Chapter Summaries

A year after Xu Xuan disappeared, the Three Great Divine Provinces struggled against foreign threats and factions seeking control of the Nine Provinces Continent. Qin Baichuan returned from the Extraterrestrial Battlefield with news that the Ancestral Court had abandoned the continent and urged Ling Feixue to ask Xu Xuan whether he would leave with Primordial Dao Province.

• Foreign races attacked the continent’s spatial barrier, while human cultivators fought increasingly brutal battles on the Extraterrestrial Battlefield.
• The Guixu Sect called on foreign race factions to send reinforcements as outsiders stirred up unrest across the Nine Provinces Continent.
• Ling Feixue and the leaders of the peak factions argued over consolidating power and who would take charge of Primordial Dao Province.
• Qin Baichuan warned the gathered leaders not to provoke Xu Xuan and ended the meeting.
• Ling Feixue learned from Qin Baichuan that the Ancestral Court had abandoned the continent and that he could take an entire Dao Province away, then heard that Xu Xuan should soon emerge from seclusion.

After awakening from his epiphany, Xu Xuan was sent urgently to Primordial Dao Province, where Murong Feng had arrived with plans to seize control and unleash hidden Foreign Races. Mo Tianji and Yun Qingxue also headed toward Chaos Valley as Yun Qingxue weighed whether she could still help Xu Xuan.

• Xu Xuan awakened at the Heavenly Emperor Seventh Stage and believed he could reach the realm's peak or even become a Divine Emperor once he obtained more cultivation resources.
• Ling Feixue urgently ordered Xu Xuan to take command of Primordial Dao Province and sent him there with eight Dao Weapons as guardians.
• Murong Feng arrived in Primordial Dao Province with Divine Province Heavenly Prides, intending to make its forces his followers and enlist hidden Foreign Races to attack them.
• Mo Tianji arrived with Yun Qingxue, who decided to stay near Xu Xuan if she could help him and leave with her master if she would only burden him.
• Mo Tianji chose to take Yun Qingxue to Chaos Valley after deducing that Xu Xuan would be key to the Heaven and Earth Calamity.

Chaos Valley fought off an invasion by allied Foreign Races, but the defenders’ counterattack drew them into a trap. Dao Ling Great Emperor was surrounded by three Pseudo-Emperors as the ambush began.

• Dao Ling Great Emperor refused to surrender Xu Xuan’s foundation and ordered Chaos Valley to prepare for war as Foreign Races attacked its defensive formation.
• Luo Xiaotian urged Dao Ling Great Emperor to let him fight, but Dao Ling Great Emperor restrained him to keep their strongest defender in reserve.
• Primordial Saint and Dao Ling Great Emperor led Chaos Valley’s forces out to repel the Foreign Races, whose army fled when Dao Ling Great Emperor revealed his power.
• Murong Feng and other sect leaders watched the battle and chose to wait while their secretly subdued Foreign Race forces gathered.
• Dao Spirit Saint warned the defenders not to pursue, but Luo Xiaotian’s calls to slaughter the fleeing enemies encouraged many to leave the formation.
• Hidden Foreign Race forces ambushed the pursuers and surrounded Dao Ling Great Emperor with three Pseudo-Emperors.

Mo Tianji and Yun Qingxue arrived at the battlefield, where Mo Tianji rescued Dao Ling Great Emperor and devastated the Foreign Race forces before leaving to find his senior brother. Murong Feng then confronted the survivors and demanded Luo Xiaotian submit, but Luo Xiaotian refused, prompting Murong Feng to order an attack.

