Chapter Summaries

Chu Kuangren discovered that the Shinto Towers held dangerous energy and warned everyone to retreat, but the Eastern Emperor Divine Son ignored him and destroyed a tower. The towers erupted in devastating blasts, leaving the Eastern Emperor Divine Son gravely wounded and many cultivators dead as Chu Kuangren recognized the enemy’s trap.

• The Eastern Emperor Divine Son defeated and killed an opposing Great Encompassment cultivator, then led his forces toward the Shinto Tower.
• Xiao Ai found that the tower’s runes matched the Secret Realm’s earth vein runes and that its stored energy was near eruption, so Chu Kuangren ordered everyone to retreat.
• Lan Yu, Chu Hong, Ye Zhu, Hua Xi, and the Great Fate Goddess withdrew, but the Eastern Emperor Divine Son and other Heavenly Prides pressed on toward the towers.
• The Shinto Towers were destroyed across the Secret Realm, sending pillars of light skyward as Heavenly Maiden You left through a Space Vortex and revealed that the Other Universe’s forces had already departed.
• The shattered tower unleashed a blue energy blast that killed many cultivators and severely wounded the Eastern Emperor Divine Son, while Chu Kuangren recognized the attack as a clever trap.

The Other Universe revealed that the Secret Realm was a trap meant to kill the Pangu Universe’s monstrous Heavenly Prides by collapsing its space. As the shrinking void storm trapped everyone, Chu Kuangren attacked the chaotic fighters and demanded silence.

• Seven pillars activated the Void Annihilation Grand Array, causing the Secret Realm’s earth veins to surge and its space to fracture.
• An Other Universe Great Encompassment cultivator revealed that the Shinto Towers had triggered the trap and that the Other Universe’s monstrous Heavenly Prides had already been evacuated.
• Chu Kuangren explained that the Other Universe had sacrificed its troops to eliminate the Pangu Universe’s future leaders, while Hua Xi said the sealed passage and collapsing space left them no escape.
• A Great Encompassment cultivator was obliterated trying to cross the void storm, and desperate Pangu and Other Universe fighters began killing each other.
• Nüba lunged at Chu Kuangren with a request before he slapped her away, then Chu Kuangren unleashed Sword Qi on the battlefield and shouted for everyone to be quiet.

Chu Kuangren analyzed the Void Annihilation Grand Array and declared that the Other Universe had lost, then sent the Kunlun Mirror ahead to lead the Pangu Universe survivors through the void storm. As nearly everyone gathered within the mirror’s light, Chu Kuangren stayed behind and unleashed a powerful force against the Other Universe cultivators preparing to interfere.

• Chu Kuangren learned from Xiao Ai that she had fully analyzed the Void Annihilation Grand Array.
• Chu Kuangren declared that no one would die while he was there and announced that the Other Universe had lost.
• Chu Kuangren summoned the Kunlun Mirror and ordered Lan Yu, Chu Hong, Brother Ye, and the others to follow its light.
• The Eastern Emperor Divine Son, the Pangu Universe’s Great Powers, and nearly all the other survivors entered the mirror’s light despite their doubts.
• The Other Universe cultivators decided to stop them, and Chu Kuangren unleashed a powerful force while remaining behind.

Chu Kuangren stayed behind to hold off the Other Universe’s Great Encompassment cultivators while the others escaped with the Kunlun Mirror. He revealed the Chaos Green Lotus and fought at full strength, while the mirror carried the escaping group through a weak point in the Void Annihilation Grand Array.

• Chu Kuangren killed a Great Golden Immortal and faced a wounded Great Perfection cultivator from the Other Universe.
• Chu Kuangren used the Chaos Green Lotus’s Light of Destruction to withstand the cultivator’s palm strike, revealing the lotus as a Chaos Supreme Treasure.
• Chu Kuangren rang the Soul Purple Divine Bell, then struck the Great Perfection cultivator again and badly injured him.
• Chu Kuangren activated three secret techniques and the Academy’s Three Great Phenomena, then held back the other Great Encompassment cultivators as the group escaped with the Kunlun Mirror.
• The Kunlun Mirror tore through the Void Storm, and the Great Powers realized Chu Kuangren had found a weak point in the Void Annihilation Grand Array.

