Recaps

Su Tao devoured the Great Frost Imperial Dynasty’s life force and cultivation, advancing to Level Six Quasi-Saint. He defied the Heavenly Dao’s punishment and punched open the firmament before the breach healed.

• Su Tao used a forbidden art to drain the Great Frost Imperial Dynasty’s people and absorb their power, advancing through Level Five to Level Six Quasi-Saint.
• The entire dynasty became a silent wasteland, while old monsters across the Southern Region sensed Su Tao’s immense, evil aura.
• The Heavenly Dao sent violet-black lightning to destroy Su Tao, but he scattered it with a wave and endured the rest unharmed.
• Su Tao mocked the Heavenly Dao and punched through the tribulation clouds, opening a breach in the firmament that quickly healed.
• The old monsters watching the battle were left horrified by Su Tao’s power.

Su Tao unleashed golden threads upon the fleeing armies of the three great imperial dynasties, draining their soldiers and Quasi-Saints of their vitality, cultivation, and souls. The slaughter continued as the remaining troops scattered in panic.

• Su Tao turned his gaze on the several billion soldiers and declared that it was their turn.
• Su Tao sent countless golden threads surging toward the armies, prompting their generals and soldiers to flee.
• The golden threads caught the soldiers and drained them until they withered and died.
• A first-level Quasi-Saint tried to escape but was drained by the threads and fell as a desiccated corpse.
• A second-level Quasi-Saint attempted to fight the threads, but they drained him too, leaving no third-level Quasi-Saints among the armies.

Su Tao used golden threads to drain the lives and power of the armies of the three great imperial dynasties, growing stronger as tens of billions perished. The soldiers could neither escape nor fight back, and even their self-destruction fed Su Tao.

• A second-layer Quasi-Saint of the Demon Race transformed into a colossal beast, but Su Tao's golden threads drained him into a dried corpse.
• The golden threads devoured millions of soldiers with every breath, leaving mountains of corpses as the armies fell into despair.
• Some soldiers begged for death, while others chose to self-destruct rather than be drained alive.
• Su Tao's golden threads absorbed the energy from the explosions and fed it back to him, strengthening his aura.
• Su Tao watched coldly as the golden light around him grew brighter and filled with the struggling faces of the dead and dying.

Su Tao annihilated the invading armies and revealed to Ye Lin that he had founded his Imperial Dynasty to prepare for this moment and obtain strength through a secret technique. The two shared wine above the Great Frost Imperial Dynasty as Su Tao began to explain the technique.

• Su Tao consumed the soldiers of the three great imperial dynasties, leaving billions dead and the land covered in corpses and blood.
• Su Tao said the slaughter was not enough and turned his attention toward the remaining living beings in the three great imperial dynasties.
• Su Tao asked Ye Lin whether he could now defeat him in one move, and Ye Lin accepted his challenge.
• Su Tao and Ye Lin sat atop the tallest building in the Great Frost Imperial Dynasty and drank wine while looking over the devastation.
• Su Tao told Ye Lin that he had founded the Imperial Dynasty for this moment and had obtained a secret technique that could make him infinitely stronger.

Su Tao told Ye Lin how he rose from an abused illegitimate son to founding the Great Frost Imperial Dynasty, all while hiding a secret art that let him grow stronger through sacrifice. He planned to sacrifice the three great Imperial Dynasties and the Central Region to attain sainthood, and if he failed, he would confront the Heavenward Imperial Dynasty before dying.

• Su Tao explained that his secret art let him sacrifice life, cultivation, soul, fortune, or national fortune to increase his power.
• Su Tao recounted fleeing the Heavenward Imperial Dynasty, surviving in the Southern Region, and founding the Great Frost Dynasty.
• Su Tao said he had waited tens of thousands of years to establish an Imperial Dynasty and credited Ye Lin with helping him do it in a year.
• Su Tao told Ye Lin he would not harm him and would let him travel freely, but intended to target the three great Imperial Dynasties and the Central Region.
• Ye Lin realized Su Tao had treated the Innate Spirit Treasure as a mere tool, then asked what would happen if Su Tao failed.
• Su Tao said he would die if he failed, but would first confront the Heavenward Imperial Dynasty and demand to know why his father had tortured him and killed his mother.

