Chapter Summaries

The King of Creation accepted the fourteen Human Realm disciples’ refusal to become his disciples and gave them a gift of Dao insight. After they conquered the Ten-Thousand-Level Heavenly Ladder and tied for first, the Azure Mountain Saint Emperor called on the Seventh Divine General to announce the results.

• The King of Creation praised the fourteen disciples’ Dao Hearts and loyalty to their master, then gave each of them an understanding of the laws of heaven and earth.
• The King of Creation let the disciples go and faded away with his palace as he urged them to walk their own paths.
• The Ten-Thousand-Level Heavenly Ladder trembled and settled after the fourteen reached its summit, officially ending the second round.
• The results named Zhuge Feng and thirteen other Human Realm disciples tied for first, with Di Cang in fifteenth place and the top hundred advancing to the final arena competition.
• The Azure Mountain Saint Emperor celebrated the Human Realm’s achievement and asked the Seventh Divine General to announce the competition results.

The Seventh Divine General announced that the final arena tournament would take place in one hundred years, giving Di Cang time to recover after his collapse on the Heavenly Ladder. The Human Realm’s fourteen summit-reaching geniuses left with Han Feiyu, while Di Cang vowed to defeat them in the arena.

• The Seventh Divine General announced that the top one hundred geniuses had advanced and that the final arena tournament would be held in one hundred years.
• A Heaven Realm master urged the Seventh Divine General to trust Di Cang’s strength and accumulated foundation, and the Seventh Divine General pledged the Celestial Court’s resources to his recovery.
• Han Feiyu led the Human Realm’s geniuses away from the Heavenly Ladder and called them the pride of the Human Realm.
• Mystic Ice Fairy considered visiting the Human Realm, while Little War King reflected on how far its fourteen geniuses had surpassed him.
• Di Cang regained consciousness and vowed to sever the Human Realm’s myth in the arena, and Xiao Yan mocked him as a defeated opponent.

After the Celestial Court’s crushing defeat, the Azure Mountain Saint Emperor accepted the Blood Moon Immortal Sect, Golden Clan, and Purple Clan on the condition that they destroy three powers that ambushed Human Realm disciples. The Mystic Ice Fairy, Little War King, and Violet asked to visit the Human Realm, and Su Bai welcomed them.

• The Celestial Court’s forces departed after losing the tournament, while the Azure Mountain Saint Emperor called on his disciples to show the Eternal Immortal Realm their strength in a hundred years.
• The Blood Moon Ancestor, Golden Clan Ancestor, and Purple Clan patriarch knelt and asked the Human Realm to accept their powers’ allegiance and shelter them from the Celestial Court.
• Su Bai agreed to accept them once they destroyed the Blood Sword Immortal Dynasty, Nine Nether Immortal Sect, and Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple, which had ambushed Human Realm disciples.
• The Mystic Ice Fairy, Little War King, and Violet asked to visit the Human Realm, and Su Bai invited them to come along.

After the grand competition, Su Bai brought the Human Realm’s disciples and their guests home, where Mystic Ice Fairy and the others discovered a realm unlike anything they had known. They recognized the Human Realm as a Super Eternal Greater Realm, and Mystic Ice Fairy concluded that its white-robed ruler was an Emperor; three days later, news of his existence spread across the Eternal Immortal Realm.

• The Eternal Immortal Realm’s factions learned that all fourteen Human Realm competitors had reached the summit of the Ten-Thousand-Level Heavenly Ladder, while Di Cang had placed 9,901st.
• Su Bai brought the Human Realm’s disciples, Mystic Ice Fairy, Little War King, Violet, and the others back to the Human Realm.
• Mystic Ice Fairy and her companions saw mortals and cultivators living together as equals, and Zhuge Feng explained the Human Realm’s principles of equality and respect for every Life.
• Mystic Ice Fairy recognized the enormous tree at the continent’s center as a genuine Eternal Immortal Tree and realized the Human Realm was a Super Eternal Greater Realm.
• A white-robed figure created a giant city from the crown of the Eternal Immortal Tree, and Mystic Ice Fairy identified him as an Emperor.
• Three days later, news that an Emperor existed in the Human Realm spread through the Eternal Immortal Realm.

