Chapter Summaries

Su Xiaobai learned that the Ancient Domain’s will forbade transcendence and suspected the Gubo Nation would strike as the Cosmic Genius War ended. Meanwhile, the Supreme Pure Yang Palace prepared to welcome its war participants, unaware of the danger he anticipated.

• Princess Yunxi warned White Shadow never to pursue transcendence, and Yigong Overlord explained that the Ancient Domain’s will prevented anyone from transcending.
• Su Xiaobai considered the Gubo Nation’s history and concluded its leaders might attack now that the Day of Heavenly Dao Stoppage had arrived and the Cosmic Genius War was ending.
• Su Xiaobai kept Tantai Bai from acting to reunite with Empress Lingping while the Gubo Nation’s threat remained unresolved.
• The Supreme Pure Yang Palace prepared a feast for its Cosmic Genius War participants and discussed the disciples who had reached the Final Battleground.
• The Palace’s disciples celebrated White Shadow’s Twelve Life Universes and his recognition by Ancestor Pure Yang Ancient Venerable, while early-returning disciples received less attention.

The Supreme Pure Yang Palace’s Palace Ancestors watched the Final Battleground through the Mysterious Sky Mirror and assessed the slaughter and battle records. Lingping Palace Ancestor and the others worried that White Shadow had vanished, and Mizhan Ancient Ancestor vowed to learn his fate when the surviving disciples returned.

• Genius disciples returning from the Cosmic Genius War gained followers within their sects as rumors spread about how some Final Battleground contestants had earned their honors.
• Mizhan Ancient Ancestor showed the Palace Ancestors the Final Battleground in the Mysterious Sky Mirror, revealing the high kill counts and formidable opponents of Poison Barbarian Emperor Ancestor, Emperor Yi Emperor Ancestor, Emperor Ancestor Jinghong, and Emperor Ancestor Jiuyao.
• The Palace Ancestors recognized that Emperor Yi Emperor Ancestor’s intense killing intent had drawn the strongest Ancient Domain Lives to him, making his battle record more impressive than his number of kills alone suggested.
• Lingping Palace Ancestor worried because she had received no news of White Shadow, the Supreme Pure Yang Palace’s most important genius, and did not know whether he had entered the Final Battleground or survived.
• Mizhan Ancient Ancestor insisted that the sect would investigate White Shadow after the disciples left the Ancient Domain, while Lingping Palace Ancestor feared that his failure to return would damage her ambitions to reach the Ancient Grade.

Emperor Ancestor Jinghong and Emperor Ancestor Qiyao returned from the Cosmic Genius War, but Pure Yang Ancient Venerable and the Supreme Pure Yang Palace awaited White Shadow. Su Xiaobai arrived unharmed, astonishing everyone because he showed no trace of red light.

• Pure Yang Ancient Venerable arrived at the Supreme Pure Yang Palace as its disciples and Palace Ancestors awaited the return of White Shadow.
• Emperor Ancestor Jinghong and Emperor Ancestor Qiyao returned and reported their kills, weapons, and specimens from the Final Battleground.
• Lingping Palace Ancestor asked whether White Shadow had returned, and the two Emperor Ancestors said they had not encountered him.
• Pure Yang Ancient Venerable grew angry at the possibility that White Shadow was missing and sent a disciple flying for dismissing the concern.
• Su Xiaobai arrived in white robes, and Pure Yang Ancient Venerable and Lingping Palace Ancestor were astonished that he bore no red light.

Dozens of Ancient Venerables attacked the Supreme Pure Yang Palace to kill White Shadow, forcing Pure Yang Ancient Venerable to evacuate the sect. Their combined assault destroyed Number Six Shadow, but the chapter left White Shadow’s fate unresolved.

• Pure Yang Ancient Venerable questioned White Shadow about his gains in the Ancient Domain as White Shadow began to reveal a secret about the Taiya Universe.
• Dozens of Ancient Venerables appeared and focused their killing intent on White Shadow, unleashing Ancient Grade Weapons and attacks that devastated the surrounding realms.
• Pure Yang Ancient Venerable urged White Shadow to flee and tried to protect him, but he could not stop the attackers.
• Empress Lingping and Palace Ancestor Ziyan escaped the battle as the Ancient Venerables’ attacks struck White Shadow’s position.
• The combined attacks reduced Number Six Shadow to fireworks, and Pure Yang Ancient Venerable withdrew with the Supreme Pure Yang Palace disciples.

