Chapter Summaries

Yun Hai found Yun Xuan on the Ninth Layer and questioned her choice to remain with the Heavenly Dao Sect. Yun Xuan reaffirmed her decision, and Yun Hai reluctantly accepted it, though he and his daughter misunderstood each other’s concerns.

• Yun Xuan complained to Su Bai that he would not let her fight, and Su Bai told her someone had come to see her.
• Yun Hai arrived, and Yun Xuan panicked at seeing her father after a thousand years away from home.
• Yun Hai assessed Su Bai and was quietly impressed by his composure.
• Yun Xuan stepped in front of Su Bai and told Yun Hai she wanted to stay with the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Yun Xuan explained that she chose her own path and would not regret joining the sect, even if it made her an enemy of Heaven Gate and the Immortal Realm.
• Yun Hai accepted her choice, and Yun Xuan happily clung to his arm while he kept a stern expression.

Yun Hai confronted Su Bai about the danger of challenging the Heaven Gate and urged the Heavenly Dao Sect to stop at the Eighth Layer, but Su Bai refused. Yun Hai accepted Yun Xuan’s choice to stay, then left after secretly assuring Su Bai that the Heaven Gate would not act for now; Su Bai and Yun Xuan headed toward the Eighth Layer.

• Yun Hai warned Su Bai that the First Layer’s powerful forces made the Heavenly Dao Sect’s advance dangerous and advised him to stop at the Eighth Layer.
• Su Bai told Yun Hai that the Heavenly Dao Sect would not stop there, despite Yun Hai’s warning about the Heaven Gate.
• Yun Hai accepted Yun Xuan’s decision to remain in the Heavenly Dao Sect and warned Su Bai not to let anyone bully her.
• Yun Hai left after telling Yun Xuan to come home early, then secretly sent Su Bai word that the Heaven Gate would not trouble them for the time being.
• Yun Xuan flew to the Eighth Layer to check on events there, and Su Bai followed.

Su Bai and Yun Xuan arrived as the Heavenly Dao Sect destroyed Heaven Gate City and began its campaign across the Eighth Layer. Three years later, the sect had unified the entire layer, and Su Bai and Yun Xuan set out to see what it was like.

• Su Hu reported that the Heavenly Dao Sect had destroyed Heaven Gate City, slain its three Immortal Lords, and captured eighty-six Golden Immortals.
• Su Bai displayed a map of the Eighth Layer and ordered the billion-strong army to split into ten thousand forces to conquer its factions and aid the oppressed.
• Su Hu and Lu Ming led their forces in different directions and wagered on who would advance faster, while Su Bai and Yun Xuan followed the campaign.
• Over three years, the Heavenly Dao Sect defeated thousands of Golden Immortal factions and brought every force in the Eighth Layer to surrender or destruction.
• Su Bai and Yun Xuan set out to explore the newly unified Eighth Layer.

Heavenly Dao City became a symbol of hope as the Heavenly Dao Sect expanded across the Eighth Layer. Su Hu and Lu Ming reached the Immortal Lord Realm, while Yun Xuan emerged from seclusion and asked Su Bai how powerful he truly was; he left her wondering whether he surpassed her father.

• Su Bai’s inscription at Heavenly Dao City inspired former mine slaves, Rogue Cultivators, and youths seeking to join the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Su Hu endured the Thunder Tribulation while Lu Ming cut through it with his sword, and both entered the Immortal Lord Realm.
• Su Hu and Lu Ming thanked Su Bai, and their breakthrough spurred the sect’s Golden Immortal disciples to pursue their own advancement.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect attracted many new disciples, whose cultivation advanced rapidly with the Spacetime Tower.
• Yun Xuan emerged from seclusion as a Ninth Step Immortal Lord and suppressed her breakthrough while preparing to enter the Immortal Venerable Realm with deep foundations.
• Yun Xuan asked Su Bai his cultivation level, and he told her she would know soon enough.

Su Bai and Yun Xuan saw how the Heavenly Dao Sect had transformed the Eighth Layer and agreed that they would keep advancing through the Ninefold Firmament. With the sect’s strength greatly increased, Su Hu led three billion disciples through the Road to Heaven to begin the campaign for the Seventh Layer.

