Chapter Summaries

Emperor Jianyuan debated how to handle Chu Xisheng and Lu Luanli, but Imperial Preceptor Yu Kunlun urged him to wait as the Ten Thousand Demons Grotto might erupt soon. Elsewhere, Shi Zhiming failed to enter the Cloudsea Immortal Palace, while Cang Haishi revealed clues about its mysterious expert and agreed to teach Zhuang Yan’s disciple if he could defeat every Azure Cloud prodigy.

• Emperor Jianyuan ordered the Embroidery Guard and Direct Hall Directorate to identify the mysterious expert and considered using Chu Xisheng’s Iron Banner Gang against him.
• Yu Kunlun advised Emperor Jianyuan to stay calm, predicting that the Ten Thousand Demons Grotto would erupt within days and urging him to focus on Extreme Eastern Ice City.
• Shi Zhiming emerged injured from the Cloudsea Immortal Palace and told Gu Jian that changes to its foundational precepts had blocked his entry.
• Shi Zhiming read that Wan Jiansheng had defeated Lei Xiao in two strikes and was heading toward Shui Ruge, then threw the Heavenly Secret Martial Manual into the water.
• Zong Qianliu questioned Cang Haishi about the mysterious expert, and Cang Haishi said she was a woman skilled in the Heaven-Severing Art, the Heaven-Piercing Art, and domineering spear techniques.
• Zhuang Yan asked Cang Haishi to teach his disciple the Divine Intent Like Heart Saber, and Cang Haishi agreed on the condition that the disciple defeat all the Azure Cloud prodigies.

After advancing to upper fifth rank, Chu Xisheng strengthened his Rahu and Divine Sun bloodlines and discovered a Heart of Hundun he could not yet afford. Meanwhile, Chu Yunyun ended Yan Guilai’s poison-cleansing ritual and received restored battle diagrams, medicines, and armor from the Formless Divine Sect, before realizing Chu Xisheng had traded blood essence for a rare treasure.

• Chu Xisheng completed his upper fifth-rank advancement, learned that future bloodline breakthroughs required secret rituals, and let Little Flathead go out to play.
• Chu Xisheng redeemed the twelfth-rank Rahu Bloodline and fourteenth-rank Divine Sun, then found a Heart of Hundun in the Martial Dao Treasury that cost more Blood Essence Points than he had.
• Chu Yunyun stopped Yan Guilai’s poison-cleansing array to spare his origin essence, and Yan Guilai praised the cultivation advances of Chu Xisheng, Jian Zangfeng, Zhou Liangchen, and Ji Qianqian.
• Yu Yunxiang gave Chu Yunyun battle diagrams, medicines, magic artifacts, and her repaired Great Luo Hundun Armor on credit, while Chu Yunyun vowed never to leave the Formless Divine Sect again.
• Chu Xisheng offered treasures from the Divine Ao Rogue Person’s treasury, and Chu Yunyun recognized the Divine blood sun marrow and demanded to know how much blood essence he had given in exchange.

Chu Xisheng returned to Formless Divine Mountain with Chu Yunyun and the others, where he reunited with his companions and prepared to see Lu Luanli and Liu Ruoxi off to the Time Secret Realm. At the mountain gate, he met Qin Xiyan just as the Patriarch Hall’s bell rang unexpectedly.

• During the voyage, Chu Yunyun tempered Chu Xisheng with God-Defying Fire and Great Yi Divine Thunder, while their companions mistook the painful training for a beating.
• The Heaven-Pacifying Treasure Ship arrived at Formless Divine Mountain, and Chu Yunyun went with Yan Guilai and Yu Yunxiang to meet Sect Master Li Changsheng.
• Chu Xisheng greeted Bai Xiao Zhao and Little Flathead, learned Bai Xiao Zhao had reached the Fourth Rank, and used the Divine Covenant Heavenly Stele to link her and Liu Ruoxi for remote communication.
• Chu Xisheng gave Liu Ruoxi a map of the Time Secret Realm, then found himself surrounded by admiring disciples at the mountain gate.
• Qin Xiyan approached Chu Xisheng, and the Patriarch Hall’s bell suddenly rang across Formless Divine Mountain.

