Chapter Summaries

Over ten thousand years of converging Fortune, the Human Realm produced countless geniuses and rose to unprecedented power. The Blood Moon Ancestor, Golden Clan Ancestor, and Purple Clan Ancestor became Taboo Kings, while the Ice God and Sword Lord emerged at Half-Step Ninth Epoch.

• The Human Realm’s Fortune surged after its victory on the Epoch Battlefield, bringing forth extraordinary geniuses and transforming its cultivation environment.
• During the ninth millennium, the Blood Moon Ancestor, Golden Clan Ancestor, and Purple Clan Ancestor each survived a Taboo tribulation and became Taboo Kings.
• The three new Taboo Kings bowed to Su Bai, credited him and the Human Realm with their breakthroughs, and returned to refine their unstable Dao Fruits.
• After ten thousand years in seclusion, the Ice God emerged at Half-Step Ninth Epoch and judged her strength sufficient to face the other old powers.
• The Sword Lord emerged from the Sword Domain at Half-Step Ninth Epoch, claiming that his sword strike could defeat anyone beneath that realm.

The Heavenly Dao Sect continued to grow stronger as its disciples advanced through powerful tribulations, including Meng, Li, and Qi. With more than ten thousand Immortal King disciples and its fortune still rising, the Human Realm stood poised for the battles ahead.

• Su Bai praised Ice God and Sword Lord for reaching the half-step ninth epoch and urged them to prepare for the coming battle.
• Meng faced a fierce Immortal King Tribulation and met its tenth bolt with the power of her nine-spirit divine body.
• Li split an Immortal King Tribulation bolt with a single saber strike and complained that its lightning was too weak.
• Qi faced an Epoch Calamity, merged the five elemental laws, and swallowed the sixth bolt, saying he had learned that calamities tasted tough and dry.
• The chapter described the Heavenly Dao Sect's growth over more than nine thousand years, with over ten thousand Immortal King disciples and frequent Epoch Calamities.

After ten thousand years of cultivation, Su Bai watched the Heavenly Dao Sect’s disciples emerge from seclusion with vastly increased strength. Their numbers and power showed that the Human Realm had become strong enough to stand alongside the Five Eternal Realms, with its rise beyond them in sight.

• The Chaos Immortal Tree stirred, and Su Bai declared that the time had come as the Human Realm’s Fortune River shuddered.
• Xuan Wei, Yuan Heng, Yun Hai, Nameless, Situ Chen, and Tianzhu emerged from seclusion as Fifth-Epoch Kings, with Xuan Wei reaching the Five-Epoch Supreme Peak.
• Yun Xuan emerged at the Five-Epoch Supreme Peak with a Great Completion Emperor Art, while Jiuyue revealed strength that had touched the Taboo realm.
• Zhuge Feng, Xiao Lingxi, Xiao Yan, and Su Bai’s other personal disciples emerged at the Five-Epoch Supreme Peak with deep foundations and the potential to enter Taboo.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect’s ranks included fifteen thousand Immortal Kings and over two thousand Epoch Kings, demonstrating the Human Realm’s immense growth and readiness to stand alongside the Five Eternal Realms.

After ten thousand years of strengthening the Human Realm, Su Bai declared that it had risen and led its experts toward the Primordial Battlefield to reclaim its dignity. He remained at Heavenly Dao Mountain after sending his four avatars into the passage, calling for an end to the war and the dawn of a golden age.

• Hundreds of millions of Human Realm experts gathered at the Heavenly Dao Sect to welcome Su Bai.
• Su Bai praised the experts' efforts and declared that the Human Realm had officially risen.
• Su Bai opened a passage to the Primordial Battlefield and ordered the Human Realm's forces to move out.
• Blood Moon Ancestor, Golden Clan Ancestor, and Purple Clan Ancestor entered the passage first, followed by Ice God, Sword Lord, the veterans, the disciples, and the other experts.
• After the forces entered, Su Bai split off four avatars—Heavenly Fortune Saint Emperor, Divine Spear Saint Emperor, River-Calming Saint Emperor, and Azure Mountain Saint Emperor—and sent them into the passage.
• Su Bai remained at Heavenly Dao Mountain and called for an end to the war and a golden age for the Human Realm.

The Six Realms’ forces gathered on the Primordial Battlefield, where the Human Realm’s strength drew new respect and the Black-Robed Man’s remarkable progress surprised the other realms. Heavenly Will opened the Taboo Battlefield, revealing an immense world built for the coming battle.

