Recaps

Xiao Yan and "Wu Wushuang" shattered an Epoch King’s barrier during their battle, then agreed to a draw rather than risk a deadly fight with their ultimate trump cards. As "Wu Wushuang" departed, Xiao Yan revealed that he knew the real Wu Wushuang and invited his opponent to consider joining the Heavenly Dao Sect.

• The Eighth Divine General opened a passage to the Heaven's Pride Battlefield with his Fifth-Epoch King power and led the twelve golden-armored Immortal Kings through it.
• Xiao Yan and "Wu Wushuang" grew so powerful in their final clash that their battle shattered the Epoch King’s barrier and sent cultivators fleeing from the aftermath.
• Xiao Yan and "Wu Wushuang" stopped fighting, acknowledged that neither could win without using deadly trump cards, and agreed to a draw.
• "Wu Wushuang" said he would remember Xiao Yan and left, but Xiao Yan told him he knew the real Wu Wushuang and urged him to be himself.
• Xiao Yan invited "Wu Wushuang" to consider joining the Heavenly Dao Sect if he had nowhere to go and no name to use.

After Xiao Yan and "Wu Wushuang" rejected invitations from powerful factions, the Celestial Court's Eighth Divine General descended over the star region. Epoch Kings knelt before him, leaving the crowd stunned by the Fifth-Epoch King's authority.

• An Epoch King from the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion offered Xiao Yan the position of young pavilion master and its resources, but Xiao Yan refused because he already belonged to a sect.
• Violet invited Xiao Yan to join the Purple Clan and offered to become his Dao companion, but he rejected her; she left with her desire to conquer him growing stronger.
• The Golden Clan and Blood Moon Immortal Sect invited "Wu Wushuang" to join them, but he refused and walked away.
• Other factions offered Xiao Yan and "Wu Wushuang" prestigious positions, but neither accepted.
• The Eighth Divine General emerged from a rift in the sky with twelve golden-armored Immortal Kings, and the Epoch Kings knelt to pay their respects.

The Eighth Divine General arrived before the gathered cultivators and announced that the Heaven's Pride Tournament would begin in three days, with great rewards for its winners. After the crowd reacted to the announcement, he stopped Xiao Yan and "Wu Wushuang" as they prepared to leave.

• The Eighth Divine General emerged from a Void Rift, and the gathered cultivators and Epoch Kings bowed before him.
• The Eighth Divine General announced that the Heaven's Pride Tournament would begin at the Heaven's Pride Battlefield in three days and named the rewards for the top hundred, top ten, and champion.
• The cultivators grew excited at the chance to enter the Celestial Court Treasury and Secret Realm and receive guidance from the First God and Eternal Immortal Qi.
• The crowd questioned why the Eighth Divine General had appeared in person and suspected that he had come because of Xiao Yan and "Wu Wushuang."
• The Eighth Divine General ordered Xiao Yan and "Wu Wushuang" to stop as they were about to depart.

The Eighth Divine General descended and tried to recruit Xiao Yan into the Celestial Court, even offering to make him his disciple. Xiao Yan refused repeatedly, and as the Divine General's pressure turned hostile, a voice from the horizon declared that Xiao Yan was not his to take.

• The Eighth Divine General used his words as a rule to stop Xiao Yan and "Wu Wushuang" from moving, then approached them with twelve golden-armored Immortal Kings.
• The Eighth Divine General asked Xiao Yan about sending the Little War King flying, but Xiao Yan refused to give his name because of the Divine General's attitude.
• The Eighth Divine General asked Xiao Yan to join the Celestial Court, and Xiao Yan calmly declined.
• The Eighth Divine General offered to take Xiao Yan as his disciple and let him roam unhindered throughout the Eternal Immortal Realm, but Xiao Yan refused because he already had a master.
• The Eighth Divine General's pressure erupted, then abruptly vanished as a voice from the horizon said, "My disciple is not yours to snatch!"

