Recaps

The Gate Heavenly King transformed the battlefield into an ancient scene and revived more than a hundred dead Immortal Kings as puppets, including the Ninefold Heaven Lord. As the forces clashed, Su Bai remained calm, and the Gate Heavenly King recognized the same gaze he had seen from a formidable figure ten billion years earlier.

• The Gate Heavenly King reshaped the surroundings into the ancient battlefield where the Ninefold Firmament’s rulers had fought.
• More than a hundred fallen Immortal Kings rose as puppets, including the Epoch King Ninefold Heaven Lord.
• The Gate Heavenly King ordered the revived dead to attack the Heavenly Dao Sect, giving Heaven Gate a force of over a hundred and fifty Immortal Kings.
• Zhuge Feng, Xiao Yan, Wu Wushuang, Jiuyue, Xuanwei, and the other Heavenly Dao Sect fighters charged into battle without retreating.
• Su Bai stood calmly as the battle began, and the Gate Heavenly King recognized his gaze from the war ten billion years ago.

The Heavenly King summoned over a hundred Immortal King Puppets and an Epoch King puppet, but the Heavenly Dao Sect’s disciples fought them while advancing through their Immortal King Tribulations. As the battle continued, the disciples’ strength kept rising, and the chapter ended with the narration beginning to compare their Heavenly Dao Stele rankings to that of the founder of the Ninefold Immortal Sect.

• Heaven Gate’s Half-Step Epoch King rejoiced when the Heavenly King summoned the Ninefold Immortal Sect’s fallen experts, but Yun Hai said the Heavenly Dao Sect’s Sect Master would still prevail.
• Over a hundred Immortal King Puppets and dozens of Heaven Gate Immortal Kings attacked the main battlefield.
• Zhuge Feng, Xiao Yan, Wu Wushuang, Jiuyue, and the other Heavenly Dao Sect disciples fought the puppets while enduring tribulation lightning.
• Wu Wushuang and Zhuge Feng each destroyed Immortal King Puppets as their tribulations strengthened their combat abilities.
• Heaven Gate’s Immortal Kings were horrified that the disciples could rival Supreme Immortal Kings before even becoming Immortal Kings.
• The narration revealed that the disciples’ names already stood at the forefront of the Heavenly Dao Stele, then began to describe the significance of first place.

Fourteen Heavenly Dao Sect disciples completed their Immortal King Tribulations and became Peerless Immortal Kings, overwhelming Heaven Gate’s forces. As Su Bai’s strength increased with his disciples’ advancement, the Gate Heavenly King remained uneasy and faced a growing threat.

• Jiuyue, Xiao Lingxi, Zhuge Feng, and Wu Wushuang fought back the Immortal King Puppets while the Heavenly Dao Sect gained ground.
• The Gate Heavenly King recognized that the tribulation-takers could become Peerless Immortal Kings and grew uneasy as he studied Su Bai.
• Wu Wushuang and Zhuge Feng shattered their final tribulation bolts and entered the Immortal King Realm as Peerless Immortal Kings.
• Fourteen Heavenly Dao Sect disciples completed their tribulations, though one aura faded as five Immortal King Puppets vanished, leaving thirteen Peerless Immortal Kings present.
• Heaven Gate’s surviving Immortal Kings and the tribulation challengers reacted with terror and awe, while Yun Zhongtian felt grateful he had sided with the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Su Bai smiled as his disciples’ breakthroughs greatly increased his strength and wondered how powerful his several hundred Divine Rings made him within the Epoch Realm.

The Heavenly Dao Sect gained dozens of Immortal Kings, giving it an overwhelming advantage over Heaven Gate. Su Bai watched as his disciples slaughtered Heaven Gate’s forces, while the Heaven Gate Heavenly King refused to intervene and waited for his remaining contingency.

