Chapter Summaries

Su Hao captured True Person Qing Niu, helped restore his consciousness, and demanded the cultivation art tied to the missing Primordial Human Soul. After seeing Su Hao’s power and agreeing to serve him, Qing Niu handed over the Sitting and Forgetting Without Self Art.

• True Person Qing Niu overwhelmed True Person Gan Zi and eighteen allied cultivators until Su Hao used the Heavenly Dragon Demon Subduing Pestle to capture him.
• Su Hao awarded three Immortal Crossing Creation Pills to True Person Gan Zi and the Loose Immortals, who planned to compete for the remaining two after half a month.
• True Lord Juyuan warned True Person Gan Zi of an impending great tribulation and sent him the Profound Yellow Primordial Scripture for Su Hao.
• Su Hao questioned Qing Niu about the slaughter of Xuan Yi Sect, and Qing Niu explained that a demonic sound had driven him into an illusion and possession.
• Su Hao demanded Qing Niu’s cultivation art, and Qing Niu gave him the Sitting and Forgetting Without Self Art after seeing Su Hao’s many Immortal artifacts.
• Qing Niu agreed to serve Su Hao until he ascended, and Su Hao prepared to have True Person Gan Zi introduce him.

Su Hao learned of True Lord Juyuan’s message and examined Li Zhuo after discovering his remarkable progress, uncovering that Li Zhuo had secretly reached Nascent Soul middle stage and possessed a strange, independent Nascent Soul. The chapter ended with Su Hao realizing Li Zhuo’s mysterious cultivation technique drew Immortal Qi directly from the void.

• True Person Gan Zi told Su Hao that True Lord Juyuan had sent Zhan Xuan to help and had provided the Profound Yellow Primordial Scripture, which Su Hao chose not to cultivate.
• True Person Gan Zi reported that Li Zhuo had become a master in alchemy, formations, talismans, and artifact refinement, though he believed Li Zhuo was still at Golden Core middle stage.
• Su Hao discovered a three-colored restriction around Li Zhuo’s cultivation room and found that Li Zhuo had concealed his Nascent Soul middle-stage cultivation.
• A jade-like Nascent Soul escaped from Li Zhuo, spoke independently, and warned him that Su Hao was not trustworthy; Su Hao sealed it and asked Li Zhuo to explain privately.
• Li Zhuo told Su Hao that he had learned an unnamed cultivation technique in dreams, which had advanced his cultivation and skills in the miscellaneous arts.
• Su Hao watched Li Zhuo cultivate and discovered that the unknown technique drew Immortal Qi from the void rather than from Phoenix Perch Mountain.

Su Hao confronted Li Zhuo about the strange Nascent Soul that had secretly guided his cultivation and revealed that he was the Human King. Li Zhuo struggled to reconcile his master’s claims with the Nascent Soul’s warnings, and the chapter ended with him asking whether he could still remain Su Hao’s disciple.

• Li Zhuo confessed his hidden cultivation progress and explained that the mysterious Nascent Soul had taught him secret arts while gradually taking control of his consciousness.
• Li Zhuo asked whether Su Hao had concealed the truth about Huangyan Village and the Blood Sin Dragon, and Su Hao said the dragon was imprisoned and could be killed by Li Zhuo himself.
• Li Zhuo questioned Su Hao’s motives for sending him to study beyond cultivation, then recounted the Nascent Soul’s claims that he was the Human King favored by powerful realms and sects.
• Su Hao said the powerful deliberately scattered opportunities as trials, challenged Li Zhuo over Hongling, and called himself one of the trials on Li Zhuo’s path.
• Li Zhuo rejected becoming the Human King and said he wished he could remain Su Hao’s disciple; Su Hao offered to keep him as a disciple as long as he stayed within bounds.
• Li Zhuo asked if he could still do that after the Nascent Soul warned that an approaching Great Heavenly Tribulation would bring chaos and that only he could restore balance.

Su Hao warned Li Zhuo that the Immortals and Buddhas were using him as a pawn, then destroyed the Heavenly Emperor’s consciousness inside Li Zhuo’s Nascent Soul. The Heavenly Emperor learned that his scheme had failed and set out to use the Golden Crow to destroy the Chiqing Realm while keeping Li Zhuo alive.

