Recaps

Xiang Guanhong defeated Dustless by turning the phantom battlefield’s slaughter into a devastating punch that destroyed Dustless’s Imperial Dao Dharma Aspect. He remained standing but was left grievously crippled, while the white jade square fell silent.

• Xiang Guanhong absorbed the phantom battlefield and its battle souls into his body, then unleashed his Hundred Battles! Army Breaker punch against Dustless’s Heavenly Emperor’s Heaven-Patrolling Finger.
• Xiang Guanhong’s slaughtering Dao corroded and shattered Dustless’s golden finger and Imperial Dao Dharma Aspect.
• Dustless spat golden blood and was thrown backward, realizing he had lost without forcing Xiang Guanhong to use another Divine Ability.
• The phantom battlefield vanished, and Xiang Guanhong’s body began collapsing from the power he had borrowed.
• Xiang Guanhong surveyed the stunned crowd and remained standing despite his mangled fists and grievous injuries.

Xiang Guanhong defeated Dustless in a brutal arena battle, then the prince healed both fighters with Nine-Turn Revival Pills. Dustless left in humiliation, while Xiang Guanhong held his arena and no one dared challenge the dominant champions; three other arenas remained contested.

• Xiang Guanhong defeated Dustless at the cost of catastrophic injuries, leaving both fighters near collapse.
• The prince gave Xiang Guanhong and Dustless Nine-Turn Revival Pills, restoring them to full health.
• Dustless woke, glared at Xiang Guanhong, and left the square after accepting his defeat.
• Xiang Guanhong stood in Dustless's arena, and the remaining contestants lowered their eyes rather than challenge him.
• No one challenged Youruo, Xie Purou, Wu Jiang, Wu Shang, Wuwang, or Wu Yuan, while the champions of three other arenas faced the prospect of being seen as easier targets.
• A white-robed young man holding a sword stood in one of the remaining arenas, restored to full strength by the prince's pill.

Xiao Jianchen defeated Jian Hanxing to become a new arena champion, while Shi Kai overcame an axe-wielding challenger and claimed another arena. Mu Wanling was still battling a flame-wielding cultivator when the chapter ended.

• Xiao Jianchen challenged Jian Hanxing, and the two sword cultivators began fighting on the first arena.
• Xiao Jianchen pierced Jian Hanxing's defenses, knocked him down, and became the new arena champion.
• Shi Kai used Crystallization and Crystal Explosion to defeat the axe-wielding challenger and claim the second arena.
• Mu Wanling faced a cultivator whose flame Divine Abilities turned the third arena into a sea of flames.

Mu Wanling defeated the flame cultivator, becoming the third new arena champion as the competition narrowed to its final ten. The prince drew opponents for the next round, pairing Youruo with Xiao Jianchen and Xie Purou with Wuwang before the remaining matchups were announced.

• Mu Wanling trapped the flame cultivator in her Azure Wood Divine Domain, drained his power and life force, and became an arena champion.
• Most remaining challengers chose Youruo, believing she would be gentler than the other champions, and she defeated them through a long series of matches.
• Youruo, Xie Purou, Wu Yuan, Wuj​iang, Wu Shang, Wuwang, Xiang Guanhong, Shi Kai, Xiao Jianchen, and Mu Wanling became the final ten contestants.
• The prince congratulated the ten contestants and used a crystal ball to draw their opponents for the next round.
• The first pairings were Youruo against Xiao Jianchen and Xie Purou against Wuwang.

The top ten contestants began their battles on five ancient arenas, including Xiao Jianchen against Youruo and Xie Purou against Wuwang. Xiao Jianchen’s sword strike failed to pierce Youruo’s protective scale, and he answered her crushing water pressure with a storm of sword shadows.

