Chapter Summaries

On the journey back to the Eastern Emperor Sect, Li Tianming learned that Li Wudi had secretly endured fourteen years of tribulation cultivation and hoped he would soon emerge stronger. As the group discussed defending the sect and the Eastern Emperor Sword, Zhao Zhiyuan suddenly attacked Ye Shaoqing, sending everyone plunging from the Windcloud Divine Crane.

• Li Tianming confronted Ye Shaoqing, who revealed that Li Wudi had secretly cultivated through life and death for fourteen years to break his tribulation.
• Ye Shaoqing explained that reclaiming the Eastern Emperor Sword had weakened the Sacred Emperor and could strengthen the sect if Li Wudi mastered it.
• Li Tianming resolved to fight to protect the Eastern Emperor Sect and the Li Clan Saint Clan from the Heavenly Court.
• Zhao Zhiyuan urged Ye Shaoqing to show the Eastern Emperor Sword, but Ye Shaoqing refused because it was too important to risk exposing.
• Zhao Zhiyuan accused Ye Shaoqing of insulting him, punched at him, and then struck the Windcloud Divine Crane, sending everyone falling from the sky.

Li Tianming realized that Zhao Zhiyuan’s attack was a distraction when Shangguan Jingshu seized him and forced Ye Shaoqing to surrender the Eastern Emperor Sword. Shangguan Jingshu revealed that Yuwen Taiji had coerced her and Zhao Zhiyuan with poison, then warned that more elders might be his hidden allies.

• Zhao Zhiyuan attacked Ye Shaoqing while the elders protected Li Tianming, and Li Tianming suspected the assault was meant to distract them.
• Shangguan Jingshu grabbed Li Tianming and threatened to kill him unless Ye Shaoqing handed the Eastern Emperor Sword to Zhao Zhiyuan.
• Ye Shaoqing surrendered the sword, and Shangguan Jingshu let Zhao Zhiyuan leave with a half-hour head start while keeping Li Tianming under her control.
• Shangguan Jingshu explained that Yuwen Taiji had poisoned her and Zhao Zhiyuan with Nethermare Flower Poison and held the only antidote.
• Shangguan Jingshu warned that Yuwen Taiji might have other hidden allies among the elders and urged Ye Shaoqing and Li Tianming to flee.

After Zhao Zhiyuan stole the Eastern Emperor Sword for Yuwen Taiji, Li Tianming and the Ye Clan returned to the Eastern Emperor Sect amid its looming war with Heavenly Court. Huangfu Fengyun and the elders agreed to let Li Tianming, Li Jingyu, Li Qingyu, and the Azure Dragon Ye Clan leave as the sect’s last hope.

• Shangguan Jingshu told Li Tianming to flee after admitting she had helped Zhao Zhiyuan take the Eastern Emperor Sword for Yuwen Taiji.
• Ye Shaoqing and Ye Qing planned to gather their clansmen and leave the sect, while Li Tianming reassured Ye Shaoqing that Shangguan Jingshu’s betrayal had been hard to foresee.
• The returning elders reported that Yuwen Taiji had left with Zhao Zhiyuan and seven others to comprehend the sword, and had threatened to kill anyone who let Li Tianming and Ye Shaoqing go.
• Shangguan Jingshu and Huangfu Fengyun declared they would let Li Tianming and the Azure Dragon Ye Clan leave despite Yuwen Taiji’s threat, and more than twenty elders joined their decision.
• Ye Qing went to gather her clan, while Ye Shaoqing and Li Tianming prepared to take Li Jingyu and Li Qingyu away.

Li Tianming and the others fled to Cloudpiercing Peak as the Eastern Emperor Sect prepared for war, while he chose not to hide inside the Blood Tribulation Barrier. There, he and Li Qingyu watched the Eastern Emperor Ten Thousand Mountains Barrier appear and learned how it compared with the realm’s other great barriers.

• Li Tianming reunited with Li Jingyu and Li Qingyu, and learned that Qingyu had reached the eighth level of the Unity Realm.
• Ye Shaoqing brought the Azure Dragon Ye Clan’s direct descendants, including Ye Tianlong, and Huangfu Fengyun urged Li Tianming to survive and restore pride to the Li Clan Saintline.
• Li Tianming and the others flew to Cloudpiercing Peak to wait near the Eastern Emperor Sect, while Ye Tianlong complained that they should flee the realm.
• Li Qingyu worried about Ling'er as Li Tianming held the warming Heavenly Ling Love.
• Li Tianming and Li Qingyu saw the Eastern Emperor Ten Thousand Mountains Barrier light up across the sky.
• Li Qingyu explained the origins and limits of the Ten Thousand Mountains Barrier, the Blood Tribulation Barrier, and the Sacred Heavenly Sovereign Barrier, and described the Southern Heaven Sea-Guarding Barrier.

