Recaps

Gu Mofan, Di Wushe, Zhan Qinghuang, Li Hao, and Shi Miao reached the besieged Ancestor Dragon City, where Shi Miao urged the others not to enter a battle that could draw out more Ancient Demon Emperor Venerables. Back at Extreme Dao Mountain, the Dao Source Immortal Emperor reprimanded his disciples and revealed that the races had activated a wartime plan called True King.

• Gu Mofan explained that the fifth terminal realm, chaos, let cultivators cross world domains, and said Long Qingge intended to stand or fall with the Eastern Region.
• The group arrived at Ancestor Dragon City and saw trillions of Ancient Demons, more than a dozen quasi-emperors, and an Emperor Venerable fighting around the city.
• Shi Miao warned that more Ancient Demon Emperor Venerables were likely waiting and persuaded Gu Mofan, Di Wushe, and Zhan Qinghuang not to upset the battlefield's balance.
• Gu Mofan opened a chaos passage for Li Hao, Di Wushe, and Zhan Qinghuang to return to Extreme Dao Mountain, then went alone to Ancestor Dragon City.
• The Dao Source Immortal Emperor praised Shi Miao's judgment, reprimanded Di Wushe and Zhan Qinghuang for their impulsiveness, and told them to focus on becoming stronger.
• The Dao Source Immortal Emperor revealed that the races had placed themselves on a war footing and activated a preparation plan called True King.

The Dao Source Immortal Emperor explained the True King Preselection, a wartime contest meant to choose ten commanders before the Ancient Demon Clan’s invasion, which was expected within a thousand years. He brought Li Hao, Shi Miao, and other Daoyuan Lineage candidates to a modified True Realm Abyss, where fighters from across the Four Regions had gathered.

• The Dao Source Immortal Emperor told Li Hao and Shi Miao that the True King Preselection would select ten commanders based solely on combat strength, while warning that the catastrophe could arrive within a thousand years.
• The Dao Source Immortal Emperor urged Shi Miao to compete so she could better protect Li Hao, and Shi Miao vowed she would risk her life for him.
• Li Hao and Shi Miao shared a quiet farewell in their courtyard, where Shi Miao said she had seen Li Hao alone in the distant future.
• Ancestor Yuan Ming promised Li Hao they would meet as comrades on the battlefield, then the Dao Source Immortal Emperor gathered the Daoyuan candidates and took them to the True Realm Abyss.
• The Dao Source Immortal Emperor explained that the abyss had been modified into a secure training ground, and Li Hao saw candidates from many races gathered in its hidden starry expanse.

Li Hao and the other candidates gathered at the All Heavens Tower for the True King preselection, where they learned the tower’s trials would determine who could contend for the Ten Kings. As two more Emperor Venerables arrived to explain the rules, Li Hao focused on strengthening himself before the approaching catastrophe.

• The Dao Source Immortal Emperor explained that the Star Emperor Venerable’s All Heavens Tower held three hundred floors, and candidates needed to reach at least the ninetieth floor to contend for a True King seat.
• The Chaos Immortal Emperor arrived with his disciples, exchanged barbed remarks with the Dao Source Immortal Emperor, and brought Li Hao face to face with Luo Ningshuang and Su Wanyi.
• Luo Ningshuang urged Li Hao to aim for the ninetieth floor and a possible True King Deputy position, while Su Wanyi expressed confidence in their senior brothers.
• Li Hao began contemplating how to blaze an Emperor Path and strengthen his seven art skills, and Shi Miao sent Luo Ningshuang and Su Wanyi away so he could focus.
• After several days, two Emperor Venerables descended above the All Heavens Tower as the gathered candidates fell silent.

The Star Empress and the Immortal Emperor opened the All Heavens Tower’s reincarnation trials to select ten True Kings and assess the gathered prodigies. Li Hao entered the first floor for his initial challenge, where the trial began with a promise that he could reincarnate after death.

