Chapter Summaries

Su Xiaobai grew powerful by collecting Ancient Dao from Human Demon's kills while Tianshu Holy Land struggled to survive the battle. After its protective barrier fell, Su Xiaobai arrived just in time to save Princess Yunxi and the two Saint Sons from Yanpeng Monarch.

• Su Xiaobai followed Human Demon and collected a hundred Ancient Dao from the Eternal Monarch Grade experts he killed, reaching strength comparable to an Eternal Hundred Epoch Monarch.
• Princess Yunxi and the two remaining Saint Sons defended Tianshu Holy Land's protective barrier as Yanpeng Monarch battered it and threatened to enslave them.
• The barrier broke on the second day, leaving the three defenders injured and at Yanpeng Monarch's mercy.
• Su Xiaobai killed Yanpeng Monarch with a strike infused with Ancient Dao, then greeted Princess Yunxi and apologized for arriving late.

After saving Tianshu Holy Land, Su Xiaobai entered a secret realm and slaughtered five Saint Sons while disguised as the Human Demon, Wudao Monarch. An immensely powerful Silver White Qilin recognized him as someone chosen by Calamity Celestial Venerable and asked him for something.

• Su Xiaobai cleared the battlefield at Tianshu Holy Land while Tianshu Holy Monarch and Wan Jue Holy Monarch continued fighting.
• Shadow discovered that Su Xiaobai’s increased strength and Ancient Space-Time Dao let him travel to secret realms.
• Su Xiaobai entered a secret realm and killed two gravely wounded Saint Sons, then transformed into the Human Demon’s appearance to frighten three others.
• Su Xiaobai sent out three clones to pursue and kill the fleeing Saint Sons, collecting more than a hundred billion Ancient Source and five Ancient Daos.
• A Silver White Qilin at the Eternal Ten Thousand Epoch Monarch Grade appeared, recognized Su Xiaobai as chosen by Calamity Celestial Venerable, and asked him for a favor.

Su Xiaobai traded a Poison Pill to the Silver White Qilin for a fortune in Summoning Rings, then spent much of his new wealth upgrading his system. After his clones finished reading a Desolate Grade cultivation technique, the system estimated that comprehending it would take thirty thousand eras.

• The Silver White Qilin traded 131 Summoning Rings for Su Xiaobai’s Poison Pill and swallowed the pill before leaving to enter seclusion.
• Su Xiaobai recycled the rings for fifty-seven trillion six hundred billion Ancient Source, bringing his wealth to nearly seven trillion.
• Su Xiaobai spent two and a half trillion Ancient Source upgrading One-Click Enlightenment, unlocking Great Dao Theft.
• Su Xiaobai upgraded One-Click Auto Monster Hunting, boosting his clones and combat abilities and removing limits on Cultivation Technique Sacrifice.
• Su Xiaobai upgraded One-Click Skill Practice to unlock Cross-Level Skill Practice 5, then ordered his clones to read a Desolate Grade cultivation technique.
• After a day, Su Xiaobai finished reading the technique, but the system estimated that comprehending it would take thirty thousand eras.

Su Xiaobai discovered the secret realm’s final message, “Do not transcend,” and took the dead Saint Son’s Ancient Daos and Summoning Ring. Meanwhile, as the Holy Lands’ war dragged on, he followed Human Demon’s rampage and grew into a force that alarmed even the Sub-Saint Persons.

• Su Xiaobai found the ruins of a brutal battle in the secret realm and traced the deaths of more than ten Saint Sons.
• A dying Saint Son revealed the secret-realm talisman, which warned, “Do not transcend”; Su Xiaobai collected his Ancient Daos and Summoning Ring before leaving.
• After two years of war between the Holy Lands, Wudao Monarch struck while Human Demon rampaged around the Ancient Domain’s outskirts.
• Human Demon complained that Su Xiaobai’s countless avatars kept scavenging his kills, then spent half a year slaughtering newly promoted Eternal Monarch Grade powerhouses.
• Su Xiaobai gathered Ancient Daos from the fallen and reached three hundred and seventy, prompting the Super Holy Lands and Sub-Saint Persons to fear his rapid rise.

