Chapter Summaries

Yuan Ying overwhelmed the Chongming Bird elders and prevented Wu Lie’s group from reaching the inheritance platform. Wu Liang gave up hope of being chosen, while Lin Xuan urged him to wait and see; Yuan Ying rejected Wu Lie’s offer because Wu Huan had promised him the allegiance of the entire Chongming Bird Clan.

• Yuan Ying grievously wounded Wu Liang’s two Half-Saint elders with one blow, leaving Wu Liang without the strength to compete for the inheritance.
• Wu Lie mocked Wu Liang, who accepted that he had lost and told Lin Xuan they should leave, but Lin Xuan said the remnant soul might still choose someone else.
• Five Half-Saint elders under Wu Lie attacked Yuan Ying together, but he fought them back with his fists and palms without leaving the stone platform.
• Wu Lie offered Yuan Ying a generous reward to withdraw, but Yuan Ying refused, saying Wu Huan could give him what Wu Lie could not.
• Yuan Ying’s real aim was to help Wu Huan become Demon Saint in exchange for making the entire Chongming Bird Clan his vassals.

Yuan Ying defeated Wu Lie’s Half-Saint elders and the Phoenix Race prodigy, clearing the way for Wu Huan to claim the inheritance. As Wu Huan activated the stone platform and an ancient tomb emerged, an unseen voice addressed Wu Hantian.

• Yuan Ying drove back Wu Lie’s Half-Saint elders with one strike and warned the others not to approach.
• A fire phoenix, the Phoenix Race’s foremost prodigy, attacked Yuan Ying, but he struck her down effortlessly.
• Wu Huan walked onto the stone platform while Yuan Ying stepped aside, confident that Wu Huan’s success would benefit him.
• The stone platform awakened under Wu Huan, releasing a Great Saint-like presence and causing an ancient tomb to rise from the ground.
• An undetectable voice entered the tomb and asked Wu Hantian, “do you still remember this king...”

The Chongming Sun-Setting Bow appeared in the opened tomb, stirring the Chongming Bird clansmen’s hopes of restoring their inheritance. Wu Huan and Wu Lie both tried to claim it, but the bow rejected them both, leaving its chosen successor unknown.

• The opened tomb revealed the Chongming Sun-Setting Bow, and the Chongming Bird clansmen recognized it as their clan’s sacred relic and inheritance.
• Wu Huan rushed to seize the bow, but rings of fire burned his palm and forced him back.
• Wu Lie mocked Wu Huan and then tried to claim the bow himself.
• The bow struck Wu Lie with even fiercer rings of fire, hurling him to the ground and leaving him wondering whom it would choose.

The Sun-Setting Bow rejected Wu Huan and Wu Lie, then chose Wu Liang, a mixed-blood descendant, as its master. As Wu Liang faced demands to surrender it, Yuan Ying arrived and threatened to kill anyone who opposed him.

• The Sun-Setting Bow burst into golden light and flew into Wu Liang’s hand, acknowledging him as its master.
• Wu Huan and Wu Lie reacted with fury and demanded that Wu Liang hand over the bow, while Half-Saint elders gathered around him.
• Wu Liang realized that keeping the bow could endanger his followers and the Pavilion Master, but he resolved not to surrender it and planned to help the Pavilion Master escape.
• Yuan Ying approached under a terrifying pressure and ordered Wu Liang to hand over the bow or die.
• Yuan Ying resolved to kill anyone who disrupted his plan to place Wu Huan in power and make the Chongming Clan his vassal.

Lin Xuan, disguised as Mie Xuan, intervened when Yuan Ying attacked Wu Liang and his elders. He revealed overwhelming sword strength and left Yuan Ying lying in a second crater.

• Yuan Ying attacked Wu Liang, and the two wounded elders took the blow meant for him before collapsing.
• Lin Xuan blocked Yuan Ying from reaching Wu Liang and introduced himself as Mie Xuan.
• Yuan Ying threatened Mie Xuan, but Lin Xuan struck him with Sword Qi and blasted him into the ground.
• Yuan Ying activated a Secret Method and charged Lin Xuan, but Lin Xuan struck again and sent him crashing into another pit.

Lin Xuan effortlessly defeated Yuan Ying, the Profound Heaven Holy Son, but Yuan Ying escaped with a Secret Technique and threatened him with a Saint Realm Dao Protector. Lin Xuan dismissed the threat and set off with Wu Liang to meet the Holy Heaven group.