• Su Bai took Yun Xuan to the Eighth Layer, where Heavenly Dao Sect branches had brought free cultivation methods, fair resource distribution, and hope to its people.
• Su Bai told Yun Xuan that the sect could fight its way to the First Layer because its progress through the Ninth and Eighth Layers had already proved it possible.
• Su Bai assessed the Seventh Layer’s forces and saw that the Heavenly Dao Sect now had thirteen Immortal Lords, including Su Hu and Lu Ming, who had reached the Fourth Step.
• The Heavenly Dao Horn sounded across the Ninth and Eighth Layers as three billion disciples gathered before the Road to Heaven.
• Su Hu rallied the disciples, drew his sword, and led Lu Ming, the eleven other Immortal Lords, and the three-billion-strong army through the gateway to the Seventh Layer.

Heavenly Dao Sect invaded the Seventh Layer and captured its Heaven Gate in one hour, astonishing Yun Hai with how far the sect had risen in 103 years. Su Bai sent Yun Xuan to join the campaign into the Sixth Layer as the army prepared to advance.

• Su Hu led the assault through the Road to Heaven, and Heavenly Dao Sect’s army overwhelmed the Seventh Layer’s defenders and three Immortal Lord Overlords.
• Yun Hai watched a scout’s image of the invasion, realized Heavenly Dao Sect had surpassed his expectations, and ordered his carriage prepared for Heaven Gate.
• Su Hu and Lu Ming slew the Seventh Layer’s Immortal Lord Overlords, and Heavenly Dao Sect captured the city and destroyed its Heaven Gate in one hour.
• Su Bai told Yun Xuan to join the fighting in the Sixth Layer, where a Heaven Gate protector had recently entered the Immortal Venerable Realm.
• Heavenly Dao Sect’s three billion warriors prepared to continue their campaign as the chapter ended with their battle cries.

Yun Xuan led the Heavenly Dao Sect’s assault on the Sixth Layer, where the newly ascended Immortal Venerable Xuan You ruled World-Suppressing City. She fought him in the heavens as Su Hu, Lu Ming, and the sect’s disciples arrived to launch their attack.

• After clearing the Seventh Layer in one year, the Heavenly Dao Sect sent one billion disciples to finish clearing it and gathered two billion to invade the Sixth Layer under Yun Xuan’s leadership.
• Xuan You, still stabilizing his newly ascended Immortal Venerable Realm, sensed Yun Xuan arrive at World-Suppressing City and mistook her Half-Step Immortal Venerable cultivation for an easy target.
• Xuan You tried to claim Yun Xuan as his woman, but her rosy strike clashed with his palm and forced him back, damaging the city walls and wounding nearby Immortal Lords.
• Yun Xuan challenged Xuan You to fight in the heavens, and the two vanished above the clouds as their battle shook World-Suppressing City.
• Su Hu, Lu Ming, and the other Heavenly Dao Sect disciples arrived on the Sixth Layer and began their attack.

The Heavenly Dao Sect army overwhelmed the World-Suppressing City's forces as Su Hu and Lu Ming killed four Ninth-Step Immortal Lord Overlords. Yun Xuan gained the upper hand against the newly ascended Immortal Venerable Xuan You, while Yun Hai watched in shock and decided to move his Lineage out of the Ninth Heaven Realm and join the fight.

• Su Hu and Lu Ming fought four Ninth-Step Immortal Lord Overlords, killed them, and helped the Heavenly Dao Sect army surround the fleeing World-Suppressing City forces.
• Yun Xuan wounded Xuan You with the Heavenly Dao Palm and pressed her attack against the unstable Immortal Venerable.
• Yun Hai watched the battlefield through an Image Jade Slip and was astonished by Su Hu and Lu Ming's strength and Yun Xuan's abilities.
• Yun Hai ordered everyone in his Lineage to leave the Ninth Heaven Realm, then resolved to fight alongside them once more.

Yun Xuan defeated Xuan You and used her Immortal Venerable tribulation to ascend directly to the Five-Ring Immortal Venerable Realm. With the Sixth Layer’s Heaven Gate experts wiped out, she left the Heavenly Dao Sect to finish liberating it and went ahead to the Fifth Layer.

