Chapter Summaries

Su Bai explained that the Road to Heaven sealed the Heavenly Dao and Throne, allowing the Heaven Gate to control who could become a King. He shattered the Road to Heaven, breaking the seal and opening the path to the Throne for all living beings across the Ninefold Firmament.

• Su Bai reached the severed Road to Heaven and revealed that it suppressed the Ninth Heaven Realm, the Heavenly Dao, and the Throne.
• Su Bai and Yun Zhongtian explained that the Heaven Gate controlled King ascension, forcing later would-be Kings to submit or remain Half-Step Kings.
• Yun Xuan worried about her father, and Su Bai reassured her that he would be fine.
• Su Bai struck the Road to Heaven with his palm and shattered it, breaking the Heavenly Dao's seal and freeing the Throne.
• Yun Zhongtian bowed to Su Bai, and people across the Ninefold Firmament cheered as the shackles that had suppressed them for ten billion years broke.

After Su Bai shattered the Road to Heaven and the Heavenly Dao seal, more than a hundred Peak Half-Step Kings in the First Layer began their Immortal King Tribulations. Heaven Gate vowed to kill them, while Su Bai prepared his disciples and elders in the Second Layer to become Kings and fight Heaven Gate.

• Su Bai looked toward Heaven Gate's headquarters in the First Layer and said he would wait a little longer before facing its powerful beings.
• The broken seal freed countless First Layer cultivators from Heaven Gate's restrictions and let them attempt to become Kings.
• A Peak Half-Step King in the east, a city lord in the south, and a gaunt old man in the west each triggered an Immortal King Tribulation.
• More than a hundred Peak Half-Step Kings across the First Layer began tribulation at once, covering the skies with clouds and lightning.
• Heaven Gate's leaders erupted in anger and ordered their forces to kill every tribulation transcender.
• Su Bai told Jiuyue, Zhuge Feng, the other personal disciples, Nameless, Tianzhu, Situ Chen, and Yu Yan to prepare for tribulation and battle Heaven Gate after becoming Kings.

Jiuyue, Zhuge Feng, fourteen other personal disciples, and four great elders triggered eighteen heaven-defying Immortal King Tribulations across the Second Layer. Their overwhelming tribulations shocked the Half-Step Kings in the First Layer, who recognized Su Bai’s followers as peerless prodigies and saw Heaven Gate’s challenge as an opportunity.

• Jiuyue stepped into her tribulation clouds as violet Purple Firmament Heavenly Thunder appeared above her.
• Zhuge Feng and the other personal disciples entered their tribulations one after another, each facing power far beyond an ordinary Immortal King Tribulation.
• Nameless, Tianzhu, Situ Chen, and Yu Yan entered a vast Thunder Pool as their tribulations joined the disciples’ in shaking the universe.
• More than one hundred Half-Step Kings undergoing tribulation in the First Layer stopped to stare at the eighteen immense tribulations spreading from the Second Layer.
• A white-haired old man, a middle-aged man, and a gaunt old man marveled at the prodigies and concluded that Heaven Gate had challenged a formidable force.

Heaven Gate’s Immortal Kings charged toward the Second Layer to stop eighteen prodigies from completing their tribulations, while some First Layer tribulation-crossers joined the advance. Su Bai and five Immortal Kings stood ready as the attackers arrived.

• The First Layer’s tribulation-crossers and Heaven Gate’s Immortal Kings saw the eighteen Peerless Immortal King Tribulations and recognized the threat the prodigies posed.
• A Peerless Immortal King of Heaven Gate ordered an attack, and more than a hundred Heaven Gate Immortal Kings surged toward the Second Layer.
• The First Layer’s tribulation-crossers reacted to Heaven Gate’s advance; the gaunt old man and some others followed, while most stayed behind and accelerated their tribulations.
• Su Bai watched the Heaven Gate Immortal Kings approach, and Xuanwei, Yuan Heng, Wan Ying, the Grand Elder, and Yun Zhongtian appeared beside him.