• Five ancient arenas rose as the top ten contestants took their places and began the final showdown.
• Xiao Jianchen and Youruo faced off as his sword intent clashed with her water domain.
• Wuwang insulted Xie Purou and demanded that she concede, but she attacked him with a lightning-charged punch.
• Xiao Jianchen thrust at Youruo’s throat, but a blue fish scale appeared and blocked his sword.
• Youruo crushed Xiao Jianchen with deep-sea pressure, and he summoned countless sword shadows to attack her.

Youruo and Xiao Jianchen fought an escalating battle of water and sword, with each of Youruo’s techniques eroding or countering his attacks. Xiao Jianchen unleashed Sword Severs the Nine Heavens, and Youruo answered with Netherworld Deep Sea, leaving their powers clashing as the ancient arena began to collapse.

• Youruo dissolved Xiao Jianchen’s sword attacks with her Principle of Water as they exchanged thousands of blows across the arena.
• Xiao Jianchen used Ten Thousand Swords Return to One, and Youruo countered with Azure sea, rising tide, forming a sea behemoth that battled his Sword-Ray.
• Xiao Jianchen withdrew his sword and unleashed Sword Severs the Nine Heavens, a black line aimed directly at Youruo.
• Youruo invoked Netherworld Deep Sea, whose abyssal waters swallowed the attack before the two powers collided and the arena began collapsing.

Youruo defeated Xiao Jianchen in a devastating clash of his Limitless Heaven and Earth Sword and her Jade Waves Surge to the Heavens. The prodigies recognized that Youruo had surpassed him despite being a minor realm lower.

• Xiao Jianchen and Youruo recovered from their first clash and faced off across the ruined arena.
• Xiao Jianchen unleashed the Limitless Heaven and Earth Sword, a strike powerful enough to threaten a God Emperor.
• Youruo awakened the full power of her Jade-Scaled Mermaid bloodline and countered with Jade Waves Surge to the Heavens.
• The two attacks destroyed the arena, and Youruo landed on her feet while Xiao Jianchen crashed down unconscious.
• The watching prodigies marveled that Youruo had defeated Xiao Jianchen despite her lower cultivation realm.

Xie Purou battled Wuwang in the ancient arena, overwhelming him with her Nine Tribulations Immortal Physique until he unleashed a desperate imperial technique. The chapter ended as her Myriad Thunder Annihilation orb collided with his nine golden dragons.

• Xie Purou traded blows with Wuwang and gained the advantage, driving him onto the defensive.
• Wuwang burned his imperial bloodline and essence to unleash the Imperial Supreme World-Suppressing Instruction, summoning nine golden dragons.
• Xie Purou gathered her tribulation lightning into a red orb and launched Myriad Thunder Annihilation at Wuwang's dragons.
• Xie Purou's lightning orb and Wuwang's nine golden dragons collided.

Xie Purou defeated Wuwang with a devastating lightning attack, while Wujiang, Shi Kai, and Mu Wanling won their remaining battles. The five victors were Youruo, Xie Purou, Wujiang, Shi Kai, and Mu Wanling.

• Xie Purou destroyed Wuwang’s golden dragons with a red lightning storm and left him charred at the bottom of a crater.
• Wujiang defeated Xiang Guanhong by striking him from behind with his sword.
• Shi Kai endured Wu Yuan’s sword attacks, then knocked him unconscious with a single punch.
• Mu Wanling overwhelmed Wu Shang’s Death Sword Intent with a torrent of life, and Wu Shang conceded defeat.
• Youruo, Xie Purou, Wujiang, Shi Kai, and Mu Wanling stood as the five victors after all the matches ended.

The five victors of the Grand Gathering of Eternal Heaven's Chosen were praised as the generation’s pinnacle, and the prince began drawing the next round’s matchups. Xie Purou received a bye, while Youruo faced Shi Kai and Wuj​iang faced Mu Wanling.

