Recaps

Su Bai used the great hall’s power to force Heaven-Dominating Ancestor and Elysium Ancestor to surrender their valuables before letting them leave. Outside, they discovered that nineteen Integration Ancestors from the Heavenly Palace and Demon Realm had gathered to claim Peerless Heavenly Venerable’s treasure.

• Su Bai revealed his control over the great hall and demanded Heaven-Dominating Ancestor and Elysium Ancestor surrender their Storage Rings to leave.
• Heaven-Dominating Ancestor handed over three Storage Rings, while Elysium Ancestor offered his Soul-Calling Board instead.
• Su Bai inspected the Soul-Calling Board, found that it preserved souls without harming them, and returned it to Elysium Ancestor.
• Su Bai kept Heaven-Dominating Ancestor’s three Storage Rings, and the two Ancestors left the hall.
• Heaven-Dominating Ancestor and Elysium Ancestor found that the gathering outside had grown to nineteen Integration Ancestors from the Heavenly Palace and Demon Realm, all intent on obtaining Peerless Heavenly Venerable’s treasure.

Trapped by nineteen Integration Grand Venerables who accused them of hiding treasures, Heaven-Dominating Ancestor and Elysium Ancestor retreated into Peerless Heavenly Venerable’s hall. Seeing Su Bai’s restraint and facing no escape outside, they pledged allegiance to him.

• Nineteen Integration Grand Venerables sealed off the hall and demanded that Heaven-Dominating Ancestor and Elysium Ancestor be searched or killed for suspected treasures.
• Heaven-Dominating Ancestor appealed to the Immortal Alliance’s rules, but the Heavenly Palace ancestors dismissed the agreement and threatened to replace his sect.
• Heaven-Dominating Ancestor and Elysium Ancestor retreated into the hall, where its defenses repelled the Integration Ancestors’ attacks.
• Heaven-Dominating Ancestor and Elysium Ancestor returned to Su Bai and pledged allegiance, recognizing that he had spared them and taken only their Storage Rings.

Elysium Ancestor and Heaven-Dominating Ancestor explained how the Heavenly Palace had suppressed cultivation and left them with no path forward, then pledged allegiance to Su Bai. Su Bai accepted their vows and led them out to fight the Heavenly Palace.

• Elysium Ancestor and Heaven-Dominating Ancestor described how the Heavenly Palace controlled the Immortal Alliance, burdened their factions with taxes, and sealed off the paths to higher cultivation.
• Heaven-Dominating Ancestor recounted how the Heaven-Defying Sect once shared Immortal Arts openly before the Heavenly Palace and the top factions took them back.
• Su Bai considered how the Four Mystic Provinces lacked powerful cultivators, rich Spirit Veins, and expert guidance because the Heavenly Palace factions controlled the rules.
• Su Bai asked whether the two ancestors would aid his Heavenly Dao Sect in a future war against the Heavenly Palace, and they eagerly agreed.
• Su Bai accepted Elysium Ancestor and Heaven-Dominating Ancestor's allegiance after warning that he would kill them if they betrayed him.
• Su Bai led the two ancestors out to fight the Heavenly Palace, and they followed with their fighting intent surging.

Su Bai emerged from the Heavenly Venerable Palace with Heaven-Dominating Ancestor and Elysium Ancestor, only to face nineteen Integration Grand Venerables who wanted his treasure. As the other two Ancestors fought their rivals, Su Bai prepared to take on the remaining seventeen and announced he would rob them blind.

• The Heavenly Venerable Palace shrank into Su Bai’s palm as Su Bai, Heaven-Dominating Ancestor, and Elysium Ancestor emerged.
• Heavenly Severance Ancestor and eighteen other Integration Grand Venerables demanded that Su Bai surrender the palace and surrounded him with their combined pressure.
• Su Bai told Heaven-Dominating Ancestor and Elysium Ancestor to each choose an opponent, and they began fighting Southern Heaven Ancestor and Northern Nether Ancestor.
• Su Bai faced the remaining seventeen Grand Venerables and drew his ordinary-looking wooden sword, declaring that it slayed only demons and evil.
• Su Bai checked the locations of the Grand Venerables’ Storage Rings and said he planned to rob them blind.