Su Bai arrived to protect Xiao Yan after the Eighth Divine General tried to pressure him into joining the Celestial Court. Su Bai confronted the divine general and their powers collided, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Su Bai appeared and dispelled the Eighth Divine General's pressure, freeing Xiao Yan.
• The Epoch Kings recognized Su Bai as the expert who had defeated an Epoch King with one finger and bowed to him.
• Su Bai checked on Xiao Yan, then challenged the Eighth Divine General for pressuring his disciple.
• The Eighth Divine General erupted with his aura, but Su Bai stood unmoved and scattered it with a flick of his hand.
• The Eighth Divine General struck at Su Bai's incoming ripple, and their forces collided.

Su Bai confronted the Eighth Divine General after he tried to take Su Bai’s disciple, and their clash threatened the Heaven’s Pride Battlefield. Unable to fight physically without risking the First Divine General’s wrath, the Eighth Divine General opened a Mental Domain, and Su Bai answered with an even greater spiritual force as their Mental Duel began.

• Su Bai’s casual flick made the Eighth Divine General retreat slightly, and Su Bai warned him not to threaten his disciple.
• The Eighth Divine General prepared to strike, but stopped when he remembered the First Divine General’s command to protect the Heaven’s Pride Tournament.
• The Eighth Divine General unfolded a vast Mental Domain, alarming the Epoch Kings and sending the cultivators fleeing from the danger of a Mental Duel.
• Su Bai said that spiritual combat was one of his strengths and unleashed a vast spiritual force of his own.
• The Eighth Divine General’s and Su Bai’s spiritual forces collided in the void.

The Eighth Divine General deployed a mental army of one hundred Epoch King-level Heavenly Generals and ten million Heavenly Soldiers in the Celestial Court’s Heavenly Net Formation. The onlookers believed Su Bai was at a disadvantage as the Eighth Divine General prepared to overwhelm him with the formation.

• Su Bai’s and the Eighth Divine General’s Mental Domains collided, sending painful shockwaves through the souls of nearby cultivators.
• The Eighth Divine General formed a mental battlefield filled with one hundred Heavenly Generals and ten million Heavenly Soldiers, each with independent minds and fighting styles.
• The Epoch Kings recognized the army’s Celestial Court battle formation and explained how the Eighth Divine General’s experience with real troops conserved mental power.
• Cultivators feared Su Bai would lose because he lacked a faction and a real army to use as a model.
• The Eighth Divine General activated the Heavenly Net Formation and stood confidently above his assembled army.

Su Bai matched the Eighth Divine General’s spiritual army with a ten-million-strong force of his own, complete with independent warriors and the Heavenly Dao Formation. He then let imprints of Heavenly Dao Sect powerhouses enter the army to begin the battle, leaving the clash about to start.

• The Eighth Divine General showed Su Bai his Heavenly Net Formation and argued that his experience commanding the Celestial Court’s army gave him the advantage in a spiritual battle.
• Su Bai matched the Eighth Divine General’s spiritual power and manifested an army whose warriors possessed independent thoughts and combat styles.
• The Epoch Kings recognized the Grass-Biting Youth among the hundred Epoch Kings at the front of Su Bai’s army.
• Su Bai’s army formed the Heavenly Dao Formation, which resonated with the Heavenly Dao and surpassed the Heavenly Net Formation in intricacy.
• Su Bai placed ten million imprints of Heavenly Dao Sect powerhouses into the army and ordered the battle to begin.

Su Bai gave tens of millions of Heavenly Dao Sect powerhouses spiritual vessels that let them experience higher realms, then led them against the Celestial Court army. The chapter ended with the Sect’s coordinated attacks cracking the Eighth Divine General’s Heavenly Net Formation.

