Chapter Summaries

Hua Shuheng fought Gu Hanyu after Gu Hanyu desecrated He Qiang’s corpse, and their battle revealed the strength of both clan heirs. Hua Shuheng ultimately gained the upper hand and confronted Gu Hanyu’s arrogance.

• Hua Shuheng erupted in rage after seeing He Qiang’s severed head displayed on the Gu Family’s battle flag and challenged Gu Hanyu alone.
• Gu Hanyu opened with Ancient God Shoots the Sun, but Hua Shuheng used Fair Trade to strike him and blocked the golden sword rain with a great bell phantom.
• Gu Hanyu activated the Gu Ancient God Battle Body and forced Hua Shuheng onto the defensive during their fierce close-quarters fight.
• Hua Shuheng revealed he had only been testing Gu Hanyu, then unleashed Killing Intent Fist and blasted him away after their secret arts clashed.
• Hua Shuheng stood on Gu Hanyu’s head and accused him of envying and fearing the Hua Clan, prompting Gu Hanyu to spring up in fury.

Hua Shuheng overwhelmed Gu Hanyu, then fought against more than ten thousand Quasi-Immortal Emperors after the High-Level Heavenly Vault forces attacked him. With Jinjin's help, Hua Shuheng killed Gu Hanyu and raised a battle flag as he prepared to fight on.

• Gu Hanyu awakened his Progenitor Blood and unleashed his full power, but Hua Shuheng broke through his Imperial Might and defeated him.
• Sima Yan ordered the High-Level Heavenly Vault Emperors to attack Hua Shuheng, and the Ghost Phoenix Race Ancient Ancestor commanded more than ten thousand Quasi-Immortal Emperors to join in.
• Hua Shuheng stopped the Imperial Alliance Emperors from helping and fought through the encirclement, killing Shu Tianhao, Dongfang Yue, and Sima Yan while suffering severe wounds.
• Jinjin used Fair Trade to swap Gu Hanyu in front of him and Hua Shuheng, who pulverized Gu Hanyu and placed his head on a battle flag.
• Jinjin wrote “Damn” on the flag with Gu Hanyu's Imperial Blood, and Hua Shuheng raised it and burned his Progenitor Blood as the battle continued.

Hua Shuheng burned his Progenitor Blood and fought the High-Level Heavenly Vault emperors in a desperate battle, killing many before his strength ran out. He died after taking Gu Hanyu with him, leaving the Gu Family's claim to the Hua Clan's status in ruins.

• Hua Shuheng's Progenitor Blood released a terrifying aura that shocked the emperors and awakened the Great Dao's tribulation clouds.
• Hua Shuheng charged into the High-Level Heavenly Vault emperors, slaughtering Quasi-Immortal Emperors and throwing Jinjin back to Hong's Fortress.
• Hua Shuheng used his Heaven-Connecting Battle Form to devastate the enemy, but his energy dwindled as he continued fighting.
• Hua Shuheng unleashed a final Ultimate Fist that killed several Quasi-Immortal Emperors before the surrounding attacks overwhelmed him.
• As Hua Shuheng disintegrated, he also destroyed Gu Hanyu and told him the Gu Family should stop trying to ride the Hua Clan's coattails.

Hua Shuheng died after killing more than twenty Quasi-Immortal Emperors, and Nalan Haohuan stopped the High-Level Heavenly Vault from attacking the surrendered Hong's Fortress. As the Imperial Alliance faced an increasingly dire war, Ling Fei planned to scout an enemy fortress and use his formation skills to avenge Hua Shuheng and He Qiang.

• Hua Shuheng vanished after his death, leaving the High-Level Heavenly Vault's emperors shaken by the losses he had inflicted.
• The High-Level Heavenly Vault's emperors wanted to attack Hong's Fortress, but Nalan Haohuan ordered them to honor its surrender and led them away.
• Jinjin and the Imperial Alliance's emperors worried about the punishment for losing Hong's Fortress and the threat posed by the enemy's combined forces.
• At Huang's Fortress, Ling Fei told Nangong Wentian that the Imperial Alliance could form a three-fortress force if one captured fortress became an attacking force.
• Ling Fei revealed that he would scout an enemy fortress with Nangong Wentian and several Young Ancestors, hoping to exploit its defensive array before it replenished its energy.

Ling Fei led six companions toward the High-Level Heavenly Vault's Yellow Fortress, intending to attack while its defenders remained confident behind an intact array. He ordered the others to bury his enormous stock of Formation Disks and insisted he would break the fortress array alone.

