Chapter Summaries

Xie Feng, a Chaos Sacred Body cultivator who had spent years secluded on Xuanji Mountain, decided to go down the mountain as the Heavenly Ranking appeared and announced a new era of revived Spiritual Qi. Across the world, prodigies and their allies anticipated the Aptitude Ranking, while the chapter ended with Ye Yuan observing the unfolding event beneath a red maple tree.

• Xie Feng recalled how his master had left him to manage Xuanji Sect before disappearing into closed-door cultivation, then decided to leave the mountain.
• A celestial scroll appeared across the starry sky and announced that the Heavenly Ranking would open with an Aptitude Ranking, promising Great Dao rewards to the top ten.
• Xuan Tugu praised her grandson Qu Jiangxuan’s Azure Dragon bloodline and predicted he would rank highly, while Qu Jiangxuan confidently expected to bring glory to his clan.
• At the Heavenly Sword Holy Land, Mu Shuangling and the swordsmen around him anticipated the ranking, and Mu Shuangling set a goal of placing in the top three.
• Ye Yuan, the Azure Cloud Holy Land’s Saint Venerable, reflected on the Heavenly Ranking while playing chess beneath a red maple tree, revealing his Double Pupils.

The Heavenly Ranking began its Aptitude Ranking, placing Mu Shuangling tenth and Qu Jiangxuan ninth, far below what their factions expected. After the Great Dao killed the Crimson Python Clan patriarch for trying to steal Mu Shuangling’s reward, the chapter left the Azure Dragon Clan and the world stunned by Qu Jiangxuan’s low placement.

• Ye Yuan placed stones while judging the world’s clans and declaring that Double Pupils should take first place on the Heavenly Ranking.
• The Heavenly Ranking announced Mu Shuangling in tenth place for his Grand Mysterious Sword Physique and displayed his swordsmanship to the watching world.
• The ranking awarded Mu Shuangling the Spirit-Shaking Heavenly Sword, but the Crimson Python Clan patriarch tried to steal it and was killed by the Great Dao’s sword.
• Mu Shuangling received the reward at the Heavenly Sword Holy Land, while members of the Azure Dragon Clan confidently expected Qu Jiangxuan to rank near the top.
• The Heavenly Ranking announced Qu Jiangxuan in ninth place despite his Azure Dragon Divine Physique and sixty percent Ancestral Dragon Bloodline, shocking the Azure Dragon Clan and the world.

The Heavenly Ranking revealed the names, physiques, and rewards of its eighth-through-fifth-ranked talents, leaving Qu Jiangxuan and the watching world stunned. As Qiuye waited anxiously for her own placement, Gu Chen declared that her newly awakened physique should rank at least fourth.

• The Heavenly Ranking placed Qu Jiangxuan ninth and awarded him the Ancestral Dragon Great Dao Bone, while Xuan Tugu and the Azure Dragon Clan reacted with disbelief.
• The ranking placed Lu Xiuluo eighth, revealed his Buddha-Devil Tyrant Physique, and awarded him the Eternal Devil Dragon Staff, which he received in the Devil Grotto.
• The Heavenly Ranking announced the World-Purifying Daoist in seventh, Qi Wuyan in sixth, and Ye Yuan in fifth, prompting the crowd to speculate about the top-ranked talents.
• Ye Yuan received the Great Thousand Chess and wondered how any physique could surpass his Supreme Double Pupils.
• Qiuye worried that she had not yet appeared on the ranking, and Gu Chen told her that her newly awakened physique should earn her at least fourth place.
• The Heavenly Ranking began another update as Gu Chen and Qiuye watched.

After Qiuye ranked fourth and received the Cangwu Divine Huang Source, Xie Feng traveled to the Yuan Continent, where he met a hungry silver-haired girl with immense hidden power. He accepted Sushang as a follower, though her appetite and strength immediately caused trouble at the tea stall.

• Qiuye ranked fourth with Azure Luan Immortality and received the Cangwu Divine Huang Source, alarming the Azure Dragon Clan and devastating Qu Jiangxuan.
• Xie Feng left the Nameless Domain and traveled to the Yuan Continent, reflecting on the Heavenly Ranking and his own chaos sacred body.
• A hungry girl named Sushang approached Xie Feng, and he sensed her extraordinary white tiger providence and a soul seal suppressing her cultivation.
• Xie Feng invited Sushang to eat, but she remembered her mother's warning and offered to work in exchange for the food.
• Sushang lifted the tea stall while trying to prove her strength, then accepted Xie Feng as her master and devoured ten steamers of buns.

