Chapter Summaries

Li Bi threatened to destroy the Haoran Sect unless it surrendered Su Chen, while Yun Mo struggled to protect the sect. The Great Elder intervened and had Su Chen summoned, leaving him face-to-face with Li Bi.

• Li Bi rejected Yun Mo's offer of compensation and threatened to wipe out the Haoran Sect over Li Liang's death.
• The Great Elder arrived, challenged Li Bi's demand, and proposed waiting for Su Chen before deciding the matter.
• Li Bi agreed to summon Su Chen, hoping the Haoran Sect would refuse his demand and give the Royal Family cause to attack.
• Yun Mo sent Su Chen a message, and Su Chen arrived with Xiao Tian, who waited outside the hall.
• Su Chen looked at Li Bi and asked, "Find me?"

Su Chen ordered Xiao Tian to stop Li Bi’s attack, then spared the badly injured imperial enforcer to avoid drawing the Nine Stars Empire into conflict with the Haoran Sect. Afterward, Su Chen returned to Crescent Moon City to watch Chunlan, while Li Bi recovered in his cave abode and feared Su Chen’s unknown power and backing.

• Li Bi attacked Su Chen, but Xiao Tian intervened and restrained him with Yin Yang power.
• Su Chen ordered Xiao Tian to kill Li Bi, then sent Li Bi away alive after considering the danger to the Haoran Sect.
• Yun Mo and the Great Elder speculated that an Immortal Venerable stood behind Su Chen and felt relieved that the sect had survived the crisis.
• Su Chen left for Crescent Moon City to watch Chunlan and investigate her secrets.
• Li Bi returned to his cave abode, swallowed two pills, and realized Su Chen was someone he could not afford to provoke.

Su Chen watched over Chunlan in Crescent Moon City as she repeatedly struggled with cultivation and narrowly escaped death. After an aura emerged when she was on the brink of dying, Su Chen suspected that Chunlan recovered a little power each time she died.

• The imperial family stopped troubling the Haoran Sect after confirming its Immortal Lord posed no great hostility, and it canceled its resource collection from the sect's affiliated forces.
• Su Chen secretly protected Chunlan and his three disciples while investigating Chunlan's fate, which seemed fixed on her dying young despite his efforts to change it.
• Over a thousand years, Chunlan overcame repeated cultivation troubles and reached the Mortal Emperor Realm with Su Chen's help.
• When Su Chen let Chunlan approach death after she encountered an Immortal Stage demonic beast, a faint aura emerged from her, and he healed her just in time.
• Su Chen observed that Chunlan's fate had changed slightly and wondered whether she recovered a little power each time she died.
• Three years later, Chunlan survived another life-and-death crisis as the aura appeared again, leading Su Chen to consider that dying might restore her power.

Su Chen guided Li Meng'er through nearly five thousand years of trials in the Barren Continent until she sensed the Power of Karma, while Chunlan's strange dreams and connection to Su Chen remained unexplained. After learning that the Su Family clan competition was ten days away, Su Chen decided to return home.

• Su Chen confirmed that Chunlan's life-threatening aura grew stronger with her cultivation realm, but she showed no sign of awakening memories from her previous life.
• Su Chen decided to help Li Meng'er comprehend the Karma Great Dao by taking her out for trials, and the Imperial Family gave her more resources because she was Su Chen's disciple.
• Su Chen took Li Meng'er to the Barren Continent, guided her through nearly five thousand years of experiences, and helped her sense a hint of the Power of Karma.
• Su Chen returned to Crescent Moon City and found that Chunlan had reached the Half-step Earth Immortal Realm and had been falling asleep during cultivation, plagued by dreams she could not remember.
• Su Chen received Su Lan's message that the Su Family clan competition was ten days away and decided to return home to see his family.

Su Chen returned to the Su Family in Jueyang City and reunited with Su Lan and his parents. After staying through the Jueyang City Exchange, he remained behind as Su Lan left to prepare for her Immortal Lord breakthrough.

• Su Chen returned to the Su Family, where Su Lan welcomed him and showed that she had reached the late-stage Immortal King realm and mastered the Space Great Dao.
• Su Chen visited his parents, and news of his return spread among the Su Family.
• Su Chen stayed with the family for nearly three hundred years, including until the Jueyang City Exchange ended.
• Su Lan told Su Chen she was leaving for the Cloud Firmament Realm to find a place to undergo her Immortal Lord tribulation, and he agreed to watch over the Su Family.
• Su Chen returned to his courtyard and spent time with Bai Yulan and Yelan while reflecting on the limits of the Dual Cultivation Great Dao's effect on his emotions.

