Chapter Summaries

Su Xiaobai watched Beidou Nation lose its cities and retreat behind the Nation-Protecting Grand Formation as Ping Jiang Kingdom’s forces overwhelmed its defenders. While he waited for the war of attrition to create an opening, he used Giant Shadows to loot battlefields across the fallen kingdoms and rapidly accumulate resources.

• Beidou Monarch fell into a losing battle against three Desolate Grade opponents, and Beidou Nation’s forces retreated toward the capital as its territory collapsed.
• Great Desolate Celestial Venerable ordered the legions to withdraw and preserve their Divine Generals while the White Shadow Legion covered their retreat.
• Beidou Monarch activated the Nation-Protecting Grand Formation with the surviving Divine Generals, while Tianshu Holy Monarch reported that Tianshu Holy Land had fallen.
• Su Xiaobai decided to wait for the coming war of attrition before making his move, since Beidou Nation and its allies were surrounded and short on reinforcements.
• Su Xiaobai sent Giant Shadows across the fallen Ping Jiang Kingdoms to loot Divine Generals’ corpses and possessions, destroying one enemy Divine General before switching away from the attackers.
• Su Xiaobai continued gathering battlefield wealth, allowing his system to advance rapidly.

Su Xiaobai’s upgraded Shadows became nearly indestructible, coordinated battlefield scavengers, while his Reincarnation Potential multiplied his strength and his clones studied enemy Divine Generals. The system began reforging the Shadows and classifying Giant Shadows by size, setting up a more specialized force for the battles ahead.

• The Shadows developed coordinated tactics, using Golden Shadows to distract enemy Divine Generals while other clones protected Giant Shadows collecting corpses and relics.
• Su Xiaobai gathered Ancient Dao amid the war, reaching fifteen thousand kinds and using Reincarnation Potential to raise his physical strength eight hundredfold.
• Giant Shadows became able to withstand Divine General attacks, and enemy forces eventually ignored them because they only collected battlefield supplies.
• Su Xiaobai sent more Shadows across the Ancient Domain to observe hostile experts and learn their strengths and weaknesses.
• After three major upgrades, the system began reforging Shadows through simulated combat training and divided Giant Shadows into Human, Earth, Heaven, and Saint Grades based on their size.

Su Xiaobai used intelligence gathered in Tiandu City to support Beidou Nation as it endured a year-long siege by stronger enemy kingdoms. When the protective barrier cracked and Beidou Nation’s Divine Generals made a desperate last stand, the Giant Shadows arrived to collect the fallen.

• Su Xiaobai learned that sixty to seventy stronger kingdoms were attacking the remaining Ping Jiang Kingdoms, while their Desolate Grade experts had limited stamina and no way to counter the obscure Ancient Dao.
• Beidou Monarch and Su Xiaobai’s support helped Beidou Nation maintain its protective barrier for a year as its forces recovered and the attackers’ strength gradually weakened.
• The barrier developed a crack under pressure from six powerful enemies, and Beidou Monarch feared it would soon break.
• Great Desolate Celestial Venerable ordered the thousand remaining Divine Generals to burn their divine souls and combine into a Desolate Grade body for a final assault.
• Beidou Nation’s Divine Generals charged out and died fighting as they killed enemies, while Beidou Monarch watched helplessly.
• Su Xiaobai’s Giant Shadows entered the battlefield and targeted the Divine Generals who had died.

Su Xiaobai recycled the battlefield’s fallen experts to gain enough Ancient Source to master Desolate Grade cultivation techniques and reach unprecedented strength. As Beidou Nation’s defenses collapsed, he appeared on the battlefield, and Beidou Monarch hailed him as the miracle he had awaited.

• Su Xiaobai sent Giant Shadows to scavenge the battlefield and recycled fallen Divine Generals while they endured enemy attacks.
• An enemy Desolate Grade expert sealed the battlefield space, but Beidou Monarch dispelled the restriction and burned his essence to keep fighting.
• Beidou Monarch charged into an encirclement of six enemy Desolate Grade experts and killed one, whose corpse Su Xiaobai recycled for Ancient Source.
• Su Xiaobai upgraded the One-Click Training Space and mastered all six Desolate Grade cultivation techniques as Beidou Nation’s protective formation shattered.
• Su Xiaobai merged with the Giant Shadows, raised his strength through the Great Desolate stages, and brought fifteen thousand Ancient Daos to Founder level.
• Beidou Monarch recognized Su Xiaobai as the miracle of Beidou Nation.

