Chapter Summaries

Yun Xuan fought the Undead Ghost King’s endlessly replenishing army, advancing through the forms of her Immortal Spirit Swordsmanship while the Ghost Realm expected her to be worn down. She unleashed the Ninth Form, whose radiance began purifying the undead and ghostly qi, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Yun Xuan slew tens of millions of undead with the Second Form, but the Undead Ghost King replenished its army and taunted her about running out of spiritual power.
• Yun Xuan used the Third Form to cut down hundreds of millions of undead and split the Ghost King’s condensed form in half, but more undead appeared.
• Yun Xuan unleashed the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Forms, destroying Ghost Generals and preventing undead from taking shape within her sword domain as the Ghost King repeatedly reformed.
• The experts watching feared Yun Xuan would be exhausted, while the Extreme Frost Ghost King observed that she remained unnervingly calm.
• Yun Xuan raised her sword and invoked the Ninth Form, gathering an immense Sword Intent that made the Undead Ghost King realize the danger.
• Yun Xuan’s Ninth Form released boundless radiance that reduced every undead it touched to ashes and erased the ghostly qi it reached.

Yun Xuan’s Ninth Sword annihilated the undead army, but the Undead Ghost King revived using skeletons hidden beneath the battlefield and restored its forces. As the undead swarmed over Yun Xuan, she unleashed another surge of Sword Qi and began manifesting the aura of Emperor Art.

• Yun Xuan’s Ninth Sword wiped out the battlefield’s undead and vaporized the Undead Ghost King’s body.
• A tiny skeleton hidden beneath rubble at the battlefield’s edge grew into the Undead Ghost King, which summoned an even larger undead army.
• The Undead Ghost King declared Yun Xuan exhausted and the Ghost Realm’s victory certain as undead buried her from view.
• A black-robed figure in the Demon World urged Yun Xuan to take her Emperor Path step.
• Yun Xuan erupted with Sword Qi, cleared away more than half the undead, and gathered sacred radiance that the Six Realms recognized as the aura of Emperor Art.

Yun Xuan comprehended the Emperor Art Sword of Ultimate Justice and advanced to the Four-Epoch Peak as Heavenly Will blessed her. Her Tenth Sword purified the battlefield and annihilated the Undead Ghost King, leaving the Six Realms’ powerhouses to marvel at her strength.

• Yun Xuan’s Emperor Dao Runes appeared, and the powerhouses realized she was comprehending an Emperor Art.
• Heavenly Will bestowed its blessing on Yun Xuan, raising her from the Early Fourth Epoch to the Four-Epoch Peak.
• Yun Xuan revealed her Emperor Art, Sword of Ultimate Justice, and unleashed its Tenth Sword across the battlefield.
• The light purified the undead, their avatars, and every contingency, destroying the Undead Ghost King without a trace.
• The Six Realms’ powerhouses celebrated Yun Xuan’s feat and discussed how her strength compared with Jian Chen’s.

Yun Xuan defeated the Undead Ghost King with the Emperor Art, securing the Human Realm’s ninth consecutive victory. After the remaining Round Nine matches, the roulette paired the undefeated Human Realm against the Immortal Realm for Round Ten’s opening match.

• Yun Xuan killed the Undead Ghost King with the Emperor Art, and Heavenly Will declared a Human Realm victory.
• The Heaven-Swallowing Demon Beast King sent the Space-Splitting Demon Beast King against Jian Chen, and Jian Chen killed him instantly.
• A Demon World Demon King killed a Five-Epoch Supreme Peak Ancient God, giving the Divine Realm its seventh defeat.
• Round Nine ended with the Human Realm undefeated, the Immortal Realm at six wins and three losses, and the Divine Realm near elimination.
• The Heavenly Will Roulette matched the Human Realm against the Immortal Realm in Round Ten’s first match.

Yun Xuan accepted Jian Chen’s challenge despite being a realm below him, determined to test her Sword of Justice against his Evil Sword. The two faced each other on the Primordial Battlefield, and Jian Chen revealed that the Evil Sword Immortal Path was his true trump card.

• Jian Chen entered the battlefield and challenged Yun Xuan to see whether her Sword of Justice could sever his evil.
• Su Ling'er warned Yun Xuan that Jian Chen had slain the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Child with one strike and urged her to let someone else fight.
• Yun Xuan refused to avoid the duel, saying that doing so would leave her Sword of Justice and state of mind incomplete.
• Yun Xuan walked into the battlefield and met Jian Chen ten thousand miles away from him as the Six Realms watched.
• Jian Chen summoned the Evil Sword, Heaven-Slaying, and declared that his Evil Sword Immortal Path was his true trump card.

