Chapter Summaries

Su Hao wounded Yue Shan Wang Zhu, who fled across worlds and was killed by Linghu Xue. Back at Wan Guang Peak, Yue Shan Wang Zhu’s remains formed Five Sword Mountain, while Jin Ji and her sisters pressed Ji Ruyue to honor their bet and choose a side.

• Yue Shan Wang Zhu escaped Su Hao’s attack by sacrificing his limbs and crossing several small worlds.
• Linghu Xue confronted the wounded Yue Shan Wang Zhu, defeated him in the Baiyang Realm, and watched him self-detonate.
• Su Hao returned Yue Shan Wang Zhu’s remains to Wan Guang Peak, where they formed the five hills of Five Sword Mountain.
• After five days in seclusion, Ji Ruyue received Jin Ji and her sisters, who urged her to remember their bet and join their side.

Ji Ruyue refused to join the Taihao Sacred Dynasty despite Jin Ji's attempts to persuade her, choosing to honor her loyalty to her master and Jade Pool Heaven. Su Hao accepted her decision, and as Ji Ruyue departed, she wondered whether she had missed the greatest opportunity of her life.

• Jin Ji urged Ji Ruyue to join the Taihao Sacred Dynasty, citing the chance to master powerful divine abilities and cultivate alongside Su Hao, but Ji Ruyue refused out of loyalty to Zhang Xingyou and Jade Pool Heaven.
• Su Hao upgraded the Jiangshan Dimu Sword into a true immortal weapon and planned to cultivate the Imperial Land River Mountain Sword Domain.
• Jin Ji told Su Hao that Ji Ruyue had rejected the offer, and Su Hao said not to force her, warning Jin Ji that Ji Ruyue was not worthy of his personal invitation.
• Jin Ji decided to end the debt between them and sent Ji Ruyue away from the mountain with the Twelve Heavenly Maidens.
• As Ji Ruyue's Bright Moon Boat departed, she sensed another True Immortal entering the Taihao Sacred Dynasty and wondered if she had missed the greatest opportunity of her life.

Linghu Xue met Su Hao after avenging four fellow disciples and killing the wounded Yue Shan Wang Zhu, then asked to cultivate in the Taiyuan Sword Realm. Su Hao agreed to let her cultivate there, while Linghu Xue revealed that she sought the realm itself rather than his Sword Dao guidance.

• Linghu Xue honored the four slain Taiyuan Sword Dao disciples at Five Sword Mountain, and Su Hao recognized her rainbow-grade talent.
• Linghu Xue questioned whether Su Hao had truly wounded Yue Shan Wang Zhu; he showed her the Jiangshan Dimu Sword and claimed to be only at the Mahayana Realm.
• Linghu Xue explained that she had killed Yue Shan Wang Zhu and asked to cultivate under Su Hao, while remaining devoted to the Taiyuan Sword Master.
• Linghu Xue told Su Hao that the Taiyuan Sword Master had been imprisoned in the Vacuum Prison and that she intended to become strong enough to rescue him.
• Su Hao offered to let Linghu Xue cultivate in the Taiyuan Sword Realm, and she clarified that entering the Sword Realm was her true purpose.

Linghu Xue traded the Ice Phoenix Marrow for permission to cultivate in Su Hao’s Sword Realm, while Su Hao absorbed the treasure and reached Mahayana perfection. His attempt to trigger a heavenly tribulation shook the Chiqing Realm before it was suppressed, and Zhan Xuan suggested it resembled the legendary Golden Immortal Tribulation.

• Linghu Xue asked Su Hao to let her enter the Sword Realm and offered him the Ice Phoenix Marrow in exchange.
• Su Hao sent Linghu Xue into the Sword Realm, where she began comprehending the sword dao, then absorbed the Ice Phoenix Marrow.
• After three days, Su Hao’s cultivation reached Mahayana perfection, and he tried to trigger his heavenly tribulation.
• The tribulation clouds threatened the Chiqing Realm but dispersed when a force of heaven and earth obstructed their formation.
• Su Mei told Su Hao she had refined the Senluo Immortal Bead, and Su Hao reassured her and praised her.
• Zhan Xuan speculated that the strange phenomenon resembled the legendary Golden Immortal Tribulation, then left for the Myriad Demon Kingdom at Su Hao’s urging.

Su Hao learned that the Severing of Heaven and Earth had blocked ascension and that the Human King's palace was one possible exception. After a Ghost Brake Great Demon destroyed Qinghe Continent and seized Li Zhuo, Su Hao confronted Jing Chen for allowing it.