• Nameless, Situ Chen, Tianzhu, and Yu Yan passed their tribulations and entered the Immortal King Realm, while Su Bai helped twenty-two other transcenders survive theirs.
• Su Bai’s intervention helped the Heavenly Dao Sect gain another fifty Immortal Kings, bringing its total above seventy.
• Zhuge Feng, Wu Wushuang, Jiuyue, and the other Peerless Immortal Kings tore through Heaven Gate’s puppets and Immortal Kings.
• The Heaven Gate Heavenly King stayed motionless under Su Bai’s watch, realizing that Su Bai was using the battle to temper his disciples.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect destroyed more than eighty percent of Heaven Gate’s puppets and killed over a hundred of its 106 Immortal Kings, leaving fewer than five alive.

The Heavenly Dao Sect’s forces wiped out Heaven Gate’s Immortal Kings and puppets, but the Ninefold Heaven Lord awakened as an Epoch King. Su Bai remained calm as another Epoch King, Earth Old Devil, arrived to join the Gate Heavenly King against him.

• Xiao Yan, Zhuge Feng, Wu Wushuang, and Jiuyue killed Heaven Gate’s remaining Peerless Immortal Kings, finishing off more than a hundred Immortal Kings in total.
• The cultivators who had fought alongside the Heavenly Dao Sect celebrated their victory, while Yun Zhongtian looked to Su Bai and wondered whether he had foreseen the battle.
• The Ninefold Heaven Lord awakened, and Yun Zhongtian recognized him as a former Heavenly Dao Stele prodigy and Epoch King.
• A newcomer entered the Ninefold Firmament as the Gate Heavenly King rejoiced at the Ninefold Heaven Lord’s awakening.
• Su Bai sensed Earth Old Devil arriving, and the black-robed Epoch King descended above the Nine Heavens.
• The Gate Heavenly King offered Earth Old Devil half the Ninefold Firmament in exchange for helping destroy Su Bai and his disciples.

Earth Baleful Heaven Lord arrived to aid Heaven Gate, but after the Gate Heavenly King offered him half the Ninefold Firmament, he proposed that Su Bai could outbid him. He left both sides waiting to see whether Su Bai would match or exceed the offer.

• Earth Baleful Heaven Lord arrived, and Yun Zhongtian revealed that the legendary veteran Epoch King had once survived an attack by three Epoch Kings.
• The Gate Heavenly King welcomed Earth Baleful Heaven Lord and promised him half the Ninefold Firmament's territory and resources for helping Heaven Gate.
• Earth Baleful Heaven Lord studied Su Bai and offered to withdraw if Su Bai matched the Gate Heavenly King's price.
• Earth Baleful Heaven Lord said he would help Su Bai destroy Heaven Gate and its puppet if Su Bai offered twice as much.

Earth Baleful Heaven Lord bargained with Su Bai and Gate Heavenly King, ultimately accepting the offer of the entire Ninefold Firmament to help Heaven Gate attack the Heavenly Dao Sect. As Earth Baleful and Gate Heavenly King prepared to fight alongside Ninefold Heaven Lord's puppet, Su Bai warned Earth Baleful to leave or die.

• Earth Baleful Heaven Lord offered to help Su Bai destroy Heaven Gate for twice Gate Heavenly King's price, or to stay out of the duel for the same price.
• Gate Heavenly King protested that Earth Baleful had agreed to help him, but Earth Baleful said their deal was not finalized and he owed Gate Heavenly King nothing.
• Gate Heavenly King offered Earth Baleful the entire Ninefold Firmament in exchange for helping destroy the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Earth Baleful accepted the offer, raised his aura, and joined Gate Heavenly King and Ninefold Heaven Lord's puppet in targeting Su Bai.
• Su Bai said his bargaining chip was Earth Baleful and warned him that he could live if he left, but would die if he helped Heaven Gate.

Su Bai confronted Earth Baleful Heaven Lord and Gate Heavenly King as the Ninefold Heaven Lord Puppet battled the Heavenly Dao Sect’s defenders. He blocked the two Epoch Kings’ combined attack with one hand, and brilliant Divine Rings appeared behind him.

