Chapter Summaries

Li Hao defeated a Half-Saint spider demon to seize a Spirit Pearl, then learned that the Twin Buddha Child and Lin Shuhai possessed formidable strength. As the contest for the top ten began before spectators across the Azure Wave Realm, Lin Qingying won the opening match and Red Light quickly defeated Zhao Qing Shu.

• Li Hao shattered the Half-Saint spider demon's Sacred Dao will with his Sword Dao, took the Spirit Pearl, and spared the demon after noticing a Buddhist seal talisman.
• Li Hao finished fourth in the trial, painted the Twin Buddha Child and Lin Shuhai, and gained enough Painting Dao experience to suspect both were near Half-Saint strength.
• The Buddha Lord used the World Stones to project the contest across the Azure Wave Realm and paired the twenty qualifiers for the top-ten matches.
• Lin Qingying defeated a Buddhist Sect Saint Child with her Supreme Gentle Sword Intent and won widespread attention from the spectators.
• Red Light defeated Zhao Qing Shu with a Fire-Type Divine Ability, burning away Zhao Qing Shu's Book Sea divine ability.

The three Sages offered a hundred cities’ incense to the winner of the Battle of the Heavens, and Li Qingyi defeated Bian Ruxue, who gained sudden enlightenment after her loss. Li Hao defeated the Puhua Saint Child after rejecting his accusation of demonic cultivation, then challenged Red Light and vowed to beat him with one strike.

• The Buddha Lord, Literary Saint, and Sword Saint agreed to award a hundred cities’ incense to first place, drawing the competitors’ attention.
• Li Qingyi defeated Bian Ruxue with her Book of Sages and Heaven and Earth Dharma Form, and Bian Ruxue gained sudden enlightenment as the Sword Saint sheltered her.
• Li Hao faced the Puhua Saint Child, who accused him of being a demonic cultivator after seeing Slaughter Resentment within him.
• Li Hao revealed his Hundredfold Dao Domain, blocked the Puhua Saint Child’s divine ability, and defeated him with a sword strike and follow-up attack.
• Li Hao told Red Light he could defeat him with one strike, and Red Light accepted the challenge.

Li Hao faced public accusations of demonic cultivation after the Buddha Lord condemned him, and the accusation began costing him incense. When the contest narrowed to a fight for first place, Li Hao revealed his Sole Self Sword Dao and overwhelmed Red Light with one devastating strike.

• A Buddhist Half-Saint stopped Red Light from attacking Li Hao before the top-ten contest ended, and both men left the Battle Stage.
• The Buddha Lord declared that Li Hao had fallen onto the demonic path, prompting public scorn and causing Li Hao's incense to dwindle.
• The Azure Wave Realm's top ten were chosen, and the Buddha Lord announced that only first place would be contested, a decision that favored Twin Buddha Child.
• Three Buddhist Saint Children challenged Li Hao, and Red Light joined them; Lin Qingying stood beside Li Hao while the other finalists withdrew.
• Li Hao drew Pitch-Black Merit and Fame and unleashed his Sole Self Sword Dao, destroying Red Light's spear strike, severing his arm, and tearing open the Battle Stage's Magic Array.

Li Hao defeated Red Light and the three Buddhist Sect Saint Children with his sword, drawing attention to his concealed origins. The Twin Buddha Child revealed that he was the Buddha Master and recognized Li Hao as Haotian, forcing Li Hao to prepare for a dangerous confrontation and escape.

• Li Hao severed Red Light’s spear dao with one sword strike, then challenged the three Buddhist Sect Saint Children to subdue him.
• The three Buddhist Sect Saint Children combined their World Honored Buddha Palm, but Li Hao broke their attack, wounded one, and defeated all three.
• The Buddha Lord failed to trace Li Hao’s origins with his cause-and-effect dao, while Bright Moon Saint Child withdrew from the contest for first place.
• The Twin Buddha Child revealed that he was the reincarnated Buddha Master, recognized Li Hao as Haotian, and described his plan to become a Supreme Saint Buddha.
• Li Hao realized his identity had been exposed, hid a drop of divine blood inside a pill, and gave it to Lin Qingying to discard before telling her to leave the stage.

