Chapter Summaries

After the Human Realm’s geniuses left the Heaven’s Pride Battlefield triumphant, the Divine Spear Saint Emperor stayed behind and met the Celestial Court’s First Divine General. The two powerful figures began a silent confrontation after Di Cang’s death.

• The gathered powers recognized that the Human Realm had defeated the Celestial Court’s invincible reputation and departed from the battlefield.
• Xuan Qingyi observed the Human Realm’s close-knit geniuses and realized they treated one another like family.
• The Human Realm’s leaders led their geniuses away while the Celestial Court’s three Divine Generals left with resentful glares.
• The Divine Spear Saint Emperor remained alone in the arena and called for someone hidden in the void to appear.
• The First Divine General emerged, and he and the Divine Spear Saint Emperor silently tested one another with their gazes.

The First Divine General confronted the Divine Spear Saint Emperor but could not determine the Human Realm’s true strength, leaving with a new fear of it. News of the Human Realm’s prodigies then spread across the Eternal Immortal Realm, where factions began to regard it as a potential rival to the Celestial Court.

• The First Divine General unleashed his Emperor’s Might against the Divine Spear Saint Emperor, but the Saint Emperor remained calm and gave him no insight into the Human Realm.
• The First Divine General withdrew his pressure, vanished into the void, and resolved that the Celestial Court had to fear the Human Realm.
• The First Divine General dwelled on the Saint Emperor’s rank as the Twelfth Sequence and felt pressure from the higher Sequences and the possible First Sequence.
• News spread that Human Realm prodigies had killed Di Cang and achieved feats that astonished the Eternal Immortal Realm.
• Disciples and old monsters discussed the Human Realm’s prodigies and unknown foundations, concluding that it might equal or surpass the Celestial Court.

Over a thousand years after the Heaven's Pride Tournament, the Human Realm's prodigies cultivated beneath the Chaos Immortal Tree and fifteen of them entered the Epoch King Realm with Nascent Emperor Arts. The chapter left the Human Realm with more than five hundred Immortal Kings and a strength hidden from the outside world.

• Zhuge Feng perfected his Dao, created an Emperor Art, and broke through to the Fourth Epoch beneath the Chaos Immortal Tree.
• Wu Wushuang entered the Fourth Epoch, followed over the centuries by Xiao Yan, Xiao Lingxi, Su Ling'er, Ye Ziyao, and other prodigies who comprehended their own Nascent Emperor Arts.
• Jiuyue combined spear and sword arts, forging an Emperor Art that joined offense and defense.
• Su Qingyun entered the Epoch Domain in the thousandth year and transformed the Way of Deception into a Nascent Emperor Art, bringing the number of Epoch Kings among the fifteen prodigies to fifteen.
• Yun Xuan reached the Half-Step Epoch King Realm but continued to accumulate strength instead of advancing.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect's disciples grew to more than five hundred Immortal Kings, including 128 Peerless Immortal Kings and 55 Half-Step Epoch Kings, while Su Bai concealed the breakthroughs' phenomena from the outside world.

The Human Realm’s elders advanced rapidly beneath the Chaos Immortal Tree, building its strength until it could challenge the Celestial Court. In the eleven-hundredth year, the Primordial Battlefield erupted with Taboo auras, signaling a new Emperor Path Strife as Su Bai opened his eyes.

• Xuanwei broke through to Fourth-Epoch King, while Yuan Heng, the Grand Elder, and the Life Immortal King advanced to Third-Epoch King, with the Life Immortal King reaching the peak of Fifth-Epoch King.
• Nameless, Tianzhu, Situ Chen, and Yu Yan entered the ranks of Two-Epoch Kings, and Yun Hai became an Epoch King.
• The Human Realm’s ranks grew to more than five hundred Immortal Kings and over twenty Epoch Kings, making it a power capable of facing the Celestial Court.
• In the eleven-hundredth year, a blood-red pillar of light erupted from the Primordial Battlefield, revealing fallen Taboo beings and shaking all five realms.
• Ancient wills awoke across the five realms as the new Emperor Path Strife began, and Su Bai opened his eyes with Nine Hundred Ninety-Nine Divine Rings flashing across them.

