Chapter Summaries

The Luo Heaven Sea group and other cultivators prepared to leave the Heavenly South as Han Yu broke open the array on the Ice and Snow Plateau. Shen Ge parted from Zhang Lingyu and Miaoyin, then reunited with Li Xue, who joined the departing travelers.

• Miaoyin visited the Hall of Heroic Spirits with Lu Xiu and left a wooden carving before Mu Wan’s grave.
• Han Yu used a phoenix attack to shatter a large section of the array, allowing the cultivators to pass through.
• Zhang Lingyu and Miaoyin said goodbye to Shen Ge and promised to meet him again in the Heavenly Desolation Domain.
• Li Xue arrived at the array, accepted a flying sword and shield from Shen Ge, and left with the others.
• Shen Ge asked Zhang Lingyu and Miaoyin to help Li Xue if she encountered danger, and Zhang Lingyu agreed before departing.

After bidding farewell to Li Liu, Shen Ge returned to the Spirit Moon Sect and entered seclusion, while the Eagle King broke through to the Spirit Severing Realm. The Eagle King killed and devoured the Primordial Serpent, then set out for the seven great islands as the Luo Heaven Sea’s humans faced an uncertain and seemingly hopeless future.

• Shen Ge asked Li Liu where she would go, and she left to travel around the Heavenly South; he then returned to the Spirit Moon Sect and entered seclusion.
• The Eagle King emerged on a deserted island beyond the Luo Heaven Sea as a Spirit Severing cultivator and tested his power, destroying islands with a wind blade.
• The Eagle King found the Primordial Serpent during its attempt to become a Fifth-Tier Demon Beast and attacked it with a storm of Gang winds.
• The Eagle King crushed the Primordial Serpent’s head, destroyed its soul, and revealed that he had previously let it escape as blood food.
• The Eagle King devoured the Primordial Serpent and headed toward the seven great islands, leaving the humans of the Luo Heaven Sea facing a dark future.

After decades of seclusion, Shen Ge began his Nascent Soul breakthrough, drawing a powerful lightning tribulation that his yin-yang diagram started to absorb. As the tribulation escalated, a lightning White Tiger descended toward him.

• Ao Xi approached the mainland but returned to the sea with her father when he told her the grand elder was looking for her.
• Su Sui, Lu Xiu, and Zhang Fengge waited anxiously through Shen Ge's long seclusion, while Demon Kings later left the Heavenly South with many Demon Beasts.
• After another fifty years, black and white Qi rose from Shen Ge's retreat and formed a yin-yang diagram as his breakthrough began.
• Mo Qingyu, Chu He, Jin Ling, Su Liuyue, Wang Yan, and others withdrew to safety as Shen Ge's lightning tribulation gathered overhead.
• The yin-yang diagram ground a dragon-shaped bolt of lightning into power, but the tribulation sent a massive lightning White Tiger crashing down toward Shen Ge.

Shen Ge endured a series of increasingly deadly lightning tribulations as he formed his Nascent Soul, using his treasures, the Samsara Method, and his sword to survive. The chapter ended with him splitting a massive lightning pillar and the clouds above with a single strike, leaving Mo Qingyu stunned.

• Shen Ge shattered the White Tiger lightning tribulation with a sword strike, while Wang Yan, Su Liuyue, and Mo Qingyu sensed the terrifying power of his Samsara Method.
• Shen Ge endured an azure lightning bolt and three heavenly blades, but the final blade damaged his treasures and nearly cleaved him in two.
• Shen Ge narrowly escaped the Purple Firmament Divine Lightning, which struck the mountain and sheared off its peak.
• Two lightning tribulations merged into a massive pillar, prompting Mo Qingyu to move to save Shen Ge as the others feared he would die.
• Shen Ge unleashed a profound power through the Morning Longing Sword and split the lightning pillar and the dark clouds, astonishing Mo Qingyu.

