Chapter Summaries

Sect Master Tongtian gained enlightenment after using the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation to kill three half-step Quasi-Immortal Emperors, then broke through to the pinnacle realm of Mythic Great Luo. As he prepared to leave Gu Changqing’s bedchamber, Gu Changqing spoke from the bed, revealing that he had awakened.

• Sect Master Tongtian put away the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation and checked that Gu Changqing remained asleep after the three enemies were erased.
• Replaying the battle in his mind, Sect Master Tongtian understood the sword formation’s truths and fused his Interception Sect Sword Dao with the Firmament’s supreme laws.
• Sect Master Tongtian released a vast Sword Intent that shook worlds across the Firmament and drew the attention of powerful observers.
• Sect Master Tongtian broke through to the pinnacle realm of Mythic Great Luo, reaching strength comparable to a Quasi-Immortal Emperor.
• Sect Master Tongtian bowed to Gu Changqing and prepared to leave, but Gu Changqing asked whether he had finished fighting.

After Sect Master Tongtian's breakthrough and battle in Gu Changqing's bedchamber woke his master, he confessed to killing the assassins sent by the Treasure-Gathering Immortal Pavilion. Gu Changqing ordered Tongtian to stabilize his cultivation and hinted that the Temple would answer the Pavilion's bounty game by its own rules.

• Gu Changqing woke and found Sect Master Tongtian kneeling in terror after the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation disturbed his rest.
• Tongtian recounted how he had slain three assassins, while hiding that he had broken through to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm.
• Gu Changqing learned the assassins were connected to the Treasure-Gathering Immortal Pavilion and the Shadow Tower, and said the previous warning had not been enough.
• Tongtian asked to attack the Treasure-Gathering Immortal Pavilion's headquarters, but Gu Changqing refused and told him to return to Biyou Palace to stabilize his cultivation.
• Gu Changqing said the Temple would play along with the Pavilion's bounty game and show The Firmament's natives its rules.

The Shadow Tower discovered that Shadow One, Shadow Two, and Shadow Three had been annihilated while on a mission involving the Primordial Ruined Temple. The Tower Master ordered the Temple made an eternal taboo and ended the matter, then wondered whether the Temple was responsible.

• The guardian of the Sea of Returning Souls watched the life tablets of Shadow One, Shadow Two, and Shadow Three vanish completely.
• The Shadow Tower’s twelve senior elders learned that the three elders had been annihilated and considered tracing the event with the Heaven-Watching Mirror.
• The Tower Master forbade any investigation, warning that probing the enemy could expose the Shadow Tower to the same annihilation.
• The Tower Master placed the Primordial Ruined Temple and the Temple on the eternal taboo registry and ordered all agreements with the Treasure-Gathering Immortal Pavilion revoked.
• The Tower Master ordered the mission records destroyed, declared the three elders had died exploring a forbidden land, and forbade anyone from discussing or investigating the matter.

After Shadow Tower’s three assassins were killed, Sun Miao and the crown prince of the Heavenly Tide Immortal Dynasty learned that the Temple was far more powerful than expected. The crown prince appealed to the Ji Emperor Clan, whose seventh elder sent Ji Qingxuan to deal with the Temple.

• Sun Miao learned that Shadow Tower had severed cooperation with the Treasure-Gathering Immortal Pavilion after its three elder-ranked assassins were wiped out.
• The crown prince was informed that Shadow Tower’s mission had failed and feared the Temple’s strength.
• The crown prince used a teleportation array to report the threat to the Ji Emperor Clan.
• The seventh elder ordered Ji Qingxuan to handle the Temple and bring back local specialties.

Ji Qingxuan was ordered to deal with the Temple in the Tianlan Star Domain and became eager to seize its beautiful female cultivators. He set out aboard the imperial clan’s Nine-Dragon Warship, beginning his hunt.

• Ji Qingxuan killed a maid with the World Core pearl when she tried to approach him in the Beauty Pool.
• A gold-armored attendant delivered the Seventh Elder’s order for Ji Qingxuan to visit the Tianlan Star Domain and handle the Temple.
• The attendant persuaded Ji Qingxuan by telling him the Temple had beautiful female cultivators who might rival the imperial clan’s divine maidens.
• Ji Qingxuan agreed to go and ordered the Nine-Dragon Warship to be brought out.
• Ji Qingxuan departed for the Tianlan Star Domain aboard the bronze coffin pulled by nine Quasi-Immortal Emperor-level dragon corpses.

Ji Qingxuan and the Imperial Clan Imperial Guards descended upon the Abandoned Heaven Wasteland and issued the Primordial Ruined Temple a humiliating ultimatum. As Ji Qingxuan waited for the sect to beg or resist, its wooden doors opened, leaving the Imperial Clan watching for whoever would emerge.

• Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin brought Ji Qingxuan and the Imperial Clan Imperial Guards to the Abandoned Heaven Wasteland, crushing the land beneath their power.
• The Imperial Guards Commander announced Ji Qingxuan’s demands: the Temple had to surrender its resources, treasures, and female cultivators within one stick of incense.
• The Imperial Guards Commander threatened to slaughter the Temple and destroy the world if its people refused.
• Ji Qingxuan waited for the Temple to panic, but it remained silent beneath the Imperial Clan’s pressure.
• The Primordial Ruined Temple’s wooden doors creaked open, and Ji Qingxuan and the Imperial Guards fixed their attention on the entrance.

Xiaotian Dog volunteered to face the imperial clan’s challenge and devised a plan to humiliate Ji Qingxuan by walking the fallen Dao Ancestor Hongjun like a dog. He led Hongjun out of the Daoist Temple, leaving Ji Qingxuan and the Imperial Guards stunned.

• Xiaotian Dog declared that he would meet the attackers outside while the Temple’s residents watched.
• After Kong Xuan dismissed his strength, Xiaotian Dog promised a plan that would shatter the young master’s Dao Heart.
• Xiaotian Dog fetched the ruined Hongjun, attached a leash to his collar, and proposed walking him before the imperial clan.
• Sect Master Tongtian approved Xiaotian Dog’s plan, and Xiaotian Dog led Hongjun toward the temple entrance.
• Xiaotian Dog and Hongjun emerged before Ji Qingxuan and the Imperial Guards, who stared in astonishment.

Xiaotian Dog mocked Ji Qingxuan and the imperial clan’s procession, then bit Hongjun and used a divine ability to amplify his scream into a devastating shock wave. Ji Qingxuan was left furious as the sound battered his guards and the surrounding space.

• Xiaotian Dog insulted Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin and taunted Ji Qingxuan’s imperial clan.
• Xiaotian Dog told Hongjun to perform, then bit his backside while he was bound by the Immortal Binding Rope.
• Xiaotian Dog used the Divine Ability “Dog’s Bark” Heaven-Shaking Roar to amplify Hongjun’s scream hundreds of millions of times.
• The amplified scream shattered nearby stars and meteorites, twisted space, and injured the imperial clan guards aboard Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin.
• Xiaotian Dog mocked the people from The Firmament, while Ji Qingxuan grew furious at being made a fool of.

Xiaotian Dog humiliated Hongjun with the Immortal Binding Rope and taunted the Imperial Clan Imperial Guards, pushing Ji Qingxuan into uncontrollable rage. After Xiaotian Dog made an obscene gesture at Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin, Ji Qingxuan’s jade pendant shattered and he ordered the entire Imperial Clan force to attack.

• Xiaotian Dog manipulated Hongjun into screaming with a grotesque forced smile and facial expressions while the Temple’s onlookers struggled to suppress their laughter.
• Xiaotian Dog taunted Ji Qingxuan and the Imperial Clan Imperial Guards, then made Hongjun shake his backside at Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin.
• Ji Qingxuan trembled with rage as the Imperial Clan Imperial Guards stood stunned by the humiliation.
• Xiaotian Dog kicked Hongjun down and made an obscene gesture toward Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin, causing Ji Qingxuan’s dragon-shaped jade pendant to shatter.
• Ji Qingxuan drew his sword, lost control to his fury, and ordered the Imperial Clan Imperial Guards and all forces to attack.

Ji Qingxuan and the imperial guards unleashed a furious sword strike and the Emperor-Fall Battle Formation against Xiaotian Dog and the Primordial World Ruined Temple. Just as their attacks were about to land, a hand reached from inside the temple and flicked at them.

• Ji Qingxuan erupted with stronger Sword Intent and struck at Xiaotian Dog with his imperial sword.
• The imperial guards formed the Emperor-Fall Battle Formation, summoning a Demon God that swung its giant axe at Xiaotian Dog, Hongjun, and the temple.
• Xiaotian Dog revealed that provoking the enemy into exposing its trump cards had been its mission.
• A slender hand reached out from the Primordial World Ruined Temple and gently flicked toward the descending sword and axe.

A mysterious hand shattered Ji Qingxuan’s attack and the Emperor Clan’s battle formation with a single flick, but the clan charged the Primordial World Ruined Temple anyway. Yin Jiao emerged with the Great Shang City Management Corps and human cavalry, raised a golden Great Wall with the Human Emperor Heaven-Sealing Art, and stopped the Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin in its tracks.

