Chapter Summaries

Su Qing faced the cultivators who demanded the Xuanyuan Bow and defended his right to wield it, using the bow’s power to silence his loudest critics. As True Lord Guangxian was pressured to intervene, a Great Confucian from Xian Qin Wu Guo unexpectedly argued that Su Qing deserved the bow.

• The High-Level Cultivators of All Heavens berated Su Qing and prepared to attack, while Gao Erqiang, Demon Lord Tianpeng, and allied demon clans urged him to retreat.
• Su Qing sent his demon supporters behind him and explained that the Xuanyuan Bow could be drawn by anyone with sufficient merit and Human Dao Fortune, but none of the challengers had managed it.
• Su Qing summoned the Xuanyuan Bow and aimed its dragon arrow at the cultivators who had shouted most loudly, leaving them terrified and unable to resist.
• The other cultivators demanded that True Lord Guangxian and the Primordial Beginning Sect uphold justice, and Guangxian reluctantly prepared to step forward.
• The Great Confucian from Xian Qin Wu Guo spoke before Guangxian, praising Su Qing’s talent, status, and achievements and declaring that the Xuanyuan Bow should belong to him.

After claiming the Xuanyuan Bow, Su Qing drew it before the gathered cultivators, channeling the Human Fortune Azure Dragon Arrow and terrifying the high-level cultivators from the Myriad Worlds. The chapter ended with them desperately pleading with him not to fire.

• Liu Gandang rejected the resentful cultivators’ complaints about Su Qing and invited several Western Sea Immortal Kingdoms to coordinate against the coming competition.
• Heavenly Lord Fu Hu, the Fire Phoenix Princess, and Shi Li Jing declined to make Penglai the leader, saying they needed to consult Su Qing and the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom.
• Liu Gandang revealed that Su Qing had given Penglai the God-Beating Whip to support its Man-Made Heavenly Court.
• Liu Gandang and the others noticed Su Qing drawing the Xuanyuan Bow, with the Azure Dragon serving as an arrow and Human Fortune gathering into its power.
• The gathered cultivators realized the arrow could kill anyone below Tier 7 and pleaded with Su Qing to lower the bow.

Su Qing gathered the Human Dao Fortune of mortals across Celestial Origin Realm into the Xuanyuan Bow, risking his advantage in the race for the Human Emperor position. He fired at the Ghastly Great Hall and the Three Emperors, declaring that his arrow would sweep away demons and evil and restore peace.

• The great powers of the heavens sensed Su Qing drawing the Xuanyuan Bow and debated the fortune and standing he would risk by firing it.
• Shi Li Jing, Heavenly Lord Fu Hu, and others urged Su Qing not to waste his Human Dao Fortune, while rivals encouraged him to spend it.
• Su Qing summoned the fortune of mortals in the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom and the Execution Heavenly Kingdom, then drew further support from across Celestial Origin Realm.
• Su Qing released the Human Fortune Azure Dragon Arrow, piercing the sky and revealing the Ghastly Great Hall and the Black Heavenly Emperor, Buddha Heavenly Emperor, and Evil Heavenly Emperor.
• Su Qing declared that the arrow targeted demons and evil to restore peace to Heaven and Earth.

Su Qing used the Xuanyuan Bow to expose the Demonic Buddha’s hidden refuge, disrupting the Great Powers of All Heavens’ tacit truce with the Evil Demons. The Demonic Buddha cursed Su Qing and prepared to retaliate, while its plan to create three powerful Heavenly Emperors was thrown into disarray.

• Su Qing drew on Human Dao Fortune and fired a Human Fortune Azure Dragon Arrow from the Xuanyuan Bow, striking the Demonic Buddha’s concealed location.
• The Great Powers of All Heavens condemned Su Qing for provoking the Demonic Buddha before they had gained Tianyuan’s coming opportunities, though the arrow forced them to abandon their unspoken truce with the Evil Demons.
• The Demonic Buddha reflected on its strategies to steal cultivation techniques, foment conflicts among living beings, and claim authority over the Three Paths of Heaven, Earth, and Man.
• The Demonic Buddha recalled that it had hidden Lingxiao Palace and planned to split the Heavenly Emperor’s Dharma Body into three rulers, but Su Qing’s arrow disrupted its plans.
• The Demonic Buddha angrily threatened Su Qing and vowed to make him pay.

