Chapter Summaries

After Shen Yun defeated Wusheng Immortal Venerable, the Eight Great Immortal Sects abandoned the Sword Sect and its disciples scrambled to deny responsibility for attacking him. Shen Yun demanded that Sword Venerable Shouzheng answer for the second attempt on his life, and Shouzheng moved to strike Fairy Aoxue.

• Shen Yun collected the spoils and descended as the surrounding Cultivators retreated in awe.
• The Heavenly Blade Sect Master and the other sect leaders decided not to help the Sword Sect, leaving it isolated.
• Sword Sect disciples defected and blamed Fairy Aoxue, while some loyal disciples defended her and she offered to bear the consequences alone.
• Shen Yun confronted Sword Venerable Shouzheng and demanded that he answer for the repeated attack.
• Sword Venerable Shouzheng appeared before Fairy Aoxue and struck her Spiritual Platform with his palm.

Sword Venerable Shouzheng killed Fairy Aoxue and resigned as Alliance Leader, hoping to protect the Sword Sect while preserving his influence. Shen Yun demanded that the Sword Sect disband, and with its allies refusing to intervene, Shouzheng finally agreed.

• Sword Venerable Shouzheng killed Fairy Aoxue, blamed her for the trap, and announced his resignation as Alliance Leader.
• The Heavenly Blade Sect Master warned the Star Shattering Saber that Shouzheng’s influence remained and that aspiring Alliance Leaders would have to oppose Shen Yun to win him over.
• Shen Yun rejected Shouzheng’s handling of the affair and demanded that the Orthodox Sword Sect disband on the spot.
• The other sects and Cultivators withdrew their support, leaving Shouzheng without allies.
• Sword Venerable Shouzheng declared that the Sword Sect was disbanded.

After surrendering to Shen Yun, Sword Venerable Shouzheng injured Mingde for openly condemning him, while Shen Yun left him with a warning designed to make him doubt his plans. The experts dispersed ahead of the next day's Merit God War, and Sword Venerable Shouzheng secretly followed his disciples toward the Divine City.

• Sword Venerable Shouzheng chose to endure his defeat and wait for the Wusheng Realm to return and help him reclaim his standing.
• Mingde denounced Sword Venerable Shouzheng for surrendering, so Shouzheng struck him and sent him crashing into a mountain, leaving him gravely injured.
• Shen Yun mocked Shouzheng's willingness to attack his own people, then left him with a cryptic warning before departing.
• Luo Guyin and Azure Venerable explained that Shen Yun had recognized Shouzheng's plans and meant to unsettle him with a psychological attack.
• Shen Qiu headed back to the Divine City to prepare for his duel with Shen Yun, while Luo Guyin and the Burial Ground Young Master followed with their groups.
• After the other experts dispersed, Sword Venerable Shouzheng quietly followed the injured Mingde and the Sword Sect disciples into the shadows beneath the city gate.

Six Sword Sect True Disciples were found dead after their cultivation was drained by a method resembling the Heavenly Nether Demonic Art, alarming the gathered cultivators. As the Heavenly Blade Sect Master and Star Shattering Saber headed to the Merit God War’s bone-age test, they resolved to watch the contestants carefully.

• The cultivators gathered at the Heavenly Blade Sect’s palace after a scream, where six dead Sword Sect True Disciples were displayed.
• Star Shattering Saber reported that the victims’ cultivation had been drained and that the method resembled the Heavenly Nether Demonic Art.
• The Heavenly Blade Sect Master dismissed the possibility that Sword Venerable Shouzheng had used the art and suspected the Heavenly Nether Old Ghost had returned.
• The Heavenly Blade Sect Master warned Star Shattering Saber to avoid the mistakes of the Hidden Dragon Sword and praised his cautious attitude.
• The Heavenly Blade Sect Master explained that the Immortal Ancient Battlefield’s bone-age test would offer a chance to observe the participants, then set out with Star Shattering Saber for the Merit God War.

