Chapter Summaries

The Heaven Lord gathered the Heavenly Venerables and accused the Spirit Clan Chief of betraying the Heavenly Palace by colluding with the Heavenly Dao Sect. He presented a Recording Stone showing Jade Spirit Heavenly Venerable speaking with Su Bai, leaving the Spirit Clan surrounded and facing the Heaven Lord’s judgment.

• Vast Sea Heavenly Venerable secretly recorded a conversation staged by Su Bai and his Second True Self, then withdrew with evidence.
• The Heaven Lord sealed the Heavenly Palace and told the assembled Heavenly Venerables that a traitor had caused the Shadow Clan’s defeat.
• The Heaven Lord ordered the Heavenly Venerables to surround the Spirit Clan Chief and the Spirit Clan’s five Heavenly Venerables.
• The Spirit Clan Chief denied colluding with the Heavenly Dao Sect and swore his clan’s innocence.
• The Heaven Lord played a Recording Stone showing Jade Spirit Heavenly Venerable speaking with Su Bai about helping the Heavenly Dao Sect defeat the Heavenly Palace.

The Heavenly Palace used a projection to accuse the Spirit Clan Chief of betrayal, then killed five Spirit Clan Heavenly Venerables with Soul-Annihilating Nails before the chief self-destructed. At the Heavenly Dao Sect’s banquet, Su Bai learned that all six Spirit Clan Heavenly Venerables had died, while Vast Sea Heavenly Venerable believed he had dealt the sect a serious blow.

• The Heaven Lord accused the Spirit Clan Chief of treachery after a projection showed someone who looked and sounded exactly like him.
• The Spirit Clan Chief claimed the Heavenly Dao Sect had framed him, but the Heavenly Palace used Soul-Annihilating Nails to kill the five restrained Spirit Clan Heavenly Venerables.
• The Spirit Clan Chief lamented his choices, cursed the Heavenly Palace, and self-destructed, destroying the grand hall and severely injuring more than a dozen Heavenly Venerables.
• The Heaven Lord ordered the remaining Spirit Clan members thrown into the Immortal Cauldron, but was told that the entire clan had vanished the previous night.
• Su Bai welcomed Vast Sea Heavenly Venerable at a banquet and learned that the Spirit Clan’s six Heavenly Venerables had died, while Vast Sea believed he had crippled the Heavenly Dao Sect.

The Spirit Clan swore loyalty to Su Bai after learning that the Heavenly Palace had slaughtered their ancestors and planned to refine them. In the years that followed, Su Bai’s disciples continued breaking through to the Void Refining Venerable Realm, ending with Ye Qingyao becoming the first Mortal Body cultivator on the continent to reach Venerable status.

• Great Venerable Xuan Ba showed the Spirit Clan proof of the Heavenly Palace’s crimes, and the clan members pledged their loyalty to Su Bai and vowed to seek revenge.
• After a period of border skirmishes and quiet preparation, Xiao Yan survived the Sixty-Three Major Heavenly Tribulation and became a Venerable.
• Xiao Lingxi and Mu Lingxian soon transcended their tribulations, followed by Chen Hao and Zhao Tianlong, while Han Feiyu concealed his Fourth Heaven Void Refinement cultivation behind a fake lightning tribulation.
• Ye Qingyao remained at Spirit Transformation Peak longer than her fellow disciples, but continued training without losing hope.
• Twelve years after beginning cultivation, Ye Qingyao survived the Sixty-Three Major Heavenly Tribulation and became the continent’s first Mortal Body cultivator to attain Venerable status.

After three years of rapid cultivation across the Four Mystic Provinces, Su Bai prepared to undergo the Divine Soul Tribulation, but the system warned him that he would face a Heart Demon Tribulation. He left his Second True Self to guard the Heavenly Dao Sect and began the tribulation beneath Heavenly Dao Mountain.

