Chapter Summaries

Su Yu explored the undead-filled ancient city, learned how Eternal experts united their Past, Present, and Future Selves, and discovered that a God-Devouring Half-Emperor had truly reversed time to protect him. While Su Yu struggled with spreading death qi, people across the Human Realm debated whether he had survived the battle and become an ancient city resident.

• Su Yu collected corpses and tokens, then approached undead guarding a treasure left by a Nether Race Eternal Invincible.
• Xingyue explained that the treasure could carry a Past or Future Self, described how Eternals and Quasi-Invincibles formed, and clarified the risks of reversing time.
• Xingyue remembered a visit from Big Fur Ball, who had truly reversed time and told Xingyue and Xinghong to protect Su Yu.
• Xingyue took the treasure back to the City Lord's Mansion, while Su Yu continued dissolving death qi and discovered the ancient city was surrounded by ocean.
• King of Great Qin and King Dazhou discussed Su Yu's uncertain fate, while Wan Tiansheng, Zhu Tiandao, and Niu Baidao concluded he had likely become an ancient city resident.
• Niu Baidao decided to visit Xinghong Ancient City to look for Su Yu, then planned to attempt capturing a Past Future Body.

Su Yu used his three-ring Ancient City Token to command undead and repeatedly seal Xinghong Ancient City, trapping the enemy experts while cultivating and strengthening his body. He left the city closed again as the trapped experts pleaded for rescue and the outside world focused on the crisis.

• Su Yu discovered that his three-ring Ancient City Token let him command undead, then planned to keep the enemy experts trapped inside Xinghong Ancient City.
• Su Yu completed his forty-fifth body forging, while the stone statue and Star Moon Monarch discussed his accelerating death-qi erosion and possible chance of rebirth.
• Su Yu killed a Shanhai Peak undead with the token, causing a Sun Moon undead to appear and the city gates to seal again.
• Xuan Wuji and the other trapped experts arranged rotating patrols to stop Su Yu from killing undead, while Hunter Pavilion and the outside races worried about those trapped inside.
• After completing his forty-sixth forging, Su Yu summoned and killed another Shanhai Peak undead, bringing out a Sun Moon undead and sealing the city for another three days.
• The trapped experts cursed Su Yu and pleaded for rescue, while Su Yu ignored their threats and the outside world condemned his determination to drag them down with him.

Modona outlined ways the trapped experts could escape Xinghong Ancient City, while Su Yu rejected their offers and weighed trapping them for profit. Niu Baidao arrived with Ye Hongyan and other human experts, confronted the races outside the city, and arranged a way to contact Su Yu as he prepared to negotiate their release.

• Modona offered Heavenly Origin Qi to the weakened Sun Moons and listed six possible ways the trapped group could survive or escape.
• Bai Yi called to Su Yu and offered Hunter Pavilion’s protection, but Su Yu demanded the group surrender their treasures before he would trust them.
• Su Yu considered whether he could trap and kill the experts, then learned that Niu Baidao was coming to negotiate on his behalf.
• Niu Baidao traveled toward Xinghong Ancient City with Ye Hongyan, Qin Hao, and Zhu Guangshen, warning that Invincibles would soon intervene if the captives remained trapped.
• Niu Baidao confronted the gathered races at the city gates, threatened to involve King Daxia and the King of Great Ming, and persuaded a Devil Race expert to have the captives gather there.
• Niu Baidao proposed that Su Yu might demand enormous quantities of treasures for the captives’ release, then claimed he had only been joking.

Su Yu used a clone to negotiate with the myriad races while Hunter Pavilion tried to profit from the talks. After revealing that an Undead Monarch had transformed him, Su Yu insisted he could still survive and demanded resources in exchange for stopping the slaughter, leaving the trapped experts ready to make a deal.

