Chapter Summaries

Michael of the Eastern Region and Hong Zang of the Jun Court clashed in Stone Wilderness’s great hall as both urged its Supremes to submit. Michael boasted of Yuliel’s power, while Hong Zang warned that the Jun Court outnumbered the Eastern Region; the Stone Wilderness Supremes were left weighing the competing threats.

• Michael of the Angel Race entered the hall, announced that Yuliel’s armies would soon arrive, and demanded that Stone Wilderness submit or resist.
• Hong Zang challenged Michael’s threats and argued that the Eastern Region lacked the strength to conquer the Eight Wilderness Lands.
• Hong Zang identified himself as the Jun Court’s envoy and warned that its growing power would crush anyone who opposed its unification of the Multiverse.
• Michael said the Eastern Region had nearly a thousand Supremes ready to march, while Hong Zang claimed the Jun Court had over two thousand Supremes and stronger beings.
• Michael answered that Yuliel had once broken through a formation of a thousand Supremes alone and questioned whether the Jun Court’s forces could withstand him.

Michael confronted the Jun Court envoy in Stone Wilderness and pressed its lord to submit to the Eastern Region, claiming the Eastern army had already secured Marsh Wilderness and Ember Wilderness. When the lord tried to delay his decision, Michael attacked the Jun Court envoy, leaving him gravely wounded.

• Michael claimed Jiang Yuu had crushed a thousand Supremes and cited his victory over Duomeng and the forces of the Endless Planes.
• The Jun Court envoy urged the lord of Stone Wilderness to seize Michael and resist the Eastern Region, while Michael warned that the Eastern army was near and said Marsh Wilderness and Ember Wilderness had submitted.
• The lord of Stone Wilderness hesitated between the Jun Court and Eastern Paradise Mountain, then asked both envoys for time to consider.
• The Jun Court envoy agreed to stay and promised to seek support from the other wilderness lands, reassuring the lord of Stone Wilderness.
• Michael declared that he would decide for them, then struck the Jun Court envoy with his sword and left him gravely wounded.

Michael and the angels attacked the Jun Court delegation, while Michael tried to kill its gravely wounded envoy inside the Stone Wilderness Sacred Hall. After Michael and the envoy competed to win the Lord of the Stone Wilderness’s support, the Lord ordered the Stone Wilderness Supremes to capture the envoy.

• Michael ordered the angels to slaughter the Jun Court delegation outside the great hall while he continued attacking the gravely wounded Jun Court envoy inside.
• The Jun Court envoy saw the delegation’s corpses and accused Michael and Eastern Paradise Mountain of betraying their diplomatic mission.
• Michael rejected the envoy’s accusations, declared that Eastern Paradise Mountain intended to conquer the Multiverse, and kept fighting him.
• The Jun Court envoy promised the Lord of the Stone Wilderness a chance to rule the Returning Wilderness, while Michael warned that Eastern Region forces would destroy the Stone Wilderness if it sided with Jun Court.
• The Lord of the Stone Wilderness chose Michael’s side and ordered the Stone Wilderness Supremes to capture the Jun Court envoy.

Michael captured the Jun Court envoy in the Stone Wilderness and continued his mission to recruit the remaining wildernesses, while the Jun Court's envoys arrived in the Eastern Region. The chapter leaves the Frost Dragon arriving as one of the two new envoys, an old acquaintance of Immortal Lord Longevity and Divine Lord Serenity.

• The Lord of the Stone Wilderness joined its Supremes in capturing the Jun Court envoy after the envoy warned that the Jun Court's chief envoy was persuading the other wildernesses to submit.
• Michael sealed the captured envoy's mouth and sent Weina to the Thousand Wilderness to ask Jiang Yuu what to do next.
• The Stone Wilderness Supremes pledged support to Eastern Paradise Mountain, and Michael entrusted Lord Sebastian with guarding the captive until the Eastern Region's army arrived.
• Michael and the Angels left the Stone Wilderness to continue their mission in the Sea Wilderness.
• Two Jun Court envoys, a man and a woman, arrived at the Eastern Region's cluster of Original Universes, and one of them was the Frost Dragon, an old acquaintance of Immortal Lord Longevity and Divine Lord Serenity.

