Chapter Summaries

The Netherworld King unveiled his Emperor Art, Eternal Silence in an Instant, after revealing that he had suppressed his cultivation for hundreds of billions of years while waiting for a worthy opponent. The Ghost Princess sacrificed herself to unleash Death God Eternal Life, and their combined final attack raced toward the hooded man as he prepared his strongest strike.

• The Netherworld King stood despite his injuries and revealed that he had waited hundreds of billions of years to take the final step into the taboo realm.
• The Netherworld King manifested a new phantom and unleashed his Emperor Art, Eternal Silence in an Instant.
• The Ghost Princess rose with her broken Death God Scythe and sacrificed her body and soul to unleash Death God Eternal Life.
• The Netherworld King's and Ghost Princess's attacks intertwined and surged toward the hooded man.
• The hooded man praised the Netherworld King and the Ghost Princess, then raised Heaven's Sin Blade to meet them with his strongest strike.

The Netherworld King and Ghost Princess died together unleashing a final strike that shattered the hooded man's Heaven's Sin Blade and broke through his defenses. As his hood and robe disintegrated and his hidden face emerged, the Six Realms' mighty beings were left stunned, but his identity was not yet stated.

• The Netherworld King and Ghost Princess faded away after their final attack, while the Six Realms' mighty beings honored their sacrifice.
• The hooded man's Heaven's Sin Blade cracked and shattered from the force of their strike.
• The hooded man's defenses began breaking apart as the strike's Dao resonance invaded his body and reached his soul.
• The hooded man's hood and robe vanished, revealing his face and shocking everyone watching.

Xiao Yan exposed the hooded man as an ancient being inhabiting Di Cang’s preserved body, not Di Cang resurrected. The stranger explained how he claimed the body and reforged Di Cang’s weapon, leaving the Six Realms powerhouses to wonder at his true identity and power.

• The powerhouses of the Six Realms mistook the hooded man for the resurrected Di Cang.
• Xiao Yan reasoned that the man was not Di Cang because he regarded him with curiosity rather than the hatred Di Cang had shown.
• The hooded man admitted that Di Cang had died completely and left behind a flawless body that he had preserved and made his vessel.
• The hooded man revealed that he had refined the Heaven’s Sin Blade and considered it only barely worthy of him.

The hooded figure occupying Di Cang’s body revealed that he had abandoned his former cultivation and Dao to possess a junior, then entered the Emperor Path Strife to witness the limits of the current age. After explaining that he had long observed Xiao Yan and expected him to provide a worthy challenge, he faced Xiao Yan’s doubts about his motives and courage.

• Demon King Asura asked who the hooded figure was, and the figure claimed that even the First Divine General would have to call him Senior.
• Xiao Yan challenged the figure for entering the Emperor Path Strife, and the figure admitted he was cheating but said possession required abandoning everything and starting anew.
• The hooded figure explained that he had awakened recently, observed Xiao Yan and the Human Realm, and entered the contest to discover the limits of the age.
• The hooded figure named the Netherworld King, Ghost Princess, the Golden Dragon King, and the Twelve-Winged Seraph as remarkable talents, then said he wanted to see whether Xiao Yan could entertain him.
• Xiao Yan accused the hooded figure of treating others as pawns and questioned whether he had truly dared to possess Di Cang, warning that someone might possess his original body.

Xiao Yan challenged the hooded man’s claim that his preserved body and foundations were absolutely safe, arguing that no place could be beyond danger. The hooded man admitted an invincible expert guarded them, and Xiao Yan began questioning why that expert could be trusted.

• Xiao Yan reasoned that the hooded man had little to gain from taking Di Cang’s body and accused him of lacking the resolve to reach the Emperor Realm.
• The hooded man admitted Xiao Yan was half right: his Dao fruit, body, and foundations were preserved intact in a place he considered absolutely safe.
• Xiao Yan dismissed the idea of absolute safety as self-comfort, and the hooded man reacted with subtle unease.
• The hooded man said an invincible expert personally guarded his preserved body and foundations.
• Xiao Yan asked why the invincible expert would guard them and what relationship or reward bound them, then began questioning whether loyalty and trust could last forever.

Xiao Yan questioned whether the hooded man's trusted protector had remained loyal during the many Epochs he had slept, steadily undermining his confidence. The hooded man's composure cracked, and Xiao Yan ended by suggesting that taking Di Cang's body had not been his original plan.

• Xiao Yan warned the hooded man that his protector might covet his Dao fruit, body, Origin, or seed to the Emperor Realm.
• The hooded man grew uneasy as Xiao Yan questioned whether the world and the person he trusted had changed during his long sleep.
• The hooded man accused Xiao Yan of trying to shake his Dao Heart, but Xiao Yan said he was only reminding him that nothing was certain.
• The First Epoch Demon Beast King asked to surrender, and the hooded man threatened it before Xiao Yan shielded it and it fled the battlefield.
• Xiao Yan resumed questioning the hooded man's trust in his supposed disciple and suggested that seizing Di Cang's body had not been his original plan.

