Recaps

Xiao Yi and the Formless Divine Sect disciples faced an advancing force of more than two thousand enemies at the heavenly stairway, until Chu Xisheng arrived and unleashed his Yazi Saber against them. He slaughtered fighters from Blood Bat Mountain, Dutian Divine Palace, and Divine Flame Palace while Jian Shifei escaped with a substitute death art, and Wang Xizhu told Xiao Yi that Chu Xisheng had come to avenge Qi Feng.

• Gu Jian ordered the Formless Divine Sect disciples to form a defensive circle as the Northern Heaven Gate joined them, while the Divine Wilderness Immortal City remained apart and Chu Ming hesitated to take part.
• Jian Shifei told Tuoba Zhi to restrain the Dutian Divine Palace disciples and planned to provoke the Demon War Tower, but the Blood Bat Mountain disciples advanced first and more than two thousand people closed in on the formation.
• Chu Xisheng arrived and used Passing Clouds Before the Eyes to evade a storm of hidden weapons, then struck the advancing attackers with his Yazi Saber Intent.
• Chu Xisheng killed Jin Zhibai and attacked Jian Shifei, who escaped by using the Shiyin Substitute Death Art; Chu then killed Tuoba Zhi and devastated the Dutian Divine Palace and Divine Flame Palace ranks.
• Wang Xizhu told Xiao Yi that Chu Xisheng had declared it was time to settle accounts and that none of the killers of Qi Feng would escape.

Chu Xisheng slaughtered the forces gathered at the heavenly stairway, protected the Formless Divine Sect’s survivors, and gathered their spoils. With the Time Bloodstones still short of the number needed for everyone to enter the second layer, he insisted they could find the rest before time ran out.

• Chu Xisheng hunted down renowned Heavenly Pillars and Transcendent Heaven’s Prides, killing nine as the crowd fled; Yun Tiange escaped with a Lightning Escape Jade Talisman but suffered grave wounds before healing himself and using Time Bloodstones to travel toward the second layer.
• Chu Xisheng’s allies pursued the scattered enemies, while Chu Ming watched his saber arts and resolved to seek the Blood-Yazi legacy; after the white-bone stairway descended, Chu Xisheng’s group controlled its entrance amid more than eight hundred corpses.
• Zhou Liangchen arrived with the rapidly growing Black Tortoise carrying a mountain of luggage, and Chu Xisheng’s group searched the battlefield, collected valuables, and counted their Time Bloodstones.
• Chu Xisheng discovered that his slaughter had drawn the attention of the Seven-Kill Divine Lord, while Leng Chana praised the divine grace available in the second layer and Chu Xisheng thanked him for helping secure three kills.
• The group counted a little over 4,200 Time Bloodstones, short of the 4,440 needed for all 370 people to enter; when Qin Ren suggested choosing some disciples to withdraw, Chu Xisheng refused and said they had two hours to find the rest.

Chu Xisheng controlled entry to the White Bone Heavenly Ladder, collecting Time Bloodstones and denying Heavenly Wilderness Immortal City access. After the group was pulled into the second level by another Heavenly Origin Magnetic Core, Chu Ming survived an attempted assassination and accused Leng Chana of being the traitor.

• Chu Xisheng charged entrants three Time Bloodstones and let Ren Zhongshou's Origin-Returning Sword Sect disciples enter after Ren showed that they had saved six Formless Divine Sect members.
• Chu Xisheng refused Zhou Tianyuan's request for Heavenly Wilderness Immortal City's remaining Time Bloodstones and ground them into powder.
• Chu Xisheng and the others entered the White Bone Heavenly Ladder as a thousand-strong crowd rushed toward it, but only a handful made it inside before it rose away.
• A powerful Heavenly Origin Magnetic Core swept Chu Xisheng, Zhou Liangchen, and Little Black Tortoise into the second level, while Chu Xisheng glimpsed a sword strike near Chu Ming.
• Chu Xisheng and Leng Chana reached Chu Ming, who had survived a sword wound using a Southern Dipper Substitute Death Talisman.
• Chu Ming identified the attacker's technique as the Divine Void Nine-Palace Sword and its sword intent as Leng Chana's, prompting Guo Nu to demand an explanation from him.