• Earth Baleful Heaven Lord mocked Su Bai’s threat, while Gate Heavenly King ordered the awakened Ninefold Heaven Lord Puppet to slaughter the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Zhuge Feng, Xuanwei, and fourteen Peerless Immortal Kings joined forces to fight the puppet as the battlefield’s cultivators despaired before the Epoch Kings’ power.
• Earth Baleful Heaven Lord and Gate Heavenly King attacked Su Bai together with the Immortal-Falling Finger and a collapsing palm strike.
• Su Bai stepped forward and caught both Epoch Kings’ attacks with one hand, stunning them and the watching cultivators.
• Brilliant Divine Rings appeared one after another behind Su Bai, illuminating the battlefield.

Su Bai revealed his Epoch King power by manifesting Divine Rings with each step, rising from the First Epoch to the Fifth Epoch and overwhelming Gate Heavenly King and Earth Baleful Heaven Lord. The two enemies lost the will to fight and fell to their knees before him.

• Gate Heavenly King and Earth Baleful Heaven Lord attacked Su Bai, believing that their two Epoch Kings and the Ninefold Heaven Lord Puppet could defeat him.
• Su Bai took his second step and revealed two hundred Divine Rings, shattering their attacks and reaching the Second Epoch level.
• Su Bai took his third and fourth steps, revealing three hundred and then four hundred Divine Rings as his aura reached the Third and Fourth Epochs.
• Su Bai took his fifth step and revealed five hundred and twenty-one Divine Rings, reaching the Fifth Epoch.
• Gate Heavenly King and Earth Baleful Heaven Lord fell to their knees, and Earth Balefal Heaven Lord asked if he could still withdraw.

Su Bai revealed himself as a Fifth-Epoch Immortal King, overwhelming the forces threatening the Heavenly Dao Sect. As the battlefield fell silent, Yun Hai explained the terrifying rarity and power of the Epoch Realms.

• The Heavenly Dao Sect experts realized Su Bai had 521 Divine Rings and knelt in awe as a Fifth-Epoch Immortal King.
• The Gate Heavenly King and the Earth Baleful Heaven Lord were overcome with fear and regret after recognizing Su Bai’s strength.
• The Ninefold Heaven Lord’s puppet froze, while Yun Hai struck the distracted Half-Step Epoch King of Heaven Gate and gravely wounded him.
• Yun Hai explained the trials required to advance through the Epoch Realms and described the immense power of Second- and Third-Epoch Immortal Kings.
• Yun Hai declared that a Fifth-Epoch Immortal King could guard an entire Heaven Realm.

Su Bai revealed the overwhelming power of a Fifth-Epoch Immortal King and killed the Earth Baleful Heaven Lord with a single flick of his finger. The battlefield stood stunned as Su Bai collected the fallen king’s storage treasures and found them full of valuable resources.

• Yun Hai explained the rarity and immense power of Fifth-Epoch Immortal Kings, leaving the crowd in awe of Su Bai.
• The Gate Heavenly King collapsed in despair, while the Earth Baleful Heaven Lord begged Su Bai to spare his life.
• Su Bai reminded the Earth Baleful Heaven Lord that he had chosen to help Heaven Gate and had been warned he would die.
• The Earth Baleful Heaven Lord burned his Epoch King's Throne and fled, but Su Bai’s flicked light caught and killed him, erasing his body and true spirit.
• Su Bai gathered the Earth Baleful Heaven Lord’s storage treasures and smiled at the valuable resources inside.

After Su Bai killed Earth Baleful Heaven Lord with one finger, the Heavenly Dao mourned the Epoch King's death, drawing the attention of the rulers of the other three Heavenly Domains. Su Bai then allowed his thirteen disciples to challenge the Ninefold Heaven Lord Puppet, leaving the gathered cultivators stunned by their ambition.

• Earth Baleful Heaven Lord's death caused the Heavenly Dao to weep blood, a sign that an Epoch King had fallen.
• Heavenly Dipper Lord, Violet Heaven Lord, and Mighty Prestige Heaven Lord sensed the death and focused their attention on the Ninefold Firmament.
• Gate Heavenly King realized Su Bai could kill him just as easily as Earth Baleful Heaven Lord and was filled with fear and regret.
• Zhuge Feng and Wu Wushuang asked Su Bai to let the disciples challenge the Ninefold Heaven Lord Puppet and temper their Epoch Dao.
• Su Bai granted permission, and thirteen disciples stepped forward to face the Epoch Puppet, shocking the onlookers.

