Chapter Summaries

Song Wudi sought the Heavenly Secrets Saint Venerable’s help to locate the people who killed a Song Family disciple and took the Snow Dragon, then led a force to the Moon God Domain. While Bai Ze and Lü Ruoxue continued cultivating, Bai Ze formed his Present Body and discovered how it could accelerate his progress.

• Song Wudi offered the Heavenly Secrets Saint Venerable a Law Stone in exchange for identifying the killer and their divine domain.
• The Heavenly Secrets Saint Venerable determined that one man and one woman were in the Moon God Domain, but could not see their circumstances clearly.
• Song Wudi decided to use the Song Family’s soul-marking secret art to find the pair and gathered over a hundred Divine Monarchs and several Divine Venerables to travel to the Moon God Domain.
• Lü Ruoxue absorbed the Phoenix Essence Blood as her Nine Nether Phoenix Divine Body neared Great Accomplishment.
• Bai Ze cultivated inside the Primordial Time-Space Tower and formed his Present Body, which could cultivate alongside his true body and share breakthrough feedback.

Lü Ruoxue completed the Great Accomplishment of her Nine Nether Phoenix Divine Body and gained the trump-card ability Rebirth in Fire, while renewing her hatred for those who betrayed her. The Heavenly Pride Contention Battle began in the Moon God Domain, and Bai Ze and Lü Ruoxue set off to join it after she explained how martial artists could break through to the Divine Emperor Realm.

• Lü Ruoxue absorbed Phoenix Essence Blood, underwent Rebirth in Fire, and brought her Nine Nether Phoenix Divine Body to the Great Accomplishment Realm.
• Lü Ruoxue reflected on how Rebirth in Fire might have helped her survive her past defeat and vowed revenge on her former disciple, the Arrogant World Divine Emperor, and the Sky-Supporting Divine Emperor.
• The Heavenly Pride List appeared above the Moon God Domain, and peerless geniuses gathered at the Heavenly Pride Tower for the once-in-a-century contest.
• Bai Ze asked Lü Ruoxue how to break through to the Divine Emperor Realm, and she explained that a martial artist had to perfect one Law and form a Dao Fruit.
• Bai Ze and Lü Ruoxue tore open space and set out for the Heavenly Pride Contention Battle.

The Song Family ambushed Bai Ze and Lü Ruoxue at the Heavenly Pride Divine Tower, but the two escaped inside and were separated into different spaces. Bai Ze rapidly climbed the tower, reaching the twenty-first floor as he aimed to secure a place in the final Battle of Heavenly Pride.

• Song Tian ordered the Song Family experts to guard the Heavenly Pride Divine Tower and seize anyone marked by their lineage.
• Bai Ze and Lü Ruoxue arrived at the tower, where the rankings showed the leaders had cleared as many as thirty-eight floors.
• Song Family experts detected the marks on Bai Ze and Lü Ruoxue and attacked, but the pair rushed into the tower to escape.
• The tower transported Bai Ze and Lü Ruoxue to separate spaces, and Bai Ze defeated the first-floor guardian with a sword finger.
• Bai Ze climbed past the twentieth floor and pierced the early Divine Monarch Realm guardian on the twenty-first floor without drawing his sword.

Bai Ze fought his way through the divine tower, defeating a powerful fire-dragon guardian on the thirty-fourth floor and rising to ninth place on the rankings. Outside the tower, Chen Tiannan saw Bai Ze’s name and vowed to kill him, unaware that the Bai Ze he had once tried to possess was only an avatar.

• Bai Ze used his sword techniques to defeat the guardians as he climbed beyond the thirtieth floor.
• On the thirty-fourth floor, Bai Ze battled a guardian with powerful Fire Law that transformed into a massive fire dragon.
• Bai Ze crushed the fire dragon with One Finger Breaks Mountains and Rivers and finished the guardian with sword intent before continuing upward.
• The rankings showed Bai Ze in ninth place after clearing the thirty-fourth floor, prompting discussion among experts across the Moon God Domain.
• Chen Tiannan, restored to the late-stage Divine Monarch Realm in Qian Feitian’s body, saw Bai Ze’s name and vowed to kill anyone named Bai Ze.

