Chapter Summaries

Immortal Emperor Lin Changfeng discovered that the Taiji Dao Fruit had a new master and wondered who Taiqing had favored. At Jade Origin Palace, Qingyi confronted Qing Ling over their lost chance to inherit the fruit, and the argument ended with Qingyi bitterly resenting Taiqing’s decision.

• Immortal Emperor Lin Changfeng sensed the Taiji Dao Fruit had changed hands and recalled Taiqing telling him it already had another owner.
• Qingyi hurried to Qing Ling and complained that Taiqing had given the Taiji Dao Fruit to an outsider instead of a disciple.
• Qing Ling urged Qingyi to accept that they lacked the fate to possess the Dao Fruit and said its change of master would help their cultivation advance.
• Qingyi accused Qing Ling of calling Taiqing’s favors fate and argued that Qing Ling’s status had been granted by their master.
• Qingyi contrasted Qing Ling’s good fortune with his own hard-won opportunities and ended by bitterly condemning Taiqing’s decision to give the fruit to an unknown outsider.

After consolidating his cultivation, Su Hao used the demon soldiers’ Primordial Spirits to advance his progress and shared his surplus Dao artifacts with his companions. Little Jin chose two treasures, and the others began deciding who would pick next.

• Su Hao processed the demon soldiers’ Primordial Spirits, gained about thirty percent cultivation progress, and received rewards including Nine-Turn Heavenly Origin Immortal Pills and Purple Jade Body-Forging Immortal Pills.
• Su Hao surveyed his collection of 155 Dao artifacts and decided to give some to Little Cai, Little Jin, Jin Ji, and the others.
• The next day, Su Hao summoned Little Cai and the Twelve Heavenly Maidens and presented them with thirty-two high-grade or better Dao artifacts.
• Little Jin rushed to the treasures first and chose a golden dragon-patterned sword and moonlit light armor, then asked Su Hao how they looked.
• Su Hao praised Little Jin’s choices, while Jin Ji and the other maidens politely urged Little Cai to choose first.

Su Hao revealed that he possessed the Restriction Dao Fruit, impressing Immortal Lord Qingchen and easing her doubts about his suitability for Yu Xuanji. After discussing his delayed post in the Darkwater Realm and the Mystic Maiden Palace, Qingchen left Yu Xuanji in her hometown for one more month.

• Immortal Lord Qingchen and Yu Xuanji learned that Su Hao was the source of the Restriction Dao Fruit’s power, and Qingchen began treating him as an equal.
• Qingchen urged Su Hao to take up his post in the Darkwater Realm, but Su Hao said he would go when the time was right.
• Yu Xuanji told Su Hao that Ye Suqing had died under a mysterious curse, while Su Hao concealed that he had caused her death.
• Su Hao suggested Yu Xuanji reclaim the Mystic Maiden Palace, but Yu Xuanji said the Heavenly Court had already taken it over and she would build anew when stronger.
• Immortal Lord Qingchen departed and allowed Yu Xuanji to stay in her hometown for one more month.

Immortal Lord Qingchen visited Su Hao to assess him and learned that he possessed the Restriction Dao Fruit, then allowed Yu Xuanji to remain with him for another month. When she returned, Qingchen discovered Yu Xuanji had advanced two realms and reached fourth-rank True Immortal.

• Immortal Lord Qingchen recognized Su Hao's Restriction Dao Fruit, abandoned her plan to probe him, and spoke with him as a peer.
• Su Hao and Yu Xuanji discussed Ye Suqing's death and the Heavenly Court's takeover of the Mystic Maiden Palace, and Yu Xuanji accepted that she would not reclaim it for now.
• Immortal Lord Qingchen permitted Yu Xuanji to stay in the Chiqing Realm for a month before returning to collect her.
• Su Hao took Yu Xuanji to his cultivation chamber under the pretense of showing her an exotic beast and spent the month with her.
• Immortal Lord Qingchen summoned Yu Xuanji after the month ended and was astonished to find she had reached fourth-rank True Immortal.

