Chapter Summaries

Jun Moxie attacked the Four Great Holy Lands with the Heavenly Demon Hall, forcing the young elites to retreat into the Secluded Bamboo Hall. As Mu Qingxuan’s fire failed to stop the black dragon, Chen Nian learned the Nine-Character Mantra and used its first two words to drive back the attack, then stepped outside to face the Heavenly Demon Hall.

• Jun Moxie revealed his Saint Transformation Realm power and led the Heavenly Demon Hall’s assault on the Four Great Holy Lands.
• The Holy Lords sent their young disciples into the Secluded Bamboo Hall, where Chen Nian and Mu Yun recognized the attackers’ demonic power.
• Mu Qingxuan infused the barrier with powerful fire, but Jun Moxie strengthened the black dragon until it shattered the barrier and wounded her and Mu Yun.
• Chen Nian studied the Nine-Character Mantra scroll and realized he could invoke the power of heaven and earth through his Word Spirit and poetry.
• As the black dragon attacked Mu Qingxuan, Chen Nian shouted “Approach” to drive it back, then said “Warrior” and shattered it before walking out to confront the Heavenly Demon Hall.

Chen Nian used the Nine-Character Mantra to defeat Heavenly Demon Hall’s forces, but Jun Moxie and Jiuyou’s deception helped the enemy retreat. Afterward, Jiuyou drew attention to Mu Qingxuan’s resemblance to Mu Qiufeng, and Mu Yun reported that she had fainted.

• Chen Nian used the mantra’s third character, “Fight,” to blast hundreds of Heavenly Demon Hall elites and kill some of the weaker ones.
• Jun Moxie attacked Chen Nian with the Heavenly Demon Seal, but the other powerful fighters blocked the strike.
• After the mountain-protecting formation was repaired, Jiuyou attacked Jun Moxie, who pretended to be injured, then ordered Heavenly Demon Hall to retreat.
• The Four Great Holy Lands praised Jiuyou, who suggested that Mu Qingxuan’s fire-type Profound Strength resembled Mu Qiufeng’s and called for an investigation.
• Mu Yun hurried to Venerable Kongxuan and told him that Mu Qingxuan had fainted.

Venerable Kongxuan revealed that Mu Qingxuan was Mu Qiufeng’s daughter, prompting the Grand Profound Holy Land to face pressure from the other sects. Chen Nian and Xiao Zhu helped Mu Qingxuan release and contain the fire Profound Strength inside her, but her origins were set to be publicly questioned the next day.

• Venerable Kongxuan told Mu Yun that Mu Qingxuan was the infant Mu Qiufeng had rescued from his dying wife and entrusted to him.
• Venerable Kongxuan admitted Mu Qingxuan’s parentage to the Holy Lord, who granted him one day before a public questioning.
• Envoys from the martial world demanded that the Grand Profound Holy Land punish Mu Qingxuan, and the Holy Lord promised an explanation the following day.
• Chen Nian proposed letting Mu Qingxuan’s fire Profound Strength erupt, and Mu Yun supported his plan.
• Venerable Kongxuan withdrew his suppression, and Xiao Zhu grew larger and used Vermilion Bird Divine Fire to contain Mu Qingxuan’s power.

Mu Qingxuan learned that Mu Qiufeng was her father and faced a trial in the Grand Profound Hall, where the Holy Lord moved to cripple her cultivation. Chen Nian intervened, revealed his growing power, and ended the chapter blocking the hall entrance after the assembled fighters failed to defeat him.

• Mu Qingxuan awakened as Mu Qiufeng’s sword, Ask the Wind, appeared and revealed his letter explaining her origins and urging her to follow her heart.
• Mu Qingxuan agreed to face the Four Great Holy Lands’ accusations, while Mu Yun stood by her and defended her in the Grand Profound Hall.
• Xuan Sanqing ruled that Mu Qingxuan would have her Profound Strength crippled and be confined for ten years, but Mu Qiufeng’s power shielded her from his attack.
• Chen Nian entered the hall, told Mu Yun to take Mu Qingxuan away, and unleashed his power as his cultivation reached the Moon Treading Realm.
• Chen Nian’s God Descent Art blocked the assembled fighters’ attacks and shattered Xuan Sanqing’s Grand Profound Divine Sword, then Chen Nian took position at the hall’s entrance.

