Chapter Summaries

Su Bai toured Green Ying City and Green Ying Spirit Plain, reflecting on their growth and the South Sea’s collapse under the Immortal Palace’s raids. He discovered a Holy Hall outpost and killed its cultivators, leaving the Demonic Path force’s presence on the plain challenged.

• Su Bai secretly supported the Jade Mist Sect outpost in Green Ying City and saw Xu Ping'an instructing Foundation Establishment Cultivators, including Dongfang Luoyu and Xiao Yifei.
• Su Bai walked through Green Ying City and observed how South Sea refugees and sects had moved there as the Immortal Palace’s raids worsened.
• Su Bai assessed Green Ying Spirit Plain’s resources and noted that the Heavenly Star Alliance would likely seize more Demon Star Sea territory to meet Human Cultivators’ needs.
• Su Bai sensed a Holy Hall outpost on Green Ying Spirit Plain and appeared inside it.
• A Holy Hall cultivator recognized Su Bai as Lu Jiu and ordered the others to flee, but Su Bai killed all the outpost’s demonic cultivators with Sword Qi.

Su Bai surveyed the Heavenly Star Alliance’s growing strength, destroyed a Holy Hall stronghold on the Green Ying Spirit Plain, and checked the Demon Sealing Altar and Green Ying Academy. He then decided that the Sword Tomb Secret Realm had nearly recovered and it was time to retrieve the Spirit Treasure Longsword within it.

• Su Bai used the Heavenly Star Alliance’s overwhelming strength to eradicate a Demonic Sect Sacred Hall stronghold, clearing the Green Ying Spirit Plain of its influence.
• Su Bai inspected the Demon Sealing Altar, where Feng Lingchen and the Artifact Sect Great Elder reported that nothing was amiss.
• Su Bai visited Green Ying Academy and reflected on how its open enrollment and practical training helped cultivate members for the Heavenly Star Alliance.
• Su Bai reviewed the talents he had copied over the years and considered how his growing Five Elements talents strengthened his Grand Five Elements Sword Array.
• Su Bai concluded that the Sword Tomb Secret Realm had almost recovered and set out to retrieve the Spirit Treasure Longsword inside.

After forty years, Su Bai reopened the Sword Tomb Secret Realm and entered with a Wood Lotus Clone to collect its precious swords. He obtained the Metal Attribute Houtian Spirit Treasure Taibai Sword and headed toward the other three sword locations, having gathered metal, fire, and water attributes so far.

• Su Bai arrived at the Sword Tomb Secret Realm outpost, where the Green Ying War Cultivators' leader welcomed him and activated the defensive formation.
• Su Bai created a Peak Foundation Establishment Wood Lotus Clone and sent it into the secret realm because its unstable space could not support his main body.
• Su Bai surveyed the secret realm, confirmed four precious-sword locations remained, and used his Five Elements Sword Qi to drive away the Sword Beasts guarding the first one.
• Su Bai awakened the buried sword with his Sword Meridian Resonance talent and obtained the Metal Attribute Houtian Spirit Treasure Taibai Sword.
• Su Bai put away Taibai Sword and flew toward the other three precious-sword locations, having collected metal-, fire-, and water-attribute swords.

Su Bai recovered several Spirit Treasure swords but still lacked the Earth Attribute sword needed for his array, then opened the Sword Tomb Secret Realm to selected disciples. After mourning Su Yao and reflecting on his distance from mortal life, he broke through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage and left the imperial mausoleum.

• Su Bai found the Longevity Sword, Tiangang Sword, and Purple Dragon Sword in the Sword Tomb Secret Realm, but none was the Earth Attribute sword he needed.
• Su Bai refined several Spirit Treasures, set the Tiangang Sword aside for a future successor, and told Feng Lingchen to arrange access to the Secret Realm every ten years for Meridian Sword Disciples from Starlight Academy and Green Ying Academy.
• Su Bai traveled to Su Yao's tomb in the Yan Kingdom Imperial Mausoleum and spent three days and nights reading the account of her life.
• Su Bai awakened from his reflection and broke through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, greatly increasing his spiritual power and Spiritual Sense.
• Su Bai cleansed Su Ming's meridians and marrow, then vanished from the imperial mausoleum.

