Recaps

Su Bai offered to refine an eighth-grade high-tier Soul-Recovery Pill to save the Pill Sect's ancestor, who had been trapped in a Heart Demon Tribulation for two thousand years. After revealing the pill formula and explaining why Dan Xuanzi's attempts had failed, Su Bai earned Dan Xuanzi's trust and was taken to the Pill Sect treasury to choose ingredients.

• Su Bai asked Dan Xuanzi whether the Pill Sect still had ingredients for a Soul-Recovery Pill, and offered to refine it when Dan Xuanzi said only one set remained.
• Dan Xuanzi doubted Su Bai could refine an eighth-grade high-tier pill, but Su Bai recited the Soul-Recovery Pill's ingredients and explained that the Divine Guidance Flower required three flames working in exact unison.
• Dan Xuanzi realized the Divine Guidance Flower had caused his previous furnace explosions, bowed to Su Bai, and asked him to save the Pill Sect's ancestor.
• Dan Xuanzi led Su Bai to the Pill Sect treasury and offered him any ingredients he needed.

Su Bai used the Pill Sect’s medicinal ingredients to refine a ninth-grade Sacred Soul Pill, then destroyed its heavenly tribulation with one move. Having won the Pill Sect’s wholehearted allegiance, he turned his attention to the Artifact Sect in the Yellow Mystic Domain.

• Su Bai gathered the ingredients for a Sacred Soul Pill from the Pill Sect’s treasure vault and went to its pill-refining grounds with Dan Xuanzi.
• Su Bai summoned three kinds of Heavenly Fire and began refining pills without using a cauldron, stunning the gathered alchemists.
• Su Bai revealed he was refining a ninth-grade Sacred Soul Pill rather than a Soul-Recovery Pill, and Dan Xuanzi and Dan Yangzi realized he was performing ninth-grade alchemy.
• The Sacred Soul Pill’s tribulation shattered the Pill Sect’s Sect-Protecting Formation, but Su Bai destroyed the heavenly lightning with one move.
• Su Bai completed the Sacred Soul Pill, convincing the Pill Sect’s alchemists and earning the sect’s wholehearted allegiance.
• Su Bai looked toward the Yellow Mystic Domain and set his sights on the Artifact Sect.

Su Bai refined a ninth-grade Sacred Soul Pill that restored the Pill Sect’s ancestor and secured the sect’s loyalty to the Heavenly Dao Sect. He headed to the Artifact Sect in Giant Hammer City, where its unusually powerful defensive formation raised his suspicions, while Dan Xuanzi secretly went to seek reinforcements.

• Su Bai refined a ninth-grade Sacred Soul Pill and used it to nourish the Pill Sect’s ancestor, who was expected to awaken and advance to the Two-Tribulation Heavenly Venerable Realm.
• Dan Xuanzi pledged the Pill Sect’s loyalty, and Su Bai ordered the sect and willing commoners to move to the Heavenly Dao Sect for safety.
• Su Bai traveled toward the Artifact Sect with Dan Xuanzi, then told him to return to the Pill Sect after spotting a powerful defensive formation around Giant Hammer City.
• Dan Xuanzi suspected the Artifact Sect’s miserly master would not have paid for the formation without cause, so he hurried back to seek help from the Pill Sect’s ancestor and the Heavenly Dao Sect’s Sect Master.

Yan Xiao entered Giant Hammer City and met Great Hammer Venerable, who claimed the Artifact Sect wanted to join the Heavenly Dao Sect after fleeing Heavenly Palace. Though Great Hammer Venerable concealed his hostility behind a warm welcome, Yan Xiao recognized his hatred and listened as he revealed his suspicions about Heavenly Palace’s Immortal Cauldron.

• Yan Xiao entered Giant Hammer City as its watchers secretly confirmed his identity and tracked his arrival.
• Yan Xiao passed silent streets and watched craftsmen and shopkeepers follow him with their gazes.
• Yan Xiao entered the Artifact Sect’s hall and faced its sect master, Great Hammer Venerable.
• Great Hammer Venerable claimed the Artifact Sect had dismissed its disciples to guard against Heavenly Palace and said he preferred the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Yan Xiao saw that Great Hammer Venerable’s sect favorability was -100, despite his friendly words.
• Great Hammer Venerable alleged that Heavenly Palace’s Immortal Cauldron needed blood tempering and declared that the Artifact Sect was willing to join the Heavenly Dao Sect.

