Recaps

After defeating the Great Shang Dynasty, Su Xiuyi returned to the Myriad Text Academy while Su Yun launched a counterattack and strengthened Great Zhou. Su Xiuyi obtained the Sunflower Manual through a sign-in and sent it to the palace for the eunuchs to use.

• Former Great Zhou officials who had colluded with Great Shang argued about fleeing, and Great Shang agents killed those who remained before carrying their heads to the imperial capital as a pledge of allegiance.
• Su Xiuyi told Blood Dog that he had killed four Layered Tower Realm experts but sensed nine rivals of comparable strength, though he remained invincible in the Human Realm.
• Su Yun ordered Great Zhou to counterattack Great Shang and focused on strengthening the dynasty amid the revival of Spiritual Qi.
• Su Xiuyi signed in at an ancient tomb in the Heavenly Abyss and received the Sunflower Manual, which required its practitioner to castrate himself.
• Su Xiuyi gave the manual to Blood Dog to deliver to the imperial palace for Su Yun’s palace attendants.

Su Yun consolidated Great Zhou’s control of the Human Realm while leaving fertile former Great Shang territory for rival forces to fight over. After Blood Dog delivered the Sunflower Manual, Su Yun gave it to Liu Hong and ordered him to prove himself within three years.

• Su Yun arranged for Great Zhou to control most of the Human Realm and deliberately ceded the former Great Shang capital region to spark conflict among its occupants.
• Blood Dog brought Su Yun an ancient book that Su Xiuyi had obtained but found unsuitable for his own cultivation.
• Su Yun read the Sunflower Manual and learned that practicing it required castration, then decided not to cultivate it himself.
• Liu Hong confessed to taking resources to strengthen the palace attendants, and Su Yun spared him while ordering him to return within three years with the head of someone at the Layered Tower Realm.
• Su Yun bestowed the Sunflower Manual on Liu Hong as a technique from Great Zhou’s protector, and Liu Hong eagerly accepted it.

Su Xiuyi gained the Indestructible Golden Body and the Domain of God, Buddha Kingdom in the Palm, by signing in at graves in the Heavenly Abyss. As the factions fought over the Great Shang capital, Su Yun ordered Great Zhou to focus on developing the Martial Hall.

• Liu Hong left the palace with the Sunflower Manual, while Blood Dog confirmed that he had resisted its temptation.
• Su Yun explained to the ministers that Great Zhou had yielded resource-rich lands to the world’s factions so they would fight over them and give Great Zhou time to grow.
• Su Xiuyi took Blood Dog into the Heavenly Abyss, signed in at an arhat’s grave, and obtained the Indestructible Golden Body.
• Su Xiuyi cultivated for a day, dispelled the area’s evil Qi, and signed in at a larger grave to obtain Buddha Kingdom in the Palm.
• Su Xiuyi returned to the Myriad Text Academy to cultivate as factions battled the Ten Thousand Devils Hall for the Great Shang capital.
• Su Yun told his ministers to develop the Martial Hall as Great Zhou’s foundation and source of talent.

Su Xiuyi received a warning that Wang Cheng was in mortal danger and went to a Zhao Family wedding in Jiang Province to protect him. He sensed a Layered Tower Realm expert among the guests and wondered why the people there had targeted Wang Cheng.

• Su Yun learned that the surviving Great Shang heir might seek help from the Slaughter Dao Sect and ordered the Night Watchers to find and kill him before the sect master awakened.
• Years later, Su Xiuyi signed in at a grave in the Myriad Text Academy’s Heavenly Abyss and received the Slaughter Sword Formation, bringing his cultivation to the twenty-eighth level of the Layered Tower Realm.
• Su Xiuyi sensed through a Calamity Spirit Character that Wang Cheng, the last of the Wang Clan’s bloodline, faced mortal danger, so he left to protect him.
• Su Xiuyi arrived at the Zhao Family wedding in Jiang Province, entered the feast without an invitation, and introduced himself to Zhang Yuan.
• Su Xiuyi searched the wedding guests with his willpower, sensed a Layered Tower Realm expert seated outside, and wondered why the people there had targeted Wang Cheng.