• The prince judged the five remaining contestants to be extraordinary and considered Youruo and Xie Purou the most talented.
• The prince tried to peer into Ye Chen’s pavilion, but Ye Chen dismissed Feng Wanli’s offer to confront him.
• The prince announced the draw and gave Xie Purou a bye; she said she wanted another fight and challenged Youruo to meet her in the finals.
• The draw paired Youruo against Shi Kai, prompting the crowd to debate whether her attacks could overcome his defense.
• The final pairing matched Wuj​iang against Mu Wanling, setting up a clash between his killing sword and her life-giving techniques.

Shi Kai and Youruo, and Wuj​iang and Mu Wanling, prepared to fight in the next two matches after the prince raised two new arenas. The matches began, and Shi Kai covered himself in crystal armor while Youruo formed a sphere of deep blue water.

• Shi Kai and Youruo exchanged words and agreed to give their match everything, while Wuj​iang and Mu Wanling greeted each other with a bow.
• The prince reshaped the ruined battlefield and raised two dark, rune-marked arenas from beneath the plaza.
• Shi Kai, Youruo, Wuj​iang, and Mu Wanling entered the arenas as the crowd cheered for its favored contenders.
• The prince announced the start of both matches, and Shi Kai formed a suit of crystal armor as Youruo created a sphere of deep blue water.

Youruo used corrosive water and powerful water techniques to counter Shi Kai’s attacks, forcing him to activate his Mystic Crystal Domain. The towering wave halted briefly in the domain as Youruo appeared within it and prepared another technique.

• Shi Kai and Youruo began fighting while Wuj​iang launched a sudden sword strike at Mu Wanling, who blocked it with a thorn-covered vine.
• Youruo’s water sphere clung to Shi Kai’s armor and dissolved it, so he severed and discarded the contaminated piece.
• Youruo summoned hundreds of water spheres, which merged into a curtain that absorbed Shi Kai’s Mountain Fist.
• Youruo’s Azure sea, rising tide dissolved Shi Kai’s rock attack and surged toward him.
• Shi Kai activated his Mystic Crystal Domain, increasing gravity enough to stall Youruo’s wave for a moment.
• Youruo appeared within the wave and cast Deep sea, descend.

Shi Kai unleashed the Mystic Crystal Indestructible Body to withstand Fairy Youruo’s Dark Deep Sea, then tore through it with a Mountain-Breaking Fist. Both fighters were injured, and Youruo awakened an even more ancient power as blue rain began pouring over the arena and plaza.

• Youruo’s Dark Deep Sea eroded Shi Kai’s domain, so he activated the Mystic Crystal Indestructible Body and endured its assault.
• Youruo condensed the sea into a powerful vortex, and Shi Kai punched through it with the Mystic Crystal Mountain-Breaking Fist.
• The clash injured Youruo and cracked Shi Kai’s right-arm armor, but Shi Kai challenged her to continue fighting.
• Youruo awakened a more ancient power and summoned piercing blue rain over the arena and the white jade plaza.

Youruo battered Shi Kai’s Mystic Crystal Indestructible Body with a deadly rain, forcing him to turn his defense into a crystal-blade assault. Their attacks collided and exploded, leaving the outcome of the fight unclear.

• Youruo’s Torrential Rain Descends from Heaven steadily damaged Shi Kai’s armor and drained his Immortal Power.
• Shi Kai unleashed Mystic Crystal Thousand Blades, sending a torrent of crystal weapons toward Youruo.
• Youruo used Ten Thousand Streams Return to the Source to gather the rain into a spinning water drill.
• The crystal blades and water drill ground against each other until both forces cracked and exploded.
• The blast shook the plaza and injured spectators, while dust and mist hid whether Youruo or Shi Kai had won.

Shi Kai and Youruo survived their devastating collision, but Youruo unleashed the Boundless Nether Sea as her ultimate attack. Shi Kai reformed his armor in seven-colored crystals and began gathering power into a colossal crystal pillar.

