Chapter Summaries

Li Taiqing and Nangong Wenjian fought to a draw in a swordsmanship contest, then Absolute Sword Immortal arrived at Taicang Mountain Range to challenge Han Xuanji. Han Xuanji prepared to test his refined Nine Tribulations Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation against the overconfident challenger.

• Li Taiqing and Nangong Wenjian suppressed their spiritual power and fought using only swordsmanship, breaking their swords and declaring the contest a draw.
• Ten days later, Absolute Sword Immortal arrived at Taicang Mountain Range and announced his challenge to Han Xuanji.
• Cultivators and Divine Profound Sect disciples gathered to witness the confrontation, while Yang Peng boasted that his master was the greatest sword cultivator under heaven.
• Han Xuanji sensed Absolute Sword Immortal’s presence and prepared to test his improved sword insights and refined Nine Tribulations Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation.

Han Xuanji confronted Absolute Sword Immortal, whose Heaven-Ending Slash he erased with Sword Intent Forms a World. He then unleashed the Nine Tribulations Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, and Absolute Sword Immortal burned his lifespan to meet the attack.

• Absolute Sword Immortal called for Han Xuanji, who appeared after realizing his Heaven-Shrouding Technique had kept him hidden.
• Han Xuanji challenged Absolute Sword Immortal to use his strongest sword dao, and Absolute Sword Immortal struck with Heaven-Ending Slash.
• Han Xuanji formed a world of Sword Intent and erased Absolute Sword Immortal’s colossal sword phantom with a casual gesture.
• Han Xuanji declared Absolute Sword Immortal’s sword dao unmastered and launched the Nine Tribulations Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation.
• Absolute Sword Immortal felt the pressure of the countless flying swords and burned his lifespan to strengthen himself.

Han Xuanji effortlessly killed the Absolute Sword Immortal, and five years later advanced to the Immortal Ascension Realm Second Level. The chapter leaves him facing a new threat as the Demon Race gathers above Ten Thousand Demon Ridge and moves toward human territory.

• The Absolute Sword Immortal burned his lifespan and unleashed his strongest sword attack, but Han Xuanji shattered his Sword Intent and destroyed him in both body and soul.
• Cultivators celebrated Han Xuanji’s victory, while Li Taiqing entered sudden enlightenment after sensing the sword strike’s techniques.
• Han Xuanji returned to the Azure Lotus Sword World and reflected that his strength should bring greater peace.
• News of the Absolute Sword Immortal’s death spread across the Nine Provinces as experts and devil sects stirred amid the appearance of new fortuitous opportunities.
• Five years later, Han Xuanji advanced to the Immortal Ascension Realm Second Level.
• At Ten Thousand Demon Ridge on the Great Ming border, dense Yao Qi surged as the Demon Race headed toward neighboring human territory.

Han Xuanji continued training Li Taiqing while Little White Tiger returned stronger and met his new fellow disciple. True Person Tianyu then reported the Demon Race’s invasion of Great Ming and its threat to Great Xia, leaving Han Xuanji facing the Xia Emperor’s plea to intervene.

• Han Xuanji taught Li Taiqing the Nine Tribulations Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, which Li struggled to control.
• Little White Tiger returned after absorbing the Azure Dragon Immortal Abode’s opportunity, having reached the ninth layer of the Void Return Realm.
• Little White Tiger and Li Taiqing introduced themselves as Han Xuanji’s disciple and spirit beast, then traded insults.
• True Person Tianyu told Han Xuanji that the Demon Race had devastated Great Ming and threatened Great Xia unless it showed sufficient sincerity.
• True Person Tianyu reported that dozens of Tribulation Transcendence great demons were involved, while Central Province was also in turmoil after the six devil-path sects joined the Demon Race.
• True Person Tianyu told Han Xuanji that the Xia Emperor begged him to save Great Xia.

Little White Tiger warned Han Xuanji and the others that the demons might come from another world and that the Demon Emperor drew immense power from demonic fortune. As the group prepared to answer Great Xia’s call, the story shifted to a demon camp in the devastated Great Ming, where Demon Saints discussed the human sword immortal they expected to face.

