Chapter Summaries

After the Heavenly Dao Sect defeated the Gate Heavenly King and took control of the Ninefold Firmament, Su Bai reassured its people that he would not become a new oppressor. He established a Heavenly Dao Edict promising fairness, equality, freedom, and protection for all, then left the people to judge his rule by the future.

• Yun Zhongtian and the survivors congratulated the Heavenly Dao Sect after it destroyed the Heaven Gate and unified the Ninefold Firmament.
• Su Bai noticed that the people feared he might become another Gate Heavenly King and told them he sought to end oppression and grant all beings equality and freedom.
• Su Bai created a Heavenly Dao Edict that made protections for the people and prohibitions against abuse into laws of the Ninefold Firmament.
• Su Bai vanished after telling the people to believe in the future.

A hundred years after the Heaven Gate’s destruction, Yun Xuan saw how Su Bai and the Heavenly Dao Sect had brought order and hope to the Ninefold Firmament. She asked whether Su Bai regretted choosing equality over absolute power, and his answer left her believing that the future could be shaped as they wished.

• Yun Xuan bought a little girl’s flower and gave her a spiritual blessing.
• Yun Xuan reflected on how the Heavenly Dao Sect had improved life across the Ninefold Firmament and brought protection and opportunity to its people.
• Yun Xuan returned to the Heavenly Dao Sect, where Su Bai surveyed the territory the sect had gained under the Heavenly Dao Edict.
• Yun Xuan asked Su Bai whether he regretted rejecting the power and privilege he could have claimed.
• Su Bai said he believed the world could be free of oppression, and Yun Xuan began to believe in that possibility again.

Yun Xuan reaffirmed her faith in Su Bai’s promise to end oppression, and the chapter showed how the Heavenly Dao Sect’s decrees had brought hope and peace to people across the Ninefold Firmament. Ten years later, the entire realm belonged to the sect, and Su Bai completed the mission to Shatter the Ninefold Firmament, earning the Eternal Immortal Tree.

• Yun Xuan told Su Bai she believed he would end oppression because he had used his power without abusing it.
• A village elder watched local children learn cultivation for free from a Heavenly Dao Sect immortal master and thanked the sect for giving them hope.
• Yun Zhongtian saw peace and fair trade in a city that had once been chaotic, and wondered if things had truly changed.
• Yun Hai visited the graves of his fallen friends, told them the Heaven Gate had been destroyed, and said the world was getting better.
• Ten years later, the Ninefold Firmament became the territory of the Heavenly Dao Sect, and Su Bai received the Eternal Immortal Tree for completing the mission.

Su Bai received the Eternal Immortal Tree, a treasure capable of transforming the New Immortal Realm into an Eternal Realm, and decided to fuse it with the Chaos Immortal Tree. He entrusted the fusion to Wan Ying, who was stunned by his trust as the chapter ended.

• Su Bai received the Eternal Immortal Tree sapling as the reward for completing the mission to shatter the Ninefold Firmament.
• Su Bai considered how the tree could nourish the New Immortal Realm, improve cultivation, and eventually elevate his disciples’ Immortal Swords into Primordial Immortal Artifacts.
• Su Bai traveled to the New Immortal Realm and summoned Wan Ying, the Life Immortal King and spirit of the Chaos Immortal Tree.
• Su Bai told Wan Ying he intended to fuse the Eternal Immortal Tree with the Chaos Immortal Tree so she could help it grow.
• Wan Ying questioned whether she deserved such a supreme treasure, and Su Bai said he trusted her because she had died fighting for the Immortal Realm.

Su Bai fused the Eternal Immortal Tree sapling with the Chaos Immortal Tree, transforming it into the Eternal Immortal Tree and greatly empowering Wan Ying and the Heavenly Dao Sect’s disciples. He then merged the Ninefold Firmament’s nine continents with the New Immortal Realm and named the unified world the Human Realm.

• Su Bai merged the Eternal Immortal Tree sapling into the Chaos Immortal Tree, transforming it and filling the New Immortal Realm with Primordial Immortal Spirit Qi.
• Wan Ying rose from a Supreme Immortal King to a Peak Peerless Immortal King and gained an Epoch Imprint, while disciples beneath the tree made breakthroughs.
• Su Bai decided to merge the Ninefold Firmament with the New Immortal Realm and appeared above the Ninth Layer.
• Su Bai announced that he would reshape the Ninefold Firmament, and the nine continents moved onto the same plane and fused with the New Immortal Realm.
• Su Bai declared that the unified world would no longer be called the Ninefold Firmament and named it the Human Realm.

