Chapter Summaries

Qing Shuang challenged Su Yi, confident that her Spirit Appearance Realm swordsmanship would overwhelm him, but his first strike shattered her attacks and forced her to draw Silver Bright. She continued pressing him with powerful sword strikes, while Su Yi evaded them and used the duel to test his strength.

• Qing Shuang drew Silver Bright, then sheathed it and offered Su Yi the chance to attack her while she fought bare-handed.
• Su Yi told Qing Shuang to use her sword and struck her with Sword Qi that broke through her counterattacks, forcing her to draw Silver Bright to stop it.
• Stung by Su Yi's rebuke and Yue Shichan's warning, Qing Shuang attacked him in earnest with her sword.
• Su Yi evaded Qing Shuang's attacks with the Sky Wind Evasion Technique as her Sword Qi tore through nearby mountains and ground.
• Su Yi sensed Qing Shuang's Sword Dao and continued the drawn-out fight to test his cultivation without risking injury.

Su Yi shattered Qing Shuang’s Moonlight Sword Dance domain and defeated her, while the voice of Yue Shichan’s father asked her to return and hear the truth about the past. Yue Shichan agreed to go with Qing Shuang, promising Su Yi she would come back to find him.

• Qing Shuang formed the Moonlight Sword Dance domain with thirty-six full moons, but Su Yi found its weak point and punched his way inside.
• Su Yi destroyed the moons and shattered the domain, then told Qing Shuang that her sword domain was flawed.
• A voice from the spatial tunnel declared Qing Shuang defeated and thanked Su Yi for showing mercy, revealing that it recognized him as the one who had destroyed an emperor’s Space Secret Seal.
• Yue Shichan’s father asked her to return and hear about the past, promising that the choice to stay or return to the Azure Green Continent would be hers.
• Yue Shichan decided to go back with Qing Shuang and told brother Su she would return to find him.

Su Yi sent Yue Shichan off to the Profound Sky World with a protective jade slip and secret instructions for seeking help at Little Western Heaven. After she left through the collapsing spatial tunnel, Su Yi and his companions continued toward Great Zhou.

• Su Yi learned that Qing Shuang and Yue Shichan came from the Profound Sky World and recognized its place among the worlds of the Great Wilderness.
• Su Yi stored a drop of Yue Shichan's blood and gave her a jade slip containing a decree powered by the Nine Hells Sword, warning her to use it in mortal danger.
• Su Yi told Yue Shichan to seek out Little Western Heaven if she faced an insoluble problem and gave her the phrase that would identify her to someone there.
• Yue Shichan gave Su Yi her grandmother's Wooden Hairpin to keep before she and Qing Shuang entered the spatial tunnel opened by Yue Changtian.
• The spatial tunnel vanished, and Su Yi's group departed the devastated mountain and continued toward Great Zhou.

Cloud River County City faced destruction as a vast demon-beast horde overwhelmed its defenders. A hundred-zhang Old Turtle arrived and subdued the beasts, revealing Su and his companions on its back as Yuan Wutong recognized him.

• Yuan Wutong and other leaders watched as their forces fought a three-day battle against demon beasts outside Cloud River County City.
• Mu Qiangtu led the city’s leaders into battle when stronger beasts began slaughtering the defenders, and Yuan Wutong refused to abandon the city’s people.
• Yuan Wutong was badly wounded and cornered by a giant beast as the defenders were driven back toward the gates.
• A tremendous beastly roar made the demon beasts collapse and tremble, stopping their assault.
• The defenders saw a hundred-zhang Old Turtle arrive from the Great Cang River with a woman, a youth in an Apricot Yellow Daoist Robe, and Su aboard.
• Yuan Wutong recognized Su seated in a rattan chair on the Old Turtle’s back.

Su Yi returned to Great Zhou, rescued Cloud River County City from a demon beast siege, and learned that the Sky Prison Demon Court had invaded and seized several of the Eight Great Demon Mountains. After leaving the city that night, he noticed a black-robed old man carrying a Soul Summoning Banner.

