Chapter Summaries

Su Yi continued to overwhelm the Cloud Platform Assembly’s leaders, defeating Madam Hua Ting and Zhu Kunyang with casual attacks. Song Changhe unleashed his Five Thunder Pine Pattern Dao Sword, but Su Yi answered with a vortex that swallowed the lightning as the clash began.

• Su Yi shattered Madam Hua Ting’s Azure Flower Thousand Defense Shield and knocked her to the ground.
• Su Yi sent Zhu Kunyang flying with a flick of his finger, frightening Yuan Shuo and shocking the assembly.
• Song Changhe confronted Su Yi as he approached, then drew the Five Thunder Pine Pattern Dao Sword and unleashed its five-colored lightning strike.
• Su Yi traced a line in the air, forming a thirty-foot vortex that swallowed Song Changhe’s descending lightning.

Su Yi overwhelmed Song Changhe with a single sword, forcing the Five Thunder Spirit Sect leader to concede and promise that his sect would no longer oppose him. Su Yi then asked the assembled factions who objected to the Cloud Platform Assembly’s purpose, and none dared speak.

• Song Changhe’s Pine Pattern Ancient Sword was suppressed by Su Yi’s vortex, which Su Yi transformed into the Five Thunder Demon-Slaying Decree.
• Song Changhe unleashed the Five Thunder Moat Technique, but Su Yi’s sword shattered all nine layers and drove him to his knees.
• Su Yi halted his sword just before killing Song Changhe, who conceded, offered to relinquish his sect leadership, and pleaded for the Five Thunder Spirit Sect’s survival.
• Su Yi assured Song Changhe he would not destroy the Five Thunder Spirit Sect and addressed the assembly about the Cloud Platform Assembly’s purpose.
• Su Yi asked who objected, and the gathered heroes lowered their eyes and remained silent.

Su Yi established rules against large-scale conflict among cultivation forces, then questioned Cao Ying about his Witch Clan heritage before leaving the assembly. As Qiu Tianchi begged for forgiveness, a grand demonic procession arrived, drawing Su Yi and the gathered leaders’ attention.

• Su Yi set rules for cultivation forces in Great Zhou, Great Wei, and Great Qin, and Meng Jinghai agreed to discuss the details.
• Su Yi asked Gu Shandu about Blood Tucha Demon Mountain and learned that a killing formation had slain cultivators from the Sky Prison Demon Court.
• Su Yi recognized Cao Ying’s Fire Witch lineage and asked him about the Gate of All Witch Gods, but Cao Ying knew nothing of it.
• Qiu Tianchi knelt and apologized for abandoning Fu Yunlang, but Su Yi dismissed his plea as self-preservation and told him to bear the consequences of his choices.
• A demonic honor guard sounded a Conch Horn and Dharma Drum as it approached Pine Wave Cliff Terrace with a treasure carriage, and Su Yi turned to watch.

A powerful force of Demon Cultivators from the Moth God Sect arrived at the Cloud Platform Assembly and demanded that the gathered factions submit to their Holy Son, Qing Yuan. When they threatened to kill anyone who refused, the assembled leaders appealed to Su Yi for help, leaving the Demon Cultivators baffled and Shuo Meng laughing at their choice.

• A ceremonial procession of Demon Cultivators reached Pine Wave Cliff Terrace while the Cloud Platform Assembly was still underway.
• Shuo Meng announced that the Moth God Sect Holy Son, Qing Yuan, demanded the assembled factions submit to him or be killed.
• The Bearded Old Man and the woman inside the carriage reinforced the threat, warning that the Demon Cultivators could overwhelm everyone present.
• Meng Jinghai and the other faction leaders turned to Su Yi and asked him to uphold justice.
• Shuo Meng recognized Su Yi as a Star Gathering Realm youth and laughed at the leaders for seeking his help.

At the Cloud Platform Assembly, Su Yi ordered Meng Jinghai and Gu Shandu to fight the Moth God Sect after refusing to surrender the Molten Gold Lion Beast. As the battle between Spirit Appearance Realm experts erupted, Su Yi killed Mo Qing with ease, shocking the assembled cultivators and drawing the attention of the figure inside the treasure carriage.

