Chapter Summaries

Mu Yan intervened when Ouyang Yu and the Nine Yang Sect disciples pursued two girls for their Mystic Yang Treasure Fruits, but refused to rescue them and fought only after the sect disciples blocked his way. He killed Ouyang Yu and the others, then killed the girls as well, and set off toward the place resonating with his Heavenly Emperor Divine Flame.

• Ouyang Yu cornered two girls and demanded the Mystic Yang Treasure Fruits, while Mu Yan arrived and refused their pleas for help.
• The girls tossed their Mystic Yang Treasure Fruits to Mu Yan, prompting Ouyang Yu to order the Nine Yang Sect disciples to attack him.
• Mu Yan defeated the disciples with his Heavenly Emperor Divine Flame, then overcame Ouyang Yu's purple flames and killed him.
• The two girls returned to flatter Mu Yan, but he killed them after realizing they had tried to make him their scapegoat.
• Mu Yan sensed his Heavenly Emperor Divine Flame resonating with a distant location and headed there.

After a Nine Yang Sect disciple exposed Mu Yan as the killer of their disciples, Mu Yan entered a vast sea of fire that parted for him. The Nine Yang Sect gathered around Ouyang Yu’s corpse and vowed to kill every Kunlun disciple.

• A dying Nine Yang Sect disciple used a Secret Method to announce that a Kunlun disciple was the killer, and Mu Yan welcomed the exposure.
• Mu Yan flew openly to a vast sea of fire, where nearby cultivators warned him that its heat was too dangerous to enter.
• Mu Yan walked into the flames, which parted for him, stunning the cultivators who had mocked him and revealing that he was from Kunlun.
• Several Nine Yang Sect disciples, including True Disciples, gathered around Ouyang Yu’s corpse and ordered their sect to find and kill every Kunlun disciple.

Su Jian advanced through the secret realm, defeated cultivators who tried to rob him, and discovered that Kunlun disciples were being hunted. After refusing Hu Hai’s offer to join the Nine Heavens Sword Sect, Su Jian confronted him when Hu Hai insulted Kunlun.

• The Nine Yang Sect ordered a hunt for Kunlun disciples, while Su Jian continued searching for treasures alone and advanced to the peak of the Golden Core Realm.
• Su Jian killed an ambushing group of Golden Core cultivators and their Nascent Soul leader, then collected their treasures and destroyed recording crystals containing explicit scenes.
• Su Jian checked his sect token, confirmed the other Kunlun disciples were safe, and waited for pursuing cultivators to catch up so they could help sharpen his skills.
• Hu Hai of the Nine Heavens Sword Sect invited Su Jian to become his follower, but Su Jian refused because he belonged to Kunlun.
• Hu Hai threatened Su Jian and mocked Kunlun, prompting Su Jian to face him and demand that he repeat the insult.

Su Jian fought his way free of the Nine Heavens Sword Sect disciples who tried to seize his sword and techniques, while Mu Yan absorbed the flames of Fire Hell and claimed the Holy Spirit True Fire. Mu Yan emerged at Spirit Transformation Fourth Level before the gathered Nine Yang Sect disciples, leaving them facing the youth they had expected to find dead.

• Su Jian severed Hu Hai's finger, unleashed several powerful sword arts, and escaped the Nine Heavens Sword Sect disciples pursuing him with Floating Sword Shadows.
• Chen Hua led the Nine Yang Sect disciples into Fire Hell to search for Mu Yan and the immortal flame, but they were stopped by the three-colored flames and spotted Mu Yan cultivating beyond them.
• Mu Yan used the Heavenly Emperor Divine Flame to withstand the flames, broke through to Spirit Transformation Third Level, and absorbed the Holy Spirit True Fire to reach Spirit Transformation Fourth Level.
• Mu Yan left Fire Hell as its flames subsided and appeared before more than forty gathered Nine Yang Sect disciples, glowing with golden fire.

Mu Yan emerged from the fiery prison with greatly increased power and destroyed the Nine Yang Sect disciples who tried to capture him. Outside the secret realm, the elders learned that one Kunlun disciple had wiped out the entire Nine Yang Sect group.