Su Chen told Yelan and Bai Yulan about his past in the Immortal Realm and how his failure against an unknown enemy had changed it into the Myriad Worlds. Meanwhile, Su Lan faced a Nine-Colored Lightning Tribulation and prepared for its final bolt after being gravely injured by the first eight.

• Yelan asked Su Chen about his past, and he sealed the courtyard before explaining that he came from the Immortal Realm, which had become the Myriad Worlds after an enemy changed history.
• Su Chen told Yelan and Bai Yulan about his life as head of the Su Family, his Divine Court, and the loss of his relatives; the two women comforted him.
• Su Lan prepared for a Nine-Colored Lightning Tribulation with a healing pill and lightning-resistant treasures.
• Su Lan endured the first seven bolts, using the pill and then her power of space to withstand the escalating damage.
• The eighth bolt left Su Lan severely injured as the final bolt continued to gather in the sky.

After surviving the Nine-Colored Lightning Tribulation, Su Lan broke through to Immortal Lord and gained greater mastery of the Space Great Dao. Seven Half-step Immortal Emperors from her past appeared to kill her, leaving her trapped and worried that the Su Family would suffer if she died.

• Su Lan used the Thunder Gathering Umbrella to block most of the final tribulation lightning, though the artifact was destroyed and she was badly injured.
• Heavenly rain healed Su Lan, and she became an Immortal Lord with stronger control over the Space Great Dao.
• As Su Lan prepared to leave, the surrounding space turned viscous and seven Half-step Immortal Emperors appeared, led by Purple Sun Immortal Emperor.
• Purple Sun Immortal Emperor recognized Su Lan as the reincarnated Moon Spirit Immortal Emperor and explained that the Thunder Gathering Umbrella had revealed her location.
• Su Lan's Half-step Immortal Emperor servant appeared and offered to hold off the seven while she escaped, but formations blocked her path.
• Su Lan feared that her death would allow the seven to find and destroy the Su Family.

Su Lan was ambushed by seven Half-step Immortal Emperors who sought to kill her while she was weakened and had abandoned her original Moon Dao. She briefly restored her Quasi-Immortal Emperor strength, but the enemies seized her black-clad servant and threatened to kill him if she resisted.

• Purple Sun Immortal Emperor attacked Su Lan inside a sealed formation while the black-clad man urged her to escape.
• Su Lan fled through the formation, but two enemies intercepted her, and she used Quasi-Immortal Emperor-level magic treasures to blast them away.
• Su Lan tried to escape through the void, but Fifth Prince disrupted her passage and realized she had cultivated a different Great Dao.
• Su Lan invoked the power of her former Moon Dao and regained Quasi-Immortal Emperor strength, frightening her pursuers.
• Purple Sun Immortal Emperor and the others dragged in the captured black-clad man and threatened to kill him if Su Lan resisted.

Purple Sun Immortal Emperor and the other six used the man in black to pressure Su Lan into surrendering while waiting for her unstable cultivation to weaken. When Second Prince and Fifth Prince launched a surprise attack, the formation collapsed and the Immortal Emperor’s pressure briefly shook the Cloud Firmament Realm.

• Purple Sun Immortal Emperor threatened to kill Su Lan’s longtime servant unless she surrendered, while Su Lan struggled with the choice of saving him or protecting herself.
• The man in black begged Su Lan to leave, but Purple Sun Immortal Emperor wounded him and damaged his Immortal Emperor Dao Fruit before stabilizing his condition to keep pressuring Su Lan.
• Purple Sun Immortal Emperor falsely promised to spare the servant, while he and the others secretly intended to capture Su Lan and torment her family.
• Second Prince and Fifth Prince suddenly attacked Su Lan, and the other five joined them as the great formation collapsed.
• The formation’s collapse unleashed pressure that shattered the land and killed countless beings, but one of the seven placed a new formation disk to contain it.
• Powerful experts across the Cloud Firmament Realm sensed the brief Immortal Emperor aura and feared that an Immortal Emperor had arrived.

Su Lan was overwhelmed by seven Quasi-Immortal Emperors and captured after using her final attack to badly injure Fourth Brother. With her unable to fight, Fourth Brother asked Purple Spirit Immortal Emperor to hand her over so he could humiliate her.

