Chapter Summaries

The Lord of Nothingness confronted Hua Yunfei over his meeting with the Cantian Sword Ancestor, while the Emperor Lord worried that his daughter Xia Qiuer had no chance with Hua Yunfei. Hua Yunfei and the Cantian Sword Ancestor went to a tavern together, where the Nether Lord and Gaishi secretly listened in.

• The Emperor Lord noticed the Lord of Nothingness watching Hua Yunfei and the Cantian Sword Ancestor, while the Nether Lord teased Gaishi about knowing an inside story.
• The Cantian Sword Ancestor agreed to Hua Yunfei's invitation for a drink, and the Emperor Lord departed while reflecting that Xia Qiuer had no future with him.
• The Lord of Nothingness accused Hua Yunfei of pursuing women and brought up his encounter with Duanmu Qingyue, then left without hearing his explanation.
• Hua Yunfei and the Cantian Sword Ancestor went to the Mandate Tavern, while the Nether Lord took Gaishi along.
• The Nether Lord and Gaishi sat behind Hua Yunfei and the Cantian Sword Ancestor and secretly listened to their conversation.

Hua Yunfei tried to reconnect with the Cantian Sword Ancestor, and they shared wine at the Mandate Tavern. Outside, Tianming Wuji and the Nether Son discussed the coming battle and hoped to face worthy opponents.

• Hua Yunfei offered the Cantian Sword Ancestor Attaining Dao, Eternal Life, but she revealed she already had an older bottle and recognized that he lacked most of his past memories.
• Hua Yunfei asked to get acquainted again, took the Cantian Sword Ancestor's hand, and persuaded her to stay for wine despite her attempts to keep her feelings guarded.
• Hua Yunfei served Ask the Heavens, which the Cantian Sword Ancestor admired and drank while he kept refilling her cup; the Nether Lord and Gaishi drank at the neighboring table.
• Tianming Wuji and the Nether Son entered the Mandate Tavern, found its atmosphere unsettling, and went outside to wait.
• Tianming Wuji and the Nether Son discussed the coming battle, agreed that only powerful opponents would make it enjoyable, and hoped the outside realm would have worthy experts.

Hua Yunfei, Nether Son, and Tianming Wuji discussed Dao Wushuang’s worsening temperament and speculated that inner pressure had allowed another personality to influence him. They considered trying to beat him back to his senses, but Hua Yunfei warned that Wushuang might have foreseen a future in which he or Hua Yunfei had to die.

• Hua Yunfei gave Cantian Sword Ancestor a bracelet of fine wine before she departed.
• Hua Yunfei, Nether Son, and Tianming Wuji left Holy City and agreed that Dao Wushuang had become hostile but had not yet lost control.
• Hua Yunfei speculated that Dao Wushuang’s pressure and a weak moment had let his current personality influence his original one.
• Nether Son proposed gathering allies to beat Dao Wushuang awake, but Hua Yunfei said only one person beating him could matter.
• Hua Yunfei said Dao Wushuang had repeatedly asked him to defeat or kill him, then asked Tianming Wuji and Kong Xuan which of them they would choose to die.

Nether Son, Tianming Wuji, and Hua Yunfei discussed the threat from the Beyond-Realm Lands and the limits of their ability to change Dao Wushuang’s fate. In the Blood Mist World, the Lord of Nothingness told the Woman in Red Dress that Hua Yunfei had other women around him, but she was delighted that he had finally found someone.

• Tianming Wuji and Hua Yunfei discussed the Beyond-Realm Lands’ ambition to surpass the Thirty-Three Heavens and the danger Tianming Wuji faced as a frontline fighter.
• Nether Lord explained that a war’s battlefield would be somewhere the invaders could advance and retreat freely, then warned the three men not to dwell on Dao Wushuang’s situation.
• The Lord of Nothingness visited the Woman in Red Dress in the Blood Mist World and told her that Hua Yunfei was doing well.
• The Lord of Nothingness criticized the Woman in Red Dress for loving Hua Yunfei and recounted the other women around him.
• The Woman in Red Dress happily concluded that Hua Yunfei had finally found someone and said she no longer needed to worry about him.

