Chapter Summaries

Sang Ying returned the Dragon Abyss Sword to the White Dragon Tribe, reuniting it with Old Patriarch Bai and stirring the Dragon Race with its power. The chapter ended with an Immortal Lord sensing the sword’s presence and deciding to wait until Sang Ying ascended before meeting her.

• Sang Ying struck Qing Shou when he insulted Bai Qinglong, then presented the Dragon Abyss Sword to Old Patriarch Bai.
• Old Patriarch Bai accepted the sword, and Bai Nianchou and the White Dragon Tribe welcomed it home as their young master.
• Old Patriarch Bai activated the Dragon Abyss Sword, whose roar frightened the Devil Race and drew Hong Yan and Jin Man to the camp.
• Jin Man and Hong Yan met Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue, and Jiang Zhuoxue said he had found a sense of belonging in the lower realm.
• An Immortal Lord soothed a trembling fragment of a sword sheath and said he would wait until Sang Ying ascended to immortality before meeting her.

After the Dragon Abyss Sword returned, Sang Ying brought Bai Qinglong’s belongings to Madam Bai, allowing her to mourn her daughter. Bai Nianchou explained to Qing Shou why he had fought to bring the sword back, leaving Qing Shou shaken by the truth.

• A White Dragon Tribe warrior reported that the Dragon Abyss Sword’s roar had driven the demons and monsters back, and Bai Nianchou confirmed its return.
• Bai Nianchou toured the Dragon Race’s camp with Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue while Qing Shou followed them in silence.
• Madam Bai learned that the Dragon Abyss Sword had returned and asked whether her daughter had come back too.
• Sang Ying told Madam Bai that she had brought Qinglong back and gave her Bai Qinglong’s Dragon Pearl, scales, and other belongings.
• Bai Nianchou waited outside while Madam Bai wept, then told Qing Shou that he had wanted to bring his cousin home and that Bai Qinglong had saved everyone.
• Qing Shou swayed as Bai Nianchou’s words shattered what he had believed.

The masked man told Qi Yaoji that his plan was nearly complete and that chaos could begin, while Luo Min prepared to reclaim her father’s city. Sang Ying returned Bai Qinglong’s belongings to Madam Bai, who kept the Dragon Pearl and began to find comfort in her daughter’s sacrifice.

• The masked man explained that he had deliberately leaked clues to Sang Ying and told Qi Yaoji that she could not disrupt his plan.
• Qi Yaoji reported that Luo Min wanted to return to the Twin Orchid Realm and reclaim her father’s city, and the masked man told her to help Luo Min because the chaos could begin.
• After Qi Yaoji left, the masked man placed the final piece on his board and promised his disciple he would fulfill her wish.
• Madam Bai thanked Sang Ying for returning Bai Qinglong’s belongings, and Sang Ying explained what she had used and why.
• Madam Bai kept Bai Qinglong’s Dragon Pearl and let Sang Ying keep the other items, then found comfort in hearing that Qinglong had sacrificed herself for her family.

Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue visited the White Dragon Tribe’s dungeon, where Jiang Zhuoxue revealed that the black dragon in the cold pool was his father. Qing Shou apologized for his conduct and turned his attention to correcting his younger brother.

• Bai Nianchou thanked Sang Ying for helping his aunt, and Qing Shou apologized for offending Young Master Bai Qinglong.
• Bai Nianchou told Qing Shou to guard the Gods and Devils Battlefield well, and Qing Shou promised he would.
• Qing Shou learned that his younger brother Qing Yi had repeated his disrespectful remarks, so he ordered Qing Yi brought to his tent and dealt with him there.
• Jiang Zhuoxue asked Sang Ying to accompany him to see someone, and they followed an attendant to the dungeon.
• Jiang Zhuoxue shielded Sang Ying from the pressure and falling ice as a black dragon rose from the cold pool, then told her it was his father.

Jiang Zhuoxue said goodbye to Xuan Yu before leaving the Upper Realm with Sang Ying, while Qing Yi apologized to Bai Xia for bullying him. Bai Xia refused to forgive Qing Yi and vowed to retaliate once he grew stronger.

