Recaps

Su Xiuyi killed Shen Dong at the Myriad Text Academy and cursed his corpse, causing the guards who tried to retrieve it to die from Nine Yin Fire. Hu Qingyun helped an Earth Spirit Clan demon reach the Invincible Realm and prepared to seek revenge in the Human Realm.

• Su Xiuyi immobilized Shen Dong, killed him with Avici Dao Saber Qi, and cursed his soul and anyone who touched his body.
• Shen Dong’s deputy general led the elite horsemen into the academy, where the curse killed him and several guards who handled the corpse.
• News of Shen Dong’s cursed death spread through the city, and Tie Ling recognized that Su Xiuyi had acted.
• Hu Qingyun helped an Earth Spirit Clan demon advance to the Invincible Realm, then said she would enter the Human Realm to avenge her husband.

Hu Qingyun prepared to unite the Demon Race and invade the Human Realm, while Su Xiuyi struggled to understand how to reach the Sage realm. As Su Xiuyi meditated beside the Literary Saint's remains, lightning struck him and began transforming his Dao Will Character.

• Hu Qingyun used her Will Character divine skill to help members of the Star Demon lineage advance, hoping to become Demon Emperor and lead an invasion of the Human Realm.
• Hu Qingyun learned that the Human Race was growing stronger and that someone among them was cultivating a sinister secret art, but she resolved to keep advancing and reunite with Xiuyi.
• Su Xiuyi pondered how to become a Sage, then went to the battlefield and meditated beside the Literary Saint's remains for insight.
• As a violent storm broke over Myriad Text Academy, Su Xiuyi's Dao Will Character began transforming and drew lightning through his Thunder Spirit Character.
• Lightning struck Su Xiuyi repeatedly, nearly wiping out his life force, while the Dao Will Character became wreathed in gentle lightning that carried powerful life force.

As lightning battered him, Su Xiuyi used the opposing powers of his Dao Will Character and Thunder Spirit Character to break through toward Sainthood. After the Saint Gate shattered, he entered the Saint realm, while the Dao Will Character kept his body and soul from falling apart.

• Su Xiuyi used the Life Spirit Character to restore his body, then noticed the Dao Will Character stealing his vitality as the Thunder Spirit Character transformed.
• Su Xiuyi checked in and received a Saint-Breaking Pill, whose power the Thunder Spirit Character and Dao Will Character fought over.
• Su Xiuyi stopped using the Life Spirit Character and wagered that the two opposing powers needed to balance for Saint Entry.
• As lightning continued to strike, the powers of life and death fused, formed a passage between Su Xiuyi's dantian and glabella acupoint, and opened his mind to Dharma Power.
• Su Xiuyi roared for Saint Entry until the Saint Gate shattered, and the Dao Will Character released vitality to preserve his body and suppress his restless soul.

Su Xiuyi entered the Sage realm during a rainstorm and used Saint Power to stop the rain before returning to the underground palace. Meanwhile, celestial signs of two powerful stars alarmed the Imperial Astronomical Bureau and led Su Tianlong to demand answers from the Shadow King.

• Su Xiuyi realized his power had transformed into Saint Power and celebrated entering the Sage realm.
• Su Xiuyi wrote the character for “stop” with the Demon-Slaying Brush, halting the rain, then sent the suspended raindrops flying and returned to the underground palace.
• The Blood Dog mocked Su Xiuyi for caring about his appearance, while admitting he admired Su Xiuyi’s rapid cultivation.
• An old man at the Imperial Astronomical Bureau saw two stars standing side by side and hurried to report the omen to the Shadow King.
• The Shadow King learned that an unknown sovereign might challenge the Human Emperor and rushed to inform Su Tianlong.
• Su Tianlong flew into a rage and berated the Shadow King for failing to investigate the Champion Marquis’s death or the two stars.

The Shadow King faced the Human Emperor Su Tianlong’s wrath after repeated defeats, while Su Xiuyi divined that Tie Ling was in danger and arranged for her to leave the Great Zhou Dynasty. Tie Ling reached the Nine Netherworlds Hall before Shadow Pavilion agents arrived at the academy to find her.

