Recaps

After the Heavenly Dao Sect won first place at the Southern Mystic Province Immortal Alliance Assembly, Su Bai gained new abilities and upgraded the sect to five stars. He accepted missions to claim five of the Nine Provinces and gain the allegiance of three Heavenly Venerable factions, while the Heavenly Palace discovered its sixth Immortal Cauldron had been replaced.

• The Fire Qilin welcomed four divine beasts as underlings, and Nameless emerged from a Void Rift after brutally defeating Red Moon Venerable.
• The Heavenly Palace referee announced the Heavenly Dao Sect as first place, completing Su Bai’s mission and awarding him the Supreme Divine Ability Second True Self.
• A month later, the Heavenly Dao Sect had 3.61 million disciples, Su Bai had reached the Integration Grand Venerable Realm, and the sect upgraded to five stars.
• Su Bai opened the six-star upgrade missions, which required the sect to seize at least five provincial territories and gain the allegiance of three Heavenly Venerable-level factions.
• At Heaven Beyond Heaven, the Heavenly Palace’s sixth Immortal Cauldron crumbled to ashes when the Heavenly Venerables tried to work on it.

Su Bai upgraded the Heavenly Dao Sect to five stars, transforming Heavenly Dao Mountain and expanding its facilities. He then brought the disciples to the new Inheritance Pavilion, where each confronted a phantom expert and reflected on why they cultivated immortality.

• Su Bai's upgrade tripled Heavenly Dao Mountain's height, expanded its area more than tenfold, and gave the sect new spirit veins and buildings.
• Su Bai placed dozens of Sub-Teleportation Arrays across the mountain to help disciples travel between its expanded facilities.
• Su Bai introduced the Inheritance Pavilion, explaining that each disciple could learn one ultimate art from a phantom expert chosen for them.
• The disciples entered separate visions within the pavilion and were each asked why they cultivated immortality.
• Zhuge Feng said he first sought revenge for his parents and now cultivated to repay Su Bai's kindness, while Xiao Lingxi, Xiao Yan, Ye Qingyao, Mu Lingxian, Han Feiyu, Zhao Tianlong, and Chen Hao gave their own reasons.

Su Bai watched his disciples choose inheritances from their respective seniors, each suited to their goals and abilities. Han Feiyu rejected every technique offered because none could grant immortality or prove eternity, and the chapter left him still questioning the blurry figure.

• Zhuge Feng chose to learn the Seventy-Two Transformations, while Xiao Lingxi received the Ask the Immortal sword technique.
• Xiao Yan chose the art of alchemy, and Ye Qingyao chose the art of transformation so she could become immortal and wait for her older sister.
• Mu Lingxian learned that she could control her dangerous physique, while Zhao Tianlong and Chen Hao chose the Dao of Righteous Qi and the Dao of Protection.
• Han Feiyu rejected meditation, cloud-riding, and earth-escaping techniques because they could not grant immortality.
• Han Feiyu asked whether the art of harmonizing the five elements could prove eternity, leaving the blurry figure and Su Bai speechless.

Heavenly Palace began refining the continent with five Immortal Cauldrons after discovering that four had been stolen. Su Bai recognized the threat, while Heavenly Palace announced that it would ascend within a hundred years and offered protection to those who joined it.

• Heavenly Venerables discovered that four unfinished Immortal Cauldrons were fake, and one of them killed the two guards in anger.
• The Heaven Lord ordered Heavenly Palace to begin refining the continent while searching for the missing cauldrons.
• Five Immortal Cauldrons appeared over the provincial regions and released pressure that made cultivators slow down and buildings collapse.
• Su Bai realized Heavenly Palace was trying to refine the continent and noted that the stolen cauldrons had spared the Four Mystic Provinces from greater devastation.
• The Ninth Heavenly Venerable announced that Heavenly Palace would ascend within a hundred years and promised to protect those who came to it.

The Heavenly Palace promised that its entire sect would ascend within a hundred years, drawing cultivators from across the continent while its Immortal Cauldrons increased gravity and threatened billions of mortals. Su Bai realized he could not destroy the cauldrons in time to save them, leaving the Four Mystic Provinces facing mass death.