• Jiang Zhuoxue told Xuan Yu that he had chosen the Dragon Race, loved Sang Ying, and would leave with her after returning the Dragon Abyss Sword.
• Xuan Yu called Jiang Zhuoxue a traitor and threatened that he would regret his choice as the guard lowered the pillar over him.
• Jiang Zhuoxue told Sang Ying that he was glad he had been exiled rather than imprisoned, silently thinking that exile had let him meet her.
• Qing Shou brought Qing Yi to apologize to Bai Xia and his mother, and apologized himself for failing to teach his younger brother properly.
• Bai Xia refused to forgive Qing Yi or scratch his horns, but promised to hit him back when he grew strong.

Bai Xia rejected Qing Yi’s insincere apology and vowed to earn his respect through strength, while the Dragon Race entrusted the Dragon Abyss Sword to Bai Nianchou and Sang Ying began comprehending a sword immortal’s Sword Intent. Jiang Zhuoxue joined Bai Nianchou on the battlefield, as a cloaked woman arrived at White Foothill City and claimed it would soon be hers.

• Bai Xia refused Qing Yi’s apology, and Qing Shou praised his ambition before leaving compensation gifts with Bai Xia and his mother.
• Bai Xia and his mother learned that the Dragon Abyss Sword had been returned and hoped to see it.
• Jin Man supported placing the Dragon Abyss Sword in Bai Nianchou’s hands, and Qing Shou agreed despite the others’ surprise.
• Old Patriarch Bai invited Sang Ying to comprehend the White Dragon Tribe’s sword immortal Sword Intent, and she entered the ancestral grounds’ secret chamber.
• Jiang Zhuoxue joined Bai Nianchou on the Gods and Devils Battlefield, where they drove back the fiends together.
• A cloaked woman arrived at White Foothill City and declared that the city would soon belong to her.

Sang Ying experienced Gu Wangchuan’s memories through his sword spirit, Sever the Heavenly River, and witnessed him demonstrate the sword intent that could split a mountain. Meanwhile, Jiang Zhuoxue and Bai Nianchou returned safely after fighting demons, but the warriors discovered that a hole had opened between the Upper Realm and the Lower Realm on the Gods and Devils Battlefield.

• Sang Ying found herself inside the memories of Gu Wangchuan’s sword spirit, Sever the Heavenly River.
• Gu Wangchuan demonstrated his sword intent by splitting a mountain with a seemingly gentle strike.
• Jiang Zhuoxue and Bai Nianchou fought off a horde of demons and returned safely with their rescuers.
• Old Patriarch Bai scolded Jiang Zhuoxue and Bai Nianchou for charging into the demons, while Jin Man helped ease the reprimand.
• Hong Yan warned that the dwindling number of demons on the Gods and Devils Battlefield might signal an approaching calamity.
• A warrior reported that a hole connecting the Upper Realm to the Lower Realm had opened on the Gods and Devils Battlefield.

Luo Min used pills containing her blood to control and torment cultivators in White Foothill City while the Mara Gate continued working with her. Qi Yaoji learned that the Gods and Devils Battlefield had been breached into the Cloud Mulberry Realm and was ordered to seize its Teleportation Array, as a hidden man set out to plunge the Lower Realm into chaos.

• Luo Min revealed that the pills transformed cultivators into half-human, half-demon monsters and left them under her control, then killed a man who attacked her.
• Qi Yaoji urged Luo Min to stop playing with the captives and get to work, but Luo Min refused and continued tormenting them.
• A cultivator denounced Luo Min and her family, then several captives attacked her together; a strange force killed them before they could harm her.
• Qi Yaoji received word that the Gods and Devils Battlefield had been breached into the Cloud Mulberry Realm and was tasked with seizing its Teleportation Array for the demons and devils.
• A hidden man declared that he intended to throw the Lower Realm into chaos to earn unparalleled Merit, even if he had to live another lifetime.

Sang Ying watched Gu Wangchuan’s memories and followed him to a village, where he and the sword spirit rescued an orphaned child from a beating. The child had no name, and his revealed face showed Sang Ying that he was Gu Huaiwei.

