Chapter Summaries

After defeating the Six-Kingdom Coalition Army, Su Bai prepared to unify Southern Ridge and end its centuries of warfare. The Heavenly Dao Sect’s disciples returned with the six kingdoms’ treasures, while Su Bai began assessing the immense spoils of victory.

• Su Bai surveyed the vast blade scar and the devastated borderlands, then told Zhuge Feng to handle the more than two million surrendered prisoners as the Lingxiao Sect prisoners had been handled.
• Su Bai explained that he intended to unify the six kingdoms and bring peace and prosperity to Southern Ridge, and Zhuge Feng pledged to obey.
• Han Feiyu returned with eight hundred Heavenly Dao Sect disciples after they raided the six imperial palaces and six great Nascent Soul sects without harming innocent people.
• Fire Qilin lamented that it had missed the battle, and Su Bai told it there would be plenty of battles ahead.
• Su Bai began tallying the spoils, which included the six kingdoms’ treasures, four million soldiers, and the remnants of their great sects.

After tallying his enormous spoils, Su Bai ordered the Heavenly Dao Sect to unify Southern Ridge and protect its ordinary people from harm. As his disciples prepared to march against the six nations, Zhuge Feng returned to cultivate for his imminent breakthrough to Golden Core.

• Su Bai finished tallying his wealth and descended before the gathered Heavenly Dao Sect disciples and other leaders.
• Su Bai announced a campaign to unify the leaderless six nations and ordered his disciples not to harm ordinary people or seize their belongings.
• Su Bai assigned the Fire Qilin and White Tiger to accompany the army and protect the disciples.
• Xiao Lingxi, Xiao Yan, Ye Qingyao, Mu Lingxian, Han Feiyu, and Zhao Tianlong volunteered to serve as the vanguard.
• Su Bai sent Zhuge Feng into seclusion to prepare for the Four-Nine Minor Heavenly Tribulation and his breakthrough to Golden Core.

Su Bai rebuked the Cloud Heaven Sect for its indecision and warned it to prepare for the Three-Year Pact, while the Heavenly Dao Sect continued conquering the six kingdoms. As Zhuge Feng began his Golden Core breakthrough, the system announced a major update tied to the sect’s growing influence.

• Su Bai left the Emperor of Great Zhao to oversee surrendered troops and passed Xiao Tianlong, whose household’s fortunes had suffered because of his choices.
• Su Bai accused Yun Zhi and the Cloud Heaven Sect of hedging their bets, criticized Yun Zhi’s indecisiveness, and warned that he had spared them only because his disciple needed the Three-Year Pact.
• Yun Zhi assigned the First Elder to visit the Heavenly Dao Sect and confess the Cloud Heaven Sect’s wrongdoing, while she chose to wait for her master to emerge from seclusion.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect captured Great Jin within a month and occupied three of Southern Ridge’s six kingdoms by the second month.
• Dark clouds gathered over the Heavenly Dao Sect as Zhuge Feng approached the Golden Core realm, and the system announced a major update that could expand Su Bai’s Unbeatable Domain to territory under the sect’s control.

Zhuge Feng survived the Four-Nine Minor Heavenly Tribulation and became the Heavenly Dao Sect’s first Golden Core expert, then helped the sect conquer all of Southern Ridge. The sect’s disciples stayed in the six kingdoms to establish new rules and win over their people.

• Zhuge Feng charged into the Four-Nine Minor Heavenly Tribulation and shattered its final lightning dragon with his staff.
• Zhuge Feng emerged with a Golden Core, reached the Golden Core Realm, and thanked Su Bai for his guidance.
• Su Bai ordered Zhuge Feng to help pacify the remaining kingdoms and test his strength against Golden Core opponents.
• With Zhuge Feng’s help, the Heavenly Dao Sect subdued every force in Southern Ridge and achieved its first grand unification in thousands of years.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect’s disciples remained across the six kingdoms to set new rules, promote education, and ensure surrendered factions followed them.