Jian Chen and Yun Xuan clashed with their Evil Sword and Sword of Justice, then unleashed their strongest attacks against each other. Their final collision swallowed the battlefield in Chaos, leaving victory undecided.

• Jian Chen unleashed the Evil Sword's World Annihilation against Yun Xuan's Sword of Justice, and their powers shook the Epoch Battlefield.
• Yun Xuan and Jian Chen emerged wounded but continued fighting, each declaring they had one final strike.
• Jian Chen formed Evil Sword World Annihilation, Heaven-Severing Earth-Sundering, while Yun Xuan prepared Sword of Justice, Pierce Through the Myriad Realms.
• Jian Chen struck first, and Yun Xuan met his attack with a river of white-gold justice.
• The two strongest strikes collided, spreading Chaos across the battlefield as the onlookers could not determine who had won.

Jian Chen showed Yun Xuan the memories of his past, from his joyful youth in the Sword Household to the massacre that destroyed his home and left him helpless before a cruel enemy. His tormentor continued to force him to witness the deaths and abuse of those he loved.

• Jian Chen revealed his memories to Yun Xuan and challenged her to consider who would grant him justice.
• Young Jian Chen won the Sword Household's grand tournament with his Wooden Sword, earning praise from Jian Wuji and his Junior Sister.
• A massacre left Sword City filled with corpses, while Jian Wuji and Jian Chen's six-year-old Junior Sister were killed.
• A brocade-clad young man mocked the wounded Jian Chen, suppressed his spiritual energy, and healed him only to prolong his suffering.
• The young man abused and killed Jian Chen's beloved women and friends before him, then taunted him over his despair.

Jian Chen recounted the losses and betrayals that drove him to wield the Evil Sword and destroy an entire world, then challenged Yun Xuan’s claim to justice. He unleashed a vastly strengthened sword strike in Chaos.

• Jian Chen begged ninety-nine Immortal Gates to avenge the Sword Household, but each refused or drove him away, leaving him convinced that justice did not exist.
• Jian Chen watched his friends, disciple, and beloved die because of his enemies, until he abandoned hope and took up the sealed Evil Sword.
• Jian Chen gathered power for one hundred years, killed every enemy who had destroyed his household, and sacrificed an entire world into the Ten-Thousand Souls Banner.
• Jian Chen confronted Yun Xuan in Chaos, arguing that his Evil Sword had been forced into being by the world and rejecting her justice and pity.
• Jian Chen’s hatred and pain empowered his Evil Sword more than tenfold, and he attacked with “Evil Sword World Annihilation, Sever Heaven and Earth!!”

Jian Chen overwhelmed Yun Xuan with his Evil Sword and demanded to know what right she had to judge him when justice had failed him. Yun Xuan acknowledged his suffering and revenge but challenged him over sacrificing innocent civilians, leaving him unable to defend what he had become.

• Jian Chen's black-and-crimson sword light suppressed Yun Xuan's Emperor Art as he accused her of judging him with a justice he had never received.
• Yun Xuan agreed that justice arriving a hundred billion years late was meaningless and acknowledged Jian Chen's revenge against those who had harmed him.
• Yun Xuan asked who would give justice to the innocent civilians Jian Chen had sacrificed and refined into the Ten-Thousand Souls Banner.
• Jian Chen remembered the civilians' terrified, confused faces as Yun Xuan told him he had become the person he once hated.
• Jian Chen could not answer whether he was a righteous avenger or the same kind of enemy who had destroyed his household.

Yun Xuan shattered Jian Chen’s Evil Sword and reminded him that his revenge had made him a butcher of innocents. After briefly regaining clarity, Jian Chen rejected her judgment and unleashed the Emperor Soul Banner, revealing that he had sacrificed countless worlds and refined their inhabitants into souls.

• Yun Xuan confronted Jian Chen with the difference between his revenge and her justice of protecting the innocent.
• Yun Xuan’s Light of Justice shattered Jian Chen’s Evil Sword and restored his original face and clarity.
• Jian Chen briefly questioned whether he had been wrong, but then rejected Yun Xuan’s verdict and summoned the Emperor Soul Banner.
• Jian Chen revealed that the banner contained quadrillions of souls from countless sacrificed worlds and sent them surging toward Yun Xuan.
• Jian Chen fully embraced evil and challenged Yun Xuan to purify the countless souls and their resentment.

