Chapter Summaries

Su Yu accepted Qinghu’s City Lord Token and began refining it, discovering that he could reverse the city’s death qi into origin qi. After Su Yu enabled Cloudsky to leave her ancient city for the first time in ages, she attacked the Changping and Shanqi City Lords and declared that she would protect him.

• The Shanqi and Changping City Lords challenged Su Yu to hold the alliance gathering outside the city, while Tianhe supported him and Qinghu urged him to take over Cloudsky Ancient City.
• Su Yu left Xinghong Ancient City with Little Fur Ball and went to Cloudsky Ancient City, where he agreed with Cloudsky to take Qinghu’s position as city lord.
• Su Yu refined the Cloudsky City Lord Token and reversed the city’s death qi, then worried that the Star Moon Monarch’s death could end his half-undead status and asked Xinghong to protect her.
• Su Yu transferred Cloudsky’s death qi to himself, allowing her to leave her passage and ancient city for the first time in tens of thousands of years.
• Cloudsky struck the Changping City Lord and attacked Shanqi Ancient City, then announced that she would kill anyone who killed Su Yu.

Su Yu’s control over death qi let Yunxiao and Xinghong leave their cities, and their show of force silenced opposition to the Sacred Cities alliance. Yunxiao then secured the Old Turtle’s approval for Su Yu to become lord of the empty seabed city, where his ability might eventually link all thirty-six cities and ease the Guardians’ burden.

• Yunxiao struck the Changping and Shanqi city lords for opposing Su Yu, while Tianmie demanded that Su Yu become his city lord.
• Xinghong joined Yunxiao outside the city and warned outsiders not to interfere in Sacred City affairs, forcing the assembled experts to back down.
• Su Yu explained how much death qi he could bear, and Yunxiao suggested that he become lord of the empty city guarded by the strongest Guardian.
• Yunxiao visited the Old Turtle, who agreed to let Su Yu become the city lord and explained that Su Yu might connect the thirty-six cities and redistribute their death qi.
• The Old Turtle dismissed Tianmie’s impatience and accepted that Su Yu should come, while the crowned undead vowed to turn the passage into a route for the Nether Realm Lord.

Yun Xiao took Su Yu to Hongmeng City, where Old Turtle explained the city’s role in sealing the Undead Passage and offered Su Yu its lordship. After Su Yu defeated the lingering imprint of a former city lord, Old Turtle warned that he had made a powerful enemy as an enraged undead monarch vowed to kill him.

• Yun Xiao led Su Yu on a long detour to a submerged ancient city, where he met Old Turtle and learned about the Wen Mu Stele and the repeated destruction and revival of human civilization.
• Old Turtle explained that Hongmeng City was the first of the Thirty-Six Holy Cities and that its lord had to help suppress the Undead Passage, then offered Su Yu the city lord token.
• A powerful imprint emerged from the token and challenged Su Yu, who fought back with his techniques and eventually smashed the imprint apart.
• Old Turtle accepted Su Yu as Hongmeng City’s new lord and warned that he had gained a powerful enemy.
• An enraged undead monarch swore to kill Su Yu after the imprint’s defeat.

Su Yu refined the Hongmeng City Lord Token and learned that its former lord, He Tu, had become an Undead Monarch after Old Turtle killed him for defying the Sacred City's rules. After asking about an ancient bloodline mark and learning more about the Battlefields of the Heavens, Su Yu left with Yun Xiao, while He Tu resumed plotting below and Tian Mie waited impatiently for Su Yu to rescue him.

• Old Turtle suppressed He Tu's attempt to escape the Undead Passage, and Su Yu learned that the former City Lord had become an Undead Monarch.
• While refining the City Lord Token, Su Yu witnessed He Tu lead undead against Old Turtle, lose, and transform into an undead while retaining some memories.
• Su Yu asked Old Turtle and Yun Xiao about the lotus-like bloodline mark he had seen, then promised to obey the Sacred City's rules.
• Su Yu completed the token's refinement and became City Lord of Hongmeng City, while Old Turtle warned him not to follow He Tu's path.
• Yun Xiao answered Su Yu's questions about ancient sites and history as they traveled, and she urged him to visit Yuhong Sacred City to help its struggling guardian.
• He Tu stopped trying to break out and planned to gather help, while Tian Mie watched Su Yu arrive and lamented that he had not come to rescue him.