Su Bai searched for a Dao Intent worthy of his path and found it in the faith of the people he had helped. He broke through to the Spirit Transformation Realm as Nameless recognized his All Beings Intent.

• Su Bai suppressed his breakthrough at Nascent Soul Great Perfection while seeking a Dao Intent, and he considered Nameless’s mad sword intent.
• Su Bai walked through Cloudwater City in disguise and heard residents praise the changes he had brought to their lives.
• Su Bai discovered the residents had erected a statue of him out of gratitude and saw their prayers gather into Faith Power.
• Su Bai followed the Faith Power to the Heavenly Dao Hall, merged with his golden phantom, and achieved the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• Nameless sensed Su Bai’s breakthrough and identified his Dao Intent as All Beings Intent.

After the Heavenly Dao Sect’s territory spread across roughly half of Southern Ridge, Su Bai completed the upgrade to a Four-Star Sect and unlocked three side quests. He set his sights on winning first place at the Southern Mystic Province Immortal Alliance Assembly to obtain the Second True Self divine ability.

• Su Bai sensed his transformation into the Spirit Transformation Realm and watched the Heavenly Dao Sect’s scattered territories grow together as its reputation spread.
• Three months later, the system upgrade finished, and Su Bai raised the Heavenly Dao Sect to Four-Star with 621,314 members and territory covering about half of Southern Ridge.
• The system activated side quests requiring Su Bai to win the Southern Mystic Province Immortal Alliance Assembly, recruit a sufficiently powerful elder, and obtain four guardian divine beasts.
• Su Bai learned that Southern Mystic Province’s strongest sects far surpassed Southern Ridge’s forces, but resolved to claim first place for the Second True Self divine ability.

Su Bai upgraded the Heavenly Dao Sect to four stars, expanding Heavenly Dao Mountain and gaining a Cultivation Tower and a Super Teleportation Array. After placing the arrays across the Southern Ridge, he decided to charge two copper coins per trip.

• Su Bai upgraded the Heavenly Dao Sect, enlarging its buildings and expanding Heavenly Dao Mountain until its peak rose nearly ten thousand zhang into the clouds.
• Su Bai explored the Cultivation Tower and found that its rising pressure and denser spiritual energy could support disciples of different cultivation realms.
• Su Bai received a Super Teleportation Array with one hundred interconnected sub-arrays that could be used without limits for one High-Grade Spirit Stone per day.
• Su Bai placed the main array at the mountain summit and distributed sub-arrays around the mountain, Cloudwater City, and cities across the Southern Ridge.
• Su Bai considered how to make teleportation affordable for citizens and set the price at two copper coins per trip.

Yun Zhi led the Cloud Heaven Sect elders to the Heavenly Dao Sect to apologize, but they stopped in a city to investigate a teleportation array that could carry hundreds of people to destinations across the Southern Ridge. The elders were stunned to learn that mortals could use it for two copper coins, leaving them feeling that their sect had fallen far behind.

• Yun Zhi warned the Cloud Heaven Sect elders to behave respectfully as they traveled to apologize to the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• The elders spotted a teleportation array in a small city and marveled that it was far more advanced than their sect's array.
• Yun Zhi and the elders concealed their cultivation and joined the queue, where they discovered that most travelers were mortals.
• The elders found dozens of destinations on the machines and selected the Heavenly Dao Sect for fourteen people.
• A man behind them paid the two-copper-per-person fare, gave them the special coins, and sent them to wait for teleportation.
• Onlookers recognized the Cloud Heaven Sect elders and joked that their sect seemed tiny.

The Cloud Heaven Sect elders visited the Heavenly Dao Sect and were overwhelmed by its cheap, efficient teleportation array and immense spiritual Qi. The Cloud Heaven Sect unconditionally submitted, but its elders were rejected when they tried to join the Heavenly Dao Sect because they did not meet its cultivation requirements.