At the Patriarch Hall, Chu Yunyun revealed that Qin Fengxian had helped arrange her assassination after she nearly advanced to transcendent rank. As disciples departed for the Time Secret Realm, Qin Xiyan challenged Chu Xisheng to a saber spar, unaware of their earlier connection.

• Chu Yunyun offered incense at the Patriarch Hall, and three transcendent-rank patriarch portraits stirred as the bell tolled six times in her honor.
• Chu Yunyun told Li Changsheng that Qin Fengxian had been among her killers and explained that she had nearly reached transcendent rank but could not share her bloodline with him.
• Chu Yunyun recounted how Yuwen Ba lured her to White Cloud Manor, where a magic array and divine curse trapped her in a blood prison.
• Qingxu Zi prepared to escort disciples to the Time Secret Realm, while Chu Xisheng declined to join them and urged Lu Luanli to board.
• Liu Ruoxi warned Chu Xisheng that Qin Xiyan resembled Chu Yunyun and had a mixed reputation, then Qin Xiyan asked him to spar and offered to seal her cultivation.

Chu Xisheng defeated Qin Xiyan in a saber spar, then went to the Scripture Pavilion to study the Divine-Intent Death-Touching Saber. Wang Baimei and Li Changsheng stopped him from touching the dangerous manual, but Chu Xisheng revealed that his awakened Divine Power Rekindling gave him the ability to master its first form.

• Chu Ming returned from dangerous missions, watched Chu Xisheng and Qin Xiyan spar, and inwardly resented Qin Xiyan’s growing influence.
• Chu Xisheng used the Heaven-Executing Saber to counter Qin Xiyan’s shifting and copying techniques, forcing her to concede defeat and leave.
• Chu Xisheng went to the Scripture Pavilion, studied the sixth and seventh Yazi True-Meaning Diagrams, and tried to reach for the Divine-Intent Death-Touching Saber.
• Li Changsheng discussed the Lord of Ten Thousand Poisons and the Formless Divine Sect’s acceptance of Qin Xiyan with Chu Yunyun, then rushed to the Scripture Pavilion when he sensed danger.
• Wang Baimei stopped Chu Xisheng from touching the saber manual, and Chu Xisheng explained that he believed he could master its first form.
• Chu Xisheng displayed blazing bloodflames, prompting Wang Baimei to recognize the Divine Power Rekindling talent that qualified him to attempt the saber form.

Wan Jiansheng defeated Shui Ruge and set out to challenge Chu Xisheng, while Chu Xisheng endured the Blood-Yazi Saber Lord’s Saber Intent and comprehended the first move of the Divine-Intent Death-Touching Saber. After Chu Xisheng rejected the Rahū Divine Eye as material for his saber heart, Wang Baimei revealed that a sealed Giant God possessed Vajra Bones, and Chu Xisheng asked for both.

• Wan Jiansheng defeated Shui Ruge in ten strikes, then departed to seek out Chu Xisheng.
• Shui Ruge told Hu Kan and Hu Lai that Chu Xisheng’s martial arts had surpassed his own and that Chu could contend with Wan Jiansheng.
• Li Changsheng and Chu Yunyun guarded Chu Xisheng as he endured the Blood-Yazi Saber Lord’s Saber Intent and studied the Divine-Intent Death-Touching Saber.
• Chu Xisheng used a Qin Muge Upper Fourth Rank Character Card to comprehend the Divine-Intent Saber Heart and told Li Changsheng he had succeeded.
• Chu Xisheng rejected the Rahū Divine Eye, and Wang Baimei proposed using a sealed Giant God’s Vajra Bone as the saber-heart material.
• Chu Xisheng asked Li Changsheng to obtain both Vajra Bones, and Li Changsheng said the extraction would take about ten days.

Chu Xisheng survived an assassination attempt during the Blood-Burning Ritual, improved several bloodline talents, and learned that a mysterious force had placed enormous bounties on him. At the Divine Pill Academy, Chu Yunyun’s examination of Xia Baishi revealed a possible way to restore his shattered sword heart, but Wan Jiansheng’s challenge interrupted their discussion.

