Chapter Summaries

Su Chen brought the Witch Ancestor and Mu Xin into the Xuanhuang Realm, reassuring the Witch Ancestor that his world protected her from the Curse Power. They toured a Great Qian city and ate at a restaurant, where a group of rowdy men began bullying the manager.

• Su Chen found no trace of the Curse Power and told the Witch Ancestor that the Xuanhuang Realm was a world he had created and that she was safe there.
• Su Chen warned the Witch Ancestor to follow the realm's rules, then took her and Mu Xin into a Great Qian city where its laws were beginning to keep order.
• Su Chen, Mu Xin, and the Witch Ancestor went to a restaurant and ordered one of every dish, which Mu Xin and the Witch Ancestor enjoyed.
• Five scarred men entered the restaurant, ate and drank noisily, and shouted at the manager when she asked them to lower their voices.

Su Chen used the Great Qian Empire’s strict laws to deter a group of thugs from attacking him, then showed Mu Xin around the peaceful Xuanhuang Realm. As sunset fell, Mu Xin asked if they could stay there once Su Chen finished his business, and he agreed.

• A burly man approached Su Chen’s table to flirt with the Witch Ancestor and Mu Xin, but Su Chen insulted him and dared him to attack.
• The men backed down because the Great Qian Law imposed severe punishments for violence, and Su Chen explained this to Mu Xin.
• The men bullied the shopkeeper into giving them a discount, while Su Chen and the Witch Ancestor spent the following days exploring the realm and learning its rules.
• Su Chen took Mu Xin traveling through the Xuanhuang Realm, where she enjoyed its peaceful way of life.
• At sunset, Mu Xin asked whether they could stay in the realm after Su Chen finished his business, and Su Chen agreed.

After millions of years of change across the realms, Su Chen opened a fortune-telling stall in Wutian City. A desperate master and his disciple approached him, hoping he could help them find the Nine Revolutions Profound Medicine that might save their senior disciple brother.

• The Great Qian Empire consolidated its rule over the Xuanhuang Realm, while Su Chen spent the following millions of years with Mu Xin and the realms’ major forces continued to develop.
• Su Chen’s family and the Haoran Sect grew stronger, though the Haoran Sect maintained a humble public reputation.
• With Mu Xin in secluded cultivation, Su Chen went to Wutian City and set up a fortune-telling stall advertising that he could know the future and understand the past.
• Duan Bilian and her middle-aged master discussed their search for the Nine Revolutions Profound Medicine, which they needed to save her senior disciple brother.
• Despite doubting Su Chen, the master decided to approach him in the hope that he might know where to find the medicine.

Su Chen traded Li Ruoheng a Nine Revolutions Profound Medicine for two-thirds of his lifespan and a Great Dao oath to repay a favor whenever Su Chen called on him. Li Ruoheng left with the medicine, bound to Su Chen by his vow.

• Su Chen named Li Ruoheng and identified his search for the Nine Revolutions Profound Medicine, despite Duan Bilian suspecting him of being a swindler.
• Su Chen revealed that he possessed the medicine and offered it for five hundred million top-grade Immortal Crystals or another form of payment.
• Li Ruoheng agreed to give up two-thirds of his lifespan and owe Su Chen a favor requiring a Great Dao oath.
• Su Chen handed Li Ruoheng the medicine, and Li Ruoheng swore the oath before leaving with Duan Bilian.

In Flowing Cloud City, Su Chen met You Lin, whose father’s health and cultivation had declined mysteriously, and identified the cause as a curse. He agreed to visit the You Family, where You Sen arrived with a Gu Master and dismissed Su Chen as a possible fraud.

• After half a month without visitors in Wutian City, Su Chen left and resumed traveling through the cities of the Cloud Firmament Realm.
• In Flowing Cloud City, You Lin and her younger sister worried that physicians could not explain their father’s worsening condition.
• You Lin approached Su Chen, who recognized her surname and said her father had been afflicted by a curse.
• You Lin offered to pay any price for help, and Su Chen agreed to accompany her to the You Family.
• At the You Family entrance, You Sen arrived with a Gu Master who suspected the family head had been afflicted by Gu.
• You Sen questioned Su Chen’s credibility and told You Lin to send him away.

