Chapter Summaries

Su Yu traveled toward Heavenly Rift Valley disguised as a Water Spirit and used his reckless act to disrupt the Devil Race’s plans to hunt Huang Teng and Wu Qi. After escaping the gathering, he reflected that Huang Teng still faced serious danger from Tianduo and the other powerful pursuers.

• Su Yu encountered Floating Earth Spirit on Desire Sea Plain, pretended to be a wild-born Water Spirit, and told him he wanted to kill Gods and Devils.
• Su Yu learned that King Daxia had left the saber qi in Heavenly Rift Valley and realized Huang Teng might be able to use it against his pursuers.
• Lan Ying invited Su Yu and Floating Earth Spirit to help Tianduo, but Su Yu cursed at her and accused the Devil Race of plotting to use them.
• Su Yu disrupted Tianduo’s gathering by warning the gathered experts that the Devil Race might be hiding a way to avoid King Daxia’s saber qi, then escaped repeated attacks.
• Tianduo’s allies questioned Floating Earth Spirit after Su Yu fled, while Red Armor and Lord An discussed the danger of entering Heavenly Rift Valley.
• Su Yu stopped several dozen li away, pleased that he had delayed the hunters, but worried that Tianduo and the Devils might still defeat Huang Teng.

Disguised as Cui Lang, Su Yu killed Red Armor after the Mystic Armor Race warrior attacked him, shocking the gathered experts and sending Cui Lang soaring up the Hunter Heaven Ranking. Su Yu escaped into Heavenly Rift Valley with Red Armor’s corpse and the remnants of a Heaven and Earth Divine Script, while the God, Devil, and Dragon Races faced off above.

• Su Yu returned to Heavenly Rift Valley disguised as Cui Lang and clashed with Red Armor, Tianduo, and An Mintian after Red Armor accused him of being Human Race.
• Red Armor attacked Su Yu, who jumped into the canyon, summoned the Expansion Divine Hammer, and used Little Fur Ball to shatter Red Armor’s Sea of Will.
• Su Yu tore out and crushed Red Armor’s heart, took his corpse, and fled into Heavenly Rift Valley as a Heaven and Earth Divine Script reward was shattered by the Golden Booklet.
• An Mintian and Tianduo reached the scene as Long Zhan confronted An Mintian and Little Golden Dragon slaughtered several Mystic Armor Race warriors.
• The Hunter Heaven Ranking placed Cui Lang eighteenth on the Profound Ranking, and the gathered experts reacted in shock to his killing of Red Armor.
• Inside Heavenly Rift Valley, Su Yu absorbed the lingering divine-script essence, praised Little Fur Ball, and considered using Mystic Armor Race members as forging material.

Marquis Xia and Zhu Tiandao learned that Su Yu, posing as Cui Lang, had entered Heavenly Rift Valley, prompting them to arrange rescue efforts for him, Huang Teng, and Wu Qi. Inside the valley, Su Yu began tempering his body with King Daxia’s saber qi and a sacred power from the God Race, while Huang Teng suspected the mysterious newcomer was Cui Lang and chose not to join up with him.

• Marquis Xia learned that Su Yu had killed Green Armor and Red Armor, entered Heavenly Rift Valley, and might be caught in the same danger as Huang Teng and Wu Qi, so he sent Zheng Ping to assist them.
• Ye Hongyan relayed news of Su Yu’s predicament to Zhu Tiandao, who ordered Zhu Hongwen to mobilize Heavenly Dao Army experts and warned the real Cui Lang to stay in seclusion.
• Niu Baidao told Cui Lang that Su Yu’s actions had made him famous and potentially valuable to the Ten Thousand Races Cult, leaving Cui Lang worried that people would mistake him for Su Yu.
• Su Yu entered Heavenly Rift Valley and used King Daxia’s saber qi, sacred God Race power, and Heavenly Origin Qi to temper his body as he searched for Huang Teng.
• Huang Teng sensed someone drawing on the valley’s saber qi and guessed the newcomer might be Cui Lang, while Wu Qi suspected the person could be Su Yu but refused to accept the idea.
• Su Yu sensed Huang Teng nearby but decided to finish forging his body before approaching him, then concealed himself and continued cultivating.

