Chapter Summaries

Zhao Shiyong failed to secure a commitment for reinforcements from the Vast Waves Alliance as the Profound Firmament Sect continued to lose ground to the Net Chan Dao. Meanwhile, Feiguang endured the refinement of True Spirit Demon Marks and emerged as a Nascent Soul Demon Lord, leaving Chen Shuangbai to witness his transformation.

• Zhao Shiyong reported to True Lord Xuanyuan that True Lord Jihai had condemned the Net Chan Dao but given no definite date for sending aid.
• True Lord Xuanyuan told Zhao Shiyong that his own Divine Ability was unstable, Senior Brother Wuling was outmatched, and the Profound Firmament Sect's territory was shrinking.
• Chen Shuangbai watched Feiguang suffer as the True Spirit Demon Marks were refined, while Vast Sea Elder maintained the formation around him.
• Chen Shuangbai sent a wisp of the [Great Yin Dao Fruit]'s power through their Blood Pact, helping Feiguang retain some clarity until he was sealed inside a golden-white egg.
• After forty-nine days, Feiguang emerged from the egg, transformed into a golden-white eagle, and then took human form to thank Chen Shuangbai for his rebirth.
• Feiguang reached the realm of a Nascent Soul Demon Lord.

After the Profound Firmament Sect lost most of its territory, the Vast Waves Alliance chose to wait rather than send reinforcements. When True Lord Wuling was killed by True Person Chilian and True Lord Baixiao, Chen Shuangbai learned that a mysterious method or treasure had boosted a Law Treasure to Spirit Treasure-level power, prompting the alliance to reconsider its inaction.

• Chen Shuangbai and the Vast Waves Alliance leaders discussed the Profound Firmament Sect's collapse and agreed to wait before offering aid.
• Feiguang asked Chen Shuangbai whether the Profound Firmament Sect's hidden Spirit Treasure was incomplete or being held in reserve, and Chen Shuangbai said the alliance would watch.
• Feiguang reported that True Lord Wuling had fallen after True Person Chilian trapped him with the [Blood River Diagram] and joined forces with True Lord Baixiao to kill him.
• True Lord Jihai told Chen Shuangbai that another object had enabled the [Blood River Diagram] to wield Low-Grade Spirit Treasure power, though its effect seemed temporary.
• Chen Shuangbai and True Lord Jihai suspected the power came from a legacy of the True Net Cult and concluded that the Vast Waves Alliance could no longer remain passive.

After True Lord Wuling fell, the Profound Firmament Sect debated whether to deploy its unfinished Spirit Treasure while True Lord Xuanyuan sought help from the Sword Alliance and Vast Waves Alliance. Several days later, True Lord Red Silk and True Lord Baixiao attacked the sect’s mountain formation, and Xuanyuan called on his disciples to fight.

• True Lord Xuanyuan ordered the Profound Firmament Sect’s members to guard the formation after Wuling’s death, then heard Golden Core cultivators argue over whether to use their unfinished Spirit Treasure.
• True Lord Xuanyuan decided the matter and dismissed the sect’s Golden Core cultivators, while Zhao Shiyong and Han Zhao reported that the Sword Alliance and Vast Waves Alliance had not committed to sending aid.
• Several days later, True Lord Red Silk and True Lord Baixiao surrounded the Profound Firmament Sect and demanded that Xuanyuan open the formation.
• True Lord Xuanyuan taunted Red Silk over the Blood Sea Dao’s defeat and retreat, while Baixiao urged Red Silk to attack.
• True Lord Red Silk struck the mountain-protecting formation with the Nine Nether Ghost Blood Great Hand Seal, damaging parts of it, and Xuanyuan rallied the sect’s disciples to fight.

Net Chan Dao attacked the Profound Firmament Sect while Nascent Soul cultivators watched, waiting for True Lord Xuanyuan to offer the Spirit Treasure. After he pledged it to the Vast Waves Alliance in exchange for help, Chen Shuangbai agreed and struck down Chilian as he tried to flee.

• True Lord Baixiao used the Filial Son Banner to overwhelm the Profound Firmament Sect's Golden Core cultivators, while Chen Shuangbai, True Lord Suwen, Qingsongzi, and other Nascent Souls watched from the void.
• Yuan Jun Sword Lord arrived but did not intervene, as Dao Master Beiku's threatening gaze warned the observers against interfering.
• True Lord Xuanyuan continued bargaining as his disciples fell, until he offered the Profound Firmament Sect's Spirit Treasure and allegiance to the Vast Waves Alliance in exchange for its intervention.
• Chen Shuangbai accepted the offer, prompting Chilian to flee on his black wolf.
• Chen Shuangbai split the void with a golden-white strike that pierced Chilian and tore through Net Chan Dao's army before crashing into the ground.