• The Cloud Heaven Sect elders paid a tiny fee to use the Heavenly Dao Sect’s teleportation array and marveled at its size, speed, and stability.
• The elders arrived at the Heavenly Dao Sect and were astonished by its exceptionally dense spiritual Qi, which renewed some of their hopes of reaching the Nascent Soul realm.
• Su Bai greeted the visitors, and the First Elder announced that the Cloud Heaven Sect would unconditionally surrender; Yun Zhi tacitly approved.
• The Cloud Heaven Sect elders argued over who should take the Heavenly Dao Sect’s vacant elder position, but Su Bai told them they fell below the minimum cultivation standard.
• The Cloud Heaven Sect members reluctantly departed, wishing they could remain to cultivate in the Heavenly Dao Sect’s rich spiritual Qi.

Heavenly Dao Sect’s disciples surged into the Golden Core Realm as the sect grew into a million-member power, while Su Bai reached Spirit Transformation Ninth Layer. With the Southern Mystic Province Immortal Alliance Assembly approaching, Xiao Yan’s Three-Year Pact with Liu Yanran arrived.

• Xiao Lingxi and Mu Lingxian broke through to the Golden Core Realm, and Han Feiyu secretly followed them.
• The Immortal Alliance elders discussed Southern Ridge’s destroyed Teleportation Arrays, and Venerable Giant Spirit vowed to target its sects at the assembly.
• Xiao Yan endured a brutal tribulation and entered the Martial Golden Core Realm, determined to defeat Liu Yanran.
• Zhao Tianlong and Ye Qingyao also reached the Golden Core Realm as Heavenly Dao Sect surpassed twenty Golden Core disciples, one hundred thousand Foundation Establishment disciples, and one million disciples overall.
• Su Bai advanced to Spirit Transformation Ninth Layer, while Xiao Yan reached Martial Golden Core Third Layer and turned toward Cloud Heaven Sect as the Three-Year Pact arrived.

Xiao Yan and his fellow disciples prepared to travel to Cloud Heaven Sect for the Three-Year Pact, with Su Bai joining their resolve to face the world together. At Cloud Heaven Sect, Liu Yanran remained in seclusion as the sect awaited the challenge, until Xiao Yan arrived and announced himself.

• Zhuge Feng and Xiao Lingxi offered to accompany Xiao Yan to Cloud Heaven Sect, and the disciples agreed to go together.
• Han Feiyu reflected on Xiao Yan's bold Three-Year Pact, while Xiao Yan admitted he had made it without understanding how difficult it would be.
• Mu Lingxian, Zhao Tianlong, and Xiao Lingxi encouraged their companions to pursue their ambitions and promised to help Ye Qingyao recover her elder sister.
• Su Bai appeared and joined the disciples as they vowed to change the world together.
• Cloud Heaven Sect's Great Elder learned Liu Yanran was still in seclusion after accepting the founding sect master's inheritance, and Yun Zhi said she should emerge soon.
• Xiao Yan drove his weapon into Cloud Heaven Sect's plaza and announced that he had come to answer the Three-Year Pact.

Xiao Yan arrived at Cloud Heaven Sect to challenge Liu Yanran under their three-year pact, while Su Bai and the Heavenly Dao Sect disciples demonstrated their intimidating strength. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan and Liu Yanran facing off as he challenged her to prove her claimed genius.

• Xiao Yan entered Cloud Heaven Sect’s plaza with the Dark Iron Heavy Ruler, and the gathered disciples marveled at his strength and appearance.
• Su Bai arrived and took the seat of honor beside Sect Master Yun Zhi, while Cloud Heaven Sect’s elders recognized the danger posed by the Heavenly Dao Sect disciples.
• Xiao Yan called Liu Yanran out, and she descended onto the plaza with her cold sword after Yun Zhi warned her that she was no match for him.
• Liu Yanran rejected Xiao Yan as trash and declared that her Dao companion should be a peerless genius who could pursue immortality with her.
• Xiao Yan mocked Liu Yanran’s confidence and challenged her to show the strength she had gained during the three years.

