Chapter Summaries

Situ Jian of the Sword Pavilion arrived to support the Primordial Holy Heaven, and his peak Saint Realm cultivation and Sword Domain halted the attack. The other Holy Heavens’ cultivators considered retreating, while Duan Nianwei realized that her master, Lin Xuan, was the Sword Pavilion’s master.

• Situ Jian revealed his Sword Domain and locked onto Sha Tianwen, Chang Yao, and the other attackers, making clear that he was protecting the Primordial Holy Heaven.
• The cultivators from the nine Holy Heavens recognized Situ Jian as a peak Saint Realm sword cultivator and hesitated to challenge him.
• Sha Tianwen noticed that Situ Jian had not drawn the sword at his waist and feared it might be a powerful Saint Artifact.
• Duan Nianwei realized that Lin Xuan was the master of the Sword Pavilion and marveled at the strength hidden within his force.
• The attackers exchanged glances and increasingly considered withdrawing, regretting that they had trusted Sha Tianwen and Chang Yao.

Situ Jian’s arrival forced Sha Tianwen and the other attackers to retreat, saving Primordial Holy Heaven. After accepting Primordial Holy Heaven’s hospitality as a Sword Pavilion elder, Situ Jian met Lin Xuan, who recognized him as Attendant Situ or Elder Si.

• Sha Tianwen assessed the newly revealed Saint Realm cultivators and concluded that his forces could not win.
• Sha Tianwen warned Situ Jian against the Taiyu Divine Dynasty interfering in other domains, then ordered his forces to retreat.
• Bai Wuya told Bai Wushang to clean up the battlefield and invited the remaining guests back to Primordial Holy Heaven.
• Situ Jian accepted Primordial Holy Heaven’s hospitality and settled into his lodgings before meeting Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan greeted Situ Jian by asking whether he should call him Attendant Situ or Elder Si of the Sword Pavilion.

Lin Xuan thanked Situ Jian for helping the Sword Pavilion and invited him to stay, then agreed to test their Sword Daos in a duel. After the fight, Situ Jian returned with a grave expression and called Lin Xuan unfathomable.

• Lin Xuan thanked Situ Jian for his help and said the Sword Pavilion would remember the debt.
• Lin Xuan offered Situ Jian a place in the Sword Pavilion and asked if he had come to test his Sword Dao.
• Lin Xuan and Situ Jian went to the Supreme Institute's cultivation grounds to fight.
• Dongfang Muxue waited with Lin Zhiruo and Xuan Bing, who ate their apology gifts and soul-repair medicine.
• Situ Jian returned without apparent injury and told Dongfang Muxue that the Pavilion Master was unfathomable.

Su Lianxin and Lin Ling trained with swords in a secluded Sword Tomb while Great Saint Goumang guided them and lamented that Su Lianxin refused to become his disciple. After their spar, Su Lianxin wondered which of them would form a sword domain first, and she privately thought of her absent master.

• Su Lianxin and Lin Ling sparred in a Sword Tomb as Great Saint Goumang watched and assessed their remarkable progress in sword intent.
• Great Saint Goumang recalled that Su Lianxin had repeatedly refused his offer to become her master because she already had a master.
• Great Saint Goumang remembered the Vast Sea Saint King and wondered whether the king had survived the fall of the Vast Sea Saint Dynasty.
• Su Lianxin won the spar and told Lin Ling she believed Lin Ling would soon reach ninth-level sword intent.
• Lin Ling praised Su Lianxin's talent, and Su Lianxin silently thought of her own master while looking at Lin Ling.

Great Saint Goumang urged Su Lianxin and Lin Ling to leave the Sword Ruins and explore the Endless Sea’s hidden vaults, where they might find powerful treasures and inheritances. Meanwhile, the Vast Sea Saint King advised Lin Xuan to go there before his Saint Realm breakthrough, and Lin Xuan agreed.

• Great Saint Goumang said Su Lianxin and Lin Ling had reached the limit of what they could gain from sparring and needed to strengthen their foundations elsewhere.
• Great Saint Goumang told Su Lianxin and Lin Ling that the Endless Sea’s hidden vaults would soon open and explained their connection to realms beyond its nine layers.
• Su Lianxin and Lin Ling decided to go to the Endless Sea to seek resources and fortuitous opportunities.
• The Vast Sea Saint King advised Lin Xuan to travel to the Endless Sea before breaking through to the Saint Realm, where he might also find items to repair his ancestor’s soul.
• Lin Xuan agreed to head to the Endless Sea.