• Yun Xuan overwhelmed Xuan You, who fled toward the Road to Heaven but found the passage sealed and could not reach the Fifth Layer.
• Yun Xuan began her Immortal Venerable tribulation, and Xuan You was caught in the tribulation zone and struck by its lightning.
• Yun Xuan withstood the final tribulation strike and became a Five-Ring Immortal Venerable, while Xuan You was killed by the lightning.
• Su Hu, Lu Ming, and the Heavenly Dao Sect disciples congratulated Yun Xuan, who ordered them to recover and continue fighting in the Sixth Layer.
• Yun Xuan said she would wait for them on the Fifth Layer and stepped into the Road to Heaven.

The Heavenly Dao Sect launched its campaign into the Fifth Layer, where Yun Xuan held off and ultimately killed all ten Immortal Venerables while the disciples fought a century-long war. After their victory, Jiuyue asked Su Bai for permission to fight in the Fourth Layer, and he agreed.

• Yun Hai watched Yun Xuan reach the Immortal Venerable Realm, defeat a Heaven Gate Protector, and condense five Divine Rings, and he approved of her choice to join the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• After ten years of cultivation and preparation, Su Hu led one billion Heavenly Dao Sect disciples through the Road to Heaven into the Fifth Layer.
• Yun Xuan trapped the ten Immortal Venerables of Heavenly Net City in a Formless formation and fought them while the sect's outnumbered army battled the Heaven Gate forces.
• The war lasted a hundred years, and reinforcements helped the Heavenly Dao Sect turn the tide as Yun Xuan killed all ten Immortal Venerables.
• After the Heavenly Dao Sect won, Jiuyue told Su Bai that the Fourth Layer had over a hundred Immortal Venerables, including a Nine-Ring Immortal Venerable, and Su Bai allowed her to fight next.

After a century of recovery, the Heavenly Dao Sect grew stronger and prepared to invade the Fourth Layer, with Yun Xuan reaching the Six-Ring Immortal Venerable Realm. In the Fourth Layer, Xuan Mingzi learned the lower five layers might have fallen and requested a Supreme Immortal Venerable from the Third Layer.

• Su Bai ordered the Heavenly Dao Sect to recuperate for a hundred years after taking the Fifth Layer, then march into the Fourth Layer.
• During the century, Su Hu and Lu Ming reached the Seventh Step of the Immortal Lord Realm and fought a three-day sparring match.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect’s Immortal Lord ranks grew to more than five hundred, while Yun Xuan condensed her second Ultimate Origin and reached the Six-Ring Immortal Venerable Realm.
• Yun Xuan agreed to handle opponents below the Nine-Ring level as Jiuyue offered to face the Fourth Layer’s Nine-Ring Immortal Venerables.
• At the Heaven Gate headquarters, Xuan Mingzi learned contact with the lower five layers had been lost and suspected they had fallen.
• Xuan Mingzi ordered the Third Layer to send a Supreme Immortal Venerable to oversee the situation.

The Heavenly Dao Sect’s five billion disciples invaded the Fourth Layer, where Jiuyue shattered Heavenly Treasure City’s formations and killed Xuan Mingzi with one strike. As Su Hu led the army into battle, Jiuyue confronted a Supreme Immortal Venerable from the Third Layer who tried to flee.

• A Supreme Immortal Venerable from the Third Layer learned that contact with the lower layers had been cut off and went to support the Fourth Layer.
• Su Bai led five billion disciples, including Su Hu, Lu Ming, Jiuyue, and Yun Xuan, through the Road to Heaven toward the Fourth Layer.
• Xuan Mingzi assembled Heavenly Treasure City’s forces and attacked the arriving army, but Jiuyue blocked the assault.
• Jiuyue destroyed the city’s formations and killed peak Nine-Ring Immortal Venerable Xuan Mingzi with one strike.
• Su Hu led the disciples into battle as Yun Xuan charged forward, while the Third Layer’s Supreme Immortal Venerable turned to flee.
• Jiuyue appeared in front of the fleeing Supreme Immortal Venerable and asked where he was going.

