Chapter Summaries

Xu Taiping activated Lotus Eye’s great deductive power, but it could not predict a definite outcome for the heaven-treading contest. As the group prepared to use Nangong Yu’s Yellow Millet Edict against the three cultivators from Taiqing Paradise, Xu Taiping realized that finding them might be the predicament Lotus Eye had meant.

• Xu Taiping absorbed the Chaos Demonic Beasts’ chaos power into his Dao body furnace, and Lotus Eye formed a vast pond of possible deductions that would change with his choices.
• Xu Taiping sent an Origin Beginning Clone and Xiaohei to hunt Chaos Demonic Beasts, ordering Xiaohei to follow the Heavenly Dao Edict to the contest if summoned.
• Duan Tianya gathered Xu Taiping and the other cultivators to prepare for the contest, explaining that Nangong Yu could bring at least nineteen people into a dream using her Yellow Millet Edict.
• Duan Tianya and Nangong Yu warned that dream combat carried at least an eighty percent chance of death and that Nangong Yu needed to see the three Taiqing Paradise cultivators within the same realm to draw them in.
• Xu Taiping recognized that locating all three cultivators at once would be difficult and wondered if this was the predicament Lotus Eye had spoken of.

Xu Taiping used a blooming golden lotus to glimpse the Heaven-Treading Contest battlefield and the Taiqing Paradise trio waiting in Tiandang City. He returned from the vision with a possible lead and asked the others whether they knew the city.

• Xu Taiping saw a golden lotus bloom, received its divine soul mark, and learned that two more golden lotuses remained to foretell possible calamities.
• Xu Taiping opened the mark and saw an endless sea give way to ancient ruins and a battle in which three figures slaughtered a horde of sea yao.
• Xu Taiping recognized Su Chan among the three figures sent by Taiqing Paradise, while one of the others sensed someone spying on them.
• One of the unfamiliar figures said the trio would wait in Tiandang City before splitting up to hunt their unseen opponent.
• Xu Taiping spotted a towering stone pillar near the trio, then returned from the vision and asked whether anyone knew of Tiandang City.

Xu Taiping and the other Heaven’s Chosen agreed to risk going to Tiandang City in the Sanxuan Realm to confront the three Taiqing Paradise cultivators and use Nangong Yu’s edict power. They prepared to remain together in the Dragon-Trapping Tower, then discussed their strengths before the contest, with the Old Daoist confirming he could find Tiandang City immediately.

• The Old Daoist explained that Tiandang City lay among the ruins of the Sanxuan Realm, which had been destroyed by the Great Void Calamity, and warned that its inhabitants might live in the floodwaters.
• Xu Taiping revealed that the three Taiqing Paradise cultivators were waiting for the Shangqing group at Tiandang City, and the cultivators agreed to risk confronting them there to make use of Nangong Yu’s edict power.
• The Old Daoist gave the group intelligence about the Sanxuan Realm, while Duan Tianya explained that Nangong Yu’s Yellow Millet Edict would manifest its dream battlefield there.
• Xu Taiping asked the dream entrants to remain in the Dragon-Trapping Tower until the Heavenly Dao’s reception descended, then led the seven Heaven’s Chosen into the Scripture Repository to prepare.
• The Heaven’s Chosen discussed their abilities, and the Old Daoist confirmed that he would be able to locate Tiandang City immediately after they descended into the Sanxuan Realm.

Xu Taiping and his companions were summoned to the Land of Chaos in Outer Heaven, but Zhao Linglong was missing from their arrival point. Xiaohei left a message saying he, Linglong, and Xu Taiping’s Origin Beginning Clone had entered the Sanxuan Realm ahead of them, while Xu Taiping’s group prepared to follow.

• The Heavenly Dao Edict summoned Zhao Linglong first, then Xu Taiping, Lü Daoxuan, Kang Cangzi, Lin Buyan, and Nangong Yu to a Ruin Star in the Land of Chaos in Outer Heaven.
• Xu Taiping and the others realized Zhao Linglong was missing and searched the Ruin Star and its surrounding Star Domain without finding her aura.
• A stone pillar relayed Xiaohei’s message that he, Zhao Linglong, and Xu Taiping’s Origin Beginning Clone were heading to the Heaven-Treading Contest battlefield ahead of the group.
• Xu Taiping explained that Xiaohei and his clone had been in the Land of Chaos hunting Chaos Demonic Beasts, and Lü Daoxuan said they could help protect Linglong.
• Xu Taiping told the group to follow the plan and travel together to Tiandang City in the Sanxuan Realm, then opened one of his remaining Golden Lotuses as the Grand Teleportation Array activated.

