Chapter Summaries

Lie Heaven Saint and the Buddha Lord fought while Li Hao’s Dark Side Clone misled his pursuers and struck Twin Buddha Child with a devastating sword move. The real Li Hao reached the Heaven Origin Realm safely for the Heaven Pride Battle, where old friends arrived to visit him.

• Lie Heaven Saint and the Buddha Lord battled as Twin Buddha Child attacked Li Hao’s Dark Side Clone, who sliced him apart with a sword strike before exhausting his strength.
• Lie Heaven Saint’s avatar protected the Dark Side Clone long enough to draw the Buddha Lord away, while Void Saint and Yang Saint mistakenly attacked the clone as Li Hao’s true form.
• On the flying boat, Yuan Zhou blocked Void Saint and Yang Saint from ambushing Li Hao, and Feng Boping revealed that he had stolen a void stone from them.
• The Buddha Lord found no karmic link to another source for the burning clone, and the pursuers concluded that it was Li Hao’s true form while the real Li Hao continued toward the Heaven Origin Realm.
• Li Hao arrived safely at Heaven Origin Holy Mountain, where Lie Heaven Saint returned from battle unharmed and reassured him that she had been in control.
• An attendant informed Li Hao that his friends had come to visit, and he recognized their familiar faces outside his courtyard.

Li Hao reunited with old friends and welcomed visitors who warned him about the Heaven Pride Battle’s formidable contestants. The battle began, and Li Hao arrived at the arena, where he faced the hostile Twin Buddha Child.

• Ji Xuanshen, Jiang Ziyan, and other old acquaintances visited Li Hao, and Ji Xuanshen asked to spar with him again.
• Mingyue Jian, Qingjingzi, Lin Qingying, Lin Shan Hai, and others joined Li Hao, while Red Light warned him that the reborn Twin Buddha Child had inherited his previous life’s Sacred Dao.
• Li Hao reassured his friends about the competition as visitors and spectators discussed him and the other leading contestants.
• Wu Tian expressed interest in testing himself against Li Hao, while Qiu Tianlv criticized him for challenging Sages and vowed to enforce the rules of the Dao Law Realm.
• The Supreme Heaven Pride Battle began, and Li Hao arrived late at the arena as the crowd and competing Saint Children watched him.
• Li Hao sensed the gathered Sages and met the Twin Buddha Child’s cold gaze, reigniting their enmity.

The Supreme Heaven Pride Battle began at Heaven Origin Holy Mountain, where Bai Yuan and Lin Zhuo established their strength in the selection for the top hundred. As contestants fought, Li Hao watched and pondered his Sacred Dao, while Red Light, Ji Xuanshen, and Mingyue Jian also took the stage.

• Li Hao observed the gathered Sages and contestants as the Source Ancestor announced the battle’s rules: contestants had to defeat three opponents, or face no challengers, to advance into the top hundred.
• Bai Yuan of the Name School Sacred Land took the stage first, and no one challenged him, so he advanced without a fight.
• Lin Zhuo of the Yin Yang Sacred Land invited challengers; after one contestant accepted, Lin Zhuo defeated him with his Sun Moon Divine Wheel and advanced.
• Li Hao ignored Lin Zhuo’s pointed glance and considered the nature of his own Sacred Dao as the selection continued.
• Red Light and Ji Xuanshen defended their places successfully, showcasing their respective combat skills, and Mingyue Jian took the stage at only twenty-six years old.

Mingyue Jian won a hard-fought match before losing to a fresh challenger, while Lin Qingying and several others secured places in the top hundred. Li Hao’s age and Eternal Dao Domain stunned the arena as he defeated Yan Qingchuan, then he battled Tian Wuji, whose Dharma Form he shattered with overwhelming physical strength.