Su Bai’s thirteen disciples unleashed the Heavenly Dao Sword Formation against the Ninefold Heaven Lord Puppet, overcoming its Epoch King suppression and beginning to wound it. They ended the chapter determined to slay the puppet with their swords.

• Su Bai lifted his suppression on the puppet, and the thirteen disciples attacked, but the puppet’s aura shattered their combined strikes and drove them back.
• The disciples continued fighting without retreating as observers marveled at the gap between Peerless Immortal Kings and an Epoch King.
• The thirteen disciples drew their evolved immortal swords and took positions around the puppet.
• At Zhuge Feng’s command, they formed the Heavenly Dao Sword Formation, which suppressed the puppet’s Heavenly Dao power.
• The formation’s sword lights wounded the puppet, and Zhuge Feng urged the disciples to strike with all their strength and slay it.

Zhuge Feng and the other twelve Peerless Immortal Kings used the Heavenly Dao Sword Formation to grievously wound and ultimately destroy the Epoch Puppet. Their victory left the spectators proclaiming that a new myth had been born.

• Zhuge Feng coordinated Ye Ziyao, Su Ling'er, Wu Wushuang, Xiao Yan, and the other disciples as their sword formation wounded the Epoch Puppet.
• Xiao Yan combined Myriad Flames with Heavenly Dao Sword Intent while the thirteen launched their strongest attack, leaving a deep scar across the puppet's body.
• Yun Zhongtian warned the thirteen to retreat when the wounded Epoch Puppet unleashed a stronger aura, but they stood their ground.
• Zhuge Feng and the others merged their thirteen immortal swords into the Sword of Heavenly Dao and struck as the Epoch Puppet unleashed his final punch.
• The Sword of Heavenly Dao cracked the Epoch Puppet's fist and body, and the puppet exploded into specks of light.

The Heavenly Dao Sect’s thirteen disciples destroyed the Epoch Puppet, while Yun Hai killed a wounded Half-Step Epoch King from the Heaven Gate. Su Bai confronted Gate Heavenly King with the past he had betrayed, then killed him, leaving the Heaven Gate’s downfall complete.

• The thirteen disciples destroyed the Epoch Puppet, and Yun Zhongtian and the surviving cultivators bowed in reverence.
• Su Bai imprisoned Gate Heavenly King as Yun Hai killed the wounded Half-Step Epoch King who had helped the Heaven Gate slaughter his friends.
• Su Bai condemned Gate Heavenly King for becoming the oppressor he had once hated and showed him memories of his past as an abused Rogue Cultivator.
• Gate Heavenly King remembered how he had risen to power and abandoned his old vows, then fell to Su Bai’s finger strike.

After the Heavenly Dao Sect defeated the Gate Heavenly King and took control of the Ninefold Firmament, Su Bai reassured its people that he would not become a new oppressor. He established a Heavenly Dao Edict promising fairness, equality, freedom, and protection for all, then left the people to judge his rule by the future.

• Yun Zhongtian and the survivors congratulated the Heavenly Dao Sect after it destroyed the Heaven Gate and unified the Ninefold Firmament.
• Su Bai noticed that the people feared he might become another Gate Heavenly King and told them he sought to end oppression and grant all beings equality and freedom.
• Su Bai created a Heavenly Dao Edict that made protections for the people and prohibitions against abuse into laws of the Ninefold Firmament.
• Su Bai vanished after telling the people to believe in the future.

A hundred years after the Heaven Gate’s destruction, Yun Xuan saw how Su Bai and the Heavenly Dao Sect had brought order and hope to the Ninefold Firmament. She asked whether Su Bai regretted choosing equality over absolute power, and his answer left her believing that the future could be shaped as they wished.