• The Star Empress explained that the All Heavens Tower held three hundred floors and that challengers could die inside and return through its reincarnation power.
• The Immortal Emperor described how challengers would be rated by how far they advanced beyond the floor matching their cultivation, with the best receiving resources and guidance.
• Qingfeng and a Spirit Fox Clan woman prepared to compete, while the Divine Venerable watched Li Hao and Shi Miao and Lin Qingying recalled seeing Shi Miao defend Li Hao.
• Li Hao and Shi Miao parted ways, and Li Hao went to the first floor with three Immortal Lords while his other companions chose higher floors.
• Li Hao entered the tower, accepted the trial, and began his challenge.

Li Hao advanced through the All Heavens Tower by using his world domains to defeat increasingly powerful ancient demons, while Su Wanyi, Luo Ningshuang, and an Emperor Clan challenger also progressed. On the twenty-first layer, Li Hao faced three third-level Immortal King demons and intensified his power with True God Blood as they began to overwhelm his Reverse Time Domain.

• Li Hao cleared the first ten layers, using Formless and Myriad Forms to destroy groups of ancient demons whose strength rose with each layer.
• Su Wanyi cleared the tenth layer with her Void-Slashing Domain and continued to the eleventh; Luo Ningshuang also chose to continue onward.
• Li Hao used Reverse Time Domain and Chaos Limitless Sword Dao to clear the thirteenth through twentieth layers, then entered the twenty-first.
• The Star Empress and Immortal Emperor observed the trials, and an Emperor Clan challenger cleared the ninety-ninth layer by invoking progenitor emperor power.
• On the twenty-first layer, Li Hao's Reverse Time Domain could barely restrain three third-level Immortal King demons, so he unleashed the power of his 3,100 drops of True God Blood.

Li Hao pushed through the All Heavens Tower by wielding his true god blood, the Extreme Dao Method, and eventually two coexisting domains, drawing the attention of the Star Empress and the Immortal Emperor. Luo Ningxu and Su Wanze reached floor 36 and left the tower, while Li Hao continued climbing and remained unseen by them.

• Li Hao used reverse-time control and sword qi to defeat the trials, reaching floor 31 before his single domain shattered against fourth-level Ancient Demons.
• The Star Empress and the Immortal Emperor watched Li Hao and recognized that his two coexisting domains were the beginnings of an Emperor Dao path.
• Luo Ningshuang used progenitor emperor power to clear floor 31, then continued climbing toward her limit.
• On floor 33, Li Hao overlapped his Formless and Reverse Time domains, killed twelve Ancient Demons, and chose to continue the trial.
• The Star Empress and the Immortal Emperor praised Li Hao's potential but noted that his Emperor Dao path was only at its first step.
• Luo Ningxu and Su Wanze both emerged after reaching floor 36, compared their results, and noticed that Li Hao had not yet left the tower.

Li Hao passed the fortieth floor of the All Heavens Tower with his dual world domains and Extreme Dao Method, then overcame three fifth-level Ancient Demons on the forty-first floor with Limitless’s third layer. The Star Empress and Immortal Emperor noticed his potential, while the people outside still awaited his return.

• Luo Ningshuang and Su Wanyi’s thirty-sixth-floor results impressed the other prodigies, while Xue Fei envied their awakened progenitor emperor power.
• Li Hao used Reversal Formless and a sword strike powered by the Extreme Dao Method to defeat three perfected fourth-level Ancient Demons on the fortieth floor.
• Li Hao learned that Years Sculpting consumed lifespan that reincarnation could not restore, then chose to continue the challenge.
• On the forty-first floor, Li Hao’s dual world domains failed against three fifth-level Ancient Demons, so he unleashed Limitless’s third layer and destroyed them with his Sole Self Sword Dao.
• The Star Empress and Immortal Emperor praised Li Hao’s potential and considered nurturing him as a True King Deputy.
• Outside the tower, Su Wanyi searched for Li Hao, and Luo Ningshuang froze when a figure suddenly shot out of the tower.

