Chapter Summaries

After centuries of cultivation, Su Bai comprehended the Water Law, advanced to Deity Transformation, and passed both his heavenly and heart demon tribulations. He left the Qingxuan Realm rejecting him and facing pressure from above, so he needed to ascend to continue cultivating.

• Old Ancestor Heavenly Star passed away, and Heavenly Law Ancestor maintained control of the Heavenly Star Alliance as the Demon Star Sea entered an era of joint human and demon rule.
• After more than a hundred years, Su Bai broke through Nascent Soul Great Perfection by comprehending the Blue Water Bead and condensed the Earth Tier talent Supreme Goodness is Like Water.
• Su Bai fused eighteen Yellow Tier Water Attribute talents into Supreme Goodness is Like Water, raising its comprehension to 2.8%.
• Su Bai used Wrathful Water Skyfall and the surrounding sea to withstand all eighteen bolts of the Second-Ninth Heavenly Tribulation, then easily passed the Heart Demon Tribulation.
• Heaven-and-earth vital energy tempered Su Bai and completed his advancement to Deity Transformation Early Stage, but the Qingxuan Realm began rejecting him and he realized he needed to ascend.

Su Bai stayed in the Lower Realm to avoid triggering the Heavenly Tribulation and sought a way to detect the Abyssal Flame Demon Mark that threatened his future ascension. After decades of comprehending the Fire Law and fusing talents to strengthen his new spell talent, he still could not find the mark and set out to study the Law of Metal.

• Su Bai concealed his cultivation on a sea island, transformed into an Abyssal Flame Demon, and discovered that the form sealed his Primordial Spirit as well as removing the Heavenly Dao's suppressive force.
• Su Bai returned to his Human Race form and decided to remain in the Lower Realm, comprehend laws, and search again for the Abyssal Flame Demon Mark.
• Su Bai left the island for a volcanic island, where he spent decades comprehending the Fire Law and independently condensed the Earth Tier talent Burn Heaven Extinguish Earth.
• Su Bai fused twenty Yellow Tier and one Mysterious Tier Fire Attribute talents into Burn Heaven Extinguish Earth, raising its comprehension to 3.1%.
• Su Bai searched for the Abyssal Flame Demon Mark again but found no trace, then left to seek a place to comprehend the Law of Metal.

At age 503, Su Bai completed his comprehension of the Five Elements and Thunder Laws, then returned to Green Ying City to prepare to seek the Sword Dao Law in the Sword Tomb Secret Realm. After meeting with his subordinates and disciples, he set off for the secret realm.

• Su Bai comprehended all five Five Elements Laws and the Thunder Law, condensing the Five Thunders Orthodox Method, and decided to search the Sword Tomb Secret Realm for traces of the Sword Dao Law.
• Su Bai returned to Green Ying City riding the Blue Flood Dragon and summoned his subordinates and disciples.
• Feng Lingchen and Xu Qing introduced Yu Huo, who had advanced to Nascent Soul using Su Bai's pill and chose to keep serving Green Ying Prefecture.
• Su Bai appointed Yu Huo deputy commander of the Green Ying War Cultivators and granted him a title and a residence in Green Ying City.
• Su Bai learned that Green Ying City remained stable, the Heavenly Star Alliance had gained more than ten Nascent Soul Cultivators, and Yun Jianming and Fan Yixin had continued developing their careers.
• Su Bai guided Yun Jianming and Fan Yixin in their cultivation, then headed for the Sword Tomb Secret Realm to attempt to condense the Sword Dao Law.

Su Bai comprehended the Sword Dao Law within himself and fused his Sword Dao Talents into the Myriad Transformations Sword Dao. He used the new law to locate the Abyssal Flame Demon Mark in his divine soul, but his attempt to destroy it failed.

• Su Bai realized the Sword Dao Law existed in a Sword Cultivator's spiritual world and turned inward to comprehend it.
• Su Bai completed his collection of five Five Elements Houtian Spirit Treasure longswords and contemplated what the sword meant to him.
• After decades of seclusion, Su Bai condensed the Myriad Transformations Sword Dao and fused his existing Sword Dao Talents into it, raising its comprehension to 1.5%.
• Su Bai traced the Sword Dao Law through his body and found a black dot deep in his divine soul that he suspected was the Abyssal Flame Demon Mark.
• Su Bai tried to erase the mark with the Sword Dao Law, but it had no effect, so he considered other ways to remove it.

