Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan withdrew from the duel and named Zhuge Feng as his replacement, provoking the King of Creation. Zhuge Feng entered the Epoch Battlefield with the Sea-Calming Divine Needle Iron, and the chapter ended as he prepared to fight the King of Creation.

• Xiao Yan told the King of Creation that Zhuge Feng would take his place and warned him that his senior brother was stronger.
• The King of Creation erupted in rage, but the Heavenly Will Rules suppressed his power before the preparation period ended.
• Zhuge Feng rose from the Human Realm camp and revealed his overwhelming fighting spirit as he stepped toward the battlefield.
• Zhuge Feng summoned the Sea-Calming Divine Needle Iron, and the King of Creation recognized the threat posed by his Battle Saint Physique.
• The King of Creation vowed to kill Zhuge Feng before Xiao Yan, and Zhuge Feng answered, “Then... let's fight!”

Zhuge Feng’s rising battle intent battered the King of Creation, while the Black-Robed Man struck and pierced his ear. Driven to the brink, the King of Creation prepared a powerful move, but Xiao Yan mocked his familiar boast.

• Zhuge Feng attacked the King of Creation with the Sea-Calming Divine Needle Iron, growing stronger with every strike and breaking through his creation and abyssal ruin.
• Xiao Yan taunted the King of Creation from outside the battlefield while Zhuge Feng’s relentless blows drove him back and weakened him.
• The King of Creation repelled Zhuge Feng, but the Black-Robed Man’s sword pierced through his left ear after breaking through the Creation Disk.
• The King of Creation admitted his opponents were strong, then summoned creation and destruction and vowed to use a move he had held back.
• Xiao Yan interrupted the King of Creation’s threat by mocking him for claiming he still had a special move.

The King of Creation trapped Zhuge Feng and the Black-Robed Man inside his Heaven and Earth Furnace, intending to refine them into nourishment for his path to the emperor realm. Xiao Yan’s taunts prompted the King of Creation to realize that someone might be refining him in turn, and the furnace’s power faltered.

• Xiao Yan mocked the King of Creation, disrupting his composure as he prepared his ultimate attack.
• The King of Creation unleashed the Heaven and Earth Furnace, trapping Zhuge Feng and the Black-Robed Man inside and covering the entire Epoch Battlefield.
• Experts from the Six Realms feared for the trapped fighters, while the Immortal Realm’s Second and Third Divine Generals celebrated their expected defeat.
• The King of Creation intensified the furnace’s refinement force and explained that he meant to turn the two fighters into the foundation for his advance to the emperor realm.
• Xiao Yan asked whether someone might be refining the King of Creation to forge an emperor foundation, causing him to recall his original refinement Dao and weakening the furnace’s power.

Xiao Yan’s warnings made the King of Creation fear that his true body was being targeted, weakening his focus in the battle. Zhuge Feng and the Black-Robed Man shattered the Heaven and Earth Furnace and wounded him, while his connection to his true body rapidly weakened.

• Xiao Yan provoked the King of Creation by suggesting that someone might use his true body to forge an Emperor Path.
• The King of Creation grew panicked and distracted as he thought about returning to protect his defenseless true body.
• Zhuge Feng enlarged the Sea-Calming Divine Needle Iron while the Black-Robed Man infused it with destructive power, and together they broke through the furnace roof.
• The Heaven and Earth Furnace exploded, and Zhuge Feng and the Black-Robed Man emerged to attack the King of Creation.
• The King of Creation blocked too slowly, was wounded by the Black-Robed Man, and sensed his connection to his true body weakening rapidly.

The King of Creation realized his true body was being refined while the Emperor Path Battlefield’s rules trapped him, and Xiao Yan’s taunts shattered his composure. After Zhuge Feng struck him down, the King of Creation conceded, helpless to stop his downfall.

• The King of Creation sensed his connection to his true body weakening and realized Xiao Yan had anticipated the attack on it.
• Xiao Yan explained that the First Divine General had maneuvered the King of Creation into the Emperor Path Battlefield, where he could not return to his true body.
• The King of Creation’s panic and fury spiraled as he failed to break through the battlefield boundary, while Demon King Asura recognized the trap.
• Zhuge Feng struck the distracted King of Creation with the Sea-Calming Divine Needle Iron, shattering his shoulder and sending him flying.
• The King of Creation called out Shi Wentian’s true name, then laughed and conceded.

