Chapter Summaries

Su Xiuyi signed in deep within Inverted Mountain and gained a Chaos Corpse powerful enough to guard him while he prepared to undergo the Hundred-Lifetime Samsara Calamity. Beimingzi pursued him but was attacked by the Chaos Corpse, and the chapter ended as its enormous hand descended on him again.

• Su Xiuyi ventured deeper into Inverted Mountain, signed in, and obtained a Chaos Corpse with strength comparable to the seventh level of the Samsara God Realm.
• Su Xiuyi made the Chaos Corpse recognize him as its master, carved out a hidden cave nearby, and prepared to undergo the Hundred-Lifetime Samsara Calamity.
• The Heavenly Secrets Divine Palace recalled its elders, while its palace master believed Beimingzi would fall in the depths of Inverted Mountain.
• Beimingzi reached Inverted Mountain, found traces of Su Xiuyi's devouring of a Fourth-Tier Great World, and pursued him to avenge Wangquan Tianxin.
• The Chaos Corpse attacked Beimingzi, who escaped once by using a substitute and concluded that Su Xiuyi had died, but the Chaos Corpse pursued him again.
• Beimingzi watched in despair as the Chaos Corpse's enormous cyan hand descended to strike him.

The Supreme Divine Palace learned that Beimingzi had been killed by a Chaos Corpse at the Inverted Mountain, and its Third Ancestor ordered an investigation into Su Xiuyi and a possible connection to the Eternal Life God Realm. Meanwhile, Su Xiuyi began his hundredth reincarnation as a hunted tribal youth, survived a perilous river journey, and was found by a member of Barbarian God Mountain.

• The Chaos Corpse killed Beimingzi at the Inverted Mountain and returned to the forbidden zone to protect Su Xiuyi.
• Elder Meng reported Beimingzi's death to the Elders Hall, whose members suspected the Heavenly Secrets Divine Palace had arranged it.
• The Third Ancestor determined that a Chaos Corpse had killed Beimingzi and ordered the Grand Elder to investigate Su Xiuyi and the possible involvement of the Eternal Life God Realm.
• Su Xiuyi entered his hundredth reincarnation as the wounded son of a tribal chief, fled his tribe's attackers, and leapt into the Black River to escape them.
• An ancient wolf fang protected Su Xiuyi as the river carried him through a dangerous underground passage and washed him onto a distant riverbank.
• A black-robed member of Barbarian God Mountain found Su Xiuyi, discovered his spiritual vein, and took him along with the youths he had gathered.

Su Xiuyi and Kui were taken to the Beast Taming Sect to undergo the dangerous Barbarian Awakening, which could let them cultivate or cost them their lives. They arrived at the sect and encountered Long’s rival and a formidable young registrar, leaving Su Xiuyi uncertain whether he would survive.

• Long brought Su Xiuyi, Kui, and eight other youths toward the Beast Taming Sect, and Kui explained that successful Barbarian Awakening could grant them a chance to cultivate.
• Long revealed that Kui was the illegitimate son of a tribal chief and believed both Kui and Su Xiuyi had a chance to survive the awakening.
• Kui spotted the Beast Taming Sect’s floating mountain, and the group reached the sect’s ancient city beneath it.
• Long confronted a man who had previously taken youths from him, then claimed the new recruits included two promising candidates.
• A young registrar summoned Long to register the youths, and Su Xiuyi silently wondered whether he would survive and be able to take revenge.

Su Xiuyi protected Kui from a staged challenge, exposed Wu Shan’s attempt to have him killed, and earned Yan’s protection after displaying extraordinary talent. Yan then reported to his master that Su Xiuyi had nine supreme dragon veins, leaving the Beast Taming Sect elders convinced their sect was about to rise.