Chu Kuangren used the Time-Space Treasure Mirror to interfere with the Void Annihilation Grand Array after realizing the Kunlun Mirror could not get his companions through on its own. He left himself inside the array, determined to thwart the Other Universe’s scheme even though the effort would likely leave him unable to survive.

• Hua Xi and the others hoped to escape, but a Great Power warned that the Void Annihilation Grand Array was strengthening and the Kunlun Mirror lacked enough power to cross it.
• Lan Yu said she trusted Chu Kuangren and believed he had made arrangements.
• Chu Kuangren fought several Great Encompassment cultivators from the Other Universe and used the Myriad Heavens Life and Death Wheel to injure them, revealing his Gods and Devils lineage.
• Chu Kuangren put away his weapons and revealed the Time-Space Treasure Mirror, whose power rivaled a Chaos Supreme Treasure.
• Chu Kuangren used the mirror’s spacetime power to immobilize his enemies and interfere with the array, while the Other Universe’s Great Perfection cultivator warned that the effort would leave him trapped and likely doomed.
• Chu Kuangren said he acted because he wanted to thwart the Other Universe’s plot, not because he weighed whether saving his companions was worth the cost.

Chu Kuangren used the Time-Space Treasure Mirror to freeze the void storm and save everyone trapped in the Void Annihilation Grand Array. After the array collapsed in a devastating explosion, the survivors believed he had sacrificed himself to let them escape.

• Chu Kuangren unleashed spacetime power that froze the void storm, allowing the Kunlun Mirror to carry everyone out of the Secret Realm.
• Chu Kuangren taunted the Other Universe Cultivators after learning that everyone else had escaped.
• Chu Kuangren put away the Time-Space Treasure Mirror, and the renewed void storm annihilated the Other Universe army and engulfed him and the remaining cultivators.
• The collapsed Void Annihilation Grand Array exploded with enough force to shatter the void, and the Great Powers fled with the survivors.
• Lan Yu, Chu Hong, Ye Zhu, and the others feared Chu Kuangren had stayed behind to buy them time and praised him as a hero.

After Chu Kuangren was presumed dead in the Void Annihilation Grand Array, Lan Yu and Chu Hong vowed to wait for his return. Meanwhile, Chu Kuangren survived as a remnant soul, evolved his Unique Origin Body, and rebuilt his physical form in the void.

• Lan Yu retrieved the Kunlun Mirror and left with Chu Hong, insisting that Chu Kuangren would return.
• The Immortal Realm continued to advance, though many believed Chu Kuangren had perished and felt his absence.
• Chu Kuangren awoke in the void as a remnant of his consciousness, protected himself with the Chaos Green Lotus, and began gathering the scattered particles of his body.
• Chu Kuangren observed his blood and helped the Unique Origin Body consume the power of his other physiques, causing it to evolve.
• Chu Kuangren used the evolved Unique Origin Body as the foundation for restoring himself, eventually completing his new physical body.

Chu Kuangren formed a Unique Origin Body, became trapped in an unknown void, and cultivated there until he sensed a universe and escaped into a mysterious space. He arrived in the secluded cultivation grounds of a youth in purple, who attacked him with a golden sword.

• Chu Kuangren entered the Unique Origin Body, restored his cultivation by absorbing void Spiritual Energy, and discovered its Unique Origin Power.
• Chu Kuangren found himself unable to escape the unknown void, and Xiao Ai did not respond to his calls.
• Chu Kuangren used a Nine-Colored Divine Soul Flower to restore and strengthen his soul, then cultivated and drew prizes for an unknown length of time.
• Chu Kuangren advanced all Three Flowers of Great Encompassment beyond the twelfth grade and resolved to raise them to the twenty-fourth grade before breaking through.
• Chu Kuangren sensed a universe, tore open the unknown void with Zhu Xian Sword Qi, and entered a mysterious white space.
• The youth in purple emerged from a giant sword, challenged Chu Kuangren, and slashed at him.

