Chapter Summaries

Su Yu awakened in the body of a dead cultivator inside a burial chamber, where he discovered his dead relatives and realized he had entered a world of cultivation. He reached an ancient Dao platform and found a sealed coffin he could not open.

• Su Yu recovered from his injuries and recognized his silver garments and purple jade jue after waking in the burial chamber.
• Su Yu found several corpses and felt a powerful grief that suggested they were his closest blood relatives.
• Su Yu realized his new body possessed powerful Blood Qi and that he had returned from the brink of death.
• Su Yu followed the light to an ancient bronze Dao platform and endured its overwhelming pressure.
• Su Yu discovered a dark bronze coffin on the platform but could not open it, so he rested against it.

Su Yu recovered the memories of his fallen lineage and discovered that the ghost-faced jade jue could reveal his unusual constitution and complete secret arts. He encountered the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar’s terrifying presence and presented himself as a descendant of the Ruthless One, while the chapter explained the Emperor Weapon’s immense power and origins.

• Su Yu spent a day sorting through the original owner's memories and learned that his family descended from a once-powerful branch that had been hunted to near extinction.
• Su Yu learned that the original owner and three companions had died while searching the Cloudbreak Mountains for their branch's lost Ancestral Artifact.
• The ghost-faced jade jue entered Su Yu's body, and its reflection revealed his transformed true spirit and restored several complete secret arts.
• Su Yu tried to approach the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid, saw the Ruthless One beneath it, and bowed while calling himself her descendant.
• The chapter described the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar as an Emperor Weapon containing part of the Ruthless One's primordial spirit and capable of manifesting her power.

Su Yu recognized the vision of the Ruthless Great Emperor, refined the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid, and spent months mastering his inherited cultivation. He forged the ancient phenomenon “Clouds in the Blue Sky, Water in the Vase,” then awoke in the Four Extremes Secret Realm with his King Physique under control.

• Su Yu recognized the white-clad figure in the illusion as the Ruthless Great Emperor and watched her fade from view.
• Su Yu summoned the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid, refined it with his blood, and branded it with chaotic Qi.
• Su Yu cultivated for half a month, gained control of the Indestructible Heavenly Art, and used the jade pendant to assess his prospects.
• Su Yu circulated his divine power and reshaped his Sea of Bitterness, manifesting the ancient phenomenon “Clouds in the Blue Sky, Water in the Vase.”
• Su Yu consumed his remaining Source Stones over three months and completely mastered his King Physique in the Four Extremes Secret Realm.

Su Yu left the burial chamber with the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid, two Saint Weapons, and the remains and possessions of his fallen family, then emerged in the Heavenbreak Mountains. He explored a Chaos Small World and discovered a Great Saint-level Three-Legged Golden Crow corpse serving as its sun.

• Su Yu collected the bodies of his father and two junior brothers, along with their weapons and valuables, and refined the Silver Moon Jade Pagoda and Chaos longsword.
• Su Yu absorbed the chamber's remaining stone skin and filth, stored the small bronze coffin, and used the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid to leave through the hidden formation.
• Su Yu emerged in the Heavenbreak Mountains and recognized the surrounding Dao ground as a Chaos Small World connected by a teleportation formation.
• Su Yu observed the ruined palaces and immense sea of bones, then used the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid's divine sense to identify the world's sun as a Three-Legged Golden Crow corpse.
• Su Yu sensed that the Golden Crow corpse was a Great Saint-level Inherited Saint Weapon and reflected on the Golden Crow Clan's grim fate in Shrouding the Heavens.

Su Yu explored the ruined Heavenbreak Mountains, buried his predecessor’s family, and cultivated for three months in a hidden world, improving his secret arts. When he uncovered an ancient array at the cultivation ground, it revealed a mural showing Earth and other planets, leaving him facing a mystery about the world’s past.