Su Yu tried to take over Yuhong Sacred City and establish an alliance of ancient cities, while the Dragon Race and other factions moved to stop him. Hongmeng intervened and crushed two of a Dragon Invincible’s life bodies, leaving the gathered powers wary as Su Yu urged the City Lords to form the alliance.

• Su Yu argued with the Dragon Race over Xinghong Ancient City’s place in Star Sea, then announced Lord Hongmeng had ordered him to take over Yuhong Sacred City.
• The myriad races gathered to oppose Su Yu, while Modona warned him that the Devil Emperor’s actions were part of a scheme involving the Bloodfire Demon Race.
• Yunxiao and Xinghong backed Su Yu as he asked the City Lords whether they would form an alliance and promised benefits including reduced death qi, Star Mansion access, and ways to obtain carriers.
• Su Yu called on the City Lords to resist the Invincibles, and Hongmeng Ancient City descended as Old Turtle attacked a Dragon Invincible who had entered it.
• Old Turtle shattered two of the Dragon Invincible’s life bodies and warned the gathered powers not to force the Sacred Cities to break their rules.
• Su Yu, covered in dense death qi and coughing black blood, told the others to leave, and many powerful figures withdrew.

Su Yu established the Sacred City Alliance, promised to protect the city lords’ interests, and began taking control of Yuhong Sacred City. Meanwhile, the Human Realm prepared to allocate candidates for Star Mansion, whose opening was expected within half a year.

• After the Dragon Emperor retreated, Su Yu asked the city lords to join the Sacred City Alliance and promised not to pursue their past conflicts with humanity, while forbidding them from massacring weak humans or soldiers.
• Tianhe and Changping City Lord explained that many city lords had served great races for resources because they sought to survive and preserve their endangered clans.
• Su Yu offered Heavenly Origin Qi, alliance rewards, and a chance to attain the Dao, then persuaded the city lords to accept him as Alliance Leader and cooperate with the Guardians.
• Su Yu entered Yuhong Ancient City to take it over, while Heavenly Destruction pleaded with him to help free him next.
• The King of Great Qin and the Human Realm’s Invincibles debated Star Mansion’s candidate slots and decided to allocate twenty to each Eternal, with additional slots for several prefectures.
• The King of Great Qin left room for Liu City and the Ancient City Alliance to request slots as the Human Realm began preparing candidates for Star Mansion.

Great Xia and Great Ming Prefectures selected candidates for the upcoming Star Mansion opening, while Su Yu received Hunter Pavilion’s proposal to cooperate over a Nine-Leaf Heavenly Lotus that could help an Invincible reach Half-Emperor. Su Yu agreed to join forces in securing entry slots but privately decided he would enter Star Mansion to seek resources for his own cultivation.

• Ji Hong and the elders watched Great Xia Prefecture’s younger generation compete for slots and planned to reopen the Nanyuan Ruin to strengthen the candidates.
• Zhu Tiandao discussed Great Ming Prefecture’s many slots, considered sending older cultivators, and decided that Wu Jia and Wu Lan should first be taken to Liu City for approval.
• The Human Realm and the myriad races finalized preparations for Star Mansion, whose hundredth opening was expected to offer rare treasures.
• Tian Bing told Su Yu that a Nine-Leaf Heavenly Lotus might bloom on Star Mansion’s seventh floor and proposed exchanging its leaves for resources to help Su Yu complete Yuan Qi Nine Transformations.
• Su Yu agreed to cooperate with Hunter Pavilion to secure more slots but questioned the Heaven Department Head’s motives and resolved to enter Star Mansion for its treasures.