Mu Yun and Mu Qingxuan fought their way out of the Grand Profound Holy Land while Chen Nian held off its leaders and other holy land experts. Chen Nian escaped under cover of darkness, but Xuan Sanqing ordered the Azure Profound Sect captured in retaliation.

• Mu Yun used the Big Dipper Seven Stars Sword Formation to defeat the disciples blocking his escape, then took Mu Qingxuan toward the mountains’ edge.
• Chen Nian guarded the hall entrance and knocked the Ancient Nether Holy Land envoy You Ji aside with a single punch.
• Xuan Sanqing attacked Chen Nian with the Grand Profound Divine Sword, and Chen Nian held his ground until the other experts joined the assault and shattered his divine armor.
• Chen Nian unleashed the Death God Domain and escaped, leaving a warning that the Grand Profound Holy Land would be erased if it pursued them again.
• The other holy land experts mocked Xuan Sanqing and departed, and he ordered his disciples to capture the Azure Profound Sect.

Mu Yun and Mu Qingxuan escaped the Four Great Holy Lands’ pursuit and hid in Luoyang City with Bo Yi. After learning where they had gone, Chen Nian left the Grand Profound Holy Land to find them.

• Mu Yun and Mu Qingxuan fled to Luoyang City after repeated attacks and sought refuge with Bo Yi.
• Jun Moxie learned that Chen Nian had held off the Grand Profound Holy Lord, while news of Chen Nian’s escape spread across the Nine Provinces.
• Lin Xian’er asked the Heavenly Lake Holy Lord to protect Chen Nian, and the Holy Lord agreed to speak for him if his life was in danger.
• Bo Yi welcomed the wounded Mu Yun and Mu Qingxuan into his cottage and told them that Chen Nian had escaped too.
• Chen Nian visited Jin Shu, learned that Mu Yun and Mu Qingxuan had gone to Luoyang City to find Bo Yi, and departed to meet them.

Mu Qingxuan and Bo Yi discussed love after realizing their matching dreams connected Bo Yi and Jin Shu to Mu Qingxuan’s father, Mu Qiufeng. Chen Nian arrived, and Mu Qingxuan embraced him before he kissed her.

• Mu Qingxuan asked Bo Yi whether he loved Jin Shu, and he admitted he was unsure of his feelings.
• Bo Yi described his dream of a chess fanatic who gave a wooden sword to a boy later named Mu Qiufeng, matching a story Mu Qingxuan knew from her father’s letter.
• Mu Qingxuan suggested that Bo Yi and Jin Shu’s identical dreams reflected their own past experiences, and she shared her view that love could take many forms.
• Chen Nian arrived, and Mu Qingxuan rushed into his arms and scolded him for risking himself to help her.
• Chen Nian kissed Mu Qingxuan, while Bo Yi stopped Mu Yun from interrupting and Mu Yun said he wanted to ask Chen Nian how he had displayed his divinity.

Chen Nian left Luoyang to check whether the Azure Profound Sect’s disciples had been captured, while Jin Shu arrived at Bo Yi’s cottage and reunited with him. The Four Great Holy Lands found Mu Yun and Mu Qingxuan in Luoyang, beat Bo Yi when he refused to reveal their whereabouts, and took Mu Yun, Mu Qingxuan, and Jin Shu away.

• Chen Nian decided to return to the Azure Profound Sect after hearing that its disciples might have been captured.
• Jin Shu disguised herself to evade the disciples following her from the Grand Profound Holy Land, then visited Bo Yi in Luoyang and reunited with him and Mu Qingxuan.
• The Holy Lord’s crane located the fugitives, and the Four Great Holy Lands ordered Mu Yun and Mu Qingxuan to surrender outside Luoyang.
• Bo Yi denied knowing where Mu Yun and Mu Qingxuan were, so the gathered disciples beat him until Jin Shu intervened.
• Mu Yun, Mu Qingxuan, and Jin Shu surrendered to avoid fighting near Luoyang’s civilians, and the Holy Lands took them away as Bo Yi watched.

