its final step, inspiring other cultivators to attempt the trial as well.
• Ao Cang, Gu Changge, Lin Batian, the Supreme Beings, and many other cultivators faced illusions on the Heart Ladder while Chu Kuangren waited for Lan Yu.
• Chu Kuangren stepped onto the ladder and endured illusions of danger, pleasure, power, and poverty without faltering.
• Chu Kuangren passed everyone on the ladder and reached Lan Yu, leaving the onlookers stunned.

Chu Kuangren passed the Heart Ladder so quickly that his Daoist heart caused it to collapse, then entered the palace to hear the Whitebrow Saint preach the Dao. He gained some insight but found the sermon offered him little by the end, realizing his aptitude and comprehension were too good for it.

• Chu Kuangren crossed the Heart Ladder in a few dozen breaths, and the ladder cracked apart and collapsed.
• The little Daoist attendant said an indestructible Daoist heart could destroy the Heart Ladder, and the cultivators speculated that Chu Kuangren's heart rivaled an Ancient Great Emperor's.
• The Whitebrow Saint let only those who had stepped onto the Heart Ladder enter the palace, and the rest were sent away.
• Chu Kuangren used his Eye of Insight to learn that the Whitebrow Saint was an early-stage Manifestation cultivator who practiced a merit treasure body.
• The Whitebrow Saint preached the Dao, and while the other cultivators became absorbed, Chu Kuangren received little insight and concluded his aptitude and comprehension were exceptionally high.

After Whitebrow Saint finished his discourse and answered the cultivators’ questions, Chu Kuangren revealed that he had spent the gathering comprehending his sword rather than listening. He asked the Saint to debate the Dao with him, leaving the assembly stunned.

• Chu Kuangren waited until Whitebrow Saint’s three-day discourse ended, then continued comprehending the Kunwu Sword’s Sword Soul.
• Whitebrow Saint answered the cultivators’ questions about the Great Age of Strife, the next Emperor, Chu Kuangren’s Daoist heart, and breaking through the Venerable Realm.
• When a Supreme Being rebuked Chu Kuangren for ignoring the discourse, Kunwu Sword’s aura frightened him into silence.
• Chu Kuangren asked Whitebrow Saint whether he was tired after the discourse and question session, then requested a debate on the Dao.
• Several Supreme Beings condemned Chu Kuangren, but his Sword Dao Rhythm forced them back as he repeated his request directly to the Saint.

Chu Kuangren discussed the Dao with Whitebrow Saint, using the exchange to deepen his understanding and gather his many Daoist arts into a single sword strike. The sword Dao breakthrough sent astonishing phenomena across Firmament Star and left even probing Saints trembling in terror.

• Chu Kuangren asked Whitebrow Saint to discuss the Dao, and the Saint agreed after noticing Chu Kuangren's merit power and high Daoist Law realm.
• Chu Kuangren and Whitebrow Saint exchanged Daoist techniques for an entire day, and Chu Kuangren displayed mastery of many cultivation arts, astonishing the gathered cultivators.
• Whitebrow Saint's powerful attack damaged the Heavenly Dao Sword, but Kunwu's sword rhythm stabilized it as Chu Kuangren entered sudden enlightenment.
• Chu Kuangren integrated his many Daoist Laws and his gains from the Longevity Emperor Scripture into the Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Art.
• The Heavenly Dao Sword released a terrifying Daoist rhythm that produced celestial phenomena across ten thousand miles and alarmed powerful figures and Saints throughout Firmament Star.

During a discussion of the Dao with Whitebrow Saint, Chu Kuangren created an Emperor Technique while still at the Battle King level and matched the Saint’s Daoist Law. After the gathering, news of his achievement spread across Firmament Star, making him the center of attention once again.

• The Saints investigating the Daoist Rhyme on Whitebrow Mountain saw Chu Kuangren’s manifestation and realized he was creating his own Emperor Technique.
• Chu Kuangren used what he had learned to raise the Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Art to an Emperor Technique and struck at Whitebrow Saint.
• Whitebrow Saint blocked Chu Kuangren’s strike, and the two remained seated, leaving their discussion of the Dao an even match.
• A Supreme Being explained that Chu Kuangren had created an Emperor Technique, stunning the cultivators and prompting Ao Cang and Yuan Hong to give up on competing with him.
• Chu Kuangren left after the discussion, and news of his feat spread throughout Firmament Star.

Chu Kuangren traveled to the Qian Kingdom after Venerable Xuanqi sent him to investigate Demon Cultivators causing trouble there. After meeting the King of Qian and learning the attackers were searching for something, Chu Kuangren went out to tour the Royal Capital with the Second Prince.

• Chu Kuangren received Venerable Xuanqi's message about Demon Cultivators in the Qian Kingdom and changed course toward its Royal Capital.
• Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu wore masks to avoid drawing attention, but palace guards stopped them at the royal gates.
• Chu Kuangren revealed his identity, and the King of Qian personally welcomed him into the palace.
• At a banquet, the King of Qian told Chu Kuangren that Demon Cultivators from the Elysium Sect, the Asura Sect, and an unknown group had caused harm while searching for something.
• The Second Prince invited Chu Kuangren to tour the Royal Capital while the kingdom's investigators looked into the Demon Cultivators.

