Chapter Summaries

Su Chen, an immortal-realm heir banished to the lower realm, spent ten years enjoying its scenery and avoided cultivation. In Jiangnan City, his system ordered him to take Ye Lingxi, the reincarnation of an empress, as his disciple, but he left her after offering food and silver, and went to buy wine.

• Su Chen killed the Venerable Realm python with one punch after arriving in the lower realm.
• Su Chen spent ten years traveling through the lower realm and enjoying its sights.
• Su Chen met the seven-year-old beggar Ye Lingxi, and his system identified her as an empress’s reincarnation and assigned him to take her as a disciple.
• Su Chen bought Ye Lingxi candied hawthorn and gave her silver, but decided not to accept her as a disciple.
• Ye Lingxi thanked Su Chen as he left, and he went to a Jiangnan City tavern to buy wine.

Su Chen rescued Ye Lingxi from a young man who accused her of stealing, then killed the attacker and silenced the onlookers who had joined in. After killing Jiangnan City lord Tang Yuan, Su Chen asked an elder of the Flood Dragon Sect to point out its location and ordered the sect destroyed.

• Su Chen bought five jars of Peach Blossom Wine and made them disappear before leaving the restaurant.
• Su Chen saw Ye Lingxi accused of stealing and watched the young man slap her while the crowd condemned her.
• Su Chen kicked the young man away from Ye Lingxi, then killed him with a flash of sword light and wounded the onlookers who had accused her.
• Tang Yuan arrived, learned Su Chen had killed his nephew, and ordered the black-robed elder to kill him; Su Chen killed Tang Yuan first.
• The black-robed elder identified himself as an elder of the Flood Dragon Sect and pointed out its direction when Su Chen asked.
• Su Chen ordered that the Flood Dragon Sect cease to exist, and an unseen voice answered, “As you command!”

Su Chen rescued Ye Lingxi, took her in as his little sister, and brought her to the Star Holy Land five years later. After he flew past the gate guards with her, Murong Xue confronted him, sensing that he posed a danger.

• Su Chen killed the black-robed elder in Jiangnan City and carried Ye Lingxi away to safety.
• Su Chen arranged for Ye Lingxi to bathe and eat, then asked her to stay with him; she agreed and called him big brother.
• The system said Su Chen had not completed its disciple mission but awarded him one hundred million immortal crystals as a consolation prize.
• Five years later, Su Chen and Ye Lingxi reached the Star Holy Land, where two disciples ordered them to leave.
• Su Chen flew into the Holy Land carrying Ye Lingxi, prompting Murong Xue and others to confront him; Murong Xue asked who he was and why he had trespassed.

Su Chen defeated Murong Xue to become the Star Holy Land’s Ancient Moon Peak Master and settled there with Ye Lingxi. After Du Yuan explained the peak’s history, Su Chen cooked a meal for Ye Lingxi and shared it with her.

• Su Chen asked Murong Xue to let him become the Ancient Moon Peak Master and agreed to defeat her as a condition.
• Murong Xue attacked Su Chen with her full strength, but he caught her sword between two fingers and returned it to her.
• Murong Xue accepted her defeat and sent Du Yuan to escort Su Chen to Ancient Moon Peak.
• Du Yuan showed Su Chen the peak, explained that its former Peak Master had disappeared seven years earlier, and gave him a communication stone.
• Su Chen roasted two rabbits for Ye Lingxi, then shared the second one with her after she insisted that he eat too.

Su Chen went to Stars Peak to obtain the Peak Master Token from the Holy Lord, Xia Meng. After overpowering her, he took the token and left, while Xia Meng watched him with apprehension and a trace of excitement.

• Su Chen left Ye Lingxi behind and walked through the Star Holy Land, where the disciples mistook him for a new arrival.
• Su Chen entered the palace on Stars Peak and accidentally saw Xia Meng bathing, then returned when she ordered him inside.
• Xia Meng recognized Su Chen and offered him the Peak Master Token if he defeated her.
• Xia Meng attacked Su Chen with her sword, but his power shattered it and sent her flying.
• When Xia Meng refused to hand over the token, Su Chen seized her by the throat until she gave it to him, then left the palace.

Su Chen returned to Ancient Moon Peak just in time to save Ye Lingxi from Jiang Hao and his companions, then killed Jiang Qisheng when he came seeking revenge. The chapter ended with Su Chen crushing Jiang Qisheng’s neck despite You An’s intervention.

