Chapter Summaries

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.

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.