Chapter Summaries

Su Xiuyi killed the old Daoist and Snow Dragon Eagle, then set his white robe as a boundary to keep intruders from Great Zhou. When Saber Saint Xue Kuang and the Great Shang forces crossed it, Su Xiuyi’s Immortal Sword of Rain trapped them in a sword domain and began slaughtering them.

• Su Xiuyi immobilized the old Daoist and Snow Dragon Eagle, destroyed them, and warned the gathered pursuers that anyone crossing his boundary would be killed.
• Su Xiuyi hung his white robe on a stone pillar and left, while Saber Saint Xue Kuang arrived and challenged his warning.
• Xue Kuang crossed the robe unharmed and demanded territory in Great Zhou, prompting the Great Shang forces to follow him across the boundary.
• Su Xiuyi sent the Immortal Sword of Rain back to the robe, where its Sword Domain of Rain trapped Xue Kuang and the Great Shang forces and pierced their bodies with sword rain.
• The Great Shang sword immortal invoked Ten Thousand Swords Mountain to beg for mercy, while Xue Kuang pleaded to leave; Su Xiuyi’s voice dismissed the threat of the sect.

Su Xiuyi killed the intruders at Great Zhou’s boundary and used a white robe to deter Great Shang from crossing. After reassuring Su Yun that he would intervene if needed, Su Xiuyi acknowledged the karmic burden of his imperial bloodline.

• Su Xiuyi’s Spirit Character avatar killed the sword immortal and destroyed Saber Saint Xue Kuang’s Sea of Will after the two crossed Great Zhou’s boundary.
• Su Xiuyi declared that anyone entering Great Zhou must bow to the white robe and walk, and Great Shang’s experts withdrew to Shang Commandery.
• Di Jing raged over Great Shang’s humiliation, but his ministers persuaded him to wait until their strength recovered before attacking Great Zhou.
• Su Yun learned that Great Zhou’s mysterious expert had defeated Great Shang’s forces and that three scholars had defected to Shang Commandery; he vowed to have them killed.
• Su Xiuyi agreed to meet Su Yun, reassured him that he would step in if necessary, and reflected that his imperial bloodline bound him to its karma.

After two years of uneasy peace, Su Yun faced growing defiance from Great Zhou’s lords and clans and learned that the King of Yan’s forces had destroyed the Night Watchers’ network in his fief. Su Xiuyi predicted that the King of Yan would be the first to rebel, leaving Blood Dog skeptical.

• Su Yun strengthened Great Zhou and rebuilt the Night Watchers while using Su Xiuyi’s reputation to obtain resources from the lords and great clans.
• At the annual tribute ceremony, the Marquis of Qi’s envoy offered meager tribute and claimed disasters had devastated the fief, so Su Yun ordered the Marquis of Qi to attend a grand ceremony one month later.
• Su Yun ordered his ministers to investigate the lords for treason and sent the Night Watchers to uncover Qi Heng’s actions in the Marquis of Qi’s fief.
• Su Yun learned that the King of Yan had tripled his tribute, then discovered that Great Shang might be cooperating with him and that the King of Yan’s forces had nearly wiped out the Night Watchers in his fief.
• Su Xiuyi told Blood Dog that the King of Yan would be the first lord to rebel, and Blood Dog questioned whether he could truly foresee the future.

The King of Yan tried to force Great Zhou to marry Tie Ling to his eighth son, using the threat of rebellion and war. Su Xiuyi intervened after Su Yun and Tie Ling sought his help, and the chapter left him striking back against Great Yan as the King of Yan called on the Divine Fire Sect to kill him.

• Zhou Tong demanded Tie Ling's marriage on the King of Yan's behalf, and Su Yun ordered the envoy boiled alive when he threatened Great Zhou with secession and war.
• The King of Yan declared the founding of Great Yan and spread rumors blaming Su Yun and Tie Ling for the conflict.
• Tie Ling offered to marry into the King of Yan's family to protect Great Zhou, but Su Yun took her to ask Su Xiuyi for help.
• Su Xiuyi promised to handle the threat and went to Jinling City, where he killed the powerhouses occupying it and the other cities seized by Great Yan.
• After hearing that Su Xiuyi had appeared, the King of Yan ordered the Divine Fire Sect to kill him.

