Chapter Summaries

Azurewood Immortal Lord suppressed the Northern Spirit Region as its people struggled beneath his power. Jiuyue’s master arrived, and Su Bai recognized him as Wu Wushuang, his long-lost disciple, who knelt and paid respects to his master.

• Azurewood Immortal Lord watched the Northern Spirit Region suffer under his suppression and noticed a strange mist obscuring Su Bai.
• Jiuyue’s master emerged from a void passage, and Jiuyue knelt to greet him before introducing him to Su Bai as the Ascender Alliance’s acting leader.
• Wu Wushuang and Su Bai recognized each other as master and disciple through memories of their past.
• Wu Wushuang knelt before Su Bai, kowtowed three times, and declared that his disciple Wushuang paid respects to his master.

Su Bai acknowledged Wu Wushuang as his disciple and let him undo Azurewood Immortal Lord’s destruction of the Northern Spirit Region. Wu Wushuang reversed time itself, leaving Azurewood Immortal Lord terrified that an Immortal Venerable had intervened.

• Jiuyue knelt before Su Bai after realizing he was her grandmaster, and Wu Wushuang also bowed to him.
• Jiuyue urged Wu Wushuang to act against Azurewood Immortal Lord, who had turned the sect territory into a Dharma-Ending Era.
• Su Bai told Wu Wushuang not to kill Azurewood Immortal Lord because he intended to deal with him a thousand years later.
• Wu Wushuang spoke the word “Recede” and reversed time, restoring the shattered stars, returning the Immortal Spirit Qi, and undoing the damage to the Heavenly Dao.
• Azurewood Immortal Lord recognized Wu Wushuang’s power as Time Reversal and feared that an Immortal Venerable had made a move.

Wu Wushuang forced Azurewood Immortal Lord to kneel and kowtow, sentencing him to a thousand years in a time loop at Su Bai’s request. Su Bai then reunited Wu Wushuang with his disciples and welcomed him into the family.

• Azurewood Immortal Lord realized Wu Wushuang was an Immortal Venerable and begged him for mercy.
• Wu Wushuang made Azurewood Immortal Lord kowtow repeatedly, and Su Bai ordered that the punishment last a thousand years.
• Wu Wushuang placed Azurewood Immortal Lord in a time loop, forcing him to kneel and kowtow without control.
• Several Azurewood Immortal Sect patriarchs arrived, saw their ancestor’s punishment, and fled in terror.
• Su Bai gathered his disciples and introduced Wu Wushuang as his ninth disciple, and the disciples warmly welcomed him.

Wu Wushuang reunited with Su Bai in the Lower Realm, using his power to restore the forest to the time when he first trained there. He explained his million-year journey and the Immortal-Demon War, then entrusted Jiuyue, his allies, and the Ascender Alliance to Su Bai before his avatar vanished.

• Wu Wushuang returned to the place where he had first met Su Bai and reversed time to reveal his younger self practicing swordsmanship.
• Wu Wushuang and Su Bai reunited, and Wu Wushuang explained that a senior had sent him a million years into the past and another Immortal Domain.
• Wu Wushuang revealed that an Immortal-Demon War kept his main body from visiting and that his avatar could no longer remain.
• Wu Wushuang asked Su Bai to care for Jiuyue, visit the senior who had helped him, and deliver resources to his senior brothers and sisters.
• Wu Wushuang gave Su Bai the Ascender Alliance leader token, then disappeared after promising that he would stand at the front of the war.

After Wu Wushuang departed, Su Bai received his map, resources, and Ascender Alliance token and reflected on his disciple’s loyalty and sacrifices. Jiuyue arrived searching for Wu Wushuang, then followed Su Bai’s advice and returned to the Spacetime Tower to cultivate.

