Chapter Summaries

Shen Tinglan fought Wengu Honghua and an eighth-rank flood dragon until she unleashed a sword strike sealed by her true body. The strike killed the flood dragon and nearly obliterated Wengu Honghua, who barely restored his body and regretted pursuing her without preparing a formation.

• Wengu Honghua caught up with Shen Tinglan after her five Soul Division clones were destroyed, and they fought fiercely as she drew vitality from the forest.
• The eighth-rank flood dragon joined Wengu Honghua, pierced Shen Tinglan with an iron chain, and smashed her head, but she reformed.
• Shen Tinglan released the Sword Qi sealed in a bead between her brows and sent it slashing toward Wengu Honghua and the flood dragon.
• The sword light erased the eighth-rank flood dragon, shattered Wengu Honghua's banner and shield, and cleaved his Dharma Aspect and body apart.
• Wengu Honghua used remnant souls from a porcelain vial to buy time, rebuilt his body, and regretted pushing Shen Tinglan too hard without setting up a formation.

Shen Tinglan nearly killed Wengu Honghua, but Myriad Souls Hall fighters trapped her in the Myriad Souls Formation. Ji Wuchang ambushed the weakened Wengu Honghua and confronted his fleeing Primordial Spirit with the Myriad Souls Banner.

• Shen Tinglan pursued Wengu Honghua and blasted him apart, but he re-formed his body and threatened to self-detonate.
• Zuo Shangyu, Bai Lufei, and other Myriad Souls Hall fighters arrived and trapped Shen Tinglan in the Myriad Souls Formation, wounding her with Divine Soul Spikes.
• Ji Wuchang struck Wengu Honghua with a blood-red sword, immobilized him, and pierced his head with a pitch-black iron chain.
• Wengu Honghua's Primordial Spirit escaped his destroyed body, but Ji Wuchang appeared before it and swept at it with the Myriad Souls Banner.

Ji Wuchang and Hong Daqi ambushed Shen Tinglan after Ji Wuchang devoured Wengu Honghua’s Primordial Spirit. As Shen Tinglan threatened him with the vengeance of her true body, Ji Wuchang activated his killing technique and attacked.

• Ji Wuchang devoured Wengu Honghua’s Primordial Spirit with the Myriad Souls Banner, creating an opening that let Shen Tinglan escape the Myriad Souls Hall.
• Hong Daqi ambushed Shen Tinglan with sword arrays, while Ji Wuchang struck from concealment with the Great Seal of Ten Thousand Ferocities.
• Shen Tinglan reformed after being shredded and crushed, but her Qi and Blood were rapidly devoured by Ji Wuchang’s seal.
• Ji Wuchang revealed himself, accused Shen Tinglan of plotting against him, and dismissed her threat that her true body would hunt him down.
• Ji Wuchang activated the Hundredfold Sublimation Instant Kill Technique and Heaven-Treading Steps, appearing above Shen Tinglan and stomping down.

Ji Wuchang killed Shen Tinglan’s clone and rushed to help Hu Yueling, whose group was besieged by the Hidden Sword Gate. When he arrived, the fighting had already begun, and he watched the battle from afar without revealing himself.

• Ji Wuchang killed Shen Tinglan’s clone, captured her Primordial Spirit, and ordered Hong Daqi to find the remaining Hidden Sword Gate and Myriad Souls Hall experts.
• Hu Yueling and Chen Yanzhao discovered that Ji Wuchang’s point of light had disappeared as the Hidden Sword Gate surrounded their formation.
• Lou Xiaojuan and Zhang Qiangsheng broke through the formation after its defenders fell, and Chen Yanzhao charged at Lou Xiaojuan.
• Hu Yueling crushed Ji Wuchang’s Jade Slip, and Xiao Zhe arrived to confront Zhang Qiangsheng as the two sects began fighting.
• Ji Wuchang arrived at the battlefield and watched Xiao Zhe, Chen Yanzhao, and the others fight without revealing himself.

Ji Wuchang arrived to rescue Hu Yueling and Chen Yanzhao, killed Lou Xiaojuan and several Hidden Sword Gate cultivators, then joined Xiao Zhe in overpowering Zhang Qiangsheng. Zhang Qiangsheng survived their attacks and called for Senior Brother Hong as a powerful figure approached.

