Chapter Summaries

Su Hao gained the Daoist Sect's support after the Profound Yellow Sword acknowledged him as its master, though the White Elephant and Lianjingzi rejected the claim that he was the Human King. He let True Person Gan Zi stay at Phoenix Perch Mountain while he considered the coming calamity and improved his divine abilities.

• True Person Gan Zi declared that the Profound Yellow Sword's choice proved Su Hao was the Human King, while the White Elephant and Lianjingzi insisted it was wrong.
• Su Hao invited True Person Gan Zi to follow him and revealed his blessed residence, prompting Gan Zi to pledge his service.
• Lianjingzi left to consult the Empress Dowager, while the White Elephant stayed behind and continued doubting Su Hao's identity.
• Su Hao questioned True Person Gan Zi about the world's calamities, the Human King's role, and the Daoist Sect's support.
• Su Hao told True Person Gan Zi to avoid contacting the Daoist sects for now and to cultivate quietly at Phoenix Perch Mountain.
• Su Hao accepted the situation for the time being and began improving his divine abilities with the Divine Ability Stone.

Yue Huayin Ji confirmed that Su Hao was the Human King because the Profound Yellow Sword had chosen him, and sent Jin Ji with Lianjingzi to verify his identity. Su Hao advanced the Four Emperors Sword of Lingxiao into the Boundless Heavenly Emperor Sword, while Ning Duanyue reported his progress and set out to return to the Golden Light Sect.

• Lianjingzi told Yue Huayin Ji that True Person Gan Zi had found a possible Human King, and Yue Huayin Ji accepted the Profound Yellow Sword's recognition as proof despite questions about Su Hao's demonic cultivation.
• Yue Huayin Ji explained that Lianjingzi and the Six-Tusked White Elephant might not recognize Su Hao until the time was right, then sent Jin Ji to confirm his identity.
• Su Hao used ten Divine Ability Stones to advance the Four Emperors Sword of Lingxiao into the Boundless Heavenly Emperor Sword, releasing a sword intent that spread across the Tianyuan Continent.
• Lianjingzi and Jin Ji saw Su Hao's sword intent, while the Supreme Origin Sword Sect's Heaven and Earth Sword Dao Ranking recorded the Boundless Heavenly Emperor Sword in its eleventh slot.
• Ning Duanyue told the Annihilation Sword Master that he had reached the entry level of the Taiyi Sword Curse of Lingxiao, then said he was returning to the Golden Light Sect; the Annihilation Sword Master let him go.

Ning Duanyue received permission to enter the Sword Realm and pursue the sword, while Su Hao returned to seclusion after displaying overwhelming sword intent. Lianjingzi and Jin Ji accepted that Su Hao was the Human King and waited at Phoenix Perch Mountain as his cultivation continued.

• Annihilation Sword Master marked Ning Duanyue so he could enter the Sword Realm directly and told him to return after seeing through the mortal world and life and death.
• Su Hao returned to Golden Light Sect, where True Person Gan Zi, Zhang Xiao, and the White Elephant praised his divine ability and resolved to improve their own strength.
• Su Hao entered seclusion and ordered True Person Gan Zi and Zhang Xiao to guard Phoenix Perch Mountain; Lianjingzi and Jin Ji arrived seeking to see him.
• True Person Gan Zi challenged Lianjingzi and Jin Ji for trying to disturb Su Hao, and the two women chose to wait after recognizing the evidence of his identity as the Human King.
• One month later, Su Hao reached the Integrated Body Early Stage without a heavenly tribulation, but continued cultivating because his strength remained insufficient to wield the Boundless Heavenly Emperor Sword.

After waiting ten years at Phoenix Perch Mountain, Jin Ji and Lianjingzi resolved to seek the Human King’s forgiveness and worried about his bond with Little Cai. Su Hao entered the fifth level of the Supreme Origin Sword Realm, defeated its gatekeeper with ease, and claimed its reward, leaving Ning Duanyue determined to challenge him outside the realm.

• Jin Ji urged Lianjingzi to stop voicing suspicions about the Human King, and Lianjingzi promised she would trust her husband.
• Jin Ji worried that Little Cai’s rapid cultivation and dragon-race divine path might cause trouble for the Human King.
• Su Hao entered the fifth level of the Supreme Origin Sword Realm and promised the unresponsive Realm Spirit that he would eventually set it free.
• Su Hao met Ning Duanyue, who described his years of challenges and asked how quickly Su Hao had reached the fifth level.
• Su Hao destroyed the gatekeeper with a two-finger sword strike and claimed the purple-green crystal reward.
• Ning Duanyue accepted that he could not catch up to Su Hao in the Sword Realm, then left and vowed to challenge him outside.