• Wu Shan and other outer sect elders provoked Kui, but Su Xiuyi stepped forward to face an armored slave youth instead.
• Su Xiuyi baited the youth into attacking with a poisoned dagger, causing him to stab another spirit seed before Yan burned him to ashes.
• Yan reprimanded Wu Shan, claimed Su Xiuyi as his younger brother, and warned everyone not to harm him.
• The outer sect elders gave Su Xiuyi gifts, while Long blood-refined a storage bag for him and explained that Yan’s divine eyes had recognized his extraordinary spirit vein.
• Yan told his master that Su Xiuyi had nine dragon veins, and his master celebrated the discovery as a chance for the Beast Taming Sect to rise.

Su Xiuyi and Kui underwent the Beast Taming Sect’s Barbarian Awakening, drawing the attention of powerful elders and Cangmingzi. Kui awakened the ancestral Undying War God Spiritual Vein, while Su Xiuyi revealed nine Ancestral Dragon veins before the First Ancestor appeared.

• Long brought Su Xiuyi and Kui to his rundown residence and explained that his spirit vein had been destroyed; Su Xiuyi shared Marrow Cleansing Pills with Kui, and a blue light helped both of them endure the pills’ effects.
• At Barbarian Awakening, several youths died when their bodies could not withstand the Spiritual Qi, while one youth manifested a seventh-grade Black Eagle Spirit Vein.
• Yan arrived with Cangmingzi on a golden dragon, and Cangmingzi offered Su Xiuyi the Nine-Clawed Golden Dragon as a war beast.
• Wang He increased the Spiritual Qi entering Kui and Su Xiuyi; Kui manifested the ancestral Undying War God Spiritual Vein, shocking the elders.
• Cangsongzi poured more Spiritual Qi into Su Xiuyi until a golden gate opened above him and revealed nine Ancestral Dragons; the First Ancestor appeared and the elders bowed.

Su Xiuyi was named divine son of the Haotian Divine Sect and received its strongest cultivation manual, but he chose to cultivate the Ancestral Dragon Formula instead. He rapidly advanced through three realms, astonishing the Flame Great Emperor and the Life Great Emperor, who stopped him before he could risk opening a Soul Pool.

• The ten Ancient Ancestors agreed to make Su Xiuyi the Haotian Divine Sect's divine son and open all its inheritances to him.
• The Life Great Emperor healed Long's shattered spirit vein, revealing his pseudo-dragon vein, and arranged for him to enter the inner sect under Cangmingzi.
• The Flame Great Emperor brought Su Xiuyi to the Haotian Divine Hall, passed the Haotian Divine Canon to him, and explained the cultivation realms.
• Su Xiuyi decided that the Ancestral Dragon Formula suited him better than the Haotian Divine Canon and began cultivating in the Divine Pool of Life.
• Su Xiuyi absorbed vast amounts of Spiritual Qi and life essence, reaching the Spirit Sea and Golden Bridge realms in less than half an hour.
• The Flame Great Emperor and the Life Great Emperor summoned more Spiritual Qi, then the Flame Great Emperor woke Su Xiuyi before he could dangerously attempt to open a Soul Pool.

Su Xiuyi opened his Soul Pool with astonishing ease, devoured the life essence in the Life Great Emperor’s Divine Pool, and reached Divine Transformation. The First-Generation Vermilion Bird awakened and voluntarily acknowledged Su Xiuyi as his master, leaving the Ancient Ancestors convinced that Su Xiuyi was the Haotian Divine Sect’s hope.

• The Flame Great Emperor taught Su Xiuyi how to open his Soul Pool and warned him to proceed carefully while the Life Great Emperor and he stood guard.
• Su Xiuyi opened his Soul Pool almost immediately, startling the Flame Great Emperor and the Life Great Emperor with the strength of his soul power.
• Su Xiuyi absorbed the Life Great Emperor’s life essence Qi, entered Divine Transformation, and manifested a golden Primordial Spirit as beasts across the Great Desolation bowed toward Haotian God Mountain.
• The First-Generation Vermilion Bird awoke in the Life Forbidden Zone, flew to Haotian God Mountain, and voluntarily acknowledged Su Xiuyi as his master.
• The Life Great Emperor realized Su Xiuyi had consumed all the life essence in his Divine Pool, while the Ancient Ancestors recognized the Vermilion Bird as Su Xiuyi’s protector and planned to teach him divine abilities.

