Chapter Summaries

A Heaven-Swallowing Ba Serpent appeared above Heavenly Sword Mountain and swallowed half the mountain along with the Venerables gathered there. A Divine Treasure Realm old man prepared to hold it off, but the serpent swallowed its own tail and vanished, leaving him bewildered.

• Hundreds of thousands of Venerables failed to break the Eighteen-Family Alliance's formation sealing Heavenly Sword Mountain.
• The Heaven-Swallowing Ba Serpent emerged from the clouds and bit off half of Heavenly Sword Mountain, swallowing the Venerables on its summit.
• The Venerables panicked and fled as they recognized the serpent as a Desolate Beast.
• A Divine Treasure Realm old man from the Liangshan Wang Clan drew his sword and sent a flying sword message for reinforcements.
• The Heaven-Swallowing Ba Serpent swallowed its own tail and disappeared before the old man could attack.

After the Heaven-Swallowing Ba Serpent swallowed part of Heavenly Sword Mountain, Chen Qingyu was pulled into a strange space and separated from his companions. He found that the space lacked ambient Qi, but his divine-shore realm ability still supplied him with Qi as he flew upward to investigate.

• The loose-haired old man concluded that the Heaven-Swallowing Ba Serpent had swallowed part of the mountain and set off to find its trail and protect the Heavenly Sword Saint King's inheritance.
• Darkness seized Chen Qingyu and hurled him into a vast, bizarre space, where he landed alone among strange plants and ruined buildings.
• Chen Qingyu worried about Wu Su'e but decided not to summon the Ninth Ancestor, resolving instead to find her and the Wang Clan elders.
• Chen Qingyu discovered that the space had no ambient Qi, but the Qi drawn to him through his divine-shore realm ability remained available.
• Chen Qingyu transformed into a streak of starlight and flew upward to investigate the space.

Chen Qingyu discovered that the vast space was finite but unbounded, then followed a distant battle and found Venerables from Heavenly Sword Mountain fighting among themselves. He killed the crazed attackers with Yin Wood Divine Lightning, leaving the surviving Venerables stunned to recognize him.

• Chen Qingyu realized he could not escape the space by flying and spotted a battle several thousand li away.
• He reached the battlefield and saw seven or eight Venerables with black, blood-flecked eyes attacking three others, with two corpses nearby.
• The besieged Venerables called for Chen Qingyu's help and said their attackers had gone mad.
• Chen Qingyu unleashed Yin Wood Divine Lightning and killed the attackers.
• The three survivors recognized Chen Qingyu and were shocked by his strength.

Chen Qingyu learned that a mysterious distortion in the strange space had driven several True Gang Venerables mad and weakened their vitality. He raised a beacon of starlight to gather the scattered Venerables, and lights answered from across the darkness.

• Chen Qingyu questioned three surviving Venerables after killing the crazed ones and learned their group had been trapped in the strange space.
• The Venerables explained that they planned to use True Gang light to find and gather with others, but more than half of their companions suddenly went mad and attacked.
• Chen Qingyu suspected the space itself was corrupting the Venerables and urged the survivors to join the others and escape quickly.
• Chen Qingyu flew to the space’s upper boundary and unleashed his True Essence as a brilliant beacon visible from thousands of li away.
• Lights appeared across the strange space in response, gathering like signal fires beneath the darkness.

Chen Qingyu raced toward the Wang Clan’s strongest spiritual light as lights across the dark wilderness vanished, suggesting more venerables were being killed. Meanwhile, Wang Pojun confronted the masked mastermind behind the Eighteen-Family Alliance, but his hidden sword talisman was effortlessly stopped, leaving him at the enemy’s mercy.

• Chen Qingyu left the three venerables behind and flew toward the distant white light, watching lights disappear as he crossed the dark wilderness.
• The Canhe Zhang Clan’s gray-haired Heavenly Ascension exalted venerable delivered Wang Pojun, bound in a glowing chain, to the gold-masked envoy.
• Wang Pojun accused the Eighteen-Family Alliance of plotting the crisis and revealed that he had let himself be captured to find the mastermind and strike back.
• Wang Pojun activated his Sword Qi talisman, but the gold-masked man blocked its attack with ease.
• The gold-masked man mocked Wang Pojun for walking into certain death and ordered his followers to proceed.

Wang Pojun was trapped inside Bashe’s belly, where a Sword Qi talisman protected him from the Eighteen-Family Alliance and its golden-masked envoy. Chen Qingyu reached the Wang Clan’s eldest brother and learned that a Heaven-Swallowing Ba Serpent had swallowed them all, leaving their escape uncertain.

