Chapter Summaries

Su Hao consumed large quantities of pills and broke through to the Foundation Establishment Realm using the power of Innate Yin-Yang, which disappeared in the process. After arranging to meet Heavenly Treasure Pavilion and discovering he could rapidly ripen valuable herbs, he left his cave abode unaware that Mo Chenghu was waiting to kill him.

• Su Hao consumed Golden Snow Spirit Pills and Nine Splendor Profound Pills until he reached perfection at Qi Refining Level 10, then struggled to break through the bottleneck.
• Innate Yin-Yang Qi gathered into Su Hao's spiritual power and helped him break through to Foundation Establishment, leaving him with condensed Primordial True Force and no Innate Yin-Yang Qi.
• Huang Shanyu told Su Hao that Heavenly Treasure Pavilion would compensate him for the stolen pills and arranged for them to exchange goods outside Wind Dragon Mountain and meet Qian Feng.
• Su Hao used his Wood Emperor Physique to revive and accelerate the growth of the Nine-Colored Leaves, calculating that he could harvest them for thousands of spirit stones.
• Su Hao left his cave abode for Heavenly Treasure Pavilion, while Mo Chenghu learned of his departure and vowed to kill him.

Su Hao met Qian Feng, the owner of Heavenly Treasure Pavilion, and agreed to a lucrative monthly pill-supply partnership. As Qian Feng saw him out, a mysterious attacker challenged Su Hao to the Life and Death Arena.

• Qian Feng welcomed Su Hao and discussed how Xia Yunying had intercepted the pills Su Hao previously supplied to Heavenly Treasure Pavilion.
• Qian Feng gave Su Hao the promised medicinal ingredients and spirit stones, then proposed working with him directly in the future.
• Qian Feng offered to supply pill ingredients monthly in exchange for set quantities of pills, and Su Hao accepted the partnership.
• Qian Feng personally escorted Su Hao out, but a black-clad figure descended and challenged him to the Life and Death Arena.

Su Hao killed Mo Chenghu in an instant on the Life and Death Arena, took his inferior spiritual treasure, and absorbed his talents, leaving Qian Feng too frightened to continue their planned cooperation. Steward Mo You investigated the fight but suspected Su Hao had a powerful Nascent Soul backer, while Qian Feng began reconsidering his connection to Su Hao.

• Mo Chenghu challenged Su Hao on the Life and Death Arena with the Remnant Fiend Sword, and Su Hao accepted the fight.
• Su Hao killed Mo Chenghu with a single sword strike, took the Remnant Fiend Sword and storage ring, refined Mo Chenghu’s soul, and absorbed his talents.
• Su Hao asked Qian Feng whether they would continue their cooperation, but Qian Feng refused until Su Hao had dealt with Steward Mo You.
• Mo You viewed a brief replay of the fight, suspected Su Hao had a Nascent Soul expert backing him, and left after destroying Mo Chenghu’s corpse.
• Huang Shanyu told Qian Feng that Su Hao had moved into Wind Dragon Mountain, Mo You’s former cave abode, and Qian Feng decided to go there.

After combining two Earth Spirit Bodies, Su Hao gained the Heavy Rock talent and refined the Remnant Fiend Sword before returning to Wind Dragon Mountain. There, Xia Yunying and Lin Zhu confronted him, and the fight took a sudden turn when Su Hao discovered a Five-Colored Snake with an Orange Dragon Bloodline talent.

• Su Hao combined the Earth Spirit Bodies into the Heavy Rock talent, upgraded Innate Brute Strength to Thousand Jun Strength, and refined the Remnant Fiend Sword.
• Xia Yunying and Lin Zhu blocked Su Hao near his cave abode, and Lin Zhu revealed they had come because he refused to meet their young mistress.
• Xia Yunying attacked Su Hao, but Su Hao wounded him with the Remnant Fiend Sword and unleashed powerful Heaven-Slashing Sword Qi.
• The damaged cage revealed a Five-Colored Snake, and Su Hao detected its Orange Dragon Bloodline talent as a woman in purple appeared and asked him to stop.
• Xia Yunying mistook Su Hao's pause for exhaustion, used a secret technique to enlarge himself, and charged at him.

