Chapter Summaries

Lu Yuan led the Luo God Clan army to destroy the Blood God Clan, whose forces were depleted and unprepared. After Lu Yuan shattered their grand array and killed their remaining Earth Supremes, the Luo God Clan and its allies overwhelmed the clan’s remnants.

• Lu Yuan judged that the Blood God Clan would not flee before learning the Western Heaven Battle Emperor’s fate, because fear of the consequences kept its members from acting.
• The Blood God Clan’s northern defenses had collapsed, leaving its depleted forces to rely on three defensive lines and a cobbled-together clan army.
• Lu Yuan used three portions of the Years Blade to break the Blood God Clan’s grand array and kill all three remaining Earth Supremes.
• The Luo God Clan’s First Elder and the allied family Supremes attacked the remaining Blood God Clan forces and brought the clan to destruction.

After the Blood God Clan’s defeat, Luo Li held a military conference to hear casualty figures and plans for dividing the clan’s spoils. The subordinate families stood to gain vast territory, resources, captives, and cultivation inheritances as the Luo God Clan consolidated its power.

• A report stated that the Blood God Clan’s garrison had been captured, more than 2.67 million had been killed, and the clan now existed in name only.
• Blood God Clan Supremes provided the enemy legions’ estimated strength, deployment details, contacts, and information about their leaders and resources.
• Luo Li presided over a conference attended by Lu Yuan, Luo God Clan elders, and representatives of subordinate families who had helped seize the Blood God Clan’s territory.
• The conference established that the subordinate families would receive a comparatively small share by percentage, but could still gain major rewards from the Blood God Clan’s vast resources and affiliated families.
• The Blood God Clan’s cultivation methods and inheritances were made available to the Luo God Clan and its subordinate families, giving them access to paths toward the Earth Supreme Realm.

Lu Yuan dismissed the Blood God Clan’s Earth Supreme cultivation arts and explained how he planned to advance the Heavenly Book along his own path. After Luo Li ordered the army to secure the conquered clan and march south, Lu Yuan gave the defenders two blades sealed with powerful Spatial Power to help them withstand the Blood God Clan’s returning legions.

• Lu Yuan explained that the Heavenly Book already led to the Heavenly Sovereign Realm and that he would seek his own path beyond the Dominator Realm rather than follow Mu Chen’s.
• Luo Li ordered the subordinate clans to finish securing the Blood God Clan, leave forces to guard its prisoners and supplies, and march south to attack the Blood God Clan’s remaining forces.
• The subordinate clans weighed the risks of defending the captured territory as the Blood God Clan’s eastern and western legions could return to fight for their families.
• Lu Yuan handed the Luo God Clan’s First Elder and the strongest remaining subordinate-clan member two blades containing devastating Spatial Power strikes.
• Lu Yuan judged that the blades could devastate gathered enemies, allowing the defenders to draw the Blood God Clan legions into narrow terrain and counterattack.

Lu Yuan and Luo Li led the Luo God Clan’s forces south after leaving troops behind to defend the garrison. The chapter explained the war’s losses and the Luo God Clan’s careful system for dividing resources among its affiliated families, leaving the army to continue its campaign while families weighed how much more they could risk.

• Lu Yuan and Luo Li left forces behind to defend the garrison and marched south with the Luo God Clan’s direct troops and affiliated families’ soldiers.
• Lu Yuan reflected on the Western Heaven Battle Emperor’s death and the risks of war, noting that the defeated and victorious sides both suffered losses.
• The Luo God Clan’s first elder stayed behind with two hundred direct soldiers to supervise the fair distribution of resources.
• Affiliated families considered whether further losses would damage their ability to develop, and those unable to continue the expedition chose to withdraw.
• The Luo God Clan promised affiliated families territorial and industry allocations after the war, while families willing to keep fighting continued south to claim more resources.

After the Luo God Clan defeated the Blood God Clan, Lu Yuan left the postwar cleanup and distribution to others. He marked the Western Heaven God Realm as the next target, declaring that the Luo God Clan would be the continent’s sole voice.

