Chapter Summaries

Mo Beichen advanced to second-rank alchemist but repeatedly exploded pill cauldrons, prompting Xie Feng to impose strict training rules. Cang Shanhu studied swordsmanship and reached Golden Core, then continued cultivating and hunting Devil Beasts.

• Mo Beichen refined three flawless pills of increasing potency, but each batch exploded its pill cauldron.
• Xie Feng explained the cost of replacing a cauldron and ordered Mo Beichen to train with him every afternoon without exploding any cauldrons until he became a seventh-rank alchemist.
• Cang Shanhu registered with the sleeping Changying and entered the cultivation technique tower to study an intermediate Mystic Grade sword technique.
• After three days of study, Cang Shanhu comprehended the Dao and entered Golden Core.
• Cang Shanhu continued studying in the tower and training grounds, and occasionally hunted Devil Beasts in the rear mountain.

Mo Lin and Changying led eight disciples to Fallen Heart Island for practical training, where Mo Beichen and Cang Shanhu clashed aboard the boat. After reaching the island, the disciples began advancing through the forest and easily killed the first- and second-tier Devil Beasts they encountered.

• Xie Feng and Qi Wuyan chose Fallen Heart Island as a training ground and assigned Mo Lin and Changying to lead eight disciples there.
• Aboard the boat, Mo Beichen tried to silence the other disciples, and Cang Shanhu challenged his bullying attitude.
• Qin Chen tried to calm the dispute, while Qingxing told Mo Lin that the exchange had only been playing around.
• Mo Lin warned the disciples to stay together and report anything unusual as they headed into Fallen Heart Island's forest.
• The disciples surrounded and killed the first- and second-tier Devil Beasts they encountered.

Mo Beichen and Qin Chen left the group, disturbed Qin Luofan’s defensive formation, and were attacked by his Berserk Griffin mount. Mo Beichen discovered that taking hits triggered breakthroughs and kept provoking the beast as his Golden Core cultivation rapidly advanced.

• Mo Beichen and Qin Chen used talismans and a Concealed Breath Jade to sneak away from Mo Lin’s group and search for a powerful devil beast.
• Mo Beichen attacked the water barrier around Qin Luofan’s cultivation area, bringing Qin Luofan’s Berserk Griffin to fight them.
• Qin Chen tried to protect them with a Tidal Formation, but the Berserk Griffin struck both juniors and sent Mo Beichen crashing into a mountain.
• Mo Beichen broke through to the Second Stage of the Golden Core Realm after being hit, then provoked the Berserk Griffin and advanced through the Third and Fourth Stages as it struck him again.

Mo Beichen and Qin Chen killed a Berserk Griffin with their ordinary-looking swords, but Qin Luofan attacked them until Mo Lin arrived and drove him off. At the Xuanji Sect, Yan Fei discovered its cultivation art tower held many sealed God Grade and Immortal Grade arts, chose the Dusk Sky Art, and went to cultivate it.

• Mo Beichen killed the Berserk Griffin with his silver sword, leaving Qin Luofan shocked by the weapon’s power.
• Qin Luofan attacked Mo Beichen and Qin Chen, but Mo Lin arrived on a black flood dragon, rescued the boys, and slapped Qin Luofan twice.
• Qin Luofan fled after Mo Lin struck him, and Mo Lin scolded Mo Beichen and Qin Chen before taking them back to the main group.
• Yan Fei explored the Xuanji Sect’s cultivation art tower and found shelves filled with sealed God Grade and Immortal Grade arts.
• Yan Fei chose the Dusk Sky Art and went off to cultivate it.

Xie Feng planned to build a Heaven-Leveling Wheel to turn Sacred Fortune Mountain Peak’s sacred fortune into usable Spiritual Qi, and prepared to seek the rare heaven-leveling wood needed for it. On Fallen Heart Island, Changying pursued a Traveling Boat that had knocked her wine gourd from her hand, while its passengers gathered to divide treasure.

