Chapter Summaries

After refining four Heavenly Demon Emperors, Gu Han reached the peak of the mid-stage Sacred Grade, while Black Tortoise Hall's experts fought the Outer Realm Evil Clan across the Great Thousand World. As Gu Han prepared to break through the Tripod-Asking Realm, Zi Yan's distressed bloodline signal alerted him to a grave crisis.

• Gu Han refined the four Heavenly Demon Emperors' origin Demon Souls, reached the peak of the mid-stage Sacred Grade, and strengthened the Eight Ancestors Glazed Heavenly Pagoda.
• Xiao Yan repelled the Flame Demon invasion of West Heaven Continent by turning the demons' flames against them and defeating their two Demon Emperors.
• Lin Dong fought the Strength and Shadow Demon clans, Ying Huanhuan sealed the Cold Nether Demon Emperor beneath the icefields, and Qing Yanjing slew Nether Grade Demon Emperors and arrayed Holy Abyss Continent.
• Xiao Yi Xian neutralized demonic poisons, Qing Lin assembled the Ten Thousand Serpent Army, and Xun'er, Cai Li, and Cai Li guarded the Ancient Heavenly Palace.
• After another year of cultivation, Gu Han sensed Zi Yan's distress through her Tai Xu Dragon Phoenix bloodline and began tracing the source of her crisis.

Gu Han discovered that demonic forces had trapped Zi Yan and other Divine Beasts on Wild Beast Continent, where Zi Yan was about to sacrifice herself to awaken the ancient Dragon Phoenix will. He broke through the Heaven-Shrouding Demonic Array and saved her, then turned his attention to the four Heavenly Demon Emperors and their formation.

• Gu Han used the Mystic Armor Heaven-Peering Technique to find Wild Beast Continent shrouded by a demonic array, where four high grade Heavenly Demon Emperors imprisoned Divine Beasts and their guardians.
• Gu Han saw Zi Yan badly wounded and trying to sacrifice herself to merge with the ancient Dragon Phoenix remnant will.
• The four Heavenly Demon Emperors discussed abducting the captives to provide bloodlines for the Beast God Demon Emperor.
• Gu Han crossed the distance to Wild Beast Continent and tore through the Heaven-Shrouding Demonic Array with Sword Qi.
• Gu Han suppressed Zi Yan's awakening, restoring her clarity, and she recognized him.
• Gu Han confronted the four Heavenly Demon Emperors and surveyed the formation binding the captives.

Gu Han fought five Heavenly Demon Emperors in the Divine Beast Sea and thwarted their plan to summon a Sacred Heavenly Demon Emperor. As the demon emperor’s powerful projection fully appeared and divine beast experts rushed to the scene, Gu Han prepared to face it while leaving the five enemies to the arriving reinforcements.

• Gu Han used the Black Tortoise Step and Immortal-Suppressing Seal to ambush and severely wound a concealed Heavenly Demon Emperor, then fought off three high grade Heavenly Demon Emperors without falling behind.
• The Phantom Shadow Heavenly Demon Emperor ordered the others to activate the Heaven-Shrouding Demonic Array and summon a Sacred Heavenly Demon Emperor’s will projection.
• Gu Han revealed the Eight Ancestors Glazed Heavenly Pagoda’s phantom and sent its eight pillars of light to seal the array and the forming vortex.
• True dragons, fenghuang, kunpeng, qilin, and other Divine Beast Sea powerhouses rushed toward the battle, trapping the Heavenly Demon Emperors between them and Gu Han.
• The Sacred Heavenly Demon Emperor’s projection fully solidified, radiating an aura beyond the peak of Sacred Grade, as Gu Han claimed it for himself and left the five Heavenly Demon Emperors to the incoming allies.

Gu Han fought and defeated the Sacred Heavenly Demon Emperor’s projection, then devoured it to gain dark origin power and advanced law comprehension. He emerged exhausted but steady, with new resources to aid his future breakthrough.

• The Sacred Heavenly Demon Emperor’s projection confronted Gu Han and vowed to keep him in the Demon Realm.
• Gu Han used the Eight Ancestors Glazed Heavenly Pagoda, the Black Tortoise Emperor Sword, and his Yin-Yang Dao to withstand the projection’s attacks.
• Gu Han wounded the projection with a powerful sword strike, shocking the Sacred Heavenly Demon Emperor.
• Gu Han restrained the projection and refined it with the pagoda and Black Tortoise immortal-suppressing Technique.
• Gu Han absorbed the projection’s dark origin power and law comprehension, then praised the Outer Realm Evil Clan as good people.

