Chapter Summaries

Emperor Xia announced the rewards for the one-on-one trials, while Ji Ning recognized Celestial God Shen Ye as the likely figure who had awakened his heartforce. The trials were interrupted when Asura True God descended and confronted Shen Ye, threatening Emperor Xia when he tried to intervene.

• Emperor Xia announced that the winners of the battles could earn treasures, Primal Liquid, divine arts, and a chance to become Dao Ancestor Chiming's disciple.
• King Yan urged Ji Ning to perform well, and Ji Ning asked about Shen Ye after hearing of his battle against powerful Celestial Gods and True Immortals.
• Ji Ning told Big Yellow Bear that Shen Ye was likely the Great Power who had awakened his heartforce sixteen years earlier.
• Shen Ye told Emperor Xia that Ji Ning was the genius he thought most highly of.
• Asura True God tore through the world barrier, demanded that Shen Ye bow, and threatened to eat Emperor Xia when he tried to calm him.

Shen Ye defeated the Asura True God after the latter came to Heavenly Radiance Hall seeking revenge, then faced down Dao Ancestor Chiming when he intervened. He killed Asura and returned to the assembly, where the gathered immortals watched him with newfound awe.

• The Asura True God attacked Shen Ye’s side, but Shen Ye wounded him with a sword strike and prepared to finish him with Hou Yi’s Sun-Shooting Bow.
• The Asura True God tried to flee after Shen Ye refused his offer of peace, but Shen Ye’s sword pierced the Void and shattered his divine body.
• Dao Ancestor Chiming appeared to stop Shen Ye from killing Asura, but stepped aside when Shen Ye challenged him to withstand a sword strike.
• Shen Ye collected the Asura True God’s remnant soul and sent it to be nurtured through mutual slaughter with Kun Zhou and Tian Xie.
• Shen Ye apologized to Emperor Xia and returned to his seat as the assembly continued, while the gathered immortals focused their attention on him.

Ji Ning defeated True Person Muchuan in the Immortal Fate Convention’s final match by revealing his heartforce, drawing Shen Ye’s favor and ending Emperor Xia’s hopes of offering him to his master. Overturning Sea Heavenly God arrived, learned that Shen Ye had killed Asura True God, and was asked about his attack on the Heavenly Court.

• The convention’s final three were Ji Ning, True Person Muchuan, and True Person Heishi, and Ji Ning and Muchuan defeated Heishi before entering a stalemated duel.
• True Person Muchuan revealed Azure Sea Listening to Waves, which turned some of Ji Ning’s attacks into divine power, but Ji Ning answered with a sword strike empowered by heartforce and defeated him.
• The Heavenly Gods and True Immortals were shocked that Ji Ning had reached the threshold of heartforce, and Shen Ye said he had once guided him.
• Emperor Xia accepted that Ji Ning was Shen Ye’s favored successor and removed him from the candidates for his master’s selection.
• Overturning Sea Heavenly God arrived, learned that Shen Ye had killed Asura True God, and Shen Ye asked whether he had smashed up the Heavenly Court.

Shen Ye accepted Ji Ning as his disciple after the Immortal Fate Convention and gave him a prayer mat made from Winter Heart Grass. After the convention, Shen Ye told Ji Ning he could use the Star Picking Hand freely and promised to deal with anyone who troubled him.

• Shen Ye asked Overturning Sea Heavenly God to show him the way to the Heavenly Court because he wanted to play at being the Heavenly Emperor.
• Emperor Xia announced True Person Muchuan as the disciple chosen by his master, but Shen Ye then asked Ji Ning to become his own disciple, and Ji Ning accepted.
• Shen Ye gave Ji Ning a prayer mat woven from Winter Heart Grass, astonishing the gathered immortals with its value.
• At Yan King's Estate, Yu Chi Xiyue celebrated Ji Ning's new master and mocked Heavenly Immortal Xuanji's reaction.
• Shen Ye asked Ji Ning about the Star Picking Hand, told him he could use it freely, and promised to trouble anyone who threatened him.