Tianduo and the other races entered Heavenly Rift Valley to hunt Huang Teng and Wu Qi while Su Yu continued forging his body amid the slaughter. The chapter left Huang Teng and Wu Qi fleeing pursued by Tianduo, while Su Yu completed his thirteenth forging and prepared to continue cultivating.

• Tianduo led the Devils into Heavenly Rift Valley, An Mintian brought the Gods in from the north, and Long Zhan and Little Golden Dragon followed with other races.
• Dao Cheng divined Cui Lang’s image, but Niu Baidao blocked the unseen probing and concealed Yuexin Island with a formation.
• Su Yu hid as a broken sword, killed a probing Dark Locust with a Divine Script combat technique, and completed his thirteenth forging.
• Floating Earth Spirit killed a golden leopard, then fled after a Stone Person arrived and destroyed its traps.
• Su Yu continued cultivating as slaughter spread through the valley, while Huang Teng dragged the wounded Wu Qi away after she poisoned a pursuing expert to death.
• Tianduo warned his followers about Wu Qi’s poison and resumed the pursuit as Su Yu planned to complete his fourteenth forging.

Su Yu killed several ranked geniuses while fleeing Lei Jue, hoping to earn rewards that would strengthen his Lightning Divine Script enough to fight back. After Huang Teng drew An Mintian and other powerful fighters away, Su Yu headed toward An Mintian’s remaining subordinates to kill them.

• Su Yu killed a rabbit-headed fighter after the rabbit defeated a lion-headed ambusher, and he received an upper-grade Profound-tier Soul Refining Pill as a reward.
• Lei Jue tracked Su Yu with a Lightning God Race detection technique, while the Hunter Pavilion began investigating Cui Lang’s sudden rise and suspected that someone might be impersonating him.
• Su Yu killed Basler, a Lingyun Third Level genius, and climbed to sixteenth on the Profound Ranking, then continued killing as Lei Jue pursued him.
• Su Yu received a Willpower reward and fed it to his Lightning Divine Script, but it failed to advance; his rank later rose to thirteenth on the Profound Ranking.
• Huang Teng’s clash with An Mintian drew the powerful fighters away, and Su Yu rushed toward An Mintian’s remaining subordinates, considering a killing spree.

Su Yu, disguised as Cui Lang, ambushed and killed several experts before Lei Jue forced him to flee, while Huang Teng and Wu Qi fought their way out of Tianduo’s pursuit. The chapter left Su Yu and Huang Teng escaping separate battles as Modona pursued Qin Fang and Lei Jue began to suspect Cui Lang’s true identity.

• Su Yu ambushed eight experts, killed the Six-Winged God Race member, and then cut down several more as they tried to flee.
• Su Yu killed the Kunpeng and giant eagle with a Heaven Splitting strike, received a Heaven and Earth Divine Script that the Golden Booklet destroyed, and escaped Lei Jue by fleeing underground.
• Huang Teng claimed he was a decoy for Xia Lang, then used a powerful saber strike to break through Tianduo’s pursuit while Wu Qi used her blood to repair his exploding acupoints.
• Modona intercepted Qin Fang, who fled rather than help Huang Teng, while Cui Lang’s record of killing a Lingyun Ninth Level expert sent him to thirty-sixth on the Earth Ranking.
• Lei Jue lost Su Yu after he used earth escape and suspected that Cui Lang was not who he claimed to be because of his many Divine Scripts.

Su Yu completed his fourteenth body forging and advanced his Thunder Divine Script to the fourth tier while evading Lei Jue in Heavenly Rift Valley. After testing Shanhai Realm Bear Demon essence blood and drawing away much of the valley’s sacred power, he prepared to use his strengthened Heaven Splitting Saber against Lei Jue.

