Chapter Summaries

The newly awakened ancestors of the Heavenly Palace joined the battle and tried to persuade Su Bai to support their plan to ascend, but he exposed their forgotten past and refused. Surrounded by all four ancestors, Su Bai unleashed tenfold battle power and appeared to enter the Emperor realm.

• The Third and Fourth Ancestors of the Heavenly Palace arrived to help the Fifth and Sixth Ancestors defeat Su Bai.
• The Third Ancestor urged Su Bai to join the Heavenly Palace’s plan to unite the Human Race, suppress the Demon Realm, and ascend.
• Su Bai revealed that the Third and Fourth Ancestors had once been leaders and protectors of the Human Race, and the ancestors rejected their former identities and chose immortality.
• The Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Ancestors surrounded Su Bai and attacked him after he refused to turn back.
• Su Bai activated the Divine Forbidden Domain and increased his battle power tenfold, shocking the ancestors with an aura that seemed to reach the Emperor realm.

Su Bai overwhelmed the Fifth Ancestor of the Heavenly Palace and pursued him into the Ascension Passage when he tried to escape by ascending. Su Bai killed him on the path, while the remaining Heavenly Palace ancestors and the Heaven Lord hoped his departure would leave the Heavenly Dao Sect vulnerable.

• Su Bai unleashed overwhelming power and repeatedly battered the Fifth Ancestor of the Heavenly Palace while the other three ancestors refused to intervene.
• The Fifth Ancestor, pushed to the brink, opened the Ascension Passage, and the Third, Fourth, and Sixth Ancestors retreated from it in fear.
• Su Bai learned from the system that he could still teleport between the Immortal Realm and the mortal world, then followed the Fifth Ancestor into the passage.
• The Heaven Lord and the remaining Heavenly Palace ancestors expected Su Bai's ascension to leave the Heavenly Dao Sect exposed.
• Su Bai slew the Fifth Ancestor on the Ascension Passage, and blood rain across the Central Province marked the Supreme Venerable's death.

Su Bai spent his second Heart Demon trial trying to secure the Human Race’s future by cultivating a Heavenly Venerable, but none appeared before his time ran out. He killed the Demon Race’s Heavenly Venerables, then returned to watch history unfold and discovered that the Human Race’s eventual first Heavenly Venerable still did not prevent its later failure.

• Before ascending, Su Bai revealed that the Heavenly Dao Sect had another Great Emperor guarding it, discouraging the Heavenly Palace from attacking.
• In the Heart Demon World, Su Bai unified the continent’s Human Race and spent a hundred years teaching the Dao, but no one reached the Heavenly Venerable Realm.
• On his final day, Su Bai entered the Demon Realm and killed the Demon Race’s Heavenly Venerables before leaving the trial.
• Su Bai realized he had failed again because he still could not sense the system, so he returned to observe what happened after his departure.
• Five hundred years later, a rescued youth became the Human Race’s first Heavenly Venerable, titled War Heavenly Venerable, and Su Bai began investigating why the Human Race still failed.

Su Bai witnessed War Heavenly Venerable betray the Human Race, suppress its future Heavenly Venerables, and leave it vulnerable to the Demon Race, then returned to the great forest and suspected someone nearby could break the cycle. Elsewhere, Su Bai arrived at the Immortal Realm’s Ascension Platform, where Gao Pan welcomed the newly arrived ascenders.

• War Heavenly Venerable grew jealous of Su Bai’s reputation, secretly altered the Heavenly Venerable Immortal Arts, and prevented other Human Race experts from advancing.
• War Heavenly Venerable seized control of the Human Race, destroyed Su Bai’s statues, and made the people suffer under his rule.
• The Demon Race invaded with ten Heavenly Venerables, defeated the Human Race, and killed War Heavenly Venerable after he defected to them.
• Su Bai returned to the great forest at the start of his third Heart Demon Tribulation and wondered whether Peerless Heavenly Venerable was nearby.
• Su Bai appeared among new arrivals at the Immortal Realm’s Ascension Platform, where Gao Pan congratulated the ascenders.