After five years of training with the ancient ancestors, Su Xiuyi left seclusion as a Heavenly Venerable and accepted the Haotian Divine Sect’s challenge to confront the Yin-Yang Divine Sect. Learning that the sect’s disciples had been killed and the sect master’s daughter held captive, he led hundreds of followers to bring their people home.

• The Life Great Emperor taught Su Xiuyi the Undying Longevity Art, and Su Xiuyi later mastered the Sword Ancestor’s sword Dao after training with the ancient ancestors.
• Su Xiuyi emerged from seclusion at age twenty-two, and the Sword Ancestor sent Kui to accompany him as he gained experience.
• The Haotian Divine Sect’s sect master asked Su Xiuyi to challenge the Yin-Yang Divine Sect’s Divine Son, and Su Xiuyi agreed to deliver a written challenge.
• Kui told Su Xiuyi that Senior Brother Long and Senior Brother Yan had died at the Yin-Yang Divine Sect, whose Divine Son held the sect master’s daughter captive and threatened to use her as a cultivation furnace.
• Su Xiuyi resolved to avenge the dead and rescue the captives, then led hundreds of Haotian Divine Sect disciples toward the Yin-Yang Divine Sect.

Chu Wushuang held Yun Wenwen captive as the Haotian Divine Sect's Su Xiuyi approached the Yin-Yang Divine Sect. After seeing his sectmates’ corpses displayed along the Heaven Ascension Path, Su Xiuyi slaughtered the guards and declared a challenge to all the sect’s chosen, ending by killing a Heavenly Venerable with one sword strike.

• Chu Wushuang burned the Haotian Divine Sect’s written challenge and boasted that he would humiliate its divine son, while an ancient ancestor warned him not to underestimate Su Xiuyi.
• Yun Wenwen despaired over the danger she believed Su Xiuyi faced, as Yin-Yang Divine Sect disciples mocked the Haotian Divine Sect and its dead on the Heaven Ascension Path.
• Su Xiuyi told Kui to focus on rescuing Yun Wenwen during his battle with Chu Wushuang, then hid Kui and went ahead with the others.
• Su Xiuyi saw the corpses of Haotian Divine Sect disciples displayed along the path and promised to kill anyone from the Yin-Yang Divine Sect who stood in his way.
• Su Xiuyi killed the path’s guards and formations with his sword, then recognized the corpses of Long and Yan and destroyed a divine insect inside Long’s body.
• Su Xiuyi challenged all the Yin-Yang Divine Sect’s chosen and cut apart a Heavenly Venerable with a single strike.

Su Xiuyi fought his way up the path to heaven, destroyed the Yin-Yang Divine Sect’s formation, and exposed Chu Tianxin as Chu Wushuang’s stand-in before killing him. The real Chu Wushuang appeared at the summit with Yun Wenwen as a hostage and challenged Su Xiuyi after his battles had drained his strength.

• The ten true disciples of the Yin-Yang Divine Sect trapped Su Xiuyi in an illusion, but he broke it with one sword strike.
• The ten joined into the Yin-Yang Heaven-Devouring Great Formation and summoned two True Dragons, but Su Xiuyi shattered the formation and killed eight disciples while the arriving divine son rescued the other two.
• Su Xiuyi recognized that the man before him was not Chu Wushuang but his twin brother, Chu Tianxin, and killed Chu Tianxin with a sword strike.
• The real Chu Wushuang appeared with Yun Wenwen, taunted Su Xiuyi over his depleted strength, and made the Haotian Divine Sect disciples recoil with a glance.

