Chapter Summaries

Su Bai fought Di Buyu, the Heavenly Palace’s foremost true disciple, and used Spatial Power to overwhelm him despite Di Buyu’s Nascent Soul Ninth Layer cultivation. Di Buyu escaped with an Instant Teleportation Talisman, while Su Bai took his spear and Storage Ring and turned his attention to the ongoing battle between the Fire Qilin and the White Tiger.

• Di Buyu announced he had come to execute Su Bai and attacked him with a Supreme-Grade Spirit Artifact spear.
• Su Bai warped space to deflect Di Buyu’s spear, seized it, and struck him hard enough to smash him into a mountain.
• Di Buyu realized Su Bai controlled Spatial Power and boasted that the Heavenly Palace’s twelve Heavenly King-level geniuses were stronger than him.
• Su Bai mocked Di Buyu for not being among the Heavenly Palace’s top ten, enraging him into charging again.
• Su Bai hurled Di Buyu’s spear back with Spatial Power, severing a finger bearing a Storage Ring before Di Buyu escaped with an Instant Teleportation Talisman.
• Su Bai collected the Storage Ring and looked toward the fierce battle between the Fire Qilin and the White Tiger.

Su Bai brought the White Tiger to the Heavenly Dao Sect, freed it from its restraints, and took possession of Di Buyu’s treasures. Di Buyu returned under cover of night to kill Su Bai and reclaim his spear, but the chapter ended with him threatening a bearded man for information.

• Su Bai seized the Fire Qilin and White Tiger and brought them back to the Heavenly Dao Sect, leaving Yun Zhi and the Grand Elder to wait for the old Sect Master to emerge from seclusion.
• Su Bai removed the White Tiger’s seals inside the Unbeatable Domain, and the Fire Qilin persuaded it that the sect was a safe place to stay.
• Su Bai examined Di Buyu’s Storage Ring, finding Spirit Stones, vast wealth, and the Purple Thunder Spear, whose mark had been erased.
• Di Buyu discovered that his connection to the White Tiger and Purple Thunder Spear had been severed, then decided to sneak into the Heavenly Dao Sect and kill Su Bai.
• Di Buyu entered the sect at night using the Heavenly Palace’s Divine Concealment Technique and threatened a bearded man, demanding to know where the Weapons Pavilion and Su Bai’s residence were.

Di Buyu infiltrated the Heavenly Dao Sect intending to kill Su Bai and loot its Spirit Vein, but his dagger could not harm the filthy mortal he took hostage. He fled with a World-Breaking Talisman, only to arrive before the same bearded man and drop to his knees.

• Di Buyu entered the Heavenly Dao Sect under cover of darkness and threatened a filthy, unshaven man with a poisoned dagger.
• Di Buyu tried to slash the man's throat, but his High-Grade Spirit Artifact shattered without leaving a mark on the man's skin.
• Di Buyu mistook the man for a hidden mighty figure, apologized, and activated his World-Breaking Talisman to escape.
• Di Buyu arrived beneath an elm tree, saw the same bearded man watching him, and fell to his knees.

Su Bai confronted Di Buyu after Nameless’s Spatial Power returned the would-be assassin to the Heavenly Dao Sect. With Nameless’s help, Su Bai turned Di Buyu into a Nascent Soul Peak Battle Puppet and took his Storage Ring.

• Di Buyu realized the World-Breaking Talisman had returned him to the Heavenly Dao Sect, then kowtowed and begged Su Bai for his life.
• Di Buyu offered his treasures and Storage Ring in exchange for being spared, but Su Bai pointed out that he could take them after killing him.
• Nameless said Di Buyu’s physical body could be refined into a Battle Puppet, and Di Buyu crawled over to plead for mercy.
• Nameless pinned Di Buyu down, and Su Bai annihilated his soul while leaving his body intact.
• Di Buyu’s body became a Nascent Soul Peak Battle Puppet, bowed to Su Bai, and gave him the other Storage Ring.

