Chapter Summaries

After passing the Dao Questioning Mountain trials, Li Hao and the other finalists learned that the Southern Region Assembly Battle would begin in three days. As Li Hao studied the strongest True Immortal contenders, he recognized how difficult the top ten would be to reach and was left with time to explore the Heavenly Palace grounds.

• The Immortal Guard Commander announced that the finalists would battle on the Emperor Platform in three days, with the top ten True Immortals earning entry to the Original True World.
• The Dream Master welcomed Li Hao and the Great Dream Nine Abyss disciples, warned them to prepare carefully, and accepted the two Profound Darkness Dragon Immortals Li Hao had caught.
• The Dream Master showed Li Hao recordings of powerful True Immortal contenders, including Sword Heart, whose Sword Dao had reached the fifth layer, and Di Linchen, who effortlessly crushed ancient demons.
• Li Hao watched recordings of other prodigies from several clans and realized that more than a dozen rare geniuses made the competition for the top ten especially fierce.
• After the Dream Master left, Li Hao sat alone in the courtyard, found himself bored, and wondered where Lie Heaven Saint and the others were.

Li Hao explored the Heavenly Palace's territory in disguise and met an Old Fisherman whose mysterious fishing ground revealed the path beyond Li Hao's Fishing Dao bottleneck. After meditating through the night, Li Hao greeted the returning Old Fisherman with fresh insight, and the old man was surprised by how much he had understood.

• The Dream Master gave Li Hao an aura-concealing Immortal Treasure and a Message Talisman before he left to explore the Heavenly Palace's territory.
• Li Hao visited several cities, then met an Old Fisherman on a cliff and shared crispy pork and rare wine with him.
• The Old Fisherman caught several powerful creatures while Li Hao's line got no bites, despite Li Hao searching the apparently empty lake.
• The Old Fisherman explained that the lake was his fishing ground, and Li Hao realized it was a domain that concealed and distorted the lake with Immortal Dao Laws.
• Li Hao sat through the night contemplating how to create his own fishing ground and sensed that his Fishing Dao had broken halfway through its bottleneck.
• The Old Fisherman returned the next morning, and Li Hao greeted him with delight; the old man was surprised by the insight in Li Hao's eyes.

Li Hao spent the last day before the Southern Region Assembly Battle deepening his understanding of the Old Fisherman’s fishing ground, then joined the other contestants as the Emperor Platform contest began. He and his companions claimed a platform, but its restrictive laws forced the overcrowded contestants into a dangerous standoff.

• Li Hao continued fishing beside the Old Fisherman, sensed movement in his domain, and later painted an Old Fisherman Fishing Painting that deepened his insight.
• The Dream Master found Li Hao back at the courtyard, and he gave her delicacies before preparing for the coming battle.
• The Heavenly Palace Supreme and the Immortal Guard Commander opened the assembly battle and announced that contestants had four hours to claim one of ten Emperor Platforms, with only ten people per platform qualifying for the top hundred.
• Li Hao gathered Yue Xi, Gu Yan, the other disciples, and Lin Qingying, then led them onto a lightly occupied Emperor Platform.
• More contestants crowded onto the platform, its restrictive laws began pushing at those present, and a powerful pressure made Li Hao’s flesh shrivel.

Li Hao fought to secure control of an Emperor Platform, defeating powerful contestants while sparing their lives and telling one to return after the field narrowed. The Yun Jin Immortal Dynasty's imperial clan gathered allies and drove off the other contestants, leaving only their group on the platform.

• The Emperor Platform's death laws began eroding everyone's bodies, forcing contestants to fight until only ten remained.
• The Cloud Jin Imperial Clan formed its Yin-Yang Destruction Dao Arena and joined forces with other contestants to drive rivals from the platform.
• Li Hao defeated a Seven Flowers Immortal Seal wielder with one sword strike and sent him off the platform alive.
• Xu Qinyao used the Void God Eye and unleashed Star Annihilation, but Li Hao endured it and knocked her off the platform with fused sword techniques.
• Li Hao persuaded another spectator to withdraw and return later to challenge one of the remaining contestants.
• The Cloud Jin Imperial Clan recruited four allies and drove off the other fighters, leaving only their group on the platform.

Li Hao refused Jin Ziyin’s offer to share the Emperor Platform and declared that only three of his companions could stay. Gu Yan fought a Jin Dynasty imperial daughter, revealing his Ancient Sword Immortal Body and clashing with her in a stalemate, until Li Hao confronted Jin Ziyin and the other imperial clansmen.

