Chapter Summaries

After killing the Moon-Devouring Great Demon, Su Hao sought True Lord Juyuan’s help to learn why the demon had served Human King Li Zhuo and how it entered the Chiqing Realm. He decided to demand answers from the Darkwater Realm, while Xing Wenyin watched his strength and confided her loneliness to Little Cai.

• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle left after seeing Su Hao’s power, and Su Hao returned to his cave abode with Wan Jun and Di Han.
• Su Hao summoned True Lord Juyuan and told him that the Moon-Devouring Great Demon had invaded the Chiqing Realm, demanded the Blood Sin Dragon, and was killed by Su Hao.
• True Lord Juyuan said he did not know why the great demon served Human King Li Zhuo or how it reached the Chiqing Realm, and offered to ask around.
• Su Hao decided to demand an explanation from the Darkwater Realm about the breach in its defenses.
• Xing Wenyin watched Su Hao’s fight from Phoenix Perch Mountain, and Little Cai told her that Su Hao had used only a fraction of his strength.
• Xing Wenyin told Little Cai that she envied the friends and family on Phoenix Perch Mountain, saying her father had abandoned her and vanished.

Li Zhuo concealed Moon-Devouring's complete death from the great demons and suspected that Su Hao or a powerful backer was responsible. A year later, Su Hao arrived at the Darkwater Realm in a storm of sword light, and Feng Ming went out to meet him.

• Li Zhuo brooded over his resentment toward Su Hao and learned that Moon-Devouring's aura had vanished.
• The great demons speculated that Moon-Devouring had escaped to recover, and Li Zhuo falsely confirmed their guess while promising to lead them to the Chiqing Realm after the hundred realms submitted.
• Li Zhuo privately acknowledged that Moon-Devouring was truly dead and decided to hide the news, fearing the great demons would lose heart.
• Li Zhuo recalled the Witch King’s warning about a powerful baleful aura near the Chiqing Realm and reasoned that losing one great demon had revealed a dangerous expert.
• One year later, Su Hao arrived outside the Darkwater Realm in a vast display of sword light, and Feng Ming reassured the heavenly soldiers before greeting him.

Su Hao confronted Feng Ming over the Darkwater Realm's failure to respond after detecting the Moon-Devouring Great Demon's aura, and the Southern Nether Emperor intervened before Su Hao could attack her. The Southern Nether Emperor welcomed Su Hao and gave him a seventh-rank immortal peach, leaving their dispute to be discussed.

• Feng Ming admitted that the Darkwater Realm had detected a powerful demonic aura heading toward the Chiqing Realm but had not investigated it.
• Su Hao accused Feng Ming of knowing about the danger and failing to warn him, then gathered sword qi to punish her.
• The Southern Nether Emperor called Su Hao to the crystal pavilion, and Su Hao recognized him as Shen Mengchen, a Nine-Revolution Immortal Emperor.
• The Southern Nether Emperor praised Su Hao and offered him tea, pastries, and a seventh-rank immortal peach.
• Su Hao stored the immortal peach in his Miro Ring and thanked the Southern Nether Emperor.

Su Hao questioned the Southern Nether Emperor about the Great Heavenly Tribulation and learned that opposing Li Zhuo could make him part of it. He left the Darkwater Realm with the divine armor, while the Southern Nether Emperor warned Yuan Wu and Feng Ming that Su Hao’s fate was bound to the Human King’s tribulation.

• The Southern Nether Emperor explained that those who joined Li Zhuo’s side could enter the Great Heavenly Tribulation and share in its opportunities.
• Su Hao asked whether the Demon Realm could avoid becoming the tribulation by siding with Li Zhuo, and the Southern Nether Emperor said the Heavenly Dao could find other enemies.
• Su Hao asked how to avoid the tribulation, and the Southern Nether Emperor suggested hiding in the Heavenly Court or another powerful realm.
• Su Hao connected the Primordial Dao Fruit to the opportunity born from the Great Heavenly Tribulation, then finished the Qingshan Immortal Wine and prepared to leave.
• The Southern Nether Emperor told Su Hao to keep the divine armor and not seek further trouble with Chi Chen and the others; Su Hao departed for Phoenix Perch Mountain.
• The Southern Nether Emperor told Yuan Wu and Feng Ming that Su Hao was too deeply entangled with the Human King to escape the coming tribulation, and marveled that Su Hao could drink Qingshan Immortal Wine without getting drunk.