Woman in Red Dress told Lord of Nothingness that she accepted Hua Yunfei’s other partners and hoped to stand beside him with their help. Lord of Nothingness left unconvinced, while Woman in Red Dress looked forward to meeting Hua Yunfei’s daughter and the other women in his life.

• Woman in Red Dress explained that she understood why other women loved Hua Yunfei and wanted to support him alongside them.
• Lord of Nothingness warned that sharing Hua Yunfei would leave Woman in Red Dress neglected, but she insisted he was the only one in her heart.
• Woman in Red Dress called Hua Yunfei’s other partners her harem, leaving Lord of Nothingness and the Blood Mist World’s Lords stunned.
• Lord of Nothingness revealed that Hua Yunfei had a daughter with another woman, but Woman in Red Dress reacted with delight and wanted to meet the child.
• Lord of Nothingness suggested that Woman in Red Dress’s unborn child might not be born, then left after she calmly insisted Lord of Nothingness would not harm it.
• Woman in Red Dress anticipated meeting Hua Yunfei’s daughter and the other women, noting that her unborn child would be the girl’s elder brother by age but younger in actual circumstances.

As the Thirty-Three Heavens prepared for the invasion from Beyond the Boundary, Dao Yi sought the Immortal Hall Lord for help reinforcing its borders and asked whether Lord Infinite Heaven was all right. She confirmed Infinite Heaven could not return, but reassured Dao Yi that the Kaoshan Sect would not remain idle if the realms were invaded.

• The Thirty-Three Heavens began preparing for the Realm War as hidden cultivators emerged, though young talents' confidence worried older powerhouses who knew about the Forbidden Land.
• The Daoist House asked the Ancient Formation Clan and the Karma Beast Race to contribute their strengths to the coming war.
• Dao Yi asked the Immortal Hall Lord to reinforce the boundaries, and she agreed to do so.
• Dao Yi asked whether Lord Infinite Heaven could return, and the Immortal Hall Lord told him he understood what Infinite Heaven's choice meant.
• Dao Yi asked whether the Kaoshan Sect would fight, and the Immortal Hall Lord said it would not openly help the Thirty-Three Heavens but would oppose any invasion.

The Immortal Hall Lord heard the Venerable Lord’s voice carry from the Forbidden Land, revealing that he was fighting Beyond the Boundary forces and pursuing Mitian. She joined the Lord of Reincarnation and the Nether Lord to reinforce the Thirty-Three Heavens’ boundary walls, where they discovered a vast enemy army gathering beyond the Western Boundary Wall.

• The Immortal Hall Lord tried to sense the Venerable Lord at the Eastern Border but initially found no trace of him.
• The Venerable Lord’s roars traveled from the Forbidden Land, revealing that he was fighting powerful enemies and had singled out Mitian, his foolish little brother.
• The Immortal Hall Lord, the Lord of Reincarnation, and the Nether Lord agreed not to interfere with the Venerable Lord’s battle and reinforced the Eastern, Southern, and Northern Boundary Walls.
• As they reinforced the Western Boundary Wall, the three saw a vast army gathered in the chaos beyond it, ready to attack.

Dao Yi sounded the All-Heavens War Drum to rally the Thirty-Three Heavens as the factions gathered to fight the approaching armies of Beyond the Boundary. The allied forces assembled in the All Realms Great Universe, while several powerful clans stayed behind to guard the other boundaries.

• Dao Yi learned from the Immortal Hall Lord that Beyond the Boundary had assembled its armies and warned the major factions.
• Cultivators across the Thirty-Three Heavens answered the call to war, and Dao Yi brought out the ancient All-Heavens War Drum.
• Dao Yi beat the drum, raising the warriors’ fighting spirit and summoning factions and clans from across the realms and timelines.
• The Imperial Alliance, the Organization of Nothingness, the Ancient Clan of Strength, the Imperial Clan, and other factions arrived in the All Realms Great Universe.
• A cultivator explained that the Ancient God Clan, Ancient Devil Clan, and other powerful clans were guarding the other boundaries.
• Dao Yi bowed to the assembled forces and called on them to fight for the Thirty-Three Heavens and their homeland.