The Frost Dragon and another Jun Court envoy arrived at Paradise Mountain to persuade Yuliel to join the Jun Court. Queen of Heaven Annatania revealed that Yuliel had gone on an expedition to Returning Wilderness, and the envoys asked for a portal so they could meet him there.

• The Frost Dragon and the pink-haired female Supreme admired Paradise Mountain but declared that the Jun Court would unify the Multiverse, by force if necessary.
• The two envoys requested an audience with Yuliel, and a silver-haired Angel Supreme led them to Queen of Heaven Annatania.
• Annatania told the envoys that Yuliel had departed for Returning Wilderness a thousand years earlier.
• The Frost Dragon asked Annatania whether Paradise Mountain had a portal to the expeditionary army so he could meet Yuliel in person.

Annatania sent the Jun Court envoys through the Super Teleportation Gate to meet Jiang Yuu as the Eastern Region army arrived at Marsh Wilderness. After Isymos submitted Marsh Wilderness to Yuliel, the envoys watched the ceremony and prepared to meet him, while the Frost Dragon sensed that a great upheaval was coming.

• Annatania agreed to send Sophia with the Jun Court envoys through the Super Teleportation Gate to Jiang Yuu's location.
• The Eastern Region army reached Marsh Wilderness, where Isymos and its people gathered to submit to Yuliel.
• Yuliel accepted Marsh Wilderness into Eastern Paradise Mountain and promised to protect its people while requiring Isymos and the other Supremes to serve him.
• The pink-haired Supreme, Ketisina, scorned Marsh Wilderness's submission, while the Frost Dragon remarked that the Multiverse faced a great upheaval.
• The Frost Dragon urged Ketisina to meet Yuliel.

Frost and Ketisina met with Jiang Yuu to persuade him to join the Jun Court and bring peace to the Multiverse. Jiang Yuu heard their proposal but had not yet responded.

• Frost reassured Ketisina that Jiang Yuu might accept their mission, though his elder had died long ago.
• Sophia brought Frost and Ketisina to meet Jiang Yuu, leaving their attendants in Qiumosi’s care.
• Jiang Yuu finished arranging the treatment and wartime command of the Marsh Wilderness Supremes before receiving the Jun Court envoys.
• Frost described the Jun Court’s vision of peace and asked Jiang Yuu to join it, arguing that uniting the Eastern Region with the Central Region would end the Multiverse’s greatest turmoil.

The Frost Dragon urged Yuliel to join the Jun Court in the name of peace, while Lucifer challenged the proposal and Supreme Tu questioned how its rotating emperor seats would work. The Frost Dragon explained the Jun Court’s arrangements and argued that its greater numbers and powerful leaders made it far stronger than the Eastern Region.

• The Frost Dragon solemnly asked Yuliel to join the Jun Court and help bring peace to the Multiverse.
• Lucifer rejected the proposal, insisting that the Jun Court should instead join Eastern Paradise Mountain and recognize Yuliel as Celestial Emperor.
• The Frost Dragon said Yuliel would receive a seat as a Rotating Celestial Emperor, while Empress Luan would become the Jun Court’s nominal highest ruler without authority.
• Supreme Tu asked who would give up a rotating emperor seat, and the Frost Dragon explained that Empress Luan had relinquished hers in exchange for her future title and a say in important matters.
• The Frost Dragon compared the Jun Court’s two thousand Supremes and stronger Forbidden Supremes with the Eastern Region’s forces, then asked whether Yuliel could defeat both Empress Luan and Lord Jun.

Jiang Yuu rejected the Jun Court’s rotating Celestial Emperor system and declared that only one emperor could rule. He told its envoys he would travel to the Central Region and fight the Jun Court.

