Chapter Summaries

Chen Shuangbai accepted Yuan Jun Sword Lord’s sword evasion art after learning that the black-robed man he killed had harmed the Sword Alliance, then mastered its basics while cultivating in seclusion. As the war around Hengzhang City shifted toward raids and ambushes, he chose to let Jade Spring Sect disciples gain battlefield experience, and the chapter ended with an azure light rushing toward him.

• Yuan Jun Sword Lord thanked Chen Shuangbai for killing the black-robed man and said the Sword Intent would hinder his resurrection.
• Yuan Jun Sword Lord gave Chen Shuangbai the Ten Thousand Rains Sword School’s [Startled Swan Void-Crossing Sword Evasion] before departing.
• Chen Shuangbai studied the art, learned its [Startled Swan Shadow Transformation], and practiced moving as a golden-white rainbow.
• The Holy Origin Alliance sent increasing numbers of non-sea demon beasts and small raiding teams toward Hengzhang City and the Jing Kingdom.
• Chen Shuangbai decided not to intercept the raiders himself, giving Jade Spring Sect’s inner disciples a chance to gain experience.
• As Chen Shuangbai prepared to resume cultivation, an azure streak sped toward the Myriad Phenomena Hall, and he realized something had worked.

Feiguang became a Golden Core Yao King and awakened a Divine Ability, while True Person Mei emerged from seclusion to take over the sect's affairs. After learning that Grand Martial Uncle Gongye was near death, Chen Shuangbai set out with the others to see him.

• Feiguang returned to Chen Shuangbai as a Golden Core Yao King and transformed into a Cold Moon Golden-Plumed Eagle.
• Feiguang demonstrated Void-Shuttling Shadow, a Divine Ability that let him cross short distances through the void and bypass ordinary restrictions.
• Chen Shuangbai kept Feiguang in the Myriad Phenomena Hall to stabilize his cultivation and teach him Daoist arts.
• True Person Mei emerged from seclusion at the Late Golden Core Stage and took the golden token so Chen Shuangbai could leave the sect.
• Ding Chengyu received a message that Grand Martial Uncle Gongye had only a day or two to live, and Chen Shuangbai called for them to go see him.

Chen Shuangbai and the others visited the dying Gongye Chun, who entrusted his alchemical legacy and the fate of Spring-Returning Mountain’s disciples to those who remained. Gongye Chun died after bidding them farewell, and golden fire cranes and gardenias filled the sky above Pointing to the Profound Peak.

• Chen Shuangbai, True Person Mei, and Yi Chongyue visited Gongye Chun at Pointing to the Profound Peak and watched him play a game of Go.
• Gongye Chun told Liu Wenyan to carry on their lineage’s alchemical arts with Yi Chongyue and taught him that controlling the fire mattered most in alchemy.
• Gongye Chun asked True Person Mei to announce his death so Spring-Returning Mountain’s disciples would abandon their remaining hopes of preserving the lineage.
• Gongye Chun gave Chen Shuangbai his collected alchemical insights as a keepsake from Juyan’s granddisciple.
• Gongye Chun sent everyone away, then died; golden fire cranes and gardenia petals appeared over the peak as Liu Wenyan wept and Chen Shuangbai bowed in farewell.

After honoring Gongye Chun’s death, Chen Shuangbai reached Hengzhang City, where he assigned his Mystic Sea Avatar the task of refining pills and checked on the border defenses. The arrival of three Nascent Soul Demon Lords from the sea left the city facing a dangerous new threat.

• The Jade Spring Sect held Gongye Chun’s funeral, and its former Spring-Returning Mountain disciples mourned him in hemp clothes.
• Chen Shuangbai arrived at Hengzhang City with Chen Fuguang and Lu Xiangyuan, praised their cultivation, and reminded Chen Fuguang to control his Burning Sun Qi.
• Chen Shuangbai gave his Mystic Sea Avatar notes on alchemy and the Cinnabar Purple Profound Fire so she could refine pills for him.
• Chen Shuangbai learned from True Lord Qingyu and True Lord Huoyang that the Ning Country front had been secure, with no Nascent Soul Demon Lords detected.
• A huge blast revealed the Crimson Flame Demon Lord approaching Ning Country, and two more Nascent Soul Demon Lords followed him ashore with their followers.