Jiuyue killed the remaining Ninth-Ring Immortal Venerables on the fourth floor, while Heavenly Dao Sect’s forces battled Heaven Gate’s trapped army. Yun Xuan used her two Ultimate Origins to fight the Immortal Venerables, and as the battle continued, Jiuyue sensed movement from the third floor.

• Jiuyue killed a Supreme Immortal Venerable from Heaven Gate, then eliminated the other Ninth-Ring Immortal Venerables on the fourth floor.
• Heaven Gate’s remaining Immortal Venerables and Immortal Lords launched a desperate assault, and Su Hu led Heavenly Dao Sect’s forces into battle.
• Yun Xuan revealed her All-Beings Thought Origin and Ultimate Sword Dao Origin, then killed a Three-Ring Immortal Venerable with one sword strike.
• Yun Xuan broke through a group attack from more than ten Immortal Venerables and killed a Seventh-Ring Immortal Venerable with her next strike.
• Su Hu and Lu Ming led Heavenly Dao Sect’s Immortal Lords in forcing nearly ten thousand Heaven Gate Immortal Lords back.
• Jiuyue raised her head after sensing movement from the third floor.

Jiuyue destroyed the seven Supreme Immortal Venerables who came from the Third Layer, turning the Heaven Gate’s defeat on the Fourth Layer into a rout. She then entered the Road to Heaven and confronted the furious Half-Step King, introducing herself as Jiuyue of the Heavenly Dao Sect.

• The seven Supreme Immortal Venerables of the Third Layer learned that Ghost Old Man had fallen and went to the Fourth Layer to avenge him.
• The white-haired elder and the other six attacked Jiuyue, but she shattered their combined strike and annihilated all seven with one spear thrust.
• Su Hu and Lu Ming led the Heavenly Dao Sect’s fighters in crushing the remaining Heaven Gate forces.
• The deaths of the eight Grand Elders threw the Third Layer into chaos, and Heaven Gate powerhouses fled toward the Second Layer.
• The Half-Step King emerged from seclusion and tried to descend to the Fourth Layer, where Jiuyue blocked the Road to Heaven and identified herself.

Jiuyue killed a Half-Step King, and the Heavenly Dao Sect spent five years conquering the Fourth Layer before using ten years of cultivation to prepare for the Third. The Sect swept the Third Layer in three months and gained support from its oppressed inhabitants, then continued its march toward Heaven Gate.

• Jiuyue pierced the Half-Step King through the glabella, and the remaining Heaven Gate experts fled toward the Second Layer.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect fought for five years on the Fourth Layer, with Yun Xuan killing every Immortal Venerable and the disciples defeating the last Heaven Gate resistance.
• The five-billion-strong army spent ten years recovering and cultivating in the Spacetime Tower before marching to the Third Layer.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect found the Third Layer's Heaven Gate experts panicking, while the sealed Road to Heaven prevented their escape to the Second Layer.
• Su Hu and Lu Ming led the attack as the Heavenly Dao Sect swept away the Third Layer's remaining resistance in three months.
• Oppressed beings and Rogue Cultivators pledged allegiance to the Heavenly Dao Sect, whose disciples vowed to keep advancing until oppression ended across the Ninefold Firmament.

After five centuries of growth, Su Bai summoned the New Immortal Realm’s disciples to join the Heavenly Dao Sect in the Eternal Immortal Realm. The chapter ended as gateways opened across the Third Layer and powerful disciples began arriving, poised to march with Su Bai.

• Su Hu and Lu Ming reached the pinnacle of the Immortal Lord Realm, then each condensed the Ultimate Sword Dao Origin and became a Five-Ring Immortal Venerable.
• Yun Xuan condensed five Ultimate Origins under Su Bai’s guidance and reached the Nine-Ring Immortal Venerable Realm.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect’s Eternal Immortal Realm grew to over one hundred billion disciples, while the New Immortal Realm surpassed five hundred billion disciples and gained fifty-six Half-Step Kings.
• Su Bai summoned all New Immortal Realm disciples at the True Immortal Realm or above to assemble, then waited with Yun Xuan, Su Hu, Lu Ming, and Jiuyue in the Third Layer.
• Enormous golden gateways opened across the Third Layer, and fifty-six Half-Step Kings led the arriving New Immortal Realm disciples in greeting Su Bai.

