Chapter Summaries

Su Hao reunited with Little Cai and Little Jin, discovered Little Jin’s Fortune-enhancing abilities, and rewarded them for their efforts. Elsewhere, Lin Ziyi reached Nascent Soul, Shen Rulong advanced his Sword Dao as the Heavenly Demon threat grew, and Su Hao’s Demonic Fiend Clone uncovered a black cauldron beneath the Underworld Spring River.

• Su Hao found that Little Jin had taken control of a human corpse and learned that its Fortune Energy could improve alchemy and other cultivation pursuits.
• Little Cai showed Su Hao the pills she and Little Jin had made, and Su Hao gave her the Wood Qi King Cauldron and Little Jin a Lady Fan.
• Su Hao guided Little Cai and Little Jin in cultivation and combat over the next two days.
• Lin Ziyi emerged from seclusion at Wind Dragon Mountain as a Nascent Soul cultivator, crediting the Four Saints Dao Formation of the Grotto-Heaven.
• Shen Rulong cultivated the divine ability Twelve Vertical and Horizontal Sword Yuan with Ran Hongfeng’s help, then learned that a final Heaven-Demon Blood Sacrifice could summon a heavenly demon.
• Ran Hongfeng arranged for Master Yuanyi of the Tathagata Zen Sect to assist, while Su Hao’s Demonic Fiend Clone cracked the protection around a huge black cauldron at the bottom of the Underworld Spring River.

Su Hao subdued the Night Dragon and refined the Prison Spring Dragon Subduing Cauldron, absorbing the Underworld Spring River into Yellow Spring Water. Before he could join his true body to destroy the Heavenly Demon Path, Master Yuanyi confronted him and tried to capture him for conversion, provoking Su Hao to fight back.

• Su Hao crushed the black dragon’s head until the Artifact Spirit submitted and cooperated with the refinement.
• Su Hao refined the Prison Spring Dragon Subduing Cauldron, learned its origins, and collected the Underworld Spring River as Yellow Spring Water.
• Master Yuanyi appeared on a Golden Lotus and identified Su Hao as a dangerous demon, though he acknowledged Su Hao might still control himself.
• Master Yuanyi ordered Su Hao to go to the Tathagata Zen Sect for conversion and sent out a Five-Story Pagoda to suppress him.
• Su Hao cursed Master Yuanyi and prepared to resist.

Su Hao defeated Master Yuanyi, seized his Buddhist treasures, and drove him to escape. He then arrived at Linliang City as Ran Hongfeng and Shen Rulong attacked the Heavenly Demon Path’s altar operation before the Heavenly Dog Devouring the Sun.

• Su Hao used the Prison Spring Dragon Subduing Cauldron to corrupt and seize Master Yuanyi’s Lion King Pagoda, then fought him with his Nether Fiend Manifestation and took the Three Treasures Jade Lotus Divine Seat.
• Master Yuanyi escaped using Space Evasion Art, while Su Hao kept the two captured treasures and traveled toward Linliang City.
• Ran Hongfeng and Shen Rulong learned Master Yuanyi could not help them, but chose to attack Pei Yin and disrupt the Heavenly Demon Path’s altar formation anyway.
• Ran Hongfeng and Shen Rulong struck the Heavenly Demon Path’s forces in Linliang City and drew Pei Yin and the other experts into the sky.
• Su Hao arrived at Linliang City in three steps using the Star King Steps, and his Demonic Fiend Clone emerged on a black lotus platform, saying they were not too late.

Su Hao and the Demonic Fiend Clone defeated Pei Haichuan by trapping him with the Prison Spring Dragon Subduing Cauldron and sealing his Heavenly Demon will inside the Myriad Souls Pagoda. After Pei Baihai’s body and divine sense perished, Su Hao discovered two powerful talents but hesitated to absorb them because of the danger they posed.

• Pei Haichuan appeared in Linliang City, unleashed a corrupting thought that made its people slaughter one another, and tried to seize the Demonic Fiend Clone’s body for a third blood sacrifice.
• The Demonic Fiend Clone used the Nether Fiend Manifestation and the Prison Spring Dragon Subduing Cauldron to trap Pei Haichuan with the Underworld Spring River.
• The Night Dragon reduced the river to a drop of Yellow Spring Water, forcing Pei Haichuan to abandon his body and flee as a will carrying Heavenly Demon Power.
• Su Hao released Pei Haichuan from the cauldron’s space into the waiting Myriad Souls Pagoda, which suppressed him despite his attempts to escape.
• Su Hao detected the Demon Empress Descendant and Heavenly Demon Bloodline talents left behind when Pei Baihai’s body and divine sense perished, but he worried that absorbing them would invite danger.