Yu Xuanji left the Chiqing Realm with Immortal Lord Qingchen after a month of rapid cultivation alongside Su Hao. After twenty years of seclusion, Su Hao reached the ninth-rank Golden Immortal realm, then confronted the Four Seasons Dragon Lord as it tried to probe the Chiqing Realm.

• Immortal Lord Qingchen questioned Yu Xuanji about her progress, and Yu Xuanji declined to remain in the Chiqing Realm before returning to the Immortal Realm with her master.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle told Su Hao that Immortal Lord Qingchen seemed to have the bearing of an Immortal Emperor, and Su Hao revealed that she was an Immortal Emperor reincarnated.
• Su Hao spent nearly half a year traveling and then cultivated in seclusion for twenty years, advancing to the ninth-rank Golden Immortal realm with 33% progress.
• The Four Seasons Dragon Lord entered the Chiqing Realm's vicinity and tried to probe it, but a restriction blocked its divine sense.
• Su Hao met the Four Seasons Dragon Lord in the void, and the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle appeared after Su Hao called on it.

Su Hao and the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle struck a bargain over the Four Seasons Wheel, which the Turtle had taken from the Four Seasons Dragon Lord. After extracting part of its Dao essence for Su Hao, the Turtle demanded the promised immortal sword, and Su Hao produced Chihuang.

• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle gave Su Hao thirty bottles of Jade Radiance Qi Source Immortal Pills in exchange for the Dragon Lord’s flesh.
• Su Hao explained that the Four Seasons Dragon Lord would likely stay quiet and return to ask for the Four Seasons Wheel because he needed it to perform his duties.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle offered to extract some of the Wheel’s Dao essence for an immortal sword, and Su Hao agreed.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle drew out a portion of the powers of spring, summer, autumn, and winter and sent the resulting sphere of light into Su Hao.
• Su Hao thanked the Turtle and handed over the immortal sword Chihuang.

The Four Seasons Dragon Lord pleaded with the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle to return the Four Seasons Wheel, and the turtle demanded an immortal sword in exchange. The Dragon Lord surrendered his treasured Wrath Dragon sword and received the Four Seasons Wheel, leaving him weakened by the loss.

• The Four Seasons Dragon Lord humbly asked the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle to return the Four Seasons Wheel, explaining its importance to the Heavenly Court and all living beings.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle demanded an immortal sword as the price of returning the treasure.
• The Four Seasons Dragon Lord reluctantly offered his Wrath Dragon sword after the turtle threatened him with its power.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle brought out the Four Seasons Wheel, then held it back until the Dragon Lord severed his bond with Wrath Dragon.
• The Four Seasons Dragon Lord suffered backlash as he surrendered Wrath Dragon, and the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle claimed the sword and began refining it.

The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle captured Crimson Frost Dragon Lord and Fate-Wielding Dragon Lord outside the Chiqing Realm and crushed them to death. Su Hao had finished refining the Four Seasons Wheel's Dao essence and witnessed the two Dragon Lords' defeat.

• The Four Seasons Dragon Lord warned Crimson Frost Dragon Lord that a mysterious expert near the Chiqing Realm had nearly injured him, then shut himself away.
• Su Hao refined the Four Seasons Wheel's Dao essence over five years, raising his cultivation progress to 65% and improving his command of the Five Elements Dao.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle called Su Hao to the void outside the Chiqing Realm after capturing Crimson Frost Dragon Lord.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle exposed Fate-Wielding Dragon Lord, who had been hiding nearby, and stopped his attempt to escape.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle crushed both Dragon Lords and devoured much of their blood-and-qi essence.

The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle defeated Crimson Frost Dragon Lord and Fate-Wielding Dragon Lord, then traded their captured treasures to Su Hao for two immortal swords. Su Hao gained the treasures’ Dao essence and left to cultivate, while the turtle expected the Heavenly Court to overlook the Dragon Lords’ losses.

