Chapter Summaries

Xuan Heavenly God revealed that Zhongsheng had helped complete the Realm-Slaying Sword and Azure Heavenly God honored him for his contributions. Azure Heavenly God proposed that Zhongsheng marry Jiang Yiyu before the operation, but Jiang Yiyu refused, and Zhongsheng was summoned to the Heavenly Palace with the three Heavenly Gods.

• Xuan Heavenly God unveiled the Realm-Slaying Sword and announced that it would let the Divine Realm enter and leave the Lower Five Realms at will.
• Xuan Heavenly God revealed that Zhongsheng had provided the method that completed the sword, and Azure Heavenly God awarded him the foremost credit for the operation’s preparations.
• Azure Heavenly God proposed that Zhongsheng and Jiang Yiyu make their relationship official by marrying before the operation.
• Zhongsheng objected that the marriage was hasty, and Jiang Yiyu declared that she did not wish to marry and that their dual cultivation had only addressed their cultivation problems.
• Pill Heavenly God postponed further discussion, and he told Zhongsheng to accompany the three Heavenly Gods to the Heavenly Palace.

Lu Changsheng faced the three Heavenly Gods, endured Pill Heavenly God's pressure, and learned that Jiang Yiyu had gone to Ice Soul Heart-Sealing Valley. The Heavenly Gods had planned to postpone his marriage to Jiang Yiyu until after the operation, but her sudden departure left them alarmed.

• Lu Changsheng met Xuan Heavenly God, Azure Heavenly God, and Pill Heavenly God in the Heavenly Palace, where Pill Heavenly God tested him with overwhelming pressure.
• Pill Heavenly God turned the test into punishment and demanded to know what Lu Changsheng had done to Jiang Yiyu; Lu Changsheng pretended to be gravely injured and said he and Jiang Yiyu were unsuited.
• Azure Heavenly God decided Lu Changsheng and Jiang Yiyu's marriage would go ahead after the operation, while Pill Heavenly God gave Lu Changsheng a pill and warned him not to hurt her.
• A Divine Envoy reported that Jiang Yiyu had gone to Ice Soul Heart-Sealing Valley, and all three Heavenly Gods reacted with alarm.

Pill Heavenly God sent Lu Changsheng into Ice Soul Heart-Sealing Valley to stop Jiang Yiyu from sealing away her emotions as she pursued the ninth glacier. Lu Changsheng reached the seventh glacier and found her facing a pack of powerful Ice Soul Snow Wolves and their Wolf King.

• Pill Heavenly God warned Lu Changsheng to bring Jiang Yiyu out of the valley before heart-sealing destroyed her emotions, then brought him to its entrance.
• Lu Changsheng entered the valley and secretly surveyed all nine glaciers, discovering that Jiang Yiyu had reached the seventh after absorbing the first six glaciers' frost Yin Qi and Divine Soldiers.
• Lu Changsheng tore through space and traveled directly to the seventh glacier, despite the valley's restrictions.
• Lu Changsheng found Jiang Yiyu unable to reach the seventh Divine Soldier because dozens of Late Stage Domain Divine Realm Ice Soul Snow Wolves and their Peak Domain Divine Realm Wolf King blocked her way.

Lu Changsheng revealed his overwhelming strength to save Jiang Yiyu from the Ice Soul Snow Wolves, then placed a Divine Soul Restriction on her to keep his power secret. Jiang Yiyu was left hurt and frightened, while the Ice Soul Snow Wolf King cowered behind the ice.

• Jiang Yiyu struggled against thirty-two Ice Soul Snow Wolves and their Domain Divine Realm king, and Lu Changsheng debated whether to intervene.
• As Jiang Yiyu charged at the wolves and resigned herself to death, Lu Changsheng stepped in and shattered all thirty-two with a single gesture.
• Jiang Yiyu realized Zhongsheng had hidden his strength and asked how he had entered the valley despite its cultivation limit.
• Lu Changsheng placed a Divine Soul Restriction on Jiang Yiyu, ordered her to keep his secret, and dissolved the sealing that had spread through her body.
• Lu Changsheng spotted the Ice Soul Snow Wolf King trembling behind a block of ice.

Lu Changsheng spared the Ice Soul Snow Wolf King after binding it with a Divine Soul Restriction, then helped Jiang Yiyu claim the ice crystal crown. As they reached the eighth glacier, Jiang Yiyu inferred Lu Changsheng’s role in the conflict between the Divine Realm and the Lower Five Realms, but he warned her not to reveal what she knew.

