Chapter Summaries

Shi Xuan and his allies fought to keep Shi Jingren, Yi Tuan, and their forces from reaching the cave while Meng Nishang tried to seize control of the Yuan Gui Xuan Bing Mirror. True Lord Langxia died, Shi Xuan was pushed to the brink by Shi Jingren’s power of fate, and the chapter ended as freezing power began to overwhelm Shi Jingren’s domain.

• Yi Tuan killed Zhang Ji but suffered grave injuries, while Shi Xuan, Shi Jingren, and Shen Yimo emerged wounded from their clash; Shen Yimo escaped through a spacetime beacon.
• Shi Xuan sent Qing Suo after True Lord Langxia and attacked Shi Jingren, while he used Meng Nishang’s Sky Demon Black Dove Nail to delay Yi Tuan.
• Qing Suo killed True Lord Langxia before Shi Jingren could rescue her, and Shi Jingren mourned his Junior Uncle as she died.
• Shi Jingren used the Minor Destiny Art to rule a hundred-mile realm and repeatedly suppressed Shi Xuan, worsening his injuries and pushing him toward a fall in cultivation.
• Shi Xuan continued fighting with the Three Powers Dharma Destroying Sword, and Shi Jingren prepared another attack until freezing power began turning his realm to frost.

Shi Jingren and Yi Tuan escaped after Meng Nishang awakened the Yuan Gui Xuan Bing Mirror, while Shi Xuan stayed behind to recover. Meng Nishang fully claimed the mirror and used it to repel an attack from True Lord Kunyang, Ye Daoming, then thanked Shi Xuan.

• Shi Jingren trapped Shi Xuan’s sword light, collected True Lord Langxia’s corpse and attendants, and escaped through the Grotto-heaven barrier.
• Yi Tuan weakened himself to activate Life Protection, then fled through the barrier with the aid of Tianmu Gate’s patriarch.
• Shi Xuan consumed the Yin-Yang Two Qi Bottle’s Sweet Dew and healed his injuries as Qing Suo guarded him.
• Meng Nishang awakened the Yuan Gui Xuan Bing Mirror, and its cold-light world shrank into the mirror in her hand.
• True Lord Kunyang, Ye Daoming, attacked Meng Nishang and Shi Xuan with azure winds, but Meng Nishang’s mirror intercepted them and drove him away.
• Meng Nishang approached Shi Xuan, bowed deeply, and thanked him for helping her.

Shi Xuan and Meng Nishang agreed to keep Yuyu Heaven open to visiting Heavenly Sovereigns, while Cold Mirror Heavenly Sovereign created a protected Grotto-heaven for the Guanghan Sect. The chapter ended with the new Cold Light Ice Snow Realm established, Shi Xuan’s cultivation stabilized, and his swordsmanship strengthened by battle.

• Meng Nishang and Cold Mirror Heavenly Sovereign thanked Shi Xuan for helping recover the Yuan Gui Xuan Bing Mirror, confirming his part in overcoming the rival Heavenly Sovereigns.
• Meng Nishang and Shi Xuan agreed that Yuyu Heaven should remain open to other cultivators, since their presence had helped its cultivation world flourish.
• Cold Mirror Heavenly Sovereign created a Grotto-heaven, shaped its laws around ice and snow, and integrated the Guanghan Sect’s protective immortal formation with it.
• Cold Mirror Heavenly Sovereign gave Shi Xuan secret arts and mysterious items, while her power helped stabilize his cultivation after the Jade Shattering Art’s backlash.
• Meng Nishang named the new Grotto-heaven the Cold Light Ice Snow Realm and moved the Guanghan Sect’s snow mountain into it.
• Shi Xuan accepted the gifts, reflected on the calamity he had passed through, and recognized that his swordsmanship had advanced through battle.

After recovering from the battle in the Cold Light Ice Snow Realm, Shi Xuan returned to the Penglai Sect and recounted how he and Meng Nishang had driven back three Heavenly Sovereigns and obtained the Yuan Gui Xuan Bing Mirror. He revealed that he needed to travel abroad to resolve a cultivation problem and asked the sect to help him master a dangerous secret art that could let him face Shi Jingren.

