Chapter Summaries

Zhuge Feng confronted the Twin Heavenly Kings, who mocked his youth and threatened the Heavenly Dao Sect. He swept his golden staff through their combined attack and killed them with one strike.

• The crowd was stunned to learn that twenty-two-year-old Zhuge Feng had reached Eightfold Nascent Soul, and he rebuked the Twin Heavenly Kings for relying on their age to challenge him.
• Zhuge Feng taunted the Twin Heavenly Kings, while spectators praised him and pointed out that Jian Feng had been defeated by a disciple.
• The Twin Heavenly Kings unleashed their red and blue auras, threatened Zhuge Feng, and attacked together with flames and freezing yin energy.
• Zhuge Feng raised his golden iron staff and swept it once, shattering their attack and killing the Twin Heavenly Kings.

Zhuge Feng defeated the Twin Heavenly Kings with one staff strike, prompting them to fuse and unleash a powerful ice-and-fire attack. He shattered their ultimate technique and knocked them into the arena, leaving the Twin Heavenly Kings defeated.

• Zhuge Feng knocked the Twin Heavenly Kings down with a single staff strike, stunning the audience and referees.
• The Twin Heavenly Kings accused Zhuge Feng of using a forbidden technique and fused into a winged, four-armed figure that reached the Third-Level Spirit Transformation Realm.
• The fused Twin Heavenly Kings attacked Zhuge Feng with their Ice-Fire Wheel.
• Zhuge Feng activated his Battle Saint Physique and smashed the ice-and-fire sphere with his golden iron staff.
• Zhuge Feng struck the Twin Heavenly Kings into the arena, where they crashed into a huge hole and fell.

Mu Lingxian won the ninth round for the Heavenly Dao Sect with Spatial Power, bringing the sect within one victory of sweeping the contest. The Heavenly Palace then summoned Venerable Wutian, who shattered the void and appeared as its hidden trump card.

• The Heavenly Dao Sect celebrated after Zhuge Feng killed the Twin Heavenly Kings, leaving the Heavenly Palace with all four Heavenly Kings defeated.
• Mu Lingxian entered the ninth round while the Heavenly Palace disciples panicked and its elder ordered one of them to stall for time.
• The Heavenly Palace disciple was sent into the arena and faced Mu Lingxian as the ninth match began.
• Mu Lingxian trapped her opponent with Spatial Power and secured the Heavenly Dao Sect's ninth victory.
• The Dao Heaven Sect elder announced that the Heavenly Palace still had a decisive hidden move, then knelt to welcome Venerable Wutian.
• Venerable Wutian shattered the void and remarked that he had been rebuilding through possession for decades and had not expected to join a disciple battle.

Venerable Wutian appeared in Wu Di’s youthful body, revealing that he had possessed his own son to reclaim his strength. When Wutian attacked the gathered crowd, Venerable Xuan Ba intervened, and onlookers praised the Heavenly Dao Sect while invoking Su Bai’s call for the Heavenly Venerable to die.

• Venerable Wutian emerged from a black hole, and the Heavenly Palace’s followers bowed to him.
• The crowd recognized his youthful body as Wu Di, his exceptionally talented biological son, and realized Wutian had possessed him.
• Venerable Wutian defended his actions, declaring that he had fathered many descendants while waiting for a worthy heir whose life he could claim.
• Venerable Wutian shattered the void and unleashed pressure across the arena, threatening to slaughter everyone present.
• Venerable Xuan Ba of the Heavenly Dao Sect blocked Wutian’s attack, prompting the crowd to praise his intervention and repeat Su Bai’s call for the Heavenly Venerable to die.

Venerable Wutian confronted Venerable Xuan Ba, who blocked his attack despite Wutian’s reduced cultivation. After berating and killing a Dao Heaven Sect elder, Wutian destroyed the arena and declared that the Heavenly Dao Sect would face his wrath, while the onlookers condemned his shameless participation in the youth battle.

• Venerable Wutian attacked Venerable Xuan Ba, but Xuan Ba met his fist and pointed out that Wutian had only recently returned to the Void Refinement Realm.
• Venerable Wutian scolded the Dao Heaven Sect disciples for losing to the Heavenly Dao Sect, and killed an elder who tried to explain their opponents’ unusual strength.
• The remaining Dao Heaven Sect disciples stayed silent and flattered Venerable Wutian, who announced that the Heavenly Dao Sect would face his wrath.
• Venerable Wutian walked into the arena and shattered it with his final step, forcing the protective barriers around Sacred Ruins City to contain the damage.
• Onlookers and Dao Heaven Sect disciples whispered that Venerable Wutian was shameless for entering a battle restricted to youths despite being nearly ten thousand years old.