• The Heavenly Palace announced that anyone who joined it could ascend with the sect within a hundred years, and cultivators rushed toward it.
• Su Bai saw that the five Immortal Cauldrons were increasing gravity across the continent and killing ordinary people, especially the vulnerable.
• Countless people grieved and protested that they only wanted to live humbly and protect their families.
• Su Bai said the Unbeatable Domain protected only a tiny fraction of the Four Mystic Provinces' people.
• Nameless warned Su Bai that the cauldrons were guarded by powerful Heavenly Venerables and would be extremely difficult to destroy.
• Su Bai realized he needed at least three years to reach the Heavenly Venerable realm, but billions could die long before then.

Su Bai summoned Heavenly Dao Sect and its allies to discuss the continent’s collapse under Heavenly Palace’s five cauldrons. After showing the crowd the suffering and lawlessness in the Four Mystic Provinces, he declared that he would act to help the Human Race.

• Su Bai called together Heavenly Dao Sect, its allied factions, the divine beasts, and other leaders.
• The assembled cultivators condemned Heavenly Palace’s supposed ascension and called for Su Bai to order an attack.
• Su Bai projected scenes of chaos in the Four Mystic Provinces, where scarcity and impending death had driven people to violence and disorder.
• Su Bai said that, as a member of the Human Race, he could not stand by while its people suffered and vowed to help them.

Su Bai rallied the Human Race and the Heavenly Dao Sect to fight the Heavenly Palace, then killed a Heavenly Palace Heavenly Venerable with one sword and declared war. The Heavenly Palace's remaining Heavenly Venerables watched warily but still disdained the challenge.

• Su Bai urged the Human Race to unite against the Heavenly Palace, and disciples and elders shouted their support.
• A Heavenly Palace Heavenly Venerable attacked the Heavenly Dao Sect with a giant hand.
• Su Bai cut through the giant hand and killed the attacker with a single sword strike.
• Su Bai declared that the Heavenly Dao Sect would act in Heaven's stead and protect the Human Race, and the disciples answered with a battle cry.
• The remaining Heavenly Palace Heavenly Venerables observed Su Bai without attacking, wary of his strength but dismissive of the threat.

The Heavenly Palace launched an invasion of the Four Mystic Provinces and ordered its disciples to kill everyone there. Su Bai mobilized the Heavenly Dao Sect to defend the provinces and prepared to march north.

• A Heavenly Venerable ordered the Heavenly Palace disciples to invade the Four Mystic Provinces and leave no survivors.
• Su Bai ordered Zhuge Feng and Zhao Tianlong to lead one million disciples to the Northern Mystic Province, supported by Venerable Xuan Ba, Little Fire, and Little White.
• Su Bai sent Xiao Lingxi and Mu Lingxian with one million disciples to the Western Mystic Province, alongside Elysium Ancestor, Little Azure, and Little Vermilion.
• Su Bai deployed Xiao Yan and Ye Qingyao with one million disciples to the Eastern Mystic Province, while the Heaven-Dominating Sect helped protect its people.
• Su Bai assigned Han Feiyu and Chen Hao to defend the Southern Mystic Province with the remaining disciples and opened Teleportation Arrays to speed the deployments.
• Su Bai called for the Heavenly Dao Sect to march north as its forces set out to protect the Four Mystic Provinces.

Zhuge Feng led a million Heavenly Dao Sect disciples into the Northern Mystic Province, splitting them between relief and attacks on local threats while he targeted the Northern Nether Sect’s teleportation array. Meanwhile, the Heavenly Palace struggled to organize its invasion forces, and the Heavenly Dao Sect’s disciples arrived before them.

• Zhuge Feng sent Zhao Tianlong and five hundred thousand disciples to suppress bandits and oppressive sects and distribute food to disaster victims.
• Zhuge Feng announced that he would attack the Northern Nether Sect because its super teleportation array could be used by the Heavenly Palace’s invading forces.
• Zhao Tianlong divided his army into five thousand organized squads and sent them across the Northern Mystic Province.
• Several million Heavenly Palace forces argued over which Mystic Province to invade until a Heavenly Venerable assigned them to four groups.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect’s disciples reached the scene while the Heavenly Palace’s forces were still being organized.

