Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan rejected the Nine Luminaries Ancestor’s surrender and continued to overwhelm him with sword strikes, establishing his might before the watching students and Saint Teachers of Primordial Holy Heaven. The Ancestor’s secret technique was interrupted, leaving him bloodied and fearing he would die for helping the Primordial Slaying Alliance.

• The Nine Luminaries Ancestor emerged from the crater and offered to withdraw after Lin Xuan’s first strike.
• Lin Xuan refused to let the Ancestor leave and struck him again, badly disheveling him and leaving him shaken.
• The students and Saint Teachers of Primordial Holy Heaven looked up to Lin Xuan after witnessing his overwhelming strength.
• Lin Xuan dismissed the Ancestor’s claim that he was in the Saint Realm and continued attacking, determined to establish his might.
• The Ancestor tried to gather spiritual power for a secret technique, but Lin Xuan’s strike interrupted it and sent the power into chaos.
• The bloodied Ancestor regretted helping the Primordial Slaying Alliance and feared Lin Xuan would kill him.

Lin Xuan killed the Nine Luminaries Ancestor after using him to establish his might, then wiped out the Primordial Slaying Alliance and the traitors who begged for mercy. Primordial Holy Heaven celebrated its victory as Sacred Master Ziyan and Yun Qingming faced the consequences of having underestimated and rejected Lin Xuan.

• Lin Xuan repeatedly struck the Nine Luminaries Ancestor until the Saint Realm cultivator begged for his life, then killed him with a sword strike.
• The Nine Luminaries Ancestor’s death confirmed the Primordial Slaying Alliance’s defeat and stunned everyone who witnessed it.
• The Alliance’s six Half-Saints and Primordial Holy Heaven’s traitors knelt and pleaded for mercy, but Lin Xuan rejected their pleas.
• Lin Xuan killed the traitors and enemies with a single powerful sword strike, leaving none alive.
• Sacred Master Ziyan regretted abandoning Lin Xuan and sending him to her rival, while Yun Qingming realized Lin Xuan had far surpassed him.

After Lin Xuan defeated the Primordial Slaying Alliance, Bai Wuya used the Primordial Beginning Institute’s formation to contain the witnesses and make them swear secrecy. News of Primordial Holy Heaven’s victory spread across the Saint Heaven Realm, where people mistakenly concluded Bai Wuya had masterminded the entire scheme.

• Sacred Master Yunzhao reflected on how the student she had taken in had become the academy’s chance to survive.
• Bai Wuya signaled Elder Zuo, who activated the Primordial Beginning Institute’s mobile formation and trapped the gathered factions.
• Bai Wuya demanded that everyone swear a Heart Demon Oath before he would release them, and Lin Xuan’s presence convinced the crowd to comply.
• Several days later, word spread that Primordial Holy Heaven had defeated the Primordial Slaying Alliance, leaving the Saint Heaven Realm stunned.
• People speculated that Bai Wuya had faked his death and used himself as bait to arrange the alliance’s destruction.

After the battle, rumors portrayed Bai Wuya as a ruthless strategist, while Lin Xuan secured his position as Supreme Institute master. Bai Wuya tried to name Lin Xuan as Primordial Holy Heaven’s next headmaster, but Lin Xuan refused and gave him a pill that could extend his life by a thousand years.

• News spread that the Nine Luminaries Ancestor had died in Primordial Holy Heaven and the Nine Luminaries Saint Sect had become a subordinate force.
• Bai Wuya accepted his reputation as a master strategist because revealing Lin Xuan’s role could expose him.
• Bai Wuya told Lin Xuan that faking his death had left him with only a few years to live and offered him the headmaster position.
• Lin Xuan refused to become headmaster and said Bai Wuya should keep the position.
• Lin Xuan gave Bai Wuya an Ultimate Intent Life-Extension Pill that could heal injuries and extend his lifespan by a thousand years.

Bai Wuya accepted the Ultimate Intent Life-Extension Pill from Lin Xuan and discussed the upcoming competition between the Ten Great Saint Heavens. Lin Xuan planned to aim for first place and learned that the Vast Sea Secret Realm would soon open in the Endless Sea’s sixth zone.