• Xiao Yan, Zhuge Feng, Xiao Lingxi, and the other Heavenly Dao Sect powerhouses awakened in spiritual vessels with strength far beyond their real cultivation.
• Su Bai explained that their combined spiritual power reached the peak level of five Epoch Kings, and the disciples agreed to fight.
• Su Bai ordered the army to go to war, and Xiao Yan charged the Celestial Court formation with support from one hundred thousand fighters.
• Xiao Yan’s combined strike cracked the Heavenly Net Formation, shocking the Eighth Divine General.
• Zhuge Feng and the other disciples attacked in coordinated Heavenly Dao Battle Formations, shifting between formations as they pressed the assault.

The Heavenly Dao Sect army, led by Xiao Yan and Zhuge Feng, defeated the Eighth Divine General in the spiritual world by dismantling his Heavenly Net Formation with their superior Heavenly Dao Formation and coordination. The Eighth Divine General’s spiritual world collapsed, and he staggered back in the void, bleeding and defeated.

• The Epoch Kings watching the battle marveled at the Heavenly Dao Sect army’s coordination and wondered whether a powerful force stood behind the mysterious senior.
• The Eighth Divine General shifted the Heavenly Net Formation to attack, but Zhuge Feng countered with the Heavenly Dao Formation, whose Dao resonance shattered the enemy formation.
• Xiao Yan and Zhuge Feng led the Heavenly Dao Sect army in an assault that killed or wounded more than half the Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals and drained the Eighth Divine General’s spiritual power.
• The Eighth Divine General empowered his remaining troops in a final attempt to resist, but Zhuge Feng ordered the Heavenly Dao Battle Formation to purge demons and charge.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect army crushed the remaining Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals, collapsing the Eighth Divine General’s spiritual world and leaving him staggering backward, bleeding.

Su Bai defeated the Eighth Divine General in a spiritual-power clash, devastating his imprints and leaving him barely able to maintain the Fifth-Epoch King realm. The witnesses suspected Su Bai was a Sixth-Epoch King, a forbidden realm that no being born after the Creation of Heaven and Earth had reached—except, according to legend, one latercomer a hundred billion years ago.

• Su Bai crushed the Eighth Divine General's spiritual imprints, causing him to spit blood and lose most of his strength.
• The Eighth Divine General rejected the twelve Golden-Armored Immortal Kings' attempt to support him and stared at Su Bai, who remained unharmed and unmoved.
• The Blood Moon Immortal Sect, Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, Golden Clan, and Purple Clan powerhouses watched in disbelief as the Eighth Divine General's defeat became clear.
• A Half-Step Epoch King suggested that Su Bai was a Sixth-Epoch King, and the other powerhouses reacted with fear and shock.
• The narration explained that reaching the Sixth Epoch required comprehending Tribulation-Destruction Power and revealed that a latercomer had entered that forbidden domain a hundred billion years earlier.

After Su Bai effortlessly defeated the Eighth Divine General, the gathered experts debated what epoch of king he might be. They concluded he could be a Seven-Epoch King, and the chapter ended with everyone frozen in awe of him.

• The Epoch Kings recalled that Sixth-Epoch Kings were rare, legendary beings who had broken free of the Heavenly Dao's restraints.
• The experts noted that Su Bai had defeated the Eighth Divine General using mental power of the same strength, without moving or showing any effort.
• The Purple Clan's Epoch King concluded that Su Bai was a Sixth-Epoch King and a taboo existence beyond the Celestial Court's reach.
• The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion elder said he could not sense Su Bai's existence and suspected he was more than a Sixth-Epoch King.
• The Golden Clan's Epoch King suggested that Su Bai might be a Seven-Epoch King, leaving everyone silent and overwhelmed by awe.

Su Bai crippled the Celestial Court’s Eighth Divine General, then let his disciples experience Epoch King power and combat through his spiritual world. As the Heavenly Dao Sect’s cultivators resolved to advance their cultivation, billions of powerhouses bowed to Su Bai in awe.

