Chapter Summaries

A storm from the sky scattered the desert and revealed a starry sky whose mysterious sword formation fascinated the cultivators, while countless Yin Spirit-level Sky Demon corpses fell toward them. Luo Zizhan and the others escaped the crushing rain of corpses, but Yan Yutong barely survived when seven-colored blood destroyed her Spirit Artifact.

• Tao Bantang offered Luo Zizhan a piece of Seven Golden Jade Owl flesh, but a hurricane swept across the Vast Sea Desert and exposed a starry sky above the nine layers of Qi.
• Li Tao identified falling Yin Spirit-level Sky Demon corpses, while Luo Zizhan recognized the stellar trajectories as an extraordinary sword art or formation and the cultivators watched in fascination.
• The stars vanished as three enormous Sky Demons and their horde appeared, then a four-colored sword light restored the starry sky and a vast Starlight pillar rose into the void.
• Hundreds of thousands of Sky Demon corpses and a flood of blood began falling, so Luo Zizhan used white sword light to carry the Qi Induction disciples out of the danger zone.
• Seven-colored blood dimmed Yan Yutong’s Dazzling Light Daoist Robe, forcing her to use a life-preserving secret art and discard it before the blood dissolved it into poisonous pus.

Yan Yutong, Tao Bantang, and the other survivors escaped the aftermath of a True Person’s battle with a heavenly demon, then returned to Yunliu City with a lasting glimpse of the immortal’s sword art. Decades later, they turned what they remembered into sword arts that became secret inheritances of their sects.

• Yan Yutong reassured her disciples after narrowly escaping the falling flesh and corpses, while Tao Bantang discovered a deadly-looking scar from a bone spike across his back.
• Luo Zizhan accepted Seven Golden Jade Owl flesh from Yan Yutong and Tao Bantang as thanks for rescuing their disciples, and said a Primordial Spirit True Person had likely slain the heavenly demon.
• Yan Yutong and Tao Bantang saw the immense hole left by the battle and agreed that watching True Persons fight was too dangerous, even from thousands of li away.
• Yan Yutong and Tao Bantang gathered bone spikes, returned to Yunliu City with their disciples, and separately absorbed the other two sects.
• Decades later, Yan Yutong and Tao Bantang developed sword arts from the star paths they had witnessed and kept them as secret teachings for their sects.

Shi Xuan completed ten years guarding the void passage, killing powerful Sky Demons and sharing sword insights with Luo Zizhan. After returning to Penglai Sect, he recounted his battles to Lin Luo and Ming Qingyue, then resumed work on formations and restrictions.

• Shi Xuan collected the valuable Sky Demon remains and continued cultivating while guarding against the He-Transformation-Self-Free Sky Demon.
• Luo Zizhan sought Shi Xuan’s guidance after witnessing his sword art, and Shi Xuan answered his questions without discussing the art itself.
• Over the following nine years, Shi Xuan faced few Sky Demons and killed a Primordial Spirit stage Myriad Filth Demon Eye in the final year.
• Mu Weijun arrived at the transportation formation, received Shi Xuan’s record of encountered Sky Demons, and was astonished by the powerful foes Shi Xuan had slain.
• Shi Xuan returned to Penglai Sect and told Lin Luo and Ming Qingyue about his ten years of guarding the void passage.
• Ming Qingyue considered studying the Circumstellar Star Dou Sword Art, and Lin Luo and Shi Xuan resumed deducing formations and restrictions.

Shi Xuan completed Penglai Sect’s formation restrictions and learned more about the Cultivation World’s history before discovering that Mo Yuan had achieved Primordial Spirit. Over the following decades, the sects continued refining the Earth Membrane, and the Eastern Azure Heavenly Pillar was completed.

• Shi Xuan finished deducing the formation restrictions and delivered them to True Person Jiang for review.
• True Person Jiang explained the earlier age of Celestial Immortals and the calamities that caused the Cultivation World’s decline.
• Ling Xing told Shi Xuan that Zhang Zhengyan had begun closed-door cultivation to attempt the external Primordial Spirit.
• Shi Xuan discovered that Mo Yuan had achieved Primordial Spirit and congratulated his master.
• Over the next hundred and sixty years, Lin Luo and True Person Jiang took turns defending the Western Wilderness as other sects focused on refining the Earth Membrane.
• The Earth Membrane’s refinement proceeded smoothly, and the Eastern Azure Heavenly Pillar was completed.

