Chapter Summaries

Su Bai and Yun Fusheng revealed their strength and killed the Bloodweave Demon King and Poison Phoenix Demon King, forcing the other Demon Kings to flee the Senluo Forest Field. As the field began shrinking, Su Bai headed for a hole Feng Lingchen had burned through its barrier.

• Su Bai killed the Demon King who wielded confinement, then used his Thundercloud Sword Array and Yin Yang Sword Qi to destroy the Bloodweave Demon King and collect her demon cultivator origin.
• Yun Fusheng unleashed his lightning power, killed the Poison Phoenix Demon King, and collected his demon cultivator origin.
• The Black Mountain Demon King severely injured Xun Huo and escaped through the Senluo Forest Field's magic array as the other Demon Kings withdrew.
• Su Bai and Yun Fusheng watched the Demon Kings flee while the three Tree Demons of the Giant Wood Tribe began shrinking the Senluo Forest Field.
• Feng Lingchen burned a hole through the barrier with his Phoenix Dharma Form, and Su Bai flew toward the opening.

Su Bai destroyed the Giant Wood Tribe’s Magic Array and helped the Heavenly Star Alliance Cultivators escape, though the surviving Giant Wood Demon Kings fled. Afterward, Xun Huo handed Su Bai command of the First Alliance Army but agreed to stay and assist with the Lingyuan Offensive War.

• Su Bai chose to destroy the Magic Array rather than pursue Black Mountain Demon King, then attacked a Giant Wood Demon King with the Thundercloud Sword Array and Sword Soul.
• Su Bai tore through the Giant Wood Demon King’s body, used Abyssal Vortex Soul Listener to locate its true root, and pursued it as the other two Demon Kings detonated the Magic Array and escaped.
• The Heavenly Star Alliance Cultivators emerged from the shattered array, and Xun Huo thanked Su Bai for saving Xiao Ding and Feng Lingchen before accusing him of arranging the battle.
• Xun Huo acknowledged Su Bai’s strength, handed him command of the First Alliance Army, and offered to return to the Heavenly Star Alliance to recover.
• Su Bai asked Xun Huo to stay and help command the forces, and Xun Huo agreed.

After the alliance armies captured the Green Ying Spirit Plain, Old Ancestor Heavenly Star appointed Su Bai as its temporary lord. Su Bai accepted the post, gaining authority over the region’s resources while remaining responsible for its defense.

• Su Bai and Xun Huo divided their forces and advanced from opposite sides toward the Green Ying Mountain Range.
• With Old Ancestor Xiao guiding him, Su Bai led the Second Alliance Army in occupying Resource Points and securing them against counterattacks.
• A month later, Xun Huo and Su Bai’s forces met at the Green Ying Mountain Range, completing their capture of the Spirit Plain.
• Su Bai reported the victory to Old Ancestor Heavenly Star, who ordered some forces to remain and asked for a long-term lord to oversee the region.
• Su Bai volunteered to serve as Lord of Green Ying Spirit Plain, and Old Ancestor Heavenly Star appointed him temporarily.

Su Bai consolidated the Heavenly Star Alliance’s hold on Green Ying Spirit Plain, organized its defenders, and oversaw the construction of Green Ying City. Two years later, the city began attracting Cultivators, and Starlight Academy disciples arrived to train there.

• Yun Fusheng and the Southern Sea Cultivators departed for the South Sea after Yun Fusheng’s foundation was restored, while Su Bai invited Thunder Cloud Palace to shift its focus to Demon Star Sea.
• Su Bai established the Green Ying War Cultivator Camp, appointed Feng Lingchen as its commander, and recruited Cultivators to guard Green Ying Spirit Plain.
• Su Duanqiu reported that the two escaped Green Ying Demon Kings had joined Abyssal Spirit Plain, raising its total to seven great Demon Kings, so Su Bai postponed an invasion.
• Xun Huo and the other two Nascent Soul Cultivators returned to Heavenly Star City as news of Green Ying Spirit Plain’s capture and Su Bai’s victories spread through the alliance.
• Su Bai organized the development of Green Ying Spirit Plain and built Green Ying City, with thirty percent of its resource and Spirit Stone output assigned to the alliance.
• Two years later, Cultivators began arriving in Green Ying City through the Green Light Teleportation Area, and a Starlight Academy group arrived to pay respects to Su Bai and begin its trial.