Great Hammer Venerable tried to kill Su Bai with a poisoned dagger, then revealed that the Artifact Sect had joined the Heavenly Palace and trapped Su Bai in Giant Hammer City. He summoned three more invincible Heavenly Venerables, leaving Su Bai surrounded by four powerful enemies.

• Great Hammer Venerable offered Su Bai a trapped bronze box containing a poisoned dagger, but Su Bai returned it and made him trigger the mechanism himself.
• The dagger cut Great Hammer Venerable, who severed his arm to stop the poison from spreading.
• Great Hammer Venerable activated the Heaven-Severing Formation, enclosing Giant Hammer City with eight Heavenly Venerables guarding its nodes.
• Great Hammer Venerable revealed that the Artifact Sect had secretly pledged allegiance to the Heavenly Palace and lured Su Bai into the trap.
• Three invincible Heavenly Venerables—the old smith, the black-robed weapon buyer, and the weapon-shop owner—appeared beside Great Hammer Venerable.

Yan Xiao faced four Invincible Heavenly Venerables and the Heaven-Severing Formation in Giant Hammer City, but Su Bai arrived and fused with his Second True Self. Their combined battle power surged toward the Supreme Venerable realm, leaving Su Bai ready to test his Wooden Sword on Great Hammer Venerable.

• Great Hammer Venerable revealed that he sought revenge because the Heavenly Dao Sect had stolen four of the nine Immortal Cauldrons he designed.
• Yan Xiao fought the four Invincible Heavenly Venerables and held them off despite their combined attacks.
• Eight Heavenly Venerables activated the Heaven-Severing Formation, suppressing Yan Xiao and turning the battle against him.
• Su Bai appeared inside the formation, startling Great Hammer Venerable and the other attackers.
• Su Bai merged with his Second True Self, doubling his battle power and raising his aura toward the Supreme Venerable realm.
• Su Bai raised his Wooden Sword and declared he would use Great Hammer Venerable to test it.

Su Bai killed Great Hammer Venerable, then revealed he had trapped Giant Hammer City inside the Heavenly Dipper Demon-Slaying Formation. With the formation weakening his enemies, he defeated the remaining Invincible Heavenly Venerables and their allies.

• Su Bai killed Great Hammer Venerable after rejecting his surrender, terrifying the other three Invincible Heavenly Venerables.
• The three Invincible Heavenly Venerables ordered the eight Ordinary Heavenly Venerables to withdraw the Heaven-Severing Formation and tried to escape.
• Su Bai activated the Heavenly Dipper Demon-Slaying Formation, sealing Giant Hammer City and stopping the trapped Heavenly Venerables from breaking out.
• The eleven trapped Heavenly Venerables attacked Su Bai, but the formation weakened their combat power.
• Su Bai fought through the three Invincible Heavenly Venerables' defenses and killed them one by one, while ignoring the other eight attackers.

The Pill Sect patriarch and its experts arrived at Giant Hammer City to rescue the Heavenly Dao Sect senior, but found the city in ruins and twelve Heavenly Palace Heavenly Venerables dead. They learned Su Bai and Flame Heavenly Venerable had slain the attackers, leaving the Pill Sect experts in awe of the Heavenly Dao Sect's strength.

• Dan Xuanzi and the Pill Sect leaders reached Giant Hammer City and found it covered by a powerful formation.
• The Pill Sect patriarch and the others attacked the formation, but it remained intact until it suddenly dissipated.
• The Pill Sect experts entered the ruined city and discovered Old Ghost Giant Hammer and eleven other Heavenly Venerables had fallen, including four Invincible Heavenly Venerables.
• The Pill Sect experts greeted Su Bai and Flame Heavenly Venerable, and Su Bai explained that the Artifact Sect had joined the Heavenly Palace and attempted to ambush him.
• The Pill Sect patriarch thanked Su Bai for the pill that helped him pass the Heart Demon Tribulation, while Su Bai collected the fallen enemies' weapons and treasures.