• Shi Kai and Youruo lay gravely wounded after their collision, and both struggled to rise.
• Shi Kai acknowledged that Youruo had broken through his Mystic Crystal Indestructible Body, while Youruo declared that the outcome was about to be revealed.
• Youruo summoned the Boundless Nether Sea, flooding the arena and white jade plaza with dark water that surged toward Shi Kai.
• Shi Kai reformed his armor in pure seven-colored crystals and released a domain imbued with an indestructible Principle.
• Shi Kai shook the sea floor and gathered crystals into a colossal pillar reaching from earth to sky.

Youruo turned the tide against Shi Kai by making each wave of her Boundless Nether Sea absorb the power of the last. She shattered his Mystic Crystal Heavenly Pillar and pinned him beneath the sea, though she was left exhausted and unsteady.

• Shi Kai used his Mystic Crystal Heavenly Pillar to smash open Youruo's Boundless Nether Sea and taunted her to show another move.
• Youruo summoned successive waves that grew stronger as they absorbed the power of the waves Shi Kai had shattered.
• Shi Kai's repeated blows weakened him and cracked his crystal pillar as Youruo summoned the seventh wave.
• Youruo's seventh wave shattered Shi Kai's pillar, hurled him into the arena edge, and pinned him beneath the seawater.
• The sea receded, leaving Youruo hovering above the arena, pale and swaying from exhaustion.

Youruo defeated Shi Kai with her seven stacked waves of the Principle of Water, revealing power that could threaten even God Emperor experts. After Shi Kai admitted defeat and the referee declared her the winner, Youruo’s strength gave out, but she recovered enough to land safely.

• Youruo's Principle of Water bound Shi Kai in a crater, and he admitted that he had lost.
• Youruo released Shi Kai from her restraint, and the referee declared her the winner.
• Spectators and God Emperor experts recognized that Youruo's seventh wave could threaten God Emperor cultivators.
• Youruo's strength failed after the match, and she recovered just before landing in the arena.

After defeating Shi Kai, Youruo remained dissatisfied with her performance, stunning the spectators and God Emperor experts with how high her standards seemed to be. Xie Purou greeted her warmly and checked that she was unharmed.

• Youruo left the arena still regretting that she had not fought well enough.
• The prodigies in the stands were shaken by Youruo's dissatisfaction after her victory over Shi Kai.
• The God Emperor experts speculated that Youruo was comparing herself to stronger fellow disciples, then wondered how powerful her sect might be.
• Xie Purou rushed to Youruo, praised her Sevenfold Wave, and asked whether she was hurt.
• Youruo told Xie Purou that she was fine but had used up a lot of strength.

Youruo defeated Shi Kai, and Wuj​iang defeated Mu Wanling, leaving Youruo, Xie Purou, and Wuj​iang as the final three contestants. The imperial descendants hoped Wuj​iang would receive a bye, giving him an advantage in the final rounds.

• Xie Purou revealed that Youruo had held back during her fight with Shi Kai, shocking the spectators and causing one holy son to faint.
• The prince gave Youruo a healing pill, while Shi Kai also recovered and conceded that Youruo had won.
• Wuj​iang defeated Mu Wanling with a powerful sword strike, completing the final three alongside Youruo and Xie Purou.
• Wu Yuan, Wu Shang, Wuwang, and Dustless discussed the remaining contestants and hoped Wuj​iang would receive a bye.

The draw gave Youruo a bye to the championship final, while Wuj​iang and Xie Purou were matched to fight for the remaining place. Xie Purou boldly challenged Wuj​iang, who calmly faced her provocation as the crowd and imperial family watched.

• The referee drew the match order and announced that Youruo had received the bye to the final.
• The referee declared that Wuj​iang would fight Xie Purou for the other place in the final.
• Wuj​iang resolved to defeat Xie Purou and then Youruo to claim the championship.
• Xie Purou eagerly welcomed the match and provoked Wuj​iang, asking him not to disappoint her.
• Dustless urged Wuj​iang to defend the imperial family's dignity, while Wuj​iang calmly raised his head and looked at Xie Purou.

