Chapter Summaries

Su Bai strengthened the Crimson Flame Island outpost while the Immortal Palace force advanced toward Rock Island. Zhong Ming sought help from Thunder Cloud Palace, but before he could meet Old Ancestor Yun, he received word that Rock Island was under surprise attack and close to falling.

• Su Bai added superior formations to the outpost’s defenses, creating a powerful but Spirit-Stone-hungry linked formation.
• The Immortal Palace Eagle and Su Bai detected Rock Island’s concealed watchers, allowing the Immortal Palace force to evade them and reach Rock Island’s sea area.
• Zhong Ming arrived at Thunder Cloud Palace and thanked Chen Shuo for saving him during the battle on Crimson Flame Island.
• Zhong Ming and Chen Shuo discussed gathering South Sea Nascent Soul cultivators to stop the Immortal Palace before it secured a foothold.
• After waiting all day for Old Ancestor Yun, Zhong Ming received a message that the Immortal Palace had launched a surprise attack on Rock Island and that the island was about to fall.

After learning that the Immortal Palace had attacked Rock Island, Zhong Ming pleaded with Yun Fusheng to intervene. Yun Fusheng vowed to consider the threat and summoned the South Sea Nascent Soul Cultivators to Thunder Island.

• Zhong Ming received a message that the Immortal Palace had attacked Rock Island, but he could not contact the island again.
• Yun Fusheng arrived and questioned Zhong Ming about his troubled expression, unaware that Rock Island had fallen.
• Zhong Ming told Yun Fusheng that Rock Island and Barren Rock Sect had been destroyed, then begged him to avenge the sect.
• Yun Fusheng let Zhong Ming stay on Thunder Island and said he would consult the other South Sea Nascent Soul Cultivators before acting.
• Yun Fusheng sent messages to the other Nascent Soul Cultivators, who arrived at Thunder Island within a day.

Yun Fusheng gathered seven South Sea Nascent Soul Cultivators at Thunder Cloud Palace to plan an attack on Immortal Palace, which had seized Rock Island and Crimson Flame Island. Thousand Wood Old Ancestor warned that Immortal Palace had three Nascent Soul Cultivators in the region, and the group prepared to move out with Yun Fusheng guarding against Xuanzhe.

• Yun Fusheng welcomed the seven Nascent Soul Cultivators who had gathered at Thunder Cloud Palace to discuss Immortal Palace.
• Yun Fusheng argued that the South Sea forces should attack Immortal Palace and reclaim Rock Island and Crimson Flame Island.
• An Artifact Island Grand Elder and Thousand Wood Old Ancestor supported Yun Fusheng's proposal, while Yin Yang Old Demon questioned whether all eight cultivators needed to act.
• Thousand Wood Old Ancestor explained that Xuanzhe was a Nascent Soul Late Stage Immortal Envoy and that Yellow Springs and Tianshu had recently joined Immortal Palace.
• Yun Fusheng agreed to guard against Xuanzhe while the other seven South Sea cultivators confronted Yellow Springs and Tianshu.

South Sea Nascent Soul Cultivators agreed to attack Crimson Flame Island immediately, while Su Bai gathered Rock Island's resources and corpses before ordering the Immortal Palace forces to withdraw. He learned that eight Nascent Souls were approaching and prepared to face Old Ancestor Yun at Crimson Flame Island.

• Old Ancestor Yun accepted Thousand Wood Old Ancestor's plan, postponed discussions of spoils, and led the Nascent Souls toward Crimson Flame Island.
• Su Bai arrived at Rock Island, collected Storage Bags containing its resources and the corpses of Cultivators above the Foundation Establishment Realm for Tiangang.
• Su Bai told Immortal Palace Wood to spare Rock Island's lower-level Cultivators, explaining that they could support the Immortal Palace's future development.
• Su Bai revealed that eight South Sea Nascent Souls were approaching and ordered Immortal Palace Wood and the other Golden Cores to return to Crimson Flame Island.
• Su Bai prepared to confront Old Ancestor Yun in his role as an Immortal Palace Envoy.

Su Bai detected seven Southern Sea Nascent Soul Cultivators approaching Crimson Flame Island and alerted the Five Pulse Lords, while the island’s defenses were activated. The Southern Sea group began attacking the formidable formation and searching for its weak point, wary that Su Bai and Yellow Springs might intervene.