Venerable Wutian exploited the Immortal Alliance Assembly’s bone-age rule to qualify as a Heavenly Palace disciple and challenged the Heavenly Dao Sect’s remaining disciples to fight him together. As the crowd feared for the sect, Su Bai walked onto the arena, clapping.

• Venerable Xuan Ba challenged Venerable Wutian’s right to compete, but Venerable Wutian argued that the rules set no soul-age limit.
• Venerable Wutian used the testing stone tablet to show that Wu Di’s bone age was ninety-nine and claimed he was qualified to fight.
• Venerable Wutian flew above the arena and challenged all ten remaining Heavenly Dao Sect disciples to a life-and-death fight.
• The crowd despaired over the Heavenly Dao Sect’s prospects against Venerable Wutian.
• Su Bai clapped and walked onto the arena.

Su Bai entered the Life and Death Disciple Battle as the Heavenly Dao Sect’s participant and challenged the assumption that he was too old to qualify. The testing stele revealed his bone age was twenty-two, but his cultivation remained unknown.

• Su Bai arrived at the arena and confirmed that he would represent the Heavenly Dao Sect in the duel against Venerable Wutian.
• Su Bai asked Nameless to seal the arena, then declared that he was human and therefore the Heavenly Dao Sect’s participant.
• Red Moon Venerable mocked Su Bai’s claim and swore a Heavenly Dao Oath that Su Bai was over one hundred years old.
• Su Bai placed his hand on the testing stele, which displayed his bone age as twenty-two and his cultivation as unknown.

Su Bai’s test revealed that he was a twenty-two-year-old Invincible Heavenly Venerable, shocking the crowd and enraging Red Moon Venerable. Su Bai challenged Heavenly Palace’s attempt to exclude him from the Disciple Battle, and the spectators turned against Heavenly Palace.

• The testing stele recorded Su Bai’s age as twenty-two before shattering under his power.
• The assembled cultivators marveled at Su Bai’s age and Heavenly Venerable cultivation, while Red Moon Venerable called the result fake.
• Su Bai pointed out that Heavenly Palace had witnessed the test and asked whether he could join the Disciple Battle.
• Red Moon Venerable argued that Su Bai should enter a higher battle instead of bullying weaker contestants.
• Su Bai reminded the crowd that Heavenly Palace had sent a ten-thousand-year-old cultivator into the Disciple Battle, and the spectators shouted against Heavenly Palace.

Su Bai forced the Heavenly Palace referee to begin the tenth Life and Death duel, then killed Venerable Wutian with overwhelming ease. The crowd rallied behind Su Bai and the Heavenly Dao Sect, with some sects declaring they would oppose the Heavenly Palace or leave the Immortal Alliance.

• Su Bai used the rules Venerable Wutian had cited to justify his own participation in the Disciple Battle, and the referee announced the duel.
• Venerable Wutian tried to withdraw, but Nameless had sealed the arena, leaving him trapped with Su Bai.
• Venerable Wutian attacked Su Bai, who shattered his assault and crushed his body with a giant hand.
• Venerable Wutian's divine soul tried to flee and threatened the Heavenly Dao Sect, but Su Bai crushed and obliterated it.
• Cultivators praised Su Bai, and representatives of the Heavenly Spirit Sect and other groups pledged support against the Heavenly Palace or prepared to leave the Immortal Alliance.

Su Bai led the Heavenly Dao Sect to a clean sweep of the Heavenly Palace’s disciple battles, forcing Red Moon Venerable to concede. After Red Moon fled, Nameless pursued him, while Su Bai turned his attention to the four divine beasts.

• The referee announced Su Bai’s victory over Venerable Wutian, completing the Heavenly Dao Sect’s ten wins in ten battles.
• The plaza celebrated the Heavenly Dao Sect’s triumph as Red Moon Venerable recognized the threat posed by its strength and future potential.
• Su Bai challenged Red Moon Venerable to continue with the Core Battle or Pinnacle Battle, and Red Moon conceded on the Heavenly Palace’s behalf.
• Su Bai reminded Red Moon of his earlier insult, but Red Moon shattered the void and fled rather than let Su Bai retaliate.
• Nameless pursued Red Moon with a sword strike while Su Bai turned his gaze toward Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, Qilin, and Bai Ze.

After the Heavenly Dao Sect won first place at the Southern Mystic Province Immortal Alliance Assembly, Su Bai gained new abilities and upgraded the sect to five stars. He accepted missions to claim five of the Nine Provinces and gain the allegiance of three Heavenly Venerable factions, while the Heavenly Palace discovered its sixth Immortal Cauldron had been replaced.