• Yun Xuan bought a little girl’s flower and gave her a spiritual blessing.
• Yun Xuan reflected on how the Heavenly Dao Sect had improved life across the Ninefold Firmament and brought protection and opportunity to its people.
• Yun Xuan returned to the Heavenly Dao Sect, where Su Bai surveyed the territory the sect had gained under the Heavenly Dao Edict.
• Yun Xuan asked Su Bai whether he regretted rejecting the power and privilege he could have claimed.
• Su Bai said he believed the world could be free of oppression, and Yun Xuan began to believe in that possibility again.

Yun Xuan reaffirmed her faith in Su Bai’s promise to end oppression, and the chapter showed how the Heavenly Dao Sect’s decrees had brought hope and peace to people across the Ninefold Firmament. Ten years later, the entire realm belonged to the sect, and Su Bai completed the mission to Shatter the Ninefold Firmament, earning the Eternal Immortal Tree.

• Yun Xuan told Su Bai she believed he would end oppression because he had used his power without abusing it.
• A village elder watched local children learn cultivation for free from a Heavenly Dao Sect immortal master and thanked the sect for giving them hope.
• Yun Zhongtian saw peace and fair trade in a city that had once been chaotic, and wondered if things had truly changed.
• Yun Hai visited the graves of his fallen friends, told them the Heaven Gate had been destroyed, and said the world was getting better.
• Ten years later, the Ninefold Firmament became the territory of the Heavenly Dao Sect, and Su Bai received the Eternal Immortal Tree for completing the mission.

Su Bai received the Eternal Immortal Tree, a treasure capable of transforming the New Immortal Realm into an Eternal Realm, and decided to fuse it with the Chaos Immortal Tree. He entrusted the fusion to Wan Ying, who was stunned by his trust as the chapter ended.

• Su Bai received the Eternal Immortal Tree sapling as the reward for completing the mission to shatter the Ninefold Firmament.
• Su Bai considered how the tree could nourish the New Immortal Realm, improve cultivation, and eventually elevate his disciples’ Immortal Swords into Primordial Immortal Artifacts.
• Su Bai traveled to the New Immortal Realm and summoned Wan Ying, the Life Immortal King and spirit of the Chaos Immortal Tree.
• Su Bai told Wan Ying he intended to fuse the Eternal Immortal Tree with the Chaos Immortal Tree so she could help it grow.
• Wan Ying questioned whether she deserved such a supreme treasure, and Su Bai said he trusted her because she had died fighting for the Immortal Realm.

Su Bai fused the Eternal Immortal Tree sapling with the Chaos Immortal Tree, transforming it into the Eternal Immortal Tree and greatly empowering Wan Ying and the Heavenly Dao Sect’s disciples. He then merged the Ninefold Firmament’s nine continents with the New Immortal Realm and named the unified world the Human Realm.

• Su Bai merged the Eternal Immortal Tree sapling into the Chaos Immortal Tree, transforming it and filling the New Immortal Realm with Primordial Immortal Spirit Qi.
• Wan Ying rose from a Supreme Immortal King to a Peak Peerless Immortal King and gained an Epoch Imprint, while disciples beneath the tree made breakthroughs.
• Su Bai decided to merge the Ninefold Firmament with the New Immortal Realm and appeared above the Ninth Layer.
• Su Bai announced that he would reshape the Ninefold Firmament, and the nine continents moved onto the same plane and fused with the New Immortal Realm.
• Su Bai declared that the unified world would no longer be called the Ninefold Firmament and named it the Human Realm.

The Ninefold Firmament became the Human Realm, a unified world nourished by the Eternal Immortal Tree. As powerful figures in nearby domains reacted cautiously, the Eternal Immortal Realm was thrown into turmoil by thirteen unfamiliar names taking the top thirteen places on the Heavenly Dao Ranking.

