Chapter Summaries

After transmigrating into the Weiyang Realm, Ye Zichen received peak Immortal Emperor power and began exploring the Eastern Continent from the Sword Sect. He settled in a quiet courtyard, while the sect’s ancestor revealed that Taiyuan Holy Land’s Lin Feng was coming to pay his respects.

• Ye Zichen opened his system gift package and received Immortal Emperor Peak Stage cultivation, a unique sword, and a unique divine ability.
• Ye Zichen learned about the Weiyang Realm from Sword Sect ancestor Ye Tian, then used a strand of Spiritual Qi to help Ye Tian break through to Void Refinement Peak Stage.
• Ye Zichen claimed an unoccupied cottage on the Sword Sect’s back mountain and told the sect leaders to keep his arrival secret.
• Ye Tian and Sect Master Ye Ling visited Ye Zichen in his courtyard and gained cultivation insights while watching him play chess.
• Ye Tian told Ye Zichen that Lin Feng, the holy lord of Taiyuan Holy Land, had noticed his descent and was on his way to meet him.

Ye Zichen played chess with Taiyuan Holy Lord Lin Feng, then left the Sword Sect after gifting it an immortal-grade formation. Lin Feng and Ye Ling began planning an alliance and preparations for the prodigy martial competition as Ye Tian prepared to enter seclusion and break through.

• Lin Feng met Ye Zichen, played chess with him, and experienced the terrifying vision of a battlefield between gods and devils.
• Ye Zichen said he would travel through the mortal world, gifted the chess set to the Sword Sect, and secretly killed a spy who had been watching him.
• Ye Tian and Ye Ling discovered that the chess set was an immortal-grade formation, and Ye Tian announced that he would enter seclusion to break through to Tribulation Transcendence.
• Lin Feng proposed an alliance with the Sword Sect and warned Ye Ling that Danyang Holy Land could become a major threat during the prodigy martial competition.
• Ye Ling convened the elders, who agreed to follow his commands, while Lin Feng returned to Taiyuan Holy Land and urged them to keep Ye Zichen's visit secret.

Ye Zichen arrived in Clear Wind City and accepted a quiet residence from city lord Zhang Xu, who hoped he would help his sick daughter. Seven days later, Ye Zichen cured her with a single sentence, leaving Zhang Xu and the household overwhelmed with gratitude.

• Ye Zichen entered Clear Wind City and learned that its people had little cultivation.
• Steward Zhang Qing brought Ye Zichen to the city lord's residence, where Zhang Xu asked him to help his ill daughter.
• Ye Zichen accepted Zhang Xu's offer of a quiet courtyard residence and told him he would consider the request.
• Seven days later, as Zhang Xu's daughter worsened and the doctors could not help her, Ye Zichen told her to wake up.
• The cold Qi around Zhang Xu's daughter vanished, and Zhang Xu and the servants thanked Ye Zichen for saving her.

Ye Zichen received thanks from Zhang Xu and Zhang Lingyao after awakening her Ice Spirit Physique, but declined to take her as a disciple. Nearly seven months later, Crimson Yang Sect disciples arrived in Clear Wind City and threatened the inn, leaving Zhang Xu to challenge them.

• Zhang Xu brought his recovered daughter, Zhang Lingyao, to thank Ye Zichen for awakening her Ice Spirit Physique.
• Ye Zichen told Zhang Lingyao to choose her own path, and she left with Zhang Xu after deciding to seek a sect and cultivate on her own.
• Nearly seven months later, Ye Zichen heard inn patrons discuss the war between the Crimson Yang Sect and the Azure Mysterious Sect.
• A group of Crimson Yang Sect disciples entered the Lingtong Inn, drove out its patrons, and threatened to spill blood if they were not treated properly.
• Zhang Xu arrived to greet the disciples, but after their leader insulted him and threatened the inn, Zhang Xu challenged them.

Ye Zichen killed the Crimson Yang Sect disciples who threatened Zhang Lingyao, then attended a banquet at the city lord's residence. The banquet turned into a crisis when Li Hao revealed his Golden Core Peak power and declared that the Li Household would take Clear Wind City.

