Recaps

Governor-General Wang Sheng changed course after learning that Chu Xisheng had helped the Wooden Sword Immortal ascend to godhood, while Northern Heaven Gate and Southern Heavenly Gate ordered their agents to remain undercover near Chu. Back at Formless Divine Mountain, Chu Xisheng went to ask Li Tiangong to upgrade his sabers and encountered two outsiders arguing with him.

• Xiahou Yuan warned Governor-General Wang Sheng that Chu Rulai and Vermilion Bird Hall were gathering evidence to challenge the Xiushui treason case, and Wang Sheng received news that the Wooden Sword Immortal had ascended to godhood.
• Wang Sheng ordered Xiahou Yuan to suppress local officials cooperating with Vermilion Bird Hall and arranged a congratulatory gift for the Iron Banner Gang’s canal opening.
• Proprietor Wang told Xiang Kui that the Northern Heaven Gate wanted him to stay undercover, join the Formless Divine Sect, and earn Chu Xisheng’s trust; Xiang Kui then encountered Wang Zheng, who had also been ordered to continue undercover.
• Chu Xisheng returned to Formless Divine Mountain and set out with Ji Qianqian to visit Li Tiangong about upgrading his Golden-Jade Matchmaking Sabers.
• Chu Xisheng found the Thousand-Leaf Immortal Maiden and an unidentified man arguing with Li Tiangong, and the pair identified themselves as guests invited to study medicine refining at the Divine Pill Academy.

Chu Xisheng went to the Heavenly Artifact Academy, where he settled Li Tiangong’s dispute with the Thousand-Leaf Immortal Maiden and offered him a Dao Attendant position. After the Blood-Yazi Divine Saber reacted to Chu Xisheng at Dao One Hall, he hurried to Execution Hall, where he met his new master, Su Fengdao, who demanded to test his saber arts.

• Chu Xisheng ordered Li Tiangong to refund the Thousand-Leaf Immortal Maiden’s deposit with an additional penalty, then gave him materials to upgrade the Golden-Jade Matchmaking Sabers.
• Chu Xisheng offered Li Tiangong a Dao Attendant position and gave him three days to decide; the Thousand-Leaf Immortal Maiden reconsidered whether Poison Saber Rogue Person was a suitable match.
• Chu Xisheng asked the Little Black Tortoise to refine artifacts from two pairs of Black Tortoise eyes, then rode toward Dao One Hall to absorb the God-Slaying Saber’s Saber Baleful Intent.
• The Blood-Yazi Divine Saber trembled and released Saber Qi when Chu Xisheng arrived; Ye Zhiqiu recognized the likely reason, while Ji Qianqian privately suspected Chu Xisheng was the true Blood-Yazi Saint Inheritor.
• Lu Shouyang suppressed the Blood-Yazi Divine Saber and sent Chu Xisheng away, then ordered a witness to receive a Speech-Sealing Mark.
• Chu Xisheng entered Execution Hall and met Su Fengdao, who introduced herself as his master and challenged him to draw his saber.

Chu Xisheng endured Su Fengdao’s punishing saber training and rapidly advanced the Three Aspects Heaven-Slaying Saber through her Dharma Transmission of Divine Enlightenment. A little over a month later, he received new weapons and ensured Little Black Tortoise inherited its mother’s eyes, then headed back to training as Su Fengdao’s new disciple was about to be revealed.

• Chu Xisheng fought Su Fengdao for seven two-hour periods, and she praised his combat ability before beginning to teach him the Heaven-Executing Saber and help awaken his Rahū bloodline.
• Chu Xisheng accepted Su Fengdao’s Dharma Transmission of Divine Enlightenment and used dream mode to study her saber intent, rapidly transforming his Three Aspects Martial Intent.
• Li Tiangong arrived at the Heavenly Wave Residence with upgraded weapons, and Chu Xisheng distributed the custom-made arms among his companions.
• Zhou Liangchen gave Little Black Tortoise its mother’s four refined eyes and explained that Chu Xisheng had commissioned them as the tortoise’s inheritance, while warning it not to betray them.
• Chu Xisheng admired Li Tiangong’s upgrades to the Golden-Jade Matchmaking Sabers and returned to the Execution Hall, where he expected to meet Su Fengdao’s new disciple.