Chu Kuangren emerged into an unknown place and fought a purple-robed young man who had mistaken him for an intruder. After defeating him, Chu Kuangren used the Soul-Searching Grand Art to learn about his new surroundings, and the young man discovered that Chu Kuangren was a taboo with a thirteen-petal Soul Flower.

• The purple-robed young man attacked Chu Kuangren, wondered whether he belonged to the Sword Spirit Clan, and challenged him with the Myriad Phenomena Heaven sword technique.
• Chu Kuangren countered with Zhu Xian Sword Qi and defeated the young man’s sword technique before blasting him underground with the Great Encompassment Divine Fist.
• The purple-robed young man unleashed many forms of Sword Qi, but Chu Kuangren merged several Great Encompassment Intents and sent him crashing to the ground.
• Chu Kuangren approached the injured young man and used the Soul-Searching Grand Art to pull his memories into his mind.
• The young man saw Chu Kuangren’s thirteen-petal Soul Flower, recognized him as a taboo, and began losing his sense of self as the soul search overwhelmed him.

Chu Kuangren discovered that he had landed in the Tianyuan Universe, where Xiao Ai reconnected to the local Great Dao consciousness. He took the identity of a Sword Spirit Clan prodigy, mastered the Myriad Phenomena Sword Art, and left the barrier as the Sword Spirit Clan noticed the resulting disturbance.

• Chu Kuangren learned from the purple-robed young man's memories that he was in the Tianyuan Universe, and Xiao Ai awakened after connecting to its Great Dao consciousness.
• Chu Kuangren killed the purple-robed young man and decided to use his identity to gather information and infiltrate the Sword Spirit Clan.
• Chu Kuangren cultivated the Myriad Phenomena Sword Art to Great Perfection in a few days and felt his Self-Strengthening Invincible Great Encompassment Intent begin to take shape.
• Chu Kuangren used the Myriad Phenomena Sword Art to tear through the barrier surrounding the secluded space.
• The Sword Spirit Clan's patriarch and elders worried that the deaths of Chen Feihu and his brother would leave the clan behind when the Tianyuan Ancient Star opened.
• A burst of Sword Qi accompanied by wind and lightning rose from the ancestral land, and the Sword Spirit patriarch recognized its direction.

Chu Kuangren emerged from the Sword Spirit Clan's ancestral land and convinced the clan that he was an ancient monster with overwhelming strength. After hearing about the upcoming contest on Tianyuan Ancient Star, he planned to use it to hunt the Tianyuan Universe's Heavenly Prides while establishing himself in the clan.

• Chu Kuangren broke through the ancestral land's barrier and emerged, claiming he had nearly forgotten his name and should be called Chu Kuang.
• The Sword Spirit Clan Leader and elders arrived, mistook Chu Kuang for a monster from before the Myriad Swords Calamity, and asked him to demonstrate his strength.
• Chu Kuangren's perfected Myriad Phenomena Sword Art clashed with the Sword Spirit Clan Leader's strike and shook more than half of the ancient star.
• The Sword Spirit Clan Leader praised Chu Kuangren and said he could help the clan take first place in the contest on Tianyuan Ancient Star.
• Chu Kuangren learned that Tianyuan Ancient Star would draw Heavenly Prides from across the universe and resolved to retaliate against the Tianyuan Universe's plot against Pangu.
• Chu Kuangren settled into the Sword Clan as news of his emergence spread, while the Sword Spirit Clan Leader and elders discussed a pressing matter connected to him.

The Sword Spirit Clan Leader and elders wondered whether Chu Kuangren was the Heavenly Sword, so they sought the Sword God King’s counsel. The King could not read Chu Kuangren’s fate and sent him to Myriad Sword Peak to try to draw Wu Dao, leaving the clan members watching as Chu Kuangren arrived.

• The Sword Spirit Clan Leader and elders praised Chu Kuangren’s strength and discussed whether he might fulfill the Heavenly Sword Prophecy.
• The Sword God King tried to glimpse Chu Kuangren’s fate but encountered an unknowable void, then advised the clan to have him try to draw Wu Dao.
• The Sword Spirit Clan Leader told Chu Kuangren to go to Myriad Sword Peak and claim Wu Dao, and Chu Kuangren agreed to try.
• Chu Kuangren arrived at Myriad Sword Peak, where Sword Spirit Clan members recognized him as an ancient monster from the Sword Spirit Ancestral Land.