True Lord Jihai rallied the alliances after three offshore demon caves landed in Ning Country, and the Vast Waves Alliance gained support from the Sword Alliance and Heavenly Star Alliance. Four Nascent Soul True Lords led an assault into the demonic clouds as the allied army crossed the border to attack the demon forces.

• True Lord Jihai learned that the Crimson Fire Cave, Black Spirit Cave, and Gen Earth Cave had landed in Ning Country and called the two deputy alliance leaders to discuss the threat.
• The Vast Waves Alliance informed the other alliances, and the Sword Alliance sent Yuan Jun Sword Lord while the Heavenly Star Alliance later dispatched a Nascent Soul cultivator.
• Old Man Fish Pillow and True Lord Suwen attacked the Celebrated Origin Sect with their sect-guarding supreme treasures, destroyed True Lord Liudu's body, and forced the Holy Origin Alliance to send reinforcements.
• Yuan Jun Sword Lord and True Lord Danzhao arrived in Ning Country, and True Lord Qingyu and True Lord Huoyang emerged from seclusion to join the response.
• True Lord Jihai and the three other Nascent Soul True Lords flew into the demonic clouds, while the Vast Waves Alliance's army crossed into Ning Country and charged the three demon caves' forces.

Chen Fuguang and Lu Xiangyuan fought Black Spirit Pythons and other enemies at Scar River Marsh until Feiguang arrived and rescued them. Feiguang then joined Chen Shuangbai, who was battling three Demon Beasts and two Devil Cultivators, and reported that Fuguang and the others were safe.

• Chen Fuguang fought through the enemy ranks with golden flames while Lu Xiangyuan supported him with her spiritual bow and Jade Spirit Marten.
• A Foundation Establishment Late Stage Black Spirit Python and dozens of its clansmen emerged from the marsh and overwhelmed the Vast Waves Alliance forces.
• Feiguang arrived in golden-white radiance, killed the Black Spirit Pythons in the marsh, and ate several of their inner cores.
• Feiguang broke through space to Chen Shuangbai and reported that Chen Fuguang and the others were safe.
• Chen Shuangbai continued facing three wounded Demon Beasts and two Devil Cultivators above the forested mountains.

After the South-Pointing Devil Chariot nearly killed Chen Shuangbai and devastated Scar River Marsh, Yuan Jun Sword Lord warned him not to enter the battlefield’s depths. Chen Shuangbai and the Vast Waves Alliance’s Golden Core cultivators turned the weapon’s threat into a distraction, pushing the enemy back across Ning Country.

• Chen Shuangbai escaped the South-Pointing Devil Chariot’s devastating beam, which obliterated much of Scar River Marsh.
• Yuan Jun Sword Lord told Chen Shuangbai that the Holy Origin Alliance had deployed the ancient devil-path treasure to target him and warned him to stay out of the battlefield’s depths.
• Lu Xiangyuan and the Golden Core cultivators discussed how the chariot might be hidden and heavily guarded, then agreed Chen Shuangbai could draw its aim away from their forces.
• Chen Shuangbai and the Vast Waves Alliance’s Golden Core cultivators agreed that he would appear briefly at different battlefields to lure the chariot while the army attacked elsewhere.
• Over the following months, Chen Shuangbai repeatedly drew the chariot’s attention and escaped with Feiguang, while the Vast Waves Alliance’s attacks battered the enemy and reclaimed more territory.

The three demon kings discussed their heavy losses and the threat posed by the Far-Reaching Luminous Sword Immortal as the demons struggled to hold their territory. Their ancestor, the Earth Chi Demon Lord, was then killed by Yuan Jun Sword Lord, and Chen Shuangbai appeared before four Nascent Soul True Lords.

• Demon King Huang Ze argued with Demon King Junxi over their clans’ losses until Demon King Mo Yun ordered them to cooperate and tighten their defenses.
• Demon King Mo Yun explained that the incomplete South-Pointing Devil Chariot could not reliably stop the Far-Reaching Luminous Sword Immortal.
• Demon King Junxi claimed that Crimson Fire Cave’s ancestor would use the Bing Sun Divine Lamp to kill Vast Waves Alliance cultivators.
• The Earth Chi Demon Lord fell from the sky mortally wounded, and Demon King Huang Ze recognized him as Gen Earth Cave’s ancestor.
• Yuan Jun Sword Lord’s killing of the Earth Chi Demon Lord sparked cheers among the Vast Waves Alliance garrison at Azure Wave Cave.
• Chen Shuangbai met with four Nascent Soul True Lords, and Xuhong paid his respects to them.