• News of a Mortal Body attaining Venerable status sparked a cultivation frenzy across All Under Heaven.
• Three years later, the Heavenly Dao Sect had grown to nearly thirty million disciples, including more than ten thousand Spirit Transformation cultivators, while cultivation spread across the Four Mystic Provinces.
• Su Bai's cultivation advanced toward the Divine Soul Tribulation, and the system warned him that it could not shield him from the Heart Demon Tribulation.
• Su Bai confirmed that his Second True Self could act freely during the tribulation and arranged for it to guard the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Su Bai's true body went beneath Heavenly Dao Mountain to begin the Heart Demon Tribulation.

Su Bai arrived in a world where Beast Race clans kept humans as livestock and slaughtered them for food. After rescuing hundreds of millions of captives and taking them into a Small World, he headed for the Human Race Sacred City, where the last human refuge faced a Beast Race encirclement.

• A Fifth-Order Great Demon attacked Su Bai, but he destroyed it with a glance.
• Su Bai saw humans imprisoned and butchered as food throughout the forest, then wiped out the demonic beasts tormenting them.
• The captive humans hailed Su Bai as a saint, and he brought hundreds of millions of them into a Small World.
• Su Bai learned that the Human Race Sacred City was their last refuge and that the race needed a Heavenly Venerable to survive.
• As the Sacred City's defenders mourned ten rescue squads that had not returned, they spotted Su Bai approaching in white robes.

Su Bai appeared before the Human Race Sacred City and saved its people from the Beast Race, revealing himself as a Human Race Heavenly Venerable. He defeated the Demon Race armies and led the Human Race’s rise, while his true body underwent the Heart Demon Tribulation and the Heavenly Palace began a new plan.

• Human Race experts fought desperately to rescue Su Bai as the Beast Race tried to capture him.
• Su Bai froze the demon beasts attacking the Human Race and helped the Human Race Venerable kill a Super Demon King, then annihilated the surrounding enemies.
• The Human Race recognized Su Bai as a Heavenly Venerable and celebrated, but ten Demon Race Heavenly Venerables and their armies surrounded Sacred City.
• Su Bai faced the Demon Race alone and killed its ten Heavenly Venerables, then led the Human Race in crushing the clans that had kept them as livestock.
• Su Bai’s true body underwent the Heart Demon Tribulation as the Heavenly Palace’s new grand plan began.

While Su Bai's Second True Self watched over Su Bai's Heart Demon Tribulation, the Heavenly Palace challenged the Heavenly Dao Sect to three life-and-death battles for control of three Mystic Domains. Su Bai accepted the challenge, unaware that the Heaven Lord had also assembled 108 Demon Race armies.

• Su Bai's Second True Self reflected on the Heart Demon World and received a message that the Heavenly Palace had colluded with the Demon Race.
• The Heavenly Palace challenged the Heavenly Dao Sect, and Su Bai ordered its Golden Core Realm and stronger forces to assemble for war.
• Three days later, a twenty-million-strong Heavenly Dao Sect army met the Heavenly Palace in the Spirit Mystic Domain.
• The Heaven Lord proposed three life-and-death battles across the Golden Core and Nascent Soul, Spirit Transformation, and Venerable realms, wagering the Yellow, Earth, and Heaven Mystic Domains.
• Su Bai accepted after the Heavenly Dao Sect's forces declared they were willing to fight.
• The Heaven Lord learned that 108 Demon Race armies had assembled and gloated that the Heavenly Dao Sect was doomed.

The Heaven Lord mobilized the Heavenly Palace’s forces to fight the Heavenly Dao Sect across the three Mystic Domains. The Heavenly Dao Sect arrived badly outnumbered among its Spirit Transformation and Venerable fighters, while several masked figures among its Venerables went unnoticed.

• The Heaven Lord ordered the Heavenly Palace’s forces into the Yellow, Earth, and Heaven Mystic Domains, deploying more than twenty million lower-realm cultivators, thirty thousand Spirit Transformation cultivators, and four thousand Venerables.
• The Heaven Lord taunted Su Bai and declared that the Heavenly Palace would rule All Under Heaven, but Su Bai remained undaunted by the enemy’s numbers.
• Su Bai asked the Heavenly Dao Sect’s twenty million soldiers if they were afraid, and they answered with loud boasts and calls to fight.
• Su Bai led the Heavenly Dao Sect forces into the three battlefields, where they fielded about twenty million lower-realm cultivators, twenty thousand Spirit Transformation cultivators, and eight hundred Venerables.
• The Heavenly Palace’s Heavenly Venerables laughed at the numerical advantage over the Heavenly Dao Sect’s Venerables, unaware that several of the eight hundred wore masks.