• A delicate hand emerged from the Primordial World Ruined Temple and dissolved Ji Qingxuan’s sword light and the Emperor-Fall Battle Formation with one flick.
• Ji Qingxuan ordered the Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin and the surviving Imperial Guards to charge and raze the temple.
• Yin Jiao stepped from the temple with the Great Shang City Management Corps as thousands of human cavalry appeared behind him.
• Yin Jiao and his forces used the Human Emperor Heaven-Sealing Art to raise a golden Great Wall.
• The Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin slammed into the wall but could not pass, and Ji Qingxuan stared at it in shock.

Yang Jian emerged from the Daoist Temple and used his Divine Elephant Suppression of Hell Dharma Form to launch the Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin into the air. He left Ji Qingxuan crushed beneath his foot in a crater.

• Ji Qingxuan raged against Yin Jiao and the human cavalry as his attacks failed to break the golden Great Wall.
• Nezha, Kong Xuan, and Sect Master Tongtian grew angry at Ji Qingxuan’s insults, while Yang Jian silently stepped into the void.
• Yang Jian manifested his divine elephant Dharma Form and forced the nine dragon corpses downward with its suppressive power.
• Yang Jian thrust his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade beneath the Bronze Coffin and flicked the Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin into the sky.
• Yang Jian appeared before Ji Qingxuan and stomped him into a crater, pinning him helplessly beneath his foot.

Yang Jian crippled Ji Qingxuan in front of the Imperial Clan forces, declaring that his master intended to kill the Emperor Clan. The enraged Imperial Clan Imperial Guards charged the golden Great Wall, escalating the battle.

• Ji Qingxuan begged Yang Jian to spare him and threatened him with the power of his Immortal Emperor ancestor.
• Yang Jian said his master had ordered them to kill the Emperor Clan, then stomped on Ji Qingxuan's Dantian and destroyed his Dao fruit.
• Yang Jian crippled Ji Qingxuan and returned to the Temple's courtyard.
• The Imperial Clan Imperial Guards erupted in fury and charged the golden Great Wall to avenge Ji Qingxuan.

The Imperial Clan learned that Ji Qingxuan’s Dao Foundation had been destroyed, awakening five Quasi-Immortal Emperor elders and provoking the Seventh Elder to order the Primordial Ruined Temple and its surrounding world erased. The five elders tore through space and headed for the Abandoned Heaven Wasteland as the battle there remained locked in a bloody stalemate.

• Imperial Clan guards burned their divine souls and Dao Fruits, attacking Yin Jiao’s golden Great Wall while Humanity’s cavalry helped him reinforce it.
• A hall-guarding elder saw Ji Qingxuan’s Life-Soul Jade Tablet shatter and turn to stone, confirming that his cultivation had been crippled.
• The emperor blood alert awakened five Quasi-Immortal Emperor elders on Emperorfall Divine Mountain.
• The Seventh Elder ordered Ji Taigu, Ji Wanshang, Ji Pojun, Ji Xuanlei, and Ji Netherworld to destroy the Primordial Ruined Temple, its world, and the surrounding stars.
• The five elders tore through the Firmament realm’s spatial barrier and descended toward the Abandoned Heaven Wasteland.

Five Quasi-Immortal Emperors of the Emperor Clan descended and overwhelmed the Temple’s defenders, but Gu Changqing emerged and gave Yin Jiao the complete Human Emperor's World-Suppressing Record. With Yin Jiao’s power raised to the peak of Quasi-Immortal Emperor, Gu Changqing appointed him commander and ordered a counter-conquest.

• The five Quasi-Immortal Emperors Taigu, Wanshang, Pojun, Xuanlei, and Youming descended, shattered Yin Jiao’s golden Great Wall, and demanded that the Temple’s forces take their own lives.
• Nezha, Kong Xuan, and Sect Master Tongtian prepared to fight as the five Ancestors’ pressure threatened the Temple.
• Gu Changqing walked out of the sleeping quarters, dismissed the commotion, and bestowed the complete Human Emperor's World-Suppressing Record upon Yin Jiao.
• Yin Jiao’s injuries healed and his cultivation surged to the peak of Quasi-Immortal Emperor; he thanked Gu Changqing for the art.
• Gu Changqing appointed Yin Jiao commander-in-chief of the three armies and ordered him to lead the Temple’s generals and the allied armies of a thousand worlds on a campaign of conquest in the opposite direction.

Yin Jiao summoned the Chaos Ancestral Dragon and led the Temple and the Thousand-World Allied Army in declaring all-out war on the Ji Emperor Clan. After injuring Ji Xuanlei with a strike infused with Chaos power, Yin Jiao led the allied forces through a cosmic barrier toward the Emperor Clan’s territory.

