Chapter Summaries

Mian'er and the old man in the straw raincoat encountered a powerful man in white who defeated Mian'er and demanded the Extreme Dao Sword’s power for his disciple. In the valley, Xie Feng received that power, rose to Saint King Third Stage, and the sword attached itself to his cuff.

• The old man in the straw raincoat taught Mian'er that the weak, rather than the powerful, were the ones who needed help.
• Mian'er sensed that her avatar, the Extreme Dao Sword, had awakened in a human’s hands, and the man in white appeared, identifying that human as his disciple.
• The man in white challenged Mian'er and the old man, then shattered Mian'er’s sword strike with one palm and sent her flying a million li.
• The man in white told the defeated pair to honor their wager and left, while the old man wondered who he was.
• Xie Feng grasped the Extreme Dao Sword and received a warm power that raised his cultivation from Saint Ninth Stage to Saint King Third Stage.
• The Extreme Dao Sword explained its limits and, unable to be stored within Xie Feng, became a silver motif on his right cuff.

The Heavenly Ranking unveiled the Sword Immortal Ranking, while the Immortal Alliance invaded Azure Jade Heaven to attack the Xuanji Sect. Qi Wuyan’s defenses surrounded the invaders, and Zhou Zhulu confronted their leader, Hecate.

• The Heavenly Ranking announced that the Sword Immortal Ranking would list the top one hundred sword cultivators, and Chong Shu took one hundredth place with a score of 100.
• The Immortal Alliance army entered Azure Jade Heaven and advanced toward the Xuanji Sect under Hecate’s leadership.
• Qi Wuyan received warning through the spiritual net, and the Xuanji elders assembled three hundred thousand Xuanji Troops to meet the invasion.
• Qi Wuyan activated the instinctive defenses of the Holy Dragon Fortune and Taiyin Fortune, while the Xuanji Sacred Formation surrounded the Immortal Alliance army.
• Hecate discovered that the Xuanji Troops numbered three hundred thousand and were all at least Immortal King level, but he remained confident in his Saint King Ninth Stage strength.
• Zhou Zhulu emerged from the Xuanji Sect at Quasi-Saint Tenth Stage, and Hecate judged that he could not stop a Saint King.

Hecate invaded the Xuanji Sect with thirty thousand Immortal Alliance troops, but Li Fuyou and Xie Feng turned the battle against them. Xie Feng arrived and slaughtered the allied army with a single sword strike, leaving the snowfield drenched in blood.

• Hecate challenged Zhou Zhulu and demanded that the Xuanji Sect gather its strength to face him.
• Zhou Zhulu called Li Fuyou, who revealed that he had reached the Saint Sovereign realm and fought Hecate.
• Li Fuyou broke Hecate’s spear, but an unseen sword strike pierced Hecate’s heart and destroyed his body and soul.
• Xie Feng appeared before the thirty thousand Immortal Alliance troops, and Zhou Zhulu welcomed him back as the sect master.
• Xie Feng unleashed a vast slash of Sword Qi that cut down the Immortal Emperor army and turned the snowy field into a sea of blood.

Xie Feng annihilated the Immortal Alliance’s thirty-thousand-strong army and rejected Li Fuyou’s request for the Xuanji Sect to remain neutral. As the Immortal-Demonic Alliance’s leaders learned of the defeat, they blamed the Seven Stars Domain and discussed the Xuanji Sect’s unexpected strength.

• Xie Feng covered the battlefield of corpses with snow after destroying the allied army, while Li Fuyou recognized the Sword Radiance in his swordsmanship.
• Zhou Zhulu introduced Li Fuyou to Xie Feng, and Li Fuyou urged the Xuanji Sect to choose neutrality on behalf of the Seven Stars Domain.
• Xie Feng declared that the Immortal Alliance had brought the war to his doorstep and turned his attention to the Heavenly Ranking.
• Yan Xu, Ming Cangyan, and Ning Xuantian discussed the Heavenly Ranking and expected the Immortal-Demonic Alliance’s attack on the Xuanji Sect to succeed.
• A subordinate reported that Xie Feng had killed all thirty thousand allied troops and that Hecate had fallen in Azure Jade Heaven.
• Ning Xuantian, Yan Xu, and Ming Cangyan reacted to the defeat and speculated that the Seven Stars Domain had sent Li Fuyou to protect its only ally.

