Chapter Summaries

Ning Duanyue lost to Li Zhuo, and Annihilation Sword Master fled with him after ordering Supreme Origin Sword Sect disciples to stay away from Tianyuan Continent. Su Hao sent Li Zhuo northwest to pursue his visions and then returned to the Taiyuan Sword Realm, where he confronted its remnant will with the World Annihilation Sword.

• Ning Duanyue admitted that Li Zhuo had defeated him, forcing him to raise his cultivation to Late Stage Void Refinement.
• Annihilation Sword Master fled with Ning Duanyue and forbade Supreme Origin Sword Sect disciples from entering Tianyuan Continent.
• Su Hao praised Li Zhuo, heard about his visions of northwest islands and looming demons, and allowed him to leave to seek opportunities.
• Su Hao taught Li Zhuo the Soaring Myriad Sword Art, and Li Zhuo departed for a mysterious island in the northwest.
• Su Hao entered the Taiyuan Sword Realm with the World Annihilation Sword and demanded another chance to seize control of the Sword Realm.

Su Hao passed the Taiyuan Sword Realm’s hidden trial and became its new master, despite nearly running out of strength. He left the Realm with its spirit, while the remnant dispersed.

• The remnant halted his attack and allowed Su Hao another chance to claim the Sword Realm by filling its core jade with his sword intent.
• Su Hao raised the jade’s sword-intent concentration to nearly its limit, then the World Annihilation Sword lent him power to complete the trial.
• The core jade merged into Su Hao, granting him control of the Taiyuan Sword Realm and revealing the Sword Master’s warning that immortals and demons would oppose its holder.
• The remnant praised Su Hao, declined his offer of help, and dispersed.
• Su Hao asked the Realm Spirit to leave with him, promising to grant it freedom if it later wished to separate from the Sword Realm, and ordered it not to copy his appearance.
• Su Hao returned to his body, and the Realm Spirit appeared beside him.

Su Hao explored the Taiyuan Sword Realm, claimed its treasures, and brought its Realm Spirit to the Buzhou Mountain Soul. The Sword Realm’s change of ownership alerted the Taiyuan Sword Master’s disciples, and two of them began considering how to reach or reclaim it.

• Su Hao discovered that the Taiyuan Sword Realm contained three levels, suffered from a severe time difference, and held two Immortal Swords, Yaoguang and Chihuang, which he stored in the Miro Ring.
• Su Hao examined the Sword Realm’s treasures, judged most of them of little use to him, and returned to Phoenix Perch Mountain.
• Su Hao took the Realm Spirit to the Buzhou Mountain Soul, where it transformed into a streak of light and entered the mountain soul.
• Su Hao found the wounded Golden Crow nearby, warned it not to touch the mountain soul, and left it to absorb the mountain soul’s aura.
• A towering man learned that the Sword Realm had changed hands, resolved to locate its new owner, and formed a plan to seize it from another disciple.
• A white-robed immortal maiden decided to return to the Chiqing Realm because she believed she needed the Taiyuan Sword Realm to reach the Immortal King realm, while the Sword Master’s other disciples also sensed its change.

A mysterious white sika deer reached Su Hao’s cave dwelling despite the efforts of True Person Gan Zi and Granny Golden Flower to stop it. Su Hao welcomed the deer and rewarded Granny Golden Flower with ten Tribulation Creation Pills, while the deer explored the courtyard and caught the attention of the other creatures.

• True Person Gan Zi and Granny Golden Flower tried to capture the white sika deer, but it evaded their techniques and continued toward the mountaintop.
• True Person Gan Zi struck the deer with the Sea-Covering Treasure Seal, causing it to disperse into white clouds before Granny Golden Flower spotted it alive again.
• True Person Gan Zi and Granny Golden Flower chased the deer to Su Hao’s cave dwelling, where Su Hao welcomed it and told them not to worry.
• Su Hao gave Granny Golden Flower ten Tribulation Creation Pills, instructing her to keep five and share the rest with Hundred Swords and Daoist Yin.
• Granny Golden Flower sent True Person Gan Zi to deliver the pills to Hundred Swords and Daoist Yin, then hurried back to begin her breakthrough.
• The sika deer explored Su Hao’s courtyard and stopped beneath the Bodhi Tree as Six-Tusked White Elephant and the Golden Crow noticed it.