• Su Lan's Moon Dao power ran out, and her cultivation fell from Quasi-Immortal Emperor to Immortal Venerable.
• Remembering her family, Su Lan unleashed black flames in a desperate final attack that wounded all seven men and severely injured Fourth Brother.
• True Person Ziyang struck Su Lan down, and the men restrained her so she could not use Immortal Energy.
• Fourth Brother asked Purple Spirit Immortal Emperor to give Su Lan to him, saying he wanted to humiliate her before she died.

Second Brother and Purple Sun Immortal Emperor prepared to enslave Su Lan and torture her by killing the black-clothed man in front of her. Su Chen rescued Su Lan from the formation, and she clung to him in relief as the seven Quasi-Immortal Emperors noticed him.

• Second Brother promised Purple Sun Immortal Emperor he would cripple Su Lan and imprison her Divine Soul before abusing her.
• Purple Sun Immortal Emperor ordered his men to kill Su Lan's family and brought the black-clothed man before her, threatening to dismember him.
• Second Brother tried to pierce Su Lan with the Soul Control Needle, but Su Lan could not escape the formation and feared for herself and the Su Family.
• Su Chen suddenly pulled Su Lan out of the formation, leaving the seven Quasi-Immortal Emperors searching for the person who had intervened.
• Su Lan recognized Su Chen, threw herself into his arms, and cried that she had thought she was going to die; Su Chen also brought the black-clothed man beside them.

Su Chen arrived to rescue Su Lan and had Tongtian defeat the seven Quasi-Immortal Emperors who had captured her. Afterward, Su Lan scolded Su Chen for teasing her about crying in his arms, then treated the injured black-clothed man and reflected on the warmth of family.

• Su Chen reassured Su Lan and summoned Tongtian to deal with the seven Quasi-Immortal Emperors.
• Tongtian killed the seven attackers with swift sword strikes, leaving Su Lan shocked by his Immortal Emperor-level strength.
• Su Lan stomped on Su Chen’s foot and demanded that he keep her capture and tears secret, but he teased her before vanishing.
• Su Lan treated the injured black-clothed man and felt grateful for having a family, while suspecting Su Chen had been above Immortal Emperor in his previous life.

After saving Su Lan and waiting nearly two thousand years, Su Chen visited Sun Qian in Duantian City and discovered that the Dual Cultivation Great Dao was causing absurd encounters with women. When he stepped in to save a girl from Zhao Yang, he killed Zhao Yang and his guards, leaving the Mountain Sea Mercenary Group's response unresolved.

• Su Chen returned to the Su Family after saving Su Lan and waited nearly two thousand years before leaving Jueyang City.
• Su Chen arrived in Duantian City to visit Sun Qian, whose strength and mercenary group had grown considerably, and considered taking him as a disciple.
• Several women and a series of chance encounters pursued Su Chen, who realized the Dual Cultivation Great Dao had greatly increased his luck with women.
• Su Chen saw Zhao Yang and his men threatening a young girl and stepped in to protect her.
• Zhao Yang attacked Su Chen, who struck him down with a wave of his hand and slaughtered the guards who charged at him.

Su Chen killed the leaders of the Mountain Sea Mercenary Group after they attacked him, then went to stay with Sun Qian at the Sand Wolf Mercenary Group. There he met the Immortal King Zhou Yao, whose cultivation technique suddenly reversed as Su Chen wondered whether to remove his Dual Cultivation Great Dao.

• A girl warned Su Chen that Zhao Yang's father, Zhao Yu, would seek revenge, but Su Chen killed Zhao Yu with a single attack.
• The Mountain Sea Mercenary Group's Primordial Origin Golden Immortal appeared, and Su Chen tore space apart and killed him.
• After the girl offered to serve him, Su Chen left and continued wandering through Duantian City before heading to the Sand Wolf Mercenary Group.
• Sun Qian greeted Su Chen as his master, explained how his informants had learned of Su Chen's arrival, and received praise for his cultivation.
• Sun Qian told Su Chen that an Immortal King was staying nearby, then left as Su Chen prepared to return to his courtyard.
• Zhou Yao asked who Su Chen was, then spat blood and collapsed when her cultivation technique reversed; Su Chen considered removing his Dual Cultivation Great Dao.

Su Chen helped Zhou Yao stabilize a cultivation backlash, but the influence of his Dual Cultivation Great Dao led them to spend the day together intimately. After Zhou Yao left a note asking them to forget what happened, Su Chen realized the Great Dao had reached a second stage and was affecting both him and the world.

