Chapter Summaries

Su Xiaobai pursued high-risk bounty missions to gather contribution points, then sent Shadows into the Pangu Star River to hunt a Tianxuan Holy Land assassin. He left Bronze Sparrow Ancient Venerable dead after turning the assassin’s ambush against him.

• Su Xiaobai learned that he needed to reach the Renowned level before he could exchange contribution points for Ancient Grade treasures, so he accepted dangerous assassination missions instead.
• Princess Yunxi began training the guards, but White Shadow did not attend.
• Su Xiaobai sent more than a hundred Shadows into the Pangu Star River to find Bronze Sparrow Ancient Venerable, an Inner Sect Successor who hunted Tianshu Holy Land disciples.
• Bronze Sparrow Ancient Venerable ambushed and killed one Shadow, then realized that its gaze had revealed his position.
• Su Xiaobai’s Shadows converged, and he killed Bronze Sparrow Ancient Venerable with a single slash of the Black Blade.

Over six months of war, Su Xiaobai grew stronger by completing Super Holy Land bounties and looting the remains of fallen Ancient Grade cultivators. When his Shadow Clones found the corpse of Gubo Nation’s Evil Sword Venerable, they uncovered a vast collection of weapons that promised an even greater windfall.

• Su Xiaobai completed four more assassination missions and earned enough contribution points to advance to Inner Sect Successor.
• Empress Lingping rapidly recovered her cultivation in the Imperial Realm and gradually regained memories of her past with Tantai Bai and Su Xiaobai.
• As the war between the Taiya Universe and Gubo Nation settled into positional battles, Su Xiaobai’s Giant Shadows scavenged corpses and killed Ancient Venerables across the battlefield.
• Su Xiaobai comprehended his acquired Great Daos to Founder level, strengthened his cultivation, and began defeating Ancient Hundred Epoch Venerables.
• After six months, Su Xiaobai’s Shadow Clones found Evil Sword Venerable’s corpse, which yielded fifteen billion kilograms of Cosmic Gold and a collection of dozens of Ancient Grade weapons and over ten thousand Ancient Ancestor Grade weapons.

After turning the Ancient Hundred Million Epoch Venerable’s Summoning Ring into Cosmic Gold, Su Xiaobai upgraded his system and made the Giant Shadows powerful enough to devastate Gubo Nation’s Ancient Venerables. He then focused on comprehending his fifteen Ancient Grade Cultivation Techniques, and Empress Ziyan recognized the aura of one as he continued to grow stronger.

• Su Xiaobai used his three hundred billion kilograms of Cosmic Gold to upgrade One-Click Auto Monster Hunting, doubling his Shadows and unlocking Synthesis Amplify.
• Over the next six months, the Giant Shadows hunted Gubo Nation’s Ancient Ten Thousand Epoch Venerables, even raiding its rear territory.
• Su Xiaobai’s Giant Shadows grew strong enough to withstand attacks from Ancient Hundred Million Epoch Venerables, while he killed more than forty Ancient Ten Thousand Epoch Venerables over the year.
• Su Xiaobai upgraded his system with plundered treasures, strengthened Black Blade · Shadow, and pushed his combat power to the ceiling of the Ancient Ten Thousand Epoch Venerable realm.
• Su Xiaobai spent nine-tenths of his savings upgrading One-Click Training Space and began comprehending his fifteen Ancient Grade Cultivation Techniques.
• After one hundred days of cultivation, Empress Lingping and Empress Ziyan sensed Su Xiaobai’s growing pressure, and Empress Ziyan identified it as the aura of an Ancient Grade Cultivation Technique.

Su Xiaobai comprehended all fifteen Ancient Grade techniques over two months, transforming his strength and bringing him to the limit of Ancient Venerable Grade. He left off one step from the Ancient Overlord realm, with Empress Ziyan and Empress Lingping unable to see through his cultivation.

• Empress Ziyan recognized that Su Xiaobai had comprehended an Ancient Grade technique, while Empress Lingping sensed that he had become impossible to see through.
• Su Xiaobai focused on training and comprehended the remaining fourteen Ancient Grade techniques over the next two months.
• Su Xiaobai watched the River of Time and realized that, despite his progress, he had not yet entered Ancient Grade or escaped its restrictions.
• After mastering all fifteen techniques, Su Xiaobai gained enough strength to kill an Ancient Hundred Million Epoch Venerable with one slash and touched the barrier to Ancient Overlords.
• Su Xiaobai noticed Empress Lingping, Empress Ziyan, and Tantai Bai together, then went to Su Ling'er, who smiled and remarked that he had improved again.

