Chapter Summaries

While traveling through the snowy mountains, Yang Xuanzhou and his siblings detected a spatial disturbance and traced it to a tiny crack leading into another space. They suspected it marked an entrance to the Kunxu Secret Realm, though they had not yet found the opening.

• Yang Xuanzhou and his companions cautiously crossed the northern mountains, avoiding Demon Beasts and formations laid by local factions.
• On the tenth day, Yang Xuanzhou's Eagle-Eye Dharma Form detected a faint disturbance in space.
• Yang Xuanlang used his divine power of fortune to locate the disturbance to the northeast and sensed vast fortune beyond a tiny spatial crack.
• Yang Xuanqing proposed that the space was the Kunxu Secret Realm, and Yang Xuanzhou agreed that his father and Second Granduncle may have activated its main entrance.

Yang Xuanzhou and Sun Changfeng followed spatial fluctuations to a mountain basin, where they found traces of rival cultivators and a source of unusually dense spiritual energy. They encountered three cultivators at a collapsed pit and identified themselves as members of the Sun Clan.

• Yang Xuanzhou and Shenwu recognized Sun Changfeng's loyalty and discussed how a friendship between him and Yang Xuanzhou could strengthen ties between their clans.
• After three days of travel, Yang Xuanzhou and the others reached the basin and discovered evidence that at least three groups of human cultivators had fought there.
• Yang Xuanzhou had the two younger members of his group conceal themselves while he and Sun Changfeng entered the basin to investigate.
• Yang Xuanzhou and Sun Changfeng followed the spiritual energy to a collapsed pit and were confronted by three cultivators.
• Sun Changfeng introduced himself and Yang Xuanzhou as members of the Sun Clan, and the three cultivators became more welcoming.

Yang Xuanzhou sensed a powerful tremor approaching the mineral vein and tried to warn the cultivators underground, but Duan Weijie and the other Central Region cultivators doubted him. He subdued the three Core Formation Cultivators and plunged into the deep pit to reach the cultivators below.

• Yang Xuanzhou warned Duan Weijie and the other two that a disaster was approaching and urged them to summon the cultivators underground.
• Sun Changfeng backed Yang Xuanzhou, but Duan Weijie and the others questioned his warning and suspected their motives.
• Yang Xuanzhou sent a Thought Transmission to his younger siblings and rushed toward the deep pit despite Duan Weijie trying to stop him.
• Yang Xuanzhou used his azure dragon manifestation, tiger's tail, spider silk, and Gravity Spell to subdue the three Core Formation Cultivators.
• Yang Xuanzhou left the restrained cultivators with Sun Changfeng and plunged into the deep pit in his Azure Jade Dragon Body.

Yang Xuanzhou rescued eight cultivators from the underground mine during a devastating Spatial Shock, though he and several of the rescued were injured. As the survivors regrouped, a five-colored radiance erupted from an eastern snow mountain, signaling a new development.

• Sun Changfeng and three Core Formation Cultivators saw the basin devastated by the Spatial Shock and feared for those trapped underground.
• Yang Xuanzhou emerged with all eight mine cultivators, carrying them out of the tremor's core in his true dragon form.
• Sun Changfeng replenished Yang Xuanzhou's spiritual energy, and the rescued cultivators thanked him for saving their lives.
• Yang Xuanzhou reflected that the rescue had tested his strength and tempered his Innate Dragon Body.
• A snow mountain east of the basin shook, and a dense five-colored radiance shot into the sky.

Yang Xuanzhou and the cultivators he had gathered held the front of the Secret Realm entrance until powerful members of the Xuanyuan Clan and Meishan arrived. After Yang revealed he was the Northwest Yang Clan’s Azure Dragon Young Master, the Meishan cultivator softened his stance and asked how many people could enter.

• Yang Xuanzhou and the groups he had saved remained at the front of the cave as other cultivators arrived but could not dislodge them.
• On the ninth day, two Spiritual Connection Realm cultivators arrived with followers from the Xuanyuan Clan and Meishan.
• The Meishan sword cultivator threatened the gathered Core Formation Cultivators and demanded they give up the foremost position.
• Yang Xuanzhou stepped forward, asserted that his group had arrived first, and introduced himself as a member of the Northwest Yang Clan.
• The Xuanyuan Clan cultivator recognized Yang as the Azure Dragon Young Master, and the Meishan cultivator asked how many people the entrance could accommodate.

