Recaps

Su Yun killed Song Weiyi but had exhausted himself, leaving Great Zhou vulnerable to Xing Yunzi’s retaliation. Su Xiuyi assured Su Yun that his Spirit Character Clone would protect the dynasty, and Tie Ling placed a sword case outside the city as a mysterious power began to awaken within it.

• Tie Ling and Great Zhou’s subjects celebrated Su Yun’s victory, while hidden observers schemed to make Great Zhou and the Supreme One Sect weaken each other.
• Xing Yunzi learned that Song Weiyi had died and vowed to destroy the Su Imperial Clan, with the Supreme One Sect’s master ordering him to attack Great Zhou.
• Xing Yunzi threatened the imperial city during a banquet, and Su Yun realized he no longer had the strength to fight him.
• Su Xiuyi spoke to Su Yun and Tie Ling, revealing that he had left a Spirit Character in Little Bell’s sword case and would protect Great Zhou.
• Tie Ling warned Xing Yunzi that the Supreme One Sect could retreat or face destruction, then left the sword case suspended outside the city.
• A strange power began stirring within the sword case as the onlookers watched in confusion.

Xing Yunzi arrived at the Great Zhou Imperial City and threatened to destroy the dynasty, but Su Xiuyi appeared to confront him. Su Xiuyi dodged Xing Yunzi’s rapid sword strikes and challenged the strength of the Supreme One Sect.

• Tie Ling threatened to erase the Great Zhou Dynasty, and Xing Yunzi sped toward its capital.
• Xing Yunzi arrived and vowed to kill the imperial clan and the capital’s people, while Su Yun urged the court to keep drinking.
• Su Xiuyi appeared beside the sword case, and the people of Great Zhou hailed their guardian.
• Xing Yunzi attacked Su Xiuyi with a swift sword thrust, but Su Xiuyi dodged it and appeared behind him.
• Xing Yunzi used the character for “swift” to attack again, but Su Xiuyi evaded him once more and mocked the Supreme One Sect’s strength.

Su Xiuyi overwhelmed Xing Yunzi in their battle, revealing that he had awakened a bloodline that let him touch the power of space and time. The chapter left Xing Yunzi’s famed Life-Slaying Sword Formation shattered by Su Xiuyi’s single palm strike.

• Su Yun and Tie Ling watched Su Xiuyi dominate Xing Yunzi, while the onlookers struggled to understand the gap between them.
• Xing Yunzi guessed that Su Xiuyi had awakened a special bloodline, and Su Xiuyi confirmed he could roughly touch the power of space and time.
• An old man explained that Xing Yunzi’s strongest technique was the Life-Slaying Sword Formation, and warned that he had not yet used his full strength.
• Su Xiuyi gave Xing Yunzi three breaths to unleash his full power, but Xing Yunzi answered that he would kill him in two.
• Xing Yunzi summoned eighty-one phantoms that became blood-colored swords and trapped Su Xiuyi inside the Life-Slaying Sword Formation.
• Su Xiuyi struck the void with his palm and shattered the sword formation.

Su Xiuyi killed Xing Yunzi after shattering his sword formation, then headed to the Supreme One Sect to destroy it. He entered the sect’s mountain gate just as its sect master vowed to attack Great Zhou, and faced the sect master’s challenge.

• Su Xiuyi left Xing Yunzi gravely wounded, frightening the hidden experts and drawing attention from Great Shang and the Demon Race.
• Su Xiuyi killed Xing Yunzi with a force of space and time, and millions of people in the imperial capital knelt in gratitude.
• Su Xiuyi set out to destroy the Supreme One Sect, while Su Yun ordered an attendant to report on the sect’s fate.
• The Supreme One Sect’s ancestor raged over Xing Yunzi’s death, and the sect master promised to destroy Great Zhou and sacrifice the Su Imperial Clan.
• Su Xiuyi appeared inside the Supreme One Sect’s mountain gate and confronted the sect master, who challenged him.

Su Xiuyi challenged the Supreme One Sect, drawing powerful onlookers from across the world as he faced its master and patriarch. After Su Xiuyi shattered the sect master's first attack, the master invoked a Domain of God and forced his strength to Half-Step Grotto-Heaven, leaving the spectators uncertain whether Su Xiuyi could win.

