Chapter Summaries

Ming Dao and the Dark Night Young Emperor unleashed their strongest techniques in a fierce battle that devastated the surrounding space. Ming Dao shattered the Young Emperor’s treasure tower, but the four attackers closed in on him again.

• Ming Dao and the Dark Night Young Emperor clashed with lightning and darkness, leaving both injured.
• The Dark Night Young Emperor summoned three copies of himself and attacked Ming Dao from four directions with swords, palms, darkness, and a divine seal.
• Ming Dao countered with the Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Art and manifestations including a Primordial True Dragon, the Thunder Emperor, and ancient Great Emperors.
• The Dark Night Young Emperor’s Pagoda Tower broke through Ming Dao’s defenses and bore down on him.
• Ming Dao summoned a battle halberd and heavenly spear to shatter the tower, while his Merit Wheel blocked its fragments.
• Before Ming Dao could recover, the Dark Night Young Emperor’s four figures swept toward him.

Huan Yue, a ninth-ranked descendant of Chu Court, intervened when Ming Dao was badly wounded fighting the Dark Night Young Emperor. She overwhelmed him with the laws of Life and Death, but he unleashed his full darkness power, and the battle escalated into a clash of supreme attacks.

• Huan Yue arrived and learned that Ming Dao was fighting the Dark Night Young Emperor, then watched as both combatants suffered severe injuries.
• Ming Dao conceded the fight and called for Huan Yue, who told him to rest and stepped in against the Dark Night Young Emperor.
• Huan Yue struck the Dark Night Young Emperor with the laws of Life and Death, knocking him from the star river to the earth.
• The Dark Night Young Emperor unleashed his full power, covering the surrounding region in an eternal Night Curtain and attacking Huan Yue with his Darkness Divine Fist.
• Huan Yue invoked the Samsara Spear as the Dark Night Young Emperor's overwhelming punch advanced, and their ultimate attacks filled the battlefield with destructive power.

Huan Yue defeated the Dark Night Young Emperor, but his Dao Lord protector rescued him before she could kill him. Pu Xuan of the Buddhist Sect then arrived to test his Buddhist teachings against Huan Yue and Ming Dao, summoning a Bodhi Tree and launching three thousand swords.

• Huan Yue’s clash with the Dark Night Young Emperor ended with her overwhelming him and driving him into a bottomless crater.
• Huan Yue struck the gravely wounded Dark Night Young Emperor with her Life-and-Death Great Handprint, but his Dao Lord protector intervened and carried him away.
• Huan Yue declared that she could defeat the Dark Night Young Emperor again, while Ming Dao watched her power with solemn respect.
• Pu Xuan, a leading Immortal Emperor of the Buddhist Sect, arrived and said he had come to test his Buddhist teachings against Huan Yue and Ming Dao.
• Pu Xuan manifested a Bodhi Tree, from which three thousand swords gathered the power of Geng Metal and slashed through the void.

Huan Yue and Pu Xuan fought a fierce battle of laws, ending with Pu Xuan wounded and conceding. Huan Yue said the Eight Great Sacred Lands would endure and warned that the rankings’ top contenders were formidable; Pu Xuan privately acknowledged her victory and reflected on the killing intent between them.

• Huan Yue summoned the Sword of All Beings and clashed with Pu Xuan’s Buddhist powers.
• Pu Xuan used the Bodhi Tree, his kasaya, and a rain of swords to counter Huan Yue’s Heavenly Will Like a Blade.
• Huan Yue and Pu Xuan fought hundreds of rounds, shattering stars and shaking the world.
• Pu Xuan staggered with a deep wound and told Huan Yue she had won.
• Huan Yue said there was no true victor in a fight to the death and affirmed that the Eight Great Sacred Lands would exist for eternity.
• Pu Xuan privately accepted that Huan Yue had defeated him and considered how both had wanted to kill the other.

Xiao Ruoruo recognized Xiao Wei as the son of Xiao Xuan’s Divine Sense avatar and revealed the family’s connection to the creators of the Dao Palace, Immortal Village, and Other Shore. Xiao Xuan’s Main Body then appeared before him in the River of Time and Space and explained that he would not reclaim the avatar, leaving their relationship clarified.