• Crimson Frost Dragon Lord and Fate-Wielding Dragon Lord attacked the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle with their treasures, but it subdued the treasures and sent both Dragon Lords fleeing.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle showed Su Hao the Wrath Dragon immortal sword, which it had taken from Four Seasons Dragon Lord in an earlier trade.
• Su Hao agreed to trade two immortal swords for the Extreme Cold Hellfire Diagram and the Heavenly Fate Treasure Disc.
• Su Hao gave the turtle the Yaoguang immortal sword and the Jiangshan Dimu Sword in exchange for the two treasures.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle extracted the treasures’ Dao essence for Su Hao, who left to enter seclusion.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle expected the Dragon Lords to report their losses to the Heavenly Court but believed it would not break relations over them.

Crimson Frost Dragon Lord and Fate-Wielding Dragon Lord confronted Four Seasons Dragon Lord for luring them to Chiqing Realm, but Dragon Lord Zhaoming prioritized recovering their treasures and planned to ask the Father Emperor for help. In seclusion, Su Hao absorbed two strands of Dao essence and gained fire and ice origin talents, while deciding not to rush after their Dao Fruits.

• Crimson Frost Dragon Lord and Fate-Wielding Dragon Lord accused Four Seasons Dragon Lord of concealing the danger in Chiqing Realm and setting them up.
• Dragon Lord Zhaoming and Rain Master Dragon Lord arrived, and Zhaoming rebuked the dragons before ordering them to recover their treasures without alerting the Heavenly Court.
• Dragon Lord Zhaoming concluded that the group needed the Father Emperor's help to face the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle and retrieve the immortal swords.
• Su Hao secluded himself at Phoenix Perch Mountain and absorbed essence from the Extreme Cold Hellfire Diagram and the Heavenly Fate Treasure Disc.
• In the fifth year of seclusion, Su Hao acquired the Seven-Colored Fire Origin Seed and Seven-Colored Ice Origin Seed talents.
• Su Hao suppressed the fire and ice powers with Taiji and decided to pursue the Heavenly Fate Dao Fruit rather than rush to obtain the Fire Origin or Ice Origin Dao Fruits.

The Glazed Light Guardian Heavenly Dragon King pursued the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle away from the Chiqing Realm, then the Heavenly Court’s five Dragon Lords arrived together. They discovered Little Cai’s transformation and suspected she held a great secret, leaving Su Hao facing their greedy attention.

• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle fled into the void, and the Glazed Light Guardian Heavenly Dragon King pursued it toward the border between the Immortal Realm and the Demon Realm.
• Su Hao declined to follow them, wary of the danger and reluctant to leave the Chiqing Realm.
• The five Dragon Lords—Zhaoming, Rain Master, Chishuang, Four Seasons, and Zhangyun—approached the Chiqing Realm, and Su Hao and the Six-Tusked White Elephant went out to meet them.
• Little Cai joined Su Hao and suggested the Dragon Lords might have come for her, hoping they wanted her to return to her ancestral roots.
• The Dragon Lords used an ocular art to see Little Cai’s origins and suspected her transformation concealed a great secret that could help them reach the level of a Dragon Emperor.

Su Hao refused to let the Dragon Lords take Little Cai and fought them after Four Seasons Dragon Lord attacked. He defeated Four Seasons Dragon Lord in an instant, leaving the other four Dragon Lords to face him.

• The Six-Tusked White Elephant warned Little Cai that the Dragon Lords had come prepared to fight, and Su Hao blocked Dragon Lord Zhaoming’s probing attack.
• Little Cai offered to go with the Dragon Lords, but Su Hao refused and sent her back to Phoenix Perch Mountain.
• Rain Master Dragon Lord and Four Seasons Dragon Lord demanded revenge against Su Hao, while Dragon Lord Zhaoming threatened to act if Su Hao kept obstructing them.
• Four Seasons Dragon Lord attacked Su Hao with the Four Seasons Wheel, but Su Hao shattered his body, suppressed his primordial spirit, and seized the wheel.
• The other four Dragon Lords were shocked by Su Hao’s strength and urged one another to give everything they had.

