Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan reunited with Youying, who had been pursued for the Heavenly Spirit Silkworm, and Wu Liang forced the Ten Thousand Qiang Sect elder and his men to flee. Lin Xuan then returned to the Seven Moon-Reflecting Kingdoms with the Sword Pavilion and Jade Balance Sword Palace, while Nangong Yaoyue emerged from the realm gate after he had left.

• Youying fled to Lin Xuan and explained that people were hunting him to steal the Heavenly Spirit Silkworm he had found in the Void Realm.
• The Ten Thousand Qiang Sect elder demanded that Youying hand over the treasure, confident that his Emperor Realm status made him untouchable.
• Wu Liang overwhelmed the elder with a glance and ordered him to get lost, sending the elder and his subordinates fleeing.
• Lin Xuan introduced Chongming to Youying as the Sword Pavilion's Deputy Pavilion Master and gathered the arriving Sword Pavilion disciples.
• Lin Xuan took the Sword Pavilion and Jade Balance Sword Palace back to the Seven Moon-Reflecting Kingdoms, and Nangong Yaoyue emerged from the realm gate afterward.

After leaving the Void Realm, Ruoli told Nangong Yaoyue that a mysterious white-robed sword cultivator had surpassed every genius in the Profound Domain, though Nangong Yaoyue dismissed her claims. Days into the Sword Pavilion’s return journey, Yunyi’s Lineage jade pendant shattered, and Lin Xuan decided to accompany her back to investigate.

• Ruoli emerged from the Void Realm and told Nangong Yaoyue that a mysterious sword cultivator had saved her and crushed the otherworldly beings with one strike.
• Nangong Yaoyue dismissed Ruoli’s praise, while Ruoli privately believed the swordsman surpassed every genius in the Profound Domain.
• Nangong Yaoyue led Chiyao Heavenly Palace’s disciples onto their spirit boat, and the gathered sects departed for home.
• Several days into the Sword Pavilion’s journey, Yunyi’s Lineage jade pendant shattered, signaling an urgent summons from her Lineage.
• Yunyi told Lin Xuan she had to return to her Lineage immediately, and Lin Xuan decided to go with her.

The Yun Household was on the brink of destruction as the otherworldly race overwhelmed its defenses, and the patriarch hoped Yun Yao would bring her Emperor Realm master to help. When the inner teleportation formation activated, Yunyi arrived instead, leaving the household stunned.

• For three days, the Yun Household patriarch and its elders struggled to sustain the lineage-protecting formation against the otherworldly race.
• The patriarch sent for help across the Spirit True Empire and pinned his hopes on Yun Yao bringing her Thousand Sounds Pavilion master.
• The formation cracked, the otherworldly beings broke through, and the exhausted Yun Household members faced defeat.
• The inner teleportation formation lit up, raising hopes that Yun Yao had returned with her master.
• A man and a woman emerged, and the Yun Household members recognized the woman as Yunyi, not Yun Yao.

Yunyi returned to the embattled Yun Household with her master, Lin Xuan, but the household members blamed her for rejecting the Thousand Sounds Pavilion and doubted her master's strength. The Thousand Sounds Pavilion arrived with an Emperor Realm expert, and Lin Xuan waited to see whether its envoy could solve the crisis.

• Yun Household youths mocked Yunyi for joining the Jade Balance Sword Palace instead of the Thousand Sounds Pavilion and blamed her for the household's isolation.
• Yunyi introduced Lin Xuan as her master and explained that he had returned with her to help the Yun Household.
• The grand elder thanked Lin Xuan but doubted he could help against the powerful enemy races.
• The Thousand Sounds Pavilion's music and Emperor Realm presence reached the Yun Household, prompting its members to celebrate the arrival of reinforcements.
• The grand elder hurried to welcome the Thousand Sounds Pavilion, while Lin Xuan calmly watched the approaching figure.

Elder Qiu and Yun Yao rescued the Yun Household from the otherworldly beings, while Yun Yao relished finally standing above Yunyi in the household’s eyes. After Elder Qiu revealed her Emperor Realm Seventh Stage cultivation, Yun Yao prepared to make an even more explosive announcement.

• Elder Qiu used her zither to suppress the otherworldly beings attacking the Yun Household, while Yun Yao watched Yunyi with vindication.
• A powerful otherworldly being rose to fight Elder Qiu, and after more than an hour the invaders retreated from the Yun Household.
• The Yun Household patriarch and its members thanked Elder Qiu, who credited her disciple Yun Yao’s endangered Lineage for bringing her to help.
• Elder Qiu revealed that she had recently reached the Emperor Realm Seventh Stage, prompting Yun Donglai to regret that Yunyi had not become her disciple.
• Yun Yao savored the envy and admiration of her fellow household members and decided to give them even more surprising news.