Yang Xuanzhou faced a Meishan sword cultivator alone in the cave while Sun Changfeng and the others waited outside. Sun Changfeng offered to give up his Secret Realm slot if talks failed, and Yang Xuanzhou decided he was a worthwhile ally to cultivate.

• Yang Xuanzhou told Sun Changfeng to lead Duan Weijie and the other Core Formation Cultivators outside while he negotiated with the Meishan sword cultivator.
• Sun Changfeng worried about Yang Xuanzhou's safety but left after Yang Xuanzhou reassured him that the dispute concerned only entry order and the number of Secret Realm participants.
• Sun Changfeng privately offered to surrender his own Secret Realm slot so Yang Xuanzhou would not provoke the two great powers over one extra person.
• Yang Xuanzhou recognized Sun Changfeng's concern and judged him a capable talent worth cultivating as part of his own network in the central region.

Yang Xuanzhou used the Black Dragon Scale to withstand a Spiritual Connection sword cultivator’s attack and reinforce the Secret Realm entrance, leaving the Meishan cultivator shaken by the treasure’s power. The sword cultivator prepared to test the scale again with his reserved killing move.

• The Meishan sword cultivator’s attack sent his nine Core Formation Realm companions flying from the cave, while the Xuanyuan Clan cultivators held their ground under protection.
• Yang Xuanzhou used the Black Dragon Scale’s spatial power to block the attack and reinforce the mountain, leaving the Secret Realm entrance undamaged.
• The Meishan sword cultivator realized Yang Xuanzhou carried a treasure whose power rivaled a magical treasure.
• The chapter explained that the Black Dragon Scale could only be activated by Yang Xuanzhou and would lose its power after five uses.
• Yang Xuanzhou apologized for not controlling the scale’s strength, and the Meishan sword cultivator prepared to attack again with his reserved sword technique.

Yang Xuanzhou watched a Meishan sword cultivator defeat a Xuanyuan Clan cultivator with the Uncaused Sword Intent of the Meishan Sword Ancestor. After the Xuanyuan Clan yielded a slot, the Meishan cultivator challenged Yang Xuanzhou and threatened to take his slot as well.

• The Xuanyuan Clan cultivator challenged the Meishan sword cultivator, and the two fought in the sky.
• Yang Xuanzhou caught the defeated Xuanyuan Clan cultivator as he fell and recognized the opponent's Uncaused Sword Intent.
• The Xuanyuan Clan cultivator thanked Yang Xuanzhou and said the strange Sword Intent had disrupted his true essence.
• The Meishan sword cultivator dismissed the Xuanyuan Clan cultivator and attacked him again when he defended Yang Xuanzhou.
• Yang Xuanzhou confronted the Meishan sword cultivator, who insisted that the victor should take all and challenged him over his slot.

Yang Xuanzhou and the other cultivators lost their chance to enter the Kunxu Secret Realm when a Snow Clan True Intent cultivator claimed every quota. Before Yang Xuanzhou left to seek another entrance, the woman recognized him as Yang Yuanhong’s son and asked him to call her Aunt Xue.

• A Snow Clan True Intent cultivator arrived, dispersed the cave restrictions, and let her clan enter the Secret Realm entrance area.
• The Snow Clan cultivator claimed every entry quota and rebuked the Meishan sword cultivator for refusing to challenge her.
• The Xuanyuan Clan cultivator failed to persuade her to grant an exception, and Yang Xuanzhou prepared to leave with his younger siblings.
• The Snow Clan cultivator stopped Yang Xuanzhou, recognized him as Yang Yuanhong’s son, and told him to call her Aunt Xue.
• Yang Xuanzhou addressed her as Aunt Xue and recalled his father’s journey to the Dragon Transformation Pool.

Yang Xuanzhou and Xue Nuan prepared a group of Snow Clan cultivators to enter the Kunxu Secret Realm, with Xue Nuan placing Yang in command if they were separated. At midnight on the seventh day, the cave began to pulse faintly, signaling a change at the entrance.

• The Meishan cultivators left the area after their Spiritual Connection elder agreed to depart.
• Yang Xuanzhou and five others returned to the cave, where Xue Nuan confirmed that the entrance could admit only nineteen people.
• Xue Nuan selected twelve talented young Snow Clan cultivators and warned them that entering the realm could scatter them across different locations.
• Xue Nuan introduced Yang Xuanzhou as the Yang Clan's youngest ranked prodigy, and the Snow Clan cultivators greeted him.
• Xue Nuan instructed the group to follow Yang Xuanzhou if they became separated from her.
• At midnight on the seventh day, cultivators waiting outside felt a faint pulse from the mountain cave.

