Recaps

Chen Zhengxing revealed that his marriage to Chen Qingyu’s mother had enabled a nonhuman conspiracy that nearly destroyed the Chen Clan. He explained how the Ninth Ancestor defeated the attackers, leaving Chen Qingyu to learn the true cost of the calamity.

• Chen Zhengxing told Chen Qingyu that the Spirit Clan Royal Court had backed his marriage as part of a plot by several nonhuman races against the Chen Clan.
• Chen Zhengxing recounted how the attackers used Chen Qingyu’s elder sister’s first-birthday banquet to infiltrate the Divine Capital and target her Saint King Bloodline and the Myriad Stars Armillary Heaven Bell.
• Chen Zhengxing described how the assault killed his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, along with many other Chen Clan members, while leaving the clan close to extinction.
• Chen Zhengxing explained that the nonhuman races sought the Chen Clan’s portion of the Supreme Void Eternal World Mirror’s authority and had blocked human reinforcements outside the Divine Capital.
• The Ninth Ancestor emerged from the Floating Heavenly Palace and killed seven mighty nonhumans, forcing the attackers to flee and ending the threat of war.

Chen Zhengxing told Chen Qingyu how his parents’ marriage led to a devastating conflict and a binding agreement between the Chen Clan and the Spirit Clan Royal Court. The chapter ended with Chen Zhengxing insisting that Chen Qingyu and his older sister must undergo a blood exchange ritual.

• Chen Zhengxing explained that the Ninth Ancestor’s victory preserved the Chen Clan’s standing, while Chen Zhengxing was punished and his branch was nearly destroyed for his role in the conflict.
• Chen Zhengxing said Chen Qingyu’s mother returned to the Spirit Clan Royal Court pregnant, delayed his birth for sixty years, and sent him to the Divine Capital six years ago under their agreement.
• Chen Zhengxing revealed that the agreement required Chen Qingyu and his older sister to exchange their bloodlines when he came of age, making him human and her a member of the Spirit Race.
• Chen Qingyu asked whether they could refuse the ritual, but Chen Zhengxing explained that the holy lands had witnessed the agreement and that completing his bloodline would greatly improve his potential.
• Chen Qingyu offered to give up the opportunity to help his family reunite, but Chen Zhengxing declared that the ritual could not be stopped.

Chen Qingyu agreed to travel to the Spirit Clan Royal Court for the blood replacement ritual after Chen Zhengxing urged him to seize the chance to grow stronger and visit his mother and sister. Before Chen Qingyu departed the Divine Capital, the Ninth Ancestor gave him a prepared identity, a disguise mask, and a life-saving divine pill.

• Chen Zhengxing agreed that Chen Qingyu should undergo the blood replacement ritual, explaining that their family bond did not depend on blood and that greater strength could help reunite the family.
• Chen Qingyu decided to leave for the Spirit Clan Royal Court the next morning and visit his mother and sister.
• Chen Zhengxing and Chen Qingyu toured the Divine Capital together, then parted to cultivate for the night.
• Chen Qingyu visited the Ninth Ancestor before leaving, and the Ninth Ancestor wished him success in finding the reincarnation of the Great Void Primal Spirit and completing the ritual.
• The Ninth Ancestor gave Chen Qingyu a genuine new identity, a mask that concealed his appearance, and a Myriad Transformations Life-Creation Pill that could restore him after death.
• The Ninth Ancestor told Chen Qingyu to swallow the pill in front of him and promised to reach him if his life was threatened.

Chen Qingyu prepared a new identity and received travel supplies and instructions from his father before leaving the Divine Capital. He departed through a teleportation array toward the southern border, beginning his journey to fulfill his mission.

• Chen Qingyu swallowed the Myriad Transformations Life-Creation Pill, secured his new identity items, and changed his appearance.
• The Ninth Ancestor sent Chen Qingyu from the Floating Heavenly Palace, and Chen Qingyu left for the teleportation array.
• Chen Zhengxing gave Chen Qingyu a spatial ring filled with supplies and several million spirit crystals, along with a bloodline covenant for reaching the Spirit Clan Royal Court.
• Chen Qingyu selected the teleportation array closest to the southern border and used his azure jade thumb ring to bypass identity verification and payment.
• Chen Qingyu said goodbye to Chen Zhengxing and teleported away from the Divine Capital.

