Chapter Summaries

At the Kaiyuan Tower Heroic Gathering, True Lord Songshan insulted the assembled cultivators while True Person Fenghua warned him about their backgrounds and influence. Songshan then waited for Su Qing and the other great figures to arrive, but ended the chapter insulting Tong Chang after learning he was weaker in combat.

• True Lord Songshan mocked Gao Erqiang, the Fire Phoenix Princess, and a corpse driver, while True Person Fenghua warned him about the first two figures’ power and status.
• True Person Fenghua explained that Songshan could not afford to offend True Person Su, who controlled entry into Heavenly Origin, and Songshan said he wanted to judge Su Qing for himself.
• True Lord Songshan complained that Su Qing had kept the Martial Emperor of Xian Qin Wu Guo waiting and wondered why True Lord Guangxian had not appeared.
• True Lord Songshan saluted True Lord Gu Le, Li Sanyang, and True Lord Guangxian as they entered with other cultivators.
• True Person Fenghua identified Tong Chang as the Current World Heavenly Master, and True Lord Songshan insulted him after hearing his combat strength was modest.

At the Heroic Gathering, Su Qing brought Feng Xiaozhen onto the upper floor after compelling him to contribute Spirit Stones and the Heavenly Fire Furnace, while other cultivators judged the gathering’s hierarchy. Tong Chang then announced the rules for the month-long competition and the formation of a Myriad Races Alliance.

• True Lord Songshan envied Tong Chang and Feng Xiaozhen for their access to powerful figures, then noticed Su Qing had brought Feng Xiaozhen upstairs.
• Su Qing explained that Feng Xiaozhen had offered the Heavenly Fire Furnace for free use, while True Person Fenghua privately revealed Su Qing had also forced him to pay one million Spirit Stones after he executed his disciple.
• True Lord Songshan sympathized with Feng Xiaozhen and welcomed him, and Feng Xiaozhen decided to use the gathering to build connections among powerful cultivators.
• The representatives of the participating forces took their seats, with Su Qing occupying three roles and Tong Chang taking charge as the senior figure.
• Tong Chang announced the gathering’s ranking tiers, competition rules, venues, schedule, ban on fighting between forces, and sponsors.

True Lord Songshan recorded his experiences at the Heroic Gathering, where he tried to score points for Taoyuan Sect but repeatedly encountered setbacks and suspected Su Qing was targeting him. After switching to obscure events, he qualified for the top hundred in many competitions, though De Bao beat him in the Divine Attendant event; Songshan ended the chapter confident he would shine in the finals.

• True Lord Songshan described West City, Jileju, the Heroic Gathering’s opening ceremony, and his rivalry with Su Qing in his diary.
• True Lord Songshan narrowly lost the spirit healer event to a woman surnamed Guo, then lost a combat match to Gao Erqiang and blamed Su Qing for both defeats.
• True Lord Songshan entered the sword cultivator event, where Su Qing’s Lu Wu Tiger Puppet defeated him and made him question his talent.
• True Lord Songshan changed his strategy and qualified for the top hundred in obscure events including tattooing, drinking, clothing-making, stage magic, funerals, and shapeshifting.
• True Lord Songshan lost the Divine Attendant event to De Bao, whose request brought him more than ten thousand pillars of incense from the gods.
• True Lord Songshan looked forward to the finals, believing his qualifications in a hundred obscure events would let him shine.

The Heroic Gathering’s rankings and preliminaries showed the Primordial Beginning Sect leading while the Eastern King Sect, Penglai Immortal Kingdom, and Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom pursued higher tiers. Taoyuan Sect lagged after poor performances, and True Lord Songshan arrived determined to change its fortunes in the top-hundred matches.

• Cultivators discussed the rankings, the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom’s surprising points, and the competition for super first-tier and first-tier positions.
• The chapter described the Eastern King Sect’s ambition to claim a super first-tier slot and Penglai Immortal Kingdom’s hopes of rising through its powerful deities.
• Su Qing and his Puppets scored heavily across many events, drawing attention to the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom and improving its odds of reaching first-tier.
• Taoyuan Sect’s weak preliminary lineup and True Lord Songshan’s bad draws left it with few points and little chance of reaching first-tier.
• True Lord Songshan arrived at the venue from Jileju and declared that he would defy heaven and change Taoyuan Sect’s fate.

