Recaps

After being rejected and injured at the Azure God Sect, Lu Ming found the Primordial Unity Longevity Scripture and gained a chance to cultivate. Elsewhere, Zhao Laogen received an Immortal Art after his grandson was taken away, while Yun Xuan examined Su Bai’s gifts.

• A gatekeeping disciple kicked Lu Ming down the Azure God Sect’s steps, and Lu Ming limped away after the sect rejected him despite his High-Grade Spirit Root.
• Lu Ming found a book in the woods, opened the Primordial Unity Longevity Scripture, and felt its aura soothe his qi and leg.
• Yun Xuan recognized the scripture as a First-grade Immortal Art, and Su Bai said he had planted a seed of hope by giving it away.
• Officials and Black Bull Sect disciples took Zhao Laogen’s grandson, Little Stone, to serve sixty years in the Cold-Iron Mine.
• Zhao Laogen noticed writing on a stone stele, touched it, and received the Only I Reign Supreme, Sweep the Eight Directions, Return to Youth, Ageless Eternal-Life Immortal Art.

Su Bai scattered First-grade Immortal Arts across the ninth layer, granting hope and new powers to people trapped in desperate circumstances. After Yun Xuan witnessed the vast number of arts, Su Bai announced he would establish the Heavenly Dao Sect and invited her to become its first elder.

• A Xiu received the Thousand Illusions of Spirit Silk and discovered her senses and embroidery skills had grown keener.
• Shi Yan found the Great Freedom Scripture in a mineral stone and kindled a spark of power within himself.
• Immortal Arts reached people across the ninth layer, including Lu Ming, Zhao Laogen, A Xiu, and Shi Yan, rekindling hope among them.
• Yun Xuan counted more than a thousand First-grade Immortal Arts and wondered about Su Bai's background.
• Su Bai told Yun Xuan he planned to establish the Heavenly Dao Sect and asked her to become its first elder.
• Yun Xuan accepted and greeted Su Bai as the Sect Master.

Su Bai opened the Heavenly Dao Sect on a humble hill near Blackwater City, promising free Immortal Arts to anyone who passed a character trial. As crowds mocked or doubted the offer, Su Bai challenged their assumptions, leaving the sect’s reception unresolved.

• Su Bai established the Heavenly Dao Sect on a barren hill and explained to Yun Xuan that its humble grounds reflected a focus on cultivation, not luxury.
• People gathered for the sect’s opening, but most mocked the thatched huts and left without reading the stele, while others urged Yun Xuan to leave Su Bai.
• Yun Xuan tried to reassure the crowd that the sect offered genuine Immortal Arts, but Su Bai told her that those seeking the Dao would not be deterred by humble gates.
• After reading the stele, many visitors doubted that Immortal Arts could be free and feared the sect concealed a trap.
• Yun Xuan explained the sect’s three rules and its character-based trial, but the crowd remained suspicious and questioned whether anyone would share Immortal Arts freely.
• Su Bai asked the crowd, “Has it always been right just because it has always been so?”

Erhu climbed the Heavenly Dao Sect’s Heavenly Ladder and declared that he wanted to cultivate immortality to kill those who oppressed ordinary people. His words stirred the crowd’s hope for a changed world.

• Su Bai asked whether ancient customs were right, and his words rekindled the crowd’s hope in the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Erhu stepped forward, gave his name as Erhu, and began the sect’s hundred-level Heavenly Ladder assessment.
• Erhu endured illusions and mounting pressure, passed the required sixtieth level, and climbed all the way to the ninetieth.
• Su Bai asked Erhu why he wanted to cultivate immortality, and Erhu answered that he wanted to kill.
• Erhu named the oppressors he wanted to kill and vowed to make the world different, inspiring the crowd.

Su Bai challenged Erhu to look beyond revenge and fight the unjust world itself, then accepted him as the Heavenly Dao Sect’s first disciple in this realm and renamed him Su Hu. Inspired by the World-Creation Method, others began climbing the Heavenly Ladder as the sect’s mission to change the world took shape.