Su Bai briefed Starlight Academy's sword Dao disciples on the newly discovered Sword Tomb Secret Realm and arranged for them to explore it. The disciples set out under Xu Qing's escort, while Su Bai hoped they would recover the spirit treasures he had sensed inside.

• Su Bai welcomed Xun Lu and the Starlight Academy trial disciples at the Lord's Mansion and named their destination the Sword Tomb Secret Realm.
• Su Bai explained that the unstable realm admitted only Foundation Establishment Cultivators and that Xun Lu would guard its entrance.
• Su Bai told the disciples that Sword Beasts guarded the buried swords and offered Contribution Points for recovered treasures, while allowing them to keep suitable swords.
• Xu Qing arrived with Green Ying War Cultivators to escort the disciples to the Secret Realm.
• Su Bai reflected that he could not enter the realm himself but hoped the disciples would bring out its spirit treasures.

Su Bai ordered the Immortal Palace cultivators to patrol Green Ying Spirit Plain openly and improve the Spirit of the Immortal Palace’s reputation, then watched the Starlight Academy disciples enter the Sword Tomb Secret Realm. The disciples encountered dangerous Sword Beasts, and Su Bai noticed one who drew a buried spirit sword out with his own sword intent.

• Su Bai gave Spirit Two, Spirit Three, and Spirit Four cultivation resources and ordered them to hunt Holy Hall cultivators while invoking his name when rescuing people.
• Su Bai told the Immortal Palace cultivators they could identify themselves openly and warned them to tell the newly appointed Thunder Lord not to cause trouble in Green Ying.
• Su Bai reached the Sword Tomb Secret Realm ahead of Xu Qing’s group and concealed himself to observe the Starlight Academy disciples inside.
• Zhao Yu told the Meridian Sword Disciples to split up and explore, and they began searching for buried swords.
• The disciples disturbed Sword Beasts while digging, and the beasts wounded several disciples and killed one.
• Su Bai spotted a Meridian Sword Disciple awakening a buried spirit sword with his sword intent instead of digging it out.

Su Bai discovered that Yun Jianming possessed the Mysterious Tier Sword Dao Talent Sword Meridian Resonance and directed him to search the Sword Tomb Secret Realm for spiritual treasures. Yun Jianming reached a buried sword-type spiritual treasure and began using his Hundred Sword Veins to draw it out.

• Su Bai assessed Yun Jianming and learned that his hidden Sword Meridian Resonance talent gave him a hundred innate Sword Veins and the ability to attract sword treasures.
• Yun Jianming used his Sword Intent to collect six top-grade spirit swords without alerting the Sword Beasts.
• As Yun Jianming wandered away from the spiritual treasures, Su Bai sent him a telepathic message and ordered him to find them before the unstable Secret Realm collapsed.
• Yun Jianming recognized Lu Jiu's voice and agreed to follow the Palace Master's directions.
• Su Bai guided Yun Jianming to a buried sword-type spiritual treasure, and Yun Jianming sat down to use his Hundred Sword Veins to draw it out.

Yun Jianming retrieved the Houtian Spirit Treasure Wrathful Water Skyfall from the Sword Tomb Secret Realm, and Su Bai claimed the sword after rescuing him. Impressed by Yun Jianming’s talent and character, Su Bai accepted him as his first disciple and arranged for him to train at the Green Ying Spirit Plain.

• Yun Jianming drew Wrathful Water Skyfall from beneath the ground while Sword Beasts surrounded him, so Su Bai teleported him out of the Sword Tomb Secret Realm.
• Yun Jianming presented the sword to Su Bai, who refined it and added the water sword to the five treasures needed for the Great Five Elements Yin-Yang Sword Array.
• Yun Jianming asked to become Su Bai’s disciple, and Su Bai accepted him after warning him of the responsibilities involved.
• Su Bai revealed his own Sword Veins so Yun Jianming would feel safe using his talent openly, then told him to leave Starlight Academy and train with the Green Ying War Cultivators.
• Su Bai instructed Yun Jianming to keep practicing the academy’s cultivation technique until Su Bai prepared a new art for him.

