Chapter Summaries

Meng Wuqu swept aside the Immortal Alliance’s challenge and then withdrew before facing the Demonic Sect, leaving the Xuanji Sect to take its turn. Xie Feng stepped onto the platform and chose the Immortal Alliance as his opponent.

• The Immortal Alliance accepted Meng Wuqu’s challenge and sent Lie Wei, who was swiftly defeated, earning the Seven Stars Domain second place.
• Meng Wuqu announced that his challenges ended there and departed without fighting the Demonic Sect.
• Spectators speculated that the Seven Stars Domain was yielding matches to help the Xuanji Sect rise in the rankings.
• Xie Feng stepped onto the battle platform as Changying and Zhou Jin discussed the looming conflict with the Cloud Palace.
• After the Cloud Palace palace master refused to preside over the match, Xie Feng declared that the Xuanji Sect would challenge the Immortal Alliance.

Xie Feng challenged the Immortal Alliance at the Ten Thousand Immortals Assembly and defeated its Saint Elder Luo with one sword technique. Madam Wenqu openly defended Xie Feng, leading Alliance Leader Ning Xuantian to suspect that Xie Feng was her son.

• Xie Feng publicly challenged the Immortal Alliance, and Luo Xingchuan sent Saint Second Stage Elder Luo to fight him.
• Xie Feng unleashed the Twelve Sword Immortals Art, Doomsday, and blasted Elder Luo off the platform with a wounded arm.
• The spectators were shocked by Xie Feng's strength, while Ming Cangyan praised him and Madam Wenqu declared that he belonged to Great Wilderness Heaven.
• Madam Wenqu warned Ning Xuantian that offending Xie Feng meant offending her and the Seven Stars Domain.
• Ning Xuantian suspected Xie Feng was Madam Wenqu's secretly abandoned child, while the Cloud Palace master grew furious at the reminder that Xie Feng had crippled Yun Muhan.

After revealing that he was only a First-Stage Saint, Xie Feng defeated another Immortal Alliance elder and pressured Luo Xingchuan to fight despite Ning Xuantian's veiled threats. Luo Xingchuan finally accepted the challenge, and Xie Feng declared that he would win if he could last ten minutes.

• The Heavenly Ranking revealed Xie Feng's cultivation as First-Stage Saint, astonishing the audience.
• Xie Feng defeated a Saint-level elder from the Immortal Alliance after challenging him, then demanded that Luo Xingchuan fight.
• Ning Xuantian praised Xie Feng before warning him to show humility, while Ming Cangyan and Madam Wenqu mocked the Immortal Alliance leader's position.
• With the crowd watching, Luo Xingchuan accepted Xie Feng's challenge and stepped onto the battle platform.
• Xie Feng told Luo Xingchuan that he would win if he could last ten minutes.

Xie Feng defeated Luo Xingchuan and the Demonic Sect’s four elders, securing first place for the Xuanji Sect at the Ten Thousand Immortals Assembly. After receiving the top prize, he faced a threat from Ning Xuantian, who warned him about relying on the Seven Stars Domain.

• Xie Feng overwhelmed Luo Xingchuan with his Saint-level spiritual power, leaving him injured and unable to rise.
• Xie Feng challenged the Demonic Sect’s four elders and knocked all four unconscious with a single attack.
• The assembly rankings placed the Xuanji Sect first, the Seven Stars Domain second, the Demonic Sect third, and the Immortal Alliance fourth.
• Madam Wenqu presented Xie Feng with the first-place rewards and called him a future Supreme.
• Ning Xuantian warned Xie Feng that relying on the Seven Stars Domain could put him in danger if it fell.

Xie Feng challenged Ning Xuantian, then led the Xuanji Sect through the Sequence Pillar’s test at the Ten Thousand Immortals Assembly. He stopped at the Second Sequence, where the pillar awakened Azure Jade Heaven as the sect’s new site, drawing awe and envy from the crowd.

