Chapter Summaries

Jiang Fei recalled how a mysterious blue-robed man named Xuanji had saved her and agreed to meet State Preceptor Lu. The Heavenly Ranking revealed that Xie Feng had killed Qu Jiangxuan and claimed first place, while the Azure Dragon Clan discovered three shattered life talismans.

• Jiang Fei told Leng Ruoshuang how a blue-robed man had rescued her during the bloody trial that made her Empress Jialuo, and how she had searched for him for two hundred years using the name Xuanji.
• Jiang Fei and Leng Ruoshuang set out to meet State Preceptor Lu.
• The Heavenly Ranking placed Qu Jiangxuan second, but his entry vanished and the other rankings shifted after his death; Ye Yuan appeared in tenth place on the Heavenly Ranking.
• The rankings named Xie Feng first with a score of 10,000, showing him killing Qu Jiangxuan with one finger and awarding him the Ancient Path of Samsara.
• At the Azure Dragon Clan's ancient temple, Xuan Tugu saw the life talismans of Qu Jiangxuan, Ning Liao, and Yan Ya shatter and erupted in fury.

After the Heavenly Ranking named Xie Feng its top prodigy, the Azure Dragon Clan swore revenge for Qu Jiangxuan’s death while Xie Feng retrieved Unwithering Jade for his pill. The ranking announced its next contests, and Sushang encountered a mysterious white-robed woman as she meditated.

• Xuan Tugu mourned Qu Jiangxuan’s death and vowed to kill Xie Feng, while the Azure Dragon Ancestor emerged from seclusion and attacked the Heavenly Ranking’s image of him.
• The Heavenly Ranking revealed Xie Feng as its number one, prompting Gu Chen to weigh whether the Azure Luan Clan should aid him or let the Azure Dragon Clan pursue him.
• Xie Feng traveled to a perilous sea of clouds and used Northern Nether Illusory Flame to pluck an Unwithering Jade pine cone.
• The Great Dao announced that the Physical Body Ranking and Weapons Ranking would be released in one year.
• Sushang reached the Mahayana Realm Fourth Stage and seventh-grade great perfection in alchemy before a white-robed woman appeared beside her, making her recoil in alarm.

Changying examined Sushang’s primordial white tiger immortal physique, then fled when Xie Feng arrived. As Xie Feng and Sushang headed to the Spirit Continent for the final medicinal ingredient, Changying awkwardly followed them and lost track of them.

• Changying immobilized Sushang and examined her, recognizing the primordial white tiger immortal physique and wondering whether she was connected to her master’s old acquaintance.
• Xie Feng arrived, and Changying released Sushang before transforming into a white cloud and fleeing.
• Sushang complained to Xie Feng about Changying touching and immobilizing her, and Xie Feng suspected Changying’s interest in her physique concealed a secret.
• Xie Feng and Sushang set off for the Spirit Continent to find the last medicinal ingredient, and Xie Feng ruffled Sushang’s head.
• Sushang noticed someone following them, and Changying tried to pretend she was admiring the sunshine, flowers, and lake.
• Xie Feng and Sushang disappeared while Changying made excuses, leaving her embarrassed as she drank from her immortal gourd.

Xie Feng and Sushang entered the Xuanqiong Immortal Tower to reach its top floor and claim the ten-thousand-year immortal bone, while Changying secretly followed and helped them fight. On the thirtieth floor, the Devil Beasts sent a trembling little beast to confront Xie Feng, and it attacked despite his immortal pressure forcing it to its knees.

• Xie Feng and Sushang entered the Xuanqiong Immortal Tower, where the trapped Devil Beasts attacked them.
• Xie Feng destroyed the Devil Beasts as he and Sushang climbed the tower, while Sushang revealed her Primordial White Tiger form to frighten them.
• Changying followed the pair into the tower and used her immortal gourd to kill Devil Beasts pursuing them.
• The Devil Beasts on the thirty-fifth floor sensed the intruders and resolved to protect the Beast Lord's immortal bone.
• Xie Feng and Sushang reached the thirtieth floor, where the Devil Beasts sent a small yellow beast to face Xie Feng.
• Xie Feng's immortal pressure drove the little beast to its knees, but it stood and lunged at him.

