Chapter Summaries

A vastly outnumbered Eastern Emperor Sect and Darknet Sect faced the combined Saintsky and Kunyuan armies, so Li Wudi provoked Jun Shengxiao into a duel and failed to draw him out. Li Tianming then challenged Yuan Chen, and their life-and-death battle began between the armies.

• A three-hundred-and-thirty-thousand-strong combined army led by Jun Shengxiao and Yuan Hun arrived outside the Ten Thousand Mountains Barrier.
• Li Wudi threw Jun Dongyao's head before the enemy and challenged Jun Shengxiao to a fight to the death, but Jun Shengxiao refused.
• Li Tianming mocked Jun Niancang over the crystal coffin and taunted Yuan Chen about his Prison-Shaking Black Tortoise.
• Yuan Chen accepted Li Tianming's challenge despite Yuan Hun's warning, and Li Tianming entered the battlefield with the Eastern Emperor Sword.
• Yuan Chen and Li Tianming charged toward the midpoint between the armies to begin their life-and-death battle.

Li Tianming fought Yuan Chen and the Prison-Shaking Black Tortoise, then killed the beast with one strike of the Eastern Emperor Sword. He turned on Yuan Chen as the furious fighter attacked, while Yinghuo’s sinister laugh left Yuan Chen chilled beneath his crotch.

• Yinghuo and Miaomiao attacked Yuan Chen, whose Heavy Earth Armor blocked most of their blows, and Yinghuo wounded him with a strike from behind.
• Li Tianming evaded the Prison-Shaking Black Tortoise’s earth-based attacks and unleashed the second sword of Divine Firmament with the Eastern Emperor Sword.
• Li Tianming split the Prison-Shaking Black Tortoise in two, killing Yuan Chen’s lifebound beast and stunning the battlefield.
• Yuan Chen charged Li Tianming in a rage, threatening the Eastern Emperor Sect as Li Tianming struck back with the Thunder Sovereign Emperor Sword.
• Yuan Chen raised the Netherworld Ghost Axe to fight, then heard Yinghuo laugh beside him and felt a chill beneath his crotch.

Li Tianming killed Yuan Chen and provoked the invading armies, then returned to Sacred Mountain as Li Wudi prepared his hidden defense. As 330,000 enemy troops entered the Myriad Mountains Barrier, the Blood Tribulation Barrier erupted across the Thirty-Three Divine Peaks.

• Yinghuo stabbed Yuan Chen from behind, Miaomiao struck him with heavenly tribulation, and Li Tianming beheaded him with the Eastern Emperor Sword.
• Li Tianming raised Yuan Chen’s head and taunted the Kun Yuan Sect before returning behind the Myriad Mountains Barrier with Li Wudi.
• Li Wudi praised Li Tianming for drawing the enemy’s hatred, while the Eastern Emperor Guards and Black Nether Army rallied around their Young Sect Master.
• Yuan Hun and Jun Shengxiao led the furious 330,000 troops into the Myriad Mountains Barrier and advanced toward the Thirty-Three Divine Peaks.
• Li Wudi activated the crimson barrier cores, and Eastern Emperor and Black Nether disciples supplied them with Beast Essence.
• The Blood Tribulation Barrier spread across the Thirty-Three Divine Peaks, replacing the Myriad Mountains Barrier and stunning Li Tianming.

Li Wudi activated the Blood Calamity Barrier, the Eastern Emperor Sect’s hidden weapon, and the sects’ defenders used it to devastate the invading Sacred Heavenly Manor and Kun Yuan Sect armies. As the survivors fled, Li Tianming learned how Li Wudi had lured them into the trap and accepted that his conflict with Jun Niancang could end only in death.

• Li Wudi revealed that the Blood Calamity Barrier was built to defend the Eastern Emperor Sect’s inheritance, then ordered the Eastern Emperor Sect and Blacknether Sect to lend it their strength.
• The Blood Calamity Barrier engulfed the 330,000 invading troops in blood mist and spirit calamities, killing tens of thousands and absorbing their blood to grow stronger.
• Jun Shengxiao and Yuanhun ordered a retreat, while Li Wudi explained to Li Tianming that the barrier could cripple the invaders but could not kill them all.
• Li Wudi and Li Tianming surveyed the fleeing army and counted about 60,000 Sacred Heavenly Guards and 50,000 Kun Yuan Guards dead, with no defenders lost.
• Li Wudi explained that he had provoked Jun Shengxiao and used Li Tianming’s killing of Yuan Chen to draw Kun Yuan Sect into the barrier.
• Li Tianming acknowledged Jun Niancang’s character but resolved to fight him to the death because neither of them could let go of Yue Linglong.