• Chu Yunyun warned Chu Xisheng that someone on the altar harbored murderous intent, and the Blood-Burning Ritual began as the group awakened their Bloodlines.
• A disguised assassin attacked Chu Xisheng with flying needles, but Ji Qianqian and Zhou Liangchen defended him, Chu Xisheng repelled the Divine Bee Shadowless Needles, and Fang Zheng seized and killed the attacker.
• Chu Xisheng emerged from meditation with improved bloodline talents and martial arts, while Chu Yunyun said she had restored her Blood of Eternal Ages to the Seventh Rank.
• Chu Yunyun took Chu Xisheng and Ji Qianqian to examine Xia Baishi, whose brief reaction to Ji Qianqian’s Sole-Supreme Saber Intent suggested that a remnant of his sword heart remained.
• Chu Yunyun explained that Xia Baishi might recover if he found someone or something he could trust and worship completely, and Chu Xisheng considered whether his Near Ink, Blackening Supernatural Power Cards could help.
• Wan Jiansheng announced that he had come to challenge Chu Xisheng and test his martial Dao.

Chu Xisheng welcomed Wan Jiansheng’s challenge, hoping the fight would help restore his Heart of Hundun, while Chu Yunyun urged him to destroy Wan’s Dao heart because she suspected the Divine Saber Sect had been involved in their attack. At the mountain gate, Chu Xisheng endured Wan’s furious barrage without drawing his saber, leaving the gathered martial artists stunned as their duel continued.

• Chu Xisheng learned that Wan Jiansheng had arrived to challenge him, and Chu Yunyun told him to destroy Wan’s Dao heart because she suspected the Divine Saber Sect was their enemy.
• Fang Buyuan told Chu Xisheng that outsiders favored Wan Jiansheng in the betting pool, and Chu Xisheng said he had grasped the principle that all things in heaven and earth could be sabers.
• Chu Xisheng met Wan Jiansheng at the mountain gate, and they agreed to fight without an overseer once a copper coin landed.
• Zhuang Yan and Cang Haishi watched from the clouds as Cang warned that Wan might suffer a crushing defeat, while Li Changsheng observed from nearby.
• Wan Jiansheng attacked with the Heaven-Swallowing Endless Saber, but Chu Xisheng’s protective force reflected his blows and he remained motionless without drawing his saber.
• Jian Zangfeng arrived and revealed that he had bet on Chu Xisheng winning within one move, while the crowd watched Wan’s attacks fail to make Chu draw.

Chu Xisheng held off Wan Jiansheng’s escalating saber assault without drawing his own weapon, enduring even Wan Jiansheng’s Demigod Body with the Eternity Wall. After Wan Jiansheng exhausted himself and fell under Chu Xisheng’s suppression, Zhuang Yan declared the battle over.

• Zhuang Yan watched as Chu Xisheng reflected Wan Jiansheng’s saber force and Taotie Martial Intent, while Wan Jiansheng’s relentless attacks injured his own body.
• Wan Jiansheng revealed his Three Heads and Six Arms Demigod Body and attacked with six sabers, but Chu Xisheng blocked the blows with the Eternity Wall and countered with his External Astral Force and Baleful Intent.
• Chu Ming asked Qin Xiyan for help with Outer Affairs Hall missions, and Qin Xiyan said she would consider it.
• After hundreds of thousands of strikes failed to break Chu Xisheng’s defenses, Wan Jiansheng began bleeding, and Chu Xisheng reflected his strongest slash with the Ultimate Origin power of his body.
• Chu Xisheng advanced against Wan Jiansheng, used Yazi to shatter the Taotie beast behind him, and suppressed Wan Jiansheng’s exhausted Primordial Spirit until Zhuang Yan called an end to the battle.

Chu Xisheng forced Wan Jiansheng to concede without drawing his saber, then returned to the Divine Pill Academy, where Chu Yunyun taught him the third stage of the Limitless Divine Slash. The Heavenly Secret Pavilion prepared to publicize his victory, while Li Changsheng arrived to hear why Chu Xisheng had summoned him.