Chu Xisheng trained under Su Fengdao, learned that Ye Zhiqiu had become her disciple, and prepared to advance his cultivation after finding Primordial Blood Orchids. Meanwhile, Chu Ming completed her constitution transformation and learned the Imperial Court was positioning Chu Xisheng as a target; the chapter ended as Chu Xisheng and Little Flathead were about to take their Secret Medicine.

• Chu Xisheng entered dream mode to fight Su Fengdao and study the Three Aspects Heaven-Slaughtering Saber, then awoke to find his former instructor Ye Zhiqiu had become Su Fengdao's new disciple.
• Su Fengdao told Chu Xisheng to advance to the Ninth Layer and practice his saber art; he said he had located Primordial Blood Orchids and could soon advance his grade.
• Chu Ming completed the Heaven-Shifting Essence-Transmutation Great Art, then resented having to buy Merit while Chu Xisheng received the sect's support.
• Long Heihu told Chu Ming that Su Fengdao had been invited to train Chu Xisheng and that the Martial Discourse Tower had named him the Limitless Saber Lord; he explained that the Imperial Court meant to make Chu Xisheng a target.
• Chu Xisheng and Lu Luanli found two top-quality Primordial Blood Orchids, and his Blood Essence Points surged after the Martial Secrets Almanac praised him.
• Chu Xisheng revealed the coming Cloudsea Secret Realm to Lu Luanli and proposed delaying the Time Secret Realm; then he and Little Flathead prepared to take their Secret Medicine.

Chu Xisheng endured god-eating to advance his cultivation, then spent twenty days at Formless Divine Mountain improving his abilities and acquiring the Divine Sun bloodline. The chapter ends as the Blind Elder begins tattooing the sect’s Battle Diagrams onto him.

• Chu Xisheng swallowed the secret medicine and endured five double-hours of god-eating, while Lu Luanli concealed his fluctuations and guarded him.
• Chu Xisheng advanced the Ninefold Refinement Ultimate Origin Purple-Gold Body to its ninth layer and examined his stronger cultivation and newly improved talents.
• Lu Luanli discovered Chu Xisheng was still naked after refining the medicine, then told him that distant observers had watched him; Chu Xisheng returned to Formless Divine Mountain with Little Flathead.
• After twenty days of training and reading the Martial Secrets Almanac and Heavenly Secret Martial Manual, Chu Xisheng used the Martial Dao Treasury to obtain the twelfth-rank Yazi bloodline and replace his Pure Yang blood with Divine Sun.
• Chu Xisheng learned that Divine Sun greatly increased his physical attributes, True Essence, and Primordial Spirit power, and granted him powerful yang abilities including Yang Escape.
• Chu Xisheng had the sect’s Battle Diagrams tattooed by the Blind Elder, who reacted with surprise when Chu Xisheng removed his clothes.

Chu Xisheng received a set of interconnected Battle Diagrams that strengthened his abilities and made him reconsider how to survive the dangers of his Saint Inheritance. Su Fengdao took him and Ye Zhiqiu aboard the Sun-Bathing Divine Vessel to seek the Mara Tribe at Mount Buzhou, where they would obtain blood needed to awaken Rahu Blood.

• The Blind Elder recognized Chu Xisheng's Blood-Yazi Divine-Intent Diagram, explained the requirements for reaching the Transcendent Rank, and connected Chu Xisheng's Battle Diagrams over two days.
• Chu Xisheng discovered that his Battle Diagrams had strengthened his martial arts and that his character panel now counted their enhancements, while magic artifacts still did not affect its calculations.
• Ye Zhiqiu told Chu Xisheng that Su Fengdao had finished refining her Clone Manifestation and wanted them to prepare for a journey to awaken Rahu Blood.
• Su Fengdao brought Chu Xisheng and Ye Zhiqiu aboard the Sun-Bathing Divine Vessel and explained that they would travel to Mount Buzhou to seek the Mara Tribe's blood.
• Chu Xisheng endured the Sun's True Fire and Nine Heavens Divine Astral Winds during the journey, then saw the enormous Mount Buzhou on the fourteenth morning as Su Fengdao announced their arrival.

