Chapter Summaries

Han Xuanji signed in at the Pill Saint Sect and sensed the battle in White Cloud City, where the Blood Spirit Devil Lord overwhelmed Ancestor Ziyang. As Yu Huatian taunted Li Taiqing and the others, Han Xuanji appeared behind him and seized him.

• Han Xuanji obtained the Immortal Alchemy Master's Inheritance at the Pill Saint Sect and sensed powerful experts battling near White Cloud City.
• The Blood Spirit Devil Lord dispersed Ancestor Ziyang's attack, then defeated him and damaged his golden seal with a blood-colored spear.
• Xie Liuyun realized Ancestor Ziyang was losing, while Li Taiqing and the others hoped Han Xuanji would arrive.
• Yu Huatian taunted the group and asked whether the Devil-Slaying Sword Venerable would dare come.
• Han Xuanji appeared behind Yu Huatian, seized him, and said he was hard to kill.

Han Xuanji arrived as the Blood Spirit Devil Lord threatened the group and killed Yu Huatian with a casual pat. He then destroyed the Devil Lord’s lifebound spear and slew him with the Mystic Heaven Sword, leaving everyone stunned.

• Han Xuanji appeared before Li Taiqing, Lu Fan, Lin Potian, and the others as Yu Huatian begged the Blood Spirit Devil Lord to save him.
• Han Xuanji destroyed Yu Huatian’s body and spirit with a touch, ensuring he could not escape again.
• The Blood Spirit Devil Lord attacked Han Xuanji with his crimson spear, but the Mystic Heaven Sword shattered its illusory spears and severed its true form.
• Han Xuanji unleashed the Mystic Heaven Sword’s full strike, overcoming the Devil Lord’s forbidden arts and killing him.
• Li Taiqing and the others stared in shock at the Devil Lord’s sudden defeat.

After Han Xuanji killed the Blood Spirit Devil Lord, Ancestor Ziyang invited him and his companions to visit the Kunlun Immortal Sect. They arrived at the sect’s magnificent mountain range, where Ziyang said the sect master had been informed and they would be welcomed.

• Han Xuanji’s Mystic Heaven Sword dispelled the devil clouds after killing the Blood Spirit Devil Lord, and Xie Liuyun praised Han’s strength.
• Ancestor Ziyang thanked Han Xuanji for saving him, while Xie Liuyun apologized and expressed his gratitude for being rescued.
• Xie Liuyun invited Han Xuanji to Kunlun, and Han accepted, hoping to sign in at the renowned sect; Li Taiqing, Nangong Wenjian, and Lu Fan joined them.
• Ancestor Ziyang formed a flying boat and carried the group to the Kunlun Immortal Sect’s territory.
• The group admired the Kunlun Mountain Range and its grand palaces as Ancestor Ziyang announced that the mountain gate was near and the sect master had been informed.

Han Xuanji received an elaborate welcome at the Kunlun Immortal Sect and checked in at its mountain gate, earning the Double Pupils trait. As he asked why Kunlun had not stopped Blood Spirit Devil Lord, True Person Lingyun revealed that the Kunlun mountains were an enormous cage and that Central Province once had five great holy lands.

• True Person Lingyun and hundreds of Kunlun disciples welcomed Han Xuanji as the Devil-Slaying Sword Immortal, honoring him for killing Blood Spirit Devil Lord.
• Han Xuanji checked in at Kunlun's mountain gate and obtained the Double Pupils trait, which could perceive the Principles and trajectories of fate.
• True Person Lingyun thanked Han Xuanji while Li Taiqing and the others were taken away by Xie Liuyun, with Little White Tiger tagging along.
• Han Xuanji asked why Kunlun's many powerful experts had not dealt with Blood Spirit Devil Lord, and True Person Lingyun explained that the Kunlun mountains were an enormous cage.
• True Person Lingyun said that Central Province once had five great holy lands, leaving Han Xuanji to consider what the lost fifth might have been.