Li Tianming and Li Qingyu discussed the Eastern Emperor Sect’s defenses as the sect prepared for war and considered the enemy’s strategy. Three days later, the Skysword Sect’s army arrived at the Eastern Emperor Mountains with Jun Niancang and two powerful outsiders, ready to attack.

• Li Tianming learned that the Myriad Mountains Barrier also protected the Abyssal Battlefield, while Li Qingyu warned that enemies could lure its ferocious beasts into a deadly tide.
• Li Tianming considered how Heavenly Court was using the Darknet Sect and Skysword Sect to pressure the Eastern Emperor Sect and test the Southsky Sect’s resolve.
• Tens of thousands of Skysword Sect lifebound beasts advanced toward the Eastern Emperor Mountains, devastating settlements along their route.
• Three days later, Sikong Jiansheng and the Skysword Sect’s full force reached the barrier and waited for the Darknet Sect’s signal.
• Jun Niancang arrived carrying a crystal ice coffin and renewed his vow to kill a million members of the Eastern Emperor Sect.
• Two visitors from Kunyuan Sect judged the barrier and decided to stay and watch the Eastern Emperor Sect’s destruction.

Jun Nian Cang, Yun Zhenzhen, and Yuan Chen waited for the signal to attack the Eastern Emperor Sect while the Cloudsoar Sword Sect prepared for battle. After the Dark Underworld Sect unleashed a beast tide, Sikong Jiansheng led the Cloudsoar Guards into the Myriad Mountains Barrier, where its mist separated allies from invaders and the barrier spirit calamities began to emerge.

• Yuan Chen argued that Jun Nian Cang’s father was right to unite Eastern Emperor Realm by destroying its rival factions, and Yun Zhenzhen urged Jun Nian Cang to take his revenge.
• A Dark Underworld Sect elder told Sikong Jiansheng and Jun Nian Cang that a beast tide would soon attack the Myriad Mountains Barrier.
• Sikong Jiansheng raised his sword, rallied the Cloudsoar Guards, and led their assault toward the Eastern Emperor Sect.
• Tens of thousands of Cloudsoar Guards and their lifebound beasts charged into the Myriad Mountains Barrier and were engulfed by illusory white mist.
• The barrier marked the invading Cloudsoar Guards as enemies while Eastern Emperor Guards could see clearly and move safely through the mist.
• Barrier spirit calamities began appearing within the battlefield.

The Eastern Emperor Sect used the Myriad Mountains Barrier and its defenders to hold off the Skyward Sword Sect’s first assault. Shangguan Jingshu reinforced the Abyssal Battlefield and waited for Yuwen Taiji to return with the Eastern Emperor Sword.

• The Myriad Mountains Barrier unleashed spirit calamities that devastated the invading Skyward Guards as the Eastern Emperor Guards prepared to meet those who broke through.
• Zhao Zhiyuan rallied the Eastern Emperor Guards and charged into battle, urging them to defend the sect at any cost.
• The Eastern Emperor Guards and the Skyward Guards clashed amid the barrier’s attacks, while disciples across the Thirty-Three Divine Peaks fed power into the barrier spirit lines.
• Shangguan Jingshu coordinated the barrier cores on Sacred Mountain and sent ten elders and thirty hall ministers to reinforce the Abyssal Battlefield.
• Shangguan Jingshu watched the defenders fall and hoped that Yuwen Taiji would return with the Eastern Emperor Sword and take responsibility for the sect.

The Black Nether Sect attacked the Eastern Emperor Sect’s Abyssal Battlefield, using a beast tide to blunt the Myriad Mountains Barrier as its army fought toward the heartland. As the Eastern Emperor Guards began to falter, Yuwen Fengtian and Su Yunshi arrived with a mysterious man who confronted the Nether Emperor and Black Empress.