Xie Purou and Wuj​iang entered the arena after exchanging threats, and their opposing powers began twisting the space between them. The spectators recognized that their clash represented two opposing Great Daos, while Youruo watched without concern as the referee braced for the fight.

• Wuj​iang threatened to kill Xie Purou, but she responded with delight and said she looked forward to the battle.
• The referee called both contestants into the arena, where Wuj​iang and Xie Purou took their positions opposite each other.
• Xie Purou's tribulation-born destructive power collided with Wuj​iang's annihilating Sword Intent, twisting the void between them.
• A golden-robed middle-aged man and a gray-robed elder identified their powers as opposing Daos, and the spectators felt their effects.
• Youruo watched calmly, recalling that Xie Purou thrived in head-on battles, while the referee feared being caught in their clash.

Wuj​iang and Xie Purou began their match with a clash between his Sword of Annihilation and her Nine Tribulations Divine Lightning, then fought at overwhelming speed across the arena. When their attacks threatened to break the protective formation, the prince reinforced it and allowed them to continue.

• Wuj​iang drew his sword and opened with Return to the Ruins, a strike that erased everything in its path.
• Xie Purou met Wuj​iang's Sword Qi with her fist wrapped in red Nine Tribulations Divine Lightning, creating a devastating shock wave.
• Wuj​iang and Xie Purou vanished into a storm of repeated clashes that damaged the arena barrier and terrified the spectators.
• The prince reinforced the arena's protective formation and declared that the fighters should continue their clash of Great Daos.

Xie Purou and Wuj​iang fought through more than a thousand clashes of their opposing Daos, leaving both bloodied and the arena destroyed. Xie Purou called the fight a warm-up, and the God Emperors realized she had been using Wuj​iang’s Annihilation Sword Intent to temper her Dao of tribulation and punishment.

• Wuj​iang unleashed Annihilation Samsara, and Xie Purou met it with Nine Tribulations Burn the World, causing their opposing principles to annihilate each other.
• Wuj​iang and Xie Purou exchanged over a thousand attacks, destroying the arena before recoil hurled them apart.
• Both fighters bore wounds, but Xie Purou declared that the battle had only been a warm-up and that she would now get serious.
• Dustless insisted Xie Purou was bluffing, while Wuwang and Wu Shang watched her in fear.
• A gray-robed elder explained that Xie Purou had used Wuj​iang’s Annihilation Sword Intent to temper her Dao of tribulation and punishment.

Xie Purou unleashed Thunder Illusion Annihilation Kill against Wuj​iang, who countered with his forbidden Blood River Nirvana Sword. Wuj​iang’s river of death began erasing her many real figures, leaving the outcome of their clash unresolved.

• Wuj​iang gathered fragments of death and ending into the Sword of the Ruins as Xie Purou drew her tribulation lightning into her body.
• Xie Purou took a step and used Thunder Illusion Annihilation Kill to attack Wuj​iang from countless points across time and space.
• Wuj​iang closed his eyes and swung the Sword of the Ruins, releasing the Blood River Nirvana Sword.
• The blood river flowed through Xie Purou’s figures and began erasing them one after another.

Xie Purou and Wuj​iang wagered everything on their final attacks, obliterating the arena and severely injuring each other. Wuj​iang fell and his sword shattered, while Xie Purou remained standing.

• Wuj​iang and Xie Purou exchanged devastating attacks, leaving both gravely wounded.
• Wuj​iang sacrificed the blood from his injured arm to empower the Sword of the Ruins and charged at Xie Purou with his final strike.
• Xie Purou healed her injuries with the Nine Tribulations Origin and met Wuj​iang's sword with a lightning-charged punch.
• Their collision erased the arena, shattered the protective formation, and sent spectators flying before God Emperor powerhouses shielded the plaza.
• Wuj​iang fell beside the abyss as the Sword of the Ruins broke apart, and Dustless refused to believe he had lost.
• Xie Purou emerged bloodied and exhausted but remained standing, still filled with fighting spirit.