Chapter Summaries

Su He learned from Bai Yin that the worlds’ missing source might be restored by someone powerful enough to become the origin of all things, and he resolved to grow stronger. After claiming the Netherworld White Tiger and killing Feng Xiu, he helped Profound Wilderness turn back Sealed Emperor’s attempt to seize the treasure.

• Bai Yin explained that the Profound Yellow Great World had lost its source and warned that Immortal Venerables would die if it was not restored; Su He decided to pursue strength and eventually become a source.
• Bai Yin’s possession ended, and her Conscious Entity told Su He that the Netherworld White Tiger came from refined tiger bones and urged him to be bolder with Bai Ling before dispersing.
• Su He recognized the Netherworld General as a ghost Bai Yin had once brought into his Inner World, granted him his title, and watched Feng Xiu flee before killing him.
• Outside the karst cave, Sealed Emperor’s forces learned Feng Xiu had died and the White Tiger Supreme Treasure had been taken, while the Profound Wilderness camp celebrated.
• Feng Nan admitted Sealed Emperor had lost, and Three Aspects Monk mocked her as the two camps traded taunts.

Su He brought Ghost Town, Le Ying, and the Netherworld White Tiger into his Inner World, then settled into deep hibernation to recover and cultivate while he waited for the Ascension Platform. Outside the White Tiger Remains, Luan Emperor learned about Su He's powers and ordered his people to avoid battle and enter the platform together.

• Su He brought Ghost Town into his Netherworld Realm and recognized him as a possible future Yama lord.
• Su He promised to compensate Le Ying for keeping her in his Inner World, and she agreed to stay temporarily while insisting that she was not a retainer.
• Su He failed to control or refine the Netherworld White Tiger, but concluded that it could help him obtain a Third Body.
• Su He asked Cui Hua to borrow Source Stones from the clan elders, then submerged himself in the Underground River and entered a deep sleep to heal his injuries.
• Luan Emperor learned that Su He carried the Tai trigram and the Power of Time, then ordered everyone to avoid battle and enter the Ascension Platform.

Luan Emperor searched for Return Gazing Mountain while Xuan Zhen Daoren sealed the Demon Transformation Fruit Tree and prepared Ya Ya’s clay figure for Bearing Heaven Hall. Ji Feixue and Ya Ya found Luan Emperor’s formation guarding the Dragon Ancestor’s scale, where they encountered a puppet that froze when it mistook them for someone else.

• Luan Emperor asked Mister Yuan about Return Gazing Mountain, but Mister Yuan reported that the sect remained impossible to track.
• Xuan Zhen Daoren and Return Gazing Mountain offered Five Virtues Essence to the Demon Transformation Fruit Tree and sealed it with the character “Still,” delaying the fruit’s fall until the next opening in ninety years.
• After leaving the hidden space, Xuan Zhen Daoren entered an unfinished Dao field and placed Ya Ya’s Clay Doll on the throne in Bearing Heaven Hall, where it absorbed the field’s imperial-path aura.
• Ji Feixue led Ya Ya to Three Primes Palace to retrieve the Dragon Ancestor’s scale, suppressed an Azure Dragon corpse, and broke the Sealed Emperor Palace formation protecting the scale.
• A Luan Emperor puppet began speaking as if the visitor were the Deposed Crown Prince, then froze when it saw Ji Feixue and Ya Ya instead.

Ji Feixue destroyed the Luan Emperor’s puppet, claimed the Dragon Ancestor Dragon Scale, and witnessed Ya Ya’s national luck transform into a National Luck Divine Turtle through Xuan Zhen’s intervention. After recovering and inheriting Great Abyss, Su He awoke when the Ascension Platform opened and arrived there with Feng Qi.

• Ji Feixue destroyed the Luan Emperor puppet and took the Dragon Ancestor Dragon Scale from the altar.
• Ya Ya’s National Fortune Flood Dragon shattered and reformed as a National Luck Divine Turtle, which she merged with to greatly increase her strength.
• The Luan Emperor sensed that the Three Primes Palace puppet had been destroyed and believed the Deposed Crown Prince had obtained the dragon scale.
• Su He remained asleep for more than half a year while Great Abyss completed its inheritance, and the Toad studied the Reverse-Flow Smoke formation in his Inner World.
• The Ascension Platform opened, waking Su He, and Feng Qi carried him to the third cloud layer.
• Su He and Feng Qi arrived at the gathering, where the Luan Emperor offered Su He tea from a teapot smaller than his eye.