Su Bai killed Heavenly Severance Ancestor with one strike of the Wooden Sword, shocking the other Great Venerables. They suspected the sword had belonged to Peerless Heavenly Venerable, then joined forces to bombard Su Bai from afar.

• Heavenly Severance Ancestor attacked Su Bai with a golden axe, but Su Bai declared that his Wooden Sword slew demons and evil that brought calamity upon the Human Realm.
• Su Bai's sword gleam destroyed Heavenly Severance Ancestor's attack, pierced his chest, and killed him, leaving his axe and Storage Ring behind.
• The surviving Great Venerables were stunned by the instant kill, while Heaven-Dominating Ancestor and Elysium Ancestor celebrated Heavenly Severance Ancestor's death.
• The Great Venerables suspected Su Bai's Wooden Sword was the one Peerless Heavenly Venerable had used to carve through the Myriad Races, and their shock turned to greed.
• The surviving Great Venerables agreed to keep their distance and drain Su Bai's mana, then launched their strongest techniques at him together.

Su Bai used the Peerless Heavenly Venerable Palace and Wooden Sword to withstand the Great Venerables and kill four of them, including three from the Heavenly Palace. A Heavenly Venerable of the Heavenly Palace then attacked from the Central Province Sacred Domain, and Su Bai swallowed the Future Pill to face him rather than risk the destruction of the Western Mystic Province.

• Su Bai blocked the Great Venerables' attacks with the Peerless Heavenly Venerable Palace and reflected them back, wounding the attackers.
• Su Bai killed a Heavenly Palace Great Venerable and a Howling-Heaven Rat Clan Great Venerable with the Wooden Sword.
• Su Bai killed the strongest Heavenly Palace Great Venerable and another Great Venerable, bringing the total slain to four.
• The remaining Great Venerables held their formations in place and waited for a Heavenly Venerable of the Heavenly Palace to intervene.
• A Heavenly Venerable of the Heavenly Palace sent a gigantic finger from the Central Province Sacred Domain, devastating much of the Western Mystic Province on its way toward Su Bai.
• Su Bai swallowed the Future Pill and prepared to confront the Heavenly Venerable rather than flee and leave the province's people at risk.

Su Bai revealed himself as a Heavenly Venerable when he shattered the Chaos Heavenly Venerable’s attack and restrained the Great Venerables who had tried to kill him. The Heaven-Dominating Ancestor and Elysium Ancestor celebrated their new protector, while the Chaos Heavenly Venerable learned another Heavenly Venerable stood against him.

• The Chaos Heavenly Venerable attacked Su Bai with a colossal finger, forcing the surrounding Great Venerables to retreat and mock him.
• Su Bai said “Still” and immobilized the Great Venerables who had tried to kill him.
• A sword light from Su Bai cleaved the Chaos Heavenly Venerable’s finger apart.
• The imprisoned Great Venerables realized Su Bai was a Heavenly Venerable and trembled in fear.
• The Heaven-Dominating Ancestor and Elysium Ancestor knelt and cried out, “Heavenly Venerable Su!”

After gaining Heavenly Venerable strength, Su Bai killed the enemies who had attacked him and traveled from the devastated Western Mystic Province into the Spirit Mystic Domain. He reached the barrier to the Central Province Sacred Domain, where its warning against forced entry left him mocking the divisions between high-, middle-, and low-class people.

• Su Bai killed the Heavenly Palace cultivators and demon Great Venerables who had surrounded him, kept their bodies, and gathered their valuables.
• Su Bai stored Heaven-Dominating Ancestor and Elysium Ancestor in Peerless Hall, then headed toward the Central Province Sacred Domain.
• Su Bai released Elysium Ancestor to gather the souls of the dead in Western Mystic Province while he continued on.
• Su Bai crossed the barrier into the Spirit Mystic Domain and saw that its cities and spiritual energy far surpassed those of the Four Mystic Provinces.
• Su Bai reached the barrier to the Central Province Sacred Domain, read its warning against trespassers, and chuckled at the world's class divisions.

Su Bai broke the barrier between the Four Mystic Domains and the Four Mystic Provinces, sending spiritual energy into the poorer provinces and angering the powerful factions. After the experts backed down upon realizing he was a Heavenly Venerable, Su Bai turned his attention to the Central Province Sacred Domain’s barrier.

