Chapter Summaries

Luo Changheng made a second grand vow, asking the World-Purifying Golden Lotus to grant him the battle prowess of Sacred Emperor Jiang Yuu so he could defeat the King of Calamity. Jiang Yuu agreed, and a glimmer of platinum spiritual light descended upon Luo Changheng.

• Luo Changheng accepted the World-Purifying Golden Lotus's power to complete his advancement ritual ahead of time, gaining a borrowed Sovereign Realm and facing the risk of becoming fuel for the World-Purifying Fire if he failed.
• Luo Changheng weighed attacking the Hundred-Eyed Calamity Royal Court immediately against first perfecting his Sovereign foundation, then chose to make another grand vow and slay the King of Calamity in one attempt.
• Luo Changheng vowed to obtain the combat prowess of Sacred Emperor Jiang Yuu, citing ancient records that praised Jiang Yuu as unmatched in battle.
• The World-Purifying Golden Lotus assessed the price of Luo Changheng's vow and sent golden light to the moon in the Primal Beginning Void.
• Jiang Yuu understood Luo Changheng's predicament, approved the request while insisting the price be set without favoritism, and sent platinum light to the World-Purifying Golden Lotus.
• The World-Purifying Golden Lotus responded to Luo Changheng's request as a glimmer of platinum spiritual light fell upon him.

Luo Changheng received the Sacred Emperor Stance from the platinum light and used its battle will to defeat the Hundred-Eyed Demon King. After the victory triggered his advancement ritual and the Changheng Longevity Immortal Court conquered the Calamity Royal Court, Luo realized the stance had kept him fighting past his limits.

• Luo Changheng experienced the radiant Monarch's battles and gained the Sacred Emperor's combat awareness through the great vow.
• Luo Changheng ordered the Changheng Longevity Immortal Court to launch a full counteroffensive and challenged the Hundred-Eyed Demon King himself.
• Luo Changheng's Sacred Emperor Stance overwhelmed the Hundred-Eyed Demon King, who lost hope of victory and was slain.
• Luo Changheng completed his advancement ritual as the Defiled World forces fled and the immortal troops conquered the Calamity Royal Court.
• The platinum light disappeared, and Luo Changheng realized he had exhausted his strength during the battle and won because the Sacred Emperor Stance concealed his weakness.

After defeating the King of Calamity, Luo Changheng traveled to the end of time and became the symbol of the Order of Balance, ascending as the first Immortal Emperor and Lord of Mountains and Seas from the Immortal Race. He returned to the Changheng Longevity Immortal Court and was crowned Immortal Emperor Changheng.

• Luo Changheng recovered after the battle, then traveled backward along the River of Time through the history of the Boundless Mountains and Seas.
• At the end of time, Luo Changheng declared himself the symbol of the Order of Balance, and reality recognized his ascension.
• Luo Changheng visited a historical trace of the Emperor of Humanity teaching the Path of Transcendence and listened to his explanation.
• Sacred Emperor Jiang Yuu advised Luo Changheng to study more before creating worlds and to visit the ends of time in other Lands of Being.
• Luo Changheng returned to the Changheng Longevity Immortal Court, where the Immortal Race celebrated him as its first Lord of Mountains and Seas.
• The Changheng Longevity Immortal Court formally crowned Luo Changheng Immortal Emperor Changheng.

Luo Changheng fulfilled his vow by bringing peace to the Boundless Mountains and Seas, sharing the Great Vow Method across the six Lands of Being, and preparing to transcend so he could aid Jiang Yuu in Beyond Transcendence. As Changheng began his transcendence, the First King warned Jiang Yuu that the seventh Transcendence One might not succeed.