Xiao Yan exposed the hooded man's possible involvement with whoever preserved Di Cang's body, but the man neither confirmed nor denied his suspicions. The Demon Realm was eliminated after its tenth defeat, and the surviving realms reacted to the losses and the Immortal Realm's newfound confidence.

• Xiao Yan confronted the hooded man with his suspicion that someone else had kept Di Cang's body safe, and the man's brief reaction suggested Xiao Yan had guessed correctly.
• The hooded man praised Xiao Yan's caution as the Heaven's Will Blade eliminated the Demon Realm for accumulating ten defeats.
• The realms' standings were tallied: the Human Realm remained undefeated, while the Demon World and Ghost Realm were weakened by the deaths of the Netherworld King and Ghost Princess.
• Demon King Asura said the Netherworld King and Ghost Princess had been born in the wrong era, and the Extreme Frost Ghost King agreed that Ghost Princess had surpassed him at her level.
• Immortal Realm experts celebrated their senior's victory and boasted that their realm would win the Emperor Path Strife, dismissing criticism of his possession of Di Cang's body.

After the hooded man crushed the four realms’ strongest fighters, round fourteen began with Xiao Yan and a terrified First Epoch Ghost King entering the battlefield. A mysterious black-robed figure emerged from the Demon World, and the chapter ended with Xiao Yan and the hooded man sensing the newcomer’s formidable strength.

• The four realms’ powerhouses condemned the Immortal Realm’s use of the hooded man but admitted that Netherworld King and Ghost Princess had been unable to defeat him.
• Heavenly Will announced round fourteen as a battle royale between the Human Realm, Immortal Realm, Demon World, and Ghost Realm, with two victor slots.
• The hooded man entered for the Immortal Realm, Xiao Yan entered for the Human Realm and casually sat down with tea, and the Ghost Realm sent a frightened First Epoch Ghost King.
• A mysterious black-robed figure slowly emerged from the Demon World and took a position opposite Xiao Yan and the hooded man.
• The figure revealed pale-red eyes beneath a featureless hood, while Xiao Yan sensed something familiar and the hooded man recognized the newcomer’s strength.

The Ghost Realm's first-epoch Ghost King was annihilated, eliminating the Ghost Realm and leaving Xiao Yan, the hooded man, and a black-robed Demon Realm figure on the battlefield. The black-robed figure was identified as the new Seventy-Second Demon Pillar, though a Demon Realm Epoch King insisted he was not a Taboo Demon King.

• Heavenly Will began round fourteen, and the hooded man's aura shattered and annihilated the Ghost Realm's first-epoch Ghost King.
• The Ghost Realm was eliminated, leaving Xiao Yan, the hooded man, and the black-robed figure as the remaining combatants.
• The powerhouses recognized the black-robed figure as one of the Seventy-Two Demon Pillars, whose members were traditionally Taboo Kings.
• A Demon Realm Taboo Monster King observed that the black-robed figure's aura belonged to an Epoch King, not a taboo existence.
• Demon King Asura suggested the previous Seventy-Second Demon Pillar had fallen and the black-robed figure was his successor.
• A Demon Realm Epoch King confirmed that the black-robed figure was the new Seventy-Second Demon Pillar but denied that he was a Taboo Demon King.

Demon King Asura defended the black-robed figure’s claim to the Seventy-Second Demon Pillar by confirming she had killed its previous holder in a witnessed, direct battle while still an Epoch King. The other realms remained skeptical until Asura revealed that the First Demon Pillar believed she was destined to become an Emperor.

• The Six Realms’ powerhouses doubted that the black-robed figure had killed a Taboo King as an Epoch King, and the Second Divine General argued it was impossible.
• Demon King Asura declared that the former Seventy-Second Demon Pillar had been killed openly in a head-on battle by the new Seventy-Second Demon Pillar.
• The Second Divine General and the Third Divine General suggested the former Demon Pillar might have been injured or otherwise weakened.
• Demon King Asura said he had witnessed the battle himself, while the other realms continued searching for reasons to doubt the claim.
• Demon King Asura revealed that the First Demon Pillar had said that if she could not become an Emperor, no one could.

The hooded man acknowledged the black-robed Seventy-Second Demon Pillar’s taboo-level combat strength, and the three began a battle that shook the Epoch Battlefield. Xiao Yan and the Demon Pillar struck with their own powers, revealing the Demon Pillar’s Emperor Art of destruction as the clash continued.