Chu Xisheng and Ye Zhiqiu landed near the Mara Tribe to hunt for Rahu Essence Blood, while Su Fengdao left to investigate Mount Buzhou’s imperial court. After the pair defeated a Mara patrol, they learned its copper-crowned commander could not provide the required blood, so Chu Xisheng prepared his corpse as bait and headed toward a nearby human village.

• Su Fengdao left Chu Xisheng and Ye Zhiqiu near the Mara Tribe with three days to obtain Rahu Essence Blood, then flew to the Divine Emperor Palace to investigate the imperial court’s lack of response when the Wooden Sword Immortal ascended to godhood.
• A Mara patrol surrounded Chu Xisheng and Ye Zhiqiu, and Ye Zhiqiu fought its copper-crowned commander while Chu Xisheng’s Yazi Saber Intent incapacitated the other Giant Spirits.
• Ye Zhiqiu killed the commander with her Heaven-Executing Martial Intent, while Chu Xisheng’s fifteenth-layer Yazi True Intent helped defeat the patrol; Ye Zhiqiu then dispelled the blood poison in her body.
• Ye Zhiqiu found that the copper-crowned commander’s bloodline was too thin to yield Rahu blood, confirming that they needed a fourth-rank gold-crowned Giant Spirit.
• Chu Xisheng burned the other Giant Spirits’ corpses and hung the commander’s corpse from a tree as bait, then flew with Ye Zhiqiu toward a nearby human village.

Chu Xisheng and Ye Zhiqiu traveled through Mount Buzhou seeking information about the Mara Tribe, while the Mara Giant Spirits investigated the slain commander and pursued them. At Suiye Market, Ye Zhiqiu exposed their guides’ deception, but the arriving proprietor recognized Chu Xisheng as the Limitless Saber Lord.

• Chu Xisheng and Ye Zhiqiu passed a human slave village without attacking its Giant Spirit overseers, knowing that retaliation would endanger the villagers.
• Chu Xisheng and Ye Zhiqiu met Yan Dongpeng, Yan Yi, and Ni Jun, who offered to guide them to Suiye Market for ten thousand taels of demon silver.
• Mo Keli examined the mutilated corpse of Mo Kaqing, learned that the suspected killers were a man and a woman from the Divine Land, and led his forces toward Suiye Market after receiving a message talisman.
• At Suiye Market, Yan Dongpeng brought Chu Xisheng and Ye Zhiqiu to Fresh Delicacies Tower, where they ordered food while waiting for the proprietor and information about the Mara Tribe.
• Ye Zhiqiu pointed out that the market and restaurant had been newly built and accused Yan Dongpeng and his companions of luring them into a trap; the arriving proprietor then recognized Chu Xisheng as the Limitless Saber Lord.

Chu Xisheng and Ye Zhiqiu defeated the Suiye Market ambushers, then learned that the Golden-Crowned Thousand-Household Commander Mo Keli was bringing Giant Spirit forces to capture them. They flew out to face his army, with Chu Xisheng unleashing his Yazi Saber as the battle began.

• The proprietor of Fresh Delicacies Tower recognized Chu Xisheng as the Formless Divine Sect’s Heaven-Slaying Saint Inheritor and warned that the Suiye Market martial cultivators intended to sell him and Ye Zhiqiu to the Mara Tribe.
• Yan Yi, Ni Jun, and Yan Dongpeng attacked, but Chu Xisheng’s Yazi Saber Intent stunned the crowd while he and Ye Zhiqiu killed Yan Yi and Ni Jun and crippled Yan Dongpeng.
• The proprietor fled, and Chu Xisheng and Ye Zhiqiu pursued the escaping Fourth-Rank cultivators, killing two before returning to the restaurant; Chu Xisheng then killed the hostile cultivators who remained, and Ye Zhiqiu finished off the wounded survivors.
• Yan Dongpeng revealed that Mo Keli was a Golden-Crowned Thousand-Household Commander, then died after Chu Xisheng learned the Suiye Market men had preyed on their own people and served the Giant Spirits.
• Zhuang Quan warned Mo Keli that Chu Xisheng wielded the Yazi Saber and that a larger force would make him stronger, but Mo Keli dismissed the warning and advanced with his troops.
• Chu Xisheng and Ye Zhiqiu flew to meet Mo Keli’s army; Chu took a Limitless Fiery Divine Pill, told Ye Zhiqiu to handle Mo Wenbin, and unleashed Sorrow of the Gods as Yazi formed behind him.

