Chapter Summaries

Daoist Wuwen died after confronting the Solar System sword formation, and Tong Yan severely damaged Chen Ya with a targeted palm strike. Liu S sui arrived and battered Chen Ya until the Stone Man of Chenwushan crumbled into a broken bust.

• Daoist Wuwen refused to retreat from the Solar System sword formation and was cut into dust by its sword intent.
• Tong Yan used Heaven and Earth Escape Method to strike Chen Ya’s abdomen, cracking the Stone Man of Chenwushan before the other immortals drove him back.
• Chen Ya summoned the sword formation against Peng Lang, but two streaks of sword light shredded its lightning and heralded Liu S sui’s arrival.
• Liu S sui shattered the Cloud Master’s defenses and struck Chen Ya with his fist, while Sage Zeng Ju suppressed the soul fire from the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.
• Chen Ya’s limbs and lower body crumbled under Liu S sui’s assault, leaving him as a weathered stone bust.

After the battle on Mount Olympus, Liu S sui and his allies left the wounded immortals alive and withdrew to an ancient Martian base, where Liu S sui revealed how badly the sword formation had injured him. The group regrouped and discussed their separated companions, including Night Howl, while Liu S sui learned that Jing Jiu and Snow Ji had joined forces against the Darkness Wardens.

• The surviving immortals returned to the summit, where Shen Yunmai taunted Chen Ya and the wounded factions debated whether to continue fighting.
• The Cloud Master left after arguing that the immortals’ struggle served their own interests rather than humanity, and Shen Yunmai led his companions away from the summit.
• Liu S sui, Peng Lang, and the others reached an ancient ring-shaped base, where Peng Lang dispersed the sword intent Liu S sui had been suppressing so he could recover.
• Tong Yan asked where Night Howl was, and Peng Lang explained that they had become separated inside the Solar System Sword Formation; Tong Yan concluded Night Howl should be safe for now.
• Liu S sui learned that Tong Yan had summoned help from Chaotian Continent and recounted how Jing Jiu and Snow Ji had killed nine Darkness Wardens.
• Tong Yan told the group to treat their injuries, then sat down with Little Bell in his hand.

Tong Yan and Shen Yunmai’s group examined the ruined Martian base and discussed the Green Mountain Patriarch’s Solar System Sword Formation, then began working out how to find its core. On another world, Zhuo Rusui questioned the Founding Patriarch about the transformed Solar System, and the Patriarch pointed toward Mars, where others were coming.

• Tong Yan woke and sent Liu S sui out to walk through the base so the Immortals on the mountain could see him.
• The group found Shen Yunmai among wreckage beneath the base and heard his account of the ancient human civilization and humanity’s limits in escaping the speed of light.
• Shen Yunmai wondered whether the Founding Patriarch was conducting an experiment, and the group considered whether the Solar System Sword Formation had become a new Sword Prison.
• Tong Yan and the others discussed how to locate the Sword Formation’s core and determine how the Founding Patriarch’s Divine Sense was distributed.
• Zhuo Rusui read and memorized The Peach Blossom Spring, then asked the Founding Patriarch whether the Solar System was his peach blossom haven.
• The Founding Patriarch said others were coming and pointed toward Mars.

The Founding Patriarch explained that he was waiting for Jing Jiu to die and expected Zhuo Rusui to witness his victory and accept his principles. Elsewhere, Zhao Layue arrived at the place where Snow Ji might be, then jumped into a fissure with Big One in her arms.

• Zhuo Rusui questioned the Founding Patriarch about the Solar System Grand Formation, and the Founding Patriarch said its Life Gate was placed where he could escape and that he was waiting for Jing Jiu to die.
• The Founding Patriarch told Zhuo Rusui he expected him to witness his victory and accept his principles, while Zhuo Rusui reflected on his loyalty to Liu Ci and the Green Mountain Sect.
• The Founding Patriarch revealed that Corpse Dog was roaming the Solar System searching for the Formation Eye, then rested as Zhuo Rusui watched the sand pagoda he had built.
• Zhao Layue asked Qing'er whether they had found a way to control Snow Ji, and Qing'er said the data sea indicated Snow Ji might be at their destination.
• Zhao Layue leaped over a barrier and jumped into a fissure with Big One, shocking a middle-aged man who had followed her.

