Chapter Summaries

Su Yu swept the South Pole Immortal City trial, then received a cup of Great Dao Spirit Tea from the Lord of the South Pole that transformed his Dao foundation during nine years of cultivation. After leaving seclusion, Su Yu was sent with the other candidates to the True Martial Immortal Palace entrance test, while the Lord of the South Pole revealed that he hoped Su Yu would protect Fairy Gu in the future.

• Su Yu healed Baili Qinglong and gathered the Heavenly Pride Trial Ranking prodigies to collect trial tokens for him, prompting the Lord of the South Pole to halt the trial and declare Su Yu first place.
• The Lord of the South Pole summoned Su Yu, offered him Great Dao Spirit Tea, and watched as its power carried Su Yu's consciousness deep into the Five Elements Great Dao River.
• During the next nine years, Su Yu's body repeatedly shattered and recovered as the tea's power strengthened his Five Elements, Years, and Space Great Dao comprehension.
• Su Yu emerged with his Five Elements Great Dao Imprint perfected at 98.28% proficiency, thanked the Lord of the South Pole, and was sent to the True Martial Immortal Palace entrance test with Thousand Peaks Dao Lord.
• Fairy Gu challenged her father over giving Su Yu the tea, and the Lord of the South Pole said Su Yu might one day protect her.

Thousand Peaks Dao Lord brought Su Yu and the South Pole trial’s top heavenly prides to the True Martial Immortal Palace, where they encountered its overwhelming spiritual energy and immortal splendor. Su Yu learned about formidable contenders from the other three poles, and the chapter ended as Elder Baiyang welcomed the South Pole group alongside Shuiyue True Disciple and Xiandu True Disciple.

• Nan Xiaogu told the Lord of the South Pole that Su Yu’s Buddhist mind power had controlled Nangong Miao’s Tamed Beasts, and the Lord revealed that he had asked the Great Emperor to watch over Su Yu.
• Thousand Peaks Dao Lord gathered the South Pole trial’s top hundred seedlings, and Dan Tianfu told Su Yu how Niu Er had reached third place using a strange woodcutter’s blade and hoe.
• Nangong Miao described powerful heavenly prides from the Eastern, Western, and Northern Extreme Immortal Domains, while Su Yu gave Dan Tianfu one hundred drops of Rank 6 high-grade Qi Refining Pot spirit liquid.
• Thousand Peaks Dao Lord brought the group through the void to the True Martial Immortal Palace, where the immense spiritual energy and vast immortal landscape astonished Su Yu and the others.
• Elder Baiyang greeted Thousand Peaks Dao Lord and introduced Shuiyue True Disciple and Xiandu True Disciple, whose arrival drew Su Yu’s attention.

Xiao Shuiyue and Jin Xiandu tried to seize Su Yu because of his connection to Luo Qianyu and the Abandoned Immortal Followers, but Nan Xiaogu intervened and took him under her protection. Su Yu learned that Luo Qianyu’s Dao sword carried an Abandoned Immortal Follower inheritance, then stayed in Nan Xiaogu’s cave dwelling to cultivate while Xiao Shuiyue plotted to eliminate him.

• Xiao Shuiyue tried to take Su Yu away, while White Sheep Dao Lord blocked Thousand Peaks Dao Lord from intervening.
• Nan Xiaogu appeared, blasted Xiao Shuiyue aside, and forced White Sheep Dao Lord, Xiao Shuiyue, and Jin Xiandu to flee.
• Nan Xiaogu took Su Yu to her cave dwelling and explained that Luo Qianyu’s Dao sword contained an Abandoned Immortal Follower inheritance.
• Nan Xiaogu told Su Yu that saving Luo Qianyu would require him to gain the Great Emperor’s favor or eventually become the True Martial Great Emperor.
• Su Yu and Nan Xiaogu discussed the Dao, and she was astonished by his Five Elements and Years Great Dao powers.
• Xiao Shuiyue vowed to kill Nan Xiaogu and began consulting Jin Xiandu, Elder Baiyang, and her master about eliminating Su Yu.

Xiao Shuiyue and Jin Xiandu recruited four trial standouts to target Su Yu, while Su Yu studied the gap between the cultivation realms with Fairy Gu. The Immortal Palace entrance trial began with Su Yu among the candidates, facing a coalition arranged against him.

