Chapter Summaries

Xie Feng persuaded Yuan Ling to support a preemptive defense of the Pillar of Creation and secure as many troops as he could. After Yuan Ling left to request reinforcements, Xie Feng and Shi Yan traveled to the Pillar, where Shi Yan stopped at the edge of a defensive formation.

• Xie Feng agreed with Yuan Ling’s hatred of Shi Yan and proposed that they join forces against the War Faction.
• Xie Feng warned Yuan Ling that Shi Yan planned to destroy the Pillar of Creation within three months and urged him to send troops to guard it.
• Yuan Ling said reinforcements from the main camp could take years to arrive, but promised to gather eight hundred thousand troops from Yellow Springs City.
• Yuan Ling left to request reinforcements and exchanged a voice transmission stone with Xie Feng.
• Xie Feng returned to the Heaven Realm, and Shi Yan led him through the Jade Pivot Sect’s back gate toward the Pillar of Creation.
• Shi Yan stopped at the edge of the Pillar’s defensive formation, warning Xie Feng that going farther could trigger it.

Xie Feng and Shi Yan found the cave containing the Pillar of Creation, where Abyss Warriors attacked them. Xie Feng destroyed the warriors, and the two reached the center of the cavern.

• Xie Feng used his Double Pupils to find the cave after Shi Yan lost their way through the shifting nebula.
• Shi Yan opened the bronze gate and triggered an attack by ten Abyss Warriors, which Shi Yan identified as matter formed on the nebula.
• Xie Feng fought off the Abyss Warriors with Northern Nether Heaven-Subduing Fire and Cherished Wine Cup, reducing them to ash.
• Xie Feng and Shi Yan entered the cave and, after winding through it, reached a lofty, hollow cavern.

Xie Feng secretly planted two volatile golden stones on the Pillar of Creation before confronting its guardian, Qi Ze, alongside Shi Yan. After Qi Ze overwhelmed Shi Yan and threatened to eat Xie Feng, Xie Feng stepped in and challenged him.

• Xie Feng planted two golden stones on the Pillar of Creation while Shi Yan examined the cave.
• Qi Ze appeared and revealed that he was the guardian beast who had killed the Demon-Burying soldiers.
• Shi Yan attacked Qi Ze to avenge the fallen warriors, but Qi Ze defeated him and boasted that he had eaten the soldiers.
• Qi Ze turned his attention to Xie Feng and threatened to eat him.
• Xie Feng stepped into the fight and challenged Qi Ze, who abandoned Shi Yan and struck at him with a powerful palm.

Xie Feng defeated Qi Ze and spared his soul in exchange for information about the Peak of Heaven. Qi Ze revealed a hidden passage to Feng Royal Palace, but warned that unusual activity could awaken at least ten sleeping ancient beasts in the cave.

• Xie Feng defeated Qi Ze's palm strike, destroyed his body with the Chaos sword move, and trapped his soul in the Northern Nether Heaven-Subduing Fire.
• Qi Ze begged Xie Feng for mercy and offered information about the Peak of Heaven in exchange for his life.
• Qi Ze told Xie Feng and Shi Yan that he had accidentally dug a secret passage leading to Feng Royal Palace, and Xie Feng ordered him to show it to them.
• Qi Ze revealed the concealed passage beneath a boulder, but Xie Feng and Shi Yan decided not to investigate it yet.
• Qi Ze warned Xie Feng that at least ten twenty-thousand-year-old ferocious beasts slept in the cave and could awaken if anything disturbed the Pillar of Creation.

Xie Feng restored Qi Ze and left him to guard the Pillar of Creation until he could return and free him. He then traveled with Shi Yan to the Demon-Burying Clan headquarters, where he learned that the clan had more than one leader.

