Chapter Summaries

Ye Tianming fought on after the Azure Cloud Sect severed his head and kept it beyond his reach. As the Heaven-Slaying Alliance’s followers surrendered and its forces overran the Silver Fish Immortal Ship, Ye Tianming remained surrounded and facing imminent defeat.

• The Azure Cloud Sect’s Spirit-Taming True Immortals severed Ye Tianming’s head, shifted it into a shadow-like plane, and prevented him from retrieving it.
• Ye Tianming removed his Ritual Robe and continued fighting through the face that appeared on his chest, rejecting Sun Zhuo’s offer to surrender.
• Sun Zhuo warned Ye Tianming that the Heaven-Slaying Alliance was losing, while Ye Tianming declared that he pursued freedom and would not be held back by his followers or his alliance.
• The Azure Cloud Sect attacked across the Silver Fish Immortal Ship, and dozens of Heaven-Slaying Alliance members surrendered as others were killed.
• A Stone Octopus, more Earth Rank spirit creatures, Formation Soldiers, and elite troops boarded the ship and overwhelmed the alliance’s remaining fighters.
• Sun Zhuo ordered his men to surround Ye Tianming and begin the final slaughter.

Sun Zhuo explained Fang Qianyuan’s Heavenly Dao ambitions to Ye Tianming, challenging the convictions behind Ye’s resistance. As the Heaven-Slaying Alliance’s fighters were defeated, the alliance was destroyed, leaving Ye to confront whether his Dao could endure.

• Ning Lin, Yan Xiaoyi, Zhang Dabing, and other Heaven-Slaying Alliance Warriors rushed from the Silver Fish Immortal Ship to rescue Ye Tianming.
• Sun Zhuo argued that Fang Qianyuan sought to establish the Heavenly Court and become the Heavenly Dao to impose equality and restore a flourishing age of cultivation.
• Ye Tianming considered Sun Zhuo’s explanation and found no flaw in it, realizing Fang Qianyuan had not pursued the Heavenly Dao for selfish gain.
• Ning Lin was cleaved in two, Yan Xiaoyi’s soul was shattered, and Zhang Dabing was captured as the resistance collapsed.
• The Heaven-Slaying Alliance was officially defeated and destroyed.

After the Heaven-Slaying Alliance was destroyed, Sun Zhuo gathered the forces of the Heavenly Realms Alliance to discuss establishing the Heavenly Court. Facing concerns that its laws would restrict cultivators and their advancement, he declared that the Heavenly Court would be governed jointly by all immortals.

• The destruction of the Heaven-Slaying Alliance spread across the world, and the great sects expected Sun Zhuo to establish the Heavenly Court.
• Sun Zhuo convened the monthly meeting at Cloud Summit Peak and described how Yu Sande had abandoned the Righteous Path to pursue advancement through forbidden arts.
• Sun Zhuo warned that cultivators in the great sects were turning to Old Heaven and forbidden methods to advance.
• The Sacred Dragon Sect's envoy and other representatives objected that the Heavenly Court's laws and tribulations would restrict cultivators' freedom and advancement.
• Sun Zhuo announced that the Heavenly Court would establish Co-governance of the Heavenly Realms together with all immortals as its first Heavenly Law.

Sun Zhuo outlined the Heavenly Court’s first law and proposed rules for governing the Immortals and separating the upper and lower realms. The assembly accepted the plan, which would establish a system for channeling the Heavenly Realms’ limited Spirit Essence and resources through the Immortal Realm.

• Sun Zhuo won the great sects’ and aristocratic clans’ support by presenting the Heavenly Court as a joint government of all Immortals.
• Grand Elder Tian Heng asked whether Sun Zhuo had other Heavenly Laws to propose.
• Sun Zhuo explained that the Heavenly Court would need strict rules, including sealing off the Immortal Realm and restricting descent into the mortal world.
• Sun Zhuo proposed selecting virtuous people to ascend and using Heavenly Tribulation and other trials to test cultivators.
• The assembly understood that the Heavenly Court would direct the Myriad Worlds’ origin and Spirit Essence to the Immortal Realm and its cultivators.