• Mu Yan appeared with golden flames and killed four Nine Yang Sect disciples in one strike when Chen Hua ordered them to seize him.
• Mu Yan evaded the Nine Yang Sect's attacks, then crushed more than forty disciples with his Heaven-Burning Blazing Flame Palm.
• Chen Hua and the surviving True Disciples fled, but Mu Yan used Flame Clones to kill the others and incinerated Chen Hua himself.
• Mu Yan checked his sect token, saw that Yingluo had reunited with the others, and went to find them while nearby cultivators fled in fear.
• Outside the secret realm, the Nine Yang Sect elder discovered that every disciple's temporary life token had turned to powder.
• Scouts reported to the gathered elders that one Kunlun disciple had killed every Nine Yang Sect disciple in the secret realm.

Su Jian broke through to the Nascent Soul fifth layer while escaping Hu Hai and the Nine Heavens Sword Sect disciples, then killed his pursuers and learned about the Sword Valley. He arrived at the valley as Lin Kui earned a Saint Grade sword and sword instruction, and Su Jian stepped forward to test his own sword aptitude.

• Reports confirmed that a single Kunlun disciple had killed the Nine Yang Sect disciples, so the Nine Yang Sect sent fifty Void Refinement experts and ten Body Integration experts to wait outside the secret realm.
• Su Jian hid from Hu Hai and his pursuers, formed his sword heart, and advanced from the Golden Core realm to the Nascent Soul fifth layer.
• Su Jian killed Hu Hai's disciples and fatally stabbed Hu Hai after learning the location of the Sword Valley.
• Su Jian reached the crowded Sword Valley, where Brother Gong explained that the stele measured sword aptitude and that Nine Heavens Sword Sect disciples had earned the best rewards.
• Lin Kui activated six Sword-Rays and received a Saint Grade sword and a Saint Grade sword instruction.
• After other cultivators failed to match Lin Kui's results, Su Jian pushed through the crowd and approached the giant sword stele.

Su Jian took the talent test at the giant sword stele and activated nine Sword-Rays, surpassing Lin Kui’s record and stunning everyone in Sword Valley. Before any rewards appeared, Su Jian transformed into sword light and vanished into the stele.

• Su Jian ignored the crowd’s mockery and placed his palm against the giant sword stele.
• The stele trembled and began producing Sword-Rays, while the crowd watched Su Jian activate the first five.
• Lin Kui tried to compose himself when Su Jian reached five Sword-Rays, but cursed when a sixth appeared.
• Su Jian activated the seventh, eighth, and ninth Sword-Rays, leaving Sword Valley speechless.
• Su Jian turned into a streak of sword light and disappeared into the giant sword stele before receiving any visible reward.

After Su Jian activated nine Sword-Rays and vanished into the giant sword stele, the stunned crowd watched Lin Kui order the Nine Heavens Sword Sect disciples to wait for him. Inside the stele, Su Jian met the secret realm’s master, Immortal Lord Shuanghua, who began to explain the inheritance.

• The crowd reacted in shock to Su Jian’s nine Sword-Rays, while Lin Kui struggled to accept that another sword genius surpassed him.
• Lin Kui ordered the Nine Heavens Sword Sect disciples to guard the stele and recruit Su Jian when he appeared.
• Su Jian entered an independent space inside the giant sword stele and found himself in a stone forest.
• Immortal Lord Shuanghua appeared, recognized Su Jian’s Supreme Sword Bone, and introduced himself as the secret realm’s master.
• Su Jian calmly greeted Immortal Lord Shuanghua, who tried to impress him with his status before turning to the inheritance.

Immortal Lord Shuanghua offered Su Jian his Shuanghua Sword Instruction and full inheritance, but Su Jian's casual questions and lack of excitement repeatedly angered him. Su Jian ultimately refused to take him as Master because he already had one, despite wanting the inheritance.

• Immortal Lord Shuanghua explained that he died fighting the Otherworldly Demons during the invasion of the Desolate Immortal Great World.
• Su Jian asked whether Shuanghua's eyes had dried out after fighting without blinking for three days, and Shuanghua became furious.
• Immortal Lord Shuanghua praised his Immortal Grade Shuanghua Sword Instruction, but Su Jian said his sect had many Immortal Grade and even Emperor Grade sword instructions.
• Immortal Lord Shuanghua explained how rare Immortal Emperors were, then offered to pass his inheritance to Su Jian if Su Jian took him as Master.
• Su Jian bowed to Immortal Lord Shuanghua and said he wanted the inheritance but could not change masters for an Immortal Grade sword instruction.