Su Hao cleared the sixth trial of the Taiyuan Sword Realm, learned that the seventh trial’s guardian was a remnant thought of the Taiyuan Sword Master, and began considering how to forge a sword from his new treasure. After leaving seclusion, he accepted Lianjingzi’s apology and dao pills while Jin Ji and Lianjingzi drew closer to him as the suspected Human King.

• Su Hao used the Boundless Heavenly Emperor Sword’s sword intent and the Spirit Unification Art to defeat the sixth trial’s Realm Spirit on the 136th move, then claimed Profound Heaven Five-Colored Gold as his reward.
• Su Hao met the Taiyuan Sword Master’s remnant thought at the seventh trial, learned that he could claim any one treasure after passing it, and left the Sword Realm without attempting the trial.
• The remnant thought speculated that Su Hao had touched the threshold of the Limitless Divine Ability and feared that his extraordinary talent heralded a great calamity.
• Su Hao studied the Profound Heaven Five-Colored Gold and tested it against the destructive Heavenly Wood Sword Essence, finding that the two materials might be forged together.
• Jin Ji and Lianjingzi approached Su Hao after his seclusion; Lianjingzi apologized and offered him one hundred dao pills, and both women affirmed that they believed he was the Human King.

Jin Ji planned to approach Su Hao for dual cultivation, but Ning Duanyue arrived at the Golden Light Sect seeking a meeting after defeating Zhang Xiao in a contest of sword attainments. Su Hao agreed to receive Ning Duanyue, whose resolve collapsed when he finally saw Su Hao.

• Jin Ji and Lianjingzi decided to take the initiative and pursue dual cultivation with Su Hao, and Jin Ji spent more than ten days preparing herself.
• Ning Duanyue and Shen Rulong arrived at the Golden Light Sect, where Zhang Xiao confronted them.
• Ning Duanyue used the Taiyi Sword Curse of Lingxiao and forced Zhang Xiao to unleash Tribulation Crossing Realm strength, claiming victory in their contest of sword attainments.
• Zhang Xiao refused to let Shen Rulong enter, but Su Hao sent word that he would meet Ning Duanyue.
• Ning Duanyue entered Su Hao's grotto dwelling, and the sight of Su Hao made his confidence and fighting spirit vanish.

Ning Duanyue learned that Su Hao had reached the seventh level of the Taiyuan Sword Realm and left determined to challenge him someday. Meanwhile, Jin Ji and Lianjingzi sensed a call from the southwest, where the White Elephant believed the Human King had appeared, and Shen Rulong set out toward the Nine Nether Absolute Land.

• Ning Duanyue asked Su Hao about his Sword Realm progress and learned he had reached the seventh level, making him a potential candidate to become the Supreme Origin Sword Sect's next Sword Master.
• Ning Duanyue realized he could not even gather his sword intent in Su Hao's presence, then left Phoenix Perch Mountain vowing to keep striving until they could exchange moves.
• Jin Ji urged Su Hao to pursue the Sword Master position to improve their chances against the human race's calamity, but Su Hao told her and Lianjingzi to focus on cultivating.
• Jin Ji, Lianjingzi, and the White Elephant sensed a call from the southwest, and the White Elephant announced that the Human King was in a village there before vanishing to search for him.
• Ning Duanyue told Shen Rulong that he had not fought Su Hao, and Shen Rulong chose to seek opportunities at the Nine Nether Absolute Land; Ning Duanyue gave him an ancient Dao talisman.

Su Hao and Jin Ji attempted to unite as the Human King and a Heavenly Maiden, but a protective jade light blocked them until Su Hao used the Joyful Zen Sacred Art to overcome it. Their union granted them both new powers, including Su Hao’s Seed of Yin and Yang, and left Jin Ji able to comprehend the Great Dao of Yin and Yang alongside him.

• Jin Ji visited Su Hao with food and wine, then explained the Jade Pool Sacred Sect’s duty to nurture Heavenly Maidens and their connection to the Human King.
• Jin Ji urged Su Hao to unite with her, but jade light formed around her and warned that forcing through it would kill her.
• Su Hao tried again using the Joyful Zen Sacred Art, which resonated with the jade light and made it recede.
• Su Hao gained cultivation progress and the Seven-Colored Seed of Yin and Yang, while Jin Ji gained a sharp increase in her cultivation aptitude and a new ability.
• Jin Ji awoke and realized she could comprehend the Great Dao of Yin and Yang with Su Hao, who silently examined her new talent.

