Recaps

Jiang Yuu granted Golden Toad Child a chance to earn forgiveness by reforming the Golden Toad Cosmos and cleansing it of sin. The chapter then shifted to the Boundless Mountains and Seas, where the world’s mourning recalled the death of Jue Ming a hundred thousand years earlier.

• Annatania asked to see Golden Toad Child’s past, and Jiang Yuu showed her his life, from his clan’s destruction to his efforts to help others and his prayer for the Golden Toad Cosmos.
• Annatania urged Jiang Yuu to give kind monsters a chance, and he agreed to deduce Golden Toad Child’s possible futures and grant him a path forward.
• Jiang Yuu permitted Golden Toad Child to spread benevolence and reform the Golden Toad Cosmos, promising that the prison would open once its sins were cleansed.
• Golden Toad Child vowed to remain in the prison until every sin was gone, while Annatania and Jiang Yuu hoped he might later join the next Transcendence One.
• The narrative turned to the Boundless Mountains and Seas, where the world’s mourning marked the death of Golden Toad Monster Emperor Jue Ming a hundred thousand years earlier.

After Jiang Yuu transcended, God-King Serenity returned with news of his coming expedition, and Immortal King Longevity abandoned his bid for power to pledge his support. Jiang Yuu offered Yu Changsheng one day as Lord of Mountains and Seas if he completed four great deeds, binding the gift to strict duties.

• The Boundless Mountains and Seas learned that Monster Emperor Jueming was dead, while God-King Serenity decided to seek Jiang Yuu in the Multiverse.
• After meeting the transcended Jiang Yuu, God-King Serenity returned and told Immortal King Longevity that Jiang Yuu was preparing to march into Beyond Transcendence.
• Yu Changsheng vowed to follow the next Lord of Transcendence if he could bring A Ruan back, and Jiang Yuu sent him words of encouragement.
• Jiang Yuu offered Yu Changsheng one day as Lord of Mountains and Seas if he accomplished one great deed in each of the four great Lands of Being.
• Annatania conveyed Jiang Yuu's offer, and Yu Changsheng accepted the conditions that he do no evil and defend the people of Mountains and Seas when they were in peril.

Waxilun became the Sacred God of Radiance and discovered an inscription by Moweidina on the Ancient Stele of Divine Miracles, inspiring her to learn more about creation and the Creator. As the appointed day of transcendence arrived, the armies returned and the angels and gods gathered.

• Waxilun became the Sacred God of Radiance with support from the White Sky Angels and the Archon Angels, and Luoseda personally apologized to her.
• Waxilun saw Moweidina’s words on the Ancient Stele of Divine Miracles and learned that the God Above Gods had affirmed the Creator’s existence.
• Waxilun inscribed her own words on the stele, declaring her intent to wield the Radiance Authority, pursue the Light of Creation, and shelter those she loved.
• Waxilun tried to reach the stele’s reverse but was stopped by her lack of strength, then resolved to uncover the secrets of creation and the Creator.
• Youlun continued growing stronger as the God of War on Paradise Mountain, allied with the Archon Angels and recognized by Waxilun.
• On the appointed day of transcendence, the armies returned as the angels stood solemnly and the gods took their places.

Jiang Yuu proclaimed that he would lead the Angel Civilization into Transcendence, then revealed Paradise Mountain to the Multiverse and began breaking the shackles that bound its people. The chapter ended as he drew the Platinum Holy Sword and struck at those restraints to force their passage beyond Transcendence.

• Yuliel announced that he would lead the Angel Civilization into Transcendence, and the assembled armies of Paradise Mountain cheered their support.
• Jiang Yuu rose from the Platinum Heavenly Throne and released his power across the four Lands of Being, causing their inhabitants to bow before his radiance.
• Jiang Yuu revealed Paradise Mountain to the Multiverse as the Sevenfold Heaven Mountain emerged from the Multiverse Abyss and rose above the Multiverse.
• Jiang Yuu declared that he would lift Paradise Mountain and its people beyond their common limits, then drew the Platinum Holy Sword and slashed at the shackles binding them.