• Lucifer mocked the Frost Dragon’s belief that Jiang Yuu was limited by the same strength as other Supremes.
• Jiang Yuu told the Frost Dragon that Celestial Emperor Mu had fallen because he was not strong enough, though he remained a great Monarch worthy of respect.
• Jiang Yuu argued that the Jun Court’s rotating emperors would eventually cause internal turmoil because Authority could not be divided.
• Supreme Tu challenged Ketisina’s confidence that the empress would become Celestial Emperor and prevent unrest.
• Jiang Yuu ordered the Jun Court’s envoys to carry his message that he would come to the Central Region and battle the Jun Court.

Jiang Yuu told the Jun Court’s envoys that the Eastern Region would fight the Central Region rather than let the Jun Court grow stronger. He ordered the army to march west immediately, then faced a question about Michael, who was still away on a diplomatic mission.

• Jiang Yuu explained to the Frost Dragon and Ketisina that war with the Jun Court was inevitable because the Eastern Region could not afford to let the Central Region gain more allies and strength.
• The Frost Dragon questioned how Jiang Yuu could expect to defeat the Jun Court’s more than two thousand Supremes with the Eastern Region’s nine hundred, and Jiang Yuu declared that the advantage was his.
• The Frost Dragon and Ketisina left to report Jiang Yuu’s decision to the Jun Court, and Jiang Yuu told Supreme Tu that the Eastern Region would abandon its plan to conquer the other regions first.
• Jiang Yuu ordered Lucifer to change the army’s course and march immediately toward the Jun Court in the Central Region, while the Supremes vowed to win the decisive battle.
• Sophia left to tell Annatania about Jiang Yuu’s decision, and Anwen’er asked whether the army would wait for Michael to return from his diplomatic mission.

Michael secured Wind Wilderness for Eastern Paradise Mountain and learned that the Jun Court had won over Snow Wilderness and Sand Wilderness. The Jun Court’s envoy was preparing to lead a raid on Thousand Wilderness, threatening the Eastern Region’s rear.

• Jiang Yuu ordered Michael to stabilize Returning Wilderness while the Eastern Region’s army marched west to fight the Jun Court.
• Wei Rolle informed Michael of the Jun Court’s offer and Jiang Yuu’s decision, and Michael promised to handle Returning Wilderness’s affairs.
• Michael sent Andun to investigate the Jun Court envoy’s progress and ordered Nitanuo to bring Sebastian and the captured envoy to meet him.
• Michael persuaded Queen Duolun Aima to submit Wind Wilderness to Eastern Paradise Mountain, bringing the number of aligned wildernesses to six.
• Andun reported that the Jun Court’s chief envoy had secured Snow Wilderness and Sand Wilderness and was urging Mountain Wilderness to join a raid on Thousand Wilderness.

Michael sent the Eastern Region’s delegation to secure support for temporary teleportation gates and flew ahead to Mountain Wilderness to counter the Jun Court envoy. The Jun Court envoy learned Michael was coming, while Mountain Wilderness’s lord remained committed to neutrality.

• Michael ordered his delegation to seek resources and support for temporary Super Teleportation Gates in Wind, Ember, Stone, and Sea Wilderness, promising tenfold repayment and warning that the gates could connect to the Eastern Region’s army.
• Michael left for Mountain Wilderness alone, intending to prevent its Supremes from joining the Jun Court’s camp and to keep the Returning Wilderness Lands stable.
• The Jun Court’s chief envoy had failed for more than ten days to persuade Mountain Wilderness’s lord and Supremes to choose a side.
• The Jun Court envoy learned that an Eastern Paradise Mountain angel had been spying in Mountain Wilderness and reporting to Michael, and concluded that Michael was on his way.

Aibojia and the Jun Court delegation forced Mountain Wilderness to join them by killing the angel Andun in its sacred hall and making the Supremes fear Eastern Paradise Mountain’s retaliation. The lord of Mountain Wilderness agreed to help the Jun Court capture Michael, who was on his way there.

