Recaps

After the Human Realm prodigies wiped out Mo Yuan’s five-thousand-strong Celestial Court force, Mystic Ice Fairy watched Zhuge Feng’s group prepare to withdraw. Firmament learned that Mo Yuan and his troops were gone and realized the Human Realm had baited the Celestial Court into splitting up; he was left recognizing them as a formidable threat.

• Zhuge Feng told Mystic Ice Fairy that the enemy army had been wiped out and urged the Human Realm group to withdraw before the Celestial Court reacted.
• Xiao Yan and Lu Ming delayed the group while they gathered battlefield spoils, and Mystic Ice Fairy silently wondered how such powerful people could behave so casually.
• Firmament pursued two Human Realm token auras with four thousand Celestial Court prodigies until his token showed that his connection to Mo Yuan had been severed.
• Firmament and the pursuing prodigies discovered that all five thousand members of Mo Yuan’s force had vanished from their tokens, while other Celestial Court Holy Sons sent warnings about the ambush.
• Firmament deduced that the Human Realm had used bait to lure the Celestial Court into dividing its forces and concluded that the Human Realm was no mere rat but a tiger.

After Mo Yuan’s forces were annihilated, Firmament stopped the Celestial Court armies from pursuing separately and ordered them to regroup. Zhuge Feng and Han Feiyu planned to intercept three isolated forces before they could join Firmament, weakening the enemy’s numbers and morale ahead of a final battle.

• Firmament explained that Mo Yuan’s death resulted from the Celestial Court splitting its forces and ordered the remaining armies to gather at his position.
• Han Feiyu learned that the nine pursuing armies had turned back, and the Human Realm prodigies gathered to discuss their next move.
• Zhuge Feng warned that Firmament would soon command a massive united force and proposed striking before the Celestial Court completed its regrouping.
• Zhuge Feng identified three Celestial Court forces farthest from Firmament’s main gathering point as targets for interception.
• Han Feiyu argued that defeating more forces would further damage Celestial Court morale and improve the Human Realm’s chances in the final battle.

Zhuge Feng, Han Feiyu, Xiao Yan, and the Human Realm prodigies launched a rapid three-pronged ambush against Celestial Court forces marching to join Firmament. They destroyed all three forces, leaving the Celestial Court with fewer than twenty thousand troops as the Human Realm began its counterattack.

• Zhuge Liang identified three isolated Celestial Court forces as targets, and Han Feiyu sent his nine clones to delay them while the Human Realm prepared to attack.
• Wu Wushuang charged Saint Son Azure Nether's force, and more than twenty Human Realm prodigies attacked from every direction.
• Zhuge Feng and his group erupted from underground to ambush Saint Son Lone Star's force.
• Xiao Yan struck Saint Son Dark Moon's force from above and threw it into disarray.
• Jiuyue killed Saint Son Azure Nether, Su Qingyun killed Saint Son Lone Star, and Yun Xuan killed Saint Son Dark Moon as the three Celestial Court forces were wiped out.
• The Human Realm's attacks brought the Celestial Court's losses to over ten thousand, leaving fewer than twenty thousand troops and turning the hunters into the hunted.

Tianxiao gathered over ten thousand Celestial Court prodigies, only to learn that three more Holy Sons and their forces had been wiped out. After a threatening aura appeared and vanished, he led his troops to reinforce them but found all three armies already destroyed.

• Tianxiao assembled over ten thousand Celestial Court prodigies after Mo Yuan's force was wiped out and sensed an unseen presence watching them.
• Saint Son Azure Nether, Saint Son Lone Star, and Saint Son Dark Moon sent desperate calls for help before their Life Tablets shattered.
• Tianxiao's troops panicked upon learning that five of the Celestial Court's Ten Holy Sons had fallen, and he ordered them to form ranks as a powerful aura approached.
• The aura vanished, and Tianxiao searched the area before leading his army to reinforce the three forces.
• Tianxiao and his troops arrived to find all three armies wiped out, with smoke dispersing in the void.