Su Hao met the Chiqing Realm’s Realm Spirit, which thanked him for stopping the Golden Crow and brought him a Mysterious Tribulation Five Aggregates Flower. He named the Realm Spirit Su Mei and welcomed it to Phoenix Perch Mountain, where it befriended the sword-realm spirit.

• The Six-Tusked White Elephant and Su Hao recognized the sika deer as the Realm Spirit of the Chiqing Realm, which thanked Su Hao for saving it from the Golden Crow.
• Su Hao asked the Realm Spirit for the oldest medicinal herbs, and it returned with a nearly mature Mysterious Tribulation Five Aggregates Flower.
• The Six-Tusked White Elephant explained that the flower could help a cultivator comprehend a great divine ability of Creation, and Su Hao took it.
• Su Hao named the Realm Spirit Su Mei and introduced it to the residents of his cave abode.
• Su Hao moved the Little Golden Crow away from Su Mei, then introduced Su Mei to the Realm Spirit of the sword realm inside the mountain soul.
• Su Hao planted the Mysterious Tribulation Five Aggregates Flower in his study’s herb garden, where dragon-vein Spiritual Energy and Immortal Qi could nourish it.

Su Hao used Su Mei’s connection to the Chiqing Realm to obtain its secrets and create a comprehensive map, then ordered a treasure-hunting team to exploit its resources for the Taihao Sacred Dynasty. As the team prepared to depart, Su Mei warned that a powerful expert had forcibly entered the realm.

• The Six-Tusked White Elephant gave Su Mei several treasures, including a Vocal Bell, and she brought them to Su Hao.
• Su Hao asked Su Mei for a detailed map of the Chiqing Realm, and she shared her perception of the realm directly with him.
• Su Hao spent half a month organizing more than a million discoveries into a map scroll that could reveal the realm in detail.
• Su Hao gave the map to Daoist Gan Zi and ordered him to lead a treasure-hunting team with Granny Golden Flower, True Person Hundred Swords, and Daoist Yin.
• The Six-Tusked White Elephant secretly listened to the team’s plans and decided to join its expedition.
• Su Mei sensed that a powerful expert had broken through the boundary and entered the Chiqing Realm.

Late-stage True Immortal Zhan Xuan arrived at Wan Guang Peak on orders to protect the Human King, then confronted Su Hao over his hidden mountain formation, many immortal treasures, and refusal to cultivate Jade Origin Palace’s sacred scripture. The chapter ended with Zhan Xuan pressing Su Hao with his power and Su Hao countering with the Seven Treasures Wisdom Light Soul Lamp.

• Zhan Xuan arrived above Wan Guang Peak, and True Person Gan Zi recognized him as a Jade Origin Palace senior sent to protect the Human King.
• Zhan Xuan sensed a threat near Phoenix Perch Mountain, but Su Hao revealed himself and explained that he had obtained the mountain’s formation and immortal artifacts from a destroyed immortal residence.
• Zhan Xuan saw the Bodhi Tree Sapling, Six-Tusked White Elephant, and injured Golden Crow at Su Hao’s cave dwelling and accused the Buddhist sect of plotting to bind Su Hao with its gifts.
• Zhan Xuan privately urged Su Hao to distrust the Buddhist sect and demanded to know why he had not cultivated the Profound Yellow Primordial Scripture.
• Su Hao said he had another inheritance, prompting Zhan Xuan to unleash his lightning aura and pressure him; Su Hao dispelled it with the Seven Treasures Wisdom Light Soul Lamp.

Zhan Xuan tested Su Hao with a qilin manifestation, then offered him Jade Origin Palace’s token and a communication bell. After Su Hao ordered him out of the Taihao Sacred Dynasty, Zhan Xuan lost his temper and attacked with the Great Xuan Myriad Thunder Dragon Halberd.

• Zhan Xuan intensified his qilin manifestation to challenge the Seven Treasures Wisdom Light Soul Lamp, but Su Hao remained calm and revealed his powerful Primordial Spirit and Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown.
• Su Hao warned Zhan Xuan that a fight would make Jade Origin Palace his enemy, so Zhan Xuan withdrew the manifestation and claimed he had only been testing Su Hao.
• Zhan Xuan gave Su Hao the Jade Pure Venerable Origin Token, which could summon Jade Origin Palace disciples, and an Azure Nether Soul Bell for contacting True Lord Juyuan.
• Su Hao declined Zhan Xuan’s proposed help and ordered him to leave the Taihao Sacred Dynasty unless summoned.
• Zhan Xuan erupted in anger, summoned the Great Xuan Myriad Thunder Dragon Halberd, and thrust it toward Su Hao.