• The Black Nether Army entered the Myriad Mountains Barrier behind thousands of ferocious beasts lured by Heavenly Fragrance Butterflies.
• Huangfu Fengyun’s ninety-nine Imperial Desolation Dragon Veins slaughtered many beasts, but the Black Nether Army broke through the mire and clashed with the Eastern Emperor Guards.
• Huangfu Fengyun urged the Black Nether Sect to turn against the Sacred Heavenly Court, but the Nether Emperor said his sect had no choice but to obey its orders.
• Poisonous companion beasts and mounting Black Nether forces overwhelmed the Eastern Emperor Guards, and Huangfu Fengyun feared the barrier would collapse.
• Yuwen Fengtian and Su Yunshi arrived with six others, and Yuwen challenged the Nether Emperor and Black Empress before stepping aside for a man carrying a black-gold greatsword.
• The mysterious man declared that those who offended his Eastern Emperor would die without a corpse.

Yuwen Taiji used the Eastern Emperor Sword to overpower and severely wound the Black Empress, then took her hostage to force the Black Nether Sect to withdraw. He gave the Nether Emperor ten breaths to retreat his troops three hundred li from the Eastern Emperor Sect or watch his wife die.

• Yuwen Taiji led the Eastern Emperor Sect's seven elders in an assault on the Black Nether Sect's forces behind the Myriad Mountains Barrier.
• Yuwen Fengtian and Su Yunzhi joined forces to drive the Nether Emperor back while Yuwen Taiji confronted the Black Empress.
• Yuwen Taiji unleashed the Yin-Yang Blade Prison with the Eastern Emperor Sword and his two Taoties, crushing the Black Empress's defenses and badly injuring her.
• Yuwen Taiji cut off the Black Empress's hands and pinned her to the ground, forcing both sides to stop fighting.
• Yuwen Taiji seized the Black Empress and threatened to kill her unless the Nether Emperor withdrew his troops three hundred li within ten breaths.

Yuwen Taiji defeated the Dark Empress, forced the Dark Nether Sect to withdraw, and kept her captive as leverage. He then urged the Nether Emperor to ally with the Eastern Emperor Sect against Heavenly Court, leaving the Dark Nether Sect to consider a dangerous path to survival.

• Yuwen Taiji used the Eastern Emperor Sword to capture the Dark Empress and forced the Nether Emperor to withdraw the Dark Nether Army.
• Huangfu Fengyun ordered the mist removed, and the Dark Nether Army retreated from the battlefield under the Nether Emperor's command.
• Yuwen Taiji refused to release the Dark Empress until the Dark Nether Sect withdrew from the war and warned the Nether Emperor not to attack the Eastern Emperor Sect again.
• Yuwen Taiji privately warned the Nether Emperor that Heavenly Court would eventually destroy the Dark Nether Sect and the Cloudsoar Sword Sect.
• Yuwen Taiji proposed that the Dark Nether Sect enter the Ten Thousand Mountains Barrier and ally with the Eastern Emperor Sect to defeat Heavenly Court.

Yuwen Taiji secured the Black Nether Sect’s cooperation against the Cloudsoar Sword Sect and led the Eastern Emperor Guards back from the Abyssal Battlefield. His reinforcements halted Sikong Jiansheng’s advance into the Eastern Emperor Sect and turned the battle’s momentum.

• Yuwen Taiji persuaded the Nether Emperor and the Black Empress to consider joining the Eastern Emperor Sect and Southern Heaven Sect against the Cloudsoar Sword Sect and Heavenly Court, while keeping the Black Empress as a hostage.
• Yuwen Taiji returned to cheers from the Eastern Emperor Guards, handed the Black Empress to Yuwen Fengtian, and led nearly all the guards toward the Yanhuang Continent.
• Sikong Jiansheng broke through the Myriad Mountains Barrier and attacked Azure Dragon Sword Peak with his Six-Winged Divine Fire Phoenix.
• Yuwen Taiji met Sikong Jiansheng with the Eastern Emperor Sword and forced him back before more than twenty thousand Eastern Emperor Guards arrived.
• Sikong Jiansheng fled as the Eastern Emperor Sect’s reinforcements strengthened the barrier and launched a counterattack.

Yuwen Taiji turned the battle against the Cloudsky Sword Sect by returning with the Eastern Emperor Sword and forcing the invaders to retreat, then took the Eastern Emperor Sect’s throne as sect master. The chapter ended with him ordering Ye Shaoqing and Li Tianming brought before him, chilling the assembled sect members.