Su Jian refused to become Immortal Lord Shuanghua’s disciple because he was loyal to Ye Chen and Kunlun Holy Land, but Shuanghua relented after Ye Chen’s terrifying voice stopped him from reading Su Jian’s memories. Shuanghua gave Su Jian his full inheritance and four protective strands of Sword Qi, then warned that the Otherworldly Demons might return as Su Jian asked what they were.

• Su Jian refused Immortal Lord Shuanghua’s offer of a master-disciple bond, insisting Ye Chen was his only master.
• Immortal Lord Shuanghua entered Su Jian’s memories and was confronted by Ye Chen’s powerful voice, which ordered him to stop.
• Shuanghua apologized and withdrew from Su Jian’s memories, then gave him his complete inheritance, including his palace and four strands of Sword Qi.
• Shuanghua warned Su Jian that the Otherworldly Demons might return and that his generation would have to fight them.
• Su Jian asked Shuanghua what the Otherworldly Demons were.

Immortal Lord Shuanghua told Su Jian that the Otherworldly Demons might invade again before his remnant soul was mysteriously pulled from the secret realm. Su Jian emerged from the shattered sword stele to find the Nine Heavens Sword Sect and others coveting his inheritance, and Lin Kui prepared to kill him after Su Jian refused to join.

• Immortal Lord Shuanghua recounted the Otherworldly Demons’ invasion thirty million years earlier and warned that they might return.
• Immortal Lord Shuanghua’s remnant soul began to dissipate, but an invisible force pulled him from the secret realm before Su Jian could leave.
• Su Jian emerged atop the rubble of the collapsed giant sword stele as onlookers speculated that he had gained Sword Valley’s complete inheritance.
• Lin Kui invited Su Jian to join the Nine Heavens Sword Sect, but Su Jian calmly refused.
• Lin Kui and the other disciples unleashed their power and surrounded Su Jian, while the uninvolved onlookers retreated from Sword Valley.

Lin Kui attacked Su Jian to seize the Sword Valley inheritance, but Su Jian blocked his strike with the Azure Light Sword and then unleashed Sword Qi left by Immortal Lord Shuanghua. The Nine Heavens Sword Sect disciples’ assault collapsed, and they fled in terror.

• Lin Kui attacked Su Jian with his full strength while the crowd watched and waited for Su Jian to die.
• Su Jian summoned the Azure Light Sword, which blocked Lin Kui’s Sword-Rays and left him unharmed.
• Lin Kui suspected Su Jian had gained powerful means from the inheritance and ordered the Nine Heavens Sword Sect disciples to attack together.
• Su Jian released a strand of Sword Qi left by Immortal Lord Shuanghua, which multiplied into tens of millions of powerful sword strands.
• The Sword Qi shattered the disciples’ attacks, and the Nine Heavens Sword Sect disciples panicked and tried to retreat.

Su Jian annihilated Lin Kui and the Nine Heavens Sword Sect disciples in Sword Valley, while the sect elders outside learned of their deaths and feared the Kunlun disciples. Yingluo, Zixing, Ziyue, and Qin Haoran fought off their pursuers after gathering herbs, and Su Jian and Mu Yan arrived as the Kunlun disciples finally reunited.

• Su Jian unleashed a storm of Sword Qi that killed Lin Kui and every Nine Heavens Sword Sect disciple in Sword Valley, then left after the onlookers refused to challenge him.
• The survivors fought over the fallen disciples' treasures, while Brother Gong left the chaotic scavenging behind.
• Flying Feather Sect scouts reported that Wei Chu had been killed by two Kunlun female disciples, and the Nine Heavens Sword Sect elder discovered that all his disciples' life tablets had shattered.
• Yingluo, Zixing, Ziyue, and Qin Haoran gathered most of a medicinal garden's herbs, then fought the pursuers who resumed chasing them.
• Su Jian and Mu Yan arrived as the Kunlun disciples reunited, bringing a sword storm and a sea of golden fire against their enemies.

