Vol. 72The Southern Region’s Downfall

Ye Lin joined the Southern Region’s contest, but Su Tao sacrificed the Great Frost Imperial Dynasty and its people to gain overwhelming power. Su Tao took Ye Lin and Su Qing across the regions to plunder imperial treasuries, and the volume left him facing the Myriad Demon Imperial Dynasty’s guardian dragon.

  • Ye Lin joined Nie Zhao on the Southern Region front and proposed a contest to settle the dynasties’ territorial dispute.
  • The Myriad Buddha Army broke the Myriad Demon Army’s defenses and pursued its soldiers with purifying Buddhist light.
  • Ye Lin defeated Wuchen and secured first place for the Heavenward Imperial Dynasty before the dynasties united against the Great Frost Imperial Dynasty.
  • Su Tao killed the three marshals, drained the Southern Region’s people and armies, and reached Level Six Quasi-Saint.
  • Su Tao sacrificed the Great Frost Imperial Dynasty and himself to reach the Seventh Heaven, killed the rulers of the three dynasties, and spared Ye Lin.
  • Su Tao entrusted Su Qing to Ye Lin, then joined him at an auction where Ye Lin bid on a shackled woman of the Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan.
  • Su Tao destroyed the Tranquil Heart Imperial Dynasty’s Buddhist array and plundered its treasury with Ye Lin.
  • At the Myriad Demon Imperial Dynasty’s capital, Su Tao struck the treasury’s formation and faced the guardian dragon.
Chapters 7120–7219 Read from Ch. 7120

Arc 285The Southern Region Contest

Ye Lin gained Saintly insights from the black jade slip, then joined the Southern Region front and proposed a contest to decide how the Great Frost Imperial Dynasty’s territory would be divided. The armies of the three dynasties began competing in the vast Arena, where the Heavenward Imperial Dynasty won its opening match and the Myriad Buddha Army battled the Myriad Demon Army.

  • Ye Lin studied the black jade slip’s Saintly visions, gained his first grasp of the Dao, and agreed to serve Su Cheng in exchange for the opportunity.
  • Su Cheng appointed Ye Lin deputy commander, and Ye Lin joined Nie Zhao on the Southern Region front.
  • Ye Lin proposed that the three dynasties settle their dispute through a contest, with the losing sides withdrawing from the region.
  • Su Cheng ordered Nie Zhao to hold the contest rather than attack the Great Frost Imperial Dynasty, and the three dynasties built an enormous Arena.
  • Nie Zhao’s three million soldiers formed the Human Ancestor War Soul and defeated the Myriad Demon Imperial Dynasty’s Ancestral Dragon War Soul in one strike.
  • Wuchen challenged Liu Zheng to a battle between the Myriad Buddha Army and the Myriad Demon Army, and both forces assembled in the Arena.
  • The Myriad Buddha Army’s golden barrier withstood the Demon Army’s initial assault, but the combined attack of its Quasi-Saints and soldiers made the barrier falter.
  • The Buddhist Quasi-Saints broke through with a Vajra Seal, drove back the Demon Quasi-Saints, and led their forces in a charge as Buddhist light pursued and purified millions of demons.
Chapters 7120–714425 summaries Read

Arc 286The Southern Region’s Fall

Ye Lin secured the Heavenward Imperial Dynasty’s victory, then the three dynasties joined forces against the Great Frost Imperial Dynasty. Su Tao revealed his terrifying power, killed the three marshals, and began draining the people and armies of the Southern Region.

