Arc 1The Mist Mountains

Su Ye entered the Mist Mountains, defeated the God Emperor Qimu with the Lotus War Goddess, and gained her as his Guardian. After breaking through to the Cave Heaven Realm, he followed Big Gold Dog into the Sword Sect and reached its Scripture Pavilion.

  • Su Ye left the Wind Clan for Heaven Mending Pavilion, but a Bronze Pillar in the Land of The Weird drew him into a struggle with a black-robed man and led him to take the pillar as a staff.
  • Su Ye and Big Gold Dog entered the Mist Mountains, where Su Ye found the Little Dream God Lotus and became caught up in its battle with the God Emperor Qimu.
  • The Lotus War Goddess defeated Qimu with faith power from the River of Time, and Su Ye reclaimed the Totem Pillar and asked her to protect him as his Guardian.
  • Su Ye investigated the Divine Temple, studied a Willow Tree carving, then fought Big Gold Dog and opened a Cave Heaven with four Heavenly Passages.
  • Su Ye and Big Gold Dog wandered deeper into the Mist Mountains, where Su Ye found and stored the Sword Unsheathing Stone.
  • Big Gold Dog revealed an old map and explained that the Sword Sect could only be entered or exited through a Domain Gate.
  • Su Ye and Big Gold Dog followed the map into the Sword Sect and found the Scripture Pavilion.
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Ch. 1Heaven Mending Pavilion Arrives

Su Ye reached the ten-thousand-jin extreme of the Blood-Moving Realm after ten years of cultivation in the Great Wilderness. When Heaven Mending Pavilion arrived to assess the Wind Clan's young disciples, Su Ye saw a chance to begin his rise.

  • A Heaven Mending Pavilion delegation traveled to the Wind Clan to recruit gifted youths, hoping to find a prodigy among its ancient bloodline.
  • Su Ye broke through to the ten-thousand-jin extreme beneath a waterfall, tempering his body with Divine Radiance.
  • Su Ye reflected on his ten years in Perfect World, where he had survived as an orphan and cultivated without any special cheat.
  • A-Hu arrived at the waterfall and told Su Ye that Heaven Mending Pavilion's guests wanted to test the clan's young disciples.
  • Su Ye welcomed the chance to join Heaven Mending Pavilion, while A-Hu declared that Su Ye's strength would surely earn him a place.

Ch. 2Xia Youyu

Su Ye met Xia Youyu, the Heaven Mending Pavilion prodigy, and fought her as she tested his strength. Their battle ended with his Wind Wings clashing against her golden vines.

  • The Wind Clan patriarch introduced Su Ye to Xia Youyu and the other Heaven Mending Pavilion visitors.
  • Xia Youyu suddenly attacked Su Ye to test his abilities, and he dodged her first strike.
  • Xia Youyu ensnared Su Ye with vines formed by her Treasure Art, but he snapped them and nearly pulled her off balance.
  • Su Ye formed a giant hand and Wind Wings, then cut through Xia Youyu's vines as the Wind Clan patriarch explained the art's origins.
  • Xia Youyu turned her vines golden, and her vines clashed with Su Ye's Wind Wings.

Ch. 3Refusal

Su Ye defeated Xia Youyu in a spar, impressing the Heaven Mending Pavilion delegation with his strength. He refused her Talisman Token after his Samsara Eye showed it was destined for an extraordinary boy: the Bear Child.

  • Su Ye used an illusion against Xia Youyu, but she saw through it and searched for his true location.
  • Su Ye broke through Xia Youyu's vine Treasure Art, damaged her treasured dress, and swiftly subdued her.
  • The Heaven Mending Pavilion elders praised Su Ye's talent, while Xia Youyu admired his strength and offered him a Talisman Token.
  • Su Ye used his Samsara Eye to glimpse the token's karmic future and recognized that it was meant for the Bear Child.
  • Su Ye refused the token, telling Xia Youyu to follow her path and give it to the extraordinary boy she would meet.

Ch. 4Leaving

Su Ye left the Wind Clan to cross the Great Wilderness alone, while Xia Youyu wondered whether he could perceive Karma. Half a month later, he found several deserted villages and, as he tried to leave the Land of The Weird, a voice called to him and left him walking in a daze.