Dao Yi rallied the Thirty-Three Heavens for war against Beyond the Boundary, while Hua Yunfei and the Nether Son discussed the Kaoshan Sect’s role in guarding the rear. An Ning arrived to fight on behalf of Dao Wushuang and insisted Hua Yunfei treat her as a stranger if she was harmed.

• Dao Yi bowed to the gathered fighters and urged them to unite, declaring that Beyond the Boundary was not the Kaoshan Sect.
• Gai Mao called the Thirty-Three Heavens bandits and urged them to strike back, winning the crowd’s support.
• Hua Yunfei and the Nether Son discussed the invasion, and Hua Yunfei said the Kaoshan Sect needed to guard against enemies slipping into the rear.
• The Nether Son spotted An Ning, and Hua Yunfei realized she had come to represent Dao Wushuang.
• An Ning told Hua Yunfei not to interfere if she was hurt, cut off their contact, and announced that she had come to join the battle.

Dao Yi sent the warriors of the heavens toward the Western Boundary aboard the Heavens Warship, while Hua Yunfei decided to follow An Ning with the Nether Son and Big Pretty. The Bronze Skiff caught up with the warship, and they arrived at the boundary, where three imposing figures awaited them.

• An Ning said Dao Wushuang was inspecting other boundaries and that she had authority to represent the Heavenly Mandate Daoist Academy.
• Dao Yi summoned the Heavens Warship and led the assembled warriors toward the Western Boundary.
• Hua Yunfei decided to follow An Ning, and the Nether Son and Big Pretty joined him aboard the Bronze Skiff.
• The Bronze Skiff caught up with the Heavens Warship, where Hua Yunfei saw An Ning standing at its bow.
• Hua Yunfei, the Nether Son, An Ning, and the others saw three imposing figures standing at the boundary.

The Immortal Hall Lord, Feng Qingwu, and the Nether Lord welcomed the Heavens Warship at the Western Boundary, where the Immortal Hall Lord promised support for everyone joining the fight against the Beyond-Realm Lands. The fighters entered a Chaos World to cultivate with unlimited resources and the Immortal Hall Lord’s personal guidance, leaving the Phoenix Emperor Venerate joking that the Low-Level Heavenly Vaults had never been at odds with the First Heavenly Vault.

• The Nether Son, Hua Yunfei, and the others recognized the Nether Lord and Feng Qingwu among three supreme figures waiting at the Western Boundary.
• The Immortal Hall Lord praised the warriors, promised to safeguard the Western Boundary, and urged them to fight without restraint.
• The Immortal Hall Lord created a Chaos World, brought the Heavens Warship inside, and offered unlimited cultivation resources from the First Heavenly Vault.
• The Immortal Hall Lord established the Chaos World as a cultivation ground and invited everyone to ask her for guidance on cultivation difficulties.
• Elder Ancestor Gai Lei and other powerful experts welcomed the chance to seek the Immortal Hall Lord’s guidance, and the Phoenix Emperor Venerate joked about the Low-Level Heavenly Vaults’ ties to the First Heavenly Vault.

Hua Yunfei and the Nether Son visited the Chaos World as the Thirty-Three Heavens prepared for war, and Hua Yunfei agreed to help if needed. After three months of intensive cultivation, an enormous figure appeared beyond the Chaos World and announced that the Thirty-Three Heavens seemed ready.

• The Ghost Phoenix and Giant Demon Ancient Ancestors felt awkward as the Daoist House treated the war participants with respect and supplied them with resources.
• Hua Yunfei explained that he had come because he worried about An Ning, but refused to demand that she be kept out of the war.
• The Immortal Hall Lord defended the Nether Son from the Nether Lord and invited Hua Yunfei to intervene if the war required him.
• The Nether Lord left after warning the Nether Son not to underestimate his opponents, while the Lord of Reincarnation said she would only help Hua Yunfei if someone stronger bullied him.
• The Beyond-Realm Lands made no move for three months as the war participants focused on improving their strength.
• An enormous figure appeared beyond the Chaos World and asked whether everyone in the Thirty-Three Heavens was ready.

