Chapter Summaries

Shi Lan explored the ruins of Guanghan Palace on the Taiyin Star, where she recorded powerful divine abilities before fleeing the approaching celestial tide. After burying Xiang Yu and leaving the realm, she returned to Lingyang through the passage in Youzhou, where her strength was sharply suppressed.

• Shi Lan found jade-like remains bearing dao marks connected to the Jade Clarity Creation Art and recorded more than a dozen powerful divine abilities and immortal arts from the palace ruins.
• As the celestial body's tide began, the immortal crane carried Shi Lan away from the ruins and back to Tianshan Peak.
• Shi Lan learned the tide would last seven days to half a month, buried Xiang Yu in an ice tomb, and left the Taiyin Star at Samsara's urging.
• Across the Nine Provinces and beyond the passes, intensifying warfare raised the world's essence and helped several generals advance toward the realm of contemporary heroes.
• Shi Lan reached Liu Bei-controlled Youzhou and entered the hidden space-time passage, arriving in Lingyang with less than one-tenth of her combat power.

After returning from the Nine Provinces, Shi Lan strengthened her preparations for the World-Destroying Calamity, checked on her allies and family, and traveled to the Extreme South of Divine Continent. The chapter ended with her triggering the calamity on an isolated island.

• Shi Lan thanked Bai Yu, Shentu Jinglong, and Ruan Yun for their service, then learned that Tian Bai had reached the late stage of the Myriad Manifestations Realm.
• Li Canglan reported the Heavenly Evolution Sect's growth and showed Shi Lan the completed Zhoutian Star Formation, whose 365 flags gave her added confidence against the calamity.
• Shi Lan visited Wu Lingkong in Divine Wind City and promised to help her wield influence throughout the Lingyang Realm one day.
• At the Shi Mansion, Shi Lan gave Shi Yiming a fragment of a Sage's writing, reassured Shi Tianlu and Su Lanyue, and rested at home for several days.
• Shi Lan traveled to the barren ocean in the far south, reviewed her system status, and released her suppression to trigger the World-Destroying Calamity.

Shi Lan endured the World-Destroying Calamity and nearly died when a lightning saber shattered her growing domain, but Emperor Linglong’s jade wall rescued her and the tribulation eventually passed. The Prodigy Ranking recorded Shi Lan as dead, prompting Chu Hanzhou to launch an investigation as Shi Lan recovered and prepared to strengthen her foundation.

• Shi Lan used the Qiong Luo Realm and her formation flags to withstand the first bolts of the World-Destroying Calamity, while her consciousness merged with the realm’s rudimentary Heavenly Dao.
• Shi Lan withdrew her formation flags and endured the lightning directly, expanding her Imperial Domain until a heavenly saber tore through it and left her near death.
• Taishi gave the boy in black the Imperial Scripture, and a cracked jade wall escaped through a spatial passage toward the Extreme South of Divine Continent.
• Emperor Linglong’s jade wall gathered immortal light around Shi Lan, shielding her from the remaining lightning until the tribulation clouds dispersed.
• A red-robed man crossed Shi Lan’s name off a scroll and added it to the Firmament Ranking, while Shi Lan recovered and resolved to strengthen her foundation.
• After Shi Lan disappeared from the Prodigy Ranking, Chu Hanzhou assumed she had died and ordered an investigation into everyone she had recently met.

Shi Lan recovered from her wounds, advanced to the middle stage of the Heavenly Tribulation Realm, and broke through Lingyang’s barrier to leave the realm. Her rise alarmed the human, Demon, and Devil powers, while Di Luosha sought a dangerous path to gain strength.

• Chu Hanzhou asked Taishi about Shi Lan and the next master of the Imperial Court, and Taishi said she might preserve Lingyang’s spark but could refuse the position.
• Demon Emperor Chenxin concluded that Shi Lan had likely become a Human Emperor and summoned the Demon Emperors.
• Di Luosha recognized that Shi Lan might have ascended to Emperor Grade and left to visit her father’s burial place in search of power.
• The Sky Dome Rankings placed Shi Lan at 206th, above every Heavenly Tribulation Realm Emperor in Lingyang.
• Shi Lan repaired her foundations with origin force from the Qiong Luo Realm, advanced to the middle stage of the Heavenly Tribulation Realm, and stopped drawing from the damaged world.
• Shi Lan pierced Lingyang’s barrier and left the realm as a distant creature watched her depart.

