Chapter Summaries

Su Hao received the Heavenly Emperor’s decree appointing him Netherwater Demon-Suppressing Divine General, a powerful fourth-rank post, but he doubted he could accept the responsibility. The chapter ended with Yue Shanting’s jealousy and Su Hao’s ten-day deadline to report to the Heavenly Court.

• Yue Shanting demanded that Su Hao kneel, but Su Hao offered a cupped-fist salute instead, and Immortal Lord Yun Lu stopped Yue Shanting from prolonging the dispute.
• Yue Shanting presented the Heavenly Emperor’s decree, which appointed Su Hao Netherwater Demon-Suppressing Divine General and placed the Chiqing Realm under Heavenly Court rule.
• Chen Jing and Zhan Xuan explained the high rank and authority of Su Hao’s new post, while Yue Shanting seethed with jealousy.
• Su Hao received the decree but said he might not be able to shoulder the responsibility.
• Yue Shanting ordered Su Hao to report to the Heavenly Court and assume his post within ten days.

Zhan Xuan and Chen Jing explained the privileges and power of becoming a Heavenly Court divine general, but Su Hao suspected his appointment to the dangerous Darkwater Realm was a trap. Zhan Xuan warned that accepting the investiture would bind Su Hao under the Heavenly Laws, leaving him to reconsider the offer.

• Zhan Xuan described the wealth, authority, cultivation resources, and combined strength granted to Heavenly Court divine generals, while Gan Zi, Bai Jian, and the others admired the post.
• Chen Jing asked why the Giant Spirit God had targeted Su Hao, and Su Hao dismissed their past friction as minor.
• Chen Jing said Su Hao would serve in the Darkwater Realm under the Southern Nether Emperor, but Su Hao suspected the perilous post was meant to expose him to danger and betrayal.
• Su Hao dismissed everyone so he could consult acquaintances in the Immortal Realm before deciding whether to accept the appointment.
• Zhan Xuan warned Su Hao that accepting the investiture would bind him to the Heavenly Laws, and Su Hao realized this was the crucial issue.

Su Hao refused the Heavenly Emperor’s appointment as Demon-Suppressing Divine General, despite True Lord Juyuan’s warning about the risks of rejecting it. Juyuan told Yu Xuanji and Immortal Lord Qingchen about Su Hao’s decision, and Qingchen questioned whether he could hold such a powerful post.

• Su Hao told True Lord Juyuan that he would not go to the Immortal Realm or accept the appointment for now, and Juyuan warned him not to provoke the Heavenly Court.
• After his conversation with Su Hao ended, Juyuan went to Dustlike Peak, where Immortal Lord Qingchen was guiding Yu Xuanji’s cultivation.
• Yu Xuanji anxiously asked what had happened to Su Hao and explained that she felt indebted to him, while Qingchen criticized her emotional response.
• Juyuan revealed that the Heavenly Emperor had appointed Su Hao Demon-Suppressing Divine General of Darkwater Realm and that Su Hao planned to refuse.
• Yu Xuanji expressed surprise at the appointment, and Qingchen argued that Su Hao lacked the seniority and backing to hold the post securely.

The Heavenly Emperor and White Tiger Star Lord arranged to bring Su Hao to the Heavenly Court and investigate the Chiqing Realm, while the Heavenly Emperor sought to use his appointment to pressure him. When the Giant Spirit God arrived to escort Su Hao, Zhan Xuan said Su Hao had entered seclusion after gaining insight into a Dao Fruit, and showed Yue Shanting evidence of strange power.

• The White Tiger Star Lord explained his plan to recruit Su Hao as Demon-Suppressing Divine General and expose him to pressure in the Darkwater Realm.
• The Heavenly Emperor clarified that he wanted Su Hao to suffer in the Netherwater Realm Heavenly Army while White Tiger investigated the Chiqing Realm’s anomalous power.
• Ten days later, the Giant Spirit God and Yue Shanting returned to Phoenix Perch Mountain to escort Su Hao to the Heavenly Court.
• Zhan Xuan told them that Su Hao had entered seclusion after approaching a Dao Fruit and could not ascend for now.
• Yue Shanting doubted the explanation, so Zhan Xuan revealed a strand of black-and-white power and said the Heavenly Emperor would understand it.