At Wang Cheng’s wedding banquet, a Layered Tower Realm disciple of the Slaughter Dao Sect attacked him to ignite a war with the Great Zhou Dynasty. Su Xiuyi stopped time, killed the attacker with a drop of wine, and sent a black butterfly to track the mastermind, leaving the guests baffled when time resumed.

• Wang Cheng appeared at the Zhao Family banquet as a Saint Realm marquis, and a Slaughter Dao Sect disciple revealed himself and threatened to kill him.
• The attacker’s Domain of God suppressed Wang Cheng’s protectors, and he struck at them with a sword before Su Xiuyi stopped time.
• The attacker recognized Su Xiuyi as the Great Zhou Dynasty’s mysterious guardian, and Su Xiuyi confirmed his identity and pierced the man’s forehead with a drop of wine.
• Su Xiuyi used Capture and Seize to take a wisp of the attacker’s presence, then sent a black butterfly to track the mastermind behind the assassination.
• Time resumed, and Wang Cheng and the other guests found the attacker dead without remembering how he had been killed.

Su Xiuyi followed a black butterfly to the remote Slaughter Dao Sect hidden in a snowy mountain, where Di Yuan had asked its vice sect master to avenge Great Shang. Su Xiuyi arrived and imprisoned the mountain with an array as the vice sect master prepared to confront him.

• Su Xiuyi followed the black butterfly across the snowy plain to a hidden mountain.
• An old man and his grandson warned Su Xiuyi that a snowstorm made the mountains dangerous, then knelt after noticing he left no footprints.
• A Slaughter Dao Sect disciple recognized Su Xiuyi as the guardian of the Great Zhou Dynasty and hurried to alert the sect.
• Su Xiuyi used Spirit Characters to form an array that imprisoned the mountain, then approached its ice palace.
• Di Yuan begged the vice sect master to avenge Great Shang, and the vice sect master agreed to kill Su Xiuyi.
• The vice sect master learned Su Xiuyi had arrived, and Su Xiuyi announced himself from nearby.

Su Xiuyi entered the Slaughter Dao Sect’s ice palace to kill Di Yuan and effortlessly killed the deputy sect master and several disciples. The sect master emerged from seclusion and trapped Su Xiuyi in a Domain of God, but Su Xiuyi appeared beside Di Yuan as Di Yuan pleaded for the sect master to avenge the dead.

• Su Xiuyi entered the ice palace, identified Di Yuan as his target, and declared that he had come to kill him.
• The deputy sect master attacked Su Xiuyi with Sword Qi, but Su Xiuyi killed him with a single finger strike.
• A Slaughter Dao Sect elder urged the disciples to attack, and Su Xiuyi killed at least a dozen disciples with a distant palm strike.
• The Slaughter Dao Sect’s current sect master emerged from seclusion, trapped Su Xiuyi in a Domain of God, and drew cheers from the sect’s survivors.
• Di Yuan begged the sect master to avenge the deputy sect master and the other dead, but Su Xiuyi appeared beside him.

Su Xiuyi killed Di Yuan and the Slaughter Dao Sect experts, then stopped the avalanche caused by the collapsing ice mountain from destroying a town. He vanished after the townspeople called him a heavenly god.

• Su Xiuyi beheaded the Slaughter Dao Sect Master with one sword and asked Di Yuan who he would beg now.
• Su Xiuyi confirmed his identity to Di Yuan, killed him, and then slaughtered the remaining Slaughter Dao Sect experts inside the ice palace.
• Su Xiuyi left the ice palace, and the mountain collapsed into an avalanche; he saw it heading toward a nearby town.
• Su Xiuyi used the Water, Ice, Solidify, and Disperse Spirit Characters to raise a glacier wall and stop the avalanche.
• The townspeople thanked Su Xiuyi as a heavenly god, and he vanished without revealing his face.

The Golden Sacred Dragon awakened after the Slaughter Dao Sect was destroyed and traced the culprit to the Great Zhou Dynasty. Su Xiuyi identified the threat but resumed cultivating, leaving Su Yun and more than a dozen Layered Tower Realm experts to face the dragon’s first attack above the capital.

