Chapter Summaries

Su Chen subdued the mute assassin Gu Qingying and learned she was from the Drunken Immortal Pavilion. He took her to its headquarters, where he killed thousands of its experts in an instant, leaving Elder Weng unconscious and Gu Qingying stunned.

• Su Chen stopped Gu Qingying's attack, forced her to kneel, and removed her mask.
• Gu Qingying wrote that she belonged to the Drunken Immortal Pavilion and agreed to lead Su Chen to its headquarters in exchange for her life.
• Su Chen told Xia Meng and the other Peak Masters and elders that everything was fine, then learned the assassin's name was Gu Qingying.
• At the Drunken Immortal Pavilion, Elder Weng denied knowing Gu Qingying and ordered his guards to attack Su Chen.
• Su Chen killed thousands of the Pavilion's experts with a flash of sword light, causing Elder Weng to faint and Gu Qingying to stare in shock.

After Su Chen destroyed the Drunken Immortal Pavilion, Gu Qingying prepared to return to the Gu Household and settle scores, while Chu Feiyu chose to seek Su Chen’s forgiveness rather than risk his clan’s destruction. Su Chen spared Chu Feiyu and agreed to let the Chu Household claim part of the Jiang Household’s assets, leaving Chu Yun shocked to learn who had destroyed the pavilion.

• Gu Qingying told Elder Weng she planned to confront her eldest brother and take control of the Gu Household, but Elder Weng declined to follow her.
• Jiang Li and Chu Feiyu discussed concealing Su Chen’s role in destroying the Drunken Immortal Pavilion as they considered joining forces against him.
• Chu Feiyu went to Ancient Moon Peak, knelt before Su Chen, and apologized for his earlier decision.
• Su Chen forgave Chu Feiyu and offered him twenty percent of the Jiang Household’s assets, with eighty percent going to Su Chen and the goods delivered to the holy lord of the Star Holy Land.
• Chu Feiyu told Chu Yun that Su Chen had destroyed the Drunken Immortal Pavilion, and Chu Yun was stunned by the revelation.

Chu Yun and the Jiang Household joined forces to confront Su Chen at the Star Holy Land, but Su Chen killed Jiang Yi and the Jiang Household’s top experts with ease. Chu Yun then led the Chu Household to destroy the Jiang Household, leaving no survivors.

• Chu Yun agreed to Chu Feiyu’s plan and brought the Chu Household’s experts to meet the Jiang Household.
• Chu Yun and Jiang Yi led their experts to the Star Holy Land and demanded to see Su Chen.
• Su Chen appeared, instantly killed Jiang Yi, and slew the fleeing Jiang Household experts with a sweep of sword light.
• Chu Yun knelt before Su Chen, who asked whether Chu Yun’s son had told him what happened, then left without harming him.
• Chu Yun returned to the Jiang Household, killed Jiang Li, and ordered the Chu Household experts to slaughter everyone there.

Chu Yun gave the Jiang Household’s spoils to the Star Holy Land on Su Chen’s orders, while Su Chen learned that Ye Lingxi’s awakening would restore her past-life memories. Xia Meng and Murong Xue admitted they loved Su Chen and decided to work harder at cultivating for a chance with him.

• Chu Yun burned the Jiang Household to the ground, then delivered its possessions to Xia Meng for the Star Holy Land.
• Xia Meng offered the ring’s valuables back to Su Chen, but he told her to keep them because they were useless to him.
• Su Chen asked the system whether he could return to Earth and learned that he could.
• Ye Lingxi returned from a month in a secret realm, and Su Chen learned her Immortal Spirit Divine Physique would awaken at the Half-Emperor Realm and restore her past-life memories.
• Xia Meng and Murong Xue admitted they had fallen for Su Chen and agreed to cultivate harder in hopes of becoming worthy of him.

After fleeing the Star Holy Land, Nangong Guyue accepted the Evil God's offer of power, only to discover that he intended to take over her body. As the possession began, her Ice Phoenix Divine Physique awakened and resisted him.

• Nangong Guyue fled after witnessing Su Chen kill Jiang Yi and regretted her past arrogance.
• An eerie voice led Nangong Guyue to a cave, where the Evil God offered her power in exchange for serving him for three hundred years.
• Nangong Guyue accepted the offer and sat on the altar as the Evil God sent mysterious power into her body, rapidly increasing her cultivation.
• The Evil God tried to possess Nangong Guyue, inflicting terrible pain as he attacked her soul.
• Nangong Guyue summoned an ice phoenix from within herself, and the Evil God realized she had the Ice Phoenix Divine Physique.