Su Xiuyi arrived at the Divine Fire Sect and killed three ancient disciples after they attacked him. The sect elder then unleashed the Heaven-Burning Flame Dragon, while the sect patriarch watched from the forbidden grounds.

• The Yan Emperor ordered the Divine Fire Sect's supreme elder to prepare to attack Great Zhou and dismissed the sect's demands after the elder left.
• Su Xiuyi approached the Divine Fire Sect, and its patriarch sent his nominal disciple to confront him.
• The elder's three triplet disciples attacked Su Xiuyi, but Su Xiuyi immobilized them with the Spirit Character for "Immobilization" and crushed them beneath his step.
• The elder confronted Su Xiuyi and summoned the Heaven-Burning Flame Dragon, surprising the patriarch and drawing the disciples' attention.

Su Xiuyi defeated the Divine Fire Sect elder and revealed power that terrified the sect’s patriarch. The patriarch retreated behind the sect-protecting formation, but Su Xiuyi resolved to destroy it.

• The elder attacked Su Xiuyi with the Heaven-Burning Flame Dragon, but Su Xiuyi stopped its claw with his bare hand.
• The Divine Fire Sect patriarch intervened with the Spirit Character for “Slow,” but Su Xiuyi’s “Collapse” Spirit Character shattered it and killed the elder.
• The patriarch questioned Su Xiuyi about reaching the Great Tribulation of Wind and Fire realm, and Su Xiuyi claimed he was a god.
• The patriarch gathered the disciples and fled behind the sect’s activated grand formation, while Su Xiuyi dismissed it as no obstacle.

Su Xiuyi destroyed the Divine Fire Sect with a single Azure Dragon Void-Splitting Claw and continued toward the Yan Dynasty's imperial capital. There, the Yan Emperor's patriarch confronted him, declaring that Su Xiuyi must submit or die.

• The Divine Fire Sect patriarch retreated behind his sect's formation and revealed that Su Xiuyi had reached the Great Tribulation of Wind and Fire, but Su Xiuyi refused his offer of alliance and vowed to destroy the sect.
• Su Xiuyi summoned the Azure Dragon Void-Splitting Claw, shattered the Divine Fire Sect's formation and mountain stronghold, and killed everyone as the collapsing space swallowed them.
• The Yan Emperor learned of the Divine Fire Sect's destruction, berated its grand elder, and summoned the Yan Dynasty's patriarch for protection.
• Su Xiuyi traveled toward Yan Imperial City as observers followed from afar, and the Yan Emperor and the Divine Fire Sect's grand elder waited with their patriarch atop the city wall.
• The Yan Dynasty's patriarch revealed his Half-Step Great Tribulation of Wind and Fire cultivation, demanded that Su Xiuyi submit or die, and summoned an ancient sword case while boasting of his invincible sword.

Su Xiuyi refused the Yan Dynasty patriarch’s demand to submit and faced the three thousand sword cultivators unleashed from his sword case. After Su Xiuyi’s Undying Golden Body withstood their attack, the patriarch launched the Tyrant Sword Art, and Su Xiuyi prepared to answer with a sword strike of his own.

• The Yan Dynasty patriarch demanded that Su Xiuyi submit, but Su Xiuyi mocked his confidence and refused.
• The patriarch opened his sword case, revealing three thousand Primary Spirit Characters that became sword cultivators and surrounded Su Xiuyi.
• Su Xiuyi invited the patriarch to attack, and the three thousand sword cultivators unleashed their combined sword intent.
• Su Xiuyi activated the Undying Golden Body and blocked the attack without injury, shocking the onlookers and unsettling the Yan Emperor.
• The patriarch invoked the Tyrant Sword Art, and Su Xiuyi said he would counter with a sword strike of his own.

Su Xiuyi challenged the Yan Dynasty's ancestor to a sword-strike duel, and the ancestor unleashed the Heaven-Dominating Sword Sect's Great Dominating Sword Technique. Su Xiuyi summoned the river into a colossal sword, and the ancestor attacked as the two strikes were about to clash.

