Chapter Summaries

Song Weiyi killed Su Shuo with a single chopstick, terrifying Great Zhou’s watchers and the factions observing his journey. After hearing the report, Su Yun refused to send Tie Ling or disturb Su Xiuyi and vowed to face Song Weiyi himself in the imperial city.

• Song Weiyi killed Su Shuo by shattering his Golden Warhammer technique and piercing his forehead with a chopstick, while remaining aboard his spirit boat.
• Great Zhou’s attendants and the nearby factions retreated in fear as Song Weiyi continued toward the imperial capital.
• Su Yun learned that Su Shuo had died without managing to test Song Weiyi’s strength and feared the Supreme One Sect disciple could overwhelm Great Zhou.
• Tie Ling offered to confront Song Weiyi, but Su Yun refused to risk his final trump card.
• Su Yun chose not to disturb Su Xiuyi’s secluded cultivation and vowed to take Song Weiyi’s head himself, hinting that his secret preparations were ready.

Su Yun revealed his power, purged officials and a clan member who had colluded with the Supreme One Sect, and led Great Zhou’s forces outside the imperial capital to face Song Weiyi. Song Weiyi arrived confident in his victory, unaware that Su Yun had prepared to fight him personally.

• Officials, scholars, imperial relatives, and experts begged Su Yun not to fight Song Weiyi, but Su Yun declared that he would defend Great Zhou himself and unleashed his terrifying power.
• Su Yun ordered the execution of officials who had secretly sided with the Supreme One Sect, and his forces killed those who tried to flee.
• An imperial relative brought Su Jin’s severed head to the hall, and Su Yun led the officials and imperial relatives out to confront Song Weiyi.
• Outside the imperial capital, Su Yun pushed his cultivation to its peak without concealing his strength.
• Song Weiyi arrived aboard the Supreme One Sect’s spirit boat with ninety-nine flower-scattering boys and girls, then declared that no one could stop him.

Song Weiyi’s spirit boat approached the Great Zhou Imperial City, where Tie Ling destroyed it with the Tyrant Sword Art. Su Yun demanded that Song Weiyi kneel, and Song Weiyi answered with rising hostility as the chapter ended on Su Yun’s repeated challenge.

• Song Weiyi approached the Great Zhou Imperial City in his spirit boat and dismissed the Great Zhou Dynasty as insignificant.
• Tie Ling unleashed the Tyrant Sword Art, destroyed the spirit boat, and forced Song Weiyi to withdraw his Spirit Characters.
• Song Weiyi’s soul domain pressured Tie Ling, but Su Yun’s presence neutralized it and freed her.
• Su Yun offered to spare Song Weiyi if he knelt and begged forgiveness, but Song Weiyi rejected the demand and raised his sword lights.
• Su Yun asked Song Weiyi, “Kneel or not?”

Su Yun faced Song Weiyi, a powerful heaven's chosen from the ancient era, and suppressed his signature sword technique with the Gate of Hell. As Song Weiyi prepared to continue fighting, an elder of the imperial clan turned pale.

• Song Weiyi unleashed his domain and revealed that he had reached Half-Step Defying Heaven and Changing Fate.
• Su Yun told Song Weiyi that even Great Zhou's guardian could not let him set foot in the imperial capital.
• Song Weiyi attacked Su Yun with Blazing Sun Demon Slaying, his famed Spirit Character Combat Technique.
• Su Yun opened the Gate of Hell and swallowed Song Weiyi's Blazing Sun Sword.
• Su Yun dismissed the technique as too weak, and Song Weiyi unleashed an even more terrifying presence.
• While the people in the imperial city celebrated Su Yun's strength, an imperial clan elder turned pale.

Su Yun confronted Song Weiyi, whose Supreme One Sect threatened the Great Zhou Dynasty, and revealed his strength came from the incomplete Primordial Devil Scripture. Su Yun killed Song Weiyi with the scripture’s devilish power, but concealed his own injury as he faced the danger of the Supreme One Sect’s response.

• An elder of the Great Zhou Imperial Clan recognized that Su Yun had cultivated the incomplete Primordial Devil Scripture, which consumed his lifespan.
• Song Weiyi boasted of the Supreme One Sect’s strength, while Su Yun condemned its oppression and vowed to defend the Great Zhou Dynasty and its people.
• Song Weiyi unleashed the Life-Slaying Sword, and Su Xiuyi sensed Su Yun drawing on the power of providence but chose to trust his contingency plan.
• Su Yun used providence to empower his devilish figure, which shattered and devoured Song Weiyi’s sword technique before killing him with a blade through the brow.
• Su Yun was injured in the clash but hid his condition so the Supreme One Sect would not attack before he could recover.

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.