Chapter Summaries

Qingxu Zi asked the white-haired woman guarding the Ten Thousand Demons Grotto to teach Chu Xisheng the Heaven-Slaying God-Destroying Saber, but she set a condition that he reach Fourth Rank within two years. After Chu Xisheng mastered the fourth layer of the Nine-Wheel Divine Invocation, Chu Yunyun gave him a map of the Time Secret Realm and urged him to explore a possible Dao affinity.

• Qingxu Zi told the white-haired woman that the Blood-Yazi Divine Saber had accepted Chu Xisheng, and asked her to teach him the Heaven-Slaying God-Destroying Saber.
• The white-haired woman agreed to teach Chu Xisheng only if he reached Fourth Rank within two years, then drove Qingxu Zi from the cavern with her curved sabers.
• Chu Xisheng studied the Nine-Wheel Divine Invocation, severed nine evil-thought souls, and reached its fourth layer after five days of cultivation.
• Chu Yunyun waited for Chu Xisheng outside the cultivation chamber and drank his blood before he entered the Time Secret Realm.
• Chu Yunyun gave Chu Xisheng a map of the Time Secret Realm and told him to memorize it and investigate the Dao affinity she had once missed.

Chu Xisheng traveled with Formless Divine Sect disciples and elders to the Time Secret Realm, where Fang Buyuan asked him for protection. After Chu Ming refused Yin Feihong’s challenge, Chu Xisheng accepted in her place, and Yin Feihong attacked him with hidden Nine-Yang Essence-Breaking Needles.

• Chu Xisheng memorized Chu Yunyun’s map of the Time Secret Realm and received the True-Meaning Diagram of Limitless Slash.
• Zhou Liangchen returned with one set of Secret Medicine ingredients, and Chu Xisheng chose him and Bai Xiao Zhao to enter the Secret Realm while Ji Qianqian stayed behind.
• Chu Xisheng and Zhou Liangchen joined the Formless Divine Sect’s group at the mountain gate, where Chu Ming distributed gifts to the other disciples but not to Chu Xisheng.
• The elders and disciples traveled by Talisman Boat to the Secret Realm’s stone tower, where Fang Buyuan introduced himself and offered Chu Xisheng money to rescue him if danger arose.
• Yin Feihong challenged Chu Ming, who declined, then challenged Chu Xisheng, who accepted and asked whether the duel would be to the death.
• As their blades cleared their scabbards, Yin Feihong released Nine-Yang Essence-Breaking Needles at Chu Xisheng.

Chu Xisheng killed Yin Feihong’s attempted assassin, challenged the other sects’ disciples, and entered the Time Secret Realm when the elders opened it early. As he and Zhou Liangchen fell into the realm, Chu Ming cried out in alarm.

• Chu Xisheng evaded Yin Feihong’s Nine-Yang Essence-Breaking Needles and killed him with two saber strikes, overcoming his escape art and destroying his Primordial Spirit.
• Chu Xisheng challenged the elite disciples of the five other sects to defeat him, but no one stepped forward before he withdrew.
• Baleful Sword Qin Ren and Yin-Yang Saber Zhou Tianyuan discussed the bounty offered for killing Chu Ming or Chu Xisheng in the Time Secret Realm, and Qin Ren admitted the offer had tempted him.
• Ao Guo ordered the Time Secret Realm opened early, and Zhifei Zi activated the tower with a Temporal Sequence Secret Stone.
• Chu Xisheng entered the realm and spread his White Tiger wings as he fell; Zhou Liangchen also opened his wings, and Chu Ming cried out in alarm.

Chu Xisheng was dragged into the Time Secret Realm, fought off its inhabitants, and reluctantly rescued Chu Ming after she paid him. At the volcano, he found Fang Buyuan dead and was confronted by Chu Ming and other disciples, who suspected Leng Chana of killing him and stealing his spatial magic artifact.