• Li Tianming and Ye Shaoqing watched the Myriad Mountains Barrier falter as the Eastern Emperor Sect fought the Cloudsky Sword Sect.
• Yuwen Taiji returned with the Eastern Emperor Guards, and the Cloudsky Guards fled the barrier after Sikong Jiansheng’s Cloudsky Sacred Sword shattered.
• Yuwen Taiji ordered the slaughter of about two thousand Cloudsky Guards trapped inside the barrier, and their heads were thrown before the retreating army.
• Jun Niancang revealed that Yuwen Taiji had taken the Black Empress hostage, forcing the Black Nether Sect to withdraw from the Abyssal Battlefield.
• The thirty sect elders backed Yuwen Taiji as sect master, and the Eastern Emperor Sect bowed to him.
• Yuwen Taiji took his seat in the Eastern Emperor Sacred Hall and ordered Ye Shaoqing and Li Tianming brought to him.

Yuwen Taiji seized the Eastern Emperor Sect’s leadership and ordered the Li Saint Clan exterminated, using their deaths to force Ye Shaoqing to appear. Ye Shaoqing went to confront him, but arrived after Yuwen Taiji had already killed nine members of the clan.

• Yuwen Taiji gave Shangguan Jingshu and Zhao Zhiyuan antidotes, then killed Li Xuanyi and ordered every Li Saint Clan member driven beyond the Myriad Mountains Barrier for execution.
• Yuwen Taiji threatened to kill one Li Saint Clan member every three breaths until Ye Shaoqing came before him, and began carrying out the threat.
• Ye Shaoqing’s family urged him not to go, but he left to try to save the Li Saint Clan and asked them to care for Li Tianming if he did not return.
• Ye Shaoqing arrived with the Azure Profound Jadefire Dragon after Yuwen Taiji had killed eight people, but Yuwen Taiji killed a ninth before greeting him.

Yuwen Taiji defeated Ye Shaoqing and revealed that he had used him to lure Li Tianming out for a life-for-life exchange. Li Tianming chose to face Yuwen Taiji to save his master, just as the earth began to crack beneath the battlefield.

• Yuwen Taiji released the Li Sacred Clan, then attacked Ye Shaoqing with his two Taotie beasts and the Eastern Emperor Sword.
• Yuwen Taiji overwhelmed Ye Shaoqing, disarmed him, and bound him and the Azure Mystic Jadefire Dragon in chains.
• Yuwen Taiji revealed that he had targeted Ye Shaoqing to force Li Tianming to appear, then threatened to kill Ye Shaoqing unless Li Tianming faced him.
• Li Tianming decided he could not let Ye Shaoqing die and entrusted Heavenly Ling Love to Li Qingyu.
• Li Tianming charged toward Yuwen Taiji, while the earth split with massive cracks beneath the battlefield.

Li Tianming came to exchange his life for Ye Shaoqing’s, but the Eastern Emperor Sword could not harm him because it resonated with his bloodline. As Yuwen Taiji pursued them, Li Muyang emerged from the Blood Tribulation Barrier and confronted him.

• Li Tianming faced Yuwen Taiji and demanded that he free Ye Shaoqing, so Yuwen Taiji released his prisoner before pressing the Eastern Emperor Sword against Li Tianming’s head.
• Yuwen Taiji struck Li Tianming with the Eastern Emperor Sword, but the blade left him unharmed because the sword recognized his bloodline and absorbed the force.
• Yuwen Taiji hurled Li Tianming away with another strike, and Ye Shaoqing rescued him onto the Azure Profound Jadefire Dragon.
• Yuwen Taiji charged after Li Tianming and Ye Shaoqing with the Yang Demon Taotie and Yin Demon Taotie, but a blood-eyed man appeared and called out to him.
• The man pulled the Poison Dragon Spike from his heart as the Blood Tribulation Barrier shook, then emerged from the bloody mist with a warblade and demanded to know who dared annihilate the Li Saint Clan.

Li Wudi broke free of the Venom Dragon Spike’s suppression, awakened a Six Tribulation Reincarnation Body, and transformed his Void Kunpeng into an Ancient Blood Prison Kunpeng. He crushed Yuwen Taiji in battle and ended the chapter with his saber pressed against Yuwen Taiji’s head.

• Li Wudi revealed six blood-red beast-face tribulation wheels and a Saint Heavenly Realm aura, shocking the Eastern Emperor Sect.
• Li Wudi confronted Yuwen Taiji, while his lifebound beast evolved into the sixth-rank Saint Beast Ancient Blood Prison Kunpeng.
• Li Wudi and the Ancient Blood Prison Kunpeng attacked Yuwen Taiji and his two Taotie with the Blood Prison Saber Scripture and blood-red feathers.
• Li Wudi overwhelmed Yuwen Taiji, wounded both Taotie, sent the Eastern Emperor Sword flying, and severed Yuwen Taiji’s left hand.
• Li Wudi stood over Yuwen Taiji and pressed the Crimson Blood Desolation Saber against his head.