Su Hao decomposed two useless talents, wiped out the Heavenly Demon Path forces in Linliang City, and gained a major increase in power along with the Heavenly Dragon Demon Subduing Pestle. He suppressed the Heavenly Demon and Pei Yin with his Dao artifacts, then teleported away while Ran Hongfeng and Shen Rulong watched.

• Su Hao decomposed the Demon Empress Descendant and Heavenly Demon Bloodline talents, then attacked the Heavenly Demon Path cultivators throughout Linliang City.
• Su Hao killed the city's cultivators and devoured their talents, gaining Phoenix Nirvana, several treasures, and a mid-grade Dao artifact.
• The Demonic Fiend Clone and Night Dragon defeated Pei Yin and his Spirit Transformation subordinates, while Ran Hongfeng and Shen Rulong joined the fight.
• Pei Yin's Primordial Spirit escaped the Dragon Subduing Cauldron, but Su Hao captured it with the Myriad Souls Pagoda.
• Su Hao used the Heavenly Dragon Demon Subduing Pestle to subdue the Heavenly Demon and restrain Pei Haichuan inside the Myriad Souls Pagoda.
• Su Hao teleported fifteen hundred kilometers away as the Demonic Fiend Clone departed, leaving Ran Hongfeng and Shen Rulong behind.

After the Heavenly Demon Path was wiped out, Su Hao returned to the Golden Light Sect and confronted the captured Pei Haichuan, who threatened to return but was ultimately subdued. Su Hao then turned his attention to Pei Yin’s Primordial Spirit in the Myriad Souls Pagoda.

• Ran Hongfeng rebuked Shen Rulong for obeying a demonic cultivator’s order to kill himself, then surveyed Linliang City with him and noted that Su Hao had wiped out the Heavenly Demon Path.
• Su Hao returned to the Golden Light Sect while the Demonic Fiend Clone went to the Ten Thousand Corpse Pit to prepare Underworld Spring River water for cultivation.
• Inside the Myriad Souls Pagoda, Pei Haichuan threatened Su Hao and revealed that the Heavenly Demon Path had branches overseas, but Su Hao dismissed his claims and refused to release him.
• Pei Haichuan begged, offered an alliance, and threatened Su Hao as the Pagoda’s chains engulfed him and the Heavenly Dragon Demon Subduing Pestle weakened him.
• Su Hao concluded that Pei Haichuan had no other way to interfere with the lower realm, then approached Pei Yin’s Primordial Spirit on the second level.

Su Hao absorbed Pei Yin’s Demon Origin talent and memories, learning why Body Integration cultivators left the Three Continents and Four Seas and collecting the Heavenly Demon Path’s treasures. He gained Phoenix Nirvana and used its Phoenix True Fire to torment Pei Haichuan, who destroyed his own divine sense and vowed revenge from the Demon Realm.

• Su Hao extracted Pei Yin’s Demon Origin talent, preserved it, and learned from his memories that Body Integration cultivators were forced to leave for the Outer Domain; Pei Yin became the seventh Ghost Emperor of the Myriad Souls Pagoda.
• Su Hao took the Heavenly Demon Path’s treasures and gained the Phoenix Nirvana talent, Life Chasing Imprint, and several pills as rewards for devouring.
• Su Hao tested Phoenix True Fire and found that it could melt a low-grade Innate Profound Artifact and granted him a chance to be reborn once every five hundred years.
• Su Hao returned to the Myriad Souls Pagoda and used Phoenix True Fire on Pei Haichuan, who destroyed his own divine sense to escape the soul-burning agony.
• Pei Haichuan awoke in the Demon Realm having lost one-tenth of his divine sense, then vowed to retaliate against Su Hao despite being unable to enter the mortal world.

Pei Zhentian received Pei Haichuan’s order to find Su Hao and the Demonic Fiend Clone, while Su Hao refined a dangerous Ghost Emperor and used Star Stones to strengthen the Heavenly Wood Sword Essence. The Heavenly Wood Sword Essence grew far more powerful but remained mysterious, and Su Hao kept the Divine Ability Stone for what came next.