Su Qing exposed the Demonic Buddha, prompting the Dao Masters of the Myriad Worlds to attack and discover its attempt to Sever the Three Corpses. He fled to the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom as his Human Dao Fortune surged and followers gathered around him, where Liu Qingsong caught True Lord Guangxian trying to avoid paying his fare.

• Su Qing shot through the Celestial Origin Realm's wall and revealed the Demonic Buddha, drawing attacks from the Myriad Worlds' Dao Masters.
• The Demonic Buddha split into three Heavenly Emperor forms and fought back, while the Dao Masters realized it was attempting to Sever the Three Corpses.
• Several Heavenly Demon Generals arrived to support the Demonic Buddha, and Su Qing fled toward the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom with Qing He.
• True Lord Guangxian and many other cultivators followed Su Qing, recognizing that his arrow had increased his Human Dao Fortune and strengthened his claim to the Human Emperor's position.
• In the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom, Liu Qingsong stopped True Lord Guangxian and questioned him for trying to dodge the Spirit Vehicle fare.

Su Qing took high-level cultivators on a tour of the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom, where Liu Qingsong insisted on charging them according to the rules. At Blissful Heavenly Palace, the visitors condemned its vulgar welcome but immediately found reasons to go inside and criticize it.

• Su Qing tried to stop Liu Qingsong from rebuking him, but Liu Qingsong recognized the Kaiyuan State Lord, apologized, and still demanded the vehicle fare.
• True Lord Guangxian mocked Su Qing and suspected that the fare dispute was staged to promote the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom’s rules against the Primordial Beginning Sect’s hierarchy and monopolies.
• Heavenly Lord Gu Le paid everyone’s fare with a top-grade Tier-3 pill, and Liu Qingsong agreed to serve as their tour guide.
• Liu Qingsong drove the guests to Blissful Heavenly Palace and praised its lavish entertainment, while True Lord Dianyuan initially chose to meditate and Heavenly Lord Gu Le urged him to join the others.
• The cultivators saw the palace’s ostentatious welcome, called it vulgar, and declared that they had to go inside to criticize it.

Su Qing showed the sect leaders that the Blissful Heavenly Palace cultivated a Joyful Divine Pattern by absorbing the joy of its visitors, then argued that cultivators should follow their interests instead of rigid traditions. The visitors still focused on learning how to cultivate Divine Patterns, and Liu Qingsong took them to the Witch Clan Specialty Tourist Area, where the chapter left them recalling why only the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom had revived ancient Witch Clan members.

• Shi Li Jing recognized the Blissful Heavenly Palace as a deity’s body and identified its pattern as the Joyful Dao Pattern, prompting True Lord Guangxian to condemn its use.
• Su Qing explained that Huang Shang Huang had sacrificed himself to become the palace and that the Joyful Divine Pattern had risen from Six Divisions to Five Elders level by absorbing visitors’ joy.
• Su Qing urged cultivators to follow their Dao hearts and develop diverse paths, but the sect leaders asked only how to cultivate Dao Patterns and Divine Patterns.
• Su Qing brought the visitors to the Witch Clan Specialty Tourist Area after telling them that Happy Cultivation was the method behind cultivating patterns.
• The cultivators recalled that reviving ancient Witch Clan members required a Grotto-Heaven, a recognized racial leader, and present-day witchfolk willing and able to sacrifice their blood essence.

Su Qing brought True Lord Guangxian and other sect leaders into the Witch Clan Specialty Tourist Area, where they mistook his plans for an attempt to strip the revived Witch Clan of its Dao-pattern heritage. The visit continued through the Witchmen’s marketplace, where a Demon Clan cultivator wasted hundreds of thousands of Spirit Stones on useless demonic-blood blind boxes.

• True Lord Guangxian criticized Su Qing for reviving the Witch Clan and spending grotto-heaven resources on the tourist area, while Su Qing listened without anger.
• The group arrived at the tourist area and marveled at its recreated ancient landscape, rare spirit beasts, and costly construction.
• The sect leaders guessed that Su Qing intended to claim the Witch Clan’s fortune and Dao-pattern inheritances, but Su Qing let their suspicions stand.
• Su Qing led the group past Jianmu trees and Witchmen homes to stalls selling specialty goods, including Money-Attracting Drums, Heartbreak Gu, and Demonic Blood Blind Boxes.
• A Demon Clan cultivator spent several hundred thousand Spirit Stones on more than a thousand blind boxes and received only a useless drop of Three-tailed Demon Fox blood.