Liu Yanran challenged Xiao Yan, confident that her talent and Cloud Heaven Sect inheritance made her superior. Xiao Yan revealed that he had reached the Golden Core Realm, leaving Liu Yanran stunned but still convinced she could win as the duel began.

• Su Bai stopped Yun Zhi from intervening and let Xiao Yan and Liu Yanran settle their dispute themselves.
• Liu Yanran boasted of her High-Grade Spirit Root, her mastery of the Cloud Heaven Sword Canon, and her Third-Level Foundation Establishment cultivation.
• Xiao Yan mocked Liu Yanran’s progress and revealed a powerful aura that surpassed the Golden Core Realm.
• Liu Yanran was driven back and injured by Xiao Yan’s pressure but insisted his strength was an illusion and declared she would defeat him.
• Xiao Yan called Liu Yanran a frog at the bottom of a well, and she challenged him to prove who truly was one.

Xiao Yan defeated Liu Yanran, overcame the humiliation that had haunted him for three years, and broke through to Martial Dao Golden Core Fourth Layer. As he and the Heavenly Dao Sect disciples prepared to leave, former Cloud Heaven Sect master Yun Kong appeared after breaking through to Spirit Transformation Realm and challenged them.

• Xiao Yan broke Liu Yanran’s sword, endured her ultimate sword technique without injury, and defeated her with a single slap.
• Liu Yanran admitted defeat and collapsed as Xiao Yan reflected on his former master’s words, resolved his emotional knot, and broke through to Martial Dao Golden Core Fourth Layer.
• Xiao Yan left the Cloud Heaven Sect with his fellow disciples, while Han Feiyu praised his slap and the sect’s crowd watched in silence.
• Yun Kong emerged from a century of seclusion, revealed his Spirit Transformation Realm breakthrough, and called out to stop Xiao Yan from leaving.

Yun Kong, the thousand-year-old Cloud Heaven Sect legend, finally reached Spirit Transformation after surviving one breakthrough after another. Convinced he could dominate Southern Ridge, he emerged from seclusion and confronted the gathered factions, trapping them inside the sect’s grand array.

• Yun Kong’s extraordinarily slow cultivation and long life carried him from a late Foundation Establishment breakthrough to Golden Core and then Nascent Soul, making him Cloud Heaven Sect’s strongest figure and sect master.
• As his lifespan neared its limit, Yun Kong broke through to Spirit Transformation and gained Spatial Power.
• Yun Kong decided that his new strength made him invincible in Southern Ridge and imagined uniting its factions under Cloud Heaven Sect.
• Yun Kong appeared above the plaza, scorned Lingxiao Sect and Heavenly Dao Sect, and demanded that all factions submit to Cloud Heaven Sect.
• Yun Kong activated Cloud Heaven Sect’s grand array, preventing those present from leaving.

Yun Kong emerged from a hundred years of seclusion and berated Yun Zhi and the Cloud Heaven Sect elders for their perceived failures, sealing them whenever they tried to respond. He then demanded that Xiao Yan apologize and make the Heavenly Dao Sect submit, while the Cloud Heaven Sect’s terrified disciples could only listen to his plans for the Immortal Alliance Assembly.

• Yun Kong interrupted Yun Zhi, denounced her cultivation and leadership, stripped her of her position as sect master, and sealed her movements.
• Yun Kong demanded Xiao Yan kneel, apologize, call himself trash, and have the Heavenly Dao Sect submit to the Cloud Heaven Sect.
• Yun Kong insulted the grand elder for failing to advance, then sealed his movements and speech when he tried to interject.
• Yun Kong silenced the second elder and restrained the other elders before scolding them for letting the sect be bullied.
• Yun Kong ordered the disciples to stand proudly and smile, declaring that he would lead them into the top two hundred and fifty at the upcoming Immortal Alliance Assembly.

