Chapter Summaries

Su Bai rejected Gao Kepan’s demand that the Heavenly Dao Sect pay the Immortal Alliance’s excessive fees, exposing the possibility that Gao Kepan was pocketing the extra tribute. Gao Kepan ordered his Nascent Soul Fire Qilin to destroy everyone within a hundred miles, and the beast’s blood-red flame surged toward Su Bai.

• Disciples speculated about the Heavenly Palace’s power as Nameless tightened his grip on his broom upon hearing its name.
• Gao Kepan claimed Nascent Soul forces had to join the Immortal Alliance and demanded half their yearly income plus a huge joining fee.
• Su Bai questioned the extra payments after saying an Immortal Alliance elder had told him the required share was forty percent, and he refused to pay.
• Gao Kepan unleashed his aura and threatened to destroy the Heavenly Dao Sect, while Su Bai noticed the ten Storage Rings on his hands.
• Gao Kepan ordered his Fire Qilin to exterminate everyone within a hundred miles, and the beast spat a blood-red pillar of fire toward Su Bai.

Su Bai suppressed the Fire Qilin and defeated Gao Kepan, revealing power far beyond the Nascent Soul Realm. Gao Kepan died beneath the Qilin’s hoof, and a Venerable’s voice emerged from a rift in the sky demanding to know who killed his disciple.

• Su Bai forced the Fire Qilin to its knees with a single command, astonishing the crowd and Nameless.
• Gao Kepan attacked Su Bai with his Dragon-Slaying Spear, but Su Bai seized the weapon and took Gao Kepan’s Storage Rings.
• Gao Kepan knelt and begged for his life, while secretly plotting revenge, but Su Bai heard his thoughts and refused to spare him.
• Su Bai freed the Fire Qilin from its blood-bound master recognition, and the Qilin killed Gao Kepan with its hoof.
• A rift opened in the sky, and a Venerable demanded to know who had killed his disciple.

Su Bai forced a terrifying Venerable to sever his own arm and flee, then gave the arm’s essence blood to Zhuge Feng to strengthen the disciples. Zhuge Feng defeated the three Lingxiao Sect stewards, while Su Bai celebrated the treasures he took from Gao Kepan.

• A gigantic figure attacked through the Void Rift, but Su Bai seized his finger within the Heavenly Dao Sect Territory and dragged him in until he cut off his arm and escaped.
• Su Bai refined the severed arm’s essence blood and handed it to Zhuge Feng to distribute among the disciples.
• The three Lingxiao Sect stewards begged for their lives, and Su Bai told them they could live if they defeated Zhuge Feng.
• Zhuge Feng fought all three stewards at once and overwhelmed them with his iron staff.
• Su Bai shut himself in the main hall and celebrated the ten Storage Rings he had taken from Gao Kepan.

Su Bai gained the immense wealth and treasures Gao Kepan had collected from nine factions, while the Heavenly Dao Sect continued to grow. After Xiao Yan’s breakthrough pushed Su Bai into the Golden Core Realm, Zhuge Feng prepared to attempt Foundation Establishment as the sect approached another upgrade.

• Su Bai discovered that Gao Kepan’s ten Storage Rings held protection payments from five Nascent Soul-level factions and four Golden Core-level factions, including rare Spirit Artifacts and a World-Breaking Talisman.
• The Heavenly Palace did not retaliate for Gao Kepan’s death, and the Lingxiao Sect stayed quiet as the Heavenly Dao Sect expanded and earned the commoners’ support.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect’s disciple count reached 31,314, and Su Bai had advanced to the Ninth Layer of Foundation Establishment through the disciples’ progress.
• Xiao Yan broke through to the Sixth Layer of Body Refinement, and the feedback caused Su Bai to break through into the Golden Core Realm without undergoing Heavenly Tribulation.
• Zhuge Feng asked Su Bai for permission to attempt Foundation Establishment, and Su Bai wondered whether the Heavenly Dao Sect was about to become a Three-Star Sect.

Zhuge Feng achieved legendary Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment after only two months, triggering Heavenly Dao Sect’s upgrade to three stars. Su Bai expanded the sect into a vast mountain complex, and the story left with the disciples praising him while Xiao Yan worried that his training runs had become much longer.