Chen Shuangbai intervened to save the Profound Firmament Sect after True Lord Xuanyuan offered a Spirit Treasure, then killed Chilian and destroyed the [Blood River Diagram], leaving Bai Xiao frozen in fear.

• True Lord Xuanyuan offered the Vast Waves Alliance a Spirit Treasure in exchange for preserving the Profound Firmament Sect’s Dao lineage.
• Chen Shuangbai struck True Lord Red Silk down as Chilian tried to argue that the conflict was between the Net Chan Dao and the Profound Firmament Sect.
• Chen Shuangbai’s white eagle seized the [Blood River Diagram] before Chilian could escape through it.
• Chen Shuangbai shattered the [Blood River Diagram], annihilating Chilian and causing bloody rain to fall across the region.
• Chen Shuangbai had the white eagle burn the tattered scroll, destroying the primordial spirit consciousness within while Bai Xiao stood frozen in terror.

After Chen Shuangbai defeated Net Chan Dao’s forces, the Profound Firmament Sect submitted to the Vast Waves Alliance and brought its unfinished Ninefold Heaven-Conquering Thunder Drum to Calming Waves City. The alliance leaders agreed to manage the treasure jointly and decided that every sect would contribute materials to forge its missing drumsticks.

• Chen Shuangbai and True Lord Suwen met Han Zhao and Zhao Shiyong, who respectfully addressed Chen as True Lord Xuhong instead of as an old friend.
• True Lord Xuanyuan agreed to travel to Calming Waves City and meet True Lord Jihai as the Profound Firmament Sect joined the Vast Waves Alliance.
• True Lord Jihai, True Lord Suwen, Chen Shuangbai, and Old Man Fish Pillow examined the unfinished Ninefold Heaven-Conquering Thunder Drum in a sealed hall.
• Old Man Fish Pillow proposed that the alliance jointly manage the drum and use it to anchor the alliance’s fortunes once it became a Spirit Treasure.
• Chen Shuangbai agreed to joint management and asked every allied sect to contribute spiritual materials for forging the drumsticks.

Chen Shuangbai returned to the Jade Spring Sect and consulted Vast Sea Elder about completing the [Ninefold Heaven-Conquering Thunder Drum], then resumed cultivating as turmoil spread across the seas and the continent. The Flood Dragon Clan’s expansion drove demons into human waters, while the Arrayed Mystery Sect saved Lotus Temple and brought the Buddhist Alliance into the Orthodox Mystery Alliance’s fold.

• Chen Shuangbai returned to the Jade Spring Sect and asked Vast Sea Elder to assess how to forge the [Ninefold Heaven-Conquering Thunder Drum]’s matching drumsticks.
• The Flood Dragon Clan drove most of the Sixteen Demon Caves from the outer seas, forcing Demon Cultivators into the coastal waters and devastating human settlements and fleets.
• Gao Yi told Chen Shuangbai that Beigong Xuan had injured Tower Lord Yunlai during negotiations, prompting human factions in the coastal waters to retreat.
• True Lord Jinxuan arrived with the [Nine Heavens Thunderstrike Bow] and pierced Dao Lord Beiku’s Buddhist Dharma manifestation, saving Lotus Temple from destruction.
• The Buddhist Alliance dissolved and joined the Arrayed Mystery Sect, extending the Orthodox Mystery Alliance’s territory from the Zheng Kingdom into the Yuan Kingdom.

The Arrayed Mystery Sect obtained the Green Goat Expounding Mystery Pearl from the Lotus Temple, then allied with the Net Chan Dao and left the Lotus Temple exposed to its enemies. As the alliance’s assault pushed the Heavenly Star Mystic Sect toward defeat, Chen Shuangbai arrived at Yandang Pass with Vast Waves Alliance reinforcements and asked about the fighting.

• Tongchi and Baolin gave the Green Goat Expounding Mystery Pearl to the Arrayed Mystery Sect, while Baoyun left with some disciples and the Lotus Temple joined the sect.
• The Arrayed Mystery Sect allied with the Net Chan Dao, and Beiku killed Baolin and besieged Tongchi inside the Lesser Lotus Pure Land.
• The Arrayed Mystery Sect and Net Chan Dao attacked the Heavenly Star Mystic Sect, overrunning seven strongholds and later killing five Golden Core cultivators and one Nascent Soul cultivator.
• The Sword Alliance delayed sending aid, while the Vast Waves Alliance weighed whether it needed to defend its territory from the advancing front.
• Chen Shuangbai arrived at Yandang Pass with Feiguang, four disciples, and Vast Waves Alliance reinforcements, then asked Zhou Jin about the fighting and its commander.

