Chapter Summaries

Gu Han and his allies forced the Mohe Ancient Clan to let Mandala face the Immortal Great Emperor’s trials for the Eternal Undying Body. Mandala passed, became a Sacred Grade Heavenly Sovereign, and Gu Han suspected the Sky Ranking was acting urgently under the Heavenly Evil God’s influence.

• Gu Han declared that the Eternal Undying Body belonged to the Great Thousand World and presented the Immortal Great Emperor’s mark as proof.
• Qing Yanjing, Ying Huanhuan, and their allies backed Gu Han, and Mohe Qian agreed to let Mandala enter the Tower of Immortality.
• Gu Han explained the tower’s three trials, and Mandala entered as the Mohe Ancient Clan watched.
• The tower’s light grew stronger before the Eternal Undying Body manifested, and Mandala emerged having gained its recognition.
• Mandala’s cultivation rose to the Sacred Grade Heavenly Sovereign realm, while Gu Han suspected the Sky Ranking had been influenced by the Heavenly Evil God.

Mandala claimed the Eternal Undying Body, but Mohe Qian invoked a supposed ancestral trial to keep her in the Mohe Ancient Clan. Gu Han allowed a fair fight to settle the dispute, and Mandala left the Mohe elders defeated with a single strike.

• Mandala stored the Tower of Immortality after the Eternal Undying Body acknowledged her, and Gu Han prepared to leave with her.
• Mohe Qian claimed Mandala had to pass the Mohe Ancient Clan's Guardian Trial before taking the Celestial Body, while Qing Yanjing and Ying Huanhuan challenged his demand.
• Gu Han used the Mystic Armor Heaven-Peering Technique to learn the trial was meant for inheritors who lacked sufficient strength, then offered a fight to decide whether Mandala could leave.
• Qin Tian warned that the Great Thousand Palace would not protect the Mohe Ancient Clan if it continued to act unreasonably, and Mohe Qian agreed to send two elders against Mandala.
• Mandala fused with the Eternal Undying Body and used One Qi Transforms Three Purities to raise her strength to the peak of the mid-stage Sacred Grade.
• Mandala's Undying Sword Art defeated Mohe You and Mohe Ming with one strike, and she asked Mohe Qian whether he had anything further to say.

After Mandala defeated two Mohe Ancient Clan Elders and claimed the Eternal Undying Body, the Heavenly Court’s authority spread across the Great Thousand World. Meanwhile, Gu Han broke through to the Tripod-Asking Realm in the Sacred Burial Abyss, shaking the Demon Realm.

• Mandala overpowered two mid-stage Sacred Grade Elders, forcing Mohe Qian to yield the Eternal Undying Body to her.
• Gu Han led Mandala and the others away through the South Heavenly Gate, and news of the Heavenly Court’s victory spread throughout the Great Thousand World.
• Xiao Yan established the Endless Fire Domain and Lin Dong founded the Martial Realm; both declared allegiance to Gu Han and the Heavenly Court.
• The Heavenly Court appointed Luo God, Qing Yanjing, Ying Huanhuan, Mandala, Zi Yan, Cai Li, Cai Die, and Xun'er as its eight Empresses and named other women Imperial Consorts.
• After two years of refining power and fighting in the Sacred Burial Abyss, Gu Han broke through the peak of the Sacred Grade and reached the Tripod-Asking Realm, alarming the Demon Realm.

Gu Han fought the Sacred Heavenly Demon Emperor after breaking through to the initial Tripod-Asking Realm, ultimately forcing him to flee and claiming a portion of his domain and origin. The Great Thousand World celebrated Gu Han’s victory as the Demon Realm’s leaders withdrew in silence.