• Xie Feng told Ning Xuantian to get used to his appearance because his era had passed, and Ning Xuantian accepted him as a future opponent.
• Madam Wenqu explained that the Xuanji Sect could advance from the Tenth Sequence and instructed Xie Feng to test his potential on the Sequence Pillar.
• Xie Feng’s spiritual power drove the pillar rapidly through the colors, past the Fourth Sequence and up to gold, marking the Second Sequence.
• Xie Feng stopped the test at the Second Sequence despite sensing he could rise farther, and the pillar named Azure Jade Heaven as the Xuanji Sect’s new site.
• The crowd celebrated Azure Jade Heaven’s awakening, while Ning Xuantian remarked on the mysterious domain and Ming Cangyan asked whether he coveted it.

After winning the Ten Thousand Immortals Assembly, Xie Feng met Jun Ran at a humble beef noodle stall to discuss Green Duckweed Manor’s request for pills and its disciple training grounds. Jun Ran asked for high Saint Grade pills that enhanced explosive power, and Xie Feng agreed before asking to discuss what he wanted in return.

• Xie Feng recognized that his victory had made the Xuanji Sect an overlord of Azure Jade Heaven and sent Changying and the others home while he stayed behind to meet Jun Ran.
• Unable to find their agreed meeting place, Xie Feng wandered through Ten Thousand Immortals City and stopped at a beef noodle stall.
• Xie Feng thought of Sushang as he ate, and Jun Ran arrived, ordered tea, and sat opposite him.
• Jun Ran discussed how outsiders could rise to power in the Upper Realm, and Xie Feng agreed that strength mattered more than being native.
• Jun Ran confirmed that Green Duckweed Manor had a place for disciples to train and requested two thousand high Saint Grade pills that preferably enhanced explosive power.
• Xie Feng agreed to provide the pills and asked Jun Ran to discuss what he wanted in return.

Jun Ran offered Xie Feng access to Heaven-Severing Lake for his disciples, and he promised to prepare two thousand saint pills within ten days. Meanwhile, Changying and the others were ambushed by the Demonic Sect and Cloud Palace, and the confrontation turned into a fight.

• Jun Ran offered to let about a hundred of Xie Feng's disciples train at Heaven-Severing Lake, and Xie Feng agreed to prepare two thousand saint pills for collection in ten days.
• Xie Feng left without paying for his noodles, so Jun Ran paid before departing, while Jiu Zhi teased her about pursuing him.
• Changying, Zhou Jin, Zhou Zhulu, and Yun Muchen were surrounded in the mountain forest by the Demonic Sect's four great elders, the Cloud Palace's palace master, and the Sword Ancestor.
• The Demonic Sect's Elder Li and the Cloud Palace's palace master revealed their motives for attacking, and Changying drew Great Cluster and challenged them.
• Changying attacked the four elders, while Zhou Zhulu transformed into a Heavenly Dog and reached the Saint realm, and Zhou Jin transformed and rose to Quasi-Saint.

Li Fuyou arrived to save Zhou Zhulu and killed the Sword Ancestor and the Cloud Palace Master with ease. He then turned his sword on the Demonic Sect’s four elders, whose attempted escape was stopped by his Sword Qi.

• The Sword Ancestor nearly defeated Zhou Zhulu, but a crimson Sword Qi struck him down in one blow.
• Li Fuyou appeared, and Zhou Zhulu recognized his old friend as Lord Tianxuan of the Seven Stars Domain.
• Li Fuyou confronted the Cloud Palace Master and killed him, despite his threats of consequences from the Immortal Alliance and Lord Ning Xuantian.
• Li Fuyou told the Demonic Sect’s four elders he would eliminate them as well, then attacked as they tried to flee.

Li Fuyou killed the Cloud Palace’s palace master and Sword Ancestor, along with four elders of the Demonic Sect, after they attacked his companions. Madam Wenqu ordered the Seven Stars Domain to prepare for war and declared that anyone who attacked Xie Feng would be declaring war on the domain, then arranged for Li Fuyou to escort the group to Azure Jade Heaven.