After mastering six Desolate Grade cultivation techniques, Su Xiaobai reached the Second Stage Imperfect Great Desolation realm and unleashed his power to defend Beidou Jiang Kingdom. His arrival rallied the White Shadow Legion, which charged back against the enemy despite being outnumbered.

• Su Xiaobai advanced to the Desolate Grade and repaired twenty-six Time Rifts, leaving him one Rift short of the Third Stage Imperfect Great Desolation realm.
• Su Xiaobai struck down over a thousand enemy Divine Generals and tens of thousands of Eight Hundred Guards with a single palm.
• The six enemy Desolate Grade monarchs recognized Su Xiaobai's Reincarnation Form but pressed their advantage, believing their numbers still exceeded Beidou Jiang Kingdom's.
• The White Shadow Legion charged into the enemy formation as Beidou's Divine Generals raised their bodies to shield the Eight Hundred Guards beneath the broken national protection formation.
• Princess Yunxi and Golden Star Holy Son fought on as Beidou's morale surged and the enemy monarchs were unsettled by the legion's resistance.

Su Xiaobai fought three Desolate Grades in the Ancient Dao space, using his strength and mastery of Ancient Daos to neutralize their attacks while avoiding a direct clash. Unable to wear him down, the three enemies called for reinforcements, leaving the battle poised to intensify.

• Su Xiaobai arrived to aid Beidou Monarch, easing the pressure of the six Desolate Grades and letting Beidou Monarch support his Divine Generals.
• Three Desolate Grades attacked Su Xiaobai together and forced him into the Ancient Dao space, where they unleashed sword and destruction techniques.
• Su Xiaobai used the Black Blade and his system-enhanced mastery of Ancient Daos to recognize and counter the enemies' attacks.
• Su Xiaobai chose to evade and wear down the three Desolate Grades, whose condition weakened as they fought away from their territories.
• The three Desolate Grades realized they could not keep up with Su Xiaobai and called their companions for support.

Su Xiaobai used his Shadow Clones and endless replenishment to wear down five Desolate Grade enemies while the Beidou Monarch and Beidou Nation pushed back the opposing army. The Desolate Grades had lost half their strength, and Su Xiaobai was nearing the repair of his final Time Rift and the Third Stage Imperfect Great Desolation.

• Su Xiaobai drew five Desolate Grade enemies into the Second Ancient Domain and used Giant Shadows to attack their forces while avoiding direct confrontation.
• The Beidou Monarch suppressed the remaining Desolate Grade opponent as the Beidou Nation's forces advanced against the enemy army.
• Su Xiaobai cycled his Giant Shadows and harvested battlefield resources to maintain his strength while his enemies weakened.
• The Desolate Grades lost about half their combat strength, while Su Xiaobai grew stronger and continued to withstand their attacks.
• Su Xiaobai sensed that another year of fighting could let him repair the final Time Rift and advance to the Third Stage Imperfect Great Desolation.

Su Xiaobai lured the six Desolate Grade enemies into exhausting their strength while hiding his own condition. After convincing them he was near defeat, he unleashed his restrained power and prepared to fight seriously.

• The six Desolate Grades struggled to harm Su Xiaobai as he led them through the Second Ancient Domain, while his awakened system functions advanced to the First Stage of the Desolate Grade.
• The enemy forces argued over whether to retreat or keep fighting, fearing both dwindling supplies and punishment from the Supreme Jiang Kingdom.
• Su Xiaobai combined seven Saint Grade Giant Shadows and fought head-on, making himself appear to weaken so the six Desolate Grades would commit to a decisive attack.
• The six Desolate Grades unleashed their full strength and shattered the Second Ancient Domain, believing they could defeat Su Xiaobai.
• Su Xiaobai revealed that his true body and origin were unharmed, then released the Desolate Grade Origin Power he had restrained for two years.

After breaking through to the Third Stage Imperfect Great Desolation, Su Xiaobai unleashed fifteen thousand Ancient Daos and routed the six Desolate Grade experts attacking him. He pursued the survivors, killing most of them as the battle in Beidou Nation turned decisively in the Beidou Monarch’s favor.

