Chapter Summaries

Hua Yunfei gained Gaishi’s trust after the Hua Clan Ancestor Master assured them that the Lord of Reincarnation did not dare act against him. As they discussed possible enemies and Feng Qingwu’s recovery, Hua Yunfei asked whether Gaishi could recruit friends to help.

• The Hua Clan Ancestor Master declared that the Lord of Reincarnation did not dare, convincing Gaishi to trust Hua Yunfei and offer him help.
• Gaishi revealed that he had forgotten his original name, and Hua Yunfei’s interpretation of “Gaishi” stirred a memory of a girl with wings praising his name.
• Hua Yunfei asked whether Gaishi could defeat Quasi-Immortal Emperors, and Gaishi admitted he could not beat three at once, though he could fight them for a time.
• Gaishi said Feng Qingwu might need a hundred thousand years to recover from pushing herself to Quasi-Immortal Emperor, but she was free of the Lord of Reincarnation’s control.
• Hua Yunfei praised Gaishi’s Reincarnation talent and asked whether he had made friends on the Path of Reincarnation who could help them.

After Gaishi left the Reincarnation Forbidden Ground, Hua Yunfei received two check-in rewards and explored the now-safer forbidden ground. At its deepest end, he found an inscription asking what lay at the end of Reincarnation.

• Gaishi explained that the Lord of Reincarnation had divided the Path of Reincarnation into regions, then left Hua Yunfei the Reincarnation Forbidden Ground as a place to cultivate.
• Hua Yunfei received a Memory Stone capable of restoring a Quasi-Immortal Emperor’s severed memories and Eyes of Reincarnation as check-in rewards.
• Hua Yunfei told Chu Jiutian that he and Gaishi had reached an understanding, then entered the Reincarnation Forbidden Ground to explore.
• Chu Jiutian released Ye Bufan, Lin Yang, and the others, then reported to Hua Linfeng that Gaishi had withdrawn and that recreating the great formation remained difficult.
• Hua Yunfei passed the blood pool containing a sealed piece of the Nether Emperor’s body and reached the forbidden ground’s dead end.
• Hua Yunfei found the words “What lies at the end of Reincarnation...?” carved into the stone wall.

Hua Yunfei battled a stone man wielding unfamiliar powers of Reincarnation, then comprehended the writing on a stone wall and emerged from the forbidden ground a year later. After reuniting with Hua Yunsheng and his family, he returned to the Immortal Realm, where he found Ao Kun playing chess with Hua Linfeng.

• Hua Yunfei fought and subdued a stone man who used several forms of Reincarnation power he had never encountered.
• The stone wall glowed, and Hua Yunfei absorbed the power within its writing before entering a vision of the Heaven-Opening era.
• A year later, Hua Yunsheng waited outside the Reincarnation Forbidden Ground until Hua Yunfei emerged.
• Hua Yunfei returned to Kaoshan Sect with Hua Yunsheng and reunited with Hua Cangqiong and Long Yueyan.
• Seven days later, Hua Yunfei returned to the Immortal Realm and found Ao Kun playing chess with Hua Linfeng on Holy Son Peak.

Hua Yunfei returned and gave Xi Yue a pair of Eyes of Reincarnation, then spoke with Ao Kun about the past after Hua Linfeng and Ao Kun finished their Dao-filled chess game. Ao Kun maintained that he had done nothing wrong, leaving Hua Yunfei to weigh the complicated legacy of his actions.

• Hua Yunfei visited Xi Yue and Feng Qingwu, and Xi Yue told him Feng Qingwu's Reincarnation Body had grown more stable.
• Hua Yunfei gave Xi Yue a pair of Eyes of Reincarnation, explaining that he had awakened his own and no longer needed to fuse with others.
• Xi Yue accepted the Eyes of Reincarnation after Hua Yunfei reminded her that Feng Qingwu would have wanted her to take them.
• Hua Linfeng and Ao Kun finished their game, leaving behind a chessboard imbued with both kings' Dao.
• Hua Linfeng asked Hua Yunfei how he would fare against the first-generation Ancestor Masters, and Hua Yunfei estimated his odds at thirty percent.
• Hua Yunfei asked Ao Kun whether he believed he had been wrong, and Ao Kun calmly said he did not.