• Li Fuyou killed the Cloud Palace and Demonic Sect leaders who had attacked Zhou Zhulu and the others, and Yun Muchen began to feel he truly belonged in the Xuanji Sect.
• Madam Wenqu arrived and learned what Li Fuyou had done, then warned that his actions could ignite a war among the great powers.
• Madam Wenqu ordered the Seven Stars Domain to prepare for war and announced that any power attacking Xie Feng would be declaring war on the domain.
• Madam Wenqu told Li Fuyou to guide the group to Azure Jade Heaven and invited Changying to return to the Seven Stars Domain to visit her master and grandmaster.
• Yun Muchen compared Li Fuyou’s swordsmanship with the sect master’s and described the Vermilion Bird Sword Immortal, prompting Zhou Jin to ask who he was.

The group returned to the Xuanji Sect in Madam Wenqu’s spatial carriage, while Zhu Mingming, a palace master and popular fiction writer, searched for inspiration for a new story. He learned about a champion from the Ten Thousand Immortals Assembly and asked for the ascender’s name.

• Madam Wenqu gave Yun Muchen and the others a spatial carriage and told Li Fuyou to handle any trouble at the Xuanji Sect, promising her support.
• Zhou Zhulu happily reunited with Li Fuyou, whom he called Old Worm, and Li Fuyou joined the group as the carriage departed for the Xuanji Sect.
• At the Sun and Moon Palace, Zhu Mingming learned from Little White that his story Waiting for the Light had become a hit.
• Zhu Mingming asked Little White and Little Blue to critique his story, and Little White suggested he stop adding a romantic escapade to every chapter.
• Zhu Mingming planned a story about an ascender who was an unparalleled genius, and Little White told him about the Ten Thousand Immortals Assembly champion from Great Wilderness Heaven.
• Zhu Mingming asked Little White for the champion’s name.

Zhu Mingming uncovered and killed An Ya for treason, while Xie Feng and the Xuanji Sect moved into Azure Jade Heaven and grew stronger under its Supreme Yin providence. After Jun Ran arrived to visit, Xie Feng and his fifteen disciples headed to Phoenix Heaven.

• Zhu Mingming questioned An Ya about secretly contacting the Seven Stars Domain, and An Ya admitted to the betrayal before attacking the palace masters.
• Zhu Mingming killed An Ya with the Vermilion Bird Sword and ordered an investigation into his contacts in the Seven Stars Domain.
• Xie Feng returned to the Xuanji Sect, whose members relocated with the Immortal Court and three hundred thousand troops to Azure Jade Heaven.
• The awakened Supreme Yin providence raised the cultivation of the Xuanji Sect, its troops, Xie Feng, and Li Fuyou.
• Li Fuyou helped settle the Xuanji Sect in Azure Jade Heaven, and Anping reported that Jun Ran had arrived to visit.
• Xie Feng left for Phoenix Heaven with his fifteen disciples.

Jun Ran brought Xie Feng and fifteen Xuanji Sect disciples to Heaven-Severing Lake, where the disciples began cultivating and quickly turned into jade sculptures. After Jun Ran left, Xie Feng returned to the thatched cottage to meet her mysterious first master, who had asked to see him.

• Jun Ran gave Xie Feng two hundred spacetime carriages and took him and his disciples to Phoenix Heaven to seek permission for them to cultivate in Heaven-Severing Lake.
• Jun Ran's silver-haired master dismissed her and the others, then told Xie Feng to return and see her after his business was finished.
• Jun Ran explained how Heaven-Severing Lake's spiritual energy protected cultivators and noted that Cang Shanhu became a jade sculpture in one minute.
• Xie Feng watched Cang Shanhu, Mo Beichen, Qingxing, Lanzao, Qin Chen, and the other disciples turn into jade sculptures and begin cultivating.
• After Jun Ran departed, Xie Feng checked that the disciples were safe and returned to the cottage, where the silver-haired woman said he kept his word.

Jing Yuan revealed that she had known Xie Feng’s master, Mu Bingxing, in the Lower Realm, then took out her anger over his deception on Xie Feng and tested his swordsmanship. She decided to teach Xie Feng herself after effortlessly defeating his strongest sword strike.