• Meng Nishang thanked Shi Xuan for helping her obtain the Myriad Worlds Frozen Dao inheritance, while Cold Mirror Heavenly Sovereign moved the mortals from his Grotto-Heaven into the Cold Light Ice Snow Realm.
• Shi Xuan declined Cold Mirror Heavenly Sovereign's offer to open a Grotto-Heaven for the Penglai Sect and returned to the sect, where True Lord Xu and others scolded him for taking risks.
• Shi Xuan told the sect's elders and True Persons that he and Meng Nishang had driven back three Heavenly Sovereigns and obtained the Three Tribulation Spirit Treasure Yuan Gui Xuan Bing Mirror.
• Shi Xuan recounted the battles in the Grotto-Heaven, including his fight with Shen Yimo and the danger posed by Shi Jingren's Minor Destiny Art.
• Shi Xuan offered to guide Xiao Zhenzi, then explained that he needed to travel abroad to find a cultivation method before the First Decay Tribulation.
• Shi Xuan said an ancient secret art from Cold Mirror Heavenly Sovereign could help him face Shi Jingren, but mastering it would be dangerous and require the sect's support.

Shi Xuan prepared to cultivate the Seventh Tier Five Virtues Fortune Claw, guided the gifted Xiao Zhenzi, and later learned that he had achieved Primordial Spirit in record time. The chapter ended with the Purple Sheath Sword surviving its fourth Heavenly Tribulation and becoming a Heaven-Connecting Spirit Treasure as Shi Xuan prepared to cultivate his secret art.

• Shi Xuan shared thirteen secret arts with his fellow sect members and explained that he planned to cultivate the Seventh Tier Five Virtues Fortune Claw with their help.
• Shi Xuan guided Xiao Zhenzi in cultivation and saw that the young cultivator had exceptional insight and a promising future.
• Four hundred and seventy years later, Xiao Zhenzi achieved Primordial Spirit and credited Shi Xuan’s guidance and four-character appraisal for helping him seize the opportunity.
• Guiyuanzi and Xiao Zhenzi witnessed a fourth Heavenly Tribulation above the Penglai Sect and realized that a Three Tribulation Pure Yang Magic Treasure was advancing into a Heaven-Connecting Spirit Treasure.
• The Purple Sheath Sword passed its tribulation, and Shi Xuan welcomed Purple Ying before beginning preparations to cultivate the Five Virtues Fortune Claw.

Shi Xuan sent his fellow disciples and Spirit Treasures to five Great Thousand Worlds to establish Fortune Platforms and cultivate the Five Virtues Fortune Claw. The chapter left Xie Fangwei and Yang Zongzhi arriving to aid rebels in a world where Xia Tang and Huoyun True Person faced growing opposition.

• Shi Xuan assigned True Lord Xu, Mo Yuan, True Person Jiang, Lin Luo, Chu Wan'er, Ming Qingyue, Xie Fangwei, and Yang Zongzhi to travel to five Great Thousand Worlds with Spirit Treasures and materials for Fortune Platforms.
• At Huangmen Pass, Wanya True Person's forces routed Huoyun True Person's army of Fire Crane Soldiers, and Xia Tang rebuked Huoyun for attacking recklessly.
• Xia Tang and Huoyun learned that more True Persons had arrived to reinforce the rebels, leaving them alarmed and uncertain.
• Xie Fangwei and Yang Zongzhi arrived at the camp, introduced themselves as Qi Refining practitioners from Penglai Mountain, and were invited in by Xia Tang.

Xie Fangwei and Yang Zongzhi proved their strength by defeating Wanya True Person and Crimson Ghost True Person, allowing Xia Tang’s forces to capture Huangmen Pass. Xia Tang agreed to a Karmic Oath for the Fortune Altar, while True Lord Xu celebrated with Michen True Monarch, who kept watching the shapeless monkey.

• Xie Fangwei explained that he and Yang Zongzhi came from Outer-Heaven Penglai Mountain and offered to help in exchange for building a Fortune Altar and claiming a share of Great Thousand Fortune.
• Xie Fangwei and Yang Zongzhi flew to Huangmen Pass, where Xie Fangwei challenged Wanya True Person to a duel.
• Xie Fangwei trapped Wanya True Person in the Heaven and Earth Mountain River Diagram and killed him, while Yang Zongzhi used the Immortal Slaying Sword Box to kill Crimson Ghost True Person.
• Xia Tang’s forces captured Huangmen Pass after the remaining two True Persons fled, and Xia Tang agreed to gather the Six Great Clans to establish a Karmic Oath.
• True Lord Xu toasted Michen True Monarch in Michen Palace, while Michen True Monarch repeatedly watched the shapeless monkey eating spiritual fruits.

Mo Yuan secured Young Azure True Lord’s agreement to a Karmic Oath by offering a secret art for transcending the Heavenly Human First Decay. Meanwhile, Chu Wan’er and the Righteous Dao cultivators were trapped in an enemy immortal formation, and she traced its taunting speaker and launched the Five-Colored Radiance at their hiding place.