Su Chan, Heaven-Gate Rogue Person, and Yuqiu Heavenly Venerable entered the Sanxuan Realm and prepared for resistance from its inhabitants. After they detected Xu Taiping’s group and unleashed Edict powers, the realm’s living beings attacked them with enormous waves, and Yuqiu warned Heaven-Gate Rogue Person not to provoke them recklessly.

• Heaven-Gate Rogue Person predicted the Sanxuan Realm’s inhabitants would come, and Yuqiu Heavenly Venerable insisted they remained opponents until slain.
• Su Chan spread a Heavenly Secrets Net across the realm and discovered a young woman with a black hound, while Yuqiu and Su Chan each used an Edict power.
• The Sanxuan Realm’s inhabitants sent towering waves against the three, but the waves left them unharmed.
• Heaven-Gate Rogue Person crushed the waves and killed living beings beneath the water, turning a vast area purple with their blood.
• The waves surged back, and Yuqiu Heavenly Venerable warned Heaven-Gate Rogue Person not to endanger them by striking again.

Su Chan, Yuqiu Heavenly Venerable, and Heaven-Gate Rogue Person fought through the sea yao at the ruins of Tiandang City while the mountain spirit power prevented them from using edict power. Su Chan then spotted six figures approaching in the Heavenly Net Phantom Image and recognized his Junior Brother.

• The Sanxuan Realm's water receded, revealing an abandoned city as the villagers and sea yao emerged from the ruins.
• Terrifying mountain spirit power forced Su Chan, Yuqiu Heavenly Venerable, and Heaven-Gate Rogue Person down to the ground, where they fought off waves of sea yao.
• Su Chan explained that the sea yao were Great Void Calamity puppets that revived and grew stronger as they were killed.
• Heaven-Gate Rogue Person and Yuqiu Heavenly Venerable continued battling the sea yao until they had cleared nearly all of them near Tiandang City.
• Su Chan summoned the Heavenly Net Phantom Image and saw six figures approaching above the water, recognizing one as his Junior Brother.

Xu Taiping led the group toward Tiandang City for the Heaven-Treading Contest, but the Seventh Great Dao Golden Lotus showed their planned assault ending in near-total annihilation. Suspecting Taiqing edict power was responsible, he nevertheless told the Old Daoist that the plan remained unchanged as they neared the city.

• Xu Taiping shared his plan with the group as they descended through the thunderclouds toward the waters of the Sanxuan Realm.
• Kang Cangzi reminded the Heaven's Chosen that the Heaven-Treading Contest was a fight to the death, and the Old Daoist led everyone toward Tiandang City before the water level fell.
• Xu Taiping kept close to Nangong Yu, whom he considered crucial to their first battle, as the group hurried across the water.
• The Seventh Great Dao Golden Lotus bloomed and showed Xu Taiping a vision of the group being devastated while attacking the Three Heaven-Treaders of Taiping Paradise.
• Xu Taiping concluded that Taiqing edict power might have altered Lotus Eye's deduction, but he told the Old Daoist their plan remained unchanged as Tiandang City came into view.

Xu Taiping concealed his suspicions about Taiqing Paradise’s Edict Power and led the others into an attack on the three Heaven-Treaders at Tiandang City. When Lin Buyan’s Edict Power began shrinking their defense, Xu Taiping suddenly used forbidden domain power against Lin Buyan.

• Xu Taiping told the Lotus Eye he suspected one of the three enemies could reverse their victory, so he planned to seek defeat instead.
• The Old Daoist used his Heaven-Supporting Edict to resist the descending Sanxuan Edict as the three Heaven-Treaders landed in Tiandang City.
• Lü Daoxuan’s Heavenly Craft Sword met an identical sword from a void, and Kang Cangzi’s purple-gold gourd swallowed the false sword and its Edict Power.
• Lü Daoxuan attacked the three enemies, while Xu Taiping and Lin Buyan struck their cyan protective halo.
• Lin Buyan used Tracing Sound to shrink the halo, but Xu Taiping then froze the domain with forbidden domain power, shocking Lin Buyan.

Xu Taiping maintained the true dragon forbidden domain during the battle in Tiandang City, leaving the Shangqing cultivators to fight the Taiqing attackers without their usual powers. He revealed that his plan was to seek death, then took Heaven-Gate Rogue Person’s attack to protect Lü Daoxuan and Kang Cangzi, as a cyan edict halo engulfed the city and the platform lit up.