• Su Yu searched the ruined palaces, found a Quasi-Emperor’s corpse, and collected the remaining saint-bone fragments after finding no weapons or medicine kings.
• Su Yu buried his predecessor’s family and reflected that he had severed his worldly ties.
• Su Yu found a secluded peak and cultivated for three months, reaching minor accomplishment in the Three Thousand Worlds and advancing his secret arts.
• Su Yu returned to the central cultivation ground and used half an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon to activate an ancient array.
• Su Yu saw a mural depicting Earth, the sun, and other planets in the darkness of space.

Su Yu escaped the starry path to Earth by breaking out near Mount Tai, then learned the Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin had not yet arrived and resolved to prepare for the coming events. As Ye Fan and his classmates anticipated their trip to Mount Tai, Su Yu wandered through the crowds, sensing a connection with the mountain and setting out to find Ye Fan.

• Su Yu saw that the spatial path led toward Kunlun, then used the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid and his blood to break through a spatial node after spotting Earth.
• Su Yu crashed into a field near Mount Tai, escaped from underground, and fled from the police and onlookers before collapsing from exhaustion.
• After recovering for a day, Su Yu confirmed that Mount Tai was not under lockdown and that the coffin convoy had not yet arrived.
• Ye Fan read reports about Mount Tai's unusual clouds and mist and reflected on seeing Li Xiaoman and his past.
• Zhou Yi and Wang Ziwen failed to book morning tickets to Mount Tai after the spectacle drew a surge of visitors.
• Su Yu explored Mount Tai on foot, gradually relaxing into the mountain's atmosphere, then went to look for Ye Fan.

Su Yu prepared to earn Ye Fan’s future gratitude by protecting his parents, then joined Ye Fan’s classmates on Mount Tai as the Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin descended. The coffin crashed onto Jade Emperor Peak, leaving the crowd in chaos.

• Su Yu learned that Ye Fan and his classmates would climb Mount Tai, then used Ye Fan’s hair to locate his parents.
• Su Yu gave Ye Fan’s mother life-extending medicine and protective talismans, and arranged for a powerful middle-aged man to look after Ye Fan’s parents.
• Su Yu stole Ye Fan’s Mercedes-Benz from the hotel garage and concealed its disappearance.
• Su Yu joined Ye Fan’s classmates on Jade Emperor Peak and suppressed the Indestructible Heavenly Art’s craving for Ye Fan’s Sacred Body source.
• Nine dragon corpses pulled the ancient bronze coffin down onto Jade Emperor Peak, cracking the summit and sending rocks and panicked people tumbling down the mountain.

Su Yu entered the Bronze Coffin with Ye Fan and the others as the Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin departed Earth, then used a jade purification bottle to visit Ye Fan’s parents. He reassured them that Ye Fan was safe and began refining their bodies with variant source.

• The Five-Colored Altar activated, and Su Yu flew into the Bronze Coffin before its summoning power drew Ye Fan and the others inside.
• Su Yu studied the Three Lifetimes Bronze Coffin and tried to stimulate it with the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid, but it did not react.
• Lin Jia asked Su Yu what was happening, and he told her the coffin would take them to the Big Dipper Star Domain; Zhou Yi’s request to return to Earth went unanswered.
• The Bronze Coffin shook violently as Su Yu anticipated its arrival at Mars.
• Su Yu appeared before Ye Fan’s worried parents through the jade purification bottle, reassured them that Ye Fan was safe, and refined variant source into their bodies.
• Su Yu sensed that Ye Fan’s parents had spirit veins and began baptizing Ye Fan’s mother.

Su Yu reached the Great Thunderclap Temple on Mars, seized its surviving treasures, and suppressed the Crocodile Ancestor’s Divine Embryo. After Ye Fan and the others arrived and the temple collapsed, the Crocodile Ancestor appeared and threatened Su Yu as everyone fled toward the Bronze Coffin.