Chen Shuangbai arrived to reinforce the beleaguered Heavenly Star Mystic Sect at Yandang Pass, where the Orthodox Mystery Alliance and Net Chan Dao had gathered six Nascent Soul True Lords. As the enemy forces converged, Xuanchengzi, True Lord Baishi, and True Lord Jinxuan arrived, bringing three Nascent Soul Late Stage powers face to face.

• Hong Qing told Chen Shuangbai that the Heavenly Star Mystic Sect had lost ten branch altars, eight Golden Core cultivators, and one Nascent Soul cultivator.
• Three days later, Chen Shuangbai saw six Nascent Soul True Lords among the attacking forces at Yandang Pass, while Hong Qing explained that True Lord Mysterious Peak had been killed.
• Chen Shuangbai unleashed his Divine Abilities above Yandang Pass, and the six enemy Nascent Souls regarded him warily.
• Xuanchengzi arrived in his hexagonal mystic tower, and he and True Lord Baishi exchanged accusations about their past conflict.
• True Lord Jinxuan arrived as Xuanchengzi and True Lord Baishi brought their Nascent Soul Late Stage powers into a clash that shook the surrounding region.

True Lord Baishi and True Lord Jinxuan began an all-out battle with their sect-guarding treasures, while Xuanchengzi attacked Chen Shuangbai at Yandang Pass. Chen Shuangbai dodged Xuanchengzi’s palm strike and countered with his treasured sword, leaving their duel unresolved as the fighting threatened the defenders and the pass.

• True Lord Baishi accused True Lord Jinxuan of betraying the Arrayed Mystery Sect’s reputation, then summoned the Five Dragons Five Luminaries Devil-Suppressing Wheel and attacked him.
• True Lord Jinxuan countered with the Nine Heavens Thunderstrike Bow and warned Baishi that Xuanchengzi could destroy the Heavenly Star Mystic Sect’s disciples and territory.
• At Yandang Pass, Xuanchengzi challenged Chen Shuangbai for intervening on the Heavenly Star Alliance’s behalf, and Chen Shuangbai answered with a sword strike that marked Xuanchengzi’s mystic tower.
• Xuanchengzi unleashed blue-and-white mystic flames that consumed cultivators and threatened Yandang Pass, then struck Chen Shuangbai with his palm.
• Chen Shuangbai evaded the blow and struck from behind with his treasured sword; Xuanchengzi blocked it with his palm, and their clash sent shock waves across the battlefield.

Chen Shuangbai unleashed his swordsmanship against Xuanchengzi, destroying his soul banner and hexagonal mystic tower and taking out one of his eyes. As Xuanchengzi rose to fight back, Chen Shuangbai challenged him to stop dodging.

• Chen Shuangbai used [Foot-Long Silk] to unleash [Zhengguang Jielin Jade Pool Flying Immortal Sword], severing Xuanchengzi's black soul banner and annihilating its fiends and yin ghosts.
• A scarlet comet struck Xuanchengzi before he could escape, wounding his right eye and tearing a huge breach into his hexagonal mystic tower.
• Xuanchengzi summoned the tower to shield himself, but Chen Shuangbai's follow-up strike shattered it as Xuanchengzi fled into the distance.
• Xuanchengzi's right eye turned pitch-black with scarlet and black-gold light as black-gold flames covered his body, and he accused Chen Shuangbai of destroying his eye.
• Chen Shuangbai's eyes turned scarlet as he invoked the comet's baleful power and asked Xuanchengzi why he was dodging.

Xuanchengzi used the True Net Cult’s techniques to suppress Chen Shuangbai, then transformed into a towering Dharma Body and greatly increased the power of his Long Firmament Mystic Thunder. Chen Shuangbai escaped the strike with the Grand Yin Authority but was wounded and faced the strengthened Xuanchengzi in the void.

• Xuanchengzi’s dark-gold attacks failed to hit Chen Shuangbai, whose crimson sword light severely damaged Xuanchengzi’s black soul banner and hexagonal mystic tower.
• Xuanchengzi spread Withering and Flourishing True Qi to force Chen Shuangbai out of hiding, then trapped him with six talismans and struck with Long Firmament Mystic Thunder.
• Chen Shuangbai unfolded the Water-Heaven Pure White Dharma Realm, whose five-colored watery light weakened Xuanchengzi’s thunder.
• Xuanchengzi used Locking Heaven and Earth to suppress Chen Shuangbai, then transformed into a Dharma Body with a six-colored Dharma wheel.
• Chen Shuangbai broke free of the talismans but was blasted toward the manifest world by Xuanchengzi’s strengthened Long Firmament Mystic Thunder.
• Chen Shuangbai escaped using the Grand Yin Authority, suppressed the dark lightning in his wounded body, and recognized Xuanchengzi’s technique as the True Net Mystic Heaven Six Methods.

