Chapter Summaries

Su Bai sheltered the New Immortal Realm from Finality within his Universe in the Palm while ancient Immortal Kings perished trying to escape the Epoch's End. The survivors begged to take refuge with him, but Su Bai called out one of them for pretending.

• Finality destroyed an ancient Immortal King who tried to resist it with three artifacts, and other hidden Immortal Kings fled as the calamity spread.
• Several Immortal Kings were killed by Annihilation Wind and a black tide while attempting to escape the universe.
• The surviving Immortal Kings sensed the New Immortal Realm sheltered within Su Bai and rushed to his sword-protected domain for refuge.
• The Immortal Kings pleaded with Su Bai, offering their possessions, loyalty, and even their Dao Fruits in exchange for survival.
• Su Bai remained silent through their pleas, then accused them of pretending and said their tricks could not fool him.

Su Bai exposed eighteen Immortal Kings as puppets sent to kill him and destroyed them with his thirteen immortal swords. He then faced the Left Hand of Heaven, noticing that its ring finger had already been severed.

• Su Bai saw through the eighteen Immortal Kings’ false plea for protection and revealed that he knew they were pretending.
• The Immortal Kings admitted they were puppets and attacked Su Bai while the calamity lightning joined their assault.
• Su Bai used his thirteen immortal swords to annihilate the eighteen Immortal Kings and break apart the calamity lightning.
• Su Bai challenged the power in the heavens, and the Left Hand of Heaven emerged with its ring finger missing.

Su Bai confronted the Left Hand of Heaven, the Epoch Immortal King whose power had ended the Primordial Epoch, and unleashed his full strength against it. After merging with his Second True Self, he cut through the hand’s palm and left the Left Hand of Heaven cracking apart.

• Su Bai recognized the Left Hand of Heaven as the force that had ended the Primordial Epoch and noticed its missing ring finger.
• Su Bai summoned twelve clones and used thirteen immortal swords to form the Heavenly Dao Sword Formation against the Left Hand of Heaven.
• Su Bai merged with his Second True Self, empowering the sword formation enough to force the giant hand upward.
• The Left Hand of Heaven formed a Finality Spear and attacked Su Bai, who answered with a sword strike that severed its palm.

After severing the Left Hand of Heaven, Su Bai entered a passage through the source of darkness and witnessed civilizations and realms across the Myriad Heavens and Worlds. At its end, he saw the five great realms and was challenged to defeat an unnamed opponent before entering the true Eternal Immortal Realm.

• Su Bai stepped into the darkness left open by his sword and found a passage paved with the ashes of annihilated civilizations.
• As he crossed the passage, Su Bai witnessed the histories and domains of immortals, gods, demons, devils, and ghosts across countless universes.
• Su Bai reached the end of the passage and saw the five vast realms that formed the core of the Myriad Realms.
• An emotionless voice told Su Bai that someone had expected him and that he had to defeat the speaker to qualify for the true Eternal Immortal Realm.

Su Bai defeated the skeleton that had instigated the Epoch Calamity, clearing the passage to the Five Great Realms. The skeleton’s final words and a supreme gaze from the Immortal Realm left Su Bai wary as he considered what awaited him there.

• Su Bai confronted the enormous skeleton, the owner of the Left Hand of Heaven, and learned that it was far stronger than the hand he had destroyed.
• Su Bai’s first clash with the skeleton’s right fist cracked its bones, though the skeleton gathered power for another attack.
• Su Bai merged the thirteen immortal swords into the Sword of Heavenly Dao and unleashed Tenfold Battle Power in a strike he named Transcendence.
• The sword strike destroyed the skeleton, which told Su Bai, “I'll be waiting for you in the Eternal Immortal Realm,” before crumbling away.
• With the instigator of the Epoch Calamity slain, Su Bai saw the Five Great Realms and sensed a supreme gaze from the Immortal Realm.
• Su Bai stayed in the passage and wondered how high Tianyun had climbed over the past ten billion years.

Su Bai restored the ruined Greater Universe and returned the New Immortal Realm to its center, securing it from further Epoch Calamities. After confirming the realm was safe, he ascended to become an Epoch Immortal King and set out for the Eternal Immortal Realm, bearing 256 Divine Rings.

• Su Bai repaired the Greater Universe’s laws, stars, and spiritual energy, then placed the New Immortal Realm at its center.
• The New Immortal Realm’s people awoke safely and celebrated Su Bai’s survival and protection.
• Su Bai searched the reconstructed universe, found and crushed an eyeball watching the New Immortal Realm, and confirmed no outside threats remained.
• Su Bai returned to the Reincarnation Passage and broke through to become an Epoch Immortal King.
• Su Bai entered the passage to the Eternal Immortal Realm as 256 Divine Rings appeared behind him.