• A powerful suction pulled Chu Xisheng, Zhou Liangchen, and Bai Xiao Zhao into a forest, where they fought wood essences before heading east toward a volcano.
• Chu Xisheng found Chu Ming and her Dao Attendants fleeing Humanoid Lizards, delayed helping until Chu Ming paid him 350,000 taels of demon silver, then attacked the lizardmen and helped them escape.
• Chu Ming suspected her Dao Attendants might have caused the Heavenly Origin Magnetic Core incident and continued toward the volcano with them.
• Chu Xisheng found Fang Buyuan's body hanging from a treetop, searched it, and questioned Leng Chana, who said an unknown expert had killed Fang Buyuan and taken his spatial magic artifact.
• Chu Ming and two other disciples arrived and demanded that Leng Chana allow them to search him, accusing him of being the most suspicious person nearby.

Chu Xisheng investigated Fang Buyuan’s death with the others, then sheltered from the dangerous black rain and accepted a Divine Grace Challenge from Mei Shu. The chapter ended as Chu Xisheng and Mei Shu charged at each other on the challenge platform, while Li Changsheng watched from Formless Divine Mountain.

• Bai Xiao Zhao searched Leng Chana, and Chu Ming examined Fang Buyuan’s corpse, finding sword wounds and traces of lightning power but no clear identification of the killer.
• Chu Xisheng urged the others to part ways, then took shelter with Zhou Liangchen and Bai Xiao Zhao when the secret realm’s corrosive black rain began.
• Chu Xisheng and Zhou Liangchen cultivated through the downpour, and Chu Xisheng realized that the rain’s prolonged duration signaled the ancient Giant God’s worsening wounds.
• Mei Shu challenged Chu Xisheng through the Divine Grace Mark, and Chu Xisheng accepted the death duel.
• Chu Xisheng and Mei Shu drew their sabers and rushed toward each other as Li Changsheng and Lu Shouyang observed the challenge from Dao One Hall.

Chu Xisheng defeated Mei Shu in a Divine Grace Challenge, revealing signs that he had awakened the Blood of Eternal Ages. After returning to the Time Secret Realm, he learned nothing of the sect elders’ speculation, while Mei Shu’s death drew the attention of demonic disciples eager to challenge him.

• Chu Xisheng used repeated divine sense assaults and saber techniques to overcome Mei Shu’s magic-artifact bones and behead him after six Wind-Driven Thunderbolt strikes and one Trace of Wind.
• Li Changsheng and Lu Shouyang concluded that Chu Xisheng might have awakened the Blood of Eternal Ages, and Lu Shouyang mentioned a gifted Lower Court girl who had won thirty-seven consecutive matches.
• Chu Xisheng sacrificed Mei Shu’s blood-tainted magic artifacts to Li Tan, gained more than twelve hundred Blood Essence Points, and returned to the cavern with Zhou Liangchen and Bai Xiao Zhao.
• Mei Shu’s corpse appeared in the Windblood Cavern among disciples from Blood Bat Mountain and Divine Flame Palace, where a golden-robed young man examined it and praised Chu Xisheng’s strength.
• More than thirty demonic disciples grew excited at the prospect of fighting Chu Xisheng, though they would have to wait until next month or meet him inside the Time Secret Realm.

Chu Xisheng integrated Limitless Slash into his Formless Art, transforming it into the Divine Source Formless Art, then entered Firehead Mountain’s cavern to investigate its Dao Affinity. Meanwhile, the Night Wolf Tribe’s giants approached the mountain to kill Chu Xisheng and Chu Ming, but their priest suddenly lost track of Chu Xisheng.

• Chu Ming worried that refusing fifteen Divine Grace challenges had angered the Primordial Profound Goddess, and she left Firehead Mountain with Chu Shan and Chu Shi as the black rain eased.
• Chu Xisheng spent 1,000 Blood Essence Points to integrate Limitless Slash into the Formless Art, creating the Divine Source Formless Art and learning its eighth-layer cultivation method.
• Bai Xiao Zhao reported that Chu Ming had left with a grayish-black Divine Grace mark and that Leng Chana remained at Firehead Mountain guarding an ice coffin.
• Chu Xisheng led Bai Xiao Zhao and Zhou Liangchen into the mountain’s cavern to explore its Dao Affinity, while Leng Chana watched him enter and feared the danger inside.
• A Night Wolf Tribe force tracked Chu Xisheng to Firehead Mountain, and its commander ordered the giants to kill him and Chu Ming; their priest then abruptly lost his sense of Chu Xisheng’s White Tiger bloodline.