• Luo Changheng ruled the Boundless Mountains and Seas for fifty thousand years, expanded the Longevity Immortal Court into the Veil, and helped the number of Transcendent Beings grow more than tenfold.
• Luo Changheng traveled through the six Lands of Being, cleared calamities and Defiled World beings from their Veils, and shared the Great Vow Method.
• Luo Changheng learned that the Sacred Emperor had sealed the last King of the Defiled World, the Buddha Emperor had forged the Veil, and the Empress of Life had become the Moon Tree.
• Jiang Yuu told Luo Changheng that his transcendence could help unite the Pure and Defiled Worlds and urged him not to rush; Luo Changheng vowed to succeed and join the fight.
• Luo Changheng appointed five elders to govern the Longevity Immortal Court, warned his descendants to earn their own glory, and entered true nothingness to begin transcending.
• Jiang Yuu struck the sealed First King with sword energy, and the First King said he was waiting for the seventh Transcendence One and questioned whether Luo Changheng would succeed.

The First King warned Jiang Yuu that the Veil would make Luo Changheng’s Transcendence vulnerable to Defiled World interference, potentially creating a Defiled King strong enough to threaten all worlds. As Changheng began creating a world under the Veil, Jiang Yuu found a possible way to counter the danger through balance and questioned whether the Veil’s beings were truly Defiled.

• The First King told Jiang Yuu that Luo Changheng’s Transcendence could be interrupted by beings from the Defiled World, allowing a Defiled King to emerge and possibly grow beyond that realm.
• Jiang Yuu’s deductions showed that the First King’s warning was highly likely, and he returned to the Tree of Moonbirth to ponder a solution.
• The Tree of Moonbirth comforted Jiang Yuu, formed a Divine Throne for him, and received his thanks.
• Immortal Emperor Changheng established balance as the first order of creation in a newborn Land of Being, but the Veil covered it and Defiled World beings descended upon it.
• Jiang Yuu realized he could create balance to counter the danger and wondered whether the beings of the Defiled World were truly what they appeared to be.

In Year 5,010,000 of the Transcendence Calendar, the Star Civilization had restored Yuanshi Divine Mountain and established cemeteries for the civilizations that had fought there. Luna Anwyn visited the Angel Civilization's cemetery, learned that the First King's headless body was moving toward the Well of Yuanshi, and then heard a familiar-sounding voice address her as Anna.

• The Star Civilization rebuilt Yuanshi Divine Mountain and renovated four cemeteries at its summit.
• Luna Anwyn visited the Angel Civilization's cemetery after a campaign in the Defiled World, where an artificial goddess reported damage to City No. 96.
• The artificial goddess warned that the First King's headless body was moving deeper into the Divine Mountain toward the Well of Yuanshi.
• Luna Anwyn said the Sacred Emperor Lord of Heaven would intervene if the headless body threatened the Well of Yuanshi.
• After the artificial goddess left, a gentle voice told Luna Anwyn that Anna, Anwyn, Gael, and Daphne had mentioned her in the Multiverse.

Jiang Yuu descended to Yuanshi Divine Mountain and praised Luna Anwyn and the Star Civilization for their long campaign against the Defiled World. After reassuring her that the fallen Angels could be restored if they won, he told Luna that he had a task specifically for her.

• Luna Anwyn greeted Jiang Yuu with the ancient Angel Civilization ritual, and he called her his granddaughter.
• Jiang Yuu surveyed the growing Pure World and thanked Luna and the Star Civilization for their efforts.
• Luna Anwyn admitted she still felt guilty about surviving the Angel Civilization's fall, and Jiang Yuu told her that her choices had been right and the dead could be restored if they won.
• Luna Anwyn reported that the Star Civilization had purified countless worlds and brought vast regions beneath the Veil under the Pure World's control.
• Jiang Yuu told Luna Anwyn that he had come with something he needed her alone to do.

Jiang Yuu told Luna Anwyn that the First King planned to disrupt Luo Changheng’s Transcendence and use the resulting Defiled King to threaten the last Pure Land. He asked Luna to help guard against that fate, though he clarified that her task was not simply to ensure Luo Changheng’s success.

