Chapter Summaries

The Demon Race launched a prepared assault on the Nine Stars Empire, trapping its elders at Nine Demon Mountain while a force led by an Immortal Venerable attacked the Imperial City. The Imperial City was caught off guard, and its people panicked as the invasion began.

• A human allied with the Demon Race revealed himself as a Late Immortal Lord and helped Taotie trap the Imperial Family's three elders in a formation.
• Taotie warned that the Demon Race was targeting the entire Nine Stars Empire, and the elders tried to break through the formation to alert the Imperial Family.
• Ten Demon Race experts, including an Immortal Venerable, rushed toward the Imperial City and sealed it inside a formation.
• The Demon Race attacked the Imperial City, and a gigantic palm killed countless people before the Royal Family could organize a defense.
• The Imperial City’s people recognized the Demon Race’s Immortal Venerable among the attackers and panicked.

The Demon Race attacked the Nine Stars Empire, overwhelming its defenders until the Empress emerged from seclusion as an Immortal Venerable. The old Demon Race cultivator then summoned a second Immortal Venerable, leaving the Empress facing two powerful enemies.

• The Great Elder formed an array to protect the Imperial Palace, but the old Demon Race cultivator shattered it and nearly killed him with one blow.
• The old Demon Race cultivator ordered his forces to kill everyone in the Imperial City and prepared to attack the Empress in seclusion.
• The Empress shot a beam of white light from the palace, wounding the old Demon Race cultivator, then emerged after breaking through to the Immortal Venerable realm.
• The old Demon Race cultivator summoned a young man whose aura matched his own, revealing another Immortal Venerable and putting the Empress at a disadvantage.

The Empress fought the Young Demon Venerable and Zi Kui as the Demon Race’s formation trapped the Nine Stars Empire and left her outnumbered. As the Third Prince was manipulated into hating the Empress and Li Qingyue, he suddenly shook and light shone from his eyes.

• The Empress realized the Imperial City’s formation had been reinforced, but the Young Demon Venerable ordered Zi Kui to attack her before she could stall for time.
• The Empress exchanged blows with Zi Kui and the Young Demon Venerable, but their combined attacks overwhelmed her and injured cultivators throughout the Imperial City.
• The Empress continued fighting to protect the people trapped inside the city, even as her strength waned and her white dress became stained with blood.
• Li Qingyue watched from the Imperial Palace and worried that the Empress could not withstand two Immortal Venerables.
• The Third Prince blamed the Empress for favoring Li Qingyue, while a woman emerged from his black ring and urged him to hate them both.
• The Third Prince demanded that Li Qingyue be killed, then suddenly shook as brilliant light erupted from his eyes.

The Third Prince resisted Hei Mei’s control long enough to destroy the formation core, but the Empress remained overwhelmed by the Demon Venerables and their allies. Just as Ye Yao launched a lethal sneak attack, an unfamiliar voice slowed everyone’s movements.

• The Third Prince rejected Hei Mei’s attempt to control him and revealed that he carried the Imperial City’s formation core.
• The Third Prince used his vital essence to shatter the formation core and died, causing the Empress to attack the Demon Venerables in grief.
• Zi Kui Demon Venerable ordered the Demon Race’s Immortal Lords to kill the Imperial Family while the Demon Venerables pressed their attack on the Empress.
• The Young Demon Venerable wounded the Empress, and Ye Yao prepared a deadly strike from the darkness.
• A mysterious voice called for a pause, and its power slowed Ye Yao’s attack and the movements of everyone present.

Su Chen appeared before the Empress, killed Ye Yao and Taotie with Spatial Slash, and offered the remaining Demon Venerable a choice between becoming his mount or dying. The Sky-Bearing Bird resisted and invoked the Human-Demon agreement, but Xiao Tian arrived and recognized him as Old Bi.

• Su Chen killed Ye Yao with a Spatial Slash, then demanded that the two Demon Venerables reveal their true forms.
• Taotie transformed and tried to flee, but Su Chen stopped and killed him with another Spatial Slash.
• The Sky-Bearing Bird appealed to the agreement between the Human and Demon Races, and Su Chen reminded him that the demons had targeted weaker people in Nine Stars City.
• Su Chen offered the Sky-Bearing Bird the choice of becoming his mount or sharing Taotie's fate, but the bird refused and promised not to invade the Human Race again.
• Xiao Tian appeared, mocked the Sky-Bearing Bird as Old Bi, and the Sky-Bearing Bird recognized him as Qiongqi.