Cultivators and powerful leaders gathered at the Immortal Ancient Battlefield for the Merit God War, where Turtle Elder’s new Daluo realm and Wan Jinsheng’s talent drew attention. Turtle Elder hinted at the arrival of the Immortal King’s mysterious direct disciple, and the crowd looked toward the distant heavens.

• The leaders of the great powers assembled on a platform outside the Immortal Ancient Battlefield, including ten Grand Unity Golden Immortals.
• The crowd learned that Turtle Elder had passed his tribulation and become a Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
• Heavenly Prides arrived, and onlookers praised the Jade Void Saint Son, the Burial Ground Young Master, and the Universe Saint Son.
• Wan Jinsheng arrived to great acclaim, and Turtle Elder praised his achievement of forming two Qi.
• When a Rogue Cultivator asked about the other members of the Five Heroes, Turtle Elder praised his Young Master as an Innate Divine Being and gazed toward the horizon, prompting the crowd to follow his eyes.

Cang Hao arrived at the Immortal Ancient Battlefield, impressing the assembled experts with his unfathomable aura, while Shen Yun drew the crowd’s attention as he entered with Mu Hanyu. As Cang Hao and Shen Yun assessed each other before the Merit God War, Shen Yun spotted Jun Ling Yuan secretly watching from the shadows.

• Cang Hao arrived at the battlefield, and Wan Jinsheng sensed that his aura had become so subtle it seemed to blend with nature.
• The mighty figures praised Cang Hao, while Turtle Elder learned that Shen Yun had earned the Heavenly Blade Sect Master’s respect.
• Shen Yun arrived with Mu Hanyu, and the gathered Cultivators opened a path for them as the experts marveled at his transformed aura.
• Cang Hao recognized that Shen Yun was gathering the people’s momentum, while Shen Yun sensed Cang Hao’s refined control of lightning and recalled his trials in the Great Wilderness.
• Shen Yun noticed Jun Ling Yuan concealed in a distorted patch of space and recognized him.

Jun Ling Yuan returned after years in hiding, having recovered his injuries and reached the Half-Step Daluo Realm, and openly joined the contestants for the Merit God War. The organizers began the age checks with the Mirror of Years and Rings, leaving Jun Ling Yuan’s eligibility to be tested.

• Shen Yun recognized Jun Ling Yuan and found that his injuries had healed, his cultivation had surged, and his life origin resisted Shen Yun’s divination.
• Jun Ling Yuan revealed that he had prepared Secret Treasures with Ling Jiuxiao to counter divination and that they had devised fatal strategies against their enemies.
• Jun Ling Yuan strode into the contestant area, prompting spectators and Immortal Dao Great Powers to question whether he was old enough to compete.
• Turtle Elder explained the God War’s thirty-day rules and summoned the Mirror of Years and Rings to test contestants’ bone ages.
• The Mirror Spirit appeared and corrected Holy Lord Qiankun’s account of her refusal of the Jade Void Immortal Venerable before Turtle Elder began the age checks.

Shen Qiu passed the age test for the Merit God War despite the crowd’s doubts, while Shen Yun assessed the contestants and uncovered the Universe Saint Son’s hidden strength. Cang Hao’s test left the Immortal Ancient Battlefield stunned when the Mirror of Years and Rings showed only fifteen rings.

• Turtle Elder called Shen Qiu to the platform, and the crowd questioned why a Mahayana Cultivator had been admitted to the competition.
• The Mirror of Years and Rings showed that Shen Qiu was under ten thousand years old, and the crowd acknowledged his talent.
• Shen Yun observed the contestants’ ages and cultivation levels, then identified the Universe Saint Son as a Half-Step Daluo with another powerful Primordial Spirit in his sea of qi.
• Turtle Elder called Cang Hao, whose reputation prompted awe and speculation about his age and strength.
• The Mirror of Years and Rings shook as Cang Hao was tested, then stopped with fifteen golden rings remaining, stunning the venue.

Cang Hao’s Ancient Mirror test revealed fifteen annular marks, astounding the assembly and prompting Shen Yun to explain the advantages of Primordial Beings and different Innate Dao Bodies. Jun Ling Yuan barely passed with a hundred marks, then erupted in anger when Turtle Elder immediately called Shen Yun next.