• The Supreme One Sect master's challenge echoed across the land, prompting rogue cultivators, hidden experts, and a white-robed Demon Sect scholar to head toward the sect.
• Su Xiuyi demanded that the Supreme One Sect fight him and declared that the sect would be destroyed for offending the Great Zhou Dynasty.
• The Supreme One Sect patriarch ordered the master to attack, and the master used a Spirit Character Combat Technique to form a gigantic body.
• Su Xiuyi cut through the master's enormous palm with a strand of Sword Qi, shocking the sect's patriarch and the watching experts.
• The Supreme One Sect master formed a golden holy sword and summoned a blood moon Domain of God after burning his blood essence to reach Half-Step Grotto-Heaven.
• A giant eye appeared over the Demon God Mountain Range after the Domain of God awakened it, while the Great Zhou experts feared for Su Xiuyi's life.

Su Xiuyi signed in while facing the Supreme One Sect master and gained the Stars of the Heavens Domain of God, then killed the master with one sword strike. He refused the Supreme One Sect ancestor’s offer to withdraw and destroy the sect, prompting the ancestor to drain the sect’s secret realm and enter the Grotto-Heaven Realm.

• Su Xiuyi signed in and obtained the third-grade Stars of the Heavens Domain of God, which he kept hidden as a trump card.
• The Supreme One Sect master trapped Su Xiuyi with his Blood Moon Domain of God and attacked with the golden Sword of Judgment, but Su Xiuyi broke his domain and killed him with the Tyrant Sword Art, Heaven Splitting.
• A falling star announced the Supreme One Sect master's death, and Su Xiuyi told the Supreme One Sect ancestor that he would destroy the sect.
• The Supreme One Sect ancestor offered to move the sect away from Great Zhou, but Su Xiuyi rejected the offer and declared that the Supreme One Sect would be annihilated.
• The Supreme One Sect ancestor drew all the Spiritual Qi from the sect’s secret realm, reducing it to ruins as he reached the Grotto-Heaven Realm and vowed to kill Su Xiuyi.

Su Xiuyi unleashed the Domain of God, Stars of the Heavens, and defeated the Supreme One Sect patriarch after he activated Burn Heaven and Boil the Sea. He destroyed the Supreme One Sect, warned the remaining powers not to threaten Great Zhou, and vanished after exhausting his incarnation’s strength.

• The Supreme One Sect patriarch devoured the secret realm’s Spiritual Qi, entered the Grotto-Heaven Realm, and activated his Domain of God, Burn Heaven and Boil the Sea.
• Su Xiuyi activated the Domain of God, Stars of the Heavens, overwhelming the patriarch’s domain and frightening the ancient experts into retreating or hiding.
• The Supreme One Sect patriarch summoned his awakened experts to attack Su Xiuyi, then tried to flee while Su Xiuyi trapped the sect and its forces in a sword formation.
• Su Xiuyi’s sword formation killed the Supreme One Sect’s awakened experts, and his sword strike shattered the patriarch’s Sea of Will and reduced his body to ashes.
• The white-robed scholar of the demonic sect fled, and Su Xiuyi warned that anyone who offended Great Zhou would be pursued and destroyed before vanishing from the void.

After his Spirit Character avatar returned from the Supreme One Sect, Su Xiuyi gained the Stars of the Heavens Domain of God and mastered it through a night of cultivation. He tested its power on a restored demon venerable, leaving the demons terrified and resigned to depending on his promise to let them leave the Demon God Grotto-Heaven.

• Su Xiuyi discovered that his Spirit Character avatar’s journey had earned him the Stars of the Heavens Domain of God, and the demons in the Demon God Grotto-Heaven mistook its manifestation for the real starry sky before recognizing it as his power.
• Blood Dog questioned whether Su Xiuyi was human, and Su Xiuyi jokingly claimed he was a god reincarnated before returning to cultivation.
• After gaining full control of the domain overnight, Su Xiuyi ordered the demon venerables to share their origin power with a great bear so he could test his abilities against it at full strength.
• The great bear unleashed his bamboo-sea Domain of God and struck at Su Xiuyi, but Su Xiuyi confined him with starlight chains and gravely injured him.
• Su Xiuyi left with Blood Dog, while the strongest demon told the others that they could not defeat Su Xiuyi and would have to rely on him keeping his promise to let them leave.

Su Yun learned that the Ten Thousand Devils Hall had risen in the north and that the Xuanming Divine Turtle was nearing escape from his mountain prison. The chapter ended with Su Yun fearing the Grotto-Heaven Realm demon was stronger than Su Xiuyi and wondering whether Su Xiuyi could stop him.