Li Hao emerged from the All Heavens Tower after reaching the 43rd Floor, astonishing Luo Ningshuang, Su Wanyi, and the gathered cultivators. As the True King Selection’s preliminary test neared its end, he and Shi Miao compared results while powerful clans’ prodigies assessed their rivals.

• Luo Ningshuang and Su Wanyi saw Li Hao’s projection on the 43rd Floor and were shocked that he had surpassed the two contestants with progenitor emperor power.
• Li Hao reunited with Shi Miao, who had reached the 76th Floor, and learned that she had held back special abilities that could not be restored by reincarnation power.
• Li Hao checked on the three immortal lord realm disciples from Extreme Dao Mountain and encouraged the one who had failed to last an incense stick on the first floor.
• Li Hao learned that the two perfected immortal king disciples had stalled before the hundredth floor, then told Luo Ningshuang that Great Emperors had also risen from mortal beginnings.
• Li Hao surveyed the gathering as prodigies from the Dao Clan discussed the Emperor Clan, the Saint Clan, and their own results in the tower.
• Dao Qingyin considered how the thousand-year cultivation period could help her become a True King and prevent the Dao Clan from serving under another clan’s commander.

The Immortal Emperor and Star Empress announced the True King Seeds’ grades, rewards, and cultivation opportunities after the All Heavens Tower assessment. Li Hao and Shi Miao qualified as special-grade seeds and entered the Myriad Races Treasury, where Shi Miao spotted time tree sap among the treasures.

• The Immortal Emperor set the assessment grades and rewards, naming those who surpassed their realm’s floors by thirty as special grade and True King Seeds.
• The Immortal Emperor announced that clearing floors 110 and above counted as special grade, while Di Mingyuan’s record of floor 125 placed him above that rank and made him a leading candidate for First True King.
• The Star Empress announced the rankings, listing Li Hao and Shi Miao among the thirty-seven special-grade candidates.
• The Immortal Emperor warned that grades would be reassessed every hundred years and opened a vast continent for cultivation in the Abyss Emperor Arena.
• Li Hao followed Shi Miao into the Myriad Races Treasury, where they entered together as special-grade seeds.
• Shi Miao spotted time tree sap sealed among the top-tier treasures and recognized it as a treasure of the Primordial Beginning Clan.

Li Hao and Shi Miao selected treasures from the All Heavens Tower, then cultivated in the Emperor Arena as Li Hao absorbed them and strengthened his combat power. After half a month, he left to test his improved strength by challenging the forty-seventh floor.

• Shi Miao explained the time tree sap, Calamity Light Shield, and Dao Treasury, and Li Hao chose the Dao Treasury and time tree sap among his treasures.
• Li Hao selected a Five Dao Divine Tree, a Chaos Dao Diagram, heavenly dao blood, and several other treasures, while Shi Miao chose items suited to her.
• In the Emperor Arena, Li Hao and Shi Miao met members of the Yan Huo Clan, and Li Hao told them that he and Shi Miao were Dao Companions.
• Li Hao absorbed his treasures over half a month, improving his strength enough to expect to reach around the forty-eighth floor of the All Heavens Tower.
• Li Hao decided to try making three World Hearts coexist, then went to the All Heavens Tower and challenged the forty-seventh floor.

On the 47th Floor of the All Heavens Tower, Li Hao fused Void Piercing State of Mind into his Sword Dao and discovered how to keep three world hearts in balance by controlling the shape of his world domain. After defeating twelve ancient demons on the 48th Floor, he learned he could not skip ahead and cleared the 50th Floor instead.

