Chapter Summaries

The Imperial Alliance faced the High-Level Heavenly Vault's overwhelming lineup for the second stage, leaving its emperors and the myriad worlds doubtful they could survive. The High-Level Heavenly Vault's challengers taunted them and singled out Jun Tian for Fei'ang's death, while a Red Giant demanded to know how Gai Lei had been defeated.

• The High-Level Heavenly Vault assembled thousands of top Quasi-Heir Grade experts and a vast host of stronger Immortal Emperors, shocking the Imperial Alliance and the onlookers.
• Fu Siyuan assessed the enemy's numbers and concluded that even the Imperial Alliance's strongest fighters would struggle against them.
• Fei Peng and Chai Jie mocked the Imperial Alliance and invited its emperors to challenge them.
• Fei Qian confronted Jun Tian over killing her younger brother Fei'ang and vowed that the Land of Bright Moon would make him pay.
• A Red Giant questioned how someone at Gai Lei's level could have defeated him.

The High-Level Heavenly Vault and forces from other timelines underestimated Jiang Ruoyao and mocked the Imperial Alliance before their battle. Their confidence was shaken when Xia Huanyu arrived and announced himself as a member of the Xia Clan.

• Gaishi told the Red Giant that Gai Lei had grown up in the Thirty-Three Heavens and that Jiang Ruoyao defeated him because of their cultivation difference.
• A local Top-tier Being explained that Jiang Ruoyao had also crushed Qiu Ran and the Origin Immortal Palace Heir, making rival factions resolve to target her and Xia Qiuer.
• Chai Jie and the Affectionate Young Master mocked Jiang Ruoyao and discussed taking the women of the Imperial Alliance for the Affectionate Young Master's harem.
• The Imperial Alliance stayed silent as the High-Level Heavenly Vault's side laughed and assumed victory was certain.
• Xia Huanyu strode through a passage toward Tiangang Continent and introduced himself to Chai Jie as a member of the Xia Clan.

Xia Huanyu of the discreet Xia Clan entered the battlefield, prompting the Kaoshan Sect to fight in earnest. He effortlessly stopped Chai Jie’s attack and sent him flying back toward the High-Level Heavenly Vault’s ranks.

• The High-Level Heavenly Vault’s Ancient Ancestors recognized the taboo Xia Clan name and realized the opposing side had sent one of its strongest prodigies.
• The Emperor Lord denied that there was more to his connection with the Xia Clan, while Phoenix Emperor Venerate questioned why he had abandoned the surname.
• Hua Yifeng and Hua Yuxuan recognized Xia Huanyu, and the Kaoshan Sect’s Young Ancestors understood that his arrival meant the sect was taking the battle seriously.
• Chai Jie challenged Xia Huanyu and attacked with the Heaven Blade, but Xia Huanyu caught the blade between two fingers.
• Xia Huanyu knocked Chai Jie backward with a single swing, leaving his chest caved in as he spat blood.

Xia Huanyu revealed that his sect had a force far stronger than the High-Level Heavenly Vault had expected, after easily defeating and cursing Chai Jie. The chapter ended with nearly a hundred white-robed Heirs arriving through his portal and a young man promising the High-Level Heavenly Vault a battle to its heart’s content.

• Xia Huanyu wounded Chai Jie with ease and infected him with Curse Power, then withdrew it after Chai Jie was tortured into submission.
• Chai Jie, Fei Peng, Fei Qian, and the Red Giant argued that the High-Level Heavenly Vault’s vast alliance would overwhelm the Imperial Alliance and its forces.
• Xia Huanyu opened a concealed passage to his sect and challenged the High-Level Heavenly Vault’s confidence in its strength.
• Nearly a hundred white-robed figures emerged from the passage, each at least Heir Grade, shocking the emperors of the High-Level Heavenly Vault.
• A white-robed young man beside Xia Huanyu promised that their opponents would get to play to their hearts’ content in the coming battle.

The Black Hand Organization revealed a lineup of Heir Grade Immortal Emperors that stunned the High-Level Heavenly Vault and took over the battle from the Imperial Alliance. Hua Junxuan challenged the enemy Emperors alone after shrugging off Fei Peng’s attack.

