Chapter Summaries

Xiang Bao struggled after choosing the Immortal Bestowed Star Sword, whose Myriad Star Chart overwhelmed his Spirit Soul and threatened his place in the Iron Sword Gate. Shi Xuan guided him to overcome his fear of the chart, and Xiang Bao resolved to begin visualizing it.

• Xiang Bao chose the Immortal Bestowed Star Sword despite Lü Nanniu's warnings that no one had mastered it in seven thousand years.
• After failing to visualize the Myriad Star Chart, Xiang Bao feared he would be expelled from the sect at the minor competition and worried about disappointing his parents.
• Shi Xuan visited Xiang Bao, directed him to the City God Temple at the third watch, and told him to dig a path through a mountain.
• Xiang Bao dug a boulder loose and discovered that a path already continued through the mountain to the other side.
• Shi Xuan explained that Xiang Bao's fear of the Myriad Star Chart was like the boulder he had moved, and Xiang Bao resolved to try visualizing at least part of it.

Xiang Bao overcame his visualization trouble after Shi Xuan showed him that the black centipede reflected his own mind, and Martial Uncle Wang began questioning his own cultivation methods. Meanwhile, Shi Xuan completed the gathering of Enlightenment Auras and formed the Classic of Morality.

• Xiang Bao memorized part of the Big Dipper’s star paths, mastered Registering the Big Dipper, and advanced to the Qi Nourishing Stage.
• Xiang Bao found a black centipede in his visualization and sought Shi Xuan’s help after relying on mind-calming incense failed to keep it away.
• Shi Xuan told Xiang Bao to strike the centipede with a charcoal stick, leading Xiang Bao to realize the centipede came from his own distracting thoughts.
• Xiang Bao told Martial Uncle Wang how Shi Xuan had resolved the problem, and Martial Uncle Wang warned that the charcoal-stick method had likely made him strike himself.
• Shi Xuan explained that cultivation problems lay within oneself, prompting Xiang Bao to understand and Martial Uncle Wang to reconsider his own path.
• In his cave dwelling, Shi Xuan gathered the final Dao seed characters and formed the Classic of Morality.

Shi Xuan advanced his Yin-Yang Mixed Cavern Divine Light by cautiously joining it with the Yin Yang Great Dao, then set out for the Western Wilderness to explore and draw out those watching him. His journey drew the Divine Emperor’s attention, and a mysterious Fourth Tribulation Heavenly Sovereign rose from a coffin in the Land of Treasures.

• Shi Xuan refined the Classic of Morality, cultivated the Yin-Yang Mixed Cavern Divine Light, and briefly touched the Yin Yang Great Dao before waking himself to avoid being assimilated.
• Shi Xuan estimated that the Divine Light could reach Great Dao Origin within two thousand years and decided to explore the Western Wilderness, hoping to gain insight and identify those observing him.
• The Divine Emperor noticed Shi Xuan entering the Western Wilderness, suspected the Life and Death Dao Ancestor was involved, and summoned a Fourth Tribulation Heavenly Sovereign under his protection.
• A crack filled with Death Qi, Yin Energy, and Nine Nether Qi appeared above a coffin in a Land of Treasures morgue, and a white-clad deceased sat up as Golden Lotuses transformed the hall into a pure land.

Ming Qingyue escaped Zhang Guangkai and Yue Ziqian in the Western Wilderness Outer Regions, then took refuge in hidden Grotto-heaven Remnants. There she met the dying Tian Hengzi, who passed her clues to the Star River Patriarch’s inheritance after she swore to fulfill his demands.