Su Bai concealed himself among the newly ascended cultivators as Gao Pan welcomed them to the Immortal Realm and described the Azurewood Immortal Sect. Gao Pan explained the Immortal Dao’s realms and invited the Ascenders to join the sect, while Su Bai remained wary of the seemingly welcoming world.

• Su Bai concealed himself and assessed the Ascenders and guards, finding only a few Ascenders at the Supreme Realm and sensing that Gao Pan was a pseudo-Emperor.
• Gao Pan introduced the Heavenly Sword Immortal Domain, the Azurewood Immortal Sect, and the sect’s Ascension Platform, then offered the Ascenders discipleship without testing.
• The Ascenders asked Gao Pan about the Immortal Realm, its cultivation ranks, and how to convert their power into Immortal Power.
• Su Bai observed the Ascenders and suspected their home worlds differed from his, while remaining cautious about the Immortal Realm.
• Gao Pan outlined the mortal and spirit cultivation stages and the Immortal Dao realms, identifying the three Supreme Realm Ascenders as Earth Immortals and himself as a Celestial Immortal.

Gao Pan deceived the ascenders at the Ascension Platform by claiming the Azurewood Immortal Sect would recruit them, then sold them to the Wang Clan as mine workers. The furious ascenders realized they had been enslaved, while Su Bai watched Gao Pan’s scheme unfold.

• Gao Pan offered core disciple positions to ascenders who had reached the Heavenly Venerable Realm before age one thousand, and Li Feiyang stepped forward, saying he had cultivated for eight hundred years.
• Gao Pan welcomed Li Feiyang and handed out jade identity tokens to the other ascenders, who trusted him and put them on.
• Gao Pan counted 521 ascenders, including three Earth Immortals, and demanded payment from a middle-aged Celestial Immortal of the Wang Clan.
• The Wang Clan man paid Gao Pan in Immortal Crystals, explaining that the young, powerful ascenders would make cheap miners.
• The ascenders realized Gao Pan had sold them into slavery and erupted in anger.

Gao Pan used the Iron Rings to subdue the Ascenders and force them into slavery, while Su Bai watched from hiding and considered his chance to act. The chapter ended as three Supreme Venerables whose rings were fake tried to escape, throwing the Ascension Platform into chaos.

• Gao Pan shocked the Ascenders with their Iron Rings and killed more than a dozen who refused to submit.
• Gao Pan declared the Ascenders to be slaves, then singled out a beautiful immortal maiden to make his concubine.
• Gao Pan gave the purple control box to the middle-aged Heavenly Immortal, who agreed that the deaths were acceptable, and promised the Wang Clan priority on the next batch of Ascenders.
• Su Bai watched in hiding and eyed the Immortal Crystals, while Gao Pan prepared to extract Li Feiyang's Immortal Bone for sale.
• Three Supreme Venerables with fake Iron Rings tried to flee, and Gao Pan ordered the Earth Immortals to stop them as chaos erupted on the Ascension Platform.

Three Ascenders battled Gao Pan and his Earth Immortal guards until the Wang Clan Heavenly Immortal betrayed Gao Pan and killed him. As the Wang Clan Heavenly Immortal tried to stage the scene, an unseen attacker struck him with a Wooden Sword.

• Three Supreme Ascenders killed several Earth Immortal guards and fought Gao Pan after he joined the battle.
• The Wang Clan Heavenly Immortal captured the three Ascenders and accepted the Iron Ring controller from Gao Pan.
• The Wang Clan Heavenly Immortal killed Gao Pan’s last three guards with hidden weapons and stabbed Gao Pan through the heart.
• The Wang Clan Heavenly Immortal killed Gao Pan, concealed the Storage Ring, and injured himself to pose as a victim.
• A Wooden Sword suddenly pierced the Wang Clan Heavenly Immortal’s chest, revealing that someone else was present.

Su Bai killed the Wang Clan Heavenly Immortal, framed the Wang Clan for Gao Pan’s death, and escaped with more than five hundred Ascenders. He returned to the Heavenly Dao Sect with a huge influx of powerful followers, leaving Zhuge Feng stunned by their sudden arrival.