• The Fire Qilin welcomed four divine beasts as underlings, and Nameless emerged from a Void Rift after brutally defeating Red Moon Venerable.
• The Heavenly Palace referee announced the Heavenly Dao Sect as first place, completing Su Bai’s mission and awarding him the Supreme Divine Ability Second True Self.
• A month later, the Heavenly Dao Sect had 3.61 million disciples, Su Bai had reached the Integration Grand Venerable Realm, and the sect upgraded to five stars.
• Su Bai opened the six-star upgrade missions, which required the sect to seize at least five provincial territories and gain the allegiance of three Heavenly Venerable-level factions.
• At Heaven Beyond Heaven, the Heavenly Palace’s sixth Immortal Cauldron crumbled to ashes when the Heavenly Venerables tried to work on it.

Su Bai upgraded the Heavenly Dao Sect to five stars, transforming Heavenly Dao Mountain and expanding its facilities. He then brought the disciples to the new Inheritance Pavilion, where each confronted a phantom expert and reflected on why they cultivated immortality.

• Su Bai's upgrade tripled Heavenly Dao Mountain's height, expanded its area more than tenfold, and gave the sect new spirit veins and buildings.
• Su Bai placed dozens of Sub-Teleportation Arrays across the mountain to help disciples travel between its expanded facilities.
• Su Bai introduced the Inheritance Pavilion, explaining that each disciple could learn one ultimate art from a phantom expert chosen for them.
• The disciples entered separate visions within the pavilion and were each asked why they cultivated immortality.
• Zhuge Feng said he first sought revenge for his parents and now cultivated to repay Su Bai's kindness, while Xiao Lingxi, Xiao Yan, Ye Qingyao, Mu Lingxian, Han Feiyu, Zhao Tianlong, and Chen Hao gave their own reasons.

Su Bai watched his disciples choose inheritances from their respective seniors, each suited to their goals and abilities. Han Feiyu rejected every technique offered because none could grant immortality or prove eternity, and the chapter left him still questioning the blurry figure.

• Zhuge Feng chose to learn the Seventy-Two Transformations, while Xiao Lingxi received the Ask the Immortal sword technique.
• Xiao Yan chose the art of alchemy, and Ye Qingyao chose the art of transformation so she could become immortal and wait for her older sister.
• Mu Lingxian learned that she could control her dangerous physique, while Zhao Tianlong and Chen Hao chose the Dao of Righteous Qi and the Dao of Protection.
• Han Feiyu rejected meditation, cloud-riding, and earth-escaping techniques because they could not grant immortality.
• Han Feiyu asked whether the art of harmonizing the five elements could prove eternity, leaving the blurry figure and Su Bai speechless.

Heavenly Palace began refining the continent with five Immortal Cauldrons after discovering that four had been stolen. Su Bai recognized the threat, while Heavenly Palace announced that it would ascend within a hundred years and offered protection to those who joined it.

• Heavenly Venerables discovered that four unfinished Immortal Cauldrons were fake, and one of them killed the two guards in anger.
• The Heaven Lord ordered Heavenly Palace to begin refining the continent while searching for the missing cauldrons.
• Five Immortal Cauldrons appeared over the provincial regions and released pressure that made cultivators slow down and buildings collapse.
• Su Bai realized Heavenly Palace was trying to refine the continent and noted that the stolen cauldrons had spared the Four Mystic Provinces from greater devastation.
• The Ninth Heavenly Venerable announced that Heavenly Palace would ascend within a hundred years and promised to protect those who came to it.

The Heavenly Palace promised that its entire sect would ascend within a hundred years, drawing cultivators from across the continent while its Immortal Cauldrons increased gravity and threatened billions of mortals. Su Bai realized he could not destroy the cauldrons in time to save them, leaving the Four Mystic Provinces facing mass death.

• The Heavenly Palace announced that anyone who joined it could ascend with the sect within a hundred years, and cultivators rushed toward it.
• Su Bai saw that the five Immortal Cauldrons were increasing gravity across the continent and killing ordinary people, especially the vulnerable.
• Countless people grieved and protested that they only wanted to live humbly and protect their families.
• Su Bai said the Unbeatable Domain protected only a tiny fraction of the Four Mystic Provinces' people.
• Nameless warned Su Bai that the cauldrons were guarded by powerful Heavenly Venerables and would be extremely difficult to destroy.
• Su Bai realized he needed at least three years to reach the Heavenly Venerable realm, but billions could die long before then.