After reaching the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, Su Bai returned to the Jade Mist Sect to deliver a Lightning Summoning Soul Cleansing Pill. He left after deciding that his ties to the sect were nearly settled, leaving Zhang Jingyun worried that he might not return for a long time.

• Su Bai returned to the Jade Mist Sect with a newly refined Lightning Summoning Soul Cleansing Pill for the sect.
• Zhang Jingyun asked whether Xu Shangran should receive the pill, but Su Bai left the decision to him as Sect Master.
• Su Bai reflected that the pill would largely settle his karma with the Jade Mist Sect and let him focus on advancing and ascending.
• Su Bai used his spiritual sense to check on Xu Shangran, Zhao Shanhe, and the sect, then vanished without meeting them.
• Zhang Jingyun watched Su Bai leave and feared he would be gone for much longer than forty years.

Su Bai returned to Green Ying City after advancing to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, while Old Ancestor Heavenly Star continued his decades-long search for the injured Demon King Liu Yu. The chapter left Old Ancestor Heavenly Star secretly searching the Giant Wood Demon Race’s territory, the last place he suspected Liu Yu might be hiding.

• Su Bai returned to the Immortal Palace Outpost in Green Ying City and estimated that the Immortal Palace would need centuries to take over the South Sea.
• Su Bai paused his cultivation and went to meet Old Ancestor Heavenly Star, but learned that he had already left the Star Gazing Platform.
• Old Ancestor Heavenly Star infiltrated Green Wood Spirit Plain to search for Demon King Liu Yu, whose injuries he hoped to exploit before the Demon Race united against the Heavenly Star Alliance.
• Old Ancestor Heavenly Star entered the Giant Wood Demon Race’s territory in disguise and searched it with his powerful Spiritual Sense.

Old Ancestor Heavenly Star infiltrated the Giant Wood Territory to find Demon King Liu Yu, who emerged to confront him and spoke of the Qingxuan Realm and a fate controlled by higher powers. As Liu Yu summoned strange runes, Heavenly Star sensed that something ominous was about to happen.

• Old Ancestor Heavenly Star was discovered by a Giant Wood Demon King and struck the demon with a powerful Divine Sense Ability.
• The injured Giant Wood Demon King recognized Tian Xing and secretly alerted the Demon Kings across the territory, while Liu Yu learned of his arrival through other channels.
• Liu Yu left his underground hiding place, and Heavenly Star fled toward the Green Wood Spirit Plain's outskirts before Liu Yu attacked with black roots.
• Heavenly Star countered Liu Yu's attack with a quasi-X Tier Fire Attribute Spell Divine Ability that suppressed the wood-based roots.
• Liu Yu emerged and told Heavenly Star that their battle represented the fates of the Human and Demon Races, then described how higher realms controlled the world.
• Liu Yu rose into the air amid Weird Runes, leaving Heavenly Star uneasy as he demanded to know what Liu Yu meant.

Demon King Liu Yu summoned a Demon Ancestor from the Spirit Realm, who possessed his body and demanded that Old Ancestor Heavenly Star submit or die. Old Ancestor Heavenly Star pretended to agree, then escaped using a Teleportation Array Disc.

• Old Ancestor Heavenly Star tried to disrupt Demon King Liu Yu's Weird Spell with a Divine Sense Ability, but the runes swallowed it.
• Demon King Liu Yu declared that Qingxuan Realm would become a Holy Land of the Demon Race and called for the Demon Ancestor's descent.
• Demon King Liu Yu burned his Demon Race Bloodline energy to open spatial rifts, and a Demon Race Split Soul from the Spirit Realm descended into his body.
• The possessed Demon King Liu Yu demanded that Old Ancestor Heavenly Star submit or die.
• Old Ancestor Heavenly Star claimed he was willing to submit, then activated Heavenly Law Ancestor's Teleportation Array Disc and vanished.

The Demon Ancestor tracked Old Ancestor Heavenly Star to Heavenly Star City and demanded that he and Su Bai submit. After the Demon Ancestor destroyed the Star Tower, Su Bai suspected he had come to claim the Qingxuan Realm and began considering how to oppose him.

