Chapter Summaries

The Lei Clan settled in the Southern Ridge, completing Su Bai’s quest to win the allegiance of three Heavenly Venerable-level factions and earning him the Supreme Art, “Sovereign Over All Under Heaven.” With the Ancient Clan and Lei Clan strengthening the Heavenly Dao Sect, Su Bai laid out the three-way division of All Under Heaven and declared his confidence in challenging the Heavenly Palace and the Demon Realm.

• The Lei Clan moved into the Southern Ridge beside the Ancient Clan, and Su Bai completed Side Quest Two, receiving “Sovereign Over All Under Heaven.”
• The Heavenly Dao Sect’s forces grew to include the Ancient Clan and Lei Clan, giving it more than twenty Heavenly Venerables and several Invincible Heavenly Venerables.
• Gu Xuan told Su Bai that the Spirit Clan and Shadow Clan had joined the Heavenly Palace after refusing the Heavenly Dao Sect’s demands.
• Su Bai studied a map showing the Heavenly Palace, Heavenly Dao Sect, and Demon Realm dividing All Under Heaven into three territories.
• In the eighth year since the Heavenly Dao Sect’s founding, Su Bai declared that he would challenge the other powers despite controlling only one-tenth of All Under Heaven.

After mastering Sovereign Over All Under Heaven, Su Bai led the Heavenly Dao Sect’s three hundred thousand Nascent Soul Realm experts into the Spirit Mystic Domain to begin its decisive battle against the Heavenly Palace. He shattered the Immortal Cauldron and killed the Eighth Heavenly Venerable, revealing that he had become a Supreme Venerable.

• Su Bai mastered Sovereign Over All Under Heaven and decided to lead the Heavenly Dao Sect into the Spirit Mystic Domain.
• Su Bai summoned the sect’s experts and announced that the decisive battle against the Heavenly Palace had begun.
• Su Bai led three hundred thousand Nascent Soul Realm cultivators to the Spirit Mystic Domain, where the Eighth Heavenly Venerable activated the Immortal Cauldron against them.
• Su Bai blocked the Immortal Cauldron’s attack and struck it with a finger, leaving a crack in the immortal artifact.
• The Eighth Heavenly Venerable recognized Su Bai as a Supreme Venerable, then died when Su Bai’s finger wind passed through the Immortal Cauldron’s crack.

Su Bai confronted the Heavenly Palace, whose Lord summoned the Sixth Ancestor to defend it. The Sixth Ancestor was revealed as the former Grand Elder of the Heaven-Defying Sect, leaving Nameless to face the betrayal of the man who had once saved and guided him.

• Su Bai killed an Invincible Heavenly Venerable in a single breath, prompting the Heavenly Palace's Lord and dozens of Heavenly Venerables to arrive.
• The Lord of the Heavenly Palace called on the Sixth Ancestor to protect the Heavenly Palace from Su Bai.
• The Sixth Ancestor emerged from a spatial rift, and the Heavenly Palace's experts—including its Lord—bowed to him.
• Nameless recognized the Sixth Ancestor as the former Grand Elder of the Heaven-Defying Sect, who had once found him abandoned and brought him back to the sect.
• Nameless condemned the Grand Elder for joining the Heavenly Palace and standing with the culprit who destroyed the Heaven-Defying Sect.

The Sixth Ancestor of the Heavenly Palace admitted that he had betrayed the Human Race and the Heaven-Defying Sect because he wanted to live and become immortal. He broke his seal and fought Su Bai beyond the heavens, leaving the others to watch their earth-shaking battle from below.

• Nameless confronted the Sixth Ancestor of the Heavenly Palace and asked whether he could face the Human Race and the Heaven-Defying Sect.
• The Sixth Ancestor said he had chosen the Heavenly Palace because he feared death and wanted to become immortal.
• The Sixth Ancestor broke his seal, restored his strength and youth, and declared that anyone who hindered his ascension would die.
• The Sixth Ancestor attacked Su Bai with a devastating punch, and Su Bai met his strike.
• Su Bai and the Sixth Ancestor agreed to fight beyond the heavens and vanished into the starry sky.
• The battle sent shockwaves through the world as stars burst apart, forcing the people below to retreat in fear.

