Recaps

The Emperor Path Strife’s first trial required beings below the True Immortal Realm from six realms to fight in the First Heaven until only one realm remained, putting the newly established Human Realm at a severe numerical disadvantage. As four rival realms unleashed enormous armies, the chapter left the Human Realm facing overwhelming odds.

• The Heavenly Dao revealed that the six realms would fight in the First Heaven without limits on numbers, and the last realm standing would claim the rewards stripped from the others.
• The Ice God and the Sword Master worried that the Human Realm’s small foundation could not withstand the accumulated forces of the other realms, while the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Divine Generals mocked it.
• Six pillars of light answered the Gate of the Ascending Path and signaled the start of the trial.
• The Slaughter Demon King sent two million eight hundred trillion Devil Race troops into the First Heaven from the Demon World.
• The Demon Realm deployed one million eight hundred trillion demonic beasts, and the Ghost Realm sent one million seven hundred trillion undead.
• The Divine Realm unleashed one million five hundred trillion angels, bringing the four realms’ forces to eight million trillion against the Human Realm’s six or seven hundred billion Heavenly Immortal and Earth Immortal disciples.

The Celestial Court deployed three quadrillion troops for the Emperor Path struggle, including one quadrillion Loose Immortals whom other realms condemned as cannon fodder. The chapter ended with the Five Great Realms turning their attention to the Human Realm and wondering how many battle-ready troops it could field.

• The Fourth Divine General led two quadrillion Heavenly Soldiers and one quadrillion troops from the Celestial Court’s subordinate factions toward the First Heaven.
• The Slaughter Demon King and other experts noticed that one quadrillion of the Celestial Court’s troops were Loose Immortals and mocked them as expendable cannon fodder.
• The Ice God, Sword Master, and experts from the Demon World condemned the Celestial Court for treating the Loose Immortals’ lives as disposable.
• The Fourth Divine General and Fifth Divine General dismissed the criticism, while the Fourth Divine General declared that the Celestial Court would win the first round.
• The Five Great Realms turned their attention to the Human Realm and questioned how many troops it could bring to the battle.

Su Bai assembled more than five hundred billion Celestial Immortal disciples for the Emperor Path Strife, with He Ping'an leading them. He warned them about the deadly first battlefield, and the disciples stood ready to defend the Human Realm despite the overwhelming odds.

• He Ping'an, a legendary sword cultivator who had suppressed his breakthrough to True Immortal, prepared to lead the Human Realm’s first battle with his Wooden Sword.
• Su Bai arrived before the disciples, and He Ping'an and the gathered five hundred billion disciples greeted him.
• Su Bai asked He Ping'an about the stakes and their opponents; He Ping'an named the vast forces of the other realms and declared that a true sword cultivator would not retreat.
• He Ping'an rallied the disciples to fight for their sect and homeland, and his Wooden Sword blazed with azure light as they vowed to fight beside him.
• Su Bai warned the disciples that the first heaven’s battlefield had no rules and that many of them would die, then acknowledged the unfairness of sending them into the struggle.

Su Bai gave the Heavenly Dao Sect’s disciples the choice to join Emperor Path Strife, and they all volunteered to fight for the Human Realm. He sent them to the Primordial Battlefield under He Ping'an’s command and secretly ensured that every disciple who died could be revived.

• Su Bai told the more than five hundred billion disciples that they could choose whether to fight, since Emperor Path Strife was his and the Human Realm’s war.
• He Ping'an led the disciples in declaring their resolve to fight, and Su Bai appointed him to command the first battle and gave him the Human Realm command token.
• He Ping'an accepted the command and led the disciples through the Teleportation Array toward the Primordial Battlefield.
• Su Bai secretly placed a protective measure on every disciple, ensuring that all who died in battle would revive within the Human Realm.
• Su Bai watched the disciples depart and declared that in ten thousand years the Human Realm would produce a trillion powerhouses.