Chu Xisheng lured the Hundred-Zhang Soaring Serpent away from the death-mist cave and entered it with Bai Xiao Zhao and Zhou Liangchen. He found a broken stele bearing twenty-four characters and nine diagrams, and Li Changsheng recognized the writing as the Wooden Sword Immortal’s.

• Chu Xisheng explained that he was investigating Firehead Mountain as one of nine locations that might hold the Time Secret Realm’s secrets, then dug a shelter above the lava lake.
• Chu Xisheng sent Little Flathead to wound the Hundred-Zhang Soaring Serpent, which awakened and erupted from the volcano; Lie Ling and fifty Night Wolf Tribe elites were caught in its flames.
• Chu Xisheng and his companions crossed the erupting lava lake, while Bai Xiao Zhao drove back the death mist and Zhou Liangchen separated the deadly vapor from the broken stele.
• Chu Xisheng memorized the stele’s twenty-four characters and nine diagrams as Zhou Liangchen struggled to control the blood-colored vapor.
• Li Changsheng recognized the stele’s writing and diagrams as the Wooden Sword Immortal’s work and ordered Wang Baimei to search the records for the immortal’s connection to the Time Secret Realm.

Liu Ruoxi and Lu Luanli displayed their extraordinary saber skills at the Heaven-Connecting Platform, drawing Lu Shouyang’s attention to their talents. At Dao One Hall, Li Changsheng told the gathered Grand Elders that Chu Xisheng’s task in the Time Secret Realm was tied to the Wooden Sword Immortal’s plea for help, then looked for Chu Xisheng to check his situation.

• Liu Ruoxi defeated Wei Shengliang in seventeen strikes, and Lu Shouyang recognized her rare bloodline and ordered her admitted directly to the outer sect.
• Lu Luanli challenged Wei Shengliang and defeated him in twelve strikes, then invited the Outer Court’s top hundred to challenge her.
• Lu Shouyang and Qin Changqing discussed Lu Luanli’s saber art and agreed to let her continue fighting before transferring her to the outer sect.
• At Dao One Hall, Wang Baimei explained the Wooden Sword Immortal’s history and suggested he had drawn the Time Secret Realm out of the River of Time to help the Foolish Old Man and the Old Sage.
• Li Changsheng told the Grand Elders that Chu Xisheng had been drawn into the effort to help the Wooden Sword Immortal and used the Time Secret Realm’s Origin Stone to look for him.

Chu Xisheng used the Heavenly Balance Sacred Sword to escape the Hundred-Zhang Soaring Serpent and memorized the stone stele’s incomplete sword technique. He then encountered Leng Chana, who insisted on following him as a witness, while Li Changsheng revealed that aiding Chu had earned him a Mark of Time.

• Chu Xisheng summoned an offshoot of the Heavenly Balance Sacred Sword, distorting space to divert the serpent’s attacks while he studied the stone stele.
• Someone in the Formless Divine Sect restored Chu Xisheng’s merit, and he used the sword’s power to keep the blood mist away from the stele until he memorized its illustrations.
• Chu Xisheng escaped with Zhou Liangchen and Bai Xiao Zhao, leaving the Hundred-Zhang Soaring Serpent behind as it set Firehead Mountain ablaze.
• Chu Xisheng practiced the incomplete Mysterious Sword Move and clashed with Leng Chana, who said he would follow Chu to establish an alibi for Fang’s death.
• Li Changsheng told the Formless Divine Sect’s elders that Chu Xisheng was safe and showed them the Mark of Time on his hand, which Lu Shouyang linked to his aid of Chu.

Li Changsheng revealed that an Ancient God’s second primordial spirit and three dangerous offspring threatened Chu Xisheng if he completed the hidden sword move, while the elders could no longer warn him inside the secret realm. As Chu Xisheng traveled toward the Black Sea seeking the remaining diagrams and breakthrough ingredients, he accepted a Divine Grace Challenge and killed Taishu Ba with one saber stroke, leaving Li Changsheng wondering what technique he had used.

