Chapter Summaries

Shi Xuan confronted King Zhennan Zhuo Yiping, whose earth-backed fist could not withstand Shi Xuan’s sword strike. After Zhuo Yiping fell, Shi Xuan’s followers gained confidence while the martial path Cultivators lost theirs, and the carriage continued toward the northern horizon.

• Zhuo Yiping recognized Shi Xuan as an old rival and set out confidently to meet him, while Shi Xuan gathered Heavenly Killing Intent after slaying two Human Immortals.
• Zhuo Yiping attacked with a fist empowered by the Black Dragon Vein and the Great Earth of Tiannan, shaking the confidence of Shi Xuan’s disciples.
• Shi Xuan’s violet sword light cut through Zhuo Yiping’s fist intent and killed him with a single strike.
• Shi Xuan collected the Heavenly Killing Intent released by the heavenly punishment, while fortune gathered for the Daoist Sect and the martial path’s fortune dissipated.
• Shi Xuan’s carriage advanced toward King Zhennan’s Mansion, and a Four-Colored Sword Light killed the Martial Saints who tried to stop it; the Grandmasters let it pass.

Xiao Chuhe returned to the Capital City and set out to confront True Person Shi, the mysterious Daoist whose sword had slain several imperial kings. As Xiao Chuhe unleashed his perfected Blue Sky Fist Intent against the bright yellow carriage, the onlookers watched in awe, and the outcome remained unknown.

• Xiao Chuhe returned to the hidden hall, and Guo Yuquan welcomed him as You Hanzhang realized who had arrived.
• Xiao Chuhe killed You Hanzhang when he tried to flee, then told Guo Yuquan to bring talented juniors along to observe the coming battle.
• News spread that the figure in the bright yellow carriage had slain King Zhennan Zhuo Yiping, King Zhengxi Gao Hefeng, and King Dingxi, alarming martial path Cultivators across the region.
• Xiao Chuhe intercepted the carriage outside the Capital City, and the crowd recognized him as the legendary pillar of the martial path.
• Xiao Chuhe sensed that True Person Shi had passed the second Heavenly Tribulation and attacked with his perfected Blue Sky Fist Intent.

Shi Xuan used his sword formations and the Heaven and Earth Mountain River Diagram’s Grotto-heaven power to defeat Xiao Chuhe, but Xiao’s secret treasure struck back and Shi Xuan secretly neutralized it. Xiao Chuhe’s death shattered the martial path’s confidence, while Shi Xuan’s companions gained faith in his strength and the Orthodox Dao Sect.

• Shi Xuan’s sword formations met Xiao Chuhe’s Blue Sky Fist Intent as the two fought to a standstill.
• Shi Xuan empowered his Starlight pillar with the Heaven and Earth Mountain River Diagram, allowing it to break Xiao Chuhe’s defenses and kill him with one sword.
• A black needle launched by Xiao Chuhe’s secret treasure appeared inside the Bright Yellow Agarwood Carriage, where Shi Xuan contained it with the Yin-Yang Mixed Cavern Divine Light.
• The martial path Cultivators lost faith in their path after witnessing Xiao Chuhe’s death, and some considered switching to Daoist cultivation.
• Gu Canghai, Wei Peining, Ji Ming, Chang Ya, and the others celebrated Shi Xuan’s victory and resolved to cultivate diligently.

Shi Xuan continued toward the Capital City after defeating Xiao Chuhe, while Guo Yuquan fled and the martial cultivators lost confidence. Xiao Jing and several hundred others chose to stand against the carriage, and Guo Yuquan joined them as the Daoist True Person arrived.

• Guo Yuquan and the martial cultivators fled from the approaching Bright Yellow Agarwood Carriage, while Shi Xuan secretly marked Guo Yuquan and let him go.
• Xiao Jing refused Guo Yuquan’s offer to flee, and several dozen cultivators joined him in vowing to defend the Capital City.
• Guo Yuquan agreed to stand with them and revealed that Xiao Chuhe had prepared a formation capable of resisting a Two-Tribulation Cultivator.
• Xiao Jing reunited with Ya’er as more cultivators gathered, and hundreds in white mourning clothes assembled at the formation’s center.
• Two days later, the Bright Yellow Agarwood Carriage reached the Capital City, where Guo Yuquan faced it above the city as Shi Xuan approached.