Venerable Zhenyang rushed to avenge Di Buyu, only to recognize Su Bai and flee through the Void Rift. Nameless killed him with a leaf, and his Storage Ring fell into Su Bai’s hands.

• Venerable Zhenyang sensed Di Buyu’s death and followed his tracking mark to Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Venerable Zhenyang attacked Su Bai through a Void Rift, but Su Bai caught his Venerable-grade weapon, so Zhenyang abandoned it and tried to close the rift.
• Nameless sent a leaf through the Void Rift, trapped Venerable Zhenyang, and killed him.
• Nameless told Su Bai that Venerable Zhenyang had helped destroy his sect four thousand years earlier, then returned to rest beneath the elm tree.
• A Storage Ring fell from the sky, and Su Bai saw it roll to a stop.

Su Bai discovered that Venerable Zhenyang’s broadsword Intent came from a crystal made from a Body Integration expert’s lifelong Dao Intent, and Nameless revealed the history of his fallen sect, the Heaven-Defying Sect. He warned Su Bai that the Heavenly Palace was far more powerful than it appeared and ended by explaining that he had once been a menial disciple with a Mixed Spirit Root.

• Su Bai found a Dao Intent Crystal among the spoils and learned from Nameless that it had once belonged to a senior of his sect.
• Su Bai offered Nameless wine, and Nameless recalled that he had entered Spirit Transformation after comprehending Mad Sword Intent while drunk.
• Nameless explained that the Heaven-Defying Sect had risen when the Human Race united to defy fate, but internal strife brought it down four thousand years ago.
• Nameless warned Su Bai that the Heavenly Palace’s true power exceeded what the Immortal Alliance revealed and that Su Bai should not challenge it prematurely.
• Nameless told Su Bai that he had severed Venerable Zhenyang’s arm when Zhenyang was a Spirit Transformation cultivator, and that he himself had then been at most Nascent Soul Peak.
• Nameless revealed that he had a Mixed Spirit Root and had started as a menial disciple tasked with sweeping the grounds.

Lu Tong discovered that Venerable Zhenyang had been murdered inside the Immortal Alliance, while Su Bai’s sect grew stronger over three months. The chapter ended with Su Bai and the White Tiger finding an exhausted, gaunt Fire Qilin beneath a bridge.

• Lu Tong arrived at the Immortal Alliance to deliver a Bone-Regenerating Pill and found Venerable Zhenyang’s corpse inside his sealed chamber.
• Over the next three months, Su Bai’s seven true disciples reached Foundation Establishment, Zhuge Feng neared Golden Core, and Su Bai advanced to the eighth level of the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Su Bai noticed the Fire Qilin was missing and learned from the White Tiger that it had been gone for days.
• Su Bai and the White Tiger searched outside the Heavenly Dao Sect and found the Fire Qilin beneath a bridge, looking severely drained.

Su Bai encountered the Fire Qilin, who begged to escape his White Tiger mate, then watched them return to the sect. At the Great Zhao–Great Jin border, the Emperor of Great Jin took control of a four-million-strong allied army and ordered it to invade Great Zhao at sunrise, setting his sights on Su Bai and the Heavenly Dao Sect.

• The Fire Qilin begged Su Bai to save him from the White Tiger, complaining that she made him mate with her a hundred times a day.
• The White Tiger dragged the Fire Qilin back toward the sect, and Su Bai gave him a bottle of kidney-tonifying pills.
• Armies and sect forces from across the Seven Kingdoms of Southern Ridge gathered at the border, forming an allied force of more than four million troops.
• Nascent Soul leaders argued over command until the Emperor of Great Jin killed one challenger with Spatial Power and silenced the tent.
• The Emperor of Great Jin ordered the allied forces to charge into Great Zhao at sunrise and vowed to take Su Bai's life and the Heavenly Dao Sect's Spirit Vein.