• Ling Fei and Nangong Wentian led five others out of the Yellow Fortress under cover of night and encountered five High-Level Heavenly Vault scouts watching it.
• The scouts discussed their side's advantage and anticipated capturing the Imperial Alliance's Yellow Fortress, while Ling Fei chose not to kill them and instead led his group around toward the enemy fortress.
• Ling Fei observed that the High-Level Heavenly Vault's Yellow Fortress guards were lax and told his companions he would break its array while setting up his own.
• Ling Fei produced a hundred thousand Formation Disks and instructed his companions to bury them around the fortress.
• Gouyuan Peak's Young Ancestor offered to help Ling Fei break the array, but Ling Fei refused and said he could do it alone.

Ling Fei prepared an overwhelming supply of Formation Disks and gathered Nangong Wentian and five others to attack Huang Fortress by force. He activated the Heaven-Severing Killing Array around the fortress and vowed to kill its defenders.

• Nangong Wentian and five others buried Formation Disks around Huang Fortress while Ling Fei buried hundreds of thousands more and spent three days cultivating.
• Ling Fei told his companions there was no weak point in the fortress’s formation and ordered them to bury another hundred thousand Formation Disks for a forceful breakthrough.
• Inside Huang Fortress, Xiang Ruifeng, Shu Xingyang, and Sima Siqi discussed attacking the Imperial Alliance and killing its cultivators.
• Ling Fei appeared above Huang Fortress with Nangong Wentian and the other five, announced that he had come to attack, and endured the defenders’ mockery.
• Ling Fei activated the Heaven-Severing Killing Array, enclosing Huang Fortress in a vast violet-red cage, and declared that he would send its defenders to the afterlife.

Ling Fei trapped the High-Level Heavenly Vault emperors inside the Heaven-Severing Killing Array and overwhelmed their fortress defenses. After the defensive array shattered, the emperors were refined to death, leaving the Yellow Fortress in ruins.

• Ling Fei's Heaven-Severing Killing Array appeared around the Yellow Fortress, terrifying Xiang Ruifeng, Sima Siqi, and the other High-Level Heavenly Vault emperors.
• Sima Siqi activated the fortress's offensive array, but its attacks vanished against Ling Fei's array.
• Ling Fei unleashed Heaven-Severing Annihilation, while Sima Siqi, Xiang Ruifeng, Shu Xingyang, and more than six thousand emperors attacked the killing array without success.
• Nangong Wentian recorded the trapped emperors as Gouyuan Peak's Young Ancestor and the others joined in watching their struggle.
• The Heaven-Severing Killing Array shattered the fortress's defensive and offensive arrays, then refined the High-Level Heavenly Vault emperors to death.

Ling Fei used the Heaven-Severing Killing Array to destroy the High-Level Heavenly Vault forces and capture the Yellow Fortress. He returned to the Imperial Alliance with the Fortress Flag and news of the overwhelming victory.

• Ling Fei controlled the Heaven-Severing Killing Array as it tortured and killed the High-Level Heavenly Vault Emperors, including Shu Xingyang.
• Ling Fei teleported five fleeing Quasi-Immortal Emperors in yellow robes into the array, then killed Sima Siqi and Xiang Ruifeng.
• Ling Fei avenged He Qiang and Hua Shuheng, waited until the Yellow Fortress was lifeless, and claimed its Fortress Flag.
• Ling Fei activated the array another hundred times to make sure no enemy had survived, then collected four hundred thousand Formation Disks.
• Ling Fei and his six companions returned to the Imperial Alliance’s Yellow Fortress, where the Emperors reacted with shock to the captured flag and the report that over six thousand enemy Quasi-Immortal Emperors had been wiped out.

Ling Fei’s destruction of Yellow Fortress shocked both factions, but the Ancient Formation Clan’s Ouyang Zehui soon captured Desolate Fortress and rallied more than twenty thousand Quasi-Immortal Emperors toward Mysterious Fortress. As the remaining fortresses prepared for battle, Nangong Wentian suggested that Ye Bufan and the others concede so the Imperial Alliance could regroup for a team fight.