Hua Yunfei confronted Ao Kun over the destruction of the lower realm, and Xi Yue persuaded her ancestor to offer an explanation despite his refusal to admit wrongdoing. The dispute ended with Ao Kun promising to restore the lower realm and, if Hua Yunfei someday defeated him, become its Heavenly Dao, while a new threat emerged from the God Realm.

• Hua Yunfei demanded that Ao Kun answer for the lives and homes destroyed in the Primordial Era, but Ao Kun insisted that the strong dictated fate and refused to admit he was wrong.
• Xi Yue stood between them and told Ao Kun that his good deeds could not excuse the harm he had caused, urging him to face his mistakes and apologize.
• Ao Kun promised to send people to spread the Dao in the lower realm and said he would become its Heavenly Dao if Hua Yunfei defeated him one day.
• Hua Yunfei thanked Xi Yue, and she apologized for her stubborn ancestor while defending his intentions.
• Hua Linfeng teased Ao Kun for being a tsundere, then a Dao Robe Man reported that the God Kings had challenged the Immortal Realm to an Assembly of Kings to discuss its surrender.

The Immortal Realm’s leaders rejected the God Realm’s demand for surrender and mobilized their forces for the coming war. Hua Yunfei and the Daoyuan Sect arrived at the Heavenly River, where the Hall Master of Martial Virtue took them to the Martial King Hall.

• Hua Linfeng, Ao Kun, and the Double Pupil User discussed the God Realm’s demand for surrender and decided the Immortal Realm’s hidden Heavenly Prodigies would join the battle.
• Hua Linfeng and Ao Kun nearly fought over Ao Kun’s lingering resentment, but the Double Pupil User stopped them and led them toward the Heavenly River.
• Three days later, the All Kings of the Heavenly Court called the Immortal Realm’s cultivators and hidden forces to assemble for war.
• Seven days later, Hua Yunfei brought Ye Bufan, Huang Xuan, Jia Duobao, and the Daoyuan Sect disciples through a spatial entrance to the Heavenly River.
• The Hall Master of Martial Virtue arrived to meet Feng Qingwu and took Hua Yunfei and the others to the Martial King Hall.

Hua Yunfei brought Hall Master of Martial Virtue into the Primordial Realm to visit Feng Qingwu, then fetched him after he stayed there for three days. A monthly check-in rewarded Hua Yunfei with Sea God Blue Silver Armor, and a furious roar sounded from the Sea God Temple.

• Hua Yunfei received the Sea God's Trident after arriving at Martial King Hall and let Hall Master of Martial Virtue enter his Primordial Realm to see Feng Qingwu.
• Hua Yunfei and his disciples waited three days before he went into the Primordial Realm and found Hall Master of Martial Virtue unconscious in a valley after Feng Qingwu punched him.
• Hall Master of Martial Virtue praised the Primordial Realm and inscribed “Wude was here” on a cliff before leaving with Hua Yunfei to discuss something important.
• Hua Yunfei completed his monthly check-in and received Sea God Blue Silver Armor, completing the Sea God set apart from the battle boots.
• Someone at the Sea God Temple on the banks of the Tianhe River roared in fury.

The Sea God lost his armor and boots to Hua Yunfei’s System, then vowed to hunt down the thief. Meanwhile, Hua Yunfei was appointed Great Emperor Commander of Martial King Hall despite refusing the post, and arrived at his tent as the Heavenly River erupted and the Sea God demanded that Wude come out.