Su Qing showed the sect leaders and great powers how the resurrected Witch Clan had turned to selling goods, then argued that their ancient service deserved support and asked everyone to donate. When the others resisted, Su Qing reported the Witch Clan’s resurrection and his proposal to heaven and earth, making their debt to the Witch Clan impossible to ignore.

• Liu Gandang blamed the Witch Clan’s changed character on human bloodlines, their environment, and life under Su Qing’s rule.
• The visitors watched Great Witches sell expensive products, prompting True Lord Dianyuan and Tianpeng True Monarch to lament the Witch Clan’s decline.
• Jiang Long seized Tiger Subduing’s Storage Bag and donated everything in it to a Nine Li Great Witch.
• Su Qing explained that Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom had spent more than 3.2 billion Spirit Stones supporting the Witch Clan and invited the gathered powers to contribute.
• Tiger Subduing, Tianpeng True Monarch, and sect representatives resisted donating, while Gao Erqiang pledged 100 million Spirit Stones.
• Su Qing assumed the identity of an Emissary of Heaven and Earth and reported the Witch Clan’s resurrection and his donation proposal, invoking heaven and earth’s debt to the clan.

Su Qing compelled the powerful sects and races to compensate the Witch Clan for its ancient sacrifices, turning the donations into a reckoning over who had benefited from the Celestial Origin Realm. The Void Empress donated two billion Spirit Stones as well, revealing that the Void Race had borrowed the money using 300,000 laborers as collateral and could now seek work among the other forces.

• Su Qing invoked heaven and earth’s authority to demand that the gathered powers donate resources to the Witch Clan or have their territories seized.
• Demon Lord Tianpeng argued that the Tianyuan Demon Race had suffered too, and Su Qing exempted it while assigning the contribution to the Demon Race of the Myriad Worlds.
• Tianyuan’s local sects and kingdoms pleaded hardship and pressed the Myriad Worlds’ powers to repay the benefits they had enjoyed; the Three Daoist Sects each pledged two billion Spirit Stones, and other forces followed.
• The Void Empress surprised the gathering by donating two billion Spirit Stones and explained that the Void Race also owed a debt for its place in the Celestial Origin Realm.
• The Void Empress revealed that she had borrowed the donation from Bear Two’s Money House using 300,000 Void Race laborers as collateral, prompting several forces and companies to offer the Void Race work.

After the Witch Clan’s revival fundraiser, Su Qing reflected on why he was protecting the Witch Clan and how he planned to manage his many Dao Patterns. He intended to return Witch Clan Dao Patterns eventually and help the revived clan reclaim a place in the world, while preventing competing races from plunging into a war over ancient territories.

• The great cultivators left the Witch Clan Specialty Tourist Area after contributing funds, and they mocked Su Qing for profiting from the revival effort while Liu Qingsong defended the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom’s business practices.
• Su Qing understood that the cultivators wanted a share of the Witch Clan’s fortune and Dao Patterns, but he only wanted to protect the young clan until it could stand independently.
• Su Qing considered how his many Dao Patterns burdened him with duties and planned to transfer some to approved gods, using god puppets as a temporary solution.
• Su Qing resolved to take no new Witch Clan Dao Patterns beyond Sun Shooting and eventually return the Nine Li, Xingtian, and other patterns he already held.
• Su Qing anticipated that the Witch Clan would have to share Mount Buzhou and other ancient resources with humanity, the Dragon Clan, and other powers to prevent a devastating conflict among the races.

Su Qing explained how he would revive the Witch Clan while using compensation and protected lands to ease tensions among ancient and present-day forces. After the cultivators verified his sincerity, they coveted the Witch Clan’s Dao Patterns, but Su Qing revealed that heaven and earth had restricted them to Witch Clan bloodlines.

• Su Qing outlined his plan to use two grotto-heavens, the Witch Clan Specialty Tourist Area, and parts of Mount Buzhou for the Witch Clan’s revival, while promising not to claim its Dao Patterns.
• Su Qing argued that compensating the Witch Clan and protecting its territory could reconcile ancient grievances and tensions between Tianyuan locals and cultivators who had fled to the myriad worlds.
• True Lord Guangxian and other cultivators used truth-detecting methods and confirmed Su Qing’s statements were sincere, while many other representatives focused on the value of Witch Clan Dao Patterns.
• Cultivators asked Su Qing to sell or transfer the Witch Clan Dao Patterns to the Anti-Demon Alliance, but he said only those with Witch Clan bloodlines could master them.
• Su Qing disclosed that he and Tong Chang had worked with heaven and earth to lock the Dao Patterns within the Witch Clan, and he anticipated a fiercer struggle over the positions of Heavenly Emperor and Human Emperor.

