Chapter Summaries

Su Bai brought the Grand Elder to Little Wilderness Mountain, where he found Yun Xuan alive and innocent, just as he remembered her before her suffering. Moved by regret and relief, he accepted her request to learn from him, becoming her master.

• Su Bai brought the Grand Elder to the Heavenly Dao Sect and showed him Yun Xuan tending flowers on Little Wilderness Mountain.
• The Grand Elder recognized Yun Xuan and recalled her past imprisonment, her rebirth as the Crane Princess, and his regret at failing to protect her.
• Yun Xuan greeted the Grand Elder cheerfully, mistook him for a prospective sect member, and introduced herself.
• Su Bai introduced the Grand Elder as his powerful old friend who would remain at the sect.
• Yun Xuan asked the Grand Elder to teach her Immortal Arts so she could protect more people, and he agreed to take her as his disciple.

The Heavenly Dao Sect attracted crowds with its free Immortal Arts, and Yun Xuan oversaw a new round of assessments that brought in 108 disciples. Ten days later, the sect had spread across the Ninth Layer through 21 branch sects, with its disciples surpassing ten thousand.

• The Grand Elder stayed behind to watch Yun Xuan grow, while the thirty-six disciples returned to Little Wilderness Mountain and demonstrated their newly learned Immortal Arts to the crowd.
• Yun Xuan announced the Heavenly Ladder assessment rules, and the crowd began climbing while the ladder rejected people with weak resolve or ill intentions.
• At sunset, 108 people passed the assessment, and Su Bai accepted them as disciples and assigned Su Hu to guide them.
• Word of the Heavenly Dao Sect spread through nearby towns, its daily crowds grew, and Su Hu advanced to the Qi Refining Second Layer while helping Yun Xuan teach and manage the sect.
• After ten days, the sect had more than 3,000 disciples on Little Wilderness Mountain and 21 branch sects across the Ninth Layer, bringing its total disciples above 10,000.

Su Bai unveiled the Spacetime Tower and sent Su Hu and the other Qi Refining disciples inside to cultivate at a thousandfold accelerated rate. After ten years within the tower, Su Hu reached Void Refining Venerable, while only three days passed outside.

• Su Bai summoned the three-tier Spacetime Tower and explained that its Third Layer made time pass a thousand times faster.
• Su Bai ordered Su Hu to lead the Qi Refining disciples into the tower, where they could cultivate and strengthen their foundations.
• Su Hu entered the tower, recalled Su Bai's World-Creation Method teachings, and began cultivating with the goal of gaining power to create a world.
• After one month in the tower, Su Hu reached Foundation Establishment; he then formed a Golden Core after one year and a Nascent Soul after three.
• Su Hu advanced to Spirit Transformation after six years and reached Void Refining Venerable after ten years, while only three days passed outside.

Su Hu reached Celestial Immortal Grand Perfection after a century of cultivation in the Spacetime Tower, while the Heavenly Dao Sect grew into a vast force across the Ninth Layer. Su Bai prepared its disciples to attack Blackwater City and the Black Bull Sect, whose leaders separately sent forces toward the sect.

• Su Hu advanced from Qi Refining to Celestial Immortal Grand Perfection in the Spacetime Tower, while only thirty-six and a half days passed outside.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect and its twenty-one branches amassed more than five hundred thousand disciples, including over a hundred Celestial Immortals at Little Wilderness Mountain.
• Su Bai declared it was time to settle accounts with Blackwater City and the Black Bull Sect, and 108 Celestial Immortals led the sect's forces out of seclusion.
• The Black Bull Sect's master ordered its Seventeenth Elder to destroy the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• The Blackwater City Lord sent Steward Li to retrieve the sect's Immortal Arts before the Black Bull Sect could reach it.

The Black Bull Sect's Seventeenth Elder and Steward Li arrived to destroy the Heavenly Dao Sect and enslave or kill the people gathered there. Su Hu asked Su Bai for permission to kill them, then revealed that they had slaughtered his village eight years earlier; the two men recognized him and threatened to kill him.

• The Seventeenth Elder and Steward Li arrived at Little Wilderness Mountain and announced that they would eradicate the Heavenly Dao Sect and punish the crowd.
• The Seventeenth Elder lusted after Yun Xuan, while Steward Li ordered the gathered people captured for slavery or use as alchemy materials.
• Su Hu asked Su Bai for permission to kill the two tyrants, and Su Bai granted it.
• Su Hu confronted the two men and reminded them that they had killed 216 people in Stonewaste Village eight years earlier.
• The Seventeenth Elder and Steward Li recognized Su Hu as a surviving villager and threatened to kill him.