After the Celestial Court lost more than eleven thousand troops and three more Holy Sons, Firmament ordered his remaining forces to stay together and stop attacking. Zhuge Feng then rallied the Human Realm’s prodigies to pursue the weakened Celestial Court army.

• Firmament realized the Celestial Court had been lured into the Human Realm’s traps and ordered his troops to hold their position.
• The viewing platform learned that Saint Son Azure Nether, Saint Son Lone Star, and Saint Son Dark Moon had died, bringing the Celestial Court’s lost Holy Sons to five.
• The Blood Moon Ancestor taunted the Eighth Divine General as the Celestial Court’s losses left its supporters unable to respond.
• Zhuge Feng told the Human Realm’s prodigies that Firmament had gathered his remaining troops and that their morale had collapsed.
• Zhuge Feng declared that it was time for the Celestial Court to run, and the Human Realm’s prodigies set out to pursue them.

The Human Realm's eighty-odd prodigies pursued Firmament and the fleeing Celestial Court army, gradually drawing other factions into the chase. As the pursuit grew into a mass uprising across the Eternal Battlefield, the Human Realm prepared to close the net, confident they could face Di Cang if he appeared.

• Zhuge Feng ordered the Human Realm prodigies to pursue the Celestial Court army cautiously and weaken it rather than risk a direct clash.
• Firmament ordered the more than nineteen thousand Celestial Court prodigies to retreat as the Human Realm's forces closed in.
• Xiao Yan, Wu Wushuang, Su Qingyun, Yun Xuan, Lu Ming, and Su Hu attacked the fleeing Celestial Court forces, killing many of their stragglers.
• Rogue Cultivator prodigies saw the Celestial Court fleeing and joined the Human Realm's pursuit, followed by Little War King, Violet, Ji Tianji, and others.
• News spread across the Eternal Battlefield, prompting hundreds and then thousands of non-Celestial Court prodigies to join the chase.
• The Human Realm's growing force prepared to draw in the net, believing they could face Di Cang if he appeared.

Zhuge Feng and the Human Realm prodigies led a growing coalition in pursuit of Tianxiao’s retreating Celestial Court army. With the Celestial Court surrounded by more than twenty thousand enemies and reduced to fewer than fourteen thousand fighters, the final battle began.

• More than ten thousand unaffiliated prodigies joined the Human Realm’s pursuit of Tianxiao and the Celestial Court army.
• Xiao Yan struck the Celestial Court’s flank with his Dark Iron Heavy Ruler, while Wu Wushuang killed dozens with Formless Sword Qi.
• Non-Celestial Court prodigies attacked the fleeing army, and its numbers dwindled as its fighters panicked and begged for mercy.
• Tian Xu returned with battered survivors and warned Tianxiao that another force blocked their escape ahead.
• Tianxiao saw Su Qingyun, Yun Xuan, Lu Ming, Su Hu, and a force of more than twenty thousand waiting ahead, completing the encirclement.
• The trapped Celestial Court army numbered fewer than fourteen thousand, and the Human Realm’s final assault began.

The Human Realm's army overwhelmed the Celestial Court's remaining forces, leaving Tianxiao and Tianquan surrounded as the battle neared its end. At the battlefield's edge, Zhuge Feng warned Xiao Lingxi and Han Feiyu that Di Cang, the undefeated prodigy, was the final formidable enemy.

• Xiao Yan led more than twenty Human Realm Peerless Immortal Kings and over twenty thousand non-Celestial Court prodigies into an all-out attack on the Celestial Court army.
• The Celestial Court's fourteen thousand remaining soldiers broke under the assault, and its battle line collapsed as its prodigies were slaughtered.
• Tianxiao and the wounded Tianquan stood back to back, surrounded by enemies, while Tianquan feared they would die there.
• Zhuge Feng watched from the battlefield's edge with Xiao Lingxi and Han Feiyu, then said the fight would soon be over and only one formidable enemy remained.
• Zhuge Feng told Xiao Lingxi that Di Cang had fought more than seventy-three thousand battles without ever losing and was the Eternal Immortal Realm's greatest prodigy.