Su Hao defeated Zhan Xuan and kept the Great Xuan Myriad Thunder Dragon Halberd, then learned from True Lord Juyuan that the Jade Origin Palace would back him in the Human King Calamity. He chose to keep cultivating the Joyful Zen Sacred Art and returned to seclusion, while Li Zhuo encountered a young monk in the Chiqing Realm.

• Su Hao overwhelmed Zhan Xuan with a destructive sword aura, took his halberd, and left him alive on a remote island.
• Zhan Xuan recovered, realized he had lost the Great Xuan Myriad Thunder Dragon Halberd, and resolved to find an equal-value artifact to trade for it.
• True Lord Juyuan contacted Su Hao through the Azure Nether Soul Bell and urged him to cultivate the Profound Yellow Primordial Scripture and seek allies.
• True Lord Juyuan explained that the Great Heavenly Tribulation would create new Dao Fruits and redistribute existing ones through conflict among the Three Realms.
• Su Hao decided to strengthen himself, continued cultivating the Joyful Zen Sacred Art, and summoned the Twelve Heavenly Maidens for seclusion.
• Li Zhuo emerged from the northern sea abyss of the Chiqing Realm with a Top-grade Dao Artifact, where a young monk said he had been waiting for him.

Li Zhuo confronted Jing Chen, who revealed that he had come from the Buddhist Palace to guide him and offered a way to reunite with his dead family. Two true dragons then demanded Li Zhuo surrender the Sea Dragon Halberd, and he charged into battle alone.

• Li Zhuo questioned Jing Chen’s motives, and Jing Chen explained that the Sea Dragon Halberd was fated to belong to Li Zhuo and that he had been sent to guide him.
• Jing Chen identified Su Hao as an evil influence on Li Zhuo’s cultivation, while Li Zhuo accused the Buddhist sect of failing to save Huangyan Village.
• Jing Chen said the Buddhist sect could revive Li Zhuo’s parents and the villagers or arrange favorable reincarnations, giving Li Zhuo a new goal.
• Jing Chen warned Li Zhuo that enemies had arrived, and two enormous true dragons emerged from the sea demanding the Sea Dragon Halberd.
• Li Zhuo sensed that the dragons were at least at the Tribulation Crossing Realm, saw that Jing Chen would not intervene, and attacked them with the Sea Dragon Halberd.

Li Zhuo fought Ao Shuang and grew stronger, while Jing Chen intervened and later urged him to claim his destiny and save his people. Fifteen years later, Su Hao reached Late Mahayana as the Chiqing Realm’s failed ascensions left cultivators in fear.

• Li Zhuo wounded Ao Shuang with the Sea Dragon Halberd, but Ao Shuang blasted him into the sea and unleashed a devastating barrage.
• Jing Chen killed Ao Kuang with a Buddhist seal and stopped Ao Shuang from fleeing while Li Zhuo recovered and charged back into battle.
• Li Zhuo defeated Ao Shuang after an hour of fighting, and Jing Chen used the dragon’s Primordial Spirit to heal and strengthen him.
• Jing Chen told Li Zhuo that Heaven had chosen him as Human King and criticized his willingness to forgive Su Hao, but Li Zhuo defended his master and left to grow stronger before seeking help for Huangyan Village.
• Fifteen years later, Su Hao reached Late Mahayana at Phoenix Perch Mountain and reviewed reports of Mahayana cultivators failing to ascend from the Chiqing Realm.

Su Hao ordered Zhan Xuan to collect the souls of demons and fiends in the Myriad Demon Kingdom, intending to eliminate a threat and strengthen the Myriad Souls Pagoda. When Zhan Xuan challenged his authority, Su Hao demanded a thousand years of service if he could make him submit, and Zhan Xuan attacked to prove his strength.

• Su Hao considered the risks of using his power to seize Talent Power and worried that immortals and demons might discover it, while noting that recent Mahayana cultivators had failed to summon an ascension tribulation.
• Su Hao summoned Zhan Xuan and ordered him to collect the souls and Primordial Spirits of demons and fiends in the Myriad Demon Kingdom, sparing only the Silver Moon Demon Lord.
• Zhan Xuan warned that attacking the demon kingdom could trigger a calamity, but Su Hao insisted that clearing it out in advance would protect the Chiqing Realm.
• Zhan Xuan demanded the return of the Great Xuan Myriad Thunder Dragon Halberd, but Su Hao refused and challenged him to submit for a thousand years.
• Zhan Xuan agreed to the challenge and transformed into a violet qilin, summoning a strange Lightning Hammer as Su Hao expanded the meditation chamber and concealed their fight.