Yun Kong arrived at the Heavenly Dao Sect boasting of his Spirit Transformation strength and demanding its submission, but learned that Su Bai had already unified Southern Ridge. After Su Bai demonstrated overwhelming power, Yun Kong bowed and knelt, then forced Liu Yanran to take the blame for his earlier demands.

• Yun Kong tried to recruit Su Bai’s disciples and destroyed a mountain peak to display his Spirit Transformation power.
• Yun Kong discovered Su Bai was the Heavenly Dao Sect’s sect master and learned from Yun Zhi and the elders that the sect had unified Southern Ridge and defeated the Six Nations.
• Su Bai restored the destroyed mountain, prompting Yun Kong to call him Senior Su and kneel.
• Su Bai questioned Yun Kong about demanding that the disciples kneel and call themselves trash, and Yun Kong claimed his own disciples should do so instead.
• Yun Kong slapped Liu Yanran to her knees and ordered her to shout that she was trash.

Yun Kong tried to save his life by offering to guide Su Bai at the upcoming Immortal Alliance Assembly. After explaining the assembly’s three rounds and his own past victory in a Pinnacle Battle, Yun Kong won a chance to prove his usefulness to Su Bai.

• Yun Kong begged Su Bai to spare him and offered to serve him, while Yun Zhi and the Cloud Heaven Sect members watched in disbelief.
• Yun Kong urged Su Bai to attend the approaching Immortal Alliance Assembly and offered his experience from seven previous appearances.
• Yun Kong explained the Disciple Battle, Core Battle, and Pinnacle Battle, recounting how he had defeated the emperor of Great Jin in a past showdown.
• Yun Kong admitted that Cloud Heaven Sect had been the only sect to request a Pinnacle Battle and boasted that he had carried the sect to victory.
• Su Bai agreed to judge Yun Kong’s performance at the assembly and consider forgiving him, and Yun Kong pledged to follow Su Bai.

As the Immortal Alliance Assembly approached, Heavenly Dao Sect’s disciples grew stronger, and Su Bai advanced from Spirit Transformation to the Void Refining Realm. He tested his new ability to enter and survive the Void Realm before tearing open space and returning.

• Su Bai reviewed Heavenly Dao Sect’s disciple statistics, including Zhuge Feng’s breakthrough to Nascent Soul and the sect’s forty Golden Core disciples.
• Su Bai reached the Void Refining Realm after a month of preparation for the Immortal Alliance Assembly.
• Su Bai shattered space with a touch and opened a rift into the Void Realm.
• Su Bai entered the Void Realm and withstood its turbulent power, which could destroy Nascent Soul and Spirit Transformation cultivators.
• Su Bai closed the rift behind him, walked through the dark Void Realm, and tore open space to emerge again.

Su Bai assembled the Heavenly Dao Sect’s fighters for the Southern Mystic Province Immortal Alliance Assembly, revealing that the sect had far more power than Yun Kong expected. With two newly transformed divine beasts joining the lineup, the sect prepared to compete with three Spirit Transformation cultivators, several Nascent Soul experts, and Su Bai himself.

• Su Bai invited the Great Zhao Emperor to bring his people to the Heavenly Dao Sect for the Immortal Alliance Assembly.
• The next morning, Yun Kong and the others gathered with the sect’s Golden Core disciples, and Su Bai revealed that the silent figure among them was Di Buyu, whom he had refined into a Nascent Soul Peak puppet.
• Yun Kong assumed he was the sect’s second-strongest fighter until two powerful auras erupted from the rear mountain.
• The Fire Qilin and White Tiger arrived in human forms, revealing that both had entered the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect prepared to enter the assembly with three Spirit Transformation cultivators, three Nascent Soul experts, more than forty Golden Core disciples, and Su Bai.