• Su Yi arrived at Cloud River County City with Ge Qian and Bai Wenqing, and Yuan Wutong welcomed him.
• Yuan Heng ordered the demons to stay away from the city, then drove them off after they fled in terror.
• At Fengyuan Restaurant, Yuan Wutong and Mu Qiangtu told Su Yi that the Sky Prison Demon Court had invaded Great Zhou and taken five of the Eight Great Demon Mountains.
• Su Yi connected the invasion to Chu Xiu and reflected that he had already arranged for Ning Sihua and his other allies to leave Great Zhou for safety.
• After learning that the Sky Prison Demon Court had forced the Great Zhou Imperial Family and Hidden Dragon Sword Sect to submit, Su Yi left Cloud River County City that night.
• Su Yi sensed a black-robed old man with a Soul Summoning Banner watching him beneath the night sky.

Su Yi captured and questioned Lu Zheng, a Sky Prison Demon Court steward who had directed the demonic beast siege on Cloud River County City to gather blood for an army of Blood Spirits. After learning the court’s forces had allies and were targeting people connected to him, Su Yi killed Lu Zheng and examined his possessions, ending with a black secret talisman.

• Lu Zheng attacked Su Yi with a soul technique, but Su Yi shattered it, seized him, and discovered that a Soul Restriction Secret Seal prevented soul searching.
• Lu Zheng admitted he had commanded the demonic beasts besieging Cloud River County City, and Su Yi deduced that the court was gathering blood to cultivate an army of Blood Spirits.
• Su Yi tricked Lu Zheng into confirming that the Great Zhou imperial family and Hidden Dragon Sword Sect had submitted to the Sky Prison Demon Court and that Elder Chu had returned to Great Zhou.
• Su Yi revealed that he had already learned what he wanted and snapped Lu Zheng's neck, then burned his corpse to ashes.
• Su Yi examined Lu Zheng's treasures and focused on a black secret talisman.

Su Yi returned to Guangling City to revisit places from his past and settle his lingering attachments before facing the Transformation Tribulation. At Apricot Yellow Abode, he awakened the Old Locust Tree’s spirituality and left it with a choice to guard the place or pursue its own path; the tree then revealed its power to the people of the city.

• Su Yi examined Lu Zheng’s communication talisman, put it away, and left Cloud River County City with Yuan Heng and the others.
• Su Yi traveled upstream toward Guangling City, recalling his past as he entered the battered city and visited Apricot Yellow Medical Hall.
• Su Yi rested beneath the Old Locust Tree at Apricot Yellow Abode, recognized its new spirituality, and infused it with Wood Dao essence to help it grow.
• Su Yi advised the Old Locust Tree to remain and protect the people if they treated it kindly, or leave to pursue its own Great Dao if they sought to exploit it.
• Hu Quan and the others discovered the tree’s transformation when its blossoms healed injured martial artists, and Hu Quan suspected Su Yi had enlightened it.

Su Yi returned to Guangling City and found its defenders facing an overwhelming beast tide. After the city’s leaders recognized him and Nie Teng greeted him, Su Yi ordered Yuan Heng to handle the approaching demonic beasts.

• Su Yi and his companions went to Guangling City’s western gate, where Li Moyun and other defenders were fighting off a small group of demonic beasts.
• The soldiers discussed Su Yi’s reputation and the chaos caused by the Sky Prison Demon Court as a much larger beast tide approached.
• Nie Teng, Li Moyun, and Guangling City’s leaders resolved to defend the city despite the overwhelming enemy force.
• Su Yi arrived at the city wall, where Fu Shan, Nie Beihu, Huang Yunchong, Nie Teng, and others recognized him.
• Su Yi praised Nie Teng, then ordered Yuan Heng to face the demonic beast army.

Yuan Heng drove off an army of demonic beasts with his aura, and Su Yi went to Ghost Mother Ridge, where he met Qing Luo, a mysterious cultivator with lost memories. Qing Luo revealed that he had awakened in a three-hundred-year-old grave and spoke of the coming golden age and his ambition to attain the Dao and become an emperor.