The Heaven Lord revealed that the Heavenly Palace had summoned a vast Demon Race army to reinforce its forces against the Heavenly Dao Sect. With the enemy’s numbers now overwhelmingly greater, the chapter left the Heavenly Dao Sect facing an impending massacre.

• The Heaven Lord mocked Su Bai and summoned additional forces after claiming the Heavenly Palace still had troops in reserve.
• Countless demon beasts poured through Void Rifts into the Earth, Heaven, and Yellow Mystic Domains, devastating the regions.
• Twelve Demon Race Heavenly Venerables appeared beside the Heaven Lord and announced that their clans were ready.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect’s experts recognized the Demon Race’s alliance with the Heavenly Palace and protested its betrayal of the Human Race.
• The Heaven Lord declared that the combined army would destroy the Heavenly Dao Sect’s core forces and use their blood to nourish the Immortal Cauldron.

Su Bai revealed that the Heavenly Dao Sect still had allies after the Heavenly Palace and its demon-beast forces vastly outnumbered the sect. Four divine-beast royal clans arrived to fight for the sect, and a dragon’s roar sounded over the Heaven Mystic Domain as the chapter ended.

• The Heaven Lord taunted Su Bai and declared the Heavenly Dao Sect doomed against the combined Heavenly Palace and demon-beast armies.
• A Gold-Eating Rat Clan Heavenly Venerable attacked Su Bai, who killed him with a single finger as a Supreme Venerable.
• Su Bai said the Heavenly Dao Sect still had people and summoned its allies to the battlefield.
• The Fire Qilin, Little White, and members of the Qilin, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise royal clans arrived and pledged to fight for the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• The Invincible Heavenly Venerable of the Qilin Clan condemned the Heavenly Palace for exploiting and capturing divine beasts, and a dragon roared above the Heaven Mystic Domain.

The Dragon Race and other Demon Race members joined the Heavenly Dao Sect as its armies clashed with the Heavenly Palace across the three Mystic Domains. The Heavenly Dao Sect’s disciples routed their larger forces, and one Venerable lured more than a dozen pursuers into a lake and emerged alone with their Storage Rings.

• Ao Wuji led the Dragon Race and other summoned Demon Race members through the Void Rifts to support the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• The Sixth Ancestor and the false “Su Bai” sealed the borders of the three Mystic Domains as both armies prepared to fight.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect’s Golden Core, Nascent Soul, and Spirit Transformation disciples charged into battle, where Zhang Goudan, Li Gousheng, Wang Ergou, and Liu Tiezhu attacked the enemy forces.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect’s personal disciples revealed their Venerable strength and overwhelmed the Heavenly Palace’s Venerables, while the Heavenly Palace also collapsed across the other battlefields.
• A Heavenly Dao Sect Venerable lured more than a dozen Heavenly Palace Venerables into a lake and emerged alone carrying their Storage Rings.

The Heavenly Dao Sect and their divine beast allies overwhelmed the Heavenly Palace and Demon Race forces through their superior strength and coordination. Li Yufei lured another group of Heavenly Palace Venerables into a volcano, where a lava giant seized them, then fled again when a fresh group came after him.

• Fire Qilin invited Zhuge Feng onto his back, and they charged into the enemy ranks, killing Venerables together.
• The divine beasts carried Heavenly Dao Sect disciples into battle, helping them rout the outnumbered Heavenly Palace and Demon Race forces.
• Xiao Yan survived a Gold-Eating Rat Clan Great Demon Venerable's ambush and burned it with Heavenly Fire.
• Mu Lingxian and Ye Qingyao targeted powerful enemies while Zhao Tianlong and Chen Hao aided allied battle circles.
• Li Yufei told a group of Heavenly Palace Venerables that their missing elders might have gotten lost, then lured the attackers into a volcano where a lava giant grabbed them.
• Li Yufei emerged from the volcano, but another group of Venerables arrived and chased him again.

