Chapter Summaries

Shi Jue learned of an Enlightenment Tea Tree sapling hidden in a fragile space crack and used his World Power to reach it. He began merging with the crack to approach the sapling without destroying it.

• Shi Jue retrieved the Void Beast’s rune bone and studied its powerful space-based Precious Techniques.
• Shi Jue bargained with Gu Ling for her blood, then asked Gu Zu about valuable treasures.
• Gu Zu told Shi Jue about an Enlightenment Tea Tree sapling in a space crack that could collapse if disturbed, and gave him its coordinates.
• Shi Jue found the sapling after five days and saw its dozen unusual leaves and abundant Life Essence.
• Shi Jue covered himself in World Power and merged with the fragile crack.

Shi Jue cultivated the Enlightenment Tea Tree, then prepared to leave the Other Domain and warned Gu Zu that the Gu Clan would be endangered once his origins were exposed. As the Other Domain mustered to attack the pass, Shi Jue headed to join the assault force, uncertain why An Yuan had recommended him.

• Shi Jue planted the Enlightenment Tea Tree sapling in the Myriad Things Soil and watched it take root and grow.
• Gu Ling visited Shi Jue, kissed him, and drained nearly two-thirds of his blood essence before stopping and leaving to refine it.
• Shi Jue told Gu Zu that he planned to return to the Nine Heavens and that the Gu Clan should leave the Other Domain to avoid suspicion.
• Gu Zu agreed to send his clansmen back to the Nine Heavens but said he still needed to consider whether he would go with them.
• When the Other Domain sounded its horn to muster an assault on the pass, Shi Jue set off for the gathering place, and Gu Zu warned him to avoid provoking an Immortal King.

Shi Jue infiltrated the Other Domain’s expedition to the Nine Heavens and warned Shi Hao that its elites had methods to counter Ancient Seeds. He reunited with the Witch at the battlefield but kept his cover, while the Great Elder prepared to warn the Nine Heavens’ geniuses.

• Shi Jue reached the Other Domain’s gathering, invoked An Yuan’s name to silence a Snake Yaksha, and was sent with the Royal Clan elites toward the Nine Heavens.
• Shi Hao and the Heavenly God Academy’s companions traveled to the Border Pass as the Other Domain launched a bloody assault.
• Shi Jue refused a Royal Clan member’s demand to fight and approached the abyss, where he found Snake Yaksha and the others contesting Ancient Seeds.
• The Witch recognized Shi Jue, while he secretly told Shi Hao that the Other Domain had discovered the Nine Heavens’ weaknesses and could counter Ancient Seeds.
• Shi Hao relayed the warning to the Great Elder, who agreed to inform the geniuses despite expecting some to ignore him.
• Shi Jue asked Tong whether Liu Shen had returned, and Tong noted that the Other Domain was a suitable place for him to cultivate.

Shi Jue returned to the Nine Heavens with the Witch and the other young cultivators as battle broke out against the Other Domain beings. After revealing that he had infiltrated the Other Domain, he drew an attack from an Other Domain Supreme Being, which the Great Elder stopped.

• Little Heavenly Horned Ant prepared to fight after the Other Domain beings mocked the Nine Heavens, but Shi Hao held him back and told Purple Sun Heavenly Lord to go first.
• Purple Sun Heavenly Lord charged the Other Domain fighters, while the Witch attacked and burned the Golden Demon Bird to ashes.
• Shi Hao, Shi Yi, and the Ten Crown King faced the Mantis Centipede, Void Beast, and Snake Yaksha, while the Witch confronted Shi Jue and reunited with him.
• Shi Jue admitted he was not from the Other Domain and thanked An Yuan for helping him infiltrate their ranks.
• An Other Domain Supreme Being attacked Shi Jue, but the Great Elder dissolved the blow.

Shi Jue revealed that he had joined the Nine Heavens, and both sides agreed to choose their fighters with Immortal Tortoise Shell Shards. The first shard selected Purple Sun Heavenly Lord, who was killed by the Other Domain’s Mantis Centipede, leaving the Nine Heavens furious.

• Shi Jue claimed to be a fellow Daoist of Butcher, while the Other Domain’s experts challenged the Nine Heavens to accept the shard-drawn battles.
• The young geniuses of the Nine Heavens insisted on fighting, and Meng Tianzheng agreed to the challenge while promising to repay every death.
• Shi Hao and Shi Jue spoke as the Immortal Tortoise Shell Shards rose and selected Purple Sun Heavenly Lord as the first fighter.
• The Mantis Centipede suppressed Purple Sun Heavenly Lord’s Primordial Violet Qi Seed with an ancient curse and killed him after several hundred exchanges.
• The Mantis Centipede took the seed, mutilated Purple Sun Heavenly Lord’s corpse, and mocked the Nine Heavens.