• Lin Xuan battered Yuan Ying with sword strikes, stunning Wu Liang, the elders, and everyone in the valley with his strength.
• Yuan Ying unleashed his Half-Saint power, then vanished using a Secret Technique and threatened to kill Lin Xuan if he left the Vast Sea Secret Realm.
• Wu Huan and the others fled the valley, abandoning the golden bow and their plans to seize the inheritances.
• Lin Xuan joined Wu Liang and said they should meet up with the Holy Heaven group, intending to face the Profound Heaven Holy Land's Saint Realm cultivators.

Lin Xuan gathered Wu Liang and the other Primordial Holy Heaven cultivators to leave the Vast Sea Secret Realm with the treasures he had collected. Outside the exit, Luo Heaven Domain Holy Spirits gathered in force, waiting for someone as the secret realm's month-long period ended.

• Wu Liang agreed to leave the valley with Lin Xuan, who found no Luo Heaven Domain Holy Spirits outside and led his group east to meet the others.
• Lin Xuan checked the many treasures and resources he had gathered with the Vast Sea Saint King's help and prepared to depart with the Primordial Holy Heaven cultivators.
• Duan Nianwei wore her Sword Pavilion jade token and watched Wu Liang with curiosity, while Wu Liang worried about the Saint Realm cultivators awaiting them and hoped to find a way to revive a human remnant soul.
• The Vast Sea Secret Realm's exit gateway opened, and people from many races and factions emerged onto the Endless Sea.
• A large group of Chongming Bird Holy Spirits guarded the exit, drawing attention as onlookers realized they were waiting for someone.

Lin Xuan and Wu Liang emerged from the Vast Sea Secret Realm only to find Yuan Ying, Wu Huan, and Wu Lie waiting with three Saint Realm cultivators. Lin Xuan unleashed his Sword Domain and killed a Saint Realm cultivator with one strike, leaving the battle against the remaining attackers unresolved.

• Lin Xuan emerged with Wu Liang after arranging for the people of Primordial Holy Heaven to leave first, and found their enemies waiting outside the secret realm.
• Yuan Ying threatened Lin Xuan, while Wu Huan demanded that Wu Liang surrender the Sun-Setting Bow and the ancestor's inheritance.
• Wu Lie ordered the Saint Realm cultivators to seize the Demon Ancestor's inheritance, and the three attacked Lin Xuan's group.
• Lin Xuan unleashed his black-and-white Sword Domain and Immortal-Slaying Sword Array, trapping the three Saint Realm cultivators and terrifying them.
• A Saint Realm cultivator from the Profound Heaven Holy Land tried to negotiate, but Lin Xuan struck him down with one sword.

Lin Xuan defeated three Saint Realm cultivators with one sword strike, forcing the Chongming Bird Clan to recognize Wu Liang as their rightful successor. Wu Huan and Wu Lie finally submitted to Wu Liang, greeting him as the Holy Son.

• Lin Xuan killed the Profound Heaven Holy Land cultivator and gravely wounded the two Chongming Bird Clan elders, then warned them he had spared them for the Sword Pavilion deputy pavilion master’s sake.
• The old sage master of Divine Firmament Holy Heaven realized Mie Xuan was Lin Xuan and resolved to urge his academy master to befriend the Primordial Holy Heaven.
• The Chongming Bird Clan members recognized Wu Liang as Lin Xuan’s deputy pavilion master and pledged to follow him.
• Wu Huan and Wu Lie found themselves abandoned by their supporters as the clan elder urged them to concede.
• Wu Huan and Wu Lie knelt before Wu Liang and greeted him as the Holy Son.

Wu Huan and Wu Lie conceded the struggle for succession, leaving Wu Liang as the Chongming Bird Clan’s sole Holy Son, but Lin Xuan had already left. He tracked down Yuan Ying and crippled him despite the Profound Heaven Holy Lord’s intervention, then vowed that the Holy Land would be destroyed in three years.

• Wu Huan and Wu Lie knelt and acknowledged Wu Liang as the Chongming Bird Clan’s sole young master and Holy Son.
• Wu Liang searched for Lin Xuan after realizing he was no longer at the Vast Sea Secret Realm.
• Yuan Ying fled from the secret realm after Lin Xuan killed his protector, but Lin Xuan intercepted him three thousand li away.
• Lin Xuan told Yuan Ying he did not deserve to know why he was being pursued and attacked him over his threat against Lin Yu.
• Yuan Ying summoned the Profound Heaven Holy Lord’s phantom, but Lin Xuan shattered it and pierced Yuan Ying’s Dantian, crippling his cultivation.
• Lin Xuan disappeared as the Holy Lord vowed revenge, and Lin Xuan declared that in three years the Profound Heaven Holy Land would be destroyed.

