Recaps

Xiao Yan perfected his fifteenth spear and defeated Di Cang’s fourth strike, then revealed his nine flames as he finally began to use his true strength. The chapter left Xiao Yan rising above the arena like an Emperor of Fire, facing Di Cang with his flames unleashed.

• The Fifth Divine General felt uneasy about the Human Realm’s rising Heaven’s Pride, while the Seventh Divine General warned Di Cang that Xiao Yan was using him to improve his spear arts.
• Di Cang awakened the fourth rune of Heaven’s Sin Blade and unleashed the Fourth Form of the Seven Forms of Heaven’s Sin, Heaven-and-Earth Severance.
• Xiao Yan perfected his nameless fifteenth spear and used it to withstand Di Cang’s black-sun slash, leaving Di Cang kneeling and wounded.
• Di Cang insisted that he still had three slashes left, but Xiao Yan said it was his turn and let his red spear dissolve into flame.
• Xiao Yan summoned nine flames, including the Heavenly Dao Flame, and rose into the air with wings of fire.

Xiao Yan overwhelmed Di Cang’s fifth and sixth forms with his flames and Myriad Flames Eternal Ruler, leaving Di Cang gravely injured. Refusing to accept defeat, Di Cang sacrificed his natal essence blood to unleash the unfinished seventh form, a taboo-level strike that threatened to cost him his life.

• Xiao Yan stopped Di Cang’s fifth form with a flame barrier and shattered his sixth form with the Myriad Flames Eternal Ruler.
• Di Cang was hurled into the arena’s edge, suffered severe injuries, and could not believe Xiao Yan had broken a strike he had trained for thirty million years.
• The viewing-platform elders marveled at Xiao Yan’s power and questioned how a fighter ranked thirteenth could be so formidable.
• Di Cang ignored the Seventh Divine General’s warning and declared that either Xiao Yan would die or he would perish.
• Di Cang offered his natal essence blood to the Heaven’s Sin Blade and unleashed its seventh form, Heaven’s Sin, which Blood Moon Ancestor recognized as a strike approaching the Taboo.

Di Cang unleashed his forbidden Seventh Form of Heaven’s Sin, burning half his Natal Essence Blood, while Xiao Yan answered with the nameless Ultimate Flame formed from countless innate flames. Their powers collided with force approaching the Fifth Epoch, and the chapter left the spectators reeling at the possibility that this era held at least fifteen extraordinary prodigies.

• Di Cang burned half his Natal Essence Blood to unleash the Seventh Form of Heaven’s Sin, alarming the Golden Clan Ancestor and the Seventh Divine General.
• Xiao Yan summoned Ten Thousand Flames Return to One and formed an almost transparent, nameless Ultimate Flame.
• Xiao Yan sent the Ultimate Flame against Di Cang’s blade strike, and their opposing powers shook the battlefield and threatened everyone watching.
• Blood Moon Ancestor and the other old monsters judged the clash to be a contest between Daos with power approaching that of Fifth-Epoch Kings.
• The spectators realized that Xiao Yan and Di Cang were not the only potential prodigies of this era, since at least thirteen others had ascended the Ten-Thousand-Level Heavenly Ladder with Xiao Yan.

Chen Fan defeated Di Cang in their final clash, shattering the arena and ending the Celestial Court prodigy's legend of invincibility. The spectators recognized the defeat as a major blow to the Celestial Court and wondered how it could face the Human Realm's remaining fighters.

• Chen Fan's final attack broke through Di Cang's seventh form and shattered the arena.
• Di Cang knelt wounded and bewildered, realizing he had lost despite using every trump card.
• The Heaven's Pride Battlefield erupted as spectators celebrated Chen Fan's victory and questioned the strength of the Human Realm's higher-ranked fighters.
• Blood Moon Ancestor, the Golden Clan Ancestor, and the Purple Clan's patriarch reflected on Chen Fan's overwhelming strength and the beginning of a new era.
• The Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Divine Generals recognized the defeat as a serious blow to the Celestial Court's morale and feared the thirteen Human Realm fighters yet to compete.
• Neutral-zone powerhouses marveled at Chen Fan's weapons, flames, spear techniques, and ability to create techniques during battle.