• Wu Wushuang used his remaining energy to conceal the Chaotic Void, then left the world.
• Su Bai collected Wu Wushuang’s starry sky map, Storage Ring, and Alliance Leader token, including a map marking the mysterious senior’s location.
• Su Bai reflected on how Wu Wushuang had remained humble and devoted despite gaining immense strength, and remembered his own battles protecting the Human Race and the three thousand Immortal Domains.
• Jiuyue searched the world for Wu Wushuang, but Su Bai told her that he had returned to his own world.
• Jiuyue complained that she had to cultivate again, then obeyed Su Bai and entered the Third Layer of the Spacetime Tower.

Su Bai committed the Heavenly Dao Sect to rapid growth by spending Wu Wushuang’s Immortal Crystals on accelerated cultivation and expanding the Heavenly Dao Auction House. He entered the Spacetime Tower to cultivate by witnessing a simulated Dharma-Ending Era, which had advanced ten thousand years.

• Su Bai sent Jiuyue and more than a thousand True Immortal disciples to cultivate in the Third Layer of the Spacetime Tower, using Wu Wushuang’s Immortal Crystals to fund the sect’s rapid growth.
• The Heavenly Dao Auction House opened more than ten branches and began outselling the Myriad Treasures Hall with its pills and Peaches of Immortality.
• Su Bai cut pill prices tenfold, and the increased sales raised the auction house’s income to hundreds of billions of Immortal Crystals a year.
• Su Bai left a Peak Profound Immortal clone to manage the sect, then entered the Third Layer to cultivate and prepare to visit the mysterious senior Wu Wushuang had mentioned.
• Su Bai constructed a simulated world in the Spacetime Tower and recreated Azurewood Immortal Lord’s Dharma-Ending Era, watching spiritual energy and cultivators’ realms decline over ten thousand years.

Su Bai lived through nine lives in the Spacetime Tower, gradually extending his lifespan until he became immortal through the ages. After one million years inside the tower and one thousand years outside, the system announced that its major update had finished and the Immortal Realm era had begun.

• The War Emperor broke his seal, tried to become immortal, and turned to ashes, leaving Su Bai as the world's only extraordinary being.
• After Su Bai died at thirty thousand years old, he was reborn twenty years later as a young man and witnessed spiritual energy return.
• Su Bai left behind cultivation inheritances, and the world entered a flourishing age of Supreme Venerables and Great Emperors.
• Su Bai lived successive lives of fifty thousand, seventy thousand, one hundred thousand, one hundred and twenty thousand, one hundred and fifty thousand, two hundred thousand, and two hundred and fifty thousand years.
• In his ninth life, Su Bai remained youthful and at his peak after another thirty thousand years, surrounded by Undying Light.
• After one million years passed inside the Spacetime Tower, the system announced that its update was complete and the Immortal Realm era had arrived.

After the system update, Su Bai learned that the Heavenly Dao Sect had new missions to conquer the Heavenly Sword Immortal Domain and expand across one hundred Immortal Domains. The sect’s powerhouses emerged from a million years of cultivation in the Spacetime Tower, with many reaching the Profound Immortal Realm and Su Qi, Li Shiyan, and others attaining its Ninth-Calamity peak.

• Su Bai opened the updated system and saw its main mission to make the Heavenly Dao Sect an Immortal Sect, along with missions to unify the Heavenly Sword Immortal Domain and establish branches across one hundred Immortal Domains.
• The Grand Elder emerged from the Spacetime Tower as a Fourth-Calamity Profound Immortal, then watched as more than ten thousand sect powerhouses came out at Third or Fourth Calamity and above.
• The Fire Qilin and White Tiger reached the Second-Tribulation Profound Immortal Realm, while Xue Wuya reached the Fifth Calamity.
• Zhang Goudan and more than a thousand other former Heavenly Dao True Immortals emerged as Sixth-Calamity Profound Immortals.
• Qin Ba emerged as an Eighth-Calamity Profound Immortal and looked for his former rivals.
• Su Qi, Li Shiyan, the Sword Saint, the Gun Demon, Ice Fairy, and more than a dozen others appeared at the peak of the Ninth-Calamity Profound Immortal Realm, prompting Qin Ba to resolve to cultivate harder.