Li Fufeng learned that her master had witnessed a Thearch Realm cultivator defeat three Saint Realm cultivators in one sword strike. Meanwhile, Nangong Yaoyue reached a remote island with a Great Saint’s remnant soul, where she was promised the Great Saint’s legacy.

• Li Fufeng waited in the Endless Sea city for her master to return from the Vast Sea Secret Realm.
• Li Fufeng’s master returned shaken and said she had seen a Thearch Realm cultivator defeat three Saint Realm cultivators with one sword strike.
• Li Fufeng’s master warned that Cang Xuan Holy Heaven would need to keep a lower profile in the Eastern Continent.
• Nangong Yaoyue landed on a remote island and confirmed with the remnant soul that it was the place where its body had perished.
• The Great Saint promised Nangong Yaoyue the legacy there, and she eagerly imagined becoming a dazzling figure like Su Lianxin.

Nangong Yaoyue passed the test to become Great Saint Canglan’s sole disciple, while Feng Yong returned from the Vast Sea Secret Realm with news that her people could move to Supreme City. The reunion turned tense when a Saint Realm presence descended on Great Fall City and headed for their lodgings.

• Nangong Yaoyue followed the remnant soul’s directions through the island’s formation and found a concealed grave.
• Nangong Yaoyue kowtowed before the grave, and Great Saint Canglan appeared and declared her his sole disciple.
• Feng Yong returned to Great Fall City, reassured her clansmen, and revealed that she had broken through during her journey.
• Feng Yong told the Luminous Domain clansmen that she had agreed to join the head of the Supreme Institute and that they could move to Supreme City.
• A powerful Saint Realm presence descended on Great Fall City and headed toward the Luminous Domain’s lodgings, alarming Feng Yong.

Tu Zhengshan confronted the Feng Household and demanded Feng Lai for allegedly killing his grandson, Tu Yang. Feng Yong and Feng Lai denied the accusation, and Feng Yong appealed to the household’s alliance with the Primordial Holy Heaven as Tu Zhengshan’s threat loomed.

• A black-clad Half-Saint named Tu Zhengshan arrived at the Feng Household and demanded that Feng Yong hand over Feng Lai or face death.
• Tu Zhengshan accused Feng Lai of killing his grandson Tu Yang in the Azure Sea Secret Realm two months earlier.
• Feng Lai admitted training with Tu Yang and Liang Qiuyi but denied killing Tu Yang, arguing that Tu Yang had been a Heavenly Venerable while he was only a Venerable.
• Tu Zhengshan insisted Liang Qiuyi would not lie and claimed Feng Lai had to answer for Tu Yang’s death, since he could not challenge the Liang Holy Clan.
• Feng Yong defended Feng Lai and told Tu Zhengshan that the Feng Household had joined the Primordial Holy Heaven and would soon move to Supreme City, offering to help find the true culprit.

Tu Zhengshan attacked the Feng Household despite Feng Yong invoking the Primordial Holy Heaven, but Lin Xuan arrived and stopped his strike. Lin Xuan accused Tu Zhengshan of stealing a clearfrost fruit, offered him a choice to return it or die, and killed him when he refused.

• Tu Zhengshan dismissed Feng Yong’s appeal to the Primordial Holy Heaven and sent a spiritual-power palm down to crush the Feng Household.
• Lin Xuan appeared and pierced Tu Zhengshan’s attack with Sword Intent, saving the Feng Household.
• Feng Yong welcomed Lin Xuan, who identified himself as master of the Primordial Holy Heaven’s Supreme Institute.
• Lin Xuan tossed Tu Zhengshan a clearfrost fruit and accused him of stealing it.
• Tu Zhengshan crushed the fruit and refused Lin Xuan’s demand to return one within three breaths or die.
• Lin Xuan slashed Tu Zhengshan through the neck with Sword Qi.

After killing Tu Zhengshan, Lin Xuan gathered the Sword Pavilion and Feng Household forces to prepare for his breakthrough outside Great Fall City. With a terrifying tribulation gathering overhead, he began to shatter his current cultivation realm.

• Lin Xuan killed Tu Zhengshan with one sword, and Feng Yong ordered the Feng Household to clear away the body.
• A flying ship arrived, and Wu Liang told Lin Xuan that a nearby valley was suitable for his breakthrough; Feng Yong realized the Sword Pavilion included multiple Half-Saint experts.
• Lin Xuan asked Wu Liang and Feng Yong to guard him while they and the Feng Household elders prepared formations in the valley.
• Lin Xuan reflected on the treasures he had gained and the dangers ahead, including the coming battle in three years and the Profound Heaven Holy Land.
• Lin Xuan's presence overwhelmed those nearby as they finished the formations, and a powerful lightning tribulation gathered above him.
• Lin Xuan sat within the formations, awakened his ancient Lin Household bloodline, and shouted, “Break!”