• Su Xiuyi refused to rely on his flesh and insisted on matching the Yan Dynasty's ancestor's sword strike.
• The Yan Dynasty's ancestor burned his willpower and combined three thousand Spirit Characters to activate the Great Dominating Sword Technique.
• The ancestor summoned tens of thousands of swords from sword cultivators across the Yan Dynasty.
• Su Xiuyi called for his sword, drawing the river around the imperial capital into a giant sword that hovered behind him.
• The Yan Dynasty's ancestor roared "Kill!" and attacked Su Xiuyi.

Su Xiuyi defeated and killed the Yan Dynasty's patriarch, then killed the Yan Emperor when he attacked. After declaring that anyone who invaded Great Zhou would die, Su Xiuyi returned to Southern Heaven City, while Su Yun planned to use his deterrence to weaken the feudal lords and great families.

• Su Xiuyi shattered the Yan patriarch's sword attack and killed him with a single strike.
• The Yan Emperor charged at Su Xiuyi in rage, and Su Xiuyi killed him with a flash of sword light.
• Su Xiuyi checked in and received the Heaven-Dominating Sword Sect's Tyrant Sword Art.
• Su Xiuyi warned that anyone who invaded Great Zhou would be killed and challenged them to come to the imperial capital.
• Su Xiuyi returned to Southern Heaven City, and Su Yun declared that he would strip the feudal lords of their positions and weaken the great families.

Su Yun planned to strip the feudal lords and great clans of their power, and Tie Ling offered to support him. Su Xiuyi then summoned Tie Ling, gave her the Yan Dynasty patriarch’s sword case and other gifts, and passed on the Tyrant Sword Art as the world’s recovery made the future increasingly dangerous.

• Su Yun revealed his plan to weaken the feudal lords and great clans, and Tie Ling pledged the support of her forces.
• Blood Dog brought Tie Ling to Su Xiuyi at the Myriad Text Academy, where she told him what Su Yun intended to do.
• Su Xiuyi gave Tie Ling the sword case that had belonged to the Yan Dynasty patriarch and a ring containing cultivation treasures.
• Su Xiuyi passed the Tyrant Sword Art, the Heaven-Dominating Sword Sect’s supreme inheritance, to Tie Ling and sent her back.
• Su Xiuyi told Blood Dog that Tie Ling needed the sword case and that Great Zhou faced growing dangers as heaven and earth recovered.

Su Yun executed the King of Qi and moved to curb the vassal lords by establishing Martial Halls, but the vassal kings allied against him and attacked his network across the land. The chapter leaves Su Yun facing an imminent assassination plot backed by Demon God Mountain, with Great Zhou’s survival in doubt.

• Tie Ling received Su Xiuyi’s spatial ring, found it filled with divine treasures, and entered seclusion to advance her cultivation.
• Su Yun received evidence that Qi Heng had plotted with Great Shang, then ordered the King of Qi executed and his family exterminated.
• The ten most powerful vassal kings formed an alliance, vowed to destroy Martial Halls and Night Watchers, and planned to use agents of the evil path against Su Yun’s forces.
• Su Yun discovered that the vassal kings had destroyed Martial Halls and Night Watcher posts across the land, leaving him unable to control them.
• A Night Watcher reported that the ten vassal lords had allied with Demon God Mountain and planned to assassinate Su Yun while its awakened beast held back Great Zhou’s protector.
• Su Yun resolved to seek help from the Sacred Emperor’s Crown Prince.

Su Yun sought Su Xiuyi’s help against the looming crisis, but Blood Dog relayed Su Xiuyi’s warning that the emperor had to face it himself and revealed that Su Xiuyi knew about his life-draining evil art. Meanwhile, Su Xiuyi gained Heavenly Dao Fortune, and as the ten vassal kings’ threat reached the capital, the Nine Netherworlds Ghost-Eyed Ox departed to hold Su Xiuyi back.

