Chapter Summaries

Shentu Feng emerged from seclusion as a half-emperor and volunteered to face Han Ming, while Lin Xuan focused on cultivation. At the deadline, Primordial Holy Heaven gathered to confront the Primordial Slaying Alliance, and Han Ming offered to fight with his cultivation suppressed and use only three moves.

• Shentu Feng returned from seclusion as a half-emperor, having mastered a Secret Technique, and declared that he would be the first to accept Han Ming’s challenge.
• Lin Xuan heard about Shentu Feng and chose to focus on cultivating, consuming a golden pill and drawing on his plentiful resources to pursue a breakthrough.
• As the Primordial Slaying Alliance’s three-day deadline arrived, forces from across the region gathered outside the three inner courts to watch Primordial Holy Heaven’s response.
• Primordial Holy Heaven’s students and leaders gathered at the arena with resolve, while Han Ming left his flying boat and mocked them.
• Han Ming proposed that he suppress his cultivation and use only three moves, counting the match as his loss if Primordial Holy Heaven’s fighter remained standing afterward.

Han Ming challenged Primordial Holy Heaven’s students to defeat him within three moves, and Shentu Feng stepped forward to face him. Shentu Feng revealed that he had reached the Half-Emperor realm and mastered a Saint Technique before activating his Undefeated Sacred Physique.

• The academy heads accepted Han Ming’s arena challenge because refusing would further weaken Primordial Holy Heaven.
• Shentu Li sent his disciple and nephew Shentu Feng to fight Han Ming.
• Shentu Feng revealed that he had broken through to the Half-Emperor realm and approached the threshold of the Thearch Realm.
• Shentu Li disclosed that Shentu Feng had attained minor accomplishment in the Shentu family’s once-incomplete Saint Technique.
• Shentu Feng activated his Undefeated Sacred Physique before facing Han Ming.

Han Ming defeated Shentu Feng’s newly formed Undefeated Sacred Physique with a single sword strike, despite suppressing his cultivation to Half-Emperor level. The Primordial Holy Heaven leaders realized Han Ming’s strength was overwhelming as he mocked Shentu Feng after the match.

• Shentu Feng formed his Undefeated Sacred Physique while onlookers praised its legendary defense.
• Han Ming summoned his spirit sword and attacked only after Shentu Feng’s physique had fully formed.
• Han Ming’s Sword Qi shattered Shentu Feng’s golden shield and knocked him out of the arena in one move.
• Shentu Li checked Shentu Feng and found he was not seriously injured, while the Primordial Holy Heaven leaders recognized Han Ming’s strength.
• Han Ming stood in the arena and mocked Shentu Feng and the Undefeated Sacred Physique.

Wan Renshan emerged from seclusion to face Han Ming after Shentu Feng’s defeat, and the Sacred Masters recognized that he had reached the Thearch Realm with his foundations intact. Han Ming offered to let Wan Renshan attack three times without dodging, then vowed to defeat him.

• Han Ming mocked Primordial Holy Heaven and Shentu Feng after easily defeating him, leaving the students and Sacred Masters shaken.
• Wan Renshan stepped forward and challenged Han Ming, drawing cheers from the students who recognized him as the leader of the Ten Saints.
• The Sacred Masters discovered that Wan Renshan had broken through to the Thearch Realm, and his teacher saw that his Great Daos had reached perfection and merged without weakening his foundations.
• Wan Renshan entered the arena with a high-grade thearch artifact spear, while onlookers anticipated that his fight with Han Ming would be the final battle.
• Han Ming dismissed Wan Renshan, suppressed his cultivation to the Thearch Realm First Layer, and promised to let him make three attacks before striking back.

Han Ming withstood Wan Renshan’s three spear strikes, then counterattacked with perfected fifth-level sword intent and defeated him. The arena fell silent as Wan Renshan crashed to the ground.

• Wan Renshan thrust at Han Ming, but Han Ming’s protective Spiritual Qi stopped the spear and he declared the first move over.
• Wan Renshan swept his spear with greater force, knocking Han Ming back half a step, and Han Ming called it the second move.
• Wan Renshan unleashed his full strength and trump-card technique, but Han Ming blocked the strike after retreating more than ten steps.
• Han Ming hurled Wan Renshan into the air and attacked with perfected fifth-level sword intent.
• Han Ming pierced Wan Renshan’s chest, then flung him to the ground, leaving the venue silent.

Han Ming defeated Wan Renshan with a single sword strike, then mocked the Primordial Holy Heaven and challenged Lin Xuan. A girl in black stepped forward and declared that Han Ming would have to defeat her first.

