Chapter Summaries

Su Xiaobai defeated the Chaotic Ancient Demon Venerable on the Demon Tower’s ninety-ninth floor and won first place in the assessment. He received the rank of vice-commander, but the legions’ recruitment offers left him to choose a force before he could enter the Border Battlefield.

• The Chaotic Ancient Demon Venerable gathered the demonic beasts on the ninety-ninth floor and tried to seize Su Xiaobai’s body.
• Su Xiaobai exposed the hag’s weakened state and challenged her to trace his true body, but she found no connection to his Shadows.
• Su Xiaobai ordered several hundred Giant Shadows to self-destruct, destroying the hag’s condensed body and tearing apart the floor.
• Su Xiaobai escaped the Demon Tower, and King Liming announced that White Shadow Guard had cleared the ninety-ninth floor and earned first place.
• King Liming awarded Su Xiaobai the Border Army’s vice-commander rank, while legions competed to recruit him.
• Su Xiaobai rejected the need to rely on another legion but recognized he had to choose one to gain entry to the Border Battlefield.

Su Xiaobai formed the White Shadow Legion instead of joining an established legion, and Princess Yunxi and the Golden Star Holy Son joined him. Despite their tiny numbers, he chose a Catastrophe Grade mission to destroy a Divine General’s supply point behind the Immortal Queen Nation.

• Su Xiaobai told King Liming he would establish the White Shadow Legion, and the Legion Commanders warned him that the Border Battlefield was too dangerous to face without support.
• Princess Yunxi joined Su Xiaobai’s legion and pledged to follow him as its commander.
• The Golden Star Holy Son also joined, bringing the legion to three members and enough to undertake a Legion-Level Mission.
• At the central fortress, Su Xiaobai selected a Catastrophe Grade mission to travel through an unexplored Space-Time Vortex and destroy the Immortal Queen Nation’s rear supply point.
• Princess Yunxi questioned their chances, but Su Xiaobai trusted the Golden Star Holy Son’s combat strength and proceeded with the mission.

Su Xiaobai accepted the Catastrophe Grade mission to destroy Immortal Queen Nation’s rear supply point and prepared to lead a three-person raid through the Ant-Nest Space-Time Vortex. After hearing the route’s dangers from Great Desolate Celestial Venerable, he sent a clone into the maze ahead while the Eight Hundred Guards doubted he would survive.

• Great Desolate Celestial Venerable returned to the central fortress, congratulated Su Xiaobai on forming the White Shadow Legion, and explained the dangers surrounding the supply-point mission.
• Su Xiaobai thanked Great Desolate Celestial Venerable and declared that he would destroy the supply point through his own ability.
• Su Xiaobai told Princess Yunxi and Golden Star Holy Son to prepare to leave for the Space-Time Vortex, promising to protect them during the raid.
• Great Desolate Celestial Venerable warned Su Xiaobai that the passage held intelligent Ancient Domain Life and that the enemy could reinforce the supply point if they lingered too long.
• Su Xiaobai sent a clone into the Ant-Nest Space-Time Vortex to scout the route toward its deepest passages.
• The Eight Hundred Guards watched the clone enter and predicted that Su Xiaobai would fail like the previous challengers.

Su Xiaobai fought through the Immortal Queen Nation’s guarded Space-Time Vortices, killed Beastmaster Beast King Guard, and recovered dozens of Summoning Rings. The Immortal Queen Nation’s Divine Generals decided to send Lava Celestial Venerable after him while also discussing how to eliminate Desolate Ancient Celestial Venerable.

• Su Xiaobai entered the longest passage and cut through the Void Dragon Fish guarding its Space-Time Vortices.
• Beastmaster Beast King Guard summoned the Dragon Fish King, but Su Xiaobai killed the beast and beheaded Beastmaster Beast King Guard.
• Su Xiaobai found sixty-one Summoning Rings among the nearby vortices and released one hundred clones in every direction to search for more.
• The Immortal Queen Nation’s Divine Generals identified White Shadow Guard as a dangerous Beidou Nation genius and agreed he must be killed before he grew stronger.
• The Divine Generals assigned Lava Celestial Venerable to hunt Su Xiaobai and discussed eliminating Desolate Ancient Celestial Venerable.

Su Xiaobai led the Golden Star Holy Son and Princess Yunxi through a route he had secretly cleared, reaching the Immortal Queen Nation’s rear supply depots. After discovering warehouses packed with Ancient Source and other resources, he disguised a Shadow as a supply worker and entered a depot.