Bai Ze defeated the guardian of the Divine Tower’s thirty-eighth floor, broke through to the middle Divine Monarch Realm, and climbed to first place in the rankings. He continued ascending, reached the forty-fourth floor, and faced a guardian whose strength was at the Half-step Divine Venerable Realm.

• Bai Ze used Time Law and Sword Law to overcome the thirty-eighth-floor guardian’s powerful Blade Law and killed him with the God Slaying Sword Technique.
• Bai Ze cultivated after the battle and broke through to the middle Divine Monarch Realm, greatly increasing his strength.
• Bai Ze resumed his climb as people outside the Divine Tower reacted to his rise to first place and some plotted to kill him.
• Bai Ze used Heaven's Proxy and the third move of Unity Divine Finger to defeat the forty-third-floor guardian, who had reached the perfection of the Divine Monarch Realm.
• Bai Ze entered the forty-fourth floor and recognized its middle-aged guardian as a Half-step Divine Venerable Realm expert.

Bai Ze fought a guardian whose flute summoned endless Demonic Beasts and a powerful dragon, but he was defeated after his enhanced strength ran out. He entered the divine tower’s top hundred arena, where he waited for the Battle of Heavenly Pride and later saw Lü Ruoxue take his ranking.

• Bai Ze used his Sword Law, Time Law, and sword techniques against the flute-playing guardian, but the guardian’s melody erased his attacks and summoned Demonic Beasts.
• The guardian fused the Demonic Beast phantoms into a divine dragon, which endured Bai Ze’s strongest attacks and sent him flying.
• Bai Ze’s Replace Heaven ability expired, so he gave up and was teleported to the arena for the top hundred heavenly prides.
• Bai Ze found Lü Ruoxue absent and concluded that she had passed the forty-fourth floor, then cultivated on his golden seat while waiting for the final battle.
• Lü Ruoxue later appeared and took Bai Ze’s ranking as the arena’s standings continued to change.

The Battle of Heavenly Pride officially began after the divine tower rankings were finalized, and Bai Ze entered the tournament’s soul-replica arena. His first opponent, Lei Pokong, attacked him with his Thunder God Body, but Bai Ze withstood the blow with his Prison Suppressing Divine Dragon Body.

• The Song Family learned Bai Ze and Lü Ruoxue’s rankings and waited outside the divine tower, planning to seize the Snow Dragon when they emerged.
• The tower vanished, revealing Shangguan Fengyun and Song Kai tied for first, Lü Ruoxue in twenty-third place, and Bai Ze in thirty-first.
• Golden Tokens appeared, and an emotionless voice explained the tournament rules, including how contestants would fight through replicated soul bodies.
• Bai Ze received token thirty-two and was matched against Lei Pokong, a perfection-stage Divine Monarch ranked sixty-eighth.
• Lei Pokong activated his Thunder God Body and charged Bai Ze, who blocked the attack and retreated only half a step as golden scales and a dragon appeared.

Bai Ze defeated Lei Pokong and gained destiny in the Battle of Heavenly Pride, then spent years cultivating his Time Law and Sword Law. After the lower rankings were settled, the final round began, with the top fifty set to fight for higher rankings and each other’s destiny.

• Bai Ze used the River of Time and God Slaying Sword Technique to kill Lei Pokong, earning advancement to the top fifty and forming a Destiny Flood Dragon.
• Bai Ze assessed the other prodigies, then cultivated while the losing contestants fought to determine the lower rankings.
• Over ten years, Bai Ze strengthened his cultivation and raised both his Time Law and Sword Law to the sixth level of Laws.
• The sky announced that the top fifty would compete against one another, with victories determining rankings and allowing contestants to devour traces of their opponents’ destiny.
• Bai Ze saw the first opponent appear on his token as the final round began.

Bai Ze advanced through the Battle of Heavenly Pride by killing opponents without hesitation and growing his Destiny Flood Dragon. He then faced Lü Ruoxue, whose Nine Nether Phoenix powers met his Time Law and Sword Law in a fierce battle that remained unresolved.

