Chapter Summaries

Su Yun’s growing power and Yuanshuo’s rapid development alarmed Luo Wanyi, who traveled to Tianshiyuan to learn how strong he had become. She found him cultivating at Little Cold Mountain Sacred Land and saw him casually stop a sun in his palm, leaving her stunned by his Immortal Means.

• Su Yun reflected on the power of the Chaos Seven-Character Mantra as trade and exchange grew among Yuanshuo, Emperor Seat, and Zhongshan.
• Luo Wanyi helped unite the Western Lands, negotiated with Yuanshuo, and signed the Yuan-Xi Peace Treaty after Yuanshuo’s young fighters won many contests.
• Zuo Songyan attained the Original Dao Realm during the negotiations, and Yu Daoyuan explained how opportunity and finding one’s own path led to the Dao.
• Luo Wanyi visited Yuanshuo and Tianshiyuan, where its growth and sacred lands made her fear the Western Lands would soon fall behind.
• Luo Wanyi went with Chi Xiaoyao to Little Cold Mountain Sacred Land and saw Su Yun stop a sun in his hand before he greeted her.

Su Yun learned that Lou Ban and Master Cen had disappeared while investigating Tianfu Grotto-Heaven, so he used the Bronze Talisman to travel there. Luo Wanyi joined him, and the talisman vanished from Tianshiyuan with both of them inside.

• Su Yun explained that the sun, moon, and stars he had held were formed from Immortal Qi, while Luo Wanyi questioned his power and teased him about taking another wife.
• Luo Wanyi proposed marrying Su Yun to ease tensions between Yuanshuo and the Western Lands, and Su Yun playfully accepted before dismissing the idea.
• Yi Chaohua reported that Tianfu Grotto-Heaven was still approaching and that Lou Ban and Master Cen had not returned; Yingying could not sense either of them with her summoning.
• Su Yun learned Tianfu’s location and decided to investigate before it merged with Tianshiyuan, intending to rescue or avenge Lou Ban and Master Cen.
• Su Yun activated the Bronze Talisman and set off for Tianfu, while Luo Wanyi entered it and insisted on accompanying him.

Su Yun, Yingying, and Luo Wanyi traveled by Bronze Talisman from Tianshiyuan to the vast Tianfu Grotto-Heaven, where they discovered the civilization that had given rise to Yuanshuo. They arrived at a magnificent city built above a blessed land, while Su Yun and Luo Wanyi reflected on the danger Tianfu posed to Tianshiyuan.

• Su Yun used the Bronze Talisman to cross the universe and carefully brought it to Tianfu Grotto-Heaven without crashing.
• Su Yun, Yingying, and Luo Wanyi saw Golden Body Deities pushing suns and learned that many living worlds orbited Tianfu Grotto-Heaven.
• Luo Wanyi warned that Tianshiyuan might become a vassal if the grotto-heavens merged, and Su Yun rebuked her for ignoring the danger to Yuanshuo and the Western Lands.
• Yingying explained that the Three Holy Emperors from Tianfu had taught Yuanshuo's people to build a civilization, making Tianfu its mother civilization.
• Su Yun guided the Bronze Talisman through Tianfu's immense cities and blessed lands toward a sky city built atop a blessed land.

Bai Ze and the others realized Su Yun had entered Tianfu Grotto-Heaven carrying the Former Dynasty’s Bronze Talisman, making him a likely target, while Su Yun explored the Holy Emperor Residence with Yingying and Luo Wanyi. The chapter ended when Feng Chenji killed Ye Yuchen and bowed to Yingying as an Immortal Envoy.

• Bai Ze gathered Nu Chou and Elder Pixiu, who warned that Su Yun would be treated as a wanted criminal because he carried the Bronze Talisman into Tianfu Grotto-Heaven.
• Su Yun rode the Bronze Talisman through Tiankui Grotto-Heaven, admired its ancient cities and abundant immortal qi, and spotted statues of the Three Holy Emperors.
• Su Yun, Yingying, and Luo Wanyi entered the Holy Emperor Residence, where Feng Chenji’s pig dragon guards initially let them leave after they claimed to come from Yaoguang Four.
• Ye Yuchen challenged their story, revealing that Yaoguang Four had been swallowed by calamity ash, but Feng Chenji suddenly killed him and ordered his troops to attack the Phoenix Dragon Army.
• Feng Chenji entered the Bronze Talisman, knelt before Yingying, and addressed her as the Immortal Envoy.