Su Xiaobai learned that an Eternal Monarch Grade weapon had emerged in the Sacred Beginning Forest, forcing Tianshu Holy Land’s Saint Sons and Saint Maidens to send their guards into the Forbidden Land to retrieve it. Princess Yunxi ordered her guards to secure the weapon at any cost, leaving Su Xiaobai facing a dangerous contest among the Holy Land’s factions.

• Su Xiaobai advanced to True Person Grade through his bounty missions and learned that his mission rewards had increased.
• Princess Yunxi summoned her guards to the Sacred Beginning Forest after its protective barrier collapsed and a powerful weapon appeared.
• Princess Yunxi explained that the Sacred Beginning Forest was a tomb where the weapons of fallen powerhouses could reemerge, and that anyone above Ancient Grade risked making the weapon disintegrate by entering.
• Su Xiaobai realized that the Saint Sons and Saint Maidens were competing to claim the Eternal Monarch Grade weapon through their Cross-Ancient Grade guards.
• Princess Yunxi ordered her guards to bring out the weapon even if it cost them their lives, promising them a share of everything she possessed.

Su Xiaobai entered the Sacred Beginning Forest with Princess Yunxi’s guards, hoping to test his strength and observe the other contenders. Princess Shanzhi’s forces ambushed them, and the battle left Princess Yunxi’s group badly weakened.

• Su Xiaobai joined the ten guards entering the Sacred Beginning Forest and secretly used his Soul Power to survey the contenders gathered there.
• Su Xiaobai sensed ten enemies heading directly for his group, while Phoenix Blood Ancient Ancestor ordered the guards to scatter from a spatial attack.
• Insect Mother Ancient Ancestor appeared and taunted Phoenix Blood Ancient Ancestor and Azure Fox Ancient Ancestor on Princess Shanzhi’s behalf.
• Su Xiaobai held back as the two groups fought, judging that most of Princess Yunxi’s guards were outmatched.
• Insect Mother Ancient Ancestor and her allies killed two of Princess Yunxi’s guards and left Phoenix Blood Ancient Ancestor and Azure Fox Ancient Ancestor gravely wounded.

Su Xiaobai revealed his strength inside the Sacred Beginning Forest and wiped out Princess Shanzhi’s remaining guards, securing Princess Yunxi’s victory. He ended the battle by looting the field as everyone watched.

• Su Xiaobai held back while Princess Yunxi’s guards and Princess Shanzhi’s guards fought, until he was the only one of Yunxi’s guards left alive.
• Su Xiaobai’s Shadow Clones killed one of Princess Shanzhi’s guards, then shattered under the Insect Mother Ancient Ancestor’s attack.
• Su Xiaobai’s Shadow Clones returned and formed a Giant Shadow wielding the Black Blade, whose slash killed two more guards.
• Su Xiaobai cut down the remaining guards, including the Insect Mother Ancient Ancestor, defeating Princess Shanzhi’s forces.
• Princess Shanzhi fled after threatening Princess Yunxi, while Su Xiaobai looted the battlefield.

Su Xiaobai reclaimed the fallen guards’ riches and agreed to help Princess Yunxi win the Battle of the New Stars in exchange for remaining in the Holy Land. As the guards fought and died under the Eternal Monarch Grade weapon’s pressure, he sent Shadow to gather their treasures and began a hunt with ten Giant Shadows.

• Su Xiaobai reclaimed the collections of Princess Shanzhi’s guards and Princess Yunxi’s other guards, gaining over a hundred million Ancient Sources.
• Princess Yunxi questioned Su Xiaobai about his strength, and he agreed to help her win the Battle of the New Stars if she let him remain in the Holy Land.
• Princess Yunxi sent Su Xiaobai deeper into the Sacred Beginning Forest, where the Eternal Monarch Grade weapon’s pressure and awakened remnants of ancient wills killed many guards.
• Su Xiaobai followed the advancing guards and had Shadow collect their Summoning Rings whenever they fell.
• On the ninth day, a clash between guards escalated into a vast melee, and Su Xiaobai sent ten Giant Shadows into the forest to prey on the survivors.
• One Giant Shadow killed a guard comparable to an Ancient Hundred Million Epoch Venerable, revealing the threat to the guards while the Saint Sons and Saint Daughters remained unaware.

