Chapter Summaries

Su Bai rescued hundreds of discarded children from the Gao Household and learned from the beggar Tianzhu that the Immortal Realm’s lineage system trapped the lowborn in generations of exploitation. Tianzhu described his failed resistance and repeated imprisonment, while Su Bai remained determined to challenge the system.

• Su Bai erased the Gao Household members involved in discarding the unwanted children and sent the children to the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Tianzhu revealed that he was an Ascender who had once resisted the Gao Household but had been captured and had his Immortal Bone dug out seven times.
• Tianzhu explained that even a legendary Ascender could not change the Immortal Realm, where the Gao Household was only one of many powerful lineages.
• Tianzhu described how the Gao Household ranked its own descendants by their ancestors’ cultivation and relegated those without Loose Immortal ancestors to the outer city.
• Tianzhu explained that powerful lineages seized Loose Immortals from weaker groups to force them into mining, preventing lowborn people from advancing or resisting.

Su Bai learned from Tianzhu how lineage monopolies trapped the Immortal Realm’s lower classes and why Ascenders faced danger even after gaining power. He freed Tianzhu and returned with him to the Heavenly Dao Sect, then, ten years later, reached the Emperor Realm and vowed to bring down the Gao Household at the next Ascension.

• Tianzhu explained to Su Bai that the Immortal Realm’s lineages controlled resources and blocked the path to advancement for people born at the bottom rung.
• Su Bai asked Tianzhu to join him in destroying the Gao Household, and Tianzhu agreed after Su Bai promised to take him safely away.
• Su Bai shattered Tianzhu’s Order Chains, and Gao Yunxiao rushed back after sensing them break.
• Su Bai took Tianzhu back to the Heavenly Dao Sect before Gao Yunxiao could catch them.
• Ten years later, Zhuge Feng and Han Feiyu reached the Heavenly Venerable Realm, while Su Bai emerged from seclusion having attained the Emperor Realm and vowed to destroy the Gao Household at the next Ascension.

After recovering from thousands of years of imprisonment, Tianzhu became an honorary elder of the Heavenly Dao Sect and explained the Immortal Realm’s power structure to Su Bai. Su Bai learned that ascenders were systematically oppressed across the Northern Realm and that several immense forces held influence beyond it.

• Tianzhu recovered nearly to his peak, swore vengeance on the Gao Household, and thanked Su Bai for saving and restoring him.
• Su Bai appointed Tianzhu an honorary elder and asked him to explain the Immortal Realm’s distribution of power.
• Tianzhu described the Northern Realm’s eighteen great True Immortal Lineages, including the Gao Household, and said ten of them controlled the region’s Ascension Platforms.
• Tianzhu told Su Bai that the Lineages enslaved, sold, or cursed ascenders because they feared their potential to surpass them.
• Tianzhu named the Azurewood Immortal Sect, Heavenwatch Tower, Assassin Hall, and Myriad Treasures Hall as major forces beyond the Northern Realm.

Su Bai learned that his growing strength and the Heavenly Dao Sect’s development were not enough to challenge the Immortal Domain’s forces, so he considered expanding beyond his current world. After promising to take Yue'e back to her demon-overrun world, he realized system teleportation arrays could connect multiple realms and began imagining a vast network of worlds.

• Su Bai judged that confronting Gao Yunxiao could bring him into conflict with the Gao and Shi Households, whose True Immortals far outmatched the support available in his realm.
• Yue'e told Su Bai that her master had sent her to seek help for their demon-occupied world, but she could no longer find its location after ascending.
• Su Bai learned from the system that he could connect to Yue'e's Greater Realm using her essence blood and points, and he promised to take her there the next day.
• Yue'e gave Su Bai a drop of essence blood and left to prepare supplies for her return.
• Su Bai learned that system teleportation arrays could enable interrealm travel at increased Spirit Stone cost, and conceived of connecting many Greater Realms through them.

Su Bai and his disciples crossed into Elder Yue'e’s world to save the Human Race from fiend hordes besieging the Moon God Palace. His disciples began slaughtering the fiends, and Su Bai ended the Supreme Demon Venerable’s attack with a single word.

• Su Bai opened a passage to Elder Yue'e’s world, and his disciples eagerly joined him on the expedition.
• Su Bai, Elder Yue'e, and the disciples arrived at the Moon God Palace, where the last Human Race survivors were trapped by fiends.
• Elder Yue'e introduced Su Bai as the sect master who had come to save their world, and the Moon God Palace’s elders welcomed them.
• Su Bai sent his disciples into battle, and they rapidly killed the fiends, including Heavenly Venerable-level demons.
• The Supreme Demon Venerable attacked the Moon God Palace, but Su Bai froze it in midair with a single word.