• Ling Fei’s capture of Yellow Fortress spread through the fortresses, and even Nalan Haohuan and the High-Level Heavenly Vault faction accepted that he had killed more than six thousand Quasi-Immortal Emperors.
• The High-Level Heavenly Vault captured Desolate Fortress after Ouyang Zehui broke its formation and killed the Young Ancestors of Limitless Peak and Enemy God Peak.
• Ling Fei recognized Ouyang Zehui as an heir of the Ancient Formation Clan, while Ouyang Zehui resolved to be cautious of Ling Fei.
• Ye Bufan, Huang Xuan, and Jia Duobao considered the danger to Heaven’s Fortress, Earth Fortress, and Mysterious Fortress as reinforcements gathered for an attack.
• Ouyang Zehui led more than twenty thousand Quasi-Immortal Emperors toward Mysterious Fortress, while Gongsun Liyue and Yuchi Lingye greeted Yin Xiaofei and Kong Chenxing.
• Jinjin healed the injured emperors from Hong’s Fortress with immortal pills, and Nangong Wentian proposed that Ye Bufan and the others concede so the Imperial Alliance could regroup for a team battle.

Ling Fei launched surprise attacks on the High-Level Heavenly Vault’s fortresses to reduce its numerical advantage, destroying Heaven’s Fortress and nearly destroying Earth’s Fortress. He escaped Ouyang Zehui’s trap with the stolen Earth’s Fortress Flag, while Ouyang Zehui decided to wait for a larger battle.

• Ling Fei led the Imperial Alliance toward Heaven’s Fortress and launched a surprise attack with Nangong Wentian, Zhuang Lingyun, and the Young Ancestors.
• After destroying Heaven’s Fortress, Ling Fei sent Ye Bufan and the emperors to Mysterious Fortress and led another attack on Earth’s Fortress.
• Ouyang Zehui arrived with a hundred linked killing arrays, forcing Ling Fei’s group to retreat after Nangong Wentian stole Earth’s Fortress Flag.
• Ouyang Zehui trapped the retreating group, but Zhuang Lingyun threatened to use Little Match and Ling Fei shattered the sealing array so they could escape.
• Ouyang Zehui stopped his forces from pursuing Ling Fei’s group and told Earth’s Fortress’s survivors to wait for a chance to avenge their losses.

After discovering that Ling Fei and the Imperial Alliance had destroyed Heaven’s Fortress as well as the Yellow Fortress and much of the Earth Fortress, Ouyang Zehui led the High-Level Heavenly Vault’s forces to the Mysterious Fortress to prepare for the decisive battle. The leaders gathered to discuss the coming fight while Nalan Haohuan tried to find a way to stay out of danger.

• Ouyang Zehui and several hundred Quasi-Immortal Emperors found Heaven’s Fortress flattened and realized Ling Fei and his allies had destroyed it before attacking the Earth Fortress.
• Ouyang Zehui said the Imperial Alliance had gained a numerical advantage but insisted that the High-Level Heavenly Vault remained stronger in individual combat.
• Ouyang Zehui returned to the Mysterious Fortress, where the emperors erupted in anger over the destruction of Heaven’s Fortress and blamed Ling Fei.
• Nalan Haohuan feared the coming battle and decided to hide at the rear and avoid everyone, while Xiao Xukun reluctantly massaged Xiao Luxia.
• Ouyang Zehui summoned the High-Level Heavenly Vault’s key figures, including Nalan Haohuan, Xiao Luxia, Xiao Xukun, Gongsun Liyue, Yuchi Lingye, Yin Xiaofei, and Kong Chenxing, to discuss the decisive battle.

Ouyang Zehui proposed moving the decisive battle to the Heavenly King Mountain Range and prepared Formation Dao Pills as a trump card before traveling to the Imperial Alliance’s Mysterious Fortress. There, he challenged the alliance to a face-to-face fight, while Ling Fei and the others weighed his actions against those of Gu.

• Ouyang Zehui persuaded the High-Level Heavenly Vault’s emperors to fight in the Heavenly King Mountain Range and offered to set a trap there.
• Ouyang Zehui gave the emperors Formation Dao Pills and went to deliver the challenge himself.
• Ling Fei and the Imperial Alliance returned to their Mysterious Fortress, where the emperors praised the Black Hand Organization and learned that outsiders could not use its wooden clubs.
• Ouyang Zehui introduced himself as the High-Level Heavenly Vault’s overall leader and acknowledged his role in destroying the Desolate Fortress.
• Jinjin said Ouyang Zehui seemed more human than Gu, and Ling Fei asked why he had come.
• Ouyang Zehui challenged the Imperial Alliance on behalf of the High-Level Heavenly Vault.

