Recaps

Lin Qingying defeated Bian Ruxue with her perfected Supreme Gentle Sword Intent, then spent several days relaxing and fishing with Li Hao. While painting the Sword Master at Sword Cliff, Li Hao glimpsed and captured the Sword Dao in his portrait, advancing his Painting Dao to ninth dan.

• Lin Qingying used her perfected Supreme Gentle Sword Intent and innate supreme yin Dao embryo to defeat Bian Ruxue, who conceded and fell into the Losers Group.
• Lin Qingying advanced to the final eight, while Li Hao recorded the Saint Children’s supreme arts and spent the following days fishing with her at Sword Cliff.
• The Sword Master shared insights into the Supreme Gentle Sword Dao, giving Lin Qingying a glimpse of the level beyond perfected sword intent.
• Li Hao asked to paint the Sword Master, and his attempt to capture the Sage’s spirit caused sword power to cut his eyes as he painted.
• Li Hao finished the portrait, healed his eyes, and comprehended the Heart of Painting Dao, advancing his Painting Dao to ninth dan.

Li Hao advanced his Painting Dao and Sword Dao to the ninth dan, then developed his carving skill while the Sword God Battle narrowed to its final contestants. When the Bright Moon Saint Child trapped Lin Qingying and tried to destroy her Dao Embryo, Li Hao rushed toward the battlefield and shouted for him to stop.

• Li Hao reached the ninth dan of Painting Dao by painting the Sword Master, then used his Heart of Painting Dao to advance his Sword Dao to the ninth dan and his carving to the sixth dan.
• Qiu Wuhen and Bian Ruxue fought their way into the top ten, while Lin Qingying defeated Bian Ruxue and the Red River Saintess to reach the top three.
• Lin Qingying told Li Hao she would give everything in her match against the Bright Moon Saint Child, and the two shared pastries beneath the moon before the final battles.
• The Bright Moon Saint Child defeated the Spirit Illusion Saint Child and then attacked Lin Qingying, overpowering her and revealing that he intended to cripple her to deepen his emotional attachment and sever it.
• The Bright Moon Saint Child pierced Lin Qingying's abdomen and shattered her Dao Embryo, and Li Hao rushed to the magic array and shouted for him to stop.

Bright Moon Saint Child crippled Lin Qingying and shattered her Sword Intent to strengthen his own, while the elders and Sword Saint watched without intervening. Li Hao challenged him in her defense and revealed Sword Qi powerful enough to split the clouds above Saint Mountain, leaving everyone stunned.

• Bright Moon Saint Child destroyed Lin Qingying's Dao Embryo and Supreme Gentle Sword Intent, then declared that she had lost as the disciples cheered his victory.
• Li Hao rushed to Lin Qingying after the Magic Array fell, examined her injuries, and offered her sword back when she said she no longer deserved it.
• Li Hao challenged Bright Moon Saint Child to exchange a sword strike, but Bright Moon Saint Child dismissed him as an ignorant alchemist and turned away.
• Li Hao casually slashed with the green sword, sending Sword Qi through the sky that split the clouds above Saint Mountain and stopped Bright Moon Saint Child in his tracks.

Li Hao defeated Bright Moon Saint Child with the Supreme Gentle Sword Dao, restoring Lin Qingying’s sword intent while revealing his extraordinary skill. When Ancestor Yao considered whether he might join the Sword Ancestor Sacred Land, Li Hao revealed that a Sage was his enemy, and the Sword Master arrived to identify him as a Disciple of the Supreme Saint.

• Li Hao used one gentle sword strike to shatter Bright Moon Saint Child’s Sun Moon Sword Intent and wound him through his Dao Domains.
• Lin Qingying’s Sun Moon Sword Intent broke apart, and Li Hao guided her toward understanding the Supreme Gentle Sword Dao and rebuilding her sword intent.
• Bright Moon Saint Child accused Li Hao of infiltrating the sacred land, but Ancestor Yao spoke in his defense and asked about his plans.
• Li Hao said his enemy was not a Half-Saint, leading Ancestor Yao, Lin Qingying, Bright Moon Saint Child, and the disciples to realize that a Sage pursued him.
• The Sword Master arrived with two masked Sword Attendants and declared that Li Hao was a twenty-eight-year-old Disciple of the Supreme Saint whom the Sword Ancestor Sacred Land could not accommodate.