• Human Emperor Su Tianlong rebuked the Shadow King for his failures and ordered him to seize control of the Human Realm quickly.
• Su Xiuyi failed to safely remove the soul from Blood Dog’s father, then used Tie Ling’s essence blood and the Divination Spirit Character to foresee her danger.
• Su Xiuyi wrote a message on spirit jade and had Blood Dog tell Tie Ling to leave the Great Zhou Dynasty for the Nine Netherworlds Hall.
• Tie Ling received the jade, left a letter, and departed the Southern Heaven Academy without delay.
• Three Shadow Pavilion agents arrived seeking Tie Ling, learned she had already left, and wondered whether she had divined their arrival.

The Shadow King pursued Tie Ling to question her about the Champion Marquis’s death and attacked her when she refused to answer. After Tie Ling shattered Su Xiuyi’s spirit jade, its ten Will Characters revealed Sage Power and summoned a white-robed figure, leaving the Shadow King trapped before the figure called for a sword.

• The Shadow King sent his clone and the Long-Nosed Demon to track Tie Ling’s scent, while Blood Dog followed them despite Su Xiuyi’s assurance that Tie Ling would be safe.
• The Shadow King’s group caught up with Tie Ling and demanded to know what she knew about the Champion Marquis’s death.
• Tie Ling used the spirit jade Su Xiuyi had given her to break the pressure from the Shadow King’s clone, then shattered it when he attacked.
• Ten Will Characters emerged from the jade and immobilized the Shadow King’s clone with Sage Power.
• The characters for “immortal” fused into a white-robed figure, who called for a sword as the Shadow King realized he was trapped.

Su Xiuyi revealed himself to protect Tie Ling, summoned the Raging Dragon River into an icy sword, and killed two Invincibles who had attacked her. He waited while the Shadow King's avatar called for reinforcements, and the chapter ended as three Pseudosages arrived and attacked him.

• Su Xiuyi summoned the Raging Dragon River and shaped it into an icy sword.
• The long-nosed demon and another Invincible begged for mercy and blamed their orders, but Su Xiuyi beheaded them.
• The Shadow King's avatar challenged Su Xiuyi and threatened him with the Great Zhou Imperial Clan, so Su Xiuyi invited him to call for help.
• Su Xiuyi secretly told Tie Ling to leave, and she departed before the confrontation escalated.
• After half an hour, three Pseudosages arrived and charged at Su Xiuyi.

Su Xiuyi used his external incarnation to force the Shadow King's avatar to reveal the location of the true body, then sent Spirit Character avatars to hunt down the Shadow King's other avatars. After entering the Extraterrestrial Battlefield, Su Xiuyi received their memories and learned how depraved the Shadow King's avatars were.

• The white-robed incarnation killed the Three Sword Sages of the Shadow Pavilion with one sword, then beheaded the Shadow King's avatar after using him to divine the true body's location.
• Su Xiuyi sent Spirit Character avatars after the Shadow King's avatars and left the Myriad Text Academy for the Extraterrestrial Battlefield.
• The Shadow King sensed his avatars falling one after another across the Human Realm and the Blood Demon and Star Demon lineages.
• Su Xiuyi's Spirit Characters returned with memories of the fallen avatars, revealing that many had been women inhabiting other men's wives.

The Shadow King regained his soul fragments and reached the Saint Realm, only to discover Su Xiuyi waiting nearby. After their exchange, Su Xiuyi attacked and revealed his strength, while the Shadow King’s regenerative ability and origins remained mysterious.

• The Shadow King’s returning soul fragments restored his soul and raised his strength to the Saint Realm, destroying the ruins as he raged over his failed plans.
• Su Xiuyi arrived and recognized the Shadow King as Ning Xionglin, the external incarnation of Shen Dong’s teacher; the Shadow King recognized Su Xiuyi and connected him to the twin emperor star signs.
• The Shadow King tried to seize Su Xiuyi’s body and mandate, but Su Xiuyi froze him and struck him with Avici Dao Saber Intent.
• The Shadow King escaped the attack, regenerated, and questioned how Su Xiuyi had reached the Saint Realm and descended into the sealed place.
• Su Xiuyi questioned the Shadow King’s Blood Barbarian Demon Race regeneration, then declared that he had come to kill him and summoned the Demon-Slaying Brush as a black saber.

