Chapter Summaries

Su Que destroyed the divine intent in the Immortal Mother statue after glimpsing the living Immortal Mother, then wiped out and demolished a White Lotus Sect branch altar to hide his tracks. He returned home and found Su Jing back with Li Yujing, and noticed an extraordinary sword in Su Jing’s room.

• Su Que used the Immortal Mother statue’s divine intent to glimpse the Immortal Mother, then shattered the connection before she could see him.
• Su Que learned how to fuse divine intent into a weapon, but his attempt to strengthen the statue destroyed it.
• Su Que returned to the White Lotus Sect branch altar, killed its disciples, absorbed their Death Qi, and demolished the site to conceal evidence.
• Su Que returned to Jiannan Prefecture City, retrieved an extraordinary weapon, and checked whether Su Jing had come home.
• Su Jing and Li Yujing greeted Su Que, and he noticed that Su Jing had an extraordinary sword in her room.

Su Que advanced the Sunflower Manual to Level 10, secretly infused divine intent into Su Jing’s sword, and returned to Jiannan Prefecture City. After Li Xuanji reported that the Tang Sect was sending people south to avenge Tang Tian'ao’s son, Su Que offered to help if Li Xuanji lent him his powerful cultivation manual.

• Su Que cultivated the Sunflower Manual overnight and infused divine intent into Su Jing’s sword to protect her from enemies.
• Su Que advanced the Sunflower Manual to Level 10, tested his improved speed, and returned home for dinner.
• Su Jing gave Su Que medicine intended to improve his physique and help him enter the martial path, and Su Que drank it.
• Su Que spotted a Sky Breaking Army signal and went in disguise to meet Li Xuanji.
• Li Xuanji told Su Que that Tang Sect forces were heading toward the Southern Region to avenge Tang Tian'ao’s son, and asked him to protect the Sky Breaking Army.
• Su Que agreed to help only if Li Xuanji lent him his powerful cultivation manual, leaving Li Xuanji conflicted.

Li Xuanji taught Su Que the Rakshasa Kui Divine Skill in exchange for his promise to help destroy the Liang Kingdom. Su Que intercepted the Tang Sect on the official road, where Tang Tian'ao’s hidden weapons failed to kill him and he struck back.

• Li Xuanji decided to pass the Rakshasa Kui Divine Skill to Su Que and asked him to help overthrow the Liang Kingdom and put Li Xuanji on its throne.
• Su Que agreed, memorized the divine skill’s cultivation method, and left to find the approaching Tang Sect.
• Tang Tian'ao led Tang Tianwen and fourteen elite Tang Sect assassins along the official road, sensing an enemy ahead and ordering the group to attack.
• Tang Tian'ao and Tang Tianwen launched the Buddha's Fury Tang Lotus and the King of Hell's Post, setting the forest ablaze and spreading poisonous fragments.
• Su Que emerged from the smoke unharmed and cut three Tang Sect assassins in half with his blade aura.

Su Que slaughtered Tang Tian'ao, Tang Tianwen, and the Tang Sect assassins who had attacked him, then decided to destroy the Tang Sect before it could threaten the Southern Region. He reached the sect's hidden mountain gate and pressed inside, intent on finding its Divine Intent Diagram.

• Tang Tian'ao hurled a Buddha's Fury Tang Lotus at Su Que, but Su Que's Seven Injuries Fist redirected the explosion into the Tang Sect assassins, killing five of them.
• Su Que pursued the fleeing Tang Sect group, cutting down the assassins with his Demonic Blade and killing Tang Tianwen when he tried to attack with King of Hell's Posts.
• Tang Tian'ao used his remaining Buddha's Fury Tang Lotuses to create fiery barriers and propel himself forward, but Su Que punched through each blaze, caught him, and beheaded him.
• Su Que searched the bodies, absorbed their Death Qi, and decided to destroy the Tang Sect to prevent retaliation and protect the Southern Region.
• Su Que reached the Tang Sect's mountain gate, killed its two guards, and headed inside to find the sect's Divine Intent Diagram.

Su Que destroyed the Tang Sect, absorbed the toxins in its poison fields, and advanced the Myriad Poisons Heart Sutra. He then cultivated the Tang Sect Divine Intent Diagram and the Rakshasa Kui Divine Skill, preparing to strengthen himself further before entering the Miao sacred land.