Su Qing faced Fu Mankang in the Heroic Gathering’s spirit healer elimination round and turned the match into a showcase for his medical products. Fu Mankang was left overwhelmed and off-camera as Su Qing treated patients with advanced techniques and equipment.

• Fu Mankang greeted Su Qing and confidently expected to beat him at spirit healing, while Su Qing arranged for a Tier 4 Imager to film the match as an advertisement.
• Fu Mankang treated three patients with his medical equipment, repairing an arm, replacing a youth’s head with a tiger head, and making custom prosthetic second brothers for Ji Bochang.
• Su Qing used spider puppets and a Spider Medical Vehicle to treat patients rapidly while advertising his medical products, until the referee warned him to work with his own hands.
• Fu Mankang completed a major heart-and-lung replacement operation after his protest led to restrictions on Su Qing’s puppets.
• Su Qing continued treating patients with Spirit Needles, Time Dao Patterns, an Azure Dragon Dao Pattern, and Prosthetic Puppets, while Fu Mankang realized he had no chance of competing or appearing in the advertisement.

Su Qing faced the famed Fist Emperor Wang Ba Tian in the Heroic Gathering’s fist-path elimination round and defeated him with a single punch, stunning spectators and intelligence agents across the Myriad Worlds. Afterward, Su Qing promoted his Boxing Coach puppets and announced that his group was buying fist manuals and divine abilities.

• Su Qing’s publicity team hyped his match against Wang Ba Tian, drawing a huge audience while fist cultivators and gamblers expected him to lose.
• Intelligence agents watched Su Qing’s match closely because his abilities could affect how the Myriad Worlds treated Heavenly Origin’s local powers.
• Wang Ba Tian interrupted Su Qing’s attempted advertisement and charged him with a powerful punch.
• Su Qing countered with a plain punch that overwhelmed Wang Ba Tian’s senses and knocked him out of the arena.
• A Primordial Beginning Sect intelligence agent recommended befriending and recruiting Su Qing, raising his combat rating and potential assessment.
• Su Qing advertised his Boxing Coach puppets and invited people to sell fist manuals and fist-path divine abilities to Su’s Group.

Su Qing explained to Liu Yun'er why he planned to keep Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom a first-rate power rather than force its way into the super first-rate ranks, then left for his battle-array match. He faced the four Lingbao Sword Cultivators and their Minor Immortal Slaying Sword Array, the same formation that had defeated his puppet A-San.

• Liu Yun'er questioned whether she should leave the struggling Desiring Demon Immortal Kingdom, and Su Qing said he would help Sect Master Shi by sharing points once the final rankings approached.
• Su Qing argued that Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom should avoid claiming a super first-rate position it could not secure recognition for, and instead support friendly powers to strengthen its influence.
• Su Qing and Liu Yun'er continued their intimate encounter until the arena matches began, and he left for the top ten battle-array arena.
• Su Qing arrived to face four Lingbao Sword Cultivators, whose Minor Immortal Slaying Sword Array filled the arena with lethal sword qi.
• The chapter ended with Su Qing preparing to face the formation that had eliminated A-San, despite his limited Array Dao experience.

Su Qing faced four Lingbao Sword Cultivators in the Array Dao event, whose Minor Immortal Slaying Sword Array wounded him and trapped his first wave of Sword Puppets. He revealed that he had many more puppets and assessed how the opponents' formation worked, preparing to overwhelm it with numbers.

• Cultivators watched replays of Su Qing's autonomous Sword Puppets defeating the Penglai Sect's divine spirits and debated whether he could overcome the Spirit Treasure Sect's Minor Immortal Slaying Sword Array.
• Su Qing arrived late and was cut by the four Lingbao Sword Cultivators' invisible sword qi, but Spider Doctors and his powerful recovery healed his wounds.
• The Lingbao Sword Cultivators intensified their assault with the Wind of Extinction, while Su Qing protected himself with his Azure Dragon and a mountains-and-seas barrier.
• Su Qing released numerous Sword Puppets, whose Disintegration Body-Guarding Sword Formation neutralized the incoming sword qi as thirty-three Three Talents formations charged Qu Wudao.
• Qu Wudao's Immortal Trapping Sword momentum slowed and destroyed the attacking Three Talents Sword Puppets, but Su Qing revealed that he had seventy-two sets of Tier 4 Sword Puppets in reserve.
• Su Qing concluded that the Minor Immortal Slaying Sword Array relied on the four cultivators' Dao Patterns and could be broken by overwhelming it with numbers.