Su Hao trapped the four Dragon Lords in the Sword Annihilation Great Curse, but their treasures and Dao Fruits let them withstand its assault. The Dragon Lords believed they could outlast him, while Su Hao’s attempts to break their defense had failed.

• The four Dragon Lords joined forces inside a small defensive barrier and concluded that they could survive by outlasting Su Hao.
• Dragon Lord Zhaoming ordered Fate-Wielding Dragon Lord to sacrifice the Heavenly Fate Treasure Disc to strengthen the other Dragon Lords’ defenses.
• Fate-Wielding Dragon Lord used his Heavenly Fate Dao Fruit to amplify the remaining treasures, while Crimson Frost Dragon Lord and Rain Master Dragon Lord eventually withdrew their weakened treasures.
• Dragon Lord Zhaoming continued defending alone with the Cavern Mystery Divine Light Pearl as Su Hao tried the Restriction Dao Fruit and Taiji Dao Fruit without breaking through.

Su Hao survived Dragon Lord Zhaoming’s Cavern Mystery Divine Light and used the Sword Extinguishes Great Curse and Restriction Dao Fruit to defeat and divide him. After storing Zhaoming’s scattered flesh across hundreds of rings, Su Hao warned that the more dangerous Protector Heavenly Dragon King was still a threat.

• Su Hao used Transform Myriad Laws to weaken Dragon Lord Zhaoming’s Cavern Mystery Divine Light, then healed the wound it inflicted.
• Su Hao and his incarnations unleashed the Sword Extinguishes Great Curse, grinding Zhaoming’s dragon body into thousands of pieces.
• Zhaoming revealed that his Indestructible Dragon Light kept his body and Primordial Spirit from being destroyed, but Su Hao sealed the scattered pieces apart with the Restriction Dao Fruit.
• Su Hao placed Zhaoming’s pieces into separate bottles and storage rings, while the Six-Tusked White Elephant and the others watched.
• Su Hao warned his companions that the Protector Heavenly Dragon King was the greater danger.

Su Hao refused to accept the Heavenly Dragon King’s proposed punishment for the five Dragon Lords, insisting that the dispute required compensation. The Heavenly Dragon King dismissed the demand, while the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle backed Su Hao and invited him to decide what to do next.

• Su Hao released the five Dragon Lords, and the Heavenly Dragon King healed their bodies and injuries with his Nine-Grade Golden Lotus.
• Dragon Lord Zhaoming explained that they had come to retrieve Little Cai and accused the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle of attacking them and taking their treasures.
• The Heavenly Dragon King acknowledged the Dragon Lords’ reasons but condemned their trespass and deception, promising discipline and referral to the Heavenly Court.
• Su Hao rejected the Heavenly Dragon King’s offer, and the Six-Tusked White Elephant demanded compensation for their losses.
• The Heavenly Dragon King refused to offer compensation and argued that the Dragon Lords had suffered losses themselves.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle supported Su Hao and told him to choose whether to fight or pursue another course.

Sin Lotus Bodhisattva ordered the Guardian Heavenly Dragon King to stop opposing Su Hao, while Dragon Lord Zhaoming argued that the Buddhist Palace had no authority over the five Dragon Lords. The White Tiger Star Lord then announced that the Heavenly Emperor had approved their thousand-year service as Artifact Spirits in Su Hao’s Myriad Souls Pagoda as punishment for their crimes.

• Sin Lotus Bodhisattva told the Guardian Heavenly Dragon King to comply with Su Hao’s demands.
• The Guardian Heavenly Dragon King accepted the Buddhist decree but argued that the Heavenly Court should decide the Dragon Lords’ punishment.
• Dragon Lord Zhaoming rejected the demand and insisted the five Dragon Lords would answer to the Heavenly Court.
• Sin Lotus Bodhisattva summoned the White Tiger Star Lord, who charged the five Dragon Lords with violating thirteen Heavenly Laws.
• The White Tiger Star Lord declared that the Heavenly Emperor had ordered the five Dragon Lords to serve Su Hao as Artifact Spirits for a thousand years.

