Recaps

Su Yu learned from Ye Yinglu about ascension, the Immortal Realm’s cultivation ranks, and the Heavenly Court’s recruitment of ascenders. A year later, the Shangqing Daoist challenged the immortal tribulation, whose terrifying lightning threatened to destroy him as he faced its final trials.

• Ye Yinglu explained how ascenders entered the Immortal Realm and could choose among faction recruitment, the Heavenly Court, or independent cultivation.
• Ye Yinglu described the Immortal Dao ranks and invited Su Yu to consider joining the Ye Family.
• One year later, the Shangqing Daoist emerged from seclusion and began ascending from the Kunlun Immortal Sect, drawing a tribulation that alarmed cultivators across half the Kunwu Cultivation World.
• Su Yu, the True Martial Great Emperor, the Phoenix Emperor, and others watched as the Shangqing Daoist endured increasingly powerful immortal lightning.
• Ye Yinglu identified the seventh tribulation as a body trial and the eighth as a soul trial; the ninth destroyed the Shangqing Daoist’s quasi-immortal artifact and began his heart-demon trial.

After Shangqing Daoist ascended, Su Yu returned to the cultivation world and moved his allies into the Immeasurable Cicada Palace ruins to cultivate in seclusion. Fifty years later, he created a ninth-rank peak talisman called Space-Time Tribulation.

• Shangqing Daoist overcame his Immortal Tribulation and ascended, while True Martial Great Emperor and fewer than sixty others returned with Su Yu to the cultivation world.
• Su Yu proposed moving the Immortal Court into the Immeasurable Cicada Palace ruins, and True Martial Great Emperor considered pursuing his own ascension.
• A hundred years later, Su Yu brought Tian Wudi, Nan Xiaogu, Daoist Tianyu, and others into the ruins’ Outer Realm and told them that True Martial Great Emperor had ascended.
• Su Yu’s Spirit Severing Dao Body refined Thunder Dao Venerable’s Thunderwood true body and reached the middle of the Tribulation Crossing Stage, while his main body continued cultivating on the immortal mountain.
• Fifty years later, Su Yu inscribed a ninth-rank peak leaf talisman, Space-Time Tribulation, and confirmed its proficiency had reached 10.22%.

After more than two centuries of seclusion, Su Yu advanced to the mid Mahayana Stage and strengthened his body while continuing to develop his Space-Time Tribulation Talisman. He assessed his allies’ progress and planned how to secure the cultivation world before ascending to the Immortal Realm.

• Su Yu completed his first Space-Time Tribulation Talisman and continued drawing more, reaching 47.84% proficiency after another sixty years.
• Su Yu awakened from over two hundred years of seclusion with his cultivation at the mid Mahayana Stage and both the Heavenly Immortal Body Refining Technique and Heavenly Refining Divine Art at the ninth layer.
• Su Yu saw that Tian Wudi and Lord of the South Pole had reached the early Tribulation Crossing Stage, and considered passing down the Immortal Body Foundation methods once they completed the first foundation.
• Su Yu resolved to clean up the cultivation world and seek its origin before ascending, so the Immortal Realm factions could not threaten his allies and the people he protected.
• Su Yu found that the Overturning Sea Mysterious Turtle, Grand Void, and Black Dragon had all reached the eighth rank, with Black Dragon at the upper eighth rank.

More than a hundred unfamiliar Tribulation Crossing Stage half-immortals descended from the Immortal Realm into the cultivation world, intending to seize control of it and claim its World Lord opportunity. Su Yu and the local Immortal Realm forces recognized the danger as they gathered for a battle.