• After two years of fighting, Su Xiaobai repaired his twenty-seventh Time Rift and advanced to the Third Stage Imperfect Great Desolation.
• Su Xiaobai activated rampage mode and fully unleashed fifteen thousand Ancient Daos, forcing the six enemy Desolate Grade experts to flee.
• With the enemy experts gone, the Beidou Monarch crushed the Divine Generals of the Fallen Heaven Nine Nether Warring States.
• Su Xiaobai pursued the fleeing experts with the Black Blade, killing two and retrieving a Desolate Grade corpse that yielded Ancient Source and Desolate Grade Origin Power.
• Su Xiaobai killed another fleeing expert and ignored the survivors’ threats to self-detonate, continuing his attack.

Su Xiaobai used his upgraded system and relentless rampage to defeat the invading forces and chase two fleeing Desolate Grades. After they self-destructed and Beidou Jiang Kingdom mourned him, Su Xiaobai revealed that he had escaped by substituting a Giant Shadow for himself.

• The two remaining enemy Desolate Grades burned their Desolate Bodies and fled while Su Xiaobai sent Heaven Grade Giant Shadows to slaughter the enemy's Divine Generals.
• Su Xiaobai spent six hundred trillion Ancient Source to upgrade his system to Third Stage Desolate Grade and unlock Origin Power Harvest, Dao Annihilation, and Time Artisan.
• Su Xiaobai harvested Origin Power from the Divine Generals, activated rampage mode, and caught up with the fleeing Desolate Grades.
• Su Xiaobai battered the two enemies until they self-destructed, unleashing a devastating blast that swept across the starry sky.
• The people of Beidou Jiang Kingdom believed Su Xiaobai had perished, but he appeared elsewhere after substituting a Giant Shadow for himself and began counting his spoils.

After Su Xiaobai destroyed the Fallen Heaven Nine Nether Warring States’ forces on the Beidou battlefield, he harvested enormous Desolate Grade Origin Power and turned his attention to the wider war. At the Demon Sealing Altar, the Dragon Desolate Masters learned that the six attackers at Beidou had died and decided to call in reinforcements before going to investigate.

• Su Xiaobai survived the final Desolate Grade enemy’s self-detonation, then helped the Beidou forces rout and recover the fleeing army.
• Su Xiaobai gained fifty thousand units of Desolate Grade Origin Power, allowing his Saint Grade Giant Shadows to wield Desolate Grade power.
• Su Xiaobai surveyed the central war zone and saw that most of its Jiang Kingdoms had fallen while fighting continued at the Demon Sealing Altar.
• Yellow Dragon Desolate Master confirmed that all six Desolate Grade attackers at Beidou had died.
• Yellow Dragon Desolate Master ordered Golden Armor Desolate Master and the others to reinforce the assault on the Sky Eagle Kingdom and Flying Horse Kingdom before investigating Beidou.

Su Xiaobai’s Giant Shadow arrived at the Giant Snake Kingdom, where the Giant Snake King had used a Space-Time Vortex to hold off the enemy. After the three armored Desolate Masters attacked the Giant Shadow repeatedly, Su Xiaobai assembled a formation of ten Saint Grade Giant Shadows to test their defenses.

• Su Xiaobai’s Giant Shadow approached the Giant Snake Kingdom, and the Giant Snake King explained how the Space-Time Vortex helped him repel Golden Armor Desolate Master, Silver Armor Desolate Master, and Bronze Armor Desolate Master.
• The Giant Snake King kicked the three armored Desolate Masters out of the vortex again after they launched another attack.
• The three Desolate Masters received White Dragon Desolate Master’s call for reinforcements, then destroyed Su Xiaobai’s Giant Shadow when it appeared before them.
• Su Xiaobai’s Giant Shadow revived after each attack, revealing that the three Desolate Masters had strong defenses but weak offensive power.
• Su Xiaobai gathered ten Saint Grade Giant Shadows into a formation with a Platinum Shadow at its center and challenged the three Desolate Masters to endure their self-destruction.

Su Xiaobai defeated and captured Golden Armor, Silver Armor, and Bronze Armor, then hurried to the Demon Sealing Altar to aid the Sky Eagle Kingdom and Flying Horse Kingdom. He arrived as the Yellow Dragon Desolate Master and his allies awaited reinforcements, announcing that their expected support had become his prisoners.