Yang Xuanzhou explained the Kunxu Secret Realm’s layered structure and led the Snow Clan cultivators to explore their region. On the highest level, Ling Shuang and Yang Lingrui began their long-awaited debate on the Dao as the continent’s major factions gathered and watched.

• Yang Xuanzhou explained that Qi Gathering cultivators occupied the lowest spaces of the Kunxu Secret Realm, then accepted the Snow Clan cultivators’ request to lead them.
• Yang Xuanzhou led the Snow Clan group into the unknown region of the Secret Realm.
• Ling Shuang and Yang Lingrui met in the highest-level space to hold the debate on the Dao they had arranged eighteen years earlier.
• The Yang Clan and its allies entered the Secret Realm together, while the Lingxiao Dao Academy’s faction also acted as a group.
• Long Yuan asked Yang Yuanhong which sword Ling Shuang had unleashed as True Intent Cultivators watched the contest.

Nangong Jinghe explained how Sword Immortal Taicang treated space as something tangible and wielded it as a sword, clarifying the principle behind Ling Shuang’s sword techniques. The gathered True Intent Cultivators understood the distinction from the Void-Slaying Sword Art, and Nangong Jinghe credited Yang Yuanhong with prompting his explanation.

• Elder True Intent Cultivators gathered to listen as Nangong Jinghe demonstrated a sword’s influence on points of light representing separate spaces.
• Yang Yuanhong grasped the demonstration quickly, while Long Yuan needed more time to understand it.
• Nangong Jinghe explained that Taicang’s method made one sword become ten thousand by treating space as tangible, unlike the Void-Slaying Sword Art, which pierced space.
• The gathered cultivators understood that space could become a sword under the Myriad Sword Sect’s principle that all things could be swords.
• Nangong Jinghe told the cultivators to thank Yang Yuanhong, who had prompted him to explain the art.

Luo Qianchou realized that Ling Shuang and Yang Lingrui’s duel was stirring the seal above them and reasoned that Kunxu had once been a battlefield. He concluded that battle, rather than killing power, was the key to opening the sealed space overhead.

• Luo Qianchou sensed that Ling Shuang and Yang Lingrui intended to combine their clash and break through the realm’s dome.
• Luo Qianchou recalled that his Spirit Firmament True-Return Art had revealed the seal’s structure resembled a door and suspected it had a key.
• Luo Qianchou observed that the seal loosened as Ling Shuang and Yang Lingrui’s sword intent and killing intent clashed.
• Luo Qianchou recalled an old description of Kunxu and realized it had once been called the Kunxu Battlefield.
• Luo Qianchou concluded that battle was the key to opening the sealed space and marveled at Yang Lingrui’s perception.

Luo Qianchou approached the Yang Clan while Yang Lingrui and Ling Shuang dueled, then challenged Nangong Jinghe to a fight. He hinted that the duel had a hidden purpose and offered to help Jinghe investigate if Jinghe accepted.

• Luo Qianchou arrived and said the duel had made him eager to fight, puzzling the Yang Clan cultivators.
• Yang Yuanhong asked whom Luo Qianchou wanted to spar with, and Luo said he would fight Yuanhong another time.
• Luo Qianchou turned to Nangong Jinghe and proposed that they spar, while Jinghe suspected he was being used as a target.
• Luo Qianchou privately told Jinghe that Yang Lingrui and Ling Shuang had not begun their duel without a reason.
• Luo Qianchou offered to help Jinghe go investigate the duel if Jinghe accepted the challenge.

Yang Xuanzhou’s followers searched remote areas of the Kunxu Secret Realm for a hidden treasury. After collecting the teams’ maps, Yang Xuanzhou revealed that he expected the site to contain lost Daoist inheritances, leaving An Yu and He Xuanning surprised.

• An Yu and He Xuanning discussed their teams’ searches and why Yang Xuanzhou had sent them to remote areas.
• He Xuanning explained that Yantian Palace cultivators could not deduce anything about members of the Yang Clan, except for a newly advanced Grandmaster of Divination.
• Yang Xuanzhou arrived, and An Yu and He Xuanning presented him with maps of the areas they had investigated.
• Yang Xuanzhou said he was searching for a hidden treasury containing Daoist inheritances lost from the Canglan Continent, surprising An Yu and He Xuanning.

Dongfang Shuci warned Yang Xuanzhou that the Lingxiao Dao Academy and Meishan were secretly tracking their movements. Yang Xuanzhou decided not to intercept their strongest cultivators, instead gathering his allies to focus on finding the hidden treasure.