• Bai Ze ambushed his first opponent and killed him before he could speak, gaining destiny for his Destiny Flood Dragon.
• Bai Ze defeated more than ten heavenly prodigies with Substitute Heaven, Time Law, and Sword Law, while the battles taught his first opponent to attack without wasting words.
• Bai Ze assessed the danger of facing Half-step Divine Venerable opponents and sought a breakthrough before meeting one.
• Bai Ze encountered Lü Ruoxue, and they agreed to fight at full strength because the arena's outcome would not affect their main bodies.
• Lü Ruoxue transformed into a Nine Nether Phoenix and attacked with black flames strengthened by Fire Law, while Bai Ze countered with Substitute Heaven and his Laws.
• Bai Ze's Slaughtering Sword Art split Lü Ruoxue's flames, and she answered with Phoenix Cry Slash.

Bai Ze fought Lü Ruoxue for several days, using her overwhelming pressure to break through to the late Divine Monarch Realm. After the battle, he gained more luck and considered how his breakthrough might let him contend with Half-step Divine Venerables, while preparing for the two Dao Fruits he would need to reach the Divine Emperor Realm.

• Bai Ze unleashed Replace Heaven and attacked Lü Ruoxue, but her Nine Nether Phoenix power kept him at a disadvantage.
• Lü Ruoxue intensified her attacks with the sixth layer of Fire Law, and Bai Ze endured severe injuries while growing stronger.
• Bai Ze’s Dragon Subduing Prison Suppressing Art surged, breaking him through to the late Divine Monarch Realm, so Lü Ruoxue stopped the fight and declined to take his luck.
• Bai Ze defeated Lü Ruoxue, gained a surge of luck, and recovered to his peak condition.
• Bai Ze assessed his increased strength and considered preparing to condense two Dao Fruits for his eventual breakthrough to the Divine Emperor Realm.

The Qiankun Realm began appearing across the Divine Might Realm, stirring ancient Divine Emperor experts who sought the chance to become immortals. Unaware of these changes, Bai Ze continued rising through the Battle of Heavenly Pride and came face-to-face with Qian Feitian.

• Cracks spread across the Nine Great Divine Domains, and powerful ancient beings recognized them as signs that the Qiankun Realm would open within ten thousand years.
• The Arrogant World Divine Emperor awakened, revealed that he had reached the Fifth Layer of Divine Emperor Realm with the Chaos Plate, and resolved to find its remaining fragments.
• Bai Ze defeated another perfected Divine Monarch heavenly pride, bringing his total victories to forty-one and strengthening his Destiny Flood Dragon.
• Bai Ze calculated that defeating the remaining perfected Divine Monarch opponents could help his Destiny Flood Dragon transform into a Destiny True Dragon.
• Bai Ze encountered Qian Feitian, and both men responded with killing intent.

Bai Ze recognized that Chen Tiannan had taken over Qian Feitian’s body, and the two revealed their long-standing intent to kill each other. Their battle began with Bai Ze’s sword attack shattering Chen Tiannan’s Gu worm phantom, but Chen Tiannan absorbed the sword radiance with a black vortex.

• Bai Ze recognized Chen Tiannan in Qian Feitian’s body and inferred that his former master had performed Body Snatching.
• Chen Tiannan explained that Qian Feitian’s technique could devour others and seize their divine bodies and talents, and said he intended to claim Bai Ze’s body.
• Bai Ze confronted Chen Tiannan over his past attempt to take over his body and declared that only one of them could survive.
• Bai Ze unleashed his power and attacked while Chen Tiannan summoned a massive Gu worm phantom using Gu Law and Devouring Law.
• Bai Ze’s Heaven-Slaying Break the Vast Sky shattered the Gu worm phantom, but Chen Tiannan blocked the sword radiance by absorbing it into a black vortex.

Bai Ze defeated Chen Tiannan after using Time Reversal to restore his severed arm, winning more destiny in the Battle of Heavenly Pride. He then encountered a white-haired Half-step Divine Venerable Realm swordsman.