Shen Ye destroyed Ji Ning’s Violet Palace to replace his inferior Qi Cultivation Method, then restored him with Chaos Spirit Liquid and bestowed a far more powerful method. Ji Ning began learning it, while Shen Ye warned that its Heavenly Immortal Tribulation would be as severe as a Heavenly God Tribulation.

• Shen Ye shattered Ji Ning’s Violet Palace, prompting Big Yellow Bear to summon seven Heavenly Gods and prepare to fight him.
• Ji Ning stopped Big Yellow Bear, explaining that he sensed no malice from Shen Ye, who said Ji Ning needed to cultivate anew.
• Shen Ye used Chaos Spirit Liquid to repair Ji Ning’s Violet Palace and release the frozen Heavenly Gods.
• Shen Ye imprinted a Chaos Immortal’s Qi Cultivation Method into Ji Ning’s soul, and Ji Ning recognized how much it surpassed his previous method.
• Shen Ye warned that cultivating the new method would bring a Heavenly Immortal Tribulation no weaker than a Heavenly God Tribulation, and explained the ranks of Heavenly Immortals among the Chaos Alien Races.

Ji Ning vowed to pursue the difficult path to becoming a first-grade Celestial Immortal, while Shen Ye and his allies arrived at the Heavenly Court to claim the Jade Emperor’s position. The Jade Emperor revealed that he had secretly become a Dao Ancestor, leaving the confrontation poised to escalate.

• Ji Ning declared that he would become a first-grade Celestial Immortal despite the need for an extraordinary opportunity.
• Immortals and gods in the Heavenly Court grew fearful when they heard Shen Ye intended to take control of it.
• Shen Ye and more than twenty powerful figures arrived, and many of the Heavenly Court’s subjects abandoned the Jade Emperor to greet him.
• The Jade Emperor emerged and asked Shen Ye why he wanted the position, then offered him the title of Great Emperor Ziwei of the North Pole.
• The Jade Emperor revealed his Dao Ancestor aura, stunning the Heavenly Court’s Immortals and gods.

Shen Ye defeated the Jade Emperor and claimed command of the Heavenly Court, where the assembled immortals and gods accepted him as their new leader. Great Emperor Xuanwu secured the Jade Emperor’s life, while Shen Ye’s strength remained unclear.

• The Jade Emperor drew on the Heavenly Court’s fate and attacked Shen Ye with the Heavenly Emperor’s Divine Sword.
• Shen Ye countered with Purple Star Descent, overwhelmed the Jade Emperor, and blasted him into the Heavenly River.
• Great Emperor Xuanwu arrived, asked Shen Ye to spare the Jade Emperor, and offered compensation; Shen Ye clarified that he had not intended to kill him.
• Shen Ye walked toward the High Heavens Treasure Palace and asked who objected to his taking command of the Heavenly Court.
• The immortals and gods bowed to Shen Ye and sincerely greeted him as the new Heavenly Emperor.

Heavenly Soldiers arrested Nether Dragon and five demons for their crimes, despite Nether Dragon’s faith that his master, Floating Life True Immortal, would protect him. At the Immortal Slaying Platform, Shen Ye oversaw the execution of Heavenly Immortals and a True Immortal, while Floating Life True Immortal resolved to wait for the great tribulation to turn others against the Heavenly Emperor.

• Nether Dragon advised the demons to capture cultivators and Immortal Gate geniuses to avoid the sin of killing mortals, then the Heavenly Soldiers surrounded his Water Palace.
• A young heavenly general ordered Nether Dragon and the other five demons arrested and escorted to the Heavenly Court, leaving Nether Dragon bewildered that Floating Life True Immortal did not save him.
• Great Sun Heavenly God departed from Floating Life True Immortal’s palace, and Floating Life True Immortal angrily vowed to endure Shen Ye’s actions until they provoked public outrage.
• Heavenly Court officials brought Heavenly Immortals and a True Immortal to the Immortal Slaying Platform for execution, shocking the gathered immortal gods.
• Shen Ye remained unconcerned by the True Immortal’s curse and resolved to suppress the True God Dao Ancestors once he became invincible.

Shen Ye strengthened his physique, then hosted the Flat Peach Grand Meeting to share a method for raising the rank of a Golden Core. He revealed the method to the gathered immortals and gods, but withheld his own cultivation techniques.