• Xu Taiping used the Heavenly Sound Bell to strengthen his forbidden domain, forcing Lin Buyan, Kang Cangzi, Lü Daoxuan, and the Old Daoist to question his actions.
• Heaven-Gate Rogue Person, Su Chan, and Yuqiu Heavenly Venerable attacked the group, while Lü Daoxuan and Kang Cangzi fought back using their martial skills.
• After Kang Cangzi was wounded, Lü Daoxuan demanded that Xu Taiping withdraw the forbidden domain, but Xu Taiping said his plan was to seek death rather than victory.
• Xu Taiping stepped in front of Lü Daoxuan and Kang Cangzi and was torn apart by Heaven-Gate Rogue Person’s attack.
• Yuqiu Heavenly Venerable’s cyan edict halo spread across Tiandang City, dazing everyone as the platform blazed with light.

Xu Taiping revealed that he had triggered Sanxuan Realm’s heavenly sorrow to restrain the Three from Taiqing Paradise and counter Yuqiuzi’s Heaven and Earth Inversion Edict. With the heavenly phenomenon potentially ending soon, Nangong Yu prepared to act while Xu Taiping and the others stood ready to buy time.

• Xu Taiping’s Heavenly Sound Bell triggered heavenly sorrow across Tiandang City, and heavenly fire began attacking the Three from Taiqing Paradise.
• The Old Daoist explained that heavenly sorrow targeted powerful killing intent, while Xu Taiping’s true dragon forbidden domain protected their group.
• Xu Taiping revealed that his deduction had exposed Yuqiuzi’s edict as a power that could reverse victory and defeat, so he had deliberately sought defeat.
• Lin Buyan apologized to Xu Taiping for misunderstanding him as the Three from Taiqing Paradise were besieged by towering Flame Giants.
• The Old Daoist warned that heavenly sorrow and the realm’s suppression could end at any moment, and Xu Taiping asked Nangong Yu to take over while the others held the Three back.

Xu Taiping and his allies fought the Taiqing Paradise trio using only their physiques and Martial Dao Origin Laws. Su Chan initially overwhelmed Xu Taiping, but he unleashed his Blood Oath power and turned the battle around, leaving Su Chan wounded by his blade and Lü Daoxuan’s sword.

• Xu Taiping, Lü Daoxuan, Kang Cangzi, and Lin Buyan charged the Taiqing Paradise trio as they approached the sacrificial platform.
• Su Chan tore through Xu Taiping’s Heaven-Shaking Fist and battered him into a fissure in the platform, while Heaven-Gate Rogue Person and Yuqiu Heavenly Lord engaged his allies.
• Lü Daoxuan blocked Su Chan’s attacks to protect Xu Taiping, who then drew on his Blood Oath power and severed Su Chan’s finger strike.
• Xu Taiping’s enhanced blade assault cut Su Chan’s shoulder and severed her wrist.
• Lü Daoxuan thrust with the Heavenly Craft Sword and pierced Su Chan’s shoulder despite her defense.

Xu Taiping and his allies battled Su Chan, Heaven-Gate Rogue Person, and Yuqiu Heavenly Venerable as heavenly sorrow power descended and the Sanxuan Realm’s Heavenly Dao restrictions lifted. With the Taiqing Paradise trio’s full strength unleashed, Xiaoyu swept them with a Divine Soul Attack and declared that all she beheld would enter her dreams.

• Xu Taiping wounded Heaven-Gate Rogue Person’s leg, but Heaven-Gate Rogue Person retaliated and forced Xu Taiping to shield the sacrificial platform with layers of blood-colored blade flame.
• Lü Daoxuan and Lin Buyan injured and knocked back Heaven-Gate Rogue Person, but Su Chan intervened while Yuqiu Heavenly Venerable struck Xu Taiping with his fly-whisk.
• As Yuqiu Heavenly Venerable gathered power for another attack, Kang Cangzi tried to stop him, and Xu Taiping prepared to release the second stage of his blood oath power.
• Heavenly sorrow power sent Flame Giants against the three Taiqing Paradise fighters, and Kang Cangzi realized the Sanxuan Realm’s Heavenly Dao restrictions were about to be lifted.
• The restrictions lifted and the Taiqing Paradise trio unleashed their full strength, so Xu Taiping and his allies prepared for a desperate fight.
• Xiaoyu sent a ferocious Divine Soul Attack toward the group and said, “All whom I behold, enter my dreams!”

Su Chan, Heaven-Gate Rogue Person, and Yuqiu Heavenly Venerable realized Shangqing was gathering powerful cultivators in Nangong Yu’s dream to hunt them, so Yuqiu used his Endless Horizon edict to let the three reunite instantly. As the hunt began and they vanished from the sacrificial platform, Xu Taiping asked Nangong Yu whether the edict truly allowed them to reunite at once.

