Chapter Summaries

White True Person urged the Bairen Immortal to return to Chaotian Continent and stop Jing Jiu and the Green Mountain Sect, while the chapter shifted to Green Mountain preparing for Jing Jiu’s long-delayed succession ceremony. Liu S sui reunited with the sect and joined Jing Jiu, Zhao Layue, and the others for a hotpot meal.

• White True Person asked the Bairen Immortal to return, warning that Jing Jiu’s rise and the Green Mountain Sect’s actions threatened the continent.
• The Bairen Immortal asked who would receive her and reminded White True Person that returning would end her chance to ascend again.
• Liu S sui arrived early at Green Mountain, met Guo Nanshan and the others, and repaired Elder Bai Rujing’s old bamboo chair.
• Liu S sui greeted Jing Jiu and Zhao Layue on Divine End Peak, then made tea and repaired Jing Jiu’s chair while the others prepared for the succession ceremony.
• Jing Jiu rested on the repaired chair as Big One settled on his shoulder and the Green Mountain disciples gathered around him.
• The group shared hotpot, with Liu S sui slicing meat and Zhao Layue and the others quickly emptying the pot.

Jing Jiu accepted the sect’s ceremonial requirements but rejected the robes, while Zhao Layue and Liu S sui discussed his freedom to leave and what he wanted from life. Liu S sui then explored Green Mountain and ended the day sharing a quiet, distant look with Nan Wang.

• Yuan Qu reminded Jing Jiu that the Heaven-Bearing Sword had to appear at the ceremony, and Jing Jiu agreed to bring it out.
• Jing Jiu rejected the ceremonial robes, while Zhao Layue told Liu S sui that he could leave and he said he wanted to travel freely.
• After three days, Liu S sui left Divine End Peak to explore Green Mountain, silenced the noisy apes, and visited Qingrong Peak.
• Liu S sui obtained Pear Blossom Wine and drank it at Autumn Whisper Terrace while looking toward Nan Wang atop Qingrong Peak.

Liu S sui visited Green Mountain’s peaks, observing Ping Yongjia and reclaiming hidden medicinal resources before traveling to Hidden Peak. There, he looked upon Fang Jingtian and asked that his body be preserved for future Green Mountain disciples to use if he died.

• Liu S sui left Qingrong Peak after drinking Pear Blossom Wine and went to Cloud-Traveling Peak to observe Ping Yongjia meditating in a cliff opening.
• Liu S sui found a seven-leaf lotus leaf and a bottle of elixirs in abandoned places on Shiyue Peak, consumed them, and crossed a hidden Stone Bridge to Past Arrival Peak.
• Liu S sui visited Twofold Forgetting Peak, where the Nondual Sword flew toward Shangde Peak, and Gu Han defended his right to keep the treasured sword.
• Liu S sui stood on a rock at Shangde Peak, gazed across Green Mountain, and then entered the Sword Prison and passed through the door to Hidden Peak.
• Liu S sui looked toward the unconscious Fang Jingtian through the wildflowers and told an unseen listener to leave his body on Stone Mountain so Green Mountain disciples could eat his flesh if he died.

Green Mountain held Jing Jiu’s sect master grand ceremony as representatives from across the Cultivation World gathered, including True Persons Tan and Bai of the Zhongzhou Sect, who appeared to seek peace. Jing Jiu arrived to begin the ceremony while Green Mountain displayed its strength before the assembled guests.

• The Fruitful Accomplishment Temple chief and a Shitai from Water-Moon Convent concealed themselves near the Heavenly Access Well as they eroded its talismans and cliff scriptures, while the Profound Yin Ancestor sat in the deep sea surrounded by dark aura.
• Representatives from the cultivation sects and the imperial court gathered on Heavenly Light Peak, and the Zhongzhou Sect’s Cloud Boat arrived before retreating when Green Mountain opened its sword formation.
• True Person Tan landed on the summit and exchanged greetings with True Person Guangyuan and Nan Wang, while True Person Bai appeared in a mass of mist.
• Zhuo Rusui questioned whether True Person Tan had ever seen his wife’s face, and the assembled figures took the Zhongzhou Sect’s restraint as a sign that it sought peace.
• True Person Guangyuan, Nan Wang, and Green Mountain’s elders and disciples summoned their swords, displaying the sect’s formidable strength.
• Jing Jiu walked onto the summit with Zhao Layue, Gu Qing, Yuan Qu, and Zhuo Rusui, while Liu S sui stood behind him.