White Tiger Star Lord delivered the Heavenly Emperor’s decree and a powerful Divine General set to Su Hao, who weighed the benefits of accepting it against the Heavenly Court’s attempt to bind him. The chapter left Su Hao holding the command token and considering whether to refine it and join the Heavenly Court.

• White Tiger Star Lord failed to penetrate the Heaven Concealing Array, exchanged barbed words with Zhan Xuan, and delivered the Heavenly Emperor’s decree permitting Su Hao to remain in seclusion before proceeding to the Darkwater Mystic Realm in a hundred years.
• White Tiger Star Lord gave Zhan Xuan a storage ring containing cultivation resources, a Divine General set, and its command token for Su Hao.
• Zhan Xuan presented the items to Su Hao and explained that refining the token would let him control the armor and make him a member of the Heavenly Court.
• Su Hao questioned why the Heavenly Emperor had sent such valuable treasures, and Zhan Xuan explained that the offer was an open scheme that traded immense power and status for submission.
• Su Hao acknowledged the Divine General set’s value as Zhan Xuan described how Divine Generals gained both strength and authority within the Immortal Realm.

After ten years of rapid cultivation, Su Hao entered a mysterious chaotic space and discovered that the Dao Fruit of Yin and Yang he sought already belonged to the Joyful World Honored One. The World Honored One offered to let Su Hao approach the fruit as a Buddhist Son or Dao Son, leaving Su Hao wary of the offer.

• Su Hao reached the second level of the Golden Immortal realm, though his progress comprehending Dao Fruits remained slow.
• In an illusory space called Chaos, Su Hao learned that a great tree’s leaves represented divine abilities and its fruits represented laws controlled by Dao masters.
• Su Hao saw that the Dao Fruit of Yin and Yang was already controlled by the Joyful World Honored One, an incarnation of Buddha Venerate.
• The Joyful World Honored One offered to help Su Hao become a Buddhist Son or Dao Son and suggested he might one day take over the fruit.
• Su Hao questioned whether the offer meant becoming a vassal, and the Joyful World Honored One asked if his demonic-path past made him distrustful.

Su Hao rejected the Joyful World Honored One’s offer to help him grasp the Yin and Yang Dao Fruit because it would bind him to a dangerous karmic debt, and he resolved to pursue the Restriction Dao Fruit instead. Linghu Xue broke through to Immortal King, but the immortal envoy who arrived to recruit her fled as soon as he recognized her.

• The Joyful World Honored One offered to help Su Hao access the Yin and Yang Dao Fruit in exchange for karma that might eventually require him to deal with a Demon Venerable, and Su Hao refused.
• After the Joyful World Honored One forced him out of the chaotic space, Su Hao decided to pursue the Restriction Dao Fruit before anyone else claimed it.
• Su Hao sensed Linghu Xue preparing to break through and let her leave the Taiyuan Sword Realm so her tribulation would not expose or damage it.
• Linghu Xue endured a daylong Heavenly Fire tribulation and became an Immortal King, though the ordeal badly injured her and damaged her sword.
• An immortal envoy arrived to guide Linghu Xue to the Heavenly Court, recognized her from his roster, and hurried away through the immortal gate with his subordinates.

After Linghu Xue swore to keep the Taiyuan Sword Realm secret, she left, and Su Hao returned to Chiqing Realm. During his seclusion, thirteen True Immortals under his command were killed, prompting Su Hao to send Zhan Xuan to investigate and warn the others to hide.