Su Xiaobai fought his way through the expanding Sacred Beginning Forest and learned from a captured guard about the powerful formations and the World-Shaking Spear. He continued toward the Eternal Monarch weapon, knowing that claiming it could cost anyone their life.

• Su Xiaobai killed the guards who attacked him, forcing the other fighters to scatter as the Eternal Monarch Grade pressure intensified.
• Su Xiaobai entered the forest’s vast inner region, where the Ancient Dao stretched the space and left many guards lost.
• Four guards of Saint Son Rakshasa tried to follow Su Xiaobai, but he killed three and captured Black Bat Ancient Ancestor.
• Su Xiaobai interrogated Black Bat Ancient Ancestor and learned that Saint Sons’ guards were generally stronger and that some formations could grant Cross-Ancient Grade guards power approaching Ancient Overlord Grade.
• Black Bat Ancient Ancestor revealed that the awakened weapon was the World-Shaking Spear of Dragon Spear Monarch, who had died refusing to leave his treasure to anyone.

Su Xiaobai hunted guards and Ancient Domain Life in the Sacred Beginning Forest, gathering wealth and intelligence for Princess Yunxi as he advanced toward the World-Shaking Spear. Three months into the expedition, he was excavating vast stores of rare materials in the forest’s inner region.

• Su Xiaobai killed Cross-Ancient Grade guards and converted their spoils into Ancient Source.
• Princess Yunxi sensed through her token that Su Xiaobai was alive and deep in the Forbidden Land, and she valued the intelligence he sent more than the Eternal Monarch Grade weapon.
• Over three months, Su Xiaobai survived repeated encounters with other guards and amassed more than three hundred million Ancient Source from Ancient Domain Life.
• Su Xiaobai and his Shadow Clones excavated the Sacred Beginning Forest, uncovering valuable ancient medicinal herbs and mountains of rare weapon-forging materials.

Su Xiaobai mined the Sacred Beginning Forest for ancient sources and collected guards’ cultivation techniques while dozens of guards clashed over the World-Shaking Spear. After hearing about the battle, Su Xiaobai ignored Princess Yunxi’s advice to wait and plunged into the melee, where the spear’s lonely history and the Dragon Spear Monarch’s burial were revealed.

• Su Xiaobai’s shadows excavated the Sacred Beginning Forest, gathering one billion ancient sources, while Su Xiaobai collected Ancestor Cosmos Grade techniques from defeated guards.
• Su Xiaobai followed the fighting auras and found dozens of surviving guards battling for the World-Shaking Spear.
• The battle grew into a massive melee as more guards arrived, and Princess Yunxi urged Su Xiaobai to stay back and watch for an opportunity.
• Su Xiaobai ignored Princess Yunxi’s advice and charged into the crowd.
• The World-Shaking Spear trembled at the Dragon Spear Monarch’s burial ground, its aura revealing the Eternal Monarch Grade pressure that had drawn the fighters.

Su Xiaobai survived the month-long battle in the Sacred Beginning Forest, killing twenty guards and collecting immense wealth and Ancient Grade Cultivation Techniques. The Kirin Holy Son’s five guards claimed the World-Shaking Spear, while Princess Yunxi focused on keeping Su Xiaobai alive for the Battle of the New Stars.

• Su Xiaobai moved through the guards’ deadly melee, killing several opponents and recovering their corpses, treasures, and techniques.
• After a month of fighting, ten guards remained, including Su Xiaobai and the Kirin Holy Son’s five powerful guards.
• Su Xiaobai chose not to challenge the five guards for the Eternal Monarch Grade weapon and entered the One-Click Training Space to comprehend his Ancient Grade Cultivation Techniques.
• Princess Yunxi urged Su Xiaobai to leave the Sacred Beginning Forest and arranged to give him a new mission.
• The Kirin Holy Son’s five guards emerged with the World-Shaking Spear, raising his prestige among the Saint Sons and Saint Daughters.

