Recaps

In the Ziwei Star Domain, the North Sea’s ancient powers debated whether to oppose outsiders seeking to unite the continent, while Ji Zi’s party arrived at the Green Lotus Imperial Dynasty. Su Yu received the Ji Family with imperial ceremony, but their demand to see Ye Fan ended in a standoff when the Ji Family’s Great Saint released his Saintly Dao pressure.

• Yi Qingwu asked the mysterious woman whether she came from the Big Dipper, and the woman promised a great opportunity before sending the Profound Jade Platform away.
• The Black Dragon Ancestor and Master Black Tortoise discussed the outsiders’ designs on Ziwei and the risks of joining the conflict.
• Ji Zi and the Ji Family party arrived at the Heavenbreak Mountains, where Ji Zi sensed three Void Small Worlds and a Saint of this age within the Green Lotus Imperial Dynasty.
• Su Yu welcomed the Ji Family with the dynasty’s sacred bell and received them in the central heavenly palace, where he and Ji Zi sensed their imperial bloodline resonance.
• The Ji Family’s Holy Lord asked Su Yu for Ye Fan, but Su Yu redirected him to Palace Master Cao and offered a banquet; the Ji Family’s Great Saint then released his Saintly Dao pressure.

Su Yu revealed that the Ji Family’s Void Mirror had fallen into his clan’s hands after Ji Yanyun lost it in the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land, and promised its return in three days. After the Ji Family departed, Jiang Taixu advised Su Yu before preparing to leave, and the two shared a quiet farewell over wine.

• Su Yu used the Chaos Green Lotus to counter the Ji Family Great Saint’s pressure, while Jiang Taixu appeared and Ji Zi asked about the Void Mirror.
• Su Yu reproached Ji Zi over the Ji Family’s ties to the Ruthless One Lineage and showed how Ji Yanyun lost the Void Mirror in the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land.
• Su Yu revealed that his clan’s Great Saint held the dormant Void Mirror and said it would be returned in three days, then left Ji Zi to arrange a gift.
• Ji Zi chose Eternal Blue Gold, Star Blue Mother Gold, and two handwritten notes as a return gift, while he and the Ji Family Great Saint speculated that Su Yu belonged to the Wu Shi Lineage.
• Jiang Taixu advised Su Yu to avoid making enemies of Extreme Dao families and confirmed that he was leaving, then he and Su Yu drank together in silence as evening fell.

Ye Fan recovered from his breakthrough and reunited with Xiao Nannan, Pang Bo, and the little bandits, while learning what had become of their former classmates. At Feathered Immortal Valley, Su Yu confronted the pursuers chasing the wounded Lin Jia and followed her as she sought a healing herb, where a powerful divine bird appeared.

• Ye Fan reunited with Xiao Nannan, the Peacock King, Pang Bo, and the little bandits, and learned that Lin Jia and several classmates had disappeared while Zhang Wenchang and Kaide had found new paths.
• Pang Bo told Ye Fan that Li Xiaoman had become the Star Peak successor’s maidservant, Zhang Wenchang lived in the Central Region’s outer city, and Kaide had been taken toward Mount Sumeru.
• Wang Yan, Liu Yunzhi, and Li Changqing chased the wounded Lin Jia to Feathered Immortal Valley, but Su Yu’s divine thought stopped them and marked them with divine seals.
• Su Yu entered the valley and followed Lin Jia as she struggled toward a thousand-year-old Heavenly Net Herb to treat her injuries.
• A massive divine bird from the Immortal Platform Secret Realm appeared above Lin Jia as she neared the herb.

Su Yu refined the Sky Demon King and Light King's bloodlines, then entered the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar to study the mental-state inheritance accompanying the Zhe Character Secret. As he activated the phoenix blood red gold scripture, an ancient Dao diagram appeared, forming the shape of an Immortal Phoenix.

• Su Yu studied the Heavenly Demon bloodline chain and used the Devouring Heaven Demon Art to refine the Sky Demon King's and Light King's origins.
• Su Yu concluded that he could not refine bloodlines without risking the Empress's Dao imprint at his current cultivation level.
• Su Yu entered the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar and took out the two pages of the Ancient Scripture of the Gods containing the Zhe Character Secret's mental-state inheritance.
• Su Yu joined the two pages of phoenix blood red gold and activated the scripture with Chaos Qi.
• An ancient Innate Dao Diagram unfolded before Su Yu, its characters linking into the shape of an Immortal Phoenix.