Di Cang arrived on the battlefield with an overwhelming aura, restoring hope to the defeated Celestial Court army and drawing the Human Realm’s fighters into a tense standoff. After praising the Human Realm’s strength, he questioned whether they enjoyed using their numerical advantage against the Celestial Court.

• Han Feiyu, Zhuge Feng, Xiao Lingxi, and the Human Realm’s fighters sensed a powerful presence approaching and stopped to look toward it.
• Di Cang descended in a golden pillar of light, and the routed Celestial Court soldiers recognized him and rallied around his arrival.
• Firmament pleaded with Di Cang to avenge the more than twenty thousand Celestial Court members killed by the Human Realm.
• Di Cang surveyed the battlefield, acknowledged the Human Realm fighters, and asked whether they enjoyed bullying the few with the many.

Di Cang acknowledged the Celestial Court’s past oppression but proposed that both sides withdraw and let bygones be bygones. Xiao Yan challenged the proposal, asking what the Human Realm would face if it refused.

• Human Realm warriors and other survivors confronted Di Cang with accounts of the Celestial Court’s past hunts and massacres.
• Firmament admitted that the Celestial Court had been the side bullying the few with the many and recounted how its forces had been wiped out.
• Di Cang acknowledged the Celestial Court’s fault but called for both sides to withdraw and let bygones be bygones.
• Xiao Yan, after receiving Zhuge Feng’s nod, asked Di Cang what would happen if the Human Realm refused.

The Human Realm prodigies rejected Di Cang’s offer of reconciliation, and he revealed his overwhelming Half-Step Epoch King power. Most of the allied non-Celestial Court prodigies fled, but the Human Realm and a few others stood their ground as Di Cang prepared to attack.

• Xiao Yan and Wu Wushuang rejected Di Cang’s offer, declaring that the Human Realm would fight for justice and would not forgive the Celestial Court’s blood debts.
• Di Cang summoned a golden spear and released the aura of a monstrous Half-Step Epoch King, then ordered everyone who remained to die.
• More than half of the non-Celestial Court prodigies fled, while Little War King, Violet, Ji Tianji, and roughly ten thousand others stayed.
• Di Cang asked the Human Realm prodigies whether they would flee, and Xiao Yan, Wu Wushuang, and the others answered by unleashing their power and standing ready to fight.
• Di Cang praised their courage, raised his golden spear, and began gathering a beam of light to attack.

Xiao Yan confronted Di Cang on the Eternal Battlefield and survived the Half-Step Epoch King's devastating spear strike with only minor injuries. As Xiao Yan began forming a Chaos-colored flame capable of threatening Di Cang, Zhuge Feng, Xiao Lingxi, and Su Ling'er intervened to hold Di Cang back.

• Di Cang thrust his golden spear at the Human Realm, and Xiao Yan met the attack with Myriad Flames Burn Heaven.
• Di Cang remained unharmed while his strike hurled Xiao Yan countless billions of miles away, but Xiao Yan survived with only minor injuries and laughed as his fighting spirit rose.
• Xiao Yan fused Myriad Flames into a Chaos-colored fireball that made Di Cang sense a genuine threat.
• Di Cang unleashed a stronger spear strike to interrupt Xiao Yan's Taboo technique.
• Zhuge Feng, Xiao Lingxi, and Su Ling'er intercepted Di Cang's attack and said they would hold him back so Xiao Yan could focus.

Zhuge Feng, Xiao Lingxi, and Su Ling'er joined forces against Di Cang and held him to a draw before fighting alongside Xiao Yan in a combined strike that injured him. Di Cang answered by awakening an aura that was advancing toward the true Epoch King realm, declaring that the battle had only just begun.

