Chapter Summaries

Li Hao defended his Master, the Tian Yang Immortal Emperor, against accusations that he had fled the Ancient Demon War, but the Heavenly Palace Supreme and the dynasty rulers upheld the charge. The Supreme spared Li Hao and offered him a chance to become his Personal Disciple if he abandoned his inherited Immortal Arts and passed a trial.

• Mingyue and Sword Heart challenged Li Hao after he questioned the accusations against the Tian Yang Immortal Emperor, and Li Hao openly declared himself the Emperor’s disciple.
• Li Hao displayed three IOUs as the only material inheritance his Master had left him and insisted that the Emperor had not fled in battle.
• The Heavenly Palace Supreme dismissed the IOUs as irrelevant, and the Heavenly Illumination Emperor and Crimson Emperor confirmed that the Tian Yang Immortal Emperor had left the battlefield.
• Li Hao denied being the Emperor’s Personal Disciple and resolved to uncover the truth by crossing the River of Time once he mastered the Origin of Time to the Tenth Layer.
• The Heavenly Palace Supreme spared Li Hao but ordered him to abandon his inherited Immortal Arts and offered him a trial for a chance to become his Personal Disciple.

Li Hao uncovered signs that the Tian Yang Pseudo-World was bait in a vast scheme, then refused the Heavenly Palace Supreme’s offer to become his disciple. The Supreme demanded that Li Hao endure a trial against Sword Heart, leaving his fate in the balance.

• Li Hao suspected the Heavenly Palace Supreme and possibly Emperor Chu had drawn him into a hidden game centered on the Tian Yang Pseudo-World.
• The Heavenly Palace Supreme offered to take Li Hao as his disciple, but Li Hao asked what would happen if he refused.
• Li Hao declared that he already had a Master and would fight ancient demons whenever they threatened humanity.
• The Heavenly Palace Supreme said Li Hao’s Disciple Imprint had to be erased and that he would receive a new reincarnated body with only some memories preserved.
• Li Hao asked about the trial, and the Heavenly Palace Supreme required him to endure three moves from Sword Heart.

Li Hao challenged Sword Heart to withstand ten moves so he could leave without becoming the Heavenly Palace Supreme’s disciple. The Supreme accepted the condition, and Li Hao entered the Emperor Platform to face Sword Heart, whose overwhelming power made the coming duel his hardest yet.

• Li Hao asked the Heavenly Palace Supreme to let him leave safely if he endured ten moves from Sword Heart, and the Supreme agreed to pardon his offense if he did.
• Sword Heart unleashed his sword-shaped Nine Flowers Immortal Seal and revealed immortal power far denser than Li Hao’s before entering the Emperor Platform.
• Li Hao thanked the Supreme, entered the sealed arena, and focused himself for a battle he knew he had to win.
• Li Hao summoned his All Heavens Star Meridian, formed his Merit and Fame sword, and expanded into his hundred-zhang sage form with his Heaven and Earth Dharma Form.
• Gui Lingshuang suspected Sword Heart was repeatedly condensing his immortal power to transform his seal into a legendary Immortal Seal while still in the true immortal realm.

Li Hao and Sword Heart fought on the Emperor Platform, where Li Hao’s Sole Self Sword Dao overpowered Sword Heart’s second strike and stunned the gathered experts. Sword Heart then revealed his Sword Dao had reached the Origin Sixth Level, leaving the spectators shocked as the duel continued.

• Gui Lingshuang explained that Li Hao was pursuing the Dao Source Immortal Seal while still in the True Immortal Realm, and the crowd watched him and Sword Heart gather their strength.
• Sword Heart took the advantage in their first exchange, then prepared a killing blow with Night Sleep infused with his Nine Sequences Immortal Seal.
• Li Hao unleashed his Sole Self Sword Dao, combining countless perfected sword techniques, and struck Sword Heart into the Sealing Array Barrier.
• The experts recognized that Li Hao had defeated Sword Heart in their second exchange, while Sword Heart acknowledged the domineering nature of Li Hao’s Sword Dao.
• Sword Heart revealed transparent sword qi that severed the Immortal Dao Laws, and Emperor Jin identified his Sword Dao as Origin Sixth Level, shocking Gui Lingyue, Gui Lingshuang, and the assembled experts.

