Chapter Summaries

Su Yi overwhelmed Uncle Yun, A Lin, and Rong He, then fought off seven powerful opponents while keeping the upper hand. Chu Xiu forced Qin Dongxu, Nie Xingkong, and the others to join the battle, leaving Su Yi surrounded as his battle intent rose.

• Uncle Yun attacked Su Yi with his demonic strength, but Su Yi's Stars Sword Finger crushed his punch and drove him back.
• A Lin and Rong He joined the assault, but Su Yi sent A Lin flying, shattered Rong He's blade arts, and disarmed him before Uncle Yun's intervention let Rong He escape.
• Su Yi challenged Chu Xiu, who ordered Weng Xinghai and the other demonic leaders to attack alongside A Lin and Rong He.
• Su Yi fought the seven opponents without being suppressed and urged Qin Dongxu to join the battle.
• Chu Xiu threatened Qin Dongxu and his companions, then ordered them and Nie Xingkong and Gu Qingdu to attack Su Yi.
• Qin Dongxu, Nie Xingkong, and the others entered the fray, surrounding Su Yi, who smiled as his battle intent surged.

Su Yi fought off a massive alliance of Essence Palace and Grain Avoidance cultivators, then ended the battle by slaughtering eight opponents with overwhelming ease. The remaining attackers fled or held back as Su Yi turned his attention to Chu Xiu, who still refused to act.

• Su Yi’s battle intent surged as he fought the combined forces of Qin Dongxu, Tong Xinghai, and the Body Snatchers, while Chu Xiu watched from a distance.
• Su Yi killed Nie Xingkong with a single palm strike, stunning the other attackers.
• Su Yi blocked a coordinated assault with Stars Sword Finger and killed Gu Qingdu with one punch.
• Su Yi drew the Xuanwu Sword, suppressed the surrounding attacks, and beheaded Azure Shark Water Lord, Golden Corpse Old Demon, and You Changkong.
• Su Yi killed Qin Dongxu, A Lin, and Lin Yubei in quick succession, bringing his tally to eight opponents.
• The surviving attackers recoiled in terror, and Su Yi questioned why Chu Xiu remained composed and still had not joined the fight.

Chu Xiu revealed that he had used the deaths at the ruins to gather blood for the Bloodthirsty Spirit Offering Array, intending to kill Su Yi and open the palace gates. When Chu Xiu unleashed the array’s demonic figures, Su Yi used a restriction he had inscribed on the gates to destroy one with a single sword strike, leaving Chu Xiu shaken.

• Chu Xiu explained that the Bloodthirsty Spirit Offering Array drew essence blood from the dead and could both attack cultivators and unlock the palace gates.
• Su Yi and Chu Xiu revealed that Chu Xiu had let people die and recruited followers as sacrifices to gather enough blood for his plans.
• Chu Xiu summoned eighteen demonic figures from the stone statues and sent them to attack Su Yi.
• Su Yi seized the restriction power from the rune formation on the palace gates and shaped it into a Dao sword.
• Su Yi cut down the first demonic figure with one strike, stunning the onlookers and changing Chu Xiu's expression.

Su Yi used the Nine Absolute Heaven Sealing Formation to shatter Chu Xiu’s attack and defeat his enemies in the palace. After killing Chu Xiu’s puppet and several allies, he turned his attention to the terrified Shang Luoyu.

• Su Yi used the sealing power of the Nine Absolute Heaven Sealing Formation to destroy the demon figures created by Chu Xiu’s Bloodthirsty Spirit Offering Array.
• Su Yi struck down Chu Xiu, then identified the remains as a demonic puppet rather than Chu Xiu’s true body.
• Su Yi captured Rong He and Uncle Yun, but a forbidden curse in their souls killed them before he could question them.
• Tong Xinghai attacked Su Yi while the Heavenly Serpent Old Demon tried to escape, and Su Yi killed both with Finger Force.
• Su Yi rejected Cheng Zhen’s offer and threat, then used the formation to kill Cheng Zhen and the other remaining enemies except Shang Luoyu.
• Shang Luoyu pleaded for mercy as Su Yi turned his attention to her.

Su Yi suppressed Shang Luoyu and the Sky Xie Ancient Sword, exposing the sword’s newly born Soul Body and thwarting Shang Luoyu’s attempt to kill Hua Xinfeng. Hua Xinfeng killed Shang Luoyu, while Su Yi took control of the sword and its Soul Body.

