Chapter Summaries

Thirteen previously unknown prodigies appeared at the top of the Heavenly Dao Stele, pushing Di Cang down from first place to fourteenth. The powerful factions began investigating their origins and suspected the thirteen shared a mysterious master.

• Wu Wushuang and Zhuge Feng were joined by Xiao Yan, who climbed to third place and pushed Di Cang down to fourth.
• Ye Ziyao, Xiao Lingxi, Ye Qingyao, Su Ling'er, and other prodigies rose onto the rankings one after another.
• Jiuyue appeared as the thirteenth name, completing the lineup of thirteen prodigies at the very top of the Heavenly Dao Stele.
• The crowd and powerful figures from every faction reacted with shock and wondered where the thirteen prodigies had come from.
• The factions sent orders and messages to investigate the thirteen prodigies and the master they suspected stood behind them.

Thirteen new names appeared on the Heavenly Dao Stele, stunning powerhouses across the Eternal Immortal Realm, while Su Bai’s disciples gained Fortune and continued defeating the Burning Throne Kings. In the Eternal Heavenly Court, Di Cang learned of the ranking changes and dismissed the new challengers until he was told that his position had been surpassed.

• Thirteen pillars of Fortune descended for new names on the Heavenly Dao Stele, and powerhouses throughout the five Eternal Realms rushed to investigate.
• Su Bai watched the battlefield of the Ninefold Firmament as his disciples drew strength from the blessings and slew more Burning Throne Kings.
• In the Eternal Heavenly Court, a servant told Di Cang and the young woman that thirteen unprecedented geniuses had appeared on the Stele.
• Di Cang dismissed the newcomers as unable to threaten his first position, but the servant told him that he had been surpassed.

Di Cang learned that thirteen Heavenly Dao Sect disciples had surpassed his century-long record atop the Heavenly Dao Stele and ordered an investigation into them. Meanwhile, the disciples continued defeating the Heaven Gate in the Ninefold Firmament, beginning the Heavenly Dao Sect’s rise across the Five Eternal Realms.

• A messenger told Di Cang that Wu Wushuang had taken first place on the Heavenly Dao Stele, pushing him to second.
• The messenger revealed that twelve more names had appeared, and Di Cang listened as all thirteen disciples were identified.
• Di Cang welcomed the challenge and ordered the messenger to investigate the thirteen disciples’ origins and backgrounds.
• In the Ninefold Firmament, Wu Wushuang, Zhuge Feng, Xiao Yan, and the other disciples continued killing Heaven Gate Immortal Kings and aiding forces.
• Su Bai watched the Heaven Gate’s defeat and declared that the Eternal Realm’s conquest would begin in the Ninefold Firmament.

Xuanwei and the Heavenly Dao Sect overwhelmed the Heaven Gate forces in the Ninefold Firmament, killing many Immortal Kings and eliminating all the Tribulation Transcendence Realm cultivators who had sided with Heaven Gate. As the battle neared its end, Su Bai sensed the Heaven Gate’s Epoch Heavenly King awakening in the depths of its headquarters.

• Xuanwei killed another Heaven Gate Immortal King and repelled the remaining Kings when they joined forces against him.
• Zhuge Feng and the Heavenly Dao Sect’s fighters continued their assault as the Heaven Gate’s Tribulation Transcendence Realm allies realized they had chosen wrongly.
• The fifty Tribulation Transcendence Realm cultivators who supported the Heavenly Dao Sect killed the final Heaven Gate-aligned cultivators, wiping them all out.
• More than half of the Heaven Gate’s Immortal Kings had fallen as the battle across the Ninefold Firmament began to wind down.
• Su Bai sensed the Heaven Gate’s Epoch Heavenly King awakening and anticipated its arrival.

The Gate Heavenly King awakened as a true Epoch King and confronted Su Bai on Heaven Gate’s battlefield. Su Bai effortlessly dispelled the Heavenly King’s pressure, and the Heavenly King stepped toward him with growing interest.