Su Chen subdued the Sky-Bearing Bird and gave the injured Empress a rare healing pill after rescuing her from Ye Yao and Taotie. The Empress recovered and wondered whether Su Chen was interested in her, but pushed those thoughts aside because he was involved with her daughter, Li Qingyue.

• Qiongqi urged the Sky-Bearing Bird to submit to Su Chen, and the Sky-Bearing Bird agreed rather than die.
• Su Chen branded the Sky-Bearing Bird's Divine Soul and made him his mount.
• The injured Empress thanked Su Chen, but collapsed after initially refusing his Immortal Grade Rank 9 healing pill.
• Su Chen carried the Empress to the Imperial Palace and gave her the pill, restoring her breathing and stabilizing her injuries.
• The Empress woke and wondered if Su Chen liked her, then set aside the thought because Li Qingyue had already gotten there first.

After the Demon Race’s plot against the Nine Stars Empire failed, the Demon King decided to summon powerful members of his clan to retaliate against the Human Race. Half a month later, Li Qingyue presided over the Nine Stars Empire’s court assembly as its presumed future king.

• The Demon King learned that Zi Kui had been killed and Venerable Tianqing enslaved, and suspected an outside expert from the Human Race had intervened.
• The Demon King declared that the Human Race had broken the rules and promised to summon experts from his clan to wipe out the Central Continent.
• News spread that the Empress had reached the Immortal Venerable realm, and the Nine Stars Empire celebrated its new strength.
• Half a month later, Li Qingyue presided over the empire’s first court assembly in years, signaling the Empress’s support for her becoming king.
• Li Qingyue greeted the elders modestly and invited them to sit, seeking their support as she prepared to rule.

Li Qingyue finalized the procedures for the upcoming Myriad Dragon Convention before returning to Su Chen, while the Empress later visited him to thank him for his help. The chapter ended with the Empress offering to repay Su Chen whenever he needed her.

• Li Qingyue presented her detailed Myriad Dragon Convention procedures to the elders, who approved them unanimously.
• Li Qingyue nearly collapsed after the meeting, then returned to her palace and reunited with Su Chen.
• Su Chen learned that the Haoran Sect and the Su Family planned to participate in the convention.
• The Empress appeared before Su Chen and thanked him for helping her, offering to fulfill a future request.

The Empress wondered why Su Chen treated the Nine Stars Empire so well and felt inexplicably jealous of Li Qingyue, while Su Chen restrained the pull of his Dual Cultivation Great Dao. Five hundred years later, the Myriad Dragon Convention began, and Su Chen watched as He Yao and the Su Family prodigies placed near the top amid fierce competition.

• Su Chen suspected the Empress was affected by his Dual Cultivation Great Dao but restrained himself because she was Li Qingyue's mother.
• The Empress reflected on Su Chen's devotion to Li Qingyue, felt inexplicably jealous, and left without saying more.
• Su Chen spent five hundred years in the Imperial City teaching Li Qingyue to rule and helping her cultivation advance.
• The Myriad Dragon Convention began before the Imperial City, with Su Lan leading three Su Family prodigies and the Haoran Sect bringing He Yao, Li Meng'er, and Ye Lingtian to watch.
• Su Chen learned that He Yao and the three Su Family prodigies had all ranked near the top of the convention.
• Su Chen observed that many Human Immortal contestants wielded Heavenly Immortal-level strength, often because they had reincarnated or received powerful guidance.

Su Chen discovered the system’s new Servant Function and learned that bound servants could revive after death, while only Dao Lord-level servants could provide Luck Points. He went to find Tongtian, intending to bind him with his first Binding Card.

• Su Chen received a Binding Card as his sign-in reward, and the system activated its Servant Function.
• The system explained that servants could use its items, revive after five hundred hours, and provide Luck Points only if they were Dao Lord-level cultivators.
• Su Chen decided to use his Binding Card on Tongtian, hoping to protect him from death and avoid the danger of a future breakthrough in the Myriad Worlds.
• Su Chen arrived at a remote village and found Tongtian perfecting his Sword Intent by hammering iron in a smithy.
• A woman at the smithy told Su Chen they did not take customers, then turned her attention back to Tongtian.