• An Immortal King said the Eighth Divine General had lost at least ninety percent of his spiritual aura and would need at least ten billion years to recover, if he could recover at all.
• Xiao Yan, Zhuge Feng, Mu Lingxian, Jiuyue, Wu Wushuang, and the other disciples emerged from Su Bai’s spiritual world with new insights into the Epoch Realm and experience fighting the Celestial Court’s army.
• Yun Xuan, Shi Huang, Gu Qingping, and the other rising talents resolved to pursue the Immortal King Realm, while Xuanwei entered seclusion and Yun Hai celebrated his progress along the Epoch Path.
• Su Bai asked his disciples how the experience felt, and they praised the power and insight they had gained in his spiritual world.
• The Blood Moon Immortal Sect’s Epoch King and the old man from the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion knelt before Su Bai, followed by the other powerhouses present.
• Billions of powerhouses across the starfield bowed to Su Bai and greeted him as Senior.

Su Bai left with Xiao Yan after overpowering the Eighth Divine General, while Mystic Ice Fairy wondered whether Su Bai might be the prophesied Emperor. The Eighth Divine General then tried to restore the Celestial Court’s dignity by recruiting Wu Wushuang, whom he believed had no powerful backing.

• Mystic Ice Fairy recalled her master's prophecy that an Emperor would descend and suspected that Su Bai might resemble the legendary Heavenly Emperor in bearing.
• Su Bai led Xiao Yan and the others away, while Wu Wushuang watched them leave with envy and the other powerhouses wondered what their faction's appearance meant for the Eternal Immortal Realm.
• The Eighth Divine General blamed Wu Wushuang for his defeat and, after concluding that Wu Wushuang came from the Lower Realm without powerful backing, decided to take him away.
• The Eighth Divine General asked Wu Wushuang to join the Celestial Court, and the gathered powerhouses recognized the offer as an attempt to salvage his dignity.

"Wu Wushuang" refused the Eighth Divine General’s demand that he join the Celestial Court and tried to deter him by claiming he had a powerful patron. The Eighth Divine General saw through the bluff and raised his hand to attack, leaving "Wu Wushuang" facing certain death.

• The Eighth Divine General ordered "Wu Wushuang" to join the Celestial Court, but "Wu Wushuang" refused twice despite the pressure of the Fifth-Epoch King’s aura.
• The Eighth Divine General prepared to attack, and "Wu Wushuang" warned that he might have a powerful patron who would retaliate.
• The Eighth Divine General said the Celestial Court had found no one behind "Wu Wushuang" and raised his hand to strike.
• "Wu Wushuang" realized his fabricated rumor could not save him and lamented that he had not raised the Dao Fruit to the Supreme Peak.

As he faced what seemed to be the end of his journey, "Wu Wushuang" recalled how a nameless orphan learned from Old Beggar to survive by deception. After discovering that an invented identity could bring him respect and power, he forged a path of cultivation through the Way of Deception, ending with his first success at pretending to be an immortal.

• "Wu Wushuang" remembered being abandoned in a ruined temple near Azure Cloud Town and raised by Old Beggar, who taught him that honest people did not live long.
• After Old Beggar died, he saw townspeople beaten him for refusing to kneel to an unknown dignitary and concluded that status came from what others believed.
• He dressed as a young heir from a neighboring kingdom, won the little princess's love and the Emperor's esteem, then was exposed when the real heir arrived and fled the palace.
• He learned that people treated him according to his identity and came to value status as much as strength because it signaled the power behind a person.
• He disguised himself as an immortal descending into the mortal world, and spiritual energy surged through his body for the first time, beginning his Way of Deception.

Facing the Eighth Divine General, the man reflected on his lonely Way of Deception and remembered the Azure Cloud Sect elder who had once accepted and guided him. He recalled how the Heavenly Dao struck after he revealed his secret, leaving True Person Yun He to sacrifice himself so he could escape.

