Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan agreed to join the Heavenly Mandate Daoist Academy and accepted Old Lu as a second master. When he arrived at the academy, An Ning greeted him at the gates.

• Xiao Yan initially refused Dao Wushuang's invitation, but Dao Wushuang and Old Lu explained the academy's fierce competition and the faction's harsh training culture.
• Heavenly Venerable Dao Ren encouraged Xiao Yan to join the academy, and Xiao Yan accepted Dao Wushuang's offer.
• Old Lu asked Xiao Yan to become his disciple, and Xiao Yan performed the ceremony after the Carefree Heavenly Venerable urged him to accept.
• Dao Wushuang revealed that Old Lu was a Young Heaven, then left after discussing matters with Heavenly Venerable Dao Ren.
• Heavenly Venerable Dao Ren warned Xiao Yan to treat Dao Wushuang's junior sister courteously, and Xiao Yan met An Ning at the academy gates.

An Ning warmly escorted Xiao Yan through the Heavenly Mandate Daoist Academy while Dao Wushuang and Old Lu discussed the pressures facing the Thirty-Three Heavens. Dao Wushuang revealed the coming Beyond-Realm Lands crisis to Nalan Lingxiao and Yang Qinghe, warning that even Young Heaven might die in battle if events went badly.

• An Ning dragged Xiao Yan into the Heavenly Mandate Daoist Academy and showed him its extraordinary cultivation grounds.
• Dao Wushuang and Old Lu helped disciples with their cultivation questions as they walked through the academy.
• Nalan Lingxiao and Yang Qinghe met Dao Wushuang and asked about the Ancient Devil Clan and Black Dragon Clan; Dao Wushuang said they had been spared for Senior Blood Emperor's sake.
• Dao Wushuang took Nalan Lingxiao and Yang Qinghe to the Wushuang Dao Realm and explained the threat of the Beyond-Realm Lands and its Forbidden Land.
• Dao Wushuang warned that a hidden force was manipulating the crisis and that, in the worst case, even Young Heaven might die in battle.

Dao Wushuang warned Nalan Lingxiao and Yang Qinghe that the Beyond-Realm Lands and the Forbidden Land threatened the Thirty-Three Heavens, and said a supreme expert needed to hold the fort. He revealed that his master, Infinite Heaven, was the strongest first generation being, but admitted that keeping him there would depend on his mood.

• Dao Wushuang and Old Lu explained that the coming conflict could be deadly and that the factions had little time to prepare, while Nalan Lingxiao and Yang Qinghe pledged to help defend the academy.
• Old Lu warned that outsiders might prevent the dead from being revived, and Dao Wushuang said their side needed a supreme expert to counter the enemy's moves.
• Dao Wushuang identified his master, the Venerable Lord, as Infinite Heaven, the first living being in the Thirty-Three Heavens and the strongest of the first generation.
• Dao Wushuang said he would try to persuade Infinite Heaven to stay and hold the fort, though his master's distinctive temperament made the outcome uncertain.

An Ning tried to take Xiao Yan out to learn from the various clans, but he refused because of the Jin Tian Immortal Clan’s standing. Dao Wushuang then revealed that a dangerous calamity was approaching and urged An Ning to return home, but she insisted on staying by his side.

• An Ning persuaded Xiao Yan to leave cultivation behind, but he refused her plan to visit other clans because it could offend the Jin Tian Immortal Clan.
• Dao Wushuang arrived and drew An Ning aside after Xiao Yan discreetly left.
• Dao Wushuang told An Ning that she should go home because a dangerous calamity was nearing and she might be caught up in it.
• Dao Wushuang restored part of An Ning’s memory, and she realized that a faction was about to make its move.
• An Ning refused to leave the Heavenly Mandate Daoist Academy, declaring that she would face the danger alongside Dao Wushuang.
• Dao Wushuang asked how he could explain it to An Ning’s father if anything happened to her.

An Ning refused Dao Wushuang’s attempts to send her away, while Dao Wushuang discovered that the Venerable Lord had vanished and feared he planned to leave the Thirty-Three Heavens. Dao Wushuang decided to use the Heaven's Mandate Ancient Tree and the Infinite Token to locate him, seeking a senior who could help bear the resulting karma.

