Chapter Summaries

Chen Qingyu offered to take Ling Qiuxia and Ling Shuangxue back to the Divine Capital, but Ling Qiuxia refused, fearing that Chen Qingyu’s father still hated her for the upheaval that destroyed his family. The chapter left Chen Qingyu learning why his mother had stayed away for more than sixty years.

• A soldier told Ling Shuangxue that Ling Shuanglong had come to kneel outside the palace gates and beg forgiveness, and Chen Qingyu ordered the soldiers to ignore her.
• Chen Qingyu reminded Ling Qiuxia and Ling Shuangxue that he had promised to bring them back to the Divine Capital once he could resolve their troubles.
• Chen Qingyu presented the Azure Command Talisman and declared that, as the human race’s sacred envoy, he permitted them to return on behalf of the human sacred lands.
• Ling Qiuxia refused to return, saying she was afraid to face Chen Qingyu’s father and believed he hated and resented her.
• Ling Qiuxia recalled how Chen Qingyu’s father had reacted after the upheaval more than sixty years earlier, when he lost many relatives and watched her leave with their children.

Chen Qingyu learned why Ling Qiuxia and Ling Shuangxue would not return to the Divine Capital with him, and he accepted their choices while hoping to ask Chen Zhengxing about his mother’s concerns. Seven days later, after Ling Shuangxue was named the next Grand Princess and a candidate for the Spirit Race’s Dao Son, Chen Qingyu and Ling Shuanghan began the second Blood Exchange Ritual.

• Chen Qingyu asked Ling Qiuxia whether she would return if Chen Zhengxing held no resentment toward her, and she said he would have to tell her himself.
• Ling Shuangxue refused to leave the Spirit Clan Royal Court, explaining that her life, goals, and cultivation were rooted there and that she wanted to keep Ling Qiuxia company.
• Chen Qingyu accepted their decisions and asked Ling Shuangxue to show him around the royal court before the Blood Exchange Ritual.
• Ling Shuanglong waited outside the Rosy Radiance Palace for Chen Qingyu’s forgiveness, but the Department of Clan Law dragged her away, and Princess Yulong disappeared from the royal court.
• The Spirit King named Ling Shuangxue the next Grand Princess and a candidate for the Spirit Race’s Dao Son during the Ancestral Tree’s birthday celebration.
• Seven days later, Chen Qingyu and Ling Shuanghan took their places on the ritual platforms as the second Blood Exchange Ritual began.

Chen Qingyu and Ling Shuangxue completed the Blood Exchange Ritual, gaining pure bloodlines and rapidly advancing in cultivation. After congratulating his sister, Chen Qingyu said he would leave the Spirit Clan Royal Court and return to the Divine Capital.

• Chen Qingyu endured the ritual as it extracted his Spirit Race bloodline and Ling Shuangxue's starlight bloodline, then exchanged them.
• The starlight bloodline completed Chen Qingyu's Saint King Bloodline and raised him to the True Gang Realm.
• Ling Shuangxue's Spirit Race royal bloodline raised her from the True Gang Realm Sixth Heaven to the Divine Ability Realm Third Heaven and turned her hair azure-gold.
• The Blood Exchange Ritual ended, leaving Chen Qingyu and Ling Shuangxue with pure bloodlines and transformed cultivation talents.
• Chen Qingyu congratulated Ling Shuangxue and told her he would return to the Divine Capital now that his purpose in the Spirit Clan Royal Court was fulfilled.

After completing the blood exchange ritual and reaching the True Gang Realm, Chen Qingyu left the Spirit Clan Royal Court with Chen Guangsheng and headed back to the Divine Capital. On the way, Chen Guangsheng said they would visit the Ninth Ancestor and discuss what post Chen Qingyu would take in the Lineage.

• Chen Qingyu said goodbye to Ling Qiuxia, Ling Shuangxue, and the Spirit Clan, then asked the Spirit King to release the royal court's spatial defenses.
• Chen Guangsheng arrived after Chen Qingyu used a starlight talisman, and he confirmed Chen Qingyu had gained the Chenliu Saint King Bloodline and reached the True Gang Realm.
• Chen Guangsheng carried Chen Qingyu through the void toward the Divine Capital as Ling Qiuxia and Ling Shuangxue watched them depart.
• Chen Guangsheng told Chen Qingyu they would visit the Ninth Ancestor and discuss which post he would take in the Lineage.
• Chen Qingyu said he had not considered a post and agreed to discuss it after they saw the Ninth Ancestor.