Su Qing defeated four Lingbao Sword Cultivators with his Sea Surge Tide Sword Formation, then entered the Dao Enlightenment event and faced Great Evolution Divine Lord. As they began studying a mysterious Dao Pattern fragment, Su Qing secretly struggled to understand it and let the Divine Lord guide their discussion.

• Su Qing overwhelmed the four Lingbao Sword Cultivators with his Sword Puppets, and the referee declared him the winner.
• Su Qing hurried to the Dao Enlightenment arena, where he was matched against Great Evolution Divine Lord as one of the event’s final ten contestants.
• Great Evolution Divine Lord offered Su Qing a uniquely created divine art if Su Qing defeated him, and the two exchanged respectful greetings before their match began.
• A Penglai referee explained that the contestants would study a fragment of the Dao Heaven Talisman Wall for one hour and be judged on what they comprehended.
• Great Evolution Divine Lord classified the fragment’s Dao Pattern as neither bloodline-type nor Dao Enlightenment-type, while Su Qing agreed along despite being unable to decipher its script.
• Great Evolution Divine Lord concluded that the fragment held a divine ability-type Dao Pattern and described how divine abilities could inspire arts that rarely surpassed their source.

Su Qing copied a Dao Pattern fragment and received the Spiritual Avatar divine ability, while Great Evolution Divine Lord derived and demonstrated a new avatar technique. Su Qing revealed a far more powerful mastery of the pattern, and Great Evolution Divine Lord conceded defeat.

• Great Evolution Divine Lord began studying the talisman fragment while Su Qing copied its bird-script Daoist talismans onto his palm.
• The pattern transmitted a vision of the Great Sage fighting the heavenly army, then revealed itself as the Spiritual Avatar divine ability to Su Qing.
• Great Evolution Divine Lord identified the fragment as an avatar-type Dao Pattern and derived the Tier 3 Spirit-Hosting Avatar Technique in three quarters of an hour.
• The judges awarded Great Evolution Divine Lord ninety-eight points, and the audience assumed he had beaten Su Qing.
• Su Qing’s sweat transformed into convincing avatars of the judges and spectators, including one that reproduced Great Evolution Divine Lord’s new technique.
• Great Evolution Divine Lord recognized that Su Qing had replicated the Dao Pattern itself and bowed to concede defeat.

Su Qing tried to recruit the Great Evolution Divine Lord to the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom, whose growing strength and talent needs he described. The Divine Lord remained reluctant, determined to honor the ancient gods’ duty to guard against the Thirteen Demonic Realms.

• Su Qing invited the Great Evolution Divine Lord to stay in Kaiyuan, offering him a temple, incense, and a team to spread his faith.
• The chapter surveyed how the Immortal Kingdoms attracted sects and talent from the Myriad Worlds, while Kaiyuan drew support through its imperial-dynasty claim, arts industry, major sects, demon gods, and Witch people.
• Su Qing explained that he wanted the Great Evolution Divine Lord’s divination skills and hoped to use him to attract gods from the closed Ancient God Realm.
• The Great Evolution Divine Lord rejected Su Qing’s offer, as he had other Immortal Kingdoms’ generous proposals.
• The Great Evolution Divine Lord chose to remain committed to the Ancient God Realm’s mission of guarding against the Thirteen Demonic Realms and protecting all beings.

Great Evolution Divine Lord gave Su Qing a divine art and puppet blueprints before leaving the competition, while True Lord Taoyuan struggled to earn points for his sect. Taoyuan won a Spirit Robe Making match against Little Immortal Biyun, then wondered whether she had deliberately let him win.

• Great Evolution Divine Lord gave Su Qing a divine art and Ancient Heavenly Court puppet blueprints, then departed with the other eliminated Ancient Gods.
• True Lord Taoyuan's sect brothers stopped him from entering the dance competition in makeup and women's clothing, so he withdrew and prepared for other events.
• True Lord Taoyuan heard that Su Qing had reached the top five in combat, then endured spectators' curses for withdrawing from the dance event.
• True Lord Taoyuan challenged Little Immortal Biyun to compete in Spirit Robe Making without using cultivation or her divine ability.
• True Lord Taoyuan defeated Little Immortal Biyun and entered the top five, then suspected she had intentionally conceded to gain sympathy.