• The Luo God Clan’s soldiers sorted enemy and clan casualties, preserving their own dead’s dignity and belongings.
• The chapter explained how the clan would distribute the fallen soldiers’ property and support their families, while punishing anyone who exploited them.
• Lu Yuan dismissed the postwar arrangements as work others could handle and focused on the next campaign.
• Lu Yuan marked the Western Heaven God Realm on the map and announced it as the Luo God Clan’s next target.

Lu Yuan and Luo Li led the Luo God Clan army to seize the Western Heaven Divine Hall and Western Heaven God Realm after the Western Heaven Battle Emperor died and the Hall collapsed into infighting. The Western Heaven Continent remained outside their full control, and Lu Yuan expected the Bone God Clan and Force God Clan to submit in time.

• The chapter contrasted the Endless Fire Territory’s stable administration with the Martial Realm’s dependence on Lin Dong and described the risks of family-based rule.
• The Bone God Clan Heiress and Force God Clan Heiress used subordinate-family heiresses to challenge the Blood God Clan Heiress’s standing in the Western Heaven Battle Emperor’s harem.
• The Blood God Clan Heiress retaliated, worsening the Western Heaven Divine Hall’s internal conflicts while the Western Heaven Battle Emperor struggled to balance its factions.
• After the Western Heaven Battle Emperor died, the Western Heaven Divine Hall fell into disorder and lost its ability to resist.
• Lu Yuan and Luo Li led the Luo God Clan army in defeating the divided factions and taking control of the Western Heaven Divine Hall and Western Heaven God Realm.
• Lu Yuan recognized that the Western Heaven Continent was not yet integrated and expected the Bone God Clan and Force God Clan to choose submission.

Lu Yuan explained how he planned to use the Western Heaven Battle Emperor’s captured concubines to persuade the Western Heaven Divine Hall’s defenders to surrender and pressure the families behind them. Luo Li and the Luo God Clan approved his plan as street fighting continued across the Divine Hall.

• The Luo God Clan fought the Western Heaven Divine Hall’s remaining defenders in brutal street battles after Lu Yuan killed their Earth Supreme commanders and seized the command center.
• Luo Li asked Lu Yuan how he intended to deal with the Western Heaven Battle Emperor’s female captives.
• Lu Yuan proposed sending the concubines to persuade the defenders to surrender and holding prisoners to pressure their families into negotiating or proving their loyalty.
• Lu Yuan ordered that those who refused to cooperate be killed and those who cooperated be spared, while surrendered troops remained prisoners for now.
• Luo Li and the others approved Lu Yuan’s plan, and the Fifth Elder led a group to carry it out.

After capturing the Western Heaven Battle Emperor and taking Miss hostage, Lu Yuan’s forces broke the Western Heaven Divine Hall’s remaining defenders and secured their surrender. With the hall under control, Lu Yuan turned his attention to the Force God Clan and Bone God Clan, beginning another war.

• The Western Heaven Divine Hall’s defenders lost their morale and surrendered after Miss ordered them to give up.
• The Luo God Clan legion and its allied forces defeated the last defenders, including the strongest Three-Rank Supreme.
• Lu Yuan’s forces restrained valuable prisoners and crippled the spiritual energy of those considered less valuable.
• Lu Yuan studied maps of the Force God Clan and Bone God Clan and began planning the next war.

Lu Yuan led the Luo God Clan's legion against the Force God Clan, demanding that it pay a ransom for its heiress and accept the consequences of its past attack on the Luo God Clan. The Force God Clan's leaders faced a choice between surrendering their interests and risking destruction, while the Bone God Clan also remained under pressure.