• Linghu Xue swore on the Heavenly Dao not to reveal anything about the Taiyuan Sword Realm, thanked Su Hao, and departed as an Ice Phoenix.
• Su Hao reflected on Linghu Xue’s Sacred Spirit Cold Soul talent, then returned to Chiqing Realm and secluded himself.
• Su Hao sensed thirteen divine soul marks belonging to his True Immortal subordinates vanish, but arrived too late to find the killer or any clues.
• Zhan Xuan and Gan Zi gathered with Su Hao at Phoenix Perch Mountain and discussed the deaths, which they suspected were deliberate.
• Su Hao sent Zhan Xuan to investigate, then ordered Gan Zi to warn the remaining True Immortals to prioritize their safety and conceal their whereabouts.

Su Hao arrived after Heavenly Demon Son and Chi Yunzi activated the God Descent Token, saving them from Kuang Yue’s killing strike. He overwhelmed the five Heavenly Generals’ challenge by killing Kuang Yue, while Zhan Xuan remained locked in battle with the other four.

• Zhan Xuan manifested his Kirin Dharma Form and fought the four Heavenly Generals, hoping to drive them back and rescue Heavenly Demon Son and Chi Yunzi.
• Heavenly Demon Son and Chi Yunzi were gravely wounded by Kuang Yue, and Heavenly Demon Son activated the God Descent Token as they awaited another strike.
• Su Hao teleported to their location, crushed Kuang Yue’s fire-dragon spear, and revealed that he recognized the insignia on Kuang Yue’s armor.
• Kuang Yue attacked Su Hao with two spear techniques, but neither harmed him.
• Su Hao appeared above Kuang Yue and killed him, then took away his corpse and Primordial Spirit.

Su Hao confronted Divine General Chi Chen, who had tried to capture him and seize his divine armor and token. After absorbing Chi Chen’s Netherworld Underworld Fire, Su Hao unleashed a Creation Divine Ability, leaving Chi Chen struggling to defend himself.

• Chi Chen’s Netherworld Underworld Fire engulfed Su Hao, but Su Hao absorbed it into the Treasure Dropping Purple Gold Bowl and severed Chi Chen’s control.
• Su Hao identified the masked newcomer as Chi Chen, and Chi Chen admitted he wanted Su Hao’s divine armor and God-General Immortal Office Token.
• Chi Chen attacked Su Hao with a storm of baleful blades and threatened to take him to the Heaven Imprisonment Prison.
• Su Hao drew the World Annihilation Sword and unleashed the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, God Annihilation Sword Extinguishes Great Curse.
• Chi Chen recognized Su Hao’s strike as a Creation Divine Ability and summoned a dark-golden giant ape manifestation to block it.

Su Hao drove off the Darkwater Heavenly Army’s Divine General but admitted he could not kill him. After sending his companions away, Su Hao met the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle, which recognized his Golden Immortal Body and learned that Su Hao had already cultivated into a Golden Immortal.

• Zhan Xuan recovered after fighting Li Baosheng and Duan Rong, while Su Hao acknowledged that he could not kill Chi Chen.
• Su Hao ordered Zhan Xuan and the others to return to the Chiqing Realm and lie low because the Darkwater Heavenly Army was their enemy.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle emerged from the distant shadow and praised Su Hao for driving off a Divine General.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle deduced that Su Hao possessed the Golden Immortal Body after seeing him withstand powerful attacks.
• Su Hao admitted that he had cultivated into a Golden Immortal.

Su Hao imprisoned three Heavenly Generals, showed them his battle with Chi Chen, and extracted Fu Anzai’s talent, leaving Fu Anzai crippled. He gained the red talent Imperial Sovereign as Kuang Yue and Daoist Grey Wolf demanded to know what he had done.

• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle disappeared into the shadows, and Su Hao resolved not to ask it for help.
• Zhan Xuan and the others returned to the Chiqing Realm injured, and Su Hao ordered its cultivators to stay within its boundaries before beginning secluded cultivation.
• Su Hao entered the Myriad Souls Pagoda and confronted the imprisoned Kuang Yue, Fu Anzai, and Daoist Grey Wolf, who threatened him and invoked the Darkwater Heavenly Army.
• Su Hao showed the three a replay of his battle with Chi Chen, silencing their claims that Chi Chen would rescue them.
• Su Hao extracted Fu Anzai’s [True Dragon Son of Heaven] talent, generating the red talent Imperial Sovereign and leaving Fu Anzai crippled.
• Kuang Yue and Daoist Grey Wolf cried out in fury and demanded that Su Hao kill them.

