Recaps

The Celestial Court and the Human Realm assembled with their allies for the second round of the Heaven’s Pride Tournament, turning it into a confrontation over the Eternal Immortal Realm’s future. The Azure Mountain Saint Emperor forced the Seventh Divine General back with a glance, leaving him stunned by the Saint Emperor’s breakthrough.

• The Blood Moon Immortal Sect, the Purple Clan, the Golden Clan, and other factions joined the Human Realm’s side, facing the Celestial Court’s western camp.
• Di Cang, Xuan Qingyi, and the Seventh Divine General arrived for the Celestial Court, whose supporters mocked the absent Human Realm.
• The Azure Mountain Saint Emperor emerged from a rift, followed by the Human Realm’s prodigies, including Zhuge Feng, Wu Wushuang, Xiao Yan, and Yun Xuan.
• The Seventh Divine General threatened the Human Realm and hinted at another Cleansing, but the Azure Mountain Saint Emperor glanced at him and cracked his armor, forcing him back a step.
• The Seventh Divine General stared at the Azure Mountain Saint Emperor in shock and asked whether he had broken through.

The Azure Mountain Saint Emperor revealed power on the level of a Seven-Epoch King, unsettling the Seventh Divine General as he prepared to begin the Heaven's Pride Tournament's second round. The Ten-Thousand-Layer Heavenly Ladder descended into the battlefield, and the Seventh Divine General explained its climbing trials and advancement rules.

• The Seventh Divine General realized the Azure Mountain Saint Emperor had become a Seven-Epoch King and felt fear about the Human Realm's strength.
• The Seventh Divine General announced that the second round would test the competitors' will as they climbed the Ten-Thousand-Layer Heavenly Ladder.
• Xiao Yan told Zhuge Feng that the Seventh Divine General had insulted their will, and Zhuge Feng agreed that their climb would settle the matter.
• The Seventh Divine General summoned the enormous Ten-Thousand-Layer Heavenly Ladder from a Void Rift, stunning the experts watching the tournament.
• The Seventh Divine General said the competitors would climb together, face pressure, inner demons, and the Great Dao's interrogation, and that the top hundred would advance; any means were permitted.

The second round began on the Ten-Thousand-Layer Heavenly Ladder, where prodigies were allowed to attack one another and received gifts as they climbed. Di Cang surged far ahead, but a sudden pressure increase at the thousandth layer revealed a new danger for the climbers.

• The Seventh Divine General announced that there were no forbidden methods and that climbers would receive greater Heavenly Dao gifts at higher layers, then started the competition.
• Di Cang and Xuan Qingyi climbed the ladder, followed by Zhuge Feng and more than eighty Human Realm prodigies.
• Di Cang reached the three-thousandth layer while most other prodigies remained below the thousandth, prompting cheers from the Celestial Court and worry among the Human Realm's supporters.
• A prodigy was blasted off the ladder when the pressure suddenly surged at the thousandth layer, losing his qualification to continue.
• The climbers near the thousandth layer reinforced their defenses before stepping onto it, and the competition entered its second stage.

More than eighty Human Realm Heaven's Pride climbed the Heavenly Ladder without faltering at its first pressure thresholds, while Di Cang raced ahead and reached six thousand steps. He challenged the Human Realm to catch up, leaving the eastern spectators wondering whether they could defeat him.

• Zhuge Feng, Wu Wushuang, and the other Human Realm Heaven's Pride crossed the thousandth step without slowing, drawing cheers from the eastern stands.
• The pressure doubled at two thousand steps, eliminating many Heaven's Pride, but the Human Realm group continued climbing steadily.
• Di Cang passed five thousand steps as the Celestial Court spectators celebrated and argued that he would reach the summit.
• The Human Realm Heaven's Pride reached four thousand steps while most other climbers struggled around two thousand and Di Cang slowed near five thousand five hundred.
• Di Cang reached six thousand steps, turned to the Human Realm group, and taunted them for being too slow to make him act.

