Chapter Summaries

Chen Shuangbai arrived at the battle in the western Ten Thousand Rivers Sea and rescued True Lord Mysterious Peak from Demon Lord Jiyi. He wounded Jiyi with a strange sword technique, leaving the other demon lords astonished as the fight continued.

• True Lord Purple Thunder withdrew with his disciples and the Thunder Sparrow after a powerful fluctuation interrupted the confrontation with Chen Shuangbai and Liu Qinghe.
• Chen Shuangbai and Liu Qinghe reached the western Ten Thousand Rivers Sea, where three demon lords were battling True Lord Purple Thunder and True Lord Mysterious Peak.
• Chen Shuangbai struck the Five-Colored Peacock with Profound Yin Heaven-Freezing Divine Light, giving True Lord Mysterious Peak time to escape onto his flying boat.
• Demon Lord Jiyi recognized Chen Shuangbai as the cultivator who had once defeated Huaguang, and Chen Shuangbai answered with a taunt.
• Jiyi attacked with five-colored light and poisonous fire, but Chen Shuangbai deflected the assault with Ren Water Flowing Jade Illuminating Radiance.
• Chen Shuangbai wounded Jiyi with Zhengguang Jielin Jade Pool Flying Immortal Sword, astonishing the golden-armored crocodile and the other combatants.

Chen Shuangbai and the human cultivators confronted the Copper-Gold Flood Dragon Lord and its allies in the Ten Thousand Rivers Sea. The flood dragon trapped them with Locking Heaven and Earth and launched a storm of golden blades, but Chen Shuangbai remained untouched by them.

• True Lord Mysterious Peak warned Chen Shuangbai that the Ancient Crocodile Demon Lord was a powerful, long-established demon lord of the Ten Thousand Rivers Sea.
• The Copper-Gold Flood Dragon Lord recognized Chen Shuangbai and demanded that the human cultivators surrender their arms, treasures, and resources before leaving.
• True Lord Purple Thunder rejected the demand, and the Copper-Gold Flood Dragon Lord used a late-stage flood dragon scale to cast Locking Heaven and Earth.
• The Copper-Gold Flood Dragon Lord declared that the inner sea would become the Flood Dragon Clan's hunting ground and sent countless golden blades and swords raining down.
• Chen Shuangbai used Great Yin Illusory Radiance to remain untouched by the attack, alarming the demon lords who recognized the ability from his earlier fight.

Chen Shuangbai fought the Copper-Gold Flood Dragon Lord above the Ten Thousand Rivers Sea, enduring his golden thunder and wounding him with a sword strike. Chen Shuangbai then used the Azure Sea Hanging Rainbow Dragon-Binding Ring to keep the Flood Dragon Lord hiding within his own thunder, leaving the battle at a stalemate favoring the Sword Immortal.

• True Lord Mysterious Peak warned Chen Shuangbai about the Copper-Gold Flood Dragon Lord’s Eight Desolations Golden Thunder while protecting the Foundation Establishment juniors with Liu Qinghe.
• Chen Shuangbai crossed the golden thunder and cut the Copper-Gold Flood Dragon Lord’s face with [Foot-Long Silk].
• The Copper-Gold Flood Dragon Lord condensed his thunder into eight lightning pillars, but Chen Shuangbai blocked them with the [Swaying Moon Sunken Cold Treasure Mirror].
• Chen Shuangbai sent the [Azure Sea Hanging Rainbow Dragon-Binding Ring] after the Flood Dragon Lord, forcing him to hide within the thunder while Chen Shuangbai destroyed the lightning pillars.
• Chen Shuangbai mocked the hidden Flood Dragon Lord, who refused to emerge because he feared the rings would restrain him and Chen Shuangbai’s Sword Intent would strike again.

The Langhuan Immortal Island emerged from the golden tide after the three demon lords activated a hidden formation, drawing the cultivators into a race to reach it. When the island’s barrier blocked the Copper-Gold Flood Dragon Lord, True Lord Youluo appeared and Chen Shuangbai challenged him to the sword duel they had missed before.