News that an Emperor existed in the Human Realm terrified the Celestial Court and shook the Eternal Immortal Realm, while six Fifth-Epoch King superpowers began a proxy war between the Human Realm and the Celestial Court. The Blood Moon Immortal Sect launched its assault on the Blood Sword Immortal Dynasty, whose Sect-Protecting Formation met the invading army’s attacks.

• The Seventh Divine General ordered Celestial Court agents to investigate whether the Human Realm’s sect master was a true Emperor, then feared the consequences if the rumor was true.
• The revelation that an Emperor existed in the Human Realm spread across the Eternal Immortal Realm as six superpowers prepared for war on behalf of the Human Realm and the Celestial Court.
• The Blood Moon Immortal Sect’s army arrived at the Blood Sword Immortal Dynasty’s Myriad Swords Heavenly Domain.
• The Blood Moon Ancestor accused the Blood Sword Immortal Dynasty of ambushing the Human Realm’s geniuses at the Heaven’s Pride Tournament and struck its Blood Sword Formation with his blade.
• Millions of Blood Moon Immortal Sect disciples and elders joined the attack, battering the Blood Sword Immortal Dynasty’s formation.

The Celestial Court ordered its armies to crush the Blood Moon Immortal Sect, Golden Clan, and Purple Clan after they attacked its vassals. Human Realm Sacred Emperors blocked the first two relief forces, and the Divine Spear Saint Emperor confronted the army bound for the Blood Sword Immortal Dynasty.

• The Golden Clan Ancestor led an assault on the Nine Nether Immortal Sect, while the Purple Clan attacked Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple.
• The Seventh Divine General ordered the Celestial Court army to depart and destroy the forces attacking its vassals.
• Azure Mountain Saint Emperor blocked the Celestial Court fleet heading toward Nine Nether Immortal Sect, and River-Calming Saint Emperor stopped the reinforcements bound for Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple.
• The Celestial Court army advanced toward Blood Sword Immortal Dynasty, anticipating that the Human Realm would block its route as well.
• The Divine Spear Saint Emperor arrived on a Fire Qilin and identified himself as the Human Realm's Twelfth Sequence.

The Divine Spear Saint Emperor blocked the Celestial Court's army and revealed the Human Realm's overwhelming strength, while two other Sacred Emperors stopped reinforcements on separate fronts. As the Celestial Court weighed whether to fight or retreat, its First Divine General acknowledged that the three Sacred Emperors were genuine powers.

• The Divine Spear Saint Emperor confronted the Celestial Court's army and warned that anyone who crossed the boundary would die.
• The Divine Spear Saint Emperor's spear cry shook the Celestial Court's warships and injured its soldiers, prompting a Heaven Realm ruler to call for the Divine Generals.
• The Azure Mountain Saint Emperor blocked reinforcements near the Nine Nether Immortal Sect, while the River-Calming Saint Emperor barred another route with a river of Sword Qi.
• The Eternal Immortal Realm's factions watched as the Celestial Court considered whether to send its Divine Generals against the three Sacred Emperors.
• The Seventh Divine General asked the First Divine General whether the Celestial Court should act, and the First Divine General judged the three Sacred Emperors' strength to be real.

The Celestial Court retreated rather than risk war with the Human Realm, leaving its allies to be destroyed by the Blood Moon Immortal Sect, the Golden Clan, and the Purple Clan. After the Human Realm’s three Sacred Emperors departed, the three victorious factions joined the Human Realm, dividing the Eternal Immortal Realm between two powers.