The Heavenly Ranking revealed Chu Shanjun’s Human Emperor Physique in third place and Guixu Changying’s Immaculate Body in second, leaving the world eager to learn who ranked first. Chu Shanjun and Changying both wondered what physique could surpass theirs.

• The Heavenly Ranking named Chu Shanjun third for his Human Emperor Physique and showed him wielding stars like chess pieces.
• Chu Shanjun received the Taiyi Orthodox Lightning Art, an Immortal Method, and said he wanted to discover his strongest opponent.
• The Heavenly Ranking named Changying of Guixu second for her Immaculate Body, and its video revealed the terrifying power of Guixu.
• The Master of Guixu and Changying saw her reward, the Heaven-Revering Immortal Diagram, and wondered what physique had taken first place.

The Heavenly Ranking revealed its first place as an inexplicable darkness, and Qi Wuyan divined that the hidden figure was destined to become the era’s unrivaled Supreme. Xie Feng recognized that he was the person behind the darkness and returned to the Xuanji Sect with Sushang to find a pill that could lift her restriction, while the first-place reward disappeared from observers’ sight.

• The Heavenly Ranking’s first-place entry turned pitch-black, darkening the sky and causing a stretch of heaven to collapse into floodwaters.
• Qi Wuyan failed to divine the hidden first-place figure but sensed his extraordinary luck and declared that he would become the future Supreme of the age.
• Xuan Tugu, Qu Jiangxuan, Ye Yuan, and Chu Shanjun reacted to the mysterious ranking, with Chu Shanjun sensing a dangerous presence in its darkness.
• Xie Feng learned that Sushang’s restriction had been placed by an eighth-grade Alchemist and decided to refine a Nine Luminaries Restriction-Dissolving Pill using ingredients from his master’s garden.
• Xie Feng realized he was the hidden first place and took Sushang to the Xuanji Sect to avoid exposure while he prepared to lift her restriction.
• The Heavenly Ranking sent down the first-place reward as a white rainbow, but it vanished beyond the reach of the observers’ Divine Sense.

Xie Feng received Solar Zhuzhao and Innate Black and Yellow Qi as the Heavenly Ranking’s first-place reward, and Solar Zhuzhao’s power drove his cultivation higher. After the ranking announced the rules for its next release, the world began to stir with competition and schemes.

• Xie Feng accepted Solar Zhuzhao and Innate Black and Yellow Qi, deciding to postpone refining the Qi until he had broken Sushang’s sealing restriction.
• Solar Zhuzhao manifested above Xie Feng, shrouding Xuanji Mountain and the Three Thousand Worlds in darkness.
• A mysterious azure mountain stopped spiritual resonance from escaping Xuanji Mountain, sending it into Xie Feng and raising him from the third to the eighth stage of Spirit Transformation.
• Sushang told Xie Feng about the azure mountain, and he revealed that it was Mung Bean before taking her to gather ingredients and refine pills.
• The Heavenly Ranking announced that the Dharma Artifact Ranking would appear in three months and that new entrants or rising contenders would receive rewards no lower than god grade.
• People across the world began scheming as they considered the ranking’s rules and promised rewards.

Xie Feng began refining a Nine Luminaries Restriction-Dissolving Pill with Sushang’s help, while the Heavenly Sword Holy Land investigated a dead woman’s shattered Sword Source. The chapter left Xie Feng working at the furnace as Sushang fanned the flames.

• Xuan Tugu and Qu Jiangxuan decided to use the Ancestral Dragon Great Dao Bone and a forbidden land to strengthen Qu Jiangxuan’s bloodline, while Xuan Tugu planned to visit the Azure Luan Clan.
• Mu Shuangling learned from Liu Zhen that the woman he sought had died in the Land of Blood Slaughter after her Sword Source shattered, and he decided to inspect the site himself.
• Xie Feng introduced Sushang to Mung Bean, the old turtle in the lake, and assigned her to feed it fruit.
• Xie Feng gathered medicinal ingredients and had Sushang carry his pill furnace into a clean room, impressed by her strength despite its immense weight.
• Xie Feng summoned his Northern Nether Illusory Flame and began refining the Nine Luminaries Restriction-Dissolving Pill, directing Sushang as she fanned the flames.