• Zhuge Feng, Xiao Lingxi, and Su Ling'er combined their powers to match Di Cang’s spear strike, forcing both sides to retreat in a draw.
• Di Cang praised the three and renewed his attack as they unleashed their strongest techniques against him.
• Xiao Yan completed his Chaos-colored Fire Lotus and joined Zhuge Feng, Xiao Lingxi, and Su Ling'er in striking Di Cang with their four ultimate attacks.
• Di Cang countered with Annihilation Divine Thunder, but the collision cracked his golden armor and drew blood, prompting cheers from the unaffiliated prodigies.
• Di Cang wiped away his blood, fixed his gaze on the four Human Realm prodigies, and began advancing toward the true Epoch King realm.

Di Cang unleashed the first three strikes of his God-Slaying Thirteen Spears against Xiao Yan, Zhuge Feng, Xiao Lingxi, and Su Ling'er. The four blocked the first two strikes and trapped Di Cang in a coordinated counterattack after Xiao Yan seized his spear.

• Di Cang announced his God-Slaying Thirteen Spears and struck the four Human Realm prodigies with a blow that combined creation and annihilation.
• Xiao Yan, Zhuge Feng, Xiao Lingxi, and Su Ling'er joined forces to block Di Cang’s first spear.
• Di Cang’s Heaven Swallowing spear summoned a golden vortex, which the four destroyed with coordinated attacks.
• Di Cang’s World Annihilation spear appeared to pierce Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan used an afterimage and seized Di Cang’s spear.
• Zhuge Feng, Xiao Lingxi, and Su Ling'er launched a three-sided attack on Di Cang while Xiao Yan held his weapon.

Di Cang overwhelmed the Human Realm prodigies with his spear techniques and prepared to finish them with his twelfth spear, Slay Heaven. Wu Wushuang broke through to become a Half-Step Epoch King and stepped forward to face him.

• Di Cang suppressed Xiao Yan’s Myriad Flames Burning the Body and acknowledged that the four Human Realm prodigies had nearly threatened him through their coordination.
• Di Cang unleashed his fourth spear, Ask the Gods, and Zhuge Feng, Xiao Yan, Xiao Lingxi, and Su Ling’er defended their souls with their Primordial Spirits.
• Di Cang feared the prodigies’ future growth and used his twelfth spear, Slay Heaven, to try to end the battle.
• Wu Wushuang told Zhuge Feng, Xiao Yan, Xiao Lingxi, and Su Ling’er to retreat and faced Di Cang himself.
• Wu Wushuang’s Sword Intent broke through its limits, making him a Half-Step Epoch King.

Wu Wushuang confronted Di Cang’s Heaven-Slaying Spear with a sword formed from the will of swords across the battlefield. He shattered the spear and wounded Di Cang, who laughed and declared that Wu Wushuang was the first to break it.

• Di Cang unleashed his twelfth spear, the Heaven-Slaying Spear, toward the Human Realm group.
• Wu Wushuang stepped forward, surged to Half-Step Epoch King, and summoned countless swords to form the All-Under-Heaven Beings Sword.
• Wu Wushuang’s sword clashed with Di Cang’s spear for a quarter of an hour before breaking it apart.
• Di Cang spat golden blood and stepped back as the battlefield fell silent.
• Wu Wushuang said his sword served all living beings and surpassed Di Cang’s spear.
• Di Cang laughed and told Wu Wushuang that he was the first person to break his Heaven-Slaying Spear.

Di Cang unleashed his Godhead in the final spear of the God-Slaying Thirteen Spears, while Wu Wushuang answered with a sword formed from the wills of all living beings. Wu Wushuang prevailed, but Di Cang’s cryptic last words and disappearance led him to suspect that the defeated Di Cang was only a clone.