• The Demon God withdrew in fear of Su Xiuyi, and the great demons despaired after witnessing Su Xiuyi's power.
• Su Xiuyi signed in and received an eighth-grade Grotto-Heaven fragment that could help him reach the eighth level of the Grotto-Heaven Realm.
• Eight months later, Su Yun emerged from seclusion after reaching Defying Heaven and Changing Fate, and learned that the Ten Thousand Devils Hall had conquered the north and threatened Great Zhou.
• Samsara Hall experts helped the Xuanming Divine Turtle summon a strand of his will, and he said he would escape soon and destroy Great Zhou.
• A spy reported that the Xuanming Divine Turtle had reached the Grotto-Heaven Realm and seemed more powerful than Su Xiuyi, leaving Su Yun alarmed and awaiting Su Xiuyi's return.

Su Yun found the Xuanming Divine Turtle free and returning to attack the Great Zhou, but could not locate Su Xiuyi at the abandoned Myriad Text Academy. Meanwhile, Su Xiuyi refined Layered Tower Realm blood essence and learned through divination that the turtle was advancing on the capital; when it arrived, its attack defeated the Great Zhou’s defenders, leaving Su Yun alone to face it.

• Su Yun witnessed the Xuanming Divine Turtle recovering its strength and went to the Myriad Text Academy to seek Su Xiuyi, but found it deserted.
• Su Xiuyi signed in for a drop of Layered Tower Realm blood essence, refined it with the Undying Heavenly Scripture, and sensed the Great Zhou’s destiny fluctuating.
• Su Xiuyi used Prognostication and Divination to learn that the Samsara Hall’s guardian divine beast was breaking free, then sent his will to observe the capital.
• The Xuanming Divine Turtle shattered the island imprisoning him, vowed to destroy the Great Zhou Imperial Clan, and led the Samsara Hall toward the capital.
• Su Yun and eighteen Half-Step Defying Heaven and Changing Fate experts confronted the Xuanming Divine Turtle, whose sonic attack made all eighteen collapse and left Su Yun standing alone.

Su Yun rejected Samsara Hall’s offer and fought its elder, but the Xuanming Divine Turtle severely wounded him and demanded that Su Xiuyi appear. Su Xiuyi killed the turtle and the Samsara Hall elders with a single finger, then suppressed the force devouring Su Yun’s life.

• The Xuanming Divine Turtle offered Su Yun a place in Samsara Hall and threatened to destroy the Great Zhou Imperial Clan if he refused.
• Su Yun rejected the offer and challenged a Samsara Hall elder, whose Five Elements Sword Body he initially met with his own sword technique.
• Su Yun unleashed the Primordial Devil Scripture and burned his lifespan to strike at the elder, but the Xuanming Divine Turtle intercepted the attack and grievously wounded him.
• The Xuanming Divine Turtle summoned Su Xiuyi and attacked him with his Domain of God, but Su Xiuyi immobilized him and destroyed him with a finger.
• Su Xiuyi immobilized the fleeing Samsara Hall elders and erased them, then found Su Yun’s life being consumed by backlash from the Primordial Devil Scripture.
• Su Xiuyi used the power of the eighth level of the Grotto-Heaven Realm to suppress the force devouring Su Yun and questioned what cultivation art he practiced.

Su Xiuyi saved Su Yun from the Primordial Devil Scripture’s backlash, acquired the complete scripture, and cultivated it in the Demon God Grotto-Heaven. Meanwhile, Su Yun drove the Ten Thousand Devils Hall from the Great Zhou Dynasty, and Su Xiuyi anticipated the Spiritual Qi Tide in four months.

• Su Xiuyi restored the ruined imperial palaces, took Su Yun and the Xuanming Divine Turtle’s corpse into the palace, and used the turtle’s life force to heal Su Yun.
• Su Yun gave Su Xiuyi the incomplete Primordial Devil Scripture, and Su Xiuyi’s Sign-In System granted him its complete version.
• Su Xiuyi cultivated the Primordial Devil Scripture in the Demon God Grotto-Heaven, stunning the demons and strengthening his physical body.
• Su Yun ordered the forces of the Great Zhou Dynasty to drive out the Ten Thousand Devils Hall, whose hall master withdrew into the Great Shang Dynasty’s territory.
• Su Xiuyi predicted that the Spiritual Qi Tide would arrive in four months and hoped to use it to enter the Layered Tower Realm.

