Chapter Summaries

Chen Shuangbai recovered from his long seclusion after reconciling his two Sword Intents and refining his cultivation arts. After rewarding his disciples and aiding Ding Chengyu, he went to meet the Jade Parasol Tree, whose spiritual intelligence had awakened.

• Chen Shuangbai examined how his Grand Yin and Moon Comet Sword Intents strengthened his Divine Abilities and reflected on the evolution of his five-colored water art.
• After several months cultivating in the Dew Radiance Pool, Chen Shuangbai recovered to his peak and returned to the sect.
• Chen Shuangbai sent Feiguang with a sword cultivation method tailored for his fourth disciple, Gao Yi.
• Chen Shuangbai congratulated Ding Chengyu on reaching the middle Golden Core stage and gave him compassionate sweet spirit water to remedy his aptitude.
• Ding Chengyu told Chen Shuangbai that the Jade Parasol Tree had awakened with intelligence comparable to a Golden Core cultivator and wished to meet him.
• Chen Shuangbai took Ding Chengyu to Parasol Tree Valley to meet the Jade Parasol Tree.

Chen Shuangbai visited Parasol Tree Valley, where Qingxing revealed a new fruit created with the Supreme Origin Azure Wood. After learning that True Person Mei’s breakthrough to Nascent Soul had run into trouble, Chen Shuangbai brought the fruit to him, but the chapter left the nature of the complication unresolved.

• Chen Shuangbai entered Parasol Tree Valley with Ding Chengyu and met Fang Xiao beneath the Jade Parasol Tree.
• Qingxing manifested as an azure sparrow and gave Chen Shuangbai an Azure Parasol Tree Star Fruit, explaining that it could heal injuries and repair foundations but could only be condensed once every ten years.
• Chen Shuangbai instructed Fang Xiao to care for Qingxing, then returned to the Myriad Phenomena Hall and proposed sending the fruit to True Person Mei.
• True Lord Qingchen said the fruit had arrived at the right time, and Chen Shuangbai realized True Person Mei’s Nascent Soul breakthrough had encountered complications.
• Chen Shuangbai sensed disordered frost-and-snow Sword Essence inside True Person Mei’s hall and asked whether something had gone wrong with his cultivation.

True Lord Ling Yuan completed her advancement to the Nascent Soul realm with help from True Lord Qingchen and Chen Shuangbai. As the Vast Waves Alliance prepared to invade the Orthodox Mystery Alliance, Chen Shuangbai ordered Zhanlu to guard the sect and took Shenyang and Feiguang with him to war.

• True Lord Qingchen used an Azure Parasol Tree Star Fruit to calm the restless Sword Essence surrounding True Person Mei as she advanced.
• One year later, True Person Mei emerged as True Lord Ling Yuan, having successfully entered the Nascent Soul realm.
• True Lord Ling Yuan thanked Chen Shuangbai, and she and True Lord Qingchen praised his loyalty to the Jade Spring Sect after he left their discussion.
• The Vast Waves Alliance assembled its fleet near Sunken Jade Valley and began advancing toward Zhao Kingdom to attack the Net Chan Dao and Orthodox Mystery Alliance.
• Ding Chengyu told Chen Shuangbai that the Qian Kingdom and Wu Country armies would cross Yong Kingdom, while the Turbid Wave Pavilion and Flower Washing Sword Sect feared displeasing the Heavenly Star Alliance.
• Chen Shuangbai sent Zhanlu to guard the sect and chose Shenyang and Feiguang to accompany him into battle.

The Vast Waves Alliance launched a three-pronged invasion of Yuan Kingdom and Zheng Kingdom, while its Jing Kingdom army stopped at the Profound Firmament Sect in Zhao Kingdom. After securing the sect’s outward cooperation, Chen Shuangbai announced that he would uproot the Black River Water Manor on its behalf.

• The Vast Waves Alliance sent three armies into Yuan Kingdom and Zheng Kingdom, while the Sword Alliance and Heavenly Star Alliance made no move to stop them.
• The Wu Country and Qian Kingdom armies broke through the Arrayed Mystery Sect’s forward outposts after three days of battle.
• Chen Shuangbai’s army stopped at the Profound Firmament Sect, where True Lord Xuanyuan welcomed him and supplied the cultivators.
• Chen Shuangbai asked whether the Black River Water Manor still controlled half of Zhao Kingdom.
• Chen Shuangbai told True Lord Xuanyuan that he would uproot the Black River Water Manor that day.