• Su Bai’s four avatars and the Human Realm’s experts arrived first, followed by the Immortal Realm, whose Second Divine General recognized that the Ice God and Sword Lord had reached Half-Step Ninth Epoch.
• Demon King Asura yielded space to the Black-Robed Man, whose standing beside him suggested she had grown powerful enough to make him wary.
• Su Ling'er noticed Yun Xuan and the Black-Robed Man exchanging greetings and suspected that something connected them.
• The Demon Realm, Ghost Realm, and Divine Realm arrived, completing the Six Realms’ tense gathering on the Primordial Battlefield.
• Heavenly Will appeared and declared the Taboo Battlefield open, transforming the battlefield into a vast eternal great world.

The Six Realms gathered on the Taboo Battlefield, a shattered eternal great world, and discussed how to conduct their matches. Xiao Yan rejected the usual format and proposed that the Human Realm fight all five other realms at once.

• Blood Moon Ancestor, Golden Clan Ancestor, and Purple Clan Ancestor recognized the Taboo Battlefield as the remains of a shattered eternal great world.
• Heaven-Swallowing Demon Beast King, Demon King Asura, Extreme Frost Ghost King, and Light High God discussed the rules, and the Second Divine General agreed to four general selection matches followed by a team battle.
• The Second Divine General asked the Human Realm whether it understood the rules, and Xiao Yan stood up to reject the format on the Human Realm's behalf.
• Xiao Yan argued that general selection duels were too slow and team battles were unfair, then challenged all five other realms to fight the Human Realm together.

Xiao Yan declared that the Human Realm would fight all Five Realms at once, and the Heavenly Fortune Saint Emperor confirmed that Xiao Yan spoke for the realm. The other realms accepted the challenge, while the Immortal Realm warned that its full strength could attack without matching the Human Realm's numbers.

• Xiao Yan challenged all Five Realms to fight the Human Realm together.
• The Heavenly Fortune Saint Emperor affirmed that Xiao Yan's words represented the Human Realm, and the Demon, Ghost, Divine, and Beast Realms accepted the challenge.
• The Second, Third, Fifth, and Sixth Divine Generals mocked the Human Realm and questioned whether it understood the Five Realms' strength.
• The Second Divine General warned that the Taboo Battlefield had no team-battle number limits and asked whether the Human Realm could withstand all Five Realms' permitted experts.

The Second Divine General agreed to the Human Realm’s challenge to fight five realms at once, then called on the Eternal Immortal Realm’s secluded Taboo Kings to join the battle. Seven old Taboo Kings emerged, bringing the Immortal Realm’s total to twelve.

• Xiao Yan accused the Second Divine General of fearing that the Human Realm could win, and the Second Divine General agreed to the five-on-one battle.
• The Heaven-Swallowing Demon Beast King, Extreme Frost Ghost King, Light High God, and Demon King Asura also agreed to fight the Human Realm.
• The Second Divine General called on the Eternal Immortal Realm’s secluded Taboo Kings to emerge and help suppress the Human Realm.
• After a dozen breaths, Li Shan Ancestor, Granny Hua, Shizhu, Heavenly Book Guest, Ice Phoenix Madam, and two more Taboo Kings appeared.
• The Immortal Realm’s total strength reached twelve Taboo Kings, including five Sixth-Epoch Taboo Kings.

The Five Realms gathered their reserves to answer the Human Realm’s challenge, assembling forty-three Sixth Epoch Taboo Kings. The assembled forces turned toward the Human Realm and demanded to know whether it still intended to fight one against five.

• The Immortal Realm summoned twelve Sixth Epoch Taboo Kings, and its generals taunted the Human Realm about the strength of its reserves.
• The Demon World brought ten Taboo Demon Kings, including the Bone Demon King, the Lust Demon King, and the Barbarian Demon King.
• The Demon Realm assembled eight Taboo Monster Kings, including Green Ox Ancestor and a nine-tailed fox demon.
• The Ghost Realm brought seven Taboo Ghost Kings, and the Divine Realm added six more Sixth Epoch Taboos.
• The Five Realms’ total reached forty-three Taboo Kings, whose combined presence made the Taboo Battlefield tremble.
• The Second Divine General challenged the Human Realm to reaffirm whether it would fight all five realms at once.

After Xiao Yan challenged the Five Realms to attack together, the Second Divine General opened the Taboo Battlefield and sent the Five Realms’ Taboos inside. The Human Realm answered with fifteen Emperor Art-wielding Epoch Kings, leaving the contest poised to begin.

• Xiao Yan mocked the Second Divine General’s lineup and repeated that all five realms should attack the Human Realm together.
• The Second Divine General opened the Taboo Battlefield, and forty-three Sixth Epoch Taboos from the Five Realms entered.
• The Heavenly Fortune Saint Emperor ordered the Human Realm to go, and the Blood Moon Ancestor, Golden Clan Ancestor, and Purple Clan Ancestor entered the battlefield.
• Su Bai’s thirteen direct disciples entered one after another, each wielding a unique Emperor Art.
• Jiuyue and Yun Xuan joined them, bringing the Human Realm’s total to fifteen Emperor Art-wielding Epoch Kings.

