Chapter Summaries

At the Moon-Gazing Palace, Chu Feng revealed his Immortal Physique and used a single sword strike to defeat the Nine Abyss Devil Saint and the Saint corpse. He left the battlefield victorious, while Xu Caichen composed a poem praising his feats.

• A Saint corpse emerged from the golden coffin, and its presence forced most of the Moon-Gazing Palace’s cultivators to their knees.
• Chu Feng revealed his Immortal Physique and told Xiao Chen he would demonstrate the ultimate sword strike of Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Origin.
• The Nine Abyss Devil Saint and the Saint corpse attacked Chu Feng together, but he used Myriad Daos Return to One to destroy their manifestations.
• Chu Feng struck down the Nine Abyss Devil Saint, leaving only a soul crystal behind.
• The Saint corpse retreated into the golden coffin, and Chu Feng’s sword strike landed as it closed, suppressing the corpse.
• Xu Caichen composed a poem praising Chu Feng for slaying the Devil Saint and suppressing the Heavenly Corpse.

The Shi Clan defeated its enemies, and Shi Xuan arranged for Jin Xi to marry Shi Hao instead of punishing her. With Chu Feng’s support, Shi Xuan began returning something sacred that he had taken from Shi Hao, leaving the crowd waiting to see what emerged.

• Bing Yan captured the demonic sword’s spirit, Great Sage Golden Wing caught the Blood Nether Dragon, and Great Sage Blazing Sun killed Great Sage Shadow.
• Shi Xuan and Chu Feng sent their allies to capture the fleeing Children of Destiny, then Shi Xuan faced the eight women on the ceremonial platform.
• Shi Xuan asked the Northern Wasteland crown prince to dissolve his engagement to Jin Xi and arrange her marriage to Shi Hao.
• Shi Hao took Jin Xi’s hand after Shi Xuan invited him to leave, but Shi Xuan stopped him and said he had one more thing to return.
• Chu Feng backed Shi Xuan’s decision, and Shi Xuan released a sacredly wrapped object from his body.

Shi Xuan removed his Innate Saint Bone and returned it to Shi Hao, then defeated his enemies and prepared to execute Zhao Wuji. Chu Feng stopped the execution and began to reveal that Zhao Wuji was not the eldest princess’s son.

• Shi Xuan gave his Innate Saint Bone to Shi Hao, and the two agreed to settle their rivalry at the Ten Saints Grand Competition in eighteen years.
• Shi Xuan used the Desolate Heaven Seal to kill the seven women, while their elders remained silent.
• Great Sage Mountain-Mover brought the captured Zhao Wuji to the ceremonial platform, and Chu Feng left him in Shi Xuan’s hands.
• Shi Xuan prepared to kill Zhao Wuji with the Sword Jade, but Great Sage Tiangang arrived and begged for his life on behalf of the Northern Abyss Holy Dynasty.
• Chu Feng challenged the claim that Zhao Wuji was the eldest princess’s son and reached toward him to produce proof.

Chu Feng and Shi Xuan dealt with the aftermath of the engagement ceremony, then set out to retrieve a treasure connected to the possessed Zhao Wuji. After entering Lijie Mountain disguised as ordinary cultivators, they stopped at Wind and Frost Valley, where a stranger praised Chu Feng’s advice on cultivating the heart.

• Chu Feng exposed the Nine Nether Divine Palace old ghost possessing Zhao Wuji, and Great Sage Tiangang accepted a piece of its soul in exchange for letting Chu Feng and Shi Xuan go.
• The Northern Abyss imperial clan withdrew, and the Northern Wasteland Crown Prince canceled the marriage arrangement with the seven families and demanded their resources back.
• Shi Xuan completed his engagement ceremony with Zhao Zhiruo, and Chu Feng later interrogated the old ghost’s remnant soul, learning about its hidden treasure cache.
• The next day, Chu Feng and Shi Xuan left the Moon-Gazing Palace and headed for Lijie Mountain while their companions went to guard Xiao Chen’s group.
• At Wind and Frost Valley, Chu Feng advised Shi Xuan that cultivating the heart mattered as much as increasing cultivation, and an unknown cultivator loudly praised his words.

Chu Feng accepted Liang Yi as a guide in Lijie Mountain and learned that the Spirit Tomb Sect had recently fallen into turmoil. Meanwhile, Cao Youqian followed Qiu Qianhen into a corpse-raising tomb, where Qiu sensed he was being followed and challenged the hidden pursuer.