• Su Xiaobai prepared a route map for the Golden Star Holy Son and Princess Yunxi and explained the roles they would play in the surprise attack.
• The trio crossed the Space-Time Vortices without encountering enemies because Su Xiaobai’s clones had cleared the area in advance.
• Su Xiaobai’s Shadows reached the Immortal Queen Nation’s territory and spotted its steel rampart, active Supply Lines, and resource depots.
• Su Xiaobai used Ancient Mist Concealment Dao to investigate nearby Supply Lines and discovered their enormous stores of resources and weapons.
• Su Xiaobai’s Shadow killed a supply worker, took his appearance and memories, and returned to a depot carrying armor with a claimed crack.

Su Xiaobai, the Golden Star Holy Son, and Princess Yunxi infiltrated the Immortal Queen Nation’s rear defenses and found a major supply hub. After looting it, Su Xiaobai ordered his Giant Shadows to detonate as Legion Commanders rushed to defend the fortress.

• Su Xiaobai’s clones looted an equipment supply station, detonated Giant Shadows to escape, and recovered six trillion Ancient Source.
• Su Xiaobai disguised his clones as Eight Hundred Guards and falsely blamed the explosion on battlefield equipment, diverting Legion Commanders toward the front lines.
• Su Xiaobai, the Golden Star Holy Son, and Princess Yunxi disguised themselves as Transport Envoys and searched more than twenty supply points for the target.
• Su Xiaobai detected Tyrannical Monarch at a fortress, and the Golden Star Holy Son attacked him with three creator-level Ancient Daos while Princess Yunxi dealt with Transport Envoys.
• Su Xiaobai sent disguised Shadows into the Divine Generals’ supply hub, where they looted its resources before he ordered a hundred strengthened Giant Shadows to explode.

Su Xiaobai completed the Catastrophe Grade mission by destroying the Immortal Queen Nation's supply point and escaping with the Golden Star Holy Son and Princess Yunxi. As they traveled home, Lava Celestial Venerable trapped them in a frozen Space-Time Vortex, but Great Desolate Celestial Venerable arrived to help.

• Su Xiaobai gathered the Golden Star Holy Son and Princess Yunxi after the supply point's destruction and escaped through a Space-Time Vortex.
• The Immortal Queen Nation mistook the blast for a costly Beidou Nation attack, while Su Xiaobai recovered five hundred trillion Ancient Source worth of supplies.
• The Beidou Nation's leaders celebrated the mission's success and praised Su Xiaobai's White Shadow Guard.
• Lava Celestial Venerable froze the Space-Time Vortices around the three travelers and threatened to kill them.
• Great Desolate Celestial Venerable called out that he had come to save Su Xiaobai.

Great Desolate Celestial Venerable tried to protect Su Xiaobai from Lava Celestial Venerable, but his lingering injuries left him unable to win. Lava Celestial Venerable repeatedly annihilated Su Xiaobai, only for him to reappear each time, so he captured Su Xiaobai and his companions and decided to summon a Desolate Grade powerhouse.

• Great Desolate Celestial Venerable confronted Lava Celestial Venerable to protect Su Xiaobai, but Lava shattered his giant sword and gained the advantage.
• Great Desolate Celestial Venerable withdrew after admitting he could no longer protect Su Xiaobai, leaving him with Princess Yunxi and Golden Star Holy Son.
• Lava Celestial Venerable crushed Su Xiaobai with a giant hand, but Su Xiaobai reappeared unharmed and taunted him.
• Lava Celestial Venerable attacked Su Xiaobai repeatedly with powerful Daos, but Su Xiaobai vanished before each fatal blow and returned unharmed.
• Lava Celestial Venerable captured Su Xiaobai, Princess Yunxi, and Golden Star Holy Son, then resolved to have a Desolate Grade powerhouse deal with Su Xiaobai.

Su Xiaobai used his clones to devastate the Immortal Queen Nation’s rear defenses, turning the long-stalled war in Beidou Nation’s favor. The Immortal Queen Nation’s king confronted him, but Su Xiaobai’s replacement survived his attempt to destroy him.

