Chapter Summaries

Feng Ming Tian recalled the True Phoenix Clan’s searchers and ordered the ancestral grounds prepared for Xiao Tian Ce’s arrival, while the Great Elder demanded that the clan seize Mo Yang and the others’ Thirty-Six Peerless Divine Abilities. Xiao Tian Ce infiltrated the ancestral grounds and spent four days setting up spiritual arrays, leaving the clan unaware of the surprise he was preparing.

• Feng Xuan suggested tracking Xiao Tian Ce, and Feng Changhe reported that Xiao Tian Ce and his associates had disappeared after gathering at the Four Seas Commerce Association.
• Feng Ming Tian ordered the searchers recalled and the clan’s experts assembled to kill the intruders if they came, despite concerns about the Great Thousand Palace’s rules.
• The Great Elder backed Feng Ming Tian’s decision and instructed him to obtain Mo Yang and the others’ Thirty-Six Peerless Divine Abilities.
• Feng Ming Tian ordered Feng Changhe to strengthen the ancestral grounds’ defenses against Xiao Tian Ce, a Spiritual Array Grandmaster.
• Xiao Tian Ce and Fatty Baby slipped into the True Phoenix Clan’s ancestral grounds through a gap, just before guards arrived to reinforce the area.
• Xiao Tian Ce watched the clan’s personnel for four days and set up one hundred and seventy spiritual arrays.

Xiao Tian Ce finished preparing for the Xiao Clan’s coming war with the True Phoenix Clan, including planting more than 170 hidden spiritual arrays. After briefing Xiao Xuan and his disciples, he led everyone toward the True Phoenix Clan’s ancestral grounds at daybreak.

• Xiao Tian Ce confirmed that the True Phoenix Clan had recalled its members and increased its guards, and learned that Young Clan Chief Chang He was behind the preparations.
• Xiao Xuan questioned whether the Xiao Clan should delay the battle, but Xiao Tian Ce insisted they must fight to secure the allegiance of Mo Yang, Huang You, and Di Yi Piaoxue.
• Xiao Xuan reported that Luo Tianshen had strengthened the group’s resolve by explaining the rewards of victory and the power of Xiao Tian Ce’s pills.
• Xiao Tian Ce gave Xiao Xuan maps marking over 170 buried spiritual arrays, including 20 great-grandmaster-level arrays, and explained that Ling'er would monitor the battlefield and activate them.
• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Tian Ce that Huai En and Zi Yan had advanced to Lower Earthly Sovereign, and Xiao Tian Ce instructed Min’er to support her fellow disciples during the battle.
• At daybreak, Xiao Tian Ce gathered everyone aboard the Void Shuttle Ship and ordered them to set out for the True Phoenix Clan’s ancestral grounds.

Xiao Tian Ce led his allies to the True Phoenix Clan Ancestral Grounds, shattered its protective array, and launched an assault. After negotiations failed, the two sides began a decisive battle, with Xiao Tian Ce’s forces gaining an advantage among the lower-ranked fighters while the Heavenly Sovereigns clashed.

• Xiao Tian Ce’s group reached the True Phoenix Clan Ancestral Grounds, and Xiao Tian Ce and Ling’er broke its protective spiritual array with a joint strike.
• The True Phoenix Clan sounded its alarm and sent its experts into battle, while Xiao Tian Ce killed a Lower Earthly Sovereign and confronted Feng Ming Tian with his allies.
• Feng Ming Tian offered to hand over Feng Ying and Feng Lin if Xiao Tian Ce withdrew, then tried to keep Mo Yang, Huang You, and Di Yi Piaoxue behind; Xiao Tian Ce rejected the offer and mocked him.
• Both sides resumed fighting, and Xiao Tian Ce’s forces overwhelmed the True Phoenix Clan’s Earth Sovereigns and Sovereigns with their numbers and spiritual array jade pendants.
• Ling’er trapped Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Sovereign opponent in a Grandmaster-level spiritual array and destroyed a Great Perfection Earth Sovereign fighting Luo Tianshen with another array attack.

The battle at the True Phoenix Clan’s ancestral grounds gave Xiao Tian Ce’s side a decisive advantage among the Earth Sovereigns, while the Heavenly Sovereign fights remained perilous. Xiao Tian Ce wounded Feng Ming Tian with his golden emperor burning heaven flame, but he was still badly injured and ended the chapter struggling to withstand Feng Ming Tian’s attacks.