Su Hao learned from Taiqing that he could not escape his entanglement with Li Zhuo and the Great Heavenly Tribulation, and he remained undecided about whether to face it or hide. Elsewhere, a sword light reached a ruined bronze hall, where a bound old man awakened and welcomed its arrival.

• Su Hao questioned Taiqing about the Great Heavenly Tribulation and learned that avoiding Li Zhuo would only delay their conflict.
• Taiqing told Su Hao that he could answer the tribulation and seek the Primordial Dao Fruit, or hide once at Jade Origin Palace or the Buddhist Palace, but warned him not to go to the Heavenly Court.
• Su Hao tried to summon Cheng Zhen, then considered the other disciples and experts who might compete for the Primordial Dao Fruit.
• A sword light crossed the shattered void for ten years and approached the bronze hall where an old man was bound by eight black chains.
• The old man stirred, opened his eyes, and exclaimed that the sword light had finally arrived.

Linghu Xue freed the Taiyuan Sword Master by destroying the three-colored lamp and let his Primordial Spirit enter her body. He began teaching her the scripture that would allow them to escape Vacuum Prison, and they started reciting it together.

• Linghu Xue asked how they could leave Vacuum Prison, and the Taiyuan Sword Master told her to destroy the three-colored lamp to break his chains.
• Linghu Xue reached the lamp and extinguished it, causing the bronze hall to shake and the chains to crumble into ash.
• The Taiyuan Sword Master's Primordial Spirit emerged from his exhausted body, and Linghu Xue agreed to shelter him within her sea of souls.
• The Taiyuan Sword Master reminded Linghu Xue of how he had guided her and awakened her talent, easing her doubts about trusting him.
• The Taiyuan Sword Master taught Linghu Xue the Demon Prison Primordial Spirit Canon, and she recited it with him to prepare to leave Vacuum Prison.

The Taiyuan Sword Master killed Zuo Xuzi and traveled toward the hidden Sword Realm, but discovered that Su Hao had taken it. Meanwhile, Su Hao advanced to the fourth rank of Earth Immortal and continued refining his divine abilities.

• The Taiyuan Sword Master recognized Zuo Xuzi as Sea Toad Immortal Lord's disciple and killed him with a sword strike.
• The Taiyuan Sword Master reflected on his limited lifespan, planned to retrieve lifespan-extending treasures from the Sword Realm, and traveled toward the Great Yan Realm.
• The Taiyuan Sword Master found that the Sword Realm had vanished and used a remnant thought to learn that Su Hao had taken it.
• Su Hao reached the fourth rank of Earth Immortal at Phoenix Perch Mountain and worked to perfect his thirteen Soaring Divine Abilities.
• Su Hao studied sword-path divine abilities to strengthen the Nine Heavens Ten Lands God Annihilation Sword Extinguishes Great Curse.

Su Hao discovered that Su Mei had secretly learned the Four Seasons Sword Song and gave her the Snowfrost Sword, promising to guide her further. He then took her to Wan Guang Peak, where they arrived at a busy training ground and saw a young disciple sweeping fallen leaves.

• Su Hao found Su Mei watching him and learned that she had studied sword techniques by listening to Xing Wenyin and Qin Yue and reading the sect's sword scriptures.
• Su Mei demonstrated the Four Seasons Sword Song, and Su Hao praised her understanding of it.
• Su Hao gave Su Mei the Snowfrost Sword and told her the technique could develop into the Soaring Firmament Four Symbols Sword.
• Su Hao invited Su Mei to Wan Guang Peak and promised to guide everyone when he had time.
• Su Hao and Su Mei reached the crowded training ground, where a little girl in a Daoist robe was sweeping fallen leaves.