• Su Bai reflected on the hardship of the lower classes and blamed the upper class for monopolizing cultivation resources.
• Su Bai shattered the barrier between the Four Mystic Domains and the Four Mystic Provinces with a sword strike, raising the provinces’ spiritual energy concentration fivefold while halving that of the domains.
• Experts from the Four Mystic Domains rushed to confront the barrier-breaker, then fell silent and backed down when they recognized Su Bai as a Heavenly Venerable.
• Su Bai declared that the strong were not bound by rules and looked toward the barrier of the Central Province Sacred Domain.
• The experts feared Su Bai intended to break the Central Province Sacred Domain’s barrier as well.

Su Bai shattered the Central Province Sacred Domain’s barrier, exposing its vast reserves of spiritual energy and drawing the attention of its powerful inhabitants. Facing Chaos Heavenly Venerable, he declared that he had come to petition for the people and demand the Heavenly Venerable’s death.

• Su Bai cleaved the Central Province Sacred Domain’s barrier with his Wooden Sword, releasing its spiritual energy into the Four Mystic Domains and Four Mystic Provinces.
• Powerful figures in the Central Province Sacred Domain recognized Su Bai and discussed how the Heavenly Palace would respond to his challenge.
• Su Bai surveyed the Central Province Sacred Domain and saw that its immense wealth and abundance far exceeded the lives of people in the other provinces.
• Chaos Heavenly Venerable confronted Su Bai and revealed that he wanted to kill him publicly to boost his own renown and preserve the Heavenly Palace’s dignity.
• Su Bai turned toward the Western Mystic Province and announced that he petitioned for the people, asking the Heavenly Venerable to die.

Su Bai challenged Chaos Heavenly Venerable, calling on the people across the Four Mystic Domains and Four Mystic Provinces to demand his death. As their collective intent empowered Su Bai and his Wooden Sword, he drew his sword to strike down the Heavenly Venerable.

• Chaos Heavenly Venerable laughed at Su Bai’s petition and attacked, destroying buildings and killing countless living beings without regard.
• Su Bai’s consciousness reached across the Nine Provinces, and people who had suffered under the powerful answered his call for the Heavenly Venerable to die.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect, Heaven-Dominating Sect, and billions of souls on Elysium Ancestor’s Soul-Calling Board joined the demand.
• The intent of All Beings gathered around Su Bai, and his Wooden Sword shone as he opened his eyes and vowed to slay Chaos Heavenly Venerable.
• Chaos Heavenly Venerable threatened to destroy the Four Mystic Provinces, but Su Bai ignored him and drew his sword, unleashing a strike that carried the wishes of All Beings.

Su Bai killed Chaos Heavenly Venerable, whose dying thoughts recalled the ideals he had abandoned. Su Bai then showed the people of Southern Mystic Province scenes of the Heavenly Palace’s wealth and excess, exposing only a corner of its splendor.

• Su Bai's sword pierced Chaos Heavenly Venerable, suppressing his power and making his death inevitable.
• As he died, Chaos Heavenly Venerable remembered joining a Human Race sect and realizing he had lost the conviction to protect the people.
• Chaos Heavenly Venerable died, and Su Bai cut apart the heavenly phenomenon mourning his fall.
• Su Bai projected scenes of the Heavenly Palace above Southern Mystic Province for its people to see.
• The projection revealed the Heavenly Palace's lavish buildings, feasts, privileged newborns, and tributes from Demon Race clans and Immortal Alliance factions.

Su Bai killed the Chaos Heavenly Venerable and used the moment to proclaim the Heavenly Dao Sect’s promises of equality, free cultivation, and food for all, inspiring people across the Four Mystic Provinces. His territory and prestige began spreading, while ancient observers debated whether to help him challenge the Heavenly Palace.

