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Su Lianxin defeated Nangong Yaoyue, confronted her over abandoning Lin Xuan and the Sword Pavilion, and left with their grievances settled. Nangong Yaoyue’s Dao heart shattered after learning that Lin Xuan had once saved Ruoli, while Lin Xuan finished fusing twenty-nine Great Daos and prepared to break through to the Emperor Realm.

• Su Lianxin told Nangong Yaoyue that she could have remained the eldest disciple of Starfall Peak, then declared their grievances settled and left the Chiyao Heavenly Palace.
• Nangong Yaoyue remembered leaving Lin Xuan for Yaoguang and wondered whether she had made the wrong choice as she watched Su Lianxin depart.
• Ruoli revealed that the white-robed sword cultivator who had saved her was Lin Xuan, causing Nangong Yaoyue to collapse after her Dao heart shattered.
• Yaoguang and the Chiyao Heavenly Palace elders rushed to stabilize Nangong Yaoyue and take her to the medicine hall.
• Su Lianxin returned toward the Sword Pavilion with her lingering envy and jealousy gone, eager to see Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan sensed that his connection with Nangong Yaoyue had been severed, finished fusing twenty-nine Great Daos, and prepared to break through to the Emperor Realm.

Lin Xuan began his extraordinary breakthrough to the Emperor Realm after fusing twenty-nine Great Daos, while Wu Liang and Heavenly Venerable Yunli guarded the mountain. The gathering tribulation clouds alarmed his guards, who feared that no one could survive the lightning he had summoned.

• Lin Xuan chose a secluded mountain because his breakthrough with twenty-nine Great Daos could attract dangerous attention.
• The chapter recounted how Zhou Tao, a genius who fused sixteen Great Daos, died after surviving only twelve bolts of Emperor Realm tribulation lightning.
• Wu Liang and Heavenly Venerable Yunli stood guard outside Lin Xuan's formation after Wu Liang returned Su Lianxin to the sect.
• Lin Xuan prepared to begin his breakthrough as dark clouds gathered overhead.
• Wu Liang estimated that Lin Xuan had fused eighteen or nineteen Great Daos, and Heavenly Venerable Yunli worried that he could not survive the tribulation.

Wu Liang explained the danger of the Emperor Realm lightning tribulation and revealed that he had survived it with fifteen fused Great Daos. Lin Xuan began his own tribulation and effortlessly destroyed its first ten bolts, leaving Heavenly Venerable Yunli stunned by the difference in their abilities.

• Heavenly Venerable Yunli asked Wu Liang how many Great Daos he had fused, and he said he had entered the Emperor Realm with fifteen.
• Wu Liang recalled nearly dying to his final lightning bolt and warned that the tribulation grew more dangerous with each strike.
• Wu Liang sensed the lightning gathering and announced that Lin Xuan's tribulation was beginning.
• Lin Xuan stood within the formation and slashed the first nine lightning bolts into oblivion.
• Lin Xuan casually destroyed the tenth bolt, while Heavenly Venerable Yunli reflected on how difficult that same trial had been for her.

Lin Xuan endured nineteen increasingly powerful lightning bolts during his Emperor Realm tribulation, astonishing Wu Liang and Heavenly Venerable Yunli and sustaining injuries along the way. They thought the tribulation was over, but the thunderclouds gathered again, suggesting another bolt was coming.

• Lin Xuan easily survived the thirteenth and fourteenth bolts, leaving Wu Liang stunned.
• Lin Xuan shattered the fifteenth and sixteenth bolts with his sword, while Wu Liang recalled how narrowly he had survived the fifteenth himself.
• Lin Xuan split the seventeenth bolt but suffered faint wounds, then endured the eighteenth and coughed up blood.
• The nineteenth bolt blasted apart the mountain formation and drove Lin Xuan into a crater, but Wu Liang and Heavenly Venerable Yunli sensed he was still alive.
• Wu Liang and Heavenly Venerable Yunli celebrated Lin Xuan's survival and planned a banquet, then noticed the thunderclouds were gathering strength again.