  • The Old Patriarch scolded Su Ye for giving up the Heaven Mending Pavilion's Talisman Token, but Su Ye said he had no need for it and asked the clan for treasures before leaving.
  • Outside the Wind Clan, Xia Youyu suspected Su Ye could perceive threads of Karma and wondered who they were destined to meet.
  • Su Ye decided to cross the Great Wilderness alone, learned the Heaven Mending Pavilion lay east, and took an ancient map from the Old Patriarch before bidding him farewell.
  • Half a month later, Su Ye found another deserted village in the Land of The Weird and concluded that knowing the future could not replace overwhelming strength.
  • As Su Ye tried to leave the Land of The Weird, a voice called from within his mind, and he began walking forward in a daze.

Ch. 5The Mysterious Ritual

Su Ye followed a mysterious call to a valley where a black-robed man was using an Ancient Bronze Pillar to draw faith from people taken from deserted villages. Su Ye fought the man, but the chapter ended as the Spirit Transformation Realm cultivator unleashed his full power against him.

  • Su Ye reached a silent valley and found the missing villagers kneeling before an altar and an Ancient Bronze Pillar.
  • Su Ye used the Samsara Eye to resist the pillar’s influence and saw that it connected to everyone in the valley through strands of faith.
  • The black-robed man noticed Su Ye was not controlled and attacked him with a demon-god phantom, but Su Ye used the Wind-Chasing Sparrow Treasure Art to destroy it.
  • Su Ye charged the black-robed man, who trapped him with a giant hand of spiritual energy empowered by faith.
  • Su Ye broke free by unleashing his Blood-Moving Realm strength, and the black-robed man rose from the altar and released his full power.

Ch. 6Totem Pillar

Su Ye survived the black-robed man’s cataclysmic attack, killed him, and traced the Bronze Pillar’s history to an ancient kingdom’s Totem Pillar. The pillar revealed that it had noticed Su Ye and threatened to control him.

  • The black-robed man unleashed a cataclysm that erased the villagers and the surrounding valley, but Su Ye appeared alive on the altar beside the Bronze Pillar.
  • The black-robed man charged at Su Ye to protect the pillar, and Su Ye killed him with a rune-formed spear.
  • Su Ye used his Samsara Eye to trace the Bronze Pillar’s past and discovered it had belonged to an ancient kingdom destroyed by a cataclysm.
  • Su Ye suspected the Totem Pillar had influenced the black-robed man and demanded that it explain itself.
  • The Totem Pillar answered Su Ye and asked why he had stayed, warning that it could control him.

Ch. 7The Ruyi Golden-Hooped Staff

Su Ye discovered that the Taoist Robe Elder inside the Totem Pillar came from a distant age and sought faith power to return to life. Though wary of the elder’s intentions, Su Ye took the pillar as a weapon, named it the Ruyi Golden-Hooped Staff, and left with it.

  • Su Ye used the Samsara Eye to resist the apparent world-ending calamity and saw through the illusion to the Taoist Robe Elder inside the Bronze Pillar.
  • The Taoist Robe Elder explained that he had opened a gate between past and present, needed faith power to come back to life, and could help Su Ye in exchange.
  • Su Ye refused to gather believers’ faith, and the elder proposed hunting Sacrificial Spirits so the Totem Pillar could absorb and purify their faith power.
  • Su Ye decided to keep the Totem Pillar as a magic treasure despite distrusting the elder, and had it shrink into a copper staff.
  • Su Ye named the staff the Ruyi Golden-Hooped Staff, coated it in gold, and admired his newly gleaming weapon.

Ch. 8Heaven-Sealing City

Su Ye reached Heaven-Sealing City riding the Qilin Remnant Species he named Black Emperor, then learned about the valuable Heaven and Earth Treasure Liquid in the nearby Mist Mountains. After examining the city's mysterious Heaven Seal characters, he considered exploring the Mist Mountains despite their connection to the dangerous Ancient Battlefield.