Gu Han took the five weakened Heavenly Demon Emperors after the Super Divine Beast Clan Chiefs agreed, then brought Zi Yan and Feng Qing'er back to the Black Tortoise Hall. There, he gathered Zi Yan, Feng Qing'er, Mu Qing Luan, Cai Li, and Cai Die to cultivate the Yin-Yang Lotus-Sitting Sutra with him before beginning secluded cultivation.

• Gu Han took the five suppressed Heavenly Demon Emperors into the Eight Ancestors Glazed Heavenly Pagoda after the Clan Chiefs gave him permission.
• Gu Han chose to take Zi Yan with him and promised to help her reach Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign in three to five years.
• Gu Han told the Phoenix King he would take Feng Qing'er and help her complete another transformation and enter the Heavenly Sovereign realm.
• At the Black Tortoise Hall, Gu Han summoned Zi Yan, Feng Qing'er, Mu Qing Luan, Cai Li, and Cai Die, and explained how the Yin-Yang Lotus-Sitting Sutra could benefit their cultivation.
• Gu Han arranged the five women at positions on the Dao platform according to their bloodlines and attributes, and prepared to cultivate with them toward a higher realm.

Gu Han cultivated with Zi Yan, Feng Qing’er, Mu Qing Luan, Cai Li, and Cai Die for three years, using the Yin-Yang Lotus-Sitting Sutra to strengthen their cultivation and souls. They all broke through, and Gu Han reached the Tripod-Asking Realm in soul cultivation, leaving him ready to face a Sacred Heavenly Demon Emperor.

• Gu Han linked his soul to the five women and guided them through a five-direction formation, joining their spiritual power through the Yin-Yang Lotus-Sitting Sutra.
• Gu Han refined the Qi Gathering Powder of five high grade Heavenly Demon Emperors while the six cultivated together for three years.
• Zi Yan reached the mid-stage of Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign, while Feng Qing’er and Mu Qing Luan reached the mid-stage and initial stage of Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign, respectively.
• Cai Li and Cai Die awakened the Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python Bloodline and broke through together to the initial stage of Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign.
• Gu Han stabilized his Sacred Grade late-stage cultivation, reached the Tripod-Asking Realm in soul cultivation, and gained the power to wield a trace of the world's power.

Gu Han sensed Luo God was in danger during the Heaven-Slaying Heavenly Demon Emperor’s attack on the West Heaven Continent and rushed to save her. After sheltering the injured Luo God, he faced the Emperor, who attacked first as their battle began.

• Gu Han sensed a hidden disturbance at the West Heaven Continent and used his soul mark to discover Luo God was fighting the Heaven-Slaying Heavenly Demon Emperor.
• The Heaven-Slaying Heavenly Demon Emperor struck at the weakened Luo God, but Gu Han arrived in time to block the attack with his sword.
• Gu Han transferred Black Tortoise origin power to stabilize Luo God’s injuries and placed her inside the Eight Ancestors Glazed Heavenly Pagoda to recover.
• Gu Han confronted the Heaven-Slaying Heavenly Demon Emperor and drew his strengthened Black Tortoise Emperor Sword.
• The Heaven-Slaying Heavenly Demon Emperor launched the first form of his Heaven-Slaying Nine Demon Blades, Space Severance, at Gu Han.

Gu Han defeated the Heaven-Slaying Heavenly Demon Emperor with a world-powered sword strike and sealed him inside the Eight Ancestors Glazed Heavenly Pagoda. He planned to use the West Heaven Continent as a base for a counteroffensive into the Demon Realm after helping Luo God recover.

• Gu Han countered the Heaven-Slaying Heavenly Demon Emperor’s blade arts with the Black Tortoise Sword Art as they fought hundreds of exchanges in chaotic space.
• The Heaven-Slaying Heavenly Demon Emperor unleashed Myriad Paths Severed, and Gu Han answered by joining with the True Martial Great Emperor Celestial Body and drawing on the power of the world.
• Gu Han’s Demon-Sweeping Slash broke the Heaven-Slaying Heavenly Demon Emperor’s natal blade, wounded him severely, and sent him flying.
• Gu Han activated the Eight Ancestors Glazed Heavenly Pagoda’s sealing formation and suppressed the Heaven-Slaying Heavenly Demon Emperor inside it.
• Gu Han sent orders to the Black Tortoise Hall, chose to launch a counteroffensive from the West Heaven Continent, and called for Luo God to wake so he could help her recover.