After White Tiger Star Lord departed, Su Hao confronted the consequences of exposing his powers and discovered the Heavenly Court had reclaimed the five Dragon Lords’ bound treasures. He used the Myriad Souls Pagoda’s soulfire to force the imprisoned Dragon Lords to surrender their private possessions.

• White Tiger Star Lord urged Su Hao to visit the Heavenly Court before his hundred-year deadline expired, then departed with the heavenly soldiers.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle warned Su Hao that the Buddhist sect and Heavenly Court’s attention could make it difficult to remain in the Chiqing Realm.
• Su Hao’s Myriad Souls Pagoda became a top-grade immortal artifact after the five Dragon Lords became its Artifact Spirits.
• Su Hao learned that the Heavenly Court had reclaimed the five Dragon Lords’ most powerful immortal treasures, which were bound to their official positions.
• Dragon Lord Zhaoming protested when Su Hao demanded the Dragon Lords’ storage treasures, but surrendered his dragon pearl after Su Hao tortured them with the pagoda’s soulfire.

Demon-Suppressing Divine Generals Yuan Wu and Feng Ming watched Su Hao’s confrontation with the Heavenly Dragon King from hiding, then saw the White Tiger Star Lord imprison the five Dragon Lords in Su Hao’s tower. Realizing Su Hao had powerful backing and that they could not defeat him, the two generals retreated.

• Yuan Wu proposed using a divine ability to spy on the argument, but Feng Ming warned that the Heavenly Dragon King or Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle had already destroyed their mirror as a warning.
• Yuan Wu and Feng Ming watched the Heavenly Dragon King leave after failing to reach an agreement with Su Hao and his companions.
• The White Tiger Star Lord arrived with Heavenly soldiers and struck the primordial spirits of the five Dragon Lords into Su Hao’s black tower.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle invited Yuan Wu and Feng Ming to fight Su Hao, but Feng Ming persuaded Yuan Wu that the risks and their poor odds made the duel unwise.
• Yuan Wu and Feng Ming left without confronting Su Hao, and the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle mocked their retreat.

Su Hao found the five Dragon Lords’ hoard disappointing and considered taking their dragon pearls and essence blood to strengthen Little Cai’s bloodline. Little Cai and Little Jin urged him to prioritize his own growth, while Su Hao explained that he had no need to claim the Dragon Clan’s power for himself.

• Su Hao, Little Cai, and Little Jin sorted the Dragon Lords’ storage treasures and found two low-grade Immortal Artifacts, manuals, materials, pills, and a large pile of immortal jade.
• Su Hao complained that the five Dragon Lords’ possessions were too shabby, then considered taking their dragon pearls and Dragon Ancestor essence blood.
• Little Cai warned that removing the dragon pearls would weaken the Dragon Lords and could provoke the Heavenly Dragon King.
• Su Hao said he could use the Dragon Lords’ bodies, pearls, and blood to help Little Cai become the most powerful being in the Dragon Clan.
• Little Cai and Little Jin urged Su Hao to keep the resources for himself, but he explained that his Sword Dao mattered more and that he had no need for the Dragon Clan bloodline.

Su Hao confronted the Heavenly Dragon King over his plan to extract the Four Seasons Dragon Lords’ bloodlines to strengthen Little Cai. The Heavenly Dragon King offered the immortal sword Dragon Palace in exchange for sparing his children, but Su Hao refused, saying his own sword had greater potential.

• Su Hao told the Heavenly Dragon King that he intended to extract the Dragon Lords’ pure bloodlines, and the king warned that doing so would ruin their strength.
• The Heavenly Dragon King threatened Su Hao but dispersed his destructive pressure without attacking, then pleaded for his children to keep their bloodlines.
• Su Hao explained that he wanted the Dragon Lords’ bloodlines to strengthen Little Cai and rejected the king’s claims that the dragons deserved protection from him.
• The Heavenly Dragon King offered Su Hao the immortal sword Dragon Palace in exchange for sparing the five Dragon Lords.
• Su Hao declined Dragon Palace, saying his current sword had greater potential, and Dragon Palace responded with an anxious, defiant sword cry.