Su Bai returned to the Water Pavilion Secret Realm to meet the mythological creature whose space-traveling talent might help him overcome the limits of the Spirit Realm. After years of waiting, the Void Kun appeared, and Su Bai approached it to try to copy its talent.

• Su Bai disguised himself as a Green Ying Academy disciple and entered the Water Pavilion Secret Realm, where he waited for the mythological creature to appear.
• Su Bai reunited with Zhang Miao, an old acquaintance who was nearing the end of his life, and spent several years playing Go and talking with him.
• Zhang Miao gained an insight and passed away, and Su Bai sent his remains into the lake.
• Seven or eight years later, a Void Kun named Cai entered the secret realm, and Su Bai's Immortal Talent Reflection revealed its Void Walker space talent.
• The Void Kun detected and destroyed Su Bai's Wood Lotus Clone, so Su Bai approached it himself and told Cai he meant no harm.

Su Bai persuaded the void kun Cai Xiong to take him to its lower realm, hoping to copy its Void Walker talent and travel between worlds independently. His first attempt failed because Laws shielded the creature, so he attacked its back to disperse them.

• Su Bai told the void kun Cai Xiong he could not leave the Qingxuan Realm by ordinary means and asked for its help.
• Cai Xiong revealed that it came from another lower realm and agreed to carry Su Bai there.
• Su Bai leaped onto Cai Xiong’s back, intending to copy its Void Walker talent.
• Su Bai’s copying attempt failed because Laws surrounded Cai Xiong’s body, and he realized he would need to disperse them.
• Su Bai thrust his mana downward with the Sword Dao Law to attack Cai Xiong’s back.

Su Bai copied Void Kun’s Void Walker talent, provoking a battle that drew the Heavenly Dao’s attention and forced them both into Void Space. There, Su Bai discovered he could perceive routes between realms and chose to follow Void Kun toward his home world rather than return to the Qingxuan Realm.

• Su Bai copied Void Kun’s Void Walker talent, enraging Void Kun, who attacked him with his tail.
• Su Bai blocked the strike with the Law of Earth, then unleashed his four-turn Grand Five Elements Sword Array against Void Kun’s spatial ability.
• The Heavenly Dao marked both Su Bai and Void Kun after their clash, so they stopped fighting and escaped into Void Space through spatial barriers.
• Su Bai absorbed the Void Walker talent’s law comprehension and gained the ability to perceive the Qingxuan Realm, the Water Pavilion Secret Realm, and a route to the Upper Realm.
• Su Bai saw Void Kun swimming toward his home world and decided to follow him while memorizing the route.

Su Bai followed the Void Kun through the endless Void Space, hoping it would lead him to another world. After years without reaching its destination, he remained hidden in the darkness, with a faint connection to the Qingxuan Realm still offering him a way back.

• Su Bai followed the Void Kun through the Void Space and discovered that his body retained a faint connection to the Qingxuan Realm, allowing him to sense a path back.
• Su Bai kept tailing the Void Kun despite wondering whether it had noticed him, reasoning that his small figure was difficult to see in the darkness.
• Su Bai spent another three years following the Void Kun without reaching another world.
• Su Bai realized that hiding in the Void Space kept the Heavenly Dao Laws from sending him Heavenly Tribulations, but rejected the thought of living forever in its darkness.

Su Bai followed Void Kun to Blue Origin Realm, a world far larger than Qingxuan Realm, and entered it to investigate. After learning about its cultivation system and conflict between humans and demons, he began planning his next steps in Ning City.

• Su Bai followed Void Kun to Blue Origin Realm and entered through a weakened part of its world barrier.
• Su Bai used the Soul Searching Technique on a Great Qian Night Watchman in Ning City, learning about the realm and its martial-arts-based cultivation system.
• Su Bai healed the Night Watchman's old wounds before leaving him unconscious in the alley.
• Su Bai ate at an inn while reviewing what he had learned about Ning City's dangers and Blue Origin Realm's political powers.
• Su Bai learned that the Great Gan Dynasty united human cultivation forces against the Exotic Beasts and their Ten Great Demon Kingdoms, including the neighboring Palm Buddhist Kingdom.

Su Bai reached Mid Deity Transformation by comprehending the Laws of Space and learned that only his most deeply comprehended law directly advanced his cultivation. He planned to keep improving his law comprehension and obtain a convincing identity that would let him approach powerful Cultivators without drawing suspicion.