After their battle ended in a draw, Su Bai refused the Sixth Ancestor of the Heavenly Palace’s offer to ascend together and declared that the older Supreme Venerable would eventually lose. Su Bai then revealed that the Heavenly Dao Sect had another Supreme Venerable, leaving the Heaven Lord horrified when a powerful aura erupted from the sect.

• Su Bai and the Sixth Ancestor of the Heavenly Palace returned from their battle among the stars without a clear victor.
• The Sixth Ancestor urged Su Bai to abandon mortal concerns and ascend with him, but Su Bai said he fought because he belonged to the Human Race.
• Su Bai told the Sixth Ancestor that his age would eventually cost him the battle, and the Sixth Ancestor conceded that the world belonged to the young.
• The Heaven Lord threatened Su Bai, claiming the Heavenly Palace had more than one Supreme Venerable, and Su Bai replied that the Heavenly Dao Sect did too.
• Su Bai summoned his Second True Self, whose Supreme Venerable aura erupted from the Heavenly Dao Sect and terrified the Heaven Lord.

Su Bai and the Sixth Ancestor of the Heavenly Palace agreed to settle the dispute over the Spirit Mystic Domain through a life-and-death battle between twenty Heavenly Venerables from each faction. The Heavenly Palace assembled twenty Invincible Heavenly Venerables, unaware that Su Bai planned for Flame Heavenly Venerable and Nameless to handle their opponents.

• The Sixth Ancestor proposed a Heavenly Venerable battle to decide who would claim the Spirit Mystic Domain, and Su Bai agreed.
• The Heaven Lord demanded that each faction send twenty Heavenly Venerables to fight to the death, then summoned reinforcements for the Heavenly Palace.
• Flame Heavenly Venerable arrived, and the Heaven Lord revealed his hatred of him over the Heavenly Palace's losses at Giant Hammer City.
• Su Bai told the Heavenly Dao Sect's Heavenly Venerables to put on a show while leaving the Heavenly Palace's fighters to Flame Heavenly Venerable and Nameless.
• Gu Xuan and the other Heavenly Dao Sect Heavenly Venerables accepted the challenge as twenty Invincible Heavenly Venerables gathered behind the Heaven Lord.

The Heavenly Palace brought twenty Invincible Heavenly Venerables to face the Heavenly Dao Sect’s twenty Heavenly Venerables in a battle that would decide Qiankun’s fate. Su Bai and the Sixth Ancestor of the Heavenly Palace created a Small World for the fight, then sealed its gateways with both sides inside.

• The Heaven Lord’s twenty Invincible Heavenly Venerables faced the Heavenly Dao Sect’s twenty Heavenly Venerables, and the assembled cultivators marveled at the unprecedented confrontation.
• The Heaven Lord taunted Su Bai, who insisted that the Heavenly Dao Sect would honor its promise and face the battle.
• At the Heaven Lord’s request, the Sixth Ancestor of the Heavenly Palace joined Su Bai in creating a Small World as the battlefield.
• The Sixth Ancestor opened a gateway, and the Heavenly Palace’s Heavenly Venerables entered; Su Bai then reassured his own side and opened another gateway for them.
• After all forty Heavenly Venerables entered, Su Bai and the Sixth Ancestor sealed the gateways, leaving the factions trapped together for the decisive battle.

The Heavenly Palace's twenty Invincible Heavenly Venerables entered Su Bai's Small World, where the Heavenly Dao Sect's side appeared to retreat. Flame Heavenly Venerable and Nameless stayed behind, and Flame Heavenly Venerable told Nameless to pick one opponent and leave the rest to him.

• The Heavenly Dao Sect's Heavenly Venerables explored the vast Small World while the Heavenly Palace's fighters mocked them and chose their opponents.
• The Heaven Lord told the Sixth Ancestor to keep the Small World sealed and prevent Su Bai from interfering, then ordered the battle to begin.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect's Heavenly Venerables withdrew, leaving only Flame Heavenly Venerable and Nameless facing the twenty Invincible Heavenly Venerables.
• Flame Heavenly Venerable told Nameless to choose one opponent and said he would handle the rest.

