Vol. 13The Human Realm Ascendant

The Human Realm won the arena showdown, forged a new Emperor Art, and entered the Emperor Path Strife as an independent power. It defeated the Celestial Court in the First Heaven, leaving the Human Realm victorious as the other realms watched.

  • The King of Creation rewarded the fourteen Human Realm disciples who tied for first on the Heavenly Ladder, while Di Cang finished fifteenth.
  • Su Bai accepted the Blood Moon, Golden, and Purple factions’ allegiance, and the Human Realm’s forces later defeated Di Cang in the arena showdown.
  • Xiao Yan defeated Di Cang, and Xiao Lingxi beat Xuan Qingyi with the Sword of Fate to give the Human Realm its first two match wins.
  • Wu Wushuang defeated Di Cang with Dao Source, creating a new Emperor Art that drew attention across the Five Eternal Realms.
  • Han Feiyu revealed himself as Wu Wushuang and defeated Di Cang with the Human Way, establishing the Human Realm as a rising power.
  • Su Bai led the Human Realm into the Six Realms War, and the Gate of the Ascending Path opened for its Emperor Path challenge.
  • He Ping'an led the Human Realm’s disciples to rout the Celestial Court’s army with coordinated formations and the Sword of Heavenly Dao.
  • The Divine Spear Saint Emperor killed the Fourth Divine General and secured the Human Realm’s victory in the First Heaven.
Chapters 1201–1300 Read from ch. 1201

Arc 49The Arena Showdown

After the Human Realm’s disciples conquered the Heavenly Ladder, Su Bai’s realm gained allies and stood against the Celestial Court. At the final tournament, Xiao Yan defeated Di Cang’s spear techniques and began overcoming his Heaven’s Sin Blade with a newly created fifteenth spear.

  • The King of Creation rewarded the fourteen Human Realm disciples, who tied for first on the Heavenly Ladder as Di Cang finished fifteenth.
  • Su Bai accepted the Blood Moon, Golden, and Purple factions’ allegiance after they agreed to destroy the powers that had ambushed Human Realm disciples, then brought visitors back to the Human Realm, where an Emperor’s presence became public.
  • The Blood Moon, Golden, and Purple factions attacked the Blood Sword Immortal Dynasty, Nine Nether Immortal Sect, and Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple, while three Human Realm Sacred Emperors blocked the Celestial Court’s forces and the Celestial Court withdrew.
  • Over the next hundred years, the fourteen disciples absorbed the King of Creation’s power, and many factions joined the Human Realm before its fighters and supporters gathered at the Heaven’s Pride Battlefield.
  • At the arena tournament, Zhang Goudan defeated Chen Yu with his rake, while several challengers forfeited and the Little War King conceded to Steel Pillar.
  • The Fifth Divine General arranged a best-three-out-of-five showdown between the Human Realm and Celestial Court, and Xiao Yan introduced himself to Di Cang as Chen Fan.
  • Xiao Yan overwhelmed Di Cang’s spear attacks with the Heavenly Dao Thirteen Spears and pierced him with his Fourteenth Spear, while Di Cang demanded a chance to fight Wu Wushuang.
  • Di Cang brought out the Heaven’s Sin Blade and attacked with its forms, but Xiao Yan countered them with Endless Renewal and an eternal-intent spear, then revealed he had created a Fifteenth Spear.
Chapters 1201–1225 Summaries Read

Arc 50The Sword of Fate and Dao Source

Xiao Yan and Xiao Lingxi won the Human Realm’s first two matches, and Wu Wushuang defeated Di Cang by creating a Nascent Emperor Art. The new art drew attention across the Five Eternal Realms as the Five Realms War approached.

