Chapter Summaries

Su Bai led the young geniuses into the Space-Time River to travel to the Primordial Era Epoch, while Xuanwei warned them not to alter history. As they journeyed upstream under Su Bai’s protection, they witnessed the legends and heroes whose deeds had illuminated countless past Epochs.

• Xuanwei warned Su Bai that interfering with major historical events could trigger catastrophic space-time backlash, and explained that he could not travel alongside his own counterpart from the Primordial Era.
• Su Bai assured Xuanwei that he understood the risks, then led the assembled crowd into the Space-Time River.
• Su Bai slowed their journey so his disciples could witness the power of time and observe the feats of ancient figures.
• The group saw imprints of extraordinary heroes, including a lightning-wielding man, a cultivator of nine Great Daos, and an Immortal Venerable woman who fought three Demon Shadows to her death.
• Yuan Heng reflected that every Epoch had its own blazing stars, as the travelers continued past images of legendary figures and vanished civilizations.

Su Bai and his companions entered the Primordial Era and arrived at Nangong Immortal City for a Banquet of Immortals, where young cultivators were invited to challenge Patriarch Nangong’s son. Su Bai sensed that the feast’s excitement was false and watched as an unassuming young man approached after hearing about the prize.

• Su Bai encouraged his companions to become the blazing suns of their own age before leading them through the Space-Time River into the Primordial Era.
• Yuan Heng and Zhouzhou sensed the era’s immense vitality, even as the group remembered that its Termination was approaching.
• Zhuge Feng learned that Nangong Immortal City was hosting a birthday banquet and a contest for young cultivators, so Xiao Yan led the group there.
• A middle-aged man announced that challengers below the Profound Immortal realm could fight Nangong’s son for a Nine-Aperture Divine Communion Pill and Patriarch Nangong’s personal guidance.
• Su Bai sensed that the banquet’s lively atmosphere was false, then noticed a clear-eyed young man approaching after hearing about the prize.

At Nangong Huang’s birthday gathering, Nangong Yun was presented as a peerless genius and invited others to challenge him. The Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect recognized that the tournament was a staged exhibition to make Nangong Yun famous.

• Nangong Huang introduced his son, Nangong Yun, claiming he had become a Heavenly Dao True Immortal at nine hundred ninety thousand years old.
• The Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect’s disciples doubted the guests’ exaggerated praise, while Su Bai suspected that the event was arranged for show.
• Nangong Yun announced he had mastered the Nine Heavens Cloud-Shifting Sword Art and invited the gathered cultivators to exchange moves with him.
• A young challenger deliberately pretended to be struck by Nangong Yun’s sword from afar and conceded, prompting the guests to cheer.
• Zhuge Feng, Xiao Lingxi, and the others realized the tournament was rigged and its participants were plants from the Nangong Clan.

Su Bai and the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect watched Nangong Yun defeat staged challengers before a seemingly ordinary young man asked to compete for the Nine-Aperture Divine Communion Pill. The young man knocked Nangong Yun unconscious with one slap, leaving the Nangong Household’s public contest in turmoil.

• Xiao Yan grew bored of Nangong Yun’s staged victories, but Su Bai told him to wait because real geniuses were present.
• Nangong Yun won one arranged match after another while Nangong Huang celebrated and hoped an envoy from Primordial Hall would notice him.
• A young man in coarse clothes asked to challenge Nangong Yun and repeatedly confirmed that he could claim the Nine-Aperture Divine Communion Pill if he won.
• Nangong Yun attacked the young man with Sword-Shadow Clones, but the young man stepped forward and slapped him into a stone pillar, knocking him unconscious.

Ah Hu defeated Nangong Yun and won the Nine-Aperture Divine Communion Pill, but Nangong Huang secretly swapped it and prepared to have his elders kill him. After Su Ming foresaw Ah Hu’s grim fate, Su Bai told his disciples they could intervene without triggering Spacetime Backlash.

• Ah Hu accidentally knocked Nangong Yun unconscious and repeatedly apologized, angering Nangong Huang and humiliating the Nangong Household.
• Nangong Huang gave Ah Hu the promised Nine-Aperture Divine Communion Pill, secretly swapping it before Ah Hu caught it.
• Nangong Huang tried to detain Ah Hu with an invitation, but Ah Hu refused and headed to leave the Dao Platform.
• Nangong Huang signaled several Nangong Household guest elders to target Ah Hu as the onlookers stayed silent.
• Gu Qingping praised Ah Hu’s extraordinary talent, while Su Ming warned that Ah Hu’s fate held a deadly trial.
• Su Bai told his disciples not to stand by, saying the Nangong Household could not trigger Spacetime Backlash.