The Immortal Hall Lord faced an ancestor grade being from Beyond the Boundary at the realm barrier and calmly repelled his probing attacks. The Beyond-Realm Lands then revealed a prisoner dragging the immense Great Dao World of a heaven grade being toward the barrier.

• The supreme figure from Beyond the Boundary pressured the Chaos World, and the Immortal Hall Lord appeared to shield its inhabitants.
• The supreme figure insulted the Thirty-Three Heavens and challenged the Immortal Hall Lord, who accepted without hesitation.
• The supreme figure attacked through the realm barrier, but the Immortal Hall Lord used rivers spanning past and present to calm the Thirty-Three Heavens and stopped his next assault with a finger.
• The chaos mist receded from the barrier, revealing a starry expanse beyond it.
• Hua Yunfei and the Nether Son saw a burly prisoner dragging a vast Great Dao World with enormous chains, and Elder Ancestor Gai Lei recognized it as the inner world of a heaven grade being.

The supreme figure revealed Dao Wutian, a man identical to Dao Wushuang, and explained that he had been raised in the Beyond-Realm Lands. He identified Dao Wutian as one reason the Beyond-Realm Lands had joined forces against the Thirty-Three Heavens, then vowed to defeat them with their full strength.

• A burly man dragged a heaven-grade being’s natal world to the boundary and knelt before the supreme figure.
• The supreme figure ordered the man to reveal his face, shocking An Ning, Hua Yunfei, the Nether Son, and the others because he looked exactly like Dao Wushuang.
• The man identified himself as Dao Wutian, a servant of the supreme figure, but the Immortal Hall Lord said she had never heard of him.
• An Ning informed Dao Wushuang about Dao Wutian, and Dao Wushuang reacted with confusion.
• The supreme figure said Dao Wutian had grown up in his realm and was one reason the Beyond-Realm Lands had launched the Realm War against the Thirty-Three Heavens.

The Immortal Hall Lord accepted the Nine Profound Ancestral Domain’s proposal for an unrestricted battle inside Tian’s World after its supreme figure taunted the Thirty-Three Heavens. The two sides negotiated the stakes, leaving the contract to include a possible return of the Heaven Grade world if the Thirty-Three Heavens won three battles.

• The supreme figure revealed that Dao Wutian had grown up in the Beyond-Realm Lands and declared Tian’s World a battlefield for combatants ranging from first-tier overlords to Immortal Kings.
• The Immortal Hall Lord challenged the unfair battle terms, but Gai Mao, the Black Robed Person, and others urged her to accept because both sides would face the same danger.
• The Immortal Hall Lord agreed to the battle, and the supreme figure presented a contract requiring the Thirty-Three Heavens to cede half the chaos territory along the Western Boundary if it lost.
• The Immortal Hall Lord demanded that Tian’s World be returned if the Thirty-Three Heavens won, and the supreme figure offered to return it if they won three battles.

The Thirty-Three Heavens joined a pact requiring its fighters to face the Nine Profound Ancestral Domain in a deadly unrestricted battle. After two hours of farewells and preparations, the Immortal Hall Lord sent the participants to the battlefield.

• The supreme figure added the Thirty-Three Heavens to the pact, which Mitian had forged, and gave them two hours to prepare.
• Gai Mao, the Black Robed Person, Duan Wuqing, Gao Meinan, Zhou Yan, and others prepared for the battle as families and allies said their farewells.
• The Heavenly Snake Crown Prince and the Crown Prince of the Sacred Dragon Clan insisted on joining the fight despite their fathers' wishes.
• Hua Yunfei spoke with An Ning, who promised to fight for the Thirty-Three Heavens and urged him to accept her decision.
• The Immortal Hall Lord offered to spare An Ning, but An Ning refused, and the Immortal Hall Lord delivered her and the other participants to the battlefield.