Zhuge Feng and the other Heavenly Dao Sect leaders prepared the four Mystic Provinces for the Heavenly Palace invasion, destroying or guarding teleportation routes and positioning their forces. Zhuge Feng’s army waited at the Northern Nether Sect with a massive formation ready, as the Heavenly Palace had yet to arrive.

• Zhuge Feng asked Venerable Xuan Ba to destroy the thirty-two teleportation arrays across Northern Mystic Province so the Heavenly Dao Sect could concentrate its forces.
• Zhuge Feng led five hundred thousand disciples to the Northern Nether Sect to await the Heavenly Palace army.
• Mu Lingxian sent disciples to clear bandits across Western Mystic Province, while Xiao Lingxi led another five hundred thousand to wait at the Sandstorm Sect.
• Ye Qingyao and Xiao Yan divided Eastern Mystic Province’s forces between clearing dangerous groups and guarding the Heavenly Thunder Sect, while Chen Hao and Han Feiyu organized Southern Mystic Province’s defenses.
• Zhuge Feng arranged a super combination formation and additional defensive and sealing formations around the Northern Nether Sect’s teleportation array, then waited with the Fire Qilin and White Tiger.

The Heavenly Palace sent its first waves of invaders through teleportation arrays to seize the Four Mystic Provinces, but the Heavenly Dao Sect had prepared ambushes in every province. The first attackers were wiped out, and Han Feiyu urged the disciples to eliminate more batches before the Heavenly Palace learned what was happening.

• Thousands of Heavenly Palace members crowded into the array bound for the Northern Mystic Province, expecting to find it undefended.
• Zhuge Feng and a massive Heavenly Dao Sect force ambushed the arrivals, and the disciples annihilated them all.
• In the Western Mystic Province, Xiao Lingxi and the Sandstorm Sect forces killed the invading Heavenly Palace members with a sword strike and a coordinated attack.
• In the Eastern Mystic Province, Xiao Yan unleashed lightning from his Mystic Iron Ruler and reduced the invaders to ashes.
• In the Southern Mystic Province, three hundred thousand Heavenly Dao Sect disciples slaughtered the arriving enemies while Han Feiyu stayed back from the fight.
• Han Feiyu told the disciples to kill more waves before the Heavenly Palace's intelligence network could react, prompting one disciple to question why he had appeared to move from the front to the back.

Su Bai received reports that the Heavenly Dao Sect had killed nearly 25,000 invaders across the Four Mystic Provinces without losing a disciple. As another huge wave of Heavenly Palace forces arrived, the sect killed them too, while two Venerables in the Heavenly Palace wagered on which sect would kill more people.

• Su Bai received first-round reports showing the Heavenly Dao Sect had killed nearly 25,000 enemies across the Four Mystic Provinces with zero casualties.
• Zhuge Feng collected the spoils in Northern Mystic Province and ordered the disciples to wait for the next batch, preserving the Teleportation Array.
• Zhuge Feng and the Heavenly Dao Sect disciples killed more than 20,000 newly arrived enemies in the second round, while disciples in the other provinces also wiped out their arrivals.
• At the Heavenly Palace plaza, Old Ghost Mo and Venerable Wu wagered half the other side's expedition gains on which sect would kill more people in one day.
• Old Ghost Mo and Venerable Wu told their disciples to slaughter without restraint, and the disciples agreed to compete for the most kills.

The Heavenly Palace continued teleporting waves of elite disciples into the Four Mystic Provinces, where Su Bai and the Heavenly Dao Sect had arranged for them to be ambushed and slaughtered. By the fiftieth batch, more than a million disciples and over two hundred Spirit Transformation elders had been killed, while a Concealment Formation kept the Heavenly Palace from realizing what had happened.

• The Demon Cloud Sect and Heavenly Poison Sect leaders boasted about their plans as the tenth batch entered the Teleportation Array.
• The tenth batch arrived to find an enormous iron staff and hundreds of thousands of enemies waiting, and the Four Mystic Provinces' forces annihilated them.
• The Heavenly Palace continued sending batches of disciples, with each arriving group surrounded and killed before the Palace noticed.
• A Venerable found that his disciple was not responding, but the disciple's Life Tablet remained intact because Su Bai's Concealment Formation obscured messages and deaths.
• By the fiftieth batch, the Heavenly Palace had sent over a million disciples and more than two hundred Spirit Transformation elders into the Four Mystic Provinces, where the Heavenly Dao Sect had already slaughtered them.

