Chapter Summaries

Corpse Dog struggled to carry Snow Ji away from the black Obelisk while the Solar System Sword Formation collapsed after its formation eye and core were damaged. Jing Jiu’s group headed for the Ancestral Star, where True Person Tan confronted the Green Mountain Patriarch before retreating, leaving the Patriarch poised to face the approaching fleet.

• Corpse Dog freed Snow Ji from the black Obelisk but could not fly away with her, so he ran across the monument while carrying her.
• Immortal Maiden He and Cloud Master noticed the sword intent in Mars’s canyon thinning, then realized the Solar System Sword Formation was disintegrating.
• The formation’s collapse reached Mars, dissolving the Immortals’ Formation, and Jing Jiu ordered Big One to carry his group toward the Ancestral Star.
• True Person Tan arrived on the Ancestral Star after using the moon to damage the formation core, and he and the Green Mountain Patriarch discussed their conflict before fighting briefly.
• True Person Tan retreated into space after saying he would stop the Patriarch, while the Patriarch explained that he had bought time for the others and asserted that the approaching fleet could not stop him as long as His Majesty remained under his control.

Jing Jiu and his companions arrived on the Ancestral Star to confront Shen Green Mountain as the Solar System Sword Formation failed. Jing Jiu rejected the Founding Patriarch’s status and demanded the method for controlling Snow Ji, offering to leave in exchange for Shen Green Mountain’s life.

• Big One landed on the Ancestral Star with Jing Jiu, Zhao Layue, Liu S sui, Zhuo Rusui, and their companions, while Tong Yan and Peng Lang joined them on the beach.
• Jing Jiu and Shen Green Mountain met in their wheelchairs, and Shen Yunmai confronted his father while Flower Creek urged Shen Green Mountain to hurry.
• Shen Green Mountain recognized Zhao Layue’s Sword Intent, and Zhao Layue warned that she would kill Flower Creek if he acted against them.
• Shen Green Mountain explained that cultivators needed to preserve a childlike innocence, and Jing Jiu’s arrival showed he would not abandon Snow Ji to pursue the safest plan.
• Jing Jiu addressed the Founding Patriarch as Shen Green Mountain, declared him an opponent, and demanded the method for controlling Snow Ji in exchange for leaving him alive.

Jing Jiu threatened Shen Green Mountain with Flower Creek’s life to obtain a method, but Shen Green Mountain defeated Liu S sui when he attacked and showed no sign of yielding. After Flower Creek confronted him with her gaze, Shen Green Mountain handed Jing Jiu a black gem inside a gold-wire filigree ball.

• Jing Jiu offered to spare Flower Creek if Shen Green Mountain gave him the method he wanted, but Shen Green Mountain questioned whether Jing Jiu understood the cost of risking a comrade’s life.
• Liu S sui severed Flower Creek’s arm and asked Shen Green Mountain to reconsider; Shen Green Mountain attacked and overwhelmed Liu S sui’s weapons and techniques with a mere look.
• Zhao Layue warned Shen Green Mountain that she could kill Flower Creek, stopping the fight before Liu S sui was killed.
• Shen Yunmai argued that Shen Green Mountain would put humanity before Flower Creek, while Flower Creek met the Patriarch’s gaze and showed her anger at his decision.
• Shen Green Mountain handed Jing Jiu a gold-wire filigree ball containing a profoundly black, diamond-shaped gem.

Jing Jiu and Shen Green Mountain struck a bargain involving the Gold-Thread Openwork Ball and Flower Creek, while the others worried about the coming fight and Jing Jiu’s vulnerability to the Heaven-Bearing Sword. The chapter ended with Jing Jiu telling Shen Green Mountain he intended to kill him even if Shen did not kill him first.