• Zhang Lingyao confronted the Crimson Yang Sect disciples at the inn, and Ye Zichen erased all seven with a single sentence.
• Zhang Xu thanked Ye Zichen, and Zhang Lingyao invited him to a banquet at the city lord's residence the next day.
• At the banquet, Li Hao asked Ye Zichen to teach the four great households immortal cultivation, but Ye Zichen dismissed their poor comprehension and Root Bones.
• Li Hao challenged Ye Zichen and warned that the Tyrant Saber Sect would retaliate for the Crimson Yang Sect disciples' deaths, prompting Zhang Xu to attack him.
• Li Hao knocked Zhang Xu aside, revealed that a Yellow-Rank Realm-Breaking Pill had temporarily raised him to Golden Core Peak, and declared that the Li Household would take Clear Wind City.
• Li Hao's tyrannical presence killed everyone in the courtyard who had not reached Foundation Establishment, while Zhang Lingyao prepared to face him.

Zhang Lingyao fought Li Hao and wounded him, but she collapsed after exhausting her spiritual power. Ye Zichen then effortlessly destroyed Li Hao’s weapons and cultivation, summoned the sect masters Li Hao had relied on, and asked if he was satisfied.

• Zhang Lingyao battled Li Hao, pierced his right eye with ice cones, and collapsed from exhaustion.
• Ye Zichen stepped in, stopped Li Hao’s weapons in midair, shattered them, and stripped away Li Hao’s cultivation.
• Li Hao threatened Ye Zichen with the backing of the Crimson Yang Sect, so Ye Zichen tore open the void and summoned Feng Yu and Wu Badao.
• Feng Yu and Wu Badao appeared beside Li Hao, confused, and Ye Zichen asked Li Hao if he was satisfied.

Ye Zichen stripped Wu Badao and Feng Yu of their cultivation, revealed that he had captured the Tyrant Saber Sect and Crimson Yang Sect in the world in his palm, and destroyed both sects. He left Zhang Xu and Zhang Lingyao to handle the aftermath in their residence.

• Wu Badao slapped Feng Yu for urging him to attack Ye Zichen, then cautiously tried to negotiate, but Feng Yu and Wu Badao charged when their talks failed.
• Ye Zichen froze Feng Yu and Wu Badao, stripped away their cultivation, and showed them the captured territories and people of their sects.
• Feng Yu and Wu Badao begged Ye Zichen for mercy and blamed Li Hao, who broke down in despair.
• Ye Zichen turned Li Hao, Feng Yu, and Wu Badao to dust, then declared that the Crimson Yang Sect and Tyrant Saber Sect would cease to exist.
• Ye Zichen left Zhang Xu and Zhang Lingyao to deal with the wounded and dead in their residence, and they began cleaning up.

Ye Ling and his disciples arrived in Clear Wind City while investigating the Crimson Yang Sect’s destruction, and Ye Zichen learned of their visit. At Ye Zichen’s residence, Ye Ling recognized the powerful lord he had met before.

• News of the Crimson Yang Sect and Tyrant Saber Sect’s destruction spread, while Ye Zichen drank in Clear Wind City and vanished after noticing someone familiar had arrived.
• Ye Ling traveled to Clear Wind City with Jian Ningshuang and Xie Lingyun as the Sword Sect investigated the Crimson Yang Sect’s missing disciples.
• Ji Yaoguang and Lin Feng searched the Tyrant Saber Sect’s vast crater but found no clues and returned to their holy lands.
• Ye Ling heard that Crimson Yang Sect disciples had disappeared in Clear Wind City and decided to question the city lord.
• Zhang Lingyao welcomed Ye Ling and his disciples to the city lord’s residence, where Zhang Xu said his lord had been expecting them.
• Ye Ling met Ye Zichen at his courtyard and excitedly recognized him as the lord he had encountered before.