• Jiang Hao and four companions cornered Ye Lingxi at the foot of Ancient Moon Peak and tried to force her to go with them.
• Su Chen arrived, killed Jiang Hao and the others, and comforted Ye Lingxi.
• Jiang Qisheng appeared in the sky after his grandson’s soul lamp went out and demanded to know who had killed him.
• Su Chen confronted Jiang Qisheng, effortlessly countered his attacks, and beat him until he was helpless.
• You An arrived and asked Su Chen to show mercy, but Su Chen crushed Jiang Qisheng’s neck, and You An left.

Su Chen killed You An and ordered his followers to exterminate nine generations of the Jiang Household and the You Household, leaving the Star Holy Land afraid to challenge him. Several days later, Ye Lingxi asked Su Chen to teach her cultivation so she could fly.

• Su Chen killed You An, and Xia Meng warned him that the Jiang Household and the You Household would seek revenge.
• Su Chen summoned masked followers and ordered them to exterminate nine generations of both households.
• Su Chen thanked Xia Meng for her warning, then took Ye Lingxi to get food; Xia Meng and the Peak Masters decided not to provoke him.
• Xia Meng consulted a Supreme Elder, who told her to let Su Chen stay and leave him alone.
• Several days later, Ye Lingxi finished cleaning Su Chen's loft and massaged his back, then told him she wanted to cultivate immortality so she could fly.

Su Chen taught Ye Lingxi the first steps of cultivation, guiding her through body tempering and Qi drawing. She successfully gathered Spiritual Qi in her Dantian, and Su Chen began passing a sacred scripture to her.

• Su Chen explained body tempering and gave Ye Lingxi a Body Tempering Pill, which cleansed her body of impurities.
• After bathing, Ye Lingxi followed Su Chen's instructions to calm her mind and sense Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi.
• Ye Lingxi drew Spiritual Qi into her body and formed a ball of energy in her Dantian, while Su Chen subdued the resulting energy fluctuation.
• Ye Lingxi gathered Spiritual Qi in her right hand and felt her strength increase.
• Su Chen touched Ye Lingxi between the brows and passed a sacred scripture into her mind.

Su Chen gave Ye Lingxi the Spirit-Devouring Sacred Scripture, and her Emperor-Grade Talent let her cultivate rapidly under his guidance. After she learned to fly, Du Yuan summoned Su Chen to Star Hall, leaving Ye Lingxi behind to practice.

• Su Chen gave Ye Lingxi the Spirit-Devouring Sacred Scripture, and she quickly reached the Peak of the Ninth Level of Qi Gathering before he told her to stabilize her realm.
• Over the following year, Ye Lingxi cultivated from the Qi Gathering Realm to the Ninth Level of the Divine Treasure Realm while Su Chen enjoyed a leisurely life.
• Ye Lingxi learned she could fly and shot uncontrollably into the sky, but Su Chen caught her before she hit the ground.
• Su Chen promised to cook Ye Lingxi something delicious, then accepted Du Yuan's message that the Holy Lord wanted him at Star Hall.
• Su Chen left, telling Ye Lingxi to practice flying on her own and not go too high.

Su Chen learned that Murong Xue was trapped in the Devil Venerable Secret Realm by the Heavenly Devil Sect and went to rescue her. He arrived as Murong Xue was being overwhelmed by Li Jing and six other sect members.

• Xia Meng told Su Chen that Murong Xue was trapped and asked him to manage the Holy Land while she and the Peak Masters went to rescue her.
• Su Chen volunteered to rescue Murong Xue, then reassured Ye Lingxi before leaving Ancient Moon Peak.
• Su Chen used the system to learn that Murong Xue was in the Devil Venerable Secret Realm and hurried there.
• Li Jing confronted Murong Xue and claimed the Star Holy Land would not exist much longer.
• Murong Xue wounded Li Jing, but he ordered the other six Heavenly Devil Sect members to attack her, and she gradually fell into a disadvantage.

Murong Xue broke through to the Half-Saint Realm and defeated Li Jing and the six Heavenly Devil Sect members, but Li Jing’s talisman nearly killed her before Su Chen intervened. After Su Chen rescued and healed her with a Saint Pill, the Heavenly Devil Sect’s master, Luocha, set out for the Devil Venerable Secret Realm, while Murong Xue marveled at Su Chen’s casualness.