• Su Yu's Dao Body Puppet sensed the altar activate and saw more than a hundred half-immortals descend.
• Bing Jiu emerged from seclusion, recognized the newcomers as unknown enemies, and ordered the Yellow Spirit Immortal Sect to assemble.
• Dong Chu Shanze, Daoist Qingjiu, and other Immortal Realm leaders sensed the arrivals and commanded their forces to prepare for battle.
• The newcomers broke through several formations, while thirteen peak Tribulation Crossing Stage half-immortals discussed taking control of the lower realm.
• Su Yu sensed the newcomers probing the cultivation world and suspected they came from Immortal Realm forces behind the Kunwu Cultivation World.

Su Yu watched Daoist Xuanhuang join the Immortal Realm factions attacking the newcomers at the altar, while Xuanhuang brooded over how his choice to serve them had left him behind. The factions clashed, and after being badly beaten by an unknown half-immortal, Xuanhuang lost his composure as a White Jade Immortal Realm half-immortal came to his aid.

• Su Yu observed Daoist Xuanhuang and reflected that the half-immortal had been left behind while others ascended to the Immortal Realm.
• Daoist Xuanhuang followed the Heavenly Immortal Palace faction toward the altar and resented that his loyalty to the Immortal Realm had brought him no chance to ascend.
• Bing Jiu, Daoist Qingjiu, Dong Chu Shanze, and other half-immortals confronted the newcomers, while Gong Jinhong and Guo Dingxian demanded that they leave.
• Daoist Qingjiu attacked Gong Jinhong, and the assembled factions began fighting with their treasures and artifacts.
• Daoist Xuanhuang was driven back and injured by an unknown half-immortal, then cried out in fury before a White Jade Immortal Realm half-immortal intervened.
• Su Yu watched the battle through his Dao Body Puppet and sighed inwardly.

After retreating from the year-long war, the Kunwu Cultivation World's allied Immortal Realm forces sought local support and decided to summon Su Yu. Daoist Xuanhuang defected to them and led Gong Jinhong toward Su Yu, hoping their meeting would provoke his death.

• After a year of fighting, the Yellow Spirit Immortal Sect and its allies retreated, while the Kunwu Grotto-heaven, Changhong Immortal Palace, and other forces occupied part of the Northern Territory.
• Guo Dingxian explained that the newcomers needed the world's Heavenly Dao recognition and the support of its Human and Demon Races, and Gong Jinhong proposed recruiting Su Yu.
• Daoist Xuanhuang pledged to help the newcomers, accepted Gong Jinhong's restrictions, and described Su Yu's mastery of space and his powerful spatial treasure.
• Gong Jinhong agreed to accompany Daoist Xuanhuang to summon Su Yu, while Xuanhuang secretly hoped Su Yu would refuse and incur another Immortal Realm force's hatred.
• Daoist Xuanhuang brought Gong Jinhong to the Immeasurable Sea Domain, where he said Su Yu was hiding.

Su Yu confronted Gong Jinhong and Daoist Xuanhuang after they entered the Immeasurable Great Formation, and his palm strike instantly killed Gong Jinhong’s body and knocked out his divine soul and Dao Fruit. Gong Jinhong was left unable to understand the attack.

• Gong Jinhong activated the Immeasurable Great Formation while Daoist Xuanhuang demanded that Su Yu come out and submit.
• Su Yu recognized that Daoist Xuanhuang had brought Gong Jinhong to provoke him into offending another Immortal Realm force.
• The formation separated Gong Jinhong and Daoist Xuanhuang and battered Daoist Xuanhuang with falling stars, while Gong Jinhong remained protected by a supreme treasure.
• Su Yu appeared before the two, and Gong Jinhong angrily demanded that he release them.
• Su Yu struck Gong Jinhong with an emerald palm, knocking his divine soul and Dao Fruit from his body and sending his lifeless body ten thousand miles away.

Su Yu effortlessly destroyed Gong Jinhong’s body and killed Daoist Xuanhuang after sensing his concealed malice. He learned that Ye Yinglu had returned to the Immortal Realm and questioned Gong Jinhong about the group’s descent into the cultivation world.

