Chapter Summaries

Zhang Kuang revealed that he had been a ninety-nine-year-old Fourth-Level Nascent Soul prodigy who Xiao Di defeated in one move, leaving the crowd unimpressed. Nine hundred and eighty years into the thousand-year pact, Su Bai watched his disciples pursue paths beyond the Emperor Realm, while Han Feiyu had already surpassed it.

• Zhang Kuang announced that he had competed with Xiao Di at the Fourth-Level Nascent Soul Realm, and another Heavenly Venerable recalled that Xiao Di had defeated him in one move when Xiao Di was still in the Golden Core Realm.
• The crowd learned Zhang Kuang had been ninety-nine at the time and lost interest in his supposed prodigy status.
• After another hundred and eighty years, Su Bai observed that his disciples had all reached the pinnacle of the Emperor Realm while suppressing their realms to pursue stronger paths.
• Zhuge Feng transcended the World Origin and became powerful enough to battle a True Immortal, a path that might be called the World Immortal path.
• Xiao Lingxi pursued the Supreme Sword Immortal path, Xiao Yan collected and fused hundreds of thousands of powerful flames, and Ye Qingyao evolved her Mortal Body into a Spirit Body.
• Mu Lingxian sought to master her demonic corruption and forge the Demon Immortal Path, while Han Feiyu remained ahead of the others and had surpassed the Emperor Realm.

Su Bai led the Heavenly Dao Sect through a collective ascension, opening a passage to the Immortal Realm and raising the entire Heavenly Dao Mountain into it. The sect arrived at the gateway with the mortal world still accessible, as Su Bai prepared for a new journey.

• Su Bai considered the distinct Daos of his disciples and supported each of them in following their own paths.
• When the thousand-year deadline arrived, ten billion members of the Heavenly Dao Sect gathered on Heavenly Dao Mountain for Sect-wide Ascension.
• Su Bai asked whether they were willing to wage war upon the Immortal Realm, and the assembled sect answered with a resounding yes.
• Su Bai gathered the sect's power and opened a vast rift in the heavens, revealing the Immortal Realm and its torrent of immortal light.
• Immortal light washed over the sect, and Heavenly Dao Mountain rose from the earth and passed through the Immortal Gate with its people and buildings.
• Su Bai looked back at the mortal world as the sect ascended, knowing that members could travel between the realms and that the journey was not over.

Heavenly Dao Mountain ascended into the Immortal Realm, and Su Bai used its reward to strengthen the mountain and the Heavenly Dao Sect’s forces. He gave the sect one year to prepare before launching a campaign across the Immortal Realm, while the Northern Realm’s True Immortals plotted against them.

• Heavenly Dao Mountain emerged in Heavenly Dao City, and Su Bai used the immortal energy to upgrade its spirit veins into two Immortal Crystal Veins.
• After a thousand years of growth, the Heavenly Dao Sect commanded millions of Heavenly Immortals, over ten million Heavenly Venerables, and more than one hundred thousand Emperor Realm experts.
• The Northern Realm’s True Immortals discussed joining forces to seize the Heavenly Dao Sect’s assets when its Immortal Crystal debt came due.
• Su Bai opened the Immortal Ascension Platform, offered sect members discounted Supreme-grade Celestial Immortal Pills, and ordered them to maximize their strength within a year.
• Ascenders converted their power into Immortal Power, and the pills raised the sect’s Heavenly Immortals to at least the fourth grade; Su Bai used the year to prepare for an Eight-Star Sect requirement.
• Su Bai announced that the Heavenly Dao Sect would begin its campaign across the Immortal Realm in one year.

After the Heavenly Dao Sect’s Heavenly Immortal ranks swelled, Su Bai rewarded the Grand Elder and four senior figures with Immortalization Fruits for their service. The four Battle Immortal cultivators accepted the fruits despite not needing them, and the gathered elders renewed their devotion to the sect.