• Jin Ziyin offered Li Hao a place for his group on the Emperor Platform, but Li Hao refused and said three of his companions could stay.
• A Jin Dynasty imperial daughter insulted Li Hao’s companions, and Gu Yan challenged her to a one-on-one fight for a spot.
• Gu Yan revealed his Ancient Sword Immortal Body and fought the imperial daughter, whose Ancient God bloodline and movement technique kept them locked in a stalemate.
• Sword Heart and the Green-Robed Girl recognized Gu Yan as a fellow clansman, while Sword Heart judged his Sword Dao powerful but his foundations shallow.
• Jin Ziyin refused to grant Li Hao’s group another spot, and Li Hao challenged him and the other imperial clansmen to leave together as his immortal power surged.

Li Hao faced Jin Ziyin’s group and their allies alone on the Emperor Platform, unleashing his many ultimate realms against their combined assault. His Half-Step Invincible Fist shattered their immortal arts and grievously injured several opponents, leaving him advancing toward the rest.

• Li Hao sent Gu Yan back and told Lin Qingying to keep the others out of the fight, while Jin Ziyin gathered his allies into the Yin Yang Destruction Formation.
• Jin Ziyin and eight other opponents attacked Li Hao with powerful immortal arts, including Jin Yushu’s Divine Path and the Nine Flowers Immortal Seal youth’s Moon Winter.
• Li Hao revealed the powers of his many ultimate realms, drew on the All Heavens Star Meridian, and grew into a thousand-foot figure.
• Li Hao unleashed his Half-Step Invincible Fist, destroying the incoming immortal arts and breaking the Moon Winter sword light.
• Li Hao struck again, sending Jin Yushu and three other imperial clan members flying with grievous injuries as the Nine Flowers Immortal Seal youth recognized the punch’s time-space power.

Li Hao overwhelmed the challengers on his Emperor Platform, revealing enough power to make the Cloud Jin Imperial Clan realize he possessed a Nine Sequences Immortal Seal. After his opponents withdrew or conceded, he allowed the defeated young man to remain and invited others to fight him for the two open places.

• Li Hao defeated the Nine Flowers Immortal Seal bearer with one punch, then drove back Jin Ziyin and the other members of the Cloud Jin Imperial Clan despite their Yin Yang Destruction Formation.
• Jin Yushu and the Cloud Jin Imperial Clan realized Li Hao could wield a Nine Sequences Immortal Seal, while Emperor Jin and Jin Fengling reacted with shock and fury.
• Li Hao knocked a fourth-layer Water Dao and Saber Dao wielder off the platform with one punch, and a woman yielded and fled after he challenged her to fight.
• Jin Ziyin and the other four Cloud Jin Imperial Clan members withdrew, ending the Death Law on the platform and leaving Li Hao's companions unharmed.
• The young man with the Nine Flowers Immortal Seal admitted defeat and asked to stay; Li Hao agreed and announced that challengers could claim the platform's two remaining places by defeating him.

Li Hao held his Emperor Platform while challengers fought for the remaining places in the Southern Region's top hundred. The contest ended with Li Hao, Yue Xi, Gu Yan, and the other Great Dream Nine Abyss Sect contestants qualifying, while powerful rivals such as Qin Xiangyu and a Tai Kun Clan youth secured spots as well.

• Li Hao let the Nine Flowers Immortal Seal youth defend the platform against challengers, and the youth defeated his first opponent with one sword strike.
• Qin Xiangyu defeated the Nine Flowers Immortal Seal youth and claimed a place on Li Hao's platform, while the emperors discussed her abilities and possible God-Demon Dao.
• A Tai Kun Clan youth defeated the Nine Flowers Immortal Seal youth, claimed a spot, and told Li Hao he hoped to face him in the top ten; Li Hao accepted the challenge.
• As the deadline approached, Li Hao, Qin Xiangyu, and the Tai Kun Clan youth drove back people rushing onto their platform, and the Nine Flowers Immortal Seal youth held on to qualify.
• The Immortal Guard Commander closed the Emperor Platforms and announced that the Southern Region's top hundred contest had ended, with six members of the Great Dream Nine Abyss Sect among those who qualified.

The Heavenly Dao laws drew the first-round matches for the Southern Region Assembly Battle, and Li Hao gained new insight into impartiality as the nine orders power began to fuse within him. After Lin Qingying returned to her sect and resolved to leave it after the tournament, Li Hao returned to the Great Dream Nine Abyss Sect, where the Dream Master promised him the sect’s sword if he could draw it and urged his companions to fight with all their strength.