• Su Yu struck Gong Jinhong with one palm, shattering his body while leaving his divine soul and Dao Fruit intact.
• Daoist Xuanhuang knelt and pleaded with Su Yu, but Su Yu sensed his killing intent and blasted apart his body with a palm.
• Daoist Xuanhuang begged for his life again, and tree roots pierced and devoured his divine soul and Dao Fruit.
• Su Yu asked Gong Jinhong whether Ye Yinglu had come, and Gong Jinhong said she had returned to the Immortal Realm decades earlier.
• Su Yu asked whether Gong Jinhong and the others had descended for the cultivation world’s origin, and Gong Jinhong confirmed it.

Su Yu learned how to become a Realm Lord from Gong Jinhong and concluded he would need to unify the cultivation world. When the other Immortal Realm factions arrived, Su Yu struck down a group of Kunwu Grotto-heaven half-immortals, leaving them alive but terrified.

• Gong Jinhong explained that a Realm Lord must win most living beings' recognition, locate the world's origin, and merge with it.
• Su Yu realized he would need to clear out the Immortal Realm factions and unify the cultivation world to become its Realm Lord.
• Su Yu brought Guo Dingxian and the other Immortal Realm visitors into the Immeasurable Cicada Palace ruins, where they found Gong Jinhong with him.
• Kunwu Grotto-heaven members grew furious at Su Yu, but Gong Jinhong ordered them to stand down.
• Su Yu sent more than a dozen Kunwu Grotto-heaven half-immortals flying through a spatial black hole, then warned that they would die if they provoked him again.

Su Yu subdued Guo Dingxian, Gong Jinhong, and more than a hundred half-immortals from the Immortal World, forcing them to serve him for one hundred years. After they recovered, Su Yu led them and the True Martial Immortal Court out of the Immeasurable Cicada Palace ruins to eradicate future threats.

• Guo Dingxian offered to recruit Su Yu into Changhong Immortal Palace, but Su Yu demanded that the half-immortals either serve him for one hundred years or remain there forever.
• When a half-immortal threatened Su Yu, Su Yu trapped the group in the Immeasurable Immortal Array and battered them with heavenly tribulations until they surrendered.
• Su Yu ordered Gong Jinhong to retrieve the injured Kunwu Grotto-heaven disciples, then released Guo Dingxian and the others after they agreed to serve him.
• Tian Wudi and the others arrived, and Su Yu told Tian Wudi to lead the recovered Immortal Court in eradicating future troubles.
• More than half a year later, Su Yu led the recovered half-immortals and the True Martial Immortal Court out of the Immeasurable Cicada Palace ruins.

After Daoist Xuanhuang betrayed Bing Jiu and the other descended immortals, the Azure Prison Immortal Lord warned that Su Yu was their greatest rival for the Cultivation World’s opportunities and proposed joining forces against him. When news arrived that Daoist Xuanhuang had died in the Immeasurable Sea Domain, they suspected Su Yu had killed him and debated whether to go there.

• Bing Jiu and the others gathered with the Azure Prison Immortal Lord and condemned Daoist Xuanhuang for betraying them.
• The Azure Prison Immortal Lord identified Su Yu as the most likely person to become master of the Cultivation World and urged the factions to join forces to kill him first.
• The Mountain Lord of Mystic Immortal Mountain dismissed Su Yu as a threat, while the others doubted that their enemies would cooperate with them.
• Heavenly Dao phenomena announced Daoist Xuanhuang’s death, and the Azure Prison Immortal Lord said Su Yu had probably killed him.
• Daoist Qingjiu asked whether they should go to the Immeasurable Sea Domain, but the Azure Prison Immortal Lord predicted Su Yu would not ally with the other half-immortals and would likely become their enemy.