The Human Realm’s one-trillion-strong army arrived at the Primordial Battlefield, where the Five Great Realms mocked its small numbers. He Ping'an led the troops toward the Emperor Path, and the chapter ended with the Fourth Divine General challenging the Human Realm to a wager.

• The Heavenly Dao Sect and the Human Realm’s vassal factions gathered just over one trillion Celestial Immortal disciples on the Primordial Battlefield.
• The Divine Generals and leaders of the Five Great Realms mocked the Human Realm’s small army and predicted its defeat.
• He Ping'an and the Human Realm disciples remained resolute, and their unified fighting spirit surprised the opposing powerhouses.
• He Ping'an pointed his sword toward the First Heaven of the Emperor Path and ordered the Human Realm to set out.
• The Fourth Divine General challenged the Human Realm to gamble with the Celestial Court.

The Fourth Divine General challenged the Human Realm to fight the Celestial Court alone at the First Heaven, and the other four realms agreed to stay out of the battle. The Human Realm accepted, and the Fourth Divine General raised the stakes: the loser and the Divine Spear Saint Emperor must die.

• The Fourth Divine General proposed a fight to the death between the Human Realm and the Celestial Court at the First Heaven, with the other realms barred from interfering.
• The Slaughter Demon King, the Demon Realm dragon, the Taboo Ghost Kings, and the God Race leaders all declared that their realms would not participate.
• The Fourth Divine General taunted the Human Realm, but the Divine Spear Saint Emperor asked his disciples if they feared the battle.
• He Ping'an and the one trillion Human Realm disciples demanded to fight, and the Divine Spear Saint Emperor accepted the challenge.
• The Fourth Divine General added that the loser must die, declaring that he would take his own life if the Celestial Court lost and that the Divine Spear Saint Emperor must die if the Human Realm lost.

The Divine Spear Saint Emperor accepted the Fourth Divine General’s wager of life and death, committing to die if the Human Realm lost. When the Emperor Path Strife officially began, He Ping'an led the Human Realm into the First Heaven as the Celestial Court army charged in from the opposite direction.

• The Fourth Divine General wagered his life against the Divine Spear Saint Emperor’s and taunted the Human Realm to accept.
• The Divine Spear Saint Emperor accepted, promising to end his own life if the Human Realm lost and to personally kill the Fourth Divine General if the Celestial Court lost.
• The Human Realm’s disciples cheered their resolve, while the Fourth Divine General ordered the Celestial Court’s troops to fight and offered rewards for each Human Realm disciple killed.
• An ancient will opened the route to the First Heaven, officially beginning the Emperor Path Strife.
• He Ping'an led one trillion Human Realm disciples into the First Heaven, while the Celestial Court’s army surged in from the opposite direction.

The armies of the Six Realms entered the First-Heaven Battlefield, which the Heavenly Dao sealed and displayed to the realms on a vast light screen. In the second year, a Demon World vanguard and a Demon Realm vanguard met in the Blood-Red Mountains and began a massive battle.

• The Heavenly Dao sealed the battlefield after the armies entered and projected its events for the Six Realms to watch.
• The Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Divine Generals mocked the Human Realm’s forces, while Blood Moon Ancestor and other Human Realm leaders worried over their armies.
• Randomly teleported units began clashing across the battlefield as the armies gradually converged.
• In the second year, an eight-trillion-strong Demon World vanguard led by a Celestial Immortal Supreme Peak Demon General encountered a ten-trillion-strong Demon Realm vanguard led by a Celestial Immortal Supreme Peak flood dragon in the Blood-Red Mountains.
• The Demon World and Demon Realm armies charged at each other, and their collision turned the front line into a purgatory.

The Demon World routed the Demon Realm in the first large-scale battle of the Emperor Path Strife, killing five trillion troops and revealing its deadly cost. Twenty-eight years later, the Celestial Court found the Human Realm army, setting the stage for a decisive fight between three hundred trillion Celestial Court troops and one trillion Human Realm disciples.