Su He learned how Ascension Platform worked and began his first attempt to rise through its seven levels, while Luan Emperor and Su He agreed to join forces against the Deposed Crown Prince. The chapter ended as a powerful gale crashed down on Su He’s rising cloud.

• Su He thanked Feng Chao Fei for lending him Source Stones, then asked Ancient Lo to lend him Elder Mi after they left Profound Yellow Grotto-heaven.
• Su He and Luan Emperor discussed the Deposed Crown Prince, whose hostility toward Su He stemmed from the death of his youngest child, and agreed to kill him together after Ascension Platform.
• Luan Emperor explained the Sealed Emperor clan’s origins, and Su He said Bai Yin had exterminated the clan during the Primordial Era Period.
• Feng Chao Fei explained that Ascension Platform had seven levels, and the gathered cultivators rode clouds upward to reach the levels where they could draw Essence Qi.
• Luan Emperor, Grand Tutor, and Feng Nan predicted how far Su He might climb, while Ancient Lo and Ancient Locust teased Feng Qi about his past performance.
• Su He condensed a cloud and began to rise, but a powerful gale swept down on him as other cultivators watched.

Su He struggled against the Ascension Platform’s gale wind, discovered that it carried Ancient Essence Qi, and devised a way to absorb and refine it. He created the Black Tortoise Evolution Dao Art and surged from the Sixth Level through the Fifth toward the Fourth, leaving the others astonished.

• Su He repeatedly failed to ascend, then realized that the gale wind revealed Ancient Essence Qi and that inhaling both could counter its force.
• Su He increased his absorption speed and broke through the Seventh Level into the Sixth, where the stronger gale wind began pressing him down again.
• Su He considered how Ancient Essence Qi could refine the body and concluded that it could also fuel a cultivation method without altering his flesh and blood.
• Su He formed the Black Tortoise Evolution Dao Art by merging his Black Tortoise image with his turtle-and-snake form and circulating gale wind, Ancient Essence Qi, and Star Power.
• Su He entered a deep state of cultivation, then rode the white clouds upward through the Fifth Level toward the Fourth, surprising Luan Emperor and Feng Qi.

Su He advanced his Black Tortoise cultivation on the Ascension Platform, condensing the Southern Dipper and reaching the third level. His progress alarmed the great powers, while the absence of Su Hua Nian, Ji Feixue, and Ya Ya left him uneasy.

• Feng Qi and the others watched Su He cultivate on the fourth level, while Feng Chao Fei recognized that he was following the Black Tortoise Great Dao and entered the first level.
• Su He blocked the onlookers’ gazes and immersed himself in a star-like cultivation state as Greedy Wolf watched him in awe.
• Su He illuminated the stars corresponding to the Black Tortoise Mansions in his body and opened the Dou Mansion in his spirit snake’s head, merging it with the Hexagram of Constancy.
• Feng Chao Fei and the Luan Emperor sensed Su He’s new connection to the Black Tortoise Dao, and the opposing great powers nearly clashed before withdrawing because fighting was forbidden.
• Su He’s absorption surged, carrying him into the third level, where he resumed cultivating despite worrying that Su Hua Nian, Ji Feixue, and Ya Ya had not returned.

Su He fused more of the Black Tortoise’s Seven Mansions and reached the Ascension Platform’s second level in less than a year, drawing the Luan Emperor’s warning that powerful enemies would target him. Su Hua Nian left Sword Mountain for White Cloud Palace as Su He opened another mansion and set his sights on the first level.

• Su He opened Ox Mansion and Maiden Mansion, increasing his ability to absorb gale winds and essence qi as he continued ascending the Ascension Platform.
• Xuan Zhen Daoren returned with the people of Return Gazing Mountain, saw Su He on the third level, and went to cultivate on the first level with the Luan Emperor.
• Su Hua Nian left Sword Mountain after recovering and advancing her cultivation, while Ya Ya followed Ji Feixue toward White Cloud Palace and asked to subdue the Cloud Dream Dragon King.
• Su He opened Void Mansion and reached the second level just short of a year after entering the Ascension Platform, then teased Feng Qi and challenged the Luan Emperor to wager on his reaching the first level.
• The Luan Emperor warned Su He that the Sealed Emperor Palace and star-sea Old Ancestors might personally move against him, but Su He refused to abandon the Black Tortoise Dao Path and opened Danger Mansion.

Su He fused the final two mansions and broke through to the First Level of Ascension Platform, reuniting with Ji Feixue and Ya Ya there. The chapter ended with Feng Qi confronting a Sealed Emperor Palace general who had mocked Su He, then trembling when Ya Ya called him Seventh Grandfather.