• Xie Feng searched his study and found the Book of Heavenly Craft, which described how a Heaven-Leveling Wheel could refine sacred fortune into powerful Spiritual Qi.
• Xie Feng decided to find heaven-leveling wood in the glacial rivers of northern Yingzhou after making further preparations.
• A Ten-Thousand-Li Traveling Boat swept over Changying, knocking her immortal gourd from her hand and disturbing her drink.
• Changying retrieved her gourd and followed the boat in anger.
• Changying slipped aboard and approached the top deck, where a Wei Clan general, elders of the Golden Lion Clan and Supreme Dao Sect, and the Setting Sun Sect’s grand elder gathered to divide treasure.

Four powerful factions argued over an immortal treasure, but Changying arrived and demanded the final secret treasure for herself. The elders tried to pass it off as an unremarkable scroll of immortal arts, then hesitated when she asked to see it.

• The Wei Clan general, the Golden Lion Clan elder, the Supreme Dao Sect elder, and the Setting Sun Sect's grand elder argued over who should receive the final treasure and learned that the Wei Clan general wanted to use it against Xie Feng.
• Changying entered and asked the four elders to give her the peerless secret treasure.
• The elders offered Changying other treasures, but she insisted that she wanted the secret treasure.
• The Supreme Dao Sect elder claimed the treasure was a scroll of immortal arts, and Changying asked to inspect it.
• The four elders looked to one another to see who would produce an immortal art, until the Setting Sun Sect's grand elder was left staring at his own hands.

Changying drove off the elders who had threatened her, took their Ten-Thousand-Li Traveling Boat, and accidentally crashed it near the Xuanji Sect disciples. She and Mo Lin searched the boat for its peerless secret treasure and discovered a Heaven-Leveling Wood, an ancient sacred tree with the power to make sacred weapons and artifacts.

• Changying demanded the peerless secret treasure, but when the four elders threatened her and attacked, she swept the Wei Clan general, the Golden Lion Clan elder, and the Supreme Dao Sect elder off the boat while the Setting Sun Sect grand elder escaped.
• Changying warned the three elders not to target Xie Feng, kicked the Wei Clan helmsman off the boat, and took control of the Ten-Thousand-Li Traveling Boat despite not knowing how to pilot it.
• Changying crashed the boat into a Devil Beast near the Xuanji Sect disciples, then freed the vessel and told Mo Lin it belonged to the Golden Lion Clan.
• Mo Lin led the disciples through the boat’s first three floors, where they collected cultivation methods, books, weapons, and riches.
• Changying and Mo Lin found a hidden chamber on the fourth floor and entered a vast space containing a colossal tree.
• Changying recognized the tree as Heaven-Leveling Wood and explained that it could be used to make sacred weapons and artifacts.

Changying and Mo Lin discovered that the heaven-leveling wood was protected by three powerful soul-power seals, then brought it back to Xuanji Sect for Xie Feng to examine. After Changying drunkenly teased Xie Feng, she revealed the treasure’s identity, and he reacted as though it could solve a long-standing problem.

• Changying found three soul-power seals on the heaven-leveling wood, broke them with immortal power, and decided to take the tree back to Xie Feng rather than risk damaging it.
• Changying used the Heaven-Revering Immortal Diagram to draw the Ten-Thousand-Li Traveling Boat into its vast realm, while Mo Lin escorted the disciples outside.
• Xie Feng finished refining divine pills, then received Mo Lin and the expedition’s treasures when the disciples returned to Xuanji Sect.
• Changying drunkenly mistook Xie Feng for a little green tree and called him one before he confronted her about it.
• Xie Feng invited Changying to inspect the peerless treasure, and she told him it was heaven-leveling wood, prompting him to say he had searched for it in vain.

Xie Feng used the heaven-leveling wood to build a Heaven-Leveling Wheel that spread usable Spiritual Qi across the Xuanji Sect, triggering breakthroughs among its disciples and elders. As the sect celebrated its gains, three immortals appeared and charged toward Xuanji Mountain.

