Chapter Summaries

Su Xiuyi destroyed Black Sun Immortal King, purged the Sword Gate’s traitors, and learned that the Dark Moon Cult had trapped Jian Yi and other Sword Gate experts near a ruin containing an Immortal Emperor’s inheritance. After discovering a Half-Step Immortal Emperor among the enemy forces, Su Xiuyi left with Luo Yiyi to infiltrate the Dark Moon Cult’s base and force it to respond.

• Su Xiuyi killed Black Sun Immortal King with one sword strike, then ordered the Sword Gate’s traitors executed.
• Su Xiuyi learned that the Dark Moon Cult had sealed a ruin holding an Immortal Emperor’s inheritance and trapped Jian Yi, Immortal King Zhantian, and other Sword Gate experts there.
• Su Xiuyi left the Three Fiends of the Heavenly Wolf and the Black Dragon King to guard the Sword Gate, then took Luo Yiyi to investigate the trapped experts.
• Su Xiuyi detected a Half-Step Immortal Emperor among the Dark Moon Cult’s forces and concluded that the trapped Sword Gate experts were in a standoff with them.
• Su Xiuyi decided to infiltrate the Dark Moon Cult’s base and attack it to draw its forces away from the trapped Sword Gate experts.

Su Xiuyi disguised himself as the Rogue Cultivator Su Changge and infiltrated the Dark Moon Cult, where he used bribery and his power to secure a position at the Inspection Institute. On entering the sect, he signed in and obtained the Star Emperor Divine Scroll, learning that the Dark Moon Cult had been formed from the cave abode of a sixth-grade Immortal Emperor.

• Su Xiuyi dismissed Luo Yiyi into his Inner World and disguised himself as a Golden Immortal Rogue Cultivator named Su Changge to infiltrate the Dark Moon Cult.
• Su Xiuyi discovered the cult had hidden defenses against infiltrators, but its detection treasure failed to see through his disguise.
• Su Xiuyi bribed Elder Zhou Tian and persuaded him to assign him a safe post at the Inspection Institute.
• Zhou Tian made Su Xiuyi the head of the Inspection Institute, and Su Xiuyi intimidated the former head with his overwhelming aura.
• Su Xiuyi signed in upon entering the Dark Moon Cult and received the Star Emperor Divine Scroll.
• Su Xiuyi learned that the Dark Moon Cult originated as the cave abode of the sixth-grade Immortal Emperor Star Emperor, then suppressed the scroll's cultivation technique to avoid drawing attention.

Su Xiuyi settled into the Dark Moon Cult, concealed his power, and began cultivating the Immortal Emperor method while secretly gaining the Primordial Star Divine Ability. He fused it with his sword Dao to create the Starlight strike, and left the chapter viewing the cult as a source of opportunities for his advancement.

• Le Tong escorted Su Xiuyi to his quarters and revealed that a powerful figure had suppressed him and stolen his opportunity, so Su Xiuyi agreed to guide his cultivation.
• A hidden watcher reported Su Xiuyi’s actions to an elder, who ordered continued surveillance and instructed the watcher to kill him if he acted suspiciously.
• Su Xiuyi briefly tested the Immortal Emperor method and stopped after it rapidly absorbed the stars’ power throughout his courtyard.
• During an inspection near the Scripture Pavilion, Su Xiuyi checked in and obtained the Primordial Star Divine Ability, then sent Le Tong to inspect elsewhere while he cultivated.
• Inside his Great Dao Universe, Su Xiuyi strengthened the Great Dao of Stars, fused it with his sword Dao, and named the resulting sword strike Starlight.

Su Xiuyi infiltrated the Dark Moon Cult as Su Changge and was unexpectedly accepted as Ancestor Moon Worship’s disciple. After being hurriedly sent into the cult’s costly secret realm, he signed in and obtained Immortal Emperor soul blood, which he used to temper his willpower.

• Su Xiuyi concealed himself from a powerful cultivator, then met Ancestor Moon Worship, who recognized Su Changge’s connection to the Su Clan and accepted him as a nominal disciple.
• Ancestor Moon Worship took Su Xiuyi to Moon Worship Peak, introduced him to Shen Ping'an and Man Hu, and gave him the Primordial Heavenly Star Art.
• Shen Ping'an explained that the secret realm consumed vast resources, then rushed Su Xiuyi there after Ancestor Moon Worship left with its key.
• Shen Ping'an restrained the guards and threw Su Xiuyi into the secret realm, while the furious cult master arrived too late to stop them.
• Su Xiuyi signed in and obtained a drop of Immortal Emperor soul blood, then used its pressure to strengthen his willpower.