• People across the Four Mystic Provinces and Four Mystic Domains witnessed the Heavenly Palace’s lavish splendor and compared it with their own hardship.
• Disciples of great sects saw their ancestors grovel before Heavenly Palace members and servants, shattering their ideas about immortal cultivation.
• Su Bai declared that he had slain a Heavenly Palace Heavenly Venerable and proclaimed that cultivation was free, all beings were equal, and everyone in the Heavenly Dao Sect’s territory would have enough to eat.
• People across the Four Mystic Provinces shouted their support for the Heavenly Dao Sect and Heavenly Venerable Su as his territory and prestige spread through the region.
• Ancient Demon Realm figures acknowledged Su Bai’s strength, while reclusive Human Race experts debated helping him but feared the Heavenly Palace’s retaliation.

After Su Bai killed Chaos Heavenly Venerable to stop his massacre, five ancient Heavenly Palace Heavenly Venerables appeared to avenge him and threaten the Four Mystic Provinces. Surrounded by the five, Su Bai stood his ground as humanity condemned them as unworthy protectors.

• Radiant Sun Venerable appeared and shattered the images over the Four Mystic Provinces, while Su Bai sensed more Heavenly Venerables awakening inside the Heavenly Palace.
• Viper Venerable, Nine Suns Venerable, Nether River Venerable, and Bloodfiend Venerable emerged, joining Radiant Sun Venerable as the Heavenly Palace's five great Heavenly Venerables.
• The five surrounded Su Bai, demanded that he submit, and threatened to kill him and bathe the Four Mystic Provinces in blood.
• Su Bai tightened his grip on the Wooden Sword and challenged the five Heavenly Venerables' claim to represent the Human Race.
• People across the Four Mystic Provinces denounced the five for massacring living beings and declared them unworthy of being humanity's protectors.

Su Bai fought the five Heavenly Palace Venerables alone and overcame their combined assault, killing Nether River Venerable. The other Heavenly Venerables remained in battle as Su Bai continued to challenge the unjust Fate threatening the Four Mystic Provinces.

• The five Heavenly Venerables attacked Su Bai together, while onlookers fled and feared for the Four Mystic Provinces.
• Su Bai stood his ground and fought back with the Wooden Sword, injuring one Heavenly Venerable and forcing the five to retreat.
• Su Bai declared that he would judge those who brought injustice and unleashed repeated sword attacks against his opponents.
• Su Bai evaded the five Heavenly Venerables' techniques and blocked their attacks with his defenses.
• Su Bai blew apart half of Nether River Venerable's body and destroyed his Primordial Spirit, killing another Heavenly Venerable.

Su Bai fought the Bloodfiend Venerable and was trapped inside his Blood Fiend Cauldron, where he discovered the remains of countless victims. After promising the dead that Bloodfiend Venerable would join them, Su Bai gained their support as they lent their power to help him break the cauldron.

• Su Bai shocked the crowd by standing against five Heavenly Venerables and killing one, then confronted Bloodfiend Venerable over his slaughter of millions of children.
• Bloodfiend Venerable trapped Su Bai inside the Blood Fiend Cauldron and called on three other Heavenly Venerables to help refine him.
• Inside the cauldron, Su Bai found the skulls of Bloodfiend Venerable's victims and rejected the Venerable's claim that the weak deserved to die.
• Su Bai's sword strike shook the cauldron, forcing Bloodfiend Venerable and the other Heavenly Venerables to strengthen their suppression.
• Su Bai promised the dead that Bloodfiend Venerable would soon join them, and their spirits quieted and lent their power to his Wooden Sword to help break the cauldron.

Su Bai destroyed Bloodfiend Venerable’s Blood Fiend Cauldron, killed a Heavenly Venerable, and beat Bloodfiend Venerable until he was badly injured. Bloodfiend Venerable unleashed his Blood Sea God-Burying secret art to attack Su Bai.

• Su Bai shattered the Blood Fiend Cauldron and killed a Heavenly Venerable who had failed to escape.
• Bloodfiend Venerable mourned his ruined natal artifact, then attacked Su Bai with a giant corpse formed from bloodfiend killing intent.
• Su Bai cut the corpse in half and struck Bloodfiend Venerable with a series of punches, sending him crashing into the Heavenly Palace.
• The two remaining Heavenly Venerables fled as Bloodfiend Venerable emerged, saw his ruined face, and called for Su Bai to be killed.
• Bloodfiend Venerable summoned the Blood Sea God-Burying, raising a vast sea of blood filled with killing intent and soul-devouring power.