• The Heavenly Dao Sect reached two million Heavenly Immortals, including ten thousand Ninth-grade Heavenly Immortals, while Xue Wuya stood behind Su Bai as a Ninth-layer True Immortal.
• Su Bai awarded the Grand Elder an Immortalization Fruit for his years of service and work infiltrating the Heavenly Palace, and the Grand Elder accepted it with gratitude.
• Su Bai gave Immortalization Fruits to Tianzhu, Situ Chen, Yu Yan, and Nameless for their contributions to the sect.
• Tianzhu, Situ Chen, Yu Yan, and Nameless said they could become True Immortals without the fruits, but Su Bai insisted they keep them to use or give away as they wished.

Su Bai distributed Immortalization Fruits and led the Heavenly Dao Sect to grow to more than fifty True Immortals, then upgraded it to an Eight-Star Sect and prepared to expand its influence across the Immortal Realm. As the sect faced a new mission to win the submission of powerful factions, more than a dozen True Immortals arrived to demand repayment of tenfold Immortal Crystals.

• Su Bai awarded Immortalization Fruits to his nine great disciples and allowed qualified Peak Ninth-grade Heavenly Immortals to obtain fruits on credit.
• The First Elder, Dragon Emperor Ao Ye, and many other sect members became True Immortals, leaving the Heavenly Dao Sect with more than fifty True Immortals after half a year.
• The system rewarded Su Bai with a Flat Peach Tree and confirmed that the Heavenly Dao Sect had advanced to Eight-Star status.
• Su Bai prepared to lead the sect to become renowned throughout the Immortal Realm and received a mission requiring a Profound Immortal faction and one hundred True Immortal factions to submit.
• More than a dozen True Immortals arrived outside Heavenly Dao City and asked Su Bai to settle the tenfold Immortal Crystal debt due after a thousand years.

Su Bai returned to Heavenly Dao City and paid the fourteen True Immortal lineages more than one million Immortal Crystals, but they demanded the rest of his wealth and prepared to destroy the Heavenly Dao Sect. He faced their alliance of sixteen True Immortals and fifty thousand Heavenly Immortals, then asked whether that was all they had brought.

• The True Immortal ancestors mocked Su Bai as dead and gathered outside Heavenly Dao City, intending to wipe out the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Su Bai appeared alive, shattered their combined aura, and handed the Wang Clan ancestor the Immortal Crystals owed for the clan's Ascenders.
• Su Bai paid every True Immortal lineage the Immortal Crystals owed for a thousand years, totaling more than one million.
• The ancestors demanded all the Heavenly Dao Sect's remaining Immortal Crystals and threatened to level Heavenly Dao City after learning the sect had no backer.
• The Wang Clan ancestor summoned nearly ten thousand Heavenly Immortals, and other lineages joined with over forty thousand more and fifteen additional True Immortals.
• Su Bai laughed at the assembled force and asked whether the sixteen True Immortals and fifty thousand Heavenly Immortals were all they had brought.

Su Bai faced the Wang Clan’s newly emerged Seventh-Tier True Immortal and the Greenleaf Immortal Sect’s army, which had joined forces to destroy the Heavenly Dao Sect. He revealed that the sect had sixty-six True Immortals and over a million Heavenly Immortals, leaving the attackers stunned.

• The Wang Clan’s Great Patriarch emerged from seclusion as a Seventh-Tier True Immortal and threatened Su Bai.
• Su Bai called out the Greenleaf Immortal Sect, whose hundred-thousand-strong army arrived with an Eighth-level True Immortal leading it.
• Gao Yun asked his senior brother to avenge the destroyed Gao Household, and the Greenleaf Immortal Sect ordered the Heavenly Dao Sect slaughtered.
• The Wang Clan and the Greenleaf Immortal Sect prepared to attack with more than thirty True Immortals and one hundred fifty thousand Heavenly Immortals.
• Su Bai summoned the Heavenly Dao Sect’s forces, revealing sixty-six True Immortals and more than a million mid- to high-grade Heavenly Immortals.

Su Bai led the Heavenly Dao Sect into battle against the Greenleaf Immortal Sect and the fourteen great True Immortal Lineages, whose leaders were stunned by the sect’s overwhelming forces. The Heavenly Dao Sect massacred the enemy Heavenly Immortals, and the Wang Clan’s First Ancestor was killed by a sudden arrow.