Lin Xuan prepared to break through to the Saint Realm and traveled to the ninth layer of the Endless Sea to enter seclusion in a Demon Beast’s cave. He began concentrating on his advancement while the Vast Sea Saint King stayed behind to protect the Primordial Holy Heaven, the Sword Pavilion, and Lin Xuan’s disciples.

• Lin Xuan refused the Vast Sea Saint King’s offer to guard him, asking him instead to protect the Primordial Holy Heaven, his disciples, and the members of his Lin Household.
• The Vast Sea Saint King agreed to hold the fort and arranged for protective items to be prepared before Lin Xuan’s departure.
• A month later, Lin Xuan flew through the Endless Sea, where his Great Saint-level presence frightened away the Demon Beasts watching him.
• Lin Xuan traveled toward the ninth layer, entered a Demon Beast’s lair, killed its occupant, and took over the cave abode.
• Lin Xuan sealed the cave with formations, sat down to meditate, and began his advancement to the Saint Realm.

The Endless Hidden Vault emerged from beyond the Ninth-Layer Sea as cultivators gathered to seize its treasures and inheritances. A bloody battle erupted around the Eastern Desolation Divine Hall, while two women watched from a distance.

• The deep blue curtain at the edge of the Ninth-Layer Sea churned as shadowy forms moved through the fog toward the world beyond.
• Cultivators from the Eastern Continent and the Endless Sea gathered at the curtain, hoping to enter the Endless Hidden Vault and find treasures or a path to greater power.
• A vast void palace emerged from the sea with ancient inscriptions, and cultivators identified it as a possible inheritance palace from the Eastern Desolation era.
• The gathered powerhouses rushed for the palace doors, attacking one another while Demon Beasts converged on the bloody battle.
• Two graceful figures, one in white and one in yellow, watched the palace from far away and contemplated the Endless Hidden Vault.

Su Lianxin killed the Evil Old Man with a single sword strike, then entered the void palace with Lin Ling as its gates opened. The palace sealed itself behind them, leaving the cultivators outside unable to enter.

• The Evil Old Man confronted Su Lianxin and Lin Ling, ordering them to scout the void palace and sending his corpse puppets to attack.
• Su Lianxin killed the Evil Old Man and his corpse puppets with one sword strike.
• Su Lianxin and Lin Ling flew into the void palace while the nearby cultivators kept their distance.
• The palace’s radiance turned violet and its array wall solidified, trapping the remaining cultivators outside.

Su Lianxin and Lin Ling entered the void palace and found themselves in a purple-and-gold hall, where Great Saint Goumang warned them that its murals contained dangerous Divine Script. He identified the hall as an inheritance hall, leaving them on the verge of learning what its murals recorded.

• The void palace’s entrance closed, trapping those outside and prompting them to wait for it to reopen.
• Su Lianxin and Lin Ling were teleported through a formation barrier filled with Twenty Liquid into a hall in the palace’s northern region.
• Lin Ling gave Su Lianxin a Mystic Heart Bell so they could find each other if they became separated.
• Great Saint Goumang warned the two women not to look at the murals because activating their formations could bring the depicted beasts and dragons to life.
• Su Lianxin asked what the Divine Script in the murals described, and Great Saint Goumang said the hall was likely an inheritance hall.

Great Saint Goumang identified the murals as the inheritance hall of a Saint King from the Central Divine Continent, who had been trapped in the Endless Sea and left her inheritance while longing to return home. He found the inheritance hidden in eight scenes of mortal suffering, but warned Su Lianxin and Lin Ling that claiming it could lead them toward becoming Saint Lords, a power the Eastern Continent could not sustain.

• Great Saint Goumang explained that a Saint King from the Central Divine Continent had been stranded in the Endless Sea more than a hundred thousand years earlier and left the inheritance hall before dying beyond the nine heavens.
• Great Saint Goumang said the murals mentioned Immortals and described the realms above Saint Realm as Great Saint, Saint King, Saint Lord, and Immortal.
• Su Lianxin and Lin Ling endured the murals' attack on their Divine Sense as they followed Great Saint Goumang to the corridor's end.
• Great Saint Goumang protected the girls' seas of consciousness and showed them the final mural, whose eight scenes depicted mortal suffering and concealed the inheritance.
• Great Saint Goumang warned Su Lianxin and Lin Ling that the Eastern Continent could not support a Saint Lord, so they would have to go to the Central Continent to receive the inheritance.