News of the Heavenly Dao Sect’s victories spread across the continent as Su Bai considered its next steps after claiming four provinces. He set aside expansion into a fifth province for now and looked toward the Endless Sea Region’s hidden Aristocratic Clans as potential allies.

• News spread that the Pill Sect had submitted to the Heavenly Dao Sect, the Flame Heavenly Venerable had defeated the Heavenly Palace’s Ninth Heavenly Venerable, and Su Bai and the Flame Heavenly Venerable had slain twelve Heavenly Palace experts in Giant Hammer City.
• Su Bai reflected on the Heavenly Dao Sect’s growth over five years, while Li Shiyan recalled joining the sect and resolved to cultivate harder after seeing Zhuge Feng’s progress.
• Su Bai reviewed the sect’s advancement missions and decided to delay occupying a fifth province until he reached the Tribulation Transcendence Realm.
• Su Bai considered the Heaven and Earth Society too closely aligned with the Heavenly Palace to recruit and turned his attention to the Endless Sea Region’s four hidden Aristocratic Clans.
• Su Bai noted that one of the hidden Aristocratic Clans might be connected to his disciple Xiao Yan.

Su Bai listened to ordinary people describe how the Heavenly Dao Sect had improved their lives, then ordered Immortal Arts distributed freely across the Four Mystic Provinces. He proclaimed that all citizens in the sect’s territory could cultivate without joining, and received a hidden-mission reward that expanded his strength feedback.

• Su Bai visited a noodle shop in disguise and listened as patrons praised the Heavenly Dao Sect for ending their hardships and bringing peace.
• When asked about his wish, Su Bai said he hoped for peace throughout All Under Heaven and an age of flourishing prosperity, then vanished after drinking with the patrons.
• Zhuge Feng reported that the sect had collected 15,827 Immortal Arts, and Su Bai ordered 1.4 billion free copies of each to be printed and distributed throughout the Four Mystic Provinces.
• Su Bai announced that all citizens within the Heavenly Dao Sect’s territory could cultivate immortality for free, even without joining the sect.
• The system awarded Su Bai a gift pack and expanded his strength feedback to include the strength of citizens who cultivated the free Immortal Arts.

The Heavenly Dao Sect began offering free cultivation and literacy education across the Four Mystic Provinces, prompting Nameless to warn Su Bai that unrestricted cultivation had once led the Heaven-Defying Sect into chaos. Su Bai demonstrated that the Heavenly Dao Sect could punish betrayal, leaving Nameless shocked and declaring that the sect would not descend into chaos.

• The Heavenly Dao Sect established free Immortal Arts halls and schools across the Four Mystic Provinces, and ordinary people celebrated the chance to cultivate.
• Nameless warned Su Bai that free cultivation had once helped the Human Race flourish but later led to monopolies, corruption, and the collapse of the Heaven-Defying Sect.
• Su Bai sensed a Heavenly Dao Sect disciple accepting Spirit Stones from a black-robed man in exchange for Immortal Arts.
• The sect’s restriction abolished the disciple’s cultivation, expelled him, and erased his Immortal Arts memories before the black-robed man killed him.
• Su Bai killed the black-robed man with flames, took his Storage Ring, and told Nameless that the Heavenly Dao Sect could not descend into chaos.

Su Bai reassured Nameless that the Heavenly Dao Sect could prevent internal chaos through fair access to resources and strict enforcement, then explained that he intended to solve scarcity by ascending to the Immortal Realm. He revealed that 128 spies had joined the sect’s assessment and planned to let them gather more intelligence because they could not pass the Heavenly Ladder.

• Su Bai told Nameless that equal competition and impartial punishment would keep the Heavenly Dao Sect Territory free of chaos and rigid class divisions.
• Su Bai acknowledged that the continent’s resources would eventually run short and said he planned to seek resources beyond it in the Immortal Realm.
• Su Bai told Nameless that he would clear obstacles before the Heavenly Dao Sect’s Sect-wide Ascension.
• Nameless worried that other factions might steal the sect’s free Immortal Arts, and Su Bai revealed that 128 spies were among those taking the assessment.
• Su Bai identified Wang Defeng as an eighteen-year-old Heavenly Palace spy and chose to let the spies continue gathering intelligence because they could not pass the Heavenly Ladder.