• The Heavenly Palace Supreme summoned the Heavenly Dao laws, and Li Hao’s reflection on impartiality deepened his understanding as the nine orders power began fusing within him.
• The Heavenly Dao laws paired the hundred contestants for their first-round matches, and the Immortal Guard Commander announced a recovery period before the bouts began.
• Ruo Chang Elder brought Lin Qingying back to the Ten Thousand Mountains Sword Pavilion, where Lin Qingying told her she would leave the sect after the Assembly Battle.
• Li Tiemu celebrated that Li Hao had helped six Great Dream Nine Abyss Sect disciples enter the top hundred, and the Dream Master thanked Li Hao for bringing honor to the sect.
• The Dream Master offered Li Hao the Great Dream Nine Abyss Sect’s sword if he could draw it after the tournament, then encouraged Yue Xi, Gu Yan, and the others to show their own strength in their matches.

Jin Fengling tried to unsettle Li Hao before the Southern Region Assembly Battle began, but Li Hao remained composed as the opening matches unfolded. Yue Xi faced Qin Xiangyu of the Wang Qin Immortal Dynasty, who disparaged the Calamity Clan; Yue Xi defended her people and summoned her dharma form, leaving the battle about to begin.

• Jin Fengling arrived to taunt Li Hao, but the Dream Master shielded him and Li Hao said he was unaffected.
• The Top Hundred Battle began, and Xu Wushuang defeated Chi Jiangyang in the opening match.
• Yue Xi entered the seventh battle against Qin Xiangyu, drawing attention from the Yan Chu Immortal Dynasty and her watching clan.
• Qin Xiangyu questioned how Yue Xi had qualified and said the Calamity Clan should disappear, while Yue Xi defended her people against the accusations.
• Qin Xiangyu summoned her dharma form and overpowered Yue Xi, who refused to concede and called upon her ancestor before manifesting her own dharma form.

Yue Xi awakened the Calamity Ancestral Witch’s power and fought Qin Xiangyu in a brutal Southern Region Assembly Battle match. After Qin Xiangyu appeared to win, Yue Xi launched one last attack, spared her, and advanced to the top fifty.

• Yue Xi revealed the Calamity Ancestral Witch as her Dharma Form, astonishing the Imperial Emperors and hidden elders who recognized her Calamity Clan bloodline.
• Yue Xi used calamity power and her Sword God Art to overwhelm Qin Xiangyu, but Qin Xiangyu drew on her mystic maiden bloodline and Nine Flowers Immortal Seal to strike Yue Xi down.
• Qin Xiangyu pierced Yue Xi and appeared to win, but Yue Xi recovered, disarmed her, and stopped her sword at Qin Xiangyu’s forehead.
• Yue Xi told Qin Xiangyu she had the right to choose whom she brought calamity upon, then spared her and left the platform.
• The Immortal Guard Commander announced Yue Xi’s victory and advancement to the top fifty, and Li Hao welcomed her back as Gu Yan watched her with new respect.

Yue Xi won her battle, but Qin Mingyi tried to kill Song Shuhai after he surrendered and was stopped by the Immortal Guard Commander. Li Hao then faced Zhan Yuchen of the Zhan Tian Clan and opened their duel with a spacetime-infused sword strike.

• Yue Xi reflected on her victory and the Calamity Clan's reputation while Qin Xiangyu's imperial family resolved to avenge her loss.
• Qin Mingyi defeated Song Shuhai and continued attacking after Song surrendered, but the Immortal Guard Commander intervened and saved him.
• Lin Qingying lost her match despite impressing the crowd with her Void Sword Dao, and the Earth Mother of the Void Realm decided to seek her as a disciple.
• The Dream Master warned Li Hao that Zhan Yuchen could use the Battle Heaven Eight Desolations secret art to multiply his strength.
• Li Hao and Zhan Yuchen began their duel, and Li Hao struck with the Spacetime, Triple Azure Heaven technique.

Li Hao battled Zhan Yuchen on the Emperor Platform, revealing his Nine Flowers Immortal Seal and progressively matching the Zhan Tian Clan prodigy’s escalating power. The chapter ended as their decisive, full-strength punches collided and tore open the True Realm’s void.