The King of Creation conceded to Xiao Yan and asked to join the Human Realm because he feared the First Divine General would kill him after his true body was refined. Xiao Yan revealed that Shi Wentian had likely tampered with Di Cang’s body long ago, leaving the King of Creation to realize he had been manipulated and break down.

• The King of Creation conceded and asked Xiao Yan to let him join the Human Realm, shocking the Immortal Realm’s powerhouses.
• The Black-Robed Man understood that the King of Creation wanted protection from the First Divine General and believed the Human Realm was his only chance to survive.
• Xiao Yan questioned the King of Creation’s sudden request, then suggested that Shi Wentian had tampered with Di Cang’s body before the King possessed it.
• The King of Creation recalled disruptions in his Creation Force, the discord between his soul and body, and his unstable emotions.
• The King of Creation accused Shi Wentian of plotting against him, spat blood, and collapsed into despair as he realized he had been a pawn for ages.

The King of Creation was expelled from Di Cang’s body by Shi Wentian’s ancient plot, and the First Divine General awakened in his place. As the King of Creation’s soul faded, he remembered how he had once rescued and trained the youth who became Di Cang.

• Black lines spread across the King of Creation and forced his soul out of Di Cang’s body.
• Di Cang’s body awakened as the First Divine General, who greeted the King of Creation and identified Shi Wentian’s plan as dating back to when Creation first taught Di Cang the Dao.
• The King of Creation protested that he had trusted Shi Wentian, but his soul weakened as the black chains consumed it.
• The King of Creation recalled failing to enter the Emperor Realm and later finding a bloodied youth surrounded by cultivators.
• The King of Creation saved the youth, taught him to cultivate and fight, and traveled with him as their bond and trust grew.

The King of Creation recalled how he had raised the youth who became the First Divine General, only to learn that the youth had turned his lesson of never trusting anyone against him. As the King of Creation’s soul faded, he realized his own restraint had kept him from reaching the Emperor Realm.

• As a youth, the future First Divine General searched for the missing King of Creation, slaughtered his way through an underground force, and collapsed after finding no trace of him.
• The King of Creation returned and found the youth unconscious and wounded, then cared for him and later guided his cultivation.
• After the youth became an Immortal King, the King of Creation built the Ten-Thousand-Level Heavenly Ladder, and the youth reached its summit.
• The youth became the Ninth-Epoch King and later confronted the King of Creation through Di Cang, revealing that he had taken the lesson “Never trust anyone” to heart.
• As the First Divine General’s chains consumed him, the King of Creation realized he had failed to reach the Emperor Realm because he had refused to refine everyone in the Eternal Immortal Realm.

The King of Creation attained enlightenment in his final moments and passed his Creation Dao insights to the Black-Robed Man, hoping she would complete the path to the Emperor Realm. After his death, the Black-Robed Man began fusing creation and destruction into a perfect circle, forming a true Emperor Foundation.

• The King of Creation realized that creation and destruction were connected and entrusted his Creation Emperor Art and Dao fruit to the Black-Robed Man.
• The King of Creation's soul disintegrated into golden rain, and the experts of the Six Realms mourned his death and reflected on the difficulty of the Emperor Path.
• The Black-Robed Man's aura erupted as creation and destruction began to fuse within her.
• Demon King Asura recognized that both Emperor Arts had reached perfection within the Black-Robed Man, forming an Emperor Foundation.

The Black-Robed Man broke through to the Taboo realm during the Epoch Battlefield, winning the Demon World’s admiration even as her ascension eliminated it from the contest. The First Divine General then challenged the Human Realm’s prodigies, offering to face four of them at once.

• The Black-Robed Man endured the Taboo tribulation, using its lightning to temper herself before defeating its final strike with her two perfected Emperor Arts.
• The Black-Robed Man entered the Taboo realm and left the Epoch Battlefield, causing the Demon World to lose its eligibility.
• Demon King Asura celebrated the Black-Robed Man’s breakthrough and recognized that she could threaten even a veteran Ninth-Epoch Taboo King.
• The First Divine General, appearing through Di Cang’s body, said only the Human Realm and Immortal Realm remained in the Emperor Path Strife.
• The First Divine General invited the Human Realm to send four people to face him, saying he wanted to play with its young prodigies.

Xiao Yan exposed the First Divine General’s ambition and his real purpose for challenging four Human Realm prodigies. He accepted the challenge on the Human Realm’s behalf, and the First Divine General prepared to face them.