Su Hu defeated and killed the Seventeenth Elder and Steward Li, then led the Heavenly Dao Sect’s forces into a campaign against the Black Bull Sect and Blackwater City. As disciples launched attacks across twenty-two regions, Su Bai and Yun Xuan set out to watch the campaign begin.

• Su Hu defeated the Seventeenth Elder and Steward Li, destroying their cultivation before killing them in front of the crowd.
• Su Hu declared that the Heavenly Dao Sect would begin its campaign by targeting the Black Bull Sect and Blackwater City, and the crowd cheered.
• With Su Bai’s approval, Su Hu led more than a hundred Celestial Immortals and thousands of disciples through a spatial portal toward the Black Bull Sect.
• Lu Ming and other branch sect leaders opened portals in twenty-one regions and led their elites against their chosen targets.
• Yun Xuan joined Su Bai as he set out to watch the disciples begin their campaign.

Su Hu led the Heavenly Dao Sect in an assault on the Black Bull Sect, shattered its formation, and killed Sect Master Niu Zhenshan in one strike. After the Black Bull Sect’s forces were routed, Su Hu rejected their surrender and ordered their execution.

• Niu Zhenshan discovered that the Seventeenth Elder had died and realized the Heavenly Dao Sect was attacking.
• Su Hu and more than ten thousand Heavenly Dao Sect disciples broke the Black Bull Treading the Sky Formation with a combined sword strike.
• Niu Zhenshan unleashed his Savage Bull Charge, but Su Hu destroyed the demonic bull manifestation and killed him with one punch.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect disciples overwhelmed the Black Bull Sect, killing more than a hundred Heavenly Immortals in battle.
• The Black Bull Sect’s survivors begged to surrender, but Su Hu ordered the Heavenly Dao Sect to kill them all.

Su Hu fought Black Bull Demon, the True Immortal ancestor of Black Bull Sect, and killed him with the Heavenly Dao Sword Art. With Black Bull Sect’s defeat declared, Su Bai and Yun Xuan watched as Heavenly Dao Sect’s first flame began to spread across the ninth level.

• Black Bull Demon emerged from seclusion and demanded to know why Su Hu had destroyed Black Bull Sect.
• Su Hu named Heavenly Dao Sect and condemned Black Bull Sect’s slaughter of innocents, then split Black Bull Demon’s Netherworld Demon Hand and shattered his defenses with the Heavenly Dao Sword Art.
• Black Bull Demon unleashed the Nine Netherworld Annihilation Art, but Su Hu’s New World sword severed his connection to heaven and earth and killed him.
• Su Hu declared that Black Bull Sect must be destroyed after its ancestor fell.
• Su Bai and Yun Xuan watched, recognizing that Heavenly Dao Sect had ignited its first flame on the ninth level.

After destroying the Black Bull Sect, Su Hu and the Heavenly Dao Sect attacked Blackwater City and overcame its defenses. Su Hu killed Blood Nether True Immortal and the Blackwater City Lord, leaving both powers destroyed.

• The Blackwater City Lord ordered martial law and activated the city's defenses while waiting for Blood Nether True Immortal to emerge and reinforcements to arrive.
• Su Hu led more than ten thousand Heavenly Dao Sect disciples to Blackwater City and shattered its grand formation with his sword.
• Blood Nether True Immortal emerged from the city's blood pool and fought Su Hu, but Su Hu's righteous sword art restrained the Blood Sea and killed him.
• Su Hu killed the Blackwater City Lord, and the Heavenly Dao Sect purged the remaining resistance.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect destroyed Blackwater City and the Black Bull Sect in a single day.

Over five centuries, the Heavenly Dao Sect expanded across the Ninth Layer, destroying evil powers and building a vast network of branches. In the final year, Su Bai witnessed Lu Ming and Su Hu join forces, bringing two great branch sects together at last.

• News of the Heavenly Dao Sect’s victories spread, and Su Bai established distant testing sites and built up the sect’s facilities and civil administration.
• The branches continued their campaigns, growing to millions and then billions of disciples while Su Hu, Lu Ming, and other leaders advanced into the True Immortal and Profound Immortal realms.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect defeated repeated encirclement campaigns and destroyed more than a billion True Immortal powers and over a hundred thousand Profound Immortal powers.
• Yun Xuan reached the apex of the Golden Immortal Realm as the sect’s territory continued expanding across the Ninth Layer.
• In the final year of the fifth century, Su Bai opened his eyes as Lu Ming and Su Hu joined forces to kill a Golden Immortal ancestor and unite their branch sects in victory.

Over six hundred years, the Heavenly Dao Sect united its branches, conquered the Ninth Layer, and grew into its supreme power. With only the Heaven Gate Branch guarding the Road to Heaven left outside its control, the story ended on the eve of the final conquest.