Chu Xisheng kept Leng Chana under watch after the group failed to prove who had attacked Chu Ming, then traveled through the Time Secret Realm’s second layer to absorb baleful force from ancient Divine Weapons. A month later, he found the blood-colored rock that marked the Divine Shrine of the War God Zangtian.

• Wang Xizhu and Gu Jian reported sensing two figures move through the spacetime tunnel, and Gu Jian said one resembled Fang Buyuan, but he found no conclusive evidence against Leng Chana.
• Chu Xisheng ordered Leng Chana to remain beside him under supervision, and Chu Ming chose to follow the group as well.
• Chu Xisheng absorbed Weapon Baleful Intent beneath a giant spear, relying on Little Flathead to refine it while his companions cultivated nearby.
• Chu Xisheng traveled to the valley of an Eight-Armed Giant’s corpse and spent seven days refining Three Aspects Flowing-Gold Baleful Intent from its eight sabers.
• Over the following weeks, Chu Xisheng visited more ancient Divine Weapons, and a month later he found the Divine Shrine of the War God Zangtian.

Chu Xisheng gathered Ancient God Essence Blood and Weapon Baleful Intent across the Time Secret Realm’s second layer, greatly improving his bloodline talents, martial arts, and combat abilities. On the 210th day, his character panel showed a major increase in strength, while he continued toward the realm’s inner reaches with 885 days of lifespan remaining.

• Chu Xisheng received five drops of Ancient God Essence Blood from War God Zangtian and refined them in the holy temple, raising his Zangtian bloodline talent to the ninth rank.
• Bai Xiao Zhao reported that Jian Shifei, Yun Tiange, and another person had fled south, and Chu Xisheng decided not to pursue them unless they crossed paths again.
• Chu Ming and her companions, Guo Nu, Gu Jian, and the Xue couple left Chu Xisheng after he continued searching for Divine Weapons and absorbing Weapon Baleful Intent.
• Chu Xisheng visited the holy temples of the Primordial Profound Goddess, Weapon God Li Tan, and the Seven-Kill Divine Lord, receiving three, four, and one drops of Ancient God Essence Blood respectively.
• On his 210th day in the secret realm, Chu Xisheng’s character panel recorded improved martial arts and bloodline talents, including Zangtian’s Bone, Dance of Zangtian, Cloud-Shadow Instantaneous Body, and Lord of Divine Wind.

Chu Xisheng tested his improved defenses and newly formed saber baleful intent before entering the Secret Realm’s third layer, still searching for clues about the Nine-Heavens Time Wheel. There, Zhu Guangyin replaced the expected Torch Chi trial with a Temporal Mirror Image of the Blood-Yazi Saber Lord in his youth, leaving Chu Xisheng facing a swordsman whose style matched his own.

• Leng Chana tested Chu Xisheng’s External Astral Force with rapid sword strikes but failed to break through its concentrated defenses.
• Chu Xisheng described his Formless Divine Edge Baleful Intent and tried to persuade Leng Chana to let him test it on him, but Leng Chana demanded too much money.
• Chu Xisheng and his companions reached the pyramid leading to the third layer, where he mocked the mutated entrants and challenged Zhimoshan and Jian Shifei, who both refused to fight.
• Chu Xisheng and his companions entered separate Suspended Altars to face Zhu Guangyin’s trial, while Chu Ming confronted Leng Chana about their earlier conflict.
• Chu Xisheng found the young Blood-Yazi Saber Lord waiting in the altar instead of a Torch Chi, and the Grand Elders watching from Formless Divine Mountain realized Zhu Guangyin had changed the trial.
• Li Changsheng said the battle would be extremely tedious because Chu Xisheng and the Blood-Yazi Saber Lord wielded the same Yazi Saber style.

Chu Xisheng fought the Blood-Yazi Saber Lord for twenty-four hours in the Time Secret Realm, then emerged onto its third layer exhausted and learned that Jian Shifei’s group had attacked his companions. He spotted Zhimoshan watching from afar as his enemies continued plotting against him and Chu Ming.

