Chapter Summaries

After defeating Kui Yong, Huang Xiao and the others discussed whether his memories and the incomplete Longevity and Imperishability Scriptures could lead them to the place he came from. The group revealed their reasons for wanting to go there, while Huang Xiao’s ability to reach it remained uncertain.

• Huang Xiao explained that Kui Yong’s unused essence blood had helped save him, and Wu Xuancang said Kui Yong’s fragmented memories could still teach Huang Xiao much.
• Zuo Qiu Shu suggested Huang Xiao might follow her missing big brother to Kui Yong’s homeland, but Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly and Wu Xuancang doubted he had the strength to reach it.
• Wu Xuancang said he wanted to visit that place and test himself, while Zuo Qiu Shu wanted to learn whether her big brother was alive and Leng Guhan wanted to recover the Zhanlu Sword and advance his strength.
• Zuo Qiu Shu asked Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly if she would go, and she answered only with a cold snort as Zuo Qiu Shu reflected that their old grievances had eased.
• Ou Jin returned and, after Huang Xiao explained the discussion, said he was content with the Minghong Saber and did not expect to reach Kui Yong’s homeland.

Ou Jin told Huang Xiao that Demon Phoenix's Divine Sense might still remain in the Minghong Saber, though reaching the place Kui Yong came from might be necessary to save him. After the group decided to deal with the Pang Family once their injuries healed, Huo Lian and Huang Xiao revealed that they had gathered all Seven Great Treasures and hinted that Huo Lian might have discovered their secret.

• Ou Jin suggested that Demon Phoenix's faint Divine Sense might remain in the Minghong Saber and that a master from Kui Yong's homeland might be able to help.
• Huang Xiao took comfort in the possibility that Demon Phoenix survived, while the group agreed to recover before wiping out the Pang Family's forces.
• Huo Lian announced that he and Huang Xiao had gathered all Seven Great Treasures, shocking the others.
• Huang Xiao explained that he and Demon Phoenix had secretly taken the Supreme Evil Crystal from the Evil Water Region in a box that concealed its aura.
• Huo Lian admitted that he and Huang Xiao had not understood the Treasures' secret, but said he probably knew what it was.

Huo Lian and Zhao Yunhui broke the formation at the Soaring Immortal Fruit’s former site, revealing seven recesses linked to the Seven Great Treasures. After Huang Xiao placed the Supreme Ghost Stele in its matching recess without triggering a change, Zhao Yunhui discovered faint writing that Zuo Qiu Shu recognized as her Big Brother’s handwriting.

• Huo Lian led the group to the Soaring Immortal Fruit’s former site and asked Zhao Yunhui to help him break the formation.
• Huo Lian and Zhao Yunhui broke the formation, causing seven patches of ground to sink into recesses of different shapes.
• Huang Xiao placed the Supreme Ghost Stele in its matching recess, but nothing changed, so the group agreed to wait until they recovered and gathered the other treasures.
• Zhao Yunhui spotted faint writing at the site, and Zuo Qiu Shu recognized it as her Big Brother’s handwriting.

The group discovered that Zuo Qiu Yi had followed the Ruthlessness Dao, and Leng Guhan believed the revealed insights could strengthen his own cultivation. Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly concluded that she had been used for Zuo Qiu Yi’s cultivation, lost control of her aura, and was subdued by Huo Lian and Wu Xuancang.

• The writing appeared and disappeared, revealing Zuo Qiu Yi’s insights into the Ruthlessness Dao.
• Leng Guhan recognized the writing as a continuation of the insights from his bronze mirror and believed he could use them to grow stronger.
• Zuo Qiu Shu and Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly realized that Zuo Qiu Yi’s cultivation explained his heartless treatment of her.
• Leng Guhan suggested Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly had been used to advance Zuo Qiu Yi’s cultivation, and Huo Lian agreed that this was plausible.
• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly lost control of her aura and struck Zuo Qiu Shu away.
• Huo Lian and Wu Xuancang subdued Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly and treated her injuries until her aura settled.

Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly left after learning the truth about the Immortal Alchemist, while the others stayed to recover and learn the secret of the seven Supreme Treasures. Baili Zhen discovered that his disciple Hong Yi had been teleported away with Tan Ming’s disciple, and Wan Liukong agreed to take Wang Jiu and two others along to assess their saber talent.

• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly abandoned her plan to stay and left, heartbroken by what she had learned about the Immortal Alchemist.
• Baili Zhen arrived, and Tan Ming and Wan Liukong told him about the strange phenomenon and the events that had taken place.
• Huang Xiao told Baili Zhen that Hong Yi had been teleported away too, leaving Baili Zhen stunned.
• Huang Xiao suggested that Wan Liukong consider Wang Jiu and two other saber users as disciples, and Wan Liukong agreed to assess them.
• Baili Zhen decided to stay and learn the secret of the seven Supreme Treasures, arguing with Wan Liukong over who had more right to remain.

Huang Xiao and Huo Lian retrieved the six remaining Supreme Treasures, and Huang Xiao brought Chao Lingyi back to the Soaring Immortal Land. They placed all Seven Treasures into the formation, which activated and sent a brilliant pillar of light into the sky as a familiar aura appeared.

• Huang Xiao and Huo Lian discussed the damaged Minghong Saber, the Ancient War, and why returning to the Central Plains was not yet possible.
• Huang Xiao and Huo Lian retrieved the six concealed Supreme Treasures and healed their injuries along the way.
• Huang Xiao went to the Imperial City, found Chao Lingyi safe, and brought her back to the Soaring Immortal Land.
• Huang Xiao told Huo Lian that he could not yet activate the tenth stage again without another breakthrough in his cultivation method.
• Huo Lian and Huang Xiao returned with Chao Lingyi and revealed the Seven Treasures to Wu Xuancang and the others.
• Huang Xiao and Huo Lian placed the Supreme Treasures in their positions, activating the formation and sending a pillar of light toward the heavens.

Huo Lian and the others discovered that the Seven Great Treasures activated an inter-realm Teleportation Formation, but they shut it down out of fear that beings from the other realm could trace it back. Huang Xiao and many others decided they wanted to travel there for their own reasons, while You Lian'er insisted that Huang Xiao's companions go with him.

• Huo Lian and Wu Xuancang tested the formation by sending a bird and a hare through it, confirming that it teleported them away.
• Huo Lian removed the Supreme Demon Core and stopped the formation, warning that the other realm might sense its activation or use it to come to the Martial World.
• Wu Xuancang and Huang Xiao realized that the Seven Great Treasures had revealed the passage to the realm Kui Yong came from.
• Huang Xiao, Zuo Qiu Shu, Leng Guhan, Huo Lian, Wu Xuancang, Baili Zhen, Tan Ming, and Li Bai said they wanted to go to the other realm for their own goals, while Wan Liukong and Shi Hen chose to stay.
• You Lian'er insisted that she and the others accompany Huang Xiao, saying they also needed to find Dugu Sheng and Hong Yi, and Zhao Yunhui quietly apologized to Zhangsun Youyue, Jiang Liuli, and Chao Lingyi.

Huang Xiao and the others discussed who would travel through the formation, while Huo Lian and Zhao Yunhui stayed behind to study its limits and safety. Huang Xiao planned to return to the Three Immortal Mountains and visit the Demon Hall before leaving, but the group still had to decide what to do about Little Xie.

• Wu Xuancang challenged Huang Xiao's concern that the women were too weak to travel, and Huo Lian proposed studying the formation before deciding who would go.
• Huo Lian said the formation likely had no limit on the number of people, and Zhao Yunhui agreed to stay and study it with him.
• Huang Xiao agreed to return to the Three Immortal Mountains with Wu Xuancang and said he wanted to see Little Xie, while the other women planned to prepare for departure.
• Zhangsun Youyue asked what would happen to Little Xie, and Xiao Yan suggested discussing it after they returned.
• Shi Hen returned to the Demon Hall to arrange its affairs and planned to purge the Pang Family; Huang Xiao promised to visit after going to the Three Immortal Mountains.
• Leng Guhan remained behind, saying he no longer cared about the Sword Pavilion and focused only on the Heartless Sword Dao.