• Jiang Yuu asked Luna Anwyn to accept a task concerning all living beings, and she agreed without asking what it was.
• Jiang Yuu explained that Luo Changheng, the Immortal Emperor Changheng, had emerged in the lower realm and was pursuing World-Creation Transcendence.
• Jiang Yuu revealed that the First King intended to interrupt Luo Changheng’s Transcendence, enabling a Defiled creature to become a Defiled King by defeating him.
• Jiang Yuu warned that the First King would help the new Defiled King escape the Veil and destroy the six great Lands of Being, threatening the last Pure Land.
• Jiang Yuu told Luna Anwyn that he did not believe in fate but would guard against its arrival.

Jiang Yuu assigned Luna Anwyn to infiltrate the Defiled World and become its King of Calamity so she could protect Luo Changheng during his World-Creation Transcendence. After accepting the mission, Luna Anwyn asked to be killed if corruption overtook her and to be buried with her family; meanwhile, Luo Changheng completed his new Land of Being, Nine Heavens and Nine Lands.

• Jiang Yuu told Luna Anwyn to feign becoming a King of Calamity and enter Luo Changheng’s new Land of Being through the Defiled World passage to stop anyone interrupting his transcendence.
• Luna Anwyn accepted the mission, understanding that her sacrifice honored Youlunna and the Angel Civilization.
• Jiang Yuu warned Luna Anwyn that Defiled World corruption could irreversibly change her and promised to kill her if she became fully corrupted.
• Luna Anwyn asked to be buried with her master, sister, father, and mother if she died, and Jiang Yuu agreed.
• After more than 160 million years, Luo Changheng completed his new Land of Being using the Order of Balance and named it Nine Heavens and Nine Lands.

Luo Changheng created the Nine Heavens and Nine Lands, guided their peoples’ development, and appointed the Lord of the Heavenly Court as his divine incarnation before beginning Transcendence. As he transcended, Defiled World powerhouses entered the Veil, including Luna Anwyn, whose corruption made her the Gray Angel.

• Luo Changheng created the Heavenly and Mortal Races, planted the Worldlink Tree, and watched the Veil destroy the nascent Transcendent system.
• A human cultivator and a member of the Heavenly Race met through the Veil, found each other on the Worldlink Tree, and had three sons who became progenitors of the Celestial, Immortal, and Witchfolk Races.
• The Celestial Race established the Heavenly Court, while the Immortals formed sects and the Witchfolk stirred conflict among the mortal kingdoms.
• Luo Changheng emerged and made the Lord of the Heavenly Court his divine incarnation, then swept the Veil clean of Defiled World beings and began transcending.
• Luna Anwyn accepted corruption to survive in the Defiled World, devoured its creatures, and later entered the Nine Heavens and Nine Lands as a powerful Defiled World being.

Luna Anwyn became the Gray Angel and used six rival calamity forces to sabotage Luo Changheng’s Transcendence before claiming the Heavenly God’s death as her own great feat. After the First King’s forces drove her from the Veil, her contamination deepened, leaving Jiang Yuu’s plan in jeopardy as the First King declared victory.

• Luna Anwyn ascended to become the Gray Angel and joined the plot to interrupt Luo Changheng’s Transcendence.
• Six Kings of Calamity founded opposing forces across the Nine Heavens and Nine Lands, which invaded the Heavenly Court and fought to slay the Heavenly God.
• The chosen one of the Great God-Defying Ruins defeated the other contenders, but Luna Anwyn emerged from the Veil, killed him, and ended the dying Heavenly God’s life.
• Luna Anwyn united the six forces into the Calamity Royal Court and waged a long war between the Nine Heavens and the Nine Lands.
• The six Kings of Calamity ambushed Luna Anwyn when she returned to the Veil, forcing her to stay in the material world as her contamination worsened.
• The First King taunted Jiang Yuu that Luna Anwyn would soon fall to the Defiled World and ruin Immortal Emperor Changheng’s Transcendence, but Jiang Yuu insisted the final moment had not come.

Luna Anwyn completed her ascension as a Defiled King, but the Defiled World's pollution pushed her will to the brink. Entering the Cognitive Veil as the World-Defying King, she rejected the six Kings of Calamity's submission and demanded their power.