• Chu Feng and Shi Xuan gave Liang Yi false names, and Chu Feng agreed to explain heart cultivation in exchange for Liang Yi guiding them through Lijie Mountain.
• At the inn, Chu Feng advised Liang Yi about discovering what he truly wanted, then learned the Spirit Tomb Sect had fallen into turmoil within the past few days.
• Liang Yi revealed that he belonged to the Complete Perfection Sword Sect and agreed to meet Chu Feng the next day before they headed to Zhongbei Mountain.
• Cao Youqian and his companions followed Qiu Qianhen into a miasma-filled valley, hoping to kill him and seize his fortuitous opportunity.
• Qiu Qianhen opened the entrance to a tomb in a land of the Nine Yin Severed Veins and entered, followed unseen by Cao Youqian and the others.
• As Qiu Qianhen continued underground, his ominous premonition grew, so he stopped and called on the follower to reveal himself.

Cao Youqian and the Dao-Seeking Academy group followed Qiu Qianhen into a stone chamber filled with coffins, where he unleashed nine Nirvana Realm corpses. Cao Youqian destroyed them with ease and challenged Qiu Qianhen to reveal any remaining trump cards.

• Cao Youqian convinced the others that Qiu Qianhen was trying to trick them, and the group followed him to a stone chamber.
• Qiu Qianhen entered the chamber and summoned nine Nirvana Realm corpses, including five Kings and Marquises, to attack the Dao-Seeking Academy group.
• Cao Youqian revealed his strength as a Dao Integration Realm cultivator and obliterated the corpses with his fists.
• Han Ping and the others stared in shock as Cao Youqian finished off the last corpses and their coffins.
• Cao Youqian turned to Qiu Qianhen and invited him to use any other trump cards he had.

Cao Youqian and his companions confronted Qiu Qianhen in the Heavenly Corpse Sect’s stone chamber, where Qiu summoned nine Great Sage corpses to complete Nine Corpses Summon the Moon. Great Sage Blazing Sun appeared to support the Dao-Seeking disciples, and the chapter ended as Cao Youqian, Han Ping, and Fang Mu called on their master to empower their Sword Jades.

• Cao Youqian struck at Qiu Qianhen, but Qiu’s ancestor emerged from a coffin and blocked the blow.
• Cao Youqian summoned Great Sage Blazing Sun, who appeared in the chamber and relieved the pressure from the Great Sage corpse.
• Qiu Qianhen sacrificed his blood to awaken eight more Great Sage corpses and activate Nine Corpses Summon the Moon.
• The nine corpses gathered the surrounding dead and formed a light array that produced a blood moon, eclipsing Great Sage Blazing Sun’s solar manifestation.
• Cao Youqian, Han Ping, and Fang Mu raised their Sword Jades and called on their master to lend them his aid.

Cao Youqian and his companions defeated the Great Sage corpses, exposed the lie behind Qiu Qianhen’s identity, and killed him before plundering the Heavenly Corpse Sect. Chu Feng’s group traveled slowly toward the Spirit Tomb Sect, arriving at Zhongbei Mountain as Cao Youqian’s group discovered something unexpected.

• Chu Feng’s Sword Qi destroyed the Nine-Corpse Moon-Summoning Array, and Cao Youqian and Great Sage Blazing Sun defeated the remaining Great Sage corpses.
• Great Sage Blazing Sun revealed that Qiu Qianhen’s clan had framed him by making him believe the Shi Clan and Zhao Clan destroyed the Qiu Clan.
• Cao Youqian crushed Qiu Qianhen’s body and soul, then led his companions in searching the Heavenly Corpse Sect for treasures.
• Chu Feng and his companions traveled slowly toward the Spirit Tomb Sect while Liang Yi assured his skeptical disciples that Senior Qian’s strength would become clear.
• Three days later, Chu Feng’s group reached the Spirit Tomb Sect’s territory on Zhongbei Mountain, while Cao Youqian’s group made a surprising discovery at the Heavenly Corpse Sect.

Cao Youqian swallowed a Great Sage Corpse Core and began tempering his body at a Saint Rank cold-aspected spirit vein so he could break through to the Nirvana Realm. Meanwhile, Chu Feng and Shi Xuan traveled up Zhongbei Mountain with Liang Yi, whose work drew a contemptuous remark from someone nearby.