Huang Xiao and his companions prepared to cross over to Another Realm, while several people chose to remain behind to protect Little Xie. Before departing, Huang Xiao visited Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly and agreed to return her jade pendant to the Immortal Alchemist if he met him.

• Huang Xiao failed to persuade Xiao Yan and the others not to go, and Jiang Liuli joined the group while leaving Little Xie in the Martial World with Chao Lingyi.
• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly chose to stay behind, and Huang Xiao found her heartbroken and gravely weakened; she gave him the jade pendant the Immortal Alchemist had once given her.
• Huang Xiao, the eight women, Huo Lian, Wu Xuancang, Leng Guhan, Zuo Qiu Shu, Tan Ming, Baili Zhen, Li Bai, and Pei Lingsha gathered to cross over, with Pei Lingsha seeking to recover the Moye Sword.
• Little Xie tearfully said goodbye to Jiang Liuli and asked Huang Xiao not to bully her; Chao Lingyi promised to care for him.
• Huo Lian warned that the transportation could bring unforeseen accidents, then asked Zhao Yunhui to activate the formation with him.

Zhao Yunhui and Huo Lian transported the group safely to the realm Kui Yong came from, while the remaining leaders agreed to jointly oversee the Soaring Immortal Land and preserve peace in the Jianghu. Huo Lian had secretly brought the Seven Great Treasures along, hoping to uncover their remaining secrets in the new realm.

• Zhao Yunhui and Huo Lian activated the formation, transporting Huang Xiao and the others away as Little Xie cried for his parents.
• Shi Hen, Xuanyuan Song, and the other leaders agreed to restrain their factions from fighting and to jointly oversee the Soaring Immortal Land through representatives from seven great powers.
• The leaders noticed that the Seven Treasures had vanished from the formation, but Shi Hen insisted that they continue guarding the place.
• Huang Xiao and the others arrived together in the realm Kui Yong came from, and Huang Xiao felt relieved that no one had been scattered.
• Huo Lian revealed that he had brought the Seven Great Treasures with them so they could study their secrets in the new realm.

Huo Lian and the others arrived in a world with unusually thin Spiritual Energy of Heaven and Earth and found themselves on an uninhabited island. Unable to fly reliably, they crossed an immense freshwater lake on a raft and reached shore after ten days, where they could begin searching for people.

• Huo Lian said everyone who intended to come had already arrived, and Zuo Qiu Shu urged the group to investigate whether they had reached Kui Yong's world.
• Wu Xuancang tried to fly but began falling, and Huang Xiao and the others discovered that the Spiritual Energy of Heaven and Earth was too thin for them to control their bodies and hover steadily.
• The group used lightness skill to survey the area and found they were on a small, forested island surrounded by an immense freshwater lake with no people in sight.
• Huo Lian and the others decided to find an inhabited place, built a raft from tree trunks, and took turns kicking it across the lake.
• After ten days of travel through violent winds and torrential rain, the group reached shore, tired and bedraggled.

Huang Xiao and his companions crossed a vast, perilous region with thin Spiritual Energy of Heaven and Earth, eventually finding signs of people and a battle. They watched the evenly matched fighters from a distance and judged their strongest combatant to be around the Void Martial Realm.

• Huo Lian and the others found that Spiritual Energy of Heaven and Earth remained thin as they traveled through mountains and past a lifeless lake.
• Over the following days, the group encountered naturally formed formations, poisonous mists, and eventually signs of birds and beasts.
• After three months, Huang Xiao's party found campfire ashes, suggesting that people regularly entered the region.
• Huo Lian heard blades clashing ahead, and the group cautiously went to investigate.
• Huang Xiao and his companions saw two nearly evenly matched parties fighting among numerous corpses, and Huang Xiao judged their strongest fighter to be around the Void Martial Realm.