• The Wang Clan's ancestor and Gao Yun reacted with disbelief when the Heavenly Dao Sect revealed its vast army of True Immortals and Heavenly Immortals.
• Su Bai ordered the Heavenly Dao Sect to attack after the Greenleaf Immortal Sect's senior brother called the sect rebels and led the allied forces into battle.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect’s forces overwhelmed the enemy Heavenly Immortals, killing more than half of them within a few dozen breaths.
• The Wang Clan's First Ancestor and the Greenleaf Immortal Sect's senior brother changed course to attack the Heavenly Immortal battlefield.
• An arrow pierced and killed the Wang Clan's First Ancestor, leaving the Greenleaf Immortal Sect's senior brother stunned and the Wang Clan's three True Immortals grieving in fury.

Su Bai watched Heavenly Dao Sect overwhelm Greenleaf Immortal Sect and its allies until the Greenleaf senior brother summoned his Zhao Clan ancestor, a Second-Tribulation Profound Immortal. Su Bai reached through the Void Rift and seized the ancestor, leaving the Northern Spirit Immortal Domain stunned by his strength.

• A black-robed Ninth-layer True Immortal assassin from Heavenly Dao Sect appeared and revealed his identity as an ordinary night watchman.
• Tianzhu, Situ Chen, Zhuge Feng, and Su Bai’s other disciples killed Greenleaf Immortal Sect and Northern Realm fighters while Su Bai watched.
• The Greenleaf senior brother crushed a jade slip, summoning his Zhao Clan ancestor, whose Life Domain healed the surviving forces and enabled them to counterattack.
• Su Bai recognized the arriving ancestor as a Second-Tribulation Profound Immortal and reached through the Void Rift to grab him from the Zhao Clan’s ancestral grounds.

Su Bai captured the Zhao Clan Ancestor after the Zhao Clan Prodigy threatened the Heavenly Dao Sect and its city. The Zhao Clan Prodigy summoned a Seventh-Calamity Profound Immortal’s Death Domain, but Su Bai shattered it with a rune.

• Su Bai brought the Zhao Clan Ancestor before him outside Heavenly Dao City, and the Zhao Clan Realm’s True Immortals realized their ruler had been captured.
• The Zhao Clan Ancestor learned that his descendant had threatened Su Bai’s sect and city, then slapped the Zhao Clan Prodigy and ordered him to beg for forgiveness.
• The Zhao Clan Prodigy refused to kneel, invoked his Greenleaf Immortal Sect connections, and crushed a jade slip.
• A Seventh-Calamity Profound Immortal’s Death Domain spread across the area, withering Immortal Realm flowers and killing a fleeing Wang Clan Heavenly Immortal.
• Su Bai formed a rune that tore through and completely destroyed the Death Domain.

Su Bai rejected the Greenleaf Immortal Sect Fourth Elder’s offers and threats, then destroyed his sword attack and ravaged the sect with black flames. As the flames were extinguished, the Greenleaf Immortal Sect’s Patriarch appeared before him and declared that no one had ever dared provoke the sect.

• Su Bai refused the Fourth Elder’s offer of Immortal Crystals and an Immortalization Fruit, insisting that the disciple must die.
• The Fourth Elder attacked Su Bai with an enormous azure greatsword and threatened to destroy his lineage.
• Su Bai’s black flame devoured the greatsword and passed through the Void Rift into the Greenleaf Immortal Sect, killing disciples and severely injuring the Fourth Elder.
• The Greenleaf Immortal Sect’s Patriarch extinguished the flames and emerged from a void fissure before the sect members.
• The Patriarch declared that no one had ever dared provoke the Greenleaf Immortal Sect.

Su Bai defeated the Greenleaf Immortal Sect and the Zhao Clan, then led the Heavenly Dao Sect in conquering and rebuilding the Northern Realm. After a year of reforms, he renamed it the Heavenly Dao Realm.