• Su Bai asked Erhu whether killing tyrants and destroying sects could change a world built to keep power and resources from those at the bottom.
• Erhu chose to join the Heavenly Dao Sect, saying he wanted to learn how to change the world rather than merely kill a few people.
• Su Bai accepted Erhu as the sect’s first disciple in this realm, declared that the Heavenly Dao Sect taught the World-Creation Method, and renamed him Su Hu.
• People in the crowd began silently ascending the Heavenly Ladder, inspired by Su Bai’s words and the hope of creating a new world.
• Yun Xuan understood that Su Bai intended to change the world, and she vowed to face the difficult road together with him.

Su Bai welcomed the Heavenly Dao Sect’s first thirty-six disciples, laid down the sect’s rules, and had Yun Xuan give each disciple a suitable Immortal Art. After all thirty-six reached the First Layer of Qi Refining overnight, a long-silent system announced a new main quest.

• Su Bai explained the Heavenly Dao Sect’s three rules to the thirty-six people who passed the Heavenly Ladder, and they agreed to follow them.
• Su Bai named Su Hu the sect’s first disciple and tasked him with helping Yun Xuan settle the others.
• Yun Xuan bestowed a first-rate Immortal Art suited to each disciple’s attributes and Spirit Roots, then guided them to begin cultivating.
• The thirty-six disciples cultivated through the night and all successfully reached the First Layer of Qi Refining by sunrise.
• A system voice announced that a new main quest had been updated and told Su Bai to check it.

Su Bai received quests to become the foremost Immortal Emperor and destroy the Ninefold Firmament, then revealed the Eternal Immortal Realm’s oppression to the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect. His disciples and allies vowed to follow him and overthrow the unjust order.

• Su Bai received the quests to ascend to the summit and shatter the Ninefold Firmament, whose rewards were the Eternal Emperor Pagoda and the Eternal Immortal Tree.
• Su Bai taught the thirty-six new disciples and sent them home to gather supplies and spread the Heavenly Dao Sect’s name.
• Su Bai searched the void and confirmed he could not return to the New Immortal Realm, though his avatar remained there.
• Su Bai’s avatar showed the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect’s leaders and disciples images of the Eternal Immortal Realm’s suffering and the Ninefold Firmament’s inequality.
• Zhuge Feng, Xiao Lingxi, Xiao Yan, and the others demanded to join Su Bai in crushing the Ninefold Firmament, and Su Bai prepared to lead them.

Su Bai warned the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect that the Ninefold Firmament possessed more than fifty Immortal Kings and an Epoch Immortal King, then ordered his people to infiltrate the Ninth Layer and establish branches. As the sect prepared to enter the Eternal Immortal Realm under the name Heavenly Dao Sect, a surviving enemy of Su Bai awakened in the New Immortal Realm and vowed revenge.

• Su Bai explained that the Ninefold Firmament was only a corner of the Eternal Immortal Realm, yet held at least fifty Immortal Kings and the aura of an Epoch Immortal King.
• Zhuge Feng, Xiao Yan, and the other disciples declared they would face the powerful enemy without fear.
• Su Bai ordered everyone to form scattered groups, enter the Ninth Layer, establish Heavenly Dao Sect Branches, and awaken All Beings before launching an all-out war.
• Su Ling'er asked why the sect would drop “Immortal” from its name, and Su Bai said the Eternal Immortal Realm’s immortals had defiled the word through their cruelty.
• Zhuge Feng vowed that the Heavenly Dao Sect would show the Eternal Immortal Realm what a true immortal was, and Su Bai told everyone to depart.
• A survivor of the Greenleaf Immortal Sect awoke in the New Immortal Realm, reached Golden Immortal Peak, and vowed to destroy Su Bai’s Heavenly Dao Sect.

Greenleaf Ancestor emerged from ten thousand years of seclusion as a Seventh Transformation Golden Immortal and set out to destroy Su Bai and the Heavenly Dao Sect. After discovering how radically the Immortal Realm had changed, he learned that Su Bai had unified it and made the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect overwhelmingly powerful, leaving him pale with shock.