• Li Hao’s Azure Sky Sword Qi met Zhan Yuchen’s fist projection in an even opening exchange, and both fighters revealed their Nine Flowers Immortal Seals.
• Zhan Yuchen activated the Battle Heaven Emperor Mark, entered Li Hao’s Eternal Dao Domain, and struck his head apart before Li Hao regenerated.
• Li Hao used the Battle Heaven Control Method to amplify his Immortal Power, while Zhan Yuchen countered with Battle Heaven Eight Desolations and then doubled his strength with his bloodline power.
• After Zhan Yuchen overwhelmed Li Hao’s Sword Dao and demanded his true ability, Li Hao withdrew his sword and prepared to fight with his fist.
• Zhan Yuchen revealed the full power of his Nine Flowers Immortal Seal as Li Hao gathered four Great Dao Origins into one decisive punch, and their collision ripped open the void.

Li Hao defeated Zhan Yuchen in the Southern Region Assembly Battle, then watched other Heavenly Prodigies compete. Gu Yan turned a losing fight around after awakening Sword Immortal True Intent, revealing his potential to the Ancient Sword Immortal Clan and drawing Sword Heart’s attention.

• Li Hao blasted Zhan Yuchen into blood mist with a second punch, then waited as he regenerated instead of finishing him off.
• Zhan Yuchen admitted defeat, thanked Li Hao for sparing him, and returned to his clansmen as the Immortal Guard Commander declared Li Hao the winner.
• Li Hao returned to the Great Dream Nine Abyss Sect, where Old Man Li praised his fist arts and Li Hao said his Sword Dao was stronger.
• Di Linchen, Shen Wuji, and other Heavenly Prodigies fought their matches, while Li Hao watched Gu Yan struggle against a Heavenly Palace Disciple.
• Gu Yan awakened Sword Immortal True Intent, broke through his opponent’s Immortal Arts, and pierced his chest to win.
• The Ancient Sword Immortal Clan recognized Gu Yan’s breakthrough, and Sword Heart acknowledged that his clanmate had become a top-tier Heavenly Prodigy.

Li Hao faced Gui Lingyue of the Ghost Clan in the top-fifty round and overwhelmed her with Ten Thousand Shadows, Time Stop, and his vastly superior primordial spirit. Gui Lingyue conceded, leaving the assembled experts stunned by Li Hao’s strength.

• Gu Yan defeated his opponent and secured a place in the top fifty, giving the Great Dream Nine Abyss Sect three top-fifty contestants.
• During the half-day rest, Li Hao pondered the Dao Source Immortal Seal and inferred that fusing the nine sequences was tied to comprehending the Heavenly Dao and reaching the Immortal Emperor realm.
• Li Hao drew Gui Lingyue, a Ghost Clan prodigy, as his opponent, and she mistook him for a Chaos Clan member.
• Gui Lingyue struck Li Hao with Ghost Reflection Moon and Ghost Erosion, but Li Hao erased the soul attack and filled the Emperor Platform with Ten Thousand Shadows.
• Li Hao combined his clones with the Time Great Dao to freeze time, then blasted Gui Lingyue’s body apart, but her primordial spirit escaped the temporal restraint and attacked him.
• Li Hao revealed his golden-boned primordial spirit, overpowered and squeezed Gui Lingyue’s spirit, and forced her to concede before restoring her body.

Li Hao defeated Gui Lingyue and advanced, stunning the crowd with his movement art, control over time, and powerful Primordial Spirit. Yue Xi also won her match against the Green-Dressed Girl, and both advanced into the top twenty-five as the chapter’s battles narrowed the field.

• Li Hao defeated Gui Lingyue with his Ten Thousand Shadows movement art and Primordial Spirit, prompting Gui Lingshuang to say she would challenge him if he reached the top ten.
• Gui Lingyue accepted her loss and told Gui Lingshuang that Li Hao’s Primordial Spirit might rival hers, while Li Hao’s sect and Yan-Chu’s disciples celebrated his victory.
• Yue Xi confronted the Green-Dressed Girl over her earlier deception of Li Hao, defeated her with the Calamity Clan’s power, and was stopped by the Immortal Guard Commander before she could kill her.
• Sword Heart, Mingyue, and Di Linchen each won their matches in one move, while Shen Wuji defeated the Tai Kun Clan fighter and Gu Yan lost his battle.
• The top-twenty-five matches ended with Li Hao and Yue Xi advancing, alongside only three other competitors from Yan-Chu’s heavenly sects and Imperial Clan.