Shi Xuan destroyed the Capital City's defenses with a single sword strike, then reshaped the ruined imperial grounds into a verdant, spirit-filled mountain. The defeated defenders watched helplessly as he finished creating the mountain, while cries of despair echoed from the city ruins.

• Shi Xuan unleashed his Purple Flying Sword, and Guo Yuquan and the Capital City's cultivators fought to stop it with their formation, martial arts, and treasures.
• Shi Xuan's sword shattered the golden Buddha-light formation and the Divine Vajra Scepter, killed Guo Yuquan, and split the Capital City with a vast sword scar.
• The Bright Yellow Agarwood Carriage advanced through the ruins as the surviving defenders lay injured and watched in grief and anger.
• Shi Xuan stepped out before the ruined imperial palace and raised the earth into a towering mountain, then transformed much of its soil into black rock.
• Shi Xuan drew plants and animals from the surrounding lands, nourished the mountain with Divine Rain, and joined it to a subterranean dragon vein.
• The mountain became lush and filled with spiritual qi as the Daoist Sect cultivators watched in astonishment and faint cries of despair echoed through the ruins.

Thirty years after restoring the Daohua Sect, Shi Xuan prepared to leave Yuanmang Great World to explore the Great Thousand Worlds and seek the remaining steps of the Fate Destroying Scroll. He reached a remote Nameless Great World and found Cultivators on the verge of defeat against a Yin Spirit-level Heavenly Demon.

• A family traveling to Daohua Immortal Mountain discussed Shi Xuan’s feat of creating the mountain and hoped to join the Daohua Sect, which was recruiting disciples for the first time in thirty years.
• Shi Xuan told Gu Canghai and Wei Peining that he was leaving to pursue the Great Dao, while warning them to protect the sect until a Primordial Spirit True Person emerged.
• Shi Xuan departed after entrusting the Daohua Sect’s safety to the Nine Heavens Ten Earths Wuji Ascending Profound Formation and the Nine Qi Wuji Immortal Talisman.
• Shi Xuan traveled through the Void Universe toward a remote Nameless Great World to investigate its Yin Yang sword arts and search for clues related to the Two Forms Dao Destroying Sword.
• Shi Xuan arrived near the Nameless Great World and saw several dozen Cultivators struggling against a Heavenly Demon that had advanced to the Yin Spirit level.

Shi Xuan rescued cultivators from a Yin Spirit-level Four-winged Singing Snake, then followed Wan Tong and Chen Ying toward Golden Court Mountain Jade House Cave after sensing their concealed greed. As Joyful Loose Immortal pursued her disciples and Shi Xuan trapped the pair near the Earth Membrane, he prepared to confront them.

• Shi Xuan destroyed the Four-winged Singing Snakes with a bolt of silver lightning and introduced himself to the survivors as a reclusive Rogue Cultivator.
• Chen Ying invited Shi Xuan to visit her sect, and he accepted after detecting killing intent from her and Wan Tong.
• The cultivators left behind warned that Golden Court Mountain Jade House Cave was dangerous, while Joyful Loose Immortal appeared and tortured a woman who had mocked her.
• Joyful Loose Immortal learned from the cultivators' Spirit Souls that Wan Tong and Chen Ying had brought her potential supplements, then followed them.
• Wan Tong and Chen Ying found themselves unable to get closer to the Earth Membrane, and Shi Xuan revealed that he had led them there.

Shi Xuan learned that the Yin-Yang Strange Stone had vanished and decided to search for it, then confronted Gao Zhe’s Yin Loose Person clone after she attacked him with seductive music. He trapped her with the Minor Heavenly Star Dou Great Formation, but she escaped by sacrificing her clone and left behind a pink pouch.

• Shi Xuan learned from Wan Tong and Chen Ying about the world’s factions, Gao Zhe, and the vanished Yin-Yang Strange Stone, then decided to search for it.
• Shi Xuan killed Wan Tong and Chen Ying and sensed Gao Zhe’s Yin Loose Person clone approaching.
• Gao Zhe tried to weaken Shi Xuan with the Joyful Soul-Shattering Immortal Music, but Shi Xuan suppressed its influence with the Morality Heavenly Venerate visualization and attacked with the Purple Sheath Sword.
• Gao Zhe used the Great Bliss Divine Light of Male Joy and Female Love, then scattered into peach blossom petals to escape the Purple Sheath Sword.
• Shi Xuan sealed the area with the Minor Heavenly Star Dou Great Formation, but Gao Zhe dispersed her clone’s life force and escaped, leaving behind a pink pouch.