After witnessing Su Tao destroy the Great Frost Imperial Dynasty and break the sky with a punch, the three Imperial Emperors plotted to seize his secret and kill him. Ye Lin warned Su Tao that they were coming, but Su Tao welcomed the chance to face them together.

• The three Imperial Emperors realized Su Tao’s power could help them escape their world and raise their cultivation.
• Su Cheng, Jingxin, and Yi Han agreed to join forces against Su Tao and retrieve their Imperial Dynasties’ foundations before attacking.
• Jingxin and Yi Han vanished to gather their forces, while Su Cheng left and chose to ignore Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin told Su Tao that Su Cheng had warned him to leave and that the Emperors wanted Su Tao’s secrets.
• Su Tao said he would rather have the Emperors come together than hunt them down one by one.

Su Tao faced the forces of the three Imperial Dynasties and offered them the evil art they had come to seize, proposing that they leave peacefully. The three Emperors hesitated over whether to accept as Su Tao warned that attacking him could bring unexpected consequences.

• Su Tao assured Ye Lin that he could defeat the approaching enemies and told her to flee if he lost.
• Su Cheng arrived with two other leaders and a vast force, including twelve fourth-level and over a hundred third-level Quasi-Saints.
• Su Cheng accused Su Tao of sacrificing the Great Frost Imperial Dynasty and the Southern Region and claimed the Heavenly Dao had sent them to bring him to justice.
• Su Tao explained that the evil art had raised his cultivation and offered to hand it over in exchange for a peaceful parting.
• The three Emperors considered accepting the book, wary that fighting Su Tao could cost them one of their own.

Su Tao confronted the three Emperors over the ancient book, provoking them by threatening to destroy it. They attacked to stop him, and he kept evading them as Ye Lin watched.

• The experts behind the three Emperors began retreating, fearing the consequences if their side agreed to Su Tao’s terms.
• Jingxin argued that Su Tao’s evil art should be destroyed to prevent chaos, and the retreating experts stopped to listen.
• Su Tao said the book’s contents were already in his mind and began crushing it in front of them.
• The three Emperors attacked before Su Tao could destroy the book, and he mocked them as he evaded their strikes.
• Ye Lin watched Su Tao fight alone while Jingxin declared that he would grant Su Tao’s wish to die.

Su Tao repelled the three Imperial Dynasty Emperors with a single palm, nearly crippling all of them. The chapter ended with Su Tao standing unharmed after overwhelming Su Cheng, Yi Han, and Tranquil Heart.

• Su Cheng drew the Heaven-Slaying Sword, Yi Han transformed into the Chaos Black Dragon King, and Tranquil Heart summoned the Great Sun Tathagata True Form.
• The three fifth-level Quasi-Saint Emperors charged Su Tao with their strongest attacks.
• Su Tao dismissed their power and struck with an ordinary palm.
• Su Tao's palm sent Su Cheng flying and left him coughing blood, while nearly knocking the Heaven-Slaying Sword from his grasp.
• Su Tao's palm mangled Yi Han's dragon claw and hurled his body tens of thousands of miles.
• Su Tao's palm shattered Tranquil Heart's Buddha phantom and left him bleeding and pale.

Su Tao overwhelmed Su Cheng, Yi Han, Jingxin, and the Heavenward Imperial Dynasty’s defenders, revealing the gulf between Quasi-Saint Sixth Heaven and Fifth Heaven. As more than a hundred Quasi-Saints joined forces against him, Su Tao answered with a surge of golden light, and their attacks collided in a cataclysmic explosion.

