Chapter Summaries

Su Bai reunited with Yinyue, learned that Yu Zhao had died more than two hundred seventy years earlier, and received the keepsake she left for him. After paying respects at her memorial, he met Yinyue’s family and warned that the coming war over Demon Star City could put Yinyue’s life at risk.

• Su Bai asked Yinyue about Yu Zhao, and Yinyue told him that she had died after her lifespan ran out.
• Yinyue gave Su Bai a Jade Slip containing a phantom image Yu Zhao had left as a keepsake, and Su Bai stored it safely.
• Yinyue led Su Bai to Yu Zhao’s memorial tablet, where Su Bai quietly paid his respects.
• Yinyue introduced Su Bai to his children, his wife Star Mark, and the remaining young members of the Moon Wolf Tribe.
• Su Bai told Yinyue that the Heavenly Star Alliance army would soon march on Demon Star City and that Yinyue could be caught in the war.

Su Bai disguised himself as an ordinary Demon Race cultivator and secretly infiltrated Ancestral Spirit Mountain to investigate the three ancient royal clans and their rumored forbidden method. He entered the mountain’s heavily guarded grounds without triggering its protective array.

• Su Bai concealed his aura, disguised himself, and headed toward Ancestral Spirit Mountain in Demon Star City.
• Su Bai considered whether the Ancient Dragon, Golden Crow, and Demon Butterfly clans could summon a Demon Ancestor from the Upper Realm or bring down an avatar.
• Su Bai studied the Ten Thousand Demon Spirit-Sealing Array and found a brief gap in its circulation.
• Su Bai slipped through the array undetected and entered Ancestral Spirit Mountain, where dense Spiritual Energy flowed through the forests.

Su Bai isolated the great hall and investigated the mysterious female face, discovering a vast network connecting it to Demon Race members across the Demon Star Sea. He suspected she was drawing mental power or faith from them, and the face reacted as if he had exposed her secret.

• Su Bai created a spatial isolation array to keep activity in the hall from being noticed outside.
• Su Bai examined the female face and the wall, but could not determine the strange energy’s origin.
• Su Bai sensed invisible threads linking the presence behind the wall to ancestral statues, powerful cultivators, and Demon Race residents across the region.
• Su Bai asked whether the face was cultivating a sinister art by drawing on the mental power or faith of the Demon Race.
• The female face twisted in response and, after a long silence, began to speak with reluctant compromise.

Jade Rakshasa revealed how she spent ten thousand years gathering the Demon Race’s faith to transform herself into a deity and potentially replace the Qingxuan Realm’s World Will. Su Bai demanded the Divine Path technique, and she handed him its ancient booklet.

• Jade Rakshasa explained that she married a promising Demon King and used Divine Path methods to gather faith power through him and the Ancestral Spirit Sacrificial Hall.
• She said generations of Demon Race faith sustained her divine soul and that she had begun condensing an innate divine body more than a hundred years earlier.
• Jade Rakshasa revealed that Su Bai’s war against Demon Star City had destabilized the faith power she needed and disrupted her transformation.
• Su Bai asked Jade Rakshasa to show him the original Divine Path technique, and she reluctantly gave him an ancient dark golden booklet.
• Su Bai opened the booklet and used his Spiritual Sense to examine its unknown script.

After joining the Divine Path Chat Group as Lu Jiu, Su Bai asked how to claim the faith-power Jade Rakshasa had gathered. Concept God privately sent him a file describing a forbidden method that used a special catalyst to strip and fuse faith-power.

• Su Bai saw Concept God remark that Jade Rakshasa had failed at the final step, then checked the eleven-member chat group and noted that only four members were online.
• Concept God announced that Jade Rakshasa had gone offline and Lu Jiu had replaced her; Lazy Glutton suggested eating him, while Concept God warned that Jade Rakshasa had died at his hands and An Ye welcomed him.
• Concept God welcomed Lu Jiu to the Divine Path, and Lu Jiu thanked the group before asking how to seize Jade Rakshasa's accumulated faith-power.
• After Lazy Glutton teased him for acting like a glutton, Su Bai ignored further messages and waited for Concept God to respond.
• Concept God privately sent Su Bai a file explaining a forbidden faith-power plundering method that avoided contamination by using a special catalyst.