Su Chen left the Star Holy Land and brought Ye Lingxi and the Demon Venerable to the Immortal Realm, where he revealed himself as the Young Master of the powerful Su Clan. He entered the clan’s hidden world and ordered its guard to keep his return secret.

• Su Chen bid farewell to Xia Meng, handed her the Peak Master Token, and left the Star Holy Land with Ye Lingxi and the Demon Venerable.
• At an inn in the Immortal Realm, Su Chen told Ye Lingxi that she would soon meet her parents and reassured her when she became nervous.
• Three days later, Su Chen opened a spatial rift on a plain, and several Su Clan guards emerged to challenge the group.
• A guard recognized Su Chen as the Young Master of the Su Clan and let him, Ye Lingxi, and the Demon Venerable enter the clan’s small world.
• Su Chen ordered the guard who followed them inside not to tell anyone he had returned, and the guard agreed.

Su Chen brought Ye Lingxi to meet his father, Su Yanche, who welcomed her as his daughter and gave her the sword Fallen Phoenix. The sword chose Ye Lingxi as its master and greatly increased her cultivation, while Su Chen learned his mother was at Yingtian Academy.

• Su Chen introduced Ye Lingxi to Su Yanche, who learned she was Su Chen's acknowledged little sister and welcomed her as his daughter.
• Su Yanche gave Ye Lingxi the Fallen Phoenix, a sword forged from a Fire Phoenix's bones and Essence Blood.
• When Ye Lingxi took the sword, a Fire Phoenix entered her brow and raised her cultivation to the peak of the ninth level of the Life and Death Realm before Su Yanche stabilized her.
• Su Yanche told Su Chen that his mother had returned to Yingtian Academy and missed him.
• The Demon Venerable identified himself as Su Chen's servant, and Su Chen claimed the Demon Venerable had insisted on following him after Su Chen saved his life.

Su Yanche told Su Chen that the Emperor’s Road would open in twenty years and asked him to take charge of the Divine Son position. At the clan plaza, Su Hao revealed his Saint Realm strength after Su Yun and Su Wan’er fought to a draw, and the battle against him began.

• Su Yanche told Su Chen that the Emperor’s Road would open in twenty years and that the clan’s youngsters wanted to become the Divine Son; Su Chen agreed to handle it.
• Su Yun and Su Wan’er each claimed the Divine Son position and fought until both were injured, ending their match in a draw.
• Su Hao appeared and told Su Yun and Su Wan’er to heal before fighting him.
• Su Wan’er attacked Su Hao, but his spear intent shattered her punch and sent her flying, revealing that he had reached the Saint Realm.
• A powerful sword intent surged toward Su Hao as the crowd reacted to his breakthrough.

Su Hao defeated Su Yun and claimed he deserved to be the Su Clan's divine son, but prodigies from High Antiquity arrived and overwhelmed him. Su Chen then appeared, injured Su Nanxing with a sudden sword strike, and was recognized by Grand Elder Su Rong, who ordered Su Nanxing to apologize to him.

• Su Hao defeated Su Yun and challenged the crowd to dispute his claim to the divine son position.
• Su Ya and the High Antiquity prodigies arrived, and Su Nanxing defeated Su Hao with a single punch, revealing he was at the peak of the Ninth Level of the Saint Realm.
• Su Chen arrived holding Ye Lingxi's hand and asked how one became the divine son.
• Su Nanxing mocked Su Chen, who cut out his tongue with a flash of sword light.
• Su Rong arrived and ordered Su Nanxing to apologize to Xiao Chen, threatening consequences if he refused.

Su Chen returned to the Su Clan, where Su Rong killed Su Nanxing after Su Chen ordered it and declared Su Chen the clan’s divine son. As ancient powers sent gifts to the Su Clan, Su Ya challenged Su Chen to a spar and launched a devastating attack, leaving his response unknown.

• Su Chen told Su Rong to kill Su Nanxing, and Su Rong crushed him to pulp after Su Nanxing apologized.
• Su Clan members recognized Su Chen as the clan leader’s son, and Su Rong warmly welcomed him back and asked about his cultivation.
• Su Chen said he did not want to be the divine son, but Su Rong proclaimed him the Su Clan’s divine son throughout the Immortal Realm.
• Nangong Po ordered treasures sent to the Su Clan, and other taboo powers also dispatched people there.
• Su Ya challenged Su Chen to a spar and attacked him with a powerful phantom palm that engulfed him.