Gu Han refined Heaven-Slaying Heavenly Demon Emperor’s origin to heal Luo God and used the Yin-Yang Lotus-Sitting Sutra to cultivate with her. After a year, Luo God recovered to peak middle Sacred Grade and her Luo God Celestial Body transformed into the Eternal Heavenly River Celestial Body.

• Gu Han sealed the Eight Ancestors Glazed Heavenly Pagoda’s Origin Space and used the Black Tortoise Immortal-Suppressing Technique to refine Heaven-Slaying Heavenly Demon Emperor’s Demon Soul and demonic saber.
• Gu Han divided the refined power between himself and Luo God, then used the Yin-Yang Lotus-Sitting Sutra to merge their souls and restore her origin.
• Gu Han infused Luo God’s Celestial Body with a trace of shattered Primal Celestial Body origin, triggering its fundamental transformation.
• After a year of dual cultivation, Luo God’s cultivation rose to peak middle Sacred Grade as her body and soul fully recovered.
• Luo God awakened and discovered that her transformed Celestial Body had become the Eternal Heavenly River Celestial Body.

Gu Han left Luo God to guard the Black Tortoise Hall and launched a counterattack deep in the Demon Realm, where he confronted ten Heavenly Demon Emperors. As he prepared to fight, the Outer Realm Evil Clan sent nine powerful incarnations to the Holy Abyss battlefield, threatening to overturn the war.

• Luo God recovered her strength and agreed to remain behind to protect the Black Tortoise Hall while Gu Han entered the Demon Realm.
• Gu Han traveled to the Demon Realm to seize territory and resources for the Great Thousand World.
• On Tianyuan Continent, Gu Han attacked the God-Reversing Grand Array surrounding him and faced ten Heavenly Demon Emperors.
• The Outer Realm Evil Clan opened a rift above the Holy Abyss battlefield and sent the incarnations of its nine top Heavenly Demon Emperors.
• The Sacred Heavenly Demon Emperor revealed that Gu Han's actions had forced the Demon Realm to attack ahead of schedule.

Luo God appeared on the Great Thousand World's battlefield and confronted the Dark Heavenly Demon Emperor's incarnation while Gu Han remained trapped in the Demon Realm. Her transformed Eternal Heavenly River Celestial Body let her counter his darkness, and he realized she had to be killed.

• The Dark Heavenly Demon Emperor's incarnation prepared to attack Holy Abyss Continent while the other Heavenly Demon Emperor incarnations kept the Great Thousand World's strongest fighters occupied.
• The Sacred Heavenly Demon Emperor revealed that Gu Han was trapped by the Demon Realm's great array, deepening the defenders' despair.
• Luo God emerged from the void and challenged the Dark Heavenly Demon Emperor's incarnation, revealing that she had survived and joined the Black Tortoise Hall.
• Luo God summoned her transformed Eternal Heavenly River Celestial Body, which carried the aura of a Primal Celestial Body and suppressed the incarnation's darkness.
• The Dark Heavenly Demon Emperor's incarnation attacked with Darkness Devours Heaven and Earth, but Luo God met it with Heavenly River Sword Art—Eternal Flow and began purifying his demonic power.

Luo God defeated the Dark Heavenly Demon Emperor’s incarnation on the Sacred Abyss battlefield, while Gu Han reversed the God-Reversing Grand Array above Tianyuan Continent to prepare to devour the continent’s origin. The array began transforming into a Qiankun Spirit-Devouring Grand Array as the ten Heavenly Demon Emperors struggled to stop him.

• Luo God used her Eternal Heavenly River Celestial Body and swordsmanship to gain the upper hand against the Dark Heavenly Demon Emperor’s incarnation.
• Luo God unleashed Eternal Heavenly River and destroyed the incarnation, whose remnants were purified by her sword light.
• Gu Han learned of Luo God’s victory through the secret mark and prepared to turn the God-Reversing Grand Array against the ten Heavenly Demon Emperors.
• Gu Han summoned the True Martial Great Emperor Celestial Body and used his formation mastery to reverse the grand array.
• Gu Han’s efforts transformed the collapsing God-Reversing Grand Array into a Qiankun Spirit-Devouring Grand Array enveloping Tianyuan Continent.

Gu Han endured the Sacred Heavenly Demon Emperor’s devastating attack while devouring Tianyuan Continent into the Eight Ancestors Glazed Heavenly Pagoda, breaking through to the Tripod-Asking Realm in body and soul. After completing the devouring, he prepared to counterattack as the Sacred Heavenly Demon Emperor struck again.