• Han Ming defeated Wan Renshan in the arena, and Wan Renshan admitted his loss.
• Han Ming mocked the Primordial Holy Heaven students and challenged them to attack him together.
• Han Ming called out Lin Xuan and demanded that he accept a challenge.
• A girl in black approached the arena and told Han Ming he was not worthy to challenge Lin Xuan until he defeated her.

Qu Youmeng challenged Han Ming despite his contempt for her Emperor Realm cultivation, then revealed seventh-level sword intent and defeated him with one strike. Han Ming lay wounded on the arena with her sword at his throat.

• Qu Youmeng stepped onto the arena to challenge Han Ming, who mocked her low cultivation and offered to let her attack ten times.
• Duan Nianwei worried Qu Youmeng was outmatched, but Yunyi stopped her and said Qu Youmeng was the strongest in the Sword Pavilion apart from Eldest Senior Sister.
• Qu Youmeng rejected Han Ming's offer and unleashed seventh-level sword intent, shocking Elder Qi and the others.
• Qu Youmeng struck before Han Ming could respond, shattering his protective spiritual power and overpowering his fifth-level sword intent.
• Han Ming was sent crashing across the arena, and Qu Youmeng pressed her sword tip to his throat.

Qu Youmeng defeated Han Ming in the duel, revealing that she was Lin Xuan’s disciple and securing a victory for the Primordial Holy Heaven. The Primordial Slaying Alliance withdrew after a Half-Saint warned that the conflict was far from over, leaving the watching factions to consider their sides as war approached.

• Qu Youmeng declared Han Ming defeated and revealed that she was Lin Xuan’s disciple.
• A student recognized Qu Youmeng as Prodigy Qu, the sword cultivator who had defeated Meng Tianya and drawn the attention of the ten great Saint Teachers.
• The Saint Teachers demanded that Han Ming and the Primordial Slaying Alliance honor the agreement and leave after their loss.
• A concealed Half-Saint from the Primordial Slaying Alliance exerted pressure, which Elder Zuo and Elder Qi resisted before the enemy withdrew it.
• The Primordial Slaying Alliance’s ship departed after warning that Lin Xuan could not protect the Primordial Holy Heaven, while the watching factions weighed which side to join.

Lin Xuan broke through to the Thearch Realm, then awakened the Lin Saint Clan bloodline and sensed that his family, including his parents and elder brother, were still alive. As the bloodline power revealed memories of the clan’s former prosperity, the chapter ended with Lin Xuan witnessing its sudden decline.

• Lin Xuan completed his secluded cultivation and reached the Thearch Realm.
• As Lin Xuan prepared to leave seclusion, a powerful force awakened within him, which he recognized as the Lin Saint Clan bloodline.
• Lin Xuan’s bloodline perception connected him to Lin Yuechan and dozens of Lin Household members in Supreme City.
• Lin Xuan sensed his elder brother, younger sister, and parents across the Eastern Continent and realized they had survived.
• Lin Xuan assimilated the bloodline power and saw memories of the Lin Clan’s prosperity in a world larger than the Eastern Continent, followed by its precipitous decline.

Lin Xuan witnessed the Lin Clan’s origins and met the remnant soul of its ancestor, Lin Ye, who offered him a chance to earn an immortal method by breaking sword formations. Lin Ye opened the trial, leaving Lin Xuan to face nine formations whose difficulty would determine the legacy he received.

• Lin Xuan saw memories of the Lin Clan ancestor leaving the Central Divine Continent and founding the Profound Heaven Holy Land.
• Lin Ye appeared in Lin Xuan’s sea of consciousness and explained that the bloodline awakening had revealed memories imprinted in the Lin Clan’s bloodline.
• Lin Ye told Lin Xuan that he could earn a lower-, middle-, or upper-grade immortal method by breaking three, six, or nine sword formations.
• Lin Xuan questioned whether realms existed above the Immortal Realm, and Lin Ye said he had never heard of any.
• Lin Ye unleashed the nine sword formations and urged Lin Xuan to begin the trial.

Lin Xuan shattered all nine of the Lin Household’s sword formations, astonishing Lin Ye and earning the right to learn the family’s upper-grade immortal method. Lin Ye began teaching him the Eternal True Immortal Instruction in a space where one day outside equaled one year within, though the ancestor’s remnant soul would disappear after a year.

• Lin Xuan charged into the sword formation and revealed a sword domain, prompting Lin Ye to decide he would teach him the immortal method even if he failed the trial.
• Lin Xuan shattered all nine interlocking sword formations with his command of the Sword Dao and emerged unscathed.
• Lin Ye was amazed by Lin Xuan’s talent and offered him the Lin Household’s upper-grade immortal method.
• Lin Ye explained that the inheritance space made one day outside equal one year inside, but his remnant soul would dissipate in a year.
• Lin Ye began teaching Lin Xuan the nine-level Eternal True Immortal Instruction.