• The chapter explained that the Blood God Clan had attacked the Luo God Clan after Luo Cangqiong's death, with the Force God Clan and Bone God Clan joining the assault and taking heavy losses themselves.
• The Blood God Clan Heiress had continued suppressing the Luo God Clan because her clan feared revenge and believed neither side could safely retreat.
• Lu Yuan led the Luo God Clan's legion from the Western Heaven Divine Hall, broke through the Force God Clan's defensive lines, and reached the outskirts of its clan land.
• Lu Yuan's forces accepted surrender from the Force God Clan, unlike their extermination campaign against the Blood God Clan, and had not occupied or purged Force God Clan territory.
• Lu Yuan treated the Force God Clan Heiress and Bone God Clan Heiress as hostages whose ransom would show their clans' sincerity and help determine whether they survived.
• The Force God Clan's higher-ups understood that Lu Yuan expected them to surrender substantial interests, but they struggled to accept the cost.

The Force God Clan accepted Lu Yuan’s terms, returning what it had taken from the Luo God Clan and surrendering additional territory to avoid destruction. Lu Yuan left the clan intact and arranged marriages between its direct daughters and young Luo God Clan members, making the two clans nominal in-laws.

• The Force God Clan’s leaders agreed to return all the resources and occupied territory they had taken from the Luo God Clan.
• Lu Yuan weighed the consequences of destroying the Force God Clan and Bone God Clan, then chose stability over further demands.
• The Force God Clan returned its plunder, withdrew loyalists from the disputed lands, ceded additional territory as interest, and sent its unmarried direct daughters to Lu Yuan.
• Lu Yuan refused to take the Force God Clan’s daughters for himself and arranged for an equal number of young Luo God Clan men to marry them.
• The Force God Clan used its compensation to ransom captured clansmen and treated the additional payment as dowries for the marriage alliance.

After Lu Yuan’s defeat of the Western Heaven Battle Emperor, the Bone God Clan judged that opposing him was futile and sought to submit before he attacked. The clan leader arrived with an envoy group, admitted the clan’s mistakes, and positioned the Bone God Clan as a more cooperative ally than the Force God Clan.

• The chapter explained why Lu Yuan’s record of killing the Western Heaven Battle Emperor justified treating him as a Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign.
• The Bone God Clan learned of the Blood God Clan’s destruction and the Force God Clan’s submission, and decided to approach Lu Yuan before he targeted them.
• The Bone God Clan weighed submission as a way to preserve its dignity, avoid losses, and gain Lu Yuan’s favor over the Force God Clan.
• The Bone God Clan’s clan leader returned from the Ancient Heavenly Palace and saw the submission as an opportunity to build ties with Lu Yuan’s faction.
• The Bone God Clan’s clan leader arrived with envoys before the Luo God Clan’s army reached their territory and admitted the clan’s mistakes, making the Force God Clan look worse by comparison.

After Lu Yuan killed the Western Heaven Battle Emperor, he considered how to prevent the other Heavenly Sovereigns from joining forces against him for exploiting their rule against killing one another. He planned to establish himself as a Heavenly Sovereign in the eyes of the Myriad Heavens, making himself subject to their rules and turning an uncontrollable threat into an accepted participant.

• Lu Yuan distinguished healthy competition from collusion with outside forces and decided not to interfere in the Luo God Clan's affairs.
• The Western Heaven Battle Emperor's death remained unconfirmed to most cultivators on the Western Heaven Continent, though the continent's strange upheaval fueled suspicions.
• Lu Yuan recognized that Heavenly Sovereigns might target him because he could kill them while remaining outside their rule against killing one another.
• Lu Yuan rejected hiding or handing the Western Heaven Continent to another Heavenly Sovereign and considered using his victory to make a name for himself.
• Lu Yuan planned to present himself as equivalent to a Heavenly Sovereign and rely on the Endless Fire Territory's connections to win recognition and acceptance under their rules.

The Bone God Clan's leader traveled to the Shi Family and explained that Lu Yuan had backed the Luo God Clan, destroyed the Blood God Clan, and killed the Western Heaven Battle Emperor. He said he had come to stay away from the purges and make clear where his allegiance lay.