• An old man tried to seize Wang Pojun’s soul, but the Sword Qi from his talisman shielded him and wounded the attacker.
• The golden-masked envoy pinned the Sword Qi curtain with Bashe’s power and said he would break through it before killing the Wang Clan’s high venerables.
• Chen Qingyu flew to the Sword Qi gathering and was welcomed by the eldest Wang brother, who promised to protect him.
• Chen Qingyu asked about the venerables’ sudden madness, and the eldest Wang brother explained that a Heaven-Swallowing Ba Serpent had swallowed them into its belly.
• The eldest Wang brother warned Chen Qingyu that even a Divine Treasure Realm cultivator could be refined to death inside the serpent.

Trapped inside the Heaven-Swallowing Ba Serpent, Chen Qingyu and the other Venerables learned that it was a Corpse Demon whose poison had already infected them. They suspected the Eighteen-Family Alliance had helped arrange the trap, but the mastermind remained unidentified.

• The eldest Wang brother revealed that the Heaven-Swallowing Ba Serpent was dead and had returned as a Corpse Demon.
• The eldest Wang brother explained that Corpse Demon Poison infected everyone and could only be removed by killing its source.
• Chen Qingyu asked whether the eldest Wang brother knew who had planned the trap, and he urged everyone to notice the absence of the Eighteen-Family Alliance.
• Chen Qingyu realized that no one from the Eighteen-Family Alliance was among the gathered Venerables.
• The eldest Wang brother accused the Eighteen-Family Alliance of planning or carrying out the trap and said their formation around Heavenly Sword Mountain had hidden the serpent's approach.

The eldest Wang brother explained how the Eighteen-Family Alliance and its Corpse Demon Ba Serpent had trapped them, while Chen Qingyu decided to investigate without immediately calling for help. The group learned they had several days before the Corpse Demon Poison could turn them, and Chen Qingyu believed his protections would keep him safe as he faced the conspiracy.

• The eldest Wang brother admitted that his arrogance had made him overlook the Eighteen-Family Alliance’s confidence and the threat of its Corpse Demon Ba Serpent.
• Chen Qingyu urged the eldest Wang brother to contact their clans, but the sealed space prevented communication, leaving them to defeat the mastermind and escape on their own.
• Chen Qingyu decided to investigate using his own strength and summon the Ninth Ancestor only if he faced danger he could not overcome.
• The eldest Wang brother explained that Divine Ability Realm Venerables could resist the Corpse Demon Poison for seven or eight days, while powerful protections could let Chen Qingyu and the Wang Clan’s younger disciples endure even longer.
• Chen Qingyu concluded that the poison posed no immediate threat to him or Wu Su'e and resolved to confront whoever was behind the conspiracy.

The eldest Wang brother explained that Wang Pojun’s sword talisman could reveal the mastermind’s location, so the gathered venerables waited for it to activate. When it did, they rushed toward the signal and joined a second group led by another Wang brother, leaving the final battle close at hand.

• The eldest Wang brother told the venerables that Wang Pojun’s Zhoutian Realm sword talisman could help the Wang brothers locate the people behind the Bashe attack.
• The eldest Wang brother left the True Gang Realm venerables behind and invited Chen Qingyu to accompany the Divine Ability Realm group.
• The eldest Wang brother sensed that Wang Pojun had activated the sword talisman, and Chen Qingyu and the other venerables followed him toward its location.
• The group crossed the dark plains and encountered another torrent of flight lights led by a second Wang brother.
• The Wang brothers joined their groups and continued toward the sword talisman’s signal.

The Wang brothers united five groups of cultivators to confront the Eighteen-Family Alliance and the Heaven-Swallowing Ba Serpent. Chen Qingyu reunited with Wu Su'e as the combined forces approached the serpent and saw the upper half of Heavenly Sword Mountain.

• The Wang brothers encountered a black-robed Heavenly Impulse Realm High Venerable, explained their plan, and recruited him and his followers.
• The Wang brothers' group joined another force led by the last Wang brother and a fifth Heavenly Impulse Realm High Venerable.
• Chen Qingyu reunited with Wu Su'e, who explained that her clan's techniques let her fight at great strength and that she carried a life-saving treasure.
• Wu Su'e told Chen Qingyu that the Wang Clan planned to use its descendants' sword talismans to overwhelm their enemies.
• The five Heavenly Impulse Realm High Venerables led more than a hundred Divine Ability Realm Venerables toward their target, with Chen Qingyu and Wu Su'e among them.
• The group spotted the upper half of Heavenly Sword Mountain, which the Heaven-Swallowing Ba Serpent had swallowed.

The Wang brothers and over a hundred Divine Ability Realm venerables reached Heavenly Sword Remnant Mountain and confronted the Eighteen-Family Alliance, who were protecting the golden-masked man behind the attack. As the Heaven-Swallowing Ba Serpent neared its breakthrough, the Wang brothers ordered their forces to unleash their hidden trump card.