  • Xiao Yan defeated Di Cang with his Ultimate Flame, and the Human Realm claimed the first match.
  • Xiao Lingxi broke Xuan Qingyi’s formations and defeated her with the Sword of Fate, while Xuan Qingyi accepted the loss and resolved to find her own path.
  • Di Cang challenged Wu Wushuang, but Wu Wushuang entered the arena under Jiuyue’s name and overwhelmed him with All Beings Blade Intent.
  • Di Cang fused the Seven Forms of Heaven’s Sin into Heaven’s Sin Finality, but Wu Wushuang answered with Dao Source and created a new Emperor Art.
  • The new Emperor Art drew notice from powerful figures throughout the Five Eternal Realms, who recognized Wu Wushuang as a potential threat or rival.
  • Wu Wushuang’s Dao Source shattered Di Cang’s Heaven’s Sin Finality and defeated him, leaving Di Cang to realize he had lost again to an unknown Human Realm prodigy.
Chapters 1226–1250 Summaries Read

Arc 51The Human Realm’s Emperor Path

After Han Feiyu’s Human Way annihilated Di Cang, the Human Realm grew powerful enough to stand apart from the Eternal Immortal Realm. When the Emperor Path Strife began, Su Bai led the Human Realm into the Six Realms War and challenged the powers gathered at the Ascension Road.

  • Wu Wushuang defeated Di Cang, but Di Cang broke through in his madness and challenged the Human Realm’s strongest cultivators.
  • Han Feiyu revealed his identity as Wu Wushuang, summoned clones bearing the Human Realm’s Daos, and defeated Di Cang with the Human Way.
  • The Human Realm celebrated while the Celestial Court held back, and the First Divine General recognized the threat posed by its growing strength.
  • Over the following centuries, Wu Wushuang and the Human Realm’s prodigies advanced into the Epoch King ranks and forged Nascent Emperor Arts.
  • The Primordial Battlefield opened, and the Demon, Ghost, God, and Devil realms gathered to fight for the Emperor’s Throne as Su Bai completed his comprehension and reached the Nine-Epoch Supreme Peak.
  • Su Bai declared that the Human Realm would join the Six Realms War in its own name, while the Ice God, Sword Lord, and many Eternal Immortal Realm factions pledged to fight alongside it.
  • The Celestial Court finally marched to the battlefield, and Su Bai appeared above the Chaos Immortal Tree to declare that the Human Realm accepted the battle for the Emperor Path.
  • The Myriad Realms Heavenly Dao approved the Human Realm’s participation, and the Gate of the Ascending Path opened.
Chapters 1251–1275 Summaries Read

Arc 52The First Heaven War

The Human Realm entered the Emperor Path Strife outnumbered, but He Ping'an’s battle formations destroyed the Celestial Court’s army and secured victory. The Divine Spear Saint Emperor then defeated the Fourth Divine General and the other Celestial Court Taboo Kings, leaving the Human Realm ascendant as the remaining realms watched.

  • The Heavenly Dao announced that the six realms would fight in the First Heaven, and the four realms sent overwhelming forces while Su Bai prepared the Human Realm’s disciples for battle.
  • He Ping'an led one trillion Human Realm disciples into the First Heaven and accepted the Celestial Court’s challenge to fight without interference from the other realms, with the Fourth Divine General and Divine Spear Saint Emperor wagering their lives.
  • After the armies clashed across the battlefield, the Celestial Court encircled the Human Realm’s disciples, but He Ping'an’s formations coordinated to rout its first charge and kill fifty trillion soldiers.
  • He Ping'an joined the disciples’ strength into the Sword of Heavenly Dao, which shattered the Celestial Court’s Heavenly Net Formation and sent its army into a rout.
  • He Ping'an killed Jintong, and the Human Realm wiped out the remaining Celestial Court soldiers three months later, while Heaven’s Will Blade weakened the Eternal Immortal Realm.
  • The Fourth Divine General refused to honor his wager, so the Divine Spear Saint Emperor fought the Celestial Court’s Taboo Kings, killing the Seventh Divine General and driving the others to flee.
  • The Divine Spear Saint Emperor used Emperor Art to freeze space-time and kill the Fourth Divine General, severing his connection to the great dao and securing the Human Realm’s victory.
Chapters 1276–1300 Summaries Read
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