Chapter Summaries

Liu Xi chose a Nine Revolutions Jade Elixir Divine Pill and achieved a mid-grade Golden Core, only to learn that Ming Qingyue had fulfilled her long pursuit of a high-grade Golden Core. Elsewhere, Baiwuzi attacked a Divine Path Cultivator who had gathered faith within the Gu God Sect’s territory.

• Liu Xi told Shi Xuan he had decided to give up pursuing a high-grade Golden Core and exchange for the Nine Revolutions Jade Elixir Divine Pill.
• Shi Xuan accepted Liu Xi’s decision and directed him to exchange for the pill at the Great Sun Illuminates Tower.
• Liu Xi consumed the Divine Pill, entered seclusion, and emerged with a mid-grade Golden Core.
• Ming Qingyue returned, and Shi Xuan congratulated her on achieving a high-grade Golden Core, leaving Liu Xi questioning whether he had given up too soon.
• Baiwuzi complained that a Yin Spirit-level Divine Path Cultivator had preached in a tribe under the Gu God Sect’s protection and gathered faith.

Baiwuzi’s Winged Myriad-Foot Centipede returned to the Gu God Sect while Baiwuzi continued delaying his Heavenly Tribulation. In the Central Plains, traitors killed Xu Chengzhou and the Great An Dynasty’s capital fell, leaving Xu Chenggao to seek help from the Guizhen Sect’s Patriarchs.

• Baiwuzi’s Winged Myriad-Foot Centipede reflected on Divine Path Cultivators and the risks of Heavenly Tribulation before returning to the Gu God Sect’s formation.
• Xu Chengzhou learned that the Cave Abyss Sect’s army was approaching the Divine Capital and prepared to defend it.
• Senior Brother Li persuaded Guizhen Sect disciples and servants to betray Xu Chengzhou and surrender to the Cave Abyss Sect.
• The traitors attacked Xu Chengzhou as he prepared the ritual altar, and his talismans killed him and those around him.
• Xu Chenggao learned that the Divine Capital had fallen, the Imperial Preceptor had died, and his ministers and generals planned to surrender.
• Xu Chenggao left for the Guizhen Temple Ancestor Hall to beg the Patriarchs to manifest and suppress the Cave Abyss Sect.

As the Cave Abyss Sect’s army approached, Xu Chenggao and a handful of Guizhen Sect disciples prayed desperately for Ancestor Shi to save them. At the End of the World Pavilion, Shi Xuan completed the merging of his two bodies and sensed their devout prayers.

• Xu Chenggao, Empress Ruan, and Wei Jing entered the deserted Guizhen Temple and met Zhou Wei, Wan Xue, and Xu Hongda, who had stayed rather than abandon the sect.
• Xu Chenggao told the cultivators that the ministers and generals planned to surrender when the Cave Abyss Sect arrived at dawn, and he went to pray for the Patriarchs’ intervention.
• Xu Chenggao repeatedly kowtowed before the Ancestor statues until his forehead bled, while Empress Ruan, Wei Jing, Zhou Wei, Wan Xue, and Xu Hongda joined his prayer to Ancestor Shi.
• Shi Xuan completed the fusion of his two physical bodies, leaving him with a body powerful enough to withstand first-tier Daoist Magic.
• Shi Xuan sensed the group’s sustained, devout prayers through his heart-sense.

Shi Xuan answered the Guizhen Sect’s prayers by manifesting in Huilong Temple, healing the supplicants, and ordering reforms to the sect. He gave Zhou Wei, Wan Xue, and Xu Hongda a revised scripture, then left Xu Chenggao a talisman to oppose Cave Abyss Sect cultivators in Luojing City.

• Shi Xuan traced a prayer from the Central Lands to the Guizhen Sect and learned that the Cave Abyss Sect was threatening the Great An Dynasty.
• Shi Xuan manifested through the statue in Huilong Temple, healing Empress Ruan and the others before asking whether the dynasty and sect had mistreated the people or become corrupt.
• Zhou Wei revealed that the Xu clan had monopolized the Guizhen Sect, and Shi Xuan appointed him Sect Master and ordered him to rebuild it with help from Wan Xue and Xu Hongda.
• Shi Xuan transmitted his revised explanation of the Returning to Truth Scripture to the three disciples and offered the Great An Dynasty limited help against the Cave Abyss Sect.
• Shi Xuan gave Xu Chenggao a talisman and instructed him to post it before the hall; Xu Chenggao placed it outside the Ancestor Hall.