After a million years of cultivation in the Spacetime Tower, four Heavenly Dao Sect elders and Su Bai’s nine disciples emerged as Golden Immortals, bringing the sect to thirteen Golden Immortals. The Heavenly Dao Sect’s strength now surpassed the Azurewood Immortal Sect’s, and it also had an Immortal Lord of its own.

• The Heavenly Dao Sect amassed over ten thousand Profound Immortals and more than five million Ninth-grade Heavenly Immortals, while a shortage of Immortalization Fruits kept its True Immortal numbers lower.
• Tianzhu, Situ Chen, Nameless, and Yu Yan emerged from the Spacetime Tower as Golden Immortal Battle Immortals with strength equivalent to Sixth or Seventh Transformation Golden Immortals.
• Su Bai’s nine personal disciples emerged as Golden Immortals, with several possessing combat power near the peak of the Ninth Transformation.
• Su Bai welcomed his disciples and confirmed that the Heavenly Dao Sect now had thirteen Golden Immortals.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect’s Golden Immortals surpassed the Azurewood Immortal Sect’s in strength, and the sect was revealed to have an Immortal Lord as well.

After a million years in the Spacetime Tower, Su Bai reached the Immortal Lord-tier and mastered immense powers over life, death, and space-time. He emerged to settle the score with Azurewood Immortal Lord, who had escaped his punishment and found Su Bai and Jiuyue in a living world.

• Jiuyue emerged from the Third Layer as an Immortal Lord and asked Su Bai to take her along to punish Azurewood Immortal Lord.
• Su Bai inspected the grown World Tree and realized he had attained the Immortal of Imperishability.
• Su Bai demonstrated his powers over life and death, the Word-Manifestation Law, and space-time, including stopping time throughout the Spacetime Tower.
• Su Bai left the tower, and Jiuyue prepared to accompany him to confront Azurewood Immortal Lord.
• Azurewood Immortal Lord regained his freedom, entered the Chaotic Void, and found Su Bai and Jiuyue in a living world, demanding the World Tree Sapling.

Azurewood Immortal Lord trapped Su Bai and Jiuyue in a time stop, only to discover they could move freely and that the world was a sealing formation designed by Su Bai. Jiuyue battered him until he detonated his divine pill, but an unseen force then seized him.

• Azurewood Immortal Lord froze time, but Su Bai and Jiuyue remained unaffected.
• Azurewood Immortal Lord charged at them and Jiuyue slapped him into the world barrier, revealing the sealing formation.
• Azurewood Immortal Lord realized Jiuyue had entered the Immortal Lord Realm, and she repeatedly beat him despite his threats.
• Azurewood Immortal Lord detonated the divine pill made from his former master's Dao Fruit to break free and increase his strength.
• As Azurewood Immortal Lord prepared to attack Jiuyue, an unseen force shattered his protective screen and grabbed him.

Su Bai captured Azurewood Immortal Lord after he threatened Jiuyue, then stopped him from self-destructing and let Jiuyue deliver the promised sword strike. Azurewood Immortal Lord’s defenses failed, but a strange smile appeared in his terrified eyes.

• Su Bai seized Azurewood Immortal Lord, who knelt and begged to be spared, while Jiuyue mocked him.
• Su Bai saw Azurewood Immortal Lord’s Sect Loyalty was -100, slapped him, and dismissed his pleas for allegiance.
• Azurewood Immortal Lord tried to self-destruct, but Su Bai suppressed his Immortal Power and revealed overwhelming strength.
• Su Bai told Jiuyue to deal with Azurewood Immortal Lord, and she promised to spare him if he survived one sword strike.
• Jiuyue unleashed All Under Heaven, shattered Azurewood Immortal Lord’s defenses, and saw disbelief on his face alongside a faint, strange smile.