After Shi Lan broke through the world barrier, she learned about the territories and rules governing travel beyond Lingyang, while the Demon Race tested the World-Destroying Calamity and failed to save any of its five challengers. Back in the Shenzhou Vast Land, Shi Lan reunited with her family and went to the Xuan King Palace, where Chu Hanzhou pledged his lineage’s support for her to lead the human race.

• Shi Lan met the Imperial Blood Army beyond Lingyang, learned that Human Emperors had to register their journeys, and returned to the Shenzhou Vast Land.
• The Demon Emperor had five great venerables undergo the World-Destroying Calamity, but each died as their minor world collapsed.
• Huang Ze asked Chen Xin to restore an imperial body, and he agreed in exchange for Shi Lan’s corpse within six months.
• Shi Lan returned to the Shi Mansion, reassured her family, and decided to visit the Xuan King Palace before heading to the Outer Starry Sky.
• Chu Hanzhou told Shi Lan that he and the Xuan King lineage would recognize her as their leader and help her attain the Dao when she reached the Emperor Grade’s extreme realm.

Shi Lan accepted Chu Hanzhou’s support but declined an inheritance and personal guards, then traveled through the Imperial Palace’s dimensional gate to the Outer Battlefront with a group of human prodigies. The Demon Emperor learned that Shi Lan had left Lingyang and ordered Huang Ze to bring back her corpse, while Chu Hanzhou and six peak Emperor experts followed through the gate.

• Chu Hanzhou offered Shi Lan command of three second-grade sects and secured her a royal title, advancing her quest to build a first-grade faction.
• Shi Lan chose to visit the Outer Battlefront, and Chu Hanzhou arranged access to the Imperial Court’s dimensional gate while warning her to return within five years.
• At the Imperial Palace, Shi Lan encountered Bai Weiyang, Yan Mobei, Gao Linyuan, and other prodigies before stepping through the gate ahead of them.
• The Demon and Devil races detected the passage’s opening, and diviners determined that Shi Lan was beyond Lingyang and could not be precisely located.
• The Demon Emperor ordered Huang Ze to bring him Shi Lan’s corpse within six months, then Chu Hanzhou and six peak Emperor experts followed the group through the gate.

Shi Lan entered the outer battlefield, where she captured a group of humanoid lifeforms who recognized her as a human from Lingyang. Meanwhile, Huangze followed a trace of Shi Lan’s spirit blood toward her and was intercepted by seven figures.

• Shi Lan and the other prodigies arrived at the outer battlefield, where Sang Ze explained the dangers and gave them escape talismans.
• Shi Lan left camp to explore, and Chu Hanzhou learned from Sang Ze that she had gone beyond the formation’s range.
• Shi Lan traveled deep into the battlefield and suppressed a group of humanoid lifeforms after they recognized her and tried to send a message.
• Huangze used Shi Lan’s spirit blood to track her and discovered she was outside human territory.
• Seven figures surrounded Huangze as a voice accused the Demon Race of treacherous designs.

Chu Hanzhou and six Human Emperors fought Huang Ze, who inhabited a Demon Emperor’s body and carried imperial marks in her soul. As Chu Hanzhou prepared a blood-sacrifice weapon, Shi Lan sensed his aura from a nearby valley and questioned whether Supremes could enter the outer battlefield.

• Chu Hanzhou and six Human Emperors attacked Huang Ze, whose remnant body withstood their strikes.
• Huang Ze unleashed an Imperial Art to seal the surrounding space in fire, then fled as the Human Emperors pursued her.
• A Human Emperor struck Huang Ze’s consciousness and discovered imperial marks in her soul, revealing that she was the real Demon Emperor.
• Chu Hanzhou opened a world gate and summoned 108 blood-red flying knives, then asked the other Human Emperors to buy him time.
• Shi Lan sensed Chu Hanzhou’s aura in the distant battle and questioned a captured man about whether Supremes could enter the outer battlefield.

Shi Lan reached the Outer Starry Sky battlefield and witnessed Chu Hanzhou and six other Human Emperors fighting Huang Ze. As Tianyuan Great World reinforcements arrived, Chu Hanzhou prepared to face them while Shi Lan watched from hiding.