The Black-Whiskered Dragon attacked the Taihao Sacred Dynasty, but Su Hao swiftly destroyed its body and captured its Primordial Spirit in the Myriad Souls Pagoda. Afterward, Su Hao told Zhan Xuan to focus on cultivating, and Zhan Xuan decided to leave for the Nine Heavens Thunder Abyss.

• The Black-Whiskered Dragon battered the Taihao Sacred Dynasty's Heaven Concealing Array with its tentacles, while the True Immortals struggled to damage them.
• Su Hao appeared and used sword radiance to sever the Black-Whiskered Dragon's tentacles, then sliced its body into pieces.
• The Black-Whiskered Dragon's Primordial Spirit fled into the Myriad Souls Pagoda, where chains and soul flames subdued it.
• Zhan Xuan warned Su Hao that someone had likely directed the Black-Whiskered Dragon, and Su Hao said it had also killed the thirteen True Immortals.
• Su Hao told Zhan Xuan to master the Thunder Dao Fruit, and Zhan Xuan said he would cultivate in the Nine Heavens Thunder Abyss.

Su Hao learned that the Rain Master Dragon Lord had placed a restriction on the Black-Whiskered Dragon, whose death exposed the Dragon Lord’s involvement in the Four Seas Dragon Kings’ affair. At the Heavenly Court, White Tiger Star Lord provoked the Rain Master Dragon Lord by urging him to act against Su Hao’s people and contrasting him with the resentful but cautious Giant Spirit God Yue Shanting.

• The Black-Whiskered Dragon tried to name the Rain Master Dragon Lord as the mastermind, but a hidden restriction destroyed his Primordial Spirit.
• Su Hao recognized the Rain Master Dragon Lord’s role, resolved not to confront him recklessly, and collected the Black-Whiskered Dragon’s Talent Power and treasures.
• The Rain Master Dragon Lord sensed the Black-Whiskered Dragon’s death and concealed his anger from White Tiger Star Lord.
• White Tiger Star Lord discussed Su Hao’s ascension and suggested that his subordinates could still be purged despite Su Hao’s status.
• White Tiger Star Lord mocked Giant Spirit God Yue Shanting’s reluctance to take revenge on Su Hao, then challenged the Rain Master Dragon Lord to prove his courage.

After five years of secluded cultivation, Su Hao learned that a Devil Realm army would reach the Chiqing Realm within a year and decided to face it himself. He returned to the Taihao Sacred Dynasty, where he reunited with his companions and praised Qin Yue after her sparring match with Xu Qing.

• Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle warned Su Hao that thirty thousand Heavenly Devils, a million puppets and wronged souls, and a Great Devil were approaching the Chiqing Realm.
• Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle offered to deal with the invaders, but Su Hao declined and resolved to meet the Devil Race himself.
• Su Hao left his cave abode and watched Xu Qing and Qin Yue spar at the training ground.
• Qin Yue won their sword match by half a move, and Xu Qing challenged her to fight using Daoist magic and divine abilities.
• Qin Yue greeted Su Hao as her master, and he praised her restraint and humility.

Su Hao intercepted the Devil Race army and swiftly defeated Blood-Sinking Great Devil, absorbing its life force and capturing its Primordial Spirit. He then wiped out the remaining forces, leaving the invasion contained.

• Su Hao chose to wait for the Devil Race army rather than notify the Heavenly Court, intending to use the devils to sharpen his sword.
• Blood-Sinking Great Devil arrived with thirty thousand devil soldiers and attacked Su Hao with a vast blood spear.
• Su Hao used one hundred thousand phantom clones to distract Blood-Sinking Great Devil, then struck it with seven divine inscriptions and the World Annihilation Sword.
• Su Hao absorbed Blood-Sinking Great Devil's vitality and used the Myriad Souls Pagoda to capture its fleeing Primordial Spirit.
• Su Hao and the Myriad Souls Pagoda destroyed or captured the remaining devils, soldiers, wronged spirits, and puppets.