• Su Yun visited the Myriad Text Academy, where Blood Dog told him that Su Xiuyi expected him to handle Great Zhou’s crisis and warned him against cultivating an evil art that consumed his vitality.
• Su Yun left awed by Su Xiuyi’s knowledge of his secret cultivation and the coming alliance between the vassal kings and demons.
• Su Xiuyi suppressed a great demon in the Demon God Grotto-Heaven, signed in, and obtained a wisp of Heavenly Dao Fortune.
• The injured Lion King vowed revenge on Su Xiuyi and the Great Zhou Imperial Clan as the other demons urged him to wait until he escaped.
• Su Xiuyi returned to the Myriad Text Academy, reassured Blood Dog about the crisis and his slow cultivation, while the Nine Netherworlds Ghost-Eyed Ox left to hold Su Xiuyi back.
• As the ten vassal kings threatened to take Su Yun’s head, Su Yun waited in the Hall of Bright Virtue while arrogant voices rang around the imperial capital.

Su Xiuyi killed the Nine Netherworlds Ghost-Eyed Ox to clear the way to the Hall of Bright Virtue, while Su Yun revealed his hidden strength and killed the Song Clan patriarch. Su Xiuyi arrived above the hall as the surviving attackers faced the collapse of their plan.

• Ten powerful figures declared their wager to kill Su Yun, summoned the Nine Netherworlds Ghost-Eyed Ox, and charged toward the Hall of Bright Virtue.
• Su Xiuyi confronted the Nine Netherworlds Ghost-Eyed Ox, suppressed his cultivation with the Demon-Suppressing Art, and killed him with one finger.
• Su Xiuyi hurried toward the Hall of Bright Virtue as Tie Ling and several Confucian scholars fought the attackers inside.
• The Song Clan patriarch appeared from the shadows and tried to stab Su Yun, but Su Yun used his Dark Spirit Character to evade the strike and pierced the patriarch's skull with the Son of Heaven Sword.
• Su Yun's power was revealed as peak Golden Core Spirit Seeding, and Su Xiuyi arrived above the hall while the remaining powerful beings looked on in alarm.

Su Xiuyi confronted the ancient experts who had entered the imperial capital to challenge the Zhou dynasty and decisively defeated them. He transformed them into horses and announced that he would go after every lord under heaven.

• The ancient experts mocked Su Xiuyi and demanded that he kneel, while Su Yun realized they had provoked him beyond forgiveness.
• Chu Nan attacked Su Xiuyi with the Heaven-Suppressing Seal, but Su Xiuyi shattered the treasure with one finger.
• The experts tried to flee, but Su Xiuyi reversed time and returned them to their original positions.
• Su Xiuyi crippled the experts with sword lights and transformed them into horses.
• Su Xiuyi told Su Yun to prepare a carriage and declared that he would slay every lord under heaven.

Su Xiuyi crushed the lords’ rebellion, helped Su Yun seize the chance to strengthen Great Zhou, and then withdrew to the Demon God Grotto-Heaven to cultivate for ten years. Su Yun began planning how to make the ancient sects clash, while Su Xiuyi promised the imprisoned demons they would be released after his decade of training.

• Su Xiuyi turned the lords’ supreme experts into horses and drove Su Yun’s imperial carriage as he set out to destroy the lords’ forces.
• Su Yun ordered his followers to execute officials and families colluding with the lords, and gave Princess Zhao command of Great Zhou’s ten million soldiers to wipe out the remaining forces.
• Su Xiuyi destroyed the King of Chu’s lineage, and the lords’ forces across Great Zhou were eliminated; the sects and Great Shang’s army withdrew in fear.
• Su Xiuyi told Tie Ling that he would leave worldly affairs to Su Yun for ten years and go to the Demon God Grotto-Heaven to pursue the Perfected Saint Realm.
• Su Yun resolved to make the ancient sects fight over their Daos, while Su Xiuyi settled in the Demon God Grotto-Heaven and told the demons he would spar with them daily before releasing them in ten years.

After five years of cultivation, Su Xiuyi gained another wisp of Heavenly Dao Fortune while Blood Dog grew stronger by devouring demons. As Great Zhou faced the return of ancient powers, Su Yun countered a threat from the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion by ordering Vajra Temple to destroy it in exchange for the promise of becoming the state religion.