Little Immortal Biyun’s livestream sale made Su’s Robe Shop a sensation, while Qianxuzi confronted Su Qing over Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom’s expansion into the Myriad Worlds’ markets. Su Qing rejected Qianxuzi’s demands before a packed arena, and the gathering reached its real confrontation.

• Little Immortal Biyun used sympathy from her match with True Lord Taoyuan to sell ten thousand spirit garments through Su’s Robe Shop, drawing a flood of customers.
• Qing He oversaw the shop’s successful opening and considered how Su’s Group could recruit more specialists and expand through agency businesses.
• Qianxuzi lectured Su Qing about abandoning commerce and accused Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom of threatening established merchants across the Myriad Worlds.
• Qianxuzi offered Su Qing a vice presidency in the Puppet Merchant Association if he limited his puppet business, and dangled the presidency in exchange for the Spirit Explosion Puppet runes.
• Su Qing rejected the offer and insulted Qianxuzi, then noticed powerful figures from both the Myriad Worlds and Heavenly Origin gathered around the arena.

Su Qing answered Qianxuzi’s challenge in the Puppet Dao contest by attacking him with the Kirin Arm Puppet, only for Qianxuzi’s borrowed Ancient God Armor Puppet to block the blow. Su Qing then unleashed his own Ancient God-type Puppets, and the contest began amid accusations that the Eastern King Sect had secretly helped him.

• Su Qing rejected Qianxuzi’s claims of seniority and struck first with the Kirin Arm Puppet.
• Qianxuzi’s Ancient God Armor Puppet transformed around him and blocked Su Qing’s punch.
• Su Qing released several Tier 4 Ancient God-type Puppets, shocking the cultivators from the heavens.
• Cultivators accused the Eastern King Sect of secretly supplying or assisting Su Qing, while Gu Tiansi denied the charge.
• Su Qing’s Puppets surrounded Qianxuzi and attacked as the Armor Puppet took control of his body.
• Qianxuzi analyzed Su Qing’s fighters while relying on intelligence that had not accounted for the hidden Ancient God-type Puppets.

Su Qing battled Qianxuzi in a puppet match, using his advanced creations to overwhelm Qianxuzi’s forces. Qianxuzi revealed a Dao Law Heavenly Monarch made from his father, but Su Qing countered it with Creation Rune puppets and an egg-shaped Fifth-tier Puppet, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Su Qing’s Flowing Silver and Two-Headed Dragon God damaged Qianxuzi’s puppets while four Giant God Soldiers pinned down the Strength God Puppet and helped the dragon and tiger prepare a combined attack.
• Qianxuzi released a Red Fire Horned Sheep, a Jar Ghost Puppet, and his Dao Law Heavenly Monarch, which freed the Strength God Puppet and advanced on Su Qing.
• Su Qing recognized the Dao Law Heavenly Monarch as an evil Puppet made from Qianxuzi’s father and sent more than a million Creation Rune Exorcism Dolls to attack it.
• The Dao Law Heavenly Monarch tried to sweep the little yellow men away, but Su Qing’s egg-shaped Fifth-tier Puppet swallowed its wind attack and protected them.

Su Qing’s Xing Xiu Chaos defeated Qianxuzi’s puppet attacks, while Qianxuzi’s Dao Law Heavenly Monarch became an Evil Entity and turned on its master. With Bad Egg controlling the referee to prevent the match from ending, Su Qing waited for the Evil Lord to strip Qianxuzi of his treasures before he intervened.

• Su Qing sent Xing Xiu Chaos against the Dao Law Heavenly Monarch, which failed to harm it with three Heaven-grade Daoist Arts and surrendered.
• The Dao Law Heavenly Monarch became the Dao Law Evil Lord after Qianxuzi briefly opened its bodily permissions, then attacked Qianxuzi and disrupted his calls for help.
• Qianxuzi released more puppets and fled while the Evil Lord smashed them, and Su Qing collected their remains to study their runes.
• Cultivators from All Heavens urged the Deity Judge to end the match, but Bad Egg controlled him and forced him to declare that the fight must continue.
• Qianxuzi used forbidden treasures, spirit beasts, and insects against the Evil Lord, while Su Qing mocked him and waited for the battle to leave Qianxuzi’s belongings ownerless.