• Mingyue Jian defeated his first opponent with swordsmanship approaching the Dao, but lost his next match after his strength was depleted.
• Lin Qingying used her Void Sword Dao to defeat her challenger swiftly, drawing attention from Bian Ruxue and the other contestants.
• Li Hao revealed that he was twenty-eight, prompting widespread astonishment, and Yan Qingchuan challenged him to keep him from advancing.
• Li Hao’s Eternal Dao Domain overwhelmed Yan Qingchuan’s Yin Yang Extreme Destruction, leaving Yan defeated and accepting Li Hao’s strength.
• Tian Wuji challenged Li Hao on behalf of the Primal Chaos Sacred Land and unleashed his Saint Dao Seed and immense physical strength.
• Li Hao matched Tian Wuji’s strength with his own Dharma Form and Half-Step Invincible Fist, shattering Tian Wuji’s Dharma Form.

Li Hao defeated Bai Yuan in the Top Ten Battle’s opening round, revealing a devastating Sword Dao that stunned the gathered contestants and Sages. After winning his first match, he was paired against another Supreme Saint’s Personal Disciple, Lin Zhuo, as the second round began.

• Li Hao crushed Tian Wuji with his Heaven and Earth Dharma Form, forcing Tian Wuji to concede and leaving the other contenders unwilling to challenge him.
• During the three-day break, Li Hao cultivated and transformed his divine bones into Dao bones.
• The Top Ten Battle began, and Li Hao was matched against Bai Yuan while Qing Jiu defeated the Bright Moon Saint Child and Lin Qingying won her opening match.
• Li Hao severed Bai Yuan’s Emperor Divine Sword and shattered his Dharma Form with Merit and Fame, then defeated him without using his Dao Domain or Dharma Form.
• Li Hao returned to the waiting area as cheers spread across the Heaven Origin Realm, and the first round concluded with Yan Qingchuan narrowly defeating Tian Wuji.
• The second-round draw matched Li Hao against Lin Zhuo, another Supreme Saint’s Personal Disciple, and both contestants headed onto the Battle Stage.

Li Hao faced a series of Supreme Saint Disciples in the Heaven Pride Battle and defeated Wu Tian before clashing with Qiu Tianlv, a reincarnated Sage wielding his former life’s Sacred Dao. As their battle continued, Li Hao revealed the Sentient Sword Dao, leaving the Sword Saint and Sword Master stunned.

• Lin Zhuo conceded to Li Hao, who advanced without fighting, while Lin Qingying and other contestants won their second-round matches.
• Lin Qingying defeated the Bright Moon Saint Child with a single Void Sword Dao strike, leaving him unable to see and settling their grudge.
• Li Hao defeated Wu Tian with his Eternal Dao Domain, then drew Qiu Tianlv as his fourth-round opponent.
• Qiu Tianlv manifested a Sage Dharma Form and challenged Li Hao over his dispute with the Buddhist Sect, prompting them to unleash their strongest powers.
• Li Hao’s Sole Self Sword Dao wounded Qiu Tianlv’s Dharma Form, and he then fused the outward form of his Sentient Dao into another sword strike.
• Bian Ruxue recognized the Sentient Sword Dao as her master’s Sword Dao, while the Sword Saint and Sword Master reacted with surprise to Li Hao’s revelation.

Li Hao defeated Qiu Tianlv, advanced through the next rounds, and revealed his sixth extreme realm, Immortal Transformation, during his battle with Xiao Tianyu. He shattered Xiao Tianyu’s divine spear and Dharma Form with overwhelming power, leaving the outcome of their match poised at the chapter’s end.

• Li Hao split Qiu Tianlv’s Sage Dharma Form, overwhelmed him with his Eternal Dao Domain, and forced him to concede before releasing him.
• Qiu Tianlv vowed to debate the Dao with Li Hao after becoming a Sage, but Li Hao declared that he would suppress him forever.
• Li Hao’s fifth-round opponent conceded, and Qing Jiu soon conceded after Li Hao suppressed him in their sixth-round match.
• Li Hao faced Xiao Tianyu in the seventh round and agreed to reveal the sixth extreme realm in exchange for a Heaven and Earth Treasure.
• Li Hao activated Immortal Transformation, astonishing the Sages and spectators with his silver-haired form and immense power.
• Li Hao shattered Xiao Tianyu’s divine spear with a punch and brought down a fist projection that broke Xiao Tianyu’s Dharma Form and slammed him onto the Battle Stage.