Su Xiuyi killed the Shadow King and signed in for the Will Division and Unification Art, while Hu Qingyun learned the Shadow King’s death weakened Su Tianlong and planned to advance the Star Demon lineage’s cause. The chapter left Hu Qingyun preparing for the coming struggle and wondering who should inherit the Human Emperor’s throne after Su Tianlong fell.

• Su Xiuyi froze the Shadow King and killed him with the Avici Dao Saber Intent, then used divination to confirm the threat was gone.
• Su Xiuyi signed in and received the Will Division and Unification Art, but rejected cultivating it because of the risks of dividing and reunifying his will.
• Su Tianlong learned the Shadow King was dead and realized the loss had blinded him to events he had been monitoring.
• Hu Qingyun told Great Sage Lutian that the dead Demon Race Invincibles had been the Shadow King’s clones and ordered him to kill those close to them.
• Hu Qingyun celebrated the blow to Su Tianlong’s power, said her plan was nearly complete, and wondered who should inherit the Human Emperor’s throne after his death.

After the Shadow King’s death, Hu Qingyun sent someone to erect a memorial tablet for Su Xiuyi at the Myriad Text Academy. Su Xiuyi discovered it and wondered about Hu Qingyun’s feelings, but chose to remain hidden and continue cultivating.

• Su Xiuyi dismissed Blood Dog’s warning that the Great Zhou Emperor had sealed Southern Heaven City to find him, and continued cultivating in the academy.
• After a month, Hu Qingyun learned that the city had returned to normal and ordered her sister to arrange a cenotaph for Su Xiuyi at the Myriad Text Academy.
• Su Xiuyi noticed someone enter and leave the academy, then found a memorial tablet inscribed as erected by his loving wife, Hu Qingyun.
• Blood Dog urged Su Xiuyi to visit Hu Qingyun, but Su Xiuyi said he was not ruled by love and returned to cultivating after reflecting on her devotion.

Su Xiuyi learned that the Qingqiu Clan’s supposed treason might have been part of Su Tianlong’s scheme, and he ordered an investigation into the clan’s destruction. At a Nine Netherworlds Hall teahouse, he learned that a newly emerged Sage had attacked the Hall’s territory and began painting, leaving Ma Mian terrified by what he saw.

• Blood Dog told Su Xiuyi that Hu Qingyun was rumored to be a peerless beauty who had fallen for him, prompting Su Xiuyi to reconsider the Qingqiu Clan’s alleged treason.
• Su Xiuyi realized the Qingqiu Clan might have been sacrificed in Su Tianlong’s plot and wondered why Hu Qingyun had still called herself his wife.
• Su Xiuyi used a secret code to meet Ma Mian, then gave him a letter and ordered him to have Black and White Impermanence investigate something quickly.
• Ma Mian told Su Xiuyi that a newly emerged Sage had destroyed a Nine Netherworlds Hall branch and declared war on the Hall.
• Su Xiuyi calmly prepared to deal with the Sage, then began painting; Ma Mian trembled with fear after glancing at the picture.

Ma Mian witnessed the terrifying sword intent hidden in Su Xiuyi’s painting and returned to the Nine Netherworlds Hall with it. He delivered Su Xiuyi’s orders to investigate the Demon Race’s holy maiden and prepare to destroy the Yellow Springs Sword Sect, leaving Corpse Servant and Zhou Yunlong to organize the operation.

• Ma Mian looked at Su Xiuyi’s painting and realized its sword intent could kill an Invincible.
• Su Xiuyi gave Ma Mian the painting to use against the Yellow Springs Sword Sect’s Sage if the Sage refused to submit, and warned him not to open it while traveling.
• Ma Mian returned to the Nine Netherworlds Hall, where Corpse Servant and Zhou Yunlong welcomed him.
• Zhou Yunlong read Su Xiuyi’s letter ordering an urgent investigation into the Demon Race’s holy maiden and her connection to Su Tianlong’s destruction of the Green Hill Fox Race.
• Ma Mian told them that Su Xiuyi had prepared everything to destroy the Yellow Springs Sword Sect and that they should take over its forces afterward.
• Corpse Servant and Zhou Yunlong agreed to arrange the operation and investigate the holy maiden themselves once the sect was dealt with.