• Huang Min rescued Luo Tianshen from a True Phoenix Great Perfection Earth Sovereign, then fought the attacker while Luo Tianshen sought a weaker opponent.
• Tong Sihai, Huai En, Zi Yan, Ling Yun, Ling Qingzhu, and Xiao Yan defeated or killed multiple True Phoenix Clan fighters, giving Xiao Tian Ce’s side the upper hand in the lower-level battles.
• Lin Dong restrained an Immortal-Grade Heavenly Sovereign with lightning and devouring power, while Jiu Yuan occupied another opponent and Xiao Xuan, Tomb Spirit, and Xun'er struggled.
• Feng Ming Tian overwhelmed Xiao Tian Ce and knocked him to the ground, but Xiao Tian Ce recovered with pills and continued fighting after Feng Ming Tian transformed into a True Phoenix.
• Xiao Tian Ce grabbed Feng Ming Tian’s leg and engulfed him in golden emperor burning heaven flame, wounding him before Feng Ming Tian broke free and launched Phoenix Roars to Heaven.
• Xiao Tian Ce’s Rashomon Gate shattered against Feng Ming Tian’s attack, so Fatty Baby used the Heavenly Dao Tower to block it while Xiao Tian Ce struck back and shattered the spiritual-energy True Phoenix.

Xiao Yan helped Gu Xun'er defeat Feng Yu, and Xiao Tian Ce’s forces gained the advantage as Lin Dong and others took down more Heavenly Sovereigns. Xiao Tian Ce then began an unavoidable breakthrough into the mid-stage spirit-grade Heavenly Sovereign realm, leaving him to gamble that he could keep Feng Ming Tian inside the coming thunder tribulation.

• Xiao Yan struck Feng Yu with a Buddha’s Fury Fire Lotus, giving Gu Xun’er the opening to defeat him with her Emperor flame-Burning Heaven Fire Lotus, and Qing Hou seized him.
• Feng Ming Tian ordered his people to rescue Feng Yu, but Xiao Tian Ce’s forces held their opponents in place while Xiao Yan and Gu Xun’er joined the other battles.
• Lin Dong defeated his opponent, used the Devouring Ancestral Talisman to drain his spiritual energy, and joined the fight after Qing Hou sealed the man.
• Xiao Tian Ce struck Feng Ming Tian with a soul attack, but his suppressed cultivation then broke through, drawing a Heavenly Sovereign thunder tribulation.
• Xiao Tian Ce realized the battle would turn disastrous if Feng Ming Tian escaped, so he appeared beside him as the tribulation descended; Feng Ming Tian recognized his plan and called him a madman.

Xiao Tian Ce dragged Feng Ming Tian into his Thunder Tribulation, forcing them both to endure its escalating lightning while their allies continued fighting the True Phoenix Clan. Xiao Tian Ce survived the first devastating bolts and completed the second layer of the Heavenly Dao Myriad Tribulations Body, which began growing stronger as the tribulation continued.

• Xiao Tian Ce pursued Feng Ming Tian and forced him to stay within the Thunder Tribulation rather than risk drawing more fighters into its range.
• The Thunder Tribulation engulfed Xiao Tian Ce and Feng Ming Tian, while Xiao Tian Ce ordered his allies to keep fighting the True Phoenix Clan.
• Xiao Tian Ce absorbed the lightning to strengthen his Heavenly Dao Myriad Tribulations Body as Feng Ming Tian bore most of the tribulation's power and threatened revenge.
• Medusa defeated a Lower Earthly Sovereign, repelled an upper rank Earth Sovereign, and returned to the battle after dodging another attack.
• The third and fourth bolts struck together, destroying Xiao Tian Ce's skin and badly injuring Feng Ming Tian, but Xiao Tian Ce regenerated and completed the second layer of the Heavenly Dao Myriad Tribulations Body.

Xiao Tian Ce endured the fifth through eighth thunder tribulations, and the golden eighth tribulation pushed his Heavenly Dao Myriad Tribulations Body into its third layer. After recovering with the Star-Shifting Art, he prepared to face the ninth tribulation and finish the battle against the True Phoenix Clan.