Lin Xuan endured twenty-nine increasingly powerful bolts of tribulation lightning, surviving the twenty-ninth despite being gravely wounded. As the clouds began to disperse, they gathered again to form a new tribulation of pure purple-gold lightning.

• Lin Xuan used his Innate Primordial Sword Physique to withstand the twentieth bolt and continued breaking through bolts up to the twenty-seventh.
• Lin Xuan met the twenty-eighth bolt with his sword and, though badly injured, challenged the forming twenty-ninth bolt.
• The twenty-ninth bolt blasted Lin Xuan into a crater, and Wu Liang and Heavenly Venerable Yunli feared he had died when his life signs vanished.
• Lin Xuan climbed out of the crater alive, and the tribulation clouds began to disperse as Wu Liang and Heavenly Venerable Yunli rejoiced.
• The clouds gathered again and formed a new tribulation of pure purple-gold lightning.

Lin Xuan used the Immortal-Slaying Sword Array and the Emperor Weapon Edgeless to survive his thirtieth tribulation bolt, then rose to Emperor Realm Ninth Stage. He immediately attacked Wu Liang to test his new strength, and Wu Liang prepared to face him.

• Lin Xuan summoned Edgeless and formed the Immortal-Slaying Sword Array as the purple-gold thirtieth tribulation bolt descended.
• Lin Xuan used the sword array to sever the bolt, astonishing Wu Liang and Heavenly Venerable Yunli.
• Spiritual dew healed Lin Xuan, and he emerged from the tribulation grounds having reached Emperor Realm Ninth Stage.
• Lin Xuan attacked Wu Liang with a giant sword of spiritual power to test his strength.
• Wu Liang chose to meet Lin Xuan's attack, confident that his Thearch-level power would overcome the newly advanced Lin Xuan.

After Lin Xuan overwhelmed Wu Liang with one sword strike, he learned that a great war between the Human Race and the other races was underway and headed to the battlefield. There, the Human Race held its ground despite heavy losses and weaker forces.

• Lin Xuan struck Wu Liang with the Immortal-Slaying Sword Array, severely injuring the Thearch Realm Demon and leaving Wu Liang and Heavenly Venerable Yunli stunned.
• Lin Xuan dismissed the array, gave Wu Liang healing pills, and heard Wu Liang admit his overconfidence.
• After returning to the Sword Pavilion, Lin Xuan learned that a major war was brewing and set out to test his strength on the battlefield.
• The Human Race and the other races fought for three days and nights, with many casualties and the Human Race at a disadvantage in overall expert strength.
• A wounded sect master burned his lifespan and Essence Blood with a Secret Method, charging into the enemy ranks rather than retreating.

Your Highness Ten, a royal of the otherworlders, arrived on the battlefield and killed the Heavenly Qian Sect Master, devastating human morale. The Thearch clans began using their hidden trump cards, and the Ji Household Head called upon the Azure Lotus Ancestor to descend.

• Your Highness Ten crushed the Heavenly Qian Sect Master's head and revealed himself as a Thearch Realm expert.
• The otherworlders greeted Your Highness Ten, while humans feared the power of the higher-ranked royals and one cultivator collapsed in despair.
• Your Highness Ten rebuked the otherworlders for needing his help and explained that he had come to investigate the Profound Domain's resistance.
• The Thearch clan experts resolved to use their trump cards and formed an array led by the Ji Household Ancestor.
• The Ji Household Head drew a blood talisman and called for the Azure Lotus Ancestor to descend.

The Human Race unleashed its strongest weapons and projections against Your Highness Ten, led by the Azure Thearch’s phantom and a Pseudo Emperor Weapon. Your Highness Ten easily cracked the phantom and caught its weapon, then prepared to show them the power of a true thearch.