• Ji Wuchang appeared, killed Lou Xiaojuan, and ordered Hu Yueling and Chen Yanzhao to eliminate the remaining Hidden Sword Gate cultivators.
• Lou Xiaojuan fled after Ji Wuchang destroyed her sword arrays, but he caught and killed her, capturing her Primordial Spirit in the Myriad Souls Banner.
• Ji Wuchang killed twelve Hidden Sword Gate cultivators, breaking their formation and leaving the survivors unable to fight on.
• Ji Wuchang immobilized Zhang Qiangsheng and attacked him with sword light while Xiao Zhe joined the fight and struck him into a crater.
• Zhang Qiangsheng emerged from the crater, terrified, and called for Senior Brother Hong when a powerful figure approached.

Ji Wuchang led the Green Mountain Sect to eliminate its enemies in the secret realm, then arranged for the sect to take responsibility for the bloodshed after they left. He prepared to part ways with the Green Mountain Sect and planned to return to the Heavenly Chen Academy and later the Ji Family.

• Hong Daqi asked Ji Wuchang to spare Zhang Qiangsheng, and Ji Wuchang agreed on the condition that Zhang Qiangsheng serve him for a thousand years and accept a soul imprint.
• Over the next five days, Ji Wuchang and the Green Mountain Sect slaughtered their hostile factions, including the Myriad Souls Hall’s final Supreme Realm fifth level expert, whose Primordial Spirit entered the Myriad Souls Banner.
• Xiao Zhe killed the traitors from the Green Mountain Sect’s Second Peak and Fourth Peak as the sect became the secret realm’s strongest force.
• Ji Wuchang gave Xiao Zhe a token for the Green Mountain Sect’s old man and told him to place responsibility for the killings on Ji Wuchang after they left the secret realm.
• Ji Wuchang told Zhang Qiangsheng and Hong Daqi to prepare to become Hidden Sword Gate sinners, and they promised to find him at the Heavenly Chen Academy.
• Ji Wuchang reflected on his gains and planned to resolve the Heavenly Chen Cauldron matter before returning to the Ji Family.

After the secret realm opened, the Green Mountain Sect’s survivors returned while the Hidden Sword Gate learned that Jiang Qiye had wiped out its people and those from Myriad Souls Hall. The Green Mountain Sect’s ancestor fought the Hidden Sword Gate’s ancestor for a day and night, leaving him severely injured.

• The Green Mountain Sect’s ancestor explained that Shen Tinglan’s rebellion had failed, her body had been destroyed, and her Primordial Spirit had been allowed to escape.
• Xiao Zhe emerged from the secret realm and told the Green Mountain Sect’s ancestor that Jiang Qiye had wiped out the Hidden Sword Gate and Myriad Souls Hall; the ancestor ordered him to deny that Jiang Qiye belonged to the sect.
• More than seven hundred Green Mountain Sect disciples emerged, and the ancestor departed with them while the Hidden Sword Gate’s ancestor grew increasingly uneasy.
• The Hidden Sword Gate’s ancestor searched a rogue cultivator’s soul, learned what had happened, and roared that he would not spare Jiang Qiye or the Green Mountain Sect.
• The Green Mountain Sect’s ancestor confronted the Hidden Sword Gate’s ancestor, and their battle lasted a day and night before the Hidden Sword Gate’s ancestor separated with severe injuries.

After escaping the secret realm, Ji Wuchang traveled to New Origin Prefecture, reunited with Ji Yunjin, and bid her and Thousand Poison Venerable farewell. He finally returned to Heavenly Chen Academy, where his worried friends and Yu Ling waited for him.

• News spread that Jiang Qiye had slaughtered Hidden Sword Gate's secret-realm entrants, and the Myriad Souls Hall offered a huge reward for information about him.
• Ji Wuchang met Zhang Qiangsheng and Hong Daqi in New Origin Prefecture, then sent them to notify Liu Cigui and Crimson Dragon to meet him at Heavenly Chen Academy.
• Thousand Poison Venerable appeared with Ji Yunjin and announced that he would take her traveling; Ji Wuchang gave Ji Yunjin the Nameless Sword and resources for their journey.
• Ji Wuchang watched Thousand Poison Venerable and Ji Yunjin depart, then began the long trip to Heavenly Chen Academy using teleportation formations.
• After months without news of Ji Wuchang, Xiao Xueguang, Zhen Xian, Liao Qing, and Yu Ling sensed his arrival and went to greet him.