• Su Chan’s sword qi struck the sacrificial platform, but the three Yujitian experts found it empty and realized the Yellow Millet Edict had moved them.
• Su Chan explained that the Dream Master could shift their positions and might be able to restart the dream, while Yuqiu Heavenly Venerable sensed eight powerful auras beyond the seven already present.
• Heaven-Gate Rogue Person suspected Shangqing planned to gather its cultivators and attack the three, and Yuqiu Heavenly Venerable used his Endless Horizon edict to let them reunite instantly.
• Su Chan and Heaven-Gate Rogue Person agreed they could face five opponents each, and Su Chan urged the others to show the Shangqing cultivators Yujitian’s ultimate realm experts’ strength.
• The dream realm shook, and the three experts vanished as Yuqiu Heavenly Venerable told them to fight without restraint.
• In the Old Heavenly Court’s main hall, Xu Taiping watched the scene and asked Nangong Yu whether the Endless Horizon edict could truly reunite the three instantly.

Xu Taiping and his allies prepared for the Heaven-Treading Contest inside Nangong Yu’s dream realm, where the three opponents from Taiqing Paradise were temporarily sealed. They planned to exploit the dream realm’s time differences and left Xu Taiping ready to use the Lotus Eye to guide their battle.

• Nangong Yu revealed that she could control four dream layers and had sealed the three Taiqing Paradise opponents in the second layer for a short time.
• Eight allies entered the dream, and Xu Taiping learned that Buyu was absent because Lady Jade Mother had arranged another task for him.
• Xu Taiping briefed the group on the opponents’ powers, and Lady Jade Mother gave him a jujube pit from the Earth Fruit’s ninth Seed Burning to fuel his Lotus Eye.
• Xu Taiping refined the jujube pit, releasing a powerful flow of chaos power that let him fully open the Lotus Eye.
• Nangong Yu explained that each successive dream layer ran one incense stick slower, allowing the group to delay the opponents’ awareness by one or two incense sticks.

Xu Taiping and the others used the Lotus Eye to choose seven fighters for the first battle against a Taiqing Paradise expert. The fighters were teleported into the second dream layer to face Chu Tianque, Fairy Lingyue’s missing senior brother.

• Nangong Yu explained the limits on her teleports and warned that battle could reduce how many people she could transport.
• Xu Taiping asked the Lotus Eye to select the first battle group, and it chose Kang Cangzi, Chu Lingyue, Heaven-Hunting Great Sage, Dragon Emperor Cangzhou, Duan Tianya, Blade Ghost, and Heavenly Lord Cangzhu.
• Nangong Yu said the others could watch the fight and send messages twice, then began teleporting the Taiqing Paradise experts as the dream realm shook.
• A projected image revealed that Chu Tianque was the opponent in the second layer, and Chu Lingyue hurried to join the chosen fighters.
• Chu Tianque challenged the Shangqing Realm cultivators, and a pillar of light teleported Chu Lingyue and the other six fighters away.
• Chu Lingyue called out to Chu Tianque and asked whether he remembered her.

Fairy Lingyue and the Shangqing Realm fighters attacked Heaven-Gate Rogue Person with their edicts, treasures, and blades, but his formidable body endured their assaults. Heaven-Gate Rogue Person broke free and battered Duan Tianya and Blade Ghost, leaving the fight against him unresolved.

• Fairy Lingyue trapped Heaven-Gate Rogue Person with Palm Grasping Mountains and Seas, but he broke the edict and unleashed a hurricane across the sea.
• Kang Cangzi used his purple-gold gourd to draw Heaven-Gate Rogue Person in while Blade Ghost and Duan Tianya struck him, and Heavenly Lord Cangzhu imprisoned him with the Haotian Mirror.
• Blade Ghost and Duan Tianya wounded Heaven-Gate Rogue Person, but his Dao-rhyme golden light kept his body from being suppressed.
• Heaven-Hunting Great Sage smashed half of Heaven-Gate Rogue Person's head with a punch, and Blade Ghost and Duan Tianya followed with another pair of powerful strikes.
• Heaven-Gate Rogue Person broke free of the restraints and repeatedly punched Duan Tianya and Blade Ghost, sending them flying as their protective Dao rhythm and treasures burst apart.

Heaven-Gate Rogue Person overwhelmed the Shangqing Cultivators with the Taiqing Heavenly Sound Edict, while Dragon Emperor Cangzhou reversed time within the Reflected Projection. Xu Taiping found a possible way to break the edict and asked Nangong Yu to send a message to the battlefield.

