Chapter Summaries

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.

After returning to Heavenly Wave Residence, Chu Xisheng reunited with his companions, gave Lu Luanli and Chu Yunyun treasures from Mount Buzhou, and began nourishing the Blood-Yazi Divine Saber, which helped him advance his Yazi Saber Intent. Meanwhile, Ji Qianqian remained distracted by her mission, and Purple-Browed Heavenly Lord Shui Ruge arrived at Formless Divine Mountain to challenge Chu Xisheng to a duel.

• On the way to Heavenly Wave Residence, Chu Xisheng and Ji Qianqian encountered Li Tiangong with Thousand-Leaf Immortal Maiden, and Chu Xisheng told Ji Qianqian to give Li Tiangong more work.
• At Heavenly Wave Residence, Chu Xisheng welcomed Lu Luanli, Liu Ruoxi, Zhou Liangchen, and Chu Yunyun, praised Liu Ruoxi's saber work and Zhou Liangchen's progress, and reassured Zhou Liangchen that the Iron Banner Gang would help the Linhai factions retreat from Extreme Eastern Ice City.
• Chu Xisheng gave Lu Luanli thirty-five Peacock Five-Colored Feathers and gave Chu Yunyun Primordial Blood Pool crystals to help rebuild her foundation.
• The Blood-Yazi Divine Saber arrived and drained Chu Xisheng's vital essence as he nourished it, while guiding his Yazi Saber Intent toward the Heavenly Rules and Dao Laws of Mirror Heaven, Geng Metal, and Retribution.
• At the mountain gate, Ye Zhiqiu recognized Purple-Browed Heavenly Lord Shui Ruge, who announced that he had come to challenge Chu Xisheng to a duel.

Shui Ruge arrived at Formless Divine Mountain to challenge Chu Xisheng, but Chu remained in seclusion with the Blood-Yazi Divine Saber, studying its laws and collecting saber-move cards. Seven days later, Shui Ruge still waited at the gate as rumors spread that Chu was avoiding the fight.

• Shui Ruge challenged Chu Xisheng, and Ye Zhiqiu drew her sword against him when he refused to fight her instead.
• Jian Zangfeng returned to Formless Divine Mountain and learned that Chu Xisheng had entered seclusion with the Blood-Yazi Divine Saber.
• Chu Xisheng spent Blood Essence Points to obtain Blood-Yazi Saber Lord character cards, two divine move cards, and twelve ultimate move cards while the saber drained his vital blood and qi.
• Zong Sanping returned to the mountain and learned that Shui Ruge had waited seven days for Chu, whose Yazi Saber Intent had risen to the seventeenth level.
• Shui Ruge read the new Martial Secrets Almanac, which ranked Chu fourteenth on the Azure Cloud Ranking, while Hu Kan and Hu Lai heard onlookers mock Chu for not accepting the challenge.

Wen Zhuyi assessed Extreme Eastern Ice City’s western expedition and sought a way to enter the Cloudsea Immortal Palace to extend her life. Twelve days later, Chu Xisheng emerged from meditation, learned the second stage of the Limitless Divine Slash, and prepared to face Shui Ruge.

• Changsun Ruoli told Wen Zhuyi that most Eastern Province factions had rejected her Life-and-Death Notices and were preparing to resist or flee, while the Iron Banner Gang had gone into hiding.
• Wen Zhuyi ordered Changsun Ruoli to leave the Iron Banner Gang alone for now but hire its ships and boatmen, then revealed that she wanted to enter the Cloudsea Immortal Palace in search of life-extending medicine.
• Changsun Ruoli reported that Chu Xisheng held an Immortal Palace Secret Key, and Wen Zhuyi sent a warning to Li Changsheng that the Chan Sect’s supreme one and powerful deities had taken an interest in the palace.
• After twelve days of meditation, Chu Xisheng found that the Blood-Yazi Divine Saber had drained him but that something within his heart had strengthened his bloodline; Chu Yunyun said it was connected to Pangu’s Heart.
• Chu Yunyun told Chu Xisheng that Shui Ruge had challenged him, then transmitted the second stage of the Limitless Divine Slash to him.
• Chu Xisheng mastered the new slash through dream training, integrated it into his Divine Source Formless Art, and prepared to meet the waiting challengers.

Chu Xisheng emerged from seclusion and accepted Shui Ruge’s challenge, then wounded him with a single saber strike despite their equalized cultivation. Shui Ruge unsealed more of his power to continue fighting, while Chu Xisheng remained confident that he could overcome him.