Xiao Yan defeated Di Cang in the first match, and the Fifth Divine General declared victory for the Human Realm. Di Cang left the arena in disgrace after the Seventh Divine General stopped him from risking his future, while Xiao Yan taunted him over his defeat.

• Di Cang tried to rise and keep fighting, but the Seventh Divine General suppressed his power and told him he had lost.
• The Seventh Divine General scolded Di Cang for losing control of his mindset and warned that using his final trump card could destroy his Dao Foundation.
• Di Cang accepted that Xiao Yan had outmaneuvered him and forced him to reveal his trump cards.
• The Fifth Divine General announced that the Human Realm had won the first match, and the spectators reacted with shock and debate over Di Cang's unused trump card.
• Di Cang told Xiao Yan he would remember him, and Xiao Yan mocked him by saying he should not think of fighting Senior Brother Wushuang until he could beat Xiao Yan.

After Xiao Yan defeated Di Cang, the Human Realm chose Xiao Lingxi to face Xuan Qingyi in the second match. The two women entered the repaired arena, leaving their duel about to begin.

• Di Cang was dragged from the arena, vowing to defeat Wu Wushuang and make the Human Realm pay.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Human Realm seats, where Su Ling'er and the others celebrated his victory.
• The Seventh Divine General said Di Cang needed time to recover, so Xuan Qingyi would handle the second match.
• Xiao Lingxi rose from the Human Realm seats and challenged Xuan Qingyi, drawing cheers from both sides.
• Xuan Qingyi and Xiao Lingxi stepped onto the repaired arena as the crowd awaited their duel.

Xiao Lingxi faced Xuan Qingyi in the second match of the Heaven's Pride Battlefield, where Xuan Qingyi demonstrated her extraordinary Formation Dao with a Wind-Fire Formation. Xiao Lingxi drew her ancient sword and revealed a remarkably pure Sword Intent, leaving their duel poised to begin.

• Xuan Qingyi and Xiao Lingxi entered the arena as spectators recognized their exceptional reputations and abilities.
• Xuan Qingyi greeted Xiao Lingxi and formed a grand formation with a single thought.
• Xuan Qingyi unleashed a Wind-Fire Formation that filled the arena with Nine Heavens Astral Wind and azure flames.
• Xiao Lingxi stood firm against the formation, drew her sword, and released a pure Sword Intent.

Xiao Lingxi shattered Xuan Qingyi’s Wind-Fire and Water-Thunder formations with two powerful sword techniques, revealing her extraordinary Sword Dao. Xuan Qingyi then formed a Five Elements Small World around Xiao Lingxi, leaving their battle poised to escalate.

• Xiao Lingxi used Extremity Penetration Sword Intent to strike the Wind-Fire Formation’s flaw and break it with one thrust.
• Blood Moon Ancestor identified Xiao Lingxi’s sword technique as Extremity Penetration Sword Intent, while the spectators and Celestial Court’s Divine Generals reacted to her strength.
• Xuan Qingyi formed the Water-Thunder Immortal Formation and unleashed freezing rain and lightning at Xiao Lingxi.
• Xiao Lingxi cut through the storm and split the Water-Thunder Immortal Formation with a hair-thin sword light.
• Xuan Qingyi formed a Five Elements grand formation that created a Small World around Xiao Lingxi.

Xiao Lingxi and Xuan Qingyi fought to a draw when their Sword Dao World and Five Elements World shattered together, then unleashed the Sword of Eternity and the Primal Chaos Immortal Formation against each other. As their supreme powers collided, Di Cang questioned whether Xiao Lingxi could really rank thirteenth and wondered who the real Wu Wushuang was.