• Su Yu’s physical body completed its fourteenth forging as he waited underground for his Thunder Divine Script to advance.
• A Stone Person named Shi Zun forced Su Yu out of his earth escape, then abandoned their fight to attack Lei Jue; Su Yu fled with Floating Earth Spirit and learned how the geniuses on Desire Sea Plain viewed the Hunter Heaven Ranking sub-lists.
• Su Yu’s Thunder Divine Script advanced to the fourth tier, and he tested a Soul Refining Pill before deciding it offered him little benefit.
• Su Yu consumed Shanhai Realm Bear Demon essence blood, discovered its cultivation methods and innate skills, and used sacred power from Heavenly Rift Valley to withstand the strain.
• As Su Yu drew away sacred power, Huang Teng found it easier to control the valley’s saber qi, while Su Yu realized he could combine the strengthened saber qi with Shanhai power against Lei Jue.

Su Yu used the Dragon Silkworm Bisuo to lure Lei Jue into a fight, then revealed his strength and killed him with the Heaven Splitting Saber. His identity as Su Yu became clear, and as Modona arrived to hunt the human geniuses, Su Yu fled west toward the ancient cities.

• Su Yu encountered the Golden Dragon Wuyou and Dragon Silkworm Bisuo, then allowed Bisuo to trap him so Lei Jue would approach.
• Lei Jue recognized Su Yu’s distinctive techniques, attacked the cocoon, and prepared a full-strength strike while Su Yu gathered saber qi and used Talent Blood Essence.
• Su Yu broke free and killed Lei Jue with the Heaven Splitting Saber, then killed Bisuo and absorbed the Willpower released by their deaths.
• Long Zhan and An Mintian confronted Su Yu, but he fled; Qin Fang and Huang Teng also ran as Modona appeared and pursued the human geniuses.
• The Earth Ranking listed Cui Lang as fifth after he killed a Lingyun Ninth Level cultivator, while onlookers suspected he was Su Yu; Su Yu continued west after his Calamity Script warned him away from the east.

After killing Lei Jue, Su Yu learned that Modona was pursuing the human geniuses and fled toward an ancient city, while the others scattered to escape. Back in the Human Realm, Marquis Xia concealed Su Yu’s identity, but Old Madam Wu praised him for saving Wu Qi and began considering him a match for her family.

• The gathered geniuses learned from a Hunter Pavilion member that the person who killed Lei Jue was nineteen-year-old Su Yu, a powerful human genius and Cui Lang’s hidden identity.
• Several powerhouses attacked the Hunter Pavilion member, but an Invincible spirited him away, prompting Tianduo and the others to head toward the ancient cities where the humans might seek refuge.
• Su Yu checked the Hunter Heaven Ranking, saw that he was fifth on the Earth Ranking, and sensed danger approaching as the Calamity Script Divine Script urged him to flee.
• Qin Fang and Huang Teng separately warned Su Yu that Modona was chasing them and advised him to hide in an ancient city; Su Yu gave Huang Teng Heavenly Origin Qi and a technique for the unconscious Wu Qi before fleeing alone.
• Marquis Xia received news of the pursuit and denied that the fugitive was Su Yu, while Old Madam Wu praised Su Yu for risking himself to save Wu Qi and considered him a worthy match for her descendants.

Su Yu reached Heaven Annihilation City, where Modona struggled to enter through its main gate and a Hunter Pavilion agent confronted Su Yu, exposed his likely identity, and gave him information about the city. The Hunter Heaven Ranking listed Su Yu among the top eighteen geniuses, leaving Wan Tiansheng and Niu Baidao worried about the dangers his rising fame would bring.