• Jiang Yuu insisted that Luna Anwyn's will would withstand the Defiled World's corruption, despite the First King's doubts.
• Luna Anwyn completed her great feat, leaving Luo Changheng grievously wounded and asleep while she ascended as a Defiled King.
• Heaven's Will of the Defiled World appeared behind Luna Anwyn in shifting blue and gold, while its pollution steadily weakened her will.
• Luna Anwyn opened the Cognitive Veil and declared that she would always remain an angel before entering it.
• The six Kings of Calamity knelt and asked Luna Anwyn for her royal title, and she named herself the World-Defying King.
• Luna Anwyn rejected their submission and demanded that they give her all their power.

Luna Anwyn slaughtered and consumed the creatures of the Defiled World, then fought the corruption by stabbing herself and leaving the Veil. Believing she was about to descend into madness, she gave her last holy feather to the people of the Ninth Land and went to the edge of the world to bury herself.

• Luna Anwyn killed every creature of the Defiled World within the Veil and drained their corpses of blood essence.
• Jiang Yuu rejected the First King's claim that Luna Anwyn could not resist the Defiled World's pollution and said he trusted her faith.
• Luna Anwyn wavered between madness and lucidity, stabbed herself with her longsword, and stepped beyond the Veil into the real world.
• As Luna Anwyn crossed the Nine Heavens and Nine Lands, their inhabitants feared she would attack them, but she continued to the Ninth Land.
• Luna Anwyn gave her final pure white holy feather to the people of the Ninth Land, granting them wings.
• Luna Anwyn reached the edge of the Ninth Land and declared that she would be buried there.

Luna Anwyn sacrificed herself beyond the Veil, sending her essence into the sleeping Immortal Emperor Changheng and awakening him. Changheng honored her sacrifice by making her remains the Tenth Land, beginning a new path to Transcendence, and promising to bury her shattered Angel Heart with her people.

• Luna Anwyn reached the Void beyond the Ninth Land and killed herself to release her spiritual radiance and awaken Immortal Emperor Changheng.
• Heaven's Will of the Defiled World lost the essence it had spent corrupting Luna Anwyn and drained vitality from countless creatures to recover.
• Luna Anwyn's body became a vast new land as her essence flowed into Changheng, who awoke and learned of her sacrifice.
• Changheng named her remains the Tenth Land, declared that an Immortal Domain would rise above the Nine Heavens, and renewed his resolve to attain Transcendence.
• A radiant figure gathered pieces of Luna Anwyn's shattered Angel Heart and promised to bury it in the Angels' Grand Cemetery.

Jiang Yuu buried Luna Anwyn's Angel Heart in the Angel Civilization's Grand Cemetery and told Annatania the story of Luna's sacrifice. After Jiang Yuu left, the Star Civilization's guards discovered Luna's new gravestone and realized she had sacrificed herself.

• Jiang Yuu buried Luna Anwyn's Angel Heart and stood before her gravestone.
• Jiang Yuu visited the cemetery's graves, including those of Lucifer and other angels who had sacrificed themselves.
• Jiang Yuu stopped at Annatania's gravestone and told her Luna Anwyn's story.
• Jiang Yuu left the cemetery, and the Star Civilization's young warriors noticed he had stayed longer than usual.
• A warband entered the cemetery and discovered Luna Anwyn's new gravestone beside Annatania's.

The human warriors learned that Luna Anwyn had sacrificed herself to help Immortal Emperor Changheng transcend, and the Star Civilization mourned her. Jiang Yuu honored Luna’s wish to rest beside her mother in the Angel Civilization Cemetery while giving her grave a second side in the Star Civilization Cemetery.