• Shi Lan learned that powerful factions used the Outer Starry Sky battlefield’s spatial rifts to invade and destroy other worlds, then headed toward the fighting.
• At the Demon Race's Lingyang encampment, Feng Yichuan attacked a Demon Emperor who insulted him, and a decree ordered the demons to kill Shi Lan and required Feng Yichuan to cooperate.
• Shi Lan found charred corpses near the battlefield and watched from a fissure as Chu Hanzhou and six Human Emperors surrounded and wounded Huang Ze.
• Huang Ze unleashed a devastating burst of power that shattered the Human Emperors’ seals and injured Shi Lan with its shockwaves.
• Tianyuan Great World forces arrived, and Chu Hanzhou opened the World Gate and prepared to fight them.

Chu Hanzhou and the Human Emperors fought Huang Ze before joining forces with the demon emperors to eliminate the Tianyuan Grand World attackers. After the demon emperors withdrew, Chu Hanzhou discovered Shi Lan had been hiding beneath the battlefield and ordered everyone back to camp to guard against further threats.

• Chu Hanzhou's throwing-knife formation badly wounded Huang Ze, while the Human Emperors withdrew and attacked five Tianyuan Grand World powerhouses emerging from a war chariot.
• The Human Emperors killed one attacker, and the silver-robed leader urged the survivors to target Lingyang's camp and seek its coordinates.
• Feng Yichuan and three other demon emperors arrived, rescued Huang Ze, and joined the Human Emperors in killing the Tianyuan attackers.
• Shi Lan stayed hidden beneath the battlefield and absorbed the blood falling from the fighters into her imperial domain.
• Chu Hanzhou learned Shi Lan was in the pit below, warned her about the Outer Starry Sky, and ordered the Human Emperors to return to camp and remain on guard.

Shi Lan watched the Human Emperors repel an assault by thirteen powerhouses from the Tianyuan Great World, then learned that Chu Hanzhou and the others hoped she would someday become an Ancient Great Emperor. Meanwhile, Di Luosha opened a sealed domain gate in the Boundless Devil Cave and entered the passage beyond.

• Chu Hanzhou recalled nearby prodigies, and Duan Chenxing destroyed the approaching Tianyuan Great World's war chariots before its fighters attacked the camp.
• Chu Hanzhou and six other Human Emperors fought the thirteen intruders, killing several before nightfall forced the Tianyuan fighters to retreat.
• Shi Lan learned the identities and cultivation of the Human Emperors, and Chu Hanzhou explained that their hope of attaining the Dao depended on her reaching the Ancient Great Emperor realm.
• Di Luosha entered a forbidden ground in the Boundless Devil Cave, dispelled the seal on a domain gate with her blood, and stepped through it.

Di Luosha retrieved the precious blood from Emperor Beichen’s corpse to unlock her sealed bloodline, preparing to face Shi Lan and the approaching calamity. Shi Lan equipped her allies with powerful battle armor and drew the nine-star divine weapon World-Burying, while the Tianyuan Great World’s incursions into the demon and devil camps were swiftly crushed.

• Di Luosha entered the ancient forest, took the precious blood from Emperor Beichen’s heart, and absorbed it to merge her divine and devil bloodlines.
• Di Luosha left a snow devil orchid with Emperor Beichen, rejected his past ambitions for her, and bowed before the throne of corpses.
• Shi Lan tested the system’s eight-star battle armor, kept one set, gave four to Bai Yu and the guards, and sealed the remaining five in the Heaven Evolution Sect’s vault.
• Shi Lan used her limit draw for a magical treasure and obtained the nine-star divine weapon World-Burying, which appeared as a huge bow in the Qiong Luo Realm.
• The Tianyuan Great World’s invaders were annihilated by the Lingyang Heavenly Dao in the devil camp and by the Demon Emperors in the demon camp.

Huang Ze considered leaving Lingyang through a domain gate, while Shi Lan tested the World-Burying Bow, passed the Cloudreturn Sword Emperor’s Dao fruit to Bai Weiyang, and continued searching for the Divine Martial Great World. The chapter ended with Shi Lan encountering Wu De’s group and crushing Marquis Yuntian’s war chariot before asking who he was.