Huang Xiao and the others learned that the Jianghu was searching the Desolate Mountain Range for Heaven-Sent Divine Weapons that had descended four months earlier. They discovered that the region’s unstable Spiritual Energy explained its barren center, while rumors pointed to a richer world across the sea.

• Huo Lian asked why the two groups were fighting, and a Void Martial Realm martial artist explained that they were searching for Heaven-Sent Divine Weapons.
• Huang Xiao and the others realized the weapons were likely the Xuanyuan Sword and other Divine Weapons that had come from the Martial World.
• The martial artist described the Desolate Mountain Range and said violent surges of Spiritual Energy in its central region had driven away birds, beasts, and visitors.
• Huang Xiao and the others learned that Spiritual Energy outside the range was also much thinner than in their sects and the Martial World.
• A man shared rumors of abundant Spiritual Energy across the sea, and Huang Xiao and the others concluded that a vaster world likely lay beyond it.

Huang Xiao and the others learned about the Desolate Domain, its dangerous sea, and the rumors surrounding the Desolate Mountain Range. They left with no firm answers about the Divine Weapons or their missing companions, but learned that the area had once been home to a powerful sect.

• A Void Martial Realm practitioner told Huang Xiao and the others about the Desolate Domain and the dangers of crossing the sea to reach a world with stronger experts.
• Huang Xiao asked whether people had fallen alongside the Divine Weapons, and worried that Dugu Sheng and Hong Yi might have been endangered; Huo Lian reminded him that they did not know what had happened.
• The practitioner explained that he could only point toward where a Divine Weapon had fallen, leaving them to search the vast Desolate Mountain Range.
• The practitioner recounted a legend that the Desolate Mountain Range had once been a spiritually abundant site of a powerful sect before some unusual change and the sect’s disappearance.
• Huo Lian learned that the strongest known local experts had reached the Dao Realm, then dismissed the practitioners so the group could investigate further themselves.

Huo Lian and Huang Xiao’s group waited for the Jianghu factions to help search for the fallen Divine Weapon, then followed the gathered crowds toward its likely landing area. They learned that the weapon had fallen near a region affected by the central region, which the locals feared entering.

• Huo Lian killed the departing men to keep his group’s identities secret, then proposed finding the Divine Weapon.
• Huo Lian persuaded the group to wait for more Jianghu factions so they could use the crowds’ search to locate the weapon.
• After ten days in hiding, Huang Xiao’s group had seen over a dozen groups arrive, and they learned the Divine Weapon had fallen toward the central region.
• Huang Xiao and his companions followed the direction of the fall and found at least a hundred thousand people gathered ahead, with no one stronger than the Dao Realm.
• Huang Xiao learned from the Jianghu discussions that the area ahead was affected by the central region, which the locals did not dare enter.

Huang Xiao and his companions entered the central region after the Jianghu crowd advanced and discovered a dragon-marked saber that they identified as Dragon Fang. As surging Spiritual Energy of Heaven and Earth repeatedly felled people around them, the group raced toward the weapon, where a Dao Realm expert held it amid a rush of attackers.

• Wu Xuancang, Huo Lian, and the others waited as hundreds of thousands of Jianghu fighters gathered at the central region’s boundary.
• After someone ventured in, Xiao Yan, Zuo Qiu Shu, Wu Xuancang, and their companions followed the crowd into the central region.
• The crowd discovered a dragon-marked saber, and Huang Xiao and the others recognized it as Dragon Fang.
• Spiritual Energy of Heaven and Earth surged violently, disrupting Heaven and Earth Momentum and causing many people to collapse or die.
• When the energy surged again with greater force, Zuo Qiu Shu urged the group to seize the saber, and they rushed toward Dragon Fang.
• Huang Xiao saw a trembling Dao Realm expert holding Dragon Fang as other experts charged toward him to take it.