• Shen Green Mountain handed the Gold-Thread Openwork Ball to Shen Yunmai, and Jing Jiu sent Big One and Cold Cicada toward the Sun with it.
• Jing Jiu explained that Shen Green Mountain had accepted his terms because the ball’s importance to Snow Ji created a powerful bond between Shen and Flower Creek.
• Flower Creek rejected Shen Green Mountain’s reassurance, went to the shore, and found a sharp stone that had fallen from the moon.
• Liu S sui admitted he would probably lose to Shen Green Mountain, while Tong Yan’s silence made the others confront the danger of Jing Jiu being controlled by the Heaven-Bearing Sword.
• Jing Jiu and Shen Green Mountain argued over whether Jing Jiu could represent humanity, and Jing Jiu said he had promised Oneness of All Things to kill Shen Green Mountain.

Jing Jiu and Shen Green Mountain debated whether later generations owed the Founding Patriarch gratitude, while the beach’s fragile peace ended and Zhao Layue’s group launched an attack. At Green Mountain, a violent heavenly thunderstorm signaled that something was happening beyond the world, leaving Ping Yongjia shaken but tasked with preparing for new disciples.

• Sword Immortal Ensheng arrived at the beach and challenged Jing Jiu for showing the Founding Patriarch too little respect; Jing Jiu argued that the Green Mountain Sect and its later disciples did not owe their existence to Shen Green Mountain personally.
• Big One sent a message that the distant crisis had been resolved, ending the agreement that had preserved peace between Jing Jiu and Shen Green Mountain.
• Zhao Layue withdrew the sword intent she had placed in Flower Creek, and Liu S sui asked Shen Green Mountain for instruction as Qing'er used the sword light on her wings to attack from behind.
• Zhao Layue's First Child Sword rose from beneath Shen Green Mountain's wheelchair as she and Qing'er struck, while Zhao Layue's sword intent surged.
• At Green Mountain, a massive thunderstorm struck Jade Lake Peak, and Ping Yongjia told Nan Wang that something was happening outside.
• After the storm passed, Ping Yongjia sat frightened on the Black Stone, and Nan Wang told him to arrange for the new Sword-Washing Disciples arriving the next day.

On the Ancestral Star, Shen Green Mountain repelled the attacks of Zhao Layue, Liu S sui, Tong Yan, and Zhuo Rusui as they tried to challenge him. Peng Lang then struck with his sword, but Shen Green Mountain stopped it and shattered the blade.

• New Green Mountain Sect disciples climbed Sword Peak to seek swords, then paid respects to portraits of past sect leaders, including Zhuo Rusui.
• Shen Green Mountain shattered Qing'er's spirit body, drove back the Fire Carp King, and broke Zhao Layue's formless sword body, leaving her gravely wounded.
• Liu S sui unleashed all his law treasures at Shen Green Mountain, but was driven back into the sea and wounded.
• Tong Yan's black Go stones turned white under Shen Green Mountain's sword intent and fell, leaving Tong Yan exhausted.
• Zhuo Rusui formed a Heaven-Bearing Sword Formation against Shen Green Mountain's All Things Sword Formation, but the sword net tore his clothes and wounded his immortal body.
• Peng Lang walked up to Shen Green Mountain and thrust his sword, but Shen caught it between two fingers and shattered it through to Peng Lang's hand.

Jing Jiu revealed that he had a dangerous way to oppose Shen Green Mountain’s All Things Sword Formation, then broke the Sword Restraint that had kept him lucid and restrained. As its fragments scattered across the beach, the Heaven-Bearing Sword’s control of him was about to begin.

• After the new disciples left the small tower, Ping Yongjia and Nan Wang discussed whether burning Shen Green Mountain’s portrait could affect him.
• Shen Green Mountain explained that wherever he was, his thoughts governed the All Things Sword Formation, and the defeated group realized they had no way to overcome him.
• Jing Jiu told Shen Green Mountain he intended to kill him and explained that he had taken time to consider a method that could cost his life.
• Shen Green Mountain said Jing Jiu could not imitate Nan Qu by separating a Sword Ghost, because Jing Jiu was already the inseparable union of Jingyang’s divine soul and One Sword for All Things.
• Jing Jiu lifted the blanket from his lap and reached for the Sword Restraint despite Zhao Layue and the others urging him to stop.
• Jing Jiu snapped the Sword Restraint around his neck, sending its fragments scattering across the beach.