Jiang Yuu used his Platinum Holy Sword to sever the restraints binding Paradise Mountain and its inhabitants, then led them beyond the Multiverse and through every dimension. After ascending past the Land of Truth and Absurdity, he broke open a supreme rift in true nothingness.

• Jiang Yuu severed the illusory shackles on Paradise Mountain, making its inhabitants part of his transcendent essence.
• Jiang Yuu led Paradise Mountain above the Multiverse as holy light flooded the origins of the four great Lands of Being.
• Paradise Mountain shattered time, space, reality and illusion, and the dimensions and laws underlying existence.
• Paradise Mountain rose past the Land of Truth and Absurdity, leaving Yuanshi, the Emperor of Humanity, and the Lord of Heaven behind.
• The Radiant Sovereign raised his eyes and broke open a supreme rift spanning true nothingness.

Jiang Yuu led the Angel Civilization through the Gate of Transcendence as the four Lands of Being witnessed a vast rift and a sea of holy light. After more than two hundred million years, Paradise Mountain entered Beyond Transcendence, where its inhabitants finally came to rest.

• Jiang Yuu used his transcendent will to open the Gate of Transcendence, and beings throughout the four Lands of Being saw the resulting rift and holy light.
• The Supremes, Immortal Kings, God-Kings, True Kings, and others recognized that Jiang Yuu and the Angel Civilization were transcending and offered their farewells or praise.
• Jiang Yuu looked back at the Multiverse and the other Lands of Being, then ordered all armies to follow him forward.
• Jiang Yuu led Paradise Mountain through the gate into Beyond Transcendence, plunging its inhabitants into profound darkness and weightlessness.
• After an immense journey, Paradise Mountain stopped rising, and its inhabitants cried, “Here we come.”

Jiang Yuu led Paradise Mountain into Beyond Transcendence, where he found a desolate expanse of ash and sensed the Emperor of Humanity’s presence. As the armies advanced toward the center of the gray land, they discovered they had been traveling across the remains of Yuanshi.

• Jiang Yuu saw that Beyond Transcendence was filled with ash from ruined lower realms and identified the only nearby light as the place Paradise Mountain had emerged from.
• Jiang Yuu sensed the Emperor of Humanity’s aura at the center of the gray land and ordered Lucifer to raise his banner and Michael to rally the armies.
• Lucifer planted the Blazing Heaven Holy Banner, and Michael led Paradise Mountain’s forces forward with cries of resolve.
• Jiang Yuu carried Paradise Mountain through the gray haze toward the Emperor of Humanity’s aura.
• The gray haze parted to reveal a vast mountain, and Jiang Yuu realized it was formed from Yuanshi’s remains.

Jiang Yuu led the Holy Armies beyond Paradise Mountain and found the battlefields of the Superhuman Civilization, where entire human legions had fallen. As the armies wondered whether they had arrived too late, Lucifer insisted that someone was still fighting to protect their Pure Land.

• Jiang Yuu ordered the Heavenly Kingdom to remain on Paradise Mountain and led the other Holy Armies into the gray haze.
• Jiang Yuu and his forces entered a vast expanse where each star held a battlefield and found the fallen 96th Legion, whose gravestone listed all 930,000,056 members.
• A warrior and an angel promised to honor each other with a gravestone if one fell, lifting the Holy Armies' spirits.
• Jiang Yuu's forces passed battlefield after battlefield and saw that every Superhuman Civilization legion recorded there had been wiped out.
• Gael asked Jiang Yuu if they had arrived too late, and Lucifer argued that someone must still be alive and defending the Pure Land.

Jiang Yuu led the Angel Civilization’s armies across the Superhuman Civilization’s abandoned battlefield and reached the main battlefield at Yuanshi Divine Mountain. After ordering the armies to honor humanity’s fallen, he walked into the golden light and heard a voice greet him.