• Jing Yuan recognized Xie Feng as an ascender from the Lower Realm and revealed that she had once practiced Buddhism as Jing Yuan and met him when he was a child.
• Jing Yuan explained that Mu Bingxing and Taihua Jun were incarnations of the same person, who disappeared after completing his cultivation through them.
• Jing Yuan shattered Xie Feng’s body in anger, then demanded that he draw his sword and show her what he had inherited from his master.
• Xie Feng unleashed three linked moves of the Xizun Sword Technique, but Jing Yuan caught his Cherished Wine Cup Sword between two fingers and criticized his swordsmanship.
• Jing Yuan restored the cottage and Xie Feng’s body, then told him she would teach him swordsmanship.

Xie Feng quickly left his first sword mark on Trace-Leaving Cliff, prompting Jing Yuan to decide to train him. In the Holy Demon Heaven, Ming Cangyan learned that Li Fuyou had killed four Demonic Sect elders, while Yan Xu revealed that Jun Ran had secretly visited the Purple Tenuity Palace as the sect questioned why the Seven Stars Domain was protecting Xie Feng.

• Jing Yuan brought Xie Feng to Trace-Leaving Cliff and told him to study until he could leave a sword mark.
• Xie Feng studied the cliff and left a mark with one sword stroke, surprising Jing Yuan.
• Jing Yuan criticized Xie Feng for being only a Saint and ordered him to stay so she could teach him swordsmanship, then left for her midday break.
• Ming Cangyan learned that Li Fuyou had killed the Demonic Sect's four great elders while they intercepted the Xuanji Sect, and vowed the sect would not spare its enemies.
• Yan Xu arrived in Mara City and told Ming Cangyan that Jun Ran had secretly gone alone to the Purple Tenuity Palace.
• Ming Cangyan questioned why the Seven Stars Domain valued Xie Feng so highly and whether he was acquainted with Meng Wuqu.

Yan Xu and Ming Cangyan discussed Xie Feng, the Seven Stars Domain, and a letter announcing the Devil Emperor’s return. At Heaven-Severing Lake, Jing Yuan taught Xie Feng the principles of swordsmanship, and he rapidly mastered seventh-rank Sword Might.

• Yan Xu told Ming Cangyan about his rise in the Demonic Sect and guessed that a girl he once met in the Lower Realm might have ascended.
• Ming Cangyan explained that Xie Feng was male and had opened the Heavenly Gate two years earlier, then discussed allying with the Immortal Alliance against Meng Wuqu.
• Bai Lan delivered the Devil Emperor’s letter promising to return next spring, and Yan Xu advised him to praise the Emperor’s handwriting.
• Jing Yuan explained Sword Might to Xie Feng and demonstrated it with a twig.
• Xie Feng awakened seventh-rank Sword Might almost immediately, astonishing Jing Yuan as Jun Ran overheard her call her disciple less talented.
• Xie Feng said he had already learned the remaining ranks, leaving Jing Yuan furious that Mu Bingxing had not taught him properly.

Xie Feng awakened Sword Soul while sparring with Jun Ran, and Jing Yuan gave him her Sword Soul Summary before he began refining pills and studying. Meanwhile, the Immortal Alliance and Demonic Sect moved against the Seven Stars Domain, and Madam Wenqu ordered the domain to prepare as Lord Yaoguang faced a possible replacement.

• Jing Yuan had Xie Feng spar with Jun Ran, and the pressure of their sword clash helped him advance to Sword Soul.
• Jing Yuan explained Sword Soul and gave Xie Feng her Sword Soul Summary, while Jun Ran suspected Jing Yuan meant to take him as a direct disciple.
• Xie Feng asked for a quiet place to refine pills, and Jun Ran supplied rare ingredients before he spent three days making pills and began studying beneath a waterfall.
• The Immortal Alliance and Demonic Sect formed a secret alliance, isolated the Seven Stars Domain with more than twenty allied powers, and harassed its borders.
• Madam Wenqu ordered troops sent to the four borders and summoned the seven Star Lords to the Purple Tenuity Palace.
• Xuanyuan Zhige told Madam Wenqu that Lord Yaoguang might be replaced, and she ordered him to go see Yaoguang.

