Recaps

Xiao Lingxi and Xuan Qingyi used their Emperor Arts in the first round, prompting the Netherworld King and Ghost Princess to concede rather than risk exhausting their strength. With those two eliminated, the Golden Dragon King and Twelve-Winged Seraph faced the pair and were forced to decide who would surrender first.

• Ghost Princess and the other powerhouses reacted in alarm as Xiao Lingxi and Xuan Qingyi unleashed Emperor Arts, which consumed their strength without replenishment.
• The Netherworld King weighed the cost of fighting and admitted defeat to preserve his strength for later rounds.
• Ghost Princess also admitted defeat, and Xiao Lingxi and Xuan Qingyi accepted both surrenders.
• Heavenly Will eliminated the Ghost Realm and Demon World, leaving the Golden Dragon King and Twelve-Winged Seraph facing Xiao Lingxi and Xuan Qingyi.
• Xiao Lingxi asked the two remaining opponents which of them would concede, knowing the first to surrender would give the other a place among the winners.

Golden Dragon King and the Twelve-Winged Seraph turned on each other because neither could afford another loss, and their battle escalated as both unleashed their true forms. The chapter ended with Netherworld King explaining that the two had nowhere left to retreat.

• Golden Dragon King and the Twelve-Winged Seraph refused to concede and agreed to fight, with the loser eliminated from the contest.
• Golden Dragon King and the Twelve-Winged Seraph traded powerful spear and sword attacks, each forcing the other back.
• The Twelve-Winged Seraph transformed into a Flame Deity by activating Angel True Form.
• Golden Dragon King answered with Golden Dragon True Form, revealing a massive golden dragon whose aura shook the battlefield.
• Netherworld King told Ghost Princess that he had conceded because the first-round melee was not worth fighting hard in, while Golden Dragon King and the Twelve-Winged Seraph had nowhere left to retreat.

The Golden Dragon King defeated the Twelve-Winged Seraph after their final attacks left both fighters gravely wounded. Heavenly Will eliminated the Divine Realm’s fighter, bringing its tally to nine defeats, while the Six Realms recognized that the Emperor Path Strife had become the strongest battlefield in history.

• The Golden Dragon King and the Twelve-Winged Seraph exchanged powerful attacks and were left grievously wounded, then agreed to settle the fight with one final blow.
• The Golden Dragon King unleashed Dragon Emperor’s Wrath as the Twelve-Winged Seraph used Holy Light Annihilation, and both fighters collapsed after their attacks collided.
• The Golden Dragon King forced himself to stand, while the Twelve-Winged Seraph could not rise and conceded defeat.
• Heavenly Will eliminated the Divine Realm’s fighter and added another defeat to its tally, bringing it to nine.
• Demon King Asura and the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Beast King celebrated the Demon Realm’s win as the Six Realms recognized the deadly scale of the Emperor Path Strife and anticipated the Taboo Battlefield.

After the Divine Realm suffered its ninth loss, the twelfth round began with the Netherworld King, Ghost Princess, Golden Dragon King, and Twelve-Winged Seraph returning to the battlefield. The Immortal Realm sent an unknown black-hooded figure instead of Xuan Qingyi, and he refused to reveal his name.

• Heavenly Will announced that the Human Realm, Immortal Realm, and Demon Realm had won the eleventh round, leaving the Divine Realm one defeat from elimination.
• The Netherworld King, Ghost Princess, Golden Dragon King, and Twelve-Winged Seraph entered the battlefield for the twelfth round despite injuries and exhaustion.
• Xiao Lingxi prepared to fight, then noticed that Xuan Qingyi remained in the Immortal Realm camp.
• A black-hooded figure emerged from the Immortal Realm ranks, drawing alarm and wary attention from experts across the Six Realms.
• The Netherworld King demanded the figure's name, and he replied that it did not matter.

Xiao Lingxi withdrew from the twelfth round, and Xiao Yan entered the battlefield as the Human Realm’s next fighter. As Xiao Yan challenged the hooded opponent, the man hinted that they had met before, and the twelfth round began.

• Xiao Lingxi exchanged a nod with the Heavenly Fortune Saint Emperor and stepped back from the fight.
• Xiao Yan rose from the Human Realm’s camp, and the Six Realms recognized him as Chen Fan, the fighter who had defeated Di Cang.
• The Second Divine General secretly ordered the hooded man to find a chance to kill Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan took up the Dark Iron Heavy Ruler and challenged the Netherworld King, Ghost Princess, Golden Dragon King, Twelve-Winged Seraph, and the hooded man.
• The hooded man said he knew Xiao Yan and that they had met before, then the twelfth round officially began.