• Lava Celestial Venerable brought Su Xiaobai, Golden Star Holy Son, and Princess Yunxi to the Immortal Queen Nation’s border headquarters, while Su Xiaobai planted tens of thousands of clones along the route.
• Su Xiaobai unleashed Giant Shadows against the rear defensive line, killing Eternal Monarch Grade experts and plundering supplies as his Ancient Dao total rose to five thousand.
• The surprise attack disrupted the Immortal Queen Nation’s forces, allowing Beidou Nation’s Eight Hundred Guards to win a sweeping victory on the main battlefield.
• Lava Celestial Venerable’s superiors confronted him over the devastation, and he struck Su Xiaobai’s clone, which immediately reappeared and taunted him.
• With reinforcements gone, Beidou Nation advanced through the Great Desolate Ancient Mine toward the Immortal Queen Nation, drawing the nation’s king onto the battlefield.
• The king of the Immortal Queen Nation knocked Lava Celestial Venerable aside and tried to refine Su Xiaobai, but Shadow proved to be a replacement and returned unharmed.

Su Xiaobai faced the Immortal Queen Nation's King, who used Eternal Tracing to locate Su Xiaobai's true body and forced a confrontation with the Beidou Monarch. As the two rulers headed to the Second Ancient Domain to negotiate, Su Xiaobai prepared for the coming conflict by spreading a million Shadows across the core battlefield.

• The Immortal Queen Nation's King offered Su Xiaobai a place in his nation, then threatened to kill him when Su Xiaobai refused.
• The Immortal Queen Nation's King used Eternal Tracing to find Su Xiaobai's true body, prompting Su Xiaobai to move it from the Taiya Universe into the Ancient Domain.
• The Immortal Queen Nation's King located Su Xiaobai in Beidou Nation and challenged the Beidou Monarch to meet in the Second Ancient Domain.
• Shadow explained that the White Shadow Guard demand was a pretext for negotiations between the two nations, while Princess Yunxi feared the rulers might go to war.
• Su Xiaobai left the Immortal Queen Nation and spread a million Shadows across the core battlefield.

Su Xiaobai used his Shadows to ravage Immortal Queen Nation’s battlefields and gathered intelligence that helped Beidou Nation plan a counterattack. After disguising himself as Extinction Monarch, he led a Shadow Legion into Tianlong Kingdom to provoke a conflict.

• Su Xiaobai’s Shadows attacked Immortal Queen Nation’s front lines and rear facilities, while Divine Generals hunted them and he adapted his tactics to evade them.
• Su Xiaobai targeted Lava Celestial Venerable’s guards, Extinction Monarch and Demon Slaying Monarch, and used Shadows disguised as them to stir up trouble with Immortal Kingdom and Tianlong Kingdom.
• Su Xiaobai returned to Beidou Nation and received praise from its Divine Generals for his campaign against Immortal Queen Nation.
• Su Xiaobai shared battlefield intelligence with Great Desolate Celestial Venerable and the Divine Generals, identifying vulnerable eastern and southeastern fronts and warning them away from the Dharma Nebula War Zone.
• Disguised as Extinction Monarch, Su Xiaobai led a thousand-strong Shadow Legion across Tianlong Kingdom’s border and ignored its guards’ warning to leave.

Su Xiaobai used disguises and stolen weapons to provoke the Tianlong Kingdom and Immortal Kingdom into attacking the Immortal Queen Nation. The chapter ended with both armies assaulting its borders while the Lava Celestial Venerable struggled to respond amid the threat of war with the Beidou Nation.

• Su Xiaobai sent Shadow to attack the Dragon God Monarch, killing him and devastating the Dragon God Legion before a Divine General destroyed the shadow army.
• Su Xiaobai posed as the Demon Slaying Monarch, used the Demon Slaying Sacred Sword to wound the Immortal Kingdom's Legion Commanders, and provoked its forces to invade.
• The Lava Celestial Venerable learned that the Tianlong Kingdom had attacked to avenge the Dragon God Monarch and that the Immortal Kingdom had launched a counterattack.
• The Lava Celestial Venerable blamed and bound his final disciple and eldest son as the Tianlong Kingdom and Immortal Kingdom began attacking the Immortal Queen Nation's borders.

Su Xiaobai entered Tiandu City to trade valuable materials and gather intelligence while seeking to strengthen himself before the Immortal Queen Nation's King could threaten him. He learned that negotiations between Beidou Nation and Immortal Queen Nation had collapsed, putting them on the brink of war over the Great Desolate Ancient Mine.