• The Six Realms’ powerhouses feared the First Divine General’s strength after he devoured the King of Creation’s true body and merged their eternal foundations.
• Xiao Yan questioned whether the First Divine General could truly handle four Human Realm fighters, while Zhuge Feng urged him to answer the challenge with battle.
• Xiao Yan told the First Divine General that his desire to claim the Emperor Path revealed the obsession at the heart of his Dao.
• Xiao Yan saw that the First Divine General wanted to study the four prodigies’ Emperor Arts and uncover the Human Realm’s hidden strength.
• Xiao Yan declared that the Human Realm accepted the challenge, and the First Divine General welcomed the coming fight.

Xiao Yan and Zhuge Feng withdrew from their challenge after revealing that the Human Realm would send someone else to face the First Divine General. Su Bai awakened beneath the Chaos Immortal Tree and prepared to enter the battlefield himself, matching his cultivation to the Five-Epoch Supreme Peak.

• Xiao Yan and Zhuge Feng stepped forward to fight the First Divine General, while Wu Wushuang briefly joined them before withdrawing after receiving a message.
• Xiao Yan explained that the Human Realm had another fighter to send, leaving the First Divine General and the other realms puzzled.
• Su Bai opened his eyes beneath the Chaos Immortal Tree, and the Human Realm's auspicious signs and Fortune surged around him.
• Su Bai recognized that the First Divine General was using Di Cang's body to exploit a loophole and force the Human Realm into a damaging choice.
• Su Bai used his Clone Technique to suppress his cultivation precisely to the Five-Epoch Supreme Peak and prepared to face the First Divine General.

Su Bai appeared on the Primordial Battlefield, where the Five Realms’ powerhouses could not understand why the Human Realm’s mysterious sect master seemed to be only at the Five-Epoch Supreme Peak. After the Human Realm’s leaders greeted him with reverence, Su Bai walked to the battlefield’s center and challenged the First Divine General.

• Su Bai arrived at the Primordial Battlefield and stood at the front of the Human Realm’s ranks, unsettling the other realms’ powerhouses with his unfathomable presence.
• The Black-Robed Man recognized Su Bai and sensed that he had advanced far beyond the strength she remembered from the Lower Realm.
• The Sword Lord, the Ice God, and the Human Realm’s other powerhouses bowed to Su Bai and addressed him as their sect master, revealing his identity as the Heavenly Dao Sect’s leader.
• Su Bai greeted the Five Realms and calmly answered the First Divine General’s questions about his identity.
• Su Bai walked to the center of the battlefield, where Heavenly Will allowed him to pass, then turned to the First Divine General and invited him to fight.

The First Divine General revealed the power of his Half-Step Emperor foundation and challenged Su Bai’s strength. Su Bai’s aura overwhelmed the gathered Taboo Kings despite his Five-Epoch Supreme Peak cultivation, and he offered Shi Wentian victory if he could withstand four moves, prompting the First Divine General to attack.

• The First Divine General unleashed the power of Di Cang’s physical foundation, and Demon King Asura judged that his true body had reached the Half-Step Emperor Realm.
• Su Bai released an aura that pressured the Taboo Kings, leaving the First Divine General uncertain about his true realm.
• Su Bai challenged Shi Wentian to withstand four moves to win.
• The First Divine General laughed, advanced toward Su Bai, and declared that even a young Emperor could only be suppressed by him.

The First Divine General attacked Su Bai with the Creation Dao, but Su Bai copied the technique and used a purer, more complete Creation Disk to shatter his. The First Divine General was injured and left wary as Su Bai declared that he had lost the first move, with three moves remaining.

• The First Divine General unleashed a Creation Disk, and the experts of the Six Realms marveled at his mastery of the Creation Dao.
• Su Bai said he had learned the Creation Dao by watching the First Divine General and formed a more complete Creation Disk of his own.
• Su Bai’s Creation Disk destroyed the First Divine General’s, sending him flying and drawing golden blood.
• The First Divine General regarded Su Bai with unprecedented wariness and asked who he was.
• Su Bai reminded the First Divine General that he was the sect master of the Human Realm’s Heavenly Dao Sect, then declared the first move his victory and three moves remained.

The First Divine General reversed creation to wield destruction, but Su Bai copied and surpassed his Blade of Destruction, defeating him again. The First Divine General then revealed the Heaven's Sin Emperor Art as his ultimate trump card and prepared to kill Su Bai with a saber forged from refined souls.