Su Yun and his companions entered Tianfu Grotto-Heaven under Feng Chenji’s protection, while Feng Chenji’s massacre of the Phoenix Dragon Army drew the Tianfu Holy Emperor’s attention. At the Holy Emperor’s Residence, Su Yun discovered a portrait of a nine-tailed fox and recognized the arriving Holy Emperor as Sage Emperor Yu, a figure from Yuan Shuo.

• Feng Chenji mistook Yingying for the Former Dynasty’s Immortal Emperor’s envoy, accepted her orders, and slaughtered Ye Yuchen and the Phoenix Dragon Army.
• Su Yun and Luo Wanyi discussed the strengths and flaws of Tianfu Grotto-Heaven’s cultivation realms as Feng Chenji arranged for them to stay at the Holy Emperor’s Residence.
• Feng Chenji told the Tianfu Holy Emperor that he had sheltered the Former Dynasty’s envoy and explained that the Holy Emperor could choose whether to aid or betray the envoy.
• Su Yun noticed that the Holy Emperor’s Residence resembled Yuan Shuo and found a painting of a nine-tailed fox from Qingqiu.
• The Tianfu Holy Emperor arrived, and Yingying and Su Yun recognized him as Sage Emperor Yu, the Holy Emperor obsessed with the nine-tailed fox.

Emperor Yu explained how he reached Tianfu Grotto-Heaven, why the Immortal Realm forbade ascension, and why he planned to seek the Immortal Realm Gate. When Su Yun announced that the Immortal Emperor had returned and invited allies to raise a banner, Emperor Yu ordered the group arrested before admitting that the plan was dangerously reckless.

• Yingying questioned Emperor Yu about his journey to Tianfu Grotto-Heaven, where the Flame Emperor remade his body and he became Holy Emperor.
• Emperor Yu revealed that the Immortal Realm banned ascension and the teaching of the Conquering Sage Realm and Original Dao Realm after cultivators began ascending in growing numbers.
• Luo Wanyi challenged Emperor Yu over restricting the two realms, and he explained that few people could cultivate them, including Feng Chenji.
• Emperor Yu said he would follow the First Holy Emperor’s path and seek the Immortal Realm Gate, but Yingying warned him about the suspended coffin there.
• Su Yun announced that the Immortal Emperor had returned and wanted righteous warriors to unite, so Emperor Yu ordered Feng Chenji to arrest and behead the group before denouncing their plan as suicidal.

Sage Emperor Yu planned to use Su Yun as a false envoy to draw suspicion away from Yingying during the Holy Emperor Assembly. He also revealed that Lou Ban and Master Cen might have been exiled to another grotto-heaven, while Divine Lord Song left believing Su Yun was the envoy.

• Sage Emperor Yu decided to spread a false story that the Former Dynasty's Immortal Emperor's envoy was in Moheng City and planned to put Su Yun forward as the envoy, leaving Yingying concealed.
• Su Yun learned that only a dozen or so Yuanshuo holy spirits had reached Tianfu; Sage Emperor Yu explained that Madam Bai Hua's exile technique may have sent the others to a neighboring grotto-heaven expected to merge with Tianfu in two months.
• Sage Emperor Yu recalled that an extraordinary woman had crossed the Starry Sky in the flesh, but Divine Lord Song arrived before he could explain more.
• Divine Lord Song questioned Sage Emperor Yu about the Bronze Talisman and suspected Su Yun was its rider; Sage Emperor Yu introduced Su Yun as his disciple from Kaiyang Four.
• Divine Lord Song apologized for accusing Feng Chenji over Ye Yuchen's death, then left and concluded that Su Yun was the Former Dynasty's envoy.
• Sage Emperor Yu told Yingying and Luo Wanyi that Divine Lord Song would spread the false identification, ensuring people targeted Su Yun instead of the real envoy.

Su Yun and Yingying explored Moheng City, where Yingying’s guidance helped Feng Chenji break through to the Conquering Sage Realm. When Divine Lord Song’s allies confronted them, Su Yun stepped aside so Feng Chenji could face the Ye Family, then attacked Divine Lord Song and smashed him into Tiankui Grotto-Heaven’s Immortal Mountain.

• Su Yun discussed Luo Wanyi’s ambitions with Yingying and learned she had left Tianfu to strengthen her cultivation.
• Yingying analyzed Feng Chenji’s Nine Cauldrons Dragon Gate Art and explained its flaws as they visited Tiankui Grotto-Heaven’s mirror-like Immortal Light.
• The Ye Family accused Feng Chenji of killing Ye Yuchen and demanded that Su Yun defend him, but Su Yun stepped aside.
• Feng Chenji broke through to the Conquering Sage Realm and confronted the Ye Family members.
• Su Yun identified himself to Divine Lord Song as Su Daqiang, punched him through the Immortal Light, and drove him into the Immortal Mountain with a massive Spiritual Nature fist.