• The Copper-Gold Flood Dragon Lord ordered the Ancient Crocodile Demon Lord and Demon Lord Jiyi to activate the formation and draw out the immortal island.
• The Langhuan Immortal Island emerged from the golden tide, and the grand elder of Mystic Tranquility Palace identified it from legend.
• The Copper-Gold Flood Dragon Lord charged toward the island, while True Lord Mysterious Peak and True Lord Purple Thunder pursued him; Liu Qinghe took the four disciples away as Chen Shuangbai left separately.
• True Lord Youluo emerged from a rift with a blood-cloaked companion, while the Copper-Gold Flood Dragon Lord was repelled by the island’s golden barrier.
• True Lord Youluo greeted Chen Shuangbai, who warned him not to avoid their swordsmanship contest this time.

Chen Shuangbai confronted True Lord Youluo and True Lord Red Silk as the two demonic Nascent Soul cultivators attacked the demon lords near the immortal island. After stopping Youluo from striking Demon Lord Jiyi, Chen Shuangbai declared he would block Youluo’s path and launched a surprise attack.

• True Lord Red Silk attacked Ancient Crocodile Demon Lord with a blood hand seal, then wounded him with a blood awl that pierced through the void.
• Copper-Gold Flood Dragon Lord intervened to drive off the blood awl, then fought Red Silk with his Eight Desolations Golden Thunder.
• True Lord Youluo attacked Demon Lord Jiyi, but Chen Shuangbai intercepted his dark-gold demonic light.
• Chen Shuangbai told Youluo he would block his path, vanished, and appeared behind him with the Vast Cold Slaughtering Mystic Light.
• True Lord Youluo met Chen Shuangbai’s attack with a thunderous palm strike, and the two forces collided.

Chen Shuangbai fought True Lord Youluo as the Ten Thousand Ghost Soul-Devouring Wheel unleashed a devastating attack. The chapter ended with the great black-gold sun descending on Chen Shuangbai while the other Nascent Soul cultivators watched in fear.

• The Copper-Gold Flood Dragon Lord ordered Ancient Crocodile and Jiyi to stop True Lord Mysterious Peak and True Lord Purple Thunder from reaching Langhuan Immortal Island.
• True Lord Youluo summoned the Ten Thousand Ghost Soul-Devouring Wheel and unleashed ghost flames against Chen Shuangbai.
• Chen Shuangbai used Foot-Long Silk to extinguish the ghost flames and severely strike the iron wheel, then destroyed True Lord Youluo’s attacking yin ghosts.
• True Lord Youluo opened his third eye and used its purple light to restore the wheel’s power.
• True Lord Youluo sealed the surrounding void and sent the great black-gold sun crashing toward Chen Shuangbai.

Chen Shuangbai used the Heaven-Bearing Grand Simplicity Vast Mystic Light to shatter True Lord Youluo’s Ten Thousand Ghost Soul-Devouring Wheel and gravely injure him. As True Lord Youluo and True Lord Red Silk tried to escape, Chen Shuangbai revealed a terrifying baleful power and vowed to stop them.

• Chen Shuangbai formed the Heaven-Bearing Grand Simplicity Vast Mystic Light and pierced the Ten Thousand Ghost Soul-Devouring Wheel, injuring True Lord Youluo.
• True Lord Red Silk arrived to help True Lord Youluo, and the two decided to flee after realizing they had underestimated Chen Shuangbai.
• Chen Shuangbai slashed True Lord Red Silk into ice crystals, but Red Silk revived using his Blood River Death Substitution Art.
• True Lord Youluo used his escape Divine Ability to make himself and True Lord Red Silk elusive as they attempted to leave with the damaged iron wheel.
• Chen Shuangbai manifested a pitch-black halo edged in scarlet, filled the void with terrifying baleful Qi, and declared that neither man would escape.

Chen Shuangbai struck down True Lord Youluo and True Lord Red Silk with a savage sword attack, stopped the [Ten Thousand Ghost Soul-Devouring Wheel], and captured it while the immortal island vanished. He set out to find Liu Qinghe and report what happened, intending to investigate the island’s appearance and Youluo and Chilian’s plans.

• Chen Shuangbai immobilized the fleeing [Ten Thousand Ghost Soul-Devouring Wheel] and struck True Lord Youluo and True Lord Red Silk as they tried to escape, sending them screaming into a rift in the void.
• Copper-Gold and the other demons fled into the icy sea, while the immortal island disappeared behind its ancient formation.
• Chen Shuangbai kept a clump of golden light containing glowing talisman images and captured the supreme-grade Law Treasure, the iron wheel.
• True Lord Purple Thunder fled, and True Lord Mysterious Peak approached Chen Shuangbai obsequiously, but Chen Shuangbai declined his offer to return to shore.
• Chen Shuangbai left to find Liu Qinghe and report the incident, while wondering why Youluo and Chilian had sought the demon lords’ corpses or souls.

