Chapter Summaries

Ye Xiaxuan and Su Yi experimented with intimacy and a cultivation method that helped her advance. Su Yi then visited the Thirteenth Bureau, where Dr. Li Qingyuan revealed his effort to empower ordinary people with demon-king gene injections and defended the dangerous research as necessary to protect society.

• Ye Xiaxuan asked Su Yi about his past experiences in water, and they experimented together in the bath before returning to the bedroom.
• Su Yi taught Ye Xiaxuan a cultivation method, and she felt her cultivation increase after refining his essence through the night.
• Su Yi visited the Thirteenth Bureau and found that Dr. Li Qingyuan had regained a youthful appearance and immense strength.
• Li Qingyuan explained that he had developed injections from demon-king genes and that eighty volunteers had received them despite lingering side effects.
• Su Yi questioned whether the injections were worth their cost, and Li Qingyuan insisted that ordinary people needed strength to protect the peace they had fought to secure.

Su Yi met with Li Qingyuan and Ouyang Tieniu at the base as the Immortal Realm appeared beside Earth. He told Old Yang that the newly discovered planet was the legendary realm of the immortals, leaving Old Yang stunned.

• Su Yi considered Li Qingyuan’s concerns about humanity’s safety and reflected that the demon kings now living comfortably under the Thirteenth Bureau would not dare challenge him.
• Ouyang Tieniu tried to ingratiate himself with Su Yi by claiming he had learned manners from reading Lu Xun, prompting a brief exchange with Li Qingyuan.
• Su Yi sensed that the Immortal Realm’s spatial structure was breaking apart and received a call from Old Yang, who asked to meet him at the base.
• Old Yang arrived at the base and showed Su Yi satellite footage of a huge planet appearing beside Earth, warning that its mass could affect Earth’s orbit and might cause a collision.
• Su Yi identified the planet as the legendary Immortal Realm, and Old Yang asked whether he was joking.

After the Immortal Realm appeared near Earth, Su Yi reassured Old Yang that the planet would not collide with Earth and that its inhabitants were mostly reasonable. Dijiang later asked whether he could descend to Earth and take disciples, leaving Su Yi to consider how to keep the powerful cultivators in line so everyone could live in peace.

• Su Yi told Old Yang that the Immortal Realm had appeared near Earth, that the planets would not collide, and that only a few powerful immortals could reach Earth.
• Old Yang decided the Immortal Realm’s appearance had to be kept secret from the public.
• Su Yi returned home and found Ye Xiaxuan still cultivating while Tantai Yue and Long Wen argued over their game.
• Su Yi took over Long Wen’s support role, then played another match with Tantai Yue before Dijiang arrived.
• Dijiang asked Su Yi whether he could descend to Earth to take disciples, and Su Yi considered how to prevent conflict between Earth and the Immortal Realm.

Su Yi let Dijiang bring the Witch Gods to the Origin World under the suggestion that they obey local laws and avoid harming ordinary people. Tantai Yue and Long Wen left to pursue their own plans, and Su Yi resigned from the Thirteenth Bureau as demon kings began attacking the Chosen Ones.

• Su Yi suggested that visitors from the Immortal Realm register, follow local laws, and live together, and Dijiang agreed to bring the Witch Gods down.
• Tantai Yue and Long Wen left Su Yi, intending to deal with the Chosen Ones bound to their contracts.
• After the demon kings in the Thirteenth Bureau resigned, Su Yi resigned from the bureau as well.
• Twenty-three students of the Immortal Cultivation Academy disappeared, Dijiang and eleven Witch Gods descended, and Dijiang killed a demon king attacking Yuan Haoran.
• Su Yi told Dijiang to keep the Witch Gods from harming ordinary people and said they could attack the demon kings if they wished.

Su Yi reflected on his long history, including Yunxiao’s death and his destruction of the world in anger at the Heavenly Dao. Sect Leader Tongtian arrived to retrieve his Four Immortal-Slaying Swords and recruit Ji Zeyang, who refused to become his disciple.

• Su Yi recalled creating the first humans, defending them from gods, demons, and ferocious beasts, and later losing Yunxiao after resurrecting her.
• Su Yi remembered destroying the world in rage when the Heavenly Dao repeatedly erased Yunxiao, then choosing to avoid conflicts as life returned and evolved.
• On the day after Dijiang arrived, Kong Wuliang disappeared and Sect Leader Tongtian came to visit Su Yi to reclaim his Four Immortal-Slaying Swords.
• Su Yi agreed to return the swords and told Sect Leader Tongtian to take Ji Zeyang as a disciple.
• Ji Zeyang refused, and Sect Leader Tongtian asked whether he knew who the Daoist was.

Ji Zeyang refused Sect Leader Tongtian’s offer to become his disciple, hoping instead to stay with Su Yi, but Su Yi sent him away. After Sect Leader Tongtian accepted Ji Zeyang as his disciple, he asked Su Yi for the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords, which Su Yi returned intact.