Zhao Yuejia sacrificed himself to pass his power to Sushang, while Changying cultivated in the Soaring Sea and Xie Feng created a sword technique after reaching the Sword Name realm. Jing Yuan recounted how she had met and searched for Xie Feng’s master, leaving Xie Feng determined to find him too.

• Zhao Yuejia turned himself into a monument and passed his power to Sushang, who became the new Lord Yaoguang.
• Madam Wenqu sent Changying to cultivate in the Soaring Sea, where her Immaculate Body began to awaken.
• Xie Feng reached the third meaning of the sword Dao and created the early immortal-rank technique Xuanji Sword Intent.
• Jing Yuan praised Xie Feng’s work and told him she had met his master, Taihua Jun, when they were young.
• Jing Yuan said she searched for Taihua Jun in the Lower Realm, reunited with him, and later lost track of him after he vanished again.
• Xie Feng told Jing Yuan he would follow his master’s footsteps and find him.

Xie Feng continued comprehending the Sword Radiance realm while the Demonic Sect sought Green Duckweed Manor’s support against the Seven Stars Domain. Jun Ran chose neutrality, and after three years the Heavenly Ranking descended again, stirring the Upper Realm.

• Jing Yuan explained Sword Radiance to Xie Feng, who then sat down to comprehend the Dao.
• Ming Cangyan asked Jun Ran to ally Green Duckweed Manor with the Demonic Sect against the Seven Stars Domain.
• Jun Ran declared that Green Duckweed Manor would remain neutral, and Ming Cangyan warned her to stay away from the Seven Stars Domain and the Xuanji Sect.
• Xie Feng continued meditating as the seasons passed and a new year arrived.
• The Heavenly Ranking appeared after three years, and people across the Upper Realm recalled that Xie Feng had topped its previous newcomer ranking.

As the Heavenly Ranking prepared to release the Sword Immortal Ranking, Immortal Alliance leaders welcomed their ancestor Wei Hengfeng, while Xuanyuan Zhige arranged a secret mission involving An Ya and discussed Xie Feng with a hidden ally. In the valley, Xie Feng comprehended sword radiance and split a waterfall and cliff, and Jing Yuan began to offer him an item.

• The Immortal Alliance gathered before Wei Hengfeng and praised his chances of taking first place on the Sword Immortal Ranking.
• Xuanyuan Zhige told a hidden ally that An Ya had been discovered and agreed to share Xie Feng’s story after the ally completed a mission.
• The hidden ally wondered how his swordsmanship compared with Xuanyuan Zhige’s, and Xuanyuan Zhige ordered him to proceed carefully with the long-term mission.
• Xie Feng transformed ordinary things into sword intent and used it to cut through a waterfall and a cliff, comprehending a trace of sword radiance.
• Jing Yuan praised Xie Feng’s progress, told him he could leave the valley, and took an item from a ball of silver light.

Jing Yuan gave Xie Feng the Extreme Dao Sword, and he entered its consciousness to try to tame its defiant sword soul. Elsewhere, a girl named Mian'er questioned her master about why he would not let her fight in larger conflicts, and he asked how she decided who was good or bad.

• Jing Yuan gave Xie Feng the Extreme Dao Sword, which she had been unable to tame, and Xie Feng returned the Beacon Cloud Hook to her.
• Jing Yuan accepted the Beacon Cloud Hook and turned it into a hairpin before leaving for seclusion.
• Xie Feng entered the Extreme Dao Sword's consciousness and met its sword soul, which said it had forgotten its master and refused to serve him.
• Xie Feng reached for the sword soul's hilt, and a burning light erupted.
• Mian'er asked her straw-caped master why he kept her out of wars between dynasties and sects, and he asked how she judged who was good or bad.