• Chu Xisheng met Li Ya, the Blood-Yazi Saber Lord, who explained that the secret realm had made him a conscious temporal image and challenged Chu Xisheng to a saber duel.
• Chu Xisheng and Li Ya repeatedly countered each other with the Divine Wind Bright Mirror Saber until Li Ya exhausted his primordial qi, leaving Chu Xisheng with a deeper grasp of the Yazi Saber.
• Chu Xisheng emerged onto the third layer after twenty-four hours, sick from the prolonged battle but otherwise unharmed, and kept the encounter private.
• Chu Xisheng found Wang Xizhu, Xue Tingyou, Gu Jian, Guo Nu, and the others wounded after Jian Shifei’s group attacked them while Chu Xisheng was absent; Chu Ming and her Dao Attendants had drawn the attackers away.
• Chu Xisheng saw Zhimoshan watching from a distant hill, and Zhimoshan fled while believing he had assessed Chu Xisheng’s strength and could defeat him with the help of his allies.

Chu Xisheng chose to pursue rare treasures in the third layer rather than chase Zhi Moshan or search for Chu Ming, while Jian Shifei’s group entered the Nine-Bend Demon Intestine Cavern to pursue Chu Ming. Chu Ming sensed them closing in and fled deeper into the cavern with Chu Shan and Chu Shi as they tried to locate its treasures.

• Chu Xisheng caught up to Zhi Moshan, but Zhi Moshan used a Third-Rank Divine Movement Jade Talisman to escape, and Chu Xisheng decided not to spend his one chance to prevent the group from leaving on him alone.
• Chu Xisheng asked whether anyone could contact Chu Ming, then proposed traveling through the secret realm to seek rare treasures; the Xue couple, Gu Jian, and the others agreed to accompany him.
• Zhi Moshan returned to Jian Shifei’s group and reported that Chu Xisheng had entered the secret realm, prompting them to discuss how to eliminate Chu Ming before she could join him.
• Jian Shifei and Yun Tiange led the group into the Nine-Bend Demon Intestine Cavern, arguing that they needed to keep Chu Ming from joining Chu Xisheng and eventually prevent her from leaving the secret realm.
• Chu Ming sensed Jian Shifei’s group entering the cavern with Heavenly Eye Divine Insight and ordered Chu Shan and Chu Shi to stop surveying and flee deeper with her.

Chu Xisheng and his companions escaped the Gold-Silver Mountains with rare treasures, including Years-Origin Mystic Metal and Mysterious Essence Divine-Blood Pine nuts. Ren Zhongshou traded Chu Xisheng a map and Spiritual Vein chart for a share of two cavern treasures, and the map revealed a path to perfect the Nine-Heavens Time Wheel.

• Chu Xisheng held off the Eight-Armed Evil Beast while Bai Xiao Zhao, Little Black Tortoise, and the others gathered Blood Pine nuts and Years-Origin Mystic Metal, then escaped with him carrying eight of the beast’s bone swords.
• Chu Xisheng and his companions refined the divine-blood pine nuts, gaining cultivation and physical benefits, and divided the ore and pine needles they had collected.
• Ren Zhongshou arrived and offered Chu Xisheng a map of the Nine-Bend Demon Intestine Cavern and its Spiritual Veins in exchange for five portions of six-bend Time-Origin Grass and forty-five drops of Stone-Heart Blood.
• Chu Xisheng examined Ren Zhongshou’s map, realized it could lead him to the Nine-Heavens Time Wheel, and ordered everyone to head for the Nine-Bend Demon Intestine Cavern immediately.

The Formless Divine Sect elders discussed Chu Xisheng’s effort to decipher the Wooden Sword Immortal’s sword move and the value of rescuing him. In the Nine-Bend Demon Intestine Cavern, Chu Xisheng made rapid progress while Chu Ming escaped Jian Shifei’s pursuit and began searching for two divine treasures.

