Chapter Summaries

Su Yi withstood the Spirit Aspect Tribulation and the combined attacks of the Spirit Wheel Realm experts, then ended the calamity with a single sword slash. He remained unharmed as the Tribulation Cloud split apart, leaving everyone stunned.

• Su Yi shattered the ten experts’ attacks, seized the first tribulation light, and absorbed it.
• Wang Zhongyang, Huan Shanglin, Xie Zhibei, and the others attacked Su Yi while another bolt of tribulation light descended.
• Su Yi destroyed their combined assault with one palm, but the tribulation light engulfed him, leading his enemies to believe he had died.
• Su Yi emerged uninjured and stronger, swallowing the remaining tribulation light as Wen Xinzhao and the others rejoiced.
• Su Yi slashed toward the heavens, splitting the Tribulation Cloud and destroying the Spirit Aspect Tribulation.

After breaking through to the Spirit Appearance Realm by shattering his tribulation with a single sword strike, Su Yi faced a coordinated attack from more than twenty Spirit Wheel Realm cultivators. He left the onlookers horrified as he slaughtered his attackers, with the battle still raging around him.

• Su Yi absorbed the tribulation's power and entered the Spirit Appearance Realm, beginning to form a Great Dao Dharma Body.
• Huan Shanglin, Xie Zhibei, and Wang Zhongyang led more than twenty Spirit Wheel Realm cultivators in a full-force assault on Su Yi.
• Su Yi blocked the attackers' treasures and Dao arts with a Great Dao phantom, then killed five Spirit Wheel Realm cultivators with a sword strike.
• Huan Shanglin urged the survivors to use their full strength, and the battle's destructive force compelled Emperor Xia to activate the Nine Cauldrons Suppressing World Array.
• Su Yi swept through the attackers with his Sword Qi, killing more than ten Spirit Wheel Realm experts as the distant cultivators watched in terror.

Su Yi overwhelmed the Spirit Wheel Realm cultivators who had ambushed him after he entered the Spirit Appearance Realm, killing every opponent from the three camps. The chapter ended with him standing alone above a blood-soaked battlefield.

• Su Yi cut down the encircling Spirit Wheel Realm experts, leaving only a handful alive as the spectators watched in shock.
• Huan Shanglin used the Blood Escape Technique, but Su Yi trapped him with Palm World Buddha Land and killed him with a sword strike.
• Xie Zhibei begged Su Yi for mercy, but Su Yi refused and continued attacking the remaining opponents.
• Wang Zhongyang and the Black-Clothed Woman died beneath Su Yi's attacks as the last fighters tried to resist.
• A voice from the Heavenly Journey Sword Pavilion offered any price to ransom Xie Zhibei, but Su Yi killed him before the offer could be accepted.

After slaughtering the forces that attacked him outside Nine Cauldrons City, Su Yi warned that anyone who threatened those around him would face his wrath. As others debated the consequences and considered approaching him, Su Yi resolved to cut down the enemies drawn to him by the Azure Green Seed.

• Su Yi dismissed the Heavenly Journey Sword Pavilion Old Man's threats and warned that he would crush any forces that endangered those around him.
• Su Yi asked Weng Jiu to collect the spoils and returned to Nine Cauldrons City as Wen Xinzhao and the others followed.
• Cui Jingyan, Snow Leaf, and the Ninth Priest discussed Su Yi's strength and agreed to visit him the next day rather than risk seizing the Azure Green Seed.
• Fu Qingyun recorded Su Yi's tribulation and battle, then removed a personal prediction from his account to preserve his impartiality.
• At Azure Cloud Courtyard, Su Yi concluded that the Azure Green Seed had placed him at the eye of the storm and decided to end his grudges with his sword.

After transcending tribulation into the Spirit Appearance Realm, Su Yi stabilized his cultivation and resolved to deal with the ancient factions that kept targeting him. He spent the night practicing Dual Cultivation with Qing Wan, sensed a mysterious force tied to her origins, and began the next morning in high spirits before someone knocked at the courtyard gate.