• Yin Jiao called the Humanity’s Dao Fortune dragon back, transforming it into the Chaos Ancestral Dragon, then mounted its head with the Human Emperor Sword.
• Yin Jiao struck Ji Xuanlei with a gray breath of Chaos that pierced his lightning shield and badly wounded his Dao Body.
• Yin Jiao announced an all-out war against the Ji Emperor Clan, and Yang Jian, Nezha, Tongtian, and Kong Xuan accepted his command.
• Yin Jiao summoned the Thousand-World Allied Army, as elite forces from over a thousand worlds emerged through spatial gateways.
• Yin Jiao ordered the allied forces to march, and the Chaos Ancestral Dragon led the Temple and armies through a passage in the cosmic barrier toward the Emperor Clan.

At the Ji Emperor Clan’s Tianyuan Star Domain pass, Ji Taigu activated the Eternal God-Slaying Great Formation to stop the advancing Temple army. Kong Xuan erased the formation with his Five-Colored Divine Light, and Yin Jiao ordered the army to break through the pass.

• Ji Taigu crushed an ancient token and activated the Eternal God-Slaying Great Formation across the Tianyuan Star Domain.
• Ji Wanshang taunted the Temple army, claiming the formation had slain three Immortal Emperors and countless Quasi-Immortal Emperors.
• Yin Jiao called on Kong Xuan to deal with the formation, and Kong Xuan stepped forward with confidence.
• Kong Xuan swept the Five-Colored Divine Light across the formation, erasing its sea of blood, dead souls, and runes.
• Kong Xuan reported that he had fulfilled Yin Jiao’s command, and Yin Jiao raised the Human Emperor Sword and ordered the army to break through the pass.

The Temple army attacked the Tianyuan Star Domain, and Yang Jian confronted Ji Pojun in a brutal close-quarters battle. As Ji Pojun prepared a killing blow, Yang Jian’s divine elephant particles reached the mythic level, allowing him to shatter Ji Pojun’s weapon and tear him apart.

• Yin Jiao ordered the Chaos Ancestral Dragon and the Temple army to storm the Tianyuan Star Domain.
• Ji Taigu rallied the Quasi-Immortal Emperors and ordered them to split up and target the Temple’s leaders.
• Ji Pojun attacked Yang Jian with his Fangtian Painted Halberd, and Yang Jian met him with his fists.
• Yang Jian’s divine elephant particles transformed to the mythic level, healing his wounds and vastly increasing his strength.
• Yang Jian shattered Ji Pojun’s Fangtian Painted Halberd and broke through his protective immortal light with one punch.
• Yang Jian tore Ji Pojun’s body in half, killing the Emperor Clan’s Quasi-Immortal Emperor.

Nezha trapped Ji Pojun’s escaping emperor blood, then used Self-Transformation into Freedom to seal his past, present, and future and prevent his rebirth. He captured Ji Xuanlei’s Primordial Spirit as well and hung both Quasi-Immortal Emperor souls on the Emperor Clan’s Star Fortress, leaving Ji Taigu and the other defenders terrified.

• Yang Jian tore Ji Pojun’s emperor body in half, but Ji Netherworld activated a bloodline art to help Ji Pojun’s Origin blood escape.
• Nezha trapped Ji Pojun’s emperor blood in the Universe Ring as Ji Taigu and the other Quasi-Immortal Emperors moved to attack him.
• Nezha manifested his past, present, and future selves and used Self-Transformation into Freedom to freeze the River of Time and sever Ji Pojun’s connections to every possibility of existence.
• Nezha took Ji Pojun’s Primordial Spirit and ripped Ji Xuanlei’s Primordial Spirit from his injured body.
• Nezha pierced both Primordial Spirits with the Fire-Tipped Spear and hung them on the Star Fortress wall, where Samadhi True Fire burned them as the Emperor Clan defenders watched in fear.

Sect Master Tongtian attacked the Ji Emperor Clan’s Ancestral Source Star Domain with the Immortal Slaying Formation Diagram, annihilating its planets and inhabitants. As he stood amid the ruined heartland, the Ji Emperor Clan’s survivors desperately tried to awaken their ancient ancestors.

• Sect Master Tongtian left the main battlefield and traveled toward the Ji Emperor Clan’s Ancestral Source Star Domain.
• Sect Master Tongtian unleashed the Immortal Slaying Formation Diagram as a vast nebula of Chaos Sword Qi.
• The sword qi consumed planets, people, and defenses across the Ancestral Source Star Domain, erasing billions of inhabitants.
• The Soul-Returning Hall’s elder saw the clan’s soul lights vanish and raised the alarm.
• The Ji Emperor Clan’s surviving elders tried to awaken the ancient Immortal Emperor ancestors as Sect Master Tongtian surveyed the silent ruins.