• Cao Youqian identified the Saint Rank cold-aspected spirit vein and decided to move it by breaking through to the Nirvana Realm.
• Cao Youqian swallowed a Great Sage Corpse Core and entered the icy Qi to temper his body while his companions watched anxiously.
• Chu Feng, Shi Xuan, and Liang Yi camped at Zhongbei Mountain, and Shi Xuan told Liang Yi they would learn more by going up the mountain the next day.
• Chu Feng and his companions strolled up Zhongbei Mountain at noon, while Liang Yi wondered at how they moved unnoticed through the crowds.
• After Liang Yi pitched their tents, a nearby voice mocked him for doing menial work, and Chu Feng and Shi Xuan turned to look.

Shi Xuan intervened when Xiang Mu and the Myriad Dharma Sect disciples attacked Liang Yi, defeating them and killing Xiang Mu. When a Myriad Dharma Sect elder arrived to avenge them, Shi Xuan caught his heavenly lightning and claimed he had already seen through the technique.

• Xiang Mu led more than a dozen Myriad Dharma Sect cultivators in defeating Liang Yi and mocked him while stepping on his sword hand.
• Shi Xuan threw a melon rind at Xiang Mu, then used Great Wasteland Sword Rain to overwhelm the attackers and killed Xiang Mu.
• Shi Xuan ordered Liang Yi to finish off the fallen disciples, leaving one survivor to carry a message back to the Myriad Dharma Sect.
• A Myriad Dharma Sect elder arrived and threatened everyone at the creek, but Shi Xuan challenged him and said he had already seen through his move.
• The elder summoned heavenly lightning, and Shi Xuan caught the bolt with ease before making it vanish, leaving the elder stunned and asking who he was.

Shi Xuan killed a Myriad Dharma Sect elder on Zhongbei Mountain, while the sect’s leaders chose to wait before confronting him and Chu Feng. Far away, Wang Baole and Ye Beixuan caught Xue Wentian performing a blood ritual, and Nangong Yu urged them not to give the Blood God Sect disciple a chance to recover.

• Shi Xuan used the Desolate Heaven Seal to kill Elder Ming, and Liang Yi collected the elder’s storage ring as a reward.
• The Myriad Dharma Sect’s Second Supreme Elder advised the sect to avoid a fight for now, and the sect master ordered everyone to remain alert until they advanced toward the Spirit Tomb Sect the next day.
• Chu Feng finished reading a storybook and wondered how his disciples were doing.
• Ye Beixuan and Wang Baole followed Xue Wentian to a cave, where he began a ritual using a dragon tooth and a pool of Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon blood.
• Xue Wentian discovered Wang Baole and Ye Beixuan, and Qin Yun identified them as Dao-Seeking Academy elders and disciples of a Great Sage.
• Xue Wentian challenged them to fight a Blood God Sect Nirvana expert, and Nangong Yu warned Wang Baole not to give a Child of Destiny time to recover.

Wang Baole and Ye Beixuan stopped Xue Wentian's blood-pool attack, but the Blood Nether Dragon Emperor emerged and threatened to devour everyone. Great Sage Golden Wing then appeared and revealed that the emperor planned to take over Xue Wentian's body.

• Xue Wentian detonated himself and triggered a wave of Heavenly Devil blood, which Wang Baole swallowed while Ye Beixuan absorbed it with the Pseudo Primordial Chaos Mirror.
• Nangong Yu found Xue Wentian hiding beneath the pool and attacked him, but the Blood Nether Dragon Emperor's soul appeared and stopped her Sword Qi.
• Xue Wentian pledged himself to the Blood Nether Dragon Emperor, who promised to make him a Great Sage after a thousand years.
• Wang Baole and Ye Beixuan mocked the emperor's promise, and the Blood Nether Dragon Emperor emerged from the pool and suppressed everyone with his Saint Realm pressure.
• The Blood Nether Dragon Emperor revealed that he intended to eat the cultivators and their luck, while Xue Wentian mistakenly offered them as sacrifices.
• Great Sage Golden Wing appeared, told Xue Wentian that the emperor planned to take over his body, and left Xue Wentian and the emperor staring at each other.

Great Sage Golden Wing defeated the Blood Nether Dragon Emperor and helped Ye Beixuan kill Xue Wentian before Ye Beixuan and Wang Baole began cultivating in the blood pool. Elsewhere, Chu Feng heard Liang Yi’s story of betrayal and defeat, and Liang Yi asked Shi Xuan to take him as a disciple.