Jing Jiu resisted Shen Green Mountain’s control by severing parts of his perfect body, as the Azure Light Cord reappeared higher on his arm. He rejected the idea that his body had to serve humanity and began tearing off his ear.

• The Unthought Sword shattered, and Jing Jiu awoke as the New Heaven-Bearing Sword’s control tightened around his wrist.
• Snow Ji, Corpse Dog, Big One, and Cold Cicada recovered beside the Black Stele and sensed something alarming near the Sun.
• Shen Green Mountain told Jing Jiu that the New Heaven-Bearing Sword was his main program and could not be resisted without death.
• Jing Jiu cut off his left hand, but the Azure Light Cord reappeared near his shoulder.
• Jing Jiu severed his left arm and said he would rather give up his body than accept Shen Green Mountain’s control.
• Jing Jiu rejected the claim that his body was humanity’s only hope and began tearing off his ear.

Jing Jiu destroyed the body of One Sword for All Things to free his divine soul from the Heaven-Bearing Sword and the control of Shen Green Mountain. A small luminous child emerged from the sword light and took its first step onto the beach.

• Jing Jiu tore off both ears and cut open his body, weakening the Heaven-Bearing Sword as its azure cord dimmed.
• Jing Jiu told Shen Green Mountain that he would destroy One Sword for All Things rather than let it be used to control him or save the world.
• Jing Jiu explained that taking off his clothes meant casting off the sword-body and freeing his soul, despite the danger that a soul could not endure outside a body.
• Shen Green Mountain and Shen Yunmai warned Jing Jiu that attempts to preserve or transfer souls had failed, but Jing Jiu continued.
• Jing Jiu's body blazed with sword light as he severed himself from One Sword for All Things, and a short luminous child stepped out onto the beach.

Jing Jiu abandoned his body and used his divine soul to break free of Shen Green Mountain’s control, then faced Shen Green Mountain in a contest of wills. Though his soul began to fade, Jing Jiu outlasted the danger and reached Shen Green Mountain, declaring victory.

• Jing Jiu’s divine soul took its first steps, and he used the All Things Sword Formation to deflect Shen Green Mountain’s attacks.
• Jing Jiu advanced toward Shen Green Mountain as the wheelchair retreated to the pool, and Shen Green Mountain manifested a woodcutter to strike him.
• The two men’s divine senses filled the Ancestral Star with sword intent, while Jing Jiu’s soul gradually grew fainter.
• Jing Jiu began humming a nursery rhyme, skipped past the woodcutter’s attack, and jumped onto Shen Green Mountain’s knees.
• Jing Jiu looked at Shen Green Mountain and said that he had won.

The child defeated Shen Green Mountain by possessing him, then used the Nondual Sword to cut off his own head and destroy the body. Shen Green Mountain’s head remained in the pool beside Shen Yunmai’s, while the child was left alone in the wheelchair.

• Shen Green Mountain explained that he and the child followed the same path beyond the body, though the child had advanced farther with the aid of great figures’ Daos.
• Flower Creek apologized for failing to kill herself when she was used to threaten Shen Green Mountain, and Zhao Layue and Liu S sui promised she would be allowed to live.
• Shen Green Mountain recounted how his question, “Do you want to die?” had become the Green Mountain Sect’s famous catchphrase.
• The young woodcutter’s blade descended, and Jing Jiu entered Shen Green Mountain’s body to destroy it and the source of the Divine Sense.
• Shen Green Mountain used the Nondual Sword to cut off his head, and his body dissolved into sand as the child appeared in the wheelchair.
• Shen Yunmai’s head fell into the pool beside his father’s, and he asked whether it hurt.

Shen Green Mountain died after reconciling with Shen Yunmai, and the survivors mourned the Founding Patriarch. Jing Jiu returned to his body but had only nine days left, leaving the group to face his impending death and decide what to do about Snow Ji.

