Chapter Summaries

At the Heavenly Inquiry Sacrifice, Su Chen returned after a million years and reunited with Ye Haoran, then named him the fourth disciple of the Lingxiao Sect. Su Chen rewarded the Great Qian Empire with a realm-wide Spirit Rain before departing with Ye Haoran, leaving the witnesses stunned by the miracle.

• The Great Qian Emperor said he knew little about the empire’s ancient ancestor, and Ye Haoran began the Heavenly Inquiry Sacrifice by bowing to the Nine Dragon Throne.
• After the sacrifice brought no immediate sign, Ye Haoran sensed a familiar aura from the Imperial Palace and recognized Su Chen when he appeared.
• Ye Haoran knelt to welcome his master, while Li Haoming and the gathered imperial family and factions also bowed to Su Chen.
• Su Chen said the Great Qian Empire had passed his test and accepted Ye Haoran as the fourth disciple of his Lingxiao Sect.
• Su Chen summoned Spirit Rain across the Great Qian Empire, causing cultivators to break through and leaving the witnesses amazed.
• Su Chen and Ye Haoran vanished, while the Spirit Rain continued to pour across the empire.

Su Chen agreed to take Ye Haoran out of the Xuanhuang Realm, leaving a clone behind to protect the Great Qian Empire. As they crossed away, Su Chen revealed that he had created the Xuanhuang Realm and explained the many realms beyond Nascent Soul, leaving Ye Haoran stunned and eager to see the wider world.

• Ye Haoran asked Su Chen to take him away from the Xuanhuang Realm, and Su Chen asked whether he was certain.
• Su Chen left a clone in the Imperial Palace to protect the Great Qian Empire, and Ye Haoran chose to leave without looking back after learning he could return someday.
• Su Chen carried Ye Haoran out of the Xuanhuang Realm and sensed a difficult barrier between it and the Immortal Realm.
• Su Chen told Ye Haoran that the Xuanhuang Realm was a world he had created, shocking Ye Haoran.
• Su Chen described the realms beyond Nascent Soul, including Void Refining, the Five Saint Realms, and the Emperor Realm, while Ye Haoran listened in disbelief.

Su Chen brought Ye Haoran from the Xuanhuang Realm to the Xuantian Realm, explained how weak his cultivation was in the wider Immortal Realm, and arranged for Han Li to train him. After leaving Ye Haoran in the Jiuyang Realm, Su Chen returned to Wangyun Mountain and embraced Mu Xin.

• Su Chen told Ye Haoran about the higher cultivation realms and warned him to advance carefully after reaching the Immortal Realm.
• Su Chen and Ye Haoran arrived at Wangyun Mountain, where Ye Haoran's cultivation rose to the Guiyuan Realm and he met Yan Wanwan and the other two women as his martial mothers.
• Su Chen sent Ye Haoran to Han Li, who took his junior fellow disciple to the Jiuyang Realm to begin training.
• Su Chen returned to his courtyard and embraced Mu Xin, who teased him affectionately.

Su Chen spent time with Mu Xin and Lin Yimeng before turning his attention back to the Divine Court’s expansion and the brewing conflict. Three thousand years later, Ye Haoran had reached the peak of the Quasi-Emperor realm in Dongwu City.

• Su Chen stayed on Wangyun Mountain with Mu Xin and hoped to have children, but left after three months.
• Su Chen visited Lin Yimeng at the Chenmeng Chamber of Commerce headquarters and stayed with her for about ten days.
• Su Chen returned to Wangyun Mountain, confident that his stored cultivation and two new trump cards would let him face a coming great battle.
• Three thousand years passed, and Ye Haoran reached the peak of the Quasi-Emperor realm after cultivating in the Myriad Star Realm.

Ye Haoran obtained an Emperor Pattern Fruit and was confronted by He Lifeng, who demanded he become his subordinate. After Ye Haoran killed He Lifeng and his Great Emperor guard in a fight, the He Family pursued him.

• Ye Haoran celebrated obtaining the Emperor Pattern Fruit, which he hoped would let him break through to the Emperor Realm.
• He Lifeng confronted Ye Haoran and ordered him to submit as a subordinate, but Ye Haoran refused.
• He Lifeng ordered his Great Emperor guard to kill Ye Haoran, and Ye Haoran struck back with his blade.
• Ye Haoran killed He Lifeng and the two people accompanying him, shocking the onlookers with his strength.
• A terrifying aura surged after Ye Haoran as He Lifeng's father cried out that Ye Haoran had killed his son.