• Gu Wangchuan finished ten years of sword training, destroyed the clan’s training ground, and set off with Sever the Heavenly River.
• Sang Ying wondered why Gu Wangchuan’s Sword Intent carried so many memories and continued watching them.
• Gu Wangchuan and the sword spirit entered a village to escape the rain and found youths beating a child for his flatbread.
• The sword spirit released her Sha Qi and frightened the youths into fleeing, while Gu Wangchuan sheltered the child from the rain.
• The child explained that he had no name, and Gu Wangchuan wiped the dirt from his face, revealing Gu Huaiwei to Sang Ying.

Sang Ying watched the memory of how Gu Wangchuan and the sword spirit rescued young Gu Huaiwei, tried to find him a home, and eventually took him along. The memory ended with Sang Ying seeing her own face reflected as the sword spirit’s.

• Gu Wangchuan and the sword spirit sheltered young Gu Huaiwei overnight, then failed to find a village family willing to take him in.
• Gu Huaiwei rejected the elderly couple’s home after they learned of his past and pleaded to stay with Gu Wangchuan and the sword spirit.
• The sword spirit stopped Gu Huaiwei from kneeling and persuaded Gu Wangchuan to test his Spirit Root; he had a single Ice Spirit Root.
• The sword spirit taught Gu Huaiwei swordsmanship, helped him join the Flowing Light Sword Sect, and gave him a name before she and Gu Wangchuan left.
• Gu Huaiwei cried out that he would find the sword spirit, but Gu Wangchuan later ascended and Sever the Heavenly River was shattered.
• Sang Ying saw the sword spirit’s reflection in a lake and recognized that her features matched her own.

Duan Hanyi urged Ten Thousand Daos Born to leave the Cloud Mulberry Realm early, using a false warning about danger in the Immortal Spirit Realm to carry out Sang Ying’s request. After the group handed Bai Ze to the Beast Soul Sect and headed for the Teleportation Array, a black vortex opened in the sky above the Endless Sea.

• Duan Hanyi lamented that he had no Spirit Stones to buy souvenirs, and Green Lotus asked why he had stayed behind instead of joining Sang Ying’s group.
• Duan Hanyi claimed he had been injured and changed the subject, then joined Lan Fusheng and the others as they finished shopping.
• Duan Hanyi urged the group to deliver Bai Ze to the Beast Soul Sect and leave the Cloud Mulberry Realm, but Dong Fuzhu and the others wanted to wait for Sang Ying.
• Duan Hanyi falsely warned that the Immortal Spirit Realm was about to fall into chaos, following Sang Ying’s request to persuade her junior brothers and sisters to return early.
• The group agreed to leave the next day, took Bai Ze to the Beast Soul Sect, and headed for the Teleportation Array.
• A black vortex appeared above the Endless Sea and split open the sky as the group was about to depart.

Duan Hanyi tried to get Lan Fusheng and the others out of the Cloud Mulberry Realm before a calamity struck, but a sudden surge of Demonic Qi forced them to defend the people at the Teleportation Array. A black shadow destroyed the array, trapping them as the attack began.

• Duan Hanyi and his companions said farewell to Bai Ze and headed for the Teleportation Array, where they learned the Cloud Mulberry Realm had new rules for outside cultivators.
• Duan Hanyi urged Lan Fusheng and the others to leave, hoping they would escape the danger he had foreseen.
• A pillar of black light appeared over the Endless Sea and unleashed Demonic Qi, so Lan Fusheng, Bai Kejin, Dong Fuzhu, and the others turned back to protect those nearby.
• Jing Huan sent his contracted spirit beast to alert his sect, while Duan Hanyi notified Ten Thousand Daos Born and joined the group’s defense.
• A black shadow struck and destroyed the Teleportation Array, killing cultivators caught in its half-activated power and leaving Duan Hanyi trapped with the others.

Devil Creatures poured from a pillar of light in the Cloud Mulberry Realm, but a sea wall and a powerful sea beast contained them while cultivators fought back. Duan Hanyi warned that repairing the Teleportation Array could spread the invasion to the other small worlds, and the chapter ended with a bloody warning arriving through the array in the Immortal Spirit Realm.