• Modona followed the road to Heaven Annihilation City, killed a Lingyun Realm speaker and a Shanhai Realm black wolf, then struggled to pass through the main gate as Su Yu watched.
• A masked member of the Hunter Pavilion's Heaven Division approached Su Yu, offered him information, and recorded clues that identified him as Su Yu.
• The masked man updated the Hunter Heaven Ranking to list Su Yu at rank eighteen, then marked his identity uncertain after Su Yu protested.
• Su Yu accepted a jade talisman containing information about the ancient city and watched Modona continue through the main gate.
• Wan Tiansheng saw Su Yu's new Heaven Ranking entry and worried that events he had foreseen were unfolding sooner than expected.
• Niu Baidao told Cui Lang that Su Yu's identity had been exposed, and Cui Lang worried that Old Cheng might come after him or Su Yu.

Su Yu learned the rules of Heaven Annihilation City, watched Modona enter through its main gate, and killed three demons after they mocked him. Zheng Ping arrived after killing a Mystic Armor Race Sun Moon and warned Su Yu about the city; Su Yu stayed nearby and began planning how to enter under another identity.

• Su Yu read that ancient-city visitors faced danger after three days unless they became residents, and that the inner rings were more dangerous than the outskirts.
• Modona entered Heaven Annihilation City through the main gate and invited Su Yu to come inside; Su Yu briefly fled after a Human Race elder warned him about the Mystic Armor Race.
• Su Yu returned unseen, killed three demons—including a Mountainsea—and gained a peak Profound-rank pair of gloves as his Heavenly Ranking position rose.
• Heaven Annihilation City demanded Su Yu pay an entry fee, but Zheng Ping arrived carrying a Mystic Armor Race Sun Moon's armor and intimidated the city into returning Su Yu's demon corpses.
• Zheng Ping recognized Su Yu, warned him about the ancient city, and left to rescue Huang Teng and Wu Qi; Su Yu remained nearby and considered how to enter in disguise.

Su Yu entered Heaven Annihilation City through its main gate and endured a day-long trial that strengthened his body and divine scripts. He entered the city exhausted, while the Mountain Sea guard warned him to seek human houses and avoid the City Lord's Mansion.

• Su Yu returned to the main gate in disguise, and a Mountain and Sea guard warned him about the ancient city's dangers and rules.
• Su Yu began the ninety-nine-step gate trial, unaware that Little Fur Ball's presence doubled the pressure he faced.
• Su Yu endured the crushing pressure, advanced his Battle-character Divine Script, forged his body repeatedly, and gained a suppression-type divine character.
• The stone sculpture in the City Lord's Mansion observed Su Yu and Little Fur Ball, then confronted the Small Sitting Figure within Su Yu's heart before closing its eyes.
• Wan Tiansheng sensed that Su Yu had encountered a powerful expert, explored several places in the Human Realm, and returned to the Heart Cultivation Pavilion uneasy.
• Su Yu completed the gate trial and collapsed; the Mountain and Sea guard advised him to seek human houses and avoid the City Lord's Mansion because the City Lord disliked humans.

Su Yu entered Tianmie Ancient City and survived an Ancient City Death Spirit’s attack by hiding in an empty house and using Heavenly Origin Qi to remove the death qi. After provoking the Night Patrol Army and taking shelter in another house, he discovered that death qi was silently seeping indoors and that the nine halos awarded at the city gate could repel it nine times.

• Su Yu saw an elk throw out a bloodstained jade talisman, then fled when an Ancient City Death Spirit appeared and sent a death ray after him.
• Su Yu hid in an unoccupied house and used Heavenly Origin Qi, the immortals' Vitality Catalysis method, and the immortals' Flesh and Blood Rebirth art to wear away the death qi on his arm.
• Su Yu left the house, inspected the elk’s wooden sign, and knocked on its door before continuing through the deserted streets.
• Su Yu called out for someone to explain the city and attract Modona, but the Night Patrol Army ordered him inside and threatened to expel him; he gave the commander a Mysterious Tier Weapon as an apology.
• Su Yu settled in another house and discovered that faint death qi was seeping inside; his nine protective halos began repelling it, revealing that they could shield him from death qi nine times.

