Chapter Summaries

Li Tianming used the Eye of Insight on the Eastern Emperor Sword and discovered five gates within it, with only the light-gold gate partly open. By studying its Heavenly Patterns, he began to grasp Heavenly Will and learned that mastering the patterns was the way to open the remaining gates.

• Li Tianming returned Jiang Feiling’s ten stolen seals with the Saint Origin Sphere, then warned her not to use Soul Burning without his permission.
• Li Tianming examined the Eastern Emperor Sword with the Eye of Insight and entered a vast inner world where he saw five towering gates.
• Yinghuo and Miaomiao watched the scene through a projection in the Companion Space as the light-gold gate drew Li Tianming closer.
• Li Tianming looked through the open gate and saw a gigantic golden-black vortex resembling the power released when he wielded the sword.
• Li Tianming touched the gate’s golden Heavenly Patterns and received direct insight into Heavenly Will, learning that studying the patterns would open the other gates.

Li Tianming comprehended Emperor’s heavenly will from the Eastern Emperor Sword and entered the Heavenly Will realm alongside Yinghuo and Miaomiao. Newly strengthened and eager to repay the Eastern Emperor Sect, he prepared to join the fighting as war with Heavenly Court loomed.

• Li Tianming used the golden Heavenly Patterns to enter his sea of consciousness and comprehend Emperor’s heavenly will, forming an Eastern Emperor Sword within his soul.
• Li Tianming traced his righteous path to Mu Yang’s guidance and the Eastern Emperor Sword’s resonance with his bloodline.
• Li Tianming, Yinghuo, and Miaomiao formed their heavenly wills through their shared cultivation system, and their Beast Essence grew.
• Li Tianming resolved to join the battle for the Eastern Emperor Sect, anticipating that Heavenly Court’s response to Li Wudi’s news could ignite another war.
• Yinghuo boasted that Li Tianming would not panic in battle again, then quickly tried to play down his remark.

The Southern Heaven Sect’s leaders argued over whether to surrender to the Sacred Heavenly Court, until news arrived that Li Wudi had defeated Yuwen Taiji and reclaimed the Eastern Emperor Sect. Weisheng Tianlan punished the elders who had urged surrender and rallied the sect to fight.

• Gu Qiuyu and other elders urged Weisheng Tianlan and Weisheng Cangyuan to surrender, but Weisheng Cangyuan insisted the Southern Heaven Sect would only yield after he died fighting.
• Weisheng Qiong reported that Yuwen Taiji had defeated the Black Empress and Sikong Jiansheng, but then revealed that Li Wudi had returned, killed Yuwen Taiji, and reclaimed the Eastern Emperor Sword for the Li Sacred Clan.
• More reports confirmed Li Wudi’s victory, shifting the hall’s support behind Weisheng Tianlan as Gu Qiuyu and his allies were discredited.
• Weisheng Tianlan stripped Gu Qiuyu, Chen Qingyun, and Nangong He of their positions and ordered their imprisonment, while Gu Qiuyu tried to seize Weisheng Ruosu and Weisheng Qingluan as hostages.
• Weisheng Cangyuan and Weisheng Tianlan captured Gu Qiuyu and crippled his cultivation after his betrayal was exposed.
• Weisheng Tianlan declared that the Southern Heaven Sect would fight the Sacred Heavenly Court to the death using the Southern Heaven Sea-Guarding Barrier.

As the Heavenly Court split its forces to pressure the Eastern Emperor Sect, Li Tianming learned that three inspectors were heading to the Vermilion Bird Kingdom to seize his family. He rushed back to Flame Capital with Ye Shaoqing and Jiang Feiling, arriving as a battle was already underway at the Wei Manor.

• The Saint Emperor sent Jun Dongyao with sixty Saint Elders and seventy thousand Saint Sky Guards to reinforce the Cloudsoar Sword Sect and Black Nether Sect, while one hundred and eighty thousand guards remained outside Southern Sky Island.
• Ye Shaoqing told Li Tianming that Zhao Hang had followed Ling Yichen, Song Yixue, and Jin Yixuan toward the Vermilion Bird Kingdom, where they planned to capture Li Tianming's family for credit.
• Ye Shaoqing took Li Tianming and Jiang Feiling east on the Azure Mystic Emeraldfire Dragon, and Li Tianming vowed to settle his old grievances with Ling Yichen if his family was harmed.
• The Azure Mystic Emeraldfire Dragon reached Flame Capital in less than half a day, drawing the Vermilion Bird King and other local forces after it as it flew toward the Wei Manor.
• Li Tianming and his companions arrived to find that a life-and-death battle was already underway inside the Wei Manor.