Su Xiuyi defeated Chu Wushuang, killed him, and seized his Yin-Yang origin insight, prompting the Yin-Yang Divine Sect’s patriarchs to attack him in violation of the Immortal Alliance’s rules. As the Haotian Divine Sect’s elders were held back, Su Xiuyi met an Early Heavenly Lord patriarch’s punch and remained unmoved while his attacker staggered backward.

• Su Xiuyi killed a Yin-Yang Divine Sect true disciple with a wave, then broke Chu Wushuang’s Yin-Yang domain with the Flame Great Emperor’s True Intent of Emperor Flame.
• Chu Wushuang attacked Su Xiuyi with Dharma Heaven and Earth and the Yin-Yang Great Millstone, while Kui rescued Yun Wenwen and Su Xiuyi killed the elders pursuing her with the True Intent of Time.
• Su Xiuyi used Heaven Rending to shatter the Yin-Yang Great Millstone and wound Chu Wushuang, then killed him and took his True Intent of the Origin of Yin and Yang.
• The Yin-Yang Divine Sect’s patriarchs appeared and accused Su Xiuyi of demonic cultivation to justify killing him, while Haotian Divine Sect patriarchs tried to intervene but were held back.
• An Early Heavenly Lord patriarch punched Su Xiuyi, but Su Xiuyi stood firm and sent the patriarch staggering backward.

Su Xiuyi escaped the Heaven-Suppressing Tower after killing a Yin-Yang Divine Sect Heavenly Lord and mastering the Great Dao of Yin and Yang. As the Yin-Yang Divine Sect’s ancient ancestor attacked, Su Xiuyi’s hidden Primordial True Dragon emerged and turned the battle around.

• A Yin-Yang Divine Sect ancestor trapped Su Xiuyi in the Heaven-Suppressing Tower and attacked him with lightning and suppressive power.
• Su Xiuyi used the Blood God Great Emperor’s forbidden art and his Life Great Dao to kill the ancestor, devour his powers, and reach the peak of the Heavenly Venerable realm.
• Su Xiuyi broke out of the tower while the Haotian Divine Sect ancestors fought the Yin-Yang Divine Sect, and the Yin-Yang Divine Sect’s ancient ancestor awakened.
• The First-Generation Vermilion Bird blocked the ancient ancestor’s attack and sent the Haotian Divine Sect group away, while Su Xiuyi stayed behind.
• Several Yin-Yang Divine Sect ancestors attacked Su Xiuyi, but his tattoo transformed into a Primordial True Dragon that swallowed them and charged toward the ancient ancestor.

Su Xiuyi and the First-Generation Vermilion Bird killed the Yin-Yang Divine Sect’s ancient ancestor, then traveled to the Fallen God Mountain Range, where they found cultivators gathered for the Five Elements Great Emperor’s inheritance. When Zhou Potian threatened Su Xiuyi, Su Xiuyi struck back and sent the Young Emperor Ranking prodigy crashing into a cliff.

• Su Xiuyi, the Primordial True Dragon, and the First-Generation Vermilion Bird defeated the Yin-Yang Divine Sect’s ancient ancestor, and the First-Generation Vermilion Bird burned his soul to ash.
• Su Xiuyi collected the fallen ancestor’s Power of Origin and Yin-Yang Great Dao laws before leaving with the First-Generation Vermilion Bird.
• Su Xiuyi arrived at the Fallen God Mountain Range, where cultivators had gathered to seek the Five Elements Great Emperor’s inheritance.
• Su Xiuyi asked Zhou Potian where he was, but Zhou Potian’s servant mocked him and announced his master’s identity.
• Su Xiuyi said he had never heard of Zhou Potian, provoking Zhou Potian to threaten him and launch a punch.
• Su Xiuyi met Zhou Potian’s punch with his own and sent him flying into a cliff, where Zhou Potian spat blood.