Ye Zichen rewarded Zhang Lingyao and Zhang Xu, arranged for Lingyao to join the Sword Sect, and accepted Ye Ling’s invitation to attend the Eastern Continent Sect Conference. The group left the courtyard with plans to bring Lingyao to the Sword Sect and keep Zhang Xu’s Heaven Tier supreme-grade pill safe.

• Ye Zichen awakened Zhang Lingyao’s Ice Spirit Physique, arranged for her to join the Sword Sect, and gave her a cultivation method suited to her physique.
• Ye Zichen thanked Zhang Xu for his care and gave him a Heaven Tier supreme-grade pill, which astonished Ye Ling and the Sword Sect disciples.
• Ye Zichen said he would soon leave, but agreed to attend the Eastern Continent Sect Conference at the Flawed Light Holy Land in a little over a month.
• Ye Ling scolded Jian Ningshuang for speaking carelessly about Ye Zichen and told her to copy a book five hundred times.
• Ye Ling offered to ask the Sword Sect patriarch to teach Zhang Lingyao, and warned Zhang Xu to take the pill soon to avoid attracting trouble.

Ye Zichen crossed a demon beast forest and effortlessly killed a band of beasts that preyed on small sects. Nearby, the Heavenly Cloud Sect’s Yunyang and his two disciples faced a Spirit Severing Stage tiger demon, but just as Feng'er stood his ground to protect his master, an unknown voice interrupted.

• Ye Ling arranged for the Azure Mysterious Sect to help protect Clear Wind City, then returned to the Sword Sect with Zhang Lingyao after she said goodbye to Zhang Xu.
• Ye Zichen left Clear Wind City and headed toward the Flawed Light Holy Land, entering a demon beast forest ten days into his journey.
• A group of Golden Core Stage demon beasts tried to rob Ye Zichen, but he destroyed them with a dead branch and learned their Demon King had ordered them to prey on small sects.
• Ye Zichen sensed a battle nearby and found Yunyang and his two Heavenly Cloud Sect disciples besieged by a Spirit Severing Stage tiger demon and its subordinates.
• Yunyang used a life-burning secret technique to wound the tiger demon and urged his disciples to flee, but Feng'er stayed to defend him before an unknown voice spoke.

Ye Zichen saved Ling Yun and Xiao Feng from Demon Beasts, then took them toward the Flawed Light Holy Land after their master Yunyang died. He recognized Xiao Feng as the reincarnation of an Immortal Venerable with the Heavenly Yang Immortal Physique and awakened him, causing a realm-spanning phenomenon that Ye Zichen concealed.

• Ye Zichen immobilized and killed the Demon Beasts attacking Yunyang, Ling Yun, and Xiao Feng.
• Yunyang entrusted his disciples to Ye Zichen and died; Ye Zichen sent Yunyang's soul into reincarnation.
• Ye Zichen took Ling Yun and Xiao Feng aboard a flying boat headed for the Flawed Light Holy Land.
• After five days, Ye Zichen told Xiao Feng he possessed an Immortal Venerable's soul and the Heavenly Yang Immortal Physique, then awakened him with a word.
• Xiao Feng's awakening sent a fiery presence into the Immortal Realm and drew attention across the Eastern Continent, but Ye Zichen concealed the phenomenon as Ling Yun watched Xiao Feng enter an epiphany.

Xiao Feng recovered his memories as the Heavenly Yang Immortal Venerable and told Ye Zichen about the fall of the Yin-Yang Immortal Realm. Days later, Ye Zichen, Xiao Feng, and Ling Yun arrived at the Flawed Light Holy Land for the sect gathering.

• Xiao Feng woke from his epiphany at Golden Core Peak, and Ling Yun left after he asked to speak privately with Ye Zichen.
• Xiao Feng recognized Ye Zichen as an Immortal Emperor, revealed his past as a Ninth Level Immortal Venerable, and explained how his soul came to inhabit Xiao Feng.
• Xiao Feng recounted how the Demon Emperor conquered the Yin-Yang Immortal Realm after its previous Immortal Emperor vanished in Chaos, and Ye Zichen said he might visit the realm someday.
• Xiao Feng resolved to cultivate quickly for the sect gathering and remain with Ling Yun, while Ye Zichen wondered about the wider world.
• Ye Zichen, Xiao Feng, and Ling Yun arrived at the Flawed Light Holy Land, where Ye Tian welcomed Ye Zichen and Ling Yun realized he was an honored guest of the Sword Sect.