Five Nascent Soul True Lords discovered that an unknown caster was tugging at the seal beneath [Black and Yellow Land] and arranged searches and reinforcements. Chan Master Baoyun then offered Chen Shuangbai three [Golden Lotus Seeds] in exchange for the soul of his martial nephew Jingxu, but Baoyun said he belonged to neither the [Golden Banner] nor [Glazed Glass] lineage.

• Azure Cloud Sword Lord sealed the passage to [Black and Yellow Land], and the five True Lords agreed to use the [Heavenly Star Mystic Divination Wondrous Array] and search for the person influencing the seal.
• Chen Shuangbai reached the entrance and told Qingsongzi and Liu Qinghe about the strange actions of the Holy Origin Demonic Alliance and the Blood Sea Dao.
• Qingsongzi sent Liu Qinghe and the juniors back to the Sword Alliance to inform its Nascent Soul Sword Lords and tighten pressure on the Blood Sea Dao.
• Chan Master Baoyun greeted Chen Shuangbai and offered him three [Golden Lotus Seeds] for Jingxu's soul.
• Chen Shuangbai asked whether Baoyun belonged to the [Golden Banner] or [Glazed Glass] lineage, and Baoyun answered that he belonged to neither.

After exchanging Jingxu's soul for three Golden Lotus Seeds, Chen Shuangbai followed Qingsongzi's advice to seek the Sword Alliance's Sword-Washing Spring to improve Foot-Long Silk. At Cloud-Slaying Hall, the Sword Alliance ordered a harsher campaign against the Blood Sea Dao and Lifeless City, then sent Chen Shuangbai and Liu Qinghe to visit the Sword Stele.

• Chen Shuangbai handed Jingxu's soul to Chan Master Baoyun in exchange for three Golden Lotus Seeds, and Baoyun dissolved the soul into a Buddhist pure land.
• Qingsongzi warned Chen Shuangbai that Foot-Long Silk's mid-grade rank could hinder him and suggested asking his True Lord to use the Liheng Sword Sect's Sword-Washing Spring to improve it.
• Liu Qinghe reported the events at sea to the Sword Alliance's Sword Lords, and Azure Cloud Sword Lord ordered Pure Heart Sword Lord to lead a more forceful offensive against the Blood Sea Dao and Lifeless City.
• Azure Cloud Sword Lord thanked Chen Shuangbai and Liu Qinghe, then invited Chen Shuangbai to leave his Sword Intent on the Sword Stele.
• Nangu Yaohua arrived to escort Chen Shuangbai to the Sword Stele, and Azure Cloud Sword Lord allowed Liu Qinghe to accompany them.

Chen Shuangbai visited the Sword Alliance’s Sword Stele on Lone Wild Goose Peak and experienced the sword intent of the sages whose marks it bore. His own sword intent left a new mark on the stele, where it remained as the chapter ended.

• Nangu Yaohua led Chen Shuangbai and Liu Qinghe to Lone Wild Goose Peak and explained the Sword Stele’s purpose and its lingering slaughter-filled sword intent.
• Nangu Yaohua presented her Liheng Qingyun token, allowing the group to pass the formations guarding the summit.
• Chen Shuangbai released his sword intent, which awakened the mark left by Sword Immortal Huanzhen and caused the other marks to manifest their wonders.
• Chen Shuangbai followed his sword intent into the stele’s multicolored light and experienced the lives and sword insights of the sages who had left marks there.
• Chen Shuangbai’s sword intent emerged from the light, circled the stele, and carved a new, slender mark into its surface.

Chen Shuangbai guided Chen Fuguang and Chen Yazhen’s cultivation at Ten Thousand Ren Mountain while waiting for Nangu Yaohua to arrange access to the Sword-Washing Spring. He taught them a soul-tempering method, examined their combat techniques, and decided to seek help reforging their weapons and treasured rings.

