Chapter Summaries

Su Hao questioned Luo Yujie about the Heavenly Court’s authority and the Golden Crow World-Destruction incident, then refused Jade Pool Heaven’s cultivation art. Luo Yujie offered to teach him the Seven-Origin Annihilation Soul Light instead, while denying that she was holding back her Myriad Curses Immortal Mirror.

• Luo Yujie explained that powerful Immortal Realm forces often acted independently of the Heavenly Court, though they sought its approval before destroying a lower realm.
• Su Hao asked whether the Heavenly Court had approved the Golden Crow’s attempt to destroy the Chiqing Realm, and Luo Yujie said the Mystic Maiden Palace lacked the status to request it and suggested the threat might have been a bluff.
• Luo Yujie offered Su Hao the Everlasting Spring Samsara Scripture, but he refused the cultivation art and revealed that he also possessed the Joyful Zen Sacred Art and the Profound Yellow Primordial Scripture.
• Luo Yujie warned Su Hao that mastering several powerful cultivation arts was unrealistic, then offered to teach him Jade Pool Heaven’s Limitless Divine Ability, the Seven-Origin Annihilation Soul Light.
• Su Hao teased Luo Yujie about the Myriad Curses Immortal Mirror inside him, and she denied that it was the third precious thing she had planned to give him.

Yue Shanting obeyed the Heavenly Emperor’s order to abandon his pursuit of Su Hao, while the Heavenly Emperor suspected the Jade Origin Palace was behind Su Hao’s advances. In Phoenix Perch Mountain, Su Hao reached minor accomplishment with the Seven-Origin Annihilation Soul Light, leaving Luo Yujie eager to test its power.

• Yue Shanting reached the South Heavenly Gate to descend to the Chiqing Realm, but the Heavenly Emperor ordered him to return to his post.
• The Heavenly Emperor told a middle-aged Daoist that he would punish Yue Shanting, then suspected the Jade Origin Palace had used Su Hao to thwart his plans.
• Luo Yujie saw that Su Hao had formed the Seven-Origin Annihilation Soul Light into a sphere, demonstrating minor accomplishment.
• Su Hao explained that his Chaos Samsara True Scripture made the divine ability easy to master and thanked Luo Yujie for teaching it to him.
• Luo Yujie summoned the Myriad Curses Immortal Mirror and asked Su Hao to release the divine ability, but he dispersed it rather than risk damaging Phoenix Perch Mountain.

Luo Yujie pressured Ji Ruyue to help Jade Pool Heaven gain access to Su Hao through her adopted daughters, while Xu Luanxing volunteered to accompany her. Seven days later, True Lord Juyuan appeared before Su Hao and confronted him for cutting off the Giant Spirit God’s arm.

• Luo Yujie demanded that Ji Ruyue go to Phoenix Perch Mountain to approach Su Hao, and Xu Luanxing volunteered to take her place.
• Luo Yujie accepted Xu Luanxing’s offer, then Ji Ruyue agreed to help bring her into Phoenix Perch Mountain through her adopted daughters within half a month.
• Luo Yujie ordered Xu Luanxing to accompany her for appearance improvements and secret arts, while Ji Ruyue warned that Jin Ji and the others might no longer honor their old bond.
• Seven days later, True Lord Juyuan appeared through the Azure Nether Soul Bell and accused Su Hao of cutting off one of the Giant Spirit God’s arms.

Su Hao thanked Jade Origin Palace for protecting him and continued preparing to face the heavenly tribulation. After three months of secluded cultivation, he raised the Seven-Origin Annihilation Soul Light to the Creation level, gaining a powerful but energy-intensive new ability.

• Su Hao thanked True Lord Juyuan and Jade Origin Palace for their help, but gave only a vague answer when asked what the Giant Spirit God had fought him over.
• True Lord Juyuan left, and Su Hao resumed trying to fuse the Seven Character Incantations while weighing how to prepare for the heavenly tribulation.
• After ten days, Su Hao had made no progress fusing the incantations and decided to use his Divine Ability Stones to strengthen his abilities.
• Su Hao spent three months and 100 Divine Ability Stones perfecting the Seven-Origin Annihilation Soul Light and raising it to the Creation-level Great Creation Heaven-Shattering Light.
• Su Hao felt confident enough to consider attempting the tribulation, but held back because the new ability consumed enormous amounts of energy and destructive attacks might be unwise against tribulation lightning.