• The Seventh Divine General ordered the Celestial Court’s Heaven Realm Lords and armies to withdraw after they judged the Human Realm too dangerous to confront.
• The Blood Sword Immortal Dynasty, the Nine Nether Immortal Sect, and the Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple fell as their enemies overran them and the Celestial Court abandoned them.
• News spread that the three ancient powers had been destroyed while the Celestial Court retreated before the Human Realm’s three Sacred Emperors.
• The Blood Moon Ancestor ordered the Blood Moon Immortal Sect to join the Human Realm, and the Golden Clan Ancestor and Purple Clan Ancestor issued the same order for their factions.

The Celestial Court dreaded the Human Realm’s strength and ordered Di Cang to keep cultivating toward the summit, while the Human Realm used the hundred years before the tournament to grow stronger and attract new allies. The chapter left the Human Realm’s Heaven’s prides near the Epoch King realm and more people making their way to a society built on equality.

• The Seventh Divine General ordered Di Cang to continue ascending the Heaven-Ascending Ladder and receive every possible aid.
• Powers across the Eternal Immortal Realm declared allegiance to the Human Realm as the Celestial Court’s retreat and the fate of its abandoned vassals spread fear.
• The Human Realm’s fourteen Heaven’s prides absorbed the King of Creation’s Creation Force in ten years and reached the Supreme Peak of the Half-Step Epoch King realm, but deliberately held back from breaking through.
• New powers joined the Human Realm, where Su Bai’s law made all people equal and barred the powerful from abusing the weak.
• Azure Mountain Saint Emperor established a Hundred-Tier Heavenly Ladder and invited anyone who climbed to the sixtieth tier to enter the Human Realm.

After a hundred years of growth beneath the Eternal Immortal Tree, Su Bai’s disciples reached the Supreme Peak of the Half-Step Epoch King realm and prepared to enter the final arena showdown. The Human Realm and the Celestial Court’s forces converged on the Heaven’s Pride Battlefield for a battle set to decide the Eternal Immortal Realm’s future order.

• Yun Xuan effortlessly blocked Yun Hai’s full-strength punch, and he conceded, proud that she had surpassed him after following Su Bai.
• The Grand Elder, Nameless, and the other Human Realm elders watched as Su Bai’s fourteen disciples neared the Epoch King realm, while Xuanwei revealed he had become a Two-Epoch King.
• After the hundred-year deadline arrived, Su Bai’s fourteen disciples and Han Feiyu had reached the Supreme Peak of the Half-Step Epoch King realm.
• Xiao Yan, Su Ling’er, Zhuge Feng, and the other disciples set out from the Human Realm for the Heaven’s Pride Battlefield, where the final arena tournament would begin.
• The Blood Moon Ancestor, Golden Clan Ancestor, Purple Clan Patriarch, Celestial Court forces, and other powers gathered at the battlefield for the decisive confrontation between the Human Realm and the Celestial Court.

The Heaven's Pride Battlefield reopened to reveal that most of the Celestial Court's vassals had abandoned it or chosen neutrality, while the Human Realm's forces filled the eastern stands. As Di Cang and the Seventh Divine General awaited their opponents, a mysterious black-clad man appeared and announced that he would preside over the competition.

• The Human Realm's supporters filled the eastern stands, while the Celestial Court's western stands were nearly empty and its former vassals crowded the neutral area.
• The Seventh Divine General arrived with Di Cang, who had recovered and grown stronger over the past hundred years.
• Di Cang questioned whether the Human Realm would attend, and the Seventh Divine General criticized the forces that had left the Celestial Court.
• Blood Moon Ancestor, Golden Clan Ancestor, and the Purple Clan's patriarch defended their choice to side with the Human Realm.
• A mysterious black-clad man appeared, took the highest seat beside the Seventh Divine General, and announced that he would preside over the competition.

The Human Realm and the Celestial Court assembled their leaders and prodigies at the Heaven's Pride Battlefield, revealing the immense stakes behind the tournament. The Human Realm arrived with three Sacred Emperors, while the Celestial Court fielded three Divine Generals, bringing the confrontation to a fever pitch.