• Qi Ze proposed guarding the Pillar of Creation in exchange for his freedom, and Xie Feng agreed to free him when the time was right.
• Xie Feng restored Qi Ze's body, gave him two Heaven-Reaching Elephant Heart Pills, and provided a voice transmission stone before leaving the cave with Shi Yan.
• Xie Feng chose to visit the Demon-Burying Clan headquarters with Shi Yan first, while Yuan Ling would bring him there in ten days.
• After three days of travel, Xie Feng and Shi Yan entered the hidden Star-Array Abyss and found a headquarters populated entirely by Demon-Burying soldiers.
• When Xie Feng asked Shi Yan for the clan leader's name, Shi Yan revealed that there was more than one clan leader.

Shi Yan brought Xie Feng to Strange Stone City to meet the pro-war faction’s grand patriarch, Zang Tian, but Zang Tian’s suspicion and Han Yun’s attack turned the meeting violent. Xie Feng rescued Shi Yan, leaving his strength exposed to the Demon-Burying Clan leaders.

• Shi Yan explained the Demon-Burying Clan’s divided authority and led Xie Feng to Strange Stone City to meet Zang Tian.
• Zang Tian arrived with demon generals Mo Feng and Han Yun, then demanded to know why Shi Yan had summoned him.
• Han Yun and Mo Feng accused Shi Yan of plotting to form his own faction, and Zang Tian said he would eliminate him if necessary.
• Han Yun grabbed Shi Yan by the neck, but Xie Feng struck Han Yun’s wrist with the Dark Ink Fan and sent him flying.
• Shi Yan thanked Xie Feng for saving him as Han Yun reacted with fury, Mo Feng looked surprised, and Zang Tian remained expressionless.

Xie Feng rescued Shi Yan from Han Yun and persuaded Zang Tian to give him five hundred thousand demon soldiers to use against the Emperor Phoenix Clan. Zang Tian said he needed two days to consult the other two patriarchs before mobilizing the troops.

• Xie Feng stopped Zang Tian and Han Yun from attacking Shi Yan, then asked to take Han Yun with him for a few days as punishment.
• Xie Feng told Zang Tian that he hated the Emperor Phoenix Clan and sought cooperation, bargaining down his request for five million soldiers to five hundred thousand.
• Zang Tian agreed to provide five hundred thousand demon soldiers on the condition that Xie Feng use them to make the Emperor Phoenix Clan suffer a setback.
• Zang Tian explained that he needed Yao Zhi and Dao Wuxin, the other two patriarchs, to approve the mobilization, and Xie Feng agreed to wait two days in Strange Stone City.

Zang Tian tried to secure Yao Zhi’s approval for five hundred thousand reinforcements, but she refused to sign without Dao Wuxin’s agreement. While Xie Feng cultivated in the imperial residence, someone launched a sword attack against him.

• Xie Feng and Shi Yan settled into luxurious guest quarters, and Shi Yan said he had previously slept on the streets during visits to the Star-Array Abyss.
• Zang Tian asked Yao Zhi to sign an order deploying five hundred thousand demon soldiers, but she insisted on waiting for Dao Wuxin.
• Yao Zhi asked whether Zang Tian had found a grandmaster Sword Dao teacher for the little fellow, and she rejected Zang Tian’s suggestion that they invade the Fifth Universe to find one.
• Xie Feng discovered an icy earth vein beneath the residence and absorbed its fate power to strengthen his cultivation.
• A sword shot toward Xie Feng’s face, but he knocked it down with his sleeve and shattered it as an eerie wind swept through the residence.

Xie Feng was ambushed in the Star-Array Abyss by a young Demon-Burying Clan swordsman who hated humans. After defeating him, Xie Feng taught him Man and Sword as One, and the boy tried to make Xie Feng his master.

• Xie Feng remembered Shi Yan’s warning and confronted a boy who had leaped from a tree to attack him.
• Xie Feng easily defeated the boy, took his sword, and asked about his swordsmanship and teacher.
• Xie Feng taught the boy Man and Sword as One, helping him unleash a strike stronger than before.
• The boy praised Xie Feng’s teaching and explained that eighteen renowned Sword Dao masters had taught him.
• The boy knelt and offered Xie Feng gold, silver, and jewels to become his master, but Xie Feng pocketed the payment and walked away without agreeing.