Lin Xuan endured a massive lightning tribulation and consumed the treasures he had gathered to supply the spiritual power his breakthrough required. He successfully advanced beyond the peak of the Thearch Realm and entered the Thearch Realm Second Layer.

• The Chongming Bird Clan felt an unsettling bloodline suppression from Lin Xuan and feared his lineage might be older and stronger than theirs.
• Lin Xuan remained focused as the lightning tribulation struck and drew spiritual energy from across the island toward himself.
• When the gathered Spiritual Qi proved insufficient, Lin Xuan consumed a thirty-thousand-year-old bodhi seed.
• Lin Xuan crushed and absorbed his spirit medicines and pills, replenishing his power as the lightning intensified around him.
• Lin Xuan tempered his body with the falling lightning and broke through into the Thearch Realm Second Layer.

Lin Xuan broke through to the Great Emperor Realm and perfected his second-layer sword domain on Great Fall City. Sensing Lin Ye in the Luo Heaven Domain, he prepared to travel there with Wu Liang while sending the others back to Primordial Holy Heaven.

• Lin Xuan used the lightning tribulation to temper his body and sword Dao, reaching the Great Emperor Realm and second-layer sword domain perfection.
• Lin Xuan sensed Lin Ye in the Luo Heaven Domain and decided to investigate the old Demon Saint and seek help repairing the Vast Sea Saint King's remnant soul.
• Lin Xuan told the Holy Masters of Primordial Holy Heaven to report to the old academy master and directed Feng Yong, his clan, and Duan Nianwei to return to Primordial Holy Heaven.
• Lin Xuan agreed to accompany Wu Liang to the Luo Heaven Domain, while Wu Liang wondered whether to pursue the Chongming Bird Clan's Demon Emperor position.

The Ancient Alligator Clan attacked the Bifang Clan to seize its sacred mountain, overwhelming the wounded Bifang and nearly killing their chief. As a Chongming Bird Clan ship arrived, Lin Xuan sensed that his ancestor’s remnant soul was on the mountain.

• The Bifang chief agonized over whether to abandon the sacred mountain as the Ancient Alligator Clan continued attacking his dwindling people.
• An Ancient Alligator Half-Saint demanded that the Bifang surrender the mountain, but the chief and his clansmen refused.
• The Ancient Alligator Half-Saint struck down the Bifang clansmen who charged him, then beat the chief until he lay near death.
• The Ancient Alligator Half-Saint prepared to kill the chief, but an imposing ship bearing the Chongming Bird Clan emblem appeared.
• Lin Xuan looked down at the sacred mountain and sensed that his ancestor’s remnant soul was there.

The Ancient Alligator Half-Saint tried to persuade the Chongming Bird Clan to ignore the Ancient Alligator Clan’s plan to seize Bifang Divine Mountain, but a Chongming Bird Half-Saint refused and threatened him. A powerful voice then arrived, promising death to the Chongming Birds for protecting the Bifang Clan.

• The Ancient Alligator Half-Saint recognized that the Chongming Bird Clan’s entourage included two Saint Realm cultivators and wondered why they had come to Bifang Divine Mountain.
• The Ancient Alligator Half-Saint asked the Chongming Bird Clan to overlook the Ancient Alligator Clan’s attempt to take the mountain and offered them a favor in return.
• A Chongming Bird Half-Saint rejected the request, invoked the clan’s law-enforcing duties, and ordered the Ancient Alligator Half-Saint to leave or face Saint City.
• The Ancient Alligator Half-Saint grew furious at the insult, but a powerful voice behind him declared that the Chongming Bird Clan would die along with the Bifang Clan.

A newly emerged Ancient Alligator Saint Realm expert arrived to help the Ancient Alligator Tribe overwhelm the Chongming Bird and Bifang clans. As he unleashed a Divine Ability to kill everyone, Lin Xuan stepped forward and stopped it with one sword slash.

• The Chongming Bird Half-Saint realized the unfamiliar ancient alligator was the Ancient Alligator Tribe's third Saint Realm expert and was stronger than their injured Saint Realm fighters.
• The Ancient Alligator Half-Saint rejoiced when he recognized the newcomer as the Grand Protector, who had recently broken through to the Saint Realm.
• The Grand Protector unleashed a massive Divine Ability, intending to kill the Chongming Bird and Bifang clans in one strike.
• Lin Xuan stepped forward and raised his sword, cutting through the Divine Ability and clearing the darkened sky.