The Great Zhao Emperor ordered the commoners to evacuate while he and the willing ministers defended the Imperial City against the Six-Kingdom Coalition Army. The city came under immediate threat when Nascent Soul vanguards arrived and killed ministers who had tried to flee.

• Urgent reports reached the Great Zhao court that the Six-Kingdom Coalition Army had overwhelmed the border defenses and was advancing toward the Imperial City.
• The ministers urged the Great Zhao Emperor to retreat to the Heavenly Dao Sect, and he initially agreed to evacuate.
• The Great Zhao Emperor ordered the commoners to evacuate first and declared that he and the remaining defenders would hold the Imperial City, whose Grand Formation had been activated.
• Xiao Tianlong and other ministers pledged to remain, while several ministers chose to flee.
• Nascent Soul vanguards from the allied army appeared outside the Imperial City and crushed the fleeing ministers to death.

After learning that Great Jin and six kingdoms had invaded Great Zhao, Su Bai assembled the Heavenly Dao Sect’s disciples and prepared to send them to fight. The disciples vowed to defend Great Zhao, their families, and the sect, and they demanded retaliation against the invading army.

• Su Bai received word that Great Jin and six kingdoms had invaded Great Zhao with an army of over four million, leaving massacres in their wake.
• Su Bai summoned the Heavenly Dao Sect’s more than three hundred thousand Qi Refining disciples to the Floating Island.
• The Fire Qilin and White Tiger arrived, and the Fire Qilin eagerly welcomed the chance to fight.
• Su Bai told the gathered disciples that the coalition had invaded Great Zhao and slaughtered its people.
• The disciples, furious and worried about their families, called to fight back, drive out the invaders, and avenge Great Zhao’s dead.

Su Bai led the Heavenly Dao Sect to defend Great Zhao, while its imperial city came under attack from four Nascent Souls. Just as the city’s defenses fell, a gigantic purple-gold palm descended from the heavens and crushed the invaders.

• Su Bai rallied the Heavenly Dao Sect’s disciples, and Nameless silently blessed them as they prepared to fight.
• Su Bai ordered Zhuge Feng, Xiao Lingxi, Xiao Yan, Ye Qingyao, Mu Lingxian, Han Feiyu, and Zhao Tianlong to lead the disciples, then marched toward Great Zhao’s Imperial City with more than three hundred thousand followers.
• The four Nascent Soul attackers battered Great Zhao’s formation until it shattered, leaving the Emperor and the defenders wounded.
• The four Nascent Souls prepared to kill the defenders, but the Great Zhao Emperor urged everyone to look above the heavens.
• A gigantic purple-gold palm seized and crushed the four Nascent Souls as an icy voice declared that invaders who slaughtered his people would die.

Su Bai saved the imperial city by crushing four invading Nascent Soul cultivators, then revealed that the war was only beginning as the armies of six nations arrived. With four million enemy troops advancing, he prepared to face them alongside the three hundred thousand disciples of the Heavenly Dao Sect.

• Su Bai descended into the imperial city and identified himself as a member of the Heavenly Dao Sect, leaving the four Nascent Soul cultivators unable to resist him.
• Su Bai crushed the four Nascent Soul cultivators, and the Great Zhao Emperor and the civilians thanked him for saving them.
• Su Bai warned the Great Zhao Emperor that the war had only just begun and pointed toward the horizon.
• The armies of the six nations arrived with four million troops, and the Great Zhao Emperor and the city’s civilians were overwhelmed by their numbers.
• Su Bai faced the invading forces with three hundred thousand disciples of the Heavenly Dao Sect behind him.

Su Bai deployed the Heavenly Dao Sect’s three hundred thousand disciples to defend Great Zhao against the Great Jin Emperor’s four-million-strong army. As the enemy advanced, Su Bai confronted the Great Jin Emperor, and the battle began.