The Heavenly Palace sent disciples and Venerables through the Four Mystic Provinces’ Super Teleportation Arrays, where coordinated formations annihilated them. Su Bai received the final tally: more than 1.3 million enemies had been killed, with no Heavenly Dao Sect casualties.

• Venerable Gu followed the fifty-first batch of disciples through a Super Teleportation Array and was killed by the Northern Nether Sect’s formation along with them.
• Four more Venerables entered separate arrays, but none sent word back, prompting the Heavenly Palace to inspect its teleportation network.
• The Venerables discovered that only the four largest arrays leading to the Four Mystic Provinces still worked, while another batch of disciples teleported into the trap before they could stop it.
• Zhuge Feng realized the Heavenly Palace had discovered the ambush after more than fifty batches had been wiped out.
• Su Bai received the battle results: 1,321,278 Heavenly Palace enemies, including five Venerables, had been slain, while the Heavenly Dao Sect suffered no casualties.

After the Heavenly Palace discovered that its forces had been wiped out, three Grand Heavenly Venerables attacked the Heavenly Dao Sect’s disciples in three provinces. The disciples survived behind the Unbeatable Barrier, while Su Bai prepared a transformed ally to join the fight.

• A Heavenly Venerable used the Heaven-Illuminating Mirror to reveal that more than a million Heavenly Palace fighters and five Great Venerables had died, terrifying the disciples gathered at headquarters.
• Three Grand Heavenly Venerables set out for the Northern, Eastern, and Western Mystic Provinces to retaliate against the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• The Grand Heavenly Venerables struck the Northern Nether Sect, Sandstorm Sect, and Heavenly Thunder Sect, but Zhuge Feng, the Fire Qilin, the White Tiger, and the other divine beasts raised the Unbeatable Barrier to protect the disciples.
• The three attacks battered the barriers without breaking them, leaving the Grand Heavenly Venerables stunned.
• At the Heavenly Dao Sect, Su Bai and Nameless prepared for the enemy’s next move as a figure emerged from the grand hall using Seventy-Two Transformations.
• The figure settled into the appearance of a wine-loving swordsman and introduced himself as 009: Drunken Sword Immortal.

Su Bai and Nameless saved the Heavenly Dao Sect disciples in Northern and Eastern Mystic Province by killing the Heavenly Palace Heavenly Venerables who attacked them. In Western Mystic Province, the Drunken Sword Immortal appeared and drove off another Heavenly Venerable, revealing himself as a Heavenly Venerable of the Heavenly Dao Sect.

• The Heavenly Palace Heavenly Venerable shattered the Unbeatable Barrier in Northern Mystic Province, but Su Bai’s Wooden Sword pursued and killed him before he could attack the disciples.
• Su Bai praised Zhuge Feng and the Fire Qilin for holding the barrier long enough for him to arrive.
• Nameless recalled the fall of the Heaven-Defying Sect, reforged his broken sword, and killed the Heavenly Palace Heavenly Venerable at the Heavenly Thunder Sect.
• The Heavenly Venerables watching through the Heaven-Viewing Mirror turned their attention to Western Mystic Province, where another Heavenly Palace attacker had broken the barrier at the Sandstorm Sect.
• A sword-wielding man with a wine gourd struck the Heavenly Palace Heavenly Venerable, severed his arm, and declared himself the Drunken Sword Immortal.

The Heavenly Palace sent Black-White Heavenly Venerable to destroy the Heavenly Dao Sect while its three Heavenly Venerables were away. As his attack descended on the Southern Ridge, a mysterious light blocked it, and a voice warned that anyone who attacked the sect would be slain.

• The Heavenly Palace's Heavenly Venerables learned that the Heavenly Dao Sect had a third Heavenly Venerable, Drunken Sword Immortal, and resolved to destroy the sect.
• Neutral Heavenly Venerable forces considered whether they could ally with the Heavenly Dao Sect against the Heavenly Palace.
• An Invincible Heavenly Venerable ordered Black-White Heavenly Venerable to attack the Heavenly Dao Sect while Su Bai and the others were away.
• Black-White Heavenly Venerable arrived above the Southern Ridge and sent a gigantic palm toward the sect and its people.
• A ray of light from the Heavenly Dao Sect blocked Black-White Heavenly Venerable's attack, and a voice declared that all who offended the sect would be slain.