• Xiao Lingxi and Xuan Qingyi's worlds collided and shattered together, leaving their first exchange a draw.
• Xuan Qingyi praised Xiao Lingxi's strength and summoned the Primal Chaos Immortal Formation, which threatened to devour Xiao Lingxi's Sword Intent and all laws.
• Xiao Lingxi recalled her master's teachings and wielded the Sword of Eternity, bringing the powers of past, present, and future to bear against primal chaos.
• The Sword of Eternity and the Primal Chaos Immortal Formation collided, tearing apart and remaking space-times and chains of cause and effect.
• Di Cang recognized Xiao Lingxi's strength and wondered if she could really be thirteenth, then questioned who the real Wu Wushuang was.

Xuan Qingyi and Xiao Lingxi ended their clash of the Primal Chaos Immortal Formation and the Sword of Eternity without a victor, leaving the spectators astonished by their equal strength. Xiao Yan revealed that Xuan Qingyi was the Heavenly Emperor’s daughter and warned that she had not yet shown the full extent of her power.

• Xuan Qingyi’s Primal Chaos Immortal Formation and Xiao Lingxi’s Sword of Eternity collided and vanished, while both women remained standing at their starting positions.
• The spectators and experts from both sides marveled that the two women had matched each other throughout the duel, and the Celestial Court’s Divine Generals recognized Xiao Lingxi’s absolute confidence and growing Sword Dao.
• Xiao Yan judged Xuan Qingyi more frightening than Di Cang because she could use powerful formations without paying a price and had not revealed her strongest arts.
• Xiao Yan revealed that Xuan Qingyi was the Heavenly Emperor’s daughter, whose blood carried the imprint of his Great Dao.

Xuan Qingyi unveiled the Primordial Unity Immortal Formation, forcing Xiao Lingxi to reach beyond the Sword of Eternity and comprehend Fate and causality. Xiao Lingxi named her new sword the Sword of Fate as their battle continued.

• Xuan Qingyi recalled her father's warning against arrogance and accepted that Xiao Lingxi surpassed her.
• Xuan Qingyi unleashed her Heavenly Emperor Bloodline and revealed the Primordial Unity Immortal Formation, which surpassed the Primal Chaos Immortal Formation.
• Xiao Lingxi considered what lay beyond time and realized that Fate and causality governed time and all things.
• Xiao Lingxi manifested the Fate River in one eye and the Web of Causality in the other.
• Xiao Lingxi raised her sword and declared, "This sword is called Fate!"

Xiao Lingxi’s Sword of Fate collided with Xuan Qingyi’s Primordial Unity Immortal Formation, creating a growing Point of Nothingness that forced the Taboo Kings to intervene. After they suppressed the catastrophe, the two powers remained locked in battle, with Xiao Lingxi’s Sword of Fate steadily overpowering Xuan Qingyi’s formation.

• Xiao Lingxi slashed the Primordial Unity Immortal Formation with the Sword of Fate, shocking the watching Epoch Kings.
• The clash between Fate and Primordial Unity shattered the arena and created an expanding Point of Nothingness that began devouring its surroundings.
• Blood Moon Ancestor, the Golden Clan Ancestor, the Purple Clan’s patriarch, and other powerful figures tried to contain the Point of Nothingness, but the Taboo Kings had to join forces to suppress it.
• Little War King, Mystic Ice Fairy, Di Cang, and the Seventh Divine General watched in shock as the two women displayed power beyond their expectations.
• Xiao Lingxi’s Sword of Fate steadily suppressed Xuan Qingyi’s Primordial Unity Immortal Formation, forcing Xuan Qingyi to struggle against its destined defeat.

Xiao Lingxi defeated Xuan Qingyi in the Heaven's Pride Battlefield, and Xuan Qingyi accepted the loss as a chance to understand her own limits and improve her state of mind. The Azure Mountain Saint Emperor reflected that an invincible heart could endure repeated defeats before ultimately prevailing.

