Chapter Summaries

Three Demon Kings entered the Yang Realm and prepared to attack Su Chen, while Saints across the Eastern Domain feared the coming conflict. Su Chen revealed power beyond the Demon Emperor Realm, leaving the Demon Kings stunned and wondering how the Yang Realm had learned of their arrival.

• Saints across the Eastern Domain sensed three powerful Demon Kings in Qingfeng City and debated whether to flee or help Su Chen.
• The Three Great Demon Kings surveyed the Northern Wind Empire and mocked Su Chen, believing he was too frightened to resist.
• Qing Gui Wang reached out to seize Su Chen as the watching Saints and Duan Shan feared the worst.
• Su Chen unleashed a terrifying aura that surpassed the Demon Emperor Realm, and the Three Great Demon Kings recognized him as a Demon Lord-level expert.
• The Three Great Demon Kings wondered how a Demon Lord had been waiting for them and suspected a traitor in the Demon Realm.

Su Chen effortlessly defeated and refined the Three Great Demon Kings into Origin Spirit Pearls, revealing strength that the watching Saints believed belonged to an Ancient Saint. As he prepared to take the pearls away, the seal split open again and a Quasi-Emperor reached through the crack.

• Su Chen suppressed the Three Great Demon Kings and silenced the devilish qi across the Eastern Domain, shocking the watching Saints with his apparent Ancient Saint strength.
• Su Chen used his power to collapse the space around the Demon Kings and began extracting their Origin Power despite their threats and pleas.
• Su Chen refined the Three Great Demon Kings into three Origin Spirit Pearls, which he planned to use to help the Su Family gain three Saint Venerable experts.
• Duan Shan watched Su Chen's overwhelming victory in disbelief as the Saints eyed the pearls but abandoned any thought of taking them.
• The crack in Qingfeng City reopened, releasing stronger devilish qi as a massive palm emerged, and Su Chen recognized its owner as a Quasi-Emperor.

Su Chen sealed the passage to the Demon Realm after Great General Moyan threatened revenge for his brother’s death. Back at the Su Family, he revealed that the Origin Spirit Pearls from the three Demon Kings could raise three family members to Saint Venerable level, and Su Yuanba asked whom Su Chen would choose.

• Su Chen repaired the damage in Qingfeng City, sealed the passage to the Demon Realm, and decided he might enter the Yin Realm to kill Great General Moyan once the Phoenix God Tree had grown.
• Great General Moyan withdrew his hand from the Yang Realm after realizing his power was destroying Myriad Demon City, but vowed to kill Su Chen.
• Su Chen returned to Qingshui City, congratulated Su Hongyuan on Severing the Middle Corpse, and brought him back to the Su Family.
• Su Chen told the Su Family’s direct descendants that he had slain the Three Great Demon Kings and brought back their Origin Spirit Pearls, which could create three Saint Venerables.
• Su Yuanba asked Su Chen which three people he would choose to consume the Origin Spirit Pearls.

Su Chen distributed three Origin Spirit Pearls to Su Qingtian, Su Hongyuan, and Su Yunqian, then watched the Su Family and Eastern Domain flourish over the next thirty years. He discovered a mysterious evil aura surrounding the Phoenix God Tree and strengthened the tree with Profound Yellow Earth, triggering a dramatic transformation across the Eastern Domain.

• Su Chen assigned the three Origin Spirit Pearls to his father, Su Qingtian, the old master, Su Hongyuan, and Su Yunqian, who entered seclusion to absorb them.
• Su Qingtian agreed to travel with Su Chen to the Southern Domain after completing his breakthrough.
• Over thirty years, the Su Family grew stronger, Wangyun City became the Eastern Domain's cultivation center, and the Zhou Family moved there.
• Su Chen found evil aura gathering around the Phoenix God Tree and suspected that a powerful figure had created it to threaten or consume the Xuantian Realm.
• Su Chen gave the Phoenix God Tree Profound Yellow Earth, causing it to grow rapidly and devour the surrounding evil aura.
• The Phoenix God Tree's growth brought earth-shaking changes to the Eastern Domain.

The Phoenix God Tree’s growth strengthened the Eastern Domain’s Heavenly Dao and greatly increased spiritual energy, especially in the Jinghong Empire and on Wangyun Mountain. After half a year of building up Wangyun Mountain’s resources, Su Chen took Ruoxi out for a stroll.

• The Phoenix God Tree’s growth made spiritual energy surge across the Eastern Domain and restored vitality to depleted areas.
• People in Wangyun City noticed the change and suspected the Su Family was responsible for the Jinghong Empire’s especially large increase.
• Su Chen rejected powerful forces’ offers to give the Su Family most of their yearly resources in exchange for settling in the Jinghong Empire.
• Over the next half year, Wangyun Mountain accumulated Spirit Liquid, and Su He’s formation masters began producing nearly a thousand Saint Crystals each day.
• Su He redirected most of Wangyun Mountain’s spiritual energy into a Spirit Accumulation Pool, leaving the mountain with more than enough for cultivation.
• Su Chen asked Ruoxi to leave Wangyun Mountain with him for a stroll, and she followed.

