Chapter Summaries

Yang Zhen effortlessly overwhelmed Dong Tianming, then conceded before Tu Mieyang stopped Dong Tianming from attacking again. Tu Mieyang challenged Yang Zhen over Zhou Tong, and Yang Zhen claimed he had revised the Heavenly Severance Dragon Elephant Sword to help Zhou Tong defeat him.

• Yang Zhen battered Dong Tianming, then declared his own loss and leaped away; Dong Tianming crashed into a stone pillar.
• Dong Tianming charged Yang Zhen again, but Tu Mieyang pulled him back and told him he was no match for Yang Zhen.
• Tu Mieyang warned Yang Zhen that the Three Palaces would not tolerate his claim to become Zhou Tong’s master, then challenged Zhou Tong over Yang Zhen’s boast that he could teach him to win.
• Yang Zhen said he had made major changes to the Heavenly Severance Dragon Elephant Sword and jokingly renamed it Heavenly Severance Dragon Elephant Sword Version 1.0.

Yang Zhen passed Zhou Tong an altered version of the Heavenly Severance Dragon Elephant Sword while the gathered experts doubted his claim. Zhou Tong unleashed a terrifying dragon-elephant manifestation, and Yang Zhen judged the result barely passable.

• Tu Mieyang and the Azure Lotus Sect master mocked Yang Zhen's claim that he had altered the Heavenly Severance Dragon Elephant Sword.
• Zhou Tong threatened Tu Mieyang after he ridiculed Yang Zhen, and Yang Zhen stepped in to pass Zhou Tong the technique.
• Zhou Tong focused on Yang Zhen's transmission as the training ground watched in silence.
• Zhou Tong opened his eyes with dragon-elephant Qi flickering in them, and strange phenomena appeared above the training ground.
• Yang Zhen withdrew his hand as Zhou Tong leaped into the air and released a violent presence, taking the form of a terrifying giant elephant.
• Yang Zhen called the result barely passable, leaving Tu Mieyang and the others trembling.

Zhou Tong unleashed the Heavenly Severance Dragon Elephant Sword Version 1.0, which Yang Zhen had modified, and challenged Tu Mieyang to fight. Their battle devastated the training grounds as the Six Sects’ disciples and elders fled, while Yang Zhen watched from safety.

• Zhou Tong reappeared with the enhanced sword technique and taunted Tu Mieyang, who asked whether it was truly the Heavenly Severance Dragon Elephant Sword.
• Zhou Tong confirmed it was Version 1.0, then charged at Tu Mieyang before he could respond.
• Tu Mieyang fought back, and the Azure Lotus Sect master and other experts joined forces to contain the battle’s destructive power.
• Yang Zhen and the disciples escaped the training grounds as the fighters shattered space and exchanged blows.
• Zhou Tong drove Tu Mieyang into the ground with the sword technique, and the onlookers stared at Yang Zhen in amazement.

Yang Zhen’s risky modifications to Zhou Tong’s sword technique succeeded, settling the Six Sects’ leadership dispute and leaving Zhou Tong stronger than the Azure Lotus Sect master. As the group prepared to travel to the Great Wilderness Emperor Road, Yang Zhen learned the Three Palaces might challenge him and asked whether he could take their leader’s position.

• Tu Mieyang and the others backed down from fighting Zhou Tong after his modified Heavenly Severance Dragon Elephant Sword proved overwhelmingly powerful.
• Yang Zhen admitted the sword technique had had less than a ten percent chance of success and revealed Zhou Tong would have died if the experiment had failed.
• Yang Zhen declined to modify the others’ cultivation methods, while Zhou Tong and Tu Mieyang resumed their argument.
• The Six Sects’ leadership matter was settled, and the group set a departure date for the Great Wilderness Emperor Road.
• The Purple Star Holy Maiden greeted Yang Zhen, and Dong Tianming warned him that the Three Palaces would not readily accept him.
• Yang Zhen asked whether he could seize the position of the Three Palaces’ leader.

Yang Zhen learned that the Three Palaces would likely seek trouble with him after he defeated Zhou Tong, so he decided to stir up trouble first. At the Great Wilderness Emperor Road, Three Palaces disciples planned how to deal with the arriving Six Sects and expressed interest in Yang Zhen.

• Zhou Tong told Yang Zhen that powerful Three Palaces disciples could already be Great Saints and that their people would come after him for defeating Zhou Tong.
• Yang Zhen decided he would reluctantly stir up trouble before the Three Palaces could cause trouble for him.
• Three Palaces disciples gathered at the entrance to the Land of Sacrifice and Desolation as the Great Wilderness Emperor Road neared opening.
• Yan Zixu discussed Yang Zhen’s defeat of Zhou Tong with Shi Feifei and the others, while Shi Feifei said she was interested in testing Yang Zhen’s talent.
• Yan Zixu proposed taking control of the Six Sects’ leader and leaving the rest behind, while Shi Feifei asked to take Yang Zhen with her.