A Dao Realm expert wielding Dragon Fang slaughtered his rivals and attacked the surrounding crowd as the tremors in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth intensified. Huo Lian subdued the expert and captured Dragon Fang, then the group realized the tremors might be connected to the blade and decided to leave.

• The Dao Realm expert who seized Dragon Fang killed five attackers with one slash, then beheaded the nine remaining Dao Realm experts who tried to stop him.
• The Dragon Fang wielder attacked the surrounding crowd as the worsening tremors in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth left most people incapacitated.
• Huo Lian arrived, subdued the berserk Dao Realm expert with one palm, and caught Dragon Fang as it tried to escape.
• Huo Lian threatened to refine Dragon Fang, which stopped struggling and begged for mercy after he reminded it that he had nearly destroyed the Three Saber Souls before.
• Huang Xiao sensed that Dragon Fang had grown stronger, and Zuo Qiu Shu and Huo Lian suspected the blade had triggered the increasingly severe tremors.
• Huo Lian urged the group to leave, and Leng Guhan released an aura as Wu Xuancang asked what to do about the people remaining there.

Huo Lian and the others escaped the upheaval with Dragon Fang, then slaughtered Jianghu fighters who tried to seize the divine weapon. As they left in disguise, Huang Xiao learned from Dragon Fang that outside experts had intervened before the formation collapsed, though the fate of the other divine weapons remained uncertain.

• Leng Guhan unleashed Sword Qi to kill the surviving witnesses, and the group fled the central area as the spiritual upheaval worsened.
• Jianghu fighters demanded Dragon Fang, then charged Huo Lian and his companions; Huo Lian sent Dragon Fang into the crowd, where it killed them.
• Zuo Qiu Shu told Xiao Yan not to pity the dead, while Huang Xiao urged the women not to dwell on the slaughter.
• Huo Lian suppressed Dragon Fang's aura, and the group concealed themselves as they left the area.
• Huang Xiao learned from Dragon Fang that other experts had intervened before the formation collapsed, but Dragon Fang could not identify which divine weapons escaped.
• Leng Guhan and Pei Lingsha asked whether Zhanlu, Ganjiang, and Moye had escaped, but Dragon Fang did not know; Li Bai tried to reassure Pei Lingsha.

Huang Xiao and the others left the Desolate Mountain Range and reached Near Mountain City, where they learned that three Divine Weapons had fallen into the Desolate Domain. They planned to search for the other weapons after gathering more information.

• Leng Guhan remained uncertain whether the Zhanlu Sword had escaped or fallen into the hands of powerful old experts.
• Wu Xuancang and Huo Lian proposed locating the other Divine Weapons before considering crossing the sea.
• Huang Xiao and his companions spent half a month crossing the outskirts of the Desolate Mountain Range, then traveled a day to Near Mountain City.
• The group discovered they had no silver, but Xiao Yan and the other women exchanged jewelry so they could buy food.
• At a crowded wine shop, Huang Xiao listened to Jianghu conversations and learned that people knew of three Divine Weapons falling into the Desolate Domain.

Huang Xiao and his companions discussed the two divine weapons being fought over and the mysterious Holy Envoys from across the sea. They decided to seek information from the Creation Sect and prepare to intervene before the Holy Envoys claimed the weapons.

• Huo Lian and Li Bai explained that the two remaining divine weapons had changed hands repeatedly, drawing Jianghu fighters to the Desolate Mountain Range.
• Leng Guhan, Li Bai, and Pei Lingsha hoped the weapons were among the swords they sought, while the group considered the Holy Envoys’ unknown strength and origins.
• Huo Lian reasoned that the Holy Envoys represented different factions and would likely fight over the weapons, so the group agreed to wait for an opportunity rather than act rashly.
• Huo Lian proposed visiting the nearby Creation Sect, and the others agreed to seek accurate information there about the Holy Envoys.
• Huang Xiao and his companions planned to gather information and travel toward the weapons’ contested location before the Holy Envoys could take them away.