• The Sacred Heavenly Demon Emperor descended in his true body and attacked Gu Han with the Sacred Demon Annihilation Palm.
• Gu Han used the Eight Ancestors Glazed Heavenly Pagoda, the Black Tortoise immortal-suppressing technique, and World Force to withstand the palm, suffering severe injuries.
• The Sacred Heavenly Demon Emperor’s attack helped Gu Han’s body break through to the Tripod-Asking Realm, joining his soul at that level.
• Gu Han unleashed the pagoda’s devouring power and absorbed the origin and laws of Tianyuan Continent, forming the initial framework of the future Underworld inside the pagoda.
• The Sacred Heavenly Demon Emperor prepared another attack, but Gu Han summoned the Black Tortoise Emperor Sword and invoked the Immortal Art, Black Tortoise Submerges into the Abyss.

Gu Han escaped the Sacred Heavenly Demon Emperor by using Black Tortoise Submerges into the Abyss, then reached the West Heaven Continent badly injured but on the verge of breaking through to a Tripod-Asking Realm physical body. After discovering the Ancient Mandala Flower Progenitor’s remains and inheritance within the Tianyuan Continent he had absorbed into the Eight Ancestors Glazed Heavenly Pagoda, he sent Mandala to claim them.

• Gu Han used Black Tortoise Submerges into the Abyss to escape the Sacred Heavenly Demon Emperor’s attack and emerged at the edge of the West Heaven Continent.
• Gu Han inspected his injuries and realized that enduring the Emperor’s strike had loosened the barrier to his physical body reaching the Tripod-Asking Realm.
• Gu Han examined the pagoda’s newly absorbed Tianyuan Continent and sensed a sealed space containing the Ancient Mandala Flower Progenitor’s remains and inheritance.
• Gu Han found Mandala at the Black Tortoise Hall and revealed that the Progenitor’s inheritance lay within the pagoda.
• Mandala entered the Eight Ancestors Glazed Heavenly Pagoda to accept the inheritance as Gu Han prepared to assist her.

Mandala entered the Ancient Mandala Flower Progenitor’s ruins and received its seed and inheritance, while Gu Han helped her refine the power and absorbed immense origins to break through. After both advanced dramatically, Gu Han began a dual-cultivation practice with Mandala to forge her Sacred Grade foundation.

• Mandala used her bloodline and essence blood to open the restriction and enter the sea of flowers where the Ancient Mandala Flower Progenitor’s remains rested.
• The Progenitor’s seed and golden leaf entered Mandala, giving her its origin, cultivation insights, and divine abilities.
• Gu Han arrived at the ruins and used the Yin-Yang Lotus-Sitting Sutra to help Mandala refine the Progenitor’s power while healing his own injuries.
• Gu Han refined the Sacred Heavenly Demon Emperor projection’s origin, five Heavenly Demon Emperors’ origins, and Tianyuan Continent’s world origin, breaking through to late Sacred Grade and reaching the early Tripod-Asking Realm in body and soul.
• Mandala rose to peak late Immortal Grade, completed the major stage of her Undying Golden Body, and condensed three incarnations through One Qi Transforms Three Purities.
• Gu Han sealed the ruins and began merging his and Mandala’s Great Daos to forge her Sacred Grade foundation.

Gu Han helped Mandala absorb her inheritance and strengthen her cultivation before setting out for Northern Wilderness Hill to meet the Undying Lord. He reached the Land of Ten Thousand Tombs and was admitted to the Undying Sky Tower, where he came face-to-face with its late Sacred Grade ruler.

• Gu Han guided Mandala through dual cultivation, helping her stabilize at the peak of the late Immortal Grade and refine her Undying Golden Body and three incarnations.
• Gu Han promised to take Mandala to the Mohe Ancient Clan to obtain the Eternal Undying Body once she had fully accepted her inheritance.
• After leaving the pagoda, Gu Han decided to seek the Immortal Heavenly Tomb's remains and traveled to Northern Wilderness Hill.
• Gu Han identified himself to the Tomb Keeper Clan guards and gave their commander a spiritual imprint to deliver to the Undying Lord.
• The commander brought Gu Han through the Land of Ten Thousand Tombs to the Undying Sky Tower, where Gu Han met the Undying Lord.