• Xiao Tian Ce and Feng Ming Tian faced three simultaneous thunder tribulations, which steadily weakened Feng Ming Tian while strengthening Xiao Tian Ce.
• A golden eighth thunder tribulation engulfed both men, reducing their bodies to tribulation ashes as Xiao Tian Ce’s Spiritual Arrays and Heavenly Dao Myriad Tribulations Body grew stronger.
• Xiao Tian Ce’s Heavenly Dao Myriad Tribulations Body reached its third layer and grew to twenty-four hundred meters as the golden tribulation ended.
• Feng Ming Tian recognized Xiao Tian Ce’s potential and feared that the True Phoenix Clan would be destroyed if he rose to the Great Thousand World’s pinnacle.
• Xiao Tian Ce used the Star-Shifting Art to restore his body, then announced that he was ready to face the ninth thunder tribulation and end the war.

Xiao Tian Ce survived a blood-red thunder tribulation, reached the late-stage spirit-grade Heavenly Sovereign level, and defeated the True Phoenix Clan after Feng Ming Tian perished. Feng Xuan conceded and accepted Xiao Tian Ce’s terms, while the True Phoenix Clan prepared to rebuild under his leadership.

• A blood-red lightning dragon struck Xiao Tian Ce and Qing Hou, while Feng Ming Tian’s body exploded and he died; Xiao Tian Ce and Qing Hou both reached the late-stage spirit-grade Heavenly Sovereign level.
• Fatty Baby urged Xiao Tian Ce to end the war, and Feng Xuan offered the True Phoenix Clan’s surrender rather than risk further losses.
• Xiao Tian Ce demanded Feng Lin and Feng Ying, three hundred million drops of Sovereign Spirit Liquid, and Feng Ming Tian’s Peerless Divine Ability in exchange for ending the fighting.
• Feng Xuan accepted the terms, and the True Phoenix Clan delivered Feng Lin, Feng Ying, the Sovereign Spirit Liquid, and a Jade Slip containing the Nine Yin Art.
• Xiao Tian Ce returned the four subdued Heavenly Sovereigns after Ling'er sealed and then released their spiritual energy, and his allies celebrated their victory.
• Xiao Tian Ce’s party left for the cave, while Feng Xuan assumed the True Phoenix Clan’s leadership and appointed Young Clan Chief Chang He to assist him.

After defeating the True Phoenix Clan, Xiao Tian Ce founded White Jade Capital and assigned its cities, leadership, and relocation plans. He led his companions to the Northern Nether Continent to establish its headquarters, leaving Xiao Xuan to handle the local Northern Nether Sect.

• Xiao Tian Ce thanked his allies for their help and announced that he would establish a superpower called White Jade Capital.
• The group accepted the title Immortal Venerable for Xiao Tian Ce, and he outlined five cities and the Twelve Towers for White Jade Capital.
• They chose the Northern Nether Continent as their headquarters, and the Luo God Clan, Sky Dome Academy, and Heavenly Net Hall agreed to relocate there while the Four Seas Commerce Association moved its headquarters.
• Xiao Tian Ce set White Jade Capital’s formal establishment for one year later; Heavenly Net resumed traveling, Lin Dong and Ling Qingzhu planned to retrieve Ying Huanhuan in three years, and Xiao Yan left with Xun'er.
• After news of the True Phoenix Clan’s defeat spread, Xiao Tian Ce sent Xiao Xuan to deal with the Northern Nether Sect while he led the others north to find a headquarters site.
• Xiao Tian Ce found a scenic location and asked his companions what they thought of it as White Jade Capital’s headquarters.

Xiao Tian Ce and his allies planned and built White Jade Capital’s five cities, twelve towers, and Holy Spirit Heaven. With the invited powers gathered, Xiao Tian Ce formally established the sect and appointed its city lords, tower masters, and stewards.