Su Chen bound Tongtian as his attendant, promising that he could revive him if necessary, then returned to his Inner World to search for the Great Qian Empire. He found that the empire's royal descendants had dwindled into the impoverished Li Family, where they still venerated his old ancestor's token.

• Tongtian agreed to become Su Chen's attendant, and Su Chen used a Binding Card to bind him.
• Su Chen told Tongtian that he would live as long as Su Chen did and could be revived if he died.
• Su Chen entered his Inner World and discovered that the Great Qian Empire had seemingly vanished, then sensed a trace of its bloodline.
• Su Chen found the Li Family, whose members were descendants of the Great Qian Empire's royal family.
• Su Chen recognized the jade tablet in the Li Family's ancestral shrine as the token he had used when posing as their ancestor.

Su Chen visited the Li Family and revealed that he was their long-lost ancestor, the owner of the token they worshipped. The family’s head was left confronting proof that the Li Family had once ruled the Xuanhuang Realm as the Great Qian Empire’s Royal Family.

• After the Li Family’s ritual, Su Chen asked to meet its head, and Li Shishan welcomed him into the family’s shabby reception hall.
• Su Chen asked whether the family knew its ancestor, and Li Shiming recalled a legend that the Li Family had once been a powerful cultivation force.
• Su Chen said the worshipped token was his and summoned the jade pendant sealed in amber, proving that he was a cultivator.
• Su Chen produced the pendant’s matching half and revealed that the Li Family descended from him and had once been the Royal Family of the Great Qian Empire.
• Li Shishan recognized that the jade slip’s surviving inscription identified the holder of the other pendant as the Li Family Old Ancestor.

Su Chen offered to restore the Li Family’s cultivation legacy, but the clan rejected him and chose an ordinary life. Three years later, after the City Lord’s Mansion brutalized the family, Li Shishan begged the ancestor’s token for help, and an angry voice called him outside.

• Su Chen offered to help the Li Family cultivate or protect their ordinary way of life, but Li Shishan doubted that he was their ancestor.
• Su Chen vanished after leaving Li Shishan a token that could contact him, and the Li Family council decided not to trust his offer.
• Su Chen left the Xuanhuang Realm, noted its growth, and spent the following years at the Imperial Palace.
• Three years later, Li Shishan used the glowing token to summon Su Chen as the Li Family faced ruin at the hands of the Young City Lord.
• Li Shishan and the Li Family begged their ancestor for help, then heard an angry voice demand that Li Shishan come out.

Zhou Bi tormented the Li Family, forcing Li Shishan to choose between killing Li Zhoufu and letting the family die. When Li Shishan called for the Li Family Old Ancestor, Su Chen appeared and froze everyone, stopping Zhou Bi’s attack.

• Zhou Bi surrounded the Li Family and demanded that Li Shishan kill Li Zhoufu in exchange for sparing ten family members.
• Li Zhoufu offered his own life to save the Li Family, but Zhou Bi kicked away his attempted suicide and reduced the number he would spare to five.
• Li Shishan refused to kill Li Zhoufu and begged the Li Family Old Ancestor for help.
• Zhou Bi drew his saber to kill Li Shishan, but everyone suddenly froze in place.
• Su Chen appeared, explained that strength was necessary to survive in the world, and restrained his killing intent because children were present.

Su Chen revived Li Shishan and restored his youth, then offered the Li Family a chance to punish Zhou Bi and his companions. He recreated four people who had died, including Li Heng and Yan Yan, leaving Yan Yan trembling in terror as her father recognized her.

• Li Shishan thanked Su Chen before collapsing, and Su Chen restored his health and youthful appearance.
• The Li Family knelt to Su Chen, while he immobilized Zhou Bi and his companions and asked the family how they wanted them punished.
• A Li Family man who had lost his legs crawled into the courtyard, demanded vengeance for his daughter, and received the strength to stand from Su Chen.
• Su Chen recreated four people who had died, including Li Heng and the woman Zhou Bi had abused.
• Li Heng and the other recreated people appeared confused, while Yan Yan screamed and trembled as her father recognized her.

