Chapter Summaries

Xie Feng used the Heavenly Ranking to destroy several Wei Clan subordinate forces and make others submit to the Xuanji Sect, intensifying the conflict with the Marquis of Northern Nether. The chapter ended with the Marquis furious and silently splitting the glacier with his fist.

• The Burning Stars Pavilion appeared in eighth place on the Heavenly Ranking, then was obliterated as the Xuanji Sect took its spot.
• The Unrivaled Pavilion remained intact, but its master Lu Yue’s affiliation changed from the Marquis of Northern Nether to Yan, revealing that the pavilion had submitted to Xie Feng.
• Ye Yuan and Meng Wuqu speculated that Xie Feng’s campaign against the Wei Clan was connected to the destruction of Sushang’s Primordial White Tiger Clan.
• The Mad Alliance and Poison Sect appeared on the ranking; the Mad Alliance was destroyed, while the Poison Sect was subdued and its master Zheng Yan was listed under Yan.
• The Wei Clan’s members demanded that Xie Feng be killed and the Xuanji Sect destroyed, while the Marquis of Northern Nether clenched his fist and split the glacier.

As the Heavenly Ranking revealed the Wei Clan in second place, the Xuanji Sect destroyed the Purple Cloud Sect and the Golden Lion Clan, both Wei Clan subordinate forces. The Wei Clan’s elites gathered at Wuyou Glacier to await the Xuanji Sect’s arrival, while the Marquis of Northern Nether stood ready.

• The Heavenly Ranking placed the Purple Cloud Sect fourth, prompting its disciples and elders to flee in panic as Qin Heng tried to hold the sect together.
• Yan and another Xuanji Sect figure arrived, and the Purple Cloud Sect vanished from the Heavenly Ranking as the Xuanji Sect took its place.
• The Heavenly Ranking placed the Golden Lion Clan third, but the Xuanji Sect annihilated it, and the Ranking showed the clan’s final moments.
• The Heavenly Ranking announced the Wei Clan as second, stirring anger among its clansmen, who questioned the result and challenged the Xuanji Sect to come.
• The Wei Clan’s elite experts assembled at Wuyou Glacier, while the Marquis of Northern Nether waited atop a glacier.

The Heavenly Ranking named the Xuanji Sect first, granting it immense fortune and prompting celebrations across the world. As the Marquis of Northern Nether prepared the Wei Clan for the Xuanji Sect’s arrival, he sensed that they had come.

• The Wei Clan’s name stayed on the ranking long enough to earn a sliver of the Great Dao of Darkness, then the Xuanji Sect was announced as first with a score of 100 and brought saintly fortune that helped people break through.
• People across the world praised the Xuanji Sect and wondered whether Yan and Xie Feng were the same person; Madam Wenqu and Meng Wuqu discussed who might open the Heavenly Gate and agreed that Yan and Xie Feng were candidates.
• Xuanji Sect members celebrated their place atop the ranking, while Mo Lin wrote home about his success and Changying began a letter to her own master.
• At Wuyou Glacier, the Wei Clan waited for the Xuanji Sect under the Marquis of Northern Nether’s plan, with more than two hundred Immortal Ascension Realm experts guarding him.
• The Marquis of Northern Nether opened his eyes and announced that the Xuanji Sect had arrived as a cracking sound rang across the sky.

Sushang, Xie Feng, and Zhou Zhulu attacked the Wei Clan, with Sushang confronting the Marquis of Northern Nether over her parents’ deaths. As the battle turned against the Wei Clan, the Marquis ordered a hidden plan activated, and formations began using the clan’s civilians as sacrifices.

• Sushang broke through the Wei Clan’s protective formation, arriving with Xie Feng and Zhou Zhulu behind her.
• Sushang transformed into her adult form and attacked the Marquis of Northern Nether, while Zhou Zhulu and Xie Feng fought the Wei Clan forces.
• Xie Feng’s silver dragon and Zhou Zhulu’s assault quickly killed many of the Wei Clan’s Immortal Ascension Realm experts.
• The Marquis wounded Sushang and ordered the Wei Clan commander to activate the plan.
• Wei Clan troops herded civilians into designated locations, where formations made them explode and absorbed their blood into pillars of light.

Xie Feng destroyed the formation cores sustaining the Wei Clan’s blood giants, then joined Sushang’s battle against the Marquis of Northern Nether and coached her through his devious tactics. Sushang trapped the marquis with an alchemical art, and as he unleashed a deadly attack, Xie Feng prompted her to choose a better response.