Su Yun’s beating of Divine Lord Song played across the Sky Screen Projection, drawing crowds and revealing new possibilities for Su Yun’s divine arts. Song fought Su Yun, then abruptly made peace with him, while Lei Xingke suspected Su Yun was tied to the late emperor’s faction.

• The Sky Screen Projection replayed Su Yun beating Divine Lord Song in many variations, and Su Yun realized it was demonstrating new paths for his physical-body divine arts.
• Lei Xingke introduced himself to Su Yun and asked whether he had seen bronze-colored bamboo segments flying the previous day; Su Yun pretended not to know about them.
• Divine Lord Song attacked Su Yun with three powerful domains, but Su Yun blocked them with Zhongshan Candle Dragon and the Martial Immortal’s divine arts, forcing both men back.
• Divine Lord Song stopped fighting and warmly warned Su Yun not to use the Martial Immortal’s divine arts, claiming the Martial Immortal had rebelled in the Immortal Realm.
• Lei Xingke concluded that Su Yun was the late emperor’s envoy and an ally of the Martial Immortal, while Su Yun apologized to Divine Lord Song and privately recognized his rival’s remarkable thick skin.

Su Yun left with Divine Lord Song, whose sudden friendliness puzzled Feng Chenji and drew speculation from Lei Xingke and Gu Shaofei about his motives and Su Yun’s influence. As Lei Xingke and Gu Shaofei discussed the political risks of the former Immortal Emperor’s restoration, a mysterious Red-clothed Girl arrived in Moheng City and sent Shu Ao to identify them.

• Su Yun admired Divine Lord Song’s saber art, then joined him for a stroll through Moheng City while Feng Chenji followed and Lei Xingke stayed behind.
• Lei Xingke told Gu Shaofei that Su Yun’s identity as an Immortal Envoy could attract ambitious people seeking to change sides, especially if he taught them the Conquest Saint and Original Dao Realms.
• Lei Xingke and Gu Shaofei wondered whether Divine Lord Song intended to support Su Yun or capture him, recalling the Song Family’s history of surviving political shifts by changing sides.
• Lei Xingke decided that he and Gu Shaofei should stand with the winning side rather than imitate the Song Family’s constant maneuvering.
• A carriage drawn by two White Rhinoceroses arrived in Moheng City, and the woman inside ordered Shu Ao to ask whether Lei Xingke and Gu Shaofei were present.

Su Yun visited the former residence of the Master and the other two sages, where he began to comprehend their lingering spiritual power. As he prepared to preach the Dao, more than a hundred experts arrived to seek his allegiance, leaving Feng Chenji wondering whether Su Yun truly was the Immortal Envoy.

• Lei Xingke and Gu Shaofei mistook Wutong's arrival for a challenge to the Holy Emperor position.
• Su Yun asked Song Ming about places of learning and learned that Tianfu Grotto-Heaven relied on aristocratic Family Learning rather than public schools.
• Feng Chenji told Su Yun that the Master and two other sages from Yuanshuo had once visited Tianfu, so Su Yun asked to see their former residence.
• Su Yun and Song Ming reached the sages' thatched cottages, where lingering chants astonished Song Ming with the sages' spiritual attainments.
• Su Yun told Feng Chenji to have visitors seeking his allegiance wait until he finished comprehending and could preach the Dao.
• More than a hundred experts, including Jin Baozhi and Yang Daolong, arrived to seek Su Yun's allegiance, and Feng Chenji suspected Su Yun might truly be the Immortal Envoy.

Su Yun preached the Conquering Sage Realm at Tiankui Grotto-Heaven, creating a Three Sages' Dao Field that drew crowds and helped him gather support. As the aristocratic clans moved to stop him, Wutong decided to claim the Holy Emperor position herself.

• Su Yun used the teachings of Old Lord, Shakyamuni, and Master Cen to form Daoist, Buddhist, and Confucian Dao fields while lecturing on the Conquering Sage Realm.
• Spirit Scholars flocked to the Three Sages' Dao Field to listen, while Divine Lord Song Ming admired the spectacle and misjudged how carefully Su Yun had planned it.
• Hua Hongyi warned the aristocratic clans that Su Yun was building a following and urged them to deal with him for teaching a forbidden cultivation realm.
• Jiao Shuao told Wutong that Su Yun's lecture had caused the phenomenon and reported that demonic forces were growing rapidly across Tianfu Grotto-Heaven.
• Wutong decided to repay Sage Emperor Yu by taking the Holy Emperor position and declared that anyone who opposed her would die.