A Heavenly Palace spy misunderstood a Heavenly Dao Sect disciple’s claim about five Heavenly Venerables as more than five hundred, and the resulting report reached the Heaven Beyond Heaven headquarters. The Heavenly Palace’s leaders received intelligence that appeared to confirm the sect had at least five hundred Heavenly Venerables.

• A Heavenly Palace spy questioned a Heavenly Dao Sect disciple, misheard his estimate of five Heavenly Venerables, and reported that the sect had more than five hundred.
• Heaven Beyond Heaven’s Heavenly Venerables discussed the formation concealing the Four Mystic Provinces and waited for their spies’ findings.
• An Integration Grand Venerable read reports claiming that the Heavenly Dao Sect held daily Heavenly Venerable lectures and had attracted a defector from the Heaven and Earth Society.
• A report said the Heavenly Dao Sect’s Sect Master had planted moles among the Heavenly Palace’s high-ranking members, making the Heavenly Venerables wary of one another.
• The Heavenly Venerables read Spy 007’s report stating that the Heavenly Dao Sect had at least five hundred Heavenly Venerables and reacted with shock.

Heavenly Dao Sect offered cultivation resources at prices far below the Immortal Alliance’s, and the Xiao Household Alchemy Shop drew enormous crowds with its supreme-grade pills. A Golden Core Great Perfection cultivator joined the queue for a Nascent Soul Formation Pill despite learning he might wait more than a year.

• Heavenly Dao Sect supplied cultivators with cheap resources despite the Immortal Alliance’s blockade, including Nascent Soul Formation Pills for ten High-Grade Spirit Stones.
• An old man told a newcomer that the Xiao Household Alchemy Shop’s pills were supreme-grade, highly effective, and sold at low prices.
• The shop opened and sold out its limited stock of pills in less than a breath, then closed while the queue continued to grow.
• The old man warned the newcomer that buying a Supreme-Grade Nascent Soul Formation Pill required at least a year in line.
• After a sect added over a thousand people to the queue, the newcomer rushed to join it and complained that the shop should refine more pills.

Xiao Yan’s pill refining brought the Xiao Household’s shop a yearly net profit of 128,000 High-Grade Spirit Stones, and he thanked the Heavenly Dao Sect for changing his family’s fortunes. Su Bai reviewed the sect’s accumulated resources, including its Spirit Veins, Spirit Stones, gold, and silver.

• Xiao Yan completed a batch of one hundred Supreme-Grade Nascent Soul Formation Pills and considered trying to refine fifth-grade Spirit Transformation Pills.
• Father Xiao told Xiao Yan that the Xiao Household’s pill shop had earned 128,000 High-Grade Spirit Stones in net profit over the past year.
• Xiao Yan reflected on how the Heavenly Dao Sect had transformed the Xiao Household and bowed toward Heavenly Dao Mountain in gratitude.
• Zhuge Feng reported to Su Bai that the Southern Heaven Gate’s Spirit Veins had been moved into the Great Zhao Empire.
• Su Bai reviewed the Heavenly Dao Sect’s assets, including six High-Grade Spirit Veins, 528 Mid-Grade Spirit Veins, 82,127 Low-Grade Spirit Veins, and vast stores of Spirit Stones, gold, and silver.

Su Bai used his Second True Self to impersonate a different Heavenly Venerable each day and teach at the Heavenly Venerable Dao Sanctuary. After a full year without a repeated appearance, the Heavenly Palace concluded that the Heavenly Dao Sect had hundreds of Heavenly Venerables and wondered whether it was still possible to seek peace.

• Su Bai sent his Second True Self, disguised as Master, to expound the Dao on the Floating Island, where a Void Refining expert broke through after listening.
• An Integration Grand Venerable secretly recorded Master and sent footage to the Heavenly Palace, whose Heavenly Venerables debated whether the Heavenly Dao Sect had hundreds of their kind.
• Su Bai sent his Second True Self in a new blue-robed form the next day and continued presenting a different Heavenly Venerable each day.
• After 365 days of unique appearances, the Heavenly Palace's Heavenly Venerables accepted that the Heavenly Dao Sect had at least several hundred Heavenly Venerables.
• One Heavenly Venerable quietly asked whether it was still possible to seek peace.