• The Golden Sacred Dragon emerged from his golden coffin, learned that the Slaughter Dao Sect had been destroyed, and deduced that Su Xiuyi and the Great Zhou Dynasty were responsible.
• The Golden Sacred Dragon flew toward the Great Zhou imperial capital to take revenge, while Su Xiuyi sensed the calamity and identified the dragon as the former sect master’s mount.
• Su Xiuyi concluded that the Golden Sacred Dragon’s strength would not threaten him and returned to cultivating.
• The Golden Sacred Dragon arrived above the capital and threatened to destroy the Great Zhou Imperial Clan, prompting Su Yun to summon more than a dozen Layered Tower Realm experts.
• The Golden Sacred Dragon struck the charging defenders with a single claw, making them spit blood and leaving Su Yun shaken by his power.

Su Xiuyi answered the Golden Sacred Dragon’s challenge and overwhelmed it with a rain of swords. The dragon was wounded and forced to the ground as witnesses, including Su Yun, stared in shock at Su Xiuyi’s power.

• Su Yun and Tie Ling combined their strongest attacks against the Golden Sacred Dragon’s claw, but both were blasted into craters in the imperial city.
• The Golden Sacred Dragon failed to sense Su Xiuyi and threatened to destroy the Great Zhou Imperial Clan unless he appeared.
• Su Xiuyi left the Myriad Text Academy and sent countless sword lights plunging down from the sky.
• The Golden Sacred Dragon transformed into a man and dodged the falling swords, but one struck his chest and wounded him.
• Thousands of giant swords embedded themselves in the ground as Su Xiuyi appeared in white robes and a golden mask atop a giant sword.
• Su Yun and the watching experts were stunned as the Golden Sacred Dragon faced Su Xiuyi in a sorry state.

Su Xiuyi used the Demon-Suppressing Art to suppress the Golden Sacred Dragon, extract its sinew, and refine the dragon into pills. After strengthening Su Yun, Tie Ling, and Blood Dog, he left the watching experts too frightened to threaten Great Zhou.

• Su Xiuyi appeared and wounded the Golden Sacred Dragon, while the White-Robed Scholar of the Ten Thousand Devils Hall suspected he had obtained the Demon-Suppressing Art.
• The Golden Sacred Dragon attacked Su Xiuyi, but the Demon-Suppressing Art suppressed his cultivation from the thirty-third to the twenty-third level of the Layered Tower.
• Su Xiuyi immobilized the Golden Sacred Dragon, ripped out his dragon sinew, and refined him into golden pills.
• Su Xiuyi gave pills to Su Yun and Tie Ling, restoring their injuries and raising their cultivation, and fed another pill to Blood Dog, who entered the Layered Tower Realm.
• Su Xiuyi invited the hidden experts to come to the imperial capital, and they fled rather than challenge Great Zhou.
• The White-Robed Scholar of the Ten Thousand Devils Hall feared that Su Xiuyi had obtained the Primordial Demon-Suppressing Sect's inheritance.

Su Xiuyi told Su Yun that he would enter seclusion to break through the Layered Tower Realm and warned him that Great Zhou might face danger while he was gone. Before beginning his seclusion, Su Xiuyi decided to strike the factions himself.

• The White-Robed Scholar and other factions were shaken after Su Xiuyi defeated and refined the Golden Sacred Dragon, while the Demon God led the remaining great demons away from the Human Realm.
• Blood Dog consumed the pill made from the Golden Sacred Dragon and reached the Thirteenth Heaven of the Layered Tower Realm.
• Su Xiuyi summoned Su Yun and warned him that he would enter seclusion after reaching the Layered Tower Realm’s limit, leaving Great Zhou in Su Yun’s care.
• Su Yun pledged to defend Great Zhou, and Su Xiuyi warned that a great calamity and the second Spiritual Qi Tide were approaching.
• Su Xiuyi declared that he would strike the factions himself before entering seclusion.

Su Xiuyi chose Yama Hall as the target of a strike meant to deter the forces under heaven, then traveled there alone to destroy it. The chapter ended as Yama Hall’s experts confronted him and hidden observers watched in fear.