The Primordial Battlefield opened, revealing the remains of fallen Epoch Kings and the Emperor Path, which triggered the coming Five Realms War. The Demon and Ghost Realms began mobilizing their forces to claim the Emperor’s Throne.

• The blood-red pillar opened the Primordial Battlefield, exposing the remains of the previous Epoch’s fallen Taboo Kings and shaking the Eternal Immortal Realm.
• A second blast unleashed the Emperor Path’s Dao Origin, awakening ancient wills across the Five Great Realms and drawing their gaze toward the battlefield.
• The colossal Demon, the purple-gold dragon, and the Seven-Colored Heavenly Phoenix declared that the Demon Race would claim the Emperor’s Throne.
• The King of Myriad Demons ordered every demon of demon general rank or higher to assemble and march to the Primordial Battlefield.
• Ten figures rose from their White Bone Thrones in the Netherworld Ghost Hall, and the Ghost Realm’s rulers ordered the Ghost Kings to assemble and march.

As the Emperor Path opened, the God Race and Devil Race mobilized for a new Five Realms War. Su Bai emerged from a thousand years of cultivation as invincible beneath the Emperors, then rallied the Human Realm before revealing that the coming conflict would be the Six Realms War.

• The twelve High Gods summoned the God Race to the Primordial Battlefield to eliminate their rivals for the Emperor Path.
• The Seventy-Two Demon Pillars awakened, and the Devil Race assembled its armies to seize the Emperor's Throne.
• The Blood Moon Ancestor and other Immortal Realm experts recognized the Emperor Path's opening as both a grave danger and a chance to gain an advantage.
• Su Bai completed his thousand-year comprehension of his disciples' Nascent Emperor Arts and reached the Nine-Epoch Supreme Peak, becoming invincible beneath the Emperors.
• Su Bai asked his disciples and elders whether they feared the coming war, and they pledged to fight alongside him.
• Su Bai told the Human Realm that the coming conflict was not the Five Realms War but the Six Realms War.

Su Bai led the Human Realm to declare war and sent its fighting spirit toward the Primordial Battlefield, where the other four realms assembled vast armies and powerful leaders. The Eternal Immortal Realm began mobilizing, but the Celestial Court remained conspicuously inactive as the Five Realms War approached.

• Su Bai decided that the Human Realm would fight in the Emperor Path Strife and explained that it would stand as the realm of humanity, not represent the Eternal Immortal Realm.
• The Chaos Immortal Tree released chaotic light as Su Bai and the Human Realm’s disciples and elders sent their battle cry toward the Primordial Battlefield.
• The Devil Race, Demon Realm, Ghost Realm, and Divine Realm arrived on the battlefield with immense armies and numerous Taboo Kings and other powerful leaders.
• The four realms’ leaders turned their attention toward the Eternal Immortal Realm and the Celestial Court.
• The Eternal Immortal Realm’s sects, clans, and holy lands mobilized, but the Celestial Court’s army and powerhouses made no move.

With the Emperor Path open for three months, the Celestial Court remained inactive, baffling the four rival realms and alarming the Eternal Immortal Realm's factions. The Seventh Divine General named the Human Realm as the strongest power, and the Blood Moon Ancestor and Golden Clan Ancestor realized the Celestial Court was trying to make it the target of a four-realm assault.

• The Slaughter Demon King and leaders of the Demon, God, and other realms questioned why the Celestial Court had not appeared to contest the Emperor Path.
• Old monsters across the Eternal Immortal Realm feared their factions could not face the four realms without the Celestial Court's peak experts.
• The Seventh Divine General declared that the Celestial Court was not the strongest power in the Eternal Immortal Realm.
• The other factions understood that he was identifying the Human Realm as the power that should lead the war.
• The Blood Moon Ancestor and Golden Clan Ancestor concluded that the Celestial Court was directing the four realms to attack the Human Realm so it could profit from the conflict.