Xiao Yan and the hooded figure each claimed a winning spot without fighting, leaving the four peerless monsters to contest the last one. The Golden Dragon King and the Twelve-Winged Seraph attacked them, while the Netherworld King and Ghost Princess remained wary of the hooded figure’s unfamiliar aura.

• Xiao Yan announced that he would take a winning spot without fighting, and the hooded figure from the Immortal Realm claimed one as well.
• The Netherworld King and Ghost Princess declined to join forces again, while the six contenders took separate positions on the battlefield.
• Xiao Yan pointed out that the Golden Dragon King was still badly weakened from the previous round, provoking him.
• The Ghost Princess and Netherworld King sensed that the hooded figure was not from this Epoch.
• The Golden Dragon King charged Xiao Yan with his spear as the Twelve-Winged Seraph attacked the hooded figure with his Angel Holy Sword.

Xiao Yan sent the Golden Dragon King flying with one swing of his Dark Iron Heavy Ruler, while the hooded figure destroyed the Twelve-Winged Seraph with a single finger. The Six Realms realized the Immortal Realm’s hidden trump card had killed the Divine Realm’s last hope, leaving the hooded figure’s identity unknown.

• Xiao Yan met the Golden Dragon King’s Dragon Emperor’s Wrath with a direct swing of his ruler and sent him crashing to the ground.
• The Golden Dragon King rose in fear and asked Xiao Yan what kind of monster he was.
• The hooded figure stopped the Twelve-Winged Seraph’s crimson sword beam with one finger, shattering it.
• The hooded figure appeared before the Twelve-Winged Seraph and tapped his forehead, killing him with a single blow.
• The Six Realms’ powerhouses reacted in disbelief as the Divine Realm lost its final hope and the hooded figure was recognized as the Immortal Realm’s true trump card.

A black-hooded man killed the Twelve-Winged Seraph with one finger, then refused to let the wounded Golden Dragon King leave after he surrendered. He struck the Golden Dragon King and appeared ready to kill him, while the experts of the Six Realms watched in alarm.

• The hooded man killed the Twelve-Winged Seraph in a single move, astonishing the experts of the Six Realms and drawing Xiao Yan's attention.
• The hooded man said he and Xiao Yan could postpone deciding a winner, then turned his killing intent on the wounded Golden Dragon King.
• The Golden Dragon King surrendered, and Xiao Yan told him to leave as the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Beast King welcomed his survival.
• As the Golden Dragon King walked toward the battlefield's edge, the hooded man appeared behind him and said surrender did not mean he would let him go.
• The hooded man cut off the Golden Dragon King's escape and struck him with one finger, sending him flying and prompting the experts of the Six Realms to fear for his life.

The hooded figure forced the Golden Dragon King to unleash his full strength, then defeated him with a single move. The Golden Dragon King died on the Epoch Battlefield, leaving the Six Realms stunned by the hooded figure’s power.

• The Netherworld King and the Ghost Princess realized the hooded figure had come to kill, not merely win.
• The hooded figure refused the Golden Dragon King’s attempt to concede and demanded that he fight at full strength.
• The Golden Dragon King transformed into his Golden Dragon True Form and burned his life to unleash Dragon Emperor’s Wrath.
• The hooded figure struck down the Golden Dragon King, who died after asking who his opponent was.
• The Six Realms reacted in shock, while the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Beast King feared Lord Previous Golden Dragon King’s response.

The hooded man’s strength terrified the Ghost Princess, who conceded, while the Netherworld King won without fighting. After the twelfth round ended, Heavenly Will eliminated the Divine Realm for accumulating ten defeats and began its fourth Heaven’s Will Blade.

• The Netherworld King and Ghost Princess judged that the hooded man had effortlessly killed the Twelve-Winged Seraph and Golden Dragon King, and the Ghost Princess fled from him in fear.
• The Ghost Princess conceded twice, and the Netherworld King accepted the victory without challenging the hooded man.
• Xiao Yan stared directly at the hooded man as Heavenly Will ended the twelfth round and declared the Human Realm, Immortal Realm, and Demon World the winners.
• The Human Realm remained undefeated, while the Demon Realm neared elimination and the Divine Realm mourned the deaths of its final trump cards.
• Heavenly Will declared the Divine Realm eliminated after ten defeats and began the realm’s fourth Heaven’s Will Blade.