• Su He absorbed essence qi on the second layer and worked to fuse the Chamber and Wall Mansions, while Luan Emperor and the others watched his stalled ascent.
• Ji Feixue brought Ya Ya to White Cloud Palace, where Su He reunited with them and was stunned when Ya Ya called him Father before running ahead to meet her Dragon Turtle grandfathers.
• A Sealed Emperor Palace general mocked Su He in front of Ya Ya, but Su He completed the Black Tortoise Seven Mansions and broke through to the First Level.
• Su He greeted Luan Emperor on the First Level as the general's laughter died, and Feng Qi confronted the general for targeting Su He.
• Ya Ya asked whether Feng Qi had finished cultivating, and Feng Qi suddenly began trembling.

Su He’s consciousness followed the Ascension Platform’s light to a hidden space and found the dead true body of the Demon Emperor, a willow tree bearing Demon Transformation Fruits. The chapter left him facing the mystery of the Demon Emperor’s death and the source connected to the Primordial Era conflict.

• Feng Qi endured the first level’s gale, then settled down to cultivate after Feng Chao Fei’s killing intent warned him against his private thoughts.
• Su He sensed something above the first level, and Ji Feixue and the elders urged him to cultivate while Ya Ya stayed safely on the platform.
• Su He focused on the Black Tortoise Dao Path, and his consciousness rose through the light beam as Ji Feixue concealed the anomaly from Xuan Zhen Daoren.
• Su He entered a white space and recognized the towering willow as the Demon Emperor’s refined, lifeless true body, its branches bearing Demon Transformation Fruits and traces of other dead beings.
• An unseen voice greeted Su He by asking, “You’re Here?”

Su He received a corporeal Immortal Gate from the willow tree and discovered that it let him perceive the Ascension Platform and its barriers. Su Hua Nian arrived and climbed from the lower levels to the First Level, where she joined Su He and Ya Ya.

• The Demon Emperor Willow Tree called Su He to the Ascension Platform and sent a white jade disc into his Sea of Consciousness before forcing him back to his body.
• Ji Feixue identified the disc as a corporeal Immortal Gate and told Su He that the path to opening Immortal Gates had been severed.
• Su He realized the disc let him see White Cloud Palace's barrier and sense that he could seal the Ascension Platform, but he chose not to act while many Profound Wilderness cultivators were there.
• Su Hua Nian arrived at the Ascension Platform, and the Luan Emperor and Deposed Crown Prince wagered over whether she could reach the First Level as Ji Feixue placed a Sun Wheel hairpin as her stake.
• Su Hua Nian climbed one level per day, passed the Boundary Membrane at the Second Level, then split the barrier with her sword and stepped onto the First Level beside Su He and Ya Ya.

Su Hua Nian returned to the Ascension Platform after reaching its first level in seven days, renewing Feng Chao Fei’s doubts about Bai Ling’s legendary ascent. The Luan Emperor explained his principles of rule to Ya Ya, then led Sealed Emperor’s forces in openly dispersing their inherited authority, leaving the Deposed Crown Prince furious and the generals to rely on the Ascension Platform’s Ancient Essence Qi.

• Su Hua Nian reunited with Su He and Ya Ya, thanked Ji Feixue for her help, and drew the crowd’s attention after ascending to the first level in seven days.
• Ji Feixue imprisoned the Heaven Reaching Token in a cage and sent it toward Grand Ancestor Tai’s Dao Field rather than let the Luan Emperor and her divide it.
• Ya Ya asked the Luan Emperor how to become a good ruler, and he said a sovereign should uphold laws that accord with the people’s wishes and ensure no one stood above the law.
• The Luan Emperor ordered Sealed Emperor’s gathered forces to form an array and use the Ascension Platform’s essence qi to disperse their inherited authority.
• The Deposed Crown Prince condemned Feng Yao for abandoning Sealed Emperor’s authority, while the Luan Emperor called the move an open plot and turned to Ya Ya.

Luan Emperor abolished Sealed Emperor’s authority and relied on the Buddhist Realm and other allies to protect his people while they cultivated on the Ascension Platform. Su He reversed the platform’s Gale Wind, cutting off their Ancient Essence Qi and forcing Sealed Emperor to flee as fighting erupted; he escaped with Su Hua Nian and Ya Ya, but landed near the formidable Feng Xu.

