Chapter Summaries

After Su Xiuyi’s power secured Su Yun’s rule, Qian Dafu told Su Xiuyi what he had heard about the mysterious expert behind the Human Emperor, unaware he was speaking to that very person. Su Xiuyi concealed his identity and listened as Qian Dafu praised him, but the talk of the Human Race’s troubles left him uneasy.

• Su Yun accepted the Golden Throne Hall’s declarations of loyalty after Su Xiuyi suppressed Su Zhao and the ancient imperial clan rebels.
• At the Wafting Fragrance Restaurant, Qian Dafu told Su Xiuyi that the Human Emperor had called on a mysterious expert to deal with the rebels.
• Su Xiuyi feigned curiosity and asked Qian Dafu how the mysterious expert had acted.
• Qian Dafu described the expert’s power and said his information came from inside the imperial clan, not realizing Su Xiuyi was the expert.
• Su Xiuyi toasted Qian Dafu while privately growing concerned about the Human Race’s troubles.

Su Xiuyi decided the Human Race needed another show of force to deter the myriad races, so he traveled to the Blood Demon Mountain Range to kill the Fallen Fire Phoenix. The Fallen Fire Phoenix attacked him with a devastating flame technique, while spies from the myriad races watched.

• Su Xiuyi realized that news of the imperial clan's destruction had spread despite Su Yun's efforts, suggesting someone intended to provoke an attack on the Human Race.
• Su Xiuyi put Qian Dafu to sleep and decided to kill the Fallen Fire Phoenix to deter the myriad races and buy time for the Human Race.
• Su Xiuyi traveled in disguise to the Blood Demon Mountain Range and openly released his cultivation so the myriad races' spies would witness his actions.
• Su Xiuyi called the Fallen Fire Phoenix out, drawing the attention of demons and spies throughout the region.
• The Fallen Fire Phoenix emerged, mocked Su Xiuyi, and attacked him with the Fire Phoenix Burns the Heavens technique, while Su Xiuyi remained calm.

Su Xiuyi faced the Fallen Fire Phoenix’s Burn Heaven and Boil the Sea without moving, leaving the watching spies to realize that the flames could not harm him. He then spoke the word “fire,” and his Fire Spirit Character parted the phoenix’s flames before they reached him.

• The Fallen Fire Phoenix unleashed Burn Heaven and Boil the Sea at Su Xiuyi and boasted that his strength had reached Half-Step Golden Core Spirit Seeding.
• Su Xiuyi stood unharmed as the flames scorched the land around him, leading spies from the myriad races to suspect that he was far stronger than the Fallen Fire Phoenix.
• A Devil Race spy and a False God Race spy speculated that Su Xiuyi might have reached Golden Core Spirit Seeding or be the mysterious power behind the Human Emperor.
• The Fallen Fire Phoenix grew furious at Su Xiuyi’s stillness and unleashed his true word, “Fire.”
• Su Xiuyi uttered “fire,” summoning a Fire Spirit Character that made the Fallen Fire Phoenix’s flames part before they could touch him.

Su Xiuyi overwhelmed and killed the Fallen Fire Phoenix with a single sword strike, then left the surviving spies to carry a warning to their races. His display of power drove the myriad races’ observers to flee the Human Realm.

• Su Xiuyi made the Fallen Fire Phoenix’s flames form a fire phoenix that bowed to him and rose at his command.
• Su Xiuyi drew his sword, declared that he would slay a demon, and cleaved the Fallen Fire Phoenix in two.
• Su Xiuyi gathered the Fallen Fire Phoenix’s corpse and essence blood, then took the fire phoenix flame and vanished.
• The surviving spies collapsed in fear, while the Devil Race and False God Race experts fled the Human Realm.

Su Xiuyi killed the Fallen Fire Phoenix with one sword strike, ending the threat to the Human Race and driving the Blood Demons far from the border. Su Yun celebrated the victory, then asked Wu Yu to command a new elite force loyal only to him.

• The Blood Demons trembled after Su Xiuyi's sword strike and retreated from the border, while the human army reported that the Fallen Fire Phoenix had been slain.
• Su Yun received the news through his jade talisman and realized that the Sacred Emperor's son had resolved the Human Race's external threat.
• Su Yun announced that the imperial capital's curfew would be lifted to celebrate the Fallen Fire Phoenix's death and dismissed the court.
• After the ministers left, Su Yun told Wu Yu he wanted to establish an elite force loyal only to him and asked Wu Yu to command it.

Su Xiuyi obtained the Immortal Sword of Rain after defeating a demon king, while Su Yun built up the Night Watchers during ten years of peace. The chapter ended as Wu Yu warned that the False God Race was preparing to attack and Su Yun revealed that the fifty Saint Realm experts sent to stop them had all been killed.