• Xie Feng found his second senior brother’s sealed note on the sacred tree, burned it, and decided to use the heaven-leveling wood to make a Heaven-Leveling Wheel.
• Xie Feng consulted the Book of Heavenly Craft and built the wheel while Changying cheered him on and Sushang brought him food and drink.
• Xie Feng placed the completed Heaven-Leveling Wheel on the Sacred Fortune Mountain Peak, where it diluted the sacred fortune into Spiritual Qi that spread across the Xuanji Mountain Range.
• The disciples and elders broke through in succession: Yan Fei reached the Tribulation Transcendence Realm fifth stage, Chu Shanjun, Mo Lin, and Anping reached the Immortal Ascension Realm first stage, and Xie Feng advanced his Alchemical Dao to great perfection.
• Three immortals appeared on the horizon and charged toward the gates of Xuanji Mountain.

Zhou Jin brought his uncle Zhou Zhulu to Xie Feng for help, and Xie Feng removed the bamboo-leaf needle draining his life and used the Northern Nether Illusory Flame to free him from his heart demon. Zhou Zhulu recovered his memories and gained control of his demonic power, while Cang Shanhu chose to study the Heavenly Calculation Art.

• Zhou Jin explained that Purple Bamboo's bamboo-leaf needle had lodged in Zhou Zhulu's heart and was consuming his vitality.
• Xie Feng used the Azure Profound Fan to burn away the bamboo-leaf needle, which caused Zhou Zhulu's suppressed Demonic Qi to surge out.
• Xie Feng used the Northern Nether Illusory Flame to cleanse Zhou Zhulu's heart, and Qi Wuyan explained to the children that people of any kind could choose good or evil.
• Cang Shanhu agreed to attend Qi Wuyan's Heavenly Calculation Art lessons, shocking Mo Beichen.
• Zhou Zhulu integrated his Demonic Qi without succumbing to his heart demon, regained his memories, thanked Xie Feng, and recognized the Heaven-Leveling Wheel.

Xie Feng welcomed Zhou Zhulu into the Xuanji Sect as its forging elder and held a banquet to celebrate. The feast ended when Mu You and Lie Hun attacked the sect’s mountain-protecting formation to capture the white tiger cub, and Xie Feng led the sect to confront them.

• Zhou Zhulu asked to join the Xuanji Sect and became its forging elder.
• Xie Feng hosted a barbecue banquet, where Zhou Jin welcomed Zhou Zhulu back and they put their old grudges behind them.
• The mountain-protecting formation activated when Mu You and Lie Hun, Wei Clan generals sent to capture the white tiger cub, attacked Xuanji Mountain.
• Xie Feng identified the attackers as members of the Wei Clan, and the sect gathered to confront them.
• Changying kept the disciples behind while she and the others went to face Mu You and Lie Hun.

Xie Feng and the Xuanji Sect surrounded two Wei Clan generals who had arrived at Xuanji Mountain, revealing a gathering of powerful Heavenly Ranking figures and immortals. After the mountain-protecting formation trapped the generals, the sect members beat them until Xie Feng called a halt.

• Anping and Zhou Zhulu emerged from Xuanji Mountain, followed by a host of powerful figures who surrounded Mu You and Lie Hun.
• Xie Feng appeared and welcomed the Wei Clan guests, while Sushang questioned Lie Hun about his ties to the clan that destroyed her homeland.
• Mu You and Lie Hun realized they faced Xie Feng and a formidable group of Xuanji Sect members, then tried to flee.
• The mountain-protecting formation sealed the area, and the sect members pursued and surrounded the two generals.
• Xie Feng ordered everyone to beat Mu You and Lie Hun, and the group battered them until he called a halt.

Xie Feng killed Lie Hun and Mu You after Lie Hun revealed his role in the destruction of Sushang’s homeland, then comforted Sushang and sent the Wei Clan a threat through Mu You. A year later, after peace had returned to the Xuanji Sect, Ye Yuan and Meng Wuqu quietly played Go at Azure Cloud Holy Land.