Chen Nian returned to the Azure Profound Sect and vowed to destroy the Grand Profound Holy Land if its people harmed his fellow disciples. In Luoyang City, Bo Yi realized he loved Jin Shu, and his divine awakening triggered an extraordinary celestial phenomenon as the sun, moon, and stars appeared together.

• Chen Nian returned to the Azure Profound Sect, learned that the Grand Profound Holy Land had taken Yue and the other disciples, and warned its spies to carry his threat back.
• Bo Yi was driven from Luoyang City by the crowd and, remembering Jin Shu's kindness, recognized that he loved her and wanted to change their tragic fate.
• Bo Yi roared as his feelings overwhelmed him, and the sun, moon, and stars appeared together in the sky.
• Bo Yi's clothes became spotless as he stood transformed, while a voice declared that the mountains, rivers, sun, moon, and stars welcomed his return on the day of his divine awakening.

Chen Nian entered the Grand Profound Holy Land to face the four Holy Lords, who had gathered hostages and prepared a killing formation for him. He refused to surrender and was trapped beneath the formation as his divine power rapidly drained.

• The four Holy Lords discussed killing Chen Nian and held Azure Profound Sect disciples, Mu Yun, Mu Qingxuan, and Jin Shu captive to lure him in.
• Chen Nian arrived, smashed the Grand Profound Holy Land's mountain gate, and told Xiao Zhu to burn the holy land if he failed to return.
• Chen Nian confronted Xuan Sanqing and rejected the demand that he cripple his cultivation, answering by opening his Heavenly Eye and unleashing his power.
• The four Holy Lords formed the Formation of the Heavenly Dao and pressed it down on Chen Nian, crushing his divine general phantom and rapidly draining his divine power.
• Mu Qingxuan, Mu Yun, Lin Xian'er, and the Azure Profound Sect disciples tried or begged to help Chen Nian, but their restraints and the Holy Lords' power kept them from intervening.
• Jun Moxie watched Chen Nian struggle beneath the formation and believed the boy's death would benefit him.

Bo Yi returned to the Grand Profound Holy Land, revealed himself as Jun Yi, a guardian of the World Tree, and rescued Jin Shu before empowering Chen Nian. With that power, Chen Nian broke the four Holy Lords’ formation and destroyed the Grand Profound Holy Land’s ultimate sword attack, leaving the Holy Lords and their disciples injured.

• Bo Yi climbed the Heavenly Stairway with ease, bypassed the Flying Eagle Sword Formation, and entered the plaza where the four Holy Lords were suppressing Chen Nian.
• Bo Yi reunited with Jin Shu, revealed his identity as Jun Yi, and drove Jun Moxie away with a glance.
• Jun Yi gave Chen Nian a strand of power, then took Jin Shu to the hundredth level of the Heavenly Stairway and explained his role as a World Tree guardian.
• Chen Nian stood up under the strengthened formation and unleashed the complete Nine-Character Mantra Divine Art.
• Xuan Sanqing summoned the Grand Profound Immeasurable Sword, but Chen Nian transformed his phantom into a towering divine sovereign that shattered the formation and destroyed the sword.

Chen Nian defeated the four Holy Lords, killing Xuan Sanqing and the Wuji Holy Lord while sparing the Heavenly Lake Holy Lord at Lin Xian'er’s request. Jun Yi then revealed his overwhelming power, destroyed the Heavenly Demon Hall, and sent a chess piece into the Calamity World, where it demolished three Demon God Towers.

• Chen Nian used the divine lord manifestation to crush Xuan Sanqing’s defenses, and Xuan Sanqing killed himself after Chen Nian ordered him to take his own life as penance.
• Chen Nian killed the Wuji Holy Lord, caught the fleeing Jiuyou and let Xiao Zhu burn him to ash, then spared the Heavenly Lake Holy Lord when Lin Xian'er intervened.
• Jun Moxie arrived at the Heavenly Demon Hall’s gathered forces and ordered them to retreat, but Jun Yi immobilized them on a game board and summoned Mu Qiufeng’s sword.
• Jun Yi shattered the Heavenly Demon Dragon-Subduing Formation and crushed the Heavenly Demon Hall with a giant chess piece, then embedded a black chess piece in the returning Origin Demon Core.
• The Origin Demon Core returned to the Calamity World, where Jun Yi’s black chess piece struck three Demon God Towers and erased three Origin Demon Gods.