Jiuyue wounded Azurewood Immortal Lord and explained that his Substitute Death Immortal Talisman made killing him risky, so Su Bai sealed and suppressed him instead. Jiuyue described the nine steps and three tiers of Immortal Lords, while powerful figures from the Myriad Treasures Hall and Assassin Hall descended on their headquarters in the Heavenly Sword Immortal Domain.

• Jiuyue held back her sword strike against Azurewood Immortal Lord because she suspected he possessed a Substitute Death Immortal Talisman.
• Jiuyue explained that an Overlord could suppress an Immortal Lord without triggering the talisman, and Su Bai sealed Azurewood Immortal Lord in the latrine pit.
• Jiuyue explained that Immortal Lords were divided into nine steps and three tiers: Monarchs, Grand Lords, and Overlords.
• Su Bai said to consider him a Ninth-Step Overlord after Jiuyue wondered which Overlord step he had reached.
• Supreme experts descended on the Myriad Treasures Hall and Assassin Hall headquarters, condemning the Ascender Alliance and threatening its members.

Su Bai inventoried Azurewood Immortal Lord’s wealth, then organized the Heavenly Dao Sect’s forces for campaigns across several Spirit Regions and negotiations with five Golden Immortal factions. The chapter left the sect’s armies preparing to set out and its disciples ready to seek the five factions’ submission.

• Su Bai found ten Immortal Ascension Trees and abundant resources in Azurewood Immortal Lord’s Storage Ring, while Jiuyue reset her Substitute Death Immortal Talisman.
• Zhuge Feng reported that the Heavenly Dao Sect’s experts had assembled, and Su Bai addressed the gathered forces.
• Su Bai ordered Tianzhu to lead an army into the Southern Mystic Domain and Situ Chen to campaign in the Sword Spirit Domain.
• Su Bai assigned Nameless and Yu Yan separate armies to attack the three Spirit Regions between the Northern Spirit Region and the Central Domain.
• Su Bai sent Su Qi, Li Shiyan, the Sword Saint, the Gun Demon, Fairy Hua, and others to negotiate the submission of five Golden Immortal factions.

Su Bai divided the Heavenly Dao Sect’s forces among campaigns against the Western Spirit Domain’s warring factions and the Golden Immortal factions allied with the Azurewood Immortal Sect. As the ten-million-strong army marched, he assigned Jiuyue to stop other powerful factions from interfering and told her to fight back if they attacked.

• Su Bai assigned 350 Profound Immortal disciples to lead separate units into the Western Spirit Domain, and every volunteer accepted the dangerous mission.
• Su Bai sent Chen Hao, Zhao Tianlong, Mu Lingxian, and Ye Qingyao with troops to destroy seventeen Golden Immortal factions.
• Su Bai ordered Zhuge Feng, Xiao Lingxi, Xiao Yan, Han Feiyu, and Su Ling'er to eliminate the Azurewood Immortal Sect’s Twelve Palaces and headquarters.
• Su Bai reminded the ten-million-strong army not to harm civilians or take their possessions, then led it out to war.
• Su Bai assigned Jiuyue to prevent the Myriad Treasures Hall, Assassin Hall, and Heavenwatch Tower from interfering, and told her to fight back if they attacked.

Su Bai journeyed into the Chaotic Void to find the mysterious senior who had helped Wu Wushuang and discovered a vast, powerful world that was actually an ancient battlefield remnant. There he met an azure-robed man who invited him to play an unfinished game of chess.

• Jiuyue left the Heavenly Dao Sect after speaking with Su Bai, who then set off into the Chaotic Void to seek Wu Wushuang's mysterious senior.
• Su Bai traveled through the Chaotic Void, seeing ruined worlds bearing traces of the Azurewood Immortal Sect and intact worlds where ascenders were rising to the Immortal Domain.
• Su Bai reached a colossal world filled with dense immortal qi and powerful inhabitants, then followed a Golden Immortal immortal child toward a resplendent palace.
• When Su Bai sensed something amiss, the illusion of a thriving world vanished, revealing an ancient battlefield's silent ruins and a skeletal immortal child.
• An azure-robed man appeared beside a withered flower and invited Su Bai to play chess over an unfinished endgame.