A huge crowd gathered at the Heavenly Dao Sect to watch an Alchemy Arts showdown between Xiao Yan and the Pill Sect’s Lu Tong. Both contenders arrived to cheers from their sects, and the chapter ended before the competition began.

• Millions of spectators filled the plaza for the Alchemy Arts contest between Xiao Yan and Lu Tong, suspending the Heavenly Venerable’s lecture for the day.
• Heavenly Dao Sect and Pill Sect disciples argued over which contender would win.
• Lu Tong appeared on a rainbow bridge amid cheers and admiration from the crowd.
• Xiao Yan walked calmly to the arena and was greeted by loud cheers from Heavenly Dao Sect disciples.

Xiao Yan and Lu Tong began their alchemy contest, each revealing a powerful Heavenly Fire. The chapter ended as Xiao Yan’s icy ghost-white flame subdued the other alchemists’ flames and visibly weakened Lu Tong’s Vermilion Bird Sacred Flame.

• Dan Xuanzi opened the contest, and Xiao Yan and Lu Tong entered the arena to begin refining pills.
• Lu Tong boasted of his decades of alchemy experience while a woman in the audience remembered how she had once looked down on Xiao Yan.
• Lu Tong summoned the Vermilion Bird Sacred Flame, stunning the audience and earning praise from Dan Xuanzi.
• Su Bai and Dan Xuanzi wagered that the loser’s master would perform a service for the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Xiao Yan revealed his own ghost-white flame, which made the alchemists’ flames fly toward it and caused Lu Tong’s flame to shrink.

Xiao Yan stunned the crowd in an alchemy duel by using Extreme Cold Iceflame and refining pills with astonishing speed and precision. As he began producing ten batches of Spirit Transformation Pills at once, Dan Xuanzi and the others were left speechless.

• Xiao Yan revealed his Extreme Cold Iceflame, shocking Lu Tong and Dan Xuanzi, while Su Bai explained that Xiao Yan had obtained it himself.
• Lu Tong began refining a fifth-grade high-level Spirit Transformation Pill, and Dan Xuanzi praised his skill.
• Xiao Yan formed a pill furnace from his flame and quickly refined a supreme-grade first-grade Qi Refining Pill as a warm-up.
• Xiao Yan split his flame into ten furnaces and successfully refined ten batches each of Foundation Establishment Pills, Essence-Nourishing Pills, and supreme-grade Nascent Soul Formation Pills.
• Xiao Yan started refining ten batches of Spirit Transformation Pills at once, leaving the crowd and Dan Xuanzi stunned.

Xiao Yan won the Pill Assembly by refining one hundred top-grade Spirit Transformation Pills at once, defeating Lu Tong and impressing the Pill Sect. Three days later, Su Bai brought Xiao Yan to the Ancient Clan to propose marriage.

• Xiao Yan refined one hundred top-grade Spirit Transformation Pills simultaneously, astonishing the crowd and the alchemy masters.
• Lu Tong presented his own top-grade Spirit Transformation Pill, but the elders showed him one of Xiao Yan’s pills and declared its superior quality.
• Dan Xuanzi revealed that Xiao Yan’s pill was the weakest of the one hundred, and Lu Tong admitted defeat, agreeing that the Pill Sect would refine pills for the Heavenly Dao Sect free of charge for one year.
• Su Bai named Xiao Yan champion of the first Pill Assembly and offered him any one request; Xiao Yan asked Su Bai to accompany him to the Ancient Clan.
• Three days later, Su Bai and his group arrived at an archipelago in the Endless Sea Region, and Su Bai announced that he had brought his disciple to propose marriage.

Su Bai brought Xiao Yan and the others to the hidden Ancient Clan to arrange Xiao Yan’s marriage to the Clan Chief’s daughter. Gu Xuan accepted the proposal, leaving Gu Sha stunned after his objection was dismissed.