Su Yu comprehended the Longevity Heavenly Venerable’s Life-Slaying Sword Art and used it to forge a Chaos Sword Seed, then called down a tribulation to break through. As he endured the lightning, a woman in a Nine-Dragon Robe and the North King watched from afar and discussed whether to act.

• Su Yu defeated the Longevity Heavenly Venerable’s sword Dao thought after three days and nights, claiming its inheritance and beginning to study the Life-Slaying Sword Art.
• A month later, Su Yu demonstrated his improved sword Dao at the East Sea and merged the Life-Slaying Sword Art, Taihuang Sword Technique, and Immortal Tribulation Sword Art into a Chaos Sword Seed.
• Su Yu failed to complete a sword art before reaching the Saint Realm, but kept the incomplete Chaos Sword Seed for the future.
• Su Yu called down his breakthrough tribulation and easily overcame its opening lightning, including an Azure Dragon formed from tribulation runes.
• A woman in a Nine-Dragon Robe appeared thirty thousand li away, while the North King and two men in dragon robes watched Su Yu’s tribulation; one of the men asked whether they should make their move.

Su Yu killed the South Sea Dragon King during his tribulation and turned the dragon into his puppet. He then confronted the Black Dragon Ancestor, whose inherited Saint Weapon risked triggering an even greater tribulation.

• The South Sea Dragon King charged into Su Yu’s tribulation and attacked him with a spear infused with the Power of Faith, but Su Yu shattered it and struck at his body and soul.
• Su Yu used the Wushi Scripture to suppress the South Sea Dragon King’s Saint Weapon, then killed him with the Primordial Spirit Dao Sword.
• Su Yu revived the fallen dragon as his puppet, while the Black Dragon Ancestor arrived and tried to leave the tribulation.
• Su Yu blocked the Black Dragon Ancestor’s escape and attacked him with the Immortal Sword, damaging his halberd and forcing him to defend himself.
• The Black Dragon Ancestor faced a dilemma as Su Yu’s sword descended: using his Inherited Saint Weapon could trigger a great tribulation that his protective talisman might not withstand.

Su Yu defeated Black Dragon Ancestor and confronted the four sea Dragon Kings while his immense tribulation continued. Ao Li, the East Sea Dragon Ancestor, emerged from Ao Xin and fought Su Yu, who drove away his Saint mirror but faced the Ancient Saint’s next attack.

• Su Yu destroyed Black Dragon Ancestor’s Saint Weapon and devoured his divine soul as the tribulation raged.
• The West Sea Dragon King and Ao Xin argued over Su Yu’s origins and the Dragon Ancestor’s intervention.
• Su Yu appeared before the Dragon Kings, struck the West Sea Dragon King and shattered Ao Xin’s attempt to escape with a teleportation talisman.
• Ao Li’s Ancient Saint consciousness emerged from Ao Xin, and Su Yu attacked him despite the Dragon Ancestor’s awakened Saint Weapon.
• Ao Li summoned the East Sea Dragon Palace’s incomplete Saint formation, but Su Yu destroyed it and sent the azure-gold mirror plunging into the sea.
• Ao Li gathered the descendants behind him into the Saint Weapon’s inner space as Su Yu challenged his threat to slaughter ten generations of kin.

Su Yu overcame Ao Li and two successive heavenly tribulations, reaching the Eighth Heaven of Severing the Dao after breaking through the lightning palaces. When the Eastern Sea cultivators gathered to discuss the Dragon Clan’s plans, Su Yu emerged and confronted Daoist White Feather, whose true form was an immortal crane.

• Su Yu used the lightning tribulation to wear down Ao Li, then captured him with the Chaos Dao Diagram and refined his blood essence.
• Su Yu entered the lightning palaces, fought Humanoid Lightning bearing Laozi’s imprint, and learned that the tribulation could manifest figures recorded in the Great Dao.
• Su Yu destroyed five palaces, swallowed the lightning, and advanced to the Eighth Heaven of Severing the Dao.
• After the tribulation ended, cultivators from the Eastern Sea discussed the Dragon Clan’s possible war with the Ziwei Divine Dynasty and questioned what had happened to White Feather King.
• Su Yu spotted Daoist White Feather through a spatial passage and struck at him with void Dao patterns, alarming the gathered cultivators.
• Daoist White Feather revealed his immortal crane form and fled as Su Yu’s terrifying pressure engulfed the sea.