Su Chen demonstrated overwhelming power before returning to a quiet courtyard, where he lived for seven months. His father then revealed that Ji Ningbing was his fiancée, and she agreed to the marriage despite Su Chen's reluctance.

• Su Chen destroyed a Great Sage's attack with one word, frightening Su Ya into admitting defeat.
• Su Chen left with Ye Lingxi and the Demon Venerable and settled into a peaceful courtyard.
• Seven months later, a messenger summoned Su Chen to meet his father, Su Yanche.
• Su Yanche told Su Chen that Ji Ningbing, the third princess of the Great Xia Empire, was his fiancée through an arrangement made by his mother.
• Su Chen offered to have the marriage called off if Ji Ningbing opposed it, but she said she was pleased with the match and left after inviting him to visit.

Su Chen left the Su Clan to seek his mother and call off his marriage, promising Ye Lingxi he would return with Immortal Realm delicacies. While camping in a bamboo grove, he let a woman be attacked, then killed her after she ordered Leng Shan to kill him, and told Leng Shan to inform her father.

• Su Chen decided to find his mother and ask her to call off his marriage, then promised Ye Lingxi he would return with treats from the Immortal Realm.
• After three days of walking, Su Chen camped in a bamboo grove and refused to save a woman who pleaded for help from a pursuing man.
• Leng Shan arrived and killed the attacker with his spear, but the woman then ordered him to kill Su Chen.
• Su Chen killed the woman with a flash of sword light after she revealed her hostility toward him.
• Leng Shan warned Su Chen that the woman was the daughter of the Mysterious Yin Holy Land's Holy Lord, and Su Chen told him to contact the Holy Lord and report her death.

Su Chen crushed the Mysterious Yin Holy Land's assault, killed its Holy Lord and trusted confidants, and appointed Leng Shan as the new Holy Lord. At Yingtian Academy, Xia Qingyan approached Su Chen and confessed that she liked him.

• Leng Shan summoned the Mysterious Yin Holy Lord and nearly a thousand experts to attack Su Chen after the young miss was killed.
• Su Chen forced the attackers to their knees with a single command, then killed the Mysterious Yin Holy Lord.
• At Su Chen's direction, Leng Shan identified the Holy Lord's trusted confidants, and Su Chen killed each person he named.
• Su Chen spared Leng Shan and made him the new Holy Lord of the Mysterious Yin Holy Land, and Leng Shan vowed to erect a statue of him.
• At Yingtian Academy, Su Chen watched students struggle up the Heavenly Ladder while holding candied hawthorns.
• Xia Qingyan approached Su Chen and told him, “I like you!”

Xia Qingyan publicly claimed to like Su Chen, provoking Ye Yuanlong, who announced that he would become Yingtian Academy’s Holy Son and challenged Su Chen to climb the heavenly ladder. Su Chen killed Ye Yuanlong after detecting his killing intent, then seized Master Song Jingshan when he attacked, leaving the academy’s response unresolved.

• Xia Qingyan repeated that she liked Su Chen, and Ye Yuanlong confronted them, claiming she was his woman.
• Ye Yuanlong announced that he would be named Yingtian Academy’s Holy Son and challenged Su Chen to a contest on the heavenly ladder.
• After Su Chen asked whether Ye Yuanlong had intended to kill him, Ye Yuanlong admitted it, and Su Chen instantly beheaded him.
• Song Jingshan attacked Su Chen with Saint King Realm power, while Xia Qingyan and the other disciples moved away from Su Chen.
• Su Chen vanished from the attack, appeared before Song Jingshan, and lifted him by the throat as Song Jingshan discovered his cultivation was sealed.

Su Chen killed Song Jingshan and faced nine instructors until his mother, Yingtian Academy’s dean Qin An, appeared and revealed his identity as her son. He ordered the instructors to kill themselves or face slaughter, then spared their Lineages because they had served the academy.

• Su Chen crushed Song Jingshan’s neck as nine instructors surrounded him and attacked.
• Su Chen called for his mother, and Qin An appeared, overwhelming everyone with her presence and confirming that Su Chen was her son.
• Qin An left the nine instructors’ fate to Su Chen, who ordered them to kill themselves or risk the destruction of their Lineages.
• Su Chen killed one instructor who objected and ordered an old man to eliminate that instructor’s Lineage and Song Jingshan’s Lineage.
• The eight remaining instructors erased their own divine souls, and Su Chen decided not to punish their Lineages because they had served under Qin An.