• Li Changsheng told the Grand Elders that the Ancient God’s second primordial spirit guarded the Wooden Sword Immortal’s sword move and that three offspring could kill Chu Xisheng if he grasped its true meaning.
• Li Changsheng admitted he could no longer send messages or objects into the secret realm, and the Grand Elders blamed his rash actions for endangering Chu Xisheng.
• After studying the Sky-Piercing Tree’s diagrams, Chu Xisheng set off for the Black Sea with Bai Xiao Zhao and Zhou Liangchen, while Leng Chana warned him that dangerous beings were watching him.
• Chu Xisheng accepted a Divine Grace Challenge from Taishu Ba of the Origin-Returning Sword Sect and killed him with a single saber stroke before Taishu Ba could properly attack.
• Li Changsheng watched the challenge through the Secret Realm’s Source Core and realized Chu Xisheng had killed Taishu Ba almost instantly, but regretted that he had missed seeing the technique.

After killing Taishu Ba in a Divine Grace Challenge, Chu Xisheng joined the Formless Divine Sect’s fight over Divine Heart Mushrooms. When Chu Ming fled and left the others exposed, Chu Xisheng faced the enemy forces alone and unleashed his full strength, leaving the battlefield’s outcome uncertain.

• Chu Xisheng gained a thousand Blood Essence Points for killing Taishu Ba, then returned to find Bai Xiao Zhao and Zhou Liangchen had gone to a nearby fight.
• Ren Zhongshou examined Taishu Ba’s corpse and ordered his disciples to avoid challenging Chu Xisheng unless they reached the fifth grade.
• Chu Xisheng found the Formless Divine Sect contesting two Divine Heart Mushrooms against Blood Bat Mountain and the Supreme Mystic Sect, and joined his fellow disciples.
• Tie Chenzhou and Yun Tiange allied against the Formless Divine Sect, but Chu Ming escaped with her Dao Attendants as the enemy forces attacked.
• Chu Xisheng killed Tie Chenzhou with one saber stroke, slew or maimed eight elite fighters, and forced Yun Tiange to flee using a secret art.
• Chu Xisheng deflected hidden weapons and released overwhelming saber intent that injured the enemy cultivators’ primordial spirits and stunned the Formless Divine Sect disciples.

Li Changsheng told Lu Shouyang and Zhifei Zi that Chu Xisheng had defeated powerful opponents with a mysterious secret art, then Chu Xisheng learned who else had entered the Time Secret Realm and challenged Xuan Wushang. Chu Xisheng defeated Xuan Wushang with a single saber strike and stopped short of killing him, then checked his Blood Essence Points.

• Li Changsheng told Lu Shouyang and Zhifei Zi that Chu Xisheng had slain nine powerful opponents in fewer than ten breaths and demonstrated the mysterious secret art behind his victories.
• Chu Xisheng killed one of three captured Supreme Mystic Sect disciples and learned that Luo Hanzong had led more than two thousand people into the Time Secret Realm, including many powerful young cultivators.
• Chu Xisheng shared the value of two Divine Heart Mushrooms with his fellow disciples and had them gather the magic artifacts and packs from the fallen enemies.
• Chu Xisheng challenged Xuan Wushang of Desire Realm Sixth Heaven to a Divine Grace battle.
• Chu Xisheng used Limitless Slash to defeat Xuan Wushang, stopping his saber at Xuan Wushang's neck to avoid damaging his Magic Robe, then checked his Blood Essence Points.

After defeating Xuan Wushang, Chu Xisheng gained new powers, sold much of his spoils, and searched the Black Sea for a True-Meaning Diagram. Leng Chana revealed that the carp scales held a clue, but examining one triggered a deadly attack that left Chu Xisheng wounded.

• Chu Xisheng discovered that Li Tan’s favor had upgraded to the Gate of Li Tan, then equipped Xuan Wushang’s time-enhancing boots and gained more Blood Essence Points.
• Back outside the arena, Chu Xisheng told the Formless Divine Sect disciples that he had killed Xuan Wushang and sold them magic artifacts at half price, earning nearly three and a half million taels of demon silver.
• Chu Xisheng rejected Leng Chana’s offer to serve as a paid guard, and the group continued toward the Black Sea.
• After searching the lake for days, Chu Xisheng upgraded Supreme Communication with the Divine but found no clues to the sword move until Leng Chana demanded payment and pointed him toward the carp scales.
• Chu Xisheng examined a Red Naked Carp’s scales and sensed a lethal attack; he and the others dodged as three forces of time cut a nearby rock apart.
• Bai Xiao Zhao noticed that the carp had been reduced to bloody fragments in Chu Xisheng’s hand and that a fine cut had appeared on the back of his right hand.

