Chapter Summaries

Golden Cicada ambushed Jiao Lie to force his conversion while Shi Xuan used his self-created Void Destruction sword art against Great Sage Devouring Heaven Nine Spirits and Golden Roc. Shi Xuan’s attack trapped both Great Sages in a collapsing universe, though Nine Spirits countered by merging his Universe Purple-Gold Ring with Sun and Moon in Belly.

• Golden Cicada summoned his Great Vajra Terrifying Bright King Protector Avatar and concealed himself with One Leaf Obstructs the Eye.
• The Bright King attacked Jiao Lie’s Crystal Palace Grotto-heaven, prompting Jiao Lie to leave and strike back with the Dao Hai Divine Pearl.
• Golden Cicada appeared outside the Grotto-heaven, sealed it with vow-power Buddha light, and trapped Jiao Lie in a Buddha Kingdom in Palm.
• Shi Xuan escaped Sun and Moon in Belly, captured the black paper figure, and transported himself behind Golden Roc and Nine Spirits.
• Shi Xuan unleashed Void Destruction, trapping both Great Sages in a sword-created universe where worlds shattered and space-time collapsed.
• Nine Spirits merged his Universe Purple-Gold Ring with Sun and Moon in Belly, swallowing the destruction and shaking Shi Xuan’s sword formation.

Shi Xuan used the Circumstellar Star Dou Sword Formation to isolate and defeat Great Sage Moyun Golden Peng, capturing Cloud-Covering Great Sage while preparing to face Nine Spirits. Meanwhile, Golden Cicada Monk converted Jiao Lie, but Bao Xiang announced that the wager was over and Golden Cicada had lost.

• Golden Peng’s Grand Unity Geng-Xin Divine Thunder strengthened the sword formation’s destruction, while Nine Spirits struggled to contain the formation with Sun and Moon in Belly.
• Shi Xuan used Stars Shift to move Nine Spirits away and strike Golden Peng, who sacrificed his feathers and fought back with Primordial Gold Wind and Cloud-Covering Claw.
• Nine Spirits returned and attacked Shi Xuan with the Universe Purple-Gold Ring as Golden Peng blocked the Big Dipper Killing Sword, but Shi Xuan’s Empress Doumu feint weakened Golden Peng and lowered his realm.
• Shi Xuan suppressed the Universe Purple-Gold Ring and trapped Cloud-Covering Great Sage in the Yin-Yang Two Qi Bottle, leaving him to face Nine Spirits alone.
• Golden Cicada Monk subdued Jiao Lie and persuaded him to take refuge in Sandalwood Merit Buddha, then set out to convert Sea-Covering Great Sage.
• Bao Xiang arrived and told Golden Cicada Monk that the wager was over and he had lost.

Shi Xuan defeated three Demon Saints, received Chaos Origin, and chose Nine Spirits as his mount. As he traveled through another Great Thousand World, a Fourth Tribulation Heavenly Sovereign ambushed him with a time-binding saber strike.

• Golden Cicada Monk learned that Shi Xuan had captured three Demon Saints and met him near the Earth Membrane of Zhenhai Great World.
• Shi Xuan explained how he had defeated the Demon Saints, and Golden Cicada Monk began wondering whether he should seek tribulations to strengthen his cultivation.
• Chaos Heavenly Emperor gave Shi Xuan a petal of Chaos Origin and let him choose a Demon Saint; Shi Xuan selected Nine Spirits, who swore a Karmic Oath to serve him.
• Black Robe Cultivators discussed sending someone to trail Shi Xuan, then realized Old Madman was missing and feared he might have gone after Shi Xuan himself.
• Shi Xuan rode Nine Spirits through the void until a Fourth Tribulation Heavenly Sovereign trapped them with time-manipulating power and launched a White Saber Light at them.

Shi Xuan survived Old Madman’s surprise attack by revealing the Yin-Yang Mixed Cavern Divine Light and fully activating the Cosmic Light Bell to reverse time. He then trapped Old Madman inside the complete Two Forms Dust Formation, where the Fourth Tribulation Heavenly Sovereign struggled to escape.