• Lu Changsheng killed the Ice Soul Snow Wolf King’s thirty-two subordinates, then accepted the wolf’s offer to guide him through Ice Soul Heart-Sealing Valley and placed a Divine Soul Restriction on it.
• Lu Changsheng sent Jiang Yiyu to subdue the ice crystal crown and protected her from its frost yin Qi as she absorbed it, reaching the late stage of the Domain Divine Realm.
• The ice wall blocking the way disappeared after Jiang Yiyu claimed the crown, and the Ice Soul Snow Wolf King led Lu Changsheng and Jiang Yiyu toward the eighth glacier.
• Jiang Yiyu questioned Lu Changsheng about his identity and inferred that he had come from the Lower Five Realms to interfere with the Divine Realm’s plans, including the Realm-Slaying Sword.
• Lu Changsheng warned Jiang Yiyu that her Divine Soul Restriction would destroy her divine soul if she revealed his secrets, just as the Ice Soul Snow Wolf King announced their arrival at the eighth glacier.

Lu Changsheng, Jiang Yiyu, and the Ice Soul Snow Wolf King crossed the eighth glacier and investigated a hidden cave leading into the Ice Rift Canyon. After a mysterious presence drew Lu Changsheng toward the canyon, he sent his External Avatar ahead while the others waited.

• Jiang Yiyu struggled against the eighth glacier’s intense Yin Qi, while Lu Changsheng asked the Ice Soul Snow Wolf King to explain the glacier’s traps.
• The Ice Soul Snow Wolf King told them about a hidden cave leading to the Ice Rift Canyon, where its previous explorers had never returned.
• Lu Changsheng avoided the glacier’s traps and initially refused to enter the cave, but a mysterious presence emerging from it changed his mind.
• Jiang Yiyu and the Ice Soul Snow Wolf King watched Lu Changsheng split into two figures and learned he had formed an External Avatar.
• The group reached the ice field and Lu Changsheng told Jiang Yiyu and the Ice Soul Snow Wolf King to wait while his External Avatar descended into the canyon.

Lu Changsheng sent his External Avatar into Ice Rift Canyon, where it faced spatial distortions and swarms of tiny beetles. After destroying them with the God-Slaying Sword Array, it reached the canyon floor and found a black coffin that held the presence watching him.

• Lu Changsheng sent his External Avatar down Ice Rift Canyon while his original body rested above, and Jiang Yiyu and the Ice Soul Snow Wolf King waited outside.
• As the avatar descended through airless darkness, spatial distortions twisted its clothes, and Lu Changsheng sensed dustlike beetles feeding on the remains below.
• The beetles swarmed the avatar, and Lu Changsheng unleashed the God-Slaying Sword Array, killing them and sending Sword Intent bursting out of the canyon.
• Lu Changsheng reassured Jiang Yiyu and the Ice Soul Snow Wolf King that a barrier hid the attack from the Divine Realm.
• At the canyon bottom, the avatar found a black coffin that was the source of the presence and gaze.

Lu Changsheng confronted Qin Han, the leader of Nüwa’s Heaven-Mending Generals, who explained that the Star Essence was a key that could let the Divine Realm descend upon the Lower Five Realms. Qin Han offered the Heaven-Mending Generals’ aid as the coffin opened, leaving Lu Changsheng poised to learn more about the karma he had stirred.

• Lu Changsheng surrounded the black iron coffin with killing arrays, God-Slaying Swords, a miniature Nine Nether Yellow Springs Grand Array, and his hand cannon before Qin Han spoke from within.
• Qin Han revealed that he had once sent the eighth strand of divine sense into the Changsheng Realm, prompting Lu Changsheng to strengthen its arrays.
• Qin Han identified himself as Qin Zhan’s leader and one of Nüwa’s four Heaven-Mending Generals, explaining that he had been monitoring the Six Realms and waiting for Lu Changsheng.
• Qin Han explained that the Star Essence was a key that the Divine Realm sought to use to open the world and send its people into the Lower Five Realms.
• Lu Changsheng regretted seeking the Star Essence for Shi Sheng, and Qin Han said the cause could not be changed but its effect could be altered.
• Qin Han offered the Heaven-Mending Generals’ service, and the black iron coffin began to open.