• Pei Haichuan appeared in Pei Zhentian’s dream and ordered him to return to Tianyuan Continent within fifty years to destroy Su Hao and the Demonic Fiend Clone, threatening the Pei descendants with a bloodline curse if he failed.
• Pei Zhentian woke troubled by the task and the threat, then began preparing for the arduous journey back to Tianyuan Continent.
• Su Hao finished refining the special Ghost Emperor, named it Soul Devourer, and used Phoenix True Fire to torment it as a means of control.
• Su Hao chose the Heavenly Wood Sword Essence as the first treasure to enlighten with his two Star Stones, increasing its power twice by about thirty percent each time.
• Su Hao found that the Heavenly Wood Sword Essence had gained a deep, mysterious aura but still could not determine its grade or hidden nature, then took out the Divine Ability Stone.

Su Hao derived the Four Emperors Sword of Lingxiao, which appeared above the Annihilation Sword Master's divine ability on the Heaven and Earth Sword Dao Ranking. A month later, Pei Zhentian arrived above the Golden Light Sect and prepared to attack it.

• Su Hao spent half a year using the Divine Ability Stone to derive the Thirty-Three Emperor Swords of Xuandu into the Four Emperors Sword of Lingxiao.
• The Heaven and Earth Sword Dao Ranking placed the Four Emperors Sword of Lingxiao at twenty-first, above the Annihilation Sword Master's Taiyi Sword Curse of Lingxiao.
• The Annihilation Sword Master dismissed the gathered disciples and speculated that the sword's creator was a powerful expert from the Barren Ancient Domain.
• Little Cai and Little Jin discussed Su Hao's future ascension before Little Cai went into seclusion.
• Pei Zhentian found the Golden Light Sect while searching for the people he sought, and Lin Daosheng activated the Four Saints Dao Formation to protect the sect.
• Pei Zhentian recognized the formation as the Profound Light Dragon Trapping Array and gathered demonic light at his fingertip.

Su Hao used the Four Emperors Sword of Lingxiao to shatter Pei Zhentian’s body, but the Body Integration cultivator revived through a blood-rebirth technique and escaped. Su Hao remained at the Golden Light Sect, frustrated that he had not been strong enough to finish Pei Zhentian, and noticed the Talent Power left by the disciples killed in the attack.

• Pei Zhentian’s Annihilation Demonic Light cracked the Golden Light Sect’s formation and killed dozens of Qi Refining disciples, while Lin Daosheng ordered the others to seek refuge in the Golden Light Abyss.
• Su Hao appeared before Pei Zhentian and brought out Pei Yin, who tried to persuade his ancestor to stop fighting.
• Su Hao struck Pei Zhentian with the Four Emperors Sword of Lingxiao, seemingly destroying his body at the cost of much of his Primordial True Force.
• Pei Zhentian regenerated as a blood-covered figure, recognized the sword art’s Lingxiao Grade, and fled after Su Hao prepared to strike again.
• Su Hao lamented that he had nearly defeated Pei Zhentian and noticed around sixty clusters of Talent Power near the plaza, left by the slain disciples.

Su Hao sought a way to defeat Pei Zhentian without risking his life, so he entered the Taiyuan Sword Realm to claim its third-trial reward. After effortlessly defeating the enhanced guardian, he found the reward was an impractical immortal-sword forging manual and asked the Realm Spirit to change it.

• Su Hao found that devouring 62 clusters of Talent Power had triggered no special reward and concluded that he needed a safer way to overcome Pei Zhentian.
• Su Hao sent Little Jin into the Ninth-Grade Lapis Dragon Vein to strengthen the formation, while his Demonic Fiend Clone guarded Wan Guang Peak.
• Su Hao entered the Taiyuan Sword Realm and climbed to the third trial, where the Golden Armored Guard secretly increased his strength and defenses.
• Su Hao killed the Golden Armored Guard with the Four Emperors Sword of Lingxiao, revealing the guardian of the fourth trial and startling the Realm Spirit.
• Su Hao discovered that the third-trial reward was a manual for forging the Profound Heaven Immortal Sword, judged it useless for his immediate predicament, and asked the Realm Spirit to change it.

Su Hao secured the fourth trial’s reward by agreeing to free the Sword Realm’s Realm Spirit someday, only to discover that the Realm Spirit’s consciousness had been erased. After leaving the Sword Realm, he found Golden Light Sect’s formation close to collapse under Pei Zhentian’s repeated attacks.

• Su Hao prepared to leave the Sword Realm rather than spend more time challenging the fourth trial, but the Realm Spirit offered him a choice of its reward in exchange for helping it gain freedom.
• Su Hao agreed and chose the Spirit Unification Art from the Sword Stele’s possible rewards.
• The Realm Spirit disintegrated after altering the reward, and Su Hao realized the middle-aged man at the next platform no longer possessed the Realm Spirit’s independent consciousness.
• Su Hao promised to free the Realm Spirit if he ever gained the ability, then left the Sword Realm after twenty days had passed outside.
• Pei Zhentian continued attacking the Four Saints Dao Formation, damaging the Ninth-Grade Lapis Dragon Vein while hidden demonic cultivators watched.
• As Pei Zhentian activated the Annihilation Demonic Light again, he felt a breeze brush his skin and his hair stood on end.