• Su Xiaobai used successive self-detonations to grievously injure Golden Armor, Silver Armor, and Bronze Armor, but their defenses kept them alive.
• After confirming they had exhausted their Desolate Grade Origin Power, Su Xiaobai revealed his Third Stage Imperfect Great Desolation strength and captured all three in his special space.
• The Giant Snake King thanked Su Xiaobai for relieving pressure on the Giant Snake Kingdom, then returned to the Space-Time Vortex to oversee its people.
• Su Xiaobai learned that the Sky Eagle King and Flying Horse King were resisting the Yellow Dragon Desolate Master, White Dragon Desolate Master, and Purple Dragon Desolate Master at the Demon Sealing Altar.
• Su Xiaobai arrived at the altar with countless Giant Shadows and told the enemy Desolate Masters that their reinforcements had become his captives.

Su Xiaobai rallied the kingdoms of the Ping Jiang region to fight the Fallen Heaven Nine Nether Warring States at the Demon Sealing Altar. The war began with more than twenty Desolate Grade experts battling, while Su Xiaobai sought to build strength by having his Shadows kill enemy Divine Generals.

• Huanglong Desolate Master questioned Su Xiaobai about the vanished Golden Armor Desolate Master and the deaths of six people from Beidou Nation, and Su Xiaobai revealed his weapons and five powerful Shadows.
• The Sky Eagle King and Flying Horse King recognized White Shadow as their ally and mobilized their forces, prompting Huanglong Desolate Master and his companions to summon reinforcements.
• Su Xiaobai told the surviving kings that only thirteen enemies remained, then led ten kings, an army of ten million Eight Hundred Guards, and more than ten thousand Divine Generals toward the Demon Sealing Altar.
• The reinforcements arrived to find the kingdoms of the Ping Jiang Kingdoms united against them, and more than twenty Desolate Grade experts began a vast battle across a Second Ancient Domain.
• Su Xiaobai sent Human Grade and Earth Grade Giant Shadows to kill enemy Divine Generals and channel their Desolate Grade Origin Power to him, aiming to preserve the balance until he could defeat the thirteen enemy Desolate Grade experts.

Su Xiaobai used mass self-destructing Shadows to strike enemy Divine Generals and harvest Desolate Grade Origin Power during the great battle. In the Second Ancient Domain, he kept defending against thirty Desolate Grade powerhouses, who waited for his energy to run out.

• Su Xiaobai ordered one thousand Platinum Shadows to self-destruct against the Fallen Heaven Nine Nether Warring States' Divine Generals.
• The explosions killed many enemy Eight Hundred Guards, injured allied forces, and drove the Divine Generals out of the battle's center.
• The allied Divine Generals charged the retreating enemy while Su Xiaobai's Shadows collected fifty-one Desolate Ancient Celestial Venerable corpses.
• Su Xiaobai repeatedly harvested Desolate Grade Origin Power from the battlefield and used it to defend his true body against the thirty Desolate Grade powerhouses.
• Yellow Dragon Desolate Master and the others conserved their strength, expecting Su Xiaobai to exhaust his Desolate Grade Origin Power.

Su Xiaobai learned that Origin Crystals were buried beneath the Northern Heaven Star Nation and could be refined into Desolate Grade Origin Power. He sent his strengthened Giant Shadow into the Sea of Nothingness to search for them.

• Su Xiaobai's true body held off the enemy Desolate Grade experts while his clones attacked the Eight Hundred Guards and Divine Generals.
• An aged envoy told Su Xiaobai that the war between the Holy Queen Mother Great Profound Empire and the Fallen Heaven Nine Nether Warring States centered on the Northern Heaven Star Nation and its Origin Crystals.
• The envoy explained that ten thousand Founder-level Ancient Daos could temper Origin Crystals to yield Desolate Grade Origin Power, and said the crystals lay beneath the Northern Heaven Star Nation.
• Su Xiaobai sent his Heaven Grade Giant Shadow into the Sea of Nothingness to search for Origin Crystals at the center of the battlefield.

Su Xiaobai unleashed his full strength in the Second Ancient Domain and wiped out the invading Desolate Grades, allowing Ping Jiang Kingdom to reclaim its lost territories. After Blood Sword Desolate Master set out to hunt the Reincarnation Form, Su Xiaobai upgraded his system and advanced to the Fourth Stage Great Desolation.