• An Ning insisted she would stay and fight, and Dao Wushuang assured her that she would not forget the matter as its karma weakened.
• Dao Wushuang contacted the Venerable Lord but found that he had vanished and severed every means of tracing him.
• Dao Wushuang told Old Lu that the Venerable Lord’s disappearance likely meant he was preparing to leave the Thirty-Three Heavens despite the crisis.
• Dao Wushuang and Old Lu feared that the Mizu Ancestor and the Witch Ancestor would trap or devour the Venerable Lord if he went Beyond the Boundary.
• Dao Wushuang decided to use the Heaven's Mandate Ancient Tree and the Infinite Token to pinpoint the Venerable Lord, then headed to the First Heavenly Vault to bring back a senior who could help bear the karma.

Mysterious intruders attacked the Imperial Clan, killing Huang Yuchuan and capturing Huang Jing, Ancient Ancestor before vanishing. Similar assaults struck Haoyue Palace and the Origin Immortal Palace, leaving powerful figures dead or gravely wounded.

• Huang Yuchuan sensed outsiders entering the Imperial Heaven Secret Realm, and Huang Jing, Ancient Ancestor, found that they had appeared there and then departed into the Imperial Heaven Universe.
• Five intruders attacked Huang Yuchuan and Huang Jing, Ancient Ancestor; the tall, thin man killed Huang Yuchuan and crushed Huang Jing's body before sealing him in a bottle.
• The intruders vanished when the old man leading them ordered the group to leave, and the Ancient God Emperor arrived to find Huang Yuchuan dead and the ground covered in blood.
• Intruders gravely wounded Haoyue Celestial Venerable at Haoyue Palace, but Haoyue Progenitor emerged and forced them to flee without leaving a trace he could follow.
• At the Origin Immortal Palace, Ao Feng and Ao Kun were found dead, their foreheads pierced and their essence and souls extinguished.

Mysterious outsiders provoked several timelines while attacking and defeating prominent experts in the Imperial Heaven Universe. When the Imperial Clan's Grand Ancestor tried to stop them, the White-haired Old Man forced him back and threatened to destroy the Imperial Clan.

• The tall, thin man and the Flame Red-Dressed Woman mocked the timelines for suspecting one another, then began carrying out their mission to stir up conflict.
• The tall, thin man defeated Qianyue Rong, crushed his origin, and publicly challenged the Imperial Heaven Universe to produce a worthy opponent.
• The tall, thin man and other mysterious experts provoked the Haoyue Universe, the Origin Universe, and several other timelines.
• The Flame Red-Dressed Woman defeated an Ancient Ancestor and ridiculed the Imperial Heaven Universe's leaders as the tall, thin man continued taunting its inhabitants.
• The Imperial Clan's Grand Ancestor attacked the tall, thin man and the Flame Red-Dressed Woman, but the White-haired Old Man intercepted him and sent him flying back.
• The White-haired Old Man threatened to destroy the Imperial Clan if the Grand Ancestor interfered again, and the tall, thin man challenged fighters from nearby timelines to face him alone.

Mysterious experts attacked timelines and destroyed the outside clans of major powers, revealing that the Thirty-Three Heavens was their real target. The clans assembled a force of battle-tested geniuses to confront them as Dao Wushuang returned with a grave expression to attend to a more urgent matter.

• Mysterious experts crushed the Haoyue Universe and Origin Universe, humiliating their strongest fighters and provoking forces across both timelines.
• The attackers annihilated outside clans belonging to the Black Dragon Clan, Nalan Family, Yang Family, Yin Family, Dongfang Family, Giant God Clan, and Xumi Sacred Cult.
• The clans of the Thirty-Three Heavens recognized that the attacks were deliberate and began mobilizing against the mysterious experts.
• Dao Wushuang returned from the First Heavenly Domain but set aside the attacks because he had something more important to do.
• Experts from every realm assembled under Xiang Zimo, Shu Ziheng, Dongfang Fengyun, Gu Hanfei, Gu Hanyu, and other battle-tested geniuses to head for the timelines.
• Ao Hui resolved to prove himself to Tianming Wuji, while Ouyang Zehui declared that he would not show mercy this time.