• Su Bai and his companions reached the Gu Sha Archipelago and discovered its hidden paradise behind an array.
• Gu Xuan welcomed the visitors and led them into the Ancient Clan’s main hall.
• Su Bai asked Gu Xuan to accept the marriage, and Gu Xuan agreed to make Xiao Yan his son-in-law.
• Gu Sha objected to the match, but Gu Xuan told him it was not his place to speak.

Gu Xuan introduced Xiao Yan’s achievements and Su Bai’s power to the Ancient Clan, convincing them that the Heavenly Dao Sect was a force worth joining. Days later, Gu Xuan told Su Bai that the whole clan had agreed to pledge allegiance to the sect.

• Gu Sha asked Gu Xuan to arrange a marriage with Xier, but Gu Xuan rejected him and introduced Xiao Yan as his future son-in-law.
• Gu Xuan revealed Xiao Yan’s cultivation, alchemy skill, control of the Extreme Cold Iceflame, and victory over a Heavenly Palace Heavenly King, stunning the clan.
• Gu Xuan described Su Bai and the Heavenly Dao Sect’s power, prompting the elders and clanspeople to praise the patriarch’s decision.
• Xier ran into the hall to greet Xiao Yan, leaving Gu Sha feeling completely outmatched.
• Several days later, Gu Xuan told Su Bai that the Ancient Clan had agreed to pledge allegiance to the Heavenly Dao Sect.

The Ancient Clan submitted to the Heavenly Dao Sect and relocated to Southern Ridge as the sect’s strength grew over the following years. After his disciples and free cultivators greatly increased his accumulation, Su Bai entered the Heavenly Venerable Realm and turned his attention to the Spirit Mystic Domain.

• The Ancient Clan’s ancestors declared their sincere submission, and Su Bai welcomed them into the Heavenly Dao Sect and offered help relocating.
• Gu Xuan volunteered to persuade the other three hidden clans, and the Ancient Clan moved to Southern Ridge beside the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Free cultivation spread across the Four Mystic Provinces, producing billions of Qi Refining cultivators as the Heavenly Dao Sect’s disciples advanced in strength.
• Three years after unifying the Four Mystic Provinces, Su Bai’s accumulation reached its threshold, and he broke through into the Heavenly Venerable Realm.
• Su Bai looked toward the Spirit Mystic Domain and prepared to subdue the fifth province.

Su Bai accepted the Lei Clan’s pledge of allegiance after learning that the Heavenly Palace had forced the clan into a desperate choice. After arranging a place for them to settle, he asked Gu Xuan whether the two remaining hidden Aristocratic Clans would also join the Heavenly Dao Sect.

• Su Bai sensed the distant Immortal Realm and wondered whether his strength had surpassed that of a Heavenly Venerable.
• Gu Xuan brought Lei Ming and five other Heavenly Venerables to meet Su Bai, and Lei Ming pledged the Lei Clan’s allegiance to the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Lei Ming explained that the Eighth Heavenly Venerable of the Heavenly Palace had seized the Lei Clan’s resources, killed one of its Heavenly Venerables, and threatened to destroy the clan unless it submitted.
• Su Bai promised the Lei Clan land, and Great Venerable Xuan Ba led its members away to arrange their settlement.
• Su Bai marked the Lei Clan’s sea region on his map and asked Gu Xuan whether any other hidden Aristocratic Clans would pledge allegiance; the Shadow Clan and Spirit Clan remained undecided.

Su Bai rejected the Spirit Clan’s and Shadow Clan’s demands for submission, resources, and protection, while both clans arrogantly assumed the Heavenly Dao Sect would accept. The clans remained convinced they could bargain with the sect or join the Heavenly Palace instead.

• Gu Xuan gave Su Bai a jade slip listing the Spirit Clan’s demands and the Shadow Clan’s additional condition that the sect bring them along when it ascended.
• Su Bai laughed at the demands, crushed the jade slip, and said the clans might later have to beg the Heavenly Dao Sect to accept them.
• The Spirit Clan’s four Heavenly Venerables celebrated their demands and expected the sect to trade a Mystic Province and resources for their allegiance.
• The Shadow Clan’s seven Heavenly Venerables dismissed the Heavenly Dao Sect, praised their secret technique, and threatened to join the Heavenly Palace if their demands were refused.