• The Wang brothers led the approaching venerables toward the summit, where the Eighteen-Family Alliance prepared to defend the golden-masked man while Wang Pojun struggled to maintain his fading Sword Qi barrier.
• The eldest Wang brother accused the Eighteen-Family Alliance of colluding with Corpse Demons and using Desolate Beasts, and a heated exchange of accusations broke out between the two sides.
• The golden-masked man cut off the argument and revealed himself as the figure the Eighteen-Family Alliance obeyed, prompting the Wang brothers to recognize him as the apparent mastermind.
• The three Wang brothers exchanged a look, decided to use their combined Divine Treasure Realm sword talismans, and shouted for everyone to attack.

The black-robed figure used a Zhoutian Realm secret treasure to suppress the Wang Clan’s eight sword talismans, and the battle erupted across Heavenly Sword Remnant Mountain. As Chen Qingyu set out to kill the figure, the figure effortlessly reduced five or six attackers to ash.

• The black-robed figure blocked and trapped the eight Divine Treasure Realm sword talismans with a jade Zhoutian Realm secret treasure.
• The Wang brothers and the Eighteen-Family Alliance launched a full battle, with their high venerables pairing off and the alliance’s battle formation holding against more than a hundred attackers.
• Chen Qingyu realized the black-robed figure was the key to controlling Bashe and told Wu Su'e he would try to kill him.
• Five or six Divine Ability Realm venerables rushed the black-robed figure, who stopped them in midair and turned them to ash.

The golden-masked man overwhelmed the Divine Ability Realm venerables and blocked Wu Su'e’s Zhoutian Realm secret treasure, then charged toward her. Chen Qingyu stepped in to protect Wu Su'e and evaded the man’s spatial attack, leaving his punch aimed at the back of the masked man’s head.

• The golden-masked man killed more Divine Ability Realm venerables with a spatial power, frightening the assembled fighters into retreat.
• Wu Su'e unleashed her golden spindle secret treasure, but the masked man blocked it with a jade slip secret treasure.
• The masked man attacked the scattered venerables and drove toward Wu Su'e, revealing that he had made her his target.
• Chen Qingyu stepped in front of Wu Su'e and charged the masked man with the Great Radiance Heaven-Suppressing Fist.
• Chen Qingyu evaded the masked man’s spatial attack with the Heavenly Lightning Escape Technique and struck from behind.

Chen Qingyu overwhelmed the golden-masked woman with his speed and strength, but she used a divine ability to transform into ripples and attack him with a powerful spear. After healing his injured fist, he realized he had to locate and kill her true body.

• Chen Qingyu broke through the golden-masked figure’s rippling defense and struck her, knocking off her mask and revealing that she was a woman.
• The woman demanded to know who Chen Qingyu was, while he declared that he would kill her and charged again.
• The woman dispersed into rippling spiritual light, then gathered the ripples to trap Chen Qingyu beneath crushing pressure.
• The woman formed a spiral-grooved spear from millions of ripples and hurled it at Chen Qingyu, who met it with a punch.
• Chen Qingyu was injured by the clash but healed his fist with the Primordial Yang Indestructible Body and resolved to find the woman’s true body.

Chen Qingyu endured the black-haired woman's rippling divine ability, then killed her with the sword soul of the Nine Hells Heavenly Punishment Sword. The Eighteen-Family Alliance was wiped out, but Chen Qingyu's final thought hinted that something was still wrong.

• Chen Qingyu opened his Primordial Yang Domain, but the black-haired woman used the Dao of Ripples to wound him severely.
• Chen Qingyu's Ancestral Witch Body regenerated as his Primordial Yang drained the black-haired woman, forcing her to flee.
• Chen Qingyu caught up with the black-haired woman and killed her with a lightning sword strike infused with the Nine Hells Heavenly Punishment Sword's sword soul.
• After the black-haired woman's death, the Wang Clan's sword cultivators reclaimed their sword talismans, while Wu Su'e used the golden spindle to kill the Eighteen-Family Alliance's five Heavenly Impulse Realm high venerables.
• The eight sword talismans killed the remaining Eighteen-Family Alliance venerables, and Chen Qingyu realized something was wrong.

Chen Qingyu realized the mysterious woman he killed may have been only a clone, while the Wang brothers suspected she was connected to the Yanggu Zhang Clan. The chapter ended with their suspicions unresolved as they discussed the clan’s connection to the ancient Heavenly Sound Sect.