Mu Yan, Su Jian, and their companions entered the golden mist after it lured cultivators into slaughter, only to discover that an Otherworldly Demon was harvesting their blood. Their attacks barely harmed it, and as the group prepared to fight to the death, Elder Ling Xue appeared through a hole in the secret realm.

• Mu Yan used his Heavenly Emperor Divine Flame to drive back and kill cultivators who attacked Yingluo and the others, while Su Jian’s Sword Qi forced the remaining crowd away.
• A pillar of light drew thousands toward a golden mist that promised treasures and the Immortal Lord’s inheritance, but Su Jian warned that he had already obtained Immortal Lord Shuanghua’s inheritance.
• Mu Yan and his companions entered the mist, resisted its sinister influence, and realized it was provoking the cultivators to kill one another so their blood could be gathered.
• The bloodied mist flowed through a spatial rift, from which an Otherworldly Demon emerged and began killing and devouring the cultivators.
• Mu Yan, Yingluo, Su Jian, Zixing, Ziyue, and Qin Haoran attacked the Otherworldly Demon, but their strikes could barely hurt it, and the group prepared to fight to the death.
• Elder Ling Xue appeared through a huge opening in the secret realm, and Qin Haoran recognized her.

Ling Xue rescued Mu Yan and the others, destroyed the forces of the Nine Yang Sect, Nine Heavens Sword Sect, and Flying Feather Sect, and announced that Kunlun Holy Land would recruit disciples in the Azure Heaven Region. Back in Kunlun, Ye Chen used the mission rewards to summon reinforcements and made Immortal Lord Shuanghua an elder.

• Ling Xue killed the Otherworldly Demon, and Mu Yan and the others left the collapsing secret realm.
• At the exit, Ling Xue killed the forces sent by the Nine Yang Sect, Nine Heavens Sword Sect, and Flying Feather Sect after they tried to seize the Kunlun disciples and their treasures.
• Ling Xue departed with Mu Yan and the others, announcing that Kunlun Holy Land would soon recruit disciples in the Azure Heaven Region; the Wind Spirit Sect later sealed its mountain, while the Nine Heavens Sword Sect's master planned a joint assault on Kunlun.
• Ye Chen received the completed trial mission's summoning cards, used them to summon reinforcements, and assigned them duties.
• Ye Chen summoned Immortal Lord Shuanghua's remnant soul and appointed him an elder of Kunlun Holy Land.

Ye Chen stabilized Immortal Lord Shuanghua’s remnant soul, created him a flawless body, and helped Xiao Yue and the twins advance in cultivation. Kunlun Holy Land opened recruitment, drawing vast crowds and several unusual prospective disciples, while the three great sects of the Two Instruments Realm secretly met.

• Ye Chen formed a flawless fleshly body for Immortal Lord Shuanghua, who entered it and marveled at its strength and sensitivity to the Dao.
• Ye Chen helped Xiao Yue break through to the Immortal Lord realm, then advanced Zixing and Ziyue to the Nascent Soul realm.
• Ye Chen ordered Ling Kong to prepare for recruitment, and cultivators from across the Eastern Victorious Continent flocked to Kunlun City as the sect’s gates remained protected by a formation.
• Chen Xuanbei, Ye Fan, and Han Li traveled toward Kunlun Holy Land, each seeking an opportunity there for his own reasons.
• Su Lingyun and Tao Yaoyao left the Falling Moon Holy Land under the guise of a sect mission to visit Kunlun’s recruitment assembly.
• The higher-ups of the Nine Heavens Sword Sect, the Nine Yang Sect, and the Flying Feather Sect met secretly as recruitment stirred the Two Instruments Realm.

The three great sects mobilized to destroy the Kunlun Holy Land, but Elder Cai Kun subdued a beast tide threatening Kunlun City and impressed its enormous crowd. Kunlun then opened its disciple recruitment trial, where Ye Fan, Han Li, and Chen Xuanbei began climbing the Illusion Steps as many candidates fell into illusions.