Xu Chenggao and the others watched the Cave Abyss Sect’s army enter Luojing, confident that Ancestor Shi’s talisman would protect the city. Divine Envoy Shao and the invading cultivators died silently at the city gate, leaving the surrounding officials and soldiers terrified and unable to understand what had happened.

• Xu Chenggao pasted Ancestor Shi’s black talisman beneath the Ancestor Hall plaque, and the witnesses recalled feeling a brief, strange palpitation.
• Xu Chenggao, Zhou Wei, and the others climbed Guizhen Temple’s tower to watch the Cave Abyss Sect approach Luojing.
• Divine Envoy Shao ordered the divine soldiers, protectors, and elite troops into the city, dismissing the possibility of an ambush.
• Divine Envoy Shao and the other cultivators collapsed and died without warning after entering Luojing, while one divine soldier’s escape attempt ended in his death.
• The officials and guards watched the bodies fall in silence and grew terrified because they could not tell what had killed them.

Cave Abyss Sect’s Divine Soldiers and Protectors died mysteriously in Luojing City, triggering a bloody panic among the troops and the collapse of their invading army. Shi Xuan recognized the golden-lotus Divine Soldier as a likely incarnation of Cave Abyss Divine Venerable and decided to pursue him personally.

• The guards and personal soldiers fled Luojing City, and a desperate crush at the gates turned into a slaughter that left nearly a thousand dead.
• Ministers and generals recovered from their shock and rushed toward the palace, while Cave Abyss Sect’s fleeing soldiers told their commander that the Divine Soldiers were dead.
• Song Bingyi confirmed that the Divine Soldiers had died without visible wounds, and Cave Abyss Sect’s army broke apart and fled.
• Xu Chenggao and the others on the Eighteen-Storey Pagoda watched the Divine Soldiers die and arranged for the golden-lotus soldier’s corpse and belongings to be sent to the Ancestor Hall.
• Shi Xuan recognized the golden-lotus soldier as a likely Soul Departure incarnation of Cave Abyss Divine Venerable and decided to track him down himself.

Shi Xuan tracked the Cave Abyss Divine Venerable after discovering the source of his incarnation in the Ancestor Hall. He reached the Divine Venerable’s hidden mountain valley just as Hui Ye prepared to flee.

• Shi Xuan entered the Ancestor Hall, paid respects to Old Daoist Xu, and retrieved the Incarnation Bead from the Cave Abyss Divine Venerable’s incarnation.
• Shi Xuan used the Innate Eight Trigrams to locate the bead’s origin south of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, then spoke with Madam Fang, who learned he had achieved Primordial Spirit.
• Zhou Wei, Wan Xue, and Xu Hongda found three unexplained incense sticks in the Ancestor Hall and realized an unseen expert had entered.
• Shi Xuan used the Incarnation Bead and Innate Eight Trigrams to track the Cave Abyss Divine Venerable through the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.
• Hui Ye sensed his incarnation’s destruction and prepared to move to a new hiding place, but Shi Xuan arrived in his valley.

Cave Abyss Divine Venerable Hui Ye reported his failed attempt to spread faith in the Central Lands to Old Ancestor Blood River, who ordered him to perfect his prayer-power umbrella. Shi Xuan found them in a valley and attacked, but Old Ancestor Blood River gathered blood from his many incarnations and completed a powerful technique, trapping Shi Xuan inside a pulsing sphere of blood and thunder.

• Hui Ye told the young-looking Old Ancestor Blood River that his incarnation and divine soldiers had perished in Luojing City, likely through the intervention of Guizhen Sect's patriarch.
• Old Ancestor Blood River refused to release Hui Ye until he refined the Myriad People Prayer Power Umbrella to a perfect-grade Spirit Artifact, then promised him a place to spread his faith.
• Shi Xuan followed the Innate Eight Trigrams to a valley and discovered Hui Ye and the familiar aura of Old Ancestor Blood River.
• Shi Xuan destroyed the valley's formation with Divine Firmament True Thunder, while blood light surged toward the valley from across the region.
• Old Ancestor Blood River's incarnations abandoned their bodies and flew to the valley as Shi Xuan's thunder struck the gathering lake of blood.
• Old Ancestor Blood River completed his technique, causing the blood light and Shi Xuan's purple thunder sphere to contract and pulse like a heart.

Shi Xuan fought Old Ancestor Blood River’s powerful incarnation with his full arsenal of Dharma Treasures and sword techniques, repeatedly breaking apart its Blood Shadow. The battle left Old Ancestor Blood River badly weakened but still present as a dim Blood Shadow.

