Chapter Summaries

Sang Ying returned to the Flowing Light Sword Sect at the last moment, reunited with her family and friends, and stopped Qi Yaoji’s attack. She began dealing with Qi Yaoji and the devilized traitors, then confronted Gu Huaiwei.

• Sang Ying appeared, put away the Heart of the Devil God, and reunited with Dong Fuzhu, Sang Zheng, and Wen Miaoshu.
• Sang Ying told her parents she would deal with the uninvited guests before catching up with them.
• Several mighty cultivators trapped Qi Yaoji and her followers inside a barrier while the sect master of Ten Thousand Daos Born asked Sang Ying what she would do with them.
• Sang Ying ordered the devilized traitors taken away and imprisoned, then sent Spiritual Power into Qi Yaoji’s meridians to make her suffer.
• Sang Ying faced Gu Huaiwei, who said he had not expected her to return alive.

Sang Ying returned from the Cultivation World after rescuing her parents and the surviving cultivators, leaving Gu Huaiwei and Qi Yaoji imprisoned as she prepared to build a permanent passage between the worlds. Months had passed in the Beastmen World, where Spiritual Qi had transformed the land and the White Lion Tribe had become a center for cultivation.

• Sang Ying helped return the surviving cultivators to their sects, checked the surrounding mountains for Devil Beasts, and secured Gu Huaiwei and Qi Yaoji in the dungeon.
• Sang Ying traveled through the High Antiquity Teleportation Array beneath the Endless Sea and returned safely to the Beastmen World, where Jiang Zhuoxue asked whether she had saved the Cultivation World.
• Sang Ying told Jiang Zhuoxue that her parents and others had survived, though many cultivators had died in Qi Yaoji's attack.
• Sang Ying learned that months had passed in the Beastmen World and that Spiritual Qi had awakened spirits and monsters, while Demon Race raids devastated tribes that lacked cultivation methods.
• The White Lion Tribe and other prepared tribes resisted the attacks, and the White Lion chieftain taught cultivation to Beastmen who came seeking help.
• Sang Ying returned to find the White Lion Tribe transformed, with decorated homes, patrolling Demon Beasts, and many Beastmen cultivating.

Sang Ying secured the Beastmen chiefs’ agreement to connect their world with the Cultivation World, promising protections and opportunities through sect alliances. She opened the passage using the God Emperor Xi’s bone, and the two worlds merged as the new Heavenly Dao was born.

• Sang Ying adjusted the cultivation method for Beastmen who had struggled with it, helping them make faster progress.
• Sang Ying explained the Cultivation World’s attitude to the Beastman chiefs and promised protective formations and the option to join sects.
• The Beastman chiefs agreed to the worlds’ merger and prepared for the passage to open near the White Lion Tribe.
• Sang Ying used the God Emperor Xi’s bone and other formation materials to open the passage while Jiang Zhuoxue kept watch outside the cave.
• A golden pillar and celestial music accompanied the worlds’ merger, and golden spirit rain fell as the new Heavenly Dao was born.

The two worlds merged and the New Heavenly Dao was born as a helpless baby in a basket beside Sang Ying. The Old Heavenly Dao persuaded Sang Ying to raise Him until he dissipated within three years, after which the child would understand His mission and return to the heavens.

• The New Heavenly Dao emerged as the two worlds merged, and living beings across both worlds knelt in submission.
• A strange wind brought a basket containing a baby to Sang Ying in the cave.
• The Dragon Abyss Sword spoke for the Old Heavenly Dao, who revealed that the baby was the prematurely born New Heavenly Dao.
• The Old Heavenly Dao explained that Sang Ying’s actions had disrupted His plan for the New Heavenly Dao to inherit His legacy and reunite her with her loved ones.
• Sang Ying agreed to consider raising the baby, and the Old Heavenly Dao said He would dissipate within three years, after which the child would understand His mission.

Sang Ying returned to the Flowing Light Sword Sect with the future Heavenly Dao as a baby, then visited Qi Yaoji and Gu Huaiwei in their cells. She told Gu Huaiwei that his obsession had caused the tragedy and announced that he and Qi Yaoji would be executed together.

• Sang Ying brought the lively baby Heavenly Dao to the Flowing Light Sword Sect, where the cultivators nervously took turns caring for it.
• Sang Ying visited Qi Yaoji, who begged to be killed, and told her that she and Gu Huaiwei would be executed on the same day.
• Sang Ying visited the blind, heartless Gu Huaiwei and said his actions had cost her other self the chance to return to life.
• Gu Huaiwei realized that his obsession had caused the chaos and suffering.
• Three days later, the Flowing Light Sword Sect invited the Cultivation World’s cultivators, mortals, and Demon Race to witness the executions of Qi Yaoji and Gu Huaiwei.