• Devil Creatures emerged from the pillar of light and attacked, while Lan Fusheng and Bai Kejin discovered they could be killed by striking between their bones.
• A huge wall of seawater trapped the creatures at the pillar, and a high-level sea beast swallowed those that reached it.
• Jing Huan and Lan Fusheng gathered the dead and inspected the damaged Teleportation Array as Dong Fuzhu and Green Lotus discussed the casualties.
• Duan Hanyi warned Jing Huan that repairing the array might expose the other four small worlds to the invasion, and Jing Huan questioned him about his knowledge and Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue's whereabouts.
• At the Teleportation Array in the Immortal Spirit Realm, bloody remains spilled out, and a dying cultivator warned the guards about Devil Creatures in the Cloud Mulberry Realm.

Jing Huan learned that Duan Hanyi had warned the Beast Soul Sect of the calamity, then heard that the Lower Realm’s survival depended on the Child of Fortune returning from the Upper Realm. Sang Ying witnessed Gu Wangchuan sacrifice his Merit to restore Sever the Heavenly River’s sword spirit and name her A Ying.

• Dong Fuzhu rebuked Jing Huan for accusing Duan Hanyi and defended Sang Ying’s role in saving the Cloud Mulberry Realm.
• Jing Huan returned to the Beast Soul Sect and learned that its sect master had received a warning about the calamity from Duan Hanyi.
• The sect master thanked Duan Hanyi, who revealed that Heavenly Devils and other threats were drawing the realms into a war and that the Child of Fortune was still in the Upper Realm.
• Sang Ying watched Gu Wangchuan ask the Immortal Lord of a Hundred Mountains to restore Sever the Heavenly River and offered all his Merit to revive its sword spirit.
• The Immortal Lord restored the sword and its spirit, and Gu Wangchuan named her A Ying before Sang Ying recognized the name as part of a memory.

Sang Ying received Gu Wangchuan’s message explaining that a hidden enemy was causing the Lower Realm’s calamity and that she must pursue godhood to defeat him. After learning the trials required, she left the White Dragon Tribe’s ancestral grounds to join the battle against the Devil Race.

• Gu Wangchuan’s recorded image told Sang Ying he had arranged for her to see his Sword Intent and apologized for breaking his promise to ascend with her.
• Gu Wangchuan revealed that someone was secretly causing the Lower Realm’s suffering and urged Sang Ying to become a god to stop the calamity.
• Gu Wangchuan explained that Sang Ying had to temper her body in the Dragon Race’s Annihilation Spring for forty-nine days, temper her heart in the Devil Race’s Heart Devil Mirror, and face a final trial he left unspecified.
• Gu Wangchuan’s phantom vanished and became Sever the Heavenly River, while Sang Ying recalled her past as its sword spirit and absorbed the Sword Master’s techniques.
• Sang Ying left the ancestral grounds, found battle armor in the city lord’s residence, and raced to the Gods and Devils Battlefield to fight for Bai Qinglong.

Jiang Zhuoxue and Bai Nianchou fought increasingly powerful, regenerating Devil Creatures as they poured from a fissure on the Gods and Devils Battlefield. When Bai Nianchou lost the Dragon Abyss Sword, Sang Ying arrived in time to seize it and face the monsters.

• Jiang Zhuoxue and Bai Nianchou discussed the missing passage, mounting Dragon Race casualties, and the sudden surge in Devil Creatures.
• Jiang Zhuoxue fought a regenerating three-headed Devil Creature, then joined Bai Nianchou to kill a giant serpent.
• Jiang Zhuoxue and Bai Nianchou lured regenerating Devil Creatures away from the other Dragon Race warriors, but were surrounded by a three-headed hound and a five-tailed fox.
• A giant serpent knocked the Dragon Abyss Sword from Bai Nianchou's hand, and the five-tailed fox reached it first.
• Sang Ying seized the Dragon Abyss Sword, whose cry shattered the fox's newly regenerated tail, and prepared to fight the beast.