• Shen Ye merged his eighteen avatars and further tempered his body, reaching the Saint King Realm while keeping his systems balanced.
• Shen Ye ordered Grand White Venus to invite the Three Realms' powerful immortals and gods to a Peach of Immortality Banquet.
• Immortals and gods gathered at the Heavenly Court, and Ji Ning helped King Yan secure a seat in the outer hall.
• Seventeen True God Dao Ancestors arrived before Shen Ye opened the Flat Peach Grand Meeting and served the feast.
• Shen Ye described the Chaos Alien Races' three ranks for Celestial Immortals and True Immortals, then announced a method to elevate the rank of a Golden Core.

At the Flat Peach Grand Meeting, Shen Ye revealed a method for upgrading Golden Cores and gave the attending immortals and gods Ice Heart Marrow. He secretly intended to intensify factional conflict and push the Three Realms toward collapse, and the guests left eager to gather the needed treasures.

• Shen Ye showed a Water Imprint Art recording proving that a Celestial Immortal could fight with strength comparable to a Celestial God.
• Shen Ye distributed jade slips containing the Ice Fire Golden Core Refinement Art, and the attendees learned it required Nine Blazes Nectar and Ice Heart Marrow.
• Shen Ye gave the attending immortals and gods his Ice Heart Marrow free of charge, earning their admiration.
• Shen Ye privately planned to fuel conflict between Nuwa's faction and the Boundless Gate faction and make powerful beings exceed the Three Realms' limits.
• Shen Ye warned that other Golden Core upgrading methods might exist, prompting the immortals and gods to leave and search for Chaos treasures.

Lu Dongbin survived a Boundless Gate assassination attempt with Patriarch Bodhi’s help as violence spread across the Three Realms. In the World Prison, Shen Ye defeated Prison Release True God and forced him to concede, leaving the Sky-Peeking Grand Bright Pagoda within reach.

• After leaving the Heavenly Court, Lu Dongbin was attacked by a powerful black-robed True God from the Boundless Gate, but Patriarch Bodhi intervened and drove the attacker away.
• Patriarch Bodhi warned Lu Dongbin before leaving to rescue others as nearly a hundred True Immortals fell and bloodshed spread across the Three Realms.
• After reaching Saint King Ninth Heaven, Shen Ye entered the World Prison and demanded the Sky-Peeking Grand Bright Pagoda from Prison Release True God.
• Shen Ye and Prison Release True God clashed, with Shen Ye using Purple Light Jade, Hou Yi’s Sun-Shooting Bow, and the Shield of Space-Time to overwhelm him.
• Shen Ye petrified Prison Release True God’s shoulder with a gray beam and burned his other shoulder with Little Flame, forcing him to sever both arms and concede.

After claiming the Sky-Peeking Grand Bright Pagoda, Shen Ye enslaved the Black-Robed Divine King and returned to the Immortal Ancient World. He sent Lieshan Tribe priests to recover three fragments of Divine Sword Zhaoming and prepared to seek its Sword Heart.

• Prison Release True God surrendered the Sky-Peeking Grand Bright Pagoda, and Shen Ye refined it before returning to the Three Realms.
• Shen Ye confronted the Black-Robed Divine King in the Heavenly Court, cut him off from the Three Realms' Heavenly Dao, and enslaved him.
• Shen Ye staged the Divine King's escape, then told the immortals and gods he would travel through Chaos while leaving a Destiny Golden Body to guard the Heavenly Court.
• Back in the Immortal Ancient World, Shen Ye gathered the Lieshan Tribe experts and dispatched priests to Juantu, Star Luo Rock, and the Abyss of Extremity to retrieve Zhaoming's Hilt, Shadow, and Light.
• Shen Ye set out for the Wushan Goddess Tomb to retrieve Divine Sword Zhaoming's Sword Heart.

Shen Ye entered the Wushan Goddess Tomb to gather the Sword Heart fragments that remained from the goddess, promising to rescue her from the Chaos Origin someday. He met Siyou, obtained the Calamity Fire, and had Little Flame devour its spark.