Sang Ying witnessed Qi Yaoji and Gu Huaiwei’s execution, then helped coordinate the growing exchange between the Cultivation World and the Beastmen World. As the two worlds integrated, Helian Mo finally arranged to meet Sang Ying, and she went to hear what he had to say.

• Gu Huaiwei and Qi Yaoji were burned to nothing in the Dragon Race's Devil-Refining Fire after Sang Ying refused Gu Huaiwei’s request to see her.
• Little Heavenly Dao swallowed something as the flames consumed the two sinners, while Sang Zheng and his wife worried over it.
• Yue Tianze stayed in the Beastmen World and helped cultivators, while Nan Gurong and the Beastmen developed medical cultivation, pill refinement, and training exchanges.
• The water-dwelling Beastmen migrated to the Endless Sea, where Jin Liner welcomed them, and new demons gathered under Helian Mo.
• After Jiang Zhuoxue offered to watch Little Heavenly Dao, Sang Ying went to meet Helian Mo and speak with him face to face.

Sang Ying rejected Helian Mo’s marriage proposal and reminded him that his past choices had put them on separate paths. She left the City of Ten Thousand Demons with her dao companion Jiang Zhuoxue and little Heavenly Dao, while Helian Mo pledged an alliance between the Demon Race and the Human Race.

• Helian Mo welcomed Sang Ying to the City of Ten Thousand Demons and asked whether she would become his Demon Empress, but Sang Ying refused.
• Helian Mo pleaded that Sang Ying had saved him, while Sang Ying pointed out that he had chosen Su Fuyun and had once gone to her first after leaving the secret realm.
• Helian Mo learned that Jiang Zhuoxue had arrived with a child to find Sang Ying, and Sang Ying called Jiang Zhuoxue her dao companion before asking to leave.
• Helian Mo let Sang Ying go and vowed that the Demon Race and the Human Race would remain allies.
• Sang Ying reunited with Jiang Zhuoxue and little Heavenly Dao at the city gate, then left with them as Helian Mo watched.

During the All Beings Festival, Green Vine wandered off and Cang Lian caught her just as a mighty tribulation began above the Flowing Light Sword Sect. Sang Ying completed her Ascension Heavenly Tribulation and departed for the Immortal Realm, promising everyone she would wait for them there.

• Green Vine slipped into the festival crowd, and Cang Lian hauled her back and scolded her for running off.
• Green Vine taunted Cang Lian that she could ask Bai Nianchou to take her out instead, leaving Cang Lian at a loss for words.
• Tribulation clouds gathered above the Flowing Light Sword Sect, and the city’s protective array shielded the festival crowd from the falling lightning.
• After nine hundred bolts fell, the crowd realized Sang Ying was undergoing the Ascension Heavenly Tribulation, and the celebration was canceled as cultivators gathered to watch.
• Sang Ying endured the nine hundred and ninety-ninth bolt, ascended on a golden guiding light, and told everyone she would wait for them in the Immortal Realm.

Sang Ying ascended to the Immortal Realm after purifying the Heart of the Devil God and helping Jiang Zhuoxue merge with it, but her sudden departure left him and their loved ones behind. She arrived as the first person from her Lower Realm to ascend in ten thousand years and learned that Gu Wangchuan had founded the Immortal Realm’s sword cultivation sect.

• Sang Ying purified the Heart of the Devil God and gave it to Jiang Zhuoxue, who endured a dangerous month merging with it and emerged with his Demonic Qi gone.
• Sang Ying planned to wait until Jiang Zhuoxue could ascend with her, but unexpected Merit exposed her cultivation and forced her to ascend during the Festival of All Living Beings.
• Sang Ying survived more than nine hundred bolts of tribulation lightning and was carried to the Upper Realm before she could leave more than a few hurried words.
• An immortal attendant greeted Sang Ying at the grand guiding array and told her that no one from her Lower Realm had ascended in ten thousand years.
• The immortal attendant explained that newly ascended Human Immortals needed to join an immortal sect, and Sang Ying learned that Gu Wangchuan had founded the Immortal Realm’s sword cultivation sect.

Sang Ying learned about the Immortal Realm’s ranks and the pressure keeping Gu Wangchuan from becoming an Immortal Emperor before choosing to join his Hidden Sword Immortal Sect. She began the sect’s trial staircase, and the gate guards believed she might reach the top.

• An immortal attendant explained the Immortal Realm’s ranks and how the five Immortal Emperors had blocked Gu Wangchuan’s advancement.
• Sang Ying chose to join the Hidden Sword Immortal Sect and learned that the Immortal Realm served many cultivation worlds and had stood aside during the Lower Realm’s calamity.
• Sang Ying stepped onto the sect’s trial staircase, which sealed her cultivation, and struggled onward under its formation’s pressure.
• Hengguang and Hengyu watched Sang Ying climb and marveled that a Human Immortal had come to join the sect despite its conflict with the five Immortal Emperors.
• Hengguang declared that he believed Sang Ying could reach the mountain gate.