• Mo Tianji transformed into an Azure Dragon and killed countless Foreign Race fighters, saving Dao Ling Great Emperor from danger.
• Mo Tianji and Yun Qingxue left the battlefield after Mo Tianji searched for Xu Xuan and decided to visit his senior brother.
• Dao Ling Great Emperor rallied the survivors to resume fighting, while Murong Feng and his group descended onto the battlefield.
• Luo Xiaotian appeared beside Dao Ling Great Emperor and revealed an aura that shocked Murong Feng's Heavenly Pride companions.
• Murong Feng demanded that Luo Xiaotian become his follower, but Luo Xiaotian refused and threatened him.
• Murong Feng ordered his companions to surround and kill Luo Xiaotian.

Luo Xiaotian unleashed the power of ninety-nine Golden Divine Dragons, but Murong Feng trapped him with four Divine Emperor-level Emperor Weapons and ordered Chaos Valley destroyed. Xu Xuan appeared and mocked Luo Xiaotian instead of rescuing him, confident the weapons could not refine him.

• Luo Xiaotian revealed ninety-nine Golden Divine Dragons that suppressed his enemies and killed a Pseudo-Emperor by devouring his vitality.
• Murong Feng summoned four Guixu Sect Emperor Weapons, which crushed the Golden Divine Dragons and trapped Luo Xiaotian beneath their power.
• Murong Feng ordered his forces to kill everyone in Chaos Valley as they attacked its Protective Grand Formation.
• Ye Qin and the others prepared to defend the formation while Ye Qin planned to rescue Luo Xiaotian.
• Xu Xuan appeared, dismissed Murong Feng's attempt to sow discord, and laughed that Luo Xiaotian would not be refined by the Emperor Weapons.

Xu Xuan defeated Murong Feng and absorbed his blood mist, then joined the effort to suppress the four Emperor Weapons trapping Luo Xiaotian. With Magnetic Mountain weakening the weapons, Xu Xuan began forcibly refining them, leaving Luo Xiaotian to claim control of them.

• Xu Xuan dismissed Luo Xiaotian’s plea for help and challenged Murong Feng.
• Xu Xuan overwhelmed Murong Feng, blasted his body apart, and used chaos aura to swallow the blood mist.
• Xu Xuan confronted the four artifact spirits and suppressed them from outside while they continued to trap Luo Xiaotian.
• Xu Xuan summoned Magnetic Mountain, weakening the four Emperor Weapons, and began refining them with his chaos aura.

Xu Xuan fought four Divine Emperor artifact spirits in a space condensed to a single point while Luo Xiaotian refined their Emperor Weapons. After Luo Xiaotian severed their connection to the weapons, Xu Xuan captured the spirits and began recovering from the battle.

• The four artifact spirits attacked Xu Xuan as Luo Xiaotian began refining their Emperor Weapons.
• Xu Xuan condensed space around himself and the four Divine Emperors, forcing them into a desperate close-quarters fight.
• Xu Xuan endured hundreds of thousands of exchanges with the four spirits as all five fighters grew exhausted.
• Luo Xiaotian completed the refinement, cutting the spirits off from their Emperor Weapons and their ability to restore their damaged souls.
• Xu Xuan counterattacked, pinned the four fleeing spirits to the Magnetic Mountain, and consumed their remaining divine soul power.
• Xu Xuan closed his eyes to nurture his divine soul after the perilous battle.

Xu Xuan received the damaged Nine Provinces Tower from Qin Baichuan and began preparing to preserve Primordial Dao Province as the crisis beyond the continent deepened. He returned to Yuantian Palace to seek answers and was entrusted with the sect’s inheritance in the Heaven-Reaching Pavilion.

• Luo Xiaotian finished refining the four Dao Weapons, and Xu Xuan returned the nearly dissipated artifact spirits to them for him to refine later.
• Qin Baichuan sent Xu Xuan the Nine Provinces Tower, an ancient formation capable of containing a Dao Province, though only one of its nine floors still worked.
• After learning that Mo Tianji and Yun Qingxue had appeared and that Yuantian Palace’s people had gone to the Extraterrestrial Battlefield, Xu Xuan used the tower to begin enclosing Primordial Dao Province.
• Xu Xuan sent Luo Xiaotian to retrieve his father and others, then left for the Extraterrestrial Battlefield to see whether the crisis could be changed.
• Ling Feixue brought Xu Xuan to the Heaven-Reaching Pavilion and named him Yuantian Palace’s true successor, revealing that its inheritance lay along a Heaven-Reaching Path.