After Gubo Nation’s infiltrators destroyed White Shadow and attacked the Supreme Pure Yang Palace, Taiya Monarch revealed that Gubo Nation had declared war on the Taiya Universe. The war erupted across the universe, leaving Pure Yang Ancient Venerable to confront a conflict tied to Desolate Grade powerhouses and transcendence.

• Dozens of Ancient Grade powerhouses annihilated White Shadow and reduced the Supreme Pure Yang Palace to a Space-Time Vortex, ignoring Pure Yang Ancient Venerable’s furious protest.
• Taiya Monarch appeared and exposed the attackers as impostors from the declining hegemonic nation Gubo Nation.
• Taiya Monarch explained that Gubo Nation had declared war after Holy Heart Hegemon Emperor died in an Ancient Domain forbidden zone.
• Gubo Nation’s infiltrators unleashed their power, annihilating more than a hundred million living beings as Ancient Venerables from the Taiya Universe arrived to fight them.
• Pure Yang Ancient Venerable held back from joining the battle as he realized Gubo Nation’s plans involved sacrificing the Taiya Universe to help produce a new Desolate Grade powerhouse.

Su Xiaobai returned to the battlefield as White Shadow and declared war on Gubo Nation, then used Number Six Shadow to form a million-level Giant Shadow. His Cross-Ancient Grade slash shattered Titan Ancient Venerable’s life origin.

• Empress Ziyan urged Empress Lingping to flee the battle, and Lingping remembered her concern for Tantai Bai.
• White Shadow appeared alive and kicked Titan Ancient Venerable, startling the fighters in the Taiya Universe.
• Su Xiaobai, speaking through Number Six Shadow, declared war on Gubo Nation and was mocked by the Ancient Venerables.
• Su Xiaobai ordered the system to merge a million-level Giant Shadow around Number Six Shadow, transforming its power.
• Giant Shadow wielded a Black Blade and struck Titan Ancient Venerable with a Cross-Ancient Grade slash, shattering his life origin.

White Shadow revealed his overwhelming strength by killing Titan Ancient Venerable in one strike, then Purgatory Ancient Venerable ordered Gubo Nation’s infiltrators to begin their uprising. Betrayals erupted across the Taiya Universe as its Ancient Venerables clashed with Gubo Nation’s forces.

• White Shadow killed Titan Ancient Venerable with a single saber strike, shocking the Ancient Venerables who witnessed it.
• Su Xiaobai collected Titan Ancient Venerable’s corpse and landed on the shattered Space-Time Vortex while the returning geniuses realized White Shadow was the mysterious powerhouse from the Final Battleground.
• Purgatory Ancient Venerable ordered Gubo Nation’s infiltrators to begin their plan, and hidden agents across the Taiya Universe attacked their companions and sects.
• Gubo Nation’s infiltrators massacred disciples and leaders at the Supreme Pure Yang Palace, Xianbo Yun Cui Pavilion, and Taiya Bu Xian Court, among other forces.
• Gubo Nation’s Ancient Venerables attacked their Taiya Universe counterparts, and more than a hundred Ancient Venerables fought as the surrounding realms were annihilated.

Su Xiaobai watched the Taiya Universe and Gubo Nation’s Ancient Venerables clash in a devastating war, then joined the battle to protect Pure Yang Ancient Venerable. As casualties mounted and reinforcements arrived, Su Xiaobai targeted Gubo Nation’s fighters while looking for chances to profit from the chaos.

• Ancient Venerable Mie Xu and Purgatory Ancient Venerable fought, with Mie Xu using the River of Time and a world-bearing flower petal to suppress Gubo Nation’s forces.
• Nine Cold Ancient Venerable summoned reinforcements as Gubo Nation’s infiltration and the growing battle threw the Taiya Universe into panic.
• Su Xiaobai decided to exploit the fighting to kill weaker Ancient Venerables and collect their corpses, while Number Six Shadow joined the battle in Giant Shadow’s strongest form.
• Pure Yang Ancient Venerable ordered Su Xiaobai to hold off Black Shark Ancient Venerable while he covered Supreme Pure Yang Palace’s retreat.
• Su Xiaobai fought Black Shark Ancient Venerable to repay Pure Yang Ancient Venerable for his past care and help.