After breaking through to the Nascent Soul realm, Shen Ge reassured Mo Qingyu that his devastating sword strike came from the Samsara Method and celebrated with his disciples. He gave Mo Qingyu a wisp of his divine soul and the Life and Death Instruction, then went to help his senior sister seek a breakthrough.

• Mo Qingyu worried that Shen Ge's sword strike meant he had been possessed, but Shen Ge told her it was a secret method from the Samsara Method.
• Su Sui, Lu Xiu, and Zhang Fengge congratulated Shen Ge, who gave them fourth-tier spirit medicines and sent them off to cultivate.
• Shen Ge gave Mo Qingyu a wisp of his divine soul and explained that he had not learned the Samsara Method at White Bone Mountain.
• Shen Ge gave Mo Qingyu the Life and Death Instruction and warned her not to cultivate it too deeply because its creator might have left it as bait.
• Shen Ge explained that Bai Lili could cultivate the other half of the Samsara Method, then went to help his senior sister, who had reached the peak of the Golden Core realm, pursue a breakthrough.

Shen Ge entered seclusion while several groups struggled across the Ice and Snow Plateau and emerged into a vast mountain forest. After the groups joined forces, Xuanguang killed Venerable Tianquan to enforce his authority, and Zi Nü took a little girl from the Kaiyang Sect.

• Shen Ge collected slivers of several acquaintances' divine souls and entered seclusion to separate offensive techniques from the Samsara Method.
• Luo Heaven Sea's remaining cultivators and another group led by Xuanguang continued their dangerous journeys across the Ice and Snow Plateau, while Bai Lili concealed her Nascent Soul cultivation.
• Daoist Qingguang led his group over a glacial cliff and down through the clouds into a vast forest, where they settled to recover and grow stronger.
• Yaoguang's group arrived less than three years later, and the two groups joined forces to cross the mountain forest.
• Xuanguang killed Venerable Tianquan after Tianquan and Zi Nü clashed, warning Luo Heaven Sea's cultivators to obey him.
• Zi Nü took a little girl from the Kaiyang Sect's group and then caused them no further trouble.

After thirty years, Su Liuyue passed her heavenly tribulation and formed her Nascent Soul, while Shen Ge continued to draw heaven’s attention. He later taught newly adapted techniques and spent the following years cultivating and studying arrays as his sect’s disciples advanced.

• The Eagle King slaughtered most of the Luo Heaven Sea’s human population after discovering that Yaoguang’s old allies had escaped through a teleportation array, then tortured Liu Zongyuan for information.
• Su Liuyue used fourth-tier pills refined with Wang Yan’s help to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm and face a heavenly tribulation.
• The heavenly tribulation destroyed Su Liuyue’s Heaven and Earth Cauldron and injured her, but she survived its final strike; lightning also targeted Shen Ge when he returned to the Spirit Moon Sect.
• Shen Ge taught his companions the adapted techniques Destruction Sword Qi and Annihilation Millstone, then spent ten years teaching, cultivating, and studying arrays.
• Su Sui reached Late Golden Core, Lu Xiu and Zhang Fengge remained at Middle Golden Core, Wang Yan reached Golden Core Peak, and Chu He, Jin Ling, and Qingfeng reached Late Golden Core.

Shen Ge prepared to leave the Heavenly South, entrusting the Spirit Moon Sect to Han Yu and inviting Li Liu to join his group. After Han Yu opened the formation, Shen Ge and his companions left the Heavenly South and began their dangerous journey onward.

• Shen Ge asked Han Yu to protect the Spirit Moon Sect, offered to take her with them, and received a request to revive her and her sister if he ever became an immortal.
• Shen Ge found Li Liu in Qingniao Valley, and she agreed to leave the Heavenly South with him.
• Shen Ge and Li Liu returned to the Spirit Moon Sect, where Wang Yan and the others finished arranging the sect's affairs and entrusted it to a new-generation disciple.
• Han Yu greeted the departing group at Phoenix City and broke the formation at the Ice and Snow Plateau with a single strike.
• Shen Ge and his companions bid farewell to Han Yu and left through the cave entrance, while Han Yu remained behind in the wind and snow.
• Shen Ge's group began their journey onward, relying on a concealment formation to avoid danger.

