Recaps

The hooded man acknowledged the black-robed Seventy-Second Demon Pillar’s taboo-level combat strength, and the three began a battle that shook the Epoch Battlefield. Xiao Yan and the Demon Pillar struck with their own powers, revealing the Demon Pillar’s Emperor Art of destruction as the clash continued.

• Demon King Asura declared that the black-robed Seventy-Second Demon Pillar had wielded taboo power as an Epoch King and slain a Taboo King, stunning the experts of the Six Realms.
• The hooded man withdrew his dismissal of the Demon Pillar and said they were qualified to stand against him.
• Xiao Yan charged the hooded man with the Dark Iron Heavy Ruler and Myriad-Path Heavenly Flame, and the hooded man countered with the Heaven’s Sin Blade Technique.
• The black-robed Demon Pillar thrust with a pitch-black sword, forcing the hooded man to defend against an Emperor Art of pure destruction.

Xiao Yan and the black-robed man joined forces against the hooded man, overwhelming him with heavenly fire and destruction sword intent. As the hooded man prepared to reveal the true extent of his power, the battle reached a new turning point.

• Xiao Yan attacked the hooded man with his heavy ruler and heavenly fire while the black-robed man countered with destruction sword intent.
• Xiao Yan’s growing physical strength drove the hooded man backward, and the black-robed man wounded him with a silent sword thrust.
• Xiao Yan and the black-robed man coordinated their attacks, wounding the hooded man again and forcing him to retreat.
• Xiao Yan challenged the hooded man for relying on the First Divine General’s arts instead of revealing his own Dao and techniques.
• The hooded man declared that he would show them what it meant to be invincible as his ancient eyes lit up.

The hooded man revealed himself as the King of Creation, an ancient Immortal Realm legend whose soul had joined with Di Cang’s body. He acknowledged Xiao Yan and unleashed the Creation Dao, leaving the Six Realms convinced the Immortal Realm would win as he demanded that Xiao Yan and his ally surrender.

• The hooded man revealed the aura and Creation Dao of the master of the Ten-Thousand-Level Heavenly Ladder, and the Six Realms recognized him as the King of Creation.
• The King of Creation explained that he remembered Xiao Yan and the others for reaching the Heavenly Ladder’s summit and refusing his offer to become disciples.
• He revealed that Xiao Yan had forced him to expose his trump card before he was ready.
• The King of Creation used the Creation Disk to release the power of creation and destruction across the battlefield.
• Immortal Realm powerhouses celebrated the King of Creation’s return and declared victory assured.
• The King of Creation praised Xiao Yan and his ally, then told them to surrender.

Xiao Yan and the Black-Robed Man challenged the King of Creation, whose Creation Disk could transform their powers. Xiao Yan’s heavenly fire origin shattered the King’s attack, allowing the Black-Robed Man to wound him, but the King then unleashed the Creation Emperor Art.

• The King of Creation used his Creation Disk to transform Xiao Yan’s heavenly flames and warned that he could alter the nature of all arts weaker than his Dao.
• Xiao Yan ignited heavenly fire origin on his Dark Iron Heavy Ruler and struck the King before the Creation Disk could break it down.
• The heavenly fire origin exploded against the King’s creation force, scattering its fragments and knocking him back.
• The Black-Robed Man absorbed the scattered creation force into his destruction sword intent and pierced the King’s right shoulder.
• The King healed his wound, then broke the Creation Disk into runes that merged into his body as he unleashed the Creation Emperor Art.

The King of Creation unleashed his fully realized Creation Emperor Art against Xiao Yan and the Black-Robed Man. Both opponents answered with completed Emperor Arts, and Xiao Yan’s flames broke through the Creation Light, leaving the King of Creation stunned by Xiao Yan’s Youthful Heart.

• The King of Creation summoned the Creation Furnace and used its Creation Light to transform Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Fire and the Black-Robed Man’s Destruction Sword Intent.
• Xiao Yan resisted the Creation Light with his Heavenly Fire Origin, while the Black-Robed Man used his completed Emperor Art, Black Sun Returns to the Abyssal Ruin, to clash with the King of Creation’s completed art.
• Xiao Yan unleashed his completed Emperor Art, Myriad Flames Incinerate the Firmament, and formed a vast sea of flames.
• Xiao Yan condensed the flames into a fire dragon that struck the Creation Furnace and tore through its Creation Light.
• The King of Creation questioned the extraordinary intent within Xiao Yan’s flames, and Xiao Yan named it Youthful Heart.