Daoist Lingyun and Ancestor Ziyang explained that the holy lands existed to guard ancient devil abysses, and Han Xuanji learned how the Blood Spirit Devil Lord had escaped from the Sunken Devil Abyss. Han Xuanji declined Lingyun’s invitation to join Kunlun but agreed to help if it faced trouble and accepted an alliance between Kunlun and the Divine Profound Sect.

• Daoist Lingyun told Han Xuanji that the Primordial Ultimate Heavenly Sect had been destroyed when its ancient devil abyss went out of control, and that the holy lands were founded to guard the five abysses.
• Daoist Lingyun and Ancestor Ziyang explained that the Blood Spirit Devil Lord had escaped into the Sunken Devil Abyss and later attacked its guard to break free.
• Han Xuanji expressed respect for the holy lands’ sacrifices and apologized for having misunderstood their role.
• Daoist Lingyun invited Han Xuanji to join Kunlun, but Han Xuanji declined while offering to help if Kunlun needed him.
• Daoist Lingyun proposed an eternal alliance and exchanges between Kunlun and the Divine Profound Sect, and Han Xuanji agreed.

Han Xuanji fused with the Double Pupils while staying at the Kunlun Immortal Sect, and Xuanweizi learned that Kunlun would establish friendly relations with the Divine Profound Sect. Han Xuanji then entered Kunlun’s Immortal Medicine Garden, where its keeper Feng Xianzi welcomed him and offered him the garden’s treasures.

• Han Xuanji claimed the Double Pupils reward and gained extraordinary insight, vision, and two powerful eye techniques.
• Xuanweizi received Han Xuanji’s message that the Kunlun Immortal Sect would establish friendly relations with the Divine Profound Sect and celebrated the news.
• Han Xuanji visited Kunlun’s Immortal Medicine Garden, where he found rare Spirit Roots and met its Immortal Ascension Realm Third Layer keeper, Feng Xianzi.
• Feng Xianzi greeted Han Xuanji as an equal and invited him to take whatever he wanted from the medicine garden.

Han Xuanji visited the Kunlun Immortal Medicine Garden with Feng Xianzi and received a Nine-Thousand-Year Peach of Immortality from his system. He asked to cultivate beneath the Peach of Immortality tree, and Feng Xianzi welcomed him to stay.

• Feng Xianzi guided Han Xuanji through the garden and showed him its rare spirit plants.
• Han Xuanji recognized the Peach of Immortality tree, and his system awarded him a Nine-Thousand-Year Peach of Immortality for signing in at the garden.
• Feng Xianzi offered Han Xuanji one of the tree's peaches, but Han Xuanji declined and asked to spend time cultivating beneath the tree.
• Feng Xianzi agreed that Han Xuanji could stay in the garden as long as he wished.
• Han Xuanji sat beneath the tree to cultivate while planning to sign in there each day.

After three years of cultivating in Kunlun’s herb garden, Han Xuanji reached a bottleneck and prepared to leave, then used a nine-thousand-year flat peach to pursue a breakthrough. Its vitality surged through him and rapidly raised his cultivation.

• Across three years, Han Xuanji watched Li Taiqing, Xie Liuyun, and Lu Fan travel Central Province to fight demons and devils.
• Han Xuanji checked in at the Kunlun herb garden and received nine thousand-year flat peaches, while the System warned that the Dao resonance there had declined.
• Feng Xianzi brought Han Xuanji wine, and the two shared a drink and reflected on their three years together.
• Han Xuanji told Feng Xianzi he had reached a bottleneck and would leave the herb garden.
• Han Xuanji reviewed the treasures he had accumulated and took out his three nine-thousand-year flat peaches to aid his breakthrough.
• Han Xuanji ate a small bite of a flat peach, causing his immortal essence and cultivation to surge.

Han Xuanji advanced to the fifth level of the Immortal Ascension Realm and awakened his Primordial Human Bloodline after eating a nine-thousand-year-old flat peach. Meanwhile, Li Taiqing and his companions defeated the Heaven-Devouring Devil Cultivation Method's inheritor, who warned that the Heaven-Devouring Holy Sect would soon arrive.