• Su Hao questioned True Lord Juyuan about why Mahayana cultivators could not ascend, and learned about the Severing of Heaven and Earth and the Human King's Power of Sealing Immortals.
• True Lord Juyuan told Su Hao that the Profound Yellow Sword could guide him to the ruins of the Human King's palace, where ascension remained possible.
• Su Hao suspected the Jade Origin Palace had arranged for True Lord Juyuan to relay the message, but resolved that Li Zhuo was the true Human King and waited for Zhan Xuan to act.
• Zhan Xuan used the Myriad Souls Pagoda to collect demon souls as the Ghost Brake Great Demon emerged from beneath Qinghe Continent and absorbed its demons.
• The Ghost Brake Great Demon seized Li Zhuo, then exploded and destroyed Qinghe Continent; Su Hao recognized Jing Chen nearby and demanded to know why he had let Li Zhuo be taken.

After the Ghost Brake Great Demon took Li Zhuo from the Chiqing Realm, Jing Chen delivered Su Hao the Buddhist Palace’s Eight Treasures Lotus Platform of Crossing Tribulations. Jing Chen then secretly planted ominous matter on the realm’s boundary to test whether Su Hao was worthy of becoming his junior brother.

• Jing Chen explained that the Demon Realm had sacrificed the demons and monsters of the Qinghe Continent to take Li Zhuo away, then left after trading words with Su Hao.
• Zhan Xuan returned with the Myriad Souls Pagoda containing just over one hundred and twenty thousand Primordial Spirits, and Su Hao went back to Phoenix Perch Mountain.
• Su Mei told Su Hao that damage to the Chiqing Realm could harm her, and Su Hao reassured her before preparing to collect Talent Power inside the Eastern Emperor Palace.
• Jing Chen returned and gave Su Hao the Eight Treasures Lotus Platform of Crossing Tribulations, saying his master believed Su Hao needed it to ascend.
• Outside the Chiqing Realm, Jing Chen wondered whether Su Hao was his master's hundredth disciple, then secretly attached ominous black matter to the realm's boundary to test him.

Su Hao harvested countless Talent Powers and treasures from the demons in the Myriad Souls Pagoda, including items that strengthened his array and could kill across realms. He used Red Lotus Holy Water to mature the Mysterious Tribulation Five Aggregates Flower, which reached completion six months later.

• Su Hao rejected the idea of using the Eight Treasures Lotus Platform of Crossing Tribulations for now and harvested the demons' Talent Powers, gaining many treasures, including the Myriad Realms Curse Killing Order, Red Lotus Holy Water, and Array Core Essence.
• Su Hao put away the one-use Myriad Realms Curse Killing Order, resolving to use it against Ye Suqing after ascending, and poured Red Lotus Holy Water onto the Mysterious Tribulation Five Aggregates Flower.
• Su Hao used Array Core Essence to strengthen the Heaven Concealing Array until Su Mei could no longer sense what lay within it.
• Su Hao gave Gan Zi Immortal Crossing Creation Pills and three top-grade Dao Artifacts to distribute among the Loose Immortals, then sent suitable treasures to the Twelve Heavenly Maidens, Little Cai, and Little Jin.
• After half a year, the Mysterious Tribulation Five Aggregates Flower reached completion.

After the Mysterious Tribulation Five Aggregates Flower reached perfection, Su Hao absorbed it and spent ten years awakening the Through-Glimpse Divine Eye, which let him see distant events and glimpses of the past and future. He rescued Qin Yue from a heart demon, warned her of an enemy from her previous life, and returned to find the Buzhou Mountain Soul nearing another breakthrough.

• The Mysterious Tribulation Five Aggregates Flower reached perfection, and the Six-Tusked White Elephant, Su Mei, and the Golden Crow gathered outside Su Hao's sealed meditation chamber as powerful beings elsewhere sensed the flower's aura.
• Su Hao absorbed the flower and entered ten years of deep enlightenment, awakening the Through-Glimpse Divine Eye and the talent power Peering into Heaven (Seven-Colored).
• Su Hao saw people tied to him across the Chiqing Realm and beyond, then spotted Qin Yue struggling with a heart demon and went to help her.
• Su Hao dispelled Qin Yue's heart demon, taught her the Three Pure Divine Suppressing Dao Scripture, and warned that a powerful enemy from her previous life might seek revenge.
• Su Hao sensed that the Buzhou Mountain Soul would soon break through again, then returned to his cave abode, where the Six-Tusked White Elephant remarked on his changed eyes.