Su Yu spared Daoist White Feather, freed the East Sea cultivators, and learned about the Saints and powers across Ziwei. White Feather chose to follow Su Yu and quickly advanced toward Half-Saint after studying Su Yu’s Chaos Dao imprint.

• Su Yu halted his attack on Daoist White Feather because the crane carried auspicious Qi earned by enlightening mortals, then struck at White Feather King’s escape route instead.
• Su Yu freed the assembled cultivators and asked about Saints; Daoist White Feather returned and described ancient powers and events across the seas and continents.
• A young cultivator revealed that the purple-haired Holy Lord was the son of the Lord of Yuanqiao Island, while Daoist White Feather warned that the East Sea Dragon Palace had borrowed a Quasi-Emperor Artifact, likely from the Longevity Temple.
• Su Yu gave Daoist White Feather a Chaos Dao imprint, and White Feather chose to follow him and accepted his Thought Restriction.
• Daoist White Feather studied the imprint, nearly reached Half-Saint, and became Su Yu’s follower; Su Yu told him to cultivate in his secret realm and reach the Saint Realm.

Su Yu began draining the origins of the Golden Crow King, Qinggu Daoist, and the Human King, while Xiang Yufei received a forbidden artifact to guard against powerful Saint forces. Elsewhere, Wang Teng fought the Master of the Longevity Temple and charged back into battle despite being badly wounded.

• Su Yu released the Golden Crow King, Qinggu Daoist, and the Human King, ignored their offers, and used the Chaos Dao Diagram to drain their origins.
• Su Yu sent Xiang Yufei a bronze Buddha forbidden artifact and instructed him to use it if more than five Saints or someone above the Saint King realm appeared.
• Xiang Yufei studied the Zhe Character Secret and resolved to seek battles against powerful opponents.
• Wang Teng battled the Master of the Longevity Temple near Nether Ridge, but the peerless Holy Lord wounded him and sent him flying.
• Wang Teng healed himself with the Divine Phoenix Immortality Art and charged at the Master of the Longevity Temple again.

Daoist Jin Ming persuaded Island Master Bi Zhan to join Tuoyu Yuansheng’s campaign against the Big Dipper cultivators by promising access to scriptures and a route between star domains. Island Master Cangyue also committed the Yuanjiao Lineage to the campaign, hoping the conflict would open the way to the Big Dipper and its treasures.

• Island Master Bi Zhan tortured a green snake nearing dragon transformation and began refining it with rare ingredients into a life-extending pill.
• Daoist Jin Ming arrived at Bi Zhan’s island and urged him to join the effort against the Big Dipper cultivators, warning that they might possess an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon.
• After Jin Ming said Tuoyu Yuansheng had emerged and promised a share of any immortal scripture, Bi Zhan agreed to join the campaign and refined an Azure Nether Everlasting Spring Pill.
• An envoy from Daiyu Immortal Island secured Island Master Cangyue’s promise that the Yuanjiao Lineage would help slay the inheritor of the demonic art.
• Cangyue told his grandson Kong'er that the Big Dipper cultivators had angered Ziwei and that a war could lead to the Big Dipper’s scriptures and Immortal Medicines.

The Ji Family discovered that the Void Mirror’s divine spirit had survived its damage and ordered those implicated in Ji Yanyun’s crimes sent to the heavenly prison. There, Su Yu offered Ji Biyue a slave seal as an alternative to imprisonment, leaving her to choose whether to accept it.

• Ji Zi confirmed that the Void Mirror’s divine spirit was unharmed, while the Ji Family Great Saint ordered the clansmen involved in the affair imprisoned.
• Ji Yanzhi pleaded for Ji Biyue, but Ji Zi said he could not overrule Elder Gu’s order.
• The Eighth Ancestor transferred prisoners to the heavenly prison and found Ji Biyue calmly cultivating in her cell.
• The Eighth Ancestor told Ji Biyue that her past actions had come to light and that the ancient ancestor had ordered her sent to the heavenly prison.
• Su Yu appeared before Ji Biyue and offered her a slave seal, warning that accepting it would change her life.

Su Yu stopped Ji Biyue from sending word of Eighth Ancestor’s demonic art, revealed his identity as the Chaos Palace Master, and offered her a chance to change her fate. She accepted his help and began a brutal transformation using Chaos Qi, while Su Yu guided her with the Zhe secret art.