Flame Heavenly Venerable faced the Heavenly Palace’s Invincible Heavenly Venerables and proved his overwhelming strength by killing two of them. The remaining attackers launched their full power against him, but his Heavenly Fire killed a second opponent and the battle continued.

• The Second Heavenly Venerable led the Heavenly Palace’s Invincible Heavenly Venerables in an attack on Flame Heavenly Venerable and Nameless.
• Flame Heavenly Venerable charged through their attacks unharmed and killed one Invincible Heavenly Venerable with a palm strike.
• The Second Heavenly Venerable ordered the remaining fighters to combine their power and attack Flame Heavenly Venerable at full strength.
• Flame Heavenly Venerable summoned seven clusters of Heavenly Fire, and one cluster burned an Invincible Heavenly Venerable to ashes.

Su Bai and Nameless annihilated the Heavenly Palace’s twenty Invincible Heavenly Venerables in the Small World, leaving the Heavenly Palace badly weakened and the Spirit Mystic Domain under the Heavenly Dao Sect’s control.

• Flame Heavenly Venerable slaughtered the Heavenly Palace’s Invincible Heavenly Venerables while Nameless pursued Red Moon Venerable for betraying the Heaven-Defying Sect.
• The Sixth Ancestor of the Heavenly Palace confirmed that Flame Heavenly Venerable was a Heavenly Venerable who had not passed the Divine Soul Tribulation, stunning the onlookers.
• The Heaven Lord demanded that the Sixth Ancestor open the Small World so the Heavenly Palace’s forces could escape, but Su Bai seized him and threatened to kill him for breaking the wager.
• Nameless killed Red Moon Venerable as Su Bai, Gu Xuan, Lei Ming, and others hunted down the fleeing Heavenly Palace forces.
• All twenty Invincible Heavenly Venerables died; Nameless killed three and Flame Heavenly Venerable killed seventeen, while Su Bai took their belongings.
• The Sixth Ancestor retreated with the Heaven Lord and the remaining Heavenly Palace experts, leaving the Spirit Mystic Domain in the hands of the Heavenly Dao Sect.

After the Heavenly Dao Sect defeated the Heavenly Palace, Su Bai ordered his forces to seize and rebuild the Spirit Mystic Domain. Zhuge Feng led an assault on the Star Lodge Sect, whose ancestor attacked him after its disciples began surrendering.

• Su Bai ordered hundreds of thousands of Heavenly Dao Sect experts to eliminate the Heavenly Palace's remaining forces and rebuild the Spirit Mystic Domain.
• News of the Heavenly Palace's defeat spread across All Under Heaven, and the Star Lodge Sect learned that Su Bai had reached the Supreme Realm and the Heavenly Palace's Immortal Cauldron was gone.
• The Star Lodge Sect's ancestor ordered the sect to flee to Central Province, but Zhuge Feng and the Fire Qilin shattered its defensive formation before the disciples could escape.
• Zhuge Feng announced that those who surrendered would be spared, prompting many Star Lodge Sect disciples to kneel while their ancestor denounced them.
• The Star Lodge Sect's ancestor confronted Zhuge Feng in the air and thrust his black spear at him.

Heavenly Dao Sect's disciples conquered the Spirit Mystic Domain's major powers, defeating their leaders and forcing their sects to surrender. Han Feiyu tricked the Greatsaber Sect into teleporting its members to a mine, while the remaining conquest continued.

• Zhuge Feng defeated the Star Lodge Sect ancestor in one punch and made the sect surrender, assigning its members years of mining labor.
• Xiao Lingxi killed the Mora Sect master with one sword, and the sect surrendered.
• Xiao Yan, Ye Qingyao, Mu Lingxian, Zhao Tianlong, and Chen Hao led campaigns against other Spirit Mystic Domain powers as their names spread throughout the region.
• Greatsaber Sect members fled through their Teleportation Array, believing it led to the Heavenly Palace, but Han Feiyu had redirected them to a mine.
• After the final group teleported, Han Feiyu removed his painted-skin mask and revealed his identity.