• Huang Ze argued that the Demon Emperors should attack the humans while they were injured, but Feng Yichuan warned that a war could expose Lingyang to the Tianyuan Great World; Huang Ze then considered escaping through a domain gate.
• Shi Lan failed to draw the World-Burying Bow by ordinary means, used her battle armor to pull its string slightly, and nearly damaged the Qiong Luo Realm when it snapped back.
• Shi Lan left the camp to search for the Divine Martial Great World and encountered Yan Mobei, whom she offered the Cloudreturn Sword Emperor’s Dao fruit; Yan Mobei declined and recommended Bai Weiyang instead.
• Bai Weiyang swore to honor the Cloudreturn Sword Emperor, accepted the Dao fruit from Shi Lan, and received a pass to Yunyan Star so he could visit Zhu Xiyang.
• Shi Lan traveled north, subdued Wu De and his companions, and then destroyed Marquis Yuntian’s arriving war chariot, leaving him at her feet.

Shi Lan learned about the Jiyi Great World and headed toward newly opened worlds, while Qing Lan reacted fearfully to Shi Lan’s breakthrough and prepared the Lan Clan to move. In the Tianyuan Great World, Taishi Lingchu defeated Cang Zhuixian, and Taishi killed the three Supremes who intervened before taking Ling Chu back to Lingyang.

• Shi Lan questioned Lü Yingou about the Jiyi Great World and its dynasties, then let him and Wu De leave before heading toward the newly opened worlds.
• Qing Lan received the Lan Clan’s first newborn cub, but when Shi Lan’s breakthrough caused the ancestral blood pool to shine, Qing Lan ordered the clan to move once the children were born.
• Taishi brought Ling Chu to a gathering in the Tianyuan Great World, where Ling Chu challenged Cang Zhuixian despite three Supremes sealing the area.
• Ling Chu wounded Cang Zhuixian, and when Cang Zhuixian’s protector intervened, Taishi killed the old man while Ling Chu struck down Cang Zhuixian.
• Taishi blocked the three Supremes from reaching the arena, then killed them as they fled; afterward, he told Ling Chu to remember the world and said they would return to Lingyang to send him into the Heavenly Realm.

Shi Lan entered the Fierce Nether King Realm to reclaim her Primordial Spirit and evacuate Bian Qin’s Green Ghost Rakshasa clan as powerful outsiders invaded. After returning to the sealed passage, she and Bai Yu killed the gold-robed guard with World Burial, but the shot also destroyed the passage.

• Shi Lan followed the newly opened passage to the Fierce Nether King Realm, where she sensed her Primordial Spirit and learned from Samsara that members of the Samsara Hall were present.
• Shi Lan reunited with Bian Qin and led all 2,814 Green Ghost Rakshasas through a gate to the Qiong Luo Realm, then accepted Bian Qin calling her Master again.
• A mission to plunder the Fierce Nether King Realm appeared in the Hall of Reincarnation, while Chu Hanzhou ordered the expedition beyond the domain to end in seven days.
• Shi Lan found the passage guarded by a gold-robed expert with eight Supreme weapons and watched him seize a rival group’s Supreme cauldron after defeating them.
• Shi Lan had Bai Yu fire World Burial from the Qiong Luo Realm, killing the gold-robed man and the nearby Tianyuan experts while shattering the eight divine swords.
• Bai Yu confirmed that the guard was dead, then told Shi Lan that the passage had been destroyed as well.

Shi Lan recovered a Supreme artifact after Burial Realm’s arrow destroyed the spatial passage, while the realm’s Heavenly Dao began to awaken. Experts gathered at the ruined battlefield passage, and reincarnators arrived to find no ninth-tier lifeforms but a dangerously sensitive Heavenly Dao.

• Shi Lan learned that Burial Realm’s arrow had devastated the continent and stirred the sleeping Heavenly Dao, then found she lacked energy to open a passage to Lingyang Realm but could eventually afford one to the battlefield beyond the realms.
• Shi Lan and Bai Yu recovered a damaged Supreme cauldron, and the artifact refiners began erasing its former owner’s imprint.
• Bai Yu told the cauldron’s true dragon spirit to help, and its black flame began melting the imprint, which could disappear within three days.
• Experts from the greater worlds and other groups rushed to the destroyed passage; stranded experts feared they would never return home and prepared to fight.
• Reincarnators opened domain gates and scanned the Fierce Nether King Realm, learning that no ninth-tier lifeforms were present and the Heavenly Dao was in a shallow, easily disturbed slumber.