Qianxuzi’s Strength God Puppet was overwhelmed by the Dao Law Evil Lord and Su Qing’s Exorcism Army Group, while the hidden strength of Su Qing’s forces stunned the watching cultivators. Qianxuzi fled and surrendered, but the referee refused to stop the match and the other cultivators would not intervene, leaving him pursued and in mortal danger.

• The Dao Law Evil Lord battered Qianxuzi’s weakened Strength God Puppet, prompting Qianxuzi to send it fleeing toward Su Qing.
• Su Qing’s Exorcism Army Group opened fire on both puppets as the watching cultivators realized how many puppets he could control and how powerful his forces were.
• The army’s exorcism attacks badly damaged the Dao Law Evil Lord, but it continued pursuing the Strength God Puppet because it was fixated on killing Qianxuzi.
• Qianxuzi fled beyond the army’s firing range, put his arena puppets on standby, and ran to the Deity Judge to surrender.
• The Deity Judge refused to end the match while the Dao Law Evil Lord continued its pursuit, and the watching cultivators rejected Qianxuzi’s pleas for help.

Su Qing killed Qianxuzi and pursued the escaped Dao Law Evil Lord with his puppet forces, revealing the power of his new weapons to cultivators across the realms. After Dao Law Evil Lord was destroyed, Su Qing prepared to collect its remains, while Mingxia Dao Sect’s new leader, True Person Liu Shang, demanded justice and was urged to thank him instead.

• Dao Law Evil Lord devoured Qianxuzi as cultivators across the realms watched, prompting them to question the All-Heavens Merchant Association and consider trading through Su's Group.
• Su Qing sent the Exorcism Army Group after Dao Law Evil Lord as it fled, while the sect True Monarchs waited for him to handle the threat.
• The Peng Tian Armor Puppet and its Aerospace Fleet intercepted Dao Law Evil Lord, and the Silver Giant Tiger and Two-Headed Dragon Puppet formed a Lethal Storm that trapped and destroyed it.
• Su Qing descended to collect Old Father Evil's remains, and True Person Liu Shang protested that he was taking the Mingxia Dao Sect patriarch's remnant.
• The other True Monarchs refused to support Liu Shang and told him that Su Qing had saved the Mingxia Dao Sect and deserved his thanks.

After his victory over Qianxuzi, Su Qing attracted sects from across the heavens seeking business and cooperation in the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom. He secured valuable terms from the Primordial Beginning Sect and learned that the heavens now treated him as a Tier 6 Void Refinement expert, then headed with True Lord Taoyuan to meet the Spirit Treasure Sect.

• After Su Qing's ring-match victory, small sects sought his help establishing businesses in the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom, while his team handled the growing number of partnership proposals.
• Su Qing visited the Primordial Beginning Sect and agreed to refine Puppets in exchange for access to its restricted goods and received ancient Daoist scriptures from True Lord Guangxian.
• Su Qing reflected that cooperation with the great sects could bring him rare high-end goods, though their industries might threaten the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom's developing businesses.
• True Lord Taoyuan explained that sects treated Su Qing like a Tier 6 Void Refinement expert because of his divine-office authority and his performance against Qianxuzi.
• Su Qing praised True Lord Taoyuan's work and jokingly offered him a permanent attendant position, prompting the offended Taoyuan disciple to hurry toward the Spirit Treasure Sect's lodgings.

Su Qing met with Li Sanyang, who exposed that Su Qing’s sword skills came from the Tiger Egg and asked to take the Tiger Egg as his disciple. Li Sanyang revealed that he wanted the Tiger Egg to retrieve the Azure Pine Sword, but his explanation for why he could not retrieve it himself left Su Qing suspicious.

• Su Qing defended his reputation as a sword cultivator, but Li Sanyang revealed that his sword-path cultivation came from the Tiger Egg.
• Li Sanyang explained that he had invited the Tiger Egg and wanted to accept it as a direct disciple of the Shangqing lineage, and Su Qing asked whether its origins would prevent it from joining.
• Li Sanyang described how high-tier spirit treasures could destroy High-ranking Demonic Evil and said the Spirit Treasure Sect needed a successor to retrieve a revived Sword Artifact.
• Su Qing asked whether Li Sanyang meant the Immortal Punishing Four Swords, but Li Sanyang said he wanted the Tiger Egg to retrieve the Azure Pine Sword instead.
• Li Sanyang claimed the Azure Pine Sword had rejected him for being too accomplished and wanted a rising talent, so Su Qing demanded that he speak honestly.