• The First Divine General reversed creation and attacked Su Bai with the Blade of Destruction.
• Su Bai created a purer Blade of Destruction and shattered the First Divine General's saber, sending him flying and drawing golden blood.
• Su Bai declared the First Divine General had lost the second move, while the Six Realms' powerhouses reacted with disbelief.
• The First Divine General acknowledged Su Bai's superior creation and destruction Dao, then revealed the Heaven's Sin Emperor Art as his true trump card.
• The First Divine General formed a grayish-white saber inscribed with the remnant souls he had refined, including the King of Creation's, and vowed to slay Su Bai.

Su Bai studied the First Divine General’s perfected Heaven’s Sin Emperor Art, caught its strike, and recreated an improved version of the blade technique. He used it for his third move, breaking the First Divine General’s blade and leaving him gravely wounded.

• The First Divine General unleashed the perfected Heaven’s Sin Emperor Art, collapsing the Epoch Battlefield with a blade strike infused with the sins and resentment of the ages.
• Su Bai praised the technique and said he was learning from it, then caught its core sin essence between two fingers as the strike fell.
• Su Bai formed his own Heaven’s Sin Blade, arranging the remnant souls’ resentment into a harmonious flow that surpassed the First Divine General’s version.
• Su Bai announced his third move and struck with the improved blade, snapping the First Divine General’s Heaven’s Sin Blade in two.
• Su Bai’s strike sent the First Divine General through several spatial barriers and left him kneeling with a deep, corrosive wound across his chest.

Su Bai defeated the First Divine General in four moves, countering his Creation Dao, Destruction Dao, and Heaven's Sin Emperor Art with their own powers. The First Divine General's body and divine soul were destroyed, and he died raging against the Human Realm and the Heavenly Dao.

• The First Divine General's Heaven's Sin Emperor Art was defeated by Su Bai, leaving the Immortal Realm's camp stunned.
• The First Divine General abandoned his broken blade and burned Di Cang's physical body to force out strength beyond the Fifth Epoch.
• Su Bai fused Creation, darkness, and Heaven's Sin into Heaven's Sin Abyssal Ruin and struck down the First Divine General.
• The First Divine General's body disintegrated, and his badly damaged divine soul hovered before Su Bai declared that he had lost in four moves.
• The First Divine General accused the Human Realm of ruining his chance to become an Emperor, then his divine soul disintegrated.

Su Bai defeated the First Divine General in four moves, condemning his selfish claims about the Heavenly Dao and shattering his Dao Heart. The First Divine General’s soul vanished after vowing to fight Su Bai again above the King Realm, while the gathered realms reeled at the Human Realm’s strength.

• Su Bai confronted the First Divine General over his schemes and hypocrisy, then sent his soul flying with a flick of his finger.
• The First Divine General laughed, acknowledged Su Bai, and disintegrated after promising they would fight again above the King Realm.
• The Immortal Realm’s experts panicked at the First Divine General’s defeat and wondered how the Human Realm could harbor so many powerful figures.
• The four realms’ experts marveled at Su Bai’s comprehension and strength, while Demon King Asura welcomed the prospect of a worthy rival in this era.
• Blood Moon Ancestor, Purple Clan Ancestor, Golden Clan Ancestor, Ice God, and Sword Lord celebrated Su Bai’s victory and the damage he had done to the First Divine General’s Dao Heart.

The Human Realm defeated the Immortal Realm on the Epoch Battlefield, won the Six Realms’ Fortune, and began preparing for the next Taboo Battlefield. As powerful cultivators entered seclusion to advance, Su Bai looked ahead to the ten thousand years they had to grow stronger.

• The Heavenly Dao Sect master’s victory was recognized as the Human Realm eliminated the Immortal Realm and won the Epoch Battlefield, while Heaven’s Will Blade cut away the Immortal Realm’s Fortune.
• Xuan Qingyi vowed to fight Xiao Lingxi again, and the Black-Robed Man exchanged looks with Su Bai and Yun Xuan before leaving the battlefield.
• Fortune from the Six Realms poured into the Human Realm, strengthening its cultivators and beginning a ten-thousand-year rest before the next Taboo Battlefield.
• The Blood Moon Ancestor, the Golden Clan Ancestor, and the Purple Clan Ancestor entered seclusion to pursue the Taboo realm, while the Ice God and Sword Lord aimed for the Ninth Epoch.
• Su Bai’s disciples, Jiuyue, Yun Xuan, and other prodigies began cultivating beneath the Chaos Immortal Tree, hoping to match the King of Creation and the First Divine General.
• Su Bai surveyed the Human Realm and reflected that ten thousand years would be neither long nor short.