• The Heavenly Dao Sect’s aura clashed with the enemy’s, briefly gaining the upper hand despite being outnumbered.
• Su Bai assigned Zhuge Feng, Xiao Lingxi, Ye Qingyao, Xiao Yan, Mu Lingxian, and Zhao Tianlong to lead disciples across the defensive lines, while Han Feiyu took eight hundred elites and the Fire Qilin on a secret mission.
• The Great Zhao Emperor told Su Bai that only about thirty thousand soldiers remained, including ten thousand Qi Refining cultivators and around ten Golden Core experts.
• Su Bai arranged for Great Zhao’s Golden Core experts and allied forces’ Golden Core experts to face the enemy’s Golden Core fighters, and said he would handle the rest.
• The Great Jin Emperor revealed that Su Bai had killed six of Great Jin’s Nascent Souls and threatened to destroy Great Zhao and the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• The Great Jin Emperor ordered his four-million-strong army to attack, and Su Bai faced him as the battle began.

The Heavenly Dao Sect’s Floating Island devastated the allied armies, and Su Bai killed Great Jin’s Eightfold Nascent Soul eunuch with Venerable Zhenyang’s saber. As Great Jin’s Nascent Soul experts gathered to attack Su Bai, Han Feiyu led a raid on the Great Jin Imperial City.

• The Floating Island fired repeated blasts that killed tens of thousands of Great Jin soldiers, while the allied armies hesitated to advance.
• The Great Jin Emperor ordered Chrysanthemum Elder, an Eightfold Nascent Soul expert, to destroy the Floating Island, but his attacks failed to harm it.
• Su Bai used Venerable Zhenyang’s saber and spatial restriction to kill Chrysanthemum Elder, then cut down a hundred thousand Great Jin cavalrymen with a sweeping slash.
• The Great Jin Emperor realized Su Bai was a Half-Step Spirit Transformation expert and rallied more than thirty Nascent Soul experts to attack him.
• Han Feiyu and eight hundred Heavenly Dao Sect disciples broke the Great Jin Imperial City’s defensive formation and entered the palace to loot its treasures.

Han Feiyu led eight hundred Heavenly Dao Sect disciples into the Great Jin Imperial Palace, where the Fire Qilin kept its defenders helpless while they stripped the palace bare. After leaving the palace as empty earth, the group headed toward their next target, and a guardian sent a desperate message to the absent emperor.

• The Fire Qilin intimidated the palace's remaining cultivators as Heavenly Dao Sect disciples began taking everything, including floor tiles, plants, and valuables.
• A pavilion guard surrendered his Storage Ring and was forced to uproot the pavilion; afterward, he asked to join the Heavenly Dao Sect but was told he would have to pass an assessment.
• Two bare-chested pavilion guards embraced and agreed to hit each other so the emperor would think they had fought the invaders.
• Han Feiyu declared the mission complete after the disciples dismantled the entire palace and loaded its contents into Storage Rings.
• Han Feiyu directed the disciples onto the Fire Qilin, and the group flew away toward their next target.
• After the Fire Qilin departed, the strongest palace guardian sent the emperor a message saying the palace had been breached and stripped of every floor tile.

Heavenly Dao Sect fought Great Jin’s army while Su Bai faced the Great Jin Emperor and thirty-six Nascent Soul cultivators. The Great Jin Emperor activated a Fourth-Level Spirit Transformation Formation and challenged Su Bai, who prepared to test his strength against him.

• Heavenly Dao Sect’s disciples charged into battle and overwhelmed Great Jin’s iron cavalry, while Zhuge Feng and the Great Zhao Emperor killed enemy generals.
• The Great Jin Emperor ordered thirty-six Nascent Soul cultivators to activate the Spirit Transformation Formation around him.
• The formation raised the Great Jin Emperor’s power to Mid-Stage Fourth-Level Spirit Transformation.
• The Great Jin Emperor threatened Su Bai and demanded that he submit, while Su Bai calmly accepted the chance to test his combat strength.