Su Bai connected the Heavenly Dao Sect to the Moon God Palace’s world, where his disciples cleared out the demons and monsters and restored peace. He accepted the Moon God Palace into the sect and established its world as the Heavenly Dao Sect’s first branch, placing Elder Yue'e in charge.

• Su Bai created a Sub-Teleportation Array and sent Heavenly Dao Sect disciples to fight the remaining demons and monsters while he gathered the surviving humans at the Moon God Palace.
• Su Bai’s prestige won over more than two-thirds of the population, making the continent Heavenly Dao Sect Territory.
• Over the following year, the disciples pacified the world’s demons and monsters, then returned to their own world through the Teleportation Array.
• Elder Yue'e and the Moon God Palace powerhouses pledged allegiance to the Heavenly Dao Sect, and Su Bai accepted them as members.
• Su Bai established a branch sect in the world, entrusted its management to Elder Yue'e, and offered its people free Immortal Arts and a path to become official disciples.

After confirming that a branch sect in Tianzhu’s world could strengthen the Heavenly Dao Sect, Su Bai prepared to expand into hundreds more worlds and took Tianzhu back to his homeland. They arrived to find the world devastated by Tianzhu’s former friends and rivals, who were slaughtering its people to extend their lives.

• Over ten years, the Heavenly Dao Sect grew, three of Su Bai’s personal disciples became Heavenly Venerables, and more than a million people from Tianzhu’s world joined the sect.
• Su Bai confirmed that the branch sect was increasing his strength and planned to establish branches across more than five hundred worlds.
• Su Bai summoned Tianzhu, who recalled his homeland and the former friends and rivals he had left behind seven thousand years earlier.
• Su Bai opened a passage to Tianzhu World, where they saw dozens of Invincible Heavenly Venerables massacring people across the land.
• Tianzhu recognized his old friends among the killers, and Tian Xie and another Heavenly Venerable admitted they were slaughtering people to prolong their lives.

Su Bai helped Tianzhu recover from the devastation caused by his former rivals, then spent decades connecting more than five hundred worlds to the Heavenly Dao Sect. After a century of rapid growth, Su Bai prepared to confront the Gao Household and asked Tianzhu if he wanted revenge.

• Su Bai comforted Tianzhu, who had found his former force destroyed and learned that his defeat had driven many rivals to slaughter living beings.
• Tianzhu recovered, helped Su Bai establish a Heavenly Dao Sect branch in his realm, and became its branch master.
• Over fifty years, Su Bai connected more than five hundred worlds, named and organized them, and established a branch in each.
• Su Bai’s disciples and elders grew far stronger over the next century, while Nameless reached the Supreme Realm and Tianzhu recovered his Immortal Bone.
• With his strength more than ten times greater than before, Su Bai summoned Tianzhu and asked whether he wanted revenge against the Gao Household.

Su Bai released Jin Buhuan from his array and revealed that he had reached the True Immortal Realm, after which Tianzhu beat Jin Buhuan senseless. Su Bai sealed Jin Buhuan away again and took Tianzhu through the Ascension Passage, while the Azurewood Immortal Sect sent Jin Buhuan’s younger brother to search for him.

• Su Bai brought Tianzhu to the imprisoned Jin Buhuan and explained that the Azurewood Immortal Sect True Immortal had been suppressed for trying to destroy a world.
• Su Bai released Jin Buhuan, but his True Immortal pressure crushed Jin Buhuan and left him horrified at Su Bai’s strength.
• Su Bai told Tianzhu not to kill Jin Buhuan, and Tianzhu beat him until he begged for mercy.
• Su Bai sealed Jin Buhuan away again, then took Tianzhu through the Ascension Passage to the Immortal Realm.
• Jin Buhuan’s younger brother learned that his elder brother had gone missing and led the Azurewood Immortal Sect’s Enforcement Squad to search along his route.

Tianzhu returned to the Gao Household with Su Bai and slaughtered the elders guarding the Ascension Platform before battling the household’s assembled forces. As the Gao Household Head called for help, their True Immortal ancestor Gao Yunxiao arrived.

• Tianzhu appeared at the Ascension Platform with Su Bai and revealed himself to the three Gao Household elders who had imprisoned him.
• Tianzhu killed all three elders while Su Bai sent a clone to escort the gathered Ascenders to the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• The Gao Household Head arrived with dozens of experts and led them in an attack on Tianzhu.
• Tianzhu overpowered the Gao Household forces and killed another Seventh-Rank Heavenly Immortal.
• The Gao Household Head pleaded for the ancestor’s intervention, and Gao Yunxiao arrived with a powerful aura.