Su Hao defeated Zhan Xuan and ordered him to collect souls in Myriad Demon Kingdom, then learned that Venerable Black Robe had likely stolen most of the treasures from an ancient immortal residence. Su Mei found Black Robe hiding in the Demon Saint Palace, leaving Su Hao with a lead on the suspected traitor.

• Su Hao crushed Zhan Xuan's attack with his sword, damaged his inheritance, and made him serve for a thousand years without betraying Jade Origin Palace.
• Zhan Xuan accepted the defeat and agreed to go to Myriad Demon Kingdom to collect demon beasts' and fiends' souls after recovering.
• True Person Gan Zi reported that the treasure-hunting team had lost two members and that most of the immortal residence's treasures were missing.
• Su Hao suspected the missing Venerable Black Robe had taken the treasures and searched Chiqing Realm without finding him.
• Su Mei located Venerable Black Robe hiding in the Demon Saint Palace of Myriad Demon Kingdom.

Su Hao tracked Venerable Black Robe to the Myriad Demon Kingdom, subdued him, and severed Sky Roc Demon Sage’s wings. He brought Black Robe to Phoenix Perch Mountain and ordered Gan Zi to execute him publicly.

• Sky Roc Demon Sage confronted Venerable Black Robe about his failed infiltration and accused him of hiding treasures from Immortal Lord Qionghu’s cave abode treasury.
• Su Hao appeared in Roc Sage Palace, sealed Venerable Black Robe’s strength with the Forbidden Word Curse, and learned from him about the hidden treasures and an immortal artifact embryo.
• Sky Roc Demon Sage attacked Su Hao with his wings, but Su Hao dispersed the assault and severed the wings with the Radiant Immortal Sword.
• Su Hao spared Sky Roc Demon Sage to avoid alarming the other demon sages and carried Venerable Black Robe back to Phoenix Perch Mountain.
• Su Hao told True Person Gan Zi to choose a time to execute Venerable Black Robe in public as a warning.

Su Hao gave Su Mei the Senluo Immortal Bead and asked Jin Ji to lead a group in refining the Sky Roc Demon Sage’s wings into a magic treasure. Su Mei then looked toward a place deep within the Chiqing Realm, considering what useful gift she could give Su Hao in return.

• Su Hao examined Venerable Black Robe’s treasures and found the Senluo Immortal Bead, an unfinished immortal artifact carrying Immortal Lord Qionghu’s inheritance.
• Su Hao gave the Senluo Immortal Bead to Su Mei, who happily accepted it and showed it off to the sleeping Realm Spirit of the Taiyuan Sword Realm.
• Su Mei recalled that she had already given Su Hao the Mysterious Tribulation Five Aggregates Flower and began searching for another useful gift for him.
• Su Hao summoned Jin Ji and tasked her and the others with refining the Sky Roc Demon Sage’s wings into a magic treasure.
• Jin Ji accepted the task and thought of asking someone from the Jade Pool Sacred Sect, who had top-tier artifact-refining skills, for help.

Ji Ruyue arrived at the Taihao Sacred Dynasty to help Jin Ji and the others refine the Wings of the Sky Roc, but she was stunned by the dynasty’s strength and its public execution of Venerable Black Robe. At Phoenix Perch Mountain, Su Hao absorbed Venerable Black Robe’s Talent Power and wondered what Jin Ji and the others were plotting.

• Ji Ruyue arrived at the Taihao Sacred Dynasty after Jin Ji asked her to help refine the Wings of the Sky Roc, and she agreed to teach the women for one month.
• Ji Ruyue surveyed the dynasty and was astonished by its many powerful cultivators and their disciplined loyalty to Jin Ji and the others.
• Jin Ji explained that the dynasty was about to execute Venerable Black Robe, and Ji Ruyue recognized him as a criminal she and Zhang Xingyou had once sought.
• Gan Zi True Person beheaded Venerable Black Robe at noon, and a force from Phoenix Perch Mountain carried off his fleeing Primordial Spirit.
• Su Hao devoured Venerable Black Robe’s Talent Power and wondered what Jin Ji and the others intended by bringing Ji Ruyue to help refine the artifact.