Shi Xuan rescued Ren Qingshuang from Gao Zhe’s desire-bound sack in the Void Universe and accepted her invitation to the Extreme North Immortal Palace’s Gathering of Immortals Grand Meeting. After he left, Ren Qingshuang wondered if he came from another world, while a shapeshifting woman at Golden Court Mountain questioned the appearance of a powerful Yang Spirit True Person.

• Shi Xuan freed Ren Qingshuang from the pink sack, drew the desire aura from her Primordial Spirit, and restored her with the Yin-Yang Two Qi Bottle.
• Ren Qingshuang thanked Shi Xuan, learned his name, and invited him to visit the Extreme North Immortal Palace, but he declined because he had other matters to pursue.
• Ren Qingshuang told Shi Xuan about the Great Yin Ice Crystal Fruits and the Gathering of Immortals Grand Meeting in twenty-six years, and he accepted her invitation token.
• Shi Xuan left through the Earth Membrane, and Ren Qingshuang speculated that he might have come from another world.
• At Golden Court Mountain Jade House Cave, a woman wondered where Shi Xuan had come from and joked that he might prefer men, then subtly changed her appearance.

After rescuing Ren Qingshuang, Shi Xuan traveled to Mahou Mountain to investigate the Yin-Yang Strange Stone, but divination revealed that it was both in and not in this Great Thousand World and that someone had concealed its whereabouts. Elder Sifang approached him there, opening a conversation about the strange stone.

• Gao Zhe fled Jade House Cave before Xie Mingxian and Zhong Wangmei arrived, and their strike destroyed the cave.
• Ren Qingshuang told Xie Mingxian and Zhong Wangmei about her rescue by Shi Xuan, and they considered where he might have come from.
• Shi Xuan reached Mahou Mountain and found stones marked with unusual black-and-white patterns around the place where the Yin-Yang Strange Stone had fallen.
• Shi Xuan used divination and discovered that the Yin-Yang Strange Stone was in this Great Thousand World yet also not in it, with someone concealing the heavenly secrets.
• Elder Sifang came to meet Shi Xuan and asked his name after seeing him investigate the strange stone.

Shi Xuan learned how Elder Sifang had searched for the Yin-Yang Strange Stone and watched Ancestor Heart-Devourer lose a battle to Jade Peace True Person. When Ancestor Heart-Devourer attacked Shi Xuan and Elder Sifang to vent his anger, Shi Xuan’s starry formation destroyed his incarnation, leaving Jade Peace True Person and the onlookers stunned.

• Shi Xuan introduced himself to Elder Sifang and asked what he had learned about the Yin-Yang Strange Stone.
• Elder Sifang explained that he shared his collected clues with other True Persons so they could search together.
• Elder Sifang told Shi Xuan about Ancestor Heart-Devourer’s history and his agreement with Jade Peace True Person to settle a dispute through three battles.
• After Jade Peace True Person defeated his incarnation, Ancestor Heart-Devourer attacked Shi Xuan and Elder Sifang with blood threads to vent his rage.
• Shi Xuan’s starry formation swept up the blood threads and destroyed Ancestor Heart-Devourer’s incarnation before Jade Peace True Person could intervene.

Shi Xuan killed Ancestor Heart-Devourer and joined Jade Peace True Person and Elder Sifang to investigate the Yin-Yang Strange Stone. Their discussion pointed toward True Person Changyao’s semi-independent world, and they agreed to search for his relic abode.

• Shi Xuan killed Ancestor Heart-Devourer, sending his disciples fleeing in shock at Shi Xuan’s power.
• Jade Peace True Person met Shi Xuan on a scenic mountain peak and explained that he sought the Yin-Yang Strange Stone to address a flaw in his cultivation.
• Shi Xuan revealed that his divination had traced the stone’s whereabouts, and Jade Peace True Person offered to cooperate and let Shi Xuan keep it.
• Jade Peace True Person and the others made Karmic Oaths after Shi Xuan taught them to recite Liuli Buddha Lord’s name at the end.
• Shi Xuan said the stone was in this world yet not in this world, and Jade Peace True Person connected the clue to True Person Changyao’s semi-independent world.
• Shi Xuan, Jade Peace True Person, and Elder Sifang exchanged information about True Person Changyao and agreed to search for his relic abode.