The Losers Group received a chance to challenge members of the Winners Group for their places, and several contestants fought to advance. Gu Yan chose to challenge Sword Heart, whose Frostless strike defeated him and revealed the terrifying strength of his Sword Dao.

• The Immortal Guard Commander announced that each Losers Group member could challenge a Winner, and the Tai Kun youth defeated Chi Xuanyu to take his place.
• Gui Lingyue defeated a Heavenly Prodigy with Ghost Reflection Moon, while other challengers began testing the Winners Group.
• Li Hao shared pastries with the Dream Master and declined to intervene as contestants passed over his projection.
• Gu Yan ignored the Dream Master's suggested target and challenged Sword Heart, wanting to test himself against his clan's renowned prodigy.
• Sword Heart used Frostless to overwhelm Gu Yan, leaving him badly wounded but alive.
• Li Hao, Boya Xuejian, Chu Tianhuang, and others recognized Sword Heart's fifth-layer Sword Dao as a threat even to Immortal Lord Realm contestants.

Li Hao faced Shen Wuji in the Southern Region Assembly Battle and was initially suppressed after Shen Wuji revealed the Ancient God Clan’s formidable techniques. As Shen Wuji’s God Battle Heaven Song sealed Li Hao’s access to immortal arts and Great Dao Origins, Li Hao revealed the nine Great Dao sequences within his Nine Flowers Immortal Seal.

• The Heavenly Dao draw gave Di Linchen a bye, paired Li Hao against Shen Wuji, and set Yue Xi against Mingyue.
• Mingyue defeated Yue Xi easily, then Li Hao and Shen Wuji began their match on the Emperor Platform.
• Shen Wuji activated Ancient God Descent, broke through Li Hao’s Time Stop and sealing arts, but Li Hao used Unharmed and Returning Light to withstand him and drive him back with ten thousand attacks.
• Shen Wuji unleashed God Battle Heaven Song, sealing Li Hao’s Heaven and Earth Meridian, immortal arts, and perception of Great Dao Origins.
• With Shen Wuji preparing his strongest blow, Li Hao revealed the nine sequences—time, space, form, control, Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth—within his Nine Flowers Immortal Seal.

Li Hao revealed his Nine Sequences Immortal Seal and defeated Shen Wuji in a brutal battle on the Emperor Platform. After Li Hao captured Shen Wuji’s Primordial Spirit and forced him to concede, the Southern Region Assembly Battle declared Li Hao the victor, while Gui Lingyue wondered whether he was hiding a special bloodline.

• Li Hao revealed that he had mastered all Nine Orders, shocking the contestants, spectators, and Imperial Emperors watching the battle.
• Li Hao used his Nine Orders, fused Five Daos, and borrowed Heavenly Venerable Will to overpower Shen Wuji with a devastating punch that destroyed Shen Wuji’s physical body.
• Shen Wuji’s Primordial Spirit emerged as his body began to regenerate, but Li Hao captured it and kneaded it into a golden sphere.
• Li Hao demanded Shen Wuji concede, and Shen Wuji surrendered before Li Hao released his Primordial Spirit and let him heal.
• The Immortal Guard Commander declared Haotian of the Human Race the victor, prompting celebrations across the Southern Region’s Immortal Cities.
• Gui Lingyue questioned whether Li Hao was truly an ordinary member of the Primitive Human Race or had a special bloodline.

After defeating Shen Wuji, Li Hao was summoned by the Heavenly Palace Supreme, who recognized his forbidden immortal techniques and traced him to Tian Yang Pseudo-World. The Supreme identified Li Hao as a disciple of Sinful Immortal Tian Yang and accused his master of abandoning the defense against the Ancient Demons a hundred thousand years earlier, leaving Li Hao stunned and asking if there had been a misunderstanding.

• Shen Wuji accepted his defeat by Li Hao, while the Ancient God Clan elder worried about the effect on his Dao Heart.
• The Heavenly Palace Supreme summoned Li Hao, and the gathered emperors and spectators speculated that he would become the Supreme's disciple.
• The Supreme asked Li Hao where he came from, and Li Hao answered that he was from the Tian Yang Pseudo-World.
• The Supreme called Chi Ying to confirm that Li Hao had been among the people she brought back from Tian Yang Pseudo-World.
• The Heavenly Palace Supreme recognized Li Hao's forbidden immortal techniques and asked whether he was a disciple of Sinful Immortal Tian Yang.
• The Supreme recounted Tian Yang's alleged desertion during the Ancient Demon war, and Li Hao asked whether there had been a misunderstanding.