• Su Yi decided to settle matters with the factions that had repeatedly attacked him and sought the Azure Green Seed.
• Su Yi meditated and examined the Great Dao Dharma Body he had formed from the Nine Hells Sword, which he believed surpassed all others in history.
• Su Yi summoned Qing Wan, taught her his Dual Cultivation method, and practiced it with her through the night.
• During Dual Cultivation, Su Yi sensed a mysterious force within Qing Wan and resolved to investigate her peculiar origins.
• Qing Wan slipped out of bed at dawn, but Su Yi woke and teased her before she fled into the Soul-Nourishing Gourd.
• Wen Xinzhao noticed Su Yi’s good mood at breakfast, and a knock sounded at the courtyard gate.

Su Yi met with Ninth Priest, Snow Leaf, and Cui Jingyan, who sought to learn about his origins and the jade pendant made by Judgment Underworld Lord. Su Yi revealed the pendant’s hidden message, which warned him of upheaval in the Netherworld and urged him to conceal his identity if he returned.

• Ninth Priest, Snow Leaf, and Cui Jingyan visited Su Yi, hoping to learn about his connection to the Netherworld and the jade pendant.
• Su Yi said he was merely a sword cultivator, then inferred that Judgment Underworld Lord had sent Cui Jingyan to the Azure Green Continent to draw him out.
• Su Yi examined Cui Jingyan’s jade pendant and revealed its concealed Dao script, astonishing her and the others.
• The message from Judgment Underworld Lord warned Su Yi that upheaval was coming to the Netherworld, said he was entering the depths of the Bitter Sea, and urged Su Yi to hide his identity if he returned.

Su Yi learned that Cui Longxiang had gone to the Bitter Sea amid rumors of a mysterious Nether Ship, then arranged plans to travel to the Netherworld and prepare against his enemies. As he resolved to strike first against hostile forces, Ye Jinzhi of the Kunwu Ye Clan arrived on Ye Xiao’s orders to pay him a visit.

• The Ninth Priest told Su Yi that an Emperor Realm figure vanished after encountering a Black Nether Ship in the Bitter Sea, and rumors of the ship had spread through the Netherworld.
• Su Yi said he would travel to the Netherworld with the Ninth Priest and the Old Blind Man when the sect opened a passage in half a year.
• Su Yi finished refining his rattan chair and sent the Old Blind Man to the Assembly of Immortals Sword Tower Ruins with a forbidden formation and a protective talisman.
• Su Yi asked Wen Xinzhao to get Weng Jiu to map the strongholds of hostile forces, saying he would no longer tolerate threats to himself and those around him.
• Ye Jinzhi arrived at the courtyard on the orders of Ye Xiao to pay respects to Su Yi.

Ye Jinzhi told Su Yi that the Kunwu Ye Clan had captured Ye Yunlan and demanded he bring the Azure Green Seed to Fallen Ying Mountain within three days. Su Yi set out with her immediately, and as dawn approached, they reached the mountain.

• Ye Jinzhi arrived and ordered Su Yi to bring the Azure Green Seed to Fallen Ying Mountain in three days or Ye Yunlan would die.
• Su Yi dismissed Ye Xiao as a rat and learned that the collateral branches were backing him as a candidate to inherit the Kunwu Ye Clan’s leadership.
• Su Yi agreed to go with Ye Jinzhi and told Wen Xinzhao to meet him at Fallen Ying Mountain after obtaining a map from Weng Jiu.
• Su Yi flew through the night on the Xuan Du Sword while Ye Jinzhi led the way and warned him to submit to Ye Xiao.
• As dawn approached, Su Yi and Ye Jinzhi spotted Fallen Ying Mountain.

Su Yi arrived at Fallen Ying Mountain to confront Ye Xiao, who revealed that he wanted to kill him rather than claim the Azure Green Seed. After Ye Xiao challenged Su Yi to a duel, he rose into the sky above the sea of clouds, while Su Yi had yet to respond.