• Su Tao said that a Quasi-Saint at the Sixth Heaven could kill one at the Fifth Heaven as easily as killing a chicken, then pointed a sword light at Su Cheng.
• A fourth-level Quasi-Saint from the Heavenward Imperial Dynasty blocked the sword light for Su Cheng, but it pierced his barrier and killed him.
• Yi Han, Jingxin, and Su Cheng led more than a hundred Quasi-Saints in a combined assault on Su Tao.
• Su Tao pressed his hand forward and sent golden light crashing into the gathered attacks.
• The collision produced an explosion powerful enough to tear apart the Primordial Spirit.

Su Tao’s golden light overwhelmed the attackers, draining Quasi-Saint experts and leaving the three Imperial Sovereigns unable to stop it. As the slaughter continued, Su Cheng activated the Heavenward Imperial Dynasty’s ancestral Identity Token to summon a powerful phantom.

• Su Tao’s golden light shattered the attacks and swallowed Quasi-Saint experts, draining their life force, cultivation, and Primordial Spirits.
• A fourth-level Quasi-Saint burned his essence blood and Primordial Spirit to escape, but the golden light caught and killed him.
• Terrified experts fled, while the three Imperial Sovereigns attacked the golden light without effect.
• Su Cheng realized everyone would die unless Su Tao was stopped and took out the Heavenward Imperial Dynasty’s ancestral Identity Token.
• Su Cheng tore away the sealing talismans and activated the token, which contained a one-use phantom of the dynasty’s sixth-level Quasi-Saint founder.

Su Tao was overwhelmed by three ancestral phantoms summoned by Su Cheng, Yi Han, and Jingxin. Gravely wounded by the first two attacks, he faced the Buddha’s descending palm with little ability to evade.

• Su Cheng activated his Identity Token and summoned a Heavenward Imperial Dynasty ancestor, whose palm shattered Su Tao’s counterstrike and wounded him severely.
• Yi Han opened a sealed jade box and summoned the Chaos Ancestral Dragon, whose breath struck Su Tao and began dissolving his flesh.
• Jingxin shattered a Jade Talisman and summoned a colossal Buddha, who brought a devastating palm down on the weakened Su Tao.

Su Tao revealed that he had stayed to unleash a forbidden art that burned everything he possessed for power. As black flames consumed him, his cultivation surged to Quasi-Saint Seventh Heaven, freezing the world.

• Su Cheng, Yi Han, and Jingxin condemned the gravely wounded Su Tao and attacked him together.
• Su Tao laughed and revealed that he had deliberately waited for them, despite knowing they had hidden reserves.
• Su Cheng ordered the others to kill Su Tao, but Su Tao began burning his blood, Primordial Spirit, cultivation, fortune, and body.
• Su Tao's aura surged through Quasi-Saint Sixth Heaven and broke into Quasi-Saint Seventh Heaven, stopping the world around him.

Su Tao reached the Seventh Heaven of the quasi-Saint realm after the black flames consumed the deaths around him, then destroyed the three ancestral phantoms and killed Su Cheng, Yi Han, and Jingxin. Standing above the slaughtered battlefield, he welcomed the Heavenly Punishment and declared that the Heavenly Dao was merely another’s creation.

• Su Tao healed within the black flames, absorbed the Buddhist light imprint, and rose to the Seventh Heaven of the quasi-Saint realm.
• Su Tao shattered the three Sixth Heaven ancestral phantoms with a single palm strike.
• Su Tao drained Su Cheng of his life, cultivation, and soul, leaving him a dried corpse.
• Su Tao devoured Yi Han and Jingxin with the black flames after preventing them from escaping or resisting.
• Su Tao stood over the dead and welcomed the descending Heavenly Punishment, calling the Heavenly Dao another’s handiwork.

After severing himself from fortune and reaching the seventh Quasi-Saint level, Su Tao understood that the world was a prison and that he could now leave it. He spared Ye Lin and set off for the Heavenward Imperial Dynasty, planning to sacrifice the remaining three imperial dynasties.