Chu Xisheng fought Mo Keli and his Mara forces, using his Yazi Saber Intent to break their formation and nearly kill the Giant Spirit commander. Su Fengdao arrived as Chu Xisheng continued the duel and was astonished by how fluidly he wielded the Three Aspects Heaven-Slaying Saber despite having had little time to practice.

• Mo Keli attacked Chu Xisheng with his battle axes and infected him with blood poison, then ordered his forces to shoot Chu Xisheng and Ye Zhiqiu.
• Chu Xisheng unleashed his Yazi Saber Intent, incapacitating much of the enemy formation, and closed in on Mo Keli to sever his hand and overwhelm him at close range.
• Chu Xisheng killed Mo Keli's Copper-Crowned commander and cut Zhuang Quan in two after Mo Keli forced the tavern keeper to attack him.
• Mo Keli invoked the Ancestral God Rahū and gathered his kin's bloodline power, but Chu Xisheng pierced his forehead and severely injured him before Mo Keli formed bone armor to protect his mind.
• Chu Xisheng continued fighting Mo Keli, and Su Fengdao arrived and marveled that his saber moves were already so fluid despite his limited practice.

Chu Xisheng and Ye Zhiqiu killed Mo Keli and the other Giant Spirits, then followed Su Fengdao into the Divine Emperor Palace, where she brought them to the Primordial Blood Pool to reforge their cultivation. Chu Xisheng strengthened his body and bones, failed to advance his Blood of Eternal Ages, and discovered he could use the ancient Giant God's heart to form a crystalline drop of blood on his forehead.

• Chu Xisheng and Ye Zhiqiu killed Mo Keli, Mo Wenbin, and the Giant Spirits, winged men, and tengu, while leaving the human slave soldiers alive.
• Ye Zhiqiu refined seven high-quality drops of Rahū's blood, and Su Fengdao arrived and took them for use as a medicinal catalyst.
• Su Fengdao brought Chu Xisheng and Ye Zhiqiu through the Divine Emperor Palace to the Primordial Blood Pool, then crippled their cultivation so they could reforge their foundations in its waters.
• Chu Xisheng restored and perfected his origin power, while Little Flathead emerged and drank from the pool; Ye Zhiqiu continued her slower reforging.
• Su Fengdao taught Chu Xisheng the Profound Origin Bone-Strengthening Art and helped strengthen his bones and fascia to the level of an Upper Fourth Rank martial cultivator.
• Chu Xisheng failed to advance his Blood of Eternal Ages by resonating with the petrified Giant God's heart, but formed a crystalline, golden-threaded drop of blood on his forehead, drawing Su Fengdao's attention.

Chu Xisheng and Ye Zhiqiu finished using the Primordial Blood Pool while Su Fengdao revealed her bargain with Mount Buzhou’s rival clans: she had agreed to strike at Yanrong’s unfinished body. Su Fengdao wounded Yanrong, but a newly created Heaven-Gazing Hou appeared, and she turned her next saber strike toward both threats.

• Su Fengdao explained that Chu Xisheng’s blood crystals could restore damaged cultivation foundations and gave him jade bottles to preserve them; she also confirmed that an unknown intelligent presence had entered his heart.
• A Three-Eyed Giant Spirit demanded that Su Fengdao act before the Heavenly Emperor returned, but she insisted their agreement allowed three days, and Chu Xisheng continued collecting blood crystals as Ye Zhiqiu advanced her bloodline talents.
• Su Fengdao took Chu Xisheng and Ye Zhiqiu toward Yanrong’s body and explained that other Giant Spirit clans had helped her reach it, hoping she would destroy it and prevent his revival.
• The Western Emperor Clan’s guards attacked as Su Fengdao entered Yanrong’s hall; Chu Xisheng piloted the Sun-Bathing Divine Vessel through their fire while Su Fengdao’s saber strike wounded Yanrong and severed the hands of two Giant Gods.
• A dragon-headed, dog-bodied beast emerged, and Su Fengdao recognized it as a new Heaven-Gazing Hou; she directed her second saber strike at the beast as well as Yanrong.