• Sect Leader Tongtian revealed his identity and offered to take Ji Zeyang as his disciple, but Ji Zeyang refused and asked to remain with Su Yi.
• Ji Zeyang offered to stay as Su Yi’s cook, but Su Yi told him to leave because his cooking was not as good as Su Yi’s.
• Su Yi asked Ji Zeyang to choose again, and Sect Leader Tongtian sent Ji Zeyang outside to wait before declaring that they would hold a discipleship ceremony.
• Sect Leader Tongtian asked whether Su Yi had damaged the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords, and Su Yi summoned all four intact and returned them.

Su Yi returned the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords to Sect Leader Tongtian and continued focusing on Ye Xiaxuan’s growth while staying out of the Immortal Realm’s affairs. After Tongtian clashed with the Twelve Ancestral Witches over Yuan Haoran, Dijiang asked Su Yi what to do, and Su Yi told him to hand Yuan Haoran over.

• Sect Leader Tongtian thanked Su Yi for returning the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords and invited him to visit Biyou Palace, but Su Yi sent him away.
• Su Yi considered finding stronger opponents for Ye Xiaxuan, then spent two days playing games while she remained in seclusion.
• Sect Leader Tongtian fought the Twelve Ancestral Witches after demanding that Dijiang hand over Yuan Haoran, but he held back and neither side yielded.
• Dijiang refused to hand Yuan Haoran to Tongtian, citing the danger of letting the Demon Clan control the last two surviving False Chosen Ones.
• Dijiang went to Su Yi for advice, and Su Yi told him to hand Yuan Haoran over if Tongtian wanted him.

Dijiang handed Yuan Haoran over to Sect Leader Tongtian after Su Yi told him not to worry about the consequences. Su Yi decided to join the Sages' schemes and play for higher stakes, while Tongtian left with Yuan Haoran unsure what to do.

• Dijiang asked Su Yi whether handing Yuan Haoran over could let Wang Teng become a great demon king, and Su Yi dismissed the danger as unproven.
• Su Yi decided to join the Sages and demon emperors in their schemes and pursue a larger game involving the Heavenly Dao and the universe's barrier.
• Dijiang brought Yuan Haoran to Sect Leader Tongtian and handed him over, saying Su Yi had told him to do so.
• Tongtian realized he still could not safely kill Yuan Haoran and worried that keeping him could leave him facing a great demon king alone.
• Dijiang teased Tongtian about learning the Law of Space, prompting Tongtian to leave on a cloud with Yuan Haoran.

After Ye Xiaxuan emerged from ten days of cultivation with strength comparable to the Ascension Realm, Su Yi took her out and decided they would return to Wutong Street. They visited the Ye Family, where Bai Yangyan had grown younger after taking Su Yi’s pill.

• After eating, Su Yi devised a plan to use the Sages and powerful emperors as pieces in his search for traces of the Heavenly Dao and to help Ye Xiaxuan grow stronger.
• Su Yi checked on Ye Xiaxuan and found that Primordial Purple Qi had helped her reach strength comparable to the Ascension Realm.
• Ten days later, Ye Xiaxuan woke from cultivation, showered, and went out for a stroll with Su Yi.
• Su Yi told Ye Xiaxuan they would move back to Wutong Street, and she asked him to make her a reclining chair.
• Su Yi and Ye Xiaxuan visited the Ye Family, where they saw that Bai Yangyan looked younger after taking Su Yi’s pill.

Su Yi brought Ye Xiaxuan to challenge Han Zhen so she could improve her swordsmanship, but he banned her strongest techniques and told Han Zhen not to hold back. Han Zhen objected to the restrictions, leaving Su Yi to reconsider the rules.

• Su Yi told Ye Xiaxuan that she was strong enough to challenge Spirit Severing cultivators and even fight someone at the Ascension Stage.
• Su Yi took Ye Xiaxuan to the Extreme Emperor Immortal Sect and asked Han Zhen to spar with her.
• Su Yi explained that Ye Xiaxuan was around the Golden Core or Nascent Soul Realm, and Han Zhen agreed to fight her after breaking through to become a Mortal Immortal.
• Su Yi gave them identical wooden swords and told Han Zhen not to suppress his cultivation.
• Su Yi forbade Ye Xiaxuan from using Soul Severing or Samadhi True Fire, while allowing her to use her pill furnace in an emergency.
• Han Zhen objected that Su Yi was restricting Ye Xiaxuan instead of him, and Su Yi narrowed his eyes.

Su Yi arranged a wooden-sword spar between Ye Xiaxuan and Han Zhen, then exposed the Heavenly Dao’s intervention when Ye Xiaxuan was in danger. He tracked the aura through the universe and found the source of the threads connecting living beings to the Heavenly Dao.