Shi Xuan searched True Person Changyao’s old cave abode for clues to his hidden estate, then set out to provoke an undersea earthquake and gather Earth Killing Intent. He triggered the quake without causing a catastrophic eruption and hurried deeper underground to activate more sites.

• Ancestor Heart-Devourer sent his disciples to investigate the mysterious Two Tribulation True Person and capture the traitors while he prepared to risk the third Heavenly Tribulation.
• Shi Xuan reached the island said to hold True Person Changyao’s cave abode and found no trace of the hidden Lesser Thousand World despite searching and calculating throughout it.
• Shi Xuan’s strange black-and-white eyes left cultivators who looked at him dazed until he departed, whereupon they gradually woke.
• Shi Xuan descended beneath the island, identified places where he could disrupt the strata, and used Yin-Yang Mixed Cavern Divine Light to destroy one section.
• The collapsing stratum triggered the brewing undersea earthquake, and Shi Xuan hurried deeper underground to set off disturbances at other locations.

Shi Xuan triggered a catastrophic upheaval beneath the sea while gathering Earth Killing Intent, then escaped the erupting Earth Lung and rising seabed. The earthquake receded with the ocean, leaving a vast new stretch of land and the island cultivators stunned.

• Shi Xuan destroyed the final support stratum with the Yin-Yang Mixed Cavern Divine Light, setting off a violent chain reaction that shook the Earth Lung and earth's core.
• Shi Xuan gathered Earth Killing Intent as Earth Sha Yin Fire erupted, then fought off sentient flames and extinguished one of them while escaping upward.
• Shi Xuan reached the seabed fissure, used the Purple Sheath Sword to protect himself, and shot through the sea surface into the clouds.
• The cultivators near True Person Changyao's cave abode watched the island collapse as the earthquake intensified and sea beasts surfaced.
• A tremendous eruption sent seawater thousands of zhang into the air, and when it receded, the cultivators saw that the ocean had become a vast stretch of land.

Shi Xuan traveled to the Extreme North Immortal Palace for the Gathering of Immortals and the ripening of the Great Yin Ice Crystal Fruit, after years of searching unsuccessfully for True Person Changyao’s immortal estate. His arrival drew the attention of the gathered True Persons, who rose to welcome the renowned Two Tribulation Yang Spirit.

• News spread that the undersea earthquake had raised Heartsea Fertile Continent, while cultivators privately speculated that Shi Xuan had caused it.
• Shi Xuan reflected that the earthquake had been an accident and continued gathering the remaining Human Killing Intent for the Three Powers Dharma Destroying Sword.
• Twenty-six years later, Shi Xuan arrived at the Extreme North Immortal Palace for the Gathering of Immortals, after finding no trace of True Person Changyao’s immortal estate.
• Two disciples at the palace gate thanked Shi Xuan for saving their master and killing Yin Loose Person’s incarnation, then escorted him inside.
• Shi Xuan told the gate attendant to announce him as True Person Shi Xuan of Mount Penglai Tian Ji Peak.
• The gathered True Persons heard Shi Xuan’s announcement, rose to welcome him, and Ren Qingshuang hurried to greet him.

Shi Xuan attended a banquet at the Extreme North Immortal Palace, where the True Persons asked him to settle a long-running debate about yin-yang Daoist magic. His insights opened new possibilities for their cultivation, and the chapter ended with them thanking him as a true senior.

• Ren Qingshuang welcomed Shi Xuan to the banquet, and the gathered True Persons saluted him as a Two Tribulation Yang Spirit.
• Xie Mingxian and Zhong Wangmei greeted Shi Xuan and revealed that he had once saved Ren Qingshuang's life.
• Shi Xuan listened as the True Persons discussed yin-yang transformations and argued over Daoist magic.
• Jade Peace True Person invited Shi Xuan to judge the dispute, and Shi Xuan began explaining his understanding of yin-yang transformations.
• Shi Xuan expanded on familiar principles to reveal new paths in Daoist magic, leaving the True Persons astonished and reconsidering flaws in their cultivation arts.
• The disputing True Persons admitted their errors and thanked Shi Xuan as their senior.

Shi Xuan’s discussion of Yin Yang Daoist Magic impressed the True Persons at the Gathering of Immortals, before Geng Ce arrived to demand Great Yin Ice Crystal Fruits and provoke the Righteous Dao cultivators. As Geng Ce prepared to fight them, Shi Xuan and the palace lords suspected the challenge was meant to distract them from a larger scheme by the Four Great Evils.