• Su Hu and Lu Ming reunited after five hundred years, merged their armies, and began a joint campaign.
• Over the following century, the Heavenly Dao branches repeatedly joined forces and destroyed the Ninth Layer’s True Immortal and Profound Immortal powers.
• By the six hundredth year, the twenty-two branches had fused into one Heavenly Dao Sect, ruling nearly the entire Ninth Layer with more than one hundred billion disciples.
• Su Hu and Lu Ming reached the Mid-stage Golden Immortal Realm, while Yun Xuan advanced to the Fifth-Step Immortal Lord Realm and the elders and Xuanwei rapidly grew stronger.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect stood as the Ninth Layer’s supreme overlord, with only the Heaven Gate Branch and its Road to Heaven remaining outside its control.

The Heavenly Dao Sect gathered its forces to launch the final battle against Heaven Gate City, whose rulers had exploited the Ninth Layer and blocked the Road to Heaven for countless years. The Heavenly Dao army arrived outside the city, while Heaven Gate’s leaders dismissed the threat as another futile rebellion.

• The chapter described how Heaven Gate controlled the Road to Heaven, imposed Realm Taxes, and blood-sacrificed forces that resisted.
• Su Bai summoned the Heavenly Dao Sect’s disciples, gathering one hundred million True Immortals, more than fifty thousand Profound Immortals, and over twenty Golden Immortals in Heavenly Dao City.
• Su Bai declared that the sect would destroy Heaven Gate City and open the Road to Heaven to everyone, and the assembled disciples roared their agreement.
• Su Bai ordered the army to march, and its forces surged through teleportation gates toward Heaven Gate City.
• A guard reported to Li Jiutian and Heaven Gate’s Golden Immortals that an enormous force of True Immortals had gathered outside the city.
• Heaven Gate’s leaders mocked the report and assumed the newcomers were another Lower Realm rebellion, unaware that the Heavenly Dao Sect had arrived.

The Heavenly Dao Sect confronted Heaven Gate City with an army of one hundred million, seeking to break Heaven Gate’s control over the Ninth Layer. Heaven Gate unleashed its formation and Black Baleful Army, and the chapter ended as both sides charged into the final battle.

• Su Hu attacked Heaven Gate City’s formation while Zhuge Feng and Yun Xuan assessed the city’s formidable defenses.
• Heaven Gate’s leaders learned that the approaching army belonged to the Heavenly Dao Sect and ordered the Myriad Immortals Slaughtering Gods Formation and the Black Baleful Army deployed.
• Su Hu and Lu Ming rallied the Heavenly Dao Sect’s disciples to sever Heaven Gate’s chains on the Road to Heaven and fight for the Ninth Layer’s future.
• Li Jiutian led more than two hundred Golden Immortals and the Black Baleful Army out of the city as the formation unleashed soul-devouring blood-red phantoms.
• Su Hu and Lu Ming raised their swords, and the Heavenly Dao Sect charged Heaven Gate City as the final battle began.

Heavenly Dao Sect’s disciples fought Heaven Gate City’s vastly larger army, overwhelming it with their formations, coordination, and battle intent. Lu Ming killed a Golden Immortal with one strike, and the battle continued with Heaven Gate’s forces falling into disarray.

• Su Hu ordered billions of Heavenly Dao Sect disciples to form the Heavenly Dao Immortal-Slaying Formation, whose golden sword light broke through the blood-baleful ghosts.
• The Black Baleful Army charged in formation, but Lu Ming pierced its demonic tiger manifestation and killed the arrogant Golden Immortal leading it.
• A Heavenly Dao Sect Early Golden Immortal disciple blocked the red-haired Late Golden Immortal and held his ground against his flames.
• Heaven Gate’s soldiers and immortals faltered against the Heavenly Dao Sect’s superior combat strength, coordination, and resolve.
• Li Jiutian watched as Heaven Gate’s forces struggled across the battlefield while Lu Ming cut through millions of troops.

Su Hu battled Li Jiutian and overwhelmed the Peak Golden Immortal with the Heavenly Dao Sword Art, while the Heavenly Dao Sect routed Heaven Gate City's army. Facing defeat, Li Jiutian sacrificed Heaven Gate's forces and guards, forcing his way into the Immortal Lord Realm.

• The Heavenly Dao Sect's formations shattered Heaven Gate City's forces, and Su Hu challenged Li Jiutian to a duel.
• Su Hu cut through Li Jiutian's Nine Netherworlds Star-Plucking Hand and weakened his Immortal-Binding Rope with the Heavenly Dao Sword Art.
• Su Hu dismantled Li Jiutian's attacks as Heaven Gate City's army fell into a rout.
• Li Jiutian used a forbidden blood sacrifice to drain the fighters and trapped guards of Heaven Gate City.
• Li Jiutian absorbed the sacrificed energy and broke through into the Immortal Lord Realm.