Ouyang Zehui challenged the Imperial Alliance to fight at the Heavenly King Mountain Range, claiming his formation preparations could bury them all. After Zhuang Lingyun mocked him, Ye Bufan and the others agreed to inspect the proposed battlefield, leaving the chapter with Ling Fei, Jia Yu, and Zhuang Lingyun confronting Ouyang Zehui there.

• Ouyang Zehui challenged the Imperial Alliance to move the decisive battle to the Heavenly King Mountain Range and warned that his preparations as a Formation Array Master could overwhelm them.
• Zhuang Lingyun ridiculed Ouyang Zehui as a “Plainly Confident Man” and ordered him to leave; Ouyang Zehui departed after asking why she disliked him.
• Ye Bufan, Ling Fei, and the others discussed the challenge and agreed to change battlefields because Ouyang Zehui’s preparations could make defending the Mysterious Fortress dangerous.
• Ling Fei, Jia Yu, and Zhuang Lingyun went to inspect the Heavenly King Mountain Range for hidden formations.
• Ouyang Zehui said he had laid no formations and promised a pure contest of strength, while Zhuang Lingyun dismissed his assurance.

Ouyang Zehui trapped Ling Fei, Jia Yu, and Zhuang Lingyun in two overlapping killing arrays and demanded the Imperial Alliance surrender. Ye Bufan then revealed that he and Ling Fei had anticipated the ambush and redirected both arrays against Ouyang Zehui.

• Ling Fei, Jia Yu, and Zhuang Lingyun inspected the Heavenly King Mountain Range and agreed to fight there in three days.
• Ouyang Zehui sprang his hidden Heaven-Piercing Killing Array, trapping the three and revealing his plan to lure Ling Fei into the range.
• Ouyang Zehui added a Heaven-Severing Killing Array, combining the formations into a force capable of killing any Quasi-Immortal Emperor creature caught inside.
• Ouyang Zehui offered to spare the three if they surrendered on behalf of the Imperial Alliance.
• Ye Bufan emerged from Ling Fei with a replica Qiankun Array Dao Brush and rewrote both arrays to attack Ouyang Zehui, revealing that he and Ling Fei had anticipated the trap.

Ling Fei and Ye Bufan turned Ouyang Zehui’s ambush around, but he summoned an army of Quasi-Immortal Emperors and triggered a clash with the Imperial Alliance. As the battle began, Ling Fei and Ouyang Zehui started a dangerous Dao debate, while Huang Xuan cornered the fleeing Nalan Haohuan.

• Ouyang Zehui escaped the killing arrays with a teleportation technique, but Ye Bufan used Fair Trade to pull him back into the fight.
• Ouyang Zehui collapsed his arrays and summoned more than thirty thousand Quasi-Immortal Emperors from the Mysterious Fortress, then ordered them to seek the others’ surrender.
• Ling Fei summoned the Imperial Alliance’s emperors, surrounding the High-Level Heavenly Vault forces and bringing both sides to the brink of battle.
• Ouyang Zehui and Ye Bufan ordered their sides to attack, while Ling Fei challenged Ouyang Zehui to a Dao debate and the two began fighting through their understanding of the Dao.
• Huang Xuan stopped Nalan Haohuan as he tried to flee and challenged him to fight.

Huang Xuan and the other High-Level Heavenly Vault leaders secretly avoided fighting seriously during the ongoing battle, while Ye Bufan and Xiao Xukun sparred in earnest. After ten days, Ling Fei lost the Dao Debate Battle to Ouyang Zehui and was caught by Ye Bufan as he fell.

• Huang Xuan slapped away an attacking Quasi-Immortal Emperor, then used Fair Trade to keep Nalan Haohuan from fleeing and chatted with him as they pretended to fight.
• Zhuang Lingyun, Xiao Luxia, Ye Bufan, Xiao Xukun, Jia Yu, Yuchi Lingye, Nangong Wentian, and Yin Xiaofei fought, but many leaders on both sides held back and gradually befriended their opponents.
• The Ghost Phoenix Race Ancient Ancestor learned that the War King and Sword King had ordered the leaders to slack off, then confronted the War King, who refused to back down.
• Ten days into the battle, Ye Bufan and Xiao Xukun sparred seriously; Ye Bufan overpowered Xiao Xukun, and the two made peace and began chatting.
• Ling Fei fell from the sky after losing the ten-day Dao Debate Battle to Ouyang Zehui, and Ye Bufan caught him as Ouyang Zehui declared that he would remember their fight.

After Ling Fei was defeated, Ye Bufan challenged Ouyang Zehui while the Ancient Ancestors worried over fighters who resembled people from the past. Ling Fei suspected Ouyang Zehui had fallen for Zhuang Lingyun, and she agreed to fight him as Ye Bufan rampaged through the battlefield.