• Xiao Lingxi shattered Xuan Qingyi's Primordial Unity Immortal Formation and won their duel.
• Xiao Lingxi told Xuan Qingyi she had sensed the power of her bloodline, and Xuan Qingyi explained why she had chosen to fight using only her own comprehension.
• Xuan Qingyi accepted her defeat, thanked Xiao Lingxi for helping her reach a higher state of mind, and recognized that Xiao Lingxi had also held back a final trump card.
• Xuan Qingyi and Xiao Lingxi smiled, left the arena side by side, and agreed to fight again after Xuan Qingyi found a path of her own.
• The Azure Mountain Saint Emperor said mindset determined everything and recalled a person who had lost repeatedly before becoming the strongest of his era.

The Azure Mountain Saint Emperor taught the Human Realm prodigies that defeat could forge an Invincible Heart, praising Xiao Lingxi for remaining clear-headed after her victory. At the Celestial Court, Di Cang struggled to accept his loss, then prepared to choose his opponent for the third match.

• The Azure Mountain Saint Emperor recounted how a man endured a hundred defeats, learned from each one, and ultimately became the Invincible One.
• The Azure Mountain Saint Emperor praised Xiao Lingxi for recognizing that Xuan Qingyi had not fought at full strength and urged her to remember that composure when facing future defeats.
• The Azure Mountain Saint Emperor explained that Di Cang's inability to accept defeat had driven him toward frenzy and the Demon Dao, while Xuan Qingyi had found peace and a path forward through losing.
• The three Divine Generals watched grimly as the Celestial Court fell behind the Human Realm, which still had at least two fighters ranked above Xiao Lingxi.
• Di Cang brooded over his defeat by the Grass-Biting Youth as the Seventh Divine General told him he could choose his opponent in the third match.

After losing to Xiao Yan, Di Cang tried to restore his Dao Heart by challenging Wu Wushuang, the Heavenly Dao Ranking’s first-ranked prodigy. When Wu Wushuang did not appear, Xiao Yan mocked Di Cang and offered to fight him again.

• The Seventh Divine General urged Di Cang to calm down and reminded him that the Celestial Court still had three matches left.
• Di Cang decided he needed to defeat Wu Wushuang to regain his confidence and challenged him from the arena.
• The crowd and the Divine Generals reacted to Di Cang’s high-stakes challenge as no one from the Human Realm answered.
• Xiao Yan mocked Di Cang for challenging Wu Wushuang after losing to him and offered to fight him again.

Wu Wushuang stepped into the arena under Jiuyue’s name, prompting Di Cang to recognize him as the swordsman who had destroyed his avatar in the secret realm. The crowd questioned the Human Realm rankings, while Jiuyue struggled to hold back her laughter at her master’s impersonation.

• Xiao Yan started toward the arena before calling out to Jiuyue, drawing attention to the Human Realm seating area.
• Jiuyue realized her master, Wu Wushuang, was going to fight in her place and take her name.
• Wu Wushuang calmly entered the arena and told Di Cang, “Yes, I am Jiuyue.”
• Di Cang recognized Wu Wushuang as the man who had entered the Half-Step Epoch King Realm first and destroyed his avatar with the All Beings Sword Intent.
• Di Cang challenged Wu Wushuang’s claim, and the crowd became bewildered about the Human Realm rankings.
• Jiuyue covered her mouth and shook with laughter as she watched her master act.

Wu Wushuang accepted Di Cang’s challenge after Jiuyue taunted him, then summoned a snow-white blade and defeated Di Cang with a single strike. Di Cang was left gravely wounded against the arena barrier.

• Xiao Yan and the spectators mocked Di Cang, while Jiuyue told him he had to defeat him before he could challenge Wu Wushuang.
• Di Cang, enraged, attacked Jiuyue with the Heaven’s Sin Blade and its first form, Slaughter All Living Beings.
• Wu Wushuang closed his eyes, called for his blade, and summoned a snow-white weapon that carried All Beings Blade Intent.
• Wu Wushuang’s strike shattered Di Cang’s blade light and Emperor phantom, then sent Di Cang crashing into the arena barrier with a deep wound.