Xiao Yan and the Black-Robed Man joined forces against the King of Creation, who unleashed creation and destruction together to overwhelm them. Xiao Yan’s youthful defiance helped the Black-Robed Man fuse their powers into a sword strike that pierced the King’s shoulder, leaving the battle ongoing.

• The King of Creation fused creation and destruction in his Creation Furnace and forced back the Black-Robed Man and Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan and the Black-Robed Man attacked the King together with their Emperor Arts, and the three forces collided across the Epoch Battlefield.
• Xiao Yan taunted the King of Creation for having grown old, making him confront his stalled progress toward the Emperor Realm.
• The Black-Robed Man infused his destruction sword intent with Xiao Yan’s heavenly fire and pierced the King of Creation’s right shoulder.
• Xiao Yan mocked the wounded King for bullying the young instead of fighting on an old person’s battlefield.

Xiao Yan taunted the King of Creation to disrupt his composure while they fought, and the Black-Robed Man recognized his strategy. As the King of Creation unleashed a furious attack, the Black-Robed Man conceded and retreated, leaving Xiao Yan to block the King of Creation from pursuing her.

• Xiao Yan mocked the King of Creation’s age and fought off his creation-force attacks with his heavenly fire and Emperor Art.
• The Black-Robed Man realized Xiao Yan’s taunts were deliberately undermining the King of Creation’s confidence and mental state.
• The King of Creation turned on the Black-Robed Man when she seemed to laugh, but she answered with a thrust of destruction sword intent.
• Xiao Yan continued taunting the King of Creation over his possession of Di Cang’s body and his inability to defeat a junior.
• The King of Creation gathered his strength to unleash Myriad Things Return to the Abyssal Ruin against Xiao Yan and the Black-Robed Man.
• The Black-Robed Man conceded and retreated, while Xiao Yan blocked the King of Creation from pursuing her.

Xiao Yan and the Black-Robed Man used a planned concession to stop the King of Creation’s attack and leave him furious and unable to strike back. Xiao Yan returned to the Human Realm’s camp, while the Immortal Realm’s Divine Generals decided he must be killed.

• The King of Creation unleashed his power at Xiao Yan, who emerged from the dust unharmed and revealed that he had used a clone.
• Heavenly Will accepted the Black-Robed Man’s concession, ending the battle and awarding the two winning spots to Xiao Yan and the King of Creation.
• Xiao Yan taunted the King of Creation, who was barred from attacking and vowed to kill him in the next round.
• Xiao Yan returned toward the Human Realm’s camp and nodded to the Black-Robed Man, while the King of Creation roared in fury.
• The Six Realms’ experts reacted to Xiao Yan’s provocation, and the Immortal Realm’s Second Divine General, Third Divine General, and others resolved that Xiao Yan must not be left alive.

The Ghost Realm was eliminated after the fourteenth round, leaving the Human Realm, Immortal Realm, and Demon World to face a decisive three-way battle. Xiao Yan continued provoking the King of Creation, whose rage grew even as he was barred from attacking before the next round.

• Heavenly Will eliminated the Ghost Realm, and the Divine Realm, Demon Realm, and Ghost Realm were left out of the melee.
• Ghost Princess lamented that she might have ruled the heavens in another era, while the remaining realms prepared for the fifteenth round.
• Demon King Asura recognized that Xiao Yan had shaken the King of Creation's Dao heart, though the King of Creation remained immensely powerful.
• The Second Divine General noted that only one realm could win the next round, ending the Human Realm and Immortal Realm's alliance and forcing all three realms to fight as enemies.
• Xiao Yan confronted the King of Creation and declared that his era would end, provoking him to summon the Creation Furnace and threaten to kill Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan dared the King of Creation to attack, but Heavenly Will's rules prevented him from striking before the round began.

Xiao Yan infuriated the King of Creation by taunting him before the fifteenth round and then sipping tea through the preparation period. Just as the King of Creation expected Xiao Yan to fight, Xiao Yan revealed that someone else would represent the Human Realm and called on his senior brother.

• Xiao Yan withdrew to the Human Realm's camp after provoking the King of Creation and promising to face him in the next round.
• The fifteenth round began, and the King of Creation and the Black-Robed Man entered the battlefield while Xiao Yan stayed behind.
• Xiao Yan drank tea and mocked the King of Creation during the preparation period, when the rules prevented anyone from attacking.
• As the battle was about to begin, Xiao Yan stepped back and said he was not the Human Realm's fighter this round.
• Xiao Yan called to his senior brother to fight the King of Creation and asked him to go easy.