• The Demon Ancestor tore through space, found Old Ancestor Heavenly Star in Heavenly Star City, and followed him to the Star Gazing Platform.
• Su Bai joined Old Ancestor Heavenly Star, who explained that Demon King Liu Yu had summoned the Demon Ancestor from the Spirit Realm and that he had fled when ordered to submit.
• The Demon Ancestor intercepted Su Bai and Old Ancestor Heavenly Star's telepathic messages, then attacked them with a Demon Essence Light Ball.
• Su Bai and Old Ancestor Heavenly Star dodged the attack, but the Demon Ancestor's strike shattered the Star Tower and its defensive formations.
• The Demon Ancestor again demanded their submission and displayed two Green Seeds that he used to control targets.
• Su Bai suspected the Demon Ancestor had come to claim the Qingxuan Realm and considered using the Demon Sealing Altar to turn the Devil Race against him as factions fled Heavenly Star City and Nascent Soul Old Ancestors approached the ruins.

Su Bai attacked the Demon Ancestor with his full strength, then escaped to the Demon Sealing Altar on Green Ying Spirit Plain. He and Feng Lingchen shattered the altar just as the Demon Ancestor caught up, releasing the demonic qi within.

• Six Nascent Soul Cultivators gathered above the clouds, and Su Bai warned them that the Demon Ancestor had descended from the Spirit Realm.
• Su Bai unleashed the Three-turn Grand Five Elements Sword Array, forcing the Demon Ancestor back despite the Demon Ancestor blocking most of the strike with a giant hand.
• Su Bai teleported to the Demon Sealing Altar, and the enraged Demon Ancestor tore through Void Space to pursue him.
• Old Ancestor Heavenly Star urged the other Nascent Souls to flee after the Demon Ancestor left.
• Feng Lingchen attacked the Demon Sealing Altar at Su Bai's request, and Su Bai joined him to break it open.
• The altar shattered and released dense demonic qi just as the Demon Ancestor arrived.

Su Bai copied Yan Gu’s Abyssal Flame Demon bloodline and chose to fuse it without giving up his immortal arts. He transformed into an Abyssal Flame Demon and pleaded with Yan Gu to save him.

• As demonic qi obscured the Demon Sealing Altar, Su Bai used Immortal Talent Reflection to identify the figure inside as Yan Gu, an Abyssal Flame Demon with a True Demon bloodline.
• Su Bai sent a Wood Lotus Clone to touch Yan Gu and copied his Abyssal Flame Demon bloodline.
• When offered four fusion options, Su Bai chose Option Three, sacrificing his Tidal Song Sacred Vein, Mountain Spirit's Gift, and Demon Race bloodlines while preserving his immortal arts.
• The fusion gave Su Bai a Magma Heart containing the Abyssal Flame Demon bloodline and raised his Devil Race cultivation to Demon General.
• Su Bai activated the bloodline, transformed into an Abyssal Flame Demon, and knelt before Yan Gu to beg for help.

Su Bai released Yan Gu, a powerful Devil Race member who recognized the same bloodline in him, and watched Yan Gu battle the Demon Ancestor before both monsters departed into the Void Space. With his powers restored, Su Bai ordered Feng Lingchen and the Artifact Sect Great Elder to withdraw, while Feng Lingchen cautiously asked about Su Bai’s demonic transformation.

• Yan Gu awakened in the altar, sensed Su Bai’s matching bloodline, and accepted him as a possible descendant after Su Bai claimed he had released him.
• The Demon Ancestor confronted Yan Gu over Su Bai, but Yan Gu attacked with Jinyuan Demonic Flames and a towering black flame giant.
• The Demon Ancestor escaped through the Spatial Barrier, and Yan Gu tore open the Void Space with his Demonic Body and pursued him.
• Su Bai reverted to human form as his Nascent Soul, Spiritual Power, and Immortal Arts Interface returned.
• Su Bai ordered Feng Lingchen and the Artifact Sect Great Elder to withdraw, and Feng Lingchen cautiously praised his apparent disguise Divine Ability.

Su Bai fled Green Ying City after the demon ancestor and Yan Gu began battling across the Qingxuan Realm. In the North Sea, Yan Gu drew the Heavenly Dao’s attention with his Devil Emperor-level power, but escaped back to the Spirit Realm after nearly destroying the demon ancestor’s divine soul.