• An ancient aura erupted from Heaven Gate’s headquarters, stopping the fighting as Xuanwei recognized the presence of a true Epoch King.
• Heaven Gate’s surviving Immortal Kings rejoiced that their Heavenly King had awakened and threatened the Heavenly Dao Sect’s disciples.
• The Gate Heavenly King rose from Heaven Gate’s depths, and the chapter recounted his long rise from Ninefold Immortal Sect disciple to ruler of the Ninefold Firmament.
• The Gate Heavenly King surveyed the battlefield and challenged Su Bai for bringing young cultivators to attack Heaven Gate.
• Su Bai waved away the Epoch King’s crushing pressure, surprising Yun Zhongtian and the others.
• The Gate Heavenly King declared Su Bai the first person in ten billion years to interest him and advanced, manifesting Heavenly Dao Inscriptions with each step.

The Gate Heavenly King transformed the battlefield into an ancient scene and revived more than a hundred dead Immortal Kings as puppets, including the Ninefold Heaven Lord. As the forces clashed, Su Bai remained calm, and the Gate Heavenly King recognized the same gaze he had seen from a formidable figure ten billion years earlier.

• The Gate Heavenly King reshaped the surroundings into the ancient battlefield where the Ninefold Firmament’s rulers had fought.
• More than a hundred fallen Immortal Kings rose as puppets, including the Epoch King Ninefold Heaven Lord.
• The Gate Heavenly King ordered the revived dead to attack the Heavenly Dao Sect, giving Heaven Gate a force of over a hundred and fifty Immortal Kings.
• Zhuge Feng, Xiao Yan, Wu Wushuang, Jiuyue, Xuanwei, and the other Heavenly Dao Sect fighters charged into battle without retreating.
• Su Bai stood calmly as the battle began, and the Gate Heavenly King recognized his gaze from the war ten billion years ago.

The Heavenly King summoned over a hundred Immortal King Puppets and an Epoch King puppet, but the Heavenly Dao Sect’s disciples fought them while advancing through their Immortal King Tribulations. As the battle continued, the disciples’ strength kept rising, and the chapter ended with the narration beginning to compare their Heavenly Dao Stele rankings to that of the founder of the Ninefold Immortal Sect.

• Heaven Gate’s Half-Step Epoch King rejoiced when the Heavenly King summoned the Ninefold Immortal Sect’s fallen experts, but Yun Hai said the Heavenly Dao Sect’s Sect Master would still prevail.
• Over a hundred Immortal King Puppets and dozens of Heaven Gate Immortal Kings attacked the main battlefield.
• Zhuge Feng, Xiao Yan, Wu Wushuang, Jiuyue, and the other Heavenly Dao Sect disciples fought the puppets while enduring tribulation lightning.
• Wu Wushuang and Zhuge Feng each destroyed Immortal King Puppets as their tribulations strengthened their combat abilities.
• Heaven Gate’s Immortal Kings were horrified that the disciples could rival Supreme Immortal Kings before even becoming Immortal Kings.
• The narration revealed that the disciples’ names already stood at the forefront of the Heavenly Dao Stele, then began to describe the significance of first place.

Fourteen Heavenly Dao Sect disciples completed their Immortal King Tribulations and became Peerless Immortal Kings, overwhelming Heaven Gate’s forces. As Su Bai’s strength increased with his disciples’ advancement, the Gate Heavenly King remained uneasy and faced a growing threat.

• Jiuyue, Xiao Lingxi, Zhuge Feng, and Wu Wushuang fought back the Immortal King Puppets while the Heavenly Dao Sect gained ground.
• The Gate Heavenly King recognized that the tribulation-takers could become Peerless Immortal Kings and grew uneasy as he studied Su Bai.
• Wu Wushuang and Zhuge Feng shattered their final tribulation bolts and entered the Immortal King Realm as Peerless Immortal Kings.
• Fourteen Heavenly Dao Sect disciples completed their tribulations, though one aura faded as five Immortal King Puppets vanished, leaving thirteen Peerless Immortal Kings present.
• Heaven Gate’s surviving Immortal Kings and the tribulation challengers reacted with terror and awe, while Yun Zhongtian felt grateful he had sided with the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Su Bai smiled as his disciples’ breakthroughs greatly increased his strength and wondered how powerful his several hundred Divine Rings made him within the Epoch Realm.