• The Demon World's eight trillion troops defeated the Demon Realm's ten trillion soldiers after a three-month battle, leaving three trillion Demon Realm troops dead and routing the survivors.
• The spectators realized that the Emperor Path Strife was a slaughter meant to produce an Emperor, and the Fourth Divine General declared the Celestial Court's war against the Human Realm would be the real spectacle.
• The First-Heaven Battlefield shrank in the tenth and twentieth years, forcing the Six Realms' armies closer together and increasing the frequency of clashes.
• In the twenty-eighth year, Celestial Court scouts located the Human Realm's one trillion disciples on a desolate plain.
• The Fourth Divine General vowed to crush the Human Realm, while leaders from other realms gathered to watch the impending battle.

The Celestial Court surrounded the Human Realm’s one trillion disciples with three hundred quadrillion troops, confident that they would win. As both sides faced each other amid taunts and silence, He Ping'an remained composed at the head of the Human Realm formation.

• The Human Realm’s disciples gathered south of the First-Heaven Battlefield’s center and cultivated there for twenty-eight years, while He Ping'an remained at the Supreme Peak of the Emperor Realm.
• The Celestial Court completed its encirclement with three hundred quadrillion troops, surrounding the one trillion Human Realm disciples from every direction.
• The Celestial Court’s generals and allied forces mocked the Human Realm, while its allies and spectators doubted that the smaller force could survive.
• Jintong scanned the Human Realm formation with his third eye, dismissed its disciples as ants, and called on them to surrender.
• The Human Realm’s disciples remained seated and unmoved by the taunts as He Ping'an sat at their front with a faint, disdainful smile.

He Ping'an drew his Wooden Sword and ordered the trillion Human Realm disciples to activate the Heavenly Dao Battle Formation as three hundred trillion Celestial Court troops charged. The formation emerged within the golden flood, but the armies collided before the battle’s outcome was known.

• He Ping'an awakened the sword intent he had nurtured for twenty-eight years and drew his Wooden Sword as Jintong ordered all three hundred trillion Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals to charge.
• He Ping'an commanded the trillion Human Realm disciples to form the Heavenly Dao Battle Formation, which they activated instantly from their planned positions.
• The hundred million Ten-Thousand-Person Battle Formations moved through the charging troops and reinforced one another as a vast formation within a formation.
• The Slaughter Demon King recognized the formation’s scale, while a Taboo Ghost King marveled at the disciples’ trust and unity.
• The Celestial Court’s troops engulfed the Human Realm disciples in a clash of immortal light, beginning the battle.

The Human Realm’s one hundred million Ten-Thousand-Person Battle Formations devastated the Celestial Court’s vastly larger army through overwhelming power and precise coordination. The Fourth Divine General watched the Celestial Court’s troops descend into chaos as rival realms mocked their defeat.

• The Human Realm’s battle formations held firm against the Celestial Court’s attack and cut down Heavenly Soldiers with strikes powered by their combined strength.
• The Celestial Court’s formations collapsed when three Human Realm formations attacked them together, leaving their troops scattered and slaughtered.
• The Fourth Divine General realized the Human Realm’s formations coordinated as one, preventing the Celestial Court from concentrating its forces or maintaining command.
• The Fourth Divine General raged at the army’s failure while powerhouses from the other realms watched in shock.
• The Slaughter Demon King and the other Demon World leaders mocked the Celestial Court, while the golden giant dragon and the Ghost Realm’s Taboo Ghost Kings reacted with amusement.

He Ping'an and the Human Realm’s battle formations devastated the Celestial Court’s vastly larger army, killing fifty trillion troops in a single day while suffering negligible losses. The first charge ended with the Eternal Immortal Realm’s soldiers stunned and questioning who the real ants were.