Shi Huang confronted Nangong Huang over the Nangong Household’s cheating and demanded that Ah Hu receive the prize he had won. As the two faced off, Patriarch Nangong appeared and brought the gathering to its knees.

• Shi Huang publicly accused Nangong Huang of swapping Ah Hu’s pill and plotting a sneak attack.
• Shi Huang defended Ah Hu’s victory and challenged Nangong Huang or the Nangong Household’s fighters to face him.
• Ah Hu saw that his pill had lost its Dao Resonance and realized the Nangong Household had tampered with it.
• Nangong Huang tried to leave, but Shi Huang demanded that he hand over the pill.
• Patriarch Nangong emerged from Nangong Immortal City, and his pressure forced the guests to their knees.

Patriarch Nangong decided to kill Shi Huang and the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect after confirming he sensed no powerful protector among them. As he used Spacetime Rewind to erase the confrontation, he saw something that terrified him.

• Patriarch Nangong appeared at the Dao Platform and pressured the gathered guests into kneeling.
• Patriarch Nangong examined Shi Huang, Su Bai, and the others three times, finding no Immortal Venerable or hidden protector among them.
• Patriarch Nangong threatened to kill everyone from the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect and erase the evidence by reversing time.
• Patriarch Nangong activated Spacetime Rewind, sending the scene backward to just before Shi Huang stepped forward.
• Patriarch Nangong's mind froze when he saw a terrifying sight while preparing to kill the sect members.

Xiao Yan entered the Patriarch Nangong’s Time Domain and erased him after the Patriarch discovered that his time reversal could not affect the group. The resulting Spacetime Backlash targeted Shi Huang and Ah Hu, while a young man in distant seclusion sensed a possible variable in a future otherwise doomed to destruction.

• The Patriarch Nangong realized that the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect group remained unaffected by his Spacetime Reversal, and the lively-eyed girl froze his Time Domain with a gesture.
• Xiao Yan entered the domain, confronted the Patriarch Nangong over his past killings, and snapped his fingers to erase him.
• Nangong Huang discovered that the Patriarch Nangong had vanished and that their bloodline connection was severed, while the guests began to suspect the Immortal Venerable had died.
• Wu Wushuang and Su Bai recognized that Spacetime Backlash had been triggered by Shi Huang saving Ah Hu, and that it targeted Shi Huang and Ah Hu rather than Xiao Yan.
• A young man in distant seclusion sensed a new variable and identified it as the only chance against the future’s predetermined destruction.

Su Bai stopped the Spacetime Backlash and transformed Ah Hu’s Fate into a web of possibilities, while Patriarch Nangong’s fall left the Nangong Clan exposed to its enemies. As the clan’s destruction began, Su Bai reflected on the consequences of saving Ah Hu and wondered what Xuanwei’s role in bringing him to the Primordial Hall might mean.

• Su Bai halted the Spacetime Backlash, and Ah Hu’s Fate changed from a single path ending in death to countless possible futures.
• Nangong Huang realized Patriarch Nangong had fallen, surrendered the Nine-Aperture Divine Communion Pill to Ah Hu, and remained behind as the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect’s group departed.
• The group left Nangong Immortal City, and Ah Hu overcame his hesitation and followed them with the pill.
• With Patriarch Nangong gone, the Nangong Clan’s long-standing enemies launched a violent counterattack against Nangong Huang and the clan.
• The Grand Elder and Yuan Heng discussed how the clan’s destruction gave its victims a chance for revenge, while Su Bai considered karmic cause and effect and questioned Xuanwei’s intentions.

The group learned that Ah Hu had cultivated with a crude manual and instinctive talent, following his Chief Grandpa’s advice to seek the Primordial Hall. They traveled together toward a branch hall, and three months later arrived at a magnificent city bearing its name.

• Su Ling'er and Xiao Yan asked Ah Hu about his strength, and he showed them the crude manual he had used to train.
• Xiao Lingxi and Gu Qingping recognized that Ah Hu’s achievements with the disorganized manual revealed extraordinary talent.
• Ah Hu explained that his Chief Grandpa had sent him from the mountains to try for the Primordial Hall’s selection.
• Shi Huang offered to take Ah Hu along, and the group continued their journey together.
• Three months later, the group reached a grand city marked with the words “Primordial Palace Branch Hall!”

Yuan Heng and the others arrived at the Primordial Palace Branch Hall, where Ah Hu hoped to be chosen for the Primordial Hall. As renowned geniuses gathered for the Primordial Assembly, Qin Buhui asked Su Bai for permission to compete, and Su Bai urged him to fight without holding back.