• Shi Xuan sensed an attack slowing time and used the Taiji Diagram to briefly restore its normal flow, but two rays of slaughtering power froze his Primordial Spirit and treasures.
• Shi Xuan suppressed his thoughts, allowing the Yin-Yang Mixed Cavern Divine Light to emerge and break the Slaughter Great Dao’s hold on him.
• Shi Xuan endured the approaching White Saber Light and fully activated the Cosmic Light Bell, causing time across hundreds of millions of miles to stop and briefly reverse.
• The time reversal restored Shi Xuan’s Primordial Spirit and drove the White Saber Light back, revealing Old Madman within it.
• Shi Xuan swept Old Madman into his Grotto-Heaven and activated the complete Two Forms Dust Formation, trapping him among its dangers.
• Old Madman recognized the formation and tried to force his way toward its Gate of Life, suffering repeated dangers as he struggled to escape.

The Old Madman broke the Two Forms Dust Formation by unleashing the Innate Slaughter Dao Origin, but Shi Xuan and Nine Spirits recaptured him before he could escape. After subduing him, Shi Xuan learned that the Old Madman had been born from an Innate Spirit Treasure and a chaos-born gourd Spirit Root, and asked how much Slaughter Qi remained.

• The Old Madman abandoned his attempt to reach the Gate of Life and charged toward the formation eye, where he used the Innate Slaughter Dao Origin to shatter the Yuyu Innate One Qi Divine Talisman.
• Shi Xuan briefly lost control of the formation as the Old Madman escaped the Grotto-Heaven, but directed Nine Spirits to use Sun and Moon in Belly to drag him back.
• Shi Xuan restored the Two Forms Dust Formation and battered the weakened Old Madman until he revealed his vermilion gourd form and surrendered.
• Shi Xuan branded the Old Madman's core restriction and made him swear a Karmic Oath before asking about his origins.
• The Old Madman explained that he had been an Innate Spirit Treasure joined with a chaos-born gourd Spirit Root, and Shi Xuan asked how much Innate Slaughter Qi he had left and how long his backlash would last.

Shi Xuan captured Old Madman, renamed him the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger, and learned that the Slaughter Dao might retaliate. The Slaughter Dao’s Fourth Tribulation Heavenly Sovereigns fell into a devastating internal battle, and Shi Xuan’s impending calamity unexpectedly passed, leaving him to continue onward with his new treasure.

• Old Madman told Shi Xuan that using his Innate Slaughter Qi had left him badly weakened, and Shi Xuan ordered him to recover while sharing what he knew about the Slaughter Dao’s leaders.
• Shi Xuan renamed Old Madman the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger and prepared to contact other Fourth Tribulation Heavenly Sovereigns, but the gourd warned that eight Slaughter Dao peers were tracking him.
• The Slaughter Dao’s eight Fourth Tribulation Heavenly Sovereigns discovered Old Madman’s capture, and two attacked the others before the resulting battle left only Yuan Tu and Abi alive.
• Shi Xuan learned that the Taiyuan Realm’s Fourth Tribulation Heavenly Sovereigns could not help, but his sense of approaching calamity suddenly vanished and his deductions showed that the tribulation had passed.
• Shi Xuan suspected someone from the Nine Nether Great World had intervened, then continued his journey with Nine Spirits while reflecting on his losses and the powerful Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger he had gained.

Shi Xuan visited Three Xiaos Palace seeking Mo Jingqiu and its Half-step Golden Immortal patriarchs, but found them away. While exploring nearby worlds, he discovered repeated massacres caused by trivial disputes and suspected a demonic cultivator was using the Great Inner Demon Technique; Sang Yu reacted with sudden killing intent.

• After being refused an audience at Huanyu Temple, Shi Xuan traveled to Three Xiaos Palace to visit Mo Jingqiu and the sect’s Half-step Golden Immortals.
• Shi Xuan met Sang Yu, who explained that Mo Jingqiu was traveling and that the patriarchs could not be contacted just for his visit.
• While exploring nearby Great Thousand Worlds, Shi Xuan found repeated incidents in which trivial conflicts had destroyed sects and clans.
• Shi Xuan encountered Sang Yu responding to a plea for help and questioned why Three Xiaos Palace did not oversee the nearby worlds.
• Shi Xuan suggested that a demonic-path Heavenly Sovereign might be practicing the Great Inner Demon Technique, and Sang Yu’s killing intent suddenly surged as wind and fire gathered around them.