• Ji Biyue tried to crush a voice-transmission talisman to alert Ji Yanzhi, but Su Yu sealed the surrounding space and prevented the message from getting through.
• Su Yu revealed himself, and Ji Biyue recognized him as the force behind several upheavals across the Five Regions.
• Su Yu offered Ji Biyue a chance to rise again, and she agreed to submit to his control.
• Su Yu sent a Chaos Qi Dao Seed into Ji Biyue to temper her blood and bones, causing her body to break apart and heal as she endured the trial.
• Su Yu instructed Ji Biyue in the Dao of life and death through the Zhe secret art, and she recognized it as a forbidden secret art.

Ji Biyue survived Su Yu’s blood-tempering rite and accepted the Eighth Ancestor of the Ji Family as her father, resolving to use her restored power to rise again. Lin Jia awoke in Feathered Immortal Valley after being rescued, while Su Yu confronted a powerful black serpent over an ancient herb.

• Su Yu used the Zhe Character Secret and Divine Phoenix Immortality Art to help Ji Biyue endure the blood-tempering rite and promised she would become the Ji Family’s future holy lord.
• Su Yu sent a message to Ji Zi through the Eighth Ancestor of the Ji Family, and Ji Biyue accepted the ancestor as her father.
• Lin Jia awoke from a nightmare in Feathered Immortal Valley, found her treasured belongings and small golden cauldron intact, and wondered where her rescuer was.
• Lin Jia noticed the ominous tracking mark on her and swung beneath a Phoenix Feather Tree while remembering Earth.
• Su Yu faced a Holy Lord Realm black serpent guarding a five-thousand-year-old Heavenly Yang Grass and unleashed his arts as the beast tried to flee.

Su Yu returned to Feathered Immortal Valley after killing a near-Dao Severing black serpent and met Lin Jia, whom he had drawn to his residence. He welcomed her, helped her advance in cultivation, and identified the extraordinary pill she had brought from the immortal palace.

• Su Yu killed the black serpent with the Taihuang Sword, absorbed its corpse with the Demon Jar, and returned to the purple-wood cabin on the Golden-Winged Roc.
• Su Yu met Lin Jia in Feathered Immortal Valley and reminded her that they had parted six years earlier at the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land.
• Su Yu hosted Lin Jia with spirit tea, whose power helped her advance to the Second Heaven of the Four Extremes Secret Realm.
• Lin Jia offered Su Yu a small golden cauldron from the immortal palace, and Su Yu recognized the half pill inside as a failed Nine-Turn Immortal Pill of immense value.

Su Yu accepted Lin Jia as his personal disciple after she offered him the immortal pill and the Carefree Heavenly Art, then began addressing her cultivation and hidden danger. Lin Jia revealed that a ghost had followed them from the Bronze Coffin and showed Su Yu cellphone photos that mostly depicted him.

• Lin Jia offered Su Yu the immortal pill and recited the incomplete Carefree Heavenly Art, which Su Yu identified as an Emperor Scripture and began to deduce.
• Lin Jia asked to follow Su Yu, and he accepted her as his personal disciple, offering her a choice of Nine Secrets and imperial scriptures.
• Su Yu explained that his current self was an avatar and considered which cultivation method would suit Lin Jia.
• Su Yu gave Lin Jia a replica of the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar, saying it could kill Immortal Platform cultivators and contained a pill that could cure her hidden ailment.
• Lin Jia told Su Yu that a ghost had followed them from the Bronze Coffin and showed him cellphone photos, most of which depicted him.

Su Yu revealed the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar to Lin Jia, gave her powerful cultivation treasures and techniques, and left her to cultivate. In the Central Province, he met Princess Yue Ling and her Jiuli relatives, supported Li Hao’s bid for the throne, and received gifts and assistance from the dynasty.

• Su Yu identified the shadow in Lin Jia’s photo as a ghost that had feared the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar’s lid, half of an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon.
• Su Yu appointed the Golden-Winged Roc as Lin Jia’s spirit pet, revealed that he was the Chaos Palace Master, and gave her thirteen imperial Dao scriptures and the Fore secret technique diagram.
• Lin Jia woke beneath the stars with Su Yu gone and wondered whether he had left.
• In the Central Province, Princess Yue Ling introduced Su Yu to her third ancestor Li Mu and her brother Li Hao.
• Su Yu gave Li Hao a Saint scripture to support his bid for the Jiuli imperial lord’s throne, and Li Mu presented Su Yu with a divine command token and the dynasty’s cooperation.