• Jiang Yuu ordered the armies to keep advancing toward the golden pillar of light across the star-filled battlefield.
• The armies found abandoned Superhuman Civilization schools, where they learned that the students and teachers had gradually left to fight and discovered a final message on a blackboard.
• Jiang Yuu told the grieving armies they would finish what the Superhuman Civilization had left undone, and they continued toward the mountaintop.
• At the mountaintop, the armies saw the remains and gravestones of fallen human legions on a vast, devastated battlefield.
• Jiang Yuu descended to the ground, ordered all armies to salute humanity’s forebears, and walked toward the golden-lit center.
• Jiang Yuu entered the golden light, where a gentle voice said, “You’ve come.”

Jiang Yuu reached the Golden Divine Domain and found the gravely wounded Emperor of Humanity still holding back the Defiled World’s pressure. The Emperor briefly restored his former appearance, welcomed Jiang Yuu as his successor, and reminisced about the army before him.

• Jiang Yuu crossed the Golden Divine Domain and found the Emperor of Humanity standing beside a broken Divine Bell, his body shattered and his soul near its end.
• Jiang Yuu realized that the Emperor of Humanity’s remaining power still protected the Pure Land from the Defiled World.
• Jiang Yuu lamented that he had arrived too late, and his words awakened the Emperor of Humanity’s lingering awareness.
• The Emperor of Humanity used a strand of transcendence light to restore his body and greeted Jiang Yuu, saying he was not too late.
• The Emperor of Humanity recognized Jiang Yuu and the Holy Legions and Warriors of Paradise Mountain, then recalled the human army of his past.

The Emperor of Humanity told Jiang Yuu about Human Civilization’s defeat and entrusted the survivors’ final hope to him. He revealed that Jiang Shiluo had been born from his tear of regret and his son Jiang Wang’s fragmented true spirit, while Jiang Yuu had surpassed their shared path.

• The Emperor of Humanity told Jiang Yuu that he remembered the names of all his fallen warriors and had personally erected their gravestones.
• The Emperor of Humanity admitted that he regretted bringing all of Human Civilization to Beyond Transcendence, but accepted their shared fate and honored their deaths.
• The Emperor of Humanity recalled meeting the dying Yuanshi, who had entrusted the lower realm’s hope to him, and then entrusted that hope to Jiang Yuu.
• The Emperor of Humanity revealed that his tear of regret over Jiang Wang’s death had carried a fragment of Jiang Wang’s true spirit into the lower realm, where it became Jiang Shiluo.
• The Emperor of Humanity explained that Jiang Shiluo and Jiang Wang followed the path of the Sky God King, while Jiang Yuu had surpassed its upper limit.

The Emperor of Humanity explained how Jiang Yuu and the Angel Civilization inherited a shared lineage from Human Civilization, then clarified how time flowed differently in Beyond Transcendence. He reassured Jiang Yuu that the final war began only about a hundred thousand years ago in the upper realm, so he had not arrived too late.

• The Emperor of Humanity revealed that he had devised the Path of the Sky Lord for Jiang Wang, and that Jiang Shiluo later followed it.
• The Emperor of Humanity said Jiang Wang had died in battle before his hopes for him could be fulfilled, then declared that Jiang Yuu and he belonged to the same lineage.
• Jiang Yuu agreed that the Angel Race was part of the human species, and the Emperor of Humanity expressed hope that future successors would drive back the Defiled World.
• The Emperor of Humanity explained that time in Beyond Transcendence flowed differently from time in the lower realm.
• Jiang Yuu estimated that the final war had begun about a hundred thousand years ago, and the Emperor of Humanity confirmed that it had begun forty million years ago by lower-realm time.

The Emperor of Humanity explained to Jiang Yuu how the Pure Lands once sheltered Ascendants and how their system differed from that of modern Transcendence Ones. He began describing the nine supreme Pure Lands that existed in the upper realm.