Sang Ying completed the Hidden Sword Immortal Sect’s trial staircase as a Human Immortal, ringing its ancient bell and astonishing the sect. Gu Wangchuan emerged from seclusion to welcome her, revealing that she was the old friend he had come to meet.

• Hengguang and Hengyu watched Sang Ying struggle toward the top of the staircase, noting that she had surpassed Fu Qing’s earlier attempt.
• Sang Ying dragged herself onto the final step and passed through the mountain gate, causing the ancient bell to ring across the sect.
• Fu Qing and the other immortals realized the bell signaled that a Human Immortal had completed the trial that was said to identify Gu Wangchuan’s successor.
• The main hall opened, and Gu Wangchuan emerged from seclusion as an Immortal Emperor.
• Gu Wangchuan told Fu Qing that he had come to welcome an old friend, then revealed that the newly arrived Sang Ying was that friend.

Sang Ying arrived at the Hidden Sword Immortal Sect as a Human Immortal and learned about its unusual rules and residents. After she revealed the Dragon Abyss Sword, the sect master appeared, and Sang Ying recognized him from the memories that suddenly returned to her.

• Sang Ying recovered at the mountain gate and followed Hengguang and Hengyu into the Hidden Sword Immortal Sect.
• Hengguang summoned Old Seven, an immortal crane who agreed to carry them to the main peak in exchange for immortal fruit.
• Hengguang explained that disciples traveled by immortal crane or bonded sword, while the arched bridges served as training and were too difficult for immortals of their rank.
• Sang Ying took out the Dragon Abyss Sword, and Hengguang and Hengyu recognized its immense pressure.
• The sect master appeared, memories returned to Sang Ying, and she remarked that he looked much older than before.

Sang Ying arrived at the Hidden Sword Immortal Sect, where Gu Wangchuan reassured Fu Qing that he would remain the sect’s heir. After a long period of cultivation, Sang Ying reached the Immortal Venerable realm and emerged from her cave abode to meet someone waiting beneath the Wish-Fulfilling Tree.

• Gu Wangchuan told Fu Qing that Sang Ying would eventually establish her own sect and confirmed that Fu Qing remained his heir.
• Fu Qing accepted Gu Wangchuan’s reassurance, and Gu Wangchuan promised to publicly name him as heir.
• Sang Ying told Gu Wangchuan that she planned to establish her own sect and might ask Fu Qing to help her.
• Gu Wangchuan announced Fu Qing as his heir while Sang Ying remained in secluded cultivation.
• Sang Ying reached the Immortal Venerable realm, and six bell tolls announced her breakthrough across the Immortal Realm.
• Sang Ying left her cave abode and approached a familiar figure waiting beneath the Wish-Fulfilling Tree.

Sang Ying awoke in a different world, where she was a Foundation Establishment cultivator accused of injuring Su Fuyun, and rejected Gu Huaiwei as her master. She withdrew to Settled Frost Peak for a century, where a bolt of heavenly lightning finally drew the sect's attention.

• Sang Ying woke bound and wounded, recognized Su Fuyun and Gu Huaiwei, and realized her cultivation had fallen to the Foundation Establishment Realm.
• Gu Huaiwei demanded that Sang Ying admit guilt for injuring Su Fuyun, but Sang Ying denied the accusation and snapped her bonds.
• Sang Ying declared she would live on Settled Frost Peak and threw Gu Huaiwei the jade talisman given to her by Immortal Venerable Yanchen.
• Gu Huaiwei expelled Sang Ying from his disciples, and she returned to Settled Frost Peak as the gathered disciples mocked her.
• Sang Ying spent a hundred years in seclusion on Settled Frost Peak before heavenly lightning struck near the peak and reminded the Flowing Light Sword Sect disciples she was there.

Sang Ying endured a massive lightning tribulation on Settled Frost Peak while the sect mistook it for a Nascent Soul breakthrough. After she survived, her released pressure revealed that she had reached the Spirit Transformation Realm.

• Disciples and elders gathered at Settled Frost Peak as a tremendous lightning tribulation began, and the elders suspected Sang Ying was undergoing it.
• Su Fuyun offered to help Sang Ying, but Bai Ji and the others disparaged her, and Gu Huaiwei decided not to intervene.
• Bai Ji realized Sang Ying had a Mutated Ice Spirit Root and silently decided to take it for Su Fuyun.
• Sang Ying endured the heavenly lightning and faced the final bolt while listening to the people below mistake her tribulation for a Nascent Soul breakthrough.
• After the lightning passed and spiritual rain fell, Sang Ying released her pressure, and the elders recognized that she had reached the Spirit Transformation Realm.