Yun Xuan faced Jian Chen’s Emperor Soul Banner, which held countless souls sacrificed and trapped from rebirth, and realized she could not purify them all with her finite Immortal Power. She burned that power to unleash Reversal of Reincarnation, aiming to guide the departed souls back to rebirth, while Jian Chen feared the strain would overwhelm her.

• Jian Chen unfurled the Emperor Soul Banner, unleashing countless tormented souls and shocking the experts of the Six Realms with its power.
• Yun Xuan used her Emperor Art to shield herself and purify the souls, but each one consumed her Immortal Power.
• Jian Chen taunted Yun Xuan that she could not outlast the vast number of souls in the banner.
• Yun Xuan recalled her purpose of protecting all living beings and declared that the departed souls had longings too.
• Yun Xuan burned her Immortal Power and invoked Emperor Art: Reversal of Reincarnation to send the departed souls back into rebirth.
• Jian Chen panicked, warning that reversing Reincarnation was beyond Yun Xuan’s cultivation and would overwhelm her.

Yun Xuan destroyed Jian Chen’s Emperor Soul Banner by sending its countless trapped souls into Reincarnation, including his junior sister, and exposed how far his pursuit of justice had led him astray. Overcome with despair but unwilling to accept defeat, Jian Chen began burning his life and soul to launch one final strike.

• Yun Xuan used her Emperor Art to free the dead souls from the Emperor Soul Banner and send them into Reincarnation.
• The Emperor Soul Banner shattered, and Jian Chen recognized his junior sister among the souls as she entered Reincarnation.
• Yun Xuan told Jian Chen that he had become like the oppressors he once hated and that his junior sister had seen a monster instead of her hoped-for hero.
• Jian Chen wept, admitted he had taken the wrong road, and said he could no longer turn back.
• Jian Chen gathered the banner fragments and began burning his life, soul, and everything he had for one final strike.

Yun Xuan defeated Jian Chen with the Justice Emperor Art, giving the Human Realm an unprecedented ten consecutive victories. The second battle began as the Black Dragon King entered the arena to face the Demon World, whose champion had not yet appeared.

• Jian Chen burned everything to unleash a final sword, but Yun Xuan answered with her last strength and destroyed his attack.
• Jian Chen was reduced to ashes, and Heavenly Will declared the Human Realm victorious in all ten battles.
• The Six Realms celebrated the Human Realm’s record as Yun Xuan stood exhausted in the arena.
• Heavenly Will announced the second battle between the Demon World and the Demon Realm.
• The Black Dragon King entered the battlefield in his enormous Five-Clawed Black Dragon form while the Demon World awaited its fighter.

Netherworld King emerged from the Demon World camp, revealing that he had suppressed his realm for tens of millions of years to compete in this era’s Epoch Battlefield. He challenged the Five-Clawed Black Dragon King and sent him crashing into the battlefield with one strike.

• Demon King Asura called on Netherworld King to fight after the Demon World powerhouses worried about facing the Five-Clawed Black Dragon King.
• Netherworld King revealed himself as the Demon World’s leading Epoch King from the previous era and explained that he had delayed becoming Taboo so he could fight in this era’s Emperor Path Strife.
• The Five-Clawed Black Dragon King recognized Netherworld King’s reputation and asked whether suppressing his realm for tens of millions of years had been worth it.
• Netherworld King said he had waited for worthy opponents, praising the Five-Clawed Black Dragon King’s strength and challenging him to use his full power.
• The Five-Clawed Black Dragon King released his Super Divine Beast dragon might, but Netherworld King appeared behind him and blocked his claw.
• Netherworld King struck the Five-Clawed Black Dragon King with Netherdemon Seal, sending him crashing into the ground with a single palm.

The Netherworld King defeated the Five-Clawed Black Dragon King using only his physical strength, revealing the power he had accumulated while suppressing his realm. The Demon World claimed victory in the second match of the tenth round, and attention turned to the Ghost Realm’s still-unseen leader.

• The Five-Clawed Black Dragon King burned his dragon blood with Dragon Blood Burns the Heavens and attacked the Netherworld King again.
• The Netherworld King repeatedly overpowered the Five-Clawed Black Dragon King with pure physical strength, despite the latter burning away seventy percent of his dragon blood.
• The Netherworld King released the Black Dragon King and urged him to admit defeat, explaining that his accumulated power made victory impossible.
• The Five-Clawed Black Dragon King admitted defeat and transformed back into human form.
• Heavenly Will declared the Demon World the winner of the second match of the tenth round, and the experts turned their attention to the Ghost Realm’s leading figure.