The Five Realms mocked the Human Realm for sending only eighteen people to face them in the Taboo Battlefield: three newly ascended taboo beings and fifteen Epoch Kings. Demon King Asura recognized a dangerous resemblance between the Human Realm’s young fighters and the Demon World’s Black-Robed Man, while the Immortal Realm remained confident the Human Realm was doomed.

• The Five Realms’ powerhouses saw the Human Realm’s eighteen arrivals and ridiculed their small force of three taboo beings and fifteen Epoch Kings.
• The Second Divine General asked the Heavenly Fortune Saint Emperor whether this was all the Human Realm had, and the Saint Emperor confirmed that no one else was coming.
• The Second Divine General announced to the other realms that the Human Realm would fight all five with only eighteen people.
• Demon King Asura warned the Second Divine General not to celebrate too soon after noticing that the Human Realm’s young Epoch Kings reminded him of the Black-Robed Man.
• Demon King Asura told the Demon World’s Taboo Demon Kings not to go too far, prompting the other realms to take the Human Realm more seriously while the Immortal Realm dismissed its chances.

The Second Divine General set the rules for the Sixth Epoch Taboo Duel, pitting the Human Realm against forty-three Taboos from the Five Realms. Both sides stepped onto the battlefield, and Heavenly Will announced the duel had begun.

• The Immortal Realm Taboos mocked the Human Realm disciples and chose opponents, while the Second Divine General declared that the duel would be fought to the death.
• Xiao Yan counted the forty-three opposing Taboos and teased them for bringing fewer than he had expected.
• Ancestor Li Shan and Granny Hua boasted that they would defeat their chosen opponents within a few moves.
• The forty-three Taboos and eighteen Human Realm disciples stepped forward as the battlefield filled with murderous tension.
• Heavenly Will announced that the Sixth Epoch Taboo Duel had officially begun.

The Taboo showdown began as Blood Moon Ancestor, Purple Clan Ancestor, and Golden Clan Ancestor fought three veteran Immortal Realm Taboos. The newly ascended fighters held their ground and appeared to gain the upper hand, leaving the Second and Third Divine Generals alarmed by the Human Realm’s hidden strength.

• Blood Moon Ancestor charged Ancestor Kuchen, and the two exchanged attacks that shattered the battlefield.
• Blood Moon Ancestor pressed his assault through Ancestor Kuchen’s Withering Principle and drove him back.
• Purple Clan Ancestor broke Ancestor Qingsong’s vines with his purple-gold armor and traded evenly matched blows with him.
• Golden Clan Ancestor met Ancestor Tieshan’s punches head-on and eventually pinned him into the ground.
• The Second and Third Divine Generals watched the three battles and questioned how the newly ascended Taboos had gained such formidable foundations.

Fifteen Human Realm Epoch Kings fought forty Taboo Kings from the Five Realms and held their own with Emperor Arts, shocking the opposing forces. Demon King Asura declared them the future Fifteen Emperors.

• Blood Moon Ancestor, Purple Clan Ancestor, and Golden Clan Ancestor battled the three old Immortal Realm Taboo Kings.
• Zhuge Feng swept aside attacks from four Taboo Kings with the Sea-Calming Divine Needle Iron.
• Xiao Lingxi, Jiuyue, Yun Xuan, and the other Human Realm Epoch Kings fought multiple Taboo Kings each without being overwhelmed.
• Heaven-Swallowing Demon Beast King realized that all fifteen Human Realm Epoch Kings had mastered Emperor Arts.
• Demon King Asura asked whether anyone still objected to avoiding a deadly conflict with the Human Realm and called the fifteen future Emperors.

Demon King Asura revealed that the First Demon Pillar had appraised all fifteen Human Realm Epoch Kings as future Emperors, and their performance against the Five Realms’ Taboos supported the claim. Xiao Yan was surrounded by four Taboos and challenged them to attack him together as he unleashed a sea of flames.

• Demon King Asura said the Human Realm would produce fifteen Emperors and revealed that the First Demon Pillar had made the appraisal.
• The assembled Taboos reconsidered the claim as the fifteen Human Realm Epoch Kings held their own against forty opponents.
• Ancestor Li Shan approached Xiao Yan and promised to take his head within three swings.
• Green Ox Ancestor, the Bandage Ghost King, and the Bone Demon King joined Ancestor Li Shan in surrounding Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan challenged all four Taboos to attack together and summoned a sea of multicolored flames beneath his feet.

Xiao Yan faced Ancestor Li Shan’s three-strike challenge and endured his first two axe blows without giving ground, while taunting him and the other Taboo Kings. Ancestor Li Shan unleashed his Heaven Splitting strike, and Xiao Yan answered with a bold boast as the attack came down.

