Arc 5Revealed Lives and Rising Factions
The Heavenly Dao Rankings exposed past lives and a dark future, prompting Yu Bai to build the Other Shore Sect while new conflicts gathered around Tang San, Spirit Hall, and the empires. The arc left the continent preparing for the next tournament and waiting to see whether the Rankings would return.
- Shui Bing'er awakened the Dou Di Body as her second martial soul and vowed to take Yu Bai back from Zhu Zhuqing, while the Rankings revealed Tang Luo as Tang San's past-life Tang Sect elder.
- Tang San killed Tang Luo at Ghost's Lament Cliff, and Shi Nian remembered his past life as Tang Luo and swore revenge before the Rankings began showing Li Xiaoyao's life.
- The Li Xiaoyao visions revealed his bonds with Zhao Ling'er and Lin Yueru, and Yu Bai learned that he was Li Xiaoyao while Ye Lingling and Hu Liena awakened past-life inheritances.
- The Present Life Arc exposed Juzi's future and Tang San's interference in her life, prompting Juzi to return ten thousand years into the past with her memories and leaving a golden light in the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace.
- Ning Fengzhi prepared the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect for the coming conflict, while Yu Bai sold pills in Heaven Dou City, accepted Ye Lingling into the Other Shore Sect, and defeated Nalan Dong'er in the Great Soul Arena.
- Black-clad attackers besieged Blue Tyrant Academy, but Tai Tan drove them off, and Yu Bai's group left after Nalan Dong'er revealed her urge to kill Yu Xiaogang.
- Yu Xiaogang went to Spirit City seeking Bibi Dong's help for Tang San but was thrown down the sacred mountain, while a black-robed woman challenged Xiao Wu to question Tang Hao's reasons for sparing her.
- Xue Qinghe became Emperor Qinghe and expanded reforms across the empire as Spirit Hall purged corrupt branches and the continent prepared for the tournament, uncertain whether the Rankings would appear again.