• Su Yu’s Earth-bound divine sense confirmed his arrangements were complete, and the Bronze Coffin overturned, revealing Mars to Ye Fan and the others.
• Su Yu took three Bodhi Leaves and uprooted the dead Immortal Bodhi Tree, leaving the Bodhi Seed untouched.
• Su Yu entered the Great Thunderclap Temple, bound the Crocodile Ancestor’s Divine Embryo with the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid, and stored it in his chaos longsword.
• The temple’s Buddha chants drew Su Yu into an illusion, but he failed to obtain the Buddhist inheritance; Ye Fan later found the Bodhi Seed while the others gathered temple relics.
• Pang Bo removed the temple plaque, causing the Stone Buddha and the Great Thunderclap Temple to crumble, and Su Yu warned everyone to return to the Bronze Coffin.
• A divine figure slew the black baby crocodiles, and the Crocodile Ancestor appeared to threaten Su Yu as the crowd fled toward the Bronze Coffin.

Su Yu and Ye Fan heard an ancient scripture within the Bronze Coffin before the Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin reached the Big Dipper. Su Yu followed Ye Fan to a spiritual spring, where he waited for Ye Fan and Pang Bo to invite him to take the Sacred Fruits and spring water.

• Zhou Yi and Lin Jia asked Su Yu to accept them as disciples, but he refused them.
• Ye Fan heard a mysterious scripture from the Bronze Coffin, and Su Yu memorized its characters as divine radiance from the classmates' Buddhist artifacts flowed into the coffin engravings and strengthened their souls.
• The Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin landed on the Big Dipper, and Su Yu absorbed a trace of cyan light into the Ghost-Face Jade Jue before following Ye Fan.
• Su Yu used the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid and the presence of the Indestructible Heavenly Art to approach the Desolate Antiquity spiritual spring with Ye Fan and Pang Bo.
• Ye Fan and Pang Bo greeted Su Yu at the spring, and Ye Fan cautiously tried to steer their conversation toward its water and Sacred Fruits.

Su Yu collected the Nine Marvels Immortal Medicine’s fruits and the Desolate Ancient Divine Spring, then passed Ye Fan a movement technique before leaving the forbidden land. While refining the treasures, he transformed his visions into a chaos dragon and faced a powerful heavenly tribulation that began to loosen his soul from his body.

• Su Yu let Pang Bo and Ye Fan take fruit first, then gathered the Sacred Fruits and gave one each to them along with jade pendants.
• Su Yu stored thousands of jin of Divine Spring water in his vessels and used the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid to contain the Silver Moon Jade Pagoda.
• Su Yu passed Ye Fan the Passing of the Years movement technique and left the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land with six Sacred Fruits and the spring water.
• Su Yu refined the medicinal power in a secluded valley, where his visions merged into a true chaos dragon.
• Su Yu’s cultivation reached the Four Extremes First Heaven, and a heavenly tribulation struck; its second wave began separating his spirit body from his flesh.
• Su Yu sent the chaos dragon Qi against the lightning tribulation after realizing his body possession made his soul vulnerable to lightning.

Su Yu completed his Chaos Dragon Qi cultivation, traveled to the Northern Region seeking the Source Heaven Book and the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar’s body, and retaliated against Tu Tian and the Azure Flood Dragon King’s forces. He reached a stone village near Purple Mountain and confronted its white-haired elder, whom he suspected was Fifth Master Zhang.

• Su Yu’s Chaos Dragon Qi devoured the heavenly tribulation, stabilized his cultivation, and transformed his phenomenon into its second stage.
• Su Yu traveled through a Yaoguang Holy Land teleportation array to the Northern Region and set out for Purple Mountain in search of the Source Heaven Book.
• Tu Tian and the Azure Flood Dragon King attacked a Yaoguang Holy Land mining area with the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar, destroying a bronze pagoda and killing the Yaoguang elder and his disciples.
• Su Yu struck back with his incomplete Saint Weapon, killed several hundred bandits, and fled before Tu Tian and the Azure Flood Dragon King could retaliate.
• After reaching Purple Mountain, Su Yu found a stone village and asked its white-haired elder whether he was Fifth Master Zhang, a descendant of a Source Heavenly Master.