Su Bai entered the Eternal Immortal Realm and found its Ninefold Firmament, where magnificent abundance at the top contrasted with hardship on the Ninth Layer. He descended to the poorest layer, where a familiar young woman gave a starving old man an Immortal Crystal.

• Su Bai entered the Eternal Immortal Realm alone and saw its extraordinary immortal energy and grandeur.
• Su Bai discovered that the realm had nine layers, with resources and splendor diminishing toward the bottom.
• Su Bai bypassed the upper layers and descended to the Ninth Layer, disguising himself as an ordinary traveler.
• Su Bai saw a starving old man beside a restaurant where diners discarded plentiful food.
• A young woman gave the old man a Superior Immortal Crystal, and Su Bai recognized her as the familiar presence he had sensed.

Yun Xuan’s gift of a Superior Immortal Crystal sparked a violent fight, which she stopped before Su Bai helped the old man with food and healed his legs. As Su Bai reflected on the Eternal Immortal Realm, Yun Xuan introduced herself and asked his name.

• Yun Xuan gave a Superior Immortal Crystal to an old man, prompting tavern patrons to fight over it.
• Su Bai picked up the crystal, and the fighters charged at him until Yun Xuan froze them and stopped the attack.
• Yun Xuan erased the onlookers’ memories, reclaimed the crystal, and asked Su Bai how to make amends to the old man.
• Su Bai advised her to provide a meal and cure the old man’s leg ailment, then placed a roast chicken in his bowl and healed him.
• The old man ate the chicken as Su Bai and Yun Xuan disappeared, and Yun Xuan thanked Su Bai and introduced herself as Yun Xuan.

Su Bai met Yun Xuan, who had no memories of her past, as they traveled through a poor village in the Earth Realm. After Yun Xuan drove away bandits threatening the villagers, Su Bai warned her that sparing them could lead to many more deaths, leaving her to consider whether to kill them.

• Su Bai recognized Yun Xuan as the Human Race's Heavenly Mandate daughter, but she had no memories of her past and introduced herself to him as a stranger.
• Yun Xuan and Su Bai walked toward a village, where she saw how poor its people were and learned that bandits had been stealing their grain.
• A one-eyed bandit leader demanded tribute from the village, but Yun Xuan immobilized him and his men with her pressure and ordered them to leave.
• The village chief warned Yun Xuan that the bandits would return for revenge after she left, and the villagers feared they would be killed.
• Su Bai told Yun Xuan that killing the bandits could save future victims, while letting them go could cost many lives.

After witnessing the bandits plot to slaughter villagers and exploit the Black Bull Sect, Yun Xuan killed them and resolved to eliminate the corrupt powers behind them. Su Bai warned that killing alone would not end the cycle, then distributed high-grade Immortal Arts throughout the world as weapons for the oppressed.

• Su Bai and Yun Xuan secretly watched the bandits plan to massacre the villagers and seek help from Elder Liu of the Black Bull Sect.
• Yun Xuan descended into the cave and killed the one-eyed brute and the other bandits.
• Su Bai reassured Yun Xuan that killing the bandits had saved countless people, and Yun Xuan named Blackwater City and the Black Bull Sect as her next targets.
• Su Bai explained that new cities and sects would repeat the same abuses after Yun Xuan left, so killing the current oppressors was not enough.
• Su Bai distributed high-grade Immortal Arts throughout the world, giving the oppressed people weapons to resist.

After being rejected and injured at the Azure God Sect, Lu Ming found the Primordial Unity Longevity Scripture and gained a chance to cultivate. Elsewhere, Zhao Laogen received an Immortal Art after his grandson was taken away, while Yun Xuan examined Su Bai’s gifts.

• A gatekeeping disciple kicked Lu Ming down the Azure God Sect’s steps, and Lu Ming limped away after the sect rejected him despite his High-Grade Spirit Root.
• Lu Ming found a book in the woods, opened the Primordial Unity Longevity Scripture, and felt its aura soothe his qi and leg.
• Yun Xuan recognized the scripture as a First-grade Immortal Art, and Su Bai said he had planted a seed of hope by giving it away.
• Officials and Black Bull Sect disciples took Zhao Laogen’s grandson, Little Stone, to serve sixty years in the Cold-Iron Mine.
• Zhao Laogen noticed writing on a stone stele, touched it, and received the Only I Reign Supreme, Sweep the Eight Directions, Return to Youth, Ageless Eternal-Life Immortal Art.