As Heaven Gate’s 106 Immortal Kings attacked, Su Bai urged Yun Zhongtian to fight for a chance to reach the Peerless King Realm while Xuanwei revealed power approaching the Epoch King Realm. The battle spread across the heavens, and just as Heaven Gate’s remaining Kings targeted the eighteen people undergoing tribulation, twenty more Immortal Kings arrived to aid them.

• Su Bai counted Heaven Gate’s forces and encouraged Yun Zhongtian to fight, prompting Yun Zhongtian to charge into battle.
• Xuanwei unleashed an aura half a step from the Epoch King Realm and forced back twenty Immortal Kings, including Heaven Gate’s three Peerless Kings.
• The Grand Elder, Yuan Heng, Wan Ying, and Yun Zhongtian each engaged five Heaven Gate Immortal Kings.
• Heaven Gate’s remaining fifty-six Immortal Kings charged toward the eighteen people undergoing tribulation, intent on killing them.
• Twenty figures wrapped in Immortal King Tribulations arrived and charged at Heaven Gate’s Kings.

Twenty tribulation transcenders joined the Heavenly Dao Sect’s fight, holding back ten Heaven Gate Immortal Kings while the remaining forty-six confronted Su Bai. Su Bai revealed that he had waited so the eighteen disciples undergoing tribulation could consecrate their Thrones with the Immortal Kings’ blood, and Zhuge Feng, Xiao Yan, and the others stepped forward to fight.

• Twenty tribulation transcenders charged the Heaven Gate’s ten Immortal Kings, using their Immortal King Tribulations to prevent them from attacking at full strength.
• Su Bai thanked the twenty fighters, who committed themselves to the battle, while tribulation transcenders on the First Layer mocked them and stayed out of the fight.
• Forty-six Heaven Gate Immortal Kings approached the eighteen Heavenly Dao Sect members undergoing tribulation, but Su Bai stepped in front of them.
• Su Bai identified himself as the Heavenly Dao Sect’s Sect Master and told the Immortal Kings he had waited so his disciples could use their blood to consecrate their Thrones.
• Zhuge Feng, Xiao Yan, and the other seventeen tribulation-transcending disciples stepped forward, ready to slay Immortal Kings on their road to kingship.

The eighteen members of the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect attacked Heaven Gate’s forty-six Immortal Kings while still enduring their Immortal King Tribulations, turning the battle against their supposedly stronger foes. Heaven Gate’s forces were being overwhelmed, while Su Bai had yet to enter the fight.

• Zhuge Feng channeled his tribulation lightning through the Sea-Calming Divine Needle Iron and injured three Heaven Gate Immortal Kings with his opening strikes.
• Xiao Lingxi froze three divine abilities and wounded the three Immortal Kings attacking her with one sword sweep.
• Xiao Yan used his Mystic Iron Ruler and Myriad Flames to burn one Immortal King with Calamity Fire and send two others flying.
• Wu Wushuang unleashed the All Beings Sword Dao, wounding and terrifying the three Immortal Kings who had besieged him.
• Su Ling'er drew out the heart demons of three Immortal Kings, while Jiuyue, Su Bai's remaining disciples, and the four elders fought back against Heaven Gate's forces.
• The eighteen Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect fighters gained the upper hand against Heaven Gate's forty-six Immortal Kings, while Su Bai still had not made a move.

The Heavenly Dao Sect’s eighteen tribulation-treading fighters overwhelmed the Heaven Gate’s Immortal Kings, while forty Half-Step Kings rallied to trap ten more. The battle turned in their favor, but the onlookers held back because the Supreme Existence behind the Heaven Gate had yet to act.