Chu Xisheng learned that deadly Torch Chi guarded the Black Sea sword diagrams, then arranged for others to collect the naked carp scales while he sought ingredients to advance his cultivation. Elsewhere, Jian Shifei recruited Yun Tiange and two Night Wolf Tribe warriors to plot against Chu Xisheng, while the White Tiger Marquis persuaded Zuo Qingyun to resume training by offering to transfer her cultivation to him.

• Leng Chana identified the attackers as three Torch Chi that had leapt from the River of Time, and warned Chu Xisheng that studying the fish scale could get him killed.
• Chu Xisheng hired Zhou Liangchen and Bai Xiao Zhao to assemble the naked carp scales into a True-Meaning Diagram, then recruited Leng Chana at a higher rate to help.
• Chu Xisheng flew south to find the Divine Sun Flower and Profound Yin Grass, intending to advance his cultivation and strengthen his bloodline talents before studying the diagrams.
• Jian Shifei offered Yun Tiange a pill and proposed joining forces to kill Chu Xisheng, with Night Wolf Tribe fighters Lie Ling and Priest Lie joining their plan.
• The White Tiger Marquis told Zuo Qingyun that the Six Fan Gate might reopen Chu Xisheng’s case, and revealed that transferring her Innate Divine Xin Great Art could save her life and make Zuo Qingyun stronger.
• Zuo Qingyun initially refused to train again, but agreed after the White Tiger Marquis explained that he could inherit her cultivation and succeed her as White Tiger Marquis.

Chu Xisheng found a hidden medicinal habitat in the Time Secret Realm, advanced his Formless Art to the sixth grade, and strengthened his talents while Little Flathead began developing a body. After Zhou Liangchen completed all nine Black Sea True-Meaning Diagrams, Chu Xisheng prepared to head north, but his Divine Grace challenges were refused by every opponent he tried.

• Chu Xisheng braved the black rain, found Qin Muge's folded-space medicinal habitat, and cultivated there until his Formless Art reached perfection at the seventh layer.
• Chu Xisheng refined the eighth-layer secret medicine and advanced his Formless Art and Ninefold Refinement Ultimate Origin Purple-Gold Body, while Little Flathead began forming a fetal body within him.
• Chu Xisheng gained the seventh-rank Blood of Eternal Ages and ninth-rank Pure Yang, then returned to the Black Sea to help Zhou Liangchen and Bai Xiao Zhao gather Naked Carp without viewing their scales.
• Zhou Liangchen completed all nine True-Meaning Diagrams and collapsed from exhaustion, while Chu Xisheng used the Thunder-Born Beast bloodline talent card on Bai Xiao Zhao and paid Leng Chana for his work.
• Bai Xiao Zhao revealed that Leng Chana had advanced to Fifth Grade, and Chu Xisheng returned four thousand taels to him before asking him to watch over Zhou Liangchen and Bai Xiao Zhao.
• Chu Xisheng challenged Jian Shifei and more than twenty other martial artists through Divine Grace, but every one refused to fight.

Chu Xisheng entered Black Tortoise Iceberg to study its True-Meaning Diagram, while Jian Shifei and a group of Heaven's Prides prepared an ambush against him. Their trap erupted as Chu Xisheng faced the Black Tortoise Snake-Turtle, whose power clashed with the attackers and the temporal forces he had anticipated.

• Bai Xiao Zhao awoke with a Chenghuang-like form, and Chu Xisheng promised to find her a transformation art while Leng Chana explained how difficult changing a divine beast's form would be.
• Chu Xisheng left Zhou Liangchen, Bai Xiao Zhao, and Leng Chana at the foot of Black Tortoise Iceberg, then flew into the mountain as the blood hunt began.
• Chu Xisheng found the Black Tortoise Snake-Turtle guarding a frozen blood pine and approached it while studying the True-Meaning Diagram from the Black Sea Naked Carp.
• Jian Shifei and his allies watched Chu Xisheng from a hidden cavern, then Lie Ling and other attackers emerged and sealed the mountain chamber with magic arrays.
• The Black Tortoise Snake-Turtle awakened and attacked as Three Wounds of Time wounded it; its Profound Darkness Divine Light froze two Heaven's Prides, while Chu Xisheng evaded the chaos and continued studying the diagram.