• Old Ancestor Blood River gathered distant incarnations into a powerful blood-colored incarnation, and Shi Xuan unleashed his defenses, Divine Firmament Purple Thunder, and Four-Colored Sword Light against him.
• Old Ancestor Blood River transformed into an Indestructible Blood Shadow and resisted Shi Xuan’s attacks with the Second-Tier Blood River Demonic Lotus.
• Shi Xuan’s Circumstellar Star Dou Sword Art overwhelmed the Blood Lotus and struck the Blood Shadow, which vanished into a black void before reappearing behind him.
• Old Ancestor Blood River pierced the Other Shore Golden Bridge’s defenses, but Shi Xuan used the bridge’s momentary time-stopping power to counterattack with Nine Golden Flowers, purple qi, lightning spheres, and his flying sword.
• Old Ancestor Blood River unleashed the Maha Blood River against Shi Xuan’s combined assault, then re-formed as a dim, weakened Blood Shadow after the river disappeared.

Shi Xuan broke Old Ancestor Blood River’s Maha Blood River with a combined sword formation and Six Paths of Reincarnation, then destroyed the incarnation and captured Cave Abyss Divine Venerable Hui Ye. After killing Hui Ye and learning little from his soul search, Shi Xuan severed his karmic connection to avoid a counterattack from Blood River’s true body.

• Old Ancestor Blood River burned his incarnation to trap Shi Xuan inside the Maha Blood River and kill him.
• Shi Xuan unleashed Dongxi’s Procession and Moonlight Jade Rabbit, then combined their exploding suns and moons with the Heavenly Human Path to destroy the blood sea.
• Old Ancestor Blood River tried to flee, but Shi Xuan killed his incarnation and used a Death talisman to eliminate its scattered blood lights before severing the karma leading to Blood River’s true body.
• Cave Abyss Divine Venerable Hui Ye fled the battlefield, but Shi Xuan pulled him back and searched his soul.
• Shi Xuan learned that Hui Ye knew little about Blood River’s test, then killed him with a Karma Dan Book bearing the character Death.

Shi Xuan killed Cave Abyss Divine Venerable, recovered valuable treasures, and investigated the origins of Profound Yin True Water before returning to Penglai Sect. Twenty-seven years later, he completed the Two Forms Dust immortal technique, just as a message arrived at the sect.

• Cave Abyss Divine Venerable died when the Karma Dan Book’s death character overcame his life-saving measures, and Shi Xuan collected his Divine Seal.
• Shi Xuan found Profound Yin True Water in Old Ancestor Blood River’s storage bag and obtained the Clear Heart Glazed Lamp and Myriad People Prayer Power Umbrella from Cave Abyss Divine Venerable’s belongings.
• Shi Xuan erased the traces of the battle and left, while Baiwuzi, Gu Chuo True Person, and Mu True Person investigated and speculated that Ge Huangting or Lin Luo might have fought Old Ancestor Blood River’s incarnation.
• Shi Xuan gave the Divine Seal and Myriad People Prayer Power Umbrella to Madam Fang, then spent twenty-seven years investigating Old Ancestor Blood River and cultivating his techniques.
• Shi Xuan completed the Five Elements Immortal Slaying Sword and visualized the Two Forms Dust immortal technique inscription, transforming it into a chaotic, primordial rune.
• An ice-crystal-like Message Immortal Technique arrived from the north and landed on Penglai Sect’s grand formation.

Shi Xuan joined the Myriad Immortals Great Hall after Meng Nishang summoned the Eight Great Sects to deliberate over an important matter. As more True Persons arrived, they learned of Shi Xuan’s extraordinary rise to Primordial Spirit, while the matter that prompted the meeting remained undisclosed.

• Shi Xuan received Meng Nishang’s summons and used his Myriad Immortals Token to enter the hall.
• Meng Nishang greeted Shi Xuan and introduced True Person Liuyun of the Cloud Heaven Sect, who had discovered the matter under discussion.
• Mu Weijun and Ge Huangting arrived, and Meng Nishang introduced them as True Persons of the Medicine King Sect and Luofu Sect.
• Mu Weijun recognized Shi Xuan as the person who had helped the Medicine King Sect kill Yang Fei and marveled that Shi Xuan had reached Primordial Spirit in just over two hundred years.
• Ge Huangting and True Person Liuyun praised Shi Xuan’s rapid advancement, then four more True Persons entered the hall.