• Wang Baimei and the other elders discussed Chu Xisheng’s progress, while Zhifei Zi argued that rescuing the Wooden Sword Immortal was worth the risk of offending Zhu Guangyin.
• Chu Xisheng mapped the shifting caverns and told Leng Chana he had worked out over seventy percent of the sword move, Nine-Heavens Time Wheel (Incomplete).
• Chu Ming used her Winged Demon Demon Gods Ability to evade Jian Shifei and his pursuers for the seventh time, prompting Jian Shifei to abandon the chase and wait near the divine treasures instead.
• After realizing her pursuers had stopped following her, Chu Ming ordered Chu Shan and Chu Shi to set up a formation and locate the Nine-Bend Time-Mark Grass and Stone-Heart Blood.

Ren Zhongshou and Yun Tiange exchanged cavern maps and discussed the hidden killer, while Chu Xisheng practiced the Nine-Heavens Time Wheel and confronted Leng Chana about Fang Buyuan’s death and the ice coffin. Chu Xisheng’s group reached the Divine Stone Pit, where they found Jian Shifei’s forces concealed, the coveted Time-Trace Grass and Stone-Heart Blood, and a giant whose flesh changed after it ate a stalk of Six-Bend Time-Mark Grass.

• Ren Zhongshou obtained Yun Tiange’s latest map and warned him that a powerful mole had killed Fang Buyuan, while Yun Tiange said Jian Shifei had promised that hidden arrangements could eliminate Chu Ming and Chu Xisheng.
• Chu Xisheng practiced the Nine-Heavens Time Wheel, and Leng Chana described how it might be turned into a sword formation before Chu Xisheng accused him of knowing the killer’s identity and struck at his ice coffin.
• Ren Zhongshou told Chu Xisheng that Jian Shifei’s group would reach the Divine Stone Pit that day, so Chu Xisheng ordered Little Black Tortoise to hurry and announced that they would stop exploring.
• Chu Xisheng’s Blood Essence Points surged as the Heavenly Secret Martial Manual appeared outside the secret realm, while Gu Jian, Guo Nu, and Xiao Yi studied the strange gouges left by his sword practice.
• Chu Xisheng and his companions reached the Divine Stone Pit, saw its Time-Mark Grass, Stone-Heart Blood, and wandering half-flesh, half-wood giant, and realized Jian Shifei’s group was hiding nearby.
• Zhou Liangchen resisted the Nine-Bend Time-Mark Grass’s mental lure, while the giant swallowed a Six-Bend stalk and began turning some of its bark into flesh.

Chu Xisheng watched the Giant Fiend Beast’s strange behavior and realized Chu Ming’s attempt to steal the Nine-Bend Time-Mark Grass would provoke it, so he retreated with his allies. After Chu Ming escaped the beast’s attack and reached the group, Jian Shifei and his thirty-three companions arrived and launched an assault, leaving Chu Xisheng to face them as he emerged from his thoughts.

• Chu Xisheng observed that the Giant Fiend Beast moved between the sky-supporting stone pillar and the Time-Mark Grass, while the grasses changed in number and bends after it consumed them.
• Chu Ming used Voidless Mystic Liquid to approach the Nine-Bend Time-Mark Grass, but the Giant Fiend Beast detected her, struck her with the Mark of Time, and pursued her with thunder and sound attacks.
• Chu Xisheng ordered Little Black Tortoise to retreat, and Chu Ming escaped underground before fleeing to the group and accusing them of abandoning her.
• Jian Shifei and thirty-three others emerged from an Earth-Walking Talisman Boat, while one of his companions deployed the Heavenly Net to seal the area.
• Jian Shifei ordered his group to attack and focus their killing intent on Chu Ming, and Chu Xisheng raised his eyes after realizing what he needed to do.

Chu Xisheng’s enemies immobilized him and launched a coordinated attack, but his layered defenses and Lord of Divine Wind ability let him turn the ambush against them. As Gu Jian revealed himself as a traitor and attacked both Chu Xisheng and the Ice Coffin, Chu Xisheng killed Jian Shifei and destroyed Gu Jian’s thunder manifestation, while Gu Jian’s wind manifestation encountered an unexpected swordsman at the coffin.