Shi Xuan and Sang Yu confronted a hidden Inner Demon attack, then joined True Lord Zong Sufi to investigate its spread. After Zong Sufi appeared to betray them and Three Xiaos Palace accused Shi Xuan and Sang Yu, Shi Xuan saw through the illusion and uncovered a powerful enemy cultivating both Inner Demon and Illusion Demon paths.

• Sang Yu attacked Shi Xuan under the influence of an Inner Demon, but Shi Xuan suppressed the attack and failed to trace the demonic Heavenly Sovereign behind it.
• Sang Yu explained that reports of Inner Demon incidents had accumulated across Three Xiaos Palace for tens of thousands of years, and introduced Shi Xuan to True Lord Zong Sufi.
• Shi Xuan agreed to help Zong Sufi and Sang Yu investigate other sites, but Zong Sufi suddenly struck him with her Heaven Measuring Ruler and detonated her Primordial Spirit.
• More than a dozen Three Xiaos Palace Heavenly Sovereigns arrived and accused Shi Xuan of killing Zong Sufi and Sang Yu of betraying her sect.
• Shi Xuan sensed an illusion and redirected his sword toward an ordinary white-haired old man, revealing that the apparent attack and accusations had been a deception.
• Shi Xuan recognized the old man as a Heavenly Sovereign near the Fourth Tribulation who cultivated both Inner Demon and Illusion Demon paths.

Shi Xuan realized the Inner Demon Heavenly Sovereign had trapped him in an illusion and fought back after guarding his mind. He cut through the Shadow of Inner Demon, but the captured opponent remained strangely unafraid.

• Shi Xuan recognized that Inner Demon had exploited his suspicions to deceive him, and he drew Sang Yu into the Heaven and Earth Mountain River Diagram for safety.
• Shi Xuan attacked the white-haired Inner Demon Heavenly Sovereign with sword techniques, but the opponent evaded or nullified his strikes using phantoms and illusions.
• Shi Xuan detected the hidden illusion formation and struck the Inner Demon Heavenly Sovereign after the mist vanished.
• The Inner Demon Heavenly Sovereign manifested a dark version of Shi Xuan, who challenged his resolve and matched his Big Dipper Killing Sword.
• Shi Xuan affirmed that he would have no regrets on his path, cut apart the shadow, and restrained the Inner Demon Heavenly Sovereign with the Big Dipper; the captive remained relaxed and unafraid.

Shi Xuan used the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger to slay the Inner Demon Heavenly Sovereign after discovering his myriad thoughts could independently sever their karmic threads. He declined to investigate Three Xiaos Palace’s secrets, then received a letter from Mo Jingqiu inviting him to talk.

• The Inner Demon Heavenly Sovereign taunted Shi Xuan and tried to provoke him into revealing a weakness, but Shi Xuan prepared to use the Karma Dan Book to kill him.
• Shi Xuan discovered that the Inner Demon Heavenly Sovereign’s thoughts had severed their own karmic threads, allowing each to become an independent main body, so the Karma Dan Book could not kill him completely.
• Shi Xuan summoned the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger, whose Slaughter Dao fixed the Inner Demon Heavenly Sovereign’s thoughts and incarnations, and its white saber light split him in two.
• A backlash from the Inner Demon Heavenly Sovereign’s death dissipated against the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger’s Innate Slaughter Qi, while minds across the region felt suddenly lighter.
• Shi Xuan told Sang Yu that the Heavenly Sovereign had been slain but left the investigation to Three Xiaos Palace, then asked about Zong Sufi and parted from her.
• Several days later, Mo Jingqiu sent Shi Xuan a letter inviting him to talk.

Shi Xuan visited Mo Jingqiu to request the Origin of the Great Dao of Innate Universe, but learned that Xuansiao was away and the source he knew of lay in the Dragon Realm. Mo Jingqiu then revealed the hidden purpose of Great Thousand Worlds, and later contacted Shi Xuan with news of a different source.