Li Hao unleashed the Five Absolutes Emperor Sword and defeated Sword Heart despite Sword Heart’s Origin Sixth Level Sword Dao, leaving the Southern Region stunned. Di Linchen recognized Li Hao as the most extraordinary prodigy and tightened his grip on his wine flask.

• Sword Heart revealed his Origin Sixth Level Sword Dao, shocking the Immortal Lords, the other contestants, and the Ancient Sword Immortal Clan.
• Sword Heart prepared a killing blow while Li Hao gathered the power of the All Heavens Star Meridian into Merit and Fame.
• Li Hao unleashed the Five Absolutes Emperor Sword, shattering Sword Heart’s sword, Dharma form, and Sword Dao true essence.
• Sword Heart was split apart, but an unseen force halted his destruction and erased the Sword Qi within his flesh, leaving his cracked Primordial Spirit exposed.
• The spectators, including Gui Lingyue, Gui Lingshuang, and Shen Wuji, struggled to comprehend Sword Heart’s defeat, while Di Linchen called Li Hao the most outrageous one.

Li Hao defeated Sword Heart with an emperor sword technique, but the Immortal Guard Commander tried to persuade him to become a Supreme’s Direct Disciple instead of honoring his request to leave. Li Hao finally stepped off the Emperor Platform, only for Mingyue to block his way and accuse him of fleeing because his identity had been exposed.

• The Immortal Guard Commander intervened to save Sword Heart, and Li Hao declared that the battle’s outcome made him the victor.
• Sword Heart demanded to know how Li Hao had learned his sword art, and Li Hao said their different Dao hearts shaped what they saw in the same Dao sources.
• Li Hao challenged the Immortal Guard Commander to honor the agreement and let him leave, while spectators across the Southern Region celebrated his victory.
• The Immortal Guard Commander urged Li Hao to become a Supreme’s Direct Disciple, but Li Hao refused and promised to fight the ancient demons if they invaded.
• The commander opened the barrier and allowed Li Hao to leave, but Mingyue blocked him and accused him of trying to flee after his identity was exposed.

Li Hao withdrew from the Southern Region Assembly Battle rather than risk entering the Original True World, then agreed to face Mingyue at the peak of the Immortal Lord Realm in a hundred years. As he tried to leave, Jin Fengling blocked him and demanded to settle their old scores.

• Li Hao refused Mingyue's arguments and chose to withdraw from the competition, prioritizing his safety over entering the Original True World.
• Mingyue challenged Li Hao to a future battle, and he agreed to fight her when they were both at the peak of the Immortal Lord Realm.
• Li Hao and Mingyue set their duel for a hundred years later, while the onlookers and the Great Dream Nine Abyss Sect elders reacted to his decision.
• As Li Hao left the Emperor Platform, Jin Fengling stopped him and claimed that withdrawing from the competition meant they could settle their grudge without breaking the rules.

Jin Fengling confronted Li Hao after the tournament, but the Dream Master and the Great Dream Nine Abyss elders moved to protect him. As more enemies and powerful guardians gathered, Li Hao refused to flee and prepared to fight, while the Dream Master faced the prospect of betraying the Great Dream Clan to save him.

• Jin Fengling challenged Li Hao, and the Dream Master intervened, supported by Li Tiemu and elders of the Great Dream Nine Abyss.
• Jin Fengling summoned three immortal lord peak phantoms and drew a supreme-grade Immortal Weapon, while Li Hao's allies urged him to escape.
• A white-haired young man and his immortal king guardian arrived, and the young man admitted he wanted to serve the Heavenly Palace by ensuring Li Hao died.
• Li Hao told the Dream Master to let Jin Fengling through and faced him with murderous intent.
• The Dream Master realized she could not protect Li Hao against the immortal kings and called out to the Great Dream Clan, fearing she would have to betray its trust.

The Great Dream Clan answered Meng Wanning’s Clan Life Blood Summon and arrived to protect Li Hao, prompting the Wind Spirit Race to summon its own forces. With both clans assembled and the Wind Spirit Race Chief urging Jin Fengling to kill Li Hao, the standoff threatened to become a racial war.

