Chapter Summaries

Shen Yun defeated Emperor Golden Crow with Instant Kill Sword Qi, then killed him before he could launch a final counterattack. With his other enemies gone, Shen Yun turned his attention to the Ghost Immortal in Canglan Hall.

• Shen Yun spotted Emperor Golden Crow's momentary hesitation and struck with Instant Kill Sword Qi.
• Emperor Golden Crow burned his lifespan and unleashed his full power, but Shen Yun split his sea of fire and pierced the Fusang Dharma Image, leaving a deep wound on his cheek.
• Emperor Golden Crow lamented his past rule and secretly prepared a desperate attack, but a strand of golden light pierced his heart meridian.
• Shen Yun attacked Emperor Golden Crow's sea of consciousness and killed him, ending the Demon Race Supreme Being's life.
• Shen Yun realized the Ghost Immortal in Canglan Hall was the last enemy he still needed to face.

After the Demon Court’s defeat, Shen Yun accepted Formation Demon’s submission and prepared to enter Canglan Hall, while using his formation to reveal a secret-realm battle. The image showed Shen Qiu holding an ancient incense burner and claiming the inheritance, leaving Shen Yun intrigued by the shifting identities of those involved.

• The crowd praised Shen Yun for defeating Emperor Golden Crow, and Heaven Swallowing King and Wu Tianyin discussed their respective disciples.
• Formation Demon asked Shen Yun for a chance to serve, and Shen Yun accepted him after planting a restriction in his sea of consciousness.
• Shen Yun ordered Taotie Ancestor to keep Formation Demon in check and considered gathering his allies into a great force.
• Shen Yun used his Divine Sense to reveal survivors fighting near Canglan Main Hall and enlarged the image to show the secret realm.
• Shen Qiu appeared surrounded by demons, holding an ancient incense burner and claiming the inheritance, while Shen Yun noted that the identities had shifted from Xuangui to the Kun Clan.

Shen Qiu fought the Demon Race Heavenly Prides outside Canglan Main Hall, using the Big Black Pot and Netherworld Demonic Fire to turn their attacks back on them. As onlookers admired his strength, wisps of his fire slipped into the Kun Clan Incense Burner unnoticed.

• Shen Yun recognized the murky aura around the Kun Clan Incense Burner as related to the Ghost Immortal, while others mistook Shen Qiu for Shen Yun’s hidden agent.
• Shen Qiu challenged the Demon Race Heavenly Prides from atop a stone lion, and the Golden Lion led their attack.
• Shen Qiu blocked the demons’ combined attacks with the Big Black Pot, which sent their force back and left them battered.
• Shen Qiu put away the pot and used Netherworld Demonic Fire to repel the demons’ next assault, burning them badly.
• More Heavenly Prides arrived and watched Shen Qiu boast, while wisps of his Netherworld Demonic Fire seeped into the Kun Clan Incense Burner.

Shen Yun recognized the Kun Clan inheritance phenomenon as bait set by the Ghost Immortal and warned Shen Qingruo and the others to prepare. Meanwhile, Shen Qiu was pressured by demons and humans to surrender the incense burner, and he threw it toward the Demon Race camp.

• The incense burner released a sinister aura and strange spatial phenomena, leading the crowd to believe the Kun Clan Treasure Art had appeared.
• Gu Lingfeng decided to seize the supposed inheritance, while Yu Linglong warned him about offending Primordial Chaos Dao Lord and Dragon Horse signaled her to keep away.
• Shen Yun told Demon Buddha that the incense burner was bait, then alerted Shen Qingruo and the others to prepare for the Ghost Immortal's plan.
• The Golden Lion and Black Demon Tiger threatened Shen Qiu, while Human Race cultivators urged him to hand over the treasure or join them.
• Shen Qiu suddenly flung the incense burner toward the Demon Race camp, and the Golden Lion caught it as the crowd stared in shock.

Shen Qiu tricked the Demon Race into taking a dangerous incense burner, which awakened the Second Dao Lord’s remnant soul and consumed the demons. As the remnant soul threatened the Heavenly Talents in Canglan Hall, Shen Yun prepared to confront it.