• Dongfang Shuci showed Yang Xuanzhou traces of scouts from the Dao Academy and Meishan.
• Dongfang Shuci offered to lead a force to stop Han Fenghua, the Meishan swordsman, and the Xuanhuang imperial twins.
• Yang Xuanzhou asked whether Dongfang Shuci's replica Wind-Welcoming Fan could be threatened, leading her to realize that Dharma treasures would make interception futile.
• Yang Xuanzhou chose to focus his strength on finding the hidden treasure and set out with Dongfang Shuci to direct the gathered cultivators.

The three great families failed to find essence qi on their own and approached Yang Xuanzhou’s group to ask for a share. Dongfang Shuci agreed in principle but warned that the cultivators who had worked to secure the gains would need to accept the arrangement, and a clash began.

• Yang Xuanzhou’s Central Region cultivators increased their exploration efforts while the three great families tried to awaken ghost generals carrying essence qi.
• After several days, the three families obtained no essence qi and decided to contact Yang Xuanzhou’s group.
• Dongfang Shuci and other Central Region cultivators met the delegation led by Han Fenghua, who asked to help slay dead ghosts in exchange for a share of the spoils.
• Dongfang Shuci said Yang Xuanzhou would agree to share essence qi but questioned whether the other cultivators would surrender gains they had earned through their efforts.
• An unseen cultivator unleashed sword intent at the delegation, and Dongfang Shuci scattered it with a Mysterious Wind.

Yang Xuanzhou easily defeated Fang Hanchuan after receiving his sword strike, then demanded that the toll be doubled again under their agreement. Fang Hanchuan demanded to know what technique Yang had used, but Yang refused to reveal the secret.

• Fang Hanchuan unleashed Meishan’s Sword Stirring Storms at Yang Xuanzhou, while He Xuanning and An Yu discussed the move’s power.
• Dongfang Shuci ordered the cultivators to retreat as Fang Hanchuan’s sword struck Yang Xuanzhou amid a burst of azure radiance.
• Yang Xuanzhou smashed Fang Hanchuan down from the sky, leaving the watching cultivators astonished by their combat strength.
• Fang Hanchuan rejected help from his fellow Meishan cultivators and demanded to know what technique Yang Xuanzhou had used.
• Yang Xuanzhou refused to share his intelligence and said Fang Hanchuan’s failed attack meant the agreed toll had to be doubled again.

Yang Xuanzhou, Han Fenghua, and Dongfang Shuci used their magical treasures to halt the colossal mountain’s descent while Yang Xuanqing and Yang Xuanlang activated the Divine Path Stele. As the hidden treasury began to open, ghost generals emerged and attacked the two Yang Clan cultivators, leaving the others to defend them under crushing pressure.

• Yang Xuanzhou, Han Fenghua, Dongfang Shuci, and Fang Hanchuan rose to meet the descending mountain shadow with their magical treasures.
• Yang Xuanzhou’s dragon scale manifested a blood-bone True Dragon that stopped the mountain, while Han Fenghua’s hammer summoned lightning and Dongfang Shuci’s fan raised a powerful wind.
• Yang Xuanqing and Yang Xuanlang resonated with the Divine Path Stele, restoring the realm’s laws and causing four stone platforms to emerge from the ground.
• A bone-chilling yin wind summoned ghost generals that targeted Yang Xuanqing and Yang Xuanlang as they performed their ritual.
• He Xuanning and the other cultivators rushed to protect the two Yang Clan cultivators, struggling to fight while weakened by the mountain’s pressure.

Fang Hanchuan joined the battle against the ghost generals, helping the young cultivators turn the tide as their corpses formed skeletal pillars on four platforms. Yang Xuanzhou realized the fighting was constructing the Western Divine Palace’s pillar, sent Dongfang Shuci back to the battlefield, and joined Han Fenghua in bearing Heaven-Supporting Mountain’s crushing weight.

• Fang Hanchuan used the Little Azure Light Flying Sword to protect the Yang Clan members and strike down approaching ghost generals.
• The four platforms drew in the fallen ghost generals and compressed their corpses into skeletal pillars.
• Yang Xuanzhou deduced that killing the ghost generals would build the Western pillar and help open the hidden trove.
• Yang Xuanzhou asked Dongfang Shuci to return to the battlefield, while he and Han Fenghua stayed to hold back Heaven-Supporting Mountain.
• Yang Xuanzhou gathered the power of his dragon body and beast spirits, and Han Fenghua activated Thunder Spirit Infusion to strengthen their efforts.