• Chen Tiannan used Gu Insect Fusion, and he and Bai Ze fought with their full strength.
• Bai Ze lost his right arm, then pierced Chen Tiannan's shoulder with Three Fingers Suppress the Universe.
• Bai Ze used Time Reversal to restore his arm and gained the advantage over the badly injured Chen Tiannan.
• Chen Tiannan self-destructed to escape being killed, and Bai Ze claimed victory as his Destiny Flood Dragon grew stronger.
• Bai Ze encountered a white-haired youth who was one of the three Half-step Divine Venerable Realm experts.

Bai Ze fought Jian Chen, a Half-step Divine Venerable and natural sword prodigy, while learning how his Clear Bright Sword God Physique turned every sword strike into a fusion of sword arts. Elsewhere, Shangguan Fengyun used a finger from the Divine Emperor Realm to kill Song Kai and revealed his ambition to claim first place on the Heavenly Pride List.

• Jian Chen recognized Bai Ze as a sword cultivator and challenged him, but his basic sword techniques effortlessly pierced Bai Ze’s attacks.
• Jian Chen explained that his Clear Bright Sword God Physique refined all sword arts into simple techniques, and Bai Ze thanked him before renewing the fight with Sword Law and Time Law.
• Jian Chen leaped into Bai Ze’s River of Time and cleaved through its power as their battle intensified.
• Shangguan Fengyun blocked Song Kai’s Blade Law attack with one finger and sent him flying with a palm strike.
• Shangguan Fengyun pierced Song Kai with his ring finger, killing him, then revealed that it contained a fragment from the Divine Emperor Realm and declared he would take first place on the Heavenly Pride List.

Bai Ze defeated Jian Chen in a brutal battle and learned that Shangguan Fengyun was an even more dangerous opponent. As the final fight for first place on the Heavenly Pride List began, Shangguan Fengyun appeared confident that Bai Ze would finish second.

• Bai Ze used the amplification of Time Law and Sword Law to defeat Jian Chen, though both fighters suffered grave injuries.
• Jian Chen praised Bai Ze, warned him about Shangguan Fengyun, and then disappeared from the arena.
• The Destiny Flood Dragon devoured some of Jian Chen's destiny, and Bai Ze's injuries healed as he considered how difficult Shangguan Fengyun would be to defeat.
• The Heavenly Pride List revealed that Bai Ze and Shangguan Fengyun would fight for first place, drawing the attention of experts across the Moon God Domain.
• The arenas merged and Bai Ze faced Shangguan Fengyun, who mocked the defeated heavenly prides and declared that first place belonged to him.

Bai Ze challenged Shangguan Fengyun, unleashing his Time Law, Sword Law, and Divine Ability: Replace Heaven to face Shangguan Fengyun’s overwhelming power. Bai Ze ended the exchange badly injured but still standing, while Shangguan Fengyun suffered lighter injuries and grew enraged.

• Lü Ruoxue warned that Shangguan Fengyun’s fused Divine Emperor Realm finger bone could grant him power but obstruct his future cultivation.
• Bai Ze unleashed his Time Law, Sword Law, Divine Ability: Replace Heaven, and Three-clawed Golden Dragon form, revealing his full strength.
• Shangguan Fengyun dismissed Bai Ze’s power and unleashed an aura that tore through the River of Time and Sword Realm.
• Bai Ze attacked with Sky-Slaying Sword Art, and Shangguan Fengyun countered with Heaven-Opening Divine Palm without using the Divine Emperor Finger.
• Bai Ze and Shangguan Fengyun fought fiercely; Bai Ze suffered severe internal injuries but remained standing, while Shangguan Fengyun sustained lighter injuries and became enraged.

Shangguan Fengyun defeated Bai Ze with the Divine Emperor Finger and claimed first place in the Battle of Heavenly Pride, leaving Bai Ze ranked second. After the competitors were teleported out, Song Tian and more than a hundred experts attacked Bai Ze and Lü Ruoxue to seize the Snow Dragon, and the two fought back while surrounded.