Su Chen restored Li Yanyan and three other Li Family members to life, then asked Li Shishan whether the family wanted strength or seclusion. Li Shishan chose to grow powerful and protect the weak, and the chapter ended with the Li Family killing Zhou Bi.

• Li Yanyan awoke among the Li Family and reunited with her relatives, while Li Heng and two others realized they had also returned to life.
• Su Chen explained that the four were living people he had created and that this was a form of resurrection; Li Shishan introduced him as the Li Family's ancestor, and the four bowed to him.
• Su Chen said he would not resurrect anyone again, then incapacitated Zhou Bi and his followers for the Li Family to handle.
• Li Shishan told Su Chen he wanted to make the Li Family powerful and create a place where the weak could survive.
• Su Chen agreed to support Li Shishan and vanished, after which the Li Family beat Zhou Bi to death.

The Li Family killed Zhou Bi and the City Lord’s guards after they came to attack the family. Zhou Yuanshang learned Zhou Bi had not returned, then Mr. Qi told him his son was dead.

• The Li Family beat Zhou Bi to death and killed the guards who had accompanied him.
• Neighbors mistakenly believed the screams came from the Li Family and stayed inside in fear.
• Zhou Yuanshang killed a guard who had failed to report Zhou Bi’s visit to the Li Family promptly.
• Zhou Yuanshang sent another guard to bring Zhou Bi back, but learned he was still at the Li Family’s home.
• Mr. Qi told Zhou Yuanshang that Zhou Bi was dead.

After learning that Zhou Bi had died, Zhou Yuanshang investigated and concluded that the Li Family was responsible. He led the City Lord's Mansion toward the Li Family, where a wandering monk stepped forward to ask him to end the matter.

• Mr. Qi told Zhou Yuanshang that Zhou Bi's Soul Lamp had gone out, and Zhou Yuanshang left in a fury.
• Zhou Yuanshang questioned the City Lord's Mansion's investigators, who reported that Zhou Bi had gone to the Li Family and never come out.
• After hearing that screams had come from the Li Family, Zhou Yuanshang vowed to torture its members and led his people toward their home.
• The city's residents learned of Zhou Bi's death and the Li Family's suspected role, while many privately rejoiced at his death.
• A wandering monk who had once received food and shelter from the Li Family stopped Zhou Yuanshang on the road and asked him to let the matter end.

The plain-robed monk stood between Zhou Yuanshang and the Li Family, refusing to yield as Zhou attacked him with a spear. Remembering his family’s slaughter and his own revenge, the monk resolved to protect the weak even if it meant he could not return to Bore Temple, while Zhou continued to break through his defenses.

• Zhou Yuanshang threatened the monk and charged him with a spear when he refused to move aside.
• The monk used the Diamond Sutra to seize Zhou Yuanshang’s spear, but Zhou’s attacks forced him back and wounded him.
• The monk recalled how mountain bandits had slaughtered his family, how his brother sacrificed himself to save him, and how he later killed all 103 bandits.
• The monk realized that protecting the weak was his worldly attachment and decided to defend the Li Family despite his inability to return to Bore Temple.
• Zhou Yuanshang mocked the monk’s imperfect Diamond Sutra and pressed his increasingly fierce attack.

Su Chen revealed himself as the cultivator who had killed Zhou Yuanshang’s son and crushed Zhou Yuanshang in a single strike. Zhou Yuanshang summoned his honored guest, Mr. Qi, but Su Chen overwhelmed the Eighth Level Qi Cultivator and left him badly injured.

• The monk charged Zhou Yuanshang, but Su Chen struck Zhou Yuanshang and sent him flying back to his troops.
• Su Chen emerged from the Li Family residence and admitted that he had killed Zhou Yuanshang’s son.
• Zhou Yuanshang silenced his frightened guards and called on Mr. Qi to help him kill Su Chen.
• Mr. Qi appeared, agreed to fight for the City Lord’s Mansion, and arrogantly offered Su Chen three moves to make him draw his sword.
• Su Chen unleashed his power and blasted Mr. Qi backward, leaving him bloodied and terrified.
• Mr. Qi realized that Su Chen was not a cultivator in the Qi Cultivation Stage.