After Saint Child Xu Yuan died in a plot to frame Haotian, the Supreme Saints condemned Li Hao and the Buddha Lord moved to suppress him. Li Hao unleashed his full power against the Buddha Palm, but his body and Dao Bones began to crack beneath the force.

• Li Hao defeated Xiao Tianyu, who conceded that Li Hao was the greatest prodigy across the heavens.
• The Medical School Saintess conceded to Li Hao, then Saint Child Xu Yuan faced him and secretly provoked him before self-destructing inside Li Hao’s Dao Domain.
• The Void Saint accused Li Hao of murder, and the Buddha Lord’s Causal Art appeared to link Li Hao to Xu Yuan’s death; the Supreme Saints ruled against Li Hao despite Feng Boping staking his life and Sacred Dao on his innocence.
• The Buddha Lord began to strip Li Hao of his power, while the Law Saint suppressed Feng Boping and prevented the Sword Master from intervening.
• Li Hao unleashed his Extreme Realms, All Heavens Star Meridian, and Immortal Guides the Way against the Buddha Palm, but the Buddha Lord reinforced it and crushed Li Hao’s Dharma Form and Dao Bones.

As the Buddha Lord’s attack threatened to kill him, Li Hao suddenly attained physical body sainthood through the Path of Sacrifice and immediately defeated the Three Tribulations Saint. He then exposed evidence that Saint Child Xu Yuan had tried to kill him, leaving the Void Saint blocked by other Sages as they demanded a full investigation.

• Li Hao broke through to the tenth dan of the Path of the Physical Body under the Buddha Lord’s Buddha Dao Saint Domain and attained sainthood through the Path of Sacrifice.
• Li Hao broke a Sage’s shackle to trigger his Human Tribulation, then overpowered the Buddha Lord’s saint domain and defeated all three of his Buddha bodies.
• The Void Saint ambushed Li Hao, but Li Hao survived, wounded him, and painted portraits that bound the Void Saint and the Buddha Lord.
• Li Hao reproduced Saint Child Xu Yuan’s words across heaven and earth, convincing many Sages that Xu Yuan had harbored murderous intentions.
• The Void Saint refused to surrender Xu Yuan’s remaining Soul Thought and tried to flee, but the Yin Yang Supreme Saint and Law Saint stopped him and demanded an investigation.

After the soul thought exposed the Void Saint's plot to frame Li Hao, Li Hao attacked the conspirators and defeated three Sages, though Void Saint and the Buddha Lord escaped. As Li Hao completed his Human Tribulation by enduring the Primal Chaos Saint's Dao Tribulation Emperor Weapon, his body grew stronger and approached the might of such a weapon.

• The Supreme Saint of Medicine revealed Saint Child Xu Yuan's memories, proving that the Void Saint had arranged the plot against the Great Yu Dynasty and that Li Hao had not killed Xu Yuan.
• The Law Saint sealed the Void Sacred Land for a thousand years, but Li Hao declared that he would avenge himself and attacked the Void Saint and Buddha Lord.
• Li Hao crushed the Void Saint's body with his Eternal Dao Domain, while Void Saint's Primordial Spirit escaped; Li Hao then destroyed Yang Saint's body and Primordial Spirit, forcing him to reincarnate, as the Buddha Lord fled.
• The Primal Chaos Saint declared that Li Hao's Human Tribulation required his intervention and struck Li Hao with the Dao Tribulation Emperor Weapon Ancient Desolate Sky Feather.
• Li Hao's body shattered and healed under the feather's attack, completing his Human Tribulation and becoming strong enough to rival a Dao Tribulation Emperor Weapon.