Yun Yao boasted of her rapid progress under the Thousand Sounds Pavilion, but a powerful Emperor Realm outsider attacked the Yun Household and easily defeated Elder Qiu and destroyed its protective formation. The outsider recognized Lin Xuan as the white-robed sword cultivator who had overwhelmed him and four other Emperor Realm outsiders in the Void Realm.

• Yun Yao claimed she would soon enter the Heavenly Profound Realm and might reach the Hidden Dragon Ranking, while the Yun Household marveled at her progress.
• A host of outsiders approached the Yun Household, led by a powerful three-horned Emperor Realm outsider whom Lin Xuan recognized from the Void Realm.
• Elder Qiu challenged the outsider, but her zither music had no effect on him, and he shattered her instrument and gravely wounded her with one strike.
• The outsider destroyed the Yun Household's clan-protecting formation, leaving the clan members and elders injured and helpless.
• The outsider spotted Lin Xuan and recognized him as the white-robed sword cultivator who had defeated five Emperor Realm outsiders in the Void Realm.

Lin Xuan arrived to rescue the Yun Household and killed the fleeing nonhuman Emperor Realm cultivator and every other nonhuman with one sword strike. Elder Qiu and Yun Donglai realized how powerful the Jade Balance Sword Palace must be, while Yun Yao watched in disbelief.

• The nonhuman Emperor Realm cultivator recognized Lin Xuan from their past encounter and fled in terror.
• Lin Xuan pursued the cultivator with a sword strike that cut him in two and swept away every nonhuman on the battlefield.
• Elder Qiu and the Yun Household witnessed Lin Xuan's overwhelming strength and realized the crisis had ended.
• Yun Donglai reconsidered his assumptions about Lin Xuan and the sect Yunyi had joined.
• Elder Qiu understood why Yunyi had rejected the Thousand Sounds Pavilion, while Yun Yao stared in disbelief.

After Lin Xuan defeated an Emperor Realm alien, Yun Yao regretted choosing the Thousand Sounds Pavilion over Yunyi’s path, while Yunyi explained that Yun Yao’s real loss came from her disposition. Lin Xuan offered to escort the Yun Household from its ruined home, and the group prepared to leave amid the alien invasion.

• Yun Yao bitterly realized that Yunyi’s master, Lin Xuan, was stronger than Elder Qiu and regretted believing she had surpassed her sister.
• Yunyi told Yun Yao that she had lost because she could not distinguish right from wrong, then joined Lin Xuan.
• Elder Qiu thanked Lin Xuan for saving her and decided to return to the Thousand Sounds Pavilion to report the alien threat.
• Yun Canghai recognized that the Yun Household’s home was no longer safe and worried that his weakened people could not evacuate alone.
• Lin Xuan offered to let Yunyi’s kin travel with him, and Yun Canghai gratefully accepted.
• Yun Canghai watched Lin Xuan and Yunyi depart and reflected that Yunyi had found an extraordinary master.

After fleeing the ruined Yun Household grounds, Yun Canghai and his people were confronted by an other-race Venerable, but Wu Liang appeared and crushed the enemy with one hand. The Yun Household learned that Wu Liang served Lin Xuan, and Yun Donglai accepted that Yunyi had chosen the right sect.

• Yun Canghai led the wounded Yun Household away from their destroyed ancestral grounds toward the Jade Balance Sword Palace.
• An other-race Venerable blocked their flying boat and overwhelmed the injured elders with his pressure.
• Lin Xuan sensed someone approaching and said that he had arrived.
• Wu Liang emerged from the shadows and crushed the other-race Venerable, then greeted Lin Xuan as Pavilion Master.
• Yunyi asked Yun Donglai whether he still believed her choice had been wrong, and Yun Donglai realized she had chosen wisely.

After returning to the Jade Balance Sword Palace, Lin Xuan received an ancient Dao field as a system rebate and gathered the Sword Pavilion to cultivate in it. They emerged several days later with greatly increased strength, while Lin Xuan had reached the King Realm twenty-ninth layer and stood on the verge of the Emperor Realm.

• Lin Xuan sent Yun Canghai and the surviving Yun Household members onward after Wu Liang confirmed that nearby nonhumans had been eliminated.
• Lin Xuan gave Su Lianxin a phoenix soul, and the system rebated him an ancient Dao field.
• Lin Xuan expanded the ancient Dao field over the rear mountain and invited the Sword Pavilion, Heavenly Venerable Yunli, and Wu Liang to cultivate inside it.
• After several days of secluded cultivation, Lin Xuan reached the King Realm twenty-ninth layer and comprehended twenty-nine Great Daos.
• Heavenly Venerable Yunli, Wu Liang, Youying, and the disciples all improved their cultivation, with Su Lianxin, Yunyi, and Qu Youmeng comprehending several Great Daos.
• Qin Feng made the fastest breakthrough among the disciples, reaching the Earth Profound Realm ninth layer.