Shen Ge and his companions crossed the forest and learned that a group led by three Spirit Severing Realm experts had left the Thousand Hills Mountain Range fifty years earlier. They reached Thousand Hills Town, paid for temporary identity tokens, and entered the city to seek information at the Heavenly Knowledge Pavilion.

• Shen Ge and his companions survived encounters with Demon Beasts and left the icy region after seventy years without casualties.
• Shen Ge questioned a Golden Core old farmer, who told him that a murderous group led by three Spirit Severing Realm experts had left the mountains about fifty years earlier and gone separate ways in Thousand Hills Town.
• Shen Ge and his companions followed the farmer's directions and found the enormous Thousand Hills Town, where flight was prohibited.
• Shen Ge paid for temporary identity tokens for the group after learning that entry without residence tokens cost five hundred low-grade Spirit Stones per person.
• Shen Ge and his companions entered the city's inner district and went to the Heavenly Knowledge Pavilion to gather information.

Li Liu left Shen Ge and the Spirit Moon Sect members, who rented a courtyard and discussed how to establish themselves in the Heavenly Desolation Domain. Shen Ge chose the Vast Distant Mountain Range as their next destination, and he and Su Liuyue went to investigate local missions and prices.

• Li Liu declined Shen Ge's offer to travel together and departed after the meal.
• Shen Ge and the others rented a courtyard, then reviewed information about the Ancient Wilderness and its major forces.
• Mo Qingyu proposed establishing another Spirit Moon Sect, and Shen Ge suggested they first live as Rogue Cultivators and later build their own sect.
• Shen Ge chose the Vast Distant Mountain Range as a place to gather resources, while the others focused on cultivation and addressed their shortage of Spirit Stones.
• Shen Ge and Su Liuyue headed to the town's mission center to learn about available work and local prices.

Shen Ge and his companions left Thousand Hills Town to claim a remote cultivation site with two small Spirit Veins, then Shen Ge returned to town to collect a reward for killing two wanted Devil Cultivators. As he headed for the gates, he encountered a crowd welcoming Fairy Yuxin, whose strength impressed him.

• Shen Ge and Su Liuyue decided the city’s expenses were too high and left with their companions to find a place to cultivate.
• After three months, they settled in a scenic area about three hundred thousand li from Thousand Hills Town, killed the two Devil Cultivators occupying it, and began establishing a camp.
• Shen Ge went back to Thousand Hills Town and received five thousand five hundred Spirit Stones for the heads of Li Hei and Li Yuan.
• Shen Ge noticed envious onlookers at the reward counter but left without reacting, confident that few people could kill him easily.
• A crowd gathered to welcome Fairy Yuxin, and Shen Ge watched her approach on a powerful, flame-wreathed horse before deciding her affairs did not concern him.

Li Yuxin noticed Shen Ge’s talent and offered him a place as her follower in the Heavenly Sword Sect, but he fled rather than risk exposing his Samsara Method. Soon afterward, five masked cultivators ambushed him, and their leader attacked with a mass of ghost-filled devilish mist.

• Li Yuxin sensed Shen Ge’s extraordinary talent and asked him to follow her, but he was too startled to answer.
• Shen Ge learned that Li Yuxin was a powerful Heavenly Sword Sect disciple, then fled thirty thousand li to avoid her offer and protect the Samsara Method.
• Five masked cultivators ambushed Shen Ge, but he had been prepared and escaped injury.
• The attackers trapped Shen Ge and the surrounding peaks in a formation, while three Golden Core cultivators withdrew to guard it.
• Shen Ge drew the Morning Longing Sword and spread his sword wings as the Nascent Soul Middle Stage leader sent ghost-filled devilish mist surging toward him.