Lu Changsheng returned from Ice Rift Canyon and continued toward the ninth glacier with Jiang Yiyu and the Ice Soul Snow Wolf King. At the eighth glacier, the Mystic Ice Luan Phoenix gave up its divine weapon after learning Lu Changsheng had survived the canyon unharmed.

• Lu Changsheng refused to explain what happened in Ice Rift Canyon and led Jiang Yiyu and the Ice Soul Snow Wolf King away after his External Avatar returned alone.
• Azure Heavenly God, Pill Heavenly God, and Xuan Heavenly God discussed sending Zhongsheng to reach Jiang Yiyu and help her escape Ice Soul Heart-Sealing Valley.
• The group encountered the Mystic Ice Luan Phoenix at the eighth glacier, where the Ice Soul Snow Wolf King warned him not to attack and to hand over his divine weapon.
• The Mystic Ice Luan Phoenix realized Lu Changsheng had entered Ice Rift Canyon and emerged unharmed, then offered him the eighth glacier's divine weapon.

Lu Changsheng gained the Mystic Ice Luan Phoenix’s loyalty and helped Jiang Yiyu absorb the Divine Sword before leading the group to the summit of the ninth glacier. There, they found the Eternal Frozen Star Core guarded by a Flood Dragon.

• The Ice Soul Snow Wolf King apologized to Lu Changsheng and offered him the Divine Soldier, then received an ice-attribute pill from Lu Changsheng.
• The Mystic Ice Luan Phoenix praised his own strength and knowledge of the ninth glacier, then asked to stay by Lu Changsheng’s side; Lu Changsheng agreed.
• Lu Changsheng told Jiang Yiyu to absorb the Divine Sword, and he helped her eliminate its side effects as she absorbed it.
• Lu Changsheng, Jiang Yiyu, the Ice Soul Snow Wolf King, and the Mystic Ice Luan Phoenix crossed the ninth glacier and reached its summit.
• They found a Flood Dragon coiled around the Eternal Frozen Star Core, the key to fusing the other eight Divine Soldiers.

Lu Changsheng confronted the Cold Marrow Flood Dragon to claim the Eternal Frozen Star Core, which he intended to use for his companions. After the dragon summoned tens of thousands of High Antiquity Battle Souls, Lu Changsheng destroyed them all with his God-Slaying Swords.

• Lu Changsheng saw the Eternal Frozen Star Core and considered taking it for Shi Sheng, while keeping his plans for Jiang Yiyu's Divine Soldiers in mind.
• The Cold Marrow Flood Dragon attacked the Ice Soul Snow Wolf King and the Mystic Ice Luan Phoenix, but Lu Changsheng erased its breath with a finger.
• Lu Changsheng offered the dragon an ice-attribute pill in exchange for the Eternal Frozen Star Core, but it refused.
• Lu Changsheng suppressed the Cold Marrow Flood Dragon and reached for the core, prompting it to summon tens of thousands of High Antiquity Battle Souls.
• Lu Changsheng unleashed the nine God-Slaying Swords and reduced the High Antiquity Battle Souls to dust.

Lu Changsheng obtained the Eternal Frozen Star Core from the Ice Soul Divine Maiden after agreeing to introduce her to the person who had left Ice Rift Canyon when the time was right. In a secluded ice cave, he told Jiang Yiyu he would keep the core and began preparing materials to find another way to fuse her Divine Soldiers.

• Lu Changsheng annihilated the tens of thousands of ancient battle souls with the nine God-Slaying Swords and reached for the Eternal Frozen Star Core.
• The Ice Soul Divine Maiden appeared with the core, told Lu Changsheng her true body could not defeat him, and asked him to introduce her to the person who had emerged from Ice Rift Canyon.
• Lu Changsheng agreed to ask that person when the time was right, and the Ice Soul Divine Maiden handed him the Eternal Frozen Star Core and opened a hidden ice cave for him and his companions.
• The Cold Marrow Flood Dragon asked why the Ice Soul Divine Maiden had yielded, and she explained that she could not protect the core and preferred not to make an enemy of Lu Changsheng.
• Lu Changsheng sealed and inspected the ice cave, then told Jiang Yiyu he would keep the core and began laying out materials to find another way to fuse her Divine Soldiers.

Lu Changsheng forged a core that fused Jiang Yiyu’s eight Divine Soldiers into a Creation Grade armor set, helping her reach Half-Step Realm God. After Jiang Yiyu asked him to join the Divine Realm, he refused, reminded her of the restriction in her divine soul, and left Ice Soul Heart-Sealing Valley with her.