Ghost Princess entered the tenth round’s match and forced the Divine Realm to surrender after effortlessly breaking its Five-Epoch Supreme Peak Ancient God’s defense. The Human Realm finished the round undefeated, and Heavenly Will announced that the eleventh round would upgrade the battlefield and change the format to Melee Duels.

• Ghost Princess emerged from the Ghost Realm camp to face the Divine Realm Ancient God.
• Ghost Princess shattered his divine shield with one finger and demanded that the Divine Realm surrender or die.
• The Divine Realm’s deputy commander surrendered, giving the Ghost Realm victory in the match.
• The tenth round ended with the Human Realm at ten victories and the Divine Realm and Demon Realm at two victories each.
• Heavenly Will announced that the eleventh round would use Melee Duels instead of General Selection Duels.

Heavenly Will changed the General Selection Duel from the eleventh round onward into a melee, forcing each realm to send one fighter. The Demon Realm sent the Golden Dragon King and the Divine Realm revealed its Twelve-Winged Seraph as the first melee began.

• Heavenly Will announced that the later rounds would be melees, with the number of advancing candidates depending on how many realms participated.
• The Netherworld King rose to represent the Demon Realm, while the Ghost Princess stepped forward for the Ghost Realm.
• With the Black Dragon King too injured to fight and the Demon Realm nearing elimination, the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Beast King called on the Golden Dragon King to enter the melee.
• The Golden Dragon King challenged the Netherworld King over an old defeat of a Dragon Race senior and entered the battlefield.
• The Light High God revealed the Twelve-Winged Seraph, whose appearance restored hope among the Divine Realm’s forces.

The Twelve-Winged Seraph joined the Netherworld King, Ghost Princess, and Golden Dragon King on the Epoch Battlefield as the Six Realms awaited fighters from the Immortal and Human Realms. Xuan Qingyi and Xiao Lingxi both entered the field, setting up a rematch as the chapter ended with their auras colliding.

• The Twelve-Winged Seraph entered the battlefield and declared that the Divine Realm would not lose again.
• The Netherworld King, Ghost Princess, Golden Dragon King, and Twelve-Winged Seraph faced off as the Six Realms wondered who would represent the Immortal and Human Realms.
• Xuan Qingyi stepped forward for the Immortal Realm, revealing that she had become a Fifth-Epoch King and challenging Xiao Lingxi to fight again.
• Xiao Lingxi accepted Xuan Qingyi's challenge and entered the battlefield for the Human Realm.
• Xuan Qingyi and Xiao Lingxi met each other's gaze as their blue-green light and white sword radiance collided.

The Netherworld King and Ghost Princess joined forces against the Golden Dragon King and the Twelve-Winged Seraph, while Xiao Lingxi and Xuan Qingyi prepared to fight each other. The battles began, with the Golden Dragon King and the Twelve-Winged Seraph already under pressure.

• The Twelve-Winged Seraph and the Golden Dragon King agreed to cooperate, while the Netherworld King and Ghost Princess formed their own alliance.
• Xiao Lingxi and Xuan Qingyi faced each other without joining either alliance.
• The Netherworld King fought the Golden Dragon King, blocking his spear attacks and striking him back with the Netherdemon Seal.
• Ghost Princess dodged the Twelve-Winged Seraph's flames, damaged one of its wings, and forced it to unleash Holy Light.
• Xiao Lingxi and Xuan Qingyi began their own confrontation as the other four continued fighting.

The six great prodigies clashed in a fierce test of strength, with Xiao Lingxi battling Xuan Qingyi while the other four exchanged opponents. Their fights all reached a stalemate, and Demon King Asura asked the Six Realms’ Taboo experts to guess who would win and lose.

• Xiao Lingxi shattered Xuan Qingyi’s Thought-Formation with her World Sword, but Xuan Qingyi quickly wove a more powerful formation.
• The Netherworld King and Golden Dragon King clashed fiercely while the Twelve-Winged Seraph struggled to hit the Ghost Princess with its flames.
• The Twelve-Winged Seraph and Golden Dragon King switched opponents, leaving the Golden Dragon King to face the Ghost Princess and the Netherworld King to face the Twelve-Winged Seraph.
• The Golden Dragon King’s innate domain checked the Ghost Princess’s movement, while the Netherworld King’s indestructible body resisted the Twelve-Winged Seraph’s flames.
• The six prodigies’ battles remained deadlocked as the experts watched, and Demon King Asura invited the Six Realms’ Taboo experts to guess who would win.