• Su Yi demanded that the Molten Gold Lion Beast be left behind and return with him to guard the Mountain Gate, provoking the beast and the Moth God Sect.
• Su Yi ordered Meng Jinghai to attack the red-robed Mo Qing, but the Bearded Old Man revealed his suppressed Spirit Appearance Realm cultivation and fought Meng Jinghai.
• Su Yi sent Gu Shandu to help Meng Jinghai, and Shuo Meng joined the fight while the demon cultivators formed a battle formation around Pine Wave Cliff Terrace.
• Mo Qing charged Su Yi, but Su Yi destroyed his attack, crushed his arm, and killed him by breaking his neck.
• The demon cultivators and assembled great figures reacted in shock to Su Yi's strength, while someone inside the treasure carriage lifted the window curtain to watch.

Su Yi single-handedly destroyed the Ming Ling Divine Sect’s battle formation and killed its demon cultivators. As Meng Jinghai and Gu Shandu withdrew, the Moth God Sect Holy Son Qing Yuan appeared with Huan Er.

• Inside the treasure carriage, Qing Yuan discussed Su Yi’s strength with Huan Er and recalled that his master had forbidden him from visiting Great Xia.
• Su Yi told Meng Jinghai and Gu Shandu to stand down, then faced Shuo Meng, the Bearded Old Man, and their demon cultivators alone.
• The demon cultivators formed the Five Elements Star Constellation battle formation and attacked Su Yi with the Blood Evil Demon God Seal.
• Su Yi shattered the seal with one sword strike, then destroyed the battle formation with a barrage of Sword Qi, killing the demon cultivators.
• Su Yi urged Meng Jinghai and Gu Shandu to withdraw; the two left the battlefield while Shuo Meng and the Bearded Old Man watched him warily.
• Qing Yuan and Huan Er emerged from the treasure carriage, and the crowd recognized Qing Yuan as the Moth God Sect Holy Son.

Su Yi confronted the Moth God Sect Holy Son and declared he would suppress him within three punches. His first punch shattered the Holy Son’s lightning halberd and sent him flying, leaving the battle unresolved.

• The Silver-Robed Youth offered Su Yi a chance to submit, but Su Yi cut off his speech and attacked.
• The Bearded Old Man blocked Su Yi’s sword strike, which damaged his Heaven Shocking Hammer and wounded him.
• The Silver-Robed Youth neutralized one of Su Yi’s sword attacks with a punch and dismissed its power.
• Su Yi promised to use only three punches and struck the Silver-Robed Youth with his first.
• The Silver-Robed Youth’s Mystic Yin Lightning Halberd and lightning seal shattered, and Su Yi’s punch sent him flying and coughing up blood.

Su Yi overwhelmed the Moth God Sect Holy Son Qing Yuan with two punches, but Qing Yuan summoned the Ming Ling Divine Sect Sect Leader’s Emperor Realm manifestation to intervene. The Nine-Headed Vicious Bird threatened everyone, and Su Yi calmly challenged it as the chapter ended.

• Su Yi struck Qing Yuan with the Star Grasping Hammer, injuring him and shocking Meng Jinghai and the other witnesses.
• Qing Yuan revealed his black wings and attacked, but Su Yi shattered them and grievously wounded him with the Sky Tearing Whip.
• As Su Yi prepared a third punch, Qing Yuan used a black beast bone to summon his master through a blood-colored vortex.
• The Ming Ling Divine Sect Sect Leader appeared as a gigantic Nine-Headed Vicious Bird and threatened to kill everyone unless Su Yi stepped forward.
• Qing Yuan identified Su Yi as his attacker, and Su Yi laughed and challenged the Nine-Headed Vicious Bird to test him.

Su Yi turned the Nine-Headed Vicious Bird’s appearance from a threat into a peaceful reunion, then exposed the Yellow-Skirt Girl as a demoness who had beguiled the others. The demoness escaped, while Su Yi subdued her accomplices and left the Molten Gold Lion Beast begging for mercy.

• The Nine-Headed Vicious Bird recognized Su Yi as the benefactor who had taught it the Zhou Xu Refinement Sha Technique and ordered the Silver-Robed Youth to treat him with respect.
• The Nine-Headed Vicious Bird’s manifested will dispersed after it invited Su Yi to meet it again, and the Silver-Robed Youth apologized for offending him.
• Su Yi saw through the Yellow-Skirt Girl’s Bewitching Fragrance Shi Gu technique, but she revealed that she recognized him and fled.
• The Bearded Old Man and Shuo Meng attacked Su Yi, who subdued them with the Spirit Binding Cord while the Silver-Robed Youth and the others regained their senses.
• Su Yi explained that the Yellow-Skirt Girl had manipulated their minds, then the Molten Gold Lion Beast pleaded with him for another chance.