After the Sword Tomb Trial ended early, Su Bai accepted Yun Jianming as his disciple and began cultivating the Second Tier Great Five Elements Yin-Yang Sword Array. A year later, he copied Yun Jianming’s Sword Meridian Resonance and discovered that Ling Xi possessed the Yellow Tier Fire Talent Flowing Flame Shaping.

• Su Bai revealed to Xun Lu that he had accepted Yun Jianming as his disciple, and the Starlight Academy disciples left the Lord’s Mansion.
• Su Bai returned to closed-door cultivation and worked toward developing the Second Tier Great Five Elements Yin-Yang Sword Array while seeking Metal and Fire talents.
• A year later, Su Bai copied Yun Jianming’s Sword Meridian Resonance, which gave him a hundred Innate Sword Meridians and amplified his sword techniques.
• Su Bai summoned Ling Xi to the Spirit Plain and used Immortal Talent Reflection to discover Ling Xi’s Yellow Tier Spell Talent, Flowing Flame Shaping.

Black Mountain Demon King gathered the Demon Kings in Black Abyss to discuss how to reclaim Green Ying Spirit Plain from the Human Race. Poison Phoenix Demon King proposed unsealing an ancient Soul Devouring Nightmare Demon, leaving the group to weigh the danger of unleashing it.

• Su Bai ordered Spirit Three to continue watching over the Spirit Plain, then returned to cultivate in seclusion.
• Half a year later, Black Mountain Demon King questioned Profound Yin Demon King about his unsuccessful effort to obtain aid from Demon Star City.
• Black Mountain Demon King learned that Wood Third had recovered and that Demon King Liu Yu's strength came from a reward bestowed by a Demon Ancestor of the Upper Realm.
• Poison Phoenix Demon King revealed that a sealed land on Green Ying Spirit Plain held a powerful Soul Devouring Nightmare Demon imprisoned since ancient times.
• Black Mountain Demon King explained that the sealed Devil Race member had reached at least the Devil Emperor Realm, and Profound Yin Demon King urged the group to release it against Lu Jiu and the Human Race.

Black Mountain organized Demon Generals to break the seal in Green Ying Spirit Plain, while Su Bai strengthened his abilities and prepared to pursue the remaining Five Elements sword arts. Su Duanqiu noticed the demons were targeting a specific area and crossed into Abyssal Spirit Plain to capture a scout alive.

• The Poison Phoenix Demon King advised Black Mountain that Demon Generals could break the weakened seal from outside, so Black Mountain formed the Demon Breaker force without telling its members what lay within.
• Demon Breaker squads infiltrated Green Ying Spirit Plain, where Su Duanqiu and other defenders repeatedly discovered and killed them.
• Over the following year, Su Bai copied Flowing Flame Shaping, condensed the Spell Mark for Sky Burning Sword Prison, and continued seeking the Metal and Earth Attribute sword arts needed for his Great Five Elements Yin-Yang Sword Array.
• Su Duanqiu mapped the demons' movements and realized their incursions converged on a region deep within Green Ying Spirit Plain.
• Su Duanqiu crossed the border after a suspected reconnaissance specialist, intending to capture him alive.

Su Duanqiu tracked the wounded Giant Wood Tribe Demon General into the Abyssal Spirit Plain and fought him until two Demon Breaker allies arrived. Surrounded by three Late Stage Demon Generals, she tried to flee, but the Eagle Demon General blocked her escape, forcing her to pursue him.

• Su Duanqiu rode her spirit sword after the Giant Wood Tribe Demon General, who had fled and recovered by absorbing energy from an ancient tree.
• The Giant Wood Tribe Demon General called for aid, and an Ape Tribe Demon Cultivator and an Eagle Tribe Demon Cultivator agreed to help him.
• Su Duanqiu located the hidden Giant Wood Tribe Demon General with her Clear Heart Sword Intent and attacked him with the Myriad Sword Art.
• The Giant Wood Tribe Demon General used his severed arm and legs to trap Su Duanqiu's spirit swords with a giant hand and two Treants.
• The Ape and Eagle Demon Generals arrived, and Su Duanqiu decided to flee the three Late Stage Demon Generals.
• The Eagle Demon General blocked Su Duanqiu's escape, so she turned and chased after him with her spirit sword.