Chen Shuangbai learned that the Nascent Soul leaders had slain Earth Chi Demon Lord and badly wounded Crimson Flame Demon Lord, while warning that the demon caves might retaliate. As Pengyu Heaven’s opening approached, True Lord Baishi and True Lord Mingxia agreed to prepare their sects to enter, and Chen Shuangbai was summoned back to hear about it.

• True Lord Jihai explained that he had lost an arm while holding off Crimson Flame Demon Lord, and Yuan Jun Sword Lord said her senior brother’s Sword Intent had helped her slay Earth Chi Demon Lord.
• Chen Shuangbai congratulated the True Lords and thanked Yuan Jun Sword Lord for using the precious strand of Sword Intent, while Yuan Jun warned that Crimson Flame Demon Lord could retaliate.
• True Lord Baishi and True Lord Mingxia discussed Pengyu Heaven’s imminent appearance and agreed that the Crimson Cloud Sect would cooperate with the Heavenly Star Mystic Sect in preparing to enter it.
• True Person Mei summoned Chen Shuangbai back to the Jade Spring Sect and told him that Pengyu Heaven would soon appear, prompting him to ask about its origins.

Chen Shuangbai returned to Jade Screen Peak to prepare for the opening of the True Net Cult grotto-heaven, refining his treasures and developing a new sword formation. He tested the formation on Changming, who was drawn into a strange silvery-white realm.

• True Person Mei told Chen Shuangbai that the True Net Cult grotto-heaven would open in a little over two months and that six allied sects, including the Jade Spring Sect, could enter.
• Chen Shuangbai returned to Jade Screen Peak, reunited with Changming and Juanniang, and left his disciples under Feiguang's watch in Ning Country.
• Chen Shuangbai used the Moon-Sacrificing Law Formation and twelve Moon Lord Divine Manifestations to refine his Law Treasures and Spirit Artifacts.
• Chen Shuangbai asked the Great Yin Dao Fruit to develop his sword Dao, gaining the [Jade Terrace Reflection Light-Splitting Sword Formation].
• Chen Shuangbai formed the sword formation with [Foot-Long Silk] and ordered Changming inside, sending him into an endless realm of silvery-white radiance.

Chen Shuangbai refined his sword formation by weaving illusion arts into it, then received word that it was time to leave Jade Screen Peak. He set out for Yong Kingdom with Feiguang and Changming, learning that the Vast Waves Alliance had killed two Holy Origin Alliance Nascent Soul cultivators and gained a period of relative safety.

• Chen Shuangbai incorporated illusion arts into his sword formation, creating stronger sword shadows, while Changming experienced its illusory injuries.
• Chen Shuangbai received True Person Mei’s message that it was time to set out and chose Feiguang and Changming to accompany him, leaving Juanniang and Gray Ball behind.
• Chen Shuangbai traveled toward the Jade Spring Sect on Feiguang’s true form, with Changming drawn into his sleeve.
• True Lord Qingyu escorted Chen Shuangbai toward South Splendor Mountain in Yong Kingdom and explained that the Vast Waves Alliance had recently destroyed two Holy Origin Alliance Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Chen Shuangbai learned that Old Man Fish Pillow had used the Flower Washing Sword Cleansing Painting to kill Ji Yuzi at White Deer Mountain, further weakening the Holy Origin Alliance.

Chen Shuangbai arrived at South Splendor Mountain with True Lord Qingyu as the sects gathered to honor their agreement and enter Pengyu Heaven. When a demonic Nascent Soul arrived carrying Pear Blossom Mountain’s token, True Lord Baishi ruled that the token’s bearer was entitled to enter.