Chu Kuangren climbed Ten Thousand Swords Peak and approached the legendary Wu Dao Sword, enduring its overwhelming sword pressure. At the summit, he clashed his myriad forms sword intent against Wu Dao’s pressure, shaking the mountain.

• Chu Kuangren reassured his Kunwu Sword that it remained stronger than the Wu Dao Sword, while onlookers admired his devotion to swords.
• Chu Kuangren entered Ten Thousand Swords Peak and walked through its growing sword pressure without slowing down.
• Chu Kuangren reached the summit and headed toward Wu Dao, drawing the attention of Ling Fei and the other Sword Spirit Clan observers.
• Chu Kuangren entered the Wu Dao Domain and advanced to within three li of the sword, a distance no younger-generation Heavenly Pride or Monster had reached.
• Wu Dao released its domineering sword pressure, and Chu Kuangren answered with myriad forms sword intent, causing the forces to collide and Ten Thousand Swords Peak to shake.

Chu Kuangren overcame Wu Dao’s sword pressure and drew the sword, unleashing a phenomenon that shook the Sword Spirit Clan and the wider Tianyuan Universe. The chapter ended with cultivators across the universe realizing Chu Kuangren had caused the immense sword shadow.

• Chu Kuangren advanced toward Wu Dao as his Myriad Forms Sword Intent clashed with the sword’s pressure, shaking Ten Thousand Swords Peak and drawing the attention of the Sword Spirit Clan’s elders.
• The Divine Sword King blocked streams of Immortal Consciousness from reaching Sword Spirit Ancient Star while Chu Kuangren closed the final distance to Wu Dao.
• Chu Kuangren grasped Wu Dao and used his Immortal Essence and Unique Origin Body to suppress the sword’s resistance.
• Chu Kuangren pulled Wu Dao from its stone, shattering the stone and causing most of the swords on Ten Thousand Swords Peak to snap.
• Wu Dao’s sword cry broke through the Divine Sword King’s barrier and unleashed a vast sword shadow that shook stars and caused swords across the Tianyuan Universe to snap, dim, or tremble.
• Cultivators across the universe saw Chu Kuangren standing on Ten Thousand Swords Peak with Wu Dao and realized he had caused the phenomenon.

After Wu Dao acknowledged Chu Kuangren as its master, the Sword Spirit Clan hailed him as the prophesied Heavenly Sword. The Sword God King invited Chu Kuangren to play a game and discuss the Sword Dao, leaving both impressed by the other's understanding and strength.

• Sword Intent from the Sword Spirit Ancient Star drove away investigating Immortal Consciousnesses, while the Sword Spirit clansmen realized Chu Kuangren had drawn Wu Dao and declared him the Heavenly Sword.
• Chu Kuangren put Kunwu away and carried Wu Dao, then wrapped the sheathless sword in cloth at his cave dwelling, prompting the Sword Spirit Clan Leader to question how he treated it.
• The Sword Spirit Clan Leader told Chu Kuangren that the Sword God King wanted to see him, and Chu Kuangren agreed to go to Divine Sword Peak.
• The Sword God King invited Chu Kuangren to play a game of Go, and the board unleashed increasingly powerful Sword Intent as they discussed what a sword was.
• Chu Kuangren and the Sword God King continued their game and Sword Dao discussion, each marveling at the other's ability to remain composed under the surging Sword Intent.

Chu Kuangren impressed the Sword God King, who believed the Heavenly Sword could lead the Sword Spirit Clan to rise. After months of cultivation, Chu Kuangren emerged to find Ling Fei kneeling and asking to become his follower.

• Wu Dao erupted with Sword Intent and overturned the Sword God King's chessboard, and the Sword God King made a black Immortal Gold scabbard for Chu Kuangren.
• The Sword God King said the Sword Spirit Clan's chance to rise rested with Chu Kuangren.
• Ling Fei challenged Chu Kuangren outside his cave abode, but Chu Kuangren blasted him away with a streak of Sword Qi without the onlookers seeing him draw his sword.
• After recovering, Ling Fei decided to follow the Heavenly Sword and waited outside Chu Kuangren's cave abode.
• Chu Kuangren cultivated for several months, raising his Immortal Essence Flower to the fourteenth grade, Lifespan Flower to the twenty-fourth, and Soul Flower to the fifteenth.
• When Chu Kuangren emerged, Ling Fei knelt and begged to become his follower, prompting other onlookers to compete for the same position.