Su Hao emerged from three years of closed-door cultivation with a greatly refined physique, prompting Luo Yujie to warn him about neglecting his cultivation realm. As Luo Yujie and two Jade Pool Heaven disciples settled at Phoenix Perch Mountain, the Six-Tusked White Elephant asked to take Xu Luanxing as its maidservant, and Su Hao allowed it.

• Jin Ji and the others admired Su Hao's powerful new physique, and he explained that he had spent years cultivating body-refinement techniques.
• Luo Yujie warned Su Hao that neglecting his cultivation realm could bring trouble after he became a True Immortal, then proposed sparring with him.
• Su Hao persuaded Luo Yujie to postpone their spar until he reached the True Immortal Realm, avoiding the risk of either of them losing face.
• Luo Yujie introduced Ji Ruyue and Xu Luanxing, explaining that she had let them stay at Phoenix Perch Mountain during Su Hao's long retreat, and Su Hao permitted them to remain.
• The Six-Tusked White Elephant asked Su Hao to let Xu Luanxing serve as its maidservant, and Su Hao questioned the choice before accepting its judgment of her.

Su Hao finished preparing for his ascension tribulation by strengthening his body and several immortal artifacts, then gathered his companions to explain his plan to undergo the abnormal tribulation in the void beyond the realm. The Six-Tusked White Elephant offered to help, and the Twelve Heavenly Maidens proposed pooling their strength as well.

• Su Hao completed minor mastery of the Heavenly Elephant Dharma Body, pushing his physical strength to the mortal world's limit.
• Su Hao killed more than thirty surviving true dragons in the Four Seas and turned their talents into Star Stones and other materials.
• Su Hao upgraded the Myriad Calamities Black Tortoise Armor, Seven Treasures Wisdom Light Soul Lamp, and Miro Ring to mid-grade immortal artifacts.
• Su Hao told his companions he planned to undergo his tribulation in the void beyond the realm, despite having only a ninety percent chance of success.
• The Six-Tusked White Elephant volunteered to help Su Hao withstand the tribulation, and Su Hao accepted its offer.
• Di Han offered to draw upon the sun's power, but the Six-Tusked White Elephant dismissed her, and the Twelve Heavenly Maidens proposed using their Joyful Zen Sacred Art to lend Su Hao their strength.

Little Cai gave Su Hao eight million units of faith power to protect him before his Golden Immortal tribulation. Su Hao began the tribulation in the void beyond the Chiqing Realm, where the gathering clouds and lightning darkened the entire realm.

• Little Cai offered Su Hao her faith crystals, and he initially refused because he believed he could survive the tribulation without them.
• Little Cai pressed the faith power into Su Hao, wrapping his Primordial Spirit in protective light, and admitted that most people could provide substantial faith only a few times.
• Su Hao spent several carefree days with Little Cai, Jin Ji, and the others before choosing to undergo the tribulation.
• Su Hao traveled to the furthest void the Buzhou Mountain Soul could influence, while Little Cai, the Twelve Heavenly Maidens, and the others watched from Phoenix Perch Mountain.
• The Six-Tusked White Elephant encouraged Su Hao, but as Su Hao began circulating his Primordial True Force, black clouds and multicolored lightning spread across the void and darkened the Chiqing Realm.
• Su Mei sensed that if Su Hao failed the tribulation, she would at least be seriously injured.

The Heavenly Emperor saw an obscured figure undergoing a powerful tribulation and suspected that someone was concealing the heavenly secrets, so he ordered the Heaven-Patrolling Star Official to parasitize Li Zhuo with a sinister mass of flesh. Meanwhile, Su Hao continued to endure the relentless tribulation in the void, exhausting his artifacts and supplies as the Six-Tusked White Elephant collapsed from helping him.