• Mo Yuan revealed the Three Powers Dharma Destroying Sword, destabilizing Young Azure True Lord’s cultivation and making him reconsider his hostility.
• Mo Yuan offered a secret art for transcending the Heavenly Human First Decay, and Young Azure True Lord agreed to establish a Karmic Oath.
• The Righteous Dao cultivators pursuing their enemies at Xuanfeng Mountain were caught in an immortal formation that unleashed filthy black lightning.
• Chu Wan’er protected the trapped cultivators with her Five Elements Dirt Cleansing Bell as they discussed how to escape the formation.
• Gao Beiyin questioned Ming Qingyue’s usefulness, while the formation’s ethereal voice tried to sow discord among the cultivators.
• Chu Wan’er sensed the speaker’s location through changes in time and sent the Five-Colored Radiance striking toward it.

Chu Wan'er and Ming Qingyue joined forces to break Profound Wind True Person's immortal formation with the Circumstellar Star Dou Sword Talisman. Elsewhere, Lin Luo tested the Purple Sheath Sword, while True Lord Xu completed a lofty platform with Michen True Monarch's help.

• Profound Wind True Person revealed that he had passed his third Heavenly Tribulation and used his Dark Sun Wind Lightning Sword to hold off Chu Wan'er's Five Elements Dirt Cleansing Bell while attacking the trapped True Persons.
• Chu Wan'er slowed the formation's lightning with her time Immortal Technique, and Ming Qingyue used the Circumstellar Star Dou Sword Talisman to unleash the Minor Heavenly Star Dou Great Formation and pierce the Heavenly Fiend Earth Filth Yin Lightning Great Formation.
• Lin Luo suppressed an attacking Three Tribulation Yang Spirit True Person with the Purple Sheath Sword, then used her own flying sword to help True Person Jiang and drove the attacker to flee.
• True Lord Xu thanked Michen True Monarch for helping him complete a lofty platform near Michen Palace, while Michen True Monarch hoped to learn the mysteries of his karmic fortune secret art.

After the five Heavenly Platforms were completed, True Lord Xu placed the Gold Virtue White Lotus Banner and sent Metal Virtue Fortune through the Heavenly Gate, while the other cultivators held back their own fortune dragons. Shi Xuan gathered the Five Virtues Fortune at his remote Heavenly Platform and destroyed five powerful dragons, but the next stage of the secret technique remained dangerous.

• True Lord Xu placed the Gold Virtue White Lotus Banner on his Heavenly Platform, and a white dragon formed from Metal Virtue Fortune attacked him as Heavenly Punishment struck.
• Qing Suo protected True Lord Xu from the backlash and lightning, while the white dragon passed through the Heavenly Gate.
• Mo Yuan, Lin Luo, True Person Jiang, Ming Qingyue, Chu Wan'er, Xie Fangwei, and Yang Zongzhi each resisted a fortune dragon and drove it through its corresponding Heavenly Gate.
• Shi Xuan opened his eyes at the central Heavenly Platform in the void and attacked the white Heavenly Gate with the Four Symbols World Destroying Sword.
• Shi Xuan split his Sword Light across all five Heavenly Gates, destroyed the five fortune dragons, and drew their Five Virtues Fortune toward the central platform.
• Shi Xuan remained solemn, recognizing that the next step would be dangerous.

Shi Xuan completed the Seventh Tier secret art Five Virtues Fortune Claw by combining it with his star formation and swordsmanship. After Cold Mirror Heavenly Sovereign agreed to guard his incarnation, Shi Xuan prepared to visit Baocheng Sect to seek news of the Two Forms Dao Destroying Sword.

• Shi Xuan activated the celestial platform’s immortal formation and forged the Five Virtues Fortune Claw from Five-Colored light and Dao seed characters.
• The giant claw struck against Shi Xuan’s Circumstellar Star Dou Great Formation sword art, destroying the star as both attacks weakened.
• Shi Xuan sealed the claw inside his Primordial Spirit with the Four Symbols World Destroying Sword, completing the Five Virtues Fortune Claw despite its dangerous backlash.
• Shi Xuan thanked Cold Mirror Heavenly Sovereign for guarding him and learned that Meng Nishang remained in seclusion undergoing the Heavenly Human First Decay.
• Shi Xuan created an incarnation to guard his sect and asked Cold Mirror Heavenly Sovereign to watch over it while he visited Baocheng Sect to find Shen Yimo and investigate the Two Forms Dao Destroying Sword.

Shi Xuan arrived at Baocheng Sect to seek Shen Yimo, whose defeat by him had become a cautionary legend used to temper the sect’s disciples. When Shi Xuan entered, the disciples’ Myriad Swords Welcoming Ceremony collapsed into silence and terror, and Ren Yunzong ordered him to be led to the Trial Sword Pavilion.

