Chapter Summaries

Su Bai led the Heavenly Dao Sect to Immortal Ruins City for the Southern Mystic Province Immortal Alliance Assembly. When Yun Kong announced their arrival, a Southern Heaven Gate elder branded them traitors and attacked, sparking a Spirit Transformation Realm battle before the assembly began.

• Su Bai opened a protected rift through the Void Realm and led the group toward Southern Mystic Province, while Yun Kong and the Fire Qilin eagerly anticipated the fighting.
• The group arrived at the Ancient Battlefield, where forces from across Southern Mystic Province had gathered for the Immortal Alliance Assembly.
• Yun Kong explained that small sects entered the assembly to give talented disciples a chance to attract powerful mentors.
• At registration, Yun Kong introduced the Heavenly Dao Sect as a Southern Ridge force and demanded a VIP area based on Cloud Heaven Sect's former top-sixteen finish.
• The registration disciple summoned help after hearing that the group came from Southern Ridge, and a Southern Heaven Gate elder arrived and attacked Yun Kong as a traitor.
• Yun Kong fought back against the Spirit Transformation Realm elder, and their clash sent shockwaves through the crowd and drew the attention of Immortal Ruins City's experts.

Su Bai intervened in Yun Kong’s battle with Elder He, revealing that the Heavenly Dao Sect had a Void Refinement Venerable at its helm. The onlookers realized the supposed Pinnacle Battle had been a one-sided display of overwhelming power.

• Yun Kong fought Elder He of the Southern Heaven Gate, while spectators discussed their Spirit Transformation strength and the rules of Immortal Ruins City.
• The Fire Qilin offered to fight Elder He, but Su Bai stepped in and said the Heavenly Dao Sect needed to show its strength.
• Su Bai immobilized Elder He with spatial pressure, allowing Yun Kong to land a blow that nearly broke Elder He’s right arm.
• Su Bai tore open a fissure in space, revealing power associated with the Void Refinement Realm and silencing the crowd.

Su Bai was revealed as the one who had killed Southern Heaven Gate elder He, and Venerable Sky Kun arrived to confront him. The crowd watched in awe as Sky Kun demanded to know whether Su Bai had killed the elder.

• Yun Kong kicked Elder He into a spatial rift, where the chaotic currents of the Void Realm killed him.
• The Emperor of Great Zhao was mistaken for the Venerable who had intervened, while he privately felt awkward about the assumption.
• Venerable Sky Kun emerged from the Void Realm and unleashed his overwhelming pressure across Immortal Ruins City.
• Sky Kun briefly inspected the Emperor of Great Zhao, then fixed his gaze on Su Bai and asked whether he had killed the Southern Heaven Gate elder.

Su Bai confronted Venerable Sky Kun after killing a Southern Heaven Gate elder and was sentenced to death, then entered the Void Realm to fight him. He returned moments later with Sky Kun dead, leaving Immortal Ruins City to reckon with a new power capable of suppressing Southern Mystic Province.

• Su Bai explained that he had killed the Southern Heaven Gate elder because the man attacked his sect first.
• Venerable Sky Kun accused Su Bai of three crimes and sentenced him to death to defend Southern Heaven Gate’s prestige.
• Su Bai challenged Sky Kun, joked about stewing the Kun Fish, and entered the Void Realm with him to fight.
• After only a few breaths, Sky Kun’s enormous corpse fell from the Void Realm, and the crowd realized Su Bai had killed him almost instantly.
• Su Bai emerged unharmed and asked whether the big pot was ready.

After Su Bai killed Venerable Sky Kun, Yun Kong registered the Heavenly Dao Sect and demanded a Supreme Room, which Venerable Xuan Ba granted them. Su Bai suspected the assembly would bring trouble and prepared to strengthen the sect with Sky Kun’s flesh and blood.

• Yun Kong confronted the Immortal Alliance registration disciple, who had insulted and attacked the Heavenly Dao Sect, and killed him after he begged for mercy.
• Yun Kong registered the Heavenly Dao Sect and received token number 1527, then demanded access to a Supreme Room instead of a VIP room.
• Venerable Xuan Ba arrived and transferred the Supreme Room privilege formerly held by the Sacred Tiger Sect to the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Su Bai warned the sect that the assembly would not go smoothly and told them to divide Venerable Sky Kun’s meat so they could improve their cultivation with pills.