Su Bai received Jade Rakshasa’s detailed intelligence on Demon Star City and learned that the three great royal clans could summon the will of ancient Demon Ancestors for a brief, costly surge of power. After securing the Jade Slip, he turned his refined Evil Law against the black wall that housed Jade Rakshasa.

• Su Bai left the Sword Pavilion Secret Realm and appeared in the great hall of Ancestral Spirit Mountain, where Jade Rakshasa gave him a Jade Slip containing intelligence on Demon Star City.
• Su Bai reviewed the city’s defenses, the royal clans’ hidden reserves, and the weaknesses of more than a hundred Demon Kings.
• Su Bai learned that the three royal clans could use ancestral artifacts and their bloodlines to summon a brief projection of their ancestors’ power from the Spirit Realm.
• Su Bai put away the Jade Slip, then sent his Spiritual Power and refined Evil Law through the black wall toward Jade Rakshasa’s core.

The Heavenly Star Alliance began its assault on Demon Star City, using Su Bai’s detailed map of the Demon Race defenses to target weak points and contain strong ones. The opening attack struck a wood demon colony with a combined fire technique.

• A massive Human Race Spirit Boat fleet advanced toward the Demon Race fortifications south of Demon Star City.
• Yun Jianming and the Heavenly Star Alliance used Su Bai’s map to concentrate their strongest forces against weak points while feinting at fortified positions.
• The Alliance fleet shifted formation and launched coordinated attacks before the Demon Race could identify its intentions.
• A Human Race commander identified an Ironthorn Tree Demon colony and ordered the fire cultivators to execute Plan C-3.
• Fifty fire cultivators combined their spells into a sea of flames that engulfed the wood demons below.

The three supreme powerhouses of the Primordial Royal Clans summoned their ancestors’ will by sacrificing Blood Essence and using their ancestral artifacts to open a passage toward the Spirit Realm. Su Bai watched as a terrifying will began probing through the rift, leaving the battlefield’s weaker fighters trembling.

• The Ancient Dragon, Demonic Butterfly, and Golden Crow supreme powerhouses realized the Human Race knew their tactics and agreed to use their final measure before Lu Jiu could intervene.
• The three demons spent Blood Essence to activate their ancestral artifacts and form a sigil shaped like a dragon, bird, and butterfly.
• The sigil became a pillar of light that pierced the Qingxuan Realm’s Spatial Barrier and opened a path toward the Spirit Realm.
• Su Bai observed the summoning and recognized that it relied on bloodline, ancestral artifacts, and a costly sacrifice.
• A terrifying will probed through the rift, making every fighter below Nascent Soul or Demon King level tremble and feel compelled to worship.

Su Bai’s avatar deflected the Ancient Dragon Demon Ancestor’s Primordial Spirit attack, then charged toward his projection. The Demon Ancestor recognized that Su Bai was only at peak Nascent Soul, but could not understand how he wielded Law Power.

• Ao Qing identified Su Bai as Lu Jiu, the Human Race leader, and urged the Ancient Dragon Demon Ancestor to kill him.
• The Ancient Dragon Demon Ancestor questioned how a Spirit Transformation cultivator could remain in the Qingxuan Realm and sent Primordial Spirit power to probe Su Bai.
• Su Bai used his [Boundless] Divine Ability, faith power, and [Boundless Dao Source] Mental Law to deflect the Demon Ancestor’s attack.
• Su Bai left the sword-shaped Spirit Boat and charged toward the Ancient Dragon Demon Ancestor’s projection.
• The Ancient Dragon Demon Ancestor judged that Su Bai was at peak Nascent Soul and wondered how he could wield Law Power.

Su Bai identified the delay in the Ancient Dragon Demon Ancestor's projection and used the Law of Space to evade its attacks. The Ancient Dragon Demon Ancestor began gathering its remaining power into a devastating spear, leaving the battle poised for its next strike.