  • The Buddhist army defeated the Myriad Demon Imperial Dynasty, and Liu Zheng challenged Nie Zhao to a duel that would decide their match.
  • Liu Zheng transformed into a Black Dragon of Chaos and defeated Nie Zhao, but spared him despite suffering severe injuries.
  • Ye Lin defeated Wuchen with one sword strike and revealed that he was a Quasi-Saint First Heaven, helping the Heavenward Imperial Dynasty claim first place.
  • The dynasties divided the Southern Region, then agreed to march against the Great Frost Imperial Dynasty a month later.
  • Su Cheng warned the other rulers not to provoke Ye Lin and proposed that the imperial dynasties unite and enter the Central Region instead.
  • The armies surrounded the Great Frost Imperial Dynasty, but Su Tao rose into the air and killed Nie Zhao, Liu Zheng, and Wuchen with golden light.
  • Su Tao drained the Great Frost Imperial Dynasty’s people, cultivation, souls, and fortune, advancing to Level Six Quasi-Saint and resisting the Heavenly Dao’s tribulation.
  • Su Tao turned his golden threads on the allied armies, draining soldiers and Quasi-Saints alike while their deaths and self-destruction strengthened him.
Chapters 7145–716925 summaries Read

Arc 287Su Tao’s Reckoning

Su Tao sacrificed the Great Frost Imperial Dynasty to reach the Seventh Heaven, defeated the rulers of the three dynasties, and confronted the past that had driven him. He entrusted Su Qing to Ye Lin, who joined them on Eight Trigrams Island and bid for a shackled woman whose true form belonged to the Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan.

  • Su Tao revealed his life-sacrificing secret art to Ye Lin and prepared to confront the leaders of the three Imperial Dynasties.
  • Su Tao fought Su Cheng, Yi Han, and Jingxin, then burned his life, cultivation, soul, fortune, and body to rise to the Seventh Heaven and kill them.
  • Su Tao realized the Heavenly Dao was the prison’s fabricated consciousness, spared Ye Lin, and went to the Heavenward Imperial Capital while Ye Lin claimed its treasury.
  • Su Tao introduced his daughter Su Qing and asked Ye Lin to take her out of the Cloud Heaven Secret Realm, then traveled with them to Eight Trigrams Island.
  • Su Tao rescued Bai Xiaosheng’s sister, and Know-All brought the group to an auction held by the Three Great Sects.
  • At the auction, Ye Lin recognized a shackled woman as a seven-colored toad of the Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan and agreed to take her out while protecting Su Qing.
  • Ye Lin bid five hundred thousand fortune stones for the woman, and the young master ordered the burly man to bid against him before beating him for offering one million.
Chapters 7170–719425 summaries Read

Arc 288The Imperial Dynasties’ Treasuries

Ye Lin traveled with Su Tao through the Western Region and Eastern Region, witnessing Su Tao destroy the Tranquil Heart Imperial Dynasty’s Buddhist formation and plunder its treasury. They reached the Myriad Demon Imperial Dynasty’s capital, where Su Tao challenged its defenses and confronted its guardian dragon.

  • Ye Lin abandoned his bid for Zhao Wanyi, then traded Zhao Dingding an unidentified pill to take her away and considered her a match for the Spirit King.
  • Su Tao led Ye Lin and the others to the Tranquil Heart Imperial Dynasty, where its monks attacked them with the Ten Thousand Buddhas Demon-Slaying Grand Array.
  • Su Tao revealed his Seventh Heaven Quasi-Saint strength, destroyed the array, and killed the assembled Buddhist cultivators.
  • Su Tao led the group into the dynasty’s treasury, where Ye Lin found scriptures, artifacts, Spirit Roots, and other treasures while Su Tao claimed the founding Emperor’s Sarira.
  • Ye Lin collected most of the treasury’s contents as Su Tao explained that the Buddhist dynasty had brainwashed the Western Region’s inhabitants to amass faith.
  • Ye Lin and Su Tao traveled east and entered the Myriad Demon Imperial Dynasty’s capital, a city built across the body of its sleeping guardian dragon.
  • When a beast confronted Su Tao over the dynasty’s dead Emperor, Su Tao claimed to have killed the Emperors of all three great Imperial Dynasties, and the beasts backed down.
  • Su Tao found the golden mountain containing the Myriad Demon Imperial Dynasty’s treasury, destroyed its charging guards, and struck its formation before the guardian dragon confronted him and urged him to leave.
Chapters 7195–721925 summaries Read
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