Daoist Qingjiu and the other Immortal Realm forces released the sealed Evil Immortal’s body parts in the Immeasurable Sea Domain, hoping to clear their rivals and seize the lower realm’s opportunity. As the Evil Immortal began reviving and devouring the Heavenly Dao’s power, Su Yu and the Immortal Realm Half-Immortals fled the region, realizing the cultivation world faced destruction.

• Daoist Qingjiu persuaded Dong Chu Shanze, Bing Jiu, and the other Immortal Realm forces to unleash the sealed Evil Immortal despite the karmic debt it would bring.
• The factions retreated to the White Jade Immortal Realm, sent sealed body parts into the Immeasurable Sea Domain, and broke their seals.
• The Azure Prison Immortal Lord sensed the danger, recognized the Evil Immortal, warned the people in his hall, and decided to leave.
• Su Yu and the others felt the Evil Immortal’s demonic power erupt as they prepared to confront the Immortal Realm forces.
• Su Yu explained that an Evil Immortal remnant had emerged, sent the True Martial Immortal Court away, and led Gong Jinhong, Guo Dingxian, and the others away from the danger.
• Gong Jinhong and Guo Dingxian feared the Evil Immortal could destroy the realm unless a Realm Lord stood guard.

Su Yu used the Void Cauldron to expel the reborn Evil Immortal from the cultivation world. The Evil Immortal landed in the White Jade Immortal Realm, where Bing Jiu, Daoist Qingjiu, and the others had believed themselves safe.

• Su Yu realized Bing Jiu, Daoist Qingjiu, and the other Half-Immortals had released the Evil Immortal and hidden in the White Jade Immortal Realm.
• Su Yu summoned the Void Cauldron and empowered it with his Spirit Severing Dao Body despite Gong Jinhong and Guo Dingxian warning that it could not harm the Evil Immortal.
• The Void Cauldron tore open space and expelled the Evil Immortal from the cultivation world into the White Jade Immortal Realm.
• Bing Jiu, Daoist Qingjiu, and the Heavenly Immortal Palace's experts celebrated their plan, believing the Evil Immortal would destroy the cultivation world.
• The Evil Immortal crashed into the White Jade Immortal Realm, and Daoist Qingjiu and the others were left dumbfounded.

Su Yu turned the resurrected Evil Immortal against the immortals and forces in the White Jade Immortal Realm, then used the Void Cauldron to shatter the realm’s spatial framework. As the White Jade Immortal Realm began to collapse, Bing Jiu begged Su Yu to spare her.

• Daoist Qingjiu and the Purple Crane Immortal Sect fled from the resurrected Evil Immortal, while the False Immortal ancestors of the White Jade Immortal Realm remained trapped.
• The Evil Immortal killed and devoured a peak Tribulation Crossing Stage Half-Immortal and slaughtered countless beings across the realm.
• The Heavenly Immortal Palace Master accused Su Yu of unleashing the Evil Immortal, while Gong Jinhong and Guo Dingxian praised Su Yu’s plan.
• Su Yu controlled the Void Cauldron to smash apart the White Jade Immortal Realm’s spatial framework as Bing Jiu, Daoist Qingjiu, and the others tried to escape.
• Spatial cracks spread and the realm began to collapse; Bing Jiu admitted defeat and begged Su Yu not to kill her.

Su Yu destroyed the White Jade Immortal Realm to eliminate the Evil Immortal’s immediate threat, then began the process of becoming the Cultivation World’s Realm Lord. After he merged with the world, Gong Jinhong and the others anticipated his rise in the Immortal Realm.

• The White Jade Immortal Realm exploded, and the Evil Immortal vanished from sight, leaving Guo Dingxian, Gong Jinhong, and the others stunned.
• Su Yu told Guo Dingxian that any harm to his path to immortality would only reveal that his strength and Dao foundation were insufficient.
• Su Yu summoned the True Martial Immortal Court, the Earth Immortal Mansion, and the Su Family to take control of the Cultivation World and erect statues of his Dao body.
• Power of faith from across the Cultivation World transformed Su Yu’s divine sense, letting him perceive the world as its Heavenly Dao manifested upon him.
• Su Yu chose to merge his divine soul and Dao Fruit into the Cultivation World and began the process of becoming its Realm Lord.
• Gong Jinhong praised Su Yu’s prospects, saying he would become a figure of note in the Immortal Realm.