Ji Wuchang returned to Heavenly Chen Academy, reunited with Yu Ling, and they confessed their feelings before sparring and catching up. Yu Ling then told him she would enter seclusion to break through to the Supreme Realm.

• Ji Wuchang returned to Heavenly Chen Academy at the Celestial Phenomenon Realm ninth level and greeted Xiao Xueguang, Zhen Xian, and Liao Qing.
• After the others left, Ji Wuchang embraced Yu Ling, and they confessed that they had missed each other.
• Ji Wuchang recounted his escape from a Nine Nether Lineage expert and his experiences in Green Sword Prefecture and Green Mountain Prefecture.
• Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling sparred, and he gained the upper hand despite her Half-Step Supreme cultivation.
• Yu Ling told Ji Wuchang she would enter seclusion for about ten days to advance to the Supreme Realm, and he congratulated her.

Ji Wuchang received the Myriad Transformations Space Technique and learned how to prepare for condensing a Supreme Bone. With the Heavenly Chen Cauldron expedition approaching, he resolved to grow stronger and settle his score with the Nine Nether Lineage.

• Yu Ling explained the Supreme Realm and urged Ji Wuchang to study how to condense a Supreme Bone before she left to enter seclusion.
• Xiao Xueguang gave Ji Wuchang the Myriad Transformations Space Technique and advised him to ask Master Zhen for the complete Law of Time.
• Xiao Xueguang said academy records on Supreme Bones would arrive soon, but warned that no reliable method existed and Ji Wuchang should not force the attempt.
• Xiao Xueguang warned Ji Wuchang that he would soon enter the dangerous Heavenly Chen Cauldron, where he would be cut off from outside help and might face powerful Nine Nether Lineage experts.
• Ji Wuchang vowed to strengthen himself and take revenge on the Nine Nether Lineage, then studied the Myriad Transformations Space Technique and its spatial attacks.

Ji Wuchang tried to visit Master Zhen but saw through Zhen Qingqing’s spatial trick and left, then used his stored cultivation to master the Myriad Transformations Space Technique. After testing his new spatial abilities, he began experimenting with Space Cutting.

• Ji Wuchang noticed his Root Bone had risen to Heaven Rank Supreme Grade and went to Master Zhen’s courtyard with a jar of wine.
• Zhen Qingqing appeared at the courtyard and tried to lure Ji Wuchang through a gate that concealed a void passage, but he recognized the trap and left.
• Zhen Xian and Zhen Qingqing watched Ji Wuchang go, and Zhen Xian warned that she might not be able to defeat him.
• Ji Wuchang spent one hundred and fifty years of stored cultivation bringing the Myriad Transformations Space Technique to great perfection, while Xiao Xueguang reinforced the courtyard’s defenses.
• Ji Wuchang tested the technique by traveling instantly to the Heavenly Chen Academy entrance and creating spatial projections, then returned and used Space Cutting on a Supreme Weapon.

Ji Wuchang destroyed a Supreme Weapon with the Myriad Transformations Space Technique, and Xiao Xueguang tested his mastery before warning him to keep it secret. After Xiao urged him to study the academy’s records on Supreme Bones and learn the Great Time Technique from Master Zhen, Ji Wuchang visited Zhen Qingqing, who challenged him to a fight before he could enter.

• Ji Wuchang used the Myriad Transformations Space Technique to shatter a Supreme Weapon and realized his combat strength had increased.
• Xiao Xueguang tested Ji Wuchang’s technique, confirmed the silver runes trapped his power, and warned Ji Wuchang not to reveal his mastery.
• Xiao Xueguang gave Ji Wuchang the academy’s accounts of Supreme Bones and told him to learn the Great Time Technique from Master Zhen.
• Ji Wuchang brought wine to Master Zhen’s residence, where Zhen Qingqing greeted him hostilely and said her father was away.
• Zhen Qingqing challenged Ji Wuchang to defeat her before entering, and Ji Wuchang readily accepted the chance to spar.