The Human Realm’s eighty-odd prodigies climbed the Ten-Thousand-Layer Heavenly Ladder without protective arts, shocking the Celestial Court and spectators with their physical strength and will. They reached the four-thousand-nine-hundredth layer together, with five thousand layers ahead as the next decisive threshold.

• A veteran Immortal King noticed that the Human Realm group endured the ladder’s pressure without releasing protective light, unlike Di Cang, who relied on golden divine light.
• Celestial Court experts realized the Human Realm prodigies had not yet shown their full strength and struggled to explain their extraordinary resistance.
• The eighty-odd Human Realm contestants maintained their formation as they passed the four-thousand-eight-hundredth layer, a height where past Peerless Immortal Kings had stopped.
• Blood Moon Ancestor and Golden Clan Ancestor watched the group reach the four-thousand-nine-hundredth layer and anticipated their attempt to cross the five-thousand-layer threshold.
• The eastern viewing platform celebrated the Human Realm’s strength, while the Celestial Court experts fell silent.

More than eighty Human Realm prodigies approached the five thousandth step, while the other peerless cultivators paused to prepare for its immense pressure. Just as Xiao Yan and the others stepped forward, three figures launched a sudden sneak attack against them.

• Ji Tianji judged that stepping onto the five thousandth step would be difficult, and the Little War King, Violet, and Mystic Ice Fairy prepared to face the challenge.
• The Human Realm prodigies arrived at the four thousand nine hundred and ninety-ninth step without showing signs of strain.
• The Mystic Ice Fairy warned Xiao Yan that the pressure on the next step surged severalfold, but Xiao Yan said they were short on time.
• Xiao Yan, Wu Wushuang, and more than eighty Human Realm prodigies stepped toward the five thousandth step without stopping to prepare.
• Three figures burst from the edge of the step and attacked the Human Realm prodigies at the moment their attention was fixed on the trial.

Zhuge Feng, Xiao Lingxi, and Xiao Yan stopped three powerful figures from ambushing them on the Heavenly Ladder, while the Celestial Court defended the attack as permissible. After hearing the spectators mock the Human Realm, Xiao Yan stepped back from the five-thousandth step and challenged the three attackers as Celestial Court pawns.

• Zhuge Feng caught the Nine Nether Saint Son’s fist, Xiao Lingxi halted the Buddha Son’s claw, and Xiao Yan knocked the Blood Sword Immortal Dynasty’s Asura backward with a blade of grass.
• The crowd identified the ambushers, and the Blood Moon Ancestor and Golden Clan Ancestor accused their factions of serving the Celestial Court.
• The sect master of the Nine Nether Immortal Sect, the abbot of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple, and the Seventh Divine General argued that the Heavenly Ladder allowed all methods, while the western stands mocked the Human Realm.
• Xiao Yan stepped back from the five-thousandth step to the 4,999th and denounced the three ambushers as Celestial Court dogs.

Xiao Yan seized three arrogant prodigies on the 4,999th step and hurled them onto the 5,000th, where the pressure crushed them to death. Their leaders vowed war against the Human Realm, and Xiao Yan calmly invited them to come.

• Xiao Yan teleported through the pressure on the 4,999th step, seized the Nine Nether Saint Son, and dragged over the Buddhist Son and Thirteenth Prince.
• The three prodigies threatened Xiao Yan and the Human Realm, but Xiao Yan threw them onto the 5,000th step.
• The pressure on the 5,000th step crushed the Nine Nether Saint Son, the Buddhist Son, and the Thirteenth Prince into blood mist.
• Ji Tianji, the Little War King, Violet, Mystic Ice Fairy, and the other Heaven's Pride realized Xiao Yan could move effortlessly under the ladder's pressure.
• The Nine Nether Immortal Sect's Sect Master, the Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple's Abbot, and the Emperor of the Blood Sword Immortal Dynasty threatened war against the Human Realm.
• Xiao Yan told the three leaders that the Human Realm was waiting for them.