At the Eastern Continent sect assembly, Ye Zichen watched the Sword Sect challenge the Danyang Holy Land over its accusations and questions about the Tyrant Saber Sect and Crimson Yang Sect. The martial competition began, and Xiao Feng stood out by defeating one hundred disciples in succession without using his full strength.

• Ye Zichen dismissed Ling Yun and Xiao Feng, then met Xie Lingyun and praised the progress he had made with help from the formation spirit.
• At the assembly, Mu Yang mocked the Sword Sect for seating Ye Zichen and questioned Ye Tian about the Tyrant Saber Sect's destruction and the investigation into the Crimson Yang Sect.
• Ji Yaoguang announced the assembly's secret-realm list and presented awards before leading everyone to the martial competition.
• Xiao Feng reached Peak Nascent Soul and took the platform for the Heavenly Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Feng defeated one hundred challengers with ordinary sword techniques, leaving the spectators amazed by his strength.

Xiao Feng defeated Li Xin and fought Xie Lingyun in a closely matched duel, but Xie Lingyun won their decisive strike and the eight great sects conceded to the Sword Sect. Mu Yang furiously rejected the result as Danyang’s hopes of taking first place and obtaining the final spirit medicine for its Tribulation Transcendence Pill slipped away.

• Li Xin of the Mysterious Nether Sect challenged Xiao Feng, but Xiao Feng defeated him with a single sword move.
• Xie Lingyun challenged Xiao Feng, and the two fought evenly as spectators praised their swordsmanship.
• Xiao Feng and Xie Lingyun agreed to settle the match with one strike, unleashing their strongest attacks.
• Xie Lingyun knocked Xiao Feng out of the arena and won, though both fighters were badly injured.
• The eight great sects conceded first place to the Sword Sect, and Mu Yang angrily refused to accept their decision.

Xie Lingyun won the competition for the Sword Sect, prompting Mu Yang to attack the other holy lands and use a pill to reach the Half-Immortal realm. Mu Yang trapped everyone inside the holy land and struck at Ye Zichen, whose calm response left the outcome unresolved.

• Ji Yaoguang repaired the fighting platform, and Xie Lingyun defeated Zhao Wei with one sword strike to claim first place.
• Mu Yang accused the Sword Sect of provoking Danyang, then attacked Ye Tian and the others with help from two Middle Tribulation Transcendence experts.
• Mu Yang swallowed an unstable Tribulation Transcendence Pill, reached the Half-Immortal realm, and sealed the holy land in black mist.
• Xiao Feng reassured Ling Yun that Ye Zichen would protect them, while Mu Yang mocked Ye Zichen and struck at him with black mist.
• Ye Zichen remained unharmed by Mu Yang’s attack and called him a mayfly trying to shake a tree.

Ye Zichen revealed his overwhelming power, killed Mu Yang, and destroyed the Danyang Holy Land with the Emperor Heaven Immortal Sword. The Sword Sect became the Eastern Continent’s new Holy Land, while mysterious men in the Central Continent continued plotting against the possibility of an immortal’s arrival.

• Ye Zichen stripped Mu Yang of his cultivation and revealed that he had destroyed the Tyrant Saber Sect.
• Ye Zichen summoned the Emperor Heaven Immortal Sword, killed Mu Yang, and annihilated the Danyang Holy Land with a single sword strike.
• Ye Zichen left the Flawed Light Holy Land after praising Xie Lingyun and Xiao Feng’s match and entrusting the remaining matters to Ye Tian and the others.
• Ji Yaoguang declared the Sword Sect the new Holy Land, and the survivors designated the devastated area a restricted zone because its Sword Qi remained deadly.
• News of the Sword Immortal’s strike spread across the Eastern Continent and reached the Central Continent, where two shadowy men continued their plan despite discussing the threat of an immortal.