The Heavenly Dao sealed the Fierce Nether King Realm after Supreme artifacts disturbed its barrier, trapping Shi Lan and the invaders inside. Shi Lan sought a way to survive by absorbing Asura battle blood, while the chapter ended with Taishi presenting Ling Chu as his successor and Ling Yu'an hearing how formidable Shi Lan had become.

• The Reincarnation Hall's forces entered the Fierce Nether King Realm, but Supreme artifacts awakened the Heavenly Dao, which sealed the barrier and trapped the invaders.
• Shi Lan learned she could not yet afford a passage out, killed several reincarnators, questioned a captive about the Reincarnation Hall, and then killed him.
• The Crimson Crow War Halberd led Shi Lan to the Asura clan, where she entered a pool of battle blood that rapidly transformed her body and advanced her cultivation.
• Taishi introduced Taishi Ling Chu to the Human Emperors as a possible successor, prompting Li Jingzhou and the others to discuss the succession and Shi Lan's prospects.
• Ling Yu'an told Ling Qing about her painful recurring dream, then asked about Shi Lan; Ling Qing described Shi Lan as a terrifying prodigy who could eclipse her contemporaries.

Taishi helped Lingchu overcome his Heavenly Human tribulation by using a barren minor world as nourishment and sealing the lightning away. Shi Lan’s transformation in the Blood Pool of War left her unable to return to Lingyang, and she told the Asura King that his people had no chance of winning before he offered the race’s treasury in exchange for taking some of them with her.

• Taishi used a barren minor world to help Lingchu advance to the third stage of the Heavenly Human Realm, then sealed the tribulation with the Heavenly Treasure Records.
• Shi Lan absorbed the Asura battle blood, advanced to the Sun-Moon Realm, and realized that her changed aura meant she could no longer return to Lingyang.
• Shi Lan left the Blood Pool of War to retrieve the Crimson Crow War Halberd and agreed to meet the Asura King about her weapon.
• A bloody lightning flash and torrential rain revealed that a Supreme had fallen somewhere in the Fierce Nether King Realm.
• The Asura King asked Shi Lan about the realm’s chances of survival, and she answered that they had none.
• The Asura King offered the Asura treasury in exchange for Shi Lan taking some of his people with her.

Shi Lan gathered the Asura King and other eighth-rank peak experts to ambush the Samsara Hall’s invaders, and an Asura archer severely wounded one of their supreme beings with the Burial Realm. Meanwhile, Huangze returned from searching for Shi Lan, while Chen Xin’s Demon Emperors grew suspicious of her dealings with the Tianyuan Great World.

• The Asura King entrusted Shi Lan with the clan’s 1,243 children, treasury, and battle-blood pool, then agreed to help her fight the invaders.
• Shi Lan recruited twelve other eighth-rank peak experts and learned that four Samsara Hall supreme beings were leading a slaughter across the realm.
• An Asura archer used the Burial Realm to strike a Samsara Hall supreme being, destroying his defensive ring and forcing him to flee badly wounded.
• Bai Yu rose inside the Qiong Luo Realm after Shi Lan told the injured archer not to waste another arrow.
• Huangze told Feng Yichuan that Shi Lan had gone to another great world through a severed spatial passage, then rejected his warning about her conduct.
• Chen Xin dismissed the Demon Emperors’ concerns about Huangze but threatened her if she proved rebellious.

Shi Lan survived the arrival of the Samsara Hall Supremes by provoking the Fierce Nether King Realm’s Heavenly Dao, then escaped through a newly opened passage as outsiders shattered the realm and took its world energy. The chapter ended with Yang Fujii witnessing the realm’s destruction from a safe distance.

• Shi Lan killed a Supreme and discovered that his source force had been extracted, then absorbed what remained of his body and weapon.
• Three Samsara Hall Supremes attacked Shi Lan; she was badly injured and captured, but the awakened Heavenly Dao struck them down and damaged the Burial Realm.
• Shi Lan opened a spacetime passage to the Outer Starry Sky battlefield, released King Asura and the others, and left the Fierce Nether King Realm alone.
• Three Supreme Venerables arrived outside the realm, shattered its barrier, and compressed its continents into a star before sealing its dissipating energy.
• Yang Fujii watched the realm’s destruction from several star systems away and recognized the event as the death hexagram.