• Kaoshan Sect’s disciples unleashed their auras, and their overwhelming strength shocked the High-Level Heavenly Vault and onlookers across the Heavenly Vaults.
• Fu Siyuan thanked the Imperial Alliance’s Emperors and sent them away, while Duan Wuqing and several other heirs stayed to fight.
• Xia Huanyu led the new Imperial Alliance lineup, composed entirely of Heir Grade Immortal Emperors, as Hua Junxuan taunted the High-Level Heavenly Vault’s Emperors.
• Fei Peng objected to Hua Junxuan’s taunts, so Hua Junxuan seized him by the throat and challenged the enemy Emperors to attack together.
• Fei Peng struck Hua Junxuan with his Fangtian Huaji, but Hua Junxuan remained unharmed and invited the High-Level Heavenly Vault’s forces to give him everything they had.

Hua Junxuan humiliated the High-Level Heavenly Vault’s fighters, and Fei Peng was captured and killed by the Kaoshan Sect disciples. The chapter ended with the Imperial Alliance feasting on Fei Peng while Xia Huanyu barred their enemies from crossing into their territory.

• Hua Junxuan effortlessly defeated Fei Peng’s attacks and threw him into the Kaoshan Sect’s crowd after the Ghost Phoenix Race Ancient Ancestor ordered Fei Peng to retreat.
• Wan Chengxiao and the Kaoshan Sect disciples killed Fei Peng and prepared his body as a feast, ignoring the High-Level Heavenly Vault’s threats.
• The Purple Robe Old Ancestor confronted the High-Level Heavenly Vault’s Ancient Ancestors and dared them to enter the Light Gate World, but they did not respond.
• Fu Siyuan invited the Imperial Alliance’s Emperors to join the feast, and Xia Huanyu warned the High-Level Heavenly Vault’s Emperors that anyone crossing his forbidden line would die.

The High-Level Heavenly Vault’s powers mobilized after Xia Huanyu crossed their boundary, but the Karma Beast Race and Ancient Formation Clan refused to join the fight. The Undefeated Immortal Venerable confronted both clans, while the Nalan Family was left wondering how to win his approval after he turned down their offer to help.

• Chai Jie, Fei Qian, the Red Giant, and other leaders summoned reinforcements after Xia Huanyu’s line crossed into their territory.
• An Ancient Ancestor accused the Karma Beast Race of treachery, and a karma beast swallowed his clone before the Undefeated Immortal Venerable rebuked the clan for refusing to help.
• Ouyang Zehui questioned Emperor Venerable Qianye about his sister’s death and the Ancient Formation Clan’s refusal to join the battle, but Qianye told him the clan would not be forced to act.
• The Undefeated Immortal Venerable arrived at the Ancient Formation Clan, where Emperor Venerable Qianye ordered him to leave.
• The Nalan Family volunteered to fight, but the Undefeated Immortal Venerable told them to stay put, prompting its members to discuss giving him aphrodisiac pills and treasures as a gift.

Nalan Haohuan learned that the Nalan Family had been barred from joining the Immortal Emperor War, while Xia Huanyu hosted a feast and invited powerful heirs to join the Black Hand Organization. Xia Qiuer declined and accepted a sealed scripture for her father, as Xia Huanyu taunted the High-Level Heavenly Vault’s emperors to summon reinforcements.

• Nalan Haohuan pretended to Nalan Qingqing that he wanted to fight, though he privately wished to avoid the battlefield.
• The Undefeated Immortal Venerable rejected the Nalan Family’s gifts and forbade them from joining the war, so the elders blamed Nalan Haohuan and summoned him.
• The Kaoshan Sect and Imperial Alliance feasted on delicacies, and Xia Huanyu welcomed the emperors’ interest in joining the Black Hand Organization.
• Xia Huanyu invited Duan Wuqing, the Heavenly Snake Crown Prince, the Crown Prince of the Sacred Dragon Clan, the Black Robed Person, and other heirs to join the organization.
• Xia Qiuer declined Xia Huanyu’s invitation, accepted a sealed scripture for her father, and learned that Xia Huanyu considered them family.
• Xia Huanyu taunted the High-Level Heavenly Vault’s emperors and told them to call for reinforcements.