Su Hao used the Through-Glimpse Divine Eye to glimpse fragments of the future, including a vision of Granny Golden Flower and Daoist Yin being killed, and resolved not to let those visions control his choices. He sent the Demonic Fiend Clone and the Silver Moon Demon Lord through a hidden passage toward the Demon Realm, then sensed that the awakened Buzhou Mountain Soul might offer a way to break the stalemate over ascension.

• Su Hao discovered that the Through-Glimpse Divine Eye could not observe those closely tied to him, but it showed Lin Daosheng and Lin Ziyi’s limited prospects and a possible future in which Granny Golden Flower and Daoist Yin were killed.
• Su Hao concluded that the divine eye revealed only fragmented possibilities and resolved to use it sparingly rather than let it affect his decisions.
• Su Hao upgraded the Prison Spring Dragon Subduing Cauldron and Three Treasures Jade Lotus Divine Seat to immortal artifacts, then gave the Silver Moon Demon Lord a Purple Nether Demonic Jade.
• The Silver Moon Demon Lord agreed to follow the Demonic Fiend Clone through a spatial passage in the Nine Nether Absolute Land toward the Demon Realm, hoping to advance and eventually avenge himself against the Yaksha King.
• Su Hao lost contact with the Demonic Fiend Clone and Silver Moon Demon Lord after the Through-Glimpse Divine Eye reached its range limit, while no one in the Chiqing Realm had triggered an ascension tribulation for twenty years.
• The Buzhou Mountain Soul broke through its bottleneck, and Su Hao sensed it might provide the turning point needed to overcome the ascension impasse.

Zhuge Zheng successfully underwent the Tribulation of Ascension and went to Phoenix Perch Mountain to confront Su Hao. Su Hao revealed that Zhuge Zheng had become an immortal of the Taihao Sacred Dynasty, not the Immortal Realm.

• The mountain soul expanded across much of the Tianyuan Continent, greatly increasing the quality and production of Immortal Qi.
• Zhuge Zheng triggered and survived the Tribulation of Ascension, becoming the Chiqing Realm's first True Immortal in decades.
• Zhuge Zheng flew to Phoenix Perch Mountain, where he met Su Hao and secretly considered testing him and taking the dynasty's treasures.
• Zhuge Zheng challenged Su Hao to prove his strength, claiming he would submit if Su Hao defeated him.
• Su Hao explained that Zhuge Zheng's tribulation had made him an immortal of the Taihao Sacred Dynasty rather than the Immortal Realm.

Su Hao stripped Zhuge Zheng of his True Immortal Source after declaring that the Taihao Sacred Dynasty had reopened the path to ascension, then offered cultivators the chance to become immortals if they accepted lifelong ties to the dynasty. As more cultivators began ascending, Su Hao strengthened his physique and realized that Su Mei’s growth might allow the Chiqing Realm to become a Lesser Immortal Realm.

• Su Hao forced Zhuge Zheng to kneel, reclaimed the Immortal Qi and True Immortal Source he had absorbed, and watched him die as an ordinary mortal.
• Granny Golden Flower urged the gathered cultivators to recognize Su Hao’s authority, and Su Hao warned that anyone who accepted the dynasty’s immortal opportunity could never leave alive.
• Granny Golden Flower crossed her tribulation and became the Taihao Sacred Dynasty’s second True Immortal, while other cultivators began ascending and the treasure-hunting party led by True Person Gan Zi returned toward the dynasty.
• Su Hao absorbed Zhuge Zheng’s True Immortal Source, increased his physical strength fivefold, and decided to wait until enough True Immortals could protect the Chiqing Realm before facing his tribulation.
• Su Mei visited Su Hao, who realized that the mountain soul and the dynasty’s True Immortals had strengthened her and the Chiqing Realm’s providence, potentially allowing the realm to become a Lesser Immortal Realm.

Su Hao absorbed the origins of seven True Immortals and ordered the Taihao Sacred Dynasty to bring the Chiqing Realm’s sects and cultivators under its protection. True Person Gan Zi’s delegation demanded the Tathagata Zen Sect submit, but Jie Kong refused.