The Ninth Ancestor assigned the purple-robed elder Little Seventeen to secretly protect Chen Qingyu as he traveled south, while warning the Spirit Clan not to interfere with the blood exchange ritual. Chen Qingyu arrived in Four Directions City and was immediately surrounded after leaving its teleportation arrays.

• The Ninth Ancestor summoned Little Seventeen and asked him to serve as Chen Qingyu's Dao protector.
• Little Seventeen accepted eagerly, and the Ninth Ancestor told him to follow Chen Qingyu without revealing himself unless danger or bullying required it.
• The Ninth Ancestor instructed Little Seventeen to warn the Spirit Clan that no one could disrupt the blood exchange ritual.
• Chen Qingyu teleported to Four Directions City, intending to find a map and continue toward Liyang City.
• A large crowd gathered around Chen Qingyu as soon as he left the teleportation array area.

Chen Qingyu arrived in Four Directions City and hired a local guide, then asked about people who had recently risen to prominence in hopes of finding the reincarnated Great Void Primal Spirit. After learning the city’s celebrated geniuses were far weaker than he expected, he concluded that finding the Primal Spirit would depend on luck.

• Chen Qingyu chose a young man from the crowd to guide him around Four Directions City.
• Chen Qingyu offered the guide a spirit crystal, but the guide warned that accepting such a valuable payment could get him killed, so Chen Qingyu took it back.
• Chen Qingyu bought a map and paid the guide with blood jade.
• Chen Qingyu asked the guide about sudden-rising geniuses, hoping one might be the Great Void Primal Spirit reincarnated.
• The guide listed several local talents, but Chen Qingyu learned that even the strongest had only cleared the fifth floor of the War God Tower.
• Chen Qingyu decided that searching for the Great Void Primal Spirit across the Desolate Continent would be like looking for a needle in the ocean, and that he would have to rely on chance.

Chen Qingyu traveled from Four Directions City to Liyang City, where he unexpectedly reunited with Wu Su'e. He accepted her offer to rest at the courtyard she had bought.

• Chen Qingyu left Four Directions City and flew south toward Liyang City after consulting a map.
• During the seven-day journey, Chen Qingyu considered how to improve his spirit arts while the Supreme Void Dao Realm remained closed.
• Near Liyang City, Chen Qingyu sensed Wu Su'e's presence and was surprised she had arrived before him.
• Wu Su'e flew out to greet Chen Qingyu and noticed he had changed his appearance.
• Chen Qingyu told Wu Su'e to call him Qingyu, and she invited him to rest at her courtyard.

Chen Qingyu reunited with Wu Su'e in Liyang City, and they traveled south through the chaotic Land of Myriad Kingdoms toward Heaven-Reaching Sword Gorge. After more than a month of travel, they reached the Taihe Mountain Range, where Wu Su'e explained how an ancient king’s sword strike had carved the gorge.

• Chen Qingyu met Wu Su'e in Liyang City, where she revealed that a treasure made strangers see her as an ordinary country girl and explained that an elder had brought her across the void.
• Chen Qingyu and Wu Su'e rested, then flew south together toward Heaven-Reaching Sword Gorge.
• Chen Qingyu and Wu Su'e crossed the Land of Myriad Kingdoms, using teleportation arrays and enduring trouble amid its rival kingdoms.
• After more than a month, Chen Qingyu and Wu Su'e left the Land of Myriad Kingdoms and approached the Taihe Mountain Range.
• Wu Su'e explained that Heaven-Reaching Sword Gorge had been formed when an ancient king cleaved the mountain range with a single sword strike.

Chen Qingyu and Wu Su'e flew south toward the Heaven-Reaching Sword Gorge, where Chen hoped to fulfill his Sign-In System’s second location requirement. Wu Su'e explained the gorge’s connection to the Heavenly Sword Saint King and Liangshan Sword Saint Wang Jue as they approached the vast passage.