• The Blood Moon Ancestor, Golden Clan Ancestor, Divine Spear Saint Emperor, Ice God, and Sword Lord watched the Human Realm’s formations overwhelm the Celestial Court’s troops.
• He Ping'an fought alone with his Wooden Sword, cutting through Heavenly Soldiers and issuing precise orders to the Human Realm’s battle formations.
• The Slaughter Demon King, Golden Giant Dragon, and Taboo Ghost King recognized He Ping'an’s extraordinary swordsmanship and divine-sense command.
• The Human Realm’s formations broke apart Celestial Court forces trying to assemble larger formations, and the Celestial Court lost fifty trillion troops in a single charge.
• The other realms’ experts reconsidered the Human Realm’s strength, while the Celestial Court soldiers ended the charge stunned by the scale of their losses.

The Human Realm's one trillion disciples routed the Celestial Court's first charge, killing fifty trillion Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals while suffering negligible losses. Jintong regrouped the surviving troops and ordered them to form the Celestial Court's Heavenly Net Formation, shifting the battle toward a contest of raw force.

• The Human Realm's battle formations crushed the Celestial Court's first charge, leaving fifty trillion troops dead and the spectators stunned.
• The Blood Moon Ancestor and Golden Clan Ancestor celebrated the Human Realm's victory, while the Ice God and Sword Lord called its army terrifying.
• The Divine Spear Saint Emperor said the Human Realm's rise to the Eternal Realm had not come through luck, further angering the Celestial Court's Divine Generals.
• Jintong blamed the Human Realm's mobility for the defeat and ordered the remaining two hundred and fifty trillion troops to assemble in the Heavenly Net Formation.
• The Celestial Court's soldiers began linking their auras as the Heavenly Net Formation took shape across the battlefield.

The Celestial Court formed its Heavenly Net Formation from 250 quadrillion troops, forcing He Ping'an and the Human Realm's trillion disciples into a direct clash. He Ping'an transformed their battle formations into a sword and launched Sword Opens Heaven Gate, leaving the sword and net poised to collide.

• The Slaughter Demon King, Golden Giant Dragon, and Ghost Kings judged the Heavenly Net Formation a grave threat to the Human Realm.
• The Celestial Court's Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Divine Generals expected their formation to crush the Human Realm, while the Blood Moon Ancestor and Golden Clan Ancestor worried.
• He Ping'an ordered the Human Realm's 100 million Ten-Thousand-Person Battle Formations to reshape themselves into a sword spanning heaven and earth.
• He Ping'an led the disciples in unleashing Sword Opens Heaven Gate, gathering their strength and fighting spirit into the Wooden Sword.
• Jintong recognized that He Ping'an wielded the strength of the trillion disciples as a single sword, then ordered the Heavenly Net Formation to crush them.
• The Human Realm's sword and the Celestial Court's net began their ultimate head-on clash, with the outcome still undecided.

He Ping'an and one trillion Human Realm disciples shattered the Celestial Court’s Heavenly Net Formation with a single sword strike, inflicting more than one million billion casualties. The Celestial Court’s Fourth Divine General accepted that the Immortal Realm had lost, along with his wager against the Divine Spear Saint Emperor.

• He Ping'an and the Human Realm disciples poured their power into the Sword of Heavenly Dao and struck the Heavenly Net Formation.
• Jintong watched the formation crack and spread into countless fissures as the sword broke through it.
• The formation’s collapse sent backlash through the Celestial Court army, and the sword light cut down hundreds of thousands of billions more soldiers.
• The Demon, Ghost, and God Realm observers fell silent and reconsidered the Human Realm’s strength.
• The Fourth Divine General slumped on his throne, realizing the Immortal Realm had lost and he had lost his wager with the Divine Spear Saint Emperor.

He Ping'an and the Human Realm army routed the Celestial Court’s vastly larger force after the Heavenly Net Formation fell, then pursued the fleeing soldiers. As the slaughter continued, the other realms watched the Fourth Divine General, whose defeat meant he would lose the wager and face execution.

