Chapter Summaries

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.

Su Yu met Xia Jiuyou during the Qishi Mansion recruitment and sent his divine sense to reassure Qi Qi and Princess Yu Die in the bronze war chariot. He promised to protect Qi Lin and support Qi Qi, then infused the Imperial Dragon Qi with divine power as the story turned toward the Primordial Source Realm.

• Qi Qi and Princess Yu Die teased each other in the war chariot, while the ruler of Anping recognized the Imperial Dragon Qi and kept the Ancient Emperor's identity quiet.
• Xia Jiuyou arrived for the Qishi Mansion recruitment after repeatedly losing to Su Yu's Dao stele, and Su Yu used Void Dao patterns to bring her before him and Gai Jiuyou.
• Su Yu greeted Xia Jiuyou as Gai Jiuyou realized that he was the person who had tormented his disciple.
• Su Yu sent a warning to Qi Qi and Princess Yu Die, then appeared within Qi Qi's sea of consciousness and promised to protect her and seek justice for Qi Lin if an Imperial Clan attacked him with an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon.
• Su Yu gave Qi Qi the Number secret technique and urged her to ask the Southern Demon to visit the Green Lotus Imperial Dynasty.
• Su Yu's divine light entered the Imperial Dragon Qi, raising its pressure to the Eighth Heaven of Severing the Dao and filling the sky with purple radiance.

Su Yu brought Gai Jiuyou and Xia Jiuyou to the Primordial Source Realm, where he arranged for Saint Qingxuan to visit the Ancient Emperor Platform and gave Xia Jiuyou a precious cauldron from Palace Master Cao. When Gai Jiuyou stopped Su Yu to question the gift, Su Yu made clear he had not given it to secure Gai Jiuyou’s protection.

• Su Yu sent Yue Ling to escort the two girls to Ling Yang, then opened a gate to the Primordial Source Realm and led Gai Jiuyou and Xia Jiuyou inside.
• Yu Zi greeted the two Saints, and Su Yu gave her divine arts before asking her to take Saint Qingxuan to the Ancient Emperor Platform.
• Su Yu brought Gai Jiuyou and Xia Jiuyou to a secluded bamboo grove and gave Xia Jiuyou a small red jade cauldron on Palace Master Cao’s behalf.
• Gai Jiuyou sealed the cauldron and blocked Su Yu as he tried to leave, prompting Su Yu to ask what he meant.

Su Yu persuaded Gai Jiuyou to trust his vision of the coming Immortal Road and gave him a fragment of his spirit, while revealing that he was Cao Yusheng and Wu Shi’s disciple in disguise. He took Gai Jiuyou and Xia Jiuyou to the Chaos Realm, intending to use Immortal Medicines and other treasures to help Gai Jiuyou regain his strength and become a powerful ally.

• Su Yu questioned Gai Jiuyou’s reluctance to take an Immortal Medicine, and Gai Jiuyou explained how heaven’s fortune protected divine medicines and those favored by them.
• Su Yu gained insight into karmic deduction, then told Gai Jiuyou that the Immortal Road would open and described the ancient history of True Immortals.
• Gai Jiuyou gave Su Yu a fragment of his spirit and asked him not to let Xia Jiuyou down, prompting Xia Jiuyou to protest that she did not want to marry him.
• Su Yu revealed that Cao Yusheng was a false name and presented Xia Jiuyou with the Jiuyou Torch Dragon Seal, leaving her embarrassed by her earlier anger.
• Su Yu transported Gai Jiuyou and Xia Jiuyou to the Chaos Realm and resolved to use Immortal Medicines and other treasures to help Gai Jiuyou advance and stand against Forbidden Zone Supremes.

Su Yu brought Gai Jiuyou and Xia Jiuyou to Divine Medicine Valley, where Gai Jiuyou examined a Bodhi Tree Slough that could help extend his life. Gai Jiuyou explained how rare Semi-Divine Medicines were and speculated that Jade Lake had used a special method to grow its Flat Peach tree.

• Xia Jiuyou told Gai Jiuyou that she did not want to marry the Green Lotus Imperial Lord, then admitted that she trusted Su Yu and had feelings for him.
• Su Yu led Gai Jiuyou and Xia Jiuyou into Divine Medicine Valley, where they saw murals depicting ancient Immortal Spirits and battles.
• Yurou greeted Su Yu and learned that his guest was Gai Jiuyou, a peak Quasi-Emperor; Su Yu gave her a Dao diagram of the Nine Secrets.
• Gai Jiuyou entered the garden and sensed that its life essence Qi could extend his lifespan, while Xia Jiuyou mistook the Bodhi Tree Slough for a Bodhi Immortal Tree.
• Su Yu explained that the Bodhi Tree Slough was an incomplete remnant he had preserved, and Gai Jiuyou described the rarity of Semi-Divine Medicines.
• Gai Jiuyou suggested that Jade Lake had used a special method to grow its Flat Peach tree, prompting Su Yu to ponder the mystery.

Su Yu reflected on the mysteries surrounding his purple jade pendant, then brought Gai Jiuyou to a secluded divine medicine garden and left him the fruit of an Immortal Medicine. Gai Jiuyou consumed it and began a second lifetime, stirring the forbidden zones across the Big Dipper Star Domain and drawing Ye Fan’s attention.

• Su Yu considered whether the purple substances connected to his transmigration had helped the Bodhi Seed offshoot survive, but he still could not understand their origin or the jade pendant’s secrets.
• Su Yu summoned the Ancient Bodhi Tree’s Divine Silkworm, scolded it for laziness, and left Xia Jiuyou to play with it while he led Gai Jiuyou deeper into the garden.
• Su Yu showed Gai Jiuyou the divine spirit pools and left him a Bodhi meditation cushion and a seventy-thousand-year-old Medicine King before departing with Xia Jiuyou.
• Alone, Gai Jiuyou revealed how close he was to death and swallowed the fruit of the Divine Phoenix Immortal Medicine, beginning a second lifetime.
• Gai Jiuyou’s Imperial Dao presence shook the Big Dipper Star Domain, awakening ancient beings and stirring its forbidden zones.
• Ye Fan felt the disturbance from the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land while fighting, and the Cauldron of All-Things Mother Qi appeared before him.