Chapter Summaries

Li Hao placed third in the All Heavens Tower and revealed an imperial pole Dao heart during the True King Selection’s first test. The second test began with contestants facing the Ten Emperor Puppet Body, whose overwhelming strength left the challengers with little chance.

• The Immortal Emperor and Star Empress recognized that Li Hao was nearing the Emperor Dao, while cultivators outside the tower noticed he had reached floor 124 at only the seventh level of Immortal King.
• Li Hao combined seven world hearts into a sovereign universe domain and climbed to floor 155, ranking third behind Shi Miao and the leader at floor 190.
• The ten-day trial ended, and the Immortal Emperor announced four further tests; Li Hao and Shi Miao entered the tower for the Dao heart test.
• The Reincarnation Heart Mirror revealed an imperial pole Dao heart for Shi Miao, Li Hao, and Di Mingyuan, while many other contestants received lower grades.
• The second test began with a Ten Emperor Puppet Body, and its first challengers were swiftly overwhelmed by its Emperor’s Might.

The candidates faced the Ten Emperor Puppet Body in a combat-strength test, and Li Hao revealed his five-world-heart domain to last nine breaths. The Black-robed Youth then matched the puppet for ten breaths, leaving the great-clan heirs stunned by his Quasi-Emperor-level power.

• Luo Ningshuang and Su Wanyi each lasted four breaths, while Zhan Wudao held on for six and Di Mingyuan endured eight before withdrawing with strength in reserve.
• Li Hao unfolded a domain formed by merging five world hearts and evaded the Ten Emperor Puppet Body until its attack broke his domain and forced him out after nine breaths.
• Li Hao recovered and reflected on the ten Emperor Paths in the puppet's attack, recognizing that completing his own path could make him a World King.
• Shi Miao used her mastery of time to evade the puppet until it split time with a slash at the ninth breath, then withdrew without trying to last longer.
• The Black-robed Youth fought the Ten Emperor Puppet Body evenly for ten breaths, revealing an Emperor Dao prototype and astonishing the gathered candidates.

Li Hao faced the trial of good and evil by choosing to evacuate Qingzhou City's civilians instead of fighting in a doomed defense, earning sixth place while Shi Miao placed last after prioritizing him in her illusion. The final command test began with Li Hao cast as the Abyss Master of the Sword Abyss during an Ancient Demon invasion.

• The Star Empress sent the candidates into illusions to test their dao hearts, and Li Hao found himself in Qing Prefecture with his cultivation suppressed to the Fifteen Li Realm.
• Li Hao punished a child who had stained his clothes, then visited Tan Palace Academy and reunited with the Ink Qilin and the Institute Head.
• After learning that a demon tide threatened Qingzhou City, Li Hao persuaded the Institute Head to evacuate the civilians and led them out through the city's guarded exit.
• The illusion ended after Qingzhou City fell; Li Hao ranked sixth, while Shi Miao ranked ninety-second because she had abandoned everything to protect him in her trial.
• The Star Empress announced the final test of command ability, and Li Hao entered an illusion as the Abyss Master of the Sword Abyss, facing an Ancient Demon invasion.

After the four trials, Li Hao ranked fourth and Shi Miao twentieth, and the Star Empress announced a reverse-order challenge to select the Ten True Kings as the Ancient Demons ravaged the True Realm. As the myriad races learned that many clans had been destroyed, Shi Miao opened the challenges by defeating Luo Ningshuang with a power that reversed time and suppressed her cultivation.

• The Star Empress announced the top twenty, placing Li Hao fourth, Shi Miao twentieth, and Luo Ningshuang nineteenth, while Su Wanyi failed to qualify.
• The Star Empress replaced the planned matchups with upward challenges, and the Immortal Emperor explained that the Ten True Kings would receive military authority and powerful rewards.
• The candidates and watching races learned that the Ancient Demons were corrupting heavenly sources and that any race whose passage showed no aura had been destroyed, leaving only bloodline remnants.
• Shi Miao stepped onto an arena stage and challenged those ranked above her, prompting Luo Ningshuang to accept.
• Luo Ningshuang released her progenitor emperor power, but Shi Miao used time reversal to weaken her, reduce her cultivation, and defeat her instantly.