• Xiao Xuan proposed placing the four cities around a central Capital City, and Xiao Tian Ce assigned leaders to oversee construction.
• Xiao Tian Ce and his allies completed the five cities and their spiritual arrays, then created Holy Spirit Heaven and released Holy Spirit Peak inside it.
• Medusa told Xiao Tian Ce that representatives from the Four Seas Commerce Association, Luo God Clan, Sky Dome Academy, and Ghost Sect had arrived, and he went with her to formally establish White Jade Capital.
• Xiao Tian Ce invited Medusa to sit beside him as White Jade Capital’s first mistress, then announced the sect’s founding to the assembled guests.
• Shi Hao read out the appointments of five city lords, twelve tower masters, Jiu Yuan as sect-guardian divine beast, and Liu You and Chen Yunqiao as stewards.

Xiao Tian Ce arranged White Jade Capital’s founding ceremony and the restoration of the Heavenly Dao Sect, then promised Medusa a wedding after the ceremony. As invitations spread across the Great Thousand World, the ancient clans debated how to respond, with the Black Heaven Gu Clan and Maha Gu Clan preparing delegations.

• Xiao Tian Ce scheduled White Jade Capital’s founding ceremony for the ninth day of the ninth month, assigned Tong Sihai to deliver invitations, and asked Mo Yang to contact Wan Sui about rebuilding the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Xiao Tian Ce told Medusa she was White Jade Capital’s mistress and promised to marry her after the ceremony.
• Ye Qingqing agreed to attend the ceremony after Uncle Lin explained that the Tai Ling Gu Clan hoped to explore an alliance with White Jade Capital.
• The Black Heaven Gu Clan’s Great Elder rebuked elders who disdained White Jade Capital and ordered the Second Elder to lead a delegation with Black Dragon and Black Phoenix.
• The Maha Gu Clan’s clan chief assigned Mohe Tian to lead its delegation and advised him to build friendly relations with Xiao Tian Ce.

The Maha Ancestor explained why the Maha Gu Clan should seek friendly relations with White Jade Capital rather than try to subjugate it, while the Buddha Gu Clan also prepared to attend its ceremony. Xiao Tian Ce reviewed the guest list and learned many factions had ignored the invitation, leaving him resolved to remember their slight as White Jade Capital grew stronger.

• The Maha Ancestor warned Mohe Tian that Xiao Tian Ce would never submit, the other Primordial Gu Clans would oppose an attempted takeover, and the Great Thousand Palace had accepted White Jade Capital's power; Mohe Tian agreed not to act recklessly at the ceremony.
• The Maha Ancestor told Mohe Tian to prepare a gift and consider finding a suitable wife, while the Buddha Gu Clan chose its Second Elder to lead its ceremony delegation.
• Tong Sihai brought Xiao Tian Ce the ceremony guest list, which showed that many superpowers had not replied; Xiao Tian Ce thanked him and offered to ask the Fire Spirit Clan Ancestor to support Tong Sihai's marriage.
• Xiao Tian Ce and Medusa discussed the absent factions, especially the five Spirit Clans and the Desolate Ancient Clan, and Xiao Tian Ce said he was glad the Ice Spirit Clan would not attend because he planned to help Lin Dong retrieve Ying Huanhuan.
• Xiao Tian Ce praised Lin Dong's potential and explained that he wanted to help him before he rose to prominence, then carried Medusa to the bedroom.

As White Jade Capital’s founding ceremony approached, Xiao Tian Ce welcomed Xiao Yan, Gu Xun’er, Zhu Kun, and Gu Yuan, while Xiao Yan and Xun’er chose to remain independent. After deciding to travel with Medusa once the ceremony ended, Xiao Tian Ce agreed to Lin Dong’s request to bring their visit to the Ice Spirit Clan forward.

• Huai En and Zi Yan welcomed Xiao Yan, Gu Xun’er, Zhu Kun, and Gu Yuan at Capital City, where they also reunited with Lin Dong and Ling Qingzhu.
• At Heavenly Strategy Manor, Xiao Tian Ce welcomed Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun and offered Xiao Yan and Xun’er places in White Jade Capital, but they declined so they could venture out on their own.
• Xiao Tian Ce and Medusa reflected on his past restraint toward the Gu Clan and Ancient Void Dragon Clan, then discussed traveling around the Great Thousand World after the ceremony.
• The next morning, Xiao Tian Ce agreed to Lin Dong’s request to visit the Ice Spirit Clan immediately after White Jade Capital’s founding ceremony.