Gu Han learned from Undying Lord that the Sky Ranking and the Primal Celestial Bodies offered power at the cost of constraints, and that the Sacred Domain held the shattered origins of five bodies. He realized Mu Chen had borne those five shortcuts alone before Xiao Yan and Lin Dong later entered the Master Realm, and resolved that the Great Thousand World would ultimately be under his control.

• Gu Han greeted Undying Lord, who praised his late Sacred Grade cultivation and revealed that Gu Han was only the second person known to have entered the Tripod-Asking Realm.
• Undying Lord explained that Primal Celestial Bodies could help one advance but might bind those who relied on the Sky Ranking.
• Gu Han inferred that Mu Chen had used the five remaining Primal Celestial Bodies to reach the Master Realm before Xiao Yan and Lin Dong advanced with ease.
• Undying Lord said the Outer Realm Evil Clan's invasion had shattered five Primal Celestial Bodies and weakened the Great Thousand World and the Sky Ranking.
• Undying Lord revealed that late Sacred Grade Heavenly Sovereigns and peak Heavenly Demon Emperors entered the Sacred Domain to seek shattered origins, but none had returned.
• Gu Han identified the Sacred Domain as the place Qing Yanjing's father had entered and concluded that Xiao Yan's Burning Art could reunite the Primal Celestial Bodies.

Gu Han received the Undying Lord’s mark for Mandala to claim the Eternal Undying Body and used his Black Tortoise Immortal-Suppressing Technique to heal the Undying Lord’s injuries. The Undying Lord gave Gu Han another mark that revealed possible locations of Immortal Heavenly Tomb fragments, and Gu Han set out to find the first one.

• Gu Han asked the Undying Lord for a mark that would let Mandala undergo the Eternal Undying Body’s test without obstruction from the Mohe Ancient Clan, and the Undying Lord gave him one.
• Gu Han offered to treat the Undying Lord’s injuries caused by years of resisting the Heavenly Evil God’s demonic energy.
• Gu Han spent three months healing the Undying Lord, clearing more than half of his hidden injuries and purifying most of the demonic energy.
• The Undying Lord learned that Gu Han had fused Immortal Heavenly Tomb fragments into the Eight Ancestors Glazed Heavenly Pagoda and gave him a mark pointing to possible fragment locations.
• Gu Han decided to search for the fragments while Mandala remained in seclusion, beginning with the Dead Silence Plane at the northwestern edge.

Gu Han searched the Great Thousand World for immortal Heavenly Tomb fragments, growing stronger while resisting the world's suppression of his cultivation. He entered the Demon Realm to break through without relying on a Primal Celestial Body, and shattered the barrier into the Tripod-Asking Realm in the Sacred Burial Abyss.

• Gu Han found a tombstone fragment in the Dead Silence Plane and drew it, along with related Dao essence and law fragments, into the Eight Ancestors Glazed Heavenly Pagoda.
• Over two years, Gu Han searched for fragments, raided planes controlled by the Demon Realm, fought Evil Clan experts, and rose to the peak of Sacred Grade Heavenly Sovereign.
• Gu Han realized the Great Thousand World's laws were suppressing his attempt to enter the Tripod-Asking Realm and refused to use a Primal Celestial Body to break through.
• Gu Han traveled to the Demon Realm and chose the Sacred Burial Abyss, where weakened suppression and a dangerous environment could conceal his breakthrough.
• Gu Han refined Heavenly Demon Emperor origin Golden Lotuses and demonic materials, then broke through the barrier between Sacred Grade and the Tripod-Asking Realm.

Gu Han sent his divine-soul incarnation to Black Tortoise Hall after Mandala completed her cultivation, then led her to the Mohe Ancient Clan to undergo the Eternal Undying Body trial. Facing the clan chief, Gu Han argued that the Mohe Ancient Clan was only its guardian, not its owner.

• Mandala awakened after fusing the ancient Mandala progenitor’s inheritance, reaching the peak of the late Immortal Grade and completing her Undying Golden Body.
• Gu Han sent his divine-soul incarnation to Black Tortoise Hall and told Mandala to prepare to claim the Eternal Undying Body.
• Gu Han and Mandala arrived above the Mohe Ancient Clan with the Heavenly Palace and South Heavenly Gate manifesting behind them, alarming the clan and the people of Mohe Continent.
• Mohe Qian confronted Gu Han, who declared that Mandala had come to undergo the Eternal Undying Body trial.
• Gu Han presented the mark from the Undying Lord and rejected Mohe Qian’s claim that the Eternal Undying Body belonged to the Mohe Ancient Clan, arguing that the clan had only been entrusted with its safekeeping.