• Xiao Ruoruo sensed that Xiao Wei was an Ultimate Saint-level powerhouse and recognized his close Xiao Clan bloodline.
• Xiao Ruoruo calculated Xiao Wei’s origins and told him that his father was an avatar of her elder brother, Xiao Xuan.
• Xiao Wei learned that one of his nephews created the Dao Palace and another created the Immortal Village, then sent the revelations to his father.
• Xiao Xuan traced the Cause and Effect to Wosang City and appeared as a phantom in the palace where his avatar resided.
• Xiao Xuan reassured the avatar that he would not take back his Divine Sense and explained how living beings’ experiences fed back to him as creator of the Other Shore.

Xiao Xuan revealed that he had secretly prepared a way to escape the control of his true self by splitting his Primordial Spirit and cultivating a hidden world inside the Chaos Pearl. Ten thousand years later, he was reborn as Liguang Dihao, and the chapter left him approaching his ostracized sister Liguang Yetan outside Morning Dew Palace.

• Xiao Xuan learned from his true self about evolving a world, then watched the phantom return to the Other Shore.
• Xiao Xuan recalled how he had refined the Chaos Pearl, split his Primordial Spirit, and hidden a small world within it to sever his Cause and Effect with his true self.
• The chapter recounted how the four realms’ leaders destroyed Eastern Hill and the Twin Blossoms to prevent a feared transformation.
• Ten thousand years later, Liguang Dihao was born to Emperor Tun, and five years later he reflected on his sisters and his secret cultivation.
• Liguang Dihao went to Morning Dew Palace and found Liguang Yetan kneeling alone as the palace attendants kept their distance; she brightened when she saw him.

Di Hao defied Emperor Tun’s order to visit Ye Tan, then secretly cultivated in the Return Ruins and built a network of capable young allies. Ten years later, he had grown stronger, his seven disciples had advanced, and he continued preparing for the future while his sisters neared adulthood.

• Di Hao dismissed the guards mistreating Ye Tan, then took her to Morning Dew Palace, where she released Momo and Qing Kui joined them for a feast.
• Emperor Tun scolded Di Hao for visiting Ye Tan and ordered him to study rulership, but Di Hao slipped out of the palace and entered the Return Ruins to temper his body with chaos energy.
• Di Hao recruited seven talented beggars, named them Dark One through Dark Seven, taught them cultivation methods, and arranged for them to study at the Human Realm Academy.
• Di Hao reviewed his Immortal Golden Body and Immortal Primordial Spirit arts, left a clone in the palace, and devoted himself to cultivation in the Return Ruins.
• Ten years later, Di Hao was fifteen, his Primordial Spirit had largely recovered, and his physical body had reached the first level of the Immortal Golden Body.
• Di Hao’s seven allies reached at least the Spirit Transformation stage; Dark Three became Qing Kui’s maid Yun Jin, Momo gained a trace of True Phoenix bloodline, and Di Hao sent Dark One, now called Chen Guang, into the Deep Abyss.

Di Hao reviewed Emperor Tun’s memorials while Ye Tan antagonized Shao Dian Youqin during his visit to deliver Qing Kui a birthday gift. Emperor Tun blamed Ye Tan for insulting the God Race and warned her not to ruin Qing Kui’s marriage alliance, but Ye Tan argued that ending the match would spare her sister hardship.

• Di Hao merged with his avatar and began handling memorials Emperor Tun had sent to test him.
• Shao Dian Youqin visited Ye Tan to deliver a birthday gift from the God Emperor and God Empress to Qing Kui.
• Ye Tan pretended to be Princess Qing Kui and insulted the God Race, comparing its members to a palace dog that bit people.
• Shao Dian Youqin left without accepting Emperor Tun’s invitation to Sunshine Palace for tea.
• Emperor Tun scolded Ye Tan for provoking Shao Dian Youqin and threatened to punish her if she ruined Qing Kui’s marriage alliance.
• Ye Tan defended her actions by saying Qing Kui would suffer if she married into a narrow-minded family, and Emperor Tun rebuked her for her conduct.