Nascent Soul cultivator Feiguang used its speed and demonic fire to pressure the Renewed Net Sect and kill a black eagle, while Xuanchengzi revealed his late-stage strength and overwhelmed Chen Shuangbai. As Chen Shuangbai's power began to transform under the pressure, Xuanchengzi launched a white halberd of Metal Qi at him.

• Feiguang's attacks forced the Renewed Net Sect and Arrayed Mystery Sect Nascent Soul cultivators to fight defensively while supporting the Heavenly Star Mystic Sect.
• Feiguang caught the black-robed Renewed Net Sect Daoist and his black eagle with demonic fire, burning the eagle to ash before the Daoist sacrificed his right arm and escaped.
• Xuanchengzi revealed his [Six Heavens Mystic Wheel Heavenly King True Body] and declared that Chen Shuangbai's path ended there.
• Chen Shuangbai endured Xuanchengzi's pressure as the Moon Comet Star's insights and his manifestations began to change.
• Xuanchengzi condensed a white halberd from Metal Qi and hurled it at the locked-in-place Chen Shuangbai.

Chen Shuangbai survived Xuanchengzi’s devastating halberd strike by deliberately approaching the Moon Comet’s true intention. He revealed his second Sword Intent, [The Flowing Crimson Pearl Sword That Pierces the Hidden Dark], as Xuanchengzi prepared to strike again.

• Xuanchengzi’s white halberd pierced Chen Shuangbai and devastated the battlefield, leaving the sword immortal seemingly near death.
• Hong Qing feared the consequences for his household if Chen Shuangbai died and the Jade Spring Sect sought vengeance.
• True Lord Baishi moved to aid Chen Shuangbai, but True Lord Jinxuan stopped him and the two resumed fighting.
• Xuanchengzi prepared to extract Chen Shuangbai’s soul, but Chen Shuangbai opened his crimson-star eyes and revealed that he had endured the strike deliberately to approach the Moon Comet’s true intention.
• Xuanchengzi attacked with two white halberds, and Chen Shuangbai raised [Foot-Long Silk] and revealed his second Sword Intent, [The Flowing Crimson Pearl Sword That Pierces the Hidden Dark].

Chen Shuangbai revealed a second Sword Intent and overwhelmed Xuanchengzi, carving apart his Dharma Body and sending him crashing into the earth. The crimson star then tore across the Yong Kingdom, leaving mountains severed in its wake.

• Xuanchengzi realized Chen Shuangbai possessed two Sword Intents and was left stunned by his sword talent.
• Chen Shuangbai used Dew-Drinking Radiance to restore his wounds while his crimson Sword Intent grew stronger.
• Xuanchengzi's attack failed, and Chen Shuangbai's Sword Intent cut away half of his Six Heavens Mystic Wheel Heavenly King True Body.
• True Lord Jinxuan and True Lord Baishi stopped fighting and watched in shock as Chen Shuangbai praised Xuanchengzi's Dharma Body.
• Chen Shuangbai's crimson comet struck Xuanchengzi and shattered his Heavenly King Dharma Body.
• Xuanchengzi was hurled into the earth, and the crimson star raced across the Yong Kingdom, cutting mountains apart with its shock waves.

Chen Shuangbai defeated Xuanchengzi and rejected True Lord Jinxuan’s offer to negotiate, then cleaved through Jinxuan’s thunder arrow and left him nearly destroyed. The battle ended with Chen Shuangbai still focused on the helpless Xuanchengzi.

• Chen Shuangbai pulled the battered Xuanchengzi into the air and left him unable to move.
• True Lord Jinxuan arrived with the injured True Lord Baishi and offered Chen Shuangbai terms to spare Xuanchengzi.
• Chen Shuangbai refused to negotiate, and True Lord Jinxuan fired a golden-and-purple thunder arrow from the [Nine Heavens Thunderstrike Bow].
• Chen Shuangbai struck with the [Flowing Scarlet Pearl Pierces Hidden Darkness Sword] and split the thunder arrow into four.
• Chen Shuangbai’s sword intent shattered True Lord Jinxuan’s purple-gold cauldron and destroyed his upper body.
• Chen Shuangbai turned back toward Xuanchengzi as the watching cultivators stared in shock.