• Han Xuanji stabilized his breakthrough to the fifth level of the Immortal Ascension Realm and ate another nine-thousand-year-old flat peach.
• The flat peach activated the primordial origin hidden in Han Xuanji's bloodline, strengthening his body and potential and improving his sensitivity to the Great Dao.
• Li Taiqing, Lu Fan, Nangong Wenjian, Lin Potian, and Xie Liuyun battled the Heaven-Devouring Devil Cultivation Method's inheritor in an ancient domain in Eastern Cang Province.
• Xie Liuyun used an ancient talisman to suppress the inheritor's devil Qi, and Li Taiqing struck him with the Nine Tribulations Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation.
• As he died, the inheritor warned that the people of his Heaven-Devouring Holy Sect would soon arrive.

After the Devil Cultivation Method inheritor revealed a possible connection to the Heaven-Devouring Holy Sect, the group learned that the distant devil sect ruled a continent and might threaten the Nine Provinces. Han Xuanji received Li Taiqing’s warning while signing in at Kunlun’s scripture repository, and an extraordinary figure arrived at the Divine Profound Sect.

• Lu Fan burned the Devil Cultivation Method inheritor’s corpse after the battle ended.
• Lin Potian and Xie Liuyun identified the Heaven-Devouring Holy Sect as a powerful devil sect ruling a distant continent, and Li Taiqing agreed to warn his master and the sect’s ancestors.
• Han Xuanji signed in at the Kunlun Scripture Repository and obtained the Kunlun Dao Scripture, which he judged inferior to his main cultivation method.
• Li Taiqing sent Han Xuanji information about the Heaven-Swallowing Devil Sect’s cruel system of extracting cultivation and lifespan from its followers.
• An extraordinary figure flew to the Divine Profound Sect and drew the attention of those there.

Venerable Daoyin returned to the Divine Profound Sect as a follower of the Heaven-Devouring Holy Sect and demanded that the sect submit. Xuanweizi and True Person Tianyu refused, and just as Daoyin prepared to attack, an unseen expert stopped his technique and appeared outside the hall.

• Venerable Daoyin returned to the sect and revealed that he had joined the Heaven-Devouring Holy Sect and gained a powerful Immortal Method.
• Daoyin urged the Divine Profound Sect to submit and serve as the Holy Sect's vanguard, threatening the sect if it refused.
• Xuanweizi and True Person Tianyu rejected Daoyin's offer, condemning the Holy Sect and calling Daoyin a traitor.
• Daoyin unleashed his demonic pressure and formed a devouring vortex to attack True Person Tianyu.
• An unseen expert neutralized Daoyin's attack, and a powerful figure appeared outside the hall.

Han Xuanji killed Venerable Daoyin and learned that the Heaven-Swallowing Devil Sect had sent four Immortal Ascension experts to the East Sea Archipelago, with more to come. The Divine Profound Sect chose to stand with Han Xuanji, while the sect's leaders debated how to deal with him and the Nine Provinces.

• Han Xuanji killed Venerable Daoyin, searched his soul, and revealed the Heaven-Swallowing Devil Sect's growing presence in the East Sea Archipelago.
• Han Xuanji told the Divine Profound Sect's people they could leave, and Xuanweizi and the Peak Masters chose to stay and resist with him.
• Holy Venerable Jiehai warned three fellow Immortal Ascension experts that they should not underestimate the Nine Provinces or the four great holy lands.
• A messenger reported Venerable Daoyin's death and identified the Devil-Slaying Sword Immortal as the likely culprit.
• Heartless Holy Venerable offered to destroy the Divine Profound Sect with one strike and intimidate the Nine Provinces into submission, leaving Holy Venerable Jiehai to consider the proposal.

The Heartless Holy Venerable set out to destroy the Divine Profound Sect with his Six Extinctions Sword Twenty-Three, while Xuanweizi chose to stay and trust Han Xuanji. The chapter ended as the sword descended on the sect and its disciples faced its overwhelming power.