Xing Wenyin explained how she believed Su Hao’s long-running broom-sweeping punishment had helped her confront her violent nature, and Su Hao began teaching her and Su Mei in a secluded bamboo grove. He gave Su Mei a sword-qi secret art and Xing Wenyin the Dual Polarity Cauldron Forging Method, then Di Han and Wan Jun returned to Phoenix Perch Mountain with a Dao artifact they had found.

• Xing Wenyin told Su Hao that she understood his years of making her sweep as a trial meant to awaken and discipline her.
• Su Hao asked Xing Wenyin to sweep for another ten years, then took her and Su Mei to a bamboo grove to teach them.
• Su Hao taught Su Mei the Heavenly Capital Sword Heart Planting Art to nurture Sword Qi.
• Su Hao gave Xing Wenyin the Dual Polarity Cauldron Forging Method and told her to master it before he taught her something else.
• Di Han and Wan Jun returned to Phoenix Perch Mountain with a Dao artifact from an underground palace, and the Six-Tusked White Elephant stopped grumbling when it saw the treasure.

Su Hao confronted Taiyuan Sword Master, who demanded the Sword Realm and attacked him. Su Hao overwhelmed him with the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands God Annihilation Sword Extinguishes Great Curse, destroying his physical body and leaving both his and Linghu Xue’s primordial spirits exposed.

• Taiyuan Sword Master revealed himself to Su Hao and defended his choice to betray Linghu Xue, whose primordial spirit remained asleep under restrictions.
• Taiyuan Sword Master demanded that Su Hao hand over the Sword Realm, and Su Hao refused to accept his claim to it.
• Taiyuan Sword Master launched a surprise attack with the Sword Extinguishes Great Curse, prompting Su Hao to retaliate with the same divine ability.
• Su Hao annihilated all nine hundred ninety thousand of Taiyuan Sword Master’s fleeing sword-light forms and immobilized him with sword aura.
• Su Hao destroyed Taiyuan Sword Master’s physical body, leaving Taiyuan Sword Master’s and Linghu Xue’s primordial spirits behind.

Su Hao killed the Taiyuan Sword Master with Dragon Palace, discovering that his target was the Sword Ancestor’s Human Soul, Youjing. The sword’s power alarmed powerful figures across the realms, and Taiqing appeared before Su Hao to warn him that many would soon be uneasy.

• Su Hao used Dragon Palace to destroy the Taiyuan Sword Master's spiritual-light barrier and shred the Primordial Spirit, briefly seeing the name Youjing before it vanished.
• Su Hao asked the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle about the spiritual light and the Sword Ancestor, but it could not remember or identify them.
• A woman in an ancient palace sensed that the Sword Ancestor's Human Soul had died and said two souls and seven spirits remained.
• The Heavenly Emperor and other powerful figures sensed Dragon Palace's aura, while the Heavenly Emperor's mirror revealed only a streak of golden light.
• Su Hao returned to his cave abode and contacted Taiqing, who confirmed the sword was a Creation Immortal Artifact and warned that it had alarmed the Immortal and Demon Realms.

Su Hao learned from Taiqing that the Taiyuan Sword Master he killed was one of the Sword Ancestor’s three souls, but Taiqing told him not to worry about retaliation while he was caught in the Great Heavenly Tribulation. Su Hao turned to seclusion to increase his strength, though the tribulation’s duration remained uncertain.

• Su Hao told Taiqing how he had killed the Taiyuan Sword Master, and Taiqing revealed that the Sword Master had been one of the Sword Ancestor’s three souls.
• Taiqing explained the Sword Ancestor’s origins and told Su Hao that the Great Heavenly Tribulation would keep Immortal Realm powerhouses from confronting him until it ended.
• Taiqing departed after advising Su Hao to focus on strengthening himself, and Su Hao decided not to seek answers from Cheng Zhen.
• Su Hao entered seclusion with the Twelve Heavenly Maidens and Little Cai to improve his cultivation efficiency.
• Su Hao restricted the Taihao Sacred Dynasty’s Immortal Qi supply and used his Divine Ability Stones to perfect sword Dao abilities.