True Lord Xuanyuan received Far-Reaching Luminous Sword Immortal’s decree bearing the word “Scram” and ordered Zhao Shiyong to deliver it to the Black River Water Manor. The decree killed the Black Flood Dragon, a Nascent Soul Middle Stage Demon Lord, and left Zhao Shiyong and the watching cultivators stunned.

• Feiguang gave True Lord Xuanyuan the Sword Immortal’s jade-silk decree, which bore the single word “Scram.”
• True Lord Xuanyuan hesitated over provoking the Black Flood Dragon, but Han Zhao urged him to deliver the decree, and Zhao Shiyong set out for the water manor.
• The next day, True Lord Xuanyuan witnessed golden-white radiance and crimson light strike the Black Flood Dragon amid a storm.
• The Black River Water Manor’s crystal palace collapsed, and the Black Flood Dragon’s corpse was pinned to the sky as dragon blood rained down.
• Zhao Shiyong recalled that the Black Flood Dragon had attacked him after reading the decree, only to be slain by the Sword Intent released from it.

Chen Shuangbai led his army into the Yuan Kingdom, where sect representatives asked him to destroy the Compassionate Chan Way. He saw their request as partly sincere and partly self-serving, and the chapter ended with him weighing their appeal.

• Chen Shuangbai ordered Feiguang to keep the Black Flood Dragon’s remains for the sect after warning the Flood Dragon Clan not to meddle in the inner seas.
• Chen Shuangbai’s army reached the Yuan Kingdom after half a month, and representatives from six immortal sects and three unorthodox paths requested an audience.
• True Lord Xuantong thanked Chen Shuangbai for killing Xuanchengzi, whose Renewed Net Sect had recruited disciples from Yuan Kingdom sects.
• True Lord Xuantong said the Compassionate Chan Way had persecuted Yuan Kingdom cultivators and asked Chen Shuangbai to eradicate it, offering the assembled sects’ full strength in support.
• Chen Shuangbai recognized that the representatives’ gratitude was genuine but that their desire to eliminate the Compassionate Chan Way was partly driven by ambitions to expand.

Chen Shuangbai confronted Dao Master Beiku at Lotus Temple and discovered that the Compassionate Chan Way had linked its Three Paths Sea of Suffering Grand Formation to Yuan Kingdom’s earth veins. As Beiku prepared to unleash the formation, a crimson-black baleful star immobilized the temple, leaving him facing a mysterious power that began to form a bright moon.

• Chen Shuangbai surveyed Lotus Temple and saw its disciples, the Compassionate Chan Way’s core disciples, and three Nascent Soul cultivators bound into the Three Paths Sea of Suffering Grand Formation.
• Dao Master Beiku appeared and challenged Chen Shuangbai, claiming his formation could withstand the dual Sword Intents that had defeated Xuanchengzi.
• Chen Shuangbai discovered the formation was connected to Yuan Kingdom’s earth veins, and True Lord Xuantong condemned Beiku for endangering the kingdom’s fortune.
• Beiku declared that sacrificing the world’s living beings was justified by the Compassionate Chan Way’s mission to cleanse its supposed filth.
• A crimson-black cross-shaped baleful star appeared above Lotus Temple and slowed the formation, its monsters, and the effort to wrench out the earth veins.
• Beiku recognized an unseen power as the Nascent Soul cultivators and flying boats vanished, while a golden-white bird joined the baleful star and their radiance began forming a bright moon.

Chen Shuangbai severed the Lotus Temple’s earth-vein connections and defeated Beiku by unleashing the Moon Comet Sword Intent against the Compassionate Chan Way master’s empowered grand formation. The battle ended with Beiku dead and his body split into four pieces.

• Chen Shuangbai briefly froze everyone’s thoughts with an imitation of the Power of Time, then used the [Truth-Revering Purple Radiance Heavenly Gate of Inherited Illumination] to sever the Lotus Temple’s earth-vein connections.
• Beiku recognized Chen Shuangbai’s display as the Power of Time and demanded to know what other trump cards he had.
• Beiku activated the [Three Paths Sea of Suffering Grand Formation], sacrificing Lotus Temple disciples and drawing power from the formation’s three Nascent Soul anchors to strengthen himself.
• Beiku transformed into a mountain-sized demonic Dharma manifestation and fired a devastating beam of bloody light at Chen Shuangbai.
• Chen Shuangbai countered with the crimson cross-star, broke through the grand formation, and cleaved Beiku’s Dharma body into four pieces.
• Chen Shuangbai taunted Beiku as the master’s body became a stone statue and the formation’s black flames, blood vines, and lotuses dissipated.