• Zhuge Feng and Wu Wushuang battered the Heaven Gate’s Immortal Kings as the escalating tribulation made the battle increasingly dangerous.
• The Heaven Gate’s remaining Immortal Kings stopped holding back, while tribulation transcendenders in the First Layer watched the eighteen Heavenly Dao Sect fighters suppress forty-six Immortal Kings.
• The twenty Half-Step Kings supporting the Heavenly Dao Sect struggled against ten Heaven Gate Immortal Kings, and the gaunt old man realized they could not hold on much longer.
• The lord of an immortal city led twenty more Half-Step Kings into the Second Layer to aid them, bringing the force surrounding the ten Immortal Kings to forty.
• The forty tribulation transcendenders launched a desperate attack and gained the upper hand, while the remaining onlookers stayed back after warning that the Supreme Existence behind the Heaven Gate could destroy them all.

Old Zhou hesitated to help the Heavenly Dao Sect, fearing the Heaven Gate’s hidden supreme existence, while Old Ghost Feng argued that the Sect Master could be an Epoch King and urged the tribulation transcenders to choose a side. A Half-Step Epoch King from the Heaven Gate then appeared and demanded their allegiance under threat of death.

• Old Zhou recalled how the Heaven Gate had denied him a Kingdom-Ascension Opportunity and kept him trapped in the Half-Step King realm for ten billion years.
• Old Ghost Feng called on Old Zhou to help the Heavenly Dao Sect as the Heaven Gate’s Kings forced their way through the tribulations and increased the pressure on the forty defenders.
• Old Zhou hesitated because he feared the Heaven Gate’s hidden existence would destroy anyone who opposed it.
• Old Ghost Feng argued that the Heavenly Dao Sect Master might be an Epoch King and that the Sect’s eighteen tribulation transcenders and allied Immortal Kings could defeat the Heaven Gate.
• A Half-Step Epoch King appeared from the divine mountain and ordered the hesitant tribulation transcenders to join the Heaven Gate or die.

Tribulation transcenders chose sides as the battle shifted in Heaven Gate’s favor, leaving Su Bai facing the release of Heaven Gate’s ten Kings. Su Bai called on Great Elder, Yuan Heng, Wan Ying, and Yun Zhongtian to attain the Peerless Immortal King at that moment.

• A withered old man urged the tribulation transcenders to fight Heaven Gate, and Old Zhou led a group of ten to join the Heavenly Dao Sect’s side.
• Fifty tribulation transcenders gathered to support the Heavenly Dao Sect, while others mocked them and waited for Heaven Gate’s offer.
• Heaven Gate’s Half-Step Epoch King promised Kingship to those who brought him the traitors’ heads, and the remaining fifty-odd tribulation transcenders joined Heaven Gate.
• The new arrivals entangled the Heavenly Dao Sect’s fifty supporters, freeing Heaven Gate’s ten Kings and shifting the battlefield.
• Heaven Gate’s Half-Step Epoch King taunted Su Bai, who called on Great Elder, Yuan Heng, Wan Ying, and Yun Zhongtian to attain the Peerless Immortal King.

Su Bai guided the Grand Elder, Yuan Heng, and Wan Ying to understand their Dao through the lives and prayers of the people they protected. They awakened to the meaning of their convictions as a rising sun appeared in their shared vision.

• Su Bai reminded the Grand Elder that his Dao lay in protecting the Borderlands, the common people, and the hope he carried, and the Grand Elder gained insight.
• Su Bai told Yuan Heng that his willingness to face death in order to preserve life for all beings was his Dao, and light shone in Yuan Heng's eyes.
• Su Bai explained to Wan Ying that she was born and grew through the prayers of all beings, and that fulfilling them meant fulfilling herself.
• Su Bai asked the three to close their eyes, and they saw ordinary people living, working, celebrating, and praying to the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect.
• The Grand Elder, Yuan Heng, and Wan Ying heard the people's gratitude and prayers, understood what their power protected, and raised their heads as they saw the sun rise.

Wan Ying, the Grand Elder, Yuan Heng, and Yun Zhongtian broke through to become Peerless Immortal Kings during the battle against the Heaven Gate. Their sudden rise overwhelmed the Heaven Gate forces and left its Immortal Kings trapped and despairing.