• The assembly was stunned when Cang Hao’s test showed fifteen paths of annular marks, and Luo Guyin questioned Shen Qiu about investigating him.
• Shen Yun explained to Mu Hanyu how the Immortal Spirit Root and Innate Dao Body enabled Primordial Beings to cultivate rapidly, and described the strengths of the Innate Lightning God Body.
• Turtle Elder called Jun Ling Yuan, whose Ancient Mirror test showed exactly one hundred annular marks, just enough to pass.
• Jun Ling Yuan hurried down amid the crowd’s laughter, and Turtle Elder immediately announced Shen Yun as the next participant.
• Jun Ling Yuan flew into a rage and accused Turtle Elder of targeting him.

The Mirror of Years and Rings began examining Shen Yun, but his profound mastery of the Time Law overwhelmed its power. The examination ended with the River of Time shattering and its energy flowing into Shen Yun.

• Shen Qiu calculated that Shen Yun was around ninety-nine years old, and Luo Guyin assumed he meant ninety-nine ten-thousand years old.
• Shen Yun entered the rain of laws, causing the Ancient Mirror to stall because his Time Law interfered with the examination.
• The Mirror Spirit recognized Shen Yun’s profound Spacetime Law and mistakenly suspected he was the Jade Void Immortal Venerable’s disciple.
• Shen Yun offered to suppress his Time Law, but the proud Mirror Spirit refused and launched her full examination technique.
• The River of Time stopped three inches from Shen Yun, then burst apart, sending its Essence Qi and Law Fragments into his body.

Shen Yun perfected his Time Law sacred art and revealed that he was not yet ten thousand years old, shocking the cultivators gathered for the bone-age test. As the Merit God War began, he entered the Immortal Ancient Battlefield while Jun Ling Yuan plotted to kill him.

• Shen Yun fused the Mirror Spirit's Law Fragments with the Creation Profound Cultivation Method and perfected his Time Law sacred art, allowing him to read cultivators' bone ages precisely.
• The Mirror Spirit tested Shen Yun again, and the mirror revealed a single annual ring, showing that he was not yet ten thousand years old.
• Cang Hao and the gathered cultivators were shocked by Shen Yun's age, while Luo Guyin realized Shen Qiu had been telling the truth about Shen Yun being ninety-nine years old.
• Jun Ling Yuan resolved to kill Shen Yun, and Shen Yun sensed his malice and prepared to deal with him.
• Turtle Elder activated the pardon order to open the Immortal Ancient Battlefield, and Shen Yun charged through its ancient gate as the Merit God War began.

Shen Yun entered the Ancient Immortal Battlefield and found its dense Death Qi harmless to him, while sensing the Calamity Beasts across the Cinder Wasteland. A group of Heavenly Prides hunting for treasure fled when a lord-level beast roared, then stopped in shock as the battle and its overwhelming pressure ended abruptly.

• Shen Yun crossed into the battlefield, refined its Death Qi, and sensed more than a hundred Calamity Beasts, including one with Hou Clan bloodline.
• A group of Heavenly Prides identified their location as the Cinder Wasteland and discussed its dangers and the lost inheritances of the Ten Thousand Buddha Grottoes and Fate Divine Sect.
• The group’s leader warned them to prioritize survival, and they cautiously moved deeper into the wasteland.
• A distant clash awakened surrounding beasts, and the group fled from the pressure of a late-stage Golden Immortal Calamity Beast.
• The roar and the beast’s overwhelming pressure suddenly vanished, leaving the survivors staring back in disbelief.

Shen Yun crushed a lord-level Calamity Beast and cleared the way through the Cinder Wasteland, allowing Fortune Sect disciples and other Heavenly Prides to follow behind and harvest weaker beasts. As Shen Yun continued toward the wasteland’s depths, Little Martial Saint called out to him.