• Bai Yi told Su Yu that Niu Baidao had arrived outside the city, and Su Yu sent a blood-and-death-qi clone to meet him while warning the experts not to seize it.
• Su Yu withdrew from negotiations when Hunter Pavilion opened a paid public chat, then demanded 500 drops of Sun Moon Essence Blood before he would talk again.
• Su Yu verified Niu Baidao's identity with personal questions and set conditions for communicating through the Hunter Heaven Ranking, while deliberately making the races suspect Hunter Pavilion of altering messages.
• Su Yu offered to release the trapped experts for a steep price, then revealed that Star Moon Monarch had transformed him; Niu Baidao believed Su Yu was doomed, while the other races tried to convince him that he could survive.
• Su Yu demanded treasures worth 5,000 strands of Heavenly Profound Light and set a deadline of two and a half days for delivery at Ancient House No. 180, while the trapped experts decided they were willing to trade.
• Niu Baidao privately explained that he had pretended to urge Su Yu to fight to the death so the myriad races would be more willing to compromise.

Su Yu waited for the factions to pay the agreed compensation, used Little Fur Ball to collect the goods, and kept his deathly condition as cover while preparing to claim the ancient city. After the others escaped, he resealed the city and continued killing undead, while Xingyue warned that his actions were angering her Undead Generals.

• Su Yu decided to keep posing as a half-undead, sent Little Fur Ball to collect the compensation, and planned to seize control of the city after the factions left.
• Outside the city, the factions agreed to pay, while Zhan Wushuang discovered that Su Yu's supposed ancient heavenly weapon was a damaged ancient earth weapon and despaired over the Divine Race's losses.
• After Su Yu completed his forty-eighth body forging, Little Fur Ball collected the goods from Modona and Bai Yi, and Hunter Pavilion recognized it as a member of the feared God Devouring Ancient Clan.
• The experts and geniuses fled when the city gates opened, and Su Yu killed another Shanhai Undead before sealing the city again.
• Xingyue warned Su Yu that continued slaughter of the Undead would anger her Undead Generals, but the stone sculpture approved of his actions.

Su Yu inspected Xinghong Ancient City and confronted Xuan Jiu, the Hunter Pavilion branch chief, who offered him membership before succumbing to death qi and becoming an undead. After tracking Xuan Jiu’s disappearance underground and recovering Little Fur Ball with most of his stolen treasures, Su Yu returned to Hunter Pavilion’s branch and put on Xuan Jiu’s White Mask.

• Su Yu disguised himself as an undead, surveyed Xinghong Ancient City, and found Hunter Pavilion’s branch while Black Demon remained sealed inside the City Lord’s Mansion.
• Xuan Jiu introduced himself as the branch chief, explained Hunter Pavilion’s structure and offered Su Yu the branch ranking, supplies, and a White Mask if he joined.
• Xuan Jiu revealed his Fire Pupil Clan identity and urged Su Yu to join Hunter Pavilion, then let death qi consume him and transformed into an undead.
• Su Yu followed Xuan Jiu and a Shanhai Peak undead as they disappeared beneath the city, then Little Fur Ball found him and returned his stored treasures, though one Demon God Fruit was missing.
• Su Yu returned to the branch, collected Xuan Jiu’s White Mask and ranking, and put on the mask.

Su Yu accepted Xuan Jiu’s mask and learned how the Hunter Pavilion was organized, what membership offered, and how its members were monitored. When the Hunter Pavilion assigned him a delivery to the City Lord’s Mansion, Su Yu decided to use his new identity to approach the wounded Black Demon.

• Su Yu discovered that Xuan Jiu’s mask could assess strength, conceal his aura, and transform the branch ranking into a Hunter Heaven Atlas, then confirmed that the Hunter Pavilion knew his true identity.
• Elder Xuan Jia explained the Hunter Pavilion’s departments, hierarchy, membership benefits, assessments, and rules for locating and disciplining masked members.
• Su Yu examined the Black Masks under his command, found that his first subordinate was Lordo Bazhe of the Earthfire Demon Race, and considered keeping the mask for its advantages.
• The Yellow Division told Su Yu that Black Demon had requested one hundred portions of Heavenly Origin Qi and asked whether the branch had any in stock.
• Su Yu agreed to deliver his privately stored Heavenly Origin Qi to the City Lord’s Mansion for a ten-percent handling fee and resolved to act as Xuan Jiu.