• Su Que exterminated the Tang Sect, found and burned its Divine Intent Diagram, and took the blueprints for its Buddha's Fury Tang Lotus and King of Hell's Post.
• Su Que absorbed the toxins in the Tang Sect's poison fields, advancing the Myriad Poisons Heart Sutra to the 9th realm, World-Shocking, and increasing his remaining lifespan.
• Su Que merged the Tang Sect Divine Intent Diagram into his body, reversed its harmful effects, and gained twenty years of remaining lifespan.
• Su Que cultivated the Rakshasa Kui Divine Skill, advanced it twice, and manifested a faint purple Rakshasa Battle Armor.
• Su Que practiced the Rakshasa Kui Divine Skill's Four Absolutes, intending to fuse them and the skill into his Seven Injuries Fist.

Su Que practiced the Rakshasa Kui Divine Skill, breaking through to Level 7 and mastering its Four Absolutes and Two Hegemons. He combined the Nine Nether Void Hegemon and Nine Heavens Thunder Hegemon into the Thunder Void Hegemon, whose use strengthened his body and increased his remaining lifespan.

• Su Que unleashed the Four Absolutes, wrecking the training room, destroying a tree and damaging a mountain as he grew more practiced with Rakshasa Kui true qi.
• Su Que cultivated to Level 5 and then Level 6, reversing the skill’s harmful effects and gaining strength and lifespan.
• Su Que formed a Golden Rakshasa Battle Armor and controlled it alongside his Wedding Dress Battle Buddha by infusing both with divine intent.
• Su Que broke through to Level 7 and practiced the Nine Nether Void Hegemon and Nine Heavens Thunder Hegemon, destroying buildings with the latter.
• Su Que combined both Hegemons into the Thunder Void Hegemon and blasted apart the clouds, then found that using the techniques had increased his strength and remaining lifespan.

Su Que broke through to Level 9 in the Rakshasa Kui Divine Skill and unleashed its three Annihilation techniques, gaining Lifespan and strength as he devastated the Tang Sect ruins. He headed for Jiannan Prefecture City, where he found Earth Soaring Eagle and his men lying in ambush near Su Jing’s residence.

• Su Que cultivated the Rakshasa Kui Divine Skill to Level 9 and discovered he could unleash its Annihilation techniques.
• Su Que tested Heavenly Annihilation, Heaven and Earth Absolute Annihilation, and Heaven, Earth, and Man Three Realms Annihilation, drawing on the powers of heaven, earth, and his own life force.
• Su Que’s remaining Lifespan rose to 2608 and his Talent Value reached 519, so he set off toward Jiannan Prefecture City on his way to Miao Territory.
• Su Jing and Li Yujing waited anxiously for Su Que, then left a letter and went out to search for him.
• Earth Soaring Eagle brought six bandits to Su Jing’s residence to avenge their fallen companions, but Su Que appeared behind him after the six men had been incapacitated.

Su Que killed the bandits targeting Su Jing and Li Yujing, then left Jiannan Prefecture City for the Miao Territory Sacred Altar to absorb toxins. After draining several Poison Fields and Poison Forests, he advanced the Myriad Poisons Heart Sutra to its 10th realm and gained thirty years of lifespan.

• Su Que killed Earth Soaring Eagle and the other bandits, learning they had come to avenge their brothers against Su Jing and Li Yujing.
• Su Que reassured Su Jing that he would stay near Jiannan Prefecture City, while Li Yujing warned that the area might not be safe and concealed what she knew about the Sky Breaking Army.
• Su Que told Su Jing he would stay with a friend, then disguised himself and traveled to the Miao Territory Sacred Altar.
• Su Que slipped past the Sacred Altar's guards, knocked out guards at its Poison Fields and Poison Forests, and absorbed their toxins to cultivate the Myriad Poisons Heart Sutra.
• Su Que broke through to the 10th realm of the Myriad Poisons Heart Sutra, expanded his Poison Sac, and increased his remaining lifespan by thirty years.

Su Que advanced the Myriad Poisons Heart Sutra by draining toxins from Miao territory’s poisonous fields and Gu Worms, while Chi Wuli mobilized the Holy Altar to hunt him. As Chi Wuli’s massive insect tide reached Su Que, its poisons began flowing into him.