• Xiao Shuiyue and Jin Xiandu enlisted Xian Changsheng, Lei Ruobing, Zhang Tianyi, and Jiang Baiyu by promising each a favor, an opportunity, or a recommendation in exchange for driving Su Yu from the trial.
• Su Yu emerged from a month of Dao Discussion with Fairy Gu, having learned more about the strength of Dao Lords and decided to flee if he encountered one for now.
• Su Yu followed Immortal Palace disciples to the trial venue and heard them speculate that his low cultivation and conflict with Xiao Shuiyue and Jin Xiandu would make the trials difficult.
• Dan Tianfu praised Su Yu's spirit liquid and offered to help him in return for more of it.
• Three figures appeared before the Immortal Hall, announced the trial rules, and declared that the entrance trial had begun.

Su Yu entered the True Martial Trial and swiftly overwhelmed several rival immortal seedlings on the Ascension Ladder. The True Martial Great Emperor intervened after Jiang Baiyu was expelled, ordering Third Elder Bai Zhangya to guard the Immortal Demon Sea for one thousand years.

• The immortal seedlings entered the Trial Star Platform, where they learned they had to build immortal steps and reach Peak of Gazing at the Immortals within the trial's rules.
• Su Yu used Destiny Comprehension to identify potential rivals, then struck Xian Changsheng with his Heaven Suppressing Great Hand Seal and buried him in the ground.
• Zhang Tianyi attacked Su Yu with destructive lightning, but Su Yu evaded it and Xian Changsheng was caught in the strike.
• Jiang Baiyu trapped the area with five grand formations, but Su Yu broke through and attacked him; a Formation Flag stopped the killing blow, and the Trial Star Platform expelled Jiang Baiyu.
• Su Yu attacked Lei Ruobing with dozens of incarnations and the God Punishing Technique, severely injuring her and forcing her to withdraw from the trial.
• The True Martial Great Emperor ordered Third Elder Bai Zhangya to guard the Immortal Demon Sea for one thousand years, and Bai Zhangya accepted.

Su Yu advanced through the True Martial Trial, killed a challenger who attacked his stairway, and passed into the Enlightenment Platform. There he found the five Semi-Immortal Dao lineages within the True Martial Immortal Tablet and began considering their inheritances.

• Bai Zhangya accepted the True Martial Great Emperor's punishment and left the Immortal Court with the injured Jiang Baiyu and several disciples.
• Zhang Tianyi conceded to Su Yu, who demanded three favors from him for the debt he owed Xiao Shuiyue and Jin Xiandu.
• Su Yu climbed the Ascension Ladder, killed a Spirit Severing Stage peak venerable who attacked his stairway, and reached the Questioning the Immortal Path trial.
• Su Yu answered the immortal path's questions and entered the Enlightenment Platform, where he prepared his soul before probing the True Martial Immortal Tablet.
• Su Yu reached the tablet's five Semi-Immortal Dao lineages and examined the Phoenix Immortal Scripture, Eight Desolations Supreme Earth Dao Method, Heaven Refining Divine Dao Canon, and Black Dragon Battle Method.

Su Yu endured the immortal might of the True Martial Immortal Tablet to inherit four half-immortal lineages, though he could not claim the fifth. After leaving the trial, he was named the True Martial Immortal Court’s eighth true inheritor and the Great Emperor’s direct disciple, with a formal ceremony scheduled for a year later.

• Su Yu entered the Phoenix Immortal Scripture inheritance, endured its heavenly fire refining his soul, and absorbed its vast lineage knowledge.
• Su Yu inherited the Eight Desolations Supreme Earth Immortal Scripture, then spent several days continuing to receive half-immortal lineages while Fairy Gu suspected his delay came from pursuing them.
• Su Yu began inheriting the True Spirit Heavenly Immortal Method, and Zhang Tianyi and Dan Tianfu recognized that he was receiving a half-immortal lineage; other prodigies later stayed to seek inheritances too.
• Su Yu inherited the Black Dragon Battle Method as his fourth lineage, but his exhausted mind forced him to leave the Heaven Refining Divine Dao Canon unclaimed.
• Fairy Ruoyun summoned Su Yu on behalf of the Great Emperor and announced that he would become the Immortal Court’s eighth true inheritor and direct disciple, receive an estate, a Dao artifact embryo, and one hundred guards, and hold his investiture ceremony in a year.