• The Sea God watched his Blue Silver Armor and one battle boot vanish, then swore to find the thief and punish him.
• The System gave Hua Yunfei the stolen boot as a Check-in bonus, leaving the other boot on the Sea God’s foot.
• The Hall Master of Martial Virtue appointed Hua Yunfei Great Emperor Commander, but Hua Yunfei refused before being pressured into the role.
• Hua Yunfei and Ye Bufan’s group left Martial King Hall and were escorted to the commander’s tent, where other Daoyuan Sect allies were waiting.
• The Heavenly River surged, and the Sea God shouted for Wude to come out and return his stolen things.

The Sea God accused Wude of stealing from him and confronted the Immortal Realm’s Kings, but Wude ambushed and defeated him. Hall Master of Martial Virtue then declared that he had become a bona fide King Giant.

• The Sea God crossed the Heavenly River and demanded that the Immortal Realm bring Wude out to answer for stealing his things.
• A hundred Immortal Realm Kings appeared, and King Peng challenged the Sea God’s accusation while the others fell silent.
• Two Martial Virtue Bricks struck the Sea God from behind and battered him until he fought back.
• Hall Master of Martial Virtue emerged from space, overpowered the injured Sea God, and seized him by the throat.
• Hall Master of Martial Virtue dismissed the Sea God as merely a Supreme God King and announced that he was now a bona fide King Giant.

Hall Master of Martial Virtue revealed himself as a King Giant, defeated the Sea God, and admitted to stealing his treasures, while concealing Hua Yunfei’s role. The Previous Sea God rescued his disciple and prepared to fight Wude, demanding the Trident.

• Hall Master of Martial Virtue revealed his King Giant cultivation, shocking both realms and raising the Immortal Realm’s morale.
• The Sea God accused Wude of stealing his treasures, and Wude admitted to the theft while taking credit for it.
• Wude slapped the Sea God and held him captive as the Immortal Realm praised him and the Divine Realm condemned him.
• The Previous Sea God appeared, revealed himself as a King Giant, and rescued the Sea God from Wude.
• The Previous Sea God told the Sea God to stand aside and demanded that he bring the Trident so he could fight Wude.

The Previous Sea God prepared to fight the Hall Master of Martial Virtue, only to discover that the Sea God had lost all three divine weapons and the Sea God Divine Spark. Enraged, he abandoned the confrontation and grabbed his disciple by the neck.

• The Previous Sea God announced he would face the Hall Master of Martial Virtue without the Sea God's Trident, while Hua Yunfei realized the weapon had been stolen.
• The Previous Sea God asked the Sea God to bring him the Sea God Blue Silver Armor and learned that it had also been stolen.
• The Sea God admitted that only one battle boot remained, as the other had been stolen.
• The Previous Sea God tried to prepare for the fight and warned the Sea God not to lose the Sea God Divine Spark.
• The Sea God revealed that the Sea God Divine Spark had also been stolen, prompting the Previous Sea God to spit blood and seize him by the neck.

The Hall Master of Martial Virtue ambushed Quan Long, then battled the God Kings as the Immortal and God Realms clashed over the Heavenly River. After Hua Yunfei supplied the Heaven Refining Pot, it and the flame God King's soul were stolen, and Space God King Wujian arrived.

• Quan Long attacked the Sea God over the loss of the Sea God Divine Spark and three divine artifacts, but the Hall Master of Martial Virtue ambushed Quan Long with the Martial Virtue Brick.
• The Hall Master of Martial Virtue shattered a flame-wreathed God King's body and tried to refine his soul while King Peng and the Immortal Realm's fighters blocked the other God Kings.
• Quan Long pursued the Hall Master of Martial Virtue through the Heavenly River, and Hua Yunfei sent him the Heaven Refining Pot to refine the flame God King's soul.
• Someone stole both the flame God King's soul and the Heaven Refining Pot from the Hall Master of Martial Virtue.
• Space God King Wujian's arrival stopped the fighting, and Quan Long recognized him.