True Person Liuyun reported that Shenxiao Palace’s protection had weakened around a growing breach in the Western Wilderness, allowing powerful Void Sky Demons to enter Great Yuyu World. Meng Nishang assigned Shi Xuan to investigate Shenxiao Palace’s condition, while the True Persons faced the possibility that their world’s protection might fail.

• Old Ancestor Blood River, Yama Heavenly Son, Guiyuanzi, and Han Congkuan arrived at the gathering and greeted the other True Persons.
• Meng Nishang introduced True Person Liuyun, who reported that a breach in Shenxiao Palace’s protection had expanded and allowed Void Sky Demons, including Primordial Spirit-stage demons, to enter.
• Meng Nishang confirmed the breach was real, shocking the True Persons, while Shi Xuan suspected Granny Yu was preparing the world for her future reincarnation and wondered whether Old Ancestor Blood River had known about the danger.
• Ge Huangting urged the True Persons to determine Shenxiao Palace’s condition and consider how to protect their sects if its power failed.
• Meng Nishang proposed three arrangements and asked Shi Xuan to investigate Shenxiao Palace because the Penglai Sect had close ties to it; Shi Xuan agreed.

Meng Nishang persuaded the True Persons to prepare for future heavenly demon invasions by working together to reforge the Great Yuyu World's Earth Membrane. The gathering ended with the sects agreeing to cooperate on the lengthy derivation and construction, while Shi Xuan privately considered whether Penglai Sect should take on the task.

• Meng Nishang warned the True Persons that they could not depend on Shenxiao Senior's protection forever, and Shi Xuan agreed that they needed to prepare for future heavenly demon invasions.
• Ge Huangting and Guiyuanzi explained that powerful heavenly demons would be drawn to an unprotected Great Thousand World, and the assembled True Persons accepted the danger.
• Meng Nishang proposed reforging the Earth Membrane and explained that earlier attempts had failed because their power sources did not match the Great Thousand World Origin.
• True Person Liuyun and the other True Persons recognized that the proposal was feasible and began comparing their sect archives to refine the formation restrictions.
• Meng Nishang said the restrictions would take decades to derive and the materials centuries to gather, so all the sects needed to contribute; Shi Xuan wondered whether Penglai Sect should handle the work.

The True Persons divided responsibility for reforging the Earth Membrane and swore to cooperate while guarding the Western Wilderness void. After Old Ancestor Blood River revealed that Shi Xuan had defeated his One Tribulation incarnation, Yama Heavenly Son sought to trade for Shi Xuan’s Six Paths of Reincarnation Immortal Technique, but Shi Xuan refused.

• Meng Nishang assigned the nine parts of the Earth Membrane’s reforging among the great sects, and all the True Persons swore not to attack one another or withhold aid until the work was complete.
• Meng Nishang arranged ten-year rotations guarding the Western Wilderness void, with Heavenly Fire Gate first and Penglai Sect second, and told Shi Xuan to bring Jiang Yehe and Lin Luo back to help.
• Old Ancestor Blood River revealed that Shi Xuan had killed his One Tribulation incarnation, prompting the True Persons to speculate about Shi Xuan’s power and the Purple Green Twin Swords.
• Old Ancestor Blood River praised Shi Xuan’s Six Paths of Reincarnation, drawing Yama Heavenly Son’s greedy attention and leading Shi Xuan to leave the hall.
• Yama Heavenly Son offered Shi Xuan a Pure Yang Magic Treasure, then Nine Nether Qi, in exchange for the Six Paths of Reincarnation Immortal Technique, but Shi Xuan refused to impart it.

Shi Xuan refused Yama Heavenly Son’s offer for the Treasure Record, then consulted Granny Yu about the Earth Membrane project, Heavenly Tribulations, and her planned reincarnation. Ten years later, Shi Xuan prepared to guard the Western Wilderness hollow and train against Heavenly Demons.

• Shi Xuan refused to trade the Treasure Record for Nine Nether Qi, and Yama Heavenly Son left.
• Shi Xuan told Lin Luo about reforging the Earth Membrane; she decided to return to the sect, and True Lord Xu reported that True Person Jiang could not return for thirty to fifty years.
• Shi Xuan visited Granny Yu, who said Wan'er had re-entered the Yin Spirit stage and asked Shi Xuan to safeguard her reincarnation when Wan'er reached Primordial Spirit.
• Granny Yu agreed to protect Shi Xuan during his first two Heavenly Tribulations and advised him to tell the other True Persons that she was recovering her cultivation and would later seek a Dao Seed.
• Granny Yu explained that weakened Heavenly Tribulations could hinder Dao heart cultivation and make the third tribulation harder, so Lin Luo chose to exchange her Merit Qi for substances to refine tribulation-crossing treasures.
• Ten years later, Shi Xuan chose to guard the Western Wilderness hollow for the Penglai Sect while Lin Luo handled formations, materials, and sect defense.