At Myriad Worlds City, the great sects and aristocratic clans held the first Ascension Conference to open the Immortal Gate and send more than a hundred chosen Renowned Masters to the Heavenly Court. After Sun Zhuo performed the rite to Heaven, Yu Shixian and the others ascended into the Immortal Realm.

• Sect Master Sun Zhuo arrived at the Ascension Conference as cultivators from across the world gathered to witness the opening of the Immortal Gate.
• Yu Shixian arrived with venerable elders and Renowned Masters, the first group of Blessed Virtue True Immortals chosen to join the Heavenly Court.
• At the auspicious hour, Sun Zhuo burned a prayer to Heaven and urged the Heavenly Dao to open the gate to the Upper Realm.
• Thunder sounded, and visions of the Immortal Realm and the Heavenly Court appeared above the crowd.
• Yu Shixian flew into the Immortal Realm, and the others followed as streaks of light rising into the sky.

After the first Ascension Conference, Heaven-Tier Powerhouses signed the Immortal Register and gained connections to the Immortal Realm that supplied immortal essence and lifespan. They prepared to ascend from the Lower Realm, while a mysterious presence declared the Immortal Dao complete.

• The leaked spirit essence from the Immortal Realm nourished the ceremony attendees and inspired them to pursue ascension and the Immortal Dao.
• Nearly half a month later, Sun Zhuo began the Immortal Register ceremony, and Tian Heng, King Mu, Night King, and other Heaven-Tier leaders signed the scroll.
• The signatories sensed conduits linking their true spirits to the Immortal Realm and supplying them with immortal essence and lifespan.
• Night King realized that the immortals' connections drained the Lower Realm's origin energy, so he and the other powerhouses agreed to prepare for ascension.
• A mysterious mass of light murmured that the Immortal Dao was complete.

The Immortal Dao’s completion transformed the River of Time and spread a new spirit essence through the heavenly realms, while new laws restricted mortal lifespans and forced many powerful cultivators to ascend. As the changes continued, the collected lifespan and immortal spirit essence in the chaos formed a human figure wearing an Immortal Robe and imperial crown.

• The Immortal Dao merged with the River of Time, spreading peculiar spirit essence throughout the universe of the heavenly realms.
• The Spirit-Taming World experienced a surge of spirit qi, prompting many cultivators to break through and advance to Earth Rank.
• A new heavenly net imposed lifespan limits, and Grand Elder Tian Heng discerned the restrictions while sensing that he exceeded the world’s limits.
• Heaven-Tier Powerhouses across the realms ascended to immortality over several months, leaving the cultivation world quieter.
• The light mass in the chaos consumed lifespan and immortal spirit essence, then formed a human figure dressed in an Immortal Robe and crowned with an imperial diadem.

Fang Qianyuan completed his Dao by separating his self from the Heavenly Emperor manifestation, then faced Mystic Heaven’s lingering will and Great Sage Xiangliu’s Nether Heaven. His Heavenly Emperor manifestation began battling both beings through the power of the Immortal Realm.

• Fang Qianyuan returned to his true body after severing his self and completing his Dao, while the Heavenly Emperor retained his cultivation and command of the worlds.
• Mystic Heaven’s lingering will emerged as a colossal beast, and Fang Qianyuan recognized that it still commanded the Reincarnation Dao.
• Great Sage Xiangliu appeared as the nine-headed Nether Heaven serpent and identified Fang Qianyuan and the Heavenly Emperor as enemies.
• The Heavenly Emperor charged at Mystic Heaven and Nether Heaven as the gate to the Immortal Realm opened behind him.
• The Heavenly Emperor drove both opponents back with attacks powered by immortal essence, causing their bodies to burst apart.

Fang Qianyuan fought the Mystic Heaven beast and Great Sage Xiangliu until Panling emerged with his sanity restored. Panling accepted his defeat, reflected on the paths that had led him there, and shattered, leaving behind divine crystals.