Ning Xuantian and the Demon Kings prepared their alliance’s military deployment while the Heavenly Ranking revealed Yun Sen’s place among the top twenty. Xie Feng killed Yun Sen and began destroying the Cloud Palace, leaving its people rushing to confront him.

• Ning Xuantian learned that the Demon Emperor was absent and agreed with the Demon Kings to wait for his return.
• Ning Xuantian assigned the Demonic Sect to the eastern region and the Immortal Alliance to the northern Setting Sun Pavilion, and Ming Cangyan and Yan Xu agreed.
• The Heavenly Ranking revealed Yun Sen of the Cloud Palace in twentieth place with a score of 3000, then erased his entry as he died.
• Xie Feng killed Yun Sen with a sweep of his sleeve and dispersed his corpse.
• The Cloud Palace's people charged toward Xie Feng for revenge as his Sword Dao laws caused the palace and its mountain to collapse.

Xie Feng destroyed the Cloud Palace and killed ranking figures allied with the Immortal Alliance and Demonic Sect, turning the Heavenly Ranking into a kill list. As he advanced toward the top ten, the Cloud Guard Sect’s holy maiden feared she would be targeted, while Sect Master Gu Yue rushed to protect her.

• Xie Feng used the Northern Nether Illusory Flame to annihilate the Cloud Palace, and a fiery image showed the Upper Realm why its palace master had died.
• Luan Xie appeared in nineteenth place on the Heavenly Ranking, then his information vanished, confirming that Xie Feng had killed him.
• Ning Xuantian returned to the Immortal Alliance and ordered his subordinate to admit Zhu Mingming, the master of the Sun and Moon Palace.
• Xie Feng killed ranking figures connected to the Immortal-Demonic Alliance, advancing from twentieth place to eleventh and alarming the Upper Realm.
• The Cloud Guard Sect’s holy maiden feared Xie Feng would target her, while Sect Master Gu Yue hurried to the sect to protect her.

As the Heavenly Ranking revealed its top ten, Xie Feng killed Yan Qiu'er and Gui Fenghun but spared Zhu Mingming, who had fled under Ning Xuantian’s protection. The ranking listed several Seven Stars Domain sword immortals, and Lord Yuheng Chen Lianzhen traveled toward Purple Tenuity Palace.

• The Heavenly Ranking named Yan Qiu'er tenth, and Xie Feng appeared and killed her with a single slash before Gu Yue could arrive.
• The ranking named Changying ninth, and Xie Feng grew irritated when spectators called her their wife.
• The ranking named Gui Fenghun eighth, and he challenged Xie Feng before being riddled with Sword Qi and killed.
• Demon King Ming Cangyan, enraged by Xie Feng's attacks, summoned the three great Demon Venerables to prepare to kill him.
• The ranking named Xuanyuan Zhige seventh and Zhu Mingming sixth; Zhu escaped to the Immortal Alliance for Ning Xuantian's protection, and Xie Feng left him unharmed.
• The ranking revealed Li Fuyou in fifth, Jun Ran in fourth, and Chen Lianzhen in third as Chen traveled by carriage toward Purple Tenuity Palace.

Chen Lianzhen recorded his return to Purple Tenuity Palace as the Heavenly Ranking revealed Wei Hengfeng in second place. Jun Ran bet heavily that Xie Feng would defeat him, while Ye Yuan and Meng Wuqu watched for Xie Feng’s next move.

• Chen Lianzhen wrote in his diary about the Immortal Alliance and Demonic Sect joining forces against the Seven Stars Domain and vowed to prevent another tragedy.
• The Heavenly Ranking revealed Wei Hengfeng, an Immortal Alliance ancestor, as second place with his Saint Artifact sword Long Wind.
• Most of the crowd bet that Xie Feng would lose, but Jun Ran wagered three years of Green Duckweed Manor’s expenses on his victory.
• Ye Yuan praised Xie Feng to Meng Wuqu, then reassured Meng Wuqu that he was his first friend.
• The Heavenly Ranking began flashing, and Ye Yuan and Meng Wuqu watched for Xie Feng to make his move.