Yang Zhen met Yan Zixu and the Three Palaces' group on the Great Wilderness Emperor Road and provoked them with his irreverent flirting and demands to lead their group. Yan Zixu became furious, while Shi Feifei offered to test Yang Zhen, and Yang challenged everyone to attack him together.

• Yan Zixu led the Three Palaces' group toward Yang Zhen and the others, and Lin Miaoyi and Dong Tianming identified Yan Zixu and Shi Feifei for Yang Zhen.
• Yang Zhen winked and puckered his lips at Shi Feifei, provoking Yan Zixu's group while making Shi Feifei giggle.
• Yang Zhen traded taunts with Yan Zixu and asked him to hand over leadership of the Three Palaces' group.
• Shi Feifei offered to test Yang Zhen, but Yang told the entire group to attack him together.
• Yan Zixu angrily asked if Yang Zhen was courting death, and Yang nodded in response.

Yang Zhen faced Yan Zixu and Shi Feifei, then imitated Yan Zixu’s dragon-like presence with his own Despicable Demon Instruction. The fight paused when Yan Zixu recognized the Qiongqi Heavenly Void surrounding Yang Zhen.

• Yang Zhen agreed to fight Yan Zixu and Shi Feifei, while Lin Miaoyi worried about him.
• Yang Zhen closed his eyes to study Yan Zixu’s presence, then provoked Yan Zixu by announcing he would conduct an experiment.
• Yan Zixu unleashed dragon-shaped attacks at Yang Zhen as Dong Tianming, the Purple Star Holy Maiden, and Lin Miaoyi rushed to intervene.
• Yang Zhen shook his hands and summoned a presence resembling Yan Zixu’s, which he called the Despicable Demon Instruction.
• Yan Zixu staggered back and identified the black shadows around Yang Zhen as the Qiongqi Heavenly Void.

Yang Zhen bewildered the crowd by producing lifelike Qiongqi Heavenly Void illusions, then fought Yan Zixu while Shi Feifei joined the battle. He used Heavenly Nether Divine Cloud Movement and Shadow Clone to fill the sky with copies that transformed into Qiongqi, and a divine soul storm began forming inside Shi Feifei’s pink dome.

• The crowd recognized the Qiongqi Heavenly Void around Yang Zhen and feared the impossible sight, while Yan Zixu asked how he had done it.
• Yan Zixu asked Shi Feifei to join him and acknowledged Yang Zhen as the best choice to lead the Six Sects, but Yang Zhen attacked with a powerful punch.
• Yan Zixu summoned a golden dragon that clashed with Yang Zhen’s punch, and the shockwaves destroyed much of the mountaintop.
• Shi Feifei created a pink dome around the battlefield as Yang Zhen filled the sky with apparent copies of himself and teased her from their midst.
• Yang Zhen’s copies turned into Qiongqi Heavenly Void as he used Heavenly Nether Divine Cloud Movement with Shadow Clone, and a divine soul storm formed inside the dome.

Yang Zhen’s divine soul storm overwhelmed Shi Feifei and Yan Zixu, leaving the crowd stunned by the aftermath. Yan Zixu surrendered his leadership of the Three Palaces to Yang Zhen, while Shi Feifei hinted that she liked the idea of him as their leader.

• A violent divine soul storm engulfed the mountaintop, and Shi Feifei emerged in torn clothes before changing into a fresh robe and accusing Yang Zhen.
• Yang Zhen denied responsibility for Shi Feifei’s distress, and she teased him by asking him to take responsibility for her.
• Yang Zhen joked that he had too many women to remember, leaving Shi Feifei speechless and the crowd astonished.
• Yan Zixu crawled out of the devastated mountaintop, battered and terrified, while Yang Zhen claimed he had forgotten about him during practice.
• Yan Zixu yielded leadership of the Three Palaces to Yang Zhen, and Shi Feifei said that having him as their leader might not be so bad.

Yang Zhen and the others waited for the Great Wilderness Emperor Road to open while he pondered the Heavenly Nether Divine Cloud Movement and worried about his friends. Dao Devil arrived in a storm of black clouds, and a shabby old man revealed himself as Sword Devil, leaving Yang Zhen stunned.

• Yan Zixu and Lu Yan discussed following Yang Zhen and letting him face the powerful enemies ahead.
• Yang Zhen pondered the limits of the Heavenly Nether Divine Cloud Movement and wondered whether Mei Wuhua, Nine Dragons Great Saint, Shameless Cat, and Flirtatious Chicken were safe.
• Terrifying black clouds swept in from the southeast, and Yan Zixu identified the arriving figure as Dao Devil.
• Dao Devil arrived with only one companion, an old man in black leaning on a cane, and remarked on Yang Zhen's dense divine soul power.
• A sloppy old man stood up and greeted Dao Devil as a brother, and Yan Zixu identified him as Senior Sword Devil.