After its defeat, the Heavenly Palace received Soul-Annihilating Nails and began a hunting operation against the Heavenly Dao Sect, assigning the Shadow Clan to ambush seven disciples. A hidden observer recorded the plan, and Su Bai received information about the coming attacks.

• The Heavenly Palace's statue spared the Heaven Lord and other leaders after the Sixth Ancestor testified that Su Bai was too powerful to defeat, then ordered them to unite the Immortal Cauldron within a hundred years.
• The statue gave the Heavenly Palace several dozen Soul-Annihilating Nails and warned that even Supreme Venerables could die from them within seven days if struck in the sea of consciousness and dantian.
• The Sixth Ancestor promised to keep watch over the Heavenly Dao Sect's Supreme Venerables, and the Heaven Lord launched a hunt targeting its Heavenly Venerables, disciples, and prominent figures.
• The Shadow Clan's patriarch volunteered his seven Heavenly Venerables to ambush the Heavenly Dao Sect's seven disciples, who were scattered across the Spirit Mystic Domain.
• An unidentified observer recorded the Heavenly Palace's plan, and Su Bai received information about the hunting operation and ambush plan.

Zhuge Feng and the other Heavenly Dao Sect disciples faced simultaneous assassination attempts by the Shadow Clan, but Su Bai and Nameless intervened. Dark Shadow Heavenly Venerable and another Shadow Clan Heavenly Venerable were killed, while the other attacks were nearly over.

• A disguised assassin attacked Zhuge Feng, but Zhuge Feng blocked the strike and exposed the Spirit Transformation Peak assassin.
• Dark Shadow Heavenly Venerable revealed himself, sealed the area, and launched a black spear at Zhuge Feng.
• Su Bai appeared, killed Dark Shadow Heavenly Venerable with a streak of sword light, and told Zhuge Feng he had prepared after learning of the assassination plot.
• Xiao Lingxi told White Tiger how she joined the Heavenly Dao Sect and how Master changed her fate.
• A Shadow Clan Heavenly Venerable attacked Xiao Lingxi and White Tiger, but Nameless appeared and killed him with a flash of sword light.

Xiao Yan chatted with Vermilion Bird about rumors of his past while the Shadow Clan launched a coordinated assassination against Heavenly Dao Sect’s disciples. All seven Shadow Clan Heavenly Venerables died, and Heaven Lord concluded that someone had betrayed their plans.

• Xiao Yan told Vermilion Bird that he had once been unable to cultivate and that his former fiancée had looked down on him.
• The Hunting Heavenly Venerable tried to assassinate Xiao Yan, but Flame Heavenly Venerable killed him with Extreme Cold Iceflame.
• Gu Xuan, Lei Ming, Zhao Tianlong, and the others waited for the Shadow Clan’s attackers near their targets, while the Pill Sect’s ancestor followed Chen Hao.
• Seven Shadow Clan Heavenly Venerables attacked across the Spirit Mystic Domain and all died in the ambushes.
• Heaven Lord watched all seven of the Shadow Clan’s Life Tablets shatter and cried that there was a mole.

After the Shadow Clan’s seven Heavenly Venerables died, the Heaven Lord suspected a traitor and agreed to Vast Sea Heavenly Venerable’s plan to infiltrate the Heavenly Dao Sect with a defector. Two years later, the Spirit Mystic Domain had been rebuilt, and Su Bai completed the sect’s upgrade requirements as the Heavenly Dao Sect’s territory expanded across five of the Human Race’s Nine Provinces.

• The Heaven Lord accused the Spirit Clan and Heaven and Earth Society of betrayal, but neither could identify the source of the leak.
• Vast Sea Heavenly Venerable proposed defecting to the Heavenly Dao Sect as an Invincible Heavenly Venerable to gain access to its upper ranks and expose the Heavenly Palace’s traitor.
• The Heaven Lord approved the plan and assigned Vast Sea Heavenly Venerable to carry it out.
• Over the next two years, the Spirit Mystic Domain was rebuilt, its displaced citizens returned, and the Pill Sect moved back.
• Su Bai watched his Invincible Territory spread across the Spirit Mystic Domain as the system announced that the side missions were complete and the Heavenly Dao Sect could upgrade to six stars.