• News of the Western Heaven Battle Emperor's death spread through the Myriad Heavens, as the Force God Clan, Bone God Clan, and Luo God Clan informed their allies.
• The chapter explained how cultivators traveled between regions and how family bloodlines and Clan Tattoos shaped their strength and prospects.
• The Bone God Clan's leader visited the Shi Family's leader, an old friend he had met while training at the Three Small Tribulations of the Supreme Realm.
• The Shi Family's leader asked whether the Blood God Clan had attacked the Luo and Bone God Clans on two fronts.
• The Bone God Clan's leader said the Luo God Clan had found a powerful backer who exterminated the Blood God Clan and killed the Western Heaven Battle Emperor, and that he had surrendered and come to stay with the Shi Family.

The chapter explained why the Luo God Clan had been isolated while the Blood God Clan attacked: other powers feared provoking the Western Heaven Battle Emperor, and Heavenly Sovereigns faced risks from deadly retaliation. With the Luo God Clan now ruling the Western Heaven Continent alongside Lu Yuan, its elders visited other families to thank allies, apologize to those they had put in a difficult position, and invite them to witness the coming ceremony.

• Powerful factions across the Myriad Heavens learned that the Western Heaven Battle Emperor had used his full strength and began investigating the Western Heaven Continent.
• The chapter explained that Heavenly Sovereign families hesitated to support the Luo God Clan because Luo Cangqiong was dead and open aid could provoke the Western Heaven Battle Emperor.
• Xiao Yan had stopped and sparred with the Western Heaven Battle Emperor but had not directly supported the Luo God Clan, since that could force a war between their factions.
• The Luo God Clan endured the Blood God Clan's attack with little decisive help because Earth Supreme families feared the Western Heaven Battle Emperor and Heavenly Sovereign families feared a deadly feud.
• The Luo God Clan's Supreme elders visited other families to thank those who had helped, apologize to those they had put in a difficult position, reveal the truth, and invite them to witness the ceremony.

Tai Ling Su learned that Lu Yuan had killed the Western Heaven Battle Emperor despite still being a Supreme, and she reflected on the extraordinary potential she had recognized in him more than five hundred years earlier. She was left astonished by how quickly Lu Yuan had surpassed even her expectations.

• A Tai Ling Ancient Clan elder told Tai Ling Su that Lu Yuan had destroyed the Western Heaven Battle Emperor's body and soul while still at the Supreme Realm.
• Tai Ling Su crushed her teacup in shock, then recalled how Lu Yuan had once suppressed the Western Heaven Battle Emperor and defeated Earth Supremes as a Supreme.
• Tai Ling Su remembered judging Lu Yuan, when he was twenty, capable of threatening Heavenly Sovereigns and far beyond his peers.
• Tai Ling Su recalled suspecting Lu Yuan possessed the Years Master's inheritance and considering a match between him and a Holy Daughter of the Tai Ling Ancient Clan.
• Tai Ling Su concluded that Lu Yuan's rise to Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign had been inevitable, but his pace still astonished her.

Qing Yan Jing confronted the Floating Tu Ancient Clan over her arranged marriage and declared that she loved Lu Yuan, who had killed the Western Heaven Battle Emperor. She revealed that she had given Lu Yuan the Great Floating Tu Art Yang Scroll, and her father collapsed as the ancestral hall erupted into chaos.

• The Floating Tu Ancient Clan discussed Lu Yuan’s extraordinary rise and focused on Qing Yan Jing’s marriage dispute.
• Clan elders accused Qing Yan Jing of using Lu Yuan as an excuse to break her marriage contract with the Maha Ancient Clan.
• Qing Yan Jing insisted that Lu Yuan was the man she loved and said she would bear the consequences of deciding for herself.
• Qing Yan Jing explained that supporting Lu Yuan could bring the Floating Tu Ancient Clan and other allies into the conflict against those pursuing him.
• Qing Yan Jing revealed that she had given Lu Yuan the Great Floating Tu Art Yang Scroll and that her father had given him the Yin Volume.
• Qing Yan Jing’s father spat blood and collapsed, throwing the ancestral hall into chaos.

