Recaps

Qin Buhui defeated Ling Jiuxiao with one palm and warned the Northern King not to seek revenge. Ling Jiuxiao then invoked a bloodline curse that awakened the Northern King, turning the heavens crimson.

• Qin Buhui forced Ling Jiuxiao to kneel with one palm, shocking the spectators and the assembled cultivators.
• Gu Qingping, Xiao Yan, and Shi Huang praised Qin Buhui, while Li Chen realized his scheme had failed and other observers recognized the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect's strength.
• Qin Buhui told Ling Jiuxiao that his kneeling was punishment for insulting his master's sect and challenged the Northern King to seek revenge if he wished.
• Ling Jiuxiao rose, threatened Qin Buhui and the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect, then cast a blood-red curse that awakened the Northern King.

Qin Buhui killed Ling Jiuxiao in front of the Northern King’s gaze, turning Li Chen’s plot to summon the Immortal King into an open conflict. The Northern King’s response had yet to come, while the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect’s fighters prepared to face him.

• The Northern King’s gaze descended over Primordial Immortal City, terrifying its countless inhabitants and giving Ling Jiuxiao confidence.
• Ling Jiuxiao appealed to his grandfather to punish the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect and claim its women, while Li Chen celebrated the Northern King’s apparent anger.
• Qin Buhui struck Ling Jiuxiao down with a slap, then killed him with a touch to the brow despite the Northern King watching.
• The crowd reeled at Qin Buhui’s defiance, while Xiao Yan welcomed the prospect of fighting the Northern King and the sect stood ready to face him.

Qin Buhui survived the Northern King’s attack when the First Immortal King intervened and forced the Northern King to withdraw. Before the First Immortal King departed, Qin Buhui challenged him to investigate the Fifth Branch Hall’s unfair tournament rules.

• The Northern King attacked Qin Buhui with a destructive beam, but the First Immortal King’s cold snort shattered it.
• The First Immortal King appeared and ordered the Northern King to end the matter, forcing him to withdraw with Ling Jiuxiao’s corpse.
• As the First Immortal King prepared to leave, Qin Buhui addressed him despite the pressure of his presence.
• Qin Buhui accused the Fifth Branch Hall of changing tournament rules, allowing outsiders into the top hundred, and treating cultivators unfairly.
• Qin Buhui asked the First Immortal King to investigate, while the gathered cultivators waited to see how he would respond.

Qin Buhui challenged the First Immortal King to uphold fairness in the Grand Competition, and the ruler offered to make him his chief disciple. Qin refused in favor of the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect, while Su Bai sensed something was wrong with the First Immortal King and vanished.

• Qin Buhui argued that rules should protect cultivators from unfair interference, prompting the crowd to rally behind his words and Li Chen to grow uneasy.
• The First Immortal King praised Qin Buhui’s talent and invited him to become his first chief disciple, promising he could handle the rules as he wished.
• Qin Buhui declined the offer, affirming his loyalty to the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect and declaring that he would not attend the ranking competition if the rules were not upheld impartially.
• Li Chen rejoiced at Qin Buhui’s refusal, while the First Immortal King accepted his choice and departed after remarking that the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect was interesting.
• Su Bai sensed something wrong with the First Immortal King and silently vanished.

After the First Immortal King left without addressing Qin Buhui’s challenge, Qin and the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect departed the arena, joined by Ah Hu. Su Bai met the First Immortal King beyond the Nine Heavens and questioned whether he should call him the Eighth Immortal King or the First Immortal King.

• The First Immortal King departed without punishing Li Chen or ruling on Qin Buhui’s accusation, and Qin led the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect away from the arena.
• Ah Hu abandoned his chance to enter the Primordial Grand Hall and joined Qin Buhui’s group as they left.
• The Life Immortal King, Yuan Heng, and the Grand Elder wondered why the deaths of Li Tianqing and Ling Jiuxiao had caused no Spacetime Backlash and questioned the First Immortal King’s identity.
• Su Ling’er learned that Su Bai had left to seek the truth, and the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect departed while the arena remained in turmoil.
• Beyond the Nine Heavens, Su Bai confronted the First Immortal King, who did not recognize him, and asked whether he should call him the Eighth Immortal King or the First Immortal King.

Su Bai confronted the First Immortal King and learned that the figure was an independent Consciousness Shard connected to the Eighth Immortal King's body, while the Epoch's end approached. The First Immortal King vanished after hinting at a future meeting, leaving Su Bai to wonder where the true First Immortal King was.