Wujian stopped Quan Long and proposed holding the Assembly of Kings early, and Hall Master of Martial Virtue agreed. Wujian summoned the God Realm’s Kings, whose overwhelming numbers suppressed the Immortal Realm, until Hall Master of Martial Virtue called on the Immortal Realm to answer.

• Quan Long charged at Hall Master of Martial Virtue despite a command to stop, but Wujian appeared and trapped him in a cage of solidified space.
• Wujian restrained Quan Long, sent Fire God’s divine soul with Blood God, and confronted Hall Master of Martial Virtue over the clash between the realms.
• Wujian proposed holding the Assembly of Kings early, and Hall Master of Martial Virtue agreed.
• Wujian summoned the God Realm’s Kings, and a hundred towering God Kings appeared to overwhelm the Immortal Realm’s gathered fighters.
• Hall Master of Martial Virtue countered the God Kings’ pressure with his own Kingly Dao Law and called on the Immortal Realm to beat the war drums and summon its Kings.

The Immortal Realm rallied as the Holy Lord of the Heavenly Court and Moon God joined one hundred Immortal Kings to face the God Realm’s hundred Kings. At the Assembly of Kings, Wujian confronted the Holy Lord and demanded to know whether the Immortal Realm would surrender.

• The Hall Master of Martial Virtue rallied the Immortal Realm, while the Holy Lord of the Heavenly Court beat the war drum and the Moon God played a battle tune.
• One hundred Immortal Kings assembled across the Heavenly River to match the God Realm’s hundred Kings, though the Hall Master knew the Immortal Realm had gathered its forces only with help from the Kaoshan Sect.
• Wujian dismissed the Hall Master as unqualified to represent the Immortal Realm, and a Demon King from the Demon Realm also demanded that the strongest figure speak.
• The Holy Lord stepped forward to face Wujian, and the two Kings dispelled the power that surged between them.
• Wujian opened the Assembly of Kings by demanding that the Immortal Realm confirm whether it refused to surrender.

The Immortal Realm rejected surrender and agreed to compete against the Divine Realm for control of the unknown Immortal Abode, with further contests deciding the Realm War. Wujian revealed the Heaven Refining Pot, but an unseen voice’s “Equivalent Exchange” replaced it with a Low-grade Spirit Stone.

• The Moon God played a battle song that rallied the Immortal Realm’s wavering inhabitants against surrender, while Hua Yunfei suspected she had another identity.
• Wujian proposed a contest between the realms’ Heavenly Prodigies in the unknown Immortal Abode, and the Double Pupil User accepted on behalf of the Immortal Realm.
• Wujian added a debate between immortals and gods and a final battle between himself and the Double Pupil User, with the overall winner determining the Realm War’s outcome.
• After the Double Pupil User accepted Wujian’s offer of compensation if the Divine Realm lost, Wujian prepared to leave with the Heaven Refining Pot.
• Wujian displayed the Heaven Refining Pot, but an unseen voice called out “Equivalent Exchange” and replaced it with a Low-grade Spirit Stone.

The Double Pupil User revealed that the Heavenly Emperor had returned but could not intervene, giving the Immortal Realm’s God Kings hope before admitting to Wude that he had only offered them reassurance. As the Realm War rules arrived and preparations began for the Immortal Mansion contest, Hua Yunfei encouraged the Immortal Realm to send as many participants as possible.

• Wujian discovered that the Heaven Refining Pot had been replaced by a Low-grade Spirit Stone, while Wude claimed the exchange was fair.
• Quan Long attacked Wude over the missing Sea God treasures, but the Double Pupil User injured him and Wujian withdrew with him and the God Realm’s forces.
• The Double Pupil User told the Immortal Realm’s God Kings that the Heavenly Emperor had returned but could not fight because he faced the missing God Emperor; afterward, he admitted to Wude that the claim was meant to bolster their confidence.
• The God Realm sent Realm War rules with no restrictions, scheduled the Immortal Mansion competition for one month later, and set the contest at three hundred thousand participants; the Immortal Realm selected its Emperor Ranking and hidden prodigies.
• Hua Yunfei received a system prompt to check in at the Heavenly River Immortal Mansion, then told Wude that the Immortal Realm should send as many additional participants as possible.