Su Xiuyi endured the secret realm’s trials, gained the Samsara Ancestral Dragon Inheritance Essence Blood, and discovered the Ancestral Dragon Samsara Art. He continued combining it with his Nine Dragons Divine Art and other cultivation arts, leaving the secret realm’s full potential still to be explored.

• Su Xiuyi fused the Immortal Emperor soul blood after a day of tempering his willpower, raising it to the Late-stage Immortal King level.
• Su Xiuyi entered the secret realm, endured nine cycles of reincarnation, and realized the cultivation arts from those lifetimes were real and compatible.
• Su Xiuyi combined the nine arts and discovered their connection to the Nine Dragons Divine Art, spending several days and burning lifespan to create a stronger cultivation art.
• Su Xiuyi checked in and received the Samsara Ancestral Dragon Inheritance Essence Blood, which the system fused with him.
• Su Xiuyi learned the inherited art was the Ancestral Dragon Samsara Art and began incorporating the Nine Dragons Divine Art and other cultivation arts into it.

Su Xiuyi cultivated the Ancestral Dragon Formula and mastered the Eye of Samsara in the Dark Moon Cult’s secret realm, breaking through to the Late-stage Immortal King realm. After deducing Baiyue’s identity, he learned that the Samsara Immortal Emperor had arranged for him to form an unbreakable karmic tie with the Dark Moon Cult, complicating his plan to destroy it.

• Su Xiuyi transformed his Dharma Power into Dragon Power, named his art the Ancestral Dragon Formula, and began cultivating the Eye of Samsara.
• The Dark Moon Cult’s leader confronted Shen Ping'an over the secret realm’s resources, then learned they were being consumed at an alarming rate by Shen Ping'an’s junior brother.
• Baiyue reflected that Su Xiuyi’s use of the secret realm would bind him karmically to the Dark Moon Cult, then vanished into the starry sky.
• Su Xiuyi mastered the Eye of Samsara and advanced to the Late-stage Immortal King realm, gaining thirty thousand years of life.
• Su Xiuyi used lifespan to deduce that Baiyue was the Samsara Immortal Emperor and the Dark Moon Cult’s missing first leader, who had arranged the karmic tie to thwart Su Xiuyi’s plan to destroy the cult.

While Su Xiuyi cultivated inside the secret realm, Li arrived and warned the Dark Moon Cult that an ancient faction from another world would soon emerge and threaten the Southern Heaven Land. The secret realm then began to collapse, drawing the cult master and elders back in alarm.

• Su Xiuyi resumed cultivating as Shen Ping'an and Man Hu waited outside the secret realm while the Dark Moon Cult's elders worried over the resources he had consumed.
• Li arrived, dismissed the elders' anger, and told them that a hidden faction from a hundred thousand years ago was preparing to emerge and could destroy the Southern Heaven Land.
• When a grand elder challenged Li, Li struck him unconscious, then ordered the others to leave and urged them to devote their resources to Su Xiuyi.
• Li told Shen Ping'an and Man Hu that his warning was true and that Ancestor Moon Worship's divination had identified Su Xiuyi as the one who could break the coming deadlock.
• Li sensed that the secret realm was about to collapse, and the Dark Moon Cult's master and elders rushed back in alarm.

Su Xiuyi emerged from the ruined secret realm with its supreme inheritance, and Li defended him against the Dark Moon Cult’s angry elders by explaining the realm’s true purpose. When seven Immortal Kings attacked to test Su Xiuyi, he froze them all with Samsara, leaving the cult stunned.

• The secret realm collapsed, and the Dark Moon Cult’s elders demanded that Su Xiuyi be punished for destroying their foundation.
• Li killed the elders who threatened Moon Worship Peak and explained that Ancestor Moon Worship had brought the secret realm to the cult and that Su Xiuyi had inherited its supreme legacy.
• Li warned the cult that a coming calamity would make Immortal Kings inadequate, and the sect master agreed to test Su Xiuyi when he emerged.
• Su Xiuyi emerged from the ruined secret realm, shattered the Immortal Kings’ first attack with Starlight, and faced seven of them as they attacked at full strength.
• Su Xiuyi used Samsara to freeze all seven Immortal Kings in midair, leaving everyone in stunned silence.

Su Xiuyi tested his newfound powers by challenging the Dark Moon Cult's Half-Step Immortal Emperor leader, first fighting with his physical strength and then striking with his sword. He left the cult leader badly wounded and defeated, proving his strength far exceeded what the onlookers expected.