Li Tianming and Ye Shaoqing returned to the Wei Residence during the inspectors’ attack, and Li Tianming killed Song Yixue while Ye Shaoqing killed Ling Yichen. The remaining battle between Mu Yang and Jin Yixuan continued as the stunned Wei family faced Li Tianming’s return.

• Ling Yichen, Jin Yixuan, and Song Yixue attacked the Wei Residence, while Mu Yang and Wei Tiancang fought to protect the family.
• Li Tianming arrived with Ye Shaoqing, and Ye Shaoqing killed the fleeing Ling Yichen with a strike of Sword Qi.
• Li Tianming intercepted Song Yixue, while Yinghuo engaged her Snow-Eyed Blue Fox and Miaomiao settled on Mu Wan.
• Li Tianming broke Song Yixue’s Frostland Snow Sword with the Eastern Emperor Sword and killed her with the Heavenslayer Sword.
• The Wei family and the Flame Capital’s arriving leaders watched in stunned silence as Li Tianming faced the Wei Residence, while Mu Yang remained locked in battle with Jin Yixuan.

Li Tianming reunited with his family and friends in the Flame Capital after defeating the threats there, then spent his brief visit sharing treasures and preparing to return to the East Emperor Sect. At dawn, he picked up Jiang Feiling to leave, while Jiang Qingluan teased them about having children.

• Li Tianming happily reunited with Wei Jing, and Mu Yang killed Jin Yixuan while Ye Shaoqing praised his strength and offered him a divine source.
• Ye Shaoqing arranged for people to guard the Flame Capital and told Li Tianming they would return to the East Emperor Sect after one day.
• Li Tianming told his family about his recent struggles and gave them divine sources, weapons, and other treasures before spending the night catching up with them.
• Chen Sheng returned home with a divine source for his bonded beast, while Li Tianming visited Jin Yu's gravestone and promised to travel across the Yanhuang Continent with Jin Yu's younger brothers.
• Li Tianming went to the Vermilion Bird Palace at dawn to collect Jiang Feiling, and Jiang Qingluan joked that her sister should give him many children.

Mu Yang's body transformed after Little Ink evolved, revealing that he was the reincarnation of Li Mu Yang and awakening the Reincarnation Mirror. Meanwhile, a Qilin Ancient Clan force set out for Flame Capital, and the Eastern Emperor Sect prepared to face a vastly larger invading army.

• After Little Ink evolved, Mu Yang's left arm became a Dark Arm, and a Reincarnation Mirror emerged from his head and fused into his eyes.
• Mu Yang regained memories of his past life as Li Mu Yang and told Wei Jing that she had been a Princess of the Divine Kingdom in her past life.
• Three black-clad Supreme Elders learned that the Reincarnation Barrier had located the Reincarnation Mirror surface in Flame Capital and resolved to retrieve it.
• Li Tianming and Ye Shaoqing saw a massive Heavenly Court army approaching the Eastern Emperor Sect, joined by Cloudsoar Guards and the Black Nether Army.
• Li Tianming refused to stay out of the coming war, while Li Wudi stood atop the Sacred Mountain to lead the Eastern Emperor Sect's defense.

As the Sacred Heavenly Court, Cloudsoar Sword Sect, and Netherblack Sect attacked the Eastern Emperor Sect, Li Wudi revealed his Seven Tribulations Reincarnation Physique and planned to lure the invading armies deep into the Myriad Mountains Barrier. Li Tianming headed for Azure Dragon Sword Peak as the battle began, and the enemy forces broke through the barrier’s outer spirit disasters to reach the Eastern Emperor Guards.

• Li Wudi and Ye Shaoqing confirmed their preparations and discussed how the Nether Emperor had joined their side against the Sacred Heavenly Court.
• Li Wudi revealed his seventh tribulation wheel, announced that he had reached the second level of the Saint Realm of Heaven, and gave Li Tianming Yuwen Taiji’s Soul-Burning Book.
• Li Wudi ordered the Eastern Emperor Sect to feign weakness and retreat until most of the enemy forces had entered the barrier, while Li Tianming went to defend Azure Dragon Sword Peak.
• The Sacred Heavenly Court, Cloudsoar Sword Sect, and Netherblack Sect attacked the Myriad Mountains Barrier with more than a hundred thousand guards and their lifebound beasts.
• Li Wudi and Ye Shaoqing waited for the enemy to advance farther into the barrier as Jun Dongyao and Sikong Jiansheng led their forces through its white mist.
• The barrier’s spirit disasters killed many invaders, but Sacred Heaven Guards and Cloudsoar Guards eventually broke through and reached the Eastern Emperor Guards.