• Yuan Heng transformed into a colossal Black Tortoise phantom and routed the demonic beasts after Su Yi ordered him to spare them.
• Su Yi left Yuan Heng, Ge Qian, and Bai Wenqing waiting and flew to Ghost Mother Ridge to investigate its strange changes.
• Su Yi burned away the talking lanterns around the ruined temple and found Qing Luo fishing beside a dry well.
• Qing Luo told Su Yi that he had awakened half a month earlier in a grave on the mountain, with no memory of his origins.
• Qing Luo said he cultivated both the demon and soul paths despite being human, then predicted a golden age and declared that becoming an emperor might be possible.

Su Yi tested Qing Luo’s hostile instincts while fishing in a ruined temple, but Qing Luo left without attacking and promised they would meet again. At Ghost Mother Ridge, Su Yi discovered Ghost Bats being fed souls from thousands of jars, then heard a messenger report that a terrifying Demon Cultivator had driven off the beasts sent toward Guangling City.

• Su Yi caught a rare Taiyin Spirit Fish with his Mystic Yang Spirit Curtain and gave it to Qing Luo, who ate it raw.
• Su Yi revealed that he had sensed Qing Luo’s killing intent and used the fishing to test whether Qing Luo would attack him.
• Qing Luo explained that Su Yi’s dangerous aura had triggered his instinct to kill, but eating the fish made him abandon the idea; he left after they exchanged promises to meet again.
• Su Yi reached the peach blossom grove on Ghost Mother Ridge and found Ghost Bats absorbing refined soul qi from jars, each made from the souls of at least a hundred living creatures.
• A woman arrived outside the grove and reported that a terrifying Demon Cultivator had scared off the demonic beasts sent to attack Guangling City.
• A plume of black ghost mist rose from deep within the Peach Forest.

Su Yi uncovered the Yin Sha Sect’s role in killing for living souls and learned that Wen Changtai and Qin Qing had been taken to Jade Capital City, so he set out to investigate. There, Monk Hong Ji told him the Sky Prison Demon Court had seized power and was hunting people connected to Su Yi, including members of the Lanling Xiao Clan.

• Su Yi killed the ghost woman and destroyed the Ghost Bats, then learned that Qing Luo had forced the Yin Sha Sect’s Daoist to raise them for Nether Soul Spirit Sand.
• Su Yi killed the Daoist and returned to Guangling City, where Wen Changjing told him that the imperial family had taken Wen Changtai and Qin Qing to Jade Capital City.
• Su Yi suspected the Sky Prison Demon Court was behind the couple’s removal and left for Jade Capital City with his companions.
• Two days later, Su Yi reached Jade Capital City and met Monk Hong Ji at Pine Breeze Courtyard.
• Monk Hong Ji explained that the Great Zhou imperial family and Hidden Dragon Sword Sect had submitted to the Sky Prison Demon Court, which had issued a warrant for people connected to Su Yi.
• Monk Hong Ji reported that Xiao Tianque and other Lanling Xiao Clan members had been taken to the Imperial Palace because of their connection to Su Yi.

Su Yi led Yuan Heng, Bai Wenqing, Ge Qian, and Monk Hong Ji to the Imperial Palace, where the Sky Prison Demon Court was refining Blood Fiend Spirit Pills from blood gathered through mass slaughter. Yuan Heng and Bai Wenqing stormed Tai'an Hall and overwhelmed its defenders, leaving Duan Pojia severely wounded as Zhou Zhili watched in astonishment.

• Su Yi decided to visit the Imperial Palace despite Monk Hong Ji's warning about the Sky Prison Demon Court's forces, and the group set out with Monk Hong Ji following.
• In Tai'an Hall, Zhou Zhili learned from Duan Pojia that the Sky Prison Demon Court planned to gather enough Blood Food to refine Blood Fiend Spirit Pills and that Chu Xiu had ordered the capture of people connected to Su Yi.
• Yuan Heng and Bai Wenqing entered the hall, and Yuan Heng killed a Gray Robe Man with a single strike.
• Yuan Heng revealed his mid-stage Star Gathering Realm cultivation and shattered Duan Pojia's blood-red halberd before severely injuring him with one punch.
• Bai Wenqing killed the Grain Avoidance Realm cultivators with ice blades, while Zhou Zhili watched the Sky Prison Demon Court's forces fall.