Su Chen returned to Wangyun City and discovered that access to the Enlightenment Stone, which he had intended to be free, now cost an exorbitant fee. After hearing that Zhao Peng and Steward Zhao Qi were exploiting visitors, he demanded that Zhao Peng summon his superior.

• Su Chen and Ruoxi entered the prosperous Wangyun City, whose guards included the Zhou Family Ancestor as captain and a Dao Entry Realm vice-captain overseeing public order.
• Su Chen headed to the Enlightenment Stone, where he found a middle-aged man named Zhao Peng blocking visitors and demanding three hundred thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones for entry.
• Su Chen questioned the fee, since he had arranged for people to use the Enlightenment Stone for free and Su He had never told him about any charge.
• Su Chen overheard visitors say that the fees had risen over time and that Steward Zhao Qi was behind them.
• Zhao Peng told Su Chen to leave if he could not pay, and Su Chen demanded that Zhao Peng call his superior over.

Su Chen confronted Zhao Peng and Zhao Ming for charging people to use the Enlightenment Stone despite the Su Family’s order that it be free. When Zhao Ming attacked, Li Chang arrived and knelt before Su Chen, calling him the Young Master.

• Su Chen challenged Zhao Peng for charging visitors to use the Enlightenment Stone, and Zhao Peng insulted him and threatened him.
• Zhao Ming arrived, defended the charges, and refused Su Chen’s demand to call over the person responsible.
• Ruoxi confronted the Zhao brothers, and Zhao Ming unleashed his Void Refinement aura and attacked Su Chen.
• Li Chang and the Wangyun City guards arrived and stopped the fight.
• Li Chang ignored Zhao Ming and knelt before Su Chen, paying respects to the Young Master.

Su Chen discovered that Zhao Ming and Zhao Peng were charging people to use the Enlightenment Stone and traced their backing to Zhao Qi, a steward related to the Su Family’s Third Elder. He asked Li Chang to inform the Third Elder and entered Fragrant Flower Tower, leaving Zhao Ming and Zhao Peng kneeling.

• Li Chang recognized Su Chen and knelt, prompting Zhao Ming and Zhao Peng to realize his identity and beg for mercy.
• Su Chen questioned Li Chang about fees being charged at the Enlightenment Stone, and Li Chang denied collecting or profiting from them.
• Su Chen broke the fence around the stone and pressed Li Chang to name the person behind the fee collection.
• Li Chang identified Zhao Qi, and Ruoxi explained that Zhao Qi was Zhao Wanwan’s younger brother and Su He’s maternal uncle.
• Su Chen ordered Li Chang to inform the Third Elder of the incident, then entered Fragrant Flower Tower while Zhao Ming and Zhao Peng remained kneeling.

After Zhao Ming and Zhao Peng were exposed and humiliated for provoking Su Chen, Zhao Wanwan learned that her brother Zhao Qi had also illegally collected fees at the Enlightenment Stone. She chose to end her protection of him and took him to Wangyun City, leaving his future punishment to Su Chen.

• News spread through Wangyun City about Zhao Ming and Zhao Peng kneeling after they provoked Su Chen, and crowds gathered to mock them.
• Zhao Wanwan received Li Chang's message and confronted Zhao Qi about collecting fees at the Enlightenment Stone.
• Zhao Qi dismissed the offense and insulted Zhao Wanwan, so she slapped him and gave him a choice between a hundred years of reflection in Cold Mountain or leaving the Su Family.
• Zhao Wanwan took Zhao Qi to Wangyun City and told him she would plead for his punishment to be waived if he and his sons left the Su Family, ending their sibling relationship.

Zhao Wanwan brought Zhao Qi to Su Chen after Zhao Qi caused trouble at the Enlightenment Stone and asked that he be spared but expelled from the Su Family. After realizing how much his sister had sacrificed for him, Zhao Qi accepted responsibility and begged to stay, leaving Zhao Wanwan’s decision unresolved.

• Zhao Wanwan ignored Zhao Qi’s pleas and took him to meet Su Chen at Fragrant Flower Tower.
• Zhao Wanwan told Su Chen that Zhao Qi had caused trouble again and asked him to spare Zhao Qi physically but expel him from the Su Family and sever their ties.
• Zhao Wanwan rebuked Zhao Qi for repeatedly taking her help for granted, and memories of their childhood made Zhao Qi break down in tears.
• Su Chen agreed to Zhao Wanwan’s request, but Zhao Qi refused to leave and offered to accept the Lineage’s punishment instead.
• Zhao Qi apologized to Zhao Wanwan and begged her not to abandon him.