Xu Xuan explored the Heaven-Reaching Pavilion and discovered that its law inheritance advanced as he climbed its steps. Outside, Guixu Ancestor and an alliance of powerful cultivators demanded Yuantian Palace’s resources, while Ling Feixue refused to join their retreat from the Nine Provinces.

• The Heaven-Reaching Pavilion vanished into the void with Xu Xuan inside, and Ling Feixue feared he might disappear or inherit Yuantian Palace’s legacy.
• Xu Xuan mastered the techniques on the pavilion’s jade walls, formed a step from his own laws, and found that climbing it revealed more advanced techniques.
• Guixu Ancestor and other powerful cultivators arrived at Yuantian Palace and announced that they planned to abandon the Extraterrestrial Battlefield and leave the Nine Provinces with their supplies.
• Ling Feixue challenged their decision, but Guixu Ancestor demanded that Yuantian Palace join them or let them take its resources.
• Peak saint cultivators charged toward Yuantian Palace as Guixu Ancestor mocked Ling Feixue and revealed his intent to seize its disciples as well.

Ling Feixue led the Yuantian Palace disciples in resisting Guixu Ancestor and the faction leaders who attacked their combat puppet. As the puppet faced destruction, Ling Feixue prepared to activate its self-destruct while Xu Xuan remained immersed in epiphanies inside the Heaven-Reaching Pavilion.

• Ling Feixue transformed the Yuantian Palace into a giant combat puppet and led its disciples against Guixu Ancestor.
• Guixu Ancestor struck the puppet, injuring the disciples controlling it, while Ling Feixue refused to request reinforcements and risk weakening the front lines.
• Ling Feixue gave the disciples three breaths to decide whether to stay, and most chose to fight rather than defect.
• Guixu Ancestor killed the defectors, then joined the other faction leaders in attacking the Yuantian Puppet.
• Ling Feixue seized Guixu Ancestor's Dharma Body in the puppet's grasp and prepared to self-destruct, while the other attackers fled.
• Xu Xuan continued his epiphanies inside the Heaven-Reaching Pavilion, wondering how many floors he had reached.

Xu Xuan left the Heaven-Reaching Pavilion rather than risk pursuing its uncertain laws, then returned to Yuantian Palace as Ling Feixue and its disciples faced Guixu Ancestor. He revealed that his insights had let him break through to the Divine Emperor Realm, leaving Guixu Ancestor stunned.

• Xu Xuan reached the limit of the Nine Provinces' laws, but chose to leave the Heaven-Reaching Pavilion instead of studying its uncertain final techniques.
• The pavilion master's remnant soul revealed that the last laws were conjectures, and the Heaven-Reaching Pavilion collapsed after Xu Xuan departed.
• Guixu Ancestor's divine soul assault struck Ling Feixue, but she regained consciousness and recognized Xu Xuan's return.
• Xu Xuan crashed into the Yuantian War Puppet, then faced Guixu Ancestor and mocked his belief that Xu Xuan could never reach the Divine Emperor Realm.
• Xu Xuan used the laws he had comprehended in the pavilion to break through from Heavenly Emperor seventh stage to the Divine Emperor Realm.

Xu Xuan broke into the Divine Emperor Realm and used his transcendent power to destroy the deserters who planned to plunder the Nine Provinces Continent. He left Ancestor Guixu as the sole survivor, pinned beneath the fallen firmament.