Xie Feng and Sushang defeated the Xuanqiong Immortal Tower’s final guardians and searched for a way to reach its top floor. A timid little beast offered to help them, then made an astonishing move before the bixi statue.

• Changying knocked the little beast unconscious after it roared at Xie Feng and Sushang.
• Xie Feng and Sushang reached the thirty-fifth floor and confronted the Immortal Ascension Realm guardians, Azure Pheasant and Purple Ape.
• Xie Feng burned both guardians to ashes with the Northern Nether Illusory Flame, and Sushang collected the fire stones they left behind.
• Xie Feng discovered a bixi statue with a black-hole-like opening that drained spiritual power, but he used flame to break its suction and pull away.
• The spared little beast offered to repay Xie Feng’s kindness by showing them the way to the top floor, then made an astonishing move before the statue.

Xie Feng and Sushang found Xuanqiong’s immortal bones, which crumbled except for a tooth and frontal bone, while the timid little beast revealed itself as an Earth Qilin. Changying asked to travel with Xie Feng, and the little beast timidly asked to come too.

• Xie Feng and Sushang entered the secret chamber where Xuanqiong’s remains rested, and Xie Feng’s touch reduced most of the immortal bones to ash.
• Xie Feng recovered a surviving immortal tooth and frontal bone from the remains.
• Changying tried to enter the passage, but the little beast clung to her leg while guarding it as promised.
• The little beast manifested its Dharma aspect, and Xie Feng identified it as an Earth Qilin before it retreated into the corner.
• Changying invited Xie Feng to visit Guixu, and he said he would go after refining pills for Sushang.
• Changying asked to follow Xie Feng, and the little beast timidly asked to come along too.

After the immortal bone was found and the Devil Beasts were defeated, Xie Feng took Changying as a guest and welcomed the orphaned Earth Qilin into his household, naming him Anping. Anping revealed how he had been bullied in the tower, and the group set out for the Xuanji Sect to refine pills.

• Xie Feng accepted Changying as a guest and the Earth Qilin as a servant, then named the little beast Anping.
• Changying teased Anping until he transformed into a young man and revealed that he had reached the Tribulation Transcendence Realm Ninth Stage.
• Anping told Xie Feng that his immortal-beast parents had died trying to escape the tower and that he had been mistreated as their son.
• Sushang comforted Anping by telling him that Xie Feng had given him a home.
• Xie Feng led the group out of the tower with the Ten-Thousand-Year Immortal Bone and announced they would return to the Xuanji Sect to refine pills.
• Sushang and Anping chatted about the Xuanji Sect on the way, while Anping asked whether he could eat its facilities.

Madam Wenqu guided Xuanyuan Zhige toward a revelation about Sushang while discussing the Heavenly Rankings and the era ahead. At Xuanji Sect, Anping sensed a powerful sacred-beast descendant beneath the lake where Sushang fed Mung Bean.

• Madam Wenqu discussed the Heavenly Rankings with Xuanyuan Zhige, who suspected Sushang might be connected to an old acquaintance who died twelve years earlier.
• Madam Wenqu revealed she had reached the Immortal Ascension Realm and planned to enter seclusion, while she and Xuanyuan Zhige noted Xie Feng's top position across all three rankings.
• Xie Feng returned to Xuanji Sect, gathered herbs, and began refining the Great Radiance Spirit-Enhancing Pill.
• Sushang toured Changying and Anping around Xuanji Mountain and showed them the emerald lake where she fed Mung Bean.
• Anping sensed a formidable sacred-beast descendant at the bottom of the lake and realized Mung Bean was no ordinary turtle.