• Little White Tiger said the Demon Race’s first emperor came from another world and suspected the suddenly powerful demon army had crossed over from there.
• Han Xuanji worried that the otherworldly demons could include Immortal Ascension Realm fighters, while Little White Tiger explained that the Demon Emperor was nearly invincible in Ten Thousand Demons Kingdom.
• Li Taiqing volunteered to fight at Great Xia’s southern border, and Little White Tiger offered to battle the demons; Han Xuanji agreed that they would go when the Xia Emperor’s invitation came.
• Han Xuanji sensed powerful cultivators gathering in Great Xia and turned his thoughts toward the war-torn lands of Great Ming.
• In a demon camp amid Great Ming’s devastation, a Demon Saint praised the taste of a human Tribulation Transcendence cultivator’s blood and wondered about the sword immortal’s taste.
• The Phantom Mist Demon Saint mocked the idea that the sword immortal could strike his shifting, formless body.

Han Xuanji left the Azure Lotus Sword World and arrived at Great Xia’s imperial capital, where the emperor and countless people welcomed him as the Sword Immortal. As the city bowed to him, an unexplained ripple appeared in the nearby void.

• The Demon Race’s strategist warned the Phantom Mist Demon Saint and the one-horned man not to underestimate Han Xuanji, but the Phantom Mist Demon Saint decided to go see him.
• Han Xuanji obtained ten bottles of Immortal Ascension Pills through signing in, then set out for Great Xia’s imperial capital with Little White Tiger.
• Han Xuanji used the Nine Steps of the Great Void to cross a vast distance and arrive near the imperial capital.
• Ji Chengtian and Great Xia’s ministers, guards, cultivators, and citizens bowed and welcomed Han Xuanji at the White Jade Immortal Platform.
• An almost imperceptible ripple suddenly appeared in the void near Han Xuanji.

Han Xuanji foiled the Phantom Mist Demon Saint’s ambush and tracked him across a million miles. He killed the demon saint and then destroyed the Demon Race’s encampment, leaving no life within a hundred miles.

• The Phantom Mist Demon Saint attacked Han Xuanji with the Formless God-Slaying Thorn, but Han Xuanji sensed it and broke it with a flick of his finger.
• Han Xuanji found the Phantom Mist Demon Saint hiding in the crowd and trapped his scattered smoke within a world of sword intent.
• Han Xuanji’s sword light killed the Phantom Mist Demon Saint’s clone, and the demon saint’s main body felt its death from a million miles away.
• Han Xuanji sent a sword light across a million miles and destroyed the Phantom Mist Demon Saint’s body and soul.
• Han Xuanji sent nine more flying swords to destroy the Demon Race’s encampment, killing everything within a hundred miles.

Han Xuanji destroyed the Demon Race’s invasion force and saved Great Ming, earning the reverence of the people in Great Xia’s imperial capital. After receiving Human Dao Fortune for signing in at the White Jade Immortal Platform, he wondered whether he might be the greatest tribulation of all.

• A boy in a refugee camp saw sword light disperse the Yao Qi and shouted that an immortal had come to save them.
• Han Xuanji’s attack annihilated the Demon Race’s vanguard camp, killing the Demon Master, the Golden Armor Demon Saint, the Phantom Mist Demon Saint, and countless troops.
• People in the imperial capital cheered for Han Xuanji, while cultivators recognized that he had killed an Immortal Ascension Realm demon with ease.
• The Xia Emperor thanked Han Xuanji and considered building an immortal shrine in his honor.
• Han Xuanji signed in at the White Jade Immortal Platform and received Human Dao Fortune, which could avert misfortune and weaken his heavenly tribulations.
• Han Xuanji wondered if he was the greatest tribulation, then dismissed the thought.

Han Xuanji revealed that he had routed the Demon Race vanguard, prompting Great Xia to organize a counteroffensive while the Ten Thousand Demons Kingdom called on a powerful envoy to retaliate. He stayed in Great Xia to build his strength, gaining several valuable rewards through signing in.

