Chapter Summaries

Nangong Yaoyue faced Su Lianxin in the arena, where Lianxin offered to withstand two sword strikes and lose if she was forced back a step. Yaoyue unleashed a powerful hidden technique, surprising the spectators and Chiyao Heavenly Palace’s leaders as her attack reached Lianxin.

• Nangong Yaoyue watched Su Lianxin approach and resolved to resist rather than accept humiliation.
• Su Lianxin recalled how Nangong Yaoyue’s betrayal had harmed their master and Starfall Peak, then stated the terms of their duel.
• Nangong Yaoyue drew her sword and decided to use a hidden trump card to force Lianxin to act.
• Nangong Yaoyue released a formidable strike that astonished the crowd, Yaoguang, and Chiyao Heavenly Palace’s higher-ups.
• Nangong Yaoyue shouted that Lianxin would only humiliate herself and slashed toward her.

Su Lianxin stood still as Nangong Yaoyue’s powerful sword strike crashed into her, but her protective Gang wind stopped it without harming her. Nangong Yaoyue then summoned a blood-colored sword using a Secret Technique, revealing that she possessed a Thearch Technique, and prepared to strike again.

• Su Lianxin let Nangong Yaoyue’s first sword strike hit her without dodging or retreating.
• Su Lianxin’s protective Gang wind ground the Sword-Ray away, leaving her unharmed and astonishing the spectators.
• Nangong Yaoyue acknowledged Su Lianxin’s strength, then declared that she had been overconfident.
• Nangong Yaoyue burned a drop of essence blood and formed a powerful blood-colored sword with a Thearch Technique.
• Nangong Yaoyue slashed toward Su Lianxin and vowed to make her abandon her pride.

Nangong Yaoyue unleashed a second, far stronger blood-colored sword strike after Lianxin offered to withstand two attacks. Lianxin’s protective sword gang stopped it without her moving, leaving the spectators stunned and Nangong Yaoyue pale.

• Nangong Yaoyue attacked Lianxin with a blood-colored sword whose power astonished the spectators and threatened even Emperor Realm experts.
• The crowd feared Lianxin would have to defend herself with her sword and lose the challenge.
• Lianxin remained still as her protective sword gang halted Nangong Yaoyue’s strike in midair.
• Yaoguang and the other spectators reacted in disbelief that Lianxin had withstood the attack without moving.
• Nangong Yaoyue watched her strongest strike fail to shake Lianxin, and her face turned pale.

Su Lianxin defeated Nangong Yaoyue after enduring her two strongest attacks, then struck back and seriously injured her. When Nangong Yaoyue asked why she had been challenged, Lianxin revealed that her master was Lin Xuan.

• Nangong Yaoyue realized her Thearch Technique had failed to harm Su Lianxin, who then announced that her two strikes were over and it was her turn.
• Su Lianxin unleashed a formless sword strike, breaking Nangong Yaoyue’s spiritual shield and sending her off the arena seriously injured.
• Palace Master Yaoguang caught Nangong Yaoyue, who stood and asked Su Lianxin why she had challenged her despite their having no grievance.
• Su Lianxin said Nangong Yaoyue had a short memory and revealed that her master was Lin Xuan.

Su Lianxin revealed that Lin Xuan had been Nangong Yaoyue’s former master and that her departure had contributed to his failed breakthrough and Starfall Peak’s crisis. She settled their old grievance, leaving Nangong Yaoyue shaken by how far Lin Xuan and the Sword Pavilion had risen and wondering whether she had been wrong to leave.

• Nangong Yaoyue realized that Su Lianxin’s master Lin Xuan was the Lin Xuan she had abandoned when she left Starfall Peak.
• Su Lianxin confirmed that her master had held a place in the Heaven Ranking’s top ten, shocking Nangong Yaoyue and the onlookers.
• Su Lianxin revealed that Nangong Yaoyue’s betrayal had struck Lin Xuan deeply, causing him to fail his breakthrough to the King Realm while Starfall Peak neared collapse.
• Yaoguang admitted she had concealed the aftermath from Nangong Yaoyue and reflected on how much her decision had changed events.
• Su Lianxin explained that Lin Xuan later founded the Sword Pavilion with his disciples, then declared their old grievances settled after defeating Nangong Yaoyue.
• Nangong Yaoyue struggled with guilt and disbelief as she learned of the Sword Pavilion’s powerful allies and questioned whether leaving had been a mistake.

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.