• Ye Xiao learned that Su Yi had arrived and moved the meeting to Moon Gazing Peak to keep the peach blossoms from being damaged by their fight.
• Su Yi reached Moon Gazing Peak, where the Kunwu Ye Clan experts discussed his bloodline and Ye Xiao offered him a seat arranged to make him look up at Ye Xiao.
• Su Yi rejected the humiliating seating arrangement, and Ye Xiao punished the Colorful Clothes Woman for trying to provoke him.
• Su Yi asked for Ye Yunlan, and Ye Xiao said he had summoned Su Yi because he wanted to kill him, not for the Azure Green Seed.
• Su Yi said Ye Xiao was no longer worth his notice, and Ye Xiao challenged him to fight above the sea of clouds, wagering Ye Yunlan's freedom against Su Yi's life.

Su Yi confronted the late Spirit Wheel Realm Ye Xiao on Moon Gazing Peak to rescue Ye Yunlan and face the Ye Clan. He overwhelmed Ye Xiao with his bare-handed strikes, leaving the watching clan experts stunned by how much stronger he was than they had realized.

• Ye Jinzhi urged Su Yi to surrender the Azure Green Seed, but Su Yi refused and told Ye Xiao to wait and see.
• The Feather Clothes Woman brought the disheveled, cultivation-sealed Ye Yunlan to Moon Gazing Peak, where Su Yi promised to take him away after killing Ye Xiao.
• Ye Xiao revealed his natal spirit treasure, God's Loathing, and challenged Su Yi to a life-and-death duel between blade and sword.
• Ye Xiao unleashed a full-strength slash, but Su Yi broke its blade radiance with a palm seal and forced Ye Xiao to use thirteen slashes to destroy the seal.
• Su Yi struck again, blasted Ye Xiao backward, and left the Ye Clan experts realizing that he had concealed much of his strength in his earlier battle.

Su Yi overwhelmed Ye Xiao, destroying his Slaughter Purgatory and exposing the gap between their foundations. Ye Xiao unleashed the Emperor’s remains sealed within the God Hated Blade, but Su Yi cut through his attack and split him in two with the Xuan Du Sword.

• Su Yi shattered Ye Xiao’s Slaughter Purgatory with a torrent of Sword Qi, leaving Ye Xiao injured and driving the Ye Clan experts into shock.
• Ye Xiao admitted Su Yi surpassed him in cultivation foundation and Great Dao power, then declared that Su Yi would die.
• Ye Yunlan warned Su Yi that Ye Xiao had undone the God Hated Blade’s seal and unleashed the power of an Emperor’s remains.
• Ye Xiao’s empowered slash darkened the heavens and sent peach petals surging across Fallen Ying Mountain.
• Su Yi drew the Xuan Du Sword and split Ye Xiao, his blade aura, and the God Hated Blade with a single strike.

Su Yi killed Ye Xiao with a sword strike, freed Ye Yunlan, and treated his own wounds while realizing his Spirit Appearance Realm strength could overcome a power comparable to an Emperor’s attack. The Kunwu Ye Clan survivors vowed to seek revenge, and Wen Xinzhao brought Su Yi the map he had requested.

• Su Yi killed Ye Xiao with a single sword strike, stunning the Kunwu Ye Clan experts on Moon Gazing Peak.
• Su Yi ordered the Feather Clothes Woman to release Ye Yunlan and let the clan members leave; he then admitted Ye Xiao had been a man and treated his injury in a nearby peach forest.
• Su Yi reflected that his Spirit Appearance Realm cultivation let him defeat Ye Xiao’s Emperor-like attack without relying on the Nine Hells Sword.
• The surviving Kunwu Ye Clan experts discussed reporting Ye Xiao’s death and vowed to seek revenge through their clan’s bloodline connection to Su Yi.
• At night, Wen Xinzhao found Su Yi by a stream on Fallen Ying Mountain and handed him the map he had requested.

Su Yi learned that his enemies had united to challenge him on May 5th, gave Ye Yunlan guidance before his uncle returned to the Kunwu Ye Clan, and met Fu Qingyun to discuss the Nine Great Star Ruins. The chapter ended with Fu Qingyun preparing to share what the Azure Cloud Sect knew about the Star Ruins.