Zhao Layue arrived at Star Gate Base and found Jing Jiu living with Snow Ji, still unwilling to wake from his Blue-Robed Youth state. After lying to Snow Ji about the whereabouts of her object, Zhao Layue reunited with Jing Jiu, who did not recognize her.

• Zhao Layue secretly reached the Underground District and told Qing'er that no one, not even Tong Yan, could learn about their supposed method of controlling Snow Ji.
• Zhao Layue found traces of immortal qi near the Electronic Repair Shop, then entered the Apartment Building and discovered Jing Jiu and Snow Ji inside.
• Snow Ji explained that Jing Jiu had returned to Star Gate Base after Jialei Passage and refused to leave or wake up, while she stayed because she did not care about humanity's fate.
• Snow Ji asked Zhao Layue where her object was, and Zhao Layue lied that Qing'er had it and suggested Snow Ji needed it to kill the Founding Patriarch.
• Big One reunited with Cold Cicada, then Zhao Layue looked at Flower Creek frozen in ice before greeting Jing Jiu, who did not recognize her.

Zhao Layue risked waking Jing Jiu by using the Unthought Sword to restrain his consciousness and keep the New Heaven-Bearing Sword from taking control. Jing Jiu woke clear-minded but gravely weakened, and Zhao Layue stayed by his side as he accepted that the method might shorten his life.

• Zhao Layue studied Tong Yan’s proposed countermeasures and decided to risk waking Jing Jiu rather than leave him an idiot.
• Snow Ji withdrew the cold holding Jing Jiu in hibernation, and Zhao Layue fastened the Unthought Sword around his neck.
• Zhao Layue summoned Big One’s Heart-Clearing Bells and used Nine Deaths Sword Art to charge the sword restraint with killing intent, suppressing Jing Jiu’s consciousness.
• Jing Jiu woke with his thoughts clear but his body weak and nearly numb, and he told Zhao Layue that the method would make him die sooner.
• Zhao Layue reminded Jing Jiu that he had taught her swordsmanship, and that he should live proudly and without regret.

Jing Jiu woke weakened and paralyzed by the Unthought Sword, then learned that the Founding Patriarch had turned a star system near the Ancestral Star into a sword formation. As Zhao Layue took him there aboard a warship, Jing Jiu revealed he had thought of a way to kill the Founding Patriarch before his ascension.

• Jing Jiu questioned Zhao Layue about the danger, and she told him that particles from the missing Shen Household warship suggested the Founding Patriarch had made the star system around the Ancestral Star into a sword formation.
• Zhao Layue explained that Liu S sui had entered the formation to investigate whether Shen Yunmai and Tong Yan were alive, and Jing Jiu called the situation troublesome before falling asleep.
• Jing Jiu woke coughing and feeling cold, so Zhao Layue covered him with a blanket and took him, Snow Ji, Flower Creek, and Big One to the waiting warship.
• Zhao Layue ordered the warship to continue toward the Ancestral Star while Jing Jiu spent most of the voyage resting; later, she pushed him through the ship in a wheelchair.
• Zhao Layue asked Jing Jiu whether he had found a way to kill the Founding Patriarch, and he said he had thought of one before his ascension.

As the Galaxy Alliance fleet approached the Ancestral Star, Jing Jiu saw the true Sun for the first time. On Mars, Tong Yan persuaded Zeng Ju and Immortal Maiden He to help analyze the Solar System Sword Formation, and Immortal Maiden He identified its unknown formation eye as a warship.

• More than thirty thousand Galaxy Alliance warships assembled to escort Snow Ji and the others toward the Ancestral Star, where Jing Jiu glimpsed the Sun.
• On Mars, Immortal Maiden He questioned Chen Ya about contacting the Ancestral Star, while Zeng Ju admitted regret over avoiding past conflicts.
• Liu S sui brought Tong Yan’s warning that the Founding Patriarch might intend to trap and kill the ascended Immortals, prompting Zeng Ju and Immortal Maiden He to visit the base.
• Tong Yan argued that the Founding Patriarch might share the Monk of Joy’s plan to transform humanity into beings of the soul, but Zeng Ju rejected the comparison and agreed to help analyze the formation.
• Zeng Ju examined the calculations for the formation eye, and Immortal Maiden He concluded that it was a warship.