• Shen Ye explained how the Wushan Goddess’s spirit had become Dew Grass and entered her tomb using his Shennong blood.
• Shen Ye gathered the human-shaped Dew Grass into Sword Heart fragments and vowed to rescue the goddess from the Chaos Origin.
• A spark of Black Flame emerged, and Siyou appeared after sensing Shennong’s divine blood in Shen Ye’s hand.
• Shen Ye told Siyou that Shennong was still alive and asked for the Calamity Fire; Siyou agreed and dispersed his consciousness.
• Shen Ye commanded Little Flame to devour the Black Flame, strengthening his Immortal Fire.

Shen Ye returned to the City of Flowing Moon with the Sword Heart and prepared to bring the clansmen back to the Human Realm. After returning to the Six Paths of Reincarnation Plaza and trading cultivation systems, he let the Seven Killings Daoist probe his memories, leaving the Lords of Reincarnation wary of his connection to a Dao Fruit or Dao Venerable.

• Shen Ye returned to the City of Flowing Moon after Little Flame devoured the Calamity Fire and the Sword Heart fragments formed a crystalline true spirit.
• Cang Ming asked when Shen Ye would lead the clansmen back to the Human Realm, and Shen Ye said it would be soon.
• Shen Ye's subordinates returned with the remaining sword-blade fragments, completing the divine weapon, and he planned to have the Six Paths reforge it.
• Shen Ye and Hua Yue returned to the Six Paths of Reincarnation Plaza, where Shen Ye exchanged cultivation systems from several universes for Merit Points and inheritances.
• The Seven Killings Daoist invaded Shen Ye's memories, saw the Three-Life Bronze Coffin, cried out about the Dao, and withdrew into slumber.
• The Lords of Reincarnation speculated that Shen Ye was connected to a Dao Fruit or Dao Venerable and feared probing further.

The Demon Buddha suspected that an unknown Dao Fruit was manipulating Shen Ye, while Shen Ye used his reward for the systems to obtain more of the Eight-Nine Arcane Art and request a divine weapon forging mission. The mission required him to retrieve the Green Duckweed Sword from Jinao Island, and he began planning how to survive its dangers.

• The Demon Buddha inferred that an unknown Dao Fruit had learned of his identity and might be investigating his past connection to the Dao Venerable.
• The Lords of Six Paths of Reincarnation offered Shen Ye one hundred and twenty million Merit Points to buy back the systems, and he exchanged some of them for the Legendary Chapter and Creation Chapter of the Eight-Nine Arcane Art.
• Shen Ye submitted the Zhaoming Fragment and Purple Light Qiong Remnant Body and requested an exclusive mission to forge a divine weapon of the same grade.
• The Six Paths issued a mission requiring Shen Ye to obtain the Green Duckweed Sword from Jinao Island and warned that failure would cost him all his Merit Points.
• Shen Ye recognized that Yuan Hong and Eastern Emperor Taiyi's suppressed flesh and blood made the mission dangerous, then considered using the Human Sovereign Sword, other Peerless Divine Weapons, and the Azure Emperor to protect himself.

Meng Qi entered True Martial Great Emperor’s treasury during the Cao Family’s crisis and encountered Shen Ye, who let him keep the treasures after comprehending “Dao Spreading Across the Universe.” After Shen Ye said he had sought Meng Qi for another matter, the story left them about to discuss it.

• Meng Qi slipped into the Cao Family treasury while Jiang Zhiwei and Celestial Venerable Lingbao distracted the family’s defenders.
• Meng Qi found the Tree of Great Dao and several other treasures, but Shen Ye appeared behind him and asked to comprehend the inheritance.
• Shen Ye explained that he had spared Taiyi Zhenren, Cloud Dweller, and the others because of Celestial Venerable Lingbao, then offered “Dao Spreading Across the Universe” as thanks and an apology.
• The Cao Family’s Earth Immortal Remnant entered the treasury, triggered a curse from the treasures, and collapsed after the curse dissipated.
• Shen Ye comprehended the inheritance, allowed Meng Qi to collect the treasures, and said he had come to discuss another matter.