Su Yu refined the cultivation world's source power while forces in the Immortal Realm prepared to investigate the deaths of their people and the lost realm-lord opportunity. His Spirit Severing Dao Body reached the absolute zenith of the Tribulation Crossing Stage, leaving only a thin membrane between it and the Immortal Realm.

• The Purple Crane Immortal Sect learned that Daoist Qingjiu and the lower-realm disciples had died, and its Sect Master ordered an investigation and sent Immortal Lord Guang Ling to the cultivation world.
• The Yellow Spirit Grotto-Heaven, Dong Chu clan, Jiehe Sect, Silver Sea Immortal Sect, and other forces arranged for condemned immortals or dharma bodies to descend and investigate.
• Su Yu used the cultivation world's source power to strengthen his divine soul and build the Immortal Soul foundation, while sensing a lingering threat from the Evil Immortal.
• Gong Jinhong, Guo Dingxian, and representatives of the nine forces remained at the True Martial Immortal Court, cultivating ties with Tian Wudi, Fan Xiao, Su Zhi, and the others as they awaited Su Yu's ascension to realm lord.
• The Spirit Severing Dao Body broke through to the late Tribulation Crossing Stage, and after three years reached the stage's absolute zenith.
• The Spirit Severing Dao Body examined its Immortal Root Spirit Plant Dao Body and concluded that its foundation was complete, with only a thin membrane separating it from the Immortal Realm.

Su Yu activated the Heavenly Immortal Array with his Spirit Severing Dao Body and entered the Immortal Realm, where he found a trial token and learned that the Immeasurable Immortal Palace belonged to a powerful immortal lineage. He was left wondering whether the Immortal Realm’s Three Saints were the Three Pure Saints he knew.

• Su Yu considered using the Heavenly Immortal Array to explore the Immortal Realm and chose to risk his Spirit Severing Dao Body rather than send his true body.
• Su Yu activated the array, startling the Black Flood Dragon, Grand Void, and Overturning Sea Mysterious Turtle as he vanished from the Outer Realm.
• Su Yu arrived in a valley in the Immortal Realm, adapted to its immense immortal pressure, and searched a stone house.
• Su Yu found an Immeasurable Immortal Palace Trial Token and a Jade Slip that identified the sect as one of the Nine Great Immortal Sects under the Tongtian lineage.
• Su Yu questioned whether the Three Saints of Immortal Realm mentioned in the Jade Slip were the Three Pure Saints he knew.

Su Yu explored the Immortal Realm from his concealed Cave Dwelling, discovering that its Heavenly Dao and Great Dao far surpassed those of the lower realm while his Spirit Severing Dao Body cultivated more efficiently. After a year of searching, he located Yinfeng Immortal City and realized he was in the Silver Sea Immortal Sect’s territory, where attempting a breakthrough might attract its Earth Immortals.

• Su Yu sensed that the Immortal Realm’s Heavenly Dao was overwhelmingly powerful and abandoned the idea of breaking through in his Cave Dwelling.
• Su Yu manifested his Immortal Root Spirit Plant form, cultivated with the Azurewood Immortal Scripture, and sensed an unexplained pull toward the south.
• Su Yu found that cultivation in the Immortal Realm was more efficient and that its Great Dao could further temper his foundation, though he needed time to adapt.
• Su Yu sent Myriad Shadow Talisman incarnations across the wilderness, and after a year they found Yinfeng Immortal City far to the east.
• Su Yu recognized Yinfeng Immortal City as one of the thirty-six cities under the Silver Sea Immortal Sect and realized a breakthrough might draw the attention of its stationed Earth Immortals.