• Su Xiuyi withdrew his Eye of Samsara, freeing the Immortal Kings, who thanked him for sparing their lives.
• The Dark Moon Cult's leader challenged Su Xiuyi, and Su Xiuyi accepted, hoping to test his limits.
• Su Xiuyi used the Eye of Samsara to hinder the cult leader, then met his attacks with his physical strength and fought him to a standstill.
• Li noticed that the cult leader had been injured, and Su Xiuyi declared that he would now use his full strength.
• Su Xiuyi drew his sword and slashed through the cult leader's defensive weapons, leaving him with a deep wound and defeating him.

Su Xiuyi defeated the Dark Moon Cult's sect master, secured the first imperial son position, and met his senior brothers at Ice God Mountain. There, Li revealed that the Haotian World hidden within the Southern Heaven Continent was the source of an approaching calamity.

• Su Xiuyi nearly shattered the Dark Moon Cult's sect master's body, forcing him to concede and name Su Xiuyi the first imperial son; an ancestor then revealed that Moon Worship Peak's residents included the cult's founding patriarch.
• Su Xiuyi reunited with Shen Ping'an and Man Hu, then followed them to Ice God Mountain to meet Li, whose true form was an Ice Hornless Dragon undergoing a transformation.
• Su Xiuyi revealed his identity to Li and Man Hu, and the brothers discussed an approaching calamity and the recovery of the world's laws and Spiritual Qi.
• Su Xiuyi signed in at Li's cave and obtained the Primordial Heaven-Devouring Ancestral Dragon Art.
• Li explained that the calamity originated a hundred thousand years ago in the hidden Haotian World, whose inhabitants were anomalies shaped by a special Great Dao.

Su Xiuyi learned that Li and Shen Ping'an had escaped the Haotian World a hundred thousand years ago and planned to enter it again to seize its great Daos before it opened. He agreed to establish an independent force with their help and chose the Gods and Devils Battlefield as its foundation, leaving the new sect’s exact arrangements to be decided.

• Li revealed that he and Shen Ping'an had fled the Haotian World using a secret technique, where the remnants of a terrifying being’s Dao had magnified people’s desires and turned the world into a dangerous place.
• Shen Ping'an and Li explained their plan to enter the Haotian World before it opened, seize its great Daos, and strengthen themselves against the coming calamity; they said Su Xiuyi’s arrival had changed their otherwise hopeless prospects.
• Su Xiuyi learned that the Dark Moon Cult had allowed its conflict with the Sword Gate to serve as war training, while some cultivators also sought to exploit slaughter to advance.
• Shen Ping'an urged Su Xiuyi to create an independent force, and Su Xiuyi agreed to do so with the brothers’ help; Li said they hoped he would shelter Dark Moon Cult members who wanted to control their own fates.
• Su Xiuyi brought Li, Shen Ping'an, and Man Hu to the Gods and Devils Battlefield and chose it as the new sect’s foundation, requesting that the sect span both the battlefield and Southern Heaven and protect its Human Race rogue cultivators.

Su Xiuyi established Great Zhou, recruited a hundred experts from the Gods and Devils Battlefield, and drove off its Heavenly Dao consciousness with one sword. He then returned to Sword Gate to offer its disciples a chance to leave with him, but the hidden Half-Step Immortal Emperor appeared to stop him.

• Li and Shen Ping'an formed Great Zhou’s mountain gate, and Shen Ping'an’s Great Dao of Life and Death helped Su Xiuyi gain its origin power through a sign-in.
• Su Xiuyi named the new realm Great Zhou, declared that it would be a nation, and filled it with palaces, treasures, and formations.
• At Black Dragon Ridge, Su Xiuyi had the top hundred experts sign contracts to serve him for a hundred years, then repelled the Gods and Devils Battlefield’s Heavenly Dao consciousness with a sword strike.
• Su Xiuyi brought the experts to Great Zhou, left Su Yun to organize them, and traveled to Sword Gate with Luo Yiyi to recruit disciples willing to leave.
• Su Xiuyi told Sword Gate’s disciples that its hidden Half-Step Immortal Emperor had used them as pawns and invited anyone willing to follow him to leave.
• The Half-Step Immortal Emperor emerged in blood-colored sword light and challenged Su Xiuyi’s attempt to take the disciples away.