• Su Yun told Su Xiuyi that Yama Hall was Great Zhou’s greatest threat, and Su Xiuyi’s divination confirmed it had two experts at the Thirty-Third Heaven of the Layered Tower.
• Su Xiuyi promised that destroying Yama Hall would leave the world in Su Yun’s hands, then departed.
• Yama Hall’s hall master warned its vice hall master that Su Xiuyi might possess more than the Demon-Suppressing Art and could have inherited the Demon-Suppressing Sect’s power.
• Su Xiuyi rode his notorious carriage openly toward Yama Hall, alarming powerful observers across the world.
• Yama Hall’s experts surrounded Su Xiuyi, but he declared that he had come to kill and recited the crimes he had learned from Su Yun.

Su Xiuyi confronted Yama Hall’s vice hall master, Yan Long, who attacked him with his Yama Dharma Body after mistaking his cultivation for the Twenty-Eighth Heaven. The chapter ended as Su Xiuyi turned wine into countless sword lights and sent them toward the ghost hand, leaving the watching experts waiting to see the result.

• The White-Robed Scholar of the Ten Thousand Devils Hall recognized Su Xiuyi’s strength and watched to learn the limits of his power.
• Yan Long summoned his Yama Dharma Body and sent its enormous ghost hand toward Su Xiuyi’s carriage.
• The hall master of Yama Hall and other observers watched as Su Xiuyi remained seated and made no attempt to resist.
• Su Yun arrived and showed no fear, while remaining wary of Yama Hall’s hall master.
• As Yan Long’s ghost hand closed around the carriage, Su Xiuyi spoke and shattered the howling evil ghosts with his presence.
• Su Xiuyi flung his wine, turning its drops into sword lights that shot toward the clenched ghost hand.

Su Xiuyi destroyed Yan Long’s Yama attack with a sword formed from his wine vapor, revealing overwhelming strength without using his Domain of God. Yan Long survived but was left bloodied, and the watching experts were shaken by the display.

• Su Xiuyi shattered Yan Long’s ghostly hand and severed an arm of the Yama Dharma Body with his sword Qi.
• The hidden experts realized Su Xiuyi had revealed the strength of the Thirty-Third Heaven, while Yan Long refused to believe it could threaten Yama Hall.
• Yan Long merged with his Domain of God and attacked Su Xiuyi with a judge’s brush formed from Spirit Characters.
• Su Xiuyi recited a verse, drank his wine, and breathed out a golden sword gleam that shattered the judge’s brush.
• Yan Long unleashed Yama Destroys the World to scatter the sword Qi, but his Domain of God collapsed and he was left covered in blood.
• Su Yun, the master of Ten Thousand Devils Hall, and the master of Yama Hall reacted with shock as Yan Long descended in terror.

Su Xiuyi rejected Gui Qinfen’s offer to end the conflict and declared that he would destroy Yama Hall despite the risk of losing his Creation Qi. The chapter ended as Su Xiuyi activated the Domain of God and summoned the stars.

• Gui Qinfen revealed that he had cultivated Creation Qi and healed Yan Long’s injuries, while Su Xiuyi’s own Creation Qi stunned the gathered ancient beings.
• Su Yun decided to stake Great Zhou’s providence on Su Xiuyi’s breakthrough after learning he had already cultivated Creation Qi.
• Su Xiuyi refused Gui Qinfen’s truce and insisted that Yama Hall and its master had to die for attacking Great Zhou.
• Gui Qinfen accused Su Xiuyi of throwing away his future, but Su Xiuyi challenged him and Yan Long to fight.
• Su Xiuyi dismissed Gui Qinfen’s demand to reveal his identity, activated the Domain of God, and made stars appear across the sky.

Su Xiuyi faced Gui Qinfen’s Domain of God and swallowed the power of his Netherworld Immortal Slaying technique with a bronze wine cup. He dismissed Gui Qinfen’s strength and declared that he wanted his head.

• Gui Qinfen activated his Domain of God, Descent of the Nine Netherworlds, and used Netherworld Immortal Slaying to send a massive sword at Su Xiuyi.
• Su Xiuyi infused Creation Qi into a bronze wine cup and threw it at the Netherworld Sword.
• The cup absorbed the sword, turning it into wine that Su Xiuyi drank without being harmed.
• Su Xiuyi taunted Gui Qinfen and said he wanted his head.