Southern Heaven Gate and several Venerables plotted to use the Immortal Alliance Assembly to keep Su Bai and the Heavenly Dao Sect out of the top ten. After feasting on Kun Fish meat in their Supreme Venerable Rest Room, the sect grew stronger, and the assembly began.

• Venerable Xuan Ba and the other Venerables agreed to provoke the Sacred Tiger Sect into fighting Su Bai, then gang up on the Heavenly Dao Sect if necessary.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect disciples feasted on Kun Fish meat while Su Bai set up formations so they could eat and cultivate.
• Three days later, most of the Heavenly Dao Sect had advanced in cultivation, including Su Bai, Yun Zhi, the Great Zhao Emperor, the Fire Qilin, and the White Tiger.
• Yun Kong complained that he alone had gained no cultivation from the meat, and the Fire Qilin accidentally hurt him with a heavy pat.
• A voice announced that the auspicious hour had arrived and the Immortal Alliance Assembly had begun.

The Immortal Alliance Assembly began with the Heavenly Dao Sect drawing the Sacred Tiger Sect as its first-round opponent, setting up an unprecedented elimination match between two Venerable forces. Yun Kong immediately suspected the draw was rigged, leaving the assembly poised for a clash that could eliminate one of the contenders for the top five.

• The Heavenly Dao Sect arrived at the assembly and took its reserved pavilion, where the disciples noticed the hostile Sacred Tiger Sect nearby.
• Five Venerables appeared to preside over the assembly, and Su Bai shielded the Heavenly Dao Sect pavilion from their scrutiny.
• Venerable Xuan Ba opened the assembly and announced that the first elimination round would pair forces through a drawing system.
• A Spirit Transformation elder drew the Sacred Tiger Sect and the Heavenly Dao Sect as the first match.
• Yun Kong loudly accused the draw of having an inside story after learning the two Venerable forces would face elimination.

At the Immortal Alliance Assembly, Su Bai accepted a suspicious draw that matched the Heavenly Dao Sect against the Sacred Tiger Sect, then used the sect’s perceived weakness to set up a wager. The betting odds on the Heavenly Dao Sect rose to one to ten, but no one dared bet on them.

• Yun Kong accused the draw officials of rigging the first-round match, but Venerable Xuan Ba offered to redraw the lots.
• Su Bai stopped Yun Kong and declared that the Heavenly Dao Sect would accept the result rather than ask for a redraw.
• Su Bai asked Xiao Yan about his chances against the Sacred Tiger Sect, and Xiao Yan confidently claimed they would win.
• A Heaven-Dominating Sect elder opened bets on the Disciple Battle, and nearly everyone wagered on the Sacred Tiger Sect.
• A Sacred Tiger Sect elder bet ten million Spirit Stones on his own sect, while the odds for the Heavenly Dao Sect climbed to one to ten without attracting any bets.

Su Bai placed the Heavenly Dao Sect’s vast accumulated Spirit Stones on his sect to win at one-to-ten odds, forcing Venerable Xuan Ba to accept the wager. The signed contract guaranteed payment within three days, and both men left believing the other had taken the bait.

• Su Bai bet the Heavenly Dao Sect’s Spirit Stone reserves on its victory at one-to-ten odds.
• The Heaven-Dominating Sect elder discovered that the Storage Ring held one hundred thousand High-Grade, ten million Medium-Grade, and over one billion Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Venerable Xuan Ba inspected the enormous bet and decided the Heaven-Dominating Sect would accept it, believing the Sacred Tiger Sect would win.
• Su Bai required Venerable Xuan Ba to sign a contract specifying the wager and payment within three days.
• After signing the contract, Su Bai and Venerable Xuan Ba departed with each thinking the other had taken the bait.

At the Immortal Alliance Assembly, Zhang Goudan stepped forward to fight Sacred Tiger Sect’s Liu Feihu after Su Bai placed his bet. Zhang Goudan shattered Liu Feihu’s finger blades and killed him with one strike of his rake, securing the Heavenly Dao Sect’s first victory.

• Liu Feihu challenged the Heavenly Dao Sect, boasting of his strength as a Golden Core Third Layer true disciple.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Lingxi declined to fight, and Zhang Goudan volunteered to face Liu Feihu.
• Zhang Goudan entered the arena with a rake, drawing laughter from Liu Feihu and the spectators.
• When Liu Feihu attacked, Zhang Goudan met his claws with a rake strike that broke his finger blades and smashed into his chest.
• Liu Feihu was sent flying and died from Zhang Goudan’s single blow.