Li Hao revealed his overwhelming Eternal Dao Domain and battered the Twin Buddha Child, then severed his arm after the Buddha Child unleashed the demonic will hidden within his Heavenly Demon Manifestation. The Twin Buddha Child regenerated and prepared another surge of Sage’s will as Li Hao advanced, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Lin Qingying asked Li Hao whether his real name was Haotian, accepted his answer that he had no surname, and left the stage after warning him to be careful.
• Li Hao and the Twin Buddha Child confronted each other, and the Twin Buddha Child attacked with his Great Vehicle Demon Suppression Finger before Li Hao shattered it with a sword slash.
• The Twin Buddha Child fused eighty-one Dao Domains into his God-Demon Extreme Domain, but Li Hao’s three hundred and sixty-layer Eternal Dao Domain suppressed it and let him pummel the Buddha Child across the stage.
• The Heavenly Demon Manifestation revealed a hidden Sacred Dao demonic will, allowing the Twin Buddha Child to resist Li Hao’s domain and launch a demonic attack.
• Li Hao cut through the Twin Buddha Child’s demonic palm and severed his arm with two sword strikes, but the Buddha Child regenerated it through Blood-Drop Rebirth.
• The Twin Buddha Child vowed to kill Li Hao and gathered a vast wave of Sage’s will as Li Hao advanced toward him.

Li Hao and the Twin Buddha Child repeatedly killed and revived each other during their battle, but Li Hao ultimately overwhelmed him and pinned him down. When Jue Ming Half-Saint intervened, the Buddha Lord remained silent, while the Sword Saint noticed that Bian Ruxue had entered the Dao through sudden enlightenment.

• The Twin Buddha Child suppressed his Buddhist heart with demonic power, but Li Hao broke through his domain and blasted his transformed body apart with a single slash.
• The Twin Buddha Child revived through Blood-Drop Rebirth and killed Li Hao with a crimson lightning strike fueled by his previous life's power.
• Li Hao revived through Blood-Drop Rebirth, then battered the Twin Buddha Child and pinned him beneath his foot as he refused to concede.
• Jue Ming Half-Saint ordered Li Hao to step back, but Li Hao challenged his accusation and refused to stop attacking the Twin Buddha Child.
• The Sword Saint noticed that Bian Ruxue had entered the Dao during the battle, and the Buddha Lord congratulated him on her progress.

Bian Ruxue awakened with a new Forget Love Sword Dao as Li Hao defeated Jue Ming’s attack and exposed his overwhelming strength. Jue Ming revealed Li Hao’s past in the Mortal World and his conflict with a Sage, leaving the crowd shocked and Li Hao facing renewed suspicion.

• Bian Ruxue awakened after severing her attachments and comprehended the Forget Love Sword Dao.
• Jue Ming sealed the Battle Stage and attacked Li Hao, prompting Zhan Tan, the Night Ancestor, the Azure Ancestor, and others to protest.
• Li Hao unleashed a sword strike that shattered Jue Ming’s Buddha Palm and dharma form, severed his fingers, and broke the Magic Array.
• Bian Ruxue heard the name Haotian and suspected Li Hao resembled her childhood companion, though his aura seemed unfamiliar.
• Jue Ming threatened Li Hao and revealed that he came from the Mortal World and had escaped a Sage of the Void Sacred Land ten years earlier.
• The spectators reacted with shock to Li Hao’s origins, while Jue Ming refrained from attacking him again.

Li Hao debated the Buddha Lord over equality and the nature of the Dao, awakening a Saint Dao Seed of his own. As the Buddha Lord sent eight Buddhist figures to test and suppress him, Feng Boping arrived, rescued Li Hao, and challenged the Buddha Lord to battle.

• Li Hao rebuked Jue Ming’s attachment to forms, and the Buddha Lord agreed that Jue Ming had misunderstood Buddhist teachings before preaching to the Azure Wave Realm.
• Li Hao challenged the Buddha Lord’s claims about equality and argued that the world’s differences were worth loving, causing the Great Dao to resonate and his Saint Dao Seed to begin forming.
• The Buddha Lord summoned eight luminous figures to test Li Hao’s Heart Dao, and Li Hao realized they threatened to destroy his Dao Thought.
• Feng Boping tore apart the figures’ Buddha Palm, revealed himself to Li Hao as Old Feng, and explained that he had been watching for a chance to intervene.
• Feng Boping attacked the Buddha Lord with tribulation light and stole the Buddha Lord’s Equality Saint Dao, beginning a clash between Sages witnessed across the Azure Wave Realm.

Feng Boping rescued Li Hao from the Buddhist Sect after Li Hao killed the Twin Buddha Child, and the Buddha Lord announced a bounty while delaying the execution order until after the Supreme Heaven Pride Battle. Back at the Sword Ancestor Sacred Land, Bian Ruxue revealed that Li Hao was her fiancé, while observers in a Middle Heaven realm watched a projection of his fight and wondered who he was.