• Murong Xue broke through to the First Level of the Half-Saint Realm, killed the six Heavenly Devil Sect members, and faced Li Jing alone.
• Li Jing shattered a talisman to unleash the Heavenly Devil Sect master's saber intent, but Su Chen appeared and destroyed it with a finger.
• Su Chen defeated Li Jing with two strikes, and Li Jing died; Murong Xue then fainted from her injuries.
• Su Chen gave Murong Xue a Saint Pill, which healed her injuries, while Luocha learned Li Jing was dead and led the Heavenly Devil Sect elders toward the Devil Venerable Secret Realm.
• Murong Xue woke and questioned how she had recovered so quickly, and Su Chen told her the Saint Pill was nothing special.

Su Chen broke the seal on the Devil Venerable, then easily subdued him and took the treasure he had obtained. After examining the small tower, Su Chen vanished into a vast grassland within a special space.

• Murong Xue told Su Chen that the Heavenly Devil Sect planned to unseal a mighty figure hidden in the Devil Venerable Secret Realm.
• Su Chen and Murong Xue found a red coffin in a great hall, and Su Chen shattered it, freeing the Devil Venerable.
• The Devil Venerable mistook Su Chen for a weakling, but Su Chen appeared in front of him, pinned him down, and sealed his cultivation.
• The Devil Venerable explained that he had been sealed after powerful figures in the Immortal Realm hunted him for a treasure.
• The Devil Venerable handed Su Chen a small tower, and Su Chen disappeared into a special space containing a vast grassland.

Su Chen entered the little tower, discovered its artifact spirit was searching for Lin Fan, and persuaded her to stay with him as Duo'er. After he took the tower and gave the Demon Venerable pills that could help him advance, Murong Xue unexpectedly broke through to Half-Saint, while the Demon Venerable recognized the pills as Nine Revolutions Profound Spirit Pills.

• Su Chen learned that the little tower’s artifact spirit was meant to find and help Lin Fan, then convinced her to stay and named her Duo'er.
• Murong Xue questioned the Demon Venerable about the tower’s interior and learned that one day outside equaled a hundred years inside.
• Su Chen returned, absorbed the tower into his sea of consciousness, and promised to compensate the Demon Venerable with pills.
• Murong Xue broke through to Half-Saint after the Demon Venerable opened the pill bottle, and the Demon Venerable recognized the pills as Nine Revolutions Profound Spirit Pills.

The Devil Venerable learned the Nine Revolutions Profound Spirit Pill’s limits and begged to serve Su Chen, who accepted him as a retainer. After Su Chen killed Mo Sha and the Heavenly Devil Sect and broke the Devil Venerable’s seal, they returned to the Star Holy Land, where Ye Lingxi happily welcomed Su Chen back.

• The Devil Venerable explained that the Nine Revolutions Profound Spirit Pill could raise Great Saint Realm cultivators by one stage repeatedly, but would kill those below that realm and have no effect on those above it.
• The Devil Venerable begged to stay with Su Chen, and Su Chen agreed, telling him to call him young master.
• Mo Sha mistook the kneeling Devil Venerable for a captive and led the Heavenly Devil Sect in an attack on Su Chen.
• Su Chen ordered Mo Sha and his followers to kneel, then killed them all in an instant.
• Su Chen shattered the seal inside the Devil Venerable, restored his Devil Qi, and took him and Murong Xue back to the Star Holy Land.
• A day later, Ye Lingxi ran to Su Chen and happily threw herself into his arms when he returned to Ancient Moon Peak.

Su Chen reunited with Ye Lingxi and assigned the Demon Venerable to protect her, then the Star Holy Land prepared for its disciple recruitment a year later. As An Lan tested the candidates, Su Chen remained at Ancient Moon Peak, fishing beside Ye Lingxi.

• Su Chen introduced the Demon Venerable as Ye Lingxi’s protector, and she reluctantly accepted after he promised to stay by her side when he could.
• Su Chen cooked hot pot for Ye Lingxi and the Demon Venerable, who was amazed by its taste.
• Murong Xue told the Star Holy Land leaders that Su Chen had defeated a Great Saint Realm expert and destroyed the Heavenly Devil Sect, and they decided to hold the disciple recruitment a year later.
• At the recruitment, An Lan tested the candidates with his Ninth Level of the Venerable Realm pressure, and three young people stood out by remaining at ease.
• At Ancient Moon Peak, Su Chen caught a spirit fish and returned it to the lake while Ye Lingxi watched.

Su Chen took Ye Lingxi to watch the Star Holy Land’s recruitment trials, where the candidates began their final test in an illusion formation. A mission appeared identifying Nangong Guyue as an eighteen-year-old prodigy and ordering Su Chen to take her as a disciple.