Sang Ying’s breakthrough to Spirit Transformation alarmed the Flowing Light Sword Sect’s leaders and Su Fuyun’s companions, who suspected she had secretly left the sect or used an improper method. Su Fuyun’s group secretly went to Settled Frost Peak, where Sang Ying sensed that her formation had been triggered.

• The elders, sect master, and Crimson Snow Peak learned that Sang Ying had reached Spirit Transformation, and the sect master ordered an investigation into whether she had secretly left the sect.
• Gong Cheng'an and the others reacted with disbelief to Sang Ying’s breakthrough, while Liu Yuzhi suggested she might have left Settled Frost Peak despite what outsiders believed.
• Su Fuyun defended Sang Ying, but Bai Ji and the others decided they should visit her and guide her if she had taken a wrong path.
• Luo Jin helped the group use the Stealth Instruction to reach the foot of Settled Frost Peak without drawing attention.
• Sang Ying sensed that the formation she had placed at the foot of the mountain had been triggered.

Bai Ji and his companions stormed Settled Frost Peak and tried to destroy Sang Ying’s palace, but her ice Spiritual Power subdued them. Sang Ying offered to let only one of them leave unharmed.

• Bai Ji and the others broke through Sang Ying’s arrays and reached Settled Frost Peak while the sect master let them pass and Gu Huaiwei and Elder Yanhua were absent.
• Gong Cheng'an proposed destroying Sang Ying’s palaces to provoke her, and his attack rebounded off an invisible barrier, injuring him and the others.
• Sang Ying bound the intruders with ice-blue Spiritual Power, froze much of the peak, and tightened the ropes when Gong Cheng'an and Bai Ji threatened her.
• Liu Yuzhi begged for mercy and blamed Gong Cheng'an and Bai Ji, while Sang Ying bound the group’s hands and feet and knocked Bai Ji down when he tried to attack.
• Sang Ying told the captives that only one of them could leave unharmed.

Sang Ying forced Luo Jin, Bai Ji, Gong Cheng'an, and Liu Yuzhi to fight until only one remained, and Luo Jin escaped Settled Frost Peak as the apparent victor. After he fled, Sang Ying lifted the illusion concealing the others’ survival and urged them to seek revenge on him.

• Sang Ying told the four men that only one could leave Settled Frost Peak alive and ordered them to fight one another.
• Gong Cheng'an charged Sang Ying, but an ice wall stopped him; Bai Ji and Liu Yuzhi then began fighting, with Liu Yuzhi using a control talisman to make Bai Ji attack Luo Jin and Gong Cheng'an.
• Bai Ji killed Gong Cheng'an, and Luo Jin killed Bai Ji and Liu Yuzhi after fighting under Liu Yuzhi’s interference.
• Sang Ying let Luo Jin leave, and he fled the Twin Orchid Realm to escape the forces behind Bai Ji and Liu Yuzhi.
• Sang Ying removed another layer of the formation, revealing that Bai Ji, Gong Cheng'an, and Liu Yuzhi had survived, then planted resentment toward Luo Jin in their minds.

Sang Ying used Su Fuyun’s pleas to draw cultivators to Settled Frost Peak, where they turned against Song Jiaojiao for defending her. Sang Ying finally appeared and challenged the crowd to voice their grievances as her power silenced them.

• Sang Ying repaired Settled Frost Peak’s formations and gathered the Image-Retaining Stones after the men who had attacked one another left.
• Su Fuyun arrived at Settled Frost Peak and publicly begged Sang Ying to meet her, drawing cultivators who blamed Sang Ying for refusing.
• Song Jiaojiao defended Sang Ying, but the crowd demanded proof and threatened to discredit her.
• Sang Ying appeared, recalled the specific pills she had given Song Jiaojiao, and silenced the crowd with her pressure.
• Sang Ying invited the cultivators to state their grievances and challenged them to explain how she had become guilty of every evil despite never leaving Settled Frost Peak.

Sang Ying confronted Su Fuyun and the disciples who had insulted her, exposing Su Fuyun’s deliberate breach of etiquette and refusing to explain the disappearance of her four friends. She punished the offenders with stair-sweeping duties and left Su Fuyun facing an even longer sentence on Settled Frost Peak.

• Sang Ying appeared before the kneeling disciples and challenged the elders’ claim that they had merely repeated rumors.
• Su Fuyun took responsibility for the disciples’ insults, and Sang Ying accepted her offer to take the blame.
• Sang Ying rebuked Su Fuyun for arriving without notice or a gift and insisted she be addressed as Dao Lord.
• Su Fuyun asked about her four missing friends, and Sang Ying said they had left the Flowing Light Sword Sect and that the sect master had witnessed their departure.
• Sang Ying ordered the disciples who had spoken ill of her to sweep the mountain-gate staircase for a month and assigned Su Fuyun two months of sweeping on Settled Frost Peak without Spiritual Power.