• Su Bai explained that distance and rule barriers caused delays in the Ancient Dragon Demon Ancestor's projected clone, and the Ancestor realized that Lu Jiu was also a powerful clone.
• The Ancient Dragon Demon Ancestor burned its projection's origin to strengthen its body and attacked Su Bai with the Law of Power.
• Su Bai escaped the Ancestor's force-field restraints by using the Law of Space, avoiding another direct exchange of blows.
• The Ancient Dragon Demon Ancestor gathered power from the battlefield and formed an immense black spear, then began declaring its true name.

Su Bai defeated the Ancient Dragon Demon Ancestor's projection and declared three vows to become the Qingxuan Sword Immortal and protect the Human Race. He then unleashed countless Five-Colored Radiance sword lights across the Demon Star Sea, annihilating the resisting demons to establish his power.

• Su Bai's Five-Colored Radiance giant sword annihilated the Ancient Dragon Demon Ancestor's projection and sent its remaining will back to the Spirit Realm.
• The Human Race Cultivators celebrated Su Bai's victory while some demons tried to rally resistance.
• Su Bai vowed to become the Qingxuan Sword Immortal, remain in Qingxuan, and protect its Human Race through an eternal golden age.
• Su Bai declared that he would use the demons' blood to consecrate his position and establish his might.
• Su Bai scattered the giant sword into countless sword lights that pierced and dissolved every demon still resisting or radiating hostility.

Su Bai adapted to his newly formed divine body and considered the Qingxuan Sword Immortal’s future role as the Human Race’s guardian. He concluded that he would eventually need to establish a divine kingdom, and that the Qingxuan Realm’s growing faith could let him build one soon.

• Su Bai realized that his divine body’s laws and divine pressure could harm nearby Mortals and Cultivators unless he restrained them.
• Su Bai judged that the Sword Pavilion Secret Realm was unsuitable as a permanent home for his divine-path incarnation and considered refining a realm or creating a divine kingdom.
• Su Bai sensed that faith in the Qingxuan Sword Immortal was rapidly growing among the Human Race, giving him favorable conditions to accumulate power.
• Su Bai recognized that a divine kingdom would strengthen his divine body and could preserve the souls of qualified fanatical believers as its citizens after death.

Months after the decisive battle, the Heavenly Star Alliance had unified the Demon Star Sea and turned it into the Qingxuan Realm’s center of cultivation and civilization, under the protection attributed to the Qingxuan Sword Immortal. At a gathering of Nascent Soul cultivators, Cang Mingxiao reflected on how far Lu Jiu had risen, while Yun Jianming’s authority as Alliance Leader stood secure.

• Cang Mingxiao watched Yun Jianming command attention at the gathering and lamented that Lu Jiu had become the Qingxuan Sword Immortal while he remained at the Mid Demon King Stage.
• The Heavenly Star Alliance finished clearing the Demon Race’s resistance and integrated the Ten Great Spirit Plains and their resources.
• Rumors that the Qingxuan Sword Immortal watched over the Demon Star Sea drew cultivators, sects, clans, and Mortals there in a vast wave of migration.
• The Demon Star Sea became the Qingxuan Realm’s leading cultivation and civilizational center as the Human Race gathered there.
• Su Bai’s prestige and the victory’s spoils unified the Heavenly Star Alliance’s factions, while Yun Jianming’s position as Alliance Leader became unshakable.

Su Bai announced that the Nascent Soul Cultivators seeking to attend the Spirit Transformation Teaching Assembly and receive Law Treasures had to pass a trial of their Dao Hearts. He opened a gateway to the trial space, leaving the cultivators ready to enter.

• Su Bai explained that the trial would examine the cultivators’ resolve and temperament rather than their cultivation or abilities.
• The Nascent Soul Cultivators accepted the Qingxuan Sword Immortal’s decree and bowed in agreement.
• Su Bai released a golden pillar of light that formed a mysterious gateway to another dimension.

Su Bai announced that the Nascent Soul Cultivators seeking to attend his Spirit Transformation Dao lecture and receive a Law Treasure must first pass a trial of their Dao Hearts. The cultivators agreed, and the Qingxuan Sword Immortal opened a gateway to the trial space.