• Su Que comprehended Myriad Poison Sword Qi and tested it on the vegetation before leaving the poisonous forest.
• Chi Wuli learned that poisonous fields had been damaged, ordered most of the Holy Altar’s Gu Masters to search for the intruder, and armed himself with the Chi You Battle Axe and a swarm of Gu Worms.
• Su Que drained another poisonous field, killed a Gu Master who attacked him, and continued deeper into Miao territory.
• More than a dozen Gu Masters sent a poisonous insect cloud against Su Que, but he drained the Gu Worms’ toxins and killed them with Myriad Poison True Qi.
• Chi Wuli arrived with a vast tide of Gu Worms and summoned poisonous insects and snakes, but their toxins began gathering toward Su Que as he continued cultivating.

Su Que overwhelmed Chi Wuli and the Miao Territory Sacred Altar’s forces, absorbing their poisons and defeating their Gu-powered defenses. After killing Chi Wuli and Chi Jiujiao, he touched Chi Wuli’s battle axe and glimpsed a god standing atop a mountain of corpses before his Divine Intent shattered the axe’s presence.

• Su Que absorbed the poison from Chi Wuli’s insect swarms and attacked him with Myriad Poison Sword Qi, breaking through the Chi You phantom and wounding him.
• Chi Wuli tried to flee and ordered the Miao Territory Gu Masters to release the Gu Worms and War Corpses, but Su Que’s sword Qi pierced his heart.
• Chi Wuli and Chi Jiujiao attacked alongside thirty-six War Corpses, but Su Que cut down the corpses and beheaded both men with his Demonic Blade Gang.
• Su Que seized Chi Wuli’s battle axe and saw a horned man standing over a mountain of dead Daoists with bloodied axes in his hands.
• Su Que’s Divine Intent surged into the battle axe and shattered the intent within it, ending the vision.

Su Que destroyed the Miao Frontier Sacred Altar, absorbed its poison, and returned to Jiannan Prefecture City as the White Lotus Sect rose against the Liang Kingdom. When Li Xuanji summoned him, Su Que discovered a mysterious seed rooted in Li Xuanji’s dantian and merging with his Essence, Qi, and Spirit.

• Su Que killed the Miao Frontier Gu Masters, learned that the altar’s deity was Chi You, and destroyed the altar, statues, and shrine.
• Su Que absorbed poison throughout the Miao Frontier Sacred Altar, advancing the Myriad Poisons Heart Sutra to the Eleventh Realm, then killed the remaining Gu Masters and returned to Jiannan Prefecture City.
• Su Que gave the Chi You Battle Axe to Old Daoist Qingxuan, fortified his cave with a barrier of Myriad Poison True Qi, and heard that the White Lotus Sect was defeating the imperial armies.
• Su Que spotted Li Xuanji’s signal on the city wall and went to the Sky Breaking Army’s residence, where Li Xuanji begged him for help.
• Su Que used Divine Intent to examine Li Xuanji’s dantian and found a seedlike entity rooted there, gradually merging with Li Xuanji’s Essence, Qi, and Spirit.

Su Que learned that Dongfang Yu had planted a demonic seed in Li Xuanji and went to confront the demon. Dongfang Yu attacked him, but Su Que’s combined techniques struck him through the meditation chamber wall.

• Li Xuanji told Su Que that Dongfang Yu had secretly planted a demonic seed in his dantian and begged him to eliminate Dongfang Yu.
• Li Xuanji explained that Dongfang Yu led the Demonic Path Alliance and had once served as a powerful demon who survived Emperor Liang Jing’s campaign against demonic sects.
• Dongfang Yu’s past revealed that he used the Dao Heart Seed Demon Great Method to drain cultivation from talented martial artists, and he had chosen Li Xuanji as a furnace.
• Su Que arrived at Dongfang Yu’s stronghold in Luoxing Town and demanded his demonic arts, manuals, and Divine Intent Diagrams in exchange for sparing his life.
• Dongfang Yu attacked Su Que with his demon-seed power and divine intent, but Su Que’s Seven Injuries Fist and Rakshasa Kui Divine Skill sent him crashing through the chamber wall.

Su Que tortured Dongfang Yu into revealing his demonic manuals and the Dao Heart Seed Demon Great Method, which disclosed the Calamity Seed Realm beyond the Divine Intent Realm. Su Que began cultivating the method, formed and empowered his Natal Demonic Seed, and continued toward its fourth chapter.