• The man admitted to himself that he longed for understanding, companionship, and a home, though his Dao forced him to keep his secret hidden.
• Long ago, he joined the Azure Cloud Sect and gradually came to trust Grand Elder True Person Yun He, whose kindness made the sect feel like a home.
• He revealed his origins and Way of Deception to True Person Yun He, who comforted him, promised to protect his secret, and taught him to refine his Dao.
• After the secret was spoken, the Heavenly Dao learned of it, and his cultivation weakened as a special Heavenly Tribulation descended upon him.
• True Person Yun He blocked the tribulation and urged him to flee, believe in his Dao, and never reveal it to anyone else.

“Wu Wushuang” faced death rather than join the Celestial Court, unwilling to expose his Way of Deception. Just as the Eighth Divine General struck, a protective light stopped his palm, and a blazing figure declared Wu Wushuang his disciple.

• “Wu Wushuang” recalled how True Person Yun He's death taught him to hide his Way of Deception and rely on fabricated identities to grow stronger.
• “Wu Wushuang” decided he could not join the Celestial Court because doing so would expose his Dao and put his Dao Foundation at risk.
• The Eighth Divine General crushed “Wu Wushuang” with the pressure of his Fifth-Epoch King power as he prepared to strike.
• “Wu Wushuang” accepted his apparent death, reflecting that he had never harmed the innocent or acted unjustly.
• A gentle light blocked the Eighth Divine General's palm, and a blazing figure called out, “My disciple—who dares touch him?!”

A flaming powerhouse appeared to protect "Wu Wushuang," claiming him as his disciple and sending the Eighth Divine General flying with one punch. "Wu Wushuang" struggled to accept the protection while the onlookers realized his supposed backing was real, and the badly wounded Eighth Divine General recognized that he had lost.

• The flaming figure blocked the Eighth Divine General's attack on "Wu Wushuang" and knocked him flying with one punch.
• "Wu Wushuang" felt moved by the senior's protection but kept silent about having no master, afraid to trust someone and lose them again.
• The flaming figure told "Wu Wushuang" to step back and promised that no one could touch him while he was there.
• The surrounding powerhouses reacted with shock and fear, concluding that "Wu Wushuang" had a formidable master.
• The Eighth Divine General steadied himself with a crushed chest and shattered armor, his strength diminished below that of a Fourth-Epoch King, and realized he had lost the gamble.

A flaming figure named Wu Wushuang appeared to save him and relentlessly beat the Eighth Divine General for attacking his disciple. As the Eternal Immortal Realm witnessed the fight and accepted that Wu Wushuang had a powerful master, his Dao Fruit began to condense and his Way of Deception advanced.

• The flaming figure declared that the Eighth Divine General had to die for laying hands on his disciple, then attacked him with devastating punches and kicks.
• The Eighth Divine General warned that the Celestial Court and its seven remaining divine generals would seek revenge, but the flaming figure challenged them and continued beating him.
• Powerful figures across the Eternal Immortal Realm watched the Eighth Divine General get battered and concluded that Wu Wushuang had a fearsome master.
• Wu Wushuang realized the senior was making his fabricated master real in the eyes of the realm, strengthening his Dao Fruit and advancing his Way of Deception.
• Wu Wushuang silently vowed to repay the flaming figure’s kindness if he ever reached the end of his path.

Su Bai’s Second True Self intervened to protect Wu Wushuang and further his Dao, prompting the Eighth Divine General to summon the Celestial Court’s Seventh Divine General. The Seventh Divine General awakened as a Sixth-Epoch Taboo and arrived at the starfield, leaving the battlefield facing an overwhelming new threat.

• Su Bai hid Xiao Yan, Zhuge Feng, Xiao Lingxi, and the other Heavenly Dao Sect disciples nearby, then sent his Second True Self to fight the Eighth Divine General and support Wu Wushuang.
• The disciples praised Su Bai’s intervention and recognized that he had acted because Wu Wushuang was alone and had no one to rely on.
• Desperate and badly beaten, the Eighth Divine General cried out to his Seventh Brother for help.
• The Seventh Divine General awakened from a long seclusion, releasing an aura that shook the Celestial Court and spread throughout the Eternal Immortal Realm.
• Experts across the realm identified the awakened Seventh Divine General as a Sixth-Epoch Taboo and feared that Wu Wushuang and the fiery figure could not survive his arrival.
• The Seventh Divine General’s aura descended upon the starfield, and the Eighth Divine General taunted the fiery figure, confident that the Taboo would protect him.