• Zhang Guangkai and Yue Ziqian used the sixth tier Life Departure Death Separation Sorrowful Divine Thunder to clear spatial rifts, but Ming Qingyue slowed the blast with her Heavenly River Treasure Mirror and fled through the remaining rifts.
• Ming Qingyue entered hidden Grotto-heaven Remnants and sealed the entrance, healing her wounds with her Half-Dragon body.
• Tian Hengzi appeared and recognized Ming Qingyue’s Star River True Law and her use of Stars Enter the Heavenly River, the Clear-Water Sage Emerges.
• Tian Hengzi asked Ming Qingyue to swear to deliver his clues to the Star River Sect and avenge him if she became a Fourth Tribulation Heavenly Sovereign; she agreed.
• Tian Hengzi gave Ming Qingyue a Starlight Compass containing the location of the inheritance, the Grotto-Heaven’s opening restrictions, and information about his enemies, then perished.

Ming Qingyue recovered from her injuries and cautiously pursued the locations Shi Xuan had given her, while Tian Hengzi and a mysterious black shadow plotted to make Shi Xuan reveal his cultivation method. The chapter left Fengdu Imperial Sovereign free to send out a Fourth Tribulation Avatar and secretly targeting Shi Xuan’s flying swords as the key to changing Great Daos.

• Ming Qingyue healed in the grotto-heaven, searched it, and left after finding nothing unusual.
• Tian Hengzi reappeared in the grotto-heaven and spoke with an aura-less black shadow, who planned to use a staged Star River Mansion encounter to observe Shi Xuan’s abilities.
• Ming Qingyue used Purple Star Dou to examine the situation, hid the Starlight Compass, and chose to search Shi Xuan’s locations first.
• Fengdu Imperial Sovereign broke free of the spatial rift with the aid of the Samsara Plate and a scroll, sending out a Fourth Tribulation Avatar.
• Fengdu Imperial Sovereign recalled that Shi Xuan’s three flying swords could help him change Great Daos, a secret he had kept from Ehuang.

Fengdu Imperial Sovereign suspected Shi Xuan was part of a vast scheme and followed his trail into the Western Wilderness, while Shi Xuan crossed its deadly temporal-spatial storms. Shi Xuan blocked a Buddhist sermon that threatened his Dao heart and attacked its speaker, but another voice declared the offense an irreconcilable enmity.

• Fengdu Imperial Sovereign considered switching Great Daos, concealed his suspicions from Ehuang, and tracked Shi Xuan through the spatial storms.
• Shi Xuan studied the Western Wilderness storms, entered the Inner Layer with the Cosmic Light Bell, and used his control over time to withstand the chaos.
• Jian Taiqing reported losing Shi Xuan to the Divine Emperor, who directed him to approach Shi Xuan and seek friendship.
• Shi Xuan used the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger to press deeper into the storms, where a White Clad Great Master began expounding on Dao Heart Decay.
• Shi Xuan blocked the sermon with End Fate and attacked the White Clad Great Master, while an unseen speaker called the act an enmity that could end only in death.

Shi Xuan confronted Great Master Jiuzang, whose incarnation used Buddhist arts to return from death and reveal her powerful lineage. After recognizing her attempt to recruit him, Shi Xuan used the Taiji Diagram and Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger to destroy her incarnation completely, leaving his resolve unchanged.

• Jian Taiqing joined Shi Xuan against Great Master Jiuzang, and she offered to let Shi Xuan kill her incarnation to end their hatred.
• Shi Xuan struck Great Master Jiuzang down with the Big Dipper Killing Sword, but she returned through the Unborn White Lotus Scripture of Responding to Calamity and Liuli King Tathagata's Original Vow Scripture of Merit.
• Shi Xuan realized Great Master Jiuzang had arranged for him to strike her so she could reveal her backing and tempt him to betray the Life and Death Dao Ancestor.
• Shi Xuan froze the Unborn White Lotus with the Taiji Diagram and immobilized Great Master Jiuzang with the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger.
• Shi Xuan destroyed Great Master Jiuzang's incarnation with the dagger's blade light and told Jian Taiqing that her offer would not help him.

Shi Xuan crossed the deepest reaches of the Western Wilderness Inner Layer, uncovered Jian Taiqing’s connection to the Divine Emperor, and approached the Western Wilderness Core. After encountering Innate Slaughter Qi, he met Fengdu Imperial Sovereign, who arrived without immediately attacking.