• Xie Feng skewered Lie Hun and Mu You with an iron chain, and Lie Hun confessed that he had betrayed Su Yuan to the Marquis of Northern Nether.
• Sushang beheaded Lie Hun with the Radiant Sun Sword, and Xie Feng sent the wounded Mu You to the Marquis with a warning that the Wei Clan would be destroyed when the Heavenly Ranking next opened.
• Xie Feng comforted the shaken Sushang, who thanked him and asked to go eat skewers with him.
• Mu You delivered Xie Feng’s warning to the Marquis of Northern Nether and died; the Marquis burned both bodies and vowed to face Xie Feng.
• A year passed in peace at the Xuanji Sect, while Ye Yuan and Meng Wuqu played Go at Azure Cloud Holy Land.

Ye Yuan exchanged gossip with Meng Wuqu while Xuanji Sect continued to grow under Xie Feng’s leadership. After a prolonged cultivation, Xie Feng broke through to the heavenly immortal seventh stage and traveled to the world’s boundary wall to gather more Spiritual Qi.

• Ye Yuan showed Meng Wuqu newspapers reporting the Blood Emperor’s rise, the Setting Sun Sect’s withdrawal, and other recent upheavals.
• Changying teased Sushang at Amber Terrace and complained that even the sect master’s relentless cultivation made her want to lie flat.
• Xie Feng cultivated in seclusion as fortune gathered above Xuanji Sect, and sect members were warned not to approach the main peak.
• Xie Feng scattered countless consciousness fragments across the three thousand worlds to cultivate and eventually advanced to the heavenly immortal seventh stage.
• Xie Feng went to the world’s boundary wall, where spiritual power was more abundant, to consolidate his cultivation.

Two armored hunters from the Upper Realm entered the Lower Realm through a crack in the World Boundary Wall to claim an immortal’s head for their quota. They attacked Xie Feng, who killed them and went to inspect the crack, leaving him poised to head to the Upper Realm.

• Two armored men crossed the World Boundary Wall and sensed powerful fortune gathering around Xie Feng.
• The men found Xie Feng meditating and attacked him with a bone saber, but a barrier stopped the strike.
• Xie Feng revealed his Heavenly Immortal Seventh Stage cultivation and unleashed the Solar Zhuzhao and Twelve Sword Immortal Art.
• The two Earth Immortals tried to escape through the boundary crack, but Xie Feng’s attack reduced them to ash.
• Xie Feng stepped to the cracked section of the World Boundary Wall and considered his coming journey to the Upper Realm.

Xie Feng repaired the realm barrier, set goals for the Xuanji Sect, and upgraded the Azure Profound Fan into a holy weapon with a new cultivation technique. Meanwhile, Yan Hantian died as the Setting Sun Sect’s grand elder tried to seize power, and Chu Shanjun confronted him as a traitor.

• Xie Feng used the power of the stars to repair cracks in the barrier between the upper and lower realms.
• Xie Feng set goals to cultivate the Great Dao, train his disciples, and ascend with the Xuanji Sect.
• Xie Feng used the Heavenly Ranking’s Holy Weapon Baptism to upgrade the Azure Profound Fan to Saint Grade and obtained the Azure Profound Diagram.
• The grand elder confronted the bedridden Yan Hantian with a veiled threat and revealed his ambition to take control of the Setting Sun Sect.
• Yan Hantian died after managing to call out for his son, Fei Fei.
• Chu Shanjun arrived with armed followers and accused the grand elder of plotting rebellion, while the grand elder accused Chu Shanjun in turn.

Xie Feng checked the Xuanji Sect’s progress before Yan Fei learned that the First Elder had seized control of the Setting Sun Sect and rushed there with Changying. He found the sect devastated and Chu Shanjun wounded but determined to keep fighting.