• Shen Qiu handed the incense burner to the Golden Lion while secretly resisting its strange aura and escaping its danger.
• The incense burner drained the Golden Lion, then revealed the Second Dao Lord’s remnant soul, prompting Shen Qiu to flee and the others to panic.
• The Black Demon Tiger and the other Demon Race Heavenly Talents tried to escape but were consumed by the burner as the remnant soul grew stronger.
• The remnant soul roared Shen Yun’s name, while those outside Canglan Hall discussed how to save the people trapped inside.
• Yu Linglong urged everyone to focus on rescuing the trapped Heavenly Talents, and Shen Yun declared that he would enter the hall and destroy the remnant soul.

Shen Yun ignored He Xunhuan’s attempt to enlist his help and walked straight into the Canglan Grand Formation, where its patterns lost their power around him. The crowd watched in silence as Shen Yun entered safely, while He Xunhuan was left humiliated.

• The Dragon Horse warned that the Grand Formation of the Stars would strike down any Dao Lord who entered, and the Azure Dragon confirmed that only an Earth Formation Master could break it.
• He Xunhuan arrived and claimed he had a forty percent chance of defeating the Dao Lord remnant soul inside Canglan Hall.
• He Xunhuan tried to pressure Shen Yun into helping him enter the hall, but Shen Yun ignored him while communicating with the formation.
• Shen Yun rebuked He Xunhuan for risking everyone’s lives with only a forty percent chance, then walked into the Canglan Grand Formation.
• The formation patterns lost their power as they touched Shen Yun, and he strolled through the formation unharmed.

Shen Yun broke through the Canglan Grand Formation and entered Canglan Hall, where a demonic shadow was hunting the gathered Heavenly Prides. Shen Qingruo, Jin, and Shen Wude redirected the demon toward Gu Lingfeng, leaving him trapped before the Second Dao Lord.

• Shen Yun silently found the Canglan Grand Formation’s flaws and reached Canglan Hall.
• The Formation Demon questioned Shen Yun’s feat, and Taotie Ancestor slapped him into the sea.
• The demonic shadow targeted Shen Qingruo, Jin, and Shen Wude, so Shen Qingruo offered to lure it away while Shen Wude led them elsewhere.
• The demonic shadow sensed Gu Lingfeng’s Nascent Soul Realm aura and changed direction to pursue him.
• Gu Lingfeng tried to stop Shen Qingruo, Jin, and Shen Wude, but they rushed past him as the Second Dao Lord appeared and overwhelmed him.

The demonic shadow killed Gu Lingfeng, but his Death Substitution Talisman revived him, and the shadow forced him to summon his senior brother. Shen Yun set out to confront the Second Dao Lord, while the demonic shadow brought Gu Lingfeng to the main hall to lure the senior brother; the chapter ended as Shen Yun appeared and wounded the Blood Demon.

• The demonic shadow devoured Gu Lingfeng's blood energy, but a Death Substitution Talisman restored him at the cost of his cultivation falling to Late Golden Core.
• The demonic shadow stopped Gu Lingfeng from fleeing and forced him to send a message summoning his senior brother, which Gu Lingfeng embellished with news of the Kun Clan inheritance and the demon.
• Shen Yun arrived at Canglan Hall, sensed that the others were safe, and left to deal with the Second Dao Lord after noticing Shen Qiu had disappeared again.
• The demonic shadow carried Gu Lingfeng to the main hall, where Gu Lingfeng realized the hall held power greater than the shadow's and feared he had led his senior brother into danger.
• Shen Yun appeared before the Blood Demon, whose body was struck hard enough to make him cough black blood and stagger backward.

Shen Yun effortlessly destroyed the demonic shadow in Canglan Hall and revealed that he had already cut down Li Shaobai’s incarnation. Outside the hall, Li Shaobai arrived, learned that the Kun Clan inheritance was likely a trap, and prepared to enter the hall with Yu Linglong on the third day.