• The Greenleaf Immortal Sect’s Golden Immortal Ancestor appeared as a phantom, ordered the Fourth Elder to wipe out Su Bai’s forces, and could not return from the Chaos Sea.
• Su Bai killed the Greenleaf Immortal Sect’s senior disciple and the Zhao Clan Ancestor, then looted their Storage Rings and the battlefield after the Northern Realm’s forces were annihilated.
• Su Bai ordered the Heavenly Dao Sect to liberate the Northern Realm, spare those who surrendered, punish the guilty, free Ascenders, and provide resources and Immortal Arts to the people.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect suppressed resistance, freed miners, servants, and Ascenders, punished criminals, aided small lineages, and expanded Immortal Cities to shelter the homeless.
• After a year of conquest and reforms, Su Bai declared that the Northern Realm would henceforth be called the Heavenly Dao Realm.

After stabilizing the Northern Realm, Su Bai upgraded the sect and received Heavenly Dao City, an enormous immortal city. He planted the Flat Peach Tree at the city’s center, where it grew into a vast treasure-bearing tree, and left the decision to ascend from the Human Realm to each person.

• Su Bai finished breaking up the surrendered clans and resettling their people, then decided to upgrade the sect.
• Su Bai chose an open site in the Heavenly Dao Realm, and the Eight-Star Sect system created the enormous Heavenly Dao City.
• Su Bai weighed the advantages of raising children in the Human Realm or the Immortal Realm and decided to let everyone choose whether to ascend.
• Su Bai planted the Flat Peach Tree on an island in Heavenly Dao City’s central lake, where it grew to the size of a Small World.
• The Flat Peach Tree bore peaches that could grant True Immortal cultivation, raise cultivation, or extend lifespan, and Su Bai recognized its immense value.

Su Bai calculated the immense value of the Flat Peach Tree’s fruits and decided to sell them alongside his pills through auction houses. He created a hundred powerful clones to establish Heavenly Dao Auction House branches throughout the Immortal Domain.

• Su Bai assessed how the Flat Peach Tree’s peaches could extend lifespans, raise cultivation, and even turn mortals into True Immortals, making them extraordinarily valuable.
• Su Bai counted the tree’s Millennium Flat Peach Fruits and estimated that its harvest could bring the Heavenly Dao Sect more than five hundred million Immortal Crystals annually.
• Su Bai decided to establish an auction-house network to sell Peaches of Immortality and his Supreme-grade pills while maximizing profits.
• Su Bai used Clone Technique to create a hundred clones, each stronger than a True Immortal Peak.
• Su Bai appointed the clones as presidents of Heavenly Dao Auction House branches, and they changed their appearances before leaving the Northern Realm to establish auction houses across different regions.

The Heavenly Dao Sect had grown to more than ten billion disciples, and Su Bai chose the turbulent Zhao Clan Realm as the first target of its campaign. He ordered a million powerful cultivators to set out, beginning the sect’s conquest of the Immortal Realm.

• The Heavenly Dao Sect’s ranks had surpassed ten billion disciples, including more than ten thousand Emperors and nearly a hundred True Immortals or cultivators with True Immortal combat power.
• Tianzhu presented Su Bai with a map of the Northern Spirit Region and recommended attacking the Zhao Clan Realm, whose ancestor’s death had plunged it into chaos.
• Su Bai agreed that the Zhao Clan Realm was the best first target, citing the sect’s forces and the realm’s many True Immortal lineages and Ascension Platforms.
• Su Bai assembled the Heavenly Dao Sect’s forces and ordered them to spare civilians and those who did not attack, accept surrender, and kill those who resisted.
• A million Heavenly Dao Sect powerhouses set out for the Zhao Clan Realm.

After the Zhao Clan patriarch fell, the Heavenly Dao Sect conquered the Zhao Clan Realm and brought its people under policies of equality and aid. A century later, the Sect’s territory had grown from one realm to sixteen.

• Xiao Lingxi rescued the sole survivor of a devastated settlement and killed the two Heavenly Immortals who had attacked it.
• Xue Wuya and the Heavenly Dao Sect army defeated the True Immortals who were ravaging the Zhao Clan Realm.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect swept through the realm, destroying or subduing its True Immortal lineages until the Zhao Clan surrendered in the third year.
• The Sect issued policies guaranteeing equal treatment under the law, access to immortal cities, freely shared Immortal Arts, and food for those in need.
• By the tenth year, the people’s devotion made the Zhao Clan Realm the Heavenly Dao Sect’s Unbeatable Domain, and its experts continued conquering nearby realms.
• After a hundred years of expansion, the Heavenly Dao Sect controlled sixteen realms.