• The Northern Dipper Celestial Phenomenon Formation struggled as Chu Ming withdrew her support, forcing Xiao Yi to take her place and Bai Xiao Zhao to protect Xue Tingyou.
• Jian Shifei used Suppress the Spirit, Stabilize the Soul to immobilize Chu Xisheng, but Chu Xisheng’s defenses stopped the attackers’ weapons and he began to recover.
• Gu Jian revealed himself as the traitor and split into wind and thunder manifestations, attacking the Ice Coffin and Chu Xisheng at once.
• Chu Xisheng revealed that he had only pretended to be immobilized, redirected Gu Jian’s sword into Jian Shifei, and killed Jian Shifei with the strike.
• Chu Xisheng used Trace of Wind · Limitless Slash to destroy Gu Jian’s thunder manifestation, while Gu Jian’s wind manifestation met a silvery-white sword shadow at the Ice Coffin.

Chu Xisheng and Fang Buyuan joined forces with Bai Xiao Zhao and Leng Chana to kill Gu Jian and the trapped martial cultivators, then recovered Fang Buyuan’s Kun Yuan Spirit Ring. As Fang Buyuan explained the conspiracy, Chu Xisheng spotted the Giant Demon Fiend moving toward the Six-Bend Time-Mark Grass and rushed to intervene.

• Fang Buyuan revealed himself as Leng Chana and attacked Gu Jian, while Bai Xiao Zhao and the real Leng Chana helped corner him.
• Fang Buyuan exchanged talents with Gu Jian, leaving Gu Jian vulnerable; Bai Xiao Zhao tore open his chest, and Leng Chana beheaded him.
• Chu Xisheng used the Primordial Profound Goddess’s Binding Heaven ropes to restrain the trapped martial cultivators, then killed them, including Yun Tiange.
• Chu Xisheng returned Fang Buyuan’s Kun Yuan Spirit Ring, and Fang Buyuan explained how Gu Jian had ambushed him and how they had set their trap.
• Chu Xisheng noticed the Giant Demon Fiend moving toward the Six-Bend Time-Mark Grass and flew toward the Divine Stone Pit.

Chu Xisheng exploited the Giant Fiend Beast’s struggle over the Time-Trace Grass to harvest several Nine-Bend stalks and then gathered the remaining grass as the beast consumed Stone-Heart Blood. The beast turned completely to wood and looked toward the immense stone pillar as powerful fiends approached the Divine Stone Pit.

• Chu Xisheng used the Gate of Li Tan to destroy the Giant Fiend Beast’s Six-Bend Time-Mark Grass, drew its attacks away, and returned to Fang Buyuan, who explained that unseen powers were contesting control of the beast.
• Fang Buyuan gave Chu Xisheng medicine bottles, jade talismans, earthly baleful talismans, and Jian Shifei’s Earth-Walking Talisman Boat to help him survive and collect the grass.
• Chu Xisheng harvested several Nine-Bend Time-Mark Grass stalks, repeatedly escaping underground as the Giant Fiend Beast pursued him with lightning, roots, and Marks of Time.
• Chu Ming tried to take a forming Nine-Bend stalk, but the Giant Fiend Beast struck and bound her; Chu Xisheng later collected the stalk without drawing the beast’s attention.
• The Giant Fiend Beast consumed Stone-Heart Blood until its body turned completely to wood, while Chu Xisheng gathered the remaining Time-Trace Grass and heard powerful fiends approaching the pit.
• The Giant Fiend Beast’s eyes glowed blood-maple red as it raised its head toward the immense stone pillar.

Chu Xisheng climbed the Wooden Sword Immortal’s Blood Pine, defeating successive temporal mirror images with deceptive saber techniques as he advanced toward the tree’s summit. Meanwhile, Zhu Guangyin summoned the young Transcendent Heaven’s Prides and Heavenly Pillars Chu Xisheng had killed, including Gu Jian, to stop him and the Giant Fiend Beast.