• Zhou Yao’s cultivation technique reversed, and she asked Su Chen to help stabilize the Immortal Energy in her chest.
• Su Chen channeled Immortal Energy while touching Zhou Yao, and she struggled to regulate her turbulent aura.
• After Zhou Yao calmed her aura, Su Chen carried her into the room, and they spent half a day together.
• Zhou Yao left a note saying they had no emotional foundation and should pretend the encounter never happened.
• Su Chen concluded that he had comprehended the Dual Cultivation Great Dao from his fear of loneliness and losing his emotions, and that its second stage affected the world as well as himself.

After leaving Duantian City, Zhou Yao struggled with her unexpected feelings for Su Chen while he wandered the Nine Stars Empire before deciding to visit its Imperial City. Near Nine Stars City, Su Chen encountered bandits attacking a merchant convoy and a frightened young woman trapped inside.

• Zhou Yao left Duantian City and wrestled with her feelings about Su Chen, blaming him for what had happened while secretly wondering whether he would still like her if she changed her appearance.
• Su Chen left Duantian City, visited Crescent Moon City and the Haoran Sect, and eventually set out for the Imperial City under the alias Su Chengqian.
• As Su Chen neared Nine Stars City, three Primordial Origin Golden Immortals attacked a Yun'an Merchant Association convoy to steal its cargo and seize the beautiful young woman traveling with it.
• The young woman asked Uncle Zhou whether her father had received their message, and Uncle Zhou said an isolation array had blocked it and vowed to get her out safely.

Su Chen rescued Yang Lan and the An Yun Merchant Association from three Primordial Origin Golden Immortals who had ambushed them. Yang Lan invited him to the association, and he agreed to visit.

• The three Primordial Origin Golden Immortals overwhelmed Zhou Lian while Yang Lan tried to flee.
• One attacker seized Yang Lan and revealed that he intended to keep her while killing the rest of the Yun'an Merchant Association.
• Su Chen appeared at the last moment, took Yang Lan from the attacker, and killed all three Primordial Origin Golden Immortals with a wave of his hand.
• Yang Lan thanked Su Chen and invited him to visit the An Yun Merchant Association, while Zhou Lian cautiously offered him a reward.
• Su Chen agreed to visit the association, and Zhou Lian suspected that he had taken a liking to Yang Lan.

Su Chen flirted with Yang Lan during their journey, and she quickly grew shy and affectionate toward him. By the time they continued on, Yang Lan had shared much of her life with him and their relationship had grown closer.

• Yang Lan asked Su Chen his name, and he told her he came from Beidou Prefecture.
• Yang Lan invited Su Chen into her sedan and served him tea.
• Su Chen held Yang Lan’s hand, called her Lan’er, and complimented her, leaving her flustered but receptive.
• Yang Lan asked whether Su Chen loved someone, and he answered indirectly while interlocking their fingers.
• Yang Lan and Su Chen chatted throughout the journey, and she shared personal stories and details about the merchant association.

Su Chen arrived at the An Yun Merchant Association with Yang Lan, and their relationship grew closer despite her concerns about propriety. Yang Lan returned to the association’s meeting to address its struggle against powerful competitors in the Imperial City.

• Su Chen arrived at the An Yun Merchant Association, where Yang Xizhi welcomed him and arranged for Yang Lan to attend to him.
• Su Chen kissed Yang Lan, and she reciprocated before asking to postpone their relationship talk until the association’s crisis had settled.
• Yang Lan left Su Chen and joined the association’s managers as they discussed whether to abandon the Imperial City.
• Yang Xizhi said the association could not survive elsewhere because other regions of the Cangyun Empire were already saturated with merchant associations.

The An Yun Merchant Association faced collapse under pressure from the Four Great Merchant Associations, and Yang Xizhi pinned his hopes on the auction for control of Sanyang Street. He urged Yang Lan to leave with Su Chen for her own safety, while she resolved not to ask Su Chen for help.

• Yang Xizhi and the elders discussed the association’s financial crisis and the upcoming Sanyang Street auction, but struggled to find a solution.
• Yang Xizhi vowed to pursue control of Sanyang Street, using his connections and even selling his family assets if necessary.
• After the meeting, Yang Xizhi told Yang Lan to go with Su Chen if she could, warning that the association might soon disappear.
• Yang Lan refused to leave her father and offered to help, but Yang Xizhi declined because he did not want her to suffer.
• Yang Lan decided not to burden Su Chen by asking for financial help, then found him brewing tea in the courtyard.