• Shi Xuan shared his insights into Yin Yang transformations, and the True Persons thanked him and accepted him as a profound elder.
• The attendants served Great Yin Ice Crystal Fruits, which let Primordial Spirit cultivators experience ice, snow, and Taiyin laws.
• A messenger announced that Geng Ce had come under Great Compassion Divine Lord’s orders to request several fruits, and Mister Red Beard allowed him to enter.
• Geng Ce demanded the fruits and insulted the gathered Righteous Dao cultivators, prompting several True Persons to request a match with him.
• Mister Red Beard approved a contest in the rear garden, while Shi Xuan and the palace lords worried that Great Compassion Divine Lord had sent Geng Ce to distract them from a secret undertaking.

After the four eminent evil cultivators gathered beside the Runze River around a mysterious opening, Shi Xuan and the others deduced that Great Compassion Divine Lord had deliberately drawn their attention to a plan requiring the Two Forms Heaven Punishing Divine Light. Shi Xuan gained insight from the Great Yin Ice Crystal Fruit, then learned that Elder Sifang had found the entrance to True Person Changyao's Lesser Thousand World.

• Madam White Hair Zhong Wangmei revealed that Great Compassion Divine Lord, Ancestor Heart-Devourer, Heavenly King Jiu Mo, and Joyful Loose Immortal Gao Zhe had all disappeared from their usual locations.
• Gao Zhe, Heavenly King Jiu Mo, Great Compassion Divine Lord, and Ancestor Heart-Devourer gathered at the Runze River and waited beside a pale golden opening for others to arrive.
• Shi Xuan and the others concluded that the evil cultivators had provoked them to draw them toward a plan that needed the Two Forms Heaven Punishing Divine Light.
• Shi Xuan consumed the Great Yin Ice Crystal Fruit and comprehended its Ice-Snow and Taiyin laws, strengthening his cultivation.
• Elder Sifang sent Shi Xuan and Jade Peace True Person a message that he had discovered the entrance to True Person Changyao's Lesser Thousand World, and they prepared to leave.

Shi Xuan and Jade Peace True Person discovered that Great Compassion Divine Lord’s warning and the clues to Changyao True Person’s legacy residence concerned the same place, then joined Mister Red Beard and Madam White Hair to investigate. After Shi Xuan sent Geng Ce away, the four True Persons departed for Eastern Huazhou.

• Jade Peace True Person told Mister Red Beard and Madam White Hair about Changyao True Person’s legacy residence and the possible Yin-Yang Strange Stone, and the four True Persons considered whether the news connected to Great Compassion Divine Lord’s warning.
• Geng Ce unleashed his Yin-Yang Jade Baleful Intent, escaped the magic combat, and threatened that his master would settle accounts after surviving the third Heavenly Tribulation.
• Mister Red Beard calculated from Geng Ce’s aura that he had come from Tongqu Town on the Runze Riverbank, matching the location in Elder Sifang’s message.
• Shi Xuan sent Geng Ce through the Star Cloud Sword Technique to the sky south of the extreme north, and Geng Ce abandoned his return to the palace.
• Mister Red Beard and Madam White Hair prepared the Extreme North Immortal Palace for Ren Qingshuang to guard, then joined Shi Xuan and Jade Peace True Person on their journey to Eastern Huazhou.

Shi Xuan and his companions entered True Person Changyao’s Semi-Independent World, where an array suppressed their senses and trapped them on a black mountain. They learned that destroying array-suppressing objects along every path was necessary to open the way forward, and Gao Zhe set off alone while the others considered splitting up.

• The Four Great Evils entered the golden passage before Shi Xuan and the others arrived at Runze Riverbank.
• Elder Sifang explained that True Person Changyao’s damaged manuscript had led him to the entrance and revealed that the world appeared once every thousand years.
• Jade Peace True Person advised Elder Sifang to remain outside, and Shi Xuan and the other three entered the world.
• Shi Xuan and his companions found their Primordial Awareness suppressed on a black mountain, and Mister Red Beard’s test revealed a powerful array counterattack.
• Gao Zhe emerged from behind a black rock and explained that the group had to destroy array-suppressing objects along every path within a short time to open a route toward the mountainside.
• Madam White Hair suggested that the group split up and take different paths.