Su Chen challenged the Gu Master’s diagnosis of You Mo, arguing that the patriarch’s condition was a curse rather than an Immortal Devouring Gu. The Gu Master’s proposed symptoms failed to match You Mo’s experience, leaving his diagnosis in doubt.

• Su Chen named the Gu as an Immortal Devouring Gu and asked whether You Mo’s Immortal Energy had become sluggish, but You Sen had heard no such complaint from the patriarch.
• Su Chen left after You Sen sided with the Gu Master, while You Lin remained uncertain about whom to trust.
• You Sen brought the Gu Master to You Mo, who welcomed the promise of a cure for his dwindling Immortal Energy.
• The Gu Master described the Immortal Devouring Gu’s nighttime chest swelling and stabbing pain, but You Mo said he had experienced neither symptom.

The Gu Master failed to treat You Mo after finding that his condition was not caused by an Immortal Devouring Gu, leaving You Mo desperate. You Lin recalled that Su Chen had identified a curse, and the You Family began searching Flowing Cloud City for him.

• The Gu Master questioned You Mo about symptoms of an Immortal Devouring Gu, but You Mo reported none.
• The Gu Master inserted three pure-yang golden needles into You Mo, yet they produced no reaction and could not force out a Gu.
• The Gu Master admitted You Mo’s condition was not caused by a Gu and left the You Family without treating him.
• You Lin remembered Su Chen’s claim that You Mo had been cursed, but could not find him where he had stayed.
• You Lin told You Mo about Su Chen, and You Mo ordered the You Family to search Flowing Cloud City for him.

Su Chen waited near Flowing Cloud City for the You Family to seek him out, then killed an assassin sent by the Gu Master who had cursed You Mo. As You Mo’s condition worsened, You Lin came to Su Chen and agreed that the You Family would accept his conditions if he saved her father.

• Su Chen left Flowing Cloud City and waited in a neighboring city, leaving the You Family a chance to find him.
• A black-clad assassin attacked Su Chen, but Su Chen stopped his dagger and made him vanish.
• The Gu Master learned that Xu Yi had died and believed You Mo’s curse would soon let him devour You Mo’s strength.
• You Lin arrived with the You Family and begged Su Chen to save You Mo after his condition worsened.
• You Lin agreed that the You Family would accept any condition Su Chen set.

Su Chen cured You Mo by removing the curse after the You Family paid him its entire treasury. You Mo recovered his strength and broke through to the Immortal King realm, while Su Chen vanished before the family could thank him.

• You Sen apologized to Su Chen and led him to the gravely ill You Mo.
• Su Chen said the curse had left You Mo less than a day to live and demanded the You Family's treasury as payment for saving him.
• You Lin agreed to the price, and Su Chen promised You Mo could recover his cultivation and might reach the Immortal King realm.
• After accepting the You Family's treasures, Su Chen removed the curse, restoring You Mo to the half-step Immortal King level.
• You Mo broke through to the Immortal King realm, but Su Chen disappeared before anyone could thank him.
• You Mo ordered the family to search for Su Chen and try to invite him back.

Su Chen learned from the Witch Ancestor that her fragmented memories contained two names, Zhilan and Ling Tian, and discovered a mysterious restriction was still eroding her. After returning to the Nine Stars Empire, he reunited with the Empress, who had missed him during his long absence.

• The Witch Ancestor told Su Chen that Zhilan had been close to her and seemed to be Chen Tian’s Dao partner, while Ling Tian had known them both and seemed ill-natured.
• The Witch Ancestor revealed that a restriction within her was fading, and Su Chen sensed it was the power of a law but could not remove it.
• Su Chen decided not to revive anyone else yet and left the Xuanhuang Realm for the Nine Stars Empire.
• Su Chen appeared in the Empress’s bedchamber after three hundred thousand years away, and she embraced and kissed him before asking him to hold her.
• Su Chen and the Empress began dual cultivation.

Su Chen entered a constructed Demon Slayer world and sealed his cultivation so he could experience it as an ordinary person. After arriving at Tanjiro and Nezuko’s encounter with the Water Pillar, he was invited to train alongside Tanjiro and set out to find Sakonji Urokodaki.