Su Bai killed Viper Venerable and Bloodfiend Venerable, leaving Nine Suns Venerable as the last Heavenly Venerable standing. Nine Suns Venerable remained confident that the Heavenly Palace had power beyond the fighters Su Bai had defeated and challenged him over who set the rules of All Under Heaven.

• Viper Venerable and Nine Suns Venerable joined Bloodfiend Venerable in attacking Su Bai.
• Bloodfiend Venerable threw Viper Venerable in Su Bai’s path, and Su Bai killed Viper Venerable with his sword.
• Bloodfiend Venerable tried to flee, but Nine Suns Venerable refused to help him, and Su Bai cut him down.
• Onlookers concluded that Su Bai had reached the realm of the Invincible One after he killed five of the six Heavenly Venerables from the Heavenly Palace.
• Nine Suns Venerable told Su Bai that the Heavenly Palace had far greater strength and asked who truly set the rules of All Under Heaven.

As Su Bai challenged the mysterious force behind the Heavenly Palace, darkness covered the world and a crimson moon appeared. Red Moon Venerable emerged as an Invincible Heavenly Venerable, setting himself against Su Bai and leaving the Heavenly Palace’s fate in the balance.

• Darkness blotted out the sun, and a crimson moon rose as cultivators recognized it as an omen of calamity.
• Su Bai answered the phenomenon with a burst of white light and demanded that its source reveal itself.
• A stone gate appeared over the Red Moon, and Nine Suns Venerable knelt and begged Red Moon Venerable to save the Heavenly Palace.
• Red Moon Venerable emerged from the gate and declared that anyone who offended the Heavenly Palace deserved death.
• Powerhouses revealed that Red Moon Venerable had become an Invincible Heavenly Venerable after four thousand years in seclusion.
• Nine Suns Venerable told Red Moon Venerable that Su Bai had slain five Heavenly Venerables and sneered that Su Bai was doomed.

Su Bai killed Nine Suns Venerable and fought Red Moon Venerable, blocking his forbidden technique despite being outmatched in cultivation. As Red Moon Venerable’s bloody crescent moon threatened him, an ally arrived and cleaved the night sky with a sword, intent on severing Red Moon Venerable’s arm.

• Su Bai shattered Nine Suns Venerable’s fire dragon and clashed with Red Moon Venerable, whose blood-light attack failed to kill him because it struck an afterimage.
• Su Bai appeared behind Nine Suns Venerable and beheaded him, enraging Red Moon Venerable.
• Red Moon Venerable unleashed Red Moon Reincarnation, merging with the moon and sending a bloody crescent at Su Bai.
• Su Bai met the bloody crescent with his Wooden Sword and blocked Red Moon Venerable’s killing move.
• An unknown swordsman arrived, cleaved the night sky, and declared that he would sever Red Moon Venerable’s arm as payback for the destruction of the Heaven-Defying Sect.

Nameless appeared during Red Moon Venerable’s battle with Su Bai, passed the Heart Demon Tribulation, and severed Red Moon Venerable’s arm with a single sword strike. He revealed that he had once been a senior disciple of the Heaven-Defying Sect, leaving Red Moon Venerable to face both him and Su Bai.

• Nameless arrived and cut off Red Moon Venerable’s arm, stunning the spectators.
• Nameless’s appearance transformed as he completed the Heart Demon Tribulation and became an Invincible Heavenly Venerable.
• Red Moon Venerable demanded to know who Nameless was and why he had attacked.
• Nameless identified himself as being from the Heavenly Dao Sect and said Red Moon Venerable had taken part in the Heaven-Defying Sect’s destruction four thousand years earlier.
• Nameless revealed he had been a senior disciple of the Heaven-Defying Sect, astonishing the ancient onlookers with his rise from Spirit Transformation to Invincible Heavenly Venerable.
• Red Moon Venerable suppressed his urge to fight and asked Nameless and Su Bai what they wanted.

Su Bai and Nameless forced Red Moon Venerable to accept the Four Mystic Provinces breaking away from the Immortal Alliance, then left after warning that the Heavenly Palace’s absent experts posed a future threat. Red Moon Venerable drained the Four Mystic Domains of spiritual energy, while its residents found the Four Mystic Provinces sealed behind a barrier barring their entry.