• Chu Xisheng suppressed Wan Jiansheng until he conceded, then offered visiting martial cultivators free food, lodging, and travel expenses before flying to Formless Mountain’s summit.
• Zhuang Yan took the defeated Wan Jiansheng away, while Cang Haishi and martial cultivators at the Mountain Gate reflected on Chu Xisheng’s strength and future prospects.
• Hu Kan and Hu Lai sent their battle recording to the Heavenly Secret Pavilion and proposed a special issue featuring Chu Xisheng; the Heavenly Secret Elder agreed and offered to accept the brothers as true inheritance disciples if they arranged it.
• The Heavenly Secret Elder watched the recording and feared Chu Xisheng’s growing fame would bring fiercer turmoil from the imperial court and martial world.
• At the Divine Pill Academy, Chu Yunyun demonstrated the third stage of the Limitless Divine Slash, and Chu Xisheng considered how to study it while noting his Blood Essence Points had reached one million.
• Li Changsheng arrived, and Chu Xisheng wondered how to persuade him to hand over Xia Baishi, the Supreme Sword Heart.

Chu Xisheng persuaded Li Changsheng and the Formless Divine Sect elders to try erasing Xia Baishi’s memories and rebuilding his Dao heart, then prepared to travel south and contributed four saber manuals to the Heavenly Secret Pavilion. The chapter ended with Wen Zhuyi sending him a second-rank treasured saber, which he accepted, while the Pavilion praised his manuals and raised their importance.

• Chu Xisheng asked Ji Qianqian to leave, then claimed Chu Yunyun could repair Xia Baishi’s Dao heart by erasing his memories and making him believe he served Chu Xisheng.
• Chu Yunyun and Li Changsheng discussed using Chu Xisheng’s illusion techniques to maintain Xia Baishi’s memory seal, and Li Changsheng called the elders together to assess the plan.
• The elders judged the memory erasure feasible and agreed to pool funds for the spell, while Chu Xisheng told Li Changsheng that he needed to travel south for several dozen days.
• Chu Xisheng exchanged for four popular saber arts, raised each to the fourteenth layer, and sent his detailed explanations to Hu Kan and Hu Lai for the Heavenly Secret Martial Manual.
• Wen Zhuyi sent word congratulating Chu Xisheng and offered him a second-rank lower treasured saber; Chu Xisheng accepted with a message on the Divine Covenant Heavenly Stele Fragment.
• The Azure Cloud Editor praised Chu Xisheng’s explanations as masterful, declared the special issue would be important to martial artists, and awarded Hu Kan and Hu Lai a major contribution.

Chu Xisheng refined two Divine-Intent Saber Hearts, claimed the Heart of Hundun, and gained a disguised Xia Baishi as a Dao Attendant. After Feng San sparred with Ji Qianqian, Chu Xisheng stopped their fight and challenged Chu Yunyun to a full-strength match.

• Chu Xisheng completed the Divine-Intent Saber Hearts and discovered they could reflect attacks and absorb nearby awe, hostility, and killing intent.
• Chu Xisheng claimed the Heart of Hundun, raised his Divine Source Formless Art by two layers, and felt ready to test his strength.
• Chu Yunyun introduced Feng San, a disguised Xia Baishi, as Chu Xisheng's new Dao Attendant.
• Ji Qianqian challenged Feng San, but he evaded her attacks and repeatedly defeated her while holding back.
• Chu Xisheng stopped the spar before Feng San's sealed power could awaken Xia Baishi's memories, then asked Chu Yunyun to fight him at full strength.

Chu Xisheng arranged a spar with Chu Yunyun, secretly using Jian Zangfeng’s Heaven-Pacifying Sword to raise his strength and maneuver her into close quarters. The chapter ended with Chu Xisheng using a Dreamlike Illusions talisman to distract Chu Yunyun and kissing her, leaving her and their spirit beasts stunned.

• Chu Xisheng and Chu Yunyun began sparring without their usual weapons and artifacts, while Little Flathead fought Little Lion and was pinned down.
• Chu Yunyun overwhelmed Chu Xisheng with her spear, and he endured more than fifteen hundred strikes before using Eternity Wall.
• Jian Zangfeng secretly channeled Heaven-Pacifying Sword power into the training hall, and Chu Xisheng activated the Heart of Hundun and Divine Power Rekindling to boost his strength.
• Chu Xisheng drew the Blood-Yazi Divine Saber and fought his way close to Chu Yunyun, deliberately letting her knock the saber away so he could rush into her reach.
• Chu Xisheng used a Dreamlike Illusions talisman to disorient Chu Yunyun and kissed her, stunning her, the Blood-Yazi Divine Saber's Saber Spirit, Little Lion, and Little Flathead.