• Feng Boping fought the Buddha Lord, then faced Green Lantern Buddha’s intervention and told Li Hao to prepare to leave.
• Li Hao destroyed the Twin Buddha Child’s blood to prevent Blood-Drop Rebirth, revealed his immortal transformation realm, and suppressed the attacking Buddhist Sect Half-Saints.
• Feng Boping rescued Li Hao from Green Lantern Buddha’s attack and escaped with him, while the Buddha Lord declared Li Hao a demon and offered a bounty for his death after the Supreme Heaven Pride Battle.
• The Buddha Lord agreed that Li Hao would still represent the Azure Wave Realm, and the selection contest ended with Li Hao ranked first.
• Bian Ruxue told the Sword Saint that Li Hao was her fiancé, and the Sword Saint speculated that Li Hao might be a Sword Immortal’s reincarnation or an unmatched Sword Dao prodigy.
• People in a sacred land of the Middle Heaven Seven Realms watched a projection of Li Hao’s fight and asked who Qing Feng and Haotian were.

Li Hao reunited with Feng Boping in the Small Thousand Realm, learned the Thief Law, and continued cultivating toward the supreme Heaven Pride Battle. After learning that his Ultimate Dao could draw attention from powerful Sages, he told Feng Boping that his body had reached the Terminal Realm and he could pursue Extreme Dao Sanctification.

• Feng Boping welcomed Li Hao to the Thief Heaven Sacred Land and taught him the Thief Law, which Li Hao incorporated into his growing Sacred Dao.
• The Void Saint learned that Li Hao had survived, while Ji Xuanshen and Jiang Ziyan saw the battle projection and were relieved to learn he was alive.
• The Buddha Lord and Green Lantern Buddha restored the Twin Buddha Child, who declared Li Hao his tribulation and vowed to kill him.
• Li Hao met Feng Boping's disciples Lin Baichuan and Chu Hanwei, then spent several days fishing with Feng Boping.
• Li Hao told Zhan Tan and the others he would enter the supreme Heaven Pride Battle despite the Buddhist Sect's threat, and learned that Sages might seek his knowledge of the Sixth Extreme Realm.
• Li Hao asked Feng Boping for books and news of wars and disasters, then revealed that his body had reached the Terminal Realm and he could cultivate Extreme Dao Sanctification.

Li Hao learned why the Ultimate Dao was forbidden and resolved to pursue it alongside incense sanctification, so Feng Boping arranged for him to enter the All Heavens Battlefield. As Li Hao prepared to go, he met the Lie Heaven Saint, who had arrived to send her own disciples to train.

• Feng Boping told Li Hao that the God Race’s rapid growth had caused wars and led the Supreme Saint to prohibit cultivating the terminal realm, but Li Hao insisted on pursuing the Ultimate Dao.
• Feng Boping offered to channel his accumulated incense into Li Hao, but Li Hao declined and said he wanted to cultivate both paths.
• Feng Boping explained that the All Heavens Battlefield was a Sage-free place of slaughter where Li Hao could absorb Ultimate Dao power, and Li Hao painted Feng Boping to gain experience and received new codex attributes from collected works.
• Feng Boping brought Hong Yue to Li Hao, who mistakenly thought she expected him to sleep with her before realizing she had come to play chess; they played games, and he rewarded her with rare Divine Pills.
• Half a month later, Feng Boping announced that the All Heavens Battlefield had opened and agreed to let Hong Yue accompany Li Hao; he sent Li Hao, Lin Baichuan, Chu Hanwei, and the other Sacred Land disciples toward it.
• Feng Boping encountered the Lie Heaven Saint near the battlefield entrance, and he identified her to Li Hao.

Li Hao entered the All Heavens Battlefield and cultivated by playing Go while absorbing slaughter resentment, casually wiping out a horde of Void Demons with a Go stone. As the resentment gathered in his body, incense blocked its progress, revealing an obstacle between the two paths to sainthood.

• The Lie Heaven Saint invited Li Hao to Lie Heaven Peak, while she and Feng Boping discussed their paths to becoming Supreme Saints and their plans for revenge.
• Li Hao entered the All Heavens Battlefield with Hong Yun, then stayed near Lihuo Valley to play Go with Hong Yue and absorb slaughter resentment.
• Lin Baichuan and the others fought Void Demons, escaped a devastating void tide, and headed toward the Void Insect Cavern as another horde moved toward Lihuo Valley.
• Li Hao used a Go stone imbued with the Sole Self Sword Dao to destroy nearly all the approaching Void Demons while continuing his game with Hong Yue.
• Li Hao summoned Evening Primrose to admire the battlefield’s stars, then discovered that incense blocked the slaughter resentment from gathering in his chest.