Su Fengdao escaped Mount Buzhou with Chu Xisheng and Ye Zhiqiu after damaging Fire God Yanrong’s divine body and splitting the Heaven-Gazing Hou, then faced the Southern Heavenly Emperor’s divided spirit. After visiting the Ten Thousand Demons Grotto and crossing the ocean, they spotted the enormous, mobile Extreme Eastern Ice City.

• Su Fengdao used her saber to damage Fire God Yanrong’s divine body and split the incomplete Heaven-Gazing Hou before escaping Mount Buzhou with the Sun-Bathing Divine Vessel.
• Su Fengdao used a First-Rank Heavenly Dipper Art talisman to evade seven First-Rank Giant Gods, then battled the Southern Heavenly Emperor’s divided spirit and drove it away at the cost of injuring her incarnation.
• Su Fengdao told Chu Xisheng and Ye Zhiqiu that Fire God Yanrong’s resurrection had been delayed and that the Heaven-Gazing Hou remained a major threat.
• Su Fengdao took her disciples to the Ten Thousand Demons Grotto to collect demon essence blood, then sailed east toward Guixu to refine the Rahu Blood.
• Chu Xisheng’s Yazi True Intent rose to the sixteenth layer during the voyage, condensing an incomplete Yazi Heavenly Rule and Dao Law.
• Chu Xisheng saw a vast airborne city surrounded by blue warships and recognized it as the Extreme Eastern Ice City.

Chu Xisheng and Ye Zhiqiu traveled with Su Fengdao to Guixu, where they prepared to awaken their Rahu Bloodlines using Rahū’s Heaven-Watching Eye. Chu Xisheng’s awakening succeeded, and he discovered that his Rahu Bloodline had reached the first rank, while Ye Zhiqiu was still undergoing the transformation.

• Ye Zhiqiu explained that the enormous fleet approaching the Divine Land belonged to Extreme Eastern Ice City, and Chu Xisheng feared it might threaten Great Ning and the Iron Banner Gang.
• Su Fengdao took Chu Xisheng and Ye Zhiqiu beneath the sea and through a vast whirlpool into Guixu, an ancient palace ruin filled with eternity stones and beings of the Ruin Race.
• Su Fengdao brought them to Rahū’s Heaven-Watching Eye and began preparing medicine to awaken their Rahu Bloodlines, while Chu Xisheng and Ye Zhiqiu absorbed Rahū Baleful Intent.
• Over nine days, Chu Xisheng refined five strands of Rahū Baleful Intent, strengthening his baleful powers, and Ye Zhiqiu also forced out a wisp despite lacking the proper foundation.
• Su Fengdao gave Chu Xisheng and Ye Zhiqiu the prepared blood medicine, and both endured the painful process of awakening their Rahu Bloodlines.
• Chu Xisheng completed his awakening and saw Rahū at first rank on his character panel, while Ye Zhiqiu was still burning with blood-red flames.

Chu Xisheng tested his newly awakened Rahū powers, learned that Zangtian blood would gradually assimilate his Rahu Blood, and waited as Ye Zhiqiu completed her own awakening. Su Fengdao then took them to Hundun Hall to inspect Pangu relics, where an ambush separated Chu Xisheng from the others and left him facing a mysterious young woman in Profound Darkness Hall.

• Chu Xisheng tested Rahū’s abilities and found that his martial power and saber speed had greatly increased.
• Su Fengdao explained that Zangtian blood would assimilate Chu Xisheng’s Rahu Blood and advised him to keep it two ranks below his Zangtian blood.
• While waiting for Ye Zhiqiu to awaken, Chu Xisheng refreshed the Martial Dao Treasury and found that raising Rahu Blood to the fourth rank cost ten times as many Blood Essence Points as other Divine Rank Bloodlines.
• Ye Zhiqiu awakened Rahū, and Su Fengdao told her she still had to master the Heaven-Executing Saint Inheritance before she had fulfilled her potential.
• Su Fengdao took Chu Xisheng and Ye Zhiqiu to Hundun Hall, where two first-rank attackers ambushed them and astral force swept Chu Xisheng into Profound Darkness Hall.
• Chu Xisheng found himself before a sculpture of Profound Darkness and discovered a mysterious young woman sitting nearby.