• Shangguan Fengyun unleashed the Divine Emperor Finger, overpowering Bai Ze's sword attack and winning the battle.
• Bai Ze returned to his main body, accepted his second-place ranking, and reflected on the power of Shangguan Fengyun's Divine Emperor Realm hand bone.
• A crack in the sky teleported the top hundred Heavenly Pride List experts out of the arena.
• Song Tian and Song Ying led more than a hundred experts in surrounding Bai Ze and Lü Ruoxue and demanding the Snow Dragon.
• Bai Ze and Lü Ruoxue attacked their assailants and killed dozens of Divine Monarch Realm enemies despite being outnumbered.

Bai Ze and Lü Ruoxue escaped the Song Family’s ambush with Xiao Yue’s help, but the Snow Dragon’s exposure drew powerful factions from across several divine domains. After hiding their identities for months, they realized the Moon God Domain was no longer safe and considered leaving.

• Bai Ze summoned Xiao Yue, who revealed her Divine Venerable Realm strength and wiped out the experts attacking him and Lü Ruoxue.
• Chen Tiannan fled, while Bai Ze and Lü Ruoxue escaped on Xiao Yue’s back.
• News of Bai Ze’s Snow Dragon spread, prompting factions to search for them and the Song Family to send Song Yi and other Divine Venerable Realm experts.
• Months later, Bai Ze and Lü Ruoxue disguised their appearances and listened to reports that even Divine Saint Realm experts were hunting for the Snow Dragon.
• Lü Ruoxue and Bai Ze discussed the Snow Dragon’s value and concluded that they could no longer remain in the Moon God Domain.

Bai Ze and Lü Ruoxue traveled toward the Heavenly Revelation God Domain but were forced into battle when an Abyssal Three-Headed Dragon demanded the Snow Dragon. As Xiao Yue fought the dragon outside the Primordial Time-Space Tower, Tower Elder revealed that the tower’s restored fifth floor could traverse space, though using it would consume a great deal of Bai Ze’s soul power.

• Bai Ze and Lü Ruoxue decided to leave the Moon God Domain without using a Cross-domain Teleportation Array and traveled east toward the Heavenly Revelation God Domain.
• Xiao Yue, Bai Ze, and Lü Ruoxue encountered an Abyssal Three-Headed Dragon in a dark abyss, and it demanded they hand over the Snow Dragon.
• Bai Ze and Lü Ruoxue hid inside the Primordial Time-Space Tower while Xiao Yue fought the Abyssal Three-Headed Dragon in the void.
• Inside the tower, Xiao Yue appeared as a Snow Dragon and eagerly ate the divine stones and herbs Bai Ze gave her.
• Tower Elder told Bai Ze that the fifth floor’s spatial traversal ability had been restored and could move them a great distance, but it would severely drain Bai Ze’s soul power.

Bai Ze escaped the Abyssal Three-Headed Dragon with the Primordial Time-Space Tower, but the Tower’s power left his divine soul injured and sent him into a six-year slumber. After recovering on the ninth floor, he reunited with Xiao Yue and Xiao Xue and waited for Lü Ruoxue to finish cultivating so they could continue toward the Heavenly Revelation God Domain.

• Bai Ze decided to use the Primordial Time-Space Tower to escape before the Abyssal Three-Headed Dragon could summon more Divine Venerable Realm experts, and Lü Ruoxue agreed.
• Xiao Yue fought off the Abyssal Three-Headed Dragon’s offer and distraction, giving Bai Ze time to conceal the Tower and escape hundreds of thousands of kilometers away.
• Tower Elder moved the slumbering Bai Ze to the ninth floor to heal his divine soul, while Lü Ruoxue entered secluded cultivation and the Tower’s time flow returned to normal.
• After six years, three months, and eight days, Bai Ze awoke with his divine soul recovered and greatly improved, then checked that the Tower remained undiscovered.
• Bai Ze reunited with Xiao Yue and Xiao Xue, gave Xiao Xue supplies, and said they could leave once Lü Ruoxue emerged from cultivation.