• Su Bai killed the Wang Clan Heavenly Immortal, burned his corpse, and left a message and Recording Stone blaming the Wang Clan for Gao Pan’s murder.
• Su Bai used the system to transport himself and more than five hundred Ascenders away as the Gao Household’s experts arrived.
• The Gao Household viewed the Recording Stone, identified the attacker as an elder from the Wang Clan of Clear River City, and prepared to attack the clan.
• Su Bai brought the Ascenders back to the Heavenly Dao Sect, greatly increasing its strength with dozens of Invincible Heavenly Venerables and three Supreme Venerables.
• Hundreds of powerful figures appeared before Zhuge Feng on Heavenly Dao Mountain, shaking the Heavenly Dao Sect.

Su Bai brought more than five hundred Ascenders back from the Immortal Realm and offered them a choice between returning to mine or joining the Heavenly Dao Sect. They all joined, giving the sect a real force of over five hundred Heavenly Venerables, and Su Bai ordered a declaration of war against the Heavenly Palace.

• Nameless, Gu Xuan, Lei Ming, and the other Heavenly Venerables rushed to Heavenly Dao Mountain and were shocked by the arrival of more than five hundred Ascenders.
• Su Bai explained that they were in his world and offered to send them back to the Immortal Realm or let them join the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Su Bai destroyed Gao Pan's control box, removing the iron collars from the Ascenders, and promised to lead them back to the Immortal Realm to defeat the immortals who had enslaved them.
• Li Feiyang, the three Supreme Venerables, Yue'e, and all the other Ascenders agreed to join the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Su Bai ordered a declaration of war to be delivered to the Heavenly Palace, announcing that the sect's more than five hundred Heavenly Venerables awaited them.

The Heavenly Palace decided to fight the Heavenly Dao Sect despite doubting reports of its five hundred Heavenly Venerables, hoping to capture Su Bai and learn about the Immortal Realm. Meanwhile, “Su Bai” examined the Immortal Crystals Gao Pan had brought back and discovered that they contained Longevity Aura.

• The Heaven Lord argued that the Heavenly Dao Sect’s reported strength was an illusion and that Su Bai was likely injured or had not returned from the Immortal Realm.
• The Third Ancestor of the Heavenly Palace ordered the Heavenly Palace to fight and capture Su Bai, and he hinted that more allies would join them.
• At the Heavenly Dao Sect, “Su Bai” examined the Immortal Crystals that Gao Pan had obtained by selling Ascenders.
• “Su Bai” learned that Immortal Crystals could supply the energy for Ascenders to transform into Immortals, but that transforming too early would waste their potential.
• “Su Bai” discovered that the Immortal Crystals also contained a trace of Longevity Aura.

Su Bai discovered the young Wu Wushuang in the Heart Demon World and helped him begin his path toward revenge against the demon beasts. The chapter ended with Wu Wushuang reaching Qi Refining and accepting Su Bai as his master.

• Su Bai learned that Longevity Aura in Immortal Crystals could directly extend a cultivator's lifespan beyond its limit.
• After two failures, Su Bai searched the Heart Demon World for Peerless Heavenly Venerable in his youth.
• Su Bai found a frail youth practicing sword swings with a crude Wooden Sword and heard him vow to avenge his tribe.
• Su Bai challenged Wu Wushuang's belief that passion alone could defeat the demon beasts, and Wu Wushuang reaffirmed his resolve to fight.
• Su Bai taught Wu Wushuang Immortal Arts, restored his body, and helped him reach Qi Refining.
• Wu Wushuang cut down a small tree with his Wooden Sword, then knelt and named himself Su Bai's disciple.

Su Bai trained Wu Wushuang, who rose from an oppressed mortal to the Human Race’s foremost champion and won the Sacred City decades of peace. As Wu Wushuang’s story unfolded, the Heaven Lord led the Heavenly Dao Sect and Heavenly Palace forces into battle against the Heavenly Venerables and beings gathered across Central Province.