• Yuan Heng marveled at the Primordial Palace Branch Hall while Ah Hu wondered if he could be chosen, and Shi Huang encouraged him.
• The group entered the bustling branch hall as geniuses from across the Heavenly Domain gathered for the Primordial Assembly.
• Fenjin, Fairy Qingyue, Tuoba Xiong, Zhuo Wuchen, and other famed young cultivators arrived, drawing attention with their reputations and displays of power.
• Xiao Yan admired the gathered geniuses, while Shi Huang wondered where the Immortal Lord Realm prodigies were; Gu Qingping explained they had likely advanced to the Primordial Grand Hall.
• Qin Buhui asked Su Bai to let him enter the competition and promised only to spar, and Su Bai told him to fight with everything he had.

Qin Buhui brought Ah Hu to register for the Primordial Assembly, where the vast gathering of prodigies and experts left Ah Hu awestruck. After they were mocked for their humble appearance and told that registration required a Primordial Token, Xiao Yan secretly arranged for the token in Qin Buhui's Storage Ring to vanish.

• Qin Buhui led Ah Hu and the others through the crowded Primordial Hall branch, and Ah Hu marveled at the prodigies and spectacle around him.
• Shi Huang encouraged Ah Hu to overcome his nervousness while the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect group remained calm.
• Qin Buhui joined the registration queue with Ah Hu as nearby geniuses scrutinized and mocked their plain appearance.
• A richly dressed young man insulted Ah Hu, and Qin Buhui retorted that he might be stronger than an embroidered pillow.
• The Primordial Hall elder explained that competitors needed a Primordial Token, and the people in line ridiculed Qin Buhui and Ah Hu for not knowing about it.
• Xiao Yan sent Qin Buhui a message through divine sense, and the Primordial Token in Qin Buhui's Storage Ring silently vanished.

Qin Buhui used genuine Primordial Hall Tokens to register himself and Ah Hu, then exposed the loss of two arrogant young masters’ tokens. After Xiao Yan effortlessly defeated their guards, the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect group left, and Fairy Qingyue arrived and reacted with astonishment upon seeing Su Bai.

• Qin Buhui presented his Primordial Hall Token and registered himself after the elder confirmed it was genuine.
• Qin Buhui used a second genuine token to register Ah Hu, silencing the young masters who had mocked him.
• The richly dressed young man and another brocade-robed young master discovered their tokens were missing, accused Qin Buhui, and ordered their guards to attack.
• Xiao Yan froze and blasted away all six Golden Immortal guards with a single step, then withdrew his aura when the elder warned that fighting was forbidden.
• The Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect group departed as Fairy Qingyue arrived, surveyed them, and stared at Su Bai in astonishment.

Fairy Qingyue saw that Su Bai and his companions possessed extraordinarily pure golden auras, while the Heavenly Dao seemed to revere Su Bai. As the Primordial branch hall tournament began, Deputy Hall Master Li Chen announced that the First Immortal King would personally accept each branch hall’s top genius as a disciple.

• Fairy Qingyue used her Eye of the Heavenly Dao to see the pure golden auras of Su Bai’s group and sensed the Heavenly Dao’s reverence toward Su Bai.
• More geniuses arrived in Primordial Immortal City as rumors spread about the tournament’s rewards and the First Immortal King’s attention.
• Ah Hu refined the Nine-Aperture Divine Communion Pill and improved his strength under Shi Huang, Xiao Yan, and the others’ guidance.
• The Primordial branch hall tournament opened before a crowd of billions at the Hundred-Battle Arena.
• Deputy Hall Master Li Chen announced that the last one hundred competitors would enter Primordial Grand Hall, then revealed that the First Immortal King would personally take each branch hall’s top genius as a disciple.

Hall Master Li Chen announced that the Talent Tournament's first-place winner would become the First Immortal King's personal disciple, sending the venue into a frenzy while Su Bai's group remained calm. The preliminary round then began under new rules: one hundred platforms would host melees until one competitor remained on each.

• Hall Master Li Chen announced that the tournament champion would become the First Immortal King's personal disciple, prompting Fenjin, Tuoba Xiong, Zhuo Wuchen, Fairy Qingyue, and other contestants to focus on winning.
• Fairy Qingyue noticed that Su Bai and the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect disciples showed little excitement about the chance to become the First Immortal King's disciple.
• Hall Master Li Chen started the tournament and revealed that the 107,643 participants would be assigned by lot to one of one hundred battle platforms.
• Hall Master Li Chen explained that cultivation would be suppressed to the first level of the True Immortal Realm and that each platform's final survivor would qualify for the Primordial Grand Hall and the tournament's top hundred.