• Su Yi had Ye Xiaxuan put away Soul Severing so she and Han Zhen could spar with wooden swords.
• Han Zhen attacked first and gradually forced Ye Xiaxuan onto the defensive while Su Yi watched a movie.
• Su Yi challenged Han Zhen to kill Ye Xiaxuan in exchange for a complete sword art, prompting Han Zhen to strike with greater force.
• A bolt of lightning shattered Han Zhen’s sword intent and saved Ye Xiaxuan, and Su Yi recognized the Heavenly Dao’s intervention.
• Su Yi followed the Heavenly Dao’s aura through the universe, destroyed countless planets as he gathered its connecting threads, and found their source.

Su Yi tracked the Heavenly Dao to a black hole at the edge of the universe and attacked it, tearing apart cosmic rules and annihilating its strongest guardian. The Heavenly Dao manifested a weak humanoid incarnation, and Su Yi began beating it without destroying the universe.

• Su Yi followed the Heavenly Dao's aura threads to a black hole at the end of the universe and demanded that it appear.
• When the Heavenly Dao stayed silent, Su Yi punched the black hole, shattering universal rules and freeing powerful beings from the Heavenly Dao's constraints.
• The Heavenly Dao finally spoke and sent its strongest guardian to stop Su Yi, but Su Yi annihilated it with a punch.
• Su Yi clarified that he only wanted to beat the Heavenly Dao, and the Heavenly Dao agreed to manifest an incarnation rather than risk the universe's destruction.
• The Heavenly Dao appeared as a weak humanoid incarnation, and Su Yi punched and kicked it while asking it to cry out.

Su Yi questioned the Heavenly Dao after beating its avatar, learning why it had chosen Ye Xiaxuan as a guardian and what guardians were for. The Heavenly Dao backed down when Su Yi realized that guardians were expected to fight in battles between universes.

• Su Yi beat the Heavenly Dao's avatar and asked why it had chosen Ye Xiaxuan.
• The Heavenly Dao claimed it had made Ye Xiaxuan a guardian to avoid becoming Su Yi's enemy and to give her a chance at immortality.
• The Heavenly Dao offered to revive anyone Su Yi wanted if he strengthened its guardians or became one himself, but Su Yi refused to be tempted.
• The Heavenly Dao explained that Ye Xiaxuan had received its Innate Primordial Violet Qi and that universes held periodic battles between guardians, with penalties for losing.
• Su Yi's killing intent filled the black hole, and the Heavenly Dao insisted Ye Xiaxuan would not have to fight.

Su Yi returned to Ye Xiaxuan’s duel with Han Zhen and began teaching her swordsmanship by taking control of her body. After half a month of training, Ye Xiaxuan’s Heavenly Dao-granted power began to awaken, but Su Yi forbade her from using it.

• Su Yi left the black hole after deciding that Ye Xiaxuan should compete against guardians from other universes.
• Su Yi found Ye Xiaxuan hiding inside her alchemy furnace while Han Zhen failed to damage it, and he urged her to resume their duel.
• Su Yi took control of Ye Xiaxuan’s body and showed her how to read Han Zhen’s attacks, then had her practice while Han Zhen sparred without trying to kill her.
• For half a month, Su Yi and Ye Xiaxuan visited the Extreme Emperor Immortal Sect each morning, where Han Zhen sparred with Ye Xiaxuan and improved his own strength.
• Ye Xiaxuan noticed a violet flash in her eyes and told Su Yi her cheat had arrived, but Su Yi forbade her from using it.

Ye Xiaxuan used her Heavenly Dao-granted ability while training against Han Zhen, and Su Yi ended the sparring session so she could focus on cultivation. Back at Wutong Street, Su Yi rejected Li Youyou and ordered her to stay away, leaving Ye Xiaxuan wondering whether he had been cruel.

• Ye Xiaxuan’s innate primordial violet qi enhanced her combat abilities, but Su Yi noticed that using it consumed the qi.
• After Han Zhen sent Ye Xiaxuan crashing into a rock face, Su Yi stopped their training and took her back to Wutong Street to cultivate.
• Ye Xiaxuan found Li Youyou waiting in the courtyard and resented her obvious interest in Su Yi.
• Su Yi demanded that Li Youyou repay her debt and never return, then used a soul-deep question to make her confront her feelings for him.
• Li Youyou left after Su Yi said he did not like her, while Ye Xiaxuan asked if his rejection had been cruel.
• Su Yi knocked Ye Xiaxuan on the head, sent her inside to cultivate, and sat down to read beneath the parasol tree.

Five years after Ye Xiaxuan entered seclusion, humanity transformed Li Qingyuan’s inventions into a defense against powerful beings from beyond Earth. As the Galaxy Special Forces grew stronger, Old Yang warned Su Yi that America was preparing to send a probe to the Immortal Realm, risking its inhabitants’ attention.