• Su Bai traveled to the uninhabited buffer zone between Ning City and the Palm Demon Kingdom to advance safely.
• Su Bai released his cultivation and Law Power, drawing in vast amounts of spiritual energy as the Heavenly Dao Laws responded.
• Su Bai advanced to Mid Deity Transformation, and his Primordial Spirit perception expanded to cover all of Yan State.
• Su Bai realized that different laws strengthened his combat ability but did not stack toward cultivation breakthroughs; only his deepest law comprehension counted.
• Su Bai planned to raise his cultivation by further fusing talents into a law and to secure a plausible identity that could bring him into contact with high-level Cultivators.

Su Bai left West Week and traveled to Ning City, where he sought to join the Great Gan Night Watchmen. After claiming to be a Golden Core Cultivator, he was brought before three overseers for assessment.

• A blood-robed monk arrived at West Week, confirmed that a Deity Transformation old monster had advanced, and left after failing to find its trail.
• Su Bai reached Ning City and decided to join its Night Watchmen to integrate into the Blue Origin Realm and study Cultivators’ Talents.
• A rank-and-file Night Watcher questioned Su Bai, who introduced himself and claimed Golden Core Stage cultivation.
• The Night Watcher brought Su Bai to three Golden Core overseers, who examined him without seeing through his disguise.

Su Bai sought to join the Ning City Night Watcher Office and presented himself as an unaffiliated cultivator. Chief Steward Wang Yuan arrived to assess him, and Su Bai secretly appraised Wang Yuan’s cultivation and talents.

• Three Golden Core Night Watchers examined Su Bai and told him only the Chief Steward could decide whether he could join.
• Su Bai explained that he was an unaffiliated cultivator and considered how Great Gan law treated cultivators without sects.
• Wang Yuan arrived with two stewards and questioned Su Bai about joining the Ning City Night Watcher Office.
• Su Bai secretly appraised Wang Yuan and learned that he was a Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator with a Yellow Tier Sword Dao Talent.

Su Bai joined the Ning City Night Watchers as temporary personnel and took the codename Ning Yu. Ning Gou introduced him to the office’s patrol duties and casework, leaving Su Bai ready to begin his new assignment.

• Su Bai agreed to join the Ning City Night Watchers despite Wang Yuan’s reservations about unaffiliated Cultivators.
• Wang Yuan accepted Su Bai as temporary personnel with one-third the benefits of official Night Watchers and assigned him to learn from Ning Gou.
• Su Bai chose the codename Ning Yu and received a Storage Bag containing his uniform and identity token.
• Ning Gou showed Su Bai a detailed map of Ning City and explained how Night Watchers patrolled five watchtowers and screened for Demon Cultivators.
• Ning Gou told Su Bai that the Night Watchers also handled county yamen cases suspected or confirmed to involve Demon Cultivators.

Su Bai discovered that Ning City concealed numerous powerful Demon Cultivators and that Great Gan’s border defenses served a broader, troubling arrangement. After being left on duty at the Night Watcher office, he used a mosquito carrying his Primordial Spirit to copy Wang Yuan’s Sword Dao talent, advancing his Myriad Transformations Sword Dao.

• Su Bai sensed thirteen powerful Demon Cultivators in Ning City, including an Early Deity Transformation Cultivator, and inferred that the border towns were not Great Gan’s true defensive line.
• Su Bai concluded that Great Gan sacrificed part of its population to satisfy high-level Demon Cultivators and maintain national stability.
• Ning Gou finished the patrol with Su Bai, then left Su Bai to remain on duty at the Night Watcher office.
• Su Bai sent a mosquito bearing his Primordial Spirit into Wang Yuan’s room and successfully copied Wang Yuan’s Yellow Tier Sword Dao Talent.
• Su Bai merged the copied talent into his Myriad Transformations Sword Dao, raising its comprehension progress by 0.1% to 1.6%.

Su Bai overheard Night Envoy Po Jun order Wang Yuan to provide three thousand Living Sacrifices for the Buddhist Kingdom’s National Preceptor within three months. After learning that Ning City was a Tribute City, Su Bai returned to cultivation while Wang Yuan left to deal with the demand.

• Wang Yuan received a Communication Artifact call from Night Envoy Po Jun, who ordered him to supply three thousand Living Sacrifices within three months.
• Wang Yuan explained that Ning City could not easily provide so many people and suggested sharing the burden with other Tribute Cities, but Po Jun threatened his official career if he failed.
• Wang Yuan reflected on the hidden corruption behind Great Gan’s prosperity and the impossible duty imposed on him as the manager of a Tribute City.
• Su Bai withdrew his power from the mosquito incarnation and realized that the Blue Origin Realm was more rotten than he had thought.
• Wang Yuan told Su Bai to keep watch and hurried away, while Su Bai returned to cultivating.