The Blood Moon Immortal Sect, Golden Clan, and Purple Clan learned that the Celestial Court had made the Human Realm a target for the four Greater Realms, and they pledged to stand with the Human Realm. The Human Realm marched into the Primordial Battlefield under three Saint Emperors, while the Celestial Court stayed behind and the four Greater Realms judged the arriving army to be outmatched.

• The Blood Moon Ancestor concluded that the four Greater Realms would attack the Human Realm and resolved to warn its Sacred Emperors.
• The Golden Clan Ancestor and Purple Clan Head pledged to advance and retreat alongside the Human Realm.
• The Azure Mountain Saint Emperor arrived, thanked the allied forces, and dismissed the Celestial Court as nothing to worry about.
• The next day, the Azure Mountain Saint Emperor, River-Calming Saint Emperor, and Divine Spear Saint Emperor led the Human Realm's army into the Primordial Battlefield.
• The four Greater Realms' leaders assessed the Human Realm's forces as insufficient, while the Celestial Court and its vassals stayed out of the battle.

The Slaughter Demon King and the other Greater Realms’ commanders realized the Celestial Court was trying to use them against the Human Realm, while the Seventh Divine General publicly disparaged the Human Realm’s forces. The Ice God Palace and Sword Palace then pledged to fight alongside the Human Realm, and the Ice God accused the Celestial Court of costing the Immortal Realm victory in the previous Five Realms War.

• The Slaughter Demon King decided that the Demon Realm would fight the Human Realm on its own terms rather than become the Celestial Court’s weapon.
• The Human Realm’s ten million disciples marched into the Primordial Battlefield as the four Greater Realms’ forces questioned their strength.
• The Seventh Divine General warned the Human Realm and emphasized its small number of Epoch Kings to turn the four Greater Realms against it.
• The Ice God arrived with the Ice God Palace and pledged to stand or fall with the Human Realm.
• The Sword Lord arrived and declared that the Sword Palace would stand or fall with the Human Realm.
• The Ice God and Sword Lord accused the Celestial Court of abandoning them in the previous Five Realms War, and the Ice God claimed the Immortal Realm would have won without its interference.

The Ice God and Sword Lord revealed that the Celestial Court had deliberately sabotaged the Immortal Realm during the previous Five Realms War. They accused the Celestial Court of sacrificing the realm and countless lives to preserve the First Divine General’s chance to become an Emperor, leaving the Seventh Divine General facing furious condemnation.

• The Ice God told the gathered realms that the Immortal Realm had once been dominant but lost crucial battles because the Celestial Court’s forces stood aside while its allies died.
• The Sword Lord revealed that the three Supreme Elders of Sword Palace had died because the Celestial Court betrayed its promise to fight alongside them.
• The Ice God explained that he chose the Human Realm because its people reminded him of the loyal heroes who had fought for the Immortal Realm.
• The Seventh Divine General attacked the Ice God with his Taboo aura, but the Ice God overpowered him and forced him to stagger back.
• The Sword Lord accused the Celestial Court of engineering the Immortal Realm’s defeat so the First Divine General could claim the Emperor’s throne, and the gathered experts reacted with disbelief.

Ice God and Sword Lord exposed the Celestial Court’s plan to sacrifice the Immortal Realm’s chances in the Five Realms War so the First Divine General could claim the Emperor’s Throne. As factions rallied behind the Human Realm, the Divine Spear Saint Emperor declared that they would enter the war in its name.

• Ice God and Sword Lord revealed that the Celestial Court had withdrawn from the previous Five Realms War to protect the First Divine General’s chance to become Emperor.
• Ice God condemned the Celestial Court, and the Seventh Divine General left the Primordial Battlefield in disgrace without securing troops.
• The Celestial Extremity Immortal Gate, Heavenly Abyss Sacred Land, Purple Thunder Divine Sect, Grand Void Sword Sect, Primordial Unity Immortal Sect, and other factions joined the Human Realm, swelling its forces.
• Su Bai watched from the Chaos Immortal Tree and concluded that the First Divine General had been hiding a major plan.
• The Divine Spear Saint Emperor addressed the gathered realms and declared, “We enter the war in the name of the Human Realm!”