Li Hao faced the reincarnated Quasi-Emperor Wan Jijun in the True King Selection, revealing his Emperor Path and powerful techniques. He then astonished the watching races by summoning seven independent world domains and beginning to merge them.

• Shi Miao defeated Luo Ningshuang and chose to keep challenging, while Wan Jijun challenged Li Hao.
• Wan Jijun introduced himself as a reincarnated Quasi-Emperor and explained that he had abandoned the path of multiple world domains after forming five world hearts.
• Li Hao declared that he would walk the difficult Emperor Path and released a formidable Dao intent, earning Wan Jijun's respect.
• Wan Jijun attacked with the Emperor art Return-to-Ancient Tribulation Finger, but Li Hao used Limitless and his chaos terminal realm to evade it and counter with his Sole Self Sword Dao.
• Wan Jijun revealed his sovereign domain, and Li Hao answered with seven overlapping world domains that began merging into a domain of sovereign might.

Li Hao defeated Wan Jijun with his fused world domains, revealing the prototype of an emperor Dao, while Shi Miao climbed the True King rankings by defeating Shen Jueling, the Divine Venerable, and the Chaos Clan inheritor. Li Hao then challenged the third-ranked Saint Lord and fused all seven world domains, awakening the full power of his universe domain as their battle began.

• Li Hao merged six highly compatible world domains, overwhelmed Wan Jijun’s sovereign domain, and defeated him with a crushing attack.
• The Immortal Emperor declared Wan Jijun defeated, and Li Hao was restored before the True King challenges continued.
• Shi Miao defeated Shen Jueling, then defeated the Divine Venerable and the Chaos Clan inheritor as she advanced through the rankings.
• The Divine Venerable discovered that Shi Miao’s reincarnation power had permanently cost him thirty thousand years of soul lifespan.
• Li Hao challenged the third-ranked Saint Lord while Shi Miao challenged Di Mingyuan, and both battles began on separate stages.
• Li Hao fused his seventh, boundless world domain with the other six, forming a universe whose power began to awaken.

Li Hao defeated Cang Zun after unveiling his Cosmic Domain and stopping the All-Creation Tribulation-Killing Finger, bringing his world domain closer to a breakthrough. Before Li Hao could challenge the Black-robed Youth for First True King, the youth revealed the emperors’ plan to eradicate the Ancient Demons and urged him to consider the responsibility behind the title, leaving Li Hao undecided.

• Li Hao’s Cosmic Domain overwhelmed the Holy Lord’s saint domain, and Li Hao won their battle.
• Li Hao challenged Cang Zun, who used the All-Creation Tribulation-Killing Finger to pierce the universe, but Li Hao’s palm strike stopped it and won the fight.
• Cang Zun’s lesson about a domain’s center helped Li Hao strengthen his Cosmic Domain, though Li Hao still could not grasp the final step toward a breakthrough.
• The Black-robed Youth warned Li Hao not to challenge him and revealed that the Emperor Venerables planned to use the True Kings’ selection to help eradicate the Ancient Demons.
• The Black-robed Youth explained that First True King would carry responsibility for the True Realm, and Li Hao remained silent as the Star Empress asked whether he would continue challenging.

Li Hao yielded the chance to become First True King, while Shi Miao revealed power that defeated Cang Zun before also stepping aside. As the rankings continued to shift, Di Mingyuan challenged Li Hao, and their battle began with both unleashing their domains and Di Mingyuan drawing on his Emperor Bone.

• Li Hao declined to challenge the reincarnated Black Emperor, leaving him to claim first place and taking second for himself.
• Shi Miao defeated Cang Zun with her Time Dao and revealed that she had merged with the River of Time and controlled the power of fate.
• Li Hao conceded to Shi Miao, then asked her not to challenge the Black Emperor; she refused to continue, and the two left the stage together.
• Di Mingyuan defeated Wan Jijun and the Saint Clan's fourth-ranked contestant, then challenged Li Hao for his rank.
• Li Hao accepted Di Mingyuan's challenge, and the two opened their world domains as Di Mingyuan unleashed his Emperor Bone and raised an Emperor Sword.

Li Hao defeated Di Mingyuan with the Limitless Emperor Art, secured second place in the True King Selection, and chose the Southern Region to defend as war preparations began. He selected Dao Qingyin and the Ancestral Dragon Clan as deputies, while Shi Miao chose the Su Clan, and Su Jiuzhe watched from the Ancient Demon battlefield.