Su Yu traded weapons and information with the Hunter Pavilion to learn how to find opportunities in Tianmie Ancient City, then prepared to venture into its inner rings. Meanwhile, Dao Cheng and Jiu Xuan asked the City Lord to help capture Su Yu, but he refused to get involved.

• Su Yu exchanged five Mysterious Tier Weapons for information about ancient-city opportunities, death qi, undead, and Ancient City Tokens.
• Su Yu changed houses and disguises, then traded a dossier on Dan Xiong for more information from the Hunter Pavilion.
• Su Yu learned that residents could command some undead with high-level Ancient City Tokens and that killing people or damaging houses could draw the undead.
• Su Yu decided to search deeper rings for an unentered house, while avoiding the City Lord's Mansion and fights with undead.
• Dao Cheng and Jiu Xuan asked the City Lord of Tianmie Ancient City to open Su Yu's house and restrain undead while they captured him.
• The City Lord refused to help, and a Mystic Armor Race expert said his people would pursue their own actions against Su Yu after two of their geniuses were killed.

Su Yu learned that the Mystic Armor Race and Immortal or God allies were preparing to search Heaven Annihilation City for him, so he investigated the city’s houses and planned how to respond. The chapter ended with City Lord Tianhe watching events unfold as Xia Longwu arrived and declared that the Immortals might need to be taught a lesson.

• Su Yu spoke with a bird merchant, who warned that the Mystic Armor Race might use Ancient City Tokens and allied experts to hunt him and other humans in the city.
• Su Yu questioned a passerby about drawing undead with fresh blood, then used Hunter Pavilion’s ranking list to investigate the Mystic Armor Race and the Immortal arrivals.
• Hunter Pavilion discussed Su Yu’s inquiries internally, set prices for intelligence and protection, and learned that someone was seeking information about Chen Yong.
• Su Yu concluded that Earth Ranking Immortals Dao Cheng and Jiu Xuan were likely involved, chose Jiu Xuan as a target, and planned escape measures in case he had to fight.
• Su Yu spent the day scouting houses in the inner districts while the Mystic Armor Race searched the city and prepared to act after nightfall.
• City Lord Tianhe watched over the city as Xia Longwu arrived, said the Immortals might be worth killing, and warned Tianhe not to break their agreement.

Su Yu ambushed the Mystic Armor Race’s search party, then infiltrated their manor and killed its remaining guards and experts. With undead gathering outside and death qi filling the manor, he was left looking for a way to escape.

• Su Yu watched Dao Cheng and the Mystic Armor Race set out to search the city, then survived their attempt to expose him by spreading death qi through the street.
• Su Yu followed the search party and discovered it had joined forces with Hei Kai and the Night Patrol Army to inspect houses across the city.
• Su Yu returned to the Mystic Armor manor, lured an undead to its gate, and slipped inside while its remaining Shanhai expert ordered the gates closed.
• Su Yu and Little Fur Ball killed the manor’s Shanhai, Lingyun, and Soaring Realm defenders before the undead began battering at the gates.
• Death qi flooded the manor after the massacre, and Su Yu used Heavenly Origin Qi to resist it while considering how to get past the undead outside.

Su Yu turned Tianmie Ancient City into chaos by drawing out undead, killing Hei Kai and other Night Patrol Army soldiers, and advancing to the seventeenth body forging. As pursuers closed in, Su Yu bought time from the Hunter Pavilion, while Zhu Tiandao dispatched the Shadow Guard to bring him back.

• Su Yu looted the Mystic Armor Race station, used Little Fur Ball to lure undead away, and escaped as death qi spread through the city.
• Cheng Kai and Dao Cheng ordered the Night Patrol Army to seal the gates, but General Tianmen refused to hand over the city gate token and allowed Hei Kai's soldiers to guard them.
• Su Yu ambushed Hei Kai at the main gate, killed him and many Night Patrol Army soldiers, and Tianmen blamed the deaths on undead before eliminating the survivors.
• Su Yu reached seventeen body forgings while fleeing, then used a Mystic Armor corpse to draw undead onto Cheng Kai's group and paid the Hunter Pavilion to lure his pursuers away.
• The Hunter Heaven Ranking placed Su Yu sixteenth after he killed several Shanhai experts, and Zhu Tiandao sent all twelve Shadow Guards with Shadow to retrieve him.