After the battle at the Grand Profound Holy Land, Chen Nian and his companions made plans to reunite and pursue their own paths. Chen Nian later intervened in the Heavenly Maiden Sect’s Holy Maiden selection, securing Ji Ya’s appointment before disappearing.

• Mu Yun and Mu Qingxuan left the Grand Profound Holy Land, then found Jun Yi’s letter saying he had taken Jin Shu away to travel across the Nine Provinces and beyond.
• Mu Yun proposed settling at the Azure Profound Sect to build a powerful sect, while Chen Nian revealed to Mu Qingxuan that he came from another world and intended to leave but return to visit.
• Mu Qingxuan grew jealous after Xiao Zhu revealed Chen Nian had female confidantes elsewhere and decided to keep Xiao Zhu, agreeing to give it the fire energy in the Wind-Inquiring Sword.
• Chen Nian left to fulfill a promise, while news of the Grand Profound Holy Land battle spread across the Nine Provinces.
• At the Heavenly Maiden Sect’s Holy Maiden selection, Chen Nian objected to Hua Wanling’s appointment and supported Ji Ya, prompting the sect master to choose Ji Ya instead.

Chen Nian reunited with Mu Qingxuan at the Azure Profound Sect, and their teasing turned into a shy agreement that he could stay another month. The chapter left them alone together in the courtyard as Chen Nian stroked her legs, while Xiao Zhu fled.

• Chen Nian returned to the Azure Profound Sect, where Xiao Zhu challenged him with her Vermilion Bird Divine Fire and he sent her into an alternate space with the Chaos Light-Devouring Beast.
• Mu Qingxuan thanked Chen Nian for his help, and he teased her about their first meeting and her brother Mu Yun playing board games.
• That night, Chen Nian told Mu Qingxuan part of The Legend of Sword and Fairy and said he needed to leave the next day to catch the World Tree Train.
• Mu Qingxuan admitted she wanted Chen Nian to stay, and Xiao Zhu blurted out that he should stroke Mu Qingxuan's legs.
• Mu Qingxuan agreed Chen Nian could stay another month if Xiao Zhu left, and Chen Nian sent the bird away before stroking her legs.

After failing another breakthrough, Tamamo-no-Mae considered using a plan to get close to Chen Nian, then sent Haruna to fetch him. Chen Nian arrived in God-Demon Capital and met Tamamo-no-Mae, who had summoned him without explaining why.

• Tamamo-no-Mae failed her tenth attempt to break through, while her other personality urged her to pursue Chen Nian through dual cultivation.
• Chen Nian left the Nine Provinces Continent with Xiao Zhu, returned to his world, and found Ye Hongling away from home.
• Chen Nian threatened to roast Xiao Zhu, but Ye Hongling returned, freed the bird, and locked her in the freezer for the night.
• Chen Nian visited Su Jinyu and Zhao Yixue, then returned home and found Haruna waiting outside his door.
• Haruna told Chen Nian that Tamamo-no-Mae had ordered her to bring him to God-Demon Capital, where he met Tamamo-no-Mae.

Chen Nian visited Tamamo-no-Mae, explained that her cultivation had reached the limit of her world, and promised to ask about taking her to a higher world. After discovering her apparent invitation to massage her had been an illusion, he left to visit his friends and return to the academy.

• Chen Nian met Tamamo-no-Mae, and she restrained him with her fox tails when he tried to touch her legs.
• Tamamo-no-Mae asked why her cultivation had stalled, and Chen Nian explained the World Tree Hierarchy and the limits of her world.
• Tamamo-no-Mae arranged for Chen Nian to massage her legs, but he later realized the courtyard scene had been an illusion and he had been hugging a log.
• Tamamo-no-Mae admitted to herself that she had let Chen Nian massage her before using an illusion to hide her embarrassment, then hung Haruna upside down from a cherry tree.
• Chen Nian visited Shangze Sakura, Gu Qingyue, and Qin Yu before heading back to the academy to ask the dean about Tamamo-no-Mae's situation.