Que Niang and Tong Yan realized the Solar System Sword Formation’s Formation Eye was a massive warship, but the formation began changing as an immense force approached. The chapter ended with Zhao Layue and Jing Jiu facing a fleet of more than thirty thousand warships and preparing to begin their assault.

• Tong Yan explained why they had dismissed the possibility of a warship as the Formation Eye, but Zeng Ju revealed that resources had secretly been diverted to build one.
• Que Niang warned that a mobile Formation Eye could let the Founding Patriarch change the formation and turn Mars’s Life Gate into a Death Domain, so she and Tong Yan began recalculating.
• Immortal Maiden He accepted medicine from Yushan and went to find Cloud Master, while Yushan said she trusted Jingyang to come despite the danger.
• The calculations detected a massive celestial body approaching and a change in the formation, prompting Tong Yan to ask Zeng Ju to summon help; the robot shouted a warning outside the base.
• The Green Mountain Patriarch sensed the approaching force and drew on the Sword Intent bound beneath the sea, while Zhuo Rusui begged him to stop killing as the Life Gate changed.
• Zhao Layue brought Jing Jiu to the warship’s window, where they saw more than thirty thousand warships arrayed around the Solar System, and asked if they should begin.

A massive fleet bombardment barely affected the Solar System Sword Formation, and Jing Jiu decided to enter it with Zhao Layue after Snow Ji revealed the route to its Life Gate. On Mount Olympus, Tong Yan and Shen Yunmai tried to prepare the Immortals for the formation’s changes while Su Ziye and Yuan Qu quietly planned to use Chen Ya’s body as cover.

• More than thirty thousand warships fired their weapons at the Solar System Sword Formation, but the attack reduced its energy domain by only 0.003 percent.
• Jing Jiu recognized that the Founding Patriarch had made the entire Solar System into a Green Mountain Sword Formation, and he chose to enter it rather than wait for its energy to dissipate.
• Snow Ji opened a passage into the formation, and Zhao Layue pushed Jing Jiu’s wheelchair through it with Big One and Qing’er accompanying them.
• On Mount Olympus, Tong Yan and Shen Yunmai warned the gathered Immortals that the changing formation could turn Mars from the Life Gate into the Dead Ruins, but only three Immortals joined their effort to prepare.
• Su Ziye and Yuan Qu discussed positioning the Immortals of the Previous Generation at the front and considered using Chen Ya’s ruined body as cover.

Tong Yan, Que Niang, and the other immortals struggled to find a way to break the Solar System Sword Formation, and Que Niang proposed using the Pure Yang Transformation. Jing Jiu arrived with Zhao Layue and endorsed Que Niang’s intuition, but the immortals’ gathering turned tense until a mysterious snow-haired girl disarmed the Divine Striking Patriarch and froze Sword Immortal Ensheng’s weapon.

• Tong Yan, Que Niang, Zeng Ju, and the other immortals continued calculating how to break the Solar System Sword Formation while Shen Yunmai argued with them from his robot body.
• Que Niang suggested using the Pure Yang Transformation, and Jing Jiu arrived in a wheelchair pushed by Zhao Layue and told her to trust her intuition.
• Jing Jiu reunited with Que Niang and Shen Yunmai as Liu S sui and the others greeted him, while the Divine Striking Patriarch and the other immortals prepared to attack.
• Shen Yunmai mocked the Divine Striking Patriarch, but a snow-haired little girl took the Patriarch’s drum and froze Sword Immortal Ensheng’s sword and scabbard together.

Snow Ji arrived on Mars and overwhelmed the Immortals, then stopped the descending Solar System Sword Formation with a punch. The chapter left the group trapped beneath the formation, with its descent halted but its threat unresolved.

• Snow Ji reached the Immortals, who bowed to her, and Peng Lang greeted her as his honored mother-in-law; she froze Chen Ya with Cold Cicada after he insulted her.
• Gu Zuo and Gu You attacked Snow Ji, but she repeatedly sent Gu Zuo flying and learned from Jing Jiu that the brothers were one person split into two souls and had to be killed simultaneously.
• Snow Ji pressed Gu Zuo and Gu You together, apparently trying to fuse their bodies and souls, as Zeng Ju moved to plead for them.
• The Solar System Sword Formation began descending toward Mars, and Jing Jiu realized the Green Mountain Patriarch had waited for him and Snow Ji to arrive before changing the formation.
• Snow Ji threw the two Black-Clad Yaoxian aside and punched the formation’s boundary, freezing space and halting its descent above the ground.