• Su Chen activated Entertainment Mode and chose to travel to a newly constructed Demon Slayer world.
• Su Chen arrived in a snowy mountain forest, sensed the world’s unfamiliar energy, and sealed his cultivation and physical strength.
• Su Chen found the Water Pillar confronting Tanjiro and Nezuko after Nezuko had protected her brother.
• Su Chen emerged from hiding, claimed that a demon had killed his family, and asked the Water Pillar for help becoming stronger.
• The Water Pillar told Tanjiro to find Sakonji Urokodaki at Mount Sagiri and invited Su Chen to go with him.
• After the Water Pillar left, Tanjiro questioned Su Chen, who assured him he would not harm Nezuko.

Su Chen, traveling under the name Chen Tian, guided Tanjiro and Nezuko toward Mount Sagiri and warned Tanjiro that sunlight could kill his sister. At a temple, Su Chen killed a demon that had attacked Tanjiro, then called for Sakonji Urokodaki, who emerged from the forest.

• Su Chen told Tanjiro to go to Mount Sagiri and warned him to keep Nezuko out of the sunlight.
• Tanjiro and Su Chen built a wooden box for Nezuko and continued toward the mountain.
• A woman warned Tanjiro about recent disappearances, but he and Su Chen pressed on toward a nearby temple.
• Tanjiro found three dead bodies and fought the demon inside the temple, while Nezuko struggled with her hunger.
• Su Chen shut the temple door to reduce the blood scent, then killed the demon by slamming it into the ground.
• Su Chen called for Sakonji Urokodaki, who emerged from the forest and watched him closely.

Sakonji Urokodaki took Tanjiro and Su Chen to his cabin and tested their abilities as candidates for the Demon Slayer Corps. Su Chen excelled at every challenge while Tanjiro struggled through the training, and Urokodaki continued their preparation with sword practice.

• Urokodaki buried the demon’s corpse, then took Tanjiro and Su Chen to test whether they could join the Demon Slayer Corps.
• Urokodaki explained how demons could be killed and described the Corps and its Hashira as Tanjiro recovered from the run.
• Urokodaki sent them down a fog-covered mountain, and Su Chen reached the foot almost immediately while Tanjiro arrived near dawn.
• Urokodaki trained Tanjiro while Su Chen completed each exercise with ease, then began teaching them how to swing a sword.
• Su Chen cut through a haystack cleanly on his first swing, while Tanjiro’s attempt cut less than a third of it.

Su Chen rapidly mastered all ten forms of Water Breathing under Sakonji Urokodaki’s training and joined Tanjiro for the Final Selection at Mt. Fujikasane. After refusing to team up with Tanjiro, Su Chen entered the mountain alone as a demon began hunting another candidate.

• Su Chen overwhelmed Sakonji Urokodaki in a sparring match, prompting Urokodaki to teach him Water Breathing.
• Su Chen quickly mastered the first seven forms, then the remaining forms, while Tanjiro worked to split the boulder.
• Tanjiro split the boulder and prepared for the Final Selection, and Su Chen chose to accompany him to Mt. Fujikasane.
• The selection attendants explained that candidates had to survive on Mt. Fujikasane for seven days among demons trapped by Wisteria flowers.
• Tanjiro asked Su Chen to team up, but Su Chen refused, and the candidates entered the mountain separately.
• A demon chased a terrified young man in gray shortly after the candidates entered Mt. Fujikasane.

Su Chen hunted demons across Mt. Fujikasane during the Final Selection, killing the powerful demon threatening Tanjiro and leaving enough demons for the other candidates to face. After seven days, twenty candidates had survived, and the Demon Slayer Corps began the steps to enroll them.

• Su Chen killed a demon attacking an injured candidate, then continued through the forest, defeating nearly every demon he encountered.
• Su Chen swiftly killed three demons working together, leaving the trainees confused about why they could not find any demons.
• Su Chen found the hand-covered demon facing an unconscious Tanjiro and killed it with Water Breathing; Tanjiro woke and was astonished by Su Chen's strength.
• Su Chen stopped hunting demons so the other candidates could complete the selection, and twenty people survived the seven days.
• The candidates gathered at the entrance to have uniforms tailored, choose steel for their Nichirin Blades, and receive Kasugai Crows; one of the purple-eyed girls called out to Su Chen.