• Su Yi read Fu Qingyun’s letter announcing that Huan Tiandu and six allied factions wanted to fight him to the death on May 5th, then decided to meet Fu Qingyun.
• Su Yi discussed Ye Xiao’s sword path with Wen Xinzhao, helping her enter a state of enlightenment.
• Ye Yunlan decided to return to the Kunwu Ye Clan, and Su Yi gave him a jade slip containing guidance on attaining the Dao and becoming an Emperor.
• Su Yi told Ye Yunlan that he intended to investigate the scheme behind his mother’s death, and Ye Yunlan departed for the Azure Profound Realm that night.
• Fu Qingyun arrived at Fallen Ying Mountain, confirmed that Su Yi had defeated Ye Xiao, and offered to share records about the Nine Great Star Ruins from the Azure Cloud Sect’s Star Appraisal Notes.

Su Yi learned more about the Nine Great Star Ruins and suspected they formed a prison around the Great Wilderness Nine Provinces, then agreed to face the factions that had declared war on him on May 5th in the Exquisite Ghost Domain. That night, Qing Luo began drawing a sword to breach the formation guarding the Assembly of Immortals Sword Tower Ruins and rescue Sky Glaze.

• Fu Qingyun told Su Yi that the Nine Great Star Ruins encircled the Great Wilderness Nine Provinces, and Su Yi suspected the realms were prisons controlled by the Heavenly Dao Gate.
• Fu Qingyun explained that Su Yi’s enemies had united because they feared he would hunt them down, and that they might target his allies if he refused their challenge.
• Fu Qingyun said the factions had chosen the Exquisite Ghost Domain, where Emperor Realm remains had appeared since the Brilliant Era.
• Su Yi agreed to meet the factions and fight on May 5th, then left Fallen Ying Mountain with Wen Xinzhao for Nine Cauldrons City.
• Qing Luo approached the entrance to the Assembly of Immortals Sword Tower Ruins and began drawing the blade from his back, causing the Nine Absolute Heaven Sealing Formation to rumble.

Qing Luo entered the Assembly of Immortals Sword Tower Ruins with the Calamity Demon Sword, but Ning Sihua and the others used Su Yi’s preparations to oppose him. After Sky Glaze freed herself from the All-Heavens Soul Refining Lamp and joined Qing Luo, an old blind man appeared and cut them both down with a secret talisman’s Sword Qi.

• Qing Luo sacrificed his body to manifest the Calamity Demon Sword and forced his way through the Nine Absolute Heaven Sealing Formation.
• Sky Glaze warned Qing Luo to flee, but Ning Sihua activated Su Yi’s secret talisman to suppress her with the All-Heavens Soul Refining Lamp.
• Qing Luo fought through the formation to reach Sky Glaze, who broke free from the lamp by unleashing her apocalyptic power.
• Qing Luo and Sky Glaze reunited and charged into the ruins, while Ning Sihua and the others prepared to use Su Yi’s remaining secret talismans against them.
• An old blind man appeared, shattered a secret talisman, and split Qing Luo and the Calamity Demon Sword in two with a streak of Sword Qi.

Old Blind Man reported Su Yi’s exploits to the people at the Assembly of Immortals Sword Tower Ruins, while news spread that hostile factions had challenged him to a decisive battle on May 5th in the Exquisite Ghost Domain. As the world’s cultivators journeyed to witness it, Su Yi remained at Azure Cloud Courtyard until Emperor Xia and the Azure Cloud Tower Master arrived with new information.

• Old Blind Man destroyed Qing Luo and Sky Glaze, then told the people at the Assembly of Immortals Sword Tower Ruins about Su Yi’s deeds in Great Xia.
• Word spread that the Huan Clan and other factions had joined forces to challenge Su Yi to a battle on May 5th in the Exquisite Ghost Domain.
• Dongguo Feng decided to travel to the Exquisite Ghost Domain, and Gu Cangning, Chi Jiansu, Zeng Pu, Buddha Son Chen Lu, Dou Kou, and others also set out to witness the battle.
• Su Yi continued cultivating and relaxing at Azure Cloud Courtyard with Wen Xinzhao and Qing Wan as the battle approached.
• Emperor Xia and the Azure Cloud Tower Master arrived at Azure Cloud Courtyard at dusk on the first day of the fifth month with news about the hostile factions.