• Su Yun named his elite force the Night Watchers and thanked Su Xiuyi for protecting the Human Realm.
• Qian Dafu told Su Xiuyi that he had killed the Fallen Fire Phoenix with one sword strike, driving the border races into hiding.
• Su Xiuyi defeated a demon king in the Demon God Grotto-Heaven and checked in to obtain the Immortal Sword of Rain.
• Over ten years, Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi recovered, the Human Realm grew unstable, and Su Yun’s Night Watchers grew to five hundred Sages.
• Wu Yu reported that the False God Race was leading an attack, and Su Yun revealed that the fifty Saint Realm experts he had sent to stop them had all fallen.

Su Yun learned that a vast alliance led by the Devil Race had silently destroyed the fifty Saint Realm experts he sent out, leaving the Human Race in grave danger. He ordered the Night Watchers back to the capital and wondered whether Su Xiuyi would intervene, while a Shadow Race presence appeared at a banquet in Southern Heaven City.

• Wu Yu was horrified to learn that all fifty of Su Yun's dispatched Saint Realm experts had vanished without a trace.
• Su Yun explained that the myriad races had united under the Devil Race and admitted the Human Race could not face the alliance alone.
• Wu Yu urged Su Yun to ask Su Xiuyi for help, but Su Yun rebuked him for pressuring the mysterious senior and ordered the Night Watchers back to the capital.
• After Wu Yu left, Su Yun wondered whether Su Xiuyi would act to save the Human Race from annihilation.
• During a banquet in Southern Heaven City's city lord residence, the city lord saw a giant shadow outside and recognized it as a member of the Shadow Race.

A Shadow Race expert slaughtered the city lord's mansion experts in Southern Heaven City by severing their shadows and absorbing them. He then headed for Myriad Text Academy, where Su Xiuyi sensed his approach and opened his eyes with killing intent.

• The city lord's mansion experts attacked the Shadow Race expert, but their wounds healed as he took human form and revealed illusory scissors.
• A Saint Realm expert urged everyone to flee, and the Shadow Race expert pursued them while enlarging his body and immobilizing the fugitives.
• The Shadow Race expert severed the fugitives' shadows with his scissors, killing them, then absorbed their struggling shadows into his chest.
• The Shadow Race expert declared that devouring Southern Heaven City's cultivators would raise his strength and flew toward Myriad Text Academy.
• Su Xiuyi opened his eyes in the academy's underground palace and sensed the approaching threat.

Su Xiuyi used divination to discover a Shadow Race expert approaching Southern Heaven City and learned that the stranger’s ability to devour shadows could eventually threaten him. He killed the expert with the Light Spirit Character, took the Shadow Spirit Character, and disappeared without anyone noticing.

• Su Xiuyi divined that a Shadow Race expert was slaughtering martial artists near Southern Heaven City and had come for him.
• Su Xiuyi took Blood Dog to Southern Heaven Academy and waited for the expert to arrive.
• The Shadow Race expert devoured nearby shadows to increase his strength, and Su Xiuyi realized this strange ability had triggered his Calamity Spirit Character.
• The expert tried to seize Su Xiuyi’s shadow, but Su Xiuyi repelled him and destroyed him with the Light Spirit Character.
• Su Xiuyi took the Shadow Spirit Character and vanished from Southern Heaven Academy unnoticed.

Su Xiuyi gave the Shadow Spirit Character to Blood Dog and considered why the Shadow Race expert had targeted the Myriad Text Academy. Meanwhile, the myriad races launched their plan to conquer the Ten Thousand Sects Territory, leaving the Heavenly Dao Palace under attack by Great Devil King Antian.

• Su Xiuyi found no use for the Shadow Spirit Character, so he gave it to Blood Dog and resumed cultivating.
• Su Xiuyi wondered whether the Shadow Race expert had come to the Myriad Text Academy for a hidden secret, then resolved to focus on growing stronger.
• A Devil Race expert persuaded the gathered leaders of the myriad races to attack the Ten Thousand Sects Territory and prepare to eliminate the Nine Netherworlds Hall's mysterious hall master.
• The myriad races surrounded the Heavenly Dao Palace, whose palace master, Luo Tiandao, ordered the elders and core disciples to escape while he fought to hold off the attackers.
• Great Devil King Antian appeared, and Luo Tiandao and the Heavenly Dao Palace's cultivators, realizing they could not escape, fought back with everything they had.

The myriad races destroyed the Heavenly Dao Palace and attacked the Ten Thousand Sects Territory, while Great Devil King Antian defeated Luo Tiandao’s final attack. After Tie Ling warned Su Xiuyi, he prepared to intervene, and Su Yun ordered the Great Zhou Dynasty to mobilize for war and retaliate against the invading races.

