Chapter Summaries

Su Xiuyi mastered the White Bone Heaven-Sealing Sword Array and used the arrival of the Spiritual Qi Tide to break through to the Layered Tower Second Heaven. As ancient powers awakened and a fiend tried to seize his body, the Dao Character in Su Xiuyi’s Sea of Will destroyed it and absorbed its essence.

• Su Xiuyi signed in at the White Bone Sword Sage’s tomb and obtained the White Bone Heaven-Sealing Sword Array, which he mastered after returning to the Myriad Text Academy.
• Su Xiuyi, the Ten Thousand Devils Hall scholar, the Great Shang ancestor, and the Vajra Temple’s holy monk prepared for the Spiritual Qi Tide and the conflicts it would bring.
• The Spiritual Qi Tide arrived, awakening ancient experts, ghosts, and fiends across the world.
• Su Xiuyi absorbed the tide’s Spiritual Qi and his stored Layered Tower essence blood, breaking through to the Layered Tower Second Heaven with help from his Life Spirit Character.
• A Layered Tower Realm fiend attacked Su Xiuyi and entered his Sea of Will, but the Dao Character vaporized it and its will essence strengthened Su Xiuyi’s Spirit Characters.

Su Xiuyi erased a demon that invaded his Sea of Will and later killed Vajra Temple’s Layered Tower Realm ancestor with the White Bone Heaven-Sealing Sword Array. As Great Shang advanced against Great Zhou and its two Layered Tower experts watched warily, Su Xiuyi claimed that no one could defeat him for now.

• Su Xiuyi’s Dao Will Character erased the demon’s invading will, and he raised the array’s power before continuing to master his new strength.
• The Great Shang Emperor ordered an invasion of Great Zhou, and Great Shang seized a fifth of its territory.
• Vajra Temple’s abbot and ancestor appeared over the imperial capital and demanded that Su Yun pay respects to the Buddha.
• Su Xiuyi sent thirty-six bone swords to trap and kill Vajra Temple’s ancestor, then killed the temple’s other experts as well.
• Su Yun ordered his guards to destroy Vajra Temple, while Great Shang’s ancestor and another Layered Tower expert discussed joining forces.
• Blood Dog asked whether Su Xiuyi was invincible, and Su Xiuyi said no one could defeat him for now.

Di Yi gathered the Blood Blade King and the Ice and Snow Ancestor to attack the Great Zhou Dynasty’s mysterious guardian, while Su Xiuyi gained the Ancient Demon Sword and advanced to the Third Heaven of the Layered Tower. The Great Shang forces arrived at the Great Zhou capital, and the guardian finally appeared to confront them.

• Di Yi invited the Blood Blade King and the Ice and Snow Ancestor to join him in killing the Great Zhou Dynasty’s guardian, and they brought the Demon-Slaying Sword and Ice and Snow Staff.
• Su Xiuyi checked in at the ancient tomb, obtained the Ancient Demon Sword, and raised his cultivation to the Third Heaven of the Layered Tower.
• Di Yi led three Layered Tower Realm experts and a vast army of Grotto-Heaven Realm experts to the Great Zhou imperial capital.
• Su Yun let officials who feared death leave, then led the remaining loyalists out to face the Great Shang forces.
• Di Yi demanded that the mysterious guardian show himself, and the golden-masked figure appeared and challenged the attackers to fight or submit.

Su Xiuyi arrived to face Di Yi, the Blood Blade King, and the Ice and Snow Ancestor as they threatened the Great Zhou capital. After dismissing their accusations and challenging their strength, he stood ready to fight as they unleashed their Domains of God.

• Su Xiuyi appeared before the three Layered Tower experts, and his power freed Su Yun, Tie Ling, and the other Great Zhou experts from their suppression.
• The Great Shang ancestor, the Blood Blade King, and the Ice and Snow Ancestor mocked Su Xiuyi and insisted they had come to kill him.
• Su Xiuyi repeated his demand that they bow and claimed they had come to pay their respects because they were too weak to defeat him.
• The Ice and Snow Ancestor, the Blood Blade King, and Di Yi unleashed their Domains of God, covering the capital in ice, blood-red Baleful Qi, and the Great Shang golden dragon of fortune.
• Su Xiuyi rejected their accusations against Great Zhou, defended its Martial Halls and cultivation opportunities, and challenged the three Layered Tower First Layer experts to defeat him.

Su Xiuyi faced Di Yi, the Blood Blade King, and the Ice and Snow Sacred Hall's ancestor after they trapped him with their Domains of God. He declared that Great Zhou could not be bullied, then immobilized the old woman and struck at her with his sword.