Xia Huanyu and the Black Hand Organization taunted the High-Level Heavenly Vault while feasting, and Wan Chengxiao provoked them into losing a Kunpeng Immortal Emperor. The gathered allies turned the confrontation into a banquet and dance, leaving their enemies furious as reinforcements had yet to arrive.

• Xia Huanyu dismissed Fei Qian's threats, while Wan Chengxiao and the Kaoshan Sect Young Ancestors embraced their role as villains.
• When the Kunpeng meat ran low, Wan Chengxiao offered some to the High-Level Heavenly Vault Immortal Emperors, provoking a Tongtian Divine Sect Heir Grade Immortal Emperor.
• Wan Chengxiao used Fair Trade to kick the Heir Grade Immortal Emperor into the opposing group, where the Black Hand Organization tortured him to death.
• The dead Immortal Emperor reverted to his Kunpeng form, and Wan Chengxiao prepared another feast from his body.
• Jiang Ruoyao joined the meal, and Fenghua Empress accepted Wan Chengxiao's invitation to dance as the gathered allies celebrated.
• The High-Level Heavenly Vault beings protested that the gathering looked nothing like a battle.

The Kaoshan Sect disciples welcomed Jiang Ruoyao as family while Xia Huanyu discussed his plans to advance beyond the Immortal Emperor Realm. Meanwhile, Hua Yunfei continued searching the Black Sun River as his companions identified the following female corpse as possibly belonging to the Nalan Family.

• The Kaoshan Sect disciples shared food with Jiang Ruoyao, and Hua Tianqi considered fighting Xia Huanyu while the group waited for reinforcements.
• Xia Huanyu told Fu Siyuan he planned to reach War Emperor Grade and later make a final breakthrough.
• Jiang Ruoyao watched the disciples' close-knit gathering and wondered if it was what someone had wanted her to see.
• Hua Yunfei, Dao Wushuang, and Tianming Wuji searched the Black Sun River while the female corpse continued following them.
• Dao Wushuang suggested that the female corpse might be the vanished stubborn saintess of the Nalan Family.

Hua Yunfei and his companions learned that the female corpse might be a legendary Nalan Family Saintess and heard her say “Heavenly Emperor.” Their path led to the Blood Island, where a mysterious projection appeared and seemed to resemble Nether Son’s master.

• Dao Wushuang, Tianming Wuji, and Nether Son discussed whether the female corpse was the Nalan Family’s long-ago Saintess, and Dao Wushuang decided to leave her where she was.
• The female corpse followed the group and attacked them intermittently before saying “Heavenly Emperor,” prompting Hua Yunfei to wonder whether she had met the person he was seeking.
• Hua Yunfei and his companions encountered the Blood Island, discovered they could not bypass or retreat from it, and learned from Dao Wushuang that crossing it led to the Black Underworld River’s main channel.
• Ancient corpses gathered near the island, and Dao Wushuang explained the rumor that Blood Islands preserved projections of past challengers’ strength.
• A hazy young man in a dark Daoist robe appeared above the island, and Nether Son remarked that the projection looked like his master.

The Nether Lord’s will appeared on the Black Sun River and easily overwhelmed Hua Yunfei, Dao Wushuang, Tianming Wuji, and the Nether Son. After beating them for trespassing, he revealed that he had placed projections of his strength on many tributaries to trouble later generations.

• Dao Wushuang sensed danger from the hazy figure and tried to lead Hua Yunfei and Tianming Wuji away, but Blood Island attacked and trapped them.
• The hazy figure suppressed the three intruders and nearly made Blood Island collapse with a single stamp, revealing that he was the Nether Lord.
• The Nether Lord scolded the Nether Son for approaching the Black Underworld River and sent Big Pretty flying when he tried to protect him.
• The Nether Lord knocked Hua Yunfei down when he tried to explain and then beat Hua Yunfei, Dao Wushuang, Tianming Wuji, and the Nether Son.
• The Nether Lord told the Nether Son that he had placed projections of his strength on many tributaries to make life difficult for later generations.