Chen Shuangbai discovered the ruined Lotus Temple Pure Land and confronted Tongchi, its last surviving cultivator, who was dying from Beiku’s corruption. Tongchi passed into nirvana after entrusting the Pure Land to Baoyun and giving Chen Shuangbai the New Frost Spirit Osmanthus Treasure Branch.

• Chen Shuangbai used his Dharma sight to see Tongchi trapped in the corrupted Lesser Lotus Pure Land.
• Tongchi recognized that Chen Shuangbai had killed Beiku with dual Sword Intents and bowed to him.
• Tongchi admitted responsibility for the Lotus Temple’s downfall and said he would not ask forgiveness.
• Tongchi asked Chen Shuangbai to deliver the Pure Land into Baoyun’s hands and offered him the New Frost Spirit Osmanthus Treasure Branch.
• Chen Shuangbai accepted the branch and agreed to Tongchi’s request, after which Tongchi’s golden body disintegrated into motes that extinguished the remaining black flames and blood rain.

Chen Shuangbai secured the Grand Yin spiritual resource from Lotus Temple and stationed the Vast Waves Alliance in the Yuan Kingdom to prevent the Compassionate Chan Way from returning. He then led the fleet toward the Renewed Net Sect, where Shenyang had begun attacking its island stronghold.

• The Vast Waves Alliance left disciples and ships near Lotus Temple, and a Jade Spring Sect disciple announced that a Nascent Soul True Lord would oversee the area to keep the Compassionate Chan Way from rising again.
• Chen Shuangbai examined the New Frost Spirit Osmanthus Treasure Branch and Swaying Moon Sunken Cold Treasure Mirror, while Foot-Long Silk's sword spirit guarded the branch.
• Chen Shuangbai led the fleet across the Yuan Kingdom's coastal waters toward the Renewed Net Sect, leaving Qingsongzi to oversee the battlefield in the Zheng Kingdom.
• Chen Shuangbai and Feiguang tore open the void and appeared above the Renewed Net Sect's island, where Shenyang was striking its grand formation.

Shenyang battered the island’s formation while Chen Shuangbai discovered that Xiaoyun was merging with the island’s Spirit Vein. Chen Shuangbai froze Xiaoyun with his crimson star and confronted her about Xuanchengzi’s promise.

• Shenyang struck the island’s formation repeatedly as Chen Shuangbai and Feiguang watched from concealment.
• Feiguang and Chen Shuangbai judged that the formation was close to breaking, and Chen Shuangbai urged Shenyang to stop playing around.
• Shenyang prepared the Golden Light Heaven-Soaring Divine Fist and demanded that the defenders open the formation or die.
• Tingqiao asked Xiaoyun to open the formation and escape, but Xiaoyun resisted, warning that Shenyang’s attack could destroy the coastal waters.
• Chen Shuangbai noticed that Xiaoyun was merging with the island’s Spirit Vein, then descended through the formation and asked what Xuanchengzi had promised her.
• Chen Shuangbai’s crimson star immobilized everyone on the island and suppressed Xiaoyun’s Law Power and Divine Abilities.

Chen Shuangbai broke the restriction guarding Xuanchengzi’s treasure and discovered a True Net Cult inheritance mystic stele inside a treasure platform. After taking the platform, he found that Tingqiao had escaped by abandoning his body, and sent Feiguang to pursue Tingqiao’s Nascent Soul.

• Chen Shuangbai used Fallen Toad Light to break the restriction at the island’s Spirit Vein confluence and reveal a miniature treasure platform.
• Chen Shuangbai entered the platform, identified its mystic stele as a likely True Net Cult inheritance, and took the platform with him.
• Chen Shuangbai discovered that Tingqiao had escaped by leaving his fleshly body behind and transferring his soul elsewhere.
• Chen Shuangbai summoned Feiguang and Shenyang, then gave Feiguang a comet star and ordered him to retrieve Tingqiao’s escaped Nascent Soul.
• Feiguang flew off carrying the comet star to pursue Tingqiao.