• Wu Wushuang told Su Bai his true name was Wu Qier and explained that he had chosen Wushuang to represent his ambition to change the Human Race’s Fate.
• Su Bai taught Wu Wushuang cultivation, swordsmanship, concealment, and forbearance, and Wu Wushuang reached Qi Refining Grand Perfection in just over a month.
• After five years of training, Wu Wushuang asked to take revenge, and Su Bai sent him to destroy the demon beasts that had enslaved his clan.
• Wu Wushuang led his clansmen through a dangerous struggle for survival, reached the Venerable Realm, and fought his way into the Human Race Sacred City.
• Wu Wushuang became the Human Race’s strongest fighter and held off a Demon Race Heavenly Venerable for seven days and seven nights, earning the Human Race fifty years of peace.
• The Heaven Lord dismissed claims that the opposing forces numbered more than five hundred Heavenly Venerables and led his side into battle.

The Heavenly Dao Sect and the Heavenly Palace gathered their full forces in Central Province for a battle that would decide control of the continent. The Heavenly Palace’s army charged into a trap, where the sect revealed more than five hundred Heavenly Venerables.

• The Heavenly Dao Sect assembled 560 fighters, including four Supreme Venerables, while the Heavenly Palace and its allies brought four Supreme Venerables and more than eighty Heavenly Venerables.
• Heaven Lord led the Heavenly Palace and Demon Realm forces in a charge, believing the Heavenly Dao Sect’s fighters were disguised Great Venerables.
• Nameless ordered the Heavenly Dao Sect’s forces to open a gap and let their enemies enter the encirclement.
• Dragon Emperor Ao Ye fought Phoenix Emperor Feng Tian as the other six Supreme Venerables clashed above the battlefield.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect closed the encirclement and unleashed more than five hundred Heavenly Venerables, leaving Heaven Lord and his allies stunned.

The Heavenly Dao Sect turned on the Heaven Lord and massacred the Heavenly Palace’s heavenly venerables, while its Supreme Ascenders struggled against the Palace’s ancient ancestors. The Sixth Ancestor joined forces with two Supreme Venerables to ambush the Fourth Ancestor, shattering his body with Soul-Annihilating Nails.

• Nameless and the Heavenly Dao Sect’s venerables attacked the Heaven Lord as the Heavenly Palace and Demon Race venerables cursed him for causing their losses.
• More than five hundred heavenly venerables overwhelmed the Heavenly Palace’s force, and the Ancient Clan’s seven venerables killed a Gold-Eating Rat Clan venerable.
• Nameless wounded the Heaven Lord while the Heavenly Palace’s venerables fell, but the Third, Fourth, and Sixth Ancestors gained the upper hand against the Heavenly Dao Sect’s three Supreme Ascenders.
• The Sixth Ancestor moved close to the Fourth Ancestor and launched a surprise attack with a Supreme Ascender, while another Supreme Ascender prevented the Fourth Ancestor from defending.
• The three Supreme Venerables struck the Fourth Ancestor with their Soul-Annihilating Nails and shattered his body.

The Sixth Ancestor of the Heavenly Palace revealed that he had helped the Heavenly Dao Sect kill the Fourth Ancestor and exposed the hidden ruler’s plans to exploit and refine the continent. He declared that he had never abandoned the Human Race, and Nameless realized he had misjudged the Grand Elder.

• The Sixth Ancestor of the Heavenly Palace used fourteen Soul-Annihilating Nails to kill the Fourth Ancestor of the Heavenly Palace during the battle.
• The Third Ancestor of the Heavenly Palace denounced Sixth Brother as a traitor and warned that the great figure would soon awaken and destroy the Heavenly Dao Sect and Su Bai.
• The Sixth Ancestor of the Heavenly Palace said the great figure treated them as servants and would never truly share a chance to become immortal.
• The Sixth Ancestor of the Heavenly Palace revealed that the great figure had destroyed the Heaven-Defying Sect, founded the Heavenly Palace and Immortal Alliance, drained the Human Race’s resources, and now planned to refine the continent.
• The Sixth Ancestor of the Heavenly Palace explained that he had once been the Heaven-Defying Sect’s Grand Elder and had negotiated to preserve half the continent’s resources for the Human Race.
• Nameless realized that he had wrongly believed the Grand Elder had betrayed the Heaven-Defying Sect.