• Su Bai recognized that the First Immortal King's hidden face matched the Eighth Immortal King, though his aura belonged to a Peerless Immortal King.
• The First Immortal King acknowledged that he knew the Epoch faced World Annihilation and dismissed the importance of rules and individual judgments before the coming end.
• Su Bai deduced that the First Immortal King was an independent Consciousness Shard, and the First Immortal King admitted that the Primordial Hall and its competition were a selection process.
• The First Immortal King praised Su Bai's unusual potential and disappeared after looking forward to meeting him again near the Epoch's end.
• Su Bai wondered where the true First Immortal King was as he looked down at the troubled Immortal Realm.

Su Bai led the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect out of Primordial Immortal City as several prodigies and their factions chose to join them. At midnight, Li Chen and his followers surrounded the group in a valley, intent on attacking them.

• Su Bai returned to the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect members and agreed they should leave Primordial Immortal City.
• Fairy Qingyue, Zhuo Wuchen, Immortal Venerable Zihua, and the Azure-Robed Sword Venerable asked to join the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect and bring their factions with them.
• Fenjin gave up the Primordial ranking matches and also asked to join the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect.
• Su Bai accepted the newcomers by telling them to follow, and the expanded group departed the city as Li Chen watched with killing intent.
• The group stopped in a valley for the night, where Immortal Venerable Zihua and the Azure-Robed Sword Venerable set protective formations.
• At midnight, Li Chen shattered a warning formation and appeared with more than a dozen powerful figures surrounding the valley.

Li Chen ambushed the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect and its allies in a valley, intending to kill them all and establish his authority. As Immortal Venerable Zihua and the Azure-Robed Sword Venerable prepared to sacrifice themselves to open an escape route, Li Chen demanded that Qin Buhui summon his sect master, and Qin Buhui mocked him.

• Li Chen secretly followed the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect, judged its strength, and returned with more than a dozen powerful subordinates to surround the group.
• Li Chen unleashed his Half-Step King pressure and threatened Qin Buhui, Immortal Venerable Zihua, the Azure-Robed Sword Venerable, and their allies with death unless they submitted to his demands.
• Immortal Venerable Zihua and the Azure-Robed Sword Venerable planned to burn their Origins to open a breach so the younger cultivators could escape and reveal the truth.
• Li Chen taunted Qin Buhui and demanded to see what his sect master could do, and Qin Buhui called Li Chen an old dog who was unworthy of comparison with the sect master.

Su Bai effortlessly erased Li Chen and his Primordial Hall forces after they attacked the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect. The survivors were left stunned as Su Bai turned back to the night sky.

• Li Chen ordered his forces to kill everyone except Qin Buhui, who was to be captured alive.
• Su Bai turned around and made the attacking Immortal Power, laws, treasures, and Li Chen’s pressure vanish with a single word.
• Su Bai said “Annihilate,” erasing Li Chen and his subordinates despite their desperate resistance.
• Fairy Qingyue, Qin Buhui, and the others watched in shock as Su Bai calmly turned back toward the night sky.

Su Bai effortlessly erased Li Chen and his forces, leaving the witnesses convinced that he possessed power beyond an ordinary Immortal King. He realized the deaths had caused no Spacetime Backlash and wondered what larger fate awaited the Primordial Epoch and what the First Immortal King was planning.

• Su Bai's effortless destruction of Li Chen, a Half-Step King, and more than a dozen Immortal Venerables stunned Immortal Venerable Zihua, Azure-Robed Sword Venerable, Zhuo Wuchen, and Fenjin.
• Fairy Qingyue recognized that the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect had always trusted Su Bai's invincibility and felt fortunate that she and Moonlight Immortal City had joined it.
• Su Bai noticed that killing Li Chen and the Primordial Palace Branch Hall's core forces had triggered no Spacetime Backlash.
• Su Bai concluded that Li Chen and his forces were already fated to die soon and suspected their deaths were entangled with a larger upheaval in the Primordial Epoch.
• Remembering the First Immortal King's words, Su Bai wondered what the First Immortal King was planning.

Su Bai led the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect to the Primordial Grand Hall, where he assessed its grandeur and the First Immortal King's transformation. There, Su Ming discovered that Tuoba Xiong's future had vanished from his fate line, and Su Bai saw that the alteration was connected to the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect.

• Immortal Venerable Zihua and the Azure-Robed Sword Venerable returned to protect their factions, while Fairy Qingyue and the others continued with Su Bai toward the Primordial Grand Hall.
• The group arrived at the magnificent Primordial Grand Hall, and Su Bai concluded that the First Immortal King's Consciousness Shard had retained some of his former personality.
• The group met Tuoba Xiong, who congratulated Fenjin and reflected on his own victory in the Fifth Branch Hall's ranking competition.
• Su Ming noticed that Tuoba Xiong's fate line had snapped, erasing the possibilities of his future.
• Su Bai sensed a weak Space-Time backlash directed at the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect, revealing its connection to Tuoba Xiong's altered fate.