Yang Zhen debated whether to enter the Great Wilderness Emperor Road as the Sacrificial Severance Heavenly Mist appeared. He advised waiting a day, and Sword Devil unexpectedly encouraged him to explain his reasoning.

• Sword Devil and Dao Devil arrived, and Yang Zhen realized Sword Devil had been glancing at him because of the Sword Spirit in his Divine Sense space.
• The Sacrificial Severance Heavenly Mist rose from the valley, signaling that the Great Wilderness Emperor Road was opening.
• Yang Zhen worried about entering without the little girl and the others, while Yan Zixu urged the group to go in immediately.
• Yang Zhen claimed they should wait a day and invented a warning about the mountain and valley disrupting the stars.
• Sword Devil appeared behind Yang Zhen and said he believed him, making Yang Zhen jolt and nearly kick him.

Yang Zhen impressed the Sword Devil and Dao Devil by discussing the altered pattern of heaven and earth around the Great Wilderness Emperor Road. After examining the terrain from above, he declared that someone had tampered with the place, shocking everyone gathered there.

• The Sword Devil praised Yang Zhen's understanding of the Earth Treasury Art, and the Dao Devil asked whether he had refined the Dao Seed; Yang Zhen said he preferred his own Dao.
• The Dao Fanatic greeted Yang Zhen, and he asked the Sword Devil whether he could see the changes in the local pattern of heaven and earth.
• The Sword Devil admitted he had little experience studying such matters and invited Yang Zhen to explain what he had noticed.
• Yang Zhen rose into the air and studied the surrounding terrain while the Sword Devil, the Dao Devil, and others waited.
• Yang Zhen announced that someone had tampered with the Great Wilderness Emperor Road, leaving the gathered crowd shocked.

Yang Zhen explained that someone had tampered with the Great Wilderness Emperor Road and connected its strange order to the Karmic Dao Source. Dao Devil and Sword Devil realized that someone might be close to claiming the source, which could provide the chance to enter the Emperor Realm.

• Yang Zhen told Dao Devil, Sword Devil, and the others that the Great Wilderness Emperor Road had been tampered with, prompting disbelief and alarm.
• Dao Devil recalled surviving the Land of Three Desolations in his youth, and Yang Zhen learned that the Road of Sacrifice and Desolation rewarded young cultivators who ventured deeper.
• Dao Devil revealed that only one person since the Savage Wilderness had passed through the Land of Five Desolations, but that swordsman's fate had been tragic.
• Yang Zhen explained that the land's strange order was linked to the heaven's hearing beyond the Land of Five Desolations and pointed to the Karmic Dao Source as another contested place on the Great Wilderness Emperor Road.
• Sword Devil and Dao Devil identified the Karmic Dao Source as the key to breaking through karma and entering the Emperor Realm, and Yang Zhen warned that someone might succeed in obtaining it.

Yang Zhen warned that someone had tampered with the Great Wilderness Emperor Road to refine the Karmic Dao Source, then entered the road with the Dao Devil and Sword Devil. Inside, the group found the Star Spring Sword, which flew past everyone and chose Yang Zhen.

• Yang Zhen insisted that someone had altered the Great Wilderness Emperor Road as part of a vast scheme involving the Karmic Dao Source.
• The Dao Devil and Sword Devil decided to enter the road, and Yang Zhen and the others followed them into the white mist.
• After a disorienting passage, Yang Zhen found the Dao Devil missing while the Sword Devil and Dao Fanatic examined a starry longsword.
• The Sword Devil identified the weapon as the Star Spring Sword, and it suddenly flew past the crowd into Yang Zhen's hand.
• Yang Zhen stared at the sword as everyone, including the Sword Devil, fixed their eyes on him.

Yang Zhen accidentally acquired the Star Spring Sword and fled from the furious cultivators chasing him and his companions. With the Land of One Severance ahead and thousands close behind, he laid out formation plates and prepared to deceive the pursuers.

• The Star Spring Sword flew into Yang Zhen's hand, prompting the surrounding cultivators to charge after him.
• Yang Zhen ran with Yan Zixu, Shi Feifei, and the others, insisting they stay together as the pursuers closed in.
• The Sword Devil appeared above Yang Zhen and warned him that he was heading toward the Land of One Severance.
• Yang Zhen refused to enter the Land of One Severance blindly and placed several formation plates within a hundred zhang of himself.
• Yang Zhen announced that he would use his Divine Ability to cross the sea by deceiving the heavens.