Li Wudi defeated Yuwen Taiji and annihilated his followers, then condemned Yuwen Fengtian and Yuwen Taiji to years of torment for their crimes. After revealing his resolve to become invincible, he declared his return to the Eastern Emperor Realm.

• Li Wudi severed Yuwen Taiji’s right arm as the Ancient Blood Prison Kunpeng killed both Taotie beasts.
• The Ancient Blood Prison Kunpeng slaughtered Yuwen Fengtian’s allies and swallowed him in a Weeping Blood Sphere, promising to torment him for fourteen years.
• Li Wudi stabbed Yuwen Taiji with the Poison Dragon Spike and fed him Blood-Devouring Fire, vowing to keep him alive in agony for a hundred years.
• Li Wudi explained that his love and his identity as a member of the Fate Tribulation Clan had driven him to return and seek vengeance.
• The Ancient Blood Prison Kunpeng swallowed Yuwen Taiji, and Li Wudi declared that he had returned to the Eastern Emperor Realm.

Li Wudi defeated Yuwen Taiji and reclaimed leadership of the Eastern Emperor Sect, then gave Li Tianming the Eastern Emperor Sword and promised to revive the sect. The chapter ended with the sect welcoming Li Wudi as Sect Master and his family reuniting.

• After Yuwen Taiji fell, Ye Shaoqing congratulated Li Wudi, and Li Tianming realized the Eastern Emperor Sword had saved his life.
• Li Wudi handed Li Tianming the Eastern Emperor Sword and vowed to protect him from anyone who tried to take it.
• Li Wudi apologized for the Li Clan Sacred Lineage’s past failures and promised to restore the Eastern Emperor Sect’s glory.
• The sect members accepted Li Wudi as Sect Master, and he appointed Ye Shaoqing Vice Sect Master.
• Ye Shaoqing left for Fate Peak to restore the Li Clan Sacred Lineage’s honored seats, while Li Wudi reunited with Li Jingyu and Li Qingyu.

Li Wudi reclaimed the Eastern Emperor Sect, disciplined its elders, expelled the Yuwen Clan, and began cooperating with the Black Empress against the Heavenly Court. Meanwhile, Jun Niancang’s allies reported Li Wudi’s return to the Sacred Emperor, and the chapter ended with Li Wudi preparing to trap any reinforcements the Heavenly Court sent.

• Li Wudi returned to Mount Sacred with his family and accepted the elders’ submission, pardoning them while warning them to obey him and support Li Tianming.
• Li Wudi crippled Yuwen Kaitai and expelled the Yuwen Clan from the Eastern Emperor Sect, sparing them because of their ancestors’ service.
• Sikong Jiansheng urged Jun Niancang to report Li Wudi’s strength to the Sacred Emperor, and Jun Niancang agreed despite insisting he would still destroy the Eastern Emperor Sect.
• Li Wudi offered to cooperate with the imprisoned Black Empress against the Heavenly Court and threatened to annihilate her clan if she betrayed him.
• Li Wudi told the Black Empress that they would catch the Heavenly Court’s reinforcements in one net if they came.

Li Tianming studied the Eastern Emperor Sword at the Li Clan Ancestral Grounds while longing for Jiang Feiling, who finally awakened from the Heavenly Ling Love. Their reunion was interrupted by Yinghuo and Miaomiao, and the chapter ended with Jiang Feiling laughing as Li Tianming chased the two pets around the grounds.

• Li Wudi placed Li Tianming at Li Shenxiao's tomb to cultivate and comprehend the Heavenly Will realm.
• Li Tianming examined the Eastern Emperor Sword's power and patterns, determined to advance quickly and defend the Eastern Emperor Sect.
• Jiang Feiling awakened from the Heavenly Ling Love, and she and Li Tianming reunited and embraced.
• Yinghuo and Miaomiao interrupted the pair, teasing them until Li Tianming drew the Eastern Emperor Sword and chased them through the ancestral grounds.
• Jiang Feiling watched the commotion, laughed, and heard Yinghuo and Miaomiao accuse Li Tianming of flirting with Weisheng Ruosu.