• The Heartless Holy Venerable volunteered to attack the Nine Provinces, and Holy Venerable Jiehai approved his first strike.
• Xuanweizi and the Divine Profound Sect's elders debated whether to flee as the Heaven-Swallowing Devil Sect approached.
• Xuanweizi declared that he would stay, betting that Han Xuanji was strong enough to protect the sect.
• The Heartless Holy Venerable announced his intent to annihilate the Divine Profound Sect and unleashed Six Extinctions Sword Twenty-Three.
• The Divine Profound Sect's disciples and elders were overwhelmed by the sword's Sword Intent, while Holy Venerable Jiehai acknowledged its power.

Han Xuanji killed the Heartless Holy Venerable with a single flying sword, advancing his Sword Dao and ending the Heaven-Swallowing Devil Sect’s first assault. The sect began preparing for a larger invasion as stronger enemies arrived overseas, while the Nine Provinces’ factions discussed joining the defense.

• The Heartless Holy Venerable attacked the Divine Profound Sect, but Han Xuanji killed him instantly with a flying sword, destroying his body and soul.
• Han Xuanji sensed that the battle had strengthened his Sword Intent and brought him closer to the Myriad Phenomena Realm.
• Members and allies of the Divine Profound Sect fled, and Xuanweizi recorded the factions that abandoned them.
• Xie Liuyun urged Li Taiqing and the others to return to Kunlun, but Lu Fan argued that the Nine Provinces should face the invasion together.
• Li Taiqing, Xie Liuyun, and others called for the regions and major factions to help resist the Heaven-Swallowing Devil Sect.
• Over the following months, Han Xuanji continued cultivating as stronger Heaven-Swallowing Devil Sect forces arrived and waited overseas.

The immortal alliance gathered on the East Sea and discovered the Heaven-Swallowing Devil Sect’s forces were far stronger than expected. As the sect’s massive fortress arrived, Han Xuanji unleashed a vast river of Sword Qi toward it, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Ancestor Ziyang and Arhat Wuzhu assessed the devil clouds and concluded that the Heaven-Swallowing Devil Sect had several Immortal Ascension experts, including a presence at Late-Stage Immortal Ascension.
• A gigantic floating fortress carrying the Heaven-Swallowing Devil Sect’s army appeared across the sea, terrifying the immortal alliance’s gathered cultivators.
• Holy Venerable Jiehai welcomed Vice Sect Master Holy Venerable Tianming and said their arrival reassured him.
• Han Xuanji sent a thousand-mile river of Sword Qi crashing toward the Heaven-Swallowing Devil Sect’s fortress, shocking Holy Venerable Tianming with its power.

Han Xuanji’s sword shattered Holy Venerable Tianming’s seal, destroyed Divine Prison Holy Venerable’s devil prison, and devastated the Heaven-Swallowing Devil Sect’s fortress. The two holy venerables rallied their survivors and tried to recruit Han Xuanji, who remained wary of the Heaven-Devouring Patriarch’s cultivation method.

• Divine Prison Holy Venerable summoned the Ten Thousand Souls Devil Prison while Holy Venerable Tianming used the Heavenly Mandate Divine Seal to meet Han Xuanji’s Sword Qi.
• Han Xuanji’s Sword Qi shattered the divine seal, dissolved the devil prison, and struck the fortress, killing tens of thousands of Devil Cultivators and wounding the survivors.
• Han Xuanji appeared on the shore with the Mystic Heaven Sword and watched the surviving Devil Cultivators form the Heaven-Swallowing Great Formation.
• Holy Venerable Tianming offered Han Xuanji power and easy immortality if he joined the Heaven-Devouring Holy Sect, but Han Xuanji scoffed at the offer and suspected the cultivation method had hidden dangers.

Han Xuanji revealed that Holy Venerable Tianming and Divine Prison Holy Venerable were Heaven-Devouring Patriarch’s clones, then erased them with his Double Pupils and killed tens of thousands of Devil Sect disciples. He traced the Heaven-Devouring Patriarch to Linyuan Continent, where the patriarch recognized Han Xuanji as a potential tribulation and resolved to prepare.