• Su Hao told Li Zhuo that the upper realm’s powers were exploiting him as the Human King, and promised to protect him in the Chiqing Realm.
• Su Hao removed the seal on Li Zhuo’s Nascent Soul, crushed the Heavenly Emperor’s consciousness within it, and returned the Nascent Soul to Li Zhuo.
• Su Hao advised Li Zhuo to continue cultivating the unnamed technique and taught him five divine abilities, including the Star King Steps.
• The Heavenly Emperor awoke in the Immortal Realm, furious that Su Hao had destroyed his soul consciousness and that Li Zhuo had failed to resist.
• The Heavenly Emperor decided to use the Golden Crow to destroy the Chiqing Realm and headed to the Mystic Maiden Palace.

Su Hao perfected the Sitting and Forgetting Without Self Art, gained the Mysterious Golden Soul, and reached a state of unity with heaven and earth. Three years later, after demonstrating his overwhelming power to Silver Moon Demon Lord, he heard the Golden Crow threaten the Chiqing Realm’s mortals to flush out a hidden Mystic Maiden Palace traitor.

• Su Hao perfected the Sitting and Forgetting Without Self Art, fused his three souls into the Mysterious Golden Soul, and sensed the Chiqing Realm pleading for help.
• Su Hao explored his new ability to merge with heaven and earth but chose not to confront the Golden Crow without certainty he could destroy it.
• Three years later, Silver Moon Demon Lord offered Su Hao treasures and asked to test himself against his master.
• Su Hao overwhelmed Silver Moon Demon Lord with his sword intent, then gave him a branch to study before Silver Moon Demon Lord left for Qinghe Continent.
• The Golden Crow sank a thousand kilometers and threatened to burn the Chiqing Realm’s mortals unless a hidden Mystic Maiden Palace traitor revealed herself.

The Golden Crow gave Yu Xuanji one year to reveal herself before it destroyed the Chiqing Realm, while the realm’s strongest cultivators failed to challenge it. Zhang Xingyou revealed that ascension had been severed and that the Human King controlled who could become immortal; meanwhile, Li Yueyao called upon Palace Lord Ye Suqing from the lower realm.

• Yu Xuanji answered the Golden Crow from Phoenix Perch Mountain, and it granted her one year before burning the Chiqing Realm to ashes.
• Ten top experts tried to negotiate with the Golden Crow, but its flame badly injured three of them and drove the group away.
• The Annihilation Sword Master returned to the Supreme Origin Sword Sect wounded and told Ning Duanyue that even his strongest strike could not pierce the Golden Crow’s fiery barrier.
• At the Jade Pool Sacred Sect, Zhang Xingyou told Ji Ruyue that the Human King could protect the Chiqing Realm and decide who could ascend, while Su Hao might also be able to withstand the Golden Crow.
• Li Yueyao repeatedly called Palace Lord Ye Suqing’s true name at Moon Immortal Tower, and Ye Suqing sensed the summons from the Mystic Maiden Palace.

Li Yueyao betrayed Yu Xuanji to Ye Suqing, revealing that Yu Xuanji was hiding at the Golden Light Sect to cultivate the Moon Gazing Immortal Body. Ye Suqing possessed Li Yueyao and went to investigate, where she discovered that the sect concealed extraordinary people and powers.

• Li Yueyao summoned Ye Suqing and offered information about Yu Xuanji in exchange for a chance to return to the Mystic Maiden Palace.
• Ye Suqing possessed Li Yueyao, learned the reasons for her betrayal, and agreed to let her return after serving as a dance performer in the Immortal Realm for ten thousand years.
• Ye Suqing traveled to the Golden Light Sect and searched for the mountain where Yu Xuanji was cultivating, suspecting an immortal formation concealed its Immortal Qi.
• Little Cai, Little Jin, and Xu Qing returned to the sect aboard a Flying Ship after finding an ancient immortal residence, and Qin Yue greeted them.
• Ye Suqing observed the returning women and the sect for several days, recognizing their remarkable potential and becoming astonished by the sect’s many powerful cultivators.

Su Hao restored Xu Qing’s Soaring Light Sword, restricted her from using it until she reached the Void Refinement Realm, and accepted the treasures found in True Immortal Caiyang’s cave only indirectly. Over the following year, he advanced his Sword Dao research dramatically, and the chapter ended with Yu Xuanji emerging from seclusion.