• Su Yi offered Shang Luoyu death or the loss of her cultivation and Sky Xie Ancient Sword, but she summoned the sword and attacked him while charging Hua Xinfeng.
• Su Yi sealed the Sky Xie Ancient Sword, and Shang Luoyu struck Hua Xinfeng down, only to learn she had destroyed a Substitute Talisman.
• Su Yi restrained Shang Luoyu and the sword’s little-girl Soul Body, then sent the Soul Body back into the weapon.
• Hua Xinfeng slapped Shang Luoyu repeatedly before Su Yi told her to finish the killing.
• Hua Xinfeng stabbed Shang Luoyu through the heart and apologized to Su Yi for losing her temper.

Su Yi and Hua Xinfeng collected the spoils after defeating Chu Xiu’s forces, then entered the palace at the Assembly of Immortals Sword Tower ruins to seek its hidden opportunity. Meanwhile, the White Bone Pagoda moved toward the ruins, and No Return Island mysteriously shifted across the sea after its Emerald Lanterns watched the same direction.

• Su Yi stored the Sky Xie Ancient Sword and divided the spoils with Hua Xinfeng, keeping the spirit stones and spirit herbs and giving her ten percent of the remaining treasures.
• Su Yi realized the forbidden curses had destroyed the divine souls of Qin Fu, Nie Xingkong, A Lin, and the others, then entered the palace with Hua Xinfeng.
• Chu Xiu saw the White Bone Pagoda approach and left the Chaotic Spirit Sea for Great Xia, intending to attend the LanTai Dharma Assembly and enter Xumi Immortal Island.
• The woman disguised as a man and the white giant ape Chongyang sensed danger near No Return Island and turned back toward the Assembly of Immortals Sword Tower ruins.
• Two Emerald Lanterns rose above No Return Island and watched the ruins before the island silently shifted away.

Ge Qian and Old Guy hid as the Four Great Forbidden Things of the Chaotic Spirit Sea gathered outside the Assembly of Immortals Sword Tower Ruins. Inside the ruins, Su Yi opened a jade box on the Overlord Demon Emperor’s platform, and the seal within awakened the entire ruin.

• Ge Qian concealed his aura while the Star Carrying Boat, White Bone Pagoda, White Giant Ape, and No Return Island appeared near the ruins.
• The woman on the White Giant Ape noticed that the forbidden things had gathered, and Burial Spirit Mountain arrived as all Four Great Forbidden Things waited outside the ruins.
• Su Yi stopped Hua Xinfeng from stepping onto the Emperor Realm formation and used a secret art to climb the nine stone steps safely.
• Su Yi took the worn Dao treasure prayer mat and found a dark-golden jade slip and a snow-white beast-bone seal inside the jade box.
• The seal released a terrifying aura, causing the hall and the entire Assembly of Immortals Sword Tower Ruins to shake as if awakening.

The woman witnessed four ancient beings on the Chaotic Spirit Sea discuss the weakening Dark Antiquity Forbidden Curse and the Overlord Demon Emperor’s Life Bone, while Xing Heng refused to join their alliance. Inside the Assembly of Immortals Sword Tower Ruins, Su Yi identified the White Bone Seal as a key to controlling the ruins and turned his attention to a dark-golden jade slip.

• The Assembly of Immortals Sword Tower phenomenon changed as a powerful figure emerged from the Star Carrying Boat and was struck down by its starlight chain.
• LiHuo Old Demon revealed that only four beings remained on the Chaotic Spirit Sea and proposed they join forces when the Dark Antiquity Forbidden Curse disappeared.
• Thunder Lord JiYan demanded the Overlord Demon Emperor’s Life Bone, while Flesh-Eating Old Demon and LiHuo Old Demon discussed competing for it and noted Xing Heng’s presence.
• Xing Heng answered LiHuo Old Demon’s proposal with “Each according to their ability,” leaving the woman convinced that cultivators entering the ruins were in grave danger.
• Su Yi recognized the White Bone Seal as an Emperor Realm treasure made from the Overlord Demon Emperor’s Life Bone and a key to controlling the ruins, then looked toward the dark-golden jade slip.

Su Yi read the Overlord Demon Emperor’s account of the Dark Antiquity Forbidden Curse and learned how it devastated the Azure Green Continent nearly thirty thousand years ago. He understood that ancient seals across the Eight Great Demon Mountains had been erected to keep invaders from other worlds out.