• Shen Yun crushed the hou-shaped lord-level Calamity Beast, then killed hidden Mystic Immortal-level Calamity Beasts with his Divine Sense and collected their materials and merit.
• Senior Brother Shangguan led the Fortune Sect disciples along Shen Yun’s path, where they harvested weaker Calamity Beasts and steadily gained merit.
• Other Heavenly Prides recognized Senior Brother Shangguan as the Fox of the Secret Realm and secretly joined the growing group to share in the spoils.
• Shen Yun noticed the crowd following behind him but continued toward the depths of the wasteland without objecting.
• Little Martial Saint sent a voice transmission to Shen Yun, who stopped and recognized him.

Shen Yun agreed to help Little Martial Saint enter the secret realm at Qingyan Platform, where Left Envoy Duobao’s tomb and the Fate Divine Sect’s treasure vaults were hidden. Although Little Martial Saint presented a Jade Slip as proof of his discovery, Shen Yun recognized its recent age and continued to play along.

• Little Martial Saint told Shen Yun that the Jiang Family’s upheaval had dampened his spirits and claimed he had found Left Envoy Duobao’s secret realm but had been driven back by the Sumeru Killing Realm.
• Little Martial Saint invited Shen Yun to explore the realm with him, and Shen Yun readily agreed before the two set off together.
• Shen Yun destroyed the Calamity Beasts in their path while Little Martial Saint noted that pursuers were following them; Shen Yun said the killing array could keep them from interfering.
• Little Martial Saint led Shen Yun to Qingyan Platform and explained that its lake concealed a small world and that the eight mountains and seas held the Fate Divine Sect’s accumulated treasures.
• Shen Yun recognized the platform’s connection to Mount Sumeru and suspected Jun Ling Yuan had arranged King Jiang Wu’s ambush.
• Little Martial Saint handed Shen Yun a Jade Slip containing coordinates to the fourth-level platform, and Shen Yun detected that it was only three years and six months old but agreed to proceed.

Shen Yun broke through the Sumeru Killing Realm’s fourth formation and sent Asura War Puppets into the Secret Realm to collect its treasures, leaving Jun Ling Yuan helpless inside. He then sealed the entrance with a Heavenly Cycle Sword formation to keep others from discovering the treasure trove.

• Shen Yun opened the Secret Realm passage and shattered its fourth killing formation with a sword strike, stunning Little Martial Saint.
• Shen Yun summoned more than ten Asura War Puppets and sent them into the Secret Realm as scouts.
• Jun Ling Yuan watched from within as the puppets collected precious treasures, including the Purple-Gold Compass and Primordial Gold Dipper, but did not dare reveal himself.
• Shen Yun gathered the immortal weapons he had collected and formed an eighty-one-sword Heavenly Cycle Sword formation to seal the Secret Realm entrance.

Shen Yun exposed Jun Ling Yuan’s disguise, removed the demonic seed from Little Martial Saint, and struck Jun Ling Yuan with the Fate Heavenly Sword. Jun Ling Yuan survived by burning his Primordial Spirit and began charging into the Daluo realm, as Shen Yun prepared to confront his tribulation.

• Shen Yun sealed the Secret Realm with the Cosmic Cycle Sword Formation and used nine Nirvana Immortal Formations to gather Death Qi as its power source.
• Shen Yun saw through Little Martial Saint’s disguise, while Jun Ling Yuan tried to detonate the Yin-Yang Demonic Seed inside him.
• Shen Yun’s Five-Colored Divine Light removed the demonic thought, and his Fate Heavenly Sword split open Jun Ling Yuan’s sea of consciousness.
• Jun Ling Yuan survived by burning his two-headed Primordial Spirit to repair his sea of consciousness, then released his cultivation and charged toward the Daluo realm.
• Little Martial Saint thanked Shen Yun and pledged inwardly to repay him.
• Shen Yun sensed Jun Ling Yuan’s Daluo heavenly tribulation and resolved to use the chance to destroy him.

Shen Yun opened the Cosmic Cycle Sword Formation and studied the dark Five Elements lightning as Jun Ling Yuan emerged onto Qingyan Platform to undergo the Great Luo tribulation. Jun Ling Yuan survived the first strike with his demonic art and immortal artifacts, then turned his anger toward Shen Yun and prepared to draw him into the tribulation.