After the Cloud Platform Assembly, Su Yi questioned Qing Yuan about the mysterious Ruo Huan and learned about the Ming Ling Divine Sect. Studying a Void Beast spirit bone, Su Yi realized its Space Node led to the Moth Larva Blood Cave.

• Su Yi made the Molten Gold Lion Beast guard his Mountain Gate, then left the Cloud Platform Assembly with Yuan Heng, Lan Suo, and Qing Yuan following him.
• Meng Jinghai and the other leaders pledged to honor their agreement with Su Yi, and news of the assembly spread throughout Great Qin, Great Zhou, and Great Wei.
• By a mountain stream, Qing Yuan told Su Yi about the Ming Ling Divine Sect and explained that Ruo Huan had approached him in Great Chu and once mentioned drifting through Great Xia.
• Su Yi examined the Void Beast spirit bone Qing Yuan used to contact the Great Compassion Divine Lord and identified its Space Node as leading into the Moth Larva Blood Cave.

Great Compassion Divine Lord recounted how a starry-sky jailer captured him and imprisoned him in the Moth Larva Blood Cave. Su Yi realized the cave might be a place where captives were kept as food for the jailer’s offspring.

• Great Compassion Divine Lord thanked Su Yi for the Zhou Xu Refinement Sha Technique and asked for its remaining contents, which Su Yi agreed to provide.
• Great Compassion Divine Lord revealed that he was once the Nine Spirit Peng Emperor, a Profound Illumination Realm Emperor who was captured in the Sixth Star Ruins.
• Su Yi connected the ruined Sixth Star Ruins to the Ninth Star Ruins and inferred that starry-sky Great Dao calamities could destroy worlds and cause the Dark Antiquity Forbidden Curse.
• Great Compassion Divine Lord said a jailer with taboo power similar to the Dark Antiquity Forbidden Curse had captured him and imprisoned him in the Moth Larva Blood Cave.
• After Great Compassion Divine Lord explained how wasps use moth larvae as food for their offspring, Su Yi suspected the jailer had kept him as food for its young.

Su Yi learned from Great Compassion Divine Lord that the mysterious jailers who imprisoned cultivators in the Moth Larva Blood Cave might belong to a faction called the Heavenly Dao Gate and could control the Dark Antiquity Forbidden Curse. After returning to the Assembly of Immortals Sword Tower Ruins, Su Yi was led to a strange dry well emitting a stench of blood.

• Great Compassion Divine Lord told Su Yi that jailers harvested cultivators’ life force and cultivation in the Moth Larva Blood Cave, and that a teleportation altar there bore the words, “The Dao of Heaven diminishes the excess and replenishes the insufficient.”
• Great Compassion Divine Lord explained how he had used his spatial ability and believers’ offerings to survive captivity, then gave Su Yi clues about the jailers, whom other captives called the Heavenly Dao Gate.
• When the Space Node began to collapse, Su Yi gave Great Compassion Divine Lord the rest of the Zhou Xu Refinement Sha Technique and resolved to capture a jailer to learn more.
• Su Yi left with the Molten Gold Lion Beast and, a day later, met Yuan Heng, Lan Suo, and Cloud Ripple Superior in Dongfu Prefecture City before traveling toward the Chaotic Spirit Sea.
• Su Yi returned to the Assembly of Immortals Sword Tower Ruins, where Ning Sihua reported a newly appeared dry well emitting a stench of blood, and he went to inspect it.

Su Yi and Ning Sihua descended beneath the dry well and discovered that the Assembly of Immortals Sword Tower’s successors had become Corpse Spirits, all apparently slain by the same sword. When the Corpse Spirits attacked, Su Yi invoked Little Western Heaven’s Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Sutra to free them from their suffering.

• Su Yi identified the blood mist as Corpse Evil Qi and entered the well with Ning Sihua, using the Ghost Snake Underworld Lamp to suppress the Corpse Spirits on the way down.
• Su Yi found that the Origin Dao Corpse Spirits had all been killed by sword strikes bearing the same force and deduced that their killer may have belonged to the Assembly of Immortals Sword Tower.
• Su Yi and Ning Sihua reached an underground palace surrounded by hundreds of Corpse Spirits, including a bird that spoke of orders from the sect leader.
• Su Yi chose not to slaughter the former successors and began chanting the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Sutra to deliver them from their suffering.