Snow Ji held back the falling sky while Jing Jiu helped devise a way to unravel the Solar System Sword Formation and ordered Corpse Dog to return from searching for its formation eye. After the group spent time on Mars, they returned to the summit with hours remaining, but Corpse Dog had not come back and Que Niang reported two problems.

• Snow Ji propped up the sky, and Jing Jiu and Tong Yan calculated that the Solar System Sword Formation would complete its transformation in seventy-one hours and four minutes.
• Jing Jiu solved most of the formation problem, while Snow Ji used Cold Cicada to perform the remaining calculations; Zhao Layue made Jing Jiu rest when his pain became apparent.
• Jing Jiu learned that Corpse Dog had gone to find the formation eye and asked Snow Ji to broadcast the spatial coordinates and Fluid Function Equation, ordering Corpse Dog to return.
• Flower Creek warned Jing Jiu that the formation's creator would not let them find the formation eye easily, and Jing Jiu's group left the summit to wait elsewhere on Mars.
• The group returned to the summit on the third day; Corpse Dog had not returned, the formation eye remained undiscovered, and Que Niang said they had encountered two problems.

As the sword formation descended over Mars, Shen Yunmai proposed that its core was the Ancestral Star, and Zhao Layue suggested Zhuo Rusui might be there to send the signal they needed. With the formation nearly upon them and no sign from Zhuo Rusui, Divine Striking Patriarch proposed destroying the sun and turned everyone’s attention to the incapacitated Jing Jiu.

• Tong Yan said the formation eye could not be located because their calculations lacked the supermassive warship’s distance from the sun.
• Shen Yunmai argued that the formation core was the Ancestral Star, where the Green Mountain Patriarch was, and Jing Jiu agreed he would have placed it there.
• Zhao Layue suggested Zhuo Rusui might be on the Ancestral Star, but no one knew whether he was there or would send a signal.
• The sword formation descended to within meters of the mountaintop, and Snow Ji froze the sky to hold it back as the others waited.
• Divine Striking Patriarch said destroying the sun would break the formation, then looked toward Jing Jiu as the others followed his gaze.

As the Solar System Sword Formation closed in on Mars, the Divine Striking Patriarch tried to force Jing Jiu to ignite the Sun, but Jing Jiu refused and the gathered disciples prepared for the coming battle. Elsewhere, the Founding Patriarch explained the likely deaths to Zhuo Rusui, who revealed that his allegiance came from his anger over Tong Yan’s role in Liu Ci’s death.

• The Divine Striking Patriarch urged Jing Jiu to destroy the Sun and break the Sword Formation, but Jing Jiu insisted they think of another solution.
• Lord Purple Qi Comes from the East flew into the Sword Formation and died almost immediately, while the sky continued to collapse toward Mars.
• The disciples readied themselves for the Sword Formation’s advance as Immortal Maiden He and Cloud Master rode a cloud through a canyon and sang together.
• The Founding Patriarch told Zhuo Rusui that Snow Ji would be badly injured, Jing Jiu’s divine soul would be destroyed, and the others’ survival would depend on their fortunes.
• Zhuo Rusui told the Founding Patriarch that he opposed the others because Tong Yan had caused Liu Ci’s death, and confessed that he still wanted to kill Tong Yan.

Zhuo Rusui confronted the Founding Patriarch on the beach, but his sword attack failed against the Patriarch’s control of the Solar System sword formation. Before the Founding Patriarch could destroy his hidden message, Zhuo Rusui revealed that his collapsing towers had scattered information through the air; meanwhile, Shen Yunmai watched the crushing sky from inside the robot.