The Heavenly Dao Sect overwhelmed the Heavenly Palace across every battlefield despite being outnumbered, leaving the Heaven Lord to realize that another traitor had revealed the decisive battle and the Demon Race alliance. The Heaven Lord accused the Heavenly Palace of having another spy, but the traitor remained unidentified.

• The Heavenly Dao Sect's Spirit Transformation disciples swept through the Heavenly Palace's larger force, while its Golden Core and Nascent Soul armies crushed their opponents.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect dominated the Venerable Realm battlefield as well, making the Heavenly Palace's defeat clear despite its numerical advantage.
• The Heaven Lord demanded to know how "Su Bai" had anticipated the decisive battle and secured the Demon Race's support in advance.
• The Heavenly Venerables realized the Demon Race's arrival had required advance knowledge of their secret plan, and the Heaven Lord declared that another traitor was among them.

The Heavenly Dao Sect annihilated Heavenly Palace and Demon Race forces across three battlefields, winning the Heaven, Earth, and Yellow Mystic Domains. The Heaven Lord yielded the domains and withdrew, leaving the Heavenly Dao Sect in control of eight of the Human Race’s Nine Provinces as “Su Bai” looked toward Central Province.

• The Heavenly Dao Sect defeated Heavenly Palace and Demon Race forces on the Heaven Mystic Domain battlefield, with almost no casualties of its own.
• Three days later, the Heavenly Dao Sect won the Earth Mystic Domain, then captured the Yellow Mystic Domain after annihilating more than seventy million enemy troops.
• The Heavenly Wolf Clan’s Heavenly Venerable and the remaining Demon Race Heavenly Venerables blamed Heavenly Palace for their losses and departed.
• “Su Bai” demanded the three Mystic Domains, and the Heaven Lord agreed to hand them over after his Heavenly Venerables urged him to avoid a decisive battle.
• Ao Wuji and the allied divine beast clans departed, while “Su Bai” looked from the three Mystic Domains toward Central Province.

After the Heavenly Dao Sect celebrated its victory and distributed the spoils, “Su Bai” tricked Vast Sea Heavenly Venerable into believing he had revealed the identity of a secret ally. Vast Sea transmitted the supposed intelligence to the Heaven Lord, unaware that someone had been watching him.

• Zhuge Feng and the other disciples counted the spoils, and “Su Bai” distributed them to the Heavenly Dao Sect members as rewards.
• Vast Sea Heavenly Venerable appeared after emerging from seclusion and asked how “Su Bai” had anticipated the Heavenly Palace’s schemes.
• “Su Bai” claimed the Heavenly Dao Sect had an ally inside the Heavenly Palace and pretended to reveal their identity to Vast Sea in private.
• Vast Sea promised to keep the secret, then secretly transmitted the information to the Heaven Lord.
• An unseen observer watched Vast Sea send his message.

Within Su Bai’s Heart Demon World, he helped the Human Race rise and defeat the Demon Race, then awakened believing the tribulation had ended. After seeing the humans fall back into captivity once he left that world, he remained unsure whether he had escaped the Heart Demon Tribulation.

• Over a hundred years, Su Bai empowered the Human Race with Immortal Arts and helped it drive the Demon Races from the continent.
• The future Sixth Ancestor of the Heavenly Palace asked Su Bai about establishing a unified sect, and Su Bai left the decision to him.
• Su Bai awakened as an Invincible Heavenly Venerable and destroyed the Heavenly Palace’s invading force, then erased its Central Province headquarters.
• Su Bai realized that the apparent victory was another illusion and shattered the Heart Demon World.
• Su Bai watched the Human Race lose its strength after his departure, until the Demon Race returned and raised humanity in captivity again.