• The Fifth Divine General appeared beside the Seventh Divine General and declared that he wanted to test the Human Realm's strength.
• Azure Mountain Saint Emperor and River-Calming Saint Emperor led the Human Realm's prodigies and supporters through a spatial gate and took the eastern viewing platform.
• The factions and ancestors welcomed the Human Realm leaders, while the Celestial Court's allies watched from a deserted western platform and Di Cang vowed to destroy the Human Realm prodigies.
• The Sixth Divine General appeared beside the Fifth, and the Human Realm's Divine Spear Saint Emperor arrived with his spear and Fire Qilin.
• The Human Realm gathered three Sacred Emperors, while the Celestial Court revealed three Divine Generals, and the battlefield's atmosphere reached its peak.

The Human Realm’s three Sacred Emperors faced the Celestial Court’s three Divine Generals as the third-round arena tournament was about to begin. After trading accusations and threats, the Fifth Divine General officially started the tournament, while he focused his attention on the Human Realm’s prodigies.

• The Human Realm’s Divine Spear Saint Emperor and two other Sacred Emperors confronted the Celestial Court’s three Divine Generals, creating a tense standoff before the tournament.
• The Divine Spear Saint Emperor mocked the Celestial Court’s show of force and said the Human Realm had come to prevent another underhanded attack on its disciples.
• The Fifth Divine General halted the Seventh Divine General and challenged the Human Realm’s prodigies to settle their grievances in the arena.
• Xiao Yan taunted Di Cang over his failure to reach the ten-thousandth floor, drawing cheers from the eastern stands and angering Di Cang.
• The Fifth Divine General suspected Xiao Yan was Wu Wushuang and declared the third-round arena tournament officially begun.

The arena tournament began under rules that let lower-ranked competitors choose their opponents, leaving the Human Realm’s top-ranked heaven’s prides exposed to challenges. The first challenger forfeited, and rank ninety-nine chose Chen Yu, who rose with a mud-caked rake strapped to his back.

• The Fifth Divine General announced that the arena tournament would use second-round rankings, allow challenges against higher-ranked competitors, and permit three failed attempts before elimination.
• The ranking list showed the Human Realm held the top fourteen places and eighty-six of the hundred spots, with Di Cang ranked fifteenth.
• The competitor ranked one hundred hesitated before the Human Realm’s overwhelming lineup, then forfeited his first match.
• The competitor ranked ninety-nine, a golden-armored young man from a Celestial Court vassal faction, chose to challenge Chen Yu.
• Chen Yu stood up carrying a rake with clumps of mud still attached, leaving the spectators stunned.

Chen Yu challenged the Human Realm youth ranked ninety-ninth, who introduced himself as Zhang Goudan and drew widespread laughter for his name and mud-stained rake. The Human Realm’s leaders and disciples remained quietly amused, hinting that the scene resembled an earlier encounter.

• Chen Yu announced his challenge but realized he did not know the name of his Human Realm opponent.
• The youth introduced himself as Zhang Goudan, and spectators across the battlefield burst into laughter.
• Celestial Court factions and the Golden Absolute Ancestor mocked Zhang Goudan and praised Chen Yu’s strength.
• Azure Mountain Saint Emperor, River-Calming Saint Emperor, Divine Spear Saint Emperor, and the Human Realm disciples showed no anger and quietly held back their laughter.
• The scene reminded the Human Realm disciples of a past encounter between a village youth carrying a rake and a favored child of a powerful force.

Zhang Goudan faced Chen Yu in the Heaven's Pride Battlefield, where Chen Yu expected an easy victory over the seemingly rustic youth. Zhang Goudan defeated him with one casual rake strike, leaving the watching powers stunned and Chen Yu gravely injured.

• Chen Yu mocked Zhang Goudan and promised to let him win if Zhang could touch him once.
• Zhang Goudan took up his rake, and the Fifth Divine General started the second challenge of the third round.
• Chen Yu attacked with Golden Severing Divine Light, but Zhang Goudan casually dragged his rake down and shattered the golden blade radiance.
• Zhang Goudan struck Chen Yu in the chest with his rake, breaking all his bones and sending him crashing to the arena's edge.
• Zhang Goudan apologized for hitting too hard as Chen Yu vomited blood and the spectators stared in shock.