Chu Yunyun stopped Chu Xisheng after he crossed her boundaries, then dragged him through the sect while punishing those involved. In Youzhou, Zhuang Yan tried to restore Wan Jiansheng’s confidence after his defeat, then spotted Xi Bitian in the crowd.

• Chu Yunyun punched Chu Xisheng after he went too far, and he pretended to pass out; Little Flathead withdrew its challenge and hid inside him.
• Chu Yunyun kicked the Blood-Yazi Divine Saber away, then dragged Chu Xisheng out of the Martial Arts Training Hall.
• Chu Yunyun caught Jian Zangfeng outside Dao One Hall and struck him with her spear when he asked what Chu Xisheng had done.
• Fang Buyuan asked Li Changsheng to intervene, but Yan Guilai told him to pay attention to their discussion instead.
• Wan Jiansheng drank outside a restaurant as customers mocked his defeat, and Zhuang Yan tried to encourage him by promising a weapon and training to counter Chu Xisheng.
• Zhuang Yan noticed Xi Bitian, a Jingxi Chu Family general ranked twenty-seventh on the Earthly Ranking, among the crowd.

Xi Bitian and Luo Yang reunited in Youzhou after Luo Yang advanced to third rank, while Chu Xisheng’s officials arrested corrupt authorities across the northeastern provinces. As Chu prepared to leave on a journey to address mounting problems, he noticed a saber in Ji Qianqian’s hand.

• Xi Bitian reunited with Luo Yang, learned that their brothers had advanced with their patron’s support, and questioned the patron’s motives.
• Xi Bitian and Luo Yang watched Du Honglian arrest Zuo Du under Chu Xisheng’s authority, and Xi grew more curious about the Limitless Saber Lord.
• Ji Qianqian reported that Chu Xisheng’s office had apprehended thirty-nine of forty-three targets, and Chu ordered the prisoners and evidence sent to the Capital City for trial.
• Chu Xisheng explained that he was clearing officials who violated the law to stabilize the northeastern provinces, then prepared to leave for several months.
• Chu Xisheng noticed a saber in Ji Qianqian’s hand as he rose to depart.

Chu Xisheng received the Mirror Flower, Water Moon saber from Wen Zhuyi, collected a new weapon forged by Li Tiangong, and set out south with Mad Sword Feng San. After reaching Yan'an Commandery, he met Luo Yang and Xi Bitian, whose challenge prompted Feng San to clash with Xi Bitian.

• Ji Qianqian delivered the Mirror Flower, Water Moon saber to Chu Xisheng, who accepted Wen Zhuyi's gift and sent her a brief message of thanks.
• Chu Yunyun warned Chu Xisheng to retreat if his southern journey became too dangerous, while Mad Sword Feng San thanked him for receiving the Heaven-Pacifying Sword inheritance.
• Li Tiangong presented Chu Xisheng with the Asura Demon-Slaying Saber and weapons for the Iron Banner Gang, and Chu Xisheng assigned him to study under Yu Yunxiang.
• Chu Xisheng and Mad Sword Feng San left Formless Divine Mountain aboard the Sun-Bathing Divine Vessel and escaped the divine senses tracking them.
• At Yan'an Commandery, Chu Xisheng concealed their auras and met Iron-Faced Judge Luo Yang and Divine Fist Judge Xi Bitian at a Mountain God Temple.
• Mad Sword Feng San confronted Xi Bitian, and their clash destroyed the temple as Feng San's sword intent overwhelmed Xi Bitian's fist intent.

Chu Xisheng revealed his identity as the supposedly dead Chu Zheng to Luo Yang and Xi Bitian, who renewed their loyalty to him. When hostile pursuers arrived, the retainers attacked, while an unseen enemy approached Chu Xisheng from underground.