• The Emperor of Humanity reassured Jiang Yuu that the time Human Civilization had bought for the lower realm was significant, then recalled how Yuanshi had waited three hundred million years for him.
• The Emperor of Humanity shifted the conversation to the great enemy of the Defiled World and began explaining the ancient history of the upper realm.
• The Emperor of Humanity told Jiang Yuu that Yuanshi had once resided in the Pure Land of Calamity, which existed above countless worlds and mortal realms.
• The Emperor of Humanity explained that the Pure Lands had sheltered those who ascended, making Transcendence easier in ancient times and leading those arrivals to be called Ascendants.
• The Emperor of Humanity contrasted Ascendants with Transcendence Ones and stated that the known upper realm contained nine supreme Pure Lands corresponding to the nine great paths of Transcendence Ones.

The Emperor of Humanity explained to Jiang Yuu that Yuanshi’s Transcendence One system was meant to recreate the nine Pure Lands and populate them with Ascendants. He clarified that Yuanshi had truly transcended only through Order, while his Calamity and Solitude powers came from the former Pure Lands.

• The Emperor of Humanity explained that Beyond Transcendence had nine Pure Lands and that each Transcendence One corresponded to one Pure Land.
• He said Yuanshi had intended to rebuild the Pure Lands by producing universes in wells and bringing people beyond transcendence to inhabit them.
• The Emperor of Humanity told Jiang Yuu that the ash around Yuanshi Divine Mountain came from mortal realms contaminated by the Defiled World.
• Jiang Yuu asked why Yuanshi, with three paths of transcendence, had failed to defeat the Defiled World.
• The Emperor of Humanity clarified that Yuanshi had attained only the Transcendence One of Order; his Calamity and Solitude powers came from their former Pure Lands.

The Emperor of Humanity told Jiang Yuu how the Defiled World invaded and destroyed the Pure Lands, beginning with the Pure Land of Life. He revealed that each completed great undertaking for the Defiled World produced another King, as its territory and strength grew.

• The Emperor of Humanity explained that Yuanshi was born in the Pure Lands to the Empress of Calamity and likely an Ascendant from the Pure Land of Solitude.
• The Emperor of Humanity said Yuanshi was content with life in the Pure Lands until the Defiled World appeared.
• The Defiled World invaded the Pure Land of Life, killed its Lord, polluted its Ascendants and lower realms, and reduced the Pure Land to gray fragments.
• Two Kings of the Defiled World led the invasion of the Pure Land of Sovereignty, killed its Lord, and destroyed it, after which another King arose.
• The Emperor of Humanity explained that a King of the Defiled World was born whenever a great undertaking concerning the Defiled World was completed.

The Emperor of Humanity explained how the Defiled World’s Kings emerged and recounted the simultaneous destruction of the five remaining Pure Lands. As the Pure Land of Calamity faced defeat, the Empress of Calamity urged her children to survive and seek the Authorities that might let them return as emperors capable of fighting back.

• Jiang Yuu asked how a new King of the Defiled World could claim credit for destroying a Pure Land alongside armies and an existing king, and the Emperor of Humanity explained that Defiled World beings gained others’ achievements by eating them.
• The Emperor of Humanity said the five Lords of the Pure Lands formed an alliance after four Pure Lands fell, but five Kings of the Defiled World invaded separately and nearly simultaneously.
• The King of the Crimson World overwhelmed the Empress of Calamity, and her forces retreated as the Defiled World spread through her Pure Land.
• The Empress of Calamity told His Majesty Yuanshi and her other children to flee, but His Majesty Yuanshi argued that nowhere would remain safe and that they should fight to the death.
• The Empress of Calamity revealed the prophecy that an emperor would arise when a Pure Land fell, and said the destroyed Pure Lands’ Authorities of Beyond Transcendence could enable survivors to defeat the Defiled World.
• The Empress of Calamity urged her children to escape into distant lands and, after all nine Pure Lands fell, obtain their Authorities and return to avenge them.

The Emperor of Humanity told Jiang Yuu how Yuanshi’s mother, the Empress of Calamity, became the Lord of the Azure World and eventually hunted down her former children. Yuanshi later emerged from the hidden “well” to protect life in the Defiled World, where nine Kings of the Defiled World joined forces against him.