Great Saint Goumang explained that the Saint King's inheritance hall could transport them from the Eastern Continent to the Central Continent, forcing Su Lianxin and Lin Ling to confront the possibility of leaving their loved ones behind. Before they could decide, the hall began shaking as someone outside appeared to be undergoing a tribulation.

• Great Saint Goumang said the senior Saint King's dying wish was for them to go to the Central Continent.
• He explained that the inheritance hall was a teleportation treasure capable of crossing the spatial barriers with enough Spiritual Power.
• Su Lianxin resisted leaving because she still hoped to find her master and fellow Sword Pavilion disciples on the Eastern Continent.
• Lin Ling was reluctant to abandon her family and homeland on the Eastern Continent.
• The hall shook violently, while cultivators outside feared that someone was undergoing a tribulation in the Nine Heavens of the Endless Sea.

Lin Xuan completed his Saint Realm tribulation and gained a fourth-level Sword Domain as an ancient hall was drawn toward him. The hall’s teleportation formation began activating with Lin Ling and Su Lianxin trapped inside, while Lin Xuan noticed it was absorbing the Spiritual Qi around him.

• A terrifying lightning tribulation caused the ancient hall to move toward its center, and observers saw the hall’s Divine Marks activate.
• Great Saint Goumang told Lin Ling and Su Lianxin that the tribulation had begun reviving the teleportation hall, whose exits would close once its formation activated.
• Lin Xuan emerged from his underwater cave abode and endured all one hundred and eight bolts of the Saint Realm lightning tribulation.
• He broke through to the Saint Realm, began developing the fourth level of his Sword Domain, and received heaven’s blessing.
• Lin Xuan noticed that the approaching ancient hall was draining the Spiritual Qi around him.

A mysterious teleportation palace seized Lin Xuan from the ninth layer of the Endless Sea and vanished with a vast portion of the sea. In the Central Continent’s Desolate Forest, mute Fang Yun’er was abandoned by her caravan after insisting on saving the wounded stranger, while she, her old servant, and her old horse remained behind.

• The palace froze everyone near the ninth layer of the Endless Sea and drew Lin Xuan inside before disappearing with the surrounding area.
• The Fang Household caravan traveled through the dangerous Desolate Forest on its way to Azure Wave City.
• Fang Yun'er pleaded with the caravan to save a bloodied man who had appeared in their path, but the others feared he might be dangerous.
• A golden-robed girl ordered Fang Yun'er to stay behind with her old Qilin Dragon Horse, saying she would delay the Lineage tournament.
• The caravan left Fang Yun'er, her old servant, and the wounded man behind, and Fang Yun'er wept while trusting her feeling that she had to save him.

Fang Yun'er and Uncle Li were left behind during the dangerous journey to Azure Wave City, where she needed to pass the Fang Household's assessment to secure support for her mother. As Fang Yun'er struggled with her illness and the prospect of crossing the Desolate Forest alone with Uncle Li, he vowed to protect her and wondered what to do with the unconscious white-robed man she had saved.

• Fang Yun'er worried that failing the assessment would leave her and her mother without resources, and she began coughing blood.
• Uncle Li offered her a Blood-Replenishing Pill, but Fang Yun'er refused, urging him to save their few pills for the journey through the Desolate Forest.
• Uncle Li recalled that he had escorted Fang Yun'er because her mother once saved his life, though he knew his Great Emperor cultivation might not be enough to protect her.
• Fang Yun'er concluded that the collateral branch had likely planned to abandon her regardless of her decision to save the white-robed man.
• Uncle Li promised to protect Fang Yun'er until they reached Azure Wave City, then asked what they should do with the unconscious man.

Fang Yun'er used her precious Heavenly Zenith Pill to save the injured Lin Xuan, even though it had been meant to help her pass the Fang Household assessment. After waking in the Desolate Forest, Lin Xuan learned he had reached the Central Continent and heard rumors of a route to the Central Divine Continent, where the Lin Saint Clan resided.

• Fang Yun'er ignored Uncle Li's protests and gave the Heavenly Zenith Pill to the unconscious Lin Xuan.
• Uncle Li set up a formation plate at their camp in the Desolate Forest while Fang Yun'er waited near the carriage.
• Lin Xuan woke in the carriage and saw Fang Yun'er's identity and recent events through his system interface.
• Lin Xuan asked where he was, and Uncle Li told him they were in the Desolate Forest.
• Uncle Li explained that Lin Xuan had arrived in the Central Continent, where rumors spoke of an Immortal opening a gate to the Central Divine Continent.

