Chapter Summaries

Su Xiuyi confronted Great Emperor Youming in the Netherworld Hall after hearing that he planned to destroy the Great Zhou Imperial Clan. After destroying Youming’s avatar, Su Xiuyi faced his briefly awakened true body and challenged him to prove he could kill him.

• Su Xiuyi killed the Netherworld Hall experts who attacked him and mocked Great Emperor Youming.
• Great Emperor Youming appeared as a Spirit Character Avatar, but Su Xiuyi bound it with the Law of Sealing and destroyed it.
• Great Emperor Youming awakened briefly within the Netherworld Hall’s mountain gates, and his followers knelt to greet him.
• Great Emperor Youming questioned Su Xiuyi’s confidence and warned that he could unleash the power of Dharma Heaven and Earth within the hall.
• Su Xiuyi introduced himself as the emperor of the Human Race and guardian of the Great Zhou Imperial Clan, then challenged Youming over his threat to destroy the clan.

Su Xiuyi confronted Great Emperor Youming in the Netherworld Hall and rejected his offer to cooperate, declaring that he had the courage and ability to protect the Human Race. The two reaffirmed their rivalry over the Human Race’s fortune, and the chapter ended with Su Xiuyi smiling as he faced Youming’s overwhelming power.

• Su Xiuyi’s presence frightened the Netherworld Hall experts and momentarily unsettled Great Emperor Youming.
• Great Emperor Youming praised Su Xiuyi’s bearing but warned that he could not withstand the experts who would descend when the Heavenly Gate opened, then offered to spare him if he cooperated.
• Su Xiuyi called Great Emperor Youming a coward and declared that he alone had the courage and ability to protect the Human Race and claim its fortune.
• Great Emperor Youming said the Human Race’s fortune would be his and vowed to kill Su Xiuyi, while his power erupted through the hall.
• Su Xiuyi stood firm against Youming’s oppressive force, and his sharp gaze brightened with a smile.

Su Xiuyi condemned Great Emperor Youming as a traitor to the Human Race and declared that he would kill him to secure the home front. As their battle began, Youming’s law chains shattered against the Heaven Collapse power erupting from Su Xiuyi.

• Su Xiuyi denounced Great Emperor Youming and argued that the Human Race had to eliminate internal enemies before confronting the Ten Thousand Races.
• Su Xiuyi and Great Emperor Youming unleashed their domains and laws, causing several Law Realm experts in the hall to collapse.
• Great Emperor Youming manifested an underworld emperor and weapons formed from his law power, while Su Xiuyi contained his laws within his body.
• Great Emperor Youming sent his law chains to bind Su Xiuyi, but Su Xiuyi’s Heaven Collapse power shattered them.

Su Xiuyi shattered Great Emperor Youming’s Law of Chains and mocked his strength as he advanced through the Netherworld Hall. Great Emperor Youming trapped Su Xiuyi in his Youming Ancient World, but Su Xiuyi answered with a Yellow Springs River that pierced through the darkness, leaving Youming terrified.

• Su Xiuyi broke Great Emperor Youming’s Law of Chains, shocking Youming and the Netherworld Hall experts.
• Su Xiuyi advanced on Great Emperor Youming and ridiculed the strength he had gained over a hundred thousand years.
• Great Emperor Youming unleashed his Law of Youming, enveloped Su Xiuyi in the Youming Ancient World, and threatened to kill him and his clan.
• Su Xiuyi dismissed the Youming Ancient World as little more than a place filled with ghosts and unleashed his own law power.
• A Yellow Springs River pierced through the Youming power, and Great Emperor Youming recognized it in terror.

Su Xiuyi defeated and captured Great Emperor Youming by destroying his Youming Ancient World and sealing his powers with black chains. He boasted of his achievements in the Battlefield of the Heavens, then challenged Youming to reveal his final trump card or face death.

• Su Xiuyi manifested the Naihe Bridge, which destroyed Youming's ghosts and shattered Great Emperor Youming's Youming Ancient World.
• Great Emperor Youming launched a desperate attack, but Su Xiuyi sealed his divine weapons, laws, and body with black chains.
• Great Emperor Youming's followers watched in shock as Su Xiuyi captured him alive.
• Su Xiuyi told Youming he had spent months destroying powerful races and had crushed the Immortal Race on his first day in the Battlefield of the Heavens.
• Su Xiuyi challenged Great Emperor Youming to use his final trump card, warning that he would otherwise kill him.