• Luan Emperor revealed that Sealed Emperor would abandon its former authority, and Liao Ran led Buddhist monks and other cultivators in guarding Sealed Emperor’s altar.
• After Ji Feixue signaled that Su He could control the Ascension Platform, Su He reversed its Gale Wind and swept its Ancient Essence Qi away, disrupting Sealed Emperor’s recovery.
• Luan Emperor tried to pursue the escaping essence qi, but he could not enter the Willow Tree Space and was trapped outside the Ascension Platform as Xuan Zhen Daoren ordered the Profound Wilderness Realm to surround it.
• Luan Emperor gathered Sealed Emperor’s people into the Mountains and Rivers Cauldron, while Ji Feixue confronted him and Feng Nan escaped with the cauldron; Feng Chao Fei followed her.
• As the Ascension Platform closed, Su He took Su Hua Nian and Ya Ya away, then found himself in a desert with Feng Xu, who appeared injured and wary.

Su He and Su Hua Nian defeated Feng Xu and followed Ji Feixue’s message to Taihe Palace, where they met Grand Ancestor Tai and discovered that Su Hua Nian could restore a hexagram left for Su He by Sword Mountain. Grand Ancestor Tai’s true consciousness arrived, chose not to open the prison, and thanked Su He for his Tai Hexagram.

• Su He, Su Hua Nian, and Cui Hua subdued the severely injured Feng Xu after Ya Ya escaped her spear with the Great Abyss, then Su He followed Ji Feixue’s map into the dark undercurrents.
• Su He pursued the prison to Taihe Palace, where he found Grand Ancestor Tai’s clone holding it and learned that the prison contained the Sealed Emperor Palace and the Heaven Reaching Token.
• Grand Ancestor Tai recognized Su Hua Nian as the Immortal Venerable, while Ya Ya delightedly greeted him as the Turtle Ancestor Master from her dreams.
• Su Hua Nian awakened a Jian Hexagram within Su He, bringing his Inner World’s growth to 54% and advancing his Black Tortoise cultivation to beginner stage.
• Grand Ancestor Tai’s true consciousness arrived, made the prison disappear, declined to open it for now, and thanked Su He for his Tai Hexagram.

Su He questioned Grand Ancestor Tai about Bai Ling, the netherworld, and the trigrams, then invited him to inspect his Inner World. Grand Ancestor Tai examined its inhabitants and mysteries before asking what it was missing.

• Su He showed Grand Ancestor Tai a memory of Bai Yin, and Grand Ancestor Tai revealed a hidden image in which Bai Ling confessed her identity and teased Su He and Ya Ya.
• Grand Ancestor Tai said Bai Ling had vanished despite his six-thousand-year search, explained the netherworld’s origins and dangers, and named several clans and individuals who held trigrams.
• Grand Ancestor Tai warned Su He to prepare his Inner World carefully before reaching Open Heaven Third Level, and refused to let Su He inspect his own Inner World until Su He reached Open Heaven Fifth Level.
• Su He brought Grand Ancestor Tai and Ya Ya into his Inner World, where Grand Ancestor Tai recognized Mount Tai'e, the Sixty-Four Trigrams, and Le Ying of the Tian Nu Clan.
• Grand Ancestor Tai inspected Su He's Inner World, noticed its netherworld and the ghost creature Zhen, then asked Su He what the Inner World was missing.

Grand Ancestor Tai helped Su He strengthen his Inner World with a true great sun and urged him to stay in Taihe Palace and cultivate rather than return to the battle at White Cloud Palace. Inside the Inner World, Le Ying revealed she could refine laws, giving Su He a reason to keep her as a prisoner and agree to her requests.

• Grand Ancestor Tai placed a Golden Crow in Su He's great sun, explained that Barren Ancestor and Red Ancestor would return from Dike Mountain, and told Su He to cultivate at Taihe Palace.
• Su Hua Nian explained that the Profound Wilderness Realm's other cultivators needed a chance to claim rewards, while Grand Ancestor Tai said his incarnation could not observe Bai Ling when she concealed herself.
• Ya Ya questioned Le Ying about being held inside Su He's Inner World, mistook her fears for concern about becoming a Fourth Mother, and advised her to prove she was useful.
• Le Ying offered to help Su He refine laws and demonstrated by melting a thread of wind law, improving the laws of his Inner World.
• Su He told Le Ying he would keep her from leaving but grant her reasonable requests, and he agreed to let her send Flying Sword Letters home and help clear out the Huo Dou near her home.

Su He made Le Ying his willing retainer and gave her a protected place in his Inner World while he, Su Hua Nian, and Ya Ya cultivated in the Profound Yellow Grotto-heaven. At Embankment Mountain, Barren Ancestor watched Red Ancestor transform in a strange pool and wondered what had happened to the Dragon Turtles who vanished from the clan.