After defeating the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird, Su Xiuyi kept his promise and released the demons sealed in the Demon God Grotto-Heaven. They emerged above the Great Zhou imperial capital and began devouring Spiritual Qi, leaving the capital’s people and watching factions terrified as the demons made no move to attack.

• Su Xiuyi defeated the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird with a single palm strike and obtained three drops of Layered Tower essence blood through sign-in.
• Su Xiuyi allowed the ten thousand demons to leave the Demon God Grotto-Heaven, dismissing the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird’s warning that they might come after him.
• The released demons flooded the sky above the Great Zhou imperial capital and devoured the surrounding Spiritual Qi as their strength recovered.
• Su Yun and the people of the capital panicked at the sight of nearly ten thousand powerful demons, while distant factions recognized the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird and feared the Demon Race would dominate the world.
• More than ten minutes after their arrival, the demons had not attacked the capital and continued only to devour Spiritual Qi.

After Su Xiuyi released the ten thousand demons he had suppressed, a band of Grotto-Heaven Realm great demons attacked the Great Zhou imperial capital. Su Xiuyi killed dozens with one sword strike and sent the rest fleeing, leaving the Great Zhou’s enemies terrified and kneeling.

• The golden rat recruited the Heaven Devouring Python and more than a dozen other great demons to attack Su Xiuyi, while the Tiger King refused to join them.
• Su Xiuyi told Blood Dog that he had expected the demons to attack and intended to use their assault to overawe the world.
• Dozens of great demons descended on the Great Zhou imperial capital, forcing its people to their knees as Su Yun urged Su Xiuyi to flee.
• Su Xiuyi used the Demon-Suppressing Art to weaken the attackers and killed dozens of them with a single strike of the Tyrant Sword Art.
• Su Xiuyi warned the remaining demons to stay if they would not leave, and they fled in terror; the Void Beast also turned back toward the Demon God Mountain Range.
• The Ten Thousand Devils Hall scholar and the Great Shang experts witnessed Su Xiuyi’s power, and the Great Shang experts knelt before him.

Su Xiuyi learned from Su Shenghuang’s manuscripts that the true limit of the Grotto-Heaven Realm required merging nine Grotto-Heavens, then used the Demon God Grotto-Heaven’s core to reach that Extreme Realm. After hiding his breakthrough from the Heavenly Dao, he prepared to investigate the sealed abyss known as the Ancient Graveyard.

• Su Yun visited Su Xiuyi and warned that ancient powers would emerge with the approaching first Spiritual Qi Tide, then brought him Su Shenghuang’s records and sealed manuscripts.
• Su Xiuyi read the manuscripts, learned that Su Shenghuang had left the world to confront an opponent, and discovered that the Grotto-Heaven Extreme Realm required merging nine Grotto-Heavens into one.
• Su Xiuyi compressed the Demon God Grotto-Heaven into a core crystal, opened an enormous abyss, signed in at the Ancient Graveyard, and sealed the entrance after receiving a Holy Buddha Sarira.
• A figure asked the Silver Dragon King to join an attack on the Great Zhou imperial capital, but the Silver Dragon King refused.
• The Demon Gods rejected the Void Beast’s request to attack humanity and ordered the Demon Race to leave the Human Realm and establish a realm beyond the domain.
• Su Xiuyi refined the core crystal and reached the Grotto-Heaven Extreme Realm, concealed his breakthrough from the awakened Spirit of the Heavenly Dao, and decided to enter the abyss.

Su Xiuyi mastered the White Bone Heaven-Sealing Sword Array and used the arrival of the Spiritual Qi Tide to break through to the Layered Tower Second Heaven. As ancient powers awakened and a fiend tried to seize his body, the Dao Character in Su Xiuyi’s Sea of Will destroyed it and absorbed its essence.

• Su Xiuyi signed in at the White Bone Sword Sage’s tomb and obtained the White Bone Heaven-Sealing Sword Array, which he mastered after returning to the Myriad Text Academy.
• Su Xiuyi, the Ten Thousand Devils Hall scholar, the Great Shang ancestor, and the Vajra Temple’s holy monk prepared for the Spiritual Qi Tide and the conflicts it would bring.
• The Spiritual Qi Tide arrived, awakening ancient experts, ghosts, and fiends across the world.
• Su Xiuyi absorbed the tide’s Spiritual Qi and his stored Layered Tower essence blood, breaking through to the Layered Tower Second Heaven with help from his Life Spirit Character.
• A Layered Tower Realm fiend attacked Su Xiuyi and entered his Sea of Will, but the Dao Character vaporized it and its will essence strengthened Su Xiuyi’s Spirit Characters.