Wu Wushuang revealed that she had learned Di Cang’s Heaven’s Sin Blade Technique after seeing it once, then defeated his second-form attack with her own All Beings’ Wish blade. Di Cang was sent flying across the arena, and Wu Wushuang remained in control of their duel.

• The Divine Generals and spectators were shocked when Di Cang struggled to rise after Wu Wushuang’s first slash.
• Di Cang asked when Wu Wushuang had learned the blade, and she said she had casually memorized his Heaven’s Sin Blade Technique during their first match.
• Blood Moon Ancestor, Golden Clan Ancestor, and the Purple Clan’s patriarch marveled at Wu Wushuang’s mastery of both Sword Dao and Blade Dao.
• Enraged, Di Cang attacked with the Second Form of Heaven’s Sin, Eradicate All Life.
• Wu Wushuang answered with All Beings’ Wish, whose blade radiance shattered Di Cang’s attack and sent him flying across the arena.

Wu Wushuang defeated Di Cang’s Heaven’s Sin technique with his own All Beings’ Wish, prompting Di Cang to accuse him of being Wu Wushuang. As Di Cang flew into a rage, Wu Wushuang challenged him to use the remaining forms, and Di Cang unleashed a forbidden strike fusing all seven forms of Heaven’s Sin.

• Wu Wushuang used All Beings’ Wish to break Di Cang’s Eradicate All Life and send him to his knees.
• Di Cang questioned Wu Wushuang’s identity and claimed he was actually Wu Wushuang, the top-ranked figure on the Heavenly Dao Ranking.
• Wu Wushuang said his name did not matter and declared Di Cang destined to lose.
• Di Cang erupted in rage, and Wu Wushuang told him to use the remaining five forms of Heaven’s Sin together.
• Di Cang unleashed Heaven’s Sin Finality, Burial of Silent Extinction, a forbidden strike formed by fusing all seven blade intents.

Di Cang unleashed Heaven's Sin Finality, a nascent Emperor Art formed by uniting the Seven Forms of Heaven's Sin, and declared that Wu Wushuang would be an offering on his path to becoming an Emperor. Wu Wushuang stood firm beneath its overwhelming pressure and praised the technique, leaving the battle poised for his response.

• Di Cang revealed that the Seven Forms of Heaven's Sin could unite into Heaven's Sin Finality, a nascent Emperor Art that shook the Heaven's Pride Battlefield.
• The spectators and old monsters were overwhelmed by the blade's power, while the Celestial Court's Divine Generals celebrated Di Cang's strike.
• Di Cang, bleeding and visibly strained, proclaimed his ambition to become Emperor and demanded that Wu Wushuang kneel.
• Wu Wushuang refused to bend or retreat under the Emperor's Might and smiled as he called the technique powerful and astonishing.

Wu Wushuang revealed that Di Cang’s Heaven’s Sin Blade Technique was the First Divine General’s Dao, then countered Di Cang’s final attack with his own Emperor Art, Dao Source. Its birth resonated across the Five Eternal Realms, signaling that Wu Wushuang had glimpsed the Emperor Path.

• Wu Wushuang told Di Cang that Heaven’s Sin Blade was the First Divine General’s Dao, not his own.
• Enraged, Di Cang poured all his power into a final strike with the Heaven’s Sin Blade.
• Wu Wushuang summoned the will and emotions of All Life and raised his blade, revealing a phantom that froze the world’s laws.
• Wu Wushuang explained that all things, laws, Fate, and karma originated from the Dao, which Di Cang’s judgment could not condemn.
• Wu Wushuang named his strike Dao Source and brought it down against Di Cang’s attack.
• The strike resonated across the Five Eternal Realms as a newly born Emperor Art entered the world.