Su Hao met Lin Ziyi, who stopped Xia Yunying and Lin Zhu from attacking him and invited him to her cave residence. He secured a new business deal with Bright Moon Studio and returned to find Qian Feng waiting to speak with him.

• Lin Ziyi subdued Xia Yunying, apologized to Su Hao, and invited him to her cave residence after claiming the spirit snake for herself and giving it to him.
• At Cave Residence No. 6, Lin Ziyi returned the remaining Pure Qi Pills and offered to buy Su Hao's pills at a higher price for Bright Moon Studio.
• Su Hao accepted two hundred mid-grade spirit stones for his Pure Qi Pills and negotiated a Golden Snow Spirit Pill arrangement with Lin Ziyi.
• Su Hao left with the Five-Colored Snake, ignoring Xia Yunying and Lin Zhu's resentful stares.
• Qian Feng waited at Su Hao's cave residence and asked to talk with him again.

Su Hao ended his cooperation with Qian Feng, returned to his cave, and began raising the Five-Colored Spirit Snake, which he named Little Cai. After collecting and combining Five Elements talents, he gained Five Elements Grandmaster and prepared to test its effect on his cultivation.

• Su Hao returned Qian Feng's alchemy furnace, but refused to resume their cooperation because he had reached an agreement with Lin Ziyi of Bright Moon Studio.
• Qian Feng gave Su Hao the Dragon Tiger Fire Cloud Alchemy Furnace and later warned Huang Shanyu not to criticize Su Hao.
• Su Hao inspected the Five-Colored Spirit Snake, learned it had an orange Dragon Bloodline talent, and decided to raise it rather than absorb its talent.
• Su Hao named the snake Little Cai and spent the following days cultivating, refining pills, and gathering Talent Power around the outer sect.
• Su Hao combined his five elemental talents to generate the purple Five Elements Grandmaster talent, then activated his spirit-gathering array to test his improved cultivation.

Lin Ziyi investigated a vast Spiritual Energy vortex centered on Su Hao’s cave mansion and concealed it while the mountain’s formation malfunctioned. After three days, she confronted Su Hao and learned he claimed to have only been cultivating, leaving her astonished at the scale of the disturbance.

• Lin Ziyi and Lin Zhu discovered that Spiritual Energy was gathering toward Su Hao’s Cave Mansion No. 11.
• Lin Ziyi saw a massive vortex over Su Hao’s cave mansion, concealed it with the formation, and told the other cultivators that damaged formation nodes had disrupted the Spiritual Energy.
• After waiting three days amid complaints from the mountain’s cultivators, Lin Ziyi contacted Su Hao through the Sect Gate Talisman.
• Su Hao woke from cultivation, reflected on his slow progress toward the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, and went to meet Lin Ziyi.
• Lin Ziyi asked Su Hao what he had been doing, and he said he had only been cultivating, leaving her astonished by the disturbance.

Lin Ziyi visited Su Hao after a Spiritual Energy vortex over his cave abode alarmed Wind Dragon Mountain, and urged him to curb his cultivation and focus on the Great Dao. She left after warning Xia Yunying not to provoke Su Hao, but Xia Yunying rejected her advice and vowed to challenge him again.

• Lin Ziyi explained that the vortex could have been caused by a treasure, a Divine Ability, or Su Hao's exceptional talent, and said she had blamed a damaged formation core to quiet complaints.
• Su Hao thanked Lin Ziyi for covering for him, then admitted he already had a master who helped his cultivation and described alchemy as a hobby.
• Lin Ziyi offered to introduce Su Hao to her Nascent Soul master, then advised him to restrain his cultivation or move to Wan Guang Peak.
• Lin Ziyi scolded Xia Yunying for idling on Wind Dragon Mountain and told him not to provoke Su Hao.
• Xia Yunying took offense at Lin Ziyi's warning and vowed that Su Hao was no match for him.

Su Hao cultivated a Sword Path Divine Ability, causing a sect-wide phenomenon, but concealed his achievement as the Golden Light Sect searched for the cultivator. After Lin Ziyi questioned him, Qian Feng arrived to invite him to explore a hidden inheritance site.