• Chu Xisheng revealed to Ren Zhongshou that the sky-supporting pillar concealed the Wooden Sword Immortal, Song Yannian, and the Giant Fiend Beast shook the pillar until its stone shell fell away to expose a vast Blood Pine.
• The Wooden Sword Immortal carried Chu Xisheng upward on a palm of branches, where Chu Xisheng defeated Li Changsheng’s temporal mirror image by reflecting its attack with Returning Light, Reflecting Illumination.
• Chu Xisheng killed Jian Zangfeng’s temporal mirror image with a swift saber strike after Jian Zangfeng tried to defend against the Yazi Saber.
• Chu Xisheng faced the Eighth-Generation Sect Master and reflected his sword attack, while observers in Dao One Hall discussed Chu Xisheng’s victories and Li Changsheng’s youthful secrets.
• Zhu Guangyin summoned the young Transcendent Heaven’s Prides and Heavenly Pillars Chu Xisheng had slain, and Gu Jian realized they had returned to stop Chu Xisheng and the Giant Fiend Beast.

Jian Shifei and the others returned to life and waited for the right moment to attack the unsealed Wooden Sword Immortal, while Chu Xisheng fought Qin Muge in the final trial and reached the Blood Maple’s summit. The fight ended after nearly four hours, and Chu Xisheng realized the Wooden Sword Immortal had brought him there to use Nine-Heavens Time Wheel.

• Jian Shifei and Gu Jian learned that the secret realm’s master had restored them, and Jian Shifei’s companions beat Zhimoshan before the group armed themselves with abandoned magic artifacts.
• Jian Shifei warned the group to wait until the Wooden Sword Immortal was distracted, since its sword qi and leaves could still kill them.
• Chu Xisheng faced Qin Muge in the ninth trial, and the people watching from Dao One Hall realized she might be alive in the future and beyond Zhu Guangyin’s control.
• Chu Xisheng and Qin Muge fought for nearly four hours, each improving their martial arts during their exchanges, until Qin Muge ended the match and let him continue.
• Chu Xisheng reached the top of the Blood Maple and understood that the Wooden Sword Immortal had brought him there to use Nine-Heavens Time Wheel.

Chu Xisheng wielded the Blood Pine Tree to help the Wooden Sword Immortal, Song Yannian, perform the Nine-Heavens Time Wheel and attempt to sever temporal sequence to attain eternity. As the rite threatened to reshape the balance of power, the Great Ning emperor faced a choice between allowing it to proceed or obstructing it at great cost.

• Chu Xisheng completed the Nine-Heavens Time Wheel, using the Blood Pine Tree’s roots to draw on Zhu Guangyin’s power and begin severing temporal sequence, while divine forces and backlash tore apart his body.
• Ao Guo and Qingxu Zi realized that Song Yannian intended to perform the Myriad Heavens Rite and attain eternity, while they ordered those nearby to evacuate the area.
• Huang Hongyan questioned the Formless Divine Sect’s motives, but Qingxu Zi and Ao Guo refused to disclose the sect’s secrets.
• Luo Hanzong refused a paid offer to disrupt Song Yannian’s rite and flew south as Li Changsheng’s sword intent warned others not to enter Youzhou.
• The emperor learned from the Imperial Preceptor that Song Yannian’s rite could benefit the Human Race and the Great Ning Kingdom but harm the emperor personally; obstructing it would cost the dynasty at least thirty years and risk war with the Formless Divine Sect.

Chu Xisheng endured the pressure and inner demons long enough to complete his sword move, allowing the Wooden Sword Immortal to sever time and establish the foundation of his Eternity. As the fiend beasts swarmed the Divine Stone Pit, Fang Buyuan confronted Gu Jian and the returning Heavenly Pillars to protect the Wooden Sword Immortal.

• Chu Xisheng used the Zangtian power, enhancement pills, and the Qin Muge character card to resist the pressure and continue his sword dance despite his rapidly draining lifespan.
• The Wooden Sword Immortal weakened the attacking fiend beasts by making their unstable bodies collapse, while Fang Buyuan recognized that Gu Jian and Jian Shifei had arrived to attack at the worst moment.
• Fang Buyuan and Leng Chana confronted Gu Jian and his companions, and Fang Buyuan used Fair Trade to take away their control of the Marks of Time and turn their attack against them.
• In Dao One Hall, Wang Baimei explained that Fang Buyuan had created Changing Heaven because his bloodline prevented him from cultivating a sacred inheritance and he risked dying before forty-five.
• Chu Xisheng completed the sword move, and the Wooden Sword Immortal severed time, embedded himself in its flow, and drew laws from the past, future, and present as the foundation of his Eternity.