• Shi Xuan declined Jian Taiqing’s offer to explore together and crossed the Temporal-Spatial Storm on the Other Shore Golden Bridge.
• The Divine Emperor ordered Jian Taiqing not to stop Shi Xuan, then sent him back toward the Western Wilderness Outer Regions as he sensed changes ahead.
• Jiuzang Imperial Sovereign accepted the fall of her incarnation and remarked that Nether Sea Imperial Sovereign’s attempt to test Shi Xuan would benefit them.
• Shi Xuan deduced that Jian Taiqing served the Divine Emperor and that the Divine Emperor sought the Life and Death Dao Embryo.
• Shi Xuan narrowly avoided Innate Slaughter Qi and recognized that he was nearing the Western Wilderness Core.
• Fengdu Imperial Sovereign appeared before Shi Xuan, who acknowledged his arrival.

Shi Xuan rejected Fengdu Imperial Sovereign’s offer, suppressed his Fate Destroying Scroll with the Taiji Diagram, and escaped into the Western Wilderness Inner Layer. Meanwhile, Ming Qingyue uncovered the real Star River Mansion, prompting powerful cultivators across the Myriad Worlds to sense that the opportunity to attain the Dao had arrived.

• Fengdu Imperial Sovereign offered to exchange the Fate Destroying Scroll’s sacrificial refinement method for the refinement method of Shi Xuan’s flying swords, but Shi Xuan refused.
• Fengdu Imperial Sovereign attacked Shi Xuan with the Fate Destroying Scroll, and Shi Xuan used the Taiji Diagram and Other Shore Golden Bridge to suppress the attack.
• Shi Xuan escaped through the Innate Slaughter Qi into the Western Wilderness Inner Layer, while Fengdu Imperial Sovereign failed to pursue him.
• Ming Qingyue found the location Tian Hengzi had given her and activated the Star River Mansion’s opening restriction.
• Star River Mansion revealed itself as the real Dao Ancestor’s Mansion, and Half-step Golden Immortals and Fourth Tribulation Heavenly Sovereigns across the Myriad Worlds sensed the opportunity to attain the Dao.
• A beautiful woman in the Demon Ancestor Palace watched the Grotto-heaven Remnants through Tian Hengzi and called a certain existence petty.

The Star River Mansion emerged in Yuyu Heaven, drawing cultivators from across the worlds while Ming Qingyue entered to glimpse the Star River True Law. Deep in the Western Wilderness, Shi Xuan reached the traces of Daoist Yujing’s battle and saw the Zhu Xian Sword Formation.

• A pitch-black-robed Daoist, Ancestor Dragon, and a Star River woman reacted to the mansion’s emergence, while an invisible force prevented Half-step Golden Immortals from entering Yuyu Heaven.
• True Lords and True People across the Western Wilderness and other regions set out for the mansion, and Fengdu Imperial Sovereign realized Ehuang had moved the genuine mansion to make the opportunity seem ordinary.
• Ming Qingyue discovered that the mansion had opened and that her Karmic Oath had dissolved, then entered to view the Star River True Law before powerful cultivators arrived.
• The black shadow instructed Tian Hengzi to wait for Shi Xuan and promised to help him contend for the mansion’s treasures if he learned about Shi Xuan’s cultivation and origins.
• Shi Xuan used the Taiji Diagram and a safe route provided by Granny Yu to cross the storms of Innate Slaughter Qi toward the Western Wilderness Core.
• Shi Xuan and the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger reached the remains of Daoist Yujing’s battle and saw four enormous swords forming the Zhu Xian Sword Formation.

Shi Xuan studied the residual Zhu Xian Sword Formation and worked with the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger to devise a pseudo formation he could adapt into his Circumstellar Star Dou Sword Art. Their discussion was interrupted when Star River Mansion appeared across the Western Wilderness Outer Regions, leaving Shi Xuan wary of the sudden spectacle and the attention it would draw.