After Ye Tan was punished for her encounter with Di Lan Jue, Qing Kui secured her release, while Xuan Shang arranged to bring Qing Kui to the God Realm as the future Heavenly Consort. Xuan Shang later found Ye Tan awake with Di Hao and was left speechless by her teasing about his age.

• Qing Kui persuaded Emperor Tun to release Ye Tan from kneeling and confine her to the Morning Dew Palace for three months.
• Di Hao helped Ye Tan up and brought her food, while she scolded him for showing up to watch her trouble.
• Xuan Shang told the God Emperor that Qing Kui should be brought to the God Realm to prepare for her role as Heavenly Consort, and the God Emperor approved.
• Xuan Shang visited Ye Tan's palace at night and found her sitting on the roof with Di Hao.
• Ye Tan asked Xuan Shang how old he was, then compared his 2,700 years to a mortal's age and awkwardly tried to comfort him.

Ye Tan and Xuan Shang Divine Lord clashed over propriety before Liguang Dihao left to train in the Spacetime Tower. A year later, the God Race and demon race came to collect their brides, but an ambush sparked a battle, leaving Chao Feng wary that he would be blamed for the demon army’s defeat.

• Ye Tan applied bruise ointment to her leg while Xuan Shang Divine Lord scolded her for acting improperly, and Liguang Dihao left them alone.
• Liguang Dihao fought a near-Da Luo phantom on the first floor of the Spacetime Tower to strengthen his body.
• A year later, Xuan Shang Divine Lord and Lord Qingheng arrived with celestial soldiers to collect Qing Kui, while Wu Dai and Ding Yun arrived with demon soldiers to collect Ye Tan.
• As the two armies carried the princesses’ sedan chairs away from Liguang territory, arrows attacked the God Race, and Wu Dai led the demon soldiers into battle against Shao Dian Youqin.
• Ding Yun and Zhu Jiuyin planned to blame Chao Feng for a possible defeat, while Chao Feng explained the scheme to Gu Haichao and questioned what he should do.

Ye Tan discovered that Di Lan Jue had arranged her escape during the battle between the God and Devil Races, but she was stopped before she could reach him. After the princesses were exchanged, Ye Tan ended up in the God Realm, where Lord Xuan Shang ordered her to learn its laws and etiquette.

• Manman told Ye Tan that Di Lan Jue had started the conflict to help her escape, and Ye Tan set out to find him.
• Devil soldiers blocked Ye Tan as she left the sedan chair, while Di Lan Jue withdrew injured and the battle ended without a victor.
• Di Hao learned that Ye Tan and Qing Kui had left for the God and Devil Realms, then persuaded Emperor Tun to let him travel with Dongfang.
• Lord Xuan Shang brought Ye Tan to Heavenly Flower Court and showed her the enormous stone book of heavenly laws.
• Ye Tan tried to bargain for a return to the Liguang Clan, but Lord Xuan Shang left and ordered Lord Qingheng to supervise her studies.

After Ye Tan arrived in the Heaven Realm, she brought Manman and began causing trouble, prompting complaints from the immortals. Lord Xuan Shang found her feasting with Lord Qingheng and confronted him for failing to teach her the heavenly regulations.

• Ye Tan pulled Manman from her chest and announced that the two of them would find food together.
• Lord Xuan Shang reported to the Heavenly Emperor and God Empress that Princess Qing Kui had arrived and been settled in Heavenly Flower Court.
• South Pole Immortal Elder, Immortal Taiyi, and Lu Yu complained that Ye Tan had harmed their animals, stolen crane eggs and tea leaves, and cut down tea trees.
• Shaodian Xiaoyi ordered Lord Xuan Shang to restrain Ye Tan and give the immortals an explanation, while Lord Qingheng was found drinking with her.
• Lord Xuan Shang entered Heavenly Flower Court and saw Ye Tan, Lord Qingheng, and Manman preparing a meal with stolen ingredients, then berated Lord Qingheng for neglecting his instructions.

Ye Tan accidentally slaughtered and cooked Xuan Shang’s Kui Ox, so he punished her and Qingheng before she tried to flee Heavenly Flower Court. Half a year later, Liguang Dihao ascended as Human Emperor, but a disturbance in the Return Ruins interrupted the celebrations and sent him and the others into action.