• Su Hao strengthened several talents over two months and developed the Sky Breaking Sword Qi divine ability while practicing swordsmanship.
• Swords across Wind Dragon Mountain resonated, prompting the sect to offer a Spirit Treasure Sword, a secret manual, a choice of master, and three years in the dragon vein to the cultivator responsible.
• Su Hao stayed in his cave abode and pretended to Lin Ziyi that he had not witnessed the phenomenon or mastered the divine ability.
• Lin Ziyi left still suspicious of Su Hao, and Qian Feng arrived to ask him to help explore a hidden inheritance site.

Su Hao refused Qian Feng’s offer to explore an inheritance secret realm, unaware that Qian Feng was plotting with Mo You to lure him out and kill him. A month later, Little Cai revealed its dragon-bloodline Spirit Spring Technique, and the Golden Light Sect summoned its cultivators to respond to an invasion of Qin’s imperial capital.

• Qian Feng offered Su Hao a share of Cang Songzi’s inheritance, but Su Hao refused, citing his lack of need and suspicion of the risk.
• Qian Feng reported his failure to Mo You, who ordered him to find another way to lure Su Hao out of the sect and promised him the Remnant Fiend Sword and Thousand Rock Seal.
• Mo You resolved to kill Su Hao while Yu Xuanji and several elders were away resisting the orthodox sects at Tiger Roar Pass.
• Little Cai demonstrated its Spirit Spring Technique, a dragon-race bloodline divine ability that could nourish herbs, and Su Hao gave it pills in exchange for tending the herb garden.
• The Golden Light Sect announced that Great Ding Sect had invaded Qin’s imperial capital and ordered its cultivators to gather at designated peaks; Lin Ziyi led the cultivators at Wind Dragon Mountain.

Su Hao was summoned to join the Golden Light Sect’s campaign against the invading forces and traveled with Lin Ziyi to meet the main force. A red-robed old man named Fang Yunrong approached him, sensing an uneasy familiarity without remembering their past encounter.

• Su Hao left his cave after failing to contact Yu Xuanji and joined Lin Ziyi’s formation.
• Lin Ziyi took Su Hao aboard her Blue Cloud Boat, leaving Xia Yunying to lead the other cultivators to Wan Guang Peak.
• Lin Ziyi explained that the Azure Firmament Sect and Myriad Swords Altar had invaded Tianyuan Continent and that the Golden Light Sect was mobilizing to defend its territory.
• Su Hao and Lin Ziyi reached Three Lions Mountain, where the sect’s force of more than three thousand cultivators assembled before boarding the leading Flying Ship.
• Fang Yunrong recognized Su Hao’s face but could not remember that he had witnessed Fang Yunrong kill a gifted refugee a year earlier.

Su Hao’s arrival on a sect mission stirred up old suspicions about Liu Mei’s death and drew hostility from Ding Xuelu and Mo You. After the Golden Light Sect split into groups in the Cloudy Mountain Range, Ding Xuelu’s party surrounded Su Hao in the miasma.

• Fang Yunrong recognized Su Hao as someone who had entered the Blood Soul Secret Realm with Liu Mei, prompting Ding Xuelu to demand answers about her friend’s death.
• Ding Xuelu and eight Foundation Establishment cultivators pressured Su Hao, but Lin Ziyi broke their combined aura and warned them against provoking internal strife.
• Xia Yunying mocked Su Hao, while Mo You privately resolved to use the mission to avenge his grudge against him.
• The Golden Light Sect cultivators teleported to the Qin Kingdom and split into three routes; Lin Ziyi warned Su Hao to send a signal if he encountered danger.
• As the group scattered through the Cloudy Mountain Range, Ding Xuelu and more than ten others surrounded Su Hao beneath a cloud of Crimson Powder Miasma.

Su Hao destroyed Ding Xuelu’s Crimson Powder Miasma and killed the twelve Foundation Establishment cultivators who had been waiting to support her, then forced her to accompany him in cultivation. After absorbing their souls and blood qi, he hid in a valley to wait for the sects’ battle to unfold, while Xia Yunying searched the mountain forest for him.