Su Xiuyi dismissed Su Yun’s fears and said he would kill Gui Qinfen to intimidate the world, since Gui Qinfen was not its strongest figure. Gui Qinfen unleashed Ten Thousand Souls Slay Heaven, staking his cultivation and life on killing Su Xiuyi and destroying the Great Zhou Imperial Clan.

• Su Yun urged Su Xiuyi to stop fighting and protect his chance to reach the Creation Realm, but Su Xiuyi assured him that killing Gui Qinfen would not affect his cultivation.
• Su Xiuyi warned Su Yun that Gui Qinfen was not the strongest of the ancient powerhouses and that defeating him instantly would overawe the world.
• The members of Yama Hall watched in anger as Gui Qinfen prepared to strike back against Su Xiuyi.
• Gui Qinfen unleashed Ten Thousand Souls Slay Heaven, summoning a three-tailed soul banner and a hundred million vengeful souls that shattered the Seas of Will of weaker onlookers.
• Gui Qinfen suffered severe backlash and damage to his Great Dao foundation as he vowed to kill Su Xiuyi or sacrifice the Great Zhou Imperial Clan.

Su Xiuyi used his Creation Realm Spirit Character, Purification, to break Gui Qinfen’s soul-banner attack and destroy the Yama Hall. After killing Gui Qinfen, Su Xiuyi warned all who threatened Great Zhou, leaving the Human Realm in fearful silence.

• Su Xiuyi warned Su Yun to shut off his six senses as Gui Qinfen unleashed three soul banners and a devastating attack from a hundred million vengeful souls.
• The master of the Ten Thousand Devils Hall and other hidden experts retreated, while Su Xiuyi remained unaffected by the attack.
• Gui Qinfen burned his essence blood and willpower to strengthen his assault, but Su Xiuyi revealed that his Spirit Character Purification had reached the Creation Realm.
• Purification reduced the vengeful souls to ashes and shattered Gui Qinfen’s Domain of God, leaving Gui Qinfen severely wounded.
• Su Xiuyi used Meteor Shower to kill Gui Qinfen and destroy every Yama Hall expert.
• Su Xiuyi declared that anyone who offended Great Zhou would be killed and ordered the witnesses to leave, causing them and the ancient powers watching to flee or cut off their surveillance.

Su Yun told Great Zhou’s secluded imperial clan elders that their mysterious guardian was a Su clan member who had slain a Half-Step Creation Realm expert, then sought their approval to give him Great Zhou’s fortune. The elders learned the guardian’s identity must remain secret and faced Su Yun’s proposal.

• Night Watcher and palace attendant leaders reported that factions and myriad-race agents had vanished, while the palace attendants had found a dangerous passage used by the God Race.
• Su Yun ordered the Human Race to hunt down members of the myriad races, especially the God, Devil, and Immortal Races, and rebuked the Night Watchers.
• Su Yun summoned the Su Imperial Clan’s elders and revealed that Great Zhou’s guardian was one of their own and had killed an ancient Half-Step Creation Realm expert.
• An excited middle-aged clan member asked who the guardian was, and an elder rebuked him for risking the guardian’s secrecy; the man accepted a hundred years of life-or-death seclusion.
• Su Yun asked the elders to approve his decision to bestow Great Zhou’s fortune upon the guardian.

Su Yun told the Su Imperial Clan’s elders that Su Xiuyi needed their fate’s blessing, not their Dao, and the elders set out for the Ten Thousand Races Battlefield to fight and return their fate if his breakthrough required it. After the clan revealed its hidden strength and its descent from the White-Robed War God, Su Xiuyi decided to enter seclusion.

• Su Yun explained that Su Xiuyi’s Dao surpassed the imperial clan’s and that the elders did not need to yield theirs.
• The Su Imperial Clan’s ancestor and elders vowed to fight for the Human Race and headed for the Human Realm passage, prepared to die if Su Xiuyi needed their fate.
• Great Zhou’s hidden experts revealed themselves, astonishing the factions that had mistaken some of them for their own sect’s pillars.
• The Ten Thousand Devils Hall’s master recognized that the Su Imperial Clan descended from the White-Robed War God and understood why its members had hidden their identities.
• Su Xiuyi watched the clan’s experts depart, reassured by Great Zhou’s strength, and chose to enter seclusion.