• Yu Qiutong refused to join the Taihao Sacred Dynasty, so Su Hao stripped away his True Immortal origin and killed him.
• Su Hao offered the remaining True Immortals a chance to submit; two joined, while he absorbed the origins of the other seven and strengthened his physique.
• Su Hao ordered True Person Gan Zi and his delegation to contact the Chiqing Realm’s Mahayana cultivators and first-rate sects, offering protection to those who joined and barring the rest from Tianyuan Continent.
• True Person Gan Zi and five other True Immortals visited the Tathagata Zen Sect and offered it a chance to submit to the Taihao Sacred Dynasty.
• Jie Kong refused to submit and challenged Gan Zi’s delegation to attack the Zen Sect.

Su Hao told True Lord Juyuan about Yu Xuanji’s danger and asked the Jade Origin Palace to find and protect her. True Lord Juyuan agreed to help, though he doubted Su Hao could defeat Ye Suqing anytime soon.

• True Lord Juyuan questioned Su Hao about the Chiqing Realm’s renewed tribulations and suspected he knew the secret.
• Su Hao said he remained at Mahayana Perfection, but True Lord Juyuan did not believe him and urged him to trust the Jade Origin Palace.
• True Lord Juyuan promised the Jade Origin Palace would support Su Hao and invited him to ask for help.
• Su Hao explained that his Master, Yu Xuanji, had reincarnated and could be hunted by Ye Suqing before regaining her strength.
• True Lord Juyuan agreed to find Yu Xuanji and either bring her to the Jade Origin Palace or protect her in secret.

Five years after the Taihao Sacred Dynasty gained dozens of True Immortals, Su Hao addressed the Chiqing Realm’s limits and then braved a heavenly tribulation to obtain another divine character curse. He acquired the Seal Character Curse and left the remaining curses still to be found.

• Ji Ruyue learned that Jade Pool Heaven would send an envoy and that the Jade Pool Sacred Sect must avoid making an enemy of the Taihao Sacred Dynasty.
• Over five years, the Twelve Heavenly Maidens reached the True Immortal Realm, while Little Cai and Little Jin advanced to the Mahayana Realm; Little Jin consumed more than thirty dragon veins.
• Gan Zi, Hundred Swords, Granny Golden Flower, and Daoist Yin warned Su Hao that the Chiqing Realm was nearing its capacity for True Immortals, and Su Hao ordered training in other worlds and stricter tests for those seeking ascension.
• Su Hao went to Daoyuan Continent and challenged the blood-red heavenly tribulation with the Profound Yellow Sword, the World Annihilation Sword, and several Immortal Artifacts.
• Su Hao reached the divine altar and obtained the Seal Character Curse.

Su Hao gathered six curse characters, leaving the Heaven Character Curse as the Chiqing Realm’s restriction neared collapse. As True Immortals converged to seize it, True Person Gan Zi and thirty-two allies faced Shangguan Henyue, Daoist Hidden Sword, and Fairy Hundred Flowers, whose attack left the newcomers struggling.

• Su Hao gained the Perception, Strength, and Technique Character Curses over the following year, leaving only the Heaven Character Curse to complete the seven.
• The Heaven Character Curse appeared in the void, drawing the attention of True Immortals across the Chiqing Realm and other worlds.
• Linghu Xue sensed the treasure and offered Su Hao help, but he told her to focus on cultivation.
• Daoist Hidden Sword, Shangguan Henyue, and Fairy Hundred Flowers arrived and demanded that True Person Gan Zi leave the curse character to them.
• True Person Gan Zi stood with thirty-two True Immortals and told the three visitors to leave.
• Shangguan Henyue attacked with his saber, and Gan Zi’s group barely neutralized the strike as Shangguan Henyue declared that he would kill them all alone.

After Zhan Xuan captured Daoist Hidden Sword and Fairy Hundred Flowers’s Primordial Spirits, Su Hao recruited him to train the Taihao Sacred Dynasty’s cultivators and rewarded his injured subordinates. Su Hao continued preparing to claim the Heaven Character Curse, and half a year later an envoy from Jade Pool Heaven arrived with Ji Ruyue.

• Zhan Xuan delivered Daoist Hidden Sword and Fairy Hundred Flowers’s Primordial Spirits to Su Hao, who stored them in the Myriad Souls Pagoda.
• Su Hao persuaded Zhan Xuan to teach the Taihao Sacred Dynasty’s cultivators in exchange for future guidance.
• Su Hao rewarded True Person Gan Zi and the other injured subordinates with Dao pills, while delaying his attempt to retrieve the Heaven Character Curse until he had mastered the six-character curse script further.
• Zhan Xuan opened a lecture hall on Wan Guang Peak, attracting cultivators and independent practitioners interested in joining the Taihao Sacred Dynasty.
• Half a year later, Jin Ji told Su Hao that Ji Ruyue and an envoy from Jade Pool Heaven had arrived at the Taihao Sacred Dynasty.