Su Qing protected the Witch Clan from being exploited, then brought the visiting cultivators to Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom’s booming Commercial District. The visitors saw how its thriving businesses had attracted the heavens’ attention and even begun generating trade-related Dao Patterns.

• Su Qing declared that the Witch Clan was under his protection and urged the cultivators not to seek its Dao Patterns or legacy.
• Liu Qingsong resumed the tour and described how Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom’s Commercial District had grown into a major trading hub.
• The cultivators saw Kaiyuan’s commercial companies, transport networks, shops, and advertisements as they traveled through the district.
• The cultivators discovered that the district’s trade had begun producing Dao Patterns related to commerce, investment, and wealth.
• True Lord Taoyuan told the visitors that Kaiyuan’s success could not be copied easily and credited its rise to accumulated foundations and the first Anti-Demon Council.

Su Qing and True Lord Taoyuan explained how Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom’s talent, infrastructure, and commercial policies had driven its rapid rise, then urged other factions to embrace reform. True Lord Guangxian opposed them on behalf of the Primordial Beginning Sect, and Su Qing defended Happy Cultivation before redirecting the gathering to Bear Two’s Money House.

• True Lord Taoyuan praised Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom’s thousand-year accumulation of trained talent, infrastructure, and commercial growth, leaving the assembled cultivators astonished.
• Su Qing modestly described Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom’s shortcomings and encouraged the sects to modernize their thinking and join the new era of cultivation.
• True Monarch Zhong Ze and True Monarch Dan Ding hesitated to support reform as they watched True Lord Guangxian, whose Primordial Beginning Sect represented the old cultivation order.
• True Lord Guangxian accused Su Qing of promoting enjoyment and neglecting the ongoing demonic calamity, while privately viewing Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom as a threat to the Primordial Beginning Sect’s authority.
• Su Qing argued that suppressing cultivators’ desires helped create Evil Demons and that Happy Cultivation could strengthen the cultivation world, then offered to show the guests Bear Two’s Money House.

Su Qing presented the Kaiyuan Stock Exchange to the High-Level Cultivators of All Heavens, but the Primordial Beginning Sect sabotaged its listed ventures and True Lord Guangxian led a walkout against him. Su Qing retained support from Tianyuan local powers and several other sects, while True Lord Taoyuan pledged his sect’s allegiance to Kaiyuan.

• Su Qing explained how the Kaiyuan Stock Exchange would fund cultivators and industries, provide insurance, and direct resources toward major projects.
• High-Level Cultivators criticized the exchange as exploitative, while True Lord Guangxian revealed that the Primordial Beginning Sect had sabotaged its stocks and targeted its listed cultivators and businesses.
• Su Qing challenged True Lord Guangxian to wait and judge the exchange by its eventual results, and Guangxian led more than half the visiting sects away.
• The Penglai Immortal Kingdom and other Tianyuan local powers stayed to support Su Qing, while True Monarch Sanyang defended him and True Lord Gu Le asked to list a risky Pill venture.
• True Lord Taoyuan pledged the Taoyuan Sect’s support for the Celestial Origin Realm and Kaiyuan, prompting Gao Erqiang to withdraw his halberd.

Su Qing secured Spirit Sect’s support for Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom by promising compensation, energy plants, and custom mechs, while Eastern King Sect delayed choosing a side. He rejected the idea of letting Eastern King Sect distribute Su Corporation’s Puppets, since production could not meet demand and orders were already booked more than a century ahead.

• Taoyuan Sect sided with Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom because it had invested heavily in the Execution Heavenly Kingdom and could not afford to withdraw.
• Spirit Sect’s spirits declared support for Su Qing’s Happy Cultivation movement, protesting their treatment as charging banks and beasts of burden.
• Su Qing promised Spirit Sect compensation, a thousand years of free use of new spirit-energy plants, energy-supply contracts, and custom mech Puppets.
• True Monarch Zhong Ze said Eastern King Sect’s Queen Mother and Eastern King Duke factions had not agreed on which side to support, though the sect still wished to negotiate business with Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom.
• Su Qing confirmed that Eastern King Sect wanted to distribute Su Corporation’s Puppets throughout the Myriad Worlds, but judged that expanded sales were unnecessary while production could not meet demand and orders were booked over a century ahead.