• Han Xuanji admitted that he had destroyed the Demon Race vanguard, and Great Xia’s gathered experts agreed to clear demons from Great Ming and incorporate it into Great Xia.
• Li Taiqing asked Han Xuanji whether he had any rivals, and Han Xuanji warned that powerful experts remained hidden in the world.
• The Demon Emperor learned that Phantom Mist and Golden Armor had died, and Demon Envoy Tianman was assigned to deal with the Devil-Slaying Sword Immortal.
• After the Demon Race army broke apart, Great Xia’s forces swept south as the Devil-Slaying Sword Immortal’s name spread across the continent.
• Han Xuanji stayed in Great Xia and signed in at imperial sites, obtaining an Immortal Artifact, a Divine Ability, a Cultivation Method, and Immortal Ascension Pills over the following month.

Han Xuanji signed in at Great Xia’s dragon vein and gained an Immortal Artifact that could aid his cultivation and protect him with dragon Qi. At the Ten Thousand Demon Ridge, Li Taiqing and Nangong Wenjian sensed the Demon Race’s growing strength before a terrifying great demon appeared.

• Han Xuanji received the Nine Luminaries Star Bow while signing in at locations across the Great Xia imperial palace.
• An imperial elder led Han Xuanji into the underground palace and showed him the heart of Great Xia’s dragon vein.
• Han Xuanji signed in at the dragon vein and obtained the Black and Yellow True Dragon Jade Disc, which could draw on a dynasty’s fortune to assist cultivation and defense.
• At the Great Ming border, Li Taiqing and Nangong Wenjian surveyed the Ten Thousand Demon Ridge and sensed the Demon Race gathering strength.
• A colossal red-armored great demon revealed its form in the Ten Thousand Demon Ridge and roared, shaking the mountains.

The Heavenly Savage Demon Sage led the Demon Race invasion into Eastern Cang Province, overwhelming Arhat Wuzhu when he stood against it. As the demon prepared to strike again, Li Taiqing drew his treasured sword and called for it to slay the demon.

• The Heavenly Savage Demon Sage advanced with the Demon Race army while concealed Immortal Ascension Realm demons discussed testing the human sword immortal.
• Li Taiqing and Lu Fan fled from the demon army, but a Body Integration Realm bird demon pursued them.
• Arhat Wuzhu rescued Li Taiqing and Lu Fan and confronted the Heavenly Savage Demon Sage.
• The Heavenly Savage Demon Sage battered Arhat Wuzhu’s Acala Dharma Manifestation and sent the monk crashing through the trees.
• Arhat Wuzhu urged Li Taiqing and Lu Fan to seek help from the immortals of Central Province as the Heavenly Savage Demon Sage prepared to attack again.
• Li Taiqing drew his treasured sword and called upon it to slay the demon, and Lu Fan reacted with sudden hope.

Li Taiqing activated the killing move Han Xuanji had sealed in his sword, severely wounding the powerful Heavenly Savage Demon Sage but failing to kill him. Han Xuanji sensed the danger to Li Taiqing and Lu Fan, then began drawing a radiant longbow above the Great Xia imperial palace.

• Li Taiqing recited Han Xuanji’s mnemonic and unleashed the sword’s sealed killing move against the Heavenly Savage Demon Sage.
• The azure sword light pierced the demon sage’s body, leaving him gravely wounded as Arhat Wuzhu and the hidden demons sensed its power.
• Ji Chengtian ordered Great Xia’s forces to retreat after receiving word of the Demon Race’s attack and its powerful Immortal Ascension leaders.
• Han Xuanji used his Void-Penetrating Divine Eye to see Li Taiqing and Lu Fan in danger, and realized the demon sage had survived his sword strike.
• Han Xuanji appeared above the imperial palace and drew a radiant longbow, gathering spiritual energy and starlight into an invisible arrow.

Han Xuanji fired a divine arrow from Great Xia at Ten Thousand Demon Ridge, where the Demon Sages were still tending to the wounded Savage Heaven Demon Sage. The demons’ barrier failed against the arrow, and it devastated their forces, leaving an Immortal Ascension demon in disbelief.