Xiao Yan withdrew from the duel and named Zhuge Feng as his replacement, provoking the King of Creation. Zhuge Feng entered the Epoch Battlefield with the Sea-Calming Divine Needle Iron, and the chapter ended as he prepared to fight the King of Creation.

• Xiao Yan told the King of Creation that Zhuge Feng would take his place and warned him that his senior brother was stronger.
• The King of Creation erupted in rage, but the Heavenly Will Rules suppressed his power before the preparation period ended.
• Zhuge Feng rose from the Human Realm camp and revealed his overwhelming fighting spirit as he stepped toward the battlefield.
• Zhuge Feng summoned the Sea-Calming Divine Needle Iron, and the King of Creation recognized the threat posed by his Battle Saint Physique.
• The King of Creation vowed to kill Zhuge Feng before Xiao Yan, and Zhuge Feng answered, “Then... let's fight!”

Zhuge Feng’s rising battle intent battered the King of Creation, while the Black-Robed Man struck and pierced his ear. Driven to the brink, the King of Creation prepared a powerful move, but Xiao Yan mocked his familiar boast.

• Zhuge Feng attacked the King of Creation with the Sea-Calming Divine Needle Iron, growing stronger with every strike and breaking through his creation and abyssal ruin.
• Xiao Yan taunted the King of Creation from outside the battlefield while Zhuge Feng’s relentless blows drove him back and weakened him.
• The King of Creation repelled Zhuge Feng, but the Black-Robed Man’s sword pierced through his left ear after breaking through the Creation Disk.
• The King of Creation admitted his opponents were strong, then summoned creation and destruction and vowed to use a move he had held back.
• Xiao Yan interrupted the King of Creation’s threat by mocking him for claiming he still had a special move.

The King of Creation trapped Zhuge Feng and the Black-Robed Man inside his Heaven and Earth Furnace, intending to refine them into nourishment for his path to the emperor realm. Xiao Yan’s taunts prompted the King of Creation to realize that someone might be refining him in turn, and the furnace’s power faltered.

• Xiao Yan mocked the King of Creation, disrupting his composure as he prepared his ultimate attack.
• The King of Creation unleashed the Heaven and Earth Furnace, trapping Zhuge Feng and the Black-Robed Man inside and covering the entire Epoch Battlefield.
• Experts from the Six Realms feared for the trapped fighters, while the Immortal Realm’s Second and Third Divine Generals celebrated their expected defeat.
• The King of Creation intensified the furnace’s refinement force and explained that he meant to turn the two fighters into the foundation for his advance to the emperor realm.
• Xiao Yan asked whether someone might be refining the King of Creation to forge an emperor foundation, causing him to recall his original refinement Dao and weakening the furnace’s power.

Xiao Yan’s warnings made the King of Creation fear that his true body was being targeted, weakening his focus in the battle. Zhuge Feng and the Black-Robed Man shattered the Heaven and Earth Furnace and wounded him, while his connection to his true body rapidly weakened.

• Xiao Yan provoked the King of Creation by suggesting that someone might use his true body to forge an Emperor Path.
• The King of Creation grew panicked and distracted as he thought about returning to protect his defenseless true body.
• Zhuge Feng enlarged the Sea-Calming Divine Needle Iron while the Black-Robed Man infused it with destructive power, and together they broke through the furnace roof.
• The Heaven and Earth Furnace exploded, and Zhuge Feng and the Black-Robed Man emerged to attack the King of Creation.
• The King of Creation blocked too slowly, was wounded by the Black-Robed Man, and sensed his connection to his true body weakening rapidly.

The King of Creation realized his true body was being refined while the Emperor Path Battlefield’s rules trapped him, and Xiao Yan’s taunts shattered his composure. After Zhuge Feng struck him down, the King of Creation conceded, helpless to stop his downfall.

• The King of Creation sensed his connection to his true body weakening and realized Xiao Yan had anticipated the attack on it.
• Xiao Yan explained that the First Divine General had maneuvered the King of Creation into the Emperor Path Battlefield, where he could not return to his true body.
• The King of Creation’s panic and fury spiraled as he failed to break through the battlefield boundary, while Demon King Asura recognized the trap.
• Zhuge Feng struck the distracted King of Creation with the Sea-Calming Divine Needle Iron, shattering his shoulder and sending him flying.
• The King of Creation called out Shi Wentian’s true name, then laughed and conceded.