The Heavenly Dao Sect gained dozens of Immortal Kings, giving it an overwhelming advantage over Heaven Gate. Su Bai watched as his disciples slaughtered Heaven Gate’s forces, while the Heaven Gate Heavenly King refused to intervene and waited for his remaining contingency.

• Nameless, Situ Chen, Tianzhu, and Yu Yan passed their tribulations and entered the Immortal King Realm, while Su Bai helped twenty-two other transcenders survive theirs.
• Su Bai’s intervention helped the Heavenly Dao Sect gain another fifty Immortal Kings, bringing its total above seventy.
• Zhuge Feng, Wu Wushuang, Jiuyue, and the other Peerless Immortal Kings tore through Heaven Gate’s puppets and Immortal Kings.
• The Heaven Gate Heavenly King stayed motionless under Su Bai’s watch, realizing that Su Bai was using the battle to temper his disciples.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect destroyed more than eighty percent of Heaven Gate’s puppets and killed over a hundred of its 106 Immortal Kings, leaving fewer than five alive.

The Heavenly Dao Sect’s forces wiped out Heaven Gate’s Immortal Kings and puppets, but the Ninefold Heaven Lord awakened as an Epoch King. Su Bai remained calm as another Epoch King, Earth Old Devil, arrived to join the Gate Heavenly King against him.

• Xiao Yan, Zhuge Feng, Wu Wushuang, and Jiuyue killed Heaven Gate’s remaining Peerless Immortal Kings, finishing off more than a hundred Immortal Kings in total.
• The cultivators who had fought alongside the Heavenly Dao Sect celebrated their victory, while Yun Zhongtian looked to Su Bai and wondered whether he had foreseen the battle.
• The Ninefold Heaven Lord awakened, and Yun Zhongtian recognized him as a former Heavenly Dao Stele prodigy and Epoch King.
• A newcomer entered the Ninefold Firmament as the Gate Heavenly King rejoiced at the Ninefold Heaven Lord’s awakening.
• Su Bai sensed Earth Old Devil arriving, and the black-robed Epoch King descended above the Nine Heavens.
• The Gate Heavenly King offered Earth Old Devil half the Ninefold Firmament in exchange for helping destroy Su Bai and his disciples.

Earth Baleful Heaven Lord arrived to aid Heaven Gate, but after the Gate Heavenly King offered him half the Ninefold Firmament, he proposed that Su Bai could outbid him. He left both sides waiting to see whether Su Bai would match or exceed the offer.

• Earth Baleful Heaven Lord arrived, and Yun Zhongtian revealed that the legendary veteran Epoch King had once survived an attack by three Epoch Kings.
• The Gate Heavenly King welcomed Earth Baleful Heaven Lord and promised him half the Ninefold Firmament's territory and resources for helping Heaven Gate.
• Earth Baleful Heaven Lord studied Su Bai and offered to withdraw if Su Bai matched the Gate Heavenly King's price.
• Earth Baleful Heaven Lord said he would help Su Bai destroy Heaven Gate and its puppet if Su Bai offered twice as much.

Earth Baleful Heaven Lord bargained with Su Bai and Gate Heavenly King, ultimately accepting the offer of the entire Ninefold Firmament to help Heaven Gate attack the Heavenly Dao Sect. As Earth Baleful and Gate Heavenly King prepared to fight alongside Ninefold Heaven Lord's puppet, Su Bai warned Earth Baleful to leave or die.