Su Chen created the Five Elements Breathing Technique by combining five established styles, then demonstrated its overwhelming power on the way to meet Master Oyakata-sama. He also developed Shadow Breathing Technique and discovered that the Five Elements Breathing Technique restored his stamina with extraordinary speed.

• Su Chen followed the purple-eyed girl toward Demon Slayer Corps headquarters while considering creating his own Breathing Technique.
• Su Chen combined Water, Stone, Flame, Thunder, and Wind Breathing into the Five Elements Breathing Technique and used its First Form, Reincarnation, to devastate the trees and ground.
• The Demon Slayer Corps members and the two purple-eyed girls were stunned by Su Chen's power and reconsidered how they viewed him.
• Su Chen created Shadow Breathing Technique and tested its Flash Step and Afterimage Step, moving far faster than the others could follow.
• Su Chen circulated the Five Elements Breathing Technique and rapidly recovered from the stamina he had spent using Afterimage Step.

Su Chen arrived at the Demon Slayer Corps headquarters and demonstrated his overwhelming skill and self-created Breathing Techniques to the Pillars. Oyakata-sama presented him with a sword, whose blade began shifting through seven colors in Su Chen’s hands.

• Giyu Tomioka brought Su Chen to the headquarters, where the Pillars gathered to meet the prospective new Pillar.
• Sanemi challenged Su Chen, but Su Chen defeated him with Shadow Breathing, Fourth Form, Shadow Strike, and stopped his blade at Sanemi’s neck after Oyakata-sama intervened.
• Su Chen told Oyakata-sama that he had created Shadow Breathing and the more powerful Five Elements Breathing Technique.
• Su Chen demonstrated Five Elements Breathing Technique, Second Form, Skyfall, carving a deep crack into the ground and shocking the gathered Pillars.
• Oyakata-sama presented Su Chen with a finely forged sword, and its blade changed through seven colors in his hands.

Su Chen accepted the Demon Slayer Corps's offer to become a Pillar, chose the title Heaven Pillar, and asked to be notified of Upper Ranks. He agreed to teach the Wind Pillar Shadow Breathing, and their training began the next morning.

• Oyakata-sama offered Su Chen the position of Pillar, and Su Chen accepted on the condition that the Corps tell him about any Upper Ranks.
• Su Chen chose the title Heaven Pillar, and his new status soon spread through the Demon Slayer Corps.
• The Wind Pillar asked how Su Chen had become so powerful, and Su Chen offered to teach him Shadow Breathing.
• At dawn, the Wind Pillar arrived to train, and Su Chen began teaching him Shadow Breathing's forms.

Su Chen trained the Wind Pillar in Shadow Breathing through increasingly grueling weighted runs while developing new forms of the technique. Nearly half a month later, the Wind Pillar had grown stronger and mastered its first two forms, though he still had more training ahead.

• Su Chen taught the Wind Pillar three breathing techniques and ordered him to run 150 kilometers with weights while using Shadow Breathing at least three times.
• The Wind Pillar completed the run by nightfall and returned the next morning to repeat the same demanding training.
• Su Chen developed the Fifth Form, Brutal Strike, a powerful single-target attack, then created the Sixth Form, Shadow Clone, and the Seventh Form, Shadowless Sword.
• Over nearly half a month, the Wind Pillar trained by running until nightfall each day and increased his Shadow Breathing endurance from thirty breaths to one or two minutes.
• The Wind Pillar mastered the first two forms and grew nearly twenty percent stronger as Su Chen began increasing his running distance every two days.

Su Chen trained the Wind Pillar in Shadow Breathing and taught him to fight with killing intent, helping him surpass the Stone Pillar. After hearing that the Flame Pillar faced Upper Moon Three at the Infinity Train, Su Chen arrived just before the decisive strike and offered to take over.

• Su Chen increased the Wind Pillar’s weighted running and advanced Shadow Breathing through its Tenth Form, strengthening him over two months.
• Su Chen tested the Wind Pillar in combat, identified his lack of killing intent, and taught him to direct his hatred of demons into his attacks.
• The Wind Pillar used Shadow Breathing with renewed killing intent, and Su Chen told him to keep training until he could use the technique freely.
• Su Chen learned that the Flame Pillar was at the Infinity Train and hurried there to confront Upper Moon Three, Akaza.
• As the Flame Pillar prepared his Ninth Form, Su Chen appeared and told him to leave the rest to him.