Sang Ying used the Dragon Abyss Sword to kill several mutated Devil Creatures and help the Dragon Race survive a devastating attack. After learning that the Dragon Race needed her help to find a passage to the Lower Realm, she was asked to stay and fight alongside them.

• Sang Ying killed the five-tailed fox, the three-headed hound, and the giant serpent with the Dragon Abyss Sword.
• Sang Ying, Bai Nianchou, and Jiang Zhuoxue returned to help Qing Shou and the Dragon Race warriors defeat the Devil Creatures.
• Qing Shou led the survivors in recovering their fallen tribesmen and said fifty Dragon Race members had died in the attack.
• Sang Ying told the patriarchs that the immortal’s Sword Intent had improved her swordsmanship.
• Old Patriarch Bai, Jin Man, and Hong Yan asked Sang Ying to stay until they found the passage to the Lower Realm, offering her the Annihilation Spring and White Dragon Tribe treasures in return.

Sang Ying agreed to stay with the Dragon Race and revealed that she was a Child of Destiny, giving the clan hope that she could become a god and help them resist the fiends. The Dragon leaders then pledged their forces to help her retrieve the Heart Devil Mirror from the heart of Devil Race territory.

• Sang Ying accepted Old Patriarch Bai's plea to stay for half a month, though she said she would have stayed even without his request.
• Sang Ying told the Dragon leaders she was a Child of Destiny, and Old Patriarch Bai and the others celebrated her arrival as their hope for survival.
• Bai Nianchou cautioned the leaders not to place the Dragon Race's future entirely on Sang Ying, and Jin Man summoned Qing Shou to join their discussion.
• Old Patriarch Bai explained that Sang Ying needed to enter the Annihilation Spring and obtain the Heart Devil Mirror from Devil Race territory to become a god.
• Old Patriarch Bai and Qing Shou pledged their clans' full strength to help Sang Ying retrieve the mirror, and Sang Ying declared she was determined to walk the path to godhood and destroy the Devil Race.

Sang Ying entered the Annihilation Spring to temper her body for forty-nine days while Jiang Zhuoxue and the others returned to defend the Gods and Devils Battlefield. In the Cloud Mulberry Realm, a powerful devil bird broke through the sea wall, but a gigantic golden tail swept it into the sea.

• Sang Ying entered the Annihilation Spring despite Old Patriarch Bai warning her about the pain, and Old Patriarch Bai agreed to guard her while she endured the forty-nine-day tempering.
• Jiang Zhuoxue left with Bai Nianchou and the others to return to the Gods and Devils Battlefield, asking Old Patriarch Bai to look after Sang Ying.
• Lan Fusheng and the others continued defending the Cloud Mulberry Realm as a high-level Devil Creature broke through the sea wall and killed the guarding sea beasts.
• Jing Huan and Lan Fusheng arrived with their teams, but the devil bird defeated the Beast Soul Sect's Demon Beasts and charged toward the shore.
• A gigantic golden tail swept the devil bird into the sea with a surge of towering waves.

Jin Liner urged the humans to let Bai Ze fight, and he joined the patrols protecting the Cloud Mulberry Realm from Devil Creatures. Elsewhere, the Immortal Spirit Realm suppressed the Mara Gate’s uprising, while Luo Min’s failed campaign left Qi Yaoji reporting that several plans had been put on hold.

• Jin Liner killed the devil bird, rebuilt the sea wall, and stationed powerful Demon Beasts to guard it.
• Jin Liner confronted Jing Huan and demanded that the humans bring Bai Ze out to help defend the Cloud Mulberry Realm.
• Jing Huan reported Jin Liner’s demand, and the two sect masters assigned Bai Ze to patrol with Jing Huan and Lan Fusheng.
• Bai Ze learned to control Demon Beasts and helped add ninth-tier demon birds to the sea wall watch.
• Ten Thousand Daos Born alerted the Immortal Spirit Realm’s sects, which swiftly suppressed the Mara Gate’s mutated disciples.
• Luo Min’s forces were driven back to White Foothill City, and Qi Yaoji told her master that several plans had been put on hold.