• The Immortal Realm army broke into a panicked retreat, and its soldiers attacked one another as they scrambled to escape.
• The Slaughter Demon King and the other Demon Kings mocked the Celestial Court, while Human Realm allies celebrated the victory.
• He Ping'an ordered the Human Realm disciples to disperse their formations and hunt the fleeing forces.
• Human Realm disciples cut down the routed soldiers, while He Ping'an killed three Celestial Court prodigies at Celestial Immortal Supreme Peak with single sword strikes.
• The powerhouses on the Primordial Battlefield turned their attention to the Fourth Divine General as the Celestial Court’s defeat became certain and the wager’s consequence loomed.

He Ping'an defeated and killed Jintong in three swords, breaking the Celestial Court army’s last resistance on the First-Heaven Battlefield. Three months later, the Human Realm had annihilated the Immortal Realm army, leaving the Fourth Divine General to face the wager he had lost.

• Jintong charged He Ping'an with his Heavenly Eye Annihilation Light, but He Ping'an split the beam and shattered Jintong’s defenses with three swords.
• He Ping'an killed Jintong, and the remaining Celestial Court disciples lost heart and fled as Human Realm forces pursued them.
• Three months later, the Human Realm had wiped out the last Celestial Court soldiers on the First-Heaven Battlefield, eliminating the Immortal Realm.
• The Human Realm’s allied faction leaders celebrated victory, while the Fourth Divine General and other Celestial Court leaders faced their defeat and the lost wager.
• Celestial Court faction leaders began backing away from their allegiance, wondering whether they could still pledge themselves to the Human Realm.

After the Human Realm crushed the Immortal Realm’s three-hundred-trillion-strong army, Heaven’s Will Blade struck the Eternal Immortal Realm and severed one-tenth of its Fortune. The Fourth Divine General faced the consequences of his wager as the Divine Spear Saint Emperor demanded that he choose how to die.

• The Slaughter Demon King and the Taboo Demon Kings reconsidered the Human Realm’s strength after hearing that the Immortal Realm’s army had been wiped out.
• Heaven’s Will Blade descended upon the Eternal Immortal Realm, striking its Fortune and causing immortal qi, resources, and cultivation paths to weaken.
• The Human Realm’s leaders took pride in their victory, while the Ice God and Sword Lord discussed the Demon World as their remaining opponent.
• The Fourth Divine General realized his cultivation path had been constrained and despaired over his impending death because of the wager.
• The Divine Spear Saint Emperor asked the Fourth Divine General whether he would kill himself or be sent on his way.

After the Human Realm won the Emperor Path Strife, the Fourth Divine General tried to escape the life-or-death wager by offering vast compensation. The Divine Spear Saint Emperor rejected the offer and reminded him that he would not have been spared if the Human Realm had lost.

• The Primordial Battlefield fell silent as everyone realized the Fourth Divine General had lost the wager and now faced death.
• The Fourth Divine General admitted defeat and offered one hundred Supreme Immortal Veins and ten Immortal Metal Veins to settle the wager.
• The Divine Spear Saint Emperor dismissed the offer and reminded the Fourth Divine General that he had proposed the wager himself.
• The Fourth Divine General offered to double the compensation and give anything he could, pleading for his life.
• The Divine Spear Saint Emperor said the matter was not about compensation and asked whether the Fourth Divine General would have spared him if the Human Realm had lost.

The Divine Spear Saint Emperor rejected the Fourth Divine General’s plea for mercy and attacked him on the Primordial Battlefield. After crippling him with one strike, he faced the Fourth Divine General and the Celestial Court’s remaining Taboo Kings as they joined the fight.

• The Fourth Divine General refused to honor his wager and kill himself, so the Divine Spear Saint Emperor declared he would kill him.
• The Divine Spear Saint Emperor appeared before the Fourth Divine General and pierced his hundreds of defensive barriers with one finger.
• The Fourth Divine Saint Emperor shattered the Fourth Divine General’s right arm with a single blow, shocking the watching powerhouses from the other realms.
• The Fourth Divine General regenerated his arm and called on the other Divine Generals for help.
• The Celestial Court’s remaining five Taboo Kings attacked together, and the Divine Spear Saint Emperor advanced with his spear, vowing to kill them all.