• Su Yi viewed the Overlord Demon Emperor’s memories and learned that he had prepared a White Bone Seal containing the Assembly of Immortals Sword Tower’s forbidden-array controls and the Myriad Spirits Sword Scripture inheritance.
• The Overlord Demon Emperor explained that the Dark Antiquity Forbidden Curse would plague the Azure Green Continent for thirty thousand years before a golden age began, and he left a jade slip describing the calamity for future generations.
• Su Yi read that the curse began when an Emperor Realm cultivator disturbed a seal beneath the Chaos Path Ancient Well, unleashing a power tied to the Azure Green Source that eroded cultivators’ Dao Xing and drained the continent’s Spiritual Qi.
• Su Yi learned that otherworld cultivators invaded through cracks in the world barrier, and that the weakened great lineages eventually sealed those breaches after defeating them.
• Su Yi connected the curse to the decline of ancient lineages and realized that the spatial barriers and forbidden formations in the Eight Great Demon Mountains had been built to stop otherworld invaders.

Su Yi uncovered how the Azure Green Source’s upheaval had drained the continent’s Spiritual Qi and foretold a Brilliant Era within three to five years, then obtained the Assembly of Immortals Sword Tower’s inheritance and prepared to break through. As he consumed True Dragon blood essence to temper his foundation, Hua Xinfeng watched and wondered whether he was about to advance realms.

• Su Yi deduced that the Azure Green Source had been gathering Spiritual Qi for thirty thousand years and that its release would bring back ancient inheritances, outsiders, and widespread conflict.
• Su Yi connected the Azure Green Source’s upheaval to the Imperial Decree of the Nine Extremes Secret that his mother Ye Yufei had sought.
• Su Yi examined the White Bone Seal, discovered the Myriad Spirits Sword Scripture inheritance, and used the seal to dispel the restrictions across the Assembly of Immortals Sword Tower ruins.
• Su Yi gave Hua Xinfeng the dark-golden jade slip and told her not to disturb him while he attempted a breakthrough.
• Su Yi refined spiritual herbs and spirit stones on the Nine-Story Jade Platform, then swallowed True Dragon essence blood to temper his foundation and prepare to forge a Supreme Dao Seed.
• Hua Xinfeng watched Su Yi’s surging power and wondered whether he was about to break through a realm.

Su Yi emerged from the Assembly of Immortals Sword Tower Ruins with Hua Xinfeng, having reached the Grain Avoidance Realm in all but the final step of condensing a Supreme Dao Seed. They found the Four Great Forbidden Things waiting outside, and as powerful figures fought over the Overlord Demon Emperor’s Life Bone, Su Yi saw a chance to complete his breakthrough.

• Su Yi explained that his breakthrough had succeeded halfway and that he needed an opportunity to condense a Supreme Dao Seed before he could fully enter the Grain Avoidance Realm.
• Su Yi used the White Bone Seal to take himself and Hua Xinfeng out of the ruins after three days inside.
• Su Yi and Hua Xinfeng emerged amid the Four Great Forbidden Things, and LiHuo Old Demon attacked them with a hand of emerald flames.
• JiYan stopped LiHuo Old Demon’s attack, while Su Yi told Hua Xinfeng to hide inside the ruins and said the confrontation could provide his breakthrough opportunity.
• LiHuo Old Demon, JiYan, and Flesh-Eating Old Demon argued over the Life Bone left by the Overlord Demon Emperor and turned their attention to Xing Heng aboard the Star Carrying Boat.

Su Yi revealed the Life Bone and challenged the four ancient beings, provoking LiHuo Old Demon, Flesh-Eating Old Demon, and Thunder Lord JiYan to attack. Facing their overwhelming power, Su Yi reached the brink of a breakthrough and struck back, but LiHuo Old Demon's palm sent him flying.

• Xing Heng offered to let Su Yi and Hua Xinfeng leave if Su Yi surrendered the opportunity, but Su Yi and Hua Xinfeng mocked the beings demanding it.
• Su Yi showed the White Bone Seal, and LiHuo Old Demon, Flesh-Eating Old Demon, and Thunder Lord JiYan recognized the Life Bone and rushed to seize it.
• Flesh-Eating Old Demon attacked Su Yi, but Thunder Lord JiYan blocked his skeletal claw before the three ancient beings launched their own attacks.
• As danger drove Su Yi's power toward a breakthrough and the formation of a Supreme Dao Seed, he charged forward and swung the Xuanwu Sword.
• Su Yi's sword shattered against LiHuo Old Demon's Emerald Flame Giant Palm, and the force sent Su Yi flying backward.