Su Xiuyi defeated and killed Zhou Potian, then refined his laws and Power of Origin while waiting for the Five Elements Great Emperor's cave abode to open. When the stone gate opened, Su Xiuyi entered first and allowed the other cultivators to compete for whatever opportunities they found.

• Su Xiuyi killed Zhou Potian's servant and a Heavenly Venerable servant of Yun Chen after they threatened and provoked him.
• Su Xiuyi defeated Zhou Potian in their fight, killed him as he tried to flee, and took his laws, Power of Origin, and storage bag.
• Su Xiuyi refined Zhou Potian's power and advanced from the peak of the Heavenly Venerable realm to the Early Heavenly Lord realm.
• The cave abode's formation weakened and its stone gate opened while the cultivators waited for Yun Chen to arrive.
• Su Xiuyi told the cultivators they could compete for the cave abode's opportunities, then flew inside first.

Su Xiuyi entered the Five Elements Great Emperor’s cave abode and uncovered the deadly rebirth scheme hidden behind its promised inheritance. After surviving the Heaven Ascension Path, he reached an immortal palace with five other cultivators, where the arrival of Yun Chen filled the seventh place.

• Cultivators rushed into Su Xiuyi’s cave abode after seeing that he let the first person enter unharmed, and several died in the scramble.
• The Yin-Yang Divine Sect’s Ancient Ancestors crippled their sect master, condemned him and the other conspirators to face the Haotian Divine Sect, and declared the sect a subordinate of the Haotian Divine Sect.
• Yun Chen learned that someone had killed his servant and set off for the Five Elements Great Emperor’s cave abode.
• Su Xiuyi entered the cave abode’s Lesser Thousand World, where the First-Generation Vermilion Bird revealed that a Devouring Great Formation was feeding on cultivators to help the Five Elements Great Emperor revive his original body and be reborn.
• Cultivators climbed the Heaven Ascension Path and many died as the formation devoured their blood and Qi; Su Xiuyi passed the trial and found five other survivors in an immortal palace with seven meditation cushions.
• Yun Chen appeared in the immortal palace after Su Xiuyi noticed that a seventh person was expected.

Su Xiuyi defeated Young Master Yun Chen in the Five Elements Sacred Hall, where the Five Elements Great Emperor revealed that the inheritance trial secretly devoured the participants’ essence, Qi, and spirit. Su Xiuyi turned the formation’s devouring power against itself, drawing the others’ strength toward him.

• Young Master Yun Chen arrived and confronted Su Xiuyi over the death of his servant, while Yun Zhongyang and the others hoped Yun Chen would defeat him.
• Su Xiuyi absorbed Yun Chen’s Burn Heaven Finger and revealed his command of the Flame Great Emperor’s emperor flames.
• Yun Chen used Burn Heaven and Boil the Sea, but Su Xiuyi overpowered him; the hall’s formation intervened before Su Xiuyi could kill him.
• The Five Elements Great Emperor’s remnant soul announced that the participants would compete for his inheritance by comprehending the Great Dao of the Five Elements, and the formation barred fighting.
• Su Xiuyi sat on a cushion, recognized that the inheritance formation was devouring the participants’ essence, Qi, and spirit, and reversed its flow with his devouring origin while the First-Generation Vermilion Bird assisted.

Su Xiuyi absorbed the power of the Devouring Great Formation while the Five Elements Great Emperor tried to revive his body, but the First-Generation Vermilion Bird intervened and Su Xiuyi killed the emperor’s soul. Su Xiuyi claimed the Five Elements True Intent Dao Mark, and the Young Emperor Ranking revealed that Yun Chen had fallen.