The King of Creation conceded to Xiao Yan and asked to join the Human Realm because he feared the First Divine General would kill him after his true body was refined. Xiao Yan revealed that Shi Wentian had likely tampered with Di Cang’s body long ago, leaving the King of Creation to realize he had been manipulated and break down.

• The King of Creation conceded and asked Xiao Yan to let him join the Human Realm, shocking the Immortal Realm’s powerhouses.
• The Black-Robed Man understood that the King of Creation wanted protection from the First Divine General and believed the Human Realm was his only chance to survive.
• Xiao Yan questioned the King of Creation’s sudden request, then suggested that Shi Wentian had tampered with Di Cang’s body before the King possessed it.
• The King of Creation recalled disruptions in his Creation Force, the discord between his soul and body, and his unstable emotions.
• The King of Creation accused Shi Wentian of plotting against him, spat blood, and collapsed into despair as he realized he had been a pawn for ages.

The King of Creation was expelled from Di Cang’s body by Shi Wentian’s ancient plot, and the First Divine General awakened in his place. As the King of Creation’s soul faded, he remembered how he had once rescued and trained the youth who became Di Cang.

• Black lines spread across the King of Creation and forced his soul out of Di Cang’s body.
• Di Cang’s body awakened as the First Divine General, who greeted the King of Creation and identified Shi Wentian’s plan as dating back to when Creation first taught Di Cang the Dao.
• The King of Creation protested that he had trusted Shi Wentian, but his soul weakened as the black chains consumed it.
• The King of Creation recalled failing to enter the Emperor Realm and later finding a bloodied youth surrounded by cultivators.
• The King of Creation saved the youth, taught him to cultivate and fight, and traveled with him as their bond and trust grew.

The King of Creation recalled how he had raised the youth who became the First Divine General, only to learn that the youth had turned his lesson of never trusting anyone against him. As the King of Creation’s soul faded, he realized his own restraint had kept him from reaching the Emperor Realm.

• As a youth, the future First Divine General searched for the missing King of Creation, slaughtered his way through an underground force, and collapsed after finding no trace of him.
• The King of Creation returned and found the youth unconscious and wounded, then cared for him and later guided his cultivation.
• After the youth became an Immortal King, the King of Creation built the Ten-Thousand-Level Heavenly Ladder, and the youth reached its summit.
• The youth became the Ninth-Epoch King and later confronted the King of Creation through Di Cang, revealing that he had taken the lesson “Never trust anyone” to heart.
• As the First Divine General’s chains consumed him, the King of Creation realized he had failed to reach the Emperor Realm because he had refused to refine everyone in the Eternal Immortal Realm.

The King of Creation attained enlightenment in his final moments and passed his Creation Dao insights to the Black-Robed Man, hoping she would complete the path to the Emperor Realm. After his death, the Black-Robed Man began fusing creation and destruction into a perfect circle, forming a true Emperor Foundation.

• The King of Creation realized that creation and destruction were connected and entrusted his Creation Emperor Art and Dao fruit to the Black-Robed Man.
• The King of Creation's soul disintegrated into golden rain, and the experts of the Six Realms mourned his death and reflected on the difficulty of the Emperor Path.
• The Black-Robed Man's aura erupted as creation and destruction began to fuse within her.
• Demon King Asura recognized that both Emperor Arts had reached perfection within the Black-Robed Man, forming an Emperor Foundation.

The Black-Robed Man broke through to the Taboo realm during the Epoch Battlefield, winning the Demon World’s admiration even as her ascension eliminated it from the contest. The First Divine General then challenged the Human Realm’s prodigies, offering to face four of them at once.

• The Black-Robed Man endured the Taboo tribulation, using its lightning to temper herself before defeating its final strike with her two perfected Emperor Arts.
• The Black-Robed Man entered the Taboo realm and left the Epoch Battlefield, causing the Demon World to lose its eligibility.
• Demon King Asura celebrated the Black-Robed Man’s breakthrough and recognized that she could threaten even a veteran Ninth-Epoch Taboo King.
• The First Divine General, appearing through Di Cang’s body, said only the Human Realm and Immortal Realm remained in the Emperor Path Strife.
• The First Divine General invited the Human Realm to send four people to face him, saying he wanted to play with its young prodigies.