Miss Hong learned that Chu Kuangren had arrived in the Qian Kingdom to investigate the Demon Tempering Pool, sending the local Demon Cultivators into hiding. When the second prince brought Chu Kuangren to Heavenly Fragrance Tower, Miss Hong recognized the danger and tried to avoid him, but she was forced to play the zither for him.

• Miss Hong heard that the sect leader and others were coming to the Royal Capital to seek the Demon Tempering Pool and its Saint King Demon Heart, while Asura Sect and other Demon Cultivators also pursued it.
• Miss Hong's maid told her that Chu Kuangren had arrived in the Qian Kingdom, and Demon Cultivators across the country withdrew in fear.
• The second prince brought Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu to Heavenly Fragrance Tower, where Chu Kuangren drew the attention of the women there.
• Miss Hong recognized Chu Kuangren when she saw him and tried to leave, but the second prince ordered her to entertain him.
• Miss Hong played the zither for Chu Kuangren, then snapped a string when he smiled at her with amusement.

Chu Kuangren exposed Red Girl as an Elysium Sect Demon Cultivator and forced her to reveal that the Demon Cultivators sought the demonic heart in the Demon Tempering Pool. The King of Qian prepared to ambush them at the secret realm’s location in three days.

• Chu Kuangren recognized Red Girl as an Elysium Sect Demon Cultivator when she played the zither, and his domain stopped her escape.
• Chu Kuangren threatened Red Girl until she revealed that the Demon Cultivators wanted the demonic heart of Old Man Juexin, hidden in the Demon Tempering Pool.
• Red Girl said the secret realm would open in three days in a forest southeast of the Royal Capital, which the Demon Cultivators had sealed off.
• Chu Kuangren kept Red Girl under control with the royal palace’s secret drug so she could not warn the Elysium Sect.
• The King of Qian sent people to investigate the forest and concentrated defenses there to capture the Demon Cultivators when they arrived.

Chu Kuangren obtained the Soul-Hooking Cord and learned that Li Xingchen had come to the Qian Kingdom seeking the Demon-Tempering Pool Secret Realm. As the Elysium Sect and Asura Sect gathered to pursue the Demon Heart, Chu Kuangren appeared and struck the Asura Sect Leader.

• Chu Kuangren drew the Saint King Artifact Soul-Hooking Cord and began refining it.
• Qinglan Supreme Being brought Li Xingchen to Chu Kuangren after the guards caught him near the woods; Li Xingchen offered to help fight the Demon Cultivators while concealing his teacher’s interest in the secret realm.
• The leaders and experts of the Elysium Sect and Asura Sect gathered outside the Royal Capital, wary of Chu Kuangren and his Supreme Supreme-level Dao Protector.
• The Asura Sect Leader threatened to kill Chu Kuangren after obtaining the Demon Heart, but Chu Kuangren arrived and struck him into a crater.

Chu Kuangren attacked the gathered Demon Cultivators, overpowering the Elysium Sect Master and Asura Sect Master as Royal Palace Guards surrounded them. A Secret Realm opened, and two Supreme Supremes arrived with Zhao Wuji, the Demon-Crying Mountain survivor, who confronted Chu Kuangren.

• Chu Kuangren ambushed the Demon Cultivators and defeated the Elysium Sect Master's illusion with ease.
• Chu Kuangren shattered the Asura Sect Master's saber attack with a sword strike that barely drew Kunwu.
• Royal Palace Guards surrounded the gathering, and Li Xingchen, the King of Qian, Qinglan Supreme Being, and Granny Meng helped defeat the Demon Cultivators.
• A Secret Realm entrance opened, but two Supreme Supremes attacked Chu Kuangren before the sect masters could escape into it.
• Zhao Wuji arrived with the two Supreme Supremes and told Chu Kuangren that they had met before; Chu Kuangren recognized him as the Demon-Crying Mountain survivor.

Chu Kuangren and the Seventh Ancestor confronted the King of the Turning Wheel and the Old Asura Sect Master as Zhao Wuji slipped into the secret realm to retrieve the Demon Heart. Chu Kuangren withstood the Old Asura Sect Master's Asura Dharma Form and then unleashed the Emperor Technique Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Art.

• The King of the Turning Wheel ordered Zhao Wuji to retrieve the Demon Heart while he and the Old Asura Sect Master faced Chu Kuangren and the Seventh Ancestor.
• The Seventh Ancestor chose to fight the King of the Turning Wheel, leaving Chu Kuangren to face the Old Asura Sect Master.
• The Old Asura Sect Master summoned his Asura Dharma Form and attacked Chu Kuangren, but Chu Kuangren's White Lotus Purification of the World Chapter dismantled the strike without injury.
• Chu Kuangren revealed Emperor Dao pressure and unleashed the Emperor Technique Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Art.