Jing Jiu completed the Green Mountain Sect Master inauguration ceremony by taking the Heaven-Bearing Sword Scabbard and receiving the homage of the cultivation world. Liu S sui then stepped forward and asked to take his place.

• The Great Marsh Magistrate praised Jing Jiu, and representatives of the sects and Divine Emperor Jing Yao paid their respects during the ceremony.
• Jing Jiu sat in the Sect Master's chair after the final edict was read and the ceremony's earlier rites were completed.
• Jing Jiu took out the Heaven-Bearing Sword Scabbard, and the Green Mountain disciples and visiting cultivators bowed to him.
• Liu S sui remained standing while everyone else paid their respects, then stepped forward and told Jing Jiu, "Let me do it instead."

Jing Jiu revealed that True Person Taiping had taken control of Liu S sui’s body and contested him for the Heaven-Bearing Sword. The Water-Moon Convent Abbess failed to force Taiping out, leaving Jing Jiu and Taiping facing off with control of the sword still unresolved.

• Liu S sui argued with himself over the hundred and forty-nine years since leaving Green Mountain, and Jing Jiu explained that he had met the child Liu S sui after his own ascension failed.
• Liu S sui claimed the Heaven-Bearing Sword was still his, then smiled as True Person Taiping and revealed himself to be Taiping controlling Liu S sui’s body.
• Zhao Layue and the Green Mountain disciples prepared to attack, while elders who remained loyal to Taiping greeted him as their sect master and patriarch.
• Jing Jiu released the scabbard and moved toward the cliff as he and Taiping contested control of the Heaven-Bearing Sword; the Water-Moon Convent Abbess came to intervene.
• The Water-Moon Convent Abbess struck Taiping to drive him from Liu S sui’s body, but her attack failed and she retreated injured; Taiping reminded Jing Jiu that the same method would not work twice.

Jing Jiu and True Person Taiping fought over the Heaven-Bearing Sword as Taiping revealed that he had controlled Liu S sui through Two Hearts Communication. The Green Mountain Sword Formation awakened around them, leaving their struggle isolated from outside interference and its outcome unresolved.

• True Person Taiping revealed that he had controlled Liu S sui through Two Hearts Communication and explained that his scheme had shaped Xi Yiyun's actions and Little Lotus's feelings.
• Jing Jiu recognized that Taiping had taken the Heaven-Mending Pill and Seven-Leaf Lotus, then used the Heaven-Bearing Sword to pierce the Green Mountain Grand Array toward the Thunder Domain.
• True Person Taiping stopped the Heaven-Bearing Sword's power and repelled the Nondual Sword, sending it flying into Sword Peak's cliff.
• Flying swords across Green Mountain rose and clashed in two opposing groups, while Ping Yongjia suffered from the chaotic Sword Intent.
• The Great Marsh Magistrate attacked Taiping with the Eight-Directions Wind-and-Rain Banner, but the Green Mountain Sword Formation cut apart the rain and damaged the banner.
• The Green Mountain Sword Formation enveloped Jing Jiu and True Person Taiping, while disturbances spread across Green Mountain's peaks as their contest for the formation's control continued.

As True Person Taiping’s blood sacrifice formed the Heavenly Access Killing Formation, seawater began pouring through a breach into the Netherworld. The Nether Master revealed that he had anticipated the catastrophe and shared Taiping’s ambition to eliminate ordinary people, leaving Tong Yan horrified.