Wu Rou, a mysterious Quasi-Immortal Emperor, defeated Dongfang Fengyun and Shu Ziheng with an uncanny method that neutralized their power. The Thirty-Three Heavens’ experts recognized that she had prepared a counter to their Dao, while Wu Rou challenged them to send the next fighter.

• The Haoyue Celestial Venerable brought the Thirty-Three Heavens’ experts to the Haoguang Continent, where Wu Rou waited to fight.
• Dongfang Fengyun challenged Wu Rou, but her strange power neutralized his attacks and she defeated him, taking his head and body as trophies.
• Shu Ziheng rushed into battle and was quickly defeated by Wu Rou in the same inexplicable way.
• Wu Rou mocked the Thirty-Three Heavens’ experts, and Ouyang Zehui warned them that she had mastered a method that countered their Dao.

Xiang Zimo fought Ma Gai after Wu Rou withdrew, but Ma Gai revealed a Dao that countered the Thirty-Three Heavens and explained that he came from another world beyond the boundary. The factions were left reeling as Ma Gai claimed his world had studied theirs and could defeat even their greatest young talents.

• Wu Rou said she had lost interest, left with Shu Ziheng, and was replaced by Ma Gai, who challenged the gathered experts.
• Xiang Zimo attacked Ma Gai with the Golden Sacred Spear and Solar and Lunar Bridge techniques, seemingly gaining the upper hand.
• Xiang Zimo reduced Ma Gai to ashes, but Ma Gai instantly revived and resumed fighting.
• Ma Gai unleashed a Dao that made Xiang Zimo's Dao and origin recoil, then told him that he and Wu Rou came from the Beyond-Realm Lands.
• Ma Gai revealed that the Thirty-Three Heavens were not the only world and claimed his people had studied their Daos and could defeat their Young Heavens with Quasi-Young Heaven experts.

Xiang Zimo fought Ma Gai, whose Dao-countering technique initially overwhelmed him, but turned the battle around with a surprise attack and sealed Ma Gai inside his Golden Sacred Spear. As Xiang Zimo prepared to leave, a hand reached from the Haoguang Continent to intervene, and Haoyue Celestial Venerable drove it back.

• Ma Gai claimed a Quasi-Young Heaven could crush a Young Heaven and challenged Xiang Zimo, who attacked him with the Golden Sacred Spear.
• Ma Gai used his countering method to destabilize Xiang Zimo's Dao and battered him, leaving the Thirty-Three Heavens' onlookers furious.
• Xiang Zimo used Taiyin Sun to create a second self, which stabbed Ma Gai with the Silver Spear while Ma Gai was distracted.
• Xiang Zimo merged with his double, unleashed his strongest attacks, and sealed Ma Gai inside the Golden Sacred Spear after reducing him to dust.
• A huge hand reached from the Haoguang Continent to rescue Ma Gai and seize Xiang Zimo, but Haoyue Celestial Venerable repelled it and rebuked the attackers for refusing to accept defeat.

After Xiang Zimo defeated Ma Gai at great cost, the Thirty-Three Heavens agreed to a three-on-three melee against the outsiders. Ouyang Zehui volunteered to face three opponents alone and stood against Lan Yao, Lan Jingxin, and Ma Quan, who claimed to know the Ancient Formation Clan well.

• Xiang Zimo returned to his side injured after defeating Ma Gai, who died when a restriction inside him activated.
• Ouyang Zehui warned that the outsiders would be harder to fight next time, and the two sides agreed to send three Immortal Emperors into a melee.
• Gu Hanyu and Nalan Haohuan volunteered, but Ouyang Zehui declared that he would face all three opponents alone.
• Haoyue Celestial Venerable chose to trust Ouyang Zehui, who walked out to meet the outsiders.
• Lan Yao, Lan Jingxin, and Ma Quan emerged to fight Ouyang Zehui, and Lan Yao said they knew how to counter the Ancient Formation Clan.
• Ouyang Zehui remained confident and challenged the three to prove their knowledge of his clan.