Su Yu and Princess Yue Ling arrived at the Qin Sect in Qinling to seek the Nine Secret: Bing, which the hidden descendants of the Cai Family guarded. After Su Yu exchanged divine sense with the sect’s probing elder, the sect’s founding master sent a young disciple to receive them.

• Su Yu revealed his Innate Dao Physique, and Li Hao was trapped in an illusion of a river before awakening with a strengthened body and primordial spirit.
• Su Yu told Princess Yue Ling that her brother was unlikely to become an emperor, while she had the potential to become a Great Saint and perhaps an Empress.
• Su Yu and Princess Yue Ling traveled to Qinling, where Su Yu sought the Nine Secret: Bing and the Deity-Deliverance Art held by the Cai Family’s descendants.
• Su Yu used the Eye of Time to see through the Qin Sect’s concealment, and an elder inside probed the visitors with divine sense.
• The Qin Sect’s founding master recognized a powerful visitor and ordered a young disciple to bring Su Yu and Princess Yue Ling inside.

Su Yu and Princess Yue Ling found the Nine Secrets: Bing hidden in crude weapon carvings on an ordinary mountain and comprehended its inheritance. Su Yu mastered the art’s weapon-commanding principles, refined the Immortal Tribulation Sword into a bow that could transform into a sword, and declared the secret art supreme.

• Su Yu and Princess Yue Ling entered the Qin Sect, and Su Yu took her to the ordinary stone mountain where he knew the Nine Secrets: Bing was hidden.
• Su Yu awakened the Dao-pattern engravings on the mountain’s back slope, revealing the Nine Secrets inheritance to Princess Yue Ling.
• Su Yu comprehended the art, gathered countless weapon images into the character 兵, and integrated it into his Immortal Platform.
• When Princess Yue Ling suffered a painful reaction, Su Yu activated nearby Dao laws to help her recover.
• Su Yu used Nine Secrets: Bing to control and refine the Immortal Tribulation Sword into a blue-gold bow that could transform into a Killing Sword.

Su Yu mastered the Nine Secret: Bing and encountered Gai Jiuyou, who joined him and Princess Yue Ling on their journey to meet an ancient sage. They reached the sage’s secluded temple, where a Daoist priest emerged to greet them.

• Su Yu reflected on how the Nine Secret: Bing let him seize and command weapons, then decided to leave the Qin Sect with Princess Yue Ling.
• A hidden Saint King appeared, but Su Yu recognized the sick old man as Gai Jiuyou and presented him with Purple Light Jade Marrow on Xiang Yufei’s behalf.
• Gai Jiuyou joined Su Yu and Princess Yue Ling on the Mysterious Light Platform, while a Cai Family Saint King tried and failed to trace their departure.
• On the journey, Gai Jiuyou explained that the Cai Family had obtained the Deity-Deliverance Art from Su Yu’s lineage during the ancient battle to exterminate the demon.
• The group reached a secluded mountain temple, where Princess Yue Ling sensed an ancient sage and a Daoist priest emerged from the temple.

Su Yu hosted Gai Jiuyou and an elderly Saint for tea, then recruited the Saint into the Green Lotus Imperial Dynasty with promises of rare treasures and secret arts. Gai Jiuyou gave Su Yu an ancient scripture, while the author’s note outlined future plans and explained the novel’s progress.

• Su Yu, Yue Ling, and Gai Jiuyou met the old Daoist and shared Enlightenment Tea brewed with Divine Spring water.
• Gai Jiuyou probed Su Yu, who concealed himself with Emperor Qi and challenged the old man; Gai Jiuyou apologized and recited scripture.
• Su Yu offered the old Saint Divine Phoenix medicinal liquid, a fragment of the Carefree Heavenly Venerate’s art, and the Zhe Character Secret to persuade him to join the Green Lotus Imperial Dynasty.
• The old Saint accepted Su Yu’s invitation and agreed to leave seclusion for the Green Lotus Imperial Dynasty.
• Su Yu told Gai Jiuyou that Cao Yusheng had left things for him, and Gai Jiuyou gave Su Yu the Deliverance Scripture.
• The author explained plans for Su Yu’s future avatars and plot, discussed the novel’s readership and writing difficulties, and promised to finish the book.