Chu Xisheng fought the Inner Palace Direct Hall Directorate’s Black Cloud Impermanence Army, five third-rank Corpse Generals, and the Blood Sea Junior Eunuch, relying on the Wooden Sword Immortal’s blood pine and his own saber arts. After discovering that the white-robed girl possessed Divine Yin to his Divine Sun, he helped protect her, and the chapter ended with the Ice City Princess entering the hall.

• Chu Xisheng upgraded his Rahu Bloodline to the sixth stage as the Black Cloud Impermanence Army and five Corpse Generals stormed the Profound Darkness Hall.
• Chu Xisheng unleashed his fourteenth-layer Yazi saber intent and fought beside the Wooden Sword Immortal’s blood pine, killing numerous black-armored fighters.
• Chu Xisheng recognized the attackers as the Black Cloud Impermanence Army and battled the Blood Sea Junior Eunuch, whose Blood Sea Great Art drew strength from the fallen soldiers.
• The Blood Sea Junior Eunuch sent fighters after the white-robed girl, and Chu Xisheng intervened when she seemed unable to move.
• Chu Xisheng discovered that he carried Divine Sun while the girl carried Divine Yin; she regained her senses and joined the fight.
• The Ice City Princess entered the hall, prompting the Blood Sea Junior Eunuch to recognize her.

Chu Xisheng survived the clash in Profound Darkness Hall as Su Fengdao forced Changsun Ruoli back, while the white-robed girl was revealed to be City-Toppling Sword Wen Zhuyi. As Chu headed for Yazi Hall, he encountered an armed group from Extreme Eastern Ice City and recognized a young man who resembled Wen Zhuyi.

• The Blood Sea Junior Overseer escaped, and the Ice City Princess Changsun Ruoli froze the hall and destroyed or wounded the baleful corpses before a giant hand carried off the remaining three.
• Changsun Ruoli targeted Chu Xisheng, but the white-robed girl stopped her, and Su Fengdao arrived to challenge the princess.
• Su Fengdao overpowered Changsun Ruoli in their saber-and-sword duel until the white-robed girl intervened and revealed herself as City-Toppling Sword Wen Zhuyi.
• Ye Zhiqiu checked on Chu Xisheng and took him toward Yazi Hall, while he thanked the Wooden Sword Immortal and retrieved its branch.
• Chu Xisheng encountered a group of Extreme Eastern Ice City warriors and faced a disdainful young man whose appearance resembled Wen Zhuyi's.

Chu Xisheng challenged Changsun Bingquan and gained the upper hand with his saber, while Su Fengdao lost her duel with Wen Zhuyi and withdrew with Chu Xisheng and Ye Zhiqiu. Wen Zhuyi then warned Changsun Ruoli against provoking the Formless Divine Sect and learned that Changsun Bingquan had been created through the Heavenly Art Mediation of Creation.

• Chu Xisheng taunted Changsun Bingquan, then fought him in the chaotic void and initially overpowered him despite his lower cultivation.
• Changsun Bingquan unleashed his ice-and-thunder sword arts, but Chu Xisheng struck him with the Limitless Slash and carved a deep wound across his chest.
• Wen Zhuyi defeated Su Fengdao with a single sword strike after 132 exchanges, then Su Fengdao carried Chu Xisheng and Ye Zhiqiu to Yazi Hall.
• Wen Zhuyi rebuked Changsun Ruoli for treating the Formless Divine Sect as an enemy and revealed that her Divine Yin Bloodline might leave her fewer than fifteen years to live.
• Wen Zhuyi questioned Chancellor Gui Haoyuan about Changsun Bingquan’s origins, and he explained that the late emperor and empress’s remains had been used with Mediation of Creation to bring the child into being.

Chu Xisheng advanced his Yazi True Intent while studying ancient relics in Guixu, and Su Fengdao took him to examine a fragment of the Heaven-Opening Axe. In Wang'an City, Li Changsheng confronted Emperor Jianyuan over the attack on Chu Xisheng, forced his way into the Imperial City, and left several Heavenly Ranking experts gravely injured as he continued toward the emperor.