Xie Feng completed a Nine Luminaries Restriction-Dissolving Pill and helped Sushang break the seal on her physique, causing her to transform and rise to the third stage of Tribulation Crossing. As the Heavenly Ranking began changing and powerful figures speculated about a new entrant or a fall from the list, Sushang’s awakening left Xie Feng wondering who had sealed her power.

• Xie Feng and Sushang completed the Nine Luminaries Restriction-Dissolving Pill, and purple pill lightning gathered over Xuanji Mountain.
• Purple Bamboo’s leaves formed a shield that blocked the pill lightning while Xie Feng gave the elixir to Sushang and protected her as it fought the restriction within her.
• The Heavenly Ranking announced that its standings were changing, prompting Xuan Tugu, Gu Chen, Qiuye, and Ye Yuan to wonder whether someone would join or leave the list.
• Gu Chen told Qiuye that Qu Jiangxuan planned to enter the Land of Blood Slaughter, where the Ancestral Dragon Great Dao Bone could help awaken his bloodline.
• Sushang’s restriction broke, her white tiger physique awakened, and her cultivation surged to the third stage of Tribulation Crossing.
• Xie Feng wondered who had sealed Sushang’s physique.

The Heavenly Ranking updated, placing Sushang of the hidden Primordial White Tiger Clan second and revealing her overwhelming power. After Sushang received an Immortal Grade sword, Mu Shuangling left the Heavenly Sword Holy Land to attend to something important.

• The Heavenly Ranking placed Sushang second, displacing Mu Shuangling and revealing her Primordial White Tiger Immortal Physique.
• Ye Yuan and Meng Wuqu discussed Sushang, the mysterious first-ranked person, and the coming era of powerful figures.
• The ranking’s video showed the Primordial White Tiger roaring on an ancient battlefield and shaking viewers across the world.
• Sushang emerged from the alchemy chamber in an adult form before returning to her former size as her power stabilized.
• The Heavenly Ranking awarded Sushang the Immortal Grade Radiant Sun Sword, provoking Mu Shuangling’s jealousy.
• Mu Shuangling told a swordsman to summon Liu Zhen and announced that he was going out.

The Heavenly Ranking awarded Sushang the immortal sword Zhaoyang and the Radiant Sun Sword Art, which Xie Feng offered to teach her. Meanwhile, Xuan Tugu visited Gu Chen and hinted that others might covet Qiuye, prompting Gu Chen to threaten anyone who tried to take her.

• The Master of Guixu and Changying discussed the Primordial White Tiger Clan, and the Master recalled an old acquaintance while looking at Sushang's name on the Heavenly Ranking.
• Xie Feng explained the White Tiger Clan's bloodline awakening to Sushang, then she received Zhaoyang and the Radiant Sun Sword Art as her second-place reward.
• Sushang admitted she could not understand the sword art, and Xie Feng agreed to teach her before taking her to catch pheasants because she was hungry.
• Gu Chen advised Qiuye to wait until after Tribulation Crossing before refining the Cangwu Divine Huang Source, then considered the Azure Dragon Clan's movements toward the Land of Blood Slaughter.
• Xuan Tugu arrived at the Azure Luan Clan, praised Qiuye, and warned Gu Chen to guard her carefully.
• Gu Chen told Xuan Tugu to leave and threatened to use the strength of his entire clan against anyone who tried to lay a hand on Qiuye.

Xie Feng learned that Sushang’s mother, Mo Shoupin, had been betrayed and killed for her Sword Source, and discovered that she had called the girl Xiao Qiu while insisting her true name was Sushang. He tracked Mo Shoupin’s final moments to the Land of Blood Slaughter, where Mu Shuangling appeared and revealed his hunger for more Sword Qi.

• Xie Feng prepared lotus-leaf chicken with Sushang, who confessed that Mo Shoupin had died after fighting attackers seeking her Sword Source and asked to become stronger for revenge.
• Xie Feng recognized the Sword Patriarch as Mu Shuangling and took Sushang to the forest where her mother had died.
• Xie Feng used his soul sense to find Mo Shoupin’s lingering Sword Source and witness her final moments, when she told the girl that Sushang was her true name.
• Xie Feng wondered why Mo Shoupin had called the girl Xiao Qiu before detecting Mu Shuangling and Liu Zhen nearby.
• Mu Shuangling admitted that he had forcibly obtained the Grand Mysterious Sword Physique and stolen Sword Sources to sustain it, and that he still needed more Sword Qi to wield the Spirit-Shaking Heavenly Sword.