After defeating the Bright Moon Saint Child, Li Hao learned that Lin Qingying’s destroyed Dao Embryo could not be rebuilt, but offered her a path to form an acquired Sword Intent Dao Embryo. He left the Sword Ancestor Sacred Land to qualify for the Supreme Heaven Pride Battle and reached the Azure Sea Divine Dynasty’s selection, where Li Qingyi prepared to face him.

• The Sword Master revealed that Li Hao was twenty-eight and a Disciple of the Supreme Saint, and the Sword Saint ended the duel by calling it sparring.
• Li Hao returned Green Edge to Lin Qingying, learned her Dao Embryo could not be restored, and heard the Sword Saint offer her a Gathering Dao Art.
• The Sword Saint explained how Li Hao could enter the Supreme Heaven Pride Battle as a Rogue Person, and Li Hao agreed to seek a place through a dynasty’s selection.
• Li Hao suggested Lin Qingying could form an acquired Sword Intent Dao Embryo by comprehending nothingness, then left for Dao Sacrifice Mountain after saying farewell.
• On the way, Li Hao absorbed resentment from slain martial artists and continued to the selection, where Zhao Xiulin arranged his entry into the ten-thousand-person round.
• Li Qingyi entered the arena under a concealed appearance, intending to advance to the top hundred and then lose, while her companions warned her not to hurt her opponent.

Li Hao, using the alias Qing Feng, defeated Li Qingyi with a sword strike formed from a breeze and advanced through the Rogue Persons’ tournament to the top hundred. He accepted the Azure Sea Divine Dynasty’s offer to become its Attendant, while the dynasty also negotiated with other prodigies for their support in the coming Azure Wave Battle.

• Li Hao defeated Li Qingyi on Battle Stage Eight, revealing enough swordsmanship to convince her that his technique had likely reached Entering the Dao.
• Li Qingyi returned to her companions and said she would watch the Top Hundred Battle to see whether anyone could force Li Hao to reveal his true strength.
• Li Hao won his subsequent matches over three days and advanced to the top hundred, attracting invitations from several factions.
• Li Hao accepted the Azure Sea Divine Dynasty’s invitation to become its Attendant in exchange for the incense of ten cities and cultivation methods.
• The Azure Sea Great Emperor learned that Qing Feng had accepted and discussed the incense offered to other gifted contestants, including Red Light, who demanded Princess Yun Ji’s hand in marriage.

Li Hao and three other prodigies became Azure Sea Divine Dynasty Attendants, receiving incense allotments based on their strength. Red Light defeated a rival who challenged his twelve-city share, while the emperor revealed that Li Hao received ten cities for his Dao-Entering Sword Art; the chapter ended with Li Hao painting the group and assessing the experience he gained.

• Crown Prince Gui Haifeng brought Li Hao and three other prodigies to meet the Azure Sea Great Emperor, who bound them as Attendants with the Imperial Stone Dragon Seal and granted them titles and waist tags.
• The Azure Sea Great Emperor promised temples, Golden Bodies, and incense to the new Attendants, while Red Light arranged to marry Princess Yun Ji after the battle.
• A purple-robed young man objected to Red Light receiving twelve cities' incense and challenged him, but Red Light's Supreme Heart Flame overwhelmed him and left him badly burned.
• The Azure Sea Great Emperor healed the purple-robed young man and explained that incense allotments could rise with performance; he revealed Li Hao received ten cities because his Sword Art had entered the Dao.
• Li Hao painted the other Attendants and the Azure Sea Great Emperor, gaining different amounts of Painting Dao experience from each subject.

Li Hao recorded the Azure Sea Divine Dynasty’s cultivation methods in the Vast Sea Pavilion and raised his dao domains to 210 layers while preparing for the Top Hundred Battle. He defeated Prince Luo Jia in a single strike, while other contestants learned that Red Light was another formidable contender.

• Li Hao impressed the Azure Sea Great Emperor and the dynasty’s chief painter with his paintings, then entered the Vast Sea Pavilion with the Crown Prince to record its cultivation methods.
• Li Hao returned to Dao Sacrifice Mountain and cultivated the methods he had recorded, raising his dao domains to 210 layers and suspecting that their extreme realm lay at 360 layers.
• Li Hao considered the need to reach the dao domain extreme realm so he could face Void Saint and potentially contend with a Sage.
• Li Hao defeated Prince Luo Jia with a single sword strike in the Top Hundred Battle, then left the stage to continue pondering his dao domains.
• Li Qingyi and her companions watched Li Hao’s victory, and the young man with the folding fan told them that Red Light had emerged as a powerful contender from the Magnificent Light Grotto-Heaven.