• Zhuge Feng emerged from seclusion on the third day with a golden Dao Platform, achieving Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment and breaking Ling Xiao’s record.
• Su Bai received system notifications that Zhuge Feng had entered Foundation Establishment and Heavenly Dao Sect had upgraded to three stars, expanding its territory to a radius of one hundred li.
• Su Bai announced that a commotion was coming, then caused Heavenly Dao Mountain and the sect’s buildings to grow dramatically as new pavilions, residences, farmland, and Spirit Veins appeared.
• Tens of thousands of disciples praised Su Bai’s transformation of the sect, while Xiao Yan worried that the enlarged mountain would make his running training much harder.

Su Bai equipped the Heavenly Dao Sect with a Level Five Sect-Protecting Grand Formation that activated whenever he left. Meanwhile, a Spirit Spring appeared near the sect, revealing Great Zhao Empire’s first high-quality Spirit Vein and foreshadowing turmoil across the empire.

• Nameless and the Fire Qilin witnessed Su Bai’s power, and the Fire Qilin decided he would stay at the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Zhuge Feng reported that he had reached Foundation Establishment, and Su Bai sent him to obtain new Immortal Arts and a divine artifact.
• Su Bai exchanged 10,000 points for a Level Five Sect-Protecting Grand Formation and set it to activate when he left the sect and deactivate when he returned.
• A Spirit Spring emerged in a mountain range a thousand li from the Heavenly Dao Sect, revealing Great Zhao Empire’s first high-quality Spirit Vein.
• Nearby Foundation Establishment cultivators stopped fighting and warned that Great Zhao was about to fall into chaos.

Zhuge Feng chose his exclusive divine artifact after Su Bai sent him an image of a warrior wielding a golden staff. The weapon awakened Zhuge Feng’s battle intent, and the Guardian Spirit named it the Sea-Calming Divine Needle.

• After receiving the Foundation Establishment chapter of the Dao Scripture, Zhuge Feng recalled Su Bai’s ambition to spread the Heavenly Dao Sect across All Under Heaven and vowed to lead the charge for his master.
• Zhuge Feng entered the Divine Artifacts Pavilion, where its Guardian Spirit told him to envision the weapon he wanted to forge.
• Unable to imagine a suitable staff, Zhuge Feng formed an ugly fire poker, so Su Bai sent him an image of a warrior fighting with a golden iron staff.
• Inspired by the image, Zhuge Feng envisioned and confirmed a golden staff carved with dragons and phoenixes.
• The staff became real and bonded with Zhuge Feng, awakening his Battle Bloodline and battle intent, and the Guardian Spirit named it the Sea-Calming Divine Needle.

Yellow Lion True Person brought the Yellow Lion Sect to the Heavenly Dao Sect and sought Su Bai’s protection, offering eighty percent of the sect’s annual income. He revealed that a Spirit Spring had appeared in Qingzhou, leaving Su Bai to recognize that the discovery could draw every Nascent Soul faction in the Empire into a struggle for the newly emerged Spirit Vein.

• Zhuge Feng admitted Yellow Lion True Person and more than a dozen Yellow Lion Sect elders after Su Bai invited them inside.
• Yellow Lion True Person and the elders were stunned by Fire Qilin, a Nascent Soul Great Demon guarding the main hall, and then knelt before Su Bai.
• Yellow Lion True Person explained that the other three Golden Core factions in Qingzhou had pledged allegiance to powerful factions, leaving the Yellow Lion Sect in danger.
• Yellow Lion True Person offered the Yellow Lion Sect’s allegiance and eighty percent of its annual income in exchange for Su Bai’s protection.
• Yellow Lion True Person revealed that a Spirit Spring had appeared in a Qingzhou mountain range, and Su Bai realized it signaled a Mid-Grade Spirit Vein that could attract every Nascent Soul faction in the Empire.

News of Qingzhou’s Spirit Spring drove the Yellow Lion Sect, Lingxiao Sect, and Imperial House to prepare to fight for its Mid-Grade Spirit Vein. The chapter ended with the Empire ordering its forces to assemble and march toward Qingzhou.