• The Great Dream Clan’s chief agreed to answer Meng Wanning’s call, and the Dream Master opened a rift with the Clan Life Blood Summon.
• Members of the Great Dream Clan poured through the rift, bringing twenty-two Immortal King auras and declaring that no one could harm Li Hao.
• The Wind Spirit Race answered Jin Fengling’s own Clan Life Blood Summon, arriving with more than twenty Immortal Kings.
• The Wind Spirit Race Chief appeared with the Crescent Divine Sword and ordered Jin Fengling to cut off Li Hao’s head.

Li Hao rejected the Great Dream Clan’s protection and faced Jin Fengling alone, refusing to let others risk their lives for him. Lin Qingying briefly joined him before leaving after he promised he had a way to survive, and Jin Fengling and two allies stepped onto the Emperor Platform to confront him.

• Li Hao thanked the Great Dream Clan but insisted that his enemies face him alone, and the Dream Master’s clan chief restrained herself from ordering the clan to fight.
• Li Hao challenged the Wind Spirit Race Chief to let Jin Fengling face him, and the chief agreed to stand aside if Jin Fengling lost while leaving other threats unaddressed.
• Li Hao returned to the Emperor Platform, ignoring Mingyue, and Lin Qingying joined him, declaring she would not live on if he died.
• Li Hao persuaded Lin Qingying to leave by telling her he had an Immortal Emperor’s inheritance and a way to survive, and she departed after saying she believed him.
• Chu Yueli blamed Li Hao for rejecting the Supreme and resented Lin Qingying, while Chu Tianhuang regretted the young man’s impending downfall.
• Jin Fengling stepped onto the Emperor Platform with the white-haired young man and his companion, announcing that it was time for Li Hao to die.

Jin Fengling attacked Li Hao on the Emperor Platform with his Demon Slaying Sword and Immortal Lord Realm power, but Li Hao answered with the Taowu Immortal Weapon and the Five Absolutes Emperor Sword. Li Hao re-formed after Jin Fengling shattered his body and struck back, leaving Jin Fengling’s fate unclear.

• Sword Heart warned Jin Fengling and the other contestants against ganging up on Li Hao, then withdrew with Mingyue and reflected on how his defeat could refine his Sword Dao.
• Jin Fengling entered the sealed Emperor Platform alone, revealing his fourth-layer Immortal Lord Realm cultivation and fifth-level golden Dao source.
• Jin Fengling attacked Li Hao with the Demon Slaying Sword, but Li Hao summoned the Taowu Immortal Weapon and their swords clashed fiercely.
• Jin Fengling used his Golden Sea Stars Immortal Dao Law to blast Li Hao into bloody mist.
• Li Hao re-formed from the bloody mist and pierced Jin Fengling with the Five Absolutes Emperor Sword, making Jin Fengling’s body explode.

Li Hao used Time Ferrying and his powerful Primordial Spirit to defeat Jin Fengling, an Immortal Lord, despite Jin’s top-grade Immortal Treasures. With Jin dead and the Emperor Platform’s barrier trapping everyone inside, Li Hao turned to face the white-haired young man and his companion, preparing to attack them with Jin’s God-Shattering Bow.

• The Great Dream Clan and other observers realized that Li Hao’s Time Ferrying made him extraordinarily difficult to kill, while the Ghost Clan elder secretly sent word about him to the Northern Region.
• Li Hao burned away Jin Fengling’s blood mist, forcing him to fight as a Primordial Spirit with the Vermilion Bird Fire Shield and Mystic Eagle God-Shattering Bow.
• Li Hao endured Jin’s attacks and repeatedly struck the phoenix robe until he broke it, then crushed Jin Fengling’s Primordial Spirit and killed him.
• The Taowu Immortal Weapon destroyed the Demon Slaying Sword, while Li Hao ordered it to attack the white-haired young man and his companion.
• Li Hao took Jin Fengling’s God-Shattering Bow as the two opponents joined forces against him, then formed a golden arrow.

Li Hao defeated Zuo Zhangdao and the white-haired Hidden Sea Clan prodigy, killing both and breaking free of the Emperor Platform’s Sealing Array. The Wind Spirit Race and Hidden Sea Clan then moved against him, but a snow-white figure teleported him away as Immortal Kings attacked.