• The Heavenly Dao Palace’s Saint Realm experts fought to the death and self-destructed, killing more than twenty experts of the myriad races, but Great Devil King Antian gravely wounded Luo Tiandao.
• Luo Tiandao sacrificed himself to unleash the Sword of Heavenly Dao, but Great Devil King Antian suppressed it with Dark Heaven and ordered the myriad races to destroy the Ten Thousand Sects Territory’s factions.
• Tie Ling received reports that the Heavenly Dao Palace, Divine Movement Palace, and Heavenly Fire Sect had been destroyed, then sent Su Xiuyi a message asking him to intervene.
• Su Xiuyi learned of the invasion while cultivating in the Myriad Text Academy and vanished, deciding that he could not remain indifferent as a human.
• Su Yun ordered the Night Watchmen to execute ministers who failed to attend the Golden Throne Hall, then issued orders to mobilize the border armies and annihilate ten races involved in the attack.

Su Yun ordered the execution of officials who defied the Holy War Decree and sent Saint Realm experts to defend the Human Race. As the myriad races overwhelmed Nine Netherworlds Hall, Su Xiuyi appeared and killed two powerful attackers with sword light.

• Su Yun had the heads of officials and nobles who defied the Holy War Decree displayed at the city gate, then dispatched experts toward the Ten Thousand Sects Territory and the border.
• Tie Ling ordered Nine Netherworlds Hall’s surviving branches to gather in Nine Netherworlds City after nearly twenty branches were destroyed.
• The myriad races surrounded Nine Netherworlds City with overwhelming forces, and Tie Ling reassured the elders that Su Xiuyi would come.
• A black devil dragon and a blood-red bat mocked Su Xiuyi, but he answered from the sky and killed them both with sword light.
• Su Xiuyi emerged amid countless swords as the Nine Netherworlds Hall experts knelt and hailed their hall master.

Su Xiuyi confronted Great Devil King Antian and annihilated more than three hundred experts of the myriad races with one sword strike. He then approached Antian and offered him a chance to leave if he survived a single strike.

• Great Devil King Antian appeared before Su Xiuyi and taunted him, while Su Xiuyi judged Antian's strength with his Pupil of Void Breaking.
• The experts of the myriad races charged at Su Xiuyi, and he told Tie Ling to watch and learn as he summoned the Immortal Sword of Rain.
• Su Xiuyi unleashed sword rain that killed all the attackers, including more than three hundred Saint Realm experts, and stunned the Nine Netherworlds Hall and the Great Zhou Imperial Clan.
• Su Xiuyi walked toward the shaken Great Devil King Antian and told him to take one sword strike, promising he could leave if he survived.

Su Xiuyi revealed that he had reached Golden Core Spirit Seeding and defeated Great Devil King Antian’s strongest attacks. As Antian fled, Su Xiuyi struck him through the heart with his sword, while the people of Nine Netherworlds City and the Great Zhou Imperial Clan watched.

• Great Devil King Antian challenged Su Xiuyi and unleashed his Holy Devil Blade, but Su Xiuyi immobilized it and burned it away with his Golden Core fire spirit.
• Antian recognized that Su Xiuyi had reached Golden Core Spirit Seeding, bringing relief and excitement to Nine Netherworlds City and the Great Zhou Imperial Clan.
• Antian unleashed Antian Descends, and Su Xiuyi signed in to obtain a fragment of a Grotto-Heaven’s world as the dark vortex swallowed him.
• Su Xiuyi’s sword light purified the vortex and shattered Antian’s Spirit Characters, forcing Antian to flee while Su Xiuyi told Tie Ling to watch his sword strike.
• Su Xiuyi’s sword crossed ten thousand li and pierced Great Devil King Antian’s heart.

Su Xiuyi killed Great Devil King Antian with a distant sword strike, then defeated and killed an Immortal Race expert who had threatened him, taking two drops of his essence blood. As the Human Race retaliated against the invading minor races, Su Xiuyi prepared to study the bloodline and break through during the coming second revival.

• Su Xiuyi killed Great Devil King Antian from ten thousand miles away, ending the assault on Nine Netherworlds City.
• Su Xiuyi found an Immortal Race expert hiding nearby, immobilized him, and killed him after learning of his powerful life-force bloodline.
• Su Xiuyi left the corpse for the Night Watchers and gave Su Yun word that he would intervene if the Immortal Race attacked.
• Su Yun learned of the Immortal Race expert's death and welcomed the corpse and remaining essence blood as resources for the Great Zhou Imperial Clan.
• The Human Race annihilated the ten minor races that had joined the invasion, while a hidden great demon postponed seeking out Su Xiuyi.
• Su Xiuyi told Blood Dog he planned to attempt a breakthrough during the world's second revival, then examined a drop of the Immortal Race essence blood.

Su Xiuyi obtained the Immortal Race’s Vitality Spiritual Root, purged the chaotic energies from his body, and gave Blood Dog the essence blood he had been eyeing. As he awaited the second revival of heaven and earth, he learned that Tie Ling would build her residence near the Myriad Text Academy and continued suppressing demons in the Demon God Grotto-Heaven.