• Yellow Lion True Person pledged his sect’s allegiance to the Heavenly Dao Sect, and Su Bai accepted it.
• Su Bai ordered Zhuge Feng to gather every disciple who had entered Qi Refining.
• The Lingxiao Sect patriarch ordered the sect’s elders, disciples, and affiliated forces to seize the Spirit Spring, while Ling Xiao asked to join the expedition.
• The Emperor of Great Zhao heard the Imperial Preceptor’s warning that the Empire could not avoid the conflict and ordered the Imperial Guard and ten great Aristocratic Clans to assemble for Qingzhou.

Cloud Heaven Sect prepared to seize a Spirit Vein in Qingzhou, while Su Bai sent the Heavenly Dao Sect’s disciples and Yellow Lion Sect members ahead aboard a flying vessel. After activating the sect-protecting formation, Su Bai rode the Fire Qilin toward the Lingxiao Sect instead of Qingzhou.

• Yun Zhi ordered Cloud Heaven Sect’s elders to gather disciples at Seventh-Level Qi Refinement and above for the journey to Qingzhou, but refused Liu Yanran’s request to join them.
• Liu Yanran dismissed the threat of Xiao Yan, and Yun Zhi warned her against underestimating him.
• Su Bai arrived before more than ten thousand Heavenly Dao Sect disciples and summoned a Nascent Soul-grade Flying Vessel for their departure.
• Su Bai directed Zhuge Feng to pilot the vessel and bring the Yellow Lion Sect members with them to Qingzhou.
• After the vessel departed, Su Bai activated the Level Five Sect-Protecting Formation around Heavenly Dao Mountain and rode the Fire Qilin toward the Lingxiao Sect.

The Great Zhao Imperial Family, Cloud Heaven Sect, and other forces gathered in Qingzhou, each displaying formidable strength. The Lingxiao Sect then arrived with a flying island and four hundred thousand people, leaving its rivals stunned by its overwhelming numbers.

• The Great Zhao Imperial Family arrived with thirty thousand troops, including the Imperial Guard, the Great Zhao Emperor, and leaders of the ten great Aristocratic Clans.
• Yun Zhi and Liu Yanran led Cloud Heaven Sect’s elite forces into Qingzhou on a flock of flying cranes.
• A massive black Flying Vessel arrived from the south, and onlookers recognized it as a High-Grade Spirit Artifact.
• The Lingxiao Sect arrived from the east aboard a colossal flying island and rallied its disciples with a battle cry.
• The assembled forces were shocked to see that the Lingxiao Sect had brought four hundred thousand people, far outnumbering its rivals.

Su Bai and the Fire Qilin attacked Lingxiao Sect while its army was away, shattering its Sect-Protecting Formation and drawing out its second Nascent Soul ancestor. As the Fire Qilin battled the ancestor, Su Bai prepared to loot the sect with help from a menial disciple named Han Feiyu.

• Su Bai and the Fire Qilin struck Lingxiao Sect's Sect-Protecting Formation, and Su Bai's spear and the Fire Qilin's flames shattered it in one attack.
• The formation's backlash injured Lingxiao Sect's sole Golden Core elder left to guard it, while two disciples reacted to the destruction at the mountain gate.
• Lingxiao Sect's Supreme Elder emerged from seclusion, and the Fire Qilin rushed to fight him at Su Bai's command.
• Su Bai prepared to search Lingxiao Sect for its treasure vault as a menial disciple approached and offered to join Heavenly Dao Sect.
• The menial disciple told Su Bai he knew the locations of the treasure vault, the Spirit Vein, and the Storage Rings collected before the campaign, then introduced himself as Han Feiyu.

Su Bai and Han Feiyu looted Lingxiao Sect’s treasure vault and uncovered how the sect exploited ordinary people and disciples. After taking nearly everything, Su Bai learned where the sect’s two Spirit Veins were located and considered how Heavenly Dao Sect treated its own territory.