The Divine Realm was eliminated from the Emperor Path Strife and endured the Heaven's Will Blade, but its experts stayed to watch the contest. As the thirteenth-round melee began, Xiao Yan and the Immortal Realm's hooded figure entered the battlefield, facing one another.

• The Heaven's Will Blade stripped the Divine Realm of Fortune, Dao Path, and an Epoch, eliminating it from the contest.
• The Light High God urged the Divine Realm's experts to stay and witness the rest of the Emperor Path Strife.
• The five remaining realms assessed their standings and feared the hooded figure, while the Demon Realm and Ghost Realm faced looming elimination.
• Heavenly Will announced the thirteenth-round melee and summoned the Five Realms' combatants.
• The Immortal Realm's hooded figure entered the battlefield, and Xiao Yan strode out to face him.

The Netherworld King and Ghost Princess joined forces to challenge the hooded man, refusing to retreat again despite the danger. Their coordinated attack failed to land, and the hooded man met the Netherworld King’s Demon Dragon Fist with his palm, forcing him back seven steps.

• A First-Epoch Demon Beast King entered the battlefield as the Demon Realm’s fighter, while the Netherworld King and Ghost Princess stepped forward together.
• The Netherworld King and Ghost Princess declared they would no longer avoid the fight and joined Xiao Yan and the hooded man at the battlefield’s center.
• The Netherworld King and Ghost Princess launched a coordinated attack, combining his demonic fist with her nine blade-wielding afterimages.
• The hooded man dodged their attacks, deflected one blade, and criticized their speed and strength.
• The Netherworld King unleashed Demon Dragon Fist, but the hooded man met his punch with a palm and drove him back seven steps.

The hooded figure defeated the Netherworld King and Ghost Princess even after they joined forces and unleashed their strongest techniques. As the Six Realms’ powerful beings stared in shock, they discovered Xiao Yan casually drinking tea on the battlefield with a trembling Demon Beast King.

• The Ghost Princess and Netherworld King attacked the hooded figure together with the Netherworld Ghost Hand and Netherworld King True Form.
• The hooded figure released an overwhelming power that shattered their attacks, then struck both of them down.
• The powerful beings of the Six Realms reacted with disbelief as they realized neither prodigy could match the hooded figure.
• Xiao Yan called out from a tea table on the battlefield and asked whether the fighting was over.
• Xiao Yan explained that he had brewed tea because the fighters seemed busy, while the Demon Beast King trembled across from him.
• The Six Realms’ powerful beings stared in astonishment as Xiao Yan continued drinking tea on the battlefield.

The Netherworld King and Ghost Princess unleashed their life-bound weapons and supreme arts against the hooded man, forcing him to take them seriously. As their attacks converged, he began summoning a dark-gold saber.

• Xiao Yan drank tea while the Netherworld King and Ghost Princess recovered from the hooded man's earlier attacks.
• Ghost Princess formed the Death God Scythe, and the Netherworld King summoned the Netherworld King Sword as they vowed to stake their lives on the fight.
• The Netherworld King attacked with Yellow Springs Severance, and Ghost Princess followed with Death God's Descent.
• The hooded man praised the pair and gathered dark-gold light in his palm, where a long saber began to appear.

The hooded man revealed the upgraded Heaven's Sin Blade and used the First Divine General's Emperor Art to defeat the Netherworld King and Ghost Princess. As the Netherworld King lay mortally wounded, he challenged the hooded man's standing and claimed that in the same age the man would not have seen his back.

• The hooded man revealed the Heaven's Sin Blade, astonishing the Six Realms' powerhouses and prompting speculation that he was the First Divine General's successor.
• The hooded man struck with Heaven's Sin, and the Netherworld King and Ghost Princess met his attack with their Supreme Taboo secret arts.
• The clash shattered the Epoch Battlefield, while Xiao Yan recognized the blade from his old battle with Di Cang and wondered who the hooded man was.
• The Netherworld King and Ghost Princess were left gravely wounded, with their lifebound weapons cracked and broken.
• The hooded man praised their strength and told the Netherworld King that his choice to pursue taboo had led to certain death.
• The Netherworld King guessed that the hooded man was from another age and declared that, had they been born in the same age, the man would never have seen his back.

The Netherworld King unveiled his Emperor Art, Eternal Silence in an Instant, after revealing that he had suppressed his cultivation for hundreds of billions of years while waiting for a worthy opponent. The Ghost Princess sacrificed herself to unleash Death God Eternal Life, and their combined final attack raced toward the hooded man as he prepared his strongest strike.