Xie Feng used the Extreme Dao Sword to kill Wei Hengfeng, the Immortal Alliance's sixth-stage Saint Venerable ancestor, shocking the Upper Realm and reshuffling the Heavenly Ranking. Jun Ran sent her betting winnings to the Xuanji Sect, while Ning Xuantian found Wei Hengfeng's cultivation grounds empty and confirmed his fall.

• Xie Feng provoked the Extreme Dao Sword into boasting about its strength, then brought it to face Wei Hengfeng.
• Wei Hengfeng offered Xie Feng resources to join the Immortal Alliance and threatened the Xuanji Sect and Seven Stars Domain when he refused to respond.
• Xie Feng drew the Extreme Dao Sword and killed Wei Hengfeng with a single strike that destroyed his body and soul beyond recovery.
• The Heavenly Ranking removed Wei Hengfeng's name, raised Chen Lianzhen to second place, and displayed a recording of the killing as the news spread across the Upper Realm.
• Jun Ran told Jiu Zhi to send her betting winnings to the Xuanji Sect, and Ning Xuantian found only the smell of blood at Wei Hengfeng's cultivation grounds.

The Heavenly Ranking named Meng Wuqu and Xie Feng joint first-place Sword Immortals, and Xie Feng received a Spirit Tempering Pool that he planned to use to strengthen the Xuanji Troops. As the Immortal-Demonic Alliance launched its planned war against the Seven Stars Domain, the Seven Stars Domain’s and Second Sequence’s providence began mysteriously dwindling, especially in the east.

• Ning Xuantian recognized the Extreme Dao Sword in the Heavenly Ranking’s video and resolved to accelerate the war.
• The Heavenly Ranking named Meng Wuqu first and awarded him the Weapon Edge Extreme Core.
• The Heavenly Ranking also named Xie Feng first, revealed his face to the world, and awarded him a Spirit Tempering Pool.
• Xie Feng headed to the Xuanji Sect to use the pool to strengthen the Xuanji Troops, while the Heavenly Ranking announced that the Factions Ranking would open in three months.
• The Immortal-Demonic Alliance launched an all-out offensive against the Seven Stars Domain, and both the domain’s and the Second Sequence’s providence began to dwindle.

As the Immortal Alliance and Demonic Sect besieged the Seven Stars Domain, Sushang and Chen Lianzhen recognized their shared Primordial White Tiger heritage, and Chen revealed how he had survived as Chen Beiye. At the border, Jun Ran suspected someone was stealing providence on a scale that threatened the entire Upper Realm.

• Mad Demon joined the Immortal Alliance’s northern assault as the alliance and Demonic Sect attacked the Seven Stars Domain from two sides.
• Madam Wenqu sent Ning Long and Sushang to investigate the disappearance of providence in the Lucun Star Domain, and Chen Lianzhen arrived at the Purple Tenuity Palace.
• Chen Lianzhen and Sushang recognized a bond through their shared Primordial White Tiger bloodline, and he revealed that he was Chen Beiye and had survived after Jing Yuan saved him.
• Sushang told Chen Lianzhen how Xie Feng had cared for her, and Chen was stunned to learn that Xie Feng was the famous young genius and Xuanji Sect master.
• Jun Ran and Jiu Zhi surveyed the battlefield at the Seven Stars Domain’s border, where Jun Ran warned that someone was stealing providence from the Second Sequence and might threaten the entire Upper Realm.

As the Immortal-Demonic Alliance’s war against the Seven Stars Domain continued, Xie Feng arrived at the ruined Lucun Star Domain and faced Ming Cangyan and the Demonic Sect’s powerful fighters. He killed a senior elder and Qian Xiao in quick succession, then Ming Cangyan stepped forward to attack.

• Jun Ran and Jiu Zhi decided to search the Seven Stars Domain for the cause of providence disappearing.
• Xie Feng sent three hundred thousand Immortal Thearchs from the Xuanji Troops, along with Xuanji Sect elders, to aid the Seven Stars Domain.
• Xie Feng traveled to the Lucun Star Domain and encountered Ming Cangyan, the three Demon Venerables, and ten Demonic Sect senior elders.
• Xie Feng instantly killed a Saint King Fourth Stage senior elder with a strike formed from his killing intent.
• Qian Xiao attacked Xie Feng, who killed him with a single sword strike and declared that he was invincible among Saint Kings.
• Ming Cangyan stepped forward as space shook and the laws crumbled around him.