After the Blood Calamity Barrier devastated their armies, Jun Shengxiao and Yuan Hun secretly agreed to attack the Southsky Sect with a ruthless plan. Jun Shengxiao destroyed the crystal coffin before ordering the march, leaving Jun Niancang grieving as his hair turned white.

• Jun Shengxiao ordered the execution of Sacred Heaven Palace members who called for retreat, while two Sacred Elders killed themselves in protest.
• Yuan Hun refused to send reinforcements or return the Cloud Sword Sect, but agreed to join Jun Shengxiao in one final attack.
• Jun Shengxiao proposed breaking the Sea-Guarding Barrier to draw Li Wudi's forces out, then revealed a secret method to Yuan Hun.
• Jun Shengxiao and Yuan Hun ordered their armies to march on the Southsky Sect before their enemies could react.
• When Jun Niancang pleaded with his father not to sacrifice more of their people, Jun Shengxiao destroyed the crystal coffin and its occupant.
• Jun Niancang watched the crystal dust scatter and his hair turned white overnight.

Li Wudi led a force of Saint Realm cultivators to reinforce the Southern Heavenly Sect after learning that Jun Shengxiao's remaining army was heading there. At the sect, a tiny colorful egg in Li Tianming's Companion Space cracked and revealed a new, fragrant presence.

• Li Wudi learned that the Sacred Heavenly Court and Kunyuan Sect were marching toward the Southern Heavenly Sect, so he gathered nearly two thousand Saint Realm cultivators to reinforce it.
• Li Tianming joined the expedition, and the group traveled through the Abyssal Battlefield to the Sea-Guarding Barrier.
• Li Wudi warned Weisheng Tianlan that the enemy was approaching and brought the force into the barrier after asking that the Azure Dragon Vein be lured away.
• Li Tianming admired the Southern Heavenly Sect, while Jiang Feiling teased him about its beauty.
• A colorful little egg cracked in Li Tianming's Companion Space, released a floral fragrance, and knocked Yinghuo away before retreating toward the Supreme Unity Tower.

Jun Niancang confronted Jun Shengxiao over his plan to seize Azure Sea Kingdom civilians and use them to force open the Sea Guarding Barrier. Jun Shengxiao rejected his pleas, and his army carried out the mass abduction and marched toward the Southern Heaven Sect.

• Jun Shengxiao ordered the Holy Heaven Guards to capture three people apiece from the Azure Sea Kingdom.
• Jun Niancang stopped many of the guards and accused his father of planning to sacrifice more than three hundred thousand civilians as bait for the Sea Guarding Barrier.
• Jun Shengxiao defended the plan as a necessary sacrifice, but Jun Niancang condemned him, renounced him as his father, and left; Yun Zhenzhen followed, and Jun Yifeng pursued him at Jun Shengxiao's order.
• Jun Shengxiao resumed the advance, and the Holy Heaven Guards seized civilians across the Azure Sea Kingdom, tearing families apart.
• Jun Shengxiao led his troops and the terrified captives across the sea toward the Southern Heaven Sect, instructing his guards to throw the civilians into the barrier.

After learning that Jun Shengxiao was bringing hundreds of thousands of abducted civilians to the Southern Heaven Sect, Li Wudi and the other leaders prepared a dangerous rescue while planning a counterattack. Li Tianming joined the effort in disguise and entered the battlefront as the enemy armies attacked.

• Jun Niancang wandered into Flame Capital in anguish over the civilians killed by the Sacred Heavenly Court, then asked how to reach the Wei family while Yun Zhenzhen and Jun Yifeng followed him.
• Spies reported that Jun Shengxiao had abducted nearly four hundred thousand civilians and was heading for the Southern Heaven Sect, shocking Li Tianming and the other leaders.
• Li Wudi, Weisheng Tianlan, and the Underworld Emperor decided to weaken the Sea-Guarding Barrier and rescue as many captives as possible, despite the risk to their own forces.
• Li Wudi vowed to try to kill Jun Shengxiao, while Li Tianming insisted on joining the rescue and charged toward the sea with Jiang Feiling.
• Li Tianming disguised himself as a Southern Heaven Guard, equipped himself for rescuing civilians, and faced the attacking forces of the Sacred Heavenly Court and Kunyuan Sect.