• Ancestor Ziyang and Arhat Wuzhu condemned the Heaven-Swallowing Great Formation for consuming cultivators’ life force and foundations.
• Han Xuanji exposed Holy Venerable Tianming and Divine Prison Holy Venerable as Heaven-Devouring Patriarch’s clones, prompting them to attack him with the Heaven-Swallowing Devil Palm.
• Han Xuanji unleashed the destructive power of his Double Pupils and erased the two Holy Venerables and their floating fortress.
• Han Xuanji slew tens of thousands of Heaven-Swallowing Devil Sect disciples with a sword strike, then followed the sect’s karmic threads to the Heaven-Devouring Patriarch.
• On Linyuan Continent, the Heaven-Devouring Patriarch learned that his clones had been destroyed and decided to prepare to face Han Xuanji.

Han Xuanji destroyed the Heaven-Swallowing Devil Sect’s invading forces, earning widespread praise and strengthening his Human Dao Fortune. In Linyuan Continent, Li Wentian learned that the sect’s strongest fighters had fallen and sought the Heaven-Devouring Patriarch’s help, only to be told that he would need to assist his master.

• Han Xuanji let the surviving Heaven-Swallowing Devil Sect cultivators flee while the Nine Provinces’ great cultivators praised his strength and organized a hunt for the remaining remnants.
• Lu Fan, Xie Liuyun, and Li Taiqing discussed Han Xuanji’s power and wondered whether Li Taiqing could ever help his master.
• Witnesses and major powers across the Nine Provinces spread accounts of Han Xuanji’s victory, and Han Xuanji felt his Human Dao Fortune grow stronger.
• Li Wentian learned that Holy Venerable Tianming and the Divine Prison Holy Venerable had died, then went to the Devil Palace to seek the Heaven-Devouring Patriarch’s guidance.
• The Heaven-Devouring Patriarch explained that his tribulation-evasion technique restricted his actions and told Li Wentian that he would need his disciple’s help.

Han Xuanji reached the Linyuan Continent and witnessed the Heaven-Swallowing Devil Sect draining cultivators and exploiting them under the Heaven-Devouring Patriarch’s rule. He freed a dying man from his collar and then approached the sect’s prosperous Holy City.

• Han Xuanji used his memories and a tracked Qi signature to travel across the sea to the Linyuan Continent in search of the Heaven-Devouring Patriarch.
• In Black Stone City, two law-enforcement disciples dragged a depleted cultivator away to be used for the Devil Blood Pool.
• Han Xuanji immobilized the disciples, shattered the cultivator’s iron collar, and used his power to preserve the man’s remaining vitality.
• Han Xuanji told the rescued cultivator to find somewhere safe and said that everything would soon be over.
• Han Xuanji looked upon Heaven-Swallowing Holy City, where powerful Devil Sect disciples gathered amid the wealth taken from the weak.

Han Xuanji infiltrated the Heaven-Swallowing Holy City and learned that the sect was preparing to fill vacant venerable positions after its forces fell in the Nine Provinces. He spotted Sect Master Li Wentian, whose extraordinary fortune concealed his role as the Heaven-Devouring Patriarch’s cultivation vessel.

• Han Xuanji disguised himself as Venerable Daoyin and entered the Heaven-Swallowing Holy City, where he sensed that several Immortal Ascension experts remained.
• A man in white told Han Xuanji and a woman in red that the sect was holding a competition for venerable positions and that successful candidates could gain access to its core Secret Method.
• The man in white explained that Holy Venerable Tianming and other sect experts had died in the Nine Provinces, while the Heaven-Devouring Patriarch had awakened after the losses.
• Han Xuanji silently considered how to destroy the sect as disciples speculated about the patriarch’s power and the newly vacant positions.
• Sect Master Li Wentian appeared, and Han Xuanji recognized his Fortune Equal to Heaven fate and realized the patriarch was raising him as a cultivation vessel.