Su Yu tried to solve the danger posed by his open Yang Apertures before entering Star Mansion and learned he might need the ancient Zhou Tian Method to unify his cultivation. Meanwhile, news that a Nine-Leaf Heavenly Lotus could raise an Invincible to Half-Sovereign spread among humanity, threatening to draw its factions into conflict as the King of Great Qin feared a new calamity.

• Su Yu asked Xinghong and Xingyue how he could manage without her death qi in Star Mansion, and Xinghong suggested sealing his Yang Apertures or seeking help from the Half-Emperor.
• Xinghong warned Su Yu that his many cultivation methods were chaotic and urged him to find the ancient Zhou Tian Method, possibly in Star Mansion; he also explained that the Undead Realm held countless powerful undead, many without memories.
• Su Yu contacted Hunter Pavilion to request blood essence from Civilization Masters of major races, but they withheld it until their cooperation was finalized.
• News spread at East Rift Valley that a Nine-Leaf Heavenly Lotus would appear on Star Mansion's seventh level and could help an Invincible become a Half-Sovereign.
• Qin Zhen volunteered to enter Star Mansion for the King of Great Qin, who feared the treasure would provoke the myriad races and deepen divisions among humanity.

Zhan Wushuang slaughtered minor races while Xuan Wuji and Dao Cheng staged the scene to frame him as Su Yu’s accomplice. Liu Hong deceived Floating Earth Spirit into buying a fake Five Elements Divine Art, then entered Xinghong Ancient City, where Su Yu learned of his suspicious deal and decided to investigate.

• Zhan Wushuang killed a group of Azure Blood Snake Race experts, while Xuan Wuji and Dao Cheng killed the survivors and planned to blame the massacre on Su Yu’s influence.
• Liu Hong met Floating Earth Spirit and Long Wuyou, claimed to be Su Yu’s teacher, and sparred with Floating Earth Spirit before continuing toward Xinghong Ancient City.
• A White Mask from Hunter Pavilion tried to buy the Five Elements Divine Art from Liu Hong, and Floating Earth Spirit secretly overheard their discussion.
• Floating Earth Spirit impersonated a Hunter Pavilion member and exchanged treasures for Liu Hong’s forged copy of the Five Elements Divine Art at Xinghong Ancient City’s gate.
• Liu Hong entered the city with the treasures, then slipped out to meet the White Mask and divide the spoils.
• Old Wang told Su Yu that Liu Hong had traded with a white-masked figure, and Su Yu decided to investigate.

Su Yu captured Liu Hong after he swindled Floating Earth Spirit and forced him to consider becoming an ancient-city resident who would impersonate Su Yu and keep his place outside the Star Mansion. Liu Hong reluctantly agreed to cooperate, while Su Yu left to ask Hongmeng Old Turtle to seal his Yang Aperture.

• Su Yu suspected Liu Hong’s visit might be a lure, then went out with Yunxiao and captured Liu Hong and the White Mask.
• Su Yu repeatedly knocked Liu Hong unconscious until he admitted that he had swindled Floating Earth Spirit using the Five Elements Divine Art.
• Su Yu proposed that Liu Hong become a Living Dead and impersonate him as city lord while Su Yu entered the Star Mansion; Liu Hong reluctantly agreed to cooperate.
• Su Yu considered the risks to Liu Hong’s disguise and the Hunter Heaven Ranking, then left to ask Hongmeng Old Turtle to seal his Yang Aperture.
• After Su Yu left, Liu Hong realized he had been left in charge of the city and complained about Su Yu’s plan to turn him half-dead.

Su Yu visited Old Turtle to seal his Yang Aperture, learned how the Wen Mu Stele could conceal his aura, and received a bearer object and advice about the Star Mansion. He then traveled to Liu City, where Wu Lan revealed her research and that Su Yu had helped her capture a twenty-point Divine Script combat skill, prompting Liu Wenyan and Hong Tan to plan to reclaim the Wen Mu Stele from Kong Kong.