Su Hao killed Pei Zhentian with the amplified Four Emperors Sword of Lingxiao, then used the Buzhou Mountain Soul to transform Phoenix Perch Mountain and produce Immortal Qi. Three years later, he broke through to the Early Void Refinement stage.

• Su Hao used Spirit Unification Art to stack two Four Emperors Sword of Lingxiao attacks, killing Pei Zhentian and frightening away the onlookers.
• Yu Xuanji met her junior sister in blue, explained that the threat to the Golden Light Sect had been settled, and left with her.
• Su Hao obtained the Buzhou Mountain Soul and embedded it in Phoenix Perch Mountain, which began generating Immortal Qi.
• Su Hao refined the Immortal Qi while the Buzhou Mountain Soul continued to develop; Night Dragon was shocked by the feat, and Soul Devourer became obedient within the Myriad Souls Pagoda.
• In the third year, Su Hao broke through into the Early Void Refinement stage.

Su Hao waited for a heavenly tribulation after his breakthrough, but none appeared, and he continued cultivating at Phoenix Perch Mountain. Li Yueyao visited the Golden Light Sect to deliver Yu Xuanji’s gifts and left after scolding Su Hao, while an ugly, scarred young man approached the sect from afar.

• Su Hao waited for a heavenly tribulation, but none gathered, and he suspected the Buzhou Mountain Soul and Immortal Qi had prevented it.
• Su Hao learned that the Golden Light Sect’s disciples had advanced rapidly and invited Lin Daosheng and Lin Ziyi to build a cave abode on Phoenix Perch Mountain.
• Lin Daosheng told Su Hao that Wei Wu’s Life Token had shattered two years earlier, and Su Hao accepted that Wei Wu had died.
• Li Yueyao arrived seeking the expert who had slain Old Monster Pei, mistook Su Hao’s relationship with Yu Xuanji, and delivered a storage pouch from her senior sister.
• Su Hao found cultivation pills, Three Saints Dao Pills, and the Purple Cloud Robe in the pouch, while an ugly young man with burn scars approached the Golden Light Sect.

Su Hao welcomed Zhang Xiao, who had taken over Wei Wu’s body, and prepared to punish him for Wei Wu’s apparent death. After Su Hao overwhelmed him with the Four Emperors Sword of Lingxiao, Zhang Xiao revealed that he had not killed Wei Wu and had come to fulfill Wei Wu’s lingering wish.

• Su Hao returned to Phoenix Perch Mountain, resolved to grow strong enough to help Yu Xuanji, and sensed a visitor at Golden Light Sect.
• Su Hao recognized that Zhang Xiao had taken over Wei Wu’s body and guided him to Phoenix Perch Mountain.
• Lin Daosheng saw Zhang Xiao and let him pass, while Zhang Xiao reached Su Hao’s cave abode and challenged him.
• Su Hao unleashed the Myriad Souls Pagoda, then silenced Zhang Xiao with the sword intent of the Four Emperors Sword of Lingxiao.
• Zhang Xiao surrendered and explained that Wei Wu had died fighting someone on a cliff, where Zhang Xiao’s remnant soul had found a body to inhabit.
• Zhang Xiao said he had come to Golden Light Sect to fulfill Wei Wu’s lingering wish and take full control of his body.

Su Hao mastered the Kunwu One Qi Sword Scripture almost instantly, accepted Zhang Xiao as a named disciple, and let him establish a grotto-heaven at Phoenix Perch Mountain. Five years later, the war in Tianyuan Continent continued as Master Yuanguang searched for the fiend behind the Underworld Spring River, but White Elephant King vanished.

• Zhang Xiao explained the Kunwu One Qi Sword Scripture and recited it for Su Hao, who comprehended most of it at once and gained the Kunwu Origin Qi talent.
• Su Hao refused to take Zhang Xiao as a formal disciple but accepted him as a named disciple and ordered him to settle at the foot of Phoenix Perch Mountain.
• Zhang Xiao established a grotto-heaven and began secluded cultivation to recover his former strength, while Su Hao continued studying the sword scripture.
• Five years passed as the Golden Light Sect closed its mountain and the Tathagata Zen Sect and other Righteous Sects waged a devastating war across Tianyuan Continent.
• Lu Yuehe and his allies challenged Master Yuanguang over the continuing attacks, but he insisted they must find the fiend responsible for the Underworld Spring River.
• Master Yuanguang learned that White Elephant King had charged northwest and lost his aura, so he headed after him but could not find him.