Su Bai scattered First-grade Immortal Arts across the ninth layer, granting hope and new powers to people trapped in desperate circumstances. After Yun Xuan witnessed the vast number of arts, Su Bai announced he would establish the Heavenly Dao Sect and invited her to become its first elder.

• A Xiu received the Thousand Illusions of Spirit Silk and discovered her senses and embroidery skills had grown keener.
• Shi Yan found the Great Freedom Scripture in a mineral stone and kindled a spark of power within himself.
• Immortal Arts reached people across the ninth layer, including Lu Ming, Zhao Laogen, A Xiu, and Shi Yan, rekindling hope among them.
• Yun Xuan counted more than a thousand First-grade Immortal Arts and wondered about Su Bai's background.
• Su Bai told Yun Xuan he planned to establish the Heavenly Dao Sect and asked her to become its first elder.
• Yun Xuan accepted and greeted Su Bai as the Sect Master.

Su Bai opened the Heavenly Dao Sect on a humble hill near Blackwater City, promising free Immortal Arts to anyone who passed a character trial. As crowds mocked or doubted the offer, Su Bai challenged their assumptions, leaving the sect’s reception unresolved.

• Su Bai established the Heavenly Dao Sect on a barren hill and explained to Yun Xuan that its humble grounds reflected a focus on cultivation, not luxury.
• People gathered for the sect’s opening, but most mocked the thatched huts and left without reading the stele, while others urged Yun Xuan to leave Su Bai.
• Yun Xuan tried to reassure the crowd that the sect offered genuine Immortal Arts, but Su Bai told her that those seeking the Dao would not be deterred by humble gates.
• After reading the stele, many visitors doubted that Immortal Arts could be free and feared the sect concealed a trap.
• Yun Xuan explained the sect’s three rules and its character-based trial, but the crowd remained suspicious and questioned whether anyone would share Immortal Arts freely.
• Su Bai asked the crowd, “Has it always been right just because it has always been so?”

Erhu climbed the Heavenly Dao Sect’s Heavenly Ladder and declared that he wanted to cultivate immortality to kill those who oppressed ordinary people. His words stirred the crowd’s hope for a changed world.

• Su Bai asked whether ancient customs were right, and his words rekindled the crowd’s hope in the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Erhu stepped forward, gave his name as Erhu, and began the sect’s hundred-level Heavenly Ladder assessment.
• Erhu endured illusions and mounting pressure, passed the required sixtieth level, and climbed all the way to the ninetieth.
• Su Bai asked Erhu why he wanted to cultivate immortality, and Erhu answered that he wanted to kill.
• Erhu named the oppressors he wanted to kill and vowed to make the world different, inspiring the crowd.

Su Bai challenged Erhu to look beyond revenge and fight the unjust world itself, then accepted him as the Heavenly Dao Sect’s first disciple in this realm and renamed him Su Hu. Inspired by the World-Creation Method, others began climbing the Heavenly Ladder as the sect’s mission to change the world took shape.

• Su Bai asked Erhu whether killing tyrants and destroying sects could change a world built to keep power and resources from those at the bottom.
• Erhu chose to join the Heavenly Dao Sect, saying he wanted to learn how to change the world rather than merely kill a few people.
• Su Bai accepted Erhu as the sect’s first disciple in this realm, declared that the Heavenly Dao Sect taught the World-Creation Method, and renamed him Su Hu.
• People in the crowd began silently ascending the Heavenly Ladder, inspired by Su Bai’s words and the hope of creating a new world.
• Yun Xuan understood that Su Bai intended to change the world, and she vowed to face the difficult road together with him.

Su Bai welcomed the Heavenly Dao Sect’s first thirty-six disciples, laid down the sect’s rules, and had Yun Xuan give each disciple a suitable Immortal Art. After all thirty-six reached the First Layer of Qi Refining overnight, a long-silent system announced a new main quest.

• Su Bai explained the Heavenly Dao Sect’s three rules to the thirty-six people who passed the Heavenly Ladder, and they agreed to follow them.
• Su Bai named Su Hu the sect’s first disciple and tasked him with helping Yun Xuan settle the others.
• Yun Xuan bestowed a first-rate Immortal Art suited to each disciple’s attributes and Spirit Roots, then guided them to begin cultivating.
• The thirty-six disciples cultivated through the night and all successfully reached the First Layer of Qi Refining by sunrise.
• A system voice announced that a new main quest had been updated and told Su Bai to check it.