• Ancestor Li Shan’s first axe strike collided with Xiao Yan’s Dark Iron Heavy Ruler, and Xiao Yan’s flames rode the impact back along the axe, splitting Li Shan’s hand and sending him flying.
• Xiao Yan mocked Ancestor Li Shan, who declared that he would chop him into pieces after changing his original plan to kill him in three strikes.
• Ancestor Li Shan’s second, much stronger axe strike met Xiao Yan’s ruler, but Xiao Yan remained in place and ridiculed Li Shan for not fighting seriously from the start.
• Xiao Yan taunted Ancestor Li Shan to deliver his third strike and glanced at Green Ox Ancestor, Bandage Ghost King, and Bone Demon King, while Bone Demon King urged Li Shan to finish the challenge himself.
• Ancestor Li Shan enlarged his axe and announced his Heaven Splitting strike, the move he had once used to cleave a Chaos Divine Mountain in the Immortal Realm.
• Ancestor Li Shan brought down the Heaven Splitting axe, and Xiao Yan declared that if he could not kill Li Shan in three ruler strikes, he would write his name backward.

Xiao Yan blocked Ancestor Li Shan’s full-powered Heaven Splitting Axe strike without moving, then answered with a ruler technique that split the axe and sent Li Shan flying. Li Shan was left stunned as the Immortal Realm Taboo who caught him remarked that Xiao Yan used his own move better than he did.

• Ancestor Li Shan brought his Heaven Splitting Axe down on Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan blocked it with the Dark Iron Heavy Ruler and did not retreat.
• Xiao Yan mocked Ancestor Li Shan and declared that his three axe strikes were over.
• Xiao Yan swung his ruler upward with multicolored flames, creating a Heaven Splitting strike that split Li Shan’s axe in two.
• The ruler radiance hurled Ancestor Li Shan through wreckage until an Immortal Realm Taboo caught him.
• Ancestor Li Shan asked whether Xiao Yan had used Heaven Splitting, and the Immortal Realm Taboo told him Xiao Yan used the move better than he did.

Xiao Yan badly wounded Ancestor Li Shan with his second ruler strike, but Green Ox Ancestor, Bone Demon King, and Bandage Ghost King intervened. Xiao Yan activated his perfected Emperor Art and threatened to kill anyone who tried to stop him from killing Li Shan.

• Xiao Yan chased down Ancestor Li Shan and attacked him with a nine-colored Fire Lotus.
• Ancestor Li Shan survived the blast but was left gravely injured, and Xiao Yan advanced to finish him.
• Ancestor Li Shan called on Green Ox Ancestor, Bone Demon King, and Bandage Ghost King for help.
• The three Taboos launched a combined attack on Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan activated his Perfection Emperor Art, surpassed the Five-Epoch Supreme Peak in presence, and warned that he would kill anyone who tried to stop him.

Xiao Yan killed Ancestor Li Shan with his third ruler strike, Heavenly Fire Illuminates the World, shocking the powerhouses of the Five Great Realms. The Second Divine General could only watch as the Human Realm’s disciples continued to overwhelm the Immortal Realm’s Taboos.

• The Bone Demon King, the Bandage Ghost King, and Green Ox Ancestor backed away and let Xiao Yan approach Ancestor Li Shan.
• Xiao Yan unleashed Heavenly Fire Illuminates the World, and the nine-colored flames consumed Ancestor Li Shan and left only ashes.
• The powerhouses of the Five Great Realms were stunned that Xiao Yan had slain an Immortal Realm Taboo while still an Epoch King.
• The Second Divine General realized the Immortal Realm’s twelve Taboos were at risk as Human Realm disciples wounded and overwhelmed them across the battlefields.

Xiao Yan fought Green Ox Ancestor, the Bone Demon King, and the Bandage Ghost King after the three Taboo Kings refused to surrender. He defeated all three with overwhelming ease, leaving the battlefield stunned.

• Green Ox Ancestor, the Bone Demon King, and the Bandage Ghost King agreed to fight Xiao Yan rather than admit defeat.
• Xiao Yan shattered Green Ox Ancestor’s charging phantom ox and struck him hard enough to cave in his chest.
• Xiao Yan used a Fire Lotus to counter the Bone Demon King and Bandage Ghost King while striking Green Ox Ancestor again.
• The three Taboo Kings joined forces, but Xiao Yan shattered the phantom ox and left Green Ox Ancestor unable to fight.
• The Bone Demon King and Bandage Ghost King launched their strongest combined attack, and Xiao Yan countered with his ruler and a Fire Lotus, grievously injuring both.
• Xiao Yan remained standing as all three Taboo Kings lay defeated, leaving the spectators speechless.