Qi Wuyan refused Xuan Tugu’s demand to divine Xie Feng’s location, and Xuan Tugu threatened the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion. Ye Yuan and Meng Wuqu intervened, driving Xuan Tugu away, while Qi Wuyan remained exhausted and offered Ye Yuan her support if the Azure Dragon Clan retaliated.

• Qi Wuyan received Xuan Tugu, who demanded that she divine where Xie Feng was.
• Qi Wuyan refused, citing the uncertainty of Heaven’s secrets, and Xuan Tugu threatened the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion and Heavenly Master Qi.
• Ye Yuan arrived and stood with Qi Wuyan, dismissing Xuan Tugu’s attempt to provoke him.
• Meng Wuqu entered and planted the Fishing Fire Sword on the table, frightening Xuan Tugu with his sword intent.
• Xuan Tugu left in a rage, and Qi Wuyan thanked Ye Yuan and promised to help if the Azure Dragon Clan caused trouble.

Xie Feng refined a divine-grade Great Radiance Spirit-Enhancing Pill, and his power destroyed the five-colored pill lightning threatening Xuanji Mountain. He left Sushang with demanding cultivation goals before entering seclusion.

• Sushang tried Changying’s Immortal Brew and quickly became drunk, while Changying watched over her.
• Xie Feng’s pill refinement summoned five-colored pill lightning, but the Northern Nether Illusory Flame annihilated it and set the sky ablaze.
• Xie Feng completed the Great Radiance Spirit-Enhancing Pill and advanced his pill-refining skill to the divine grade.
• Xie Feng dispelled Sushang’s drunkenness, gave her the divine pill, and assigned her several cultivation and study goals before entering seclusion.
• Xie Feng told Sushang to let Anping study at the cultivation technique tower and to allow the fairy from Guixu to choose whether to stay or leave.

Xie Feng used the Ancient Path of Samsara to cultivate through three lives over ten thousand years, returning to his body as a first-tier Heavenly Immortal. After leaving seclusion, he found Xuanji Mountain transformed and questioned why powerful strangers called him Sect Master.

• Xie Feng entered the Immortal Road, learned of realms beyond Immortal Ascension, and began his three lives of samsara.
• Xie Feng cultivated for ten thousand years across three lives, reaching Heavenly Immortal, and his accumulated cultivation returned to his original body.
• Xie Feng left seclusion and discovered that Xuanji Mountain had become an immortal paradise.
• An unfamiliar youth and a black-robed man greeted Xie Feng as Sect Master, then went to tell Sushang.
• Sushang and Anping welcomed Xie Feng, and he asked who the two strangers were.

Xie Feng returned to Xuanji Mountain, learned how Sushang and Anping had taken in Mo Lin and Zhou Jin, and heard about their progress during his year in seclusion. He then set out with Anping, while a rampaging Earth Qilin attacked the Azure Dragon Clan and its elders prepared to fight it.

• Sushang explained that Mo Lin had stayed on Xuanji Mountain to cultivate and that Zhou Jin had remained after losing his memories; Changying had returned to Guixu.
• Sushang admitted that she had let Mo Lin and Zhou Jin stay without permission, and Anping awkwardly slammed himself into a deep pit to apologize as well.
• Sushang reported that she had reached the fourth stage of the Ascension Realm and early ninth-grade alchemy, while Anping had advanced to the second stage of the Ascension Realm.
• Sushang revealed that Zhou Jin had fed them braised pork hock three times a day for a year, so Xie Feng told Mo Lin to take her down the mountain for a different treat.
• Xie Feng told Anping to accompany him on an errand after emerging from seclusion with greatly increased strength.
• An Earth Qilin rampaged through the Azure Dragon Clan grounds, and about a hundred Mahayana Realm elders joined forces to form an attack formation against it.

Xie Feng and Anping overwhelmed the Azure Dragon Clan, and Anping killed Xuan Tugu with a single throw. Xie Feng waited for someone who knew the story behind a broken Crimson Wildfire Iron sword as the Heavenly Ranking descended for its fourth round.