• Xu Xuan broke through to the Divine Emperor Realm, and Murong Qing charged at him in jealous rage.
• Xu Xuan overwhelmed Murong Qing with the difference in their realms and erased her with a descending palm.
• Ancestor Guixu rallied the deserters to attack Xu Xuan, while Xu Xuan invited them all to fight him together.
• Xu Xuan tore down a stretch of the firmament, crushing many deserters and pinning the strongest beneath it.
• Xu Xuan ordered the Yuantian Palace experts to kill the pinned survivors, leaving Ancestor Guixu alone.

Xu Xuan defeated Guixu Ancestor and refined him into a War Puppet bound for the Extraterrestrial Battlefield. After Ling Feixue agreed to restore peace in the Nine Provinces, she told Xu Xuan that the Human Race Ancestral Court had abandoned the continent, and he resolved to fight for it if he could.

• Guixu Ancestor attacked Xu Xuan, but Xu Xuan wounded him with a strike that twisted the sky into a divine sword.
• Xu Xuan suppressed Guixu Ancestor and refused his plea for death, saying he would refine him into a War Puppet.
• Xu Xuan used the Beyond-Heaven Law to seal Guixu Ancestor's Divine Soul, separate it from his body, and make him obey as his master.
• Guixu Ancestor tore open space and departed for the Extraterrestrial Battlefield, while Ling Feixue offered to quell the chaos across the Nine Provinces.
• Ling Feixue told Xu Xuan that the Human Race Ancestral Court had abandoned the declining Nine Provinces, and Xu Xuan said he would fight for the continent if possible.

Xu Xuan traveled to the Extraterrestrial Battlefield to find the Human Race Ancestral Court and encountered a group of young humans being attacked by Horned Devil Race cultivators. He joined their journey with their leader, Lan Ruodie, who became intrigued by the sealing Runes he had devised.

• Ling Feixue told Xu Xuan that the Human Race Ancestral Court might rescue those it considered worth saving, and Xu Xuan agreed to reveal his talent to them.
• Xu Xuan followed the Guixu Ancestor to the Extraterrestrial Battlefield and learned that the Nine Provinces Continent’s own predecessors had damaged its spatial barrier to make travel outward easier.
• The Guixu Ancestor charged into the Horned Devil Race cultivators attacking a group of young humans and slaughtered them, while their attacks failed to harm him.
• Xu Xuan introduced the Guixu Ancestor as his guardian puppet, and the young humans explained that they had come from nearby Great Worlds to explore and rescue people.
• Xu Xuan invited the group to travel with him toward the Human Race Ancestral Court, and Lan Ruodie eagerly agreed.
• Lan Ruodie asked Xu Xuan about the Guixu Ancestor’s sealing Runes, and Xu Xuan said he had devised them himself using the Laws of the Nine Provinces Continent.

Xu Xuan and his companions crossed the Extraterrestrial Battlefield, where formations were compressing space and forcing combatants together. When Guixu Sect cultivators were surrounded by Feather Race experts, Xu Xuan sent Guixu Ancestor to rescue them, leaving the battlefield’s rules against Emperor Realm fighters killing juniors in question.

• Xu Xuan saw cultivators from the Heavenly Wind Great World slaughtering Blood Clan members and learned that humans earned contribution points for aiding people or killing foreign races.
• Lan Ruodie explained that foreign races treated the declining Nine Provinces Continent as a fishpond, while humans from nearby great worlds also came to profit from it.
• As formations began compressing the battlefield, Guixu Sect cultivators surrounded by Feather Race experts recognized Guixu Ancestor and called for his help.
• Xu Xuan ordered Guixu Ancestor into battle, and he slaughtered Feather Race fighters to save the Guixu Sect cultivators.
• Guixu Ancestor killed two Feather Race Pseudo-Emperors who accused him of breaking the rule against Emperor Realm experts attacking juniors.
• Xu Xuan dismissed the rule, saying it did not apply to Guixu Ancestor because his battle puppet was an object, not a person.

Xu Xuan rescued the Guixu Sect members, revealed that Guixu Ancestor had become his battle puppet, and killed foreign experts and Battlefield Enforcers who confronted him. He sat down to study the world’s laws as enemies surrounded him, while Lan Ruodie remained at his side and Human Race experts hesitated to intervene.