Li Hao ascended to sainthood, won first place in the Supreme Heaven Pride Battle, and learned that the Supreme Saints planned to explore an Ancient Hall leading toward immortal divinity in three years. As the Buddhist Sect and Void Sacred Land plotted to destroy his Sacred Dao at the upcoming Saint Dao Discussion Assembly, Li Hao began studying an ancient Dao scripture.

• Li Hao survived the Primal Chaos Saint’s attack, transformed his physical body Sacred Dao, and took a Saint Seat while agreeing to continue the Supreme Heaven Pride Battle for its incense and treasures.
• The Source Ancestor told Li Hao that an Ancient Hall held a path to immortal divinity and asked him to help open it in three years; Li Hao agreed and kept his sixth extreme realm’s method to himself.
• Li Hao joined the Thief Heaven Sacred Land, won the tournament’s supreme prize, and later became known as Lord Haotian as Xiao Tianyu, Qiu Tianlv, and Bai Yuan also attained sainthood.
• The Buddha Lord and the Void Sacred Land’s leaders planned to destroy Li Hao’s Sacred Dao at the Saint Dao Discussion Assembly, while the Law Saint’s sanctions left the Void Sacred Land in decline.
• Li Hao recited an ancient Dao scripture in his courtyard, and a vast amount of Poetry and Literature experience appeared before him.

After becoming a Saint, Li Hao learned why the three paths of sainthood could not normally coexist and sought the Source Ancestor’s method for combining them. By cultivating Law, Heaven and Earth through his physical body and immortal transformation, he discovered how to contain multiple Sacred Dao powers at once, then planned to seek more Ultimate Dao power and continue perfecting his cultivation.

• Li Hao advanced his Poetry and Books Dao, comprehended the essence of Lin Qingying’s No-Sword Dao, and strengthened his Sacred Dao until it touched the Heavenly Dao.
• Feng Boping advised Li Hao to wait for the Saint Dao Discussion Assembly before confronting the Buddha Lord and Void Saint, and explained the Three Calamities and Supreme Saint realm.
• Li Hao absorbed the Incense Golden Body’s power but found his Sacred Dao suppressed the incense, so he traveled to the Heaven Origin Realm to ask the Source Ancestor about cultivating all three paths together.
• The Source Ancestor taught Li Hao two seals that let Sacred Dao and incense power coexist, but Li Hao found the method imposed a hierarchy that limited their combined strength.
• While studying the seals, Li Hao realized that cultivating his body into Law, Heaven and Earth could let the three paths coexist, and his incense power began strengthening him without disrupting his Sacred Dao.
• Li Hao concluded that he still needed more Ultimate Dao power to become a Sage through that path and planned to seek it in other Small Worlds while advancing his All Heavens Star Meridian.

Li Hao met Ying Xiaoxiao in the Ancient Mist Small World and learned about the God Race’s sealed Progenitor, who was nearing revival. After gathering ultimate Dao power, Li Hao unified his three sacred paths, triggering the birth of an extraordinary power that seemed to possess consciousness.

• The Primal Chaos Saint discussed Li Hao’s progress and planned to ensure he reached the Three Calamities before the Ancient Hall opened.
• Li Hao toured the Flame Sun Small World, accepted Red Light’s apology, and encouraged him to challenge him again after becoming a Saint.
• Li Hao absorbed slaughter resentment from battlefields and expanded his All Heavens Star Meridian to 837 qi meridians.
• In the Ancient Mist Small World, Li Hao met Ying Xiaoxiao, who explained that reaching the god realms of all three sacred paths could lead to the Saint Extreme Realm.
• Ying Xiaoxiao revealed that the God Race’s Progenitor was sealed rather than dead and would soon return; Li Hao agreed to help against the Buddhist Sect and Void Saint’s enemies.
• Li Hao refined the ultimate Dao power he had gathered, attained sagehood through the Ultimate Dao, and merged his three sacred powers into a brilliant force that seemed alive.

Li Hao discovered a Heavenly Dao Seed within himself and continued strengthening his cultivation while preparing for the Saint Dao Discussion Assembly. As the Buddhist Sect and Void Sacred Land plotted to draw him into a confrontation, Li Hao remained away from the assembly, fishing with friends.