Chu Kuangren set out with Ling Fei for the Frost Sword Star to meet Han Xingyu, the newly awakened bearer of the frost sword body. At the Ice Clan’s feast, Leng Jiufeng arrived and demanded that Han Xingyu return to the Heavenly Cold Clan, provoking the Ice Clan Leader.

• Chu Kuangren chose Ling Fei as his follower and left the Sword Spirit Ancient Star with him for the Frost Sword Star.
• The Sword Spirit Clan Leader told Chu Kuangren about Han Xingyu’s frost sword body and asked him to bring her along if she was suitable.
• The Ice Clan celebrated Han Xingyu’s frost sword body and the Ice Clan Leader’s birthday as guests congratulated them.
• Leng Jiufeng arrived at the feast and offered to let the Ice Clan return to the Heavenly Cold Clan if Han Xingyu joined them.
• The Ice Clan Leader rebuked Leng Jiufeng and condemned the Heavenly Cold Clan’s attitude.

Leng Jiufeng fought the Ice Clan chief and demanded that the Ice Clan surrender Han Xingyu and return to the Heavenly Cold Clan. When Leng Jiufeng attacked Han Xingyu, an unknown Sword Spirit Clan figure intervened, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Leng Jiufeng battled the Ice Clan chief, who refused to hand over Han Xingyu or return the Ice Clan to the Heavenly Cold Clan.
• Leng Jiufeng revealed that he wore the Ice Clan’s lost Frost Divine Armor and renewed his demand.
• Two powerful great encompassment five qi realm cultivators joined Leng Jiufeng and fought the Ice Clan chief together.
• Leng Jiufeng pressured Han Xingyu to join the Heavenly Cold Clan, but she refused.
• Leng Jiufeng summoned an iceberg to kill Han Xingyu, but an unknown Sword Spirit Clan figure cut it apart with sword qi.

Chu Kuangren arrived on Frost Sword Star as the prophesied Heavenly Sword and overwhelmed Leng Jiufeng in battle without drawing Wu Dao. He rejected the Heavenly Cold Clan’s threat of war, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• As Han Xingyu faced danger, Chu Kuangren appeared with Ling Fei, and his sword pressure made swords tremble across Frost Sword Star.
• When Leng Jiufeng demanded his name, Chu Kuangren answered with a streak of sword light that severed half of Leng Jiufeng’s palm.
• The cultivators recognized Chu Kuangren’s sword as Wu Dao and identified him as the legendary Heavenly Sword.
• Leng Jiufeng attacked with manifested icebergs, but Chu Kuangren shattered them with a sword technique and grievously wounded him without drawing his sword.
• Two Heavenly Cold Clan cultivators accused Chu Kuangren of provoking a war, and Chu Kuangren said the Sword Spirit Clan was not afraid.

Chu Kuangren fought a Heavenly Cold Clan elder whose higher cultivation and Great Encompassment Intent initially gave him the advantage. Chu Kuangren unsheathed Wu Dao and unleashed a sword strike that shattered the elder’s ultimate ice attack and killed him.

• The Heavenly Cold Clan elder challenged Chu Kuangren and struck him with cold energy, but Chu Kuangren countered with sword techniques combining wind, lightning, yin, and yang.
• The elder gained the upper hand with his greater cultivation and stronger Great Encompassment Intent, then summoned an enormous ice star with Star-Splitting Frost.
• Guests fled as the ice star descended, while Ling Fei, Han Xingyu, and several Ice Clan elders stayed behind Chu Kuangren.
• Chu Kuangren unsheathed Wu Dao and declared that he was the Heaven Beyond Heaven.
• Chu Kuangren used Sword, myriad phenomena of heaven and earth to shatter the ice star and reduce the Heavenly Cold Clan elder to ashes.