Su Duanqiu fought off several Demon Generals, but Dark Crow overwhelmed her and forced her to escape with a Temporary Teleportation Array. She reached the Immortal Palace Outpost in Green Ying City to report that the demons had gathered for a shared mission.

• Su Duanqiu used the Giant Golden Sword Technique to destroy two Treants, then wounded the Eagle Tribe Demon General with Five Swords Unite.
• Dark Crow ambushed Su Duanqiu with a Black Fireball, but her Clear Heart Sword Intent warned her in time to evade it.
• Dark Crow caught and shattered Su Duanqiu's spirit sword, so she activated a Temporary Teleportation Array and escaped its blast.
• Su Duanqiu contacted Su Bai and learned to meet him at the Immortal Palace Outpost in Green Ying City.
• Su Duanqiu met Su Bai, Disguised as Spirit Lord, and presented him with a marked map to report the Demon Generals' gathering.

Su Bai investigated the area where Demon Cultivators had been gathering, then returned to the Immortal Palace Outpost to receive its newly appointed Thunder. He discovered that Thunder was Long Xin, his old acquaintance from Starlight Academy.

• Su Bai examined Su Duanqiu’s map, searched the marked region with his Spiritual Sense, and ordered Feng Lingchen to station patrol teams there.
• Su Bai took Su Duanqiu back to the Immortal Palace Outpost to await the newly appointed Immortal Palace’s Thunder.
• Su Bai recalled that he had paid the Xuanzhe thirty million Spirit Stones for the array knowledge Thunder was bringing from Qianyuan.
• Immortal Palace’s Thunder arrived at the Teleportation Array with Lei Yi through Lei Wu, and Su Bai recognized him as Long Xin using Abyssal Vortex Soul Listener.
• Su Bai teased Long Xin about hiding behind a mask, and Long Xin revealed his face while Su Duanqiu recognized him as the cultivator she had once brought into the Immortal Palace.

Long Xin delivered Xuanzhe’s sealed array knowledge to Su Bai and asked him to introduce him to Lu Jiu so he could request Spirit Stones. Xuanzhe offered Su Bai an Immortal Envoy position and Grotto-Heaven authority in exchange for three hundred million Spirit Stones, and Su Bai agreed after learning the Immortal Palace held records about advancing to Spirit Transformation.

• Long Xin delivered Xuanzhe’s sealed jade slips to Su Bai, who verified and accepted the Immortal Palace array knowledge.
• Long Xin asked Su Bai to introduce him to Lu Jiu so he could request Spirit Stones for Xuanzhe, unaware that Su Bai was Lu Jiu.
• Su Bai contacted Xuanzhe through his Immortal Seed and learned Xuanzhe needed three hundred million Spirit Stones to support the Immortal Palace.
• Xuanzhe offered Su Bai an Immortal Envoy position, Grotto-Heaven authority, and access to Spirit Transformation records in exchange for the Spirit Stones.
• Su Bai agreed to gather the three hundred million Spirit Stones and insisted Xuanzhe also grant him the promised position and authority.

Su Bai met Long Xin, agreed to Xuanzhe’s harsher terms in exchange for sending three hundred million Spirit Stones to the Immortal Palace, and learned Long Xin would remain in the Demon Star Sea. After more than a year of cultivation, Su Bai completed his fourth Third Tier Five Elements sword art and set out to investigate the shrinking area where Demon Cultivators were searching for something.

• Su Bai revealed his identity as Uncle Jiu to Long Xin, who recounted the hardships he had endured in the Immortal Palace.
• Su Bai crushed Xuanzhe’s proposed contract, then agreed to its terms for Long Xin’s sake and gave him three hundred million Spirit Stones to deliver to the Immortal Palace.
• Long Xin chose to remain in the Demon Star Sea and promised not to recklessly harm Human Race Cultivators.
• Su Bai cultivated Myriad Blades Return to Origin over the following year, completing his fourth Third Tier Five Elements sword art.
• Su Bai studied Su Duanqiu’s Spirit Map, saw that the Demon Cultivators’ target area had narrowed to three hundred li, and went to search it himself.