Su Yi learned that the factions opposing him had assembled sixty-three Spirit Wheel Realm experts and planned to use Emperor Realm treasures and other hidden weapons in the May 5th battle. As cultivators gathered around Star Plucking Mountain, May 5th dawned with Su Yi arriving at the Exquisite Ghost Domain beneath storm clouds.

• Fu Qingyun gave Su Yi the enemy factions’ roster, and the Emperor Xia warned that they might deploy damaged Emperor Realm treasures and secret talismans against him.
• Su Yi declined the Emperor Xia’s offer of the Nine Provinces State Altar Cauldron and asked him to help gather the spoils after the battle.
• Su Yi told Wen Xinzhao, Qing Ya, and Cold Smoke True Person to stay behind because hidden dangers could threaten them.
• Cultivators from across the world gathered near Star Plucking Mountain, where the hostile factions had camped behind layers of forbidden formations.
• May 5th arrived, and Su Yi entered the Exquisite Ghost Domain beneath a sky heavy with dark clouds.

Su Yi went to Star Plucking Mountain to face the forces that had assembled to kill him, while familiar companions offered him parting blessings along the way. He challenged the enemy leaders, then struck the mountain’s layered formations and discovered he had entered a carefully prepared trap.

• Gu Cangning and other familiar cultivators saw Su Yi off with heartfelt blessings as he walked through the rain toward Star Plucking Mountain.
• The rain stopped when Huan Tiandu rang a bronze bell from the mountain and summoned Su Yi to his supposed final end.
• Su Yi reached the mountain and saw seven camps of Spirit Wheel Realm experts and nearly a hundred Spirit Appearance Realm cultivators waiting for him.
• Huan Tiandu and the leaders of the hostile factions demanded Su Yi’s death, but none dared accept his challenge to fight him alone.
• Su Yi slashed at Star Plucking Mountain, and its restraining formations blocked his strike while revealing that the area was covered by a vast, carefully prepared array trap.

Su Yi faced the seven factions’ layered ambush at Star Plucking Mountain and shattered most of their Heavenly Devil Slaughtering Array with his swordsmanship alone. As the formation unleashed a far more dangerous wave of corpse puppets and regenerating devils, Su Yi drew the Xuan Du Sword to break it outright.

• Su Yi attacked Star Plucking Mountain’s nine layers of forbidden formations with powerful Sword Qi.
• Huan Tiandu and sixty-three Spirit Wheel Realm cultivators activated the Heavenly Devil Slaughtering Array, summoning 360 towering Heavenly Devil figures.
• Su Yi cut through the surrounding devils with empty-handed Sword Qi, destroying more than half while remaining unharmed.
• Huan Tiandu ordered over a hundred Spirit Appearance Realm cultivators to activate the array’s blood altars, raising countless corpse puppets and restoring the slain devils.
• Su Yi recognized the danger of the regenerating devils and the corpse poison, then summoned the Xuan Du Sword from his Great Dao Spirit Palace.

Su Yi burned through the Corpse Puppets with Buddhist sword arts and broke out of the Heavenly Devil Slaughtering Array, but Huan Tiandu and the seven factions trapped him again with the Nine Extremes Suppressing World Array. Su Yi unleashed his perfected Primal Beginning Dao Intent alongside his newly mastered Great Subtle and Hun Xu Dao Intents, then shattered a Dao Platform and killed more than ten Spirit Appearance Realm cultivators in one strike, beginning his reversal of the battle.

• Su Yi used the Great Radiance Brahma Voice Sword to incinerate the Corpse Puppets and carve a path through the Heavenly Devil Slaughtering Array.
• Huan Tiandu ordered the factions to activate the Nine Extremes Suppressing World Array, trapping Su Yi beneath nine enormous Dao Platforms.
• Su Yi dismissed the factions’ ambushes as insufficient and brought his three Dao Intents to bear through the Xuan Du Sword.
• Su Yi destroyed a Dao Platform with one sword and killed more than ten Burning Sun Sect cultivators standing upon it.
• Zhao Beizhen and the other faction leaders reacted with shock as Su Yi’s counterattack began to overturn the battle.