  • Su Ye forced the Qilin Remnant Species to remain his mount and named him Black Emperor.
  • Su Ye arrived at Heaven-Sealing City and used his Samsara Eye to see a vast world and Dao-rule chains hidden in the characters above its gate.
  • Black Emperor told Su Ye about the Heaven and Earth Treasure Liquid in the Mist Mountains and urged him to search for it.
  • Su Ye checked his old map and learned from Black Emperor that the Mist Mountains had formed from part of the Ancient Battlefield after its strange matter contracted five hundred years earlier.
  • Black Emperor explained that the treasure liquid was said to be Divine Essence formed from the Gods' remains, and Su Ye irreverently called it corpse juice.

Ch. 9Divine Marrow Treasure Liquid

Su Ye discovered that stones from the Mist Mountains could contain Divine Marrow Treasure Liquid and won a droplet by breaking one open. When a lavishly dressed young man stole it, Su Ye and Black Emperor confronted him, and the young man ordered his men to kill them.

  • Su Ye learned from a stall owner that stones from the Mist Mountains sometimes held Divine Marrow Treasure Liquid and traded a Precious Bone fragment for three stones.
  • Su Ye crushed the first stone and found nothing, then broke the second and revealed a droplet of Divine Marrow Treasure Liquid.
  • A lavishly dressed young man snatched the droplet and tossed Su Ye a crystal, but Su Ye shattered it and told him to give the treasure liquid back.
  • Su Ye picked up the third stone as Black Emperor struck at the young man, but a middle-aged man blocked the paw with a golden shield.
  • Black Emperor cracked the shield, and the lavishly dressed young man ordered his men to kill both Su Ye and Black Emperor.

Ch. 10Mist Mountains

Black Emperor killed two Rain Clan disciples, while Su Ye warned him about the consequences and refused to take responsibility for his actions. At the Mist Mountains, Su Ye and Black Emperor learned about the region’s dangers and entered the mist together.

  • Black Emperor killed a middle-aged man and a young man after the Rain Clan disciple threatened them, hoping the clan’s response would help him escape.
  • Su Ye scolded Black Emperor for killing the men, and Black Emperor pleaded with him for protection from the Rain Clan.
  • At the Mist Mountains, a young man in fine robes explained that the distant peaks were spatial projections and warned Su Ye and Black Emperor about illusions, spatial rifts, Fierce Beasts, and Evil Spirits.
  • Black Emperor urged them to enter the Mist Mountains in search of treasures, and Su Ye agreed.
  • Su Ye and Black Emperor walked into the mist and disappeared from view.

Ch. 11The Weird

Su Ye and Black Emperor entered the barren Mist Mountains, where a strange force made Black Emperor attack Su Ye and erased the corpse of a young man they had found. The Ancient God Emperor identified the force as the remnant of the Little Dream God Lotus, and Su Ye began searching underground for it while Black Emperor drank the treasure liquid they uncovered.

  • Su Ye and Black Emperor found the Mist Mountains barren despite their dense spiritual energy and discovered that the soil held a faint, powerful chaotic force.
  • Su Ye and Black Emperor found the young man in fine robes dead and drained of life essence, but Black Emperor then fell under a strange influence and attacked Su Ye.
  • Su Ye dispelled the influence with the Ruyi Golden Cudgel, and he and Black Emperor realized the corpse had vanished.
  • The Ancient God Emperor told Su Ye that the strange power likely came from a remnant root of the Little Dream God Lotus, a Divine Medicine.
  • Su Ye struck the ground repeatedly to search for the root and uncovered golden treasure liquid, while Black Emperor drank from the pit.

Ch. 12Little Dream God Lotus

Su Ye dug through divine-blood-soaked earth and found a root from the Little Dream God Lotus, whose dream illusions threatened to overwhelm him. He exposed the root’s deception with his Samsara Eye, and it withdrew its spiritual power and spoke to him.

  • Su Ye broke through the rocky barrier and uncovered a jade-like root that tried to escape into the void.
  • The root’s fragrance and laughter drew Su Ye into a seductive dream, but he struck the rock and escaped the illusion.
  • The God Emperor warned Su Ye that the root came from the Little Dream God Lotus and could trap people in dreams.
  • Su Ye realized the root’s spiritual attacks grew stronger as he approached, so he resisted while studying it.
  • Su Ye used his Samsara Eye to dispel the visions and reveal that the dancing maidens were illusions caused by the root swaying.
  • The root withdrew its spiritual power and told Su Ye that its strength came from its spiritual nature.