Su Bai received quests to become the foremost Immortal Emperor and destroy the Ninefold Firmament, then revealed the Eternal Immortal Realm’s oppression to the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect. His disciples and allies vowed to follow him and overthrow the unjust order.

• Su Bai received the quests to ascend to the summit and shatter the Ninefold Firmament, whose rewards were the Eternal Emperor Pagoda and the Eternal Immortal Tree.
• Su Bai taught the thirty-six new disciples and sent them home to gather supplies and spread the Heavenly Dao Sect’s name.
• Su Bai searched the void and confirmed he could not return to the New Immortal Realm, though his avatar remained there.
• Su Bai’s avatar showed the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect’s leaders and disciples images of the Eternal Immortal Realm’s suffering and the Ninefold Firmament’s inequality.
• Zhuge Feng, Xiao Lingxi, Xiao Yan, and the others demanded to join Su Bai in crushing the Ninefold Firmament, and Su Bai prepared to lead them.

Su Bai warned the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect that the Ninefold Firmament possessed more than fifty Immortal Kings and an Epoch Immortal King, then ordered his people to infiltrate the Ninth Layer and establish branches. As the sect prepared to enter the Eternal Immortal Realm under the name Heavenly Dao Sect, a surviving enemy of Su Bai awakened in the New Immortal Realm and vowed revenge.

• Su Bai explained that the Ninefold Firmament was only a corner of the Eternal Immortal Realm, yet held at least fifty Immortal Kings and the aura of an Epoch Immortal King.
• Zhuge Feng, Xiao Yan, and the other disciples declared they would face the powerful enemy without fear.
• Su Bai ordered everyone to form scattered groups, enter the Ninth Layer, establish Heavenly Dao Sect Branches, and awaken All Beings before launching an all-out war.
• Su Ling'er asked why the sect would drop “Immortal” from its name, and Su Bai said the Eternal Immortal Realm’s immortals had defiled the word through their cruelty.
• Zhuge Feng vowed that the Heavenly Dao Sect would show the Eternal Immortal Realm what a true immortal was, and Su Bai told everyone to depart.
• A survivor of the Greenleaf Immortal Sect awoke in the New Immortal Realm, reached Golden Immortal Peak, and vowed to destroy Su Bai’s Heavenly Dao Sect.

Greenleaf Ancestor emerged from ten thousand years of seclusion as a Seventh Transformation Golden Immortal and set out to destroy Su Bai and the Heavenly Dao Sect. After discovering how radically the Immortal Realm had changed, he learned that Su Bai had unified it and made the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect overwhelmingly powerful, leaving him pale with shock.

• Greenleaf Ancestor emerged from his hidden cave with healed injuries, increased cultivation, and a burning desire to avenge his destroyed sect.
• Greenleaf Ancestor flew toward the Heavenly Dao Sect but was stunned by the dense Immortal Spirit Qi and the powerful cultivators he encountered.
• Greenleaf Ancestor entered Myriad Laws Immortal City in disguise and found that even its guards, vendors, and young residents possessed extraordinary cultivation.
• Greenleaf Ancestor asked a middle-aged cultivator about the city and learned that Su Bai had unified the Immortal Realm and transformed it into the New Immortal Realm.
• The middle-aged cultivator described the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect's Immortal Kings and Su Bai's immense power, then asked why Greenleaf Ancestor's face had gone pale.

Greenleaf Ancestor discovered how powerful Su Bai’s New Immortal Realm had become and was captured, then imprisoned in the Ant Immortal Lord’s latrine. Meanwhile, Su Bai brought the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect’s powerhouses to the Eternal Immortal Realm to establish branch sects and claim Thrones, and he took the Grand Elder aside to meet someone.

• Greenleaf Ancestor learned that Su Bai’s realm had tens of thousands of Immortal Venerables and realized his plan to attack the sect was hopeless.
• Su Bai sealed Greenleaf Ancestor’s powers and sent him into the Ant Immortal Lord’s latrine, where he encountered the Ancient Monk King and the Universe King.
• The Ant Immortal Lord welcomed Greenleaf Ancestor as another guest and promised him daily games.
• Su Bai’s four Immortal Kings, elders, disciples, and Jiuyue arrived on the Ninth Layer of the Eternal Immortal Realm.
• Su Bai ordered everyone to establish Heavenly Dao Branch Sects across the Ninth Layer within a thousand years, then prepare for war.
• Su Bai stayed behind with the Grand Elder, saying he would take him to meet someone.