Chu Xisheng survived the Wooden Sword Immortal’s ascent and received the promised repayment for helping him attain eternity. Song Yannian strengthened Chu Xisheng, gave him nine sacred pine branches and a protective Clone Manifestation, then disappeared as the Time Secret Realm began to withdraw.

• Chu Xisheng emerged from the Time Secret Realm gravely injured, and Qingxu Zi suppressed the temporal backlash so his Blood of Eternal Ages could heal him.
• Fang Buyuan explained that Zhu Guangyin had withdrawn the Mark of Time, while the ancient tower flickered as the Wooden Sword Immortal prepared to remove the Time Secret Realm.
• Song Yannian appeared, thanked Li Changsheng and the Formless Divine Sect, and agreed to safeguard its fortune as its Supreme Elder.
• Song Yannian bowed to Chu Xisheng and repaid him by cleansing his injuries, strengthening his body and Primordial Spirit, and pouring knowledge into his mind.
• Song Yannian gave Chu Xisheng nine pine branches for crafting swords and a blood-red pine nut that could manifest as a protector, then dissolved into spiritual light.

Chu Xisheng discovered the powerful abilities and protections the Wooden Sword Immortal had granted him, while others in the secret realm received rewards and Zhu Guangyin unexpectedly escaped beyond it. The chapter ended with Zhu Guangyin asking Gu Jian and the others how to establish a power among humans.

• Chu Xisheng examined his upgraded talents, divine sword art, and Blood Pine Divine Core, gaining immense defenses, speed, and the potential to wield nine swords through his split souls.
• Chu Xisheng learned that the Wooden Sword Immortal had also strengthened Little Flathead, Fang Buyuan, the Xue couple, and others, while Chu Ming and her Dao Attendants received no gifts.
• Chu Xisheng refused to share his Six-Bend Time-Mark Grass with Chu Ming, and Li Changsheng ruled that the grass belonged to Chu Xisheng while discussing Chu Ming's cultivation.
• Gu Jian reunited outside the Time Secret Realm with Jian Shifei, Zhimoshan, and Yun Tiange, and they realized Zhu Guangyin had let them escape as part of a larger plan.
• Zhu Guangyin appeared outside the Secret Realm and asked Gu Jian and the others how he could establish a power among the human race.

The Formless Divine Sect promised Chu Xisheng substantial rewards for helping the Wooden Sword Immortal ascend, and he agreed to plant the immortal's seed on Formless Divine Mountain. As Emperor Jianyuan confronted the resulting shift in power and another looming threat, the Imperial Preceptor proposed triggering the Northern Lands Demonic Calamity early.

• Li Changsheng questioned Chu Xisheng about the secret realm, and Yu Yunxiang identified his nine pine branches as potential lower First-Rank Divine Weapons.
• Li Changsheng pledged sect funding for most of Chu Xisheng's sword forging and proposed additional rewards, including promotion to Heaven-Slaying Saint Inheritor, while Chu Ming eavesdropped and resented her lesser treatment.
• Chu Xisheng agreed to plant the Wooden Sword Immortal's seed at his Heavenly Wave Residence on Formless Divine Mountain.
• Emperor Jianyuan authorized a privy treasury loan for Chu Ming's cultivation conversion and claimed he could ensure she received the complete Blood-Yazi inheritance.
• Emperor Jianyuan revealed that the Wooden Sword Immortal had attained the Way of Severing Heaven, which had deterred him from intervening.
• The Imperial Preceptor warned of unusual Sea Clan activity and Wen Zhuyi's possible awakening, then privately advised Emperor Jianyuan to trigger the Northern Lands Demonic Calamity ahead of time.

Chu Xisheng helped the Formless Divine Sect plant the Wooden Sword Immortal’s Blood Pine, while Sect Master Li Changsheng kept Divine Wilderness Immortal City’s Ku Cangsheng waiting. The Blood Pine grew into a powerful guardian of the mountain, leaving Ku Cangsheng aware that his city faced a far stronger rival.