• Xu Qing presented Su Hao with the Soaring Light Sword, and he strengthened it with Star Stone before restricting its use until she reached the Void Refinement Realm.
• Little Cai offered Su Hao the Cloud Brocade Sunset flying treasure and told him about the other treasures in True Immortal Caiyang’s cave, but he sent True Person Gan Zi and the others to investigate it.
• Su Hao spent the year guiding Little Cai, Jin Ji, and the other celestial maidens, while their cultivation and Sword Dao abilities advanced rapidly.
• Su Hao mastered more than 1,300 Sword Dao divine abilities and developed 125 of them into Soaring Grade abilities.
• Su Hao used Divine Ability Stones to advance his Soaring Grade abilities, and the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths God Annihilation Sword Extinguishes Great Curse reached minor accomplishment.
• Yu Xuanji emerged from seclusion.

Shui Sheng and Xuan Yin’s sword contest ended when Jin Ji stopped them, and Yu Xuanji emerged from seclusion to face the Golden Crow. She discovered that Ye Suqing had joined forces with Li Yueyao before being drawn into battle with the Golden Crow, while Ye Suqing headed for Phoenix Perch Mountain.

• Shui Sheng and Xuan Yin sparred over Su Hao’s jade pendant until Jin Ji called off their contest as a draw.
• Yu Xuanji emerged from seclusion, and Jin Ji and the other sisters welcomed her and promised to support her against the Golden Crow.
• Yu Xuanji left Phoenix Perch Mountain to meet the Golden Crow and found Ye Suqing in control of Li Yueyao’s body.
• Li Yueyao accused Yu Xuanji of mistreating her, and Yu Xuanji accepted that she should not have involved her junior sister in their grudge.
• Ye Suqing sent the Golden Crow to attack Yu Xuanji, who used a full moon’s light to appear beyond the heavens and prepared to fight.
• Ye Suqing descended toward Phoenix Perch Mountain to investigate its secrets.

Su Hao trapped Ye Suqing’s soul wisp and separated Li Yueyao’s Primordial Spirit, while learning that Ye Suqing feared the consequences of directly attacking the Chiqing Realm. In the Mystic Maiden Palace, Ye Suqing chose not to intervene herself and instead ordered the Golden Crow to destroy Yu Xuanji and the realm.

• Ye Suqing entered the Myriad Souls Pagoda and confronted Su Hao, who revealed that he had only overheard her origins.
• Ye Suqing threatened Su Hao with the Mystic Maiden Palace’s power, but Su Hao bound her soul wisp with black chains from the pagoda.
• Su Hao realized Ye Suqing was wary of cause and effect, then used soul chains to tear Li Yueyao’s Primordial Spirit from her body.
• Ye Suqing resisted the temptation to attack the Chiqing Realm directly and watched the Golden Crow fight Yu Xuanji.
• Ye Suqing ordered the Golden Crow to destroy Yu Xuanji and the Chiqing Realm, then altered the celestial phenomenon to strengthen the sun.

As the Golden Crow’s heavenly fire threatened to destroy the Chiqing Realm, Su Hao forged a blood sword and used it to annihilate the Golden Crow and the sun’s true fire. The realm survived, but the sword’s origin and Su Hao’s identity remained unknown to those who witnessed the strike.

• Yu Xuanji spent her remaining strength shielding the Chiqing Realm with moonlight, while sects and cultivators fled into shelters and Forbidden Areas.
• Su Hao watched Yu Xuanji’s defense fail and prepared to act as the Creation Melting Fire Pearl shattered, forming a blood sword from the Heavenly Wood Sword Essence and other materials.
• Su Hao named the sword World-Destruction and unleashed its power from Phoenix Perch Mountain.
• World-Destruction extinguished the heavenly fires and killed the Golden Crow, saving the Chiqing Realm.
• The Buddhist Son, Annihilation Sword Master, Ji Ruyue, Ye Suqing, and the Heavenly Emperor reacted with shock, but no one could trace the sword strike to Su Hao.

After killing the Golden Crow, Su Hao learned that Yu Xuanji had awakened and left Li Yueyao to suffer in the Myriad Souls Pagoda. He returned from checking on the disaster’s aftermath and found Shui Sheng holding a dying creature, asking him to save it.

• Li Zhuo heard that Su Hao had killed the Golden Crow and resolved to cultivate the sword dao rather than embrace his role as Human King.
• Su Hao reflected on his sword’s power and cautioned himself about powerful enemies such as Ye Suqing.
• Yu Xuanji awoke, learned the crisis had ended, and accepted Su Hao’s pills while grieving over Li Yueyao.
• Su Hao left Yu Xuanji in Jin Ji’s care and went to check on the damage across the continents and the relief efforts.
• Su Hao returned and found Shui Sheng holding a dying black creature, asking him to save it.