Shi Xuan took over guarding the hollow in the ninth Qi Layer and destroyed a vast Sky Demon invasion with his sword formation. A Primordial Spirit-stage He-Transformation-Self-Free Sky Demon named Kinnara escaped and recruited Miro King and the Seven-Colored Magic Toads to attack him.

• Shi Xuan relieved Han Congkuan of guard duty, received his Sky Demon records, and settled on the white-jade cloud to watch the hollow.
• Shi Xuan detected and destroyed a group of He-Transformation-Self-Free Sky Demons that had crept toward him.
• Shi Xuan used the Taiji Diagram, the Nine Heavens Primordial Sun Ruler, and his sword formation to reveal and annihilate the invading Sky Demons.
• Kinnara escaped through a gap in Shi Xuan's sword formation and decided to recruit allies rather than attack alone.
• Kinnara persuaded Miro King to lead more than a hundred thousand Seven-Colored Magic Toads, including two Primordial Spirit-stage members, toward another star.

A white-robed Golden Core Grandmaster sought Seven Golden Jade Owl remains in the Vast Sea Desert as Kinnara led a million Sky Demons toward the Great Thousand World. Shi Xuan met the invasion with his Starry Sword Formation, trapping the leaders and slaughtering their army while Kinnara revealed a powerful Dao-evoking transformation.

• Yan Yutong, Tao Bantang, Zou Hong, and Li Tao discussed dividing the Sky Demon remains they had found near the Vast Sea Desert.
• A white-robed Golden Core Grandmaster asked for Yin Spirit level Seven Golden Jade Owl remains, and Tao Bantang offered him a small piece.
• Kinnara arrived at the opening with Miro King, Yuan Jia, Mo Xuan, and a million Sky Demons, urging them to kill the Primordial Spirit True Person guarding it.
• Shi Xuan sent the Four Symbols World Destroying Sword into action, trapping Mo Xuan in a starry formation and attacking him with sword light and manifestations of the Four Symbols.
• The formation isolated the Sky Demon leaders and killed the army by the thousands, while Kinnara transformed into a vast chaos-colored phantom filled with Dao seed characters.

Shi Xuan struggled to keep the incomplete Minor Heavenly Star Dou Great Formation intact while battling three One Tribulation Yang Spirit Sky Demons and their allies. He finally made the sword formations coordinate under Ziwei’s command, trapping the demons again and destroying nearly a million of them with a vast pillar of starlight.

• Shi Xuan resisted Kinnara’s Three Thousand Demon Codex with the Other Shore Golden Bridge, but Kinnara escaped into the void and waited for the other demons to break the formation.
• Miro King, Yuan Jia, and Mo Xuan used their divine arts against Shi Xuan’s star formations, while Shi Xuan struggled to control the incomplete formation and hold off the demons.
• Shi Xuan repeatedly tried to coordinate Ziwei Descends to the World with the other sword formations, then realized the other formations needed to follow Ziwei’s command.
• Shi Xuan withdrew the sword light and reshaped the formation around the Ziwei Emperor Star, trapping the demons and redirecting their attacks into the void.
• Shi Xuan joined the surrounding stars into a vast Starlight pillar that annihilated nearly a million Sky Demons.

Shi Xuan’s Starlight Sword Formation overwhelmed the demon leaders, killing the Bone Thorn Demon Yuan Jia, the Seven-Colored Magic Toad Miro King, and the Unicorn Demon Dragon Mo Xuan. The formation also exposed and destroyed Kinnara, leaving the demons defeated beneath the pillar of starlight.

• The Starlight Sword Formation killed the Primordial Spirit stage Seven-Colored Magic Toads, Bone Thorn Demon, and Unicorn Demon Dragon caught in its attack.
• Yuan Jia tried to raise a defense and cast the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Great Law, but purple Starlight Sword Qi broke its shield and the formation destroyed it.
• Miro King used the Seven Demon Merging Profound Light to defend against the formation, but a Starlight Sword Qi struck its back and drained its vitality until it fell.
• Mo Xuan used Decay Black Flame, ghostly black qi, and the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Great Law, but Shi Xuan’s sword light split him in two.
• The Starlight pillar exposed Kinnara’s hidden form, and Kinnara’s transformations and Three Thousand Demon Codex failed to stop the sword formation from destroying it.