• Chu Xisheng reached the eleventh layer of Yazi True Intent, cracking his Phantom Ring, and studied the Yazi statue for nine days with Su Fengdao and Ye Zhiqiu.
• Su Fengdao led Chu Xisheng and Ye Zhiqiu to Heaven-Opening Hall, where they examined a fragment of the Heaven-Opening Axe that mortals could not take away.
• Li Changsheng arrived at Anning Gate and publicly demanded an audience with Emperor Jianyuan over the Imperial Court's ambush of Chu Xisheng.
• Emperor Jianyuan refused to receive Li Changsheng, and the eunuch Zong Qianliu failed to stop him from advancing after Li shattered the palace gate and injured him with a sleeve sweep.
• Li Changsheng overcame four more palace experts at Heaven-Bearing Gate, broke the gate, and continued deeper into the palace while officials and martial cultivators watched in alarm.

Li Changsheng fought through the Imperial Palace and challenged Emperor Jianyuan over the Imperial Court’s attempt to kill the Formless Divine Sect’s Saint Inheritor. After Li Changsheng broke the emperor’s power, Yu Kunlun intervened, and the emperor pretended the clash had been a joke as ministers arrived to prevent his execution.

• Li Changsheng defeated Yu Kunlun’s crystalline incarnation with one sword strike and advanced through the Imperial Guards to confront Emperor Jianyuan at Zhenghe Gate.
• Emperor Jianyuan attacked Li Changsheng with the Nine Dragons Divine Heavenly Guard and the Son of Heaven Sword, but Li Changsheng shattered the emperor’s defenses and exposed the disorder in his power.
• As Li Changsheng moved to kill Emperor Jianyuan, Yu Kunlun intercepted him and defended the emperor, while Jianyuan retreated and claimed the confrontation had been a joke.
• Two first-rank ministers urged Li Changsheng to spare the emperor for the sake of the realm, and Li Changsheng entered the hall and challenged Jianyuan over his officials’ treatment of him.
• Emperor Jianyuan angrily questioned Zhen Tianlai, Zong Qianliu, and the other arriving officials, and Zong Qianliu knelt and accepted blame for acting on his own authority.

Li Changsheng confronted Emperor Jianyuan over the palace ambush on Chu Xisheng and forced the Imperial Court to punish those responsible. He secured Zong Qianliu’s exile, arranged the Vermilion Bird Marquis’s removal and a Formless Sect disciple’s promotion, then demanded compensation for Chu Xisheng’s losses.

• Qingxu Zi entered Zhenghe Hall as Imperial Guards and Embroidery Guards cleared the crowds, while Si Wufa and Wang Dongtian discussed Li Changsheng’s strength and Emperor Jianyuan’s rise to first rank.
• Li Changsheng demanded punishment for Zong Qianliu, and Emperor Jianyuan stripped Zong Qianliu of his post and exiled him to the Northern Domain with the Superlight Sword.
• Li Changsheng challenged the Imperial Court over the Black Cloud Impermanence Army’s ambush on Chu Xisheng, and Chu Rulai and the Vermilion Bird Marquis revealed that the attack had been arranged through Six Fan Gate.
• Emperor Jianyuan agreed to exile the Vermilion Bird Marquis, and Li Changsheng secured Beichen Shuji’s promise to consider Zhuang Mingdao as his successor.
• Li Changsheng demanded compensation for Chu Xisheng’s injuries and the treasures he had spent surviving the Guixu ambush.

Li Changsheng forced Emperor Jianyuan to compensate the Formless Divine Sect and questioned him about Qin Muge’s death, while the court prepared for threats from the North and a possible Corpse Calamity. After returning from Guixu, Chu Xisheng parted from Su Fengdao and hurried to Tiangong Academy to collect his newly forged swords.

• Emperor Jianyuan offered Li Changsheng compensation, but Li demanded a Great Sun Divine Stone, additional treasures and pills, and an explanation of Qin Muge’s death.
• Wei Baiming challenged Li Changsheng’s claim about a Heaven and Earth Root, and Chen Nailuo arrived at Zhenghe Hall but could not make himself heard over Li Changsheng’s sword intent.
• After Li Changsheng left, Emperor Jianyuan ordered Bu Chaowu to invite Dugu Shou to the capital and directed Zhu Xue to advance plans against the Formless Divine Sect.
• The Imperial Preceptor warned Emperor Jianyuan that the court’s attempt to recreate a Heaven-Gazing Hou could cause a Corpse Calamity, then proposed using pure-yin blood to benefit the emperor.
• Li Changsheng went to the Overlord Martial King Mausoleum, while Chu Xisheng returned from Guixu with Ye Zhiqiu after Su Fengdao’s clone vanished and headed straight for Tiangong Academy to claim his swords.