Su Xiaobai replenished his ancient source by plundering the Ancient Domain while Taiya Monarch continued to lose ground against Lingbo Monarch. As the Taiya Universe’s forces faced overwhelming Gubo Nation attacks and mass slaughter, the Gubo Nation began treating the universe as a research site and a training ground for its reserves.

• Su Xiaobai plundered the Ancient Domain’s outskirts with the Human Demon and raised his ancient source to seventy trillion.
• Taiya Monarch and Lingbo Monarch had fought for ten epochs, and Taiya Monarch believed he could hold out for only one more month.
• The Gubo Nation’s reinforcements overwhelmed the Taiya Universe’s forces, which lost most of their core Great Thousand Realms.
• Gubo Nation Ancient Overlords slaughtered several thousand Ancient Venerable Grade powerhouses, severing the legacies of many Super Sects.
• Gubo Nation scientists arrived to study the corpses and investigate the Twelve Life Universes, while reserve forces used the Taiya Universe for training.

Taiya Monarch retreated with the remnants of the Taiya Universe after Lingbo Monarch defeated the Guardian Army and pursued them. Just as Lingbo Monarch prepared to kill the weakened Taiya Monarch, Su Xiaobai arrived and revealed that his 370 Ancient Dao could overpower Lingbo Monarch’s 300.

• Taiya Monarch withdrew from the main battlefield toward the Ancient Domain, while Ancient Overlords sacrificed themselves to clear a path for the retreating Taiya forces.
• Lingbo Monarch pursued Taiya Monarch, declared Gubo Nation’s victory, and attacked him, leaving him aged and weakened after he blocked the blow.
• Gubo Nation’s headquarters and scattered bases suffered simultaneous devastating attacks, forcing the headquarters to flee to a distant shelter.
• Su Xiaobai appeared with a black blade, cut through Lingbo Monarch’s ranks, and was recognized by Taiya Monarch as the Reincarnation Form.
• Su Xiaobai identified himself as the man who would kill Lingbo Monarch and revealed that he had mastered 370 Ancient Dao, surpassing Lingbo Monarch’s 300.

Su Xiaobai returned to Taiya Universe and confronted Lingbo Monarch, healing Taiya Monarch and turning the battle around. He left Lingbo Monarch and the invading forces of Gubo Nation utterly annihilated across the universe.

• Su Xiaobai spread nearly a million clones throughout Taiya Universe and used the Ancient Dao of Healing to restore Taiya Monarch to greater strength than before.
• Lingbo Monarch unleashed the Thunder Sea Calamity, but Empress Lingping countered it with the Thunder Dao inheritance of Calamity Celestial Venerable, causing Lingbo Monarch to suffer the backlash.
• Su Xiaobai raised the Black Blade and rejected Lingbo Monarch's offer to withdraw from Taiya Universe.
• Su Xiaobai's slash destroyed Lingbo Monarch's soul, body, and Life Universe, and annihilated every Gubo Nation invader it reached.
• The Ancient Grade experts were shaken by the power and speed of Su Xiaobai's slash.

After defeating Gubo Nation, Su Xiaobai collected the spoils, grew stronger, and prepared to return to the Ancient Domain while leaving clones to protect the Taiya Universe. A messenger who froze time appeared and revealed that he had come from the Transcendence Universe.

• Su Xiaobai recycled the battlefield’s corpses and Summoning Rings, synthesized a new Desolate Grade cultivation technique, and strengthened the bond between his Ancient Daos and his body.
• Su Xiaobai confirmed that Gubo Nation had been destroyed and claimed its remaining eight hundred billion Ancient Source.
• Su Xiaobai helped Empress Lingping rebuild the Supreme Pure Yang Palace, where she and Empress Ziyan raised a memorial to Pure Yang Ancient Venerable.
• Su Xiaobai agreed to leave clones in the Taiya Universe, accepted the Ancient Overlords’ allegiance, and used his power to begin a new cycle of reincarnation.
• Mr. Si appeared before Su Xiaobai, froze time across the Taiya Universe, and identified himself as an envoy from the Transcendence Universe.

Mr. Si warned Su Xiaobai that transcendence could complete the Transcendence World’s twelve-universe cycle and unleash a catastrophe, urging him not to repeat Gubo Nation’s mistake. Su Xiaobai doubted the warning and wondered whether his system could let him transcend safely, just as new news arrived from the Ancient Domain.