Ouyang Zehui’s Slaying Emperor Formation Runes seemed useless against Lan Xinjing’s green stones, leaving him to evade Lan Yao, Lan Xinjing, and Ma Quan. He revealed that the stones had a limited lifespan and overwhelmed them with countless formations, leaving the three shocked as the stones began to explode.

• Ouyang Zehui covered the battlefield with Slaying Emperor Formation Runes, but Lan Xinjing used a green stone to dissolve them.
• Lan Yao, Lan Xinjing, and Ma Quan attacked Ouyang Zehui while he repeatedly retreated and laid down more runes that Lan Xinjing’s stones destroyed.
• Lan Xinjing mocked Ouyang Zehui by crushing green stones, while Ao Hui urged him to retreat.
• Ouyang Zehui accused Lan Xinjing of hiding the stones’ limited lifespan and unleashed formations across the battlefield and over the three attackers.
• Lan Xinjing’s green stones exploded as she produced them, and Lan Yao, Lan Xinjing, and Ma Quan stared in shock at Ouyang Zehui’s countless formations.

Ouyang Zehui overwhelmed Lan Yao, Lan Xinjing, and Ma Quan with his formation mastery, despite their green stones and suppressive techniques. He defeated them with nine Green Bronze Cauldrons and ended the battle holding their soul fragments.

• Ouyang Zehui deployed Slaying Emperor Formation Runes faster than Lan Yao and the others could break them with green stones, astonishing the onlookers.
• Lan Yao used a suppressive technique to slow Ouyang Zehui, and Lan Xinjing and Ma Quan joined in, leaving him pale and unsteady.
• Lan Yao, Lan Xinjing, and Ma Quan rushed Ouyang Zehui, but the figure before them exploded as Ouyang Zehui revealed he had been playing with them.
• Ouyang Zehui merged with his Formation Runes to resist their suppression, then summoned nine Green Bronze Cauldrons made from one hundred billion Formation Runes each.
• The nine cauldrons crushed Lan Yao, Lan Xinjing, and Ma Quan, and Ouyang Zehui collected their three soul fragments.

After Ouyang Zehui defeated three Beyond-Realm Lands fighters, he warned that their battles might be a test and that their strongest experts could wield far more dangerous counteracting power. Huang Yuchuan then revealed he had survived through his true body and went to face the invaders, confident they had few worthy opponents.

• Lan Yao, Lan Xinjing, and Ma Quan burned away as their soul fragments activated restrictions Ouyang Zehui could not overcome.
• Ouyang Zehui told the others that the Beyond-Realm Lands were likely testing them and warned against underestimating the counteracting power of their top fighters.
• Ao Hui, Nalan Haohuan, Gu Hanyu, Gu Hanfei, Xiang Wushuang, Shu Jingming, and others volunteered to fight, while Haoyue Celestial Venerable considered the ancient clans’ authority over the decision.
• The Masked Man appeared and identified himself as Huang Yuchuan, explaining that only his Enlightenment Dao True Body had died and that the invasion had forced him out of seclusion.
• Huang Yuchuan headed toward the Haoguang Continent and declared that the Beyond-Realm Lands had few fighters worthy of facing him.

Huang Yuchuan challenged the Beyond-Realm Lands and crushed a series of opponents, including experts wielding countermeasures against the Imperial Clan. After overpowering even a Peak Quasi-Hegemon woman with a Binding Dragon Plate, he taunted the Beyond-Realm Lands for sending weak fighters.

• Huang Yuchuan announced that he would fight anyone at his cultivation level, and Nie Feihong charged him only to be blasted apart by one punch.
• A stronger Nie Clan expert attacked while a purple-haired man activated the Binding Dragon Plate, but Huang Yuchuan endured the blow, shattered the plate, and struck both men down with his Ascending Dragon Fist.
• Huang Yuchuan mocked the Beyond-Realm Lands after his victories, prompting its experts to send a woman at the Peak Quasi-Hegemon Level.
• The woman attacked Huang Yuchuan with blades formed from the Great Dao, but he drove her back and forced her to use a Binding Dragon Plate.
• Huang Yuchuan suppressed the woman and her Binding Dragon Plate, then asked whether the Beyond-Realm Lands had run out of stronger fighters.