• Xu Xuan ordered Guixu Ancestor to kill the remaining foreign races, then destroyed two Pseudo-Emperor experts who attacked him.
• Xu Xuan told the Guixu Sect members that he had refined Guixu Ancestor into a battle puppet and transported them away with the Law of Space.
• Two Battlefield Enforcers arrived to challenge Xu Xuan, and Guixu Ancestor killed them on Xu Xuan’s command.
• Xu Xuan invited Lan Ruodie to leave, then sat down to contemplate the altered laws while she stayed beside him.
• Foreign race experts and Battlefield Enforcers surrounded Xu Xuan, while nearby Human Race experts hesitated to approach.

Xu Xuan and Guixu Ancestor confronted Human Race and Foreign Race battlefield Enforcers, exposing the Human Race’s internal betrayal and the crisis on the Nine Provinces Continent. The Heaven-Shaking Divine Emperor sided with Xu Xuan and attacked the Foreign Race Enforcers, while Magnetic Mountain swallowed a Divine Emperor’s blood mist and faced a dangerous tribulation.

• Foreign Race experts charged at Xu Xuan, but the Heaven-Shaking Divine Emperor arrived and demanded to know why Guixu Ancestor had become a puppet.
• At Xu Xuan’s request, Guixu Ancestor explained what he had done and described the situation on the Nine Provinces Continent, enraging the Heaven-Shaking Divine Emperor.
• The Heaven-Shaking Divine Emperor attacked the Foreign Race Enforcers, killing several Heavenly Emperors, and Xu Xuan ordered Guixu Ancestor to join the battle.
• Xu Xuan used Magnetic Mountain to suppress and kill the Foreign Race experts who had surrounded him.
• Magnetic Mountain dragged down a Foreign Race Divine Emperor as Guixu Ancestor struck him, and it swallowed the resulting blood mist.
• Terrifying rumbling shook Magnetic Mountain as it struggled to withstand the energy it had absorbed.

Xu Xuan and the Heaven-Shaking Divine Emperor turned the battle against the Foreign Race by killing three of their Divine Emperors. The battlefield remained active as Xu Xuan prepared to face whoever was still approaching.

• Magnetic Mountain devoured and refined a Divine Emperor, then entered a temporary dormant state.
• Xu Xuan isolated the weakest Foreign Race Divine Emperor and killed him with a single punch, gathering his remaining Life Essence with Chaos Aura.
• The Heaven-Shaking Divine Emperor unleashed his full strength and annihilated another Foreign Race Divine Emperor with a world-destroying palm.
• Xu Xuan and the Guixu Ancestor surrounded the last Foreign Race Divine Emperor, and Xu Xuan pierced him with sword light and destroyed him with Sword Qi.

After Xu Xuan and Divine Emperor Heaven-Shaking escaped the battlefield, they regrouped at a secret refuge and used the World Tree’s sap to stabilize Xu Xuan’s laws. Divine Emperor Heaven-Shaking proposed finding the Human Race Ancestral Court and showing them Xu Xuan’s abilities, while avoiding contact with others from the Nine Provinces World.

• Xu Xuan and Divine Emperor Heaven-Shaking escaped as the battlefield collapsed, leaving the watching experts furious and alarmed.
• Divine Emperor Heaven-Shaking brought Xu Xuan and the others to a secret refuge where an ancient tree grew on a drifting continent.
• Divine Emperor Heaven-Shaking stabbed the tree and collected its sap, then shared it with everyone despite the tree’s angry protests.
• Xu Xuan drank the sap and found that it had fused his conflicting laws and removed hidden dangers to his foundation.
• Divine Emperor Heaven-Shaking revealed that the tree was the Nine Provinces World Tree and proposed finding the Human Race Ancestral Court to display Xu Xuan’s talent.