• Shen Green Mountain admitted he had chosen exile for Shen Yunmai after divining his fate, then died as golden light rose from the pool.
• Tong Yan lifted Shen Yunmai's head from the pool and returned it to the robot, and everyone except the child and Flower Creek knelt to honor Shen Green Mountain.
• The child rejected Zhao Layue's offer of the Azure Sky Mirror, discovered he could move wherever his thoughts reached, and revealed Jing Jiu beneath the fading sword light.
• Jing Jiu said his body would last nine more days, while Tong Yan gathered the organs Jing Jiu had removed in case they could help repair One Sword for All Things.
• Tong Yan asked Jing Jiu whether they should kill Snow Ji, and Peng Lang reminded him that he was present.

Jing Jiu’s disciples gathered around him as his body neared collapse, and he asked them to make hotpot so he could watch them eat. After Flower Creek brought him to a hidden cavern beneath the island, a black box projected an image of a young man, whose identity remained uncertain.

• Zhao Layue and Peng Lang rejected Tong Yan’s suggestion that killing Snow Ji was now the best course, and Liu S sui covered Jing Jiu with the damaged Ten Thousand Souls Banner.
• Jing Jiu sent Qing'er to tell Big One that the situation was safe, then asked everyone to make hotpot while they waited for the fleet.
• The Blazing Sun Warship arrived with immortals from Mars, who learned of the Green Mountain Patriarch’s death and saw Jing Jiu’s grave condition.
• Jing Jiu told his companions he was done watching them eat and asked Flower Creek to show him what Shen Green Mountain had wanted him to see.
• Flower Creek led Jing Jiu, Zhao Layue, and Liu S sui to an underground cavern, where she opened a black box that projected an image of a young man in an unfamiliar military uniform.

Jing Jiu and the others questioned Xu Le about his life and how he became a god after his death. Xu Le explained that his consciousness had transferred into the Charter Network, and he described how he eventually used his power to unite the Empire and the Federation as the Galaxy Alliance.

• Jing Jiu asked Xu Le to introduce himself, and Xu Le described growing up as an orphan on Donglin Star after being sent there as an infant.
• Xu Le recounted that when his body died, his consciousness transferred into the Charter Network, where he struggled with whether he was still himself.
• Xu Le said he feared the power of his new existence and initially vowed to do nothing, but Flower Creek reminded him that he intervened after only three days and destroyed an island with a warship's laser cannon.
• Xu Le said he continued using his power, unified the Empire and the Federation, and renamed them the Galaxy Alliance.
• Xu Le became a god worshipped by humanity after the Charter's Radiance spread through the Empire and Federation over thirteen hundred years.

Xu Le recounted how he used the Charter's Radiance to govern humanity, discovered the Chaotian Continent while seeking a way to stop the Dark Matter Sea, and transformed its prison into a refuge. He ended by explaining his preparations for humanity’s defeat, admitting that he alone had decided who would stay and who would enter that world.

• Xu Le abolished compulsory birth chips, made social reforms, and later found the Ancestral Star, where he discovered that its humans and his old friends were dead.
• Xu Le prevented wars for tens of thousands of years, then resumed research into faster-than-light travel and witnessed the Dark Matter Sea emerge after a curvature-rate void collapsed.
• Xu Le searched for a way to defeat the Dark Matter Sea and discovered a strange world near a White Star, which he believed had been left as a prison by an advanced civilization.
• Xu Le entered the world, found a sleeping Warden, and spent countless years remodeling the prison into the Chaotian Continent as a possible refuge from the Dark Matter Sea.
• Xu Le described his two plans for humanity’s survival and admitted that he had made all the decisions about who would remain and who would enter the Chaotian Continent.

Xu Le explained how he sacrificed himself to activate the Star Ignition Plan and described the prison’s weapons, the Azure Sky Mirror, and his long life as a god. After discussing his choices and warning Jing Jiu about the dangers of that perspective, Xu Le’s projection reset, and Jing Jiu chose to leave.

• Xu Le told Jing Jiu that he had controlled a Star-Level Weapon to destroy the Dark Matter Sea and the former Galaxy Alliance, knowing the act would kill him, and that he had hibernated the Charter Computer to prevent Flower Creek from stopping him.
• Xu Le explained that One Sword for All Things came from the prison and that the Azure Sky Mirror was a solitary confinement cell used to isolate inmates.
• Xu Le said he had designed the prison world so its inhabitants could escape only if they became powerful enough to return to the real universe and fight the Dark Matter Sea.
• Xu Le told Jing Jiu that he would make the same sacrificial choice again and warned him that viewing the universe as a god could make death seem insignificant.
• Xu Le’s projection faded and reappeared from the black box, but Jing Jiu told the others to leave, and Flower Creek threw a stone through the image.