Su Yu investigated Yinfeng Immortal City and learned about the Immeasurable Immortal Palace, its standing among the Immortal Realm’s powers, and its entry trial token. He decided to seek the Palace’s protection before breaking through to the Immortal Realm and set out for its Hundred Rivers Immortal Domain Grotto-Heaven.

• Su Yu sent an incarnation into Yinfeng Immortal City to study its surroundings and learn about the local forces without risking a breakthrough near the Silver Sea Immortal Sect.
• Su Yu visited talisman shops, then opened a small Talisman Pavilion and spent several years gathering information about the Heavenly Court, the Three Saints, and other major powers.
• Su Yu learned that the Immeasurable Immortal Palace was one of the Nine Great Immortal Sects under Tongtian Palace and that its entry trial token was highly coveted.
• Su Yu concluded that joining the Immeasurable Immortal Palace could provide protection for his Spirit Severing Dao Body when it underwent immortal tribulation.
• Su Yu left his hidden Cave Dwelling and headed west toward the Immeasurable Immortal Palace’s Grotto-Heaven, crossing the territories of the Dong Chu clan and the Jiehe Sect.

Su Yu traveled to the Boundless Immortal Prefecture as the Immeasurable Immortal Palace’s once-in-a-thousand-years trial approached, then chose a mountain near the Burning Heaven River Cave Nine Immortal Sect to attempt his breakthrough. As he charged into the Life Great Dao to enter the Immortal Stage, his tribulation shook the Hundred Rivers Immortal Domain and drew the attention of countless powerful old monsters.

• Su Yu learned that only one hundred candidates could pass the Immeasurable Immortal Palace’s trial and that several powerful local forces planned to send their disciples.
• On his way to the Immeasurable Immortal Palace’s immortal mountain, Su Yu killed three Earth Immortal Stage immortals and more than twenty Tribulation Crossing Stage half-immortals who attacked him.
• Su Yu sensed an overwhelming presence from the Immeasurable Immortal Palace’s mountain and chose to attempt his Immortal Stage breakthrough elsewhere.
• Su Yu released his Immortal Soul and saw the Life Great Dao as a vast river that bound the beings of the immortal realm.
• Su Yu charged toward the river, triggering a vast tribulation marked by jade-green immortal light, dark clouds, lightning, and a heaven-supporting immortal tree.
• Peerless old monsters awoke and stared through space at the immortal tree in shock.

As Su Yu crossed Immortal Tribulation, his Azure Wood Immortal Soul reached toward the Life River and began forming the Mahayana Immortal Fruit of the Life Great Dao. Immortals across the Boundless Immortal Prefecture noticed the extraordinary tribulation, and covetous figures closed in as Su Yu sensed their killing intent.

• Su Yu’s Immortal Tribulation spread across billions of miles, forcing creatures and Half-Immortals to flee its range.
• Ancestor Wen of the Nine Immortal Sect recognized Su Yu’s Azure Wood and realized he was pursuing the Mahayana Immortal Fruit of the Life Great Dao, but an ominous warning stopped her from intervening.
• Immortals from across the Boundless Immortal Prefecture discovered the tribulation and began investigating who was crossing it.
• A figure at the Immeasurable Immortal Palace saw Su Yu and noticed that other powerful beings were approaching.
• As Su Yu’s Azure Wood Immortal Soul charged toward the Life River, he sensed a hostile immortal and several waves of killing intent converging on him.

Su Yu’s Life Dao Fruit finished transforming into a Mahayana Immortal Fruit, drawing immortals who tried to seize it. He used his Space-Time Great Divine Ability to bring on the lightning tribulation early, trapping his attackers in its range and leaving even the Grand Unity True Immortal battered and fleeing.