• Xie Feng identified the pillars of light as the blood giants’ formation cores and destroyed them while Zhou Zhulu fought the giants on the other side.
• Xie Feng sent the Spirit of Holy Fire to handle the remaining giants and went to Sushang’s battlefield.
• The Marquis of Northern Nether ambushed Sushang from inside a black fireball and nearly killed her, but Xie Feng reminded her that all was fair in war.
• Sushang hid inside a golden dragon and pierced the marquis’s left arm, then fought on while Xie Feng assessed their strengths and weaknesses.
• At Xie Feng’s direction, Sushang used Soul Prison to disrupt the marquis’s mind and force him to take her seriously.
• The Marquis unleashed Nether Scroll: Annihilation of All Things, and Xie Feng asked Sushang whether there was a better choice than meeting it head-on.

Sushang survived the Marquis of Northern Nether’s attack with help from the Wings of the Immortal, while Xie Feng and his allies arrived to turn the fight against him. Sushang faced the Marquis head-on, sealed his soul, and killed him, avenging her family.

• Sushang used the Wings of the Immortal to evade the Marquis of Northern Nether’s black light, and her feathers pierced his chest.
• Ye Yuan and Meng Wuqu arrived as the Marquis attacked Xie Feng, and the Scarlet Maple Sword blocked his strike.
• The Marquis tried to escape by pretending to self-detonate and charging Sushang, but Xie Feng told her to face him head-on.
• Sushang struck the Marquis with soul power, bound him with the Silken Immortal Fire, and sealed his soul.
• Sushang drove the Radiant Sun Sword into the Marquis and pinned him to an iceberg, where he turned to ash.

After Xie Feng destroyed the Wei Clan, the Heavenly Ranking crowned the Xuanji Sect first and announced the upcoming Mounts Ranking. The sect collected its rewards, which drove many disciples to new realms and left Xie Feng’s faction with a formidable group of immortals.

• Xie Feng left the flooding Wei Clan behind while Zhou Zhulu plundered its treasury.
• The Heavenly Ranking erased the Wei Clan, placed the Xuanji Sect first, and announced the Mounts Ranking for one year later.
• Xie Feng returned to the Xuanji Sect with Ye Yuan as the sect resumed its daily routine.
• Xie Feng distributed the ranking rewards among himself, Changying, Zhou Zhulu, Zhou Jin, Yan Fei, Sushang, and Tun Chen.
• Within ten days, the recipients and other sect members advanced in cultivation, giving the Xuanji Sect seven immortals and eight including Sushang in her adult form.

Mo Lin received a letter from his parents, while the Master of Guixu misunderstood Changying’s mention of growing horns and worried about her at the Xuanji Sect. On a training mission, Sushang and two disciples discovered a fraud using the sect’s name and portraits to recruit people for money.

• Anping delivered a letter from the Ink Abyss, and Mo Lin heard his mother praise him before his father scolded him for not returning home.
• Qi Wuyan told Sushang to escort Mo Beichen and Qingxing on a training mission.
• The Master of Guixu read Changying’s letter, took her comment about growing horns literally, and feared Xie Feng had mistreated her.
• Mo Beichen, Qingxing, and Sushang hunted Devil Beasts in the Southern Continent and found a crowded recruitment line in a border city.
• Sushang recognized that a fake elder named Xu Chengming was charging people to join the Xuanji Sect and using insulting portraits of its figures.

Sushang, Mo Beichen, and Qingxing exposed a group of scammers impersonating the Xuanji Sect and its sect master. After punishing the impostors and helping the cheated crowd, they recovered their spirit stones and returned to the sect without revealing their identities.

• Sushang questioned a man posing as a Xuanji Sect recruiter and paid him spirit stones to learn the sect's location and meet its sect master.
• The recruiter led Sushang, Mo Beichen, and Qingxing to a fake sect master, who claimed to be Yan and the top-ranked cultivator on the Heavenly Ranking.
• After learning Sushang had reached the Immortal Ascension Realm, the impostor permitted Mo Beichen to challenge him, and Mo Beichen smashed through the screen and beat him.
• Sushang revealed that they were genuine members of the Xuanji Sect and slapped the impostor and the recruiter out of the building.
• Mo Beichen told the crowd the truth, and the swindled people beat the scammers collecting money outside.
• Sushang, Mo Beichen, and Qingxing retrieved their spirit stones and returned to the Xuanji Sect while keeping their identities secret.

Yu Fengbo, the Blood Emperor, and Xie Feng each sought clues to opening the heavenly path and ascending to the Upper Realm. The Blood Emperor decided to wait for the Luo Mo Secret Realm to appear, while Xie Feng concluded that he would need to find the path suited to his own era.

• Yu Fengbo asked the physiognomist how to revitalize the Kun Clan, and the physiognomist urged him to search the clan’s pagoda records for a way to ascend first.
• The Blood Emperor questioned an eight-foot devil heavenly diviner, who predicted that the Luo Mo Secret Realm would likely appear after the next Heavenly Ranking.
• The Blood Emperor decided to wait a year for the secret realm and search there for clues to ascension.
• Xie Feng searched the Xuanji Sect library for late ancient records of ascension but found no useful accounts.
• Xie Feng concluded that the Great Dao revised historical records between eras and that he needed to find his own path to Immortal Ascension.