White Jade Capital held its founding ceremony, showcasing its leaders, Heavenly Demon Puppets, and unexpected Spiritual Array Grandmaster credentials before declaring its intention to guard the northern Great Thousand World. At the banquet, Qing Yan Jing of the Buddha Gu Clan approached Xiao Tian Ce to ask for his guidance.

• Mo Yang opened White Jade Capital's founding ceremony before representatives of the Great Thousand World's major powers.
• Mo Yang introduced the twelve tower masters and five city lords, along with Jiu Yuan, revealing White Jade Capital's formidable roster of experts.
• Xiao Tian Ce arrived with twelve Heavenly Demon Puppets, and the Primordial Gu Clan representatives realized White Jade Capital also had a Spiritual Array Grandmaster.
• Xiao Tian Ce and Medusa took their seats as White Jade Capital's master and matriarch, and he announced that the sect would guard the northern Great Thousand World against the Extraterrestrial Demon Clan.
• At the banquet, Qing Yan Jing approached Xiao Tian Ce and asked to seek his guidance.

At White Jade Capital’s founding ceremony, Xiao Tian Ce hid Ling’er’s role in creating spiritual array patterns from Qing Yan Jing. When Mohe Tian attacked White Jade Capital’s people and insulted the city, Xiao Tian Ce severely wounded him, sealed Capital City, and prepared to confront the Maha Gu Clan.

• Qing Yan Jing asked Xiao Tian Ce how spiritual array patterns appeared beneath his feet, and he claimed a mysterious Spiritual Array Grandmaster had created them.
• Mohe Tian attacked Xiao Xuan and Mo Yang, and Xiao Tian Ce helped stop them before challenging Mohe Tian’s contempt for White Jade Capital.
• Mohe Tian mocked Xiao Tian Ce, who struck him with the twelve Heavenly Demon Puppets and sent him flying from the banquet hall.
• Xiao Tian Ce rejected the Maha Gu Clan elder’s protest, activated Capital City’s Sect-Protection Formation, and ordered its gates and Teleportation Arrays sealed.
• Xiao Tian Ce faced Mohe Tian with the twelve puppets as witnesses recognized their linked formation as a fifty-million-war-pattern Battle Array.

Xiao Tian Ce revealed a battle array powerful enough to overwhelm the Maha Gu Clan and stood ready to kill Mohe Tian after the clan chief threatened White Jade Capital. Wan Feng intervened, and Mohe Tian was forced to apologize and offer compensation, leaving Xiao Tian Ce to decide whether to let the dispute end.

• Xiao Tian Ce formed a Battle Intent Sword with nearly sixty million War Patterns and challenged the Maha Gu Clan over its hostility toward White Jade Capital.
• Xiao Tian Ce struck the Maha Gu Clan, sending its half-step Saint-Grade Heavenly Sovereign flying and worsening Mohe Tian’s injuries.
• Mohe Tian appealed to the Great Thousand Palace for help as Xiao Tian Ce prepared another attack.
• Wan Feng urged Xiao Tian Ce to show restraint and offered to settle the matter without letting White Jade Capital lose face.
• Mohe Tian apologized publicly and offered a quasi-peerless divine ability scroll and ten thousand plants of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures as compensation.
• Wan Feng asked Xiao Tian Ce to accept Mohe Tian’s apology and end the dispute.

Xiao Tian Ce settled the confrontation with Mohe Tian after the Maha Gu Clan’s young clan chief admitted fault and paid compensation, then received advice and a message from Wan Feng on behalf of Demon-Slaying King Qin Tian. He brought Tong Sihai and Huo Rou'er together with the Fire Spirit Clan Ancestor’s blessing and secured an alliance between the Fire Spirit Clan and White Jade Capital.

• Xiao Tian Ce accepted Wan Feng’s mediation, took Mohe Tian’s compensation, and let the Maha Gu Clan leave White Jade Capital.
• Wan Feng warned Xiao Tian Ce to keep a lower profile until he reached saint-grade Heavenly Sovereign and passed on Qin Tian’s counsel to keep pressing forward.
• Xiao Tian Ce welcomed the Fire Spirit Clan Ancestor, Huo Rou'er, and Tong Sihai, then asked the ancestor to approve the couple’s relationship.
• The Fire Spirit Clan Ancestor consented to Huo Rou'er and Tong Sihai’s marriage after acknowledging her devotion to him.
• The Fire Spirit Clan Ancestor proposed an alliance with White Jade Capital, and Xiao Tian Ce accepted, asking Tong Sihai to greet him as his grandfather.