Zhen Qingqing took Ji Wuchang to a hidden Void Battlefield so they could fight without restrictions or observers. After seeing the power of his enormous Dharma Aspect, she prepared to face him in earnest, and the battle was about to begin.

• Zhen Qingqing raced away from Heavenly Chen Academy, and Ji Wuchang matched her speed with the Myriad Transformations Space Technique.
• Zhen Qingqing brought Ji Wuchang to a concealed cave entrance leading to the Void Battlefield, while Zhen Xian followed them inside.
• Before entering the gate of light, Ji Wuchang left a spatial defense around it so he could sense anyone touching the barrier.
• Ji Wuchang entered the battlefield, shielded himself from its bone-piercing chill, and saw meteorites floating all around them.
• Zhen Qingqing revealed her Supreme Realm fifth-level presence and summoned her Dharma Aspect, while Ji Wuchang answered with a Dharma Aspect nine hundred and ninety-one zhang tall.
• Zhen Qingqing warned Ji Wuchang to watch out as she prepared to attack.

Ji Wuchang and Zhen Qingqing fought first with physical strength, where Zhen Qingqing gained a slight advantage, then she unleashed her spiritual power and used the law of time to undo and redirect his sword arrays. Ji Wuchang faced the returning sword light, realizing that only the principle of space could counter her time-based power.

• Zhen Qingqing and Ji Wuchang exchanged punches using only physical strength, and Zhen Qingqing gradually gained the upper hand.
• Ji Wuchang drew on his bloodline power and charged back at Zhen Qingqing, but her final blows shattered his Dharma Aspect and left him bleeding.
• Zhen Qingqing ended their physical contest and raised her power with a surge of spiritual energy.
• Ji Wuchang summoned eight sword arrays through the Hidden Sword Array Instruction and sent their sword light toward Zhen Qingqing.
• Zhen Qingqing used the law of time to disperse the sword light and destroy the arrays, then restored the sword light and sent it back at Ji Wuchang.

Zhen Qingqing and Ji Wuchang fought with spatial, temporal, and soul techniques, with Ji Wuchang using clones and hidden attacks to keep striking her. After Zhen Qingqing unleashed her suppressed cultivation and drove off an attacker through a meteorite barrage, the battle remained unresolved.

• Ji Wuchang used the Myriad Transformations Space Technique to evade Zhen Qingqing’s sword light and attacked her with Space Cutting.
• Zhen Qingqing halted Ji Wuchang’s silver blades and sent a rune after him, but he destroyed it with his Heavenly Eye and Divine Soul Spikes.
• Zhen Qingqing bound Ji Wuchang with Time Chains and struck him, only to discover that he was a Soul Division clone.
• Ji Wuchang attacked Zhen Qingqing with Heaven-Treading Steps, Divine Soul Spikes, a Golden Crow, and a saber-wielding clone, injuring her and breaking her Dharma Aspect.
• Ji Wuchang immobilized Zhen Qingqing with the Demonic Dao Law-Disrupting Immobilization Art and struck her from behind, prompting her to unleash her suppressed cultivation.
• Zhen Qingqing’s Law of Time dispersed the incoming sword light, and she sent surrounding meteorites crashing toward an attacker, who fled from behind one of them.

Ji Wuchang outmaneuvered Zhen Qingqing in their contest, and Zhen Xian intervened before the fight could continue. Zhen Xian gave Ji Wuchang the Great Time Technique in exchange for a future favor, while Zhen Qingqing resolved to cultivate harder.

• Zhen Qingqing tried to escape, but Ji Wuchang’s twelve Soul Division clones surrounded her with attacks that Zhen Xian stopped.
• Zhen Qingqing called for her father, and Zhen Xian appeared; Ji Wuchang greeted him, and the three returned to Heavenly Chen Academy.
• Zhen Xian offered to teach Ji Wuchang the Great Time Technique if he agreed to fulfill a future request, and Ji Wuchang accepted.
• Zhen Xian gave Ji Wuchang a Jade Slip containing the technique and warned him not to share it or the Myriad Transformations Space Technique.
• After Ji Wuchang left, Zhen Xian comforted Zhen Qingqing and urged her to cultivate the Great Time Technique further, and she became resolute.