Li Hao investigated extending his cultivation through external qi meridians, then joined the Thief Heaven Sacred Land prodigies to visit the Heavenly Stele. He met Lin Qingying there and learned that the Twin Buddha Child had returned to life and would still enter the Supreme Heaven Pride Battle.

• Li Hao condensed external qi meridians but struggled to sustain or conceal them, leaving him uncertain how to overcome their flaws.
• Lin Baichuan, Chu Hanwei, and their companions escaped a swarm of Void Demons and discovered that Li Hao had slaughtered more than a thousand of them near Lihuo Valley.
• Lin Baichuan invited Li Hao to test his strength at the Heavenly Stele, and Li Hao agreed.
• Li Hao and the others reached the stele, where Chu Hanwei explained its six levels of light and the prodigies from other realms gathered to test themselves.
• Lin Qingying asked whether Li Hao was safe, and he told her he was glad she had discarded the pill containing his divine blood.
• Lin Qingying told Li Hao that the Twin Buddha Child had revived through a Sarira and was cultivating in the Buddhist Sect Sacred Land before the Supreme Heaven Pride Battle.

Li Hao inscribed his name on the Heavenly Stele and produced a crimson blood inscription above every golden name, shocking the gathered prodigies. The stele’s Dao resonance formed a bell in his sea of consciousness, and he withdrew to meditate on the sudden enlightenment it granted him.

• Lin Qingying warned Li Hao that the Buddhist Sect might target him during the Supreme Heaven Pride Battle, and Qing Jiu arrived and predicted Li Hao could produce three flashes of golden light.
• Lin Baichuan, Chu Hanwei, and the other prodigies inscribed their names on the Heavenly Stele, while Li Hao noticed Lin Qingying had entered the Sword Dao.
• Li Hao touched the Heavenly Stele, sensed a supreme gaze, and caused crimson light to reveal Haotian at the stele’s highest position.
• A crimson streak entered Li Hao’s sea of consciousness and became a bell whose Dao resonance offered him a sudden-enlightenment opportunity.
• Li Hao raised a barrier and sat outside the stele to cultivate, while the onlookers and Qing Jiu held back to avoid disturbing him.

Li Hao’s blood-red name on the Heavenly Stele drew attention from sacred lands across the myriad heavens, while he used the gathering of geniuses to accumulate Painting Dao experience. As Li Hao continued painting, the Azure Deer King arrived and met his gaze, leaving Li Hao eager to paint him next.

• Li Hao’s name appeared in blood-red characters on the Heavenly Stele, and news of his unprecedented ranking spread throughout the sacred lands.
• Wu Tian and other powerful figures heard about Li Hao, while Saint Children emerged from seclusion and traveled to the All Heavens Battlefield.
• Li Hao advanced his Chess Dao to the eighth dan, then painted the Heavenly Stele and the gathered Heavenly Prodigies to gain a large amount of experience.
• Li Hao began painting a second and then a third scene, aiming to fill his Painting Dao experience while the crowd watched and discussed him.
• The Azure Deer King arrived in his Dragon Carriage, spotted Li Hao painting, and exchanged smiles with him.

Li Hao suppressed the Azure Deer King with his Eternal Dao Domain, humiliated him publicly, and subdued three more Saint Children from the Primal Chaos Sacred Land. After leaving the Heavenly Stele with the Azure Deer King as his mount, Li Hao contemplated the Painting Dao beneath the stars and gained a new flash of insight.

• Li Hao painted the Azure Deer King, who triggered two golden flashes at the Heavenly Stele and challenged Li Hao to spar.
• When the Azure Deer King's maid threatened Hong Yue, Li Hao stopped her and refused the Azure Deer King's challenge until the Azure Deer King attacked his painting.
• Li Hao used his Eternal Dao Domain to crush the Azure Deer King's defenses, pinned him down, and sat on his back to continue painting.
• Zhao Feixing and two other Saint Children confronted Li Hao on behalf of the Primal Chaos Sacred Land, and Li Hao suppressed them as well.
• After completing three paintings and filling his experience, Li Hao left the Heavenly Stele with the Azure Deer King carrying him away from the crowd.
• At a Lone Peak, Li Hao used the Dao Sound Red Bell to contemplate the Painting Dao, gained deeper insight, and noticed a flash of inspiration while gazing at the stars.

Li Hao discovered how to anchor qi meridians to the laws of stars, condensed 370 meridians, and returned from the All Heavens Battlefield. With the Supreme Heaven Pride Battle approaching, he traveled with Feng Boping and the Lie Heaven Saint to Moon Gazing Cliff to study its famed sword shadow.