After the Other Domain killed Purple Sun Heavenly Lord with a curse, Shi Jue revealed that he had killed several Royal Clan geniuses and turned them into a stew, humiliating the enemy and lifting the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands’ spirits. Shi Hao eagerly joined the feast and looked forward to fighting more opponents, whom he now regarded as ingredients.

• Purple Sun Heavenly Lord died after the Mantis Centipede used a curse that disrupted his Primordial Violet Qi Seed, leaving the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands grief-stricken.
• Shi Jue took out the corpses of several Other Domain Royal Clan geniuses, revealing that he had killed them.
• Shi Jue introduced his Foreign Domain Cuisine Ranking while Shi Hao prepared the Mantis Centipede meat and cooked a stew.
• The Other Domain experts erupted in anger as Shi Jue and Shi Hao served the slain geniuses as food.
• Purple Sun Heavenly Lord's page ate the Mantis Centipede stew to vent his grief, and the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands side joined him.
• Shi Jue encouraged Shi Hao to kill and cook his next opponents, making Shi Hao eager to take the stage.

Shi Jue’s cooking inspired the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands’ young geniuses to face the Other Domain without fear. Shi Yi killed the Fire Rock King, and Lu Hong began a fierce battle against the Golden Goat.

• After tasting Other Domain flesh, the young geniuses grew eager to fight, while the Other Domain creatures were shocked and angered by their changed attitude.
• The Immortal Tortoise Shell Shard selected Shi Yi to fight the Fire Rock King, and Shi Yi used his Double-Pupils to kill it with a single attack.
• Shi Yi gave the Fire Rock King’s edible flesh to Shi Hao, who eagerly anticipated cooking more Other Domain creatures.
• The shard selected Lu Hong, who sealed her Ancient Seed before facing the twelve-armed Golden Goat; Shi Jue identified the opponent as a highly ranked delicacy.
• Lu Hong burned her essence blood and summoned divine-tree spears, while the Golden Goat raised an Ancient Demonic Wall to block the attack.

After Lu Hong defeated the Golden Goat, Shi Hao began his consecutive battles and crushed the Other Domain’s next two challengers. He left the arena demanding a stronger opponent while the Other Domain reeled from another defeat.

• Lu Hong pierced the Golden Goat from within, then removed the plants growing through its body before collapsing from her injuries.
• The Great Elder carried Lu Hong back as the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands took a two-to-one lead, and the Immortal Tortoise Shell Shard selected Shi Hao.
• Shi Hao shattered Mantis Centipede’s blade with his fist, knocked it down, and tore off all one hundred of its legs.
• Shi Hao used the Kunpeng Treasure Technique to seize the purple scorpion by its tail and battered it until its shell cracked.
• Shi Hao returned the scorpion to the Other Domain and demanded a stronger opponent after its side had lost four of five battles.

After Nine Heavens and Ten Lands took a commanding lead, Shi Jue entered the final match against An Kun, a descendant of the Immortal King An Lan. The chapter ended as An Kun revealed his golden spear and prepared to fight Shi Jue.

• An Immortal King's gaze briefly crossed the battlefield, alarming the young fighters before it vanished.
• Shi Hao defeated four Other Domain opponents, extending Nine Heavens and Ten Lands' lead to six victories.
• Shi Jue stepped forward for the final match, while the Little Heavenly Horned Ant urged him to kill An Kun in exchange for the Heavenly Horned Ant Precious Technique.
• An Kun entered the field, identified himself as a member of the Imperial Clan, and taunted the Little Heavenly Horned Ant about his ancestors killing one of his kin.
• Shi Jue agreed to fight for the Heavenly Horned Ant Precious Technique, and An Kun revealed a golden spear forged by an immortal.

Shi Jue fought An Kun, forcing him to reveal the power of his An Lan bloodline before countering with his secret arts and three powerful clones. As An Kun was overwhelmed, Shi Jue and his clones prepared a coordinated Light Shadow Flow Shuttle attack.

• Shi Jue clashed weapons and strength with An Kun, knocking him into the ground and showing his superior physical power.
• An Kun unleashed his pure An Lan bloodline, greatly increasing his strength and sending Shi Jue flying with a spear thrust.
• Shi Jue activated the Battle Word Secret and created three strong clones with the Illusion Word Secret.
• Shi Jue used the Return Word Secret to suppress An Kun's Divine Abilities, then he and his clones attacked him together.
• As the Return Word Secret began to expire, Shi Jue and his three clones formed four Yin-Yang Light Shuttles.

Shi Jue defeated An Kun at Great Red Heaven, but the Other Domain revealed that its real attack targeted the Border Wasteland. He and the Great Elder’s group rushed there and found Liu Shen had slain an immortal while still in the human realm.