• Shi Xuan studied the Zhu Xian Sword Formation’s residual image and gained insight into One Sword Breaks All Laws and the Innate Path of Slaughter.
• The Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger recalled sparring with the four Slaughter Dao lineages and shared the sword formation’s essential marrow with Shi Xuan.
• Shi Xuan and the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger devised a pseudo Zhu Xian Sword Formation that Shi Xuan planned to incorporate into the Circumstellar Star Dou Sword Art.
• Shi Xuan reflected on Granny Yu’s hidden memories and the roles Star River Dao Ancestor and Primordial Demon Ancestor had played in protecting them.
• A river of stars revealed the words “Star River Mansion” across the Western Wilderness Outer Regions, and Shi Xuan suspected the spectacle would attract many forces.

Shi Xuan used the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger and his pseudo Zhu Xian Sword Formation to draw power from the remnant image of the Zhu Xian Sword Formation toward Star River Mansion. As the Fourth Tribulation Heavenly Sovereigns converged, the black shadow and Tian Hengzi waited for Shi Xuan to act, and a white sword light announced his arrival.

• Shi Xuan decided to approach Star River Mansion cautiously, fearing that acting openly would expose him to an ambush by Fourth Tribulation Peak Heavenly Sovereigns.
• Shi Xuan made the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger draw on the remnant Zhu Xian Sword Formation and established his pseudo Zhu Xian Sword Formation within the Temporal-Spatial Storm.
• Shi Xuan aligned the two formations and sent a white sword light sweeping toward the depths of the Western Wilderness Outer Regions.
• True Lord Xu and Meng Nishang arrived near Star River Mansion, and True Lord Xu asked Meng Nishang to save Ming Qingyue if an opportunity arose.
• Tian Hengzi set off toward Star River Mansion after the black shadow agreed to let him act, while several Fourth Tribulation Heavenly Sovereigns clashed nearby.
• A slaughter aura and white sword light froze the yellow sand and raging wind, and the black shadow recognized that Shi Xuan had acted.

Shi Xuan used the Innate Slaughter Qi to form a pseudo Zhu Xian Sword Formation before Star River Mansion, killing Tian Hengzi and stopping everyone from entering. The formation’s backlash injured Nether Sea Imperial Sovereign, while Ehuang freed the Half-step Golden Immortals she had bound and continued watching Shi Xuan.

• A white sword light appeared before Star River Mansion, and Tian Hengzi claimed Shi Xuan could not control the Innate Slaughter Qi before trying to bypass it.
• Shi Xuan’s azure, red, and black sword lights repeatedly blocked Tian Hengzi as he approached the mansion.
• Tian Hengzi transformed into Limitless Star Venerable and tried to break through, but Shi Xuan’s pseudo Zhu Xian Sword Formation formed around him and reduced him to ashes.
• The Zhu Xian Sword Formation’s backlash shattered Nether Sea Imperial Sovereign’s ghostly vision and injured his true body in the Nine Nether Ninth Layer.
• Shi Xuan warned that trespassers into Star River Mansion would die, and the gathered Heavenly Sovereigns and True Persons stopped in fear.
• Ehuang released the Half-step Golden Immortals she had bound and kept watching Shi Xuan for signs of Life and Death Dao Ancestor’s intervention.

Ming Qingyue reached the Langhuan Water Pavilion inside Star River Mansion and began examining the Star River True Law inheritance. Outside, Fu Zhen and two other Half-step Golden Immortals entered Shi Xuan’s Zhu Xian Sword Formation, forcing him to unleash its full power as it neared collapse.

• Ming Qingyue crossed the damaged Grotto-Heaven and reached the Langhuan Water Pavilion, where she found an imitation Saint Virtue Sword that revealed the Star River True Law.
• Ming Qingyue activated the Saint Virtue Sword and began studying the inheritance it displayed.
• Fu Zhen arrived at Star River Mansion, introduced herself to Shi Xuan, and entered the Zhu Xian Sword Formation to pursue her chance at attaining the Dao.
• A young Emperor and an aged Daoist arrived to aid Fu Zhen, then passed through the Jue Xian Gate and Xian Xian Gate into the formation.
• As the pseudo formation began to collapse, Shi Xuan changed the Jue Xian Gate and unleashed sword light from all four gates, filling the Western Wilderness with Slaughter Qi.