• The Emperor of Humanity recounted how the Empress of Calamity sacrificed herself to help her children flee, then became the Lord of the Azure World and eventually killed them one by one.
• Yuanshi hid in a lower realm within the nine great Pure Lands, cleared it of corruption, and created the “well” where the four great Lands of Being arose.
• Yuanshi left the well to establish a small Pure Land in the Defiled World, beginning a conflict that lasted three hundred million years.
• The Lord of the Azure World confronted Yuanshi, was defeated, and revealed that a fallen Pure Land’s imperial sovereign could become a great achievement for the Defiled World’s Kings.
• More than two hundred million years after Yuanshi emerged, nine Kings of the Defiled World united to attack him while the Lord of the Azure World recovered.

The Emperor of Humanity explained how the Defiled World’s ten Kings ruled a society where powerful cultivators refined weaker people into elixirs, and recounted his failed attempts to help its victims. He then revealed why the injured Lord of the Azure World had stayed out of the Nine Kings’ campaign against Yuanshi.

• The Emperor of Humanity told Jiang Yuu that the Defiled World had formed its own society after its conquests, divided among ten holy lands ruled by its Kings.
• The Emperor of Humanity showed Jiang Yuu how Knights, Wizards, and other powerful cultivators devoured people to advance their cultivation, while even gifted apprentices were refined for their talents.
• The Emperor of Humanity explained that those who ascended within the Defiled World ultimately became the property of its Kings, and that he had secretly tried to raise champions among its people but none survived.
• The Emperor of Humanity said the Lord of the Azure World had avoided the campaign because her wounds left her afraid the other Kings would devour her.
• The Emperor of Humanity asked Jiang Yuu to consider why nine Kings, each only slightly weaker than a Transcendence One, had still failed to defeat Yuanshi.

The Emperor of Humanity recounted Yuanshi’s last stand, the creation of Yuanshi Divine Mountain, and how he helped bring another King of the Defiled World into being. Jiang Yuu vowed to fight the twelve Kings, and the Emperor began explaining the enemies’ powers.

• The Emperor of Humanity explained how Yuanshi wounded the Defiled Kings before a Defiled Thrall killed him and gained a great feat that eventually made him a new King.
• Yuanshi used his remaining strength to transform himself into Yuanshi Divine Mountain, which sheltered Human Civilization from the Defiled World.
• The Emperor of Humanity said he had guarded the mountain for tens of millions of years and warned Jiang Yuu that his actions had helped create a twelfth King of the Defiled World.
• Jiang Yuu declared that the number of Defiled Kings would not change his resolve to fight, and the Emperor of Humanity praised his determination.
• The Emperor of Humanity named the eleven Kings he had faced and began describing the powers of the Lord of the Azure World, the Lord of the Crimson World, and the Lord of the White World.

The Emperor of Humanity told Jiang Yuu how Human Civilization had fought the Defiled World for millions of years after arriving at Yuanshi Divine Mountain. He ended with the hundred-thousand-year-old battle that wiped out every warrior of Human Civilization, leaving the story of the final battle unresolved.

• The Emperor of Humanity explained the powers of the eleven Kings of the Defiled World, and Jiang Yuu memorized them.
• The Emperor recounted how Human Civilization arrived at Yuanshi Divine Mountain and fought off seven Defiled Kings in a million-year battle.
• He described how repeated assaults wore down humanity, and how his son Jiang Wang and his legion died in battle.
• Six hundred thousand years ago, the Emperor was gravely wounded after leaving the Divine Mountain to pursue a Defiled King, and a third of humanity sacrificed themselves to heal him.
• The Emperor said the Defiled Kings committed their full strength to the battle a hundred thousand years ago, in which every warrior of Human Civilization died.

The Emperor of Humanity recounted how he had held Yuanshi Divine Mountain and humanity’s legacy intact for a hundred thousand years while waiting for Jiang Yuu to arrive. He sacrificed himself to create the Golden Great Sun, and Jiang Yuu took his place as the Defiled World’s corruption surged toward the mountain.