Xie Feng learned from Meng Wuqu that the long-buried Luo Mo Secret Realm might reveal a path to the Upper Realm and was located beneath Cloud Mountain in Yingzhou. The three reached the seabed, where a deadly formation blocked their way.

• Xie Feng found records of Luo Mo, the first person to ascend to the Upper Realm in the near-ancient era, and learned that he had left behind a secret realm.
• Meng Wuqu told Xie Feng how Luo Mo had failed to reach the Upper Realm through the World Boundary Wall before eventually ascending, and revealed that the secret realm lay beneath Cloud Mountain in Yingzhou.
• Xie Feng agreed to seek the secret realm with Meng Wuqu, and Changying joined them despite Meng Wuqu's warning to keep their group small.
• Changying gathered seawater into a boat, and the three released their fortune to locate the secret realm and descended nine thousand zhang to the seabed.
• As the water boat sped across the lifeless seabed, seawater vortices attacked them, and Xie Feng recognized the nine golden lights ahead as a formation.

Xie Feng, Changying, and Meng Wuqu battled nine water monsters protected by the Nine Kings' Raging Waves Formation. Xie Feng identified the rear monster as the formation eye and destroyed it, causing the formation to collapse.

• Nine water monsters attacked Xie Feng and his companions, and Meng Wuqu and Changying's assaults failed to overcome their formation.
• Xie Feng recognized the Nine Kings' Raging Waves Formation and discovered that the rearmost water monster was its formation eye.
• Changying drew the first water monster away while Meng Wuqu disrupted the formation's connections.
• Xie Feng killed the ninth water monster, causing the formation's power to pass more slowly through the remaining monsters and kill them in turn.
• Xie Feng shattered the weakened formation, and the remaining water monsters turned to ash.

Xie Feng, Changying, and Meng Wuqu discovered Cloud Mountain beneath the seabed and found a golden palace containing a wooden box guarded by an undying little monster. Xie Feng opened the box despite the monster’s desperate protests.

• Cloud Mountain appeared beneath the seabed, and Xie Feng, Changying, and Meng Wuqu split up to search for the Luo Mo Secret Realm.
• Meng Wuqu found a patch of grass where fortune gathered, and Xie Feng burned it away before Meng Wuqu uncovered a hidden passage beneath it.
• The three followed the passage to a golden palace, where they found a wooden box radiating spiritual fortune.
• A little monster attacked Xie Feng and demanded that he leave the wooden box alone, but Meng Wuqu struck him down and watched him recover.
• Xie Feng took the wooden box and opened it as the little monster screamed in terror.

Xie Feng, Changying, and Meng Wuqu followed a little monster to the Luo Mo Secret Realm, where each entered a different scroll in search of records about Luo Mo's ascension. Xie Feng found himself trapped in an ancient sword tomb and drew the Cherished Wine Cup Sword to face its formation.

• Xie Feng discovered that the little monster's ten-thousand-year-old lingzhi had led them to a red coral cave and pressured him into guiding them.
• Xie Feng blasted open the cave entrance, and the group passed through a light screen into the Luo Mo Secret Realm, where seven-colored scrolls appeared.
• Changying knocked the little monster unconscious, and she, Xie Feng, and Meng Wuqu chose separate scrolls to search for records of Luo Mo's ascension.
• Xie Feng entered a black scroll and crossed a desert whose power strengthened his cultivation before millions of immortal swords surrounded him in a sword tomb.
• Xie Feng drew the Cherished Wine Cup Sword as the sword formation blocked his way deeper into the tomb.

Meng Wuqu found and collected Origin Qi before leaving the red scroll, while Changying witnessed an illusory lesson about justice and realized she had to shatter the silver scroll’s illusions. Xie Feng destroyed the sword tomb and entered Luo Mo’s book collection, searching for information about Luo Mo’s ascension.

• Meng Wuqu uncovered Origin Qi inside a cold jade cultivation platform, stored it in a jade box, and stepped onto a road that appeared after the hall vanished.
• Changying watched mysterious sword light kill three wastrel young masters who had beaten a grandfather and grandchild.
• An old man and his disciple Mian’er discussed justice and the value of protecting ordinary lives, but Changying failed to grasp the insight she felt stirring within her.
• Changying realized the silver scroll contained an illusory realm and that she needed to shatter its illusions to escape.
• Xie Feng destroyed the sword tomb with the Cherished Wine Cup Sword and entered Luo Mo’s collection of sealed scrolls.
• Xie Feng dismissed a martial cultivation technique and continued searching the scrolls for information about Luo Mo’s ascension.