Su Hao confirmed Jin Ji’s loyalty, joined with her and Lian Jing in dual cultivation, and advanced to the Integrated Body Late Stage over the following half year. Jin Ji and Lian Jing planned to return to the Jade Pool Sacred Sect to warn the other Heavenly Maidens about the suspected extraterrestrial evil demon, while Su Hao stayed behind to cultivate.

• Jin Ji accepted Su Hao as her husband and the true Human King after he passed her tests, then brought Lian Jing to meet him.
• Jin Ji urged Lian Jing to unite with Su Hao, and Su Hao completed dual cultivation with Lian Jing around midnight.
• Lian Jing gained three red talents, while repeated sessions with both women gradually yielded diminishing cultivation gains.
• Half a year later, Su Hao reached the Integrated Body Late Stage, and Jin Ji and Lian Jing had both advanced to the Integrated Body Middle Stage.
• Jin Ji and Lian Jing decided to return to the Jade Pool Sacred Sect to warn Empress Dowager and the remaining Heavenly Maidens, while Su Hao declined to accompany them so he could keep cultivating.
• Six-Tusked White Elephant returned to Phoenix Perch Mountain looking gloomy after the women had left.

The white elephant took Su Hao to meet the ordinary cowherd boy Li Goudan, whom it suspected might be the Human King, but Su Hao found no sign of anything special. Half a year later, while Li Goudan continued herding cattle under Zhang Xiao’s watch, Li Yueyao arrived at the Golden Light Sect and called for Su Hao.

• The white elephant told Su Hao that a feeling had led it to a village and a seemingly ordinary fifteen-year-old cowherd boy.
• Su Hao persuaded the white elephant to take him to Huangyan Village, where his information panel showed Li Goudan had no realm or talent.
• Su Hao dismissed Li Goudan as an ordinary mortal and returned to Phoenix Perch Mountain, while the white elephant remained troubled by its lingering sense of connection to the boy.
• Half a year passed without Jin Ji and Lianjingzi returning, as Li Goudan continued herding cattle and Zhang Xiao monitored her.
• Li Yueyao appeared outside the Golden Light Sect and called for Su Hao, who went out to greet her as Martial Aunt Li.

Li Yueyao visited Su Hao, refused to give him the pills Yu Xuanji had entrusted to her, and clashed with True Person Gan Zi after he appeared. She returned to Yu Xuanji with news of Su Hao’s powerful backing, leaving Yu Xuanji shocked to learn Gan Zi claimed to be a disciple of True Lord Juyuan.

• Li Yueyao dismissed Su Hao’s familiar address and refused to deliver the pills Yu Xuanji had entrusted to her.
• Su Hao summoned True Person Gan Zi, and Li Yueyao challenged him after learning he was a Loose Immortal.
• True Person Gan Zi and Li Yueyao fought until the approaching tribulation lightning forced them to stop, and Li Yueyao departed.
• True Person Gan Zi apologized for losing control, and Su Hao agreed to increase his Immortal Qi supply by fifty percent.
• Li Yueyao told Yu Xuanji that Su Hao had a Loose Immortal backing him and identified him as True Person Gan Zi, a claimed disciple of True Lord Juyuan.
• Yu Xuanji reacted with shock when she heard Gan Zi’s connection to True Lord Juyuan.

Su Hao learned that heaven and earth’s rejection of powerful cultivators could lead to heavenly tribulations and heard True Person Gan Zi’s plan to unite the cultivation world under him. As the rejection intensified, Su Hao charged into the storm above the Golden Light Sect to face his first tribulation.

• Yu Xuanji recognized the Sea-Covering Treasure Seal as a projected counterfeit of True Lord Juyuan’s supreme treasure and wondered why his disciple had become involved with Su Hao.
• Su Hao told True Person Gan Zi that he had reached late-stage Body Integration, and Gan Zi explained how heaven and earth rejected powerful cultivators and triggered tribulations.
• True Person Gan Zi described the Barren Ancient Domain as a destination for ambitious cultivators and urged Su Hao to unite the Three Continents and Four Seas.
• Su Hao rejected Gan Zi’s plan as premature and worried that Jin Ji and Lianjingzi had not returned or reported back after another year.
• When the rejection from heaven and earth reached its extreme, Su Hao took the Profound Yellow Sword and charged into the thunderclouds above the Golden Light Sect.