Su Xiuyi confronted the Sword Gate's founding patriarch and revealed that he had treated the sect's disciples and elders as puppets to nurture his sword. The disciples joined Su Xiuyi, and after the patriarch attacked, Su Xiuyi reappeared unharmed and infected him with the blood that had splattered onto him.

• Luo Yiyi urged the Battle Hall experts to leave the Sword Gate, and they immediately departed.
• Su Xiuyi accused the founding patriarch of exploiting the sect and vowed to protect anyone who left with him.
• The Sword Gate disciples and elders cut ties with the sect and attacked the founding patriarch, but he seized control of their power and broke their sword formation.
• Su Xiuyi stopped the patriarch's killing blow, moved the sword immortals behind him, and declared that he would destroy the patriarch's avatar.
• Su Xiuyi shattered the tampered Slaughter Immortal Sword and fused its fragments into the Great Heaven Asura Sword.
• The founding patriarch pierced Su Xiuyi between the brows, but Su Xiuyi reappeared while the blood on the patriarch's body invaded him and turned his meridians black.

Su Xiuyi confronted Di Chen's clone, protected the Sword Gate disciples, and killed the Half-Step Immortal Emperor with a single sword strike. The curse power then reached Di Chen's true body in the starry sky, disrupting his cultivation and forcing him to abandon his planned breakthrough.

• Su Xiuyi revealed that his Malédiction clone had planted curse power as a warning to Di Chen's true body, while Di Chen discovered he could no longer control the Great Dao within Su Xiuyi.
• Di Chen attacked Su Xiuyi and the Sword Gate experts with an enormous hand, but Su Xiuyi cut through it and severed Di Chen's control over the group.
• Su Xiuyi used the Sword of Ten Daos to overpower Di Chen's Slaughter Immortal Sword and split Di Chen's clone's forehead, killing him with one strike.
• The hidden experts recognized Great Zhou as a third power in the Southern Heaven Land after Su Xiuyi killed the Half-Step Immortal Emperor.
• Di Chen's true body sensed the curse afflicting his bloodline, cultivation, and luck, and abandoned his planned breakthrough rather than risk dying.

Su Xiuyi exposed the Sword Gate’s scheme, rescued its former disciples, and entered the Immortal Emperor’s ruins to protect Immortal King Zhantian. After Jian Yi tried to kill her, Su Xiuyi saved her and revealed that the Sword Gate had treated them as chess pieces, setting off a confrontation in the ruins.

• Su Xiuyi tore open the Sword Realm and led the former Sword Gate disciples away, while the Sword Gate elders resolved to kill Immortal King Zhantian in the ruins.
• Su Xiuyi brought Luo Yiyi to the Immortal Emperor’s ruins, entered unseen, signed in, and obtained a strand of an Immortal Emperor’s origin Dao law.
• Su Xiuyi found Immortal King Zhantian cultivating after she had gained part of the inheritance, while Jian Yi received a message and prepared to attack her.
• Jian Yi struck at Immortal King Zhantian, but Su Xiuyi used Earth Overturning and Heaven Upending to rescue her and pull nearby Battle Heaven Sect experts to his side.
• Luo Yiyi explained the Sword Gate’s scheme, and Immortal King Zhantian condemned Jian Yi and the others before Jian Yi declared that the ruins would become Su Xiuyi and Luo Yiyi’s burial ground.

Su Xiuyi rescued Immortal King Zhantian and Luo Yiyi, then killed the Dark Moon Cult’s Half-Step Immortal Emperor and absorbed his forces’ Dao laws to help the Battle Heaven Sect. After explaining the choice between joining the Great Zhou and preserving the sect’s independence, Su Xiuyi killed a Sword Gate immortal who arrived and used his laws to strengthen the Battle Heaven Sect experts.

• Su Xiuyi killed Jian Yi and the others with one sword strike, then told Immortal King Zhantian that he could slay a Half-Step Immortal Emperor.
• Su Xiuyi broke the formation and killed the Dark Moon Cult’s Immortal Kings and Half-Step Immortal Emperor, then asked the Battle Heaven Sect members to absorb their Dao laws.
• Su Xiuyi explained that the Battle Heaven Sect could join the Great Zhou only by submitting to imperial rule and surrendering its independence, while promising to protect them either way.
• The Battle Heaven Sect elders absorbed the laws and advanced to the Immortal King realm as Immortal King Zhantian began refining the Half-Step Immortal Emperor’s power.
• A middle-aged Sword Gate sword immortal arrived and tried to flee, but Su Xiuyi trapped and killed him, then distributed his laws among the Battle Heaven Sect experts.