Shen Ge defeated a Nascent Soul Early Stage Devil Cultivator, escaped the surviving cultivator, and returned to Azure Moon Mountain with a formation and spoils. Li Yuxin’s split soul, who had been tracking him, approached Shen Ge and his companions to question them.

• Shen Ge used his sword formation and soul power to cripple a Nascent Soul Early Stage Devil Cultivator, while the Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator fled and the Golden Core Peak cultivators abandoned them.
• Shen Ge dismantled the trapping formation, collected the defeated cultivator’s Storage Bag and body, and returned to Azure Moon Mountain.
• Li Yuxin’s split soul watched Shen Ge and noticed the gathered cultivators’ rare Spirit Roots and possible connection to a sect.
• Li Yuxin descended to meet Shen Ge, Mo Qingyu, and Su Liuyue, and asked them to answer some questions.
• Shen Ge shaped a stone table and stools with Sword Intent, and Li Yuxin served the group Drifting Snow Tea and spirit fruits.

Li Yuxin questioned Shen Ge, Mo Qingyu, and Su Liuyue about their origins and demanded that they either follow her or return with her to her sect. Su Liuyue and Wang Yan agreed to go with Li Yuxin, while Shen Ge fled with the furious Mo Qingyu.

• Shen Ge told Li Yuxin that he and his companions came from Heavenly South and belonged to the Spirit Moon Sect.
• Li Yuxin questioned them about their connections to the group that had appeared fifty years earlier, then offered them the choice of following her or returning to her sect.
• Su Liuyue offered to follow Li Yuxin if she would leave Shen Ge and Mo Qingyu behind.
• Mo Qingyu struck at the stone table, but Shen Ge blocked her hand and killing intent before fleeing with her.
• Su Liuyue asked Li Yuxin to spare the others, and Li Yuxin summoned Wang Yan and declared that Su Liuyue and Wang Yan would follow her.

After Su Liuyue and Wang Yan were taken away by Li Yuxin, Shen Ge and his companions returned to cultivation, recognizing their weakness had left them vulnerable. Meanwhile, Ziyang and the other leaders began organizing the Myriad Stars Sect in the Rock Moon region and faced the challenge of gaining permission to establish themselves.

• Mo Qingyu vowed to someday enter the Heavenly Sword Sect and beat the woman who had taken Su Liuyue and Wang Yan, while Shen Ge promised to go with her to rescue them.
• Shen Ge blamed himself for the senior sisters' departure, then returned to his cave abode to cultivate as his companions also withdrew to cultivate.
• Ziyang heard reports that the Myriad Stars Sect's new territory had nearby rivals, limited resources, and fell under the authority of the Hundred Refinements Sect.
• Ziyang met with Fang Ding, Wan Xiao, Li Xueying, and Hanyue, and the leaders went inside to discuss the sect's many problems.

The Myriad Stars Sect arranged for Daoist Qingguang to seek the Hundred Refinements Sect’s recognition, while events elsewhere in Rock Moon and the Ancient Wilderness showed several groups pursuing their own paths. The chapter ended with Li Xue demonstrating her mastery of formation arrays in Parasol Tree City.

• Ziyang asked the three sect masters to visit the Hundred Refinements Sect, and Daoist Qingguang agreed to go with tribute.
• Ziyang returned to Spirit Moon Peak and wondered how his junior sister was doing.
• Zi Nü brought Ji Yeli to a secluded valley to cultivate and told her she could leave after reaching the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Lü Yang traveled alone through the mountains as a group of Heavenly South demonic cultivators headed toward eastern Rock Moon.
• A blood-red-haired devil escaped the pursuing Snow Moon Zhu Household, whose members continued the chase.
• Li Xue formed a third-tier array from fallen parasol leaves, and her master praised her for comprehending the Formation Array Domain.