Chen Qingyu returned to the Divine Capital after reaching the True Gang Realm and told Chen Zhengxing that his mother and sister were safe but unwilling to return. After learning that Chen Zhengxing’s unresolved hatred for those responsible kept him from facing his wife, Chen Qingyu vowed to kill the murderers within ten years.

• Chen Qingyu returned to the Divine Capital with Chen Guangsheng, and the Ninth Ancestor praised his rapid breakthrough to the True Gang Realm.
• The Ninth Ancestor asked Chen Qingyu to return the next day to discuss a position in the Chen Clan.
• Chen Qingyu reunited with Chen Zhengxing and reported that his mother and sister were living fairly well in the Spirit Clan Royal Court.
• Chen Qingyu told Chen Zhengxing that his mother feared he resented her and that she and his sister did not want to return to the Divine Capital.
• Chen Zhengxing admitted that he hated the people behind the past tragedies but felt powerless to reach them.
• Chen Qingyu promised Chen Zhengxing that he would kill every murderer involved within ten years.

Chen Qingyu promised Chen Zhengxing that he would avenge their clan within ten years, then entered the Supreme Void Dao Realm and defeated Wu Chenkong again. Wu Chenkong revealed that he wielded some of the Great Void Primal Spirit’s authority, but Chen Qingyu’s question about whether Wu Chenkong was alive or dead remained unanswered.

• Chen Qingyu assured Chen Zhengxing that he could destroy the nonhuman sacred lands within ten years, and Chen Zhengxing agreed to wait.
• Chen Qingyu entered [True Gang Heaven], received eleven Yin-Yang Spirit Marks, and brought his total to twenty-four.
• Chen Qingyu cleared the War God Tower and defeated Wu Chenkong at the Immortal Altar.
• Wu Chenkong explained that he possessed part of the Great Void Primal Spirit’s authority, but said his True Gang Realm recording did not know how his original self had obtained it.
• Chen Qingyu asked whether Wu Chenkong’s original self was dead or alive.

Wu Chenkong told Chen Qingyu that he could learn whether Wu Chenkong’s original self was alive by defeating another projection in the [Divine Ability World], and warned that Chen Qingyu’s many powers could obstruct his innate divine ability. Chen Qingyu then asked the Ninth Ancestor whether Wu Chenkong founded the Sage Evolution Palace, but the Ninth Ancestor rejected the theory and explained that Corpse Demons had limited lifespans.

• Wu Chenkong said he could not tell whether his original self was alive and promised to reveal a place to investigate after Chen Qingyu defeated his other projection in the [Divine Ability World].
• Wu Chenkong warned Chen Qingyu that his many competing powers could prevent him from condensing a strong innate divine ability, then vanished.
• Chen Qingyu heard that Chen Shaojun’s appearance in [True Gang Heaven] had renewed the acclaim for his title as the Number One Heavenly Prodigy of All Time.
• Chen Qingyu showed the Ninth Ancestor a mask resembling one worn by Zhang Yanqing and suggested Wu Chenkong might have founded the Sage Evolution Palace and survived as a Corpse Demon.
• The Ninth Ancestor denied that Wu Chenkong could have survived to the present as a Corpse Demon, explained their limited lifespans, and Chen Qingyu asked whether someone could become like the Great Void Primal Spirit.

Chen Qingyu discussed the possibility that Wu Chenkong had survived as an artifact spirit and learned he could investigate the truth after reaching the Divine Ability Realm. The Ninth Ancestor appointed him inspector envoy to Central Capital Yangchuan, but Chen Qingyu planned to visit the Liangshan Wang Clan first to claim a promised flying sword.