• Su Yu asked Old Turtle to seal his Yang Aperture and learned that wrapping his Sea of Will with the Wen Mu Stele could hide his aura from the Hunter Heaven Ranking.
• Old Turtle gave Su Yu an ancient dragon half-emperor's reverse scale and warned him about the Nine-Leaf Heavenly Lotus, the Time Passage it would create, and the Star Mansion's ninth floor.
• Su Yu left for Liu City, where Liu Wenyan, Chen Yong, Bai Feng, Hong Tan, Wu Jia, Wu Lan, and several beasts had gathered as the city was rebuilt.
• Wu Lan demonstrated that she could extract pure Willpower without Heavenly River Sand and explained that she had outlined twelve Divine Scripts in a combat skill with twenty foundation points.
• Wu Lan revealed that Su Yu had drawn the Divine Script combat skills to the entrance of the stele so she could capture one easily, leading Liu Wenyan and Hong Tan to decide they had to take the Wen Mu Stele back from Kong Kong.
• Outside Liu City, Su Yu sneezed and wondered whether someone nearby was cursing him or whether his Calamity Script signaled trouble.

Su Yu disguised himself as Liu Hong to visit his teachers and elders in Liu City, then revealed his identity and discussed his strength, his unusual divine script combat technique, and a possible way to save Bai Feng’s grandfather. He stayed in Liu City to await news from the Bai Family and turned his attention to the frightened great demons.

• Su Yu entered Liu City disguised as Liu Hong, offered Bai Feng Heavenly Profound Light, and was taken to meet Hong Tan and the others.
• Su Yu’s extravagant praise of himself and his divine script abilities exposed his identity, and he told the group that he had killed Golden Wing and returned to see them.
• Bai Feng speculated that Su Yu’s ninety-nine divine scripts might conceal a hundredth script, possibly the Golden Booklet, while Liu Wenyan warned that Su Yu’s physical strength had outpaced his Willpower.
• Su Yu explained that Bai Feng’s grandfather might be dying from opening the Yang Aperture and suggested turning him into an ancient city resident; Bai Feng agreed to contact the Bai Family.
• Liu Wenyan injured himself trying Su Yu’s Yuan Aperture Reversal method and concluded that their apertures might be incomplete without the Circulatory Aperture.
• Su Yu decided to wait in Liu City for Bai Feng’s grandfather and then looked toward the great demons, frightening Suan Ni and the others.

Su Yu offered the great demons the choice to leave or become residents of Xinghong Ancient City; most stayed, while Suan Ni and Drilling Mountain Ox departed to roam the heavens. As the races prepared to divide the Star Mansion’s slots and plotted against Su Yu and Wan Tiansheng, the Bai Family elder arrived and recognized that Su Yu had opened his Yang Aperture.

• Su Yu offered Blood Moon, One-Eye, and Giant Mountain freedom, but they chose to become ancient city residents, as did Water Person, Shadow, White Fox, and Fire Crow.
• Suan Ni chose to leave with Drilling Mountain Ox, and Su Yu gave them a little Heavenly Origin Qi and five drops of Sun Moon Essence Blood each before they burrowed out of the city that night.
• Wu Lan took Fur Ball to help research purifying Willpower, and Su Yu encouraged Fur Ball to learn the technique.
• Liu Wenyan said the Liu City group would enter the Star Mansion and suggested asking the Third Generation for slots; Su Yu agreed and planned to leave once the Bai Family elder arrived.
• The Invincibles gathered at Bright Light City to arrange Star Mansion slots, invite the races, and discuss killing Su Yu and Wan Tiansheng.
• The Bai Family elder arrived at Xinghong Ancient City, sensed that Su Yu had opened his Yang Aperture, and regretted having given him the handbook.

Su Yu returned to Xinghong Ancient City with Elder Bai, intending to use Elder Bai’s Yang Aperture to help Xinghong fight outside the city for longer. After arranging the conversion and learning more about the Undead Realm, Su Yu accepted an invitation to a Myriad Races Alliance meeting about Star Mansion quotas and planned to attend with the Ancient City.