• Lu Changsheng used the Principles of heaven and earth to forge a core modeled on the Eternal Frozen Star Core in about an incense stick.
• With Lu Changsheng’s help, Jiang Yiyu fused her eight half-step Creation Grade Divine Soldiers and broke through to Half-Step Realm God.
• Jiang Yiyu asked Lu Changsheng why he would not join the Divine Realm, and he rejected the suggestion.
• Lu Changsheng warned Jiang Yiyu that trying to alert the Heavenly Gods would trigger the restriction in her divine soul, then asked the Ice Soul Divine Maiden to open a passage.
• Lu Changsheng and Jiang Yiyu left the valley and were escorted by a Divine Envoy into the Heavenly Palace.

Liu Ziru learned that Lu Changsheng had gone undercover in the Divine Realm to prepare the way for his disciples, so Willow Tree investigated the Chaos Realm’s hidden experts from afar and gave Liu Ziru a detailed report. In the Divine Realm, Lu Changsheng and Jiang Yiyu returned to the Heavenly Palace, where the three Heavenly Gods questioned them about the Divine Soldiers.

• Liu Ziru discovered that Lu Changsheng had gone to the Divine Realm undercover, and Willow Tree explained that he had gone to pave the way for his disciples.
• Liu Ziru told Willow Tree that powerful presences had appeared across the Chaos Realm and that the Dark Domain could not gather intelligence on them.
• Willow Tree sensed the Chaos Realm from Changsheng Realm, recorded the situation and the experts’ strengths in a willow-branch scroll, and gave it to Liu Ziru.
• Lu Changsheng and Jiang Yiyu returned to the Heavenly Palace and were brought before the three Heavenly Gods.
• The Azure Heavenly God checked that Jiang Yiyu’s seven emotions and six desires remained unsealed, while the Xuan Heavenly God praised Lu Changsheng as Zhongsheng.

Lu Changsheng convinced the three Heavenly Gods that Jiang Yiyu had survived Ice Soul Heart-Sealing Valley through her awakened Ice Phoenix Bloodline and his Chaos Dao Fire. They accepted the explanation, postponed the couple’s marriage until after the war, and rewarded Lu Changsheng, while Jiang Yiyu privately saw through his act.

• Lu Changsheng told the Heavenly Gods that Jiang Yiyu had reached the ninth level of the Nine Revolutions Ice Heart Instruction and awakened her Ice Phoenix Bloodline.
• Jiang Yiyu revealed the Ice Phoenix marking on her neck, confirming Lu Changsheng’s explanation.
• Lu Changsheng showed the Heavenly Gods his Chaos Dao Fire and claimed it had let him combine flame and extreme cold to break the valley’s heart-sealing method.
• The Heavenly Gods accepted Lu Changsheng’s account, and Xuan Heavenly God praised him for his ingenuity.
• Jiang Yiyu suggested holding their wedding after the great war, and Azure Heavenly God agreed.
• Pill Heavenly God, Xuan Heavenly God, and Azure Heavenly God gave Lu Changsheng generous cultivation rewards, while Jiang Yiyu privately mocked his performance.

Liu Ziru delivered Willow Tree’s intelligence to Mu Fusheng, revealing powerful hidden forces in the Chaos Realm. After spotting a dangerous figure connected to the Buddhist Sect and the Buddha Son, Mu Fusheng realized Ning Chenxin was in danger and moved to send help.

• Liu Ziru visited Mu Fusheng’s courtyard, where Jiu Bailu welcomed him while Mu Fusheng finished inscribing talismans.
• Liu Ziru gave Mu Fusheng a scroll of intelligence gathered by Willow Tree, who had sensed the entire Chaos Realm with her soul power.
• Mu Fusheng learned that Lu Changsheng had gone undercover in the Divine Realm and was alarmed by how many powerful experts were hidden in the Chaos Realm.
• Jiu Bailu pointed out that a surviving Buddhist Sect expert had a connection to the Buddha Son, prompting Mu Fusheng to ask where Ning Chenxin was.
• Liu Ziru prepared to send people to Ning Chenxin, while Mu Fusheng decided to contact Xu Yeming for help.