Luo Yujie met Su Hao at Wan Guang Peak and discovered that his power and fortune rivaled the Human King’s. She revealed that Jade Pool Heaven did not intend to make an enemy of him over the Primordial Mother Lotus Crystal, leaving their conflict temporarily settled.

• Luo Yujie’s Clear Golden Eyes failed to discern Su Hao’s realm, and she secretly probed him during their private meeting.
• Luo Yujie told Su Hao that many in the Immortal Realm believed Li Zhuo was the Human King, but she considered Su Hao no less extraordinary.
• Su Hao said Li Zhuo had been taken to the Demon Realm by a great demon and suggested the Buddhist Palace might know his whereabouts.
• Luo Yujie explained that Jade Pool Heaven viewed Su Hao obtaining the Primordial Mother Lotus Crystal as fate and had instructed her not to become his enemy.

Luo Yujie stayed at the Taihao Sacred Dynasty and revealed that Zhang Xingyou and Ji Ruyue had to bring the Jade Pool Sacred Sect under Su Hao’s authority. She argued that joining him was their best chance to survive the coming Demon Realm invasion and continue cultivating.

• Luo Yujie agreed to stay at the Taihao Sacred Dynasty for about a hundred years and discussed the Dao with Su Hao.
• Su Hao learned that Zhang Xingyou was a disciple of Water Moon Immortal Lord and had been reincarnated into the Chiqing Realm as punishment.
• Luo Yujie told Zhang Xingyou and Ji Ruyue that Li Zhuo had been captured and might be within the Demon Realm, but said his fate would protect him.
• Luo Yujie ordered Zhang Xingyou, Ji Ruyue, and the entire Jade Pool Sacred Sect to join the Taihao Sacred Dynasty and recognize Su Hao as supreme.
• Zhang Xingyou and Ji Ruyue resisted, but Luo Yujie asserted her authority and warned that refusing would leave them with only death or reincarnation.
• Luo Yujie urged them to accept, saying the Taihao Sacred Dynasty offered their best chance to survive and continue cultivating.

After the grand ceremony welcoming the Jade Pool Sacred Sect, Su Hao found Luo Yujie examining an altar protected by a restriction and a deadly Heavenly Dao Blood Tribulation. He offered to bet on whether he could retrieve the Heaven Character Curse, leaving Luo Yujie to challenge his wager.

• The Taihao Sacred Dynasty held a grand ceremony, where Su Hao appeared alongside its divine beasts and received the worship of more than a hundred thousand cultivators.
• Luo Yujie discovered an altar in the void bearing divine script for the character Heaven and assessed the restriction and Heavenly Dao Blood Tribulation protecting it.
• Su Hao appeared beside Luo Yujie, who assumed he had discovered the altar earlier but lacked confidence to take its treasure.
• Su Hao announced that he would collect the divine script and drew an ancient golden greatsword despite Luo Yujie's warning about the deadly tribulation.
• Su Hao bet that he would obtain the Heaven Character Curse and asked for Luo Yujie's most precious divine ability, secret art, or treasure if he succeeded; Luo Yujie rejected the Taihao Sacred Dynasty as a meaningful stake if he failed.

Su Hao destroyed the Giant Spirit God’s hand when it attacked through a passage from the Immortal Realm and absorbed the divine script. Back at Phoenix Perch Mountain, Luo Yujie began explaining the Heavenly Laws that governed the Heavenly Court and its forces.

• The Giant Spirit God’s hand struck at Su Hao and pulled the divine script toward the passage, but Su Hao’s sword light shattered it before he absorbed the script.
• Luo Yujie identified the passage as the Heavenly Gate’s Dharma Descent Platform and explained that the Giant Spirit God was Yue Shanting, a Heavenly General of the Heavenly Court.
• Luo Yujie suspected the Heavenly Emperor had ordered the attack to seize the divine script, while Su Hao considered that possibility and demanded the prize owed from their wager.
• Su Hao brought Luo Yujie to Phoenix Perch Mountain and asked why the Heavenly Court used the Dharma Descent Platform to interfere in the lower realms.
• Luo Yujie refused to answer at first, then explained that Heaven’s Laws were rules established by the Heavenly Court to bind beings and forces throughout the Immortal Realm.