• Su Xiaobai combined his five Saint Grade Giant Shadows with himself and used his Reincarnation Form to overwhelm the thirteen Desolate Grades attacking him.
• Su Xiaobai and his forces killed the Desolate Grades across the battlefield, while their deaths were reported through the Life Talisman stele in Yan Tu Holy Nation.
• Blood Sword Desolate Master became interested in Su Xiaobai’s Reincarnation Form and flew toward the Northern Heaven Star Nation war zone to find him.
• Su Xiaobai slew the final Desolate Grade, and the twenty Ping Jiang Kingdom territories were reclaimed and divided into ten new kingdoms.
• Su Xiaobai used his gains to raise his Desolate Grade Origin Power to two hundred thousand points and upgrade his system to the Fourth Stage of the Desolate Grade, advancing to the Fourth Stage Great Desolation.

After reaching Fourth Stage Great Desolation, Su Xiaobai traveled to the Northern Heaven Star Nation and used his Giant Shadows to relieve its exhausted defenders. He prepared to hold off the Fallen Heaven Nine Nether Warring States’ army while waiting for the enemy to rotate its forces.

• Su Xiaobai emptied the cultivation time accumulated by his system, repaired forty cracks on the Time Stone Disk, and advanced to Fourth Stage Great Desolation.
• Su Xiaobai arrived at the Northern Heaven Star Nation, where the Fallen Heaven Nine Nether Warring States had attacked for two years with rotating groups of Desolate Grades.
• After studying the enemy’s attack pattern, Su Xiaobai sent ten thousand Human Grade Giant Shadows to the battlefield, disrupting the assault and giving the defenders room to recover.
• Su Xiaobai used the Earth Grade Giant Shadows’ Desolate Grade auras to bluff the enemy into retreating without spending Desolate Grade Origin Power.
• Su Xiaobai told the Northern Heaven Star Nation’s exhausted Divine Generals to withdraw and resupply, promising to hold the main battlefield himself.

Su Xiaobai used Giant Shadows to devastate the Fallen Heaven Nine Nether Warring States’ Divine Generals while the Northern Heaven Star Nation’s defenders faced a desperate assault. When the enemy’s supposed breakthrough proved to be a feint and its forces withdrew without cover, Su Xiaobai sent a Saint-level Shadow after them.

• Su Xiaobai sent Giant Shadows through the barrier to attack the enemy Divine Generals, then had them self-destruct and use their Black Blades to slaughter the survivors.
• The Fallen Heaven Nine Nether Warring States’ Desolate Grade experts intensified their assault, and the Northern Heaven Star Nation’s barrier developed a visible crack.
• The enemy’s higher-ups ordered a costly attack, but the crack healed, revealing that the Northern Heaven Star Nation had exposed a false weakness to drain enemy strength.
• The Fallen Heaven Nine Nether Warring States withdrew one hundred exhausted Second Stage Imperfect Great Desolation experts before replacements arrived, leaving them isolated.
• Su Xiaobai sent a Saint Grade Giant Shadow against the withdrawing experts, and its blade killed ten of them on impact.

Su Xiaobai’s Saint-level Shadow devastated enemy forces before the mysterious will of the Ancient Domain forced it back. Summoned to Northern Heaven Star Hall, he learned that Blood Sword Desolate Master was targeting him and negotiated a reward for serving as bait in a plan to kill him.

• Su Xiaobai’s Saint-level Shadow killed Desolate Grade experts and collected their corpses until the Ancient Domain’s mysterious will drove it behind the protective shield.
• An envoy summoned Su Xiaobai to Northern Heaven Star Hall, where Divine Gun Desolate Master introduced Blood Sword Desolate Master as a powerful enemy who had come to kill him.
• Divine Gun Desolate Master asked Su Xiaobai to lure Blood Sword Desolate Master into an ambush so the assembled experts could eliminate him.
• Su Xiaobai demanded one million Origin Crystals, five Desolate Grade cultivation arts, ten Domain Shaking weapons, and a top-grade spirit jade ore vein in exchange for being bait.
• Divine Gun Desolate Master agreed to the other rewards but refused to provide Desolate Grade cultivation arts, so Su Xiaobai accepted a large number of Ancient Grade cultivation arts instead.