Su Xiuyi exposed Great Emperor Youming’s plan to use a second body and fake his death, revealing that he had meant to make Su Xiuyi an unwitting accomplice. Great Emperor Youming admitted his scheme had failed and threatened to kill everyone present, while Su Xiuyi challenged whether he could truly kill his longtime followers.

• Great Emperor Youming asked how Su Xiuyi had learned he had a trump card, and Su Xiuyi accused him of treating his followers as chess pieces.
• Great Emperor Youming ignored his followers’ demands for an explanation and insisted that Su Xiuyi kill him if he wanted to.
• Su Xiuyi revealed that his Pupil of Void Breaking had exposed a hidden chamber beneath Netherworld Hall containing a second Great Emperor Youming in an ice coffin.
• Great Emperor Youming admitted he had planned for Su Xiuyi to kill one body so the other could fake his death and secretly enter the Immortal Realm.
• Great Emperor Youming threatened to kill Su Xiuyi and everyone present to protect his secret, and Su Xiuyi questioned whether he could bring himself to kill his followers.

Great Emperor Youming killed the Law Realm experts in Youming Hall while Su Xiuyi stood by, then revealed that he was confident he could kill Su Xiuyi. Youming merged his Present and Future Bodies, but Su Xiuyi saw through his concealment and exposed his Past Body, leaving Youming at full strength and ready to fight.

• Great Emperor Youming declared that everyone was his pawn and slaughtered the Law Realm experts despite their pleas for Su Xiuyi to save them.
• Su Xiuyi admitted that he had let Youming kill them because they had refused his offer to submit and their deaths were necessary to keep his plan flawless.
• Youming said he was certain he could kill Su Xiuyi, and an ice coffin burst open as his Present Body and Future Body merged.
• Su Xiuyi exposed Youming's hidden Past Body, which appeared and merged with the other two bodies.
• Great Emperor Youming unleashed his True Nether power, freezing the ground as he faced Su Xiuyi with deadly intent.

Su Xiuyi revealed that he had seen through Great Emperor Youming’s deception and deliberately provoked him while he regained his strength. He left Great Emperor Youming wary by explaining that he wanted to test himself against a powerful opponent before facing the awakened races of the heavens.

• Su Xiuyi told Great Emperor Youming that he had uncovered the secret of his three bodies and intended to make him unleash his full strength.
• Great Emperor Youming resolved to kill Su Xiuyi and disguise the outcome as their mutual destruction, while carefully familiarizing himself with his restored power.
• Su Xiuyi explained that he considered Great Emperor Youming a whetstone and wanted to test whether he could suppress the powerful enemies threatening the Human Race.
• Great Emperor Youming realized Su Xiuyi had seen through his stalling and was deliberately allowing him to reach his peak, leaving him deeply wary.

Su Xiuyi and Great Emperor Youming fought a deadly battle as Su Xiuyi used his sword and laws to break Youming’s attacks. The fight continued when Youming caught Su Xiuyi in a trap and launched another killing blow.

• Great Emperor Youming united the power of his three bodies, then challenged Su Xiuyi to attack.
• Great Emperor Youming engulfed his side of the hall in darkness and sent law-enhanced chains at Su Xiuyi.
• Su Xiuyi unleashed his Heaven Collapse power and sword arts, snapping the chains with one strike.
• Great Emperor Youming dodged Su Xiuyi’s spatial attack and recognized that Su Xiuyi had mastered the Law of Space.
• Great Emperor Youming’s hidden Nether Qi trap seized Su Xiuyi with sinister hands, but Su Xiuyi burned them away with Fire Phoenix True Flame.
• Great Emperor Youming appeared above Su Xiuyi and brought down a devastating palm strike.

Su Xiuyi fought Great Emperor Youming, surviving his soul-devouring eyes, binding chains, and deadly saber through his Space-Time Bloodline and Heaven Collapse. He then pressed the attack with sealing laws, his Domain of God, and his strongest sword technique, forcing Great Emperor Youming onto the defensive as their battle continued.

• Su Xiuyi shattered Great Emperor Youming's nether-powered arm, then avoided his soul-devouring gaze but was briefly dazed.
• Great Emperor Youming bound Su Xiuyi with black iron chains and brought a blood-colored saber to his throat.
• Su Xiuyi used his Space-Time Bloodline to evade the saber and Heaven Collapse to break the chains before escaping with spatial power.
• Su Xiuyi told Great Emperor Youming that he sought a life-and-death battle to spur his breakthrough, then attacked with his sword and the Law of Sealing.
• Su Xiuyi combined his Domain of God, sealing chains, and One Sword Knocks on the Heavenly Gate to gain the upper hand over Great Emperor Youming.
• Su Xiuyi vanished and unleashed a barrage of attacks, while Great Emperor Youming realized Su Xiuyi meant to fight to the death for a breakthrough.