The Ninefold Firmament became the Human Realm, a unified world nourished by the Eternal Immortal Tree. As powerful figures in nearby domains reacted cautiously, the Eternal Immortal Realm was thrown into turmoil by thirteen unfamiliar names taking the top thirteen places on the Heavenly Dao Ranking.

• The Ninefold Firmament became the Human Realm, and its inhabitants celebrated as the Eternal Immortal Tree filled the continent with Primordial Immortal Spirit Qi.
• Yun Zhongtian, Yun Hai, and the other Immortal Kings marveled at the new world, while Yun Xuan praised it and Su Bai expressed hope for the future before vanishing.
• The Heavenly Dipper Lord ordered the Qiankun Heavenly Domain's borders with the Ninefold Firmament placed under martial lockdown after sensing a powerful aura.
• The Violet Heaven Lord prepared a generous gift and decided to visit the Ninefold Firmament to assess the mysterious existence and seek an opportunity for his domain.
• News spread across the Ten Great Heaven Realms that thirteen unfamiliar prodigies had taken the Heavenly Dao Ranking's top thirteen places, pushing Di Cang from first to fourteenth.

The Heavenly Dao Ranking’s revelation that Di Cang had fallen to fourteenth place stirred the Eternal Immortal Realm. The First Divine General announced a Heaven’s Pride Tournament in a thousand years, prompting hidden talents to emerge as the story turned toward the coming contest.

• Experts across the Eternal Immortal Realm investigated the thirteen unfamiliar names above Di Cang on the Heavenly Dao Ranking.
• The First Divine General discussed Di Cang’s ranking with him, then issued a decree announcing the Heaven’s Pride Tournament in the Firmament Heaven Realm.
• The First Divine General promised the top hundred an Epoch Supreme Treasure, the top ten a chance to comprehend the Epoch Dao, and the champion his guidance and a strand of Eternal Immortal Qi.
• Holy Sword left his mysterious Dao field to enter the tournament, while a young man emerged from a Taboo land to test the new talents.
• A white-haired woman left her sealed palace after her master urged her to see the world, and hidden talents across the realm began preparing for the tournament.

Su Bai encouraged the Heavenly Dao Sect’s disciples to enter the Celestial Court’s Heaven’s Pride Tournament, which was intended to draw out the thirteen newcomers atop the Heavenly Dao Ranking. After nine hundred years of cultivation beneath the Eternal Immortal Tree, the disciples departed for the Eternal Immortal Realm to prove themselves as the Heaven’s Pride of the Human Realm.

• Zhuge Feng and the other disciples welcomed the chance to test themselves against the Eternal Immortal Realm’s Heaven’s Pride, including Di Cang.
• Su Bai explained that the Celestial Court had organized the tournament to draw out his disciples and urged them to accept the challenge after cultivating further.
• The disciples bowed to Su Bai and vowed to fight without disgracing their mission.
• After nine hundred years beneath the Eternal Immortal Tree, Yun Xuan reached the Half-Step King Realm, while Su Hu and Lu Ming advanced to Peak Supreme Immortal Venerable.
• Zhuge Feng led the Heaven’s Pride away from the Eternal Immortal Tree to show the Eternal Immortal Realm the strength of the Human Realm.

As the Heaven's Pride Tournament approached, the Heavenly Dao Ranking filled with emerging and ancient prodigies, while its thirteen mysterious top names remained unchanged. After the Black Prison Saint Son was pushed off the list, he sought a battle against a young Peerless Immortal King to reclaim his rank.

• Zhou Cheng and successive unfamiliar prodigies appeared on the Heavenly Dao Ranking, displacing its longtime occupants.
• Ancient geniuses, including Li Wujin, entered the rankings, but the thirteen mysterious names at the top remained unmoved.
• By the nine-hundredth year, the Black Prison Saint Son had fallen from eighteenth place to one hundredth and then disappeared from the list.
• The Black Prison Saint Son decided to reclaim his rank and chose a young man with an iron staff, whose aura showed he was a Peerless Immortal King, as his opponent.
• The Black Prison Saint Son appeared before the young man's group and challenged him to fight.

Black Prison Saint Son arrived at the Heavenly Dao Ranking and demanded that a group of strangers fight him so he could prove his strength. The group ignored him and continued toward the ranking, leaving him furious and intent on killing them.