• Wolf Ear proposed capturing the angel Andun and killing him before the Mountain Wilderness Supremes to force Mountain Wilderness to side with the Jun Court.
• Aibojia offered Andun a place among the Jun Court’s Supremes, but Andun refused to betray Lord of Heaven Yuliel.
• The Jun Court delegation brought Andun to the Mountain Wilderness hall and killed him before the assembled Supremes.
• Aibojia argued that Andun’s death bound Mountain Wilderness to the Jun Court, and the Primeval Mountain King agreed to join them.
• Aibojia asked the Primeval Mountain King to send Mountain Wilderness Supremes to help capture Michael.

Aibojia persuaded the lord of Mountain Wilderness to join the Jun Court and help conquer the Returning Wilderness Lands. After learning that Andun had been killed and Mountain Wilderness had sided with the Jun Court, Michael decided to strike first and rally four wildernesses against it.

• Aibojia promised the lord of Mountain Wilderness the nominal rule of the nine wildernesses if the campaign succeeded, and the lord agreed to support the Jun Court.
• Michael learned that Andun had been killed publicly in Mountain Wilderness and realized its Supremes had joined the Jun Court's plot.
• Michael returned to Wind Wilderness by a safer route and told the delegation what had happened.
• Michael ordered envoys to gather the Supremes of Wind, Ember, Sea, and Stone Wilderness in Wind Wilderness so he could attack Mountain Wilderness, Snow Wilderness, and Sand Wilderness.
• Michael instructed Sebastian to guard the prisoner and planned to kill the Jun Court's deputy envoy in front of the assembled Supremes to spur them into battle.

Michael gathered Supremes from four wildernesses in Wind Wilderness and manipulated the assembly into committing them to war against the Jun Court and three allied wildernesses. After killing the Jun Court’s deputy envoy to make reconciliation impossible, he led the assembled forces against Mountain Wilderness, which was destroyed six months later.

• Michael persuaded the Wind Wilderness Queen and other rulers to gather Supremes in Wind Wilderness to renegotiate Returning Wilderness’s order.
• At the assembly, Michael used a bloody Angel’s report of the Jun Court and Mountain Wilderness’s actions to accuse them of attacking Eastern Paradise Mountain.
• Michael praised the wilderness rulers, then urged them to unite against the Jun Court, Mountain Wilderness, Snow Wilderness, and Sand Wilderness.
• Michael killed the Jun Court’s deputy envoy before the assembled Supremes and demanded they choose between joining his attack or waiting for retaliation.
• The ruler of Stone Wilderness and other Supremes pledged to follow Michael, who led their forces toward Mountain Wilderness.
• After half a year of Michael’s offensive, Mountain Wilderness was destroyed.

Michael conquered Mountain Wilderness and Snow Wilderness, bringing all Nine Regions of the Returning Wilderness under Eastern Paradise Mountain. As Yuliel’s army advanced toward the Central Region, Empress Luan prepared for battle and challenged Yuliel to determine who would rule the Multiverse.

• Michael’s forces defeated Mountain Wilderness after Sand Wilderness’s ruler abandoned the Jun Court and joined Michael’s campaign.
• Aibojia fled through Snow Wilderness toward the Northern Domain, and Snow Maiden surrendered with her Supremes.
• Michael completed the conquest of Returning Wilderness, earning praise from Queen of Heaven Annatania, Jiang Yuu, and Lucifer.
• Empress Luan learned that most regions had resisted the Jun Court’s envoys, while the Other Dimension had sent more than ten Supremes to submit.
• Empress Luan learned that Yuliel’s army was still far from the Central Region and that Lord Jun was gathering the Central Region’s Supremes to crush it.
• Empress Luan entered seclusion to unite her three bodies and left the Jun Court’s affairs to Lord Jun as she awaited Yuliel’s arrival.