Su Yu met the True Martial Great Emperor and became his direct disciple, receiving guidance and an extraordinary greeting gift. Fairy Gu then helped him claim a Cave Dwelling, a Floating Immortal Palace, and one hundred True Martial Immortal Army Guards, leaving him with a powerful new foundation in the Immortal Court.

• Ji Qianyu warned Xiao Shuiyue and Jin Xiandu that they would need to apologize to Su Yu and offer compensation after learning he had become the True Martial Great Emperor's direct disciple.
• Fairy Ruoyun brought Su Yu into the Great Emperor's secluded world, where she showed him the Great Emperor's Rank 8 mount and explained the dangers of the Immortal Demon Sea.
• The True Martial Great Emperor welcomed Su Yu, gave him a roasted Golden Dragon Fish, and told him to focus on strengthening his own Dao while he could still protect him.
• After the secluded world vanished, Fairy Gu called Su Yu her junior brother, shared the fish and wine with him, and took him to choose his new benefits.
• Su Yu chose a Cave Dwelling and received a Floating Immortal Palace, but postponed selecting a Dao artifact embryo because none suited his Five Elements Dao.
• Fairy Gu brought Su Yu one hundred True Martial Immortal Army Guards, including ten Void Comprehension Stage Dao Masters, to serve under him.

Su Yu settled into the True Martial Immortal Court, assigned his hundred guards, and spent a year cultivating the Phoenix Immortal Scripture into his Five Elements Art. As the Court prepared his ceremony, news of his perfected Dao foundation and imperial patronage reached the Buddhist Domain, where the Great Buddha Temple’s monks debated the development.

• Su Yu questioned his hundred guards, learned about their skills and family ties, and ordered them to protect his secluded cultivation.
• Su Yu reflected on how to restore Luo Qianyu and sever her connection to the Dao sword’s Abandoned Immortal Followers legacy, then began comprehending the Phoenix Immortal Scripture.
• Su Yu repeatedly suffered injuries while integrating the Phoenix Immortal Scripture into the Five Elements Art, eventually incorporating its first layer and increasing his mana foundation and lifespan.
• After nearly a year in seclusion, Su Yu learned from Nan Zhanxian that his direct disciple and true disciple ceremony was approaching and left to seek out Fairy Gu.
• The True Martial Trial rankings named Su Yu first, Zhang Tianyi second, and Dan Tianfu third, while Nangong Miao placed sixth; the Immortal Court began preparing a ceremony and inviting witnesses from other powers.
• The abbot of the Great Buddha Temple received the news and invitation, then asked the monks whether a perfected Dao foundation genius had truly appeared.

The Great Buddha Temple’s abbot, Wumo, learned that Ksitigarbha was Su Yu’s Dao Body Puppet and discovered that Su Yu was the True Martial Great Emperor’s personal disciple. Wumo traded a powerful relic for the Buddhist inheritances Su Yu possessed, leaving the temple dependent on him for their future layers.

• Kuyai told Wumo and the other monks about Ksitigarbha’s three Ancient Era Buddhist Dharma inheritances and his ability to grow through Incense and Fire Prayer Power.
• Wumo rebuked monks who wanted to obtain the Puppet Heavenly Tome, then summoned Ksitigarbha and apologized after his attempt to divine Ksitigarbha’s Heavenly Secrets provoked dread.
• Ksitigarbha revealed that his true body was Su Yu, a core disciple of the True Martial Immortal Court and personal disciple of the True Martial Great Emperor.
• Wumo offered a Rank 7 relic in exchange for Su Yu’s three Buddhist Dharma inheritances, and Su Yu left the first six layers of each with the Great Buddha Temple.
• Kuyai escorted Su Yu’s Dao Body Puppet back to the Changtian Domain, while Wumo recognized that the temple’s access to the inheritances’ later layers now depended on Su Yu and decided to prepare a gift for his entry ceremony.

Su Yu returned to Dizang City, learned that Cangzhou Domain had descended into conflict, and proposed taking the Futuo Buddhist Sect as a possible refuge. He began refining a high-grade Rank 7 relic while his true body prepared for a ceremony at the True Martial Immortal Court, where he would have to defeat challengers to become the Great Emperor’s disciple.