Su Yu used Hunter Pavilion’s tracking scheme to draw Dao Cheng and his allies into a trap, then struck with the Heaven Splitting Saber and killed Duan Kai. The Heavenly Ranking rose Su Yu to eleventh place, and the deaths of his pursuers left Tianmie Ancient City in turmoil.

• Dao Cheng paid Hunter Pavilion ten drops of Sun Moon Essence Blood to track Su Yu, while Su Yu discovered that the ranking list was being used to locate him.
• Su Yu sent a shadow clone carrying the ranking list to mislead Dao Cheng’s group, then prepared an ambush after consuming Mountain-Breaking Ox essence blood.
• Dao Cheng led the group after the decoy, and Su Yu unleashed the Heaven Splitting Saber from a building as they passed.
• Su Yu’s slash killed Duan Kai and destroyed the nearby Lingyun and Soaring Realm experts before he escaped in a cloud as undead flooded the city.
• Dao Cheng ordered Jiu Xuan to leave, while the Heavenly Ranking placed Su Yu eleventh and drew the attention of powerful factions across the myriad worlds.

Su Yu battled Dao Cheng amid the undead before retreating into an ancient house in Tianmie Ancient City, where the Mystic Armor Race trapped him. As news spread, experts raced toward the city to rescue him, while King of Great Qin refused to intervene directly and left Su Yu to face the crisis himself.

• Cheng Kai pressured Dao Cheng to stay and help pursue Su Yu, and Dao Cheng agreed to enter the undead encirclement while Jiu Xuan remained with Silver Armor and Burned Armor.
• Dao Cheng found Su Yu and fought him, but the undead and Su Yu’s resistance prevented him from capturing him; Cheng Kai arrived briefly before Su Yu escaped.
• Su Yu retrieved his sub-ranking list and hid in an ancient house in the eighteenth ring rather than flee the city, and Cheng Kai gathered the Mystic Armor Race survivors outside as undead battered the door.
• News that Su Yu had been trapped spread, prompting Zheng Ping to prepare to return to Tianmie Ancient City after sending Huang Teng back and six Sun Moon experts and seven Shanhai Peak experts from Great Ming Prefecture to race toward him.
• Ye Hongyan and the Shadow Guard set out to help Su Yu, while King of Great Qin refused to send the Vanguard Camp or interfere below the Eternal realm and said he would instead inspect the border.

Su Yu remained trapped in Heaven Annihilation City while the City Lord refused Dao Cheng’s request to borrow an Ancient City Token, and more powerful figures gathered outside. As Su Yu continued tempering himself and prepared to fight his way out, the ancient city stone sculpture sensed something unusual near him.

• Dao Cheng asked City Lord Tianhe’s attendant to lend him an Ancient City Token, but the city refused to interfere in the dispute and warned that ancient undead might awaken.
• Su Yu learned that the golden light was Heavenly Profound Light, completed his eighteenth body forging, and considered how to escape the encirclement.
• Su Yu inventoried his spoils from Heavenly Rift Valley and began devouring unfamiliar essence blood while the people outside waited in a nearby house.
• Burned Armor decided to become an ancient city resident, while Dao Cheng, Jiu Xuan, Cheng Kai, and other gathered experts watched Su Yu’s house.
• Qin Fang arrived and challenged Dao Cheng and Jiu Xuan over their siege of Su Yu, but he admitted to himself that he could not protect Su Yu alone.
• Su Yu resolved to rely on himself and considered destroying his body and unleashing his full power if the attackers breached the house; the stone sculpture then sensed something amiss near him.