Su Qing rejected the Eastern King Sect’s attempt to control Su Corporation’s Puppet sales, refusing to grant it agency rights despite Zhong Ze’s threats. The confrontation left the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom facing greater danger from the Eastern King Sect, while Liu Gandang and other allies warned Su Qing to prepare for retaliation.

• Su Qing dismissed the Eastern King Sect’s proposed deal because it demanded priority access to Su Corporation’s Puppets and control of prices across the Myriad Worlds.
• Zhong Ze pressured Su Qing by offering protection from the Primordial Beginning Sect and warning that the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom’s industries could be seized without Eastern King Sect support.
• Su Qing refused the agency arrangement, saying the demand for Kaiyuan’s advanced Hundred Arts Creations could not be suppressed by a blacklist.
• Zhong Ze threatened Su Qing and left after destroying the Cloud Peng Puppet he had purchased; Liu Gandang remained beside Su Qing without declaring support for the Eastern King Sect.
• Su Qing’s allies warned him that the Eastern King Sect would use every means to force the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom to submit.

Su Qing rallied Tianyuan’s local powers against the pressure of the Major Sects of the Heavens and proposed establishing the Tianyuan Alliance. To ease fears that Kaiyuan would dominate the alliance’s Hundred Arts industries, he promised to open-source technologies and devote thirty percent of Kaiyuan’s profits in Tianyuan to supporting local development.

• Tianyuan’s immortal kingdoms, sects, and races voiced support for Su Qing and the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom in their dispute with the Primordial Beginning Sect and other powers of the heavens.
• Su Qing recognized that Tianyuan’s allies supported him for both shared interests and practical benefits, while the Three Heroes of Tianyuan strengthened the alliance’s leadership.
• Su Qing called for the Tianyuan Alliance to unite local powers, coordinate trade and technology, and negotiate with the Myriad Worlds from a position of strength.
• Leaders of Tianyuan’s kingdoms and sects hesitated because they feared Kaiyuan’s Hundred Arts industry would overwhelm their own industries.
• Su Qing promised to gradually open Kaiyuan’s Hundred Arts technologies to alliance members and dedicate thirty percent of its profits in Tianyuan to sponsoring their industries.

The Eastern King Sect planned to seize Su Qing’s Su Corporation by turning public opinion against the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom and pressuring it to submit. As Li Hanhuang weighed applying to the Primordial Beginning Sect, he questioned whether he valued traditional cultivation or the dignity and opportunities Kaiyuan offered its residents more.

• True Monarch Zhong Ze explained that the Eastern King Sect would smear Kaiyuan businesses and raise public concerns about Puppets and demon-beast leather to pressure Su Qing into handing over Su Corporation.
• Li Hanhuang heard cultivators praise the Primordial Beginning Sect’s recruitment policy and cast doubt on Su Qing, then worried that speaking about him might offend either side.
• Li Hanhuang saw trade ships from major sects crowding Kaiyuan’s docks to stock up on goods before a possible trade conflict drove prices higher across the Myriad Worlds.
• Li Hanhuang recalled how Su Qing’s policies had benefited him and his family, making him reconsider leaving Kaiyuan for the Primordial Beginning Sect.
• Li Hanhuang questioned whether to follow the established path of seeking immortality or pursue a new path shaped by change.

Su Qing ordered the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom to counter attacks on its reputation with mass-produced monitoring and rebuttal puppets, while launching a trade war against the Eastern King Sect. He then prepared to personally refine powerful puppets that could strengthen the kingdom’s standing against the Primordial Beginning Sect.

• Hongshang briefed Su Qing on efforts to smear the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom, and he sent her blueprints for puppets to counter the attacks and monitor their sources.
• Hongshang proposed eliminating identified smearers, but Su Qing told her not to retaliate violently against cultivators whose hostility stemmed from the Primordial Beginning Sect’s established prestige.
• Su Qing ordered an all-out trade war against the Eastern King Sect, which he identified as the chief sect exploiting the conflict between the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom and the Primordial Beginning Sect.
• Su Qing considered becoming Human Emperor or Heavenly Emperor to bolster his standing, but concluded that neither path was currently suitable.
• Su Qing decided to prove the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom’s strength by refining a dependable Tier 7 Puppet and pursuing the mass production of Tier 6 Puppets.
• Hongshang confirmed that the costly materials Su Qing had requested were ready, and she anticipated that he would soon refine a new batch of high-tier puppets.