• Su Que crippled Dongfang Yu with the Wedding Dress Divine Skill and forced him to reveal where his manuals and Divine Intent Diagrams were hidden.
• Su Que found Dongfang Yu’s cellar collection, memorized more than thirty demonic arts, and learned the Dao Heart Seed Demon Great Method from Dongfang Yu.
• Dongfang Yu explained that the Calamity Seed Realm united Essence, Qi, and Spirit and used a Calamity Seed to pass through the wind, thunder, water, and fire calamities.
• Su Que took a landscape Divine Intent Diagram, brought Dongfang Yu to a cave, and began cultivating the Dao Heart Seed Demon Great Method.
• Su Que formed a Natal Demonic Seed and used his spiritual power to break its restraints without dispersing his martial arts, strengthening the seed and stirring the demonic nature in his Demonic Blade.
• Su Que reached the method’s fourth chapter, which described ascetic torments meant to trigger and shape the demonic seed.

Su Que advanced through the Dao Heart Seed Demon Great Method and planted an auxiliary demonic seed in Dongfang Yu, reversing the emotions it stirred into greater strength and lifespan. After using Dongfang Yu’s reactions to cultivate further, he extracted the seed along with Dongfang Yu’s Essence, Qi, and Spirit.

• Su Que used the Great Yama Body Tempering Technique and Death Qi to master the fifth chapter of the Dao Heart Seed Demon Great Method, then reached the sixth chapter, “Seed Another.”
• Su Que separated an auxiliary demonic seed and planted it in Dongfang Yu’s dantian while Dongfang Yu begged for his life.
• Su Que absorbed the side effects of Dongfang Yu’s terror, hope, and renewed fear, strengthening himself and gaining lifespan as his cultivation progressed.
• Su Que carried Dongfang Yu to a cave and cultivated the Divine Intent Diagram, fusing every divine intent into his body while Dongfang Yu’s reactions fueled him.
• When Dongfang Yu’s emotions dwindled, Su Que drew the demonic seed from his dantian along with his Essence, Qi, and Spirit.

Su Que absorbed Dongfang Yu’s Essence, Qi, and Spirit, while Li Xuanji brought the Demonic Path Alliance under the Sky Breaking Army after killing Ji Ruchang. At the imperial palace, the princes learned that Emperor Liang Jing was well but remained in seclusion, and a powerful hidden guard urged them to enlist Great Buddha Temple’s help against the rebellion.

• Su Que absorbed Dongfang Yu’s subsidiary Demonic Seed, gained 202 years of lifespan, erased Dongfang Yu’s corpse, and returned toward Jiannan Prefecture.
• Li Xuanji offered the Demonic Path Alliance leadership under the Sky Breaking Army and killed Ji Ruchang when he objected.
• Li Xuanji’s victory silenced the Demonic Path Alliance’s leaders, who agreed to follow him and discuss their plans.
• The Crown Prince, the Nineteenth Prince, and the Thirtieth Prince forced their way toward Emperor Liang Jing’s retreat after receiving no response from inside.
• A pale-faced imperial guard stopped the princes’ forces, confirmed that Emperor Liang Jing was well, and proposed asking Great Buddha Temple to help suppress the rebellion.

Su Que broke through to the eleventh level of the Sunflower Manual, discovering that its wicked fire could melt stone, then learned that Great Buddha Temple had joined the imperial court against the White Lotus Sect. As the Dark Evil Fist’s backlash weakened, he planned to challenge Xuan Xinzi for the art’s Second Heaven and later advanced the Withered Wood Divine Skill at home.

• Su Que consumed pills refined from strange metals and broke through to Level 11 of the Sunflower Manual, gaining more than a hundred years of lifespan.
• Su Que used the Sunflower Manual’s wicked fire, combined with his fire Divine Intent, to melt a stone wall into magma.
• At a restaurant, Su Que heard that Great Buddha Temple had joined the imperial court against the White Lotus Sect as refugees and martial artists gathered in Jiannan Prefecture City.
• Su Que felt the Dark Evil Fist’s backlash had weakened and planned to challenge Xuan Xinzi, whose true Daoist arts were needed for the Second Heaven.
• Su Que returned home, gave Su Jing preserved fruit, and advanced the Withered Wood Divine Skill from its sixth realm to its seventh.