• Li Hao found that his three Sacred Dao powers could combine into a Heavenly Dao Seed, then created two incarnations that shared his three kinds of Sacred Dao power and their calamity shackles.
• Ying Xiaoxiao told the God Race Progenitor that Li Hao might help the God Race, but the Progenitor rejected outside assistance and warned that Li Hao might become Huntian's prey before he could revive.
• Li Hao improved his Poetry and Literature and Movement Technique, visited Night Ancestor, and learned that Bian Ruxue had reincarnated in the Mortal World.
• Li Hao invited Feng Boping, Sword Master, Lin Qingying, Lie Heaven Saint, and others to fish at the Heavenly River, while traveling freely despite the approaching assembly.
• The Buddhist Sect suspected Li Hao might skip the assembly and planned to lure him with five Heaven and Earth Treasures; Sages across the Sacred Lands began preparing for the gathering.

Li Hao traveled to the Universe Realm for the Dao Discussion Assembly, where the Buddhist Sect and Void Sacred Land hoped to lure him with eight Heaven and Earth Treasures. After receiving guidance from Medicine Saint, he entered the assembly and challenged multiple Sages, including the Buddhist Sect, to debate him at once.

• Li Hao caught a second divine water dao fish beside the Heavenly River, then set out with Feng Boping, Lin Qingying, and Evening Primrose for the Universe Realm.
• Medicine Saint welcomed Li Hao and warned him about the Buddhist Sect and Void Sacred Land, then advised him on advancing his physical body.
• Sages and their disciples gathered at the Heaven and Earth Dao Arena, where Law Saint and Dragon Saint opened the assembly with a heated debate over law and strength.
• Huang Tianji of the Imperial Dao Sacred Land challenged Li Hao, who dismissed the Imperial Dao as a petty path and invited all interested Sages to debate him together.
• Li Hao directly challenged the Buddhist Sect and Void Sacred Land, stunning the assembly and alarming Feng Boping, Lie Heaven Saint, and Sword Master.

Li Hao entered the Dao arena and shattered Huang Tianji’s Imperial Dao by exposing its weakness in contention, leaving Huang Tianji stripped of sainthood. When the Buddhist Sect, the Void Sacred Land, and other saints surrounded Li Hao, he began revealing his own Sacred Dao and proclaiming his answer to what the Dao was.

• Li Hao rejected the Primal Chaos Saint’s attempt to dissuade his challengers, then entered the Dao arena to face Huang Tianji.
• Li Hao dissected Huang Tianji’s Imperial Dao as contention and shattered it with his doctrine of non-contention, destroying Huang Tianji’s Sacred Dao and reducing him to an old man.
• The Buddha Lord and Green Lantern Buddha decided Li Hao’s non-contention did not counter their own Daos, then gathered thirteen Three Tribulations Saints to challenge him together.
• The Source Ancestor allowed the debate to proceed but warned the saints to spare Li Hao’s life if they broke his Sacred Dao.
• Li Hao repelled the War Saint’s sacred axe and asked the assembled saints what the Dao was, then proclaimed that the Dao that could be spoken was not the constant Dao and that reversal was the Dao’s movement.

Li Hao’s Sacred Dao revealed itself as the Heavenly Dao, shattering the Sacred Daos of the Saints who had surrounded him. He killed several attackers, while Green Lantern Buddha escaped with a Dao Tribulation Emperor Weapon, and Li Hao forced Ancestor Xu out of the void.

• Li Hao recited his definition of the Dao, causing the Saints’ Sacred Daos to crack and the War Saint, Spear Saint, Buddha Lord, and others to lose their power.
• Li Hao killed the fleeing Void Saint and Twin Buddha Child, then destroyed the Buddha Lord’s defenses.
• Green Lantern Buddha escaped inside a Dao Tribulation Emperor Weapon after its azure flames pierced Li Hao’s Dao domain.
• Li Hao shattered more Sacred Daos and killed the Spear Saint and Artifact Saint as the remaining Saints pleaded for intervention.
• Ancestor Xu struck Li Hao with a Dao Tribulation Emperor Weapon, but Li Hao regenerated, borrowed the power of heaven and earth, and forced Ancestor Xu out of the void.