• The Five Elements Great Emperor discovered a Half-Step Great Emperor woman had entered the grotto, trapped her, and persuaded her to submit before using her to restore his soul.
• The Five Elements Great Emperor tried to devour the woman’s power, but found that his true body had weakened as the formation’s energy flowed into Su Xiuyi.
• The First-Generation Vermilion Bird appeared to protect Su Xiuyi, who had reached the Late-Stage Heavenly Lord realm, and shattered the Five Elements Great Emperor’s attack.
• Su Xiuyi fought the Five Elements Great Emperor, then used the Great Destruction Fist to destroy his divine soul and claimed his Great Emperor-level Five Elements True Intent Dao Mark.
• The Young Emperor Ranking changed in Central Continent, placing the unfamiliar Su in tenth place before Yun Chen’s name disappeared and onlookers cried out that he had fallen.

After emerging from the Five Elements Great Emperor’s cave, Su Xiuyi killed Zhou Zheng and pursued the Zhou Clan to eliminate the threat it posed. He faced the Zhou Clan patriarch and three Great Emperors from the Yun Lineage, and began plotting with the First-Generation Vermilion Bird to kill all four.

• Su Xiuyi emerged from the cave with his Five Elements Dao transformed and combat strength comparable to a Great Emperor.
• Su Xiuyi killed the Zhou Clan’s Heavenly Lords and then killed Zhou Zheng after Zhou Zheng tried to deceive him and attack him.
• Su Xiuyi learned the Immortal Alliance was searching for him and headed to the Zhou Clan after discovering Zhou Zheng had sent word there.
• The Zhou Clan patriarch survived Su Xiuyi’s attack with a life-saving item, but Su Xiuyi caught up and badly wounded him.
• Three Early-Stage Great Emperors from the Yun Lineage arrived and accused Su Xiuyi of killing Yun Chen, while Su Xiuyi and the First-Generation Vermilion Bird plotted to kill the four Great Emperors.

Su Xiuyi and the First-Generation Vermilion Bird killed three Yun Lineage Great Emperors and openly challenged the Immortal Alliance. He then disguised himself and entered its Yuntian Pavilion, where he revealed his identity to Xueji and began cultivating while concealed.

• Su Xiuyi called Xiaohong to attack, and the First-Generation Vermilion Bird and Su Xiuyi killed two Yun Lineage Great Emperors while the Zhou Lineage ancestor fled.
• Su Xiuyi trapped and killed the last Yun Lineage Great Emperor, then destroyed a token that summoned an Immortal Alliance grand elder’s phantom and declared he would fight his way into the Immortal Alliance.
• Su Xiuyi disguised himself and entered Yuntian Pavilion, where Hongyi struck down the manager and injured pavilion master Yuntian when they tried to stop him.
• Su Xiuyi paid to spend ten days with Xueji, then revealed that he was the Haotian Divine Sect’s divine son and learned that she had inherited the Zither Emperor’s legacy.
• Xueji warned Su Xiuyi that the Immortal Alliance was searching for him, but he resumed his disguise and began cultivating in the pavilion.

Su Xiuyi defeated and killed Diyi Zhantian at Yuntian Pavilion, then discovered from Pavilion Master Yuntian's memories that Xueji's master, the Zither Emperor, was imprisoned and tortured by the Immortal Alliance. The Immortal Alliance announced that it would execute the Zither Emperor in eleven days to lure out the Haotian Divine Sect, and Xueji trembled after hearing the news as Su Xiuyi asked what was wrong.

• Xueji warned Su Xiuyi that Diyi Zhantian, first on the Young Emperor Ranking, was returning, but Su Xiuyi stayed and faced him.
• Diyi Zhantian attacked Su Xiuyi over Xueji, and Su Xiuyi wounded him with one palm before killing him with One Finger Moves Youming.
• Pavilion Master Yuntian begged Su Xiuyi for mercy and offered his secrets, but Su Xiuyi searched his memories and killed him after learning the Zither Emperor had been imprisoned and tortured.
• The Immortal Alliance's grand elder ordered the Zither Emperor's execution to lure out the Haotian Divine Sect and expose its allies.
• News spread that the Zither Emperor would be executed in eleven days, and Xueji trembled after hearing it; Su Xiuyi opened his eyes and asked what was wrong.