Su Que completed the Withered Wood Divine Skill overnight and left for the True Profound Sect, seeking a stronger backlash from the Dark Evil Fist. At Lanxuan Peak, he approached the sect leader Xuan Xinzi, who was drawing talismans after fleeing his fight with Kong Wo.

• Su Que used pills to cultivate the Withered Wood Divine Skill through several realms and completed it by dawn, gaining greater vitality and more than eighty years of lifespan.
• Su Jing told Su Que that she would leave Jiannan Prefecture City with Li Yujing to practice swordsmanship against bandits, and Su Que agreed to stay behind.
• After the Dark Evil Fist's backlash weakened, Su Que changed into a disguise and traveled toward the True Profound Sect to cultivate its second level.
• Su Que reached Lanxuan Peak, where he found True Profound Sect leader Xuan Xinzi preparing talismans through Talisman Martial Arts.
• Xuan Xinzi drew a Vajra Talisman while recalling that he had fled his recent fight with Kong Wo after running low on talismans.

Su Que challenged Xuan Xinzi to advance his Dark Evil Fist, while Xuan Xinzi used talismans and the Nine Yin True Scripture to resist him. As Su Que’s cultivation progressed through their fight, Xuan Xinzi’s techniques failed to stop him, so Xuan Xinzi fled to retrieve more talismans and summon the sect’s Daoists.

• Xuan Xinzi prepared nearly a thousand talismans and used Object Control to surround himself with them when he sensed Su Que approaching.
• Su Que destroyed Xuan Xinzi’s fire talismans and engaged him in a fierce clash of Dark Evil Fist and Nine Yin True Scripture.
• Xuan Xinzi ordered two Daoists to ring the bell for help, but Su Que stopped them by striking them unconscious with pebbles.
• Su Que repeatedly attacked Xuan Xinzi, and his Dark Evil Fist Seven Heavens progress rose from Peak Perfection 5% to 20%.
• Xuan Xinzi’s Taiji Returns to Ancestor was broken, so he used Light Body Talismans to flee and seek more talismans and reinforcements.

Su Que forced Xuan Xinzi into a full-strength battle, broke through to the second heaven of the Dark Evil Fist, and planted a demonic seed in the True Profound Sect leader. He then overwhelmed the sect’s Daoists with Myriad Poison True Qi and began planting seeds in the fallen survivors.

• Su Que chased Xuan Xinzi and fought through the leader’s full-strength Nine Yin True Scripture attacks until the Dark Evil Fist broke through to its second heaven.
• Su Que used Time Stop and his newly strengthened fist to defeat Xuan Xinzi, break his talisman defenses, and injure him through his Indestructible Glazed Body.
• Su Que planted a subordinate demonic seed in Xuan Xinzi’s dantian and fused it with his Calamity Seed, linking it to his Essence, Qi, and Spirit.
• More than two hundred True Profound Sect Daoists surrounded Su Que in linked formations, but he attacked them with a tide of Myriad Poison True Qi.
• Su Que poisoned the Daoists, completed the demonic seed’s fusion with Xuan Xinzi’s Calamity Seed, and began planting another seed in a fallen Daoist.

Su Que planted subsidiary demonic seeds in Xuan Xinzi and more than a thousand True Profound Sect Daoists, then searched their Scripture Pavilion and memorized two Divine Intent landscape diagrams. Six days later, Xuan Xinzi summoned a Heavenly Soldier to remove the seeds, but the soldier could not remove them.

• Su Que defeated Xuan Xinzi, planted demonic seeds in the Daoists, and forced Xuan Xinzi to reveal where the sect kept its Divine Intent Diagrams and martial arts manuals.
• Su Que entered the Scripture Pavilion, overcame its guards and mechanisms, memorized two Divine Intent landscape diagrams, and left the books in place so the Daoists would continue cultivating.
• Xuan Xinzi used the Nine Yin True Scripture to cure his disciples, then ordered the sect to fast and prepare an altar to summon a Heavenly Soldier.
• Six days later, Xuan Xinzi and the Daoists performed the ritual, and a Heavenly Soldier descended after hearing Xuan Xinzi's plea for help.
• Xuan Xinzi told the Heavenly Soldier that Su Que had planted demonic seeds in the sect, and the soldier tried but failed to remove the seed from Xuan Xinzi's dantian.