• Chen Qingyu told the Ninth Ancestor that Wu Chenkong's past projection had promised him a place to verify whether Wu Chenkong was alive, and the Ninth Ancestor agreed to investigate the Wu Clan's records.
• The Ninth Ancestor advised Chen Qingyu on obtaining his final two Yin-Yang Spirit Marks, including requesting one from the Great Void Primal Spirit.
• The Ninth Ancestor appointed Chen Qingyu as inspector envoy to Central Capital Yangchuan under his identity as the Chen Clan's young lord.
• Chen Qingyu told the Ninth Ancestor that he needed to visit the Liangshan Wang Clan to collect the mighty-figure-level flying sword they owed him.

Chen Qingyu traveled from the Divine Capital to the Liangshan Sword Domain after the Ninth Ancestor warned him that rival holy lands might try to kill him. The Wang Clan welcomed him at the Liangshan Sword Gate with a grand ceremony, and a familiar figure came out to greet him.

• The Ninth Ancestor let Chen Qingyu postpone taking up the inspector post and warned him to watch for attacks from the Sage Evolution Palace and other races’ holy lands.
• Chen Qingyu left a message for Chen Zhengxing and traveled through the Ancient Kingdom of Hanhai to reach the Liangshan Sword Domain.
• Chen Qingyu arrived at the Liangshan Sword Gate, where the Wang Clan’s sword cultivators recognized him and sent word to their clan.
• The Wang Clan opened its mountain-protecting array and welcomed Chen Qingyu with a spectacular display of Sword Qi.
• A familiar figure emerged from the Sword Gate, greeted Chen Qingyu, and said it had been a long time.

Chen Qingyu visited Liangshan to obtain a flying sword and reunited with Wang Pojun, who explained how the Saint King's inheritance helped him clear his father's name and establish himself as a Dao Son. Sword Mountain was being prepared to open for Chen Qingyu, and Wang Pojun began to warn him about the search for a sword.

• Wang Pojun welcomed Chen Qingyu to Liangshan and showed him the clan's famed sword duels.
• Wang Pojun brought Chen Qingyu to the Heavenly Sword Pavilion after touring Liangshan's main peak.
• Wang Pojun thanked Chen Qingyu for his help and explained that the Saint King's inheritance had made him the Wang Clan's fifth-generation Dao Son.
• Wang Pojun said his father's name had been cleared and that his success at the Sword Duel Assembly had secured his standing in the clan.
• Wang Pojun told Chen Qingyu that Sword Mountain would open in seven or eight days after the Wang Clan completed its preparations.
• Wang Pojun began to share warnings about seeking a sword on Sword Mountain.

Chen Qingyu learned that the Wang Clan’s Sword Mountain test favored skilled swordsmen, while Wang Pojun secretly gave him sword insights to help him avoid leaving empty-handed. Wang Pojun agreed to take Chen Qingyu to Liangshan’s summit before dawn, and the chapter ended as he arrived to depart.

• Wang Pojun explained that flying swords on Sword Mountain chose cultivators based on their swordsmanship, revealing that the Wang Clan’s elders had set Chen Qingyu up for an unfair test.
• Chen Qingyu learned that the Wang Clan refined ancestral flying swords into essence-origin Qi to strengthen their own lifebound swords.
• Chen Qingyu asked to watch the sunrise from Liangshan’s summit, and Wang Pojun promised to take him there before dawn.
• Wang Pojun secretly gave Chen Qingyu a jade slip containing his swordsmanship insights and urged him to use them to attract a flying sword.
• Chen Qingyu spent the night honing his spiritual arts in the Martial Practice Hall, and Wang Pojun called for him before dawn to set out.

Chen Qingyu visited the Summit of Liangshan with Wang Pojun and checked in there, obtaining a powerful star-attribute cultivation technique. He decided to replace his current cultivation technique and asked Wang Pojun to return to the Heavenly Sword Pavilion so he could begin.

• Wang Pojun took Chen Qingyu to the Summit of Liangshan to watch the sunrise.
• Wang Pojun showed Chen Qingyu the Sword Enlightenment Platform and explained how Ancestor Wang Jue had founded the Liangshan Wang Clan's Dao lineage there.
• Chen Qingyu watched the sunrise and checked in at the Summit of Liangshan, receiving the Central Heaven Ziwei Gang Dipper Star Scripture.
• Chen Qingyu studied the new scripture and decided to switch from the Taihao Limitless Ascension True Scripture.
• Chen Qingyu asked Wang Pojun to return with him to the Heavenly Sword Pavilion.

