Chapter Summaries

Ye Yu and Ye Chengjun fought to a stalemate with formations before Ye Chengjun drained the ancient battlefield’s vegetation and unleashed the Imperial Art, Emperor Flame Heaven-Burning Sword. Ye Yu answered with the Thunder Emperor, then summoned the Sword Venerable through the Heaven Slaying Sword Drawing Technique, leaving the clash between their colossal figures poised to begin.

• Ye Yu and Ye Chengjun matched each other’s formations as stars and Sword Qi collided, leaving the watching geniuses awed by the gap in their power.
• Ye Chengjun drew life essence from the battlefield’s vegetation, while the spatial rift stabilized and many spectators, including Lin Qingyue and Wang Lie, departed.
• Ye Yu gathered spiritual power with the Innate Breathing Technique and Imperial Power, while Ye Chengjun summoned an imperial phantom and formed the Emperor Flame Heaven-Burning Sword.
• Ye Yu summoned the Thunder Emperor, but its figure turned illusory after facing Ye Chengjun’s imperial phantom.
• Ye Yu used the Heaven Slaying Sword Drawing Technique to summon the Sword Venerable, who emerged holding a colossal blood sword opposite the imperial phantom.

Ye Yu and Ye Chengjun fought with the power of their Imperial Arts, leaving both gravely wounded. Ye Chengjun escaped through a jade talisman to Central Province, while Ye Yu faced the spatial fissure and the storm beyond it.

• Ye Yu summoned three sage figures and fused the fragments of the Haotian Mirror into them as Ye Chengjun unleashed the Imperial Art, Nine Heavens Slash.
• Ye Yu’s dragon-phoenix attack collided with Ye Chengjun’s sword strike, and the resulting explosion wounded both fighters and blasted the distant Yaochi and Ye family onlookers away.
• Ye Yu advanced on Ye Chengjun, explaining that the Fate Lock could no longer protect him now that both men bore Heaven’s Mandate.
• Ye Chengjun hurled the Emperor Flame Sword at Ye Yu, who let it pierce his shoulder and sealed it away in his Ring of Holding.
• Ye Chengjun crushed a Ye family jade talisman and vanished through a spatial ripple to Central Province.
• Ye Yu looked toward the spatial fissure, aware that an endless storm likely awaited him beyond it.

Ye Yu stayed behind after securing the Xu family’s victory in the Great Family Competition, while Ye Chengjun escaped the ancient battlefield severely injured. After learning what happened, Qin Ruoxian ordered Jade Pond to protect Ye Yu as Ye Chengjun called for the exit to be sealed and demanded Ye Yu’s death.

• Ye Yu killed the remaining Ye family members and told Qing Yi to leave with the Jade Pond members, but Fat Monk stayed with him.
• The competition results showed that the Xu family had occupied the most resource points and won first place, thanks to Ye Yu.
• Xu family reinforcements claimed credit for the victory and accepted rewards, while Wu Yuan joined in after receiving a Ring of Holding.
• Ye Chengjun appeared outside the spatial rift severely injured, and the Ye family rushed to him.
• Qing Yi reported the events inside to Qin Ruoxian, who shattered her Jade Pond Token and ordered Jade Pond to protect Ye Yu at any cost.
• Ye Chengjun ordered the Ye family to seal the exit and declared that he wanted Ye Yu dead.

Ye Yu emerged from the ancient battlefield after defeating Ye Chengjun, but the Ye family moved to kill him. Qin Ruoxian and Yaochi came to his defense, while Lin Qingyue joined the conflict against him and Xu Yunting refused to help.

• Wang Lie and the others realized Ye Yu had defeated Ye Chengjun and that the rest of the Ye family had died in the ancient battlefield.
• Xu Yunting sealed Guan Yunlan's meridians and refused to protect Ye Yu, insisting that Ye Yu was not really his grandson.
• Ye Yu emerged with the Emperor Flame Sword, and Ye Chengjun ordered the Ye family elders to kill him.
• Qin Ruoxian arrived with Yaochi elders and stood beside Ye Yu, while he withdrew his hand after she reminded him she was the Yaochi Saintess.
• A Ye family elder and a Yaochi elder argued over the families' conduct in the battlefield as Lin Qingyue brought the Lin family into the confrontation against Ye Yu.

Xu Yunxi returned to the battlefield and revealed that Ye Yu was her child, protecting him from the factions fighting over him. She and Ye Yu reunited, and he summoned Imperial Power as their meeting ended.