As four trapped beings attacked, Su Yi survived their assault and called down a bizarre heavenly tribulation that shattered LiHuo Old Demon's strike but could not harm him. The tribulation's power was absorbed by the Nine Hells Sword and gathered in Su Yi's dantian as his Essence Power Seed began to transform.

• Su Yi charged into the combined attacks of LiHuo Old Demon, Thunder Lord JiYan, and Flesh-Eating Old Demon, and emerged alive despite his severe wounds.
• LiHuo Old Demon launched a giant emerald-flame finger at Su Yi as the other attackers prepared to strike.
• Su Yi called out for the great tribulation, summoning a dark vortex whose gray tribulation light destroyed LiHuo Old Demon's attack and vanished harmlessly upon hitting him.
• Hua Xinfeng realized that Su Yi had used his enemies' attacks to trigger the breakthrough tribulation he needed.
• Nine streaks of tribulation light descended on Su Yi and disappeared without injuring him.
• The Nine Hells Sword swallowed the tribulation light, and its taboo power flowed into Su Yi's dantian, transforming his Essence Power Seed.

Su Yi absorbed the forbidden tribulation through the Nine Hells Sword and successfully entered the Grain Avoidance Realm, forming a Supreme Dao Seed shaped like a miniature Nine Hells Sword. When the trapped old monsters moved to seize him and his opportunity, Su Yi challenged them, and Flesh-Eating Old Demon attacked.

• Su Yi's Nine Hells Sword swallowed the increasingly powerful tribulation strikes as his Essence Power Seed condensed and his cultivation, body, and soul were cleansed.
• Su Yi survived the final war-spear tribulation, entered the Grain Avoidance Realm, and triggered a wondrous phenomenon of light blossoms filling the sky.
• Su Yi discovered that his Supreme Dao Seed resembled a miniature Nine Hells Sword.
• LiHuo Old Demon demanded Su Yi's opportunity, while Flesh-Eating Old Demon and Thunder Lord JiYan also showed interest in his secrets.
• Su Yi called the trapped old monsters fish on the chopping block and challenged them to attack him.
• Flesh-Eating Old Demon struck at Su Yi.

Su Yi used his sword to overcome the Dark Antiquity Forbidden Curse and killed the Flesh-Eating Old Demon and LiHuo Old Demon on No Return Island. He left the island and turned his attention toward Burial Spirit Mountain.

• Flesh-Eating Old Demon unleashed White Bone Battle Spears empowered by the Dark Antiquity Forbidden Curse, but Su Yi shattered them with a sword strike.
• Su Yi charged into the Blood-colored Mist, cut down Flesh-Eating Old Demon, and sealed his Soul Spirit Appearance with the Three Inch Purgatory.
• Su Yi destroyed the White Bone Pagoda, and the Blood-colored Mist dissipated after Flesh-Eating Old Demon died.
• LiHuo Old Demon begged Su Yi to spare him, but Su Yi killed him with one sword strike and scattered his soul.
• Su Yi left No Return Island and looked toward Burial Spirit Mountain.

Su Yi defeated Thunder Lord JiYan and spared Xing Heng after their exchange, leaving Xing Heng free to challenge him in the future. The chapter closed the fifth volume with Su Yi’s entry into the Grain Avoidance Realm and his victories above the Chaotic Spirit Sea.

• Su Yi destroyed the four ancient corpses Thunder Lord JiYan unleashed with the Grand Five Elements Domain Suppression Sword.
• Thunder Lord JiYan tried to fight back, but the Dark Antiquity Forbidden Curse overwhelmed him and killed him.
• Su Yi asked Xing Heng why he should spare him, and Xing Heng answered that he would offer Su Yi the same chance if their positions were reversed.
• Su Yi let Xing Heng leave, saying he would rather face him in a future challenge than kill him now.
• The chapter marked Su Yi’s breakthrough into the Grain Avoidance Realm and the end of the fifth volume.

Su Yi learned that Hua Xinfeng was the daughter of the Great Emperor Xia and watched her leave with Pomegranate Fire True Monarch, who invited him to Great Xia’s LanTai Dharma Assembly. After discovering Hua Xinfeng’s Dragon Finch Jade Pendant and hearing that a Xumi Talisman could lead to secrets about the Dark Antiquity Forbidden Curse, Su Yi sealed the Assembly of Immortals Sword Tower Ruins and confronted the hidden Ge Qian.