Hua Yunfei and his companions left Black Sun River after Nether Lord warned him that the Black Underworld River was far more dangerous than they imagined. As they departed, a message awakened a terrifying being in the Nalan Family.

• Nether Lord released Big Pretty from his restrictions, then kicked him across countless starfields when his whining annoyed him.
• Nether Lord told Hua Yunfei that Jia Duobao was alive but offered no further information.
• Nether Lord drove the restless ancient corpses away and warned Hua Yunfei not to take the female corpse from the forbidden zone.
• Hua Yunfei and the others left Black Sun River, while Nether Lord crossed Blood Island and headed toward Black Underworld River.
• Nether Son and Dao Wushuang persuaded Tianming Wuji to join them in venting their anger on someone else.
• A message awakened a terrifying being in the Nalan Family, whose territory shook as its aura surged into the heavens.

Nalan Haohuan suffered the clan elders’ beating while a furious father reached his Hegemon Grade daughter in the Black Sun River and demanded she admit she was wrong. On Tiangang Continent, the Immortal Venerable Successor and the Pioneering Emperor Venerable’s successor arrived to face the Imperial Alliance, with the latter eager for battle.

• The Nalan clansmen mistook a brief aura from the clan grounds for the Ancient Ancestor making a breakthrough and planned to bring the Immortal Venerable a double dose of tonic.
• Nalan Qingqing helped her bruised brother Nalan Haohuan back to his Cave Mansion, where he blamed the clan elders and complained about their father’s Source Clone.
• The terrifying figure reached the Black Sun River, found his Hegemon Grade daughter on a black lotus, and demanded that she admit she was wrong and return home.
• The Immortal Venerable Successor arrived at Tiangang Continent, where Jun Tian recognized that he had been far stronger than his earlier showing suggested.
• The Pioneering Emperor Venerable’s successor arrived with a woodcutter’s knife, welcomed the prospect of a tough fight, and offered to leave Xia Huanyu for his senior brother.

Immortal Venerable Successor and the Pioneering Emperor Venerable Successor selected opponents for the next battle as Jian Lingyun and other Cantian Sword Sect cultivators arrived. When one of them attacked Jiang Ruoyao over Jian Cangsang’s death, she defeated him instantly, leaving Jian Lingyun wary of her strength.

• Immortal Venerable Successor chose Xia Huanyu as his opponent, and Xia Huanyu agreed to do his best.
• The Pioneering Emperor Venerable Successor chose Hua Junxuan, who warned him not to regret the challenge.
• Hua Tianqi stepped forward and introduced himself to Hua Junxuan as his older brother, while Jian Lingyun emerged from the Light Gate and called for a fight.
• A yellow-robed Cantian Sword Sect cultivator accused Jiang Ruoyao of killing Jian Cangsang and attacked her with a vast sword-path embryonic form.
• Jiang Ruoyao shattered the attack and sent the yellow-robed sword cultivator flying with a burst of power.
• Jian Lingyun watched Jiang Ruoyao and decided she was likely the strongest opponent, while the injured swordsman regarded her with wariness.

The High-Level Heavenly Vault summoned powerful fighters for the second battle, including Gu Wuliang of the legendary Ancient God Clan. Xia Huanyu and Gu Wuliang agreed to a no-rules free-for-all within their realms, setting the stage for a brutal clash.

• Immortal Venerable Successor sent the Quasi-Heir Grade emperors away as powerful fighters emerged from the Light Gates to join the High-Level Heavenly Vault's forces.
• Gu Wuliang stepped forward and revealed that he came from the Ancient God Clan, stunning the High-Level Heavenly Vault's fighters and prompting Emperor Lord to explain the clan's standing.
• God Emperor sensed that the Ancient God Clan might be connected to his Dao Fruit and noticed that several clan members had come.
• Gu Wuliang and Xia Huanyu discussed their anticipated fight, while Gu Wuliang praised the strength of Hua Junxuan and the Dao Origin Peak disciples.
• Xia Huanyu and Gu Wuliang agreed that the second battle would be a free-for-all with no rules within the fighters' realms.