Su Bai restarted the Heart Demon Tribulation, resolved to keep the Human Race from falling back into captivity, while his Second True Self prepared to exploit the Heavenly Palace’s meeting to strike against it. The Heaven Lord exposed the Heaven and Earth Society as traitors, but the Sixth Ancestor failed to respond, leaving the confrontation in uncertainty.

• Su Bai realized the Human Race had collapsed after his departure and restarted the Heart Demon Tribulation at its beginning, resolving to help humanity survive the next hundred years.
• Su Bai inferred that the Heart Demon world ran a hundred times faster than the outside world and sensed that one year had passed outside.
• Su Bai’s Second True Self summoned the Heavenly Dao Sect’s Heavenly Venerables, including Vast Sea Heavenly Venerable, to prepare an attack on the Heavenly Palace.
• The Heaven Lord convened the Heavenly Venerables and learned that the Heaven and Earth Society, with fourteen Heavenly Venerables, had joined the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• The Heaven Lord played Su Bai’s recording naming the Heaven and Earth Society as an ally, then called on the Sixth Ancestor to execute the traitors, but the Sixth Ancestor did not appear.

The Heaven Palace’s attempt to eliminate the Heaven and Earth Society erupted into a costly battle while the Heavenly Dao Sect plundered its headquarters. Su Bai revealed that Vast Sea Heavenly Venerable had helped weaken the Heaven Palace, and the furious Heaven Lord attacked him.

• The Heaven Lord ordered the forty-odd Heavenly Venerables to attack the Heaven and Earth Society, whose fourteen Heavenly Venerables fought back and were killed, while the Heaven Palace lost six Heavenly Venerables and many others were injured.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect’s Heavenly Venerables ransacked the Heaven Palace’s Central Province headquarters as the Sixth Ancestor battled Su Bai in the heavens.
• After seeing the Sixth Ancestor’s messages about the Heavenly Dao Sect’s attack, the Heaven Lord lifted the formation and discovered that the headquarters had been stripped bare.
• Su Bai thanked Vast Sea Heavenly Venerable for helping eliminate his enemies, revealing that he had known Vast Sea was a traitor to the Heaven Palace.
• The Heaven Lord blamed Vast Sea for deceiving the Heaven Palace and charged at him in rage.

The Heaven Lord killed Vast Sea Heavenly Venerable and summoned the Heavenly Palace’s sleeping ancestor as the battle in Central Province turned against him. Su Bai’s forces retreated to Spirit Mystic Domain, while the Fifth Ancestor awakened.

• The Heaven Lord blamed Vast Sea Heavenly Venerable for the Heavenly Palace’s losses and killed him, cutting apart his body and Nascent Soul.
• Nameless and the Heavenly Dao Sect’s Heavenly Venerables killed more Heavenly Palace experts, prompting the Heaven Lord to summon the sleeping ancestors.
• The Heaven Lord awakened an ancient bronze coffin, and Su Bai ordered the Heavenly Dao Sect’s forces to withdraw from Central Province.
• Flame Heavenly Venerable appeared at the border and deterred the Heavenly Palace from stopping the retreat.
• The Fifth Ancestor emerged from the coffin, and the Heavenly Palace’s experts knelt to greet him.

The Heavenly Palace's Fifth Ancestor awakened and joined the Sixth Ancestor in fighting Su Bai, but Su Bai held his own against both Supreme Venerables. The Heaven Lord then awakened the Third and Fourth Ancestors, convinced that four Supreme Venerables could kill Su Bai.

• The Fifth Ancestor awakened, learned that ascension was still decades away, and agreed to protect the crumbling Heavenly Palace.
• The Fifth Ancestor attacked Su Bai before breaking his seal, but Su Bai repelled him and forced him to return to the Supreme Venerable rank.
• Su Bai fought the Fifth and Sixth Ancestors together and remained evenly matched with them.
• The Heaven Lord, fearing Su Bai's rapid growth, called on the Third and Fourth Ancestors to awaken and join the battle.
• The Third and Fourth Ancestors arrived, and the Heaven Lord rejoiced that the Heavenly Palace now had four Supreme Venerables ready to face Su Bai.