The Black-White Heavenly Venerable attacked Southern Ridge with his violet-gold pagoda, but a Chaos Finger from the Heavenly Dao Sect destroyed the artifact and killed him. Observers concluded that the sect had a Supreme Venerable, leaving the major factions fearful of its strength.

• The Black-White Heavenly Venerable summoned his violet-gold pagoda and tried to crush Southern Ridge and its people.
• A hand from the Heavenly Dao Sect flicked a Chaos Finger that pierced the pagoda and shattered it.
• The Chaos Finger struck the Black-White Heavenly Venerable, killing him and causing the Great Dao to wail.
• The Chaos Finger rushed into the heavens and suppressed the strange phenomena and layers of the heavenly curtain.
• An Invincible Heavenly Venerable identified the power as that of a Supreme Venerable, and the major factions grew wary of the Heavenly Dao Sect.

Su Bai and the Heavenly Dao Sect liberated the Four Mystic Provinces while the Heavenly Palace delayed its attack to finish forging the Immortal Cauldron. One year later, the provinces had joined the sect, and Su Bai prepared to pursue Heavenly Venerable factions as his Drunken Sword Immortal true self emerged stronger.

• Su Bai destroyed the Northern Nether Sect's Teleportation Array and ordered Zhuge Feng and the disciples to liberate the Northern Mystic Province, while the sect severed the Heavenly Palace's connections to all Four Mystic Provinces.
• Heavenly Palace's Heavenly Venerables postponed a final battle, fearing the mysterious Supreme Venerable and waiting for the Immortal Cauldron to be completed.
• Heavenly Dao Sect disciples swept through the Four Mystic Provinces, using Su Bai's Demon-Revealing Mirrors to identify evildoers and helping restore peace as the people's faith eased the pressure of the five cauldrons.
• After a year, Su Bai saw that the Four Mystic Provinces had joined the Heavenly Dao Sect, its disciples had doubled to 7.2 million, and Zhuge Feng and Han Feiyu had reached Spirit Transformation.
• Su Bai decided to pursue Heavenly Venerable factions to fulfill the sect-upgrade mission, and the Drunken Sword Immortal emerged with strength enough to contend with Invincible Heavenly Venerables.

Su Bai's Second True Self, 003, entered the Spirit Mystic Domain to persuade the Pill Sect to join the Heavenly Palace mission. He arrived at the Pill Sect as a Heavenly Palace envoy threatened to destroy it unless it accepted three harsh conditions.

• The chapter described the Heavenly Dao Sect's rapid growth, including two disciples who had reached Spirit Transformation.
• Su Bai's Second True Self, 003, entered the Spirit Mystic Domain, where the Ninth Heavenly Venerable guarded the region with an Immortal Cauldron.
• 003 reached Sacred Pill City and found the Pill Sect under pressure from the Heavenly Palace.
• A Heavenly Palace envoy demanded that the Pill Sect sell its pills to the palace at one-tenth price, surrender ninety percent of its treasures, and hand over its pill formulas and Alchemy Arts.
• The envoy gave the Pill Sect three days to comply or face extermination.

Yan Xiao of the Heavenly Dao Sect intervened when a Heavenly Palace Venerable threatened the Pill Sect and tried to seize Li Chang Kong’s granddaughter. He began overpowering the Venerable, leaving the Pill Sect elders stunned.

• A Heavenly Palace Venerable demanded that the Pill Sect sell its pills cheaply and surrender most of its wealth, pill formulas, and alchemy techniques.
• When Li Chang Kong refused, the Venerable released his aura, injured the elders, and demanded that Li Chang Kong’s granddaughter come with him so he could absorb her Heavenly Spiritual Root and Void Spirit Body.
• Li Chang Kong sent his granddaughter through a Void Rift toward the Heavenly Dao Sect, but the Venerable reached after her with a giant hand.
• Yan Xiao appeared, wounded the Venerable, and identified himself as a member of the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Yan Xiao called the Venerable a suitable chamber-pot stone and seized him as he tried to flee.