Li Tianming fought to save civilians as the Southsky Guards battled the Sacred Heaven Guards and Kun Yuan Guards in the Cang Sea. Amid the slaughter, his understanding of Imperial Heavenly Will deepened, and the Eastern Emperor Sword and Supreme Unity Tower began trembling.

• The Sacred Heaven Guards threw Cang Sea Kingdom civilians into the weakened Sea-Guarding Barrier while the Southsky Guards divided their forces between rescuing people and fighting the invading army.
• Li Tianming rescued a drowning child and more than twenty others, killed a Sacred Heaven Guard who recognized him, and brought the survivors to a Heavenly Pattern barrier.
• Li Tianming and the Southsky Guards defended the barrier from a Kun Yuan Guard squad while continuing to move rescued civilians toward safety.
• Wounded and exhausted, Li Tianming reflected on Jun Shengxiao's cruelty and resolved that the strong should protect people and uphold justice.
• Li Tianming's understanding of Imperial Heavenly Will surged, and the Eastern Emperor Sword and Supreme Unity Tower began trembling violently.

Li Tianming’s Eastern Emperor Sword and Supreme Unity Tower saved the Canghai Kingdom’s civilians and turned the battle for Southsky Island against the Heavenly Court. As the enemy army began surrendering, Li Wudi confronted Jun Shengxiao and Yuan Hun, who chose to join forces against him.

• Li Tianming’s divine artifacts sent out countless protective spheres and carried the surviving Canghai Kingdom civilians to Southsky Island.
• Weisheng Tianlan activated the Southsky Sea-Protecting Barrier, and the Southsky Guards counterattacked as the barrier battered the Sacred Heaven Guards and Kun Yuan Guards.
• Li Wudi and the others spread the claim that Jun Shengxiao must pay for sacrificing civilians, strengthening the Southsky Guards and prompting enemy soldiers to surrender.
• Li Wudi found Jun Shengxiao and Yuan Hun outside the barrier; Yuan Hun ordered the Kun Yuan Guards to withdraw.
• Li Wudi refused Yuan Hun’s offer of a ten-year truce and declared that the Kun Yuan Sect must fear him and stay out of the Eastern Emperor Realm.
• After Yuan Hun revealed the Kun Yuan Realm was moving into Skysword Sect territory, he and Jun Shengxiao decided to join forces and kill Li Wudi.

Li Wudi fought Yuanhun and Jun Shengxiao above the Cang Sea, revealing his fourth-level Heavenly Saint Realm strength after pretending to be weaker. He killed Yuanhun and his Nether Ghostfire Black Tortoise, while Jun Shengxiao and his remaining forces were left to face Li Wudi’s continued resistance.

• Yuanhun attacked Li Wudi with the Nether Ghostfire Black Tortoise and the Yellow Springs Dragon-Slaying Art, while Jun Shengxiao sent a Supreme Soaring Sacred Dragon after the Ancient Blood Purgatory Kunpeng.
• Li Wudi revealed his full strength and knocked the Heaven-Suppressing Gate from Yuanhun’s hands with Myriad Blood Tribulations.
• Yuanhun ordered the Kunyuan Guards to retreat, but the Ancient Blood Purgatory Kunpeng emerged from the Cang Sea carrying the headless Nether Ghostfire Black Tortoise and swallowed its head.
• Li Wudi pursued Yuanhun through the waves as the Ancient Blood Purgatory Kunpeng kept Jun Shengxiao and his dragon at bay.
• Yuanhun turned to counterattack, but Li Wudi overwhelmed him, cut his throat, and struck him again, killing him.

Li Wudi defeated and killed Jun Shengxiao in a decisive battle outside the sea-protecting barrier, ending the Sacred Heaven Manor’s rule. The surviving forces celebrated the tyrant’s death as victory spread across the Eastern Emperor Realm.

• Li Wudi threw Yuan Hun’s corpse to the Nether Emperor, who announced the deputy sect master’s death and prompted many Kunyuan Guards to surrender.
• Li Wudi and the Ancient Blood Prison Kunpeng fought Jun Shengxiao and his two divine dragons in a battle that initially appeared evenly matched.
• Li Wudi exposed Jun Shengxiao’s conflict between his Sacred Sovereign ambitions and his crimes, shattering his will as he used Ruling the World.
• Li Wudi struck Jun Shengxiao with the three-blade Death God Slash, severing his arm and beheading him.
• Jun Shengxiao’s two dragons fled, and Li Wudi announced that the Sacred Heaven Manor was gone.
• The forces inside the sea-protecting barrier and the people of Southern Heaven Island celebrated Li Wudi’s victory and the tyrant’s death.