Su Yu disguised himself as Xuan Jiu and maneuvered Black Demon out of the City Lord’s Mansion, then used an explosion of Undead Essence Blood and death qi to trigger the death qi inside him. Black Demon died amid the undead’s intervention, while Su Yu fled into an ancient house as a Quasi-Invincible undead pursued him.

• Su Yu extracted Heavenly Origin Qi for Black Demon’s trade and learned from Elder Xuan Jia that Hunter Pavilion losses could be assigned to the branch minister.
• Su Yu visited Black Demon in disguise, inspected the Black Demon Codex, and persuaded him to leave the City Lord’s Mansion to collect the Heavenly Origin Qi.
• Su Yu gathered Undead Essence Blood and death qi, then lured a Sun Moon Undead toward the City Lord’s Mansion while Black Demon came out to retrieve the trade goods.
• Su Yu detonated the storage ring’s contents, triggering the death qi in Black Demon, and killed the Sun Moon Undead with a powerful saber strike.
• Three powerful undead pursued Su Yu and Black Demon; Su Yu escaped into an ancient house, while Black Demon’s Sea of Will collapsed and he died as a Sun Moon Ninth Layer expert.

Su Yu survived Black Demon's death and fought off the death qi inside an ancient house as news of the vacant city lord position spread. While the undead and the myriad races considered who would claim Xinghong Ancient City's City Lord's Token, Niu Baidao returned and revealed that he had fused his Past Self.

• Su Yu reversed the death qi in the ancient house while telling Xuan Jia that Black Demon had died after Su Yu's fight drew out powerful undead; he chose to receive a cut from Hunter Pavilion's intelligence sales.
• Xing Yue collected Black Demon's corpse and ordered the undead to leave Su Yu alone, while the undead debated who should inherit the City Lord's Token.
• Su Yu completed his forty-ninth body cast as news of Black Demon's death and Su Yu's suspected demise spread through the heavens, prompting Sun Moon cultivators to head for Xinghong Ancient City.
• King Daxia argued that the human race should find a way to save Su Yu, while King Great Qin turned the discussion toward competing for the vacant city lord position and the Invincibles proposed Niu Baidao.
• Niu Baidao returned with two hundred strands of Heavenly Profound Light, revealed that he had fused his Past Self, and declined the suggestion that he become city lord.

Su Yu seized Black Demon's City Lord Token and killed Nair of the Red Frog Clan after the Sun Moon expert tried to claim it, leaving the other residents too frightened to challenge him. News of Su Yu's growing power and his life as an ancient-city resident reached the Human Realm, where Bai Feng learned how grave his situation was and Hong Tan could only wait for a chance to help him.

• Su Yu went to Black Demon's corpse and confronted Nair of the Red Frog Clan, who demanded the City Lord Token in exchange for leaving Su Yu the storage ring.
• Nair attacked Su Yu with his hidden tongue, but Su Yu countered, wounded him with the Heaven Splitting Saber, and pursued him with his other abilities.
• Su Yu transformed into an undead and used death qi to destroy Nair's body and Sea of Will, then claimed the reward for killing a Sun Moon expert as the other residents retreated.
• News spread that Su Yu had killed Nair and could become Xinghong Ancient City's lord, while Zhu Tiandao and Wan Tiansheng reacted to his latest exploits.
• Wan Tiansheng told Hong Tan that Su Yu had killed more than thirty Sun Moon experts and might become an Ancient City Lord; Hong Tan then explained to Bai Feng that Su Yu had become an ancient-city resident and could not return.
• Bai Feng grieved over Su Yu's fate and wanted to see him, but Hong Tan stopped him and said their lineage had to wait for one final chance to help Su Yu.