• Li Hao used Void Piercing State of Mind to raise his Sword Dao to the thirteenth dan, then killed six ancient demons with a sword strike formed from his compressed world domain.
• As his three world hearts began merging, Li Hao killed himself to trigger the All Heavens Tower’s reset and returned to the start of the 47th Floor challenge.
• Li Hao expanded and contracted his world domain to equalize the distances between his three world hearts, then formed an invisible circle that kept them in equilibrium and let their powers fuse.
• Li Hao challenged the 48th Floor and used his Formless Void Insight Realm to defeat twelve ancient demons without their domains reaching him.
• After the All Heavens Tower told Li Hao he could challenge only cleared floors and the next floor, he continued and successfully cleared the 50th Floor.

Li Hao pushed his All Heavens Tower record to the 54th Floor before returning to the Great Emperor Dojo to develop his Emperor Path by sculpting divine wood. The Immortal Emperor and Star Empress discussed his ambition to make seven World Hearts coexist as they watched the young cultivators prepare for the coming battle.

• Luo Ningshuang reached the 41st Floor, exhausted her resources, and wondered how Li Hao had surpassed her record.
• Li Hao defeated three sixth-level Immortal King Ancient Demons on the 51st Floor with his thirteenth-dan Void Sword Dao, then was overwhelmed by twenty-four Ancient Demons on the 54th Floor.
• Li Hao returned to the Great Emperor Dojo and decided to raise his remaining art skills to the thirteenth dan, beginning with sculpting using the Five Dao Divine Tree.
• The Immortal Emperor and Star Empress discussed the danger facing the Eastern Region and the young cultivators expected to secure provisional True King quotas.
• The Star Empress recognized Li Hao's three balanced peak World Hearts and his attempt to open the King of Worlds Emperor Path, which earlier cultivators had failed to complete.

Li Hao comprehended the thirteenth-segment carving mindstate, Creation Engraving of Fate, and advanced to the second level of the Immortal King Realm while cultivating in the Great Emperor Dojo. After the Star Empress taught the Dao Treasury for three years, Di Mingyuan challenged the All Heavens Tower again, drawing attention as the strongest beneath the Quasi-Emperor Realm.

• After ten years of carving, Li Hao struggled to grasp the thirteenth-segment mindstate and continued carving familiar figures as he searched for the essence of the art.
• Following another fifty years of contemplation, Li Hao passively advanced to the second level of the Immortal King Realm, and his world domain expanded as the beings in his Sea of Life gained the ability to cultivate.
• After thirty more years, Li Hao realized carving could bestow creation and comprehended the thirteenth-segment mindstate, Creation Engraving of Fate.
• Li Hao decided to improve his Body Movement Dao next, then listened as the Star Empress imparted the Dao Treasury's Third Chapter for three years.
• Di Mingyuan headed for the All Heavens Tower's 130th floor, prompting others to discuss his standing as the strongest beneath the Quasi-Emperor Realm.

Li Hao sought guidance from the Immortal Emperors after his Dao comprehension advanced, while Di Mingyuan’s All Heavens Tower challenge intensified the rivalry for the First True King position. Immortal Emperor brought Li Hao into his Eternity Pseudo-Realm to teach him the Dao Treasury’s Fourth Chapter.

• Di Mingyuan challenged the All Heavens Tower and climbed from the 125th floor to the 134th, drawing awe and concern from the gathered clans.
• Li Hao reviewed his recent breakthroughs, then went to ask Star Empress and Immortal Emperor for guidance on the Fourth Chapter of the Dao Treasury.
• Star Empress examined Li Hao’s Nine Sequences Great Dao and confirmed that his myriad Dao realms had reached the Origin Sixth Level.
• Immortal Emperor judged that Li Hao could contend for the True King deputy position if he mastered the Fourth Chapter and his realm continued to rise.
• Immortal Emperor brought Li Hao into his Eternity Pseudo-Realm, where Li Hao took out the Dao Treasury and began listening to the teaching.

After two hundred years of studying the Dao in the Immortal Emperor’s false realm, Li Hao turned to cooking, reciting the Dao Treasury, and fishing to deepen his other arts. His frustration at finding nothing to catch led him to comprehend the Boundless fishing state of mind and pierce the false realm, before the Immortal Emperor warned him not to challenge the Great Emperor barrier around the Abyss.