Shi Xuan and four Penglai Sect True Persons began establishing the Eastern Azure Heavenly Pole at Sky-Supporting Divine Mountain, triggering tremors across the Great Thousand World and revealing the Earth Membrane over the sky. As powerful Sky Demons converged on them, other cultivators and True Persons across the world noticed the strange changes and tried to determine their cause.

• True Person Jiang explained True Lord Xu's warning and assigned himself to hold off Sky Demons while Shi Xuan, Lin Luo, Mo Yuan, and Zhang Zhengyan established the Eastern Azure Heavenly Pole.
• Shi Xuan and the others reached Sky-Supporting Divine Mountain and worked together to drive the Azure pillar into its summit.
• The Great Thousand World shook four times, and the Eastern Region Earth Membrane arrived as the group continued linking it to the Eastern Azure Heavenly Pole.
• Cultivators across the world saw pale yellow gauze covering the sky, while Primordial Spirit True Persons wondered what had caused the tremors.
• Seven or eight Two Tribulation Yang Spirit-level Sky Demons and many others closed in on Sky-Supporting Divine Mountain as similar threats approached the other Heavenly Pole sites.

True Person Jiang and the other cultivators struggled to hold back the Heavenly Demon armies while linking the Earth Membranes to the four Heavenly Poles. After the Eastern Azure Heavenly Pole was linked, Shi Xuan and Lin Luo sensed the battles elsewhere and Shi Xuan took over part of Lin Luo’s task so she could reinforce True Person Jiang.

• True Person Jiang unleashed the Heavenly God Thunder Mirror’s Chaos Divine Thunder and sent his Ancient Thunder God into the Heavenly Demon ranks, but powerful demons gradually pressed back his defenses.
• Shi Xuan, Lin Luo, Mo Yuan, and Zhang Zhengyan completed the Earth Membrane’s connection to the Eastern Azure Heavenly Pole and continued suppressing it.
• Shi Xuan sensed Yama Heavenly Son battling the northern demons while the Nether Emperor slowly linked the Northern Dark Heavenly Pole to the Earth Membrane.
• Shi Xuan sensed Old Ancestor Blood River holding off the southern demons with the Maha Blood River as Deng Guang worked to link the Southern Red Heavenly Pole.
• Shu Xiaotian wielded Qiao Mubai’s Great Freedom Flying Sword against the western demons while Ge Huangting worked on the Western Plain Heavenly Pole.
• Shi Xuan took over some of Lin Luo’s talisman work, and Lin Luo sacrificed the Heavenly Spirit Sword to aid True Person Jiang.

The sects fought off waves of Sky Demons while completing the Earth Membrane formation, and Meng Nishang carried the central seal toward the Great Thousand World Origin. As a Three Tribulation Sky Demon reached the Penglai Sect, Shi Xuan left the Eastern Azure Heavenly Pillar to Mo Yuan and advanced to confront the attackers.

• Lin Luo and True Person Jiang killed the Myriad Filth Demon Eye, the Unicorn Demon Dragon, and the remaining second-tribulation Sky Demons attacking the Penglai Sect.
• Meng Nishang froze and destroyed the Three-legged Azure Ox with Guanghan Bright Moon while Wu Yue'e linked the central formation core to the Earth Membrane.
• Yama Heavenly Son, Old Ancestor Blood River, and Immortal Fairy Linbo used their secret arts and treasures to eliminate the second-tribulation Sky Demons at their locations.
• True Person Jiang and Lin Luo defeated the Sky Demons who had used the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Great Law as the four Heavenly Poles entered the Origin.
• Meng Nishang blocked the gathered Sky Demons with the Guanghan Palace and descended toward the Great Thousand World Origin carrying the formation seal.
• As the Destruction Thunder Beast approached the Penglai Sect, Mo Yuan took over holding the Eastern Azure Heavenly Pillar and Shi Xuan advanced with the Jade Shattering Art.

Shi Xuan and the other True Persons fought off the Sky Demons while Meng Nishang completed the formation and brought them into a mysterious space. The golden veil then vanished from the Great Thousand World, leaving its people exposed to descending Sky Demons as more than ten powerful figures raised the veil again.