• Great Sage Golden Wing revealed his golden-winged great eagle form and defeated the Blood Nether Dragon Emperor with his divine ability, claiming the Dragon Emperor’s Saint Rank soul crystal.
• Ye Beixuan used the Primordial Chaos Mirror to kill Xue Wentian, and the group divided the storage rings they found.
• Ye Beixuan and Wang Baole entered the blood pool to cultivate while Great Sage Golden Wing stayed behind to guard them.
• Chu Feng, Shi Xuan, and Liang Yi traveled toward the Spirit Tomb Sect, and Chu Feng shared wine with Liang Yi as they talked.
• Liang Yi recounted how Liang Wuxin defeated him and revealed that his fiancée Xiao Yu had been involved with Liang Wuxin.
• After hearing Liang Yi’s story, Shi Xuan said he wished he could take him as a disciple, and Liang Yi immediately asked him to do so.

Shi Xuan took Liang Yi as his disciple, and Chu Feng gave Liang Yi a treasured sword before the three reached the Spirit Tomb Sect. They entered the silent, corpse-filled sect ahead of the other forces, while Chu Feng dismissed the danger and continued searching for what he had come to find.

• Chu Feng approved Shi Xuan taking Liang Yi as his disciple, and Liang Yi paid respects to both Shi Xuan and Grand Sage Qiankun.
• Chu Feng gifted Liang Yi a treasured sword and told him to cultivate in the outer courtyard of the Miscellaneous Dao Institute.
• The three arrived at the Spirit Tomb Sect, where the gathered forces hesitated to enter; Liang Yi exchanged words with Liang Wuxin and an elder from the Complete Perfection Sword Sect.
• Shi Xuan said he wanted to find the surprise his senior brother had left in the sect, then led Chu Feng and Liang Yi up the mountain on foot.
• Shi Xuan opened the sect gate, revealing corpses with no visible wounds, and concluded that something powerful had terrified them before they died.
• Chu Feng dismissed the danger and said that even Zhao Wuji's revived ghost could do nothing to him, and Shi Xuan continued deeper into the sect.

Chu Feng and the others reached the Spirit Tomb Sect's Sect Master's Hall and discovered its master and elders dead, while Shi Xuan suggested a Great Sage's corpse might be hidden there. Chu Feng identified the presence as a Nirvana powerhouse from the Nine Nether Holy Land, whose sinister voice then promised to reveal its true appearance.

• Chu Feng and his companions traveled through the mountains past corpses as other cultivators scavenged and fought over the dead men's treasures.
• Shi Xuan opened the Sect Master's Hall, where the group found the Spirit Tomb Sect's elders and master dead after a fight.
• Liang Yi described rumors about the Spirit Tomb Sect's tomb-keeper founder, and Shi Xuan speculated that the sect had guarded a Great Sage's corpse.
• Liang Yi and the Liang Lineage patriarch explained that a mysterious grand elder had once fought a Nirvana Realm powerhouse, prompting Chu Feng to say the powerhouse had perished but was still present.
• Chu Feng identified the presence as someone from the Nine Nether Holy Land, whose sinister voice filled the hall before a black shadow appeared overhead.

Chu Feng confronted the Spirit Tomb Sect’s ghost-cultivator patriarch and learned that he planned to use the sect members and guests to restore Great Sage Tongling’s soul. After the patriarch trapped everyone in a formation, Chu Feng sent Rocket Turtle to defeat him, leaving the gathered cultivators to beg for mercy.

• Chu Feng exposed the cloaked figure as a ghost cultivator and learned that he had sacrificed his own disciples to nourish Great Sage Tongling’s soul.
• The ghost cultivator activated the Nine Nether Soul-Returning Grand Formation, trapping everyone in the Spirit Tomb Sect and sealing their spiritual power.
• Chu Feng summoned Rocket Turtle and told him to defeat the ghost cultivator without damaging the formation.
• Rocket Turtle chased down the ghost cultivator and killed him with a hammer strike infused with thunder and fire.
• The Myriad Dharma Sect’s leader and grand elder knelt and pleaded for mercy, while Chu Feng told them to learn from the incident and let them rise.