Li Wudi won the sect war and began deciding the fate of the surrendered Kunyuan and Heavenly Court Guards, while Li Tianming was praised for saving lives with the Eastern Emperor Sword and Supreme Unity Tower. As the survivors celebrated, the third Primordial Chaos Giant Beast egg stirred and ninety-nine Azure Dragon Veins swallowed Li Tianming.

• Li Wudi took the surrendered Kunyuan Guards captive, disarmed them, and planned to use them to reclaim the Cloudsoar Sword Sect's territory.
• Li Wudi ordered the Heavenly Court Guards to join the Eastern Emperor Sect, and the Southern Spirit Sacred King and other Sacred Elders pledged their support.
• Li Tianming and Jiang Feiling joked about his merit, and Li Wudi praised him for helping save Canghai Nation's people.
• Weisheng Tianlan and the other elders credited Li Tianming with turning the tide of the war and praised him as a future Saint of the Ancient Realm.
• The third Primordial Chaos Giant Beast egg stirred, and ninety-nine Azure Dragon Veins charged at Li Tianming and swallowed him.

Li Tianming absorbed the Azure Blue Dragon Veins and Imperial Desolation Dragon Veins through the Supreme Unity Tower, then hurried to cultivate as his third Companion Beast hatched. The enormous beast formed new Primordial Beast Veins and a Primordial Spirit Source before announcing its name: the Taiji Primordial Kui Dragon.

• Li Wudi explained that the Supreme Unity Tower had absorbed the Azure Blue Dragon Veins, and Weisheng Cangyuan and Weisheng Tianlan accepted the loss in recognition of Li Tianming's help.
• Li Tianming emerged from the Supreme Unity Tower and rushed to a beach on Southern Heavenly Island to cultivate, while Li Wudi and the others organized prisoners and battlefield cleanup.
• Inside Li Tianming's Companion Space, the Azure Blue and Imperial Desolation Dragon Veins surged around the seven eggs, and the largest egg began to crack.
• The third Companion Beast hatched as a huge creature, absorbing both Dragon Veins and rapidly developing its cultivation alongside Li Tianming.
• Li Tianming formed Primordial Beast Veins and a Primordial Spirit Source, and the new Companion Beast declared itself the Taiji Primordial Kui Dragon.

Li Tianming and his three lifebound beasts cultivated together, breaking through to the fourth level of the Heavenly Will stage. He saw the Taiji Primordial Kui Dragon’s enormous dragon-like form and celebrated having a mount, then worried its nine back spikes would make riding it painful.

• The Taiji Primordial Kui Dragon absorbed energy, formed a Primordial field, and quickly comprehended mountain-and-sea heavenly will.
• Li Tianming cultivated with Yinghuo, Miaomiao, and the Taiji Primordial Kui Dragon, and all four reached the fourth level of the Heavenly Will stage.
• Li Tianming examined the Taiji Primordial Kui Dragon’s huge armored body, nine back peaks, hanging seas, and two dragon heads.
• The Taiji Primordial Kui Dragon greeted Yinghuo and Miaomiao so loudly that it knocked them about, then accidentally flattened Yinghuo while trying to play.
• Li Tianming rejoiced that he finally had an imposing mount, but worried that the dragon’s back spikes would hurt him when he rode it.

Li Tianming gave the Taiji Primordial Kui Dragon the heavenly-grade Waterblue Meteor, and it evolved into a huge fifth-order saint beast. After Li Wudi helped him explain the beast’s return, Li Tianming left for the Flame Capital with Ye Yuxi to bring Jiang Qingluan back.

• Weisheng Tianlan rewarded Li Tianming with the mid-grade heavenly divine source Waterblue Meteor, which he gave to the Taiji Primordial Kui Dragon for its evolution.
• The Taiji Primordial Kui Dragon evolved into a gigantic fifth-order saint beast, and Li Tianming revealed it to Li Wudi, who named it Lanhuang.
• Li Wudi helped Li Tianming conceal Lanhuang’s origins by claiming the beast had recovered from an old injury at the Li Clan Ancestral Grounds.
• Li Tianming planned to return to the Li Clan Ancestral Grounds to cultivate and study the Divine Mountain Imperial Sword and Canghai Imperial Sword.
• Li Tianming set off for the Flame Capital with Ye Yuxi to pick up Jiang Qingluan and fulfill his promise to her.