Su Bai arrived at the Gao Household and defeated Gao Yunxiao in a single strike, declaring that the clan would perish for its crimes and for harming his disciple. Gao Yunxiao summoned two allied True Immortals, but Su Bai hinted that he was not alone.

• Tianzhu killed another Gao Household elder despite Gao Yunxiao's arrival.
• Su Bai appeared and shattered Gao Yunxiao's attack, then fought him with tenfold battle power and defeated him in one strike.
• Su Bai condemned the Gao Household for enslaving and killing ascenders and declared that he would destroy the clan.
• Gao Yunxiao summoned the Shi Household's True Immortal and a stronger True Immortal from the Wang Clan of the Northern Plains.
• Su Bai laughed and said he was not alone.

Su Bai faced Gao Yunxiao, the Shi Household True Immortal, and the Wang Clan True Immortal, while two other True Immortals appeared to accept a bribe to stay out of the fight. As the three attacked Su Bai, the pair turned on the other two, revealing that they had never promised not to beat them.

• Su Bai's two True Immortal allies emerged, matching the enemy side's numbers, but accepted one million Immortal Crystals from the Shi Household True Immortal and stepped aside.
• Gao Yunxiao and the other two True Immortals renewed their confidence and prepared to attack Su Bai.
• The Wang Clan True Immortal dismissed Su Bai's warning, and Gao Yunxiao boasted of the Wang Clan's strength.
• Gao Yunxiao, the Shi Household True Immortal, and the Wang Clan True Immortal attacked Su Bai together, but two figures suddenly struck the Shi Household and Wang Clan True Immortals.
• The Fire Lotus True Immortal told the furious Shi Household True Immortal that they had promised not to help Su Bai, not that they would not beat his enemies.

Su Bai and his Second True Self and clone defeated Gao Yunxiao, the Shi Household True Immortal, and the Wang Clan True Immortal, while Tianzhu overwhelmed the Gao Household inside the city. As other Northern Realm True Immortals hesitated to intervene, the Gao Household Patriarch revealed a Voice Transmission Jade Slip linked to the Azurewood Immortal Sect, and Su Bai appeared quietly pleased.

• Su Bai's Second True Self and clone joined him in battle, and the Shi Household and Wang Clan True Immortals attacked them after realizing they had been tricked.
• Tianzhu defeated Gao Household Heavenly Immortals and injured the Gao Household Patriarch, declaring that the Patriarch had needed hostages to capture him thousands of years earlier.
• Su Bai defeated Gao Yunxiao, while his Second True Self and clone defeated the Shi and Wang True Immortals, leaving all three surrounded.
• Gao Yunxiao called on other Northern Realm True Immortals to seize the three Ascenders, but Su Bai warned that he would fight anyone who interfered with his destruction of the Gao Household.
• The Gao Household Patriarch produced a Voice Transmission Jade Slip connected to the Azurewood Immortal Sect, and Gao Yunxiao regained confidence as Su Bai smiled faintly.

Su Bai exposed Gao Yunxiao’s appeal to the Azurewood Immortal Sect as a trick of his own, then led the destruction of the Gao Household and killed three True Immortals. He claimed Gao Household City as a foothold for the Heavenly Dao Sect, leaving the Northern Realm’s power structure poised to change.

• Gao Yunxiao summoned help with a Voice Transmission Jade Slip, but its message returned through Su Bai’s slip and revealed that Su Bai had once impersonated Jin Buhuan.
• Su Bai killed Gao Yunxiao, while Tianzhu fought the Gao Household elders and Flame True Immortal killed the Shi Household’s True Immortal with a Twelve-Colored Fire Lotus.
• The Wang Clan’s True Immortal tried to withdraw, but Su Bai, his Second True Self, and his clone attacked together and killed him.
• Tianzhu killed the Gao Household head and avenged himself, while Su Bai’s side eliminated the Gao Household’s remaining powerful experts.
• Su Bai declared that the Gao Household had fallen and announced Gao Household City as the Heavenly Dao Sect’s foothold in the Immortal Realm.

Su Bai and Tianzhu uncovered records showing that the Gao Household had exploited millions of Ascenders, and they set out to rescue the survivors. Su Bai reached an Immortal Crystal Mine, killed its Gao Household guard, and freed the maidservants, while the miners remained to be rescued.

• Tianzhu showed Su Bai the Ascender List, which recorded millions of Ascenders sold, enslaved, mined, abused, or stripped of their Immortal Bones.
• Tianzhu identified more than ten thousand recent Ascenders who might still be alive, and Su Bai ordered them to split up and rescue everyone listed.
• Su Bai, Tianzhu, and Su Bai's Second True Self began searching the recorded locations while Su Bai's clone guarded Gao Household City.
• At a Gao Household Immortal Crystal Mine, an Ascender protested years of forced labor and was whipped and kicked into a mining pit.
• Su Bai appeared at the mine's palace, killed the Ninth-grade Heavenly Immortal elder, and told the maidservants they were free to go home.