Xie Feng faced the Demonic Sect’s Demon Emperor, Ge Ya, and prepared to fight until Ge Ya recognized him as his junior brother. The revelation left Ming Cangyan and the Demonic Sect’s forces stunned, as Ge Ya turned to confront them for trying to bully Xie Feng.

• Ming Cangyan ordered more than a dozen Saint Kings to surround Xie Feng and attack together.
• The Demon Emperor arrived in a storm of Demonic Qi, and Ming Cangyan accused Xie Feng of killing Demonic Sect members and supporting the Seven Stars Domain.
• Xie Feng sensed the Demon Emperor’s immense strength and readied the Extreme Dao Sword as the Demon Emperor silenced the crowd and attacked him.
• The Demon Emperor abruptly withdrew his pressure, removed his ghost mask, and affectionately called Xie Feng “Little Fengfeng.”
• Xie Feng recognized the Demon Emperor as his second senior brother, Ge Ya, and Ge Ya asked Ming Cangyan whether he had tried to bully his little junior brother.

Ge Ya protected Xie Feng from the Demonic Sect’s leaders and ordered its troops withdrawn from the Seven Stars Domain, confident he could handle the conflict himself. Meanwhile, Jiang Fei finally found Ge Ya after searching for more than two hundred years.

• Ge Ya dismissed the Demonic Sect’s elders and stripped Meiying and Bai Lan of their Demon Venerable positions for targeting Xie Feng.
• Xie Feng persuaded Ge Ya to spare Ming Cangyan, who endured Ge Ya’s scolding and thanked Xie Feng for intervening.
• Ge Ya reassured Xie Feng that he would always stand up for him, and Xie Feng felt grateful to have such a powerful senior brother.
• After Ming Cangyan explained the Immortal-Demonic Alliance’s attack on the Seven Stars Domain, Ge Ya ordered the Demonic Sect’s troops to withdraw and said there was nothing to fear with him present.
• Jiang Fei found Ge Ya’s image in a mirror and recognized him as the man who had saved her and given her the Fleeting Life Umbrella more than two hundred years earlier.

Ge Ya reunited with Xie Feng and took him to the Immortal Market, revealing that he owned it and offering it to his junior brother. They entered the market and its exclusive Heavenly Treasure Pavilion, where Ge Ya arranged for Xie Feng to choose from its finest treasures.

• Ge Ya dismissed Xie Feng's concerns about the war and said he would show his junior brother the Immortal Market.
• Ge Ya brought Xie Feng to Yin-Yang Heaven and opened a golden gate directly into the Immortal Market, bypassing its usual entrance mechanism.
• Ge Ya introduced Xie Feng to the chief steward as his junior brother, then docked the steward's pay after reprimanding him for being nosy.
• Ge Ya led Xie Feng into the exclusive Heavenly Treasure Pavilion and explained that the Immortal Market sourced its goods from the First Sequence.
• The chief steward brought Ge Ya and Xie Feng to a treasure chamber and opened three boxes that filled the room with light and Spiritual Qi.

Ge Ya gave Xie Feng several priceless treasures and handed him the Venerable King Token, making him the owner of the Immortal Market. Xie Feng accepted the gifts but worried about who would manage the market when he eventually left the Upper Realm.

• Ge Ya ordered the chief steward to give Xie Feng the Glazed Inner Armor, the Carefree Brush, and the Phoenix Emperor Feather.
• At Ge Ya's insistence, the chief steward brought out Heavenly Mortal Jade Ginseng, which could replenish potential.
• Ge Ya demanded the market's crowning treasures, and Xie Feng was tempted by the Yellow Springs Demon Fruit and the Emperor Heaven Sacred Flame Seed.
• The chief steward placed the two crowning treasures in a spatial ring and gave it to Xie Feng.
• Ge Ya gave Xie Feng the Venerable King Token and declared that the Immortal Market belonged to him.
• Xie Feng accepted the token but wondered who would manage the Immortal Market after he left the Upper Realm.

Xie Feng fused the Yellow Springs Demon Fruit’s sacred demon power with his chaos sacred body, transforming it into the chaos sacred demon body and raising his cultivation to Saint Venerable fifth stage. He then combined the Emperor Heaven Sacred Flame with the northern nether illusory flame, creating the Emperor Grade Northern nether illusory emperor flame.