Li Hao defeated his Top Hundred Battle opponents and drew attention by revealing a second Sword Dao before securing a place in the Top Ten. He joined the Flower Wandering Society, a gathering founded by two Supreme Saints, and learned that its members exchanged artistic and martial insights through a Mind Domain Space.

• Li Hao considered the obligations attached to faction offers, then heard Gui Qinshuang invite him to join the Flower Wandering Society because of his painting skill.
• Li Hao defeated the purple-robed young man with the Sun and Moon Sword Dao, revealing that he had mastered another Sword Dao, and both advanced to the Top Ten.
• Li Hao completed the cultivation methods he had collected at the Vast Sea Pavilion, bringing his Dao domain to 220 layers.
• Gui Qinshuang delivered Li Hao's Flower Wandering Token after the vice president approved his membership, and Li Hao learned the society's history, rules, and life-saving token abilities.
• Li Hao entered the society's Mind Domain Space, introduced himself as Qing Feng, and met members including Night Ancestor and Azure Ancestor.
• A young member explained that the society restricted membership to cultivators partly to enable martial exchanges, and recounted the Supreme Saint's words that inspired its founding.

Li Hao learned that the Supreme Saints were seeking a way to become immortal by opening every extreme realm, then impressed the Flower Wandering Society with his age, cultivation, painting, and sword art. After leaving the gathering, he prepared for the Supreme Heaven Pride Battle, where the top-ten ranking matches began and Red Light emerged as another championship favorite.

• The Night Ancestor and Azure Ancestor told Li Hao that the Immortal Road was sealed and the Supreme Saints were reincarnating to pursue a second path to immortality that required attaining all nine extreme realms.
• Li Hao revealed that cooking and painting were his specialties, and Zhan Tan praised his painting while the White Ancestor eagerly arranged to visit him for a cooking exchange.
• After learning Li Hao was not yet thirty and had reached the Dao Inquiry Realm with sword art that had entered the Dao, the Flower Wandering Society members offered to watch his battles and discuss their pursuits with him.
• The Azure Ancestor introduced Li Hao to Qing Jiu, who agreed to spar with him someday and discussed the competition among their respective realms.
• Two days later, the Supreme Heaven Pride Battle's top-ten ranking matches began, drawing Li Qingyi, Lin Qingying, Bian Ruxue, Qiu Wuhen, and the Bright Moon Saint Child to scout the competitors.
• Spectators recognized Li Hao and Red Light as leading championship favorites, while the Bright Moon Saint Child watched from the crowd.

Li Hao defeated Su Yun and another opponent with ease before facing Red Light in the Top Ten final, where he countered Red Light’s Fire-Type Divine Ability and forced him to concede. The contest ended with Li Hao as champion, while the competitors prepared for the Azure Wave Realm’s battle against the Three Great Sacred Lands in three months.

• Li Hao defeated Su Yun with a single Cloudmist Sword Qi strike, then painted portraits of the Heavenly Prodigies while waiting for his next match.
• Li Hao shattered his next opponent’s Heaven and Earth Dharma Form with a single strike and returned to painting.
• Lin Qingying and Bian Ruxue disagreed over whether freedom or reaching the pinnacle mattered more as they watched Li Hao.
• Li Hao fought Red Light in the final, severed the influence of Red Light’s Fire-Type Divine Ability, and struck him with the Sun and Moon Sword Dao.
• Red Light conceded, and the ten Divine Dynasties’ Half-Saints concluded the contest and announced the battle against the Three Great Sacred Lands in three months.
• Su Yun, Lin Qingying, Bian Ruxue, and the other competitors left to prepare for the coming battles, while Red Light urged Li Hao to improve.

After winning the independent cultivators’ tournament, Li Hao visited Zhan Tan at the Literary Ancestor Sacred Land and advanced his Painting Dao through their lessons. With her help, he gathered cultivation methods from ten Divine Dynasties and reached 360 Dao Domain layers, where his domains began merging and he sensed the power of time.