• True Lord Qingyu introduced Chen Shuangbai to True Lord Xuantong of the Primordial Tower Monastery, who praised Chen’s achievements.
• True Lord Xuantong explained that Pear Blossom Mountain and the Pointing to the Mysterious Sword Sect had entrusted their tokens to other sects.
• True Lord Xuanwu and True Person Jixuan arrived with the Arrayed Mystery Sect, drawing attention with their ostentatious procession.
• Youluo arrived for the Transformation Sect and presented Pear Blossom Mountain’s golden token, prompting suspicion and anger among the gathered cultivators.
• True Lord Baishi declared that the agreement recognized the token rather than its bearer, allowing Youluo to enter Pengyu Heaven.

Chen Shuangbai entered Pengyu Heaven with the other sect disciples, where a red-gold wind trapped them on a jade platform and began eroding their protective treasures. True Person Jixuan tried to break through the wind, but the opening quickly closed and forced him back.

• True Lord Qingyu warned Chen Shuangbai to be careful before Chen Shuangbai leaped into the colored light leading to Pengyu Heaven.
• Chen Shuangbai arrived in Pengyu Heaven, summoned Feiguang and Changming, and saw the entrants from the six sects gather on a jade platform.
• The platform’s pillars lit up and red-gold wind surrounded the six cultivators, whose protective powers began to erode.
• Chen Shuangbai strengthened the Swaying Moon Sunken Cold Treasure Mirror to shield himself from the wind.
• True Person Jixuan sent a purple-gold treasure into the wind to open a gap, but the gap closed and the stronger wind forced him back.

Chen Shuangbai searched for a way to escape the colored winds trapping the cultivators on the white jade platform. As the others argued over how to survive, he pierced one of the mystic pillars with a golden-white sword strike, weakening the winds.

• The cultivators failed to break through the colored winds, while Chen Shuangbai studied the winds and the six mystic pillars for a weakness.
• Hong Qing used Saturn Divine Light to steady Junior Sister Liang's crimson glazed lamp and proposed that everyone attack the formation together.
• The Transformation Sect cultivator accused Hong Qing of hiding his knowledge, and the two nearly came to blows before others urged them to cooperate.
• True Person Jixuan called on Chen Shuangbai to speak, and Chen Shuangbai replied that he had been looking for a way to break the formation.
• Chen Shuangbai launched a golden-white sword strike into a mystic pillar, causing the colored winds to pause and weaken.

Chen Shuangbai stopped the deadly colorful wind on the white-jade platform and claimed the colorful-bird jade carving after defeating True Person Jixuan and repelling the other cultivators. His overwhelming sword strike left the survivors wary as he departed, and the remaining cultivators wondered how anyone could withstand his sword intent.

• Chen Shuangbai struck the five mystic pillars with frost osmanthus sword essence, stopping the colorful wind and revealing a colorful-bird jade carving.
• True Person Jixuan tried to seize the carving, but Hong Qing blocked his attempt with the Yinghuo Immortal Blades.
• A Transformation Sect cultivator sent a demonic dagger toward Chen Shuangbai, who froze it with the Great Yin Precious Mirror and took the carving.
• When True Person Jixuan demanded that Chen Shuangbai put the carving down, Chen Shuangbai split Jixuan's purple-gold treasure seal with a single sword slash.
• Chen Shuangbai departed while the other cultivators stayed silent; True Person Jixuan and the Transformation Sect cultivator soon left as well.
• Liang Shuyan asked Hong Qing how he would fare against Chen Shuangbai's sword intent, and Qin Ziwei remarked on the rarity of Sword Immortals before flying away.

Chen Shuangbai left an Arrayed Mystery Sect cultivator alive and searched the Pengyu Heaven grotto-heaven for its hidden destinations. Meanwhile, Zhangsun Xu used a Blood Incantation Realm-Breaking Talisman to bring six Devil Cultivators into the grotto-heaven, where Zhao Buyan called them to follow the Holy Origin Alliance’s plan.

• Chen Shuangbai explained that he had spared the Arrayed Mystery Sect Golden Core cultivator because the opponent had powerful safeguards, then continued searching with Feiguang and Changming.
• Zhangsun Xu secretly delivered a talisman to a secluded place and used his blood and a mantra to activate a jade box.
• A purple swamp opened, and silver lightning rushed toward it before dark devil light hid the disturbance from the grotto-heaven.
• Zhangsun Xu watched six Devil Cultivators emerge from the swamp, including Zhao Buyan and Liu Rushi.
• Zhao Buyan told the gathered cultivators to proceed according to the Holy Origin Alliance’s long-agreed plan.