Ten years later, Shen Ge had reached the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, and Peach Blossom Spring Mountain had established itself through years of fighting demonic cultivators. After learning that Demonic Sword Valley would open within two years, Shen Ge decided to go with Su Sui, suspecting that his elder sister had a deeper purpose for sending word.

• Ten years passed as Shen Ge advanced to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, while Chu He, Jin Ling, and Su Sui reached the Nascent Soul Realm and Qingfeng continued cultivating in seclusion.
• Su Sui told Shen Ge that the Li Household's ancestor had killed eighty-three Devil Cultivators after they attacked and murdered the household's younger disciples.
• Su Sui gave Shen Ge a message from Martial Uncle Liuyue that Demonic Sword Valley on White Mist Mountain would open within two years.
• Shen Ge judged that their group was too weak to safely pursue the valley's treasures and told Su Sui not to inform their grandmaster, saying he would investigate alone.
• Su Sui insisted on accompanying Shen Ge, and he agreed before asking her to wake Chu He to guard Peach Blossom Spring Mountain.

Shen Ge investigated a source of Evil Qi on Yellow Wind Mountain and found an Evil Demon sealed beneath a lava pool. A mysterious young man joined him, while the young man's companion kept Su Sui occupied outside; the chapter ended with Shen Ge and the man facing the chained demon.

• Shen Ge and Su Sui sensed Evil Qi rising from a stream on Yellow Wind Mountain, and Shen Ge went down to investigate while Su Sui stood guard.
• A white-robed woman and a black-robed young man sensed the unusual presence and went to the site; the young man entered the cave after Shen Ge while the woman blocked Su Sui.
• The young man warned Shen Ge that Evil Demons were fearsome beings from beyond their world, though he knew little about their origins.
• Shen Ge and the young man found a lava pool deep inside the cave and identified a sealed Evil Demon bound by chains and an array.
• The Evil Demon roared when it saw Shen Ge and the young man.

Shen Ge and Su Sui encountered Xie Fan and Bai Yu while dealing with a sealed evil demon, and the two groups fought over who would claim it. Shen Ge and Su Sui left with the demon, while Xie Fan and Bai Yu returned to absorb the remaining Evil Qi.

• Shen Ge introduced Su Sui to Xie Fan and Bai Yu, then had Su Sui freeze the lava pool around the sealed demon.
• Shen Ge broke the failing formation and suppressed the demon, but Xie Fan tried to claim it for himself and Bai Yu.
• Shen Ge and Xie Fan fought while Su Sui and Bai Yu clashed, leaving the demon battered as it was tossed between them.
• Xie Fan and Bai Yu withdrew after Xie Fan was badly wounded, and Shen Ge sealed the demon and put it away.
• Shen Ge and Su Sui continued toward Demonic Sword Valley, while Xie Fan and Bai Yu returned to the cavern and absorbed the remaining Evil Qi.

About a year after setting out, Shen Ge and Su Sui reached White Mist Mountain and waited near Demonic Sword Valley as powerful cultivators gathered for its opening. Meanwhile, Su Liuyue faced attention and hostility from Heavenly Sword Sect disciples, while Lin Fan asked Wang Jing about a rare spiritual herb.

• Shen Ge bought formation materials at a market, then took Su Sui to a secluded valley to wait for Demonic Sword Valley to open.
• Seven months later, powerful cultivators arrived, and onlookers identified several prominent young prodigies among them.
• Shen Ge wondered whether Liuyue and Wang Yan had arrived with the Heavenly Sword Sect, while Su Liuyue stood on its giant sword with Li Yuxin and Lin Fan.
• Lin Fan warned Su Liuyue not to enter Demonic Sword Valley, but she told him she did not have to obey him.
• Wang Jing scolded Su Liuyue for failing to act like an attendant, and Su Liuyue left after Lin Fan intervened.
• Lin Fan asked Wang Jing whether her elder would part with a six-leaf sword grass.