• Han Feiyu led Su Bai through the illusion formations to Lingxiao Sect’s treasure vault, where Su Bai killed the guards and broke open the restricted door.
• Su Bai emptied the vault of its wealth and treasures while Han Feiyu condemned the sect’s exploitation of ordinary people.
• Han Feiyu pointed out Lingxiao Sect’s Immortal Arts, but declined to take any because he planned to join Heavenly Dao Sect, and Su Bai collected the books anyway.
• Su Bai and Han Feiyu stripped Lingxiao Mountain and the Safe Pavilion of valuable structures, herbs, and tens of thousands of disciples’ storage bags.
• Han Feiyu revealed the locations of Lingxiao Sect’s two Low-Grade Spirit Veins, and Su Bai reflected on the sect’s costly cultivation chambers and Heavenly Dao Sect’s approach to spiritual energy.

Su Bai defeated the Lingxiao Sect’s forces at their mountain, lifted Lingxiao Mountain, and sent it back to the Heavenly Dao Sect while the wounded Supreme Elder fled. Meanwhile, the Lingxiao Sect Patriarch faced the Cloud Heaven Sect, the Imperial House, and the Heavenly Dao Sect on Qingzhou’s Floating Island, confident that his four hundred thousand forces would overwhelm their sixty thousand.

• Su Bai lifted Lingxiao Mountain with one hand as Han Feiyu watched in awe.
• The Fire Qilin defeated and wounded the Lingxiao Sect’s Supreme Elder, who escaped by burning his Life.
• Su Bai praised the Fire Qilin, sent it carrying Lingxiao Mountain toward the Heavenly Dao Sect, and took the sect gate into his Storage Ring.
• Two Lingxiao Sect gate disciples feared punishment and decided to flee to the Heavenly Dao Sect, but they tripped before they could leave.
• People in nearby cities watched the Fire Qilin carry Lingxiao Mountain through the sky and speculated that Lingxiao Sect had been raided.
• On Qingzhou’s Floating Island, the Lingxiao Sect Patriarch mocked the three opposing forces and declared that his four hundred thousand fighters would defeat their sixty thousand.

The Lingxiao Sect, Great Zhao Imperial Family, and Cloud Heaven Sect fought over a Mid-Grade Spirit Vein while the Heavenly Dao Sect stayed aboard its Flying Vessel. When Ling Xiao attacked the vessel, Zhuge Feng used its speed and defenses to ram him and charge through Lingxiao Sect’s disciples.

• Ling Xiao declared the Spirit Vein belonged to the Lingxiao Sect, and the Great Zhao Emperor and Yun Zhi challenged his claim.
• Ling Xiao ordered the Lingxiao Sect disciples to attack, and the Great Zhao Imperial Family and Cloud Heaven Sect joined the battle.
• Xiao Yan urged Zhuge Feng to fight, but Zhuge Feng held position and waited for their Master as the factions clashed.
• Ling Xiao struck the Heavenly Dao Sect’s Flying Vessel with his sword, but failed to damage it.
• Zhuge Feng powered the Flying Vessel with ten Medium-Grade Spirit Stones, rammed Ling Xiao into a mountain, and charged through the Lingxiao Sect’s disciples.

Su Bai brought Lingxiao Mountain and its Spirit Vein back to the Heavenly Dao Sect while the battle in Qingzhou turned against the Lingxiao Sect. As the Lingxiao Sect ancestor awaited his junior brother’s support, the battered Supreme Elder arrived and reported that Su Bai had stolen their home.

• Lingxiao Sect’s ancestor tried to leave the battle to attack the Heavenly Dao Sect’s Flying Vessel, but the Emperor of Great Zhao and Yun Zhi held him back while the vessel devastated Lingxiao Sect’s forces.
• Su Bai and the Fire Qilin carried Lingxiao Mountain to the Heavenly Dao Sect, where Su Bai removed its Spirit Vein’s restrictions and added it to the sect’s territory.
• Su Bai mounted the Fire Qilin and set off for Qingzhou to seize the Spirit Vein there.
• The Qingzhou battle paused after all three major factions suffered losses, with Lingxiao Sect taking the heaviest casualties and its ancestor badly injured.
• The Lingxiao Sect ancestor summoned his junior brother and threatened his rivals, but the arriving Supreme Elder was covered in blood and told him, “Su Bai stole our home!”