The Divine Spear Saint Emperor declared that the Human Realm was an independent Eternal Realm, separate from the Eternal Immortal Realm. As the Celestial Court faced pressure to join the war, the First Divine General ordered its forces to march to the Primordial Battlefield, naming the Demon World as their true opponent.

• The Divine Spear Saint Emperor announced that the Human Realm stood as an Eternal Realm of its own, stunning the forces gathered at the Primordial Battlefield.
• The Sword Lord celebrated the Human Realm's independence, while the Ice God felt reassured about her choice to support it.
• Factions across the Eternal Immortal Realm panicked and demanded that the Celestial Court send troops before the Heavenly Dao stripped their realm of its Fortune and resources.
• The Fifth Divine General and the Seventh Divine General recognized that the Celestial Court could no longer avoid the war without risking punishment.
• The First Divine General ordered the Celestial Court's powerful fighters and millions of Heavenly Soldiers to march to the Primordial Battlefield, declaring the Demon World their true opponent.

The Emperor Path opened on the Primordial Battlefield as the four Greater Realms gathered to claim it, and the Celestial Court deployed its forces under the First Divine General. When the Fourth Divine General called the Human Realm a land of ants, the Divine Spear Saint Emperor challenged him, and a terrifying Human Realm powerhouse appeared atop the Chaos Immortal Tree.

• The Celestial Court sent out its army and revealed six Taboo Kings, while the First Divine General’s aura shook the battlefield.
• The Gate of the Ascending Path opened, revealing the road to the Emperor Path and stirring the ambitions of the Demon, Monster, Ghost, and God realms.
• The Celestial Court’s Fourth Divine General derided the Human Realm, and the Divine Spear Saint Emperor reminded him of the Celestial Court’s defeats at the Heaven's Pride Tournament.
• A supreme aura spread across the battlefield, and the Slaughter Demon King and other Taboo Kings recoiled in fear.
• A white-robed figure appeared atop the Chaos Immortal Tree and looked toward the Ascension Road as he challenged anyone who said the Human Realm had no supreme powerhouse.

Su Bai appeared above the Primordial Battlefield, and his overwhelming presence made the Five Great Realms’ powerhouses fear the Human Realm’s true strength. He accepted the battle for the Emperor Path, and the Myriad Realms Heavenly Dao approved as the Emperor Path Strife began.

• Su Bai appeared atop the Chaos Immortal Tree, leaving the Taboo beings of the Five Great Realms unable to move and trembling before him.
• The Slaughter Demon King and the other realms’ leaders realized the Human Realm had the strength to challenge the Celestial Court and the other Greater Realms.
• The Ice God and Sword Lord affirmed that they had chosen the right side, while the Human Realm’s allies and disciples rejoiced in Su Bai’s power.
• Su Bai declared that the Human Realm accepted the battle for the Emperor Path.
• The Myriad Realms Heavenly Dao approved the Human Realm’s participation, and the Gate of the Ascending Path opened to begin the Emperor Path Strife.

The Emperor Path Strife’s first trial required beings below the True Immortal Realm from six realms to fight in the First Heaven until only one realm remained, putting the newly established Human Realm at a severe numerical disadvantage. As four rival realms unleashed enormous armies, the chapter left the Human Realm facing overwhelming odds.

• The Heavenly Dao revealed that the six realms would fight in the First Heaven without limits on numbers, and the last realm standing would claim the rewards stripped from the others.
• The Ice God and the Sword Master worried that the Human Realm’s small foundation could not withstand the accumulated forces of the other realms, while the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Divine Generals mocked it.
• Six pillars of light answered the Gate of the Ascending Path and signaled the start of the trial.
• The Slaughter Demon King sent two million eight hundred trillion Devil Race troops into the First Heaven from the Demon World.
• The Demon Realm deployed one million eight hundred trillion demonic beasts, and the Ghost Realm sent one million seven hundred trillion undead.
• The Divine Realm unleashed one million five hundred trillion angels, bringing the four realms’ forces to eight million trillion against the Human Realm’s six or seven hundred billion Heavenly Immortal and Earth Immortal disciples.