The Jun Court assembled its forces at the border of the Central Region to meet Yuliel and the Eastern Region in battle. Supreme Jun reassured Empress Luan that they could defeat Yuliel, and she resolved to fight despite fearing he might be the prophesied Lord of Radiance.

• The Jun Court gathered more than two thousand Supremes, countless soldiers, and Nothingness Fortresses at the meeting point of three regions, where they had waited for over two hundred years.
• Supreme Jun prepared to hold off Yuliel with Empress Luan and five former Rotating Celestial Emperor candidates while the rest of his army defeated the Eastern Region's forces.
• Empress Luan told Supreme Jun she feared Yuliel's inscription on the River-Severing Great Stele meant he could be the Winged God of prophecy.
• Supreme Jun argued that Yuliel was not beyond their strength and urged Empress Luan to focus on the coming battle.
• Empress Luan vowed to give the battle her all as a gleam of platinum light appeared in the east.

The Jun Court watched Yuliel lead Eastern Paradise Mountain’s vast army toward the Central Region, and his aura provoked the Jun Court Supremes. The Empress of the Jun Court agreed to make one final attempt to persuade him to submit, and one of the Five Elders volunteered to approach him.

• The Empress of the Jun Court, Supreme Jun, and the Jun Court Supremes saw Yuliel’s white-gold army advance through Nothingness.
• Yuliel projected his aura at the Jun Court’s more than two thousand Supremes, enraging them and prompting them to call for battle.
• Supreme Jun and the other Forbidden Supremes judged that Yuliel had reached the upper limit of a Forbidden Supreme and believed they could defeat him, but worried about casualties among their armies.
• Supreme Qi proposed offering Yuliel one final chance to submit, and the Empress of the Jun Court agreed.
• One of the Five Elders volunteered to go before the armies and explain the stakes to Yuliel.

Supreme Heng Cang addressed the armies before battle, claiming the Jun Court was the rightful successor to Celestial Emperor Mu and urging Yuliel to stop the rebellion. Supreme Tu challenged him and declared Yuliel the true successor, leaving both sides’ claims unresolved as the armies prepared to fight.

• Supreme Heng Cang offered to persuade Yuliel and said he would use the confrontation to explain the Jun Court’s claim and strengthen his army’s morale.
• Supreme Heng Cang halted the Jun Court’s army, then confronted the Eastern Region’s forces in Nothingness.
• Jiang Yuu cautioned Lucifer not to underestimate the Jun Court and agreed to hear Supreme Heng Cang out at Supreme Tu’s urging.
• Supreme Heng Cang accused Yuliel and the Eastern Region of rebellion and argued that the Jun Court inherited Celestial Emperor Mu’s legacy.
• Supreme Tu confronted Supreme Heng Cang, denounced the Jun Court as traitors, and proclaimed Yuliel the Celestial Emperor’s true successor.

Supreme Tu and Supreme Heng Cang argued over whether Yuliel or the Jun Court's empress was the Celestial Emperor's legitimate successor, trading accusations about Jiang Shiluo's flight from the Holy Court. Jiang Yuu ended the debate by declaring that he would take whatever he wanted by his sword.

• Supreme Tu claimed Yuliel was the Celestial Emperor's legitimate successor because Jiang Shiluo's legacy had chosen him, prompting cheers from the Eastern Region's forces.
• Supreme Heng Cang argued that Jiang Shiluo forfeited his standing by abandoning the Central Region and claimed the Jun Court's empress had inherited the succession.
• Supreme Tu accused Heng Cang and the Holy Court's rulers of undermining Jiang Shiluo and forcing him to flee, while Heng Cang countered that Jiang Shiluo had lacked the strength to overcome opposition.
• The two Supremes disputed whether Yuliel or the Jun Court's empress matched the prophecy of the Lord of Radiance, but neither persuaded the other.
• Jiang Yuu silenced the battlefield, called Supreme Tu back, and declared that he cared neither for succession nor the Celestial Emperor's legacy, since he would take what he wanted with his sword.