Chu Feng captured Zhao Wuji’s remnant soul and exposed himself as Great Sage Qiankun before the assembled cultivators. After Chu Feng and Shi Xuan dealt with Zhao Wuji and left, Shi Xuan gave Liang Yi a share of the treasury, and Liang Yi asked whether he could cultivate the Great Sage sword art he had chosen.

• Chu Feng used a chessboard manifestation to seize Zhao Wuji’s remnant soul from underground and demanded the location of his hidden treasure.
• Zhao Wuji revealed where the Spirit Tomb Sect stored its treasure, but Shi Xuan killed him with the Desolate Heaven Seal after Chu Feng released him.
• The cultivators knelt to Great Sage Qiankun, and Chu Feng told them to divide the hall’s goods before leaving with Shi Xuan and Liang Yi.
• The Complete Perfection Sword Sect’s elders proposed sharing the remaining treasures and cultivation techniques among the sects.
• Chu Feng opened Zhao Wuji’s treasury and offered Shi Xuan a share, while Shi Xuan gifted Liang Yi spirit stones, treasures, and a cultivation technique.
• Liang Yi chose a jade slip containing the Great Sage-level Purgatory Sword Art and asked Shi Xuan whether he could cultivate it.

Chu Feng, Shi Xuan, and Liang Yi left the Spirit Tomb Sect after Liang Yi spared his brother and set him a challenge to draw a King and Marquis sword. As Chu Feng headed for the Dao-Seeking Academy, Qin Qin’s group prepared to close in on Xu Aotian, who had noticed he was being followed.

• Shi Xuan gave Chu Feng a jade slip containing the Nine Revolutions Samsara Saint Ascension Art, and Chu Feng urged him to hold firm to his Dao heart.
• Liang Yi refused to punish Liang Wuxin and gave him ten years to draw a King and Marquis sword before challenging him at the Dao-Seeking Academy.
• The Complete Perfection Sword Sect’s grand elder agreed to train Liang Wuxin, and Liang Yi gave the grand elder a jade slip that raised his hopes of becoming a King and Marquis.
• Three days later, Liang Yi left with Chu Feng and Shi Xuan, who chose to travel to the Dao-Seeking Academy.
• Qin Qin’s group followed Xu Aotian into a ruin, and Xu Aotian called on his pursuers to reveal themselves.

Xu Aotian summoned the buried underground palace, revealing it as a powerful Immortal Emperor treasure and trapping everyone inside its barrier. As the palace gates opened and its terrifying presence subdued the Dao-Seeking Academy disciples, Chu Caiyi recognized a familiar call from within, and Xu Aotian called forth the Dark Moon Legion.

• Xu Aotian taunted the group and declared that he would take the women into his harem, prompting Xu Caichen to prepare to suppress him.
• Chu Caiyi stopped Xu Caichen, saying the underground palace felt familiar and seemed to be missing something.
• Xu Aotian used a token to summon immortal light, which caused the underground palace to rise and reveal itself as a magnificent emperor treasure.
• Qin Qin identified the palace as a defensive artifact, while Xu Aotian warned that terrifying guardians protected it.
• Chu Caiyi said the palace's barrier had sealed their escape, and the opened gates released a presence that collapsed the academy disciples and unnerved Bing Yan.
• Xu Aotian shouted for the Dark Moon Legion to descend as Chu Caiyi faced the palace with an enraptured expression.

Xu Aotian summoned the Dark Moon Legion to attack the Dao-Seeking Academy, but the soldiers recognized Chu Caiyi as their empress and killed him instead. Inside the immortal palace, Chu Caiyi faced a figure who said she should not have come there in her current state, and the hall’s atmosphere shifted after Chu Caiyi stood by her choice to remain herself.

• Xu Aotian summoned the Dark Moon Legion and pointed out the Dao-Seeking Academy as the offenders.
• Moon Demon recognized Chu Caiyi, and the legion knelt before her as their empress.
• Chu Caiyi ordered Xu Aotian’s soul destroyed, and Moon Demon crushed it before escorting her into the immortal palace.
• Chen Zun looted and burned Xu Aotian’s corpse, while Qin Qin and the others distributed his belongings and began cultivating.
• Chu Caiyi recalled that she had been an empress betrayed in her previous life, then entered the hall and encountered a figure emerging from a statue of her.
• The figure questioned why Chu Caiyi had come before reaching sainthood, but Chu Caiyi affirmed her identity and the hall’s atmosphere changed.