• Chen Qingyu admitted to Wu Su'e that the Heaven-Reaching Sword Gorge held a special attraction for him, though he knew little about it beyond what he had learned in clan elementary school.
• Wu Su'e told Chen Qingyu that Wang Jue had inherited one-fifth of the Heavenly Sword Saint King's swordsmanship legacy, which helped him establish the Liangshan Wang Clan.
• Wu Su'e pointed out the Heaven-Reaching Sword Gorge, and Chen Qingyu saw its enormous gap crowded with cultivators traveling through it.
• Wu Su'e explained that the gorge stretched tens of thousands of li and was a thousand li wide, while Chen Qingyu wondered where exactly he needed to go to sign in.

Chen Qingyu and Wu Su'e arrived at Heaven-Reaching Sword Gorge amid an unusual influx of Venerables. Chen Qingyu checked in and gained Ancestral Witch Qiangliang’s lightning talent, then examined his transformed powers in his inn room.

• Chen Qingyu and Wu Su'e noticed hundreds of Venerables streaming into Heaven-Reaching Sword Gorge and wondered what had drawn them there.
• Chen Qingyu entered the gorge and used his first check-in at Heaven-Reaching Sword Gorge to obtain Qiangliang’s Ancestral Witch lightning talent.
• The talent transformed Chen Qingyu while he stood dazed, and he and Wu Su'e went to an inn in Heaven-Reaching City.
• Alone in his room, Chen Qingyu discovered that he could command lightning, resist lightning arts, and wield a vastly stronger Ancestral Witch Body.

Chen Qingyu discovered that his new talent came from Ancestral Shaman Qiangliang, while Wu Su'e explained why Venerables were gathering at Heaven-Reaching Sword Gorge. She revealed that the Heavenly Sword Saint King's fading sword intent was tied to the search for the last portion of his divided inheritance.

• Chen Qingyu marveled at his new talent and wondered whether future check-in rewards might grant him the talents of all Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• Wu Su'e visited Chen Qingyu, teased him, and then said she had learned why so many Venerables had come to Heaven-Reaching Sword Gorge.
• Wu Su'e explained that the Heavenly Sword Saint King had left sword intent at the gorge to deter its dangerous beasts, and that Heavenly Sword Mountain displayed his swordsmanship every thousand years.
• Wu Su'e said the Saint King's sword intent had endured for over a hundred thousand years but was now close to dispersing, potentially leaving the gorge vulnerable to a beast assault.
• Wu Su'e revealed that the Saint King had split his swordsmanship inheritance into five portions, four of which had appeared, while the final portion remained missing.

Chen Qingyu learned that rumors of the Heavenly Sword Saint King's inheritance had drawn Venerables to Heavenly Sword Mountain, and he and Wu Su'e planned to visit. His second check-in at Heaven-Reaching Sword Gorge granted him the True Dharma of Commanding and Controlling All Lightning, but he decided not to abandon his established cultivation method and prepared to use the new art through his lightning abilities instead.

• Wu Su'e told Chen Qingyu that many Venerables were heading to Heavenly Sword Mountain, where the Saint King's recorded image was expected to appear in seven or eight days, and he agreed to go with her.
• The next morning, Chen Qingyu checked in at Heaven-Reaching Sword Gorge for the second time and received the True Dharma of Commanding and Controlling All Lightning.
• Chen Qingyu studied the method and recognized its compatibility with his Ancestral Shaman Qiangliang lightning abilities, along with its authority over lightning and punishment.
• Chen Qingyu rejected switching cultivation methods because it would ruin his existing foundation, deciding instead to draw on the new method's divine abilities through his innate lightning powers.
• Wu Su'e knocked and called for Chen Qingyu to set off.

Chen Qingyu and Wu Su'e traveled to Heavenly Sword Mountain, where the Eighteen-Family Alliance had sealed the mountain behind a formation and set up five Contesting Platforms to control entry. After seeing weaker Venerables turned away and powerful ones allowed through, Chen Qingyu mocked the alliance’s behavior.