Ch. 13Dreamlike

Su Ye challenged the Little Dream God Lotus to submit to him, but she tested his Heavenly Eye with an illusion and then began a mysterious dance. The God Emperor identified the dance as a Sacrificial Dance.

  • The Little Dream God Lotus doubted Su Ye could restore it and challenged him to prove he could defeat it.
  • The Little Dream God Lotus took the form of a beautiful woman and trapped Su Ye in an illusion, but his Heavenly Eye broke free and made her suffer a backlash.
  • Su Ye revealed his Heavenly Eye and summoned a Chaos Grinding Disc, astonishing the Little Dream God Lotus.
  • The Little Dream God Lotus began dancing, and the God Emperor told Su Ye that it was a Sacrificial Dance.

Ch. 14Sacrificial Dance

Su Ye realized the Little Dream God Lotus was performing the Heaven-Sacrificing Dance to draw on the Great Dao Power of Heaven and Earth, but he let her continue so his Samsara Eye could resonate with it. The Lotus Fairy transformed into a powerful War Goddess and demanded the Ruyi Golden Cudgel, leaving Su Ye facing a dangerous confrontation.

  • The God Emperor explained that the Little Dream God Lotus was the Great Dream God Sect's Sacrificial Spirit and that the Sacrificial Dance drew on the Great Dao Power of Heaven and Earth.
  • Su Ye recognized the Heaven-Sacrificing Dance and let the Little Dream God Lotus continue because the Great Dao Power had stirred his Samsara Eye.
  • The Little Dream God Lotus used the dance to transform into a formidable Lotus War Goddess, intending to seize Su Ye's staff and use it to rebuild her body.
  • The Lotus War Goddess demanded that Su Ye hand over the Ruyi Golden Cudgel.

Ch. 15The God Emperor's True Face

Su Ye learned that the Bronze Pillar housed a God Emperor who planned to consume Lotus War Goddess and possess his body. The God Emperor trapped them in a vast Mental Domain, and the chapter ended with Su Ye asking whose descendants would be born if the God Emperor took over his body.

  • Su Ye warned Lotus War Goddess that a God Emperor dwelled inside the staff, and the God Emperor angrily accused him of revealing the secret.
  • The Ruyi Golden Cudgel's shell broke away, exposing the ancient Bronze Pillar, which unleashed Dao Patterns and formed a vast Mental Domain.
  • The God Emperor appeared and admitted that he intended to eat Lotus War Goddess and use Su Ye's body to return to the world.
  • Lotus War Goddess explained that the God Emperor's Mental Domain was powered by his formidable Mental Power and the extraordinary Totem Pillar.
  • Su Ye asked Lotus War Goddess whether she could defeat the God Emperor, but she explained that Su Ye could provide little faith power.
  • The God Emperor said he would take Su Ye's place, and Su Ye asked whether the descendants born afterward would belong to him or the God Emperor.

Ch. 16The Power of the Sacrificial Spirit

The Lotus War Goddess battled the God Emperor after the Little Dream God Lotus gained heaven and earth's blessing through the Sacrificial Dance. As the God Emperor recovered and attacked again, the Lotus War Goddess summoned power from her past self, while Su Ye refined the God Emperor’s soul-blood.

  • The Lotus War Goddess wounded the God Emperor, who regretted allowing her to perform the Sacrificial Dance and blamed Su Ye for disrupting his plans.
  • The God Emperor questioned how long the Lotus War Goddess could fight without a source of faith, then attacked her with Dao Patterns.
  • The God Emperor’s body exploded into soul-blood, and the weakened Lotus War Goddess’s phantom vanished.
  • Su Ye gathered some of the God Emperor’s soul-blood and refined it with the Samsara Eye while the God Emperor watched.
  • The Lotus War Goddess summoned a past version of herself from the River of Time, and the God Emperor attacked before she could use a Treasure Art.

Ch. 17Yue Chan and the Witch

Yue Chan and the Witch resonated with Jade Bones containing fragments of an ancient Treasure Art, while in the spiritual world Su Ye and the Little Dream God Lotus fought the God Emperor. The God Emperor shattered the Lotus War Goddess’s advance and descended into the spiritual world with the Divine Herb Root, leaving Su Ye to face his arrival.