• Black Prison Saint Son appeared before the Heavenly Dao Ranking, and the crowd recognized the notorious, powerful figure whose name had vanished from the list.
• Black Prison Saint Son chose a group led by a young man with an iron staff as his opponent and ordered them to come out or face death.
• The group calmly discussed his demand, then ignored Black Prison Saint Son and continued toward the Heavenly Dao Ranking.
• Black Prison Saint Son grew enraged at being ignored and declared that he wanted the group dead.

A staff-wielding young man effortlessly repelled the Black Prison Saint Son’s attack with one strike, then faced the Saint Son’s Half-Step Epoch King Dao Protector. As the Dao Protector threatened to kill him, the young man’s junior brother stepped forward to take the fight.

• The Black Prison Saint Son attacked the group with a giant palm of Prison Qi, but the staff-wielding young man shattered it with one casual swing and sent him crashing into a crater.
• The onlookers were stunned by the staff-wielding young man’s strength, though the Heavenly Dao Ranking did not change.
• The injured Black Prison Saint Son demanded that his Dao Protector kill the staff-wielding young man.
• The Half-Step Epoch King Dao Protector appeared before the group and threatened the staff-wielding young man, who calmly raised his staff to meet him.
• The young man with a blade of grass in his mouth stepped forward and asked his Senior Brother to leave the old opponent to him.

Xiao Yan confronted the Black Prison Saint Son’s protector after the old man challenged the Heavenly Dao Sect. Xiao Yan repelled the Half-Step Epoch King with one swing of his Mystic Iron Ruler, leaving the old man shaken but still insisting he had merely been careless.

• Xiao Yan stepped forward and mocked the Black Prison Saint Son’s protector for threatening his group.
• The protector unleashed his Half-Step Epoch King aura and struck Xiao Yan with a giant palm of Epochal Power.
• Xiao Yan casually swung his Mystic Iron Ruler and clashed with the giant palm, unleashing a blast that collapsed nearby Divine Mountains.
• When the smoke cleared, Xiao Yan stood unmoved while the protector had been forced back three steps.
• The watching cultivators reacted with disbelief, and the protector claimed he had been careless and that Xiao Yan had only gained a slight advantage.

Mystic Ice Fairy intervened when a Black Prison Immortal Sect elder threatened Xiao Yan, forcing the elder to retreat with the Black Prison Saint Son. Before leaving, she warned Xiao Yan and his companions not to join the Celestial Court.

• The Black Prison elder prepared to unleash his full power against Xiao Yan after Xiao Yan drove him back.
• Mystic Ice Fairy arrived and condemned the elder for breaking the Heavenly Dao Stele Sacred Land’s rules and bullying someone younger.
• Mystic Ice Fairy threatened to make the Black Prison Immortal Sect her enemy, and the elder withdrew with the injured Black Prison Saint Son.
• Xiao Yan told Mystic Ice Fairy that he could have handled the elder, but she warned that defeating him publicly could bring danger.
• Mystic Ice Fairy departed after privately telling Zhuge Feng, Xiao Yan, and the others not to join the Celestial Court.

Zhuge Feng led the Heavenly Dao Sect disciples to the Heavenly Dao Ranking, where they discovered their own names occupied the top thirteen places, ahead of the legendary Di Cang. They reflected on Di Cang’s reputation, while their calm response to the ranking left the watching cultivators puzzled.

• Zhuge Feng led the group onward after Xiao Yan and Wu Wushuang discussed the Mystic Ice Fairy and laughed about having no need to join the Celestial Court.
• The disciples reached the Heavenly Dao Stele and studied its ranking as nearby cultivators watched their reactions.
• The group’s gazes passed the lower and middle ranks before stopping at the thirteen names at the top.
• The disciples recognized Wu Wushuang in first place, Zhuge Feng in second, and their own names filling the top thirteen, with Jiuyue in thirteenth.
• Xiao Yan and Su Ling'er joked about their growing reputations, then the group considered the stories surrounding Di Cang, ranked fourteenth.

After the Heavenly Dao Sect left the Heavenly Dao Ranking, Xiao Yan and the others continued into a desolate region with Black Prison Saint Son’s guardian following them. Xiao Yan confronted the Half-Step Epoch King and challenged him to make him kneel within three hundred moves.