In Dao One Hall, the Formless Divine Sect elders watched Chu Xisheng use the Black Tortoise Turtle-Snake and several sacred arts to fight the Torch Chi inside Black Tortoise Iceberg. After the Turtle-Snake unleashed Absolute Stillness of All Things, Chu Xisheng deflected the Torch Chi’s Wounds of Time back at them, leaving all three split apart.

• Li Changsheng and the elders observed Chu Xisheng’s battle through the Source Core and recognized that he was using the Black Tortoise Turtle-Snake’s ice power to slow the Torch Chi’s Wounds of Time.
• Yun Tiange’s ambush force suffered deaths from the chaos in the mountain, and Jian Shifei and the surviving humans fled while Yun Tiange abandoned Lie Ling.
• Lie Ling failed to catch Chu Xisheng and was cut into six pieces by the Wounds of Time as the Black Tortoise Turtle-Snake awakened Black Tortoise True Sight and seized control of Chu Xisheng’s bodily fluids.
• After a Wound of Time severely injured him, Chu Xisheng activated the third stage of Dance of Zangtian and summoned a Fourth Rank offshoot of the Divine Delusion Sword.
• The Black Tortoise Turtle-Snake unleashed Absolute Stillness of All Things, freezing the mountain and slowing the Torch Chi enough for Chu Xisheng to discern their forms and study their attacks.
• Chu Xisheng used An Instant of Time and a Blood-Yazi Saber Lord Character Card to deflect all three Wounds of Time with Bent Light, Slanting Shadows, and the redirected wounds split the three Torch Chi apart.

Chu Xisheng defeated the beasts guarding the Blood Pine Tree and ate its nine pine nuts, which helped him comprehend Song Yannian’s sword diagrams and granted him the Blood Pine Divine Source. After sacrificing the recovered treasures and helping Zhou Liangchen hatch the Black Tortoise egg, Chu Xisheng watched the hatchling mourn its mother.

• Chu Xisheng killed three Torch Chi and found the gravely wounded Black Tortoise Snake-Turtle guarding an egg beneath its body.
• Chu Xisheng warmed the egg with a Fire Escape Talisman, then dug the Blood Pine’s pinecone out of the ice and ate all nine pine nuts.
• Chu Xisheng comprehended the life and water Sword Intent diagrams, gained the Blood Pine Divine Source, and discovered that his incomplete Nine-Heavens Time Wheel could be deduced for 2,000 Blood Essence Points.
• Bai Xiao Zhao explained how Zhou Liangchen could hatch the Black Tortoise egg, and Zhou Liangchen gave it purified Lifebound Essence Blood.
• Chu Xisheng and Leng Chana gathered the battle’s spoils, which Chu Xisheng sacrificed to Li Tan; the egg then hatched, and Chu Xisheng gave the grieving young Black Tortoise its mother’s reverse scale.

Xiao Yi was rescued from Dutian Divine Palace pursuers by Wang Xizhu and Xue Tingyou, then learned that Formless Divine Sect disciples were regrouping in the north under Chu Xisheng’s protection. As the Heavenly Ladder descended, the surviving disciples gathered to compete for entry to the Second Layer, facing a much larger crowd eager to take their Time Bloodstones.

• Wang Xizhu and Xue Tingyou rescued the wounded Xiao Yi from Dutian Divine Palace pursuers, but they found Qi Feng dead after Divine Flame Palace disciples intercepted him.
• Wang Xizhu and Xue Tingyou brought Xiao Yi to Gold-Silver Mountain, where she learned that Chu Xisheng had become the Formless Divine Sect’s hope and that its disciples were gathering in the north.
• Xiao Yi fought in battles near Gold-Silver Mountain and came to suspect that rival sects’ elite disciples feared Chu Xisheng and avoided the territory around the northern gathering places.
• Six days later, Wang Xizhu and Xue Tingyou assembled the survivors from Gold-Silver Mountain, Windblood Cavern, and Thunderclap Valley and led them toward the Heavenly Ladder Entrance.
• As the Heavenly Ladder descended, the Formless Divine Sect survivors arrived before a crowd of roughly two thousand three hundred people, many of whom eyed them greedily for their Time Bloodstones.