• Greenleaf Ancestor emerged from his hidden cave with healed injuries, increased cultivation, and a burning desire to avenge his destroyed sect.
• Greenleaf Ancestor flew toward the Heavenly Dao Sect but was stunned by the dense Immortal Spirit Qi and the powerful cultivators he encountered.
• Greenleaf Ancestor entered Myriad Laws Immortal City in disguise and found that even its guards, vendors, and young residents possessed extraordinary cultivation.
• Greenleaf Ancestor asked a middle-aged cultivator about the city and learned that Su Bai had unified the Immortal Realm and transformed it into the New Immortal Realm.
• The middle-aged cultivator described the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect's Immortal Kings and Su Bai's immense power, then asked why Greenleaf Ancestor's face had gone pale.

Greenleaf Ancestor discovered how powerful Su Bai’s New Immortal Realm had become and was captured, then imprisoned in the Ant Immortal Lord’s latrine. Meanwhile, Su Bai brought the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect’s powerhouses to the Eternal Immortal Realm to establish branch sects and claim Thrones, and he took the Grand Elder aside to meet someone.

• Greenleaf Ancestor learned that Su Bai’s realm had tens of thousands of Immortal Venerables and realized his plan to attack the sect was hopeless.
• Su Bai sealed Greenleaf Ancestor’s powers and sent him into the Ant Immortal Lord’s latrine, where he encountered the Ancient Monk King and the Universe King.
• The Ant Immortal Lord welcomed Greenleaf Ancestor as another guest and promised him daily games.
• Su Bai’s four Immortal Kings, elders, disciples, and Jiuyue arrived on the Ninth Layer of the Eternal Immortal Realm.
• Su Bai ordered everyone to establish Heavenly Dao Branch Sects across the Ninth Layer within a thousand years, then prepare for war.
• Su Bai stayed behind with the Grand Elder, saying he would take him to meet someone.

Su Bai brought the Grand Elder to Little Wilderness Mountain, where he found Yun Xuan alive and innocent, just as he remembered her before her suffering. Moved by regret and relief, he accepted her request to learn from him, becoming her master.

• Su Bai brought the Grand Elder to the Heavenly Dao Sect and showed him Yun Xuan tending flowers on Little Wilderness Mountain.
• The Grand Elder recognized Yun Xuan and recalled her past imprisonment, her rebirth as the Crane Princess, and his regret at failing to protect her.
• Yun Xuan greeted the Grand Elder cheerfully, mistook him for a prospective sect member, and introduced herself.
• Su Bai introduced the Grand Elder as his powerful old friend who would remain at the sect.
• Yun Xuan asked the Grand Elder to teach her Immortal Arts so she could protect more people, and he agreed to take her as his disciple.

The Heavenly Dao Sect attracted crowds with its free Immortal Arts, and Yun Xuan oversaw a new round of assessments that brought in 108 disciples. Ten days later, the sect had spread across the Ninth Layer through 21 branch sects, with its disciples surpassing ten thousand.

• The Grand Elder stayed behind to watch Yun Xuan grow, while the thirty-six disciples returned to Little Wilderness Mountain and demonstrated their newly learned Immortal Arts to the crowd.
• Yun Xuan announced the Heavenly Ladder assessment rules, and the crowd began climbing while the ladder rejected people with weak resolve or ill intentions.
• At sunset, 108 people passed the assessment, and Su Bai accepted them as disciples and assigned Su Hu to guide them.
• Word of the Heavenly Dao Sect spread through nearby towns, its daily crowds grew, and Su Hu advanced to the Qi Refining Second Layer while helping Yun Xuan teach and manage the sect.
• After ten days, the sect had more than 3,000 disciples on Little Wilderness Mountain and 21 branch sects across the Ninth Layer, bringing its total disciples above 10,000.

Su Bai unveiled the Spacetime Tower and sent Su Hu and the other Qi Refining disciples inside to cultivate at a thousandfold accelerated rate. After ten years within the tower, Su Hu reached Void Refining Venerable, while only three days passed outside.