• The warriors read Luna Anwyn's gravestone and learned that she had infiltrated the Defiled World, become a Defiled King, and sacrificed herself to create the Tenth Land and awaken Immortal Emperor Changheng.
• News of Luna's sacrifice spread, and people throughout the Star Civilization gathered to mourn at her grave.
• The Star Civilization's people asked Jiang Yuu to move Luna's grave to their cemetery, where Youlunna was buried.
• Jiang Yuu said Luna's last wish was to rest beside her mother in the Angel Civilization Cemetery, but agreed to place the other side of her gravestone in the Star Civilization Cemetery.

After taking charge of the Star Civilization, Wei'annuona followed Jiang Yuu’s orders while Luo Changheng searched the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands for a god who could unite them. In the Tenth Land, he offered the Winged Race’s chieftain the role of god of balance, but the chieftain asked who Luo Changheng was and whether he could keep his promise.

• Wei'annuona replaced Luna Anwyn as the Star Civilization’s leader, contacted Jiang Yuu, and agreed to continue Luna Anwyn's policies.
• Luo Changheng recognized the Tenth Land and renamed the realm the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands before recovering and searching for a new god.
• Luo Changheng discovered the Winged Race in the Tenth Land and learned that they had formed from Luna Anwyn's last feather of light.
• The Winged Race’s chieftain refused Luo Changheng’s invitation to move to the Nine Heavens, insisting that the Tenth Land was their home.
• Luo Changheng offered to make the Tenth Land the Tenth Heaven and chose the chieftain to wield the Principle of Balance.
• The chieftain accepted the offer but asked Luo Changheng who he was and whether he could truly fulfill it.

Luo Changheng proved to Yu Changhao that he was a Heavenly God by making a mountain, the sea, and the sky each sink by an inch, then took him as a successor and named him Three Inches. Yu Changhao later became a renowned cultivator while keeping his master’s identity secret.

• Luo Changheng claimed to be a Heavenly God, then made a mountain and the sea each bow by an inch to prove his power to Yu Changhao.
• Luo Changheng made the sky across the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands sink by an inch, convincing Yu Changhao to recognize him as a Heavenly God.
• Luo Changheng chose Yu Changhao as his successor and gave him the Dharma name Three Inches.
• Yu Changhao cultivated under Luo Changheng, grew powerful, and helped the Winged Race become renowned, while concealing his master's identity.
• Yu Changhao told people that Three Inches referred to guarding the seat of his spirit and protecting the mortal world.

Yu Changhao unified the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands after defeating the rebels who opposed his claim to rule the Heavenly Court. At his coronation, he tried to take the title “Lord of Heaven,” but an unseen terror made him realize he could not bear it.

• Yu Changhao founded the Spirit Terrace Immortal Sect and established the Heavenly Court with powerful figures from all races.
• After attaining the Heavenly Sovereign Realm, Yu Changhao announced that he would become the true ruler of the Heavenly Court, prompting races to rebel and secede.
• Beings from the Defiled World entered the Veil and encouraged the rebels, while Yu Changhao led the Winged Race and Spirit Terrace Immortal Sect against them.
• After tens of thousands of years of war, Yu Changhao unified the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands and held a new coronation.
• Yu Changhao tried to adopt the title “Lord of Heaven,” but an unseen terror overwhelmed him, and he concluded the title was too exalted for him to bear.

Immortal Emperor Changheng brought Yu Changhao into the Veil and revealed that the White Gold Moon housed the Lord of Heaven, the guardian of all living beings across the seven great Lands of Being. He explained that Yu Changhao could not take the title Lord of Heaven, so Yu Changhao chose to become the Heavenly Venerable instead.

• Immortal Emperor Changheng appeared before Yu Changhao and took him into the Veil.
• Immortal Emperor Changheng asked Yu Changhao what the title Lord of Heaven represented and pointed out the White Gold Moon.
• Immortal Emperor Changheng revealed that the Lord of Heaven guarded all living beings and protected the seven great Lands of Being.
• Immortal Emperor Changheng explained that Lord of Heaven was the symbol of a mighty being, not a title Yu Changhao could claim.
• Yu Changhao accepted the explanation and declared that he would be the Heavenly Venerable.