Su Yi arrived at the Great Zhou Imperial Palace, defeated the Sky Prison Demon Court forces, and reunited with Zhou Zhili. He then entered the prison beneath Hidden Dragon Mountain to rescue captives and confronted a woman draining a man’s life force, leaving her to choose between life and death.

• Yuan Heng killed Duan Pojia, and Zhou Zhili learned that a Spirit Transformation Realm elder from the Sky Prison Demon Court was approaching.
• Su Yi appeared, killed Hua Hongtai and the four other Demon Court cultivators, and revealed himself to Zhou Zhili.
• Su Yi left Yuan Heng to look after Zhou Zhili and went to Hidden Dragon Mountain to rescue the prisoners.
• Su Yi killed a Grain Avoidance Realm guard on the way to the underground prison.
• At the prison entrance, Su Yi caught a woman draining a man’s life force and held Sword Qi to her throat, ordering her to choose life or death.

Su Yi rescued the hostages held by the Sky Prison Demon Court, learned that Wen Changtai and Qin Qing had been taken to Blood Tucha Demon Mountain, and cleansed a demonic treasure of its Blood Spirits. After bringing the freed captives to the Imperial Palace, he set out for the demon court’s stronghold, leaving them to wonder whether he would destroy the faction.

• Su Yi subdued an alluring Demon Cultivator, searched the dungeon, and found Xiao Tianque, Xiao Zi Jin, Zheng Tianhe, Zheng Muyao, Chen Zheng, Zhang Yiren, and other captives unharmed.
• Su Yi learned from the alluring woman that Wen Changtai and Qin Qing had been taken to Blood Tucha Demon Mountain to be handed to Tu Baizhen.
• Su Yi found Hua Hongtai’s Golden Spirit Gourd, destroyed its nine hundred Blood Spirits, and cleansed the gourd with Buddhist light.
• Su Yi carried the alluring woman from the dungeon and left for Blood Tucha Demon Mountain.
• At the Imperial Palace, Zhou Zhili told the awakened captives that Su Yi had rescued them and was powerful enough to kill Spirit Transformation Realm cultivators with ease.
• Zhou Zhili told Xiao Tianque, Xiao Zi Jin, Chen Zheng, Zhang Yiren, and the others that Su Yi had gone to Blood Tucha Demon Mountain, prompting them to wonder if he would wipe out the Sky Prison Demon Court.

Su Yi sent Yuan Heng, Bai Wenqing, Ge Qian, and Monk Hong Ji to attack three Sky Prison Demon Court strongholds while he headed for Blood Tucha Demon Mountain with Liu Ying. After killing the demon court's guards, he left the oppressed martial artists divided between fear and hope as Li Changlin led some of them after him.

• Su Yi ordered Yuan Heng, Ge Qian, Bai Wenqing, and Monk Hong Ji to strike the Sky Prison Demon Court's strongholds at Heavenfall, Silver Flame, and Precious Temple Demon Mountains, then set off for Blood Tucha Demon Mountain with Liu Ying.
• Su Yi arrived at Blood Tucha Demon Mountain and encountered local martial artists who had submitted to the Sky Prison Demon Court.
• When a black-clad young man tried to stop him, Su Yi killed him and continued toward the mountain.
• Su Yi killed two Sky Prison Demon Court disciples in the Grain Avoidance Realm, shocking Li Changlin and the other martial artists.
• Li Changlin declared that he would follow Su Yi even if it meant death, and several martial artists joined him while others stayed behind in fear.

Su Yi stormed into Blood Tucha Demon Mountain, killing the Sky Prison Demon Court’s forces as he advanced and drawing a growing crowd of freed martial artists behind him. At the mountain’s depths, he announced himself as Su Yi of Great Zhou, prompting the Demon Court’s cultivators and the underground world to react.

• Su Yi carved a sword fissure before a group of martial artists, then continued onward as Li Changlin and others followed him.
• Su Yi killed four Sky Prison Demon Court descendants on a hill and freed the martial artists forced to plant spirit herbs.
• Su Yi slew three Essence Palace Realm stewards who confronted him, including the Red Robe Man and the gorgeous woman, while more than a hundred martial artists gathered behind him.
• Su Yi reached the fissure leading underground and announced, “Su Yi of Great Zhou has come to pay a visit to the mountain!”
• The martial artists recognized Su Yi as Emperor Teacher Su, and cultivators of the Sky Prison Demon Court rushed toward him as his voice stirred a commotion in the underground world.