• The Ji Household summoned the Azure Thearch’s thearch realm second layer projection, while the Nine Heavens Profound Sect brought out a Pseudo Emperor Weapon.
• The other imperial clans and great sects deployed their trump cards, focusing every attack on Your Highness Ten.
• Your Highness Ten mocked the human forces and hurled a red moon at the Azure Thearch’s projection, cracking it and dimming its halo.
• The Azure Thearch’s projection slashed at Your Highness Ten, but he caught the Pseudo Emperor Weapon with one hand and tossed the projection aside.
• Your Highness Ten declared that he would show the humans what a true thearch could do.

His Highness Ten destroyed the Azure Thearch’s projection with one strike and seized the Human Race’s Pseudo Emperor Weapon, leaving the Human Race’s forces demoralized and outmatched. The Profound Domain cultivators refused to surrender and charged into battle, while a badly wounded Venerable prepared to sacrifice himself among the enemy ranks.

• His Highness Ten shattered the Azure Thearch’s projection, caught the falling Pseudo Emperor Weapon, and blocked the Human Race’s attacks with his Gang Qi.
• The Ji Household’s head and ancestor acknowledged the gulf between them and His Highness Ten, while imperial clan cultivators lost hope and some threw down their weapons.
• Profound Domain cultivators vowed to fight to the death, and the Heavenly Qian Sect’s deputy sect master burned the sect master’s corpse before charging into battle.
• A sword cultivator led Kunyi Valley’s disciples into the fight, while a badly wounded Profound Alliance Venerable used a secret method to appear among the other races.
• The Profound Domain Venerable swelled his spiritual power and declared that he would protect the Profound Domain one last time, preparing to take nearby enemies down with him.

Lin Xuan, Wu Liang, and Heavenly Venerable Yunli arrived at the battlefield after Lin Xuan broke the Tenth Highness’s crimson-moon Thearch Technique. The Tenth Highness’s overwhelming presence renewed humanity’s despair, but as he challenged Wu Liang, Lin Xuan stepped forward to face him instead.

• The Profound Hidden Sect’s former sect master died, prompting his son and other Profound Alliance cultivators to fight recklessly and sacrifice themselves to kill otherworlders.
• The Tenth Highness dismissed the sacrifices and used a powerful Thearch Technique to send a crimson moon crashing toward the human cultivators, crushing many with a casual gesture.
• Lin Xuan, Wu Liang, and Heavenly Venerable Yunli arrived, and Lin Xuan shattered the falling crimson moon with a streak of spiritual light.
• Nangong Yaoyue recognized Lin Xuan and bitterly realized he had passed over her as a stranger.
• The Tenth Highness revealed a presence that imperial clan experts judged to be at least Thearch Realm second layer peak, then mocked Wu Liang and challenged him to fight.
• Lin Xuan stepped forward to confront the Tenth Highness while Wu Liang remained still, leaving the gathered cultivators stunned.

Lin Xuan stepped forward to face the Tenth Highness and struck him down with a seemingly ordinary sword attack that severed his arm. The stunned human cultivators recognized Lin Xuan as the Sword Pavilion’s mysterious Pavilion Master.

• Lin Xuan stepped forward to challenge the Tenth Highness, and the Bai Household members recognized him as the Sword Pavilion’s Pavilion Master.
• The Tenth Highness dismissed Lin Xuan as an Emperor Realm ant, but grew wary when Lin Xuan unleashed a seemingly ordinary Sword-Ray.
• The Tenth Highness attacked Lin Xuan, but Lin Xuan’s Sword-Ray pierced through his arm and sent him crashing into the ground.
• The Tenth Highness emerged from the crater with one arm severed, and lingering Sword Intent suppressed his regenerative ability.
• The human cultivators stared in disbelief as some recognized Lin Xuan as the mysterious Pavilion Master of the Sword Pavilion.

Lin Xuan drove the Tenth Highness into retreat, turning the battle’s course in humanity’s favor. As the human cultivators launched a counterattack, Nangong Yaoyue was overwhelmed by regret for abandoning Lin Xuan, her former master.