Xiao Yan’s defense of the Human Realm’s geniuses turned the failed ambush into a display of their strength on the Heavenly Ladder. As more cultivators followed them past the 5,000th level, Mystic Ice Fairy remained behind, wondering what kind of person could raise disciples like these.

• Xiao Yan returned to the 5,000th level after crushing the three attackers, while the Seventh Divine General seethed over his failed sneak attack.
• Zhuge Feng led the Human Realm’s eighty-odd geniuses up the ladder, and they reached the 5,100th level without slowing down.
• A hidden genius tested the 5,000th level and barely endured its pressure, amazed by the Human Realm group’s effortless ascent.
• Little War King, Violet, and Ji Tianji each stepped onto the 5,000th level and pushed through the pressure with their own strength and resolve.
• Mystic Ice Fairy stayed on the 4,999th level, reflecting on the Human Realm’s way of cultivation and wondering who had raised such disciples.

Mystic Ice Fairy and Ji Tianji reached the five-thousandth layer as the Human Realm’s geniuses continued climbing the Heavenly Ladder without using defenses. Di Cang surged past seven thousand layers, but the chapter ended with more than eighty Human Realm geniuses reaching six thousand together, stunning the gathered factions.

• Mystic Ice Fairy used the Ice God Palace’s cultivation art to withstand the pressure and step onto the five-thousandth layer.
• Ji Tianji reached the five-thousandth layer, prompting Old Man Tianji and the ancestors of the Purple and Golden Clans to celebrate.
• Di Cang charged past seven thousand layers and continued toward the eight-thousand-layer record.
• Blood Moon Ancestor pointed out that the Human Realm’s geniuses had reached the fifty-eight-hundredth layer using only their bodies and will.
• More than eighty Human Realm geniuses stepped onto the six-thousandth layer, astonishing everyone watching.

Di Cang reached the eight-thousandth layer of the Heavenly Ladder, matching an ancient record, while the Human Realm’s prodigies continued climbing without showing their limits. Wu Wushuang sent Senior Brother Han and the others to keep tempering themselves as fourteen Peerless Immortal Kings surged ahead, beginning the final contest.

• More than eighty Human Realm prodigies reached the six-thousandth layer in unison, shocking the spectators and unsettling the Seventh Divine General.
• Di Cang climbed to the seven-thousand-nine-hundredth layer and then stepped onto the eight-thousandth, matching the highest recorded feat in the Eternal Immortal Realm.
• The Seventh Divine General celebrated Di Cang’s achievement and challenged the Azure Mountain Saint Emperor, but the Human Realm’s prodigies had already reached the six-thousand-six-hundredth layer without summoning protective immortal light.
• Wu Wushuang told Senior Brother Han and the other junior brothers and sisters to keep tempering themselves while the others went ahead.
• Fourteen Peerless Immortal Kings of the Human Realm surged forward, and Xiao Yan laughed that eight thousand layers were nothing difficult.

Fourteen Human Realm prodigies raced up the Heavenly Ladder, surpassing Di Cang’s pace and reaching the eight-thousandth step together without protective immortal radiance. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan dismissing the achievement as nothing difficult.

• Zhuge Feng, Xiao Yan, Su Ling'er, Xiao Lingxi, Ye Qingyao, Mu Lingxian, Zhao Tianlong, and the other Human Realm prodigies surged up the ladder, stunning the viewing platforms with their speed.
• The Mystic Ice Fairy, Little War King, and Violet watched the fourteen pass them and recognized the vast gap between their strength and the Human Realm prodigies'.
• Di Cang saw the fourteen approach and recalled how much stronger they had become since their battle against his avatar a hundred years earlier.
• The fourteen crossed the seven-thousandth step and continued upward faster than Di Cang, still resisting with their bodies alone.
• The fourteen reached the eight-thousandth step alongside Di Cang, and Xiao Yan declared that the height was nothing difficult.

Fourteen Peerless Immortal Kings of the Human Realm reached the eight-thousandth layer alongside Di Cang, shattering the Eternal Immortal Realm’s record and stunning the watching factions. Di Cang climbed beyond the record, and the fourteen Human Realm geniuses followed him toward the summit.