Su Yi and Ning Sihua entered the Land of Returning Silence, where Su Yi discovered the Assembly of Immortals Sword Tower’s failed plan to preserve seventy-two successors in Exquisite Cocoons. He deduced that the Calamity Demon Sword had killed the sect leader and destroyed the cocoons, and realized the sword remained a threat.

• Su Yi purified the Corpse Spirits with Buddhist chanting, freeing them from their suffering, and they thanked him before vanishing.
• Su Yi opened the palace doors and explained that the Sealing Platforms and Exquisite Cocoons had been prepared to preserve cultivators through the Dark Antiquity Forbidden Curse.
• Su Yi discovered that all seventy-two Exquisite Cocoons bore sword scars like those on the Corpse Spirits.
• Su Yi found Bai Changhen’s corpse and read his message that Calamity had devoured its master and ruined the Assembly of Immortals Sword Tower.
• Su Yi told Ning Sihua that Calamity had likely killed Bai Changhen and destroyed the cocoons after being nourished through the dangerous art of Feeding the Sword with One’s Body.
• Ning Sihua realized that the Calamity Demon Sword still lived and had recently nearly broken into the Assembly of Immortals Sword Tower Ruins.

Su Yi and Ning Sihua faced a trap in the Assembly of Immortals Sword Tower ruins, where a White-Haired Blood-Skirt Woman unleashed seventy-two powerful Corpse Spirits. Su Yi destroyed them and confronted her, discovering that she had been waiting for the Calamity Demon Sword, which had once resided within Qing Luo.

• Su Yi reasoned that Bai Changhen’s death had involved another upheaval beyond the Calamity Demon Sword, then noticed a Cyan Copper Lamp hanging above the hall.
• A woman’s figure appeared in the lamp as the seventy-two Exquisite Cocoons split open and the Sealing Platforms formed a forbidden array around Su Yi and Ning Sihua.
• Su Yi used the Great Radiance Brahma Voice Sword to destroy all seventy-two Corpse Spirits, then shattered the Sealing Platforms and broke the formation.
• The White-Haired Blood-Skirt Woman emerged from the Cyan Copper Lamp and warned Su Yi to leave the ruins with Ning Sihua.
• Su Yi asked whether the woman had helped the Calamity Demon Sword kill Bai Changhen and deduced that she was waiting for the sword.
• The White-Haired Blood-Skirt Woman rejected Su Yi’s claim that the sword would not come, and Ning Sihua realized the Calamity Demon Sword had previously come to meet her through Qing Luo.

Su Yi subdued the White-Haired Blood-Skirt Woman and uncovered the history behind Bai Changhen’s death and the Assembly of Immortals Sword Tower’s destruction. After she explained her actions, he challenged her claim to innocence, and she asked whether a sword spirit could control her own fate.

• Su Yi identified Qing Luo as the spirit of the Calamity Demon Sword and deduced that the White-Haired Blood-Skirt Woman was trapped in the damaged All-Heavens Soul Refining Lamp.
• The White-Haired Blood-Skirt Woman attacked Su Yi, but his sword aura shattered her strike and forced her to kneel.
• Su Yi took the lamp and explained that her life remained bound to it, then reconstructed how Bai Changhen, Qing Luo, and the White-Haired Blood-Skirt Woman had come into conflict.
• The White-Haired Blood-Skirt Woman explained that she had resisted Bai Changhen’s attempt to refine the Sky Glaze Sword and that Qing Luo had killed him, bringing disaster upon the Assembly of Immortals Sword Tower descendants.
• Su Yi rejected her claim to innocence, and the White-Haired Blood-Skirt Woman asked whether a sword spirit had any right to control her own fate.

Su Yi confronted Sky Glaze about her guilt over Bai Changhen’s death and arranged for her to wait for Qing Luo under safeguards in the Assembly of Immortals Sword Tower Ruins. After settling into a period of cultivation, Su Yi was reminded that the day was his birthday.