Xiao Yan exposed the First Divine General’s ambition and his real purpose for challenging four Human Realm prodigies. He accepted the challenge on the Human Realm’s behalf, and the First Divine General prepared to face them.

• The Six Realms’ powerhouses feared the First Divine General’s strength after he devoured the King of Creation’s true body and merged their eternal foundations.
• Xiao Yan questioned whether the First Divine General could truly handle four Human Realm fighters, while Zhuge Feng urged him to answer the challenge with battle.
• Xiao Yan told the First Divine General that his desire to claim the Emperor Path revealed the obsession at the heart of his Dao.
• Xiao Yan saw that the First Divine General wanted to study the four prodigies’ Emperor Arts and uncover the Human Realm’s hidden strength.
• Xiao Yan declared that the Human Realm accepted the challenge, and the First Divine General welcomed the coming fight.

Xiao Yan and Zhuge Feng withdrew from their challenge after revealing that the Human Realm would send someone else to face the First Divine General. Su Bai awakened beneath the Chaos Immortal Tree and prepared to enter the battlefield himself, matching his cultivation to the Five-Epoch Supreme Peak.

• Xiao Yan and Zhuge Feng stepped forward to fight the First Divine General, while Wu Wushuang briefly joined them before withdrawing after receiving a message.
• Xiao Yan explained that the Human Realm had another fighter to send, leaving the First Divine General and the other realms puzzled.
• Su Bai opened his eyes beneath the Chaos Immortal Tree, and the Human Realm's auspicious signs and Fortune surged around him.
• Su Bai recognized that the First Divine General was using Di Cang's body to exploit a loophole and force the Human Realm into a damaging choice.
• Su Bai used his Clone Technique to suppress his cultivation precisely to the Five-Epoch Supreme Peak and prepared to face the First Divine General.

Su Bai appeared on the Primordial Battlefield, where the Five Realms’ powerhouses could not understand why the Human Realm’s mysterious sect master seemed to be only at the Five-Epoch Supreme Peak. After the Human Realm’s leaders greeted him with reverence, Su Bai walked to the battlefield’s center and challenged the First Divine General.

• Su Bai arrived at the Primordial Battlefield and stood at the front of the Human Realm’s ranks, unsettling the other realms’ powerhouses with his unfathomable presence.
• The Black-Robed Man recognized Su Bai and sensed that he had advanced far beyond the strength she remembered from the Lower Realm.
• The Sword Lord, the Ice God, and the Human Realm’s other powerhouses bowed to Su Bai and addressed him as their sect master, revealing his identity as the Heavenly Dao Sect’s leader.
• Su Bai greeted the Five Realms and calmly answered the First Divine General’s questions about his identity.
• Su Bai walked to the center of the battlefield, where Heavenly Will allowed him to pass, then turned to the First Divine General and invited him to fight.

The First Divine General revealed the power of his Half-Step Emperor foundation and challenged Su Bai’s strength. Su Bai’s aura overwhelmed the gathered Taboo Kings despite his Five-Epoch Supreme Peak cultivation, and he offered Shi Wentian victory if he could withstand four moves, prompting the First Divine General to attack.

• The First Divine General unleashed the power of Di Cang’s physical foundation, and Demon King Asura judged that his true body had reached the Half-Step Emperor Realm.
• Su Bai released an aura that pressured the Taboo Kings, leaving the First Divine General uncertain about his true realm.
• Su Bai challenged Shi Wentian to withstand four moves to win.
• The First Divine General laughed, advanced toward Su Bai, and declared that even a young Emperor could only be suppressed by him.

The First Divine General attacked Su Bai with the Creation Dao, but Su Bai copied the technique and used a purer, more complete Creation Disk to shatter his. The First Divine General was injured and left wary as Su Bai declared that he had lost the first move, with three moves remaining.

• The First Divine General unleashed a Creation Disk, and the experts of the Six Realms marveled at his mastery of the Creation Dao.
• Su Bai said he had learned the Creation Dao by watching the First Divine General and formed a more complete Creation Disk of his own.
• Su Bai’s Creation Disk destroyed the First Divine General’s, sending him flying and drawing golden blood.
• The First Divine General regarded Su Bai with unprecedented wariness and asked who he was.
• Su Bai reminded the First Divine General that he was the sect master of the Human Realm’s Heavenly Dao Sect, then declared the first move his victory and three moves remained.