True Lord Tingqiao fled across the Spirit Gauze Sea as a nascent soul, hoping to reach a hidden refuge, but Feiguang intercepted him repeatedly. Feiguang defeated and captured Tingqiao, then took his demonic banners and ghost ship as spoils.

• Tingqiao sacrificed nascent soul essence to flee deep into the Spirit Gauze Sea and planned to hide, rebuild his strength, and eventually seek revenge on Chen Shuangbai.
• Feiguang pursued Tingqiao, using his lord's Sword Intent to track him and repeatedly cutting off his escape routes by splitting the void.
• Tingqiao summoned nine demonic banners and a ghost ship to halt his nascent soul's depletion, but rejected Feiguang's demand to surrender.
• Feiguang countered Tingqiao's techniques with his glazed-glass demonic light and defeated him in less than a quarter of an hour.
• Feiguang swallowed Tingqiao's nascent soul to suppress him, collected the banners and ghost ship, and departed.

Chen Shuangbai’s Vast Waves Alliance forces destroyed an Arrayed Mystery Sect stronghold as their invasion of the Zheng Kingdom continued. At Profound Peak Spirit Mountain, the battered sect’s leaders gathered with the last two Compassionate Chan Way masters, facing an increasingly desperate war.

• Chen Shuangbai’s army advanced into the Zheng Kingdom and attacked an Arrayed Mystery Sect stronghold, with Feiguang’s demon fire overwhelming its defenders.
• Shenyang gave Chen Shuangbai a talisman treasure called Heaven Sundering, which had let Tingqiao’s soul escape Chen Shuangbai’s Sword Intent.
• Feiguang consumed Tingqiao after Shenyang had interrogated him, and the Vast Waves Alliance’s forces captured the stronghold in less than half a day.
• The Vast Waves Alliance’s army regrouped and continued toward the Zheng Kingdom’s heartland, leaving the ruined stronghold behind.
• At Profound Peak Spirit Mountain, the Arrayed Mystery Sect’s nascent souls met with Jiali and Jiaxi, the last surviving masters of the Compassionate Chan Way.

Jixuan convened the Arrayed Mystery Sect’s Nascent Soul cultivators as the Vast Waves Alliance advanced, and proposed activating a costly last-resort measure to defend the sect. Chen Shuangbai learned the sect had retreated to fortified passes and might possess a trump card designed to counter him.

• Jixuan told the Arrayed Mystery Sect’s leaders that Chen Shuangbai’s army would reach their final defensive pass within ten days and urged them to delay the alliance’s advance.
• True Lord Purple Thunder objected to sacrificing more disciples, and Jixuan proposed withdrawing behind fortified positions while elite squads harassed the enemy’s supply lines.
• Jixuan announced his intention to activate the sect’s secret last resort, which True Lord Linyuan and Purple Thunder recognized could consume generations of the sect’s reserves.
• Qu Heng reported to Chen Shuangbai that the Arrayed Mystery Sect had withdrawn into three provinces and fortified three passes guarded by Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Qu Heng warned Chen Shuangbai that the sect’s leaders had been meeting frequently and might be preparing a trump card capable of countering the Sword Immortal.

Chen Shuangbai’s army reached Divine Register City, where Jixuan revealed four linked treasure cauldrons as the Arrayed Mystery Sect’s final defense. The cauldrons strengthened the city’s formation, and Jixuan challenged Chen Shuangbai to break through it.

• Chen Shuangbai’s army advanced through the Arrayed Mystery Sect’s outposts and arrived at the fortified Divine Register City.
• Qu Heng identified Jixuan, True Lord Purple Thunder, and an unknown Buddhist cultivator as the city’s defenders.
• Chen Shuangbai taunted Jixuan and the other defenders, asking whether they could stop him and his army.
• The mountain at the center of Divine Register City split open as a treasure cauldron released dark-yellow light, while three matching cauldrons awakened elsewhere in Zheng Kingdom.
• Jixuan explained that the four cauldrons had been forged from two late-stage Nascent Soul earth-element horned dragons and claimed their linked power could resist even a Nascent Soul peak cultivator.

Chen Shuangbai used his Grand Yin Authority to pass through the Arrayed Mystery Sect’s earth-element barrier and appear behind Jixuan, Purple Thunder, and Shijia. He trapped the three in his Purple-Gold Heavenly Gates, leaving their fate uncertain.