• Mr. Si introduced himself as the Transcendence Universe Envoy and praised Su Xiaobai for defeating Gubo Nation.
• Mr. Si told Su Xiaobai that the Transcendence World’s universes and powerful beings were immortal and indestructible.
• Mr. Si explained that eleven Transcendence Universes already existed and that a twelfth would bring fulfillment and an unimaginable catastrophe.
• Mr. Si warned Su Xiaobai not to transcend, linking Gubo Nation’s decline to its strongest Desolate Grade cultivator ignoring that advice.
• Mr. Si proposed that Su Xiaobai sacrifice other universes for resources instead, then departed.
• Su Xiaobai questioned the envoy’s explanation and considered whether his system could help him transcend without causing disaster; new news arrived from the Ancient Domain.

After the Ancient Domain battle ended, the Beidou Jiang Kingdom conscripted the surviving Saint Sons and Saint Daughters, including Su Xiaobai and Princess Yunxi, to fight on its borderlands. As King Liming transported them there alongside recruits from sixteen other Holy Lands, Su Xiaobai sensed that a massive war between Jiang Kingdoms was brewing.

• The Beidou Jiang Kingdom ended the fighting between Tianshu Holy Monarch and Wan Jue Holy Monarch and ordered the surviving Saint Sons and Saint Daughters to serve at its borderlands.
• Princess Yunxi worried about the dangerous conscription, while Su Xiaobai eagerly anticipated fighting stronger opponents and gaining power.
• Su Xiaobai considered the limits of prolonging a universe's lifespan through sacrifice and concluded that Transcendence was the ultimate path to eternal life.
• King Liming arrived at Tianshu Holy Land, warned the recruits about the brutality of border warfare, and opened a vast Space-Time Vortex to take them away.
• Su Xiaobai sensed that the recruits from seventeen Holy Lands were heading toward an unprecedented war between Jiang Kingdoms.

Su Xiaobai and his companions reached the Great Desolate Ancient Mine border and witnessed the devastating war between Beidou Nation and Immortal Queen Nation. King Liming took them to a fortress for assessment, while Su Xiaobai secretly sent clones onto the battlefield to collect resources.

• Golden Star Holy Son tripped on the unstable Great Desolate Ancient Mine as King Liming explained its dangers.
• A wounded Shuiyan Guard told King Liming that two squads had been wiped out and six Divine Generals were fighting fiercely.
• Su Xiaobai and Princess Yunxi saw the battlefield’s mass slaughter and the six Divine Generals facing their opponents.
• King Liming led Su Xiaobai and the others into a rear fortress to undergo assessment and receive battlefield grades.
• Su Xiaobai secretly released many clones onto the battlefield to seek Summoning Rings and Ancient Daos.

Su Xiaobai entered Dark Corner with a support squad and gathered Ancient Daos and Ancient Sources from the battlefield’s wreckage. Great Desolate Celestial Venerable asked him to break into the sealed center, and Su Xiaobai left after claiming the task was beyond his abilities until the old man offered to lend him strength and reveal the battlefield’s layout.

• Su Xiaobai posed as a medic named White Shadow Guard and joined Bronze Bone Celestial Venerable’s Third Legion.
• Bronze Bone Celestial Venerable sent Su Xiaobai with a support squad toward Dark Corner to assist the forces fighting there.
• Su Xiaobai’s clones entered Dark Corner ahead of the squad and collected more than seventy Ancient Daos and over 300 billion Ancient Sources from the battlefield’s outskirts.
• Great Desolate Celestial Venerable contacted Su Xiaobai and offered his wealth and knowledge of more than a thousand Ancient Daos in exchange for rescue from a seal at Dark Corner’s center.
• Su Xiaobai refused to risk entering the central battle, so Great Desolate Celestial Venerable offered to lend him strength through the River of Time and show him Dark Corner’s layout.

Su Xiaobai entered Dark Corner’s central battlefield and used his Desolate Ancient Celestial Venerable-grade Ancient Dao to attack Immortal Queen Nation’s exhausted forces. After he killed four Eternal Ten Thousand Epoch Monarchs, Beidou Nation’s troops rallied and charged back into the fight.