• Fang Qianyuan battled the Mystic Heaven beast with Great Sage Xiangliu's manifestation aiding it, while enduring the erosion of Nether Heaven's baleful powers.
• As the beast's body broke apart, Fang Qianyuan discovered a giant Dharma Body beneath it and learned that the figure was Panling, the Supreme Heaven Sect Master.
• Panling recognized that his years of effort had failed and reflected on how his pursuit of Supreme Heaven's singular path had burdened and clouded him.
• Fang Qianyuan explained that he had combined the Two Sects' paths and chosen to guard the center rather than pursue either extreme.
• Panling accepted his defeat, offered Fang Qianyuan a final warning, and shattered into countless divine crystals containing laws and origins.

As Fang Qianyuan fought Nether Heaven and Great Sage Xiangliu, Venerable Azure and senior figures of the Heavenly Realms Alliance prepared to seize Heavenly Dao origins for themselves. They intercepted the returning Chaos Divine Crystals and began competing to absorb them while Fang Qianyuan was occupied.

• Fang Qianyuan and the Heavenly Emperor's manifestation drove back Great Sage Xiangliu as they tried to destroy Nether Heaven and claim its origin.
• Venerable Azure gathered Grand Elder Tian Heng, Night King, King Mu, Luo Muyun, and Yin Yuanzheng in secret to discuss resisting Fang Qianyuan's control.
• Tian Heng proposed that they seize Heavenly Dao origins while Fang Qianyuan was distracted, strengthen their Dao Paths, and force him to accept their actions.
• Smoke Ghost warned the group that Chaos Divine Crystals were approaching from the void.
• Tian Heng and the other powerhouses intercepted the falling crystals and began competing to devour them.

Fang Qianyuan discovered Tian Heng and the other Heaven Tier powerhouses taking Mystic Heaven’s scattered origin while he fought Nether Heaven, but he chose to deal with Nether Heaven first. Sun Zhuo tried to stop the rebels, but they resisted his Heavenly Court authority and Tian Heng began pouring Mystic Heaven’s power into the Immortal Realm.

• Fang Qianyuan realized Tian Heng and the others had evaded his surveillance by severing their ties to the Heavenly Dao, and he stopped the Heavenly Emperor’s manifestation from abandoning the battle against Nether Heaven.
• Sun Zhuo recognized the group’s attempt to delay their summons and confronted them in the Outer Domains, warning them to stop.
• Tian Heng, King Mu, Past King, and the others ignored Sun Zhuo and resumed seizing Mystic Heaven’s origin.
• Sun Zhuo attacked through the Heavenly Court system, but the freed Heaven Tier powerhouses avoided his laws, and Past King struck him with a dragon-shaped red light.
• Tian Heng swept Mystic Heaven’s lingering will and Chaos Divine Crystals into the Immortal Realm, declaring that he would bear responsibility for any contamination.

Tian Heng distributed Dao Path origins into the Immortal Realm to draw more immortals into their rebellion, then urged his allies to retreat and refine their gains. Sun Zhuo returned to find the Immortal Realm scrambling for the falling crystals, but his warning that they came from Mystic Heaven and would make refiners heretics failed to stop them.

• Tian Heng’s group abandoned their fight with Sun Zhuo and withdrew to refine their gains, agreeing to support one another if Azure Heaven struck.
• Tian Heng, the Night King, the Past King, and the others departed through gates and across the Void.
• Chaos Divine Crystals rained into the Immortal Realm, and Spirit-Taming True Immortals and other immortals rushed to seize them.
• Renowned Masters of the Righteous Path and Azure Cloud Sect Elders joined the scramble, hoping the crystals could help them reach Heaven Tier.
• Sun Zhuo ordered everyone to stop and warned that refining the Mystic Heaven crystals would make them demonic heretics, but the immortals dismissed his warning and kept their crystals.

Sun Zhuo struggled to restore order after the Chaos Divine Crystals were seized, but Yu Shixian and other Azure Cloud Sect elders admitted they had joined the scramble and urged him to accept what had happened. The Heavenly Court then ordered the surrender of surplus crystals, and the Self-Inspection and Surrender Movement swept across the Immortal Realm, especially harming rogue cultivators with little backing.