After a year of instruction in the collapsing space, Lin Xuan reached the eighth level of an Immortal Method and received a jade pendant from Lin Ye before his ancestor’s remnant soul vanished. Soon after Lin Xuan emerged, Bai Wushang gathered the six institutes at the Primordial Beginning Institute to prepare for the Primordial Slaying Alliance’s attack, and the enemy powerhouses began arriving.

• Lin Xuan advanced to the eighth level of the Immortal Method during a year of secluded cultivation under Lin Ye’s guidance.
• Lin Ye gave Lin Xuan a dragon-carved jade pendant and told him to take it to Undying Immortal Mountain in the Central Divine Continent to learn the Lin Clan’s history.
• Lin Ye’s remnant soul dissipated, and Lin Xuan’s Divine Sense returned to his quiet chamber with the jade pendant and his increased cultivation.
• Bai Wushang ordered everyone from the six institutes to gather at the Primordial Beginning Institute and abandon the other five institutes’ defenses.
• Powerhouses from the Primordial Slaying Alliance began arriving at the Primordial Beginning Institute.

The Primordial Slaying Alliance arrived at the Primordial Beginning Institute with a massive army led by six Half-Saints, making the Primordial Holy Heaven fear it could not win. Lin Xuan joined the Holy Heaven’s senior figures despite having only just reached the first layer of the Thearch Realm, and the enemy mocked him and Bai Wuya before the battle began.

• The Primordial Holy Heaven’s students and experts saw the Primordial Slaying Alliance’s army gather outside, including hundreds of Thearch Realm cultivators and six Half-Saints.
• The Holy Heaven’s two deputy heads and the heads of the three inner institutes appeared to face the army, with Lin Xuan among them.
• A Half-Saint from the Primordial Slaying Alliance mocked Lin Xuan’s low cultivation and insulted the deceased Bai Wuya.
• Bai Wushang rebuked the Half-Saint, while the Primordial Holy Heaven’s senior figures struggled to answer the criticism of Lin Xuan’s presence.
• The head of the Primordial Beginning Institute worried that Lin Xuan would be too weak to survive once the fighting started.

The Primordial Holy Heaven faced the Primordial Slaying Alliance with only three effective Half-Saints against six, but Bai Wushang activated its powerful Zhoutian Primordial Formation. The arrival of a Saint Realm expert from the Nine Luminaries Saint Sect left the Holy Heaven’s defenders despairing and wondering what the alliance had offered to secure his aid.

• The Primordial Slaying Alliance mocked Lin Xuan and the gravely wounded head of the Heaven-Reaching Institute over the Primordial Holy Heaven’s shortage of Half-Saints.
• Bai Wushang rebuked the alliance and exchanged a hostile look with Saint Teacher Yan Qiong, while Zhang Yu watched Lin Xuan with hatred.
• Bai Wushang activated the Zhoutian Primordial Formation to protect the disciples of the Primordial Beginning Institute.
• A hemp-robed old man appeared beside the Primordial Slaying Alliance’s six Half-Saints and overwhelmed the Primordial Holy Heaven’s defenders with his Saint Realm pressure.
• Bai Wushang recognized the old man as the ancestor of the Nine Luminaries Saint Sect in the Desolate Domain, prompting speculation about what the Primordial Slaying Alliance had offered him.

The Nine Luminaries Ancestor rejected Bai Wushang’s offer and declared that Primordial Holy Heaven must perish. Bai Wuya then revealed that he had faked his death and appeared to shield his students, leaving them hopeful despite the danger still facing them.

• The Nine Luminaries Ancestor explained that the Primordial Slaying Alliance had offered him something capable of helping him advance, so he had agreed to join the battle.
• Bai Wushang offered to match the alliance’s reward, but the Nine Luminaries Ancestor refused and said Primordial Holy Heaven must perish.
• Bai Wuya appeared before the gathered forces and challenged the Nine Luminaries Ancestor, stunning both sides.
• Bai Wushang recognized the supposedly dead headmaster, and Bai Wuya thanked him for his hard work.
• Bai Wuya recalled that he had faked his death to draw out hidden enemies, though the Nine Luminaries Ancestor’s arrival had been unexpected and his own time was limited.
• Primordial Holy Heaven’s students cheered at Bai Wuya’s return, believing that their headmaster’s presence meant they could not lose.

Lin Xuan realized that Bai Wuya had faked his death, revealing the old dean’s survival to both Primordial Holy Heaven and the Primordial Slaying Alliance. Bai Wuya offered the Nine Luminaries Ancestor a chance to withdraw, but the ancestor chose to fight for the breakthrough he needed.