Su Hao and Shui Sheng saved a dying black bird with two Blood Bodhi, and Su Hao discovered it carried a trace of his World Annihilation Sword Qi. A month later, the bird had transformed into a Three-legged Golden Crow, and Su Hao realized it was the Golden Crow he had once struck down.

• Shui Sheng asked Su Hao to save the black bird she had found near the pond, and he tried healing it with spiritual power and secret arts.
• Su Hao used two Blood Bodhi to restore the bird, then sensed and withdrew a faint strand of his World Annihilation Sword Qi from its body.
• Shui Sheng named the recovered bird Little Black and cared for it as it grew glossy feathers, crimson eyes, and a third leg while learning to breathe Immortal Qi.
• Jin Ji recognized Little Black's Three-legged Golden Crow bloodline, and Yu Xuanji identified it as the Golden Crow Su Hao had killed.
• Su Hao checked Little Black's information panel and remarked that the Golden Crow had come to him of its own accord.

Su Hao learned that Little Black was the remains of a Golden Crow and discussed whether its Heavenly favor could be erased with Yu Xuanji. Yu Xuanji decided to return to her former sect, and she and Su Hao shared a final drink before parting.

• Yu Xuanji explained that Su Hao had slain the Golden Crow, leaving Little Black with only a faint remnant of its essence and bloodline.
• Su Hao asked how to sever Heavenly favor completely, and Yu Xuanji said sealing a soul could prevent reincarnation but would not erase it forever.
• Yu Xuanji revealed that Ye Suqing had sent the Golden Crow to capture her and planned to seek protection from her former sect.
• Su Hao gave Yu Xuanji a God Descent Token so he could help her if she faced danger in the Chiqing Realm or nearby.
• Su Hao and Yu Xuanji drank together on their last night before parting, and Yu Xuanji told Jin Ji and the others not to disturb them.

Yu Xuanji asked Su Hao to help her comprehend the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden inheritance through their dual cultivation, and gained far more than she expected. As she prepared to leave, she discovered Su Hao possessed a Celestial Immortal Foundation and asked whether he was the Heavenly Emperor’s son.

• Yu Xuanji told Su Hao she would leave the next day and explained that she wanted his help mastering the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden inheritance.
• Su Hao agreed to join Yu Xuanji in dual cultivation, and they remained together for two months while Jin Ji kept the others from disturbing them.
• Yu Xuanji emerged having fully comprehended her inheritance, mastered its strongest sword Dao, and perfected the Mystic Light Art of the Goddess.
• Yu Xuanji realized Su Hao had three blooms of Nine-Colored Mist and the legendary Celestial Immortal Foundation, which could let him ascend without tribulation under the old Heavenly Dao.
• Su Hao offered Yu Xuanji the Eastern Emperor Palace, but she refused it and asked whether he was the Heavenly Emperor’s son.

Su Hao confronted Jing Chen at the Tathagata Zen Sect to rescue the Six-Tusked White Elephant and Lian Jing. He destroyed Jing Chen’s golden body and carried them away, but the elephant warned that Jing Chen could be reborn in the Buddha Kingdom.

• Su Hao arrived at the Zen Sect in the Eastern Emperor Palace and said he had come to take the Six-Tusked White Elephant and Lian Jing away.
• Jing Chen cut off the Spiritual Energy staircase and rallied the Buddhist cultivators to form an Arhat Golden Body.
• Jing Chen attacked the Eastern Emperor Palace with Thousand Lotus Curse Annihilation, and Su Hao answered with sword abilities that shattered the golden body and killed him.
• Su Hao found the powerless Six-Tusked White Elephant and Lian Jing in the main hall, then gathered them up to leave.
• The Six-Tusked White Elephant told Su Hao that Jing Chen could be reborn in the Buddha Kingdom because the Buddha Palace Heavenly Treasure Wheel protected his soul.

Su Hao arrived at the Tathagata Zen Sect to rescue the Six-Tusked White Elephant and Lian Jing, then fought and killed Buddha Son Jing Chen. Afterward, he took his companions home, but the White Elephant warned that Jing Chen could be reborn in the Buddha Kingdom.