As the Branch Hall victors and Immortal Kings’ heirs gathered at the Primordial Grand Hall, Su Bai and Su Ming discovered that every first-ranked prodigy’s fate ended in emptiness. Su Bai realized the geniuses were likely Consciousness Shard avatars prepared as the First Immortal King’s pieces, and he wondered what plan the First Immortal King had set in motion.

• Su Bai shattered the weak Spacetime Backlash after Tuoba Xiong vanished and suspected that some force had erased Tuoba Xiong’s future.
• Fairy Yuhuang, the Azure Lotus Sword Adept, the Heavenly Dragon Buddha Scion, and other Branch Hall first-rankers arrived, and Su Bai and Su Ming saw their fate lines end in emptiness.
• The Eastern Radiance Divine Scion, Vermilion Bird Celestial Maiden, White Tiger Divine Scion, and other Immortal King descendants arrived, but their futures also ended when they entered the Primordial Grand Hall’s core.
• The Northern Immortal Domain’s place remained empty because Ling Jiuxiao had been killed, and Su Bai recognized the vacancy as a variable caused by the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect’s interference.
• Su Bai concluded that the peerless geniuses were Consciousness Shard avatars prepared by the First Immortal King and challenged him to reveal his world-shaking plan.

Su Bai and the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect entered the Primordial Grand Hall for the First Immortal King's disciple-taking ceremony. Just as the First Immortal King prepared to choose an heir, Su Bai interrupted him.

• A mysterious figure within the Divine Temple sensed Su Bai and called him an interesting variable whose Dao could make his own more complete.
• The gathered geniuses entered the inner hall and were led to the central plaza, where thirteen celebrated candidates awaited the ceremony.
• The First Immortal King appeared, silenced the crowd, and announced he would select an inheritor from the thirteen candidates.
• As the First Immortal King began to bestow his selection, Su Bai called out, “Hold it!”

Su Bai disrupted the First Immortal King's disciple-acceptance ceremony and exposed the figure as a shell of the Eighth Immortal King, controlled by a Consciousness Shard incarnation, accusing him of refining disciples into new incarnations. The square erupted in outrage, while the First Immortal King silently watched Su Bai, setting the stage for a direct confrontation between Primordial Hall and End Times.

• A deputy hall master attacked Su Bai with his Half-Step King aura, but Su Bai forced him to kneel with a single glance.
• Spectators recognized Su Bai as the sect master of the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect and suspected that he was an unknown tenth Immortal King.
• Su Bai told the First Immortal King that he knew the figure was a shell of the Eighth Immortal King and a Consciousness Shard incarnation.
• Su Bai accused the First Immortal King of holding the ceremony to refine new incarnations, provoking furious protests from the Grand Hall's followers.

Su Bai accused the First Immortal King of being an impostor who wore the Eighth Immortal King’s shell and planned to exploit the era’s greatest prodigies as vessels for his Consciousness-Shard Doppelgangers. The First Immortal King neither denied nor confirmed the charge, instead challenging the gathered prodigies to decide whom they believed.

• Eastern Radiance Divine Scion and Heavenly Dragon Buddha Scion denounced Su Bai for accusing the First Immortal King.
• Su Bai said the First Immortal King’s change in behavior and concealed face suggested that he had taken the Eighth Immortal King’s appearance.
• Su Bai explained that the First Immortal King might have placed part of his Origin consciousness and Dao Fruit into the Eighth Immortal King’s shell to create a Consciousness-Shard Doppelganger.
• Su Bai accused the First Immortal King of preparing the thirteen peerless prodigies as other shells to harvest their potential and life force.
• The First Immortal King praised Su Bai’s insight and asked the prodigies whether they would believe him or the stranger from another Space-Time.

Su Bai’s accusations against the First Immortal King split the gathered geniuses: some defended the ruler, while others hesitated over the truth and the danger of accepting his inheritance. As Tuoba Xiong struggled to choose between his lifelong ambition and his friends’ warnings, Xiao Yan offered to help him improve if he turned back.