Lin Xuan reflected on the Central Continent and the debt he owed Fang Yun'er after she saved him with a Heavenly Zenith Pill. As dawn broke, he agreed with Uncle Li that they needed to cross the dangerous Desolate Forest, though he believed ordinary demons posed little threat.

• Lin Xuan considered the Central Continent's vast powers and the Fang Household's annual assessment that Fang Yun'er had to attend.
• Lin Xuan recalled being discarded by the mysterious palace and acknowledged that he owed Fang Yun'er for saving his life with the Heavenly Zenith Pill.
• Uncle Li urged Lin Xuan to help him and Fang Yun'er leave the Desolate Forest, a perilous forbidden-land remnant filled with powerful demons and other hazards.
• Lin Xuan said ordinary demons did not concern him, but he made no promises because his Spiritual Power had not yet recovered.
• Uncle Li warned Lin Xuan not to provoke the ferocious beasts and felt reassured when Lin Xuan stayed quiet.

Lin Xuan, Fang Yun'er, and Uncle Li traveled through the Desolate Forest as their supplies dwindled and their exhausted Qilin Dragon Horse was injured. A beast tide driven by two battling Saint Realm Demon Beasts engulfed the forest, leaving them with no apparent chance to escape.

• Fang Yun'er wondered whether the group had lost their way as the assessment in Azure Wave City drew closer.
• Lin Xuan concealed his recovered strength and relied on defensive treasures while traveling with Fang Yun'er and Uncle Li.
• A Saint Realm Demon Beast frightened the Qilin Dragon Horse, and another beast injured it, leaving it barely able to walk.
• Uncle Li sensed a beast tide and ordered everyone to run, but countless Demon Beasts were already charging through the forest.
• Uncle Li recognized two Saint Realm Demon Beasts fighting at the rear of the tide, and Fang Yun'er despaired of escaping.

Lin Xuan revealed his terrifying swordsmanship by wiping out the Demon Beasts threatening Fang Yun'er and Uncle Li. After Uncle Li begged him to take Fang Yun'er as a maid to protect her, Lin Xuan refused, saying he had no need for one.

• A stampede of Demon Beasts trapped Fang Yun'er and the Qilin Dragon Horse as two Saint Realm Demon Beasts approached.
• Lin Xuan unleashed a single Sword Qi strike that destroyed one Saint Realm Demon Beast and badly wounded the other, forcing it to flee.
• Uncle Li and Fang Yun'er were stunned by Lin Xuan's strength, and Lin Xuan gently asked Fang Yun'er if she was all right.
• Uncle Li knelt before Lin Xuan, apologized for his earlier rudeness, and begged him to keep Fang Yun'er by his side as a maid to save her life.
• Lin Xuan refused, saying he had never needed a maid.

Lin Xuan refused Uncle Li’s suggestion that he take Fang Yun’er as a maidservant, but then offered to accept her as his disciple. Fang Yun’er worried that her poor talent made her unworthy, yet Lin Xuan assured her that he valued her character, and she knelt to accept.

• Uncle Li and Fang Yun’er accepted Lin Xuan’s refusal without resentment, though both felt regret and uncertainty.
• Lin Xuan considered Fang Yun’er’s kind but dangerously trusting nature and saw that her destiny was only green, seventh grade.
• Lin Xuan asked Fang Yun’er to become his disciple, explaining that her talent did not matter to him.
• Fang Yun’er doubted whether she was worthy, but Lin Xuan told her that he valued her character and heart.
• Fang Yun’er knelt and kowtowed to Lin Xuan, accepting his offer.

Lin Xuan, Uncle Li, and Fang Yun'er secured a Saint Realm demon beast to guide them out of the Desolate Forest toward Azure Wave City while Lin Xuan recovered and taught Fang Yun'er swordsmanship. Despite her progress in sword intent, Lin Xuan wondered why her cultivation advanced so slowly under his guidance.

• Uncle Li thanked Lin Xuan for agreeing to help Fang Yun'er, but Lin Xuan pointed out that they still needed a way out of the Desolate Forest and a route to Azure Wave City.
• A surviving Saint Realm demon beast offered to guide them, and Lin Xuan accepted its offer.
• The demon beast carried Lin Xuan, Fang Yun'er, and Uncle Li through the forest, keeping other demon beasts away as Lin Xuan recovered his spiritual power.
• Lin Xuan taught Fang Yun'er swordsmanship during the journey, and she comprehended fourth-layer sword intent and advanced from Venerable to Earth Venerable.
• Lin Xuan questioned why Fang Yun'er's cultivation and swordsmanship were progressing so slowly despite his guidance and the sparring he arranged.