Su Yu obtained the Stone Garment from Fifth Master Zhang and agreed to protect the village from the bandits. After defeating their leader, he learned of nearby sects holding treasures and went to the Wind Feather Sect, where he confronted its dying Peak of Four Extremes cultivator.

• Fifth Master Zhang gave Su Yu the Stone Garment, and Su Yu offered him a hundred jin of Source in return.
• A villager asked Su Yu to destroy the bandits who had taken his sister, and Su Yu agreed to wait for their arrival.
• Su Yu used Chaos Qi to defeat the bandits and their leader, then learned from the leader's memories about four nearby sects and their treasures.
• Su Yu flew to the Wind Feather Sect and faced its old Peak of Four Extremes cultivator at the ruined mountain gate.
• Su Yu launched a Chaos Flying Dragon strike at the old Daoist.

Su Yu destroyed the Wind Feather Sect, forced the Azure Cloud Sect to find Chen Big Beard, and obtained the Wushi Emperor Jade. After experiencing Great Emperor Wushi’s lingering imprint, he continued his slaughter at the Mysterious Moon Grotto and the Lihuo Sect, where he claimed the Lihuo Divine Furnace and embraced his path of devouring.

• Su Yu killed the Wind Feather Sect’s grand elder, destroyed the sect, and devoured its cultivators.
• At the Azure Cloud Sect, Su Yu demanded Chen Big Beard and took a jade fragment from Chen Wu after recognizing it as the Wushi Emperor Jade.
• Su Yu visited the place where Wushi had comprehended the Dao, used the emperor jade to witness an ancient imprint, and received a profound spiritual baptism.
• Su Yu destroyed the Mysterious Moon Grotto and devoured its cultivators.
• Su Yu killed the Lihuo Sect’s grand elder and sect master, devoured the sect’s cultivators, and claimed the Lihuo Divine Furnace.
• Su Yu unleashed the furnace’s divine fire to burn the Lihuo Sect to ashes and declared that the king physiques should tremble.

Su Yu entered Purple Mountain, used the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid to kill the ancient race Half-Saint who had trapped Jiang Taixu, and freed the weakened Divine King. He began restoring Jiang Taixu with Desolate Ancient Divine Spring and Source.

• Su Yu entered Purple Mountain through an eastern dragon vein and crossed its perilous caverns wearing the Stone Garment.
• Su Yu reached Purple Mountain’s interior, found inscriptions left by Jiang Taixu and Zhang Jiye, and carved his own name into a wall.
• Jiang Taixu called to Su Yu from behind a jade wall, where he had been trapped by an ancient race Half-Saint for over four thousand years.
• Su Yu spent a hundred thousand jin of Source to unleash the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid’s Extreme Dao might, killing the Half-Saint and breaking through the jade wall.
• Su Yu caught Jiang Taixu as he fell free, gave him Desolate Ancient Divine Spring, and placed more than fifty thousand jin of Source before him.

Jiang Taixu recovered from his long imprisonment, repaid Su Yu by teaching him the Battle Saint Method, and joined him in exploring Purple Mountain. They found the sealed Jade Lake Holy Maiden and the Source Heaven Book, then faced signs that the Primordial creatures were waking an Ancestor King.

• Jiang Taixu restored his body with Su Yu’s help, thanked him, and taught him the Battle Saint Method.
• Su Yu told Jiang Taixu that Fairy Caiyun was still alive and waiting for him, then they continued into Purple Mountain together.
• Su Yu found Yang Yi, the Jade Lake Holy Maiden, sealed in Source and stored the block away.
• Su Yu and Jiang Taixu entered a palace, where Su Yu collected the Source Heaven Book and Zhang Jiye’s remains.
• Jiang Taixu sensed that the Primordial creatures were trying to awaken the Ancestor King deep within Purple Mountain, while Su Yu said the local branch was the weakest of the Primordial Imperial Clans.