• Su Bai declared that the Four Mystic Provinces would break away, and Red Moon Venerable agreed to the terms after realizing the Heavenly Palace lacked its strongest experts.
• Nameless and Su Bai suspected the Heavenly Palace’s Invincible Heavenly Venerables were occupied with a more important task, then left before their Future Pill effects expired.
• Experts across the Four Mystic Provinces and Four Mystic Domains celebrated the increased spiritual energy, and the Four Mystic Domains’ experts rebuilt their barrier against the Four Mystic Provinces.
• Red Moon Venerable absorbed the Four Mystic Domains’ spiritual energy and restored the Central Province Sacred Domain’s barrier before leaving in anger.
• The Four Mystic Domains’ experts shattered their newly built barrier, only to discover another barrier marked, “People and dogs of the Four Mystic Domains are forbidden entry!”

Su Bai learned how Nameless had escaped a three-thousand-year Heart Demon Tribulation by finding hope in the Heavenly Dao Sect. After the Central Province Battle reshaped the balance of power, Su Bai prepared for the Southern Mystic Province Immortal Alliance Assembly, confident his disciples could win despite the Heavenly Palace’s interference.

• Nameless told Su Bai he had relived the Heaven-Defying Sect’s destruction more than a million times during his Heart Demon Tribulation before emerging with the resolve to protect the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Su Bai vowed to rise to the Heavenly Venerable Realm and draw his sword against the Heavenly Palace.
• Elysium Realm and the Heaven-Dominating Sect left the Immortal Alliance and joined the Heavenly Dao Sect, though most forces remained wary of opposing the Heavenly Palace.
• The Northern Mystic Province descended into turmoil after the Northern Nether Ancestor’s death, while Red Moon Venerable stabilized the Southern Mystic Province and continued its Immortal Alliance Assembly.
• Red Moon Venerable planned to use the disciple and core battles to expose the Heavenly Dao Sect’s weakness, while Su Bai focused on winning the assembly to fulfill the sect upgrade mission.

After three months of cultivation, the Heavenly Dao Sect’s disciples grew far stronger, and Su Bai arrived at the Immortal Alliance Assembly as the Heavenly Palace took over its hosting. The arrival of two young people riding divine beasts offered Su Bai a possible solution to his sect-upgrade mission’s need for four guardian divine beasts.

• Yun Kong celebrated advancing to the middle stage of First-Level Spirit Transformation, but Fire Qilin mocked his slow progress and demonstrated how an ant reached First-Level Qi Refinement after eating refined demonic beast meat.
• Su Bai praised Fire Qilin and welcomed the ant into the Heavenly Dao Sect as its disciples gathered after months of cultivation.
• The sect’s disciples surpassed two million in number, while Su Bai advanced to Void Refinement Fifth Layer and the disciples preparing for the assembly increased their cultivation.
• Su Bai and his disciples arrived at Sacred Ruins City, where Venerable Xuan Ba had been removed and the Heavenly Palace had taken over the Southern Mystic Province Immortal Alliance Assembly.
• Red Moon Venerable opened a void rift and brought out two black-robed young people; Su Bai noticed that each rode a divine beast.

A newly admitted, black-robed Dao Heaven Sect joined the Immortal Alliance Assembly and drew the Blackbird Sect for its first match. The Blackbird Sect’s gifted disciple Chen Hao faced the mysterious opponent, with the battle yet to begin.

• The Heavenly Palace's Integration Grand Venerable announced that Dao Heaven Sect had joined the competition as force No. 2024.
• Dao Heaven Sect’s arrival stirred suspicion among the spectators and battle excitement among the Heavenly Dao Sect disciples.
• The draw paired Dao Heaven Sect against Blackbird Sect, whose members worried about facing the powerful newcomers.
• Blackbird Sect’s Chen Hao volunteered to fight, and his sect master urged him to make the most of his final opportunity at the assembly.
• A masked Dao Heaven Sect disciple and Chen Hao took the arena, where Chen Hao announced that he was thirty-one and at the Golden Core Second Layer.