The Yellow Springs Sword Saint challenged the Nine Netherworlds Hall at its new branch, but Ma Mian and the Hall’s forces confronted him and demanded his submission on Su Xiuyi’s behalf. Ma Mian opened a scroll carrying overwhelming pressure, leaving the Sword Saint one minute to decide.

• The Yellow Springs Sword Sect established a branch in the former territory of Great Yan and the Yellow Springs Sword Saint mocked the Nine Netherworlds Hall before its gathered guests.
• Ma Mian appeared and declared that the Hall’s master was not worth appearing in person to face a newly advanced Saint.
• Black Impermanence, White Impermanence, and the three thousand ghosts arrived, silencing the factions that had been flattering the Sword Saint.
• Ma Mian asked the Yellow Springs Sword Saint to submit and said Su Xiuyi had given him one minute to decide.
• Ma Mian opened a scroll above the Yellow Springs Sword Saint, and its overwhelming pressure forced countless people to their knees.

Ma Mian used a scroll depicting a Human World Deity to force the Yellow Springs Sword Saint and the gathered sects to submit to the Nine Netherworlds Hall. The chapter ended with Ma Mian confirming to Corpse Servant and Zhou Yunlong that Su Xiuyi truly was a Human World Deity.

• Ma Mian displayed a terrifying scroll, and the Yellow Springs Sword Saint recognized its power as that of a Human World Deity.
• Ma Mian demanded that Yellow Springs submit or die, and the Yellow Springs Sword Saint knelt and pledged allegiance to the Nine Netherworlds Hall.
• A man who looked directly at the scroll was struck blind and vanished, prompting the other forces to declare their allegiance.
• Ma Mian gave Yellow Springs the scroll as a gift from the hall master, and Yellow Springs vowed to serve Su Xiuyi and keep the Yellow Springs Sword Sect loyal.
• The news that the Nine Netherworlds Hall had a Human World Deity spread through the Ten Thousand Sects Territory, and Sword Sect branch halls changed their signs to the Hall's.
• Corpse Servant and Zhou Yunlong asked Ma Mian whether Su Xiuyi had painted the scroll, and Ma Mian confirmed that Su Xiuyi was a Human World Deity.

Su Xiuyi struggled to break through his cultivation bottleneck, then found insight in a travelogue and the spring rain. He reached the Celestial Person Realm and discovered he could halt the rain and wind, though he suspected the revived world could not support further advancement.

• Corpse Servant sent Ma Mian and Zhou Yunlong to investigate the Demon Race's holy maiden as ordered by the Nine Netherworlds Hall.
• Su Xiuyi worried that his exposed strength and stalled cultivation left him with few advantages, and he wondered what he lacked to advance.
• Su Xiuyi read a travelogue in the Sage Study and learned how the exhaustion and revival of Spiritual Qi shaped the eras of heaven and earth.
• As spring rain fell, Su Xiuyi listened to the wind and sensed new life stirring across the land, until everything in his perception seemed to stop.
• Blood Dog realized Su Xiuyi had entered the Celestial Person Realm, and Su Xiuyi demonstrated that he could stop and restart the rain and wind.

Su Xiuyi toured Southern Heaven City unseen, while Hu Qingyun entered the Yin-Yang Realm and confronted the ancient being sharing her body. Meanwhile, the Heavenly Abyss Race infiltrated the Human Realm to retrieve the Curse Staff, and Su Xiuyi realized an unseen force was hindering his cultivation as he sought a realm beyond Celestial Person.