Chen Nian returned to World Tree Academy and discovered Lin Xiaomeng had become his new roommate. He consulted the dean about powerful World Tree guardians and people who could break through world barriers, then resolved to take Tamamo-no-Mae to a higher world despite the danger.

• Chen Nian found Lin Xiaomeng in Hao Jin's bed wearing only a T-shirt and panties, and learned that she had swapped roommates with Hao Jin.
• Chen Nian told Lin Xiaomeng to dress properly before leaving the boys' dorm, while she secretly interpreted his warning as jealousy.
• Chen Nian asked the dean about a person from the Nine Provinces Continent who had suddenly gained immense power, and the dean identified the person as possibly the World Tree's fourth Level Guardian.
• The dean explained that former Level Guardians might be behind Calamity and that they were bound by rules preventing them from attacking ordinary people directly.
• The dean described Barrier Breakers and Barrier Domain Rangers, including a one-armed saber-wielding young man who had approached the threshold through his own strength.
• Chen Nian asked to borrow an academy vehicle to take Tamamo-no-Mae to a third-level world, accepting the danger because he had promised to help her.

Chen Nian trained at the academy, then traveled with Tang Rou and later went to world C-04 to help Tamamo-no-Mae break through. There, he found her transformed into an amnesiac girl he named Yu'er, but their journey began with a talking tiger threatening to eat her.

• Instructor Liu told Chen Nian about world C-04 and mentioned his former student Qin Xuan, a snake demon who had joined the academy.
• Chen Nian learned to use Dharma Heaven and Earth in training and gained a powerful new combat ability.
• Lin Xiaomeng tried to get closer to Chen Nian, but he arranged for her to pay for a meal with Tang Rou instead; after a month, he left the academy with Tang Rou.
• Tamamo-no-Mae sealed her demonic power and memories, reverted to her youthful appearance, and arranged for Chen Nian to be the first person she saw.
• Chen Nian named the amnesiac Tamamo-no-Mae Yu'er, spent a month caring for her, and then took her aboard the World Tree Train to world C-04.
• After arriving in C-04 with about half his power, Chen Nian encountered a talking tiger that planned to eat Yu'er for her cultivation.

Chen Nian and Yu'er traveled to Hangzhou after Chen Nian killed a tiger demon, while Bai Suzhen and Qing'er also headed there. At West Lake, Bai Suzhen recognized Chen Nian as the man who had saved her centuries earlier, and Qing'er urged her to investigate him before approaching.

• Chen Nian defeated the tiger demon, learned that Hangzhou was protected by a powerful snake demon, then killed the tiger when it tried to attack from behind and took its hide and demon core.
• Bai Suzhen told Qing'er that she had loved the mysterious man who saved her from a world-devouring worm centuries earlier, and the sisters decided to visit Hangzhou.
• Qin Xuan offered to accompany Bai Suzhen and Qing'er, but Bai Suzhen declined and left with her sister.
• Chen Nian sold the tiger hide in Hangzhou, bought clothes, and followed a broker to look for a secluded house near West Lake.
• Qing'er sensed that Yu'er was a fox demon and considered taking her demon core, while Bai Suzhen recognized Chen Nian as her long-lost savior and Qing'er stopped her from rushing after him.

Jun Yi met Mo Ning at the Mirror Moon Stargazing Pavilion, where they discussed the guardians’ reincarnations and the Calamity faction’s threat to the World Tree. Mo Ning suspected their eldest brother led Calamity and told Jun Yi to defend the fourth stratum as the fifth and sixth strata faced danger.

• Jun Yi reunited with Mo Ning and played Go with her while they discussed the Creation War and the conditions for their Divine Awakening.
• Mo Ning revealed that she had awakened early because members of a faction called Calamity had entered her world.
• Mo Ning told Jun Yi she suspected their eldest brother was behind Calamity and was trying to change the World Tree’s order.
• Mo Ning said the ninth, eighth, and seventh strata were under Calamity’s influence, while the sixth and fifth strata faced imminent danger.
• Mo Ning explained that the World Tree’s laws limited how the guardians could intervene and told Jun Yi to defend the fourth stratum.
• Mo Ning said the fifth brother was crucial to opposing their eldest brother, then won the Go game against Jun Yi.