The Primordial Hall’s free-for-all draw paired four leading prodigies against one another, prompting accusations that the tournament was rigged. Li Chen suppressed the protests and insisted the rules and draw were fair, while Shi Huang and Zhuge Feng reflected on how rare fairness was beyond the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect.

• The tournament organizers announced a free-for-all, and the draw placed Fairy Qingyue with Fenjin on stage seventy-three and Tuoba Xiong with Zhuo Wuchen on stage ninety-nine.
• The lord of Heaven-Burning Immortal City and Tuoba Xiong’s backer demanded an explanation from Vice Hall Master Li Chen, while Fairy Qingyue questioned the Primordial Hall’s righteousness.
• Li Chen used his Half-Step King pressure to silence the crowd and declared that the rules had been jointly decided, the Primordial Immortal Formation had made a fair draw, and anyone who objected could withdraw.
• Shi Huang and the others criticized the tournament’s rules and discussed how people without powerful factions had little chance to show their talent.
• Zhuge Feng recalled struggling to obtain resources as an unaffiliated cultivator and contrasted his hard-won pill with what powerful Households fed their dogs.

Su Bai’s disciples accepted that strength determined the tournament’s unfair rules as the contestants took their assigned arenas. Li Chen revealed that he had arranged a coordinated attack against the four peerless prodigies, and the hundred-arena melee began with all eyes on their battles.

• Qin Buhui advised Ah Hu to stay cautious and learn from the other contestants during the melee.
• More than a hundred thousand geniuses entered their assigned arenas, placing Fairy Qingyue and Fenjin together on Arena Seventy-Three and Tuoba Xiong and Zhuo Wuchen together on Arena Ninety-Nine.
• Li Chen told a trusted elder that his people would swarm the seeded contestants and eliminate the four great prodigies to improve his great-grandson’s chances.
• The third bell rang, and contestants across the hundred arenas launched into battle.
• Spectators focused on the arenas holding the four peerless prodigies as they faced the prospect of a combined attack.

The tournament crowds were incited to attack the peerless prodigies, but Fairy Qingyue, Fenjin, Zhuo Wuchen, and Tuoba Xiong easily fought back. On Platform Sixty-Six, Ah Hu revealed his strength by defeating a challenger, and Qin Buhui stepped forward as the crowd turned against him.

• Provocateurs urged the contestants to target Fairy Qingyue and Fenjin, who repelled the attacks with their powers.
• The contestants on Platform Ninety-Nine also attacked Zhuo Wuchen and Tuoba Xiong, but the two prodigies fought them off.
• A blue-robed youth attacked Ah Hu, and Ah Hu broke his arm with a single punch.
• The contestants surrounded Ah Hu, drawing attention to his strength and leaving him at risk of being overwhelmed.
• Qin Buhui challenged everyone on Platform Sixty-Six to attack him together, claiming they would win if they made him use both hands.

Qin Buhui challenged the thousand geniuses on Arena Number Sixty-Six to attack him at once while he fought with one hand. After effortlessly defeating the first attackers with a single finger, he called for the remaining geniuses to attack together.

• Qin Buhui declared that all thousand geniuses could attack him together and that he would use only one hand.
• A burly genius charged Qin Buhui, who dodged his grab and sent him flying off the arena with one finger.
• The black-clad young man, the seductive female cultivator, and several others attacked Qin Buhui together, but he swiftly eliminated them all.
• Powerhouses began noticing Qin Buhui's relaxed display of strength as he saw Ah Hu drawing attention too.
• Qin Buhui addressed the remaining geniuses and urged them to attack together without wasting time.

Qin Buhui faced a united assault from nearly a thousand contestants on Arena No. 66 and effortlessly defeated them with one hand. His performance eclipsed the four great prodigies, and Deputy Hall Master Li Chen threatened to destroy Qin Buhui and the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect if he won first place.

• The contestants on Arena No. 66 joined forces and launched a massive attack against Qin Buhui.
• Qin Buhui used his Extreme-Speed Domain and one hand to evade attacks and send opponent after opponent off the arena.
• Spectators and contestants turned their attention to Qin Buhui as the four great prodigies showed signs of fatigue in their battles.
• Fenjin, Fairy Qingyue, Tuoba Xiong, and Zhuo Wuchen reacted with shock to Qin Buhui's overwhelming strength.
• Deputy Hall Master Li Chen ordered that Qin Buhui and the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect be reduced to ashes if Qin Buhui took first place.