Xie Feng found Luo Mo's Diary and learned the three conditions for ascension: great fortune, great cultivation, and a Heaven-Opening Sword. He realized his chaos sacred body could shelter others during ascension if he opened all ninety-nine heavenly veins, then prepared to return to Xuanji Sect and strengthen the Cherished Wine Cup Sword; he also spotted something hidden in a corner of the room.

• Xie Feng searched the ancient scrolls and found Luo Mo's Diary, which described the three conditions required for ascension.
• Xie Feng learned that the chaos sacred body had ninety-nine heavenly veins that could provide enough fortune to shelter non-immortals during ascension.
• Xie Feng sensed his ninety-nine unopened heavenly veins and decided to return to Xuanji Sect to open them.
• Xie Feng read that a qualified pioneer needed immortal-level strength and a Heaven-Opening Sword, while later followers only needed to reach the Immortal Ascension Realm.
• Xie Feng resolved to pour great fortune into the Cherished Wine Cup Sword, collected the cultivation scrolls, and noticed something in a corner of the room.

Xie Feng found five immortal beast eggs in the Luo Mo Secret Realm before Madam Wenqu, Meng Wuqu, and the Master of Guixu revealed they were Upper Realm immortals stranded in the Lower Realm. They asked him to open a path home, and the three infused providence into the Cherished Wine Cup Sword to help it become a Heaven-Opening Sword.

• Xie Feng discovered five immortal beast eggs and took them, hoping he could awaken and train the beasts.
• Madam Wenqu, Meng Wuqu, and the Master of Guixu arrived and told Xie Feng they knew how he could ascend to the Upper Realm.
• Madam Wenqu, Meng Wuqu, and the Master of Guixu revealed they had been stranded in the Lower Realm and needed Xie Feng to open the Heavenly Gate.
• Xie Feng agreed to help them in exchange for their providence, which could transform the Cherished Wine Cup Sword into a Heaven-Opening Sword.
• Madam Wenqu, Meng Wuqu, and the Master of Guixu channeled their providence into the Cherished Wine Cup Sword until it blazed with a vast presence.

Xie Feng returned to the Xuanji Sect with five slumbering immortal beast eggs and invited the elders to awaken one and forge a mutual contract. The first two pairs failed to bond with any eggs, leaving the remaining elders to try their luck.

• Xie Feng and Changying left the Luo Mo Secret Realm, and Xie Feng returned to the Xuanji Sect with her.
• Xie Feng told the elders that they could each try to awaken one of five immortal beast eggs and form a contract only if both sides accepted.
• Zhou Zhulu and Yan Fei tried to bond with the golden and blue-black eggs but failed.
• Xu Chengming joked about Tun Chen's poison, and Tun Chen knocked him down with a poisonous attack.
• Tun Chen tried to awaken the golden egg with poison powder, but its flaming barrier burned the powder away and he left without a contract.

Changying, Sushang, and Qi Wuyan each awakened an immortal beast egg and gained a mount, while Mo Lin failed to form a contract. Anping’s blood entered the final black egg, which released the powerful presence of a Qilin.

• Xu Chengming tried weighing the eggs and choosing the heaviest black one, but failed to form a contract.
• Changying’s blood entered the dark blue egg, and a small, wing-finned Kun hatched and acknowledged her as its master.
• Sushang awakened the golden egg and received a docile Golden-Winged Peng Bird.
• Qi Wuyan used her divination to choose the red egg, which hatched into a Hou, while Mo Lin failed to awaken the black egg.
• Anping’s blood sank into the black egg, which released the presence of a Qilin.

The Xuanji Sect discovered that its main peak held the Three Thousand Worlds’ greatest concentration of providence, revealing it as the site of the Heavenly Gate. As the sect prepared for ascension, Yan Fei learned that Chu Shanjun would remain behind, and Chu knocked him unconscious after Yan Fei broke down over their parting.

• Anping’s immortal beast egg hatched into an Ink Qilin, while Zhou Jin’s egg produced an angel, and Xie Feng later refined pills to strengthen the new mounts.
• Qi Wuyan used the Fate Cauldron to map the Three Thousand Worlds, and Xie Feng’s divination power revealed the distribution of providence and eased her burden.
• Xie Feng and Qi Wuyan found the strongest providence at the Xuanji Sect, and Xie Feng told the sect that they would ascend after he opened all ninety-nine Heavenly Veins of his Chaos Sacred Body.
• Yan Fei visited Chu Shanjun in the Land of Eternal Twilight and told him he would ascend with the sect master, but Chu said he had chosen to remain in the Lower Realm.
• Yan Fei urged Chu to reconsider, then broke down at the thought of losing his last friend, and Chu knocked him unconscious with a punch.