As a new Emperor Art emerged on the Heaven’s Pride Battlefield, powerhouses across the Eternal Five Realms sensed it and recognized the white-robed youth as a new threat and possible Emperor candidate. The King of Myriad Demons confirmed that the art was neither the First Divine General’s nor the work of an old figure.

• The First Divine General identified the youth’s Emperor Art as a new creation derived from All Beings Intent, All Beings’ Wish, and Dao Source, and warned that the youth threatened the Celestial Court.
• The First Divine General refused to act against the youth before the Celestial Court uncovered the Human Realm’s origins.
• Ancient Immortal Realm powerhouses, including a blood-shrouded existence, a figure in a law cocoon, a woman in the far north, and an old man beyond the starry sky, reacted to the Emperor Art and its implications.
• The golden-eyed colossal figure, purple-gold dragon, and Seven-Colored Heavenly Phoenix sensed the new Emperor Art and worried that the Immortal Realm now had two figures with the bearing of an Emperor.
• The King of Myriad Demons declared that the Emperor Art was not the First Divine General’s and remarked on the youth’s young aura.

The Demon, Ghost, and Divine realms reacted to a newly created Emperor Art in the Eternal Immortal Realm, recognizing its creator as a potential Emperor and a threat to the balance of the Five Realms. As rulers predicted or prepared for another Five Realms War, the chapter ended by introducing the Demon World's Ten Thousand Demons Abyss and its Seventy-Two Demon Pillars.

• The Lord of All Demons and a giant scorpion in the Poison Mist Swamp sensed the Emperor Art and anticipated the coming Five Realms War.
• The ten rulers of the Eternal Ghost Realm identified the Immortal Realm's new talent as a possible threat and ordered their forces to watch it closely.
• The Twelve High Gods of the Eternal Divine Realm judged the Emperor Art's creator dangerous and agreed that he must be eliminated.
• The chapter introduced the Eternal Demon World, the Ten Thousand Demons Abyss, and the Seventy-Two Demon Pillars, its supreme Taboo Demon Kings.

The Seventy-Two Demon Pillars sensed a Nascent Emperor Art in the Eternal Immortal Realm and debated the emerging talent’s threat. Demon King Huntian pointed to the mysterious master of the seventy-second pillar, a young prodigy who had already comprehended an Emperor Art, and she looked toward the Immortal Realm with a faint smile.

• The Demon Pillars detected an Emperor Art appearing in the Eternal Immortal Realm, and several devils welcomed the prospect of a stronger opponent in the Five Realms War.
• Demon King Huntian acknowledged the Immortal Realm’s new talent and asked whether the Demon World had a comparable prodigy.
• The Demon Pillars turned toward the master of the white seventy-second Demon Pillar, who had slain its former Taboo Demon King and claimed the pillar after comprehending an Emperor Art.
• The silent, black-robed master of the seventy-second Demon Pillar looked toward the Eternal Immortal Realm and faintly smiled.

Wu Wushuang created a Nascent Emperor Art of his own and used it to overwhelm Di Cang’s inherited Emperor Art. Di Cang’s blade shattered, leaving him defeated and reeling from another loss to a Human Realm prodigy.

• Blood Moon Ancestor, Golden Clan Ancestor, the Purple Clan Patriarch, and Old Man Tianji recognized that Wu Wushuang had created a Nascent Emperor Art in the Immortal King Realm.
• A nascent Emperor's Might emerged from Wu Wushuang, distinct from the borrowed Emperor's Might on Di Cang.
• Wu Wushuang’s Dao Source blade collided with Di Cang’s Heaven’s Sin Finality, and Di Cang’s blade began to collapse.
• Wu Wushuang condemned Di Cang for borrowing the First Divine General’s Dao without understanding the hardship and devotion behind its creation.
• Wu Wushuang’s blade radiated creation and rebirth, shattered Heaven’s Sin Finality, and defeated Di Cang.
• Di Cang recalled his past triumphs as they crumbled and realized he had lost again to a Human Realm prodigy whose identity he did not know.