The Divine Spear Saint Emperor faced the Celestial Court's six Taboo Kings alone on the Primordial Battlefield. He drove back all six with one spear strike, revealing power close to the Ninth Epoch.

• The River-Calming Saint Emperor told the Ice God and the Sword Lord that the Divine Spear Saint Emperor alone was enough, so they held back.
• The Celestial Court's six Taboo Kings unleashed their auras and prepared to attack the Divine Spear Saint Emperor together.
• The Divine Spear Saint Emperor vanished into their midst and swept his spear at all six opponents.
• The six Taboo Kings combined their attacks against his spear beam, shaking the Primordial Battlefield and tearing open countless Void Rifts.
• The Divine Spear Saint Emperor remained unmoved while all six Taboo Kings were driven back three steps, astonishing the Slaughter Demon King and the Golden Giant Dragon.

The Divine Spear Saint Emperor killed the Seventh Divine General with one spear and then struck down the Sixth Divine General, leaving the remaining Taboo Kings terrified. The Sixth Divine General survived by fleeing and rebuilding his body, but realized that a few more blows would kill him and that the Divine Spear Saint Emperor’s strength exceeded that of an Eight-Epoch King.

• The Divine Spear Saint Emperor pierced the Seventh Divine General, seized his divine soul, and crushed it, killing him completely.
• The Divine Spear Saint Emperor asked the five remaining Taboo Kings who would be next, while the Celestial Court faction and its allies panicked.
• The Sixth Divine General admitted that they could not defeat the Divine Spear Saint Emperor and that they would die if they continued fighting.
• The Divine Spear Saint Emperor shattered the Sixth Divine General’s war blade and pierced his chest with one spear.
• The Sixth Divine General’s body exploded, but his divine soul escaped and reconstructed his body elsewhere.
• The Sixth Divine General recognized that the Divine Spear Saint Emperor could kill him after a few more attacks and had power beyond an Eight-Epoch King.

The Divine Spear Saint Emperor overwhelmed the Celestial Court’s Taboo Kings, leaving the Fourth Divine General trapped on the battlefield as the others fled. His overwhelming power stunned the rival realms and inspired the Human Realm’s leaders, including Sword Lord.

• The Divine Spear Saint Emperor struck the Sixth and Fifth Divine Generals, exploding their bodies and gravely damaging their Origins.
• He split into two figures and pierced the two Eighth-Epoch Ancestors at once, forcing them to reconstruct their bodies.
• The Divine Spear Saint Emperor declared that his assault had only been a warm-up, and the Sixth and Fifth Divine Generals burned their blood essence to flee.
• The two Eighth-Epoch Ancestors fled as well, while the Fourth Divine General remained trapped under the Divine Spear Saint Emperor’s lock.
• The Slaughter Demon King and leaders of the Ghost Realm, God Race, and Human Realm reacted with shock, and Sword Lord saw hope of reaching the Ninth Epoch.

The Divine Spear Saint Emperor revealed that he had mastered Emperor Art and used it to kill the Fourth Divine General, an Eight-Epoch King Peak of the Celestial Court. The Primordial Battlefield fell silent as the Human Realm’s champion stood victorious.

• The Fourth Divine General insisted that the Divine Spear Saint Emperor could defeat him but could not kill him without Emperor Art.
• The Divine Spear Saint Emperor raised his spear, and the Taboo powerhouses recognized the aura of Emperor Art.
• The Fourth Divine General realized the Divine Spear Saint Emperor had mastered Emperor Art and tried to escape as the battlefield’s Space-Time froze.
• The Divine Spear Saint Emperor pierced the Fourth Divine General’s chest, severing his connection to the great dao and shattering his soul and Origin.
• The Fourth Divine General dissipated into golden motes, leaving the spectators stunned by the Human Realm’s victory.