• Qin Ruoxian refused to abandon Ye Yu, so Yaochi fought the Ye Family and the Lin Family joined the battle.
• Xu Yunxi arrived with the Void Sky Cauldron and forced the gathered factions to stop fighting.
• Xu Yunxi declared that no one could touch her child, and Xu Yunting realized Ye Yu was his grandson.
• Xu Yunxi approached Ye Yu, but he initially avoided her touch before telling her he did not blame her.
• Ye Yu raised a ball of golden Imperial Power from his hand.

Ye Yu broke down in Xu Yunxi’s arms over the pain of his past, while Xu Yunxi decided to sacrifice herself so he could survive as either a Fate Defier or a Heaven’s Mandate Holder. She crippled Ye Chengjun and placed Autumn Water in his hand, preparing to make Ye Yu kill her.

• Ye Yu told Xu Yunxi that he could not forgive his former self, and Xu Yunxi embraced him and accepted blame for what he had suffered.
• Xu Yunxi realized she could still resolve the conflict if she died by Ye Yu’s hand, and told him she only wanted him to live well.
• Xu Yunxi charged at Ye Chengjun as the Ye, Lin, and Wang Families attacked her.
• Xu Yunxi used Po Jun’s severed arm to unleash Curse Power and make members of the four great families suffer bloodline backlash.
• Xu Yunxi seized Ye Chengjun, destroyed the spiritual power in his dantian, and made him take Autumn Water from Guan Yunlan’s Ring of Holding.

Ye Yu rejected the Imperial Path rather than sacrifice everyone he cared about, but Qin Ruoxian vanished while saving him. As the Void Sky Cauldron moved to attack, Li Daoyi pierced Xu Yunxi, and the Fate Locks on her began to shatter.

• Ye Yu refused to kill Fat Monk and abandoned his chance to become Emperor, while Fat Monk awoke and escaped after their master-servant contract ended.
• Qin Ruoxian embraced Ye Yu and dissolved into motes of light, draining Yaochi’s power as she revealed they had met beneath a peach tree long ago.
• The Void Sky Cauldron broke free and attacked Ye Yu, while Po Jun, Seven Kills, and Tan Lang severed its chains and held back the order chains.
• Li Daoyi pierced Xu Yunxi with Spring Melody, causing the swords to exchange forms and the Fate Locks on Xu Yunxi to begin collapsing.

Ye Yu rejected the emperor’s offer of power and confronted the fate binding him and everyone else. After the Mirror Spirit appeared, Ye Yu accepted the causes that had brought him here and vanished from the great hall, then reappeared beyond the Heavenly Abyss amid gray radiance.

• The Cauldron Spirit poured its power into Xu Yunxi to slow the collapse of her Fate Lock, while invisible chains of order immobilized Xu Yunting and Guan Yunlan and revealed the cage surrounding everyone.
• An old emperor tempted Ye Yu with the power to save the others, but Ye Yu rejected becoming emperor and said he only wanted to be born and live on in peace.
• The Mirror Spirit emerged from Ye Yu’s three Haotian Mirror fragments, and Ye Yu merged their Karma power into himself.
• Ye Yu said he did not need to forgive his former self, then vanished from the great hall.
• Beyond the Heavenly Abyss, Ye Yu rose before Po Jun, Seven Kills, Tan Lang, the Cauldron Spirit, Xu Yunxi, and the dying Ye Chengjun as gray radiance appeared around him.

Ye Yu used Karma to break the Fate Locks and free Xu Yunxi and Ye Chengjun, while the old man finally let go of his obsession and the Emperor disappeared. As the Divine Continent fell into the Greater Thousand World and war erupted, Ye Yu and Qin Ruoxian settled into a peaceful life together.

• Ye Yu used Karma to shatter the Fate Locks on Xu Yunxi and Ye Chengjun, overcoming the power of destiny.
• The Mirror Spirit persuaded the old man to release his obsession, and the Cauldron Spirit returned to the Void Sky Cauldron as the Emperor dissipated.
• The Divine Continent crashed into the Greater Thousand World, prompting the royal clans and Devil Race to attack while human factions united to fight back.
• Ye Yu and Qin Ruoxian lived quietly in a remote town, where they offered incense to the damaged Void Sky Cauldron and ignored distant battles.
• The Fat Monk arrived with Gu Qianqian, then Xu Yunxi visited and joined them for a meal, teasing Ye Yu and Qin Ruoxian about having a child.