• Shen Yun shattered the demonic shadow’s Spiritual Platform with a casual strike, causing it to collapse into black qi and vanish.
• Shen Yun sensed Gu Lingfeng and told him he had cut down Li Shaobai’s incarnation, leaving Gu Lingfeng stunned.
• Heaven Swallowing King left with Wu Tianyin to search the cloud sea for other tokens.
• Li Shaobai appeared outside Canglan Hall, and Yu Linglong explained the secret realm’s Chaos Zone and the suspected Kun Clan inheritance trap.
• Li Shaobai said he would break through the formation when the third day arrived and take Yu Linglong into the hall.

Shen Yun resolved to weaken the Ghost Immortal without confronting it recklessly and discovered that his Green Gourd Ring was one of the tokens needed for Medicine Immortal’s inheritance. He prepared to use the Grand Formation of the Stars against the Ghost Immortal, then sensed Li Shaobai approaching.

• Shen Yun told Azure Dragon that the Ghost Immortal might have changed since its awakening and said he would weaken it without putting himself in danger.
• Shen Yun crippled Gu Lingfeng’s cultivation when he tried to hide the token’s location, and Gu Lingfeng revealed it was somewhere in the Chaos Zone.
• Wu Yao recognized Shen Yun’s Green Gourd Ring as a token and retrieved the matching Red Gourd Ring from the Chaos Zone.
• Shen Yun planned to borrow the Grand Formation of the Stars to weaken the Ghost Immortal, but noted it would be less powerful without a Formation Eye like the Qiongqi King.
• Shen Yun sensed Li Shaobai arriving and said he had come right on time.

Shen Yun prepared a grand formation in the main hall and used Li Shaobai as its formation eye to trap him and draw out his power. Li Shaobai realized he had been outmaneuvered as Shen Yun began using him to suppress the ghost immortal.

• Shen Yun concealed an eight-angled formation in the main hall, leaving its central formation eye for Li Shaobai.
• Li Shaobai entered the secret realm with Yu Linglong and Dragon Horse, then set out for the main hall after sensing the awakened ghost immortal.
• Li Shaobai placed the Six Harmonies Soul-Capturing Grand Formation and hid the Myriad Wood Azure Emperor Cauldron as bait, planning to use the ghost immortal’s power against Shen Yun.
• Dragon Horse took Yu Linglong away to look for Gu Lingfeng, while Li Shaobai approached the palace alone.
• Shen Yun ambushed Li Shaobai and struck him into the hidden formation, which made him its formation eye and drained his magic power.

Ghost Immortal tried to use Shen Qiu’s Nine Nether Spirit Body as a vessel, but Shen Yun’s Grand Formation of the Stars restrained it from outside Canglan Main Hall. After waiting for the formation to exhaust Li Shaobai, Shen Yun prepared to enter the hall and confront Ghost Immortal.

• Shen Qiu charged into Canglan Main Hall and was captured by Ghost Immortal, who empowered him to the Nascent Soul Realm while planning to take his body.
• Ghost Immortal refined a face from its cloak and used its power to strengthen Shen Qiu, while Azure Venerable realized the danger.
• Shen Yun activated the Grand Formation of the Stars, forcing Ghost Immortal to defend itself with the Nether Gate and a thousand-handed Demonic Shadow.
• Outside the hall, Shen Yun took the Myriad Wood Azure Emperor Cauldron from Li Shaobai and watched him struggle to sustain the formation.
• At night, the formation withdrew after Li Shaobai was drained of his magical power, and Shen Yun said it was time to meet the person inside.

Shen Yun confronted the weakened Ghost Immortal projection in the palace and defeated it despite its attempt to summon the Thousand-Hand Demon Form. The projection fell apart, and Shen Yun remained unharmed.