Jun Niancang and Jun Yifeng kidnapped Wei Tiancang, Jiang Cheng, and Jiang Qingluan to force Li Tianming into a fight. Li Tianming returned to Flame Capital and faced Jun Niancang, who overwhelmed him with his Saint Realm power and Supreme Soaring Saint Dragon as Ye Yuxi fought Jun Yifeng.

• Jun Yifeng told Jun Niancang that he had killed the Eastern Emperor Sect pursuers, and the brothers took Wei Tiancang, Jiang Cheng, and Jiang Qingluan captive.
• Jun Niancang and Jun Yifeng prepared to take the hostages to the Heavenly Court and use them to lure Li Tianming into a fight.
• Ye Yuxi brought Li Tianming back to Flame Capital, where they found the Jun brothers carrying off the captives.
• Jun Yifeng attacked Ye Yuxi while Yun Zhenzhen threatened the hostages, and Li Tianming faced Jun Niancang alone.
• Jun Niancang summoned the Saint Sovereign King Spear and Supreme Soaring Saint Dragon, then struck Li Tianming through the Vermilion Bird Hall.

Li Tianming used Yuwen Taiji’s Soul-Burning Book to empower himself and his three lifebound beasts before facing Jun Niancang and the Supreme Soaring Saint Dragon. As the beasts gained the upper hand against the dragon, Li Tianming struggled to withstand Jun Niancang’s attacks and turned his attention to the fight at the palace.

• Jiang Feiling offered to use Spirit Burning, but Li Tianming stopped her and chose to activate the Soul-Burning Book.
• Li Tianming summoned Yinghuo, Miaomiao, and Lanhuang, and all four shared the book’s power after blood was placed on it.
• Li Tianming sent his three lifebound beasts to restrain the Supreme Soaring Saint Dragon while he faced Jun Niancang alone.
• Lanhuang, Yinghuo, and Miaomiao attacked together and pushed the Supreme Soaring Saint Dragon into a disadvantage.
• Jun Niancang attacked Li Tianming with his spear, but Li Tianming blocked one thrust with his Dark Arm and evaded another using the Eye of Insight.
• When the Supreme Soaring Saint Dragon unleashed Saintlight World, Li Tianming saw that his three beasts were already winning the fight against it.

Li Tianming and his bonded beasts defeated Jun Niancang after Lanhuang pinned down the Supreme Soaring Sacred Dragon and joined the fight. Li Tianming stood over the bound Jun Niancang and drove the Eastern Emperor Sword toward the back of his head.

• Yinghuo, Miaomiao, and Lanhuang overwhelmed the Supreme Soaring Sacred Dragon with fire, lightning, soundwaves, and crushing blows.
• Yinghuo and Miaomiao returned to help Li Tianming attack Jun Niancang, while Lanhuang trapped him in Earthly Primordial Chaos.
• Li Tianming taunted Jun Niancang about his father’s death and Heavenly Court’s destruction, then joined Yinghuo and Miaomiao in a combined assault.
• Jun Niancang’s spear strike sent Li Tianming flying, but Yinghuo and Miaomiao wounded him and Lanhuang buried him beneath rocks.
• The Evilfiend bound Jun Niancang and dragged him before Li Tianming, who raised the Eastern Emperor Sword and thrust it toward the back of his head.

After Li Tianming defeated Jun Niancang, three Supreme Elders of the Qilin Ancient Clan arrived and identified him as Li Muyang’s son. They seized Li Tianming and took him toward the Divine Capital, threatening to kill him if Li Muyang did not appear.

• Li Tianming stopped short of killing Jun Niancang when Yun Zhenzhen threatened Jiang Qingluan, and the two sides released their captives.
• Ye Yuxi killed Jun Yifeng, then prepared to kill Jun Niancang and Yun Zhenzhen until Yun Zhenzhen invoked her clan’s Lifetime Curse.
• Three black-clad Supreme Elders descended, questioned Yun Zhenzhen about Li Tianming’s Dark Arm, and praised her for reporting it.
• Supreme Elder Chongyang recognized Li Tianming as Li Muyang’s son despite Li Tianming claiming his father was Li Yanfeng.
• Li Tianming agreed to go with Chongyang, Jingyue, and Lingxing and asked Ye Yuxi to take Jiang Qingluan to the Eastern Emperor Sect.
• Chongyang took Li Tianming away and warned that Li Muyang would find his son dead if he failed to come to the Divine Capital.