Mu Fusheng learned that the Chaos Realm held powerful ancient forces and rushed with Jiu Bailu and Liu Ziru toward Ning Chenxin and the Buddha Son, who were clearing karmic hindrances. They encountered Bitter Zen Devil Buddha, who sought the Buddha Son’s Ten Thousand Buddhas Sarira, but a mysterious flame intervened as he attacked.

• Mu Fusheng reviewed intelligence about the Chaos Realm’s powerful figures and learned that Bitter Zen Devil Buddha had survived his apparent death and was targeting the Buddha Son.
• Mu Fusheng informed Xu Yeming and Huang Qian, then took Jiu Bailu and Liu Ziru toward the Buddhist Sect’s territory to find Ning Chenxin.
• Ning Chenxin and the Buddha Son went to a village to clear karmic hindrances and found its villagers dead, their souls devoured.
• Bitter Zen Devil Buddha revealed himself, admitted he had feigned death, and declared his intention to take the Buddha Son’s Ten Thousand Buddhas Sarira.
• Bitter Zen Devil Buddha attacked Ning Chenxin and the Buddha Son with Black Qi, but a powerful flame descended and burned it away.

Huang Qian and the others arrived as Bitter Zen Devil Buddha threatened to devour the Buddhist Disciple’s sarira. Xu Yeming summoned the Black Lord, who forced Bitter Zen Devil Buddha to retreat, but Bitter Zen Devil Buddha vowed to return once his current plans were settled.

• Huang Qian arrived with Mu Fusheng, Xu Yeming, Jiu Bailu, and Liu Ziru, and Bitter Zen Devil Buddha threatened to devour Huang Qian’s divine soul.
• Bitter Zen Devil Buddha unleashed the Soul-Devouring Technique and demanded the Buddhist Disciple’s sarira, while the Buddhist Disciple tried to persuade him to stop.
• Xu Yeming warned Bitter Zen Devil Buddha that help was coming, and the Black Lord struck from the sky, destroying the village with his enormous tortoise foot.
• The Black Lord revealed that Xu Yeming was his inheritor and warned Bitter Zen Devil Buddha to leave or be killed.
• Bitter Zen Devil Buddha chose to retreat rather than risk a fight with the Black Lord, promising to return after settling his affairs.

As the Chaos Divine Dynasty’s core region neared its opening, ancient powerhouses and major clans prepared to pursue its treasures and inheritances. Xu Youming and Xuanyuan Tianzhao made plans to enter, while the swordsman Dugu Jue also set out to see whether his old rival had returned.

• The Black Lord warned Xu Yeming and his companions that the core region would open within two days and that its dangers went beyond competition from powerful entrants.
• Xu Youming told the Xu Clan that he would enter the core region to seek a supreme treasure and promised to eliminate Xu Canghai if he encountered him.
• Xuanyuan Tianzhao took back the Xuanyuan Sword and announced that he would seek the Azure Cloud Sword Master's inheritance while Xuanyuan Tianzhe oversaw the younger clan members.
• Dugu Jue heard news of the coming opening and decided to seek the Azure Cloud Sword Master's inheritance and find out whether Xuanyuan Tianzhao had returned.

The opening of the Chaos Divine Dynasty’s core grounds drew the great factions and countless cultivators to Tianqi City, where they prepared to compete for its inheritances. As an ancient palace rose from beneath the collapsing city, Xu Cangyuan planned to use Xu Youming to kill Xu Canghai, while Ye Qiubai’s past acquisitions made him a potential target for Xuanyuan Tianzhao.

• Ancient Immortal Qi spread across the Cangxuan Continent, revealing that the Chaos Divine Dynasty’s core grounds had opened and drawing cultivators toward Tianqi City.
• Xu Youming led Xu Cangyuan, Xu Yeming in the identity of Xu Luo, and Xu Chen toward the core grounds, while assigning other Xu Clan members to guard the perimeter.
• Xu Cangyuan learned that the core grounds were in Tianqi City and privately planned to use Xu Youming to kill Xu Canghai there.
• Xuanyuan Che told Xuanyuan Tianzhao that Ye Qiubai had obtained all the Azure Cloud Sword Master inheritances found outside the core grounds, prompting Tianzhao to focus on claiming the final inheritance.
• The Seven Treasures Holy Sect’s sect master instructed Ji Yang and an elder to help Ye Qiubai and his companions, even at the cost of their own opportunities.
• Tianqi City shook at sunrise as its ground and buildings collapsed, and an enormous ancient palace rose from beneath it.