After killing He Lifeng, Ye Haoran was pursued by He Yunpeng and fought back, only to learn that his enemy was at the peak of the Human Immortal Realm. As Ye Haoran prepared to burn through his strength in one last attack, someone placed a hand on his shoulder and called the deadly confrontation training.

• Ye Haoran fled after killing He Lifeng, but He Yunpeng quickly caught up with him.
• Ye Haoran turned to fight and used Fierce Demon followed by Dark Demon against He Yunpeng.
• The spectators expected He Yunpeng to win, but Ye Haoran's attack wounded his arm.
• He Yunpeng revealed he was at the peak of the Human Immortal Realm and charged at Ye Haoran.
• Ye Haoran began pouring all his strength into his blade, and someone stopped him and said the fight was only training.

Han Li rescued Ye Haoran from He Yunpeng, and Ye Haoran later advanced rapidly after Su Chen transformed him into a Chaos Body. Hundreds of thousands of years later, as Xiao Yan approached the Immortal Emperor Realm, a terrifying powerhouse demanded that he submit to protect the Xuantian Realm.

• Han Li appeared beside Ye Haoran and instantly annihilated He Yunpeng with a wave of his hand.
• Han Li took Ye Haoran away from Dongwu City and left him in another part of the Jiuyang Realm.
• Ye Haoran continued his cultivation, reached the Human Immortal stage a thousand years later, and then received resources, techniques, and a Chaos Body from Su Chen.
• Ye Haoran advanced to Primordial Origin Golden Immortal in ten thousand years and reached the Immortal King Realm twenty thousand years after that.
• Xiao Yan touched the threshold of the Immortal Emperor Realm in the Three Fires Realm.
• A mysterious powerhouse confronted Xiao Yan and demanded that he submit, promising the Xuantian Realm would remain safe if he agreed.

A middle-aged man used a seductive illusion to break Xiao Yan’s mind and tried to turn him into a puppet to approach Su Chen. Su Chen attacked him with the Power of Karma, forcing him to repeatedly use a costly secret art to escape its effects.

• The middle-aged man tempted Xiao Yan with a vision of the Xuantian Realm in ruins, where Su Chen, Mu Qingling, and others had died.
• Xiao Yan’s mind collapsed under the illusion, and the middle-aged man planned to refine him into a puppet.
• Su Chen struck the middle-aged man with the Power of Karma, causing him to flee into the Void Space.
• The middle-aged man used a secret art three times to shed his body and weaken the karma, but the attack continued to pursue him.
• The middle-aged man used the secret art a fourth time to dispel the remaining karma, then swallowed a life-essence object to ease the backlash.

Yuanshi Heavenly Venerate and Daode Heavenly Venerate discussed their past betrayal of the Divine Court and feared that Su Chen might have mastered the Time Great Dao. In the Three Fires Realm, Su Chen failed to trace the attacker who targeted Xiao Yan, while Xiao Yan resumed cultivation to prepare for the Emperor Realm.

• Yuanshi Heavenly Venerate vowed to make Su Chen repay him for the Nine Heavens Profound Jade, and Daode Heavenly Venerate arrived to check on him.
• Yuanshi Heavenly Venerate explained that he and Daode Heavenly Venerate had left the Divine Court because they feared Su Chen's strange identity and wanted to seize his Time Dao Fruit.
• Yuanshi Heavenly Venerate suggested that the Su Chen from the distant past and the present might be the same person, but Daode Heavenly Venerate rejected the idea that Su Chen could freely travel through time.
• Daode Heavenly Venerate told Yuanshi Heavenly Venerate to avoid contacting the Divine Court for now, and the two vanished.
• In the Three Fires Realm, Xiao Yan asked Su Chen who had attacked him, but Su Chen could not trace the attacker and told him to focus on cultivating.
• Xiao Yan resumed cultivating above the sea of flames, determined to reach the Emperor Realm and rely less on Su Chen's protection.

After spending tens of thousands of years in a peaceful, intimate life with his wives on Wangyun Mountain, Su Chen's story shifted to the Three Fires Realm, where Xiao Yan broke through to Immortal Emperor. Xiao Yan understood that his Great Dao was Yang Fire and celebrated his new strength alongside Mu Qingling.

• Lin Yimeng attacked Su Chen for revenge but was defeated after a battle lasting nearly a month and left Wangyun Mountain despairing of ever getting revenge.
• Su Chen spent his days with his wives, while the women grew accustomed to their increasingly uninhibited life together on Wangyun Mountain.
• After tens of thousands of years, Xiao Yan gathered countless flames into the Heavenly Fire and broke through to Immortal Emperor in the Three Fires Realm.
• Xiao Yan realized that his self-comprehended Great Dao was Yang Fire, a path with the potential to grow but a far lower upper limit than the Time Great Dao.
• Mu Qingling congratulated Xiao Yan, who encouraged her that her talent would eventually carry her to Immortal Emperor as well.