• The Heavenly Emperor watched Li Zhuo battle fiends in the Demon Realm and praised his progress.
• The Heavenly Secret Mirror showed an indistinct figure undergoing tribulation, but the Heavenly Emperor could not identify or track them.
• The Heavenly Emperor suspected that rebels were concealing the figure and ordered the Heaven-Patrolling Star Official to parasitize Li Zhuo with a mass of dark-red flesh.
• Su Hao used defensive formations, immortal artifacts, and his sword abilities to withstand the tribulation lightning as his defenses and artifacts were exhausted.
• Su Hao relied on his Celestial Phenomenon Dharma Body and consumed supplies to keep fighting, while the Six-Tusked White Elephant spent its strength shielding him and then collapsed.

Su Hao survived the Golden Immortal tribulation by resisting its evil thoughts with his Sword Heart and gained the Golden Immortal Tribulation Body. Afterward, Taiqing and Cheng Zhen revealed that he had become their junior disciple brother beneath the Heavenly Dao’s tutelage.

• Eight million strands of willpower briefly awakened Su Hao, allowing him to resist the karmic fire by focusing on the sword path.
• The karmic fire faded, and auspicious clouds restored Su Hao’s body and Primordial Spirit.
• Su Hao gained the Golden Immortal Tribulation Body, which greatly increased his lifespan, strength, and resistance to harm.
• Taiqing and Cheng Zhen appeared and congratulated Su Hao on entering the Heavenly Dao’s tutelage as their junior disciple brother.
• Cheng Zhen and Taiqing explained their connections to the Buddhist Palace and Jade Origin Palace, and Cheng Zhen said that eight senior disciples had entered before Su Hao.

After surviving his Golden Immortal tribulation, Su Hao learned that Taiqing and Cheng Zhen would not compete for the era’s Primordial Dao Fruit, though he would have to fight others to claim it. He returned to Phoenix Perch Mountain, thanked Little Cai for the vows that had helped him survive, and discovered the Six-Tusked White Elephant had been boasting about its role in the tribulation.

• Taiqing and Cheng Zhen promised Su Hao a chance at the Primordial Dao Fruit but vanished before giving him anything, explaining that he would have to compete for it himself.
• The Six-Tusked White Elephant saw no visitors, and Su Hao returned to Phoenix Perch Mountain, where Little Cai and the others rejoiced at his survival.
• The Taihao Sacred Dynasty celebrated with a month-long feast while the Six-Tusked White Elephant regaled True Immortals with exaggerated tales of the tribulation.
• Su Hao secluded himself to consolidate his Golden Immortal cultivation and resolved to pursue the Primordial Dao Fruit, reasoning that Taiqing and Cheng Zhen would not compete for it.
• Su Hao ordered the Six-Tusked White Elephant to stop boasting and remain on Phoenix Perch Mountain, then told Little Cai that her vow power had helped him survive.
• Little Cai credited the white elephant’s sutra with extinguishing the Five-Thought Karmic Fire, and Su Hao called the elephant a braggart.

Luo Yujie challenged Su Hao to a fight in the void, but he proved vastly faster and stronger than she expected. After he struck her twice, she used the Myriad Curses Immortal Mirror to strengthen herself and finally locked onto him.

• Luo Yujie flew into the void to keep her battle with Su Hao from harming the Chiqing Realm, but Su Hao caught up and insisted they fight there.
• Luo Yujie attacked Su Hao with the Seven-Origin Annihilation Soul Light, but he emerged unharmed and brushed the corrosive beams off his robe.
• Su Hao vanished and punched Luo Yujie in the face, knocking out three of her teeth.
• Su Hao struck Luo Yujie from behind while moving too quickly for her senses to track, then told her that True Immortals no longer merited his sword.
• Luo Yujie activated the Myriad Curses Immortal Mirror, which boosted her strength by eighty percent and let her lock onto Su Hao.

After defeating Luo Yujie, Su Hao returned to Phoenix Perch Mountain, where she shocked everyone by asking him to dual cultivate with her. Su Hao rejected her, but Luo Yujie insisted on speaking privately and promised she would make him agree.

• Zhan Xuan watched Su Hao defeat Luo Yujie, abandoned his plan to challenge him, and followed Luo Yujie toward Phoenix Perch Mountain.
• Su Hao returned to the courtyard, where Little Cai and the others realized he had won and gathered around him.
• Ji Ruyue watched Su Hao from the edge of the crowd as Luo Yujie arrived and announced that she wanted to dual cultivate with him.
• Su Hao refused Luo Yujie, saying he was not interested in her, but she urged him to talk in private and vowed to make him agree.