Su Hao survived a blood-red heavenly tribulation and gained the Forbidden Word Curse, but breaking the chains that suppressed the Tianyuan Continent released sealed demon lords. As demons began devouring people across the continent, True Person Gan Zi realized the disaster Su Hao had warned about had begun.

• Su Hao’s Profound Yellow Sword triggered a world-spanning blood-red tribulation, and he entered its clouds, where his powers and treasures failed to protect him.
• Su Hao used the Heavenly Wood Sword Essence to shatter the blood-colored thunderbolts and reached an altar, where he absorbed the ancient divine character “Prohibit” and received the Forbidden Word Curse.
• The tribulation ended, and Su Hao told True Person Gan Zi that its disappearance had removed the heavens’ rejection and increased the continent’s Spiritual Energy.
• The vanished blood-colored chains weakened the formation beneath the Nine Nether Absolute Land, allowing a black lion-shaped demon lord to escape and devour people as it flew north.
• A Devil Lord emerged from the Icebound Demonic Abyss, a blood dragon escaped in the Western Sea, and other demon lords broke their seals as True Person Gan Zi recognized the disaster.

Su Hao learned that taking the Forbidden Word Curse had disrupted the Human King's role and unleashed chaos across the cultivation world. Meanwhile, Li Goudan survived the Blood Sin Dragon's attack and met Mu Hongling, who offered to take him to the Jade Pool Sacred Sect to pursue revenge.

• Su Hao realized the Forbidden Word Curse was one of seven incantations meant for the Human King and that taking it had accelerated the collapse of the restrictions across the Three Continents and Four Seas.
• White Elephant awoke, learned that demons and fiends had broken free, and set out for Huangyan Village to find Li Goudan, whom it believed was the Human King.
• Zhang Xiao arrived wounded and reported that the Blood Sin Dragon had swallowed Huangyan Village and its people, including Li Goudan.
• White Elephant searched for Li Goudan but could no longer sense him, while Li Goudan awoke alive on a mountain, believing the massacre had been a dream.
• Mu Hongling found Li Goudan, brought him to the ruins of Huangyan Village, and offered to take him to the Jade Pool Sacred Sect so he could grow strong enough to avenge the villagers.

Mu Hongling brought Li Goudan to the Jade Pool Sacred Sect, but Yue Huayin Ji dismissed him as a possible Human King and sent him to the outer court, where Elder Wei killed him. Li Zhuo awakened by the sea with new perceptions, while Su Hao welcomed more heavenly maidens to the Golden Light Sect and news of the lifting of Heaven and Earth’s restrictions stirred the Barren Ancient Domain.

• Yue Huayin Ji rejected Mu Hongling’s claim that Li Goudan might be the Human King and ordered him sent to the Hundred Fragrances Outer Court while Mu Hongling went to join Su Hao.
• Mu Hongling renamed Li Goudan Li Zhuo, left him at the outer court, and told him to cultivate if he wanted to avenge his village.
• Elder Wei stabbed Li Zhuo through the heart and threw his body from a cliff, but he later revived by the seaside with altered perceptions.
• Jin Ji and Lian Jing brought Shui Sheng and Xuan Yin to the Golden Light Sect, where Su Hao welcomed them and revealed the hidden world within Phoenix Perch Mountain.
• White Elephant King struggled to accept that Su Hao was the Human King as Su Hao led the heavenly maidens to the meditation chamber.
• News that Heaven and Earth’s restrictions had vanished reached the Barren Ancient Domain, prompting many experts to emerge and return to the spatial passages.

After Ancestor Lieying returned to Tianyuan Continent and learned that Golden Light Sect had fallen, he joined Three-Eyed Corpse King to attack it. Su Hao defeated them with one sword strike, consumed their powers, and received an immortal artifact as a special reward.

• Ancestor Lieying returned to Tianyuan Continent and learned from Three-Eyed Corpse King that Golden Light Sect had been taken over.
• Ancestor Lieying and Three-Eyed Corpse King attacked Golden Light Sect, while Great Ape Saint followed them in secret.
• Su Hao used one sword strike to shatter both attackers’ bodies and imprison their Primordial Spirits.
• Su Hao consumed Three-Eyed Corpse King’s talents and let Soul Devourer swallow his Primordial Spirit.
• Su Hao dismantled Ancestor Lieying’s talents and received the Mysterious Zen Lotus Immortal Jade Cushion, while Great Ape Saint fled.

Su Hao tested the immortal-grade meditation cushion before rescuing Little Cai and Little Jin from Great Ape Saint. He discovered that Little Cai had awakened Wish Power Wonderful Body, which let her create physical objects by spending wish power, and left the two to continue cultivating among mortals.