Yang Zhen used an illusion formation to make pursuing cultivators rush into the Land of One Severance while his companions stayed behind. After violent earth elemental Qi and screams erupted inside, Sword Devil went in to investigate, leaving his fate unknown.

• Yang Zhen pretended to defend the Star Spring Sword, then hid at the entrance while Dao Fanatic and the pursuing cultivators passed through his illusion formation without noticing him and entered the Land of One Severance.
• Sword Devil praised Yang Zhen's mastery of the Earth Treasury Technique, and Shi Feifei discovered the formation had concealed them from the passing crowd.
• An earth-shaking boom and screams came from inside the Land of One Severance, and Yang Zhen sensed violent earth elemental Qi but could not tell what had happened.
• The Azure Lotus Sect Master, Zhou Tong, Fake Old Daoist, and Granny Chenggui arrived, and Yang Zhen claimed his companions had unanimously agreed to scout ahead.
• Sword Devil recognized that someone had tampered with the Great Wilderness Emperor Road, urged Yang Zhen to refine the Star Spring Sword, and plunged into the chaos, where a cry of surprise followed.

Yang Zhen entered the Land of One Severance and discovered a red-mist battlefield where mysterious attackers were preying on cultivators. As the Sword Devil, the Dao Fanatic, and others fought the Defiers of Heaven, Yang Zhen struck one from behind with Thunderclap Cleave.

• Yang Zhen entered the Land of One Severance, followed by the Azure Lotus Sect master and the others, and found a valley filled with red mist and fallen cultivators.
• Yang Zhen used his Divine Sense and Heaven-Extinguishing Finger to expose four hidden attackers, while the Sword Devil pursued two of them.
• Five more black figures emerged and used strands of dark red Qi to ensnare the crowd, as the Two-Headed Freak appeared and fought the Sword Devil.
• The Dao Fanatic burned away the red mist and attacked the black-clad figures, while the Azure Lotus Sect master identified them as Defiers of Heaven.
• A black-clad defier of heaven attacked Yang Zhen, who vanished and reappeared behind him before striking his head with the Great Deficiency Sword using Thunderclap Cleave.

Yang Zhen lured the man in black away from the valley, defeated him, and questioned him about the heaven-defying cultivators. The man offered Yang Zhen their Cultivation Methods, leaving Yang Zhen suspicious that the offer concealed a trap.

• Yang Zhen's Thunderclap Cleave failed to stop the man in black, so he drew the man away from the other cultivators by pretending to flee.
• Yang Zhen turned on the man in black, struck him repeatedly with the Great Deficiency Sword, and knocked him unconscious after the man counterattacked.
• Yang Zhen sealed the man in black's Divine Sense space, revived him with water, and demanded to know why he was called heaven-defying.
• The man in black explained that they cultivated in defiance of the Heavenly Dao to escape heaven's order of reincarnation.
• Yang Zhen asked to copy the heaven-defying Cultivation Methods, and the man in black eagerly handed over a pile of Jade Slips.
• Yang Zhen suspected the man's eagerness was fishy and wondered whether the offer was a trap.

Yang Zhen fed the man in black a brutally spicy pepper disguised as a deadly poison, then unsealed his Divine Sense space and studied his heaven-defying cultivation method. After realizing the method could unleash terrifying power all at once, Yang Zhen began considering whether he could make use of it.

• Yang Zhen made the man in black swallow a sugar-coated Gut Burner, claiming it was a poison that would make him bleed to death.
• Yang Zhen unsealed the man in black's Divine Sense space and asked him to circulate his cultivation method.
• Yang Zhen saw that heaven-defying cultivators plundered power from heaven and earth, damaging their bodies as they cultivated.
• The man in black admitted he had used less than a fifth of his strength against Yang Zhen, and Yang Zhen agreed that he could have been far more dangerous.
• Yang Zhen realized heaven-defying cultivators could unleash their stored power all at once and wondered if he could exploit that ability.

Yang Zhen met Zhong Er, a man who defied heaven, learned that his group was pursuing the Karmic Dao Source, and obtained their cultivation methods. He followed the black-clad men into the Land of Sacrifice and Desolation, where Shi Feifei cried out for someone to stay away.

• Yang Zhen discussed the dangers of heaven-defying cultivation with Zhong Er and pretended he might join their ranks.
• Zhong Er revealed that he had been ordered to delay people pursuing the Karmic Dao Source, which his group had spent nearly ten thousand years preparing for.
• Yang Zhen gave Zhong Er the recipe for Smile and Go Mad in Half a Step on a Jade Slip, then sped away and left Zhong Er astonished.
• Yang Zhen returned to the entrance of the Land of One Severance, found injured cultivators there, and followed the black-clad men's trail into the Land of Sacrifice and Desolation.
• Yang Zhen heard Shi Feifei scream, “Ah, don't come any closer!” and wondered who could be threatening her.