A Rogue Cultivator emerged from a hundred years of seclusion after reaching Spirit Transformation and found the Southern Mystic Province transformed under the Heavenly Dao Sect. He stood stunned by free supreme Immortal Arts, a new calendar, and a city filled with Nascent Soul cultivators as people headed to the sect’s recruitment examination.

• A Rogue Cultivator broke through to Spirit Transformation and emerged from seclusion, expecting to become a major figure in the Southern Mystic Province.
• He descended into a bustling city and found Immortal Arts, including the Southern Heaven Art, being given away for free.
• A little girl called the Southern Heaven Art a low-grade Immortal Art, and the old man discovered that other techniques were credited to the Invincible Heavenly Venerable.
• He asked a Nascent Soul Cultivator about the date and learned that a hundred years had passed, the Immortal Alliance was gone, and the Heavenly Dao Sect ruled All Under Heaven.
• As crowds headed for the Heavenly Dao Sect’s recruitment examination, he sensed more than ten Nascent Soul experts in the city, including nine wearing the same sect robes.

Su Bai upgraded the Heavenly Dao Sect to six stars, transforming Heavenly Dao Mountain into the continent’s tallest peak and awakening a profound connection to the world. He received a new mission to unify the Nine Provinces, which would require driving out the Heavenly Palace, and coveted its Clone Technique reward.

• A Spirit Transformation ancestor set out to investigate the Heavenly Dao Sect, then turned back to take the Evergreen Immortality Art instead of the Southern Heaven Art.
• Su Bai reviewed the six-star sect’s growth and ordered another upgrade, causing its buildings and Heavenly Dao Mountain to expand dramatically.
• Standing atop the thousand-li-high mountain, Su Bai sensed a connection to heaven and earth and looked toward the Heavenly Palace and his persevering disciple Xiao Yan.
• Su Bai activated the seven-star upgrade missions and received a single task to unify the Nine Provinces of the Human Race.
• Su Bai learned that completing the mission would grant the Clone Technique and resolved to claim it.

Su Bai welcomed his disciples to cultivate in the Immortal Pool, then watched Zhuge Feng face the Sixty-Three Major Heavenly Tribulation. Zhuge Feng succeeded and entered the Void Refining Venerable Realm, giving Heavenly Dao Sect two Venerable disciples.

• Su Bai introduced the Immortal Pool and let the Spirit Transformation Realm disciples cultivate in it for a month.
• Three months later, Zhuge Feng began transcending the Sixty-Three Major Heavenly Tribulation while Han Feiyu was away from the sect.
• Zhuge Feng charged into the tribulation and endured three days of thunder and lightning.
• Zhuge Feng emerged from the void as a Void Refining Venerable, breaking the continent’s cultivation record.
• Su Bai watched Zhuge Feng’s success and noted that Heavenly Dao Sect now had two Venerable disciples.

Han Feiyu returned to the Heavenly Dao Sect and learned that Zhuge Feng had become a Venerable. Su Bai accepted Vast Sea Heavenly Venerable into the sect while recognizing him as a Heavenly Palace infiltrator, then arranged a meeting with a secret informant that Vast Sea secretly watched.

• Han Feiyu returned to the Heavenly Dao Sect and learned that Zhuge Feng had broken through to the Void Refinement Realm.
• Vast Sea Heavenly Venerable claimed he was the former Sixth Elder of the Heaven-Defying Sect, and the gathered experts confirmed his identity.
• Su Bai accepted Vast Sea Heavenly Venerable as an elder, while privately seeing that his true name was Li Sanshui, his origin was the Heavenly Palace, and his sect loyalty was zero.
• Su Bai arranged for Elder Dan to accompany Vast Sea Heavenly Venerable and prepared to meet an informant with Flame Heavenly Venerable's help.
• Vast Sea Heavenly Venerable secretly overheard Su Bai meeting an informant and recognized the informant, realizing that his faction had defected to an unreliable group.