Su Hao rejected the Twelve Heavenly Maidens’ proposal to accept Luo Yujie, then spent ten years cultivating as the Taihao Sacred Dynasty became the Chiqing Realm’s hegemon. After his Through-Glimpse Divine Eye revealed Li Zhuo bonding with a strange substance, Su Hao began using the Myriad Realms Curse Killing Order to target Ye Suqing.

• Su Hao told the Twelve Heavenly Maidens that Luo Yujie could cultivate safely at Phoenix Perch Mountain but that he would not take her in or pursue her past actions.
• Jin Ji and the others dropped their effort to persuade Su Hao to help Ji Ruyue bring Luo Yujie into their group.
• After ten years of Su Hao’s seclusion, the Taihao Sacred Dynasty had become the Chiqing Realm’s undisputed hegemon, and True Immortals were exploring nearby smaller worlds.
• Su Hao’s Through-Glimpse Divine Eye showed Li Zhuo fusing a mysterious, crystalline flesh-like substance into his chest.
• Su Hao resolved to kill Ye Suqing of the Mystic Maiden Palace and poured his Primordial Immortal Power into the Myriad Realms Curse Killing Order.

An Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle appeared outside the Chiqing Realm and began licking mysterious black matter from its world barrier, nearly breaking the realm wall. Su Hao and the other True Immortals attacked as the turtle prepared to swallow the remaining substance.

• A colossal creature circled the Chiqing Realm, watching the black substance clinging to its world barrier.
• Su Hao saw the creature from Phoenix Perch Mountain, and Zhan Xuan identified it as an Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle descended from a divine ao.
• Su Hao and the other powerhouses approached the creature beyond the world barrier.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle licked the black substance once, cracking the realm wall and causing the Chiqing Realm to tremble.
• Su Hao and the others pleaded with the turtle to stop, but it prepared to swallow the remaining black matter.
• Su Hao ordered an attack, and Zhan Xuan, Gan Zi, and more than thirty True Immortals struck at the turtle.

Su Hao challenged the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle with his swordsmanship, but even his strongest attack barely scraped its body. The turtle recognized his technique and struck back at his soul, leaving the contest unresolved.

• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle asked Su Hao to exchange sword moves, promising to leave the Chiqing Realm unharmed if Su Hao earned its acknowledgment.
• Su Hao unleashed his sword energy, but the turtle easily dissolved it with eighty-two immortal swords.
• At the turtle's urging, Su Hao used the God Annihilation Sword Extinguishes Great Curse of Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, which left countless faint cuts on the turtle but failed to penetrate its body.
• The turtle praised Su Hao's mastery, then sent a blackened immortal sword into his soul sea as its counterattack.
• Su Hao's soul lamp, Seven Character Incantations, violet-gold primordial spirit, and Nine-Colored Mist formed defenses against the incoming sword strike.

Su Hao hosted the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle, who discussed the Taiyuan Sword Master and urged Su Hao to consider repaying his inheritance by saving him. Su Hao resisted being drawn into the matter and asked the turtle to state his real purpose.

• Su Hao welcomed the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle, who introduced himself as Mingdaozi and reminisced about traveling through the mortal world.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle asked whether Su Hao knew Taiyuan, and Su Hao admitted that he had learned the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands God Annihilation Sword Extinguishes Great Curse from Taiyuan’s legacy.
• The turtle revealed that he had helped Taiyuan forge the Taiyuan Sword Realm and said Taiyuan had likely met with misfortune after making enemies among immortals and demons.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle urged Su Hao to set himself the goal of saving Taiyuan, but Su Hao argued that the turtle should do it if their ties were so deep.
• Su Hao said he would consider the matter only if he gained the ability and asked the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle to explain why he had come.

Su Hao and the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle discussed the Sword Annihilation Great Curse before the Turtle departed, leaving Su Hao to suspect that Jing Chen had manipulated them. A year later, Zhan Xuan sought Su Hao’s guidance, and Su Hao showed him the overwhelming gap between their strength before urging him to improve.