• Su Tao realized the Heavenly Dao was the prison's fabricated consciousness and that fortune cultivation kept its practitioners trapped.
• Ye Lin watched Su Tao's power grow and feared he could no longer escape if Su Tao attacked.
• Su Tao asked why Ye Lin was not running, and Ye Lin calmly replied that they were friends.
• Su Tao chose not to attack Ye Lin, finding him mysterious and amusing.
• Su Tao announced he would confront the ruler of the Heavenward Imperial Dynasty and sacrifice the remaining three imperial dynasties, offering Ye Lin their treasure vaults.

After the Heavenward Imperial Dynasty’s Emperor and powerful fighters died, its collapse unleashed looting and slaughter across the realm. Su Tao went to confront an old man while Ye Lin headed for the sealed treasury, hoping to claim its treasures and the Saint’s comprehension.

• The Emperor’s death severed the Heavenward Imperial Dynasty’s fortune, and its surviving powerhouses fled as they realized the Evil Demon might still be alive.
• With order gone, robbers and Evil Cultivators rampaged through the cities, sacrificing inhabitants and plundering treasures.
• Su Tao arrived in the Imperial Capital, sighed at the place tied to painful memories, and went to get an explanation from an old man.
• Ye Lin headed for the treasury, intent on taking its contents and especially the Saint’s comprehension.
• Experts failed to break the treasury’s grand formation; some fled for their lives while others stayed to keep trying.

Ye Lin watched the formation protecting the Heavenward Imperial Dynasty’s treasure vault, judging that it would weaken as the dynasty’s fortune dispersed. After five days, a curious woman approached him and questioned his belief that the formation would break.

• Ye Lin found the ruined imperial halls and saw cultivators unsuccessfully attacking the treasure vault’s formation.
• Ye Lin reasoned that the formation depended on the dynasty’s fortune and decided to wait for it to weaken instead of attacking.
• Ye Lin watched the formation for days and noticed its light dimming as different groups of cultivators tried and failed to break it.
• A petite woman in white approached Ye Lin and asked what he had been watching.
• Ye Lin told the woman he was waiting to see when the formation broke, and she questioned whether staring at it would make it break.

Su Tao asked Ye Lin to take his daughter with him when he left the Cloud Heaven Secret Realm, offering him access to the other regions’ and dynasties’ treasuries in return. Ye Lin had not yet answered when Su Tao offered to guide him to the Central Region as well.

• Su Tao introduced his daughter to Ye Lin and shattered the grand formation, killing the cultivators before it.
• Su Tao told his daughter to build a relationship with Ye Lin and leave with him, explaining that he would stay behind because of his past sins.
• Ye Lin entered the treasury and took all its treasures, then returned to Su Tao.
• Su Tao offered to take Ye Lin to the other three regions’ and three imperial dynasties’ treasure vaults if Ye Lin took his daughter with him.
• Su Tao offered to guide Ye Lin to the Central Region and help him claim a territory of his own.

Ye Lin agreed to help Su Tao take his daughter, Su Qing, out of the Cloud Heaven Secret Realm, while Su Tao reflected on his past and his loss of ambition. Ye Lin realized he had about ten years left in the realm, and Su Tao planned to spend that time touring its regions with him.

• Su Tao asked Ye Lin to help take Su Qing out of the Cloud Heaven Secret Realm, and Ye Lin agreed while leaving the method to him.
• Su Tao introduced his daughter as Su Qing and said her name had been his late companion’s final wish; he claimed the old man had killed himself, though Ye Lin did not believe him.
• Ye Lin calculated that he would leave the secret realm in about ten years, and Su Tao said they had enough time to tour the three regions and the Central Region.
• Ye Lin asked why Su Tao had spared the Heavenward Imperial Dynasty, and Su Tao said he had sacrificed the Great Frost Imperial Dynasty to grow strong enough to confront the old man.
• Su Tao said he had lost his desire to cultivate after learning the truth and wondered whether anyone could surpass a Saint or escape the Heaven and Earth Cage.

Ye Lin, Su Tao, and Su Qing descended onto a populated island in a Bagua-shaped archipelago and explored its settlement. A green-robed young man approached them, while Su Tao wondered who he was.