• Eastern Radiance Divine Scion, Heavenly Dragon Buddha Scion, White Tiger Divine Scion, Fairy Yuhuang, and Azure Lotus Sword Adept sided with the First Immortal King.
• Tuoba Xiong hesitated as Fairy Qingyue, Zhuo Wuchen, and Fenjin urged him not to trust the inheritance opportunity over his friends’ warnings.
• Xiao Yan pointed out Tuoba Xiong’s physical weaknesses and offered to personally guide him if he turned back.
• Xiao Yan left the final choice to Tuoba Xiong, while the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect accepted responsibility for the consequences.

Su Bai’s accusations continued to shake the First Immortal King’s discipleship ceremony, but most of the prodigies still leaned toward the First Immortal King. Immortal Venerable Zihuang then arrived with Zi Yao and publicly accused the First Immortal King of concealing the deaths and disappearances of peerless geniuses, demanding an explanation.

• Tuoba Xiong reacted to Su Bai’s insight into his hidden old wound and began leaning toward the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect.
• The Vermilion Bird Celestial Maiden withdrew from the competition, while two more wavering prodigies chose to stand with the First Immortal King.
• The First Immortal King told Su Bai that greed and self-interest would keep the crowd on his side, but Su Bai calmly questioned his confidence.
• Immortal Venerable Zihuang arrived with Zi Yao and revealed that Zi Teng had disappeared after being summoned to the Primordial Grand Hall one million years earlier.
• Immortal Venerable Zihuang accused the Primordial Grand Hall of leaving many peerless geniuses’ deaths and disappearances unexplained, then demanded that the First Immortal King answer for them.

Su Bai exposed the First Immortal King’s suspected role in the disappearance of generations of prodigies by revealing their imprints and summoning the fifteen missing figures to the square alive. The First Immortal King faced Su Bai’s challenge as the crowd recognized the survivors.

• Immortal Venerable Zihuang accused the First Immortal King of being connected to Purple Wisteria Immortal Venerable’s disappearance, prompting factions to recall other missing prodigies.
• Tuoba Xiong joined Su Bai’s side, while other prodigies began moving away from the First Immortal King or found themselves unable to leave.
• The First Immortal King dismissed the accusations as speculation, and Su Bai displayed the imprints of fifteen prodigies believed dead or missing.
• Su Bai summoned the fifteen prodigies from the void, including Ye Qinghe, Kuang Zhan, and Meng Youli, and revealed that they were alive.
• Su Bai challenged the First Immortal King to explain himself as the crowd recognized the returned prodigies.

Su Bai exposed that the First Immortal King was a Consciousness-Shard Doppelganger made from the Eighth Immortal King's body and had been harvesting gifted cultivators for their bodies. The impostor activated the Primordial Grand Hall's hidden formation and summoned the Slaughter Swords, trapping everyone as Li Chen appeared with the final sword.

• Su Bai revealed that fifteen missing geniuses had been turned into Consciousness-Shard Doppelgangers, including Zi Teng, and Immortal Venerable Zihuang confronted the First Immortal King.
• Su Bai removed the mist from the First Immortal King and showed that his body was the Eighth Immortal King's corpse.
• The First Immortal King admitted that Su Bai had disrupted his plan but threatened to absorb everyone, including the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect.
• The Primordial Grand Hall shook as hidden runes activated, the First Slaughter Formation engulfed the hall, and fifteen Slaughter Swords descended to the doppelgangers.
• The First Immortal King revealed that he had been targeting the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect, and Li Chen stepped forward holding the sixteenth Slaughter Sword.

Li Chen reappeared as a Consciousness-Shard Doppelganger, completing the First Slaughter Formation and revealing the First Immortal King's plan to refine powerful cultivators. The First Immortal King seized eight prodigies who had sided with him and transformed them into more doppelgangers.

• Li Chen returned as a First Immortal King-controlled Consciousness-Shard Doppelganger, wielding the First Slaughter Sword at the peak of the Half-Step King realm.
• The sixteen Consciousness-Shard Doppelgangers united their swords and formed the complete First Slaughter Formation, sealing the battlefield and threatening even an Immortal King.
• Su Bai questioned whether the First Immortal King had created the doppelgangers for a purpose beyond strengthening the formation.
• The First Immortal King declared that Su Bai and his allies were the feast he had prepared and intended to refine them to advance his power.
• The First Immortal King crushed and refined the Eastern Radiance Divine Scion and seven other prodigies who had sided with him, turning them into Consciousness-Shard Doppelgangers.

Xiao Yan fought the First Immortal King's Consciousness-Shard Doppelgangers after Su Bai allowed the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect disciples to engage them. He left the arena stunned by punching Li Chen's Doppelganger away in a single blow, then challenged the rest to attack him together.