Shen Ye asked Meng Qi to use his Lightning Mark to help him enter the Nine Heavens Ruins, whose entrance lay beneath Mythology. After emerging from the Cao Family’s forbidden ground with the fifth move of the Seven Swords of Heaven Interception, Shen Ye faced a group of Exterior experts who attacked him.

• Shen Ye told Meng Qi that he needed the Lightning Mark to reach the Nine Heavens Ruins and asked him to find Gu Xiaosang, whom he had promised to bring along.
• Shen Ye emerged from the forbidden ground as a masked Dharma Body fought the Cao Family’s Earth Immortal Remnant, drawing the attention of Han Guang and Gao Lan.
• Shen Ye revealed that he had found the True Martial Great Emperor’s treasure vault and the fifth move of the Seven Swords of Heaven Interception, Dao Spreading Across the Universe.
• A Cao Family Grandmaster ordered the Exterior experts to seize Shen Ye and the inheritance, and more than a dozen experts attacked him.
• Shen Ye struck the Earth Immortal Remnant with one palm and shattered it.

Shen Ye’s overwhelming strength stunned the martial world, and his offer of Buddha’s Palm’s first move in the Western Regions reignited the crowd’s hopes. At Biyou Palace, Chonghe and the others discussed Shen Ye’s gifts and suspected he intended to draw Han Guang out and seize his position as Heavenly Emperor.

• Shen Ye shattered the Cao Family’s Earth Immortal Remnant with one palm, making the onlookers recognize him as one of the martial world’s strongest figures.
• Shen Ye announced that he would leave the first move of Buddha’s Palm in the Western Regions, prompting the crowd to seek the inheritance.
• Gao Lan and Han Guang suspected Shen Ye’s offer was bait, with Han Guang judging that Shen Ye was too inexperienced to imitate a master baiting a target.
• Meng Qi told Chonghe that Shen Ye had given him the inheritance of the Seven Swords of Heaven Interception as repayment and as an apology for possibly competing over a divine weapon.
• Chonghe speculated that Shen Ye was interested in the Green Duckweed Sword on a dangerous island in the Eastern Sea of the Reincarnation World.
• Meng Qi, Jiang Zhiwei, and Chonghe concluded that Shen Ye was unlikely to reconcile with Han Guang and might be trying to lure him out to claim the Heavenly Emperor’s position.

Meng Qi asked Chonghe to protect him and Shen Ye in the Nine Heavens Ruins, while the demon clans plotted to kill Shen Ye over the suspected Demon-Summoning Banner. In the Western Regions, the expanding nation of Han fought Asura Temple to a draw, leaving its future conflict with the Great Asura unresolved.

• Meng Qi told Chonghe that he and Shen Ye planned to enter the Nine Heavens Ruins with Gu Xiaosang and asked him to watch over them; Chonghe agreed to hide in Meng Qi's mustard seed ring.
• The demon clans focused on Shen Ye, blaming him for their losses and suspecting he still possessed the Demon-Summoning Banner.
• Zhu Wu, the Demon King Baize, said he could not yet fight Shen Ye himself, but had invited another Demon King and contacted a human Dharma Body to help arrange Shen Ye's death.
• Han conquered more than a hundred Western Regions nations, prompting Asura Temple to demand that it dissolve.
• Han's Dharma Body fought the Great Asura Meng Nan for half a month; they drew, and Asura Temple recognized Han while Han agreed not to expand further for the time being.

The Human Sovereign Remnants fought Demon King Baize and a Giant Python Demon King as Great Asura Meng Nan joined the assault on the capital. Shen Ye arrived, tore the python apart, and intercepted its fleeing primordial spirit.

• The Human Sovereign Remnants' Dharma Body confronted Baize and the Giant Python Demon King above the capital, and the demons attacked the city to weaken the human faith sustaining him.
• The remnants' Half-step Dharma Body sent their Exterior Scenery experts to rescue civilians while the court ministers hesitated to join the fight.
• Meng Nan appeared and revealed his alliance with the two Demon Kings, leaving the remnants facing three Dharma Bodies.
• Shen Ye entered the battlefield and tore the Giant Python Demon King in half before it could react.
• Shen Ye intercepted the python's escaping primordial spirit and recognized that it was not a demon of the True Spirit Realm.