After the Green Mountain Patriarch’s death, Jing Jiu surrendered the Black Gemstone to Snow Ji and asked her about the prison and the god. The group gathered around Jing Jiu as he prepared to investigate changes in the Azure Sky Mirror, leaving him asleep by the sea on what was called the first day.

• Big One, Corpse Dog, and Snow Ji returned from the battle, and Corpse Dog went into the sea to heal.
• Jing Jiu gave Snow Ji the Gold-Thread Openwork Ball, and she took control of the Black Gemstone and gained her freedom.
• Jing Jiu exchanged information with Snow Ji and learned she knew nothing about the advanced civilization that had created the prison.
• The immortals remained on the Ancestral Star while Jing Jiu faced his impending death, and Zhao Layue told him that some people in the Azure Sky Mirror had died but were still alive.
• Liu S sui made Jing Jiu a bamboo chair, Zhao Layue placed the Azure Sky Mirror beneath his neck, and Jing Jiu fell asleep beside the sea.

Jing Jiu tested whether a soul could exist independently in the Azure Sky Mirror, then left his body to learn how to interact with the physical world. After absorbing energy from the solar system sword formation, he expanded his perception across the planet and Sun, where he encountered the Black Obelisk.

• Jing Jiu learned from the Fire Carp and the emperors of Chu and Zhao that souls could persist within the Azure Sky Mirror, though Zhao's emperor could not bring back his dead wife or Eunuch He.
• Jing Jiu rejected Tong Yan and Que Niang's formation that would preserve his soul for years, lit the Spirit-Calming Lamp as a marker, and vanished to learn how to touch a cat.
• Jing Jiu passed through the planet's crust, found the seabed formation core, and absorbed the blue arcs from its black steles.
• Jing Jiu expanded his perception across the planet, then traveled to the Sun and spread his perception around it.
• Jing Jiu contracted his perception, emerged on the other side of the Sun, and saw the Black Obelisk.

Jing Jiu learned to extend his consciousness across the universe, freed the Great Nirvana’s captive worlds, and returned to Chaotian Continent. He visited familiar places and people, leaving signs of his passage as he entered Water-Moon Convent.

• Jing Jiu flew through the Sun, learned to determine his position in the universe, and traveled to the Buddha Nation after learning that Shen Green Mountain had died.
• Jing Jiu told Cao Yuan that Shen Green Mountain was dead, then used a breeze to release the Great Nirvana’s worlds from Monk of Joy’s control; Monk of Joy died, and golden flowers fell upon the freed souls.
• Jing Jiu entered the void, then reached Chaotian Continent and visited the giant, the Treasure Ship King, and an immortal maiden in white.
• Jing Jiu visited the Thousand-Li Wind Corridor, Chaoge City, the Snowfield, Fruitful Accomplishment Temple, and the East Sea.
• Jing Jiu went to Water-Moon Convent, where the peach tree outside the gate blossomed again as he slipped inside.

Jing Jiu returned to Green Mountain, reunited with Gu Qing and his disciples, and prepared for a long journey. At Heavenly Light Peak, he confronted the Origin Turtle, who revealed that he was a prisoner from the civilization that created the space prison.

• Jing Jiu visited Young Master Li’s grave at the Three Thousand Nunnery before returning to Green Mountain.
• Jing Jiu reunited with Gu Qing on Divine End Peak, told him to ascend, and said he was going on a long journey that he probably would not return from.
• Jing Jiu, Gu Qing, Ping Yongjia, and Nan Wang shared hotpot, wine, and mahjong.
• Jing Jiu questioned the Origin Turtle about Snow Ji and the Black Obelisk, and the Origin Turtle admitted he had kept One Sword for All Things in his belly and later released it.
• The Origin Turtle told Jing Jiu that he was not a supervisor but a prisoner.