Su Bai played a series of supernatural chess games against the man in green, with each move manifesting as a battle between Demon Kings and Immortal Dao kings. After Su Bai repeatedly won with the white pieces, the man in green remembered the withered flower and started another game, this time giving Su Bai black.

• The man in green's black pieces summoned Demon Kings, and Su Bai used white pieces to defend the Immortal Dao kings and counter their attacks.
• Su Bai defeated the man in green's black pieces in three consecutive games, then continued winning as the two played many more rounds.
• After another white victory, Su Bai saw the man in green gently touch the withered flower and show sorrow.
• The man in green restarted the game with Su Bai playing black and himself playing white.
• Su Bai placed the first black piece, and a new battle began.

Su Bai learned through a final game with the man in blue how the Immortal Realm lost despite its superior strength: its powerful immortals abandoned allies because they believed they could survive the realm’s fall. The man in blue warned that the Great Devil Kings were close to awakening, leaving little time to stop them.

• Su Bai and the man in blue played more than two hundred games, with the white stones winning each time, before the man in blue revealed that reality’s Immortal Realm had lost.
• The man in blue replayed the war’s turning point, showing four Great Devil Kings surrounding a white stone while three nearby white stones ignored Su Bai’s attempt to send them to its aid.
• The isolated white stone was destroyed, and the four black stones later recovered, while the three white stones took credit for winning the local battle.
• The man in blue explained that powerful immortals could survive the Immortal Realm’s destruction, so they had little reason to risk themselves to protect the All Beings.
• Su Bai thanked the man in blue for saving his disciple and offered to help, but the man in blue warned that the Great Devil Kings were about to awaken.

Su Bai learned that the azure-clad man was Yuan Heng and discovered that the Immortal Rebirth Pill could resurrect a fallen King, though he could not yet obtain its formula. Meanwhile, an Assassin Hall Immortal Lord attacked Heavenly Dao Sect’s army, but Little Fire and Little White’s Unbeatable Barrier repelled him and thwarted his attempts to break through.

• Su Bai spoke Yuan Heng’s name in the Chaotic Void, triggering heavenly lightning, and escaped the tribulation by returning to Heavenly Dao Hall.
• Su Bai found that the Immortal Rebirth Pill could restore a King’s divine soul, but the system required him to reach King level to exchange for its formula.
• An Assassin Hall Immortal Lord attacked Qin Ba’s million-strong Heavenly Dao Sect army to retaliate for his hall’s losses.
• Little Fire and Little White protected the army with the Unbeatable Barrier, which shattered the Immortal Lord’s strike.
• The Immortal Lord used Time Stop and repeatedly tried to seize Little Fire and Little White, but the barrier remained impervious and left him bewildered.

Jiuyue arrived at the Heavenly Dao Sect and fought the Assassin Hall Immortal Lord while Su Bai sensed another Immortal Lord's arrival. At the Heavenly Dao Auction House, Su Bai's avatar slapped a Myriad Treasures Hall elder in front of Immortal Lord Debao, leaving the confrontation poised to escalate.

• Jiuyue arrived in time to protect the Heavenly Dao Sect and challenged the Assassin Hall Immortal Lord to battle.
• Su Bai assessed the Assassin Hall Immortal Lord as weaker than Jiuyue and sensed another Immortal Lord approaching.
• Immortal Lord Debao appeared in Golden Void Immortal City, and the city’s residents, including its lord, knelt before him.
• A Myriad Treasures Hall elder demanded that Su Bai's avatar kneel and welcome Debao, but the avatar refused.
• Su Bai's avatar slapped the Myriad Treasures Hall elder in front of Debao, shocking the onlookers.