• Su He convinced Le Ying to become his retainer, and Grand Ancestor Tai gave him a rune that would prevent her from revealing his secrets without killing her.
• Le Ying accepted the rune, demanded a private treehouse in Su He's Inner World, and began refining laws while Su He sealed the world.
• Su Hua Nian encouraged Su He to cultivate, Ya Ya climbed onto Grand Ancestor Tai's shell and fell asleep with a shrimp pearl, and Su He immersed himself in the Black Tortoise Evolution Dao Art.
• At Embankment Mountain, Barren Ancestor shielded Red Ancestor from lightning as Red Ancestor recovered in a golden pool and developed a new gold attribute.
• Barren Ancestor saw another Dragon Turtle phantom and wondered why so many former members of the clan had disappeared, hoping Grand Ancestor Tai would finally explain the secrets of the ancestral land.

Su He emerged from a decades-long epiphany having learned how to advance along the Black Tortoise Dao Path, and he brought the Northern Star Mansions into his Inner World. When he struggled to refine the rebellious Three-legged Golden Crow into his Great Sun, he used a Silver Maple Tree disguised as fusang trees and a maternal aura, causing the Golden Crow to dive into the sun of its own accord.

• Su He cultivated in empty tranquility for years as his Dao murmurs accelerated Le Ying's law refining and gradually restored Ghost Town's armor and awareness.
• Eight hundred Northern Star Mansions manifested in the Inner World, awakening Su He and helping him understand how his Black Tortoise Dao Path should proceed.
• Su He tried to refine the Three-legged Golden Crow with World Power, Star Power, and the Netherworld White Tiger, but the Golden Crow resisted and threatened to dim the Great Sun.
• Su He stopped his forceful attempt and transformed Le Ying's Silver Maple Tree into fusang trees, then covered them with Golden Crow aura and a maternal aura drawn from memory.
• The Three-legged Golden Crow watched Su He place the fusang trees into the Great Sun and voluntarily dove inside, astonishing Grand Ancestor Tai.

Su He discovered that the Golden Crow’s power could condense his Power of Time, learned that Grand Ancestor Tai had chained a foreign Great Sun in the sky, and sought guidance on his Dao Path. As the Profound Yellow Grotto-heaven battle devastated Sealed Emperor, Su He welcomed Feng Chao Fei and tried to recruit her to help him obtain her hexagram and raid the Houndou clan.

• Su He refined the Great Sun by placing the Golden Crow inside it, and the resulting surge of World Power condensed several droplets of Power of Time in his star ring.
• Grand Ancestor Tai revealed that four powerful figures had chained a Great Sun that did not belong to their world, then discussed Su He's myths and cultivation with him and gave him a token to study the Daoist Canon at Return Gazing Mountain.
• Feng Nan returned to Sealed Emperor with roughly a hundred gravely wounded survivors, while the absent Luan Emperor's battered National Luck Divine Dragon reflected the realm's disasters and military losses.
• The Deposed Crown Prince gathered fleeing cultivators and sent them into the dark tide, while Xuan Zhen Daoren continued fighting the remaining enemies in White Cloud Palace.
• The Bai Ze List showed Su He and Su Hua Nian's names behaving unpredictably, and Little Bai Ze realized that Su He had touched the Power of Time and that Su Hua Nian carried Sword Mountain.
• Feng Chao Fei arrived at Taihe Palace, revealed that her Fellowship Hexagram was at her cave abode, and listened as Su He offered to share the Houndou clan's location in exchange for help.

Su He and Feng Chao Fei left the Profound Yellow Grotto-heaven to rescue Le Ying’s Tian Nu Clan from the Huo Dou attack. They arrived as the clan was being overwhelmed, and Su He killed one Huo Dou while Feng Chao Fei and the Dragon Turtle joined the fight.

• The Huo Dou broke through the Undamaged Realm’s barrier and attacked the Tian Nu Clan, while the Old Ancestor ordered the Young Children sent to safety.
• In Taihe Palace, Le Ying showed Su He and Feng Chao Fei where her hidden clan lived, and Grand Ancestor Tai opened a passage for them to leave at once.
• Su He, Feng Chao Fei, and Le Ying reached the South Sea and flew toward the Undamaged Realm as the Huo Dou devastated the clan and wounded its Old Ancestor.
• Le Ying saw the Huo Dou burning her home and rushed ahead, while Feng Chao Fei and Su He entered through the breached barrier.
• Su He used Extinction Sky, freezing spells, the Mountain God Seal, and black lightning to kill an Open Heaven Fourth Level Huo Dou.
• Dragon Turtle Zhen announced that he had come at Le Ying’s invitation to kill the Huo Dou.