• Su Bai summoned the three-tier Spacetime Tower and explained that its Third Layer made time pass a thousand times faster.
• Su Bai ordered Su Hu to lead the Qi Refining disciples into the tower, where they could cultivate and strengthen their foundations.
• Su Hu entered the tower, recalled Su Bai's World-Creation Method teachings, and began cultivating with the goal of gaining power to create a world.
• After one month in the tower, Su Hu reached Foundation Establishment; he then formed a Golden Core after one year and a Nascent Soul after three.
• Su Hu advanced to Spirit Transformation after six years and reached Void Refining Venerable after ten years, while only three days passed outside.

Su Hu reached Celestial Immortal Grand Perfection after a century of cultivation in the Spacetime Tower, while the Heavenly Dao Sect grew into a vast force across the Ninth Layer. Su Bai prepared its disciples to attack Blackwater City and the Black Bull Sect, whose leaders separately sent forces toward the sect.

• Su Hu advanced from Qi Refining to Celestial Immortal Grand Perfection in the Spacetime Tower, while only thirty-six and a half days passed outside.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect and its twenty-one branches amassed more than five hundred thousand disciples, including over a hundred Celestial Immortals at Little Wilderness Mountain.
• Su Bai declared it was time to settle accounts with Blackwater City and the Black Bull Sect, and 108 Celestial Immortals led the sect's forces out of seclusion.
• The Black Bull Sect's master ordered its Seventeenth Elder to destroy the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• The Blackwater City Lord sent Steward Li to retrieve the sect's Immortal Arts before the Black Bull Sect could reach it.

The Black Bull Sect's Seventeenth Elder and Steward Li arrived to destroy the Heavenly Dao Sect and enslave or kill the people gathered there. Su Hu asked Su Bai for permission to kill them, then revealed that they had slaughtered his village eight years earlier; the two men recognized him and threatened to kill him.

• The Seventeenth Elder and Steward Li arrived at Little Wilderness Mountain and announced that they would eradicate the Heavenly Dao Sect and punish the crowd.
• The Seventeenth Elder lusted after Yun Xuan, while Steward Li ordered the gathered people captured for slavery or use as alchemy materials.
• Su Hu asked Su Bai for permission to kill the two tyrants, and Su Bai granted it.
• Su Hu confronted the two men and reminded them that they had killed 216 people in Stonewaste Village eight years earlier.
• The Seventeenth Elder and Steward Li recognized Su Hu as a surviving villager and threatened to kill him.

Su Hu defeated and killed the Seventeenth Elder and Steward Li, then led the Heavenly Dao Sect’s forces into a campaign against the Black Bull Sect and Blackwater City. As disciples launched attacks across twenty-two regions, Su Bai and Yun Xuan set out to watch the campaign begin.

• Su Hu defeated the Seventeenth Elder and Steward Li, destroying their cultivation before killing them in front of the crowd.
• Su Hu declared that the Heavenly Dao Sect would begin its campaign by targeting the Black Bull Sect and Blackwater City, and the crowd cheered.
• With Su Bai’s approval, Su Hu led more than a hundred Celestial Immortals and thousands of disciples through a spatial portal toward the Black Bull Sect.
• Lu Ming and other branch sect leaders opened portals in twenty-one regions and led their elites against their chosen targets.
• Yun Xuan joined Su Bai as he set out to watch the disciples begin their campaign.

Su Hu led the Heavenly Dao Sect in an assault on the Black Bull Sect, shattered its formation, and killed Sect Master Niu Zhenshan in one strike. After the Black Bull Sect’s forces were routed, Su Hu rejected their surrender and ordered their execution.

• Niu Zhenshan discovered that the Seventeenth Elder had died and realized the Heavenly Dao Sect was attacking.
• Su Hu and more than ten thousand Heavenly Dao Sect disciples broke the Black Bull Treading the Sky Formation with a combined sword strike.
• Niu Zhenshan unleashed his Savage Bull Charge, but Su Hu destroyed the demonic bull manifestation and killed him with one punch.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect disciples overwhelmed the Black Bull Sect, killing more than a hundred Heavenly Immortals in battle.
• The Black Bull Sect’s survivors begged to surrender, but Su Hu ordered the Heavenly Dao Sect to kill them all.