• The Earth Qilin shattered the Azure Dragon Clan elders’ formation and attacked the clan until Xuan Tugu arrived and struck it with an azure dragon phantom.
• Xie Feng appeared, and the Earth Qilin bowed to him; the Azure Dragon Clan recognized him as Qu Jiangxuan’s killer and demanded revenge.
• Xuan Tugu transformed into an azure dragon and attacked Xie Feng, but Anping took human form, lifted her, and hurled her into the Azure Dragon Hall, killing her.
• Xie Feng sealed the Azure Dragon Clan’s space and showed them a broken Crimson Wildfire Iron sword, saying he would wait for someone who knew its story.
• The Heavenly Ranking descended across the Three Thousand Worlds, beginning the fourth round a year after the previous ranking.

The Jiao King and queen worried over their absent son Mo Lin as the Heavenly Ranking opened the Physical Body Ranking. When the ranking began to reveal its entries, the Jiao King saw that Mo Lin had made it.

• The Jiao King complained that Mo Lin had been away for a year, while the queen defended her son and noted that his life lamp showed his cultivation and strength had improved.
• The Jiao King dismissed the queen's hope that Mo Lin could appear on the Heavenly Ranking, but promised to admit he was not hopeless trash if he did.
• The Physical Body Ranking opened, listing Lan Yue of the Azure Luan Clan in tenth place and Ji Zhi of the Golden Lion Clan in ninth.
• The queen pointed out that Mo Lin had been strong since childhood, and the Jiao King reluctantly looked back at the ranking.
• The Jiao King saw Mo Lin's name on the Heavenly Ranking and reacted with shock.

Mo Lin learned that he had placed eighth on the Heavenly Ranking and resolved to return to the Jiao Clan only after reaching the Immortal Ascension Realm. The ranking then revealed Zhou Jin as sixth place, spreading conflicting rumors about his past as he walked toward the spirit-pig pasture at the Xuanji Sect.

• The Jiao King and queen celebrated Mo Lin’s eighth-place ranking while pretending not to care that he had been away for a year.
• Mo Lin received the Great Heavenly Immortal Fruit and thought about his parents, vowing to return to Ink Abyss once he reached the Immortal Ascension Realm.
• The Heavenly Ranking announced Flame Emperor in seventh place, King Kan in sixth, and Yu Fengbo in fifth.
• People across the three thousand worlds argued over whether Zhou Jin had plotted against King Wu or had been falsely accused by his suspicious brother.
• Zhou Jin appeared in the Xuanji Sect’s back mountains and headed toward the forest where the spirit pigs roamed.

Zhou Jin regained his lost memories and realized he was King Kan, the Heavenly Dog God of War, while Sushang worried that Xie Feng had gone to confront the Azure Dragon Clan. The Heavenly Ranking then revealed Sushang in fourth place, Anping in third, and the Azure Dragon Ancestor in second.

• Zhou Jin selected a spirit pig for lunch, but the Heavenly Ranking’s reward arrived before he could eat it.
• Sushang and Mo Lin realized that Zhou Jin was King Kan, and the Great Dao infusion restored his memories of his past and the failed rebellion.
• Zhou Jin left in shock and despair, abandoning his meal, and the spirit pig escaped into the forest.
• Sushang guessed that Xie Feng had gone to the Azure Dragon Clan to uncover the truth about the past and resolved to cultivate so she could protect him.
• Mo Lin teased Sushang by flicking her tiger ear as the Heavenly Ranking announced Sushang in fourth place, Anping in third, and the Azure Dragon Ancestor in second.

Xie Feng slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Azure Dragon clansmen while waiting for the Azure Dragon Ancestor, who arrived and recognized the Crimson Wildfire Sword. The Ancestor’s memories surfaced, and Xie Feng revealed that he had heard them.