• Di Yi and the Blood Blade King mocked Su Xiuyi and threatened to destroy Great Zhou, while the Ice and Snow Sacred Hall's ancestor demanded that he kneel.
• Some people in the imperial capital grew afraid and resentful as the three Domains of God surrounded Su Xiuyi.
• Su Xiuyi revealed his overwhelming presence and told the ancient powerhouses that he would kill anyone who insulted him or Great Zhou.
• Su Xiuyi's Spirit Characters appeared beside the Ice and Snow Sacred Hall's ancestor, and his Immobilization Spell and starlight trapped her before she could attack.
• Su Xiuyi drew his sword and sent a chilling sword strike toward the Ice and Snow Sacred Hall's ancestor.

Su Xiuyi beheaded the Ice and Snow Sacred Hall ancestor with one sword, shocking the Great Zhou capital and the watching experts. Di Yi and the Blood Blade King then attacked him together, and the chapter ended with Su Xiuyi caught in their strikes’ energy storm.

• Su Xiuyi struck down the Ice and Snow Sacred Hall ancestor, killing her with a single sword strike.
• The White-Robed Scholar realized Su Xiuyi’s concealed Spirit Character could hide from even powerful experts.
• Su Yun understood that Su Xiuyi’s confidence in protecting Great Zhou came from his overwhelming strength.
• Di Yi and the Blood Blade King attacked Su Xiuyi together, empowering their strikes with countless Spirit Characters.
• Su Xiuyi failed to dodge their attacks in time, and the White-Robed Scholar watched the resulting energy storm, unsure whether Su Xiuyi had survived.

Su Xiuyi survived the attackers’ combined assault without a scratch, then overwhelmed Di Yi and the Blood Blade King with a single sword strike. His strength was revealed as the Third Heaven of the Layered Tower Realm, leaving Great Zhou secure and its enemies terrified.

• Su Xiuyi emerged unharmed from the storm of attacks, while Di Yi and the Blood Blade King realized their assault had failed.
• Su Xiuyi casually struck with his sword, wounding Di Yi and the Blood Blade King and devastating the forces aboard their flying ships.
• The observers recognized that Su Xiuyi had reached the Third Heaven of the Layered Tower Realm by breaking heaven and earth’s restraints again.
• The Demon God felt relieved that he had not joined Great Shang’s attack and gloated over the Human Race’s losses.
• Su Yun concluded that Great Zhou could now act without fear, and saw an opportunity for it to sweep across the world.

Su Xiuyi used his Tyrant Sword Art to destroy the Great Shang forces and kill the Blood Blade King, while Great Shang’s fate was swallowed by Great Zhou. As Di Yi fled, Su Xiuyi imprisoned him with his Domain of God, leaving his fate uncertain.

• The Great Shang emperor and Crown Prince Di Zhao discussed fleeing the Human Realm after witnessing Su Xiuyi’s power.
• Su Xiuyi struck again with the Tyrant Sword Art, destroying the flying ship and killing its Grotto-Heaven Realm experts.
• Su Xiuyi’s sword shattered Great Shang’s golden dragon of fate, and the Great Zhou dragon swallowed what remained.
• The Blood Blade King was killed, and his Sea of Will was destroyed as he blamed Di Yi for his death.
• Di Yi burned his essence blood and willpower to flee, but Su Xiuyi imprisoned him with his Domain of God.

Su Xiuyi defeated the Great Shang Dynasty’s patriarch, then destroyed the Heaven-Suppressing Bell and killed the black-robed man who attacked him. Great Zhou celebrated its victory after Su Xiuyi swept away every opponent.

• Su Xiuyi killed Di Yi with a sword strike, ending the Great Shang Dynasty’s last powerful resistance.
• The man in black robes revealed himself and attacked Su Xiuyi with the Heaven-Suppressing Bell, expecting his earlier battles to have weakened him.
• Su Xiuyi struck the bell with the Tyrant Sword Art and cracked it, revealing that his sword was more powerful.
• Su Xiuyi summoned a giant sword that shattered the Heaven-Suppressing Bell and turned the man in black robes into bloody mist.
• A Great Zhou minister shouted that Great Zhou had won, while the witnesses stared in disbelief.

Su Xiuyi killed the Great Shang emperor after rejecting his surrender, then sent a sword across nineteen provinces to kill the fleeing crown prince and his protector. His display of power left witnesses across Great Zhou terrified, including the White-Robed Scholar.

• Su Xiuyi used the Spirit Character 'Reverse' to pull the fleeing Great Shang emperor back toward him.
• The Great Shang emperor knelt and offered to submit, but Su Xiuyi declared that he deserved death and beheaded him.
• Su Xiuyi sent a sword strike across eighteen provinces toward the fleeing Great Shang crown prince.
• The crown prince's protector tried to stop the sword, but it pierced his forehead and killed him.
• The sword light caught and annihilated the Great Shang crown prince in the nineteenth province.
• Su Xiuyi disappeared, leaving witnesses awed by his reach and the White-Robed Scholar wondering at his cultivation.

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.