Su Bai assembled the Heavenly Dao Sect’s 110 billion disciples in the Third Layer and rallied them for a campaign to the Second Layer. Before leading the army, he went ahead with Yun Xuan to meet someone connected to the King Lineage that held power there.

• One hundred billion Heavenly Dao Sect disciples emerged to join the ten billion disciples already in the Third Layer, astonishing Yun Xuan and the assembled forces.
• Su Bai welcomed the reunited disciples and declared that they would fight through the layers until oppression ended and all beings were equal.
• Yun Xuan asked to join the battle for the Second Layer, and Su Bai accepted her request.
• The 110 billion-strong army assembled before the Road to Heaven, but Su Bai told them to wait while he and Yun Xuan went ahead.
• Su Bai explained that a King Lineage connected to Yun Xuan, rather than the eighteen Half-Step Kings stationed by the Heaven Gate, was the strongest force in the Second Layer.

Su Bai and Yun Xuan visited the Yun Household on the Second Layer to ask Yun Zhongtian to join the Heavenly Dao Sect’s fight against the Ninefold Firmament. Yun Xuan revealed the Sect’s strength and control of the lower seven layers, but Yun Zhongtian warned that Heaven Gate commanded over a hundred Immortal Kings and Epoch Heavenly Kings.

• Su Bai and Yun Xuan arrived at the Yun Household, where Yun Xuan recognized it as the home of her father’s old friend Yun Zhongtian.
• Yun Zhongtian welcomed Yun Xuan and learned that she had reached Nine-Ring Immortal Venerable with five Ultimate Origins, then greeted Su Bai.
• Yun Xuan asked Yun Zhongtian to join the Heavenly Dao Sect and overthrow the Ninefold Firmament, but he warned that opposing Heaven Gate was suicide.
• Yun Xuan revealed that the Heavenly Dao Sect controlled the layers from the Ninth to the Third and had one hundred billion True Immortals, thirty thousand Immortal Venerables, two thousand Supreme Immortal Venerables, and fifty-six Half-Step Kings.
• Yun Zhongtian warned that Heaven Gate had more than a hundred Immortal Kings and even Epoch Heavenly Kings.

Yun Xuan persuaded Yun Zhongtian to stop hiding and join the Heavenly Dao Sect’s war against Heaven Gate after Su Bai revealed overwhelming power. Yun Zhongtian offered his household’s intelligence and forces, and Su Bai declared the final campaign had begun.

• Yun Xuan urged Yun Zhongtian to stand against Heaven Gate, reminding him of his past resistance and the Heavenly Dao Sect’s strength.
• Su Bai’s glance terrified Yun Zhongtian, who realized Su Bai stood above Kings.
• Su Bai told Yun Zhongtian he had come to announce the Heavenly Dao Sect’s resolve to fight, not to demand the Yun Household’s allegiance.
• Yun Zhongtian agreed to lead the Yun Household in following the Heavenly Dao Sect and revealed that it knew the backgrounds and weaknesses of Kings across the Ninefold Firmament.
• Yun Zhongtian volunteered to lead the vanguard in clearing the Second Layer, and Su Bai declared the final campaign had begun.

Jiuyue led the Heavenly Dao Sect’s hundred-billion army into the Second Layer, where it joined forces with the Yun Household to destroy Heaven Gate’s resistance. With eight layers of the Ninefold Firmament under their banner, the army prepared to advance to the First Layer for its final battle.

• Jiuyue led the Heavenly Dao Sect’s hundred-billion army from the Third Layer into the Second Layer, shocking Yun Zhongtian with its size and power.
• Yun Zhongtian ordered the Yun Household’s experts to attack Heaven Gate’s strongholds while the Heavenly Dao Sect’s forces spread across the Second Layer.
• Shi Huang, Gu Qingping, Su Qi, Li Shiyan, Qin Ba, and the other Heavenly Dao Sect Half-Step Kings each killed one of Heaven Gate’s eighteen Half-Step Kings in a single move.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect’s army annihilated the remaining Heaven Gate forces and cleared the Second Layer within an hour.
• The army looked toward the First Layer, where the final battle awaited.