Su Chen ordered two attendants to deal with Ye Yuanlong and Song Jingshan, then climbed the Heavenly Ladder with ease despite the disciples’ astonishment. At the summit, he found a sword and a scroll, whose sudden burst of sword intent formed the figure of a middle-aged man.

• Su Chen sent two attendants to take care of Ye Yuanlong’s and Song Jingshan’s corpses, frightening the gathered clans and disciples into avoiding him.
• Xia Qingyan called out to Su Chen, then collapsed and regretted not having supported him earlier.
• Su Chen ignored Xia Qingyan and climbed the Heavenly Ladder, accelerating until he reached the final step.
• Su Chen found a sword and a scroll on a stone table at the summit.
• The scroll unleashed terrifying sword intent that formed the figure of a middle-aged man in white robes.

Su Chen rejected the Heavenly Ladder inheritance, demonstrating that his sword intent far surpassed the middle-aged man's and leaving the academy disciples amazed. He reunited with Qin An, who accepted that he had secrets and listened as he recounted his life, then asked him to bring his younger sister to visit.

• Su Chen refused the middle-aged man's inheritance and overwhelmed his sword intent with a display of his own.
• The middle-aged man acknowledged Su Chen's strength and asked him for a favor, but Su Chen refused and left.
• Su Chen told the academy disciples he had not taken the inheritance because it was useless to him, prompting some disciples to climb the Heavenly Ladder.
• Xia Qingyan left, believing her life was over after her choices had doomed her.
• Su Chen met Qin An, admitted the sword intent was his, and recounted his experiences while she listened.
• Qin An asked Su Chen to bring his younger sister to visit her.

Su Chen secured Qin An’s permission to break off his engagement and traveled to the Great Xia Empire, where he told Ji Ningbing he would make her empress if her imperial father resisted. Ji Ningbing feared for her empire as Su Chen prepared to confront its rulers.

• Su Chen asked Qin An to let him break off his engagement, and she agreed, telling him to speak to the emperor of the Great Xia Empire himself.
• After staying with Qin An for six days, Su Chen traveled to the Great Xia Empire’s capital.
• Ji Ningbing joined Su Chen at a restaurant and learned he had come to end their engagement, not to see her.
• Ji Ningbing warned that her imperial father would refuse because he valued Su Chen’s talent and background, but Su Chen said the emperor would not dare oppose him.
• Ji Ningbing asked Su Chen to spare her imperial family, and he promised not to destroy the empire, saying he would make her its emperor if her father resisted.

Su Chen went to the imperial palace with Ji Ningbing to end his engagement, but Emperor Ji Yunzhou attacked him after taking offense at his bluntness. Su Chen overwhelmed the emperor’s forces and dispersed Great Xia’s national fortune dragon, leaving everyone terrified of his power.

• Su Chen told Ji Yunzhou that he had come to break off the engagement and turned to leave.
• Ji Yunzhou attacked Su Chen with a dragon claw, but Su Chen shattered it and punched apart Zhou Wei’s thunder-dragon spear attack.
• Ji Yunzhou ordered Zhou Wei to kill Su Chen, but Su Chen destroyed Zhou Wei’s spear and crushed his neck with one hand.
• Ji Yunzhou summoned a dragon formed from Great Xia’s national fortune and sent its crimson breath at Su Chen.
• Su Chen shattered the dragon breath with a word and dispersed the national fortune dragon with another, leaving the court in terror.

Su Chen confronted Ji Yunzhou after overwhelming him, but Ji Wuming appeared to protect his son and was defeated with a single punch. When seven more Half-Emperor experts emerged as the Great Xia Empire's hidden strength, Su Chen forced them all to their knees with one word.

• Ji Yunzhou begged Su Chen to end the conflict, then called for his father, Ji Wuming, to save him.
• Ji Wuming appeared and asked Su Chen to spare Ji Yunzhou, but Su Chen refused and challenged him.
• Ji Wuming attacked Su Chen and lost his physical body to Su Chen's single punch, surviving only through a secret art that protected his divine soul.
• Ji Wuming summoned seven past emperors of the Great Xia Empire, including one at the Half-Emperor Realm Sixth Stage.
• Su Chen said "Kneel!" and forced everyone present, including all the Half-Emperor experts, to the ground.