• Su Bai sensed seven figures approaching Crimson Flame Island and warned the Five Pulse Lords, who activated the outpost’s Defense Formation Array.
• Thousand Wood Old Ancestor’s group discussed Su Bai’s powerful Spiritual Sense and continued toward the island while guarding against an ambush.
• The seven Nascent Soul Cultivators reached the island and assessed the activated formation, learning that breaking it by force would take considerable time.
• Thousand Wood Old Ancestor assigned Yin Yang Old Demon to attack the formation while Artifact Island’s two Grand Elders searched for its weak point.
• Yin Yang Old Demon summoned a pillar of moonlight and struck the formation as the two Grand Elders began examining it with Formation Plates.

Su Bai’s Defense Formation withstood the South Sea Nascent Souls’ assault, so he sent Tiangang to attack the Artifact Island elders surveying it. The Thousand Wood Old Ancestor trapped Tiangang in proliferating vines and called for the Yin Yang Old Demon to kill him.

• The Yin Yang Old Demon’s moonlight attack failed to break the fully activated Defense Formation, and the Myriad Blades Sect and Cold Jade Sect Grand Elders joined his assault.
• The Artifact Island Grand Elders began surveying the formation for a weakness while Su Bai decided to send Tiangang into the fray.
• Tiangang burst from underground toward the Artifact Island Grand Elders, but the Thousand Wood Old Ancestor anticipated his attack and Artifact Island Second Elder tried to trap him with a formation disk.
• Tiangang shattered the formation disk with a punch, but the Thousand Wood Old Ancestor’s vines bound him and multiplied until he could no longer escape.
• The Thousand Wood Old Ancestor telepathically ordered the Yin Yang Old Demon to kill Tiangang.

Su Bai used the stronghold’s Spirit Energy Cannons to interrupt Yin Yang Old Demon’s attack, then broke Thousand Wood Old Ancestor’s vines and freed Tiangang. Su Bai ordered Tiangang to retreat to the ground.

• Yin Yang Old Demon redirected his Quasi Tier 4 Divine Ability toward trapped Tiangang as Su Bai judged that he needed to intervene.
• Su Bai commanded the stronghold’s Golden Core Cultivators to fire three Spirit Energy Cannons at Yin Yang Old Demon.
• Yin Yang Old Demon diverted his moonlight attack to block the cannons, and their collision filled the sky with a blinding explosion.
• Su Bai rushed through the blast and shattered the vines binding Tiangang with a punch.
• Su Bai telepathically told Tiangang to go to the ground.

Su Bai battled Thousand Wood Old Ancestor and his allies, using his insight and Earth Escape Technique to counter their overwhelming attacks. After Thousand Wood Old Ancestor unleashed thousands of clones, Su Bai evaded them underground and began destroying them.

• Su Bai identified Thousand Wood Old Ancestor's real body and blasted him with an exploding Spiritual Power Point, forcing him to switch places with a clone.
• Thousand Wood Old Ancestor, Pill Saint Qiu Yi, and the Myriad Blades Sect and Cold Jade Sect Nascent Souls hesitated to attack Su Bai directly.
• Thousand Wood Old Ancestor created thousands of clones and sent them to bombard Su Bai with Divine Abilities while Pill Saint Qiu Yi gave him recovery pills.
• Su Bai detonated four Spiritual Power Points, destroying dozens of clones, before the clones' barrage filled his position with smoke.
• Thousand Wood Old Ancestor sensed that Su Bai had escaped underground and sent the clones after him, but Su Bai's faster Earth Escape Technique let him evade them and punch apart several clones.

Su Bai used the Spirit Energy Cannons to destroy Thousand Wood Old Ancestor’s Thousand Wood Clones, then pursued him through the sky. The chapter ended with Thousand Wood Old Ancestor activating his Tier 4 Art of Wood Dragon Armor as Su Bai’s fist closed in.