Zhang Goudan defeated Chen Yu with one casual rake strike, terrifying the Heaven's Pride Battlefield and prompting challenger after challenger to forfeit. The chapter ended with Di Cang furious as the Celestial Court's vassal prodigies refused to face the Human Realm.

• Zhang Goudan apologized to Ancestor Golden Severing after his rake strike crushed Chen Yu's defenses and left him badly injured.
• Ancestor Golden Severing withdrew with Chen Yu, intimidated by the silver-robed Divine General, while Azure Mountain Saint Emperor praised Zhang Goudan.
• The Fifth Divine General declared Zhang Goudan the winner, and spectators marveled at his physical strength and the mysterious rake.
• A neutral faction's Heaven's Pride forfeited rather than challenge the Human Realm, and successive challengers followed suit.
• Di Cang watched the Celestial Court's vassal prodigies forfeit one after another and seethed at their fear of the Human Realm.

Ji Tianji, Violet, and the Mystic Ice Fairy forfeited, while Steel Pillar defeated the Little War King and Zhang Goudan traded rankings with Steel Pillar through rock, paper, scissors. After Di Cang demanded a real fight, the Fifth Divine General and the Divine Spear Saint Emperor agreed to begin the final showdown.

• Ji Tianji and Violet forfeited their matches, and the Little War King challenged Steel Pillar.
• Steel Pillar blocked the Little War King's War King Eight Forms without moving, and the Little War King conceded with admiration.
• The Mystic Ice Fairy forfeited, leaving the Human Realm's contestants to challenge one another.
• Zhang Goudan and Steel Pillar played rock, paper, scissors; Zhang Goudan won, and Steel Pillar conceded so their rankings switched.
• Di Cang angrily demanded a real battle, and Xiao Yan accepted the challenge.
• The Fifth Divine General proposed proceeding directly to the final showdown, and the Divine Spear Saint Emperor agreed.

The final showdown between the Celestial Court and Human Realm began under a best-three-out-of-five format, with Di Cang entering the first match. Xiao Yan faced him after spectators mistook him for Wu Wushuang, then announced himself as Chen Fan.

• The Fifth Divine General declared that the Celestial Court and Human Realm would settle their final showdown in a best-three-out-of-five contest, with the Celestial Court sending out its Heaven's Pride first.
• Di Cang entered the arena and challenged the Human Realm's grass-biting youth, while Xiao Yan mocked him and delayed taking his place.
• Spectators assumed Xiao Yan was Wu Wushuang and opened betting pools, but Xiao Yan briefly returned from the arena to ask if he could bet too.
• Xiao Yan taunted Di Cang until his anger nearly overcame him, then calmly walked back onto the arena to face him.
• Di Cang demanded his opponent's name, and Xiao Yan solemnly introduced himself as Human Realm, Chen Fan.

Xiao Yan revealed that he was using the name Chen Fan, ranked thirteenth on the Heavenly Dao Ranking, and provoked Di Cang into their first fight. Xiao Yan met Di Cang’s opening attack with Star Art and appeared to gain a slight advantage, leaving Di Cang wary of his strength.

• Xiao Yan identified himself as Chen Fan, shocking the spectators who had believed he was Wu Wushuang.
• Di Cang accused Xiao Yan of toying with him, and Xiao Yan taunted him for challenging a thirteenth-ranked fighter.
• Di Cang summoned his Imperial Dao phantom and struck Xiao Yan with a giant golden palm.
• Xiao Yan countered with Star Art, and their collision shook the arena before his attack dispersed Di Cang’s golden palm.
• Di Cang realized Chen Fan had withstood his strike with ease and wondered how strong the Human Realm’s higher-ranked prodigies were.