• Su Xiuyi signed in after detecting the False Immortal bloodline and obtained the Vitality Spiritual Root, which transformed his body and expelled its ill and death Qi through the Heaven-Piercing Aperture.
• Blood Dog secretly licked the Immortal Race’s essence blood, then accepted Su Xiuyi’s gift of the drop and fell asleep to digest its power; Su Xiuyi saved the remaining drop for Tie Ling.
• Su Xiuyi heard that Tie Ling, granted the title Palace Master Zhao, would build her residence near the Myriad Text Academy, and he worried that the Great Zhou Dynasty would struggle to hold its territory after the second revival.
• Su Xiuyi returned to the Myriad Text Academy, cultivated overnight, and entered the Demon God Grotto-Heaven the next day.
• Su Xiuyi suppressed another great demon and waited in the grotto-heaven to sign in.

Su Xiuyi tested the Azure Dragon Void-Splitting Claw, then used divination to locate the Desolation Temple as it emerged near his chosen cultivation site. He cursed the temple’s Lord of Desolation, and the sky filled with thunderclouds.

• Su Xiuyi obtained and tested the Azure Dragon Void-Splitting Claw, crushing a mountain in the Demon God Grotto-Heaven before leaving.
• Su Xiuyi returned to the Myriad Text Academy, divined that the second resurgence of Spiritual Qi would occur in three days, and moved to a barren mountain range to prepare for his breakthrough.
• On the third day, Su Xiuyi detected the imperial family's Night Watchers and deduced that the Primordial Wilderness Temple was about to emerge nearby.
• The Desolation Temple surfaced from beneath the earth, and Su Xiuyi sensed its evil presence and a powerful Lord of Desolation within it.
• Su Xiuyi used the Capture and Curse Spirit Characters to seize the Lord of Desolation's presence and curse him, causing thunderclouds to gather overhead.

Su Xiuyi cursed the Lord of Desolation, causing heavenly punishment to kill him, then obtained the Desolation Spirit Character from the Ding of Desolation. He used his Spirit Characters to endure the Great Tribulation of Wind and Fire, emerged transformed, and sensed that many powerful beings had been unsealed across the Human Realm.

• Su Xiuyi used the power of Curse against the Lord of the Desolation Divine Temple, whose temple was shattered and who fled heavenly punishment before Su Xiuyi destroyed his Sea of Will with the Blood Dragon Needle.
• Su Xiuyi claimed the Ding of Desolation and signed in before it, receiving the ancient Spirit Character 'Desolation,' which let him absorb vitality without backlash.
• Su Xiuyi waited for the rain, absorbed the Spiritual Qi it awakened, and transformed his golden core as heavenly fire burned his willpower.
• Su Xiuyi used 'Concealment,' 'Deception,' and 'Deceit' to dull his pain, then used more Spirit Characters to sleep through the black wind dragon as his body regenerated.
• Su Xiuyi completed the Great Tribulation of Wind and Fire and sensed that powerful beings had been unsealed across the Human Realm.

Su Yun learned that the Great Shang Imperial Clan had awakened and decided to move the Great Zhou capital to the Southern Region, where its guardian deity resided. As Su Xiuyi sensed a calamity looming over the imperial clan, he resolved to travel to the imperial capital.

• Su Yun summoned his ministers with the Holy War Decree and asked Zhou Yunlong whether Su Xiuyi could protect the Great Zhou.
• Su Yun told the imperial tutor that the Great Shang had awakened in Shang Commandery and decided to move the capital to the Southern Region.
• Su Yun entered the imperial clan’s forbidden grounds, saying he would do whatever was necessary to secure the dynasty’s future.
• Su Yun announced the move to the ministers, who protested, but he insisted they discuss only the arrangements.
• Su Xiuyi sensed that the imperial clan’s fortune had split and black clouds hung over the capital, so he decided to go there.

Great Shang forces invaded the imperial capital and drove Su Yun and the Great Zhou survivors to flee toward the Southern Region. Su Xiuyi intercepted the pursuing old Daoist and Snow Dragon Eagle, then faced the Daoist’s attack.

• A wounded Night Watcher warned Su Yun that Great Shang had uncovered their bases and begun killing them, so Su Yun ordered the empress and princes evacuated.
• Great Shang demons attacked the imperial city, killed a newly advanced Golden Core Spirit Seeding powerhouse, and began slaughtering Great Zhou’s defenders.
• Su Yun led the survivors toward the Southern Region while great scholars sacrificed themselves to delay the old Daoist and the Snow Dragon Eagle.
• Su Xiuyi appeared and told Su Yun to leave, then confronted the pursuing pair as the old Daoist launched a Spirit Character Combat Technique at him.