• The Sacred Heavenly Demon Emperor sensed Gu Han’s breakthrough in the Demon Realm and confronted him above the Sacred Burial Abyss.
• Gu Han and the Sacred Heavenly Demon Emperor moved to the void between the Great Thousand World and the Demon Realm, where experts from both sides gathered to watch.
• Gu Han and the Sacred Heavenly Demon Emperor exchanged attacks and battled for three days and three nights, with Gu Han gaining a slight advantage but failing to defeat him outright.
• Gu Han unleashed the Eight Ancestors Glazed Heavenly Pagoda and his Black Tortoise True Body, devouring part of the Sacred Heavenly Demon Emperor’s domain and origin.
• The Sacred Heavenly Demon Emperor burned part of his origin and escaped, while Gu Han’s allies celebrated his victory and the Demon Realm’s peak Demon Emperors withdrew.

Gu Han devastated the Demon Realm, relieved pressure on the Great Thousand World's border battlefields, and then followed a summons to the Sacred Domain, suspecting the Sky Ranking meant to trap him there. He left his plan to confront Heavenly Evil God for later, while Sacred Heavenly Demon Emperor prepared the Sacred Lotus Altar to revive Saint God.

• Gu Han ravaged the Demon Realm, plundering its resources, killing or wounding its Heavenly Demon Emperors, and freeing captives from the Great Thousand World.
• Sacred Heavenly Demon Emperor failed to trap Gu Han and ordered the Evil Clan to contract its defenses, abandon outer territories, and build the Sacred Lotus Altar.
• Gu Han crossed several border battlefields and crushed Evil Clan forces, easing the pressure on the Great Thousand World's armies.
• Gu Han deduced that the Sky Ranking had summoned him to the Sacred Domain to imprison or assimilate him, but chose to enter it and seek the shattered origins of the five Primal Celestial Bodies.
• Gu Han set aside his plan to refine Heavenly Evil God and followed the summons toward the Sacred Domain, while Sacred Heavenly Demon Emperor ordered construction of the altar to proceed.

Gu Han entered the Sacred Domain, where its laws suppressed his power, and killed a top-tier Heavenly Demon Emperor with the Black Tortoise immortal-suppressing technique and the True Martial Great Emperor Celestial Body. He recognized the Sky Ranking’s offered opportunities as bait but used them to plunder origin fragments, refining ten large fragments as his cultivation advanced toward the middle stage of the Tripod-Asking Realm.

• Gu Han entered the Sacred Domain and discovered that its laws heavily suppressed his strength and connection to the world.
• The Bloodthirsty Heavenly Demon Emperor attacked Gu Han, but Gu Han crushed its demonic claw with the Black Tortoise palm.
• Gu Han summoned the True Martial Great Emperor Celestial Body phantom and annihilated the Bloodthirsty Heavenly Demon Emperor.
• The Sky Ranking sent Gu Han a map of energy-rich locations, including a site containing a fragment of the Ancient Celestial Body, and he recognized the locations as traps meant to bind entrants to the Sacred Domain.
• Gu Han swept through the Sacred Domain, defeating guardians and refining origin fragments with the Eight Ancestors Glazed Heavenly Pagoda.
• Gu Han seized and refined the tenth large Great Thousand World origin fragment, strengthening his control of world power and advancing toward the middle stage of the Tripod-Asking Realm.

Gu Han defied the Sky Ranking’s attempts to suppress him and spent half a year refining twenty more Sacred Domain source fragments. He reached a Primal Celestial Body core guarded by four powerful experts, secured Budu Yuan’s help, and began fighting two top-tier Heavenly Demon Emperors for the core.

• The Sky Ranking cut off its guidance and mobilized the Sacred Domain’s laws against Gu Han, but he used the Black Tortoise Shell and Eight Ancestors Glazed Heavenly Pagoda to break through the suppression and hunt concealed sources.
• Over the next half year, Gu Han refined twenty more large source fragments, suppressed Outer Realm Evil Clan experts, and sealed Great Thousand World Heavenly Sovereigns inside his pagoda.
• Gu Han found a black-and-white planet containing more than half the core of a Primal Celestial Body, where two top-tier Heavenly Demon Emperors and two peak Sacred Grade Heavenly Sovereigns were locked in a standoff.
• Gu Han recognized Budu Yuan as Qing Yanjing’s father and proved his connection to her by communicating through the recovered Budu Ancestor; Budu Yuan agreed to hold back Heavenly Venerable Tai Ming.
• The Thousand-Eyed Demon Octopus Heavenly Demon Emperor and Shadow Heavenly Demon Emperor attacked Gu Han, who unleashed the power of his thirty refined source fragments and charged into battle.