Chen Qingyu studied the Central Heaven Ziwei Gang Dipper Star Scripture but discovered he could not cultivate it without a compatible foundation. After reasoning that he could evolve it together with his star-aligned Taihao method, he checked in at Liangshan's summit again and obtained Ziwei Fate, clearing the way to transform his cultivation.

• Chen Qingyu sealed his cultivation chamber with Supreme Void power and studied the Central Heaven Ziwei Gang Dipper Star Scripture.
• Chen Qingyu realized the scripture's cultivation path conflicted with the world's Heavenly Dao and that switching methods outright would cripple him.
• Chen Qingyu concluded that his Taihao Limitless Ascension True Scripture shared the scripture's star lineage and could be evolved alongside it to preserve his cultivation.
• Chen Qingyu trained his spiritual arts in the Supreme Void Dao Realm and returned to Liangshan's summit with Wang Pojun the next morning.
• Chen Qingyu checked in at Liangshan's summit for the second time and received the natal star destiny Ziwei Fate.
• Chen Qingyu told the confused Wang Pojun to return, satisfied that he had seen the sunrise's important moment.

Chen Qingyu used his Ziwei natal fate to replace his cultivation foundation with one built around the Central Heaven Ziwei Gang Dipper Star Scripture. After successfully rebuilding it while retaining the Taihao Limitless Ascension True Scripture’s abilities, he emerged with greater power and confidence that the realm of the ancient kings would not be his limit.

• Chen Qingyu learned through the Supreme Void Dao Realm that his Ziwei natal fate would let him cultivate the Central Heaven Ziwei Gang Dipper Star Scripture.
• Chen Qingyu activated his Ziwei fate and began circulating the new scripture, causing his star-forging gate and cultivation foundation to collapse.
• Chen Qingyu controlled the destructive power and used it to rebuild his star-forging gate, meridians, acupoints, blood sea, and golden bridge.
• Chen Qingyu completed the transformation, with Ziwei Star as his foundation and Taihao Star as its outward manifestation.
• Chen Qingyu confirmed he could still use the Taihao Limitless Ascension True Scripture’s abilities at greater strength and believed few below the Divine Treasure Realm could match him.

After replacing his foundation with the Central Heaven Ziwei Gang Dipper Star Scripture, Chen Qingyu assessed his greatly increased strength and signed in at Liangshan's summit for the third time. He received Great Emperor Ziwei's Heaven-Collapsing Finger and learned that his next sign-in location was Divine Punishment Valley, whose whereabouts he planned to ask the Great Void Primal Spirit about.

• Chen Qingyu examined how replacing his foundation had greatly strengthened his True Gang power, soul, body, and lifespan, then returned to the Martial Practice Hall to train his spiritual arts.
• The next morning, Chen Qingyu and Wang Pojun watched the sunrise at Liangshan's summit, where Chen Qingyu signed in and received the Heaven-Collapsing Finger.
• Chen Qingyu found the divine ability obscure and difficult to comprehend, and suspected it might be a powerful technique like Drawing Out Primordial Yang.
• The system announced that Liangshan's reward pool was exhausted and unlocked Divine Punishment Valley as the fifth sign-in location.
• Chen Qingyu asked Wang Pojun where Divine Punishment Valley was, and, after Wang Pojun said he did not know a valley by that name, Chen Qingyu decided to ask the Great Void Primal Spirit.

Chen Qingyu learned that Divine Punishment Valley lay within the Chen Clan’s territory, though far from his next posting, then spent several days cultivating and strengthening his stellar abilities. When the Wang Clan’s Sword Mountain opened, he saw its millions of accumulated flying swords and learned it was also called the Flying Sword Mound, the Sword Dao Tomb.