Su Chen envisioned turning the Divine Court into the revered Thirty-three Heavens if it someday unified the Immortal Realm, then traveled with Han Xi to the Qing Tian Realm to explore and learn about its strength. In Qingluan City, he hired Huang Ying as a guide and headed for the extravagant Nine Phoenix Pavilion.

• Su Chen decided that if the Divine Court ever controlled the Immortal Realm, he would eventually establish it above the realm as the Thirty-three Heavens.
• Su Chen left Wangyun Mountain with Han Xi and traveled to the powerful Qing Tian Realm to explore and seek knowledge about the Immortal Realm.
• Su Chen entered Qingluan City and noted that even this ordinary city had an Immortal Emperor and two Quasi-Immortal Emperors.
• Huang Ying offered to guide Su Chen around the city, and he paid her fifteen top-grade Immortal Crystals in advance.
• After Huang Ying described the costly Nine Phoenix Pavilion, Su Chen chose to dine there.

Su Chen encountered Great Emperor Wushi while dining at the Nine Phoenix Pavilion and learned why Wushi was working there as a dish-delivery servant. Wushi revealed that the pavilion’s Young Miss had imprisoned him after he repeatedly refused her advances, leaving Su Chen surprised and curious about his refusal.

• Huang Ying led Su Chen to the Nine Phoenix Pavilion, where he chose a first-floor private room and dined with Han Xi.
• As a servant delivered the last dish, Su Chen recognized him as Great Emperor Wushi and sent the serving girl away to speak privately.
• Wushi explained that the Nine Phoenix Pavilion’s Young Miss had fallen for him, but he had refused her and tried to escape, so she imprisoned him.
• Su Chen asked Wushi whether he had rejected the Young Miss because he disliked her or thought her ugly.

Su Chen learned that Wushi was trapped by Yun Fengling’s possessive affection and confronted her about letting him go. After Han Xi revealed her Immortal Venerable strength and Yun Fengling’s Quasi-Emperor father intervened, Su Chen left the Nine Phoenix Pavilion, warning Yun Fengling to free Wushi before he departed Qingluan City.

• Wushi told Su Chen that Yun Fengling’s father had once warned him their difference in status made a relationship impossible, and that he had hoped to become strong enough to seek her again.
• Yun Fengling entered the private room, apologized to Su Chen for Wushi, and tried to take Wushi away because he was a servant with work to do.
• Su Chen told Yun Fengling that Wushi wanted to leave and warned that he would take him along if he remained unfree when Su Chen left Qingluan City.
• Yun Fengling threatened Su Chen and released her late-stage Immortal King aura, but Han Xi overwhelmed her with Immortal Venerable pressure and forced her to her knees.
• Yun Fengling’s Fourth-Grade Quasi-Emperor father arrived and apologized, while Su Chen identified his cultivation and warned that he was not enough to protect her.
• Yun Fengling apologized, and Su Chen left the Nine Phoenix Pavilion after telling her to remember his warning.

Su Chen persuaded Yun Fengling and her father to let Wu Shi leave so he could grow, and Yun Fengling resolved to accept his departure. Outside the Nine Phoenix Pavilion, Su Chen found Huang Ying being threatened by the Wang Family and learned she had ten days to repay her father’s debt or be sent to Xiangfeng Tower.

• Su Chen told Yun Fengling that Wu Shi had the potential to become an Immortal Emperor and should not be kept imprisoned.
• Yun Fengling’s father agreed to let Wu Shi leave and promised to accept their relationship if Wu Shi achieved something in the future.
• Yun Fengling decided to let Wu Shi grow despite her fear of being separated from him.
• Su Chen found Huang Ying cornered by two Wang Family men who demanded repayment of her father’s debt.
• The Wang Family men gave Huang Ying ten days to repay fifteen thousand top-grade Immortal Crystals or be sent to Xiangfeng Tower, leaving her despairing and considering suicide.

Su Chen stayed in Qingluan City with Han Xi while Huang Ying continued guiding him despite her distress. After nine days, Huang Ying apologized and offered ten Immortal Crystals as a refund because she could no longer serve as his guide.