The Thirty-Three Heavens and the Nine Profound Ancestral Domain began their Realm War, while the Immortal Hall Lord and Primal Chaos Dao Lord faced off in a game across the boundary wall. The Black Robed Person slaughtered his way through the enemy ranks and grew stronger even after taking grievous injuries.

• An Ning led the Thirty-Three Heavens’ fighters through a passage in the Western Boundary Wall, while Nine Profound Ancestral Domain forces entered Tian's World and both sides were transported to scattered battle locations.
• Primal Chaos Dao Lord introduced himself to the Immortal Hall Lord and began a game of the realms’ myriad Daos, placing the first black stone at the board’s central tengen point.
• The Immortal Hall Lord recognized that the Nine Profound Ancestral Domain was using the battle to probe the Thirty-Three Heavens, while other Beyond-Realm Lands and the Forbidden Land might also be involved.
• The Black Robed Person killed a Nine Profound Ancestral Domain woman, devoured her, and then pursued a War Emperor Grade opponent.
• After the War Emperor Grade powerhouse wounded him with a countermeasure, the Black Robed Person’s strength surged, and he reached Quasi-Hegemon Peak while declaring that the Nine Profound Ancestral Domain had brought the fight upon itself.

The Black Robed Person grew stronger through injury and devoured a War Emperor Grade expert, while Zhou Yan was killed by a supreme-realm fighter from the Nine Profound Ancestral Domain. An Ning arrived too late to save Zhou Yan, instantly killed the middle-aged expert, and challenged every supreme realm expert on the battlefield.

• The Black Robed Person broke through under attack, crushed a War Emperor Grade expert, and devoured him to grow stronger again.
• Zhou Yan encountered a middle-aged supreme-realm expert from the Nine Profound Ancestral Domain, who destroyed his body, soul, Dao Fruit, and origin.
• An Ning arrived after Zhou Yan's death and faced the middle-aged man, who expected to defeat her at the same realm.
• An Ning instantly killed the middle-aged man and declared herself the Thirty-Three Heavens' battle leader.
• An Ning challenged every supreme realm expert of the Nine Profound Ancestral Domain to fight her.

An Ning challenged every Supreme Realm expert from the Nine Profound Ancestral Domain to draw them away from the other fighters, but they refused to answer under Primal Chaos Dao Lord’s orders. As Primal Chaos Dao Lord and the Immortal Hall Lord debated her fate, an armored man rose and declared that the hunt had begun.

• An Ning issued a challenge to every participating Supreme Realm expert from the Nine Profound Ancestral Domain, hoping to protect the other fighters.
• The Thirty-Three Heavens’ allies feared An Ning would be overwhelmed, while Hua Yunfei chose to trust his daughter.
• The Nine Profound Ancestral Domain’s Supreme Realm experts ignored An Ning’s challenge because Primal Chaos Dao Lord had ordered them not to take the bait.
• Primal Chaos Dao Lord and the Immortal Hall Lord discussed An Ning’s fate as they played a game of Go, and the Immortal Hall Lord sensed something on the battlefield.
• A man in purple-gold battle armor rose and announced, “The hunt begins!”

An Ning realized that a hidden enemy was waiting for her, and Hua Yunfei and Nether Son feared the opponent was a Three-Step Extreme Young Heaven. As An Ning remained in danger on the battlefield, Hua Yunfei could not intervene without breaking the Heaven-Earth Pact, leaving her with little hope of survival in a direct fight.

• An Ning recognized that the other fighters' refusal to engage was a trap and hid in the darkness.
• Nether Son and Hua Yunfei suspected a Three-Step Young Heaven was hunting An Ning, while Big Pretty spotted the concealed enemy and he warned the observers not to interfere.
• Nether Son contacted the Nether Lord for help, but the Nether Lord ignored him, and the first battle had already begun under the Heaven-Earth Pact.
• Nether Son suggested An Ning seek help from experts of the Ancient Formation Clan, but Hua Yunfei believed formations could only delay the enemy, a Three-Step Extreme Young Heaven.