After failing to find clues in the Demon Cultivators’ memories, Su Bai used Mountain Spirit's Gift to locate a barren patch of land and discovered a leaking Demon Race sealing altar beneath it. He organized guards and headed to Heavenly Star City to report the sealed Devil Race Cultivator.

• Su Bai searched the area for ten days and found that the captured Demon Cultivators’ memories were chaotic and useless.
• Su Bai used Mountain Spirit's Gift to locate a sharply bounded wasteland where no spiritual medicine grew.
• Su Bai descended beneath the wasteland, detected demonic qi, and found a cracked Demon Race sealing altar.
• Su Bai concluded that a powerful Devil Race Cultivator was sealed within the altar and feared the Demon Cultivators would break the seal.
• Su Bai brought Feng Lingchen and Green Ying War Cultivators to guard the area, then flew to Heavenly Star City to report the danger.

Su Bai brought Old Ancestor Heavenly Star and Heavenly Law Ancestor to investigate a Demon Race Altar sealing a powerful Devil Race Cultivator, and they arranged to reinforce and guard it. Three months later, the Demon Sealing Stronghold was complete, and Su Bai left its defense to Feng Lingchen.

• Su Bai told Old Ancestor Heavenly Star that a sealed Devil Race Cultivator beneath Green Ying Spirit Plain gave off a deadly aura, and Heavenly Law Ancestor joined them to inspect it.
• Old Ancestor Heavenly Star confirmed the altar contained devilish qi, while Su Bai explained that Demon Race Cultivators had been trying to break its seal.
• Heavenly Law Ancestor assessed that the altar would remain intact for thousands of years if protected, and Old Ancestor Heavenly Star arranged for Nascent Soul Cultivators to take turns guarding it.
• Black Mountain Demon King rejected Profound Yin Demon King's proposal to attack Green Ying, disbanded Demon Breaker, and brought Poison Phoenix Demon King and Profound Yin Demon King into the Abyssal Spirit Plain.
• Su Bai and Heavenly Law Ancestor built a costly Defense Grand Array, and three months later Su Bai named the completed stronghold the Demon Sealing Stronghold and handed it over to Feng Lingchen.
• Su Bai left through Green Ying City's Teleportation Array after joking that he might someday open the altar and send the sealed cultivator to Demon Star City.

Su Bai traveled to Tian Nan to obtain an Earth Attribute Sword Dao Divine Ability from the Thick Earth Sword Sect and learned that it had split from the once-mighty Five Elements Sect. He reached the sect’s ruined mountain gate and discovered it had no Golden Core Cultivators, leaving him poised to meet its strongest disciple.

• Su Bai spent three months flying to Tian Nan, where he sensed the continent’s Spiritual Energy was severely depleted.
• Su Bai visited the Taiyin Sect, received a map from its Grand Elder, and learned the Thick Earth Sword Sect was one of five righteous sects descended from the Five Elements Sect.
• Su Bai used short-range teleportation to travel toward the Thick Earth Sword Sect, avoiding traces that could reveal his movements.
• Su Bai arrived at the sect’s barren mountain gate and found only twelve Foundation Establishment Cultivators, with one at Peak Foundation Establishment.

Su Bai visited the Thick Earth Sword Sect in disguise as Lu Jiu and obtained an Earth Attribute sword technique for the Grand Five Elements Sword Array. After learning that the Palace of Reincarnation held much of the Five Elements Sect’s legacy, he asked about its headquarters and strength.

• Su Bai offered the Thick Earth Sword Sect’s Sect Master, Liu Shanyu, a Golden Core Breakthrough Pill in exchange for access to the sect’s inherited manuals.
• Liu Shanyu led Su Bai into the sect’s secret chamber, where Su Bai found and copied the third-tier divine ability Thousand Mountain Shadow Slash.
• Su Bai gave Liu Shanyu a Profound Gold Pill, and Liu Shanyu told him that the Palace of Reincarnation had inherited much of the Five Elements Sect’s legacy.
• Liu Shanyu revealed that the Palace of Reincarnation’s headquarters was in the Nether Mountain Range and that a Nascent Soul Realm Grand Elder was stationed in its Nether Secret Realm.