• Ge Ya led Xie Feng to a quiet room to cultivate with the treasures he had been given.
• Xie Feng refined the Yellow Springs Demon Fruit, and his chaos power overcame and absorbed its sacred demon power.
• Xie Feng’s chaos sacred body fused with the sacred demon bloodline, transforming him into a chaos sacred demon body and raising his cultivation to Saint Venerable fifth stage.
• Xie Feng brought the Emperor Heaven Sacred Flame and northern nether illusory flame together and supported the latter with chaos power and sacred demon power.
• Xie Feng successfully fused the flames, transforming the northern nether illusory flame into the Emperor Grade Northern nether illusory emperor flame.

Jun Ran and Jiu Zhi discovered that the Immortal Alliance was using Nine Dragons Facing the Cauldron to drain the Second Sequence’s fortune and destroy the world so it could rule what remained. Jun Ran sent Jiu Zhi to summon her master, then used the Dragon-Phoenix Heart to attack the weapon, though she feared it was not powerful enough to destroy it.

• Jun Ran and Jiu Zhi found the remains of over a hundred thousand Demonic Sect soldiers in the ruined Lucun Star Domain and traced a spatial ripple to a hidden bronze hall.
• Jun Ran recognized the nine-dragon cauldron as Nine Dragons Facing the Cauldron and realized it was absorbing the Second Sequence’s fortune while killing soldiers and damaging the surrounding domains.
• Jun Ran and Jiu Zhi concluded that the Immortal Alliance planned to devastate the world and use the weapon’s protection to establish a new order under its rule.
• Jun Ran told Jiu Zhi to fetch her master from Green Duckweed Manor while she stayed to watch the cauldron’s central sphere turn more gold.
• Jun Ran sent the Dragon-Phoenix Heart into the cauldron, hoping to destroy Nine Dragons Facing the Cauldron despite doubting the item’s power was sufficient.

Jun Ran sacrificed herself and Green Duckweed Manor’s Saint-level elders to destroy the Nine Dragons Facing the Cauldron, while Jiu Zhi arrived too late to save them. In the Soaring Sea, Changying gained the Supreme Vast Sea Physique, reached the third stage of Saint Venerable, and reunited with Mian’er.

• Jun Ran gave two thousand Saint-level elders pills that raised their power, then led them in sacrificing themselves to destroy the Nine Dragons Facing the Cauldron.
• Jiu Zhi arrived at Green Duckweed Manor after the explosion and recognized the cauldron’s fragments as bearing the presence of its people, realizing Jun Ran had spared him from their deaths.
• Changying absorbed the power of fate in the Soaring Sea and transformed into a Supreme Vast Sea Physique, with an immense Guixu forming inside her dantian.
• Changying’s cultivation rose to the third stage of Saint Venerable, and she discovered she could shatter the laws of the starry sky with a small gesture.
• Changying recognized Mian’er, the little girl she had met in the Luo Mo Secret Realm, and greeted her; Mian’er remembered Changying’s name.

Changying learned from Mian'er that they shared an origin, while the war turned against the Immortal Alliance after Green Duckweed Manor destroyed the Nine Dragons Facing the Cauldron and the Demonic Sect defected. Jun Ran confronted Ning Xuantian, and the Seven Stars Domain and allied forces surrounded the Immortal Alliance army, leaving the battle poised for a decisive clash.

• Mian'er told Changying that she had become the Extreme Dao Sword while Changying had become Guixu, and said their shared origin might bring them together again.
• The Demonic Sect withdrew from the Immortal Alliance, Zhu Mingming was exposed as the killer of the Sun and Moon Palace masters, and the Seven Stars Domain counterattacked.
• Jiu Zhi told Ning Xuantian that Green Duckweed Manor had destroyed the Nine Dragons Facing the Cauldron, and Jun Ran appeared alive and explained that she opposed his plan to remake the world.
• Jun Ran revealed the cauldron plot to the Immortal Alliance factions, whose members began to doubt Ning Xuantian as the Seven Stars Domain army approached.
• Madam Wenqu and the seven Star Lords arrived, followed by the Immortal Thearch Legion, the Xuanji Troops, and the Demonic Sect, surrounding the Immortal Alliance army.