Ming Qingyue memorized the complete "Star River True Law" and escaped Star River Mansion while Shi Xuan held four Half-step Golden Immortals at bay. When the Saint Virtue Sword flew after Ming Qingyue and the Dao Lords tried to seize it, Shi Xuan unleashed a unified strike of Innate Slaughter Qi that revealed the power of One Sword Breaks All Laws.

• Ming Qingyue quickly memorized the lower sections of the "Star River True Law" and, after great effort, committed its Heavenly Being and Dao Integration sections to memory.
• Ming Qingyue guessed Shi Xuan was delaying the intruders, drew the treasures from Langhuan Water Pavilion and the halls into streams of light, and fled Star River Mansion.
• Shi Xuan fought Fu Zhen, the Longevity Great Emperor, and Old Man Taiyi with his pseudo Zhu Xian Sword Formation, and Kong Tongzi entered to join them.
• As four Half-step Golden Immortals neared the formation eye, Ming Qingyue's stolen treasures flew out of Star River Mansion, and Shi Xuan stopped the formation's attack when he understood she had succeeded.
• The four Dao Lords spotted the Saint Virtue Sword and reached for it as it flew toward Ming Qingyue, who was trapped by their powers.
• Shi Xuan unleashed four unified sword lights at the Dao Lords' reaching hands, revealing that the Innate Slaughter Qi itself possessed the power of One Sword Breaks All Laws.

Shi Xuan used the Zhu Xian Sword Formation to hold off Fu Zhen, the Longevity Great Emperor, Old Man Taiyi, and Kong Tongzi while Ming Qingyue revealed the Star River True Law through the Saint Virtue Sword. After Ming Qingyue escaped safely, Shi Xuan reflected on his gains as a thirty-three-story Golden Pagoda began comprehending the Innate Path of Slaughter.

• Shi Xuan unleashed four sword lights that destroyed the Dao Lords’ radiant hands, but each Dao Lord countered his sword with a Supreme Divine Ability and lost only a little Dao practice or time.
• The effort depleted Shi Xuan’s mind, spirit, and Innate Slaughter Qi, while the Taiji Diagram’s Other Shore Golden Bridge helped him sustain the formation.
• Ming Qingyue used the Star River True Law and the Saint Virtue Sword to display the complete True Law openly, prompting the Dao Lords to study it instead of immediately breaking the formation.
• Ehuang chose not to intervene, while Meng Nishang protected Ming Qingyue as she took the Saint Virtue Sword and departed the Western Wilderness Outer Regions.
• Shi Xuan put away his flying swords and gained new insight into swordsmanship; the thirty-three-story Golden Pagoda at the formation’s core tempered itself and comprehended the Innate Path of Slaughter.

Shi Xuan comprehended how the One Sword Breaks All Laws sword art could combine with Great Dao true meaning, then used his words to close the spatial rifts in the Falling Star Sea. The chapter left the story with cultivators watching Golden Core Grandmasters Min Canghong and Gao Donglou prepare for a swordsmanship duel.

• The Great Luo Dao Ancestor and an aged voice discussed their plans and Shi Xuan’s ties to Yuyu Sect, while the Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang Exquisite Pagoda tempered itself in the Zhu Xian Sword Formation’s phantom.
• Shi Xuan reviewed the principles behind One Sword Breaks All Laws and considered how his understanding of the Calamity Fate and Yin-Yang Great Daos could help him cultivate it.
• Shi Xuan left the Western Wilderness Inner Layer, returned to the Three Islands Sea Region, and used his words to close the Falling Star Sea’s spatial rifts.
• Cultivators gathered near the Deep Sea Abyss to watch Golden Core Grandmasters Min Canghong and Gao Donglou face off in a public swordsmanship contest.
• Xu Moyue recalled how Min Canghong had been driven from the Sky-Breaking Sword Sect by Gao Donglou, and wondered whether another Immortal Abode existed in the Cultivation World.