• Ding Xuelu used the Crimson Powder Miasma and her seductive clones to question and tempt Su Hao about Liu Mei’s death.
• Su Hao unleashed Sky Breaking Sword Qi, destroyed the miasma, and used the Remnant Fiend Sword to kill Ding Xuelu’s twelve Foundation Establishment allies.
• Ding Xuelu begged for mercy, and Su Hao admitted that he had killed Liu Mei before making Ding Xuelu accompany him in cultivation.
• Su Hao absorbed the cultivators’ souls into the Soul Refining Banner and used his new Blood Demon talent to absorb their remaining blood qi.
• Su Hao took Ding Xuelu to a valley and made a cave where he planned to wait for the Golden Light Sect and Great Ding Sect to fight.
• Xia Yunying shook off his fellow disciples and returned to the mountain forest to search for Su Hao.

Xia Yunying tracked Su Hao to a valley, where he found Ding Xuelu dead and suspected Ziyun had drained her essence. Su Hao was about to fight Xia Yunying when Mo You arrived, revealed that he had come to reclaim the Remnant Fiend Sword, and faced Su Hao’s opening strike.

• Xia Yunying examined a ravaged forest and concluded that a powerful Sword Cultivator had fought there while Ziyun had used the victims’ blood essence to cultivate.
• Xia Yunying found Ding Xuelu’s shriveled corpse in a cave and deduced that Ziyun had turned her own schemes against her to strengthen himself.
• Su Hao emerged from the pool, and Xia Yunying confronted him about Ding Xuelu’s death and Lin Ziyi before Su Hao drew the Remnant Fiend Sword.
• Mo You arrived in the valley, admitted he had used his duties as an excuse to search for Su Hao, and recruited Xia Yunying as a scapegoat.
• Mo You claimed to be the Remnant Fiend Sword’s true master and threatened Su Hao, who immediately struck with the Sky Breaking Sword Qi.

Su Hao killed Mo You and Xia Yunying, absorbed their blood qi and talent power, and gained a Miro Ring. He returned to the valley to recover Mo You’s belongings and found Chen Jing holding the Cloud Dragon Banner, drawing his attention.

• Mo You survived Su Hao’s first Sky Breaking Sword Qi attacks with his ink-clone technique and Cloud Dragon Banner, but Su Hao’s final attacks destroyed the banner and killed him.
• Su Hao absorbed Mo You’s blood qi and Golden Core, gained the Adamantine Vajra Body talent, and received and refined the Miro Ring.
• Xia Yunying fled using Blood Shadow Escape Technique, but Su Hao caught up and killed him with Sky Breaking Sword Qi before taking his storage ring.
• Su Hao returned to the valley ruins and recovered Mo You’s damaged inner armor and storage ring, while Chen Jing’s companions found the weakened Cloud Dragon Banner and gave it to her.
• Su Hao found the Great Ding Sect cultivators and focused his attention on Chen Jing, who held the Cloud Dragon Banner.

Su Hao encountered Chen Jing and her companions in the Cloudy Mountain Range and learned that she possessed two red talents, including the mysterious Immortal Lord Clone. After returning the Cloud Dragon Banner and warning them about the Golden Light Sect’s hunt, he left on his sword while Chen Jing called out her name.

• Su Hao recognized Chen Jing’s two red talents and used his sword intent to stop Xu Bufan and the others from attacking him.
• Su Hao explained that the Cloud Dragon Banner was his spoils of war, and Chen Jing agreed to return it to him.
• Chen Jing warned Su Hao that people who took back items she had handled often suffered misfortune, so he gave her the Cloud Dragon Banner instead.
• Su Hao asked Chen Jing to tell him her name, then warned the group that the Golden Light Sect had sent five hundred Foundation Establishment cultivators to hunt them.
• Su Hao revealed that he was only at Foundation Establishment Middle Stage and explained that he sought the Dao rather than joining the sect conflict willingly.
• Su Hao flew away on the Remnant Fiend Sword, and Chen Jing called after him to give him her name.

Xu Bufan’s group continued toward the final Dragon Coiling Pillar, while Lin Ziyi told Su Hao that the Great Ding Sect planned to open True Lord Void Spirit’s cave abode. She then revealed that Xia Yunying was dead and that she had planted a minor spell on her beforehand.