• True Lord Daoming visited Baocheng Sect, where the disciples’ Myriad Swords Welcoming Ceremony displayed the sect’s strength and impressed him.
• At Xuan Jingfeng’s Dao lecture, he warned the disciples against arrogance and recounted how Shi Xuan had defeated Shen Yimo with sword arts.
• Ye Piaoling told Daoming that Baocheng Sect had spread the story of Shen Yimo’s defeat to curb its disciples’ pride, though the tale had also made them fear Shi Xuan.
• Fu Yuanxiao, Zhou Yong, and Luo Yun discussed Shi Xuan’s reputation while serving at the city gate, then learned a True Lord had arrived.
• Shi Xuan introduced himself at Baocheng Sect’s gate and asked to see Shen Yimo; Ren Yunzong directed Liang Liuyu to lead him to the Trial Sword Pavilion while saying Shen Yimo was in seclusion.
• As Shi Xuan passed through the gate, the disciples’ ceremonial swords fell and the welcoming ceremony stopped when most of them froze in fear.

Shi Xuan entered Baocheng Sect and was brought to its Trial Sword Path, where Zhao Hengcheng challenged him first. Their sword contest began with Shi Xuan wielding the Purple Sheath Sword, and Zhao Hengcheng believed his superior sword would give him a chance to win.

• Liang Liuyu reprimanded Baocheng Sect's disciples for their fearful behavior and led Shi Xuan away from the city gate.
• The disciples realized Shi Xuan was being taken to the Trial Sword Pavilion and speculated about which Baocheng Sect master would face him.
• Ye Piaoling and Xuan Jingfeng decided Zhao Hengcheng should fight Shi Xuan first, with one of them waiting beyond the Trial Sword Path if Zhao lost.
• Liang Liuyu escorted Shi Xuan to Trial Sword Peak, then returned to find disciples watching the contest through a water mirror.
• Shi Xuan met Zhao Hengcheng on the mountainside and agreed to duel using his Purple Sheath Sword.
• Zhao Hengcheng struck first with the Two Forms Jade Light Sword, and Shi Xuan met his attack with the Circumstellar Star Dou Sword Art.

Shi Xuan defeated Zhao Hengcheng with the Purple Sheath Sword and explained how Zhao’s choice of sword art left an opening. At the Trial Sword Pavilion, Xuan Jingfeng challenged Shi Xuan, and their sword fight began with Xuan Jingfeng countering Shi Xuan’s first strike.

• Shi Xuan defeated Zhao Hengcheng by exploiting the lack of variation in his Light Shining Nine Heavens sword formation.
• Shi Xuan explained that Zhao could have lasted longer by adapting his sword art, and Zhao respectfully thanked him for the guidance.
• Baocheng Sect’s observers reflected on Zhao’s defeat as they saw Xuan Jingfeng take his place as the next path guard.
• Shi Xuan and Xuan Jingfeng introduced their flying swords, the Azure Rope Sword and the Light-Dark Grotto-True Sword, before beginning their contest.
• Shi Xuan attacked with Bright Moon and Sparse Stars, and Xuan Jingfeng transformed his sword into a black hole before releasing a cavern of destructive light.

Shi Xuan and Xuan Jingfeng fought an even battle with their supreme sword arts until Shi Xuan used a feigned trace of Creation to create an opening and win. Xuan Jingfeng admitted defeat, while Shi Xuan called the battle a draw; Ye Piaoling abandoned his plan to challenge Shi Xuan.

• Shi Xuan and Xuan Jingfeng traded sword formations, including Void Stars and Boundless Light, without gaining the upper hand.
• Shi Xuan used Star Dou Creation, whose apparent intent of Creation made Xuan Jingfeng hesitate.
• Shi Xuan exploited the opening to break Boundless Light, but declined to claim victory and offered to call the fight a draw.
• Xuan Jingfeng admitted defeat and praised Shi Xuan's sword art.
• Ye Piaoling decided against challenging Shi Xuan after watching the fight, saying he had only been confident of a draw.

Shi Xuan defeated the Baocheng Sect disciples, met Ren Yunzong, and waited for Shen Yimo to emerge from seclusion. He learned that Shen Yimo’s Two Forms True Meaning came from the Three Yuan Sect’s black-and-white treasure and left after giving her a secret art for the Heavenly Human Second Decay.