Chu Xisheng helped Yu Yunxiang complete the Nine Luminaries Divine Wheel Sword and bonded his divided spirits to the nine blades. The swords were mounted in a sword wheel, and Li Changsheng arrived with the great sun divine stone while revealing that he had defeated Emperor Jianyuan in the Capital City.

• Chu Xisheng gave Yu Yunxiang nine drops of essence blood to help refine the swords in the Threefold Divine Refining Cauldron.
• Chu Xisheng named the blades the Nine Luminaries Divine Wheel Sword, and Yu Yunxiang released the completed swords from the cauldron.
• Chu Xisheng merged his divided spirits into the nine swords and tested their powers with the Nine-Wheel Sword-Controlling True Art.
• Yu Yunxiang gave Chu Xisheng a sword case, which he refined and transformed into a sword wheel holding all nine blades.
• Li Changsheng arrived with the great sun divine stone and told Chu Xisheng that he had defeated Emperor Jianyuan after forcing his way into the inner Imperial City.

Chu Xisheng tested the new powers of his Sun Godstone-enhanced sword case, received armor and talismans, and learned that Li Changsheng wanted Yu Yunxiang to investigate the Overlord Martial King Mausoleum. He tried to increase Ji Qianqian’s loyalty with a supernatural power, then invited her into the Cloudsea Secret Realm, threatening to expose her Fourth-Rank cultivation.

• Chu Xisheng discovered that the Sun Godstone powered the Nine Luminaries Divine Wheel Sword, which could transform into a fast Sword Boat or a sturdy shield.
• Li Changsheng gave Chu Xisheng battle armor, talismans, pills, and an Embroidery Guard post, then asked Yu Yunxiang to investigate the Overlord Martial King Mausoleum after spotting Corpse Kui there.
• Li Changsheng said he would enter seclusion while the Blood-Yazi Divine Saber was guarded, since Chu Xisheng’s seventeenth-layer Yazi Saber Intent could restore its true intent.
• Chu Xisheng met Ji Qianqian, learned she had reached Upper Sixth Grade, and secretly used a Near Ink, Blackening Supernatural Power Card on her.
• Ji Qianqian claimed she was studying the Ninefold Refinement Ultimate Origin Purple-Gold Body, and Chu Xisheng offered to make her an Embroidery Guard Thousand-Household Commander.
• Chu Xisheng invited Ji Qianqian into the Cloudsea Secret Realm, which admitted only Sixth Grade cultivators, leaving her afraid her Fourth-Rank cultivation would be exposed.

The Iron Banner Gang debated how to survive after the Extreme Eastern Ice City sent it a demand for submission and threatened its leader, Chu Xisheng. Wu Meiniang warned that the gang’s fate depended on Chu Xisheng and advised it to hide its leaders while leaving any war with the Extreme Eastern Ice City to the Imperial Court.

• Tie Xiaosheng and the Iron Banner Gang’s leaders discovered an Extreme Ice Sword and a Life-and-Death Notice demanding that Chu Xisheng submit to the Extreme Eastern Ice City within ten days.
• Lu Pingyuan reported that over two hundred powers in Eastern Province had received similar notices, while the Extreme Eastern Ice City’s main force gathered near Tianhai Commandery and destroyed six of Quanlin Island’s Seven Clans and Twenty-Four Surnames.
• Wei Yang and others considered the gang’s military strength and possible allies, but Tie Xiaosheng ordered its leaders to conceal their identities and scatter until Chu Xisheng could decide what to do.
• Wu Meiniang entered the hall and revealed that someone had tampered with its Rune Array, allowing outsiders to listen in.
• Wu Meiniang said the Heavenly Secret Hall was withdrawing her from Eastern Province and advised the Iron Banner Gang to protect its people, rely on Chu Xisheng, and demand benefits if the Imperial Court sought its help against the Extreme Eastern Ice City.