The Sixth Ancestor revealed his Half-Step Emperor strength and fought the Third Ancestor, but the War Emperor appeared to support the Heavenly Palace. The Sixth Ancestor then broke through to the Emperor Realm and began battling the War Emperor.

• The Sixth Ancestor urged the Third Ancestor to leave the Heavenly Palace, then revealed his Half-Step Emperor strength and struck him down.
• The Third Ancestor called for his Second Brother, and the War Emperor emerged as an Emperor-level powerhouse.
• The War Emperor claimed his Emperor status and confronted the Sixth Ancestor, who denounced him for destroying the Heaven-Defying Sect.
• The Sixth Ancestor broke through to the Emperor Realm and challenged the War Emperor to avenge the Heaven-Defying Sect.
• The two Great Emperors exchanged attacks, beginning their battle.

The Heavenly Dao Sect gained the upper hand as its forces overwhelmed the Heavenly Palace and Demon Realm, while the Sixth Ancestor resumed his four-thousand-year-delayed battle with the War Emperor. The Emperor fight remained undecided as both sides unleashed their full strength.

• The Sixth Ancestor and the War Emperor resumed their old battle, while Ao Ye and Feng Tian fought in their true forms and the three Supreme Ascenders besieged the wounded Third Ancestor of the Heavenly Palace.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect’s forces pushed the Heavenly Palace and Demon Realm toward defeat, leaving fewer than twenty of their Heavenly Venerables alive against more than five hundred Heavenly Dao Sect Heavenly Venerables.
• The Heaven Lord cursed the Heavenly Dao Sect and called for its destruction, but the sect’s experts charged forward and continued the battle.
• Ao Ye gained the advantage over Feng Tian, while the Third Ancestor of the Heavenly Palace suffered grave wounds against the three Supreme Ascenders’ life-risking attacks.
• The Sixth Ancestor and the War Emperor traded devastating blows and renewed their fierce Emperor battle, with neither side yet yielding.

After a hundred years in the Heart Demon World, Su Bai reunited with Wu Wushuang, who had become the Human Race’s guardian and was preparing to enter seclusion. Su Bai departed for his own world, while Wu Wushuang vowed to reach the Immortal Realm and meet his master again.

• Su Bai returned to the place where Wu Wushuang had once practiced with a Wooden Sword and reflected on how he had become the Human Race’s pillar.
• Wu Wushuang found Su Bai, knelt to pay his respects, and insisted that Su Bai would always be his master.
• Su Bai told Wu Wushuang that he was leaving and warned him that the Immortal Realm was a larger, harsher world rather than a paradise.
• After spending the afternoon talking, Su Bai faded away as the hundred-year period ended, and Wu Wushuang bowed farewell through his tears.
• Wu Wushuang resolved to enter seclusion, reach the Heavenly Venerable Realm, protect the Human Race, and reunite with Su Bai in the Immortal Realm.

The Heavenly Dao Sect overwhelmed the Heavenly Palace, but an immortal appeared through an ancient gateway and threatened the Sixth Ancestor. Su Bai blocked his attack and identified him as Jin Buhuan, a wounded True Immortal whose cultivation had recovered to the Ninth-Grade Celestial Immortal Realm.

• Nameless killed the Heaven Lord, and the Heavenly Palace’s Heavenly Venerables were wiped out; the Heavenly Dao Sect later defeated the Third Ancestor and Feng Tian.
• The Sixth Ancestor burned his lifespan and suppressed the War Emperor, who called on someone within an ancient gateway for help.
• A golden palm descended from the gateway, but Su Bai appeared and cut it apart with a powerful sword strike.
• A young immortal emerged behind the gateway and challenged Su Bai, claiming he was no more than a seventh-grade Heavenly Immortal.
• Su Bai spent one billion points to inspect the immortal’s information and learned his name was Jin Buhuan, a wounded True Immortal whose cultivation had recovered to the Ninth-Grade Celestial Immortal Realm.