• Wan Ying, the Grand Elder, and Yuan Heng each awakened their Dao and became Peerless Immortal Kings as the Grand Elder sealed ten Heaven Gate Immortal Kings within his domain.
• Su Bai challenged the Heaven Gate Half-Step Epoch King, who was stunned that three experts had broken through.
• Su Bai reminded Yun Zhongtian that he had never abandoned his fight for justice and urged him to battle again.
• Yun Zhongtian renewed his fighting spirit, drove back the five Immortal Kings facing him, and became the fourth Peerless Immortal King.
• The four Peerless Immortal King auras shook the battlefield, while the Heaven Gate’s trapped Immortal Kings and their allies were left in shock and despair.

The Heavenly Dao Sect turned the battle against the Heaven Gate into an overwhelming victory as four Peerless Immortal Kings joined the fight. On the First Layer, the Heaven Gate’s Half-Step Epoch King seized a bound, sealed captive and threatened Su Bai with his life.

• Four Peerless Immortal Kings emerged, and the gaunt old man gained the upper hand against two Tribulation Transcendence Realm cultivators.
• Yun Zhongtian, the Grand Elder, Yuan Heng, and Wan Ying crushed the Heaven Gate’s Immortal Kings, while Xuanwei held off twenty opponents on his own.
• Yun Zhongtian denounced the Heaven Gate as traitors and blamed them for abandoning their vows to protect the Ninefold Firmament and its people.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect gained the advantage across the battlefield, leaving the Heaven Gate’s Half-Step Epoch King desperate to stop its defeat.
• The Half-Step Epoch King summoned a bound figure whose cultivation was sealed and threatened to kill him unless Su Bai halted the fighting.

The Heavenly Gate captured Yun Hai and tried to force Su Bai to surrender by threatening to kill him. Su Bai recognized Yun Hai’s resolve and declared that Yun Hai should live to watch Yun Xuan grow up, leaving his response to the hostage crisis unresolved.

• The Heavenly Gate’s Half-Step Epoch King revealed the captured, wounded Yun Hai, and Yun Xuan broke down in tears as Fairy Qingyue held her back.
• The Half-Step Epoch King threatened Yun Hai’s life unless Su Bai surrendered and bound himself with the Heavenly Dao Chains, prompting the battlefield to pause.
• Su Bai’s disciples offered to take his place, while Heavenly Gate allies mocked the Heavenly Dao Sect for not rescuing Yun Hai.
• Yun Hai urged Su Bai not to hesitate, told Yun Xuan he was proud of her, and accepted death for the future of the Ninth Heaven Realm.
• Su Bai saw Yun Hai’s Dao and Epoch Path, then said Yun Hai should personally live to watch Yun Xuan grow up.

Su Bai came to exchange himself for Yun Hai, facing the Heaven Gate Half-Step Epoch King without showing fear. The Half-Step Epoch King bound Su Bai with the Heavenly Dao Chain and believed he had secured control over him.

• Yun Hai’s Dao Heart became steadfast after he saw hope for his Lineage, and Yun Zhongtian’s stagnation was attributed to their lost resolve.
• Su Bai calmly approached the Half-Step Epoch King, who grew increasingly afraid while holding Yun Hai with the Heavenly Dao Chain.
• Su Bai told Yun Hai, “Senior Yun Hai, thanks for the effort,” then demanded that the exchange proceed.
• The Half-Step Epoch King threw the Heavenly Dao Chain around Su Bai and tightened it, boasting that the chain had once bound an Epoch King.
• The Half-Step Epoch King laughed and declared that Su Bai could not move and that his life and death were in his hands.

Su Bai broke free of the Heavenly Dao Chain after secretly giving Yun Hai a pill that restored and elevated his cultivation. Yun Hai fought the Half-Step Epoch King as the Heavenly Dao Sect's allies drove Heaven Gate's forces back and killed one of its Immortal Kings.