• Huang Ying escorted Su Chen to an inn near the Nine Phoenix Pavilion and found a place to sit outside, while Su Chen chose not to intervene in her troubles.
• Han Xi warmed Su Chen's bed and attended to him through the night; the next morning, Su Chen let her rest in his arms.
• Su Chen and Han Xi spent the following days at the inn and around the city, and Su Chen checked on Han Xi's health.
• Huang Ying told Su Chen she had something to attend to and could not continue guiding him, apologizing for ending their agreement after nine days and offering ten Immortal Crystals as a refund.

Su Chen kept Huang Ying as his guide after Han Xi warned her against leaving, and Huang Ying told him about the Hundred Birds Tower assembly. Su Chen went to see the crowded venue and learned that its best seats cost enormous sums, leaving him ready to explore the event.

• Huang Ying tried to return Su Chen's Immortal Crystals, but Su Chen told her to continue guiding him.
• Han Xi revealed her formidable aura and warned Huang Ying not to toy with Su Chen, and Huang Ying agreed to stay.
• Huang Ying told Su Chen about the Hundred Birds Tower's beauty assembly and its Immortal Crystal voting.
• Su Chen decided to visit the assembly and found the Hundred Birds Tower surrounded by crowds.
• Huang Ying explained the venue's tiers of seats and their steep prices, including at least one hundred thousand top-grade Immortal Crystals for the front three tiers.

Su Chen attended the White Bird Tower gathering and spent thirty million top-grade Immortal Crystals to secure a front-row spot, outbidding Jiang Quanran. He took his place at the tower without supporting any particular woman, leaving the crowd astonished by his wealth.

• Huang Ying explained that the White Bird Tower auctioned its closest viewing spots for enormous sums, and Su Chen asked to see the bidding.
• Jiang Quanran bid seven million top-grade Immortal Crystals for a spot, intending to support Luo Qingling, while the other bidders prepared to withdraw.
• Su Chen bid ten million and then thirty million top-grade Immortal Crystals, shocking the crowd and forcing Jiang Quanran to give up.
• The host declared Su Chen the winner, and Su Chen told the receptionist he had no particular woman to support.
• The receptionist announced Su Chen's thirty-million-crystal support as he led him to the front of the White Bird Tower, drawing amazed reactions from the crowd.

The Hundred Birds Assembly began in Qingluan City, with Su Chen attending after spending thirty million top-grade Immortal Crystals on a seat. Duan Qingyou announced the contest rules, and Zhou Yajing and two other beauties made their entrance.

• Su Chen attended the assembly with Han Xi and Huang Ying, while Jiang Quanran resented him for outbidding him and resolved to outspend him in the Stone Hanging.
• Yang Wuhao, the Lord of Qingluan City and its only Immortal Emperor, appeared and warned attendees against causing trouble.
• Duan Qingyou arrived to host the final day and explained how the thirty remaining contestants would compete to determine the Top Ten Beauties and their rankings.
• Three women emerged from White Bird Tower, and Zhou Yajing introduced herself, captivating the crowd with her beauty.

At the Hundred Birds Gathering, the Stone Hanging competition began, and Zhou Yajing won the opening round before being eliminated from the final ten. As the final contestants appeared, Su Chen became interested in Yue Ninger, whose beauty rivaled Mu Xin's.

• Duan Qingyou explained the Stone Hanging rules, and attendees began offering Immortal Crystals to support the women.
• Zhou Yajing's total led the opening competition, and she won the round while Su Chen chose not to participate.
• A later contest featured a beauty whose looks surprised Su Chen, and the first two rounds ended with ten women remaining.
• Zhou Yajing was eliminated from the top ten, and Duan Qingyou invited the finalists to determine their rankings.
• The ten finalists emerged, and Su Chen focused on Yue Ninger, a Mid Immortal King whose beauty rivaled Mu Xin's.

During the Hundred Birds Tower’s Stone Hanging, Su Chen learned that Yue Ninger’s family faced a crisis involving Immortal Emperor-level forces. He stunned the venue by hanging thirty Multicolor Stones on her, leaving Yue Ninger hopeful and everyone wondering whether he would help her family.

• Jiang Nianxin led the Stone Hanging in value, while nobody hung a Stone on Yue Ninger.
• Two men discussed Yue Ninger’s offer to give herself to anyone who hung a Multicolor Stone and resolved the Moon Family’s crisis; Wang Hao refused to get involved.
• Su Chen overheard their conversation and considered whether hanging Stones on Yue Ninger would imply that he would help her family.
• Su Chen called for thirty Multicolor Stones to be hung on Yue Ninger, silencing the venue and drawing shocked reactions from Wang Hao and the other attendees.
• Su Chen handed Duan Qingyou three spatial rings containing the payment, and thirty dazzling Multicolor Stones appeared as Yue Ninger looked at him with renewed hope.