The Celestial Court deployed three quadrillion troops for the Emperor Path struggle, including one quadrillion Loose Immortals whom other realms condemned as cannon fodder. The chapter ended with the Five Great Realms turning their attention to the Human Realm and wondering how many battle-ready troops it could field.

• The Fourth Divine General led two quadrillion Heavenly Soldiers and one quadrillion troops from the Celestial Court’s subordinate factions toward the First Heaven.
• The Slaughter Demon King and other experts noticed that one quadrillion of the Celestial Court’s troops were Loose Immortals and mocked them as expendable cannon fodder.
• The Ice God, Sword Master, and experts from the Demon World condemned the Celestial Court for treating the Loose Immortals’ lives as disposable.
• The Fourth Divine General and Fifth Divine General dismissed the criticism, while the Fourth Divine General declared that the Celestial Court would win the first round.
• The Five Great Realms turned their attention to the Human Realm and questioned how many troops it could bring to the battle.

Su Bai assembled more than five hundred billion Celestial Immortal disciples for the Emperor Path Strife, with He Ping'an leading them. He warned them about the deadly first battlefield, and the disciples stood ready to defend the Human Realm despite the overwhelming odds.

• He Ping'an, a legendary sword cultivator who had suppressed his breakthrough to True Immortal, prepared to lead the Human Realm’s first battle with his Wooden Sword.
• Su Bai arrived before the disciples, and He Ping'an and the gathered five hundred billion disciples greeted him.
• Su Bai asked He Ping'an about the stakes and their opponents; He Ping'an named the vast forces of the other realms and declared that a true sword cultivator would not retreat.
• He Ping'an rallied the disciples to fight for their sect and homeland, and his Wooden Sword blazed with azure light as they vowed to fight beside him.
• Su Bai warned the disciples that the first heaven’s battlefield had no rules and that many of them would die, then acknowledged the unfairness of sending them into the struggle.

Su Bai gave the Heavenly Dao Sect’s disciples the choice to join Emperor Path Strife, and they all volunteered to fight for the Human Realm. He sent them to the Primordial Battlefield under He Ping'an’s command and secretly ensured that every disciple who died could be revived.

• Su Bai told the more than five hundred billion disciples that they could choose whether to fight, since Emperor Path Strife was his and the Human Realm’s war.
• He Ping'an led the disciples in declaring their resolve to fight, and Su Bai appointed him to command the first battle and gave him the Human Realm command token.
• He Ping'an accepted the command and led the disciples through the Teleportation Array toward the Primordial Battlefield.
• Su Bai secretly placed a protective measure on every disciple, ensuring that all who died in battle would revive within the Human Realm.
• Su Bai watched the disciples depart and declared that in ten thousand years the Human Realm would produce a trillion powerhouses.

The Human Realm’s one-trillion-strong army arrived at the Primordial Battlefield, where the Five Great Realms mocked its small numbers. He Ping'an led the troops toward the Emperor Path, and the chapter ended with the Fourth Divine General challenging the Human Realm to a wager.

• The Heavenly Dao Sect and the Human Realm’s vassal factions gathered just over one trillion Celestial Immortal disciples on the Primordial Battlefield.
• The Divine Generals and leaders of the Five Great Realms mocked the Human Realm’s small army and predicted its defeat.
• He Ping'an and the Human Realm disciples remained resolute, and their unified fighting spirit surprised the opposing powerhouses.
• He Ping'an pointed his sword toward the First Heaven of the Emperor Path and ordered the Human Realm to set out.
• The Fourth Divine General challenged the Human Realm to gamble with the Celestial Court.