• Su Bai reassured Feng Lingchen that his devil-race transformation had been a disguise, then told him to hide far away until the battle’s outcome was known.
• News of the demon ancestor’s descent and Lu Jiu’s release of Yan Gu spread through Green Ying City, and Su Bai arranged for the city before exchanging intelligence with Old Ancestor Heavenly Star.
• Su Bai teleported to the South Sea and continued toward Tian Nan to escape the conflict.
• After pursuing the demon ancestor for three days and nights, Yan Gu caught him in the North Sea and shattered his defenses with a powerful punch.
• Yan Gu’s Devil Emperor-level attack drew the Heavenly Dao’s attention, and the demon ancestor escaped to the Spirit Realm as Yan Gu continued attacking under the falling lightning.

Yan Gu defeated the Demon Ancestor but was struck by Heavenly Punishment, so he tried to take Su Bai to the Demon Realm. Su Bai persuaded him to leave him in Qingxuan Realm, but Yan Gu placed a mark on him that could direct him to the Demon Realm when he ascended.

• Yan Gu devoured Demon King Liu Yu, drove the Demon Ancestor's soul into a Spatial Rift, and was badly injured by the second bolt of Heavenly Punishment.
• Yan Gu tracked Su Bai to the sea, where Su Bai disguised his human aura as that of an Abyssal Flame Demon.
• Yan Gu seized Su Bai and prepared to take him to the Demon Realm, but Su Bai asked to remain in Qingxuan Realm.
• Yan Gu accepted Su Bai's claim that he wanted to devour living beings and grow stronger, then left him a mark that would guide him to the Demon Realm upon ascension.
• Yan Gu departed through a Spatial Rift, and Su Bai realized the mark might prevent him from choosing another destination when he ascended.

After helping drive the Demon Ancestor and Devil Race from the Qingxuan Realm, Su Bai returned to Heavenly Star City and admitted he possessed Devil Race bloodline. When the Heavenly Star Alliance questioned his loyalty and proposed restricting him, he resigned as Vice Alliance Leader and left to focus on cultivation.

• Su Bai decided the Qingxuan Realm was safe enough for him to explore and planned for the Heavenly Star Alliance to take control of the Ten Great Spirit Plains of the Demon Star Sea.
• Su Bai returned to Heavenly Star City and told the Alliance leaders that the Devil Race and Demon Ancestor had left the Qingxuan Realm.
• Old Ancestor Heavenly Star asked whether Lu Jiu possessed Devil Race bloodline, and Su Bai admitted that he did.
• The Artifact Sect's Second Elder argued that Lu Jiu should lose his Vice Alliance Leader position and have his movements restricted, and many Cultivators supported him.
• Su Bai relinquished his position and alliance possessions, asked the Alliance not to disturb him in Green Ying City, and vanished from the reception hall.

After Su Bai revealed his devil bloodline, Old Ancestor Heavenly Star protected him from expulsion and granted him control of the Green Ying Spirit Plain. Su Bai stayed out of the Heavenly Star Alliance’s coming campaigns and returned to quiet cultivation, while Xuanzhe invited him to join the South Sea.

• Artifact Sect Second Elder Qi urged the Heavenly Star Alliance to expel Lu Jiu, but Xun Huo, Old Ancestor Yun, and Old Ancestor Heavenly Star defended him; Old Ancestor Heavenly Star ordered Lu Jiu’s bloodline kept secret and ended the dispute.
• Old Ancestor Heavenly Star visited Su Bai in Green Ying City, apologized, affirmed his trust, and promised that the Green Ying Spirit Plain’s output would belong to Su Bai.
• Feng Lingchen returned to the Green Ying Spirit Plain, while South Sea sect forces withdrew and Green Ying Academy grew into a renowned school for Rogue Cultivators.
• The Heavenly Star Alliance selected Heavenly Law Ancestor, Old Ancestor Yun, and Old Ancestor Xun as Vice Alliance Leaders and began preparing armies to attack three Demon Race Spirit Plains without involving Su Bai.
• Xuanzhe invited Su Bai to join the South Sea and help the Immortal Palace conquer it, but Su Bai refused, cut off the message, and resumed cultivating.