• Nan Wang ordered everyone to scatter as Jing Jiu and True Person Taiping continued their confrontation at Green Mountain.
• Yin Phoenix’s summoned Yaoshou and the sailors of a Penglai treasure ship were swept into the Great Whirlpool, where their blood formed the Heavenly Access Killing Formation.
• The awakened Giant headed into the sea toward the Great Whirlpool while the Elves fled after an old female Elf warned them of danger.
• The formation redirected seawater into the Netherworld, where it fell from a tear in the sky and struck the Nether River.
• The seawater ignited the Nether River, killing the High Priest’s army and releasing poisonous green smoke that began rising toward the Mortal World.
• The Nether Master told Tong Yan that the catastrophe was a harvest of ordinary people and affirmed that he was True Person Taiping’s student, terrifying Tong Yan.

The Nether Master and the True Person launched a plan to flood the Netherworld, drive winds through it, and poison the mortal world with green smoke. Tong Yan confronted the Nether Master and struck him with an ancient bell, while the danger to the surface continued to grow.

• The Nether Master explained that the True Person’s plan sent seawater and winds into the Netherworld to produce poisonous green smoke.
• A red feather cut Bu Qiuxiao’s finger, and his blood turned the winds at One-Thatch Studio red and reversed their direction, breaking the formations suppressing the Netherworld passage.
• The Nether Master told Tong Yan that the poisonous smoke would rise through the Heavenly Access Well and kill ordinary people across the world.
• At the East Sea, the Profound Yin Ancestor struck the Heavenly Access Well, broke six of its Thirty-Three Heavens, and inhaled green smoke that killed a sea turtle.
• Tong Yan revealed an ancient bell and rang it, knocking the Nether Master into a cliff and making him spit blood.

Tong Yan wounded the Nether Master with the Jingyun Bell and escaped using the Thousand-Li Seal. At Green Mountain, True Person Taiping explained his plan to destroy the mortal world and his beliefs about the realms beyond ascension while he continued fighting Jing Jiu for control of the Heaven-Bearing Sword.

• Tong Yan rang the Jingyun Bell twice, severely wounded the Nether Master, and escaped with the Thousand-Li Seal.
• True Person Taiping told Jing Jiu that the Nether River would flood the mortal world and that the gathered cultivators would survive the destruction.
• True Person Taiping dismissed the deaths of mortals and told Nan Wang that he sought to destroy the world because ascension led to a cold realm inhabited by powerful beings.
• Zhao Layue challenged True Person Taiping's certainty, while he asked True Person Tan to confirm his claims and continued contesting Jing Jiu for the Heaven-Bearing Sword.
• The Green Mountain Sword Formation weakened under the struggle, and True Person Taiping lamented that the world was too weak as rain fell across the peaks.

True Person Taiping explained his plan to transform the world by killing mortals and forcing cultivators into labor, arguing that the world needed to prepare for its barrier to collapse. Jing Jiu rejected Taiping’s plans and, as the world faced destruction, revealed a bamboo tile that was Yin Phoenix’s Life Tablet and shattered it.

• Zhao Layue questioned True Person Taiping about the Outsider Heavenly Demons, and he explained that ascenders drained the world’s spiritual energy and could weaken its barrier.
• True Person Taiping proposed killing mortals, making cultivators handle necessary labor, and eliminating children unable to cultivate.
• Jing Jiu called Taiping’s plans idiotic and explained that he had never tried to calculate Taiping’s actions, because he would simply confront and defeat whoever came to him.
• True Person Taiping challenged Jing Jiu to identify anyone who could save the world, and Jing Jiu said the world’s own strength would bring someone forward.
• Jing Jiu produced a One Bamboo, identified it as Yin Phoenix’s Life Tablet, and shattered it with a raindrop.

Bu Qiuxiao abandoned his chance to become a sage to defend One-Thatch Studio, but his blood unexpectedly became sage’s blood and sealed the Netherworld Passage. In White City, the Zen Child persuaded the Snow Nation Queen not to interfere, while a wounded hand reached for Cao Yuan’s iron blade.

• An azure bird snatched the red feather that had been intensifying the blood-red winds at One-Thatch Studio.
• Bu Qiuxiao awoke from his meditation and used his blood to try to seal the collapsing passage into the Netherworld.
• Bu Qiuxiao’s blood shone like vermilion, stabilized Bell Mountain, and revealed that he had become a sage.
• The Zen Child used the Light Mirror to contact the Snow Nation Queen and warned her that True Person Taiping planned to destroy the world and the Snow Nation’s creatures.
• The Snow Nation Queen agreed to refrain from acting after the Zen Child offered her a favor, and a scarred hand grasped the iron blade in the Small Temple.