• Zhuo Rusui told the Founding Patriarch he would oppose him to keep their old acquaintances from being killed, then summoned the Swallowing Boat Sword.
• The Founding Patriarch used One Sword for All Things to wound Zhuo Rusui and destroy the Swallowing Boat Sword by making the rising tide retreat.
• Zhuo Rusui accepted that he could not defeat the Founding Patriarch, whose sword intent encompassed the entire Solar System.
• The Founding Patriarch revealed that he had destroyed the seventeen sand and stone towers Zhuo Rusui had built, but Zhuo Rusui explained that their collapse scattered his message with the dust.
• The sky descended toward the cliff as Shen Yunmai leaned back inside the robot and remarked that he looked dashing.

As the Solar System Sword Formation descended on Mars, Jing Jiu and Snow Ji used Zhuo Rusui’s message and their observations to calculate the formation eye, while Snow Ji departed to destroy it. The immortals and Shen Yunmai held the formation at Mount Olympus against the falling sword intent, and they survived as the defense stabilized, though the rest of Mars was devastated.

• Zhuo Rusui’s broadcast gave Jing Jiu and Snow Ji enough information to calculate the Solar System Sword Formation’s eye using the formation patterns and Tong Yan’s essay.
• Snow Ji left the cliffs with Peng Lang, but Liu S sui pinned him in place with the Dragon-Tail Inkstone; Zhao Layue freed Flower Creek from the ice and restrained her with sword intent.
• As the frozen sky cracked and sword intent fell, Zeng Ju, the immortals, Que Niang, and Shen Yunmai activated their law treasures and Nuclear Reactor to power the defense formation.
• Immortal Ni collapsed from exhaustion, and Liu S sui took his place, using the Dragon-Tail Inkstone and the other law treasures to help hold up the sky.
• The formation stabilized around Mount Olympus, protecting the immortals while sword intent destroyed the Ring-Shaped Base and ravaged the rest of Mars; Shen Yunmai declared that he would not die and called himself a morning sun.

Snow Ji reached the Solar System Sword Formation’s formation eye and began dismantling the enormous warship that concealed its core. After destroying much of the artificial world inside, she uncovered a black obelisk.

• Jing Jiu questioned the warship’s unusual size and asked Shen Yunmai how to broadcast to the Solar System.
• Snow Ji navigated the sword formation and reached the quiet region behind the sun, where she found the giant warship.
• Snow Ji identified the artificial world inside the warship as the formation eye and decided to destroy it rather than search for its hidden core.
• Snow Ji tore open the warship, dismantled its artificial sky and sun, and then began destroying its land and structures.
• Snow Ji reduced an island to particles and revealed a black obelisk beneath it.

Snow Ji discovered the Black Obelisk’s true nature and was trapped by its power, which began to absorb her. Corpse Dog arrived and, despite its injuries, pulled her free from the Obelisk’s surface.

• Snow Ji realized Shen Green Mountain’s world concealed the Black Obelisk and fled, but the Obelisk altered space to keep her from escaping.
• Snow Ji attacked the Obelisk with her strongest ice pillars, but its incomprehensible force shattered them and dragged her onto its surface.
• Snow Ji struggled as the Obelisk absorbed her hands and weakened her, until she recognized Corpse Dog’s familiar gaze.
• Corpse Dog landed on the Obelisk, took Snow Ji in its jaws, and unleashed its full strength despite the sword-intent wounds sealed across its body.
• Snow Ji summoned cold around the blood scattered across the Obelisk, helping Corpse Dog pull her hands free.

Zhao Layue realized the solar system sword formation was a net designed by the Green Mountain Patriarch, and Flower Creek revealed that the method for controlling Snow Ji was on the Ancestral Star. Jing Jiu sent a message calling for someone to act, and True Person Tan answered by shattering the hollow moon with his bell.

• Zhao Layue recognized that the Green Mountain Patriarch had built the solar system sword formation to trap them, while Flower Creek said she had given him the thing that could control Snow Ji.
• Jing Jiu ordered Zhao Layue to kill Flower Creek, but Flower Creek survived by revealing that the method for controlling the thing was on the Ancestral Star.
• Jing Jiu sent a message across the Solar System, calling on someone to stop hesitating and make a move.
• The Green Mountain Patriarch realized Jing Jiu had been addressing someone hidden in the Solar System, and the moon began to crack as bell chimes rang from it.
• True Person Tan appeared among the moon’s fragments with a damaged bell as the moon’s destruction battered the Ancestral Star and its formations.