• Shi Xuan used the Six Paths of Reincarnation to gravely injure and destroy a Two Tribulation Destruction Thunder Beast, while Lin Luo and True Person Jiang held off other Sky Demons.
• True Person Jiang trapped the Three Tribulation Destruction Thunder Beast in the Five Elements Dirt Cleansing Bell, and Guiyuanzi helped Lin Luo defeat the Two Tribulation Sky Demons threatening her.
• Yama Heavenly Son, Old Ancestor Blood River, Mu Weijun, and Immortal Fairy Linbo Shu Xiaotian resisted Sky Demons in their respective directions.
• Meng Nishang connected the formation to the origin, and the cultivators near the Earth Membrane vanished into a mysterious space as she told them to lift the veil and fly out.
• The golden veil disappeared from the sky above Tidal Market, and Sky Demons descended on the terrified cultivators.
• A faint golden veil rose beneath the people, and they glimpsed more than ten immortal figures lifting it amid Xuanhuang light and immortal music.

The reforged Earth Membrane carried the invading Heavenly Demons away from the Great Yuyu World, then filled the sky with golden clouds and immortal music. The True Persons received Xuanhuang Merit Qi, while Shi Xuan prepared to return to seclusion before traveling to the Yuanmang Great World to face his approaching first Heavenly Tribulation.

• The Earth Membrane rose into the sky, resisted the Heavenly Demons' attacks, and carried them away before dissolving into golden rosy clouds and immortal music.
• Tidal Market cultivators including Shen Qi and Lu Fang speculated that the canopy was the repaired Earth Membrane and that the figures who raised it were Primordial Spirit True Persons.
• The Earth Membrane stabilized around the Great Thousand World, and Meng Nishang gathered the True Persons in the central region to prevent them from attacking one another.
• The True Persons received Xuanhuang Merit Qi according to their contributions, with Meng Nishang receiving the most and Shi Xuan receiving a substantial share.
• Shi Xuan stored his Merit Qi, took Divine Rain to prepare for the Jade Shattering Art's aftereffects, and resolved to return to seclusion before going to the Yuanmang Great World to prepare for his first Heavenly Tribulation.

As celestial demons surged toward the Great Yuyu World, Granny Yu destroyed a Creation-level demon before it could reach the battlefield. Old Ancestor Blood River revealed that he had ensnared True Person Liuyun, while Shi Xuan completed his preparations to face the Heavenly Tribulation and left with Granny Yu guarding him.

• The Great Yuyu World's tremors roused countless celestial demons, and a giant human-faced, ape-bodied demon set out toward the battlefield.
• Granny Yu erased the Creation-level demon with her purple thunder light before it could descend upon the Great Yuyu World.
• True Person Liuyun tried to delay his oath to help Old Ancestor Blood River, but Blood River revealed that his secret art had ensnared Liuyun in the Blood Dao.
• Shi Xuan visualized a Void Cavern in his Primordial Spirit after ten years of preparation for his Heavenly Tribulation.
• Shi Xuan told Mo Yuan he would leave the Great Thousand Worlds for several centuries after the tribulation and had asked Granny Yu to guard him.

Shi Xuan left Penglai Sect to cross his tribulation in the Yuanmang Great World, where Granny Yu brought him to Qing Lang and Xiong Pi. When Xiong Pi challenged Shi Xuan to demonstrate his power, Shi Xuan opened a Lesser Thousand World and trapped him inside as it collapsed.

• Shi Xuan told Mo Yuan he planned to travel through other Great Thousand Worlds after overcoming his tribulation, and exchanged a secret treasure-refining technique to help restore the Heavenly God Thunder Mirror's Artifact Spirit.
• Shi Xuan went with Granny Yu to the Yuanmang Great World, where she followed one of his karmic threads and brought them near Qing Lang and Xiong Pi.
• Xiong Pi mocked Qing Lang for believing Shi Xuan was a Heavenly Immortal True Monarch, then challenged Shi Xuan to show him a Lesser Thousand World.
• Shi Xuan created a Lesser Thousand World from thunder and warned Xiong Pi that seeing it would cost him his life.
• The Lesser Thousand World engulfed Xiong Pi and collapsed around him while Qing Lang watched in shock.

Shi Xuan witnessed Granny Yu erase Xiong Pi with a Lesser Thousand World, then traveled with her to the Arctic ice fields to undergo his Heavenly Tribulation. He overcame the first three bolts of the Nine Layers Heavenly Thunder Tribulation and absorbed their lightning, but a stronger bolt descended as the trial continued.

• Granny Yu erased Xiong Pi with a Lesser Thousand World, and Qing Lang knelt to beg Shi Xuan for forgiveness.
• Shi Xuan sentenced Qing Lang to face the wall for a hundred years, then discussed his cultivation and Dharma Treasures with Granny Yu.
• Shi Xuan chose the remote Arctic ice fields in Beining Province as the place to undergo his Heavenly Tribulation.
• Shi Xuan put away the Plain Colored Cloud Light Robe and provoked the tribulation, meeting its first bolt with Divine Firmament Purple Thunder.
• Shi Xuan absorbed and comprehended the first three bolts of heavenly lightning, recovering some Primordial Spirit power during the pause.
• A heavenly bolt more powerful than the first three struck down from the leaden clouds.