• Chu Ming waited outside Formless Divine Mountain and assumed Chu Xisheng was avoiding Shui Ruge’s challenge, while Hu Kan and Hu Lai prepared to report his continued absence to Heavenly Secret Hall.
• Chu Xisheng arrived at the gates and agreed to fight Shui Ruge, asking Ye Zhiqiu to witness the match as Shui Ruge restricted his cultivation with golden needles.
• When Ye Zhiqiu’s coin landed, Chu Xisheng and Shui Ruge exchanged rapid teleportation moves before drawing their weapons, and Chu Xisheng’s first strike cut Shui Ruge.
• Shui Ruge unsealed two golden needles and raised his cultivation, but Chu Xisheng struck again with One Saber, Ten Thousand Kills and forced him to unseal two more needles.
• Chu Xisheng told Shui Ruge that even Lower Fifth Grade was not enough and invited him to unseal the remaining needles, while onlookers recognized Chu Xisheng’s strength.

Chu Xisheng and Shui Ruge fought an intense sparring match, each revealing powerful techniques and exhausting the other. Shui Ruge awakened his Emperor Star talent, and the two ended the battle in a draw, acknowledging each other’s skill.

• Chu Xisheng reflected Shui Ruge’s attacks until Shui Ruge unsealed the final two golden needles and recovered his cultivation, while the crowd watched in shock.
• Shui Ruge restored his fourth-rank cultivation and attacked from a distance, but Chu Xisheng defended with his saber and outlasted him with the Blood of Eternal Ages.
• Shui Ruge unleashed a storm of star-powered sword strikes, and Chu Xisheng countered with seven consecutive Limitless Divine Slashes that forced Shui Ruge to retreat through the sky.
• Shui Ruge invoked his Northern Pole Star talent to replenish his strength, and Chu Xisheng proposed ending their spar before his Yazi Phantom Ring broke.
• Shui Ruge accepted a draw, disappointing most of the bettors, while Zong Sanping regretted his lost wagers and Jian Zangfeng profited.

Ji Qianqian learned that the Imperial Court wanted Chu Xisheng killed inside the Cloudsea Immortal Palace, while Chu Xisheng and his allies prepared to enter after the palace’s rules changed. The chapter ended with Li Changsheng assigning Jian Zangfeng to protect Chu Xisheng in the secret realm.

• Wangqi Luohou gave Ji Qianqian an artifact to maintain her cultivation seal and ordered her to reveal Chu Xisheng’s location in the Cloudsea Immortal Palace so someone else could kill him.
• Chu Xisheng and Shui Ruge ended their duel in a draw, exchanged apologies, and parted; Chu Xisheng returned to Heavenly Wave Residence, where his companions and the Hu Brothers celebrated with a banquet.
• The Hu Brothers told Chu Xisheng that Zuo Qingyun had been chosen as the White Tiger Marquis’s vessel and could inherit his cultivation through Origin-Transference Great Art.
• Li Changsheng’s message revealed that someone had altered the Cloudsea Immortal Palace’s entry rules, allowing Chu Yunyun to enter if she sealed her cultivation; she resolved to accompany Chu Xisheng.
• Li Changsheng and the sect elders planned their expedition to the Cloudsea Immortal Palace, and Li Changsheng assigned Jian Zangfeng to accompany and protect Chu Xisheng.

After Demon God Zangtian bestowed Divine Grace on Chu Xisheng, his body and bloodline grew stronger and he received a Quasi-Divine Ultimate Move. He awoke after three and a half days, faced Ji Qianqian’s request to join the Cloudsea Immortal Palace contest, and began preparing for the dangers and shifting loyalties ahead.

• While cultivating, Chu Xisheng saw Demon God Zangtian, endured the demon god’s refining fire, and absorbed a Quasi-Divine Ultimate Move imprinted in his Primordial Spirit.
• Chu Xisheng discovered that Zangtian had raised his talent to Tier Thirteen, granted him Zangtian Tyrant Body, and advanced his Ninefold Refinement Ultimate Origin Purple-Gold Body to Level Eleven.
• After waking from three and a half days of meditation, Chu Xisheng learned the Hu Brothers had left and heard Ji Qianqian insist on joining the Cloudsea Immortal Palace contest.
• Chu Xisheng secretly used a Near Ink, Blackening Supernatural Power Card on Ji Qianqian, while she resolved to settle matters between them inside the immortal palace.
• Chu Xisheng told Chu Yunyun, Lu Luanli, and the others that he did not know what Zangtian wanted from the Cloudsea Immortal Palace, then heard Bai Xiao Zhao describe Ji Qianqian’s strange, conflicted behavior.
• Chu Xisheng received his Zhengyang Martial Academy and Iron Banner Gang subordinates, used blackening cards on them, and exchanged for two talent advancements after finding them in the Martial Dao Treasury.