• The First Immortal King’s formations trapped the spectators, and their desperate attacks rebounded, killing many.
• The First Immortal King ordered his sixteen Doppelgangers to subdue the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect members alive and kill everyone else, while Su Bai allowed his disciples to fight.
• Xiao Yan stepped forward, saying he wanted to warm up and challenging Li Chen’s Doppelganger.
• Xiao Yan struck Li Chen’s Doppelganger with one punch, sending him crashing through immortal mountains and into a gate.
• Xiao Yan called on all the Doppelgangers to attack him together, while Su Bai watched without surprise.

The First Immortal King ordered his sixteen Consciousness-Shard Doppelgangers to capture Xiao Yan, hoping to claim his body as a vessel. Xiao Yan unleashed the Ultimate Path of Fire and fought back against their First Slaughter Formation, and the chapter ended as Zhuge Feng stepped forward to join him.

• The First Immortal King marveled at Xiao Yan’s strength and ordered the sixteen Consciousness-Shard Doppelgangers to bring him back unharmed.
• Xiao Yan met their Slaughter Swords with the Ultimate Path of Fire, overwhelming the sword domain and astonishing the cultivators watching.
• Fenjin recognized the heights of the fire path and resolved to pursue it, while Fairy Qingyue and Zhuo Wuchen watched Xiao Yan in shock.
• The doppelgangers formed the First Slaughter Formation and used the Heaven-Binding Dao Lock to try to subdue Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan became a giant of flame and broke through waves of sealing chains, but the formation held him in check through its coordinated attacks.
• Xiao Yan announced that the real fight had begun, and Zhuge Feng stepped forward to join the clash.

Zhuge Feng, Wu Wushuang, Jiuyue, and Xiao Yan joined forces against the sixteen doppelgangers in the First Slaughter Formation, revealing the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect’s overwhelming strength. The First Immortal King ordered the formation to seize their bodies and refine their souls, and the two sides began their full-scale battle.

• Zhuge Feng used the Sea-Calming Divine Needle Iron to suppress the formation’s killing force, while Wu Wushuang cut through its Sword Domains with his Sword Intent.
• Jiuyue joined Wu Wushuang, and the four disciples coordinated their attacks to push back the First Slaughter Formation.
• The watching powerhouses marveled at the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect’s strength and wondered how powerful its remaining members were.
• The First Immortal King lusted after the disciples’ bodies and Dao fruits, then linked the sixteen doppelgangers’ auras to intensify the formation.
• Xiao Yan, Wu Wushuang, Jiuyue, and Zhuge Feng unleashed their full strength as the battle against the First Slaughter Formation erupted.

Xiao Yan, Zhuge Feng, Wu Wushuang, and Jiuyue broke the First Slaughter Formation and overwhelmed its sixteen Consciousness-Shard Doppelgangers. They left “Li Chen” beaten and battered while billions of onlookers watched.

• Wu Wushuang found a gap in the First Slaughter Formation, and Jiuyue pierced its core to break the formation open.
• The four fighters divided the Consciousness-Shard Doppelgangers among themselves and launched their attacks.
• Xiao Yan burned “Ye Qinghe” with Chaos Flame, Zhuge Feng battered “Li Chen,” Wu Wushuang split “Zi Teng’s” Chaos Sword Domain, and Jiuyue disrupted her opponents with a spear thrust.
• After the other battles neared their end, Xiao Yan, Zhuge Feng, Wu Wushuang, and Jiuyue surrounded “Li Chen” and struck him repeatedly.
• Billions of onlookers watched “Li Chen” suffer as the four fighters displayed the strength of the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect.

The First Immortal King took control of his sixteen Consciousness-Shard Doppelgangers and unleashed the First Slaughter Formation’s ultimate attack against Xiao Yan and his allies. Su Bai’s disciples joined Xiao Yan, Zhuge Feng, and Wu Wushuang to form the Heavenly Dao Sword Formation, and the two formations collided in the Primordial Grand Hall.

• The First Immortal King realized the four fighters had deciphered the First Slaughter Formation and, with his doppelgangers losing ground, decided to command all sixteen himself.
• The First Immortal King rearranged the sixteen Consciousness-Shard Doppelgangers and formed the ultimate First Slaughter Formation, unleashing Blood Massacre Across the Universe at Xiao Yan and his allies.
• Su Bai’s nine disciples stepped forward with Xiao Yan, Zhuge Feng, and Wu Wushuang, and the twelve formed the Heavenly Dao Sword Formation.
• Zhuge Feng commanded the Heavenly Dao Sword Formation to strike, and its twelve sword arcs clashed head-on with the First Slaughter Formation’s blood-red giant sword.