Su Yu gave Daoist Qingxuan a scripture left by Emperor Hengyu, prompting the old Saint to reconsider his path and reveal his ties to the Qin Sect. Qingxuan departed after leaving a scripture in an ancient pine, and Su Yu and Gai Jiuyou discovered that a young girl nearby possessed the Azure Moon Immortal Physique.

• Su Yu gave Daoist Qingxuan and Gai Jiuyou copies of Emperor Hengyu’s late-life scripture, and Qingxuan realized he had misunderstood his cultivation path.
• Su Yu offered to help Qingxuan settle his grievance with the Qin Sect, but Qingxuan refused and explained his Cai Clan’s history and his estrangement from the family.
• Gai Jiuyou warned Su Yu that the Qin Sect might have a Great Saint and could borrow an emperor weapon, so Su Yu abandoned his plan to attack.
• Qingxuan left a scripture in the ancient pine and departed from the temple through a rift in space.
• Su Yu and Gai Jiuyou found two girls in the mountains, and Gai Jiuyou identified the younger girl as possessing the Azure Moon Immortal Physique.

Su Yu recognized Lin Ying as an Azure Moon Divine Physique and tested her resolve by sending a powerful demon after her and her younger sister, while explaining how special physiques related to the stages of Chaos. Elsewhere, Saint Qingxuan tried to reverse his aging with a technique but failed to stop his lifespan from dwindling.

• Su Yu sensed the Azure Moon Divine Physique in Lin Ying and decided to take her in despite Gai Jiuyou’s doubts about her prospects.
• Lin Ying carried Nannan across a flooded river toward the Daoist temple, using a breathing method to perform impressive footwork.
• Su Yu sent a purple-armored demon general to attack the sisters, and it broke the horsetail whisk, injured Lin Ying, and seized Nannan.
• Lin Ying fought the demon to protect Nannan while Su Yu watched and explained the connection between physiques, bloodlines, and the stages of Chaos.
• Saint Qingxuan used the Longevity Immortality Technique to restore his youth, but the effect faded and his lifespan continued to decline.

Lin Ying awoke after killing the purple-armored demon general and was reunited with her sister, Nannan, after Princess Yue Ling brought them to Su Yu. As Lin Ying recovered and began to understand what had happened, Gai Jiuyou told Su Yu about Ziwei Star Domain and its Human King Body.

• Lin Ying awakened the power of the Yin Moon, killed the purple-armored demon general with a slash of sword light, and collapsed while lamenting that Nannan was still missing.
• Princess Yue Ling carried the unconscious Lin Ying away, and Su Yu healed her injuries with the Zhe Character Secret and a True Phoenix.
• Lin Ying woke and found Nannan beside her; after embracing her, she heard how Nannan had met an immortal and found her asleep beneath a pine tree.
• Lin Ying suspected that her memories of the demon and Nannan's abduction had been an illusion, while Gai Jiuyou told Su Yu about Ziwei Star Domain and the Human King Hall's Human King Body.

Su Yu learned from Gai Jiuyou that Ziwei Ancient Star Domain had five Great Saints and several Quasi-Emperor Artifacts, then returned to Luzhou as Qishi Mansion opened for recruitment. Princess Yu Die and Qi Huoshui watched the trials from the Ancient Kingdom of Anping’s war chariot, where Qi Huoshui worried about her status as a captive servant.

• Gai Jiuyou told Su Yu that five Great Saints remained in Ziwei Ancient Star Domain and warned him that a Great Saint wielding a Quasi-Emperor Artifact could threaten even a Severing the Dao cultivator.
• Su Yu considered the danger posed by Tuoyu Yuansheng and weighed his own defenses, including the bronze Buddha statue and the Empress's immortal tribulation sword Qi.
• Su Yu returned to Luzhou with Gai Jiuyou as Qishi Mansion opened for the first time in ten thousand years, drawing more than ten thousand young cultivators seeking admission.
• Princess Yu Die and Qi Huoshui watched the trials from a war chariot bestowed by Su Yu, while Princess Yu Die found the competitors unimpressive and Qi Huoshui disparaged them.
• Qi Huoshui told Princess Yu Die she felt aggrieved because she and Yu Die were captive servants rather than a princess married off by the Nine Li Dynasty, and Princess Yu Die reassured her about Su Yu.