• Shi Xuan entered the Trial Sword Pavilion unchallenged, and Ren Yunzong invited him to Lingyun Sword Palace.
• Ren Yunzong praised Shi Xuan’s swordsmanship, explained that the contest had sparked fierce resolve in some Baocheng Sect disciples, and said Shen Yimo would emerge within days.
• Six days later, Shi Xuan met Shen Yimo and asked about the Two Forms True Meaning that had inspired his Circumstellar Star Dou Sword Art.
• Shen Yimo told Shi Xuan that she had gained the Two Forms True Meaning from the Three Yuan Sect in the Qingyuan Great World, where an entwined black-and-white light was kept as a sect-protecting treasure.
• Shi Xuan learned that the Three Yuan Sect had refused Shen Yimo access to the treasure, then gave her a secret art for the Heavenly Human Second Decay before taking his leave.

Shi Xuan devised a secret system to help a struggling cultivator, and Ye Fan discovered it after his family expelled and humiliated him and Xia Wanjun broke their engagement. Ye Fan accepted the system’s dangerous terms and began his first use of it.

• Shi Xuan consulted Cold Mirror Heavenly Sovereign about obtaining a Three Tribulation Heavenly Sovereign’s secret art, then decided to disguise himself as a cultivation system for someone else.
• Ye Wubing tried to expel Ye Fan from the Ye Family’s inner court, but Ye Fan invoked the lineage rules and secured another year by agreeing to accept thirty lashes if his complaint failed.
• Ye Fan swore to enter the Qi Induction Stage within ten years, and Xia Wanjun broke off their engagement and called him trash.
• Ye Fan considered leaping from a cliff but chose to live and pursue cultivation after remembering his mother and his vow to prove himself.
• A drop of Ye Fan’s blood activated the black ring, which revealed the Xuanhuang Cultivation System and identified Shi Xuan as its incarnation, Old Man.
• Ye Fan accepted the system’s risks and established a Karmic Oath, earning one free exchange.

Ye Fan chose the beginner Protagonist Template from Shi Xuan’s system, then faced a quest to jump off a cliff or lose the system. He survived by falling into a pool and received Merit Points and a healing pill, convinced that the template had saved him.

• Ye Fan browsed the system’s exchange options and chose the beginner Protagonist Template after Shi Xuan recommended it.
• Shi Xuan activated a quest requiring Ye Fan to jump off the nearby cliff within half an hour or lose the template and system forever.
• Ye Fan overcame his fear and leapt, slowing his fall with Void Splitting Palm and a White Wax Exotic Tree before it snapped.
• Ye Fan plunged into a deep pool at the bottom of the cliff and survived.
• Shi Xuan awarded Ye Fan one hundred Merit Points and a Blood and Flesh Regeneration Pill, which healed his injured hand.

After surviving a deadly fall, Ye Fan broke through to the Soul Departure Stage and gained a powerful flying sword, while Shi Xuan manipulated the Protagonist Template to push him into dangerous trials. Ye Fan returned to the Ye Family courtyard confident in his new strength, unaware that further trials awaited him.

• Ye Fan broke through to the Soul Departure Stage, developed five Innate Minor Divine Abilities, and found the Black Sha Five Poisons Sword in the cold pool.
• Ye Fan exchanged Merit Points for one bottle of Hundred Refinements Soul Strengthening Pills before Shi Xuan restricted further medicinal exchanges and warned him about their potency.
• Ye Fan accepted the Three Yuan Sect entrance assembly quest and was ordered to jump off the cliff again without using his flying sword.
• Ye Fan ate a Yin Poison Death Soul Flower and was bitten by a Seven-step Golden Ring Snake, then used the Hundred Poisons Reducing Pill to survive and gain poison resistance.
• Ye Fan spent fifty Merit Points having Shi Xuan deduce a way out of the mountains, then returned to the Ye Family courtyard feeling superior to the other disciples.

Ye Fan defeated Ye Chen and Ye Nan after the system forced him into dangerous challenges, then earned fame by charging through a horde of Demon Bears. As his reputation as a Peerless Genius grew, the Three Yuan Sect's entrance examination began.

• The system ordered Ye Fan to challenge Ye Chen and Ye Nan, and he defeated Ye Chen with the Resentful God Swallowing Sword Qi after Ye Chen slipped.
• Ye Fan outlasted Ye Nan, found an opening, and defeated him with prepared Sword Qi and a charge protected by the Black Tortoise Shell.
• Ye Fan challenged the Soul Departure Stage disciples, while Shi Xuan observed that the victory had strengthened Ye Fan's Fortune.
• The system ordered Ye Fan to charge through more than a hundred Demon Bears or face erasure, and Ye Fan killed over seventy percent before collapsing from exhaustion.
• Ye Fan's exploits spread his reputation as a Peerless Genius, and the Three Yuan Sect's entrance examination began.