• Li Hao shattered Di Mingyuan's Emperor Sword attack by burning sixty thousand drops of true god blood and using the Limitless Emperor Art, defeating him and earning second place.
• Li Hao challenged Shi Miao for second place, then the Star Empress finalized the rankings and the Emperor Venerables bestowed rewards upon the ten True Kings.
• The Star Empress assigned the True Kings their territories, and Li Hao chose the Southern Region to protect his friends and the Great Dream Clan.
• The Heavenly Palace Supreme rejected his disciples' plan to sabotage Li Hao and instead sent Heavenly Palace forces to reinforce other regions.
• Li Hao chose Dao Qingyin and the Ancestral Dragon Clan as his deputies, while Shi Miao chose Taishang Jueqing and Su Wanyi for her forces.
• Su Jiuzhe watched from among the Ancient Demon corpses, smiled at Li Hao's choices, and said their debt was settled.

Li Hao and the other True Kings chose clans to command as the emperors activated the emperorless order and departed for the war in the Otherworld. With ancient demons attacking the Southern Region and its emperors gone, Li Hao set out to lead its defense.

• Di Mingyuan chose his Emperor Clan, and the True Kings selected their armies while Li Hao added the Great Yu Clan to his forces.
• The emperors established the emperorless order, which would remove Emperor Venerables and Quasi-Emperors from the True Realm and suppress emperor power there.
• The True Realm's emperors and Quasi-Emperors departed, leaving the True Kings and clans to defend their homeland.
• Emperor Chu passed the Yan-Chu throne to Chu Beiming, while ancient demons prepared to invade the Southern Region.
• The Black Emperor left to rally the Chaos Ancient Clan, and Li Hao led his deputy commanders toward the Southern Region.

Li Hao reached the Southern Region and discovered that its Supreme had withdrawn most of the Heavenly Palace’s forces, leaving the region dangerously exposed. He took command, gathered the clans to organize its defense, and sent countless avatars across the region to summon support.

• Li Hao and his companions arrived at the Heavenly Palace, where its Immortal Kings revealed that seven hundred of their seven hundred and thirty-two Immortal Kings had been sent away, leaving the Southern Region vulnerable.
• Li Hao branded the remaining Heavenly Palace Immortal Kings as War Servants and used the Heavenly Dao Banner to draw the retreating Heavenly Palace disciples into it, while Sword Heart and Mingyue stayed behind to help defend the region.
• The seven great Ancient Immortal Dynasties arrived to follow Li Hao’s orders, and he gathered their Topographical Maps and consulted their Immortal Kings on defensive plans.
• Dao Qingyin brought the Dao Clan to support the war, and its acting patriarch moved the clan’s Emperor Vein to the Southern Region so the Ancestral Dragon Clan could also be transported there.
• Li Hao ordered the clans to muster their forces and sent three thousand projections across the Southern Region; clans including the Spirit Clan, Great Dream Clan, and Green Mound Clan welcomed him.

Li Hao found the Great Yu Clan and reunited with the Yu Emperor, Old Feng, Ren Qianqian, the Sword Master, and his other old friends, then brought them under his protection as he organized the Southern Region for war. His enlightenment raised his Time Dao to its pinnacle, and when he traveled back through the River of Time to find missing companions, the Supreme attacked him before the Heavenly Dao's order intervened.

• Li Hao projected his power across the Southern Region, ordered its races to gather for war, and searched for the Great Yu Clan among the Heavenly Eye Clan's dependents.
• The Great Yu Clan debated whose cultivation to prioritize, and Li Pingan volunteered to bear responsibility for advancing the clan.
• Li Hao arrived at the Great Yu Clan, revealed himself to the Yu Emperor and his old companions, and reunited with them as True King Haotian.
• Li Hao calmed the Heavenly Eye Clan after the Yu Emperor said it had not seriously mistreated the Great Yu Clan, then took the clan with him and ordered the Heavenly Eye Clan to mobilize its forces.
• Li Hao reached the tenth-origin apex of the Time Dao, delegated Southern Region preparations to Shi Miao, Dao Qingyin, and Long Zhantian, and entered the River of Time to search for missing companions.
• The Supreme's manifestation attacked Li Hao in the River of Time, but the Heavenly Dao's order halted and dispersed the Emperor's Might.