Su Xiaobai killed Black Shark Ancient Venerable and gained a vast fortune as the war in the Taiya Universe intensified. Ancient Venerable Mie Xu fought Gubo Nation’s forces, while the Supreme Pure Yang Palace was devastated by its own infiltrators.

• Su Xiaobai used his self-destructive techniques and Black Blade · Shadow to kill Black Shark Ancient Venerable, then recovered his corpse and treasures for nearly two billion kilograms of Cosmic Gold in total.
• Ancient Venerable Mie Xu attacked Nine Cold Ancient Venerable and explained that he opposed Gubo Nation because one of its powerhouses had once called him a fool.
• Gubo Nation’s other Hundred Million Epoch Venerables arrived and surrounded Ancient Venerable Mie Xu, shifting the battle’s balance toward Gubo Nation.
• Ten of the Supreme Pure Yang Palace’s twelve Palace Ancestors revealed themselves as Gubo Nation infiltrators and attacked their fellow disciples.
• Lingping Palace Ancestor and Ancient Ancestor Ziyan led some disciples to flee, while Emperor Ancestor Jinghong, Emperor Ancestor Qiyao, and other senior disciples helped a few survivors escape.

Empress Lingping nearly sacrificed herself to save Empress Ziyan and the geniuses, but Su Xiaobai’s Shadows arrived and wiped out the attackers. Lingping recognized Su Xiaobai as her only family as he entered the battle and turned his forces against Gubo Nation’s infiltrators.

• Ten Palace Ancestors attacked Empress Lingping, Empress Ziyan, and the geniuses, so Lingping prepared to self-detonate to protect them.
• A streak of black light destroyed the ten attackers, and countless of White Shadow’s powerful clones appeared across the battlefield.
• Su Xiaobai revealed his true appearance and led tens of thousands of Giant Shadows against Gubo Nation’s Ancient Epoch Venerables.
• Empress Lingping recognized Su Xiaobai and realized he was still alive, while hoping that Tantai Bai was safe too.
• Su Xiaobai sent a million clones into the core Great Thousand Realms to attack Gubo Nation’s infiltrators.

Su Xiaobai used his avatars to overwhelm Gubo Nation’s infiltrators across the Taiya Universe, disrupting their plans and turning the battles below Ancient Grade in Taiya’s favor. As the Ancient Overlords of both sides emerged and entered battle, the fate of the universe remained undecided.

• Su Xiaobai sent a million avatars into the core Great Thousand Realms to hunt down Gubo Nation’s infiltrators and break the stalemate.
• Blood War Ancient Venerable fought two Giant Shadows, killed them, and then faced their self-detonations as they reappeared.
• Six Ancient Overlords of the Taiya Universe revealed themselves, and Sky Overlord rescued Ancient Venerable Mie Xu.
• Sky Overlord led the other five Taiya Overlords into battle against Kama-Itachi Overlord and Gubo Nation’s Overlords in an independent space.

Su Xiaobai used Giant Shadows to roam the Ancient Grade battlefield, disrupting Gubo Nation’s forces while looting the fallen from both sides. As the conflict spread across the Taiya Universe, his clones joined the fighting beyond the battlefield and slaughtered Gubo Nation’s Ancient Ancestor Grade experts.

• Su Xiaobai sent Giant Shadows into the battlefield, where they attacked Gubo Nation’s Ancient Venerables and collected corpses and treasures from both sides.
• Su Xiaobai amassed enormous amounts of Cosmic Gold while other fighters, including Immortal Bead Emperor Ancestor and Emperor Yi Emperor Ancestor, struggled against stronger opponents.
• Immortal Bead Emperor Ancestor and Emperor Yi Emperor Ancestor watched Su Xiaobai move through the Ancient Grade battle and marveled at the gap between their strength and his.
• Ancient Venerables from across the Ancient Domain joined the conflict as Gubo Nation’s attack threatened the interests of many Taiya Universe defenders.
• Su Xiaobai’s clones arrived outside the Ancient Grade battlefield and began slaughtering Gubo Nation’s Ancient Ancestor Grade experts.