• The Ninefold Firmament became the Human Realm, and its inhabitants celebrated as the Eternal Immortal Tree filled the continent with Primordial Immortal Spirit Qi.
• Yun Zhongtian, Yun Hai, and the other Immortal Kings marveled at the new world, while Yun Xuan praised it and Su Bai expressed hope for the future before vanishing.
• The Heavenly Dipper Lord ordered the Qiankun Heavenly Domain's borders with the Ninefold Firmament placed under martial lockdown after sensing a powerful aura.
• The Violet Heaven Lord prepared a generous gift and decided to visit the Ninefold Firmament to assess the mysterious existence and seek an opportunity for his domain.
• News spread across the Ten Great Heaven Realms that thirteen unfamiliar prodigies had taken the Heavenly Dao Ranking's top thirteen places, pushing Di Cang from first to fourteenth.

The Heavenly Dao Ranking’s revelation that Di Cang had fallen to fourteenth place stirred the Eternal Immortal Realm. The First Divine General announced a Heaven’s Pride Tournament in a thousand years, prompting hidden talents to emerge as the story turned toward the coming contest.

• Experts across the Eternal Immortal Realm investigated the thirteen unfamiliar names above Di Cang on the Heavenly Dao Ranking.
• The First Divine General discussed Di Cang’s ranking with him, then issued a decree announcing the Heaven’s Pride Tournament in the Firmament Heaven Realm.
• The First Divine General promised the top hundred an Epoch Supreme Treasure, the top ten a chance to comprehend the Epoch Dao, and the champion his guidance and a strand of Eternal Immortal Qi.
• Holy Sword left his mysterious Dao field to enter the tournament, while a young man emerged from a Taboo land to test the new talents.
• A white-haired woman left her sealed palace after her master urged her to see the world, and hidden talents across the realm began preparing for the tournament.

Su Bai encouraged the Heavenly Dao Sect’s disciples to enter the Celestial Court’s Heaven’s Pride Tournament, which was intended to draw out the thirteen newcomers atop the Heavenly Dao Ranking. After nine hundred years of cultivation beneath the Eternal Immortal Tree, the disciples departed for the Eternal Immortal Realm to prove themselves as the Heaven’s Pride of the Human Realm.

• Zhuge Feng and the other disciples welcomed the chance to test themselves against the Eternal Immortal Realm’s Heaven’s Pride, including Di Cang.
• Su Bai explained that the Celestial Court had organized the tournament to draw out his disciples and urged them to accept the challenge after cultivating further.
• The disciples bowed to Su Bai and vowed to fight without disgracing their mission.
• After nine hundred years beneath the Eternal Immortal Tree, Yun Xuan reached the Half-Step King Realm, while Su Hu and Lu Ming advanced to Peak Supreme Immortal Venerable.
• Zhuge Feng led the Heaven’s Pride away from the Eternal Immortal Tree to show the Eternal Immortal Realm the strength of the Human Realm.

As the Heaven's Pride Tournament approached, the Heavenly Dao Ranking filled with emerging and ancient prodigies, while its thirteen mysterious top names remained unchanged. After the Black Prison Saint Son was pushed off the list, he sought a battle against a young Peerless Immortal King to reclaim his rank.

• Zhou Cheng and successive unfamiliar prodigies appeared on the Heavenly Dao Ranking, displacing its longtime occupants.
• Ancient geniuses, including Li Wujin, entered the rankings, but the thirteen mysterious names at the top remained unmoved.
• By the nine-hundredth year, the Black Prison Saint Son had fallen from eighteenth place to one hundredth and then disappeared from the list.
• The Black Prison Saint Son decided to reclaim his rank and chose a young man with an iron staff, whose aura showed he was a Peerless Immortal King, as his opponent.
• The Black Prison Saint Son appeared before the young man's group and challenged him to fight.

Black Prison Saint Son arrived at the Heavenly Dao Ranking and demanded that a group of strangers fight him so he could prove his strength. The group ignored him and continued toward the ranking, leaving him furious and intent on killing them.

• Black Prison Saint Son appeared before the Heavenly Dao Ranking, and the crowd recognized the notorious, powerful figure whose name had vanished from the list.
• Black Prison Saint Son chose a group led by a young man with an iron staff as his opponent and ordered them to come out or face death.
• The group calmly discussed his demand, then ignored Black Prison Saint Son and continued toward the Heavenly Dao Ranking.
• Black Prison Saint Son grew enraged at being ignored and declared that he wanted the group dead.