• Su Xiuyi stroked Blood Dog, vanished from the Myriad Text Academy, and wandered through rainy Southern Heaven City unseen, drinking at a restaurant before leaving silver behind.
• Hu Qingyun used her Yin-Yang Realm power to create a likeness of Su Xiuyi, then dismissed it when she remembered it was not truly him.
• An ancient phantom emerged from Hu Qingyun and reminded her that her body would belong to the phantom after Hu Qingyun completed her revenge; Hu Qingyun warned her to return and not recover her strength yet.
• The ancient emperor of the Heavenly Abyss Race led his people into the Human Realm to retrieve the Curse Staff from the Myriad Text Academy, slipping past the border guards.
• Su Xiuyi discovered that his cultivation had slowed to one hundredth of its usual speed and resolved to seek a realm beyond Celestial Person before anyone else.

The Undying Clan’s Blood Saint and the Heavenly Abyss Race entered Myriad Text Academy, each pursuing secrets within it. Su Xiuyi watched unseen as the Heavenly Abyss Race ancestor revealed that the academy concealed an entrance to a treasure land.

• The Blood Saint investigated Southern Heaven City and mocked Su Tianlong, claiming he had become an Undying Clan member after capturing her senior brother.
• Su Xiuyi sensed the Undying Clan and Heavenly Abyss Race approaching Myriad Text Academy, then concealed himself to observe them.
• The Heavenly Abyss Race ancestor told its emperor that the Greater Celestial Circuit Divine Art came from the place Myriad Text Academy suppressed, not the Extraterrestrial Battlefield.
• The ancestor explained that the academy was an enormous formation and that its center must contain the treasure land’s entrance.

Su Xiuyi followed the Heavenly Abyss Race and Blood Saint into a sealed realm beneath Myriad Text Academy, where they discovered a gigantic gateway. He revealed his Celestial Person strength and killed Blood Saint and Yuan Ming, leaving the gateway unexplored.

• Su Xiuyi realized Myriad Text Academy concealed a formation and watched as the Heavenly Abyss Race opened a passage beneath it.
• Blood Saint used her Spirit Character to kill the guard, and Su Xiuyi followed her and the Heavenly Abyss Race through the passage.
• The group reached an enormous gateway, where Blood Saint revealed herself to Yuan Ming and Su Xiuyi emerged from hiding.
• Yuan Ming sent his Invincibles to attack Su Xiuyi, but Blood Dog devoured them.
• Blood Saint and Yuan Ming joined forces against Su Xiuyi, who froze them with his Celestial Person power and destroyed them with saber Qi.

Su Xiuyi killed the intruders in the Myriad Text Academy and learned that Xiangliu guarded the sealed grotto-heaven and blessed land. He faced the ancient beast as Xiangliu prepared to fight.

• Su Xiuyi killed two Yin-Yang Realm experts with one finger, then burned the other attackers to ash when they tried to self-destruct.
• Blood Dog asked Su Xiuyi about his realm, and Su Xiuyi explained that he had reached the Celestial Person Realm.
• Su Xiuyi sensed a presence at the enormous portal and called out to it.
• Xiangliu emerged with nine heads, each at the Half-Step Celestial Person level, and threatened to kill Su Xiuyi.
• Su Xiuyi refused to be intimidated, summoned his brush, and prepared to fight Xiangliu.

Su Xiuyi killed Xiangliu in the Demon God Grotto-Heaven, gained the Demon-Suppressing Art through a sign-in, and mastered it. The chapter left Su Xiuyi with a new advantage against demons while the wider world remained unsettled by the Heavenly Abyss Race’s isolation and Hu Qingyun’s campaign.

• Su Xiuyi used the Greater Celestial Circuit Divine Art and killed Xiangliu with one stroke, then extracted more than a dozen drops of essence blood.
• Su Xiuyi signed in at the Demon God Grotto-Heaven and received the Demon-Suppressing Art, which weakened demons to seventy percent of their Dharma Power.
• The system revealed that the Grotto-Heaven had eighteen levels and allowed repeated sign-ins after each great demon was slain.
• Su Xiuyi mastered the Demon-Suppressing Art, briefly making Blood Dog tremble before he restrained its presence.
• Blood Dog asked whether Su Xiuyi had surpassed the Celestial Person realm, and Su Xiuyi denied it while dismissing Yin-Yang Realm experts as useless.
• The chapter reported that the Heavenly Abyss Race had sealed off its realm and Hu Qingyun was close to unifying the Star Demon lineage.