• The prodigies followed the tribulation’s pressure to Qingyan Platform, where they discovered that a mysterious figure rather than Shen Yun was at its center.
• Shen Yun recognized the lightning as dark Five Elements power, removed the formation’s obstruction, and began comprehending the tribulation.
• Jun Ling Yuan broke through the Secret Realm barrier and arrived at Qingyan Platform, while Shen Yun sent Little Martial Saint away to watch from a distance.
• Jun Ling Yuan ignored the tribulation’s warnings and was struck by a dragon-shaped bolt, which badly wounded him.
• Jun Ling Yuan used the Nine Nether Phoenix Swallowing Sacred Record and top-grade immortal artifacts to recover and withstand the tribulation’s lingering force.
• Jun Ling Yuan realized Shen Yun was using his tribulation to comprehend the Dao and vowed to give him a dangerous gift.

Jun Ling Yuan dragged Shen Yun into the Daluo heavenly tribulation, expecting it to overwhelm him, but Shen Yun absorbed the lightning and tribulation clouds with his Five Qi Universe. The tribulation’s sudden return left an even greater threat looming as Shen Yun gained insight into his path toward Daluo.

• Jun Ling Yuan unleashed his immortal weapons and drew Shen Yun into the heavenly tribulation, prompting the spectators to flee and Shangguan to explain his scheme.
• Shen Yun remained calm as the dragon-shaped lightning struck his Five Qi Universe, which absorbed the attack and healed its damage.
• Shen Yun pulled the tribulation clouds into his Five Qi Universe and transformed them into an auspicious cloud, leaving Jun Ling Yuan stunned.
• Shen Yun used his insight into the dark Five Elements to understand how to fuse the light and dark Five Elements and advance toward his envisioned realm.
• A much larger and more terrifying mass of tribulation clouds surged from beyond the heavens and covered the surrounding space.

Shen Yun faced Annihilation Divine Lightning and Entropy Silence Calamity Wind during Jun Ling Yuan’s tribulation, and his Five Qi Universe was destroyed. As Shen Yun grasped the Dao of destruction and rebirth, he revealed a Three-leaf Azure Lotus that remade heaven and earth, stunning Jun Ling Yuan.

• Annihilation Divine Lightning and Entropy Silence Calamity Wind descended, and Shen Yun recognized both forces.
• Shen Yun sent the Five Qi Universe to devour the tribulation clouds as the onlookers watched and Jun Ling Yuan grew alarmed.
• The Annihilation Divine Lightning pierced and shattered the Five Qi Universe, while the calamity wind eroded its world; Jun Ling Yuan celebrated as the tribulation struck him.
• Shen Yun calmly comprehended the wind-and-lightning tribulation while Jun Ling Yuan taunted him and secretly activated his Immortal Soldier.
• Shen Yun opened his eyes and unleashed a Three-leaf Azure Lotus that held open the sky and remade heaven and earth, leaving Jun Ling Yuan stunned that Shen Yun had not achieved Three Flowers Gathering in the Cauldron.

Shen Yun endured Jun Ling Yuan’s assault while rebuilding the Five Qi Universe and forging a World Spirit. Jun Ling Yuan completed his breakthrough to the Daluo Golden Immortal realm, and the two prepared to fight.

• Jun Ling Yuan and the watching Heavenly Prides recognized that Shen Yun was only a Mystic Immortal, while Senior Brother Shangguan speculated that Shen Yun was strengthening his foundation for the Eternal Dao.
• Jun Ling Yuan unleashed the Eight Desolations Heavenly Dragon Demonic Art and detonated defensive immortal weapons to weaken the heavenly tribulation and hasten his breakthrough.
• Shen Yun used the Primordial Chaos Law to plant the Three-leaf Azure Lotus in the Five Qi Universe, restoring the world and forging its World Spirit.
• Jun Ling Yuan survived the heavenly punishment and ascended to the Daluo Golden Immortal realm, recovering his strength as he threatened Shen Yun.
• Shen Yun and Jun Ling Yuan met each other’s gaze as their fight began to erupt.