• Su Xiaobai surveyed Dark Corner and headed for the central battlefield, where more than a hundred Eternal Ten Thousand Epoch Monarchs were locked in attritional combat.
• Beidou Nation’s Eight Hundred Guards, worn down by the prolonged war and out of supplies, faced taunts from Immortal Queen Nation as their numbers dwindled.
• Su Xiaobai charged into Immortal Queen Nation’s formation and swiftly killed an Eternal Ten Thousand Epoch Monarch and several more guards.
• Su Xiaobai declared himself the White Shadow Guard of Beidou Nation and killed four of Immortal Queen Nation’s Eight Hundred Guards.
• Beidou Nation’s troops mistook Su Xiaobai’s assault for the arrival of reinforcements, regained their morale, and charged forward with their Essence Blood ignited.

Su Xiaobai helped the Beidou Nation Eight Hundred Guards defeat an Immortal Queen Nation force, then broke into a sealed battle between Golden Saber Guard and Silver Saber Guard and four Eternal Hundred Million Epoch Monarchs. He weakened the four enemies with a soul-attacking Ancient Dao, giving the two guards a chance to counterattack.

• The Beidou Nation Eight Hundred Guards launched a desperate close-quarters assault, and Su Xiaobai killed enemies while collecting their Ancient Daos.
• The Beidou Nation force slaughtered the fifty opposing Eternal Ten Thousand Epoch Monarch guards in an hour, losing five of their own.
• Su Xiaobai left the surviving guards and headed toward Dark Corner's depths to pursue his mission and test Great Desolate Celestial Venerable's Ancient Dao.
• Golden Saber Guard and Silver Saber Guard prepared to risk their lives after becoming trapped in a sealed four-against-two fight with Immortal Queen Nation's guards.
• Su Xiaobai tore open the seal and used four black whips to attack the enemies' souls, allowing Golden Saber Guard and Silver Saber Guard to charge them.

Su Xiaobai used the Great Desolate Celestial Venerable’s Ancient Dao to help two Divine General Guards defeat four Eternal Hundred Million Epoch Monarchs, then entered Dark Corner’s depths and discovered a vast trove of Ancient Domain Life forms. Meanwhile, his clones scavenged battlefields and repeatedly self-destructed against the Immortal Queen Nation’s forces before reviving to collect the spoils.

• Su Xiaobai’s Soul Fire burned the four Eternal Hundred Million Epoch Monarchs, allowing the Golden Saber Guard and Silver Blade Guard to kill them.
• The Golden Saber Guard invited Su Xiaobai to join their mission, but Su Xiaobai vanished and entered the depths of Dark Corner.
• Su Xiaobai found more than three hundred Ancient Domain Life forms nearby, including one at Eternal Hundred Million Epoch Monarch strength, and saw them as a source of wealth.
• More than ten thousand of Su Xiaobai’s Shadows spread across the border battlefields, scavenging corpses and treasures while Beidou Nation’s guards let them pass.
• Su Xiaobai sent over a thousand Shadows at a time to self-destruct among the Immortal Queen Nation’s forces, killing or crippling thousands of guards.
• The self-destructing Shadows revived and returned to the battlefields to harvest the spoils.

Su Xiaobai learned that his clone’s devastating attacks had helped turn the tide on several battlefields, then arrived with his companions at the Beidou Nation’s assessment grounds. As recruits prepared to climb the ancient Demon Tower for ranks in the Eight Hundred Guards, Su Xiaobai saw the tower’s ancient Demonic Beasts as valuable targets for the system to reclaim.

• Su Xiaobai’s clones killed attacking experts, while a surviving Divine General resolved to warn the other Divine Generals about his power.
• The Demon Spear Guard and the support squad reached the Dark Corner and learned that Su Xiaobai had defeated thirty Eight Hundred Guards.
• Su Xiaobai gathered information from the fallen enemies about treasures in the Great Desolate Ancient Mine, the many Space-Time Vortices, and the Beidou Nation’s conflicts on multiple fronts.
• King Liming led Su Xiaobai and his companions to an assessment for recruits from the Beidou Jiang Kingdom’s Super Holy Lands, where the Golden Star Holy Son eyed Su Xiaobai with suspicion.
• King Liming explained that recruits would climb the ninety-nine-level Demon Tower to earn ranks in the Eight Hundred Guards, then gave them three days to rest and train.
• Su Xiaobai looked forward to climbing the Demon Tower because its ancient Demonic Beasts could provide Ancient Sources for the system to reclaim.