After Xie Feng vanished, Yao Cang told Yao Zhi that a mysterious master had transformed his swordsmanship, and she agreed to seek him out. Meanwhile, Zang Tian demanded more troops for war, and Dao Wuxin refused unless Yao Zhi signed the deployment order—until she appeared and agreed.

• Xie Feng left Yao Cang behind after learning his name, and the boy departed dejectedly.
• Yao Cang showed Yao Zhi that he had cut through high-grade Sword Dao Stone and credited his progress to a blue-robed master who taught him the method for man and sword as one.
• Yao Cang told Yao Zhi he knew how to find the master, and she agreed to visit him the next day.
• Zang Tian asked Dao Wuxin for a troop deployment order, but Dao Wuxin refused unless Yao Zhi signed it too.
• As Zang Tian and Dao Wuxin prepared to clash, Yao Zhi appeared and declared that she would sign the order.

Yao Zhi signed the order that let Zang Tian mobilize five hundred thousand Demon-Burying soldiers after Xie Feng promised to teach her son, Yao Cang. Xie Feng led the army into the Eternity Battlefield to provoke the Emperor Phoenix Clan garrison, and the two sides began fighting.

• Yao Zhi and Dao Wuxin signed the deployment order with Zang Tian, allowing him to mobilize five hundred thousand Demon-Burying soldiers.
• Xie Feng revealed that he had persuaded Yao Cang to become his student by using the boy to secure Yao Zhi's signature.
• Yao Zhi reluctantly let Yao Cang travel with Xie Feng to study, despite her fears for her only child's safety.
• Xie Feng, Yao Cang, and Shi Yan rode with the army in a Hundred Demon Carriage as it entered the Eternity Battlefield.
• Xie Feng ordered the army toward the Emperor Phoenix Clan garrison, and a five-thousand-soldier legion attacked after patrols spotted them.
• Xie Feng ordered the Demon-Burying soldiers to slaughter the attackers without leaving a scrap of armor.

Xie Feng's army defeated the Emperor Phoenix Clan's forces at the Eternity Battlefield, and Feng Wen appeared to die in the flames. After the battle, Xie Feng ordered the deserters released to carry news of the defeat to Feng Yan, but Feng Wen unexpectedly returned with a man in white.

• Xie Feng led five hundred thousand Demon-Burying Demon Army soldiers against the exhausted Emperor Phoenix Clan forces.
• Feng Wen arrived with the clan's remaining two hundred thousand troops and fought Shi Yan, who was stronger than her.
• Xie Feng's Northern Nether Heaven-Subduing Fire engulfed Feng Wen, and Shi Yan announced that she had died.
• The surviving Emperor Phoenix Clan soldiers regrouped, but the Demon-Burying Demon Army surrounded and wiped them out.
• Xie Feng ordered Shi Yan to let the deserters go and spread news of Feng Wen's death and the army's destruction to Feng Yan.
• Feng Wen appeared alive beside a man in white, leaving Shi Yan and the Demon-Burying Demon soldiers stunned.

Xie Feng and Kong Qiusu helped Feng Wen fake her death so she could escape Feng Yan’s control and begin a new life as Ren Yanyu. Ren Yanyu then led them to a sealed well on the Eternity Battlefield, and Kong Qiusu dragged Xie Feng into its darkness with him.

• Xie Feng revealed that the battle had been staged to let Feng Wen fake her death and escape Feng Yan’s suspicion.
• Feng Wen chose the name Ren Yanyu and declared that she had severed ties with her former life.
• Ren Yanyu privately told Xie Feng about a suspected treasure trove and took him and Kong Qiusu to an ancient well in the battlefield’s northern mountains.
• Xie Feng used the Northern Nether Heaven-Subduing Fire to boil away the well water and expose a dark shaft beneath it.
• Kong Qiusu jumped into the well to scout ahead, then pulled Xie Feng in, claiming he was afraid of the dark.