Su Yun’s Three Sages’ Dao Field drew attention after Yingying taught the Conquering Sage and Original Dao Realms, prompting Wang Zhongting to challenge him for defying the Immortal Realm’s prohibition. Su Yun defeated Wang Zhongting and predicted his death, and news of Wang Zhongting’s sudden demise arrived three days later.

• Yingying explained the Original Dao Realm to the cultivators gathered at Su Yun’s Three Sages’ Dao Field, while several attendees attained the Conquering Sage Realm.
• Wang Zhongting arrived and accused Su Yun of violating the Immortal Realm’s order by teaching forbidden realms, while Song Ming declined to intervene.
• Hua Hongyi watched as Wang Zhongting unleashed his Golden Mausoleum King Qi Tribulation Scripture against Su Yun, striking him back into Tiankui Grotto-Heaven’s Immortal Mountain.
• Su Yun blocked Wang Zhongting’s ninety-ninth seal with the Purple Mansion Seal, then pierced his hand and skull with a finger strike.
• Su Yun told Wang Zhongting he would die within three days, and news later confirmed Wang Zhongting had died suddenly in Tianxiong Grotto-Heaven.

After Wang Zhongting's death, the Wang Family's immortals prepared to retaliate while Lang Yulan proposed holding the Holy Emperor Assembly in an approaching grotto-heaven. Sage Emperor Yu urged Su Yun to become Tianfu Holy Emperor, revealing that the position could draw hidden former-dynasty forces to his side.

• Hua Hongyi confronted Song Ming over his mistaken claim that Su Daqiang would lose to Wang Zhongting, and Song Ming warned that an immortal's descent could devastate Tianfu Grotto-Heaven.
• Lang Yulan arrived with Luo Wanyi, explained that he had calculated the approach of another grotto-heaven, and proposed moving the Holy Emperor Assembly there to avoid casualties in Tianfu.
• Hua Hongyi and Lang Yulan agreed to deal with Su Yun in the other grotto-heaven before the Wang Family's Immortal Gold descended.
• Sage Emperor Yu told Su Yun that becoming Tianfu Holy Emperor would give his gathered followers a place and could attract hidden former-dynasty immortals.
• Su Yun looked toward the approaching grotto-heaven and wondered whether Lou Ban and Master Cen were there.

Su Yun and Emperor Yu parted after discussing the future of Tianfu, while the clans prepared to contest the Holy Emperor throne. At the Holy Emperor Assembly, a disturbance in the Immortal Realm interrupted the ceremony, and Su Yun spotted Wutong as the candidates entered the Immortal Path.

• Su Yun accepted Emperor Yu’s Holy Emperor Seal as a keepsake and warned Yingying that Yuanshuo’s holy spirits might vanish if they reached the Immortal Realm Gate.
• The Wang Family prepared sacrifices and chose Wang Li to accompany the Holy Emperor candidates so their ancestor could descend.
• Hua Hongyi persuaded Wutong to seek the Holy Emperor throne by offering help finding the Guanghan immortal race, while Lang Yulan backed Lang Yun and Song Ming weighed the risks of the contest.
• At Baitian Platform, Emperor Yu led the sacrifice to the Immortal Court, but an immortal’s warning about someone attacking the Immortal Court was cut short as the gate was struck away.
• The three Divine Lords opened an Immortal Path for the assembly, and Su Yun recognized Wutong among those entering it.

Su Yun reconnected with the Immortal Path after Lang Yun severed it, while many gathered experts were stranded in the Starry Sky. They eventually found the moving Zhongshan-Candle Dragon nebula and headed toward Tianshiyuan, as Su Yun caught up with the golden Sky Ship Grotto-Heaven.

• Su Yun realized Wutong had deceived his Dao Heart, and Yingying blamed his romantic feelings for weakening it.
• Lang Yun used the Lang family's Splitting Light Sword Technique to sever the Immortal Path, stranding more than half the gathering in the Starry Sky.
• Su Yun reconnected with the Immortal Path through an immortal-register divine ability and continued toward the Grotto-Heaven beyond the heavens.
• Xiaoyaozi gathered 126 stranded experts on his rosy-cloud treasure, and they searched the Starry Sky for a world where they could replenish their strength.
• The experts spotted the Zhongshan-Candle Dragon nebula carrying Tianshiyuan and set course for it, hoping to conquer its world.
• Su Yun caught up with the golden Sky Ship Grotto-Heaven as it sailed through the universe.