• Ouyang Zehui defeated Ling Fei, weakening the Imperial Alliance's morale as the High-Level Heavenly Vault pressed its advantage.
• Ye Bufan's immense golden blood energy stunned both sides, while the Ancient Ancestors discussed his resemblance to someone they believed was dead.
• The Ghost Phoenix Race Ancient Ancestor noticed that Huang Xuan, Jia Duobao, and Nangong Wentian resembled people from the past, and the black dragon threatened Huang Xuan.
• Ouyang Zehui blocked Ye Bufan and urged Zhuang Lingyun to fight him, prompting Ling Fei to suspect that Ouyang Zehui had fallen for her.
• Zhuang Lingyun accepted Ouyang Zehui's challenge, and Ye Bufan joined the fray, blasting apart opponents as he tore through the battlefield.

The Ancient Ancestors learned that Ouyang Zehui had fallen for Zhuang Lingyun, while Ye Bufan dominated the battlefield and the other leaders continued slacking off. Zhuang Lingyun offered Ouyang Zehui a chance to become her friend if he surrendered High-Level Heavenly Vault’s flags and admitted defeat, leaving the Ancient Ancestors alarmed.

• The Ancient Ancestors discussed the unreliable leaders and worried that Ouyang Zehui’s feelings for Zhuang Lingyun could affect the battle, while the Emperor Lord mocked them.
• Jia Yu questioned Ling Fei about the leaders’ inaction as Ye Bufan overwhelmed High-Level Heavenly Vault’s Quasi-Immortal Emperors with his Heavenly Emperor Fist.
• Ouyang Zehui held back against Zhuang Lingyun, then admitted he liked her and explained that a former lover had deceived him to obtain the Ancient Formation Clan’s secret art.
• Zhuang Lingyun said she could not forgive Ouyang Zehui for killing her sect’s successors, but offered him a chance to be her friend if he handed over all the flags and admitted defeat.
• The Ghost Phoenix Race Ancient Ancestor and the other Ancient Ancestors reacted with alarm to Zhuang Lingyun’s demand.

Ouyang Zehui defied the Ancient Ancestors and surrendered the High-Level Heavenly Vault’s Fortress Flags to Zhuang Lingyun, choosing to protect her despite their opposing clans. Zhuang Lingyun accepted the flags and declared she wanted to be his friend, and Ouyang Zehui ordered the fighters to stop.

• The Ancient Ancestors overwhelmed Ouyang Zehui with commands to kill Zhuang Lingyun, but Emperor Lord broke their mental hold on him.
• Ghost Phoenix Race Ancient Ancestor accused Zhuang Lingyun of using underhanded tricks, and Emperor Lord rebuked him for interfering with the match.
• Ouyang Zehui offered Zhuang Lingyun all his Fortress Flags and said he wanted to stand up for her after Ghost Phoenix Race Ancient Ancestor insulted her.
• Zhuang Lingyun refused the flags at first, said she wanted Ouyang Zehui as a friend, and told him they could never be together because their clans were enemies.
• Ouyang Zehui opened his eyes, handed over every Fortress Flag, and announced he would surrender on behalf of the High-Level Heavenly Vault.
• Ouyang Zehui taunted the furious Ancient Ancestors and shouted for everyone on the battlefields to stop.

Ouyang Zehui conceded the battle after Zhuang Lingyun obtained the High-Level Heavenly Vault's Fortress Flag, saying he had fallen for her. When the Ghost Phoenix Race Ancient Ancestor rejected the surrender and ordered the flag retaken, Ouyang Zehui used the Formation Dao Pill to suppress the High-Level Heavenly Vault's emperors and asserted his command.

• Ouyang Zehui declared the High-Level Heavenly Vault's defeat after Zhuang Lingyun took its Fortress Flag, stunning both sides.
• Ouyang Zehui admitted he had fallen for Zhuang Lingyun and defended his decision by saying he had preserved the High-Level Heavenly Vault from greater losses.
• The Ghost Phoenix Race Ancient Ancestor argued that Zhuang Lingyun had to bring the flag back to the Imperial Alliance's fortress and ordered the emperors to pursue her.
• Ouyang Zehui reassured Zhuang Lingyun, then used the Formation Dao Pill to suppress the High-Level Heavenly Vault's emperors.
• Ouyang Zehui declared that as Commander, he commanded all the armies under heaven.