Su Bai destroyed the Great Jin Emperor’s national-fortune jade seal and defeated him, while news arrived that the Great Jin and Great Yan home fronts had been raided. As the coalition tried to retreat, Su Bai sealed the space and declared that the invaders would not return.

• The Great Jin Emperor attacked Su Bai with the Imperial Sovereign Seal, but Su Bai shattered it with Di Buyu’s Purple Thunder Spear, and the clash devastated the Six-Kingdom Coalition Army.
• The Great Jin Emperor learned that the Great Jin Imperial Palace had been breached, weakening the empire’s Fortune, and accused Su Bai of attacking while he was away.
• Su Bai confronted the Great Jin Emperor over the invasion of Great Zhao, broke his Dragon Roar Sword, and crushed him in battle.
• The Great Yan Emperor received news that his home front had been raided and ordered a retreat, prompting the other coalition leaders to flee as well.
• Su Bai sealed the space around the retreating invaders and declared that they would not be allowed to leave Great Zhao.

Su Bai overwhelmed the opposing Nascent Soul cultivators as the retreating army collapsed into chaos and the Heavenly Dao Sect pursued. After surviving a combined assault from thirty-six experts without injury, he killed another Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator and stood ready to continue the fight.

• A Nascent Soul Seventh Layer cultivator attacked Su Bai with a bronze python talisman, but Su Bai crushed it with one stomp.
• The enemy army's retreat turned into a rout, and Zhuge Feng and Xiao Lingxi led three hundred thousand Heavenly Dao Sect disciples in pursuit.
• The White Tiger tore apart one of four Nascent Soul opponents, while the Great Zhao Emperor slew enemy Golden Core generals and the Cloud Heaven Sect arrived with reinforcements.
• Su Bai killed a Nascent Soul Third Layer cultivator instantly, reducing the enemy group from thirty-seven to thirty-six.
• The Great Jin Emperor led all thirty-six Nascent Soul cultivators in a combined attack, but Su Bai emerged unharmed and killed a Nascent Soul Seventh Layer expert with the Purple Thunder Spear.

Su Bai slaughtered the Six Nations Alliance’s Nascent Soul experts while their allies and the Heavenly Dao Sect watched in awe. The battle continued with Su Bai uninjured and the remaining enemies overwhelmed.

• The Great Jin Emperor rallied the surviving Nascent Soul experts to attack Su Bai, and they charged him together.
• Su Bai drew the Venerable Broadsword and killed Nascent Soul experts with ease, shrugging off their attacks.
• Su Bai hurled the Purple Thunder Spear to kill a fleeing expert, then used his broadsword to cut down a would-be attacker behind him.
• The Great Zhao Emperor and Yun Zhi watched with relief that they had not made an enemy of Su Bai, while the Heavenly Dao Sect disciples celebrated their sect master.
• Xiao Tianlong regretted his past conflict with the Heavenly Dao Sect as he reflected on Su Bai’s strength and Xiao Lingxi’s rapid progress.

Su Bai defeated the Six-Kingdom Coalition Army’s Nascent Soul forces and killed the Emperor of Great Jin, ending the invasion of Great Zhao. The surviving coalition soldiers surrendered, and the Emperor of Great Zhao declared that Su Bai now reigned supreme in Southern Ridge.

• Su Bai killed a fleeing Nascent Soul and withstood another’s self-destruction as the invaders’ numbers dwindled.
• The Emperor of Great Jin urged the remaining Nascent Souls to attack Su Bai while secretly fleeing.
• Su Bai unleashed a massive blade strike that turned the fourteen attackers into ashes.
• Su Bai pursued and killed the Emperor of Great Jin, destroying his body and Nascent Soul.
• Su Bai killed the final three Nascent Souls, and the surviving coalition soldiers surrendered to the victorious Heavenly Dao Sect.