• Su Yi questioned Sky Glaze about whether she had warned Bai Changhen of Qing Luo’s plot, and she admitted she had not told him because she doubted Qing Luo’s intentions.
• Sky Glaze revealed that she was waiting to kill Qing Luo herself because of her guilty conscience and hatred for his slaughter of the Assembly of Immortals Sword Tower experts.
• Su Yi had Sky Glaze fuse her spirit into the All-Heavens Soul Refining Lamp and sealed it, then instructed Ning Sihua to suppress it within the Nine Absolute Heaven Sealing Formation so Qing Luo could be detected.
• Su Yi told Ning Sihua he would leave after reaching the Spirit Transformation Realm, assigned Jin Nu to guard the ruins, and told Ying Que to guide the beast’s cultivation.
• Su Yi spent the following days cultivating and advising his companions, until Qing Wan emerged from the Soul-Nourishing Gourd to remind him that it was his birthday on the second day of the second month.

On Su Yi's birthday, the Awakening of Insects triggered a sudden upheaval in the heavens that brought the Brilliant Era forward. As factions across the Azure Green Continent raced to seize the resulting fortune, warnings emerged that a great calamity would come with it.

• Su Yi reflected on the year since recovering his past-life memories, then listened as Qing Wan sang him the birthday blessing she had sung the previous year.
• The heavens erupted with a surge of Great Dao power, and Su Yi told those gathered that the change was a tremendous fortune for every living being before leading them outside.
• At the Ninth Star Ruins, A Cang and Gray Finch saw the Azure Green Source beginning to collapse and said the Brilliant Era would arrive early, within three months.
• A presence in the Fallen Star Abyss sensed the Azure Green Source weakening and vowed to escape, kill Su Yi, and reclaim the Azure Green Seed.
• The Great Emperor Xia ordered Weng Jiu to activate the Nine Cauldrons Suppressing World Array, while the Huan Clan and other ancient and otherworldly factions mobilized to seize the Great Dao fortune.
• The Old Blind Man predicted turmoil alongside the coming Brilliant Era and asked Chi Jiansu to watch for news of Su Yi, while a scruffy old Daoist hurried toward the Chaotic Spirit Sea to find him.

Su Yi used the Azure Green Seed to draw the Azure Green Continent’s Great Dao Light Rain to the Chaotic Spirit Sea, letting Ning Sihua and the others, the Xuanwu Sword, and the demonic fetus gather its power. As the rain dwindled, a massive tribulation cloud gathered overhead for Su Yi’s Spirit Transformation breakthrough, and he welcomed the unprecedented trial.

• Su Yi explained that the upheaval came from the Azure Green Source and told everyone the descending Great Dao Source Power was a rare fortune.
• Great Dao Light Rain poured across the Azure Green Continent, and cultivators throughout the land rushed to gather it.
• Su Yi sent the Xuanwu Sword and the Netherflame Demon Sparrow to devour the rain, then raised the Azure Green Seed and drew most of the falling power toward the Chaotic Spirit Sea.
• Ning Sihua, Wen Lingxue, Ying Que, Yuan Heng, Bai Wenqing, and Cha Jin gathered the Great Dao Source Power while Su Yi stored it and returned the demonic fetus to his dantian.
• A vast tribulation cloud covered the sky, and Su Yi sent the others to shelter in the Assembly of Immortals Sword Tower Ruins before preparing to face his Spirit Transformation tribulation.
• Su Yi recognized the tribulation’s unprecedented, taboo-like aura and declared that such a great trial was worthy of him.

Su Yi faced an unprecedented Spirit Transformation Tribulation over the Chaotic Spirit Sea and calmly endured its first three layers by refining the lightning with his Great Dao Light Wheel. The tribulation continued to intensify as onlookers watched in awe.

• Ying Que told Yuan Heng that the aura of Su Yi’s tribulation surpassed his own by hundreds or thousands of times, while Wen Lingxue and the others expressed confidence in Su Yi.
• The slovenly old Daoist called Nether Crow arrived over the distant sea, and Su Yi asked whether he was a friend or foe before turning his attention back to the tribulation.
• Su Yi welcomed the lightning tribulation and endured its first bolt and nine subsequent bolts without injury, using his Great Dao Light Wheel to block and refine them.
• Nine jade-green thunder dragons merged into a colossal strike that swallowed Su Yi, but the lightning shattered and he emerged unharmed as his Great Dao Light Wheel absorbed the remaining thunderlight.