• Luo Ningshuang and Su Wanyi worried about the competition for deputy positions as their cultivation advanced to the fourth level of the Immortal King Realm.
• Dao Qingyin judged her progress insufficient to contend for a True King position and continued cultivating.
• The Immortal Emperor advised Li Hao to raise his cultivation after his Dao comprehension slowed, and Li Hao began building experience in cooking, poetry and calligraphy, and fishing.
• Li Hao used his Spacetime Dao and other laws to probe the false realm’s boundary, then pierced it and comprehended the Boundless fishing state of mind.
• Li Hao’s fishing line reached the Abyss and touched its Great Emperor barrier, but the Immortal Emperor warned him that breaking through would endanger the Abyss, so Li Hao withdrew the line.

Li Hao stabilized four world hearts, broke through to the fourth level of the Immortal King Realm, and discovered that embedding another state of mind could create a fifth world heart. He left the All Heavens Tower when the five hearts spiraled out of control, while the Eastern Region prepared for an all-out Ancient Demon assault.

• Li Hao used the boundless fishing state of mind to condense a fourth world heart and temporarily stabilized it with the other three by treating it as a kite string.
• Li Hao entered the All Heavens Tower’s sixtieth floor, killed three seventh-level Ancient Demons, and embedded the new world heart into the Body Movement Dao.
• In the Eastern Region, leaders in Ancestor Dragon City learned that the Ancient Demon clans were preparing a decisive attack and discussed holding the defense line and seizing a Reincarnation Fragment.
• After ten years of contemplation, Li Hao formed four layers of world domains and advanced to the fourth level of the Immortal King Realm.
• Li Hao embedded the Creation engraving of fate realm into the Path of the Physical Body, creating a fifth world heart that threw the others into chaos; he detonated himself to leave the tower, but the hearts still ran wild, forcing him to return.

Li Hao repeatedly used the All Heavens Tower to make his five World Hearts coexist, then studied Dao books in the Myriad Books Pavilion while developing Poetry and Literature and Cooking. Five hundred years passed as he prepared for the True King Selection and the looming conflict in the Eastern Region.

• Li Hao endured countless failures in the All Heavens Tower before balancing his five World Hearts and completing their coexistence.
• Observers mistook Li Hao’s repeated attempts at the sixtieth floor for a loss of potential, but Shi Miao recognized that he had broken through.
• Li Hao told the Immortal Emperor that he wanted to study varied Dao books, and the Immortal Emperor sent him to the Myriad Books Pavilion.
• Li Hao mastered the Ninefold Mystic Bird Movement Technique after one transmission, astonishing the Pavilion’s sentient Dao books.
• The Immortal Emperor permitted Li Hao to cook in the Pavilion, where he studied Dao books and cooked Ancient Demons to build his skills.
• Five hundred years passed after Li Hao entered the Abyss.

Li Hao broke through to the thirteenth stage of the Path of Cooking and created a Myriad Dao Lotus before leaving the Myriad Books Pavilion. The Immortal Emperor told him the Eastern Region was near collapse and urged him to focus on the coming True King Competition and cultivation.

• Li Hao's breakthrough produced black Primordial Beginning Divine Fire that refined the myriad laws into a Myriad Dao Lotus, and the secret scriptures recognized it as the legendary Primordial Beginning Divine Fire.
• Li Hao ate part of the lotus, discovered its power to improve comprehension of all Dao laws, and decided to leave the Myriad Books Pavilion after five hundred years in seclusion.
• Li Hao thanked the Pavilion Master and the secret scriptures, then met the Immortal Emperor, who noted that Li Hao had reached only the fifth level of the Immortal King realm.
• The Immortal Emperor revealed that Ancestor Dragon City had fallen, the Eastern Region's last defense was near collapse, and the Five Ancient Demon Clans had twelve Great Emperors, while Li Hao's master was fighting three of them.
• Li Hao worried about Long Qingge but accepted that he was too weak to join the battle, and he headed to the All-Heavens Palace for the True King Competition.