• Su Bai prepared an illusory trial space in the Sword Pavilion Secret Realm to examine the cultivators’ inner worlds and resolve.
• The Qingxuan Sword Immortal told the Nascent Soul Cultivators that only those who passed the Dao Heart trial would qualify for the lecture and a chance to receive a Law Treasure.
• More than three hundred Nascent Soul Cultivators bowed and agreed to undergo the trial.
• The Qingxuan Sword Immortal formed a mysterious gateway in the air leading into the trial space.

Su Bai examined Nascent Soul cultivators facing their deepest fears in the trial space, seeking candidates capable of surviving the Spirit Transformation Heart Demon Tribulation. He selected Li Xusheng and Xu Yeye for their exceptional resolve and clear Dao hearts.

• Su Bai observed cultivators faltering under illusions of betrayal, regret, and failure, and judged most unsuitable to receive Law Treasures.
• Li Xusheng calmly rejected the regrets shown by his illusion, demonstrating his unwavering pursuit of the Great Dao despite his dwindling lifespan.
• Su Bai recognized that Li Xusheng's cultivation and understanding were nearly complete and noted him as a selected candidate for a Law Treasure.
• Xu Yeye watched illusions of her traumatic childhood without wavering and froze the negative emotions they tried to instill in her.
• Su Bai approved of Xu Yeye's resilience and crystal-clear Dao heart and noted her as another selected candidate.

Ma Xiu returned with the Faith Sword and secured the final qualification to pursue Spirit Transformation. Su Bai prepared eight candidates, including Li Xusheng, for what came next as his voice spread across Heavenly Star City and beyond.

• More than two hundred Nascent Soul cultivators rushed out to search for the Faith Sword after hearing the rules against harming innocents.
• Ma Xiu returned in disguise with the Faith Sword and presented it to Su Bai, the Qingxuan Sword Immortal.
• Su Bai recognized Ma Xiu as a Holy Hall figure but accepted his qualification, and Ma Xiu joined the other seven candidates.
• Su Bai formed eight cloud cushions and instructed Yun Jianming, Li Xusheng, and the other candidates to sit and calm their minds.
• Su Bai’s voice spread throughout Heavenly Star City and far beyond.

After Li Xusheng ascended to the Spirit Realm, the witnessing crowd’s fervent faith surged into Su Bai’s divine avatar. Su Bai began condensing a Divine Kingdom and successfully formed its seed.

• Li Xusheng broke through to Spirit Transformation and ascended to the Spirit Realm before the crowd in Heavenly Star City.
• The spectators erupted in worship of Qingxuan Sword Immortal, and their faith intensified as the giant cloud face dissipated.
• Su Bai sensed that Li Xusheng’s breakthrough had taught him about the Upper Realm and increased his confidence in his own future ascension.
• The crowd’s faith flooded Su Bai’s divine avatar, and he refined it into divine power.
• Su Bai used the divine power to create the seed of a Divine Kingdom within his divine core and began expanding it.

Li Xusheng broke through to Spirit Transformation and ascended after receiving the Qingxuan Sword Immortal’s aid, inspiring a surge of faith in Su Bai. Su Bai used that faith to begin forming the seed of his Divine Kingdom, which he continued to expand.

• Li Xusheng successfully reached Spirit Transformation and ascended to the Spirit Realm before the crowd in Heavenly Star City.
• Cultivators and mortals who witnessed the miracle declared their faith in the Qingxuan Sword Immortal, sending a powerful wave of belief to Su Bai’s divine body avatar.
• Su Bai refined the incoming faith into divine power and began condensing his Divine Kingdom.
• Su Bai formed the seed of a Divine Kingdom within his divinity and continued to scour and expand it with divine power.

Su Bai tested whether Faith Threads could let him sense believers’ talents and use [Immortal Talent Reflection] across vast distances. He found a sword-loving youth on a remote island whose potential might complete his [Myriad Transformations Sword Dao].

• Su Bai realized Faith Threads might serve as channels for detecting and copying believers’ talents from afar.
• He searched the faith network for devout believers with Sword Dao traits because his [Myriad Transformations Sword Dao] lacked one Mysterious Tier Talent.
• Su Bai followed a clean, steady Faith Thread to a youth practicing sword techniques on a reef shore.
• He sensed that the youth possessed a high-grade Sword Dao Talent that might meet his needs.