Su Bai destroyed the Gao Household and freed its miners and countless enslaved people. He invited the Ascenders and anyone with nowhere to go to join his Heavenly Dao Sect, leaving them with a new home and a force to rely on.

• Su Bai freed the mining grounds and invited the rescued Ascenders to follow him and establish a force in the Immortal Realm.
• Su Bai and Tianzhu returned to Gao Household City with more than six thousand surviving Ascenders.
• The Gao Household members rioted as they faced their Household’s destruction, and Su Bai suppressed them.
• Su Bai declared the servants in Gao Household City free, and many left to seek their Lineages.
• Su Bai invited those with nowhere to go to join his Heavenly Dao Sect and promised they would no longer be slaves.

Su Bai and Tianzhu led the Ascenders in destroying the Gao Household in retaliation for its oppression, then Su Bai turned to the countless impoverished families in its territory. He proclaimed that he would establish the Heavenly Dao Sect there and create a territory where everyone was equal and could cultivate for free.

• Tianzhu argued that the Gao Household clansmen had to be killed to prevent future threats, and thousands of Ascenders demanded their deaths.
• Su Bai agreed, and Tianzhu and the Ascenders attacked Gao Household City, turning it into a battlefield.
• Su Bai saw the scattered families across the Gao Household's vast territory, who had been exploited and taken as slaves for generations.
• Tianzhu recalled his failed efforts to protect those families before the Heavenly Dao Sect had the strength to challenge the Gao Household.
• Su Bai decided to save the families and use their faith to establish the Heavenly Dao Sect in the Immortal Realm.
• Su Bai proclaimed the Gao Household's destruction and declared that everyone in Heavenly Dao Sect Territory would be equal and could cultivate immortality for free.

Su Bai’s declaration of equality inspired enslaved people across the Northern Realm to gather in Gao Household City, completing the Heavenly Dao Sect’s first foothold in the Immortal Realm. As Tianzhu began settling the newcomers, hostile Northern Realm True Immortals plotted to destroy the sect and seize its resources.

• A freed Loose Immortal returned to his father, who had believed his son was dead, and said Su Bai had saved them from the mines.
• Su Bai’s words stirred hope among oppressed people throughout the region, and many set out toward the light he raised above Gao Household City.
• Hundreds of millions of arrivals brought their Source of Faith into the city, joining the crimson radiance and establishing the Heavenly Dao Sect’s territory.
• Su Bai ordered Tianzhu to give everyone a place to live and enough food, then turned his attention toward the watching True Immortals.
• The Northern Realm True Immortals condemned the Heavenly Dao Sect and resolved to destroy it, while also discussing how to divide Shi Household City’s assets.

The Heavenly Dao Sect consolidated its gains in Gao Household City while its disciples welcomed new Ascenders. Situ Chen, a famed Great Emperor, ascended and temporarily joined the sect, delighted by the peaceful life he saw there.

• The Heavenly Dao Sect held back from further expansion as the sixteen True Immortal lineages fought over the Shi Household's spoils.
• Su Bai's disciples explored Gao Household City, and Xiao Lingxi, Mu Lingxian, and Ye Qingyao waited at the Ascension Platform to welcome newcomers.
• Situ Chen ascended from his world and arrived at the Heavenly Dao Sect's Ascension Platform.
• Xiao Lingxi explained that Situ Chen could join the sect or explore the Immortal Realm on his own, and he chose to join temporarily.
• Situ Chen saw the sect's people living happily and concluded that the Immortal Realm was wonderful.

After learning about the three tiers of True Immortals, Su Bai realized his strength could protect him across the Northern Realm. As the other True Immortal lineages turned their attention toward the growing Heavenly Dao Sect, he headed to the Northern Realm True Immortal Assembly.

• Situ Chen thanked Su Bai and departed as a new elder of the Heavenly Dao Sect, while Su Bai judged that he could eventually become a True Immortal.
• Su Bai studied the Gao Household's records and learned about Immortal-Fruit, Immortal Ranking, and Heavenly Dao True Immortals, along with the Northern Realm's levels of True Immortal strength.
• Su Bai assessed his power as roughly equal to a Fifth-layer True Immortal with the Divine Forbidden Domain activated, enough to protect himself across the Northern Realm.
• Over the next fifty years, the Heavenly Dao Sect grew as Ascenders joined, and the Northern Realm's True Immortal lineages divided the Shi Household's interests.
• The Northern Realm's True Immortals turned their attention toward the Heavenly Dao Sect, and Su Bai set off for the Northern Realm True Immortal Assembly.