• Mo Jingqiu thanked Shi Xuan for discovering the Inner Demon Heavenly Sovereign, and Sang Yu said the sect had found no trace of his origins.
• Shi Xuan asked Mo Jingqiu to obtain some Origin of the Great Dao of Innate Universe, but she explained that Xuansiao had left to pursue the Dao and could not be contacted.
• Mo Jingqiu offered to notify Shi Xuan if her sect learned of another source, and she and Shi Xuan exchanged insights about their Daoist techniques.
• Mo Jingqiu explained that Great Thousand Worlds let cultivators experience the operation of the Three Thousand Great Daos, prompting Shi Xuan to reconsider what he had overlooked.
• Seven or eight days after leaving Sanxiao Palace, Shi Xuan received Mo Jingqiu's message that she knew of a source of the Origin of the Universe outside the Dragon Realm.

Mo Jingqiu brought Shi Xuan to the hidden interior of the unborn Innate Spirit Treasure, the Yuji Cauldron, and explained that her sect was threatened by a patriarch who had planted Inner Demons in its powerful members. The chapter left Shi Xuan learning how Mu Jing’s betrayal had disrupted Jiangxiao’s reincarnation and endangered the Jiangxiao Lineage.

• Mo Jingqiu told Shi Xuan about a concealed place containing the Origin of the Universe, and Shi Xuan verified his premonition before agreeing to accompany her under mutual Karmic Oaths.
• Mo Jingqiu led Shi Xuan through an ordinary boulder into the Yuji Cauldron, where powerful natural Shenxiao lightning and oppressive space restricted their movement.
• Mo Jingqiu removed an Inner Demon from her body and revealed that a Half-step Golden Immortal patriarch had planted Inner Demon thoughts in the sect’s Heavenly Sovereigns and above.
• Mo Jingqiu explained that Mu Jing had disrupted Jiangxiao’s reincarnation, forcing Jiangxiao to hide part of her Innate Dao Embryo in the world where Mo Jingqiu later found it.
• Mo Jingqiu said she had concealed her cultivation to evade Mu Jing’s spying, and Shi Xuan suspected that the Inner Demon had prevented Mu Jing from achieving Dao Integration.

Shi Xuan and Mo Jingqiu journeyed through the Yuji Cauldron in search of the Hunyuan Golden Dou, learning how its worlds and hidden exits worked. After Shi Xuan defeated a powerful lightning creature and they entered another world, they encountered cultivators who mistook them for Inner Demon Sect members.

• Mo Jingqiu told Shi Xuan that Senior Chixiao might have fallen and that the current figure in the Three Xiaos Palace could be an Inner Demon Ancestor.
• Mo Jingqiu explained that she trusted Shi Xuan not to seize the Hunyuan Golden Dou and described the few people who knew of the Yuji Cauldron.
• Shi Xuan and Mo Jingqiu took imprints of the exit aura and traveled through the Thunderstorm Land toward the cauldron's origin.
• Shi Xuan defeated a three-eyed lightning man with his Divine Firmament Purple Thunder, and the creature turned into a lightning gate.
• Shi Xuan and Mo Jingqiu passed through the gate into a world of mountains and rivers, where cultivators accused them of being Inner Demon Sect members.

Shi Xuan and Mo Jingqiu discovered that the world inside the Yuji Cauldron had a strangely obscured exit and sought answers from its cultivators. Their confrontation with the Five Elements Immortal Sect revealed that Mo Jingqiu’s Hunyuan Golden Dou could overwhelm their Spirit Treasure, while distant sect masters began arguing over her identity.

• Shi Xuan and Mo Jingqiu lost their clear sense of the Hunyuan Golden Dou’s direction and found that the exit imprint was difficult to sense, so they waited for local cultivators to arrive.
• Wang Huan and Chang Ge mistook Mo Jingqiu and Shi Xuan for members of the Hunyuan Immortal Sect, and Wang Huan said Mu Xiaolou would soon inspect the blockade.
• Mu Xiaolou arrived with the Five Directions Immortal Banners and attacked Mo Jingqiu with the Five-Colored Divine Light, but her Hunyuan Golden Dou dispelled it.
• Mo Jingqiu used the Hunyuan Golden Dou to weaken the nearby cultivators and diminish the Five Directions Immortal Banners while Shi Xuan guarded against reinforcements.
• A distant Five-Colored hand tried to seize the Hunyuan Golden Dou, but a pale-gold hand destroyed it, and a woman challenged Sect Master Mu for attacking a Heavenly Sovereign of her sect.