• Su Hao tried to provoke the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle into pursuing Jing Chen, but the Turtle said he had gained benefits and held no grudge.
• Su Hao and the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle discussed the Sword Annihilation Great Curse and found that it had only increased Sword Qi’s power by ten percent.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle said he would leave the sword dao and vanished to return to his true body beyond the realm.
• A year later, Zhan Xuan came to Su Hao’s cave abode to ask for pointers, and Su Hao agreed to demonstrate his strength.
• Su Hao’s Sword Qi pierced Zhan Xuan’s defenses and suppressed his Kirin power, then vanished just before harming his Primordial Spirit.
• Su Hao told Zhan Xuan to work harder and said he would need to reach the Immortal King realm and master the Thunder Dao Fruit from his previous life to compete with him.

Su Hao confronted Jing Chen over deliberately leaving behind a demonic husk, but Jing Chen denied responsibility until his Master, Cheng Zhen, appeared and stripped him of his place on the Heavenly Treasure Wheel. Cheng Zhen told Su Hao to kill Jing Chen, who remained kneeling and questioned why his Master had not helped him turn back sooner.

• Jing Chen claimed his act had been an unintentional mistake and challenged Su Hao to take the dispute to Buddha Palace in the Immortal Realm.
• Su Hao called for his senior disciple brother Cheng Zhen to judge the matter, and Cheng Zhen appeared behind Jing Chen.
• Cheng Zhen condemned Jing Chen for breaking the precepts against greed, anger, and delusion and for plotting against Su Hao and his Master.
• Cheng Zhen removed Jing Chen's name from the Heavenly Treasure Wheel and invited Su Hao to kill him.
• Jing Chen begged for another chance, then asked Cheng Zhen why he had not helped him find his way back.

After Jing Chen’s death, Su Hao questioned whether he could reincarnate and demanded compensation from Cheng Zhen for the Buddhist Palace’s responsibility. Cheng Zhen offered protection from the Heavenly Treasure Wheel in exchange for an undefined karmic debt, but Su Hao remained wary and pointed out that Taiqing could help him instead.

• Su Hao saw a massive illusory black wheel appear as Jing Chen’s Primordial Spirit vanished, and wondered if Jing Chen could reincarnate.
• Cheng Zhen argued that Jing Chen might need many lives to overcome his grudges and that Su Hao’s fixation on vengeance reflected his limited cultivation.
• Su Hao told Cheng Zhen to let him slap him, but Cheng Zhen welcomed it as a cause that could produce future effects.
• Su Hao demanded compensation for Jing Chen’s actions, and Cheng Zhen offered to enter him on the Heavenly Treasure Wheel for protection.
• Cheng Zhen explained that the protection would create a karmic debt whose value and repayment he would decide, and Su Hao compared it to owing favors to someone stronger.
• Su Hao asked whether Cheng Zhen would rescue him in a life-or-death crisis, then declined the offer and said he could turn to Senior Disciple Brother Taiqing instead.

Little Cai received the Merit Wheel, a treasure that perfectly complemented her prayer power, while the Taihao Sacred Dynasty expanded its influence in the Chiqing Realm. After Chen Jing emerged as a True Immortal with Immortal Lord Yun Lu's consciousness fused with hers, she warned Su Hao that the Chiqing Realm's independent path to immortality would draw the Heavenly Court's hostility and the Demon Realm's interest.

• The Merit Wheel resonated with Little Cai's prayer power, and Su Hao let her claim it; she learned it reduced prayer-power expenditure and could wield powerful Buddhist incantations.
• Little Cai discovered that the Merit Wheel contained the Merit and Universal Benevolence Heart Sutra, which complemented her Dragon Marsh Incense Technique, and Su Hao reassured her that she could keep it.
• Over the following years, Taihao Sacred Dynasty True Immortals visited other small worlds, and the dynasty promoted faith in the White Dragon Empress as Daoist and Buddhist factions lost influence.
• In the tenth year, Chen Jing emerged from seclusion as a True Immortal after fusing her consciousness with Immortal Lord Yun Lu's, while insisting she remained Su Hao's friend.
• Chen Jing told Su Hao that the Chiqing Realm's tribulation-based ascensions bypassed the Heavenly Court's control and warned that the Heavenly Court would oppose the realm while the Demon Realm would covet it.