• Elder Bai agreed to bear death qi for Xinghong, and Su Yu left Liu City with him and several demons.
• Su Yu returned to Xinghong Ancient City, asked Xinghong to watch Liu Hong, and arranged for Xingyue to send undead to convert Elder Bai and the demons.
• Xinghong and Xingyue explained how Undead Monarchs grew stronger through territory and the Undead Heavenly River, while Su Yu questioned them about the Undead Realm.
• An envoy invited Su Yu to a meeting on Tianxia Island to discuss Star Mansion quotas, and Elder Wang suppressed the Invincible pressure hidden in the Golden Scroll.
• Su Yu decided to attend the meeting in the Ancient City, expecting the major races to maneuver against humanity over the quotas.

The Myriad Races tried to divide the humans and devils at the Tianxia Island summit, but Su Yu arrived with three stone carvings and violently silenced those who provoked him. After warning the races and rejecting the idea of ruling the Human Race, Su Yu left the Invincibles unsettled, while King of Great Qin angrily warned the human leaders against antagonizing him.

• The God Race blocked humans from entering Tianxia Island unless they came from a few major prefectures, while the Devil Race faced separate passageways intended to divide its clans.
• Zhan Wushuang challenged humans from other prefectures to take one punch from him, and he severely wounded a Lingyun expert as other races stirred resentment against Su Yu and the human leaders.
• Su Yu arrived with three stone carvings, crushed several people who insulted him, and declared that he would rule through ruthless force if he became Human King.
• Su Yu seized the Mysterious Armor King's hall and threatened King Dao over Dao Cheng, then warned the Invincibles that he might unleash undead and Guardians in a final rampage before his death.
• King Dazhou told Qin Zhen that King of Great Qin had asked him to test Su Yu's views, and King of Great Qin later ordered the human leaders to stop provoking Su Yu and warned that he might enforce submission by force.

Su Yu attended the summit where the myriad races debated how to divide Star Mansion’s fixed entry slots after the Nine-Leaf Heavenly Lotus’s imminent maturation drew ancient clans into the contest. The factions tentatively agreed to determine the slots through contests in an ancient city, and the chapter ended as the races considered their candidates and Su Yu watched for the experts’ hidden strengths.

• Su Yu reflected on his choices as Ancient City Lord, then welcomed the arriving Hunter Pavilion Heaven Department Head and teased him about knowing the ancient city’s other old residents.
• Lantian arrived in place of Wan Tiansheng and asked Su Yu for shelter, but Su Yu directed him to Cloudsoar Sacred City instead.
• The races disputed how to divide 3,240 fixed slots, while ancient clans demanded more because the Nine-Leaf Heavenly Lotus was about to mature.
• King Moge proposed awarding slots through contests among representatives of different cultivation levels, and Su Yu agreed only if the matches took place in an ancient city under a seal.
• The factions provisionally accepted ancient-city contests, discussed candidate limits and the human race’s promised slots, and Lantian offered to compete as a Sun Moon Ninth Layer.
• Su Yu wondered which human experts would compete and decided to watch the races’ methods and identify their Civilization Masters.

Xuan Wuji exposed footage of Zhan Wushuang slaughtering small-race experts, hoping to bar him from the Star Mansion, but Su Yu turned the accusation into a farce and the races agreed to let the matter go. The slot competition was set to begin the next day, while Xuan Wuji and Dao Cheng were left furious and helpless.

• Xuan Wuji displayed footage of Zhan Wushuang killing experts from many small races and accused him of gathering blood essence for a sinister purpose.
• The White-haired Divine King tried to discredit the footage and privately offered Su Yu Heavenly Profound Light if he took the blame, but Su Yu demanded a carrier artifact and instead claimed Zhan Wushuang had procured the blood essence for him.
• Su Yu accepted Zhan Wushuang's blood essence, and a Primordial God Race expert blamed Tianqi for impersonating Zhan Wushuang and promised to punish him.
• Zhan Wushuang denied the killings and challenged Xuan Wuji to take a Heavenly Fate Curse; when Xuan Wuji invoked Su Yu's name, Su Yu slapped him and warned him to show respect.
• Su Yu proposed excluding Zhan Wushuang, Xuan Wuji, and Dao Cheng from the Star Mansion, but Xuan Wuji blamed a small-race cultivator and the Invincibles declared the incident a misunderstanding.
• The White-haired Divine King announced that the slot competition would begin the next day, while Su Yu considered using the blood essence to open new pages and Xuan Wuji and Dao Cheng fumed over their failed scheme.