A battered Tong Yan returned from the Netherworld and used the scripture character “disintegrate” to attack the masters guarding the Heavenly Access Well as Profound Yin Ancestor tried to stop him. At the Great Whirlpool, a Buddha statue descended through a breach in the sky, raised the Iron Blade against the Heavenly Access Killing Formation, and became a saint.

• A scarred giant lifted the blade, then burst from the Small Temple and flew into the Void Realm.
• Profound Yin Ancestor emerged from the Heavenly Access Well and encountered the injured Tong Yan, who had returned with the Thousand-Li Seal.
• Tong Yan seized the character “disintegrate” from the cliff scriptures and used it to destroy the Shitai from Water-Moon Convent.
• Profound Yin Ancestor attacked Tong Yan with demonic flame, but Tong Yan escaped its first strike and appeared beside the Sutra Lecture Hall Chief Seat.
• Yin Phoenix presided over the Heavenly Access Killing Formation as Yaoshou fed the Great Whirlpool and strengthened it with their blood.
• A Buddha statue broke through the sky, descended to the Great Whirlpool, raised the Iron Blade against the formation, and became a saint.

Cao Yuan reached the Great Whirlpool and fought the Yin Phoenix’s yaoshou assault, revealing himself as the Buddha hidden in Fruitful Accomplishment Temple. After killing countless yaoshou and strengthening the Heavenly Access Killing Formation with their blood, he declared that protecting others was simply what made him himself.

• Cao Yuan revealed himself as the golden Buddha in the Great Whirlpool and faced the Yin Phoenix, who was presiding over the Heavenly Access Killing Formation.
• The Yin Phoenix commanded the yaoshou to charge, and Cao Yuan cut down wave after wave with his iron blade.
• Cao Yuan continued fighting until the yaoshou assault temporarily ceased, while their blood formed the Heavenly Access Killing Formation above him.
• The Yin Phoenix warned that the formation grew stronger with each blood sacrifice and questioned whether Cao Yuan’s death for mortals was worthwhile.
• Cao Yuan killed another group of high-tier yaoshou and told the Yin Phoenix that fighting for others was what made him himself.

Cao Yuan faced Yin Phoenix at the Great Whirlpool, but Jingyang’s control through the Life Tablet weakened Yin Phoenix before Giant struck it away. Giant then reached the whirlpool and addressed Cao Yuan as “A Jia.”

• Yin Phoenix used the Heavenly Access Killing Formation’s Blood Lines to attack Cao Yuan, but his scripture ring blocked them.
• Cao Yuan told Yin Phoenix he would try to block the passage at the bottom of the Great Whirlpool, prompting Yin Phoenix to come down and kill him.
• Yin Phoenix emerged from the Sun empowered by countless Yaoshou Blood Sacrifices and flew toward Cao Yuan.
• The Emerald Green Bamboo Tablet shattered, causing Yin Phoenix terrible pain through its connection to the Life Tablet; Yin Phoenix realized Jingyang had likely used its tail feather to restore that control.
• Cao Yuan struck Yin Phoenix with a blade as it fled, and a giant club then smashed it toward the horizon.
• Giant arrived at the Great Whirlpool, slowed the seawater’s flow, and asked Cao Yuan, “A Jia?”

Cao Yuan left the Great Whirlpool after the Giant launched him toward the Chaotian Continent, while the Giant held back the Yaoshou feeding the Heavenly Access Killing Formation. As the Giant entered the whirlpool to address the seawater passage, the Sea Above the Sea vanished on a distant continent, and the Church summoned its Sword Saint back.

• Cao Yuan accepted the Giant's help and let him hurl him through the Void Realm toward the Chaotian Continent.
• The Giant endured the remaining Heavenly Access Killing Formation and used thunder soulwood to knock Yaoshou away before they could feed it through Blood Sacrifice.
• The Giant remembered the seawater flowing into the Netherworld and walked toward the center of the Great Whirlpool.
• On a distant continent, the Sea Above the Sea vanished and the sea level began to fall.
• Church knights delivered the Pope's summons for the one-armed Sword Saint to return to the Church.