Min Canghong revealed that he had achieved a high-grade Golden Core and challenged Gao Donglou, but their duel was interrupted when the spatial cracks beyond the mist vanished. The group crossed into the Falling Star Sea, where they learned that Yang Spirit True Persons fought there and that True Lord Shi of the Penglai Sect commanded their obedience.

• Gao Donglou confronted Min Canghong over his departure from the Sky-Breaking Sword Sect, and Min Canghong revealed his Sword Light Differentiation and high-grade Golden Core.
• Gao Donglou fled Min Canghong, but they discovered that the spatial cracks in the mist had vanished, so the two agreed to investigate beyond it with Xu Moyue.
• The three Golden Core Grandmasters and their followers reached an island in the Falling Star Sea, where Li Wenfu identified their location and the group saw a falling star destroyed by a crimson sun.
• Li Wenfu explained that the spectacle was a battle between Yang Spirit True Persons and that True Persons obeyed True Lord Shi's decree; Xue Lingshan begged Xu Moyue to return home.

Min Canghong and the other Boundless Sea Domain cultivators chose to explore Yuyu Heaven after learning that its cultivation path extended to Celestial Immortality. They witnessed Xiao Zhenzi’s tribulation and True Lord Shi’s intervention, then discovered that True Lord Shi was the mysterious swordsmanship master who had guided their ancestors—and Min Canghong himself.

• Min Canghong encouraged the newly arrived cultivators to pursue cultivation in Yuyu Heaven, and they agreed to learn about its sects before venturing farther.
• Li Wenfu explained that Yuyu Heaven’s leading sects included Penglai and Guanghan, then identified a terrifying thunderbolt as Xiao Zhenzi’s fourth Heavenly Tribulation.
• A demonic hand interrupted Xiao Zhenzi’s tribulation, but a sword strike from True Lord Shi severed it, allowing Xiao Zhenzi to merge black demonic qi with clear qi and complete his breakthrough.
• Li Wenfu described True Lord Shi as Yuyu Heaven’s highest-realm Heavenly Sovereign, prompting Gao Donglou to ask about the mysterious cultivator who had once guided Patriarch Lu.
• Gao Donglou showed Li Wenfu a jade-slip portrait, and Li Wenfu recognized the cultivator as True Lord Shi, whom Min Canghong realized had also guided him.

Mu Yuheng emerged from seclusion and learned how Shi Xuan had defended the Star River Mansion, then received word that the Inner Sea of Falling Star had calmed. Meanwhile, Shi Xuan studied the Primordial Sky Demon Tome Xiao Zhenzi had entrusted to him and reflected on his unwavering pursuit of the Yin Yang Great Dao.

• Mu Yuheng emerged from seclusion, and Tan Weizhen told her that Shi Xuan had used the Zhu Xian Sword Formation to hold back four Dao Lords at the Star River Mansion.
• Tan Weizhen said Ming Qingyue had scattered the mansion’s treasures and revealed the Star River True Law, satisfying the Dao Lords and allowing other cultivators to gain treasures.
• Mu Yuheng received Xu Moyue’s message that the spatial rifts in the Inner Sea of Falling Star had calmed and wondered whether Shi Xuan had caused it.
• A demon ancestor trapped by God Locking Demon Chains raged against Shi Xuan, while the demon-path Heavenly Sovereigns discussed his Dao Heart Decay and the chains binding him to the Heaven-Supporting Four Pillars.
• Shi Xuan recalled how Xiao Zhenzi had entrusted him with the Primordial Sky Demon Tome in exchange for protection during his fourth Heavenly Tribulation, and he considered how the text could aid his study of the Great Daos.
• Shi Xuan reaffirmed that he would pursue the Yin Yang Great Dao without yielding to Mo Jingqiu or Granny Yu, while noticing that he had begun using the Four Symbols World Destroying Sword less often.