• Chen Qingyu insisted on having breakfast with Wu Su'e before they left for Heavenly Sword Mountain.
• Wu Su'e told Chen Qingyu that Heavenly Sword Mountain lay in the middle section of the gorge and would likely be crowded with Venerables.
• Chen Qingyu and Wu Su'e reached the mountain and felt the overwhelming pressure of the Heavenly Sword Saint King's lingering sword intent.
• Chen Qingyu and Wu Su'e discovered that the Eighteen-Family Alliance had enclosed Heavenly Sword Mountain in a formation and blocked the entrance with Contesting Platforms.
• Chen Qingyu learned that Venerables had to fight through five platforms to reach the summit, while the alliance let some powerful arrivals enter directly.
• Chen Qingyu watched contestants lose quickly and mocked the Eighteen-Family Alliance for bullying the weak and fearing the strong.

Chen Qingyu challenged the Eighteen-Family Alliance’s Contesting Platform and defeated Zhang Tianchu without taking a step. The onlookers wondered who Chen Qingyu was and marveled at his strange power.

• Wu Su'e teased Chen Qingyu about challenging the Contesting Platform, and he agreed that he wanted a fight.
• Chen Qingyu and Wu Su'e forced their way through the crowd and reached the formation gate.
• Chen Qingyu stepped onto the arena to face Zhang Tianchu of the Canhe Zhang Family.
• Chen Qingyu used [Summoning Wind and Rain] to trap Zhang Tianchu in place with the Gang Qi Prison.
• A long-bearded middle-aged man ended the battle and asked Chen Qingyu to spare Zhang Tianchu, who collapsed gasping for breath.
• The alliance members and other venerables speculated about Chen Qingyu's identity and discussed his uncanny spiritual art.

Chen Qingyu continued challenging the Eighteen-Family Alliance’s Contest Platforms, defeating each opponent with his wind-controlling art. After forcing Zhang Tianjiu, the Alliance’s top prodigy, to his knees, he was left unimpressed by the challenge.

• Chen Qingyu defeated the fifth-heaven Spirit Origin Realm opponent on the second Contest Platform with a single move.
• Chen Qingyu immobilized the seventh-heaven opponent on the third platform, prompting a Divine Ability Realm elder to stop the fight and direct him to the fourth platform.
• Chen Qingyu faced Zhang Tianjiu, the ninth-heaven Spirit Origin Realm young patriarch of the Canhe Zhang Family.
• Zhang Tianjiu briefly weakened Chen Qingyu’s restraint with a spiritual art, but Chen Qingyu strengthened his wind-controlling art and forced him to his knees.
• Chen Qingyu looked at the defeated Zhang Tianjiu and asked, “That was it?”

After defeating four Spirit Origin Realm opponents, Chen Qingyu challenged the Eighteen-Family Alliance to send a True Gang Realm Venerable. A dark-faced middle-aged man accepted, broke free of Chen Qingyu’s opening technique, and launched a punch meant to teach him a lesson without killing him.

• Chen Qingyu dismissed Zhang Tianjiu’s defeat as an inadequate warm-up and called for a True Gang Realm Venerable to fight him on the fifth Contesting Platform.
• The dark-faced middle-aged man accepted the challenge to defend the Eighteen-Family Alliance’s reputation and joined Chen Qingyu on the platform.
• The Divine Ability Realm elder raised the barrier and declared the battle begun.
• Chen Qingyu used Wind Riding Technique to form a Gang Qi Prison, but the middle-aged man shattered it with True Gang.
• The middle-aged man mocked Chen Qingyu, charged at him with black flames, and struck toward his chest with a punch.

Chen Qingyu defeated a True Gang Realm Venerable with ease, forcing the Eighteen-Family Alliance to acknowledge his victory and open the path to the summit. Wu Su'e joined him, but the elder avoided a second contest by inviting them both onward.

• Chen Qingyu caught the dark-faced middle-aged man's punch and crushed his full-strength True Gang spiritual art without injury.
• Chen Qingyu struck the man down, leaving him badly injured and unable to continue fighting.
• The Eighteen-Family Alliance's Venerables backed away, and a Divine Ability Realm elder declared that Chen Qingyu had cleared all five Contesting Platforms.
• Chen Qingyu asked to bring Wu Su'e along, and she flew onto a platform and challenged the Alliance to send her an opponent.
• The elder opened a path to the summit and invited Chen Qingyu and Wu Su'e to proceed.