Li Jiutian sacrificed hundreds of millions of disciples to become an Immortal Lord and trapped the Heavenly Dao Sect army with the Law of Time, but Su Bai and the sect’s founders appeared and killed him. Su Bai then broke the chains sealing the Road to Heaven, opening the passage to the Eighth Layer.

• Li Jiutian used the Law of Time to freeze the battlefield and shattered the sword lights of Su Hu and Lu Ming.
• Li Jiutian prepared to kill Su Hu, but a voice from above the Nine Heavens challenged him and revealed Su Bai and more than twenty figures in a golden fissure.
• Yun Xuan broke Li Jiutian’s Time-Ban Domain, freeing the Heavenly Dao Sect disciples.
• Su Bai casually erased Li Jiutian and his Immortal Lord power, killing him before the battlefield.
• Su Bai broke the eighty-one chains sealing the Road to Heaven and opened the passage to the Eighth Layer.

After defeating Li Jiutian and liberating the Ninth Layer, Su Bai and the Heavenly Dao Sect chose to spend four hundred years strengthening the realm before advancing to the Eighth Layer. The Ninth Layer prospered and the sect grew immensely, while the New Immortal Realm flourished during Su Bai’s thousand-year absence.

• After Li Jiutian fell, the people of the Ninth Layer celebrated their freedom, mourned the dead, and gathered their Faith Power before Su Bai.
• Su Hu told the disciples to wait four hundred years before marching to the Eighth Layer, and the Heavenly Dao Sect entered the Spacetime Tower to cultivate.
• With the Road to Heaven open, the Ninth Layer’s people stayed rather than flee, as the sect helped them produce necessities and improve their lives.
• Over four hundred years, the Heavenly Dao Sect grew to more than twenty billion disciples, including over ten thousand Golden Immortals, while Su Hu and Lu Ming reached Peak Golden Immortal.
• During Su Bai’s thousand-year absence, the New Immortal Realm’s Heavenly Dao and immortal spiritual energy flourished.

The Heavenly Dao Sect prepared to launch a campaign into the Eighth Layer, with Su Hu leading a billion disciples along the Road to Heaven. Meanwhile, a powerful man from the First Layer found his daughter in the Ninth Layer and discovered she was with an unfamiliar man.

• The New Immortal Realm's disciples grew into a vast force, including twenty-eight Half-Step Kings and fourteen who reached the Supreme Peak of that realm.
• Su Hu emerged from seclusion after four hundred years, and Su Bai entrusted the Eighth Layer campaign to him.
• One billion Heavenly Dao Sect disciples gathered before the Road to Heaven, where Su Hu led them in declaring their readiness to march.
• A white-robed man crossed from the First Layer to the Ninth Layer to find his daughter, who had been away for a thousand years.
• The man sensed his daughter beside an unfamiliar man and vowed to find out who had lured her away.

Yun Hai watched the Heavenly Dao Sect’s billion-strong army prepare to march from the Ninth Layer into the Eighth, and recognized the conviction he had last seen in the war ten billion years ago. Though he thought their goal of conquering the First Layer was beyond their reach, their spirit moved him and left him wondering whether another legend could overturn the Qiankun.

• Yun Hai set out to confront the young man beside his daughter, Yun Xuan, but paused when he saw a billion people gathered before the Road to Heaven.
• Yun Hai recognized the army’s battle intent as the same kind he had witnessed during the war that overturned the Ninefold Firmament ten billion years earlier.
• Su Hu rallied the army to march into the Eighth Layer and break the shackles of its oppressed people.
• Su Hu declared that the Heavenly Dao Sect would fight layer by layer until it trampled the First Layer, and the army roared its loyalty.
• Yun Hai doubted the Ninth Layer’s forces could overcome the First Layer but admired their conviction and wondered whether a new legend might overturn the Qiankun.

Yun Hai sent three Immortal Lord projections to protect Su Hu, Lu Ming, and the Heavenly Dao Sect as they invaded the Eighth Layer. Su Hu and Lu Ming led the army through Heaven Gate City, where they overwhelmed the defenders while Yun Hai watched and then went to see his daughter.

• Yun Hai watched Su Hu lead a billion Heavenly Dao Sect disciples into the Road to Heaven and recognized the responsibility in the young leader.
• Yun Hai sensed three Immortal Lords guarding the Eighth Layer and sent three figures formed from his hairs to hold them back.
• Su Hu and Lu Ming led the Heavenly Dao Sect army into Heaven Gate City, beginning the battle on the Eighth Layer.
• The three mysterious figures intercepted the Immortal Lords while the Heavenly Dao Sect disciples routed the city’s defenders.
• Yun Hai marveled at Su Hu and Lu Ming’s strength, hoped they would go no farther, and turned to visit his daughter.