• Li Taiqing, Lu Fan, and Arhat Wuzhu prepared to flee as three more Demon Sages gathered around the wounded Savage Heaven Demon Sage.
• Han Xuanji used the Nine Luminaries Star Bow to fire an arrow toward Ten Thousand Demon Ridge, judging that its range and power could kill an ordinary Immortal Ascension Realm enemy.
• Three Demon Sages sensed the incoming arrow and joined the Demon Race forces in raising a vast Yao Qi barrier.
• Han Xuanji fired a second arrow, which joined the first and formed a stronger strike that shattered the barrier.
• The divine arrow swept through the Demon Race forces, killing countless demons and leaving an Immortal Ascension demon stunned by the attack.

Han Xuanji annihilated the Demon Race army and its Immortal Ascension Realm Demon Sages with attacks launched from afar, ending the immediate threat to Great Xia. Survivors and witnesses realized the scale of his power, while Great Xia's leaders wondered whether he had reached the realm of a True Immortal.

• Han Xuanji's divine light killed three Immortal Ascension Realm Demon Sages and destroyed much of the Demon Race army, while an arrow struck down Savage Heaven Demon Sage.
• Arhat Wuzhu, Li Taiqing, and Lu Fan sensed the distant destruction, and Li Taiqing and Lu Fan recognized that Han Xuanji had saved them.
• Arhat Wuzhu confirmed that the Demon Race's strongest fighters had been killed and thanked Han Xuanji for intervening.
• The surviving demons fled Ten Thousand Demon Ridge toward Ten Thousand Demons Province.
• In Great Xia's council hall, the Xia Emperor and gathered leaders received news that the Demon Race army and four Immortal Ascension Realm Demon Sages had been wiped out.
• Great Xia's leaders connected the attack to Han Xuanji and speculated that he might be a legendary True Immortal.

After signing in at the Great Xia Altar of Land and Grain, Han Xuanji obtained a Nirvana Fruit that strengthened his foundation and helped him advance to the Immortal Ascension Third Layer. He decided to travel to Great Ming to seek more places to sign in, while news of the Demon Race’s defeat stirred the Ten Thousand Demons Kingdom.

• Han Xuanji signed in at the Great Xia Altar of Land and Grain and received a Nirvana Fruit that could strengthen his foundation and accelerate his immortal-physique transformation.
• Han Xuanji went to the dragon vein and swallowed the fruit, suppressing the phenomenon it caused so people in the imperial capital would not see it.
• The Nirvana Fruit transformed Han Xuanji’s body, strengthened his foundation, and raised his cultivation to the Immortal Ascension Third Layer.
• Han Xuanji noticed that his cultivation speed had increased and realized he could no longer sign in at the altar.
• Han Xuanji decided to go to Great Ming, where he hoped to find more places to sign in.
• News from the front lines stirred the Ten Thousand Demons Kingdom.

After the Demon Race’s invasion failed, the Golden Sun Demon Sage gained permission to summon an ancestral artifact to kill Han Xuanji. Han Xuanji continued signing in across Great Ming, grew stronger, and obtained an immortal artifact refining inheritance that could help him forge equipment suited to himself.

• The Golden Sun Demon Sage blamed Han Xuanji’s victory on a sneak attack and persuaded the Demon Emperor to let him summon an ancestral artifact.
• The Demon Race’s invasion ended, and Great Xia prepared to unite with Great Ming as Han Xuanji traveled to Great Ming and signed in for the Ming Emperor Profound Origin Armor.
• Little White Tiger told Han Xuanji that an Immortal Ascension Realm great devil had broken free in Central Province, but Han Xuanji left the matter to its powerful immortal sects.
• Over four years, Han Xuanji signed in at Great Ming’s powers, gained five Low-Grade Immortal Artifacts, and advanced to the Immortal Ascension Fourth Layer.
• At the Divine Sword Sect’s Ten Thousand Swords Pool, Han Xuanji obtained an Immortal Artifact Refining Master’s Inheritance and chose to accept it.

Han Xuanji used the Nine Revolutions Heavenly Craft Instruction and the rare immortal materials he had collected to forge a lifebound Immortal Artifact in the Ten Thousand Swords Pool. He completed a snow-white immortal sword that acknowledged him as its master, as dark clouds and thunder signaled the heavens’ response.