After advancing to a fourth-grade Golden Immortal, Su Hao used a Primordial Dao Essence Crystal and entered a profound state of cultivation. Five years later, the Chiqing Realm remained peaceful while the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle guarded it and quietly enjoyed life in the Taihao Sacred Dynasty.

• Su Hao broke down the devil soldiers' Talent Power, kept the Blood-Sinking Great Devil's [Blood Vine Devil Tree Essence (Red)], and received a Primordial Dao Essence Crystal among his rewards.
• Su Hao swallowed the Nine-Turn Heavenly Origin Immortal Pills, cultivated for several days, and asked the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle to protect the Chiqing Realm while he entered seclusion.
• Su Hao used the Primordial Dao Essence Crystal and experienced a profound state connected to the origin of the laws of heaven and earth.
• After a month, Su Hao absorbed the pills' remaining medicinal power and advanced to a fourth-grade Golden Immortal, surprising the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle.
• Over the next five years, the Chiqing Realm stayed peaceful, and the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle sent an incarnation to the Taihao Sacred Dynasty and built a hidden cabin on Phoenix Perch Mountain.

The Rain Master Dragon Lord possessed the Blood Sin Dragon to attack the Taihao Sacred Dynasty and search for Su Hao. Before he could reach Phoenix Perch Mountain, the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle appeared and swallowed both the Dragon Lord’s avatar and the Blood Sin Dragon.

• The Blood Sin Dragon welcomed the Rain Master Dragon Lord’s offer to take it back to the Immortal Realm and restore its place among the dragon race.
• The Rain Master Dragon Lord merged with the Blood Sin Dragon and searched the Taihao Sacred Dynasty for Su Hao with his divine sense.
• The Rain Master Dragon Lord’s avatar sensed a gigantic turtle behind him before it could reach Phoenix Perch Mountain.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle imprisoned and swallowed the Dragon Lord’s avatar and the Blood Sin Dragon, then absorbed the avatar’s Dao Fruit power.

Five years after Su Hao began cultivating the Seven Character Incantations, he condensed the Restriction Dao Fruit and demonstrated its power by freezing the Six-Tusked White Elephant with a single word. The chapter ended with Su Hao heading to the pavilion after hearing Jin Ji’s mournful zither music.

• Rain Master Dragon Lord plotted to lure White Tiger Star Lord’s daughter to the Chiqing Realm and arrange an accident to take revenge.
• Five years later, the Heavenly Emperor sensed that Su Hao had condensed the Restriction Dao Fruit and worried that Li Zhuo could not contend with him.
• Su Hao emerged from secluded cultivation at Phoenix Perch Mountain with the Restriction Dao Fruit’s power to seal and suppress.
• The Six-Tusked White Elephant challenged Su Hao to spar, but Su Hao froze it with the word “Freeze,” and it could not break free.
• Su Hao went to the pavilion and heard Jin Ji finish playing a sorrowful piece on the zither.

Su Hao learned that the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle had killed the Blood Sin Dragon and the Rain Master Dragon Lord’s avatar while protecting him, and he accepted that he owed the turtle a favor. Ten years later, another force of fifty thousand devils approached the Chiqing Realm, and Su Hao eagerly went out to meet them.

• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle revealed that the Blood Sin Dragon had colluded with the Rain Master Dragon Lord, whose avatar had possessed the dragon to attack Su Hao and the Chiqing Realm.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle explained that it had killed the Blood Sin Dragon and the Rain Master Dragon Lord’s avatar, and Su Hao thanked it and accepted that he owed it a favor.
• Su Hao spent several days hosting the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle, then took the Twelve Heavenly Maidens into seclusion to train them.
• Ten years later, the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle warned Su Hao that fifty thousand devils led by an ugly great devil were approaching the Chiqing Realm.
• Su Hao laughed at the prospect of the new attack and flew out to confront the devils.