Su Xiaobai’s cultivation surged, raising his strength to the Ancient Overlord level as the Taiya Universe fought a desperate war against Gubo Nation. When Taiya’s forces faced defeat, Su Xiaobai’s avatar Shadow appeared and struck down an Ancient Hundred Epoch Overlord.

• Su Xiaobai mastered seven thousand Cosmic Daos, underwent a qualitative transformation, and advanced to Three-Step Ancient Ancestor Grade, with strength reaching the Ancient Overlord level.
• Gubo Nation and the Taiya Universe fought a massive Ancient Overlord battle outside the Great Thousand Subjugation Realms, where hundreds of Ancient Venerables died.
• Shenwu Ba Huang, Jin Xiao Overlord, and Taiya’s other fighters risked their lives against Gubo Nation’s superior forces.
• As Taiya’s side prepared for a desperate last stand, Su Xiaobai charged into the enemy ranks, drawing scorn from the other fighters.
• Su Xiaobai’s avatar Shadow condensed into a Giant Shadow and used the Black Blade to strike an Ancient Hundred Epoch Overlord down.

After breaking through, Su Xiaobai’s clones slaughtered Gubo Nation’s Ancient Overlords and earned a fortune, while the war’s ultimate outcome remained uncertain as Taiya Monarch struggled against Lingbo Monarch. Over nearly two years of bounty missions, Su Xiaobai rose to Fifth-Grade Esteemed Elder in Tianshu Holy Land, and the chapter left him poised to seek Saint Son status if he survived the coming New Star War.

• Su Xiaobai appeared on the battlefield, killed three Ancient Epoch Overlords and one Ancient Hundred Epoch Overlord, and forced Gubo Nation to reorganize its forces.
• Taiya Universe’s Ancient Overlords discussed the battle between Taiya Monarch and Lingbo Monarch and feared Taiya Monarch was losing strength.
• Su Xiaobai sent his clones to undertake difficult bounty missions in Tianshu Holy Land, and they completed every mission successfully.
• Su Xiaobai advanced from Outer Sect Successor to Fifth-Grade Esteemed Elder, one step away from King Marquis status.
• Su Xiaobai planned to survive the New Star War and gain Saint Son status so he could exchange contribution points for Ancient Grade cultivation techniques.

After two years of battle and cultivation, Su Xiaobai reached Ancient Ancestor Grade Great Perfection and grew strong enough to kill Ancient Eon Overlords, but still needed to enter the Ancient Grade and form his Ancient Dao. As the New Star War approached, Princess Yunxi gathered her Ten Guards and warned them to survive while eliminating their rivals, leaving the nine newly recruited guards stunned by Su Xiaobai’s past feats.

• Su Xiaobai accumulated nearly a thousand Ancient Grade Cultivation Techniques, advanced his strength, and resolved to seek an opportunity to complete Combine Dao.
• Su Xiaobai recognized that he still lacked mastery over the River of Time and an Ancient Dao, and set his sights on the New Star War.
• Princess Yunxi gathered her Ten Guards and instructed them to protect themselves while reducing the other Saint Sons’ and Saint Daughters’ guard numbers.
• Princess Yunxi told the nine new guards that White Shadow had been the sole survivor of a battle in which nineteen guards died, despite having only Ten-Step Emperor Ancestor Grade surface strength at the time.
• The nine guards were shocked as they realized how powerful Su Xiaobai might be now that he had reached Ancient Ancestor Grade Great Perfection.

Su Xiaobai and the Tianshu Holy Land’s inheritors gathered on Starfall Land for the opening of the New Star War, where the holy land’s highest experts appeared. The arrival of Tianshu Holy Monarch left Su Xiaobai wary of the vast gulf between Eternal Monarch Grade experts.

• The Saint Sons and Saint Daughters, their guards, and Tianshu Holy Land experts assembled on Starfall Land for the New Star War.
• Five Great Sages appeared, including Xianya Monarch, the only Eternal Monarch Grade expert among them.
• Three Sub-Saint Persons emerged and recognized Kirin Holy Son’s World-Shaking Spear as Dragon Spear Monarch’s weapon.
• The Sub-Saint Persons respectfully stepped aside as Tianshu Holy Monarch appeared, stunning the gathered inheritors.
• Princess Yunxi worshiped Tianshu Holy Monarch, while Su Xiaobai recognized his immense power and grew wary.

