Chapter Summaries

The God Realm challenged the Immortal Realm to a Conference of Kings to discuss surrender, prompting its leaders to prepare for war. Three days later, the Celestial Court issued a rallying order, and forces from across the Immortal Realm marched toward the Heavenly River.

• Ao Kun promised to restore the lower realms he had destroyed and to protect them as Heavenly Dao if Hua Yunfei defeated him.
• The Double-Pupiled One told Hua Linfeng and Ao Kun that the God Realm’s kings had arrived and demanded a Conference of Kings to discuss the Immortal Realm’s surrender.
• Hua Linfeng and the Double-Pupiled One prepared to bring out the Immortal Realm’s hidden prodigies, while Hua Linfeng said the Backer Sect would assist from the shadows.
• Three days later, the Celestial Court’s kings issued a rallying order, mobilizing cultivators and reclusive clans toward the western Immortal Realm and the Heavenly River.
• Living beings across the Immortal Realm feared that war would spread beyond the front lines and force everyone to fight.

Hua Yunfei and the Daoyuan Sect disciples arrived at the Heavenly River to join the war, where the Martial Virtue Hall Master brought them to the Martial King Hall. Hua Yunfei received the Sea God Trident and sent the Martial Virtue Hall Master into his Hongmeng Heart to visit Feng Qingwu, while his companions expected him to linger.

• Hua Yunfei led Ye Bufan, Huang Xuan, Jia Duobao, and the other Daoyuan Sect disciples through the sixth spatial entrance to the Heavenly River.
• The Martial Virtue Hall Master took Hua Yunfei and the group to the Martial King Hall, where Hua Yunfei received the Sea God Trident through his system.
• The Martial Virtue Hall Master demanded to see Feng Qingwu, and Hua Yunfei explained that she was inside his Hongmeng Heart.
• Hua Yunfei sent the Martial Virtue Hall Master into the Hongmeng Heart to visit Feng Qingwu, and Huang Xuan, Jia Duobao, and Chu Qing'er predicted he would not return soon.

Hua Yunfei found the Martial Virtue Hall Master knocked out in the Hongmeng World after Feng Qingwu punched him, then brought him back. Hua Yunfei obtained the Sea God Azure Silver Armor through sign-in, and the Sea God lost his remaining war boot as well, leaving him furious and humiliated.

• Hua Yunfei waited three days before entering the Hongmeng World and finding the Martial Virtue Hall Master unconscious in a valley of crimson flowers.
• The Martial Virtue Hall Master explained that Feng Qingwu had punched him, then left a Dao-inscribed message on a cliff before he and Hua Yunfei departed.
• Hua Yunfei signed in and obtained the Sea God Azure Silver Armor, completing his Sea God set except for the war boots.
• The Sea God raged over the theft of his divine spark, trident, and armor, then threw down his remaining war boot to bait the thief.
• The war boot vanished before the Sea God’s eyes, leaving him with only one boot and no sight of the thief.

Hua Yunfei received a stolen battle boot from the system and was appointed commander of the Martial King Hall’s Great Emperors, despite refusing the position. As he reached his tent by the Heavenly River, the furious Sea God arrived in the Immortal Realm seeking Wu De, whom he suspected of stealing from him.

• The system gave Hua Yunfei one of the Sea God’s battle boots and admitted it had left the other on his foot to torment him.
• The Martial Virtue Hall Master appointed Hua Yunfei commander of the Martial King Hall’s Great Emperors, but Hua Yunfei refused before reluctantly leaving with Ye Bufan and his other three disciples.
• A woman escorted Hua Yunfei through the camp, where many Great Emperor prodigies objected to him holding command, and showed him his tent.
• Hua Yunfei found Dou Dou, Luo Xiaoman, Immoral Virtue, Ao Ye, the Sun Moon Divine Child, the Yaoguang Holy Son, and Qing Xuan waiting at the tent.
• The Sea God stormed over the Heavenly River, shouted for Wu De to come out, and blamed an Immortal King for stealing from him.

The Sea God confronted the Immortal World, accusing Wu De of stealing his belongings and demanding to face him. Wu De ambushed and overpowered him, leaving the Sea God captured and insisting the sneak attack had decided their fight.

• The Sea God arrived at the Heavenly River and demanded that the Immortal World bring Wu De out to answer for stealing his belongings.
• A hundred Immortal World kings appeared, and the Peng King challenged the Sea God's accusation while the gathered kings fell silent at his defense of Wu De.
• Two Martial Virtue Bricks emerged from torn space and repeatedly struck the unprepared Sea God.
• After the Sea God blasted the bricks away, Wu De attacked him with a giant hand, defeated him, and seized him by the neck.
• The Sea God recognized Wu De as the Martial Virtue Hall Master and blamed his earlier injuries for his defeat.