  • Yue Chan studied her Jade Bone, entered a vision of the Little Dream God Lotus, and bowed to the Divine Medicine who had become a War Goddess.
  • The Witch practiced a dance recorded on her Jade Bone, regretted that it lacked the method’s heart, and said she would seek her fated nemesis.
  • The Little Dream God Lotus empowered the Lotus War Goddess with faith drawn from the River of Time, and the Goddess shattered the God Emperor’s body.
  • Su Ye sent the Chaos Grinding Disc to refine the God Emperor’s shattered spirit.
  • The Totem Pillar revealed the God Emperor seated on an Imperial Throne, and his gaze sent the Lotus War Goddess flying back.
  • The God Emperor used the Divine Herb Root to descend from the River of Time into the spiritual world.

Ch. 18Divine Battle

Su Ye watched the Lotus War Goddess battle God Emperor Qimu, an ancient Upper Realm god who had invaded the Lower Realm. The fight left Qimu baffled by her seemingly endless strength, which she realized came from two people continually supplying her with faith power.

  • Su Ye caught the injured Lotus War Goddess and was surprised by how real she felt, while she wondered why the God Emperor’s power had not harmed him.
  • The Lotus War Goddess recognized the arriving God Emperor as Qimu, an Upper Realm god who had helped invade the Lower Realm in ancient times.
  • God Emperor Qimu attacked with chains that manifested Fierce Beasts, and the Lotus War Goddess cut the chains apart with her battle halberd.
  • Su Ye realized the fighters’ power was limited to the Marquis Level in Qimu’s fragile spiritual world, though their techniques remained deadly.
  • The Lotus War Goddess repeatedly overwhelmed Qimu, who regenerated after being blasted apart and wondered whether her main body was alive.
  • The Lotus War Goddess realized that two people were continuously supplying her with faith power, leaving her puzzled about their seemingly limitless energy.

Ch. 19The Ultimate Victor

Yue Chan and the Witch struggled to comprehend the complete Heaven-Tier Treasure Art, while the Lotus War Goddess defeated God Emperor Qimu. Su Ye claimed the Totem Pillar and asked the weakened War Goddess to become his Guardian.

  • Yue Chan connected with her main body to comprehend the Heaven-Tier Treasure Art, while the Witch endured the Jade Bone draining her power of faith and summoned figures from her Heavenly Passages.
  • The Lotus War Goddess pierced God Emperor Qimu's brow with her silver battle-axe and destroyed his body as the surrounding world began to collapse.
  • Su Ye confirmed Qimu was dead, reclaimed the Totem Pillar, and realized he had become the ultimate victor.
  • Su Ye told the exhausted Lotus War Goddess that he wanted her Treasure Arts, knowledge, and future, and asked her to protect him as his Guardian.

Ch. 20The Divine Temple

Su Ye and Fairy Menglian explored the Divine Temple inside the Totem Pillar and discovered it was dedicated to an ancient, immensely powerful Sacrificial Spirit. Su Ye began studying a Willow Tree carving that might be connected to the Willow Deity, while Fairy Menglian warned that doing so could bind him to it through Karma.

  • Yue Chan's primary and secondary bodies recovered after nearly being drained by a terrifying force.
  • The Witch realized the Jade Bone had been a trap and cursed those who had schemed against her.
  • Fairy Menglian told Su Ye that the Divine Temple belonged to a Sacrificial Spirit, not God Emperor Qimu, and warned that its vast energy could consume anyone who tried to absorb it.
  • Su Ye entered the Divine Temple, suffered a backlash when he used his Samsara Eye to probe its past, and Fairy Menglian destroyed the Imperial Throne.
  • Su Ye and Fairy Menglian saw a Willow Tree carved on the wall, and Fairy Menglian said the temple's Sacrificial Spirit had been at least a Supreme Being, perhaps from beyond the mortal world.
  • Su Ye sat before the carving and began comprehending it as it glowed, while Fairy Menglian worried that studying its techniques would connect him to the being through Karma.

Ch. 21Big Gold Dog

After returning to Stone Village, Little One and Qing Feng were welcomed by the villagers, while Su Ye emerged from the Mist Mountains and fought Big Gold Dog, who had recovered his strength. Su Ye began testing his newly comprehended Treasure Art against Big Gold Dog’s explosive Qilin attacks.