• Ye Tan learned that the cow she had cooked was Xuan Shang’s Kui Ox, and Xuan Shang spared her but ordered her to memorize the Heavenly Rules while Qingheng had to copy them one thousand times.
• Ye Tan and Manman tried to escape Heavenly Flower Court but were stopped by the guards.
• Emperor Tun passed the throne to Crown Prince Liguang Dihao, who became the new Human Emperor.
• Envoys and allies from the God Realm, Beast Realm, and Demon Realm arrived to congratulate Dihao, who greeted Qingkui and Ye Tan after half a year apart.
• Black qi and violent winds revealed a disturbance in the Return Ruins, and Dihao ordered Dongfang to lead two thousand elites there while Ling Chen guarded the imperial palace.

Li King launched an assault on the God Realm while Shao Dian Youqin entered the Return Ruins to repair its seal, leaving the allied forces surrounded by the Deep Abyss army. Meanwhile, Deep Abyss princes attacked the God Realm, where Longevity Heavenly Venerable and Lin Changsheng fought to hold them back.

• Li King split the Deep Abyss army, sending Wu Dai, Ding Yun, and Chaofeng to attack the God Realm while he led troops to surround the Return Ruins Stone Forest.
• The God Emperor, Beast King, and Di Hao gathered with their forces as Shao Dian Youqin prepared to enter the Return Ruins, and the Divine Empress and Zi Wu tearfully bade him farewell.
• Ye Tan arrived to see Shao Dian Youqin off, but he entered the Return Ruins before she could reach him, and Di Hao caught her as she fell from the sky.
• Li King surrounded the allied forces and declared that he would destroy the God Race, while Di Hao tried to urge peace and the Beast King pulled him away.
• Wu Dai and Ding Yun drove the God Realm army back until Longevity Heavenly Venerable appeared, while Qing Heng, Erlang Shen, and others engaged Chaofeng and Gu Haichao.
• Lin Changsheng fought Wu Dai and Ding Yun evenly, revealing successive trump cards as the battle spread across the God Realm.

Lin Changsheng helped defeat the Deep Abyss invasion, while Shao Dian Youqin fell after driving the enemy back. Liguang Dihao created a new universe and returned to the Heavenly Court, where Emperor Tun and the others welcomed him back after a year away.

• Lin Changsheng captured Wu Dai, Ding Yun, and Taunting, then exchanged them with Li King for the God Realm’s captives.
• Shao Dian Youqin returned from repairing the Return Ruins and forced Li King’s army to retreat, but collapsed after the battle and later died.
• Ye Tan, Zi Wu, Di Lan Jue, Qingheng, and others began seeking Shao Dian Youqin’s three divine-consciousness fragments to revive Xuan Shang.
• Liguang Dihao opened a vast new universe and created the mortal world, Immortal Domain, and Supreme Heaven Realm.
• Liguang Dihao entered the ninth level of the Spacetime Tower to cultivate, then returned to find Emperor Tun and his subjects had welcomed him back.

Di Hao revived Manman as a True Phoenix and revealed evidence of Shaodian Xiaoyi’s crimes against the Dongqiu Clan. He explained the greater cosmos and the Savior Twin Flowers’ role in sealing the Return Ruins, then restored Ye Tan and Qing Kui’s powers so they could protect themselves.

• Di Hao used True Phoenix blood to revive Manman, who worried about Ye Tan and Qing Kui’s safety.
• Xuan Shang, Qingheng, and Zi Wu arrived, and Di Hao showed them visions of the Dongqiu Clan’s destruction and Shaodian Xiaoyi’s secret actions.
• Hu Sui vowed to avenge her family, while Xuan Shang tried to seize Di Hao and found himself unable to approach him.
• Di Hao revealed his strength and explained the worlds beyond their realm, the Return Ruins, and the Savior Twin Flowers’ power to seal it.
• Di Hao removed the restrictions on Ye Tan and Qing Kui, restoring their magic power and giving them cultivation techniques.

Di Hao rescued Yetan and Qingkui from the Return Ruins, sealed it, and left the Four Realms to cultivate a new world in the Sky Firmament Star System. Tens of thousands of years later, six powerful outsiders broke through the seal and descended into that world, leaving its inhabitants facing an overwhelming threat.