• Lin Xuan gave Bai Wuya the Ultimate Intent Life-Extension Pill and told him to keep his position as dean.
• Bai Wuya asked Lin Xuan to help the Primordial Holy Heaven avoid last place in the Ten Great Saint Heavens competition.
• Lin Xuan decided he wanted the Primordial Holy Heaven to compete for first place and considered training Qu Youmeng and Yunyi for the newcomer competition.
• Bai Wuya told Lin Xuan about the Vast Sea Secret Realm and explained the dangers and zones of the Endless Sea.
• Bai Wuya revealed that the Vast Sea Secret Realm was located in the Endless Sea’s sixth sea zone.

Bai Wuya explained the Vast Sea Saint Dynasty’s rise and collapse, including the mysterious disappearance of its Saint King, and revealed that its ruins and treasures lay within the soon-to-open Vast Sea Secret Realm. Since the Ultimate Intent Life-Extension Pill meant Bai Wuya would stay behind, Lin Xuan agreed to lead the Supreme Institute’s expedition and hoped to find his disciples there.

• Bai Wuya explained that the Vast Sea Saint Dynasty had once ruled the Eastern Continent and Endless Sea, with more than ten Saint Realm cultivators, two Great Saints, and a Saint King.
• Bai Wuya described how the Saint King’s mysterious disappearance led to infighting, the deaths of both Great Saints, and the dynasty’s collapse.
• Lin Xuan learned that the Vast Sea Secret Realm held the dynasty’s ruins and opportunities, and that cultivators faced no cultivation restrictions entering it.
• Bai Wuya said he would remain behind after taking the Ultimate Intent Life-Extension Pill and asked Lin Xuan to visit the secret realm with the Primordial Holy Heaven’s contingent.
• Lin Xuan agreed to take the Supreme Institute and resolved to pursue the secret realm’s opportunities and search for his disciples.

As the Vast Sea Secret Realm’s opening drew near, cultivators across the Eastern Continent prepared to seek its opportunities. Yuan Ying was appointed to lead the Profound Heaven Holy Land’s party, then met with his clan’s ancestor, where he boasted of his strength.

• The Nine Profundities Heavenly Sect’s sect master told Ji Linyuan and other prodigies about the Vast Sea Secret Realm, and Ji Linyuan agreed to go seek an opportunity for the Ancient Profound Alliance.
• Li Fufeng agreed to enter the secret realm with her senior sister, eager to test a cultivation method she had recently comprehended.
• The Holy Lord of Profound Heaven appointed Yuan Ying to lead the Profound Heaven Holy Land’s expedition and encouraged him to claim its opportunities.
• Yuan Ying promised that no rival forces would dare contend with the Profound Heaven Holy Land in the secret realm.
• The Yuan Clan Saint Clan’s ancestor summoned Yuan Ying, asked about the appointment, and heard him claim that none of the Holy Land’s Half-Saints could match him.

Yuan Ying dismissed the threat posed by the Lin Clan remnants and received a soul-stabilizing pill as he prepared for the Vast Sea Secret Realm. In Luo Heaven Domain, Wu Liang faced a forced contest for the Chongming Bird clan’s Demon Saint seat and turned his thoughts to the approaching secret realm and its ties to his clan.

• Yuan Ying told the Yuan Clan Saint Clan ancestor that there was no news of the Lin Clan remnants, and the two treated the survivors as no threat.
• Yuan Ying offered to celebrate the ancestor’s three-thousandth birthday, and the ancestor gave him a soul-stabilizing pill and urged him to consolidate his Half-Saint foundation for the Vast Sea Secret Realm.
• Holy Spirits and demons gathered in the Chongming Bird clan’s Saint City as rumors spread that the old Demon Saint was near death and two young masters were competing to succeed him.
• Members of the Chongming Bird clan mocked Wu Liang as an impure-blooded outsider, while Wu Liang dreaded the succession contest and the danger posed by either elder brother’s victory.
• Wu Liang looked over the crowded city, recognized that the Vast Sea Secret Realm had drawn the Holy Spirits, and recalled its connection to the Chongming Bird clan.