• The Nine Yang Sect Master, the Nine Heavens Sword Sect Master, and the Flying Feather Sect Master agreed to attack Kunlun and sent their forces toward the Azure Heaven Region.
• The World-Chaos Demon Ape, Jade-Eyed Golden-Scaled Lion, Heaven-Devouring Sparrow, and Golden King Beast led a beast tide toward Kunlun Giant City.
• Elder Cai Kun used his power to capture the four great demons and ordered them to guard Kunlun, while the lesser beasts fled.
• Deputy Sect Master Ling Kong opened Kunlun's gates and explained the three-stage recruitment trial, beginning with the Illusion Steps.
• Ye Fan, Han Li, and Chen Xuanbei entered the Illusion Steps and faced their trials, while many other candidates succumbed to illusions and were eliminated.

Chen Xuanbei, Ye Fan, and Han Li passed Kunlun Holy Land’s trials with nine Life Marks each, while Su Lingyun and Tao Yaoyao qualified as inner disciples. After Ling Kong revealed the generous benefits for each rank, the two Falling Moon Holy Land disciples accepted their new place in Kunlun and were teleported away.

• Chen Xuanbei reached the top of the Illusion Steps first, and Cai Kun’s warning about restraint left him suspecting that the elder might be an Immortal King.
• Ling Kong led the two thousand survivors to the Heavenly Mandate Stele, where Tao Yaoyao manifested seven Life Marks and Su Lingyun manifested eight.
• Chen Xuanbei, Ye Fan, and Han Li each manifested nine Life Marks, and Ling Kong’s remark that the sect master had expected Chen Xuanbei unsettled the reborn Immortal Emperor.
• Ling Kong distributed Spirit Stones, Divine Source, and other supplies to the menial, outer, and inner disciples, whose benefits astonished the recruits.
• Ling Kong told Su Lingyun and Tao Yaoyao that they now belonged to Kunlun, promised to notify Falling Moon Holy Land, and teleported them away to meet an old acquaintance.

Ye Chen rewarded Kunlun Holy Land’s new disciples and welcomed true disciples Ye Fan, Chen Xuanbei, and Han Li. He restored Ye Fan’s Ancient Sacred Body path, gave each disciple powerful cultivation methods and Mother Qi of All Things, and revealed that he knew Han Li’s Little Green Bottle secret.

• Xiao Yue greeted Su Lingyun and Tao Yaoyao at Kunlun Holy Land and offered to show them around.
• Ye Chen received recruitment rewards, including Emperor artifacts, cultivation methods, treasures, facilities, and summoning cards, then summoned Xiao Jue, Xiao Xuan, and Xiao Zhan to guard the sect.
• Ling Kong brought Ye Fan, Chen Xuanbei, and Han Li before Ye Chen, who accepted them as disciples and identified Ye Fan’s crippled Ancient Sacred Body.
• Ye Chen used the Zhou Tian Star Grand Formation to block the Innate Dao Diagram, then shattered it and restored Ye Fan’s cultivation path before giving him the complete Ancient Sacred Body cultivation method.
• Ye Chen gave Chen Xuanbei the Great Dao Furnace Scripture and Han Li the Chaos Scripture, and all three disciples received ten thousand strands of refined Mother Qi of All Things.
• Ye Chen hinted that he knew Han Li possessed the Little Green Bottle, leaving Han Li reassured that his master would not covet it.

Ye Chen used the Jianmu Divine Tree’s World Gate to leave the Desolate Immortal Great World, while the three great sects’ army arrived to attack Kunlun. As the battle was about to begin, six Holy Lords appeared to congratulate Kunlun, leaving the attackers and onlookers stunned.

• Chen Xuanbei, Han Li, and Ye Fan agreed that Chen Xuanbei was the eldest senior brother, Han Li was second, and Ye Fan was the youngest.
• The Jianmu Divine Tree revealed a World Gate, and Ye Chen entered it to travel to another world; Ye Shuang'er later complained that he had left without arranging for anyone to manage the sect.
• The Nine Yang Sect, Nine Heavens Sword Sect, and Flying Feather Sect arrived at Kunlun with nine Heavenly Immortal Realm ancestors and threatened to destroy the sect.
• The Falling Moon Holy Lord arrived to congratulate Kunlun, followed by the Holy Lords of the Divine Pill and Purple Tenuity Holy Lands.
• The rulers of the Nine Li Divine Dynasty, Sky-Rending Holy Land, and Starfall Holy Land arrived, bringing the total to six Holy Lords.