Gu Han defeated the two Heavenly Demon Emperors, absorbed the core of a shattered Primal Celestial Body, and grew powerful enough to make the Sky Ranking open an exit for him. Before leaving the Sacred Domain, he sealed its four remaining Celestial Body core fragments as future sources of power, then ordered the gateway opened.

• Gu Han killed the Thousand-Eyed Demon Octopus Heavenly Demon Emperor with one punch and trapped the Shadow Heavenly Demon Emperor in the Eight Ancestors Glazed Heavenly Pagoda.
• Gu Han absorbed the Primal Celestial Body core and advanced to the middle stage of the Tripod-Asking Realm.
• Over the following years, Gu Han hunted powerful inhabitants of the Sacred Domain, refining Heavenly Demon Emperors and sealing Sacred Grade Heavenly Sovereigns in his pagoda.
• The Sky Ranking opened a gateway out of the Sacred Domain, but Gu Han continued searching for the four remaining Primal Celestial Body core fragments.
• Gu Han placed a Black Tortoise Spirit-Sealing Seal on each fragment so he could draw on their power later, then told the Sky Ranking to open the gate.

Gu Han returned to the Great Thousand World and began refining the sealed Heavenly Evil God beneath Northern Wilderness Hill, using the Great Thousand Demon-Transforming Formation and his Eight Ancestors Glazed Heavenly Pagoda. After foiling the Heavenly Evil God’s escape attempt and striking down the Demon Emperors who tried to intervene, Gu Han arrived at the Heart of Sacred Abyss, where the remaining Outer Realm Evil Clan forces guarded another route for their god’s return.

• Gu Han secretly reinforced the Great Thousand Demon-Transforming Formation with the Eight Ancestors Glazed Heavenly Pagoda and began refining the Heavenly Evil God with the Black Tortoise Immortal-Suppressing Technique.
• After years of being refined, the Heavenly Evil God realized he might be destroyed and prepared a final attempt to escape.
• The Sacred Heavenly Demon Emperor and the other Demon Emperors sacrificed their blood and power at the Sacred Lotus Altar to summon the Heavenly Evil God back.
• Gu Han anticipated the escape attempt, blocked the Heavenly Evil God’s breakthrough, and renewed his sealing and refinement.
• Gu Han struck the Sacred Heavenly Demon Emperor, Dark Heavenly Demon Emperor, and other advancing Demon Emperors through the spatial rift, then traveled to the Heart of Sacred Abyss.
• Gu Han confronted the remaining Outer Realm Evil Clan leaders and their elite army as they guarded the altar and the rift containing the Heavenly Evil God’s remaining will.

Gu Han destroyed the Demon Realm, transformed the Sacred Domain and the worlds into a new order, and reached the Control Realm before claiming the Sky Ranking as the Black Tortoise Emperor. After establishing the Heavenly Court, he led its followers toward the endless universe to seek new worlds and challenges.

• Gu Han crushed the evil clan army, fused the Sacred Domain into the Eight Ancestors Glazed Heavenly Pagoda, and transformed it into the Thirty-Three Heavens Exquisite Pagoda.
• Gu Han used the pagoda to devour the Heavenly Evil God's will and the collapsing Demon Realm, shaping the Nether Court and reorganizing the Great Thousand World and lower planes.
• After ninety-nine years refining the Heavenly Evil God's true body, Gu Han reached the Control Realm and claimed the Sky Ranking, which inscribed his name.
• Gu Han declared the new order, established the Heavenly Court, and was acclaimed as the Black Tortoise Emperor by the beings of the new world.
• Gu Han called on his empresses, ministers, and followers to join him in exploring and conquering the endless universe, and they pledged to follow him.