The Martial Virtue Hall Master revealed that he had become a King-level Giant and overpowered the Sea God, thrilling the Immortal Realm. When the Sea God accused him of stealing his treasures, the Martial Virtue Hall Master realized Hua Yunfei was responsible but took the blame to protect him.

• The Martial Virtue Hall Master mocked the Sea God and revealed his King-level Giant cultivation, shocking both sides of the Heavenly River.
• The Immortal Realm’s people cheered for Martial King, while the Sea God struggled helplessly under his strength.
• The Sea God accused the Martial Virtue Hall Master of stealing his possessions, describing how the theft had happened right before his eyes.
• The Martial Virtue Hall Master remembered that Dezi had vanished before him twice and deduced that Hua Yunfei had stolen the Sea God’s belongings.
• The Martial Virtue Hall Master claimed that he had stolen the treasures himself, refusing to expose Hua Yunfei.

The Previous Sea God rescued the defeated Sea God and challenged the Martial Virtue Hall Master, believing he could win on the Heavenly River. He realized the Sea God Trident had been stolen but tried to hide the loss from the watching experts.

• The Previous Sea God appeared on the Heavenly River and rescued the Sea God from the Martial Virtue Hall Master.
• The Previous Sea God revealed that he had reached the King-level Giant realm and promised to avenge his disciple.
• The Previous Sea God asked the Sea God to hand over the Sea God Trident so he could fight the Martial Virtue Hall Master with it.
• The Sea God stood silent and ashamed, leading the Previous Sea God to realize the Sea God Trident had been stolen.
• The Previous Sea God concealed his discovery and claimed he did not need the Sea God Trident to defeat the Martial Virtue Hall Master.

Previous Sea God Quan Long discovered that the Sea God had lost the Sea God Trinity Artifacts and the Sea God Divine Spark, and flew into a rage before the expected fight with the Martial Virtue Hall Master. Quan Long attacked his disciple in front of both realms, and God Kings stepped in to stop him.

• Quan Long learned that the Sea God had lost the Sea God Trident, the Sea God Azure Silver Armor, and one of his battle boots.
• The Sea God confessed that the Sea God Divine Spark had also been stolen, causing Quan Long to vomit blood in fury.
• Quan Long seized the Sea God by the neck and attacked him instead of fighting the Martial Virtue Hall Master.
• The Martial Virtue Hall Master suspected that Hua Yunfei had stolen the Sea God's divine artifacts and wondered how he had done it.
• Quan Long pierced the Sea God's body and tore off his jaw, prompting several God Kings to intervene and urge him to stop.

The Martial Virtue Hall Master ambushed Quan Long, then attacked the arriving Divine Realm God Kings as Peng King and the Immortal Realm fighters engaged them. As the Martial Virtue Hall Master struggled against Quan Long and tried to refine a God King's divine soul with the Heaven Refining Pot, both the soul and pot were stolen.

• The Martial Virtue Hall Master struck Quan Long twice with the Martial Virtue Bricks, but Quan Long shielded himself with the Heavenly River's water walls.
• The Martial Virtue Hall Master appeared behind a flame-wreathed God King and shattered his body, while Peng King and the Immortal Realm fighters blocked the other God Kings and a battle erupted.
• The Martial Virtue Hall Master found and seized the flame God King's divine soul as Quan Long pursued him, demanding the return of the Sea God Divine Spark and Sea God Trinity Artifacts.
• Hua Yunfei summoned the Heaven Refining Pot and sent it to the Martial Virtue Hall Master, who caught it while fighting off Quan Long.
• Space darkened briefly, and the flame God King's divine soul and the Heaven Refining Pot vanished from the Martial Virtue Hall Master's grasp.

Space God-King Wujian stopped the battle between the Immortal and Divine Realms and called for the Assembly of Kings to begin early. He summoned the Divine Realm’s hundred Kings, whose arrival overwhelmed the Immortal Realm’s forces, while the Martial Virtue Hall Master resisted their pressure.

• Wujian appeared and trapped Quan Long in a prison of solidified space, ending his charge at the Martial Virtue Hall Master.
• Wujian ordered Blood God to take the Fire God’s divine soul away, then confronted the Martial Virtue Hall Master over the clash between the realms.
• Wujian proposed holding the Assembly of Kings early, and the Martial Virtue Hall Master agreed.
• Wujian summoned the Divine Realm’s Kings, and a hundred towering figures appeared over the Heavenly River.
• The Divine Realm’s hundred Kings suppressed the Immortal Realm’s forces, and the Martial Virtue Hall Master released his King Dao Laws to resist them.

The Immortal Realm gathered one hundred kings to face the Divine Realm’s hundred kings at the Heavenly River, and the Double-Pupiled One took charge of its delegation. As the Assembly of Kings began, Wujian asked whether the Immortal Realm would accept surrender, leaving the realm’s people divided.