• Sun Zhuo failed to stop powerful figures from taking the Chaos Divine Crystals, and Yu Shixian and the Azure Cloud Sect elders revealed they had secured crystals for their own advancement.
• Yu Shixian offered surplus crystals to the Heavenly Court, but Sun Zhuo challenged the elders’ motives and weighed the consequences of punishing them or letting them go.
• Sun Zhuo accepted the crystals and left the matter for Fang Qianyuan to handle, prompting relief across the Immortal Realm.
• The Heavenly Court decreed that all parties surrender their surplus divine crystals, and the great sects and clans cooperated to enforce the order.
• The Self-Inspection and Surrender Movement exposed grassroots cultivators’ remaining crystals, forcing many to give up resources they might have used to advance their Dao.

Tian Heng, the Night King, and other powerful cultivators began advancing toward the Heavenly Dao realm using rare origin divine crystals. They sought to strengthen their own paths before Fang Qianyuan settled the conflict with Nether Heaven and made further advancement impossible.

• Tian Heng learned that the divine crystals had been delivered to the Heavenly Court and continued preparing to advance in seclusion.
• Tian Heng cast three origin divine crystals into Taotie's maw to help the spirit creature devour their power and develop his Dao path.
• The Night King began refining three crystals containing Dream-Eating Heavenly Demon origins to gain control over the boundary between dreams and reality.
• King Mu, Luo Muyun, Yin Yuanzheng, the Past King, and Venerable Azure also began advancing in their secluded cultivation sites.
• Cultivators near the Heavenly Dao realm felt Azure Heaven growing more complete and began advancing before Fang Qianyuan could resolve the trouble with Nether Heaven.

Fang Qianyuan defeated Nether Heaven and sealed away most of the Demonic Path’s origin, but the remaining Demonic Path returned to the Demon Realm. He left the Immortal Realm and Heavenly Court in the hands of his manifestation, while the other powerful figures wondered where he had gone and what he planned.

• Fang Qianyuan and his Heavenly Emperor Manifestation severed Great Sage Xiangliu’s nine heads and destroyed Nether Heaven’s vessel.
• Fang Qianyuan gathered most of the Demonic Path’s origin, resisted its attempt to corrupt him, and sealed it inside a World Gate connected to the Chaos Void.
• The remaining powers of the Demonic Path returned to the Demon Realm, where demons fought over the newly released origin.
• Fang Qianyuan concluded that he could not eradicate the Demonic Path and left the Heavenly Emperor Manifestation to return to the Immortal Realm.
• Tian Heng and other secluded cultivators realized Nether Heaven had fallen, while the Heavenly Emperor resumed his seat and Fang Qianyuan remained absent.

Fang Qianyuan began comprehending the origins of reincarnation and the Netherworld while Bai Aoxue watched over the Immortal Realm. Ten years later, the Mystic Sun Sect celebrated as Grand Elder Lei Zhengming prepared to undergo tribulation and ascend.

• Fang Qianyuan examined the origins of reincarnation and the Netherworld and resolved to establish the Underworld.
• Bai Aoxue asked Fang Qianyuan to quell the Immortal Realm's chaos, but he explained that the struggle for divine crystals served his plan to suppress Mystic Heaven and Nether Heaven.
• Fang Qianyuan told Bai Aoxue to watch over the Immortal Realm while he mastered reincarnation and opened the Underworld.
• Fang Qianyuan absorbed the origins and began a long meditation, while ten years passed in the Heavenly Realms.
• The Mystic Sun Sect held a celebration as Grand Elder Lei Zhengming prepared to undergo tribulation and ascend as a Celestial Immortal of the Thunder Dao.

Lei Zhengming absorbed the heavenly thunder during his ascension, rose to the middle stage of heaven tier, and was appointed Thunder Edict Master of the Heavenly Court. Tian Heng learned of the appointment and told Zhang Beixuan to accept the Heavenly Court’s recruitment rather than resist it.