Hua Yunfei agreed to compete for the Immortal Realm’s commander position, though he planned to serve under another identity. Gong Qingyan returned after thirty years of training, and a group of challengers arrived demanding his seat.

• Wude told Hua Yunfei that the Immortal Realm would select a commander for the Immortal Mansion, then insisted Hua Yunfei compete for the position.
• Hua Yunfei agreed to become commander, but said he would do so under another identity.
• Gong Qingyan returned after reaching the limits of the Emperor Realm and revealed that she had forged a new physique by fusing her three origins.
• Gong Qingyan challenged Hua Yunfei to fight, but he declined, saying he was no longer her match.
• More than a dozen people entered the commander's tent and told Hua Yunfei they wanted his commander's seat.

Gong Qingyan defeated Tian Ning and his supporters after they attacked her in Hua Yunfei’s command tent. Three days later, a masked white-robed young man arrived at the Heavenly Court Commander selection and claimed he could prove his worth by clearing the Emperor Tower.

• Tian Ning and a dozen Emperor Ranking powerhouses challenged Hua Yunfei’s authority and tried to seize the Martial King Hall Commander position.
• Gong Qingyan instantly killed a blue-robed young man who insulted her, then released his soul after Tian Ning promised to leave.
• The blue-robed young man recovered and joined Tian Ning’s group in attacking Gong Qingyan, who cut them down with one strike and killed him when he renewed his attack.
• Three days later, a masked white-robed young man arrived at the Heavenly Court Hall and asked to compete for Commander despite not leading a hall.
• The young man said clearing the Emperor Tower could prove his strength, leaving the gray-robed old man stunned by his claim.

Hua Yunfei proved to the Immortal Realm’s leaders that he was the legendary “Gou” by displaying both of the physiques seen in the Emperor Pagoda. He entered the Heavenly Court Hall to join the Commander contest, where the Double Pupil User presided and the gathered Commanders watched him with unsettled expressions.

• Hua Yunfei claimed to be “Gou,” but the gray-robed elder and the crowd doubted him.
• Hua Yunfei revealed his silver-lit physique, convincing onlookers that he matched the legendary “Gou.”
• Hua Yunfei displayed the golden and silver divine light of his second physique, confirming his identity to the gray-robed elder and the crowd.
• Major figures of the Immortal Realm sent divine thoughts to investigate Hua Yunfei, while Wude recognized him and approved of his choice of identity.
• The gray-robed elder opened the Heavenly Court Hall, and Hua Yunfei entered as the gathered Commanders watched him in surprise.

Hua Yunfei entered the contest for Commander under the name “Gou” and challenged the assembled prodigies to attack him together. He cut hundreds of Commanders down in a single sword sweep, leaving Wushen and Chai Liehuo convinced of his overwhelming strength.

• Hua Yunfei asked the Double Pupil User for permission to compete for Commander, and the Double Pupil User approved.
• Chai Liehuo challenged Hua Yunfei, but Hua Yunfei asked to fight all the Commanders at once and claimed he had twelve out of ten confidence.
• The Double Pupil User approved the group fight, and hundreds of Commanders stepped forward, including Wushen, first on the Immortal Realm’s Emperor Ranking.
• Chai Liehuo attacked first, and the other Commanders joined him as Wushen advanced with his God Slaying Spear.
• Hua Yunfei unleashed the Primordial Sword Art and severed Wushen, Chai Liehuo, and the other attackers in half with one sweep.
• Hua Yunfei said he had held back, and the defeated Commanders realized he could have killed them and accepted his strength.