• The Netherworld King stood despite his injuries and revealed that he had waited hundreds of billions of years to take the final step into the taboo realm.
• The Netherworld King manifested a new phantom and unleashed his Emperor Art, Eternal Silence in an Instant.
• The Ghost Princess rose with her broken Death God Scythe and sacrificed her body and soul to unleash Death God Eternal Life.
• The Netherworld King's and Ghost Princess's attacks intertwined and surged toward the hooded man.
• The hooded man praised the Netherworld King and the Ghost Princess, then raised Heaven's Sin Blade to meet them with his strongest strike.

The Netherworld King and Ghost Princess died together unleashing a final strike that shattered the hooded man's Heaven's Sin Blade and broke through his defenses. As his hood and robe disintegrated and his hidden face emerged, the Six Realms' mighty beings were left stunned, but his identity was not yet stated.

• The Netherworld King and Ghost Princess faded away after their final attack, while the Six Realms' mighty beings honored their sacrifice.
• The hooded man's Heaven's Sin Blade cracked and shattered from the force of their strike.
• The hooded man's defenses began breaking apart as the strike's Dao resonance invaded his body and reached his soul.
• The hooded man's hood and robe vanished, revealing his face and shocking everyone watching.

Xiao Yan exposed the hooded man as an ancient being inhabiting Di Cang’s preserved body, not Di Cang resurrected. The stranger explained how he claimed the body and reforged Di Cang’s weapon, leaving the Six Realms powerhouses to wonder at his true identity and power.

• The powerhouses of the Six Realms mistook the hooded man for the resurrected Di Cang.
• Xiao Yan reasoned that the man was not Di Cang because he regarded him with curiosity rather than the hatred Di Cang had shown.
• The hooded man admitted that Di Cang had died completely and left behind a flawless body that he had preserved and made his vessel.
• The hooded man revealed that he had refined the Heaven’s Sin Blade and considered it only barely worthy of him.

The hooded figure occupying Di Cang’s body revealed that he had abandoned his former cultivation and Dao to possess a junior, then entered the Emperor Path Strife to witness the limits of the current age. After explaining that he had long observed Xiao Yan and expected him to provide a worthy challenge, he faced Xiao Yan’s doubts about his motives and courage.

• Demon King Asura asked who the hooded figure was, and the figure claimed that even the First Divine General would have to call him Senior.
• Xiao Yan challenged the figure for entering the Emperor Path Strife, and the figure admitted he was cheating but said possession required abandoning everything and starting anew.
• The hooded figure explained that he had awakened recently, observed Xiao Yan and the Human Realm, and entered the contest to discover the limits of the age.
• The hooded figure named the Netherworld King, Ghost Princess, the Golden Dragon King, and the Twelve-Winged Seraph as remarkable talents, then said he wanted to see whether Xiao Yan could entertain him.
• Xiao Yan accused the hooded figure of treating others as pawns and questioned whether he had truly dared to possess Di Cang, warning that someone might possess his original body.

Xiao Yan challenged the hooded man’s claim that his preserved body and foundations were absolutely safe, arguing that no place could be beyond danger. The hooded man admitted an invincible expert guarded them, and Xiao Yan began questioning why that expert could be trusted.

• Xiao Yan reasoned that the hooded man had little to gain from taking Di Cang’s body and accused him of lacking the resolve to reach the Emperor Realm.
• The hooded man admitted Xiao Yan was half right: his Dao fruit, body, and foundations were preserved intact in a place he considered absolutely safe.
• Xiao Yan dismissed the idea of absolute safety as self-comfort, and the hooded man reacted with subtle unease.
• The hooded man said an invincible expert personally guarded his preserved body and foundations.
• Xiao Yan asked why the invincible expert would guard them and what relationship or reward bound them, then began questioning whether loyalty and trust could last forever.

Xiao Yan questioned whether the hooded man's trusted protector had remained loyal during the many Epochs he had slept, steadily undermining his confidence. The hooded man's composure cracked, and Xiao Yan ended by suggesting that taking Di Cang's body had not been his original plan.