• Shi Jue destroyed An Kun with the Light Shadow Flow Shuttles and claimed his Immortal Gold spear, while the Other Domain creatures withdrew after announcing that Great Red Heaven had been a diversion.
• The Great Elder decided to take the Ten Realms Map to the Border Wasteland, and Tong joined him while leaving the Ancestral Dragon Horn and Immortal King Shroud behind.
• Shi Jue, the Witch, Cao Yusheng, Shi Yi, and others traveled with the Great Elder’s forces through a spatial gate toward the Border Wasteland.
• The group arrived to find Other Domain corpses scattered across the wilderness and Liu Shen holding a slain immortal.
• Shi Jue reunited with Liu Shen, and she explained that the Other Domain had sent few forces and that she had killed the immortal who disturbed her seclusion.

Shi Jue explained that Gu Zu had attacked the Immortal Kings of the Other Domain to protect the Gu Clan after Shi Jue’s origins were exposed, delaying any attack on the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands. He then left with Liu Shen and the others to reunite with Shi Hao, bringing back a rare Time Beast as food.

• Shi Jue told Liu Shen and Meng Tianzheng that Gu Zu had struck first against the Other Domain’s Immortal Kings to defend the Gu Clan.
• Liu Shen explained that she had consolidated the first lifetime of her Mortal World Immortal path in the Sea of Worlds, and Shi Jue vowed to reach the peak of Extreme Dao within three hundred years.
• Shi Jue persuaded Liu Shen to take him to Shi Hao by offering to teach her the Gu Clan Precious Technique as travel fare.
• Liu Shen brought Shi Jue and the others to meet Shi Hao, and she praised his progress with the Seed of Oneself.
• Shi Jue brought out a Time Beast he had killed and revealed that he had ranked it first on his Foreign Domain Cuisine Ranking.

Shi Jue and his friends feasted on rare Other Domain creatures while discussing the danger posed by King Chi. Their gathering was interrupted when the Wang Family accused Heavenly God Academy of colluding with the Other Domain, and Tong struck down its guards as the group prepared for a confrontation.

• Shi Jue revealed that he had killed several hundred powerful Other Domain creatures and received the Heavenly Horned Ant Precious Technique.
• Shi Hao prepared the Time Beast and the group ate the ranked delicacies, gaining nourishment from their powerful essence.
• Shi Jue suggested taking advantage of King Chi’s Nirvana, but Liu Shen said she would wait until she could prevent him from escaping.
• The Wang Family accused Heavenly God Academy of sheltering someone from the Other Domain, and Shi Jue suspected they had come after him.
• Tong used her Double-Pupil to knock down the Wang Family members and warned that even Wang Changsheng would have to pay if he came in person.
• Shi Jue and Shi Hao discussed the Wang Family’s hostility and Wang Changsheng’s schemes, with Shi Jue insisting that overwhelming power could defeat them.

The Wang Family's Nine Dragons attacked Heavenly God Academy with the Longevity Halberd, but Liu Shen stopped them and defeated them in a single strike. Wang Changsheng arrived to ask for their lives, and Meng Tianzheng demanded that the Nine Dragons go fight at the Border Wasteland.

• Meng Tianzheng heard that the Nine Dragons were heading to Heavenly God Academy and trusted Liu Shen and Tong to protect it.
• Wang Er led the Nine Dragons to the academy and attacked it with the Longevity Halberd after Shi Jue and Cao Yusheng taunted them.
• Liu Shen caught the Longevity Halberd barehanded and struck the Nine Dragons, sending them and their warship crashing down.
• Shi Jue proposed killing the Nine Dragons, but Wang Changsheng appeared and asked that they be spared.
• Meng Tianzheng returned and demanded that the Nine Dragons go to the Border Wasteland to fight, prompting their protests.

Wang Changsheng sent the Wang Family's Nine Dragons to the Border Wasteland after Meng Tianzheng pressured him, while Shi Jue prepared to enter protected seclusion and pursue the Dao Seeking Realm. In the Other Domain, Gu Zu escaped his pursuers into the Sea of Worlds, and Liu Shen fortified Shi Jue's cultivation chamber before his retreat.

• Meng Tianzheng insisted that the Nine Dragons be sent to the Border Wasteland, and Wang Changsheng ordered them to go before reclaiming the Longevity Halberd from Liu Shen.
• Shi Jue asked Meng Tianzheng for a cultivation chamber that could withstand a Supreme Being and asked Liu Shen to guard him while he pursued the Dao Seeking Realm.
• Shi Jue and Shi Hao teased each other about which of them would reach the Dao Seeking Realm first, while the Witch and the others chose to remain with Tong.
• Gu Zu escaped several Immortal Kings by fleeing into the Sea of Worlds, and his pursuers returned to the Other Domain rather than follow him.
• Liu Shen strengthened the defenses around Shi Jue's cultivation chamber and reflected on how far he had advanced in less than twenty years.