• Di Hao arrived at the Return Ruins and learned from Manman that Su Zhi had sent Yetan and Qingkui inside, where Xuan Shang had gone to rescue them.
• Di Hao pulled Xuan Shang, Yetan, and Qingkui from the turbulent currents, then sealed the Return Ruins after explaining the dangers and limits of their world.
• Yetan, Qingkui, Xuan Shang, and Mockery gave up power to roam the Four Realms, while Di Lan Jue and Zi Wu held their wedding and Di Hao left the world.
• Di Hao traveled through the Sky Firmament Star System, merged with the Heavenly Dao, and spread cultivation methods across its newly created realms.
• Tens of thousands of years passed as Yetan, Qingkui, Xuan Shang, Mockery, and Manman advanced in cultivation and the old world continued to change.
• Six powerful outsiders broke through the Return Ruins seal, and the inhabitants feared they could not resist them without Liguang Ming.

Six outsiders plundered the sealed world, then shattered the Return Ruins seal and unleashed a vastly larger realm. Over hundreds of millions of years, Liguang Dihao established the Heavenly Court and its hierarchy, while the people drawn into the Other Shore rose to power without finding him.

• The six outsiders overwhelmed Shao Dian Youqin and his companions, then plundered the Imperial Palace, Beast King Hall, Demon Venerable Hall, and God Realm.
• Liguang Dihao stayed in seclusion but protected people connected to him through Cause and Effect with wisps of divine thought.
• The outsiders destroyed the Return Ruins seal, transforming the world as it merged into a vast realm filled with countless races.
• Qing Kui, Ye Tan, Manman, Xuan Shang, and others survived the new realm's dangers and entered the Immortal Dao Domain, but found no trace of Liguang Dihao.
• Over hundreds of millions of years, Liguang Dihao organized the Heavenly Court, appointed its rulers and officials, and filled its ranks with powerful cultivators.

After recovering in the Spacetime Tower, Liguang Dihao summoned his old companions to the Heavenly Court and restored the souls of those who had died. He appointed Qingkui and Yetan as princesses and assigned the others roles in the court, then left Ziwei to arrange their accommodation.

• Liguang Dihao recovered his cultivation and sent edicts to Taibai Jinxing and the Eastern Peak Emperor.
• Taibai Jinxing found Qingkui and Yetan on the Star of the Kings and told them to prepare to return to the Heavenly Court with their families.
• Qin Guang King brought the ghost cultivators Di Lan Jue, Zi Wu, and Qingheng before Liguang Dihao, who restored their bodies and brought them back to life.
• Taibai Jinxing brought Qingkui, Yetan, Mockery, Xuan Shang, Manman, and their companions to the Soaring Firmament Palace, where they recognized Liguang Dihao as Haohao.
• Liguang Dihao appointed Qingkui and Yetan princesses, assigned justice and law-enforcement roles to their companions, and asked Ziwei to arrange matters for them.

The Demon Ancestor led the Demon Clan in an invasion of the Heavenly Court, prompting the Lord of Heaven to confront him at the Southern Heavenly Gate. Their clash began as the Heavenly Court’s forces watched, including Liguang Yetan and Liguang Qingkui.

• Ziwei sent the newcomers to their posts, then returned to the Ziwei Emperor's Residence to cultivate in seclusion as the Heavenly Court's officials and divine beasts rose in power.
• The Demon Ancestor gathered Quasi-Saints and Immortal Emperors and declared his intention to overthrow the Heavenly Emperor.
• The Lord of the Human Realm and the other realm rulers considered the Demon Ancestor a chance to test the Heavenly Emperor, while Fengdu refused to intervene and Liguang Yetan returned to cultivation.
• The Demon Clan invaded the Heavenly Court and reached the Southern Heavenly Gate, where the Lord of Heaven assembled the Heavenly Court's powerful figures to face them.
• The Demon Ancestor challenged the Heavenly Emperor, and the Lord of Heaven confronted him with Boundless Yin-Yang and Yin-Yang Slash.
• The Demon Ancestor countered the Lord of Heaven's attacks with Demon Lord Rules the World and Immortal Demon Fist, and their collision sent fighters from both sides flying backward.