Sushang emerged from the Land of Blood Slaughter and killed Liu Zhen and Mu Shuangling with the Radiant Sun Sword. Her strike also disrupted Qu Jiangxuan’s bloodline ritual, and she left with her master, Xie Feng, as Qiuye and Chu Shanjun watched from afar.

• Liu Zhen and Mu Shuangling discussed Mo Shoupin’s escape and planned to find her daughter, Xiao Qiu, and refine her into a sword slave.
• Sushang appeared, drew Zhaoyang, and overwhelmed Liu Zhen and Mu Shuangling with her sword intent.
• Sushang killed Liu Zhen and Mu Shuangling, declaring that her strike deserved to be called a sword immortal’s.
• Sushang’s sword intent swept up the Land of Blood Slaughter’s providence and ruined Qu Jiangxuan’s attempt to enhance his bloodline.
• When the Dragon Chancellor prepared to confront her, Xie Feng called Sushang away, and she obeyed and vanished with him.
• Qiuye thanked Sushang from afar, while Chu Shanjun admired her sword strike and looked forward to meeting her and the person behind her.

Xie Feng refined the innate Black and Yellow Qi, advanced to the Mahayana Ninth Stage, and overcame his lightning tribulation before returning to Sushang. He began teaching her the Radiant Sun Sword Art, then tested her in his domain against the Purple Bamboo’s storm.

• Xie Feng refined the innate Black and Yellow Qi and rose through several realms to the Mahayana Ninth Stage, where he stopped to let his cultivation settle.
• Xie Feng crossed the lightning tribulation with Cherished Wine Cup and used the Xuanji Heart Method to absorb the tribulation’s power.
• Xie Feng returned to the Xuanji Sect and spent the night outside Sushang’s room before telling her the next morning to practice swordsmanship instead of doing chores.
• Xie Feng taught Sushang the first form of the Radiant Sun Sword Art, punished her for losing focus, and learned she had already understood the lesson.
• Xie Feng brought Sushang into his domain and told her to take a leaf from the Purple Bamboo, but a violent vortex and storm of bamboo leaves caught her by surprise.

Sushang continued her sword training while the Azure Dragon Clan defeated the Heavenly Sword Holy Land, and Qu Jiangxuan rose to third on the Heavenly Ranking. Qi Wuyan worried that her heavenly calculations were consuming her life, while Chu Shanjun encountered a mysterious, threatening figure in the snow.

• Xie Feng had an intelligent bamboo repeatedly knock Sushang down as she trained with the Radiant Sun Sword for more than two months.
• The Azure Dragon Clan and the Heavenly Sword Holy Land fought after Mu Shuangling and Liu Zhen died, and the Azure Dragon Clan defeated the holy land and seized its fortune.
• The Heavenly Ranking placed Qu Jiangxuan third and awarded him a Formless Demon Pill; he celebrated his rise, and Xuan Tugu declared him the Azure Dragon Clan's new king after his father was lost in the war.
• Heavenly Master Qi explained that Qu Jiangxuan had fused the Ancestral Dragon Great Dao Bone with the holy land's fortune, while Qi Wuyan admitted to herself that her calculations were draining her life.
• Chu Shanjun regretted redirecting the conflict because it had benefited Qu Jiangxuan, then sensed a mysterious figure whose presence seemed like chaos and posed an enormous threat.

Xie Feng thanked Chu Shanjun by defeating him in a sword fight, prompting Chu Shanjun to decide to follow him in pursuit of swordsmanship. Back at Xuanji Sect, Sushang mastered Swallowing Rosy Clouds, reached the purple bamboo, and discovered it was a talking spirit bamboo.

• Xie Feng challenged Chu Shanjun, defeated him with his swordsmanship, and left Chu Shanjun eager to follow him.
• Chu Shanjun explained his decision to Yan Fei, who agreed to let him pursue swordsmanship as long as he stayed with the Setting Sun Sect.
• Xie Feng revealed that his heavenly divination had traced the rumors surrounding the Azure Dragon Clan and Sushang to Chu Shanjun, who had acted to help Sushang.
• Sushang mastered Swallowing Rosy Clouds, broke through the storm, reached the purple bamboo, and began plucking its leaves.
• The ten-thousand-year-old spirit bamboo spoke to Sushang, and Xie Feng arrived to stop her from being rude.