• Su Hao brought the immortal-grade meditation cushion to the lodge, where Jin Ji, Lian Jing, Shui Sheng, and Xuan Yin tried its sudden-enlightenment effect.
• Su Hao sensed Little Cai and Little Jin were in danger, arrived beside them, and fought Great Ape Saint, whose Ape Demon True Body he shattered with the Boundless Heavenly Emperor Sword.
• Great Ape Saint escaped as a severed limb while Su Hao freed Little Cai and Little Jin from the black sphere.
• Su Hao examined Little Cai and learned she had awakened Wish Power Wonderful Body, then watched her spend wish power to conjure a steamed bun and a roast chicken.
• Su Hao warned Little Cai not to waste her wish power, gave both companions pills, and let them continue cultivating among mortals.

Su Hao empowered the Heavenly Dragon Demon Subduing Pestle and rescued Little Cai and Little Jin from a demon horde, earning a Dragon Transformation Fortune Pill and other rewards. Little Cai transformed into a true dragon, but her breakthrough triggered the Dragon Palace’s Dragon Tribulation Imperial Bell and brought terrifying lightning over her.

• Su Hao used Star Stones to advance the Heavenly Dragon Demon Subduing Pestle to a High-grade Dao Artifact.
• Su Hao killed a wolf king and thousands of demon beasts after Little Cai and Little Jin called for help, gaining a God Descent Token, a Dragon Transformation Fortune Pill, and a Purple Extreme Star Dragon Vein among his rewards.
• Su Hao gave Little Cai the Dragon Transformation Fortune Pill and injected the Purple Extreme Star Dragon Vein into Little Jin, raising Little Jin to the Late Stage Void Refinement.
• After three months, Little Cai emerged from her blood egg as a Five-Colored Dragon with 85% true dragon bloodline, and her roar echoed across Tianyuan Continent.
• The Dragon Tribulation Imperial Bell rang at the East Sea Dragon Palace, and heavenly lightning gathered over Little Cai as a voice from the Dragon Palace condemned her transformation.

Little Cai survived an extraordinary Dragon Transformation Heavenly Tribulation and became a Five-Colored True Dragon, while Su Hao helped her and warned her to stay away from the Dragon Palace. At the ravaged tribulation site, Yu Xuanji recognized the five-colored dragon scale and began to suspect it belonged to Little Cai.

• Little Jin merged with Little Cai to help her withstand the tribulation, and Su Hao weakened it by throwing two Calamity Crossing Dao Pills into the clouds.
• Little Cai survived the final bolt, transformed into a Five-Colored True Dragon, and gained the Dragon Emperor's Protection talent.
• After Little Cai awoke, she told Su Hao about her new dragon abilities and the Myriad Transformation Dragon Scripture; Su Hao gave her and Little Jin God Descent Tokens and forbade them from going to the Dragon Palace.
• People, spirit beasts, and demons fought over the scales and flesh scattered at the tribulation site, while Li Yueyao and Yu Xuanji examined the remains.
• Yu Xuanji recognized the five-colored scale and wondered whether the dragon that survived the tribulation could be Little Cai, though she dismissed the possibility as unlikely.

The East Sea Dragon King sent Ao Lan and an elite force to Tianyuan Continent to find and execute the dragon that had broken its bloodline shackles, while Jiao Yishou warned Ao Lan about Su Hao. At Phoenix Perch Mountain, Yu Xuanji reunited with Little Cai and learned that she had undergone tribulation and that Su Hao was involved with Heavenly Maidens of the Jade Pool Sacred Sect.

• The Dragon King learned that a dragon had survived tribulation despite the bloodline shackles and ordered Ao Lan to take the Dragon Slaying Saber to Tianyuan Continent and kill it.
• Ao Lan assembled three True Dragons, eight Flood Dragons, and nine sea-dwelling Demon Cultivators, including Jiao Yishou, and set out for Tianyuan Continent.
• Jiao Yishou told Ao Lan about the Flood Dragon Clan's grudge against Su Hao, but Ao Lan threatened to kill him if he had humbled himself before a phoenix.
• Little Cai and Little Jin continued gathering prayer power and searching for demon strongholds, and Little Cai described how her abilities had won the faith of many nations.
• Yu Xuanji encountered Little Cai, who admitted that she had undergone tribulation with Su Hao and Little Jin's help and told her about Su Hao's Heavenly Maidens.
• Yu Xuanji was shocked to learn that Su Hao was involved with Heavenly Maidens of the Jade Pool Sacred Sect.