  • Little One and Qing Feng returned to Stone Village after crossing the Great Wilderness, and the villagers warmly welcomed them home.
  • Willow Deity sensed that someone had comprehended the true diagram it had left behind but could not identify them.
  • Su Ye emerged from the deep pit in the Mist Mountains and decided to stabilize his cultivation before breaking through to the Cave Heaven Realm.
  • Big Gold Dog revealed that he had broken his bloodline shackles and demanded that Su Ye kneel, so Su Ye challenged him to a fight.
  • Su Ye dodged Big Gold Dog’s explosive Qilin heads and formed radiant Willow Branches to test his new Treasure Art.

Ch. 22Cave Heaven

Su Ye defeated Big Gold Dog after their Treasure Arts clashed, then entered a meditative state to break through into the Cave Heaven Realm. He opened a Cave Heaven and stepped into the new realm.

  • Su Ye used his Willow Branches to withstand Big Gold Dog’s attacks, and his Treasure Art devoured the Qilin Fire.
  • Big Gold Dog took a half-human, half-dog form and surrounded himself with three-colored light that weakened Su Ye’s Willow Branches.
  • Su Ye suppressed the chaos in his blood and qi, overwhelmed Big Gold Dog with a barrage of punches, and ordered him to stand guard.
  • Su Ye meditated for several days as he prepared to break through into the Cave Heaven Realm.
  • Su Ye opened a Cave Heaven that drew in Life Essence, elevating him into the new realm.

Ch. 23Lost

Su Ye broke through and opened four Heavenly Passages at once, then continued through the Mist Mountains with Big Gold Dog. After they became lost in the fog, Su Ye asked Fairy Menglian for guidance and learned that the battlefield held dangers capable of killing Cult Masters.

  • Su Ye opened four Heavenly Passages at once, astonishing Big Gold Dog with the depth of his foundation.
  • Su Ye and Big Gold Dog traveled through the Mist Mountains for days without finding anyone and realized they were lost.
  • Su Ye sensed something watching him in the mist and again inside the Totem Pillar, but found nothing.
  • Su Ye asked Fairy Menglian where the battlefield’s treasures and dangers lay, and she warned him not to venture deeper because Cult Masters had fallen there.

Ch. 24The Sword Unsheathing Stone

Su Ye and Big Gold Dog stumbled into the Sword Unsheathing Stone, where Su Ye comprehended its ancient Sword Dao resonance and stored the stele in his Heavenly Passage. They continued deeper into the Mist Mountains, with Big Gold Dog racing ahead in search of more treasures.

  • Fairy Menglian warned Su Ye that the Mist Mountains were an ancient battlefield where remnants of powerful beings might remain.
  • Su Ye emerged from the Totem Pillar and realized Big Gold Dog had led him deeper into the strange ruins instead of out.
  • Su Ye and Big Gold Dog found the Sword Unsheathing Stone, and Su Ye’s study of its Sword Dao resonance accidentally injured the dog.
  • Su Ye healed Big Gold Dog, pulled the stele from the ground, and used his Heavenly Passage to store it despite the strain.
  • Big Gold Dog realized the stele was a supreme treasure and galloped ahead, while Su Ye followed into the depths.

Ch. 25Sword Sect

Su Ye and the Big Gold Dog discovered that the quiet Sword Sect was a Boundary Realm and learned they needed a Domain Gate to escape. Following an ancient map, they reached the sect’s Scripture Pavilion, where the Big Gold Dog rushed inside and Su Ye followed.

  • Su Ye eyed the Big Gold Dog as a meal, and the dog revealed that it knew a way out.
  • The Big Gold Dog produced an old map it had found on a corpse while Su Ye was Spirit Wandering.
  • The Big Gold Dog explained that the Sword Sect was a Boundary Realm, a space that could only be entered or exited through a Domain Gate.
  • Su Ye struck the Big Gold Dog for hiding what it knew, then used the map to guide them deeper into the Sword Sect.
  • Su Ye and the Big Gold Dog found the Scripture Pavilion, and the dog charged inside ahead of him.
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