Su Xiuyi fought Great Emperor Youming while discovering how to fuse other laws into his swordsmanship. He formed the Fire Phoenix Sword and Thick Earth Sword, leaving Great Emperor Youming kneeling beneath the latter’s crushing force.

• Great Emperor Youming unleashed his full cultivation and drew the Heavenly Dao’s attention as he continued trying to kill Su Xiuyi.
• Su Xiuyi realized he needed to fuse his other powers of law into the Dao of the Sword and condensed the Fire Phoenix Sword within his body.
• Su Xiuyi used the Fire Phoenix Sword to sever one of Great Emperor Youming’s arms, though the strike disrupted the balance of his five organs.
• Su Xiuyi condensed the Thick Earth Sword and warned Great Emperor Youming to unleash all his strength.
• Great Emperor Youming blocked the Thick Earth Sword with his saber, but its crushing power buckled his legs and forced him to his knees.

Su Xiuyi and Great Emperor Youming both suffered internal injuries in their clash, but Su Xiuyi discovered a path to transform other laws into the Law of the Dao of the Sword. The battle continued as Su Xiuyi refused Great Emperor Youming’s offer to withdraw and insisted that one of them would die.

• Great Emperor Youming was blasted back by Su Xiuyi’s sword strike, which wounded his organs and nearly split his saber hand.
• Great Emperor Youming realized that Su Xiuyi’s strength had transformed and feared that retreating would leave him at a disadvantage.
• Su Xiuyi reflected that the battle had shown him how to integrate his other laws into the Law of the Dao of the Sword, though the transformation had also injured him internally.
• Great Emperor Youming offered to leave the Human Realm and never return, warning that Su Xiuyi would face other powerful enemies if he were badly wounded.
• Su Xiuyi rejected the offer, calling Great Emperor Youming a valuable whetstone and declaring that one of them would die in the battle.

Su Xiuyi fought Great Emperor Youming in a hall plunged into darkness, where Youming controlled the corpses of dead Law Realm experts. After escaping the corpses’ attack and injuring his arm, Su Xiuyi broke through with the Law of Sealing and launched a powerful sword strike at Great Emperor Youming.

• Great Emperor Youming plunged the hall into darkness and used his power of laws to control the dead experts’ bodies.
• Su Xiuyi struck an attacking corpse with Fire Phoenix Sword, then suffered deep wounds to his left arm when it counterattacked.
• Great Emperor Youming sent the remaining corpses surging toward Su Xiuyi while concealing himself in the darkness.
• Su Xiuyi used the Law of Sealing to bind the corpses and flew through a gap in their formation.
• Su Xiuyi unleashed One Sword Knocks on the Heavenly Gate, sending a fire phoenix at Great Emperor Youming and burning away the netherworld power around him.

Su Xiuyi and Great Emperor Youming fought to a standstill as their sword and blade laws clashed, and Su Xiuyi destroyed the puppets surrounding him. Great Emperor Youming revealed why he had avoided the Heavenly Gate, but Su Xiuyi refused to stop fighting and pressed his attack, prompting Youming to unleash the last power of sealing in his body.

• Great Emperor Youming used Nether Dragon Blade Intent against Su Xiuyi's Fire Phoenix Sword Intent, and their clash burned away half the power of Youming in the hall.
• Su Xiuyi destroyed the corpses of the Law Realm experts controlled by Great Emperor Youming's Law of Youming.
• Great Emperor Youming explained that he had stayed behind to build strength and scheme against the immortals beyond the Heavenly Gate, where only True Immortals could survive.
• Great Emperor Youming asked Su Xiuyi to end their fight, but Su Xiuyi insisted on using him as a whetstone and charged with another Fire Phoenix Sword strike.
• Great Emperor Youming declared that he would kill Su Xiuyi and shattered the last power of sealing within his body.

Su Xiuyi fused the Thick Earth Sword and Fire Phoenix Sword under Great Emperor Youming’s deadly pressure, then used the combined sword to kill him. Afterward, he began healing and absorbing Youming’s willpower and law fragments, having found a path toward cultivating the Five Elements Sword.