Shi Xuan endured the later bolts of his first Heavenly Tribulation, perfected the refinement of the black and white Qi, and triggered a second tribulation to preserve his chance of cultivating the Yin-Yang Mixed Cavern Divine Light. Yue Qian arrived hoping to ambush the weakened cultivator, but the renewed tribulation trapped him and began his own Heavenly Tribulation.

• Shi Xuan used his Natal Dharma Treasures and immortal techniques to withstand the fourth through eighth bolts, absorbing and comprehending the scattered lightning.
• Shi Xuan blocked the powerful ninth bolt with Divine Firmament True Thunder, absorbed its lightning and Yang Qi, and perfected the refinement of the black and white Qi.
• Shi Xuan triggered the second Heavenly Tribulation before the clouds dispersed, hoping to maintain the conditions needed to cultivate the Yin-Yang Mixed Cavern Divine Light.
• Yue Qian flew toward the Arctic Icefield, intending to kill the cultivator after the tribulation and plunder his possessions.
• Yue Qian rushed in when the clouds began to disperse, but they rolled back in and his own Heavenly Tribulation began; Granny Yu watched from a nearby snow hill and laughed.

Shi Xuan faced the fourth through sixth attacks of the Heavenly Thunder Earth Fire Tribulation, using the Six Paths of Reincarnation and his sword formations to withstand them while seeking to cultivate the Yin-Yang Mixed Cavern Divine Light. As the seventh tribulation began, he still could not merge the black and white Qi because an elusive obstruction remained.

• Shi Xuan used the Heavenly Human Path and the Evil Ghost Path to overcome the first three waves of heavenly thunder and earth fire, absorbing their power and studying their yin-yang transformations.
• Shi Xuan realized that the later tribulations would leave him dangerously low on Primordial Spirit power unless he seized the chance to condense the black and white Qi into one.
• Shi Xuan resisted the fourth and fifth tribulations with Heavenly Being's Single Finger, Dongxi's Procession, Moonlight Jade Rabbit, and the Minor Heavenly Star Dou Great Formation, but made only slight progress toward merging the Qi.
• Shi Xuan endured the sixth tribulation and replenished his Primordial Spirit by breaking down the thunder and yin fire, yet an unexplained obstruction kept the black and white Qi apart.
• A cyan bolt of heavenly thunder descended as the seventh tribulation began while Shi Xuan continued searching for the cause of the obstruction.

Shi Xuan endured the seventh Heavenly Tribulation while his exhausted Primordial Spirit unexpectedly evolved yin and yang, allowing him to condense the Yin-Yang Mixed Cavern Divine Light. He used the Void Cavern to devour the eighth tribulation and survived, injured but newly transformed, before Granny Yu congratulated him.

• Shi Xuan trapped the seventh tribulation’s Immortal Mansion Azure Thunder and Earth Sha Yin Fire in two Minor Heavenly Star Dou Great Formations, gradually weakening them.
• As his Primordial Spirit exhausted its power, Shi Xuan fused black and white Qi with the yin and yang evolving within his chaotic Primordial Spirit and formed a Void Cavern.
• The remaining lightning and flames entered Shi Xuan’s body, and the eighth Heavenly Tribulation descended.
• Shi Xuan transformed into a Void Cavern that swallowed the eighth tribulation’s clouds, thunder, volcano, and flames, ending the Heavenly Thunder Earth Fire Tribulation.
• Shi Xuan recovered with Sweet Dew, gained Pure Yang and new abilities after the tribulation, and descended to Granny Yu, who congratulated him.

After Shi Xuan survived his second Heavenly Tribulation, he received Yue Qian’s Pure Yang Magic Treasure and realized Heavenly Killing Intent had strengthened the final strikes. He began testing his Dharma Treasures’ tribulations, as the Purple Sheath Sword easily passed its first and started a second.

• Shi Xuan recovered enough to fight and learned that Yue Qian had died trying to ambush him, leaving behind the Nine-Nine Heavenly Thunder Gourd.
• Granny Yu left, and Shi Xuan deduced that Heavenly Killing Intent had made the final strikes of his tribulations unusually powerful.
• Shi Xuan cleared Yue Qian’s volcanoes and tested the Plain Colored Cloud Light Robe, which failed to survive its ninth thunderbolt.
• The Purple Sheath Sword split the thunderbolts and leaden clouds, easily passing its first Heavenly Tribulation.
• The Purple Sheath Sword triggered a second Heavenly Tribulation and cut through both silver thunder and molten Earth Fire.