Shi Xuan and Mo Jingqiu accepted Yan Qingying’s invitation to the Hunyuan Immortal Sect, where Mo Jingqiu joined after Yan confirmed her Hunyuan Golden Dou was a direct inheritance. As the sect attacked the Inner Demon Sect, Mo Jingqiu entered the sect and received its inheritance, while its members speculated about her and Shi Xuan.

• Mu Yang accused Yan Qingying of admitting Mo Jingqiu despite her unknown origins, but Yan challenged him and he withdrew with Mu Xiaolou and the damaged Five Directions Immortal Banners.
• Shi Xuan and Mo Jingqiu agreed to visit the Hunyuan Immortal Sect after reasoning that Yan could have joined Mu Yang to kill them but had instead offered them protection through a Karmic Oath.
• Yan examined Mo Jingqiu’s Hunyuan Golden Dou, confirmed it matched the sect’s direct inheritance, and invited her to join; she also revealed that the sect’s patriarch and the Myriad Tribulations Immortal Valley patriarch had vanished a million years earlier.
• Mo Jingqiu accepted Yan’s offer, and the Four Great Sects continued taking turns attacking the Inner Demon Sect’s Grotto-Heaven.
• A day later, Yan held Mo Jingqiu’s initiation ceremony, and Mo Jingqiu went to receive the Hunyuan Dao Proving Treasure Scripture while the sect members discussed her origins and Shi Xuan’s cultivation.

Shi Xuan and Mo Jingqiu joined Hunyuan Immortal Sect’s assault on the Inner Demon Sect Grotto-Heaven, revealing Shi Xuan as a Three Tribulation Heavenly Sovereign with a sword grounded in the Innate Calamity Fate Great Dao. The Inner Demon Sect’s formation then launched a sudden, coordinated attack against Shi Xuan, forcing him to fight at full strength.

• Yan Qingying formally welcomed Shi Xuan into Hunyuan Immortal Sect and gave him an Artifact Cultivator secret art, while Shi Xuan chose the Hunyuan Golden Dou refinement method.
• Mo Jingqiu told Shi Xuan that Hunyuan Immortal Sect’s Dao Proving Treasure Scripture was incomplete and contained omissions that made successful Dao Integration impossible.
• Mo Jingqiu attacked the Inner Demon Sect Grotto-Heaven with the Hunyuan Golden Dou, and Shi Xuan joined her with the Three Powers Dharma Destroying Sword.
• Lu Rui, Immortal Elder of Immortality, and Hunyuan Immortal Sect’s disciples recognized Shi Xuan as a Three Tribulation Heavenly Sovereign and were shocked that his sword contained the Innate Calamity Fate Great Dao.
• The Inner Demon Sect formation manifested powerful demonic shadows, trapped Mu Yang and Yan Qingying, and caused several Heavenly Sovereigns to turn against Shi Xuan under the influence of Inner Demons.
• Shi Xuan faced the sudden assault from the formation and his compromised allies and prepared to fight with his full strength.

Shi Xuan and Mo Jingqiu helped shatter the Inner Demon Sect’s Grotto-heaven Immortal Formation and crippled its cultivators, but Bai Ze unleashed the Inner Demon Illusion Realm to cover his escape and attack them. The chapter ended as illusory versions of powerful allies and enemies assailed Shi Xuan, Mo Jingqiu, and the other Heavenly Sovereigns.

• Shi Xuan’s Void Destruction sword strike matched the Myriad Heavens Demonic Fiend Great Formation, while a bewitched Three Tribulation Heavenly Sovereign secretly unleashed the Heavenly Human Fourth Decay against him.
• Mo Jingqiu struck the attacking Heavenly Sovereign unconscious with the Heaven Measuring Ruler, and Shi Xuan used the Other Shore Golden Bridge to evade the decay and freeze the formation.
• Shi Xuan’s sword and the Golden Bridge broke the Myriad Heavens Demonic Fiend Great Formation and shattered the Grotto-heaven Immortal Formation; his Vast Sun in the Sky sword formation then stripped the cultivation of Inner Demon Sect cultivators below the Three Tribulations.
• The allied Heavenly Sovereigns attacked the Inner Demon Sect’s Three Tribulation Heavenly Sovereigns with the Heavenly Human Fourth Decay, while Shi Xuan and Mo Jingqiu watched and Bai Ze struggled against four opponents.
• Bai Ze triggered the Inner Demon Illusion Realm, conjuring lifelike demonic doubles of powerful cultivators, including Yan Qingying, Lu Rui, and the Immortal Elder of Immortality, to attack Shi Xuan, Mo Jingqiu, and the others.