• Su Chen explained fishing as a way to cultivate patience and composure, then agreed to accompany Ye Lingxi to the recruitment trials.
• Su Chen ordered the Demon Venerable to protect Ye Lingxi wherever she went, and the Demon Venerable agreed.
• An Lan ended the first trial after fewer than a hundred candidates endured his pressure, then introduced Xia Meng and the Peak Masters.
• An Lan began the final trial by trapping the candidates in an illusion formation, which Lu Pingchuan said was low grade.
• Su Chen arrived with Ye Lingxi and the Demon Venerable, and Murong Xue welcomed Ye Lingxi and held her so she could watch.
• A mission identified Nangong Guyue as a peak ninth-level Half-Saint with Emperor-grade talent and an Ice Phoenix Divine Physique, and instructed Su Chen to take her as a disciple.

Su Chen agreed to take Nangong Guyue as his disciple after learning she belonged to the Nangong Clan of the Immortal Realm. When she said she would accept him as her master if her clan approved, Su Chen went to confront the clan, where its guards attacked him.

• Nangong Guyue and most of the other candidates awoke and passed the Star Holy Land assessment, while An Lan sent the unconscious candidates away.
• Nangong Guyue refused Xia Meng, Murong Xue, and the other Peak Masters, saying she would not take any of them as her master.
• Su Chen asked Xia Meng to let him take Nangong Guyue as his disciple, then brought her to Ancient Moon Peak.
• Su Chen revealed that he knew Nangong Guyue belonged to the Nangong Clan of the Immortal Realm and asked whether she would accept him if her clan agreed.
• Su Chen entered the Nangong Clan's secret realm and asked to see its clan leader, but ten armored experts attacked him.
• Su Chen struck once and sent all ten Nangong Clan experts flying over a thousand zhang away.

Su Chen subdued the Nangong Clan’s forces, gave Nangong Po a Dao Comprehension Tree seed, and secured his agreement to take Nangong Guyue as a disciple. But after Nangong Guyue refused Su Chen’s offer, her father learned what she had done and flew into a rage.

• The Nangong Clan’s experts attacked Su Chen, but he forced thousands to their knees and killed those who showed killing intent.
• Nangong Po appeared, apologized for his clan’s actions, and accepted a Dao Comprehension Tree seed from Su Chen as compensation.
• Su Chen asked to take Nangong Guyue as his disciple, and Nangong Po agreed before Su Chen returned to Ancient Moon Peak.
• Nangong Guyue doubted Su Chen’s claim that her father had agreed, then heard Nangong Po tell her to stay close to Su Chen and behave herself.
• Su Chen told Nangong Guyue she could leave after she remained unwilling to become his disciple, and she later told Nangong Po that she had refused.
• Nangong Po explained Su Chen’s power and generosity, then flew into a rage when he learned Nangong Guyue had rejected him.

Nangong Guyue regretted refusing Su Chen as his disciple, but he rejected her apology and sent her away. She then lied to Jiang Li and Chu Feiyu about Su Chen and persuaded them to summon help from their clans, while Su Chen watched and decided to let events unfold.

• Nangong Po ordered Nangong Guyue to apologize to Su Chen or lose her position as young clan leader.
• Nangong Guyue returned to Su Chen and begged forgiveness, but he refused and sent her to the foot of Ancient Moon Peak.
• Nangong Guyue told Jiang Li and Chu Feiyu that Su Chen had tried to force himself on her and urged them to seek help from their clans.
• Jiang Li and Chu Feiyu left to summon experts from the Jiang Household and the Chu Household, and Nangong Guyue revealed she intended to use them to kill Su Chen.
• Su Chen watched Nangong Guyue and decided not to kill her, but warned himself that she would die if she later came after him with the two households.

Jiang Li and Chu Feiyu hired the Drunken Immortal Pavilion to assassinate Su Chen, prompting Elder Weng to investigate and send Meiying to test him. Meanwhile, Ye Lingxi left Ancient Moon Peak for a secret realm, and a blade struck at Su Chen that evening.

• Jiang Li deduced that Guyue had lied to make them kill Su Chen and decided to use the Drunken Immortal Pavilion to test him.
• Jiang Li and Chu Feiyu paid the Drunken Immortal Pavilion eight hundred immortal crystals to assassinate Su Chen, then left to await news.
• Elder Weng recognized Jiang Li and Chu Feiyu, ordered an investigation into Su Chen, and later sent Meiying to sound him out.
• Ye Lingxi asked Su Chen for permission to visit a low-level secret realm with Murong, and Su Chen agreed after the Demon Venerable promised to protect her.
• As Su Chen slept on Ancient Moon Peak that evening, killing intent surged and a flash of blade light struck.