• Li Changsheng told Elder Han to keep Ku Cangsheng and Feng Buming waiting at the Guest Reception Court while the Grand Elders debated Divine Wilderness Immortal City’s past hostility.
• Chu Xisheng found Chu Yunyun absent from Heavenly Wave Residence and prepared to plant the Blood Pine seed.
• The Grand Elders cleared a vast courtyard, and Chu Xisheng used his blood to activate the seed as Li Changsheng added precious liquid to accelerate its growth.
• Ku Cangsheng and Feng Buming sensed the Blood Pine rising and recognized that the Wooden Sword Immortal’s manifested body would greatly strengthen the Formless Divine Sect.
• The Blood Pine grew to ninety-nine zhang and gained the power to guard the mountain, strike across great distances, and provide Chu Xisheng with branches that could become clones.
• Bai Xiao Zhao ate a pine nut from the Blood Pine, then felt uneasy after Fang Buyuan joked that the seeds were not yet the Wooden Sword Immortal’s descendants.

The Formless Divine Sect established a temple around the Blood Pine divine tree, while Chu Xisheng gained stronger temporal abilities from the Nine-Bend Time-Mark Grass. Chu Yunyun revealed that Emperor Jianyuan had stolen both their hereditary bloodlines and warned that they could not safely expose themselves yet, but she began recovering by drinking Chu Xisheng’s blood; the chapter ended with her striking him through a window after he kissed her.

• Li Changsheng and the Grand Elders arranged for a temple and Divine Tree Institute to be built around the Blood Pine, with the sect managing its worship and selling its needles and fruits.
• Chu Xisheng swallowed the Nine-Bend Time-Mark Grass and strengthened his Blood of Eternal Ages and Body of Light-Speed Shadow, while increasing his marrow and blood capacity.
• Chu Yunyun told Chu Xisheng that Emperor Jianyuan had taken their Myriad Manifestations and Return to One bloodlines, and said revealing their identities would put them at risk until they mastered the Heavenly Vengeance Divine-Intent Saber.
• Chu Yunyun explained that losing her inherited bloodline had let her begin condensing her own, and that she expected to regain her cultivation and ascend once her Myriad Heavens Rite was complete.
• Chu Yunyun drank Chu Xisheng’s blood and recovered her Blood of Eternal Ages to the second rank; she also told him that Ji Qianqian, Lu Luanli, and Liu Ruoxi had gone to Ice Province for secret medicines.
• Chu Xisheng kissed Chu Yunyun, who struck him through the window and sent him flying toward the southern sea of clouds.

Li Changsheng received allies and planned to prepare Chu Xisheng to learn the Heaven-Executing Saber and awaken the Rahū bloodline, while the Heavenly Secret Martial Manual revealed that the ancient City-Toppling Sword Wen Zhuyi might soon awaken. Chu Xisheng received his new sect rewards and learned that someone was challenging Sikong Chan’s verdict, but he expected the dispute to be resolved soon.

• Li Changsheng assured Ma Tayun of the Formless Divine Sect’s support, and Ma offered the Extreme Sword Sect’s swordsmen as a force ready to fight alongside it.
• Lu Shouyang reported Wen Zhuyi’s likely awakening and questioned the Extreme Sword Sect’s ties to the Imperial Court; Li Changsheng said the sect would judge its allies by their actions and explained that he still needed to investigate whether Qin Muge was alive.
• Su Fengdao agreed to prepare an avatar and help Chu Xisheng learn the Heaven-Executing Saber and condense the Rahū bloodline, while Hao Qiufeng promised the sect would fund the effort.
• Chu Xisheng read that Wen Zhuyi, a former empress who had once fought the Blood-Yazi Saber Lord to a standstill, might awaken, and discovered that the manual ranked him first among the Ten Divine Talented Young Blades and twenty-ninth on the Azure Cloud Overall Ranking.
• Chu Yunyun watched over the sleeping Bai Xiao Zhao, whose unstable bloodline might be threatened by her recent consumption of the Nine-Bend Time-Mark Grass.
• Chu Xisheng received his promotion to Heaven-Slaying Saint Inheritor, extensive rewards, and a future teacher for the Heaven-Executing Saber, then read a letter reporting that someone was challenging Sikong Chan’s verdict and that the Iron Banner Gang had sent him five hundred thousand taels.