Su Yu became the City Lord of Xinghong Ancient City, learned that its residents helped suppress the death qi, and discovered that the City Lord's Token offered little benefit to him. He shut himself inside the City Lord's Mansion to cultivate while the city gates reopened, but fear of his schemes kept outsiders away.

• Su Yu advanced his Willpower to Lingyun Ninth Level, collected the fallen belongings, and declared himself City Lord of Xinghong Ancient City.
• Su Yu refined the City Lord's Token and learned about the city's role in suppressing the Undead Realm, the City Lord's powers, and the burden residents shared.
• The Xinghong Stone Sculpture gave Su Yu three Sun Moon Divine Talismans after he complained that merging with a Lingyun-level undead did not help him.
• Su Yu entered secluded cultivation in the City Lord's Mansion, planning to leave disguised as Xuan Jiu and let new residents share his death-qi burden.
• After the city reopened, outsiders stayed away, while other ancient city lords condemned Su Yu's city-sealing tactics and people began looking toward Xinghong Ancient City.

Xia Huyu feigned interest in Fairy Yuxuan’s support while considering the growing turmoil around Great Xia Prefecture and the rumored Nan Yuan ruin. Meanwhile, Floating Earth Spirit emerged from seclusion and learned how much Su Yu had changed the situation, then revealed that Su Yu could use the Five Elements Divine Art.

• Fairy Yuxuan urged Xia Huyu to seek Su Yu’s rumored ruin and questioned his ability to inherit the prefecture, while Xia Huyu concealed his true thoughts and later reflected on the schemes surrounding Nan Yuan.
• Xia Huyu heard rumors that Nan Yuan held a powerful ruin and suspected someone was deliberately drawing the myriad races toward Great Xia Prefecture.
• Floating Earth Spirit broke out of his sealed stone ball, and Tuhe confirmed that Su Yu remained in Xinghong Ancient City as its city lord.
• Tuhe told Floating Earth Spirit about Su Yu’s battles, impersonations, and the ransom paid to free trapped experts, leaving Floating Earth Spirit stunned.
• Floating Earth Spirit told Tuhe that Su Yu had absorbed the Five Elements Ancestor’s energy and copied Five Elements Purgatory, so Tuhe prepared to alert the Ancestor.

Su Yu used his Hunter Pavilion post to gather intelligence and began planning to turn Xinghong Ancient City into his own power base. After assessing the experts surrounding the City Lord’s Mansion, he announced that everyone must leave within a day or face his wrath, while the besiegers dismissed his threat to seal the city.

• Su Yu received Floating Earth Spirit and Tuhe at the Hunter Pavilion, sold them Heavenly Origin Qi, and learned they were using coded messages through the Hunter Pavilion Sub-Ranking.
• Su Yu questioned Xuan Jia about Hunter Pavilion communications and resource sales, then discussed sealing Xinghong Ancient City to profit from a shortage of supplies.
• Su Yu surveyed the experts surrounding the City Lord’s Mansion and counted nearly thirty Sun Moon experts in the city, including eight late-stage experts guarding the mansion.
• Su Yu inspected the land being built outside the city by members of the Thousand Domains Alliance and considered sealing the city to trap those blockading it.
• Su Yu used the City Lord’s Token to order everyone to leave Xinghong Ancient City within a day, but the Nether race expert and the other besiegers dismissed his threat.

Su Yu sealed Xinghong Ancient City and endured the rising death qi while cultivating and turning the lockdown into a profitable Heavenly Origin Qi business. By the eighth day, the Xinghong Stone Sculpture had secretly shifted more of the city’s death-qi burden onto Su Yu, leaving him frightened by the sudden increase and unsure whether to keep the city sealed.