Su Hao gave the Great Sun Flame Crystal to the black hen, which absorbed it and regained its Golden Crow form. The revived Golden Crow returned to Shui Sheng, while a Black Gold Giant outside the Chiqing Realm took notice of it.

• Su Hao received a Great Sun Flame Crystal after dismantling Black Robe's talents and discovered that the injured Golden Crow wanted it.
• Su Hao gave the crystal to the Golden Crow in exchange for a favor, and it absorbed the treasure before flying outside to recover.
• The Golden Crow regained its Three-legged Golden Crow form and unleashed a display of power that alarmed cultivators and mortals across the Chiqing Realm.
• The Golden Crow shrank and returned to Shui Sheng, who recognized it as Little Black, while Ji Ruyue realized Su Hao had taken in the creature.
• A Black Gold Giant outside the Chiqing Realm saw the Golden Crow and celebrated finding it, even without locating the Sword Realm's successor.

At the moon-viewing feast, Ji Ruyue urged Jin Ji and the others to align with Su Hao against the coming Devil calamity, but learned Su Hao would not attend. Jin Ji challenged Ji Ruyue to a duel, wagering that Ji Ruyue would join the Taihao Sacred Dynasty if she lost, and revealed that she and several sisters had advanced to the Mahayana Realm; Ji Ruyue accepted the challenge.

• Ji Ruyue praised the Taihao Sacred Dynasty but warned Jin Ji that the Devil calamity would reach the Chiqing Realm and urged them to align with Su Hao.
• Jin Ji said Su Hao would not attend the feast, prompting Ji Ruyue to decide to leave and remind them she would stay only one month.
• Jin Ji stopped Ji Ruyue and proposed a duel, offering five hundred immortal jades and a treasury treasure if Ji Ruyue won, but requiring her to join the Taihao Sacred Dynasty if she lost.
• Jin Ji explained that she and her sisters had arranged the gathering themselves, then revealed she had reached the mid-stage of the Mahayana Realm.
• Shui Sheng, Xuan Yin, and the other sisters displayed their cultivation, with six at the early Mahayana stage and five close to it.
• Ji Ruyue accepted the duel and stepped into the air to face Jin Ji.

Jin Ji used the Life and Death Knot to draw on her sisters’ strength and defeat Ji Ruyue with a Soaring Grade sword divine ability, then revealed that she and her sisters had mastered several such abilities. A mysterious giant appeared, overheard their conversation, and threatened to eat them to learn their secrets.

• Jin Ji linked her spiritual power with her eleven sisters through the Life and Death Knot and reached Mahayana Perfection.
• Jin Ji defeated Ji Ruyue with the Eight Desolations Golden Radiance Sword Origin, leaving Ji Ruyue gravely wounded.
• Jin Ji demonstrated three more Soaring Grade sword divine abilities and told Ji Ruyue that all twelve sisters had mastered at least three.
• A mysterious giant overheard Jin Ji and Ji Ruyue discussing how they had learned their sword abilities.
• The giant threatened to eat Jin Ji and Ji Ruyue so he could learn their secrets and claim their divine abilities.

Yue Shan Wang Zhu overwhelmed the Twelve Heavenly Maidens and Chiqing Realm’s Mahayana cultivators, but Su Hao arrived and broke his attack. When Yue Shan Wang Zhu trapped Su Hao and his companions in the Imperial Land River Mountain Sword Domain, Su Hao unleashed a terrifying Divine Ability that left the void in darkness.

• Yue Shan Wang Zhu identified the Twelve Heavenly Maidens’ Sword Dao abilities and attacked them with his giant hand of raging sand.
• Jin Ji led the Twelve Heavenly Maidens, Daoist Gan Zi, Ji Ruyue, and dozens of Mahayana cultivators in a counterattack, but Yue Shan Wang Zhu suppressed them all.
• Su Hao arrived with the Golden Crow and Six-Tusked White Elephant and destroyed Yue Shan Wang Zhu’s giant hand with a strand of Taiqing Sky Punishing Sword Qi.
• Yue Shan Wang Zhu created the Imperial Land River Mountain Sword Domain, restricting Su Hao’s Taiqing Sky Punishing Sword and resisting the attacks of his companions.
• Su Hao drew the World Annihilation Sword and used the God Annihilation Sword Extinguishes Great Curse of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, plunging the void into darkness.