Xie Feng, Kong Qiusu, and Ren Yanyu explored an ancient cavern and found the legacy of the Myriad Thunder Ancient God. Ren Yanyu overcame the Ice Rainbow Sword’s evil spirit, reached Divine Saint cultivation, and claimed the sword, which then led them to Withered Death Grass.

• Kong Qiusu and Xie Feng descended into the abandoned well, and Ren Yanyu followed them into the vast space below.
• The three followed the humming through narrow tunnels and found an ancient cavern containing a stone bed, statues, purple-black weeds, and a scroll left by the Myriad Thunder Ancient God.
• Ren Yanyu approached a statue, which burst apart to reveal the Ice Rainbow Sword, and Xie Feng told her to try drawing it.
• The sword’s evil spirit trapped Ren Yanyu, but she transformed into a golden phoenix and defeated it, advancing from advanced God King to advanced Divine Saint.
• Ren Yanyu pulled the Ice Rainbow Sword from the ice, and it acknowledged her as its master.
• Ice Rainbow pointed Ren Yanyu toward the poisonous Withered Death Grass, which Kong Qiusu identified.

Xie Feng found the Ten Thousand Thunderbolts Inner Armor in the Myriad Thunder Ancient God's tomb and absorbed its purple lightning, reaching peak Divine Saint. After entering a mysterious passage, he encountered a white-haired cultivator who recognized his name and attacked him, but the inner armor left Xie Feng unharmed.

• Xie Feng and Ren Yanyu discovered two pieces of inner armor and a note explaining that the Myriad Thunder Ancient God had buried them with his belongings after his daughter died.
• Xie Feng put on the larger piece, and a storm of purple lightning awakened both armors while he absorbed the thunder's power and advanced to peak Divine Saint.
• Ren Yanyu gave Xie Feng the smaller armor for Yao Cang, and the three found three watery passages while trying to leave the strange place.
• Xie Feng entered the middle passage and arrived in a secluded valley, where a white-haired old cultivator asked his name.
• After hearing Xie Feng's name, the old cultivator's eyes turned blood-red and he attacked with a golden bird-headed cane.
• Xie Feng countered with his Dark Ink Fan, but the cane pierced toward his heart and his inner armor protected him from harm.

Xie Feng fought Ancestor Haiyun, one of the Four Great Ancestors of the Peak of Heaven, but Kong Qiusu’s arrival forced Haiyun to flee. Kong Qiusu wounded Haiyun from afar and warned Xie Feng to avoid the Four Great Ancestors until he was strong enough, while hinting that he and their master were keeping something from him.

• Xie Feng identified the old cultivator as Ancestor Haiyun, who revealed he was a Peak God Emperor and tried to kill him for causing trouble at the Peak of Heaven.
• Xie Feng used Little Sword to destroy Haiyun’s Phoenix Gold Staff and countered his attacks with Chaos, but Haiyun unleashed more than a hundred powerful copies of himself.
• Ancestor Haiyun sensed a far stronger presence approaching, ended his technique, and fled after warning Xie Feng he would kill him next time.
• Kong Qiusu arrived, learned that Xie Feng had fought Haiyun, and pierced Haiyun’s left leg with a distant strike as he escaped.
• Kong Qiusu told Xie Feng to avoid the Four Great Ancestors until the time was right, then admitted he knew a little about what he and their master were hiding but stopped before explaining further.

Xie Feng returned with the Demon-Burying Clan army, disciplined Yao Cang after he bullied Shi Yan, and learned that Gu Yu had failed to recruit any former Xuanji Sect members. The chapter left Xie Feng wondering why none of them would ascend to the Fifth Universe.