Su Xiuyi erased a demon that invaded his Sea of Will and later killed Vajra Temple’s Layered Tower Realm ancestor with the White Bone Heaven-Sealing Sword Array. As Great Shang advanced against Great Zhou and its two Layered Tower experts watched warily, Su Xiuyi claimed that no one could defeat him for now.

• Su Xiuyi’s Dao Will Character erased the demon’s invading will, and he raised the array’s power before continuing to master his new strength.
• The Great Shang Emperor ordered an invasion of Great Zhou, and Great Shang seized a fifth of its territory.
• Vajra Temple’s abbot and ancestor appeared over the imperial capital and demanded that Su Yun pay respects to the Buddha.
• Su Xiuyi sent thirty-six bone swords to trap and kill Vajra Temple’s ancestor, then killed the temple’s other experts as well.
• Su Yun ordered his guards to destroy Vajra Temple, while Great Shang’s ancestor and another Layered Tower expert discussed joining forces.
• Blood Dog asked whether Su Xiuyi was invincible, and Su Xiuyi said no one could defeat him for now.

Di Yi gathered the Blood Blade King and the Ice and Snow Ancestor to attack the Great Zhou Dynasty’s mysterious guardian, while Su Xiuyi gained the Ancient Demon Sword and advanced to the Third Heaven of the Layered Tower. The Great Shang forces arrived at the Great Zhou capital, and the guardian finally appeared to confront them.

• Di Yi invited the Blood Blade King and the Ice and Snow Ancestor to join him in killing the Great Zhou Dynasty’s guardian, and they brought the Demon-Slaying Sword and Ice and Snow Staff.
• Su Xiuyi checked in at the ancient tomb, obtained the Ancient Demon Sword, and raised his cultivation to the Third Heaven of the Layered Tower.
• Di Yi led three Layered Tower Realm experts and a vast army of Grotto-Heaven Realm experts to the Great Zhou imperial capital.
• Su Yun let officials who feared death leave, then led the remaining loyalists out to face the Great Shang forces.
• Di Yi demanded that the mysterious guardian show himself, and the golden-masked figure appeared and challenged the attackers to fight or submit.

Su Xiuyi arrived to face Di Yi, the Blood Blade King, and the Ice and Snow Ancestor as they threatened the Great Zhou capital. After dismissing their accusations and challenging their strength, he stood ready to fight as they unleashed their Domains of God.

• Su Xiuyi appeared before the three Layered Tower experts, and his power freed Su Yun, Tie Ling, and the other Great Zhou experts from their suppression.
• The Great Shang ancestor, the Blood Blade King, and the Ice and Snow Ancestor mocked Su Xiuyi and insisted they had come to kill him.
• Su Xiuyi repeated his demand that they bow and claimed they had come to pay their respects because they were too weak to defeat him.
• The Ice and Snow Ancestor, the Blood Blade King, and Di Yi unleashed their Domains of God, covering the capital in ice, blood-red Baleful Qi, and the Great Shang golden dragon of fortune.
• Su Xiuyi rejected their accusations against Great Zhou, defended its Martial Halls and cultivation opportunities, and challenged the three Layered Tower First Layer experts to defeat him.

Su Xiuyi faced Di Yi, the Blood Blade King, and the Ice and Snow Sacred Hall's ancestor after they trapped him with their Domains of God. He declared that Great Zhou could not be bullied, then immobilized the old woman and struck at her with his sword.

• Di Yi and the Blood Blade King mocked Su Xiuyi and threatened to destroy Great Zhou, while the Ice and Snow Sacred Hall's ancestor demanded that he kneel.
• Some people in the imperial capital grew afraid and resentful as the three Domains of God surrounded Su Xiuyi.
• Su Xiuyi revealed his overwhelming presence and told the ancient powerhouses that he would kill anyone who insulted him or Great Zhou.
• Su Xiuyi's Spirit Characters appeared beside the Ice and Snow Sacred Hall's ancestor, and his Immobilization Spell and starlight trapped her before she could attack.
• Su Xiuyi drew his sword and sent a chilling sword strike toward the Ice and Snow Sacred Hall's ancestor.