Su Yun searched Sky Ship Grotto-Heaven for the missing Holy Emperor Assembly contestants and found the ruins of a city where Lou Ban had fought a terrifying enemy. He discovered that the survivors had been killed or trapped by flesh-and-blood tendrils spreading from a gigantic heart, which he recognized as Song Ming.

• Su Yun flew across the devastated Sky Ship Grotto-Heaven but found no sign of the Assembly contestants.
• Su Yun and Yingying investigated a ruined city and recognized Lou Ban's divine ability imprints in its walls and streets, which were made of divine metal.
• Su Yun and Yingying silently passed through flesh-and-blood tendrils and witnessed a Tianfu expert trapped in a wall and another killed after trying to flee.
• Su Yun followed traces of the battle deeper into the city, finding more dead Tianfu experts and growing red tentacles throughout the ruins.
• Su Yun reached a massive heart surrounded by metal steles bearing faces of the Former Dynasty's Immortal Emperor and identified it as Song Ming.

Su Yun and the surviving Tianfu experts witnessed the Immortal Emperor’s heart turn captured Spiritual Natures into monsters bearing the Immortal Emperor’s face. When Lang Yun turned the group against Su Yun, Su Yun revealed that the monsters could see them, and they attacked the fleeing experts.

• The Immortal Emperor’s heart transformed several Peak Original Dao Realm experts into Immortal Emperor Monsters by attaching its faces to their Spiritual Natures.
• After the heart fell silent, the surviving Tianfu experts emerged, and Lang Yun urged them to stay together until the grotto-heavens merged.
• Lang Yun persuaded several experts to target Su Yun, claiming they could earn merit by capturing the Immortal Envoy.
• Su Yun taunted Lang Yun about his age and cultivation, then counted 136 Immortal Emperor faces and questioned where the extra bodies and Spiritual Natures had come from.
• Su Yun warned that the heart could see them, and the Immortal Emperor Monsters turned toward Lang Yun and pursued the fleeing experts.
• Su Yun, Lang Yun, and a burly, bearded man remained by the heart as screams sounded in the distance.

Su Yun and Lang Yun fought the Immortal Emperor Monsters while searching for Lou Ban and Master Cen, and Lang Yun severed the monsters’ blood vessels with the Martial Immortal’s Immortal Sword. After Lou Ban helped turn the tide, Wutong revealed herself as Du Menglong and demanded that Su Yun call her Senior Sister.

• Su Yun placed four Immortal Palace Altars around the Immortal Emperor’s heart and mistook Du Menglong for Wutong, while Du Menglong denied knowing him.
• An Immortal Emperor Monster seized Du Menglong, and Su Yun gave Lang Yun the Martial Immortal’s Immortal Sword to cut its blood vessel as he and Yingying fought off the monsters.
• Lang Yun severed the blood vessels, freeing the Spiritual Natures inside the Immortal Emperor Monsters, while Su Yun and Yingying were driven to the brink.
• Lou Ban appeared as a Spiritual Nature and rebuilt the divine city into a shifting maze that trapped and attacked the monsters, helping Su Yun regain the advantage.
• Lang Yun cut the final blood vessel, then threatened Su Yun, but his strength was spent and the Immortal Sword flew away.
• Du Menglong reappeared as Wutong, revealed herself to Su Yun and Yingying, and told Su Yun to call her Senior Sister.

Su Yun and his companions fled the Heart of the Evil Emperor, learned that it had broken free after Sky Ship Grotto-Heaven began moving, and were recruited by the immortal Man Taixu to help suppress it. Su Yun asked Wutong to stay and help protect Yuanshuo, and she agreed.

• Lou Ban carried Su Yun, Du Menglong, and Lang Yun across a bridge while the Heart of the Evil Emperor pursued them and turned captured spiritual natures into monsters.
• Yingying explained that Lou Ban and Master Cen had been exiled to the wrong Grotto-Heaven, then teased Lou Ban until Master Cen sealed her mouth.
• Master Cen arrived with immortal Man Taixu, who explained that Sky Ship Grotto-Heaven's movement had loosened the seal on the Heart of the Evil Emperor and asked them to help suppress it.
• Su Yun realized the immortals might turn against him if they learned he was the Evil Emperor's Envoy, since his actions had helped loosen the heart's seal.
• Su Yun met Wutong in her spiritual realm and rejected her suggestion to push Yuanshuo away from Tianshiyuan, asking her instead to help keep Yuanshuo there.
• Su Yun told Wutong that he liked her, and Wutong agreed to help him.