Su Hu fought Black Bull Demon, the True Immortal ancestor of Black Bull Sect, and killed him with the Heavenly Dao Sword Art. With Black Bull Sect’s defeat declared, Su Bai and Yun Xuan watched as Heavenly Dao Sect’s first flame began to spread across the ninth level.

• Black Bull Demon emerged from seclusion and demanded to know why Su Hu had destroyed Black Bull Sect.
• Su Hu named Heavenly Dao Sect and condemned Black Bull Sect’s slaughter of innocents, then split Black Bull Demon’s Netherworld Demon Hand and shattered his defenses with the Heavenly Dao Sword Art.
• Black Bull Demon unleashed the Nine Netherworld Annihilation Art, but Su Hu’s New World sword severed his connection to heaven and earth and killed him.
• Su Hu declared that Black Bull Sect must be destroyed after its ancestor fell.
• Su Bai and Yun Xuan watched, recognizing that Heavenly Dao Sect had ignited its first flame on the ninth level.

After destroying the Black Bull Sect, Su Hu and the Heavenly Dao Sect attacked Blackwater City and overcame its defenses. Su Hu killed Blood Nether True Immortal and the Blackwater City Lord, leaving both powers destroyed.

• The Blackwater City Lord ordered martial law and activated the city's defenses while waiting for Blood Nether True Immortal to emerge and reinforcements to arrive.
• Su Hu led more than ten thousand Heavenly Dao Sect disciples to Blackwater City and shattered its grand formation with his sword.
• Blood Nether True Immortal emerged from the city's blood pool and fought Su Hu, but Su Hu's righteous sword art restrained the Blood Sea and killed him.
• Su Hu killed the Blackwater City Lord, and the Heavenly Dao Sect purged the remaining resistance.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect destroyed Blackwater City and the Black Bull Sect in a single day.

Over five centuries, the Heavenly Dao Sect expanded across the Ninth Layer, destroying evil powers and building a vast network of branches. In the final year, Su Bai witnessed Lu Ming and Su Hu join forces, bringing two great branch sects together at last.

• News of the Heavenly Dao Sect’s victories spread, and Su Bai established distant testing sites and built up the sect’s facilities and civil administration.
• The branches continued their campaigns, growing to millions and then billions of disciples while Su Hu, Lu Ming, and other leaders advanced into the True Immortal and Profound Immortal realms.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect defeated repeated encirclement campaigns and destroyed more than a billion True Immortal powers and over a hundred thousand Profound Immortal powers.
• Yun Xuan reached the apex of the Golden Immortal Realm as the sect’s territory continued expanding across the Ninth Layer.
• In the final year of the fifth century, Su Bai opened his eyes as Lu Ming and Su Hu joined forces to kill a Golden Immortal ancestor and unite their branch sects in victory.

Over six hundred years, the Heavenly Dao Sect united its branches, conquered the Ninth Layer, and grew into its supreme power. With only the Heaven Gate Branch guarding the Road to Heaven left outside its control, the story ended on the eve of the final conquest.

• Su Hu and Lu Ming reunited after five hundred years, merged their armies, and began a joint campaign.
• Over the following century, the Heavenly Dao branches repeatedly joined forces and destroyed the Ninth Layer’s True Immortal and Profound Immortal powers.
• By the six hundredth year, the twenty-two branches had fused into one Heavenly Dao Sect, ruling nearly the entire Ninth Layer with more than one hundred billion disciples.
• Su Hu and Lu Ming reached the Mid-stage Golden Immortal Realm, while Yun Xuan advanced to the Fifth-Step Immortal Lord Realm and the elders and Xuanwei rapidly grew stronger.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect stood as the Ninth Layer’s supreme overlord, with only the Heaven Gate Branch and its Road to Heaven remaining outside its control.