Li Tianming defended Azure Dragon Sword Peak and killed Sikong Lingfeng, prompting Sikong Jiansheng to put a bounty on him. As the enemy army entered the Myriad Mountains Barrier, Li Wudi arrived and called the Eastern Emperor Guard and Black Underworld Army to battle.

• Li Wudi split his forces to intercept Jun Dongyao and Sikong Jiansheng while buying time for the barrier defenses.
• Li Tianming fought on Azure Dragon Sword Peak and killed Sikong Lingfeng and his Four-Winged Divine Fire Phoenix.
• Sikong Jiansheng witnessed his son's death and offered a mid-grade Sky-ranked divine source to anyone who killed Li Tianming.
• Li Wudi entered the barrier with East Sovereign Sect reinforcements as the enemy's 130,000 troops advanced inside.
• Li Wudi raised the Crimson Blood Wasteland Blade and called the Eastern Emperor Guard and Black Underworld Army to battle.

The Dark Nether Army joined the Eastern Emperor Sect in a surprise counterattack, turning the battle inside the Ten Thousand Mountains Barrier against the Cloudsky Guards and Sacred Heaven Guards. Li Tianming killed Sikong Jiansheng to avenge his humiliation, and the enemy forces began to collapse.

• The Dark Nether Army and Eastern Emperor Guards launched a surprise attack, while the strengthened Ten Thousand Mountains Barrier and ninety-nine Imperial Desolate Dragon Veins overwhelmed the enemy.
• Li Wudi fought Sikong Jiansheng and cleaved the Six-Winged Divine Flame Phoenix in half, leaving Sikong Jiansheng crippled and fleeing.
• Li Tianming stopped Li Wudi from killing Sikong Jiansheng, then killed him with the Eastern Emperor Sword to avenge his earlier humiliation.
• Li Tianming announced Sikong Jiansheng's death across the battlefield, worsening the Cloudsky Guards' morale and driving them into a rout.
• Li Tianming returned to the front lines to fight as an Eastern Emperor Guard while Li Wudi continued slaughtering the enemy.

Li Tianming fought through the sect war and was injured by Yuan Chen, the Kun Yuan Sect’s Young Sect Master, before Yuan Huntian drove him off. With the Cloudsoaring Sword Sect defeated and the Heavenly Court army collapsing, Li Tianming joined Yuan Huntian as Li Wudi, Ye Shaoqing, and the Nether Emperor surrounded Jun Dongyao and the Heavenly Court’s Sacred Elders.

• Li Tianming gained insights into Imperial Will as he fought and killed enemies on the battlefield.
• Yuan Chen and his fifth-order sacred beast, the Prison-Shaking Black Tortoise, attacked Li Tianming, and Yuan Chen injured him with a punch.
• Yuan Huntian rescued Li Tianming and nearly killed Yuan Chen before Yuan Chen revealed that he was the Kun Yuan Sect’s Young Sect Master and fled underground.
• Yuan Huntian explained that the Kun Yuan Realm’s strength made killing Yuan Chen too risky, and Li Tianming said he would settle their score himself.
• After the Cloudsoaring Sword Sect’s elders were wiped out and the Heavenly Court army began collapsing, Yuan Huntian took Li Tianming to the siege of Jun Dongyao and more than forty Sacred Elders.

The Eastern Emperor Sect and Black Nether Sect routed the Sacred Heavenly Court and Cloudsoar Sword Sect armies, with Li Wudi killing Jun Dongyao and turning the battle into a massacre. After the victors began gathering spoils, the ninety-nine Imperial Desolation Dragon Veins fixed their attention on Li Tianming’s third egg, while the Supreme Unity Tower began to tremble.

• Jun Dongyao ordered the Sacred Heavenly Court forces to flee, but Li Wudi and the Nether Emperor blocked their escape.
• The Eastern Emperor Sect and Black Nether Sect charged, and the Imperial Desolation Dragon Veins and allied fighters overwhelmed the Sacred Elders.
• Li Wudi defeated Jun Dongyao, severed his head, and announced his death to the Sacred Heavenly Guards.
• The defeated Sacred Heavenly Court and Cloudsoar Sword Sect forces fled or were slaughtered, leaving their armies nearly annihilated.
• The Nether Emperor and Li Wudi thanked their allies, and the survivors began collecting the spoils of war.
• The Imperial Desolation Dragon Veins stared at Li Tianming’s third egg, and the Supreme Unity Tower trembled as he wondered whether it could store the veins.