Zhang Goudan unexpectedly defeated Liu Feihu, giving the Heavenly Dao Sect the first match. Xiao Yan then faced Savage Hammer in the second match, and their clash ended with Savage Hammer kneeling.

• Zhang Goudan defeated Liu Feihu, shocking the crowd and earning the Heavenly Dao Sect the first match.
• Savage Hammer stepped forward to fight in the second match, while Zhang Goudan declined to continue so his fellow disciples could take part.
• Xiao Yan accepted the challenge and introduced himself as a Golden Core Sixth Layer cultivator, three minor levels below Savage Hammer.
• Savage Hammer attacked with his Invincible Whirlwind Hammer, and Xiao Yan met the blow with his Mountain-Splitting Ruler.
• After their weapons collided, Savage Hammer knelt, leaving the crowd stunned.

Xiao Yan overwhelmed Savage Hammer and a black-clad Sacred Tiger Sect disciple, turning the elimination match against the Sacred Tiger Sect into a rout. As Xiao Yan challenged the sect’s remaining disciples, its elder stopped Wu Yong and told him to wait until the others had worn Xiao Yan down.

• Xiao Yan pressed Savage Hammer to his knees with one hand and forced him to admit defeat.
• Xiao Yan mocked the spectators’ loudmouth, who was dragged away after trying to avoid his promise.
• Xiao Yan challenged the Sacred Tiger Sect to send two or three fighters—or all ten—against him.
• A black-clad disciple attacked Xiao Yan before the match was announced, but Xiao Yan struck him across the face and sent him flying.
• The Sacred Tiger Sect disciples turned to Wu Yong, but an elder told him to wait while the others wore down Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan defeated eight Sacred Tiger Sect disciples in a row, bringing the Heavenly Dao Sect to nine victories out of ten Disciple Battles. With only Wu Yong left to fight, a Sacred Tiger Sect elder challenged Xiao Yan’s eligibility, claiming he was over one hundred years old.

• Lin Shan tried to wear Xiao Yan down by circling the arena, but Xiao Yan caught him and knocked him out in one blow.
• Xiao Yan defeated the Sacred Tiger Sect’s remaining challengers, earning eight consecutive victories with instant knockouts.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect secured nine wins out of ten Disciple Battles, while Venerable Xuan Ba worried that he might lose his wager to Su Bai.
• Xiao Lingxi and Zhuge Feng praised the Heavenly Dao Sect’s strength, and Zhuge Feng noted that Wu Yong seemed powerful enough to be at the Nascent Soul Realm.
• As Wu Yong prepared for the final match, a Sacred Tiger Sect elder stopped him and accused Xiao Yan of exceeding the tournament’s age limit.

The Sacred Tiger Sect elder challenged Xiao Yan’s age and wagered his life against Xiao Yan’s, while Su Bai accepted the test on his disciple’s behalf. The Bone Age Testing Stone revealed that Xiao Yan was only nineteen, stunning the assembly.

• The Sacred Tiger Sect elder accused the Heavenly Dao Sect of falsifying Xiao Yan’s age and demanded a test.
• Xiao Yan accepted the challenge, and Su Bai said the elder would have to wager his own life as well.
• The Sacred Tiger Sect elder agreed to the wager, and Venerable Xuan Ba brought out the Bone Age Testing Stone.
• Xiao Yan placed his palm on the stone, which showed that he was nineteen.
• Hundreds of thousands of cultivators were stunned that Xiao Yan had reached Golden Core through tribulation before turning twenty.

Xiao Yan stunned the crowd by revealing he was nineteen and had reached Golden Core Sixth Layer, then forced the Sacred Tiger Sect elder to honor their wager and die. The Disciple Battle resumed with the Sacred Tiger Sect facing near-certain defeat, but its senior disciple stepped forward for the final match.

• The cultivators and Great Venerables reacted in shock when Xiao Yan’s age and cultivation were revealed.
• The Sacred Tiger Sect elder tested his own age, discovered he was 1,937, and learned that his Venerable patriarch would not protect him.
• After Su Bai challenged him to keep his wager, the elder admitted defeat and destroyed his own divine soul.
• The referee announced that the Disciple Battle would continue and asked whether the Sacred Tiger Sect would send another disciple.
• The Sacred Tiger Sect’s senior disciple rose to take the field for the final match.

Xiao Yan chose to face Sacred Tiger Sect genius Wu Yong, a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator, in the Immortal Alliance Assembly’s tenth match. Their opening clash left them evenly matched, stunning the spectators as the battle continued.