Su Xiuyi beheaded the Ice and Snow Sacred Hall ancestor with one sword, shocking the Great Zhou capital and the watching experts. Di Yi and the Blood Blade King then attacked him together, and the chapter ended with Su Xiuyi caught in their strikes’ energy storm.

• Su Xiuyi struck down the Ice and Snow Sacred Hall ancestor, killing her with a single sword strike.
• The White-Robed Scholar realized Su Xiuyi’s concealed Spirit Character could hide from even powerful experts.
• Su Yun understood that Su Xiuyi’s confidence in protecting Great Zhou came from his overwhelming strength.
• Di Yi and the Blood Blade King attacked Su Xiuyi together, empowering their strikes with countless Spirit Characters.
• Su Xiuyi failed to dodge their attacks in time, and the White-Robed Scholar watched the resulting energy storm, unsure whether Su Xiuyi had survived.

Su Xiuyi survived the attackers’ combined assault without a scratch, then overwhelmed Di Yi and the Blood Blade King with a single sword strike. His strength was revealed as the Third Heaven of the Layered Tower Realm, leaving Great Zhou secure and its enemies terrified.

• Su Xiuyi emerged unharmed from the storm of attacks, while Di Yi and the Blood Blade King realized their assault had failed.
• Su Xiuyi casually struck with his sword, wounding Di Yi and the Blood Blade King and devastating the forces aboard their flying ships.
• The observers recognized that Su Xiuyi had reached the Third Heaven of the Layered Tower Realm by breaking heaven and earth’s restraints again.
• The Demon God felt relieved that he had not joined Great Shang’s attack and gloated over the Human Race’s losses.
• Su Yun concluded that Great Zhou could now act without fear, and saw an opportunity for it to sweep across the world.

Su Xiuyi used his Tyrant Sword Art to destroy the Great Shang forces and kill the Blood Blade King, while Great Shang’s fate was swallowed by Great Zhou. As Di Yi fled, Su Xiuyi imprisoned him with his Domain of God, leaving his fate uncertain.

• The Great Shang emperor and Crown Prince Di Zhao discussed fleeing the Human Realm after witnessing Su Xiuyi’s power.
• Su Xiuyi struck again with the Tyrant Sword Art, destroying the flying ship and killing its Grotto-Heaven Realm experts.
• Su Xiuyi’s sword shattered Great Shang’s golden dragon of fate, and the Great Zhou dragon swallowed what remained.
• The Blood Blade King was killed, and his Sea of Will was destroyed as he blamed Di Yi for his death.
• Di Yi burned his essence blood and willpower to flee, but Su Xiuyi imprisoned him with his Domain of God.

Su Xiuyi defeated the Great Shang Dynasty’s patriarch, then destroyed the Heaven-Suppressing Bell and killed the black-robed man who attacked him. Great Zhou celebrated its victory after Su Xiuyi swept away every opponent.

• Su Xiuyi killed Di Yi with a sword strike, ending the Great Shang Dynasty’s last powerful resistance.
• The man in black robes revealed himself and attacked Su Xiuyi with the Heaven-Suppressing Bell, expecting his earlier battles to have weakened him.
• Su Xiuyi struck the bell with the Tyrant Sword Art and cracked it, revealing that his sword was more powerful.
• Su Xiuyi summoned a giant sword that shattered the Heaven-Suppressing Bell and turned the man in black robes into bloody mist.
• A Great Zhou minister shouted that Great Zhou had won, while the witnesses stared in disbelief.

Su Xiuyi killed the Great Shang emperor after rejecting his surrender, then sent a sword across nineteen provinces to kill the fleeing crown prince and his protector. His display of power left witnesses across Great Zhou terrified, including the White-Robed Scholar.

• Su Xiuyi used the Spirit Character 'Reverse' to pull the fleeing Great Shang emperor back toward him.
• The Great Shang emperor knelt and offered to submit, but Su Xiuyi declared that he deserved death and beheaded him.
• Su Xiuyi sent a sword strike across eighteen provinces toward the fleeing Great Shang crown prince.
• The crown prince's protector tried to stop the sword, but it pierced his forehead and killed him.
• The sword light caught and annihilated the Great Shang crown prince in the nineteenth province.
• Su Xiuyi disappeared, leaving witnesses awed by his reach and the White-Robed Scholar wondering at his cultivation.