• Nangong Yaoyue watched Lin Xuan’s strength and revealed identity, regretting that she had abandoned him as her master.
• The Tenth Highness realized Lin Xuan’s cultivation appeared to be only at the Emperor Realm despite his power, then tried to attack him again.
• Lin Xuan’s next sword strike forced the Tenth Highness to tear open space and flee.
• Lin Xuan struck through space to pursue the fleeing Tenth Highness.
• Human cultivators, inspired by the enemy’s retreat, charged the other races and began their counterattack.

Wu Liang turned the battlefield around by slaughtering the other races, while Lin Xuan pursued His Highness Ten into the still-open Void Realm entrance. Lin Xuan suspected His Highness Ten was luring him into a trap, but entered without hesitation, confident that his knowledge of the other races gave him the advantage.

• Wu Liang entered the battlefield and killed members of the other races, leaving their army helpless without His Highness Ten.
• Human cultivators recognized the Sword Pavilion’s three powerful experts, including Lianxin and a woman who revealed herself as a formidable Heavenly Venerable.
• Lin Xuan continued chasing His Highness Ten through spatial rifts, determined to kill him before his own spiritual power ran out.
• His Highness Ten reached the Void Realm entrance and entered it, hoping to turn the pursuit against Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan found the open entrance, realized His Highness Ten might be luring him inside, and followed without fear.

Lin Xuan chased the Tenth Highness out of the Void Realm and into the Luminous Domain, where the foreign-race royal arrived during Empress Feng Yong’s battle against two Thearch Realm enemies. The Luminous Domain’s defenders recognized the Tenth Highness as a royal Thearch, and their hopes sank as he appeared on the battlefield.

• The Tenth Highness left the Void Realm, and Lin Xuan followed him into the unfamiliar Luminous Domain.
• The chapter described the Luminous Domain’s Heaven-Burning Hall, its absent thirty-seventh Hall Master Empress Biyou, and its current empress, Feng Yong.
• Feng Yong fought two foreign-race Thearch Realm experts, using her Thearch Technique to hold them off while fearing she would lose through exhaustion.
• A rift opened above the battlefield, and the Tenth Highness emerged with the presence of a Thearch Realm foreign-race royal.
• Feng Yong and the others recognized the Tenth Highness, and their hearts sank at his arrival.

Lin Xuan pursued the Tenth Highness into the Luminous Domain and struck him down, giving its embattled cultivators hope. The Tenth Highness then used the Blood Demon Secret Technique to restore his arm and raise his strength to near the third-layer peak, leaving him eager to face Lin Xuan again.

• Lin Xuan emerged from the rift and sent the Tenth Highness flying with a single sword strike.
• The Luminous Domain’s cultivators recognized Lin Xuan as a human Thearch, while the two other-race Thearchs realized he had pursued their royal highness.
• The Tenth Highness ordered the two Thearchs to help activate the Blood Demon Secret Technique, and they sacrificed their essence blood to empower him.
• The Tenth Highness regained his severed arm and surged to a strength approaching the Thearch Realm third-layer peak.
• The Tenth Highness mocked Lin Xuan and challenged him to attack.

The Tenth Highness believed his secret art had made him powerful enough to defeat Lin Xuan, but Lin Xuan killed him and two other Thearch Realm experts with one sword strike. The battlefield was left stunned as Feng Yong realized she had not needed to suggest joining forces.

• The Tenth Highness boasted that Lin Xuan had pursued him too late and ordered Protector Ling and Protector Yi to cover him.
• Feng Yong prepared to suggest that she and Lin Xuan join forces, but Lin Xuan stepped forward and unleashed a gigantic sword.
• The Tenth Highness found himself unable to escape the sword's overwhelming Sword Intent.
• Lin Xuan's strike passed through the otherworldly forces and killed three Thearch Realm experts by severing their souls.
• The Luminous Domain's cultivators confirmed the three experts were dead and marveled at Lin Xuan's strength.
• Feng Yong was left in shock, realizing there was no need for her to join forces with Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan killed Your Highness Ten and left the Luminous Domain, while news of his victory made him first on the Heaven Ranking. The other races then launched a much stronger assault on the Profound Domain, where Lin Xuan and Wu Liang were absent and the human forces faced overwhelming odds.