Chu Xisheng prepared for the Cloudsea Immortal Palace by strengthening his martial arts and putting on powerful armor, while Chu Yunyun revealed that the God-Defying Banner could shrink to a toothpick. Elsewhere, Zhu Guangyin disguised himself and learned that Chu Xisheng had risen to the top of the Azure Cloud Overall Ranking as powerful beings gathered around the coming contest.

• Chu Xisheng reviewed his strengthened martial intents, new saber art, and Heaven-Peering ability, then equipped the Divine Rahu Inner Armor and Dao-Tribulation Mysterious Armor before the sect’s ship departed for the Cloudsea Immortal Palace.
• Chu Yunyun practiced her Suanni transformation, manifesting three nearly complete Heavenly Rules and Dao Laws before her bonded Divine Beast grew exhausted.
• Lu Luanli warned Chu Yunyun to protect the suspected God-Defying Banner, and Chu Yunyun revealed the banner spear in its shrunken toothpick form before expanding it again.
• Gu Jian met Zhu Guangyin on a reef near Tianhai Commandery, where Zhu Guangyin identified the distant Primordial Ice Wheel and disguised himself and Gu Jian with masks.
• Gu Jian told Zhu Guangyin that Chu Xisheng had reached first place on the Azure Cloud Overall Ranking and fought fourth-rank Shui Ruge to a draw; Zhu Guangyin anticipated that they might meet at the immortal palace.
• A blazing red figure descended from the Great Sun, but Zhu Guangyin dismissed it as a child of Yang God Taihao and continued reading about Chu Xisheng.

Chu Xisheng’s team departed for Cloudsea Immortal Palace aboard the Thunderclap Cosmic Shuttle, while he learned that Jian Zangfeng’s hidden strength and romantic troubles were more complicated than they appeared. After the vessels encountered the Northern Underworld Palace’s Grand Elder and a massive Whale Kun, a Third-Rank Golden Peng attacked Chu Xisheng’s shuttle, and Jian Zangfeng urged him to fight it alone.

• Chu Xisheng boarded the Thunderclap Cosmic Shuttle with Chu Yunyun, Jian Zangfeng, Zhou Liangchen, and their companions, and reassured Zhou Liangchen that the Formless Divine Sect was helping his family.
• Chu Xisheng learned that Jian Zangfeng had concealed his strength from Ye Zhiqiu, who now saw him as a scheming villain, and encouraged him to start over with her.
• The two vessels traveled east past Extreme Eastern Ice City, where Chu Xisheng saw its huge fleet of aerial warships.
• Yan Guilai warned the group that the Northern Underworld Palace lay ahead, and its Grand Elder attacked the Sun-Bathing Divine Vessel aboard a gigantic Whale Kun.
• Yan Guilai fought the white-haired Daoist with his Heaven-Measuring art and saber, while a Third-Rank Golden Peng descended on Chu Xisheng’s shuttle.
• Jian Zangfeng told Chu Xisheng to go out and kill the Golden Peng himself, leaving Chu Xisheng doubting whether his senior brother was serious.

Chu Xisheng fought off Northern Underworld Palace attackers with Jian Zangfeng’s help, killing Golden Roc Arrow Zhu Yuan and his life-bound Golden Peng before Yan Guilai drove the remaining enemies away. The group resumed its journey, and the Cloudsea Immortal Palace appeared ahead.

• Chu Xisheng left the Thunderclap Cosmic Shuttle to confront the Golden Peng while Jian Zangfeng summoned the Heavenly Equal Sword and used the Heaven-Pacifying Sword to strengthen him.
• Chu Xisheng reflected the Golden Peng’s attacks, then used Execute Heaven, Destroy Earth to kill it and later struck down its master, Zhu Yuan.
• Grand Elder Divine Kun covered the battlefield in darkness and withdrew with the Northern Underworld Palace fighters, while Yan Guilai and the others regrouped.
• Yan Guilai praised Chu Xisheng’s saber skills and urged the group to leave before more enemies arrived; he covered their retreat aboard the Sun-Bathing Divine Vessel.
• Chu Xisheng thanked Jian Zangfeng for his aid, while Chu Yunyun and Ji Qianqian sensed that Jian Zangfeng concealed substantial strength.
• Jian Zangfeng announced that they were nearing their destination, and the Cloudsea Immortal Palace came into view above the sea of clouds.