Su Xiaobai slaughtered Ancient Domain Life in Dark Corner and used Black Blade to free the Great Desolate Celestial Venerable. The Celestial Venerable returned to power, and Su Xiaobai received his promised reward.

• Su Xiaobai gathered Ancient Dao and sent his Shadows into Dark Corner to hunt Ancient Domain Life, earning vast amounts of Ancient Source.
• The Great Desolate Celestial Venerable watched Su Xiaobai's Shadows overwhelm the Ancient Domain Life as they emptied vast regions of Dark Corner.
• Su Xiaobai used Black Blade and Cultivation Technique Sacrifice to cut through the Divine General's seal and free the Great Desolate Celestial Venerable.
• The Great Desolate Celestial Venerable reconstructed his body, and six Divine Generals welcomed his return outside Dark Corner.
• The Great Desolate Celestial Venerable vowed revenge on Immortal Queen Nation and sent Su Xiaobai more than a thousand Ancient Dao and ten trillion Ancient Source.

Su Xiaobai’s White Shadow Guard earned fame across Beidou Nation’s frontier, while he entered the Demon Tower examination confident that its early floors posed no danger to him. As the trial continued, Princess Yunxi broke through the ninetieth floor, drawing the Legion Commanders’ attention.

• Su Xiaobai resolved to use Ancient Source to comprehend Desolate Grade techniques before reaching the Desolate Ancient Celestial Venerable level.
• Reports of the White Shadow Guard’s victories spread across Beidou Nation, and its commanders learned that the guard had appeared in many theaters at once through clones.
• Su Xiaobai entered the fourth day of the tower-climbing examination, while other participants struggled through the Demon Tower and one challenger reached the ninety-third floor.
• The Golden Star Holy Son passed the eighty-ninth floor but failed to advance farther and angrily rejected his companions’ consolation.
• Princess Yunxi advanced through the Demon Tower and reached the ninetieth floor, surprising the Legion Commanders and drawing their attention.

Su Xiaobai entered the Demon Tower on the final day and raced through its floors at a speed that astonished the Legion Commanders. He reached the beast tide beyond the ninetieth floor and began recycling its Demonic Beasts for enormous amounts of Ancient Source, then continued advancing.

• Princess Yunxi stopped at the ninetieth floor, and a Sub-Saint Person from Tianji Holy Land later reached the ninety-eighth floor.
• The Legion Commanders waited for Su Xiaobai, whose clones had earned major military merit across countless war zones.
• Su Xiaobai entered the Demon Tower and passed the first eighty floors in about half an hour without drawing Black Blade · Shadow.
• At the ninetieth floor, Su Xiaobai merged his clones into the Giant Shadow and used Black Blade to recycle the Demonic Beasts, gaining tens of trillions of Ancient Source.
• Su Xiaobai continued through the ninety-first, ninety-second, and ninety-third floors as if nothing could stop him.

Su Xiaobai upgraded his system and used it to push through the Demon Tower to the ninety-ninth floor, where he faced an army of Saint-level Demonic Beasts. As Giant Shadow’s forces prepared for battle, Su Xiaobai spotted a flash of red light and recognized a Reincarnation Form.

• Su Xiaobai upgraded his system’s functions, unlocking Platinum Shadow and faster Ancient Dao comprehension.
• On the ninety-fourth floor, Su Xiaobai used Platinum Shadows to strengthen Giant Shadow while his army cleared Demonic Beasts and Demon Seeds.
• Su Xiaobai reached the ninety-ninth floor, drawing attention from the Beidou Jiang Kingdom’s higher-ups and prompting them to discuss the floor’s dangers.
• Su Xiaobai found himself surrounded by more than a hundred Saint-level Demonic Beasts and created an army of Giant Shadows supported by Platinum Shadows.
• Su Xiaobai noticed a red light on a distant mountain and recognized it as a Reincarnation Form.