• Feng San defeated Xi Bitian in a contest of movement, keeping him from using his long-range advantage.
• Chu Xisheng offered Luo Yang a post as Cloudsea Immortal Palace’s Right Executive Commissioner and promised Instructor Li Du life-extending treasures and a position.
• Chu Xisheng lifted the concealment that hid his resemblance to Chu Zheng, and Xi Bitian and Luo Yang recognized him as their young lord and knelt to him.
• Chu Xisheng began explaining how he survived being buried in the Overlord Martial King Mausoleum, but sensed hostile pursuers and concealed himself with Limitless Divine Slash.
• Luo Yang, Xi Bitian, and Feng San attacked the approaching enemies, while a hidden figure crept toward Chu Xisheng from underground.

Chu Xisheng and his companions ambushed and defeated the assassins sent against him, killing Shi Chongwei and most of the attackers. Great General Qin Sheng arrived with the Myriad Gods Tribulation, but Feng San survived his attack and captured a witness, leaving Qin Sheng’s operation exposed.

• At a pavilion in Youzhou, Chu Ming and Qin Xiyan discussed the approaching attack on Chu Xisheng and suspected Qin Sheng was behind it.
• Shi Chongwei attacked Chu Xisheng from underground, but Chu Xisheng, Xi Bitian, Bai Xiao Zhao, and Feng San coordinated to kill him in a single exchange.
• Xi Bitian and Feng San pursued the remaining attackers while Luo Yang used the Two Books of Precepts and Laws to kill a Third-Rank opponent and several Fourth-Rank fighters.
• Qin Sheng flew to the battlefield and unleashed the Myriad Gods Tribulation against Feng San, who broke through the attack and emerged unharmed with a surviving Third-Rank martial cultivator in his grasp.

Chu Xisheng protected Luo Yang and Xi Bitian from Qin Sheng, then left Yan'an Commandery with Feng San after arranging for Qin Xiyan to take a captured assassin to the Formless Divine Sect. On the voyage, Chu Xisheng reinforced Feng San’s fabricated memories and reached a site identified by the Blood-Yazi Divine Lord, while Luo Yang and Xi Bitian set out on separate missions.

• Chu Xisheng blocked Qin Sheng from seizing Feng San and deflected his attack when he tried to take the captured witness.
• Qin Sheng attacked Luo Yang, but the Wooden Sword Immortal’s sword light scattered his assault and forced him back.
• Qin Xiyan arrived, accepted the captured assassin from Feng San, and promised to take him to Formless Divine Mountain for trial.
• Chu Xisheng provoked Qin Sheng by declaring that he would master the Divine-Intent Death-Touching Saber and leave the Formless Divine Sect able to resist the giant spirits without him.
• Aboard the Sun-Bathing Divine Vessel, Chu Xisheng used a secret phrase, supernatural power cards, jade talismans, and spell arts to reinforce Feng San’s fabricated memories and loyalty.
• Chu Xisheng and Feng San reached the location described by the Blood-Yazi Divine Lord, while Luo Yang headed to Cloudsea Immortal Palace and Xi Bitian departed to carry out another mission for Chu Xisheng.

Chu Xisheng and Mad Sword Feng San found the ancient underwater battlefield Blood-Yazi Saber Lord had once visited, hidden beyond the digestive passage of a sleeping Seat Kun. Chu Xisheng absorbed the Near-Divine Yazi’s origin blood and baleful force, then received two Yazi heavenly orders and began awakening a Yazi eye ability as the corpse collapsed around him.

• Chu Xisheng and Mad Sword Feng San followed an underwater suction current into a cavern and discovered a sleeping Seat Kun.
• Chu Xisheng and Feng San bypassed the Seat Kun, endured its foul passage, and reached a vast cavern containing an ancient battlefield of Golden Crow and Giant God remains.
• Chu Xisheng found the Near-Divine Yazi corpse and absorbed its origin blood, while Little Flathead received the larger share and Feng San examined the Yazi’s remains and nearby weapons.
• The Yazi’s origin blood began strengthening Chu Xisheng’s bloodline, and he merged its Geng Metal baleful force into two of his own baleful powers.
• The Yazi opened its eyes and sent two golden rays into Chu Xisheng’s Divine-Intent Saber Hearts, giving him two Yazi heavenly orders and awakening an eye-related divine ability.
• The Yazi’s skeleton and scales collapsed as its Sun divine flame erupted throughout the cavern.