• Li Hao passed through the Heavenly Curtain in his Immortal Transformation State, studied the laws in painted stars, and created qi meridians anchored to them.
• Li Hao condensed 368 star-linked meridians, then added enormous meridians connected to the sun and moon, reaching 370 total over nearly four months.
• Li Hao released the Azure Deer King, returned with Hong Yue to the Thief Heaven Sacred Land, and learned that Feng Boping had arranged protection from the Lie Heaven Saint.
• Li Hao asked to visit Moon Gazing Cliff, and Feng Boping and the Lie Heaven Saint accompanied him to Orchid Fragrance World.
• Li Hao reached the top of Moon Gazing Cliff with his companions and saw the enormous stone wall containing the sword shadow Immortal Guides the Way.

Li Hao comprehended the Immortal Dao sword shadow at Moon Gazing Cliff, causing it to vanish and the stone wall to crumble. After returning to the Thief Heaven Sacred Land, he tested the sword strike on Feng Boping, then began cultivating for the approaching Supreme Heaven Pride Battle.

• Li Hao recorded the Moon Gazing Cliff sword shadow as the Immortal Dao Sword Art Nine Abysses Great Dream Sword · Immortal Guides the Way and comprehended its Intent.
• The sword shadow faded and the stone wall crumbled after Li Hao's insight, while Lie Heaven Saint and Feng Boping escorted him away; sages later concluded that someone had comprehended the sword shadow.
• The Sword Saint learned that neither he nor the Sword Master had comprehended the vanished shadow, while Bright Moon Saint Child and Bian Ruxue discussed the approaching battle and trained together.
• Li Hao returned safely to the Thief Heaven Sacred Land and used Immortal Guides the Way in a spar with Feng Boping, piercing Feng Boping's palm and severing his Sacred Dao.
• Feng Boping urged Li Hao to compete in the Supreme Heaven Pride Battle, and Li Hao returned to his courtyard to cultivate the Painting Dao with the Dao Sound Small Bell.
• As the Supreme Heaven Pride Battle approached, sacred lands discussed Haotian, who had taken first place in the Azure Wave Realm qualifying battle and defeated a prodigy in the Six Extremes Realm.

Li Hao advanced his Chess Dao to the ninth dan and refined laws into his divine blood, but still lacked the breakthrough needed to become a Sage. As the Supreme Heaven Pride Battle approached, Feng Boping arranged protection for Li Hao’s journey to the Heaven Origin Realm, where Li Hao intended to claim first place despite the danger of an ambush.

• Li Hao used the Dao Sound Small Bell to raise his Chess Dao to the ninth dan and merge it into his Imperial Dao, reaching the pinnacle of the Dao Law Realm.
• Li Hao began refining laws into his divine blood and had embedded more than a hundred laws in his body by the time he emerged from seclusion.
• Feng Boping told Li Hao that the Buddhist Sect and Void Sacred Land had offered precious prizes to lure him into the Supreme Heaven Pride Battle, where they planned to kill him.
• Feng Boping arranged for Lie Heaven Saint, Yuan Zhou, and other allies to escort Li Hao toward the Heaven Origin Realm, and revealed that Origin Sage would protect him if he took first place.
• Li Hao created a Dark Side Clone, which Lie Heaven Saint would escort along a separate route while Li Hao’s original body traveled with Feng Boping and Yuan Zhou.
• The group departed aboard a Flying Boat Treasure, and two hours later Lie Heaven Saint set off with Li Hao’s clone toward the Heaven Origin Realm.

Li Hao traveled toward the Heaven Origin Realm while the Buddhist Sect, Void Saint, and Yang Saint plotted to ambush him, aware of his God Race blood and extraordinary survival abilities. The Buddha Lord intercepted the Lie Heaven Saint and her Dark Side Clone in the void, beginning a confrontation.

• The Sword Master took the Sword Soul from the Sword Tower and left to escort the Sword Ancestor Sacred Land's young prodigies.
• The Void Saint reported that the Lie Heaven Saint had departed with a clone, and the Buddha Lord, Void Saint, Yang Saint, and Green Lantern Buddha decided to split up and pursue their targets.
• The Void Saint revealed that Li Hao had cultivated the Power Circulation Final Realm and become a member of the God Race, while the Buddha Lord said his Great Karma Art could track Li Hao's scattered divine blood.
• Li Hao played Go with Hong Yue aboard the flying boat as Yuan Zhou and Feng Boping discussed the expected ambush and the Lie Heaven Saint's plans.
• The Buddha Lord and Twin Buddha Child confronted the Lie Heaven Saint and Dark Side Clone in the void, and the Buddha Lord manifested his Saint Dao Dharma Form.