Wu Liang reflected on the Chongming Bird Clan’s succession struggle and the Demon Saint inheritance hidden in the newly opened Vast Sea Secret Realm. At the banquet, he endured scorn and isolation, restrained his anger, and quietly longed to return to the Sword Pavilion and see its pavilion master again.

• Wu Liang realized that the Demon Saint inheritance in the Vast Sea Secret Realm could decide who succeeded his dying imperial father, but he feared he lacked the strength to claim it.
• Wu Liang arrived at the celestial palace banquet, where Holy Spirits had gathered to support one of the three Chongming Bird heirs.
• Wu Liang found his banquet section nearly empty as clansmen and guests favored Wu Huan and Wu Lie, whose strength and pure blood made them more popular candidates.
• Guests mocked Wu Liang’s mixed-blood heritage and weak cultivation, and Wu Liang’s killing intent rose as he remembered the years Gong Yang had sealed him away.
• Wu Liang’s two guardian elders restrained him and urged him not to cause trouble in front of the Demon Saint, so he suppressed his anger and drank alone.
• Wu Liang admitted to himself that he missed his carefree days in the Sword Pavilion and wondered when he would see the pavilion master again.

Wu Liang’s banquet turned against him when the seventh elder sided with Wu Lie, who mocked Wu Liang’s mixed blood and weak prospects in the struggle to become Demon Saint. The eldest young lord, Wu Huan, then arrived with a group of humans identified as the Yuan Clan Saint Clan, leaving the hall stunned.

• Wu Liang noticed that the seventh elder had not arrived and worried that his plans were unraveling.
• Wu Lie arrived with Feng Yan and the seventh elder, revealing that she had joined his side.
• Wu Lie taunted Wu Liang, while other guests insulted the third young lord and his supporters fell silent.
• Wu Huan entered alongside an imposing human and several other humans, whose robes identified them as the Yuan Clan Saint Clan of the Profound Heaven Holy Land.

After Wu Huan’s allies from the Yuan Clan Saint Clan intimidated the Demon Race leaders, the chapter turned to the Nine Luminaries Saint Sect, which faced destruction after its ancestor’s death. Grand Elder Pei Yunyan told the despairing elders that the Primordial Holy Heaven would send support, leaving the sect to wait for its only hope.

• Wu Lie and Wu Liang realized that Wu Huan had won the support of the formidable Yuan Clan Saint Clan.
• After the Nine Luminaries Ancestor fell, the Nine Luminaries Saint Sect feared that the Ancient Mystic Saint Sect and Heaven Uniting Saint Sect would destroy it.
• The elders debated moving the sect or disbanding, but looked to Pei Yunyan, the sect’s strongest remaining cultivator, for a decision.
• Pei Yunyan announced that the Primordial Holy Heaven would send powerful cultivators to support the Nine Luminaries Saint Sect and take over its affairs.
• The elders doubted that the Primordial Holy Heaven could send enough strength to deter the two rival sects, while Pei Yunyan hoped its support would include a Saint Realm cultivator.

Lin Xuan arrived at the Nine Luminaries Saint Sect with three disciples, but the sect’s elders and saintess Pei Yushuang mistook him for an inadequate envoy and prepared for disaster. While Lin Xuan planned to bring the sect under Primordial Holy Heaven’s control and confront its rivals, he noticed Pei Yushuang had a rare Mandate of Heaven and physique.

• The Nine Luminaries Saint Sect’s elders and disciples gathered to welcome Primordial Holy Heaven’s envoys, then despaired when Lin Xuan and three young women arrived.
• Grand Elder Pei Yunyan judged the visitors too weak to protect the sect, left reception to her niece Pei Yushuang, and went to seek another solution.
• Lin Xuan recalled that the old academy master intended to take over the Nine Luminaries Saint Sect and use it as a foothold for expanding across the Desolate Domain.
• Pei Yushuang escorted Lin Xuan and his companions to their lodgings, then hurried away to prepare for the battle she expected to lose.
• Lin Xuan noticed a system notification identifying Pei Yushuang’s Gold seventh-grade Mandate of Heaven and Nine Mysteries Sacred Physique.