• Chen Qingyu used the Great Void Primal Spirit to locate Divine Punishment Valley and discovered it was on the northeastern border of the Ancient Kingdom of Chenliu, far from Central Capital Yangchuan.
• Chen Qingyu checked in at Liangshan for four days, enhancing the Central Heaven Ziwei Gang Dipper Star Scripture and his Ziwei Fate twice each, while his three great spiritual arts reached major mastery.
• Wang Pojun told Chen Qingyu that Sword Mountain would open at noon and explained that other Wang Clan members would ascend first as a demonstration.
• Wang Pojun led Chen Qingyu around Liangshan’s main peak to Sword Mountain, where Chen Qingyu saw countless flying swords covering the mountain.
• Wang Pojun explained that the Wang Clan had gathered more than five million lifebound flying swords there over eighty thousand years, and called Sword Mountain the Flying Sword Mound, the Sword Dao Tomb.

Chen Qingyu arrived with Wang Pojun at the Wang Clan’s Sword Mountain, where a vast crowd gathered to witness the rare opening. After the elders opened the mountain, the first climber began demonstrating his swordsmanship on the steps.

• Chen Qingyu saw more than a hundred thousand Wang Clan sword cultivators and many elders assembled to watch Sword Mountain open.
• Wang Pojun explained that clan members could climb Sword Mountain once before reaching the Divine Ability Realm, and that he planned to wait until his True Gang Realm cultivation was perfected.
• Wang Pojun declined the elders’ invitation to join them in the clouds and stayed beside Chen Qingyu as they descended before Sword Mountain.
• The Wang Clan’s elders opened Sword Mountain, and Wang Haodong stepped onto its stone stairway as the first climber.
• Wang Haodong reached the mountainside and drew his lifebound flying sword to demonstrate his swordsmanship while Wang Pojun pointed out that choosing where to climb mattered.

Chen Qingyu learned that Sword Mountain tested climbers’ sword intent and watched Wang Haoming claim a flying sword after an earlier climber failed. Above the mountain, the Wang Clan patriarch revealed that the clan planned to make Chen Shaojun fail publicly to ease the fear his reputation had created among their younger disciples.

• Wang Pojun explained that climbers could use only sword intent and sword moves, then quietly advised Chen Qingyu not to climb too high.
• A heavily bearded Wang Clan disciple failed to attract a flying sword and was ordered down by the elder’s voice.
• Wang Haoming attracted several flying swords, chose one that resonated with him, and successfully claimed it.
• The Wang Clan patriarch told the elders that they would deliberately make Chen Shaojun leave Sword Mountain empty-handed to weaken his shadow over their younger disciples.
• The Wang Clan patriarch said the clan had prepared gifts and would apologize to Chen Shaojun afterward.

Chen Qingyu ascended Sword Mountain before the Wang Clan and appeared unable to stir any flying swords, prompting the crowd to mock him. After he restrained the Nine Hells Heavenly Punishment Sword’s presence, five million swords erupted into the sky and surged toward him.

• The Wang Clan finished its Sword Mountain trial and invited Chen Qingyu to climb before more than a hundred thousand spectators.
• Chen Qingyu calmly continued past the mountainside toward the summit, alarming Wang Pojun and reassuring the Wang Clan patriarch that his plan was working.
• At the summit, Chen Qingyu called to the flying swords, but nothing happened, and the Wang Clan disciples laughed at him.
• Chen Qingyu restrained the Nine Hells Heavenly Punishment Sword’s presence, causing five million flying swords to rise and rush toward the summit.

Chen Qingyu drew millions of Wang Clan flying swords to Sword Mountain and chose Wang Jue’s lifebound sword as his vessel. The Wang Clan watched helplessly as he claimed their founding ancestor’s divine sword.

• More than five million Wang Clan flying swords surged toward Chen Qingyu, leaving Sword Mountain bare and stunning the clan.
• The flying swords fought for space near Chen Qingyu, and supreme elder-grade swords seized the closest positions.
• Chen Qingyu hesitated over which sword to choose while the Wang Clan patriarch lamented the clan’s loss.
• Sword Mountain split open, and Wang Jue’s golden lifebound flying sword emerged and drove away the other supreme elder-grade swords.
• Chen Qingyu recognized Wang Jue’s sword, accepted it as his chosen weapon, and told the Wang Clan elders he would take it.