• Su Tao suggested that the three of them land on the islands to rest, and Ye Lin and Su Qing agreed.
• The three descended through the clouds and landed on the largest island, where Su Qing picked up a spiral shell.
• Su Tao led Ye Lin and Su Qing through a coconut grove and onto a path leading to houses and stalls.
• A green-robed young man approached the strangers, greeted them, and said they must have come from afar.
• Su Tao asked the young man who he was.

Su Tao, Ye Lin, and their companions arrived at Eight Trigrams Island, where Bai Xiaosheng explained that the island was controlled by the Three Great Sects. When Bai Xiaosheng’s sister was seized over a debt, Su Tao rescued her after his daughter asked him to help.

• Bai Xiaosheng identified the place as Eight Trigrams Island and told Su Tao that the Three Great Sects controlled it.
• Three burly men dragged Bai Xiaosheng’s sister away over a debt, and they kicked Bai Xiaosheng down when he tried to stop them.
• Bai Xiaosheng begged Su Tao to save his sister, offering his knowledge of the island in return.
• Su Tao gave the leading man three crystalline beads, and the men fled with them.
• Bai Xiaosheng thanked Su Tao and kowtowed after his sister was freed.

Su Tao, Ye Lin, and Su Qing followed Know-All to an auction hosted by the Three Great Sects after Su Tao dismissed the value of the event. They settled into the crowded plaza to watch, though Su Tao expected little from the auction.

• A burly man explained to his two lackeys that he had fled because the outsiders seemed powerful, then planned to give one bead to Young Master and hide the other two.
• Su Tao credited Su Qing’s kindness for sparing the three men, while Ye Lin remarked on her character.
• Know-All invited Su Tao, Ye Lin, and Su Qing to the Three Great Sects’ auction, and Su Tao agreed to attend.
• Know-All led the three through a busy town to a packed plaza, where they sat down to watch the auction.

An auction began in the Cloud Heaven Secret Realm, where the first treasure, the supreme-grade sword Dark Tide, drew fierce bidding. A middle-aged cultivator won it for nine hundred thousand, and the auction moved on to a blade of grass.

• The old man introduced the auction and presented Dark Tide, a water-affinity sword forged from Deep Sea Mystic Iron.
• Ye Lin dismissed the sword, Su Tao nearly dozed off, and Su Qing watched the auction with excitement.
• A burly man and a young man in green competed for Dark Tide before a middle-aged cultivator bid eight hundred thousand.
• The burly man raised the price to eight hundred and fifty thousand, but the middle-aged cultivator won with a bid of nine hundred thousand.
• The old man unveiled the second item, a blade of grass.

At an auction, a middle-aged woman won a three-thousand-year-old Purple Cloud Grass after outbidding a white-haired old man who needed it to prolong his life. The auction then introduced a Fire Origin Pill that could boost fire-element cultivation and offer a chance to comprehend the Laws of Fire.

• The old man explained that consuming the Purple Cloud Grass could grant ten thousand years of cultivation without damaging one's foundation.
• The white-haired old man and a middle-aged woman repeatedly raised their bids for the grass.
• The middle-aged woman won the Purple Cloud Grass for 140,000 Fortune Stones, and the white-haired old man left the square in despair.
• The auction continued, and the old man introduced a Fire Origin Pill made from earthfire essence.

The auction sold a Fire Origin Pill, Heavenly Meteoric Iron, and a damaged sword manual before bidding on a Phoenix Feather began. The feather’s price passed two million fortune stones, with a richly dressed middle-aged man and a white-haired old woman still competing.

• A black-robed bidder bought the Fire Origin Pill for 4.2 million fortune stones and vanished into the crowd.
• A wiry old man purchased the Heavenly Meteoric Iron for 1.8 million fortune stones.
• A middle-aged sword cultivator won the damaged Nameless Sword Art for 310,000 fortune stones.
• The auctioneer presented a Phoenix Feather said to offer a chance at phoenix bloodline and the power of nirvana.
• Bidding for the Phoenix Feather rose past two million, leaving a middle-aged man in fine robes and a white-haired old woman as the final bidders.