• Xu Bufan warned Chen Jing not to trust Su Hao, then urged her to refine the Cloud Dragon Banner and resume their mission to activate the Dragon Coiling Pillar.
• Xu Bufan explained that the Great Ding Sect had secretly searched for four Dragon Coiling Pillars across the Qin Kingdom and that his five-person team was the mission’s key.
• Chen Jing quickly refined the banner, and the five traveled northwest beneath its aura-concealing protection without encountering Golden Light Sect cultivators.
• Su Hao found Lin Ziyi on a mountain peak, and she praised his ability to conceal his presence.
• Lin Ziyi told Su Hao that the Great Ding Sect aimed to activate the final Dragon Coiling Pillar and open True Lord Void Spirit’s cave abode.
• Lin Ziyi told Su Hao that Xia Yunying was dead and that she had planted a minor spell on her.

Su Hao and Lin Ziyi waited for the Dragon Coiling Pillar to activate while discussing the suspected divine-sword murderer, and Wang Honghu arrived with news of another dead Great Ding Sect cultivator. The pillar transported them into True Lord Void Spirit’s cave dwelling, where Lin Ziyi spotted a besieged group beside a Top-grade Spirit Treasure, and Su Hao stopped her from approaching.

• Lin Ziyi explained that the killer’s sword aura belonged to a cultivator who had mastered a divine sword ability, and Su Hao suspected a Great Ding Sect prodigy.
• Su Hao and Lin Ziyi received orders to stop pursuing their enemies and wait for the Dragon Coiling Pillar to activate.
• Wang Honghu arrived, reported that Mo You had been killed by a Sword Cultivator, and mocked Su Hao for not showing him deference.
• The Dragon Coiling Pillar transported Su Hao, Lin Ziyi, and the other cultivators to a grassland inside True Lord Void Spirit’s cave dwelling.
• Lin Ziyi found Wang Honghu and Wei Jun’s group surrounding Chen Jing, Xu Bufan, and other Great Ding Sect cultivators beside a Top-grade Spirit Treasure.
• Su Hao grabbed Lin Ziyi and warned her not to approach the besieged group.

Su Hao kept Lin Ziyi from pursuing the Spirit Treasures, and she avoided Wang Honghu’s massacre when Xu You intervened to save Chen Jing and the Great Ding Sect cultivators. After Xu You and Yu Xuanji fought over the survivors, Yu Xuanji reunited with Su Hao and praised his restraint and cultivation, while he asked about the mysterious cauldron.

• Su Hao stopped Lin Ziyi from joining the fight, and she chose to trust his warning and hide with him.
• Wang Honghu attacked the Great Ding Sect cultivators, but Xu You appeared, killed Wang Honghu, and slaughtered many Golden Light Sect disciples.
• Yu Xuanji emerged and challenged Xu You, then fought him while the remaining disciples escaped.
• Xu You took Chen Jing and the surviving Great Ding Sect cultivators away, and Yu Xuanji claimed the three-legged cauldron.
• Yu Xuanji found Su Hao and Lin Ziyi in the woods, learned Su Hao had reached Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, and praised his decision to stay out of the battle.
• Su Hao asked Yu Xuanji what the cauldron was and whether more treasures were nearby.

Su Hao absorbed the Talent Power in the Wood Array, gaining the orange talents Medicine Emperor and Sword Emperor, before Yu Xuanji took him and Lin Ziyi to the Fire Array. The Great Five Elements Rotating Array then broke and transported Su Hao and Lin Ziyi away, leaving Yu Xuanji to conclude that Su Hao could contend for True Lord Void Spirit's inheritance.

• Su Hao absorbed ninety-eight manifestations of Talent Power and gained the orange talents Medicine Emperor and Sword Emperor.
• Yu Xuanji explained that the treasure cauldron was the Wood Array's core and that top-grade Spirit Treasures maintained the other four arrays.
• Yu Xuanji brought Su Hao and Lin Ziyi to the Fire Array, where Lin Daosheng and Great Ding Sect cultivators fought over its top-grade Spirit Treasure.
• Yu Xuanji joined Lin Daosheng's battle and used the Fire Array's magma to form a giant that helped push back the Great Ding Sect cultivators.
• The Great Five Elements Rotating Array broke, and white light carried Su Hao and Lin Ziyi away while Yu Xuanji remained with the Nascent Soul cultivators.