Vol. 5The Human Realm Ascendant

Shi Yi unified the Eight Regions under Human Law, founded the Human Realm, and led an alliance that destroyed the Immortal Hall. The victors divided its wealth, and Shi Yi secured the Bronze Immortal Palace while gaining influence across more than half the Nine Heavens Ten Earths.

  • Willow Deity refined the Eight Regions into Shi Yi’s Small World, and Shi Yi established Human Law while helping the Golden-Haired Woman create a new sun.
  • Shi Hao’s campaign in the Flood Domain turned brutal after negotiations failed, leaving Shi Yi and Qin Yining to debate the costs and reach of conquest.
  • Shi Hao brought the Flood Domain and other regions under the Yan Huang Empire, while Shi Yi gathered treasures and advanced his plan to transform the Eight Regions.
  • The Heaven Domain weighed submission against departure for the Upper Realm as Shi Yi and Shi Hao sought to bring its people into the empire.
  • Shi Hao conquered the First Heavenly Region, and Shi Yi founded the Human Realm, appointing the God-Devil Wall’s ancient beings as gods and establishing Faith Merit.
  • Shi Yi restored part of Azure Moon True Immortal’s soul, advanced his cultivation, and became lovers and Dao Companions with Moon Chan.
  • Shi Yi assembled the Eight Regions and allied factions to attack the Immortal Hall, and the coalition defeated the Remnant Immortal and its forces.
  • Shi Yi divided the Immortal Hall’s wealth among the victors and secured the Bronze Immortal Palace after the Double Pupil Woman identified him as the foretold figure.
Chapters 417–524 Read from ch. 417

Arc 17Human Law Across the Eight Regions

Shi Yi strengthened the Yan Huang Empire and prepared to unite the Eight Regions under Human Law, while the Golden-Haired Woman helped transform the Sun God Tree into a new sun. Shi Hao’s brutal campaign in the Flood Domain forced Shi Yi to confront the costs of conquest as he considered how to negotiate with the remaining regions.

  • The Original Gate appeared, and Willow Deity entered it after spending six days with Shi Yi, then confronted him in the Ten Celestial Passages Small World over his intimacy with her other form.
  • Willow Deity fed Shi Yi Eight Treasures Cake and refined the Eight Regions into his Small World, transforming his cultivation and allowing him to open a path between the Lower and Upper Realms.
  • Shi Yi punished the Tuoba Clan for eating people, established a fair system for investigating abuses, and began planning how to enforce Human Law beyond the Yan Huang Empire.
  • Shi Yi helped the Golden-Haired Woman perform a Heaven Worship Ceremony that turned the Sun God Tree into a new sun and changed the old sun into a moon.
  • After Shi Hao returned to the Lower Realm, Shi Yi appointed him Great General and sent him with a million soldiers and a million beasts to conquer the Flood Domain.
  • Shi Hao launched a massacre after negotiations failed, and Shi Yi struggled with Qin Yining over whether the violence was justified as a means of protecting humans and forcing the beasts to accept Human Law.
  • As news of the campaign spread, lifeforms in other regions considered seeking Shi Yi’s protection, while his followers found humans being kept as livestock and debated their rescue.
  • Shi Yi and Qin Yining discussed the dangers of conquering Heaven Domain and Earth Domain, and Qin Yining warned him that granting their clans autonomy could surrender too much control over the empire.
Chapters 417–442 Summaries Read

Arc 18Unifying the Eight Regions

Shi Yi and Shi Hao brought more regions into the Yan Huang Empire while Shi Yi gathered treasures and advanced his plan to replace the Eight Regions’ old order. The Heaven Domain remained the final holdout as its inhabitants weighed submission against leaving for the Upper Realm.