• Wumo marveled at Su Yu’s talents and regretted that he belonged to the True Martial Immortal Court rather than the Great Buddha Temple.
• Su Yu asked Kuya about the Futuo Buddhist Sect and learned that it had settled in the Demon Burial Ground, where it might hold powerful inheritances or trump cards.
• Su Yu returned to Dizang City and learned from Wu Qingping that the Demon Path, Buddhist sects, Xuanhuang Ancient Land, Demon Race, and Sea Race were fighting over Cangzhou Domain.
• Su Yu proposed that his allies eventually strike at the Futuo Buddhist Sect and use its territory as a route of retreat, then learned that Wu Zhi had mastered high-grade Rank 5 formations and warned his family to keep his talent secret.
• Su Yu began refining the high-grade Rank 7 relic to strengthen his Dao Body Puppet, while Nan Xiaogu explained that he would need to defeat challengers at the True Martial Immortal Court ceremony to become the Great Emperor’s disciple.

Su Yu discussed his cautious approach with Fairy Gu as the True Martial Immortal Court prepared for his ceremony, drawing powerful guests and scrutiny from across the cultivation world. Rivals planned to test him, while old enemies recognized him and were ordered to seek his favor.

• Su Yu told Fairy Gu that he preferred reaching the True Martial Great Emperor without fighting every challenger, and Fairy Gu accepted that he had to choose his own way.
• Fairy Gu reflected that Su Yu's rise from humble beginnings had left him burdened by fear and caution as the True Martial Immortal Court's ceremony approached.
• Ji Qianyu shared Su Yu's detailed background with Fairy Mi He, Xiao Shuiyue, and Jin Xiandu, then gave Xiao Shuiyue a space Formation Flag to help test Su Yu with other prodigies.
• Wumo chose Tianchen to represent the Great Buddha Temple and discuss Buddhist Dharma with Su Yu at the ceremony.
• Zhang Ting and Zhang Tianyi recognized Su Yu as the man they had encountered in Cangzhou Domain and suspected he had ambushed and robbed them; Sea Hong Dao Lord ordered them to build a good relationship with him.
• A Demonic Sect youth named Shiqing regretted that the sect had failed to capture Su Yu before he fled Cangzhou Domain, and a great power warned him to behave himself in the True Martial Immortal Court.

Su Yu perfected the fifth layer of the Heavenly Immortal Body Refining Technique, glimpsed a mysterious vision, and broke through to the sixth layer before advancing the Heavenly Refining Divine Art with the Fire Phoenix Sky Bow. As the True Martial Immortal Court’s ceremonial gathering began, Lei Chen sought an introduction to Su Yu, who arrived at the True Martial Grand Hall’s gates and learned he must face challenges from geniuses of his realm to complete his apprenticeship ceremony.

• Ma Shiqing warned the Demonic Sect cultivators that Su Yu’s perfected Dao foundation made him a threat they would have to kill or submit to, while powers from across the cultivation world gathered at the True Martial Immortal Court.
• Su Yu perfected the fifth layer of the Heavenly Immortal Body Refining Technique, saw a vast figure and desolate world in its array diagram, and sensed that his vision had disturbed something across the cultivation world.
• Su Yu began the sixth layer, stabilized his initial cultivation, and smelted the Fire Phoenix Sky Bow into his body to advance the Heavenly Refining Divine Art.
• Lei Changtian feared that Su Yu would remember the Thunder Dragon Dynasty’s past conflict with the Earth Immortal Mansion, while Lei Chen asked Ji Qianyu to introduce the dynasty to Su Yu so it could pledge allegiance.
• Xu Changan told Su Yu that he had to pass challenges from geniuses of the same realm before the sun’s purple qi reached the True Martial Grand Hall to complete his apprenticeship ceremony.

Su Yu fought his way toward the True Martial Grand Hall, defeating several challengers and revealing his Immortal Transformation Scripture to the True Martial Great Emperor. He struck down Xiao Shuiyue at the entrance and entered the hall as the ceremonial light began to fall.