After Chen Shuangbai killed Xuanchengzi with his second Sword Intent, the armies withdrew and the cultivation world reeled from the fall of a Nascent Soul late stage cultivator. Chen Shuangbai recuperated in the Jade Spring Sect’s Dew Radiance Pool while True Lord Qingchen stood guard and Yajie warned that his dangerous gambles could bring ruin.

• Xuanchengzi’s teleportation talisman broke, and Chen Shuangbai killed him with the crimson Sword Intent, destroying his Dharma body and soul.
• Xuanchengzi’s death sent ominous celestial signs across the Yong Kingdom and shocked the cultivation world.
• The Net Chan Dao and Orthodox Mystery Alliance armies withdrew from the Yong Kingdom, followed by the Heavenly Star Alliance and Vast Waves Alliance forces.
• True Lord Qingchen returned to the Jade Spring Sect after learning Chen Shuangbai was injured and guarded him as he recuperated in the Dew Radiance Pool.
• Yajie warned True Lord Qingchen that Chen Shuangbai’s willingness to gamble with his life could lead to disaster, and Qingchen accused Yajie of sounding jealous.

Gao Ling told the Gao Clan patriarch about Chen Shuangbai’s victory at Yandang Pass and his breakthrough to a second Sword Intent, leaving the patriarch determined to secure the Jade Spring Sect’s patronage. He ordered Gao Ling to bring a treasured spiritual resource and the clan to visit Chen Shuangbai and make up for Yi’er’s neglected apprenticeship gift.

• Gao Ling reported the conflict with the Flood Dragon Clan, and the Gao Clan patriarch urged the eight great immortal markets and their allies to stand together against Beigong Xuan.
• Gao Ling recounted how Chen Shuangbai defeated Xuanchengzi, wounded True Lord Jinxuan, killed Xuanchengzi, and turned the situation in the Yong Kingdom around.
• Gao Ling revealed that Chen Shuangbai had comprehended a second Sword Intent and was not yet two hundred years old, shocking the Gao Clan patriarch.
• The Gao Clan patriarch worried that the clan’s relationship with the Jade Spring Sect was not close enough and decided to seek Chen Shuangbai’s patronage.
• The Gao Clan patriarch ordered Gao Ling to take a supreme-grade fourth-tier spiritual resource and clan members to visit Chen Shuangbai and present it as Yi’er’s overdue apprenticeship gift.

After consulting his ancestor, Gao Ling led the Azure Wave Gao Clan to Jade Spring Sect to curry favor with Chen Shuangbai, prompting rival immortal-market leaders to rush there as well. True Lord Qingchen told them that although Chen Shuangbai’s true body was recovering in seclusion, they could speak with his incarnation.

• The Gao Clan ancestor ordered Gao Ling to use a precious fourth-tier spiritual resource as a gift and secure the Far-Reaching Luminous Sword Immortal’s favor for Gao Yi and the clan.
• Gao Ling gathered the branch leaders and Gao Hao, then set out for Jade Spring Sect with gifts.
• Gu Nianzhou and An Yuanzhen arrived at the sect and discovered that Gao Ling had beaten them there.
• At Jade Soul Palace, True Lord Qingchen explained that Chen Shuangbai’s true body could not receive them because he was recovering from injuries.
• Gao Ling described his visit as a belated congratulatory gift, and True Lord Qingchen offered to let the three market heads speak with Chen Shuangbai’s incarnation.

After healing from Xuanchengzi’s attack during thirty-odd years of seclusion, Chen Shuangbai emerged and learned that the sect had received gifts from visitors impressed by his victory. He advised his four disciples, then revealed that he still held two sword intents within himself, sustained by the Great Yin Dao Fruit.

• Chen Shuangbai emerged from the treasure pool after thirty-odd years, his wounds healed, and Zhanlu updated him on the sect’s visitors and gifts.
• Chen Shuangbai examined his four disciples and saw that their cultivation had advanced during his seclusion.
• Gao Yi told Chen Shuangbai he had reached Foundation Establishment Late Stage and begun to approach sword essence.
• Chen Shuangbai bestowed sword intent on Gao Yi and advised him to strengthen his foundation before advancing to Golden Core.
• Chen Shuangbai guided his other disciples and sent them away after Lu Xiangyuan joked that his emergence would unsettle people outside the sect.
• Chen Shuangbai revealed a gold-white bird and a scarlet cross in his palms, showing that he held two sword intents because of the Great Yin Dao Fruit.