• Su Bai ambushed and killed Thousand Wood Clones underground, then attacked the retreating clones until Thousand Wood Old Ancestor ordered them into the air.
• Thousand Wood Old Ancestor led the South Sea Nascent Souls and clones in an assault on the Immortal Palace Outpost’s defense formation while Su Bai and Heavenly Gang watched from underground.
• Su Bai directed the Nine Spirit Energy Cannons to annihilate hundreds of clones in repeated volleys, breaking Thousand Wood Old Ancestor’s Clone Divine Ability.
• Su Bai and Heavenly Gang emerged and attacked the South Sea Nascent Souls, while Thousand Wood Old Ancestor fled and the others tried to intercept Su Bai.
• Su Bai overcame the Nascent Souls’ attacks and drove Pill Saint Qiu Yi aside before closing in on Thousand Wood Old Ancestor above the clouds.
• Su Bai slowed Thousand Wood Old Ancestor with his Spiritual Pressure Domain Field, and Thousand Wood Old Ancestor activated his Tier 4 Art of Wood Dragon Armor.

Su Bai battered Thousand Wood Old Ancestor until Old Ancestor Yun intervened with a powerful lightning attack. Su Bai escaped Old Ancestor Yun by diving underground, where the Earth Yin Power began restoring his depleted Spiritual Power.

• Su Bai repeatedly struck Thousand Wood Old Ancestor, breaking down his Wood Dragon Armor and leaving him unable to fight back.
• Old Ancestor Yun attacked Su Bai with Purple Lightning, destroying his Spiritual Power Points and forcing him to abandon his pursuit of Thousand Wood Old Ancestor.
• Su Bai linked his Spiritual Pressure Domain Field to Old Ancestor Yun to match his speed while blocking his lightning attacks and fleeing toward the ground.
• Old Ancestor Yun pursued Su Bai with repeated lightning strikes, but Su Bai escaped underground using his Earth Escape Technique.
• The Earth Yin Power replenished Su Bai's Spiritual Power, restoring ten percent in ten breaths.

Xuanzhe brought the Immortal Palace Headquarters to Crimson Flame Island and used its Grotto-Heaven to capture the South Sea Nascent Souls. Inside, Su Bai isolated and killed the Myriad Blades Sect Old Ancestor, while the remaining enemies were still divided across the Grotto-Heaven.

• Old Ancestor Yun led the South Sea Nascent Souls in attacking Crimson Flame Island’s defense formation, but Su Bai’s Nine Spirit Energy Cannons bought it time to recover.
• Xuanzhe brought the Immortal Palace Headquarters palace through space, then opened five Immortal Bridges and pulled the South Sea Nascent Souls into the Immortal Palace Grotto-Heaven.
• Su Bai and Tiangang entered the Grotto-Heaven, where Xuanzhe had separated the South Sea Nascent Souls into several groups.
• Su Bai found the Myriad Blades Sect Nascent Soul traveling alone and attacked him, blocking his Blade Aura with Absolute Defense.
• Su Bai battered the Myriad Blades Sect Nascent Soul, shattered his saber and body, and destroyed his escaping Nascent Soul with one punch.

Su Bai stopped the Immortal Palace from wiping out the South Sea Nascent Souls and proposed peace with Yun Fusheng, aiming to recruit the survivors into the Heavenly Star Alliance. The two sides gathered to negotiate, though Xuanzhe remained displeased and Yin Yang Old Ancestor grew wary when Su Bai recognized him.

• Su Bai stored the Myriad Blades Sect Nascent Soul's body and surveyed the battle in the Grotto-Heaven.
• Xuanzhe used the Grotto-Heaven's power to fight Old Ancestor Yun and suppress six other South Sea Nascent Souls.
• Su Bai told Xuanzhe to halt the fighting and proposed that Crimson Flame Island and Rock Island become Immortal Palace territory while leaving the other nine islands for later.
• Su Bai confronted Yun Fusheng with a fragment of the slain Nascent Soul's spiritual treasure and offered to end the battle; Yun Fusheng hesitated and began to relent.
• Xuanzhe lifted the Grotto-Heaven's suppression and barrier, allowing the South Sea Nascent Souls to gather before the two sides faced each other.
• Su Bai urged both sides to make peace, and Yin Yang Old Ancestor reacted warily when Su Bai identified him.

Su Bai brokered peace between the Immortal Palace and the South Sea forces by agreeing to pay thirty billion Spirit Stones for Crimson Flame Island, while the Immortal Palace withdrew from Rock Island. After the South Sea Nascent Souls departed, Su Bai left to begin recruiting in the South Sea, and Rock Island remained unclaimed for more than a decade.