• Xiao Yan and thirteen other Peerless Immortal Kings of the Human Realm reached the eight-thousandth layer without showing strain, leaving the spectators and rival factions stunned.
• Di Cang faced Xiao Yan’s gaze and declared that eight thousand layers were not enough before stepping onto the eight-thousand-and-first layer.
• Di Cang continued climbing, determined to break the record and reach the summit.
• Xiao Yan and the other thirteen Human Realm geniuses stepped onto the eight-thousand-and-first layer together, pursuing Di Cang and defending the Human Realm’s glory.

The fourteen Peerless Immortal Kings of the Human Realm passed Di Cang and became the first to reach the Heavenly Ladder’s nine-thousandth layer. As Di Cang prepared to challenge the threshold, Han Feiyu encountered Xuan Qingyi among the Human Realm’s other prodigies, and she asked whether the fourteen could reach the top.

• Di Cang climbed to the eight-thousand-nine-hundred-ninety-ninth layer as the fourteen Peerless Immortal Kings of the Human Realm kept pace behind him.
• Di Cang stopped to gather strength before challenging the nine-thousandth layer, but the fourteen passed him without pausing.
• The fourteen Human Realm Peerless Immortal Kings stepped onto the nine-thousandth layer together, stunning the spectators and the Seventh Divine General.
• Di Cang watched the fourteen and then noticed Han Feiyu leading the remaining Human Realm prodigies onto the seven-thousandth layer.
• Xuan Qingyi appeared beside Han Feiyu’s group, told him she bore no ill will, and asked whether the fourteen could reach the top.

Han Feiyu told Xuan Qingyi why he believed the Human Realm’s heaven’s prides could defeat Di Cang, while she revealed Di Cang’s extraordinary cultivation history and her wish to visit the Human Realm. On the Heavenly Ladder, all fourteen Human Realm Peerless Immortal Kings reached level 9,900 ahead of Di Cang, leaving the final hundred levels to the legendary summit.

• Han Feiyu told Xuan Qingyi he was certain the Human Realm could reach the summit, and she said she would visit it someday.
• Xuan Qingyi described Di Cang’s exceptional talent and undefeated record, while Han Feiyu argued that the Human Realm’s heaven’s prides had the hardship and experience he lacked.
• Xuan Qingyi agreed that even the strongest could be surpassed and said she wanted to see the Human Realm for herself.
• Di Cang stepped onto level 9,000, only to find the fourteen Human Realm Peerless Immortal Kings already ten levels ahead.
• The fourteen Human Realm figures climbed to level 9,900 as Di Cang pursued them, his divine light cracking and his body showing signs of strain.
• The Heaven’s Pride Battlefield watched in suspense as all fourteen Human Realm figures reached level 9,900, with only the final hundred levels before the Ten-Thousand-Level Summit.

The fourteen Peerless Immortal Kings of the Human Realm and Di Cang entered the Ten-Thousand-Level Summit’s final barrier, where Zhuge Feng faced an illusion of the Human Realm’s triumphant future. Zhuge Feng and his fellow disciples rejected the false victory and resolved to earn their success through their own efforts.

• Zhuge Feng crossed the summit barrier, followed by the other thirteen Peerless Immortal Kings and Di Cang.
• Zhuge Feng found himself in a vision where he and his fellow disciples had become Taboo Kings and the Human Realm had defeated the Celestial Court.
• Zhuge Feng recognized the glorious future as an illusion, and the stars and palace collapsed into darkness.
• An ancient voice urged Zhuge Feng and the others to remain in the vision of their deepest desires.
• Zhuge Feng, Xiao Yan, Ye Qingyao, Su Ling'er, and the others rejected an illusory victory and declared they would win openly and honorably through their own strength.

Di Cang's illusion showed him reaching Ten-Thousand-Level Summit while the Human Realm's fourteen prodigies were trapped below, then defeating all fourteen in the arena tournament. The chapter ended with Di Cang standing alone and uninjured after crushing their challenge.