After five years in seclusion, Shi Jue reached Self-Slaying Realm perfection and endured a nine-day tribulation that brought him into the Escape One Realm and forged a Half-Immortal Body. Learning that Immortal Kings from the Other Domain were preparing to attack, he left to assess the threat while Liu Shen stayed behind.

• Shi Jue emerged from five years of seclusion at Self-Slaying Realm perfection and went beyond Heavenly God Academy to undergo tribulation.
• Shi Jue endured nine days of law-filled lightning, using it to temper his body and reach the Escape One Realm with a Half-Immortal Body.
• Shi Jue returned to Liu Shen and learned that Shi Hao had gone to the Other Domain, Gu Ling had come to find him, and an Immortal King attack was approaching.
• Shi Jue sensed the Other Domain's Immortal Kings stirring and told Liu Shen he would go to Imperial Pass while she remained behind.

Shi Jue and Shi Hao faced the approaching Other Domain army at Imperial Pass as Immortal King An Lan arrived. Gu Zu sent the Primordial Emperor City to stall An Lan, but An Lan held it aloft and ordered the assault on the Heavenly Abyss.

• Shi Jue and Shi Hao compared their Dao Seeking strength while discussing the coming battle and Shi Hao's updated Foreign Domain Cuisine Ranking.
• War drums sounded as millions of Other Domain soldiers advanced, and An Lan's scarred chariot approached Imperial Pass.
• Shi Jue joked that Shi Hao should unleash his hidden power to slay An Lan, but Shi Hao denied being capable of defeating an Immortal King.
• Gu Zu sent the Primordial Emperor City crashing toward An Lan, who caught it with one hand and recognized Gu Zu's voice.
• An Lan held up the city, resisted the Heavenly Abyss's laws, and ordered the Other Domain army to attack.

Ye Fan crossed the River of Time to face An Lan, but the space-time constraints kept him from changing the battle. His arrival awakened a mysterious drop of blood in Shi Hao, who underwent a dramatic transformation.

• The Immortal Kings tore open the Heavenly Abyss, revealing the River of Time, and Ye Fan arrived on the Myriad Mother Qi Cauldron, forcing the Golden-backed Python Bull to its knees.
• Ye Fan confronted An Lan but recognized that the era’s constraints prevented him from killing him, while An Lan proclaimed his own invincibility.
• Ye Fan sensed a drop of blood connected to Shi Hao and withdrew his power as Shi Hao entered a strange state beneath three Flowers of Great Dao.
• The drop of blood swept across the flowers, merged their three figures into one through the Reincarnation Seal, and entered Shi Hao’s body.
• Shi Hao erupted in holy light, underwent a profound transformation, and declared that he remained unseen even as eras fell.

Shi Hao used power from a drop of blood to battle An Lan, while an Immortal King from another Space-Time attacked Imperial Pass and targeted Shi Jue. As the claw closed in, Shi Jue felt a hidden power rising within him and insisted that his friends would survive.

• Shi Hao confronted An Lan with the Great Luo Immortal Sword and damaged An Lan’s Golden War Spear in their first clash.
• Shi Hao pressed An Lan with his sword and clones created by the He Transforms Into the Free Art.
• A giant claw tore through the sky and targeted Shi Jue and the people atop Imperial Pass’s walls.
• Ye Fan charged to intercept the claw as Shi Hao rushed back toward Imperial Pass, but An Lan stabbed Shi Hao’s shoulder and delayed him.
• Shi Jue asked the Witch whether she was afraid, and she said she was not; Shi Jue then sensed immense power surging from within himself.

Shi Jue stopped the Griffin Immortal King's attack on Imperial Pass and fought it in the River of Time, using temporary power to destroy it. He returned with his strength spent but gained valuable experience, while Shi Hao continued his fight against An Lan.

• Shi Jue held back the beast's enormous claw with one finger, protecting the people at Imperial Pass while the Jin Family and others were crushed in the clash.
• Shi Jue struck the claw back and entered the River of Time, leaving Shi Hao to defend Imperial Pass and fight An Lan.
• Shi Jue confronted the strange-power-tainted Griffin Immortal King and battered it with his temporary Emperor Light Immortal King strength.
• Shi Jue used a full-force strike imbued with Quasi-Immortal Emperor law power to annihilate the Griffin Immortal King.
• Shi Jue returned to Imperial Pass after his power faded, reassured the Witch and the others, and found his cultivation had returned to the early Dao Seeking realm.