• Su Bai offered to end the fighting if the South Sea forces accepted that the Immortal Palace would stop expanding and keep Crimson Flame Island and Rock Island.
• Old Ancestor Yun demanded one hundred billion Spirit Stones and insisted the Immortal Palace choose only one island, while Xuanzhe and Old Ancestor Yun threatened each other.
• Su Bai proposed thirty billion Spirit Stones paid over ten years, and he privately promised Xuanzhe that Lu would cover the payment.
• Old Ancestor Yun held a vote, and all six South Sea Nascent Souls accepted the peace deal and agreed on how to divide the Spirit Stones.
• Su Bai handed Old Ancestor Yun the first installment of three billion Spirit Stones, and Old Ancestor Yun opened a way for the South Sea Nascent Souls to leave.
• The Immortal Palace withdrew from Rock Island and focused on Crimson Flame Island, while Su Bai departed to begin recruiting in the South Sea.

Su Bai, posing as Lu Jiu, visited Yun Fusheng to persuade Thunder Cloud Palace to join the Heavenly Star Alliance after the Immortal Palace took control of the South Sea. Yun Fusheng acknowledged the offer’s appeal but hesitated over relocating his several-thousand-year-old sect, and Su Bai offered a Lightning Summoning Soul Cleansing Pill to win him over.

• After handing the battle’s harvested flesh and blood to Tiangang to aid his advancement, Su Bai left Crimson Flame Island and returned to his Lu Jiu identity.
• Su Bai arrived openly at Thunder Island, where Chen Shuo and other Thunder Cloud Palace cultivators escorted him to meet Yun Fusheng.
• Yun Fusheng welcomed Lu Jiu and shared Spirit Wine with him, while acknowledging that he could guess why Lu Jiu had come.
• Su Bai offered Thunder Cloud Palace a prime spiritual land, free locations in Heavenly Star City and Green Ying City, and a possible path for Yun Fusheng to become Vice Alliance Leader if the sect joined the Heavenly Star Alliance.
• Yun Fusheng agreed that joining could benefit Thunder Cloud Palace but said relocating from Thunder Island would be difficult.
• Su Bai offered Thunder Cloud Palace a Lightning Summoning Soul Cleansing Pill if Yun Fusheng led the sect into the Heavenly Star Alliance.

Su Bai persuaded Yun Fusheng to bring Thunder Cloud Palace into Heavenly Star Alliance, promising it would retain independence and could leave if the alliance no longer served it. As Thunder Cloud Palace prepared to migrate to Green Ying Spirit Plain, Su Bai informed Old Ancestor Heavenly Star and sought a meeting with the alliance’s faction representatives to explain the decision.

• Su Bai offered Yun Fusheng a Nascent Soul Breakthrough Pill and assured him that Thunder Cloud Palace would remain independent within Heavenly Star Alliance and could withdraw if it wished.
• Yun Fusheng agreed to join the alliance because he wanted to fight alongside Su Bai against the Demon Race, and he set the migration for one month later.
• Yun Fusheng announced Thunder Cloud Palace’s move to the assembled disciples, allowing those who wished to stay behind to guard Thunder Island; most chose to migrate.
• Su Bai promised the joining cultivators alliance benefits and obligations, then returned to Demon Star Sea to confirm Thunder Cloud Palace’s entry with Old Ancestor Heavenly Star.
• Old Ancestor Heavenly Star promised the alliance treasury would prioritize supplying ingredients for three Lightning Summoning Soul Cleansing Pills and told Su Bai to address concerns from the Nascent Soul factions.
• Su Bai asked Old Ancestor Heavenly Star to summon the alliance’s faction representatives so they could discuss Thunder Cloud Palace’s admission.

Su Bai gathered the Heavenly Star Alliance’s Nascent Soul Cultivators and announced that Thunder Cloud Palace would join the alliance and relocate to the Green Ying Spirit Plain. He defended the decision as necessary to strengthen the alliance against the Demon Race, leaving questions about Thunder Cloud Palace’s place in the alliance to be settled.