The Fourth Tribulation Heavenly Sovereigns fought Bai Ze’s Inner Demon Illusion Realm while Shi Xuan held off Lu Rui’s demon shadow and Yan Qingying tried to reach Mu Yang. Bai Ze was ultimately destroyed by Immortal Elder of Immortality’s Heavenly Human Fifth Decay, the illusions vanished when Mu Yang awoke, and Shi Xuan wondered whether Bai Ze had truly fallen.

• Immortal Elder of Immortality trapped Yan Qingying’s demon shadow in the Heavenly Human Fifth Decay, but it grew stronger in its madness and fought him to a stalemate.
• Yan Qingying destroyed Immortal Elder of Immortality’s demon shadow, while Lu Rui fought Bai Ze and Mu Yang remained trapped in the Inner Demon Illusion Realm.
• Shi Xuan suppressed Lu Rui’s demon shadow’s time manipulation with the Other Shore Golden Bridge and gradually gained the upper hand with his sword arts.
• Bai Ze’s burst technique backfired, and Immortal Elder of Immortality used the Heavenly Human Fifth Decay to drive him mad until he exploded.
• Yan Qingying and the others awakened Mu Yang, causing the illusory demon shadows to disappear, while Shi Xuan questioned whether Bai Ze was truly dead.

After the four immortal sects destroyed the Inner Demon Sect’s stronghold, Shi Xuan deduced that Bai Ze had likely escaped by using an illusion as a decoy. Back at the Hunyuan Immortal Sect, Shi Xuan and Mo Jingqiu investigated the world’s strange history and hurried to pursue their plan to obtain the Hunyuan Golden Dou.

• Yan Qingying, Shi Xuan, Mo Jingqiu, and Leng Rumei discussed the danger of the Inner Demon Sect surviving after its defeat.
• Shi Xuan argued that Bai Ze had staged his apparent death, and Yan Qingying decided to investigate secretly without alerting Mu Yang.
• Leng Rumei invited Shi Xuan to advise her on a flying sword, while Shi Xuan told Mo Jingqiu that the Inner Demon Sect’s techniques matched those of a Heavenly Sovereign he had encountered near Three Xiaos Palace.
• Shi Xuan and Mo Jingqiu concluded that Mu Jing or another Half-step Golden Immortal might be searching for the Yuji Cauldron, and resolved to obtain the Hunyuan Golden Dou quickly.
• After returning to the Hunyuan Immortal Sect, Shi Xuan doubted the Five Elements Immortal Sect’s founding account and noted that each generation of the four great sects had only one Fourth Tribulation Heavenly Sovereign.

Shi Xuan and Mo Jingqiu joined Yan Qingying’s plan to lure out Bai Ze, but Bai Ze and the Immortal Elder of Immortality had anticipated the ambush and trapped them. The chapter ended with the traitors revealing that Shi Xuan’s discovery of Bai Ze’s flaw had been part of their plan.

• Yan Qingying used the Inner Demon Sect’s aura to identify and kill inner demon infiltrators among the Hunyuan Immortal Sect’s returning disciples.
• Shi Xuan and Mo Jingqiu discussed the strange cultivation world and learned that a Netherworld lay beyond the Cangyu Mountain Range.
• Yan Qingying asked Shi Xuan and Mo Jingqiu to investigate apparent inner demon activity, planning to ambush Bai Ze if he appeared.
• At the tribe, Bai Ze attacked Shi Xuan and Mo Jingqiu by manipulating time and sending black grains of sand at them.
• Yan Qingying arrived and trapped Bai Ze, but the Immortal Elder of Immortality launched a Heavenly Human Fifth Decay attack and blocked their escape.
• Bai Ze revealed that the Immortal Elder of Immortality was his ally and that he had deliberately left the flaw Shi Xuan discovered.