• Li Qingyuan died after developing technology that could strengthen ordinary people and designing a space-based strategic defense system, but people mocked his warnings about aliens and cultivators.
• An angel and a demon descended from the sky, and Li Qingyuan’s space-based ion cannon killed the demon while the angel vanished; Huaxia then honored Li Qingyuan and expanded its defenses.
• The Immortal Cultivation Academy expanded, the Thirteenth Bureau became the Galaxy Special Forces, and Xu Diandian and Li Youyou joined its ranks.
• Su Yi spent his days leisurely helping the Ye Family and socializing, while Old Yang repeatedly tried to recruit him to the Galaxy Special Forces.
• Old Yang told Su Yi that America planned to launch a probe to the Immortal Realm, despite the risk of alerting its powerful inhabitants.

After American astronauts landed in the Immortal Realm and witnessed a giant ape battling flying humans, tens of thousands of angels approached Earth. As Old Yang begged Su Yi to save humanity, Sect Leader Tongtian appeared near the angels’ fleet, and they ordered their forces to kill him.

• Su Yi dismissed Old Yang’s worries about America’s plans to explore and seize resources in the Immortal Realm.
• America livestreamed eight astronauts landing in the Immortal Realm, where they saw a giant ape fighting flying humans before the ape stomped toward them and cut off the broadcast.
• Su Yi explained that the Immortal Realm and other small worlds depended on Earth, while the gods and buddhas sought humanity’s faith.
• Tens of thousands of angels appeared aboard battleships near Earth, and Old Yang went to Su Yi’s home to plead for his help.
• Su Yi and Old Yang watched satellite footage as Sect Leader Tongtian appeared near the angels’ fleet and asked what they intended to do.
• An eighteen-winged angel ordered the angels to kill Sect Leader Tongtian.

Sect Leader Tongtian annihilated tens of thousands of angels, then visited Su Yi and shared a meal with him. He asked whether Su Yi would go to the Immortal Realm and interfere with Taoism and Buddhism’s plans to consolidate power, but Su Yi left his own intentions unclear.

• Sect Leader Tongtian used the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords and formation to destroy tens of thousands of angels.
• A Galaxy Special Forces ion cannon fired at Sect Leader Tongtian as he entered Earth’s atmosphere, but he dodged it.
• Old Yang warned the command center to stop attacking Sect Leader Tongtian and then left Su Yi’s courtyard.
• Sect Leader Tongtian spent the afternoon with Su Yi before they shared a meal and ten-thousand-year peach blossom nectar.
• Sect Leader Tongtian asked whether Su Yi would go to the Immortal Realm and interfere with plans to move against the Witch Clan and Demon Clan.
• Su Yi said he belonged to no faction and would let Sect Leader Tongtian play his game while he played his own.

Su Yi decided to visit the Immortal Realm under a concealed identity and entered Ice Wind City for the first time. After the gate guards discovered he was Sect Leader Tongtian’s disciple, one hurried to alert the city lord.

• Su Yi told Sect Leader Tongtian that he planned to visit the Immortal Realm without exposing his identity.
• Sect Leader Tongtian asked whether Su Yi considered Gu Tongtong and Yunxiao to be the same person, but Su Yi refused to answer for him.
• After Huaxia’s foreign ministry warned other countries that it would not be responsible for accidents in space, no other countries dared board the Angel Legion’s warships.
• While Ye Xiaoxuan was in seclusion, Su Yi went alone to the Immortal Realm and queued to enter Ice Wind City.
• A gold-armored soldier read Su Yi’s jade token, found that it identified him as Sect Leader Tongtian’s disciple, and let him enter.
• The soldier hurried to report Su Yi’s arrival to the city lord.

Su Yi entered Ice Wind City and used his claimed identity as Sect Leader Tongtian’s personal disciple to secure a seat at the silent Heavenly Domain Tavern. He provoked Jiang Wuying, a powerful demon competing for an ancient true dragon’s ruins, but she held back rather than risk offending the Jie Sect.

• Su Yi surveyed Ice Wind City, disguised his cultivation as a fifth-grade Mortal Immortal, and went to the Heavenly Domain Tavern to learn about the city through its food.
• Su Yi sat at Jiang Wuying’s table and asked the waiter to bring food, drawing the attention of the tavern’s silent patrons.
• Jiang Wuying, an eighth-grade Golden Immortal and descendant of Jiuying, ordered Su Yi to leave and attacked him with demonic power, but he remained unharmed.
• Su Yi displayed his jade token identifying him as Sect Leader Tongtian’s personal disciple, and the onlookers recognized the implications of his identity.
• Jiang Wuying questioned Su Yi’s claim and his reason for sitting with her, but she refrained from attacking him because she feared provoking the Jie Sect.