• Xie Feng emerged from a year of seclusion and learned that all fifteen Xuanji Sect disciples had reached Golden Core or higher, while Mo Beichen and Cang Shanhu had reached Nascent Soul.
• A burst of Sword Qi from the Weapon Immortal Pagoda revealed that Zhou Zhulu was forging an immortal sword, and Qi Wuyan reported his progress and the Xuanji Sect’s new positions on the Heavenly Ranking.
• A physician fled the Setting Sun Sect’s turmoil and reached the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, prompting Yan Fei to ask Xie Feng for leave to return and help.
• Xie Feng sent Changying with Yan Fei, but they arrived to find the Setting Sun Sect in ruins, its people dead or fighting, and the First Elder in control.
• Yan Fei found the badly wounded, limping Chu Shanjun, who told him to leave and declared that he would fight until his last drop of blood ran dry.
• Yan Fei rebuked Chu Shanjun for risking himself to defend Yan Fei’s home and told him that he should leave instead.

Changying rescued Yan Fei and Chu Shanjun from the Setting Sun Sect’s grand elder and his forces, wiping out the sect’s twenty-thousand-strong guard army with the Heaven-Revering Immortal Diagram. As Yan Fei left to collect himself, the Heavenly Ranking descended across the Three Thousand Worlds.

• The grand elder and Setting Sun Sect elders arrived to kill Yan Fei, but they faltered when they saw Changying.
• Yan Fei attacked the grand elder and broke through several cultivation realms, but the grand elder defeated him and moved to kill him.
• Changying intervened, forced the grand elder to call reinforcements, and swallowed the incoming twenty-thousand guards and elders into the Heaven-Revering Immortal Diagram.
• Changying used the diagram’s power to destroy the Setting Sun Sect forces, ending the battle almost instantly.
• Yan Fei and Chu Shanjun thanked Changying before Yan Fei left to collect himself.
• The Heavenly Ranking descended, drawing crowds eager to see which sects and dynasties would make the list.

Jiang Fei abdicated the throne of Jialuo Holy Land to follow her heart and search for the man in blue, while Leng Ruoshuang chose to accompany her. The Factions Ranking began revealing the world’s most powerful groups, ending with Guixu’s Master receiving a reward for eleventh place as people questioned the rankings.

• Jiang Fei refused pleas from State Preceptor Lu, Grand Chancellor Fei, and King Xiao, abdicated, and left Jialuo Holy Land.
• Jiang Fei told Leng Ruoshuang she wanted to live for herself and find the man in blue, and Leng Ruoshuang vowed to follow her.
• The Heavenly Ranking announced the Factions Ranking and placed Jialuo Holy Land fifteenth, the Azure Luan Clan fourteenth, Azure Cloud Holy Land thirteenth, and the Heavenly Dog Clan twelfth.
• The Master of Guixu lamented that his disciple had been away for three years, then saw Guixu ranked eleventh and received a wisp of the Great Dao of Time.
• People across the Three Thousand Worlds reacted with shock and debated why several widely respected factions had ranked so low.

The Heavenly Ranking listed the Supreme Dao Sect and the Black Dragon Pavilion, both subordinate to the Wei Clan, before their entries vanished and the Xuanji Sect took their places. The Marquis of Northern Nether recognized Yan’s attacks as the grand gift promised two years earlier and waited to see what came next.

• The Heavenly Ranking placed the Supreme Dao Sect, owned by Cui Ming, in tenth place, prompting its members to celebrate their ties to the Wei Clan.
• Xie Feng and Zhou Zhulu appeared before the Supreme Dao Sect as its entry faded from the Heavenly Ranking.
• The Xuanji Sect, owned by Yan, replaced the Supreme Dao Sect in tenth place, and onlookers suspected Yan had destroyed it.
• The Black Dragon Pavilion, another Wei Clan subordinate, appeared in ninth place before its entry vanished and the Xuanji Sect took that spot too.
• The Wei Clan reacted furiously to the Xuanji Sect’s attacks, while the Marquis of Northern Nether called them the grand gift Yan had promised and watched for what would follow.