• Di Cang offered up his Godhead and thrust the thirteenth spear, threatening to erase Wu Wushuang and everything behind him.
• Wu Wushuang gathered the life imprints and hopes of countless beings into the All-Under-Heaven Beings Sword and swung at Di Cang.
• The sword and spear collided, shattering Di Cang’s Dark Domain in a clash that seemed to transcend time.
• Di Cang’s spear broke apart, his armor shattered, and his divine mark dimmed as he admitted Wu Wushuang had won.
• Di Cang vanished while laughing and saying Wu Wushuang had lost as well, and Wu Wushuang quietly concluded that he had fought a clone.

After defeating Di Cang's avatar, the Human Realm prodigies rallied and wiped out the Celestial Court forces in the Eternal Battlefield. Outside, the Heaven's Pride Rankings confirmed the scale of the slaughter, leaving the Eighth Divine General and the viewing platform in shock.

• Xiao Yan and Zhuge Feng restored the Human Realm prodigies' morale by declaring they would eventually defeat Di Cang's true body.
• Wu Wushuang ordered the Human Realm prodigies to kill every remaining Celestial Court member, and they launched a one-sided slaughter.
• Firmament watched helplessly as the Celestial Court's First Holy Son, its Ten Holy Sons, and more than thirty thousand Immortal King prodigies were killed.
• The surviving unaffiliated prodigies began gathering spoils from the battlefield as the Eternal Battlefield fell silent.
• At the Heaven's Pride Battlefield, thousands of Celestial Court names shattered on the rankings, and the Eighth Divine General realized the losses were continuing on a massive scale.

The Human Realm wiped out the Celestial Court's prodigies in the Eternal Battlefield, leaving the Celestial Court's Heaven's Pride Rankings empty except for Di Cang and provoking fury among its rulers. Over the following century, fifteen Human Realm prodigies reached the Half-Step Epoch King Realm as the tournament's first round neared its end.

• Firmament's name shattered from the Heaven's Pride Rankings, followed by the names of the Celestial Court's remaining prodigies until only Di Cang remained.
• The Eighth Divine General broke down as the Ten Great Heaven Realm rulers blamed him for the deaths of thirty thousand Celestial Court prodigies.
• The Human Realm prodigies spent the next hundred years tempering themselves across the Eternal Battlefield in preparation for facing Di Cang.
• Han Feiyu, Zhuge Feng, Xiao Lingxi, Xiao Yan, Su Ling'er, Jiuyue, Su Qingyun, and Su Bai's other disciples broke through to the Half-Step Epoch King Realm.
• The Human Realm reached fifteen Half-Step Epoch Kings as the tournament's first round approached its end.

The first round of the Eternal Battlefield ended, and surviving geniuses returned through the gate of light as factions awaited their prodigies. Little War King, Ji Tianji, and Violet emerged among the top hundred and advanced, while Blood Moon Ancestor realized Li Wujin had not returned.

• With three days left, prodigies fought frantically for points, while the Human Realm geniuses and Mystic Ice Fairy stayed out of the final struggle because they already held more than two million points each.
• The first round ended, and surviving geniuses streamed through the gate of light as powerhouses on the spectator stands searched for their people.
• Factions celebrated as their geniuses emerged alive, but Blood Moon Ancestor repeatedly asked after Li Wujin and received no news of him.
• Little War King, Ji Tianji, and Violet emerged together, having reached the top hundred and advanced.

Mystic Ice Fairy and the Human Realm prodigies emerged from the gate of light, revealing that fifteen of them had reached the Half-Step Epoch King realm. Di Cang then appeared and faced Wu Wushuang, warning him that his All-Under-Heaven Beings Sword would not work twice and demanding that he surrender if he had no stronger moves.

• Mystic Ice Fairy emerged from the gate of light after breaking through to the Half-Step Epoch King realm.
• Su Qingyun, Zhuge Feng, Wu Wushuang, Xiao Yan, Jiuyue, and other Human Realm prodigies emerged, including fifteen Half-Step Epoch Kings.
• The spectators wondered how the Human Realm's few dozen prodigies had defeated the Celestial Court's thirty thousand prodigies.
• Di Cang emerged unscathed, and the Celestial Court experts regained hope at his return.
• Di Cang surveyed the Human Realm prodigies before locking gazes with Wu Wushuang.
• Di Cang praised Wu Wushuang's All-Under-Heaven Beings Sword and told him to surrender if his strength ended there.