Li Hao killed twelve Sages during the Dao Discussion Assembly, demanded compensation from their sacred lands, and spread his Dao among the Half-Saints. After the assembly, his fame and incense grew, and he learned that Jiang Tianyu had revived and wanted to help him.

• Li Hao killed Ancestor Xu and eleven other Sages after their sacred Daos failed in the arena, while Green Lantern Buddha escaped.
• Li Hao demanded five Heaven and Earth Treasures from the sacred lands of the Sages he killed, and Thunder Saint had to accept the demand on behalf of the Thunderclap Sacred Land.
• The Half-Saints absorbed insights from Li Hao's Dao Scripture, while Lin Qingying entered a quiet state of enlightenment contemplating nothingness.
• The Dao Discussion Assembly resumed and ended after teachings from Medicine Saint, Primal Chaos Saint, and Source Ancestor, while news of the twelve deaths spread across the heavens.
• Li Hao's fame brought him a surge of incense, and he declined Medicine Saint's invitation to visit the Medical School Sacred Land because he still planned to destroy the Buddhist Sect and Void Sacred Land.
• The Mo Family Supreme Saint told Li Hao that Jiang Tianyu had revived and had asked him to look after Li Hao; Li Hao agreed to visit the Mo Family Sacred Land.

Li Hao traveled to the Azure Wave Realm to destroy the Buddhist Sect’s foundations and confront Green Lantern Buddha. After breaking through the sacred land’s barrier, he fought Green Lantern Buddha, whose immense power drew on the sect’s formation and incense, and split his towering Dharma Form with a sword strike.

• Li Hao declined to establish a sacred land and traveled toward the Azure Wave Realm with the Sword Master, the Sword Saint, and Lin Qingying.
• Lin Qingying refused the Sword Saint’s offer of a place on the Core Saint Child Roster, saying she only loved the sword, and the Sword Master praised her resolve.
• Li Hao reached the Buddhist Sect Sacred Land alone, shattered its barrier, and advanced past its frightened Half-Saints toward the Ten Thousand Buddha Hall.
• Green Lantern Buddha appeared to protect the hall, revealed that he had prepared to ambush Li Hao, and explained that he feared Li Hao would gather Supreme Saints against him.
• Green Lantern Buddha activated the Ten Thousand Buddha Formation and gathered the sect’s incense to enlarge his Dharma Form, but Li Hao cut through its Buddha Palm and split its body with a second sword strike.

Li Hao defeated Green Lantern Buddha, dismantled the Buddhist Sect’s power, and plundered treasures from sacred lands across the heavens. After warning Ying Xiaoxiao about Primal Chaos Saint and giving Old Feng the Void Pearl, he returned to feed treasures to Merit and Fame, while Ying Xiaoxiao learned that the God Race Progenitor had returned.

• Li Hao overcame Green Lantern Buddha’s primordial tribulation power; the Buddha Lamp shattered, and Green Lantern Buddha died after asking Li Hao to spare innocent Buddhist Sect disciples.
• Li Hao declared that the Buddhist Sect would be erased, collected its treasures, and had Evening Primrose absorb its bodhi tree, transforming her with a mingled Buddha-and-demon aura.
• Li Hao plundered the Void Sacred Land and visited other sacred lands to demand compensation, eventually accumulating fifty-four Heaven and Earth Treasures as news spread that he had slain twelve Sages.
• Ying Xiaoxiao warned Li Hao that Primal Chaos Saint would target him, then departed after learning he already knew the danger.
• Li Hao gave Old Feng the Void Pearl and returned to feed Heaven and Earth Treasures to Merit and Fame; meanwhile, Ying Xiaoxiao’s grandmother told her the God Race Progenitor had returned.