After the Heavenly Dao Sect gained strength and welcomed oppressed lineages, the Greenleaf Immortal Sect assembled its forces and launched an invasion to destroy it. The army headed toward the Heavenly Dao Sect while the Northern Spirit Region feared the consequences.

• Many lineages sought refuge with the Heavenly Dao Sect, and Su Bai accepted them while exposing spies within the Unbeatable Domain.
• The Greenleaf Immortal Sect gathered more than twenty Profound Immortals, over five hundred True Immortals, and approximately three million Celestial Immortals to plan an attack.
• The Greenleaf Immortal Sect's sect master ordered the army to destroy the Heavenly Dao Sect within three years and promised the Fourth Elder an Eighth-Calamity Profound Immortal Pill for victory.
• The Fourth Elder led the Greenleaf Immortal Sect's army out, and several million streams of light crossed the Northern Spirit Region toward the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Experts across the region watched the army's advance and feared that the Heavenly Dao Sect was doomed.

Su Bai let Greenleaf Immortal Sect's invading army enter the Zhao Clan Realm, where he froze its forces with a single word and revealed power that onlookers believed belonged to a Golden Immortal. The army's fate remained unresolved as the observers realized the Northern Spirit Region's balance of power was about to change.

• Xue Wuya told Su Bai that Greenleaf Immortal Sect had sent a huge army toward Heavenly Dao Sect's territory, and Su Bai directed them into the Unbeatable Domain.
• Greenleaf Immortal Sect's Fourth Elder led the army into the Zhao Clan Realm after marching for three years and finding no defenders.
• The Fourth Elder realized the realm was suspiciously empty and ordered a retreat, but Su Bai appeared and pulled Greenleaf Immortal Sect's Sect Master from hiding.
• Su Bai said "Freeze," immobilizing the entire army and preventing them from using Immortal Power.
• Northern Spirit Region onlookers suspected Su Bai was a Golden Immortal and recognized that the region's power structure was about to change.

Su Bai used his Golden Immortal power to strip the Greenleaf Immortal Sect army of its cultivation and let the people of the Zhao Clan Realm kill them. The Heavenly Dao Sect became the Northern Spirit Region’s overlord, while the question of whether Su Bai could defeat the Greenleaf Immortal Sect’s ancestor remained unresolved.

• Su Bai told the Greenleaf Immortal Sect Master and Fourth Elder that they would face judgment for planning to destroy the Heavenly Dao Sect and slaughter the people of the realms.
• The people of the Zhao Clan Realm, enraged by the Greenleaf Immortal Sect’s crimes, demanded that its army be killed.
• The Greenleaf Immortal Sect Master tried to self-destruct, but Su Bai stripped the entire army of its cultivation within the Heavenly Dao Sect’s Unbeatable Domain.
• Su Bai sent the powerless Greenleaf Immortal Sect army before the people, who killed them with farming tools.
• An old farmer killed the last Greenleaf Immortal Sect member, and the watching experts wondered whether Su Bai or the Greenleaf Immortal Sect’s ancestor was stronger.

Greenwild Golden Immortal learned that the Immortal Gate had suffered a disaster and sent his Half-Step Golden Immortal son back to investigate while he stayed near the predicted appearance of the World Tree. Meanwhile, the Heavenly Dao Sect expanded to thirty-two realms, and Su Ling'er asked Su Bai why other powerful forces did not treat their citizens as well as he did.

• Greenwild Golden Immortal sensed that his descendants, including the Immortal Gate's master, had died and blamed the man who had appeared a hundred years earlier.
• Greenwild Golden Immortal's son urged him to remain near the predicted World Tree, then volunteered to return to the Immortal Domain and confront the culprit.
• The Li Clan of the Desolate Realm, the Chen Household of the Earth Realm, and other forces submitted to the Heavenly Dao Sect, which expanded its territory to thirty-two realms and controlled five hundred Ascension Platforms.
• Su Ling'er observed that the Heavenly Dao Sect's citizens received good wages and worked more effectively, then asked Su Bai why other powerful forces did not share their wealth with commoners.