• Chen Qingyu warned the Wang brothers and Wu Su'e that the mysterious woman’s body had felt like a hollow puppet and her true body might still be alive.
• Wang Pojun arrived and explained that he had used the remaining divine ability Sword Qi to kill the Eighteen-Family Alliance members after the woman died.
• The eldest Wang brother enclosed the group in a curtain of light and said the Ba Serpent and Corpse Demon plot pointed to a larger organization.
• The eldest Wang brother identified the Yanggu Zhang Clan as a possible source of the woman’s methods, though he could not be certain.
• The eldest Wang brother explained that the Yanggu Zhang Clan had inherited the Heavenly Sound Sect’s orthodoxy, which vaguely resembled the woman’s claimed Dao of Ripples.

The Wang Clan's eldest brother linked the mysterious woman's abilities to the Yanggu Zhang Clan but could not explain her supreme heavenly art. He then revealed that he had identified Chen Qingyu as Chen Shaojun and said their escape from the Bashe's belly depended on him.

• A black-robed Heavenly Impulse Realm expert suggested the mysterious woman's abilities came from the Shockwave branch of the Yanggu Zhang Clan, but the Wang Clan's eldest brother noted that the clan's cultivation method could not explain her supreme heavenly art.
• The Wang Clan's eldest brother ended the discussion and told the Divine Ability Realm venerables he had a way to escape the Bashe's belly, but that their survival depended on Chen Qingyu.
• The Wang Clan's eldest brother declared that Chen Qingyu was the Chen Clan's Shaojun, the Number One Heavenly Prodigy of All Time, leaving the gathered venerables stunned.
• Chen Qingyu asked when the Wang Clan's eldest brother had discovered his identity, and he explained that he first suspected it at Heavenly Sword Mountain because of Chen Qingyu's sword feat and Wang Pojun's friendship with him.
• The Wang Clan's eldest brother said Chen Qingyu's battle with the mysterious woman in the Bashe's belly confirmed his identity because he had killed a Divine Ability Realm venerable while in the Spirit Origin Realm.

After Chen Qingyu revealed that he had killed a Divine Ability Realm enemy while only at the Spirit Origin Realm, the Wang Clan elder asked him to call for his Dao Protector so they could leave Bashe’s belly. A purple-robed ancestor appeared, said the remaining investigation was beyond Chen Qingyu’s reach, and revealed he was Chen Qingyu’s direct ancestor.

• The Divine Ability Realm venerables were astonished to learn that Chen Qingyu was Chen Shaojun and had fought at only the Spirit Origin Realm.
• The eight Wang Clan sword cultivators were disheartened by Chen Qingyu’s strength until the Wang Clan elder reminded them not to compare themselves with the greatest prodigy of all time.
• The Wang Clan elder asked Chen Qingyu to summon his Dao Protector and take them out of Bashe’s belly.
• Chen Qingyu hesitantly tried calling out, and a purple-robed old man appeared beside him.
• The old man told Chen Qingyu that the lineage was investigating the matter and revealed that he was Chen Qingyu’s ancestor twelve generations back.

Chen Guangsheng, a supreme elder of the Chen Clan of Changluo, rescued the survivors from the Heaven-Swallowing Ba Serpent’s belly and broke open its inner space. Outside, he subdued the wounded Corpse Demon Ba Serpent, shrinking it to a tiny creature in his hand.

• Chen Qingyu called the purple-robed elder Great-Grandfather, and he introduced himself to the Wang brothers as Chen Guangsheng, a supreme elder of the Chen Clan of Changluo.
• Chen Guangsheng froze the space and brought the surviving True Gang Realm venerables out of the Bashe’s belly.
• Chen Guangsheng shattered the space inside the Bashe, transporting everyone into the sky outside.
• The wounded Heaven-Swallowing Ba Serpent roared and lunged at the gathered survivors.
• Chen Guangsheng grasped the giant serpent and shrank it to a few inches, subduing it.

Chen Guangsheng killed the Heaven-Swallowing Ba Serpent and warned the Wang Clan that the Corpse Demon calamity remained dangerous. He brought Chen Qingyu and Wu Su'e back to Heaven-Reaching Sword Gorge, then asked Wu Su'e to step aside so he could speak privately with Chen Qingyu.

• Chen Guangsheng explained that the Serpent’s corpse could still revive, then stored it away to be suppressed in the Great Yin Grotto.
• A disheveled Wang Clan elder arrived, learned Chen Guangsheng had saved them, and heard the rescued Venerables identify Chen Shaojun as Chen Qingyu.
• Chen Guangsheng ordered the Wang Clan to report the Corpse Demon calamity and left the group with Chen Qingyu and Wu Su'e.
• The Wang Clan elder questioned the eldest Wang Clan brother about what had happened inside the Serpent.
• Chen Guangsheng returned Chen Qingyu and Wu Su'e to Heaven-Reaching Sword Gorge and asked Wu Su'e to step away while he spoke with Chen Qingyu.