Zhao Qi chose a hundred years of punishment on Cold Mountain and resolved to change, while the Su Family opened the Enlightenment Stone to the public under new reservation rules. Su Chen discovered that the stone had awakened a spirit and began nourishing it with Wangyun City's Spiritual Energy.

• Zhao Qi asked Su Chen to send him to Cold Mountain for a hundred years, and Su Chen granted his request.
• Zhao Qi endured the realm's freezing cold and vowed to reflect on his actions and become someone Zhao Wanwan could trust.
• Zhao Wanwan left Fragrant Flower Tower, while Zhao Peng and Zhao Ming received punishments for breaking the clan rules.
• Su Chen made the Enlightenment Stone free to use, with advance reservations for its three thousand spots and a limit of once every half month per person.
• Su Chen sensed that the Enlightenment Stone had given birth to a spirit and formed an array to gather Wangyun City's Spiritual Energy to nourish it.

Su Chen and Ruoxi traveled to Qianshan City, where Su Chen sensed Lin Yimeng nearby. Lin Yimeng’s Chenmeng Chamber of Commerce faced a demand to submit to the powerful Jiang Family, leaving its future uncertain.

• Su Chen and Ruoxi admired Qianshan Commandery’s immense stone pillars and made their way to Qianshan City.
• Su Chen sensed Lin Yimeng’s familiar aura and entered the city to find her.
• Lin Yimeng had built the Chenmeng Chamber of Commerce into a prominent business after arriving in Qianshan City.
• The Jiang Family arrived from the Southern Domain with a Saint-level expert and demanded that local forces submit.
• The Jiang Family demanded nearly sixty to seventy percent of the Chenmeng Chamber of Commerce’s output from Lin Yimeng.

Lin Yimeng faced losing the Chenmeng Chamber of Commerce unless she submitted to the powerful Jiang Family. Jiang Huai visited and offered to preserve the business if she married him, leaving Lin Yimeng under pressure to choose between her feelings and the chamber of commerce.

• Lin Yimeng lamented that the Jiang Family could destroy the Chenmeng Chamber of Commerce and that the Su Family would not intervene.
• A servant announced that Jiang Huai had come to see Lin Yimeng, and she reluctantly agreed to meet him.
• Jiang Huai reminded Lin Yimeng that the Jiang Family expected Qianshan City’s forces to declare their submission, then offered to seek a reduced tribute if she showed enough sincerity.
• Jiang Huai proposed that Lin Yimeng marry him, promising that the Jiang Family would protect and help the Chenmeng Chamber of Commerce prosper.

Jiang Huai dropped his pretenses and threatened Lin Yimeng, demanding that she marry into the Jiang Family. Lin Yimeng refused to surrender to his threats, and Jiang Huai dismissed the possibility that the Jinghong Empire or Su Family would intervene.

• Lin Yimeng rejected Jiang Huai's proposal, saying she was not interested in love.
• Jiang Huai threatened to destroy the Chenmeng Chamber of Commerce if Lin Yimeng refused him, but she said she was willing to give it up.
• Jiang Huai threatened Lin Yimeng with consequences and invoked the people of the Chenmeng Chamber of Commerce to pressure her.
• Lin Yimeng invoked her status as a princess of the Jinghong Empire, but Jiang Huai argued that neither the imperial family nor the Su Family would risk opposing the Jiang Family for her.

Jiang Huai tried to force Lin Yimeng to marry him, but she revealed a token from Su Chen that made him decide to abduct and kill her. As Elder Feng failed to escape through the sealed space, a familiar voice arrived to help Lin Yimeng.

• Jiang Huai demanded that Lin Yimeng marry him or be taken by force, and she revealed Su Chen's token.
• Jiang Huai recognized the token's connection to the Su Family and ordered Elder Feng to restrain Lin Yimeng and conceal their actions.
• Jiang Huai planned to take Lin Yimeng to the Southern Domain and attack the Chenmeng Chamber of Commerce.
• Elder Feng found that the surrounding space was too solid to tear open, and a voice asked Lin Yimeng why she was always in trouble when they met.

Su Chen arrived in Qianshan City and rescued Lin Yimeng, wiping out the Jiang Family after Jiang Huai threatened her. Lin Yimeng reunited with Su Chen and, after arranging his stay, looked forward to spending time with him while returning to her composed public demeanor.