The Southern Nether Emperor confronted the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle about a suspected Creation Immortal Artifact and tried to visit Su Hao, who had entered seclusion. The turtle blocked him and demanded a spar, but the Southern Nether Emperor sensed another uninvited guest as a pitch-black storm engulfed the void.

• The Southern Nether Emperor questioned the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle about the Creation Immortal Artifact and speculated that Su Hao had obtained it.
• The Southern Nether Emperor examined the Chiqing Realm and found its fortune had grown immensely, with Phoenix Perch Mountain hidden behind a powerful barrier.
• The Southern Nether Emperor tried to visit Su Hao, but the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle blocked his way, saying Su Hao had ordered that no one disturb his seclusion.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle grew angry when the Southern Nether Emperor compared protecting Su Hao to running errands and challenged him to spar.
• The Southern Nether Emperor sensed another uninvited guest and swept a pitch-black storm across the void.

Lin Changfeng confronted the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle and the Southern Nether Emperor near the Chiqing Realm, claiming he had come to seek something rather than harm Su Hao. The Divine Turtle refused to let him see Su Hao while he was in seclusion, and the gathered power threatened to turn their standoff into a battle between Immortal Emperors.

• Lin Changfeng accused the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle of exposing him and shifting the Southern Nether Emperor’s conflict onto him.
• The Southern Nether Emperor claimed Lin Changfeng had come to cause trouble for Su Hao, and the Divine Turtle treated him as a threat to the Chiqing Realm.
• The Southern Nether Emperor declared Su Hao was one of the Darkwater Realm’s four great divine generals and warned Lin Changfeng to leave.
• Lin Changfeng backed down from fighting and said he had come to find something, then asked to speak with Su Hao.
• The Divine Turtle said Su Hao was in seclusion and refused to summon him, while its blood-red cloud sea and surging power tore cracks through the void.

After emerging from seclusion, Su Hao learned that Northern Abyss Immortal Emperor Lin Changfeng had waited outside Phoenix Perch Mountain for a year, but refused to receive him. The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle accepted Su Hao’s immortal sword, while Lin Changfeng offered it Qingbao Mother Blood Essence in hopes of gaining its help.

• The Southern Nether Emperor left the void after less than half a month, and Lin Changfeng stayed outside Phoenix Perch Mountain waiting for Su Hao.
• Half a year later, Su Hao emerged from seclusion and learned from the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle that Lin Changfeng had come seeking something in the Chiqing Realm.
• Su Hao recognized Lin Changfeng as an uninvited guest and refused to meet him, telling the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle to drive him off if he forced his way in.
• Su Hao gave the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle an immortal sword as thanks for guarding the mountain, and the turtle happily accepted it.
• Lin Changfeng, frustrated by the turtle’s cold reception, offered it a bottle of Qingbao Mother Blood Essence.

Qingyi arrived in the Chiqing Realm seeking Su Hao, but Lin Changfeng and the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle stopped him and made him wait. After thirty years, Su Hao had advanced to fifth-rank Earth Immortal and used up his Divine Ability Stones refining his abilities.

• Qingyi attacked the Chiqing Realm while searching for someone, and the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle suppressed him.
• Lin Changfeng identified Qingyi as a Jade Origin Palace disciple and revealed that he was only a ninth-rank Immortal King.
• Qingyi recognized Lin Changfeng as the Northern Abyss Immortal Emperor and accused him of seeking the Taiji Dao Fruit.
• Qingyi explained that he had come to find Su Hao and demand an explanation, and the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle ordered him to wait.
• Qingyi sat down to meditate, while Su Hao cultivated for thirty years and reached fifth-rank Earth Immortal.
• Su Hao exhausted his Divine Ability Stones while deducing the divine abilities he had mastered.