  • Shi Hao registered the Flood Domain survivors and peacefully incorporated the Sixth Cosmos Region, while Shi Yi learned that Yun Menglan’s beloved Kong Qiu Ji had become a dead egg.
  • Shi Hao accepted the Fifth Cosmos Region’s submission, then attacked the Fourth Yellow Region and defeated its six strongest ferocious creatures after surviving their assault.
  • Shi Yi and Shi Hao entered the Western Mausoleum Realm, traded for Lightning Fruits, recovered the Myriad Spirits Diagram and three precious bones, and fought a ten-day battle witnessed by three half-dead Immortal Kings.
  • The White Tiger Woman told Shi Yi that the Three Kings had died and their followers had turned against their descendants, after which Shi Hao pacified the Second Territory and she became Tiger King.
  • Shi Yi completed the Myriad Spirits Diagram and told Willow Deity he wanted to use it in his plan to transform the Eight Regions, while Yu Yuexian successfully ignited her Divine Fire under his protection.
  • Shi Yi and Qin Yining discussed unifying the Eight Regions, recruiting talent from every race, and the sects responsible for the Eight Regions Cataclysm, while Shi Yi refused to recall Shi Hao.
  • Shi Hao waited at the Heaven Domain as its residents considered their choices, and the Nine Spirits King’s clan and the Heavenly Human Race’s Upper Realm branch agreed to remain in the Lower Realm and become human.
Chapters 443–470 Summaries Read

Arc 19The Human Realm’s Founding

Shi Yi conquered the First Heavenly Region, gathered the God-Devil Wall’s ancient powers, and established the Human Realm with a new system of merit and divine authority. After opening the way for Shi Hao’s future journey and helping Azure Moon True Immortal recover, Shi Yi advanced his cultivation and grew closer to Moon Chan.

  • Shi Hao led the Yan Huang Empire’s million-strong army into the First Heavenly Region and conquered it, while Shi Yi negotiated with the imprisoned Dark Immortal Kings and arranged for them to serve as divine guardians.
  • Shi Yi defeated the God-Devil Wall’s Spiritual Wills, secured the recognition of its 108 ancient beings, and appointed them as gods during the Investiture of the Gods Ceremony.
  • Shi Yi declared the Eight Regions independent as the Human Realm, established Faith Merit as currency, and distributed merit to its people.
  • Shi Yi learned that Azure Moon True Immortal had been forced to self-seal after her path to becoming a king was severed, then used the Script of Salvation to restore part of her missing soul.
  • Shi Yi allowed Shi Hao to explore beyond the Eight Regions after the World's First Martial Arts Tournament, then pursued Daoism’s Golden Core Great Dao and reached the true Humanity Supreme Realm.
  • Shi Yi and Moon Chan became lovers and Dao Companions, while Moon Chan’s family recognized that she had fallen in love with him and that he had claimed both her and Qing Yi.
Chapters 471–496 Summaries Read

Arc 20The Fall of Immortal Hall

Shi Yi united the Eight Regions and the Nine Heavens Ten Earths’ factions to destroy the Immortal Hall and reshape the balance of power. The campaign ended with its territory and wealth divided among the victors, while the Bronze Immortal Palace was secured for Shi Yi.

  • Shi Yi arrived at the Heaven Mending Sect, reunited with Shi Hao, and began planning with the Five Elders to attack the Immortal Hall.
  • Shi Yi gathered allies, including the Heaven Intercepting Sect and the Witch, and called on the Eight Regions to fight for their dignity rather than rely on one hero.
  • Shi Yi appointed Kun Pengzi as a vanguard and sent the armies against Di Chong, who was defeated after Kun Pengzi exhausted his nine lives.
  • Shi Yi led a million Heavenly Soldiers and allied factions to the Immortal Hall, where the Remnant Immortal was surrounded and attacked by six True Immortals.
  • The allies uncovered the Remnant Immortal’s history with the Female Kun Peng, and the Heaven Intercepting Dao Female Immortal destroyed him after he begged to speak with her.
  • Shi Hao and Kun Pengzi led the assault as the Immortal Palace Supreme fell, and Shi Yi ordered the victors to spare weaker followers who repented.
  • The allied factions disputed ownership of the Bronze Immortal Palace until the Double Pupil Woman identified Shi Yi as the figure foretold by Patriarch Azure Moon, securing the palace for him.
  • Shi Yi divided the Immortal Hall’s wealth among the victorious factions and gained influence over more than half the Nine Heavens Ten Earths.
Chapters 497–524 Summaries Read
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