The Supreme Unity Tower swallowed the ninety-nine Imperial Desolation Dragon Veins and showed Li Tianming a vision of the third Primordial Chaos Giant Beast, a two-headed dragon whose body was the Hongmeng Mountain-Sea Realm. The veins began nourishing its egg, leaving the Myriad Mountains Formation weakened, and Li Tianming learned that the Southsky Sect possessed water-attributed Azure Blue Dragon Veins.

• The Imperial Desolation Dragon Veins charged at Li Tianming, but the Supreme Unity Tower appeared, swallowed them all, and vanished back into his Companion Space.
• Li Tianming saw the Hongmeng Mountain-Sea Realm as a vast, two-headed divine dragon, then witnessed the Black Giant Hand attack it and declare that it would control the reincarnation of chaos.
• Li Wudi brought Li Tianming back to his senses and told the Nether Emperor that the Supreme Unity Tower had absorbed the veins; Ye Shaoqing went with the Nether Emperor to retrieve the Black Empress.
• Li Tianming told Li Wudi that he could not release the veins, which were gradually being absorbed by the third egg beneath the Supreme Unity Tower.
• Li Wudi identified the old man who had given Li Tianming the tower as the First Ancestor, Li Shenxiao, and told him the Southsky Sect had ninety-nine Azure Blue Dragon Veins.
• Li Tianming said he wanted to visit the Southsky Sect, prompting Li Wudi to ask warily what he was planning.

Jun Niancang returned to the Sacred Heavenly Court with the news that the Eastern Emperor Sect and Black Nether Sect had destroyed most of the invading army and killed Jun Dongyao. As the Sacred Emperor reeled from the defeat, Weisheng Cangyuan and Weisheng Tianlan appeared and called out to Jun Shengxiao.

• Jun Niancang and the surviving Sacred Elders gathered outside the Myriad Mountains Barrier, where Yuan Chen reported that Li Tianming had killed Sikong Jiansheng.
• Jun Niancang asked Yuan Chen to contact Yuan Hun and seek the Kun Yuan Sect’s help, while Yuan Chen vowed to kill Li Tianming.
• Jun Niancang arrived at Southsky Sect with fewer than two thousand survivors and told the Sacred Emperor that the Black Nether Sect had joined the Eastern Emperor Guards, Jun Dongyao was dead, and the army had been defeated.
• The Sacred Emperor learned that nearly seventy thousand Sacred Heaven Guards had been lost, spat blood, and collapsed in grief.
• Weisheng Cangyuan and Weisheng Tianlan appeared beyond the water sphere and called out to Jun Shengxiao.

After the Sacred Heavenly Manor’s defeat, Jun Shengxiao withdrew his army and negotiated for Kun Yuan Sect’s military aid by offering it territory. Li Tianming then received Wei Jing’s letter announcing she had left to travel with Uncle Yang, whom she might marry.

• Weisheng Cangyuan taunted Jun Shengxiao and the Sacred Heavenly Manor, whose troops withdrew from the Southern Heaven Sect despite the jeers.
• Jun Shengxiao met Yuan Hun, who offered 150,000 Kun Yuan Guards in exchange for the Cloudsky Sword School’s lands across 130 nations, and Jun Shengxiao agreed to seek approval for the transfer.
• Jun Niancang realized his father’s defeat had pushed him toward giving away territory to secure allies.
• An Eastern Emperor Guard delivered Wei Jing’s letter to Li Tianming, saying she had left to travel with Uncle Yang and might call him her husband when they next met.
• Li Tianming was stunned by the news, then accepted Wei Jing’s choice and decided to let events take their course.

Mu Yang and Wei Jing visited Li Wudi and Ye Shaoqing to request cultivation resources before fleeing from pursuers, leaving the sect leaders puzzled by Mu Yang’s immense Heavenly Will. Elsewhere, three black-robed men used a Reincarnation formation to locate the Reincarnation Mirror in Autumn Bear City and set out after it.

• Li Wudi and Ye Shaoqing discussed the Sacred Emperor’s retreat and suspected the Kunyuan Sect might exploit the Eastern Emperor Realm’s turmoil.
• Mu Yang and Wei Jing appeared at the Sacred Mountain, and Mu Yang asked Li Wudi for divine sources and cultivation resources.
• Li Wudi gave Mu Yang a mid-grade Heaven-rank mountain-and-water divine source and the spoils taken from Saint realm experts.
• Mu Yang said he and Wei Jing were fleeing for their lives, asked Li Wudi and Ye Shaoqing not to tell Tianming about their visit, and warned them not to resist any powerful pursuers.
• After Mu Yang and Wei Jing left, Li Wudi and Ye Shaoqing concluded Mu Yang’s Heavenly Will far exceeded his realm and wondered who was pursuing him.
• Three black-robed men used a Reincarnation formation to locate the Reincarnation Mirror in Autumn Bear City, in the Kunyuan Realm’s Wood Spirit Kingdom, and rushed to chase it.