Xiao Tian Ce accompanied Lin Dong to the Ice Spirit Clan to seek Ying Huanhuan’s soul and learned that the clan had promised her in marriage to the Western Heaven War Emperor. The Ice Spirit Clan agreed to let Lin Dong see her and gave the Western Heaven War Emperor five days to respond before Xiao Tian Ce and Lin Dong could take her away.

• Tong Sihai accepted the Fire Spirit Clan Ancestor as his grandfather, and Xiao Tian Ce later arranged support for the Heavenly Dao Sect and Spirit Sword Mountain’s move to the Northern Nether Continent.
• Xiao Tian Ce left White Jade Capital’s affairs with Xiao Xuan and traveled with Jiu Yuan, Lin Dong, and Ling Qingzhu to the Ice Spirit Clan Ancestral Land.
• When Ice Spirit Clan guards insulted Lin Dong, Jiu Yuan revealed his Nine-Headed Heavenly Snake form, and Xiao Tian Ce and Lin Dong released their auras to compel the clan’s leaders to greet them.
• Xiao Tian Ce asked the Ice Spirit Clan Ancestor to release Ying Huanhuan’s soul, and the ancestor explained that the Western Heaven War Emperor had arranged to marry her.
• Xiao Tian Ce gave the ancestor five days to notify the Western Heaven War Emperor, and the ancestor allowed Lin Dong to meet Ying Huanhuan despite her missing memories.

Lin Dong reunited with Ying Huanhuan in the Ice Spirit Clan and restored her memories with the Ice Ancestral Talisman, while Xiao Tian Ce learned that the Western Heaven War Emperor was coming to confront them. The chapter left Xiao Tian Ce and Jiu Yuan reading the War Emperor’s message as he prepared to arrive in five days.

• The Western Heaven War Emperor received the Ice Spirit Clan’s message, became enraged at Xiao Tian Ce and Lin Dong, and invited the Snow Demon Elder and Dragon Venerable to accompany him to the clan.
• Lin Dong met Ying Huanhuan, who did not recognize him, then used the Ice Ancestral Talisman to restore her memories.
• Lin Dong reunited with Ying Huanhuan and brought his brothers Lin Diao and Lin Yan to meet Xiao Tian Ce and Jiu Yuan.
• Lin Dong and his brothers agreed to maintain good relations with Xiao Tian Ce and White Jade Capital, while Xiao Tian Ce told Jiu Yuan that he believed Lin Dong and Xiao Yan would become top experts.
• Xiao Tian Ce and Jiu Yuan discussed the coming conflict with the Western Heaven War Emperor, then the Ice Spirit Clan’s ancestor arrived with a message from him.

Xiao Tian Ce secured an alliance between White Jade Capital and the Ice Spirit Clan before the Western Heaven War Emperor arrived with Mohe Tian, the Snow Demon Elder, and the Dragon Venerable. The fighting began with Lin Dong facing the War Emperor, Jiu Yuan challenging the Dragon Venerable, and Xiao Tian Ce preparing to fight Mohe Tian.

• The Ice Spirit Ancestor asked White Jade Capital to protect the Ice Spirit Clan, and Xiao Tian Ce offered an alliance, marriage ties, and academy places for its younger members.
• The Ice Spirit Clan hosted Xiao Tian Ce and his companions for three days, while Lin Dong impressed the clan in a spar with the Ice Spirit Ancestor.
• The Western Heaven War Emperor arrived at the Ice Spirit Clan Ancestral Land with Mohe Tian, Xue Yuji, and Long Wu, and Xiao Tian Ce recognized the two Heavenly Sovereigns as the Snow Demon Elder and the Dragon Venerable.
• Lin Dong chose the Western Heaven War Emperor as his opponent, and Jiu Yuan drew Long Wu away to fight.
• Xiao Tian Ce sent Ling'er and twelve Heavenly Demon Puppets against Xue Yuji, then faced Mohe Tian without using his Battle Array Master techniques.