• Li Hao used the Mystic Eagle God-Shattering Bow to pierce the primordial spirits of Zuo Zhangdao and the white-haired young man, then destroyed their bodies and treasures.
• The Immortal Guard Commander removed the Sealing Array Barrier, allowing Li Hao to leave the Emperor Platform.
• A Wind Spirit Race Immortal King demanded the bow, but the Great Dream Clan defended Li Hao and he refused to surrender it.
• More than a dozen Hidden Sea Clan Immortal Kings arrived, and their leader allied with the Wind Spirit Race Chief to kill Li Hao.
• The Hidden Sea Clan Immortal Kings broke the Dream Master's domain and charged at Li Hao, but a snow-white figure seized him and teleported him a hundred miles away.

Old Wang arrived to protect Li Hao and confronted the Supreme over the false condemnation of Lord Heavenly Calamity. With the Hidden Sea Clan attacking, Old Wang prepared to reverse his world domain to give Li Hao a chance to escape, leaving the battle poised to erupt.

• Looking at Mountains and Rivers appeared beside Li Hao, halted the Hidden Sea Clan, and revealed himself as Old Wang.
• Old Wang challenged the Supreme about Lord Heavenly Calamity, who the Supreme dismissed as a criminal who had strayed onto the wrong path.
• Old Wang realized the Supreme had controlled the condemnation, and the Supreme silenced him by forcing him to strike himself.
• Old Wang urged Li Hao to submit to the Supreme, but Li Hao refused and chose to follow his own heart even if death awaited him.
• Old Wang told Li Hao he would reverse his world domain to send him to Emperor Luo, and the Great Dream Clan agreed to help.
• The Hidden Sea Clan formed a world domain formation as Old Wang gathered his Great Dao origins and began turning his world domain into a destructive torrent.

Immortal Kings from the Hidden Sea Clan and Wind Spirit Race fought the Great Dream Clan and Looking at Mountains and Rivers while trying to kill Li Hao. Di Linchen intervened in Li Hao’s defense, but the Emperor Clan’s Quasi-Emperor Scion challenged him to survive one palm strike.

• Looking at Mountains and Rivers joined the Immortal King battle, while the Dream Master sent Li Hao away and the Great Dream Clan’s kings protected him from the Wind Spirit Race.
• Li Hao watched the clashing world domains and began considering whether his Nine Orders could become domains of his own.
• Di Linchen stopped the fighting briefly and declared that Li Hao was a friend of the Emperor Clan whom no one could kill.
• The Quasi-Emperor Scion rejected Di Linchen’s claim, questioned Li Hao’s loyalty as a descendant of Sin Immortals, and offered him a chance to live if he survived one palm strike.

Di Jiming, a Quasi-Emperor Scion of the Emperor Clan, revealed his seventh-layer Immortal Lord cultivation and prepared to kill Li Hao with the Emperor Dao Nine Sequences Immortal Seal. Li Hao gathered his strength for a final stand as those watching accepted that he was likely doomed.

• Di Linchen apologized to Li Hao for being unable to protect him, and the two exchanged a farewell as Li Hao prepared to fight.
• Di Linchen revealed the Quasi-Emperor Scion's name as Di Jiming, who disdainfully refused to give it to Li Hao himself.
• Di Jiming released his full aura, revealing seventh-layer Immortal Lord cultivation and overwhelming the other contestants and spectators.
• Li Hao continued gathering power while Di Jiming summoned an Imperial Dharma Form and revealed the Emperor Pattern on his forehead.
• Lin Qingying silently vowed to live and cultivate until she could avenge Li Hao.
• Di Jiming gathered the Nine Orders' Dao powers and formed the Emperor Clan's Emperor Dao Nine Sequences Immortal Seal in preparation to strike.

Di Jiming unleashed his Great Emperor's Hand of Sorrow against Li Hao, but Ying Xiaoxiao arrived and severed the attack, then healed Li Hao with her mastery of time. She challenged Di Jiming to a palm-strike contest so Li Hao could escape, while the onlookers recognized her as the legendary Imperial Daughter of Time, who had supposedly died in the Ancient Demon War.