During the war between Taiya Universe and Gubo Nation, Su Xiaobai used Giant Shadow to hunt injured Ancient Venerables and collect their corpses, provoking enemies and allies alike. After Sky Overlord imprisoned the Shadows, Number Six Shadow deciphered the Ancient Dao and escaped, while Su Xiaobai continued aiding Taiya Universe’s fighters.

• Number Six Shadow entered the battlefield’s center, where Su Xiaobai killed more than thirty injured Gubo Nation Ancient Venerables and collected their corpses and treasures.
• When Ancient Hundred Million Epoch Venerables destroyed ten Giant Shadows, Su Xiaobai detonated more than ten thousand others to create black holes and draw their attention.
• Su Xiaobai’s Giant Shadows used the chaos to kill retreating Gubo Nation fighters and recover their corpses, earning him over ten billion kilograms of Cosmic Gold and the pursuit of powerful enemies.
• Taiya Universe’s powerhouses and Ancient Overlords condemned Su Xiaobai for scavenging the battlefield, and Sky Overlord imprisoned tens of thousands of Shadows in an Ancient Chaos Space.
• Number Six Shadow comprehended the Chaos Cosmic Dao, unraveled Sky Overlord’s imprisonment, and escaped after a day and night.

Su Xiaobai captured six Cross-Ancient Grade geniuses working with Gubo Nation and learned that the nation’s elite reinforcements were arriving from the Ancient Domain. He discovered that more than twenty Ancient Overlords, including several notorious monsters and the Unprecedented Talent Underworld Boat Overlord, had joined the invasion, while Red Lotus Overlord led their forces.

• Su Xiaobai learned that Ancestor Grade beings and Cross-Ancient Grade powerhouses had been following the Giant Shadows through the routes he cleared.
• Su Xiaobai ambushed a team of six Cross-Ancient Grade geniuses and their defected Ancient Epoch Venerable leader, killing the leader and capturing the six alive.
• Su Xiaobai tortured one captive until he broke, and the six revealed that Gubo Nation had sent an initial wave of cannon fodder while its elite forces gathered.
• Su Xiaobai discovered that more than twenty Ancient Overlords from the Ancient Domain had reached the Taiya Universe, including Prison Heaven Overlord, Nightmare Overlord, and Underworld Boat Overlord.
• Su Xiaobai learned that Red Lotus Overlord led Gubo Nation’s Ancient Overlords and had begun touching the Nation-State level.

As Gubo Nation overwhelmed Taiya Universe and drove its defenders back to Taiya Core Great Thousand Realm, Su Xiaobai realized how powerless he was before Ancient Overlords and resolved to comprehend Combine Dao. Just as more than a hundred enemy Ancient Overlords prepared to destroy the last refuge, Taiya Monarch arrived.

• Gubo Nation's Ancient Overlords gained the upper hand, and Sky Overlord was overwhelmed when three enemies attacked him together.
• Su Xiaobai watched the Ancient Overlord battle devastate the universe and found that neither he nor his Giant Shadow could affect its course.
• Over the next half month, Gubo Nation seized nearly all the core Great Thousand Realms and forced Taiya's remaining experts into Taiya Core Great Thousand Realm.
• Red Lotus Overlord announced that Gubo Nation would destroy Taiya Core Great Thousand Realm, while more than a hundred Ancient Overlords gathered to attack it.
• Taiya Monarch appeared above Taiya Core Great Thousand Realm and challenged anyone who dared to touch it.

Taiya Monarch arrived to save the Taiya Universe, using Words Manifest Laws to annihilate Gubo Nation’s forces while his army turned the battle around. Lingbo Monarch confronted him and led his forces into the Ancient Domain, and Taiya Monarch saw Su Xiaobai’s true body and said he was counting on him.

• Taiya Monarch spoke the words “Die” and “Seal,” annihilating more than a hundred Gubo Nation Ancient Overlords with the Great Daos of Annihilation and Space.
• Taiya Monarch’s Heavenly Soldiers and Generals entered the Taiya Universe and slaughtered the Gubo Lifeforms, reversing the battle.
• Lingbo Monarch emerged from the universe, and he and Taiya Monarch traded insults about their pasts and the conflict over the Taiya Universe.
• Lingbo Monarch led his army into the Ancient Domain and challenged Taiya Monarch to follow him there.
• Taiya Monarch looked toward Su Xiaobai’s true body inside his Internal Universe and said he was counting on him.