• Lin Yimeng recognized Su Chen's voice as Jiang Huai and his Dao protector sensed his overwhelming pressure and realized she was connected to him.
• Jiang Huai begged Su Chen for mercy, but Su Chen killed him and his Dao protector instantly.
• Su Chen destroyed the Jiang Family, causing a massive crater in Qianshan City and leaving the city's residents terrified.
• Su Chen met Lin Yimeng at the Chenmeng Chamber of Commerce and praised her beauty, making her blush.
• Lin Yimeng arranged quarters for Su Chen and privately anticipated showing him around Qianshan City for months or years.
• A servant approached Lin Yimeng, and she resumed her cold, dignified demeanor as president of the Chenmeng Chamber of Commerce.

Lin Yimeng grew increasingly attached to Su Chen as they traveled through Qianshan Commandery, while Ruoxi tried to help the shy woman recognize his interest. Su Chen invited the Chenmeng Chamber of Commerce to join the Su Family, and Lin Yimeng accepted so she could see him again.

• Lin Yimeng privately delighted in the name Chenmeng Chamber of Commerce because it combined her name with Su Chen's.
• Su Chen and Lin Yimeng spent half a month sightseeing around Qianshan Commandery before traveling toward Biyou Pond with Ruoxi.
• At their mountain campsite, Lin Yimeng blushed when Su Chen and Ruoxi caught her staring at Su Chen.
• When Su Chen asked when he would return, Lin Yimeng hesitated to express that she wanted him to stay, frustrating Ruoxi.
• Su Chen suggested that the Chenmeng Chamber of Commerce submit to the Su Family, and Lin Yimeng immediately agreed.

After traveling with Ruoxi and Lin Yimeng for half a year, Su Chen returned to Wangyun Mountain as Lin Yimeng transferred the Chenmeng Chamber of Commerce to the Su Family. Lin Yimeng left determined to become Su Chen’s equal, but when she summoned Qianshan’s leading merchants, they plotted to destroy her business and confronted her with armed experts.

• Su Chen, Ruoxi, and Lin Yimeng toured Qianshan Commandery for half a year before returning to Wangyun Mountain.
• Lin Yimeng transferred the Chenmeng Chamber of Commerce to the Su Family as its direct vassal, and Su Qingyun sent people to support it.
• Lin Yimeng left Wangyun Mountain, resolving to stand beside Su Chen as his equal, while Su Chen watched her depart.
• The leaders of Qianshan’s top fifteen chambers of commerce decided to eliminate the Chenmeng Chamber of Commerce and give Lin Yimeng to He Yun’s son, He Guang.
• The merchants arrived at the Chenmeng Chamber of Commerce with experts, and one of them sarcastically challenged Lin Yimeng’s display of authority.

Lin Yimeng confronted the chamber of commerce leaders who had gathered to threaten her, while He Guang tried to seize her and force her into marriage. Su Family steward Su Hai and two Dao Entry Realm cultivators intervened, leaving the assembled merchants terrified and unsure of their fate.

• Lin Yimeng asked the gathered chamber of commerce leaders to sit, but they refused and demanded that she explain herself.
• He Guang recalled Lin Yimeng's past rejection and ordered Uncle Xu to capture her and take her to the He Family.
• Lin Yimeng warned He Guang that he would not get the chance, as a powerful Dao Entry Realm aura filled the hall.
• Su Hai arrived with two Dao Entry Realm cultivators and killed He Yun with a single attack.
• Su Hai stopped killing and stared down the gathered merchants, while Lin Yimeng addressed him as Steward Su Hai.
• The merchants recognized the Su Family name and realized Lin Yimeng had powerful backing.

Su Hai used the Su Family’s authority to bring Qianshan Commandery’s major chambers of commerce under Lin Yimeng’s Chenmeng Chamber of Commerce, which later expanded across the Eastern Domain. Nearly a century later, the Su Family had grown stronger and Su Qingtian and two others were close to finishing their advance to Saint Emperor, when a sudden icy aura swept across Wangyun Mountain.

• Su Hai declared the Chenmeng Chamber of Commerce a direct enterprise of the Su Family and gave the other major chambers of commerce the choice to submit or disband.
• The major chambers of commerce submitted, and their businesses became branches of the Chenmeng Chamber of Commerce under Lin Yimeng’s management and the Su Family’s supervision.
• Over the next five years, Lin Yimeng expanded the Chenmeng Chamber of Commerce’s control across Qianshan Commandery and into other parts of the Eastern Domain.
• Su Chen rejected repeated attempts by factions from the Southern Domain and Northern Region to claim territory in the Eastern Domain, while the Phoenix God Tree continued purifying the Xuantian Realm.
• Nearly a hundred years later, nine Su Family members had become Saints, and Su Chen sensed Su Qingtian and two others approaching the Saint Emperor Realm after devouring the Demon King Realm’s source.
• A piercingly cold aura erupted halfway up Wangyun Mountain, and Su Chen wondered what had happened.