Pei Yushuang feared the Nine Luminaries Saint Sect would fall to the Ancient Mystic Saint Sect and Heaven Uniting Saint Sect, while Lin Xuan calmly promised that she and the sect would be safe. After Pei Yushuang sensed what seemed to be a sword domain near Cloud Summit Peak, the enemy forces arrived and the sect prepared to fight.

• Nine Luminaries Saint Sect disciples who tried to flee were ambushed and killed, while Pei Yushuang stayed behind and worried over the sect’s fate.
• Lin Xuan offered to take Pei Yushuang as his disciple, but she declined and did not believe his assurance that the sect would survive.
• Pei Yushuang practiced swordsmanship at night and briefly sensed a sword domain near Cloud Summit Peak, then dismissed it as an illusion.
• Pei Yunyan overruled the elders and committed the sect’s resources to building a defensive grand array.
• The defensive array was completed as the flying boats of the Ancient Mystic Saint Sect and Heaven Uniting Saint Sect arrived.

The Heaven Uniting Saint Sect and Ancient Mystic Saint Sect brought a vast force to destroy the Nine Luminaries Saint Sect, whose Grand Elder Pei Yunyan hoped its protective array would hold them off. The elders betrayed the sect and destroyed the array, leaving Pei Yunyan facing its imminent fall.

• The two sects’ deputy sect masters led a fleet of cultivators to the Nine Luminaries Saint Sect, intending to seize its territory and annihilate it.
• Pei Yunyan warned that the Nine Luminaries Grand Array could withstand the attackers unless a Saint Realm cultivator arrived, and ordered the elders to activate it.
• The elders refused, despairing that the array would only delay their deaths and blaming Pei Yunyan for trusting Primordial Holy Heaven.
• The elders tore open the grand array from within and begged the invading sects to spare their lives in exchange for becoming slaves.
• Pei Yunyan called the elders traitors, but the second elder defended their surrender and blamed the Nine Luminaries Ancestor for leading the sect to ruin.

The Nine Luminaries Saint Sect faced destruction as its elders accepted slavery to survive and Pei Yunyan prepared to fight the two invading sects. Lin Xuan appeared from Cloud Summit Peak and struck down both deputy sect masters, leaving everyone staring at him in shock.

• The Heaven Uniting Saint Sect and Ancient Mystic Saint Sect offered to spare the Nine Luminaries Saint Sect if its people accepted slave brands and served them.
• Pei Yunyan rejected the terms, but several elders surrendered and willingly received slave brands.
• The Ancient Mystic Saint Sect and Heaven Uniting Saint Sect deputy sect masters attacked Pei Yunyan and the remaining Nine Luminaries Saint Sect disciples after the three breaths ended.
• Lin Xuan sent Sword Qi from Cloud Summit Peak, overwhelmed both deputy sect masters' counterattacks, and sent them crashing to the ground.
• Lin Xuan emerged in the air with his longsword as the people of the three sects watched in astonishment.

Lin Xuan confronted the Ancient Mystic Saint Sect and the Heaven Uniting Saint Sect after wounding their two Half-Saint vice sect masters, then faced their two Saint Realm ancestors. He rejected Pei Yunyan’s plea to protect Pei Yushuang and openly challenged the two sects, drawing his sword as they turned their killing intent on him.

• Lin Xuan’s single sword strike severely wounded two Half-Saint vice sect masters, stunning the Nine Luminaries Saint Sect elders and Pei Yunyan.
• Pei Yushuang sensed a terrifying sword intent in Lin Xuan’s strike and wondered if he had attained a sword domain.
• Two Saint Realm ancestors emerged from the enemy sects’ flying boats and pressed their presence against Lin Xuan and the Nine Luminaries Saint Sect disciples.
• Pei Yunyan secretly begged Lin Xuan to take Pei Yushuang to safety and offered the sect’s hidden treasury, but Lin Xuan ignored her request.
• Lin Xuan declared that he would fight the two sects and demanded to see how many people they had for him to kill.
• The two Saint Realm ancestors abandoned their hesitation and focused their killing intent on Lin Xuan, who drew his sword.