Shi Xuan’s Purple Sheath Sword endured its second Heavenly Tribulation and returned to his hand, while the Heaven and Earth Mountain River Diagram also passed its tribulation. Shi Xuan extracted Innate Pure Qi from the diagram’s newly formed inner space, and the chapter ended with that space continuing to expand.

• The Purple Sheath Sword conserved its strength against the fourth through sixth tribulations by relying on its sword body, then fought the last three with its Treasure Restrictions.
• The Purple Sheath Sword survived the final tribulation, vented its fury on the remaining clouds and volcano, and flew back into Shi Xuan’s palm.
• Shi Xuan nourished the damaged Purple Sheath Sword in his dantian and chose to postpone the Earth Sha Yin Fire Banner’s tribulation.
• The Heaven and Earth Mountain River Diagram passed its ninth tribulation, with its final Treasure Restriction stopping the lightning before it struck the true body.
• Shi Xuan sensed a new inner space forming in the diagram and extracted the Innate Pure Qi that appeared within it.

Shi Xuan refined Moyun Ridge’s protective immortal formation and took its talisman, then set out to find his parents. He found Gu Canghai and Wei Peining locked in battle with Guan Kong and other Martial Aspect Sages.

• Shi Xuan used Innate Pure Qi to plan a pseudo-leapfrog refinement of the Two Forms Dust immortal art, then flew to Moyun Ridge.
• Shi Xuan spent eighty-one days using a starry formation to break through the Nine Heavens Ten Earths Wuji Ascending Profound Formation and took the Nine Qi Wuji Immortal Talisman.
• Guo Yuquan watched the formation fall and decided to summon Xiao Chuhe, suspecting a two-tribulation cultivator had attacked Moyun Ridge.
• Shi Xuan calculated where his parents, Gu Canghai and Wei Peining, were and flew to find them.
• Gu Canghai and Wei Peining fought Guan Kong and two other Martial Aspect Sages while their disciples struggled against martial artists on the ground.

Shi Xuan reunited with Gu Canghai and Wei Peining, helped them avenge the Dao Hua Sect, and revealed that he had passed the Heavenly Tribulation. He set out with them and their disciples to gather the Daoist Sect’s fortune, beginning with King Zhennan’s Mansion.

• Guan Kong taunted Gu Canghai and Wei Peining about the Dao Hua Sect’s destruction, but Shi Xuan arrived and immobilized the Azure Bird Martial Saint and Black Dragon Martial Saint.
• Gu Canghai and Wei Peining joined forces to kill Guan Kong, and Shi Xuan turned the other two Martial Saints to ash.
• Gu Canghai and Wei Peining killed the enemy cultivators below, freed their disciples, and paid respects to their slain family, masters, and fellow disciples.
• Wei Peining introduced Shi Xuan to their five disciples, and Shi Xuan agreed to travel with them to revitalize the Daoist Sect.
• Shi Xuan explained that the journey would gather the Daoist Sect’s fortune and said they would kill only those who blocked their way; Gu Canghai, Wei Peining, and their disciples agreed to join him.
• Wei Peining brought out a Bright Yellow Agarwood Carriage, and the group set off toward King Zhennan’s Mansion in Tiannan Province.

Shi Xuan sent the Bright Yellow Agarwood Carriage through Tiannan Province, where Wei Peining and another sword wielder killed the martial path’s challengers with single strikes. After the carriage’s mysterious occupant slew two Human Immortals, King Zhennan Zhuo Yiping recognized the Four-Colored Sword Light and prepared to face him.

• Martial path cultivators gathered to watch the Bright Yellow Agarwood Carriage, confident that their experts would defeat its occupants.
• Wei Peining used the Four Symbols World Destroying Sword to kill Martial Saint Changhe and dozens of Refining Aperture Grandmasters in one strike.
• Gao Hefeng and Ren Feizhou arrived to confront the carriage, but a purple sword light killed both of them instantly.
• The surviving martial path cultivators lost confidence and looked to King Zhennan Zhuo Yiping as their remaining hope.
• Martial Saints reported the deaths to Zhuo Yiping, who recognized the Four-Colored Sword Light and refused to retreat, citing the Dragon Vein’s providence and Heaven’s Mandate.