• Chen Shuangbai asked Nangu Yaohua to borrow the Sword-Washing Spring to improve Foot-Long Silk, and she agreed to consult elders about a method that would not leave him without the sword.
• Chen Shuangbai summoned Chen Fuguang and Chen Yazhen, assessed their cultivation, and taught them the Moonlight Spirit-Nourishing Instruction.
• Chen Shuangbai asked Chen Fuguang to hand over the Sun-Blazing Cloud-Breaking Halberd so he could refine it anew.
• Chen Shuangbai considered asking the Sword Alliance for a fourth-tier artificer to reforge Chen Fuguang and Chen Yazhen’s treasured rings as well.
• Chen Fuguang demonstrated the Three Luminaries Destruction Qi, and Chen Yazhen demonstrated the Mystic Yin Annihilation Qi.

Chen Shuangbai received the Sumiao Sword Pavilion's secret sword-tempering method before he and Nangu Yaohua investigated an unexpected surge of spiritual essence on the Ten Thousand Rivers Sea. They discovered devil cultivators and a mysterious demon draining a Mystic Whale to power a vast formation, leaving them to face an unknown scheme.

• Nangu Yaohua used the Sumiao Sword Pavilion's [Heart-Pleasing Mystic Origin Sword-Tempering Method] to temper Chen Shuangbai's [Foot-Long Silk].
• Chen Shuangbai, Nangu Yaohua, and Liu Xinghe found the Ten Thousand Rivers Sea's spiritual essence gathering far earlier and more intensely than expected.
• Chen Shuangbai sent Liu Xinghe to warn Granduncle-Master and the Chan Master while he and Nangu Yaohua followed the disturbance.
• Chen Shuangbai and Nangu Yaohua discovered a formation powered by the blood of a slain Nascent Soul Early Stage Mystic Whale.
• Nangu Yaohua identified True Lord Red Silk and a Lifeless City cultivator among the formation's guards, alongside an unfamiliar Nascent Soul Middle Stage demon.

Chen Shuangbai and Nangu Yaohua were discovered by three powerful Demon Cultivators, prompting Nangu Yaohua to alert the Sword Alliance. Cang Mingkui attacked Chen Shuangbai, and the two clashed in a battle that shattered the surrounding sea and sky.

• Cang Mingkui detected Chen Shuangbai and Nangu Yaohua in hiding and struck at them with ghostly blue lightning, which Chen Shuangbai blocked with the Swaying Moon Sunken Cold Treasure Mirror.
• Nangu Yaohua sent a golden sword to notify the Sword Alliance, while True Lord Red Silk told Cang Mingkui who Chen Shuangbai was and warned him of his skill.
• Cang Mingkui attacked Chen Shuangbai and declared that he would take the treasure mirror, but the mirror's osmanthus projection withstood his strike.
• Cang Mingkui unleashed a powerful punch, and Chen Shuangbai answered with crimson-black sword light, their collision shattering the void and sending enormous waves across the sea.

Chen Shuangbai fought Cang Mingkui, the Nether Lightning Demon Ape, and wounded him with increasingly powerful sword strikes. Cang Mingkui fled into the void, but Chen Shuangbai marked him with a beam of watery light and sent a third strike after him.

• Chen Shuangbai survived Cang Mingkui’s punch and wounded the demon ape’s fist with Foot-Long Silk.
• Nangu Yaohua recognized Cang Mingkui as the Nether Lightning Demon Ape and warned Chen Shuangbai about his strength and history fighting the Flood Dragon Clan.
• Cang Mingkui attacked Chen Shuangbai again, but Chen Shuangbai’s crimson-black sword light shattered his defense and cut from his shoulder to his ribs.
• Cang Mingkui fled into the void, and Chen Shuangbai sent a beam of blue-green light after him to mark his location.
• Chen Shuangbai unleashed a third sword strike, which followed the beam of light toward Cang Mingkui.

Chen Shuangbai and Nangu Yaohua tried to stop True Lord Red Silk from using a formation to break into the Black and Yellow Land, but the Blood River Diagram blocked their attacks. Qingsongzi arrived and trapped the conspirators, only to face Yuandu and Wuchao, two more nascent soul late stage cultivators.