• Lin Xuan left the Luminous Domain after killing Your Highness Ten, and Empress Feng Yong realized she had not asked his name.
• The Profound Domain's jade tokens announced that Lin Xuan had taken first place on the Heaven Ranking, while Wu Liang fell to second and Su Lianxin reclaimed first on the Earth Ranking.
• The battle's details spread, and people learned that the Sword Pavilion's pavilion master was a Thearch Realm expert who had slain Your Highness Ten.
• The other races counterattacked with a far larger force of two-horned and three-horned enemies, including many Emperor Realm cultivators and Venerables.
• Wu Liang pursued Lin Xuan to bring him back, leaving the Profound Domain's human forces without a Thearch Realm expert as the enemy army surrounded them.

The other races besieged the Profound Domain’s Nine Heavens Profound Sect while its defenders struggled to hold the formation. A human Thearch Realm expert from the Eastern Continent’s True Martial Holy Heaven rescued Su Lianxin and offered to take her as his student, but she refused and remained loyal to Lin Xuan and the Sword Pavilion.

• The Profound Domain’s experts realized the other races had sacrificed His Highness Ten to draw away their two Thearch Realm experts, leaving the Nine Heavens Profound Sect under siege.
• As Su Lianxin fought the other races near the Nine Profundities Heavenly Sect, an Emperor Realm enemy targeted her for killing their forces.
• A white-robed old man appeared and destroyed every enemy in the area with one strike, revealing himself as a human Thearch Realm expert.
• The old man introduced himself as a sage instructor of the True Martial Holy Heaven and invited Su Lianxin to study in the Eastern Continent.
• Su Lianxin rejected the offer twice, explaining that she already belonged to the Sword Pavilion and would not leave her master, Lin Xuan.

After Su Lianxin rejected him, the saint teacher from True Martial Holy Heaven recruited four other young cultivators from the Profound Domain, including Su Ditian and Nangong Yaoyue. As he departed with them, they spotted Su Lianxin in the crowd.

• The saint teacher from True Martial Holy Heaven gave up on recruiting Su Lianxin and searched the battlefield for other promising talents.
• The Human Race experts welcomed the saint teacher, who announced he wanted to take disciples back to True Martial Holy Heaven in the Eastern Continent.
• The head of the Bai Household presented Bai Linglong, and she eagerly accepted the saint teacher's offer.
• The saint teacher accepted four disciples, including Su Ditian and Nangong Yaoyue, and left the Nine Profundities Heavenly Sect with them.
• As they departed, Su Ditian and Nangong Yaoyue saw Su Lianxin putting away her sword, and their gazes met.

Su Lianxin encountered Su Ditian, the Su Clan patriarch, and Nangong Yaoyue as they prepared to leave with True Martial Holy Heaven's holy master. Nangong Yaoyue challenged her to a duel in three years, but Su Lianxin dismissed the threat.

• Su Ditian glared at Su Lianxin with hatred, then smugly looked down on her because he had gained an Emperor Bone and a place at True Martial Holy Heaven.
• The Su Clan patriarch taunted Su Lianxin by asking whether a holy master had selected her for the Eastern Continent, but she calmly ignored him.
• Nangong Yaoyue recalled her humiliation at Su Lianxin's hands and resolved to surpass her after merging with a mysterious treasure and gaining a chance to cultivate in the Eastern Continent.
• Nangong Yaoyue challenged Su Lianxin to fight her in three years, then followed True Martial Holy Heaven's holy master.
• Su Lianxin gave little thought to the challenge and believed Nangong Yaoyue would still be no match for her in three years.