• Heaven-Gate Rogue Person survived Fairy Lingyue's attack and trapped the seven Shangqing Cultivators beneath his palm.
• Heaven-Gate Rogue Person unleashed annihilating sound waves that destroyed Duan Tianya, Blade Ghost, and Kang Cangzi, while Heavenly Lord Cangzhu and Fairy Lingyue struggled to resist.
• The Old Daoist identified the Taiqing Heavenly Sound Edict, but Nangong Yu said he could not transport anyone and Lady Jade Mother warned that intervention was already too late.
• Heavenly Lord Cangzhu sacrificed himself through the Haotian Mirror to interrupt Heaven-Gate Rogue Person's sound attack, giving Fairy Lingyue time to push open his palm.
• Dragon Emperor Cangzhou used Tracing Light to reverse time in the Reflected Projection, and Fairy Lingyue called out to Taiping.
• Xu Taiping completed his calculations and asked Nangong Yu whether he could transmit a message to the battlefield.

Fairy Lingyue and the others used Kang Cangzi’s edict to divide Heaven-Gate Rogue Person into nine weaker clones, then captured one while Heavenly Lord Cangzhu sealed the rest. As they prepared to attack the remaining clones, Xu Taiping warned them that killing one would let the others break free and merge, and told Blade Ghost to open the Infernal Blade Prison.

• Heaven-Gate Rogue Person attacked again, but Fairy Lingyue blocked his edict with Palm Grasping Mountains and Seas while telling Blade Ghost not to strike.
• At Xu Taiping’s direction, Kang Cangzi used his edict to split Heaven-Gate Rogue Person into nine bodies, each with one-ninth of his strength.
• Fairy Lingyue crushed one clone, and Kang Cangzi trapped its escaping nascent soul in his purple-gold gourd to refine it.
• Heavenly Lord Cangzhu sealed the remaining eight clones with the Haotian Mirror as the others prepared to attack them.
• Xu Taiping warned that killing a clone would free and merge the other seven, then instructed Blade Ghost to open the Infernal Blade Prison.

Blade Ghost trapped the Heaven-Gate Rogue Person’s clones in the Infernal Blade Prison, but several escaped into Kang Cangzi’s purple-gold gourd. Unable to contain them, Kang Cangzi sacrificed himself to destroy the gourd and its captives, leaving Xu Taiping to carry on the battle.

• Blade Ghost opened the Infernal Blade Prison and dragged all eight of the Heaven-Gate Rogue Person’s clones inside, where Fairy Lingyue and the others joined the fight.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage and Duan Tianya emerged badly wounded, then returned to the prison after telling Xu Taiping and Xiaoyu not to grieve if they died.
• Kang Cangzi suffered a backlash while refining a clone and revealed that five clones had escaped into his purple-gold gourd.
• When the clones began to overwhelm the gourd, Kang Cangzi drew it into his body and told Xu Taiping to take over the battle.
• Kang Cangzi used Corporeal Dissolution, destroying himself and the purple-gold gourd.

Xu Taiping watched Heaven-Gate Rogue Person recover and break free of Blade Ghost’s Blade Prison, but Heaven-Hunting Great Sage and Duan Tianya were missing. With only Fairy Lingyue, Cangzhou, Blade Ghost, and Heavenly Lord Cangzhu left to face him, the survivors struggled to withstand his Earth-Shaking Edict while Nangong Yu needed more time to activate teleportation.

• After Kang Cangzi’s Liberation by Violence, Xu Taiping vowed to sweep away whatever unsettled his Dao Heart before choosing when to ascend.
• Heaven-Gate Rogue Person reappeared, recovered, and approached the Blade Prison, which Blade Ghost shattered from outside before its captives could be trapped any longer.
• Heaven-Gate Rogue Person’s surviving clones merged, restoring forty percent of his combat power, while Xu Taiping saw Fairy Lingyue and Blade Ghost emerge but could not find Heaven-Hunting Great Sage or Duan Tianya.
• Xu Taiping learned from Nangong Yu that teleportation would take another tea-brewing’s time, leaving Fairy Lingyue and the other survivors to hold out without his help.
• Heaven-Gate Rogue Person used his Earth-Shaking Edict to scatter the sea and shatter the survivors’ Dao Rhythm barriers, forcing Heavenly Lord Cangzhu to shield them with the Haotian Mirror.
• Heaven-Gate Rogue Person restrained Fairy Lingyue and the others with his earth-shaking power, then unleashed an even more terrifying aura.