Lin Xuan used his Sword Domain to drive back two Saint Realm cultivators and force the Ancient Mystic Saint Sect and Heaven Uniting Saint Sect to retreat from the Nine Luminaries Saint Sect. The sect survived, while the traitorous elders were left behind.

• Lin Xuan's sword strike shattered the enemy flying vessel and forced the two Saint Realm cultivators backward without making him move.
• The Ancient Mystic Saint Sect elder recognized Lin Xuan's Sword Domain, and both ancestors realized they could not safely continue fighting.
• The two ancestors called the confrontation a misunderstanding and fled with their forces, vowing to stay away from the Nine Luminaries Saint Sect.
• The retreating sects took their gravely wounded Half-Saints but deliberately abandoned the elders who had defected.
• The Nine Luminaries Saint Sect disciples realized they had survived because of Lin Xuan, while the abandoned traitorous elders regretted their betrayal.

Lin Xuan executed the Nine Luminaries Saint Sect elders who had betrayed their sect and accepted Pei Yushuang as his ninth disciple in the Sword Pavilion. As Pei Yunyan began restoring order to the sect, Lin Xuan checked a special rebate from his system.

• Lin Xuan rejected the traitors' pleas for mercy and killed every elder and disciple who had defected to the Primordial Slaying Alliance.
• Lin Xuan offered Pei Yushuang a chance to visit him at the Primordial Holy Heaven, and she immediately knelt and asked to become his disciple.
• Lin Xuan accepted Pei Yushuang, named her the Sword Pavilion's ninth disciple, and gave her the Half-Saint-level Pure Source Great Dao Treasure Scroll.
• Qu Youmeng and the other senior sisters welcomed Pei Yushuang while Pei Yunyan began organizing the damaged Nine Luminaries Saint Sect.
• Lin Xuan checked his system rebate and found that the returned item was unusual.

Lin Xuan received a one-use Summoning Card that could call forth a Great Saint, giving him more confidence about entering the Vast Sea Secret Realm. Meanwhile, Zeng Mengyi and Zeng Mengyu stayed at the Lin Household, where they met Lin Xuan and later traveled alongside him and Lin Fang toward the secret realm.

• Lin Xuan received a Summoning Card that could summon a Great Saint-level powerhouse to fight for him.
• Zeng Mengyi defended her affection for Lin Fang when Elder Zhou questioned why she preferred him to the Liu Household's young master.
• Zeng Mengyi, Zeng Mengyu, and Elder Zhou saw Lin Xuan arrive at the Lin Household and wondered about his identity and standing.
• Several days later, Zeng Mengyi traveled with Lin Fang aboard a flying boat and learned that Lin Xuan was headed the same way, though Lin Fang would not reveal their destination.
• Zeng Mengyi teased Lin Fang about adding another marriage tie between their families while Zeng Mengyu watched Lin Xuan with curiosity.

Lin Xuan encouraged Lin Fang after Zeng Mengyi’s family left, then continued toward the Vast Sea Secret Realm. In the Sword Ruins, Su Lianxin and Lin Ling obtained medicine to heal Lin Ling and a superior-grade Emperor Weapon.

• Lin Xuan learned that Lin Fang had advanced to the Emperor Realm and approved of his relationship with Zeng Mengyi.
• Zeng Mengyi and Lin Fang parted when the Zeng Household arrived, while Zeng Mengyi’s father treated Lin Fang with disdain.
• Lin Xuan told Lin Fang to reveal his identity in the future and reassured him that the Lin Household’s children did not need to prove their worth to others.
• Su Lianxin and Lin Ling broke the formation in a sword tomb and found spirit medicine for Lin Ling’s injuries and a superior-grade Emperor Weapon.
• Su Lianxin reflected that she missed her master and sometimes saw a trace of him in Lin Ling’s face.