• Di Cang reached Ten-Thousand-Level Summit in the illusion while the Human Realm's fourteen prodigies were stopped at the 9,900th level.
• The Celestial Court celebrated Di Cang's apparent victory as the arena tournament began.
• Xiao Lingxi attacked Di Cang but was defeated and gravely wounded with one move.
• Di Cang caught Xiao Yan's teleporting attack and struck him down.
• Di Cang challenged the Human Realm's remaining twelve prodigies, defeated them all, and remained unscathed.

Di Cang attained the Emperor Realm and declared that he would destroy the Human Realm, unaware that he was trapped in an illusion. The fourteen Human Realm prodigies reached the final level of the Heavenly Ladder, where Zhuge Feng faced a trial that stripped away his power.

• Di Cang became the first Heavenly Emperor since the Creation of Heaven and Earth, and ordered the Celestial Court's Divine Generals to attack the Human Realm.
• Zhuge Feng and the other Human Realm prodigies recognized that Di Cang's laughter came from an illusion born of his obsession with defeating them.
• The fourteen prodigies stepped onto the nine-thousand-nine-hundred-ninety-ninth level and were overwhelmed by pressure on their bodies, souls, and wills.
• Zhuge Feng awoke as a mortal servant on a short Heavenly Ladder in Little Wilderness Mountain and saw a thatched hut marked Heavenly Dao Sect.
• A white-robed young man asked Zhuge Feng why he cultivated immortality.

The Heavenly Dao Sect disciples relived their first meeting with the sect and answered why they cultivated immortality. Su Ling’er wanted to grow strong enough to share her master’s burdens as the disciples’ answers continued.

• Zhuge Feng relived his arrival at the Heavenly Dao Sect and vowed to cultivate immortality to avenge his parents.
• Xiao Lingxi said she cultivated for freedom, while Xiao Yan declared that he wanted to prove he was not trash.
• Ye Qingyao and Ye Ziyao each said they cultivated to find the sister from whom they had been separated.
• Mu Lingxian said she wanted to survive, control her harmful constitution, and make friends; Zhao Tianlong wanted to protect his empire and its people.
• Chen Hao wanted to protect his hometown from oppression, and Wu Wushuang sought to let the Human Race stand proud.
• Su Ling’er said she cultivated to share her master’s burdens and stand beside him in battle.

After revealing why they cultivated immortality, the fourteen Human Realm prodigies passed the Heavenly Dao Sect’s trial and reached the Ten-Thousand-Level Summit together. Their triumph stunned the Heaven's Pride Battlefield, while Di Cang remained on the nine thousand nine hundred first level, smiling and ordering his followers to flatten the Human Realm.

• Su Ming, Chen Fan, Su Qingyun, and Jiuyue explained their reasons for cultivating immortality, and the fourteen declared that they now sought peace, justice, and equality under Heavenly Dao.
• The young man in white congratulated the fourteen on passing the trial and welcomed them as members of the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• The Heavenly Ladder transformed, revealing the ten-thousandth level, and all fourteen prodigies stepped onto the summit together.
• The Human Realm supporters celebrated as the prodigies' achievement shocked the Celestial Court supporters and the Seventh Divine General.
• The crowd found Di Cang standing on the nine thousand nine hundred first level, where he smiled and ordered his followers to flatten the Human Realm.

The Human Realm’s fourteen Peerless Immortal Kings reached the Ten-Thousand-Level Summit while Di Cang remained trapped in an illusion on the 9,901st level, humiliating the Celestial Court. Their achievement left the other climbers in awe and revealed that reaching the summit meant possessing potential close to an Emperor.

• The fourteen Peerless Immortal Kings stood together atop the Ten-Thousand-Level Summit as Di Cang continued celebrating his imagined victory on the 9,901st level.
• The Human Realm supporters mocked Di Cang’s boast, while the Celestial Court’s powerhouses and the Seventh Divine General watched in humiliation and anger.
• Mystic Ice Fairy and Little War King stopped climbing and stared at the summit, recognizing the immense gap between themselves and the Human Realm’s prodigies.
• Han Feiyu and the remaining Human Realm prodigies cheered as Xuan Qingyi watched the summit with shock and admiration.
• Xuan Qingyi realized that the ladder’s builder had set its standard using his former self, meaning those who reached the summit possessed potential close to an Emperor.