• The Double-Pupiled One beat the war drums while the Moon Goddess played a battle hymn, rallying the Immortal Realm.
• One hundred Immortal Kings assembled to match the Divine Realm’s hundred kings, though the Martial Virtue Hall Master knew their side had needed Backer Sect kings to fill its ranks.
• Wujian demanded to speak with the Double-Pupiled One, dismissing the Martial Virtue Hall Master because he had not entered the Emperor Light Domain; a Devil King also challenged the Immortal Realm to send a worthy representative.
• The Double-Pupiled One stepped forward to represent the Immortal Realm and began the Assembly of Kings with Wujian.
• Wujian asked whether the Immortal Realm would refuse surrender, and the people gathered along the Heavenly River reacted with anger, defiance, and uncertainty.

The Immortal World rejected surrender and agreed to decide the realm war through a series of contests against the Divine World, beginning with a prodigy competition over an unknown immortal estate beneath the Heavenly River. Wujian outlined the stakes and departed, but the Martial Virtue Hall Master challenged him over the Heaven Refining Pot.

• The Moon Goddess played a battle song that stirred the wavering Immortal World beings to choose resistance rather than live as slaves.
• Wujian proposed contests between the realms, including a battle between Great Emperor Realm and Heavenly God Realm prodigies at the unknown immortal estate beneath the Heavenly River, and the Double-Pupiled One accepted.
• Wujian said the Divine World would withdraw and offer compensation if it lost, while the Immortal World would surrender unconditionally if it lost; the Immortal World’s kings objected, but the Double-Pupiled One agreed.
• Wujian said he would send the contest details the next day and began to leave, but the Martial Virtue Hall Master called him back and demanded the Heaven Refining Pot in exchange for the Sea God’s supreme treasure.
• Wujian guessed the Martial Virtue Hall Master wanted the Heaven Refining Pot, and the Martial Virtue Hall Master challenged him to produce it.

Wujian lost the Heaven Refining Pot when a hidden Immortal Realm expert used Equal Exchange to replace it with a low-grade Spirit Stone, and the God Realm’s kings withdrew after the Double-Pupiled One drove off Quan Long. The Immortal Realm kings learned that the Heavenly Emperor had returned, though he could not act while the God Emperor remained at large.

• Wujian displayed the Heaven Refining Pot, but an unseen user of Equal Exchange swapped it for a low-grade Spirit Stone.
• Wu De claimed the exchange was fair, and the Double-Pupiled One told Wujian to leave the Immortal Realm’s treasure alone.
• Quan Long rushed at Wu De to reclaim the Sea God’s treasures, but the Double-Pupiled One injured him and Wujian took him away.
• Wujian said the God Realm could recover the treasures by capturing important Immortal Realm figures in the coming war, then the God Realm’s kings withdrew.
• The Double-Pupiled One told the Immortal Realm kings that the Heavenly Emperor had returned but could not act while the God Emperor was missing.
• The Immortal Realm kings returned to the Heavenly River, while Wu De questioned whether the Heavenly Emperor had truly returned.

Hua Yunfei agreed to contend for the Immortal World Commander position in the upcoming battle at the Heavenly River Immortal Abode. He accepted the role despite disliking trouble and resolved to secure the commander's seat.

• The God World set a ruleless battle at the Heavenly River Immortal Abode for three hundred thousand participants, with the contest beginning in one month.
• Wu De asked Hua Yunfei whether the Immortal World should send more cultivators, and Hua Yunfei said more could enter if they came in manageable groups.
• Hua Yunfei warned Wu De that protecting participants would be harder than defeating enemies, while Wu De said cultivators could choose for themselves whether to join.
• Wu De told Hua Yunfei that the Immortal World needed a commander and insisted he contend for the position rather than the Emperor Ranking's top cultivator.
• Hua Yunfei agreed to enter the selection under a more fitting identity and resolved to win the commander's seat.

Gong Qingyan returned after thirty years with a newly forged physique and challenged Hua Yunfei, who admitted he was no longer her match. When Tian Ning and his supporters tried to take Hua Yunfei’s commander position, Gong Qingyan killed one of them instantly, then released his soul after Tian Ning agreed to leave.

• Gong Qingyan returned from thirty years of training at the Oddity Blood Soil, having reached the pinnacle of the Emperor Realm and forged a unique physique.
• Gong Qingyan challenged Hua Yunfei to a fight, but Hua Yunfei said he was no longer her match.
• Tian Ning and a dozen Martial King Hall prodigies demanded Hua Yunfei’s commander position, claiming he was unfit to lead.
• When a blue-robed young man ordered Gong Qingyan to stay out of the dispute, she instantly destroyed his body and seized his soul.
• Tian Ning demanded that Gong Qingyan release the young man, and she agreed after Tian Ning promised to leave.
• After Gong Qingyan returned the young man’s soul to his body, Tian Ning and his supporters shouted for her to be killed.