• The Arrayed Mystery Sect activated four precious cauldrons to form a powerful earth-element barrier, while the Vast Waves Alliance linked its flying boats’ formations to withstand the pressure.
• Jixuan proposed that the Vast Waves Alliance withdraw and negotiate, but Chen Shuangbai responded by disappearing with his Conceal Form and Hide Traces Divine Ability.
• Chen Shuangbai moved unseen through the cauldron formation and emerged behind Jixuan, who was stunned by his sudden appearance.
• Purple Thunder prepared to attack Chen Shuangbai, but Chen Shuangbai summoned the Purple-Gold Heavenly Gates and enclosed Jixuan, Purple Thunder, and Shijia within them.

Chen Shuangbai overwhelmed Divine Register City’s defenders and claimed its precious cauldron, using two strands of Sword Intent to subdue its unruly power. With the city under Vast Waves Alliance control and the cauldron’s loss weakening the other defenses, he considered how it might benefit Sunken Jade Valley and the Jade Spring Sect.

• Chen Shuangbai suppressed the Nascent Soul True Lords in Divine Register City, causing its defenders to flee and its formations to fade.
• Shenyang ordered the Vast Waves Alliance cultivators to seize the city, while Chen Shuangbai knocked Xue Zheng away and Feiguang killed him with demonic fire.
• Feiguang tried to approach the precious cauldron but was driven back by its earth-aspect power.
• Chen Shuangbai reached the cauldron and used gold-white and crimson-black Sword Intent to quiet its draconic will and withdraw its radiance.
• Shenyang joined Chen Shuangbai, and they found Divine Register City taken; the cauldron’s loss weakened the other passes and the Arrayed Mystery Sect’s headquarters.
• Chen Shuangbai considered using the cauldron to nourish Sunken Jade Valley’s earth Qi or sustain the Jade Parasol Tree.

Chen Shuangbai led the Vast Waves Alliance’s forces to Profound Peak Spirit Mountain and joined with two other armies, bringing nine Nascent Soul True Lords together against the Arrayed Mystery Sect. He summoned his newly elevated supreme-grade Heavenly Gate Spirit Treasure and called on Jin Xuan to appear.

• After taking Divine Register City, Chen Shuangbai led the flying-boat army toward the Arrayed Mystery Sect’s headquarters at Profound Peak Spirit Mountain, while the sect’s other forces withdrew there with two precious cauldrons.
• Chen Shuangbai’s army waited beyond the protective formation as the precious cauldron he had captured resonated with the three cauldrons inside the mountain.
• Two more Vast Waves Alliance armies arrived, joining Chen Shuangbai and bringing the alliance’s force to nine Nascent Soul True Lords.
• Old Man Fish Pillow praised Chen Shuangbai for overcoming Divine Register City’s precious cauldron, and the assembled cultivators discussed Jin Xuan’s decision to defend the mountain.
• Chen Shuangbai summoned the supreme-grade Truth-Revering Purple Radiance Brightness-Inheriting Profound Heavenly Gate, whose power shook Profound Peak Spirit Mountain and frightened its defenders.
• Chen Shuangbai called on Jin Xuan to come out and meet them.

Chen Shuangbai and the Vast Waves Alliance confronted True Lord Jinxuan at the Arrayed Mystery Sect’s headquarters, where Jinxuan refused to regret his actions and warned that the alliance’s expansion threatened other powers. The Heaven-Hating Devil Lord and True Lord Baishi appeared, with Baishi seeking to mediate rather than support the Arrayed Mystery Sect.

• Chen Shuangbai demanded that True Lord Jinxuan either end his own life or face the destruction of the Arrayed Mystery Sect’s inheritance.
• Jinxuan rejected the demand, defended his ruthless pursuit of cultivation, and warned that the Vast Waves Alliance would grow dangerously powerful if it absorbed the sect and the Zheng Kingdom.
• The Purple-Gold Heavenly Gate trembled as the Heaven-Hating Devil Lord and True Lord Baishi arrived at Profound Peak Spirit Mountain.
• Chen Shuangbai questioned Baishi’s presence, reminding him that the Vast Waves Alliance had previously saved the Heavenly Star Mystic Sect.
• Baishi acknowledged that debt but asked Chen Shuangbai to spare the Arrayed Mystery Sect for now and negotiate compensation, revealing his concern about the Vast Waves Alliance becoming too powerful.