Su Bai's Second True Self used five Epoch Blades to shatter the Eighth Divine General's Epoch Imprints despite the Seventh Divine General's warnings. The Eighth Divine General lost his Epoch King status and could never regain it.

• The Seventh Divine General's Taboo pressure forced the gathered powerhouses to kneel, but Su Bai's Second True Self remained unmoved while protecting Wu Wushuang.
• Su Bai's Second True Self struck the Eighth Divine General's fifth Epoch Imprint with an Epoch Blade, destroying his foundation as a Fifth-Epoch King.
• He shattered the Eighth Divine General's fourth and third Epoch Imprints as the Seventh Divine General ordered him to stop.
• Despite the Seventh Divine General intensifying his pressure and repeating his command, Su Bai's Second True Self broke the Eighth Divine General's second and final Epoch Imprints.
• The Eighth Divine General fell from the Epoch King realm to an ordinary Immortal King and permanently lost the ability to become an Epoch King again.

The flame-wreathed senior revealed himself as a Sixth-Epoch Taboo and severed a finger from the Seventh Divine General with one strike. Wu Wushuang realized his senior had protected him while sending a warning that no one could harm his disciple without paying the price.

• The Seventh Divine General attacked the flame-wreathed senior with Taboo power, alarming Wu Wushuang and the watching Epoch Kings.
• The senior revealed an aura stronger than the Seventh Divine General’s and formed a Sixth-Epoch Epoch Blade.
• The senior swung his sixth blade and severed the Seventh Divine General’s index finger, sending it crashing into a Greater Realm.
• The witnesses realized the flame-wreathed senior was a powerful Sixth-Epoch Taboo.
• Wu Wushuang understood that his senior had deliberately stripped the Eighth Divine General of his power and had protected him from the Celestial Court.

Su Bai’s Second True Self protected “Wu Wushuang” from the Celestial Court and drove the Seventh Divine General away. After the Eighth Divine General begged for rescue and was abandoned, Su Bai explained that the Celestial Court only valued the strong.

• “Wu Wushuang” longed to be protected by a master, even though he believed the feeling would only last for the battle.
• Su Bai’s Second True Self threatened the Seventh Divine General after severing his finger, and the Seventh Divine General withdrew.
• The wounded Eighth Divine General pleaded with the Seventh Divine General to take him, but the Celestial Court’s hand left without him.
• The Eighth Divine General realized the Celestial Court had abandoned him and collapsed in confusion.
• Su Bai’s Second True Self told the Eighth Divine General that the Celestial Court would not risk opposing a powerful Taboo existence to save a weakened Immortal King.

Su Bai's Second True Self broke the Eighth Divine General's belief that the Celestial Court valued him, then prepared to kill him. The Seventh Divine General's aura returned, but its attack targeted the Eighth Divine General instead of saving him.

• Su Bai's Second True Self told the Eighth Divine General that the Celestial Court had used him as a disposable glove and abandoned him after his Epoch Imprint was shattered.
• The Eighth Divine General denied the accusation, then broke down when no one from the Celestial Court answered his call for help.
• The Eighth Divine General laughed in despair, realized he had been discarded, and begged Su Bai's Second True Self to spare his life.
• Su Bai's Second True Self told the Eighth Divine General to rest in peace, and the Seventh Divine General's aura erupted again from the Celestial Court.
• The Eighth Divine General mistook the Seventh Divine General's return for a rescue, but the Seventh Divine General attacked him and condemned him for disgracing the Divine Generals.