Su Bai arrived as the Lingxiao Sect's ancestor attacked the Heavenly Dao Sect's flying vessel, and the Fire Qilin wounded the ancestor. With the Cloud Heaven Sect and Great Zhao Imperial Family holding back, Ling Xiao challenged Su Bai, who answered his Nine Heaven-Sky Slashes with a black spear.

• The Lingxiao Sect's Supreme Elder told the ancestor that Su Bai had destroyed the sect's stronghold, taking its resources, mountain, and Spirit Vein.
• The furious ancestor charged toward the Heavenly Dao Sect's flying vessel, but the Fire Qilin struck him and sent him staggering back.
• Su Bai appeared, and the Heavenly Dao Sect's disciples celebrated while the Cloud Heaven Sect and Great Zhao Emperor regarded him cautiously.
• The Lingxiao Sect's ancestor engaged the Fire Qilin, while Ling Xiao challenged Su Bai and unleashed the Nine Heaven-Sky Slashes.
• Su Bai drew a black spear and thrust it toward Ling Xiao's incoming sword lights.

Su Bai crushed Ling Xiao and the Fire Qilin overwhelmed Lingxiao Sect’s old ancestor, leaving Lingxiao Sect unable to compete for the Spirit Vein. Lingxiao Sect’s old ancestor then revealed that his injured junior brother had gone to attack Heavenly Dao Sect while everyone was distracted.

• Su Bai shattered Ling Xiao’s sword, pierced his shoulder, and defeated him with a single spear strike.
• The Fire Qilin kicked Lingxiao Sect’s old ancestor around while Yun Zhi and the Great Zhao Emperor recognized that Lingxiao Sect had lost its chance to contend for the Spirit Vein.
• Lingxiao Sect’s old ancestor revealed that his junior brother had slipped away during the fighting and was heading for Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Lingxiao Sect’s old ancestor declared that the real plan was to steal Heavenly Dao Sect’s household while Su Bai was occupied.

The Lingxiao Sect Supreme Elder tried to distract Su Bai while he attacked the Heavenly Dao Sect, expecting to destroy its unguarded base. The sect’s Fifth-Tier formation withstood his strongest attack, leaving him injured and unable to understand how it held.

• The Lingxiao Sect Supreme Elder announced that he would attack the Heavenly Dao Sect, while the Great Zhao Emperor sent the Imperial Preceptor back to guard the palace and Yun Li returned to the Cloud Heaven Sect.
• The Supreme Elder taunted Su Bai about the attack, but the Fire Qilin kept kicking him, and Su Bai received a warning that his sect’s formation was under attack.
• The Supreme Elder attacked the Heavenly Dao Sect’s Sect-Protecting Formation more than a hundred times, but its barrier showed no sign of weakening.
• The Supreme Elder unleashed his Lingxiao Heaven-Breaking Finger, but the attack shattered on the barrier and its backlash injured him.
• The Supreme Elder wondered whether the Heavenly Dao Sect’s seemingly unshaken formation was a Fifth-Tier Formation.

After failing to break the Heavenly Dao Sect’s formation, the Lingxiao Sect’s Supreme Elder threatened to massacre nearby cities but was killed by a withered leaf wielded by the seemingly ordinary sweeper Nameless. In Qingzhou, the Lingxiao Sect patriarch learned that his junior brother had died while fighting the Fire Qilin.

• The Lingxiao Sect’s Supreme Elder exhausted himself attacking the Heavenly Dao Sect’s formation, then threatened to slaughter the people in nearby cities.
• Nameless stopped sweeping, sent a withered elm leaf after the Supreme Elder, and pierced his arm when he tried to swat it away.
• The Supreme Elder fled, but the leaf trapped him in place and pierced his glabella, killing his divine soul and Nascent Soul.
• A Fifth-Generation Disciple pointed out that a Nascent Soul patriarch had fallen from the sky, while Nameless silently resumed sweeping.
• In Qingzhou, the Lingxiao Sect patriarch taunted Su Bai about the Heavenly Dao Sect, then discovered his junior brother’s Life Tablet had shattered.