• Di Jiming attacked Li Hao with the Great Emperor's Hand of Sorrow, crushing his Nine Sequences Eternal Dao Domain and leaving him on the verge of death.
• Looking at Mountains and Rivers charged to save Li Hao, but a ninth-level Immortal King elder from the Emperor Clan restrained him.
• Ying Xiaoxiao appeared beside Li Hao and cut apart Di Jiming's palm strike with a seven-colored blade, then reversed Li Hao's injuries through time.
• Ying Xiaoxiao offered to take Di Jiming's palm strike in exchange for Li Hao's release, and Di Jiming accepted the challenge.
• Ying Xiaoxiao held Li Hao's hand, recounted details of his childhood, and assured him he would survive and shine in the future.
• Looking at Mountains and Rivers and the Imperial Emperors of the Seven Great Ancient Dynasties recognized Ying Xiaoxiao as the famed Imperial Daughter of Time, believed to have fallen in the Ancient Demon War.

Ying Xiaoxiao revealed her identity as Shi Miao, an Immortal Emperor’s former disciple, and annihilated Di Jiming with a single palm before the Supreme restored him. After securing Li Hao’s promised safety, she confronted the Supreme over his betrayal and attacked his disciples, leaving the Immortal Guard Commander moving to seize her.

• Ying Xiaoxiao unleashed time power and destroyed Di Jiming’s body and primordial spirit with a palm that projected its effects from a thousand years earlier.
• The Supreme reversed Di Jiming’s death, and Di Jiming promised that the Emperor Clan would guarantee Li Hao’s safety after learning Ying Xiaoxiao was Shi Miao reincarnated.
• Li Hao urged Ying Xiaoxiao to leave, but she said the future needed him and accused the Supreme of betraying her master, Tian Yang Immortal Emperor.
• The Supreme silenced Ying Xiaoxiao’s words and declared that none of them would leave, prompting her to manifest the Dao Source Immortal Seal and draw a Domain Artifact sword.
• Ying Xiaoxiao charged Sword Heart and Mingyue, and the Supreme ordered her seized as the Immortal Guard Commander attacked her.

Li Hao awakened a Dao Source Immortal Seal by shattering his nine seals while trying to save Ying Xiaoxiao from the Heavenly Palace Supreme. Ying Xiaoxiao spent her life sending him away, but the Supreme's power pulled him back to the Southern Region, where she lay dying.

• Ying Xiaoxiao took Li Hao half an hour into the past, but an unseen force sealed the spacetime and sent them back to the present.
• The Heavenly Palace Supreme manipulated the events before the crowd and ordered the Immortal Guard Commander to capture Ying Xiaoxiao; Li Hao realized the Supreme had altered cause and effect to frame her.
• Li Hao begged the Supreme to spare Ying Xiaoxiao and knelt, but the Supreme began using dao light to control her and declared she would become a Demon-Slaying Chief General.
• Li Hao condemned the Supreme, shattered his heavenly dao embryo and nine sequences immortal seal, and forged a Dao Source Immortal Seal shaped like a sword scar.
• Ying Xiaoxiao used her remaining strength to send Li Hao away, but the Supreme's power returned him to the Emperor Platform, where he saw her withered and dying within the Immortal Guard Commander's domain.

Ying Xiaoxiao failed to send Li Hao away, and her body began to shatter as he awakened the ultimate True Immortal Sword Dao. Just as the Immortal Guard Commander moved to imprison Li Hao, Old Han arrived in the Black Tower and shielded him and Ying Xiaoxiao, revealing that he was ready to wake from his long slumber.

• Ying Xiaoxiao's power could not overcome the Supreme's mastery of time, and Li Hao realized the cost of her attempt to save him.
• Li Hao fused his Sword Dao with his Dao Source Immortal Seal, unleashing a sword that astonished Sword Heart, Mingyue, and observers throughout the Southern Region.
• Li Hao cut open the Immortal Guard Commander's world domain, but the commander struck back and overwhelmed Li Hao as he tried to reach Ying Xiaoxiao.
• A Black Tower appeared, dismantled the commander's world domain, and enclosed Li Hao and Ying Xiaoxiao; Li Hao recognized Old Han standing atop it.
• Old Han told Li Hao not to grieve and said his incomplete body had lain dormant long enough and that it was time to wake.