• Kong Qiusu teased Xie Feng about his eldest senior brother’s honesty as Ren Yanyu ran over to them.
• Yao Cang forced Shi Yan to spar, bruised him, and was called away by Xie Feng, who scolded him and gave him Ten Thousand Thunderbolts Inner Armor.
• Xie Feng led five hundred thousand Demon-Burying Clan members into the Fifth Universe and left Yao Cang and Ren Yanyu in Shi Yan’s territory to watch over the troops.
• Xie Feng returned to the Jade Pivot Sect with Kong Qiusu and asked Gu Yu about recruiting former Xuanji Sect members.
• Gu Yu told Xie Feng that A Ning and the others across several realms had all refused to come to the Fifth Universe.

Xie Feng met a woman in ink-black after a dead wild bull and her sword, Approaching Winter, fell into the Jade Pivot Sect. Little Sword fell for Approaching Winter, while the woman and her sword left with a favorable impression of Xie Feng before a white-robed figure stopped her.

• Xie Feng told Gu Yu that he had taken a ten-year-old demigod from the Demon-Burying Clan as a student and ordered Gu Yu to teach him sword techniques as a fellow disciple.
• Xie Feng meditated on the mountain and thought about Xiao Shang before a dead wild bull fell from the sky with a powerful blue sword embedded in it.
• Little Sword recognized the sword as the one it had fallen for in the Fourth Universe, and Xie Feng approached it until the woman in ink-black told him not to touch it.
• The woman in ink-black retrieved her sword, named Approaching Winter, and explained that the bull had escaped from her garden after catching mad cow disease.
• The woman in ink-black left with the bull while Approaching Winter complained that Xie Feng was staring at it, and the woman admitted that Xie Feng had made a good impression on her.
• A white-robed figure appeared in the mountain forest and called for the woman in ink-black to wait.

Kong Qiusu questioned a mysterious woman from beyond the Fifth Universe, while Ancestor Haiyun and Feng Yan discussed the fallen Eternity Battlefield and the invading Demon-Burying Clan. Alarmed by Shi Yan’s new army, Yuan Ling went to the Star-Array Abyss with Xie Feng, who used the alias Jiaming; the chapter ended as Dao Wuxin received word that Yuan Ling had arrived.

• Kong Qiusu challenged the woman in black about her origins, and she said she had come only to capture a crazed bull before leaving with it.
• Ancestor Haiyun returned injured and told Feng Yan that Xie Feng had a supreme expert protecting him.
• Feng Yan learned that the Eternity Battlefield had fallen, Feng Wen had died, and a five-hundred-thousand-strong Demon-Burying Clan army was invading the Fifth Universe.
• Feng Yan planned to send Yu Zheng, Qing Yi, and Ruyan to train at the Nine-Star Cold Pool while Ancestor Haiyun recovered.
• Yuan Ling feared Shi Yan’s five hundred thousand troops and persuaded Xie Feng to go with him to the Star-Array Abyss, where Xie Feng traveled under the alias Jiaming.
• Dao Wuxin finished writing “Don’t get angry” and ordered an attendant to bring in Yuan Ling.

Yuan Ling and Xie Feng persuaded Dao Wuxin to seek approval for five hundred thousand troops, while Xie Feng arranged for Yao Cang to make Yao Zhi believe he was being abused. Desperate to reach her son, Yao Zhi signed Dao Wuxin’s troop deployment order.

• Yuan Ling told Dao Wuxin that Shi Yan was persecuting the Peace Faction and introduced Xie Feng as a powerful ally.
• Xie Feng negotiated with Dao Wuxin for five hundred thousand troops and promised to turn them and Shi Yan’s troops toward the Peace Faction.
• Dao Wuxin agreed to seek approval from Yao Zhi and left with a troop deployment order.
• Xie Feng instructed Yao Cang to pretend he was being abused, and Yao Cang’s cries enraged Yao Zhi.
• Yao Zhi tried to hurry to her son, but Dao Wuxin blocked her until she signed the deployment order.