• Earth Baleful Heaven Lord offered to help Su Bai destroy Heaven Gate for twice Gate Heavenly King's price, or to stay out of the duel for the same price.
• Gate Heavenly King protested that Earth Baleful had agreed to help him, but Earth Baleful said their deal was not finalized and he owed Gate Heavenly King nothing.
• Gate Heavenly King offered Earth Baleful the entire Ninefold Firmament in exchange for helping destroy the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Earth Baleful accepted the offer, raised his aura, and joined Gate Heavenly King and Ninefold Heaven Lord's puppet in targeting Su Bai.
• Su Bai said his bargaining chip was Earth Baleful and warned him that he could live if he left, but would die if he helped Heaven Gate.

Su Bai confronted Earth Baleful Heaven Lord and Gate Heavenly King as the Ninefold Heaven Lord Puppet battled the Heavenly Dao Sect’s defenders. He blocked the two Epoch Kings’ combined attack with one hand, and brilliant Divine Rings appeared behind him.

• Earth Baleful Heaven Lord mocked Su Bai’s threat, while Gate Heavenly King ordered the awakened Ninefold Heaven Lord Puppet to slaughter the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Zhuge Feng, Xuanwei, and fourteen Peerless Immortal Kings joined forces to fight the puppet as the battlefield’s cultivators despaired before the Epoch Kings’ power.
• Earth Baleful Heaven Lord and Gate Heavenly King attacked Su Bai together with the Immortal-Falling Finger and a collapsing palm strike.
• Su Bai stepped forward and caught both Epoch Kings’ attacks with one hand, stunning them and the watching cultivators.
• Brilliant Divine Rings appeared one after another behind Su Bai, illuminating the battlefield.

Su Bai revealed his Epoch King power by manifesting Divine Rings with each step, rising from the First Epoch to the Fifth Epoch and overwhelming Gate Heavenly King and Earth Baleful Heaven Lord. The two enemies lost the will to fight and fell to their knees before him.

• Gate Heavenly King and Earth Baleful Heaven Lord attacked Su Bai, believing that their two Epoch Kings and the Ninefold Heaven Lord Puppet could defeat him.
• Su Bai took his second step and revealed two hundred Divine Rings, shattering their attacks and reaching the Second Epoch level.
• Su Bai took his third and fourth steps, revealing three hundred and then four hundred Divine Rings as his aura reached the Third and Fourth Epochs.
• Su Bai took his fifth step and revealed five hundred and twenty-one Divine Rings, reaching the Fifth Epoch.
• Gate Heavenly King and Earth Baleful Heaven Lord fell to their knees, and Earth Balefal Heaven Lord asked if he could still withdraw.

Su Bai revealed himself as a Fifth-Epoch Immortal King, overwhelming the forces threatening the Heavenly Dao Sect. As the battlefield fell silent, Yun Hai explained the terrifying rarity and power of the Epoch Realms.

• The Heavenly Dao Sect experts realized Su Bai had 521 Divine Rings and knelt in awe as a Fifth-Epoch Immortal King.
• The Gate Heavenly King and the Earth Baleful Heaven Lord were overcome with fear and regret after recognizing Su Bai’s strength.
• The Ninefold Heaven Lord’s puppet froze, while Yun Hai struck the distracted Half-Step Epoch King of Heaven Gate and gravely wounded him.
• Yun Hai explained the trials required to advance through the Epoch Realms and described the immense power of Second- and Third-Epoch Immortal Kings.
• Yun Hai declared that a Fifth-Epoch Immortal King could guard an entire Heaven Realm.

Su Bai revealed the overwhelming power of a Fifth-Epoch Immortal King and killed the Earth Baleful Heaven Lord with a single flick of his finger. The battlefield stood stunned as Su Bai collected the fallen king’s storage treasures and found them full of valuable resources.

• Yun Hai explained the rarity and immense power of Fifth-Epoch Immortal Kings, leaving the crowd in awe of Su Bai.
• The Gate Heavenly King collapsed in despair, while the Earth Baleful Heaven Lord begged Su Bai to spare his life.
• Su Bai reminded the Earth Baleful Heaven Lord that he had chosen to help Heaven Gate and had been warned he would die.
• The Earth Baleful Heaven Lord burned his Epoch King's Throne and fled, but Su Bai’s flicked light caught and killed him, erasing his body and true spirit.
• Su Bai gathered the Earth Baleful Heaven Lord’s storage treasures and smiled at the valuable resources inside.