Huang Yuchuan defeated the Beyond-Realm woman, prompting Ye Feng of the Ye Family to challenge him at the same cultivation realm. After Ye Feng revealed he was a quasi-young heaven, Huang Yuchuan sent him flying with a second strike and demanded he use his full strength.

• Huang Yuchuan overwhelmed the woman from Beyond the Boundary, and she withdrew from the fight.
• The White-haired Old Man approved Ye Feng as the next challenger after the Beyond-Realm group debated who should fight.
• Ye Feng approached Huang Yuchuan, suppressed his realm to Quasi-Hegemon Late Phase, and proposed fighting at equal cultivation.
• Ye Feng blocked Huang Yuchuan's opening punch and admitted he was a quasi-young heaven.
• Huang Yuchuan blasted Ye Feng away with his next attack and warned him to use his full strength.

Huang Yuchuan overwhelmed Ye Feng despite being a realm below him, then struck down Song Ying when she arrived to help. He left Ye Feng on his knees and demanded that the Beyond-Realm Lands send someone stronger.

• Huang Yuchuan repelled Ye Feng’s opening attack and declared that they should settle their feud through battle.
• Ye Feng fought Huang Yuchuan with his saber arts, but Huang Yuchuan tore through his attacks and gained the upper hand.
• Song Ying went to help Ye Feng after the White-haired Old Man warned that he was in danger.
• Ye Feng unleashed his full power and the Ye Clan Battle Art, but Huang Yuchuan’s imperial might suppressed him.
• Huang Yuchuan used the Rising Dragon Overlord Strike to crush Ye Feng, then pierced Song Ying with his Golden Dragon Spear as she arrived.
• Huang Yuchuan stood over the defeated Ye Feng and challenged the Beyond-Realm Lands to send someone stronger.

Huang Yuchuan defeated Ye Feng and forced the Beyond-Realm Lands to release their captives, but the Thirty-Three Heavens’ Progenitors prepared to attack them anyway. Just as the conflict escalated, an overwhelming figure appeared across every timeline, and Dao Wushuang recognized him as his Master.

• Huang Yuchuan defeated Ye Feng, then used Song Ying as leverage to demand that the Beyond-Realm Lands release all their captives.
• The tall, thin man refused Huang Yuchuan’s demand, so Huang Yuchuan pierced Song Ying’s head and warned that he was not negotiating.
• The White-haired Old Man agreed to release the captives, including Ancient Ancestor Huang Jing, Ao Kun, and Ao Feng, and Huang Yuchuan released Ye Feng and Song Ying.
• The Progenitors of the Origin Immortal Palace and the Imperial Clan, along with Gaishi and other powerful figures, confronted the Beyond-Realm Lands after the captives were freed.
• A tremendous power swept through the Thirty-Three Heavens and its timelines, and Dao Wushuang recognized the figure who appeared as his Master.

The Venerable Lord left the Thirty-Three Heavens through a passage to confront Mitian, despite Dao Wushuang’s attempts to stop him. He arrived at the Beyond the Boundary, where Mitian was waiting and greeted him as his elder brother.

• The Venerable Lord opened a passage through the realm barrier, and Dao Wushuang warned him that Mitian was waiting and that he would be in danger.
• The Venerable Lord ignored Dao Wushuang’s pleas and the Heaven Binding Lock, Heaven-Piercing Karma, and heavenly mandate, then vanished into the passage.
• The Beyond-Realm Lands powerhouses withdrew during the disruption, while the Thirty-Three Heavens’ Progenitors pondered the Venerable Lord’s power.
• Dao Wushuang returned to the Heavenly Mandate Daoist Academy in poor condition, and Old Lu and An Ning discussed the Venerable Lord’s departure and the need to protect the Thirty-Three Heavens.
• The Venerable Lord walked through the passage to the Beyond the Boundary, where Mitian turned to greet him as his elder brother.