• Yun Xuan, Shi Huang, Qin Buhui, and the other younger disciples resolved to work toward appearing on the Heavenly Dao Ranking.
• Xiao Yan and the group left the ranking and headed deeper into a desolate region, knowing that Black Prison Saint Son’s guardian was following them.
• Zhuge Feng told Xiao Yan that the guardian could serve as a sparring partner, and Xiao Yan declared he would make him kneel within three hundred moves.
• The Half-Step Epoch King appeared before the group with the crippled Black Prison Saint Son behind him.
• Xiao Yan taunted the guardian, claimed his earlier ruler strike had used only thirty percent of his strength, and repeated his three-hundred-move challenge as the guardian’s Epoch Imprint began to flicker.

Xiao Yan fought a Half-Step Epoch King who unleashed his hidden strength, but Xiao Yan overpowered him with the Mystic Iron Ruler. The old man refused to surrender and used an Epoch Secret Art to launch a devastating palm strike.

• The old man revealed that he had held back at the Heavenly Dao Ranking and attacked Xiao Yan with two enormous Prison Qi hands.
• Xiao Yan split the hands with the Mystic Iron Ruler and knocked the old man back when he blocked a claw strike.
• Xiao Yan struck the old man again, blasting him away and cracking his arms despite the old man's Half-Step Epoch King cultivation.
• Xiao Yan demanded that the old man kneel and kowtow, but the old man chose to fight to the death.
• The old man sacrificed blood essence to activate Epoch Secret Art: Myriad Prisons Return as One and unleashed the Great Prison Heaven-Subduing Palm.

Xiao Yan used more than ten thousand flames to shatter the old man's near-Epoch King attack and defeat him completely. The old man demanded to know who Xiao Yan was, and Xiao Yan pointed him toward the Heavenly Dao Ranking before naming Wu Wushuang.

• The old man spent 50.6 billion years of cultivation and his essence blood on a devastating palm strike aimed at Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan summoned more than ten thousand flames and fused them into his Mystic Iron Ruler.
• Xiao Yan struck with Heaven-Burning: World-Annihilating Ruler, breaking the old man's attack and blasting him away.
• The old man lay gravely injured and asked how Xiao Yan could be stronger than Di Cang had been as a Peerless Immortal King.
• Xiao Yan told the old man to look at the Heavenly Dao Ranking and said, "Wu Wushuang."

Xiao Yan defeated the Black Prison Saint Son’s Dao Protector, who mistook him for Wu Wushuang and then Jiuyue. After silencing the old man, Xiao Yan caught the fleeing Saint Son and dared his ancestor to come face him, just as a powerful aura approached.

• The defeated old man mistook Xiao Yan for Wu Wushuang, and the Heavenly Dao Sect’s group laughed when Xiao Yan denied it.
• The old man guessed Xiao Yan was Jiuyue, but Xiao Yan silenced him and warned him to stop guessing.
• The Black Prison Saint Son fled, but Xiao Yan caught up with him and mocked his threats about the Black Prison Immortal Sect and Ancestor Epoch.
• Xiao Yan lifted the Black Prison Saint Son and challenged him to call his ancestor, as a powerful aura approached.

Ancestor Black Abyss arrived to rescue the Black Prison Saint Son and ordered Xiao Yan to release him. Xiao Yan killed the Saint Son anyway, leaving the furious Epoch King poised to retaliate.

• Ancestor Black Abyss descended and revealed himself as an Epoch King of the Black Prison Immortal Sect.
• The Black Prison Saint Son pleaded with Ancestor Black Abyss to kill Xiao Yan and the Heavenly Dao Sect disciples.
• Xiao Yan mocked Ancestor Black Abyss, who ordered him to release the Saint Son.
• Xiao Yan crushed the Black Prison Saint Son's body and divine soul, killing him beyond Reincarnation.
• Ancestor Black Abyss erupted in rage and condemned Xiao Yan for defying his order.

Ancestor Black Abyss attacked Xiao Yan, but a mysterious palm emerged from the void and flicked the Epoch King away with one finger. The watching cultivators were left debating what supreme realm the unseen figure belonged to.

• Ancestor Black Abyss threatened Xiao Yan and fired a beam of Epochal Power at him.
• A mysterious palm emerged from the shattered void and stopped the beam before it reached Xiao Yan.
• The palm crushed Ancestor Black Abyss's Epoch True Body and forced him to his knees.
• The unseen figure flicked Ancestor Black Abyss away, sending him flying across dozens of star rivers.
• The watching cultivators were stunned and speculated that the figure was a Heaven Realm lord or a Celestial Court Divine General.