Over the next several years, the Sword Sect rose to become the Sword Origin Holy Land, while Ye Zichen visited Xie Lingyun and Xiao Feng and attended the Holy Land’s ascension banquet. After wandering the Eastern Continent, Ye Zichen reflected that his journey there was ending and looked toward the Central Continent.

• Zhang Lingyao and Jian Ningshuang agreed to call each other sisters, while Zhang Lingyao reached the Nascent Soul Realm and Jian Ningshuang reached Peak Soul Leaving.
• Ye Zichen checked on Xie Lingyun’s chessboard array spirit, and Xie Lingyun named it Little Seven.
• Ye Zichen visited Xiao Feng at the thriving Heavenly Cloud Sect and praised his progress to Spirit Transformation.
• Ye Tian invited Ye Zichen to the Sword Origin Holy Land’s ascension banquet, and Ye Zichen agreed to attend.
• Ye Zichen arrived at the banquet, where guests greeted him as an exalted immortal and celebrated the Sword Origin Holy Land’s new status.
• After spending more months traveling the Eastern Continent, Ye Zichen stood on a mountaintop and looked toward the Central Continent as his trip neared its end.

Ye Zichen settled in the Central Continent, opened Longevity Hall, and raised Liao Yunxiao after a dying woman entrusted the child to him. Three days after agreeing to take Liao Yunxiao to an auction, Ye Zichen sensed something interesting as the bidding began.

• The system rewarded Ye Zichen with the Dao Origin Immortal Physique and Myriad Daos Return to One Method, then assigned him a ten-year mission to travel through Weiyang with the Central Continent as his base.
• After two and a half years, Ye Zichen ran Longevity Hall in Chu Imperial City and raised Liao Yunxiao, whom a dying woman had entrusted to him.
• Liao Yunxiao found a notice for the Flying Bird Merchant Association auction, and Ye Zichen agreed to take him to the Star-Picking Tower three days later.
• At the auction, Liao Yunxiao spotted representatives of the major powers, and the first item, a Void Refinement expert's inheritance, sold for four hundred thousand Spirit Stones.
• Ye Zichen sensed that something at the auction had caught his interest.

Ye Zichen won the Nine-Turn Soul-Restoring Pill at auction for five hundred million Spirit Stones, outbidding the Great Chu Imperial Family and the great powers. After paying with two top-grade heaven-rank weapons and sending Liao Yunxiao away, he confronted the people who had been following him.

• The auctioneer presented the Nine-Turn Soul-Restoring Pill, and Chu Yunxi, the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion, and the Heavenly Sword Holy Land competed for it.
• A masked man in the audience bid three hundred million Spirit Stones, and Chu Yunxi raised the bid to three hundred and thirty million.
• Ye Zichen bid five hundred million Spirit Stones and won the pill, surprising the audience and Liao Yunxiao.
• Ye Zichen paid for the pill with two top-grade heaven-rank weapons and left the Star-Picking Tower through the back door.
• Ye Zichen sent Liao Yunxiao back to the medicine shop, then told his pursuers to reveal themselves.

Ye Zichen tracked the demons who had tried to steal the Nine-Turn Soul-Returning Pill to the Southern Frontier and punished the Black Tortoise Clan’s leader, Xuanxiao, for his subordinate’s actions. There, he discovered that Xuanxiao’s visitor Long Han carried Ancestral Dragon Bloodline and asked him to become his follower.

• After the masked demon and his men attacked Ye Zichen over the pill, Ye Zichen killed them and made the survivor lead him to the Black Tortoise Clan in the Southern Frontier.
• Xuanxiao welcomed Ye Zichen, then killed She Yi when Ye Zichen confronted him about the attempted theft and murder.
• Ye Zichen spared Xuanxiao but struck him down to the Nascent Soul Realm as punishment.
• When Long Han arrived to visit Xuanxiao, Ye Zichen recognized his Ancestral Dragon Bloodline and asked him to follow him.
• Long Han agreed, but said he had one request.