• Shen Yun entered the devastated hall and found the Ghost Immortal weakened, while Azure Venerable realized he could face the threat.
• Shen Yun taunted the Ghost Immortal and launched an attack, combining five layers of magic power with the Great Five Elements Dao.
• The Ghost Immortal ignited the Underworld Law and unleashed death rays, but Shen Yun met them with five-colored divine light and healed his injuries with Nirvana Fire.
• Shen Yun brought forth the Creation Green Lotus, and the Ghost Immortal burned his laws to send the Thousand-Hand Demon Form's arm through the underworld gate.
• Shen Yun pierced the Ghost Immortal with an attack empowered by the Creation Green Lotus, collapsing the Underworld Law and forcing the demon form back through the gate.
• The Ghost Immortal's projection cracked apart as Shen Yun declared that it had come close to hurting him but fallen just short.

Shen Yun destroyed the Ghost Immortal projection and refined its Underworld Ghost Qi, advancing to the Fourth Layer of Void Return Realm. He then turned to deal with Li Shaobai, who realized Shen Yun had survived and defeated the Ghost Immortal.

• Shen Yun struck the Ghost Immortal with Five-Colored Divine Light, then refined the remaining Underworld Ghost Qi to break through two realms.
• The Ghost Immortal saw Shen Yun absorb the underworld origin and self-detonated in humiliation.
• Shen Yun stabilized at the Fourth Layer of Void Return Realm and decided to travel to the Overseas Immortal Islands for further cultivation.
• Shen Qiu woke and challenged Shen Yun, while Azure Venerable apologized for him and sealed his mouth.
• Li Shaobai prepared to escape the Grand Formation of the Stars, believing Shen Yun had been killed, but then saw Shen Yun approach and realized the Ghost Immortal had been defeated.

Shen Yun stopped draining Li Shaobai after sensing a strange aura, and a white-robed man appeared, recognized as a figure from ninety thousand years ago. The man spared Li Shaobai but condemned Shen Yun, whose sword formation was effortlessly dispersed by the man's true immortal artifact.

• Shen Yun stopped the Grand Formation of the Heavens when he sensed the strange aura coming from Li Shaobai's forehead, but warned that it was already too late.
• A white-robed man appeared and addressed Li Shaobai as the Slaughtering Heavenly King, revealing that they had met ninety thousand years earlier.
• Li Shaobai admitted he had once tried to refine the white-robed man, and the man forgave him and ordered him to remain at his side for ninety thousand years.
• The white-robed man accused Shen Yun of committing acts against the Dao and offered to spare him if he severed his Great Dao, while Li Shaobai urged the man to eliminate him.
• Shen Yun attacked with Myriad Swords Return to Origin, but the white-robed man summoned immortal light that dissolved the sword qi, and Azure Dragon identified it as a true immortal artifact.

The Seven Orifices Exquisite Wisdom Wheel recognized Shen Yun as a dangerous Reverse Dao cultivator and attacked him, but Shen Yun met him in a fierce battle. Shen Yun’s sword pierced the Wisdom Wheel’s body, yet the immortal artifact remained standing, leaving Shen Yun wary of its true strength.

• Li Shaobai revealed that the white-robed man was the Seven Orifices Exquisite Wisdom Wheel, the Life Artifact of the Exquisite Immortal Lord.
• The Wisdom Wheel identified Shen Yun as a Reverse Dao cultivator and decided he had to be eliminated, unleashing a killing-intent storm across Canglan Hall.
• Shen Yun provoked Li Shaobai, then launched an Instant Kill Sword Qi attack that the Wisdom Wheel intercepted.
• Shen Yun and the Wisdom Wheel fought across the battlefield, destroying the surrounding landscape as Li Shaobai struggled to escape their pressure.
• Shen Yun unleashed a sword driven by boundless conviction that attacked the Wisdom Wheel’s will, but the Wisdom Wheel’s body remained upright after the strike.

Shen Yun fought Wisdom Wheel, who unleashed the Immortal Spirit Pure Land and the power of his immortal-artifact origin. As the immortal light overwhelmed Shen Yun, he awakened a sword force that made Wisdom Wheel recognize the realm of the sword heart.