Tianshu Holy Monarch announced the rules for the New Star War, a ten-year survival battle fought by guards in Tianshu Holy Land’s Forbidden Land. As the Kirin Holy Son’s powerful lineup drew everyone’s confidence, Su Xiaobai prepared to use the contest to gather wealth and Ancient Source.

• Su Xiaobai assessed the Dao combinations of the Eternal Monarch Grade experts and recognized the vast gap between Tianshu Holy Monarch and the Sub-Saint Persons.
• Tianshu Holy Monarch opened the New Star War, explaining that each Saint Son or Saint Daughter would send ten Cross-Ancient Grade guards into the Forbidden Land, where the side with more survivors would win.
• The crowd predicted that the Kirin Holy Son would dominate because Demon-Breaking Ancient Ancestor carried the World-Shaking Spear and the Kirin Holy Son had assembled seven Ancient Hundred Million Epoch Venerables and three Ancient Ten Thousand Epoch Venerables.
• Su Xiaobai dismissed the Kirin Holy Son’s advantage and planned to spend the ten-year battle collecting wealth and Ancient Source to advance his system and approach the Ancient Grade.

Su Xiaobai entered the Poisonous Fog Demon Land for the New Star War and killed Demon-Breaking Ancient Ancestor, who carried the World-Shaking Spear. As the other contestants reacted in shock, Su Xiaobai began gathering the land’s riches and recovered the spear for three billion Ancient Source.

• Su Xiaobai arrived in the Poisonous Fog Demon Land and found its deadly terrain rich with rare resources.
• Demon-Breaking Ancient Ancestor confronted Su Xiaobai and threatened to kill him, but Su Xiaobai struck him down with a single attack.
• At Starfall Land, Kirin Holy Son and the others watched Demon-Breaking Ancient Ancestor’s Life Talisman flare up and then shatter.
• Princess Yunxi recognized that Su Xiaobai was the only guard strong enough to kill Demon-Breaking Ancient Ancestor in one move.
• Su Xiaobai began mining and gathering resources, then recovered the World-Shaking Spear for three billion Ancient Source.

Su Xiaobai spent months gathering treasures in the Poisonous Fog Land and overwhelmed guards who entered his territory. When Immeasurable Ancient Ancestor faced certain death against two better-equipped guards, an unknown figure arrived and killed them both.

• Su Xiaobai used his clones to explore the Poisonous Fog Land, gather treasures, and drive away powerful beasts.
• Su Xiaobai upgraded his systems with more than thirty billion Ancient Sources and accumulated over eight thousand Cosmic Daos.
• Su Xiaobai killed four guards who attacked him, while guards belonging to multiple Saint Sons and Saint Daughters were eliminated across the restricted area.
• After a year and a half, Su Xiaobai looted the central region and sent one hundred Giant Shadows outward, discovering that eight of Princess Yunxi's nine other guards remained alive.
• Immeasurable Ancient Ancestor was cornered by two guards wielding Ancient Grade Weapons, but a passing figure killed both of them with two beams of light.

Su Xiaobai reached Boundless Cliff, where guards from four groups were forced into a deadly battle, and quietly collected their treasures while remaining untouched. On the fourth day, all fifteen remaining guards’ Life Talismans shattered, while Princess Yunxi saw Su Xiaobai’s Life Talisman flicker.

• Su Xiaobai killed two guards serving Saintess Jinhua, collected their treasures, and left Immeasurable Ancient Ancestor alive.
• Su Xiaobai sensed more than twenty guards fighting on Boundless Cliff, where four groups had gathered to hide from the poisonous gas.
• Su Xiaobai collected Summoning Rings and corpses amid the battle, dispelled one guard’s attack, and tossed him into the fighting crowd to die.
• The guards fought for three days, and some decided to join forces against Su Xiaobai after realizing he had stayed out of the battle.
• On the fourth day, the Life Talismans of the fifteen remaining guards shattered simultaneously, and Princess Yunxi saw Su Xiaobai’s Life Talisman flicker.