• Han Xuanji absorbed the Nine Revolutions Heavenly Craft Instruction and realized he could use his accumulated immortal materials to forge an Immortal Artifact himself.
• Han Xuanji chose the Ten Thousand Swords Pool as his furnace and spent a month preparing it, melting its swords and fusing immortal metals, Immortal Artifacts, and Law Artifacts within it.
• Han Xuanji began refining the artifact, using the pool’s Sword Intent and earth-vein fire while imprinting his Immortal Dao Principles into the sword embryo.
• After seven days and nights, Han Xuanji completed the sword and infused it with his Essence Blood, causing it to acknowledge him as its master.
• Dark clouds covered the sky and thunder sounded as the immortal sword was born.

Han Xuanji forged a powerful immortal sword, named it Mystic Heaven, and tested its strength. Meanwhile, the Blood Spirit Devil Lord repelled Kunlun Immortal Sect forces at the Sunken Devil Abyss, and Yu Huatian urged him to seek blood in Eastern Cang Province.

• Han Xuanji endured the lightning tribulation and forged a high-grade immortal sword from the Ten Thousand Swords Pool.
• Han Xuanji named the sword Mystic Heaven and found that its power rivaled the Azure Lotus Dao Sword.
• Ancestor Ziyang and the Kunlun Immortal Sect experts attacked the Blood Spirit Devil Lord with the Heavenly Light Golden Seal, but failed to harm him and retreated.
• Yu Huatian praised the Blood Spirit Devil Lord and proposed that he go to Eastern Cang Province to kill its lone Immortal Ascension expert and absorb the population's blood.
• The Blood Spirit Devil Lord considered Yu Huatian's plan as a way to restore and increase his strength.

Yu Huatian persuaded the Blood Spirit Devil Lord to target the Devil-Slaying Sword Venerable, while Han Xuanji remained unaware and continued cultivating. At White Cloud City, Li Taiqing defended his master’s standing to Xie Yunliu before a sudden quake shook the city.

• Yu Huatian proposed that the Blood Spirit Devil Lord kill the Devil-Slaying Sword Venerable so the Heavenly Evil Sect could pursue revenge without interference from Central Province.
• The Blood Spirit Devil Lord agreed that sacrificing Eastern Cang Province’s living beings was worthwhile and believed he could easily kill a newly ascended Immortal Ascension expert.
• Han Xuanji continued cultivating after refining the Mystic Heaven Sword, sensing that the Demon Race might be planning something.
• At White Cloud City, Li Taiqing, Lu Fan, Nangong Wenjian, and Lin Potian discussed the Sword Discussion Platform at the Moon-Gathering Pavilion.
• Xie Yunliu challenged Li Taiqing’s confidence in Han Xuanji and praised the power of the Kunlun Immortal Sect, while Li Taiqing calmly defended his master.
• A tremendous rumble shook White Cloud City, rattling the Moon-Gathering Pavilion as guests cried out and pointed outside.

The Blood Spirit Devil Lord destroyed White Cloud City's protective formation and began slaughtering its residents, trapping Lu Fan, Li Taiqing, and Xie Liuyun in the spreading blood mist. As Xie Liuyun tried to lead them to safety, Yu Huatian set out to capture them, with orders to keep the Kunlun disciple alive.

• The Blood Spirit Devil Lord covered White Cloud City in blood mist and shattered its city-protecting formation, killing weaker cultivators.
• Xie Liuyun identified the attacker as the Blood Spirit Devil Lord, explained his terrifying history, and shielded the group with his ancient jade.
• Xie Liuyun hoped his master Ancestor Ziyang would rescue them, while Li Taiqing said he would call on Han Xuanji and insisted his master was stronger.
• The Blood Spirit Devil Lord formed a Blood Qi spear and targeted the group, forcing Xie Liuyun to lead them through the blood mist.
• Yu Huatian offered to capture the group, and the Blood Spirit Devil Lord ordered him to leave the Kunlun disciple alive.