The Immortal Emperor War began across the Tiangang Continent as the two sides clashed. Gu Wuliang discovered the God Emperor’s power was connected to the Ancient God Clan, then defeated him with a secret art that gave him absolute control over gods.

• Xia Huanyu and the Immortal Venerable Successor declared the battle begun, and the emperors spread across the Tiangang Continent to fight.
• Jian Lingyun, Fei Qian, the Pioneering Emperor Venerable's successor, and other fighters engaged their opponents while Xia Huanyu battled the Immortal Venerable Successor.
• Gu Wuliang sensed the Ancient God Clan’s aura in the God Emperor and approached him while he was fighting a top-tier heir.
• The God Emperor attacked Gu Wuliang, but Gu Wuliang seized his War Halberd and canceled his Equivalent Exchange technique with Ancient God's Restraint.
• Gu Wuliang invited the God Emperor to join the Ancient God Clan, then used Ancient God's Restraint to suppress him despite his two Dao Fruits.
• Gu Wuliang struck the God Emperor apart and captured his divine soul.

Gu Wuliang defeated the God Emperor and stripped Gao Meinan of her powers before accepting the God Emperor’s offer to go with him. As the other battlefields remained locked in stalemate, Affectionate Young Master targeted Jiang Ruoyao and prepared to use the Drum of Emotion against her.

• Gao Meinan rushed to help the God Emperor, but Gu Wuliang stripped away her Laws of Light and Strength and sent her falling toward the Tiangang Continent.
• The God Emperor offered to go with Gu Wuliang in exchange for Gao Meinan’s release, and Gu Wuliang sealed the God Emperor’s spirit and took him away.
• Jiang Ruoyao watched the battles and decided her Kaoshan Sect teammates could handle their opponents without her intervention.
• Affectionate Young Master approached Jiang Ruoyao and tried to influence her with his Great Dao of Emotion, but she remained unmoved and attacked him.
• Affectionate Young Master’s allies arrived, and he produced the Drum of Emotion and ordered them to stop Jiang Ruoyao from using Equivalent Exchange.

Affectionate Young Master and five Wanle Palace members trapped Jiang Ruoyao in the Lust Ancient Formation and tried to overwhelm her with emotional arts. Instead, the drums helped her settle her feelings, and the Exquisite Hundred Immortal Skirt appeared as she began to remember its significance.

• The five Wanle Palace members joined Affectionate Young Master to form the Lust Ancient Formation and attacked Jiang Ruoyao with their drums.
• Affectionate Young Master's emotional arts spread across the All Realms Great Universe and High-Level Heavenly Vault, causing widespread chaos until powerful beings suppressed the effects.
• Jiang Ruoyao's emotions settled, confusing Affectionate Young Master and the five members, who intensified their drumming and used more emotional arts.
• Jiang Ruoyao remembered a man giving a woman the Exquisite Hundred Immortal Skirt and wondered when she had begun wearing it.
• Jiang Ruoyao's red dress transformed into the radiant Exquisite Hundred Immortal Skirt, leaving her questioning her memories.

Jiang Ruoyao recalled buried memories as Affectionate Young Master tried to control her, then killed him and his disciples and overwhelmed the other fighters. Gu Wuliang stepped forward to face her as she remained armed and dangerous.

• Jiang Ruoyao's memories resurfaced, and Affectionate Young Master used Emotional Control while the Wanle Palace disciples beat their drums to strengthen him.
• Jiang Ruoyao killed Affectionate Young Master, crushed his soul, and destroyed the five Wanle Palace disciples and the Lust Ancient Formation.
• Jiang Ruoyao swept across the other battlefields, killing top successors with her crimson sword breath and shocking the onlookers.
• A Kaoshan Sect disciple reminded Jiang Ruoyao that he had treated her to food, prompting more memories and revealing that she had not truly lost control; she kicked him as he fled.
• Jiang Ruoyao kept the red dress and crimson killing sword as Gu Wuliang approached and declared that he would be her opponent.