After Su Bai killed Earth Baleful Heaven Lord with one finger, the Heavenly Dao mourned the Epoch King's death, drawing the attention of the rulers of the other three Heavenly Domains. Su Bai then allowed his thirteen disciples to challenge the Ninefold Heaven Lord Puppet, leaving the gathered cultivators stunned by their ambition.

• Earth Baleful Heaven Lord's death caused the Heavenly Dao to weep blood, a sign that an Epoch King had fallen.
• Heavenly Dipper Lord, Violet Heaven Lord, and Mighty Prestige Heaven Lord sensed the death and focused their attention on the Ninefold Firmament.
• Gate Heavenly King realized Su Bai could kill him just as easily as Earth Baleful Heaven Lord and was filled with fear and regret.
• Zhuge Feng and Wu Wushuang asked Su Bai to let the disciples challenge the Ninefold Heaven Lord Puppet and temper their Epoch Dao.
• Su Bai granted permission, and thirteen disciples stepped forward to face the Epoch Puppet, shocking the onlookers.

Su Bai’s thirteen disciples unleashed the Heavenly Dao Sword Formation against the Ninefold Heaven Lord Puppet, overcoming its Epoch King suppression and beginning to wound it. They ended the chapter determined to slay the puppet with their swords.

• Su Bai lifted his suppression on the puppet, and the thirteen disciples attacked, but the puppet’s aura shattered their combined strikes and drove them back.
• The disciples continued fighting without retreating as observers marveled at the gap between Peerless Immortal Kings and an Epoch King.
• The thirteen disciples drew their evolved immortal swords and took positions around the puppet.
• At Zhuge Feng’s command, they formed the Heavenly Dao Sword Formation, which suppressed the puppet’s Heavenly Dao power.
• The formation’s sword lights wounded the puppet, and Zhuge Feng urged the disciples to strike with all their strength and slay it.

Zhuge Feng and the other twelve Peerless Immortal Kings used the Heavenly Dao Sword Formation to grievously wound and ultimately destroy the Epoch Puppet. Their victory left the spectators proclaiming that a new myth had been born.

• Zhuge Feng coordinated Ye Ziyao, Su Ling'er, Wu Wushuang, Xiao Yan, and the other disciples as their sword formation wounded the Epoch Puppet.
• Xiao Yan combined Myriad Flames with Heavenly Dao Sword Intent while the thirteen launched their strongest attack, leaving a deep scar across the puppet's body.
• Yun Zhongtian warned the thirteen to retreat when the wounded Epoch Puppet unleashed a stronger aura, but they stood their ground.
• Zhuge Feng and the others merged their thirteen immortal swords into the Sword of Heavenly Dao and struck as the Epoch Puppet unleashed his final punch.
• The Sword of Heavenly Dao cracked the Epoch Puppet's fist and body, and the puppet exploded into specks of light.

The Heavenly Dao Sect’s thirteen disciples destroyed the Epoch Puppet, while Yun Hai killed a wounded Half-Step Epoch King from the Heaven Gate. Su Bai confronted Gate Heavenly King with the past he had betrayed, then killed him, leaving the Heaven Gate’s downfall complete.

• The thirteen disciples destroyed the Epoch Puppet, and Yun Zhongtian and the surviving cultivators bowed in reverence.
• Su Bai imprisoned Gate Heavenly King as Yun Hai killed the wounded Half-Step Epoch King who had helped the Heaven Gate slaughter his friends.
• Su Bai condemned Gate Heavenly King for becoming the oppressor he had once hated and showed him memories of his past as an abused Rogue Cultivator.
• Gate Heavenly King remembered how he had risen to power and abandoned his old vows, then fell to Su Bai’s finger strike.