• Great Emperor Youming broke the last seal in his body and unleashed a black dragon attack, but Su Xiuyi survived and used the pressure to fuse the Thick Earth Sword and Fire Phoenix Sword.
• Su Xiuyi struck back with the fused sword, tearing apart Great Emperor Youming’s black dragon and piercing his head after sealing off his escape.
• Su Xiuyi dispersed the fused swords, suffered severe internal injuries, and realized he could nurture the Five Elements Sword within his organs.
• Su Xiuyi activated the Law of Life to heal himself, then devoured Great Emperor Youming’s scattered willpower and collected his law fragments.

After the Netherworld Hall fell silent, Su Xiuyi emerged alive and absorbed the remaining dark power of law while recovering from his severe injuries. He signed in at the place where Great Emperor Youming fell and received the Heaven Devouring Fragmentary Scroll, a secret technique that could help him heal, transform his body, and reach True Immortality.

• Experts gathered outside the Netherworld Hall, uncertain whether Su Xiuyi or Great Emperor Youming had won.
• As the dark Law of Youming faded, Su Xiuyi absorbed it inside the ruined hall and used the Law of Life to stabilize his injuries.
• Su Xiuyi rose to his feet, pleased by the path to further growth and the law fragments he had obtained.
• The system offered Su Xiuyi a sign-in, and he accepted.
• The system rewarded Su Xiuyi with the Heaven Devouring Fragmentary Scroll, which could seize immortals' vitality, heal old injuries, transform the body, and enable entry into the ranks of True Immortals.

Su Xiuyi killed Great Emperor Youming, destroyed the Netherworld Hall, and warned the Human Realm’s forces against defying him. He returned to the Hall of Bright Virtue, gave Su Yun Youming’s Law fragment to help him grow stronger, and left for the more dangerous Battlefield of the Heavens.

• Su Xiuyi absorbed the Heaven Devouring Secret Technique and announced that the Netherworld Hall had been destroyed and Great Emperor Youming killed.
• The Great Zhou Imperial Clan’s spies celebrated Su Xiuyi’s victory while spies from other forces fled in fear.
• Su Xiuyi returned to the Hall of Bright Virtue, where Su Yun and the others learned that Great Emperor Youming was dead.
• Su Xiuyi told Su Yun that dangerous forces were awakening and gave him Great Emperor Youming’s Law of Youming to help him reach the Dharma Heaven and Earth realm.
• Su Xiuyi left the Human Realm’s affairs to Su Yun and departed for the Battlefield of the Heavens.

Su Xiuyi searched the Great Zhou Imperial Capital for hidden enemies and found a suspicious teahouse owner. After drinking the owner’s poisoned tea, he faced the man’s threat to kill him unless he answered his questions.

• Su Xiuyi used the Pupil of Void Breaking to locate experts in the Great Zhou Imperial Capital and discovered enemies still hiding there.
• Su Xiuyi decided to eliminate the remaining threats rather than risk leaving an enemy behind.
• Su Xiuyi entered a secluded teahouse and asked its owner for his finest tea.
• The teahouse owner served Su Xiuyi poisoned tea, then demanded to know who he was and why he had come.

Su Xiuyi exposed and killed hidden experts in the Great Zhou Imperial Capital before discovering a secret passage into the Heavenly Gate. He sealed the passage and left for the Ten Thousand Races Battlefield.

• Su Xiuyi drank the teahouse owner's poisoned tea unharmed, revealed himself as the Human Emperor, and killed the owner.
• Su Xiuyi hunted down thirty-two concealed Law Realm experts in the Great Zhou Imperial Capital, then left the city once he had secured it.
• Su Xiuyi used his Pupil of Void Breaking to find a spatial rift in the mountains, where Immortal Spirit Qi escaped.
• Su Xiuyi deduced that the rift was a passage to the Heavenly Gate and sealed it so no one else could discover it.
• Su Xiuyi departed for the Ten Thousand Races Battlefield.

After his Spirit Character Avatar returned, Su Xiuyi tried to transform the powerful laws in his true body into Divine Intent, but the Fire Phoenix threatened to damage his heart. He discovered mysterious chains within his body and used ninety-nine of them to bind the Fire Phoenix.

• Su Xiuyi merged with his returning Spirit Character Avatar and learned that laws could be transformed into Divine Intent and nurtured within his organs.
• Su Xiuyi condensed a Fire Phoenix from his powerful Law of the Fire Phoenix, but it developed intelligence and rampaged within his heart.
• Su Xiuyi used the Pupil of Void Breaking to discover mysterious chains around his heart that sealed his blood, Qi, and laws.
• Su Xiuyi tried to control the chains to restrain the Fire Phoenix, and despite coughing up blood, he confirmed they could bind it.
• Su Xiuyi controlled all ninety-nine chains around his heart and successfully bound the Fire Phoenix as it fought back.