As the foreign races overwhelmed the Profound Domain, the Nine Profundities Heavenly Sect's sect master revealed an ancient teleportation array that could let a small number escape. Su Lianxin left with Heavenly Venerable Yunli, while Wu Liang encountered a familiar presence in a spatial tear as he pursued Lin Xuan.

• The sacred teacher from True Martial Holy Heaven departed with four disciples and the people they had chosen, leaving the remaining defenders facing the foreign races.
• The Nine Profundities Heavenly Sect's sect master announced that its damaged ancestral teleportation array could be repaired for one use, allowing only a limited number to escape.
• The survivors vowed to return to the Profound Domain and avenge their dead as the sect master prepared to lead their retreat.
• Heavenly Venerable Yunli used a restriction-ignoring Law Treasure to take Su Lianxin to the Jade Balance Sword Palace, while the Su Clan's ancestor gave up on reconciling with her.
• Wu Liang followed Lin Xuan through shattered space, then stopped when a spatial tear appeared with a technique like his own and a familiar presence within it.

Wu Liang was forced to leave the Sword Pavilion with three Chongming Bird Great Emperors, who summoned him to return to his dying father, Demon Saint Moluo. As Heavenly Venerable Yunli prepared to risk her life defending the Jade Balance Sword Palace, Lin Xuan suddenly appeared.

• Three Chongming Bird Great Emperors found Wu Liang and ordered him to return to Luo Heaven Domain because Demon Saint Moluo was nearing death.
• Wu Liang tried to escape, but the leading Great Emperor sealed the space and overpowered his attempt.
• Wu Liang agreed to leave after sending a message to the Sword Pavilion, hoping Lin Xuan could help him later.
• Heavenly Venerable Yunli continued fighting a foreign-race Thearch Realm expert outside the formation while the sect faced a growing assault.
• Heavenly Venerable Yunli resolved to sacrifice herself to protect Qu Youmeng and the other disciples, but Lin Xuan appeared in midair.

Lin Xuan returned to the Jade Balance Sword Palace, killed an invading Thearch Realm expert, and learned that Wu Liang had been taken to the Luo Heaven Domain. As he sent the survivors toward the Eastern Continent, he recalled how the Lin Saint Clan had been expelled and hunted, and resolved to take revenge on the Yuan Clan Saint Clan and the Profound Heaven Holy Land.

• Lin Xuan returned to the Jade Balance Sword Palace and killed the fleeing other-race Thearch Realm expert with one sword strike.
• Lin Xuan learned from Heavenly Venerable Yunli that Wu Liang had been forcibly taken away by the Chongming Bird race and had urged Lin Xuan to find him in the Luo Heaven Domain.
• Lin Xuan told the Jade Balance Sword Palace survivors to travel through an ancient teleportation formation to the Eastern Continent, then recalled that he had come from the Lin Saint Clan there.
• Lin Xuan remembered how the Yuan Clan Saint Clan had accused the Lin Saint Clan of killing its grand elder, forced its expulsion from the Profound Heaven Holy Land, and joined other clans in hunting its members.
• Lin Xuan recalled that his elder brother Lin Yu had sent him through an ancient teleportation array to save him, and vowed to take revenge on the Yuan Clan Saint Clan and the Profound Heaven Holy Land.

Lin Xuan defended the Jade Balance Sword Palace as the other races concentrated their invasion on the last stronghold in the Profound Domain. The royal consort, wielding an Emperor Weapon, attacked him but was driven back and ordered the God Clan to form up and help kill him.

• Lin Xuan used Edgeless to slay thousands of the other races as they surged toward the Jade Balance Sword Palace.
• Three Thearch Realm experts arrived through a rift, while two more approached and additional forces poured into the Profound Domain.
• The royal consort asked Lin Xuan if he had killed Little Ten, then summoned a ghastly white bone whip that was an Emperor Weapon.
• The royal consort struck at Lin Xuan, but he blocked her attack and countered with a Sword Gang that blasted her backward and made her bleed.
• The royal consort recognized that she was no match for Lin Xuan and ordered the God Clan to form a formation and aid her with a Secret Technique.