• Demon King Asura declared that the black-robed Seventy-Second Demon Pillar had wielded taboo power as an Epoch King and slain a Taboo King, stunning the experts of the Six Realms.
• The hooded man withdrew his dismissal of the Demon Pillar and said they were qualified to stand against him.
• Xiao Yan charged the hooded man with the Dark Iron Heavy Ruler and Myriad-Path Heavenly Flame, and the hooded man countered with the Heaven’s Sin Blade Technique.
• The black-robed Demon Pillar thrust with a pitch-black sword, forcing the hooded man to defend against an Emperor Art of pure destruction.

Xiao Yan and the black-robed man joined forces against the hooded man, overwhelming him with heavenly fire and destruction sword intent. As the hooded man prepared to reveal the true extent of his power, the battle reached a new turning point.

• Xiao Yan attacked the hooded man with his heavy ruler and heavenly fire while the black-robed man countered with destruction sword intent.
• Xiao Yan’s growing physical strength drove the hooded man backward, and the black-robed man wounded him with a silent sword thrust.
• Xiao Yan and the black-robed man coordinated their attacks, wounding the hooded man again and forcing him to retreat.
• Xiao Yan challenged the hooded man for relying on the First Divine General’s arts instead of revealing his own Dao and techniques.
• The hooded man declared that he would show them what it meant to be invincible as his ancient eyes lit up.

The hooded man revealed himself as the King of Creation, an ancient Immortal Realm legend whose soul had joined with Di Cang’s body. He acknowledged Xiao Yan and unleashed the Creation Dao, leaving the Six Realms convinced the Immortal Realm would win as he demanded that Xiao Yan and his ally surrender.

• The hooded man revealed the aura and Creation Dao of the master of the Ten-Thousand-Level Heavenly Ladder, and the Six Realms recognized him as the King of Creation.
• The King of Creation explained that he remembered Xiao Yan and the others for reaching the Heavenly Ladder’s summit and refusing his offer to become disciples.
• He revealed that Xiao Yan had forced him to expose his trump card before he was ready.
• The King of Creation used the Creation Disk to release the power of creation and destruction across the battlefield.
• Immortal Realm powerhouses celebrated the King of Creation’s return and declared victory assured.
• The King of Creation praised Xiao Yan and his ally, then told them to surrender.

Xiao Yan and the Black-Robed Man challenged the King of Creation, whose Creation Disk could transform their powers. Xiao Yan’s heavenly fire origin shattered the King’s attack, allowing the Black-Robed Man to wound him, but the King then unleashed the Creation Emperor Art.

• The King of Creation used his Creation Disk to transform Xiao Yan’s heavenly flames and warned that he could alter the nature of all arts weaker than his Dao.
• Xiao Yan ignited heavenly fire origin on his Dark Iron Heavy Ruler and struck the King before the Creation Disk could break it down.
• The heavenly fire origin exploded against the King’s creation force, scattering its fragments and knocking him back.
• The Black-Robed Man absorbed the scattered creation force into his destruction sword intent and pierced the King’s right shoulder.
• The King healed his wound, then broke the Creation Disk into runes that merged into his body as he unleashed the Creation Emperor Art.

The King of Creation unleashed his fully realized Creation Emperor Art against Xiao Yan and the Black-Robed Man. Both opponents answered with completed Emperor Arts, and Xiao Yan’s flames broke through the Creation Light, leaving the King of Creation stunned by Xiao Yan’s Youthful Heart.

• The King of Creation summoned the Creation Furnace and used its Creation Light to transform Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Fire and the Black-Robed Man’s Destruction Sword Intent.
• Xiao Yan resisted the Creation Light with his Heavenly Fire Origin, while the Black-Robed Man used his completed Emperor Art, Black Sun Returns to the Abyssal Ruin, to clash with the King of Creation’s completed art.
• Xiao Yan unleashed his completed Emperor Art, Myriad Flames Incinerate the Firmament, and formed a vast sea of flames.
• Xiao Yan condensed the flames into a fire dragon that struck the Creation Furnace and tore through its Creation Light.
• The King of Creation questioned the extraordinary intent within Xiao Yan’s flames, and Xiao Yan named it Youthful Heart.

Xiao Yan and the Black-Robed Man joined forces against the King of Creation, who unleashed creation and destruction together to overwhelm them. Xiao Yan’s youthful defiance helped the Black-Robed Man fuse their powers into a sword strike that pierced the King’s shoulder, leaving the battle ongoing.

• The King of Creation fused creation and destruction in his Creation Furnace and forced back the Black-Robed Man and Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan and the Black-Robed Man attacked the King together with their Emperor Arts, and the three forces collided across the Epoch Battlefield.
• Xiao Yan taunted the King of Creation for having grown old, making him confront his stalled progress toward the Emperor Realm.
• The Black-Robed Man infused his destruction sword intent with Xiao Yan’s heavenly fire and pierced the King of Creation’s right shoulder.
• Xiao Yan mocked the wounded King for bullying the young instead of fighting on an old person’s battlefield.