Su Yu and Jiang Taixu failed to open the Wushi Scripture in Purple Mountain, where they encountered the Black Emperor. They used the emperor jade to leave the mountain and emerged in an underground cavern.

• Su Yu explained to Jiang Taixu why Ancient Emperor Mountain lacked an Extreme Dao Emperor Armament, and they reached the stone hall containing the Wushi Book without incident.
• Su Yu used the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid, the damaged emperor jade, and his Chaotic Blood in an attempt to open the Wushi Book, but the scripture remained sealed.
• Jiang Taixu forced the Black Emperor out of hiding, and the dog stared hungrily at Su Yu's pottery lid.
• Su Yu placed the emperor jade into the Wushi Scripture's recess, and he and Jiang Taixu departed through a curtain of light as the Black Emperor tried unsuccessfully to follow.
• Su Yu and Jiang Taixu emerged in an underground cavern, and Su Yu stopped Jiang Taixu from opening a path through the underground current.

Su Yu entered the Holy City in disguise, where the Desolate Ancient Jiang Family’s rising prestige and the privileges of the powerful were on display. He planned to make money from the city’s stone workshops without revealing his identity or provoking a major conflict.

• Jiang Taixu returned to the Jiang Family’s Holy City workshop, and Jiang Li recognized him and welcomed him inside.
• The Jiang Family gathered forces in the Holy City, prompting rumors that its workshop had yielded a world-shaking treasure.
• Su Yu returned Zhang Jiye’s remains and belongings to Fifth Master Zhang, then secluded himself to study the Source Heaven Book and cultivate the Indestructible Heavenly Art.
• Su Yu used a Stone Gall to cultivate the Source Heaven Divine Eyes, then headed for the Holy City with plans to seek treasures in its stone workshops.
• Su Yu entered the Holy City disguised as a Daoist and observed the Desolate Ancient Jiang Family’s disciples rampaging outside its gates.

Su Yu entered the Dao Yi Stone Workshop, won attention by cutting valuable treasures from stones, and revealed a Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Dao Sword from the Nine-Aperture Stone Man. He then bought a stone containing an Immortal Divine Medicine and carefully began cutting it open.

• Su Yu used his divine eyes to find Source in the Dao Yi Stone Workshop, earning a crowd’s attention as he cut valuable stones and reached the Heaven-Class Stone Garden.
• Su Yu paid ninety thousand jin of Source for the Nine-Aperture Stone Man and cut its head open, revealing a Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Dao Sword.
• Su Yu subdued the Dao Sword with his dragon Qi and the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid, while the Great Xia Divine Dynasty and the Ji Family offered Source to buy it.
• Su Yu refused to sell the Dao Sword, and a Great Xia member bought the Nine-Aperture Stone Man’s remaining torso, which contained nothing.
• Su Yu sold the Divine Origin Grass to the Great Xia Divine Dynasty, found and bought a stone containing Emperor Zun’s Immortal Divine Medicine, and began cutting it with care.

Su Yu cut a damaged humanoid Immortal Divine Medicine from an Ice-Snow Source, drawing bids from powerful families before keeping it. He sold another longevity medicine to the Great Xia imperial granduncle and headed with the group toward the Yaoguang Stone Workshop.

• Su Yu revealed a humanoid Immortal Divine Medicine sealed inside Ice-Snow Source after the stone produced the auspicious Flying Immortal sign.
• Li Chonghua of the Illusion Destruction Palace tried to pressure Su Yu into selling the medicine, but the Great Xia imperial granduncle and other Mighty Figures stopped him.
• The Ji Family, Jiang Family, and Great Xia imperial granduncle bid for the damaged medicine, but Su Yu put it away and offered a million jin of Source for other primordial divine medicines.
• Su Yu cut out Heavenly Yang Grass and sold it to the Great Xia imperial granduncle for a high price.
• Su Yu left the Dao Yi Stone Workshop with the group and walked toward the Yaoguang Stone Workshop, praising the Ji Family and Yaoguang Holy Land along the way.