• Su Xiaobai saw that the armies attacking Immortal Queen Nation had been held back by Divine Generals, so the conflict remained contained.
• Su Xiaobai used an invitation to enter Tiandu City, a neutral trading hub where the Ping Jiang Kingdoms could trade but not fight.
• Su Xiaobai investigated the city's high-grade chambers of commerce and found that many expensive goods were counterfeits.
• Su Xiaobai used Beidou Nation's envoy identity to learn that Beidou Monarch and Immortal Queen Nation's King had fought during failed negotiations.
• Su Xiaobai concluded that the two kingdoms' dispute centered on control of the Great Desolate Ancient Mine, where his Shadows had already gathered materials worth a hundred trillion Ancient Sources.

Su Xiaobai disguised himself as Extinction Monarch and used an ambush to kill Tianlong Kingdom’s wounded Divine General, Celestial Venerable Yanbo, pushing the two nations toward war. As Su Xiaobai gained Ancient Sources and Ancient Daos from the victory, the Immortal Queen Nation’s King and Beidou Monarch’s battle shook the border.

• Su Xiaobai targeted Celestial Venerable Yanbo, who was badly wounded while returning through the Ant Nest Space-Time Vortex.
• Su Xiaobai, disguised as Extinction Monarch, sent more than ten thousand Eight Hundred Guards to surround Yanbo, and their self-detonations killed him.
• Celestial Venerable Yanbo sent Tianlong Kingdom a final message blaming Extinction Monarch, and Tianlong Kingdom’s King called for war against Immortal Queen Nation.
• Su Xiaobai recovered Yanbo’s Summoning Ring and corpse for four hundred trillion Ancient Sources and stole five hundred Ancient Daos, including many at the Founder level.
• The Immortal Queen Nation’s King and Beidou Monarch fought in the Second Ancient Domain, and the shockwaves devastated the surrounding border regions.

Su Xiaobai profited from the wars ravaging the Ping Jiang Kingdoms, reaching the Desolate Ancient Celestial Venerable Grade and helping ignite a conflict among more than twenty kingdoms. As Great Jiang Kingdom intervened, he infiltrated Wuxian Kingdom and discovered a mineral deposit where rare Daos were born.

• Immortal Queen Nation was overwhelmed by the armies of Beidou Nation and Tianlong Kingdom, while Immortal Kingdom seized its territory.
• Su Xiaobai gathered resources and Ancient Dao during the ten-year war, then broke through to the Desolate Ancient Celestial Venerable Grade.
• Su Xiaobai sent Shadows to trade resources with the Ping Jiang Kingdoms, prompting more than twenty kingdoms to wage war against their neighbors.
• Great Jiang Kingdom sent Desolate Grade envoys to investigate the escalating conflict among the Ping Jiang Kingdoms.
• Su Xiaobai infiltrated Wuxian Kingdom and found a Desolate Ancient mineral deposit where rare Daos were born.

Su Xiaobai mastered eighteen Top Grade Ancient Dao in the Desolate Ancient mineral deposit and returned to the Demon Tower to defeat the Chaotic Ancient Demon Venerable. He refined her remains into a Demon King Pill, whose power could reach the Desolate Ancient Celestial Venerable Grade.

• Su Xiaobai secretly entered the Desolate Ancient mineral deposit and used One-Click Enlightenment to master eighteen Top Grade Ancient Dao over two months.
• The Shadows escaped the mineral deposit and infiltrated another battlefield after their combat strength increased.
• Su Xiaobai returned to the Demon Tower, where the Chaotic Ancient Demon Venerable was enraged that he had depleted the Demonic Beasts she relied on for demonic energy.
• The Chaotic Ancient Demon Venerable attacked Su Xiaobai, but he revealed that he had reached the Desolate Ancient Celestial Venerable Grade and broke through her demonic barriers.
• Su Xiaobai used Ancient Unrivaled Dao to defeat the Chaotic Ancient Demon Venerable, then refined her remains into a Demon King Pill.

Su Xiaobai sold a Grade Nine Demon King Pill for twenty-six quadrillion Ancient Sources and used his growing wealth to expand his alchemy business and upgrade his cultivation functions. The chapter left him with a new Dao Boon that granted him a random, previously unacquired Ancient Dao at the Creator level every five days.