• Lin Xuan recognized that Bai Wuya had staged his death and saw Lin Yuechan celebrating his return.
• The Primordial Holy Heaven traitors regretted joining the Primordial Slaying Alliance, while the Baiyue Cult Leader and his allies realized Bai Wuya’s deception had nearly ruined their plan.
• Bai Wuya offered the Nine Luminaries Ancestor the chance to withdraw and promised to overlook the alliance’s actions.
• The Nine Luminaries Ancestor concluded that Bai Wuya was near death and refused to retreat, declaring that he would defend the Primordial Slaying Alliance and fight for his breakthrough.

Bai Wuya fought the Nine Luminaries Ancestor to defend the Primordial Holy Heaven, but his weakened state left him injured and outmatched. The Nine Luminaries Ancestor unleashed a final technique that plunged the sky into darkness, leaving Bai Wuya unable to see as he threatened to destroy the Primordial Holy Heaven.

• Bai Wuya released his Saint Realm pressure and declared that the Primordial Slaying Alliance would die if it refused to retreat.
• The Nine Luminaries Ancestor and Bai Wuya drew their Saint weapons and clashed within their Saint Domains.
• The Nine Luminaries Ancestor shattered the Saint Domains and wounded Bai Wuya, revealing that he was stronger in their fight.
• The Nine Luminaries Ancestor tore flesh from his chest and unleashed a technique that darkened the sky and blinded Bai Wuya.

After Bai Wuya fell to the Nine Luminaries Ancestor, Lin Xuan refused the offer to become the Nine Luminaries Saint Sect’s Holy Son unless the Ancestor could defeat him. The Ancestor attacked, and Lin Xuan stepped forward to face the blow.

• The Nine Luminaries Ancestor blasted Bai Wuya out of the air, leaving him gravely wounded.
• Bai Wushang rushed to protect Bai Wuya and fed him healing pills.
• The Primordial Slaying Alliance celebrated its apparent victory while the Primordial Holy Heaven despaired.
• The Nine Luminaries Ancestor offered Lin Xuan the vacant Holy Son position, but Lin Xuan said he would join only if the Ancestor defeated him.
• The Nine Luminaries Ancestor struck at Lin Xuan, who stopped Bai Wuya from intervening and told him to leave the rest to him.

Lin Xuan stood motionless as the Nine Luminaries Ancestor attacked, and his black-and-white sword domain automatically dispersed the Saint Realm strike before it could reach him. The onlookers were left stunned, while the Nine Luminaries Ancestor struggled to comprehend Lin Xuan’s strength.

• The Nine Luminaries Ancestor launched a powerful palm strike at Lin Xuan as Lin Yuechan tried to rush to his aid and Chang Ling'er held her back.
• Lin Xuan unfolded his black-and-white sword domain and concealed the Immortal-Slaying Sword Array within it.
• The sword domain automatically dissolved the Nine Luminaries Ancestor’s attack into wisps of spiritual power before it reached Lin Xuan.
• The Primordial Holy Heaven students, the old dean, and Elder Zuo reacted with shock when Lin Xuan remained unharmed.
• Elder Zuo told Elder Qi that he had recognized Lin Xuan’s exceptional nature, while the Nine Luminaries Ancestor wondered how Lin Xuan had mastered a sword domain at such a young age.

Lin Xuan effortlessly caught the Nine Luminaries Ancestor’s strike, then defeated him with a single sword blow, saving Primordial Holy Heaven from the Primordial Slaying Alliance. The alliance’s leaders realized Lin Xuan had also been the one to kill their six Ancient Emperors, while the Baiyue Cult Leader regretted ignoring Lin Xuan’s warning.

• Lin Yuechan and the students of Primordial Holy Heaven watched in shock as Lin Xuan caught the Nine Luminaries Ancestor’s Saint Realm strike with his Sword Domain.
• Wan Renshan conceded that he was no match for Lin Xuan, while Qu Youmeng encouraged Duan Nianwei to keep watching their master.
• Lin Xuan told the Nine Luminaries Ancestor to take a sword strike from him, then shattered his protective spiritual power and blasted him into a crater.
• The Primordial Holy Heaven higher-ups and the Primordial Slaying Alliance’s six Half-Saints were stunned by Lin Xuan’s strength and recognized that he had saved Primordial Holy Heaven.
• The six Half-Saints realized Lin Xuan himself had killed their six Ancient Emperors and taken their Saint Weapon, while the Baiyue Cult Leader regretted dismissing Lin Xuan’s advice to disband the alliance.