The fourteen Human Realm prodigies shattered Di Cang’s illusion of becoming Heavenly Emperor with three punches. Di Cang awoke on the 9,901st level to see the fourteen standing together at the Ten-Thousand-Level Summit.

• Han Feiyu told Xuan Qingyi that the Human Realm’s chosen prodigies would reach the summit, and she recalled her father’s words about greater people and higher heavens.
• Di Cang, lost in his illusion, summoned the Celestial Court’s army and declared that he would end the Human Realm.
• Zhuge Feng and Xiao Yan urged the fourteen Human Realm prodigies to wake Di Cang, and all fourteen released their auras to crush his illusion.
• Zhuge Feng and Xiao Yan struck Di Cang, then the fourteen prodigies punched together and destroyed his dream empire.
• Di Cang awoke on the 9,901st level and saw the fourteen figures standing at the Ten-Thousand-Level Summit.

Di Cang's defeat in the Heavenly Ladder trials shattered his confidence, and the Seventh Divine General tried to stop him from suffering Qi deviation. After the Human Realm's fourteen Heaven's Pride entered the palace atop the summit, they found themselves before the mysterious King of Creation in primordial Chaos.

• Di Cang realized his defeat was real as the Seventh Divine General and Celestial Court experts looked on and spectators mocked him.
• Di Cang injured himself to test whether he was still in an illusion, then began suffering Qi deviation.
• The Seventh Divine General urged Di Cang to recover and win the third round, and Di Cang collapsed.
• A palace appeared above the Ten-Thousand-Level Summit, and Zhuge Feng led Xiao Yan, Su Ling'er, Xiao Lingxi, Ye Qingyao, Mu Lingxian, Zhao Tianlong, Chen Hao, Wu Wushuang, Su Ming, Chen Fan, Su Qingyun, Jiuyue, and Ye Ziyao inside.
• The fourteen found themselves in primordial Chaos before a cross-legged figure worshipped by powerful beings as the Great King of Creation.

The fourteen prodigies from the Human Realm witnessed the King of Creation’s life and learned how he rose from a mortal boy to an invincible sect master. At the summit, the King of Creation’s lingering will revealed its shock that fourteen people had crossed the Heavenly Ladder in so short a time.

• The King of Creation’s will showed the fourteen prodigies how a boy rejected by immortal sects joined the Creation Sect as its first and last disciple.
• After a major sect killed the old sect master and destroyed the Creation Sect, the boy survived and returned three hundred years later to destroy that sect in revenge.
• The boy became the King of Creation, dominated the Myriad Races, and restored the Creation Sect to glory.
• The fourteen prodigies compared the King of Creation’s unbreakable resolve with Di Cang’s faltering state of mind on the nine thousand nine hundredth level.
• The King of Creation opened his eyes and expressed shock that fourteen people had crossed his Ten-Thousand-Level Heavenly Ladder after only a few hundred billion years.

The Immortal King of Creation offered the fourteen Human Realm geniuses a place as his disciples and the chance to enter the Taboo Domain in a single stride. They all refused, declaring their loyalty to their master and the Heavenly Dao Sect, leaving the King of Creation impressed by their bonds.

• The Immortal King of Creation marveled that fourteen people had reached the summit of his Heavenly Ladder and praised their potential.
• He offered to take all fourteen as disciples and grant them supreme fortune, promising to help them enter the Taboo Domain.
• Zhuge Feng respectfully refused on behalf of the group, saying they already had a master and would never switch allegiances.
• Xiao Yan and Su Ling'er affirmed their loyalty and said they preferred the path of cultivation they had forged themselves.
• All fourteen geniuses refused the offer, and the Immortal King of Creation praised their steadfastness and asked about their master.