• Su Xiaobai revealed the Grade Nine Demon King Pill's power at a merchant guild in Tiandu City and set a minimum price of ten quadrillion Ancient Sources, restricting the sale to Divine Generals or higher.
• Celestial Venerable Li Meng, Celestial Venerable Wan Gu, Celestial Venerable Shen Dian, and other Divine Generals bid against one another, and a mysterious Divine General won the pill for twenty-six quadrillion Ancient Sources.
• Su Xiaobai rejected requests to refine pills for other buyers and instead used the merchant guild to acquire materials and sell batches of Desolate Ancient Celestial Venerable-grade pills.
• After becoming famous in Tiandu City, Su Xiaobai used his increased funds to upgrade his One-Click Training Space and One-Click Enlightenment function.
• Su Xiaobai unlocked Dao Boon, which gave him a random unacquired Ancient Dao at the Creator level every five days, and recognized that he had nearly exhausted the common Ancient Daos available in the central region of the Ancient Domain.

Su Xiaobai expanded his Ancient Dao mastery and used the White Shadow Legion to influence battles and complete Catastrophe Grade missions. As the legion grew stronger, he set his sights on killing the Immortal Queen Nation's King, an enemy far beyond his current reach.

• Su Xiaobai calculated that mastering the remaining Ancient Daos would take about two hundred years, and believed collecting all Thirty Thousand Cosmic Daos could let him transcend.
• Su Xiaobai used Giant Shadows to seize battlefield spoils, but restrained them after a Desolate Grade began hunting his clones and threatened to trace his true body.
• The White Shadow Legion grew to three thousand members, with Princess Yunxi managing it and the Golden Star Holy Son leading successful Catastrophe Grade missions.
• Su Xiaobai rescued the Golden Star Holy Son from three pursuing Divine Generals, killing one and severely injuring the other two.
• Su Xiaobai exchanged military merit for Ancient Grade cultivation methods, synthesized two Desolate Grade methods, and improved his ability to combine Ancient Daos.
• Su Xiaobai concluded that he needed the Immortal Queen Nation's King to die, though he recognized that killing such a powerful enemy was nearly impossible.

Su Xiaobai watched the Great Jiang Kingdom force twenty Ping Jiang Kingdoms to end their war, while learning more about the power of Imperfect Great Desolation experts. As the peace talks concluded, news arrived that two Supreme Jiang Kingdoms had gone to war, threatening to pull every subordinate realm into the conflict.

• The Great Jiang Kingdom intervened in the Ping Jiang Kingdoms' war and compelled them to make peace, thwarting Su Xiaobai's plan to pressure the Immortal Queen Nation's King.
• Su Xiaobai sent a clone to the peace talks at the Divine Ruin and assessed the strength of the Great Jiang Kingdom's three Third Stage Imperfect Great Desolation envoys.
• A Great Jiang Kingdom envoy ordered the Ping Jiang Kingdoms to end their conflict, and Beidou Monarch and the Immortal Queen Nation's King stopped fighting and left the Second Ancient Domain.
• The three envoys received word that two Supreme Jiang Kingdoms had gone to war, putting their subordinate Great Jiang Kingdoms, Ping Jiang Kingdoms, and Super Holy Lands at risk of being dragged into the conflict.

Su Xiaobai learned that a war between two Supreme Jiang Kingdoms had spread across the Ancient Domain, bringing attacks on the Great Jiang Kingdoms and Beidou Nation. He sent Shadows to support Beidou Nation and entered the Northern Heaven Star Nation’s battlefield, where the war’s scale and power far exceeded anything he had faced; Beidou Nation’s defenders were left preparing to resist three Desolate Grade attackers.

• Three Third Stage Imperfect Great Desolation envoys fled to their Great Jiang Kingdom as it came under attack, and Su Xiaobai learned that the Fallen Heaven Nine Nether Warring States had declared war on the Holy Queen Mother Great Profound Empire.
• Reports arrived that forces were attacking the Ping Jiang Kingdoms, so Su Xiaobai sent more than ten thousand Shadows to support Beidou Nation.
• Su Xiaobai traveled to the Great Jiang Kingdoms and arrived at the Northern Heaven Star Nation, where fifteen enemy forces were attacking amid a battle involving Desolate Grade powerhouses.
• Su Xiaobai mobilized Giant Shadows to use the Ancient Invincible Dao and collect the wealth of fallen Divine Generals and Desolate Grade powerhouses.
• At Beidou Nation’s defense headquarters, Divine Generals learned that three Second Stage Imperfect Great Desolation attackers were being held back by their monarch, while the remaining forces had to be stopped by the defenders.