Su Yun gathered Great Zhou’s fortune for the Su family, and it flowed into Su Xiuyi just as he entered the abyss with Blood Dog. The fortune awakened Su Xiuyi’s Dao Spirit Character and summoned the Gate of Creation, leaving him close to reaching the Creation Realm while Blood Dog absorbed its Qi of Creation and rapidly advanced.

• Su Xiuyi took Blood Dog into the abyss to enter seclusion, while Su Yun prayed for the Su family to produce a Creation Realm expert.
• Su Yun summoned the fortune of Great Zhou, and it flowed into Su Xiuyi as he entered the abyss.
• The power of fortune awakened Su Xiuyi’s Dao Will Character into a Spirit Character and caused the Gate of Creation to appear.
• Blood Dog devoured the Gate of Creation’s Qi, rising to the peak of the thirty-third heaven of the Layered Tower Realm before stopping to digest it.
• The Gate of Creation vanished, and Su Xiuyi opened his eyes, realizing that his breakthrough to the Creation Realm was near.

Su Xiuyi discovered that Blood Dog had surged to the Layered Tower Thirty-Third Heaven and carried him into the underground core, where he signed in at the sword tomb of the Myriad Dao Sword Venerable. He obtained and transformed a Supreme Sword Seed using the Great Zhou Dynasty’s power of fate, laying a foundation for entering the Creation Realm.

• Su Xiuyi found Blood Dog trembling with power at the Layered Tower Thirty-Third Heaven, steadied him, and carried him deeper into the core area.
• Su Xiuyi approached the eighteen sword steles and signed in at the sword tomb of the Myriad Dao Sword Venerable.
• The system awarded Su Xiuyi a sword seed that could grow into a Supreme Sword Embryo capable of breaking open the heavenly gate.
• Su Xiuyi saw an illusory sword strike shatter a heavenly gate, and the first stele vanished as the sword seed appeared in his ocean of Spiritual Qi.
• Su Xiuyi cultivated to nurture the sword seed, which devoured the remaining power of fate and completed its first transformation.
• Su Xiuyi realized the power of fate had saved him decades of cultivation and laid a foundation for entering the Creation Realm.

Zhou Hao led Great Zhou experts in a surprise attack that destroyed the Heavenly Wolf Realm Domain, while replicated figures concealed their departure from the Human Realm. The resulting power of fortune helped Su Xiuyi complete his Form of Creation.

• Zhou Hao warned the experts in the ancient palace that the Immortal Race might join the coming war and proposed destroying a realm to deter the myriad races.
• Zhou Hao used his Spirit Characters, "Replication," to leave lifelike doubles protecting the Human Realm while the real experts departed.
• Zhou Hao and the Great Zhou experts set out for the Heavenly Wolf Realm Domain, hoping the attack would also provide fortune for Su Xiuyi.
• The Human Race destroyed the Heavenly Wolf Realm Domain within a day.
• Su Xiuyi received a surge of fortune while cultivating and completed his Form of Creation.

After forging his Body of Creation, Su Xiuyi signed in at the third stele and learned that Blood Dog had advanced by devouring Qi of Creation from his Gate of Creation. Su Xiuyi discovered that his Dao Character Spirit Script could summon the gate and strengthen his body, but a terrifying presence fixed its gaze on him.

• Su Xiuyi reached the third stele, signed in, and fused the reward of another Supreme Sword Seed with his existing one.
• Su Xiuyi found Blood Dog waking after more than a year of sleep, with Qi of Creation and power at the Layered Tower Thirty-Third Heaven.
• Blood Dog explained that he had devoured Qi of Creation spilling from the Gate of Creation while Su Xiuyi was in enlightenment.
• Su Xiuyi realized that his Dao Character Spirit Script had summoned the Gate of Creation and asked Blood Dog to stand guard while he tested it.
• Su Xiuyi summoned the gate, absorbed its Qi of Creation, and strengthened his Body of Creation, then sensed a terrifying presence watching him.