Li Tianming discovered the Divine Firmament Sword Art hidden in Li Shenxiao’s tomb and began studying its five basic swords and fusion method. Li Wudi could not see the ancestor’s lesson and said the sword art had been left specifically for Li Tianming.

• Li Tianming touched the Eastern Emperor Sword to Li Shenxiao’s tomb, revealing a vast landscape where the First Ancestor demonstrated the Divine Firmament Sword Art.
• Li Shenxiao explained that the art used five elemental sword techniques and grew stronger by fusing them according to the wielder’s Heavenly Wills.
• Li Tianming decided to study the Scarlet Flame Emperor Sword with Yinghuo and the Thunder Sovereign Emperor Sword with Miaomiao, while planning to lead future fusion practice himself.
• Li Wudi arrived and could not see the vision, then joked about digging up Li Shenxiao’s grave before refusing to learn the art because it did not suit his Heavenly Will.

Li Tianming advanced his cultivation and learned the Crimson Flame Emperor Sword while the Eastern Emperor Realm waited for the Sacred Heaven Palace to act. The chapter ended with Li Tianming, Jiang Feiling, and Li Qingyu encountering Su Wuyou and the other young women of the fallen Su family.

• Li Wudi warned Li Tianming not to take the Southern Heaven Sect’s Azure Dragon Veins and assured him that his trump cards could protect the Eastern Emperor Sect.
• After a month of training, Li Tianming reached the second level of Heavenly Will and mastered the Crimson Flame Emperor Sword.
• Li Tianming and Yinghuo tried to get Miaomiao to learn the Thunder Sovereign Emperor Sword, while Jiang Feiling joked that the cracking World Dragon egg resembled a turtle.
• Li Tianming continued cultivating as the Sacred Heaven Palace remained inactive and Li Wudi grew stronger during his post-tribulation explosive period.
• Half a month later, Li Tianming, Jiang Feiling, and Li Qingyu encountered Su Wuyou, Su Yiran, Su Tao, and Su Li on Heavenly Treasure Street.

Li Tianming confronted Su Mu after she provoked him and insulted Jiang Feiling, then defeated her in the Eastern Emperor Second Battlefield. He spared Su Mu, but the encounter left the Su family’s remaining members terrified of him and Li Qingyu.

• Li Qingyu declined to take revenge on Su Wuyou and the others, and Li Tianming sent them away.
• Su Mu challenged Li Tianming, accused him of bullying the Su family, and insulted Jiang Feiling, so he agreed to fight her.
• Su Mu attacked Li Tianming with the Mountain-Smashing Hammer and her Earth Dragon Teng Snake, but Jiang Feiling possessed him and he countered with the Crimson Flame Emperor Sword.
• Li Tianming shattered Su Mu’s hammer and knocked her from the sky, leaving her badly injured but alive as the Earth Dragon Teng Snake carried her away.
• Su Yiran panicked and begged Li Tianming not to kill her; he slapped her, while Su Wuyou fled, leaving the Su family afraid of him.

Li Tianming cultivated the second Shenxiao Sword and reached the third level of the Heavenly Will realm while Li Wudi learned that the Heavenly Court and Kun Yuan Sect had amassed 330,000 troops. Li Wudi expected the enemy to target the Eastern Emperor Sect first and claimed he had a trump card, leaving the Southern Heaven Sect’s defense dependent on his plan.

• Li Tianming studied the Heavenly Patterns and trained with Yinghuo and Miaomiao as he struggled to fuse the Shenxiao Sword Art’s lightning and fire powers.
• Li Tianming finally fused the lightning and fire into the second Shenxiao Sword, cleaving a gap in the Blood Tribulation Barrier.
• After eighty days of cultivation, Li Tianming reached the third level of the Heavenly Will realm and resolved to keep improving.
• Li Wudi told Ye Shaoqing and Weisheng Tianlan that Jun Shengxiao had traded the Yunxiao Sword Sect’s territory for 150,000 Kun Yuan Guards, bringing the enemy force to 330,000 troops.
• Li Wudi predicted the enemy would try to kill him at the Eastern Emperor Sect before attacking the Southern Heaven Sect, and he assured Weisheng Tianlan that he had a trump card.