• Su Yu defeated Lu Junyin and three other True Martial Immortal Court disciples with overwhelming speed and a Five Elements palm seal.
• A Demonic Sect woman tried to trap and seduce Su Yu, but he broke her illusions and blasted apart her body with a Fire Phoenix attack.
• Su Yu defeated Li Hao, whose Pure Spirit Body could dissolve others’ power, by using the Immortal Transformation Scripture; the True Martial Great Emperor recognized the ancient inheritance.
• Xiao Shuiyue sealed the space before the hall with a Formation Flag and urged Su Yu to wait before seeking the Great Emperor as his master.
• Su Yu slowed Xiao Shuiyue with Years Great Dao power, smashed her into the hall with a massive cauldron, and entered as golden light covered her.

Su Yu became the True Martial Great Emperor’s personal disciple and received a Black Flood Dragon Egg and a Void Cauldron fragment. In seclusion, he found a way to restore the egg through Starlight Divine Water and fused the fragment into the Void Cauldron, which evolved into a supreme-grade magic treasure.

• Xiao Shuiyue attacked Su Yu in the True Martial Grand Hall, but Fairy Mi He expelled her, and the True Martial Great Emperor ordered her to undergo a hundred years of tempering in the Immortal Demon Sea.
• The True Martial Great Emperor explained why he had made Su Yu’s discipleship public, warned him to become strong enough to deter threats, and gifted him a Black Flood Dragon Egg and a Universe Ring containing a Void Cauldron fragment.
• Su Yu returned to his Cave Dwelling and found that the Black Flood Dragon Egg had a weakened life aura and rejected the life force and rebirth power he tried to feed it.
• Using Destiny Comprehension, Su Yu discovered that Starlight Divine Water from the Heavenly Script Pavilion could help restore the egg’s origin, while the Qi Refining Pot’s spiritual liquid also nourished it.
• The Void Cauldron swallowed the fragment and evolved over half a month into a supreme-grade magic treasure whose aura surpassed that of a prototype Dao artifact.

Su Yu met Xuanhuang Ancient Land’s Grand Elder Luo Shanhe and was invited to join a trial for the Xuanhuang Ancient Cave, then asked Xiao Changlin about obtaining a Daoist method from the Heavenly Script Pavilion. After learning about his senior brothers and sisters, he discovered that the first two had reached the Mahayana Stage, but one was imprisoned and the other had defected.

• Su Yu considered refining his high-grade magical treasures into his body and strengthening the Five Elements Art before Nan Zhanxian summoned him to meet Xuanhuang Ancient Land’s Grand Elder.
• Luo Shanhe invited Su Yu to join the Xuanhuang Cave Heaven trial eight years later and gave him a token to decide whether to participate.
• Xiao Changlin explained that the Heavenly Script Pavilion was an independent faction with ties to Xuanhuang Ancient Land, and offered to ask whether Su Yu could exchange for the Starlight Divine Water Dao Method.
• At Xiao Changlin’s suggestion, Su Yu asked Nan Zhanxian to gather intelligence on his senior brothers and sisters.
• Su Yu learned that his Eldest Senior Brother Tian Wudi was a Mahayana Stage cultivator imprisoned after losing his mind, while his Second Senior Sister Sui Shenglian had defected to the Azure Prison Immortal Hall.

Su Yu focused on cultivation and improving his pill-refining skills while arranging a safe home for the Earth Immortal Mansion. As Dan Tianfu pledged to support him and Nangong Miao offered the backing of her family, Su Yu learned that the Nangong Family hoped to make him their future leader.

• Su Yu dismissed thoughts of power in the True Martial Immortal Court and continued his daily cultivation, then distributed spirit fluid to Nan Zhanxian and the others.
• Nan Xiaogu warned Su Yu against acting against the Thunder Dragon Dynasty and arranged for the Earth Immortal Mansion to settle in a Rank 6 Spirit Vein Blessed Land in the Southern Pole Immortal Domain.
• Su Yu used his true disciple token to obtain pill-refinement missions and spent the following months improving his low-grade Rank 6 alchemy.
• Dan Tianfu, Nangong Miao, and Baili Qinglong visited Su Yu, and Baili Qinglong apologized for his past conduct.
• Dan Tianfu returned and pledged to serve Su Yu, but Su Yu treated him as a fellow disciple and offered him pills instead.
• Nangong Miao asked to follow Su Yu and revealed that her family was willing to support him until he became the next True Martial Great Emperor.