• Li Hao arranged to visit Zhan Tan to discuss painting, while Qing Jiu warned him about the Twin Buddha Child and the coming Supreme Heaven Pride Battle.
• Gui Qinshuang told Li Hao that the Azure Sea Divine Dynasty had increased his incense offerings from ten cities to fifteen, and Yue Ying escorted him to the Literary Ancestor Sacred Land.
• Li Hao and Zhan Tan painted an Earth Fiend Dragon; Zhan Tan was startled by the force in Li Hao’s painting and sought his guidance, which also earned him Painting Dao experience.
• Li Hao asked Zhan Tan for cultivation methods, and she arranged access to the treasuries of ten Divine Dynasties and the Literary Ancestor Sacred Land’s Book of Sages.
• After visiting the ten Divine Dynasties, Li Hao cultivated their methods until his Dao Domains reached 360 layers and began merging, allowing him to sense and influence space and time.

Li Hao completed the eternal Dao Domain, consulted Zhan Tan about advancing beyond an extreme realm, and gained a powerful codex attribute from a masterpiece. After months of study and painting, he prepared for the Azure Wave Realm battle for places as rival prodigies emerged from seclusion.

• Li Hao completed his 360-layer eternal Dao Domain but failed to form any further domains, then learned from Zhan Tan that breaking an extreme realm was rare and difficult.
• Zhan Tan took Li Hao to the Literary Heart Pavilion, where he recorded its books and chose the Benevolent Emperor Collection, gaining the attribute Benevolent One Is Invincible.
• Li Hao recited books of sages until his Poetry and Books Dao advanced to Sixth Dan, then spent three months discussing Painting Dao with Zhan Tan and raised his Painting Dao experience to 920,000.
• As the battle for places approached, Li Hao left Heavenly Sandalwood Peak while prodigies across the sacred lands emerged from seclusion and displayed their growing power.
• The Bright Moon Saint Child and Red Light learned that Li Hao had spent his time painting; Red Light grew angry, believing Li Hao's earlier victory had made him arrogant.

Li Hao and the other contestants gathered at the Buddhist Sect Sacred Land for the Azure Wave Realm qualifying contest, where the Twin Buddha Child and the other major Heavenly Prodigies drew attention. The first round began as a race to retrieve Spirit Pearls from the Floating Life Demon Territory, and Zhao Qing Shu emerged long after the Twin Buddha Child.

• The Azure Sea Great Emperor offered Li Hao, Red Light, and Su Yun weapons or divine pills and explained that qualifying contestants would receive the Azure Wave Realm's incense power.
• Li Hao and the other contestants arrived at the Buddhist Sect Sacred Land, where the Thousand Lifetimes Buddha and the projected incarnations of the Sword Saint and Literary Saint gathered to oversee the contest.
• The Literary Ancestor and Sword Ancestor Sacred Lands arrived, and Red Light studied Lin Shuhai while Li Hao reunited with familiar faces including Zhan Tan and Lin Qingying.
• The Twin Buddha Child appeared, and Red Light sensed the terrifying demonic image concealed behind him.
• The Thousand Lifetimes Buddha announced that contestants would retrieve Spirit Pearls from demons in the Floating Life Demon Territory, with the twenty fastest advancing; the Twin Buddha Child was selected first and returned in one minute and thirty-four seconds.
• Zhao Qing Shu entered the Floating Life Demon Territory next and eventually staggered back out after about a quarter of an hour.

The contestants raced to retrieve Spirit Pearls, and Lin Qingying and Red Light posted the standout times behind the Twin Buddha Child. When Li Hao entered the trial, he absorbed Slaughter Resentment before confronting a demon Half-Saint guarding his Spirit Pearl; the Half-Saint’s illusion failed against Li Hao’s Eternal Dao Domain.

• Lin Shuhai retrieved his Spirit Pearl in one minute and fifty-eight seconds, while Lin Qingying finished in four minutes and fifteen seconds and the Bright Moon Saint Child took two minutes and thirty seconds.
• Red Light completed the trial in one minute and forty-seven seconds, placing second behind the Twin Buddha Child.
• Li Hao painted the Literary Saint and gained 160,000 experience points before his turn to enter the trial.
• Li Hao absorbed Slaughter Resentment in the Floating Life Demon Territory, then found the Spirit Pearl beside a Half-Saint Spider Demon.
• The Half-Saint Spider Demon tried to bargain for Li Hao’s secret, stole the Spirit Pearl, and attacked him with Dream Weaving.
• Li Hao manifested his Eternal Dao Domain, which annihilated the demon’s laws and dispelled its illusion.

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.