• Su Xiuyi suppressed a powerful great demon, letting Blood Dog devour its essence blood and advance to the Half-Step Great Tribulation of Wind and Fire.
• Su Xiuyi received a second wisp of Heavenly Dao Fortune and reflected that he planned to reach the Grotto-Heaven Realm before releasing the demons in five years.
• Su Yun learned that Spiritual Qi had grown ten times denser and ancient experts and sects were returning as Su Xiuyi's deterrent weakened.
• Su Yun heard that the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion had predicted Great Zhou's fall within five years and decided to have Vajra Temple confront it rather than risk Great Zhou's forces.
• Vajra Temple's abbot accepted Su Yun's decree, and Monk Mingzhi departed for Shu to destroy the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion.

Su Xiuyi defied heaven, changed his fate, and stabilized his Grotto-Heaven, reaching the Grotto-Heaven Realm. He returned to the Demon God Grotto-Heaven and crushed a great demon’s attack, revealing that he had become powerful enough to keep the demons in check.

• Su Yun used the Buddhist and Daoist factions’ dispute over Vajra Temple’s status as Great Zhou’s state religion to ease pressure on the dynasty, and ordered agents to intensify the conflict while guarding the borders.
• After more than six years of signing in, Su Xiuyi calculated that Great Zhou was stable and chose a thunderstorm to conceal the signs of his breakthrough.
• Su Xiuyi released his suppressed fate, severed the Heavenly Dao’s lightning-wreathed hand with his nurtured sword, and devoured the severed arm’s power to accelerate his transformation.
• Su Xiuyi refined three Grotto-Heaven fragments and stabilized his Grotto-Heaven, while Su Yun sensed that Great Zhou’s golden dragon of fortune had grown stronger.
• Su Xiuyi returned to the Demon God Grotto-Heaven, where Blood Dog welcomed him, and went to the third level to face a great demon who had secretly gathered the others’ essence.
• Su Xiuyi shattered the great demon’s beast-claw attack with one punch, revealing his Grotto-Heaven Realm strength and leaving the demons prostrate in fear.

After Su Xiuyi refined a Grotto-Heaven fragment and continued his seclusion, the Supreme One Sect forced Great Zhou to submit, then demanded the crown prince as a hostage. Su Yun declared war, and the sect sent Song Weiyi toward the imperial capital to kill him.

• Su Xiuyi signed in for a Grotto-Heaven fragment, refined it into his Grotto-Heaven, and realized he could open a second one.
• Blood Dog fell into a deep sleep after devouring half the great demon's essence blood, while Su Xiuyi remained in seclusion.
• Su Yun learned that the Supreme One Sect had subdued Vajra Temple, demanded tribute from Great Zhou, and claimed authority over the Daoist sects.
• After receiving the sect's demand that the crown prince go to its mountain to cultivate, Su Yun revoked its state-religion title and declared war.
• The Supreme One Sect announced that Song Weiyi would kill Su Yun and choose a new emperor, then sent him toward the imperial capital on a decorated spirit boat.

Su Yun learned that Song Weiyi was a terrifying swordsman and sent Su Shuo to test his strength rather than disturb Su Xiuyi’s seclusion. Song Weiyi killed Su Shuo with a chopstick, leaving the watching experts shaken by the threat he posed to Great Zhou.

• Su Yun heard the old eunuch’s account of Song Weiyi’s lineage, swordsmanship, and strength, and grew alarmed for Great Zhou.
• Su Shuo volunteered to challenge Song Weiyi, and Su Yun reluctantly let him go while ordering attendants and Night Watchers to observe the fight.
• Su Shuo confronted Song Weiyi near the Subduing Dragon Mountain Range, but Song Weiyi dismissed him and disrupted his control of Dharma Power with his voice.
• Su Shuo attacked the spirit boat with a golden war hammer, and Song Weiyi shattered it with a chopstick before killing Su Shuo with the same chopstick.
• The hidden observers saw Su Shuo fall and realized Song Weiyi could kill a Great Tribulation of Wind and Fire expert with ease.