• Floating Earth Spirit persuaded Tu He to leave the city, and other visitors gradually departed ahead of Su Yu’s planned lockdown.
• Su Yu sealed the city at dawn, resisted the death qi, and cultivated while Xingyue increased the death-qi transmission sent to him.
• Tian He refused Xia Longwu’s request to gather the ancient cities to share Su Yu’s burden, fearing it would expose their cooperation with humanity.
• Su Yu used his death divine script to absorb death qi and advanced it to the second tier while continuing to temper his body and study divine scripts.
• As the lockdown continued, Su Yu sold scarce Heavenly Origin Qi through Hunter Pavilion and profited from trades with residents and experts inside the city.
• The Xinghong Stone Sculpture shifted more of the death-qi burden onto Su Yu after seeing the city residents and Su Yu reduce its own load, and Su Yu feared the backlash had grown dangerous.

Su Yu endured the ancient city's lockdown for ten days while strengthening himself, leaving the trapped Sun Moon experts increasingly desperate. At East Rift Valley, King of Great Qin ordered an attack on the Dragon Silkworm Realm and warned the human Invincibles that he would kill any traitor among them.

• Su Yu completed his fifty-second body forging, outlined the Seal Divine Script, and stopped selling Heavenly Origin Qi as he continued to endure the city's death aura.
• Purple Devil told the trapped Sun Moon experts to prepare to flee if Su Yu survived another few days, and he demanded that the Immortal Race cover the rear during their escape.
• Tu He and the Floating Earth Spirit left the city region, concluding that Su Yu's lockdown was intimidating the myriad races and could trap or kill the experts inside.
• On the tenth day, early-stage Sun Moon experts inside the city began to fear the death aura, while Su Yu continued forging and considered recruiting converts as residents.
• King of Great Ming challenged the human Invincibles for failing to protect Su Yu, and King of Great Qin ordered four Invincibles to destroy the Dragon Silkworm Realm.
• King of Great Qin forbade the remaining Invincibles from leaving or sending messages until the attack was complete, threatening to kill any human Invincible who exposed himself as a traitor.

As the lockdown wore down the trapped Sun Moon cultivators, Su Yu refused to let them leave without a price, while several races’ Invincibles prepared to breach Xinghong Ancient City. Their dawn attack destroyed the City Lord’s Mansion, prompting Xinghong to leave the city and nearly kill King Lade before the Devil Emperor intervened.

• Su Yu rejected the trapped cultivators’ offers of resources and demanded that they kill a Sun Moon Late Stage cultivator to earn their freedom; eight weakened Sun Moon cultivators chose to become residents instead.
• Four Invincibles from the Immortal, Devil, Dragon, and Divine races secretly agreed to breach the city at dawn, with King Lade planning to strike the City Lord’s Mansion while the others fought the undead and rescued the trapped cultivators.
• Four human Invincibles gathered near the Dragon Silkworm Realm, preparing to destroy the Dragon Silkworm King’s Three Lives Body.
• At dawn on the fourteenth day, the four Invincibles breached the city gate, and King Lade struck the City Lord’s Mansion while the others fought Xingyue and the undead.
• Xinghong emerged from the ancient city as an Ancient Invincible and attacked King Lade, destroying his Past Self and present body before the Devil Emperor rescued his Future Self.
• Xinghong warned the races not to provoke the ancient city again, and the other Invincibles fled as the city’s power to send its guardian outside stunned the myriad realms.

After the stone sculpture drove off the invaders, human Invincibles killed the Dragon Silkworm King and destroyed his realm in retaliation for the siege against Su Yu. Su Yu was shaken by humanity’s defense of him, but tried to bury his conflicted feelings by hunting for carrier treasures.