After emerging from seclusion, Lin Xuan learned from Fairy Cold Moon that the Profound Domain had formed an alliance against the invading races and opened the Great Emperor Treasury, whose war merit rankings rewarded cultivators for their kills. Su Lianxin spotted Su Ditian at eighty-fifth on the Earth Ranking and vowed to reclaim her Emperor Blood and prove him inferior.

• Lin Xuan put away the exhausted ancient Dao field and met Fairy Cold Moon, who told him that war had engulfed the Profound Domain.
• Fairy Cold Moon explained that the Profound Domain's leading powers had formed the Profound Alliance and opened the Great Emperor Treasury, giving cultivators jade talismans to record kills for war merits.
• Fairy Cold Moon showed Lin Xuan the War Merit Rankings, where the Nine Profundities Heavenly Sect dominated the top positions and Su Ditian ranked eighty-fifth on the Earth Ranking.
• Su Lianxin learned that Su Ditian had awakened the Su Ancestor's Thearch Blood and grown strong enough to enter the Earth Ranking.
• Su Lianxin's fighting spirit ignited, and she vowed that Su Ditian would soon answer for stealing her bloodline.

Lin Xuan and Wu Liang protected the Jade Balance Sword Palace with an incomplete ninth-tier formation before Lin Xuan entered seclusion. Meanwhile, the Jade Pivotal Star Sword Palace master guided two Emperor Realm members of the Heavenly Baleful Intent Sect toward the palace, hoping they would extort more Spirit Stones from it than she had paid.

• Lin Xuan and Wu Liang laid down the incomplete Azure Wood Sacred Origin Formation, which could withstand attacks below the Thearch Realm.
• After taking stock of his gains from the Void Realm, Lin Xuan entered seclusion to improve his strength.
• Two Emperor Realm cultivators from the Heavenly Baleful Intent Sect traveled by flying boat toward the Jade Balance Sword Palace, planning to collect protection fees.
• The Jade Pivotal Star Sword Palace master joined them as a guide, still resentful over paying Fairy Cold Moon fifty million Spirit Stones.
• The Jade Pivotal Star Sword Palace master had praised the Jade Balance Sword Palace's wealth to the Heavenly Baleful Intent Sect and hoped it would be forced to pay even more than her palace had.

The Heavenly Baleful Intent Sect arrived at the Jade Balance Sword Palace and demanded seventy million Spirit Stones in exchange for protection. Fairy Cold Moon rejected the demand, confident that Lin Xuan and the others could defend the sect.

• The Palace Master of the Jade Pivotal Star Sword Palace and Xie Xiao led the Heavenly Baleful Intent Sect toward the Jade Balance Sword Palace, hoping to use the invasion of the other races to extort it.
• Lu Ming greeted the visitors at the mountain gate, but the two Emperor Realm cultivators dismissed him and demanded sixty million Spirit Stones for protection.
• When Lu Ming hesitated and said he needed the sect leader's approval, one cultivator raised the demand to seventy million Spirit Stones.
• Fairy Cold Moon appeared and told the Heavenly Baleful Intent Sect that the Jade Balance Sword Palace would pay nothing and did not need its protection.

As an army of other races attacked, Fairy Cold Moon protected the Jade Balance Sword Palace while the Heavenly Baleful Intent Sect’s flying ship came under assault. Lin Xuan emerged from seclusion and offered shelter to the people outside for seven hundred million Spirit Stones.

• Fairy Cold Moon refused to hand Spirit Stones to the Heavenly Baleful Intent Sect, even as other sect leaders urged her to comply.
• An enormous army of other races appeared, and Fairy Cold Moon activated the Jade Balance Sword Palace’s Azure Wood Sacred Origin Formation.
• The attackers shattered the Heavenly Baleful Intent Sect’s flying ship formation, forcing its two Emperor Realm cultivators to defend themselves with the Four Directions Treasure Pearl.
• The people aboard the ship saw that the Jade Balance Sword Palace’s formation withstood the attackers’ assault and begged Fairy Cold Moon to let them inside.
• Lin Xuan emerged from seclusion and offered to shelter them in exchange for seven hundred million Spirit Stones.

Lin Xuan refused to save the Heavenly Baleful Intent Sect cultivator and his companions, then killed the otherworldly beings and took their Spirit Stones. At Chiyao Heavenly Palace, Ruoli defended the Profound Domain’s hopes by recalling Lin Xuan’s victory over the Nineteenth Highness, but the other disciples dismissed her account.