• Mo Lin counted four Xuanji Sect members among the top ten of the Physical Body Ranking: himself, Zhou Jin, Sushang, and Anping.
• Xie Feng demanded that the Azure Dragon clansmen move faster and began counting down, killing a hundred thousand with each number from one to four.
• The Azure Dragon Ancestor arrived as Xie Feng prepared to say the final number, and the surviving clansmen hailed him as their savior.
• The Azure Dragon Ancestor saw the Crimson Wildfire Sword and recalled the Primordial White Tiger survivors and the Azure Dragons who had hunted them thirteen years earlier.
• Xie Feng told the Ancestor he wanted to hear more, then revealed that he had overheard the Ancestor’s thoughts.

Xie Feng used the broken Crimson Wildfire Sword to force the Azure Dragon Ancestor to relive the truth of the Primordial White Tiger Clan’s destruction. The memory revealed how Sushang survived, while the Lost Immortal Temple’s key remained hidden in the ocean.

• Xie Feng overwhelmed the Azure Dragon Ancestor with his Heavenly Immortal might and drove the broken sword into his brow to uncover the truth.
• Thirteen years earlier, the Azure Dragon Ancestor and the Marquis of Northern Nether attacked Eternal Night to seize the Lost Immortal Temple’s key from Su Yuan.
• Su Yuan gave the key to his pregnant wife, Shang Ni, and sent Chen Beiye to help her escape while he stayed to defend the clan.
• Shang Ni hid the key in the ocean, gave birth to a daughter, and died after passing her bloodline power to the child; Chen Beiye lured away the pursuing azure dragons and vanished.
• Su Yuan died fighting, and the Primordial White Tiger Clan was annihilated without anyone claiming the key or opening the Lost Immortal Temple.
• Mo Shoupin found the newborn Sushang, named her Xiao Qiu, and adopted her into the Heavenly Sword Holy Land.

Xie Feng learned the truth of the Primordial White Tiger Clan’s destruction and confronted the Azure Dragon Ancestor, who broke through to the Human Immortal Realm before trying to take Xie Feng down with him. The Azure Dragon Ancestor fell, and the Heavenly Ranking revealed Xie Feng as the world’s strongest physical body, awarding him the Spirit of Holy Fire.

• Xie Feng learned that Su Yuan and Shang Ni had died and that Chen Beiye was presumed dead, then told the Azure Dragon Ancestor that Sushang of the Primordial White Tiger Clan was one of his own.
• The Azure Dragon Ancestor received the Heavenly Ranking’s reward, broke through into the first tier of the Human Immortal Realm, and laughed that Xie Feng could no longer kill him.
• The Azure Dragon Ancestor tried to self-detonate while gripping Xie Feng, but Xie Feng severed his arm and told him he was not worthy of perishing together.
• The Azure Dragon Ancestor’s name vanished from the Physical Body Ranking, confirming his fall and shocking the three thousand worlds.
• The Heavenly Ranking named Xie Feng first on the Physical Body Ranking, stated that his strength exceeded the world’s standards, and awarded him the Spirit of Holy Fire.

The Heavenly Ranking showed Xie Feng killing the Azure Dragon Ancestor and taking first place on all four rankings, leaving people across the world awestruck. At the Xuanji Sect, Sushang suspected the Azure Dragon Clan had been involved in her parents’ deaths, while Lu Xiuluo voiced his desire to fight Xie Feng and punished Blood Devil for dismissing the idea.

• The Heavenly Ranking revealed Xie Feng killing the Azure Dragon Ancestor, and the world marveled that he had claimed first place on all four rankings.
• At the Xuanji Sect, Sushang saw the video and suspected the Azure Dragon Clan had something to do with her parents, while Zhou Jin and Mo Lin learned Xie Feng was their sect master.
• Mo Lin ate the remaining pork hocks, so Zhou Jin knocked him on the head and cursed at him.
• At the Azure Luan Clan, Gu Chen watched the video and concluded that Xie Feng was unparalleled throughout the ages.
• At the Devil Grotto, Lu Xiuluo said he wanted to fight Xie Feng, but Blood Devil called him a fool, prompting Lu Xiuluo to yank his chain and force him to his knees.