• Cang Mingkui used a mysterious ability to rejoin his severed body and recover, though his presence had weakened.
• True Lord Red Silk opened a rift in the formation to the Black and Yellow Land, prompting Nangu Yaohua to warn that two Nascent Soul Peak demon lords were imprisoned there.
• True Lord Red Silk deployed the Blood River Diagram, which absorbed Chen Shuangbai's sword light and shielded the formation as Cang Mingkui joined the others.
• An azure Sword Essence split the Blood River Diagram and damaged the formation, but True Lord Red Silk and his companions fled toward the rift.
• Qingsongzi appeared, used Locking Heaven and Earth to immobilize the three fugitives, and confronted Yuandu and Wuchao as they emerged from the horizon.

Devil Lord Yuandu and True Lord Wuchao trapped Qingsongzi, Chen Shuangbai, and Nangu Yaohua with their overwhelming forces. Yuandu escaped with Chilian and the others while Wuchao held Qingsongzi back, leaving the three allies surrounded by snow and unable to pursue.

• Qingsongzi protected Chen Shuangbai and Nangu Yaohua as Devil Lord Yuandu and True Lord Wuchao appeared with Nascent Soul Demon Lord allies.
• Yuandu attacked Qingsongzi, but Qingsongzi used the Flower Washing Sword Cleansing Painting to block him.
• Yuandu swept up Chilian and the others and fled toward the closing rift while Wuchao blocked Qingsongzi with snow.
• Wuchao admitted Yuandu had promised her a treasure and said she was doing risky work to pursue the Dao.
• Qingsongzi warned Wuchao that the Sword Alliance's Sword Lords would come after her, and she said she would await them.

After warning Azure Cloud Sword Lord and the Sword Alliance elders about Yuandu’s plan, Chen Shuangbai discovered that the Langhuan Immortal Island was being drawn back into the world. He found six Nascent Soul flood dragons using a formation to summon it, apparently seeking to seize the island and restore their clan’s power.

• Nangu Yaohua told Azure Cloud Sword Lord, Huangshi, Bai Ni, and the other Sword Alliance reinforcements that Yuandu, Chilian, and Bai Yuan were heading for the seals in Lifeless City.
• Azure Cloud Sword Lord decided the Sword Alliance should enter Black and Yellow Land to stop Yuandu, while Nangu Yaohua returned to the alliance and Chen Shuangbai went his own way.
• Chen Shuangbai divined from the golden light he had intercepted and concluded that Langhuan Immortal Island was about to reappear, likely drawn down by someone’s method or formation.
• Chen Shuangbai followed the golden tide and saw six Nascent Soul flood dragons use five treasures, a formation, and a damaged white jade chessboard to draw the immortal island into the world.
• Chen Shuangbai realized the Flood Dragon Clan intended to claim the island, restore its former might, and settle again on Celebrated Splendor Continent.

Chen Shuangbai watched six Nascent Soul flood dragons restore a white jade chessboard and bring Langhuan Immortal Island into the present world. As the dragons prepared to claim the island, True Lord Jinxuan and Kong Yi arrived with the Arrayed Mystery Sect, and the peacock clan appeared to have turned against the flood dragons.

• Chen Shuangbai assessed the six flood dragons and their dark dragon scales, then waited for a chance to disrupt their ritual.
• The flood dragons poured their Yao Qi into the formation until Langhuan Immortal Island broke free of the mist and emerged.
• Beigong Dong ordered the flood dragons to rush onto the island as Chen Shuangbai prepared to act.
• A purple lightning hand seal struck from a shattered rift, and Beigong Dong blocked it with the dark dragon scale's watery light.
• True Lord Jinxuan, True Lord Purple Thunder, and two others appeared; Demon Lord Jiyi bowed to Kong Yi, prompting Beigong Dong to accuse the Peacock Clan of Colored Light Cave of rebellion.

Kong Yi and True Lord Jinxuan tried to stop Beigong Xuan from descending, but his power overwhelmed their attacks. While they confronted the Mystic Flood Dragon Lord, Chen Shuangbai found a weak point in the immortal island’s formation and slipped toward it.

• Beigong Dong revealed that he and Beigong You had summoned Beigong Xuan through a dark pool, and Kong Yi admitted the danger of his descent.
• Kong Yi and True Lord Jinxuan attacked the pool to interrupt Beigong Xuan’s arrival, but his dragon roar shattered their attacks and forced them back.
• Chen Shuangbai kept out of the confrontation and used the Great Yin Dao Fruit to analyze the immortal island’s formation.
• Chen Shuangbai located a weak point southeast of the island and secretly headed toward it under the Great Yin Dao Fruit’s protection.