Qing Jin faced forced marriage and assault by Ma Chengkong in the Sky Prison Demon Court’s underground stronghold until Su Yi’s arrival interrupted him. As Su Yi announced himself, the Holy Infant left the Blood Refinement Altar to confront him, with Tu Baizhen following.

• Fire Pine True Person urged Qing Jin to become Ma Chengkong’s concubine, but she refused and said she would rather die than submit to him.
• Ma Chengkong struck Fire Pine True Person aside and stopped Qing Jin from taking her own life, intending to force himself on her.
• Su Yi announced that he had come to pay a visit to the mountain, startling Ma Chengkong and giving Qing Jin hope.
• At the Blood Refinement Altar, Tu Baizhen tended the Holy Infant, who woke upon hearing Su Yi’s announcement and formed a blood sword from the cauldron.
• The Holy Infant ignored Tu Baizhen’s warning not to leave the altar and headed toward Su Yi, while Tu Baizhen chased after him.

Su Yi lured the Sky Prison Demon Court’s forces to Blood Tucha Demon Mountain’s underground entrance and faced them as they gathered around him. After releasing Liu Ying, he watched the court form its Demon Fiend Sky-Plundering Formation, confident as the battle began.

• Su Yi drew the Sky Prison Demon Court’s cultivators to the underground entrance, while the gathered martial artists feared being caught in the conflict.
• The court’s forces surrounded Su Yi, and some martial artists begged for mercy when a black-armored man accused them of rebellion.
• Ma Chengkong and Tu Baizhen emerged from the fissure, with a Demon Infant perched on Tu Baizhen’s shoulder.
• Tu Baizhen offered to spare Su Yi if he released Liu Ying, but Su Yi tossed her aside and declared he would not use a woman as a hostage.
• Tu Baizhen revealed that Su Yi had killed Spirit Transformation Realm cultivators, and the Demon Infant ordered the court to attack him.
• Tu Baizhen commanded the cultivators to form the Demon Fiend Sky-Plundering Formation, and Su Yi regarded it with disdain.

Su Yi used the Chaotic Sky-Suppressing Seal to destroy the Demon Fiend Sky-Plundering Formation and kill its 126 cultivators, then killed Tu Baizhen with a single strike. Demon Infant remained unharmed and dismissed Tu Baizhen’s death as his own failure.

• Tu Baizhen ordered the Demon Fiend Sky-Plundering Formation to attack Su Yi, but Su Yi formed seals of yin and yang and the five elements to absorb the formation’s assaults.
• Su Yi unleashed the Chaotic Sky-Suppressing Seal, crushing the cultivators’ treasures and killing all 126 members of the formation.
• Li Changlin and the other martial artists were stunned by Su Yi’s power, while Tu Baizhen and Demon Infant realized the formation had failed.
• Tu Baizhen attacked Su Yi with a blood-red spear, but Su Yi broke the weapon with one finger and beheaded him with Sword Qi as he tried to flee.
• Demon Infant sighed over Tu Baizhen’s death and said he had never promised to keep him from dying.

Su Yi battled the Demon Infant after defeating the Sky Prison Demon Court, forcing the Infant to reveal power tied to an Emperor Realm will. The Demon Infant unleashed the spatial secret art Void Prison, and Su Yi faced its crushing force.

• Su Yi killed Tu Baizhen and the Sky Prison Demon Court’s 126 experts, then demanded that the Demon Infant surrender its Demon Blood Source.
• The Demon Infant pretended to be a helpless child before reverting to its sinister form and refusing Su Yi’s demand.
• Su Yi and the Demon Infant fought fiercely with swordsmanship and demonic secret arts, while the Demon Infant grew alarmed at Su Yi’s strength.
• Su Yi warned that the Demon Infant’s power had not fully fused and that it would lose within ten breaths if the fight continued.
• The Demon Infant invoked Void Prison, filling the space around Su Yi with invisible, destructive Sword Qi, and Su Yi recognized it as the power of space.