• Xiao Yan warned the hooded man that his protector might covet his Dao fruit, body, Origin, or seed to the Emperor Realm.
• The hooded man grew uneasy as Xiao Yan questioned whether the world and the person he trusted had changed during his long sleep.
• The hooded man accused Xiao Yan of trying to shake his Dao Heart, but Xiao Yan said he was only reminding him that nothing was certain.
• The First Epoch Demon Beast King asked to surrender, and the hooded man threatened it before Xiao Yan shielded it and it fled the battlefield.
• Xiao Yan resumed questioning the hooded man's trust in his supposed disciple and suggested that seizing Di Cang's body had not been his original plan.

Xiao Yan exposed the hooded man's possible involvement with whoever preserved Di Cang's body, but the man neither confirmed nor denied his suspicions. The Demon Realm was eliminated after its tenth defeat, and the surviving realms reacted to the losses and the Immortal Realm's newfound confidence.

• Xiao Yan confronted the hooded man with his suspicion that someone else had kept Di Cang's body safe, and the man's brief reaction suggested Xiao Yan had guessed correctly.
• The hooded man praised Xiao Yan's caution as the Heaven's Will Blade eliminated the Demon Realm for accumulating ten defeats.
• The realms' standings were tallied: the Human Realm remained undefeated, while the Demon World and Ghost Realm were weakened by the deaths of the Netherworld King and Ghost Princess.
• Demon King Asura said the Netherworld King and Ghost Princess had been born in the wrong era, and the Extreme Frost Ghost King agreed that Ghost Princess had surpassed him at her level.
• Immortal Realm experts celebrated their senior's victory and boasted that their realm would win the Emperor Path Strife, dismissing criticism of his possession of Di Cang's body.

After the hooded man crushed the four realms’ strongest fighters, round fourteen began with Xiao Yan and a terrified First Epoch Ghost King entering the battlefield. A mysterious black-robed figure emerged from the Demon World, and the chapter ended with Xiao Yan and the hooded man sensing the newcomer’s formidable strength.

• The four realms’ powerhouses condemned the Immortal Realm’s use of the hooded man but admitted that Netherworld King and Ghost Princess had been unable to defeat him.
• Heavenly Will announced round fourteen as a battle royale between the Human Realm, Immortal Realm, Demon World, and Ghost Realm, with two victor slots.
• The hooded man entered for the Immortal Realm, Xiao Yan entered for the Human Realm and casually sat down with tea, and the Ghost Realm sent a frightened First Epoch Ghost King.
• A mysterious black-robed figure slowly emerged from the Demon World and took a position opposite Xiao Yan and the hooded man.
• The figure revealed pale-red eyes beneath a featureless hood, while Xiao Yan sensed something familiar and the hooded man recognized the newcomer’s strength.

The Ghost Realm's first-epoch Ghost King was annihilated, eliminating the Ghost Realm and leaving Xiao Yan, the hooded man, and a black-robed Demon Realm figure on the battlefield. The black-robed figure was identified as the new Seventy-Second Demon Pillar, though a Demon Realm Epoch King insisted he was not a Taboo Demon King.

• Heavenly Will began round fourteen, and the hooded man's aura shattered and annihilated the Ghost Realm's first-epoch Ghost King.
• The Ghost Realm was eliminated, leaving Xiao Yan, the hooded man, and the black-robed figure as the remaining combatants.
• The powerhouses recognized the black-robed figure as one of the Seventy-Two Demon Pillars, whose members were traditionally Taboo Kings.
• A Demon Realm Taboo Monster King observed that the black-robed figure's aura belonged to an Epoch King, not a taboo existence.
• Demon King Asura suggested the previous Seventy-Second Demon Pillar had fallen and the black-robed figure was his successor.
• A Demon Realm Epoch King confirmed that the black-robed figure was the new Seventy-Second Demon Pillar but denied that he was a Taboo Demon King.

Demon King Asura defended the black-robed figure’s claim to the Seventy-Second Demon Pillar by confirming she had killed its previous holder in a witnessed, direct battle while still an Epoch King. The other realms remained skeptical until Asura revealed that the First Demon Pillar believed she was destined to become an Emperor.

• The Six Realms’ powerhouses doubted that the black-robed figure had killed a Taboo King as an Epoch King, and the Second Divine General argued it was impossible.
• Demon King Asura declared that the former Seventy-Second Demon Pillar had been killed openly in a head-on battle by the new Seventy-Second Demon Pillar.
• The Second Divine General and the Third Divine General suggested the former Demon Pillar might have been injured or otherwise weakened.
• Demon King Asura said he had witnessed the battle himself, while the other realms continued searching for reasons to doubt the claim.
• Demon King Asura revealed that the First Demon Pillar had said that if she could not become an Emperor, no one could.