Su Xiuyi investigated the mystery behind Hu Qingyun’s rise and Su Tianlong’s actions while public blame shifted from him to Su Yun. He learned that Black and White Impermanence were returning to report in person, leaving the conspiracy unresolved.

• People across Great Zhou cursed Su Xiuyi after Hu Qingyun became the Demon Race’s Great Emperor and the Star Demons invaded.
• Su Xiuyi questioned how Hu Qingyun had gained power and suspected Su Tianlong had a hidden reason for provoking the Star Demons.
• Su Xiuyi met Ma Mian in a teahouse and ordered him to tell Black and White Impermanence to hurry with their investigation.
• Su Xiuyi heard that people now accused Su Yun of secretly allying with the Star Demons and letting them advance toward the imperial city.
• Ma Mian reported that Black and White Impermanence were returning to Southern Heaven City to deliver their findings in person.

Hu Qingyun prepared to attack Duanhun City and avenge her husband, while revealing that she had given Su Yun the Star Demon Clan’s share of human fortune. Su Xiuyi entered the Demon God Grotto-Heaven and killed a powerful fire sparrow, leaving the other demons stunned.

• Duanhun dismissed the warnings about the approaching Star Demon Clan and rebel army, saying the Human Emperor had made arrangements.
• Hu Qingyun and Su Yun’s forces discussed the danger of Duanhun City, and Hu Qingyun vowed to kill Su Tianlong to avenge her husband.
• Hu Qingyun reflected that Su Yun would make a worthy Human Emperor and revealed that she had given him the thirty percent of human fortune once bestowed on the Star Demon lineage.
• Su Xiuyi entered the Demon God Grotto-Heaven and found a fire sparrow that he identified as an early Celestial Person.
• Su Xiuyi used the Demon-Suppressing Art to weaken the fire sparrow and killed it with a strike of saber intent.

Su Xiuyi killed the Fire Sparrow in the first level of the Demon God Grotto-Heaven and obtained a Dao Comprehension Thatched Cottage through the system. After using a deep Dao comprehension opportunity to reach the realm of Myriad Dharmas Return to One, he left the grotto, leaving the demons bewildered.

• Su Xiuyi killed the Fire Sparrow and extracted its essence blood, causing the nearby great demons to form an alliance and retreat ten li away.
• Su Xiuyi signed in and received the Dao Comprehension Thatched Cottage and an opportunity for deep Dao comprehension.
• Su Xiuyi used the opportunity inside the cottage, where his Spirit Characters merged into a great lake in his Sea of Will.
• Su Xiuyi reached the realm of Myriad Dharmas Return to One and found that he could transform blade intent into other forms of intent.
• Su Xiuyi left the Demon God Grotto-Heaven, and the demons watched him go in confusion and relief.

Su Xiuyi learned that Hu Qingyun was his chosen fiancée and that her life was nearing its end, then hurried to find her. At Duanhun City, Hu Qingyun was trapped by a contingency arranged by the Human Emperor, while the Slaughter Demon Sage escaped with the others.

• Su Xiuyi returned to the Myriad Text Academy, where Blood Dog sensed his newfound godlike power.
• Zhou Yunlong told Su Xiuyi that Su Tianlong had targeted him and the Star Demon lineage over thirty percent of the Human Race's providence, and revealed that Hu Qingyun's soul was failing.
• Su Xiuyi decided to visit Hu Qingyun and used the Spirit Character “Divination” to learn that she had been outmaneuvered and had little time left.
• Hu Qingyun confronted Elder Duanhun outside Duanhun City, but he activated a formation and revealed that the Human Emperor had prepared to capture her.
• A woman inside Hu Qingyun suppressed her, and four Sages restrained her as the Slaughter Demon Sage escaped with the others.
• Elder Duanhun ordered his forces to take Hu Qingyun to the imperial capital instead of pursuing the fleeing group.