• The Nine Immortal Sect’s immortal ancestor resisted the temptation to attack Su Yu, while the other watchers waited for his tribulation to take shape.
• After more than half a month of striking the River of Life, Su Yu reached enlightenment, and his Mahayana Immortal Fruit took shape.
• A Grand Unity True Immortal and other coveters rushed to seize Su Yu and his Immortal Fruit, attacking their competitors along the way.
• Su Yu used his Space-Time Great Divine Ability to accelerate the lightning tribulation, causing its first bolt to strike him and the immortals in range.
• The second bolt killed several Heavenly Immortals and battered the other attackers; the third bolt struck the fleeing Grand Unity True Immortal down from the heavens.

Su Yu’s Spirit Severing Dao Body endured its immortal tribulation while his true body advanced its fusion with the cultivation world’s origin. A Grand Unity True Immortal died under the tribulation, and Su Yu’s true body broke through to become the World Lord.

• The fifth lightning tribulation killed the Grand Unity True Immortal and destroyed his Dao Fruit.
• Fairy Wen recognized Su Yu’s tribouncing form as an immortal-root Spirit Wood and coveted its true body, while the man at the Immeasurable Immortal Palace outpost recognized Su Yu’s rare talent.
• The Immeasurable Immortal Palace’s man claimed Su Yu for his sect, and a Heavenly Court cultivator disputed that claim before being silenced.
• Su Yu controlled spacetime to accelerate the lightning tribulations, and his Life Immortal Path Dao Fruit formed as the Spirit Wood true body endured them.
• Su Yu’s true body merged rapidly with the cultivation world’s origin, broke through its shackles, and became the World Lord.
• Countless beings sensed Su Yu’s success and bowed to congratulate him.

Su Yu became the lord of the True Martial Cultivation World and reassured Tian Wudi that he would protect it while other half-immortals pursued ascension. After reuniting with his family and companions, he planned to start a family and create a supreme cultivation sanctuary before ascending to the Immortal Realm.

• Su Yu proclaimed himself the world lord and renamed the Cultivation World the True Martial Cultivation World.
• Su Yu told Tian Wudi that he could ascend through the Kunwu Cultivation World and invited other half-immortals to try as well, while Tian Wudi chose not to rush.
• Su Yu reunited with Tian Wudi, Nan Xiaogu, Lord of the South Pole, the Old Great Emperor, Daoist Tianyu, Fan Xiao, Su Zhi, and others, and explained that he remained both himself and the world’s heavenly dao.
• Su Yu considered marrying Nan Xiaogu, having confidantes, and leaving descendants before he eventually ascended to the Immortal Realm.
• Su Yu offered to create a supreme cultivation sanctuary where Tian Wudi, Lord of the South Pole, Daoist Tianyu, and the others could strengthen their foundations before ascending.

Su Yu stayed in the lower realm while Gong Jinhong and the others returned to the Kunwu Cultivation World to undergo tribulation and ascend. Su Yu’s separate Dao body then passed its immortal tribulation, reached the Heavenly Immortal Stage, and was taken by Ying Tianhu to meet his master after being declared a disciple of the Immeasurable Immortal Palace.

• Su Yu improved the Outer Realm for Tian Wudi and the others, then offered Gong Jinhong and his companions a choice between returning to the Immortal Realm or ascending on their own; they chose to ascend.
• Gong Jinhong asked when Su Yu would ascend, and Su Yu said he would wait until he had fully developed his cultivation and Dao foundation.
• In the Immeasurable Region, Su Yu’s immortal tree Dao body rooted itself in the Life Great Dao, passed the lightning tribulation, and advanced to the early Heavenly Immortal Stage.
• Fairy Wen and the gathered geniuses were astonished by Su Yu’s breakthrough, while a Heavenly Court lieutenant tried to recruit him.
• Ying Tianhu drove away the Heavenly Court lieutenant and the other intruders, declared Su Yu a disciple of the Immeasurable Immortal Palace, and took him to meet his master.