The Dharma Artifact Ranking began, and Murong Jue’s Taotie Bowl placed tenth, earning him an immortal pill that could break through any realm. The ranking then rang out to reveal ninth place.

• The Heavenly Ranking announced the start of the Dharma Artifact Ranking, and Ye Yuan agreed to make friends after Meng Wuqu advised him to keep company with the strong and wise.
• Murong Jue ordered Jing Zhao to lead troops against the rebellious tribes and gave him the Taotie Bowl, the Heavenly Dusk Dynasty’s divine artifact.
• The Heavenly Ranking listed the Taotie Bowl in tenth place, describing its power to swallow heaven and devour earth.
• Murong Jue received a Purple Extremity Realm-Breaking Golden Pill and realized it could help him break through his two-hundred-year bottleneck at the tenth level of the Tribulation Transcendence Realm.
• The Heavenly Ranking rang out to announce ninth place.

The Heavenly Ranking revealed that Grand Duke Linglong owned the Cloud Emperor Crown, exposing his plans to rebel against the Heavenly Dusk Dynasty and prompting Murong Jue to prepare a campaign against him. The ranking then named Empress Jialuo’s Fleeting Life Umbrella eighth and awarded her a Spirit Pool, while she turned her attention to the blood of the “bald donkeys.”

• The Heavenly Ranking placed Grand Duke Linglong’s Cloud Emperor Crown ninth and awarded him Eternal Dragon Qi.
• Grand Duke Linglong realized the ranking had exposed his ambition to overthrow the Heavenly Dusk Dynasty and resolved to accelerate his plans.
• Murong Jue learned of Grand Duke Linglong’s treachery and ordered Jing Zhao to assemble the dynasty’s armies for a campaign against the Linglong Duchy.
• The Heavenly Ranking placed Empress Jialuo’s Fleeting Life Umbrella eighth and awarded her a Spirit Pool.
• Empress Jialuo welcomed the Spirit Pool but said she wanted to soak her umbrella in the blood of the “bald donkeys.”

The Heavenly Ranking revealed the Soundless Disc in seventh place and the Blood Tathagata Beads in sixth, while the Jialuo Holy Land burned under Empress Jiang Fei’s order to eradicate its monks. As a young monk named Mo Ren watched his abbot die and received his prayer beads, an arrow struck him from behind.

• Xie Feng searched the Xuanji Sect storeroom for a pill cauldron to teach Sushang, while the Heavenly Ranking announced Ye Yuan’s Soundless Disc as a seventh-place immortal artifact.
• Ye Yuan received the unbreakable Seven Stars Robe reward, and Meng Wuqu challenged his claim that stronger artifacts might exist.
• The Heavenly Ranking named Monk Moren’s Blood Tathagata Beads as sixth place and showed how twenty-eight saintly monks had created them to defeat the Devil Ancestor.
• Empress Jiang Fei’s forces burned Buddhist temples and slaughtered monks across the Jialuo Holy Land.
• A dying abbot placed his black prayer beads around young Mo Ren’s neck, and an arrow struck Mo Ren in the back.

The little novice monk awakened the Blood Tathagata Beads and defeated the holy army before vanishing with the Ancestral Buddha Relic. The Heavenly Ranking revealed Xie Feng’s Beacon Cloud Hook in fourth place and Supreme Dream Robe in third, leaving the world stunned by the unknown owner.

• The little novice monk’s blood awakened the Blood Tathagata Beads, transforming him into a blood-colored Tathagata whose power annihilated the holy army.
• The Heavenly Ranking rewarded the little novice monk with the Ancestral Buddha Relic, and he vanished as the world-cleansing bell rang.
• The Heavenly Ranking placed Qi Wuyan’s Fate Cauldron fifth, prompting Ye Yuan and Heavenly Master Qi to wonder what treasures could rank above it.
• The Heavenly Ranking revealed Xie Feng’s Beacon Cloud Hook in fourth place and awarded him Great Dao Luck, shocking people who had never heard of him.
• The Heavenly Ranking revealed Xie Feng’s Supreme Dream Robe in third place and awarded him Chaos Primordial Unity.