Su Bai summoned Heavenly Dao Sect and its allies to discuss the continent’s collapse under Heavenly Palace’s five cauldrons. After showing the crowd the suffering and lawlessness in the Four Mystic Provinces, he declared that he would act to help the Human Race.

• Su Bai called together Heavenly Dao Sect, its allied factions, the divine beasts, and other leaders.
• The assembled cultivators condemned Heavenly Palace’s supposed ascension and called for Su Bai to order an attack.
• Su Bai projected scenes of chaos in the Four Mystic Provinces, where scarcity and impending death had driven people to violence and disorder.
• Su Bai said that, as a member of the Human Race, he could not stand by while its people suffered and vowed to help them.

Su Bai rallied the Human Race and the Heavenly Dao Sect to fight the Heavenly Palace, then killed a Heavenly Palace Heavenly Venerable with one sword and declared war. The Heavenly Palace's remaining Heavenly Venerables watched warily but still disdained the challenge.

• Su Bai urged the Human Race to unite against the Heavenly Palace, and disciples and elders shouted their support.
• A Heavenly Palace Heavenly Venerable attacked the Heavenly Dao Sect with a giant hand.
• Su Bai cut through the giant hand and killed the attacker with a single sword strike.
• Su Bai declared that the Heavenly Dao Sect would act in Heaven's stead and protect the Human Race, and the disciples answered with a battle cry.
• The remaining Heavenly Palace Heavenly Venerables observed Su Bai without attacking, wary of his strength but dismissive of the threat.

The Heavenly Palace launched an invasion of the Four Mystic Provinces and ordered its disciples to kill everyone there. Su Bai mobilized the Heavenly Dao Sect to defend the provinces and prepared to march north.

• A Heavenly Venerable ordered the Heavenly Palace disciples to invade the Four Mystic Provinces and leave no survivors.
• Su Bai ordered Zhuge Feng and Zhao Tianlong to lead one million disciples to the Northern Mystic Province, supported by Venerable Xuan Ba, Little Fire, and Little White.
• Su Bai sent Xiao Lingxi and Mu Lingxian with one million disciples to the Western Mystic Province, alongside Elysium Ancestor, Little Azure, and Little Vermilion.
• Su Bai deployed Xiao Yan and Ye Qingyao with one million disciples to the Eastern Mystic Province, while the Heaven-Dominating Sect helped protect its people.
• Su Bai assigned Han Feiyu and Chen Hao to defend the Southern Mystic Province with the remaining disciples and opened Teleportation Arrays to speed the deployments.
• Su Bai called for the Heavenly Dao Sect to march north as its forces set out to protect the Four Mystic Provinces.

Zhuge Feng led a million Heavenly Dao Sect disciples into the Northern Mystic Province, splitting them between relief and attacks on local threats while he targeted the Northern Nether Sect’s teleportation array. Meanwhile, the Heavenly Palace struggled to organize its invasion forces, and the Heavenly Dao Sect’s disciples arrived before them.

• Zhuge Feng sent Zhao Tianlong and five hundred thousand disciples to suppress bandits and oppressive sects and distribute food to disaster victims.
• Zhuge Feng announced that he would attack the Northern Nether Sect because its super teleportation array could be used by the Heavenly Palace’s invading forces.
• Zhao Tianlong divided his army into five thousand organized squads and sent them across the Northern Mystic Province.
• Several million Heavenly Palace forces argued over which Mystic Province to invade until a Heavenly Venerable assigned them to four groups.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect’s disciples reached the scene while the Heavenly Palace’s forces were still being organized.

Zhuge Feng and the other Heavenly Dao Sect leaders prepared the four Mystic Provinces for the Heavenly Palace invasion, destroying or guarding teleportation routes and positioning their forces. Zhuge Feng’s army waited at the Northern Nether Sect with a massive formation ready, as the Heavenly Palace had yet to arrive.

• Zhuge Feng asked Venerable Xuan Ba to destroy the thirty-two teleportation arrays across Northern Mystic Province so the Heavenly Dao Sect could concentrate its forces.
• Zhuge Feng led five hundred thousand disciples to the Northern Nether Sect to await the Heavenly Palace army.
• Mu Lingxian sent disciples to clear bandits across Western Mystic Province, while Xiao Lingxi led another five hundred thousand to wait at the Sandstorm Sect.
• Ye Qingyao and Xiao Yan divided Eastern Mystic Province’s forces between clearing dangerous groups and guarding the Heavenly Thunder Sect, while Chen Hao and Han Feiyu organized Southern Mystic Province’s defenses.
• Zhuge Feng arranged a super combination formation and additional defensive and sealing formations around the Northern Nether Sect’s teleportation array, then waited with the Fire Qilin and White Tiger.