Su Hao witnessed Master Yuanguang battle the Three-Eyed Corpse King, then returned to Phoenix Perch Mountain and found the escaped White Elephant King sleeping beneath his Wutong Tree. The sacred elephant woke and threatened him, while Su Hao allowed it to stay on the condition that it caused no trouble.

• Master Yuanguang searched for White Elephant King and found only its broken collar before confronting the Three-Eyed Corpse King in Tianyuan Continent.
• Su Hao sensed the Body Integration battle and used Star King Steps to reach the battlefield, where he identified Master Yuanguang and the Three-Eyed Corpse King.
• Master Yuanguang used the Pudu Golden Pavilion to suppress the Three-Eyed Corpse King, but the Corpse King escaped by releasing a beam from his third eye.
• The Three-Eyed Corpse King headed toward the Nine Nether Absolute Land, while Master Yuanguang continued searching for White Elephant King and discussed the hidden observer with the pavilion's Artifact Spirit.
• Su Hao returned to Phoenix Perch Mountain and found White Elephant King asleep beneath the Wutong Tree; it woke and bellowed, disturbing the Demonic Fiend Clone.
• Su Hao told White Elephant King it could stay as long as it did not cause trouble.

Su Hao drove a powerful white elephant from his cave abode, but it returned seeking shelter from pursuers from the Tathagata Zen Sect. When Master Yuanguang arrived at the Golden Light Sect and asked Su Hao to report any sighting of the elephant, Su Hao kept the elephant’s presence concealed.

• Su Hao defeated the white elephant’s attacks and dharma manifestation, then threw it out of his cave abode.
• Little Cai and Little Jin recognized the elephant’s unusually powerful Buddhist bloodline, while Su Hao let it return repeatedly rather than force it to stay.
• At night, the white elephant begged Su Hao for shelter and offered forty-nine Sariras, claiming that the Tathagata Zen Sect had imprisoned and tortured it.
• Su Hao sensed Buddhist chants approaching, and the white elephant hid beneath the Wutong Tree.
• Master Yuanguang arrived at the Golden Light Sect, questioned Su Hao about the earlier battle with the Three-Eyed Corpse King, and asked him to report any white elephant sighting before departing.

Master Yuanguang chose not to attack Su Hao, and the Six-Tusked White Elephant stayed in Su Hao’s grotto-heaven by trading pills for more time. It rapidly advanced in cultivation while revealing a vast stash of treasures, leaving Su Hao suspicious about where the pills came from.

• Master Yuanguang explained that he had avoided fighting Su Hao because Su Hao was not a demonic cultivator and White Elephant King was unlikely to be hiding with him.
• After Master Yuanguang and Pudu Golden Pavilion left, Su Hao saw that the Six-Tusked White Elephant had special talents identifying it as a Buddhist Sacred Beast, then accepted a Blood Bodhi in exchange for letting it stay for a month.
• The White Elephant traded a Bronze Arhat Body-Tempering Dao Pill for another month, and it advanced to the Early Soul Transformation stage while sleeping in Su Hao’s grotto-heaven.
• The White Elephant offered twelve bottles of pills to extend its stay for a year, then revealed hundreds of pill bottles, including another Dragon Blood Dao Pill that Su Hao accepted for two extra months.
• Su Hao questioned whether the Tathagata Zen Sect had given the White Elephant its pills, and the White Elephant denied stealing them while eyeing the grotto-heaven’s pavilions.

Su Hao branded the White Elephant with a tracking imprint, gave Little Cai Dragon Blood Dao Pills, and received a dragon-race secret technique from her. At the Tathagata Zen Sect, Yuanguang learned that the White Elephant had stolen many treasures and sent two Buddhist prodigies to find it.

• Su Hao marked the White Elephant with a Life Chasing Imprint and warned it not to remove the imprint while it stayed at the Golden Light Sect.
• Su Hao gave Little Cai two Dragon Blood Dao Pills, and she handed him a jade slip containing the Dragon Joy Harmonization Technique.
• Yuanguang returned to the Tathagata Zen Sect after a year of searching for the White Elephant and learned that it had stolen pills, Dao Pills, Crystals of Creation, a Buddha Relic, and Bodhi Tree Root from the treasury.
• Yuanguang summoned Lianjingzi and Chanhui and tasked the two Buddhist prodigies with finding the White Elephant King.