Xilai revealed his identity as the Western Sea Sword God and left to return to Chaotian Continent, while the Profound Yin Ancestor opened the Heavenly Access Well and unleashed deadly green smoke. Cao Yuan fell from the Void Realm and sealed the well, then explained that he had grown fat to prepare to fight Her Majesty the Queen.

• Xilai told the Church knights his name and killed the knight commander and a priest when they tried to stop him.
• Xilai flew toward the passage beneath the sea and vanished, wondering whether he was still in time.
• The Profound Yin Ancestor opened the Heavenly Access Well, releasing green smoke that killed animals and filled the survivors with despair.
• Cao Yuan fell from the Void Realm onto the Heavenly Access Well and inhaled the green smoke, blocking its passage into the mortal world.
• The Profound Yin Ancestor recognized Cao Yuan as the Blade Sage, and Cao Yuan said he had grown bigger because he needed strength to fight Her Majesty the Queen.

Cao Yuan revealed that Jingyang healed him and taught him Soul Fire Control, allowing him to break the Heavenly Access Killing Formation and reach Green Mountain. Jing Jiu explained to True Person Taiping that Cao Yuan would stop the flood threatening the mortal world, while Jing Jiu had prepared for what would happen after his ascension.

• Cao Yuan told the Profound Yin Ancestor that Jingyang healed his injuries with immortal qi and taught him Soul Fire Control.
• Cao Yuan revealed that he had left White City that morning, passed through Mingquan, and broken the Heavenly Access Killing Formation on his way to Green Mountain.
• Jing Jiu told True Person Taiping that destroying the living world was different from defeating it, and cast the bamboo tablet fragments and hidden feather over the cliff.
• Jing Jiu revealed that Cao Yuan was the great Buddha who would block the flood, having perfected his golden body and learned Soul Fire Control.
• Jing Jiu explained that he had healed Cao Yuan because he was considering what would happen to the world after his ascension.

The Profound Yin Ancestor explained to Cao Yuan that he had followed True Person Taiping partly to escape a life of fear and find purpose, then asked Cao Yuan to fight him. After Cao Yuan struck, the Ancestor covered his ears and wondered how powerful the Snow Nation Queen must be.

• The Profound Yin Ancestor told Cao Yuan that the Righteous Path’s treatment of mortals could also be unfair, and admitted he had sincerely followed True Person Taiping.
• The Ancestor recalled spending years underground evading the Green Mountain Sword Formation and described how he had searched for a chance to kill Taiping while traveling with him.
• The Ancestor confessed that he feared death and the certainty that he could not ascend, and said destroying the world gave him a conviction strong enough to face that fear.
• The Ancestor asked Cao Yuan to raise his saber and help him overcome his fear, and Cao Yuan agreed.
• After Cao Yuan struck, the Ancestor covered his ears and asked how the Snow Nation Queen could be so formidable, while Cao Yuan warned him to press his hands tighter.

At the Heavenly Access Well, the Profound Yin Ancestor died while Cao Yuan tried to preserve his life, then Cao Yuan entered the Netherworld to confront the spreading green smoke. Meanwhile, Jing Jiu and True Person Taiping faced each other at Heavenly Light Peak as Zhuo Rusui urged Taiping to admit defeat.

• The Profound Yin Ancestor questioned Cao Yuan about the Snow Nation Queen and True Person Taiping before Cao Yuan bound him to keep him alive a little longer.
• The Profound Yin Ancestor divided himself in two and died, releasing black smoke and flames over the sea.
• Cao Yuan ordered the formation rebuilt and went down into the Netherworld, where he appeared as the green smoke dispersed before the Nether Master.
• At Heavenly Light Peak, True Person Taiping asked Jing Jiu whether he could still ascend after giving his Immortal Qi to Cao Yuan, and Jing Jiu said he remained confident.
• Jing Jiu accused True Person Taiping of worrying about the sky falling instead of living, and Zhuo Rusui told Taiping to admit defeat.