• Su Hao arrived at the Zen Sect in the Eastern Emperor Palace and said he had come to take the Six-Tusked White Elephant and Lian Jing.
• Jing Chen severed the palace’s spiritual staircase and gathered the Buddhist cultivators to form an Arhat Golden Body.
• Jing Chen attacked the Eastern Emperor Palace, and Su Hao countered his lotus seals with sword techniques before leaving the palace to fight.
• Su Hao’s fused sword abilities shattered the Arhat Golden Body, killed Jing Chen, and devastated much of the Tathagata Zen Sect.
• Su Hao freed Lian Jing and the powerless Six-Tusked White Elephant, then prepared to take them home.
• The Six-Tusked White Elephant warned Su Hao that Jing Chen could be reborn in the Buddha Kingdom because the Buddha Palace Heavenly Treasure Wheel protected his soul.

Su Hao learned that the Buddhist Palace’s Heavenly Treasure Wheel had revived Jing Chen, while the Venerate Buddha ordered Jing Chen not to make an enemy of him. Back at Phoenix Perch Mountain, Su Hao failed to remove the restriction crippling the Six-Tusked White Elephant, which began to suspect that Su Hao had deceived it.

• The Six-Tusked White Elephant explained that the Heavenly Treasure Wheel could restore Jing Chen even after his soul was destroyed, and Su Hao wondered whether his strongest techniques could overcome it.
• Jing Chen revived in the Buddhist Palace and complained to a clone of the Venerate Buddha about Su Hao’s strength and interference with the Human King’s path.
• The Venerate Buddha’s clone told Jing Chen to guide Li Zhuo and speak with Su Hao, but warned him not to become Su Hao’s enemy.
• Su Hao returned to Phoenix Perch Mountain with Lian Jing and the Six-Tusked White Elephant, then failed to dispel the restriction rooted in the elephant’s bloodline.
• The Six-Tusked White Elephant recalled Jing Chen’s accusation that it had acknowledged a devil as its master and asked Su Hao whether he had been deceiving it.

Su Hao kept the Six-Tusked White Elephant from leaving and indulged Lian Jing’s request to learn Soaring Divine Abilities. Fifteen years later, after Phoenix Perch Mountain’s Immortal Qi increased and Su Hao ordered an Ascension Mansion built, Annihilation Sword Master and Ning Duanyue arrived to seek him.

• Su Hao argued that the Six-Tusked White Elephant’s bond with him was karmic affinity, and the elephant chose to stay while asking him to fix its bloodline problem.
• Lian Jing followed Su Hao into the meditation chamber and asked to learn several Soaring Divine Abilities.
• Over the next fifteen years, Su Hao developed seven Limitless-grade sword-path divine abilities and continued cultivating while the continents remained mostly peaceful, though Qinghe fell to demons and devils.
• The Buzhou Mountain Soul caused Immortal Qi at Phoenix Perch Mountain to increase, so Su Hao ordered Daoist Gan Zi to establish an Ascension Mansion for loyal cultivators.
• Annihilation Sword Master and Ning Duanyue arrived at the Taihao Sacred Dynasty, sensed a powerful sword intent, and presumed it came from Su Hao.

Su Hao met Annihilation Sword Master Zhao Tianmie and Ning Duanyue, who had come to find him after sensing Sword Qi. He refused to inherit the Taiyuan Sword Master’s legacy, declared that he would claim the Sword Realm, and left Zhao Tianmie and Ning Duanyue stunned by his strength.

• Annihilation Sword Master and Ning Duanyue entered Wan Guang Peak and found Su Hao’s disciple Li Zhuo cultivating before Su Hao appeared behind them.
• Daoist Gan Zi and sixteen other Loose Immortals surrounded Zhao Tianmie after his aura drew their attention, but Su Hao sent them away.
• Su Hao told Zhao Tianmie that he had no interest in becoming the Supreme Origin Sword Sect’s Sect Master and would never acknowledge the Taiyuan Sword Master as his master.
• Zhao Tianmie revealed that his master’s lingering will had sent him to find Su Hao, then grew hostile when Su Hao said he intended to control the Sword Realm.
• Su Hao suppressed Zhao Tianmie’s sword intent with his voice, claimed he could slay True Immortals and True Devils, and showed him a strand of multicolored Sword Qi.
• Zhao Tianmie left the pavilion in shock, while Ning Duanyue was shaken after learning that Li Zhuo had forced him to rely on a much higher cultivation level to win their fight.