Gong Qingyan defeated Tian Ning and the others after they broke their agreement and attacked her, then killed the blue-robed young man who had led them. Three days later, Hua Yunfei arrived at the Celestial Court commander selection and proved he was the legendary Gou, drawing the attention of powerful figures across the Immortal Realm.

• Gong Qingyan cut down Tian Ning and the others in one strike after they attacked her, then killed the blue-robed young man and ordered the survivors to leave.
• A woman in a green dress entered the commander's tent and remarked on the smell of blood.
• Hua Yunfei arrived late at the Celestial Court commander selection and asked to compete despite not being a hall commander.
• Hua Yunfei claimed that he had cleared the Emperor Tower, prompting the gray-robed elder and the crowd to question whether he was Gou.
• Hua Yunfei revealed his silver radiance and then his golden-and-silver divine radiance, convincing the crowd that he was Gou.
• Dozens of powerful figures sent their divine senses toward Hua Yunfei.

Hua Yunfei entered the Celestial Court Hall as Gou and requested a commander position, then challenged every commander to fight him at once. The Double-Pupiled One approved the group battle, and nearly all the commanders stepped forward.

• Hua Yunfei entered the Celestial Court Hall after the gray-robed elder opened the way for him.
• Hua Yunfei asked the Double-Pupiled One for permission to contend for a commander position, and the Sacred Lord granted it.
• Chai Liehuo challenged Hua Yunfei, but Hua Yunfei asked to fight all the commanders together instead.
• Hua Yunfei claimed he had 120 percent certainty of beating everyone, provoking the commanders into accepting his challenge.
• The Double-Pupiled One approved the group battle, and nearly several hundred commanders stepped forward.

Hua Yunfei defeated Wushen, Chai Liehuo, and several hundred other prodigies with a single sword sweep, convincing them of his overwhelming strength. Wushen accepted Hua Yunfei as a new goal, while Chai Liehuo prepared to fight a Confucian hidden freak who mocked his Emperor Ranking position.

• Wushen, Chai Liehuo, and several hundred commanders charged Hua Yunfei after he invited them to attack first.
• Hua Yunfei used the Hongmeng Swordplay to cut the attackers in half without killing or seriously injuring them.
• Wushen and the other prodigies recognized the gap between their strength and Hua Yunfei's, and the Double-Pupiled One urged them not to grow complacent.
• Wushen vowed to pursue and surpass Hua Yunfei, and Hua Yunfei agreed to fight him again when he had grown stronger.
• A Confucian disciple claimed that Chai Liehuo's sixth-place Emperor Ranking owed to other powerful prodigies not competing, and Chai Liehuo attacked him with the Tyrant Blade.

Hua Yunfei appointed the Immortal Realm’s Supreme Commander and distributed powerful Karma Chess Pieces to coordinate the Immortal Mansion Contest. He revealed their many abilities, leaving the assembled prodigies eager for the contest and stunned by their potential offensive power.

• The Double-Pupiled One stopped Chai Liehuo and Hua Yunfei’s opponent, restored them to their original positions, and declared “Gou” the Supreme Commander after his victory.
• Hua Yunfei asked the assembled prodigies to cooperate with his orders, and Wushen, Chai Liehuo, and the others agreed.
• Hua Yunfei gave everyone Karma Chess Pieces that could locate their holders, identify them by their auras, and transmit voices across a distance.
• Hua Yunfei explained that the pieces could conceal their holders, form defensive karma formations, and grow stronger when more pieces gathered.
• Hua Yunfei revealed that the pieces could also attack with enough force to potentially kill an unprepared Wushen in one strike.

Hua Yunfei distributed Karma Chess Pieces to the commanders, explaining how their mother pieces could control child pieces and help defend the Immortal World. He then revealed a Silver Cannon, prompting the others to suspect that he was connected to the Black Hand Organization.

• Hua Yunfei warned Wushen, Chai Liehuo, and the other commanders that the Karma Chess Pieces had limited uses and would crack each time they were activated.
• Hua Yunfei explained that the commanders held mother pieces that could disable child pieces and strengthen formations, while other hidden mother pieces could disable the commanders’ pieces.
• Hua Yunfei gave the commanders boxes of child pieces to distribute among ordinary members.
• Hua Yunfei produced a Silver Cannon as a second treasure, and Jiang Ruoyao said that the Black Hand Organization belonged to him.
• Wushen described the Black Hand Organization’s formidable members and recalled escaping them, while the others wondered whether Hua Yunfei was one of them.