After Chen Qingyu and Wu Su'e reached Heavenly Sword Mountain’s summit, they joined the gathered Venerables waiting for the Heavenly Sword Saint King’s inheritance. Their arrival was overshadowed when a powerful newcomer tore through the mountain’s formation and headed for the summit, provoking the Eighteen-Family Alliance.

• Wu Su'e flew through the formation gate to join Chen Qingyu, and the two left the Contesting Platforms together.
• After the crowd protested that Wu Su'e had entered without clearing a platform, the Divine Ability Realm elder said any Spirit Origin Realm Venerable who defeated an Eighteen-Family Alliance True Gang Realm High Venerable could bring a companion.
• Chen Qingyu and Wu Su'e flew up Heavenly Sword Mountain and discussed the lingering sword intent and the possibility that the Heavenly Sword Saint King had left something behind.
• Chen Qingyu and Wu Su'e arrived at the summit, where they saw the Eighteen-Family Alliance and more than a thousand other Venerables gathered for the inheritance.
• A vast streak of sword light tore through Heavenly Sword Mountain’s formation and headed for the summit, enraging the Eighteen-Family Alliance.

The Liangshan Wang Clan arrived at Heavenly Sword Mountain to pursue the final portion of the Heavenly Sword Saint King's inheritance, forcing the Eighteen-Family Alliance to yield. Wang Pojun recognized Wu Su'e and approached her and Chen Qingyu, suspecting who the unfamiliar young man was.

• An exalted master of the Eighteen-Family Alliance tried to stop the incoming sword light, but a single strike cleaved his enormous True Gang hand.
• The Liangshan Wang Clan announced its arrival and ordered unrelated people to withdraw, and the summit's venerables immediately gave way.
• Wu Su'e explained that the Wang Clan had already obtained several portions of the Saint King's inheritance and wanted the last one on Heavenly Sword Mountain.
• Several dozen Wang Clan members landed on the summit, led by three Heavenly Impulse Realm sword cultivators, and were told to remain there until the Saint King's recorded image appeared in seven days.
• Wang Pojun recognized Wu Su'e and noticed the familiar presence of Chen Qingyu, then walked toward them.

Wang Pojun met Chen Qingyu and Wu Su'e on Heavenly Sword Mountain and invited them to join the Wang Clan, but they chose to stay where they were. After his relatives mocked him for calling them friends, Wang Pojun turned to confront them.

• Wang Pojun recognized Chen Qingyu and greeted him and Wu Su'e, then learned they had come to see the ancient kings’ images while traveling south.
• Wang Pojun invited Chen Qingyu and Wu Su'e to rest with the Wang Clan, but Chen Qingyu declined and Wu Su'e chose to stay beside him.
• Wang Pojun told his Seventh Granduncle that his friends were direct descendants of the Taihuang Wu Clan and the Chen Clan of Changluo, and that they had declined his invitation.
• Wang Pojun’s cousins mocked him for calling the two his friends, and he turned toward them and asked coldly whether they had said enough.

Chen Qingyu checked in at Heaven-Reaching Sword Gorge for the third time and received the sword soul of the Nine Hells Heavenly Punishment Sword. The reward pool was exhausted, but check-in eligibility at Supreme Harmony Altar was unlocked.

• Wang Pojun rebuked two Wang Clan disciples for disparaging his friend, and one of them pulled the other away before he could provoke a duel.
• Chen Qingyu received a system notification that Heaven-Reaching Sword Gorge had refreshed and checked in for the third time.
• Chen Qingyu absorbed the Nine Hells Heavenly Punishment Sword’s sword soul into his Nine Heavens and learned about its power and limits.
• Chen Qingyu realized the sword soul could become a powerful weapon when infused into a suitable sword.
• The system announced that the Heaven-Reaching Sword Gorge reward pool was exhausted and unlocked check-in eligibility at Supreme Harmony Altar.

Chen Qingyu learned that the Supreme Harmony Altar lay within the Yanggu Zhang Clan’s territory and considered traveling there, while Wu Su'e said she could continue accompanying him. The two then sensed a vast presence rising through the space around them, and Chen Qingyu wondered whether the Heavenly Sword Saint King's sword intent was dissipating early.