Little Cai fully refined the Lesser Merit Wheel, gaining a powerful tool that enhanced her divine abilities. Su Hao then met with Xing Wenyin, whose years of practice had transformed her outlook, and granted her greater freedom to cultivate.

• Little Cai explained that she had gathered one billion units of aspiration power to refine the Lesser Merit Wheel and demonstrated how it enhanced her abilities.
• Su Hao praised Little Cai and encouraged her to keep improving, while she vowed to protect everyone and eventually defeat him.
• Su Hao visited Wan Guang Peak and found Xing Wenyin still sweeping the practice grounds, now grown into a composed young woman.
• Xing Wenyin told Su Hao that she had completed the Dual Polarity Cauldron Forging Method and developed a stronger method to reconcile her conflicting bloodlines.
• Xing Wenyin said she no longer wished to leave in search of her birth mother, and Su Hao allowed her to travel freely and study the scriptures on Phoenix Perch Mountain.

Su Hao confronted Lin Changfeng and Qingyi after they secretly probed him, and his sword qi injured them both. Lin Changfeng left without challenging him, while Qingyi admitted he had come to test the Dao Venerable’s chosen Dao Lord; Su Hao agreed to a fight with neither of them using Dao Fruits.

• Su Hao stepped into the void, and his protective sword qi struck back when Lin Changfeng and Qingyi secretly probed him, injuring their eyes.
• Lin Changfeng departed the Chiqing Realm, deciding he could not seize Su Hao’s Taiji Dao Fruit and refusing to curry favor with him.
• Su Hao told Qingyi he knew he had come for the Taiji Dao Fruit, and the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle revealed that Qingyi was the Dao Venerable’s registered disciple.
• Qingyi admitted he wanted to test Su Hao’s strength, and Su Hao permitted him to challenge him while forbidding neither from using Dao Fruits.
• Qingyi refused to use any Dao Fruit, and Su Hao agreed that neither of them would use one.

Su Hao defeated Qingyi’s magical treasures and stopped him with a single sword strike, then spared him because of his ties to Jade Origin Palace. Qingyi accepted the defeat and left, while Su Hao and the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle wondered how his unusual treasures were made.

• Qingyi attacked Su Hao with the Cosmos Dharma Robe and tens of millions of white jade bracelet phantoms, but Su Hao destroyed the robe and endured the assault.
• Su Hao erased Qingyi’s imprint from the bracelets, causing them to turn to ash and mysterious azure-blue mist that he could not collect.
• Qingyi attacked with the power of his Dao Fruits, but Su Hao’s World Annihilation Sword pierced him and Qingyi’s body quickly regenerated.
• Su Hao warned Qingyi to stop and said he would spare him and preserve his cultivation for the sake of Qingyi’s Master and Jade Origin Palace.
• Qingyi admitted defeat, thanked Su Hao for his mercy, and left to ask his Master about Su Hao.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle and Su Hao discussed the unusual azure-blue spirit liquid sustaining Qingyi’s treasures.

Su Hao discovered that the mountain soul had transformed and begun to evolve, then welcomed the awakened Linghu Xue into his cultivation after placing a restriction on her. True Lord Juyuan arrived with grave news concerning True Lord Qingyi, leaving Su Hao to wonder whether Qingyi had misrepresented their conflict.

• Su Hao found the mountain soul transformed into a crystal and learned from Su Mei that it was likely evolving.
• Linghu Xue awakened, thanked Su Hao for saving her, and asked to join his cultivation to recover from her injuries.
• Su Hao placed a loyalty restriction on Linghu Xue and taught her the Joyful Zen Sacred Art, which quickly improved her recovery.
• True Lord Juyuan arrived through the Azure Nether Soul Bell, and Su Hao asked whether he had come because of True Lord Qingyi.
• True Lord Juyuan looked startled after Su Hao said he would not pursue the matter, prompting Su Hao to suspect Qingyi had accused him of wrongdoing.