• The Emperor of Humanity told Jiang Yuu that he had endured for a hundred thousand years and welcomed his arrival as a Saint Transcendent.
• The Emperor of Humanity refused Jiang Yuu’s offer to prolong his life and carried the Divine Bell across Yuanshi Divine Mountain.
• The Emperor of Humanity burned himself and the Divine Bell, forming the Golden Great Sun and blessing those beneath it with the power of transcendence of sovereignty.
• The Emperor of Humanity’s Golden Divine Domain collapsed, and the Defiled World’s malice rushed toward Yuanshi Divine Mountain.
• Jiang Yuu raised a pillar of platinum light to hold back the corruption and declared that the mountain would not fall while he remained.

Jiang Yuu unleashed a vast wave of platinum radiance from Yuanshi Divine Mountain, cleansing the surrounding Defiled World and transforming countless realms. The eleven Kings of the Defiled World finally revealed themselves, stopped his advance, and challenged his power.

• Jiang Yuu released a swordlike burst of holy radiance that purified the land around Yuanshi Divine Mountain and drove back the Defiled World’s forces.
• His radiance spread across countless worlds, replacing the Defiled World’s influence and empowering people to restore order and fight the corrupted.
• The eleven Kings of the Defiled World, who had waited for another to test Jiang Yuu first, joined forces as his presence neared them.
• The Kings raised their Thrones in eleven directions and pushed back Jiang Yuu’s platinum radiance.
• An azure-robed King rose from her Throne and told Jiang Yuu to stop his display of force, declaring his purification useless.

Jiang Yuu confronted the eleven Kings of the Defiled World, defeating the Lord of the Golden World in a clash of sword intent. The Kings offered him a place among them, but after he refused, they unleashed the pressure of the Defiled World against him; the chapter ends as the King of Glory makes an astonishing move.

• Jiang Yuu declared that he could change the Defiled World, then defeated the Lord of the Golden World in a clash of gazes and sword intent.
• The Lord of the White World stopped the Lord of the Golden World from attacking and offered Jiang Yuu a place as a World Lord if he joined them.
• Jiang Yuu rejected the offer and called the Kings of the Defiled World degenerate trash.
• The Kings threatened Jiang Yuu with the deaths of the two Transcendence Ones before him, then joined their auras to crush him with the weight of the Defiled World.
• As Paradise Mountain's armies faltered under the pressure, the King of Glory made a move that astonished everyone.

Jiang Yuu answered the pressure of eleven Kings of the Defiled World by advancing with overwhelming force, and his radiance nearly overturned their thrones. The kings then discussed how to defeat him and considered baiting him away from Yuanshi Divine Mountain.

• Jiang Yuu’s supreme will shattered the kings’ combined pressure, and his platinum radiance nearly overturned all eleven Supreme Thrones.
• The Defiled World’s forces faltered while the Holiness Host of Paradise Mountain cheered and prepared to attack.
• The Lord of the First World explained that Jiang Yuu’s Path of Holiness made him exceptionally powerful in combat, especially with the support of the Paths of Order and Imperial Dominion.
• The Kings of the Defiled World debated whether to wait for a twelfth king or lure Jiang Yuu away from Yuanshi Divine Mountain.
• The King of the White World proposed sending a few kings forward to expose an opening, and another king argued that Jiang Yuu’s confidence might make him take the bait.

The Defiled Kings chose three injured rulers to confront Jiang Yuu and stop him from leaving Yuanshi Divine Mountain, while the others withdrew to avoid danger. After the three rulers arrived and taunted him, the King of the Golden World challenged Jiang Yuu to step outside his stronghold.

• The Lord of the Golden World volunteered to be one of three rulers, and the King of the First World warned the Defiled Kings not to attack one another.
• The King of the Crimson World and the Azure-Robed Empress agreed to join the Lord of the Golden World, with the Empress demanding the First King's banner-bearing maid after the battle.
• The three rulers advanced to Yuanshi Divine Mountain while the other eight Defiled Kings withdrew to watch from a distance.
• Jiang Yuu recognized their plan to trap him and halt his purification, and the three rulers said they would wait for the twelfth World Lord to emerge.
• The King of the Golden World refused to enter Yuanshi Divine Mountain and challenged Jiang Yuu to leave it and fight on the Defiled Kings' ground.