The Eternal Monarchs returned to the Ancient Domain as the Taiya Universe’s defenders fought a devastating war against Gubo Nation. Su Xiaobai rescued Empress Lingping and Empress Ziyan, and Empress Lingping reunited with Tantai Bai inside his Internal Universe.

• The Eternal Monarchs entered the Ancient Domain, and their power restored vitality to the devastated core Great Thousand Realm as the battle intensified.
• Houyi Overlord slew Ancient Overlords with his arrows, while Sky Overlord sacrificed himself to destroy three more.
• Empress Lingping and Empress Ziyan fled the battlefield but remained pursued by Gubo Nation’s Ancient Ancestor Grade forces.
• Su Xiaobai brought the two empresses into his Internal Universe and told them it was a safe haven from the war.
• Tantai Bai called Empress Lingping her mother, stirring her memories, and Empress Lingping embraced her daughter.

Su Xiaobai warned Empress Ziyan and Empress Lingping that the Taiya Universe would likely lose a hundred-year war against Gubo Nation unless he found a way to grow strong enough to change its outcome. Meanwhile, his clone arrived with Tianshu Holy Maiden at Tianshu Holy Land, where he sensed a powerful observer watching him.

• Su Xiaobai told Empress Ziyan that the war would last at least a hundred years and that Gubo Nation would ultimately win if nothing changed.
• Su Xiaobai said Gubo Nation planned to enslave the Taiya Universe’s inhabitants and use its resources as an offering, and he vowed to turn the war around within a hundred years.
• Empress Lingping and Empress Ziyan doubted that Su Xiaobai could change the outcome, but he declined to explain further.
• Su Xiaobai shifted his perspective to his clone as it arrived with Tianshu Holy Maiden at the magnificent Tianshu Holy Land, which was filled with Ancient Overlords and powerful Eternal Monarchs.
• Su Xiaobai sensed an untraceable gaze, and Tianshu Holy Maiden explained that it belonged to the Watcher, a Sub-Saint Person responsible for monitoring the Holy Land.

Su Xiaobai learned how ranks, missions, and Saintly positions worked in the Tianshu Holy Land, then arrived at the Red Court with Tianshu Holy Maiden and encountered the other Saint Sons and Saint Maidens. As the rival guards assessed one another, a Tianshu Saint Son grew wary of Su Xiaobai despite his apparent Ten-Step Emperor Ancestor Grade.

• Princess Yunxi explained the Holy Land’s ranks and bounty missions, while Su Xiaobai learned that Tianshu Holy Maiden held the status of a famous elder.
• Tianshu Holy Maiden urged her guards to earn merit in the New Star War and offered to teach White Shadow skills, but Su Xiaobai relied on his own plans.
• Tianshu Holy Maiden and her party arrived at the Red Court, where Su Xiaobai saw that the Tianshu Holy Land had seven Saint Sons and seven Saint Maidens, each with ten formidable guards.
• Su Xiaobai studied the rival guards and stayed wary of the other Saint Sons and Saint Maidens, whose Cross-Ancient Grade fighters seemed exceptionally dangerous.
• A Tianshu Saint Son noticed Su Xiaobai’s apparent Ten-Step Emperor Ancestor Grade and suspected he had abilities beyond his displayed strength.

Princess Yunxi briefed Su Xiaobai and her other guards on the New Star War, which was three years away, and gave them resources and freedom to pursue bounty missions. Su Xiaobai turned the rewards into wealth and used Shadow Clones to complete dangerous mining missions, earning hundreds of millions of kilograms of Cosmic Gold.

• Princess Yunxi told her ten guards to grow stronger and survive the New Star War, and gave each a Summoning Ring and access to Holy Land bounty missions.
• Su Xiaobai converted the treasures in his ring into Cosmic Gold and combined his Ancestor Cosmos Grade cultivation techniques into a new Ancient Grade technique.
• Su Xiaobai visited the bounty mission stele and sent his One-Click Gathering and One-Click Mining clones into the Land of Calamity.
• Thirty-six thousand Shadow Clones were lost, but Su Xiaobai gained five hundred sixty-seven million kilograms of Cosmic Gold from mining and gathering.
• Su Xiaobai accepted three missions to collect minerals and special materials, and Number Two Shadow completed them in less than half a day.