• Xing Hong returned to the City Lord’s Mansion, while Xing Yue withdrew after threatening to keep burdening Su Yu with death qi.
• King Daxia and King Dazhou entered the Dragon Silkworm Realm with King Han and Silkworm King Annihilator, then killed the Dragon Silkworm King and destroyed his Three Lives Bodies.
• King of Great Qin declared that the Dragon Silkworm King had died for joining the siege against Su Yu and warned the other races not to provoke humanity.
• Su Yu heard King of Great Qin’s declaration, struggled with his feelings about humanity’s support, and left the city to search for carrier treasures.
• The Dragon Silkworm King’s death frightened the myriad realms, while Xia Longwu watched Su Yu return to the city with two carrier treasures.

Su Yu learned that the Hunter Pavilion planned to send him back to the Human Realm because the Nanyuan ruin might free him from his undead state. He questioned the stone sculpture about leaving the ancient city and discovered it could help him if he escaped into the Battlefields of the Heavens.

• Elder Xuan Jia confirmed that Xuan Jiu was alive, while the Yellow Department Head praised his business and ordered the Hunter Pavilion’s four departments to infiltrate the Human Realm.
• The Yellow Department Head proposed sending Xuan Jiu to the Nanyuan ruin, and Elder Xuan Jia relayed the opportunity to Su Yu.
• Su Yu considered returning to the Human Realm but wondered whether he could bring the ancient city and stone sculpture with him.
• Su Yu asked the stone sculpture about leaving the city, relinquishing his city lord identity, and entering the Hunter Heaven Ranking.
• The stone sculpture explained that Su Yu could leave but would face heavier death qi corrosion, and that breaking free required the Undead Monarch to die and the Undead Passage to be severed.
• The stone sculpture refused to go to the Human Realm but said it could help Su Yu once if he fled through the passage into the Battlefields of the Heavens.

Su Yu secured the stone sculpture’s support, cultivated while waiting for Hunter Pavilion’s mission to the Human Realm, and left Xinghong Ancient City to return in secret. Meanwhile, the human Invincibles debated the Nanyuan Ruin, the ancient cities, and the dangers gathering around the Human Realm.

• Su Yu learned that Heavenly Gold Mystic Iron and a Dragon Race pearl could carry Three Lives Bodies, then asked the stone sculpture about attaining the Dao in an ancient city and received a warning that the River of Time made it too dangerous.
• Su Yu arranged to join Hunter Pavilion members traveling to the Human Realm in a month, planned to seek command of a prefecture, and began cultivating outside the City Lord’s Mansion.
• At East Rift Valley, the King of Great Qin discussed the threat of infiltration, the Nanyuan Ruin, the ancient city stone sculptures, and suspicions surrounding Ye Batian’s death with the human Invincibles.
• Su Yu completed his fifty-seventh body forging while two trapped Sun Moons converted into residents; he opened the city gates after nearly a month of sealing the city.
• On September 28, Su Yu left Xinghong Ancient City wearing a White Mask and headed to meet Hunter Pavilion, while the stone sculpture worried that he might not return.

Su Yu returned to Tianmie Ancient City and joined Hunter Pavilion’s operation to infiltrate the Human Realm, where he was assigned a team of White Masks. The first infiltrators entered a hidden passageway and scattered across the Human Realm, where Zhu Tiandao killed one and alerted King of Great Ming to capture the rest.

• Su Yu entered Tianmie Ancient City, where the Tianmie stone sculpture recognized him and watched him go to the Hunter Pavilion branch with Xuan Jia.
• Su Yu reached the branch, punched Huang Three after he demanded Su Yu’s affiliation, and took a seat among the White Masks.
• Bai Yi explained that Hunter Pavilion would divide the Human Realm’s prefectures among its teams, and Su Yu formed a group with Huang Jiu, Xuan Seventeen, and Di Eighteen.
• The Hunter Pavilion elders led the infiltrators through teleportation arrays to a hidden passageway, where they sent them into the Human Realm in groups of ten and scattered them at random.
• Zhu Tiandao killed a White Mask who appeared near him, then warned others that Hunter Pavilion was crossing realms and called King of Great Ming to help capture the infiltrators.