Arc 20Lingbao’s Final Battle
Su Yu and the Lord of the Deep defeated the Golden Crow Great Emperor as Lingbao Heavenly Venerable awakened and attacked the forbidden zones. Lingbao passed away after confronting Yun Gen, Su Yu advanced his cultivation and gathered new allies, and the Divine Court turned its anger toward West Kunlun and Ye Fan.
- Su Yu traced the Golden Crow to the Bitter Sea, defeated its guardians, and joined the Lord of the Deep in overcoming the Golden Crow Great Emperor during her Quasi-Emperor tribulation.
- Lingbao Heavenly Venerable awakened, gave Su Yu a sword-thought inheritance, and fought his way through several forbidden zones, killing White Tiger Daoist, Source Ghost, Source God, and the Stone Emperor.
- Lingbao Heavenly Venerable entered the Reincarnation Sea to protect Su Yu, but passed away after battling Yun Gen, leaving Gai Jiuyou to continue the fight.
- Su Yu and Gai Jiuyou defeated Yun Gen, and Su Yu gathered the surviving members of the Reincarnation Sea while Gai Jiuyou entered the Divine Domain’s Life Sea to recover.
- Su Yu subdued the Six-Eared Macaque, appointed him master of the Shangqing Domain, and traveled to Lingbao’s Dao Palace, where he refined the Heaven-reaching Nether Treasure and strengthened his cultivation.
- Youruo promoted the Divine Court’s Emperor Lord as a Ninth Heaven Quasi-Emperor, but other star domains resisted the court’s demands for allegiance.
- The thirteenth prince accused West Kunlun of capturing and torturing his soul, and the Emperor Lord’s ministers demanded that Ye Fan be seized.