Ji Wuchang used his accumulated cultivation to master the Great Time Technique, but fell short of great perfection as he comprehended the Law of Time. Meanwhile, Yu Ling broke through to the Supreme Realm, condensed a Supreme Bone, and survived a massive Lightning Tribulation.

• Ji Wuchang studied Supreme Bones and decided to cultivate the Great Time Technique using his accumulated cultivation.
• Ji Wuchang advanced the Great Time Technique to major accomplishment and experienced a vision of the river of time, but still needed more cultivation to reach great perfection.
• Yu Ling emerged from seclusion as nine layers of tribulation clouds gathered over Heavenly Chen Academy, and Zhen Xian recognized that she had condensed a Supreme Bone.
• Yu Ling charged into the tribulation clouds and used her Lightning Origin to devour the lightning while practicing her arts and Dao.
• Yu Ling endured the Lightning Tribulation for a day and a night until it finally ended.

Yu Ling shared her Supreme Realm breakthrough insights while the Yu Clan faced plots against her, and Ji Wuchang uncovered the truth behind his return to life. Determined to exceed the Celestial Phenomenon Realm's historical limit, he severed his own cultivation after reaching half-step Supreme.

• Yu Ling held a Dao lecture for Heavenly Chen Academy cultivators, while Yu Clan members secretly enlisted the Myriad Souls Hall and Zhan Clan to plot her death.
• Ji Wuchang saw through the Great Time Technique how a Supreme Realm expert sent his Primordial Spirit back several hundred years, allowing him to return to life.
• Ji Wuchang recognized the terrifying presence from his vision as the same presence as the phantom in his token and reached the Celestial Phenomenon Realm peak with a 999-zhang Dharma Aspect.
• Ji Wuchang cultivated to half-step Supreme and found his Dharma Aspect still fell short of one thousand zhang.
• Ji Wuchang severed his cultivation realm, falling back to the Celestial Phenomenon Realm ninth-level peak.

Ji Wuchang repeatedly severed his cultivation realm to enlarge his Dharma Aspect, then used one hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones to push it past a thousand zhang. Its manifestation summoned terrifying black lightning, and Ji Wuchang endured a thousand bolts while his chest bone and Thunder Dragon devoured some of the lightning.

• Ji Wuchang repeatedly cut back his cultivation and healed his injuries until his Dharma Aspect reached 999.9 zhang, forcing hidden black blood from his body.
• Ji Wuchang used one hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones to break into the half-step Supreme realm, and his Dharma Aspect grew beyond a thousand zhang.
• Purple thunderclouds gathered above Ji Wuchang’s courtyard, alarming Xiao Xueguang, Master Li Guorui, Zhen Xian, Liao Qing, and the others.
• Black lightning bypassed the courtyard barrier and struck Ji Wuchang, who used the Green Spirit Instruction to heal while his Thunder Dragon and a bone in his chest devoured some of it.
• Ji Wuchang endured exactly one thousand increasingly punishing bolts of black lightning over nearly half a day.

Ji Wuchang survived the pitch-black lightning and discovered that it had formed a powerful bone within his chest. As he broke through to the Supreme Realm, he condensed another Supreme Bone, drawing the masters’ attention when thunderclouds gathered overhead.

• Ji Wuchang recovered from the lightning tribulation, and his Dharma Aspect changed as he sensed pitch-black lightning within a bone in his chest.
• Ji Wuchang began breaking through to the Supreme Realm, drawing spiritual power from his spirit stones as a fourth, black leaf grew from the mysterious mark.
• Ji Wuchang chased a strange light in a vision, and it entered a bone in his chest that devoured vast amounts of spiritual power.
• Ji Wuchang realized he had condensed another Supreme Bone and advanced from half-step Supreme to the Supreme Realm first level.
• Nine layers of thunderclouds gathered overhead, and the watching masters cried out in shock at Ji Wuchang’s second Supreme Bone.