Di Cang believed his knowledge of the Human Realm prodigies’ techniques gave him an advantage, but Xiao Yan hinted that they still had stronger fighters. The first-round rankings revealed Human Realm prodigies at the top, leaving Di Cang wary of the still-unknown Wu Wushuang and Zhuge Feng.

• Di Cang reflected that his avatar had gathered intelligence on the Human Realm prodigies and believed their known techniques would not work against him again.
• Xiao Yan challenged Di Cang’s assumption that the Human Realm had shown its full strength and suggested that even stronger figures remained.
• The Heaven's Pride Rankings were revealed, placing Di Cang at rank 87 with 1.86 million points and Mystic Ice Fairy at rank 86.
• Human Realm prodigies filled the upper rankings, with Zhuge Feng taking second place at 2.88 million points and Wu Wushuang taking first at 2.96 million.
• Di Cang wondered whether Wu Wushuang and Zhuge Feng were among the fighters he had faced, while the Human Realm prodigies kept their identities hidden and prepared a plan against him.

The Human Realm dominated the Heaven's Pride Rankings after the first round, but Di Cang hinted that the standings were not final. A mysterious newcomer, Xuan Qingyi, appeared from beyond the thousandth rank with five million points and took first place, leaving the battlefield stunned.

• The Human Realm celebrated monopolizing the top twenty of the Heavenly Dao Ranking and claiming eighty-six of the top ninety Heaven's Pride Rankings, while Di Cang's Celestial Court was nearly erased.
• Xiao Yan taunted Di Cang for sending the Human Realm points, and Di Cang replied that the first round had only just begun.
• Mo Chen celebrated advancing in the thousandth and final qualifying position on the Heaven's Pride Rankings.
• Di Cang questioned whether the Human Realm could truly take first place, and Mo Chen's name vanished as every ranked prodigy fell one place.
• Xuan Qingyi appeared at the top of the Heaven's Pride Rankings with five million points, and the crowd wondered who she was and how she had gained so many points.

Xuan Qingyi emerged from the light gate and claimed the top spot on the Heaven's Pride Rankings with five million points, stunning the arena. After warmly greeting the Human Realm's heaven's prides, she returned to the Celestial Court, while Azure Mountain Saint Emperor suspected she carried an Emperor's bloodline.

• Xuan Qingyi took first place on the Heaven's Pride Rankings with five million points, shocking the spectators and prompting them to resume guessing Grass-Biting Youth's identity.
• Xuan Qingyi emerged from the light gate, and the Eighth Divine General addressed her as Profound King.
• Xuan Qingyi examined the rankings, then walked to the Human Realm camp despite the Eighth Divine General trying to stop her.
• Xuan Qingyi told Xiao Yan and the others she bore no ill will and was pleased to find such strong opponents in her era.
• Xuan Qingyi returned to the Celestial Court, and Azure Mountain Saint Emperor sensed that her bloodline carried an Emperor's aura.

The Seventh Divine General reprimanded the Eighth Divine General for the Celestial Court’s losses and announced that he would supervise the tournament’s second round. As the Human Realm became a symbol of hope across the Eternal Immortal Realm, three months passed and the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Heavenly Ladder was about to begin.

• The Seventh Divine General arrived at the viewing stands and condemned the Eighth Divine General for the Celestial Court’s defeat and the loss of its forces.
• The Seventh Divine General surveyed the gathered Heaven’s Pride, focusing with hostility on the Human Realm and its achievements.
• The Seventh Divine General announced that the first round had ended and that he would personally supervise the second round, to be held on the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Heavenly Ladder three months later.
• News of the Human Realm’s victories spread across the Eternal Immortal Realm, where oppressed forces celebrated it as a hope against the Celestial Court.
• Three months passed, and the tournament’s second round was about to begin.