• Su Bai had Yun Hai swallow a supreme immortal pill that dissolved his seal and restored his cultivation.
• Su Bai shattered the Heavenly Dao Chain, shocking the Half-Step Epoch King who had mocked him and Yun Hai.
• Yun Hai broke through to the Half-Step Epoch King realm and struck the enemy king, sending him flying.
• Yun Hai charged into battle against the Half-Step Epoch King while Xuanwei, the Grand Elder, Yuan Heng, Wan Ying, and Yun Zhongtian fought Heaven Gate's Immortal Kings.
• Xuanwei killed a Heaven Gate Immortal King whose Origin was too badly injured to ignite its Throne.

Su Bai’s intervention turned the battle against the Heaven Gate, while the Heavenly Dao Sect’s fighters gained the upper hand. Wu Wushuang then slew a Flawless Immortal King while still undergoing tribulation, leaving the battlefield stunned.

• Su Bai’s display of power emboldened the Heavenly Dao Sect’s allies and filled the Heaven Gate’s supporters with regret and fear.
• The gaunt old man, the immortal city lord, Old Zhou, Zhuge Feng, Xiao Yan, Wu Wushuang, and Jiuyue led the Heavenly Dao Sect’s fighters in a fierce assault that drove the Heaven Gate’s forces toward defeat.
• Su Bai watched calmly, aware that stronger enemies might stand behind the Heaven Gate.
• Wu Wushuang pierced a Heaven Gate Immortal King’s Throne and killed him while still a Half-Step King undergoing tribulation, despite having faced three Immortal Kings.
• The Heaven Gate’s Immortal Kings compared Wu Wushuang’s feat to the Young Immortal Emperor’s ancient myth and realized Wu Wushuang had surpassed it.

Wu Wushuang killed a Heaven Gate Immortal King who burned his Throne, while Immortal Kings across the battlefield were forced to burn their Thrones against the Heavenly Dao Sect and Xuanwei. Wu Wushuang’s name appeared in the first position on the ancient stone stele in the Eternal Immortal Realm.

• Wu Wushuang challenged the two remaining Heaven Gate Immortal Kings after killing one, and one of them burned his Throne and attacked him head-on.
• Wu Wushuang met the Burning Throne Immortal King’s punches with his sword as other Heaven Gate Immortal Kings began burning their Thrones across the battlefield.
• Zhuge Feng, Xiao Yan, Xiao Lingxi, Su Ling'er, Jiuyue, Ye Ziyao, and the other disciples fought Immortal Kings who had burned their Thrones, while Xuanwei faced a group of nineteen Immortal Kings.
• Wu Wushuang’s opponent weakened after repeated clashes, and Wu Wushuang struck him down with another sword slash.
• Wu Wushuang’s name appeared on the ancient stone stele in the Eternal Immortal Realm and shot to the first position.

The Heavenly Dao Stele added Wu Wushuang’s name to its rankings, astonishing the experts gathered nearby as he climbed at unprecedented speed. He entered the top ten and was still rising, while no one knew who he was.

• The Heavenly Dao Stele trembled, and Wu Wushuang’s golden name appeared at the bottom of its rankings.
• The experts watching the stele questioned Wu Wushuang’s identity as his name rapidly climbed past the hundredth, fiftieth, and thirtieth ranks.
• Wu Wushuang’s ascent surpassed the remembered achievement of the Celestial Court’s young Divine General and carried him into the top twenty.
• The gathered experts erupted in shock as Wu Wushuang entered the top ten and continued rising.

Wu Wushuang surged to first place on the Heavenly Dao Stele, ending Di Cang’s hundred-million-year reign at the top. Before the crowd could learn who Wu Wushuang was, Zhuge Feng appeared and climbed to second, while another golden name began to rise.

• Wu Wushuang climbed from tenth place to second on the Heavenly Dao Stele, drawing the attention of the assembled powerhouses.
• Wu Wushuang rose to first place, pushing Di Cang down to second and igniting wild celebration across the Chaotic Void.
• The crowd questioned Wu Wushuang’s identity, but no one knew who he was or where he had come from.
• Zhuge Feng appeared on the Heavenly Dao Stele and surged to second place, surpassing Di Cang.
• Another golden name began to rise on the stele as the stunned crowd watched.