The Heavenly Dao Sect gathered its forces to launch the final battle against Heaven Gate City, whose rulers had exploited the Ninth Layer and blocked the Road to Heaven for countless years. The Heavenly Dao army arrived outside the city, while Heaven Gate’s leaders dismissed the threat as another futile rebellion.

• The chapter described how Heaven Gate controlled the Road to Heaven, imposed Realm Taxes, and blood-sacrificed forces that resisted.
• Su Bai summoned the Heavenly Dao Sect’s disciples, gathering one hundred million True Immortals, more than fifty thousand Profound Immortals, and over twenty Golden Immortals in Heavenly Dao City.
• Su Bai declared that the sect would destroy Heaven Gate City and open the Road to Heaven to everyone, and the assembled disciples roared their agreement.
• Su Bai ordered the army to march, and its forces surged through teleportation gates toward Heaven Gate City.
• A guard reported to Li Jiutian and Heaven Gate’s Golden Immortals that an enormous force of True Immortals had gathered outside the city.
• Heaven Gate’s leaders mocked the report and assumed the newcomers were another Lower Realm rebellion, unaware that the Heavenly Dao Sect had arrived.

The Heavenly Dao Sect confronted Heaven Gate City with an army of one hundred million, seeking to break Heaven Gate’s control over the Ninth Layer. Heaven Gate unleashed its formation and Black Baleful Army, and the chapter ended as both sides charged into the final battle.

• Su Hu attacked Heaven Gate City’s formation while Zhuge Feng and Yun Xuan assessed the city’s formidable defenses.
• Heaven Gate’s leaders learned that the approaching army belonged to the Heavenly Dao Sect and ordered the Myriad Immortals Slaughtering Gods Formation and the Black Baleful Army deployed.
• Su Hu and Lu Ming rallied the Heavenly Dao Sect’s disciples to sever Heaven Gate’s chains on the Road to Heaven and fight for the Ninth Layer’s future.
• Li Jiutian led more than two hundred Golden Immortals and the Black Baleful Army out of the city as the formation unleashed soul-devouring blood-red phantoms.
• Su Hu and Lu Ming raised their swords, and the Heavenly Dao Sect charged Heaven Gate City as the final battle began.

Heavenly Dao Sect’s disciples fought Heaven Gate City’s vastly larger army, overwhelming it with their formations, coordination, and battle intent. Lu Ming killed a Golden Immortal with one strike, and the battle continued with Heaven Gate’s forces falling into disarray.

• Su Hu ordered billions of Heavenly Dao Sect disciples to form the Heavenly Dao Immortal-Slaying Formation, whose golden sword light broke through the blood-baleful ghosts.
• The Black Baleful Army charged in formation, but Lu Ming pierced its demonic tiger manifestation and killed the arrogant Golden Immortal leading it.
• A Heavenly Dao Sect Early Golden Immortal disciple blocked the red-haired Late Golden Immortal and held his ground against his flames.
• Heaven Gate’s soldiers and immortals faltered against the Heavenly Dao Sect’s superior combat strength, coordination, and resolve.
• Li Jiutian watched as Heaven Gate’s forces struggled across the battlefield while Lu Ming cut through millions of troops.

Su Hu battled Li Jiutian and overwhelmed the Peak Golden Immortal with the Heavenly Dao Sword Art, while the Heavenly Dao Sect routed Heaven Gate City's army. Facing defeat, Li Jiutian sacrificed Heaven Gate's forces and guards, forcing his way into the Immortal Lord Realm.

• The Heavenly Dao Sect's formations shattered Heaven Gate City's forces, and Su Hu challenged Li Jiutian to a duel.
• Su Hu cut through Li Jiutian's Nine Netherworlds Star-Plucking Hand and weakened his Immortal-Binding Rope with the Heavenly Dao Sword Art.
• Su Hu dismantled Li Jiutian's attacks as Heaven Gate City's army fell into a rout.
• Li Jiutian used a forbidden blood sacrifice to drain the fighters and trapped guards of Heaven Gate City.
• Li Jiutian absorbed the sacrificed energy and broke through into the Immortal Lord Realm.