Su Yu recruited the ancient city's demons and allies to compete for Star Mansion slots, then devoured essence blood to expand his cultivation and plan a Zhou Tian Method. At the slot-selection contest, he exploited the rules by sending a first-level Soaring dead spirit to compete, leaving the first match about to begin.

• Su Yu invited Blood Moon and the other great demons to fight for Star Mansion slots, gave them Ancient City Tokens, and told Elder Bai to stay out of the contest.
• Su Yu devoured essence blood from seventy-nine races, gained seventy-four new divine apertures, and reached a total of two hundred and ninety while considering how to derive a Zhou Tian Method.
• Tianhe brought Tianmen and other contestants to meet Su Yu, and explained how the Star Mansion assigned older entrants to more dangerous levels.
• Su Yu questioned the contest rules, but the Invincibles ruled that each person could enter only one match.
• Su Yu sent a first-level Soaring dead spirit into the ancient city as his contestant, and the Invincibles allowed it to compete for a slot.

Su Yu’s undead filled the competition city, turning the first-stage Soaring Realm round into a test of survival and earning his undead five slots. As the next round began, Su Yu provoked the races by directing the Howl King toward the Bright Light Birds, while Blue Sky warned him that the Three Bodies Unite path might be flawed; Su Yu ended by considering impersonating Wu Lan.

• Zhu Hongliang advised the other human participant to hide, then used summoned ants and a defensive arena to endure the dense death qi and secure five slots.
• Su Yu defended the undead-filled city as useful training, and Blue Sky warned him that Three Bodies Unite might be an inferior path compared with uniting myriad paths.
• Su Yu taunted the Howl King with claims about the taste of other races, prompting it to seize and eat a Bright Light Bird expert that Su Yu roasted with his Inheritance Fire.
• The White-haired Divine King, fearing Su Yu might be a dying madman, offered to deliver the carrier object he had previously promised.
• The first round ended with sixteen participants remaining outside the ancient houses, and Su Yu’s undead, Zhu Hongliang, and the other survivors each gained slots.
• Su Yu noticed Zhao Shiqi and Zheng Yunhui among the human contestants, then considered disguising himself as Wu Lan before recoiling at the idea.

Su Yu oversaw the Star Mansion quota competition, using undead and his own overwhelming strength to secure 136 slots while the human race struggled against coordinated targeting. The competition ended with the human race holding 420 slots after promised allocations, far fewer than the major races, as other races looked to Su Yu to sell his surplus.

• Su Yu sent undead into the early rounds, while the Gods, Devils, and other races targeted human contestants; King Dazhou and Niu Baidao decided the humans should kill undead to disrupt their opponents’ alliances.
• Su Yu offered discounted Heavenly Origin Qi, and after the first nine rounds he had secured twenty-five quotas while the human race had earned about fifty.
• Wan Mingze, Wu Qi, Dan Xiong, Huang Teng, and Qin Fang won notable quotas for the human race in the Lingyun competitions, but the human Invincibles remained concerned about their low totals.
• King of Great Qin called for stronger human contestants, while Su Yu refused King Dazhou’s request for help and invited other races to buy quotas from him instead.
• Su Yu silenced and confused the Lingyun Ninth Level contestants, then raised his strength to Sun Moon Seventh Level and defeated all eighty-nine, taking ninety quotas; Modona later won more than forty for the Devil Race.
• Lantian overwhelmed numerous Sun Moon Ninth Layer cultivators with his many duplicates before being defeated; after the remaining battles, Su Yu had 136 slots and the human race finished with 420, prompting other races to look to him for slots.