After returning to Great Zhou, Su Xiuyi began his plan to devour the Gods and Devils Battlefield and strengthen his Great Dao Universe so he could reach the Immortal Emperor realm before entering the Haotian World. He and Dugu Hong started the process, leaving Su Xiuyi to face the battlefield’s potentially Immortal Emperor-level will of heaven.

• Su Xiuyi returned to the Gods and Devils Battlefield with the Battle Heaven Sect experts, whom Man Hu accidentally trapped in dreams with his Great Dream Divine Ability.
• Luo Yiyi warned the Battle Heaven Sect elders that Great Zhou held countless Immortal Kings, and Immortal King Zhantian realized the faction’s strength far exceeded her expectations.
• Su Xiuyi left the Battle Heaven Sect’s welcome and affairs to Su Yun, then appeared above the Great Zhou Imperial Capital to prepare his Great Dao Universe.
• Su Xiuyi told Dugu Hong that devouring the Gods and Devils Battlefield could help him reach the Immortal Emperor realm and give Great Zhou an advantage against threats from the Haotian World.
• Su Xiuyi and Dugu Hong began devouring the battlefield’s Great Dao power, and Su Xiuyi warned that its will of heaven might retaliate with Immortal Emperor-level strength.

Su Xiuyi devoured most of the Gods and Devils Battlefield’s Great Dao origin, strengthening his world and merging dozens of Daos into his sword. He weakened the battlefield’s Heavenly Dao Consciousness, which confronted him and demanded to know who he was.

• Su Xiuyi discovered the blood-red Great Dao star of Desire and warned Great Zhou’s people to cultivate while his Great Dao Universe advanced.
• The battlefield’s Heavenly Dao Consciousness appeared to investigate the draining Great Dao power, while Su Xiuyi used auxiliary Daos and fabricated visions to mislead it.
• Su Xiuyi tricked the Heavenly Dao Consciousness into absorbing power leaking from the Haotian World as he continued devouring the battlefield’s Great Dao origins.
• With the Dao Enlightenment Divine Bamboo aiding him, Su Xiuyi merged forty-three Great Daos into his Dao of the Sword, and his cultivation neared the Immortal Emperor realm.
• The Heavenly Dao Consciousness realized that a world had devoured seventy percent of the battlefield’s Great Dao origin and lost much of its strength before confronting Su Xiuyi.
• Su Xiuyi introduced himself to the Heavenly Dao Consciousness.

Su Xiuyi fought the Heavenly Dao consciousness of the Gods and Devils Battlefield, using its attacks to comprehend the Dao of Desire before killing it with one sword. He and the Great Dao Universe’s cultivators began devouring the released power, while those watching considered the approaching entry into the Haotian World.

• The Heavenly Dao consciousness attacked Su Xiuyi with the power of desire and fear, but he dodged while studying its Daos.
• After the Heavenly Dao consciousness drew on the power of heaven and earth, Su Xiuyi summoned the Great Heaven Asura Sword and unleashed the Sword of Ten Daos.
• Su Xiuyi killed the Heavenly Dao consciousness with one strike, astonishing the cultivators across the Gods and Devils Battlefield.
• Su Xiuyi ordered everyone to devour the power released by the Heavenly Dao consciousness, hoping to break through to the Immortal Emperor realm.
• Lin Qingxue, Li, Shen Ping'an, and Immortal King Zhantian sensed Su Xiuyi's victory and considered the coming conflict over the Haotian World.

After killing the Heavenly Dao, Su Xiuyi broke through to the Immortal Emperor realm and strengthened the Great Zhou Imperial Clan. He appointed Su Yun as emperor and demanded that Southern Heaven's powers attend the enthronement, declaring that he would unite the land before the great calamity.

• Immortal King Zhantian and the Battle Heaven Sect elders decided to merge completely into the Great Zhou Imperial Clan.
• Su Xiuyi absorbed vast power and broke through to the Immortal Emperor realm as an Ancestral Dragon phantom appeared above the Gods and Devils Battlefield.
• The Great Zhou Imperial Clan gained more than a dozen Immortal Kings, while Su Xiuyi transferred the Ancient Human Emperor's Imperial Dao power to Su Yun and raised him to the peak of the Immortal King realm.
• Su Xiuyi named Su Yun the Great Zhou Emperor and announced that he would ascend the throne in seven days.
• Su Xiuyi called on the various powers to attend Su Yun's enthronement and vowed to unite Southern Heaven, while voices across the imperial capital echoed his declaration: “Those who submit to me shall prosper; those who defy me shall perish.”