• The Heavenly Baleful Intent Sect Emperor Realm cultivator offered Lin Xuan one hundred million Spirit Stones, but Lin Xuan revealed he had only been joking and refused to help.
• The Four Directions Treasure Pearl shattered, and the otherworldly beings killed the Heavenly Baleful Intent Sect cultivator, the Jade Pivotal Star Sword Palace palace master, and their companions.
• Lin Xuan left the Azure Wood Sacred Origin Formation, killed the remaining otherworldly beings, and retrieved a Storage Bag containing one hundred million Spirit Stones.
• At Chiyao Heavenly Palace’s spiritual pool, Ruoli heard elite disciples lament the otherworldly races’ strength and the Profound Domain’s recent losses.
• Ruoli told the disciples that she had seen a white-robed sword cultivator defeat the Nineteenth Highness with one strike, but a Crimson Refining Sect disciple mocked her story.

Su Lianxin told Lin Xuan that the Su Clan’s main lineage had summoned its branch lineages for a competition offering the winners protection and membership. Determined to confront Su Ditian over the Emperor Blood he had taken from her, she chose to participate, and Lin Xuan agreed to accompany her with Wu Liang.

• Su Lianxin explained that her parents and the Tangqing Empire branch lineage wanted her to join their clan head and other geniuses at the Su Clan’s main lineage competition.
• Lin Xuan questioned why the main lineage was holding a competition while the Profound Domain faced invasion and the struggle over the Great Emperor Treasury.
• Su Lianxin declared that she would participate and settle the grievance over her stolen Su Ancestor’s Thearch Blood.
• Lin Xuan agreed to accompany Su Lianxin to the main lineage and called on Wu Liang to go with them.
• Lin Xuan promised Su Lianxin that he would help her reclaim what had always been hers.

Lin Xuan accompanied Su Lianxin back to her family’s branch household in Ansui City before the Su Clan main branch’s grand competition. After the main branch’s flying boat arrived to collect the competitors, a woman bearing the main branch’s symbol descended, drawing the branch disciples’ attention.

• Lin Xuan, Su Lianxin, and Wu Liang traveled to Ansui City, where the Su Household warmly welcomed Su Lianxin and Lin Xuan.
• Su Lianxin reunited with her parents at the Bamboo Zen Courtyard, while Lin Xuan was received as an honored guest.
• Lin Xuan spent two days exploring Ansui City with Su Household juniors as Su Lianxin visited with her parents.
• A stern main branch deacon arrived by flying boat and told the branch households that they would leave for the lineage competition the next morning.
• A woman wearing a sash marked with the main branch’s seven-cloud symbol descended from the flying boat, catching the attention of the Ansui City disciples.

Su Su returned to Ansui City as a main-lineage disciple and impressed the branch-lineage disciples with stories about the Holy Son, Su Ditian. She said no one would dare challenge him at the tournament, but Su Lianxin privately doubted that.

• Su Lianxin told Lin Xuan that Su Su was from their Ansui City branch and had recently joined the main lineage.
• Su Su descended from the flying boat and received respectful greetings from the Ansui City disciples and elders.
• Su Su described Su Ditian's status and bearing, leaving the branch-lineage disciples in awe.
• Su Su told Su Rong and Su Qiyu that they would see Su Ditian at the tournament, where he would participate but would not be challenged.
• Su Lianxin listened to Su Su's claims and silently thought that someone might challenge Su Ditian after all.

Su Lianxin ignored Su Su’s taunts about her rejection of Su Ying and her failure to enter the Azure Yang Sword Sect’s inner sect, remaining focused on surpassing Su Ditian. She traveled with the branch disciples and Lin Xuan to the Su Clan’s main branch, where an unexpected voice called out to her.

• Su Su mocked Su Lianxin over Su Ying’s advances and his breakthrough to the Tribulation Realm, but Su Lianxin said affection could not be forced.
• Su Su was welcomed by the branch disciples, while Su Lianxin returned to her room to cultivate and reaffirmed that Su Ditian was her target.
• The main-branch steward declined the branch’s banquet invitation and led the group, including Lin Xuan, to the Su Clan’s main branch; Wu Liang followed in concealment.
• Su Lianxin viewed the main branch’s lavish grounds without her former awe, while Su Su warned the others to avoid offending its disciples.
• As a main-branch servant led them toward their temporary lodgings, someone recognized Su Lianxin and called her name.

Su Ying reunited with Su Lianxin and invited her to meet Su Ditian at a private gathering. Su Lianxin declined for now, saying Su Ditian might not want to see her.

• Su Ying recognized Su Lianxin and eagerly greeted her, revealing that he had never forgotten his love for her.
• The Ansui City branch disciples and Su Su were stunned by Su Ying's attention toward Su Lianxin.
• Su Ying invited Su Lianxin to join a private gathering and meet Su Ditian, the main lineage's Holy Son.
• Su Lianxin politely refused for the time being and said Su Ditian might not want to see her.