• Su Yi recognized Pomegranate Fire True Monarch from the divine soul he had slain and learned that she had stayed in Great Qin to find Hua Xinfeng.
• Pomegranate Fire True Monarch revealed that Hua Xinfeng was the daughter of the Great Emperor Xia and urged her to return home; Hua Xinfeng reassured Su Yi that she had not meant to deceive him.
• Hua Xinfeng gave Su Yi her Dragon Finch Jade Pendant and departed with Pomegranate Fire True Monarch, who invited him to the LanTai Dharma Assembly in Great Xia.
• Hua Xinfeng told Su Yi that obtaining a Xumi Talisman at the assembly could let him visit Xumi Immortal Island, where secrets about the Dark Antiquity Forbidden Curse might lie.
• Su Yi sealed the entrance to the Assembly of Immortals Sword Tower Ruins and exposed Ge Qian, who panicked and called out to the old beings in his sea of consciousness for help.

Ge Qian fled Su Yi’s company for Great Xia, while Su Yi traveled toward Dongfu Prefecture with Cloud Ripple Superior and Lan Suo. Su Yi suspected Ge Qian’s concealment art was connected to his former disciple Xuan Ning, and the group encountered a man who called Cloud Ripple Superior his martial uncle and greeted Lan Suo.

• Ge Qian emerged from hiding, introduced himself to Su Yi, and admitted he planned to go to Great Xia rather than return to Great Zhou.
• After Su Yi left, Ge Qian argued with Old Guys and explained that he hoped Great Xia’s powerful cultivators would help him avoid danger.
• Su Yi met Cloud Ripple Superior and Lan Suo, told them that everyone who had entered the Assembly of Immortals Sword Tower Ruins had died, and invited them to travel with him.
• Su Yi wondered whether Ge Qian’s breath-concealing art came from the Black Tortoise True Qi Scripture associated with his former disciple Xuan Ning, but set the question aside.
• Two days later, Su Yi arrived outside Dongfu Prefecture City with Cloud Ripple Superior and Lan Suo, and a gaunt man approached and greeted them.

At Dongfu Restaurant, Cloud Ripple Superior revealed that Chu Xiu’s conspiracy ended with Su Yi killing Qin Dongxu, Cheng Zhen, Gu Qingdu, You Changkong, and Shang Luoyu. Qiu Tianchi accepted that Su Yi was not to blame, but when he demanded the Eastern Flower Sword Sect’s Sky Xie Ancient Sword, the sword repelled one of his elders.

• Qiu Tianchi met Cloud Ripple Superior and Su Yi, then joined them for a meal at Dongfu Restaurant.
• Cloud Ripple Superior told Qiu Tianchi that Qin Dongxu, Cheng Zhen, Gu Qingdu, You Changkong, and Shang Luoyu had died in the Chaotic Spirit Sea.
• Cloud Ripple Superior explained that Chu Xiu had manipulated the cultivators, who then joined forces against Su Yi and were killed by him.
• Li Tuxing questioned Su Yi about failing to spare the dead cultivators, but Su Yi and Cloud Ripple Superior rebuked him.
• Qiu Tianchi acknowledged that Shang Luoyu had brought her fate upon herself, then asked Su Yi to return the Sky Xie Ancient Sword.
• Su Yi offered the sword to anyone who could take it, and the gold-robed elder was thrown backward when he reached for it.

After news spread that Su Yi had reached the Grain Avoidance Realm and destroyed three threats in the Chaotic Spirit Sea, the cultivation factions of Great Qin, Great Wei, and Great Zhou accepted his supremacy. Su Yi departed Dongfu Prefecture City, while his growing renown reached allies and former acquaintances across the three kingdoms.

• Su Yi subdued the Sky Xie Ancient Sword, and Cloud Ripple Superior warned Qiu Tianchi that challenging him could destroy the Eastern Flower Sword Sect.
• News reached Dongfu Restaurant that Su Yi had attained the Grain Avoidance Realm, destroyed No Return Island, Burial Spirit Mountain, and the White Bone Pagoda, and spared the defeated Star Carrying Boat.
• Qiu Tianchi apologized to Su Yi, who left the city riding the Sky Xie Ancient Sword; Lan Suo wondered whether she was growing distant from him.
• Ku Jing ordered Upper Forest Temple never to make an enemy of Su Yi, while Azure Rainbow True Person and the Eastern Flower Sword Sect accepted that they could not oppose him.
• Qiu Hengkong left Moon Wheel Sect for Great Xia, and Zhou Zhili celebrated Su Yi’s triumph and wondered what gift to prepare for him.
• People across the kingdoms praised Su Yi, while Hu Quan recalled his rise and the Wen Family reflected on its past failure to treat him well.