Qing Yan Jing's father and the Floating Tu Ancient Clan's ancestors weighed whether to accept her demand to become involved in a dangerous matter. They feared alienating a powerful Heavenly Sovereign whom the clan could no longer control, but they also believed refusing her could lead to a disastrous break with her.

• Qing Yan Jing's father recovered from his Qi Deviation but became distressed again when he recalled her words and the boy he had received over five hundred years earlier.
• The chapter explained that Qing Yan Jing had built the Heaven Evolution Pavilion, chosen its next master, used her connections to suppress the marriage contract, studied the Floating Tu Formation, and taken control of the Floating Tu Pagoda.
• The Floating Tu Ancient Clan's ancestors avoided forcing Qing Yan Jing because she was powerful, important to the clan, and likely to resist if cornered.
• The ancestors preferred that Qing Yan Jing break off her engagement or marry someone else rather than involve herself in the matter they feared.
• The chapter described the Five Ancient Clans' strength and how their fortunes depended on the potential of new generations, while the Endless Fire Territory already had pills capable of greatly increasing the odds of producing Heavenly Sovereigns.
• The Floating Tu Ancient Clan's ancestors remained divided over whether to go along with Qing Yan Jing's gamble or refuse and risk a complete break with her.

Qing Yan Jing tried to persuade the Floating Tu Ancient Clan to support Lu Yuan, and the clan elders realized his command of time could make him an almost unstoppable threat. The elders decided that the clan should use its existing ties to befriend him rather than risk becoming his enemy.

• Qing Yan Jing faced resistance as she argued that the Floating Tu Ancient Clan should invest in Lu Yuan.
• The elders noticed that Lu Yuan had possessed the Great Floating Tu Art Yang Scroll more than five hundred years before Qing Yan Jing was born, and they concluded he could travel through time.
• The Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereigns considered how Lu Yuan might use time travel to kill enemies before they grew powerful and threaten even the Five Ancient Clans.
• A Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign urged the clan to befriend Lu Yuan, and the Floating Tu Ancient Clan chose to side with him.

The chapter explained why the Heavenly Emperor backed Lu Yuan after he killed the Western Heaven Battle Emperor, relying on the power of One Qi Transforming into Three Purities and Lu Yuan’s progress with it. It ended with Xiao Yan ordering the Endless Fire Territory to support Lu Yuan and declaring that he would hold the Maha Ancient Clan in check.

• The chapter described how the Heavenly Emperor’s One Qi Transforming into Three Purities could create vast numbers of powerful clones and let him fight indefinitely.
• The Heavenly Emperor ordered the Ancient Heavenly Palace to support Lu Yuan, confident that Lu Yuan’s mastery of the technique would eventually tip the balance.
• Xiao Yan declared that the Endless Fire Territory would not abandon Lu Yuan despite the risks.
• Xiao Yan stayed behind to hold the Maha Ancient Clan in check, assigned Ya Fei Jie to manage logistics, and sent the others to announce their support to the major factions.

Martial Ancestor Lin Dong heard proposals to exploit the turmoil by preserving the Martial Realm’s strength, expanding its market, and pressuring the Endless Fire Territory. He rejected profit as his guide and declared that loyalty to Lu Yuan and his sworn brother Xiao Yan mattered more, leaving the Martial Realm’s stance firmly in support of them.

• Lin Dong reviewed his subordinates’ proposals to avoid the turmoil, expand the Martial Realm’s market, and demand a share of the Endless Fire Territory’s medicinal pill business.
• The chapter explained the longstanding friction between the Martial Realm and the Tai Ling Ancient Clan, rooted in Lin Dong’s conflict with the Western Heaven Battle Emperor and the clan’s alliance with him.
• The chapter contrasted the Martial Realm’s limited connections with the Endless Fire Territory’s strong network, which benefited from Xiao Yan’s medicinal pills and ties to families such as the Wen Family.
• Lin Dong said that he judged matters by right and wrong and friendship rather than profit, and that his ties to Lu Yuan and Xiao Yan were enough to determine his position.