• Wu Yong stepped forward as Sacred Tiger Sect’s final contestant, drawing attention as its renowned chief disciple and a Nascent Soul genius.
• Zhuge Feng offered to take the match, but Xiao Yan insisted on fighting Wu Yong, and Su Bai approved his decision.
• The Heaven-Dominating Sect elder announced the tenth match between Wu Yong and Xiao Yan.
• Wu Yong charged with his great saber, and Xiao Yan met him in midair with the Mystic Iron Ruler and the full force of his Primordial Chaos Body-Refining Art.
• Xiao Yan blocked Wu Yong’s attack and exchanged blows with him evenly, shocking the spectators with his strength at Golden Core Sixth Layer.

Xiao Yan revealed that he had been carrying seven Heavy Mystic Iron plates, freeing his speed and turning the battle against Wu Yong. After the two exchanged their supreme arts, Wu Yong admitted defeat to the Golden Core Realm cultivator.

• Wu Yong disarmed Xiao Yan’s Mystic Iron Ruler and declared that he had won, while the spectators expected Xiao Yan to lose.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he had trained while wearing seven Heavy Mystic Iron plates and dropped them to unleash his full speed.
• Wu Yong charged, but Xiao Yan vanished from his sight and struck him from behind, making him cough up blood.
• Wu Yong summoned the Sacred Tiger Sect’s ancestral spirits and attacked with his blades, while Xiao Yan brought forth his Mystic Iron Ruler and swung his own supreme art.
• The techniques collided and shook the arena, leaving Wu Yong kneeling with a broken greatsword as he admitted defeat to Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan refused offers from Southern Mystic Province’s Venerables, and Su Bai defeated the Sacred Tiger Sect’s Venerable in under three breaths. Heavenly Dao Sect advanced after eliminating Sacred Tiger Sect, and Su Bai confronted Venerable Xuan Ba over the promised tenfold Spirit Stones.

• The Venerables offered Xiao Yan discipleship and lavish rewards, but he declared that he would never leave Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Su Bai blocked the Venerables from pressuring Xiao Yan and announced Heavenly Dao Sect’s victory in the Disciple Battle.
• The Venerable of Sacred Tiger Sect conceded the Core Battle and challenged Su Bai to a Pinnacle Battle.
• Su Bai defeated the Sacred Tiger Sect Venerable in the Void Realm in under three breaths, returning unharmed while his opponent emerged battered.
• The referee announced Sacred Tiger Sect’s elimination and Heavenly Dao Sect’s advancement to the next round.
• Su Bai asked Venerable Xuan Ba to pay the promised tenfold Spirit Stones or face a personal visit to Heaven-Dominating Sect.

Su Bai demanded that Venerable Xuan Ba pay the Heaven-Dominating Sect's enormous gambling debt, refusing to let him delay the entire payment for three days. Xuan Ba entered a spatial rift and challenged Su Bai, unleashing a pressure that shook Sacred Ruins City.

• Su Bai agreed to give Venerable Xuan Ba three days to gather the remaining Spirit Stones but demanded that he hand over what he had on hand immediately.
• Venerable Xuan Ba hesitated to return the winnings, while Su Bai publicly accused the Heaven-Dominating Sect of reneging on its debt.
• Onlookers discussed the enormous wager and mocked the Heaven-Dominating Sect for failing to pay.
• Venerable Xuan Ba dropped his pretense of friendliness and challenged Su Bai after Su Bai threatened him.
• Venerable Xuan Ba stepped through a spatial rift and released a terrifying pressure that made Sacred Ruins City tremble.

Su Bai entered the Void Realm to face Venerable Xuan Ba, who unleashed his most powerful attacks with the Star River Disk. Su Bai remained unharmed and seized the weapon, stopping Xuan Ba from destroying it with a saber at his neck.

• Su Bai entered the Void Rift, and Southern Mystic Province's five Venerables tried to follow before a star hurtled toward them and forced them to close it.
• Venerable Xuan Ba used the Star River Disk's Galactic Revolution to hurl stars at Su Bai, but Su Bai emerged unharmed.
• Xuan Ba unleashed Galactic Annihilation, yet Su Bai appeared behind him without a scratch.
• Su Bai grabbed the Star River Disk, and Xuan Ba tried and failed to retrieve it.
• Xuan Ba prepared to destroy his bonded weapon, but Su Bai placed a great saber against his neck.