Li Hao embedded the Myriad Phenomena Poetic Heart into his Imperial Dao, reached the ninth dan, and stabilized six world hearts in a six-pointed star formation inside the All Heavens Tower. Outside, the Immortal Emperor announced the True King competition and warned the candidates that the Eastern Region was near collapse, leaving them with only a few hundred years to prepare.

• Li Hao entered the All Heavens Tower, swiftly killed six seventh-level Immortal King Ancient Demons, and focused on advancing his Daos and world domains.
• Li Hao embedded the Myriad Phenomena Poetic Heart into his Imperial Dao, gained insight into the Great Dao, reached the ninth dan, and formed a sixth world heart.
• Li Hao arranged his six world hearts into intersecting triangles, stabilized them as a six-pointed star, and celebrated his success.
• The Immortal Emperor and the Star Empress announced the True King competition, revealed the Eastern Region was about to fall, and urged the candidates to cultivate rather than rush to their deaths.
• The Immortal Emperor declared that the candidates had at most three hundred years and offered Quasi-Emperor Weapons to the top ten in a ten-year preliminary selection.
• Di Mingyuan dismissed the preliminary competition and returned to cultivating his Sovereign Domain, while Dao Qingyin and other Immortal Kings headed for the tower.

Dragon Ancestor faced two Mirror Demon Emperor Venerables in a separate realm while the Eastern Region’s defenders braced against the Ancient Demons. After the True King Competition’s preliminary results were announced, Li Hao struggled to stabilize seven world hearts as he attempted to open his own emperor path.

• Dragon Ancestor transformed into his million-mile Primal Progenitor Dragon form and entered a separate realm to fight two Mirror Demon Emperor Venerables.
• Two Emperor Venerables of the Primordial Beginning Clan appeared to support the Eastern Region as the remaining Ancient Demon clans considered their next move.
• Di Mingyuan remained first in the All Heavens Tower preliminary rankings, while Divine Venerable planned to reveal his strength after further cultivation.
• Shi Miao resolved to pursue her Eternal Time Emperor Path so she could help Haotian during the coming calamity.
• Immortal Emperor announced the preliminary assessments, and Luo Ningshuang and Su Wanyi decided to cultivate toward qualifying as True King deputies.
• Li Hao struggled to keep seven world hearts from devouring one another as he attempted the final step toward opening an emperor path.

As the Ancient Demons overwhelmed the Eastern Region, the Immortal Emperor and Star Empress watched preparations for the wider cataclysm while Li Hao struggled to make his seventh World Heart coexist with the others. The Ancestor Dragon Court fell, but eight Eastern Region survivors carrying their kindling reached the Chaos Immortal Emperor’s refuge as he drove off their pursuers.

• The Immortal Emperor and Star Empress discussed the Eastern Region’s failing defenses, the clans’ preparations, and Li Hao’s prolonged attempt to open the way to Emperor Dao.
• Li Hao continued testing methods to make his seventh World Heart coexist with the other six, fearing he would remain trapped in the All Heavens Tower when the war began.
• The Demonic Tide reached the Ancestor Dragon Court, where the Poison Erosion Clan Emperor Venerable attacked its emperor-level array.
• Saint Clan elders discussed the True King selection and their Saint Child’s chances, while Zhan Qinghuang celebrated her younger brother Zhan Wudao’s sixth-place ranking and praised Li Hao to Battle Heaven Clan elders.
• The Ancient Demons occupied the Ancestor Dragon Court and destroyed its array, bringing the Eastern Region under their control.
• Eight Quasi-Emperor survivors fled with the Eastern Region’s kindling, entered the Chaos Immortal Emperor’s vortex for shelter, and escaped their pursuers when his power struck them back.