• Wisdom Wheel drew upon his immortal-artifact origin and opened the Immortal Spirit Pure Land, while Shen Yun met his full power with the Great Five Elements Dao.
• Wisdom Wheel’s immortal light pierced the barriers of Canglan Hall, and onlookers outside recognized him as an immortal artifact and marveled that Shen Yun could contend with him.
• Wisdom Wheel’s Immortal Spirit Pure Land suppressed Shen Yun’s Five-Colored Divine Light, and Shen Yun realized his Great Five Elements Dao was not yet strong enough to match it.
• Shen Yun reached into the immortal light, letting it melt his flesh and damage his Chaos Dao Body as he pursued the meaning of immortality.
• An invisible sword force rose from Shen Yun and briefly stalled the Immortal Spirit Pure Land, prompting Wisdom Wheel to identify it as the realm of the sword heart.

Shen Yun awakened the Clear Sword Heart and wounded the Wisdom Wheel, turning the battle in his favor. The Wisdom Wheel tried to escape with Li Shaobai, but Shen Yun formed a divine sword and locked onto them.

• The Wisdom Wheel explained that Clear Sword Heart could transcend the physical and threaten even an immortal artifact, while Li Shaobai concluded Shen Yun must be an Immortal King reincarnated.
• Shen Yun declared, "My heart is the Heavenly Heart, my sword is the Heavenly Sword," and struck at the Wisdom Wheel's True Spirit.
• The Wisdom Wheel fled at great speed but was wounded between the brows, and Shen Yun challenged him to stay and fight.
• The Wisdom Wheel decided the battle was unwinnable and prepared to retreat as the onlookers praised Shen Yun and Yu Linglong worried about Li Shaobai and Gu.
• The Wisdom Wheel grabbed Li Shaobai and rose into the heavens, but Shen Yun formed a radiant divine sword and locked onto them.

Shen Yun defeated Li Shaobai and overwhelmed the Seven Orifices Exquisite Wisdom Wheel with a sword strike that carved a thirty-thousand-li scar across the sky. The battle ended with Shen Yun standing as the focus of the Boundless Sea, while powerful figures across the world took notice and Linglong Immortal Island’s sect master issued new orders.

• Shen Yun’s sword intent tore through Li Shaobai’s defenses, and the Slaughtering Heavenly King suffered Body and Soul Annihilation.
• The Wisdom Wheel revealed its true form, the Seven Orifices Exquisite Wisdom Wheel, and drew on Immortal Spirit Qi to repair itself.
• Shen Yun unleashed a sword strike that suppressed the Wisdom Wheel, shattered the Grand Formation of the Stars, and carved a sword scar thirty thousand li across the sky.
• Cultivators across the Boundless Sea witnessed Shen Yun’s power, while Yu Linglong abandoned any thought of rescuing the others.
• Ancient powers, including the white-haired figure in Liang Yi Palace and Dugu Galuo, noticed the sword qi, and an old man in a graveyard reflected on the approaching end of the great epoch.
• The sect master of Linglong Immortal Island ordered that the hidden sword saint be invited to the Enlightenment Tea Gathering ten years later and said he would personally visit the newly ascended Immortal Lord Fang.

After the Primordial Chaos Dao Lord’s sword scar drew cultivators from across the world, Ask Dao Mountain’s growing influence became known, and Sword Maniac accepted an invitation to face its Three Trials of Heart Questioning. The chapter ended with talented cultivators heading toward Tianxuan Continent to seek entry.

• Dan Yangzi revealed that the Pill Cauldron Sect had merged into Ask Dao Mountain, which had also absorbed Wu Sheng Dao.
• Venerable Guangyuan explained that Shen Yun founded Ask Dao Mountain and that candidates had to face their past, present, and future in the Three Trials of Heart Questioning.
• Dan Yangzi invited Sword Maniac to attempt the trials, and Sword Maniac accepted and received a jade invitation to Tianxuan Continent.
• Dan Yangzi hoped Sword Maniac would become the ninth member of Ask Dao Mountain and recalled Shen Yun’s instruction to value Dao Heart over talent.
• Shen Yun sent personal invitations to promising cultivators, prompting Heavenly Prides and overlords to travel toward Tianxuan Continent.