Chen Shuangbai entered the Thousand Illusions Wondrous Forms Nine Bends Stone Formation to seek a chance to temper his Divine Sense. Jingxu and four Lotus Temple cultivators followed him in search of an ancient Buddhist treasure, and Zhao Buyan entered soon after; Chen Shuangbai began exploring the formation among its rune-covered stone pillars.

• True Person Jixuan met Jingxu and four Lotus Temple cultivators, then left after telling them the Arrayed Mystery Sect had fulfilled its part of their arrangement.
• Chen Shuangbai reached the stone formation and explained that the Thousand Illusions Wondrous Forms Nine Bends Stone Formation had thirty-six layers meant to test and temper Divine Sense.
• Chen Shuangbai gathered Feiguang and Changming into his sleeve and entered the formation.
• Jingxu recognized Buddhist mantras on the mystic pillars and led his four companions into the formation to retrieve the Lotus Temple's lost treasure.
• Zhao Buyan of the Parting Hate Gate arrived with two fellow disciples and entered the formation.
• Chen Shuangbai surveyed the formation's towering, rune-covered stone pillars beneath the gray clouds.

Chen Shuangbai explored the dangerous azure-light formation in Pengyu Heaven and confronted Buddhist cultivators from the Lotus Temple who had entered without the six sects’ golden tokens. When Zhao Buyan and the Parting Hate Gate also arrived, Chen Shuangbai realized multiple outsiders had infiltrated the grotto-heaven.

• Chen Shuangbai found that the refracting azure light could wear away his Divine Sense and began searching among its beams for foreign objects with unusual Qi signatures.
• Chen Shuangbai encountered five Buddhist cultivators led by Jingxu and attacked them to stop them from leaving.
• Jingxu protected an endangered companion with his kasaya and refused to explain how the Lotus Temple had entered Pengyu Heaven.
• Zhao Buyan arrived beneath the Parting Hate soul banner with three Golden Core disciples.
• Chen Shuangbai recognized the Lotus Temple and Parting Hate Gate as outsiders who had entered the grotto-heaven.

Chen Shuangbai pressed Jingxu and the Buddhist cultivators to explain why they had come, repeatedly breaking their lotus formation and killing Mingjue. The battle continued as Jingxu restored Mingjue with a strange ability, while Zhao Buyan recognized Jingxu.

• Zhao Buyan introduced himself to Chen Shuangbai as the young master of the Parting Hate Gate and said he welcomed the death of his former martial uncle.
• Chen Shuangbai used the Great Yin Precious Mirror to block Jingxu and the Buddhist cultivators from leaving and demanded an answer about their purpose.
• Four Buddhist cultivators formed a lotus formation and tried to convert Chen Shuangbai, but he shattered it with a sword strike and tore Jingxu's kasaya.
• Jingxu strengthened the lotus formation, but Chen Shuangbai broke it again and cut off Mingjue's head.
• Jingxu sent glazed radiance into Mingjue's corpse and restored his head, while Zhao Buyan recognized Jingxu.

Chen Shuangbai overwhelmed the Lotus Temple cultivators and faced Zhao Buyan’s ghosts, while Hong Qing and Liang Shuyan found the Soaring Jade Palace. Liu Rushi arrived at the palace and revealed that she had followed them there.

• Jingxu used an ancient bell and golden pestle to reinforce the Lotus Temple formation, but Chen Shuangbai’s sword essence still pierced the defense.
• Chen Shuangbai severed Mingdong’s head, and Jingxu warned the others to scatter before the corpse exploded with Great Yin Illusory Radiance.
• Chen Shuangbai destroyed a serpentlike yin ghost and confronted Zhao Buyan, who summoned the ghosts of the Parting Hate Gate to attack.
• Hong Qing used a star talisman to locate the Soaring Jade Palace, and he and Liang Shuyan arrived there seeking the True Net Cult’s ritual methods.
• Liu Rushi appeared behind Hong Qing and Liang Shuyan with a venomous serpent and scorpion, thanking them for leading her to the palace.