After decades of cultivation and sweeping changes across the Qingxuan Realm, Su Bai reached the Nascent Soul Late Stage at age one hundred and eighty-six. He emerged from seclusion to find Yun Jianming famous, Green Ying Spirit Plain thriving, and Green Ying City flourishing as a haven for Rogue Cultivators.

• The Heavenly Star Alliance conquered three Spirit Plains, then halted its campaign at Demon Star City and opened the new territories to cultivators.
• Xuanzhe unified the South Sea under the Immortal Palace, which Su Bai helped develop by building Teleportation Arrays between the islands.
• True Man He died after failing to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm, while Zhang Ying, Lu Ming, and Xiao Mingyan also died or failed in their pursuits, and Xiao Shixi succeeded in reaching the Nascent Soul Realm.
• After more than eighty years of cultivation, Su Bai advanced to the Nascent Soul Late Stage at age one hundred and eighty-six and gained the ability to teleport up to ten thousand li.
• Yun Jianming and Xu Qing advanced to the Nascent Soul Realm, and Yun Jianming became a celebrated Sword Cultivator and Palace Master of Starlight Academy.
• Su Bai frightened a Nascent Soul Cultivator who coveted the Star Luo Pill Pavilion, and Green Ying City continued to prosper as a refuge for Rogue Cultivators.

Su Bai visited Green Ying Academy and learned that Fan Yixin, a remarkably gifted young alchemist, had been recruited by Star Luo Pill Pavilion. Considering whether Fan Yixin could inherit the pavilion, Su Bai went to observe him and found him refining a Foundation Establishment Pill.

• Su Bai returned to the old tavern in Green Ying City, bought its remaining wine, and then decided to visit Green Ying Academy.
• Palace Master Ye told Su Bai that Fan Yixin had advanced from Qi Refining to Foundation Establishment Middle Stage in seven years and had become a contracted Alchemist for Star Luo Pill Pavilion.
• Su Bai considered Fan Yixin's potential as an heir to Star Luo Pill Pavilion and chose to assess him personally.
• Su Bai used his Spiritual Sense to locate Fan Yixin in an alchemy room, where he was focused on refining a Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Su Bai silently appeared beside Fan Yixin to observe his alchemy.

Su Bai, using the name Lu Jiu, guided Fan Yixin through refining his first furnace of Foundation Establishment Pills and recognized his exceptional alchemy talent. Fan Yixin became Su Bai’s second disciple, while Su Bai copied Fan Yixin’s Crimson Blazing Pill Heart.

• Su Bai appeared in Fan Yixin’s alchemy room and corrected his furnace technique.
• Su Bai examined Fan Yixin’s talents and learned that he possessed the Mysterious Tier Crimson Blazing Pill Heart.
• Fan Yixin recognized Su Bai as the legendary alchemist Lu Jiu and respectfully greeted him.
• Su Bai guided Fan Yixin through refining a furnace of Foundation Establishment Pills, and Fan Yixin succeeded.
• Su Bai asked Fan Yixin to become his second disciple, and Fan Yixin accepted.
• Su Bai copied Fan Yixin’s Crimson Blazing Pill Heart.

Su Bai continued cultivating and guiding Fan Yixin and Yun Jianming before receiving word that Old Ancestor Heavenly Star was near death and would hand the alliance leadership to Heavenly Law Ancestor. At the Star Gazing Platform, Old Ancestor Heavenly Star formally named Heavenly Law the Heavenly Star Alliance’s second leader and entrusted the alliance to its Nascent Soul Cultivators.

• Su Bai supplied Fan Yixin with alchemy resources and techniques, then required him to train in combat and take Demon Hunting missions while learning lightning arts.
• Su Bai resumed closed-door cultivation but continued guiding Fan Yixin and advising Yun Jianming, bringing his disciples together and teaching them about the Qingxuan Realm.
• Five years later, Old Ancestor Heavenly Star informed Su Bai that his end was near and invited him to witness the transfer of leadership to Heavenly Law Ancestor.
• Su Bai arrived at the Star Gazing Platform, where more than twenty Nascent Soul Cultivators had gathered with Old Ancestor Heavenly Star.
• Old Ancestor Heavenly Star declared Heavenly Law the Heavenly Star Alliance’s second leader and urged the assembled cultivators to obey him and keep the alliance from declining.