After a month of patrolling in Ning City, Su Bai received his first salary and began planning to advance and leave for a new copying target. When he investigated a family’s disappearance, he traced the demon aura to a well-connected Golden Core Demon Cultivator and decided to kill him.

• Su Bai spent a month fulfilling his Night Watcher duties and received his salary in spirit pills.
• Su Bai bought a courtyard in Ning City and planned to break through the Nascent Soul checkpoint before seeking an official Night Watcher assessment.
• A Foundation Establishment Night Watcher reported that a family had vanished in an eastern-city alley, leaving only clothes and faint bloodstains.
• Su Bai searched the scene with his Primordial Spirit and followed a faint demon aura to a well-connected Golden Core Demon Cultivator.
• Su Bai decided to kill the Demon Cultivator rather than ignore the case.

Su Bai tracked a Golden Core Stage Demon Cultivator hiding in a Ning City brothel and killed him before the other demons could intervene. He left the cleanup to the Night Watchers, who praised him as he departed.

• Su Bai arrived at the crime scene and learned that a Golden Core Stage Demon Cultivator had devoured the victim.
• After pretending to investigate, Su Bai announced that the culprit was still in the city and led the Night Watchers to a brothel.
• Su Bai identified the Demon Cultivator and ignored his threats, examining the differences between Blue Origin Realm and Qingxuan Realm demons.
• Su Bai attacked with the Second-turn Grand Five Elements Sword Array, destroying the Demon Cultivator and the brothel, then erased the fleeing Demonic Soul.
• Su Bai told the Night Watchers to handle the scene and left as they praised him.

Su Bai learned that the fox demon he killed was Third Young Master Fox, son of the powerful Nine-tailed Empress, and three Nascent Soul Demon Cultivators came to confront Night Watcher Chief Steward Wang Yuan. Wang Yuan stopped them from attacking Su Bai and sent him away, while Su Bai returned home and secretly watched their meeting.

• Su Bai used his Primordial Spirit to overhear three Nascent Soul Demon Cultivators discover that he had killed Third Young Master Fox and discuss the Nine-tailed Empress’s likely retaliation.
• The three Demon Cultivators headed to Night Watcher Manor to demand that Wang Yuan answer for Third Young Master Fox’s death.
• Su Bai stopped them at the manor entrance, but the silver-haired merchant recognized him and prepared to attack.
• Wang Yuan arrived, blocked the merchant, and urged Su Bai to leave Ning City while he handled the dispute.
• Su Bai departed, then watched through his Primordial Spirit as the three Demon Cultivators followed Wang Yuan into a secret chamber.

Wang Yuan refused to hand Ning Yu over to the demon cultivators, arguing that Ning Yu had killed Fox Three while performing his duties. When Blood Monk threatened him with the Nine-tailed Empress’s wrath, Wang Yuan invoked the National Preceptor of the Buddhist Kingdom, leaving the demons anxious to avoid being blamed for delaying the Blood Sacrifice.

• Silver Wind demanded that Wang Yuan hand Ning Yu over, but Wang Yuan refused.
• Blood Monk threatened to report Wang Yuan to the Nine-tailed Empress and demanded Ning Yu and one of Wang Yuan’s arms in exchange for mercy.
• Wang Yuan accused Blood Monk’s Pure Cultivation Temple of devouring infant boys and challenged the demons to consider how they would react if their own people were victims.
• Wang Yuan warned that he would tell the National Preceptor that the demons had obstructed preparations for the Blood Sacrifice, prompting Blood Monk and the other demons to deny interfering.

Blood Monk realized Wang Yuan had outmaneuvered him and sent Silver Wind to capture Su Bai, while he and Old Turtle kept Wang Yuan from intervening. Su Bai appeared moments later at the Nascent Soul Early Stage, carrying Silver Wind’s severed wolf head.

• Blood Monk recognized Wang Yuan’s deception and ordered Silver Wind to seize Su Bai without directly attacking him.
• Blood Monk and Old Turtle blocked Wang Yuan as Silver Wind pursued Su Bai through Ning City.
• A surge of spiritual power alerted them that Silver Wind had used a Divine Ability Spell, and Blood Monk and Old Turtle assumed he had captured Su Bai.
• A Five-colored Sword Light split the clouds, and Silver Wind’s aura vanished.
• Su Bai arrived before Wang Yuan, Blood Monk, and Old Turtle at the Nascent Soul Early Stage, holding Silver Wind’s wolf head.