Su Bai rescued Li Chang Kong's granddaughter and the Pill Sect, suppressing one Heavenly Venerable and burning the Ninth Heavenly Venerable's arm when he attacked Sacred Pill City. The Heavenly Palace decided to avoid provoking the Heavenly Dao Sect until its other Heavenly Venerables awakened, while Dan Xuanzi and the Pill Sect elders thanked Su Bai.

• Su Bai sealed a Heavenly Venerable's cultivation and suppressed him in a cesspit after throwing him into the Southern Mystic Province.
• The Ninth Heavenly Venerable attacked Sacred Pill City, but Su Bai's seven-colored Fire Lotus burned away his arm and forced him to flee.
• Major powers and Heavenly Palace Venerables discussed Yan Xiao's strength and the Heavenly Dao Sect's growing number of powerful figures.
• The Lord of the Heavenly Palace told the other Venerables to avoid provoking the Heavenly Dao Sect until their fellow Daoists awakened.
• Li Chang Kong, his granddaughter, and the Pill Sect elders thanked Su Bai for saving them, and Dan Xuanzi arrived to offer his thanks.

“Su Bai” asked the Pill Sect to submit to the Heavenly Dao Sect, and Li Chang Kong persuaded the elders by describing the sect’s fair treatment of mortals and smaller factions. The Pill Sect unanimously chose to submit, and Dan Xuanzi asked whether it could preserve its name and hand over only half its assets and pills.

• “Su Bai” confirmed that he had come to ask the Pill Sect to submit to the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Li Chang Kong described the Heavenly Dao Sect’s benevolent rule in the Four Mystic Provinces and urged the Pill Sect to choose it over the Heavenly Palace.
• Dan Xuanzi asked the elders to state their positions, and everyone present except him and “Su Bai” raised a hand in favor of submission.
• Dan Xuanzi told “Su Bai” that the Pill Sect would submit if the Heavenly Dao Sect would consider three requests.
• Dan Xuanzi asked to preserve the name Pill Sect and to hand over only half of its assets and refined pills.

Su Bai accepted the Pill Sect’s offer to contribute sixty percent of its pills to the Heavenly Dao Sect, then witnessed Dan Yangzi’s failed attempt to refine a rare eighth-grade pill. Using the Flame Emperor Domain and his mastery of Xiao Yan’s future Alchemy Art, Su Bai identified the pill and deciphered its formula from the furnace residue.

• Dan Xuanzi asked Su Bai to accept sixty percent of the Pill Sect’s pills, and Su Bai agreed without requiring a membership fee.
• A furnace exploded in the Pill Sect’s back mountain, and Dan Xuanzi and Su Bai found Dan Yangzi beside its wreckage.
• Su Bai recalled that Xiao Lingxi had received the Sword Dao Sacred Body and he had gained Sword Dao Mastery, while Xiao Yan had received the Heavenly Fire Sacred Body and Su Bai had gained the Flame Emperor Domain.
• Su Bai used the Flame Emperor Domain to identify Dan Yangzi’s failed pill as an eighth-grade Soul-Recovery Pill and deduced its formula from the residue.

Dan Xuanzi and Dan Yangzi struggled to refine a Soul-Recovery Pill to save their master, the Pill Sect patriarch, who had been trapped in a Heart Demon Tribulation for two thousand years. Su Bai went with them to see the patriarch and realized he had fallen deeply into the tribulation.

• Dan Yangzi lamented that he and Dan Xuanzi had failed three times to refine the Soul-Recovery Pill.
• Su Bai recognized the medicinal dregs and asked why the Pill Sect was making a pill that strengthened the divine soul.
• Dan Xuanzi explained that the Pill Sect had pledged allegiance to the Heavenly Dao Sect and that the patriarch had been trapped in a Heart Demon Tribulation since attempting a breakthrough two thousand years earlier.
• Dan Xuanzi took Su Bai through the barriers to the secluded courtyard where the patriarch sat in meditation.
• Su Bai observed that the patriarch's divine soul was being depleted and concluded that he had fallen deeply into the Heart Demon Tribulation.