• Chen Qingyu asked Wu Su'e where the Supreme Harmony Altar was, and she explained its origins and its restricted access as a sacred site of the Yanggu Zhang Clan.
• Chen Qingyu considered visiting the altar, and Wu Su'e questioned his sudden change of plans and the long detour it would require.
• Chen Qingyu nervously asked whether Wu Su'e would leave for the Land of Myriad Kingdoms, and she said her Dragon Qi secret treasure let her travel freely.
• Chen Qingyu and Wu Su'e sensed a vast presence rising through the surrounding space, while other Venerables also noticed something was wrong.
• Chen Qingyu wondered whether the Heavenly Sword Saint King's sword intent was about to dissipate ahead of schedule.

Chen Qingyu and Wu Su'e waited at Heaven-Reaching Sword Gorge as the Heavenly Sword Saint King's sword intent rose ahead of schedule, raising fears that the inheritance event would be dangerous. During the wait, Chen Qingyu advanced his cultivation and strengthened his lightning abilities, physique, and sword-soul control; the story left him and Wu Su'e facing the final day before the Saint King's recorded image appeared.

• Wu Su'e confirmed that the Heavenly Sword Saint King's sword intent was rising unusually early, and Chen Qingyu suspected it was nearing dissipation.
• Chen Qingyu and Wu Su'e stayed at the summit while Venerables gathered, formed alliances, and waited for the possible inheritance.
• Chen Qingyu broke through to the Second Heaven of the Spirit Origin Realm.
• Chen Qingyu checked in at Heaven-Reaching Sword Gorge and gained greatly improved mastery of the True Dharma of Commanding and Controlling All Lightning, including multiple lightning divine abilities.
• Over the following days, Chen Qingyu enhanced his Ancestral Shaman Qiangliang physique, learned more lightning divine abilities, and strengthened his control over the Nine Hells Heavenly Punishment Sword's sword soul.
• After eight days, Chen Qingyu and Wu Su'e prepared for the final day, when the Saint King's inheritance would soon be revealed.

As the Heavenly Sword Saint King's sword intent dissipated, his inheritance appeared on Heavenly Sword Mountain, igniting a desperate rush among the gathered Venerables. Just as the Liangshan Wang Clan and the Eighteen-Family Alliance charged for it, the white light swept across the summit and hurled everyone away.

• The Eighteen-Family Alliance closed the formation gate and its last members joined the summit as the gathered Venerables waited for the Saint King's afterimage.
• The Heavenly Sword Saint King's afterimage appeared, and its sword intent immersed many sword cultivators in sudden enlightenment.
• The Saint King revealed that an inheritance would emerge when his sword intent faded, and the Liangshan Wang Clan and the Eighteen-Family Alliance prepared to compete for it.
• Chen Qingyu grabbed Wu Su'e's wrist and said they should prepare to flee if the Heavenly Impulse Realm High Venerables fought.
• The Saint King's sword intent vanished and a white radiance appeared, prompting the Wang Clan triplets and the Alliance High Venerables to rush toward it.
• The white light surged across the summit and forcibly sent the Liangshan Wang Clan, the Eighteen-Family Alliance, and every other Venerable flying.

A sword formation appeared around the Heavenly Sword Saint King's legacy, forcing everyone to enter a trial that suppressed their cultivation and abilities. Chen Qingyu realized that they had to decipher the formation's sword intent to advance, and that the trial was designed to select the strongest sword Dao talent.

• A burst of white light swept everyone off the summit, then formed a faint sword formation around it.
• The Liangshan Wang Clan's three High Venerables tried to fly back onto the summit but fell, while the Eighteen-Family Alliance recognized that the formation was a trial for the legacy.
• The Wang Clan leader summoned the clan's disciples to enter the trial, and the other Venerables soon followed.
• Chen Qingyu took Wu Su'e onto the summit, where the sword formation suppressed their abilities and forced them to advance by deciphering sword intent.
• Chen Qingyu examined the formation and realized the Heavenly Sword Saint King intended to choose the person with the greatest sword Dao talent.