• Lei Zhengming greeted the guests gathered at the Mystic Sun Sect before his scheduled ascension.
• Lei Zhengming absorbed the thunder tribulation into his Dharma Sword and received an appointment as Thunder Edict Master of the Thunder Department.
• The Heavenly Court’s decree raised Lei Zhengming’s cultivation to the middle stage of heaven tier, and he entered the Immortal Realm.
• Tian Heng heard that Lei Zhengming had ascended and remained cautious while Fang Qianyuan had been missing for ten years.
• Zhang Beixuan warned Tian Heng that the Heavenly Court’s recruitment threatened the sects, but Tian Heng told him not to resist and said everyone had their own aspirations.

Lei Zhengming took command of the Heavenly Court’s Punishment Bureau and suppressed resistance across the lower realm, while the Heavenly Emperor’s manifestation warned Sun Zhuo that a growing force of dharma-ending tribulation threatened the Immortal Realm. The chapter ended with the manifestation confirming that both the immortals’ rebellion and the recent ascensions contributed to the danger.

• The Heavenly Court’s factions remained cautious, and observers concluded that Fang Qianyuan’s absence served his plans to unify the Heavenly Realms and establish the Heavenly Court.
• Lei Zhengming assumed command of the Thunder Department’s Punishment Bureau and used its authority to execute dozens of cultivators and other beings who had practiced demonic arts or devoured the Heavenly Dao’s origin.
• The Heavenly Emperor’s manifestation told Sun Zhuo that independent powers led by Tian Heng, King Mu, Night King, and Past King remained a threat, and raised concerns about the immortal spirit root vein.
• At Heavenly Pillar Mountain, the Heavenly Emperor’s manifestation showed Sun Zhuo murky clouds eroding the Spirit Pool and identified them as dharma-ending tribulation force born from all beings’ evil thoughts.
• The Heavenly Emperor’s manifestation explained that the Heavenly Court’s rule provoked a counterforce and that the Ancient Immortal Kingdom had fallen during a great tribulation.
• The Heavenly Emperor’s manifestation confirmed that both the immortals’ rebellion and the influx of ascensions contributed to the crisis.

Fang Qianyuan projected his will into the Demon Realm, where Nether Heaven's surviving successors had grown stronger after inheriting its origin. He declared himself Yellow Springs Heaven and announced his rule over the Nine Hells.

• Sun Zhuo learned that the Immortal Realm's Spirit Pool was failing, and the Heavenly Emperor decided to conceal the truth until his true self completed cultivation.
• Fang Qianyuan cast his intent into the void, resonating with the Demon Realm and drawing its scattered powers toward him.
• The Soul-Devouring Worm of the Blood Sea had gained Plague-Baleful Power by devouring part of Nether Heaven's origin.
• Zhijia Baqiluo collected six great origins, kept untimely death for himself, and used the others to win five sovereigns as vassals.
• Several beings across the Demon Realm cultivated Nether Heaven's remaining origins and inherited Great Sage Xiangliu's legacy.
• Fang Qianyuan's will descended upon the Nine Hells, and he proclaimed, "I am the Devil Master, Yellow Springs Heaven!"

After sensing that Nether Heaven’s power had revived in the Demon Realm, Tian Heng investigated records and urgently contacted influential figures. He warned King Mu, Night King, Luo Muyun, Past King, and the others that Nether Heaven’s legacy might have been acquired, leaving them alarmed by how long the danger had escaped their notice.

• The Heavenly Court learned of unusual movements in the Demon Realm and dispatched guards and heavenly officials to investigate.
• Tian Heng divined that Nether Heaven’s power had revived in the Demon Realm and suspected a great danger was unfolding.
• Tian Heng ordered Bei Ye Feng to gather ten years of campaign records and Market District accounts, then examined them and sent notices and secret messages to powerful parties.
• Tian Heng summoned King Mu, Night King, Luo Muyun, Past King, and others, and warned them that the Demon Realm might have obtained Nether Heaven’s legacy.
• King Mu, Night King, and the others realized that someone had concealed the danger from their perceptions for ten years.