• Old Ancestor Heavenly Star helped Lu Jiu gather the alliance’s Nascent Soul Cultivators at the Star Gazing Platform, where Heavenly Law Ancestor and the Xun Family Ancestor’s lineage greeted Su Bai warmly.
• Su Bai announced that Thunder Cloud Palace had agreed to join the Heavenly Star Alliance and move to the Green Ying Spirit Plain.
• Xun Family Ancestor Xun Yu questioned whether Thunder Cloud Palace might have ulterior motives and whether a sect could fit within the alliance.
• Su Bai argued that the alliance needed to absorb sect forces to overcome its growth bottleneck and prepare for an eventual decisive battle with the Demon Race.
• Su Bai said he would place Thunder Cloud Palace appropriately within the alliance and described the Green Ying Spirit Plain as a future gathering point for allied sects.

Su Bai arranged Thunder Cloud Palace's entry into the Heavenly Star Alliance and organized its migration to Green Ying Spirit Plain. Before he could travel to the South Sea, Yan Chi arrived in Green Ying City and met with Su Bai, who asked why he had come.

• Su Bai helped the Heavenly Star Alliance agree to Thunder Cloud Palace's membership and secure it a stronghold in Heavenly Star City.
• Su Bai arranged Spirit Boats and Golden Core escorts to transport Thunder Cloud Palace's disciples, while planning to escort Old Ancestor Yun and the sect's leaders himself.
• You He told Su Bai that Yan Chi had arrived and requested an audience.
• Su Bai met Yan Chi in the Small Meeting Hall and learned that Yan Chi had survived Crimson Flame Island's ostracism and spent half a year hunting Demonic Beasts near Green Ying City.
• Su Bai asked Yan Chi what he had come to see him about.

Yan Chi secured the Crimson Flame Sect’s admission to the Heavenly Star Alliance, and Su Bai arranged a place for the sect to settle in the Green Ying Spirit Plain. After the Crimson Flame Sect began rebuilding, Su Bai welcomed Old Ancestor Yun and Thunder Cloud Palace to Heavenly Star City.

• Yan Chi asked Su Bai to admit the Crimson Flame Sect into the Heavenly Star Alliance and explained that he had forgiven the sect’s internal feud to preserve his master’s legacy.
• Su Bai gave Yan Chi the alliance rules, a Green Ying Token, and information about the Spirit Land assigned to the Crimson Flame Sect.
• Yan Chi led the Crimson Flame Sect’s disciples to their new Spirit Land, where they built a mountain gate and established the sect over the following half year.
• Su Bai traveled to the South Sea and escorted Old Ancestor Yun and Thunder Cloud Palace’s senior cultivators to Heavenly Star City.
• Old Ancestor Heavenly Star welcomed Old Ancestor Yun into the alliance through a voice transmission, and Old Ancestor Yun replied that he would now serve under his banner.

Su Bai welcomed Old Ancestor Yun and Thunder Cloud Palace into the Heavenly Star Alliance, then helped them settle at Green Ying Spirit Plain. After Thunder Cloud Palace established its new mountain gate, Su Bai began an extended retreat to pursue the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.

• Su Bai arrived at the banquet, where Old Ancestor Heavenly Star and the alliance’s Nascent Soul Cultivators warmly welcomed Old Ancestor Yun and Thunder Cloud Palace.
• Old Ancestor Yun met privately with the Heavenly Star Alliance’s leaders and smoothly integrated into the alliance.
• Su Bai brought Old Ancestor Yun to a rich Spirit Land at Green Ying Spirit Plain and gave him a Lightning Summoning Soul Cleansing Pill.
• Thunder Cloud Palace’s Golden Core Cultivators built a mountain gate, and its disciples later arrived to settle there.
• Su Bai returned to the Lord of Green Ying Plain's Residence and entered Closed-door Cultivation to seek a breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.

After more than thirty years of seclusion, Su Bai reached the peak of Nascent Soul Early Stage and advanced his demonic bloodline to Mid Demon King Stage. On his hundredth birthday, he left seclusion to relax in Green Ying City, where he met his disciple Yun Jianming for a quiet meal and conversation.

• Su Bai realized it was his hundredth birthday after decades spent cultivating in Green Ying City.
• Su Bai teleported from his Cultivation Room to a mortal tavern and ordered wine and food.
• Yun Jianming arrived after receiving Su Bai's telepathic message and joined him at the table.
• Su Bai asked Yun Jianming about his progress with the First-Turn Grand Five Elements Sword Array and advised him not to rush.
• Su Bai and Yun Jianming drank together and discussed cultivation until the tavern closed.
• Yun Jianming paid the bill and found that Su Bai had already disappeared.