Su Yu cultivated the Starlight Divine Water Immortal Scripture until he could merge its power with the Sunlight and Moonlight arts into Three Lights Divine Water. That breakthrough triggered sweeping changes across the cultivation world, and he emerged from seclusion to learn that a chaotic age was beginning.

• Su Yu entered seclusion, researched lower sixth-grade pills, and spent five years learning to cultivate the dangerous Starlight Divine Water Immortal Scripture.
• Fairy Gu and Nan Xiaogu brought Su Yu the first six layers of the Starlight Divine Water Immortal Scripture, and he discovered that its Starlight Divine Water could corrode a true spirit.
• Su Yu cultivated the Starlight Divine Water Immortal Scripture to its fifth layer and successfully merged its mana with his Sunlight and Moonlight mana into Three Lights Divine Water.
• The merger triggered immense heavenly phenomena, disrupted Heavenly Secrets, and caused ancient grotto-heavens and treasures to emerge across the cultivation world.
• The True Martial Great Emperor left the depths of the Immortal Demon Sea as the world changed, while Su Yu emerged from seclusion and heard from Nan Zhanxian, Nangong Ji, and the others that chaos was approaching.

As the changed world filled with new resources and threats, Su Yu gathered the ingredients for the Spirit Casting Pill and had Pill Master Lin refine it. The pill gave Su Yu a pseudo spirit body and transformed the Black Flood Dragon Egg, while the Immortal Court launched a campaign against the Azure Prison Immortal Hall and Jin Xiandu was assassinated.

• The True Martial Immortal Palace transformed during the upheaval, and Su Yu exchanged contribution points for Innate Origin Spirit Liquid while continuing to cultivate and draw talismans.
• Su Yu assembled the Spirit Casting Pill ingredients, and Fairy Gu took him to Pill Master Lin, who refined five pills in exchange for the pill formula.
• Su Yu swallowed an exquisite-grade Spirit Casting Pill and gained a pseudo spirit body that strengthened his Dao foundation, nearly doubled his cultivation speed, and rapidly healed his wounds.
• Su Yu fed a Spirit Casting Pill to the Black Flood Dragon Egg, whose aura transformed until it rivaled a Spirit Severing Stage Venerable.
• Nan Zhanxian told Su Yu that the Immortal Court, Xuanhuang Ancient Land, and Shangqing Cave Mansion were moving against the Azure Prison Immortal Hall, so Su Yu resolved to remain in seclusion.
• Jin Xiandu set out to join Jun Wuyi's attack on the Azure Prison Immortal Hall, but an unknown attacker severed his Primordial Spirit and destroyed his body.

Su Yu foiled an attempt to lure him out of his Cave Dwelling and learned that the Azure Prison Immortal Hall was behind the attacks on him and Jin Xiandu. While he secluded himself to cultivate as the Immortal Court’s coalition battled the Azure Prison Immortal Hall, his Dao Body Puppet reached low-grade Rank 7, and he decided to target the Futuo Buddhist Sect.

• Su Yu used the Cave Dwelling formation to ambush and suppress the Eighth Deacon, who had tried to lure him outside under the pretense of escorting him to safety after Jin Xiandu’s assassination.
• Xiao Changlin and Ji Qianyu confirmed that the Azure Prison Immortal Hall was behind the attacks, and Xiao Changlin warned Su Yu to remain in his Cave Dwelling.
• Nan Zhanxian found a top-tier Rank 7 killing weapon, but Su Yu sealed and destroyed it when a shadowy figure threatened him; Su Yu then ordered everyone to stay in seclusion and report no Azure Prison Immortal Hall objects to him.
• Su Yu fused the first layer of the Three Lights Divine Water Immortal Scripture while the True Martial Immortal Court, Xuanhuang Ancient Land, and Shangqing Cave Mansion waged war on the Azure Prison Immortal Hall.
• Su Yu’s Dao Body Puppet reached low-grade Rank 7, and he decided to attack the Futuo Buddhist Sect to seize its Incense and Fire Prayer Power and revive guardian puppets.
• Su Yu emerged from seclusion and summoned Wu Chengzhi, Wu Qingping, Dao Master Zijun, and the others.