After the Ancient Demons conquered the Eastern Region, the Chaos Immortal Emperor sheltered its surviving Seeds while the Immortal Emperors agreed to assemble a Myriad Races Allied Army and screen the True Kings in a hundred years. In the Abyss, Li Hao and the other contenders learned they had only a final century to prepare for the coming campaign.

• The Chaos Immortal Emperor drove off the Ancient Demon Quasi-Emperors, but the Ancient Demon Emperor Venerable ordered them to return and slaughter the Eastern Region.
• Eight Quasi-Emperors brought the Eastern Region’s Seed Domains to the Chaos Immortal Emperor for protection, and Long Qingge reunited with Zhan Qinghuang and learned that Li Hao had been sent to cultivate in the abyss.
• The Emperor Venerables agreed to assemble the Myriad Races Allied Army in a hundred years, screen the True Kings, and divide the forces into ten armies, with the Primal Land forming its own army.
• The Immortal Immortal Emperor announced across the Abyss that the Eastern Region had fallen and the True King screening would begin in a hundred years.
• Li Hao worried that he could not stabilize his final World Heart in time, while Shi Miao and Di Mingyuan prepared for the looming contest.

As the Ancient Demon Ten Clans launched a full-scale war across the regions, the myriad races struggled to hold their defenses while waiting for the True King Selection. After a hundred years, the Star Empress summoned the candidates, and Li Hao emerged from cultivation having barely fused the seven world hearts.

• Yan Mo Emperor and the allied demon leaders planned to exploit their rapid conquest of the Eastern Region and attack the other regions before they could prepare.
• Ancient Demon armies breached the Northern Region's defenses, and Su Zhenyuan urged the clans to hold the line until the True Kings were chosen.
• The Western Region formed an allied army, while the Southern Region's Immortal Dynasties suffered breaches and appealed to the Heavenly Palace for aid.
• Emperor Chu revealed that his shadowing guard was his long-lost Third Brother and sent his avatar to seek reinforcements from the Supreme.
• The emperors kept the hundred-year selection deadline as the regions endured decades of fighting and mounting losses.
• The Star Empress awakened the candidates for the True King Selection, and Li Hao recalled that he had fused the seven world hearts thirty years earlier.

The True King Selection began, requiring contestants to rank among the top hundred in the All Heavens Tower before facing four further trials. Li Hao raced through the floors and reached the Quasi-Emperor level, where he began testing whether his seven World Domains could combine to surpass the limits of the age.

• The Immortal Emperor announced that the preliminary challenge would last ten days, with the top hundred advancing to four trials judged by ten Emperor Venerables.
• Li Hao reunited with Shi Miao, who declared she would secure a True King quota, then entered the All Heavens Tower as the selection began.
• Li Hao swiftly cleared floors 65 through 99, defeating Ancient Demons whose strength rose to perfected Immortal King level.
• On floor 100, Li Hao faced a Quasi-Emperor Ancient Demon and overlapped his seven World Domains, producing the beginnings of a sovereign domain.

Li Hao fused his seven pseudo-World Hearts into a sovereign domain and annihilated a Quasi-Emperor ancient demon on the hundredth floor of the All Heavens Tower. He advanced through the floors while testing countless World Heart combinations, astonishing the Star Empress and the Immortal Emperor with how far he had taken the Emperor Path.

• Li Hao fused seven pseudo-World Hearts, creating a vast cosmic World Domain with the powers of space, time, chaos, and creation-destiny.
• His expanding domain annihilated a Quasi-Emperor ancient demon, and the Star Empress noticed the feat as the tower's power struggled to contain it.
• The All Heavens Tower asked Li Hao to proceed, and he realized his sovereign domain gave him quasi-emperor-grade combat strength.
• On the 101st floor, Li Hao tested different combinations of World Hearts against a stronger Quasi-Emperor ancient demon, finding that four fused hearts could overwhelm and erase it.
• Li Hao continued advancing as his changing domains impressed the Star Empress and the Immortal Emperor, who realized he had walked the Emperor Path to its end.